FULL SHOW: Cardi B & Stefon Diggs Go Public, Tray Chaney’s Son Injured in Tornado, Zion Williamson Accused of Assault + Rickey Smiley & Dr. Rheeda Walker Interviews

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary: FULL SHOW: Cardi B & Stefon Diggs Go Public, Tray Chaney’s Son Injured in Tornado, Zion Williamson Accused of Assault + Rickey Smiley & Dr. Rheeda Walker Interviews

Release Date: June 2, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Description: The Breakfast Club, billed as "The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show," delves into pressing celebrity news, personal stories, and insightful interviews with notable guests.

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1. Opening Remarks and Personal Updates (00:00 – 02:44)

The show kicks off with hosts DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God exchanging personal anecdotes. Charlamagne shares his recent experiences speaking at Lincoln Tech's graduation and celebrating his mother's 80th birthday. The hosts also discuss Weekend events such as Tray Chaney’s son's injury due to a tornado and preparations for upcoming events like Rickey Smiley’s new comedy special.

Notable Quote:

• Charlamagne Tha God [02:02]: "Salute to all the students at Lincoln Tech... I actually took a couple of classes there because I just like to learn Ishmael with my cars and stuff like that."

2. Front Page News Segment (04:31 – 09:55)

a. Boulder, Colorado Terror Attack (04:31 – 08:25)
The hosts discuss a tragic incident in Boulder, Colorado, where multiple individuals involved in marching for Israelis were injured by a Molotov cocktail thrown at a mall. FBI Director Cash Patel labels it a "targeted terror attack," although Boulder Police Chief Stefan Redfern urges patience before making definitive statements.

Notable Quote:

• Lauren LaRosa [05:35]: "It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in downtown Boulder... this act is unacceptable."

b. Trump Administration Tariff Policy (08:25 – 09:55)
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick addresses challenges to the Trump administration's tariff policies, expressing confidence in overcoming legal hurdles. The discussion highlights the ongoing trade negotiations with China and the potential impact on the economy.

Notable Quote:

• Howard Lutnick [06:24]: "The president's going to win like he always does. But rest assured, tariffs are not going away."

3. Pride Month Celebrations (07:35 – 10:50)

The hosts acknowledge June as Pride Month, celebrating LGBTQ history and progress. They discuss the origins of Pride Month, its recognition by the White House, and recent Supreme Court rulings that decriminalized homosexuality.

Notable Quote:

• Jess Hilarious [07:35]: "June marks Pride Month... shout out to the LGBTQs that are enjoying Pride Month right now."

4. Audience Interaction – Callers on the Air (09:25 – 16:38)

a. Venting Session (09:25 – 14:00)
Listeners call in to share their frustrations and experiences. One notable caller, J.A., discusses familial tensions and workplace conflicts, highlighting issues with an older coworker.

Notable Quote:

• Charlamagne Tha God [13:33]: "Kim, just breathe."

b. Support and Personal Stories (14:00 – 16:38)
Another caller, Eric from Maryland, expresses gratitude towards the hosts and shares his personal journey, including military service and pursuing a master's in Clinical Social Work inspired by the show.

Notable Quote:

• Eric [16:05]: "Because of you and a couple other folks, I started studying psychology."

5. Celebrity News and Relationships (17:07 – 30:55)

a. Cardi B & Stefon Diggs Relationship (17:07 – 30:55)
The hosts delve into the public relationship between rapper Cardi B and NFL player Stefon Diggs. They discuss Cardi B's spousal support filings and subsequent social media posts showcasing their budding romance. The segment includes analysis of public reactions, potential impacts on their careers, and ongoing legal proceedings.

Notable Quotes:

• Cardi B [18:46]: "The only reason why this motherfucker asking for spousal support because I was asking for everything..."
• DJ Envy [26:15]: "She also posted photos of like a bunch of flowers she received..."

b. Zion Williamson Sexual Assault Accusation (30:07 – 35:35)
Zion Williamson, a prominent basketball player, faces serious allegations of sexual assault. The hosts discuss the accuser’s claims, Williamson’s denial, and the potential legal and career ramifications. The segment emphasizes the importance of due process and the complexities surrounding high-profile accusations.

Notable Quote:

• Jess Hilarious [34:05]: "Senator Chris Murphy said... when rural hospitals close because of this bill, more people will die at a younger age."

6. Interviews with Guest Speakers

a. Ricky Smiley – Comedy Special and Personal Insights (37:08 – 59:55)
Comedian Ricky Smiley discusses his new Hulu special "Rickey Smiley Foolish," sharing personal stories, comedic insights, and the challenges of balancing family life with his career. He reflects on the importance of authenticity in comedy and the supportive role of his family.

Notable Quotes:

• Ricky Smiley [38:17]: "Everybody is too sensitive right now. We need to get back to the 90s when comedians did what they did."
• Ricky Smiley [43:17]: "You got to have a nice blend... you take your two honey packs and have them sticking out of your pocket."

b. Dr. Rita Walker – Black Mental Health (85:11 – 100:49)
Dr. Rita Walker, author of "The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health," discusses the significance of her work, the unique mental health challenges faced by the Black community, and the importance of culturally competent therapy. She addresses common myths about therapy within the Black community and offers strategies for improving mental health outcomes.

Notable Quotes:

• Dr. Rita Walker [87:38]: "I'm so glad that you asked that because as you all know, oftentimes, you know, black people get lumped in with minorities."
• Dr. Rita Walker [94:21]: "Confidentiality is part of the bedrock of what we do as licensed professionals."

7. Special Reports and Emerging Stories

a. Tornado Impact on Trey Cheney’s Family (66:51 – 70:14)
Trey Cheney shares his harrowing experience of a tornado destroying his home and injuring his son, who is now in ICU. The hosts express their support, highlight the urgent need for donations, and provide details on how listeners can assist the Cheney family.

Notable Quote:

• Trey Cheney [67:05]: "I lost everything in it. Thank God I'm still living."

b. Christian Alondro Solorio Anguiano – Sexual Battery Case (76:32 – 80:39)
A disturbing case from Modesto, California, involves Christian Alondro Solorio Anguiano, accused of breaking into a woman’s home and committing sexual assault. The hosts critique law enforcement’s handling of stalking behaviors and advocate for stronger community policing and legal protections.

Notable Quote:

• Lauren LaRosa [77:52]: "He broke into our house just so he could treat our feet like a churro."

8. Sponsor Messages and Advertisements

Throughout the episode, hosts promote sponsors such as the Nissan Murano, emphasizing its relaxing features and personalized lighting. Additionally, advertisements for State Farm and the "American West with Dan Flores" podcast are integrated into the show.

Example Sponsor Quote:

• DJ Envy [22:46]: "Let the Nissan Murano be your oasis in a chaotic world because sometimes the greatest rush isn't rushing at all."

9. Closing Remarks and Final Interactions (80:47 – 85:30)

The episode concludes with heartfelt interactions among the hosts, praising Dr. Rita Walker’s work on Black mental health, and reinforcing messages of support for listeners facing personal challenges.

Notable Quote:

• Lauren LaRosa [84:19]: "Thank you, Leonard, for getting the word out about the book."

Conclusion

This episode of The Breakfast Club masterfully balances high-profile celebrity news with deep, personal stories and expert insights. From Cardi B and Stefon Diggs' public romance to the devastating tornado impact on Trey Cheney’s family, and the serious allegations against Zion Williamson, the hosts deliver a comprehensive look at current events. Additionally, interviews with Ricky Smiley and Dr. Rita Walker offer both humor and critical discussions on mental health within the Black community. The show maintains its engaging and dynamic flow, ensuring listeners are both informed and entertained.

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Transcript

[DJ Envy]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Panoramic moonroof, ambient lighting, bows and massaging leather. Appointed seats are optional features.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, usa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess. Hilarious. Good morning, Charlamagne to be here in a second. And it's Monday. Good morning. How you feeling? How was your weekend?

[Jess Hilarious]

It was good. It was good. I spent the weekend with my daughter and her grandmother. My son is down in Maryland or whatever. Right. But yo, you know what I find very scary?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It.

[Jess Hilarious]

The sun was up at 4:58 this morning. Yo, y' all don't notice it's getting. It's never been like when we leave, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, that is so scary to me. And it gets dark later.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I know that's not cause of no daylight saving. Like, come on, y' all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, it is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've never used it on this early summer morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, no, no, I do. I. It. I have never in my life seen the sun come out at 4:30. Like 4:50.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Pretty regular crazy salute to everybody out there that's actually experiencing spring and summer. Okay. Because summer don't start till June. What, 10th or 20th.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. But we in springtime. We ain't getting that in the Tri State.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, I don't feel okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Salute to everybody across the country that's experiencing actual spring temperatures. We not.

[Jess Hilarious]

I just feel like, how can an hour do that, y' all? Like one hour. No, no. An hour going forward and back can change that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Plus, the way that the earth is on the axis and that's where we're the only country.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're not Neil degrasse Tyson. I don't believe nothing you just said. The way the earth is on the ax, it might be. I don't know. It just don't sound right coming from NBC.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, fine.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute. Salute to all the students at Lincoln Tech. I got a chance to speak at their graduation over the weekend. So salute to Lincoln Tech. It's a technical school where they teach as a trade school, I should say, where they teach automotive H vac, electrical welding. So I got a chance to talk at their graduation. I actually took a couple of classes there because I just like to learn Ishmael with my cars and stuff like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Beyond his axis. And you got.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what you heard, you learned it day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then happy birthday to my mom. I celebrated my mom's 80th birthday over the weekend.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nice, nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Had a lot of fun. And then remember the Daddy Daughter dance? I was practicing. That was this weekend too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Did you do good? Did you wear your knee pads?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I killed it. I did wear my knee pads. I'm gonna show you a video later.

[Jess Hilarious]

How many knees did you get down on? One or two?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Only one knee.

[Jess Hilarious]

One.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just one knee.

[Jess Hilarious]

One knee.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Only two at diddy parties. Only two at free cars. Dropping a clues bombs with Taylor to our producer. Man, she had an amazing baby shower this weekend. We had a ball.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And you would be surprised how many of our co workers the tricks that they can do. I saw Brandon pick up a B.O. bottle with his mouth during one of our producers. Brandon.

[Ricky Smiley]

What?

[Jess Hilarious]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They was playing some baby game where you put the balloon in your shirt. Red. Know what I'm talking about? Red with the. You put the balloon in your shirt and I guess you gotta act like you're pregnant and do like head, shoulders, knees, toes, like they do. Wipe me down or something. And then you gotta pick the bottle up with your mouth. That was it. There you go.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There you go.

[Jess Hilarious]

Strong line.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Picked it up with your mouth. That was crazy. Him and travel playing together. And he beat Trav. Oh, wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Beat a gay guy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He beat a gay guy in a mountain game.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got.

[Jess Hilarious]

But speaking of happy pride, then.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, Brandon.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Happy pride month.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's definitely pride month.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, Brandon.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brandon hopped right out that closet this morning to talk to us. Now, Ricky Smiley will be joining us this morning. He has a new comedy special, Ricky Smiley Foolish. It is on Hulu May 30th. So it's out already.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it's hilarious too, by the way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And also Dr. Rita Walker will be joining us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Dr. Rita Walker is the author of one of my favorite books, the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health. And that book is celebrating five years. So she will be here to talk. Talk about that. I was with Dr. Rita Walker this weekend, too, at Roc Nations United Justice Coalition, we had a summit on how law enforcement can be better in regards to responding to mental health crisis. So Dr. Rita will be here this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. More going to be joining us at on move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Morning, everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

[Jess Hilarious]

Morgan. Oh, you wanted to skip sports. Okay, we could do that. First off our page, there's breaking news out of Boulder, Colorado. Sad news, actually. Multiple reports of people marching for Israelis held by Hamas are injured and a suspect is in custody following a Molotov cocktail at a mall. Now, the suspect, Mohammed Salomon, is reportedly an illegal alien from Egypt who overstayed his visa. The attack, which left at least six people wounded, took place during a weekly gathering of individuals. Did mention that. Now, FBI Director Cash Patel described the incident at the Pearl Street Mall as a targeted terror attack. But Boulder Police Chief Stefan Redfern, he's not quite ready to make that designation as of yet. So let's hear those comments from him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're not calling it a terror attack at this point. Again, it's way too early to speculate motive. You know, I know there's a lot out there on social media, but I asked people just to give us a little bit of patience while we work through a really complex scene. This was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in downtown Boulder on, on Pearl Street. And this act is unacceptable.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. So some of the injuries are reportedly life threatening. And the Anti Defamation League said on social media that the attack took place at the Boulder Run for Their Lives event. The weekly gathering for Jewish community members is meant to support the hostages taken during the October 7th attacks in Israel in 2023. So horrible. Posted on that. There's in other news, the Trump administration is confident it will overcome any court challenges to its tariff policy. Now, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told FOX News Sunday that the latest challenge put the trade team back about a week in terms of their goals. But they added, he added, that the country has returned to the bargaining table. And Lutnick says the court challenges, the court challenge to tariffs was just a speed bump, but he believes the White House will prevail in court. Let's take a listen to his comments, Howard.

[Ricky Smiley]

I think it cost us a week. Maybe, maybe cost us a week. But then everybody came right back to the table. We're going to take that up to higher courts. The president's going to win like he always does. But rest assured, tariffs are not going away.

[Jess Hilarious]

So Lutnick affirmed the constitutional powers that the president has to enact emergency tariffs if the nation is at risk. Trump's tariff plan was reinstated by federal appeals court last week after it was halted by a lower court. So, remember, I said, good luck trying to keep up with the terrorists. Now, that tariff block has officially been lifted since the last time we spoke on Friday. And more specifically, the White House says a trade deal with China is coming maybe as soon as this week. White House echoes. Economic adviser Kevin Hassett was asked about the status of trade negotiations on ABC's this Week, and he says the tariff battle with China is still being worked out. Let's take a listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The presidents, we expect, will discuss the matter this week. Once that thing's resolved, then we're going to take deals into the Oval that James Agreeer and Howard Lutnick have negotiated.

[Jess Hilarious]

So Hassett added that he expects President Trump will update the tariff plan this week. And China, excuse me, Trump accused China of violating its trade deal and announced that he was doubling steel and aluminum tariffs. So, again, we'll keep you posted on how these trade deals and tariffs work out as time arises. It looks like we have a little bit more time for one more, so I'm gonna go a little positive with this one. June marks Pride Month, the celebration of LGBTQ history, identity, and progress. It all started with the first pride parade in 1970, one, year after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked national push for LGBTQ riots. Or, excuse me. Right. The White House officially recognized Pride Month in 1999. And in 20 and 2003, the Supreme Court struck down laws that once made homosexuality a crime. So. But it does seem like things are headed in a reverse type situation. So while you guys can enjoy Pride Month, shout out to the LGBTQS that are enjoying Pride Month right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, all right. Happy Pride Month.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And yes, the lgbtqs just made it sound like a bunch of letters, Salute to the LGBTQ LGBTQs. You might as well just say salute to the G A Y. S. Well.

[Jess Hilarious]

If you know, the G A Y's might not identify as the T's, and the T's might not identify as the LG or, or the B. So, you know, you got to get into it like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But, you know, sometimes. Why?

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, news for 6am at 7, we'll talk about Trump's big, beautiful bill.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, and I forgot to report sports I mean, the Paces beat the Knicks, 125, 108.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You didn't forget. You didn't want to acknowledge everybody in Indiana?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I forgot. All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051.

[Ricky Smiley]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, good morning Club is J A from Emmy.

[Jess Hilarious]

How's that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Of course. What's up, J A?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You probably called at 3 o' clock and waited online this morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

I finished up my workout and I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just figured I'd give you guys a call.

[Jess Hilarious]

How was your weekend?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My weekend was great. My mom turned 80 this weekend. Beautiful.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Happy birthday to Mama.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, did you see anything on TV.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

That would interest either one of us?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watched Tulsa King on the plane. That was pretty interesting. Yeah, I like that show.

[Jess Hilarious]

So I just want to say there's.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Some good and bad news that I called about.

[Jess Hilarious]

The good news is that we're all healthy and alive.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The bad news is that the Knicks lost again.

[Jess Hilarious]

And going into the summer football season is about to start.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And you got a root for the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Giants, so it's going to be a.

[Ricky Smiley]

Bad year for you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn, you ain't lying. Let me ask you a question, J A. Do you think that the Pacers win one game against OKC or will it be a sweep?

[Ricky Smiley]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You talking crazy to you? Come on, Charlamagne.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We gonna win four games or two. Respect Indiana a little bit. You think the Pacers can beat okc?

[Jess Hilarious]

We are going to beat okc.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, well, good luck.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're standing on that.

[Jess Hilarious]

So I just want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I appreciate y' all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just wanted to say good morning. Have a good day. Oh, real quick, Jeff. Yes?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You talking about daylight saving time?

[Jess Hilarious]

Go to Europe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not that it matters, but I've been there.

[Jess Hilarious]

The sun rises at 4am Trust me, it's different. Okay, I appreciate that.

[Ricky Smiley]

We locked in.

[Jess Hilarious]

Y' all have a good day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And good luck. D.J. andrew. Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn. He consistent with his disrespect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know, right?

[Ricky Smiley]

Hello, who's this?

[Jess Hilarious]

My name is Karen. I'm calling from Chucktown.

[Lauren LaRosa]

4 3.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's happening downtown Rutledge Avenue? You are ready.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up?

[Jess Hilarious]

Here's what I believe, so I'm just trying to. Trying to say that's in a nice way, but I didn't know how that I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Anyway, I just want co worker.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said you just want to smack a co worker.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to smack her way going, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

At least you. At least you ain't say you want to box him anymore. Who you want to smack?

[Jess Hilarious]

I will box yet.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Okay, But I want a Barbie slam.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do you know the type of people like, okay, they work nice product, right? But evidently that's the chick you like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you have. You have us on Bluetooth?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Your phone sound a little muffled?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take us up Bluetooth for speaker if you got us on Bluetooth or speaker one.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Evidently that's the shifts you like.

[Jess Hilarious]

And if you like that, that's fine. Don't give me all of vitriol when I come to work 6 o' clock in the morning. I asked you one question.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So why can't y' all just have a conversation about it?

[Jess Hilarious]

She got an attitude problem and she got these I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why can't y' all just have a conversation about it?

[Jess Hilarious]

I already tried to have one, and, you know, it's really hard to have one. And here's the bad part. In my 60s and she's 70 and that, that's, that's a problem. It's like you shouldn't even be acting this way.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's not like I'm dealing with a.

[Jess Hilarious]

With a Gen Z or a young kid.

[DJ Envy]

I'm dealing with a person that's older than me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, if you smack a wig off, you might kill her, so you better not even put hands on it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're not. We not. We're not doing the smacking. We're gonna have a nice conversation with her. You're gonna pull it to the side. You can say, hey, girl, look. Yeah, okay. And then y' all gonna have a.

[Jess Hilarious]

I done tell those ladies several times. I was like, why you. Why you talk so mean? I said, you getting ready to go home?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I coming in.

[Jess Hilarious]

You should be happy. You know, I done sit here all night. I got, you know, it's like, I mean, the sun shining is a problem for this lady.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I'm like, this morning, I asked her one question. And she's the type of person, when you ask her a question, she assumes she made a whole question because half.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Of it she know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And she assumed that's what you gonna.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ask the rest of it. And she'd be so dead wrong. Like, I asked her about water. I don't know. You asked me that, so I don't Work that. I don't do that. I asked about the water in the refrigerator. That's all I asked her this morning. And I said, you know what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is the second time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Somebody have to try to just go ahead and let this lady know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Kim, just breathe. Kim, just breathe.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kim, just breathe. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Put you in the trash can because the old people put you in the trash can. God has been good to me.

[DJ Envy]

I really.

[Jess Hilarious]

He has been, y' all. I. He has been. The old Kim would have just put that lady right in the trash can.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, remember that.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know, grateful for the new me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

But this lady is rolling on the old damn hard.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, keep praying.

[DJ Envy]

Keep praying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Keep doing your.

[Jess Hilarious]

Please keep praying for me because lady.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Walk around here and bully people.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, no, you'll bully lady.

[DJ Envy]

I don't even take bullying like that.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I try to be nice because she older than me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Kim, just breathe. We gotta go, though. Kim, just breathe. Please.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't get the sermon.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, My.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

I'll let you know what the bill is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, boy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, goodbye.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Whether you're mad or blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hate the way that you walk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The way that you talk.

[Jess Hilarious]

I hate the way everything with me is blessed.

[Ricky Smiley]

Call up next.

[Lauren LaRosa]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not just me. I'm with the culture feeling. Hello, who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hi, this is Eric. Hello, Eric.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hi.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just called to say that we love and support you.

[Ricky Smiley]

Just hilarious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And to say that the con. The people who think that the a woman is a contra is their premise is fundamentally flawed because in order to assign any roles or expectations to something, you have to identify it first.

[Jess Hilarious]

And woman was always identified as female.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that's what it's defined as. An adult female that doesn't deny transgender people or anything. That's just the truth. That's all. I call today.

[Jess Hilarious]

I appreciate it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you for calling.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, thank you.

[Ricky Smiley]

Bye.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lonnie from Maryland.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lonnie from Maryland. What up, brother man?

[Ricky Smiley]

What's up, Jess?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, Charlemagne? What's up, Lonnie? How are you, sir? Hey, listen, man, I gotta get. I'm good, man. I got to get off my chest, dog. Charlemagne, Envy been playing you for a long time. Let me tell you how man, what's another word for donkey ass? Yeah. And every day he look you in the windows of your soul and ask you, who you giving your donkey to? Charlemagne, you my man. I gotta look out. Envy. You wrong, bro. You think. You think I don't know that? We know how gay. Envy. Envy is deep in the gaze of his soul. No, that's not how you say it. Well, he's deep.

[Jess Hilarious]

Deep in the game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not deep in nothing with you.

[Ricky Smiley]

Nothing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

His soul is really great.

[Ricky Smiley]

Happy pride.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love you all, man. Sup, salamay? I was in the military for 20 years, brother. I got out and. And because of you and a couple other folks, I started studying psychology. I applied for my masters in Clinical Social work. So I appreciate you, brother. I appreciate you, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir. I look forward to seeing you at your car show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jess, you just the best I can. And Lauren, too. But, Jess, you the best.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We like you out here, Maryland. Hey, we got a great guest this morning, too. I don't know if you know Dr. Rita Walker. She's the author of the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health. That book is celebrating five years, so she'll be here this. So I think you would enjoy that. Absolutely. I read that because of you, brother. Yes, sir. I can't wait. Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have a good one. Be safe.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, take it easy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now we got the latest with Lauren. What's up, Lauren?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, good morning. Yes, we do have the latest with Lauren coming up. Because Cardi B hard launched Stephan Diggs over the weekend, and she wrote him out like. I mean, we seen them at the game, but, like, they did, like, their swipe throughs, their, hey, we here together. Don't play with us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, you mean like they announced that they together?

[DJ Envy]

I mean, they didn't say we're together, but she posted a video twerking on him on that boat in Miami. Photos of them two kissing on the boat. He did a swipe through pictures from the game.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, on their actual pages?

[DJ Envy]

Yes. All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why you make it sound like it's pr? Like, you said, hard launch. Like she.

[DJ Envy]

That's what you do when you roll.

[Jess Hilarious]

Your merch, when you roll your BAE.

[DJ Envy]

Out on the ground for, like. For real.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

For real.

[DJ Envy]

Like, it's like. You know what I mean? Like. All right. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You going to court today?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. All right. We'll get into all that when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Ricky Smiley]

The Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, let's get to the ladies and go outside.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Somebody.

[DJ Envy]

That knows a little bit about everything.

[Ricky Smiley]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. What was the meat on the Breakfast Club?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, everybody.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Alrighty. So let's get right on into the latest. So Cardi B Offset, Stefan Diggs. So we did the reporting here last week about offset and there was a filing for spousal support. Once we did that report, Cardi B saw our report and she saw the reports of the spousal. Spousal support. Spousal request. And she got on Twitter spaces and she. She spoke for herself. Let's take a listen to Cardi on spousal support.

[Jess Hilarious]

The fact that I'm waking up right now to see that this and his team, I don't know. I know it's not his team. I know it's his gonna tell the Breakfast Club the only reason why this motherfucker asking for spousal support because I was asking for everything and because I don't be with my kids. Yo, you such a word to my mother. I want you to die, but I want you to die slow. When you die, I want you to die slow in the bed. And while you die, think of me. When I first filed for divorce, my lawyer filed for. And this started spazzing, right? So I told my lawyer I asked for no child support because I want to be done with this marriage. Like, I feel like I'm tied up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nobody wants. You don't want your kid's father to die, do you?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I think she's upset. And so then after this. Sometime after this. Well, first let's. There's another audio because then she talks about actually being able to. The whole kids thing. Because there was a claim allegedly that them there's not a good relationship as far as, like Cardi with her kids or him being able to see the kids. And she spoke to that. Let's take a listen.

[Jess Hilarious]

Kiari is allowed to see my kids. He stood up my kids three times. He have seen Blossom only like five times. And I've been trying to save your face, but for you stop playing saying that I don't be seeing my kids because you don't want to look like a less of a. I allow you to talk to the kids every single day. If I allow you to talk to the kids, why would I not allow you not to see the kids? It was a point that he was making a big deal, like, oh, I'm not going to go to New York to see the kids because I'm not going to be seeing my kids in a hotel room. I said, you know what? To make it easier for you, you could see the kids in my house. Just because I want my daughter to feel the love of her dad. Okay? So before you start talking to me about I don't see my kids, you haven't seen the kids since March.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't want to know any of this. I don't want to hear about any of this. Like, some things should be worked out behind closed doors.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's. It's just sad to see a relationship happen like that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just so damn sad.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And then so following this, some sometime in between.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I'm sure Cardi's haters love this. They love to see when you're going through it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I think offsets too. Like they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Both of them, I'm sure.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Because people had so much opinions and stuff about their relationships. Anyway, let me get those photos about their relationship. Anyway, so people, this, this just adds to the conversation people are then able to have. But following this because there was a lot of back and forth online, a lot of support for Cardi, a lot of support for Offset. Stefan Diggs and Cardi B got on Instagram and they both separately did their own post. So Stefan Diggs did a swipe through and you know, it was. He actually posted on June 1st, so beginning of the month type of thing. So he said in his caption to the month of May, I appreciate you nonetheless, gotta stay focused. And we know that Cardi B has been dating Stefan Diggs. There were the photos of them at the Knicks, but this is the first time that both of them have actually posted each other on their Instagram. So he did a swipe through and in. The swipe through includes a photo of him and Cardi B at that game. And the last video, which people of course pulled out the in the swipe through is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Dr. Rita Walker]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Dr. Rita Walker]

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[DJ Envy]

Or wherever you get your podcast.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Dr. Rita Walker]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

A video from that moment when the Migos were at they at the BET Awards and the whole did I get left off bad and boo the whole conversation. So he grabbed a part from that video. It's of Quavo saying like let's wrap it up then something like that. So people grabbed it because they're like, okay, this is a shot at that Offset. And then you got Cardi who came back online as well and she posted a swipe through herself. Now her swipe through included photos from the beach on that boat on Miami, in Miami that they were on them two hugged up, kissed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw those. I don't want to see them.

[DJ Envy]

She also posted photos.

[Jess Hilarious]

Let me see. Pass me.

[DJ Envy]

She also posted photos of like a bunch of flowers she received. And she's holding the flowers, they like filled the living room. She also posted a video of her and Stefan Diggs on a boat getting crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Looking at those pictures hurt my feelings. Okay. Yeah. Cause your ex wife, the mother of your child, then moved on and found love with somebody else. That hurt to see. If you got a good woman, if you love her, then you better do right by her because it's gonna hurt to see her with someone else. And when that someone else got a 3 year 69 million dollar contract with 26 million guaranteed. Oh, that's just odd that tweet through.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's crazy that your feelings hurt. Was your feelings hurt for her when Offset was out Here with the hoes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If Offset had a richer woman, yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But no, that ain't how this is working out.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, all right. Well, she deserve all she getting. And, yes, I look like she be getting. Damn, I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not gonna lie, bro.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, she looked good on that boat, all that. They look good together, honey. Love.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hurt. It does. It hurts to see as a man, it's just like, damn, I'm happy for this because that can happen. That can happen if you. You. You know, if you f up, you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don'T do the right thing.

[DJ Envy]

Of course, I think a lot of.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Us, that woman will move on.

[DJ Envy]

I think a lot of us thought, too, that maybe one day they would figure it out, it would be good or whatever. But, yeah, it seems like she's completely where she's at now.

[Jess Hilarious]

And listen, he over there crying in their lips, crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There's no need for you to do that.

[Jess Hilarious]

So sad.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You see what I'm saying? You see how cold women are?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Women, cold.

[DJ Envy]

I think it's just. I think for the women that are. Because it was a lot of women defending Cardi when we did it. Our. Our story about dish spousal support. People feel like they've been along this ride with them because there was a lot of the cheating allegations and things on Offset side, but they were very public. So people feel for Cardi. They feel like, you know, she's finally trying to get her things together and all these explosions keep happening.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, Cardi doing her thing. And Cardi has every right to do that. I'm just simply saying, as a man, it hurts to see, because that is what happened. When that woman is fed up and when that woman is ready to move on, she gonna move on and live her best life. And it's gonna hurt to see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's sad to see because we've seen both of them come up in this. In this industry, right? We see them start dating. We see them get married. We see them have children. We see them, you know, mess up together. We see them get back. We see them do music. And then just to see that is just sad, man.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, ain't nobody sad.

[Jess Hilarious]

But Offset the hell now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What else you got going on?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So stupid.

[DJ Envy]

That's it for the.

[Jess Hilarious]

What is going on?

[DJ Envy]

Jess ain't got. That's it. Monday morning. Don't play with Jess today, okay? Excuse me, baby Pride month just started. You was not having it. Yes, and I was thinking about.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wake up, it's the morning pride. Grab your rainbows and go outside. Hey, hey, hey, let's get it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you on the court today? Well, guess what? Listen, listen. Cardi is the homie. But Offset being sad is enough for me. I have a little empathy for it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just a little.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The whole situation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As a man. As a man, I have a little empathy just cause I'm like. Like, damn, bro. She out here with somebody else, not living her best life.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She got a $69 million contract with 26.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you talk about the money?

[DJ Envy]

That's why you came out of money. I mean, Offset got his own money, too. But what did we expect Cardi B. To do?

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what I'm saying. At the end of the day. At the end of the day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why the spousal support thing wasn't a good look. Because when you out there living your best life with somebody who got that kind of paper and then whatever is happening in the courtroom saying that don't look right. Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just get over it. Get divorced every day. B.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They're talking about him potentially getting cut from the Patriots over that boat video.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God. That boat video is still really much a thing. Yeah, very much a thing. And a lot. A lot of people, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't think that's gonna happen, though.

[DJ Envy]

I was about to say, I've seen a lot of people say that, that that's a step too far to cut him, but they just. I guess. I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But they gotta prove what's in it, right? They. You don't know what's in it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, they gotta prove what's in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why did they have cameras on the boat?

[Jess Hilarious]

That's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

CR Just pointed something out this morning because y' all were saying it was an out toy case, that I never saw the video. I saw it this morning for the first time. That was a baggie.

[DJ Envy]

When he pops it open, there's baggage.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it's a baggie, period.

[DJ Envy]

I saw the pop open.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, there was no pop open. It was a baggie.

[DJ Envy]

Regardless of whatever we think it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The video I seen it was. It looked like a pop open. I don't know if it's the same video, two different things. But whatever I seen was what you showed me this morning wasn't a pop open, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was a baggie full of pink powder.

[DJ Envy]

But I will say, even outside of that, as we wrap up, the people just say him being on the boat, having a good time in general was a bad look for the team. And that that caused a lot of upset, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I'm.

[Ricky Smiley]

But he.

[DJ Envy]

I Don't look, I don't know. They have a reputation conversation. But yes, they would have to investigate and figure out what was what.

[Jess Hilarious]

But it, well, no matter what, what happened, no matter what happens with the Patriots or whatever, he still got the girl, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Could you cut it out? Praying for all parties involved.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just quick question. You going to court today? Who's, who's on the stand? I know you're gonna talk about the next hour, but.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I'm not for sure who's on the stand today. I know they finished up with Mia, the personal assistant with her cross examination on Friday, but I'm not for sure who's gonna send it down. Get your answer to that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay? All right. Now when we come back, we got front page news and then Ricky Smiley will be joining us. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Ricky Smiley]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now. Over the week, the Nick Wicked. Over the weekend, the Knicks were eliminated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, you can't even get it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't beat the Knicks. 125, 108. So the paces will be taken on the first game is June 5th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It wasn't even the fact that they lost. They just got their ass busted. Did you think about how they fumbled in Game 1? The Knicks didn't want to win that series.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it was horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible. But what's up, Morgan?

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning, Andy. I'm so sorry. You know, thoughts and prayers, Thoughts and prayers. Let's talk about Trump's big beautiful bill. So House Speaker Mike Johnson says the White House spending bill will actually strengthen Medicaid. Of course, this is from opposition on the other side of the aisle. Now. Johnson told NBC's Meet the Press the bill protects all safety net programs by implementing much needed reforms. He added that it will cut the deficit by over a trillion dollars over 10 years. Let's take a listen to House Speaker Mike Johnson on Trump's big beautiful bill. There are no Medicaid cuts in the big beautiful bill.

[DJ Envy]

We're not cutting Medicaid.

[Jess Hilarious]

What we're doing is strengthening the program. We're reducing fraud, waste and abuse.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The reason we call it the big beautiful bill is because it is a.

[Jess Hilarious]

Tremendous pro growth package entwined in this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Legislation that is going to make everybody's incomes go up. There's going to be more job opportunity.

[Jess Hilarious]

So the Senate will now debate the measure where Republicans can only afford to lose three votes. The multitrillion dollar tax and spending package narrowly passed the House last month. And after the Senate votes, House lawmakers will have to approve changes to the bill. I believe their deadline they're looking at is July 4th to get that passed. So we will. I'll keep you guys posted on that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, you know, here's the thing too. If they aren't cutting Medicaid, you will know. So if your Medicaid gets cut, you will know they lied to you. So please remember Speaker Mike Johnson saying that they aren't cutting Medicaid. I hope they're not cutting it. But if they do cut it, you will know that they lied to you.

[Jess Hilarious]

They say they're not cutting the Medicaid. Right. But they're saying they're rooting out the waste, fraud and abuse of it. So basically, if you're an illegal alien or if you're somebody you know here that may not, you know, supposed to be there, or if they supposedly feel that you don't qualify, then yeah, but that's where the cuts are. But that's when they're saying that's where it's that gray area of where they say it's supposed to be waste, fraud and abuse. But you know, I'm not gonna get too much into that. On the other side of the aisle, Democrats say Trump's so called big beautiful bill will kill Americans. That's what Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy told CNN State of the Union. Let's take a listen to his comments.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When you lose your health care, you are much more at risk of early death. When rural hospitals close because of this bill, when drug treatment clinics close in Iowa and rural America because of this bill, more people will die at a younger age.

[Jess Hilarious]

So Murphy says he fears rural communities will suffer the most if the bill is signed into law. Democrats say the White House tried is trying to cut Medicaid and other social safety nets by billions of dollars. Now Republicans say they are much needed reform to the programs that will cut the deficit. So again, we'll keep you guys posted. As of today, Congress is still in recess, but they will be back in session tomorrow and I'm gonna be up there asking all the questions. So President Trump, he says he will seek congressional approval for doge related spending cuts in this fiscal year. Now the Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vogt says the White House will use a special tool that recommends Congress take back spending that is already approved. That's called the Empowerment Control Act. The ICA Empowerment Control act specifically addresses the president's ability to withhold or delay the spending of funds already appropriated by Congress. Now Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vogt describes the rarely used procedure. Let's take a listen to his comments.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a provision that has been rarely used, but it is there. And we intend to use all of these tools. We want contract to pass it where it's necessary. We also have executive tools. The very Impoundment Control act itself allows for a procedure called pocket rescissions later in the year to be able to bank some of these savings without the bill actually being passed.

[Jess Hilarious]

So he told CNN State of the Union it was used for over 200 years but stopped in the 1970s leading to fraud and abuse. So I'll keep you guys posted on what they're going to be trying to, you know, what basically what programs or where that money will be coming from and how it will be replaced or reused in other areas. That one's fairly interesting and one last one I think is impacting A lot of people seem to be a lot of very upset about this. The Department of Labor has suspended operations at more than 100 Job Corps centers nationwide. The center in Detroit, a center in Detroit shut down last week, well ahead of the June 30 deadline for operations to be suspended, leaving alumni and others in shock. And announcing what is called a phased pause, the Labor Department said the program was no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve. In addition, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez Durmer pointed to a number of serious incident reports and our in depth fiscal analysis. So that seems to be a developing story is breaking overnight. So I'm going to keep you guys posted as well as to what happens as a result of these job Labor Corps or excuse me, Job Corps centers being shut down nationwide. But that pretty much concludes your front page news. You guys can follow me on socials at Morgan Media and for more news COVERAGE Follow at BlackInformation Network, download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us@bin news.com thank you. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Now when we come back, Ricky Smiley will be joining us. We're gonna kick it with Ricky Smiley.

[Jess Hilarious]

So don't move.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, indeed, he's back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ladies and gentlemen, Ricky Smiley.

[Ricky Smiley]

Hey, thank y' all for having me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't you got your own show?

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, I got up early pre recorded a prank phone call so let me slide on over here with my folks, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ricky, I would laugh so much watching your special, man. I was telling them that this morning.

[Ricky Smiley]

You saw it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What you mean? I saw it?

[Ricky Smiley]

Okay. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I knew you was gonna be with it, man. I laugh so hard. You know why? Cause it felt warm.

[Ricky Smiley]

Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I'm saying? Regardless of what you said, that people might be offended by it. Just felt like it was coming from a good place.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, they'll be all right. That's a problem, man. The comedy is just. Everybody is too sensitive right now. We need to get back to the 90s when comedians did what they did. Eddie Murphy Raw is still funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep. Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

I don't get offended at nothing. Eddie Murphy Delir is funny. All Jamie Foxx, Martin Lawrence. Those specials are Mark Curry. All of those specials are still funny, man. Are we just in a council culture?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We are.

[Ricky Smiley]

And on this one, I just say what the hell I want to say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

And just have fun with the audience. The audience that came out to see you, they said, we want you. And that's what I gave them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wouldn't want a young kid to watch Eddie Murphy Raw, delirious, especially a young member of the LGBTQ community. You gotta ease into that one. You can't just turn that one on now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But is that why it took you 10 years to do another special?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, man.

[Ricky Smiley]

You know what happened? I got in the radio, got into raising the kids. I was still performing on the weekend. You just have to give yourself some space, give yourself a cushion to have a balanced life. You know, do radio, you know, do shows or whatever, but then push the kids on the swing set and just have some fun and enjoy life and sit on the beach a couple of a few weekends. Instead of three shows on a Saturday, two shows on a Friday. And it ain't the shows, it's the in between shows. So just, you know, the two hour. The two and a half to three hour wait for you to go back on stage in between shows. Sitting in a room with comedians and we run out of things to talk about and your voice gone. And it just. That was kind of. I just needed. I just needed a cushion. So I didn't put pressure on myself to do another one. I just kept performing. And David Talbert and Lynn Talbert, it was like, hey, man, you need to do another special. You haven't done one in years. I said, okay. So I was like, cool. And we did. We shot it. Did three shows, and it was fun. I had a good time. If I Had one critique. I just felt like. I. I don't know. I just kind of felt like I had something to prove, and I think I should have just took a deep breath and just relaxed a little bit. When I go back and look at, you know, you. Your own worst critic, right? You hear yourself on the radio, you're gonna turn the station.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You ain't gonna say, absolutely.

[Ricky Smiley]

And listen to. I can't stand to listen to myself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gotta prove to I.

[Ricky Smiley]

You just feel like you just have something to prove. Like you coming out like. Like, calm down.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was like a walk in the park for you. It was like an uncle at a cookout. Like you. That's why I was gonna ask you, did you write anything? It just seemed like you just had it, and it was just. It was there, like.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, just. I had been working on some of that material for years, and it was just sharp. It was developed. I had. Did it in comedy club. I had Rita Brent, comedian, Special K, Big Sean, Levar Walker, you know, you know, helping me out or whatever, giving me, you know, punching up the stuff, making it funny and performing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

You know, so when you perform the stuff, you know, just when we did shows together, you know how many times I. I pull y' all to the side and say, hey, look, you make a mistake right here. Do this right here, and then flip that, do that right there. I wish I could coach comedy.

[Jess Hilarious]

You definitely need some comedy coaches.

[Ricky Smiley]

I would tell her, I was on B. Simone ass one night.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

I said, why did you do that? I bought her to the dressing room. I said, you need to do this like this. She said, for real? She said, I just really appreciate you even taking the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are they receptive, though, the younger comedians?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, she was.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, I'm sorry I made it. I'm sorry. But she was. Cause she did exactly what he. Cause we were all on the same show.

[Ricky Smiley]

We was on the same show.

[Jess Hilarious]

Exactly what he told her to. And she got a bigger response.

[Ricky Smiley]

Sure did.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

And we was just going crazy about it because, you know, I take the time to coach them. I pull just to the side and say, hey, let's do this like this. Or what do you think? Or do you think this will work better? I'm trying to tell them what to do, but that's our job because we was coach, you know, you couldn't make no mistakes. Mistakes you have to respect somebody put. Think enough of you to pull you to the side. Because most people not gonna say nothing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can you coach people when they're not Funny.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah. Hey, hey, just don't. Don't go back.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now.

[Ricky Smiley]

You can't write jokes. You can write funny, but they have to know how to perform it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

Or whatever. Or you just have to find it. Find that. Whatever that niche is and build from there or whatever. Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So is it okay for comedians to have writers?

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, so. Because, you know, some people, like, nah, I write my own jokes. I do my own stuff. Like, you see that so much. But now is the day rappers got writers. Now they help with certain things. Is that okay? Or is it one of those things, like, give them your concept?

[Ricky Smiley]

You said, sometimes I have a punchline. I said, here's a punchline. I tell you what, I tell you another story. Cedric the Entertainer wrote Lil Darrell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. Oh, now that I didn't know.

[Ricky Smiley]

That's a true story.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow.

[Ricky Smiley]

Now we open up Uptown Comedy club that was behind Houston's where we was doing the very open the opening weekend. And I said, sid, I got this joke about this kid saying this Easter speech, and we was in a 79 Cutlass driving up Peachtree. He said, oh, man. I said, what should I name it? He said, oh, man. He was going through that. He said, lil Darrell. He said, lil Darrell. He said, yeah, he's saying the Easter speech. And he said, my name, Lil Darrell. And Liz said, cedric Entertainer pretty much helped me develop that entire joke that changed my entire career. I did that joke on Comic View, and my career took off. Like, they still talk about it. People weren't even born. I don't know if you was born when I did, but I know exactly.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know it.

[Ricky Smiley]

Right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, right.

[Ricky Smiley]

Say it. Say it. Develop that joke for me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're saying things in this special that people need to hear. For example, tell this brother Envy why he shouldn't dye his bed.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, yeah. Don't die because that just for men or whatever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's exactly what he is, just for man.

[Ricky Smiley]

I got a little dye in there, but I let the little gray seep out a little bit because women like that, right? Yes, you a zaddy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, okay. Be one a daddy.

[Ricky Smiley]

Get Envy. We got to get off that van. We got to get off that van with them OG's, with them gray beards with them suits on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Ricky Smiley]

Envy. We got to get off the van with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like my little Just men a little bit. I like my little. Just let the little gray come on out.

[Ricky Smiley]

Women like that couple.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got a couple.

[DJ Envy]

Couple.

[Ricky Smiley]

Now I got the little gray coming out or whatever, but I took A eyeliner. The, the little mascara and kind of brushed over this part, but whatever. But you got to make sure you got a nice blend. Like, I'm young, but the gray shows the wisdom. You know what I'm saying? You do that and you take your two honey packs and have them sticking out of your pocket. You can still clap them cheeks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're still kicking it with Ricky Smiley. Now, do you still get butterflies or nervous when you're on stage?

[Ricky Smiley]

Hell yeah. You do it so much, man, if you're not about to. If you don't have a bubble in your head, you about to fart. Like, you, right? You guys passing gas, you know, just. You ever, you ever farted, like, headed to the microphone?

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm talking about, like, told. Take it like, right before, like 20 seconds before. You gotta go on. You feel it right at the tip.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'd be like, dang, she's done that here. How about that?

[Ricky Smiley]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jess and Mike. Jess and Mike Epps don't care. They'll blow up anybody's bathroom.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Ricky Smiley]

Mike. Elves spoiled it on the set of Friday After Next, and we had to stop taping.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Ricky Smiley]

Damn. Yeah, it was in the little house where we was doing the, the scene with the Christmas tree fighting. Mike Epps let one go that day. They said, we gotta take a break. It wasn't, it wasn't. It wasn't enough spray. It wasn't. It was something in there. I don't know what Mike Epps ate, but him and just. They don't care. They in the blue, they blow up bathrooms. I, I, I, I got sick. I was so nervous. Oh, Donnell Rollins, low down ass. Oh. I don't know if you did that show when the Martin Lawrence tour was in Atlanta. I don't know if you. I think it was B. Simone.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

So Covid had just came out. Darnell Rollins goes on stage, and, man, he started doing this stuff. He took the hand sanitizer on stage and, you know, that was when Covid first started, because two weeks after that, they canceled all the shows because Kobe had got dangerous. And he had the hand sanitizer and he was pumping the skiing, the hand sanitizer everywhere on stage. The freaking audience was going crazy. I'm on Saturday. Yeah. Not realizing that I was next. Yeah. My roommate said, hey, Rick, you next? You need to get your together, because look what he doing, man. He did a 26,000 standing ovation. However many people that are in. 12,000, 20,000, whatever. The state farmer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A full house.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't Believe Donna Rollins ever got a standard.

[Ricky Smiley]

No, no, we ain't gonna do that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We ain't gonna do that.

[Ricky Smiley]

You gonna do that. That's my guy. Oh, you should have been there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Funny.

[Ricky Smiley]

Tell Benji Brown to send you the video. Benji Brown got it on tape. Yeah. Shout out to Benjamin Brown. So I was next. So I have a playbook Charlemagne. So I have Acts 1 through 9. So it's not different jokes, but it's the order that I do the joke depend on what happens before I go on stage. You know what I'm saying? I watch Nick Saban's speech before I perform. Oh. From album.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Ricky Smiley]

You watching Nick Saban or Coach prime speech.

[Jess Hilarious]

You can.

[Ricky Smiley]

You can transform that into comedy in order to get motivated.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

I'm not lying, man. Football.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So what does Nick Saban of Prime said that you actually. What's your mind that you remember that you go out there and you.

[Ricky Smiley]

It's like he always talk about winning and being your best and just. It just builds you up to where you need to be to do whatever it is that you need to do, even though we not playing football. So here Darnell Rollins on stage, and you got all of the bloggers on the first two rows, all the celebrities on the first two rows. And if you have a bad show in Atlanta, you can kiss comedy, period. Let's just kiss and say goodbye. Your career is. Oh, you finna be in all the blogs if they walk out on you. You about to be in the blogs. And he got a standing ovation, and I had to come with it. And I went on stage and I put that work in and got a standing ovation behind him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I saw the blog. I saw when they wrote about you getting the standing ovation in Atlanta, they ain't mentioned Donaldo.

[Ricky Smiley]

They did. Now. You're gonna have him showing up at my show, standing up in the aisle, and it's gonna be a Donnell Rollins and Ricky smile instead of Darnell Rodgers and Cory Hulk. Hey, Darnell. Darnell, you know, you my boy. I'm. I'm giving you props. Kick Charlemagne's ass, not mine. Yeah. So. So. And I went backstage and. And I was throwing up and damn. Yeah. At the same time, because it was pressure. You can't get no standing ovation. Your career is over. Everything you work for. If you don't have a good show in Atlanta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Atlanta, you look at every show like that. Like you have to get that off.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not certain cities.

[Ricky Smiley]

No, that particular city. And Donnell Rollins had. Did this Covid joke that up that Shocked the crowd. And it was so freaking funny. I don't even think he wrote.

[Jess Hilarious]

Was fresh and it was fresh. So he was like. Right.

[Ricky Smiley]

And he did the joke off the top of his head. And he was just improv. And that wasn't no written joke because you can't. The joke was not developed so Right. Because Covid had just came out. So it's fresh. So he off the top of his head. He ripping. I'm saying drug dealership with necklaces on, falling all on the floor, crying, people getting up, slapping each other. You ain't seen that since Def Jam.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Ricky Smiley]

Not that kind of man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Slapping each other.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's success to you when it comes to that special or just getting it out?

[Ricky Smiley]

Is that just making sure that it's special? That's the thing. They call them specials. But the question becomes, you want it to be special. You want it to be one that. That you and your mom gonna pull out on Thanksgiving like. Like this special right here. I believe that they're gonna pull it out every Thanksgiving and every Christmas we're gonna sit down and watch the special. Not a lot of cussing. Maybe one or two cuss words. You can watch it with your kids. They can get by one or two cuss words that I use. And you know, every Thanksgiving and Christmas, that's gonna be something that people will watch just like they watch Lil Darrell. And how you do that there with the basic guitar charlamagne. I had that in there. We had to edit it out because I couldn't get 10%. So whoever own song. We could not find them to pay them wow. Wow or whatever. But the Thanksgiving in the Christmas part of it is my favorite. Tommy Davidson FaceTime me yesterday still laughing at one joke about the. And it just wiped him out. He went yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Ricky Smiley]

We was at the improv in Hollywood. Tommy Davidson went from table to table repeating his joke while it was still showing on the screen. He would sit his ass down and he was going from table to table just repeating that joke. And I just sat back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Salute to Tommy. That's a lot of funny. I like she call herself trying.

[Jess Hilarious]

That is so true. Yo. That's every aunt, every uncle, every black mama.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, them black mamas don't play that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No white people say, oh my God.

[Ricky Smiley]

My. My daughter's gay. Them black mamas where Brianna? She back there calling herself liking.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

And.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That'S some holiday though. That's when you find out about that type of.

[Ricky Smiley]

And all people messy cuz nobody ask you. We ask where is Brianna. Why does she have to say that? Why can't she just say she's in the back room back there. And here's our Miss Hauling herself.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like it, yo.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah. Now that was the moment they hit the floor.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, that was funny, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do you ever feel like you have to reinvent yourself for the new generation?

[Ricky Smiley]

I did. I did at one point, but I stopped doing that. I just started feeling like I have a fan base. I have an audience that love me and love what I do. And y' all don't ever forget this. Stick to what you do. You don't have to fit in with certain crowds and certain cultures and certain organizations you don't have.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, what up, y' all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Dr. Rita Walker]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Dr. Rita Walker]

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[DJ Envy]

Or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What happens when we come face to face with death? My truck was blown up by a 20 pound anti tank mine.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Dr. Rita Walker]

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[Jess Hilarious]

I'm dying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Cut his arm off.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Ricky Smiley]

To your favorite shows to fit in. Do what you do. Why do the people why do people come to see you? I don't care who's funny and how funny they are. You might not be as funny. Do you, you know God got you, brought you here for a reason God. Like, these last two years have been the toughest two years of my life. I wrote my son's name and birth date on the wrist of my arm before I went on stage. Cause my son was a comedian, you know, and my son is on the special. So after I say goodnight or whatever and the credits rolling, you can see a clip of me and. Me and Brandon on stage and Brandon standing there performing. He, you know, it shows about five minutes of his performance, you know, split screen with the credits on the other side. So what a great way.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

To honor your son. You know, with us on stage together like we was. I had him on stage when he was seven years old, telling jokes. And so I would take him on tour, have toys in the dressing room or whatever. I raised all my kids in the drink. They could tell you what every dressing room looked like.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

So it was a blessing to do that. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're still kicking in with Ricky Smiley. His new comedy special is out on Hulu right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Charlemagne, you've always spoke about feeling. Feeling Brandon's presence during performances. So. So how does that spiritual connection manifest on stage for you?

[Ricky Smiley]

It's almost like you're doing it for him, you know? You know, you're doing it for your son. Now. My son or whatever, he had his favorite comedians, you know. You know. You know, your kids always want to grow up, try to be different from you. I don't want to be like you. My son love Eddie Griffin. My son loved Roy Wood Jr. And stuff. And, you know, he just had the different comedians that he liked or whatever, you know, so he had a whole different style of doing comedy. His comment was more, you know, kind of like, thoughtful. A mix between Roy Wood Jr. And Lil Rail.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

You know what I'm saying? That was. That was his whole side. He had a lot more. He was a lot more intelligent.

[Jess Hilarious]

So he didn't know a lot of the older comedians. He just.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, yeah, he knew him, but he just had his. Had his own style, you know, of performing, whatever. I enjoyed him. I miss him. But these last two years was really, really tough. I don't wish that on nobody.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

I don't wish that on my worst enemy. It's horrible, you know, so shout out to all the mothers, all the parents out there that had to bury a child and lost a child. Keep your kids in sports, keep them in athletics. The discipline and the structure matter. We got to learn to give kids more of what we had as opposed to what we did not have. That's what's ruining Kids, if you like who you are, then give the kids what you had. I just wish everybody the best, and I hope all of y' all kids are safe, graduate college, and go on to be. Be productive people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I agree with all of that, but I will say some of these kids need a little bit more than going to the water fountain. If you're dealing with some.

[Ricky Smiley]

So you really need.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If you're dealing with some type of, like, mental health issues or emotional issues, you need more than the water fountain, Ricky. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ricky Smiley]

They didn't have medicine for adhd.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, hell no.

[Ricky Smiley]

I was growing up. It was go to the water fountain. You know what I'm saying? Send me in a classroom with those lights like that going all the way across or whatever. That's back before you started exchanging classes. You was in one. You remember that?

[Jess Hilarious]

Elementary school being in one place.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't even know if they got that. I keep wondering, do they still got the trailers in the back?

[Ricky Smiley]

Nope. Hey, stop.

[Jess Hilarious]

Trailers.

[Ricky Smiley]

Stop.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamagne was one of those classes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I failed to stand that for a second.

[Ricky Smiley]

For a second. He was in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was on that short bus, too. For a second, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know if they still got the short bus. Do they? I don't even see him no more.

[Ricky Smiley]

Nah, they put him on the bus with the regular kids. And I know back then they. They go to lunch at 9:30.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, they gonna lunch at 9:30 because they get out at 12. And I. I had history class first period, and I could hear. Hear them running down the hall at 9:30. When that little n. There be a short bill, like dream, dream or whatever. Not a long bill.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What you mean you can hear them?

[Ricky Smiley]

Like bring br. You can hear them because of the. It was like clicking, the noise. You know, Back then, they wore the shoes with the. You know, with the steel on the side or whatever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not all of them.

[Ricky Smiley]

Not all of them. And some of them will run real fast or whatever. And I would sit there and just crack the hell up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What it used to sound like Lunch.

[Ricky Smiley]

Lunch, lunch, lunch, lunch running down the hall or whatever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Where you going? To hell, Ricky.

[Jess Hilarious]

Smile.

[Ricky Smiley]

You going to hell. But we want. We want to bring love back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We going together on the showboat.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah, we all. We all going to hell. And it's time for us to bring love. And, Jess, I bought you a gift. This is something for Jess. This is for Jess, but it's also a Charlemagne is going to hell production. Make sure y' all watch my special on hulu. You ready, D.J. here you go. Hit the music. Music.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, Lord. Is it a midget scribble?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, Brandon.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Move out the way.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We go ahead, Chris. Wow. You know Jeff Love of Chris now? Yes. His name Chris. My guy Chris. Make sure he pay you now. Did he pay you? I hope he gave you a down payment now before you got up here. I know you.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know you so well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Huh? I know you so well. Yes, sir.

[Ricky Smiley]

Charlo.

[DJ Envy]

And you know who Ricky.

[Ricky Smiley]

And you know who that is?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo, my no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who? A female rapper.

[Ricky Smiley]

That's just hilarious.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hello.

[Ricky Smiley]

All right, I know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nice.

[Ricky Smiley]

All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do you know him? Yo, I know him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who that is?

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm a butt right there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's my buddy. He ain't say that. Chris don't get down.

[Ricky Smiley]

He watch y' all every day. We appreciate. Yeah. So we had to give you a look, you know, they had to serenade.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We appreciate you, Chris.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Chris, make sure he pay you, man.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm got a song for my brother.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You got a song? Yeah. What is it?

[Jess Hilarious]

For my brother?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's like. What's the song?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, YouTube.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Look up. Oh, you got. You got a song.

[Jess Hilarious]

You can't do it acapella.

[Ricky Smiley]

It's on YouTube.

[Jess Hilarious]

Y ain't paying me the name.

[Ricky Smiley]

What is under will it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is my brother.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, that's the name of the song?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, we got it. Oh, come here to play. Chris said, I ain't coming on this radio for nothing, Ricky, you think it's a game? This is. Chris said. Joke on you, Ricky. I'm about to get my song off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I talk to him.

[Jess Hilarious]

Chris. Yeah, My uncle. Uncle Tomorrow. Yes, sir, my uncle.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He gone from a place to place, right? And he pass away.

[Jess Hilarious]

Rest in peace.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He said to me, though. He said, chris, I'll be a rapper.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, Your life, right? Yeah. He passed it to me. Yeah, I'm doing the wrong song. Yeah, for my brother. Yeah, you know, fun song for my brother.

[Ricky Smiley]

Then I laugh. So let's go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Get him, Chris. Get him, Chris. Get him, Chris.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get him, Chris.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Get him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get him, Chris.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Chris.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ricky, Smiley. The new special Foolish is streaming now on Hulu. The star of the show, Chris.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Chris.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Chris ain't playing.

[Jess Hilarious]

I love you, Ricky.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tell them where to follow you on social media, Chris.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I got it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, okay. Finding me Instagram, YouTube, Twitter. Subscribe me YouTube.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Chris.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Big Chris Mill, baby.

[Ricky Smiley]

Big Chris Smith.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Chris Smith.

[Ricky Smiley]

Thank y' all for the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Ricky Smiley]

Never come back when you're here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Details.

[DJ Envy]

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She be having the latest on.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

The.

[Ricky Smiley]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Oh.

[Ricky Smiley]

It's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

So over the weekend, it was revealed that Rihanna's dad, Ronald Fenty, actually passed away at age 70 in LA. So I wanted to send her her family, man. Yeah. Some love and, you know, healing. And I know her. Her dad. Cuz when people reported this, people were confused, as if they didn't know that Rihanna had a relationship with her dad. Her and her dad had had their issues, but they had recently reconciled. And he was actually. I just saw an interview from him a couple months ago where he was talking about being excited for her new baby and all the things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Still her dad, regardless.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. But I think with celebrities, if you don't see the. The parent next to the celebrity, every single time you see the celebrity, people like to make it seem like. Like it. I don't know, like it's not a thing. Like it is still her dad regardless. But for some reason, people look at celebrities in their relationships a bit differently.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm gonna send condolences regardless if that was her dad or not. But that's because you said it.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. And so her. There was a photo of her brother arriving to the hospital in la. And TMZ actually broke the photo of that story following the passing of Rihanna's dad and said that Rihanna was in the car arriving with her brother to the hospital, but she's not visible in the photo. But, yeah, he was suffering, battling some sort of illness. So, yeah, just sending her some love.

[Jess Hilarious]

Love, Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

During the time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Family. Her and her family. Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Now, Trey Cheney from the Wire. Yeah, Trey Cheney for sure. Yes. So he actually over the. He revealed something over the weekend that he lost everything in a tornado that hit his home in Atlanta, which also sent his son to the icu. Let's take a listen to Trey. Trey Cheney.

[Ricky Smiley]

I just got out the hospital. I'm getting ready to go see my son and ICU you3pm today, a tornado came through Henry County, Locust Grove, Atlanta.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I lost my house.

[Ricky Smiley]

I lost everything in it. Thank God I'm still living.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I survived the tornado. My son, he. He survived. I'm doing a video to let y' all know right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Man, church life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cherish Life as much as you can.

[Ricky Smiley]

Me and my son had a beautiful day today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Big ticket show. We was with Snoop from the Wild.

[Ricky Smiley]

We was chilling and three o' clock.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Today, a split second, my house is gone.

[Ricky Smiley]

I just got out the hospital. Thank you, Jehovah God man, for to spare my life today that I survived the tornado.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shout out to all my neighbors in.

[Ricky Smiley]

My neighborhood who, who ran to my rescue.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My son was thrown 300ft out of his room.

[Ricky Smiley]

I was sitting on my bed and I felt. I heard the wind and I felt.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everything and everything gone. Man, when I tell you I prayed for Trey Cheney and his family this weekend after I saw that story. Because literally, just like that, that no tornado warning, no nothing. You just sitting in your house, your son's playing video games, tornado comes through, next thing you know, you're watching your whole house collapse on top of you.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then you look around and you're.

[Jess Hilarious]

Trying to find your son, find yourself.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's 300ft away in the woods. Now, his son in the icu. And his son had a. His son's born day was yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

19 years old, celebrated his 19th birthday in the ICU. Now, his son I have a photo of. This is from the video that Trey posted where you can see there's literally nothing left of his home. Now, Trey, Trey, Trey's son Malachi did celebrate his 19th birthday in the ICU. That was actually his fourth day in the ICU. And Trey, Trey mentioned that Malachi has several broken ribs, broken bones in his face, and that Trey and his wife are currently staying with friends and family, but in between shelters and hotels. Now, let's take a listen because he did give an update on his son Malachi's health.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just wanted to update the world on a few things.

[Jess Hilarious]

Me and my wife, Aisha Cheney, our.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Son, Malachi Cheney, he is stable. It's definitely very slow progress, but he's living and he's breathing. It's going to be a long journey, a long road to recovery for Malachi Cheney, being his mother, Aisha, we have him covered. The whole world has him covered.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank y' all for y' all prayers.

[Ricky Smiley]

Thank y' all for y' all donations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me be clear. It's only one GoFundMe account as well, and it's under Maria Knot. So it's only one GoFundMe account count mentally. I'll be messed up forever. When my wife drove up and I was on the ground and my son was 300ft, got thrown 300ft in the back of that house.

[Ricky Smiley]

Watching my wife collapse on the ground from seeing that horrific picture that's going around.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This one could stay forever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me tell you something else too, man. The way that he has shown unwavering faith in God through all of this is, is so impressive because a lot of times we love to praise God when things are going good, but, you know, you should be giving God the glory all the time, even when things are so called bad. And he is absolutely, positively doing that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So if you're looking for his GoFundMe, go to his Instagram. Trey Chaney Vision T R A Y C H A N E Y Vision V I S I O N and yeah, man, if you feel it in your heart, you know, to donate a little something to him, do, do it. If not prayers free.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Yep. And they are currently they're trying to hit 100k goal. They're at a little bit over $89,000. And make sure it is the one by Maria Knott that he mentioned.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that happened Friday, right?

[DJ Envy]

It happened May 29th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

May 29th.

[DJ Envy]

That was third Wednesday or Thursday, actually, because Friday was the 31st.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

Last week.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that happened Thursday, May 29th. Yep. And he's been documenting also, too. If you go to his Instagram, he's been keeping you updated daily on his son and how his son is doing and how they're doing as well. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But things can change just like that. Like, literally. Because, you know, I follow him on Instagram. So literally that morning he was at big ticket show.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then you go home and you just kicking it with your son. Your son's upstairs and all of a sudden, boom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just like that.

[DJ Envy]

You know what's crazy? When. When. Because I didn't see it until you. You sent it to me. After you sent it to me. I saw. Then CNN also picked it up. I saw people, like, people begin to. Yeah. And they need the help. They're just this. Literally the money that they're raising going to help them, like, rebuild their lives. But also too, like, they need to stay somewhere right now. They need. They have nothing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why I sent it to you. I sent it to you. I said amplified.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought it was a new entrant.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I thought it was crazy that it took people so long to kind of catch it and see it. But I'm happy that people are seeing it now, either way. And I'm happy that they're here. Absolutely. In other news, Envy, you asked me about Court today. Who's going to be in court with Diddy. So they're actually going to be finishing up the cross examination with Mia, who's a former personal assistant. Brian still has been on cross. That's young thug's attorney. And he has been doing, you know, he's been trying to do everything he can to make Mia's testimony not be credible by bringing up things like Instagram posts of her, like enjoying her life while working, you know, formally with Diddy and birthday posts and things of that nature. So they're going to finish that today. And then there will be a media personality, radio person, and podcast personality Enrique Santos, who I'm a little bit confused about why he's taking the stand.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Enrique?

[DJ Envy]

You know him?

[Lauren LaRosa]

We know him.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can you call him for real?

[DJ Envy]

I didn't, I didn't know him. I literally been googling. Why is he taking the stand?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Man, stop playing with me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Huge jock. He does Latin, Latin music. He's on the Latin, all the Latin, a bunch of them.

[DJ Envy]

He is taking a stand. So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Man, that ain't you show me. You got to show me. That might not be the right one. Maybe not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me see a picture.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, so next witness is Enrique Santos. And then Eddie Garcia, he.

[Ricky Smiley]

Don't laugh, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Man, Enrique living my dream.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

When I googled why is he Enrique Santos testifying in the Diddy case and it says Enrique Santos already open pocket.

[Jess Hilarious]

Here, take it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. He said. Uhhuh.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me say they got his picture.

[Ricky Smiley]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They no picture.

[Jess Hilarious]

Don't say he's an artist.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, he's Iheartra radio morning personality when.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It comes to Latin.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, the biggest. When it comes to Latin, I'm.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. But anyway, so that man give me a live stream. You see what I see, right? Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[DJ Envy]

According to inner city pres.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What is going on?

[DJ Envy]

I'm googling.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What is going on?

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Enrique, what did you see at a dinner party? What is going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, Jess.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What, what?

[DJ Envy]

Well, there, there's also.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't even like to be nosy, but I got the Enrique about. What is going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is he gay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who? Enrique? Yeah, I mean, gay money, business.

[Jess Hilarious]

They don't mind my business. This is what we holding gay back?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know. Come on.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo, what's up? I, I look, I just want to know, is he gay?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What does that have to do with.

[Jess Hilarious]

It plays a big part in the case.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't even know why he's testifying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They didn't say he was at a Diddy party. Did he?

[DJ Envy]

I have. I just said I'm not clear why on he, why he's testifying. I've asked, I've asked people close to Enrique. Google says that it is inner city pressure. Says Enrique Santos. Like, I am very confused. Confused here. So. And then after him will be a man named Eddie Garcia. Who? Eddie who?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's not our Eddie, right?

[DJ Envy]

Eddie Garcia from Philly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. Envy getting called. It's only a matter of time. They calling Enrique. I know. Envy getting caught.

[DJ Envy]

Lord have mercy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was never there, sir. I never participated. Never went Rock boy. I was a rock boy for a short period of time.

[DJ Envy]

I had the audio of Trump talking about pardoning Diddy, but y' all didn't spend so much time on it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We can play play.

[DJ Envy]

Because somebody asked Trump if he was going to pardon Diddy recently over the weekend. Let's take a look. Listen, back when you hosted the Apprentice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You mentioned once in 2012 that Diddy.

[DJ Envy]

Was a good friend of yours back then.

[Jess Hilarious]

He has since found himself in some very serious legal trouble.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Would you ever consider pardoning him?

[Ricky Smiley]

I.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, nobody's asked.

[Ricky Smiley]

You had to be the one to ask, Peter.

[Jess Hilarious]

But nobody's asked.

[Ricky Smiley]

But first of all, I look at what's happening and I have, I haven't been watching it too closely, although it's certainly getting a lot of coverage.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I haven't seen him.

[Ricky Smiley]

I haven't spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot. But I think when I ran for politics, he sort of that relationship busted up. From what I read.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know.

[Ricky Smiley]

He didn't tell me that, but I'd read some little bit nasty statements in the paper.

[Jess Hilarious]

All of a sudden, you know, So I don't know.

[Ricky Smiley]

I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don't like me, it wouldn't have any impact.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So I mean, and I, I also asked, was there going to be any response from Diddy's attorneys or anybody just in response to Trump saying he would even take a look and no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

50 cents said he's calling Trump and he's not having it. Okay. Did. He said a lot of disparaging things about Donald Trump and 50 said he's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not having it now he 50 dove right in.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. He also said, he said, I, I didn't say I was going to nuke anything. This with 50 cent say. I simply said I will make sure Trump is aware of the things that Diddy said so 50 crazy. Yeah, I, I wanna. Now I want to know more about the Enrique Santos.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't think of nothing.

[Jess Hilarious]

This told me about my business. Like he not out. Like he not out. He's the first openly gay broadcaster in Spanish radio. Yes, it's gonna be interesting.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I didn't say that because of that. I said that because what they got to do with him Testify.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, it don't matter.

[DJ Envy]

I asked.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why you need to stop listening to this crazy boy over here. Radio like, like don't mind my business. That was not. That information was not. No, you didn't. You told her that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you did tell her nothing.

[DJ Envy]

Well, listen, we'll talk after, okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's it.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that was the latest with Lauren. Donkey today. Who you giving your donkey to?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Man? Four after the hour. We need a man named Christian Anguano to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. G. Morning.

[Ricky Smiley]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club? I was born a donkey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's the donkey of the dead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's pretty funny.

[DJ Envy]

Charlemagne.

[Jess Hilarious]

The devil.

[Ricky Smiley]

The Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, Doc, here today for Monday, June 2, goes to a Modesto, California man named Christian Alondro Solario Anguiano. I don't think I pronounced any of that right. Okay, that is a name that ICE agents would have at the top of their list just in case they would monitor a name like that. You know, and honestly, with a name like that, he might get sent to El Salvador because he was arrested for sexual battery, burglary, stalking and assault with the intent to commit a felony. All those charges will get you deported in Trump's America, especially with a name like that. And it don't even matter if you are an American citizen. Okay? They gonna put you on that deportation flight to El Salvador. Well, what exactly did Christian Alondro Solorio Anguiano do? Let's go to CBS News. Three report, please. Got a strange one for you tonight out of Modesto. The Stanislaus county sheriff says they've arrested a man last week after he allegedly broke into a woman's home at night.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Then bit and licked her toes while she slept.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's give you some context.

[Jess Hilarious]

The sheriff's office says the man arrested.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Seen here, 27 year old Cristiane Anguiano.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Had been stalking the woman for months following her home from works several times. Despite a number of people confronting him, deputies say he just wouldn't stop.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Would even sleep in the car outside her home.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Woman's is okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anguano, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Suspects being held on a $325,000 bail. He broke into our house just so he could treat our feet like a churro. Cinnamon swirl, Full tongue action. Sweet, sticky, slightly confusing. Okay. El toe liquor supremo. Toe sucking King of the dance floor. How you break into someone's house with sazon for their feet. This man is a telenovela villain. Okay, first of all, what's the point of stalking? At what point does a man understand this woman don't want you? And what part of your brain makes you believe that breaking into this woman's house and sexually assaulting her toes was gonna make her like you? Okay, I don't know why I got this far. This man was following this woman home after her shifts, sleeping in his car outside her residence, checking her doors to see if they are unlocked to gain entry. If he was doing all of that, he should have been on ice's radar a long time ago, okay? Somebody should have been put him in handcuffs. This man was confronted by her co workers to leave her alone, but none of that stopped him. Okay? The lesson to be learned here is that this incident underscores the importance of taking stalking behavior seriously. And we got to implement stronger protective measures for victims. And by stronger measures, we got to let people get their ass kicked. Okay? That's what I mean by stronger measures. There has to be some sort of community policing that can happen the same way. It's citizens arrest. We have to make it okay in certain situations for citizens to put their foot up other citizens asses, okay? Co workers went to him and told him to cut it out. He was sleeping outside that woman's home. He was checking for unlocked doors at her residence. All of that should equate to a community jumping. Okay? Now if that's too extreme for folks, then we got to enhance legal protections, all right? You got to have strong laws against stalking and ensure swift actions when victims report they are being stalked. You got to use stories like this to increase public awareness. We have to educate the public about the signs of stalking and the importance of reporting suspicious activities. And most importantly, we got to support the victims, okay? Provide resources and support systems for people who feel threatened. You can't wait until somebody breaks into somebody's house and turns their toes into tamales to care, okay? So please give Christian Anguiano the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones.

[Ricky Smiley]

Oh, now you are the donkey of the day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of the day. All right, well, thank you for that donkey of the day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, indeed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, when we come back, Dr. Rita Walker will be joining us. It's the 50th anniversary of her book, the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, I gift that book to everybody. I tell everyone that is one of the most culturally. She's one of the most culturally competent mental health professionals out here today. And that book is one of the most.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Ricky Smiley]

About how to level up your career. Maybe you're fresh out of college, just starting in your field or even looking to switch things up and find your true calling. Whatever stage you're in, remember that this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Ricky Smiley]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Ricky Smiley]

Us, just like they've always been. Because Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Find out more@state farm.com the American west with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. Hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores and brought to you by Velvet Buck, this podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Williams and best selling author and Meat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Eater founder Stephen Rinella.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th where we'll delve into into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which.

[Ricky Smiley]

We experience the region today.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

Or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What happens when we come face to face with death? My truck was blown up by a 20 pound anti tank mine.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

My parachute did not deploy.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was kidnapped by a drug cartel.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

I just remember everything getting dark.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm dying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When we step beyond the edge of.

[Jess Hilarious]

What we know to open our consciousness to something more than just what's in that Western box.

[Lauren LaRosa]

In return, I clinically died. The heart stopped beating, which I was.

[Jess Hilarious]

Dead for 11.5 minutes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My name is Dan Bush. My mission is simple to find, explore.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

And share these stories.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm not a victim. I'm surviving.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're strongest when you're the most vulnerable. To remind us what it means to be alive. Not just that I was the guy.

[Jess Hilarious]

That cut his arm off, but I'm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The guy who was smiling when he.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cut his arm off.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Alive Again.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

A podcast about the fragility of life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The strength of the human spirit and what it means to truly live. Listen to Alive Again on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, culturally competent mental health books on the market. It so can't wait to talk to Dr. Rita Walker.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep, we're going to talk to her next. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Ricky Smiley]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes Indeed we have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dr. Rita Walker. Welcome back.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Thank you. It's great to be here with you all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Great to have you. Dr. Rita Walker is the Author of one of my favorite books ever, the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health. I recommend it to everybody. And you are celebrating the fifth anniversary of the release of the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health. Jesus Christ. Time. Don't be playing, boy.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Yeah, I mean, five years. God is good. And I never would have expected that the book would have had the impact that it's had. You know, meeting you, being able to talk to you. All the folks who have, you know, come to me and said the book has changed their life, you know, that they buy the book for their family members and for friends, they have book club meetings. It's just, you know, know, it's, it's, it's been a blessing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I remember when I read it, Debbie Brown, our good sister Debbie Brown, she, she gave me the manuscript and I read it on vacation and I remember reading it and saying to myself, where has this book been all of our lives?

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Well, it's been, you know, it's been a process. So I, I earned my PhD more than 20 years ago. And, you know, working on, trying to understand specifically for black people, you know, our experiences and trying to integrate that, that into the larger landscape of mental health that you all know has exploded. You know, trying to merge what I know as a black woman, and I'm a first generation college student, my parents didn't go to college, and merging my reality with what I was learning and the research that I was engaged in and trying to train PhD clinical psychology students, you know, that's. It took time. So it took a little time for me to get here, but I'm here.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I noticed that it's not just about mental health. It specifically for black mental health. Why is it important to be unapologetic about who this book is for?

[Dr. Rita Walker]

I'm so glad that you asked that because as you all know, oftentimes, you know, black people get lumped in with minorities. One of the labels that we use in academia is bipoc, so black. And we include folks with indigenous people of color. But we know that black people have a very specific and unique way of just living life, of doing things. We've learned mental health from the generations before us and in ways that weren't always helpful. You know, we learned not to talk about our feelings and emotions. Like, we learned that, like, what we learned impacted who we are, while at the same time dealing with racism, dealing with microaggressions. You know, folks saying, you know, pull yourself up by the bootstraps and we don't even have boots. You know, that is a reality for us and we need to be able to talk about that. And that's part of what makes the book unapologetic, is that I said, yeah, we're not talking about everybody, we just talking about black people.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Now that's not that it hasn't helped other folks. And I've had people from many communities, you know, gay, straight, black, Asian, we've all people from many different communities have said that the book has helped them, which is fine, you know, great, get what you need from the book. But I wrote it for us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How do you handle black people who still think therapy is just white people?

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Well, I say, you know, God bless you. And then I talk to them about things that in their language. And I think that's part of what made the book resonate is talking to folks in ways that make sense to us. And that's one of the reasons it had to be for us because we talk a certain way. And I use that in the book. And so, you know, I ask folks about their worry. I ask folks about problem sleeping. Like in the black community, we have a lot of problems with sleep and don't even. We normalize it. And so I talk about the day to day kinds of things that people experience but have normalized. And then they say, hmm. And then we can start to have a conversation from there. I got it. You got to meet folks where they are like. And that's, that's one of. I introduced the idea of psychological fortitude in the book because we say mental health, as you all know, folks start thinking, oh, someone's crazy. They hearing and seeing things that aren't there. Okay, let's just move by that. Let's, let's, let's keep it moving. Let's figure out how I can help people with a different kind of language.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wanted to ask too, what are some of the myths that our community still have with therapy?

[Ricky Smiley]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We had an artist, his name is Rob49. You heard of him? What the helly okay about it? But he was saying basically that he feels like he needs therapy, but he doesn't necessarily want to go because he can't. He doesn't see himself talking to them people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You don't trust them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, he doesn't trust them. So what are some of the myths that you still see?

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Well, that's certainly one of them. They gonna tell all my business. And that's important. We, you know, you can't have folks, you can't have your business in the street. Like that's something that, that is unacceptable in our community. And so for that person, and I encounter a lot of those folks who are struggling. You see it, you know, we see it. But if they're not ready, then you can't force them to go and talk to someone. That's, that's one part. And I, I, there's so many folks, you know, and that's why we have to be non judgmental. Because if we say like, this is what I see. Just want you to know I'm concerned and then back off, then they know who they can go and talk to. Like this person expressed concern, they seem concerned about me. I will go to the them. But yes, those big myths that are, those people are going to tell on my business, that's one part. The other part is what can they tell me? They're not going to be able to tell me. They don't, they don't even know me. But that's part of the process is getting to know the client. There isn't a single person who would sit in front of me that I would say, I know their life story, I know how to help them. I'm going to start with questions, I got questions first. And then the other part is, you know, something I think that is, is they're gonna make me someone that I'm not and I need to maintain myself, like, I don't know, a professional who has the power to be able to magically make someone different. The goal would be to make them a better functioning person, you know, to take on their responsibilities and do the best that they can, but not to make them a different person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do have a question. What is a therapist allowed to talk about? Right? So if I see a murder, if I murder somebody, if I see domestic violence, if I see somebody getting hurt, it always brings me back to the Mendez brothers, right where they were talking to the therapist and the therapist used some of their stuff on the court case. So when you see stuff like that and something is going through my mind, I'm like, I ain't gonna tell nobody because what if they use it later? But then I might have to tell somebody to heal. So what can you guys tell? And what, you know, what is just, you know, patient crimes, privilege.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, you gotta go to prison first. You can heal the prison.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you can heal the prison. But I'm assured there's people that have seen crimes, have done crimes, and they're going through things like, I'll just use rod 49 again. He said that he's seen so many things in his past. He's seen death so much in his past, but he might not want to tell because he might not want to get somebody in trouble.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Well, in that example he can say I've seen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take it out of Route 49 just in case.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just take it out of here.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Okay? So anyone can say they've seen something without giving, you know, facts or specifics and not expect for the police to come in and haul them up off. But what I will say is, so we talk in the first session about confidentiality. Like confidentiality is part of the bedrock of what we do as licensed professionals. Like you can't just go out and yap about what people have been sharing or what they've disclosed in therapy. Now the other thing that we emphasize is if someone says that they could be a harm to themselves or danger to themselves or to someone else, then that information might have to be disclosed in order to be able to protect that person's life or to protect the life of someone else if they are. If there's a danger of abuse of children, elderly or people who have disabilities or different abilities, then that would have to be disclosed. And to be honest, it varies by state but that's, you know, kind of a minimum threshold to be aware of because at the end of the day the client has to be able to talk to their therapist because they aren't going to be able to get the healing and the help that they need if they can't get some stuff off of their chest. But then once they do that, that then there has to be some understanding about what's going to happen next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's do kicking it with Dr. Rita Walker. It's the five year anniversary of the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health Charlemagne.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We, we got a, a good friend, a good friend of mine, his name is Humble, the poet. He put out a book called Unanxious 50 Simple Truths to help overthinkers feel less stressed and more calm. And I want to read a just a quick little line from it because I want to know what you think about it. He says life doesn't begin after the obstacles. Life is the obstacles. And we have to unlearn the idea that we need or would even want a life free of chaos, stress and anxiety. We grow from facing challenges and exploring our limits. And the book encourages people to face their stressors and triggers head on with research backed techniques and journal prompts. And we had a discussion here on Breakfast Club because I'm like, if I know something triggers me I reserve the right to discover, disconnect from it, and set my boundary and not deal with that thing. He feels like you should sit with the thing so the thing doesn't trigger you anymore.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Well, I think you know how I feel about the word should, so I, I avoid it at all cost. And so if there is something in you that says in this moment I need to avoid this thing, I'm going to honor that. But I'm also going to ask you questions about what is happening for you. What are you telling yourself? So, so I'm a cognitive behavioral therapist. And so for me, you know, thoughts connect with behaviors connect with feelings. So it all starts with, yes, something happened. But what is your thought in response to the thing? So is your thought in that moment. I can't deal with this. This is going to hurt me. This is going to harm me. I can't survive this because it happens. It plays out automatically before folks recognize. And so we have to slow down the process. Okay, tell me the facts. Tell me what happened. I want to know what's going on for you because I don't assume anything about anybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, I was like, when he was there, I was like, f that Adapt.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I explained to you, if I don't like you because you're a negative person, you're always putting me down, and I just don't feel good energy around you. You don't affect me in any which way. So I can cut you off and say, you know what? I'm not answering your phone anymore. I don't work with you. I don't have to see you, and I should, that should be my right to do that. Because my energy is more important than this from friendship. I don't have to sit in it. I don't have to adapt. I don't care if you like me or not. But that's how we should be. I think a lot of times we try to adapt to things and we try to make things right. And I think a lot of times it hurts more than help.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Yeah. You know, and I, I, I respect that a hundred percent. And I can say that there have been maybe the middle ground. Because you never know. You just, you never know if someone says something to you or they bring you a certain kind of energy, and maybe you do have some relationship with the person that you, that you're willing to consider and preserve. Why not say to them, you know, when you do X, Y and Z, when you do that thing right there, when you do this, this is how I feel when that Happens. Maybe they didn't know, you know, maybe they thought they were doing a good thing. And I think that's. That allows us to be more in community because y' all, we. We need more and more community.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I used to try that. And Thickems over there showed me something different.

[Ricky Smiley]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Short Dickens, I used to do that too. Like, you try to adapt to people, you do things that sometimes you don't want to do because you feel like it's the right thing to do.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Short Thickens over there would be like, no, I'm not gonna do it because that doesn't make me happy. It might make you happy for what you do. I work hard, but I want to protect my piece. And I didn't understand it for a while, right, Because Short Thickens just wouldn't go. He was like, I'm not doing it. You're not catching me. And I wouldn't get it. But then after a while, I understood and I'm like, yeah, if this is gonna eff up my piece, if this is not gonna make me happy, I'm gonna. I'm gonna stage in my life where, you know what?

[Jess Hilarious]

Eff it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I agree with Short Thinking.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a little pet nickname for me. See how men can't even just say my name? He can't even say my name. He gotta give me a little cute nickname just to be vulnerable, just to express himself. You know what I mean? That make you feel better? Yes. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you, mental health.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you, my waffle colored negro. Thank you. It's my beige babe over there.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

That's such a beautiful moment.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Look, so let. Just last night, right, I could not go to sleep. I have problems sleeping, like. And I noticed you said at the beginning of the interview, right where. But my thing is I can't turn my mind off. That's the. That's the main thing. I don't know how to turn my brain off. I'm thinking about things I. I could be doing rather than getting sleep, I'm thinking about, damn, I forgot to do this today. It's not enough hours in a day, you know, Then I got a 9 month old, then I'm a wife, and then I got. It's so much. So when I'm laying down, I cannot silence my mind, my thoughts to go to sleep ever. You can't ever silence most of the time. Not. Not ever, because weed will help me do that. Just being honest with you. Like, I will hit a blunt and I will laugh and then I'll be out for a minute. But that's really the only thing that helps me get good. Right. Stress weed.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

So, you know, and I've heard you talk about your schedule, you know, and, you know, getting up and, and I think you said like 4 in the morning, but then you go to bed late at night. And so, you know, so, so there's so many different layers to this because, yes, you are doing a lot. But one of the things that I heard you say just now was even when you're kind of sitting, you feel like you're supposed to be doing something. And so you're also telling yourself, I'm supposed to be doing something other than resting.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

So that's, that's one thing for you to be mindful of. But then, you know, I think it's, especially in this day and age, it's easy to wake up or not to fall asleep because your mind is. Is racing. I was telling my husband that this morning I woke up at 3 o' clock and I started to think about this conversation. And then I was thinking, okay, I can say this. I'll say that. Oh, and ooh. And it. And I. And I was like, okay, stop. And I know that better. Right. I have the tools and the resources. And I was like, quit it. And then that didn't work. And I said, okay, we're going to do 10 more minutes. And then that didn't work. And I was like, okay, we have to start doing our progressive muscle relaxation in order to be able to calm down. So there are strategies. Progressive muscle relaxation. So for me, it's when I close my eyes and I'm breathing deeply and I tell myself that with each exhalation to release the tension. And I start with my forehead and eyebrows because I literally sometimes like this in bed.

[Jess Hilarious]

Who is in bed? Yeah.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

And so I have to tell myself to release. And I go every body part, ears, nose. And then I allow my body to be able to relax into the moment because I'm literally not just thinking, but I'm feeling it in my body and I have to be able to relax. That. The other thing that I recommend, and I put this in the workbook. So I did the Unapologetic Guide and have the Unapologetic Workbook book is giving folks permission to. Before you go to bed, like some people need to keep a notepad and a pen, not the phone, but a notepad and a pen by the bed. So that when all of these thoughts come to mind, you write them down. You write them down before you get into bed. Like everything that comes to mind. Okay, write it down. And then, okay, try that. If that, you know, you wake up. Okay, write some more down. I didn't have a notepad last night. I was like, okay, we just gonna thug this out. But be able to write down all the things, things that come to your mind to release it because otherwise you're going to ruminate about it. And that rumination will absolutely keep you up for hours.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Dr. Walker, we appreciate you joining us.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you haven't got the book, pick up the book now. It's the fifth anniversary of the release of the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Health and the workbook, the workbook that goes with it, the Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health. I, I tell everybody it is a must read. It's one of them books that you have to have have in your household. This is the book that we all needed. You know, growing up, like, you know, when our parents didn't know how to talk to us about it or adults around us didn't know how to talk to us about mental health. This book right here laid it down quite flat.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I so much.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

Can I just add just two brief things? One, thank you so much to you because, you know, there have been a lot of people who said they got the book because of you didn't know anything about it. So I am beyond grateful to you, Leonard, for getting the word out about the book.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Book.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

And also, folks can follow me. I'm most active on Instagram, Dr. Rita walker.com. maybe I can get 500 more followers to get me to 20,000 for my birthday. It's Saturday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Saturday. That's.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go follow Dr. Rita Walker.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do you Walker, you turn up.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Happy birthday, girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Dr. Rita Walker. It's the Breakfast Club. Gloria, Morning.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yes, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Details.

[DJ Envy]

I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She be having the latest on.

[Dr. Rita Walker]

The.

[Ricky Smiley]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. What was the latest on the Breakfast Club?

[DJ Envy]

Talk to me, Lord. Can we clarify now? Enrique Santos is not the same Enrique Santos that is going to be on the stand today in the diddy trial. So CNN had put it in a article. They then have come back and retract it. And they say, correction. An earlier version of this post gave the wrong affiliation for one of the witnesses. The prosecution expects to take the stand next week, which is where I believe Google AI grabbed the description of Enrique Santos and the reasoning of why he would be on the stand. So when I asked Google why that is, what happened in. Lord have mercy. I'm so sorry, Enrique.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's exactly what Enrique just told me. He said CNN assumed it was him and reported that it was iheartradios. Enrique Santos. How does the organization as big as CNN make make that mistake? I can understand how you can make that mistake because you're getting it from cnn, but how does an organization as big as CNN make that kind of mistake?

[DJ Envy]

That's a really big mistake to me. Because even me, I kept saying, I'm like, this doesn't make any sense. What's his connection? I still don't know. The ruin Ricky Santos. I still don't know the connection. And the court reporters that I follow, they just said the name. I reached out to a source close to the case trying to clarify who is Enrique Santos and why. And they were confused as well, because they were seeing the conflicting reports as well. And then the person told me when they asked for more information, it didn't. They wouldn't give them more information. But that that person knew of it was what was out here on Google already.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That actually could be a lawsuit from enrique.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yeah, 100 easily, because you put.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That out there on CNN. And now I got people threatening me, saying, what you going to testify against Diddy for? That could be emotional distress. Just like that.

[DJ Envy]

That is definitely lawsuit. Yo, we have to clear this up. I'm so sorry, Enrique. I did not mean it to serve.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Enrique?

[DJ Envy]

Well, now I know who Enrique Santos is, and I'm going to tune in.

[Jess Hilarious]

You got to say lo. That means sorry in Spanish.

[DJ Envy]

Lo.

[Jess Hilarious]

He's always up here.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He broadcast out of Miami. So salute to Enrique.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, so Enrique Santos, not the podcaster, I heart guy. Eddie Garcia, who worked as security at the Intercontinental Hotel, is. Is expected to testify, but it's going to be under immunity. So he's going to be doing a lot of, like, not speaking to certain things. So I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What I keep hearing, this immunity thing, does that work for the defense? Because if you speak for immunity, you know, it's. It's kind of like, okay, I could tell, but if I'm part of it, it doesn't really matter.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

The defense, the defense has tried to bring up the whole immunity conversation to show reason why people are here and potentially could be saying whatever, because basically they're being protected. I don't know if that answers your question. It does, but they have tried to bring that up a couple times. A hotel custodian will also be testifying and a forensic video expert will also be testifying as well today. But that's exactly why I like to go to. As strenuous as it is, I like to go there myself and figure these things out myself because. Because, Lord have mercy. But anyway, in other news, Zion Williamson is being accused of sexual assault. He is the basketball player. He plays for the Pelicans. He's being accused of sexual assault, rape by a woman who is filed under Jane Doe. She says that she's a former ex girlfriend of his and she alleges that he raped her twice, once in a home in Beverly Hills that he owned during COVID And she at least alleges that this happened after she denied engaging in sex with him. She also says that or alleges that he held her hands behind her back and then the sexual assault happened. And afterwards she alleges that Zion took her phone and choked her and told her allegedly that she was talking too much. And then a second claim happened after. The second claim happened after he allegedly picked her up from a friend's house, threw her down to the ground and pinned her shoulders down so that she could not move. And then she alleges that he violently ran, raped her in multiple ways. This accuser is seeking anywhere from 18 million to 50, $50 million, according to ESPN. And in a statement provided to the New York Post, Williamson has denied the allegations through his attorneys. So, yeah, getting out of court real quick. Just some happier news. Beyonce just broke a new record. The MetLife Stadium tweeted out over the weekend. Congratulations to Beyonce on becoming the number one one selling artists in the history of MetLife Stadium. Five amazing sold out shows on the Cowboy Carter tour cemented her place in our history MetLife history books with 12 all time appearances and over 600,000 fans entertained. So, you know, following the reports that there were issues with ticket sales and all those things, Beyonce is still out here making history.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was watching that show and I'm like, damn, how she ain't fall in the ring. Oh, Beyonce, it was raining hard.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, that was Saturday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Dancing, they assume.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you see the video of Blue Ivy? She wipes down the stage with the tower.

[DJ Envy]

Beyonce is such the main. I mean, Beyonce, Blue Ivy is such a Manager like she just be in control of so much thing. I don't know. To be honest with y' all, I. I would assume that they like redo their marketing or footing knowing that the rain is coming, but that's hard to do sometimes. People cancel shows.

[Jess Hilarious]

And what I want to point out is Monique is reunited with our son.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Everything seems to be okay and great over there. So I wanted to point that out because before I bought that up when they were beefing and all that, Jeff the mess up here. So, yeah, she is reacquainted with him. Everything looks good. He apologized to her on social media, you know, because they had that verbal spat back and forth online a couple months ago, so.

[DJ Envy]

Posted a picture too. They're really happy in the picture too. I believe you say his name's Shalom. So I think that. Yeah, Shalom Jackson.

[Ricky Smiley]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And the picture, they look really happy. So.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. So that's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Her new. Her sweet baby is back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's it. That's all I got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, that is the latest with Lauren. Now when we come back, we got the People's Choice mix. Get your request in. It's a Monday. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Ricky Smiley]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. But I just want to salute to the brother out in Georgia, Regal Dobermans. I bought two dogs, two Doberman pinchas from him a couple of months ago when they just delivered it this weekend. And let me just tell you, I had to get up at 4 o' clock in the morning to feed him. And one was a rock star. Pooped outside, peed. The other one, not so much.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it was either be late for work or my wife had to get up and. And clean them up and everything. Oh, God, my wife is so pissed off right now. She had to clean them, she had to bathe them. There was poop everywhere.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly why my wife won't let me get a dog because she feel like the responsibility is gonna end up on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what my wife said this morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it is a lot. But the dogs, they're puppies. So it's.

[Jess Hilarious]

What did you name them?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Luna and Nova.

[Jess Hilarious]

Luna. No, but that's dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't believe that you name them dogs. Puffin. Daddy, tell the truth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell the truth, Luna.

[Ricky Smiley]

Tell the truth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Luna and Novas.

[Jess Hilarious]

Speaking of Puff and Daddy, it is Pride Month. Damn. Yes, it is Pride Month, and I'm gonna do the same thing I did last year. I'm gonna honor a gay A day. But we have an intro this year. Y' all hit that red.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Today is bright where your rainbows is gay outside. And the first gay I'm gonna honor is my sister, Nya Naya Moore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Jess Hilarious]

So, look, last year, she wanted me to honor her, but I feel like she wasn't gay long enough yet. And, you know, when you. When you become gay, you know, a little late sometimes people treat it as a trend. People treat it as, like a phase. But, you know, she was gay, you know, for like a year and a half now. And I'm like, all right, you deserve to be honored. And I love you. I love you. She got a girlfriend look like Ray Sherman, and I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray Sherman.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

God damn. You look like Swae Lee and Jimmy.

[Jess Hilarious]

And Jimmy. You know? And I love my sister to death. So happy, happy Pride Month. Nya and her girlfriend Kyah. I love it. Yes. Nya and Kya.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wanna salute Tank. Shout out to RB singer Tank. This was his last show on Broadway yesterday for doing Hell's Kitchen. Yeah. So he did Hell's Kitchen. I brought my mom there who celebrated her 80th birthday. She got a chance to see Tank and meet Tank. So it was Tank's last show. So salute to Tank. I mean, if you didn't get a chance to see Tank, hopefully he'll come back. Cause he killed it in Hell's Kitchen.

[Jess Hilarious]

So that means it's not on Broadway no more?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no. Tank is the partner of Alicia Key's dad anymore on Broadway. But I'm sure they'll have another actor. But Tank definitely killed it. I think he was there, what, two, three months?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't remember. I saw him. I. I went to go see Hell's Kitchen. It was a fantastic, fantastic show. He plays. He played a deadbeat father named Darius.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Darius?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Alicia Keys's dad. Allegedly. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So not allegedly. That was her dad.

[Ricky Smiley]

Oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just want to make sure. Sometimes it's like in the play, sometimes it's not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not all actual.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's like, nah. So I don't. I don't know. But yeah, he killed it, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no. What do you mean? What? You talk. What are you talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But sometimes when they do the plays, they exaggerate certain things at times. So I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But in the play, Tank plays Alicia Keys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a sue happy world right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want Darius to sue me. Call me a deadbeat now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't think that's his real name. I don't know, though. See?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

See you, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Well, you got a positive note.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I do. And my positive note comes from Marcus Aurelius. Okay. I love Marcus Aurelius. I like to read about stoicism. He says, in your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business. Have a good day. Breakfast Club, bitches. Y' all finished or y' all done?

[Jess Hilarious]

If you're not watching BMF on Stars, you're seriously missing out from executive producer Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. The new season is coming, and Meech and Terry are leveling up. They're expanding their empire, launching a music label, and even hitting the 1995 Source Awards. Oh, and did I mention? Lamar is back. BMF is where drama, hustle, and hip hop collide.

[DJ Envy]

The drama, top tier, the stakes higher than ever.

[Jess Hilarious]

This is the season everyone's going to be talking about. Don't miss the season premiere June 6, only on Stars and the Stars app.

[DJ Envy]

This is an I Heart podcast.