FULL SHOW: Cardi B Sued for Mic Assault, Jay-Z Times Square Casino Update, Candace Owens Sparks Outrage Over Brigitte Macron Comment + Pete Buttigieg Interview

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club - July 24, 2025

Title: FULL SHOW: Cardi B Sued for Mic Assault, Jay-Z Times Square Casino Update, Candace Owens Sparks Outrage Over Brigitte Macron Comment + Pete Buttigieg Interview
Host/Authors: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Release Date: July 24, 2025
Description: The world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club, explores today's hottest topics with candid discussions and exclusive interviews.

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1. Front Page News

a. President Trump and the Epstein Files

The hosts dive into a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal revealing that former President Donald Trump was informed in May by the Justice Department that his name appears multiple times in the Jeffrey Epstein files. An official stated, “The files contain what we believe was unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump” (04:59). Additionally, it was reported that the DOJ chose not to release further documents due to the presence of child pornography.

The discussion highlights the ongoing legal battle, with Trump suing the Journal for $20 billion over allegations of misconduct. Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, refutes Trump's claims of never visiting Epstein’s office, stating, “People worked for Jeffrey in his office and they could testify that they saw Trump in Jeffrey's office on numerous occasions” (02:15).

b. House Republicans Rename Kennedy Center Opera House

House Republicans, led by Idaho's Mike Simpson, proposed renaming the Kennedy Center’s Opera House after First Lady Melania Trump. Charlamagne Tha God explains, “House Republicans want to rename the Kennedy Center's Opera House after First Lady Melania Trump” (07:03). This amendment requires broader congressional approval tied to GOP spending bills.

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2. Listener Call-ins and Discussions

Throughout the episode, listeners engage with the hosts via phone lines, sharing personal stories and seeking advice. Topics range from relationship issues to frustration with public figures. Notably, one caller discusses the importance of honesty and accountability in relationships, emphasizing, “Truth should be told at all times” (09:18).

3. Cardi B Sued for Assault and Battery

The Breakfast Club addresses a lawsuit filed against Cardi B, alleging that she assaulted a fan by throwing a microphone during a performance in Vegas two years prior. DJ Envy recounts, “Cardi B is being sued for assault and battery by a Jane Doe who alleges that the microphone was thrown at her during that day party” (18:38). The incident reportedly led to significant emotional distress for the plaintiff, who is seeking damages without specifying an amount.

Notable Quote:

“When rich someone hits you with a microphone, you're gonna be hurt for the next two, three years.” – Morgan (20:03)

4. Jay-Z Times Square Casino Update

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation partnered with SL Green and Caesars Entertainment to bid on the Caesars Palace Times Square Casino. In a recent advisory committee meeting, Jay-Z emphasized that the casino would complement Broadway rather than compete with it. He stated, “This is a very good idea. It is very good alignment for us to fulfill the promise of Times Square” (24:26).

The proposal aims to generate nearly $900 million in annual neighborhood spending, revitalizing an area that has long awaited investment. Hosts express optimism about the project's potential to boost tourism and support Broadway.

Notable Quote:

“We have to make sure that it's going to a disadvantaged area. It's also just a good policy.” – Pete Buttigieg (50:18)

5. Candace Owens Sparks Outrage Over Brigitte Macron Comment

Candace Owens faces a defamation lawsuit filed by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron. Owens claimed that Brigitte is a man in a series of videos titled “The Making of Brigitte.” The lawsuit alleges that these statements are false and harmful.

Tom Claire, attorney for the Macrons, stated, “This is not a legal thing. Do the right thing. Tell the truth. Stop spreading these lies” (67:02).

Owens responded by mocking the Macrons, further escalating tensions. The hosts unanimously condemn Owens' actions, reinforcing the importance of respecting individuals’ identities and reputations.

Notable Quote:

“You can't lie on people. When you start lying on people and saying things like it's factual, you're gonna get sued.” – Jess Hilarious (69:14)

6. Exclusive Interview: Pete Buttigieg

Former United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joins The Breakfast Club for an in-depth interview covering multiple topics, including his post-White House endeavors, artificial intelligence (AI) policy, and the Epstein files controversy.

a. Post-White House Life and Family

Buttigieg discusses his transition from public office to private life, emphasizing his dedication to fatherhood and community engagement. He shares insights on raising mixed-race children and the challenges it entails:

“I have to make sure that they have mentors and role models... it's the best, hardest thing in my life” – Pete Buttigieg (38:25)

b. Artificial Intelligence and Transportation

Addressing President Trump’s AI action plan, Buttigieg expresses concerns about the potential disruptions AI could bring:

“This AI development that's happening right now... this will be 10 times or a hundred times more disruptive.” – Pete Buttigieg (56:11)

He critiques the current administration’s handling of transportation infrastructure and emphasizes the necessity of balancing equity initiatives with urgent technological upgrades.

c. Epstein Files and Political Implications

Buttigieg delves into the significance of the Epstein files, arguing that the Republican refusal to release them is detrimental to accountability:

“The Republicans just shut down the United States House of Representatives for two months in order to avoid having to vote on Donald Trump blocking the Epstein files.” – Pete Buttigieg (73:11)

He warns of potential political realignments if Trump's involvement in the Epstein scandal becomes substantiated, suggesting it could lead to a shift within the Republican Party.

Notable Quotes:

“We can never be careless in a, in...” – Pete Buttigieg (49:05)
“We should never back down from a good fight over what the right thing to do is...” – Pete Buttigieg (57:39)

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7. Clarissa Shields and Upcoming Boxing Event

The hosts discuss boxer Clarissa Shields’ upcoming fight against Lonnie Daniels in Detroit. Shields balances her athletic career with personal aspirations, including her upcoming motherhood. She shares her commitment to training and her plans to mentor young athletes:

“I want to train young girls and young boys who come from environments that I grew up in... teach them boxing so boxing can help them” – Clarissa Shields (96:16)

8. Daily Bread and Community Engagement

In the “Just Fix My Mess” segment, Jess Hilarious and Gia tackle listener-submitted relationship dilemmas, offering practical advice and support. The segment underscores the show's commitment to addressing real-life issues faced by its audience.

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Conclusion

The episode of The Breakfast Club on July 24, 2025, delivers a robust discussion on high-profile legal battles, significant business ventures impacting major cities, and candid political discourse through an exclusive interview with Pete Buttigieg. The hosts maintain their signature style of blending serious news with engaging, relatable conversations, ensuring listeners are both informed and entertained.

Notable Overall Quotes:

• “Truth should be told at all times.” – Caller (09:18)
• “We should never back down from a good fight...” – Pete Buttigieg (57:39)
• “This is the most disruptive AI development we’ve seen.” – Pete Buttigieg (56:11)

For listeners seeking a comprehensive overview of today’s pivotal issues, this episode of The Breakfast Club provides valuable insights and thought-provoking discussions.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning, usa.

[Morgan]

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

[Jess Hilarious]

Jess. Hilarious. Good morning, Charlamagne. To be here in a minute saying it's Thursday. What's up, Jess? How you feeling?

[Gia]

Listen, your body sore? I'm tired. I was having muscle spasms. The gym is getting more and more intense.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right. Well, so if you're just tuning in, Jess and I go to the same gym. Dr. Chuck Morris. It's not your typical gym. It's. It's a little more strenuous. But his workout routine is a way that you only have to work out once a week. And it should feel like a workout of five days and gives you the same workout as five days.

[Gia]

Yo. But you be going more than one day now. He was like, no. Heavy comes on Mondays and Wednesdays. And I'm like, yo, why do y' all go so much?

[Jess Hilarious]

Cause you could do. You could do abs more than once a week. So I do abs as well.

[Gia]

Okay. Because I know, yo, the thing. All the stuff that he be having us doing, yo, you can't do that more than once. You have muscle failure. Like, you'll literally break down.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. So yesterday, Jess and her husband was there, Gia was there, my daughter was there. And we were all. It is hilarious watching everybody work out. Because we be all pushing each other.

[Gia]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I'd be like, turn him up, Doc. And your husband be pushing. And I be. I'll be like, come on, Chris.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Come on, Chris.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo. Yesterday he was like, f that. I've never heard him curse anytime. He was like, f that you ran off. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

The dentist.

[Gia]

I went down the hallway down to the dentist.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was a lot of fun. So salute to Dr. Chuck Morris and.

[Gia]

Midtown Biohack had a good time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now today on the show, Pete Buddha Judge will be joining us. He was a former United States Secretary of Transportation.

[Gia]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

What he does now, I don't know.

[Gia]

I. I don't know either, yo. But the crazy thing is I ain't know he was gay.

[Jess Hilarious]

What?

[Gia]

I ain't know he was gay. Hey, it's good.

[Morgan]

It's cool.

[Gia]

I didn't know, but it was something that happened in the interview, and I was like, what? Why y' all playing with this man the whole time?

[Morgan]

He gay? Oh, you.

[Jess Hilarious]

You had no clue at all?

[Gia]

Yeah, I thought that y' all was playing like y' all play with each other. I'm like, you can't play with this white man. Like, this whole time, he really gay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. With the name is Pete Booty Judges.

[Gia]

That's what. That's why I thought y' all was playing with him, because his real last name is Booty Judge.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm like, yo, no, no, no.

[Gia]

That's wild.

[Jess Hilarious]

He's not. No, he's former unit. Former United States Secretary of Transportation. He ran for president a couple of years ago. He has two kids. He's married. We'll talk to him. We'll get into his life. He served in the military. He's a. He's a good. He's a good guy.

[Gia]

Cool as hell.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cool. Good guy. All right, well, let's get the show cracking before we do. You're where this weekend?

[Gia]

I am in Arlington, Texas, y'. All, so get your secrets if you have. Not yet. Just hilarious. Official dot com. We'll be at the Improv. We got two shows tomorrow, which is Friday, and we got three shows on Saturday. I just added a matinee because I will not be doing shows Sunday. So get your tickets. Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth. I'll see y' all there tomorrow.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. When we come back, we got front page news, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

[Morgan]

Hey, y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey. How we feeling on a Thursday, black and highly favored.

[Morgan]

What's happening, Morgan?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love to hear it. All right, so first on front page, the Wall Street Journal is reporting President Trump was informed back in May that the Justice Department, or excuse me, by the Justice Department, that his name appears multiple times in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Now, the outlet said Trump, during a routine briefing that the files contain what believed was unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump. One one administration official told the Journal that hundreds of other names are contained in the documents. Trump was also reportedly told by the DOJ that they did not plan to release more documents because they contained child pornography. Now, the new report comes days after the Journal published a story about an alleged birthday letter sent by Trump to Epstein, to which Trump is suing the outlet and its owners for $20 billion. Elsewhere, Jeffrey Epstein's brother has come out and said that President Trump's claims on never visiting the sex offender at his office is just another blatant lie. Mark Epstein refuted the president's claim and said that people worked for Jeffrey in his office and they could testify that they saw Trump in Jeffrey's office on numerous occasions. So just, you know, a little tidbit there regarding those files that everybody wants to see and we're still waiting for is he.

[Morgan]

Did they say whether he's mentioned in there because of allegations or just association?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just right now it says here, un, quote, unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump.

[Morgan]

So I have a theory that Republicans are tired of Trump and we about to witness a political coup and they gonna use the Epstein files to get him out of here and take their party back. But I'll explain more during Donkey of the Day later, but I won't get.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Too much into that. The White House says that former President Obama tried to sabotage President Trump after his 2016 election victory. Press secretary Caroline Levitt said newly classified or, excuse me, declassified documents confirm those allegations. Let's take a listen to her comments.

[DJ Envy]

The Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence, which.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Was later used as the justification for.

[DJ Envy]

Baseless smears against President Trump.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So Levitt said the documents also further confirmed there was no collusion between President Trump and Russia. This comes as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the Obama administration colluded with the intelligence community to go after President Trump. She said Obama officials suppressed evidence and withheld the truth from the American people. Gabbard called the report troubling and said that and she spoke more about the findings involving the Obama administration. Let's take a listen to Tulsi Gabbards comments.

[Pete Buttigieg]

There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Assessment that they knew was false. The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried this out.

[Pete Buttigieg]

They manufactured findings from shoddy sources, they suppressed evidence and credible intelligence.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And yes. So Obama's office has responded to the allegations, calling them outrageous, bizarre, and a weak attempt at distraction.

[Morgan]

Yeah, deflection distraction. Like, what about those Epstein files, though? That's why I keep saying, don't stop talking about those Epstein files. Like, Trump treats Obama and Democrats the way some people in the culture treat Jay Z and Roc Nation.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, it doesn't make any sense. We're talking about something for 2016. Like, what are we talking about?

[Morgan]

So why he didn't do this in his first term.

[Jess Hilarious]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What about this?

[Jess Hilarious]

Exactly? He heard his name was in the Epstein files and said, all right, no more Epstein files.

[Morgan]

We're gonna hold that off. Team files is where the conversation should stay. Okay. Especially when you see the House took the summer off, so they don't got to take a vote on the files. That should tell you everything that you need to know. The House took the whole summer off. Two months, so they don't have to vote on the FT files. What about everything else going on in the world?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But wait, not before the House Republicans voted on, or excuse me, at least a House committee on Tuesday approved an amendment to call the Kennedy Center First Lady Melania Trump Opera House. You know, they had time to do that. So House Republicans, of course, want to rename the Kennedy Center's Opera House after First Lady Melania Trump. And on Tuesday, they approved an amendment to do that, calling it the first First Lady Melania Trump Opera House. The proposal came from Idaho Republican Mike Simpson, and of course, it passed along party lines. If it becomes law, Congress would need to approve the broader go. It would. Excuse me, if it would become law. Congress approves the broader GOP spending bill that funds the Department of Interior, EPA and other agencies. So.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I have no idea what that even means. I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, the Kennedy center might be. Might be changed the name Lady Melania Trump Opera House.

[Morgan]

As long as they don't mess with the Apollo, I'm cool. I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

He might next. He might.

[Gia]

Not mind anything about it. I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, that's your front page news for 6am stick around at 7am we're talking more presidential stuff. And of course, that viral stop in Jacksonville has developed with that story, so stick around.

[Jess Hilarious]

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. Hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

It's A new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wait. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time to get up and get something.

[Jess Hilarious]

Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller]

Yes, this is. L Will.

[Jess Hilarious]

L will. What up? Get it off your chest, brother.

[Caller]

Hey, what up?

[Morgan]

I mean, how you live in Angie State.

[Caller]

First off, shout Out.

[Morgan]

DJ Envy. Sean, the man of God.

[Caller]

You know what I'm saying? Jeff.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Hello.

[Gia]

Hey.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Say watch.

[Caller]

I was just here to talk about hypocrisy.

[Morgan]

Not only just the hypocrisy within our culture, hypocrisy within the city. Okay?

[Caller]

As in everything that's going on.

[Morgan]

We're very much aware of even the.

[Caller]

Things that you guys speak on, but we also just choose to deny those things that are going on, and I think we should stop doing that.

[Morgan]

Okay, give us an example. I think.

[Caller]

I think Charlemagne's only more and more.

[Morgan]

As in speaking freely without. Without fear of the system and fear of the backlash that may come with it, because the truth has to be.

[Caller]

Told at all times.

[Morgan]

Well, appreciate you, brother. All right, brother. Absolutely. I agree. Truth should be told at all times.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller]

Good morning. This is Michelle.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, Michelle.

[Gia]

Good morning, Jess.

[Caller]

Hi, Jesse.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Hi, Lauren.

[Caller]

Hi, Charlemagne. I don't know if Lauren's in the. In the. In the room. So I called on the day after Malcolm, Jamal, wanna die? And I wanted to say to Charlamagne, specifically, you said something that wasn't aired. I'm glad it wasn't. But we have to give gratitude to everybody that works around us, right? The people behind the scenes, the people that are making stuff happen that we don't hear. And so I just want to pour a little gratitude on those people that we don't hear behind the scenes that make you guys sound great. I also wanted to tell DJ Envy thank you for coming to the Hampton Roads area and bringing that card show something for my child to do, and we didn't have to drive across the bridge. Her timeline was this, and she was so excited. She was like, oh, my God, Mommy, they're gonna take over Onion. And she's a senior this year, so I just wanted to tell you guys.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you for what you do.

[Caller]

Thank you for who you are, and thank you to the entire crew for.

[Jess Hilarious]

Doing what you do well. Thank you so much. Hopefully, we can bring it back. A lot of families came up to me and said, there's not much to do in a 757 for families that's affordable. So hopefully we can bring it back next year. We're trying. Hopefully we can work with the city and get it done. But we would love to bring it back. We had such an amazing time. We had so many people, so many families. I hope we can bring that back.

[Caller]

That line was double down, wrapped around out the door. I was like, oh, my God.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, you know, you know why? Because people got there on time. That's what I'll say.

[Gia]

Like, oh, wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Because the doors open up at 12, 11:30. There was a line down the block. There was like a thousand people online at 11:30. So.

[Morgan]

But.

[Jess Hilarious]

But you know, I appreciate the 757 for. For coming out the way that they did. Thank you so much.

[Caller]

And we appreciate you guys.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now. And don't forget this August 16th, we're actually in Jersey, so if you miss Virginia, don't worry. We're going to do the same thing. We're going to run it back in New Jersey. Tickets are available now, and if you're in the tri state area or, you know, if you're from the DMV area, Virginia, North Carolina, you can make it down. I would love to get your car in the show. Just email me what kind of car you have. DJ envcarshow, gmail.com, send pictures. You can be a vendor sponsor. I can't wait to see you guys. Get it off your chest, though. 800-585-1051 is the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Jess Hilarious]

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello?

[Morgan]

Who's this? Yo, it's me Day. Good morning, DJ Envy.

[Gia]

What's up?

[Morgan]

What up, me Day? Beautiful, Chess.

[Gia]

Good morning.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Hey, I love the relationship between Charlemagne and Envy.

[Morgan]

I know y' all got a real brother relationship, but Envy, you got a workshop some jokes with Jess, man, Andrew was on you yesterday.

[Jess Hilarious]

So. He always on me.

[Morgan]

What you mean I'm always on him.

[Jess Hilarious]

What?

[Morgan]

Pause. Exactly. Why you gotta resort the game like, relax.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's how you always are, huh?

[Morgan]

No, but how you gonna say his own son gonna body slam him? Cause it's true. Have you seen Logan?

[Jess Hilarious]

It's not true.

[Morgan]

No, you don't. He just. He trying to get in shape now, but he can't mess with Logan right now. He know that. He's from Queens. He was with Clue. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Wreckage it, people.

[Gia]

I'm gonna scratch you to death.

[Morgan]

Thanks.

[Jess Hilarious]

Me 85, man. Help me, man.

[Morgan]

From Queens. Even with Clue. Oh, yeah. I'm scared now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my gosh.

[Morgan]

You couldn't say 50 Cent? Only muscular people in Queens. He got cool. Oh, wow. Yeah. Hello?

[Jess Hilarious]

Who's this?

[Morgan]

Good morning. Peace. Hilarious.

[Jess Hilarious]

What's up, brother?

[Gia]

Hey, hey.

[Jess Hilarious]

Get it off your chest first.

[Morgan]

I want to just get off my chest that charade. Yes, sir.

[Gia]

I thought I told you this, like, last year, man.

[Morgan]

You gotta fix your clock, man. Like fix my wife. How you wait so often, even in the same. My penis is a lot like in.

[Caller]

The new office and everything, bro.

[Morgan]

Come on. First of all, you don't know what my contract says. My hours are 6:05, so I'm actually here early. When? I'm here at 6:00am Sir. Okay. Oh, my Lord. Yo, thank you. Thank you for all the smiles throughout the year, man. Thank you, brother.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, brother.

[Morgan]

Have a good one. Appreciate you, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hello.

[Morgan]

Who's this? How you doing? This is Stacy. How y' all doing?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Stacy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Stacy. Stacy, cupcake.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Stacy.

[Morgan]

Stacy. Say that like.

[Jess Hilarious]

You introducing yourself for the first time.

[Morgan]

No, I know. I know, but no, because I wanted.

[Caller]

To talk about a serious topic.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Morgan]

I wanted to touch on the topic from yesterday where, like, the black boy.

[Caller]

Got punched in the face by a cop.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Caller]

We have to teach our kids to just do what they say so we can get home. I get it.

[Morgan]

He probably didn't have no reason to.

[Caller]

Do what he did.

[Morgan]

But you still have to listen because you have to get home to your family. Listen, there's two people I don't play.

[Caller]

With, and that's the cop and that's the judges.

[Morgan]

I'll talk my issue to anybody else, but when it comes to them, listen, I just do what they say.

[Caller]

Don't give them a reason because they.

[Morgan]

Want to get rid of us anyway. Don't give them no reason. Well, you know, that's an interesting. That's such an interesting story because I truly feel like the cop had no reason, no justifiable reason to punch that young man in his face. But when you watch the whole video and realize the kid was driving with a suspended license, I agree with you. There was no reason for that guy to, you know, be acting like that with that cop knowing your license. Suspended. Yeah. Remember, we're black. We just can't talk to them the way our Caucasian cousins talk to them. Listen, they can shoot up schools and get away with everything. We get shot for having skinnies and a hoodie on. So we gotta just be better with Just doing what they say. Listen, the end goal is to get home. Listen, if y' all want me to walk on top of the truck.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We.

[Morgan]

Just gotta show them a little bit more respect, even though they look at us like animals.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. You know, it's funny that you said that, right? My dad, you know, who's a retired police officer. Nypd. Retired. You know, I used to get pulled over a lot all through New York City. And I used to be very argumentative with the police.

[Morgan]

Very, very argumentative. Dominican, white man, no, you can't do that.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Mp.

[Jess Hilarious]

But my dad would yell at me all the time, and his whole thing was, you gotta make it home.

[Gia]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

He said, you make it home, we can fight. He says, but if you.

[Pete Buttigieg]

If.

[Jess Hilarious]

If you don't make it home, we have a whole nother problem.

[Gia]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

So he was like, you gotta make it home. And that's what I tell my kids now as well. Make it home. Make it home first.

[Morgan]

Right?

[Jess Hilarious]

And then we can do what we gotta do. Oh, listen, and that ain't being sucker. That ain't being a soft. That's. That's making it home to your family. My dad would tell me that all the time. Now, I didn't listen because I would argue still, but now that I got kids.

[Gia]

No matter what, Stacy, no matter what. Like, you're doing it right now.

[Morgan]

No, no, he's not.

[Jess Hilarious]

I am. Shut up. Let Stacy talk.

[Morgan]

This is DJ Envy. No, seriously.

[Caller]

You're black.

[Morgan]

They look at you just like they look at Charlemagne. No, they don't.

[Gia]

Yes, they do.

[Morgan]

I'm way blacker. Look at me. I get it. I get it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Charlemagne.

[Caller]

Good morning, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Morgan]

Look at me. Goodbye, Stacy. That is crazy to even say, Stacy. No, I am with black.

[Gia]

It was funny, yo. If he was, like, talking about him back in the day, Stacy was like.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, Envy, Wait, you can't.

[Gia]

Don't do that. And he stopped like, you know, he talk about back in the day, Stacy.

[Jess Hilarious]

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

[DJ Envy]

Yes, we do. Y', all Cardi B is being sued, and y' all not usually.

[Gia]

She do the suing.

[DJ Envy]

Listen, she is being sued, and y' all won't believe who and what she is being sued about.

[Gia]

Oh, wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, we'll get to that. Next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest With Lauren.

[Gia]

Lauren becoming a straight face, she gets.

[Jess Hilarious]

It from somebody that knows somebody.

[Morgan]

She gets the details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Morgan]

She'll be having the latest on this, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

So Cardi B. Is being sued for assault battery by a woman who alleges that Cardi B struck her with a microphone. So you guys remember it was some years ago. It was back in 2023. Yeah. When Cardi B. Was on the stage in Vegas and there was water thrown at her, and she threw the microphone.

[Gia]

It was ice. That was ice. It was water, but it was ice that they threw at her.

[DJ Envy]

Well, they threw something at Cardi, and she responded and threw the microphone back. And because of that, we are now sitting and facing this lawsuit in 2025 where Cardi is. So she is being accused Cardi B. Of assault and battery by a Jane Doe who alleges that the microphone was thrown at her during that day party. And she. This happened after she alleges Cardi B asked people in the crowd to throw water at her. And she says that this individual, when she threw the water at Cardi as well as other people did, she's like, I did it. But there were other people in the audience who did it as well, that Cardi B responded in a way that harmed her. So now there's an attorney, her name is Sierra N. Norris, who is representing this Jane Doe. And they're actually holding a press conference today in Vegas to talk about this. Now, this video, you guys remember, circulated a bit, but when I received the filing the lawsuit, one of the things I asked Sierra Norris was, you know, it's two years later, almost like, why now? And what I was told is that they wanted to wait until the client was comfortable, and it took some time for the victim to be ready to proceed with litigation. But, yeah, I thought that it was.

[Morgan]

When somebody that rich hits you with a microphone, you're gonna be hurt for the next two, three years. Okay. I'm sure I'd have fell and still been on the ground.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

That was coming. I think she knew that one was coming.

[Morgan]

Absolutely. I mean, like, that's one you can't. You got to eat that. Yeah, you gotta eat that one.

[Jess Hilarious]

She knew that one was cutting.

[Gia]

But why not sue the day after?

[Morgan]

I mean, I was unconscious. I didn't wake up for four days.

[Jess Hilarious]

I hear you, but you do know when you sue somebody like that, you have to go through the procedures. Like, if you get a car accident, you have to go to the doctor. You have to go to physical rehab. You have to pad your case a little bit.

[Morgan]

And if you're doing it right, you got to get a lawyer to take the case. A lot of these people be filing on their own, you know, so I'm sure the lawyer did their due diligence. Watch the video, all of that stuff like that, and was like, okay, we got something here.

[Gia]

Two years years ago, I'm sure.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm sure you see, the young lady went. Went to some type of therapy, some type of physical.

[Morgan]

Going to therapy for the last two years. Emotional trauma, mental distress. Okay. I have seasons in the middle of the night for no reason.

[Jess Hilarious]

Seizures.

[Morgan]

Whenever Bo that yellow. Come on, I just start shaking.

[Gia]

Oh, my goodness.

[Morgan]

This.

[Gia]

This is a lot. Y' all giving her a lot of help. I love this. This is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Well, back so well back when this incident happened, the microphone was actually sold for $99,000 and was so shortly after the incident. And Jane Doe is actually claiming that this exacerbated her and caused emotional distress.

[Morgan]

Exactly.

[Gia]

That the microphone was sold.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Now, the owner of Wave World, which was the venue at the time, had released a statement saying that the money was going toward two charities, the Wounded Warrior Project, in a local Vegas charity, Friendship Circle. Las Vegas.

[Morgan]

But yes, and that lady said that Jane Doe said. Speaking of wounded. Okay, all right. Look at my forehead. All right, like, that's more. That's this one. You got to eat.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm settling out.

[Morgan]

Yeah. When you make a decision like that, when you make a choice like that to throw the microphone in the crowd and to hit somebody, you just got to deal with the consequences.

[DJ Envy]

How much she's suing for right now, there is no numbers, but she is suing for damages. So sometimes they'll just keep it open like that, and then sometimes you'll get to a number. But most of the time, when you bring a lawsuit like this, you don't announce a number because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

You want to see where you can fall negotiation wise.

[Morgan]

Remember when Fat Joe told us that there was a time people just used to walk in front of him and fall? Yeah, because they knew that they, they could sue and get some money. He said literally people just walk in.

[Gia]

Front of him and fall because like he was gonna step on them and.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hurt them or what they'll say that Fat Joe hit him or Fat Joe ran into him and wow, that's what happened.

[Morgan]

That's the price of being who you are.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. And not.

[Gia]

I was gonna say I would try to get stepped on by him though, you know, because of course this was in his bigger days. Like I would try to get stepped on. I just fall in front of somebody like it's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

He's not even that big no more.

[Gia]

Yeah, no more. Imagine stepping on you.

[DJ Envy]

I was gon to your question about how much with the lawsuit because they're having a press conference today. Maybe you might hear a number if there's been some conversations. But I also wanted to mention before we close out Cardi B that back when this incident happened, Cardi was investigated on the by police to see if this could be like an actual crime and they didn't move forward with anything. She was not charged with this incident.

[Morgan]

I wonder how she going to show up to the press conference. Is she going to show up? Still banded with a crutch on.

[Gia]

I thought she was talking about Cardi. Oh, not for two years now.

[Morgan]

You never know, man. Two years, bro. You never know. Probably I patch all that bandaid, I'm legally blind for two years, I go in and out crazy.

[Gia]

Yeah, let's just commend Shorty's aim. I'm talking about Cardi's aim is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Well, maybe not commended right now.

[Gia]

She's cursed, but yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Well, moving on and more New York News. So remember we talked about Jay Z going after the bid for the casino in New York. Well, yesterday there was a meeting, there was a committee meeting that took place yesterday. This was the first committee advisory committee, first community advisory committee meeting where Jay Z was present. So Jay Z's Roc Nation company decided to partner with SL Green and Caesars Entertainment for the Caesars Palace Times Square Casino. So yesterday in that meeting, Jay Z actually made a few comments. He talked about trying to reserve himself. He says that this is a very good idea. He said that it is very good alignment for us to fulfill the promise of Times Square. He also added that his proposal is, is not coming to compete with Broadway. There have been some conversation about will it take business away from Broadway with Broadway already struggling or not. He says that they're not going to be competing with Broadway. They actually want to add business and add things. But yesterday was their first move in placing their bid on the casino.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I don't see how, you know, people do not want the casino in the middle of Times Square right there at 15:15. I mean, all it's going to do is increase, you know, tourism and, you know, increase the amount of bodies that go down to Times Square, which should lift up everything thing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, the only thing I see is, is they say traffic. Right.

[Gia]

But a lot more.

[Jess Hilarious]

But with congestion prices, it calmed down the traffic a lot. But I don't see it nothing doing anything but helping Broadway.

[Morgan]

Exactly.

[Jess Hilarious]

Because if more tourists come in town, it gives you things to do.

[Morgan]

You can do a whole weekend.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, you can do the, you know, Broadway, you can do the casino. There'll be shows there, there'll be comedy shows. There'll be, you know, stuff to do in Broadway. And then, you know, you go over the other side and go to the American Dream Mall and go roller coaster riding with your kids. So there's gonna be a lot to do. I think it's gonna bring more, which I think is a good thing for burrowing. Is suffering so bad.

[Morgan]

I agree. And yesterday they said, he said in that meeting that 0.5% of all of the revenue is going to go to Manhattan Plaza forever. Yeah. In perpetuity.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, man, I think that's great.

[DJ Envy]

I think it is too. I mean, anytime you could do something like that where it's like continued and it's going to like keep like, it's going to keep circling back around to the people, it's a good thing. But to have a person from New York like Jay Z be at the helm of it, I think people don't understand how big that is.

[Morgan]

It's projected to drive nearly $900 million in annual neighborhood spending for that whole area. Like, and New York needs that. Like, New York hasn't had an upgrade in so goddamn long. I'd be thinking New York need to look like Dubai. At least Charlotte, you know what I mean? At least Dallas.

[Jess Hilarious]

New York looks disgusting.

[Morgan]

You know, I mean, at least downtown Chicago.

[Jess Hilarious]

But, you know, people get on Jay all the time and. And. And hate on Jay all the time. And yes, they'll say I'm glazing Jay, but I don't care.

[Morgan]

But.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I haven't seen an artist or celebrity in that type of form or that gives back to the community like he does, that helps his own like he does. And I'm not glazing because he's never helped me. I never got a dialogue.

[Morgan]

The more you say you glazing, it sound like you glazing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, you hear the stories of him helping people. You hear the story about him helping artists like him helping DMX or him helping Lil Wayne or. Or hear him helping. Bailing people out and never coming for credit. He's doing it at his heart. He's a good individual.

[Morgan]

Never coming for credit. Sounds crazy after you. What you said. What you just said.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what? Forget it.

[Morgan]

Whatever y' all say about James.

[Jess Hilarious]

Because as soon as I say something heartfelt and I'm like, damn, he's a good brother, you crazy.

[Morgan]

I agree with you. I agree with you. Allow me to reintroduce my Glaz.

[Jess Hilarious]

My name is.

[Morgan]

But why can't men just give men other people?

[Jess Hilarious]

Why can't we say I'm crazy?

[Gia]

I can't say that. Usually when he is giving, like, good compliments to other men, you always be like.

[Morgan]

He always goes a step too far with it.

[DJ Envy]

I think it's a jealousy thing. But, you know, that's a whole nother story in my Morgan voice.

[Morgan]

That's why I wore my Blame Roc Nation shirt yesterday. That's why I got them Blame Rock Nation T shirts made exactly for this.

[Gia]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

I wanted to. Man, we're closing up, but I want to mention MVU asked me about a report earlier about the upper. The Vermeer satellite. I don't even know how you say.

[Morgan]

Nobody asked about that. We can't even pronounce what you just said. Yeah, I don't even know what you talk about. Can we just end it on Jay Z?

[DJ Envy]

You know, I'm talking about the, the, the. The lawsuit with Jay Z and a potential son. Not potential son. Whatever.

[Morgan]

Now glaze some more envy. Go see how.

[DJ Envy]

This is great news. This is great news. Drop reports. According to ur web, it was so this is continued great news. You see what the community does?

[Gia]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Dang.

[Gia]

Because everybody look like Jay Z. That don't mean you his son.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, you crazy.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Him.

[Gia]

You crazy. Shut up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh my goodness. I hate y' all just glaze. All right, well we come back, we got front page news. And then former United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buddha judge will be joining us.

[Morgan]

I bet you won't glory if you want to. Goddamn.

[Jess Hilarious]

Can we get a Jay Z song on first so I can cleanse him some more? I can't show a man some love.

[Morgan]

Yes, we can. Drop another clues bomb for Hoving Rock.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, that's a double glazed donut.

[DJ Envy]

You know he liked the extra white double glazed.

[Morgan]

Listen, by the way, y' all know I feel the same way. I ain't got nothing but love and respect for Roc Nation as you should though. Salute to Desiree. Salute the hov. I have nothing but love and respect. Nice. Because of the things Envy just said. Cause I see what they do for people and I see what they do for the community. For sure. I don't care what the Internet say. I see it firsthand.

[DJ Envy]

You wore your wrong shirt today.

[Morgan]

I should have blame Rock Nation.

[Gia]

I know you wore it yesterday.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, let's get some front page news. When we come back, we're gonna play psa. Allow me to introduce myself as the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

Your mornings will never be the same.

[Jess Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. What's up, mor?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All.

[Gia]

Hey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So President Trump wants America to be the world leader in AI. Trump addressed a summit in Washington D.C. yesterday where he unveiled his AI action plan for the U.S. now, the plan has three main parts. Accelerating innovation, building out AI infrastructure, and making American hardware and software the standard AI platform. Let's take a listen to President Trump's comments regarding AI.

[Jess Hilarious]

Whether we like it or not, we're suddenly engaged in a fast paced competition to build and define this groundbre technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization itself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So Trump also wants to cut down on regulatory red tape when it comes to building energy plants to power and growing technology. So yeah, see where we stand when it comes to artificial intelligence. Elsewhere in news, the man who pled guilty to killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, has been sentenced to four life prison sentences with no possibility of parole as part of the plea deal. Brian Coburger sat in court yesterday as Judge Stephen Hippler read the sentence for the death of one of the victims, adding, the families are allowed to grieve how they see fit. Let's take a listen to Judge Stephen Hitler's comments and the reading of that.

[Caller]

Sentence for first degree murder of Kaylee Gonzalez.

[Pete Buttigieg]

I sentenced the defendant to a fixed term of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Yet even if I could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how could anyone ever be assured that what.

[Morgan]

He speaks is the truth?

[Pete Buttigieg]

None of us have experienced the loss these victims have in the unspeakable way that they have.

[Morgan]

And therefore none of us can nor.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Should we question the way in which they have handled their loss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So the sentence was the same for the other three victims. Family members and friends gave emotional impact statements in court yesterday. Now Kohberger admitted to killing to the killings, which drew nationwide detention in a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. As part of the deal, he was not required to explain his motive for the crimes. Now the White House has weighed in as well, and Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said the country mourns the lives of the four Idaho students Coburger killed and prays for the families. Let's take a listen to Press Secretary Caroline Levitt on this.

[DJ Envy]

We are so sorry for the grief.

[Pete Buttigieg]

And the pain you have experienced at.

[Morgan]

The hands of such a vicious and evil killer. If it were up to the President, he would have forced this monster to.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Publicly explain why he chose to steal these innocent souls.

[Morgan]

Yeah, it was horrible, man. One of the, one of the family members stood up and told him, the only thing you failed more miserably at than being a murderer is trying to be a rapper. Really? Yeah. I didn't understand that one. I mean, I didn't get it. But you know, they were, they were visibly mad. I guess he was just trying to, you know.

[Gia]

Oh yeah, yes.

[Morgan]

Hurt him. That's why I be thinking sometimes they should let these family members, man, get their licks off, man. Physically.

[Jess Hilarious]

Physically.

[Morgan]

Yeah, man, like why not like, like let them get their licks off? All of them. That one dude in the room with all of them, Any family member they want to bring and they get five minutes, get closure.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's their way of closure.

[Morgan]

Cuz he absolutely deserved that sentence. I just wonder if the justice system be knowing something we don't know. Like, you know, you get four life sentences because they know you're going to. You got to go to prison in your afterlife, too. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Goodness. Yeah. The victim, sister Kaylee Conlavez. Excuse me. She definitely had a read for the. The suspect for sure. Elsewhere in news, more on the viral traffic stop out of Jacksonville, Florida, civil rights attorney Ben Crump is applauding William McNeil for taking a punch while exercising his constitutional right to ask why he was being pulled over and why he was being asked. Ask to step out of the car now. Crump demanded answers and has a message for Jacksonville's sheriff. McNeil says he was just asking why he was getting pulled over and asked why he was being asked to step out the car now. Crumpet. McNeil held a press conference recently about the incident. Let's take a listen to their comments.

[Jess Hilarious]

In part, what he exhibited was a.

[Morgan]

21St century Rosa Parks moment. This was a classic case of driving while black.

[Pete Buttigieg]

To the sheriff.

[Morgan]

You can't justify this.

[Jess Hilarious]

You can't condone this.

[Morgan]

You have to condemn this. That day, I just really wanted to.

[Jess Hilarious]

Know, you know, why I was getting pulled over. And I know I didn't do nothing wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So McNeil's legal team wants accountability and the deputy to be fired. Earlier this week, while releasing body camera video, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. waters said an administrative investigation is ongoing, so he won't defend or commend the officer's actions, but noted McNeil was not complying with deputies. He added, the state's attorney's office has determined officers did not violate the law. McNeil pleaded guilty to resisting an officer and driving with a suspended license.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I mean, once again, that cop had no business, you know, punching that young man in the face. But I do want to hear more from Ben Crump on this because, you know, I like, like I said, I agree with him that the cop is absolutely wrong for punching that man. Escalating it to that. But that man also knew he didn't have a license, and the cops told the guy why he pulled him over. I just feel like the young man was. Didn't know he didn't have a license. The young man was acting. He was. He was acting out.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right. But I guess Ben Crump is also saying, you know, he's a black man in the car who didn't have a lights on. Do people get pulled over for that? I guess that's what you're saying, but you can get pulled over for not having a seat belt. You can't get pulled over for not having your lights on.

[Morgan]

Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

I guess that's his whole thing. Like with everything, all the traffic violations we see day out, day in and day out, he got pulled over for not having his license.

[Morgan]

I just wish. I just wish the brother would have been like, look, I don't have a license. You know, I wish he did that instead of, you know, reacting the way that he did. Even though nothing justifies him getting punched in the face.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nothing at all.

[Morgan]

But I know that eventually that's going to come up. They're going to use all of that against him.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, anytime you get pulled over, they ask for your license. Once they pull you over, they want to know who they talking to. They're going to ask for your license. License. And, you know, it's just a sad situation.

[Morgan]

They're going to use the fact he didn't comply. They're going to say that he resisted. They're going to say, you know, he had a license, was suspended.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But they're going to say he had weed in his pocket. But none of that is a justification of why he got, you know, punched in the face.

[Jess Hilarious]

I agree.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that's your front page news. You guys can follow me.

[Gia]

I'm Morgan Woods.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all can follow me on socials at Morgan Media. For more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network, download the free I Heart radio app and Visit [e-mail]. thank you so much.

[Morgan]

All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you, Morgan. Now, when we come back, former unit. When we come back, former United States Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buddha Judge will be joining us, and we're going to talk to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

[Morgan]

Yes, indeed.

[Jess Hilarious]

He's back, Pete Buttigieg.

[Morgan]

Welcome back.

[Jess Hilarious]

Morning. Now you got out the White House and got a bed. Immediately have that bed last time.

[Pete Buttigieg]

No. You know, there were very few days that I didn't have to shave the whole time that, that I was in office. And then, then suddenly I didn't have to worry about that. So I started out just not shaving every day. And then we went on a vacation. I came back with a beard. I thought, I'm gonna keep this for a while. Chastain's very, very pro. My daughter doesn't like it. She keeps telling me to shave it because she says it's too scratchy when I kiss her goodnight. But. But her brother hasn't weighed in yet, so he might be the swing vote in the household.

[Jess Hilarious]

We'll see the swing vote. Now, do they make you, do they tell you look clean when you work for the White House because you're on television? Do they say that?

[Pete Buttigieg]

I don't think they have to. You just, you know, just. I don't think I was ever told to shave. Not since I was in the military anyway. Then it was a thing.

[Morgan]

You know, I saw you on the Flagrant podcast with my guy, Andrew Schultz. I didn't know that you had mixed race kids. I don't know why I didn't know that.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Yeah, you know, we don't put a lot of pictures of them on the Internet or, you know, there's a lot of privacy, obviously goes into that. But, yeah, they're about to turn four. They keep at like, every day they ask me, is it my birthday? They've just transformed our lives in so many ways. It's been amazing.

[Morgan]

And I saw you say, you know, you ask yourself constantly, how can I be a good dad for kids who have a different racial identity than I do? How can I help them navigate that? And for whatever reason, there was a little bit of backlash to those comments. And I don't know why I thought those are great questions to ask yourself.

[Pete Buttigieg]

I mean, you know, I was, I was just talking about how I feel about it. And yeah, I think anytime you talk about something that sensitive, somebody's ready to pounce, somebody's ready to pick it apart and, and tear you up over it. But, yeah, obviously, you know, we're white. Our kids are mixed race. They're going to be as they grow older. There's going to be dimensions of their lives that I will do everything I can as a father, as a loving father to make sure that they succeed. But there will be parts, parts of their lives that I can't really draw on personal experience to help guide them through. And so it's a lot of making sure that they have mentors and role model, role models, other examples in their lives to help them navigate all of that. But it's, it's just been such a blessing and, and, you know, it's a new challenge every day, but it's the best, hardest thing in my life.

[Morgan]

Who are some of those people? Who's the black friends?

[Pete Buttigieg]

You go the, the advice that came in from, like the first moment I had a Navy buddy who saw a couple of pictures of them from a thing we were at the White House on and said, we got to talk about hair and immediately wanted to make sure that because you. I mean, just hair products alone. And by the way, being a girl dad was. Was intimidating to begin with. Right. And then there's everything that comes with that. Finding the right products for. For Gus, our little guy, for Penelope, our daughter. Learning all of that. Like, you know, nobody in my immediate family of white relatives.

[Gia]

Yeah.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Knows a lot about that. But lots of friends do.

[Morgan]

You don't know how to breed.

[Pete Buttigieg]

I gotta figure it out.

[Gia]

Cantu olive oil, Shea Moisture. And then get the wide tooth comb. Don't get the small teeth comb because that's gonna pull a hair out. Yes. We got thicker hair.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Yep. We learned that the hard way. Yeah. And then we got the young king. For him, that's like a three step, step sequence. It's. It's. It's the leave in conditioner. Then you got the oils, right?

[Gia]

Yes. Leave in is good.

[Pete Buttigieg]

And then there's. There's the essential oil and then there's. There's the curling cream. Although by step three, now he's. He's a little older, but he was really fighting us on the third step. He's like learning, though.

[Gia]

You learn to Pete.

[Morgan]

Now we gotta get Pete some money. I do not want you or your husband playing them churn hair. No.

[Jess Hilarious]

So you do her hair every day?

[Gia]

Yeah.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Well, Cheston does it more often than I do. Let me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Because I know I can't do my daughter's hair. I know Charlie can't do his daughter's hair. Can you, gentlemen?

[Gia]

Hell no. He.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know.

[Morgan]

Justin, can. I need to see the hair. Round of applause. I don't know what the hell look like.

[Jess Hilarious]

You're right. You right. You right.

[Morgan]

Jesus.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was gonna say before you walked in, it's funny. Jess was like, so what is Pete doing now? And I was like, that is a good question. What is Pete doing now that. Now that you're out the White House, besides being a dad and a husband? So what are you doing now?

[Pete Buttigieg]

So being a dad and husband is number one for the. And it's the first time in a while that I've been able to put the kind of time in it that I want to. This is the first time in 15 years that I haven't either been in office or on the ballot. I'm making the most of that. But, you know, this is obviously not a time in the life of our country where you can just sit still or kind of hang out and not be involved. So I'm speaking out. Continuing to go on podcasts, go on tv, write. I've got a substack where I'm writing thoughts on some of the issues that are coming up. Thinking about doing a book, so keeping busy. But I have to say, at a personal level, it's been good not to be on that treadmill. Washington just.

[Jess Hilarious]

You don't miss it at all?

[Pete Buttigieg]

I'm not saying I don't. I miss the impact we were able to have. I miss getting up in the morning and knowing that, you know, I could make a decision that could make a whole city better off right through a transportation project we were doing or something like that. I miss that. But I don't miss the negativity. I don't miss the, the way that Washington is so inward looking. It's always about, you know, what did this senator have for breakfast? What are you going to do to keep these people happy that most people have never even heard of? But, you know, that kind of thing I don't miss.

[Morgan]

Why do you think it was so much backlash for you going on the flagrant podcast?

[Pete Buttigieg]

Well, in a way, it's reliving what it was like a few years ago when I started to go on Fox News a lot. So a lot of people in my party said, you can't do that. You're, you know, you're participating in this right wing media system that's, you know, that's not giving people good information. And my response was always, you know, I can't blame somebody for not agreeing with my positions if they've never heard them. So of course I got to go on right wing media. Now you fast forward a few years to these podcasts and flagrant, by the way, I don't consider flagrant to be right wing media, but that's the whole point, right? A lot of these podcasts, a lot of these shows, they're not for people who are looking to get politics in their face all the time, but they are where a lot of people get their information or get exposed to people with political ideas. And I thought, okay, if, you know, if President Trump was going on this show to reach, reach listeners and viewers, viewers, why wouldn't we be putting forward a different set of ideas? Especially because when I got there and I was talking to these guys, many of whom voted a different way than I did. Yeah, we agreed a lot on what was happening next on the problem with tilting the tax code to favor the rich. And that was before the bill passed. Now the bill passed. We know it, we've seen it. Problems with cutting services, making it harder to get your, your phone and phone Call answered on Social Security. All of these things. Right. So we could just have a conversation. And. Yeah, I think some people still. You know, I remember a few people saying, like, why are you platforming these guys who have said something offensive? And I'm just thinking, like, they're platforming me. It's their show.

[Morgan]

It's the stupidest thing when people say, how are you platform? How you. They already have a huge platform, so why not go on there and, you know, let people hear what it is you have to say. Give people another, you know, option. Right.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Yeah. Especially because fewer and fewer people are getting their news from traditional sources. I spent part of this spring teaching at the University of Chicago. There's an institute of politics there that David Axelrod set up. He asked me to spend time with the students there.

[Morgan]

I think I came right after you.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Oh, were you there?

[Morgan]

I think I came right after you. They said, did you have a good time? Oh, I loved it.

[Pete Buttigieg]

I think it's a great experience, and you learn so much talking to these students. One of the things I would often do is to kind of show of hands. Just where do you get your information? The number of students who said television news was zero, like, literally zero. Out of the students. Students said they just, like, sat the way I was when I was growing up or still do sometimes, like, turn on a TV show and watch it.

[Morgan]

Right.

[Pete Buttigieg]

They might see something from TV go into their feed, get clipped. But in terms of where people are getting our information, we got to find people where they are.

[Jess Hilarious]

We're still kicking in with Pete Buttigieg, former United States Secretary of Transportation. I wanted to ask about the airports. Seemed like the airport's gotten a lot worse. Why do you think that is? Or are we just hearing about it more? And these are the problems that have been having for the last. The last 10, 20 years.

[Morgan]

Well, I read. I read an article yesterday. They blamed it on you, Pete. Of course. They said that. Of course. That you. I said, under you, the Department of transportation allocated over $80 billion for DEI grants.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Instead of putting money into.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So the actual airlines. Yeah, yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

The airports.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Airports, obviously. I think that's. Let's break it down. First of all, quote, unquote, quote D. I grants. We're talking about transportation funding that they're now getting rid of. So Milwaukee, 6th street, we funded a project, $34 million, to help make a set of improvements to a very dangerous street where there've been a lot of crashes, and that has divided the community. We provided funding. They're also going to improve the sewer while they're added. I mean, this is bread and butter stuff that's going to make the city better off. Trump administration killed that grant because the application talked about equity. It talked about one of the reasons for funding this project being that that neighborhood had been underinvested in. There was a project in Missoula, Montana, connecting east Missoula across Highway 200. By the way, the Republican senator from Montana supported that project and wrote me a letter saying we ought to fund it, and we did. This administration killed it just because it was part of a program that mentions equity. So when they talk about, quote, unquote, DEI grants, often they're talking about fixing roads and bridges that happen to go into a black neighborhood or a low income area. Meanwhile, we'll talk about aviation. I'm pretty sure I'm the first secretary of transportation in 30 years or more to have the air traffic control workforce growing instead of shrinking on his watch. And that was hard because we've been losing air traffic controllers. They've been retiring. It's just been hard to get as many to come in as we're going out. I don't know whether that number is still going up now. I know that from the beginning they all got an email saying you should think about taking a buyout and quit your job. Then they, they were told that email was never for them. So I don't know exactly what's going on over there now. What I know is that we left the air traffic control system better than we found it, but it's still got a lot of problems. And so the answer your question is really it's both. There are new problems that we're seeing, you know, that I'm seeing just as a now I'm, you know, regular member of the traveling public. But there are some issues that have been in the making for 10, 20, 30 years. We did what we could to improve it. But honestly, my successor, who I obviously disagree with on lots of things, I want him to succeed on this. I mean, for one thing, I fly a lot, but also for the sake of the country, I want them to succeed in improving.

[Jess Hilarious]

But it seems like a lot of the problems that we've been having, especially when we see these floods and these storms, are problems that we keep seeing.

[Morgan]

Right?

[Jess Hilarious]

You know, you look at areas in Texas or even New Jersey, they flood the same every time. So it's just like, why can't we fix those problems? It's not like it's new problems. These are problems that are reoccurring so.

[Pete Buttigieg]

What we did was we set up funding to do things like take a road that's getting washed out every year, and instead of putting it back the exact same every time and putting a bunch of money into the. That move it to where it's not going to be as vulnerable. They're going after that kind of thing too, because they're systematically deleting any reference to climate change or sustainability from anything in the government. And what that means is I think these projects are in danger.

[Morgan]

The $80 billion that was allocated, they said 400 awards from 2021 to 2024. What did that actually go to? Because they're calling it DEI grants. But where did it go? What did it go to?

[Pete Buttigieg]

Yeah, so I don't know how they got the 80 number. 80 billion numbers. What I tell you? I mean, if maybe if you're counting like any project that was connected in any way to taking care of people who had been underinvested, and that'd be one way to do it. Because we had this whole idea of making sure that, that a good share of the grant money went to neighborhoods or communities that were cut out in the past. So. So, but again, there are these specific projects. East Toledo, we did a project to connect East Toledo to downtown Toledo, get people across this high crash corridor where they were having dozens of crashes. And it came under the heading of reconnecting communities or reconnecting neighborhoods, which this administration considers woke. So they're trying to cut it. To me, it's definitely important that it's going to a disadvantaged area. It's also just a good project. It's a good safety project. So they want to call it dei. I would call it good policy and this, this war on anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what up, y'?

[Morgan]

All?

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Pete Buttigieg]

Anything remotely to do with diversity. I think has gone to such an extreme, people are starting to feel it because it's starting to come for them.

[Morgan]

So how would you respond to people who have concerns that these equity initiatives delayed urgent aviation upgrade?

[Pete Buttigieg]

It's just not true. I mean, you know the person who launched the contract, for example, to modernize the tech backbone of that, that was me. We did that. It's a big agency. We did a lot of things. We did roads, we did bridges, we did aviation, we did port. I mean, you know, you can do a lot of things at the same time. That's what we did.

[Morgan]

Now all of this is coming from the New York Post. It just came out yesterday, so I'm giving you a chance.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Oh yeah. So that, that specific article, actually it's, it's. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I would actually say it's worth it reading because if you read it, you'll see a bunch of anonymous people, mostly from the airline industry, complaining with no kind of specific facts or figures, followed by a whole bunch of which, like the Post does, they put it at the bottom of the article. A whole bunch of facts and figures showing something different, which was our response. But yeah, obviously the airline industry was not a big fan of mine, right, Because I was a tough regulation regulator. I mean, we moved the rule to make sure that you can get your money back if your flight gets significantly delayed. We had really tough penalties on airlines that were holding back on people's refunds. We pushed them on things like disability, making sure if they mangle your wheelchair that they have to take care of you. The current administration froze that rule. That's something we pushed on. So obviously my replacement is an airline lobbyist or he was an airline lobby lobbyist. Obviously the airline industry is happier with the new guy who was an airline lobbyist than with somebody like me who was a tough regulator. But that's the kind of inside baseball that drives these articles. And I think it's very telling that none of the people who were, who were throwing stones in that article actually put their name to their quote.

[Morgan]

So early this year when like, you know, there was like plane crashes and stuff. Is there a part of you that's like, I hate to see that, but I, I told you so.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Look, you know, aviation's still safer than driving or any other form of transportation. But it's the nightmare scenario for anybody who cares about transportation. Definitely anybody who ever had the job. I had to have a plane crash happen in this country. One of the things that was really important to me was during my time in office, we had 4 billion implantments, 4 billion times that somebody got onto a commercial passenger airline, and zero crash fatalities. And it's everybody's job to keep that up. And I do worry about what will happen if you got air traffic controllers who are being distracted by all this political nonsense, getting an email telling them that they're going to get bought out, then being told that doesn't apply to them, like firing it people like they did on day one. Of course I'm worried about that.

[Jess Hilarious]

We're still kicking in with former United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Jug Charlamagne.

[Morgan]

How do you feel about the Epstein files? I feel that Democrats should never stop talking about the Epstein files. I think it is the one thing that builds a bridge between Democrats and that MAGA base they've been trying to reach ever since Trump won reelection.

[Pete Buttigieg]

I think that's right. Look, I think there's some folks who might say this is a distraction or this isn't the bread and butter of what we care about. But what I would say is, or let's say what you really care about is legislation, policy. That's your thing. You see all these headlines about Epstein, but you think to yourself, what I care about is how the Congress is dealing with health care, taxes, etc. Okay, well, Congress just got shut down. The Republicans just shut down the United States House of Representatives for two months in order to avoid having to vote on Donald Trump blocking the Epstein flag profiles. So even if you don't give a about the the news story or the sensationalism of it, this now affects you because one of your branches of government is not operational between now and September because Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republicans would rather shut that branch of government down than let the Epstein files come out. Let that sink in. It's also another example, among many, many examples examples of Donald Trump saying he's going to do something on day one and then something very different happens. Right? Said he's going to lower prices on day one. Opposite happen. He's pushing him up with tariffs, said he's going to bring peace to the Middle east on day one, get peace with Russia on day one. I don't know if anybody really took him seriously on that, but that's what he says. And then he says, day one, these Epstein files are going to come out, because at the time, it was in his interest to pretend that he was going to do that. And now it is in his interest to block those files coming out. And I don't think it's unreasonable to ask why.

[Morgan]

Why do you think the Biden administration never put him up?

[Pete Buttigieg]

I don't know. I was not close to the, you know, the DOJ or how any of that worked. I know some, A lot of stuff came out, but if there is really more, and I don't know, but they were waving around these binders, right, at press conferences.

[Morgan]

Do you think it would be mutually assured discretion, Corruption?

[Gia]

Could be.

[Pete Buttigieg]

I mean, look, we already know that there were Democrats, Republicans. Like, there are all kinds of people mixed up with this guy. I think most Americans say, okay, let the chips fall where they may. Like, we gotta know.

[Morgan]

Yeah, get rid of everybody. Get rid of all of them.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Anybody's an abuser, anybody's committed. Like, that's right, of course.

[Morgan]

Right.

[Pete Buttigieg]

And it does feel like something in this moment where none of us can agree on much, that all of us can agree on that. And it's especially weird with Trump, right, Because it's not. It's not some wild liberal conspiracy claim that he was involved with Jeffrey Epstein. There's pictures, pictures still coming out now after all these years, not to mention the pictures and footage that were there years ago. And not just him, like, shaking hands, getting his picture taken with the guy, but, like, ogling women with him. Right? Like dancing with, like, grooving with him. Now we find out he's at his wedding. So obviously there's something there. It's not, not even arguable that there's something there. So I think you're right that we should be pounding on that, even if it's not a central policy priority of the party.

[Gia]

What are your thoughts on former US President Obama saying that the Democrats need to toughen up, you know, and take action? What are your thoughts on that?

[Pete Buttigieg]

I think he's right. Although that just reminds me of one other thing, Right, which is the distraction machine. So Trump says, we're going to release the files. We're going to release files. We're going to release the files. And he says, we're not going to release the files. And people are mad, including maga, saying, wait a minute, you said you're going to release this information and you're not. And what does he do? He's like, we're going to arrest Obama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Pete Buttigieg]

That has nothing to do with anything. But it's the distraction machine. But, but, yeah, as to what President Obama actually said, look, we have to be a party that is not pulling punches, that is ready to. Ready to call things out for what they are, are internally and externally. I think people want to know that somebody's fighting for them. At the same time, my personal theory of politics is you don't have to be a D about it. And what I mean by that is that when I encounter people in actual real life who voted the other way, relatives or even somebody might come up and say hello in like an airport or something, I'm more likely to have somebody come up and say, say, you know, I'm from the other party, but it's nice running into you than to, you know, come up and give me the finger or something like that. Why would that be? Because, look, we're humans and for the most part, like, don't want to. In real life, we're actually around each other. We don't want it to be any uglier than it has to be. And yet you go online, you go on tv, you get into those spaces and it's different. Right. So I think the challenge for us is we should never back down from a good fight over what the right thing to do is and what the wrong thing to do is. But I think we can also demonstrate a way to do it that's actually inviting people into our coalition saying, like, we want you. And maybe you don't agree with us on 10% of the stuff or 30% of the stuff, or maybe you voted the other way last time. Like, all the more reason we want you with us this time around. And we need to be inviting where I think people have viewed us as kind of, of frankly scolding, like we're scolding people for not being up on the latest cultural developments or not being the right kind of progressive or whatever it is, that has to change, too.

[Morgan]

My biggest problem with Democrats is they. It's like everything they're saying now you should have been saying two, three years ago, like we've been saying Democrats was cowards. So, yeah, yes, y' all should have been toughened up. You know, Jake Tapper with the Original Sin, and you read that book and you see everybody knew that there was. That Biden was too old to run, but nobody said anything. But now everybody wants to Speak up. His press secretary, Karine Jean Pierre, saying she's an independent now. And, you know, I'm like, yo, why weren't y' all saying this two, three years ago? All these things that y' all are saying. We the people had been saying we.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Have to show a level of toughness in order to be just, in order to be credible, I think, and in order to go up against these guys who obviously, you can fault them for all kinds of things, but they definitely project toughness. Like right now, it's going to be harder to buy a house because Donald Trump just added to the deficit in order to get tax cuts for billionaires. And that means that interest rates are going to be higher. Right now it is growing more difficult to get health care because premiums just went up because how Republicans changed the Obamacare subsidy. You don't have to be a policy buff for these things to hit you. And by the way, I, I think all these things that have happened are small compared to what's about to happen. This AI development that's happening right now is not just something people should care about if they're interested in tech. This is not just like a nerdy fascination. This is going to affect how all of us. It already is, right? Maybe in useful ways, like you ask ChatGPT for anything. But also in terms of jobs starting to dramatically change, right? This is a level. I mean, we lived through one version of this in the 90s when I was growing up in Indiana, and trade and automation happened, and it changed what was going on in the auto industry. I think that this will be 10 times or a hundred times more disruptive. And if Democrats are caught up in yesterday's culture war or defending institutions that were getting pretty old and trying to look, look like the protectors of a status quo that wasn't serving anybody well, instead of offering some kind of answers for how you're supposed to make a living and how you're supposed to fit into your community when you've got technology changing everything. If we don't have answers on that, then we're definitely going to be left behind.

[Morgan]

So what does the future of the party look like then? Like, is it. Is it more Pete Buttigieg or is it more Mandani? Is it more Joshua Piro or is it more aoc? Like, what is it look like?

[Pete Buttigieg]

I mean, look, we're, we're always going to be a big tent party. I think my style is different from some of the others in the party, and that's fine. Like, we're Each going to be putting forward the version of the message that's truest to who we are. I think that a younger generation of leaders, many of whom are politically moderate, some of them are politically pretty far left. What they have in common is they are who they are. You can feel it. You can just see it. That, I think, is the future of the party.

[Jess Hilarious]

Pete Buttigieg, ladies and gentlemen. So what's next for Pete Buttigieg? What do you have?

[Morgan]

Your eyes say he's running for president in 2028. Come on, stop. Cut it.

[Pete Buttigieg]

It's 2025. You got to give me at least one year to not be running for anything and not be in office so I can drop the kids off at school and be a human being, and then, you know, we'll figure it out. But what I am definitely doing now and going to keep doing is speak out about this stuff and try to show versus tell a way of fighting for what's right that I think our party would benefit from.

[Morgan]

I think you're polling at what, 13% right now?

[Pete Buttigieg]

It depends whose poll we look at.

[Morgan]

But, yeah, do you keep. Do you look at stuff like the visual poll you like, that was crazy. But you're pulling that 13. That's a pretty good number.

[Pete Buttigieg]

I try not to look at that too much.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Yeah, Gotcha.

[Morgan]

You should look at other polls, Pete.

[Gia]

You're married, first of all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my goodness. Like, I don't know why I keep coming back here.

[Morgan]

I don't know why.

[Jess Hilarious]

He's like, I don't know why.

[Morgan]

We appreciate. Whenever you come, peace. I tell you this all the time, man, but, you know, you never, never stop talking to our audience, and that means something, you know, because I feel like, like, politicians only come around when they want something. They only come around when it's a campaign season. The fact that you come and just, you know, keep us abreast of what's going on all the time, we. I truly do appreciate it.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right.

[Gia]

And then don't forget those hair steps, because I want to see if it works.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Yeah, we should talk after this. Actually. I have a couple questions.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. All right, let's get to the latest one.

[Morgan]

Lauren.

[Gia]

Lauren becoming a street fan.

[Jess Hilarious]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Morgan]

She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Gia]

Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

So Candace Owens is being sued by French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte or Yes, they are suing her for defamation in the US because Candace Owens claimed that Brigitte is a man.

[Gia]

Oh my God.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. So the defamation lawsuit was filed in a Delaware state court and it stems from several different content videos that Candace Owens created. She's done a series on Brigitte talking. It's like it's called the making of Brigitte. She's what? Or becoming Brigitte. It was a multi part series but there was also a YouTube video that directly addressed the these claims of Brigitte not being a woman. But let's take a listen to some of Candace Owens content. Let's take a listen to her on Brigitte Macron.

[Morgan]

It is time for you to wake up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So we will start from the top.

[Gia]

Here with a photo of Brigitte Macron.

[DJ Envy]

Real name Jean Michel Trogoneau.

[Morgan]

That person that you are looking at.

[DJ Envy]

On the right is not a woman. Okay, here is a photo by the way, just over the years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jean Michel Truck.

[DJ Envy]

No as he became Brigitte.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As I said, the evidence for this is overwhelming.

[Pete Buttigieg]

That second photo, I believe they found.

[DJ Envy]

A photo of him at a pride.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Parade when he was just living as a homosexual man.

[Pete Buttigieg]

That next photo is when the transition.

[Morgan]

Began if I recall correctly.

[Gia]

And that's a photo from the professor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Years and professor years of Brigitte Marcone.

[Morgan]

Is when he statutor was really Emmanuel Macron. Candace Owens and Jesse Laris always want to tell people who's not a woman. What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Huh?

[Morgan]

What happened?

[Gia]

Don't play with me.

[Morgan]

Let me see.

[Gia]

This is this woman that they talking about right here.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think this lady, I think she's had three children now.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, so listen. This. This video that we just took a listen to from Candace Owens was called the Olympics exposed Brigitte McCrone. It was episode 34. Candace Owens posted this on July 29, 2024. Now Tom Claire is the attorney for the French president and his. And he was on CNN last night because a lot of people are wondering number one, why would you wait? Because they've been saying that this has been a year long like broadcast tyree that Candace Owen has been on and regurgitating these claims that were online.

[Morgan]

I just want the record to show I've seen stronger faces.

[Gia]

Yeah, that's what I wanted to see. I'm definitely seeing strong. I've seen stronger my. Yeah, go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's take a listen to Tom on CNN last night talking about why they chose to file now, after a.

[Gia]

Year.

[Morgan]

Why are the Macron suing now?

[Pete Buttigieg]

Well, this was really a last resort. We have attempted to engage with her for the last year, putting evidence in.

[Jess Hilarious]

Front of her, request after request after.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Request that she just simply do the right thing. This is not. This is not a legal thing. Do the right thing. Tell the truth. Stop spreading these lies. And each time we've done that, she mocked the Macrons. She mocked our efforts to set the record straight. She refused to retract what she had said.

[Jess Hilarious]

She started a merch campaign. She's selling T shirts, mocking and celebrating.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her defamation of them.

[Pete Buttigieg]

And enough is enough. It was time to hold her accountable for this campaign.

[Morgan]

What was the proof they put in Candace's face, though? Like, how do you prove. Like, first of all, you shouldn't have to prove that, but how do you prove.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not exactly for sure what all of the proof is, but in the lawsuit, according to a statement from the attorney, when they made the demands for Candace Owens to retract her statements, they accompanied it by. By evidence disproving her allegations, improving, among other things, that Mrs. McCrone was born a woman named Br. That she is not a blood relative of President Mcron. Yeah.

[Morgan]

So Candace basically dug her own grave because your feelings are not facts. I don't know why people don't understand that in this era that we in. And I also hate when people say, why are you suing now? Sometimes you just let people keep going.

[DJ Envy]

Well, Candace Owens responded to the lawsuit. Let's take a listen to her response.

[Morgan]

Are you floored?

[Pete Buttigieg]

Because this is just goofy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are officially a very goofy man, Brigitte.

[DJ Envy]

But I got to give it to you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You've definitely got fire. Everybody around you, and I mean literally everyone around you who told you that.

[Pete Buttigieg]

This was a good idea, that this was a very good idea for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To be the first sitting first lady.

[Morgan]

Of a country to file a lawsuit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Against a journalist of another country. You are literally making history in all the wrong ways. And I want to be very clear.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Here, right at the top, that this is obvious.

[Jess Hilarious]

Very clear that it is an obvious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And desperate public relations strategy. That's what this is.

[Morgan]

I mean, it's not a bad idea. I mean, you have to be responsible for your words. And we all know free speech, not free. So, I mean, you know, it's hard for me to believe Candace didn't expect some type of content.

[Gia]

Yeah, you can't.

[Jess Hilarious]

You can't lie on people. Right. When you start lying on people and saying things like it's factual, you're gonna get sued, and you're gonna get touched, and I think you should get sued.

[Gia]

Even if that's what you think.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Gia]

Your opinion of her, you know, being a man, that's not. It's not facts. And then also, listen, I remember an episode of Cosby show where, remember he had the kids. Olivia was having a. A sleepover. Right. And it was a kid on there, right. Everybody thought that this kid was a little boy, but that little kid was Alicia Keys. So it's like you can't. You know what I'm saying? We all talking about Alicia Keys show.

[Morgan]

The crazy part is I know exactly what you're talking about, but I have no ide. What that got to do with this?

[Pete Buttigieg]

Because.

[Gia]

I could tell her what I'm trying to say because he acting like he don't know what I'm trying to say. You just held up that picture and said, I've seen stronger faces. Yeah, she does, you know, resemble a little boy when she was. When she was younger, but I'm saying she a woman. Alicia Keys resembled a little boy in that episode, but she grew up to be a beautiful woman.

[Morgan]

Okay, gotcha.

[Gia]

Because she was a girl from the jump. Some of us look like little boys when we little. We grow up and, you know, some of us look like grown men, but still, we are women. Women at the end of the day. You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So sick of you trying to tell people who's. That's what I'm saying.

[Gia]

I'm just saying. Yo, but Candace, man, you gotta relax, boy.

[Morgan]

Candace entertaining, ain't she?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, she gonna get sued, too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, she's goofy.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, that is the latest with Laura. Now, don't forget, get on the phone lines right now. 800-585-1051. Jess, fix my mess. If you have. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, you can call Jess right now. 800-585-1051. Now, Charlotte, who you giving that donkey, man?

[Morgan]

Four after the hour. I want House Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republicans to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a little word with them.

[Jess Hilarious]

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

[Morgan]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Pete Buttigieg]

There is no question that this.

[Jess Hilarious]

There are problems in this country between police and community.

[Morgan]

Yes, you are a donkey.

[Pete Buttigieg]

The latest on that police killing of a black man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage.

[Morgan]

And yesterday was a really bad day for him.

[Pete Buttigieg]

And this is what he did.

[DJ Envy]

And so we are in a state of emergency.

[Morgan]

Okay. White supremacist violence is, it always has been, the number one threat to our society.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I'm also very proud that my wife is watching.

[Morgan]

Right, the Breakfast Club, bitches. All right, Charlene, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Donkey. Today for Thursday, July 24th goes to House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans because they have stopped all legislative business to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files. Yes, Democrats said they plan to stage a vote on bringing legislation to the floor that would force the release of the Epstein files. And House Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republican said we gonna vanish for a couple of months before we let that happen. Let's go to MSNBC for the report, please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For all of Trump's efforts to change.

[DJ Envy]

The subject, the Epstein story is not going away.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And part of the reason it's not going away is that Trump himself is prolonging the story.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Trump also has drawn attention back to.

[DJ Envy]

This case by insisting that his allies in Congress block any effort to release.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

More information on Epstein. Today's little lackey, Speaker Mike Johnson, made.

[Morgan]

The decision to effectively shut down the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The House just to stall a bipartisan effort to get materials from the Epstein.

[Caller]

Probe, which is a fairly ham handed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Way to get people to stop talking about a topic.

[Morgan]

Of course we're going to keep talking about the topic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And if there was any doubt that.

[Morgan]

Trump was behind that decision, just listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To how Speaker Johnson's position changed in just the past week.

[DJ Envy]

We should put everything out there and.

[Morgan]

Let the people decide.

[Pete Buttigieg]

We cannot be careless in a, in.

[Morgan]

A, in an open release like that. You have to be very careful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Careful seems a little under duress there.

[Gia]

Second video, I don't know.

[Morgan]

Now, we had a Pete Buttigieg up here, a former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg up here this morning and he spoke on why we the people should care about this. Let's listen.

[Pete Buttigieg]

You see all these headlines about Epstein, but you think to yourself, what I care about is how the Congress is dealing with health care, taxes, etc. Okay, well, Congress just got shut down. The Republicans just shut down the United States House of Representatives for two months in order to avoid having to vote on Donald Trump blocking the Epstein file. So even if you don't give a, about the news story or the sensationalism of it, this now affects you because one of your branches of government is not operational between now and September. September. Because Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republicans would rather shut that branch of government down than let the Epstein files come out.

[Morgan]

Oh.

[Gia]

Ooh.

[Morgan]

Drop on the clues. Bombs people to judge now. Also yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that back in May, President Trump was told that his name is among many in the Epstein files. Let's go to CBS News for report please.

[Pete Buttigieg]

The Wall Street Journal reporting that Trump was told by his Justice Department in a briefing in May that his name were in a truckload of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. They also note that many other high profile figures were also named. The Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the number two at the Department of Justice, told the Wall Street Journal that they made Trump aware of these findings and then again noted that there was nothing in the files that warranted further investigation. In a response response on this story to CBS News, White House Communications Director Stephen Chung noted that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar a Lago club many years ago, quote, for being a creep, and said that this latest reporting from the Wall Street Journal is, quote, nothing more than a continuation.

[Morgan]

Of fake news stories. Wow. Attorney Pam Bondi. Attorney General Pam Bondi also told President Trump that the Justice Department decided not to release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect the victims. No, tell the truth. You don't want to release the files because you have a need to protect President Donald Trump and whatever other powerful figures who are in those files. Okay? This is why I keep stressing that Democrats and everybody should never, ever stop talking about the Epstein files. This is the bipartisan common sense issue that all Americans can agree on, okay? No matter how much the Trump administration floods the Zone with other stories whenever they try to turn the channel to something else, folks need to turn it right back to the Epstein files. They didn't care when he got indicted 91 times. They didn't care when he got impeached twice. They didn't care when he tried to stage an actual insurrection. They were cool when he got found liable for sexual abuse in civil court. But the Epstein files got the MAGA base outraged. They are not with it. Okay? The biggest cover up in America today, this is Democrats, transgenders, transgender and women's sports issue, okay? Republicans never, ever, still to this day, I've stopped talking about that. Dems need to treat the Epstein files the exact same way, okay? It's just an obvious cover up. And Dems need to ask everybody day, why is the Trump administration protecting pedophiles? Simple as that. Okay? Democrats, you've been looking for a way to connect with Trump supporters. You've been looking for a way to build A bridge with maga. The Epstein files is the issue that does that. And Mike Johnson, you think you're doing Trump a favor by shutting down the House for a couple of months so they don't force a vote to release the Epstein files. But all you really did was make matters worse by doing that. And I personally believe. And I'm putting on my tin foil, my tin foil Pooh Shiesty mask right now, but I personally believe that's the whole plan, okay? Just a week ago, Mike Johnson was one of many Republicans pressing the Trump administration for more transparency on the Epstein case. Then there was a story that J.D. vance allegedly visited Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, in the Wall Street Journal, right before the Wall Street Journal dropped Trump's letter to Epstein. Then this week, this week, Monday, Mike Johnson says they are shutting down the House to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files. And then a couple days later, the Wall Street Journal drops this exclusive that Trump is indeed in the Epstein files. Also, we know Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch, who has been a longtime advisor and political ally to Trump. He's suing him for $10 billion. Okay? All that glazing, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News have done a for Trump and soon as they do something Trump doesn't like, he sues them for $10 billion. He's a friend to nobody. But I want y' all to follow me for a second. Trump got beef with Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, all these people who really helped put him in power, they don't seem to be rocking with him anymore. And I don't know if Trump realizes it, and I could be completely wrong, but if Trump is definitively named in the Epstein files in a damning way, credible allegations, not just associated with. I believe this is the perfect excuse for Republican elites to stage a political coup and push him out. Trust when I tell you Republicans always fall in line. But there are power players in the GOP who have wanted to move on from Trump for years, but they are afraid of his base. But all Republican leaders would have to say is, we didn't betray Trump. He betrayed us and the movement. Okay? Because he was supposed to bring down this elite system that has been complicit in a child sex trafficking ring. But instead of instead, he was a part of it. See, if Trump is implicated, all the conspiracy theorists head would explode. The Pizzagate, QAnon, Save the Children, anti establishment crowd would lose its mind. Okay? Republicans could flip on Trump and fear no political consequences from the MAGA base. Okay? No backlash from the MAGA Base because they couldn't support anyone connected to this level of evil, no matter how good the policies were. Okay? See, Trump's superpower is that he's seen as separate from the swamp. But if you named Incredible Epstein allegations. Come on, man. I mean, even the die hard MAGA supporters would be like, we got played. Okay? He's just like them. Time to move on. You think J.D. vance was allegedly meeting with Rupert Murdoch for no reason? You think J.D. vance has been quiet on this for nothing? They're calling for Jelaine Maxwell to be subpoenaed to testify before Congress. If Epstein related testimony or documents spark a new investigation, then this could trigger Republicans. Okay. To activate the 25th Amendment. What is that, Uncle Charlotte? The 25th Amendment is if the President dies or resigns or is removed from office as a result of impeachment proceedings, then the Vice President shall become President. Not to mention 2026 is around the corner. Okay? Epstein files might be too toxic for House and Senate races. Republicans want to stay in power, they can ditch them without looking disloyal to the base. See, Democrats don't have the power to do this anyway. Okay? Republicans can expose them, impeach them, have them removed, look like the hair, look like the heroes and take their party back. This is Republican leadership best shot to get him out without getting outraged from the base. It's about morality, protecting the children and draining the swamp. For real. But I think Republicans already know that. Okay, I believe this is a plan. A political coup is being stated stage. Let's just sit back and watch it all play out. In the meantime, please give House Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republicans the biggest he.

[Gia]

I love a political donkey.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. All right, well, thank you for that donkey today.

[Morgan]

Yes, indeed.

[Jess Hilarious]

We'll see what happens. But as you said, we got to keep that foot on their neck. We got to see exactly what's coming, coming out. Pause.

[Morgan]

It's just. It's. Why?

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know.

[Gia]

Oh, yo, you be walking right in.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I don't walk to any buttholes.

[Morgan]

I was serious.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, I want to see what comes out of the episode.

[Morgan]

I know you do. I like when you like this daddy scrambling and scraping, scrambling and scraping. It's just nasty. I don't know why when you talk, it just sounds like this. See what comes out and go back.

[Jess Hilarious]

Not yet.

[Morgan]

Okay, Logan. All weekend, slam them.

[Gia]

Boom, boom.

[Morgan]

Every chance you get. Toughen your daddy up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo, you got rainbow ears. That's what your problem is. Your ears are just rainbow rain.

[Morgan]

Oh, gay ears.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep.

[Morgan]

Ain't nothing wrong with that. I'd rather have gay ears than a gay butthole.

[Jess Hilarious]

Crazy, crazy up next. Fits my best 800.

[Gia]

If you got gay ears that mean they loose.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just fix my business Next.

[Morgan]

The Breakfast Club. It's the real deal. Help me, help me.

[Gia]

Oh, my God. I'm all up in your mess. I'mma fix it.

[Morgan]

Fix it.

[Gia]

Just gonna fix your mess. Cause my advice is real.

[Jess Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Just Fix my Mess. We have Jay on the line. Jay, what's up?

[Caller]

Hey, what's up, y'?

[Gia]

All?

[Jess Hilarious]

How you doing?

[Gia]

Hey, Jay.

[Caller]

Hey. I'm so nervous to call in. Please don't say my real name if you have it. But I'm Jay.

[Gia]

Okay?

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, what up, y'? All? It's DJ Envy. The first few months of 2025 have been quite a year. Work deadlines, group chats you can't escape, and your weird cousin's latest overshare. It's a lot. But here's some good news. You don't have to bring that stress into your car. The all new Nissan Murano is your piece on wheels, thanks to its available features. Imagine sliding into the relaxing, massaging seats that feel like they were made to melt your tensions. Take in the skyline views that let sunlight pour in and watch as your day brightens. I have a special playlist that always gets me me right? And with the Bose premium sound system, you too can vibe like you're at your own private concert. Plus, with your 64 color personalized lighting option, you can set the mood any way you want. Be it romantic, chill, or in a straight up do not disturb mode. Let the Nissan Murano be your oasis in a chaotic world. Because sometimes the greatest rush isn't rushing at all. Drive the all new Nissan Murano today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Caller]

Jess, I need your help. My friend been telling me to call you because you think I'm tripping. Okay, so here's my little story. So I've been single and celibate for four years and I'm just now getting back out there dating. So a couple months ago, I met this guy and our first conversation was like six hours long. We have everything in common. Our birthdays are one day apart. My favorite food is his specialty dish. We both scared of crickets. Like, it's just crazy stuff, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Scared of crickets is crazy.

[Caller]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Morgan]

That's Cute.

[Caller]

Yes. I never met. I've never met anybody else, especially a grown man that's scared of crickets. I'm like, okay, God, is this my person?

[Gia]

I don't ever really even see crickets to be scared of them like that, but go ahead.

[Caller]

So, yeah, we got to talking and stuff, and normally, like, I don't talk about exes on the first date, but he kept on, like, bringing up his ex girlfriend and dogging around. I'm like, this is weird. So then in different elements of the conversation, he was bringing up like a female best friend or not a female, just a best friend. And I was like, okay, this is weird. So then I kicked into like, my little investigative skills, and I was sharing with him that my PMS movie is Titanic. And then right away he responded like, oh, yeah, my ex girlfriend, PMS movies, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, wait a minute. You know, this is weird. Like, you just have to bring somebody up. Yeah. But then he was using the same tone to describe the ex girlfriend and the best friend. So I said, you know, is this the same person? He said, yeah. Like, how did you discover that? Like, that's how he said it. Like, yeah. And so I just froze. And I'm like, you know, oh, me used to yell, but I'm healing over here. So I decided to stay quiet and process and take it in. And I said, you know, let me just take a couple days to think about it because I normally make rash decisions and cut people off. So a couple days later, we had a conversation about it. I brought it up. It's like, did you think about blah, blah, blah. He said, yeah, but I'm willing to still talk to you, overlook you for your flaw. And I said, excuse me, flaw? What is my flaw? And he said, the flaw is how you react towards me having a best friend. You seem like the type that don't. That doesn't think that men and women should be best friends. I'm like, no, it's not that. That's not the issue. My best friend is also a guy. We've been best friends since middle school, and we both in our 30s now. But the difference is we. It's platonic. We've never had sex or anything like that. And I'm like, I think that now the issue for me isn't that you have the friend. It's the fact that you brought it. You didn't bring it up. You didn't tell me. And your reaction in a negative way, like you're deflecting and trying to make it seem like it's my issue. So I want to know, is this a red flag? Like, should I continue to talk to him? I did cut him off. I'm not gonna lie. I told him I didn't want to talk to him no more. But it's been like a month, and I keep thinking about him. And I was even on a date with somebody else recently, and I'm like, am I rusty? But the guy who was on a date with, he was like, man, so what's the worst date you ever been on? So I'm just like. I feel like I was just distracted thinking about this other guy. So what do you think I should do?

[Gia]

Okay, so first of all, kudos for going on dates. People don't go on real dates anymore. So I think that's dope that you are being taken on real dates, because that's what dating is. All right, now, just because that was a lot you just gave me. So I'm just about to see if this question is. Is what? What I gathered from it. All right, so his. His best friend is his ex girlfriend. That's the same person, correct?

[Caller]

Yes. But he was presenting it as if it was two different people.

[Gia]

No, no, keep them cut off. That. That. Yeah, he's a clown. And he tried to be a magician with it, and it didn't work. Nah. Then gonna try to take to tell you how you reacted was wrong. He's a clown. He plays too many games. Don't. Don't got time for that. How you gonna tell you that's the problem. People think. Women think that you can't have a female best friend and get, yo, yeah, your best friend was your ex girlfriend. Like, nah, we're not doing that now. You gave him a real example of that because you have a male best friend who you and him were just strictly platonic this whole time. You know what I mean? That's where their best friend is. And when you cross them lines and you try to go back, that's when it becomes weird because now y' all are. Y' all are now intimate. You know, y' all were once intimate. So leave him cut off. And this is. And it's not wrong to think about him. This is somebody that you liked. And then you gotta take an account. You were just single and celibate for four years. So any type of good attention that you get coming out of that, you're going to go crazy over it. So it's not wrong that you're thinking about him, but he is not for for you. You're. You're. Your eyes is. Is wide open. You got the blinders off.

[Morgan]

You good.

[Gia]

You, you have cleaned yourself and purified yourself for four years. You don't got time for none of that narcissistic BS that he playing around with. You know what I mean?

[Caller]

Yes, thank you so much for validating that.

[Gia]

Yes, I think you're good. I think you're in the best, in the best position that you could ever be in dating. Like you, you, you, I'm guessing you know what it's like to love yourself. You know what it's like to be alone. You know what you will tolerate. You know what you want, you know what's inappropriate, appropriate things that don't align with you. Don't even, don't even try to mess up all of that. Four years of hard work for a clown like that. We're not doing that.

[Caller]

Thank you so much.

[Gia]

You're welcome, girl.

[Caller]

And congrats to you. You got the whole little glow up. You married whole baby, whole second baby, like that's what's up. I can see the happiness. I can see the glow all over you.

[Gia]

So thank you.

[Caller]

Shout out to Chris.

[Gia]

Oh, I appreciate that, girl.

[Morgan]

Any number, shave.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now. Jess, this young lady has a problem. It has to do with you.

[Gia]

Oh my God, is it a lady?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Gia]

I don't have time for this.

[Morgan]

What was she born at? What kind of lady?

[Gia]

Yeah, what kind of lady is she? How you doing?

[Jess Hilarious]

Tell her what happened, Mama.

[Caller]

Okay, so I got tickets for your show months ago, right? And then we got canceled or not rescheduled. So I said, okay, we'll just go whenever switched. Well, now it's rescheduled and it's this weekend. But the girl that I got them with, she and I no longer speak. I've emailed her and text her and Facebooked her and said, hey, can you just give me my information because I still want to go, right? She has not responded and I am devastated because I'm going to buy a ticket to the Mat may show, you know, because I really want to go. If something you want to do, you.

[Morgan]

Going to do it.

[Caller]

So that's not the end issue, but I just can't understand why. Just send me my ticket, I paid for it or send me my money and it's pissing me off. And then another thing is you, are you doing the meet and greet after the four o' clock show?

[Jess Hilarious]

Nope, she's not.

[Gia]

I'm not.

[Caller]

And see, that's the devastating part because 4 o' clock actually Works good for me, and I'm coming, so it doesn't matter. But I want my money on my ticket for the five o' clock show.

[Gia]

Okay. What show is she gonna be at? What show did she get y' all tickets for?

[Morgan]

The Friday one?

[Gia]

Friday?

[Caller]

Yeah, the 7th. Yeah, I believe. I don't even remember. It's been so long ago. So it's Friday.

[Gia]

Okay. All right, cool. You want to give me a name so I can tell her that was wrong? I'm gonna tell her on stage after the show. Oh, I ain't going to say nothing crazy because she's still my fan. You know what I mean? But I'm just gonna be like, you know, that was wrong that you did my home girl like that.

[Jess Hilarious]

It depends how many drinks.

[Caller]

You don't even have to say her name. If you said the scenario, she would know.

[Gia]

All right, cool, cool, cool. All right, so look this. You already bought your ticket because I can just get you tickets to the show and you can. You have another friend that you want to bring to the matinee. I'll just get you and them for free. And then what I will do is, is I will take a picture with you. I'm not doing meet and greet for that show. But if you give me your name and your plus one's name, I can have security bring you to the back after that show, and I'll just take a picture with you. You.

[Caller]

Thank you, Jess. This has made my day.

[Morgan]

My whole weekend.

[Caller]

I can't wait to see you. I'm such a big fan.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Gia]

I love you, girl.

[Caller]

I called y' all from Paris last week. Paris, France.

[Gia]

I know. That's right.

[Morgan]

Thank you very much. Hold up.

[Gia]

If you called us from Paris, France, last weekend.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Caller]

Mind your business.

[DJ Envy]

You're right.

[Gia]

I got to my business on that.

[Caller]

They don't put me on home. Let me give them my information.

[Morgan]

I'll see you Saturday, all right?

[Gia]

Yes, ma'. Am. I'll see you Saturday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Where's your show on Saturday? Tell people that that.

[Gia]

Arlington, Texas, y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All.

[Gia]

Dallas, Fort Worth. Make sure y' all get y' all tickets for the improv shows. Me and Desi Alexander will be there this weekend. We got five shows, so get your tickets. Just hilariousofficial.com now, see, what do you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do in that situation? You buy a ticket to go with somebody. I don't speak no more, but I still want to go. Yo, y' all sit at the same table and just don't speak at it?

[Morgan]

Hell no.

[Gia]

Hell no, man. I The girl on honestly, what the girl did to her. Because I should have asked, what did y' all do? Why did y' all fall out? Because she probably did something crazy to Shorty, that's why. She's not getting that 55 back. But I. I don't know. I don't know. That's why I said, let me know her name, because I'm gonna bring her in the back and ask her what happened Friday at 7.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, get your tickets to see just this weekend. What shows? How many shows you got?

[Gia]

5. We got two on Friday and three on Saturday. And the Madden, they was just added on Saturday at 4. So get those tickets, y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All. All right, now, when we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast slogan morning.

[Morgan]

The Breakfast Club. If you. Daddy, let's make some noise. Mean that meaning by. By the way, no respect to deadbeat fathers. I really mean that from the bottom.

[Jess Hilarious]

Of my heart, man.

[Morgan]

All of the deadbeat fathers who choose not to be in their children's lives, y' all are complete suckers.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't even know how you can. Can like, yeah. That your kids give you and the feeling of every day you walk in that house and that little. That little baby just grabs you.

[Morgan]

I don't care how much the baby mama pisses you off, that child is your responsibility, and that is who you are there for. Even if you and the mother don't have no, you know, dealings with each other, you should be there for that child. And mothers, you should not keep fathers away from their children. Yeah, but I'm just talking about the ones that just choose to act like, you know, they don't exist. Know y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Morgan]

I don't respect y'. All. Y' all are suckers.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, dad. Good morning. I know he watching the show.

[Morgan]

Hey, hey. Whoa.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm sorry. You want to hug?

[Morgan]

Whoa.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm good.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, well, let's get to the L. Lauren becoming a street fan. She get somebody that knows somebody.

[Morgan]

Somebody detail.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Morgan]

She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. What was the latest on the Breakfast Club?

[DJ Envy]

All righty. Also, Clarissa Shields is everywhere right now doing press because, you know, she has that fight this weekend, that Saturday with Lonnie Daniels happening in Detroit. Now, this fight, all her fights are a big deal, but this one is special because Clarissa has not Fought in Detroit since turning pro. She's going to walk out. She hasn't, according to.

[Morgan]

I thought her last fight was in. Last fight was in Detroit.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Maybe I'm tripping.

[Jess Hilarious]

The last fight was in Detroit.

[DJ Envy]

Definitely off of a website. No, it was an actual sports website. Well, that is not true, but it's still a big fight for her because she says she's gonna be walking out to Rick Ross. I'm a boss. Because she wants to remind the people. And she talked a bit last night on Nightcap about what we can expect from the fight. Let's take a listen. What you can look forward to see if on Saturday. I don't know if you guys watched the all women's card that happened with MVP July 11th of July up in Master Square Garden. A lot of those girls that fought were good. They were ranked number two, three and four in the world, but number one did not fight. So you didn't get to see the skills and the power and everything that I possess. So that's what you're going to see on Saturday. And I'm bringing, you know, I'm packing the house with 15,000 people. I'm well over a million dollars at the gate already. We're going to do probably close to $2 million at the gate. I'm coming out to put on a show, a show for the people, and I'm coming there and I'm bringing power, I'm bringing skills, I'm bringing speed. And I want to show you why I wear these.

[Morgan]

Greatest woman of all time Dropping a clue mouth with Clarissa. Shield this after Little Caesar's arena, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, yes.

[Morgan]

She's definitely fought there before. Yeah, she's fought there like three times. I watched Clarissa Shields for a long time.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I think, you know, we had the conversation about the fight. Everyone's expecting Clarissa Shields to win, of course, but there's also been a lot of conversation, a lot of conversation about things outside of her in the ring, which I think I like to see because I do like to see the girls have it all, but, you know, it has to be a lot of pressure. So everywhere she's been that I've seen, they've asked her about her new relationship, her new new music. So let's take a listen to Clarissa Shields talking about wanting to have kids on the pivot. I feel like I, I put too much time on hold on having a kid and being married and stuff for boxing already. I'm gonna have a baby next year. I've already.

[Gia]

We are.

[DJ Envy]

We already have it Planned out I'm gonna have baby next year and then after I go through my stuff, then.

[Gia]

I'll come back and fight and fight.

[DJ Envy]

Some more and then probably have another one and then do the same thing, thing again.

[Gia]

Like, I don't want to wait till.

[DJ Envy]

I'm, you know, 40, 43, whatever, after.

[Gia]

My career to have my kids.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

I want to be able to run at the park with my kids and stuff like that. I don't want to be too old. So I think that keeping my body in shape, I don't drink, I don't smoke. I think that, that, that, that'll also.

[Gia]

Help me too while I'm going through.

[DJ Envy]

This whole body and life changing stuff.

[Gia]

Yeah, I think I. That's what's up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Gia]

You know, she don't want to be old when she have her kids. That's cool.

[DJ Envy]

I agree. And they talked a bit about that because they were talking about Naomi Osaka and just the pressures that Naomi Osaka had returning to tennis after having her kid.

[Gia]

Female athletes. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Now, on Nightcap last night, though, Clarissa, because she had an album release party last night. Listening, not release. I'm sorry, a listening party. She says that the music is not officially released, so we don't have it to play here.

[Gia]

Her album?

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Gia]

Whose album?

[DJ Envy]

It's hers.

[Gia]

So she rap.

[DJ Envy]

She's rapping. So she talked about what she wants to do after music outside of being a mom. Let's take a listen to her on. On music, on Nightcap.

[Morgan]

What other hobbies are you interested in? What else is it that you like to do music?

[DJ Envy]

I just had my listening party today.

[Gia]

And it went very well.

[Caller]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

You know, everybody, I. I had nine songs and. And they rated all my songs to 10. I was so shocked. I like music and honestly, I'm a big community person. I want to train young girls and young boys who come from environments that I grew up in. And I want to teach them boxing so boxing can help them like it.

[Gia]

Help me. Yeah, that's what's up, y', all, but I ain't going to hold you. If I went to a Clarissa Shields listening party, I would say it was nice too. Even if it ain't, she gonna be my choice.

[Morgan]

It does feel like this is the most chatter, at least on social media that we've heard about Clarissa Shields outside of the ring, which is interesting because, you know, she's had a Netflix documentary, T. Rex, which is really good. She's had a biopic about her life, which is really good. Starring Ryan Destiny to Fire Inside. So you know, that's what I would tell people. For everybody who's just getting familiar with Clarissa Shields, because you see her on social media, you see her dating papoose. Go back and do your research. Go watch the Netflix documentary T. Rex. Go watch the fire inside her biopic with Ryan Destiny that came out. That was last year.

[Gia]

That was Christmas Day.

[Jess Hilarious]

I just. I just want to make sure that she's not distracted and she is focused because there's a lot going. We had so many things outside of the boxing ring, and I need clarity. Clarissa to win, right? Clarissa, the homie. I want her to win. She gets busy. She's nice. I just don't want any of these distractions to distract her from training and making sure she's properly prepared.

[Morgan]

For sure. Yeah. I don't think she distracted from training. I just, you know, you know, she'll be. She'll be focused in the ring on Saturday night. That's one thing I. I know about Clarissa Shields. She locks in.

[Jess Hilarious]

She does.

[Morgan]

She locks in when she ain't wearing at all.

[Gia]

But I get what Envy is saying, though, because it's a lot like. It's a lot going on. A lot that we see her doing in the media is like she in the media almost every day. Every other day.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Gia]

And it's not about fighting.

[Morgan]

Her star has risen a lot. As I. Very interesting to watch people star rise based off, you know, things that you don't necessarily would think would make their star. You would think the movie would make the star.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Morgan]

Or the documentary. But for whatever reason, it's just all this chatter.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I also. I also think we're from a place where usually when boxers fight, they shut down for like, yeah, four, four or five weeks, and then you only hear them the week before. But when you hear her popping up at award shows and doing this, that, and the other, I just want to make sure, you know, what?

[Morgan]

She. She.

[Jess Hilarious]

She. She's knocking this. This girl out. Yeah, yeah, that's. That's the most important thing.

[Morgan]

I'm pretty sure she will.

[Gia]

She coming out the Rick Ross, too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's.

[Gia]

That's cool. That's cool. I. I swear, I thought it was gonna be our boyfriend. That's what's. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Well, she talked a lot about Pap helping her right now and just being. Not even helping her, but just being like an ear and a guy for her on Nightcap as well last night. Let's take a listen. Since I met Papoose, he has brought a whole different woman out of me. I guess, like, I listen to him. He can tell me to be quiet. Quiet.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

And he know how to fight, you know, so I can't bully him around. He's so kind to me and he's so helpful that I've always had to do everything myself since 17 years old. And now I have somebody that really, like, have my back and my best interest. I was working on my happiness before I met him, but meeting him, it just gave me like, I think when you find your person, you can just talk to him about anything and about any problem. Like I. I call about everything. And I mean, he always has his ear open to communicate and talk with me and give me great advice and also to let me know, like, look, you wrong here. It's so many tweets and so many posts that I was about to put up.

[Gia]

He like, don't do it.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. I feel like I have. I have a great. A great partner in crime and we. And we going somewhere special.

[Morgan]

If she happy, that's all that matters.

[Gia]

Yeah, I love that.

[Morgan]

If they happy, that's what matters, man.

[Gia]

Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

But could you imagine the tweets that he didn't send? Because some of the tweets that she put down now.

[Gia]

I know, I know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just imagine the tweets that he said, please don't put that out.

[Gia]

Yeah, yeah. But she never had nobody like that to calm her down. Like, she said, bring out the soft part of her or, you know, she calls it a different type woman because she never been soft. So she only know how to say soft. But yeah, he brings the soft parts out of her. I think that's dope.

[Morgan]

I do wish more people would do that. Like, before you tweet something, just call somebody first and have a conversation. Just talk about whatever it is that's making you want to tweet before. Before you send the tweet out. Cause that conversation you have might make you realize, you know what, it ain't that serious.

[DJ Envy]

I think sometimes too, people take things the wrong way from her. Like, she talked about the Angel Reese tweet. And like, once I heard her actually talk about and just didn't read it in a Twitter, I mean, an X post, I was like, I can see where people felt, how they felt, but she was coming from a different place. Like, you know what I mean?

[Jess Hilarious]

I know we gotta wrap the crazy thing about Clarissa and I think Charlamagne will say the same is she's a very humble person. Like, she will. If she sees you, she'll come speak she'll say, say, what's up? So when. When she gets the bad rap of being this meeting this. Yeah, she's not that she'll whip your ass in the ring, but she's a very humble person. Very humble person.

[Morgan]

Traveling to clues. Bonds with Clarissa Shields. Yes, a lot. Now make sure you tune into the zone this Saturday, July 26th, because she. That's where you can watch the fight. That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Now let's get to the mix. Let's go.

[Morgan]

The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same.

[Jess Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Reminding you guys again, my car showed the last one of the year, August 16th in New Jersey, Tri state. So if you can make it, pull up on me. It's gonna be a lot of fun family fun day. I know a lot of different Marcus schools start in August, but I know in the tri state they don't start until September. So, hey, come on through and enjoy yourself. It's a family fun day. Now, this weekend, you're gonna be in Texas, right?

[Gia]

I'm gonna be in Arlington. Arlington, Texas, y'. All, at the Improv. Two shows on Friday and three shows on Saturday. Again, I have added a matinee show for 4pm so get your tickets because I will not be doing shows on Sunday, guys. So get your tickets for that matinee show. Now listen, it's 78 sold out, so the only show that. That we got to sell out is the matinee. I am sorry, y', all, but get those tickets if you can. I will be doing meet and greet for the 9pm show on Friday and also the 9:30 show on Saturday. So get the those tickets. Jessilar.com and next weekend, du Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Florida, your girl gonna be there at the Company Zone. So get your tickets, cuz. We got four shows next weekend.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now we got a salute to Pete Buddha Judge for joining us this morning.

[Morgan]

Salute to Pete, buddy Judge, man. Yeah, he cool as hell. Former United States Secretary of Transportation. He's polling at 13% right now in regards to being the Democrat nominee for 2020, 28. I posted it up on my Instagram page and asked, you know, do y' all think he. What's his chances? My comments don't. Ain't feeling it. No 0% chance.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Morgan]

You know what I love about black people, though?

[Gia]

What?

[Morgan]

Even though there's a poll that said he got a 13 chance, black people be like, he got zero.

[Gia]

But that's why he told you. Depends on what poll you looking at.

[Morgan]

Somebody gonna vote? I guess. What? No, they said 0% chance of him getting the nomination or winning. I don't freaking know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, but wasn't Barack Obama, like, less than 10 when he first. When he. When they started his first one on polls?

[Morgan]

Yeah, but let's deal with the real of it. Barack Obama wasn't gay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Morgan]

And I think it's just gonna be very hard for LGBTQ president, you know, to win.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, what are people scared of? They're gonna have pink guns in the military? Like, come on now.

[Morgan]

I think Pete is a very sharp person.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep.

[Morgan]

I think he would make a great candidate.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think so, too.

[Morgan]

But, you know, I don't. I don't know. But you got to hear his messaging. That's the problem with Democrats right now. They don't really have a message. You know, like, just because you sound good and you talking good don't mean anything. What's your message? What are you going to deliver to people? Like, just walking around saying, trump bad. Trump bad ain't going to cut it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nah.

[Gia]

Well, it may take a gay man to get the messaging right.

[Morgan]

Maybe.

[Jess Hilarious]

Maybe.

[Morgan]

You know, listen, man, stranger things have happened in America. I just don't think America's ready for a gay president. I mean, we. We. We want it like a woman president.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right.

[Morgan]

You know what I'm saying? But.

[Gia]

But who you got winning that? Would you have a black woman? Would, do you think, think America would choose a black woman over a gay white man or gay white man over a black woman?

[Morgan]

Depends who the black woman is. Because we had that conversation, too, about women. Right. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 3 million votes. There's no electoral college. Hillary Clinton is president.

[Gia]

Correct.

[Morgan]

Kamala Harris has had the second most votes of any Democratic nominee ever. H. So I just think it's, you know, it's not that America wouldn't vote for a woman. It's just going to take the right person, I guess, to break through.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, well, we. Time to give away that daily bread. And we have.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, what's up, Char? You just won a thousand dollars.

[Caller]

Really?

[Gia]

Yes, ma'.

[Morgan]

Am. Oh, my gosh.

[Pete Buttigieg]

Thank you.

[Jess Hilarious]

What you doing with that money?

[Caller]

I am going to redo my grandmother's backyard and her walkway.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Gia]

That's dope.

[Morgan]

You can do all that for $1,000 with crackhead, you know, probably not.

[Caller]

Okay, well, I got a few.

[Pete Buttigieg]

He got a what?

[Jess Hilarious]

She said, I got a few. Damn. We lost her.

[Gia]

Damn to pay that goddamn phone bill.

[Morgan]

We got her number. Call you back. She or your phone hung up. But don't worry about it. We got your number. We got your name. We going to make sure you get your money.

[Gia]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now, today's Daily Bread is sponsored by Back Market. Stop letting old tech sit in the junk drawer. Turn it into real money with Back Market. Sell devices. Clear space. Pad your pockets. Learn [e-mail] Now, Charlamagne, you got a positive note.

[Morgan]

I do have a positive note, and it comes from Anne Frank. Man, I love this quote a lot. Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices, then our choices make us choose. Choose wisely, y'. All.

[Jess Hilarious]

Breakfast Club finished or y' all done?

[DJ Envy]

This is an iHeart podcast.