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Charlamagne Tha God
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
Lauren LaRosa
Yo yo yo yo yo yo Yo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
DJ Envy
Just hilarious. Good morning Charlemagne the guy.
Charlamagne Tha God
Peace to the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Hump.
Charlamagne Tha God
Day. Good morning. How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. What's happening?
DJ Envy
That's right. It's hump day, middle of the week. What's up, Jess? How you feeling? Don't let the jacket too.
Lauren LaRosa
Thank you so much. I feel good. I want to go see this movie. Last night, right?
Charlamagne Tha God
Magazine Dreams.
Lauren LaRosa
No, I did not.
Jess Hilarious
Sorry.
Lauren LaRosa
He wants somebody to watch this soft porn so bad. That's a soft gay porn? That's what he said. Yeah. He watched the movie, like, five times, like. All right, yo, just for that one.
Charlamagne Tha God
Part, but go ahead. What you see?
Lauren LaRosa
Whatever it's called. Woman in the Yard by Alvin Gray.
DJ Envy
That's crazy.
Lauren LaRosa
First of all, that would be dope if Alvin Gray had a movie in theaters.
DJ Envy
Is this A2B movie or no?
Lauren LaRosa
No. Yo, I just said I went to the movies to see it.
DJ Envy
Sure.
Lauren LaRosa
It's called the Woman in the Yard.
Steve Quirk
Right?
Lauren LaRosa
And y'all remember the lady who played in the Hol Far. Her name is Danielle Detweiler. She. Well, y'all know. You all know her. If y'all see her, she. It's about her. Her husband died, right? And the grief that she carried, like, it made her suicidal. And it actually, like, you know what?
DJ Envy
I didn't see the. The previews. No, that's a scary flick.
Lauren LaRosa
Crazy black cast. Yes. All Black Cats. There's only five people that play in the whole damn movie. But it is. It's great, though. It's really good. The kids do a great job with acting, but it's good, y'all. And usually with scary movies, you can predict what's gonna happen. Oh, it's just like a ghost or a spirit or whatever. Nah, this. This different.
DJ Envy
Is it a real. Like, did you get scared?
Lauren LaRosa
Spooky, creepy, like. And then we get up so early in the morning, it's still dark, so I didn't even want to get up out my bed this morning. Yeah, I'm thinking about it this morning and everything. I'm like, oh, my God. While I'm walking to the car and everything. So y'all need to go see that. If y'all into scary movies, it's really good.
DJ Envy
Woman in the Yard.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, if you're into scary movies, because I don't pay people to scare me, but if you're in scary movies, yes.
DJ Envy
All right, well, today on the show, we have Bubba Wallace. He'll be joining us. He'll be here. You know, Bubba Wallace is a NASCAR driver. He Drives actually for Michael Jordan's team. He'll be here with the, I believe, the CEO of Robin Hood app, Steve Clerk.
Charlamagne Tha God
First black NASCAR driver in a long, long, long, long, long, long, long time.
DJ Envy
In a long time. That is right.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
DJ Envy
So we're gonna be kicking it with Bubba Wallace.
Lauren LaRosa
So he has black, Half black.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah, Black and white. That's right. That is very true. You know, I don't want to erase nobody's experience.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, don't get wild.
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't get wild.
DJ Envy
Right.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm acknowledging your wild side.
DJ Envy
Oh, my goodness. And if you don't know who Bubba Wallace is, we just said NASCAR driver. He's the gentleman. Remember, he had his garage and they found a noose hanging in his garage.
Charlamagne Tha God
Definitely more than that. God, with the noose.
DJ Envy
Nah, but people remember the controversy sometimes, like, oh, that son. They not can remember he won the second cup or this, that, and the other.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, I hope nobody ever introduced us just based on our controversy.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Oh, my God.
Lauren LaRosa
I said he was a NASCAR driver for correct this. Just want to keep getting into it with the Trans, like, come on, come on.
DJ Envy
Al Sharpton will be joining us as well.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yes, Al Sharpton. He got stabbed back in the day. Remember him? Jesus Christ.
DJ Envy
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, my God.
Charlamagne Tha God
But no, Al has the National Action Network summit this week, so he'll be here to talk about that.
Reverend Al Sharpton
That's right.
DJ Envy
All right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Amongst other things.
DJ Envy
Let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. I'm sure we're talking about Senator Cory Booker. He was on that Senate floor for a long time, the longest in history. We'll talk about that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning, everybody.
DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Getting some front page news.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning, Morgan.
Lauren LaRosa
Good morning, you guys. Happy Tuesday. How y'all feeling? It's Wednesday. Sorry, what day is it?
Charlamagne Tha God
Wednesday.
Lauren LaRosa
You know. How y'all feeling? Y'all good?
Charlamagne Tha God
Blessed, like and highly favored.
Lauren LaRosa
Good. Love to hear it. All right, so last night, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, he broke the record for the longest Senate speech ever, clocking in 25 hours and four minutes. Now, the New Jersey Democrat started his marathon speech at 7:00 Eastern Time on Monday night in protest of. Of Trump's administration, his policies, and admittedly myself, I did not understand the gravity of what a marathon speech was. But I can assure you I do now, and I bet many of you guys do, too, after seeing the media coverage. Right, so Booker, he is protesting President Trump's Tariffs, his efforts and initiatives to dismantle the Department of Education and other policies, saying the nation isn't is currently in crisis. Senator Booker was allowed to take extended pauses for questions from fellow Democrats. And he also broke that record, of course, prior the of the longest Senate speech ever. I'll get into who had the record before that, but first, let's take a listen to Senator Cory Booker's the audio of him breaking that record.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Would the senator yield for a question?
Charlamagne Tha God
Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you. No, I just want to tell you a question.
DJ Envy
Do you know you have just broken the record?
Charlamagne Tha God
Do you know how proud this caucus is of you?
DJ Envy
Do you know how proud America is of you?
Lauren LaRosa
So the point of the, the speech, you said it was 25 hours. 25 hours and 4 minutes. So reportedly, Senator Booker, he is currently recovering, recovering right now. And he says there's a good reason that he had to stand up to the Trump administration and that he knew he couldn't sit by and do nothing. He also spoke about how his smartwatch showed some concern, some concerning statistics while he was speaking. Let's take a listen to that audio. They're going to try to push through.
Steve Quirk
A bill that's going to gut $880 billion from Medicaid. They're going to try to put forward to a bill that's going to give.
Charlamagne Tha God
Tax cuts to the wealthiest in our.
Steve Quirk
Country, disproportionately trillions of dollars.
DJ Envy
It's outrageous.
Charlamagne Tha God
And we have got to try to stop them. This is really about folks leading from.
Lauren LaRosa
Their hearts and deciding.
DJ Envy
I'm not going to just let business.
Charlamagne Tha God
As usual go on in my life.
Steve Quirk
It gave me nothing on a sleep.
Charlamagne Tha God
Score because I didn't.
Steve Quirk
My heart rate was pretty damn high after about four or a little bit high.
DJ Envy
That's concerning.
Steve Quirk
So there are definitely some physical things. I'm feeling it now.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. I'm not mad at it. You know, Corey showed some fight. He's doing something. You know, he's at least acting like the times we are in aren't normal. And, you know, I still don't know what this accomplished, but if it energizes, you know, other people to do something, I'm all for it.
DJ Envy
Yeah, that was gonna be my question. Like I said, I'm supportive of anybody that's boycotting or whatever or taking a stand, but what does it accomplish after 25 hours? Was it awareness? Was it to get people, more people talking about it? All of that with this, with this News cycle tomorrow, it won't even exist. You know, people won't even be talking about it anymore. So I'm just asking, like, so what is. What should we do from here?
Charlamagne Tha God
I think it just energized other people to do something. You know, Corey chose to do something. You know, like he. You said he took a stand.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
For 25 hours. Yeah.
Reverend Al Sharpton
So.
Lauren LaRosa
So there's no bathroom. It's no lunch. Like, there's no. Nothing. He has to do this for 25 hours straight. Yeah. So, in fact, when it comes to the bathroom, he said he fasted the day leading up to his speech, and also, you know, stopped. He stopped eating. I think it was, like, days before. And then he said the day before on Monday, Sunday, he stopped drinking to avoid things like going to the bathroom.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, but now, Corey, if you wore a diaper, just go ahead and tell us. I don't believe that. Now he's 55. I'm 46. My bows don't wait for nobody. My urine don't wait for nobody. There's no way he took 25 hours. He ain't peeing nothing. Can't take a bathroom break. He had to take a potty break.
DJ Envy
Now you might have had a baby.
Charlamagne Tha God
You got to let him take a body.
DJ Envy
He might have had a diaper.
Charlamagne Tha God
Come on.
DJ Envy
A male diaper or something like that. Yeah, because 25 hours.
Lauren LaRosa
I'm still over here. Like, I. I don't know. I. I don' Know.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. I need more details. Do you show. There was no body breaks, Morgan.
Lauren LaRosa
He was able to take questions. That's all I'm. I'm. I've been able to see in terms of breaks, But I do think it is fascinating that he broke the speech. The. The record for the speech, which is the longest senate floor speech was back, was 24 hours and 18 minutes back in 1957. That was Democratic senator Storm Thurman of South Carolina, Charlemagne, who tried to stop the passage of the Civil Rights act in 1957. So look how far we've come in 67 years, right? Yeah. Because ain't nobody else going to do that.
Jess Hilarious
25.
Lauren LaRosa
25. I was. But to your point, Charlemagne, he wasn't.
Charlamagne Tha God
Allowed to use the bathroom. Yeah, yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
No, you can't take a break or a recess in those things. Catheter. No, I'm just.
DJ Envy
I don't know.
Lauren LaRosa
But to your point, Charlemagne. Yeah, it. I do think it raised some awareness. I would have liked to see somebody step in, you know, next and. And continue with an. With another 24 or, you know, but for it to end, it's kind of like, you know what now?
Charlamagne Tha God
But.
DJ Envy
Yeah, and that was my question. You know, he did send out this mass text yesterday. Cory Booker did.
Charlamagne Tha God
Man, shut up.
DJ Envy
I swear to God.
Charlamagne Tha God
I know, but that's not.
DJ Envy
But it's what he is, what he wanted from this money. Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. For a donation.
DJ Envy
All right. That's it. Not saying no more. Forget you. Thank you.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's what it was.
Lauren LaRosa
Back with election results at 7. Okay, hold on.
Charlamagne Tha God
So what you got to. You got the. Like mine says, Leonard is Cory Booker. I just walked off the Senate floor. I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again. That's the one you got.
DJ Envy
Yeah, that's the same one you got.
Lauren LaRosa
So it's like church.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's a donation.
Steve Quirk
Yeah.
DJ Envy
I believe that history will show we rose to meet this moment. It will show we. We did not let the chaos and division go unanswered. It will show that when Donald Trump chose to spread lies and so fair, we chose to come together, to work together, and to rise together. If you support our movement of justice, yada, yada.
Lauren LaRosa
Now that's a reason to lock some doors. Close them doors. I was up here talking for 25 hours. Closing doors. I need 40,000 right now.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's how it ended. That's. That's how the note ended.
DJ Envy
Damn.
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't make me lock the door.
DJ Envy
Salute to Cory Booker. All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Wake up. Wake up. Wake your ass.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it off your chest.
DJ Envy
Whether you're mad or blessed, we want.
Steve Quirk
To hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yo, what's up, breakfast? Color Slam league.
DJ Envy
What's up?
Charlamagne Tha God
Peace. Peace.
DJ Envy
What's up, bro? Hey, truck driver. What's going on, brother?
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, you want envy early in the morning?
DJ Envy
Pause.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, chill, chill, chill.
Steve Quirk
Nah, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
Look, I just want to say, man, your boy is blessed.
DJ Envy
Your boy is happy.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm still alive. You know, I got robbed. My house got robbed and destroyed last week, man. But, hey, I'm still alive, still going, man. I'm sorry to hear that, black man.
DJ Envy
Where you from, bro?
Charlamagne Tha God
Office.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Charleston, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
Charleston, S.C. 843 when it was a home invasion. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't home, so I guess it was just a regular burglary. But the boy destroyed My whole apartment, you know, I was saving up, man. The boy took my cash at my house, took a few more things. But hey, man, I mean, at least you're alive. At least you alive. You know what I'm saying? You know, I was just having a conversation with one of the homies this morning. Actually, me and Duvall was talking this morning, and I was just like you, man. You know, we. We've lost all sense of purpose and what's important, and nothing's more important than life. And, you know, folks take their own lives and the lives of others for granted every day. So the fact that you, even though went through this hard situation, you know that you can get the material items back, your life can't get that back. So I'm glad you're here, brother.
DJ Envy
Absolutely.
Steve Quirk
Hey, that's real.
Charlamagne Tha God
I appreciate that.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Hey, Charlamagne, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, can I get a book? Of course. Come on now. We'll put you a hole in the information asap. That's home team question.
DJ Envy
Did you have the alarm on your house, bro?
Charlamagne Tha God
I had no alarm, man. And I just got my camera removed, so, like, I didn't have no camera, no alarm.
Reverend Al Sharpton
So.
Steve Quirk
Damn, man, I pretty much got to.
Charlamagne Tha God
Get it back in with this hard work, man. That's horrible, brother.
DJ Envy
All right, brother, I'm sorry for that. Hold on.
Charlamagne Tha God
Again.
DJ Envy
And I tell everybody out there, don't get too content. I know a lot of times things get comfortable and you might forget to put your alarm on your house. You might forget to check the windows and lock the doors. Don't get comfortable. Because when you get comfortable, you never know what will happen. And I tell that to everybody, myself included. Hello? Who's this?
Jess Hilarious
This is Will.
Charlamagne Tha God
How are you doing?
DJ Envy
What's up, Will? Get it off your chest.
Reverend Al Sharpton
I had a conversation with a white.
Charlamagne Tha God
Guy yesterday, and he said, America is.
Reverend Al Sharpton
The greatest country in the world. And I beg the difference because we got mass incarceration, we got brothers that imprisoned that have to take, plead for.
Charlamagne Tha God
Things that they didn't do because they have no choice. And a lot of people will say, you have choices of sales and pick or treat.
Reverend Al Sharpton
If you have a case in front.
Charlamagne Tha God
Of you, you're looking at life.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Are you going to roll your dice?
Charlamagne Tha God
And 90% of the time, as a.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Black man, go before all white Jewish.
Charlamagne Tha God
He'S going to get a harder sentence.
Reverend Al Sharpton
And then we got most officers shooting unarmed black men.
Charlamagne Tha God
And we don't like to talk about race. So I don't know what Tim Scott.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Which is my software, and saying that we don't have race. I'm an activist, and I see and.
Charlamagne Tha God
Deal with it every day. And it's heartbreaking because they stand before.
Reverend Al Sharpton
A judge, and whatever sentence is given to them, they gotta deal with it. We got a man in office like the president.
Charlamagne Tha God
He doesn't deal with the laws himself. He's above the law. So how can we stand and say.
Reverend Al Sharpton
That America is a great place, but the man who's running the church as the president, the law doesn't apply to him. It's just wrong and heartbreaking.
Charlamagne Tha God
But before I get off, I want to say this to Charlamagne Charlemagne.
Reverend Al Sharpton
You does a lot besides Carolina.
Charlamagne Tha God
I appreciate all you've done, the donation and stuff. I'm not going to get all into it, but I appreciate all you've done for South Carolina, because I know I'm from South Carolina.
Reverend Al Sharpton
The envy I've watched.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm 65 years, so I've watched you growing, keep growing. Keep doing what you do.
Reverend Al Sharpton
A lot of love for y'all.
DJ Envy
Thank you so much.
Charlamagne Tha God
Thank you, brother.
DJ Envy
Have a blessed day.
Charlamagne Tha God
Really appreciate you, man.
DJ Envy
Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed, so you better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
Lauren LaRosa
Hello?
DJ Envy
Who's this?
Reverend Al Sharpton
Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's your boy Lovey from the Bronx. Good morning, my Breakfast Club family.
DJ Envy
Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning. Big pp. Lovey, what's happening?
DJ Envy
What's up, Lovey?
Charlamagne Tha God
That's my guy. Well, I just. I got a little pushback against my brother Charlamagne yesterday for the donkey of the day. As you guys know. You know, I'm a single fourth. As one of my jobs, I work with Department of Children and Families. I'm an advisory to the fatherhood. I advocate for fathers. And what you talked about yesterday is my point. Fathers don't have support groups. Fathers don't have resources. So that father yesterday could have been really in a position where he couldn't buy his kids a happy Meal the next day. So I don't co sign leaving your children anywhere. But I do know that we don't have the resources in the support groups. That's what I said yesterday.
Lauren LaRosa
He just probably don't agree with you today.
Charlamagne Tha God
So I'm saying if we can identify the problem and support the fathers, maybe the fathers wouldn't be in this position. I have A group called Chop it Up. Where we fill those voids. If one of the fathers can't be there, if your daughter got cheerleading, if your son got a basketball game, the father's from the Chop it up will fill that void.
Reverend Al Sharpton
There need to be more groups like that shout out to my Chop it Up brothers. But there need to be more groups.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like that where we support brothers and not condemn them. And that is a support group. And they have a group like that in Augusta. I forgot the name of it right now, but I said it yesterday. But yeah, you know my biggest point yesterday, man? You don't jeopardize your child's safety in the pursuit of employment. Because there is no job on this planet that would make up for something happening to your child. I don't care where you work, what job you potentially get, how much money you could be paid. Nothing comes before the protection and safety of your kids.
DJ Envy
Yeah, no, I agree. I just didn't think he needed to get arrested for it. I just think that's a harsh. A harsh for that man to get locked up and then have to pay for an attorney that he doesn't have. Obviously that then has to have that on his record. It's gonna make it even more difficult for to get a job. Yeah, he deserved donkey today. Absolutely. But for him to get arrested, like I said, give him the resources. If it was something else, like if he was going to the club, anything else, I get it. But the fan that, the fact that that man was trying to better his life.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, child negligence laws are child negligence laws. There's nothing we can do about that. Absolutely. But see, the bigger problem is now Department of chilling families have gonna open up a case against them. So now for you see what I'm saying? So he gonna be fighting the uphill battle, but let him know that I am on the advisory board for the fatherhood engagement. So if he needs reach out to the Breakfast Club, I could tap into him. I could help him with the resources because I. That's what I do. I advocate for fathers in this position. And I also want to say all of that is great, but you know, you do have to wait to see if this case is what it says it is on paper.
Lauren LaRosa
Right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Because there were some people that were pointing some things out to me yesterday, which I already had noticed. But I didn't say nothing because I didn't want to put that on the brother.
DJ Envy
What's that?
Charlamagne Tha God
I mean, I'm just. If you're Jack, you got a two hour job interview, you Keep coming back and forth. Remember there was a witness that said they saw the guy come back two or three times, check on him. So what job interview last two or three, two hours? And what job interview lets you come back and forth?
DJ Envy
Maybe said he had to go to.
Lauren LaRosa
The bathroom and then he ran orientation? That sound like an orientation? Like, you already got the job job, and y'all get breaks in between. It don't sound like an interview.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's all. That's all I'm saying.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Hello?
DJ Envy
Who's this here?
Charlamagne Tha God
What's up, Envy?
DJ Envy
What's up, Trav?
Charlamagne Tha God
That's hilarious.
Lauren LaRosa
Hey, baby.
Charlamagne Tha God
How you doing, Char? Peace, sis. What's happening? I'm just calling to tell everybody that the world most amazing event is happening this weekend.
Reverend Al Sharpton
J. Cole's Dreamville Fest is coming up. Okay? He about to deliver bars.
Charlamagne Tha God
He about to deliver entertainment. He about to deliver performance.
Reverend Al Sharpton
He about to deliver the world's greatest rap show. Because it's the final Dreamville Fest that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is coming up this weekend. And I hope you guys go and enjoy yourselves. Hey, Travel, can I say something real quick?
Reverend Al Sharpton
No.
Charlamagne Tha God
Lindsay, you going, right?
DJ Envy
I'm trying to go for Sunday to see Cole, Erykah Badu, and Gorilla and Tim. So I'm. I'm trying.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's a great lineup, by the way.
Lauren LaRosa
And Big Extra Plug gonna be there Sunday.
DJ Envy
Yeah. Saturday is Lil Wayne 20. Savage Hot Boy is a big time is ludicrous. Ari Lennox, Chief Keef, Keisha Cole.
Charlamagne Tha God
So Erica Badu, Gorilla thing sound good, but did you see Kanye last night? Kanye posted no one listens to J. Cole after losing their virginity. Ain't nobody listening to Kanye these days. Kanye said, I hate J. Cole music so much. It's like between Kendrick and Cole. I bet you industry plants ask Cole to diss Drake. Then we would have been accosted with a J. Cole super bowl commercial with no scissors song to save it. I don't know what he was talking about. He was going crazy on your boy last night.
DJ Envy
Charlamagne pick and choose what he wanted to listen to.
Charlamagne Tha God
Trav. He was going crazy. He said, he said, he said. He said Drake was hurting hip hop by giving J. Cole a platform.
Lauren LaRosa
Trev, do not.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, Envy.
DJ Envy
Yes, sir.
Reverend Al Sharpton
If you happen to get another, you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Know, media pass, just go ahead and DM me and let me know. Go ahead and text me and let me know. Nah. You know what you got to do to get that media pass? Envy.
DJ Envy
Old school.
Charlamagne Tha God
Envy. Old school, Old school. What's wrong with you, man? You know what he need to do?
DJ Envy
Get it off your chest. 800-585-105. Well, we got the latest with Lauren coming up.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, we do. So there's a new Diddy accuser, but this guy says that he was made to walk around with a penis mask. We gonna talk about it.
DJ Envy
Mr. Breakfast Club.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
Lauren LaRosa
Lauren becoming a straight fat.
DJ Envy
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.
Steve Quirk
She gets the details.
Jess Hilarious
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She'd be having the latest on this.
Reverend Al Sharpton
The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes we have facts, Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. Who is the latest on the Breakfast Club? Talk to me.
Jess Hilarious
There is a new Diddy accuser. This is a man from Florida. He is suing for human trafficking after he alleges that Diddy strapped a penis to his face and made him parade around.
Lauren LaRosa
Stop. Why did you clap?
Charlamagne Tha God
Cuz, I ain't heard a good one in a minute, but I don't believe that. But continue.
Lauren LaRosa
Take a listen.
Charlamagne Tha God
I heard a good story.
Lauren LaRosa
He strapped. What?
Jess Hilarious
He said that he alleges that Diddy strapped a penis to his face and made him parade around a party. And he says that in this party, Jay Z, Beyonce, LeBron and Gloria Esteban saw him in rare form because of this.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now, was it Halloween?
Jess Hilarious
No, it was actually. He. He claims it was a 17th birthday party that Diddy threw for his son Christian. But there's some issues with the timeline and the description of the party. But we'll get to that. Now, I want to point out that jay Z, Beyonce, LeBron James, Gloria Esteban, and they mentioned Jacob the Jeweler in the lawsuit as well. But they're not being sued. They're just a part of the like story set up. Right. So this man says that this took place in April 2015 during a B Day party for a Christian. He says that he was drugged. He alleges he was drugged and taken to Star island in Miami for the big party. When he got there first he stopped at Gloria Esteban's house because there's a couple stops along the road. And when he got there, he got to this mansion. He then saw LeBron walking in a hallway in a bathtub. And he claims that LeBron looked at him and said, y'all better do something about that. Because the man says that he was. He was drugged and he was just so out of order that he looked crazy. And then the guy says he claims that he was taken to a secret tunnel in Diddy's mansion on Star Island. And at that time, he started regaining consciousness. And he looks up and he notices that Jay Z and Beyonce are there. And he alleges that Beyonce saw him performing. No, they were performing the party. Okay, yeah.
DJ Envy
So they saw him with the penis on his head.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, allegedly.
Jess Hilarious
Yes. And then he alleges that Beyonce saw him and said, what's this? What's this all about?
Charlamagne Tha God
Penis.
Lauren LaRosa
That's right. Lauren, go roll. No.
Jess Hilarious
Oh, my God. Why is there a half naked white man with a penis mask standing here in front of me? That's what, according to him, Beyonce said.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, that's how she would have known if she'd been to a Diddy party before. That was her first time at the Diddy party. Yeah, you know.
DJ Envy
Shut up, man. Go ahead.
Jess Hilarious
Now again, remember, this is the second stop. So after this, now he's in. He's in the Diddy's mansion, and allegedly he's being paraded around with this penis mask. And he says that he was taunted and humiliated. He says that he was then stripped naked and they put him in a small thong bikini bottom and a black leather mask with a rubber dam forcibly inserted and zipped clothes over his head. He was made to wear that as well. It sounds like some sort of like, sex toy. And then. Oh, yes. And then he says that. That there was a locking sex device that was put on the mask that protruded from his mouth. Y'all know y'all can, y'all.
Lauren LaRosa
So he was. Yeah. So he was awake by this time, right? Yeah, he just couldn't take it off.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, he said that he was still like kind of out of it, but he began to regain consciousness from whatever it was that he was given, allegedly drugged by. So then he says that he was then degraded and he was made to do non consensual sexual acts. Now here's the issue with this. So the 17th birthday party, April 2015, did happen for Christian Combs, who was Diddy's son. But the way that this man describes this party, because he said it was a freak off, this isn't consistent with the way that the freak also describes. Described in all of the federal indictments also too. He mentions that he saw Jay Z and Beyonce. Jay Z was publicly in New York on April 1, 2015. He was at a title speaking event.
Lauren LaRosa
Crazy.
Jess Hilarious
You need to. You needed to go look it up.
DJ Envy
I had to look up a penis. Pass wow.
Jess Hilarious
That's not the Internet. That's your phone album, your photo album.
Lauren LaRosa
That is perfect for Halloween.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm gonna tell you something. All of these civil cases are going to be the reason Diddy walks on his criminal case. Because none of these civil cases sound believable.
DJ Envy
Not at all.
Charlamagne Tha God
And folks are starting to get the.
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DJ Envy
Not only that, what lawyer is taking it without doing their due diligence? Like the fact that, you know, it was easy to find out that Jay wasn't even there and was in New York during that time. That means these attorneys are not doing their due diligence and taking these cases. And, and like you said, this is. That's gonna be the reason why people don't believe what's really going on. Yeah, something is going on now.
Jess Hilarious
A spokesperson for LeBron told TMZ, because they broke the story, that this is false and that he doesn't even merit a report. This doesn't even merit a report or response. A basic Internet search shows that LeBron. What LeBron was doing on April of 2015. He was playing basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers and was never in Miami. Now.
Lauren LaRosa
And they got him walking down the hallway with a bath towel.
Jess Hilarious
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
Talking about what's going on here. Y'all need to do something about that.
Jess Hilarious
Yep.
Lauren LaRosa
Crazy.
Jess Hilarious
Yep. And then Jay Z's attorney, Alex Spiro, he doubled down on what TMZ was able to easily piece together from Google. He said Mr. Carter wasn't in Florida at the time to witness this incident. He was engaged in easily findable. In easily findable public activities that proved that he was not at this event. This is more nonsense that just erodes the trust in our justice system. And Gloria Esteban, her rep, says that, you know, Gloria strongly denies the allegations. The property in question was never a home where Gloria even resided, but it was rather a house they owned for family use. There were no parties thrown at the property between 2012 and 2019. We have all necessary documentation to support these facts and will provide it in court.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's why, you know, in a way, they need to make it to where civil cases can't be filed until after the criminal case is complete because it muddies the waters. Like I said earlier, you know what I'm saying? These civil cases don't sound believable anymore. So it makes you question everything, including the criminal case.
Lauren LaRosa
And that's some good drugs. If you can wake up and think, you see LeBron, Beyonce, and Jay Z.
Charlamagne Tha God
And you thought you had a penis on your face.
Lauren LaRosa
What drugs?
DJ Envy
Hey, now, I'll take it a step further. I think these attorneys should be able to get some type of charges put on them.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
DJ Envy
The fact that they're not doing due diligence. Diligence. If you ruin somebody's name or you could muddy somebody's name, muddy somebody, there's no penalty and there's no penalties. Nothing.
Charlamagne Tha God
They messing it up for the criminal attorneys.
Jess Hilarious
Well, we talked about this. Or I said we. I'll be talking to myself. I talked about this on the latest. The podcast.
Lauren LaRosa
I actually do.
Jess Hilarious
Okay, you talk over yourself.
Charlamagne Tha God
I mean.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, because. Too many thoughts at one time.
Lauren LaRosa
At one time.
Jess Hilarious
But on the podcast, I was saying how. On Diddy's side for the criminal situation, even though there's that video still, right. This. If I'm a juror and I keep seeing all these crazy accusations and things being thrown out.
Steve Quirk
Right.
Jess Hilarious
Maybe I start to be like, hold up, wait a minute.
DJ Envy
And that video is being thrown out. Right. They can't use that video.
Jess Hilarious
They were going back and forth trying to figure it out. But they. The issue was that they said that they didn't have the original video, but then, remember, prosecutors came out and said, no, we do have a recording of the original video.
Charlamagne Tha God
If you're a juror to that point. That's what I've been saying the whole time. If you see all of these different cases get thrown out and all of this stuff starts to sound unbelievable when you sitting there like, well, why should I believe any of this in the criminal trial?
Jess Hilarious
Yeah. I'm just saying about how crazy I probably sound to my videographer interrupting myself.
Charlamagne Tha God
You may sound crazy to us.
DJ Envy
All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Now, when we come back, we have front page news and the NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace will be joining us. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
You're checking out the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
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, Morgan?
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, so let's get back into it. Voters in Wisconsin and Florida headed to the polls yesterday and what many are calling a national political power struggle. Not to mention it's like getting a temp check on the American people, you know, especially those who voted for Trump. In Florida, voters decided on two pivotal vacant House seats. Republican Jimmy Petronas is projected to be the winner. In Florida's 1st congressional district, he defended he defeated Democrat Gay Gay Valmont in a special House election for the seat that was vacated by former Representative Matt Gaeth. And that win gives the Republicans a razor thin margin in the US House of Representatives. Also in Florida, a Republican, Randy Fine is projected to be the winner. In the 6th congressional district, he defeated Democrat Josh Whale. And the special House election for the seat that was vacated by former Representative Michael Waltz, again, that gives the Republicans just a slight edge in the House of House of Representatives. So in Wisconsin, a Supreme Court. A state Supreme Court election was held and liberal Susan Crawford is projected to be the winner of the open seat of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Crawford defeated Republican Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schmiel. Schimmel. Excuse me. And it's, and it was actually on record to be the most expensive state supreme court race in US history, with both sides spending an estimated $100 million in their campaign. Sheesh. So that's an interesting way of looking at things that seems like the seat switched in Wisconsin, that's a win for Dems. And of course, in Florida, the GOP seems to maintain their edge moving on to the House. Republican leader in the House is downplaying President Trump's thoughts on serving a third term. Now, Trump has said there are methods for making it happen, but there is a long way to go as it is early in his administration now, House Speaker Mike Johnson said the Constitution would have to be amended, and that's a high bar, adding that a lot would have to happen for Trump to run again. But he could see why people would want him to run again. So let's take A listen to House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Charlamagne Tha God
He recognizes the constitutional limitations.
Lauren LaRosa
And I'm not sure that there's a move about to amend the Constitution.
Charlamagne Tha God
There's a constitutional path. You have to amend the Constitution to do it. And that's a high bar.
Steve Quirk
You know, we take him at his word.
Charlamagne Tha God
I understand why so many Americans do wish that he could run for a third term because he's accomplishing so much.
Steve Quirk
In this first 100 days that they.
Lauren LaRosa
Wish it could go on for much longer.
Charlamagne Tha God
We shouldn't even be entertaining this. Like we're talking about authoritarian rule as if it's normal. Like we're talking about something as unconstitutional as running for a third term, as if it's normal. And that's literally how those things get.
Lauren LaRosa
Normalized, and it is unconstitutional. As you mentioned, Charlamagne, serving three terms as president is prohibited by the constitution under the 22nd amendment. And I know people have been, you know, talking about different ways that it can happen. Of course, the President has said there are ways of making it happen. But, you know, I also found out that, that if he does run as, let's say, VP and whoever he runs with is elected president and that president steps down. Well, the 12th Amendment then states that he would be ineligible to serve again.
Charlamagne Tha God
So, yeah, I read that yesterday. He'd be ineligible to serve. He'd be ineligible to serve again because of what's amended in the 22nd Amendment, right?
Lauren LaRosa
Yes, absolutely. Well, between the 22nd and the 12th.
Charlamagne Tha God
12Th. Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
There's. There's no third term period. So, yeah, just. But something to watch. So when Trump says, you know, there are ways of making it happen, I'm curious to know what those ways are when the Constitution seemingly is ironclad in this.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
DJ Envy
Let me ask you a question. I know it has happened before where president, you know, did a third. So how did that president do it before?
Charlamagne Tha God
Because they amended it after.
DJ Envy
They amended it after.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, yeah. This was prior to that amendment. Absolutely. Elsewhere in the House, I think it's. It's interesting that House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a. Interesting loss in involving his own party yesterday. This after nine Republicans joined, all Democrats and going against a procedural rule that would have killed off an effort to allow new parents to vote remotely around the birth of their child. Now, the vote also blocked votes on Republican priorities to limit power of federal judges. Johnson said the vote remains. The vote means that the House can no longer further seek action. On the floor. This week, Florida Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna, she left the conservative House Freedom Caucus when her colleagues would not back the bipartisan measures. So it does look like there is a bit of a shift in Congress there. You know, people are starting to, I guess, stand on what it is they believe a little bit. So. But bringing things home to you guys in New York, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is among those reacting to the DOJ's decision to seek the death penalty for the accused CEO killer, a UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, Luigi Manjoni. Adam seems to be on board with the death penalty. Let's take a listen to New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
DJ Envy
You intentionally went in and you took someone's life. It was a horrific act. And whatever process they put in place, I respect that process.
Lauren LaRosa
So Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The 26 year old Ivy League grad allegedly shot and killed Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December. And Bondi called the killing premeditated cold blooded assassination that shocked America. Meanwhile, Manjoni's attorney says the move shows that the Justice Department is moving from the dysfunctional, is moving from the dysfunctional to the barbaric. What do you guys think? Death penalty for Luigi Mangione. That was a scary time in New York when all of that went, went down.
Charlamagne Tha God
I mean, you know, destiny's not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. Luigi made a choice. And you know, I don't, I don't feel, I don't, I don't know how I feel about the death penalty. I really don't.
DJ Envy
I will say, if the death penalty is in play, this would be the, the perfect person for it. Right. He actually killed somebody. He was a vigilante, did it on his own. He did it damn near broad daylight in public. This would be, he would be the perfect candidate for it. Right?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. I just never know how I feel about the death penalty because I don't know if that's a choice that other humans should be able to make that.
Lauren LaRosa
I talk about somebody's life.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Throwing money to jail forever. You know what I mean? But I don't know. I don't know how I feel. I never know how I feel about the death penalty. Whenever I hear about somebody getting the death penalty, I never know how I feel about. Yeah, but to Andy's point, this is such a blatant case. Right. Like, this isn't a. We're not going to look back 20 years from now and be like, oh, you got the wrong guy.
DJ Envy
Right.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know?
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, absolutely. And I know we probably run it out of time, but I wanted to mention that the Target boycott is seemingly working, guys. So after Target decided to roll back their policies on dei, retail Brew reports foot traffic in the store has dropped 5.7% year over year from March 17th. Last week it dropped 7.1% and it's been dropping 6.2% for the last eight weeks. Weeks. With Easter around the corner, you would think the retailer would see a bit of an increase, but no. Sales continue to drop. They also reported a 3.1 loss in the fourth quarter of last year. Retailers like Costco who have kept their DEI policies have saw an increase of 5.2% in foot traffic and sales year over year. Costco reported also also reported 13 consecutive weeks of increases. So it looks like go ahead and continue to keep your foot on their necks in terms of the boycott. It is working and the retailers are feeling it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, Target praying for a resurrection around Easter. Okay. They need they open the rise from whatever, you know, current condition that they're in.
Lauren LaRosa
Hey, I don't know. Between the tariffs and Target, yeah, it's giving hunker down. But that's your front page news. Follow me on social at morganmedia for more news coverage followed at Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at Bi nd Calm. Make it a great Wednesday, y'all.
Charlamagne Tha God
Thank you so much, Morgan.
DJ Envy
All right, when we come back, Bubba Wallace will be joining us. We're gonna kick it with Bubba Wallace when we come back.
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Back.
DJ Envy
He's also bringing around. He's also bringing the CEO of the Robin Hood app, Steve Quirk. And we'll talk to them next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Reverend Al Sharpton
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DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building. We have Bubba Wallace and Steve Quirk. Welcome, fellas.
Steve Quirk
What's going on? Hey, another day, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
Bubba, how does it feel? And I know you get this all the time, but how does it feel being the first. First black NASCAR driver?
Steve Quirk
I wouldn't say the first. The first in a while.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay. Oh, you weren't the first.
Steve Quirk
No one. Scott was. He opened the door for all of us. And so I've been the first to win since him.
Charlamagne Tha God
Gotcha.
Steve Quirk
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
How long ago was him?
Steve Quirk
I was at 60s.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Steve Quirk
Yeah. Right. So it's been a really cool journey. Lots up and downs. Being in the cup series for eight years now has been. I've learned a lot. I've grown a lot. I've got a couple gray Hairs in my beard from. From. I guess every year that I've been in that. I'd say every race I've been in the Cup Series. But it's humbling knowing that there's not many of us there. But, you know, I'm leading the way for a generation that. That is paying attention. You have a following and a demographic that wants to be a part of this sport.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's.
Steve Quirk
It's cool to be at the. At the front of that.
DJ Envy
How did you get into race car driving?
Steve Quirk
Started when I was a kid. And go karts. My dad had a go kart. He raced a couple times. He flipped all three times. I have yet to flip in my career.
DJ Envy
Okay.
Steve Quirk
All right. Yeah. Knock on wood. But my. My dad got us started.
Charlamagne Tha God
Dad.
Steve Quirk
And he invited us to come out, or he told us to come out and watch a family friend of ours just sitting in the stands, became a fan that way, bought a go kart and went racing.
Lauren LaRosa
Where the name Bubba come from?
Steve Quirk
My sister. Yes. We don't know why. She said she didn't have a speech impediment. She just decided to call me Bubba. So she's five years older than me.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Steve Quirk
And it's stuck ever since. Well, it was confusing at the racetrack. Right. Because I'm a junior, so. Hey, Daryl. My dad would turn around, and they were trying to get in touch with me, so we were just like, let's. Let's go with Bubba. It makes it easier and it's fun. Everybody's a bubble.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Especially down south.
Steve Quirk
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
What's up?
Steve Quirk
What's up, Bubba?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Do you. So you embrace the responsibility of being, you know, I guess. Are you the only black NASCAR driver.
Steve Quirk
At the cup level?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So. So you embrace the responsibility of being that person at the forefront to inspire the next generation.
Steve Quirk
Yeah. Yeah. We got. We got some youth coming up. We got Raja Carruth coming up through in the truck series, and it's fun being a mentor to him and the others coming through. And, yeah, I sense a responsibility there to, you know, carry myself the right way, but also show that I'm here to stay and make a name for myself as well. So, you know, the only way to create boundaries is to cross them and figure out, you know, what to do, what not to do. So I've made some mistakes along the way, but it's shaped me and helped me to become who I am today. And so, you know, off track, on track stuff has been phenomenal. I could say this. This whole year started out really, really strong. And nothing's better than winning. So it's been a while since I've been in victory lane, but not from a lack of effort.
Lauren LaRosa
What part of North Carolina are you from?
Steve Quirk
Charlotte.
Lauren LaRosa
Charlotte. Okay. That was big growing up. Race car was okay.
Steve Quirk
Yeah. So like I grew up 15 minutes from the racetrack, so all the race teams were all within a 30 minute radius of each other.
Charlamagne Tha God
Wow.
DJ Envy
I was gonna ask how difficult was it because coming up, there wasn't too many of us in the stands, and I'm sure there's not too many of us in the stands now, but there was way less in the stands. So how difficult was that? I'm sure you had to face racism, other drivers, other teams, and how difficult was fighting through that?
Steve Quirk
Honestly, my. My mom was my, my parents, both my parents, but my mom was, you know, the driving force behind of just never given the media any negative to talk about. Right. Well, I failed at that a couple times, but she was always just keeping me aware of the said scenarios. Right. And. And for me, though, I grew up in a, well, diverse community, didn't see color, still don't. And it just didn't matter to me. So when I jumped into it. But there was, I think, two of us that were of color. And Benny Mingo, he actually works at our race shop now, so it's crazy how he works on race cars, but it was just the two of us and didn't bother me one bit. You know, growing up, you know, the higher you. You got in the rankings, the better you got, you know, the faster the cars, you know, I was the only one and still didn't bother me.
Jess Hilarious
I.
Steve Quirk
All I cared about was winning. And it sounds like a very just cliche, typical straight line answer, but I didn't give a damn.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right.
Steve Quirk
And I still don't. Because at the end of the day, we're all human beings and that's, that's how I view each other. And we just happen to be a little bit darker than others, and that's okay. But if you treat each other with respect, then you demand that respect back. And if they can't give that back, then they're not the people for you. So that's how I've kind of viewed life and have enjoyed life, no matter what's thrown at us.
Charlamagne Tha God
I agree with that. You know, when you. But you being a biracial, right, Whenever you feel when people come at you for being black, do you ever be like, well, I'm white too, Halfway there.
Steve Quirk
Yeah. I mean, you have to kind of balance Both hats really, you know. You know, I have a black side of my family, I have a white side of my family.
Charlamagne Tha God
And so whose food is better?
Steve Quirk
That's a good question.
Lauren LaRosa
Where do you go for Thanksgiving?
Steve Quirk
That's a good. I like to stay home now. I ain't got to do nothing. Damn, you put me on the spot, you know. You know, go with my sister. I'm going have to go with my sister. The black side family.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
She named you Bubba. That food is definitely good.
Steve Quirk
No, I think just, just trying to just walk both paths can, can be tiring at some times because I just want to walk down the middle. But it's just never that easy sometimes.
DJ Envy
So now before we get to you dealing with Steve, I want to ask how many people come up to you and try to race you in the street when you have a drive and does that happen a lot?
Steve Quirk
No, because I have tent on my windows so you can't see who's driving.
DJ Envy
Okay.
Steve Quirk
Yeah.
DJ Envy
And do you ever get crazy on the street? Sometimes you just like.
Steve Quirk
No, no, I, I don't waste time though. So if we gotta drive to the grocery store, I'll. I know how to get to the grocery store, but I'll plug in the GPS to see which way is the fastest way way and to see if I can get there faster.
Charlamagne Tha God
Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? Of course. Really?
Steve Quirk
Actually it's been a long, long time and I can say I've, I've been, I've been pulled over 20, 20 something times and only gotten like three tickets. That's nice. It's nice.
Lauren LaRosa
The white side. That's right.
Steve Quirk
I thought it was because you, they recognized you. That's what I was going with. She got to it first. That's what I was going with.
DJ Envy
Now you hear Steve, Steve Quirk with Robin Hood. So what's your relationship with Rob?
Charlamagne Tha God
Robin Hood?
Steve Quirk
It's just starting out so excited for the partnership that we just announced be a part of 2311 and sponsoring myself and Corey Heim and a couple cup races this year. So you know, hats off to everybody at Airspeed on the marketing side of things to bring in new sponsors to the sport. So this be the first time that Robin Hood's a part of our sport in this sort of capacity. And it's special so it's fast paced so they can keep up. Yeah, it's a, it's our first national sponsorship of sports. We have a couple NBA teams that we sponsor.
DJ Envy
People that don't know what Robinhood is and what they Do.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah.
Steve Quirk
Let me quickly explain. So Robinhood Basic, we have about 25 million customers and Robinhood is a, it's an investing app. What we've been largely credited with is bringing 25 million young, very diverse, first time investors into the marketplace. So in the US we're sitting close to 60% of US households now are invested in the market. That's, that's the envy of the world. It's like 20% in Asia or Europe or other places. And what we did is just remove the friction. So if you have $5, if you have $10, you can invest. We removed all the friction, made it very easy for people to have access to the greatest wealth creation vehicle in the world. So as important as it is for you to make money, you have to put that money to work. And we've made that really accessible for young people.
DJ Envy
Yeah, my kids have Robin Hood and it's very accessible. They know how to use it, they invest in it. They're not investing a lot of money, but $5, $10, it's a start for them at a young age.
Steve Quirk
But it used to, like, the whole system used to be kind of, really kind of inaccessible for young people because you had to wait till you got this amount of money to be able to do it. And so really, by the time you got around to investing, it was a little bit too late. The second component that we're really, really strongly focused on is it's one thing to give them access, but it's another thing to make sure that they do it in a way that's going to be sustainable and that they're going to have a good investing career. So we do a lot in the way of education, both within our site and the app, but also we go out to universities. We have a bunch of university programs where we help people understand the importance of doing this in a suitable manner. And then we give them access to all of this and provide them with curriculum. And then we have a newsletter that goes out every morning to. We have 40 million people subscribed. Basically describes the day's news. And then if there's something within that news, that could be an investable opportunity for them.
DJ Envy
All right, we have more with Bubba Wallace and the chief brokerage officer of Robinhood, Steve Quirk. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's Dej Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Up.
DJ Envy
We're still kicking it with NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace and the chief brokerage officer of Robin Hood App Steve Quirk, Charlemagne.
Charlamagne Tha God
What's your vetting process, Bubba? When it comes to, like, who you choose to take on as a sponsor.
Steve Quirk
It'S just the money willing to pay. Let's go, let's make it happen. I mean, hey, I, I come from, I, I remember, man, we were doing about anything just to get anybody to spend a buck, right? And so it's, it's, it's a tough sport to be a part of and, and want to invest into and for new companies to come into the sport and not know which way's up, down, left or right. I mean, I would be hesitant as well and so in taking a risk on a kid that's trying to find his way throughout the Cup Series. But I feel like now we've established ourselves, established our name, you know, within the race team, within the sport, it makes it easier for, for companies that want to be in part of our journey. And yeah, you got, you're associated with mj.
Lauren LaRosa
So, yeah.
DJ Envy
Now how is that MJ is a co owner. So how is he as a co owner? Do y'all speak much? Do y'all talk much? Do y'all play one on one basketball?
Steve Quirk
How is he not the basketball piece he taught? If I know I'm going to go into something and lose, then don't compete at all. So he won't jump into a race car, I won't jump on the basketball court.
DJ Envy
Gotcha.
Steve Quirk
And so MJ is super involved and it might be a shock to a lot of people and I think it was for me to start because you think of somebody as big as MJ that can be doing anything else that he wants with his time and his money. He has a strong passion for nascar. He's been a fan. He's watched. Even before he became a team owner, he was a kid going to the races. Darlington, Talladega, Charlotte. He was going all these places with his family growing up and so he's always had a strong knack for, for NASCAR and what it provides. And so now him being invested, it's game over. He's, he's watching each and every weekend, whether he's here, overseas, what he's, whatever he's doing. I have a text before and after the race every weekend.
Charlamagne Tha God
What does he say? I lost some money betting on you?
Steve Quirk
No, it's always encouraging. He's always, he's a glass half full guy. No matter how rough the day gets, he's always searching for the positives. And so it's helped me grow up a lot in a short amount of time.
Charlamagne Tha God
What about you, Steve? What made y'all want to say, you know what NASCAR is where we want to spend our money?
Steve Quirk
Well, if we look at our customers, they're very into sports, but they're, if we just look at a Robin Hood versus a non Robin Hood customer, they're four times more likely. They're into motorsports, particularly nascar. And so this gives us broad exposure, you know, nationally as well, which I think is very positive. And, and they just, you know, they're as passionate about their sports as they are about their investing. So they tie together pretty nicely.
Charlamagne Tha God
Got you. Was it hard for you to get sponsorships, Bubba? Because, you know, you always hear the stories about Serena Williams. Even though she was dominant, you know, in tennis for a period of time, her and Venus, it was hard for them to get sponsorships. People just didn't feel like they were marketable. Was it the same for you?
Steve Quirk
Absolutely. You know, we look at the sport and the, the personalities that you have within side of our sport, and there's, there's a select few and I feel like I'm near the top of the list of just being personable and likable despite all the BS that goes on. You know, I'm gonna tell you how I feel. And I feel like a lot of us inside of our sport are very straight edged and cookie cutter. Right. And that's, that's okay. You don't want to show your true colors or show your cards. You keep that in your personal life, that's fine. Fun. But for me, I've always just been trying, I try to be super relatable to everybody I meet and, and make a lasting impression to, to eventually have the investments come in and the funding come in. And it seemed like nothing we ever did would, would work. And for whatever reason that is, it was what it was. But it never stopped me from pursuing what I wanted to do and fighting hard. You know, now I look at the people that, that potentially said, no, we're good, and just laugh because we're in a good spot now.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right.
DJ Envy
Who's the toughest driver you ever faced and why? And nascar, is it like that? Like, you know, as a basketball, you can say this is the toughest opponent in hockey, this is the toughest baseball, this is the toughest team.
Steve Quirk
It's different. It's, it's different in regards of the tracks that we go to. You know, for example, Denny had won this weekend, and this is at Martinsville, which is one of his best tracks. And so when you show up to said track, it's like, who's the guy to beat? That's how you look at it. So it's always different throughout the. Throughout the circuit, throughout the year. So I can't pinpoint it to one who's the biggest ass. That also changes, too. Depends on the mood that we're in. What's your favorite track? Favorite track? Martinsville is one of them. So Bristol's coming up here in two weeks. That's another good one. Mostly all the short tracks, but also the ones we've won at, too. So Talladega and Kansas are good.
DJ Envy
Y'all get scrapping sometimes. Y'all. Y'all fight on that, on those tracks sometimes.
Steve Quirk
Yeah, yeah. And. And it's. You know, you feel like you're. You've. You're done wrong. Because I go back to the respect thing. You show up with respect.
Charlamagne Tha God
You.
Steve Quirk
You man respect in return. And. And sometimes you feel like you're shorted or you're done wrong, and for whatever reason, you know, when I'm done wrong and I retaliate, it's. It's the world's end, and all I'm doing. And when I. When I was growing up, you know, being taught is, you just get even.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Steve Quirk
So I'm just getting even. Like, oh, okay, we're good. We can shake hands after the fact. We're good now, but massive deal.
DJ Envy
Do y'all get suspended after y'all get into a fight? Because I remember you got into a fight a couple of years ago. Did you get suspended? Is there any penalties or anything?
Steve Quirk
No, well, the. The rules are constantly changing. You know, I got suspended for right rear hooking somebody, which basically, like a pit maneuver. And. And rightfully so, because it's happened to me twice throughout my career.
DJ Envy
Explain what that is. I'm lost.
Steve Quirk
Like a pit maneuver. Like. Like somebody turns into you on your right rear, spins. Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Steve Quirk
And like, it's a. The opposing car that you've done it to is you just turn them right head on into the wall and speed. Yeah, kind of. And so versus, like, hook them in. In the left rear, like, they kind of just go spinning throughout the infield and kind of get it gathered back up. So it's happened to me twice in my career, and it's the most. I'd say, one of the most disrespectful things you can do. And I found myself stoop down to that level and commit the same deal, but the guy had just come up to me and run me up in the Wall and was like, oh, we're just gonna go on about our day. No, no, no.
DJ Envy
They said that you did it on purpose.
Steve Quirk
That's what they said. So people are gonna always talk and have their opinions and. And that it is what it is, but I regret doing that. I can say that truthfully, and we've moved on past that. But as far as fighting, no, because one, it's. We're entertainment business, and so it's good, good for entertainment, but they're quick to jump in. So you have to. You have to be methodical about how you want to go about it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Isn't it a matter of life and death when you out there making 100 plus miles per hour like it is?
Steve Quirk
Our safety's come a long way, so you don't think of it in that sort of fashion, but, you know, all it takes is one wrong move.
Charlamagne Tha God
So.
Lauren LaRosa
Do you want to raise Denny Hamlin?
Steve Quirk
Do I want to?
Lauren LaRosa
Do you want to?
Steve Quirk
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay. He was asked about you. He asked what you need to do to beat him and win your first race in nearly two years. And he said you have a decision to make. If you need to make more speed on corner exit, you must sacrifice something else somewhere. You can't just put the throttle down and get more speed on exit. It's an approach thing. Maybe you need to slow up your center a little bit more. Do you agree with him?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Steve Quirk
Do you know what that means?
Lauren LaRosa
No.
Steve Quirk
Verbatim, right there. Words for a word.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now. Now you have to explain.
Steve Quirk
So that's just attacking the corners. So the exit. Exit of the corner versus the center of the corner versus the entry of the corner. There's. There's ways to approach every corner differently. And, you know, it goes back to the experience. Denny's been at these racetracks for 20 years. As to where I'm figuring it out still. So he kind of has a better feeling for what to expect on entry and center to set him up for a better exit. As to where, I'm just like, I'm going to send it off in there and figure it out. So it's. It definitely takes a lot of time and a lot of seat time. A lot of just skill and management and having the right people around you.
DJ Envy
All right, we got more with Bubba Wallace when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We with NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace and the chief brokerage officer of the Robin Hood app, Steve Quirk.
Charlamagne Tha God
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Steve Quirk
Yeah, I would say the last three years I've really taken it upon myself of trying different things.
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Steve Quirk
The work and putting in the effort and it seemed like the last two years, the previous two years, it didn't matter what I did, it kind of ended up in the same results. And so this year I kind of didn't flip the script. I said, we're gonna, you know, start working out better, start eating better, you know, doing all the necessary things, paying attention to my sleep, all these types of things. And the results are starting to show up quicker. And so the rewarding thing is, is knowing that you can pour your heart and soul into something and when it doesn't work out the way you want it, then a lot of self doubt creeps in because you take it. For me, I take it up on my shoulders like, well damn, I guess I'm not good enough. But then you see others that are doing half the job but getting it done. And so it's like, well damn, what's the scenario I need to put myself in? Well, I think it comes down to just trust in the process. And I've realized that, and I've said this recently a lot, that your timeline is going to be either quicker or slower than mine. And that's okay. That's how we're built. We have to appreciate the scenario that we're in for ourselves and work on self and continuing to do that because at the end of the day that's all you got.
Charlamagne Tha God
What about you, Steve? Like, what's the benefit of, like, what's the rewarding aspect of the work that Bubba's doing in the racing world if he's, if he's not winning for Robin Hood?
Steve Quirk
I would say it. Well, it starts really with think about Robinhood and the mission. And you know, what we're all aligned on, which is helping, helping a younger, more diverse group of people have access to financial services and what that creates. And that's why we're very aligned with 2311. And of course, this, I can say this because I'm a little older. This is a very impressive young man here. I mean, extremely impressive. And we're completely aligned in seeing success not only from 2311, but of course from. From Bubba.
DJ Envy
I was gonna ask, when you get into those car wrecks, right, you get a call from mj and he's not like, bubba, another car. How much do those cars cost to replace? And do you fix those calls? You just totally get a new car.
Steve Quirk
It's, it's circumstantial. Like, if you cause the wreck and you're, you know, and it becomes like a repeated offense, then it's like, all right, what are we doing? But a lot of the wrecks that I've been a part of, I can truthfully say it hasn't been my fault. Like, we're just caught up in somebody else's mess. But at the end of the day, you do find yourself. If you do find yourself in somebody else's mess constantly, then it starts to deter, to back to you because it's like, quit putting yourself in that scenario. Well, it's easy to blame, like, well, again, it wasn't my fault. It doesn't matter. Like, run better run, run closer up front or try different types, better center for a better exit. The corners, the corners, you know, so it's, it's, it. It all comes back to self at the end of the day and how you can do what you can do to be better, to not put yourself in. In said scenarios. But, but yeah, it can get annoying sometimes. At least not for me because I'm not paying the bill.
DJ Envy
How much of those cost to replace? Ballpark?
Steve Quirk
I don't know what we're up to. 500, 600, 000 per call.
DJ Envy
And how many calls you have in the stores just in case.
Steve Quirk
Case we're only allowed, I think like seven to eight on rotation. Now. How many of you wreck this year? Like two this year? 22 years.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, that's a necessary expense, I would think. Right.
Steve Quirk
Like, it's a lot. I mean, that's why you want to have good partners to foot the bill.
Charlamagne Tha God
So.
Steve Quirk
Thanks, Robin Hood.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, I wanted to ask, you know, you played a big role in getting the Confederate flag ban from NASCAR events. How did other drivers who didn't want it banned treat you after?
Steve Quirk
I necessarily can't say that they didn't want it banned, so I didn't know really know their, their viewpoint on it, but I think we all came together and you know, as one, as in unison. And, and I think that's all you could ask for in sports, but for the ones that necessarily didn't want it banned, they've never come forward or shown their displeasure. So I can honestly say the sports has, has been way better without it.
Charlamagne Tha God
So hold on. How do you know they haven't shown their displeasure? Because there was a news found in your garage back in 2020. Was that before or after?
Steve Quirk
Oh, well, that's. I think we're all human enough to, you know, if in, in out of the driver's world, you know, if you have a problem with it, just kind of keep it to yourself and move on. And, and I'm not treated differently or I just, I don't speak to said drivers, but I haven't had any instances where the drivers have come at me for, for, you know, removing the Confederate flag. It's, it's. Everybody's been in support of it and we've moved on. So it, it is what it is.
DJ Envy
Did they ever get to the bottom of the news thing and find out who did it or no?
Steve Quirk
Yeah, it was, it was there before we got there, years before we got there. And it's just coincidence that I had that garage.
Charlamagne Tha God
So, like, it's coming.
Steve Quirk
It's wild. So, you know, it is still a topic of discussion to this day. It's. It's wild. You should see my Twitter mentions. Like, Bubba finished third was our news. You know, it's, it's, it's wild that that is still going about it. And, but no, it was there before we even got there. And just, just the one in a million quadrillion coincidences that I had that garage doll. And in fact, it was tied in a fashion like that. It could have been this small. It doesn't matter. And so it is what it is. And, and we've moved on from it and it, it sucks that the sport was put in that situation, that I was put in that situation. Our team was put in that situation. But we've learned a lot about who we are as a sport and who we are as competitors, and that's all you can ask for.
Charlamagne Tha God
Did it take a toll on you emotionally?
Steve Quirk
Oh, those, those year or two after that was rough, you know, because, you know, I went from being one of the most, I wouldn't say the most liked drivers, but favorable drivers, you know, but now it's, it's just been the, the booze and stuff. And that's okay because it's sports. And I, I'm a big, you know, I love going to college football games, Tennessee and college basketball games. And I'm not a person that boos other teams because I'm kind of in the sports world myself. And it just kind of seems childish, but fans do what they want, so booing is a part of sports in general. But it was, you know, the next week after Talladega, it was like a light switch and it was like, whoa, wow. We're, you know, like, holy, I didn't ask for this. And, and so now it's, they're making noise. You know, I've always been told, and I've read things is when they stop making noise is when it's worse.
DJ Envy
So.
Charlamagne Tha God
And Steve, shout out to Robin Hood. Y'all made investments for financial literacy programs at Howard, right?
DJ Envy
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
Are y'all gonna do that at other HBCUs too?
Steve Quirk
TCU? Yeah, we're 12 universities and expanding. Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Wow.
Steve Quirk
All across the country.
Lauren LaRosa
Yep.
Charlamagne Tha God
Why is that important for Robinhood?
Steve Quirk
I think it's important because you want to make sure that people at the, at a very young age start to understand how to do it responsibly and suitably. Everything shows that if you know, just the power of compounding alone, you start at a young age, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna benefit at an older age. I, I'm one of those annoying fathers who has three 20 some year old daughters and, and I pound on them. You got to put that money to work. Put that money to work, be invested in that. And I said one day you'll thank me.
DJ Envy
We appreciate you guys for joining us. Thank you so much. Good luck with everything. Bubba and Steve, appreciate you for joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. It's Bubba Wallace and Steve Quirk. Thank you guys.
Steve Quirk
Thank you. Thank you.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
Lauren LaRosa
Lauren becoming a straight face.
DJ Envy
She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.
Jess Hilarious
She gets the details I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.
Jess Hilarious
Okay, so I want to send a rest in peace to Val Kilmer and his family, sending them some love. So the actor passed away Tuesday of pneumonia in la, according to his daughter. For those of you guys who may not know him, I know, I feel like by name. Some people don't know about Kilmer, but you should by face. He's huge actor. He was in Top Gun. He was in Batman Forever, and he. He actually had went through a whole throat cancer battle that he came up on the other side of and recovered from it. And then pneumonia hit and he passed away. So I just wanted to take some time to send, you know, arrest and peace to him and some love to his family.
Charlamagne Tha God
Young man. He was 65.
Jess Hilarious
Yes, 65 years old.
DJ Envy
Absolutely.
Jess Hilarious
Which is young. Now, changing gears here. Kanye West. Y'all know Kanye. Get on X and do his thing. So a fan was tweeting about Jcole and posted jcole's verse that he did on Johnny P's Caddy with Benny the Butcher, and he was basically saying that JCole spare Kendrick by not getting into the whole battle.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, God.
Jess Hilarious
So insert Kanye West. Yes or yay. He responded and said, I hate jcole music so much. It's like between Kendrick and jcole, I bet you industry plans asked Jcole to dis Drake. Then we would have been accosted with the jcole super bowl commercial with no scissor song to save it. No one listens to jcole after losing their virginity.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, my God.
Jess Hilarious
When I met up with Drake during Donda, most of the convo was me telling him he was hurting hip hop by giving Jcole platform. And I was saying how much I love loved future he then X. Yay. Continues on xsa. How I hate Drake and I'm team Drake at the same time. Life is funny like that. It's like the weird thing where I feel closest to Drake and anybody in rap. He just had a. I don't even.
Lauren LaRosa
Understand, like, what he's talking about, what he's saying.
DJ Envy
I don't think he understands.
Lauren LaRosa
No, I don't. I don't get it. And honestly, all he doing is helping Cole sell out Dreamville. Like, you know what I mean?
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, yeah, if it isn't already.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, exactly. And also the fact that I'LL be there too, so they can get there too tickets, cuz I'm being Riley at the improv, but go ahead.
Jess Hilarious
Oh, you there that weekend too.
Lauren LaRosa
We taking the I'm going to dream Dreamville too.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
DJ Envy
Yes, this weekend.
Steve Quirk
All right.
Jess Hilarious
We going to talk.
Charlamagne Tha God
I hate that whole jcole would have watched Kendrick if he would have stayed in the battle narrative too. No, he wouldn't have. No, he wouldn't have.
DJ Envy
No.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, I love that. I don't got cold for doing that either.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Jess Hilarious
And I will say who says that anyway?
DJ Envy
Just I don't hear a lot of.
Charlamagne Tha God
Whatever that people say that in that tweet.
Jess Hilarious
You Kanye just said that. But no people stuff. Yeah, no.
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, people have said that. Never dropped out of that battle that.
Jess Hilarious
He would have won if untherapeutic, unhealed. Cole stayed in the battle before he got his consciousness that he came back on the stage with. People think that he would have won over Kendrick.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I'm with you, Envy. I never seen it.
DJ Envy
Okay.
Lauren LaRosa
I never seen it nowhere. Okay.
Jess Hilarious
Also too, I. I feel like Kanye gets online and he tweets things that make absolutely no sense. And if people take it and run with. Run with it. Like the other day he had tweeted that Jay Z owned his or not tweeted. He talked about with academ that Jay Z owned his master. So he gets on these platforms and says things that don't make any sense and people believe it.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's not true.
Jess Hilarious
Completely not true.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Jay Z does not own Kanye west catalog at all.
Lauren LaRosa
And I know to look up, right?
Charlamagne Tha God
I. I don't know if you can look it up.
DJ Envy
That's not easy to look up.
Charlamagne Tha God
But I heard it from a very reliable source.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, from a very reliable source. That is not true.
Charlamagne Tha God
It don't matter who that is. But a very reliable source. So bad he want to be the owl. So damn bad. And I know Kanye just asked the question. He just said, how much money you think Jay Z makes off my catalog versus what I make off it?
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I heard that.
Charlamagne Tha God
And people ran with the whole, you know, Jay owns Kanye catalog. But that's not true. Kanye just playing the victim and looking for sympathy per unit.
Lauren LaRosa
Jesus.
Jess Hilarious
And I did Google, who owns Kanye west masters. And according to Google right now, and if this is incorrect, it's Google, not me. Kanye West's master recordings, at least for his earlier albums, are owned by Universal Music Group, which is. Which owns Def Jam Recordings, where he was signed for most of his career. However, he has since completed his contract with Def Jam and is free to pursue music deals elsewhere, according to Google. So easily.
DJ Envy
That's his music contract. But I don't know who owns the masters, though.
Jess Hilarious
It says Kanye West Master Master Recordings owned by.
Charlamagne Tha God
It ain't Jay Z. Yeah, I can tell you that much.
Lauren LaRosa
That's crazy.
Jess Hilarious
Well, thank you for debunking that story, Unk. Appreciate you.
Lauren LaRosa
Kanye went in academics basement. Where was that?
Jess Hilarious
No, no, no, they weren't in the basement. Academics flew to la. I had to think about. It was like a hotel and then they were like outside of somewhere. But yeah, he flew to la, but it didn't matter. Academics honestly didn't have to be there. He could have just sent the camera. Because Kanye was talking about.
Lauren LaRosa
He didn't even have to act. Yeah, because he didn't ask him anything. Yeah, yeah.
Jess Hilarious
Well, I want to get into the Young Scooter, but I'm nervous that we're not gonna have enough time. But we could try it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Jess Hilarious
So yesterday, police actually arrested a woman in relation to the Young Scooter death. So the 911 audio call that we talked about in here, police basically found that this call, the call was real, like it was actually made. But what was reported on the call was fake. So there was a 30. There's a 31 year old girl. Her name is Demetrius Spence. She was taken into custody by Atlanta police yesterday for making the false 911 call that resulted in the death of Young Scooter. Because police only showed up there because of this phone call. So he was swatted. Now, Demetrius Spence is the woman from. From the Zeus Baddie show that went on Instagram Live prior to this when police said that they were looking for the 911 caller to explain just you.
Lauren LaRosa
You like, why would she do that, dumbass?
Jess Hilarious
To explain her part of the story. Because people were giving her so much hell because of Young Scooter's passing.
Charlamagne Tha God
God damn it. Why y'all ain't give me that? I could give her donkey today. I don't know why.
Jess Hilarious
Well, let's take a listen to what she said. There's a reaction forever every action.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is part A.
DJ Envy
You guys didn't have part A.
Jess Hilarious
You guys only have part B.
Lauren LaRosa
And the narrative.
Jess Hilarious
It looks like I was trying to set this man up. Because you guys don't have part B. I'm giving you part B. I'm giving you. What led up to the call. I was physically abused, so I called to protect myself.
Lauren LaRosa
That's the. That's the issue.
Jess Hilarious
I never had Any intentions to get anybody hurt. And I came here to say my truth.
Lauren LaRosa
That's it. That's all.
Jess Hilarious
I don't want no clout.
Lauren LaRosa
At the end of the day, I'm a woman, and I was physically abused multiple times.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm so confused.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Jess Hilarious
What are you confused?
Lauren LaRosa
No, I really am.
Jess Hilarious
Ask me.
DJ Envy
No, you're not. Y'all got this.
Charlamagne Tha God
So she got abused.
DJ Envy
She said she got abused in the past before, and I guess this was her way of allegedly getting revenge back on it. So she was saying the reason she did it was because she got abused. Not that she was getting abused in that moment, but she was abused before, and that was her way of getting revenge.
Jess Hilarious
Go ahead.
Lauren LaRosa
Right now, Right?
Jess Hilarious
Yeah. So right now she is in custody in Atlanta, and the charge, actually that she is being that she's facing is false, transmitting a false public alarm. And that's under a certain law in Georgia. And this is what you can be charged with if serious bodily harm or death results from a response of a public safety agency. So because the police came out, he Scooter. Young scooter, flat from police where he got that leg injury and then bled to death. So, yeah, she's gonna be facing some charges. And I will say, yesterday, young thug and a few other people were online talking about that young scooter was actually shot and that they had. There was an autopsy that was released that confirmed that that was not true. Atlanta police have come out with a Fulton County. Like the results of the autopsy that do mention the puncturing of his leg after trying to hop what seemed like a wooden fence or something like that, which resulted in his death. So the police have been really good job of trying to clear things up and keep things factual. And that young thug tweet was deleted.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
DJ Envy
All right. Well, that was the latest with Laurie Char. Who you giving that donkey to, man?
Charlamagne Tha God
We need Kevin Hart to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him. What?
DJ Envy
What? Kevin and did Chocolate.
Lauren LaRosa
Yo. I know damn well.
Jess Hilarious
Is it.
Lauren LaRosa
Is it Kevin or is it Chocolate Dropper? It's Kevin before, after the hour.
Charlamagne Tha God
You got to stay tuned.
Lauren LaRosa
He is a clown.
DJ Envy
Which one?
Lauren LaRosa
Kevin? I'm eating not Kevin. Charlemagne.
DJ Envy
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
You're checking out the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Your execution on the donkey of the.
Charlamagne Tha God
Day is something to behold.
DJ Envy
He gave me donkey of the Day.
Lauren LaRosa
And I deserve it.
Charlamagne Tha God
People need to know.
Jess Hilarious
Well, you need to tell them.
Reverend Al Sharpton
I am.
Jess Hilarious
You have the voice.
Charlamagne Tha God
Tell them it's time for Donkey of the Day.
Lauren LaRosa
It's a read. But you're so good at it, you're.
Charlamagne Tha God
Trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne. There's only one Charlemagne involved.
Jess Hilarious
Damn Charlemagne. Who you give a dunky of the day to now?
Charlamagne Tha God
Donkey Today for Wednesday, April 2nd goes to Kevin Hart. Kevin Duran. Hart that is. Okay, I'm gonna make sure to say Duran or Kevin D, because I don't need y'all thinking this our guy from Philly. Philly? No. Kevin d. Is a 47 year old California man. And yet another reason why Noah only allowed animals on the ark. Mark, I'm telling you right now, my anxiety, I'll never be able to shake it off, okay? And it's because I have to read the news every day. And when you read the news, you come across stories like Kevin D. And the headline I saw this morning on law and crime that grabbed my intention, that grabbed my attention, was Imagined Infidelity. Okay, that title piqued my curiosity and I'm like, what's that? Imagined Infidelity? Is that when you dream of cheating on your significant other, is that a crime? Now, is this like the movie Minority Report? Has there been a specialized force created that apprehends you because they use foreknowledge or they're using foreknowledge to grab you when you daydream about cheating? What is imagined infidelity? Well, soon as I read the article, I instantly regretted it because it's just a reminder that we live in a world that's simply out of our control. I know you left your house every day in peace. If you like me, you said your prayers this morning, you read your daily affirmations, you meditated, you probably went to therapy yesterday. You did all of that and you still can't control what other people do. And Kevin D. Is yet another example of that. Go to ksbw8 for the report, please.
Steve Quirk
A seaside church community mourning the loss.
Lauren LaRosa
Of one of their own.
Steve Quirk
65 year old Jackie Robinson.
Charlamagne Tha God
Police say she was killed by her.
Steve Quirk
Daughter'S boyfriend, 45 year old Kevin Hart of Patterson.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hart allegedly beat her to death using a glass tabletop.
Steve Quirk
Seaside police said Hart was visiting the.
Charlamagne Tha God
Home and he allegedly killed his girlfriend's mother. Police say home Hart then resisted arrest and obstructed police. I promise you, I read this story and I immediately asked Chat GPT how to avoid humans. It told me, stay home, Limit social interactions and employee strategies like avoiding eye contact and wearing headphones to signal disinterest. I would love to stay home. I'm a cancer. I'M a natural homebody. If I could be in the house, quarantined every day, I promise you, I would. And when folks ask me, what's the pandemic, what am I quarantining for? My answer would be people, Homo sapiens. Okay. This man, Kevin D. Killed his girlfriend's mother because he thought his girlfriend was cheating on him. Well, what the hell the mother got to do with this? I am so sick of people projecting their hurt onto others. You mad at your girlfriend because you think she cheated on you? And if she did cheat on you, so what? I don't know if this woman was cheating on you or not, but I would never understand the logic of men throwing their lives away for women. Honestly, I think that's gay. You can't tell me you like a woman so much that you would do something that would take you away from all women forever. You claim to like women so much, but you doing things that's gonna land you in a prison surrounded by penises don't add up to me. And I'm just sick of people who make decisions solely based on emotions. That leads to poor judgment and regret. Okay, you gotta take a breath and consider potential consequences before you make choices like this. You killed your girlfriend's mom because you. You thought she was cheating on you. A suspicion with no basis in reality. There is no justification for this murder, even if you knew she was cheating on you. But this is just what you thought. Beat this woman with your bare hands and a piece of glass from the table. Let me tell you something, Kevin. If your girlfriend, for whatever reason, wasn't feeling you anymore, guess what? She was correct. And that poor young lady is going to have to live with the regret of her poor choice in a man for the rest of her natural born life. This poor woman's mother was the president of the senior usher board in the church, man. Her obituary said she had a very kind and loving heart. With a smile that made anyone who came into her presence feel loved. And you killed her, Kevin, because you thought her daughter cheated on you. Imagined infidelity. Kevin is facing 26 years of life in prison. He was convicted by a jury on Friday of first degree murder. And I pray he gets false forever, okay? Forever in prison. You are named after the wrong comedian, sir. Because you have caused the pain that nobody could ever laugh at. Please let Remy Ma give Kevin Durant Hart the biggest Hee haw.
Lauren LaRosa
Hee haw.
DJ Envy
Hee haw.
Jess Hilarious
You stupid motherfucker.
Charlamagne Tha God
Are you dumb? You telling me that don't want make you want to stay in the house.
Lauren LaRosa
Hell, yeah. And I ain't know it was another Kevin. I'm thinking chocolate drop of Kevin Hart. That is. Say it. That is super sad.
DJ Envy
All right, all right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir. Now, when we come back, we have Reverend Al Sharpton joining us. Reverend Al will be here. That's right. We're gonna kick it with Reven now when we come back. 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. Lauren, Rosa, filling in for Jess. We got a special guest in the building.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, indeed, we Reverend Al Sharpton.
DJ Envy
Welcome back, Raph.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Thank you. Glad to be here.
DJ Envy
How you feeling?
Reverend Al Sharpton
I'm good. I'm real good.
Charlamagne Tha God
You got to work out in this morning.
Reverend Al Sharpton
You know, every morning, seven days a week, I got to get up and do it.
DJ Envy
Now, the last time I seen you, Reverend, we were coming back from D.C. we're on a plane together. This is right after Kamala Harris lost. Very upsetting. What do you think about the new presidency and what he's doing and all the things that that is affecting our communities? What's your thoughts on that?
Reverend Al Sharpton
I mean, first of all, the only surprise I have is that everybody's surprised prize. He said he was going to do everything he's doing. Tariffs that he was coming after a dei, diversity, equity and inclusion. He said that he was going to go after his enemies or those that he felt were opposed to him. So I don't know what the shock is and I don't understand where all of the people that were saying they didn't see the difference between true Trump and the Democrats, how they have gotten longitudes now and have not come back out and said because none of what he's doing, what a Democrat's doing now, nobody's been more challenging to the Democrats than I have all my life. But you can't act like that was the same thing. He has done a direct affront on black people and working people and no apologies. I mean, when you take down black servicemen's pitches on the Department of Defense's website side, including Jackie Robinson and Med ge, you can't be more intentionally offensive than that. So I think that the bad side is what he's doing. The good side is, I think it's gonna. I think it's gonna wake a lot of us up sometime. We need something to happen for us to understand what is really happening.
Charlamagne Tha God
But when you're dealing with porn, disenfranchised people. How do you tell them that, you know, if they're already living in hell, how do you tell them things are going to get hotter?
Reverend Al Sharpton
Because they get hotter.
Charlamagne Tha God
I mean, but you already in hell.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Well, you inhale, but it's. The heat is up in hell. And the fact is we in hell economically. Trump is now saying, I'm gonna make it worse. I'm going to use Social Security money, Medicare money, you had that in hell. I'm going to use that to balance the budget and pay for my billionaires to get a tax cut. So when we tell ourselves it can't get worse, it can get worse, worse. When Trump say, I'm gonna bring back stop and frisk, which we all Nash action that was part of helping get down, that means you're gonna get thrown up against the wall again. When Trump says that, I'm gonna deal with getting rid of all of these sentencing rules that can help you get out of jail. So there's a big difference in doing two years and doing 20. So, yeah, you in hell. And you are now the fires in hell is being turned up. And to tell yourself to try to rationalize your inactivity does not make you smart. Because a lot of brothers and sisters saying that to me, well, we were doing bad anyway. That's trying to rationalize that you were not trying to do better. To say that A man with 34 felony convictions found guilty of sexual harassment is better than a woman who did everything right. Lawyer, attorney general, senator, went to Howard and just give that example to your kids, kids that nope, I'll go with the felon because he got swagger is to make us appear like we're not serious.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't think that's a fair comparison, though. And the reason I say that is because I don't think the vice president, you know, of course she didn't run a perfect campaign. Who does? But I think that she suffered from being a part of the Democratic brand. As opposed to her. It wasn't the fact that they chose a Donald Trump over her, they chose Donald Trump over Democrats. Because I feel like it was the same thing in 2020. You had to fight to convince people to vote for Joe Biden. It was definitely the same thing in 2016. You had to fight people to convince for Hillary Clinton. The only the last time Democrats have been cool in the eyes of the people have been 08 and 00:12.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Well, then why did Biden win? The reason I don't accept that Biden.
Charlamagne Tha God
Won a series of extraordinary circumstances, meaning George Floyd Covid.
Reverend Al Sharpton
You don't think it was extraordinary? No, no, no. George Floyd and Covid happened.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Reverend Al Sharpton
And so did 34 felony. We saw that. This is the only time we've seen American history, man, stand up in court. Court having to defend himself and attacking black prosecutors. He went after Alvin Bragg. He went after Tish James. And the fact is that. That Donald Trump was the president when George Floyd happened. I did. George Floyd's funerals led to big marches. We could not get a peep out of the White House. So that don't wash with me when you're standing there saying, this man was president during COVID and told y'all to drink bleach. Was president when George Floyd and never opened his mouth other than one time walked across the street from the White House to the church and held the Bible upside down and reprimanded the protesters. We all got amnesia in two years.
Jess Hilarious
That's what happened, though.
DJ Envy
You think it's crazy that, you know, you look at Trump, right, Like him, love him, hate him, whatever. The fact that he gets in office and he actually shows the power that we thought other presidents should have had, especially Democrats. Like, I mean, the first day he gets on stage, he gets a pen and he's signing executive orders left and right.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Right.
DJ Envy
I mean, his guys that's getting. That has 20 years in prison, 10 years in prison, pardons them immediately. And then you look at some of our Democratic presidents and you'd be like, man, they could have helped so many people for good and just never did. Just was. Was cowardly and didn't. So how does that give the people confidence?
Reverend Al Sharpton
It doesn't. And that's why guys like me that would come to the Democrats and ask them to pardon people and didn't can be disappointed and say, I went to Biden and asked for certain partners that we couldn't get.
DJ Envy
He pardoned some son, but I couldn't.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Get him to pardon Jesse Jackson's son. And, and, and who should have been pardoned and. And others. We went there.
DJ Envy
So how does that make you feel?
Reverend Al Sharpton
As much as you feel like I'm not getting everything I want, but I'm certainly not going to go on the other side. So we need to then put the right kind of leadership there. You don't. You don't. If you're on a team, if the quarterback or the. Or the tacklers can't work, you get better team players. You don't join the other team. So that's why I'm saying there's a difference in the frustration some of us are showing and, and some of you express and in those that went and joined the other team, they went and supported Trump. Like that was an alternative. The alternative to having a head cold is not suicide.
DJ Envy
So how do you look at Mayor Eric Adams?
Jess Hilarious
I was about to say you decided whether you backing away from Eric Adams.
DJ Envy
How do you look at Mayor Eric Adams?
Reverend Al Sharpton
Yeah, how do I do what?
DJ Envy
Look at Mayor Eric Adams.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Look, Eric and I go way. When I started National Action Network, he was one of the founders where he is now now. I think that he has made some positions that I disagree with and I've told him that whether he made a deal with Trump or not, I don't know. But I know that there's some things in policing and all we disagree with, some things that we agree with. But I think that he's in a very peculiar political position. I don't know how he can get reelected.
Jess Hilarious
So. Because before the conversation is that you are having a conversation about whether you're going to back him as mayor or not. Not again. So you have made a decision not to.
Reverend Al Sharpton
I, I, I don't know that he's running yet. He's, has he said he's running?
DJ Envy
He hasn't said he has the Thursday to say if he's running again.
Jess Hilarious
But if he does say right now, do you know what you would do?
Reverend Al Sharpton
Call me Thursday night.
Jess Hilarious
I really call you, I really call you for that because I think for me, I'm looking, I'm looking at it because I definitely will, I'm looking at it because you've been so vocal about him and now you're vocally like, I don't know what I'm gonna do. What do you want him to do? Like, what do you expect to do?
Reverend Al Sharpton
I want him, him to continue to fight for the things that I supported him on, like the right kind of policing in our community, like being fair to people that are getting cut out of jobs in the city of New York, like standing up to Trump on a lot of this stuff that he is agreeing with Trump on, I do not agree.
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Reverend Al Sharpton
That we should put Haitians and people of color in a category that they can be picked up by ICE just because of what they look like. That is racial profile. Fowler. I want him to do those things.
DJ Envy
All right, we have more with Reverend Al Sharpton when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here as well, and we're still kicking it with Al Sharpton. Now, I got a question. What did you. How did you feel? You know, I seen the press go at you and go at a lot of the people that Kamala Harris's campaign gave money to during the campaign. So what. What was your thoughts on that?
Reverend Al Sharpton
That I expected that. I thought they was late. Kamala Harris gave some civil rights groups money to help get the vote out. Nonpartisan. Signed a contract with us that we could not in any way endorse candidate so that they were protected. We protect. Nobody ever asked us, did y'all have a contract? I think she gave several groups a couple million dollars. She gave national action. There were 500,000. And the tour we took, I took Central park five, two of them. All over the country was. Cost us more than that. We had to raise more money. So I expected them to do that. And my thing is, fine, we can bring the contract. Let's go to court. Because then I'm going to ask you about all the money Republicans was giving some of these Christian conservative churches. And these groups, they gonna take a shot. They are not going to mess with you unless you messing with them. Isn't it interesting? You got some of the people, people that you referred to that got some of that money doing the George Floyd. They ain't talking about them. They ain't prosecuting them. They're going after other people. I'M talking about people that did crazy stuff with that money. None of them have you heard, got a problem. But they still beating up on us.
Charlamagne Tha God
And I want to ask you too. I know that, you know, y'all have driven a lot more traffic to Costco because Costco is somebody who stood by their DEI initiatives. What is Costco doing for. For the movement?
Reverend Al Sharpton
We want. They don't. I don't want to do nothing. For me personally, they've never donated to nothing. But I want them to open up some Costco stores where we can own some of those stores. We can franchise some of those stores we want to see. We went and said we're gonna do a buy cut to go in there and buy because they stood up for us, but now do business with us. I don't want again, for us to always be the receivers of what is considered charity. Give us package parody.
Charlamagne Tha God
And you got the National Action Network. What is coming up this week, right.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Starts. Oh, Wednesday.
Charlamagne Tha God
I know you're honoring Ms. Patti LaBelle and honored.
Reverend Al Sharpton
We're going to have everybody from the governor of Maryland, West Moore, who's the only black governor, to the chair of the Democratic Party. We're gonna ask some hard questions. We're gonna have. Ben Crump is coming with a lot of the cases that we have fought. Everybody's gonna be the Dr. Michael Eric dynamic pricing. And it's four days a week, our convention. We always have thousands because it's free. And we even had Charlemagne, the goddam one.
Steve Quirk
That's right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Absolutely. I'm gonna be there Wednesday. I'll be with you.
Reverend Al Sharpton
No, you're gonna be there because of her. Not. He's.
Jess Hilarious
No, you don't know about that.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Let me be real clear. He's not coming out of respect to me.
Charlamagne Tha God
That is not crazy.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Made it clear. Charlemagne, the God is sitting with me. I'm not sitting with you, Reverend.
Charlamagne Tha God
I said, okay, but they told me what it was. I'm like, oh, absolutely, I'll be there. Yeah.
Reverend Al Sharpton
No, he's been there for our youth and all that. He's done that.
Jess Hilarious
How did you. When. When asap. Rocky was going through all of the stuff that he was going through in court. And you tweeted out about the black jurors that the lack thereof. How do you decide when things like that come across your desk, what you put, like, put your. Your name on.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Well, first, the first law I use is that I don't ever get involved in something that somebody involved. Actually, when he was in jail. Jail. His mother came to Me and that's why I stood up for him. Then Trump helped get him back. I give Trump credit for that.
Jess Hilarious
Oh, when he was over.
Reverend Al Sharpton
When he was over there. So I knew him. So when he's on trial this time and somebody in his legal team called me and said that you notice an all white pool that they're choosing from? I said, that's wrong. He said, would you come out of here? I said, I don't have to come out. I can't tweet. And I tweeted. I wouldn't have done that without the legal team because I wouldn't have known what their legal strategy was. Anytime you see me out there, it's cause some of the family members of the legal team have called us. I don't chase ambulance people. You know, people, are they ambulance chases? No, we ain't ambulance chases. We responding to calls.
Charlamagne Tha God
I like to study movements that were successful and you know those movements were successful on so many different levels. What should this generation be learning from that civil rights movement in the 60s and what wasn't done in that movement that that should be be done now.
Reverend Al Sharpton
What they should learn is if the objective, you should judge people by the objective. You cannot in any way gauge people by your objective, gauge them by theirs. And the objective was they wanted to break down apartheid, segregation and change the laws on voting. They did that. 65 Voting Rights Act, 64 Civil Rights act, they did that. So what King and then were after they did that, then they wanted to build economic bases, Jesse. And they did that. They were able to break in the first blacks to get on boards and the first blacks that would own a lot of franchises and Reggie Lewis and all of them, they did that. What we did not do is institutionalize those things. So from generation to generation that continued. And then we build our own businesses. We could say what we want. I've been a different school of thought than the Nation of Islam, but Elijah Muhammad built business.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Any community, you win and that's not there no more. So what we've got to now perfect is how do you pass it on in your lane? And you know, people come to me, I'd like to be the next guy in national action. But you got to be about what we about. If, if something happened to the pope, you don't get a Baptist to be the new pope, you get a Catholic. So if you're not in in what we believe in, you cannot be in that. But if you in that, that we need to continue that. And that's what we've not done, we've seen too many. Just go all political and get out of the economic. You can't afford to be political if you don't have money.
Charlamagne Tha God
So even with what this administration is doing, rolling back a lot of things that have helped black people move forward, we can still build those institutions because he was doing it then.
Reverend Al Sharpton
He can't make us spend money they want. He cannot do that. And if you put the right pressure on them corporations, they can make him turn around. Why is he talking about tariffs and all that now? It's all economic. He is a businessman. Donald Trump has never held office in life. He went in there from business. And that's why I say we've got to have an economic strategy.
DJ Envy
That's right. And join them this Wednesday at nationalactionnetwork.net sign up, register. So many people are speaking. I'm looking at right now, attorney Benjamin Crump, Stacey Adams, Michael Eric Dyson in. Of course, Patti LaBelle is going to be honored. Charlemagne is going to be at her table. Congressman Al Green will be joining us. Dr. Jamal Bryant.
Charlamagne Tha God
See you having a conversation with D A Alvin Bragg.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Yeah, we'll have D A Alvin Bragg there. We're going to talk about a lot of the criminal justice stuff from the inside. And then Ben Crump is going to talk about it externally. It's all free. Well, they have to go. Go to nationalactionnetwork.net and they can register online. We already have several thousand, but we, we can handle it. But it's all free if, if they go in and register now.
DJ Envy
And that's the Sheridan New York Times Square. So definitely go register. And you, you got to come up here more often.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Reverend AL all you gotta do is invite me.
DJ Envy
All right, Say no more.
Reverend Al Sharpton
I had to count Charlemagne, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
Stop.
DJ Envy
It's Reverend Al Sharpton. It's the Breakfast Club. Morning.
Reverend Al Sharpton
The Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning, everybody.
DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning.
DJ Envy
Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
Lauren LaRosa
Lauren becoming a straight thing.
DJ Envy
She gets it from somebody that knows somebody.
Charlamagne Tha God
She gets the details.
Jess Hilarious
I'm the home girl that knows a.
Lauren LaRosa
Little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. What was the latest on the Breakfast Club?
Jess Hilarious
Now there is this report going around on the Internet on the blogs that 106 and park is coming back and that the first. It's not true.
Lauren LaRosa
Oh. What?
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, damn. I Mean, it did come out on April Fools, guys.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, I really feel like I saw before that. But maybe so. But okay, so this report is just. It started circulating on X and now it's making its way over to Instagram and the report is that it's coming back and that the first episode is actually set to air or to tape in a few weeks from now, actually. But we've reached out to some sources who would know who tell us that this is completely not true. The report was that Kiki Palmer and Kai not would host the new version of 106 in park, which would actually.
Lauren LaRosa
Be kind of like definitely see that. That would be dope.
Jess Hilarious
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
Do Kai and Kiki have time for.
Reverend Al Sharpton
For that?
Jess Hilarious
I don't think so.
Charlamagne Tha God
But BET got the budget for that.
DJ Envy
No, but does anybody watch videos like that anymore? So what would you do?
Lauren LaRosa
That's the thing though. That's why you bring it back. Because that I. I just was saying it the other day, yo, I feel like we've gotten away from that music video era, but that's what we need. Ain't nothing wrong with watching them.
DJ Envy
It's just.
Lauren LaRosa
I feel like people don't make them anymore.
Charlamagne Tha God
They don't have a. They don't have. And they don't have a place for us to go to watch Yesterday when you were showing me Dr. Drake. That was Drake.
Lauren LaRosa
No kid, that was Kendrick super bowl performance. That's basically what it was like. It was like a replica of not like us Squabble up music video and the super bowl halftime performance by Kendrick.
DJ Envy
That was Drake, sir.
Lauren LaRosa
I feel like Drake was. Was trolling Kendrick.
Jess Hilarious
A lot of people like that.
Charlamagne Tha God
I watched it on YouTube, but if they had a place for me probably to watch them all at one time, I would.
Lauren LaRosa
That would be cool with some dope hosts like. Cause Kai is entertaining. So is Kiki. Kiki gonna find time for a job? That's one thing about it.
DJ Envy
But why would you wait to see a video? Because before you had to wait because there was no other place to see the videos. Now I don't have to wait. I could just go right to YouTube or the persons whatever.
Lauren LaRosa
But it's not really all about the music videos because remember 106 and park, they only played about 20 seconds of the video anyway. But it was more so about like the topics and everything and the guests that they would bring on and performances and stuff. Blind Fury.
Charlamagne Tha God
I remember the Blind South Carolina all day.
DJ Envy
Oh, for real?
Lauren LaRosa
Hell yeah, man. That would have been dope. My bad. Go ahead.
Jess Hilarious
No I was saying I think 106 and park and just the nostalgia of the brand. I think people would tune in. They would have to find a way to keep it like fresh, new and fast. But to your point about the Drake Nokia music video, that music video has been like news wise. It's breaking records right now for. It was like most watched, most trended or something like that on YouTube over the weekend. Something like that. People are having a conversation about whether he's trolling Kendrick Lamar or not.
Charlamagne Tha God
He was.
Jess Hilarious
But imagine if you had a show dedicated to just breaking down exactly like y'all just did.
Charlamagne Tha God
Boom.
Jess Hilarious
I mean we do it here, so stay with the Breakfast Club.
Lauren LaRosa
But like you said.
Jess Hilarious
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
That's like strictly for music videos. That would be dope. Drew Ski, somebody else. That would be dope too, to do that.
Jess Hilarious
Drew Ski would be great on a music video as like the like the fun.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. Drew and Pretty V would like kill that 116 plug. That would be dope.
DJ Envy
Stop acting like Drake fell off like, oh, Drake had. Yes, he's still Drake.
Lauren LaRosa
Definitely still Drake.
Jess Hilarious
I know he's still Drake. But I think people just because of everything people point out, I don't even remember stuff differently.
Lauren LaRosa
Right.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah. Don't get us in trouble again, Jess.
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, sorry. Love you, Drake.
Jess Hilarious
But yeah, I thought that I enjoyed the video. But yes, we were told that that is not true. There is no 1 in 6,106. And park returning with Kai and Kiki Palmer. So sorry to shut your dreams down.
Charlamagne Tha God
It was April Fool's Day. I just want to put that out there.
Lauren LaRosa
Nobody really care. I'm so grown. I ain't even yesterday. That was it.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah. I didn't even realize it was too. So in other news, so Denise Richards, actress Denise Richards, she is now opening up and talking about when Charlie Sheen, who is her ex, who she shares two kids with, came out on the Today show with at the time with Matt Lauer and talked about the fact that he was HIV positive. Positive.
Charlamagne Tha God
Come on, man. That's not the first time she heard that. Right. I hope you told her for us before he went on tv.
Jess Hilarious
That's exactly what we're about to talk about. She said, she says that she was upset because she didn't let. She didn't let him know that. Let them know. Let her know that he was gonna be sharing it publicly before he went on the show.
DJ Envy
Oh, she knew, but she didn't know he was going public with it.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, she didn't know that he was going public with. Let Me clarify that, because you asked me that, and I'm like, wait, hold on. But, yes, she didn't know that he was going to go public with it. So she said she was on the Wind down with Jana Kramer. And she was asked if. Because, you know, Charlie Sheen has some very controversial, you know what I mean? Past stories. And she's had a little bit of a time herself. And she was asked, do you ever have to sit your kids down and have a conversation with them about anything before it hits the Internet? Like, any past stuff or even when they were growing up? And she says no, because Denise Richard said no, because their daughters are not ones to Google them. Like, they don't care about that type of stuff. But she did say that when Charlie Sheen sat down with Matt Lauer, she was upset because, you know, he went on and talked about this publicly, but she felt like she understood why he had to, because at that time, the tabloids had already been talking about it. They were accusing him of basically, like, endangering other people's lives. So he wanted to go and clear it up. So she understood, but she just wished that they had had, like, some sort of conversation because of their two daughters. And then because of that, she then had to go pick the daughters up from school because she didn't want anybody in the school to say anything to them, sit their daughters down and have a conversation with their daughters about what their dad had just revealed on the show and kind of explained to them what it was. And she said that, you know, they didn't really understand it. They didn't really get it then. But she did have to have that conversation.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't. I don't feel like that that. That hurt Charlie Sheen in any way, though, because, I mean, only thing I remember from that era is winning. Winning. I remember everybody was screaming, winning, winning. I don't remember people's low key.
Jess Hilarious
I feel like all of his controversy, it. Like, people talk about it as if it's like a. Like a notch on a belt. Like, they don't. It doesn't. It. It doesn't. Like, I guess because of the stigma. You know what I mean?
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, the stigma of HIV has been pretty much erased for a long time anyway.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, like, I mean, like, the. Like, they talk about him like, oh, my God, he just had this big, grand, fun, crazy life. But they don't. I. I don't. Even if people talk negatively about him, it doesn't affect him, in my opinion.
DJ Envy
Man.
Lauren LaRosa
I remember seeing a video that went viral from a Charlie Sheen interview. And the lady interviewed him in his house and she was like, are there any drugs in the house? And he was like, if there are, you need to find them and give them to me immediately. He is hilarious, yo.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, he's looked at as like the rock star that just, you know, I.
Charlamagne Tha God
Guess that's what it was. The life he lived. It's like, yeah, yes, he got hiv. Okay, yeah, that sound about right. It is what it is. The way you was living now.
Lauren LaRosa
They sound about right.
Charlamagne Tha God
But it did at the time. Plus the stigma. Hiv, like I said, was pretty much gone. So nobody, nobody cared.
Jess Hilarious
And he had said at the time when he came out about it that he had been diagnosed four years prior. But he again, he was talking about it because then tabloids grabbed it. So he wanted to have conversations and clear up some of the things that were being said in the stigmas around it.
DJ Envy
Some people were still scared back then when he. Yeah, cuz it was all. It was only one person known though to be beat it. But other than that, we people.
Jess Hilarious
It was 2015.
Charlamagne Tha God
What does anybody talk about this morning?
DJ Envy
Back then.
Lauren LaRosa
I know what you mean.
DJ Envy
Back then people were still scared in 2015.
Charlamagne Tha God
Back then was yesterday. 2015. People were not scared years ago. HIV has been gone for a long, long time.
Lauren LaRosa
People still make the mosquito references like if it's somebody there at. At the cookout.
Charlamagne Tha God
Shut up.
Lauren LaRosa
If a person with, you know, you know, HIV is at a cookout and the mosquitoes is around, it's like, whoa. You know what I'm saying?
Charlamagne Tha God
Shut up.
Lauren LaRosa
That I. I've heard that. So people do be scared in the summer.
Charlamagne Tha God
Those prep commercials be looking so happy.
Lauren LaRosa
Yes, yes. As they are designed too, because those people are happy.
Charlamagne Tha God
The stigma from HIV is not what it was in any way, shape or form.
Jess Hilarious
Speaking of mosquitoes, did y'all grandma used to make y'all put on that Avon Oil?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Jess Hilarious
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
Brought me down Avon Oil.
DJ Envy
What the hell is that? Hell yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Jess Hilarious
Oh my God.
Charlamagne Tha God
Black.
Jess Hilarious
If you didn't get the Avon oil for the mosquitoes in the summer and.
Charlamagne Tha God
Your girl the skin so soft. Come on now. Yeah, you really not black talking.
Jess Hilarious
We didn't even have.
Charlamagne Tha God
You never had a Avon lady visit your house with some skin, so.
DJ Envy
So no. I recently went to a Mary Kay convention the other.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, so that's kind of like that. But Avon was. Was the joint.
Charlamagne Tha God
Not just mosquitoes, ticks too. Grandma tell you that? Avon skin soft office for ticks and mosquitoes.
Jess Hilarious
Yeah, I feel like it didn't work still. I didn't I didn't feel like it worked.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't remember getting bit like that back in the day.
DJ Envy
I'm from New York. We ain't got no ticks night. We ain't had no ticks like that.
Charlamagne Tha God
It ain't our fault you ain't had no good child we sprayed off. You mad at us that you a had no good childhood?
DJ Envy
I had a great country off. All right.
Jess Hilarious
All the Old Grain cereals too.
DJ Envy
We did. And that is the latest Frosted Flake.
Charlamagne Tha God
With a real tie on we have.
Jess Hilarious
And just go get it. The big box, the big one for the family.
DJ Envy
We had Corn flakes, Raisin Bran, all that.
Lauren LaRosa
I know that's right. I know that's all right.
DJ Envy
Well, that is the latest. And I just want to tell everybody out there, it gets to a certain age, we can't do April fool jokes no more. They tried to do one yesterday on me. Guy act like he passed out and I called 911. Oh, my God, that.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Call 911.
Charlamagne Tha God
Not too smart when you was doing the mouth to mouth mouth. I was minding my business, I promise you. I saw him doing the mouth to mouth. I saw the dude on the ground. I. I kept going. And then you got your pink hoodie on today. I was like, oh, okay.
DJ Envy
You know what People's Choice mixes up next, man? It's the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Checking out the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy J. That's hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now we got a salute to Bubba Wallace for joining us this morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
The good brother Bubba Wallace, NASCAR's own man. I thought he was the first black NASCAR driver, but he's the second, I think.
DJ Envy
Second?
Steve Quirk
Yeah.
DJ Envy
He said it was others. Yeah. And also he came with the chief executive office, I believe, of the Robin Hood app, Steve Quirk. So salute to him as well. And also Reverend Al Sharpton for stopping through Reverend Al.
Charlamagne Tha God
The National Action Network summit is happening all week. I'm starting today. Starting today.
DJ Envy
Starting today.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. They're honoring Ms. Patty LaBelle tonight. So I'm going to go. I'm go pay my respects to Ms. Patty LaBelle. Yeah.
DJ Envy
Reverend Al was on live this morning talking about it. So salute to Reverend Al.
Charlamagne Tha God
He had. He was holding the camera, right?
DJ Envy
He was in the gym. Yep.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Lauren LaRosa
Yo, yo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Somebody was holding him for me. He was holding himself.
DJ Envy
And now he's holding himself.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
DJ Envy
Salute to Reverend now. And Jess, you got shows this weekend.
Lauren LaRosa
Yep. In Riley, North Carolina. I will be there. You said it's Riley. It's not Riley.
Reverend Al Sharpton
Right?
Lauren LaRosa
Riley. All right, so it is Riley.
DJ Envy
All right.
Lauren LaRosa
That's what it is. I will be there there at the improv. We got two shows this Friday, two shows this Saturday. Get your tickets at JessOfficial.com or improv.com I will be there Friday and Saturday and I will be there Sunday for Dreamville Vest too. So yes, I can't wait to see y'all, Riley.
DJ Envy
All right, when we come back, positive notice, the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time to get up out of here. Charlemagne. You got a positive note.
Charlamagne Tha God
I do have a positive note, but before that, I want to tell everybody. Make sure you go get your TV tickets for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival happening Saturday, April 26th at Pullman Yards in Atlanta. What is the day's date? Today is the second, right?
DJ Envy
Second.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you got 24 more days, man. 24 more days before we're entering in Atlanta for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. Sarah, Jake's Roberts, Carrie Champion, Tank and Jay Valentine, they will all be hitting that podcast stage. So go get your tickets@black effect.com podcast festival festival. Now, the positive note is simply this. Release self judgment. Did you hear what I just said? Release self judgment. Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true. Therefore, you don't need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
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Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – April 2, 2025
Introduction The Breakfast Club, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy, and Jess Hilarious, delves into today's hottest topics, blending political discourse, celebrity news, and impactful interviews. This episode, released on April 2, 2025, tackles a range of issues from Cory Booker's historic Senate speech to controversial claims against Diddy, alongside an in-depth conversation with NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace and Robinhood app CEO Steve Quirk.
Timestamp: 05:00 – 11:00
The episode kicks off with a discussion on Senator Cory Booker’s record-breaking Senate speech, which lasted an astounding 25 hours and 4 minutes. Initiated as a protest against President Trump’s administration policies, Booker aimed to draw attention to issues such as tariffs, the dismantling of the Department of Education, and broader national crises.
Notable Quotes:
The hosts analyze the potential impact of such a prolonged speech, questioning its effectiveness in achieving tangible change but acknowledging its role in raising awareness and inspiring activism.
Timestamp: 21:49 – 32:38
Jess Hilarious brings forward a serious allegation against music mogul Diddy, where a Florida man claims he was forced to wear a penis mask and parade around a party. The accuser alleges that prominent figures like Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and LeBron James witnessed this humiliating event during Diddy's son Christian’s 17th birthday party in April 2015.
Notable Quotes:
The Breakfast Club team critically examines the inconsistencies in the accuser’s timeline and the improbability of key figures like Jay-Z being present, as he was in New York at the time of the alleged incident. Legal experts and public statements from celebrities involved further debunk the claims, highlighting the importance of due diligence in such serious allegations.
Timestamp: 32:38 – 40:34
The hosts move on to recent election outcomes in Wisconsin and Florida, presenting them as indicators of the national political climate. In Florida, Republicans secured two pivotal House seats, slightly narrowing the Democratic margin in the US House of Representatives. Wisconsin saw a significant Supreme Court election where liberal Susan Crawford won against Republican Attorney General Brad Schmiel in what was reported as the most expensive state Supreme Court race in US history.
Notable Quotes:
Further discussion touches on President Trump's talks about running for a third term, which House Speaker Mike Johnson dismisses as constitutionally impossible without an amendment, underscoring the high barriers to such a move.
Timestamp: 40:34 – 68:50
One of the episode's highlights is an engaging interview with NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace and Steve Quirk, CEO of the Robinhood app. Bubba Wallace shares his experiences as one of the few Black drivers in NASCAR, addressing challenges like racism and the pressure of representing his community. Steve Quirk discusses Robinhood’s initiatives in financial literacy, emphasizing their commitment to making investing accessible to younger and more diverse populations.
Notable Quotes:
The conversation delves into Bubba’s journey in racing, his role in promoting diversity within the sport, and the partnership with Robinhood to enhance financial education. Steve Quirk highlights Robinhood’s mission to democratize investing, aiming to empower individuals with the tools and knowledge to build wealth responsibly.
Timestamp: 68:50 – End
The latter part of the episode covers a variety of pressing news stories:
Val Kilmer’s Passing: Jess Hilarious expresses condolences for the late actor, known for his roles in Top Gun and Batman Forever, who succumbed to pneumonia at 65, following a battle with throat cancer.
Kanye West vs. J. Cole Feud: The hosts discuss Kanye West’s controversial statements dissing J. Cole, including claims that Kanye believes no one listens to J. Cole after personal grievances. They critically assess the impact of such feuds on the music industry and fan perceptions.
Young Scooter’s False 911 Call: Jess Hilarious reports on the arrest of Demetrius Spence for making a false 911 call that led to the tragic death of Young Scooter. The segment underscores the dangers of swatting and the real-life consequences of false reporting.
Notable Quotes:
The discussion emphasizes the importance of verifying information before spreading allegations and the societal implications of such high-profile controversies.
Timestamp: 82:39 – 101:02
Reverend Al Sharpton joins the conversation to discuss the National Action Network Summit, addressing the administration's policies affecting Black communities. Sharpton critiques President Trump's actions, particularly regarding policing and economic policies, advocating for a comprehensive economic strategy to combat systemic issues.
Notable Quotes:
Sharpton emphasizes the need for economic empowerment and institutional support within the Black community, highlighting the ongoing struggle against policies perceived as harmful and discriminatory.
Conclusion
This episode of The Breakfast Club offers a multifaceted exploration of political activism, celebrity controversies, and initiatives aimed at empowering marginalized communities. Through robust discussions and candid interviews, the hosts provide listeners with insightful perspectives on current events and the ongoing fight for equality and justice.
Note: Advertisements, sponsor messages, and non-content segments have been omitted to focus on the core discussions and interviews.