FULL SHOW: Diddy’s Letter to Judge, Claressa Shields’ Explosive Song, JT Disses Cardi B + Taylor Polidore Williams and Dr. Chuck Morris Interview Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary

Date: October 3, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Guests: Taylor Polidor Williams (Beauty in Black, Netflix), Dr. Chuck Morris (Midtown Biohack)
Notable Topics: Diddy’s sentencing, Project 2025 & government shutdown, Claressa Shields’ new music, JT/Cardi B beef, Taylor Polidor Williams interview, fitness/health innovation, social media vs. sex culture

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Overview

This episode of The Breakfast Club blends headline news, pop culture, and interviews with candid, often comedic, commentary. The hosts cover Diddy’s high-profile sentencing, the ongoing government shutdown and ‘Project 2025’, music beefs, and issues relating to both fitness innovation and internet culture. The episode is highlighted by an in-depth interview with actress Taylor Polidor Williams, star of Netflix's "Beauty in Black," and fitness entrepreneur Dr. Chuck Morris.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Diddy’s Sentencing: Letter to Judge & Family Pleas

• [20:03–28:59]

  • Lauren LaRosa delivers a detailed segment on Diddy’s ongoing legal battle and impending sentencing.
  • Diddy submitted a 61-page sentencing package, including a personal letter to the judge and an emotional 11-minute family video, pleading for leniency and expressing remorse.
  • Diddy’s letter includes personal accountability:

    “I want to apologize and say I'm sincerely sorry for all that I have hurt and the pain that I've caused others by my conduct. I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs. This has been the hardest two years of my life. I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself.” [24:00]

  • He specifically references the Cassie incident and expresses regret.
  • The package also includes testimonials from children and references to his mother’s recent brain surgery.

• Debate: Should Diddy be weighed for just his conviction (engaging in prostitution)?

  • DJ Envy: "My only thing is, and I'm not saying that. That what Diddy did wasn't right, is he's being convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution. Right. That that's what his charges are. Right. So that's what he should be judged on those charges." [27:03]
  • Jess Hilarious and Lauren LaRosa note the wider context: victim letters, the judge being influenced by publicized abuse, and the complexity of separating criminal charges from public narratives.

• Memorable Moment:

  • 50 Cent posts a (sarcastic) letter to the judge about Diddy, referencing his own Netflix doc and taunting Diddy’s scandals [29:14].
  • Jess and Charlamagne quip about the seriousness of sentencing, with 50 Cent “playing too much.”

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2. Project 2025 & Government Shutdown

• [05:31–12:15, 31:36–38:47]

  • Mimi Brown provides updates on day three of the government shutdown, focusing on President Trump’s adoption of Project 2025 – a conservative plan to restructure/abolish various federal agencies and fire non-loyal civil servants amidst shutdown chaos.
  • Ted Cruz is quoted supporting the move:

    "President Trump is going to use that as an opportunity not to tell people you're furloughed for a few days, but instead to send pink slips and to get rid of left wing bureaucrats..." [06:32]

  • Trump’s camp suggests universities wanting federal funding adopt sweeping changes: neutrality on social/political issues, bar transgender athletes, tuition freezes, cap foreign students, etc.
  • Governor Gavin Newsom, CA, threatens to withdraw state funds from any CA university that complies.

• Hosts’ Take:

  • Charlamagne: Questions what the administration actually expects of citizens if work and school options are being slashed; muses on the meaning of public service and societal responsibility.
  • DJ Envy: Understands confusion, asks about Trump's expanded power during shutdowns.
  • Lauren LaRosa: Emphasizes the blueprint nature of Project 2025 and the long-term plan behind the apparent chaos.

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3. Social Media: Rage Bait vs. Sex, and Culture Wars

• [35:36–36:49, 79:24–96:27]
  • New poll highlighted by Mimi Brown: Americans see polarization, fueled by algorithms that privilege divisive content ("rage bait"), as a severe national problem.
  • Social media is now considered more addictive than sex to much of the public.
  • Charlamagne jokes:

    "Ain't nothing like being on your phone and then your wife come in there looking all right, and you like, you know, me putting this phone down, and you know what I'm saying? Get to doing what adults should be doing. Okay?" [35:32]

  • Listeners call in to debate whether they'd rather engage with social media or have sex; responses split generationally.

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4. JT Disses Cardi B – The Music Beef

• [65:17–68:56]
  • Lauren introduces JT’s new diss track aimed at Cardi B, referencing Stephon Diggs.
  • Hosts’ reaction is lukewarm:
    • Charlamagne: "I'm a JT fan but I don't know... it just felt like she could have come harder. Maybe if she had dropped it right after Magnet, it would’ve hit different." [65:38]
    • Jess Hilarious: “You already gave us all your ammo online for three days.”
  • Cardi's response: Posts alleged DMs of JT seeking to work with her writer, mocks JT for “studio just wasting time.”

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5. Claressa Shields Drops Explosive Song

• [69:02–71:14]
  • Lauren premieres Claressa Shields’ new single featuring Tati Camille.
  • Strong positive reactions:
    • Charlamagne: "That’s the difference between having the right rap coach... Pap was in the studio coaching her!" [69:43]
    • Jess: “She not coming at nobody, she talking her talk – straight up her.”

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6. Spotlight Interview: Taylor Polidor Williams ("Beauty in Black")

• [39:26–63:53]

  • Taylor, star of Netflix’s "Beauty in Black", opens up on acting, career trajectory, and working in the Tyler Perry universe.

  • On Success and Recognition:

    • "It does feel different. The visibility that I have is different. Places that I go... It's no longer like, 'oh, you're familiar.' It's like Kimmy. And they're hugging, and it's like, woohoo. I'm not used to that, having to kind of move a little bit different..." [40:15]

  • On Artistic Growth:

    • On producing, acting, writing: "The biggest thing is that I cannot do them all by myself. There are people who are experts... And I think that's why I like producing, because it's like I can pick and choose... putting it all together is the fun part for me.” [41:47]

  • On "Beauty in Black" and Tyler Perry's Fast Pace:

    • Season 2: "12 episodes in 12 days" [46:22].
    • "He's pretty much just counting on y' all knowing y' all lines." [46:55]
    • On challenging scripts, switching from victim to empowered character, and the emotional toll:
      "For a whole week, I'm just crying in every scene, getting beat up. It was a lot, but it stretched me as an artist..." [48:15]
    • "I have a great therapist... I meditate daily." [51:10]

  • On Addressing Human Trafficking Storylines:

    • "I did speak to somebody that had been through a situation like that... what did it take to get out? And that's the real resiliency." [57:51]
    • Taylor notes the importance of authenticity, research, and survivor voices.

  • Host Reactions:

    • Jess and Lauren are big fans; general show banter around character arcs, Tyler Perry's working style, fight scene hilarity, and aspirations for more inclusive casting.

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7. Health/Fitness Innovation: Dr. Chuck Morris Interview

• [102:06–110:54]
  • Dr. Chuck Morris details his Midtown Biohack fitness method – results-focused, low-frequency, high-intensity workouts plus innovative recovery and therapy.
  • Jess and DJ Envy share their experiences:
    • "Her strength increased by 28%... Envy did 31% in 12 weeks, just by working out one day a week." [106:01]
    • Jess credits the program for huge gains in ankle mobility/recovery post-injury.
    • Dr. Morris: "Their results is stronger, less pain, and then really kicking in on all the brain stuff to get the stress levels out..."

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8. Other Noteworthy Segments

• Callers Vent ("Get it Off Your Chest"):

  • A teacher discusses the ban on cell phones in schools and the benefits for classroom management [14:09].
  • Listener rap freestyles exchange with hosts [17:17–18:55].

• Pass the Aux – New Music:

  • Big love to Monaleo's "All The Non-Blacks To The Back", E.J. Jones (“Gas Station Love”), and Victoria Noel (“In The Name of Love”) [97:02–100:42].

• Black Ownership News:

  • The Root returns to Black ownership via Ashley Allison (Watering Hole Media), greeted positively by the hosts as a win for Black journalism [36:54–38:33].

• Viral/Internet Culture:

  • Freaky Friday phone poll: “Would you rather be online or having sex?” Highlights generational differences and changing priorities in internet vs. real life pleasure [81:33–96:27].

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Ain't nothing like being on your phone and then your wife come in there looking all right, and you like, you know, me putting this phone down, and you know what I'm saying? Get to doing what adults should be doing. Okay?"
  —Charlamagne Tha God [35:32]

• "That’s the difference between having the right rap coach... Pap was in the studio coaching her!"
  —Charlamagne Tha God on Claressa Shields [69:43]

• "How y' all like clicks more than cheeks, bro?"
  —Charlamagne Tha God, on the absurdity of preferring social media to sex [94:00]

• "The best apology is change behavior."
  —Charlamagne Tha God, advising a caller wanting to be a better partner [77:13]

• "With our future ahead of us and the ancestors beside us, there's nothing we can't do. Have a great day."
  —Charlamagne’s closing positive note [113:08]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 05:31–12:15: Front Page News—Project 2025, shutdown, university policy
• 20:03–28:59: Diddy’s sentencing, family video, and letter to judge
• 39:26–63:53: Taylor Polidor Williams ("Beauty in Black") Interview
• 65:17–68:56: JT vs. Cardi B (music beef)
• 69:02–71:14: Claressa Shields’ new song premiere
• 81:33–96:27: Freaky Friday—'Social media vs. sex' call-ins
• 102:06–110:54: Dr. Chuck Morris (Midtown Biohack) Interview

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Conclusion

This episode packs breaking cultural headlines, music releases, and deeply human interviews in the classic rapid-fire, banter-heavy Breakfast Club style. The show manages to balance gravity (Diddy’s sentencing) with levity (freaky Friday phone lines, music beefs), offering a cross-section of Black pop culture’s current priorities: justice, art, wellness, and internet chaos.

Listeners leave informed, entertained, and with several memorable soundbites to bring into the weekend.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Charlemagne, Nigol.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. Is Friday.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, it's Friday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

The Week speaking is here. How you feeling? Salute to all the Yankee fans out there. Last night the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox. That's why our board op and producer Red does not have any Boston paraphernalia on this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You a Boston fan, Red? Is he how you a Puerto Rican from Jersey. And you?

[DJ Envy]

He's Puerto Rican from the Bronx.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's why you weighing your baseball gear today. Envy. That's why.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, because of him. Because all week long, yeah, his Boston stuff won, but he took it right off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you a Red Sox? You got red hat. I Never liked the Yankees. I felt like they bought the championships growing up, so. Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I never liked the Yankees like you either. I'm having a rough morning today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sure this Latino, Latino crime that baseball causes is crazy. Like baseball have Dominicans and Puerto Ricans warn more than usual.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Only during the playoff season though. So salute to all the Yankee fans out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what does that mean? Because I don't follow baseball.

[DJ Envy]

But we, we're playing Toronto next and next we're playing Toronto for the American League division and then it's the World Series.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I never, I ain't watched baseball since the 90s. You know, growing up in South Carolina, we had TNT, or was it TBS? I don't remember. We used to watch the Braves all the time. So I used to like baseball. And everybody was on steroids. Everybody was on steroids. The sport was amazing.

[DJ Envy]

Well, they changed it a lot. They sped it up a lot. So now the games are not going to be extra, extra long. There's time, how long the pitch could take to do certain things. You can go to the bag a certain amount of time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I care about the home runs. The home runs made it exciting, man.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, well, everybody was on steroids.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was great. No, steroids don't make you a legend.

[DJ Envy]

Makes you stronger.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but you, you already got to be a legend. You already got to have that type of talent in order for the performance. They don't get enhanced skills. Exactly. It's not like a. Not like you're a monster.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but if you hit the ball and you're on steroids, it's more likely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To go out the point. I'm saying I could, I could get on steroids right now and I still wouldn't be as good as Barry Bonds. You understand what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's true. Because you're five foot one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't have that God given talent. I still got God given talent. The Barry bonds, the Mark McGuires, the. The Sammy Sosas, they still had God given talent. That was out of the room.

[Jess Hilarious]

You better lay off some damn Tylenol. I know that. He just so damn slow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He ain't pregnant.

[DJ Envy]

What? What?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I'm saying he's slow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I am not slow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They ain't got nothing to do with Tyler. That could be that Just For Men. The fumes from the Just for Men might do that too, though.

[DJ Envy]

Now it's the fumes from Just For Men.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, for real.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. Well, good morning. It's a Friday. And we got a special guest joining us. She's from Beauty in Black on Netflix. We have Taylor Polidor Williams. Did I say that right? Jess?

[Jess Hilarious]

Polidor.

[DJ Envy]

Polidor Williams. Yes. Taylor Polidor Williams. Yes. She'll be joining us this morning. And Dr. Chuck Morris will be joining us. He's the founder of Midtown Biohack. It's actually the gym that Jess and I go to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's the reason that Jess look like she on steroids.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Don't look like I'm on steroids, idiot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you do. You seen your back?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I don't. No, I don't.

[DJ Envy]

Well, you eat like cheese. Three cheese danishes a day, so you shouldn't. But we'll talk about that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Another one?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I do not.

[DJ Envy]

But let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Mimi will be joining us. And it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake your ass up. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to front page news. Let's start off quickly. In football. Now, the 49ers lost or beat the Rams last night, 26, 23. In Thursday night Football. Now, Major League Baseball. The Tigers beat the Guardians. The Cubs beat the Padres. And the Yankees, squashed, destroyed, killed the Red Sox last night. Now Tonight is game one of the 2025 WNBA Finals. The Phoenix Mercury play the Vegas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's go. Aces make Asia Wilson dropping the clues. Bombs for Asia Wilson. Let's go, baby.

[DJ Envy]

What's, what's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy Charlemagne. Jess, how y' all doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good. Happy Friday. So we're now in day three of a government shutdown, and President Trump is signaling he wants to use it as more than just leverage. Yesterday on social media, he posted that he was meeting with his budget director, Russell Vogt, of Project 2025 fame, to decide which federal agencies could face cuts. Now, that's a major shift because just last year, Trump denied knowing anything about Project 2025. Now that' conservative playbook that calls for dismantling agencies and replacing career staff with loyalists. Now he's embracing it and even, even bragging about the opportunity Democrats have given him. Now Vote has already told House Republicans to prepare for mass layoffs on top of the hundreds of thousands of workers who have been furloughed during the shutdown. Now union leaders, they call it illegal warning families will be caught in the crossfire. And here's how Senator Ted Cruz put it. Let's listen to Him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

President Trump is going to use that as an opportunity not to tell people you're furloughed for a few days, but instead to send pink slips and to get rid of left wing bureaucrats who are imposing left wing priorities that are contrary to President Trump's priorities. I think that is fantastic. And what it's going to do is it's going to cause Democrats in Congress to scream and weep and gnash their teeth. I cannot wait for the next Democrat lunch when they start screaming at each other, when they start seeing pink slips go out at the epa, at the Department of Labor, at the irs. Hmm.

[Mimi Brown]

So that's the White House or Ted Cruz speaking on behalf of the White House, which is not doubling, which is not backing up off of its message. Legal experts note the president, though, doesn't have the power to eliminate agencies created by Congress. But on Capitol Hill, both sides are digging in. Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeff Jeffrey says public pressure will force Republicans back to the table, while Speaker Mike Johnson insists the GOP already did its job with a short term funding bill and blames Democrats for holding up the process over health care. And former Vice President Kamala Harris, she is also weighing in this morning, writing on social Media that Project 2025 has always been Trump's plan and that he's implementing it right in front of our eyes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, but, you know, when they say Trump promises to cut Democrat agencies, what do they mean? Like, he's going to suspend thousands of workers.

[Mimi Brown]

Right, he's going to suspend thousands of workers. But he's also trying, they're trying to, you know, cut the federal government. So he's in essence trying to finish off the job that Doge started and get rid of some of these, these federal agencies altogether.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So agencies like hud, Department of Education, Department of Labor.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he said any agency that doesn't allow align with his values.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Environmental Protection Agency. Yep.

[DJ Envy]

He says it has nothing to do with Republican and Democrats. I was gonna say Dominicans, but Democrats. He said it has to do with aligning with his values. But I do, I do have one question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dominicans swear they their own political party. You really about to say it? I'm glad you was about to admit it. Finally.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, shut up. I do have one question. They said, you know, somebody asked me yesterday, they were asking, you know, with the government shutdown, how much more power does this give Trump where he doesn't need to necessarily get approval from Congress or anything else, how much more power does he have now?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that's what he's Exactly. Trying to do is amass more power. So that's why during the government shutdown, they're trying to move behind back doors and do a lot of these, close a lot of these agencies and do a lot of things without having to vote, without having the Democrats take their votes and get their opinions on it. And so that remains to be seen. Just because we've never seen anything like this. Right. We don't know exactly what he's going to do. It seems like every day they come up with a different way to amass more powerful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, yeah, somebody told me yesterday by doing this, you know, he can now try to find more people, which is what they wanted to do anyway.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, exactly. And so, fresh off of signaling that he'll use the government to shut down parts of 2025, President Trump is now setting his sights on American universities. The White House on Thursday rolled out a compact Academic Excellence in Higher education. That's a 10 point plan that offers colleges extra funding if they agree to overhaul, overhaul how they operate. The memo was sent out to nine school, including the University of Southern California. And officials say more institutions will be offered the deal in the future. Now, here's what's in it. To sign onto it, universities would have to agree to change their hiring practices, their admissions practices, to pledge to remain institutionally neutral on political and social issues. They would bar transgender women from women's sports and locker rooms. And they'd also have to freeze tuition rates for five years and cap foreign student enrollment at just 15%. Now, in exchange for participating, schools would be given money. They would be put in front of the line for federal grants and research money. And schools who don't sign, they'll still get federal funding, but just without that priority. Now, Governor Gavin Newsom of California, he wasted no time blasting the plan. He warned that if any California university signs on that the state will immediately strip billions in funding, including Cal Grants that thousands of students rely on. And his words, quote, california will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors and researchers and surrender their academic freedom. Now, USC is not alone on that list. There are other schools like Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Brown and the University of Virginia. So we'll see how that plays out. Another around for Governor Gavin Newsom and Trump on the educational front, what so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Question, what does the Trump administration want people to do? Like, you're making cuts to all these government agencies so you don't want people to work, you're cutting funding at schools, so you don't want folks to get an education. What exactly do they want American citizens seems to be doing like. Like, what would he like to see people? Makes no sense.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, well, yeah, like starve. Like, I don't know. Like, it's the weirdest thing ever.

[Mimi Brown]

It is the weirdest thing ever. And every single day it just seems like there's something else that piles on and piles on. And so it seems like they're attacking every branch. Right? And it's all laid out in Project 2025 as we talked about in story one, where Trump said he didn't know anything about it. But clearly there's a blueprint for how they're going about this. So we'll have to continue to watch and see what happens. And coming up at 7, America's now. Americans now see the greatest danger facing the economy. We'll tell you what they think that is. And that's coming up at seven.

[DJ Envy]

Damn, Mimi, we ain't got no good news. No. Like, nobody.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm sorry, Envy. I'll be trying. I'll be trying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Find your own joy. Didn't your Yankees win last night? You're right, okay.

[DJ Envy]

The Yankees did win last night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on. Dominicans could be happy about something.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not Dominican. Get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800 Puerto Rican. Don't you like when you see a sad Puerto Rican?

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Hit us up right now. Vent a little bit. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up. Wake up.

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This Kirby.

[DJ Envy]

Kirby, what's up? Get it off your chest, Kirby.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, my beef with you, DJ envy. I'm sick of you messing up these people names that's coming on the show. Bro.

[DJ Envy]

Bro, look.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, look, it is what it is.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, I'm with Jess, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got a college education, but you live slow, bro. Oh, damn crazy. He got a college education.

[DJ Envy]

Shut up.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm from the streets, but I. I can get these names pretty right, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But here's the thing.

[Caller/Listener]

You call this lady Serena, Saraya, whatever you was called.

[DJ Envy]

Name too, but they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Know I can't talk. And NB's defense though, he never says he graduated from Hampton. He just said he went there.

[DJ Envy]

I did graduate from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did he say he went to Howard? But did he never graduated from Howard.

[DJ Envy]

Don't compare me to Diddy. But I did graduate. I did graduate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, nobody want to be compared To Diddy. All you New Yorkers, he was y' all idol for all these years. Not a day getting sentenced. Nobody want to be compared to Diddy.

[DJ Envy]

I said. I just said, don't compare me to Diddy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's a lot of other things Diddy did other than rub on his nipples. Maybe I should write a letter to the judge. Judge. You know what I mean? You gotta.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, don't judge that man. You know what? That's why he didn't ask you to write a letter. Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, good morning. What's your name?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Marcelo.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Marcel. Get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why are you smart?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, what's up? I love listening to y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

First, I just wanted to say that I believe the Trump administration. What Trump wants is absolute power. He doesn't want to be questioned or challenged, and that's why he's going the way he's going. That's the plan. Remove the people's tongue, take their money. They're not going to question you. They're not going to challenge you. They'll be too scared of you. The other thing is I work in a school. I'm a teacher, and we've been doing the cell phone thing. And as a parent and a former student, I get the concerns and things like that. But as a teacher, I'm going to be honest, it's been way better since this year started without having to fight kids for their cell phones, without being threatened for not giving their cell phones back. My school worked a system that seems to work right now, and the kids have fallen in line. And I believe that if every school can figure out their niche with the cell phone, it shouldn't be an issue or a problem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like that.

[Caller/Listener]

It's just about the schools figuring it out. Like, I'm not going to lie to you. We've had some battles with kids that even took their cell phones and put it inside their underwear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm not going in your pants to get my. To get your cell phone. But we have them locked up in a bag and in the case of emergency, the dean, they take the bags outside when we all evacuate so the kids can call their parents once we get out so the cell phones don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stay in the building. I'm glad that y' all have. Y' all are being solution based. And I really don't understand the problem with taking these kids phones because these kids will give up their phones to go to, you know. Well, I don't know. I guess comedy shows and certain events right Certain events, they take your phones.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's just like, what's the difference? It's cool.

[DJ Envy]

Well, the problem is, if they do take school and it is an issue or there is an event, you're not going to have time to get that device to get it off. So you make kids turn their phone off, leave it in their backpack, so if there is something, they can go in their backpack and get it. And if they do take it out their backpack when they're not supposed to, then you take their phone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, listen, we appreciate your service. Absolutely. We do.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I mean, thank you so much.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Teachers provide us. Thank you. I love y' all guys.

[Jess Hilarious]

Love you, Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

Have a great weekend.

[Jess Hilarious]

Love you, too. My son goes to a all technology, ran school, St. Francis. So they have to do. They have to. They do everything on the phone. On the phone and laptops. So he gotta have his phone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. I'm with you. They gotta have it. And even they have iPads. My kids have iPads throughout their whole classes. And they have. They. They do assignments through their iPads. And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we grew up in the era where if you had your beep on you, you would get suspended. So I agree. Let the kids have their phones, but just turn them off, Keep them in their bag. If they reach for their phones or they try to use their phones during class, then maybe, you know, you administer some type of consequence.

[DJ Envy]

But even we had our beepers, I. I would have to keep the beeper in my backpack until after you couldn't see it. They were taking it. Absolutely. Well, get it off your chest. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Hey, what you doing, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm d. This is your time to.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this? DJ Envy.

[Caller/Listener]

Just a marriage. Charlemagne the dog.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

OG Rob.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, yo, what's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up?

[Caller/Listener]

Listen, I was trying to holla at you and me early just to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, my wife, my dad.

[Caller/Listener]

So we enjoyed the car show, brother. My first. First time going, and it was beautiful, man. You did your thing with me, man. I love what you're doing, brother.

[DJ Envy]

I appreciate that, OG thank you.

[Caller/Listener]

So y', all, listen, man, y' all know how we doing the Friday, baby. It's broad time.

[DJ Envy]

Broad time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's go, OG let's go, OG I.

[Caller/Listener]

Told him, listen, you Must be fitted for your attire you gotta be born with it, a live wire as soon as them shots get fired. This is big Brooklyn, don't be a victim on the side block in broad daylight Book now, take flight we got the grinder still hustling going hand in hand and things up and down on the strip selling what they can them Y. N's got the drill, you know we rock to it so I give them bars and schemes attached to lighter fluid hands down, only the best here Stacking on paper off the Airbnb I build off the timesheet yeah, yeah. This is OG Speaking for them hustlers OT and the Bandos catching the O leaking Tim's dragon and Mary Denims It's a calm night, shout the patron bottles Brian like it's a bar fight step out of line, we walking down with them sticks like we aiming for sight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, O.G.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, gee, O.G. i got some balls this morning. Oh, gee.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's do it. Big queens, big queens, you know.

[DJ Envy]

All right, rock with me, OG Charlotte is gay and Dave told y' all that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, God.

[DJ Envy]

Jess has nuts and Nikki told y' all that Lauren got big head, mad wigs. Damn, that's a fact. My Yankees won last night. Yo, Red like Diddy. Take that, take that, take that, take that, take that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, we not feeling you no matter what you do, no matter what you say. We know that Envy gay don't set.

[DJ Envy]

Up, man, you OG man, you have a good weekend, OG.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You and the family, have a safe one.

[DJ Envy]

You, too. All right. Get it off your chest. You got balls, Jess. You got some, boss.

[Jess Hilarious]

I can't be out here rapping all day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My fault.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nah, give me. Give me a minute.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. What's up, Lauren?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Honorable Lauren LaRosa just walked in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You see me?

[DJ Envy]

Lauren's going to car today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You guys suited up?

[DJ Envy]

Suited and booty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She look like a lawyer in the front and a scripper in the back when she turned.

[DJ Envy]

What she got in the back?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because my. It's a cutout.

[Jess Hilarious]

Let me see.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, she. Yeah, she got a hole in the back.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, that is not a stripper at all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It is a very respectable power suit.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shout out to Narisha Willison Avenue. You know, we do the black designers over here.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're headed to court today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? The power stopped in the back.

[Jess Hilarious]

Shut up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because my lights are on. The power is on.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we got the latest with Laura coming up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What we talking about we are going to court today. Today will be the day that Sean Diddy Combs will be sentenced, according to the court. Hopefully it will not hopefully, but today is supposed to be the day. And there's a lot happening. The gloves are off. They talking about they got sex doctors saying he is in control of his sexual disorders and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sex doctor.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, because it's sentencing day. Yesterday on sentencing eve, there was so many documents that were submitted. There's videos. We got a lot to talk about. He is fighting for his life, as he should.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He facing 20 years.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He also, he wants to speak to the judge too. So we gonna. We gonna get it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get into that when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren, what you got?

[DJ Envy]

Laura, you got to go get something. She gets them 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 have details. Sometimes she have a little bit everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me, LL Cool, babe. What you delivering today?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Delivering some news, cuz Diddy is about to be in court in front of this judge. So that is what we're delivering. So, okay, so today is the day that Sean Diddy Combs will be sentenced. Now there's a lot happening. So last night on the eve of his sentencing, his team submitted their sentencing conversation. It was like a 60, 61 page packet. It included, you know, a letter from Diddy. It included just some conversation and you know, please to the judge. So what we found out was that for his attorneys will be speaking in court today. Diddy, yesterday there was some news that broke that he potentially wanted to speak in this sentencing package. They give a little bit more detail on the fact that he does want to speak to the judge. They say that, you know, this proceeding holds significant importance for Mr. Combs. So he wishes to appear before the court address, your honor, and allocate in the most most dignified and respectful fashion possible. He wants to speak for himself. This will be the first time that we've heard Diddy speak long form in court this whole trial.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think he should. Now you're 55 years old and you're facing 20 years. Why wouldn't you speak for yourself?

[DJ Envy]

But I was thinking about this right when you speak to the judge, the judges wants to Hear that You're sorry, right? You're apologetic that you know you wish you could do things, that you reformed. You're gonna do better, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But just a couple of days ago you wanted to acquittal because you said you did nothing wrong. So how do you go in front of that same judge and you know, and say sorry when three days ago you wanted to quit Oz, you felt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, well, the best apology is change behavior. But you know, you're not gonna know if his behavior changes until he, you know, in the future.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, well, envy to your point, from what I understand what he did with that whole Rule 29 thing, it can be looked at as procedural too. Like this is something anybody would do in that circumstance. So. But yeah, so speaking of forgiveness, Diddy wrote a letter to the judge that we'll get into, but they also submitted a link to a video that will be played in court. And it's. It's like an 11 minute video that talks about the life that he lived outside of court and outside of prison. And his kids are involved. Let's take a listen to some of that video today.

[DJ Envy]

Now I'm a full time dad and I'm gonna be there for you through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything, all of y'. All. Every Sunday, I gotta slow everything down and do the family ritual. Get the family together. Make sure the girls watching church.

[DJ Envy]

Pops, I love you. Thank you for loving us. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for inspiring. I've looked up to you and admired you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Outside of you just being my father, just you being just a great human.

[Jess Hilarious]

Being, a kind human being.

[DJ Envy]

I love how you inspired me to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Keep going, to never stop following my dreams, to always believe in myself.

[Jess Hilarious]

I wanted to tell you how much I love you, how much I care for you.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Thank you for being so supportive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We love you.

[Caller/Listener]

We take more memories with you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just want to thank you for everything.

[Caller/Listener]

You do for us.

[DJ Envy]

In order for me to get into.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Heaven, I'm not gonna get in there. Well, come on in Heaven, you had 20 hit records that don't mean nothing.

[DJ Envy]

They gonna say, oh, come on in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Heaven, you was a nice person.

[DJ Envy]

I love you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you so much. I love you so much. Love you so much.

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, daddy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The baby love part always gets you. Yeah, so in that video, you see there's like, you know, a part that talks about Kim Porter and her passing away. And it's, you know, just to humanize him a bit to the judge and to the court. But the letter that Diddy submitted was four pages and I highlighted it's it's. It's a pretty lengthy, but I highlighted some important parts. So in the beginning of the letter he takes accountability. Diddy takes accountability for everything he's done. He says, I want to apologize and say I'm sincerely sorry for all that I have hurt and the pain that I've caused others by my conduct. I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs. This has been the hardest two years of my life. I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself. In my life I've made many mistakes, but I'm not any longer running from them. Then he talks about the Cassie video. He says the scene and images of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my head daily. I literally lost my mind. I was dead wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved. I honestly felt sorry. I honestly feel sorry for something that I couldn't forgive someone else for if they put their hands on my daughters. This is why it's so hard for me to forgive myself. It was like a deep wound that lives leaves an ugly scar. Then he mentions Jane, Jane Doe, who also testified and was one of his former girlfriends. And he says that he thought that he was helping her and her child. But after hearing her testimony he realized he hurt her and he apologizes for that. You know, he also talks about there's been times in jail where he felt like he was better off dead. But now he is choosing to live and he wants to Time for a sofa upgrade?

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[Lauren LaRosa]

A second chance at life so he's asking a judge for that, he also reveals in this letter that his mom had a brain surgery throughout this whole process, but she's been there supporting him every day in court, and he wants to get home to be her caretaker and get back home to his children. And he's just asking the judge for a second chance. In this letter, I pray folks is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Learning from this situation. Like, I don't care how much money you got, how much success and fame you have, if you're not moving right, it will catch up and trouble is easy to get into and hard to get out of. And it is very important to be disciplined and focused. In that video that played with all his family. Yeah, those are the people you should be thinking about every day, because when you aren't moving the way you should be moving, those are going to be the people impacted the most when you crash.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you're absolutely right. The. The only thing I would say, and this is the. The one thing that bothers me, right. Diddy has done some treacherous and some nasty things to. We've seen on video to women, and we've seen that. My only thing is, and I'm not saying that. That what Diddy did wasn't right, is he's being convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution. Right. That that's what his charges are. Right. So that's what he should be judged on those charges.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what.

[DJ Envy]

That's what the law says. Right. And I. And I hate the fact that everybody puts everything else around him, but the only thing that we should be focused on today is what his charges are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you do know those charges are still carrying 20 years.

[DJ Envy]

I know, but that's what we should be focused on. Like even his apology. I apologize for, you know, hitting Cassie and all that. Yes, you should have did that a long time ago. But the charges is what he should be. Is what he's facing today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, but those charges still carry 20 years.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you got to do all he got to do, everything that he's doing right now.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I know that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Especially because a lot of it, too. I mean, I hear what you're saying, saying, but people forget that a lot of it is these women are saying that the reason why they were able to be somewhere where people could fly and have sex is because they were fearing for their lives. And that fearing for the live goes back to the narrative around all of the beatings of the women and all these things.

[DJ Envy]

I understand that completely. But he's being charged with prostitution and Engaging in prostitution. And that's what his charges should be and that's what the judge should be looking at.

[Jess Hilarious]

But they. Cassie keep writing letters too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

So yeah, I think the judge not going to take that into account. Although the charges are not for that. That she writing the letter saying she's having nightmares every night. Family, you know what I'm saying? So he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He got a counter and he. And he knows. And his team knows that they're not looking at him just for rubbing semen on his nipples.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, but that's the thing too. They got these two sex doctors that they're trying to get to be able to speak in court that'll say Diddy has his sexual like urges and all of that together. Because that's. It's a. That's a part of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's a sex addiction. Who did that back in the day?

[DJ Envy]

Didn't do that with Halle Berry and said that was the reason he cheated or something like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now I wanna. I think I want to read one letter. I don't. This wasn't submitted to the judge but it surfaced yesterday. 50 Cent posted a letter.

[DJ Envy]

Oh boy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He said dear Judge Submarine. I probably said that name wrong. I have an ongoing dispute with. With Puffy for over 20 years. He's very dangerous. Multiple times I fear for my life. I think you should consider the safety of the general public, your honor there before unleashing him upon them. There hasn't been enough time for him to reform or make any adjustments. Despite him trying to teach a class there. As you already aware, the government spent. He goes into that. Anyway. Diddy only going. Diddy's only going to return to hiring more male sex workers and keeping most of the baby oil away from the general public. And babies need it. My Netflix doc on his scandalous subject is coming soon. 50 play too much 50 crazy. It's been very serious all day. And he posted that.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think he submitted it.

[Caller/Listener]

It.

[Jess Hilarious]

You think you submitted it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean put it online.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was a text bubble.

[Caller/Listener]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I tell you one thing. Days like today are interesting too because it really shows how fickle the timeline is. Because depending on what the sentencing is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything that's trending online now is going to change.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Immediately. Oh, like immediately.

[DJ Envy]

Nothing gonna change. Regardless. Depending on the whole thing at 10 o' clock is gonna be Diddy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Oh yeah. It's already starting. Last night it felt like that. Like it felt like it. They were calling it Sentencing Eve and that was like trending yesterday. So everything and every post all the outlets, all the headlines were about Diddy and something leading into the sent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, Lauren went and got a custom made outfit for it.

[DJ Envy]

Touche.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, first of all, the suit was already made. I just went and got it. Okay? I walked into my purpose. I didn't go get it made.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you look like a high ranking. You look like a high ranking executive.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As long as it's high ranking, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What can Brown do for you.

[Jess Hilarious]

With the shoulder pads?

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right. That's the latest with Lauren. When we come back, we got some front page news. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to in some front page news now. And Thursday night football. The 49ers beat the Rams 26, 23. Now, major league Baseball is playoff season. Tigers beat the Guardian 6:3, Cubs beat the Padres 3:1, and the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4:2:0. Now tonight, game one of the 2025 WNBA Finals, the. I was gonna say the Suns, the Phoenix Mercury take on the Vegas Aces at 8pm can't wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'll be doing tonight with a nice glass of wine, you know what I'm saying? Watching the Las Vegas Aces and Asia Asia Wilson play the Mercury. Hopefully Asia wins. I want to see Asia get her third ring.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy. Jess, Charlemagne. How y' all doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Mimi. Hey, girl.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. We begin this morning with new details from LaGuardia Airport, where the NTSB is investigating after two Delta planes collided on a taxiway. Now, officials say the wing of a plane preparing for takeoff struck the nose of a cockpit window and another had just landed. Now, one flight attendant was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, but all passengers got off safely. One plane had just arrived from Charlotte and the other one was waiting to take off to Virginia. Now, air traffic controllers, they had instructed the departing plane to stop and let the other pass. But instead, its wing clipped the nose of the arriving aircraft. Now, the crash, it left visible damage, a shattered wind screen and a bent wing. Passengers described a sudden jolt, like slamming on your brakes before the impact. Now, Delta has apologized. They offered hotel rooms, meal vouchers, and says it's working closely with investigators. But the collision happened on the first day of the government shutdown. And with nearly a quarter of the FAA's workforce furloughed and hiring for new air traffic controllers on hold, many are have. Many have a lot of questions. It is Too soon to know if staffing played a role. But timing underscores just how fragile the aviation system already is. So the NTSB is investigating and they will look into all of that and see what, what caused it. But, you know, we've been talking a lot about the airport system and air, air traffic controllers and what that may look like going forward. So really scary times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Very scary. Now see, I don't like to hear stories like that because in my mind, as you just said, Mimi, we know that many essential airport workers aren't getting paid. So what type of morale does that give you when you come to work? Work like, you know what I'm saying? Like, do you, do you, do you really come there wanting to do your best job, knowing that you ain't getting. Getting your check?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Which is very crazy because we fly so much and you think something like this would obviously be me taken care of. They were on the ground. It wasn't like they were on the air. They were on the ground.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My dad, how can you be on.

[DJ Envy]

The air in the air? I mean, my dad gonna text me, oh, that's why I don't fly. No, that's not the reason you don't fly. But they were on the ground. And usually on the ground, you, you would see more and more people. You could see it easier than in the air.

[Mimi Brown]

And they called it a slow speed crash. Not even, you know, they have high speed crashes. They call it a slow speed crash. So they didn't understand why they didn't see each other. So they will investigate and we'll keep following that story. And more and more Americans say the biggest threat to the country isn't coming from abroad or even the economy. You might have guessed this. It's coming from each other. So a new New York Times poll, a Sienna poll finds polarization is now seen as the second biggest problem facing the country, right behind. And experts say social media may be the main reason that divide feels so sharp. So apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X, they're built to keep us scrolling. And those posts that grab us the fastest are the ones that push our buttons. It's called rage bait. Content that is designed to spark outrage and get people arguing in the comments. And some creators even admit their biggest videos are the ones that stir up controversy. And the algorithms they reward that outrage. The more emotional the post post, the more likely you are to click, share, and keep watching. That's why the most hostile partisan content often rises to the top of your feed. Years ago, an Internal Facebook memo even admitted that its system, quote, exploits our brain's attraction to divisiveness. Now, critics say that these platforms know exactly what they're doing, arguing that rage is even more powerful than sex when it comes to keeping us online. And the numbers, they back that up. They show just how big this divide is. 81% of Democrats now say that Republicans are a serious threat to the country. And nearly 70% of Republicans say the same about Democrats. And as one expert put it, if America were a horror movie, the call is coming from inside the house.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rage is more powerful than sex.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They having sex with the wrong people, then. Okay, Ain't nothing like being on your phone and then your wife come in there looking all right, and you like, you know, me putting this phone down, and you know what I'm saying? Get to doing what adults should be doing. Okay? You want to be tweet when you can ski. They want to be on the gram when you can be in some yams. What's up with y', all, man?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep. You want to screw while you can ride this pole, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[Mimi Brown]

That is hilarious. But it's a real thing. Rage bath. And so much of it is happening right now because of the government shutdown and the. The hate speech. We're seeing it so much. And so apparently, according to this new poll, Charlemagne, rage is a bigger, divisive issue where it keeps more people glued to their screen than sex.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's insane. Yeah, that's insane. Y' all having sex with the wrong people. But, yes, I do agree. The low vibrational nonsense is what I call it. And you know, we always say nobody cares about the truth when the lie is more entertaining. But I promise you, if you just turn your phone off, that ain't the real world. Like that. Like the. Yes. When you turn this phone on, it do feel like the sky is falling. Everything is all disruptive. People are in disarray. Folks hate each other. But soon as you turn your phone off and just come up the air and get back to your real world. I don't feel that.

[DJ Envy]

Not at all. Yeah, not at all.

[Mimi Brown]

And envy, this one is for you. Right? We were talking about good news. So, speaking of the power of media, one of the most influential black news sites is making headlines this morning. The Root is returning to black ownership for the first time in years. So Ashley Allison, a political strategist and CNN commentator, is buying the outlet from Geo Media. It's a private equity firm that's owned the site since 2019. Now, Ashley says this isn't about publishing more stories. It's about making sense of the moment when journalism is under attack and people are looking for trusted, independent voices. Now, through her new company, Watering Hole Media, Alison plans to grow the route with more video, new partnerships, and even live events for readers. The route was launched in 2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. And Washington Post chairman Donald Graham as a modern day national black newspaper. And now the route has changed. It's changed hands a few times with different owners, but now Allison says it's coming back with the very mission that has started with preserving culture and telling black stories with clarity and purpose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, salute to Ashley, man. Dropping the clues bonds for Ashley.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do wish I would have known it was for sale, though. I wish I would have definitely went in with Ashley and invested in that because I don't like the route. So I would have loved to be an owner with them so I could fire some of those people who I feel have wrote a lot of rage, baity stories about myself and people that I love. I would have loved, I would have loved to be an owner in the route. I would have loved for y' all to get that news this morning just so I could fire some of y'. All. Okay, but I, but, but I, I will support Ashley and what she does because I think Ashley is an amazing personality on cnn and I think she's gonna bring a lot of integrity pretty back to the root.

[DJ Envy]

I agree. All right, well, thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, well, that's your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV for more news stories, follow Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app and follow bin news dot com.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Mimi. Now, when we come back, we have Taylor Polidor Williams joining us. She's the star of Beauty and Black on Netflix. And we're gonna talk to her next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, and don't forget, today is Friday, man. So, you know, on Friday, we do the people's Donkey. Donkey. So if there's somebody out there that you want to give the credit they deserve for being stupid callers right now, 1-800-5851-051. You can call up here and give somebody donkey today on this fine Friday. All right. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed, Taylor Poldair.

[DJ Envy]

Williams. That's your middle name, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Is it? Polidor.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Polidor.

[Jess Hilarious]

Polidor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what she told me. Polidor Williams. Welcome. How are you doing?

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm good.

[DJ Envy]

Beauty in Black, season two.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. How does it feel? Like all it is look. Cause I've been watching since episode one. Okay. How does it feel to have it continue? Cause, you know, a lot of shows live for one season, two season. How does it feel to have it continuing?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

You know, I feel very grateful. I think when you're able to have a second season, that's one thing. But then to have a second season and the fan base continue to grow and people are excited. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm grateful, but I'm excited. It's been fun.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I'm just enjoying it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Has life changed? Because, you know, Beauty and Black is on Netflix. It's a big show. Like, have you felt the change?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah, actually, I think season one. Not that I was kind of in denial, but it's like, you know, this might be a moment. It passes. I've been acting since I was 13, so it's like, okay, enjoy it. But then this season, it does feel different. The visibility that I have is different. Places that I go. It's no longer like, oh, you're familiar. It's like Kimmy. And they're hugging, and it's like, woohoo. I'm not used to that, having to kind of move a little bit different. But I think I always thought it would happen, you know, if you keep acting and a show is popular, it would happen. But nothing can really prepare you for that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That shift. Right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I want to go back, if you don't mind. So you're from Houston, Texas.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

And you got into acting at a young age. You said 13. What made you like the arts? What made you love the arts?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I think I've always been creative. As a kid, I like playing pretend. Who doesn't? But it was my first movie that I was in. I was auditioning at the time. After Katrina, the tax credits came to Louisiana, so it brought a lot of films to the South. And Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins was being filmed there. I got a part, and I loved acting. But when I got on the set and saw the sound stages and the crew and, like, what it takes to actually make a movie, I was like, oh, I just want to do this for the rest of my life. And I just kept going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, because you produce too, right?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what have you learned? And. Right. So what have you learned about yourself as an artist wearing all those different hats? Producing, acting, writing?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

The biggest thing is that I cannot do them all by myself. I know that there are people who are experts in what they do who love writing, and I honor whatever people love the most. And I think that's why I like producing, because it's like I can pick and choose. Oh, you're fire at this. Let's all come together. And putting it all together is the fun part for me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now, what I want to ask you about the show is right. Cause like I said, I've been watching since first episode. Do you ever look at the script, right, and be like, all right, this is. Come on, Ty. Come on, come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

She must look at it all the time like that.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I think when we were getting ready for season two, and Tyler was, like, sending us the scripts at a full clip, like, it's like we getting two.

[Jess Hilarious]

Episodes in a day.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

It's like, dang, what are you doing? And he's sending these scripts, and I'm reading it genuinely, like, oh, my God. It's crazy. It keeps you on your toes. It's as fun to film it. Probably more fun to film it than it is to watch it.

[Jess Hilarious]

And your character in the beginning, and you start off shy, you not standing up for yourself. You was pissing me off. I was like, kimmy, get your together. You need these people coming for you. And then you just turn into a Natural Born Kill Bill character. You just out here, you know, now what is your ritual to get ready for that? Because it seemed like it didn't really take much, I guess, to be shy. Is that your real demeanor? Like, are you shy? You don't really talk a lot.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

No. Okay, so, you guys, I wouldn't say that I'm just the most talkative person in the world.

[Jess Hilarious]

World.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I'm more reserved. But it's not because I'm shy. I'm just more observant. But to not stand up for yourself is very different for me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

That was actually a process. When we went in for the callbacks, and I was having a conversation with Tyler, he was like, I know you could do strong because we worked together before. He was like, but can I see you do this? And I was like, I mean, yeah, of course I can try the vulnerability part. But I was like, but do I want to do that? Like, why can't she do this? He was like, if you just trust me with the story, it's gonna go somewhere that no one is gonna expect. She's gonna Be a boss. And I was like, okay, okay. Well, I could do the victim thing. I could figure that out.

[Jess Hilarious]

So he challenged you?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah, absolutely. Because I'm not a person that backs down from confrontation or if somebody's doing me wrong, you will know that you've done me wrong. So with Kimmy, I was frustrated, too, but I think that propelled the story even more. So now in season two, it's Warren.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How did you get into, like, Tyler Perry's universe? Because you were in Divorce and Black, and now you're here with the. You know, with the beauty and black. Like, how did you. How did that happen for you?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

You know, it's funny. I went to school in Atlanta knowing that I wanted to act. I went to Clark Atlanta University, and I just knew I was gonna be in something. Tyler Perry in school. And that didn't happen. I went to school, came, went, moved to la, and it was just an audition, a normal audition for a different film that he was doing. And I went into the callback. And typically at a callback, they'll tell you the director, the writer will be in the room. They didn't say that. I thought it was just gonna be Kim Coleman. So I walk in, and Tyler Perry's right there, and he's like, hey, Taylor, come on in.

[Mimi Brown]

Just.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

And I was like, what are you doing here, Tyler? But I didn't say that. I was very professional, and I did it. He was like, I only want to see the first scene. I already saw your second scene on the tape. Go. And I, like, took a breath and I did it. And he was like, where are you from? I was like, I'm from Texas. And he was like, let me see the second scene. And I was like, I don't know what just happened, but I got it.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I ended up getting divorced.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

In the Black. It was a different movie. They were like, we want to keep you on hold for this one, but are you open to reading another film? And I was like, sure. And I thought that he was going to ask me to do an audition for that one. They said, if you want it, it's yours.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is it pressure when you see somebody like Tyler walking in the room? Do you have to gather yourself a little bit? Is it different?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yes, it is different, because I respect him a lot. I'm very inspired by how he moves, just all that he's built. So you do have to take a minute and kind of breathe, I think, when it's somebody you admire, but you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Snap right into it. Or did you stutter? Did you mess up.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I didn't stutter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said, no, I ain't doing this.

[DJ Envy]

And I got that part. I ain't stutter nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love that. I ain't stutter.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

But I did after.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was like, what? Yeah, yeah. That's what's up. How long did it take y' all to film Divorced in the Black? I know that's the movie. That was my joint too. But how. How long did it take y' all to film that?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

It took us six days.

[Jess Hilarious]

To film the whole movie.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

To film the whole movie.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cause you know it's always out there that Tyler Perry be having y' all here. He'll start. Y' all start at 9am and y' all be done at 10pm this is.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Season two of Beauty and Black, all 16 episodes in 12 days.

[Jess Hilarious]

Jesus.

[DJ Envy]

You like filming like that? Like, fast? Get it out the way? Or do you. Or you prefer a little time to breathe, a little time to rest, to reset? Or do you just knock it out?

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, she don't have time to think about it. May be done by the time she has an opinion.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I'm adaptable. Working with different directors, working on different shows, different. Whatever. It's kind of like coming into somebody else's house. If this how y' all do it, cool. I'll assimilate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How long are those days?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

12 hours.

[Jess Hilarious]

12 hours.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

We don't go over.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it's not bad.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And then you're done.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

So he just pretty much just count on y' all knowing y' all lines. Cause that's pretty much what, you know, all the retakes and cut and do it again. Y' all don't have none of that?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

No. I mean, very sparingly. If he said, can I please get one more? He'll be like, yes, depending on who you are.

[DJ Envy]

So you told people before. No. Like, can I get one line? No.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah, Sometimes. Or even with some of us, with the wonderful, wonderful cast, everybody, like, can I get one more? He's like, I got it. No, I got it. You just gotta trust what role or.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Project has challenged you the most and why.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Definitely Beauty and Black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

The sheer speed at which we're filming it. And then also, particularly in the first season, being somebody who is playing somebody who is sex trafficked, somebody who is so beaten down, the things. At the time I was planning my wedding, so it was like, I don't have this life experience, but I have to go there every day. Scene after scene, scene after scene. It was like, for. For A whole week, I'm just crying in every scene, getting beat up. It was a lot, but it stretched me as an artist knowing that I can do that. If somebody says cry right now, I could do that. If you need me to do that, I can go there and jump back into what I have to do in my normal life and stay sane.

[DJ Envy]

How did your now husband deal with it? Because you were in a role, and I'm sure you were in a character. I'm sure it wasn't. You're planning a wedding. It's supposed to be happy, joyous. But now you diving into this character. So how did he handle that?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Oh, like a champ. He is a surgery resident right now, which is a very grueling schedule as well. So I think it was a lot of mutual respect. If I got home before him or if he got home before me, he'd make dinner. If I got home, I'd bring him dinner from set. It's just like, we're in the trenches together, so he actually loved how rigorous the schedule is. Cause sometimes on other shows, you know, I might, like, do a couple scenes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's, you know, we're.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

We're not doing surgery. We're not dealing with life or death. Even on a difficult day, it's still a blessing to be there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought he was a surgical resident.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

He is. I'm saying what I do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. So how he got time to cook?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

He's a good man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know that.

[DJ Envy]

Said Taylor said she cooked. She said, I take some. Some extra food. She said, look at those doggy bags.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

No, I learned how to cook a few years ago.

[DJ Envy]

You from Texas? You didn't know how to cook.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ever bring anything home from work, like lunch? He'll bring you a snack.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

He'll bring you snacks, drinks and stuff.

[Jess Hilarious]

Candy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, absolutely. Well, congratulations. You got married. No, I was asking you. Going back to my question, how do you get ready?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I need organs, y'. All. I don't know what y'. All.

[DJ Envy]

Excuse me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With no hesitation.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Time. Snacks.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I don't like seeing anything from his job.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, so he do be bringing stuff on.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

He'll come in with blood all over.

[DJ Envy]

Him like an eyeball. He ain't gonna come up with an eyeball.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So no organs are brought into the home.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now you said you gotta cry. You have to cry a lot on set and everything like that. How do you get into that? I know it's nothing other than you being a great actress, right? But, like, how do you get ready for that, like, what's your ritual to go into that role when things start, but going crazy for you on the show when they get crazier for you?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah, definitely. The preparation before filming, I think it's a treat because we shoot so fast. Tyler gives us all of the scripts for the season. And that's typically. Not that we typically don't have that on a different type of TV show. So I'm able to kind of prepare for it like a movie. I know exactly where I am. A lot of notes on my personal script, so I know where to dive in because we're shooting out of order. And also the wonderful team at tps, the crew is phenomenal. From wardrobe to the script supervisors. We have readers. People will help us kind of get on track to know where we are. But the work that I do before can get me into the mode. And then I love music too. So I have playlists and songs and different things to help.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said something earlier too. You said, you know, it helps you to stay sane. What do you do to stay?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I have a great therapist.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Very important, number one. And I think I'm overall a pretty even person. So just continuing to stay grounded and on my feet. If I know I'm getting overwhelmed, I'll take a second to breathe. I meditate daily. I'll meditate on set if I have a break. Every morning I have the same routine. I listen to jazz. I get my green tea, like just trying to control as much as I can. And sometimes a chaotic environment. And then coming out of that, when we rap, I'm. I'm done with Kimmy. I'm done with whatever character I'm playing. And I have my own playlist of my own music that's like, brings me back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wish I could have talked to people who were like on Days of Our Lives and Guiding Light and all those shows back in the day. Because I wonder if the process. Process was the same for them as it is for y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause those shows used to come on daily, so I'm sure they used to tape a lot. And I know that y' all think Tyler got a lot of traumatic. Them shows had some wild ass story lines, yo. Like, people was getting buried alive. He was getting possessed by demons. So I just wonder if they had to. If they ever could even decompress. At least y' all get the opportunity. I wonder if they ever did.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I mean, I think it's somewhat similar to us. They're shooting a lot of scenes in one day. Shout out to Debbie Morgan. Because she came from that world. I mean, she's been on everything, but it was just the job. I think they probably handle it the way that, that we do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because y' all know, y' all the new stories. I tell people that all the time. Tyler Perry stuff. That's the new stories. Like our grandparents, like, I'm going to watch my story. That's.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah, people are invested.

[DJ Envy]

Do you laugh at some of the fight scenes? Sometimes, because those are the things I feel like they go all over the.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Internet, those fight scenes, the back and forth, the one liners, the actual fighting. Those might be the most difficult to stay in character.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because you gotta laugh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Like as a cast, we all are people that really like each other. We enjoy being at work. We enjoy and have a great time together. And there is very little levity and love in everything that we do.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know how y' all take it serious. I don't know. What show was that one scene when the two dudes get in the fight and one dude hit and he spin.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like three times all the way around?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he spin all the time. I said it wasn't that one. But it's a Tyler. It was a Tyler Perry one. Yes, but his fight scenes are always classic, hilarious. Which one is that? He just be spinning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know. You know, they got sisters. Maybe that was brothers. But look, I, I. The funniest scene was when. Well, first of all, no. Who laughed? When Varney kept saying I'm your. I mean, who laughed? Who laughed? So you know, I would get fired that day. I'm not gonna lie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That one.

[DJ Envy]

And not the fruitcake line. I heard a fruitcake.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm like j. Yeah, fruitcake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I read all of the scripts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

But then I just focus on what I have to do. Cuz it's, it's, it's a lot. So I forgot that that was even a thing until I was watching it. And I, so I'm watching it like everybody else does and I'm like, what is going on? And I think they actually got a little heated. Like they had to take a, take a step back after Roy and. Yeah, I think I, I saw Julian or, or Terrell talk about that.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, that is their real names. I'm talking about Roy and. Okay. So they had to take a beat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn. Yeah, it's very, it's very intense. Some, A lot of them, A lot of the scenes are very intense, I would say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know you talk about how different your real life is from Kimmy's. But what did you learn about surviving versus living, like, actually living from Kimmy's character?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

That's a good question. I think I've always known or been informed about trauma responses, being in therapy and also being a advocate for youth in foster care. Certain training that I have to go through, like, I had to go through. I understand how people react and respond to certain things, but I think what Kimmy taught me is just a little bit more empathy for the decisions that people make, because that's the work of an actor, is justifying what somebody is doing and making it real. I have to make it real to me to play it. So I was asking myself, like, why would she. Why would she not just leave?

[Jess Hilarious]

Why would she not do this?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

And she's trying to survive. That's exactly it. So the stakes that people go through to simply try to survive on top of the things that they've already been through. And I think it made me very appreciative and very empathetic for the things that. The decisions that people make, it doesn't necessarily make them right, but it's like, if we know everybody's story, you can probably rationalize it a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

When you got the script, was there ever a moment you were like, oh, hell no. When you read something like, nah, this is. Nah, this is not it. When you be like, let me call Tyler, see if we can change this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't gotta answer that. Don't let him. You know what I'm saying? You gonna let this Tyler Perry villain, this Red Tyler Perry villain.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just asking, was there ever, you know, reading a script, it was like, whoa.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

No, actually, there were things that I was like. Like, oh, my gosh, this is horrible. Especially in season one. Some of the things with Kimmy and Roy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Kimmy and Jules, that dynamic. But it was more so questions. I need to understand why? Why? And he's always very open to. To talk to me about why.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. You said it was kind of hard. I'm you saying the word victim, but you said it was kind of hard to play a. I guess a victim, like, role. So as the character. Victim, yeah. Was the character. As the character evolved, was it easier for you to go from victim to vindicate?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah, but I think one. It is just easier to play somebody not in that situation. I have more life experience as a person who is more empowered, but I think in wanting to protect her, that's why I was having such a difficult time. Like, oh, my gosh why is this happening to her? Being able to have that vindication and play that out so soon into the second season is a real treat as an actor. I feel like with a lot of characters that begin one way and then they grow into this boss, we might see that over like three, four, five seasons. But with her, it happened kind of quick. So it is fun to be able to do that.

[Jess Hilarious]

I do like that. I do like that quick turnaround of character development. That's cool.

[DJ Envy]

I was gonna ask, you spoke about it earlier, you having help on set and people talking to you, guiding through the script. But I always wondered, is it easy to talk to a human trafficking victim before to get their feeling, to get their mindset of why and how and because I'm sure from your side you don't understand because you've never been in that situation, so it's easy to, you know, find that out. Is that something that you've done when it came to these roles?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah, because I was having a difficult time understanding why not just leave. I would rather be dead than deal with that. I would. But that's not Kimmy. So I did speak to somebody that had been through a situation like that. And a lot of times, people trafficking, I think is a very formal word to describe what can happen to people and they don't even know until they're trying to get out of it. So doing research online, YouTube is a great resource just trying to understand the mindset not only of how you got in the situation, why you stayed in it, but what did it take to get out. And that's the real resiliency. Obviously Kimmy is in a fictional world and the sugar daddy with no sugar came and took her out, which is fun. But for a lot of people that is a mindset. She shift that needed a lot of help, a lot of support, a lot of work to get out of that lifestyle.

[DJ Envy]

Did you understand it more after having those conversations and doing that research? Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How was it, how was it received by the person though? Cuz that's a person's real life and you're talking to them, you know, trying to get, I guess, game for a role. How did they receive you even asking them questions?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Oh, I already knew her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, got you, got you, got you.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I already knew her and she was open because she's past that now. But I mean, it is a. With that situation, it was like a pimp situation.

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[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Restrictions may apply necessarily Human trafficking when you're thinking somebody's being kidnapped and whatever. But she was open I I think to get out of that. Most survivors not would be open to be exploited but to share that story.

[Jess Hilarious]

Especially if they made it out.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have you had other women that are currently going through that or that have recently gotten out of those situations reach out to you and is that a.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Heavy weight on social media? They have particularly more so in first season than this season. And again as an advocate I just want to help everybody. I try to like connect people to resources or if you can't text or you can't do something then I could text for you and then people I wouldn't hear from them or whatever. So that, that is difficult but I just pray for them.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now if you knew somebody right. That wanted to be on the show like one of your friends and being as old you be around Tyler and I know he always looking for new actors and stuff, you know how would you. You pitch to him? Yeah, I got this girl want to be on the show. Is that something that you would do? I don't know. You got friends all over the place. You Baltimore for example, say he is looking for somebody else, you know, to be a stripper. Really good at that. How would you say yo Tyler, I got this girl. Does he allow for conversations like that?

[DJ Envy]

She speaks well. Very outspoken, funny.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah he's very collaborative. I might be looking at the scripts maybe a new season or something like wow, there's a character I know somebody.

[Jess Hilarious]

That would be great and I'm and I would make a great trash person. Like I would be.

[DJ Envy]

I would make a great traffic person. Sounds Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just let me know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just let me know, like, you know, go ahead, you know, slap the Lord. You know, Jess has been auditioning. Oh, wow. And you never got back to her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Jess Hilarious]

So just. Just, you know, hit him.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

That was a great pitch, period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Special role for something special for you, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, cool. I just. Just tell him.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, tell us, like, don't put that on me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I ain't gonna watch his interview.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's great.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Oh, he'll get you in there.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you, Kevin.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I believe that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you so much. I love Beauty and Black. I'm. I'm invested in the show, and I'm not just saying it. So you can go ahead and tell Tyler. Give me a roll. I really do love Beauty and Black. I be in here today telling them about. About it all the time. This is lying. He is lying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The one scene that y' all kept talking about, the scene with the gate, the. The gay guys. Remember, it was something about a butt. Remember? You kept.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I remember. Yes. You know, I remember.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's my favorite.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's one of my other favorite.

[Jess Hilarious]

The brother. Oh, my God, he's so funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was black.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That scene.

[DJ Envy]

That was a fruitcake one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right when he. When he dropped his pants, he said, I know, I know.

[Jess Hilarious]

You going to miss his ass when he talking to Barney.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Black.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's green and black.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, love that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

For about three months. That's. That's what got everything.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

To be out there, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is the part he wanted. That's the part he tried out Beauty and Black. Y.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

That was definitely Beauty and Black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you was the. You was in the script club with.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But then she got.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

You just realized the whole time, 20.

[Jess Hilarious]

Minutes in, you got.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You came in here, talk about the gay scenes. First he would have been.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watch a lot of Tyler Per. But it's just all a blur. And I'm like, damn, that was last year. I ain't watched it in a year.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

You got to watch the new season. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Taylor.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Thanks for having me.

[DJ Envy]

I. I want to say. I want to say. Yeah, what's. What's the middle name? One more time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Polidor Taylor.

[DJ Envy]

Paula Del Williams. Thank you so much. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Door. The way your career is going, it's gonna be at a time where he's never gonna forget your name.

[DJ Envy]

That's what. Palador. That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Period.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And you make sure you forget his.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She don't even know it now.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I won't. Yes, I do.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you, DJ Enfy.

[DJ Envy]

What school does she go to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy]

Hbcu. It doesn't even matter. Nobody went to that school.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Delaware State University. Because she went to one and she's a. And I know where he go. Howard Hampton.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I know that's first date. I remember that.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what's up.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you again.

[Jess Hilarious]

Don't look over. I ain't going to college. K. Don't look over there. Kim was looking like, nah, there's nothing in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gonna stop downplaying? Brooklyn Community College. Baltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore.

[DJ Envy]

She got her associates.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Leave her alone.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Come on. I'm sorry, Taylor. Morning. Everybody is DJ and tv. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a street fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

Alrighty, y'. All. So we've been talking about. Get in the booth. Get in the booth. Get in the booth. And JT dropped a diss record towards Cardi B. Let's take a listen to part one. She mentioned Stefan Diggs.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that was part one. So she. Y' all hear her coming first upon Diggs. Any response yet? I got more. Y' all need to hear some more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm glad JT is rapping.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah. And I, I, you know, I loved. I like jt. I'm a jt. I like jt. But that one wasn't. Man, I don't know. I don't know if it. Maybe if she would have put that out immediately instead of doing all of the tweets and everything else, it might have hit a little different. But after a week of all them tweets and the, you know, the. The. The Instagram lives to come with that. It's like you could have came a little harder.

[DJ Envy]

I feel like it was rushed. I just. I don't know, it just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She could have came harder. You could have came harder. I think so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

I. I mean, remember when. Remember when. And all them people try jumping the Kendrick and Drake beef? Like when Rick Ross jumped in, nobody paid in no mind. And when, you know, other people try. Even when Joey. Joey Badass jumped out there and nobody really, you know, paid him no mind. I Mean, you know, other people did, but not the main people that they wanted to. Yeah, I feel like that's what this is a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But if she would have did it.

[Jess Hilarious]

If she did it, might not say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing, but if she did it right after Magnet. Right. Like, Cardi dropped Magnet, and then if JT would have came right back out. No tweets, no Instagram live, just right in the booth, I think it might have hit a little different.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, Cardi responded via X and she just. Because JT was talking about, you know, Cardi B having a writer. Talking about Partisan Fontaine and Cardi B. Yeah. And Cardi reposted an alleged DM between JT and Party. And JT is telling Party. If this is a real dm, she posted. JT is telling Party like she wants to get in the studio with him. So Cardi's like, you trying to be funny, but you obviously need my writer. And then she posted. But anyway, go scream. Go scream Magnet, which is a song where she came at @jt and she reposted somebody's tweet that said, tell her to make a hit. She in the studio just wasting time. So Cardi is like, ah, whatever she's saying, it's lackluster.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. It's like, I'm. I'm not even that. That's not even worth me responding to. Like. Like Sean said. Yeah. If she did it right after Magnet dropped. Right after Am I the drama dropped, it would have been better and saved all the tweets. You already gave us all your ammo. Everything that you was gonna say online for three days.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Maybe that's. Maybe that was it. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then, you know, I'm a person that waves the JT flag. Right? Like, JT is dope. So now I gotta hear people be like, yeah. Hey, you told us she was dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what's on you this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Been singing the praises at Lauren, not you up Charlamagne. He talk about JT like she Glorilla.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I just don't like this record.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is the first time that I've heard something rat wise from her where I was like, I didn't think it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was because you were anticipating it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's anticipating it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She would have just dropped right after Magnet. I think I. I think we'd have been looking at this a little bit different, but not with after a week. And it's just like, I don't know, jt, you could have came harder.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that's all well and yeah, well.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just not came at all like just you just damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'm going say something else. It's funny how one verse can mess up the game. The person that they say isn't the lyrical one, Cardi is the one that got all. Everybody losing their mind with a verse with nothing but lyrics. Got everybody losing their mind.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It got people in the frenzy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God. God.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, running around crazy. And that's why the album title got the best name. Cuz obviously she is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Now I got another song here. Clarissa Shields. You guys know she's been working on music.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, that is what I want to hear. I already know it's ready to be some straight bars. What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't even hear this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Yeah. So Clarissa has a new song that is dropping today. She sent it over to us. And this song is. Is featuring a girl named Tati Camille. She told me that that's another artist from Flint.

[Jess Hilarious]

Stop playing with shorty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold up now, Clarissa, make me want to square up real quick. Okay, Clarissa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, now I'm gonna tell y' all something. That's the difference between having the right rap coach. That is why you need a rs. You need people. Because I know Pap was in the studio coaching her, making sure that she came correct.

[DJ Envy]

But you know the funny, that whole thing sounds good. Like, the beat sounds good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She sound in pocket. The bars is hitting.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I. I did. I asked her, I'm like, what was your process? Because, you know, we all know papoose is. Papoose gets busy. What's the process? How does this work? She said she. She said she's been working on music for a long time. She's been perfecting this for a long time. She just hasn't put it out because it's a little nerve wracking for her. And she felt like it needed to be the right time and she was confident about this song. So I think too, what you're hearing is her practicing and doing it over and over again until she felt like it was good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you know what else we didn't have?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No expectation. I wasn't anticipating anything. You know what I'm saying? She playing with house money. That's the difference. When you don't have no expectation, when there's no anticipation, you just hear and you just like, oh, right, That's. Yeah. Oh, okay. Clarissa.

[DJ Envy]

Clarissa gonna perform that on her next fight. You know, she gonna perform as she come out on the night. And then she gonna fight.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, that's smart. And I like how she talk about her accolades. She not coming in, nobody. Like she's talking about her talking that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talking.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, straight up her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you say? No kids, five houses, four cars. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

90,000 on the wrist.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something miss a knock up child.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Mrs. Always Go Viral.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Clarissa, I got to give it up. I'm only going to call balls and strikes here, people. That was. That was hard.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She also worked with an artist named Bri Bias too, from Atlanta that she wanted to mention as well. And she said that this is all going to be on an album called Poke the Guat. But she's working on an album album. This is just like one of the projects that will be on there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I like it.

[Jess Hilarious]

I like it. Whoa. But I like it.

[DJ Envy]

Well, that is the latest with Lauren. Thank you, Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're welcome. I'll see you guys Monday.

[DJ Envy]

You on your way to court?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I am.

[DJ Envy]

So you going to text us when? As soon as you hear something we need to know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Here we go.

[DJ Envy]

Good luck today in court, cuz. I know court's going to be crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It will be. Just say a little prayer for me. And for what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't getting the sentence.

[Jess Hilarious]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have you ever seen outside of the courthouse? Oh, today is the grand finale, baby. This about to be the let out of all let out.

[Jess Hilarious]

Watch out for crackhead Bonnie. Or watch shorty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I will.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They about to be sparked up out there. Music playing crazy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Sparked up is crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It'd be crazy outside of there.

[DJ Envy]

Well, get your ass over there. All right. Now when we come back, Charlemagne's donkey today. What you doing today for donkey Charlotte?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you know, it's the people's donkey, so it's Friday, So you know, 1-800-585-1051. You can call up right now and give whoever you want to the credit they deserve for being stupid.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, we'll get to that. Next is the Breakfast logo. Morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember now, that is how they choose. Call in now.

[DJ Envy]

800-5851-051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why Clarissa Shields really was snapping. Drop her the clues bombs for Clarissa Chick.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely. She. I already knew what it was going to be. Her hand's too nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man. Donkey of the day for Friday, October 3rd is the People's donkey. You know, every Friday, we allow you, the people to call in and give someone the biggest he haw. So good morning. Who. Who this?

[Caller/Listener]

This is Missy. Good morning, guys.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Missy, who you want to get the biggest hee haw to?

[Caller/Listener]

You know, this born in Nicki Minaj, Okay? I mean, at some point in time, Charlamagne, we get old, okay? And there's a younger group that's going to come in after us, right? We're to encourage them, uplift them, you know, bring more of them in. How she has sit on this radio and talked about this woman's child and she's pregnant. Pregnant. It is. I cannot even. It is the sickest thing I've seen. Like you said, she has to go heal. She needs that. I have a team around there. That's not her. Yes, man. Nicki Minaj is getting dumped the other day, period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, let's pray she heals. Let's hope she heals. That's what we doing. Let's send her healing energy.

[Caller/Listener]

I agree. Have a good day, guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You too, now. You too, babe. Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, Charlamagne. My name is Brittany. How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Brittany. How are you? You?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm wonderful. I am calling from Shreveport, Louisiana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, who you want to hear?

[Caller/Listener]

Not in y' all market.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're not in our market. We not in Shreveport.

[Caller/Listener]

No, no, but y' all are in Dallas. So I'm listening on the app.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who you want to get a biggest he, too?

[Caller/Listener]

So I want to give one to Envy. First. I'm gonna say why? Because when he came down here for Human Harmony weekend, he's been pronouncing Shreveport, Louisiana, wrong since then. It's not Shreveport. It's Shreveport.

[DJ Envy]

I say Shreveport.

[Caller/Listener]

No, you don't. And so also, I was the first in line to get a book from you and your wife, and y' all spelled my name wrong. So I emailed you and I emailed your wife. I did not get a response back. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't think we should ever blame Gia for Envy's retardation. Everybody knows. Absolutely everybody. We all know Envy is our little red riri. We know that. You know what I'm saying? Don't blame.

[Caller/Listener]

One more thing I want to say. I want to give. Since I got y' all on the phone for Shreveport, I want to give the biggest he haw to Terrell. He is a construction worker out here. Very, very shisty. My husband owns an automotive shop out here. That's why I actually came up in this table, because it was a car show, obviously, and he did some work for us. And he was very horrible. So, yes, you can say his name. You can say my name. I wanted to be known that he is the worst construction work worker in Louisiana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I'm sorry we spelled your name wrong again. Don't be on Instagram like that. She like.

[Caller/Listener]

No, I emailed her. I email you and her.

[DJ Envy]

Would you email us on. She'll be checking on damn emails.

[Caller/Listener]

I emailed her cook. I think she has, like, a cooking thing or like, some body parts. Instagram.

[DJ Envy]

That's Mercedes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

And then I also emailed you on your car show email address when your car show is coming back around.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, email Mercedes, size 12 in men, gmail dot com. Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

I want to say one last thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'.

[Caller/Listener]

Am. One last thing to you. Oh, hey, Jess, I love you. I love Lauren. Absolutely amazing. But Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Caller/Listener]

My phone girl is Lil D. Lil.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

D, that's my girl.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes. You're my absolute favorite. You came to New Orleans last year, and I was like, girl, I'm gonna drive down there. I just have to meet him. But it's still five hours from us, so. I'm so happy to be on the phone with you guys. I love y' all so, so much. Thank y' all for entertaining me. Thank y' all for just everything y' all do. Keeping us up to date on the politics, the entertainment of the celebrity gossip. Y' all just going back and forth throughout the day. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. We appreciate you. Salute to my girl, Little D, too, man.

[DJ Envy]

And we coming back to Shreveport. I think this year, Next year we coming back to Shreveport, too.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes, yes, I heard you are. I heard he's gonna dawn up. So when you come back, I need you to connect with my husband who owns Affordable Mechanics out here in Shreveport, Louisiana. Okay, thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Caller/Listener]

Bye, guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Good morning. Who's this?

[Jess Hilarious]

Will you be saying it right in.

[Caller/Listener]

This Po Gotti from Detroit street for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said Po Gotti?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, Pu Gotti from Detroit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, though? Who you want to get a biggie? Hard to man myself. What you do?

[Caller/Listener]

I keep. I keep causing this friction between me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And my old lady, man.

[Caller/Listener]

Not taking her abilities consideration, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you be doing, man? Arg, I ain't going to lie, man. I'll be.

[Caller/Listener]

I'll be on some old sneaky cheese.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

N. Bro, how old are you, man?

[Caller/Listener]

36. 36.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, I'm not gonna be a judgmental person, but I will tell you that When I was 36 years old, I stopped cold turkey. That was 2016. I was 36 years old, and I was exactly where you were. And I said to myself, if I want to be the. The. The husband and the father I need to be, then I gotta stop be doing this BS that I was on. And I'm telling you that you. I think you need to do the same thing. Brother, you absolutely right. She having my bag.

[Caller/Listener]

I did seven years in federal prison presence. I came home, she didn't hold me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Down on my back. I'm just.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm just a piece of ass man crap.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I love her. I want to be with her, and.

[Caller/Listener]

That'S what it is for me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I'm just giving myself the donkey.

[Caller/Listener]

For causing this friction for the last week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brother, the best apology is change behavior. And I want to tell you a scripture, man. First Corinthians 13:11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. You got to put down. Got. You got to put that childish way of cheating behind you, my brother. And I'm gonna tell you something else. I tell brothers this all the time. When I did that 10 years ago and. And devoted myself to my wife, I promise you, my life has been nothing but amazing in every way. Spiritually, mentally, emotionally, financially, physically. I am the best me I've ever been. Amen.

[Caller/Listener]

That's the path I'm trying to be on, man. I appreciate the advice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want that for you, bro.

[Caller/Listener]

I want to tell them, malik, I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love you, and that's what it is. Me and you. Yes, sir. I really do want that for that, brother. Man, I'm telling you, y' all ain't missing nothing out here.

[DJ Envy]

I want that for all brothers out there. Once they realize that. I mean, their whole life, like Charlemagne said, their whole life was changing. And not just financially, mentally, physically, just spiritually, emotionally.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't got to deal with the. You don't got to deal with that anxiety from lying and. And cheating.

[DJ Envy]

Like, sleep better.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You sleep better. Man, how you go to sleep everybody night with the person you say you love the most. That's your best friend, but that's the person you lying to like you crazy. I promise you, my brothers, your life will change for the better when you stop being out here, you know, cheating.

[DJ Envy]

Charlie may be lying sometimes, but he ain't lying there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who be lying?

[DJ Envy]

Nobody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When I lie, I tell y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All, you always say you be lying, but that's so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not lying. See what I'm saying if I tell you I'm lying, that's not lying.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we do. We do the donkey of the day every Friday, the people's donkey. You can call in 1-800-585-1051 and give some somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. Thank y' all for calling. Or you can go to the iHeartRadio app and go to the talkback app. Leave a message there as well. Now it's Friday, so you know what that means. It's freaky, freaky, freaky Friday. Now, earlier, Mimi Brown was doing front page news, and she gave us this little. This little bit of information.

[Mimi Brown]

So a new New York Times poll, a Sienna poll finds polarization is now seen as the second biggest problem facing the country, right behind the economy. Economy. And experts say social media may be the main reason that divide feels so sharp. So apps like Tick Tock, Instagram, Facebook, and X, they're built to keep us scrolling. And those posts that grab us the fastest are the ones that push our buttons. It's called rage bait. Content that is designed to spark outrage and get people arguing in the comments. And some creators even admit their biggest videos are the ones that stir up controversy. And the algorithm, they reward that outrage. The more emotional the post, the more likely you are to click, share, and keep watching. That's why the most hostile partisan content often rises to the top of your feed. Now, critics say that these platforms know exactly what they're doing, arguing that rage is even more powerful than sex when it comes to keeping us online.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it got me to thinking, y' all really like being on social media more than y' all like having sex?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, that's crazy. Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy. Who y' all having sex with? The wrong.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, having sex with the wrong people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, ain't no way is there people really like that.

[DJ Envy]

No. So what is the question? Do you like insta social media?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

More like social media more than sex.

[DJ Envy]

Would you prefer to be on social media and be on top of somebody? Word.

[Jess Hilarious]

I would think that's like the younger generation, I don't know, because they're so engulfed in. In the, you know, the Internet, in that reality. But like, the Internet. I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

We got to take a poll to see if that's. That's like the age groups or whatever, because I don't. I'm not. That's not sitting right with me. That data is not sitting right with me. As far as adults go.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Would you prefer to be on Facebook, MySpace, Black Planet, tick tock, Snapchat? Other than getting in some pants or panties or whatever you want to call it? 800-58551.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just be letting you. I'm the men and women and women. Letting it slip out. You be letting it slip out. You'll be letting it slip out the crack. Literally.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Freaky Friday. Goddamn. Hey, look where all my freaks at. Call in now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. It's Friday, so you know what that means.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's freaky, freaky, freaky Friday.

[DJ Envy]

And the freaky, freaky, freaky Friday question comes from our very own Mimi from Front page Mimi Brown. She was talking about how some people prefer the Internet over sex.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's hear it.

[Mimi Brown]

So a new New York Times poll, a Sienna poll finds polarization is now seen as the second biggest problem facing the country, right behind the economy. And experts say social media may be the main reason that divide feels so sharp. So apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X, they're built to keep us scrolling. And those posts that grab us the fastest are the ones that push our buttons. It's called rage bait. Content that is designed to spark outrage and get people arguing in the comments. And some creators even admit their biggest videos are the ones that stir up controversy. And the algorithms, they reward that outrage. The more emotional, the more post, the more likely you are to click, share, and keep watching. That's why the most hostile partisan content often rises to the top of your feed. Now, critics say that these platforms know exactly what they're doing, arguing that rage is even more powerful than sex when it comes to keeping us online.

[DJ Envy]

So question, 800-585-1051. Would you prefer to be online and have sex? I guess we could start with you, Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

No. Like, what are we talking about? Now, online is, you know, it's fun, it's entertaining, it's whatever. But I know how to put my phone down. I ain't gotta turn it off. I just know how to exit out the apps or whatever and give my man the attention that he married me for. What are we talking about? Yeah. I would so rather hop and bounce on our pole than a scroll.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, hey. I agree with Jess.

[DJ Envy]

You rather be On a pole.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know that. I know that. The gram not better than the yam, hey. The gram not better than they yam, hey. We're not better than skeeting, hey. Tweeting. Not better than skeeting. Hey. Okay, if you prefer social media over sex, then you having sex with the wrong person. Erykah Badu told y' all a long time ago, I can make you put your phone down, bro. Okay? If you, if you, if you. If you're a lady and you walk in that room and your man on the phone and you, you know, you got that, you got that thing on them lingerie. Oh, you got nothing. You got nothing on. On. And he's still scrolling. Something wrong? Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, he just don't like you no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something wrong?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, he liked the other side. But yeah, I'm with you. Like, did like I like. Nah, that. That social media, I don't need none of that. That's why I love last week when I was a Greece, I wasn't on the phone. It was just me and the wife, no kids. Oh, my gosh. Had the best time. Amazing time ever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I don't. I. I don't even understand that. Especially when she talked about rage baiting, like. So you would rather be on social media stressing yourself out over what people are saying than doing something that is the ultimate strength? You rather be on social media with a bunch of people, you know, being in a verbally abusive relationship with a bunch of strangers than being with somebody that actually loves you and cares about you and being intimate like something's wrong. Something's very wrong. Something's wrong.

[DJ Envy]

Very wrong. Well, let's go to the phone line. We have Ashley on the line. Ashley, Good morning, Ashley.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. How are you guys?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Ashley. So talk to us. You'd rather be on social media making some money than being with a pole or fish? Whatever you prefer.

[Jess Hilarious]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sorry.

[Caller/Listener]

I think it. It. It depends. See, I'm not like a. A streamer. But you have to understand, like, when y' all had ddd come, he said he streams all day. He don't. He's not having sex or whatever. It's because he's making money. Kai, he sits on the Internet all day and makes money. Who People make money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kai also got a girlfriend. And. And de.

[Caller/Listener]

We don't see that. How you figure that when they're doing something.

[Jess Hilarious]

How do you know that?

[DJ Envy]

He's always online, I guess what he does in mafia thon and they stream 30. 30 days straight, but he don't do that.

[Caller/Listener]

That's the question. You want to spend more time on the Internet or have sex.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's actually not true if you watch.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, but that's the thing. He's not rage baiting though. You know what I'm saying? People with the, the, the statistics where people like to be online participating in rage babies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[Jess Hilarious]

Having sex.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[Jess Hilarious]

What Kai does is very positive.

[Caller/Listener]

Oh well, Trump. Trump. He does. Trump does.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't think Trump had no sex. Yeah, I don't think Trump.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, maybe if he did, he would. He would be running America into the ground.

[DJ Envy]

You right. You right. I don't think Trump. What?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm sorry, I was thinking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hi, this is Stacy.

[DJ Envy]

Hey Stacy, what's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh God. Already know Charlamagne. You already know. Okay. No, that must be some young thing. Got it.

[Caller/Listener]

That has to be a young trend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because I'm a bisexual man and I'm always looking to be in somebody's booty. That's absolutely wrong. Listen, not to tell my business, not to tell my business, but I'm about to be in three or four tonight. Hold on. Three or four booties? Male booty and female. Male booty. No, male, male, male.

[Caller/Listener]

Look, I done moved on the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Hold on, Stacy, I got questions.

[Caller/Listener]

No, I cannot, I cannot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But why do you trust the man? Why do you trust asses like that? One of them asses gonna be funny. Wait, wait, hold on. Wait. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Hold on.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, I think we got tired of getting into everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm gonna tell a little secret.

[Caller/Listener]

I called the Angela Yee show and try to, try to disguise my voice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And everybody knew who I was.

[Caller/Listener]

So I can't be telling too much of my business.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But just know I'm a man that.

[Caller/Listener]

Made cupcakes and I love cupcakes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now I'm gonna tell you something. You can't be bisexual with your radio shows. Now you got to commit, okay? You gotta commit. All right, Right, you're right. But you gotta keep in mind she started on the Breakfast Club. That is true.

[Caller/Listener]

Officially met the whole cast ass of the Gruffix Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, y' all are amazing. Like, listen, my day starts at 3:30.

[Caller/Listener]

And my day ends about like 11pm.

[Jess Hilarious]

So tonight when you got four asses.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, listen.

[Caller/Listener]

It is a party I'm going to tonight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that party do not end until 5 o' clock in the morning. I'm going be honest with you. I don't think you should tell people that cuz I don't want to eat none of your cupcakes no more. If you out here swimming. Been four asses a night. Listen, my four. Good for you not to eat them.

[DJ Envy]

Hello, Stacy, you ever put a. Stacy, you ever. You put. Ever put a cupcake on the ass and did it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Caller/Listener]

But I did skittles though.

[DJ Envy]

Bye Stacy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Freaky Friday. Four male boonies in one night. That's a lot. That's crazy. Even if it was a woman, that would be a lot. But you trust four. Four different men's asses. There's four male asses in here right now. What if they. Four of his regulars. Yo.

[Jess Hilarious]

What if he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Neo.

[Jess Hilarious]

Neo got four girls? He probably got four. Four johns. Like just four main regulars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Four bottoms. God.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Damn, Stacy, that's crazy. Yeah, that is. Wow.

[DJ Envy]

All right, what's the topic? I forgot now just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I. I don't even want to talk. No, the topic is rage baiting. Would you. Do you prefer rage? What is it? What would Mimi say?

[Jess Hilarious]

Being online social media.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go. Being online. Participating in rage.

[Jess Hilarious]

But it's rage baiting though. It's not just social media.

[DJ Envy]

Now if you're just joining us, it's Friday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you know what that means. It's freaky, freaky freaky Friday.

[DJ Envy]

And the freaky, freaky freaky Friday question comes from Mimi, who does front page news news. Mimi Brown. And this is what she was talking about this morning. Let's listen.

[Mimi Brown]

So a new New York Times poll, a Sienna poll finds polarization is now seen as the second biggest problem facing the country right behind the economy. And experts say social media may be the main reason that divide feels so sharp. So apps like Tick Tock, Instagram, Facebook, and X, they're built to keep us scrolling. And those posts that grab us the fastest are the ones that push our butt buttons. It's called rage bait. Content that is designed to spark outrage and get people arguing in the comments. Now, some creators even admit their biggest videos are the ones that stir up controversy. And the algorithms they reward that outrage. The more emotional the post, the more likely you are to click, share, and keep watching. That's why the most hostile, partisan content often rises to the top of your feed. Now, critics say that these platforms know exactly what they're doing, arguing that rage is even more powerful than sex when it comes to keeping us online.

[DJ Envy]

So 855, 1051, we're asking, would you prefer to be online on social media or in some cheeks?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah. Erica Badu told y' all a long time ago, I can make you put your phone down, man. I'm telling you ladies, if you walk in the room and that man is on that phone arguing or, you know, tweeting, ferociously participating in all of the, you know, discussions that are going on, but you walk in that room with some lingerie on or butt necking, and he don't want to have sex with you, he don't like you. No. Something wrong.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all turned off.

[Jess Hilarious]

Something wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something wrong.

[DJ Envy]

But let's go to the phone lines. We got Megan on the line. Megan, good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Megan, talk to us. What's your thoughts?

[Caller/Listener]

So, I have a lot of thoughts on that. I really feel like the question is oversimplified because there's so many nuances to whether I would rather have sex or be on social media. But to answer that question, I really think it shows more of a bigger issue. Like. Like, of course, it depends on what age you are. Of course, it depends on a lot of different things. But the question that I heard was rage baiting is more captivating than sexual content.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Caller/Listener]

That's saying something. That's saying if somebody's scrolling on Facebook and they see some ass clapping and then they scroll some more and they see somebody saying something racist, they're more likely to engage with that racist content than they are to go look at that video.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[Caller/Listener]

So that just goes to show you, people be knowing what they doing. And that's kind of scary to think that rage is more powerful than sex, because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Mindset, though, right? If you're open to receiving that type of stuff. Yeah. You're gonna scroll from the ass clapping, and you're gonna. You're going to, you know, open up your mind to receiving all that racism. Me, I'm. I'm scrolling faster, you know, Whereas, though another person that might. Might. That might heighten somebody else senses that might get somebody else intense. You know what I mean? It's certain things, you know, it depends.

[DJ Envy]

On what you open to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. You know, it's interesting what y' all are saying, because what I'm hearing here is that people, humans, we just want some type of emotional connection. Like, we always want some type of connection, whether it's a good connection, whether it's a bad connection. And to your point, if that rage baiting, you know, connecting with those people online mind is a stronger.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

So there's a lot of different nuances to how you can answer that question. But to me, that opens up a bigger conversation of, you know, like you said, just what type of content you are absorbing intentionally.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you're right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

Because they are doing it intentionally to get a reaction from you.

[DJ Envy]

And it works. And it works. They're getting reactions because people are rather. A lot of people would rather be online and then actually enjoying real life. That's right.

[Caller/Listener]

Y.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. All right.

[Caller/Listener]

Glad y' all opened. Up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How y' all like clicks more than cheeks, bro?

[Jess Hilarious]

Clicks more than the clicks money.

[DJ Envy]

What was you gonna ride clicks with?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing. Clicks more than cheeks. Yeah, I mean, I could have said clicks, but I didn't want to.

[DJ Envy]

No, we. We know you wasn't. We knew what you was gonna rhyme, but go ahead, Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, so no, what I was saying was like. Like is real interesting because our phones are learning us or whatever. Right. Which has been happening since, you know, for a long time now. But our phones are learning us. Like, for instance, this whole Nikki and Cardi thing, that's all I've been seeing since Monday. Right, Right. Or whatever. But if I go on Chris's social media.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Wow. The guy said he blowing the explorer got a backpack.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't even want to finish the point. Whatever. It's just basically whatever you consume for a long time because you're. They're. They're crafting us to. Crafting our algorithm to our minds.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

We do. And I just did. Just with the mess yesterday. Now that's all I see is everybody. I talked about in just with the mess. You know, I put my. I did it. I Put my phone down. I wasn't even in the car comments until late last night. But now that's all I'm seeing is everybody I talked about, everybody who I created a story about on. On just with the mess. And I'm seeing a bunch of negativity, a bunch of that. Now if I start going to look at other things and not even. Even if I switch up my content, it'll be different. Like, if I do a video about going to Home Depot today with Chris, I'm gonna start seeing.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, you know, DIY projects. You know, do it. Do it yourself at home stuff. Like, it's. It's crafted to what we. What we absorb.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, Chris don't get scared going to Home Depot nowadays.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, he don't. Why?

[DJ Envy]

Why would he get scared?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. I say just because.

[Jess Hilarious]

He don't even look Mexican, girl. He don't. I've never seen a Mexican. Relax. Never. He don't even look like that. So people not looking to grab him up. His mother is different.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

His mother is different.

[Jess Hilarious]

Listen to gra. Them up, yo. So shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe I need to learn how to be romantic again, man. You know what I'm saying? Some candles, some Erica Badu. Some music. Scott. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

People still. Still turn on music anymore?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Probably not.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, not really.

[DJ Envy]

No music. Set the vibe.

[Jess Hilarious]

It depends. Yeah. Do y' all do?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, absolutely. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn right.

[DJ Envy]

Play.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got some round sound in the house for nice.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, when we come back, we got past the orcs. Nyla will be joining us, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Pass the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. Dj. Come spin now. Come spin.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Nyla?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nyla Simone. Big Nyla. What's happening?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's poppin?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you? Bless. Black and Holly favorite. How are you?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I'm great.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love your shirt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wendy Williams is my og. Salute to Candace. Candace Candy Hustle. She has a podcast called Dope. What is it called? Dope Chick with Ambition. Ambition. Yeah, she. And she been. Was making these shirts, so she had been. She got. Wendy Williams is my og. Oprah is my og. Hope. Like, she's been making these. Oh, oh, wait.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

She was making them prior to that interview?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dope Chick with ambition. Yep. So salute to Candy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So these records aren't any songs that dropped Today, I just want to start with that.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I know there's a lot of new music.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know Bryce and Tilly dropped etc.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

But I just wanted to get to these records.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's a lot of new music right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First, I'm going to get with mono. She dropped this song last week called Sexy so Land.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

And the music video is Fire.

[DJ Envy]

I love Mon.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's my girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've been on Mon.

[DJ Envy]

As soon as he heard all nine Blacks in the Back, I want it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All it take is a good hook. At first I was like, what's happening? But then she got me with the hook. Envy, get to the. I love it. You better stop.

[DJ Envy]

I'm black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love it.

[Jess Hilarious]

And the video. And the video is fire.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If Drake hadn't tapped out, imagine if Kendrick would have got that record after. Not like us. All the non blacks to the back. All the non blacks to the back. I'm with you.

[Jess Hilarious]

I ain't.

[DJ Envy]

Guys, I'm in the front.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I need that downloaded now. Now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm in the front.

[Jess Hilarious]

My girl. I'm in the back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm in the front. To the back.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God. Well, shout out to Mona Leo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love that song. Obviously, everybody's really enjoying that song.

[Jess Hilarious]

But no, Char, I think you would really like the video.

[DJ Envy]

Black stand about business. All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

He like her, period. She's a. She's lyrical. Like, lyrical. I love. I love her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She's been probably the most consistent out.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Of all the rap girlies. So she's in top three of all the rap girls.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm about to look it up on YouTube right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

People sleep on Mona Leo.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

She that one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Two years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody say Envy going in the middle. No, I'm in the front. I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In the back. That's fair, by the way. That's bad. You know what? You and Drake in the middle. That is fair.

[DJ Envy]

I'm black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, no, that technically.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm non blacks to the back.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

The next record I'mma go with is E.J.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jones with gas Station Love.

[Jess Hilarious]

You guys might have seen it already.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's been going viral. All E.J.

[DJ Envy]

Mazzy, Jones, Johnson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Q.C.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

E.J.

[Jess Hilarious]

Johnson. Not E.J. jones.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, oh, sorry.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yo, what's going on?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know it's Friday. I know it's Friday, but please, let's.

[Jess Hilarious]

Keep it to the music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna be back here. I need company if y' all gonna send me to the back. I need some company.

[Jess Hilarious]

My God, please.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Gas.

[Jess Hilarious]

They flow all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Sorry, guys.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, 80s, right?

[DJ Envy]

Maybe 70s, but he's 20.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sound good?

[DJ Envy]

I'm at with it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Singing like Sam Cook. I think it's fire. Yeah, that's cookout music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's cool. Yeah, that's Summer Soul family reunion.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, that's a new artist that QC just picked up.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Even outside of who he's affiliated with.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just love his voice.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

So shout out to E.J.

[Mimi Brown]

Jones.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't wait to see what he does next.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I'mma go with an R B artist named Victoria Noel. And this record is called in the Name of Love.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's like a perfect mix between Ari Lennox and Erica. I do like her. I can add. Add that to my October London place.

[DJ Envy]

I like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Make sure you guys download the Pasta Ox playlist. You can get to it by following.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Me on Instagram at Nyla Simone.

[Jess Hilarious]

N Y L A S Y M.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

O N E E E. While you're.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There, click the link in bio on the website.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

You can tap in with certified vibe.

[Jess Hilarious]

You can tap in with my podcast.

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

I just interviewed Marco plus who's a fire rapper out of atl.

[Jess Hilarious]

You guys should definitely tap in with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what else is interesting too? This is a good conversation piece because when I. I heard the song, I didn't even think white. I just thought about all skin folk not being kin folk. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Taylor Polidor Williams]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, like Angela Rye always says, all your skin folk, meaning everybody that's black ain't your kin folk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I get that, but that's why you attacked Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what he talking about. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. That was past the. And don't forget Jingle Ball Atlanta. Tickets go on sale today at noon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? EJ might be there. For real.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't say.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Jingle Boy Atlanta if you want to see Jermaine Dupree in Friends, if you want to see Little John and Friends, if you want to see Nelly, Kalani, Molly. Who else is on that show? Am I forgetting anybody?

[Jess Hilarious]

It's a big extra blood.

[DJ Envy]

Big extra Plug is on that show and a host of others. Get your tickets today. Tickets go on sale at no noon. The Breakfast Club will be down there as well. Can't wait to see you guys. And let's get to the mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We got a special Guest back in the building.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep.

[DJ Envy]

The CEO of Midtown Biohack, ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Chuck Morris.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. I'm glad you said Morris and not Norris. This man be calling me Chuck Norris all the time. I'm like, not the black walk of Texas, Rainbow Lord.

[DJ Envy]

I think you do it on purpose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He does.

[Jess Hilarious]

Especially on the weeks he mad at you, so.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

So Dr. Chuck Morris has a new way of working out that, you know, he came up here, I would say, a couple of months ago, and talked about his new way of working out. Jess had been diving in and doing it, so I dove in with Jess to do it as well. I told you guys I wanted to see for myself what it did. What was it about? And results.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And.

[DJ Envy]

And I've been there. I would say probably about 10 weeks. Eight to 10 weeks. I've been doing it. Eight to 10 weeks. I was there. I've been there every week. Except to when.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lie again. Lie. Because you are not always consistent like me. So lie again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Get on him, J. I'm gonna let.

[DJ Envy]

The doctor talk about who's consistent and who's not consistent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Last time I was here, some things were said. A lot of things were said, and a lot of things was pointed at. Pointed at my man right here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, his arms. Cause I. I didn't realize he had responded. Results.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, see, that's you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why. That's why we're never gonna rise as a people. It'll be some of us, but it won't be photos.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me see, because I really said that before you came in.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm like, oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know if I see results. Yeah, okay, doc, now listen. He's showing me photos of envy with, like, a little muscle somewhere. Yeah, yeah, but here's the thing. In the photo where there's no muscle, he's not attempting to make a muscle. In these other photos, he is attempting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, see, I knew you was gonna say this. So look at all three pictures, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm looking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He not sent he this. So this photo, huh? This photo.

[DJ Envy]

Just like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Without making him chilling on the side with his arm, doing an interview like he doing right now. And you see the. You see the guns popping out.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm not gonna lie. I do see. I. And you know, I'm top hater of all haters when it comes to envy in the gym. But, nah, I do see a difference. I do see a difference in negatives, for sure.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy]

What you say?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because at one point, you was even middle School girl. Now you like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You go.

[DJ Envy]

Rob's are good now. Now I got. See, the problem is I'm a candy eater, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep.

[DJ Envy]

And I'm a chocolate chip cookie. And so I eat horrible. I'm the one that comes after the club, after I perform. I want some wings. That is me. I can't stop it. I try to stop it. And then my kids, they come with their little snack and I feel like I gotta taste their snack. Cause they got a snack. And then I messed up. And I hate to say it. I'm a soda drinker.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Which is probably the biggest thing. I like soda. I don't drink alcohol like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I like soda. I like that pop. I like the pop in my mouth. Pause.

[Jess Hilarious]

I like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Soda.

[DJ Envy]

It is what it is. But yeah. So I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would.

[DJ Envy]

I would tell everybody this, right? I. I'm not gonna lie. I was very skeptical about Dr. Chuck Morris and his program of how it worked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

I liked it because I didn't have to go to the gym five or six days a week. I go there one day a week for a workout.

[Jess Hilarious]

And then I sneaking another day in because you will lie and say and tell everybody, oh, one. But you really doubled up.

[DJ Envy]

I usually go four days a week because, you know, you could do stomach. You could do stomach every other day. So I do stomach every other day and I do recovery every other day because I wanted to take the maximum. Right. And. But the problem is, when it comes to it, I'm disciplined.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right? Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I go all the time. I see your husband all the time. Chris is there all the time. You not so much, but you kind of like gear. Like gear went hard for like a week straight.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I sure did.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, Doc, two weeks stress in there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So what about Jess's results? Because I also told her she looked amazing before she like. I remember you did the walk with big sexy. Yes. And people.

[Jess Hilarious]

That was actually.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You were pregnant. Then people were like, yo, the body. And then she had married Charlie. You baby wear. So she looked amazing before. So what. What are justice and I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a good question. Because we always figure out in our head, we're like, hey, what do I look like? What do I look like? And we. We go for the wrong things. When we see results, the first thing is to get healthier and stronger. And that's the key. If I get healthy and stronger, then my body can contort and switch it to make it look the way that I want it to look. So when we talk about the results, Jessica, across the board. Her strength increased by 28% on everything she did across the board in 12 weeks, which was 12 workouts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What does that mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm give it to you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy did 31%. So he had a 31% increase across the board in 12 weeks, which is 12 workouts in a regular model. And this is validated. You would have to work out three to four days a week for 45 minutes for 14 to 16 weeks to increase by over 20% in strength. They did it in 12 weeks, and it was only one day. Got you right. And then a recovery stuff. So the other part of what the results is how does my body feel? Getting people out of pain? We got them out of pain in the knee, out of pain in the ankle.

[Jess Hilarious]

That generally takes the same amount of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Decrease in pain that they experience in 12 weeks. Just coming in for the extra 30.

[Jess Hilarious]

Minutes one day a week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It takes, on average, the regular person, 16 weeks, 45 minutes to 60 minutes a day in PT.

[Jess Hilarious]

They got it done one day a week. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So their results is stronger, less pain, and then really kicking in on all the brain stuff to get the stress levels out and get the brain rock and rolling. And yes. Just definitely increased the sex, because I think that's important too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chris definitely gave me a chest bump. It was random. He just came. Her husband just came in the chest bump. Me, I didn't know what it was for. He's like, period. So it's real.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I have built muscle as well, because that was one thing after I did have the baby. Thank you, Lauren, for telling me. I didn't look like I needed it, but, like, girl, this. Like, when you do this, I didn't realize that it moves a lot. Even when you. Even when you skinny a little bit, it's like, oh, I was not the healthiest person. You know, even having a baby, it. And even though you look like you're healthy and you look fit, that's not always the case. And so that's what I do. Thank you for that, because I. Even when I walked in here one day, remember Charlemagne was like, you looking a little bodybuilding. And I was like, he did not say I look like a damn body. He said, you looking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You looking a little.

[Jess Hilarious]

You looking a little. Yeah, chiseled. I, like, chiseled, so. And I was like, you know, thank you. You know, just a midtown biohack, you know, just the Morris method. I'm out here, you know, killing them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, shout out to y'. All.

[Jess Hilarious]

But what I do want to say is My favorite part of the workout right there. Because I'm there for an hour in total, because I. I like to do recovery right after. That's the best part for me, recovery. Because I actually broke my ankle about 11 years ago and I shattered my tibia bone and my fibia bone. Right. And I had to have two surgeries to get my foot basically put back together. The bones, like from the ankle on down. And he's been doing this PT with me, physical therapy with me. That gives me much more movement than I've ever had because my. It healed right because I jumped back in heels too quick. He has gotten me to move my ankle a lot more than it has ever moved because I thought I was gonna have to have many more surgeries. That's what the doctor has said. So, first of all, grateful and happy that I met you, because it's not just the workout, it's the recovery and it's also the therapy that goes along with it. So I appreciate that, Dr. Morris.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And again, you could definitely check out Dr. Chuck Morris. And again, you don't have to. You can go in between. If you have lunch, you can go at your lunchtime. There's a lot of people that come there, and they're suits, and they work out in their suits. You don't need workout clothes. You might be a little funky after, but that's. You just get a little spray deodorant. But you can definitely go do it. And as far as physical therapy, I gotta say one last thing. I was the same as Jess. Not with the ankle. My knee was effed up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

I was jumping on the jumpy with the kids. The machine hit me and F'd my knee up where it was hard to walk. And the one good thing about this, and it probably won't stay like this, but since they have a small staff, they know everything about you. So Dr. Knows when I'm going on tour, when I'm going here, the first thing he said, well, grease is a lot of walking. How your knee. Let's do therapy on your grease as soon as you get back to get my knee back. And that's what I like. I like the fact that they know every individual. There's life. They know when somebody goes there and goes on vacation and needs a little bit of this and a little bit of that. They know your body just as well as you do, so they're able to help you recover. And it's not just black people. It's black people, it's white people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

So that's nice.

[DJ Envy]

If you get a chance. What? What? How can people connect you? And. And if they want to try it out, how can they follow what you do?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, they can go to midtown biohack.com right here on Madison Avenue. We're closing the deal on Hamptons, so we're gonna have Midtown Biohack, and then we have Midtown Biohack at the Hamptons.

[Jess Hilarious]

Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Appreciate that. Appreciate that.

[Jess Hilarious]

So right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now just go to the website, Midtown Biohack.com or go to our IG, Midtown Biohack.

[DJ Envy]

I appreciate you, Doc. Coach, thank you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pleasure.

[Jess Hilarious]

Appreciate you guys.

[DJ Envy]

This is Dr. Chuck Norris. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Not Norris.

[DJ Envy]

I said Morris. You said Norris. Oh, my bad, Morris. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to everybody in Ohio. Dayton, Ohio. I'm gonna be at scene 75 this week in the All Black Party. Homecoming season has officially begun, and I can't wait. I love homecoming season. So I can't wait to see you guys in Hampton. G ho and. And a host of other HBCUs that I'm gonna be at this year.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what's up next weekend, Albany and Syracuse. Oh, Syracuse.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How you say it?

[DJ Envy]

Syracuse. Syracuse.

[Jess Hilarious]

Syracuse. Albany. Get your tickets, y'. All. Funny Bone Comedy Club. I'll be there Friday and Saturday. Friday I'll be in Syracuse. Saturday, I'll be in the All Albany. Get your [e-mail]. i will be doing meet and greet. Love you guys. Oh, and Messy vision, you get 20 off using the promo code Albany. A L B A N Y. Get your tickets now for the shows next week, October 10th and 11th. Love y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I want to salute to Candy Hustle, man. Candy Hustle made this shirt that I'm wearing. Wendy Williams is my og. It's crazy how God works because she already was making these OG T shirts, and she had had the Wendy Williams is my OG T shirts. And Oprah is my og and HOV is my og. She got a bunch of them. And she tagged me after. After that Dame Dash interview a couple of weeks ago. And so she sent me some T shirts, man. So salute to Candy Hustle. She got a podcast called Dope Chick with Ambition. I'm not sure where you order the shirts at, but go to her Instagram page, Candy Hustle. C A N D I H U S S S L E at Candy Hustle. And I'm sure she. She has these for sale on her page.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think I'll probably be in the bio. That's what's up. So she been making them before? Yeah, yo came up there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. That's crazy, because after he did the interview, she tagged me in it and I was like, oh, shoot. And I was just scrolling through her page and I was like, you know, you got to send me that asap, period.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Well, Solomon, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do have a positive note, man. And, you know, at Monteleo, man, Monaleo with that, you know, all of you, all the non blacks to the back, back, bro. It's just a. It's just a. That's the new I'm black and I'm proud. I love it. Okay?

[Jess Hilarious]

I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I just want to tell everybody out there, man, with our future ahead of us and the ancestors beside us, there's nothing we can't do. Have a great day. Breakfast Club.

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