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FULL SHOW: Kanye Faces Arrest Threat in Brazil, Juvenile on Lil Wayne Missing Verzuz, Chadwick Boseman Hollywood Star + Mike Epps Interview
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- [00:00]
Lauren LaRosa
This is an I Heart Podcast.
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Jessica B.
Morning spin class, walking the dog, hiking the trail what helps you restore with an active lifestyle? Smart Water Alkaline with Antioxidant from that stretch before sunrise to your last email of the day, your body's always moving. Smart Water Alkaline helps you refresh and restore with a pure, crisp taste. 9.5 pH and added antioxidant so you're ready for whatever's next. 9.5 plus pH antioxidant smart. Visit DrinkSmartWater.com to learn more. Short on time, but big on true crime.
- [00:39]
Mimi Brown
On a recent episode of the podcast Hunting for Answers, I highlighted the story of 19 year old Lachey Dungey.
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Jessica B.
But she never knocked on that door. She never made it inside.
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Mimi Brown
And that text message would be the.
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Jessica B.
Last time anyone would ever hear from her.
- [00:57]
Mimi Brown
Listen to Hunting for Answers from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jessica B.
The show was ahead of its time to represent a black family in ways that television hadn't shown before. Exactly.
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Mimi Brown
It's Thelma Hopkins, also known as Aunt Rachel.
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Jessica B.
And I'm Kellie Williams or Laura Winslow. On our podcast welcome to the Family with Thelma and Kelly. We're rewatching every episode of Family Matters. We'll share behind the scenes stories about making the show.
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Mimi Brown
Yeah, we'll even bring in some special.
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Jessica B.
Guests to spill some tea.
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Mimi Brown
Listen to welcome to the Family with.
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Jessica B.
Telma and Kelly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, I'm Kyle McLaughlin. You might know me as that guy from Twin Peaks, Sex and the City or just the Internet Stand. I have a new podcast called what Are We Even Doing? Where I embark on a noble quest to understand the brilliant chaos of youth culture. Each week I invite Fascinating to join me to talk about navigating this high speed roller coaster we call reality. Join me and my delightful guests every Thursday and let's get weird together in a good way. Listen to what Are We Even doing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The Rich Russians Falling out of Windows Podcast is back. Sad oligarch season two since we left you in 2023. After season one, many politically mot Russian millionaires have continued to die in suspicious circumstances. Season two gets very weird. Listen to Sad Oligarch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jessica B.
Good morning usa.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Good morning. Just hilarious.
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Jessica B.
Good morning, Charlemagne. What was that last yo, yo, yo about?
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Charlamagne Tha God
My voice was cracking a little. Peace to the planet. It is Thursday. Good morning. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. What is happening, man? Our good brother, DJ Envy, he won't be joining us today because the Throat Monster got him.
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Jessica B.
No, he is sick. Tell the truth. And he jumped on here five minutes before we went up and he sounded like the grandfather off the Simpsons.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, he don't got no voice. The Throat Monster got him.
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Jessica B.
What is the. Yo, who? The Throat Monster, y'.
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Mimi Brown
All.
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Charlamagne Tha God
The Throat Monster. Just like on, you know, Space Jams. They got the monstars that steal your powers. The Throat Monster steals your voice. The Throat Monster got him.
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Caller/Guest
Oh, man.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Throat Monster got him. It's okay. What's happening in atl, Shorty?
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Jessica B.
Man, I'm tired as hell, man. I was on set for what, like 11 hours yesterday? I just got off set at 1, got to sleep until like 4:30. Hold on.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Let's talk about this for a second. Jessa Laris is in Atlanta shooting something, so I am. When you be up here shooting your shot on the show, telling people to put you in roles and stuff like that, Something shook for you?
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Jessica B.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
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Jessica B.
And I'm excited. I can't talk about it yet. Don't get fed and everybody be like, that's unprofessional for you to like try to get another job while you sitting on your job. I'm like, why? It's two different jobs.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And now you in Atlanta on your job, period. Shooting from a studio and going to leave hand. Go shoot again.
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Jessica B.
And go shoot again.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Look at God. Come on now. Come on now.
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Jessica B.
And then I got shows next weekend. I mean, this weekend. So I fly out tonight to hit Detroit to go to the lead up Toledo. And it's a lot, but I'm here. Ain't nothing I can't do. Love it, man.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hardworking Mexican mother, too, man.
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Jessica B.
I'm not a Mexican mother. I'm not a Mexican mother.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Salute to J, you're a clown. Mike Epson is going to be joining us this morning.
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Jessica B.
Okay.
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Charlamagne Tha God
They are going back on tour again for the weed in one store. I thought that was. I thought that was a misprint when I saw it. When I saw it, I was like, man, this must be the same. The same verbiage from last year, whenever he was here recently, they going back out again.
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Jessica B.
So is we the one they. Why they ain't name it? We still the ones.
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Charlamagne Tha God
We still have ones.
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Jessica B.
Like, it's just we the ones again.
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Charlamagne Tha God
They hitting 36 cities again starting in February of 2026. So Mike Epps will be here to talk about that and the upshot and a whole bunch of other stuff.
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Jessica B.
I love it.
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Charlamagne Tha God
So let's get this the show cracking this morning. Mimi Brown will be joining us for Front Page News. And we were going to start the show off with Kendrick Lamar and Sza Luther. And though I love that record, I'm tired of hearing it. Okay.
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Jessica B.
Yeah, he was mad, people. He was like, look, we ain't got something else.
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Charlamagne Tha God
We need something to get the energy up. So hit it, Red. All right.
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Jessica B.
Ooh, that's right.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It's two. World's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. That's how I want to start the goddamn morning. Okay.
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Jessica B.
Man, that is hit so hard when it first come on.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I want it to feel like Red Bull and cocaine in the morning.
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Jessica B.
Damn.
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Charlamagne Tha God
All right. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. Charlamagne. Tha God, DJ Envy. Just hilarious. It's time for Front Page News with Mimi Brown. Good morning, Mimi Brown.
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Mimi Brown
Good morning, Charlamagne. Good morning, Jess. How y' all doing this morning?
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Lauren LaRosa
Good morning.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning.
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Mimi Brown
Good morning. All right, so we start this morning in Washington, where after 43 days, the federal government is officially back open. The longest shutdown in US History is now over. Late last night, President Trump signed the funding bill from the Oval Office, ending six weeks of disruption that left federal workers without pay, stalled travel, and delayed everything from food benefits to preschool programs. Now, the House passed the bill 222 to 209. After hours of tense debate, two Republicans voted against the bill. Six Democrats voted with the GOP to open the government. Now, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, he took to the floor saying the fight, the fight is not over. Let's listen.
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Mike Epps
House Democrats will continue to fight to address the health care crisis that Republicans have created. Only two ways, Mr. Speaker, that this fight will end. Either Republicans finally decide to extend the Affordable Care act tax credits this year, or the American people will throw Republicans out of their jobs next year and end the speakership of Donald J. Trump once and for all. That's how this fight ends.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, Speaker 1 for once, he's right. Okay? For once, Apex Shakur is correct.
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Mimi Brown
Well, Speaker Mike Johnson, in his speech after the vote he called the shutdown pointless and cruel, saying the priority is now getting federal workers paid and the government running. Let's listen to what he had to say.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I want to say that all this was. Was utterly pointless and foolish. This outcome was totally foreseeable. I said that this would be the outcome when all this began back in mid September.
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Mike Epps
They did it anyway.
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Charlamagne Tha God
They got nothing for their selfish political stunt here. They didn't achieve anything with this at all. And anyone who studied history would know that shutdowns never yield any positive result. Listen, man, God bless all the federal workers. I am so glad that you all are about to get paid again. God bless all the food programs. I'm glad that, you know, people are going to get their food aid. I know it's been rough the past 40 days, but we could get back to some sense of normalcy. Like, I don't care about either political party. I care about the people. All right?
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Jessica B.
God bless them in their recovery, because now they got to play catch up.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You know what I mean?
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Jessica B.
It's the aftermath of what's going on.
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Charlamagne Tha God
That's right.
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Mike Epps
Yeah.
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Mimi Brown
Yeah, they definitely have to play catch up. But here's what all of this means for the American public. As you just mentioned, Charlemagne, hundreds of thousands of federal workers, they will return back to work within days. Some, in fact, have been told to report today they will get back Pay for all 43 days. Food benefits will restart. States will begin loading those snap carts again. But there could still be some delays as the system catches up from the backlog at Head Start and preschool programs. Classes will reopen as early as today. And agencies that handle passports, visas, and air traffic security, that will ramp back up, which should ease some of those delays. At the airport parks that have been closed, they will be operating now again throughout the week. They're expected to open back up now. We heard from President Trump, who also signed that bill at 10:30 last night. He was surrounded by Republican lawmakers and business leaders. He also used the moment to point the finger at Democrats. Let's hear what he had to say.
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Charlamagne Tha God
This is no way to run a country.
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Jessica B.
I hope we can all agree that.
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Charlamagne Tha God
The government should never be shut down again.
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Jessica B.
Again.
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Charlamagne Tha God
End the filibuster. Terminate the filibuster. It'll never happen again. So with my signature, the federal government will now resume normal operations. And my administration and our partners in Congress will continue our work to lower the cost of living, restore public safety, grow our economy, and make America affordable again. So, yeah, you know, I disagree with, you know, Mike Johnson, And President Trump, when they say that, you know, what Democrats did was a political stunt, like, I think that, you know, Democrats do a Hail Mary on behalf of the American people because folks are going to lose health care. Folks. Health care premiums are going to, you know, go up. I think they had to try something and they did. It didn't work. But can't knock them for trying. But I'm glad that, you know, federal workers are getting back to business.
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Jessica B.
I mean, then they finally showed a little bit of fight, you know what I'm saying? Like, all right, like they, they stood 10 toes down, you know.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah.
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Mimi Brown
I'm just about the health care crisis to the front and center, right. I mean, America's health care crisis needs to be fixed. They can blame each other, but it still does need to be fixed. And so this funding bill only lasts through January 30th, and we could be here again. So in between there, they need to try and figure out.
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Charlamagne Tha God
But on top of the health care crisis, the government shutdown creates about two or three more other crisis, you know, me, because federal workers are getting paid, you know, people aren't getting their food benefits. So it's just a whole bunch of crisis.
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Jessica B.
Right.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Going on.
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Mike Epps
Right.
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Mimi Brown
And turning to another crisis on Capitol Hill.
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Jessica B.
Damn me, me, another one.
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Mimi Brown
There's another one. But this one, this one, you know, Jess, we're going to see what happens with this. And this one is the, the Jeffrey Epstein files, Right. So the House is now locked in for a vote to release those long, sealed records. That was after the Rep. Alita Gravalda, she was sworn in. She immediately became the 200 needed to force that action. So her signature set off a rare discharge position which guarantees a vote will happen within hours. Speaker Mike Johnson, he said that he will bring that bill to the floor next week instead of waiting until December. So at the same time yesterday, the House Oversight Committee, they released more than 20,000 pages of new Epstein documents. And some of those files, they included Donald Trump or Epstein pitching stories to New York Times reporters. They also included Donald Trump or Epstein saying that there's no, there's photos of Donald Trump with girls in bikinis in his kitchen, although there is no evidence of those photos. Epstein also urged the reporter if they wanted a photo of Donald Trump walking into a glass door or watching women in Epstein's pool, something like that. Absolutely. But again, Charlamagne, none of these claims have been independently verified. These are just what the purpose purportedly what the 20,000 emails that they release or 20,000 pages that they release show there's also messages from author Michael wolf during the 2026 campaign. So we'll see. The White House, though, they are pushing back. They're accusing Democrats of releasing emails that shape the narrative tying Trump to Epstein. So we'll see what that looks like. That bill is headed to the floor next week. So Speaker Mike Johnson said that he will take that up. And so we will see what happens if those files do get released. If they do, unclassified Epstein files that we've been waiting for could actually hit the public.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, that's what, that's what people need. People actually need to see visuals. I don't. I don't know if transcripts are going to hit like folks want them to because people don't read 20,000 pages of transcripts. Y' all gonna have to go through that and get the most juiciest parts and create some AI visuals to go with them for people to actually really take in information, something.
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Mimi Brown
Yeah, so we will see that. Coming up at 7, we're going to talk about TSU in Texas. We'll tell you more about why they think that the state is trying to take over that HBCU word.
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Charlamagne Tha God
All right, we'll do that when we come back. But right now, it's time for get it off your chest 1-800-585-1051. If you want to call up and tell us why you're blessed, you can do that. If you want to call up and tell us why you stressed, you could do that, too. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club.
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Mike Epps
The Breakfast Club.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Ray. Ray. Ray. Yo, Charlamagne.
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Jessica B.
Izzy, what up? Are we live?
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Mike Epps
This is your time to get it off your chest.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I got an indoor pool, a outdoor pool.
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Mike Epps
We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
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Charlamagne Tha God
We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. We live. Good morning. Who's this?
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Caller/Guest
This Arthur, man. What's up, Charlamagne?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Peace. What's happening? What's going on out there, man?
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Caller/Guest
Nothing, man. Just trying to. Hey, Jess. I had to give you donkey of the day a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't find meet and greet. But I ain't up at your show. You still ain't at the meet and greet, but you ain't not talking to me. I've been in your front. I've been in the front row. My name is Audrey. Remember, you had talked to me about.
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Jessica B.
Oh, what's up? Good morning. Yeah, I didn't do the meet and greet. I'm sorry.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Man.
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Caller/Guest
I appreciate you, man, but I thank you, baby.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, thank you, Audrey. Audrey coming. Calling from the 843.
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Jessica B.
Thank you.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Baby girl on her Bluetooth.
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Jessica B.
Hey, yo, shut up. She came inside. She came to see me in Charlotte. She was sitting up front with her girlfriend, and I was talking about both of them.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Are they studs? Yeah.
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Jessica B.
Not both of them.
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Caller/Guest
Yo.
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Mike Epps
One.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, okay. Good morning. Who's this? Hey, hey, hey, man, you know, you called us, man.
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Jessica B.
He had work.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning. Who's this from?
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Caller/Guest
Philly.
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Charlamagne Tha God
What's up, Philly? What's happening? Get it off your chest.
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Caller/Guest
Hold on. I wanted to call up first of all, show y' all some love. Man, ain't nobody out there that's been listening to y' all longer than me. I've been listening to y' all since day one, probably 2014. Since I used to do the decision, put them in the free world and everything. I used to had a fat joint call up there, Cherelle. Y' all used to bust on her all the time.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, I just want you to know. Thank you. But 2014 wasn't day one, sir. 2010 was day one.
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Jessica B.
Y' all used to a fat girl.
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Charlamagne Tha God
What's. What's new?
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Caller/Guest
Y' all remember the big Johnny used to call up Cheryl? Y' all used to have all the jokes for bustling the Funkies and all that.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I don't remember, man. But you know that sound about right. Thank you, brother.
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Caller/Guest
Yeah, I just want to give y' all some love. Say y' all keep doing, y' all think. And also, I just want to shout out to all the people, that's government workers, man, that's dealing with the reopening of this shutdown, man. I work for the Philadelphia Airport, and I've been there for about 10 years. And I'm an outside cabin inspector. I inspect the wheels, the windows, make sure everything's safe, and I'll be still coming to work. Every day shut down, and we just started to get our checks as of last week, but everybody that works there, they all backed up. The loans need to be paid, they bills backed up. Everything needs to get caught up.
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Charlamagne Tha God
So I want to ask you, how are you? How are you maintaining the last 40 days with no paycheck? You got some savings or what?
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Caller/Guest
Any community really helped me out a little bit. You know, I got a few cousins and things, and they have police jobs and a few medical jobs, so they were still getting paid. So they helped me out a little bit, but we still backed up man, I'm about 1500 behind on my bills, man.
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Charlamagne Tha God
We trying to make it work, man. Y' all getting back paid.
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Caller/Guest
All right, the back pay don't kick in until about the next paycheck, so about a week and a half from now.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, okay. Okay.
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Jessica B.
Then they said it'll be delayed. Some people gonna be delayed because of the back office.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, we got. We glad you back on your feet, man. Salute to all the federal workers out there, man.
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Jessica B.
Absolutely.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Get it off your chest 1-800-585-1051. Call us right now. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club.
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Mike Epps
The Breakfast Club.
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Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it.
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Mike Epps
Off your chest Whether you're mad or.
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Jessica B.
Blessed I hate the way that you.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Walk the way that you talk I.
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Jessica B.
Hate the way that you dress Everything with me is blessed.
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Mike Epps
Call up next, 800-585-1051.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Not just me, I'm with the culture Philly. Get it off your chest. Who's this?
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Caller/Guest
This is Sally.
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Jessica B.
What's up, baby?
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Charlamagne Tha God
What's up? How you get it off your chest?
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Caller/Guest
All right, I just. Before we get ahead with all these Christmas decorations, can you make sure we can see your address? And why would you hang a reef on the address? That's just dumb.
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Jessica B.
You deliver?
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Caller/Guest
Yes.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, you gotta say that. I thought. You sound like you about to do home invasions. I'm like, what the hell you need.
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Caller/Guest
To see people address for this? About to go back to the station.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, oh, I get what you're saying. You're actually giving a great piece of advice right now. Don't cover up your address for the Amazon and the UPS drivers. FedEx, who you work for.
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Caller/Guest
The blue people.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Amazon. Amazon's called the blue people.
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Caller/Guest
Yeah, Amazon.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, okay. Got you, got you, got you. That's a great piece of advice. Thank you for that.
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Jessica B.
Yeah, I'm glad she still got a damn job. She wasn't one of the 40, 000. That's what's up.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning. Who's this? Morning.
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Caller/Guest
This is J.R. from Detroit, Michigan.
- [18:14]
Charlamagne Tha God
What up, Doe? Get it off your chest.
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Caller/Guest
Get off my chest. I gotta start the morning off by saying where Ms. Lord? That's the morning starter right there.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I did my morning mimosa.
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Lauren LaRosa
I don't be knowing what be about to happen.
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Jessica B.
Mimosa. La Rosa. I know that's right.
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Caller/Guest
I swear to God, that girl is some maple sugar out here. You know what I'm saying?
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Charlamagne Tha God
That girl is a brown.
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Caller/Guest
Fine.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I'm telling you, if you could smell it, if you could smell it, you wouldn't feel like that.
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Lauren LaRosa
First of all, you a dang if you can smell me roses.
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Caller/Guest
What you talking about?
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Lauren LaRosa
Period. Thank you.
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Caller/Guest
That girl got the pretty toes on the ballerina flow.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You better know something in that haircut. Nah, she be smelling like she played basketball before she come to work.
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Jessica B.
Damn.
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Caller/Guest
At 6:00am you alive, my baby like that. This ain't that.
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Charlamagne Tha God
This ain't.
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Caller/Guest
That can't come on my baby like. They can't come at her like that.
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Jessica B.
Okay. She killing that haircut, ain't she?
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Caller/Guest
You see her today? Look at her.
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Jessica B.
Yeah.
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Caller/Guest
Appreciate it up there. She's fine.
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Lauren LaRosa
Thank you.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Listen, put something in the cash app, then. Put something in the cash app.
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Caller/Guest
Well, is there a cash app? I bless her.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Let me see. What's your cash app?
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Lauren LaRosa
My cash app is Dollar Sign. You gotta send it to my mom. Dollar Sign. Lois. L O I s boy B O Y D. I don't have cash yet.
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Jessica B.
I know her boyfriend, okay?
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Lauren LaRosa
And you know what he like, mom, need that money. Send it. Go ahead.
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Charlamagne Tha God
If you got a boyfriend, he can't get my money.
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Caller/Guest
But we can go out on a day you can get treated.
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Lauren LaRosa
No, I can't go nowhere with you. But if you want to give to the fund of my mother, don't have to call me an ax. You can go right on the head.
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Caller/Guest
You're like, his shoes gonna come on tired and he gonna slip up, and.
- [19:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm gonna be right there catching.
- [19:52]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm gonna catch him before he gonna.
- [19:53]
Charlamagne Tha God
Fly a line right there. Now, I'm not gonna lie. If I was single, I'd be using stupid lines like that. Your shoes gonna be untied and you gonna slip up, and I'm gonna be there to catch you or whatever.
- [20:01]
Jessica B.
And here go Lauren with another dumb line talking about, and I'm gonna be there to catch him when he falls, period.
- [20:08]
Lauren LaRosa
Don't hit the ground as long as I'm next to him.
- [20:10]
Charlamagne Tha God
I do respect the fact that you didn't want a big three, though. You know what I'm saying? What you mean? Cause she already got a little tag team back again, so she don't need a third.
- [20:16]
Lauren LaRosa
Can we please retire the tag team conversation? I don't tag team anything. I.
- [20:24]
Jessica B.
Her man be mad Charlemagne, like when you say that. So when he see you, he gonna run down.
- [20:28]
Lauren LaRosa
I can't wait.
- [20:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
And I'm gonna be there to show him the videos. I got two videos on my phone right now to back up what I've been talking about, okay? And I don't know if one is him or not, but he'll. He'll be like, no, that's me. But I don't know this other. Now, if he say he don't know either one, you in trouble.
- [20:41]
Jessica B.
Oh, wow.
- [20:42]
Charlamagne Tha God
You in trouble, big three. Okay, now it's time for the latest with Lauren. Good morning. Lauren LaRosa.
- [20:46]
Lauren LaRosa
Good morning. Yes, it's time for the latest. Kanye west might be going to jail. We gonna talk.
- [20:52]
Jessica B.
Damn.
- [20:53]
Caller/Guest
We.
- [20:53]
Lauren LaRosa
We gonna get into it. We gonna talk about it. There's been a lot of things happening.
- [20:56]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's why he was apologizing the other day to the joint. People.
- [20:59]
Lauren LaRosa
Listen, we gonna talk about some things. Okay?
- [21:02]
Charlamagne Tha God
Wow. All right. I can't wait to hear this one. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club.
- [21:06]
Mike Epps
The Breakfast Club.
- [21:10]
Jessica B.
Lauren becoming a street fan.
- [21:13]
Charlamagne Tha God
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. Somebody. She gets the details.
- [21:16]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the little girl that knows a little bit about everything.
- [21:19]
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on.
- [21:23]
Caller/Guest
The.
- [21:23]
Mike Epps
Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
- [21:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me, LL Cool B.
- [21:32]
Lauren LaRosa
Good morning, guys.
- [21:33]
Jessica B.
What's up, boo? What's going on with Kanye?
- [21:35]
Lauren LaRosa
So, look, Kanye west is set to perform in Brazil, and there is a city there. Sao Paulo. I've been practicing. I know I still got that wrong.
- [21:43]
Charlamagne Tha God
I know you got that wrong.
- [21:44]
Jessica B.
Who was it?
- [21:45]
Lauren LaRosa
Sao Paulo.
- [21:47]
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, we'll look it up.
- [21:49]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. So anyway. Yeah, so there's a. A place in Brazil that is telling Kanye west that when he comes there, he's set to perform there on November 29, that if he leans into anything Nazi whatsoever, they will throw him in jail. So they did this. It's a councilwoman who's leading a charge. She did that through an official complaint that she filed, which she filed on Tuesday. And those within that complaint, there are strict orders to arrest Kanye west if he performs his Hell Hitler track. And they also. The prosecutor there also put in some ruling that bans swastika T shirts or Nazi symbols of any kind on any type of merch whatsoever. Because you guys remember, he was selling those things as well. The mayor over there said that police will arrest Kanye west or anyone who makes an apology for Nazi Nazism, as in anyone who justifies the idea ideology. Police will have a team of officers on standby just in case things go haywire. Kanye west and his team could be charged with crimes of racism and collective moral damages. They're even taking it as far as the promoters of the show could also face arrest for omission if. Omission if they. If Kanye west doesn't fully comply. And, you know, last week, Kanye west sat down with the rabbi and apologized. We have that audio.
- [23:06]
Mike Epps
Feel really blessed to be able to sit here with you today and just take accountability. I was dealing with some various issues dealing with bipolar also.
- [23:17]
Jessica B.
So it would take the ideas I.
- [23:18]
Mike Epps
Had and having taken them to an extreme, where I would forget about the protection of the people around me or.
- [23:25]
Jessica B.
And myself.
- [23:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, people aren't that knowledgeable about the bipolar, the cause or what causes.
- [23:31]
Jessica B.
It, and the way you act when you have this disease.
- [23:36]
Mike Epps
Yeah.
- [23:36]
Jessica B.
And it's a. It's a big deal for me as a man to come and take accountability.
- [23:40]
Mike Epps
For all the things that I've said. And I really just appreciate you embracing.
- [23:45]
Jessica B.
Me with open arms and allowing me to make amends. And this is beginning in the first.
- [23:50]
Mike Epps
Steps and the first, brick by brick, to build. To build back the strong walls.
- [23:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
Why Kanye sound like that. Yeah, I'm sitting there, I'm like, I didn't. Real. I didn't. It took me a while to even realize that was Kanye.
- [23:59]
Lauren LaRosa
Maybe because he's sitting with a rabbi. He's, like, very, like, stoic or something. A mon. I don't know, Monone.
- [24:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
I think that might have been a Kanye clone, guys.
- [24:07]
Jessica B.
Yeah, that didn't sound like him at all. And then why they start talking in the middle of his apology? There's a.
- [24:12]
Lauren LaRosa
No, there's a translator there who is translating. Yeah, there's a translator there who's translating between the rabbi and Kanye west at the same time. So that's what you guys heard.
- [24:19]
Charlamagne Tha God
But by the way, everything you said, that's Brazil, right?
- [24:21]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
- [24:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
Everything Brazil is on is completely understandable. I get it. I. He did stuff like that. In America, you show any open racism, any forms of white supremacy, you get your ass locked up. That would be great. The problem with Kanye, historically, is when you tell him what not to do, he often rebels on purpose. Yeah, they not going for you being bipolar in Brazil. I'm telling you that right now. Kanye, they done told you what time it is.
- [24:42]
Jessica B.
It's like that left part of the brain be fighting that right part. But it's a lot of people's freedom riding on what come out this man mouth, so.
- [24:49]
Lauren LaRosa
Well, I also will say, too, there's been a lot of conversation about. Because when the apology popped up last week, people were like, well, why is he randomly doing this and then all of the there's like these show dates and all these things that drop so people feel like, you know, this is all strategy. So it'll right but so it'll be.
- [25:05]
Jessica B.
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Jessica B.
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- [27:20]
Lauren LaRosa
Told, and that's a half trut is.
- [27:22]
Mimi Brown
A whole lie for almost A decade. The murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
- [27:39]
Caller/Guest
I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.
- [27:41]
Mimi Brown
We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.
- [27:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky.
- [27:53]
Caller/Guest
High housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.
- [27:57]
Mimi Brown
My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.
- [28:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.
- [28:12]
Jessica B.
That y' all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her.
- [28:16]
Caller/Guest
They made me say that I poured.
- [28:18]
Jessica B.
Gas on her.
- [28:21]
Mimi Brown
From lava for good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.
- [28:31]
Mike Epps
America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.
- [28:40]
Mimi Brown
Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus us on Apple Podcasts.
- [29:02]
Mike Epps
It's okay not to be okay sometimes and be able to build strength and love within each other.
- [29:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Thanksgiving isn't just about food. It's a day for us to show up for one another. I'm Elliot Connie, host of the podcast Family Therapy, a series where real families come together to heal and find hope. What would be a clue that we would be like? I've gotten lots of text messages from him. This one's from a little bit better.
- [29:24]
Mimi Brown
Of a version of him because he's feeding himself well. It's always a concern, like, are you eating well?
- [29:30]
Lauren LaRosa
He's actually an amazing cook.
- [29:31]
Jessica B.
There was this one time where we.
- [29:33]
Caller/Guest
Had neighbors and I saved their dog.
- [29:35]
Jessica B.
And I ended up inviting them over for food. And that was like one of my proudest moments.
- [29:40]
Charlamagne Tha God
This is family therapy. Real families, real stories on a journey to heal together. Listen to season two of Family Therapy every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. May 24, 1990. A pipe bomb explodes in the front.
- [30:03]
Mike Epps
Seat of environmental activist Judy Berry's car.
- [30:06]
Jessica B.
I knew it was a bomb the second that it exploded.
- [30:08]
Mimi Brown
I felt it rip through me with.
- [30:10]
Jessica B.
Just a force more powerful and terrible.
- [30:13]
Mimi Brown
Than anything that I could Describe in.
- [30:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
Season two of Rip Current, we ask.
- [30:18]
Mike Epps
Who tried to kill Judy Barry and.
- [30:21]
Jessica B.
Why she received death threats before the bombing.
- [30:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
She received more threats after the bombing. The men and women who were hurt had planned to lead a summer of militant protest against logging practices in Northern California.
- [30:33]
Mike Epps
They were climbing trees and they were sabotaging logging equipment in the woods.
- [30:38]
Jessica B.
The timber industry, I mean, it was the number one industry in the area. But more than it was the culture, it was the way of life.
- [30:44]
Charlamagne Tha God
I think that this is a deliberate.
- [30:46]
Lauren LaRosa
Attempt to sabotage our movement.
- [30:48]
Charlamagne Tha God
Episodes of rip current season two are available now. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [30:58]
Lauren LaRosa
On November 29th when he's there in Brazil. Whether what he chooses to do versus not do, if he's gonna stick to the plan or if, you know, he's gonna use this moment to do what you mentioned, Charlamagne, the K and do what he always.
- [31:10]
Charlamagne Tha God
And he gonna be in jail. And guess what? Destiny is not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. Okay. In life, we all make choices. They gave him a choice. So if he makes the other. If he makes the choice to perform the record, he'll be in jail. Yes.
- [31:21]
Jessica B.
I'm g. Tell you what, this, this is a great story for promotion. This the way. A great way to promote. I know he not promoting, but if that show ain't sold out, it's gonna be sold out now. Because everybody wants to see what say.
- [31:32]
Lauren LaRosa
The shows have been going crazy last week. Yeah. Cuz he, he had Travis Scott at one of his shows. And I was. I'm not surprised because Kanye West, I think is. People are still in awe of Kanye West.
- [31:42]
Charlamagne Tha God
He's already been performing.
- [31:43]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes. He was on stage with Travis Scott and they said Travis Scott threw some bars at clips. Right. And the crowd was crazy. Like there was so many people there.
- [31:53]
Jessica B.
Like it was never heard that.
- [31:55]
Caller/Guest
Damn.
- [31:56]
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, I'll send it. Yeah. I forget what city he was and where he was at, but I could send it to you guys. I was more so looking at the crowd of people because, you know, there's always been the conversation of is he canceled, is he not type of thing.
- [32:06]
Charlamagne Tha God
But I mean, listen, let's not act like Kanye west don't have the catalog that he had. In fact, when, you know, and you know, I'm a, you know, I love, love Jay Z. I'm a Pinkett, Smith, Winfrey, Knowles, Carter. Right. I love Jay. Right. But when he said that nobody can see him in a verses.
- [32:19]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
- [32:19]
Charlamagne Tha God
First person that came to my mind was Kanye. First person. Kanye catalog crazy. I love. Don't get me wrong, I love whole catalog. Yeah, yeah. Kanye catalog crazy too.
- [32:28]
Lauren LaRosa
I want to correct myself. So this was Travis Scott's two night. He had a two night show that he did in Japan and he brought out Kanye West. But when Kanye west was performing, the crowd went crazy is what I saw. So correcting that, but still, I think Kanye west will be able to bring out a crowd, but we'll see what happens.
- [32:43]
Jessica B.
That news would have been bigger if. If it was in the states that Travis Scott threw a shot at clips. That would have been bigger if it was anywhere here.
- [32:52]
Lauren LaRosa
Well, speaking of big news in the states, Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy has been running around promoting his documentary Being Eddie and he sat down with Extra and he told us that he wants to get. He's open to getting back on the stage for stand up. Let's take a listen.
- [33:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I'm open to it now. Right after the pandemic though, I was like, I'm never going out there. Yeah, you go out, do a show and catch COVID and I've seen a couple of comedians. I've seen it. What a funny DL Hughley. I saw him up, he was doing stand up and he fell out on the stage. So comics was falling out. I was like, I ain't never going out there. But that's all past now. And now I'm open to it again. And if it ever struck me that I could have some fun doing it, I'd get up there and do it again. Just have to one day wake up and be like, hey, that seems like a fun thing to do. Absolutely. Well, we would. We would all certainly enjoy that. But it has to be fun for me. I have to be having the most fun doing it. When I'm having fun. I've never ever, ever once been having fun doing something and it was whack after it was, if I'm having fun, it's going to work and it's going to be funny and I have to feel all of that. If I get that feeling again, I'm open to that and I'll absolutely do stand up again.
- [34:02]
Jessica B.
Man, I love that so much.
- [34:03]
Charlamagne Tha God
I have no problem with a new Eddie Murphy stand up. In fact, I would watch Eddie on stage sitting down. I don't know if y' all remember that Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson had a one man play back in the day that Spike Lee produced. And it was just Mike coming out on stage talking about his life. I remember that and all the things he'd been through in his life. And it was funny and it was inspiring. I feel like Eddie could do like the same thing. Like, I don't need Eddie talking about current events. I'd rather hear Eddie come out there and do a stand up about him and his life and what he's been through.
- [34:32]
Mike Epps
Right.
- [34:32]
Jessica B.
Well, I should be waiting for that.
- [34:33]
Lauren LaRosa
I'd be right there. I want to see it in person if I could. And being Eddie is actually on Netflix. It is out now. It released yesterday, November 12th. So that's why he's been doing all these interviews. And it's a deep look into his life, his career. Features a ton of different comedians. Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx. So, I mean, it's Eddie Murphy.
- [34:51]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I'm watching that this weekend. I need to watch that with a nice bottle of wine. Edible, you know, that's why I watch it last night, because I don't want to have to get up early to work and.
- [34:59]
Lauren LaRosa
You mean go ahead.
- [35:00]
Jessica B.
I love what he said, though. He has to have fun. Like, a lot of people been begging him for years, years, years. Like, yo, do another special. You only got one special doing it. And like he said, it's very important that you have fun doing what you do. And that's his passion and that's one of his crafts. Like, yo, you gotta have fun because it ain't gonna be whack if you're doing it for other people. It might not go well. You know what I'm saying? I like that.
- [35:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
And I wouldn't compare it to nothing either. Like, I wouldn't compare anything he does now to raw or delirious. Like, I really want him to do like a. I'm telling you, that Mike Tyson one man play would be a great thing for Eddie Murphy.
- [35:33]
Jessica B.
I was.
- [35:34]
Lauren LaRosa
Well, Mike Tyson has another special that he's shooting. I saw this. He's going to be taping his Netflix special on December 14th.
- [35:40]
Charlamagne Tha God
But Mike Tyson.
- [35:41]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes, Mike Tyson.
- [35:42]
Jessica B.
No, you mean Mike Epps.
- [35:44]
Lauren LaRosa
No, Mike Tyson. He posted it. I saw it over the weekend.
- [35:47]
Charlamagne Tha God
Return to the mic. Taping his new Netflix special.
- [35:49]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. On December 14th.
- [35:51]
Charlamagne Tha God
I didn't know Mike had a first Netflix. Netflix special.
- [35:53]
Jessica B.
See what I'm saying? Yo, it's the comics. Comics out here fighting, fighting for comedy specials for Netflix and they giving them the boxers. They giving it. Like, what happened? When. When did he do comedy?
- [36:06]
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't remember no comedy. But that one man play he did with Spike Lee was definitely funny and inspiring. I'D love to see Eddie Murphy do something like that. Thank you, Lauren.
- [36:14]
Lauren LaRosa
You're welcome. We'll be back with more in the next hour, guys.
- [36:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right. We got Front page News coming up next. And we got Mike Eps coming up this hour. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Yes. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. Charlemagne the God, Jess. Hilarious DJ Envy. Envy is off today. The throat monster got him. So he don't have a. He don't have no voice. But it's time for Front Page News with Mimi Brown. First, Mimi, I want to salute the Audi Crooks from Iowa State. I didn't get to watch the game last night, but I'm looking at some of the highlights, man. Audi Crooks dropped 43 points in 23 minutes. No, 43 points in 20 minutes, actually.
- [36:49]
Jessica B.
That's crazy.
- [36:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's insane, man. She had 43 points, seven rebounds, two assists in 20 minutes. So salute to Audi Crooks of Iowa State. But what we got in Front page news, Mimi. All right.
- [36:59]
Mimi Brown
Good morning, Jess. Good morning, Charlamagne. How y' all doing this morning?
- [37:02]
Jessica B.
Good morning, girl.
- [37:02]
Charlamagne Tha God
Blessed, black and highly favored.
- [37:04]
Mimi Brown
All right, so we're starting this hour with growing controversy at Texas Southern University. That's an HBCU in Houston after state leaders accused the school of mishandling hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick wants TSU state funding cut after the state auditor flagged major problems with the university's purchasing and contracting. The governor, he then escalated things, calling in the Texas Rangers to investigate even though the audit isn't finished. Now, the auditor says TSU processed more than 282 million in invoices tied to expired contracts and another 8,000 invoices worth about 158 million dated before the purchases were even made. She says TSU didn't follow procurement rules and plans to meet with university officials this week. But TSU says it has already made those changes, including a new procurement system, and is cooperating fully. And inside that TSU community, there's a bigger concern, and their concern is whether the state is using this moment to push for a full takeover or threaten the school's independence. And TSU is a standalone public HBCU in Texas. It's not part of the UT or AM system, and that's made it politically vulnerable for decades. State Rep. Ronald Reynolds says that the public, they aren't getting the information or the answers that they need, and they're calling for more transparency. Let's listen to what he has to say.
- [38:25]
Caller/Guest
I want and demand transparency because I.
- [38:29]
Mike Epps
Know for a fact that many in.
- [38:31]
Caller/Guest
The administration want to see TSU placed under a system.
- [38:36]
Charlamagne Tha God
And in this heightened era of anti.
- [38:39]
Caller/Guest
Diversity, equity and inclusion, anti black and brown from the Trump administration that trickled down to Texas and all over the country, I tread with significant caution until there's evidence that would merit and substantiate these allegations.
- [38:57]
Charlamagne Tha God
So, so, so, Mimi, what's the why here? I understand what the brother is saying right there, but why would they want TSU placed under a system?
- [39:04]
Mimi Brown
Money. So, yeah, former TSU president James Douglas says that, you know, if there's any real issue that they need to be addressed, but sending in law enforcement before the audit is finished, they feel like it's more political theater than process. So what's happening is he's pointing out that the board of Regents, so the people responsible for the oversight, they are appointed by the governor. That's the same governor that I said just sent in the Texas Rangers, who are. They want to investigate. And so what they're trying to do, what they think that they're trying to do, is take over that HBCU and put it under state control, put it into the AM systems and be able to control the school and control the money. And so they're saying, you know, if that's the case, they want transparency. They want to do an independent audit. They want to see, you know, what is really going on with this money for themselves. They don't want to just trust the governor's people and take their word for it. So that's where we are. So this morning, students, staff, and alumni, they are demanding answers not just about the audit, but about whether the state is laying the ground, groundwork to take over this historic hbcu.
- [40:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Gotcha.
- [40:08]
Mimi Brown
Yeah. All right. So if you are an ATT customer, you could be owed money for two major data breaches since from last year. So AT&T, they have agreed to pay out $177 million, but you must file a claim by November 18th. So the company, they were hit with two breaches in 2024. In March, sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, leaked onto the dark web. Then in July, more customer data tied to account numbers. It was illegally downloaded. So if your information was part of either breach, you may qualify for a payout. If you were affected by both, you can claim up to $7,500, which is a significant amount.
- [40:49]
Jessica B.
It's only AT&T is not Verizon or T mobile.
- [40:52]
Mimi Brown
It's only AT and T. You gotta be AT and T customer, and you have to be affected by those data breaches. So either one or the other, if you were affected by both, you get. You can get a payout of up to $7,500. To check your eligibility, you can go to AT&T data breachsettlement.com, click submit your claim. You can search using your name, your email, or your account number. You can fill out something online, a claim online, but it must be postmarked by Tuesday, November 18, which is coming up next week. And again, just as you just asked, it is just for AT&T customers. But if you are, it's worth checking because that payout is significant.
- [41:30]
Charlamagne Tha God
You said 7,500?
- [41:32]
Jessica B.
Yes.
- [41:32]
Mimi Brown
$7,500.
- [41:34]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's better. That's. That's better than the stimulus check.
- [41:36]
Jessica B.
Yes, yes.
- [41:38]
Lauren LaRosa
So it is.
- [41:39]
Mimi Brown
So it's like, I believe it's if, for one, it's $2,500, for the other is $5,000.
- [41:44]
Lauren LaRosa
If you were.
- [41:45]
Mimi Brown
If it happened to you, for both, you get that $7,500.
- [41:48]
Charlamagne Tha God
So let me tell you something, Mimi. I'm gonna tell you why knowledge is power. Because you just gave that information out. There's a bunch of people who didn't know anything about that. And now some of them people gonna go to attdatabreachsettlement.com to see if they eligible. And they gonna get blessed.
- [42:02]
Jessica B.
Yes, they are.
- [42:03]
Mimi Brown
Yes. Just do it by November 18th, which is Tuesday. So you make sure that you get your money. Fill out that form.
- [42:08]
Charlamagne Tha God
Y' all got five days. AttData breachsettlement.com all you federal workers that's trying to get back, okay, you're trying to get really back on your feet. That can really help you catch up on some bills. I wonder how long it takes you to get the money, though.
- [42:21]
Mimi Brown
Yeah, that's a good question.
- [42:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
That'd be the. That'd be the thing.
- [42:24]
Mimi Brown
Maybe there's a question and answer portion on the website. I don't know. But definitely you want to get that filled out. You got to start to be able to, you know, you got to be in it to win it. So start by filling it out and following up with that. All right, y'.
- [42:37]
Mike Epps
All.
- [42:37]
Mimi Brown
Well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me, Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit vi.com thank you, Mimi.
- [42:48]
Jessica B.
Thank you, Mimi.
- [42:49]
Lauren LaRosa
Thank.
- [42:49]
Charlamagne Tha God
When we come back, we Got the icon living. Mr. Mike EPS. He's going to be joining us. They are going back on the road. They're doing another weed in Ones tour starting in February. But Mike will be here to talk about that and the upshaws and comedy and all kind of stuff, man. It's Mike Eps. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club.
- [43:05]
Mike Epps
The Breakfast Club.
- [43:08]
Jessica B.
Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious.
- [43:12]
Charlamagne Tha God
Charlemagne, the guy.
- [43:12]
Jessica B.
We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Rose is here as well.
- [43:15]
Charlamagne Tha God
We got a special guest in the building. Legend of icon, man, stop introducing Mike Eps like he regular God, okay?
- [43:21]
Jessica B.
Goddamn right. Yeah, you said it. The icon, the legend.
- [43:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't even know why he.
- [43:25]
Jessica B.
He got so much going on. I had to check to see what he's up here for.
- [43:27]
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm not going to lie. I saw that they said Mike Eps was here for the. We didn't want to. I said it's a typo from the last time he was here. There's no way they about to go back out again. Again.
- [43:38]
Mike Epps
Yeah. Hey, how y' all doing out there in the world, man? Breakfast Club, baby. We on the Breakfast Club.
- [43:42]
Caller/Guest
Up.
- [43:43]
Mike Epps
I'll be watching this all the time, but, you know, and I say to myself, I wonder when I'm going back again.
- [43:48]
Charlamagne Tha God
Anytime you want to.
- [43:49]
Jessica B.
Yeah, you did the first. You did the. Mike Eps did the first skit with the Breakfast Club we ever did.
- [43:54]
Mike Epps
I did.
- [43:55]
Jessica B.
Yes, you did.
- [43:56]
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't remember. Remember when the girl was holding the food and he smacked the food out of her hand? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [44:00]
Mike Epps
I never did get anything out of the day. I never did get nothing from it either. Never that. Got a check or piece of cake, a bottle of wine or none of that.
- [44:10]
Lauren LaRosa
Is he on the wall?
- [44:11]
Mike Epps
Hell, no. Look how y' all treating him? Nope. Ain't on the wall, man. But see, that's what I wanted to come here and talk about. You know what I'm saying? I wanted to talk about the neglect that has been going on with the Breakfast Club.
- [44:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
Talk to me, Mike.
- [44:25]
Mike Epps
And Mike.
- [44:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. No, man, you a legend. You a icon, man.
- [44:29]
Mike Epps
And see, I'm ready to do like Birdman Brian Williams on y' all right now. All three of you.
- [44:35]
Jessica B.
You too.
- [44:36]
Mike Epps
You too. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I ain't gonna say it no more.
- [44:42]
Jessica B.
What we be doing?
- [44:43]
Lauren LaRosa
What happened?
- [44:44]
Mike Epps
No, I was just sitting there watching all them clips. You almost got in, like, several different fights in here.
- [44:49]
Charlamagne Tha God
You say that so nonchalantly, right? So articulately. Yes. God, I was just worried about that.
- [44:56]
Mike Epps
I know it. But they was just showing all the different clips, and everybody that wanted to fight you was, like, this close. Yeah.
- [45:04]
Jessica B.
Yep.
- [45:05]
Lauren LaRosa
Who you think would want to one out of him and Beanie? That was the craziest one.
- [45:08]
Charlamagne Tha God
They don't be the funniest. Beat your ass right now. They standing like arms l away from each other. Watch. Right there.
- [45:16]
Mike Epps
Right there.
- [45:17]
Charlamagne Tha God
I've been in worse situations, man. I know, man.
- [45:20]
Mike Epps
That is just hilarious, though. I'm like, damn.
- [45:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
What makes you want to go back out on the road so soon? I feel like y' all just ending this, though.
- [45:26]
Mike Epps
Well, you know what? That's my thing that I see. That's the thing about me. I never leave the people.
- [45:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [45:33]
Mike Epps
And that's because Hollywood is. They don't trust me 100%. Even now, white people do not trust me, man. And I've been. I've been working on it for years.
- [45:45]
Charlamagne Tha God
How don't they trust you?
- [45:46]
Jessica B.
I think you proved yourself times 30.
- [45:49]
Mike Epps
No, you know, I don't know, man. You know, I feel like I've always deserved bigger opportunities, but I do be getting big opportunities.
- [46:00]
Charlamagne Tha God
Mike, you just did six seasons of a sitcom on Netflix, man.
- [46:04]
Mike Epps
I know. I'm greedy.
- [46:08]
Lauren LaRosa
What is it that you want?
- [46:10]
Jessica B.
Every show?
- [46:11]
Mike Epps
What's bigger that I want? Yeah, I want. I really want. I. I want to be. I want to be in some more movies with white people because it means money. When you see me with a. If you catch me with a honking, your money gonna go up.
- [46:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, when you think about.
- [46:27]
Mike Epps
Black honkies, make your money go up. Go ahead.
- [46:30]
Charlamagne Tha God
That word.
- [46:31]
Mike Epps
In a long time.
- [46:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
When you think about black comedians, it's not too many black comedians who've had hit sitcoms. I'm talking about sitcoms that have lasted.
- [46:38]
Mike Epps
Yeah.
- [46:39]
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what I'm saying? There's only a few. Like, you got the Cosby Show. You got Sanford and Son, right? Martin, Martin, Martin. I don't even know if Bernie Mac. Did Bernie do five seasons? I don't even know. God bless the dead. I'm not sure.
- [46:52]
Mike Epps
No, I don't know.
- [46:52]
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't know.
- [46:53]
Mike Epps
But I've been.
- [46:53]
Charlamagne Tha God
It's a handful.
- [46:54]
Mike Epps
Yeah. I've been blessed to do. I've been blessed to still be in the business. And that's how I stay in the business, man. I never. I, I. I'm. I'm. I wake up every day. Like, I'm just now getting in it. Like, I'm. I never got in it. I. I never Celebrate myself being in the business. I'm never bragging or, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm always a fan still. I'm always looking at the business from a fan's eyes. Like, if I look at the business from a fan's eye, I ain't gonna never fall off. Cause I know what the fans like and what the fans want. And I'm even judging myself like a fan too. Like, oh, that ain't gonna work.
- [47:35]
Charlamagne Tha God
Bernie Mac and Jamie Foxx have five seasons. You got six. Damn, that's a big deal, man. The ways brothers. I don't know how many seasons they had. That's a big deal, bro.
- [47:44]
Mike Epps
It is. It's pretty good.
- [47:45]
Charlamagne Tha God
And you on Netflix.
- [47:46]
Mike Epps
On Netflix, that's a big deal. One of the hardest platforms to get on and to be successful on. So shout out to all to Netflix for giving me a tesserand or giving me the opportunity. And Wanda Sykes and Kim Fields, just a great team of people. And that's the key to succeeding. You have to have a great team. Nobody's doing this by themselves, you know, when you see somebody successful, you can best believe it's a team behind them that made them, that helped them propel, you know.
- [48:21]
Jessica B.
Now you're going back out on the road.
- [48:22]
Mike Epps
Yeah.
- [48:23]
Charlamagne Tha God
We the Ones Comedy Tour 2026.
- [48:25]
Jessica B.
You didn't.
- [48:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
It feels like you just got off the road.
- [48:27]
Mike Epps
Right.
- [48:28]
Jessica B.
How do you get a chance to create new material?
- [48:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
Cause usually they say material comes from living life.
- [48:33]
Mike Epps
That's right.
- [48:33]
Jessica B.
But if you always on the road, where's the material coming from?
- [48:36]
Mike Epps
I mean, if you look at the news, the. Is just hanging off the tree. Me, it's just low hanging fruit. Every, every day it's some new. And that's the thing about being a real comedian. A real comedian ain't sitting there writing. You finna get it right off the cuff. Just like you catch me coming out to bodega. Damn, Mike, what's happening? I say some funny. That's, that's a real comedian right there. We ain't gotta write. I ain't gotta write. I ain't gotta write. You catch me walking down the street, I'm gonna be funny. Catch me at the drugstore, I'm gonna be funny. You catch me wherever the fuck you catch me at, I'm gonna be funny. And I just feel like that's, that's what I do. That's. That's how I write. And if you come and see me that night at the comedy show, you're gonna hear some that happened that day. I'm talking about it right on the stage, and I'm gonna make it funny, you know, so I trust. I trust my funny.
- [49:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
You were talking about the honkies, right? Do you feel like Hollywood truly respects black comedy legends the same way they do white ones? Or is that respect something y' all still gotta find fightful?
- [49:38]
Mike Epps
Oh, yeah, we definitely. Let me tell you something, man.
- [49:41]
Charlamagne Tha God
Any.
- [49:42]
Mike Epps
Anybody black in any situation, you still gonna have to fight just a fight, you know? I know. I never seen a race of people that quote, unquote, are successful and still have to prove theyself. Never. I. I ain't. I don't see another race that has to still do with it. And. And, you know, it's even harder for us because we doing it against each other. We are biggest competition, each other. I was looking at. I'm like, I was at the strip club. This was years ago.
- [50:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
He said that quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [50:18]
Mike Epps
But I was at the strip club.
- [50:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
You ain't know your wife came here with you.
- [50:23]
Mike Epps
She got ways of being in places like this, man.
- [50:27]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, but. Yeah, but, but.
- [50:29]
Mike Epps
But I was just in the strip club. I was just thinking to myself, man, these dudes are really in here competing with each other, throwing the money, and they got another guy to come out, and it's just a scenario for life. They got another guy to come out at the strip club and throw money. And then. And then after you throw your money, he collect all the money and take it back there to the girls again. And that's what they. That's how they get you to throw money. They say, yeah, they got a dude out there to throw the money. That's how Hollywood is, too. That's how show business is.
- [51:03]
Charlamagne Tha God
So. So somebody that starts it off, it ain't even playing.
- [51:06]
Mike Epps
Basically straight plant.
- [51:08]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
- [51:08]
Mike Epps
You know, Damn.
- [51:09]
Lauren LaRosa
So you still feel like you're proving you're working to prove things to people in your career at this point?
- [51:14]
Mike Epps
Yeah, because, you know, I was just. I was just listening to everybody talk about how bad of a movie that was that Denzel and Spike Lee just did.
- [51:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
He said Rocky, right?
- [51:27]
Mike Epps
They was just talking about, yeah, it wasn't a great movie. And I'm like, damn. Literally, when they were talking about it, it damn near made you forget it, that it was like, man, Denzel was in that movie. Like, you know, it wasn't a great movie. You damn near forgot about everything he did because you was focusing on the fact that it wasn't a good movie. You know what I mean? So One bad, one mistake in our culture can cause. Can cause people to not with you, which is weird as hell to me. I don't get it.
- [52:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
But what you said is true, though.
- [52:02]
Mike Epps
They catch amnesia.
- [52:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
But what you said is true. We pushed, and we'll push the narrative.
- [52:07]
Mike Epps
Yeah.
- [52:08]
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what I'm saying? Like, we'll go. We'll go so hard against it. Against each other.
- [52:12]
Mike Epps
Yeah. And that's what. And that's another. I mean, and, you know, that's another reason why we're all great, too, as well. We put the pressure that we have against each other is crazy.
- [52:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Yeah. When I saw Mike earlier, he said, charlemagne, your elders is after you.
- [52:31]
Lauren LaRosa
Black political beast.
- [52:32]
Mike Epps
That's happening.
- [52:33]
Charlamagne Tha God
They want his ass, too, right?
- [52:34]
Mike Epps
They want his ass. They want his ass. But see, he.
- [52:40]
Charlamagne Tha God
He.
- [52:41]
Mike Epps
But see, you got a platform.
- [52:42]
Charlamagne Tha God
You.
- [52:42]
Mike Epps
The platform that you guys have is unstoppable. It's a whole lot different than coming inside of a church or coming inside of a political arena. This is the real platform.
- [52:55]
Charlamagne Tha God
It's culture, real people.
- [52:56]
Mike Epps
Hell, yeah. You touching everybody.
- [52:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
What's one thing that Mike Epps hates? I know there's always a Friday question. I know there's always a funnier than who? Who's not funny past me. What's one thing you hate discussing and talking about that pisses you off?
- [53:09]
Mike Epps
I'm so tired of talking. I'm so tired of talking about people, talking about other comedians and other artists. I'm sick of that.
- [53:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
She said I got to erase some of my questions.
- [53:25]
Mike Epps
Well, no, no, no. The only reason why I said that is because I'm like. It's just running in a circle, man. You know what I mean? It's like, I ain't got nothing to say about nobody at this point. Point I'm matter of fact. I feel. Stop talking about something. I'm so blessed. I feel up talking negative about anybody. You know what I mean? I don't have no room to say nothing negative because I'm blessed now, if I wasn't doing so great. Maybe so. But, man, I'm so blessed, I. I don't find. I don't have no room to talk about nobody, you know?
- [54:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
You did. You bought a whole block, man.
- [54:03]
Mike Epps
Yeah.
- [54:04]
Charlamagne Tha God
You understand? Like, do you understand that's so many black people's dream to buy a whole block and they in their community, where they from? Come on, man.
- [54:11]
Mike Epps
No, it was in Indiana, though. I wish. I wish it was in LA or.
- [54:17]
Charlamagne Tha God
But you from Indiana.
- [54:18]
Mike Epps
I know it way more. Man, that is so boring, man.
- [54:23]
Lauren LaRosa
How you do that to yourself all the time.
- [54:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
Now.
- [54:27]
Mike Epps
You know what, though?
- [54:27]
Charlamagne Tha God
You don't stay on the block. You sleep on the block sometimes.
- [54:29]
Mike Epps
Hell, yeah.
- [54:30]
Jessica B.
Yeah.
- [54:30]
Mike Epps
My son sleep in my room that I slept in when I was a kid.
- [54:34]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's crazy.
- [54:34]
Lauren LaRosa
I love that.
- [54:35]
Mike Epps
Yeah, that's crazy. And what's crazy is people still getting murdered in the neighborhoods and died in the alley and in the block you just bought. Yeah. The detectives is knocking on the door. We need to see your camera, Ms. Dale. I said, oh, man, I ain't got no cameras around. When you see the camera, I said, don't none of that work. But it just go to show you that. It just goes.
- [54:57]
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't tell nobody that, man.
- [54:58]
Mike Epps
No, it just go to show. No, it worked. But I, you know, I get you.
- [55:02]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah.
- [55:03]
Mike Epps
But you know, it just go to show you, man, that nobody's paying. If I could tell some of these stars, some of these people that are famous, nobody's paying attention to your mother ass. That's another thing I hate. I. I'm like, some of these people are into losing. Like. Like you're wasting security money. Ain't nobody thinking about you. I wish I could just take a chart and just show all the artists and just point at them and say, ain't nobody think about your ass. Ain't nobody think about your. You can walk around by your goddamn self and save your security money. You don't need no security. People love you. Why do you have somebody around you all the time, man? Cause I walk around this by myself. I don't have no security.
- [55:53]
Charlamagne Tha God
You never got punched in the back of the head, though. See, I done got punched in the head on camera, Mike, twice.
- [55:59]
Lauren LaRosa
You up here calling people the boo boos.
- [56:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, yeah, well.
- [56:03]
Mike Epps
Well, Charlemagne, I think you. I mean, I think you're gonna have to do something.
- [56:09]
Charlamagne Tha God
Like what?
- [56:10]
Mike Epps
He gotta pop that pistol on somebody's ass or something? At least once. They gotta know you would do it. The security, they don't gotta know you'll do it. Once they know you'll do that, you can walk around this by yourself.
- [56:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
Hell no. Then you be on. You'd be like, look at this. Threw his whole life away. You know what I'm saying? Cause Mike Epps told me to shoot.
- [56:32]
Mike Epps
Well, you ain't got to shoot nobody. Yeah, but this. I just said that to say this, that most. Most of these people walking around here that are in entertainment business just to live like you a normal person.
- [56:46]
Charlamagne Tha God
I agree.
- [56:47]
Mike Epps
Just live like you're a normal person. So you. So that you can enjoy this because most of the people in the business are just pretend all this is copied. I see the entertainers walking with the I'm like that's some he seen somebody do with the coffee in the hand and the dude is walking. The guy got his hand out.
- [57:12]
Charlamagne Tha God
What the is going on?
- [57:14]
Mike Epps
That's that irritate the out of me some watching me every five minutes to see if somebody gonna do something. I always said to myself if I was. If I was trying to get somebody, I'm a him and that security up. Both of y' all up. I'm gonna get the security first because that's who's supposed to be protecting. Let me get this first. And then I'm gonna get just that. So the security don't work work that don't work. I guess it keeps down. But if I catch up that be talking with a security. Get your punk ass out of here.
- [57:51]
Charlamagne Tha God
Once you go for security the other one going.
- [57:53]
Mike Epps
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
- [57:55]
Jessica B.
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- [58:54]
Mimi Brown
For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
- [59:10]
Caller/Guest
I'm telling you we know Quincy killed her.
- [59:12]
Mimi Brown
We know A story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.
- [59:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Kerr.
- [59:28]
Mimi Brown
My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here. If the truth were that easy to find.
- [59:38]
Charlamagne Tha God
I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.
- [59:43]
Jessica B.
That y' all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.
- [59:52]
Mimi Brown
From Lava for Good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.
- [60:02]
Mike Epps
America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.
- [60:11]
Mimi Brown
Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast and to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts.
- [60:32]
Jessica B.
You know the shade is always shadiest right here. Season six of the podcast Reasonably Shady with Gisele Bryant and Robyn Dixon is here dropping every Monday as two of the founding members of the Real Housewives Potomac. We're giving you all the laughs, drama, and reality news you can handle. And you know, we don't hold back. So come be reasonable or shady with us each and every Monday.
- [60:58]
Lauren LaRosa
I was going through a walk in my neighborhood. Out of the blue, I see this.
- [61:02]
Jessica B.
Huge sign next to somebody's house. Okay. The sign says, my neighbor is a Karen. No way. I died laughing. I'm like, I have to know. You are lying. Humongous, y'. All. They had some time on their hands. Listen to Reasonably Shady from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jenna World, Jenna Jamison, Vivid Video and the Valley is a new podcast about the history of the adult film industry. Hey, I'm Molly Lambert, host of Heidi the Heidi Fly Story, and I'll be your tour guide on a wild ride through adult films. We get paid more than the men.
- [61:54]
Mimi Brown
We call the shots. In what way is that degrading? That's us taking hold of our Life.
- [62:02]
Jessica B.
In the 1990s, actress Jenna Jameson crossed over into mainstream culture, redefined stardom, then left it all behind. Behind. I'm a powerful woman. I think that's intimidating to a man. With a cast of hundreds of actors and comedians playing key figures, we'll take a look at how adult films became legal in the 70s, hugely profitable in the 80s and 90s, and fell off a financial cliff in the 2000s. Listen to Gentle World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Eva Longoria and I'm Maite Gomez Rejun.
- [62:38]
Mimi Brown
And on our podcast Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite things. Food and history.
- [62:44]
Jessica B.
Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto.
- [62:47]
Mimi Brown
Oyster shells and they called these ostracon to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster.
- [62:57]
Mike Epps
No way.
- [62:59]
Mimi Brown
Bring back the ostracon. And because we've got a very mi casa e su casa kind of vibe on our show, friends always stop by.
- [63:07]
Jessica B.
Pretty much every entry into this side of the planet was through the El Golfo de Mexico.
- [63:14]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, the America.
- [63:15]
Jessica B.
No, the America. El Golfo de Mexico continuado a si forever and ever.
- [63:21]
Mimi Brown
It blows me away how progressive Mexico was in this moment. They had land reform, they had labor rights, they had education rights. Mustard seeds were so valuable to the ancient Egyptians that they used to place them in their tombs for the afterlife. Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [63:45]
Mike Epps
Another one gone. So, so, so, so some of y' all need to save your money. Ain't nobody thinking about your ass. You look crazy walking around with security in the damn Whole Foods.
- [63:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
Was it a comedian on rapping. What?
- [64:02]
Mike Epps
Who did I see in the.
- [64:03]
Lauren LaRosa
With the security?
- [64:04]
Mike Epps
Who the was that I seen in security?
- [64:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't fall for that. She trying to get you to say a name. Don't.
- [64:10]
Mike Epps
I think it was Bobby Valentino. Had two big ass in the city. I said, now, what is going on in here with the. I couldn't even see the little. Because the security. I said, where are you? But. And no, I'm just kidding, Bobby.
- [64:30]
Jessica B.
Like, I just caught a straight for no reason.
- [64:31]
Mike Epps
I'm just.
- [64:33]
Lauren LaRosa
Start streaming.
- [64:34]
Mike Epps
Yeah, Hell yeah, I'mma start streaming. I went on that little kid, what's his name? He was a straight fool on there. And I'm sitting there looking at. I'm. I'm sitting on the streaming platform saying to myself, how in the is he getting paid? When they had the COVID When Covid.
- [64:52]
Charlamagne Tha God
Went down, we seemed more together than him.
- [64:56]
Mike Epps
That's why it's working for him, because he's not affected by it. He ain't on there trying to show you how much he got, how much of a bigger star he is. He's just being himself and making money. And that's what you young kids. If y' all watching the Breakfast Club, you gonna make more money and get more success being yourself than anybody in the world. I know it's people that you admire, but Even if it's somebody that you admire that you really like, you like.
- [65:25]
Jessica B.
Ah.
- [65:25]
Mike Epps
I kind of feel myself being like him. Start hating on him. Start saying that. I can't stand his ass because he's influencing. So you gotta hate on his ass.
- [65:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
To not be influenced.
- [65:39]
Lauren LaRosa
What's gonna be the, like, vibe of your stream? It's gonna be this.
- [65:42]
Mike Epps
Yeah, it's gonna be this right here.
- [65:45]
Jessica B.
Comedy.
- [65:46]
Lauren LaRosa
Whole Foods.
- [65:47]
Mike Epps
Whole Foods. Speaking on all, like right now. All these food stamps. They didn't cut these food stamps off. I'm starting to see a lot of girls on dates that they normally wouldn't go on. Yeah, they gotta eat.
- [66:00]
Lauren LaRosa
They've been doing that though. That's. That's the thing.
- [66:03]
Mike Epps
What's that?
- [66:03]
Lauren LaRosa
You go on dates because you want to eat. Like, people do that.
- [66:06]
Jessica B.
She does it.
- [66:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
She used to do that.
- [66:08]
Lauren LaRosa
First of all, I could feed myself, but I know.
- [66:11]
Mike Epps
Have you ever did it before?
- [66:17]
Lauren LaRosa
You be like, I want to go here. I don't want to pay for it. This is back in the day, not happening.
- [66:22]
Mimi Brown
Now.
- [66:22]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm great.
- [66:23]
Jessica B.
Where I'm at right now, you're getting money.
- [66:25]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. But you go, you don't want to pay for something. You have a person you call and be like, oh, I know he'll come and pay for it. So.
- [66:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
Wow, that's crazy.
- [66:33]
Mike Epps
So sugar daddies, if you listening to this, listen to how you're getting screwed over.
- [66:38]
Lauren LaRosa
They know what time it is.
- [66:39]
Mike Epps
A sugar daddy, though.
- [66:41]
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, she loved going to an alumni party. That's her thing.
- [66:44]
Mike Epps
What is that?
- [66:45]
Charlamagne Tha God
At the colleges. She like going to the old alumni party.
- [66:47]
Lauren LaRosa
I get paid. We are not gonna do this because my man is not gonna appreciate this. I don't need to be in no alumni.
- [66:57]
Charlamagne Tha God
You told me that. Yes, you did.
- [66:59]
Lauren LaRosa
You and that little ball head over there.
- [67:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
I love going to them old alumni parties. To them old men. Beyond me. You told me that. What you get?
- [67:05]
Mike Epps
What do you get from an old alumni?
- [67:07]
Lauren LaRosa
He's lying. I don't know what he's talking about.
- [67:09]
Mike Epps
Never said that. Just answer for another girl. What would a girl get from an old alumni?
- [67:15]
Lauren LaRosa
The dates you talk about and whatever she wants.
- [67:17]
Jessica B.
So old alumni, they graduated from college.
- [67:19]
Charlamagne Tha God
They successful, got a little change.
- [67:20]
Jessica B.
They got a little change and they.
- [67:22]
Mike Epps
Them old college is cheap as hell. They ain't spending money on you like a. To get dope money.
- [67:27]
Lauren LaRosa
I didn't know. Cause I never did that.
- [67:29]
Mike Epps
Yeah.
- [67:30]
Charlamagne Tha God
When you talk about the upshot, why did the upshaws end?
- [67:32]
Mike Epps
Man, the upshot ended because the, the, the. The writers Wanda Sykes and the other lady, Regina Hicks, they just couldn't see eye to eye, really. You know, the. The lady Regina Hicks, they both did a great job. First of all, before I go any further, they did such a great job writing. We had the best writing team. I mean, man, the writing team was incredible. But. But I think the lady Regina, she had. She had an agenda that she wanted to push with the show, you know, and everybody didn't agree with it all the time. You know, they wanted the show to go this way. Show started off this way, and then it starts slanting. Then it went over there, and then it went over there. We should have just kept it right there in the middle. Might have did 10, 10 see reasons. But I think it was about. In the writing, you know, I. I can't mix somebody's personal life with what's on paper, but what's on paper. And then it, you know, whatever's on paper and then you guys film it is what we see. Nobody's paying attention to nobody's personal life.
- [68:46]
Lauren LaRosa
You know, when you say in the writing, though, is it how they were trying to bring it in? What the stories were around, like, the character. Like, what exactly in the writing is the issue then, though? Because her personal stance has to come into her work on screen.
- [69:01]
Mike Epps
Not necessarily. She. She. She played a straight woman on the show.
- [69:06]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, but in. But Wanda Sykes is very like.
- [69:08]
Jessica B.
Like, you.
- [69:10]
Lauren LaRosa
You're not gonna make her do anything she doesn't want to do, stand up to anything she doesn't want to sit next to.
- [69:13]
Jessica B.
Right, right.
- [69:14]
Lauren LaRosa
But she's an ally for a certain. Not even ally, but, like, she speaks out openly about being a part of the community.
- [69:20]
Mike Epps
Yes, but on the show, her character was a straight woman, and that's what she portrayed on.
- [69:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
On.
- [69:28]
Mike Epps
On. On. On film, on camera, but in the script. And. And that wasn't the issue with the script. It was that. That was just one out of a million things that, you know, I think personally might have kept the show from going. I mean, if you really want to think about it, the kids got grown. You know, we really couldn't go no further because of that. The kids, you know, I mean, the kids are. You know, that's what they do on these TV shows when the kids get older, they cut the show off. Once the kids get older, you. You can't write stories around them because it's like, damn, this kids are grown now. But like I said, it was many reasons why the writing at the end started becoming a little different. We actually, in the Middle of the seasons, we kind of lost it. But then in the end, when you see this season right here, you'll see we end up getting it back, you know, but it ran this course, man. And again, I'm, I'm thankful that we, that I've been able to be on, be on TV for six years.
- [70:34]
Charlamagne Tha God
But don't that frustrate, you know, when two people, I guess, can't get along so a whole production goes down the drain.
- [70:42]
Mike Epps
Yeah. Hell yeah. And, and you know, you know what's crazy about that situation? I used to go to Wanda all the time and tell her, hey, Wanda, you know, I need somebody to fight for me in the rooms because I ain't in there to fight for them. And, and I've made it this far in my career being non confrontational. I let so much go. I let so much happen because it's not that serious. And I'm always looking at the big picture. I don't never look at the little small potholes because I know I'm trying to make it to the end of the road. So, you know, a lot of my success, I wouldn't even have it if I was. Oh, man. Well, I got a problem with this. And no, y' all gotta change this and no, that irritate, man. You gotta go through life like whatever, what, what, what means the most and all that little. Because the little stops you.
- [71:39]
Caller/Guest
That's right.
- [71:40]
Mike Epps
You gotta, you gotta not pay attention to none of that little. And focus on the prize. And that's what I did with this show. You know, I always focus on the prize. I never went in the writer's room. I might have went up there one or two times. But if I got a script and I'm sitting on the set and I'm reading it, I'll tell them, hell no, I ain't doing that. I ain't doing that because. Because when you're doing television and you sitting at a table reading, you guys are doing a table read. When you come back the next day and you get on the set, the script gonna be different. You like now this ain't the. I read sitting at the table because every night they go in there and rewrite. So, you know, that's the upshot.
- [72:23]
Charlamagne Tha God
Always felt like it was written from real life. So I always wonder like, how much of, of you the man is hidden. And that shows like, like humor in the heart, like all of this.
- [72:32]
Mike Epps
Because I think, I think at some point they started going on the Internet, digging in my real life.
- [72:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
- [72:38]
Mike Epps
What part all this any. Watch the show. If you watch the show, you'll start seeing all kind of. I'm like, damn. And I got offended by that. And then I said, you know what? This is what's gonna make the show good. I can't get offended about something that's real and true. Let them. Let him write it.
- [72:55]
Jessica B.
It.
- [72:55]
Mike Epps
I. I stopped getting upset about it because some of this was. I'm like, that is me. I'm like, well, this is on the Internet. You know, this is on the Internet. I fell out with my daughter. This is on the Internet. That I had multiple baby mamas. All this. Everything you want to write is on the Internet. So you can write a whole script off. Just Google my gaps.
- [73:16]
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, I wanted to know last Friday is happening. Are we getting Chris Tucker back?
- [73:20]
Mike Epps
I don't know if we're gonna get. They said Chris Tucker. Tuck Cube said he been talking to Chris Tucker, but I don't know, I might have to run around and catch his ass coming out of one of these Bible studies or something to see if it's real. But. But me, Ice Cube, Aaron Magruder, and DJ Pool were just together sitting in a room writing this movie. This movie gonna be crazy.
- [73:41]
Charlamagne Tha God
Now, you know when you say Aaron Magruder, you excite the whole goddamn Internet. Aaron, that's the creator of the Boondocks. Black Jesus. For people who don't know, he's a genius. Genius, yes. Like that. That's something special right there.
- [73:52]
Mike Epps
That's top tier writing, man. And I think that's why Ice Cube went and got him, because he's gonna bring that to the movie. And not to say that we weren't gonna make it hot like we've always made it hot, but this is gonna give it another extension on it.
- [74:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Aaron McGruder and DJ Pool need to be the only ones writing that script.
- [74:10]
Mike Epps
Aaron McGruder, DJ Pool.
- [74:12]
Jessica B.
Dang.
- [74:13]
Lauren LaRosa
He just took you off the writers.
- [74:15]
Mike Epps
I ain't think about that, man.
- [74:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
Mike in there for the comedy. Like. Like, you know how they'll write, and then they'll be like, mike, punch the. This up.
- [74:20]
Mike Epps
What? Can I be honest with you? Nobody can really write for me anyway. Yeah, they can write some on the paper, but I'm gonna say some funnier than whatever you put on the paper.
- [74:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right.
- [74:29]
Mike Epps
And I'm gonna give you yours, and then I'm gonna give you mine. And when you get in the editing room, you're gonna see which one was better.
- [74:34]
Jessica B.
Hello.
- [74:35]
Mike Epps
You know what I'm talking about?
- [74:36]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, absolutely.
- [74:37]
Mike Epps
Yeah. And that's how I feel about this comedy tour right here. Ain't nobody comedy tour better. And I'm headlining this year. See, last all these other years, I've been hosting and I go up for five minutes, six, seven minutes. But if you really wanna see a real Mike Epps Hot 35, 40 minutes, come out to this tour right here.
- [74:56]
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, could be fronting on you, Mike. I was having this argument behind the scenes about you the other day. They said, man, Mike, just be hosting. I said, you ain't never watched none of Mike's specials then?
- [75:04]
Mike Epps
Well, they just seen that. Cause they came to them too. Cause that's what I told them.
- [75:07]
Jessica B.
Cause we was.
- [75:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, see, I ain't wanna say it was you, but go ahead. I was arguing with this and he said DJing. He said, all Mike do is host. They were talking about comedians.
- [75:17]
Jessica B.
And it was like, well, Mike on the tour.
- [75:19]
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm like, well, Mike hosts the tour.
- [75:20]
Jessica B.
I was like, he don't do a set.
- [75:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
I said, man, Mike got hours.
- [75:25]
Mike Epps
That's what I'm saying. See, people be sleeping on me because I ain't out here honking my horn and blowing and doing all that crazy. But that's how I like it. I like to be underestimated. I like you to not be paying attention. And I sneak up behind you, you and bop you upside your head. That's how I love my life. I love it. Loving God.
- [75:45]
Jessica B.
That's right.
- [75:46]
Mike Epps
You know what I'm saying? Always loving God and keeping the faith. That's why I told people these food stamps and stuff get cut off. Don't worry about that. See, black people, we've been getting our cut off. We've been getting our doors kicked in and stuff. This is not for us. So don't take this as personal about the food stamps and all that. I'm actually glad they cutting some of these off food stamps because some of us need to not be on food stamps because it's a trickle down effect. You get the food stamps, then you go buy the food that give you cancer. Then you eat the food to give you cancer. Then you're sad, You. You walk around here upset you died. Now I'm telling you, some honest guy.
- [76:25]
Jessica B.
True.
- [76:26]
Mike Epps
Your diet then sent a lot of to prison.
- [76:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
They gonna take all this and put it on Fox News.
- [76:31]
Mike Epps
Yeah.
- [76:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
And it's gonna say, mike F. Says you don't need to be on food.
- [76:35]
Mike Epps
You think so?
- [76:36]
Mimi Brown
Yeah.
- [76:36]
Charlamagne Tha God
And you're gonna go viral and they gonna call you maga. Mike, you gotta finish the Joke. Now.
- [76:43]
Mike Epps
Listen. Listen, brothers and sisters. Listen, brothers and sisters.
- [76:48]
Charlamagne Tha God
Brothers and sisters, you don't know what.
- [76:51]
Mike Epps
This world is coming to. No, listen to this. No, they can't say that about me. See, that's one thing about me. Little boosie. Badass. We can't be canceled.
- [76:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, y' all can't be canceled. But I'm just telling you, the Internet Gonna be mad, D.L.
- [77:01]
Mike Epps
Hughley, about you Internet ass.
- [77:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
And I'm gonna text you, I'm gonna say, mike, your elders is after you. Mike Epps, ladies and gentlemen, it's the Breakfast Club.
- [77:16]
Jessica B.
Good morning. Damn, man, I'm mad I missed that. Yo, I love Mike.
- [77:20]
Charlamagne Tha God
Salute to Mike Epps, man. It's time for the Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
- [77:23]
Jessica B.
Lauren be coming with straight fat.
- [77:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
She gets them from somebody that knows something. Box details.
- [77:29]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything.
- [77:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on.
- [77:36]
Caller/Guest
The.
- [77:36]
Mike Epps
Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
- [77:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.
- [77:45]
Lauren LaRosa
Chadwick Boseman will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is happening five years after his passing.
- [77:52]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's what I'm talking about.
- [77:53]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes. It will honor the legacy he left, you know, following such an impactful career. So this is going to happen on November 20th. Ryan Coogler, who we know directed Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther, and Viola Davis, who starred in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom with Chadwick Boseman, which was one of his last films before his passing, will speak at his ceremony. And then Chadwick Boseman's wife, Simone Ledward Boseman, will accept his honor. So congratulations.
- [78:18]
Jessica B.
That's amazing.
- [78:19]
Lauren LaRosa
To the Boseman family on that honor.
- [78:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right, Anderson. South Carolina's own Chadwick Boseman dropping the clues bombs with Chadwick Goldman. Viola Davis is born in St. Matthew, South Carolina, too.
- [78:29]
Lauren LaRosa
You be knowing all the South Carolina.
- [78:30]
Charlamagne Tha God
Things, just like, you know, all the Delaware things.
- [78:33]
Jessica B.
There's not much going on up there. You so funny talking about all the Delaware things.
- [78:38]
Lauren LaRosa
I try to keep a cumulative. It's a smaller state. Ain't nothing going on over there.
- [78:42]
Jessica B.
No, no, no. Very little. But it's some stuff.
- [78:45]
Mimi Brown
All right.
- [78:46]
Lauren LaRosa
So in other news, speaking of some stuff. Juvenile. So Juvenile sat down with drink champs Noriega and DJ FN and had a conversation about Lil Wayne not showing up to the verse versus let's take a listen.
- [78:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
Did you know Wayne wasn't coming? And were you disappointed when you found out that he wasn't coming.
- [79:03]
Mike Epps
I knew he wasn't coming and I was very disappointed.
- [79:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
You knew from the beginning.
- [79:07]
Mike Epps
I knew. But the fans, I. I can't do that to them.
- [79:10]
Charlamagne Tha God
All right?
- [79:10]
Mike Epps
My deal was, if Wayne don't come, I'm not coming. That was your deal? That was my deal, Paperwork and all.
- [79:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
Wow.
- [79:16]
Mike Epps
But I said like it was too, you know, like, the fans don't deserve that. And then my man shout out to Swizz Beats and Timberland, man. But my man Swizz Beats called me, man, and gave me a speech that I never forget that's gonna stick in my head for probably the rest of my life. You know what I'm saying? And shout out to my dude for putting. You know, making me aware of everything. And hey, I did it for the fans.
- [79:38]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [79:38]
Jessica B.
That's amazing. Yes. I do like that loyalty, though. He like, man, my man's ain't coming. I'm not coming. But like he said, like, it's the fans. You know what I mean? This is what the people wanted. So I'm glad that he was able to perform. Cause he killed it.
- [79:52]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, that would have looked ridiculous. If you ain't got Wayne and Juvenile, you might as well just did their own. What are we talking about?
- [80:00]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, well, that full interview and we'll be getting some more details on exactly how all of that went down. Will drop in full. So Friday you'll be able to listen to the audio on the Black Effect podcast network for drink champs. And then on Saturday it'll drop on YouTube. So I'm sure we'll be talking about this again because he gonna give some more details and you're gonna be all up in the business a bit more and probably get some more answers to some more of the questions from Versus.
- [80:20]
Charlamagne Tha God
I wonder how Wayne feels. I wonder if Wayne feels like he missed the most moment.
- [80:24]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm sure he does. It seems like I think people try to make Lil Wayne this, like, very removed because he's such a big.
- [80:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, I think Lil Wayne tried to make himself such a very removed.
- [80:34]
Lauren LaRosa
But I think behind the scenes he's not though, because every conversation we've heard from when they were in New Orleans and linked up to now Versus, it's been Lil Wayne is in the thick of it, trying to make us all come together. Being like, if this person doesn't come, I'm not showing up. So it seems like he's still very connected to his family of the hot boys.
- [80:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't know if Juvenile is going to talk about that. BG spoke about it when he was here, but yeah, I was told little it was Lil Wayne's idea to do the verses to begin with. It was Lil Wayne's idea to do the no limit versus cash money versus so he was, you know, the mastermind behind it all.
- [81:05]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes, but I know.
- [81:06]
Jessica B.
I feel like. Yeah, like you said, Wayne always just been in his own world. He always been just very different and removed from like the light. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like not damn, not light, yo, but like, you know, like the. The main. Like, he don't like to be in the limelight. He don't like too much attention on him. Like we. If you see Wayne, it's cause he want to be seen. But then he go back. It's like Kendra, Kendra come out every now and then. You know what I mean? Wayne don't really like too much attention.
- [81:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
But that would have been a good time to pop out is all I'm saying.
- [81:33]
Mimi Brown
Yes.
- [81:33]
Lauren LaRosa
And it seems. And it feels like I would love to hear Lil Wayne sit down with somebody that he really wanted to, but there was something that he felt like wasn't right. And I think it was something personal. And I know BG said he was sick, but I don't know, after listening and maybe we'll get some more with juvenile. I think that there was some. Something a little bit more to it. Maybe didn't feel good as well, but seems a little bit more personal than just, you know, him not feeling well. But I don't have much time in this hour. Next hour, I am going to be breaking down. Yesterday it was filed and the court announced that they turned down. They said no to Tory Lanez, trying to appeal his conviction. He is currently serving 10 years for the shooting, the 2020 shooting of Meg the Stallion. And he's been saying that he's been unfairly convicted. Convicted. And the court is saying that, no, we upholded it.
- [82:17]
Jessica B.
You haven't. Basically.
- [82:18]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. No, you haven't. Can I keep going with it at this point? No, we don't have time. Okay. Yeah. So we'll bring it back in the next hour. And I'll be breaking down exactly why they said no to his appeal and what this means for him.
- [82:27]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, somebody asked me. Well, thank you, Lauren.
- [82:31]
Lauren LaRosa
You're welcome. What they say in the chat?
- [82:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, I was gonna say, thank you, Lord. Now somebody gotta ask me about donkey.
- [82:35]
Jessica B.
Oh, now who you giving your donkey to?
- [82:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, because I was gonna sit here and tell somebody said something because sitting there looking right down the throat, Monster Got envy, man. So he came and.
- [82:44]
Jessica B.
Let me tell you something. That used to be my name back in the day. Honey girl, let me tell you something.
- [82:50]
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, What?
- [82:51]
Jessica B.
No, I mean that's. I already told you. I said I used to like throw monsters.
- [82:55]
Lauren LaRosa
That's exactly what you mean.
- [82:56]
Charlamagne Tha God
You want to be somebody 57 year old rich auntie so bad.
- [83:04]
Jessica B.
Who you giving your dog?
- [83:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
You know it's going to be funny when it's a 57y old uncle doing that in the future. I used to be the throat.
- [83:09]
Jessica B.
The throat monster.
- [83:13]
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen, it's going to be a lot of future 57 year old uncles in the future.
- [83:18]
Jessica B.
Un, un. Okay. Aunties, aunties.
- [83:24]
Lauren LaRosa
Wait, did you just transform the.
- [83:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
To the. I didn't even mean to do that. Okay, that means to stop before, after the hour. Okay, we're going to tell you why men need to learn how to move on. This is a great example of it. Okay, we need Samuel Christian Lund to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. I was born a donkey.
- [83:46]
Mike Epps
It's the donkey of the day.
- [83:55]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's pretty fun.
- [83:56]
Lauren LaRosa
Charlemagne, the devil possible.
- [84:00]
Mike Epps
The Breakfast Club. I agree with you.
- [84:03]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's a good topic. We're going to do that one. Donkey of the day for Thursday, November 13th goes to a 37 year old Oregon man named Samuel Christian Lun. Christian Samuel Rather. Samuel is facing a slew of charges. Charges say slew. Jess. Sleep. Sleep. I want y' all out there to know that you never want to be facing a slew of charges, okay? When they do a write up on you and they say you are facing a slew of charges, you cooked. Okay? And it's gonna take a slew of money to get you the least possible amount of jail time when you are facing a slew of charges. Okay, but Samuel is facing five counts of attempted murder, all right? Four counts of unlawful use of a weapon weapon. Two counts of unlawful manufacture manufacturing of a destructive device, along with one count each of first degree arson and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Yeah, he's going away for a few presidents. Okay, Beyonce and Jay Z's youngest kids will be old enough to drink. And Samuel will be in prison celebrating his 15 year anniversary with his prison bay. Okay, but let's talk about how he got there. See, Samuel allegedly detonated a bomb at an apartment after he learned his ex girlfriend was hooking up with another man. Now, Lauren LaRosa, she heard me listening to this clip from the poor minds podcast earlier. Salute to Dre and Lex. Make sure you subscribe to their podcast on the Black Effect podcast network. Listen to this clip.
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Jessica B.
It's boring sex a red flag. And should it be a red flag for women? No, because I think some people deep just way oh and some people she wack too.
- [85:36]
Lauren LaRosa
And y' all get together and y'.
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Charlamagne Tha God
All have wax now. Lauren, what'd you ask me after you heard this?
- [85:42]
Lauren LaRosa
I said, how is somebody's coochie wag? Like I just can't fathom the idea.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, well, that's a. That's probably a discussion for another day. But I know that if this man is willing to detonate an explosive device after learning that woman is giving what he used to get to another man, then dare I say, her poom poom must be the bomb. Bomb. Okay? I mean, God damn. You willing to take a penitentiary chance and catch a slew of charges because your ex is hooking up with another man? I actually don't want no poom poom. That's that good. All right. Keep that. That's like that moon rock. That moon rock weed where the THC is over 50. You might as well smoke crack. And I'm not smoking crack because I've seen what crack does to people in this woman's pom pom was clearly crack. Let's go to KRCR News Channel 7 for more details.
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Mimi Brown
Are investigating an explosion at a home last Thursday. Deputies responded to North 10th Avenue on report that an explosion explosive device was thrown at a front door. Investigators found evidence of gunshots as well. Authorities discovered this was a targeted attack and the suspect may have known the victim. After a search warrant at the suspect's home, 37 year old Samuel Lund was arrested. After he arrested was briefly tried to flee. Investigators also found additional explosive devices in his home. Lunda was taken to the Washington County Jail and is now facing several charges including attempted murder and arson.
- [87:06]
Charlamagne Tha God
That was Fox 12, by the way. Yes. The woman reportedly told cops her ex boyfriend, Samuel Christian Lund had been sending her threatening text messages the day before after he learned she was hooking up with another man. Listen, man, emotional intelligence is so necessary, okay? People with high emotional intelligence, they stay calm under pressure which helps them make more considered and well balanced decisions. It disturbs my spirit to have to tell some of you men a woman moving on from you doesn't justify you turning into a domestic terrorist, okay? This is why women are choosing the bear. Now I could already stop right there and give Samuel the credit he deserves for being stupid. But this is when it gets good. See, I like to watch people really double and triple down on their lives because it reminds me of something my daddy used to say to me. And that something was, when you lie to me, you're not lying to me, you lying to yourself. Because I don't believe this foolishness you telling me. And I know the police didn't believe Samuel. See, when they confronted him, he reportedly admitted to sending the messages, but claimed he didn't detonate the bomb. No, no, he didn't detonate the bomb. However, he did tell police he had experience with explosives and had a bomb in his backpack in his garage. But I had nothing to do with the bomb going off in her apartment offices. I promise. Yes, I did threaten her and tell her I'm coming for her. And a bomb was detonated. And although I have experiences with explosives and a bomb in my backpack in my garage, it wasn't me. Wasn't me. First of all, who has extra bombs just lying around? Where do you even get bombs from? Did you order it off Amazon? Craigslist? Do you buy a couch and join a militia in the same afternoon? Second of all, I know for a fact you about to spend more time in prison than time you spent with this woman in a relationship. How the hell does that make sense? Men, you got to learn to move on because there's going to be another woman. But you cannot get back that time you're going to spend in prison. What happened to people stunting on their exes by glowing up, okay? Becoming the best version of yourself. Get in shape physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. Make them look at you in the future on Facebook and kick themselves for losing you. Okay? Not end up in prison and make your ex say, I knew it, I knew it. All her girlfriends. Like, I told you he was a loser. You lucky he didn't kill you, girl. This is the short sightedness of revenge. Wounded ego plus bad decisions equal a consequence you have to deal with for a lifetime. Please give Samuel Christian Lund the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones.
- [89:39]
Jessica B.
You are the doggie of the day. Yeehaw.
- [89:46]
Lauren LaRosa
The chat. Want to play a game, Charlotte?
- [89:48]
Jessica B.
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- [90:48]
Mimi Brown
For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
- [91:03]
Caller/Guest
I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.
- [91:06]
Mimi Brown
We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.
- [91:15]
Charlamagne Tha God
Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky.
- [91:18]
Caller/Guest
Housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.
- [91:22]
Mimi Brown
My name is Maggie Freeland. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.
- [91:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.
- [91:36]
Jessica B.
That y' all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.
- [91:45]
Mimi Brown
From lava for good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.
- [91:56]
Mike Epps
America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.
- [92:05]
Mimi Brown
Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley, feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire scene ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Eva Longoria.
- [92:27]
Jessica B.
And I'm Maite Gomez Rejoan.
- [92:29]
Mimi Brown
And on our podcast Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite things. Food and history.
- [92:35]
Jessica B.
Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto.
- [92:38]
Mimi Brown
Oyster shells and they called these ostracons to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracized is related to the word oyster.
- [92:48]
Mike Epps
No way.
- [92:49]
Mimi Brown
Bring back the ostracon. And because we've got a very mi casa es su casa kind of vibe on our show, friends always stop by.
- [92:58]
Jessica B.
Pretty much every entry into this side of the planet was through the El Golf of Mexico.
- [93:04]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, the America.
- [93:05]
Jessica B.
No, the America forever and ever.
- [93:11]
Mimi Brown
It blows me away how progressive Mexico was in this moment.
- [93:15]
Caller/Guest
They had Land reform.
- [93:16]
Mimi Brown
They had labor rights, they had education rights. Mustard seeds were so valuable to the ancient Egyptians that they used to place them in their tombs for the afterlife. Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [93:36]
Jessica B.
Jenna World, Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video and the Valley is a new podcast about the history of the adult film industry. I'm Molly Lambert, host of Heidi the Heidi Fly Story, and I'll be your tour guide on a wild ride through adult films. We get paid more than the men.
- [93:54]
Mimi Brown
We call the shots. In what way is that degree that's us taking hold of our Life.
- [94:02]
Jessica B.
In the 1990s, actress Jenna Jameson crossed over into mainstream culture, redefined stardom, then left it all behind. I'm a powerful woman. I think that's intimidating to a man. With a cast of hundreds of actors and comedians playing key figures, we'll take a look at how adult films became legal in the 70s, hugely profitable in the 80s and 90s, and fell off a financial cliff in the 2000s. Listen to Gentle World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You know the shade is always shadiest right here. Season six of the podcast Reasonably Shady with Gisele Bryant and Robyn Dixon is here dropping every Monday as two of the founding members of the Real Housewives Potomac were giving you all the laughs, drama and reality news you can handle. And you know we don't hold back, so come be reasonable or shady with us each and every Monday, I was.
- [95:02]
Lauren LaRosa
Going through a walk in my neighborhood. Out of the blue, I see this.
- [95:05]
Jessica B.
Huge sign next to somebody's house. Okay. The sign says my neighbor is a Camp Aaron. No way. I died laughing. I'm like, I have to know you are lying. Humongous, y'.
- [95:27]
Caller/Guest
All.
- [95:28]
Jessica B.
They had some time on their hands. Listen to Reasonably Shady from the Black Effect podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. He white. Chat didn't even need a deem me.
- [95:43]
Charlamagne Tha God
They play a game though.
- [95:44]
Lauren LaRosa
Chat said they wanna play a game.
- [95:45]
Charlamagne Tha God
Y' all wanna play a game? Game. Let's play a game of guess what race it is. Samuel Christian Lund, 37 year old Oregon man, got mad because his ex was hooking up with a new boo. So he blew up a bomb at her apartment. Guess what racing is, Jeff? Hilarious.
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Jessica B.
Either Middle Eastern or white.
- [96:06]
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
- [96:08]
Lauren LaRosa
We'Re Middle Eastern too. You got right.
- [96:14]
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay. Samuel Christian Lund, 37 year old Oregon man facing a slew of charges after he found out his ex was hooking up with another man. So he blew up a bomb at her apartment. Lauren LaRosa. Guess what racing is definitely white.
- [96:28]
Lauren LaRosa
Whole lot of mail over there.
- [96:31]
Jessica B.
Hey, yo, we ain't got no song for me to listen, people.
- [96:34]
Charlamagne Tha God
Man, shut up, man.
- [96:35]
Jessica B.
For real.
- [96:36]
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen. I want Lauren LaRosa and just hilarious to know that both of you are absolutely correct. Samuel Christian L. Caucasian.
- [96:45]
Jessica B.
Okay, all right.
- [96:46]
Charlamagne Tha God
Big white, Capitol Hill riot white.
- [96:50]
Jessica B.
But it did give a little. You know what I'm saying? It could have been Middle Eastern, but we gotta put some music in there. It could be the. Meet Me at the. I like that.
- [97:02]
Lauren LaRosa
Wait, is that on? Is that like a one?
- [97:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
First of all, he was Caucasian. All right?
- [97:07]
Jessica B.
Okay.
- [97:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Leave it at that. He was capital ride white.
- [97:10]
Jessica B.
Nice. I told you.
- [97:11]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes. This is the human jaw helmets. He looks like a big blob of sperm. That's crazy.
- [97:15]
Jessica B.
He's crazy.
- [97:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
Absolutely not.
- [97:17]
Lauren LaRosa
A smirk.
- [97:17]
Jessica B.
I knew it could.
- [97:19]
Charlamagne Tha God
He'll do it again. He don't care. Do what you mean? That's the kind of I'll do it.
- [97:23]
Lauren LaRosa
Again system's on his side.
- [97:25]
Jessica B.
That's what that looks like.
- [97:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
Ain't nobody never tried to blow up nothing for y'.
- [97:27]
Jessica B.
All.
- [97:30]
Lauren LaRosa
I was gonna say something.
- [97:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
What you about to say?
- [97:33]
Jessica B.
Don't be dumb.
- [97:34]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm not. I'm not.
- [97:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
Somebody say thank you, Charlemagne. Thank you.
- [97:39]
Jessica B.
Oh, thank you, Charlemagne.
- [97:40]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
- [97:40]
Jessica B.
Now, next we got. Just fix my mess, y'.
- [97:43]
Mike Epps
All.
- [97:43]
Jessica B.
Listen, I'll be fixing your mess. If you got problems at work, problems with your spouse, problems anywhere, call me up at 185.
- [97:51]
Charlamagne Tha God
That is the number. 1-800-585-1051.
- [97:54]
Jessica B.
All right, there we go, Mr. Bro.
- [97:56]
Charlamagne Tha God
Breakfast Club.
- [97:57]
Mike Epps
The Breakfast Club.
- [98:02]
Charlamagne Tha God
It's the real deal. Help me.
- [98:04]
Jessica B.
Help me. Oh, my God. I'm all up in your mess. I'mma fix it. Fix it, fix it, fix it. Jess gonna fix your mess. Cause my advice is real.
- [98:13]
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning.
- [98:14]
Jessica B.
Who's this?
- [98:15]
Caller/Guest
This is Anonymous.
- [98:17]
Jessica B.
Hey, Anonymous. What's up, girl?
- [98:18]
Mike Epps
What's wrong?
- [98:19]
Caller/Guest
So I've been. I'm engaged. And me and my father the last two and a half years.
- [98:23]
Jessica B.
Congratulations.
- [98:25]
Caller/Guest
Oh, thank you. Whatever. So we went to marriage counseling, and there was an issue of him on social media. And this is an ongoing issue. So my question is, is it controlling for me to ask him to stop following butt naked females and stop farting and eye emojis and drool emojis on all of their pictures and videos? Is that controlling? Is that an insecurity or is that.
- [98:53]
Jessica B.
No, it's not controlling. It's not insecurity. It can develop insecurities, definitely. But no, it's. It's respect. It's just that he has a lustful eye and he's not supposed to. He's about to be on his way down the aisle with you. You know what I mean? So he's not supposed to be doing that anyway, you know? No, it's not controlling. Did he say you were controlling for requesting that?
- [99:15]
Caller/Guest
So I'm a type of person who, if we have an issue, keep it in the. In a relationship as you should call his friends, his family to validate his issues. And his sister called me controlling and said that I have insecurities. That is just social media. I need to get over it.
- [99:33]
Jessica B.
Yeah, it don't. See, man, people be mad when I say stuff, but it don't really sound like this the right family to marry into. I wish a sister would call me to tell me what's going on and my house is wrong and all that. Like what? Yeah. Nah, he gotta check them. Actually, it ain't even about him checking them because he put him in your business. So all of this is his fault. He not supposed to do that.
- [99:59]
Caller/Guest
I was hella confused because I'm like, we're in counseling to fix our issues, to work on our issues and build our trust. But then you back though and do some like this, and I'm like, I'm sorry. I don't mean to cuss. I'm sorry, but how does this build trust if you go ahead and do these things? I'm setting my issues as my spouse. You want to fix it or work on it? If I'm telling you I'm more of a spiritual person. We both go to church. We both been taught and learned at the same time. Or not do in the Bible. This is a less. A weak flesh. And you feel like it's just social media. I don't know these people. They don't know me.
- [100:33]
Jessica B.
Yeah. Do you feel like you guys are equally yoked? Do you feel like y' all are aligned morally? Like, do you feel well? Actually, obviously no. Cause what you're telling me. No.
- [100:42]
Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
- [100:43]
Jessica B.
Do you see an improvement? Because obviously this been a thing. He been doing this in previous relationships for a long, long time. His family got too much say, so he should check himself first and then check them and stop putting them into his business or whatever. And then they should just know. I shouldn't.
- [101:00]
Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
- [101:00]
Jessica B.
Even if you go and Vent to the people that you love, because that's.
- [101:03]
Charlamagne Tha God
Usually what people do.
- [101:04]
Jessica B.
Don't go back and say nothing to my fiance. That's not. Don't. Don't let her know that y' all know my business like that. At least have a level of. Of respect where it don't get back to me from them, because now they looking at me like I'm crazy. And then when we get cool now, they still got the issue, you know, so have. Have you seen improvement with counseling? I'm like.
- [101:27]
Caller/Guest
Every time we go to counseling, he go back and he have an issue, he want to shut down. But I'm like, she's not just telling you about your issue. She's also telling about my issues and what I have to work on.
- [101:36]
Mimi Brown
It's.
- [101:36]
Caller/Guest
It's not a biased thing. Like, she's rooted in Bible. She's a married woman, and she's a platform because, you know, I prefer, you know, represent my people.
- [101:45]
Jessica B.
So it sound like.
- [101:46]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
- [101:49]
Jessica B.
Yeah, yeah. It sound like y' all should have been longer. I should have just dated a little longer. You know? How long y' all was together before you got on the knee?
- [101:57]
Caller/Guest
10 months.
- [101:57]
Jessica B.
Y' all should have dated longer.
- [101:59]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [102:00]
Jessica B.
Price. Because you never know.
- [102:02]
Charlamagne Tha God
Up.
- [102:02]
Mike Epps
Well.
- [102:02]
Jessica B.
Well, it is kind of different. It is kind of. It's very situational. Some people meet and get married in six months, nine months, two years, five years. But you. Did you see red flags of this? Don't lie to me. Did you see red flags? Not exactly this, but signs.
- [102:20]
Caller/Guest
No. So the flags I may have seen, it was like little yellow flags, you know? But it started happening, like, the last six, seven months. Like, I don't know. I guess we just been living together more and popping more and I guess getting more into us because I just see more.
- [102:37]
Jessica B.
Because this is more than one issue, babe. This is him not keeping your business, you know, within the household. This is him on social media with the lustful eyes. And, you know. And, you know, it's. It's. It sound like you dealing with a lot before you. You not even married yet. You know what I mean?
- [102:53]
Caller/Guest
I know. I know. I'm just like, I'm out.
- [102:57]
Jessica B.
Yeah. Feel like you wasted your time.
- [103:00]
Caller/Guest
Yeah. I made this commitment that I. This is my person. At the same time, he's not valuing me as a person, as the person supposed to be protecting, you know?
- [103:10]
Jessica B.
Yeah.
- [103:11]
Caller/Guest
I'm like.
- [103:13]
Jessica B.
Yeah, I. Nah, I ain't even gonna hold you. It's. You know, what to do, you know, since it's such a problem. For him to be with you. You know what I mean? I think. Think you know what to do.
- [103:24]
Caller/Guest
I appreciate everything. I love y' all all the time.
- [103:28]
Jessica B.
When somebody say they love you, showing me what you say, oh, I love you back.
- [103:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
I love you more. I used to say I love you. Back up. I actually know you. I say I love you more, you know, But I. I was wrong. Watching porn.
- [103:39]
Jessica B.
What she say? Watching porn. He follow women. No.
- [103:43]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. He wiling with that. Yeah, he wiling with that. He got to cut that out. Yeah, but if you just watch him porn, cool. But he leaving messages. And hard eyes. He wiling. Like, that's crazy. Like, people be acting like social media, not real life. Like, don't you know your girl got an Instagram page? That's crazy.
- [104:00]
Jessica B.
Good morning. Who's this?
- [104:01]
Caller/Guest
Good morning. This is Val.
- [104:03]
Jessica B.
Hey, Val. You all right?
- [104:05]
Caller/Guest
Yeah, I'm good. I'm kind of mad at you, but we're going to fix my mess.
- [104:09]
Jessica B.
I help you first. What's up?
- [104:10]
Caller/Guest
So, Jess, I stay giving people money, man.
- [104:13]
Jessica B.
Yes.
- [104:13]
Caller/Guest
Everybody always needs that. And my rent is late. You know, I got to do this. And my car is broke. But when it comes time to pay, vow back, ain't nobody got no damn money.
- [104:24]
Jessica B.
I understand, but.
- [104:26]
Caller/Guest
But then they gonna ask for money again. But the type of person that I am, you know, I just. They giving people money. It's hard out here. I find what I can to give people. But then when it comes to payback, even $20, like, people owe me thousands. $20. Hey, Val, you know, I don't got it this week. How do I start saying no?
- [104:49]
Jessica B.
Put your tongue at the top of your mouth right on the roof and just make a charlemagne. Just no. That's what you veil made it. Everybody just no. Just say no. Let it ring from the mountaintop.
- [105:03]
Caller/Guest
That's the type of person I am. How my grandmother raised me. If somebody needs to eat, you feed them. Somebody's going through something, you help them.
- [105:11]
Jessica B.
Okay.
- [105:12]
Caller/Guest
But people out here, they just.
- [105:15]
Jessica B.
How do you feel after you help them out?
- [105:17]
Caller/Guest
I feel great because I helped them. You know, they weren't evicted. You know, they got a car to go to work and whatnot. But it's just. I feel like it's just the loyalty or the, like, you know, somebody help you. Just make an attempt.
- [105:30]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [105:31]
Caller/Guest
To. You do right? You know?
- [105:34]
Jessica B.
Yeah. Well, you can't expect people to be like you, babe. It's a lot of people. And, you know, a lot of people will take advantage of you, too. Pull on your Heart. Because they know that you are that girl who. Grandmother taught her never say no to somebody. You know what I'm saying? Not never say no, but always help somebody, you know? Yeah. You said your wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you have to. I know your wife be mad at you. I know.
- [105:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
Cause you.
- [105:58]
Jessica B.
Because now I know you married and you. And. And what's yours is hers.
- [106:02]
Caller/Guest
Yeah, you already met me before.
- [106:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Don't act like you don't know all the studs. Yeah. What's up? What's up?
- [106:10]
Lauren LaRosa
You met me.
- [106:11]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah, Shorty. Comedy.
- [106:13]
Jessica B.
Well, tell me why you mad at me, Y'?
- [106:15]
Caller/Guest
All please tell you met me at the Virginia Bone. Comedy. Like, what was it in June when you was down in Virginia?
- [106:21]
Jessica B.
Yes, yes, yes, ma'.
- [106:22]
Mimi Brown
Am.
- [106:23]
Caller/Guest
And I was sitting right there. I spoke to you. I stood up. My wife stood up in the back of the crowd. The white girl. Yeah, I. I gave you some weed.
- [106:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
- [106:32]
Jessica B.
Yeah.
- [106:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
Let's hear more.
- [106:33]
Caller/Guest
And I was supposed to get a meet and greet, and I didn't even get a meet and greet.
- [106:36]
Jessica B.
Oh, my God.
- [106:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn. The only time she ever wanted me meat, and you couldn't even do it.
- [106:42]
Caller/Guest
Exactly. Jess, you don't remember me.
- [106:44]
Jessica B.
Yeah, I do. I do. Thank you for the weed.
- [106:46]
Caller/Guest
I got pictures with your homeboy. He was wearing the. The Bulls jersey. Everything but nothing with you. And I listen to y' all faithfully.
- [106:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
That wasn't our homeboy. That was her best friend, Sheena.
- [106:56]
Jessica B.
That was my brother, Desi. Oh, my gosh.
- [106:59]
Caller/Guest
Yeah, he. He took time. He took time to talk to me. But you, you just been the club.
- [107:06]
Jessica B.
Look, so, you know, the club wasn't set up for that. You know how the. The ceiling was falling and it was so hot and the air was off.
- [107:16]
Caller/Guest
I was literally catching a flight at 7am to go to Mexico for me and my wife's anniversary. And I saw you were coming, and I was like, yo, let me book a last minute ticket. And I sat right there, right next to the stage. You dapped me when you left and whatever. I gave you your weed. And then that was it. I waited for my meeting, meet and greet. Almost missed my flight, but it's okay, Jeff.
- [107:38]
Jessica B.
I doubt you. I don't even be touching people. But it was something in you that I saw. And I was like, no, this is. I love that.
- [107:45]
Caller/Guest
But then you still ignore me. I hit you in your DMs, like, Yo, Jeff, what's up? Nothing.
- [107:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right, Val. Don't you forget nothing, Val. All right.
- [107:53]
Caller/Guest
You know, Charlamagne, Let me just let you know, I got your book. I got DJ Envy's book. I follow y'.
- [107:59]
Jessica B.
All.
- [107:59]
Caller/Guest
Like, for real. I just see my book sign. Charlemagne.
- [108:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
I got you, Val.
- [108:03]
Jessica B.
Well, look, look, Val. Let me send you a book. Cause I know you and your wife got a kid.
- [108:07]
Caller/Guest
Yeah, we got two kids. A 15 year old daughter, expensive as.
- [108:10]
Jessica B.
Okay.
- [108:11]
Caller/Guest
And a 10 year old boy.
- [108:13]
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
- [108:13]
Jessica B.
All right, cool. So tell Deaf.
- [108:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
Do we parent?
- [108:16]
Jessica B.
So drop my. I'm dropping my book, but I'm gonna send you one. So def. Do we parent.
- [108:21]
Caller/Guest
Parents. And Dr. Kumar gonna be real mad at me. Charlamagne. Cause my wife is white.
- [108:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
And I'm proud I ignored it on purpose.
- [108:27]
Jessica B.
Yeah, she.
- [108:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
She.
- [108:30]
Jessica B.
And that's the crazy thing. Her wife was in the back.
- [108:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
She.
- [108:33]
Jessica B.
It's like you didn't even sit with her, right?
- [108:35]
Caller/Guest
I wanted to go to that show. I sat in the front.
- [108:38]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's what I'm talking about for you.
- [108:41]
Jessica B.
And then put Shorty in the back.
- [108:43]
Caller/Guest
Yes, I did. I put her with her kind. You thought she was similar to all the white people.
- [108:47]
Jessica B.
Yes, she was. Oh, my God. Listen.
- [108:50]
Mimi Brown
Yes.
- [108:50]
Caller/Guest
Let me tell you this. I'm funnier than Sammy J. You sit down and have a conversation with me. You would have be open for one of your steps.
- [108:56]
Jessica B.
I bl. I bet you. I bet you. I. I already know. So, look, I'm coming back to Virginia, but this time I'm coming to Richmond in 2026 on my new tour. Don't play with me. So you gonna get it, you know, I mean, you're gonna get a ticket and then I promise you that time I'm a really, really.
- [109:11]
Charlamagne Tha God
You should give her tickets, Jess. You should give her a couple of tickets.
- [109:13]
Jessica B.
No, no, I'm already giving her a book. That's too much.
- [109:15]
Charlamagne Tha God
Make her a white wife pay, but give her one for free.
- [109:17]
Jessica B.
You know what? Yeah, yeah. Oh, she get. She left. Hello? Yeah.
- [109:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, man. Why you do that, Red? No, his energy information.
- [109:29]
Jessica B.
But I remember that I. You know, because I'll be messing with people during the show, you know, and she. She said she was there with her wife. I'm like, where? Her wife was in the back. She put her wife in the back. The wife stood up and was like, it's me. And I was like, really? You know, I had fun riffing on them, but. But she was a stud. And then, yeah, she put her white wife in the back. So that was respect.
- [109:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
That was just fix my mess. I don't know what just happened with Val. Val.
- [109:53]
Jessica B.
I don't either.
- [109:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
Val ain't get no information. Val just hit the answer. Got hung up on for no reason. Val, call back up. Let's get your information so we can keep you connected, man.
- [110:00]
Jessica B.
I love you, Val. I love you. I'm sorry. She did give me some weed, though.
- [110:04]
Charlamagne Tha God
So was it good?
- [110:05]
Jessica B.
Yeah, it was good, man. You know them studs be packing their gas. You already know.
- [110:11]
Charlamagne Tha God
All right, we got the latest with Lauren coming up next. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club.
- [110:15]
Mike Epps
The Breakfast Club.
- [110:19]
Jessica B.
Lauren becoming a straight face.
- [110:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.
- [110:25]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
- [110:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on this.
- [110:31]
Mike Epps
The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
- [110:33]
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything.
- [110:37]
Mike Epps
Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.
- [110:41]
Lauren LaRosa
All right, so Tory Lanez this week was denied the appeal that he put in. So he was basically trying to have his conviction overturned. He has been doing completing a sentence of 10 years in prison following the 2020 shooting of Meg the Stallion for which he was convicted for in 2022. Now, he appealed this for many different reasons, some to mention he claimed that his right to testify was unfairly stopped for several reasons, including he had said that his attorneys at the time told him that like song lyrics and other damaging evidence, evidence could be used against him in cross examination. They were worried about that. He also said that the court messed up in he alleged that the court messed up in his trial because they allowed prosecutors to play that recording of the interview that Meg the Stallion's former best friend, Kelsey Harris did when she sat down with police and she told them that Tori shot Meg. But then, remember, she came into court and said she didn't recall any of that. Now, the judges, so this was a three judge panel that made this decision. The judges basically said they don't agree with any of his arguments and that they're going to uphold this conviction. They mentioned also too remember when he was, you know, claiming that his former attorney Sean Holly had done a bunch of wrong things, including not alleging, not allegedly not allowing him to testify. The judges say that they read an email from Sean Holly that said that she basically had told Tory Lanez and the other attorneys on the team that she wasn't comfortable with them trying to pin the shooting on Harris, who was Meg Thee Stallion's former best friend because of some of the evidence and things that she had saw. So she backed off the case. And a judge said that they feel like she did nothing wrong by backing off of the case and deciding that that strategy wasn't right. They also say that there was nothing wrong with the, you know, court at the time, allowing the jury to hear Kelsey's interview with the police, because at that time, when she was subpoenaed and she came in, she was given immunity, which is why she kept claiming she didn't remember anything that happened. So the recording was admissible in court, and they were allowed to, you know, play it at that point because there were some inconsistent statements that needed to be cleared up. So, yeah, he'll have to complete his sentence at this point.
- [112:47]
Charlamagne Tha God
At this point.
- [112:47]
Jessica B.
How many. How long you got left?
- [112:49]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm not even for sure.
- [112:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
I feel like it's been a while.
- [112:51]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [112:51]
Jessica B.
Yeah.
- [112:52]
Lauren LaRosa
He's 20, 22, right?
- [112:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, that. Just 20. About to be 20, 26. Damn.
- [112:57]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [112:57]
Jessica B.
So he got six more years.
- [112:59]
Charlamagne Tha God
He sent me minutes.
- [113:03]
Lauren LaRosa
Does it start from the conviction or sensitive. I can figure that out.
- [113:06]
Jessica B.
Right.
- [113:07]
Lauren LaRosa
I can figure that out from. For you guys and see how much. How. How much longer he has behind bars.
- [113:12]
Charlamagne Tha God
But I did see he was gonna be up for parole at some point, though.
- [113:15]
Jessica B.
Yeah.
- [113:15]
Lauren LaRosa
I mean, there's a few different options that he'll be able to still do after this, but people. There was a lot of people that felt like this appeal was going to be it for him. I know that from speaking to his attorneys prior to. They strongly believe that he had a strong basis to appeal as well. But, you know, this judge panel saying. Know that they don't believe so.
- [113:33]
Jessica B.
So.
- [113:34]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, but I'll get that answer to you guys while we move on to this next story, because I want to get into the Living Single Podcast, the.
- [113:40]
Charlamagne Tha God
Reliving Single Podcast, one of my favorite podcasts out there. Salute to Eric Alexander and Kim Cole.
- [113:45]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes. So they sat down with Queen Latifah, and on this. On this podcast, if you guys are not familiar, they've been here to the Breakfast Club to talk about it as well. They revisit various episodes and conversations around the show. So Queen Latifah was there again on the show, and they talked about so many different things. One of the things that stood out first was they talked about just the fight behind the scenes to be able to do Living Single the way that they did on television. Let's take a listen to that.
- [114:10]
Charlamagne Tha God
Tell us a little bit, a little.
- [114:11]
Jessica B.
Bit of what you remember at the pilot. Do you remember when. If you thought then it was gonna be a hit. I always thought it was gonna be A hit. A lot of things at that age is not knowledge, it's your gut instinct. And you were what, 23 years old, right? Yes. Yeah, I was, you know, from Jersey, but I knew we had something. I mean, that was the goal. But once we got y. I mean, I was already like, okay, Kim Coles. This is crazy. Yvette was, like, on the come up, like, and then you. And then Kim Fields, to me, was also the success of Martin and Fox being this, like, kind of burgeoning network. There was, like, space for us to grow. I mean, it was a fight because we had to fight for everything. Fight for the identity of the show, fight for the class of the show. To show four different kinds of women, to show two different kinds of guys, to show what black people look like who are upwardly mobile headed towards success.
- [115:01]
Caller/Guest
That's.
- [115:01]
Jessica B.
Yes. Struggling, you know, to be, you know, entrepreneurs, like, the whole. Now. Yeah, we can all be coming, man.
- [115:08]
Charlamagne Tha God
When I tell you. I ran to listen to that podcast when I saw that pop up in my feed yesterday.
- [115:12]
Jessica B.
I can literally hear me all day. I love Queen Latifah. I love Kim Cole's Eric Alexander, too, though.
- [115:17]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [115:18]
Jessica B.
I actually toured with Kim Coles. Like, she is funny on stage, too.
- [115:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
They discussed the episode that I. I don't know why I didn't remember. I remember. Maybe I didn't remember it as that was their actual mothers.
- [115:29]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [115:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
In the episode.
- [115:30]
Lauren LaRosa
Okay. I didn't. I didn't know that there was their actual mothers either, but when. So I don't have that audio, but yeah, they talked about that. And they talked about the fact that they use their actual moms, and they talked about the fact that Queen Latifah's mom was such an advocate for all of them behind the scenes. And Queen Latifah used to be so homesick on the set, so. And her mom was, like, one of the only people from her family that actually came and visited her. So that was, like, such a heartfelt and warming moment. But the moms everybody loves, loved the moms. Like, they were super excited about the episode. What? Jess, no.
- [115:59]
Jessica B.
Yo, I gotta get out this chat. Yo, people crazy. Somebody gonna say Queen Latifah is the original Manny Fresh stud.
- [116:05]
Caller/Guest
Like, why?
- [116:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
What? Shut up. Exactly. Why? Shut up. First of all. Yes. And Latifah talked about having a big house in la.
- [116:11]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
- [116:12]
Charlamagne Tha God
And how nobody from Newark would come visit her.
- [116:14]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes. But when you move to la, everybody's so excited. And then don't nobody ever show. It's so far. It doesn't feel as far until you get there and you're like, dang, everybody over there. But another part of the, like, just Living Single experience that they talked about was the creation of the theme song, because originally, Living Single wasn't going to be living singles. My girlfriends and Queen Latifah had originally created a song for that show and then had to change it once they changed the name of the song. Let's take a listen to Queen Latifah on creating the theme song for Living Single.
- [116:44]
Jessica B.
Obviously, I come from music, so. And this is my show. I was just thinking about Living Single. I'm thinking about what. What we're doing. Like, what is it? Like, these four girls doing their thing. So one, a producer I know named Def Jeff. I needed him to come over and help me flesh this idea out. So I was like, I want this beat to feel like this. And then I wrote the rhyme and then chopped up. Check, check, check it out. So then stuff. We went over his house with the beat, and he added, like, the keys. Come on. So that we are living. Hey, single. I'm hearing that in my mind. And it was longer. Yes, we're living the single life. So I'm thinking of that. Pretty. But then I'm also like, keep your head up.
- [117:29]
Caller/Guest
What?
- [117:29]
Jessica B.
Keep your head up. That's right. So. So I wrote the rhyme to it, and then he was like, can you do this at the end? So his part, which was a clutch part, that right there, I was like, you know, I love to hear artists talk about the. The process of making music. Even though this was a theme song, like, yo, they be into it. You can tell it's passionate. She was very passionate about music.
- [117:55]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
- [117:55]
Jessica B.
That's dope 100.
- [117:56]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, man. They had another great conversation, too, about trusting your parents and how. I forgot. I think it was either Kim Cole's mom. It might have been both of them. I think it was Kim Cole's mom. How you. How you tell your kids? As long as you tell me first.
- [118:08]
Lauren LaRosa
It was Kim Cole's mom, you won't get in trouble.
- [118:10]
Charlamagne Tha God
And, like, that's how I talk to my daughters. Like, as long as you tell me the truth, you won't get in trouble. You won't only get in trouble for.
- [118:14]
Lauren LaRosa
Lying, but you don't know as a kid if you really do that, if you really won't get in trouble. But she said she did it once.
- [118:19]
Charlamagne Tha God
She did it once.
- [118:22]
Mike Epps
Trust.
- [118:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely, Yes. I love that podcast, man. You know, I love Erica Alexander and Salute to Kim Kardashian. And I love Queen Latifah. I have always been inspired by what Queen Latifah and Shaqim have built with Flavor Unit as a production company. Two individuals who are extremely underrated in every aspect.
- [118:40]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
- [118:42]
Jessica B.
Okay, go ahead now. I'm just saying. And the Queen Latifah smells good. I saw her three times in my life. She always smelled good.
- [118:49]
Lauren LaRosa
She just like.
- [118:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
You met her before?
- [118:51]
Jessica B.
Yeah, I have. I met her, actually. I tried say hi to her. I was so starstruck. I ain't know what to say. And she just laughed. I'm like, yo, I'm so sorry. I met her one time in la. I saw her in Vegas and I forgot. I think it was two times in la. I was living in la. She always smells so effing good.
- [119:06]
Lauren LaRosa
Did you get a picture with her, Jess?
- [119:08]
Jessica B.
No, I didn't get a picture.
- [119:09]
Lauren LaRosa
Did you ask for a picture?
- [119:10]
Jessica B.
No, I just asked for a hug. She gave me one.
- [119:13]
Lauren LaRosa
I asked for a picture, and she said, this was, like, three years ago in la. She said, if you take a picture, you'll have a photo of the moment, but if you live in the moment, you'll remember this experience even more. And I was like, okay, no picture.
- [119:23]
Jessica B.
Right.
- [119:24]
Lauren LaRosa
I think it was the standard in la.
- [119:26]
Jessica B.
Yeah.
- [119:26]
Lauren LaRosa
And she was. It was like after a party, she was in a little deli area that they had.
- [119:31]
Mimi Brown
Yes.
- [119:31]
Jessica B.
She smelled good.
- [119:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
I would love to meet it. Jason. All the things Jason Lee knows I love her, so he had her do a video for me one time.
- [119:38]
Jessica B.
That's dope.
- [119:39]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
- [119:39]
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, yeah. They're really close.
- [119:40]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yep. Yeah. And by the way, that's a conversation I'd like to have. People always ask me who I'd like to interview, because we've interviewed a little bit of everyone, shot Kim and Queen Latifah it together. That's the interview I would like to do.
- [119:50]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes. To wrap this up, I did want to go back to the Tory Lane's questions that you guys had. Jess, you were right. So the sentence, your sentence begins on the day of sentencing, not the day that you're convicted. And he is eligible for parole. And if he doesn't get parole, he'll be incarcerated until 2033, but he's not eligible until 2029. And if he does the 2033, he has eight years left currently.
- [120:13]
Caller/Guest
So.
- [120:13]
Lauren LaRosa
But it depends on kind of where that falls. But, yes, that's the end. And make sure y' all go check out that full conversation on the Relive it single podcast. It is a great heartfelt conversation. We didn't even get to get to all of it here, but go check it out. That's the latest for today.
- [120:27]
Jessica B.
All right, thank you, Lauren.
- [120:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right. Now when we come back, we're gonna have the People's choice mix. Now Envy ain't even here. The Throat Monster got DJ Envy. Okay, he can't even talk, but I bet you about to listen to a mix with him talking all way the over it. Like he been here throughout the whole show. I don't know why he does this.
- [120:43]
Jessica B.
He pre recorded it.
- [120:44]
Charlamagne Tha God
Whatever. Okay, so 1800-585-1051. If you want to request the song, call us right now. Even though it's a pre recorded mix. But hey, you got nothing else to do with your time, right?
- [120:54]
Lauren LaRosa
You be busting Envy.
- [120:55]
Charlamagne Tha God
It's the Breakfast Club.
- [120:56]
Jessica B.
Yes, he do.
- [120:57]
Mike Epps
You're checking out the Breakfast Club?
- [120:59]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yep. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club. Charlemagne, the God, DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Envy wasn't here today. The Throat Monster stole his voice. Now the reason I keep saying the Throat Monster stole his voice because it's just like on Space jams when the monsters steal people's powers. You know what I'm saying? The Throat Monster stole his voice yesterday. So he wasn't even able to talk. He tried to, you know, talk this morning and he could. He sounded crazy.
- [121:21]
Jessica B.
Oh, he sounded crazy.
- [121:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, he sounded crazy. Throw Monster got him. But Jess, you got some shows coming up.
- [121:26]
Jessica B.
I do. Tomorrow I'll be in Perrysburg. That's Toledo, Ohio. Make sure you get your tickets. We are. I don't know if Saturday is sold out or not. I remember yesterday when I last checked it, it was only a few tickets left, but just hilarious. Official dot com. Get your tickets. I will. I promise. I will be doing meet and greet at the end of every late show. So whether the show was 9:30 or 9:45 on Friday or Saturday, I'll be doing the show. And also my book is available for pre order. Till Death do We Parent. It's the co parenting memoir reflected on the journey of me and Rome raising our son Ash. And so pre order anywhere you get your books, you're going to love it.
- [122:04]
Mike Epps
Word.
- [122:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
Make sure you do that right now. And that is it for us today. I want to salute to the good brother Mike Eps, man. They're going back out on tour in February for the Weed in ones comedy tour. 36 cities. So make sure you go to the website and see if they're Coming to a city near you. They go out every year.
- [122:22]
Jessica B.
Yeah, they do. God damn, I love that. I was supposed to be on that tour, but my schedule don't permit to it. I was going to be the only, only girl on that tour.
- [122:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I think they got just Nissan now.
- [122:31]
Jessica B.
Oh, yeah. Niche, funny. Niche, funny.
- [122:33]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, they got just niche on it now.
- [122:34]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [122:35]
Jessica B.
Shout out to them. Oh, we got a positive note.
- [122:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
We do have a positive note. Man. I know this sounds crazy, but I'm gonna tell you something. I was born in 1978 and one thing that I've realized in my life, when I look back on every single moment, everything, and I do mean everything, happens for a reason. So trust the process even when you do not understand. Have a great day. Breakfast Club.
- [122:57]
Mike Epps
You don't finish or y' all done?
- [122:59]
Jessica B.
Short on time, but big on true crime.
- [123:01]
Mimi Brown
On a recent episode of the podcast Hunting for Answers, I highlighted the story of 19 year old Lachey Dungey.
- [123:08]
Jessica B.
But she never knocked on that door. She never made it inside.
- [123:13]
Mimi Brown
And that text message would be the.
- [123:16]
Jessica B.
Last time anyone would ever hear from her.
- [123:19]
Mimi Brown
Listen to Hunting for Answers from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [123:29]
Jessica B.
The show was ahead of its time to represent a black family in ways that television hadn't shown before. Exactly.
- [123:34]
Mimi Brown
It's Thelma Hopkins, also known as Aunt Rachel.
- [123:37]
Jessica B.
And I'm Kelly Williams or Laura Winslow. On our podcast welcome to the Family with Thelma and Kelly. We're re watching every episode of Family Matters. We'll share behind the scenes stories about making the show. Yeah, we'll even bring in some special guests to spill some tea.
- [123:52]
Mimi Brown
Listen to welcome to the Family with.
- [123:53]
Jessica B.
Telma and Kelly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [123:59]
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, I'm Kyle McLaughlin. You might know me as that guy from Twin Peaks, Sex and the City or just the Internet stand. I have a new podcast called what Are We Even Doing? Where I embark on a noble quest to understand the brilliant chaos of youth culture. Each week I invite someone fascinating to join me to talk about navigating this high speed roller coaster we call reality. Join me and my delightful guests every Thursday and let's get weird together in a good way. Listen to what Are We Even doing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The Rich Russians Falling out of Windows podcast is back. Sad Oligarch Season 2 since we left you in 2023 after season one many politically motivated Russian millionaires have continued to die in suspicious circumstances. Season two gets very weird. Listen to Sad Oligarch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Mimi Brown
Hey, I'm Nora Jones and I love playing music with people so much that my podcast called Playing along is Back. I sit down with musicians from all musical styles to play songs together in an intimate setting. Over the past two seasons, I've had special guests like Dave Grohl, Leve, Rufus Wainwright, Mavis Staples. Really too many to name, and there's still so much more to come in this new season. Listen to Nora Jones is Playing along.
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Jessica B.
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or.
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Mimi Brown
Wherever you get your podcasts.
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Lauren LaRosa
This is an iHeart podcast.