FULL SHOW: Marlon Wayans Says 50 Will Get His Karma, Judge Allows Cassie Accuser to Serve Lawsuit, Dame Dash’s Assets Head to Auction + Joy-Ann Reid Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary

Date: December 9, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Special Guest: Joy-Ann Reid

---

EPISODE OVERVIEW

This lively episode of The Breakfast Club balances pop culture and current events, featuring spirited discussions about politics, media consolidation, celebrity news, and issues affecting the Black community. With Joy-Ann Reid as a special guest celebrating both her birthday and her show's six-month anniversary, the crew delivers their signature mix of sharp commentary, humor, and heartfelt moments.

---

KEY DISCUSSION POINTS & INSIGHTS

1. Show Kickoff & Team Banter

• The crew reflects on their holiday dinner, with playful recounting of outfits, drinks, and who left the party first.
• Early banter includes humorous shade and camaraderie between DJ Envy, Charlemagne, Jess, and Lauren LaRosa.

2. Front Page News with Mimi Brown

Politics and Elections

• Jasmine Crockett enters the Texas Senate race (06:00), positioning herself as a bold, multiracial coalition builder targeting Trump. Her unapologetic stance draws both praise and criticism.
• Discussion on how Fox News and Republicans frame Crockett and the challenges facing Black female candidates.

Republican Party Turmoil

• Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes her own party’s obedience to Trump, prompting his retaliation and further internal GOP strife (09:00).

Listener Calls

• Listeners share concerns about violence, parenting, and community activism, particularly in Dayton, Ohio (11:13).
• Complaints and praise about the Breakfast Club’s music direction, now led by Samantha Wilson (“Sim”) (13:00).

Holiday Survey

• Debate about the “worst Christmas gift,” with self-help books topping the unpopular list (37:00). DJ Envy defends their value.

3. Pop Culture & Celebrity News with Lauren LaRosa

Busta Rhymes vs. Content Creators (19:00)

• Busta Rhymes reacts sternly after content creators call him “Tracy Morgan,” prompting a wider conversation on respect and generational differences in celebrity culture.
  • “Bus is from that class. If you show disrespect, he's gonna come right back with disrespect.” – Charlamagne (20:28)

Diddy Documentary Fallout (21:22)

• Marlon Wayans suggests that karma may come for 50 Cent for producing the Netflix Diddy documentary.
  • “The way Puff is down on his luck and 50’s kicking a man when he’s down, God is gonna… you gotta be careful. There’s a karma to every action.” – Marlon Wayans (21:59)
• Debate about double standards in who gets blamed for “kicking someone when they’re down,” centering on 50 Cent versus media outlets like TMZ (23:00).
• Ja Rule trolls 50 Cent, hinting at his own documentary in retaliation.
  • “None of these people doing documentaries care about the victims.” – DJ Envy (25:31)

4. Interview: Joy-Ann Reid (40:08 – 70:15)

Personal and Professional Reflections

• Joy-Ann celebrates her birthday and six months of her independent show.
• On leaving mainstream media: “I’m just grateful to be free to do what I do, say what I want to say, and not worry about a corporate overseer.” – Joy-Ann Reid (41:53)

Corporate Media & Political Power

• In-depth analysis of media consolidation threats: Netflix and Paramount’s bids for Warner Brothers and the fate of CNN.
  • “That size of a corporation, I’m not sure has the right level of accountability to the people.” – Joy-Ann Reid (43:07)
• On government influence: Manhattan’s prospective alliances, Trump’s desire to vet CNN staff, and concerns about state-aligned media.
• “We’re going toward Hungary, Russia, that kind of country, and that’s not what we want to be.” – Joy-Ann (48:26)

Trump, Democratic Institutions, and Presidential Power

• The group discusses Trump’s increasing executive overreach and Supreme Court complicity.
  • "Who knew a president could wield this much power beforehand?" – DJ Envy (56:00)
• Why Democrats hesitate to use power assertively; Joy-Ann critiques Merrick Garland for his inaction (54:01).
• “They always want to reduce us to our worst moments and never acknowledge our growth.” – Charlamagne (82:16)

Diddy, Black Culture, and Reckoning with the Past

• Joy-Ann argues exposing wrongs within Black culture is necessary for healing and growth:
  • “I think it's wrong what Puffy allegedly did. I think those things had to come out. It didn't help us to, like, hide what we knew about R. Kelly.” – Joy-Ann (65:21)
• Debate over the fairness of Diddy's sentencing:
  • “I think he got off easy. I'm sorry. Dragging Cassie across the floor like a ragdoll beating her up…they just charged him wrong.” – Joy-Ann (67:23)
• Broader questions about whether Black cultural power can translate into political capital.

5. Listener Interactions & Giving Back

• Engaged call-in segment about worst Christmas gifts, highlighting both humor and real struggle: one listener candidly shares financial hardship during the holidays (99:27).
• Jess Hilarious shares plans for toy giveaways in Baltimore, emphasizing community support (101:19).

6. Donkey of the Day: Criticizing Redemption and Progress

• Charlamagne calls out media for their negative framing of activist Mysonne’s appointment to NYC Mayor-elect Zoran Mandani’s transition team.
  • “You a corrections officer who doesn't believe in people who have been corrected?” – Charlamagne (82:17)
• Extended critique of how society refuses to acknowledge Black men’s redemption and community impact.

7. Gifting Segment & Holiday Humor

• Envy surprises the team with both gag gifts (an alarm clock, black spray paint, Shake Weight) and luxe gifts (coats).
• Banter about the gifting traditions, appreciation, and team love.
• “Every gift is a great gift. Anybody that takes the time to think about you and says, 'Yo, here's a gift,' I appreciate it.” – DJ Envy (95:54)

8. Entertainment & Community News

• Shoutouts to Golden Globes nominees Teyana Taylor, Cynthia Erivo, Michael B. Jordan, and The Rock.
• Update on Dame Dash’s asset auction stemming from bankruptcy.
• Controversy around Kamora Lee Simmons’s daughter’s relationship with a 65-year-old man, age gaps in relationships, and parental perspectives (107:16).

---

NOTABLE QUOTES & MEMORABLE MOMENTS

• On Joy-Ann’s Independence:
  “I'm just grateful to be free to do what I do, say what I want to say, and not worry about a corporate overseer. I feel good about that.” – Joy-Ann Reid (41:53)

• On Media Consolidation:
  “If all [the media companies] are giving you only one perspective, and you can't get another perspective…now we're North Korea.” – Joy-Ann Reid (45:13)

• On Criminal Justice and Redemption:
  “You a corrections officer who doesn't believe in people who have been corrected?” – Charlamagne Tha God (82:17)

• On Exposing Wrongs in Black Culture:
  “I think those things had to come out. It didn't help us to, like, hide what we knew about R. Kelly.” – Joy-Ann Reid (65:21)

• On Presidential Power:
  “Who knew a president could wield this much power beforehand?” – DJ Envy (56:00)

• On the Double Standards of Documentary Criticism:
  “Why do we only say that when it's, you know, a black producer? …There’s no reason for 50 to have any type of loyalty to Diddy in any way.” – DJ Envy (23:09)

• On Gifting:
  “The smallest gift given with love and compassion is priceless.” – DJ Envy (111:50)

---

TIMESTAMPS FOR IMPORTANT SEGMENTS

• 05:58 – Jasmine Crockett enters Texas Senate race
• 13:00 – Music direction call-ins (music director Sim)
• 19:00 – Busta Rhymes incident recap
• 21:22 – The Diddy documentary and 50 Cent/Marlon Wayans’ comments
• 37:00 – Worst Christmas gift debate
• 40:08 – Joy-Ann Reid interview begins
• 63:06 – Cultural power and Diddy documentary
• 65:21 – Exposure of wrongs in Black culture
• 82:16 – Donkey of the Day: Redemption and Mysonne
• 101:19 – Jess Hilarious’s toy drive
• 107:16 – Kamora Lee Simmons' daughter relationship controversy

---

CONCLUSION

This episode is a punchy snapshot of the overlapping worlds of politics, culture, and everyday life, grounded in The Breakfast Club’s trademark mix of edge and empathy. The interview with Joy-Ann Reid stands out as a thoughtful, urgent look at threats to democracy, the challenges and opportunities within Black media and politics, and the personal journey of claiming one’s voice in a changing media landscape. Other segments balance gravitas with levity, from the pitfalls of holiday gifting to celebrity tiffs and the struggle for fair narratives around redemption. For listeners eager to be informed, entertained, and inspired, this episode delivers.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. A season filled with family dinners, laughter and holiday shopping. But even in the middle of all of that joy, everyone needs a moment to slow down. The little pause between the music, the memories and the madness. And nothing makes that break better than an ice cold Coca Cola. It's that quick refresh that turns the holiday rush into calm, making the moment feel just right. It's the breath between the laughter and the late night rapping sessions. Because the best part of the holidays isn't having it all together, it's enjoying it while it's happening. Enjoy your Coca Cola Refresh your holidays.

[Caller/Listener]

You've been working in the garage with your dad every week, Monday to Sunday, trying to get the old school up and running. Today, after all the hard work, y' all finally finished it. Even better. Your dad says all yours, son. Yep. Same car that belonged to your grandpa that your dad helped him fix. It's yours. To really keep the tradition going, you need to get State Farm Insurance. Just like them. Generation to generation. Remember to choose the agents that your family counted on. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

[Joy Ann Reid]

What up y'?

[Caller/Listener]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's DJ Envy. When I feel like I need to fresh my luck, I always head straight to JD Sports. I I know I can find some inspired styles whenever I drop into JD's. They've got the shoes, apparel and the latest essentials you could need. A couple of weeks ago I grabbed the new Jordans and the compliments have been non stop. I'm always able to find my style at JD Sports. Discover iconic styles. Now head to JD Sports. Curate your personal look from the brands that define the culture JD Sports Forward.

[Joy Ann Reid]

So you're telling me that the AI.

[Caller/Listener]

That'S meant to make everyone's job easier to manage just adds more to manage.

[DJ Envy]

On top of the thousands of apps the IT department already manages, funny how that works. Any business can add AI.

[Caller/Listener]

IBM helps you scale and manage AI.

[DJ Envy]

To change how you do business. Let's create Smile to Business IBM.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something. Do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea or OSA in adults with obesity, they may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snore loudly, or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability and concentration issues, it may be due to osa. OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don't sleep on OSA.com. this information is provided by Lily, A Medicine Company.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, usa.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sunglasses on a Tuesday. What up, Jess?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Charlemagne. Tha God. Peace to the planet. Guess. No. Peace to the planet. It's Tuesday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Man, last night we had a. I guess a holiday dinner.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Christmas dinner. Holiday dinner, yes.

[DJ Envy]

You know, just celebrating our 15 years and all that good stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I told y' all. Rookies. I told y' all took me down.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Rookies.

[DJ Envy]

I told y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[DJ Envy]

You took how many shots last night?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I'm straight.

[DJ Envy]

It was one point early in the dinner. Just like, I only had four drinks and two shots.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yo. I'm good, though. I'm good. I was drinking water in between. That's what I learned. You gotta drink water and you gotta.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have something on your stomach. I don't feel hungover.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I'm straight. I just like the glasses with me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My outfit. Well, I was the top three person.

[DJ Envy]

You were definitely a top.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then I was the first one to leave. I was the first one up out there. I told y', all. Hell, yeah, I'm about here.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Hold up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You got there at 6:30, like on time?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Around 6:30ish. Yeah, on time. And then I was out early. As soon as it was over, I'm gone.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm going. Y' all were still drinking when I was leaving.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Absolutely not.

[DJ Envy]

Me. I left right out. I was right behind you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Damn. Pause. Of course.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he did.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He left, like, 10 minutes ahead of you.

[DJ Envy]

Like that was a matter. I'll be honest with you, man. I've said this before, and I know we do a lot of things in. Jess, I really don't want to play gay no more after watching the Diddy documentary.

Cause them guys really be getting rammed throughout. They be getting rammed throughout here, man. And I don't feel sorry for him. I just want you to know that. You know what I'm saying? I don't feel sorry for him. You wake up in your butt sore as a grown man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I don't want to be there.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I'm saying? Then I'm looking at the guy, Little Rod. I'm like, little Rod. You just Stayed around, you know, a long time.

[Joy Ann Reid]

A long time.

[DJ Envy]

If you got paid. If you would have got paid, that's crazy. You'd have been there, you know, putting your mouth on unlimited.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Well, Joy and Reed will be joining us today. She's the host of the Joy Reid Show.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll be kicking it with her in a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

And it's her birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's her birthday. Yes. And we got front.

[DJ Envy]

She's celebrating her birthday. Yesterday was her birthday.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Celebrating what, six months of her show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. That is right. So we're gonna be kicking it with Joy Ann Reid. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Front page news is next. You got something I want to hear?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Now, see, now we talking. Is this with Jeezy on it? Oh, now we talking.

[Mimi Brown]

Hello.

[DJ Envy]

Damn it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast. Look, get your ass up. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's get in some front page news.

[DJ Envy]

Such a great record, man. Drop one of bombs for Pastor Jesus. Pastor Young. Pastor Young is what I call him. Okay. Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to the charges. Last night in Monday Night Football, the Chargers beat the Eagles 22 to 19.

[DJ Envy]

God damn, if the Cowboys would have won on Sunday, we just. Well, we still in the mix regardless, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, things happen.

[DJ Envy]

Eagles lost, what, four straight?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

God damn, Philly.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not looking good. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. MV Josh Charlamagne. How y' all doing this?

[DJ Envy]

Mimi, how you doing?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. All right, so we start this morning in Texas, where Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is officially entering the race for the United States Senate. And she launched her campaign yesterday under the slogan Texas State Tough, saying she's the Democrat best positioned to turn out voters and build what she calls a multiracial, multigeneration coalition across the state. Now, Crockett says her focus will be on bringing down the cost of living, expanding opportunity, and holding President Donald Trump accountable. Let's listen to some of her speech from yesterday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He has rigged our elections once again by changing the lines in the middle.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Of an election cycle. The cherry on the top. Trump drew me out of my home district. I know he's tired of me holding.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Him accountable, dismantling his lies.

[Joy Ann Reid]

And I know he's tired of me breaking through to millions of Americans. Tired of me getting people out to vote.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tired of me living in his head rent free.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Well, Mr. President, you couldn't beat me at the ballot box. And so, as y' all know, a judge that you appointed, Mr. President, he.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Said your maps were unconstitutional, but you ran it up to your loyal activist cronies at the Supreme Court.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Well, Trump, I know you're watching. So let me tell you directly, you're.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not entitled to a damn thing in Texas. You better get to work.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Cause I'm coming for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

Jasmine.

[DJ Envy]

Jasmine has nothing to lose in this situation. She's playing with house money. You know, I mean, at the least, it's going to increase her profile. You know, like, she's like, Jasmine has nothing to lose in this situation.

[Mimi Brown]

And speaking of profile, she enters the race with a national profile. She's been one of the most outspoken, outspoken Democratic critics of Donald Trump and House Republicans. So she's now considered the front runner after another candidate, Colin Alred, he dropped out yesterday. And early polling, though, it shows that she has a path to win, but that visibility also comes with political risk. Republicans have resurfaced some of her past comments and are already framing her as the candidate they think that they can beat. Now, Crockett, she's brushing off those attacks, saying she is in the strongest position to defeat whoever survives the Republican fight. And speaking of fight, she still has a road ahead of her because that's. There's two major hurdles, two key dates to remember before we get to that general election. So on March 3, Democratic voters in Texas, they will pick their nominee for Senate. And right now, the race is between Crockett and State Representative James Talarico. And to win outright, either one of those two candidates will have to get 50% more of the vote. Now, if no one. If one. No one crosses that 50% mark, then there will be a runoff on May 26, and that race will decide who officially will face the Republican nominee in November.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I was watching Fox News yesterday. I was watching Will Kane show, and they had a segment where they were discussing Jasmine Crockett, and they were discussing, how do you attack a black woman in this. In this race? Like, literally, that was the segment. And the guy on there with Will was saying, you don't have to. All you got to do is play things. She already said. And they started playing, like, a lot of her old clips. And I was just like. That just makes me like her even more. You know what I'm saying? I was just like, oh, she said that. Oh, okay.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

She really bought that action.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

They're going to have a hard time finding some ammunition there. And speaking of critics of Jasmine Crockett. Marjorie Taylor Greene is speaking out as she prepares to leave Congress. She's now taking direct aim at her own party and President Trump. In a 60 Minutes interview, Greene said many Republicans are terrified to step out of line. Let's listen to what she had to say. I think they're terrified to step out.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Of line and get a nasty truth.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Social post on them.

[Mimi Brown]

I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Of how he talks, making fun of.

[Mimi Brown]

Me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024. They all started, excuse my language, Leslie kissing his ass, and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time.

So those comments, they sparked an immediate response from President Trump, who went on True Social and he calling Greene washed up a low IQ traitor and saying she only turned on him because she was, quote, jilted. Greene says Trump's attack, they fueled threats against her family, but she insists that she's not leaving Congress because of him and so she will step down in January.

[DJ Envy]

What about all these other Republicans? I saw like 20 plus Republicans that are retiring are leaving to run for another office.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes, they are. And they're saying that that mass exodus happens when they know that it's looking really murky for the midterms. And so a lot of seats will be open and we'll continue to follow those races because who knows what's going to happen in these upcoming midterm races. Charlemagne. Well, coming up at 7, a new poll is revealing the least wanted Christmas gift of the season. We'll tell you what it is and why it's rubbing so many people the wrong way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is your time to get it.

[Caller/Listener]

Off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hate the way that you walk.

[DJ Envy]

The way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call up next, 800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Joy Ann Reid]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, this is Jeff from Dayton.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jeff, Dayton, Ohio. What's up, buddy? Get it off your chest.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, man, I want to talk about these Y N's out here in these streets where I live, man, they.

[DJ Envy]

They done lost their mind.

[Caller/Listener]

You know, they did call us the epic center of fentanyl in the opiate Trade. So I guess they on this money thing still. We got, we got two, we got two young guys on trial right now, shooting up a house 37 times, killing.

[DJ Envy]

A 12 year old little girl, man, that's insane.

[Caller/Listener]

And it's just like, my goodness, man, a few months ago we had a cat kill a landscaper for blowing grass on this call. So it's just like. And we here in Dayton, Ohio, we just, we just tired, man. We need some help. Like, ain't no political leaders where I'm from, no activists. It's just downhill every single day.

[DJ Envy]

What about, what about, what about the homes, man? Like, what about the parents in the homes? Do you know any of these kids? Parents?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, I know a lot of them, man. The direction ain't getting no positive direction, man. A lot of these parents young at this point, man. We got the Y in the club with their parents.

[DJ Envy]

Lord have mercy.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, it ain't got to that point. I know they young man, 35, 36 year old parents, 17, 18 year old kids, they meeting up at 937, getting.

[Joy Ann Reid]

It in on the way.

[DJ Envy]

Damn, my brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm sorry, brother.

[Caller/Listener]

I just want y' all to. And everybody across the nation, man, send a prayer up for my city, man.

[DJ Envy]

Because you know, Dayton, Ohio, man, we.

[Caller/Listener]

Known for a whole lot in America for positive attributes throughout history and we don't lost our way.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir. The prayer is definitely up, brother.

[Caller/Listener]

All right, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Morning. This is B from Brooklyn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

B from Brooklyn. What up? Get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, morning, everybody.

[Caller/Listener]

Love the show. Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Caller/Listener]

Good job this morning, man. That's the way you play music in the morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look, look, I usually I don't pick the music in the morning, but every once in a while we do an audible and we, we play what we want.

[DJ Envy]

I don't understand his reason for lying so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is the truth.

[DJ Envy]

I think he needs to play audible more often. Well, we got a new music director now. Her name is CYN Wilson. Samantha Wilson. She came up under us. She know what we like. So, you know, hopefully she cleans up classes and programs the right music.

[Caller/Listener]

Big Sam, good job. But Envy, that's the way you play music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right?

[DJ Envy]

That's the way you play, bro. That's how you play. He slapped you on the butt twice. Now, after somebody do a good play, that's how you play defense. That's what I'm talking about. Now. He slapped you on the butt twice, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest. 805-851-051-051, if you need the event, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, I'm darling.

[DJ Envy]

I'm dialing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, what you doing, man?

[DJ Envy]

I'm darling.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Caller/Listener]

Whether you're Mad or blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

Hello? Who this?

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, yo, yo, what's up, man? This is Jay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jay, what up? Get it off your chest, man.

[Caller/Listener]

Check this out.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. I don't know if it's my mind.

[Caller/Listener]

Playing tricks on me or not, but I can tell the difference in the music right now that you guys are playing. Since Sam got in position.

[DJ Envy]

I'm tell you right now, I almost.

[Caller/Listener]

Had to pull over this morning.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I.

[Caller/Listener]

It was the same way. I could just tell the energy. People been saying for forever, like, what's up with the music? I can tell the difference. And I'm trying to big up. Props to you guys. It's ours.

[DJ Envy]

Let's go, Sim. And that's one of our own. We raised Sim. That's what I'm talking about. I know, man. Look, I'm a long time listener. I know, I know. Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sim must start the January, but.

[DJ Envy]

Shut up. Sim already making changes. You shut the hell up. Sim is already making changes already. We doing some articles. That's right. That's all Sim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You absolutely get some in trouble.

[DJ Envy]

Shut up, Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll get some in trouble, man.

[DJ Envy]

She's not getting her in trouble for because the listeners liking the music she already programming. Let's go, Sam. Let's go. That's what I'm talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're doing some audibles. Hello? Who's this?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Hey.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, man? Good morning. How y' all doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good.

[Joy Ann Reid]

What's up?

[DJ Envy]

Black and Holly favorite. How are you?

[Joy Ann Reid]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

I'm great, brother.

[Caller/Listener]

Two.

[DJ Envy]

Two things real quick.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm gonna talk fast. First thing, guys, please, for the love.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Of God, stop driving slow in the left lane. I don't care if you're doing the speed limit. Let me do lightning speed and get past you. Please, for the love of God. Sometimes it could even be an emergency.

[DJ Envy]

People don't think about that, you know.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Like, you see that car behind you.

[DJ Envy]

They're not always racing.

[Joy Ann Reid]

They've got somewhere to be, and you're holding them up because you think you.

[DJ Envy]

Go on the speed limit and it's annoying. Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

And the second thing real quick, man.

[Caller/Listener]

Charlamagne. When are you gonna stop the Democratic parade?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Caller/Listener]

Can we just say Desmond Crockett is ratchet? For how many years haven't black people, you know, been so respectful?

[DJ Envy]

And then all of a sudden, now.

[Joy Ann Reid]

We want to, like, hype up the.

[Caller/Listener]

Sexy Reds and Jasmine Crockett to the world?

[DJ Envy]

We're not going to get anywhere like that.

[Joy Ann Reid]

What?

[DJ Envy]

I don't even know what the hell you talking about right now. Yeah, I think Jasmine Crockett is one of the most formidable politicians out here, period. I don't even know.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Was he white?

[Mimi Brown]

Was he white?

[DJ Envy]

No. I have no idea. But he's buying into the narratives that they've created about her, the narrative they've created about her.

Why? Why? I don't know why? Because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Done.

[DJ Envy]

And she.

[Joy Ann Reid]

What you mean she stand up to the people?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What are we talking about?

[DJ Envy]

What is. I. I just always wanted the people who say that. What is Donald Trump to do? Right?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Right? If Jasmine Crockett is ratchet, what is Donald Trump? Donald Trump is a. That's just the reality of the situation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We have the latest with Lauren, but she was at the holiday party last night, and she was drinking with you. You made it in, and she.

[DJ Envy]

I guess. There she go. LL Cool Bay.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Denim on denim. Denim, denim, denim, denim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got the latest coming up with you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We were going to talk about Busta Rhyme.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Bust the rhythms.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. So we going to talk about. No, I do not. I smell like Joe Malone. Don't play with me.

[DJ Envy]

Who the hell is Joe Malone?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's my.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, what's up with you, yo?

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, all right. Like, can I leave?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we? We'll get into it. Next is the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Laura.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Becoming a free fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

She'd be having the latest on this.

[Caller/Listener]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Caller/Listener]

Who is the lead on The Breakfast Club?

[DJ Envy]

Ll Cool Bay, Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. So real quick, before I get to the top, the one thing that you don't say to Busta Rhymes, I do want to shout out Kehlani. I saw her reposting our interview yesterday that she did up here on the Breakfast Club, and she was talking about how it is one of the best interviews that she's done. She said I think this is one of my best interviews I've done in ages. Check it out. And then I saw her comment on some of the. The clips that we had posted, talking about, you know, some of the things she didn't really want to get into. But she's in a good space now. She's safe, her daughter's safe.

[Joy Ann Reid]

But I salute to Kayla.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it just really. She was posting the clips. It really felt like she, you know, felt like she was in a safe space, and she was really excited about the interview. So I just wanted to say, hey, girl, we appreciate you for coming through. Great interview. Make sure you guys check it out. Okay, now, Busta Rhymes in Miami for Art Basel, and he ran into a group of content creators, and it just did not go well. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

So the moral of the story is, everybody ain't playing with you, okay? So all you content creators, always trying to create content. Everybody ain't playing, okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

At all. So basically what you guys were hearing. So the content creator group, they're there, and one of the, like, younger boys acts who was about to get the name X, Busta Rhymes for a photo.

[DJ Envy]

He was about to get the name wrong.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. That's why I stopped myself. Ask Buster Rhymes for a photo. And he's being funny. So you know how, like, it's the content creators who, like, will come up and call you the wrong name on purpose. He called him Tracy Morgan. And then you hear some of the other guys that are around, and in the video, you see the guy, the funny salesman, he's just standing there, though.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's like he already knew it was about to get crazy.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But you hear other people are saying Tracy Morgan as well, so they think it's, like, funny. But Buster starts going off. Now, as he's going off, and it's getting a little bit more intense.

[DJ Envy]

I hear Buster going off, though. I've heard. I've been on the receiving and the Buster going off. So I know when bus is going off. It's not like he was going off.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was light.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that was like, very, very.

[DJ Envy]

That wasn't even heavy. That was nothing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, what else happened as. As he begins to have this light conversation with this young man who was visibly like, oh, he knew he messed up. Yeah, he knew he messed up. In the moment, even the people around kind of back up a little bit because you can't hear Buster as much because they're like, oh, okay.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I heard him say, put the camera down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. He's telling him to put the camera down. He's telling him like, yo, you can't play with people like that. That'll get you effed up. Like, don't do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, Bus is from that class. If he will f you up, Bust is not one of the ones he played. He don't care who you are. If you, if, if you show disrespect, he's gonna come right back with disrespect.

[Caller/Listener]

That's bust.

[DJ Envy]

You just can't put hands on people like you used to, though, because everything's under surveillance, right?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah, exactly.

[DJ Envy]

That's all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Well. And Tracy Morgan is now trending on Google.

[Joy Ann Reid]

They apologize. Did the guy apologize or did he just like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sure he just fell back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You couldn't hear if he did. I didn't hear it in the video, but you see him kind of like walking off and it's a whole different temperament than it was in the beginning. That ain't nothing funny at that point.

[DJ Envy]

I just support Tracy Morgan. Feel this morning like that you got that insulted because somebody said that you look like me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He hasn't posted anything to his social that I've seen yet, but I did see a couple people in Tracy Morgan's comments, like, have you ever been compared to Busta Rhymes? So I don't know. He hasn't posted nothing to his social yet.

God. Best of content creators. I would never have to want. I would never want to have to do that to make money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No at all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now, speaking of other content, so the Diddy Netflix documentary is still causing some commotion. So Marlon Wayne's and 50 Cent are having a little tiff. Tiff. A little back and forth right now.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Marlon Wayne's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So Marlon sat down, his Marlin sat down with Big Boy and they were talking about a ton of different things, but the Netflix dot came up. Diddy's Netflix stock. Buy 50 Cent. Let's take a listen.

[Caller/Listener]

50 and Puff have a long term beef. It's personal.

[DJ Envy]

It's between him and Puff.

[Caller/Listener]

And before it's between him and Puff, it's between both of them and God. Just the way Puff is down on his luck and 50's kicking a man when he's down.

[Joy Ann Reid]

God is gonna.

[Caller/Listener]

If 50 of a luck turn up on 50, you got to be careful.

[DJ Envy]

What you put out. There's a karma to every action that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think we'll see that day, huh? You think we'll see that day?

[Caller/Listener]

I don't think 50 does dumb stuff.

[DJ Envy]

You know, he's very smart, you know in terms of his business, I think.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He already had his.

[Caller/Listener]

I think we already would have saw it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He got shot nine times.

[Caller/Listener]

He.

[DJ Envy]

He got his. He paid his debt early.

[Caller/Listener]

So that's why he's like effort.

[DJ Envy]

But you know, between him and Puff.

[Caller/Listener]

And honestly, it's between both of them and God. So, you know, only, only God can judge. And both of them, people have time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To sit with God and talk about and through everything.

[Caller/Listener]

And right now is Puff's time to sit there and. And have a conversation, a much needed conversation with God.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Ain't saying I'm crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So 50 Cent posted. I will say too, a lot of places that I. This clip, weren't posting it in full. Like that other part, like a little clip. Yeah, yeah. They didn't post it in full. So if you. I mean, 50 just likes to troll anyway. But if you first watch just that little clip, it kind of sound like, oh, 50, your day is coming. You better relax. But then when you watch the full thing, it's like, oh, but he's a smart guy, whatever. But 50 Cent posted Marlon Wayans from White Chicks and said, keep my name out your mouth, boy. And then Marlon Wayne is coming back on Instagram too. You about to say something, Charlie?

[DJ Envy]

I was good. How come nobody ever says that when it's white? Producers like TMZ did docs on Diddy. There was docs on Hulu. How come they weren't kicking. How come Peacock? How come they weren't kicking the person when they died? Why do we only say that when it's, you know, a black producer and especially when, you know, 50 and Diddy got a personal issue. So, like, there's, there's, there's no, there's no reason for 50 to have any type of loyalty to Diddy in any way shape.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? I didn't even think about it like that. But like you said, there's been a bunch of docs before. And nobody said when TMZ did that whole series. Nobody said when the Peacock doc and all those other dogs, nobody said nothing.

[DJ Envy]

It's investors gate of reporting when they did it, when they do it.

[Joy Ann Reid]

But he wasn't in jail yet, was he? Like, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Which makes it worse. Which makes it worse because he was going through trial when they were doing these documents, they were doing these documentaries. I think it makes it worse because the jurors could have had a chance to watch it. People could have had a chance to watch it. I think it was worse.

[DJ Envy]

And what is this documentary doing other than telling a Story. Like, literally, it's just telling a story.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Like, and it's a story based off Diddy's actions.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So how's that kicking him when he's down?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I mean, how. I've seen it.

[DJ Envy]

And aren't you supposed to kick your enemy when they down?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I mean, yeah. Stuff up in the ground, but I'm saying, like, he. He's in jail. Like, he's in prison right now. So that's. I feel like that's what Marlon is saying. Like, it's nothing that Diddy can do. He's not home walking around free. Like, he. He can't do nothing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

His hands is tied. Oh, like, he can't respond back.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah. Or. Yeah, he can't do anything. Send the flowers. I mean, whatever.

[DJ Envy]

Also, 50's not the only producer on this document documentary. Yeah, I do know that. Right. There's other. There's other executive producers on this documentary. So why is 50 the only one that's kicking him with dies? You sound like, did he getting jumped.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To me.

Idea, right.

[Caller/Listener]

This.

[Joy Ann Reid]

If 50 didn't have the idea to do it, it wouldn't have been done and executed this perfectly.

[DJ Envy]

I doubt it. I doubt. So I can. I almost guarantee somebody probably came to him and said, this is what they want to do. I've been on the receiving end of those kind of phone calls where people want to come and they'll be like, who's. Who's the person we could do a documentary on? I'd be like, Elvis.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, Ja Rule said he's about to do his own documentary. Because in speaking of kicking your enemy. Are we doing his own Ja Rule? I mean, he been. He's just trolling 50 Cent, but he's basically saying he's calling 50 a hypocrite. He's saying, you got your own stuff that. That people could talk about, so you need to step on out of this, and I'm gonna do my own documentary. And he's trying to make it seem like, you know, 50 Cent doesn't really care about the victims and people that are on the receiving end of this. It was all about getting the story out. So he's, like, piling on.

[DJ Envy]

None of these people that do these documentaries care about the victims. Okay. And Josh say he trolling until a production company actually approaches him and say, hey, you really want to do this? I guarantee. I'm telling you, it's the game.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, he didn't even say he was trolling. I took it as he was trolling. He said, I think I'M going to start doing docs. There's a lot to unpack here. Allegedly. And he posted some, like, you know, past things that have been alleged on against 50 cents. So, yeah, this doc just keeps on going, beefing with.

[Joy Ann Reid]

With docs.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, 50 Cent posted a photo with the Netflix sign. His caption says, LOL. Little sex worker doing it big. Get him, baby. 50 seems crazy.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh, God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. That is all for this hour, though, guys. Don't y' all feel so connected after hanging out last night? I love it when we hang out.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I love it, love it, love it.

[DJ Envy]

Your ankle's ashy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, no, it's not very ridiculous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And y' all drank too much last night.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all, I only had two I.2 shots and I left.

[DJ Envy]

I was responsible, getting lots of.

[Joy Ann Reid]

No, no, Lauren definitely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And my ankles are glistening. I was shocked.

[Joy Ann Reid]

She definitely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, they are. You do not have little socks. I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't got no socks?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was rushing this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I should have got you some socks.

[DJ Envy]

And I was supposed to wear heels. See how she went from my ankles are glistening.

Snatching that lotion. No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because if somebody offer you something, you supposed to take it. Somebody offer you a mint? Don't question it, just take it. If you offer me lotion, I'm.

[DJ Envy]

I would never lie to you. Your ankles, ashy you always. And for you not to wear no socks this morning and ashy ankles is crazy to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wait, before I put this lotion on, Jess, come look at these ankles. Do you see the glisten? You see the glitter?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Glitter?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't play with me.

[DJ Envy]

A little bit of frost from it being so cold outside. You know that. You know, when it's cold outside, the little frost sticks to the ash. That's why it's glistening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right, girls? All right, girls. Now that's the latest with Lauren. When we come back, we got front page news. And enjoy. And Reed will be joining us. She's the host of the Joy Reed Show. We're gonna kick it with her as well. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody.

[Joy Ann Reid]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy we Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news now. In sports, the Charges beat the Eagles 22:19. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, MB Josh, Charlamagne. How y' all doing this morning? Good morning. So we start this hour in Hollywood.

[Caller/Listener]

Where there's nothing better than the holidays. The house is full, music playing, cousins talking trash over games. It's like the family group Chat finally made it to real life. And right there when you need a fresh pick me up is Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry. It has that crisp cranberry flavor with a smooth winter spice twist. Just feels made for festive moments like these. Whether you're cooking with your auntie, laughing with old friends, or catching up with a favorite cousin that you haven't seen all year, Sprite keeps the celebration bright and refreshing. It's the perfect holiday sip. It's light, flavorful, festive, and worth sharing. But heads up. Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry is only here for a limited time, so grab it now, throw it in the fridge and crack another open to keep the good vibes flowing. Your favorite flavor has officially arrived. Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry. Sprite. Obey your thirst.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, y'?

[DJ Envy]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's DJ Envy. When I feel like I need to fresh my look, I always head straight to JD Sports. I know I can find some inspired styles whenever I drop into JD's. They've got the shoes, apparel, and the latest essentials you could need. A couple of weeks ago, I grabbed the new Jordans and the compliments have been non stop. I'm always able to find my style at JD Sports. Discover iconic styles. Now head to JD Sports. Curate your personal look from the brands that define the culture. JD Sports forward.

[Caller/Listener]

You've been working in the garage with your dad every week, Monday to Sunday, trying to get the old school up and running. Today, after all the hard work, y' all finally finished it. So you have that feeling of accomplishment. You did it. Then your dad throws you the keys. He says those three magic words. All your son. Yep. Same car that belonged to your grandpa and that your dad helped him fix. It's yours. Three generations right there keeping the tradition alive. But if you ask dad to really keep the tradition going, you need to get insured. And you already know you need to get State Farm because your agent, well, he gets tradition too. His dad was an agent, his grandpa too. So he gets you. Generation to generation. Remember to choose the agents that your family counted on. Like a good neighbor, State farm is there.

[Joy Ann Reid]

10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.

You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pressure is coming down.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Trainer Games.

[DJ Envy]

Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something. Do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, or osa in adults with obesity. They may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly, or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability and concentration issues, it may be due to osa. OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don'tsleep on OSA.com this information is provided by Lilly, a medicine company.

[Mimi Brown]

Major bidding war is breaking out over Warner Brothers at Paramount. They have launched a hostile takeover going straight to Warner shareholders with $108 billion offer and bypassing Warner's top executives who agreed last week to sell to Netflix. So a hostile takeover means Warner's leadership doesn't want the deal. So Paramount is appealing directly to shareholders with more money and a bigger proposal, saying it only went hostile after Warner management refused to engage with six earlier offers. Let's listen to Paramount CEO David Ellison.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What we were told repeatedly was that they wanted all cash. We delivered all cash. We were, we were asked that they wanted it to be fully backstopped by the Ellison family in Redbird. We delivered it fully backstopped by the Ellison family in Redbird. And when you look at the scale of the companies, right, look at the scale of Netflix, 310 million global subscribers. When you combine the number one streamer with the number three streamer, that creates a company that has unprecedented market power north of 400 million subscribers. The next largest competitor is Disney with just under 200 million. That's bad for Hollywood, that's bad for the creative community, that's bad for consumers. And look at how the market is reacting to this deal. We are literally seeing talent talking about the death of movie theaters. We've all heard Ted Sarandis, his comments about how he feels about the theatrical experience. And you've also seen, you know in our deal is also offering more cash for shareholders.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, unlike Netflix, Paramount wants to buy all of Warner's businesses, including its cable networks like CNN and Discovery. Now both bids still have to clear regulators in Washington. President Trump has already raised concern about Netflix's offer, calling it smart market share a problem. And Paramount, meanwhile, may have a smoother path, reportedly because some of its financing involves an investment fund tied to Jared Kushner, who is President Trump's son in law and Middle east investors, and because CEO David Ellison, who we just heard is the son of Trump ally Larry Ellison. Now Trump was Asked about this new Paramount bid yesterday in the Oval Office. Let's listen to what he had to say.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Support the Paramount bid for Warner Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know enough about it.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You spoke about Netflix last night saying you have concerns about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know, I know the companies very well. I know what they're doing.

[DJ Envy]

But I have to see, I have to see what percentage of market they have. We have to see the Netflix percentage of market.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Paramount, I mean, none of them are.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Particularly great friends of mine.

[DJ Envy]

I want to, I want to do what's right.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Paramount, supported by Jared Kushner. Mr. President, would that impact your decision if Paramount is.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I haven't, I've never spoken.

[DJ Envy]

He's really trying to work on gas. So Trump said the Netflix deal could be a problem, but he would be a hypocrite if he doesn't think the Paramount deal would be a problem. Paramount would have control of damn near everything. Their market share would be insane. And that's, you know, Ellison is his man. So he probably gonna get a crazy kickback from the Paramount deal.

[Mimi Brown]

But notice he just said that none of them are good friends of his.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, right.

[Mimi Brown]

You know, Right. So we'll see what he does. Some D.C. lawmakers are already questioning the bid, saying they're concerned about even the appearance of favoritism in this review process. Paramount's offer, it does expire January 8th unless it's expended extended. But you know, this battle is most.

[DJ Envy]

Likely far from over and didn't last month. Mimi. Donald Trump was having. This was the report came out that Trump officials were discussing with Larry Ellison, CNN anchors they wanted to act amid some type of takeover bid.

[Mimi Brown]

So it's exactly what they were saying. And the underlying issue with this takeover is what it would do to cnn.

There's a lot of questions behind that. Right. They kind of want to take it over and reprogram the programming and do all of those things. And so, you know, in the Netflix deal, CNN and other cable networks, they were will be spun off and sold separately. Under the Paramount deal, they would be sold together. So, you know, it just depends on which one will go through and what will happen and what the future of CNN and other cable networks will look like under the deal that whichever deal.

[Joy Ann Reid]

That goes through, Lord have mercy.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes. And staying right here in Hollywood, Jimmy Kimmel is reportedly getting a one year contract extension from abc. We covered this story extensively a couple of months ago. Bloomberg says the deal keeps him on the network through the end of the 2026, 62027 season and Kimball's contract, It was set to expire in May. The extension comes just months after ABC briefly suspended him over those comments about the death of Charlie Kirk. He returned a week later. And that episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, it pulled in more than 6 million viewers. And this morning, if you are in Chicago, DoorDash may owe you some money. The city just reached an $18 million settlement with the delivery app after a K accusing it of misleading customers, restaurants, and drivers. So Chicago and DoorDash, they said. Chicago says that DoorDash wasn't upfront about his fees, that it listed restaurants without permission and used customers tips to subsidize driver pay. Now, DoorDash, they are denying any wrongdoing, but agreed to move forward with a settlement. And as part of the deal, $4 million in DoorDash credits will go to eligible Chicago users starting next month. Month restaurants and drivers will also receive compensation and credits. And DoorDash has agreed to stop listing Chicago restaurants without their permission.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, give me that money.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I don't want no DoorDash credit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Y' all already messing up orders and stuff in line and false advertising. Just give me the bread. That's so crazy. Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

You don't get your money back, but you get a credit to order something else, right?

[Joy Ann Reid]

That's wild. Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And a new survey this morning is ranking the worst Christmas present that you can get.

If y' all have any idea what it could be, what would be the worst Christmas present that you could receive?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Jess? Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Joy Ann Reid]

That's the one.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Mimi.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I do not know.

[DJ Envy]

Herpes.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What is it, Charlotte? He said herpes.

[Mimi Brown]

Oh. Oh, my God.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Little dirty ass.

[DJ Envy]

No, you didn't. No, you didn't.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, well, a lot of people. A lot of people are saying I. A self help book on Christmas morning feels a little judgy. It's like, happy holidays. Here's something that you need to fix. They say that it's less merry and bright and more like, do better. So the survey also found that it's the most re gifted present of the season, meaning people don't want to keep it because it feels like a critique. Folks would rather get something fun or personal like a real book, a class, or even a simple gift card. And only 12% of Americans can say gifts are the best part of Christmas anymore. Most people say the real highlights are now time with family food and holiday traditions. And if you're wondering what to do with that gift, that you don't want, you're in luck. 7 out of 10 people say re gifting is perfectly fine. So if you get a self help book this year, you don't want it, feel free to re gift it apparently to someone who needs to improve their life.

[DJ Envy]

I disagree. I love a good self help book. Always recommend me a good self help book book. I read self help books. I mean, I, that's, I like self help books.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You shouldn't be offended, especially if it's somebody you know. Obviously is something about you that, that they see that you could read on fixing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What if they give it to you every year, though?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God. All right, now we don't need to be friends. But it depends though, because there's certain books I recommend, like the Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. I'm all, I always gift that to people. Ryan Holiday, Ego is the enemy. I always give that to people. You know, the Secret is another one by Rhonda Byrne. I always give that to people.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Good books.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. See, the soul is another one. I, I, I, I, I will gift those books to people all the time. So those are great reads.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, apparently, Shala, 90 something percent of Americans feel attacked by self help.

[DJ Envy]

Well, they shouldn't have did it in Harlem. They must have pulled in Harlem at Joel Santana house. Oh my gosh. Like, don't send me no goddamn books for Christmas. All right, okay.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, y'. All. Well, that's your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit binnews.com.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mimi.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you, thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Next hour, Mimi. I got these guys gifts up here, so I'm gonna give them their gifts this morning.

[Mimi Brown]

Are they self help books?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, they're not self help books, but it'll help them in their life. So I can't wait to give them their gifts a little later. And then we open up the phone lines and find out the way the worst gifts you ever got.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mine is not gonna be on them because mine are perfect gifts.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. And when we come back, Joy and Reid, the host of the Joy Reid show is going to be joining us. We're going to talk to her next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well, and we got a special guest today on her birthday.

[DJ Envy]

Celebrating the birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Caller/Listener]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ms. Joy Ann Reed.

[DJ Envy]

Welcome. Welcome.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you feeling this morning?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I'm feeling so good on my birthday because look, I woke up looking fully made up, but I just woke up like this. I just woke up and I just was fully made up and ready to go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's my 25 years old today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, 25.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Isn't it amazing?

[DJ Envy]

How do you celebrate three days?

[Caller/Listener]

Joy?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I'm working today. You know, I'm a type A, so I'm like, I'm just gonna work like normal. But last night we did like karaoke. We went out, we did like live band karaoke. I got my little shoop on with my friends and it was fun. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, and I bet it was early too, right? You ended like so you back home by 2.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I literally went sleep at 3 o' clock this morning. Oh yeah, we had a little after party.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know that a little bit.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You know, we hung out. So we were outside.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, she not like dogs. Me and Charlotte. By 10 o'. Clock.

[Joy Ann Reid]

By 10 years.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, done.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I'm a night person.

[DJ Envy]

Done.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I don't even start to really wake up till like 6pm really. I'm not a. Morning like this is tough for me morning. Even though I used to do morning radio, mornings are tough. I'm a night person. I don't even get really going until like 6, 7 o', clock. Then I'm awake.

[DJ Envy]

So that's why you do your show at night as well?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah, I mean night, that's literally when I kind of come alive. I'm not. Mornings are tough, like getting up. I fight my way out of bed. I have to my way out of that bed.

[DJ Envy]

And you're celebrating the six month birthday of your show too, right?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah. So the. So it's just interesting enough that my birthday is today and the six month birthday of the show is tomorrow.

[Caller/Listener]

Wow.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah, six months. And it feels like it's been longer, but it's only been six months.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What has been the. The six, like out of the six months, what's the thing that you were most grateful for in the journey of your show?

[Joy Ann Reid]

The support. Like I mean, you know, because when you leave like a sort of formal corporate media situation, you have no idea whether people are, you know, were really interested in the station and following the station or following you. And I'm just grateful for the love and support that we've gotten. Not only the people who've been willing to come on, but just the fact that people are like responding to it. I'm beyond grateful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How has the Independence been, though.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I love it, especially now, because this corporate media world is getting worse. It's getting harder for people to really kind of express themselves and be yourself. And I feel like it's not going in a good direction, you know? And so I'm just grateful to be free to do what I do, say what I want to say, and not worry about, like a corporate overseer. I feel good about that. Do you think the attacks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One last one. Do you think the attacks increased? Because I noticed, especially with a lot of independent people, I see, like, independent gets attacked a lot more than what I've usually seen. And have you seen that for yourself as well?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I think independent gets attacked a lot more because people realize the effectiveness of it. I think once Trump was helped so much by outside of corporate media, like, he was really helped by podcasts, he was really helped by independent media, some of whom people, most people had never heard of, unless you are in that world. And I think once people realize the power of that, now the focus is on it. You know what I mean? Like, the eyes are on it now. So, you know, but as far as attacks against me, it's just. I mean, I can say I love puppies. And, you know, J.D. vance will be like, you're not grateful enough.

[DJ Envy]

You know, so I'm like.

If Netflix absorbs Warner Brothers, right. What does that level of media consolidation mean for journalism, especially for a network like CNN?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I'm actually glad CNN's not in the deal. Cause so what they did, they're kind of doing the same thing they did with when Comcast spun off msnbc, the Artist formerly known as msnbc. They separated them out and they put them in their own company and they called it Spinco, which is a bad name for a media company, but they called it Spinco for a while and then versa or whatever. And now it's Miz. Now they've switched it up. They did this. They're doing the same with CNN. So CNN's not in the deal, which I think is good, because that size of a corporation, I'm not sure has the right level of accountability to the people. And I worried about that a little bit, but it's not in the deal. Now the question is, who buys CNN and who absorbs it? And that is still an open question. That could be bad news.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Cause I thought I saw something where Trump said he had a list of CNN anchors he wanted fired.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah. And I mean, look, at this point, he's in a way, dictating what Skydance does. He's dictating their editorial content. I mean, how is the editorial content of, like, the Tiffany network, the Walter Cronkite network, being dictated out of the White House? That's already happening. If CNN falls into the hands of another of his cronies, he's gonna dictate what's on cnn. Like, we're going in a bad direction.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He says he's gonna be real involved in the approval of this Netflix deal.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah. And the Netflix president had to go have a personal conversation with Trump to get him to. Because the Ellisons were also wanting to buy Warner, and they were at. And they're still lobbying to try to undo that deal so they can buy it. It's like, in the end, we're gonna have, like five media companies. They're gonna own everything and own everything from social media to regular media. This is not good because the public is not gonna have anywhere to go. It's gonna be like back in the day, there were three networks, there'll be three networks again, but they'll all be in line with the government. So it's. So it's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Besides the government piece. Right. I feel like it's always difficult to tell somebody what they can buy and what they can't. But how does that sit with you?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take the government piece out, right, with Trump. Cause Trump could be like, I approve this deal, but you gotta fire this person. This person, this person. So outside of that is it. It's hard to tell a person what they can buy and what they can't buy. Don't you think, though?

[Joy Ann Reid]

But I think it depends, because in the case of media, it's serving a public interest. Right. And so if, let's say everyone who buys a media company and saying, yeah, you can buy whatever you want, but then if it's all giving you only one. One perspective, one side, and you can't get another perspective, there's nowhere else to go. So now you're locked in. You get this one perspective that just happens to be the same perspective as the President of the United States. And now we're North Korea. Because where can you get any alternative view? That's what Viktor Orban did in Hungary. Basically, all of the media is his perspective and only his perspective. And you can't get an alternative. That's a dangerous place, especially in this country. As diverse as this country is, how many views there are in the world, we should be able to get a variety of it. And for now, independent media is where you can go and get the alternative. As long as that Stays free and clear, then I guess we're good. But I don't think it's good for democracy for all of the major media companies to all line up and fall on their knees for the President. It's not a good look.

[DJ Envy]

So you have to have a Fox. That's right. Then you have to have msnbc, that has a liberal plant. CNN is trying to play it down the middle nowadays. But you got variety.

[Joy Ann Reid]

At least you have a variety. You have a choice. You can choose your own adventure. But I mean, if they're all aligned and they're all deciding they're going to serve the king.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Then we're stuck.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why it's kind of crazy to hear him talk about, like, he's nervous that Netflix will have like a monopoly because if he is able to control certain things, he and Donald Trump. So it's almost like this is his monopoly on the media. So it's like such a. I feel.

[DJ Envy]

Like he just said that because, you know, he got to get his tribute.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Well, yeah.

Exactly. And I just assume he's getting paid off everything. I just. He's like a mob boss.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, absolutely.

[Joy Ann Reid]

It's like, what is his cut? You know, that's all. I think that's all there to go. It's like all these pardons are like that. It's like when you see these, you know, fraudsters getting pardoned, then you find out they wrote a check to these friends of Trump and they're all writing checks. He's selling pardons out of the White House. This is crazy. But the Supreme Court said he could do it, so he's gonna do it. What do you see, like America looking like at the end of his four year term though, what you think? A mess. Like a whole mess. Because the thing is, if they are robbing the treasury to enrich him and enrich his friends and enrich this small set of billionaires and leaving nothing for everyone else. You end up with a crap economy, people struggling, a lot more poverty, a lot more hunger, want. And that's, you know, that's a seeds of revolution. You don't want to really make a lot of people poor while you're making a handful of people rich. Like, that generally doesn't go well for either the rich or the poor. So it doesn't look good. I think we're going toward Hungary, Russia, that kind of a country, and that's not what we want to be. And then how long is the undo of everything for the next person? Yeah. Damn. I can't imagine the job of the next president to have to fix this mess, because this is a mess like he's gonna leave. I mean, I'm assuming 2026, we end up in a recession. I'm just assuming that. And I think people should brace themselves for the economy to get really bad. Cuz when a small number of people get rich and you don't expand the middle, and when the bottom gets poorer.

There'S no way to sustain an economy like that that anybody can really benefit from. I mean, Trump is benefiting. His friends are benefiting. Who else? It's not good.

[DJ Envy]

I do think that a lot of things that I see are authoritarian strategy, but when I see somebody like, you know, President Biden say it's a threat to democracy, but then he's outside the White House saying, welcome home. Or when I see, you know, Zoran Mandani call Donald Trump a fascist, but then say, I can work with a fascist. I'm like, well, that's not how I was taught. How fast I know fascism. You can't work with a fascist.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Like, I've never worked in the history of mankind. So sometimes we say these words, but when we don't act upon these words, it kind of takes the meaning out of these words.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I think I felt like Biden. What he did was worse, to be honest, because Biden spent an entire campaign telling us that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy. That Donald Trump was. And then he. Right. The welcome home thing was insane. You know, even Obama, you know, TK with him at the funeral, like, this is a normal guy who wants to arrest you, by the way. You know, I. I don't. Yeah, I. I think that because the politicians, particularly at that. The older pal. I don't think they understand. I don't think they really think it's fascism, authoritarianism. I think they think it is difference in politics. That's what I worry about.

[DJ Envy]

That's how I feel about Mondani, too, because I feel like if you. If you use those words while you're campaigning, like when you get in the. When you, you know, get in the. You become the elected official and become mayor. I understand, I understand. You have to work with them.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So maybe you shouldn't use that kind of language if you're gonna tell us you can work with a fascist.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I mean, unfortunately, when you have a regime, you've gotta deal with the regime. And I think if you're the mayor of New York City, you've gotta deal with the president, United States. There's no Getting around it. And so if you have the interests of your citizens, you're unfortunately gonna have to deal with this man. You have to deal with this president. The immigration issue alone is gonna send him in a collision course with the White House. So I kind of understand what he's saying. He has to work with. Biden was on his way out. He didn't have to work with Trump. There's no. No, presidents don't work with each other. You're literally handing over power to somebody you're saying is dangerous. Mamdani's not handing power over to Trump. He has to work with Trump. That's actually just a fact. With. With. When Biden did it. To me, it was unnecessary. That. That kind of comedy, that kind of, like, friendliness between two presidents was completely unnecessary. You are out of power. You on your way out. Stand strong on what you said during the campaign. There was no need for you to be generous to him. In the case of Mamdani, it's slightly different, because you're coming into power, and you do have to deal with that man. You have no choice.

[DJ Envy]

I agree. But how do you ring the alarm that this is something different and not just a difference in politics?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And that's what you're using, words like fascist.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah. And he's gonna have to do that in power. Like, he's gonna have to. Particularly on the. I mean, now that Trump has deleted all Haitian Americans, tps, no more temporary protected status for anybody. Haitian, like, gone. Right. What they're doing to Venezuelans, and there's a lot in this city. So he now is gonna be frontline trying to deal with fighting literal fascism and authoritarianism at his doorstep. And so, yeah, the question is gonna be, does he do it with the rhetoric and keep that rhetoric up, or does he just fight it? I don't even think it matters what he says at this point. He's gonna have to fight it. We cannot have this country become one giant kidnapping site where we're just. Where this regime is allowed to just kidnap people at will. Like, that has to stop, and somebody has to stand up to him. That, you know, New York City happens to be, you know, the financial capital of the United States, and somebody has to put their foot down, and I'm hoping Momdani will.

[DJ Envy]

Do you think the public fully understands how much executive power Trump is wielding, or are we sleepwalking into something? Everybody.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I think we're sleepwalking because, you know what? I don't think people understood the powers of the presidency and that it was only constrained by the.

Kind of belief in the system of other presidents. Like Trump is just stealing power that no one anticipated a president would have. Cuz he's just doing it. And it makes me think, well, damn, the Democrats were in there. They could have done a lot more. Who knew? Cause who's gonna stop you? Like who gonna stop him? Nobody. And so if now we realize the presidency could be this powerful, it kind of makes me wish that previous presidents had actually used more power for good.

[DJ Envy]

For good, yeah.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah. Because this dude is just stealing powers that were not even anticipated. I mean, and the Supreme Court is rubber stamping it all. So it's like, oh, it turns out Obama should have just like made put 13 seats on the Supreme Court and you know, put. I mean, I just, I wonder what we could have done had previous presidents realized how much power they could have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now if another Democrat goes in office, do you think another Democratic president will use his power?

[DJ Envy]

They have to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you think that they will or do you think they will? I don't want to go against what.

[Joy Ann Reid]

The Constitution says, unfortunately. I think it's that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think so too.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I don't think Democrats believe in use. I think they're afraid to wield power the way that Trump is wielding power. They think that he is, he is outside the norm and they're gonna wanna bring it back to the norm. That's how we ended up with Merrick Garland, who did nothing for four years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even Biden on the way out. Like, if I'm on my way out, nah, I'm gonna pardon everybody that needs to be pardoned. I'm gonna make sure everybody. What you gonna do?

[Joy Ann Reid]

What you gonna do?

[DJ Envy]

You hate me anyway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You hate me anyway.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You hate me anyway. And it's like he did a select few pardons. There's so much more he could have done on his way out, but instead he's trying to welcome home the next president. I don't want to go too far, you know, even so, yeah, I worry that Democrats just small c. Constitutionally are not built to do what they need to do when they come back.

[DJ Envy]

You said a name just now. I'm sorry, Lauren? You said a name just now. And this person needs a lot more smoke than he ever gets. And that's Merrick Garland.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh my God.

[DJ Envy]

Like, I don't know why Merrick Garland escapes the smoke.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I don't understand why he escapes the smoke. Even the Epstein files thing, I'm like, wait a minute, you tell me. Nine months into this, this administration, the podcast guys Are claiming they caught the M. And I don't know if this, this young man is the person that put the pipe bombs in these. I don't know. But I know they said we solved the case in nine months. Merrick Garland was there for four years. What were you doing the Epstein files, Merrick, what were you doing for four years? You had the same evidence, the same files. Why did you release them? Like there's certain. There's so many. So he took a year and a half to even start investigating Trump for January 6th.

[DJ Envy]

January 6th? Yep.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He did an insurrection. And he's like, let me start at the bottom. I'm gonna arrest the cab driver who drove down to be in the insurrection, and I'll work my way up to the one who owned a beauty salon, and then I'll work my way. It took him a year and a half to get to Trump. This man had classified documents at his house for 18 months while they were begging, please, will you bring him back? Ask nicely, bring him back. Merrick Garland did to me nothing for four years. He might as well not have been there.

[DJ Envy]

And when President Biden left the White House, he said he should have hired a different attorney general that would have went after Trump a lot sooner. I'm like, well, damn, why don't you fire him then? Exactly.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Why did you fire him? I mean, between that and sitting there while the genocide happened under your watch and I mean, that's that Biden owns that. So I think about that Biden presidency as just one four year lost opportunity. Love the infrastructure bill, but other than that, it's like, what did you do with your time while Trump is running roughshod over the Constitution? He sat there, I need 60 votes to get anything done. It does make you. And I remember you used to say this during the time. It's like, it's frustrating when Democrats say, I can't. And I was even one who said, you know, they don't have 60 votes in the Senate. But now I'm realizing they didn't need them.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think a lot of people didn't know we had Congressman Al Green hand. We asked him like, did you know a president could wield this much power beforehand? And he was like, no, I'm a lawyer. So if Congressman Al Green don't know, how we supposed to know?

[Joy Ann Reid]

We didn't know? I mean, and I thought I was pretty conversant in the Constitution, but Trump, I mean, we thought the emoluments clause was real. Wasn't real. You know, you can Sell bra. You can sell pardons. Who knew? Like, they're literally. He's doing everything you'd think would be a criminal offense in the White House with the Supreme Court of the United States literally rubber stamping it. So I guess if you're a Republican, you can do it.

[DJ Envy]

Well, maybe this stuff is a crime, but just. But the Supreme Court gave him that.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Presidential immunity because they're Republicans and they, they want Republicans to win.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So I wonder if before the presidential. See, this is crazy, the fact that we're even having this conversation. I wonder if before the presidential immunity was just stuff illegal.

[Joy Ann Reid]

It had to have been illegal. But I think, I mean, I only think it's being allowed because they're Republicans and he's a Republican. And John, if you know anything about John Roberts, you know he's a Republican first and foremost. He does not believe in the Voting Rights act, never has. And these are the outcomes he wants. They want a king. They're monarchists. They don't believe in democracy. They want a monarchy. They just want it to be a republican monarchy. Because I promise, if a Democrat was doing this, they would say, none of that's legal.

[DJ Envy]

What do you. I'm switching gears. Talking about. I wanna talk about Puffy for a second.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh, my God. How you go there?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a big gear. That was first time.

[Caller/Listener]

First.

[Joy Ann Reid]

They the same person.

[DJ Envy]

Cause that stuff gets exhausting. We talk about that all day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Trump Diddy are the same person.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I used to call Trump the Puffy of politics. For years I would call him the Puffy of politics and nobody ever understood why. They the same person.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Joy Ann Reid]

If you think about it, I can.

[DJ Envy]

See what you mean by that. Like the arrogance.

[Joy Ann Reid]

The arrogance. And then they don't have a specific talent. Their talent is using the people with talent to get what they want.

[Caller/Listener]

There's nothing better than the holidays. The house is full, music playing, cousins talking trash over games. It's like the family group chat finally made it to real life. Bite. And right there, when you need a fresh pick me up is Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry. It has that crisp cranberry flavor with a smooth winter spice twist. Just feels made for festive moments like these. Whether you're cooking with your auntie, laughing with old friends, or catching up with a favorite cousin that you haven't seen all year, Sprite keeps the celebration bright and refreshing. It's the perfect holiday sip. It's light, flavorful, festive, and worth sharing. But heads up, Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry is only here for a limited time. So grab it now. Throw it in the fridge and crack another open to keep the good vibes flowing. Your favorite flavor has officially arrived. Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry Sprite Obey your thirst.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up y'?

[Joy Ann Reid]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's DJ Envy. When I feel like I need to fresh my look, I always head straight to JD Sports. I know I can find some inspired styles whenever I drop into JD's. They've got the shoes, apparel and the latest essentials you could need. A couple of weeks ago I grabbed the new Jordans and the compliments have been non stop. I'm always able to find my style at JD Sports. Discover iconic styles. Now head to JD Sports. Curate your personal look from the brands that define the culture.

[Caller/Listener]

JD Sports Forward this past weekend, like every other Sunday, you were on the court with the guys playing ball. Just a pickup game living out your hoop dreams. No triple doubles, but a mean set of threes in between buckets. One of the homies mentions he closed on a new crib. This is big. And while everyone's asking about the housewarming and making plans to celebrate, you're asking the real questions. Like has he spoke to his State Farm agent yet about coverage? See, home ownership is one thing, but the right coverage is the real game changer. Even more than your last hot streak is how you protect your legacy. Legacy Dropping buckets and bars on the court. A State Farm agent can more than assist you with finding the right coverage for your new place. If you have a claim, your local agent can help you file it. Yep, that's right. Over the phone, in person, online or on the app, they're ready to help you and they don't drop the ball, if you know what I mean. Like a good neighbor, State farm is there.

[Joy Ann Reid]

10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.

You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pressure is coming down.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Trainer Games.

[DJ Envy]

Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something. Do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea or OSA in adults with obesity, they may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability and concentration issues, it may be due to osa. OSA is a serious condition where Your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don't sleep on OSA.com this information is provided by Lily, a medicine company. Right. Like, Puffy's not a producer. He's not. But, no, he hires producers, doesn't pay them, makes him sign NDAs, but he takes the credit. And then he goes on and says, I like that on the song. And now he's also the artist. So what is all this with him in the. You know, he. We've seen him, like, direct people how to do this, how to sing it this way and that. You know, just how it sounds phonetically and how it's coming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, that's not a producer.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I think. I think the Puffy not having no talent thing is kind of a little scratch. Cause we've seen him pick songs and be like, yo, I want to turn this into such and such record.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He's a marketing team genius. Yeah, so is Trump. Like, that's what I'm saying. They're the same person. They're both marketing genius.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's saying he's not pushing the buttons.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Okay. And he's not the producer. Right. You know what I mean? Like, he's not like a rapper, but he. He craved to be the talent, but he really is the marketer. But it's like when the marketer wants to be the product, and he fought to me to the death of a lot of people to get to be the talent when he's actually the marketer. And he's a genius at that. I'm gonna give him credit for that. But in terms of being. It's like he had this great envy of the talented artists that he saw around him, you know, especially Tupac. And he wanted to be Tupac. Like, beloved, like Tupac, talented like Tupac. He wanted to be Biggie instead of just market Biggie. And it's like he fought his way through a lot of dead bodies to be the artist. It's so tragic on so many levels. And it's. I mean, it was brilliantly done.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it was great. And I mean, he is. He is an executive. Like, he was able to find talent, put talent together, and make those. But as far as being an actual producer, somebody who sits there, plugs in the keyboard, he. That wasn't him. He never said he was.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

What do you think it says about America that a documentary about Diddy and even. Even black culture, too, that. That can dominate Netflix at a moment when, like, black history is Being restricted in schools. I just saw Trump get rid of Martin Luther King Jr. And Juneteenth at Parks and replace the way. Like, like, what does this say? What does that say?

[Joy Ann Reid]

It's so amazing to me because I've been noticing when I've been scrolling through Netflix, it's a lot of content that's not black, you know, and it's like it's all, all white cast and everything. But the number one thing on there is this documentary about this black. This black man in other countries too. Not just here. Not just here. So it's like they don't want. They, they don't want us to be centered, but we're still centered because black folks make culture like American culture without black people is just stale, like secondary European culture, you know, and so they want. They don't. Maybe they don't want us, but they need us. Yeah, because look at this thing dominating. It's amazing. And it's a fascinating, well done story. Like it's. It was.

[DJ Envy]

Would that cultural power ever translate into political power, you think?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I hope so. I hope so. But I think we actually have to think differently too. You know what I mean? Like, I love Magic Johnson, but, you know, you know, it's great to shop for kids for Christmas, but did it have to be Target? You know, in a moment when we're trying to stand up for our dignity against companies like Target that don't respect us, it's disappointing, you know, that he would lean into Target in this moment. You know what I mean?

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Break down what happened.

[Joy Ann Reid]

So his foundation, they do a thing where they shop for holiday gifts for kids, which is wonderful. And it's great that they do that. And they've been doing it for a few, I mean, probably a few years, but it's with Target. And so in this moment, it's like, ooh, does it have to be with Target specifically? And maybe they just had a multi year deal, I have no idea. But it's just we're not unified enough to turn it into political power. I think we're not on the same page enough. You know, if we could marshal one trillion plus dollars in economic power and we were together and we had a plan, we would be unstoppable. But I just don't think we're there. I wish we were. I would love us to be there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So do you think, because there's been a debate about if 50 Cent is wrong for being a part of the DOC, as a black man, do you think that's wrong or right?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I Think it's wrong what Puffy allegedly did. I think the things he did allegedly were horrific. And I think those things had to come out. It didn't help us to, like, hide what we knew about R. Kelly. You know what I mean? Who did that help? It just hurt little young girls. And so, you know, it didn't help for on the other side for people to hide what they knew about Epstein and let him roll. So I think we have to expose the things in our system, even in our culture, that are hurting us, because that wasn't helping anybody. Where's Mace's money? You know, Craig Mack died with no money. Like, that's not right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But let me ask you a question. I agree with you. I think that you should expose. I think people should see my question. And I think this was the hardest thing for me.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And people whatever called me a glazer for Diddy, but it's not true. My problem was what he was convicted of, but he was found guilty of the time that he got. Is that too much? Cause he was hiring a prostitute. Well, allegedly.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But usually the prostitute gets time and the pimp gets time, and the john usually gets a slap on the wrist, community service, and they have to go to some course for whatever sex, whatever. But in this case, it seems like the crime. I guess the time doesn't fit the crime.

[Joy Ann Reid]

So I think the same. And I want to say it's the same exact. He was convicted of the same thing Epstein was. You know what I mean? Like, I think they used. I believe in both cases, it was man act kind of. Well, Epstein wasn't convicted of the man act. Epstein was convicted of basically soliciting. And so was Puffy versions of that. Right. And I think those cases were mischarged. In both of those cases, I think the prosecutors failed the victims. In both of those cases, Epstein should have not been convicted of some sort of solicitation of prostitution. Those girls weren't prostitutes. They were children.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You know, but I also think they failed. There were real victims here.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Joy Ann Reid]

And I just think. Don't think they charged him with the right thing. So I don't think it makes Puffy innocent because I don't think he was innocent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think he was innocent. But it just. It seems like for what he was charged with, what he was found guilty of.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It just seems a lot worse than what he's doing time for.

[DJ Envy]

I thought he came off easy.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I think he got off easy. I'm sorry. Dragging Cassie across the floor like a rag Doll beating her up. I'm like, they just charged him wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you think? I feel like they charged.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What should. His charges. What should they have been?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Assault, battery, you know, I mean, like, they didn't charge anything like that. So they didn't give the jury enough to convict him on. Like, was there some.

[DJ Envy]

The statute of limitations was up in California, so was.

[Joy Ann Reid]

So there you go. There you go. I don't know what you could have charged him with. I don't know if everything in that doc is true. He got a license.

[DJ Envy]

You think politicians need that type of spectacle moving forward in order just to cut through.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah, the attention economy thing is real. Like, it's real. Like Americans have been trained on a certain kind of attention and they lose. They're very short attention spans and people can't pay attention to stuff. It's increased from Kennedy on. They need celebrity. You know, Kennedy beats Nixon because he's a celebrity. I mean, he's a celebrity. He's young, he's good looking. The other guy's old and sweating. You know, you can't beat that. And you can. And then Bill Clinton, he's out there playing the saxophone. Like, he's entertaining. And it just gets.

[DJ Envy]

Ronald Reagan came from.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Ronald Reagan actor. And it's like we keep on pushing the politicians. Obama, you know, Obama's out there sinking threes and, you know, he got, you know, will, I am making a song about his feet.

[DJ Envy]

My president is black.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Listen. It's like now we've like. And then you get to Trump, who's like a literal celebration celebrity who's from the Apprentice. And everybody's like, I know him and he wants to stay in and be. He claims he gonna run again in.

[DJ Envy]

2028, which to me is another ridiculous conversation. I don't even think people should be entertaining that conversation. Like, that's when I get mad at media because I'm like, stop having that conversation. Let people know this cannot happen. It's unconstitutional.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

It's against the law.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Except if you think about what he did in 2021.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He didn't try to run again. He just tried to not leave. Yeah. So, I mean, he did try this before, and now he got away with that. Pardoned all the people who helped him try to. He tried to just not leave. So why wouldn't he try it again now that he's been affirmed by the Supreme Court that there was nothing wrong with that, that he cannot commit a crime, that he can kill someone with Seal Team 6 and get. And he literally is killing boats with Seal Team 6, which is what the Supreme Court said he could do. They said he could sell pardons. He's doing that. That we think. I mean, I'm not. I don't know if he's selling them, but somebody selling is, you know, transacting money for pardons to happen. He's doing whatever he wants. So if he decides I'm gonna repeat my 2021 thing and just not leave, we'll go check him.

[Caller/Listener]

Boo.

[DJ Envy]

So we're just in the early stages of democratic collapse.

Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Check out Joann Reed's show Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 to 8pm and wish her happy birthday while she's stressing us out. Oh, Lord have mercy, man. Thank you for joining us.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This was fun. See, this is a perfect way to start my birthday, stressing other folks out with me so you can join me in my stress.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Joy Ann Reid. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. All right, let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Lauren becoming a street fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

She gets to be details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

She'd be having the latest on you.

[Caller/Listener]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[DJ Envy]

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. Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, guys, so yesterday the nomination for the Golden Globes dropped. And I wanted to, you know, give a shout out because there are some people who were nominated for the first time, some people who made history. So Teyana Taylor received her first Golden Globe nomination.

[DJ Envy]

Dropping the clues bombs for tt.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, she received it for the movie One Battle after Another. And this is a great year for her following a Grammy nomination as well. Cynthia Erivo, she actually made Golden Globes history. She became the first black woman nominated twice in the lead actress, comedy or musical category for Alpha. Now she was nominated last year for Wicked and then this year for the new like Spin on Wicked that they have. Michael B. Jordan is also nominated. We also have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For what? Sinners.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, for Sinners. Sinners actually has seven nominations. One battle after another has nine nominations. Wicked for good has five Noms. They're leading. Yeah. Michael B. Jordan was nominated best performance by a male actor in a motion picture. The Rock is also in that category.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, definitely win, right? I know.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Sinners better be nominated seven times.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Ryan Coogler is also nominated as well for Centers a couple times.

[DJ Envy]

So yes, that was Michael B. Jordan's. Best acting job ever. For him to play, you know, two twins and to give both of them different identities on the screen, that was powerful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that was dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it was really fire. Now, I want to also say.

Tiana Taylor had posted on her Instagram. I was looking for the message. She said, thank you to the Golden Globes for this honor. That's left of left us all speechless. God's timing. This hits different. This morning's call felt like divine confirmation that every step, every lesson, every battle had a purpose. A huge congratulations to every soul who touched one battle after another. The caster crew, the creatives, and most importantly, to the legendary pta. Thank you for your vision, trust and brilliance. My gratitude is endless. We love you. Congrats. And I've been seeing a lot of the one battle after another cast. Leonardo DiCaprio and different people speaking about the movie. I know Leo, Leonardo DiCaprio just got nominated times entertain entertainer of the year. But every, a lot of times when I see him speak about this movie, he talks about how amazing it was working with Teyana Tell. And I think it's dope to see her getting all the flowers that she deserves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's her birthday tomorrow too, so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, she said happy early birthday to me. Yes. Now, in other news, Method Man. So Method man was on 7pm in Brooklyn and they were having a conversation about why Wu Tang or the rumor that Wu Tang was supposed to hop on Drake's Wu Tang Forever song. Let's take a listen to Method man explaining why it didn't happen happen.

[Caller/Listener]

Recently turned anniversary was nothing was the same by Drake. And on that album they had Wu Tang Forever.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Caller/Listener]

That's a song that.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Caller/Listener]

A lot of people have debated about.

[DJ Envy]

For a long time.

[Caller/Listener]

There was rumors there was a Wu Tang version with all you guys on it. We never really got your reaction when you, when you first heard that record. And you know, I like Drake.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I think he's a dope artist. He puts out some great music, obviously, or else he wouldn't be as big as he is. But when he sent the record, we were overseas. He did send the record and you know, certain brothers was trying to write to it. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, I don't like it. I didn't like the. I was like, what does this have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To do with Wu Tang Forever?

[DJ Envy]

And I'm not questioning his artistic ability or anything. I'm just saying for my taste, I was more or less like, I'm not getting on that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, so we have the Wu Tang forever, and then we have the original.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like the sample.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. That they sample so we could take a listen. But I kind of understand what he was saying, though. Some people, when they heard that, they took it as like, well, dang, like.

[DJ Envy]

You know, though he thought the record was whack. There's nothing wrong with that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

By the way, he didn't even think it was whack. He just didn't think it was for him. And there's nothing wrong with that. And I agree with him. I can't hear nobody from Wu Tang on that record.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't hear anybody on that record.

[DJ Envy]

Sound like it's raining and the windshield wipers are going. No matter. It's not raining and the windshield wipers are going.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It just means the energy of it. Right. It's not a bad song. It's just the energy.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Heard the song.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got it. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pack. Just glad to see the city on the map I just gave the city.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Locked life it ain't about who did it first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's about who did it.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Look at it like bridge open cases on me for a half a million.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Each I find peace knowing that it's harder.

[DJ Envy]

Sound like he was rapping the flowers of die. There's no morning dude. The cricket singing last sad love songs.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh, okay. I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But there was no kicks and snares.

[Joy Ann Reid]

But I, I, I, I didn't.

[DJ Envy]

Met man made the right decision. So did the rest of Wu Tang. And he's right. What the hell did that song have to do with Wu Tang?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, they just sample parts of it. That's.

[Joy Ann Reid]

That's what it was like to me. It just seemed like another cool Drake song.

[DJ Envy]

If you do a record called Wuang Forever as a rapper, it should be paying homage to the Wuang clan.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Which would make more sense. And I know in wrapping up this hour, switching gears completely, we were Diddy and all the documentary things. Damn Diddy again.

With Julian Reed. I did want to mention, just real quick, there was a lawsuit. Clayton Howard, who's a male sex worker, who claimed that he had or allegedly he had done some things with Diddy and Cassie.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He has his last lawsuit out against Cassie, and they've been trying to serve her, and a judge just ruled that they can serve her or get it to her by any means because she's been unreaching, unreachable. Now, now, the any means is not clear, but it's basically like, you know, all the attempts that they've been trying to attempt so far haven't worked. So they're allowing them to kind of broaden their scope of how to get the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the lawsuit on? What is he saying? What happened?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So he is alleging that he was.

Okay, so he's alleging. No, he. He's alleging that he has. Guys.

[DJ Envy]

I recognize the signs of a stroke. I'm 47 now. I get it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, cuz I click through to a different come out.

I just don't want to get it wrong. Y'.

[Joy Ann Reid]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's over trafficking. Yes, he accused. So he's accusing them of. He's accusing them of refusing to accept. Accept the service.

I can't get this wrong. We had a lawsuit up here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come back.

[DJ Envy]

I like to try, though. You try.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The sex worker. I thought this was. This is not him. And almost said the wrong allegations and that would have been bad.

[DJ Envy]

I'm glad you didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

You're learning, young grasshopper.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who you giving your dog to?

[Caller/Listener]

Shala.

[DJ Envy]

Four after the hour, man. I need all of these. These critics who have some things to say about a couple of picks on Zoran Maidani's transition team. I need them to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with them, please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we'll do that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on.

[Mimi Brown]

This.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Don't be a donkey. Cause right now you want some real donkey shots.

[DJ Envy]

It's time for donkey of the day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey man, hit me with the heat. Haw did she get donkey today? Please tell me. Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had become donkey of the day.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club.

[Caller/Listener]

Club.

[DJ Envy]

He mother. He mother. Effing hard. Donkey of the day for Tuesday, December 9th goes to all these critics of Zoran Mandani's transition team. Now, if you haven't heard, Zoran Mandani, the mayor elect in New York City, has been putting together his transition team. First of all, what is a mayor elect's transition team? Amer's transition team is a group of trusted advisors, experts, community leaders assembled by Amer Elect between their election victory and inauguration to prepare for governing. All right? They help to select key staff and they help to develop policy priorities. Two people that Zoron has selected are two individuals I support. Heavy. Okay? One is our fearless leader, the good sister, Tamika Mallory. Dropping the clues bombs for Tamika Mallory. The other is the good brother, my son. Dropping the clues bombs for my son.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Okay?

[DJ Envy]

I know my son since like 06 or 07 whenever he first came home. Full disclosure, not only are those my people, I do business with both of them. Okay? My imprint, Black Privilege Publishing, published both to me because books, State of Emergency, how to Win in the Country We Built, and her memoir, I Live to Tell the Story. Great stocking stuffers, by the way. My imprint, Black Privilege Publishing, publishes their podcast as well, tmi. So in case you didn't know, now you know. Now both of them have been named to Zoran Mandani's transition team. Excellent choices if you ask me. You know why they are excellent choices? Because they are true public servants, okay? Who don't give a damn about politics. They care about the people. They actually do the thankless work of activism, dropping the clues bombs for their organization until freedom. And we all know activism comes with great risk and very little rewards. So when I saw Zoron add them to his transition team, I said, oh good, okay, he's got a couple of people there that are that are going to hold him accountable. And I knew they were great people picks when I saw the attacks come for both of them immediately. Okay, the headlines for Tamika were mandani Transition team includes Women's March Leader embroiled in Anti Semitism scandal. Fox News headline was, Mandani Taps Disgraced Activists who said one day we can abolish police. The key public safety committee. Both of those headlines were about Tamika Mallory. Just because you are a against the killing of innocent kids in Gaza and Palestine doesn't make you anti Semitic. And just because you believe you should reallocate funds from police budgets to community based services like mental health, housing, education, violence prevention. Because you want to address the root causes of crime. That don't mean you want to abolish police. You just want to reduce reliance on policing for social issues. Okay? And you're promoting public safety through community well being rather than punishment. You ask me, that's the perfect person to have on your public safety committee. Okay? Now, the good brother, my son. The NY Post ran a headline that said, zoran Mundani taps ex Con Rapper who served seven years for Armed Robbery as Criminal Justice Advisor on Transition team. And I just saw on the front page of the New York Post today, the front freaking page, they have a picture of my son with the headline, crime Boss Mondani appoints rapper who served seven years for armed robbery as justice advisor number one. My son was convicted in 1999, okay? He was like 19 or 20, maybe 21. Who served seven years for armed robbery as Criminal justice advisor on transition team. Where do we begin? Number one. My son was convicted in 1990. 29. Okay. He was like 19 or 20, maybe 21. He was sentenced to seven to 14 years. Came home on parole in 2006 and he's been a model citizen ever since. He's a community activist. Okay. Spends years. He spent years volunteering as a violence interrupter. He has an organization called Raising Kings, A non profit group that teaches classes the inmates at Rikers Island. Okay. Benny Bocio, I think his name is, he's the president of the Correction Officers of Benevolent Association. Said it is both disheartening and deeply disturbing that individuals who are convicted felons and have a history of breaking the law are being given the opportunity to help shape the future of New York's criminal justice system.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Huh?

[DJ Envy]

Benny, are you serious? You a corrections officer who doesn't believe in people who have been corrected? My son has first hand lived experience with the system. He understands community that have been disproportionately affected by over policing, mass incarceration. He walked the walk and he survived it. Okay? That's what you should have want A symbol of a more restorative, human centered model. Not just this tough on crime system that we've been using. Okay. He has a redemptive story. Isn't that what we want? Ours redemption only for everybody. But black men, they always want to reduce us to our worst moments and they never will want to acknowledge our growth. My son can reach people that Zoron or no other politician can. And that's what they don't want. That's what they are afraid of. They don't want more stories like my son. They want black men in prison forever. They don't want no redemption for us. And that's why I love Mandani's choices. Because he picked someone in people. But in the case of my son, he's picked someone who has lived through incarceration and now advocates for reform. Listen to all these critics. You know, you say you want criminal justice reform and then get mad when somebody who's actually been through the damn system gets a seat at the table. What? What? Growth ain't always pretty. And expertise don't always come in a suit. Zoran picks someone with a past to lead us into the future. And I for one love it. Please give all these credit to Zoran Mandani's transition team. The biggest he.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Huh?

[DJ Envy]

I can't believe that they got my son on the front of the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For the donkey or you going to close?

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm I'm adding this to the end of the chat. Okay, you ready? I really can't believe that they got M on the front of the New York Post with the headline Crime Boss. This, this, this. This got to be liable, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

You can't call this man a crime boss. This man ain't been to prison. The man went to prison in 1999, came home on parole in 2006, has been a model citizen ever since. Sense. How can you put him on the front page of the New York Post and call him a crime boss? This has to be some type of defamation or something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's no way. And it's so crazy. All the positive things he did in the community, all the positive things he did for New York City, all the positive things he's done around the country, never in the paper.

[DJ Envy]

This man is. And by the way, you have him on with another one of his initiatives, the Boycott Black Murder. His T shirt literally says Boycott Black Murder. His hat says Boycott Black Murder. That's who this man is now.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

How could y'? All? Like, this is. This is crazy, though. This is crazy. This got to be liable in some way, shape or form. Come on, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, thank you for that donkey today.

[Joy Ann Reid]

But he should be able to sue them something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

The Post should issue an apology. Oh, this is nuts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, all right. Now. Thank you for that donkey today. Now, when we come back, salute to Mimi, who does front page news segments. She was talking about some of the worst Christmas gifts of the year.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she said the worst gift was actually a self help book. She said people do not want a single self help book for Christmas.

[Caller/Listener]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Who you talking about? You all. Santana, are you talking about. Just who's you talking about when she said people?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my goodness.

[DJ Envy]

So I would love a good. I love a good self.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're gonna open up the phone lines and ask what your worst Christmas gift is. 800-585-1051. And when we come back, I bought the Breakfast Club some gifts.

[DJ Envy]

I'm telling you, don't play with me.

[Caller/Listener]

There's nothing better than the holidays. The house is full, music playing, cousins talking trash over games. It's like the family group chat finally made it to real life. And right there, when you need a fresh pick me up is Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry. It has that crisp cranberry flavor with a smooth winter spice twist. Just feels made for festive moments like these. Whether you're cooking with your auntie, laughing with old friends, or catching up with a favorite cousin that you haven't seen all year. Sprite keeps the celebration bright and refreshing. It's the perfect holiday seal. It's light, flavorful, festive, and worth sharing. But heads up. Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry is only here for a limited time, so grab it. Now, throw it in the fridge and crack another open to keep the good vibes flowing. Your favorite flavor has officially arrived. Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry Sprite Obey your thirst.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, y'? All? It's DJ Envy. You can go anywhere and find clothes, but at JD Sports, you can discover your style. Like, I needed a pair of blue and white sneakers and I couldn't find them anywhere, so I stopped in at JD's. I know what I like and I got it. At JD's. I found a pair of kicks, blue and white. That was exactly what I was looking for. I'm always able to find my style at JD Sports. Discover iconic styles now cultivate your look at JD Sports. Head to JD Sports to discover the latest gear to elevate your style.

[Caller/Listener]

JD Sports forward this past weekend, like every other Sunday, you were on the court with the guys playing ball. Just a pickup game living out your hoop dreams. No triple doubles, but a mean set of threes in between buckets. One of the homies mentions he closed on a new crib. This is big. And while everyone's asking about the housewarming and making plans to celebrate, you're asking the real questions. Like, has he spoke to his State Farm agent yet about coverage? See, home ownership is one thing, but the right coverage is the real game changer. Even more than your last hot streak is how you protect your legacy. Dropping buckets and bars on the court. A State Farm agent can more than assist you with finding the right coverage for your new place. If you have a claim, your local agent can help you file it. Yep, that's right. Over the phone, in person, online, or on the app, they're ready to help you. And they don't drop the ball, if you know what I mean. Like a good neighbor, State farm is there.

[Joy Ann Reid]

10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.

You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for 2, $250,000.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pressure is coming down.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Trainer Games.

[DJ Envy]

Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something. Do you know the symptoms of Moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, or osa in adults with obesity, they may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly, or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability and concentration issues, it may be due to osa. OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don'tsleep on OSA.com this information is provided by Lily, a medicine company.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly. Because we don't our last date, not till the 19th. So I got plenty of time to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do at the Breakfast Club some gifts. I'm gonna bring the gifts in.

[DJ Envy]

They better be right, right? Cuz, you know, I'm like Batman out here. Give me some time to prepare. So you better have some good gifts in here. Okay? All right.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Play with me every.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll get to it. Next. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Rudolph the Red Nose. Red nose.

Had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it close. Come on, come on. Breakfast Club dog here today is brought to you by the law office of Michael S. Lamisaur Off. It's a good time to get serious about your health. My name is Charlemagne the God. And I partner with Dr. Puma and soaring Medical to help make sure you are taking heart health seriously. I put my mind at ease by getting the three minutes. Soaring Heart.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, indeed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got some holiday music.

[DJ Envy]

LL Cool Bay is here to play the greatest Christmas song of all time.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Johnny Gil, Give Love on Christmas Day. The whole Stevie Wonder Christmas album, the whole Boyz them in Christmas interpretation.

[DJ Envy]

They ain't messing with none of them Mexicans Would definitely not be. I'm telling you that right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy, what do you have?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So listen. So good morning everybody here. I'm in the holiday season and we never give gifts around here. Right. So I wanted to give my co workers gifts.

[DJ Envy]

It's been. I'm giving gifts. No, shut up. I've given gifts before. You didn't appreciate the gift.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Give me an ass. But yeah, so you gave.

[DJ Envy]

What about for the people who just joining us, sir?

Figure it out. No, no, no, no. For the people who. You know what? Whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, let them figure it out. So I wanted to give my co workers who we worked hard and worked tough and we did ups and downs this year for Christmas. I wanted to give y' all gifts. So first I'm gonna start with you, Jess. Merry Christmas. Here's your gift. Go ahead, open it up. Let the people know what it is.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Open it up.

[DJ Envy]

Yep, yep.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I do not trust none of y' all with nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[DJ Envy]

Put some phonics. That's crazy.

[Caller/Listener]

And a lot.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Rosetta Stone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, stupid.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is this alarm clock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

An alarm clock? Yes. Drop a bomb.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, sometimes you a little late, so I figured your phone might not be working, so I got you alarm clock. So you can always be on time.

[Joy Ann Reid]

That's funny.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think Jess is that late. Okay, Lauren.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is for you.

[DJ Envy]

A comb lotion.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's for you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not a wig.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Now, now, not a wig.

[DJ Envy]

What is that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They talk about your bald spots all the time, so I got you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I got you.

[DJ Envy]

I got you. You black spray paint, so you can spray good gift.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The one you use on your beard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. No.

[DJ Envy]

Try one. I like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you a nice gift bag.

[Caller/Listener]

Open it up, baby.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, it's Red by Kiss, too. This a great brand.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is a really good. I got b.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Temptation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's open it up.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Open it.

[DJ Envy]

Isn't fair, though, cuz you should have let us know so we can bring gifts, too.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Open it up to.

[Caller/Listener]

Open.

[DJ Envy]

Called you a 90s gay slur. Dude got me a shake one. That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Show how works.

[DJ Envy]

Show works.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Show how works for the listeners.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Charlamagne up here shaking his away for envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my goodness.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Come out and play.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sick of this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I want to open up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051. What is some of the worst Christmas.

[DJ Envy]

I hope you got Clue on. Shake Weight, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You ain't took your hand off that thing since he gave it to you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, now, guys. Now, I told Gia about the gifts, and Gia was like, I play too much that I should come with some real gifts, too.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I got all my girls in here some real gifts.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't no goddamn girl, girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we bring in the real gifts?

[DJ Envy]

I brought in some real gifts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Coming in. Can we give Charlemagne his gift, please?

Can we give Charlemagne his gift?

[DJ Envy]

Everybody, please.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You got us some people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, everybody give him that gift. I want you to open it up live right now.

[DJ Envy]

That Frank Lucas ass coat. That. I know that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm excited. Excited. I'm excited.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's for Charlemagne. Yes. Give one to Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

Let me tell you something about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My wife said you just can't come with some whack gifts. You got to Come with something nice.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to D. Nyc Let me tell you something. I want to say something.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

When Envy left the. The. The dinner last night, we was talking behind his back, and we was like, what? Every house. Every coat in Envy's house is unisex Envy gear. Madison.

No. Logan, don't do that. Logan is a man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So everybody got their own Christmas gift.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold up. Charlemagne likes black on black on black. So we got Charlemagne the black Shirley.

[DJ Envy]

This is dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren LaRosa likes the.

[DJ Envy]

The bright color, so we got it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A bright red fur.

[DJ Envy]

I gotta spend some money, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then I got you a nice fox jacket.

[DJ Envy]

That's real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's real fur. So I just wanted to say Merry Christmas.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is so cute.

[DJ Envy]

I never thought I would be on MV 12 Days of Christmas list. You know how he used to do that? 12 days?

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You guys. I wanted to give you guys some nice gifts. So 800 5.

[DJ Envy]

8, 5. 10.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

5 1. I'm in the holiday season. Let's talk about some of the worst Christmas gifts that you got as we.

[DJ Envy]

Went shopping at the. You see.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me touch your fur, shorty. This is giving music video period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, you know, let's go. Let's open up the phone lines at the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I. I mean, I get coffee mugs all the time. I love my kids. I love them to death. But sometimes the little dollar stands that they get, the coffee mugs. Pops don't drink coffee.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You so sick of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And pops got 20 mugs. But I love y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I appreciate it. What's one of the worst Christmas gifts you got, man?

[Joy Ann Reid]

To be honest, I haven't really received many Christmas gifts other than, like, just from my parents and whoever I'm dating at the time. My friends. I never had friends that bought Christmas gifts, but I. I bought them gifts, but I never really had, like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm glad MV got you something.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I know. Thanks, Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What about you? What your pops got you for Christmas?

[DJ Envy]

Man, that is. Sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry.

[Caller/Listener]

That was messed up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why you gotta ask what my dad got me?

[DJ Envy]

You know, got a ball spot now, man. You know, you don't even understand her stress or her pain, and I don't like that. I've got your back, Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, you don't.

[Joy Ann Reid]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stay away from disco.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the worst Christmas gift you got?

[Lauren LaRosa]

A car freshener.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Oh, my God. Somebody said your car stank.

[DJ Envy]

Dang.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I think they just was trying to find, like, this. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Did you have a Car at the time.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What about you, Mr. Jehovah Witness?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I gotta go read. I'll be back later.

[DJ Envy]

Once again, like I said, I grew up Jehovah Witness, so I didn't receive gifts. But I don't. Every gift is a great gift. Anybody that takes the time to think about you and says, yo, here's a gift, I appreciate it.

[Caller/Listener]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think there's such thing as a worse gift. Like you gotta have a real sense of entitlement or be kind of spoiled to think that a gift is horrible. You should be happy somebody got your stupid ass up.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yes. Cause your jacket got DL on the front.

[DJ Envy]

That is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cat blue letters.

[DJ Envy]

The jacket envy got me from Duche. Leather says DL on the front.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Leather. That's what that's for. But I got you. I got you a black shirt link too. I was out and about. I got you those, you know, those gifts, alarm clock and that. And my wife was like, you better not do that. You better go get them people some nice gifts.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So we went to the ruche and got you some. Some jackets.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Get the one with the scents.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much. That's what I'm gonna have to do. I'm gonna have to ask my wife. Cuz I want to play.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Nah, nah.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know if he was being for real. You wanted to play.

[Joy Ann Reid]

You know, I knew he had something. I just knew he has something up his sleeve though. But this is not. I did not expect this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You like it?

[Caller/Listener]

Good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love this coat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good, good, good. Well, let's go to the phone lines. 800-585-1051.

[Caller/Listener]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this? Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what's your name, mama?

[Joy Ann Reid]

My name is Ramonda.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ramonda, what's the worst gift you got for Christmas?

[Joy Ann Reid]

That old hard sell candy that come in that can and you can hardly break it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I know what you're talking about. That. That tin candy usually you got. Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Grandmother candy. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Who gave it to you? Your man gave it to you.

[DJ Envy]

Her grandmother. My grandma. I knew it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, be happy. Is grandma around tonight? Is grandma around now?

[Joy Ann Reid]

No, my Grandma passed in 95.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I bet that candy mean the most to you now.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Man, let me tell you, I wish.

[DJ Envy]

I could get it, but I want.

[Joy Ann Reid]

To say hello to everybody and happy holidays. Charlamagne. I'm a hometown girl from Monkey, Kona, South Carolina.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, 843, what's happening? What part of Monte you live in?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Actually, Cordville.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Corsville. Absolutely.

[Caller/Listener]

Amen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mama. Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Hello?

[Lauren LaRosa]

DJ Envy. I hurt you big time.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Egg calling from Los Angeles, California.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Egg from la? What's the worst Christmas gift somebody gave you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my fella who I was supporting.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He went to Dollar tree and spent 15 and bought me like a blanket and a bunch of junk. And then boasted about. He bought me a bunch of junk and only spent 15 and did so well. What was the junk?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said a blanket.

[Joy Ann Reid]

There was like a blanket, a spatula, plastic.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just junk. You could tell he just walked up.

[Joy Ann Reid]

And down the aisles and grabbed stuff. But it was things that you needed. You probably needed to flip them pancakes, you know? I mean. Yes.

I needed you to fix my mess with this man. Ah, I'm so sorry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He not around now, is he?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Well, he's not living here anymore, but we still date.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Aw, the junk man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you're gonna get more $15 worth of stuff from the Dollar Store again this year.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah, she gotta call up. I know, but here's the thing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I stopped buying him gifts and.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He actually had the nerve to ask. You're not gonna buy me anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're a damn fool if you get him something this year. Katie. Good morning, Katie.

[Caller/Listener]

What up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the worst Christmas gift you got?

[Joy Ann Reid]

I mean, gift person. Same thing. Was an ex.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your ex was a gift?

[Joy Ann Reid]

No, I mean the gift that kept.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On giving, but not.

[Caller/Listener]

Not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He gave you herpes?

[Joy Ann Reid]

No, no, no, nothing. Just broke my heart.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. I'm sorry.

[Caller/Listener]

So right.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I was in a city, girl, he's a cowboy. We were two different walks of life. We didn't work out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

Then.

[Joy Ann Reid]

His ex made it. Ex made it nuts.

[Caller/Listener]

So that was a show. Old poop.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Sorry.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think he deserved anything, to be honest with you.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Hey, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Goodbye, Katie. Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this? This is Nathan out of Florida.

[Caller/Listener]

What's up, DJ Envy? Nathan Maine and the Queen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Nathan?

[DJ Envy]

What's happening, my brother?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Worst Christmas gift you ever got.

[Caller/Listener]

No gift, bro.

No gift. A bad gift is better than no gift. And I say that because when I was younger, my parents couldn't afford to give me a Christmas. And I promised myself that I wasn't gonna do that when I became a parent.

[DJ Envy]

And I am a parent now.

[Caller/Listener]

And I'm stuck in the same predicament now.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think I'll be able to get my kids again Christmas because work.

[Caller/Listener]

Is so slow and bills are piling up. And I'm just not in the position. So for me, man, the worst gift business. No gift, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, where you calling from?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Florida. He said Florida.

[DJ Envy]

Florida? Florida, man. Orlando. Florida?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you do?

[Caller/Listener]

I work for a company. Irrigation company for Heron Air Conditioning Company.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not doing good.

[Joy Ann Reid]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, irrigation, Irrigation, irrigation.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

Irrigation, Irrigation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Put your cash app out there, man. Maybe somebody throw some dollars in there for you, brother.

[DJ Envy]

For what?

[Caller/Listener]

All right.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He need his son.

[DJ Envy]

This man got a perfectly good job. This man is the only man got a trade, man.

[Caller/Listener]

What are you talking about? It's slow out here. All right?

[DJ Envy]

Give out your cash app, man. Yo.

I know, I know Charlotte, man. Hard on the brother out here, man.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm speaking the truth. And he want to shoot a brother down.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm not shooting you down. I'm just saying you had a perfectly good job.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

It's slow right now, man.

[DJ Envy]

It is, believe me. I'm in Florida, bro.

[Caller/Listener]

You know the way pages from Florida. It ain't nothing like that.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, all right. Okay. I'm sorry. Give me caps.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Give you cash out there, bro.

[DJ Envy]

And if you better be the first to donate money.

[Caller/Listener]

Sign. You know Nathan Upton. That's it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nathan what?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Elton, Is that Nathan Upton.

[DJ Envy]

Write it down. Envy.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah. Nathan Upton. N A.

[DJ Envy]

Write it down.

[Caller/Listener]

Write it U, P, T, O, N. All right.

[DJ Envy]

Write it down. Donate to that man right now.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Nathan Upton.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nathan Upton.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Him and his son.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. Thank you, Nathan.

[Caller/Listener]

I appreciate y'.

[Joy Ann Reid]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Brother say block. Peace.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the moral of the story, guys?

[DJ Envy]

Where's our gifts at? You said you had gifts, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hear people.

[Joy Ann Reid]

They ain't the first guy that called up and said if they weren't able to give their, you know, their kids Christmas. But that's why I'm doing a free comedy show in Baltimore. Two free comedy shows this Saturday where you can bring a toy to get in. 1200. We expecting 1200. Between 1200, 1500 toys. And we're going to distribute them from east to West Baltimore to the less fortunate families. Everybody deserves to open up something for Christmas, so that's what we doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I give you some cash to get gifts? Because I. I ain't. Instead of mailing the gifts there.

[DJ Envy]

I just.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Cool.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I know you are.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I give you some money to get some gifts.

[Joy Ann Reid]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. When we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Lauren becoming a straight fat.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody some. She gets details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

She be having the latest on.

The.

[Caller/Listener]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[DJ Envy]

Sometimes you have facts, Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm doing my last segment in my new coat that envy got me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you look really good.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I'm looking at you on the chat, like, on my computer, and you look good in this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can't wait to do it with a red lip. Okay, I'll be at the power sessions on December 13th. I'll see y' all there.

[DJ Envy]

Just know that's the only check you're getting. Okay. It's nothing after that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what? I'm focused. Last hour, we. I brought in this new filing with Cassie, and I had the wrong information on the sex worker, and I didn't want to get it wrong, so I went back and got the right information correct myself real quick. Real quick. So Clayton Howard is the sex worker who is trying to catch up with Cassie to give. To serve her this lawsuit. He said he's been saying he's been having issues. Issues. Now he's suing Cassie because he's alleging that Cassie was pregnant with his baby after he was brought into the freak off and aborted it without telling him and then continued to have unprotected sex with him. He also alleges that Cassie gave him an std. He says he alleges that he was manipulated into taking ecstasy, unprotected sex, and that he was ordered to do things like masturbate. Can I say that?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, and resulting in tears, skin peeling and scabbing to his private part. Yeah. So he's suing for physical injury, lost wages, medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress and loss of enjoyment of life. And the issue has been trying to serve Cassie or her attorney. So now he's been granted by a judge. You know, figure out alternative means to get it done. He's saying that since they're making public statements to outlets, they should be able to respond to this or, you know, be served, but they haven't been able to. So there'll be some updates to there.

[DJ Envy]

No, that's a. I would think that's a smart lawsuit because Cassie got that money, right? Cassie got paid a lot of money, but she may have not been bought up on anything criminal. But I can see what someone would probably bring up something on her civil. But how does that work when you a sex worker? Because isn't the sex workers work illegal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, isn't it? Yeah, it is illegal. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And he was alleged, like, a drug dealer getting robbed. Like, how could you say drugs?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And how do you prove that you masturbated so hard that the skin came off?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, if he's talking about medical stuff.

[DJ Envy]

Take the goddamn Shake Way back. Take the goddamn shake Way back. Please. Take the shake Way back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There would have to be like some medical records or something, probably, y'. All. Cuz he's saying that he was, you know, he was physically messed up. But we, we going to move on. And I'll come back with more. Shout out to Grouchy Greg at All Hip Hop Pop. This was his exclusive. Greg Watkins.

[DJ Envy]

Now, if you masturbating that much, you got to put the Shake Weight down. All jokes aside. All jokes aside. Stop using the Shake Weight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stop using the Shake Weight. All right, now, in other court news, Dame Dash. So these documents were filed yesterday. So remember when Dame Dash was ordered to hand over Poppington LLC that had all of those, like, movies under, like, Honor up and all those things. So they are now headed to an auction. So yesterday, a U.S. marshal for the Southern District of New York said that he is ordering a public auction auction of audio and visual assets under Poppington llc, with Honor up being a major asset of ownership. This was the film that was EP by Kanye west, and it contained performances by Kim Camron, Stacy Dash, Dame Dash and other people. So the auction is going to happen December 30th in New York. Minimum bid is $300,000, and it will be streamed during be video and things like that. So if you attend the auction, you're giving them permission to film you while there. And also yesterday they filed a. One of the trustees who's handling his bankruptcy filed a response saying that she had a meeting, which is what they do during their bankruptcy proceedings, to figure out whether they believe you or not. And it doesn't sound like she believes him. So now they're going to have to do some more digging into his finances because they don't believe that what he's claiming is actually what is happening. So there's a little update there.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Navi Dot. Feliz. Navi Dot. Prospero. I know why Prospero. Huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Prospero.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what he said.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Clown.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What else you got?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. So also ending this. So Kamora. Kamora is talking about. You remember when her and Russell's daughter Was seen out with that 65 year old man.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old was she at the time? I can't remember how she was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. I'll look up how old she was, but she definitely wasn't old enough to be with a 65 year old man. Now she is finally having a conversation about this. Let's take a listen to what her response is on her daughter dating that man.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Aoki also had some other press.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Which one?

[Joy Ann Reid]

The. With the 65 year old man. I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why is it a big deal though? Because if you look back. Okay, well first of all, why is.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This stunning, young, hot, beautiful.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You see that all the time.

[Caller/Listener]

Time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What was your reaction to that in real time? First of all, I know this guy, but I didn't know this guy in that capacity like with my kid or that you were even dating my kid or even. I know this guy growing up myself.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He's a restaurateur. Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. I don't know. You know, I don't want to get into troubles legally, but I think, I think his reputation probably precedes him. So I was learning some of these things as I went along.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't even know this was a thing.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I found out when the world found out. So shocking.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I do think in general of those kind of things.

[Joy Ann Reid]

I think I feel like and having.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Gone through not exactly the same but similar, that big age gap relationship. I do think it's predatorial. Yeah. So that was her. That was.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's crazy for her to find.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Imagine her as a mother finding that out with the world.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's weird.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would be upset as a father. Like the fact that your 21 year old daughter's dating a 60, 25 year old man.

[Joy Ann Reid]

And I know you like she said she's. She know not. Not like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like what? Do you have anything like that in common?

[Joy Ann Reid]

Yes, like damn, she right.

[DJ Envy]

What was the age gap between her and Russell though?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, she's fifth.

[Joy Ann Reid]

18 years. It damn sure ain't no 16 years.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Between her and Russell Simmons.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Okay. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because I was gonna say there was a conversation that sparked when this clip went live about. Well, you know, maybe she's seen that because you were really young where you you. When you were dating Simmons. So come on.

[Joy Ann Reid]

25 and 21. 65.

[DJ Envy]

What did you just say? What the hell? She thought you was asking somebody to go play your numbers like you yelling at your granddaughter. Go play my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cigarettes in the numbers. That's what it gives with the coat and the glasses. Go ahead, Lauren, go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all both look like two aunties wanting somebody to go play their numbers. You judging her for going to play number her numbers?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not judging her. I'm just saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But. Yeah, but, but, but similar to what you said. Like you said, they started. They met when she was 17, Russell was 35 and they married when she was 23. They're still 18 years apart. So like you said, they. She probably seen mom and dad did it. So what's the problem?

[DJ Envy]

I just know that old man, that old man, that's. He need his ass whipped.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Russell wasn't 65.

[Caller/Listener]

If.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, if Kamora knew him. If Kamora knew him, then that means he knew Kamora had kids. And you, you. You know how you look dating some girl like you know what I'm saying. Knew you and you as a kid. Like what she what you the same.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You same age as. As my ex and you date my kid now that's wild.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I don't know how to say his name. But you know it. If he's a restaurant her and he's around, he's doing these things he's very well aware of.

[DJ Envy]

He's white.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

You can't never pronounce the old white man name. Let him been black. You'd have. You'd have had finell. What's the thing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's the word Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

You didn't know how to pronounce it if he was black. Yeah, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know his name. Name is ass. Ass off though. But the first name, I cannot.

[DJ Envy]

Let me see the guy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You pronounce it right here.

[DJ Envy]

Vittorio Assoff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Victoria's ass off.

[DJ Envy]

Victoria Ass off. And even if I can't pronounce it, you gotta try because if he was black, he would be yelling his name from that. That rooftops.

[Joy Ann Reid]

It's just weird that he knew that she knew.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When she said that that was. I was like, oh, dealing with my daughter. Yeah. You didn't even have the decency to.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Tell me that you're. You know.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, we find this. All right, well that is the latest with Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're welcome. And thank you for my gift again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You guys are welcome. Now when we come back, 800-585-1051, we get to the mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

[Joy Ann Reid]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to Joy Ann Reid for joining us this morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Salute to Joy Ann Reed. The new her show is the Joy Ann Reid Show. On YouTube. But it's always just a pleasure to talk to Joy, man. She's celebrating the birthday. She's having much success after msnbc. So salute to Joy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. And also, you know, I just want to say Merry Christmas, happy holiday. I wanted to send some cheer today. I got y' all some spoof gifts, and my wife was like, you better get them people some. Some nice gifts. Stop playing with those people. So I was at the Ruchi and deruchi lover. We picked out some nice gifts. You see, I knew Lauren like that.

[DJ Envy]

That red.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, that red shiny. That's.

[Joy Ann Reid]

That's definitely gives.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna give you a Kim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Back in the day, I knew you more classy, but Baltimore style Charlemagne. I put the DL on the front.

[DJ Envy]

He wear that. I just thought about what I'm going to get you. No, no, no, no. I got you. I'm going get you something nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all right.

[DJ Envy]

It just came to me. It just came to me. I know exactly what I'm getting. I know exactly. I mean, it came to me like a. I mean, it just came to me just now. I'm like, oh, shoot, I got you.

[Caller/Listener]

Oh, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see, he like that. That shake where he been all over that.

[Joy Ann Reid]

He. Nah, he like that more than the coach.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. Salute to my son if you. If you miss Charlemagne's donkey today. He gave it to. Who'd you give it to, Charlotte?

[DJ Envy]

I gave Donkey of the Day to all of the critics who are mad at Zoran Mandani's transitional team picks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. And if you missed it, my song is on the front page of the Post this morning, which is pretty. Which is pretty crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Disgusting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it's disgusting.

[DJ Envy]

They got him on the front page of the Post and it says crime Boss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Yeah. So salute to my song. Salute to Tamika Mallory. We appreciate them always. Now you got a positive note.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I do. Always remember, thank you for the quotes that you gave us this morning. Envy and the Shake Weight. And I was serious when I said that. You know, I've never experienced receiving a bad gift. Because the smallest gift given with love and compassion is priceless. Breakfast Club bitches.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. A season filled with family dinners, laughter, and holiday shopping. But even in the middle of all of that joy, everyone needs a moment to slow down. The little pause between the music, the memories, and the madness. And nothing makes that break better than an ice cold Coca Cola. It's that quick refresh that turns the holiday rush into calm, making the moment feel just right. It's the breath between the laughter and the late night rapping sessions. Because the best part of the holidays isn't having it all together, it's enjoying it while it's happening. Enjoy your Coca Cola refresh your holidays.

[Caller/Listener]

This weekend one of the homies mentioned he closed on a new crib. While everyone's asking about a housewarming, you're asking the real questions like who is his State Farm agent? See, homeownership is one thing, but the right coverage is the real game changer. It's how you protect your legacy. A State Farm agent can help you with finding the right coverage for your new place and even help you file a claim over the phone, in person, online or on the app. They're ready to help you and they don't drop the ball. You know what I mean? Like a good neighbor, State farm is there.

[Joy Ann Reid]

10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.

You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Someone will be eliminated. Eliminated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pressure is coming down.

[Joy Ann Reid]

This is Trainer Games.

[DJ Envy]

Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bring incredible sound into every corner of.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Your home this holiday with the new.

[DJ Envy]

Whim Sound Smart Speaker. Get high resolution Audio with a 1.8-inch.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Touchscreen, smart control and modern design in one powerful speaker for just $2.99.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

From Quiet Mornings to lively holiday gatherings, WIM Sound makes every moment sound better.

[Joy Ann Reid]

And feel better too.

[DJ Envy]

Get get the gift of the season.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For the music enthusiast in your life or for yourself.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Whimsound Beautifully designed, effortlessly connected. Shop now at Amazon and search Whim Sound.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's W I I M S O.

[Joy Ann Reid]

U n d this holiday season, give.

[Mimi Brown]

The gift of incredible sound with Vizio's full soundbar lineup available at Walmart. Transform any living room into a home theater with rich, immersive audio that brings every movie, show and song to life.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Whether you're gifting a loved one or or upgrading your own setup, Vizio Soundbars.

[Mimi Brown]

Deliver powerful, crystal clear sound that turns.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Ordinary watching into extraordinary experiences.

[Mimi Brown]

Stream your favorite holiday Playlist with the iHeartRadio app and discover how good your music can truly sound. Head to Walmart.com and find your perfect Vizio soundbar today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Joy Ann Reid]

Guaranteed Human.