FULL SHOW: Megan Thee Stallion Rushed To Hospital During Broadway Performance After ‘Feeling Very Ill’ + John Leguizamo & Meagan Good Majors Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club Podcast Summary

Date: April 1, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Special Guests: John Leguizamo, Megan Good
Main Episode Themes:

• Megan Thee Stallion’s abrupt illness on Broadway
• In-depth interviews: John Leguizamo on “Dear Killer Nannies,” Megan Good on life, love, and healing
• Hot topics: Political executive orders, street harassment, car dealership scandal, celebrity memoir bombshells, and more

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Breakfast Club is packed with personal stories, social commentary, and candid interviews. The team discusses Megan Thee Stallion’s emergency exit during a Broadway performance, explores the nuances of celebrity culture and personal growth with Megan Good, and dives into representation in Hollywood with John Leguizamo. Along the way, they tackle trending news, controversial political moves, and share hilarious and heartfelt moments among guests and hosts alike.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Breaking News: Megan Thee Stallion Rushed to Hospital

Timestamps: [20:28]–[31:12]; [27:57]–[30:56]

• Lauren LaRosa recaps the chaotic night at Moulin Rouge, where Megan Thee Stallion had to leave her Broadway performance due to severe illness.

  "So last night I got invited by Meg thee Stallion's team to come and see Meg on Broadway... It was going great until abruptly it stopped and Meg Thee Stallion was no longer a part of the show." — Lauren LaRosa [20:28]

• Audience confusion and concern: The show halted, security ordered people to remain seated, creating a tense, unclear situation.
• Official update: Roc Nation confirmed Megan was taken to the hospital, and the cast’s understudy finished the performance.
• Audience reaction: Disappointment from fans, but most stayed for the rest of the play.

Notable Moment:

“We want everyone in the theater to stay in their seats and please don't take out your phones and what the—? Exactly. So all of us in the audience are like, wait, what?” — Lauren LaRosa [22:03]

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2. Hot Topics in the News

Timestamps: [06:16]–[11:55]; [31:20]–[37:59]

- Political Moves & Executive Orders

• President Trump’s new order could change mail-in voting—mandatory barcodes, government voter lists, only citizens get ballots.
• Legal battles anticipated: California and other states vow to fight, citing the Constitution gives states election control.

  “They're doing everything in their power to steal the midterms... When are we going to just start saying what it is?” — Charlamagne [08:35]

• Birthright citizenship under threat at the Supreme Court.

- Everyday Struggles: Rising Gas Prices

• National average now over $4/gallon, impact on gig workers.

  “Majority of the money I make doing [DoorDash], I have to put it back in my car. That's crazy." [11:02]

- NYC’s Anti-Catcalling Campaign

• City launches $250K ad blitz: Unwanted street attention isn’t a compliment, it’s harassment.
• Candid discussion: Is catcalling ever appropriate? How do perceptions vary by context or appearance?

  "I think that women don't like being cat called by ugly people. But if the guy looks attractive...they be like, right." — Charlamagne [33:01]

- Car Dealership Drama

• A woman’s car is stolen by a dealership employee on a drunken “date night”—dealership pressures her to drop charges and return their loaner car.

  “I'm surprised that Mercedes Benz responded like that though, but clowned out. Y' all be surprised how many of them, the people that work at them car dealerships do that though.” — Jessica [36:37]

- April Fools' Day Prank Warnings

• Experts warn against “emotional pranks” (pregnancy, cheating, etc.) due to potential real relationship damage.

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3. Interview Highlights: John Leguizamo

Timestamps: [40:02]–[67:43]

- New Series: "Dear Killer Nannies"

• A unique take on Pablo Escobar’s life as a father, not a drug lord.

  “We’re seeing the inside of what happened and what was said at home...that’s what’s exciting about this show.” — John Leguizamo [42:14]

• Escobar’s dual life: ruthless violence and touching attempts at family.
• Insights from Escobar’s son, who served as a consultant, sharing real family turmoil and trauma.

  “He still had to move homes sometimes...the son tried to go to school, but the DA was after them...the kids were afraid of him." [42:58]

- Representation in Hollywood

• The pain of “Juan Crow” casting and lack of Latino/Black leads.

  “To be a black or Latin talent, you have to be 10 times better than a white talent to get that job.” — John Leguizamo [51:07]

• Mainstreaming Latino culture in America, “rice and beans circuit” support, Hollywood resistance.

  “We’re 20% of the population. We over index at 30% of the box office...until we have Latin executives, things aren’t going to change.” [53:23–53:35]

- Activism and Artistry

• ICE criticism and immigrant defense.
• Art as a political force:

  “Can I be both? Can I be a great entertainer that’s culturally disruptive?...that’s the place for art.” — John Leguizamo [67:14]

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4. Interview Highlights: Megan Good

Timestamps: [86:23]–[101:44]

- On Love, Healing, and Transformation

• Celebrates first wedding anniversary with Jonathan Majors, describes their friendship, partnership, and shared growth.

  “I feel truly seen...this person helps me become a better person.” — Megan Good [87:00]

• Shares details on their shared wellness business and how physical health unlocked emotional healing.
• Journey to motherhood: confronting childhood wounds to prepare for the future.

- True Self & Social Media

• Tackles public scrutiny, rumors (including skin-bleaching allegations), and the emotional toll of fame.

  “I’d always felt like I was on the edge of a cliff...and then I jumped. And when I jumped, I started flying.” [93:02]

• Jess Hilarious gives a heartfelt public apology for previously joking about Megan’s skin, leading to a supportive, healing moment.

  “That’s why you be so blessed, though. Cuz your posture about things...I would have freaked out.” — Lauren LaRosa [101:03]

- Notable Quote

“The biggest thing to me is I don't want anybody else to control the integrity of who I want to be just because someone's poking and poking and poking...It's more about you not being able to have control over me.” — Megan Good [95:19]

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5. Culture & Celebrity News

Timestamps: [68:26]–[76:49]

• Brandy's Memoir Bombshell:

  • Claims a man from Boyz II Men (Wanye) had a secret relationship with her when she was 16; explores pressure, loss of innocence.

    “I had wanted to wait until marriage and had shared those beliefs with him…But the truth is, I felt like I had no choice.” — Brandy (audiobook clip) [70:48]

  • Stark and candid reflection spurs hosts’ discussion about normalized age gaps in the industry.

• Jay Z’s Legal Counterattack: His team’s sexual assault defamation suit is greenlit—case transferred to New York.

  “If you’re an attorney and you take these frivolous claims, you got to deal with everything that comes with taking these frivol.” — Charlamagne [103:41]

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6. Donkey of the Day

Timestamps: [77:51]–[85:51]

• Recipient: Kristi Noem’s husband, Brian Noem—outed as a cross-dressing member of an extreme online fetish community, while his wife is an outspoken anti-LGBTQ politician.

  “It’s always the ones with the dirty hands pointing the fingers...I hate people, especially politicians, who publicly have all this anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, but in private, they...popping that for the Internet.” — Charlamagne [80:07]

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7. Free Speech, Cancel Culture, and Sports

Timestamps: [104:19]–[109:34]

• Jaden Ivey Controversy:
  • NBA player’s anti-LGBTQ comments met with backlash; Boosie defends him, Charlamagne responds.
  • Discussion: Free speech isn’t exempt from consequences—money and platform always matter.

    “There is a cost to every word that comes out of your mouth, and if you’re not willing to pay the price…shut the hell up.” — Charlamagne [106:05/109:03]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Charlamagne on Political Games:

  "How many different ways are they going to try to steal an election this November?" [08:35]

• Lauren LaRosa on Megan Thee Stallion:

  “I thought it was a part of the play. And then when I realized it wasn't, I was scared...is something happening? Because it felt lockdown a little bit.” [22:13]

• John Leguizamo on Representation:

  “To be a black or Latin talent, you have to be 10 times better than a white talent to get that job.” [51:07]

• Megan Good on Public Pressure:

  “Why would I do that all of a sudden at 39 years old? That’s crazy...it just broke my heart to think that...young black girls would think that I did that.” [98:30]

• Lauren on Brandy’s Memoir:

  “16, 22…That was me at that age.” [74:48]

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Final Thoughts & Takeaways

• The episode captures a candid, emotionally charged atmosphere, with hosts and guests emphasizing vulnerability, social responsibility, and authenticity.
• Representation, fairness, and consequences for public actions are recurring themes, whether in politics, entertainment, or everyday life.
• Moments of humor and genuine humanity abound—from Jess Hilarious’ apology to deep dives into culture and career.

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Essential Timestamps

• Megan Thee Stallion on Broadway Incident: [20:28]–[31:12]
• Front Page News & Political Drama: [06:16]–[11:55] | [31:20]–[37:59]
• John Leguizamo Interview: [40:02]–[67:43]
• Megan Good Interview: [86:23]–[101:44]
• Brandy Memoir Discussion: [68:26]–[76:49]
• Donkey of the Day: [77:51]–[85:51]
• Free Speech & NBA Controversy: [104:19]–[109:34]

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Overall:
This episode of The Breakfast Club is a masterclass in blending news, pop culture, tough conversations, and laughter—with rare vulnerability and social insight from both celebrity guests and hosts.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Let me get this straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're in Italy?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Child pretended to be the white Italian man's fiance.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hard to believe.

[John Leguizamo]

This is Michael, my nephew.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On April 10, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce.

[Megan Good]

Please just tell me that you support me.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is he fine, though? Come on, baby.

[DJ Envy]

You can eat, pray, and love me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

You know Roald Dahl, he thought of Willy Wonka and the bfg. But did you know he was a spy? In the new podcast, the Secret World of Roald Dahl, I'll tell you that story and much, much more.

[Megan Good]

What?

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

You probably won't believe it either was

[Mimi Brown]

this before he wrote his stories.

[Megan Good]

It must have been Okay, I don't think that's true.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

I'm telling you, the guy was a spy. Listen to the Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[John Leguizamo]

I'm Lori Siegel, and on my new

[DJ Envy]

podcast, Mostly Human, I'll take you to

[Lily Herman]

some wild corners of the tec.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About to go on a date with

[Mimi Brown]

an AI companion at a real world cafe right here in New York City.

[Lily Herman]

There's no playbook for what to do when an AI model hallucinates a story about you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mostly Human is your playbook for how

[Megan Good]

tech can work for you.

[John Leguizamo]

Anyone can now be an entrepreneur.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anyone can build an app, and it's very empowering. Listen to Mostly human on the iHeartRadio

[Mimi Brown]

app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iheartradio. Good morning, USA. 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.

[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious. Good morning, Charlemagne the God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. Guess what day it is.

[Jaden Ivey]

Guess what day it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Yes, Good morning. Today's April 1st. The first day of April. Hopefully you guys are feeling good. It's feeling like spring over here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. First day of April is definitely spring. I don't know about y'. All. My kids have been out for two weeks. This is their second week of spring break. It's time for them to go back.

[DJ Envy]

It's time for them to go back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time for them to go back. I don't think that parents, you know, we. I don't know if we appreciate the blessing that is the school system. Okay. And teachers that actually care about the kids, but, you know, when you gotta go home and, you know, break up fights and, you know, stuff like that in the middle of the day, Anybody got time for that?

[Jessica]

Then you got all girls.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God. Even more complicated.

[DJ Envy]

I'm kind of lucky because the main culprit has school this week. The four year old still has school. She. She didn't get a spring break.

[Jessica]

The main call.

[DJ Envy]

She's the main what? She's the main culprit. She's the bully of the house.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the funny part is my. The. The 10 year old and the 7 year old had spring break for two weeks, but the 4 year old only had one week and this is her week.

[Jessica]

Nah, she fresh my 4 year old.

[DJ Envy]

No, she's. Oh, no, she's the main culprit. She's still in school. And thank God, because she's the one that starts all the fights.

[Jessica]

And we just got good weather, so they should be going outside. Just let them outside. Yeah, Let them run free.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. They'll be fighting outside, though. But anyway. But I'm blessed that they're healthy. That's the only important thing.

[Jessica]

They're healthy.

[DJ Envy]

I'm taking the fights all day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you have kids that enjoy going outside, that is actually a blessing to us. And if you don't have kids, if you have kids that don't like to go outside, that's your fault.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. All right. Get them off them damn tablets, get them from in front of that tv and send their ass outside like they used to do us back in the day.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'M from the country, so I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we know. We used to go outside now. Let's get the show cracking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the sidewalk. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

We had an alley.

[John Leguizamo]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We did.

[DJ Envy]

We had an alley.

[Jessica]

We played it on the sidewalk.

[DJ Envy]

No, we did. We played on the alley.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We had.

[DJ Envy]

We played on the sidewalk.

[Jessica]

Y' all don't have no trees and grass in Queens.

[DJ Envy]

We do, but not. Not that much. It's not like we were gonna play football on the grass. We had sidewalks, concrete, and streets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We played trail and no yard to play baske.

[DJ Envy]

We had like a little yard. We had like an alley where we

[Jessica]

put up the schools with no libraries, no. No computers, nothing.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my gosh. We had streets. We had a little grass. Yes, we had libraries. Yes, we did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank God Clue didn't take advantage of you, cuz he could have. He could have showed you a whole new life. He. He did. That's right, he did. But he could have really took advantage.

[DJ Envy]

He was a lot older too. I could have talked about it later in life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know he's a lot older. That could have been one year. And Brandon.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no. See, they could have been.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get the show cracking. You always go too far. You always go too far. Like, he was right there.

[Jessica]

The latest like, goodbye.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. Well, let's get the show cracking. Megan Good will be joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, salute to Megan.

[DJ Envy]

She has a new beverage. She's talking about her. She's in reasonable doubt and a bunch of the things that she's been doing. And also it's her and I think Jonathan Major's one year anniversary.

[Lauren LaRosa]

One year.

[DJ Envy]

One year anniversary. So we'll talk about all that. And also, John, It's like Leg Legazamo. John Legazamo will be joining us. He has a new show called D Killer Nannies. It's based off Pablo Escobar, but not off any drugs. It's based off him being a father and being a dad. So we'll talk to him about that.

[Jessica]

Very much killing people, though.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Yeah, yeah. Very much killing people. We got Mimi up next, so don't go anywhere. Front page news is on the way. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. What's up, Mimi?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mimi Brown.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning.

[Jessica]

Hey, y'.

[Megan Good]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

MVJ Charlemagne. How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Highly favored.

[Megan Good]

Good.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay, so we start this morning with a new executive order from President Trump that could change how mail in voting works. It's already setting up a legal fight. So President Trump, he signed an order that could change how mail in ballots are sent, how they're tracked and how they're verified. And states like California are already saying they plan to challenge this in court. Officials say there are three major parts to this order. Here is Secretary Howard, Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick explaining one part of the plan. Let's listen.

[John Leguizamo]

So here's the idea. The states, right, run these elections. They will. If they want to use the U.S. mail, the U.S. postal Service, they're going to get a code, a barcode from

[DJ Envy]

the US Postal Service, and they're going to put that on the envelope and

[John Leguizamo]

we will have one envelope per vote.

[DJ Envy]

None of this time where we have no idea. There's no observers to mail. There's no envelopes. There's no certainty. That's all going to go away.

[John Leguizamo]

If you voted by mail, you will have it on the envelope. Obviously not on the ballot, but on the envelope. So we will know a million mail

[DJ Envy]

in ballots, there'll be a million envelopes and you'll be able to know exactly, correctly that citizens voted.

[Mimi Brown]

So in simple terms, that just means that mail in ballots would have special barcodes and tracking through the postal service to make sure ballots go to the right voter and come back from the right right voter. Second, the order would require states to send the federal government a list of eligible voters ahead of the election if they want to use the postal service to send mail in ballots. And third, federal agencies like Homeland Security, the and Immigration Services would work together and they would create a Federal list of U.S. citizens over the age of 18. And melon ballots would be sent only to people whose names are on that list. Now, states would have only about 90 days to comply, which some state leaders say is not enough time and could disrupt the upcoming midterm elections, which is the whole point. Yes, supporters say this is about election security, but critics say, you know, the Constitution is very clear. The power to run and regulate elections belongs with the state, not the president. And the president just can't rewrite election laws with an executive order.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I mean, in simpler, simpler terms, they're doing everything in their power to steal the midterms. Okay, how many different ways are they going to try to steal an election this November? And when are we going to just start saying what it is? They can't afford to lose the midterms because they know that, that if they do, there'll be consequences. And Repercussions to all the corruption we have witnessed thus far.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely.

[Mimi Brown]

Legal experts also say this is headed to court and then probably to the Supreme Court. And speaking of the Supreme Court, President Trump is expected to be at the court today for a major case about birthright citizenship. Now, if he attends, he would be the first to sitting president to ever attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court. This case goes back to another executive order that Trump signed trying to end automatic citizenship for babies born in the US We've talked about this before, specifically babies whose parents are not U.S. citizens or legal residents of the United States. The lower courts, they already blocked this executive order, saying it violates the 14th Amendment, which says if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen. Here is President Trump explaining more about what he wants to do with this executive order.

[John Leguizamo]

If you look at the original birthright citizenship papers, they all happened right after the Civil War. The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves. Our country is being scammed. We're getting all of these people. They're selling the rights to them. People are making a big living getting hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars from bringing people in and saying, congratulations, your whole family is going to be a citizen of the United States of America.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What reason does he have to be there? Like, why? Like, why does he have to sit on it? This feels like an intimidation tactic or something.

[Mimi Brown]

That's what I was going to say. Exactly, exactly, exactly. So now the Supreme Court, they are stepping in to decide whether a president can limit birthright citizenship or whether it would require a change to the concept institution. So we will continue to watch that. Meanwhile, gas prices, they have now crossed $4 a gallon nationwide. That's up more than a dollar in just a month since the war started. And for a lot of people, especially people who drive for a living, this isn't just frustrating, this is money coming straight out of their paychecks. Let's listen to some of, you know, just some of the everyday people.

[Jessica]

I was saying the gas prices are ridiculous. Playing $4.50 a gallon almost is just out of control. We're not going to be able to take care of our families in a minute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm a doordash deliverer.

[DJ Envy]

I deliver for doordash. So I need my car to work, to drive. People deliver their food. Majority of the money I make doing that, I have to put it back in my car. That's crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, that's very crazy. And so the president says that he expects gas prices to come back down once the war comes to an end. And tonight President Trump will address the nation at 9:00pm Eastern time where the White House says he will deliver what they're calling an important update on the war in Iran.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. So yesterday, yesterday he said it's going to last what, three, three or four more weeks, which means he has no idea, no clue.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes. And so he's expected to address all of that tonight in on primetime television. And coming up at 7, a new campaign and starting a very big conversation this morning. So where does the line between a compliment start and crossing the line? And we'll get into it in the next hour.

[DJ Envy]

All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 850. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 1-800-585-1051 is the breakfast club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it

[DJ Envy]

off your chest, Whether you're mad or blessed.

[John Leguizamo]

I hate the way that you walk,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

the way that you talk I hate

[John Leguizamo]

the way that you dress.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything with me is best.

[DJ Envy]

Call up next, 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Who's this? Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mv dry the D. What's up, mama?

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest.

[Megan Good]

Good morning.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Good morning. What up, Jeff? What up, Sharla? So my chest, I got a lot on it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So the first thing is I want

[Caller Nate The Noble]

to talk the Republican Party and how everything that they projected about trans gay rapists is just basically coming out that it's all them and it's disgusting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'm glad in real time that

[Caller Nate The Noble]

they're having the moments that they deserve because, yeah, y' all have so much to say about all of these things that need to be blocked. And look, it's coming back to bite

[Charlamagne Tha God]

y' all in that. Yeah, I saw the story about Christy Gnomes husband yesterday and how he, he got exposed as a cross dresser. Yeah, cross dresses to me, man, they kind of cowardly, man. Go ahead and commit. You know what I'm saying? Go all the way. Cross dressing. Like she said she got one more. She said she only.

[DJ Envy]

I hung up on. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, Jada.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said she had a lot on her chest and you hung up on it.

[DJ Envy]

Damn, I thought she was finished. That's so disrespectful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't listen. He don't listen to people. That's his problem.

[Jessica]

Right back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Envy? What's up, Envy?

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Trav?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, what's up? Why you had to say his name twice, first of all. Anyway.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Hey, Jeff. How you doing, baby?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Abel.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pieces. Pieces. But look, Jazz, I just had to call up here and represent where I'm from because you called my hometown part

[Caller Nate The Noble]

of the DMV yesterday, and that's so disrespectful.

[Jessica]

I'm sorry. I did not know. I didn't know that the DMV was only Northern Virginia. I did not know that.

[DJ Envy]

Where was I? When you said, I know that, you must have been on the chat, right?

[Jessica]

You probably was on the toilet. I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What'd you think the DMV was?

[Jessica]

I thought it was D.C. maryland, Virginia, but all of Virginia. I didn't know that. 757 wasn't included in that.

[DJ Envy]

It's, like, just Richmond.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not 757.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Seven cities. We our own thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We are our own thing. I thought you from Philly. Tr.

[Jessica]

I. I thought he was, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am from Virginia, but I tell you this all the time. S. I've been living in Philly for 20 years. Been coming up here for, like, 2008. All my family is from Philly. My mom, my aunts, uncles, cousins, and I've been living up over 20 years. Where you get turned out at, where you ride your first in Virginia. Boy. First of all, I've never rode. Thank you very much. Okay, okay, guys.

[DJ Envy]

It's too early.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

However it works. When do you. When you get turned out? When I was.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

I didn't get turned out, but one of my first relationships.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Era.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

First, you know, male experiences was in Virginia when I was, like, 16.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, well, I don't. I didn't need to know all that now,

[DJ Envy]

like, what's wrong with you?

[Jessica]

But I apologize. You are so right now. I know you learn something new every day. DMV deserve.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They will tell you, Jazz, if you ever went down there saying that, you. But, you know, oh, I'm in the dmv. They're gonna.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Very much.

[Jessica]

Never in my life. Never in my life would I ever make that mistake and do that.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Jessica]

But Taylor worse than me. Taylor thought the DMV was Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.

[DJ Envy]

A lot of people think that sometimes

[Jessica]

literally was like, it's Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, right? I'm like, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taylor back on drugs, though. She's not breastfeeding. I definitely heard of Clear Fruit. I've also heard of Clear Fruit. I don't know what.

[Jessica]

Everybody acting like they don't know Clear Fruit, Fruitopia, all our drinks back in the day.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what y' all talking about, but.

[John Leguizamo]

All right.

[Jessica]

On the curb in the Queen. So you don't even know.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up, wake up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Whether you're mad or blessed, we want

[Charlamagne Tha God]

to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Yo, what's good, mp? Yo, I saw you last Sunday at

[DJ Envy]

the brewery on March 29, Uptown, Middletown, New York.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'm from Brooklyn, but I was in Middletown that day. It was the jam. Yo, I just wanted to speak to you, dog. So, listen, I don't know too many people, but I know one valuable person is better than 100 people who aren't valuable. And I see you as valuable. I wanted to share my media work with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, I rap, I produce, all of that.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

And I really wanted to speak to you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jetted out of there.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

I didn't even have the opportunity to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, that's why he ran. He ran. Cause he knew that you was about to pick him. I'm telling you, that's why he did that.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, now I'm in and out.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

No, no, no. But you're absolutely right, Charlie, man. But guess what? I wanted to take action. I wanted to speak to him, period. Like, I go work, I do poetry, spoken word poetry. I rap, I do, I produce, I do music. I just wanted to share some work with you, dog.

[DJ Envy]

I'll be honest with you. Passing me music ain't gonna do nothing because I'm not signing artists. And up here, we only play powers, which are big records that are out right now. So if your record gets big, I will absolutely, positively play it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He just told you a lie.

[DJ Envy]

That's not true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Music all the time.

[DJ Envy]

But also, spit your poetry now, brother.

[Jessica]

Shields. You got Clarissa Shields in the mix.

[DJ Envy]

I definitely don't have clothes right now.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

I got you.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

I got you.

[DJ Envy]

Go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

99 of people that you trying to impress they're not even with the air you need for half of your breath. Rigid, rugged and rough but there's no need for a vest I prefer life meditation through sex My seed shine like baguettes Giving birth to diamonds for me Digging in the earth with good grinding Harvesting fields of gold Fingerprint is king Midas with Solomon's wisdom it's hate When I men, I grind chins with five knuckles Cards my hands shuffle. You're an ace till I draw and I bluff you never show your bed saying too soon forgot the new moon to the eclipse your high noon, you're all dead Internally I give you any new light and your new date of birth is now emerging in infirmary I smack against with emergency with the pressure that could break any scale and it's measured for eternity that's worth the mean strategies and steady movements through the bruises I face generations full of losers duelists told my mother there's a burning seed inside her womb but that claim became the golden mind inside of me so what's the fee? Is the fruit edible? Which real has short shelf life Just to keep it credible and credits do the results never blemish me? No falling trees.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When I'm alone in my room Sometimes I stay at the wall and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call telling me who's the sweetest for the first time in my life I see I need love Giggling about the beach he basically tried to say you sound.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Yeah, my bad, my bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

What's good?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old are you, brother?

[Caller Nate The Noble]

I'm 35, man.

[Jaden Ivey]

Okay.

[Jessica]

Nah, but you cool. You, you, you, you got that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like the substance. I like the substance of what you were saying.

[Jessica]

I ain't just talking about nothing. I like.

[DJ Envy]

Give me your Instagram, man. Maybe get some followers and people start downloading your music, bro.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Oh, yeah, most definitely underscore. It's underscore, Nate. The Noble N A T E T H E N O B L E I just made this Instagram account. I made it because I just wanted to focus on dropping music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, good luck, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Can you stay with it?

[Jessica]

Definitely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Copy, copy.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

Peace.

[DJ Envy]

You be safe out there. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. What's up, Lauren?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You made me thee stallion sick.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you did not invite you nowhere anymore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was in here coughing all week and you took your ass to that show and made me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I went to the show last night. I thought I was going to finally see Meg. Thee stallion Mulan Rouge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you made us sick.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened before the show. No, I didn't see her before the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That cough that you did lingered right to her first.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't even cough the crowd.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you did. You're alive.

[Jessica]

You've been trying to cover your cuffs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't do anything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But we going to talk about what happened because I don't even know if I book. Never mind. We going to talk about it?

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get into that next. It don't move.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your talk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

LL Cool B. Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That source is I'm the home girl

[Lauren LaRosa]

that knows a little bit about everything and everything.

[Jessica]

Little brown girls look at you and

[Mimi Brown]

go, I want to be like you.

[Megan Good]

Take me through that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The latest with Laura Rose on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool Bay, talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So last night I got invited by Meg thee Stallion's team to come and see Meg on Broadway. She is a plan Zittler on Broadway in Moulin Roo. She is the first woman to play this role, the role of Ziddler. And oh my God, like, it was going great until abruptly it stopped and Meg Thee Stallion was no longer a part of the show.

[DJ Envy]

How long was the show on before it stopped?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, okay, so the show started at 7 o'. Clock. I got there around like 7:20 and they were already on stage at that point. Mecca came on stage one time and then I was seated and Meg came out. You know, we saw her about maybe like three more times after that. And she's actually really good. You know, sometimes you see celebrities on Broadway or in different, you know, different arenas and they feel like the celebrity there. No, Meg is actually really good in this play.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Imagine if you just saw the first 20 minutes.

[DJ Envy]

I was gonna say that being late for a Broadway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As much as I like to go to Broadway, I hate people who play. You were there for the. The look and just to see made.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I go to Broadway all the time. That is not. I do. I love.

[John Leguizamo]

Always start on time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, they always start on time. But it's not my fault that I was late. But that has nothing to do with the. The story. We're gonna stick to the story. So, yeah, so you see her a few times and then all of a sudden, mind you, the play is like going on, right? There is an over the audio system and the. The other actors. And Megan's not on stage at this point. They just stop. They freeze. So the announcement, the first announcement that comes on says, hey, guys, we're asking for all of the actors to please clear the stage immediately. And we want everyone in the theater to stay in their seats and please don't take out your phones and what the. Exactly. So all of us in the audience are like, wait, what?

[DJ Envy]

Like, so what's the first thing y' all do? Take out your phones?

[Jessica]

Absolutely. That would have Been the first thing I did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First I thought it was a part of the play. And then when I realized it wasn't, I was scared. I'm like, is something happening? Because it felt lockdown a little bit. So I got up. First thing I did, I got up and there was a security guard at the back of the the theater. And I went and talked to her. And I'm like, what's going on right now? Like, are we okay? Are we safe? And she was like, yes, you're safe for now. And I'm like, for now? Like, what does that mean?

[DJ Envy]

People getting up or you the only one?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, people. Well, people did get up. Nobody left at that point because we were all confused. We didn't know what was happening. So we're trying to make sure we were okay. So I'm like, for now, like, what is happening? She was like, we just want everybody to stay in the theater. We're trying to keep everyone in here. And I'm like, okay, something'. So I text you guys. I also hit Meg's team. And I'm like, what's happening right now? Please let me know if something's going on, because I want to get out of here. So then they start back up the show. But before they start back up the show, they have an announcement that comes on that says that Meg thee Stallion will no longer be in the play for the rest of that night. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please contact your point of purchase for a refund or exchange. Thank you and enjoy the rest of the show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that's all I could get because it happened so abruptly, but they basically announced the understudy that was going to come on and play Ziddler. But the beginning of that announcement said, Meg thee Stallion will no longer continue tonight as Ziddler. It will now be played by. And then that audio picks up where they notch Andrew Graham. And then the end of the audio where you hear the woman say, we love you. People started saying, we love you, Meg thee stallion. People were upset. They're like, we came here to see Meg. Y' all need to figure this out. There were some people who left, but majority of the audience did stay. Now at this point, I'm still confused.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, still the first act of the play.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Okay. This is only like 7:40, right? The place started at 7:00'. Clock.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I'm like, for it to be this early, something's happening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The first act is usually an hour, hour, 10 minutes. I know the run time is like 2 hours 35 with intermission like, 20 minutes. So probably like an hour, 10 minutes first.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So once they pick back up, they. We had about, like, maybe 20 minutes, and then it was intermission. But in the midst of that, ROC Nation and Mech's team called back, and they, you know, let me know that she had felt that she was sick and that she had been taken to the hospital. And, you know, I released that statement last night, and I did see that Meg, Thee stallion's hairstylist, you know, just asked people to pray for Meg and that they were all at the hospital. So I don't know what's going on further from that point, but it was just like. It was so raining.

[Jessica]

Yeah, stop like that and be like. And don't pull your phones out. Or, you know, like what? And then you went to the security guard, and he was like, you're safer now. My mind would have immediately went to Leave the World Behind.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, the only reason why I didn't leave at that point is because if something was happening outside, I didn't know what I was talking about.

[DJ Envy]

She wanted the story. She wanted the story. She was like, I'm gonna get this story.

[Jessica]

You remember that movie Leave the World behind on Netflix? That's exactly how.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me get this straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're in Italy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Child pretended to be the white Italian man's fiance.

[Mimi Brown]

Hard to believe.

[John Leguizamo]

This is Michael, my nephew.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On April 10, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce. Please just tell me that you support me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is he fine, though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, baby.

[DJ Envy]

You can eat, pray, and love me,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

baby, you be in Tuscany. PG 13. Only in theaters April 10th. May be inappropriate for children under 13.

[DJ Envy]

I'm here on the job site with Dale, who's a framing contractor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Dale traded up to Geico Commercial Auto Insurance for all his business vehicles. We're here where he needs us most.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep, they sure are.

[DJ Envy]

We make it easy for him to save on all his insurance meets all in one place with coverage that fits his business and bottom line. Oh, I shouldn't have looked down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's all right.

[DJ Envy]

We're so far up here. Look at me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take a deep breath.

[DJ Envy]

I'm good. So good.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

Get a commercial auto insurance quote [e-mail]

[Charlamagne Tha God]

and see how much you could save. It feels good to Geico.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

You know, Roald Dahl, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda and the bfg. But did you know he was also a spy?

[Mimi Brown]

Was this before he wrote his stories?

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

It must have been Our new podcast series, the Secret World of Roald Dahl, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans.

[Jessica]

What?

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

And he was really good at it. You probably won't believe it either.

[Megan Good]

Okay, I don't think that's true.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

I'm telling you, the guy was a spy. Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congressman. And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock before writing a hit James Bond film. How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever? And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids? The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote. Listen to the Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Lily Herman]

Why hasn't a woman formally participated in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade?

[Megan Good]

Think about how many skills they have

[Lily Herman]

to develop at such a young age. What can we learn from all of the new F1 romance novels suddenly popping up every year?

[Megan Good]

He still smelled of podium champagne and expensive friction.

[Lily Herman]

And how did a 2023 event called Wagageddon change the paddock forever?

[Mimi Brown]

That day is just seared into my memory.

[Lily Herman]

I'm culture writer and F1 expert Lily Herman, and these are just a few of the questions I'm tackling on no Grip, a Formula one culture podcast that dives into the underexplored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guest and I will go deeper into the wacky mishaps, scandals, and sagas, both on the track and far away from it, that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to no Grip on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Even before the story, I was like, what? I just wanted to know, okay, like, if we go out, what are we walking into? Because I didn't know what was happening. And then I was like, okay, this is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How would you walk out, though? They told you to sit your stupid ass down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know what was going on. I was trying to figure out, but that's why, because they told us to stay inside. I'm like, okay, what's happening? I think he was playing with you,

[Jessica]

though, because, for real, if it was just Megan being sick, it's. You're safe for now. Like, don't play with me. Like, I don't know if they're playing with the Bible.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, let me tell you, the first. The first. First guard that I talked to, I don't know if they knew what was going on, because when I reached out to her team, he. Her team said to me, oh, yeah, that's just intermission. I said, I come to Broadway all the time. This is not intermission.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then they were like, okay, let me figure it out. And then that's when I think the communication started between her team and the, you know, people on Broadway or whatever. So I think they were all trying. Everybody was trying to figure out what was going on.

[DJ Envy]

If there was a medical emergency.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

And they had to rush her out for whatever reason, they would definitely tell everybody to stay because they wouldn't want people to leave where the ambulance or, you know, emergency person don't have to get inside. So that could possibly be it too. But I just. Did we get anything to see what happened with them?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've tried.

[Jessica]

He tripped me, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I believe that Lauren put some sauce on it. You know, she exaggerates. Let's send Megan thee in some healing in. Absolutely.

[Jessica]

I hope she's okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Send me some healing energy. I hope that she's. She's. Well.

[Megan Good]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I definitely think Lauren probably put sauce on this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Worked with Lauren long enough to know that you could be talking to her, and then she. You'll add something on. You're like, I didn't say that. So I don't believe that. Just for now. You're safe for now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wish I was able to record

[Charlamagne Tha God]

security, and I don't know why.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When they told me that I text you and envy, like, what y' all was gonna do.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Security guard. We're safe for now.

[DJ Envy]

I was at the Barclays dj. I don't know what you were doing.

[Jessica]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, come here after.

[Jessica]

I don't know there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm sure there'll be some updates here as whatever is happening when she gets ready to talk about what happened, if she even does.

[Jessica]

So understudy, dude, you know? Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He was amazing. I forget his last from the audio, but he was amazing. Yes. The whole. Oh, my God. The show itself is just really, really good. But what I was most surprised by was how new this. The soundtrack was. I thought that they were going to pull. I thought it was going to be very timely and the music was going to be very timely, but they used so much new music. Like Britney Spears Toxic. What's Love Got to Do With It?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, so when did they keep Megan's music in? Did Brian Gnome come out dressed as a woman and dance to make good music?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, not Megan good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, they didn't.

[DJ Envy]

If.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If Meg's music is part of it, they did not keep that in. No, they. They stuck to whatever else they had.

[DJ Envy]

And this was the. The what show that she performed? This wasn't the first show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, her first week was last week. This is her second week of Broadway, and she's there for a total of eight weeks. So she'll be there through May 17th at the Al Hirschford Hirchfeld Theater in New York. And it is an amazing show, and she actually is really, really good. Like, she. I don't know if she's preparing for herself to get into acting. I know sometimes celebrities do that when they do Broadway. Whatever she's preparing herself for, it's. It's a good look because she does already, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Incredible Hulk. I mean, she was on. She Hulk. She was on. She was in that movie Dicks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. But a lot of time. A lot of times when people come on Broadway, they do it because they want to be taken more serious for something.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I don't know what that something is, but she's. She's doing very well.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, that is the latest one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sending her healing energy. Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're welcome.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, we got front page news, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

[Jessica]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne. The Gu Are. The Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, y'.

[Jessica]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

How y' all doing this morning?

[Jessica]

Hey, girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Mimi Brown]

I'm good, thank you. So this morning, we start this hour with a new campaign in New York City that's targeting something a lot of women say they deal with. So, Jess, I have a question for you. You ever been walking down the street, somebody yells, hey, sexy. Hey, baby girl?

[Jessica]

All the time, girl. Yes. What about it?

[DJ Envy]

Jess was probably the one doing it back in the day.

[Jessica]

Definitely was sometimes.

[DJ Envy]

But, yeah.

[Jessica]

What's up?

[Mimi Brown]

So now New York City is actually launching a new ad campaign telling people to stop doing that. So that's called cat calling, right? So the city is putting out ads all over subways, sidewalks, ferries, even construction sites, basically places where cat calling complaints happen the most. The message is simple. Unwanted attention isn't a compliment. It is harassment. So according to a new study, about 74% of New Yorkers say they have experienced this verbal street harassment.

[Lily Herman]

It.

[Mimi Brown]

And more than half say it's gone further, like being followed, filmed or touched without permission. But this morning the city says that you are not allowed to cat call.

[Jessica]

Now, is it those young guys, them influencers, you know, them streamers that walk up and do all that dumb ish, you know what I'm saying? Like they'll be trying to prank.

[DJ Envy]

This is regular people. Regular people, construction sites, just regular men screaming at women. The problem is I've seen cat calling work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've seen somebody say, hey yo, Char.

[Jessica]

As long as somebody.

[DJ Envy]

I've seen it work before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I think it depends how the guy looks. I think that women don't like being cat called by ugly people. But if a guy. If the guy. If the guy looks attractive and says something and they look up and they'd be like, right.

[Jessica]

Well, you don't gotta answer to it. I mean, I don't understand how it becomes harassment. You don't gotta answer.

[DJ Envy]

I see somebody whistle and somebody turn around smiling. Like I've seen it work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But also think of the difference between cat calling and just being trying to get somebody's attention. Right? Cat calling is, I guess, yelling something like damn shorty with the big ass. You know, you had nice lips though. But if I'm just like, yo, excuse me miss, can I speak to you for.

[DJ Envy]

That's not cat calling. But if it's like hey sexy. Or you whistle, hey baby.

[Jessica]

You know, hey baby, Right. I don't really think nothing is wrong with that if you're not touching the person and then you don't got to answer to that all the time. But I mean, I don't see how it is seen as harassment.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Calling a man bald is sexual harassment in the uk.

[Jessica]

Oh my gosh, for real?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you know that?

[Jessica]

Yes, in the uk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In the uk, yes.

[Jessica]

Oh my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Might be in America now. But I know in the UK a few years ago you call a man bald. It was considered sexual harassment.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, shut up.

[Jessica]

Sexual harassment is wild.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Failed.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay, well, the city, they are spending about 250000 on this campaign. So they're taking it really seriously.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, official.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Officially going somewhere so crazy. $250,000 on some cat calling campaign.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said the goal is the. What, Mimi, I'm sorry.

[Mimi Brown]

The goal is to make people think twice before yelling something at someone you don't know. According to the, you know, city of New York.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what that means? Somebody lawmaker got hollered at. Somebody. Somebody lawmaker's girl got hollered at. That's

[DJ Envy]

when I'm gay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Guys.

[DJ Envy]

Cat called you. How did you feel?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I felt good. It don't bother me at all what they say.

[Jessica]

One time you was walking past, it was like, charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't you walk past me with that fat ass and don't say nothing. Charlamagne turned right around, it went right over there. Excuse me. I'm a freaking lady. Don't talk to me like that. Tell me more. Tell me more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think the point is, honestly, like,

[Jessica]

you, you got you provoking New York. New York is like, nah, they're gonna do it even more.

[Mimi Brown]

So that is that story. And now, now to our next story. So this is a story that a lot of people can relate to because most of us, we've taken our car to get repairs and just assumed it would be safe.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, a woman in Memphis, Tennessee. Her name is Kimberly Porter. She says that wasn't the case. She said she had her car towed to Mercedes dealership after breaking down on the interstate. And it's it. She left it there for repairs. It was there for about a month.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Month.

[Mimi Brown]

Then one night she got a GPS alert on her phone showing that her car was moving and it was leaving the dealership. So at first she thought maybe they were just working on it, it was moving. But the alerts kept coming and the car kept getting further away. Let's listen to Ms. Porter.

[Megan Good]

So I have a app with my GPS and it notifies me every time my car moves. But I honestly thought something wrong with my GPS because maybe, maybe it's malfunctioning. But when it pinged at 10 and 12am no, some wrong. I'm thinking somebody stole my car from Mercedes.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, no one stole her car for Mercedes. She tracked her car's location and she found it at a Memphis area sports bar. Officers say an employee who was intoxicated when they found him had her key fob in his possession. He was arrested and charged with theft of property. The story, though, it does not end there. Porter said the next day the dealership called her and told her to return the loaner car that they had given her and pick up her own car or they would tell, they would report her loaner car as stolen. And she said that the dealership asked her to drop the charges against the employee, calling him a good kid and that he was on a date night with a friend and he meant no harm. And he was actually just test driving the car to diagnose the problems. Reporter says that she has now filed a civil lawsuit against both the employee and the dealership.

[Jessica]

Yeah, that's somebody's son.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's somebody's son.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that's exactly what that sounds like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, right, that's.

[Jessica]

I'm surprised that Mercedes Benz responded like that though, but clowned out. Y' all be surprised how many of them, the people that work at them car dealerships do that though. They, that goes down. They'd be doing that all the time. I know. Come on.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes. And if you don't have a tracker on your car, I guess you will never find out.

[Jessica]

And then if they crash it, they can just fix it real quick, you know what I'm saying?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that was her main argument too though. She was like, if something, if he would have hit something or somebody, that would have been on me, you know, and I would have never own.

[Jessica]

So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And lastly, today is April Fool's Day and relationship experts, they warn that some pranks, they can do real damage. Especially when pranks involve fear, trust or big life news. So a psychologist say if a prank makes someone feel embarrassed, betrayed or scared, the brain doesn't process it as a joke, it processes it as a real emotional event and it can actually damage trust in a relationship. So that's why experts say any pranks involving cheating, pregnancy, losing a job or money, they are almost always likely to go wrong because those are real life changing situations. So even if you yell April Fools, the emotional damage is already done. It's already happened. And every year social media is full of people doing those fake pregnancy pranks or fake cheating pranks. And every year you see videos where the other person is not like laughing,

[Jessica]

but I mean, what happened to it back in the day? It was so fun. I mean, like, what happened to people

[Charlamagne Tha God]

like it, you know, it's still fun. I don't care about that. Goddamn. I don't care about that statistic that, that don't. I don't even believe that people truly operate like that. Once you know something is a joke, you chalk it up as a joke. Now the trauma is this person plays too much. Yeah. Like so in your mind you're always like, I know this person like to play. Like right now there's somebody that woke up, up and they are prepared because they know the person in their life that is going to try to get them. Yes, that could be a source of trauma, but you're not traumatized by the actual joke. They Pretended to be pregnant or, you know, pretended to cheat or something.

[Jessica]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Unless y' all trying to have a baby. Unless it's some.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

It's like y' all trying to have a baby or you want to get married and somebody propose and be like, right.

[Jessica]

Mind. Not about to do that. Especially with the baby thing. Come on. Like, that's just cool, right? Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes. I think that's the point in B2. And the. The study was asking which prank is worse, the cheating prank or the pregnancy prank? You know, which one plays with your trust the most? So that was the question.

[Jessica]

Joke. So both of them is fun. Both of them are fun. The reactions be funny as hell.

[Mimi Brown]

They do be funny. They definitely are funny. All right, y'.

[Megan Good]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me @mimi Brown TV. And for more stories, follow the Black Information Network.

[Megan Good]

Network.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Jessica]

Mimi used to say in Alaska, like, for April Fools, like, y', all, all the snow melted, like, what, what was it? Summer?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Mimi Brown]

Because in April, there's still a lot of snow. So there was just. That wouldn't even work. Yeah, still like December in April in Alaska.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, thank you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, y', all, when we come back, we have actor and comedian John Legazamo. John Leguizamo. We have John Leguizamo joining us. When bags, it don't move, it's the breakfast correctly. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here with us as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, John Lego Zamo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you doing?

[DJ Envy]

Did I say your name right?

[John Leguizamo]

That's how I pronounce it. That's not how you're supposed to say it.

[DJ Envy]

How you supposed to say it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[John Leguizamo]

But you know when teachers would get to that my name and they go like. I was like, you know, I'm gonna just do it phonetically and shut them up, be laughing at me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like that with my first name. My first name is Leonard, but the teachers would always say Leonard, right? And so I would get tired of correcting them. So I was just like, man, just call me my middle name. My daddy's name, Larry.

[John Leguizamo]

Like, Larry Larry. That would just stop the nonsense. Your first day of school, everybody starts laughing at you. Is not the way you want to start the year.

[Jessica]

You know what I mean? How are you?

[John Leguizamo]

I'm great. I'm great. Great to be here. This is exciting to be here, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy to have you.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[John Leguizamo]

And you on Netflix now. God damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[John Leguizamo]

That's a big deal.

[Jessica]

Yes.

[John Leguizamo]

How much?

[DJ Envy]

How much?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You tell us how much you made for Danny.

[John Leguizamo]

Brag, man. I don't like to brag.

[Megan Good]

It's not cool.

[John Leguizamo]

It's not cool to brag, you know? No, I mean, Disney pays well. It pays well. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, Apple, Disney, Netflix doesn't pay well for actors anymore. I don't know about your show is a totally different thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Licensing is.

[John Leguizamo]

We do a good license is different.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[John Leguizamo]

I like the way you just do it. Yeah. Licenses is a little different.

[DJ Envy]

Let's talk about Dear Killer Nannies. It premieres on the 1st, and it's about Pablo Escobar, but in a different light.

[John Leguizamo]

Absolutely. Because, you know, everybody's done Pablo Escobar.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[John Leguizamo]

You know, and I. I guess, you know, like, white actors have to do, like, Hamlet, and they all do it. Latin actors all have to do Pablo to show who's the best. Because Javier Badem did it. Benicio Del Toro did it. Wagner Moore, who just got nominated for an Oscar, did it. So now it's my turn to do it. So everybody did good. Some didn't get the accent quite right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[John Leguizamo]

A couple I'm not gonna name who. And some didn't get the gestures, the behavior. So I tried to do it all, man. I studied my ass off. I watched every tape, every recording he ever had. I read everything about him. I talked to his son, gave me a lot of tips about how to play him nice and things that happened. Because the son was a consultant on this one for the first time ever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[John Leguizamo]

So we're seeing the inside of what happened and what was said at home. And that's what's exciting about this show because you. You didn't know what was going on, like, the kind of fear that they lived under. Even though he was, I guess, the wealthiest gangster that ever lived, he was worth 30 billion when he died. I guess that's 70 billion in today's 20, 26 money. So he's the wealthiest, but he still had to move homes sometimes, stay away from the family, so he would. So he could be, like a decoy away from them. The son tried to go to school, but the DA was after them. Assassination attempts. The kids were afraid of him, so he had to be schooled at home by these trained assassin nannies. And they became his friends, his family.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[John Leguizamo]

And, you know, you can't totally trust them because they're not really family. And some of them became informants. So Pablo had to off some of them. And then that was confusing to the son that his dad was taking out some of the nannies that he loved. And so that's all in the series. It's really wild.

[DJ Envy]

It's not about the drug part of it. It's more about the son growing up and how his father was a father.

[John Leguizamo]

Exactly. Trying to be a father. And back then, it was a tough love love kind of love. But Pablo was the first guy in Colombia, maybe in all of Latin America in the 80s, because it was a tough love kind of. You raise your son like being tough. You want to meet him, prepare for the world. He would say, I love you, kiss him, hug him in public, at home, everywhere. And. And Colombian dads weren't doing that. Obviously, Pablo knew that he might die, so that's why he was more affectionate. But he. But he, you know, because I hug and kiss my son and say, I love you, but that's not how my dad treated me. You know, my dad was like, every day I see you, you get more stupider than the last day. That was how my dad, you know, there is you back then.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did. Did playing him in this series humanize him for you? I would.

[John Leguizamo]

We were trying not to humanize him and normalize him. You know, we. We do show all the killings and the assassinations that he did, but. But we do show the parent side. That was complicated because the son did call him out a lot of times. You know, he's, you know, what kind of life are we living? You're killing the nannies. You're killing some of my friends. Are you gonna kill my. My mom if she says the wrong thing to you? So the son does call him out in the show, which is that. That's the only part that you might feel kind of humanizing him a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder why. Why did he. Why was he so willing to just kill people and let people know that he was killing him? You would think that that would be something he would keep to himself.

[John Leguizamo]

Well, I mean, because he was. He was. He owned Colombia. You know, he owned the whole country. He owned the government. He was bribing everybody. His thing was plata o plomo. So either you take the bribe or you get a bullet. So that was your choice that he put to everybody. And he took all. You know, he bombed a lot of journalists. He bombed a lot of politicians. He controlled the country. Basically.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[John Leguizamo]

He told him that he would pay their debt if they let him take over completely.

[DJ Envy]

Were you nervous or scared playing this Part at all.

[John Leguizamo]

You know, it's been years now. No, I'm not scared anymore. I was just like, what you mean anymore?

[DJ Envy]

Were you scared first?

[John Leguizamo]

You know, back in the day, you couldn't do that because, you know, who knows, somebody might come after you. But now, I mean, it's years later, you know.

[Jessica]

What drew you to the role initially?

[John Leguizamo]

To show up everybody, that I could do it better than everybody else had done. And I think I did a crazy good job, man. There's one actor that might have beat me, me, the Colombian actor who did a TV series about Pablo. He looked just exactly like him. His accent was perfection. The gestures, I'm second, I think. But you. You judge for yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is a role like this demand from you emotionally that that other roles did?

[John Leguizamo]

Well, this one, you know, it was a lot of research that. That more than other roles where I could be myself or tap different parts of myself here, I had to, like, reach to the level that you could play Paulo Escobar tape next to me and me and see that there's not that much difference, you know, that that's what I was after.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I saw that. His son told the LA Times that doing a movie like this is like, his way to tell the truth and to kind of push back against the way that other movies has made the violence a spectacle. But how do you not make it a spectacle? Because he's so notorious and, like, you got to include all of that stuff so, like, in the writing. How did they try and figure that out?

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, yeah. Because we did still show all his violence, you know, all the assassination attempts that he put on people and the kind of life of paranoia that he lived. We kept that. But I think the difference in this is that you see what the family life was like at home with the wife and with the kids, and how he was trying to be a loving dad, but his morality said the opposite message. He just couldn't help it. I mean, we all mess up his parents, but our kids are going to hit us for something. But, I mean, he had extra. He had all the. That having to move the kids from place to place, having to stay away from them so that he wouldn't bring violence to the house. And eventually, you know, that kind of lifestyle always ends the way it always ends. You know, like he got shot up.

[Jessica]

We were talking to the son, right? And I imagine the son had to relive all this and go down memory lane a lot. Was it ever emotional for him, do you think?

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, he got emotional, you know, because he did love his dad, you know, I guess he had a lot of words and some beef towards the end, but I guess you have to make up for that after your dad passes. You know, he changed his whole life. He moved to Argentina, changed his name, became a psychologist. I guess you would have to become a psychologist. And he goes around the world doing, you know, speeches about, you know, giving good, putting out good.

[Jessica]

That's amazing.

[John Leguizamo]

So that, that's how he escaped the sins of the father.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But even though he's done all of that does, is there like traumas that he still deals with daily, even all these years later?

[John Leguizamo]

You know, he definitely has to deal with, deal with. I mean, the, the way they grew up and, and all that money that he didn't get because, you know, the, the, a lot of it was disappeared. It, it, we never, it was never really discovered where a lot, a lot of that money went. But I think a lot of people robbed it and, and took it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And especially law enforcement, I'm sure they

[John Leguizamo]

got, of course they got a huge chunk of that. And all his other comrades must have taken a piece.

[DJ Envy]

I wanted to know for Colombian, how did they view Pablo? Because, you know, did they love him or was it just a fearful thing or did they hate him?

[John Leguizamo]

They hate him. I mean, I, I think mostly the journalists and people who, who are law abiding citizens hate him. But you know, the people in the town, they loved him because he did all the right things, you know, and he was representing them because, you know, Latin America, you know, it's, it's 10% of the people run everything. Anybody else lives in poverty, you know, so he was building stadiums, churches, you know, helping out, building schools. He did all the right things to make people love him. And he represented sort of the little man, the ordinary guy, the underdog, making it, making it big, busting out of this sort of world where if you're born into money, you get the education, you get the best jobs, you know, and also like, the more white looking you are in Latin America, the more successful you are. And if you're more indigenous or Afro Latino, it's a much tougher life. Just, you know, all that colonist colonialism and conquest doesn't go away that easy, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you pivot between comedy, you know, doing dramas like this? Because I'm an amazing actor, you know what I mean? Like, how do you pivot between all of that stuff? So.

[John Leguizamo]

Because I'm an amazing actor, that's why. Yeah, you know, I love what I do, man. I love I love animated voices like encanto, and I love doing that. Plus, you know, the check is really nice, too. That's another Disney check, by the way. Two Disney checks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[John Leguizamo]

License to Disney.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Disney ain't no joke. I feel like I know Bruno. Like, we don't talk about Bruno. But, but is, is, is it as effortless as you make it look?

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, pretty much. You know, some I, I. No, yeah. I mean, the. I, I do the voices easily, but the problem was a harder one because I, you know, English is my dominant language. So even though Spanish is my mother tongue, that to get that right, I had to work really hard because I had a lot of pressure. I don't. I didn't want Colombians to be embarrassed by me that I messed up. You know, I messed up that representation. I didn't want to do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, you know, you're a. You're just a great actor, period. Not a great Latino actor, Right?

[John Leguizamo]

Oh, thank you, bro. Thank you. Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you. Why do you think the industry still moves so slow when it comes to, I guess, just inclusion for Latino?

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah. Well, you know, obviously this administration doesn't make it easier, you know, deeming us deep, you know, like we were got to jobs because of our skin color, our ethnicity. No, we got here because of our greater talent. Because to be a black or Latin talent, you have to be 10 times better than a white talent to get that job.

[Megan Good]

That's right.

[John Leguizamo]

It's not less talent. You have to have more talent. And then you're still not selected for everything. I. Hollywood, you know, back in the day, they would be straight up, they would tell you to my face, you know, they would, you know, some producer came to me with doing Spawn, and he said to me, you know, too bad you're Puerto Rican, because if you, if you weren't Puerto Rican, you'd be such a big movie star. But that was the reality of things, you know, and then executives, when you pitch them a story, they will go, you know, that's really good and everything, but, you know, we don't have to do Latin content because Latin people go to the movies no matter what they see. They'd rather see white people. And I'll go, what? You know, they would tell you that to your face. Now, they don't tell you anything. They just. You don't hear anything, right? You don't hear.

[Jessica]

It's silent radio now, Spawn, you absolutely killed it. That was one of my favorite.

[John Leguizamo]

Thank you.

[Jessica]

Thank you. Yeah, but when they told you that what, what was going through Your mind, like what? Did that crush you in any way, discourage you in any way at that point?

[John Leguizamo]

No, that was a fact. That was a fact. I mean that, that back then in the, in those days, you know, there was this thing called the Ross Report that would come out on Mondays. This is, I'm Talking about the 80s, ancient history, the Russ Report come out Mondays and tell you every movie that was available, every role that was available and it was a little Jim Crow or Juan Crow, cuz that's what they called it.

[DJ Envy]

That's what they called it for LA

[John Leguizamo]

people, that was what they called it for lan people in the Southwest. Cuz there was Jim Crow laws against us as well. We weren't, you know, allowed to go to churches, parks, movies. You know, you, you couldn't eat with white people or go in the pool when white people went in back in those days in the 1800s and before that. So this Russell Poor would come out and would say white lead, white doctor, white lawyer, white love interest, white this. And then every five months I get like a Latin drug dealer and I would ask my agent, can I go up for these other roles? Let me just do my monologue, Let me just read for them. They'll see, they won't even see you. They wouldn't see you. So that's the way it was. No matter how talented you were or how you studied or whatever, you were never going to get the opportunity, the same opportunity as a white actor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It feels like even now, like Hollywood celebrates Latino culture, but still doesn't trust Latinos to like lead major projects.

[John Leguizamo]

Right, right. I mean we're 20% of the population. We over index at 30% of the box office.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[John Leguizamo]

For bad boys we were 40% of the box office. And, and until we get 20% of executives, then things are going to change. But until we have Latin executives, things aren't going to change that much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know why the white people fighting it though. If the country's getting more brow, just embrace it.

[John Leguizamo]

Makes everything better. Why you? So what, what are you holding? I mean it's crazy, it makes, makes no sense. We all could get along, we could have a great time. It's going to flip anyway. White people are only 58.2% of the population. They're almost just nearly half. But they still getting 90% of the roles, 90% of the executives, 90% of everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think it's our fault sometime because we don't show up with the green like we should. Meaning, like, meaning like when there's A project, you know, led by a brown person. Brown people should make sure they show up, right? When it's a project led by a black person, like, you should make sure they show up because everybody cares about money at the end of the day.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, yeah. But, you know, we black and Latin people do show up when. When the content is right. You know, I mean, the content has to be right. But sometimes a lot of Latin content is not written by Latin people or directed by a Latin person. So you have all this culture appropriation that makes things look weak and soft and doesn't represent correctly, and. And people can smell that out, you know, but look, Fluffy, the comedian, he sells out Dodger Stadium. There's no comedian in America that can sell out Dodger Stadium. Bad Bunny sold out Yankee Stadium twice. Mark Anthony sells out the mess. Latin people show up for the content that's genuine. That's theirs. I mean, George Lopez and I, when we do the rice and bean circuits across America, yo, you're selling out in all these major cities. You sell out and you make. I used to make all my bank. There you go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell me what the rice and beans target is

[DJ Envy]

like.

[John Leguizamo]

26, sir. 26 big cities. You got Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Chicago. Also California. You know, you got. You got San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. You got Denver, Colorado. You got Phoenix, Arizona. Then in Texas, it's Austin, Houston, Dallas, McAllen, Corpus Christi, San Antonio. Where else? Did I forget something else? Las Vegas. Vegas is.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think you said Miami.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, Mike, did I say Miami?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all you need.

[John Leguizamo]

That's all you need.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

And the rice and beans show consists of, like, y' all just, like, doing comedy on your culture.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, yeah. All these comedy circuits, and you go to these venues, and boom, you sell out. And you stay as long as you. You keep selling out, and then you move to the next town.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. You had a strong message for ICE and the followers of ice, but you didn't want to match your show. I want to read it because it says, if you follow ice, don't come to my shows. Don't watch my movies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Why was that important?

[John Leguizamo]

Follow me.

[DJ Envy]

I'm following. Why was that so important for you?

[John Leguizamo]

It was important to me because the way I see Latin bodies being treated, you know, moms, grandmothers, children, pregnant women. I mean, why are you arresting children? I mean, how do you do that? How can you. How can you wrap your mind around that? It's so inhuman and cruel and. And the way they're treating people. You See that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And, yeah.

[John Leguizamo]

So, yeah, I can't. I can't be for these. These kind of like domestic terrorists going around covering their faces, not giving badges is not reading you your rights, not treating people with respect. That. That's. That's not what they set out to do. What didn't they set out to grab? Criminals? These aren't criminals, obviously. They're just innocent people. I mean, they're not reading them their rights and not treating them with due process. That's not America. That's not the America that I believe in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you seen them at the airport?

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, I saw him at the airport.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I. I don't think that the one. I think the ones at the airport are not the same ones that are in the street.

[John Leguizamo]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's. I think it's a totally different bunch of people because they're so nice. Nice. And that's so helpful. And Trump said that it was image rehab for them.

[John Leguizamo]

Oh, that's absolutely what it looks like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What I think he wants to do is, you know, you go to the airport and you realize, oh, that's so nice. And then. So when he says, and we're gonna have them at the. The voting booths during the midterms, you're not gonna think nothing of it.

[John Leguizamo]

Right, right. You know, that's. That private military.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[John Leguizamo]

Send him wherever they. Wherever he wants.

[Jaden Ivey]

That's right.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah. I mean, that's what it looked like. The optics to me was. The other day I was in the airport. It was like, oh, you're trying to normalize these guys and make them look like they. Okay. Because they're the masks. They're not grabbing anybody. They're just standing around. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Have you got backlash at all for that? For that statement? I pulled over. F's weird at all?

[John Leguizamo]

Not yet, but I'm taking lots of precautions. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, my family's afraid. You know, when you speak out, there are consequences, so. Yeah. Yeah, I take much more precautions than I used to. You know, I make sure my phone's on lockdown mode and whatnot. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did they see you at the airport? How did they treat you at the airport?

[John Leguizamo]

They looked at me, eyeballed me, and I balled them back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[John Leguizamo]

I wasn't friendly, and I'm not going to be friendly to people who are treating my people the way they are.

[Jessica]

Absolutely.

[John Leguizamo]

And the problem is the majority of these ICE guys are Latino and black. That's problematic for me. The hell out of me. I mean, how do you deal with that? I Mean, the majority of people I know, they're going for a check, most of them. But still, how do you treat these.

[DJ Envy]

Your people?

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you treat your own people like that? I'm telling you, the ones in the airport are not the same ones that are on the street, I truly believe. Yeah, now. Now. But when the midterms come, the ones that's gonna be at the voting booths are the ones that were in the street.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, right, right. Doing all that thuggery.

[DJ Envy]

I want to go back a little bit, if you didn't mind. How did you get into acting? Right. Growing up in New York City, we would see your name all over the place. Right. Whether it's Caroline's or you performing here. And I knew you at first as a comedian, of course, and then you got into acting. What got you into comedy, and how did you transition into act?

[John Leguizamo]

Well, I started. I was a class clown and a troublemaker and a troubled teen and all that stuff. And the school made me go to therapy because they wouldn't let me back, and. But I was a class clown, you know, at Bertram, and it was a competitive school for class clowns. Man, you could not sit at this.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[John Leguizamo]

You couldn't sit at this one lunchroom table unless you crack the best jokes the day before.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[John Leguizamo]

So I used to have to write my jokes the day before and all that stuff.

[DJ Envy]

And this was at what age?

[John Leguizamo]

This. Me. 16, 17, you know, and Damon Wayans went there, and Q Tip and Jungle Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Y' all knew each other.

[John Leguizamo]

I knew Damon. I. I didn't know Q Tip. Q Tip was, like, two years younger than me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damon was always funny.

[John Leguizamo]

He.

[Megan Good]

He.

[John Leguizamo]

I. I don't know about funny. He was. He was an odd man. He. He was a handsome dude, but he was just always to himself. Always kind of smiling and. And had jokes in his head. I just didn't hear them out loud.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you.

[DJ Envy]

So back to the story. So you was writing ahead and at the lunch table.

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let me get this straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're in Italy.

[Jessica]

Ciao.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pretended to be the white Italian man's fiance.

[Lily Herman]

Hard to believe.

[John Leguizamo]

This is Michael, my nephew.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On April 10, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce. Please just tell me that you support me, girl. No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is he fine, though? Come on, baby.

[DJ Envy]

You can eat, pray and love me, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You be in Tuscany. Radio PG13 only in theaters April 10th. May be inappropriate for children under 13.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

You know, world Dahl, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the bfg. But did you know he was also a spy?

[Mimi Brown]

Was this before you wrote his stories?

[Megan Good]

It must have been.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

Our new podcast series, the Secret World of Roald Dahl is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans.

[Jessica]

What?

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

And he was really good at it. You probably won't believe it either.

[Megan Good]

Okay, I don't think that's true.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

I'm telling you, the guy was a spider by did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congresswoman? And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock before writing a hit James Bond film. How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever? And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids? The true story is stranger than anything he ever Listen to the Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Lily Herman]

Why hasn't a woman formally participated in a Formula One race weekend in over a decade?

[Megan Good]

Think about how many skills they have

[Lily Herman]

to develop at such a young age. What can we learn from all of the new F1 romance novels suddenly popping up every year?

[Megan Good]

He still smelled of podium champagne and expensive friction.

[Lily Herman]

And how did a 2023 event called Wagageddon change the paddock forever?

[Mimi Brown]

That day is just seared into my memory.

[Lily Herman]

I'm culture writer and F1 expert Lily Herman, and these are just a few of the questions I'm tackling on no Grip, a Formula one culture podcast that dives into the underexplored pockets of the sport. In each episode, a different guest and I will go deeper into the wacky mishaps, scandals, and sagas, both on the P track and far away from it, that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to no Grip on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[John Leguizamo]

1010 shots fired.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

City hall building. A silver.40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene. From iHeart Pocket Podcasts and Best Case Studios, this is Rorschach. Murder at City Hall. How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that.

[DJ Envy]

Jeffrey.

[Megan Good]

Who did it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

July 2003. Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City hall with a guest. Both men are carrying concealed weapons, and in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead. Everybody in the chambers, ducks. A shocking public murder.

[John Leguizamo]

I scream, get down. Get down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Those are shots.

[DJ Envy]

Those are shots.

[John Leguizamo]

Get down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A charismatic politician. You know, he just bent the rules all the time, man. I still have a weapon and I could shoot you. And an outsider with a secret.

[John Leguizamo]

He alleged he was a victim of lockdown.

[DJ Envy]

That may or may not have been political.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That may have been about sex. Listen to Rorschach. Murder at City hall on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[John Leguizamo]

So, you know, and then my math teacher, Mrs. Zufa was like, you know, Mr. Liu Squeezer Mo he used to call me because he couldn't say my name correctly. And he go, if they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, there must be something we can do with you. And he suggested I use my comedy for some good instead of disposing disrupting. And I started taking acting classes. And boom, that started my, my career. Started taking these acting classes. NYU students came to see these shows and they offered me student films. And boom, boom, I got an agent. I got Miami Vice. Cause that's the only place Latin people could work in those days was as villains on Miami Vice. But hey, they were funding our careers, you know.

[Jessica]

Damn, that's dope. And then I just had shows at the New Brunswick in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at the Stress Fair Factory. And you're on the wall up there. I don't know if you. Do you remember going there?

[John Leguizamo]

Yeah, I do.

[Jessica]

Okay. Because Benny always talks about you and, you know, coming to his club and I, I love seeing you on the wall. I mean, I. I'm a stand up comedian myself, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, cool.

[Jessica]

Like, I see you on a lot of the walls, but it's so funny that I saw you there and then I. And they were talking about Vinnie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[John Leguizamo]

You know, because you got to test out your material, you know, and you gotta go somewhere, right?

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[John Leguizamo]

So I, I try to stay out of New York because then I'll get reviewed and they'll, you know, they'll rush some new stuff. That's not right. Not right for the go to Jersey. I go, you know, wherever I, I can as far away and test my stuff out. And, you know, I love that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That got to be hard for you now, right? You testing out anything anywhere. I feel like your face is so known, like everybody knows you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[John Leguizamo]

So I have to do different things. Obviously now I just, I kind of do zoom testings of my material.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't even imagine, like, what's the impact on the people watching.

[John Leguizamo]

No, no, no, not audience. I just get like my trusted friends and trusted. So, yeah, so I have to, like, I have make it smaller and smaller and more protected, obviously.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that might be worse, though. You tell a joke in front of five friends and they just look at you like, that's not it.

[John Leguizamo]

You gotta be confident in yourself. And then when they do crack, you know, and they do laugh, you're like,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

oh, I got them.

[John Leguizamo]

That one really kills. I'll work on the other ones.

[DJ Envy]

I seen you. You're tearing at the Super Bowl. Tears of joy.

[John Leguizamo]

Oh, yeah, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why.

[DJ Envy]

Why did that performance mean so much to you? Cause there's been other Latin people that performed at the Super Bowl. Why was that one so emotional signal for you?

[John Leguizamo]

Oh, dude, because I think because of the situation that we're living through, you know, to see Bad Bunny there in Spanish, because, you know, there's Joseph tried to sing in Spanish back in the 60s and they arrested him after in Yankee Stadium. And then some. Some Mexican kid and wore mariachi outfit and tried to sing this American, this Star Spangled Banner, and. And they mistreated him and. And threw things. So for him to speak Spanish at Super bowl was such a powerful statement and, and such a brave statement that it was moving, man, to see all these Latin kids performing on that stage being their authentic selves. And I knew, I knew all the signals that he was sending. Like the old Puerto Rican flag that was banned, the electric plants that, that, that, you know, that FEMA's money was robbed in Puerto Rico so they didn't have, like, proper electricity. I saw all the little Easter eggs that he planted, the little, little boy and the real marriage. It was all just so touching, man. To see us celebrated instead of demonized instead of being attacked. It was just overwhelming for me. No, you make me cry now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you gotta leave, man. So my last question to you is, when it's all said and done, what matters to you more? Being remembered as a great entertainer or a cultural disruptor?

[John Leguizamo]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[John Leguizamo]

Can I be both? Can I be a great entertainer that's culturally disruptive? Because I believe. I believe artists are political. I believe art is political. Entertaining is a different thing. But I'm an artist, man. I like to create stuff that changes the world, that makes the world a better place. And I think that's the place for art.

[DJ Envy]

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Definitely check out Dear Killer Nannies out today. Make sure you watch it. Thank you for joining us, John Leguizamo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

John the Leguizamo Why you ain't gonna say his name?

[DJ Envy]

I had to write it out right there. So I said, I practiced this Breakfast Club Good morning. Let's get to the latest alarm your talk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

LL COOL yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.

[Jessica]

Little brown girls look at you and

[Lauren LaRosa]

go, I want to be like you. Take me through that. Take me through there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The latest with Lauren on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool

[Lauren LaRosa]

oh, I can't hear myself. Here we go. Okay, so Brandy's new book Phases. Her memoir has dropped, and now she's telling her side of the story about a lot of different things. One of the things that she's talking about in the book that has actually become a huge topic of conversation is her relationship with Y. Morris of Boys to Men. And for the first time, she's telling her side. Now she I have some audio from the audiobook, and then I have some written parts as well, too. So she starts it off by talking about the fact that she wants the the shame to end here. She says that the shame, the silence ends here. She wants people to know that she's not a fast girl with a crush. She was not a dramatic teenager who couldn't handle rejection, and she was not an unstable, obsessed fan. She says, I was a child and he was an adult, and it is time that the world understands the difference. So let's take a listen to Brandi talking about losing her virginity to Wanye.

[L]

What had begun as admiration had transformed into something else. It seems to me that he weaponized my admiration, shaped my friendship into dependence, my respect into desire. I felt swept up in a current I couldn't control. On the tour bus, during long stretches between seats cities, I'd find myself drifting into daydreams, tracing the contours of his laugh, wondering how it might feel if his fingers ever interlaced with mine. The unspoken energy between us had intensified. The attraction was subtle yet undeniable. My girlfriend is 16. I don't remember when he first said it, but those four words started rolling off his tongue whenever we were alone. I couldn't tell if this refrain was meant to soothe his own conscience or temper the questions shimmering in my gaze. Regardless, I was under the impression that we were madly in love, or at least what I believed love to be at 16.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that was actually the clip where she talks about the beginning of their relationship and when it actually turned into a relationship. So how it begins in the book is that they. They did the song Broken Hearted together after Boys and Men performed at her birthday party. And it kind of progressed from there. So then she gives some more detail on kind of when it was kind of like, made an actual thing to her. Now, she does admit in the book she. She was over her head. She was sneaking around with ya. And she says that she was lying to her parents about it. And then she goes into talking about losing her virginity and some of the pressures that she felt from being in this relationship.

[L]

These are a natural part of our youth rites of passage that should unfold with tenderness and care. Mine unfolded under the influence of a man who seemed to know exactly how to make me question my own belief. Part of me wanted to retain some semblance of normalcy. But also I knew full well that what was happening between me and him was wrong. And yet my attitude was, this was special. This was real. People just can't understand. I was young and inexperienced and thought the following my heart meant following his lead. I had wanted to wait until marriage and had shared those beliefs with. But I also believed that having sex with him would cement our bond, would prove I was mature enough for our relationship, would make him happy. And so I told myself I was ready, that this was my choice. But the truth is, I felt like I had no choice. I felt like saying no meant losing him.

[Jessica]

How old was he?

[DJ Envy]

22 at the time.

[Jessica]

She was 16.

[DJ Envy]

She was 16 at the time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I.

[DJ Envy]

That's what she said.

[Mimi Brown]

Says.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, from what I saw, she said that he was 6, she was 16, and he was 20 or 20, or in his 20s. I'm sorry. So it might have been 22, but I reached out to a. A rep for Boys to me five years apart. So, yeah, I reached out to a rep for Boys to Men yesterday when people started picking up this part of the book and hadn't heard back. But Wanye was here on the Breakfast Club some years ago, and you guys had talked a bit about this. And I saw people pointing to this clip as well, too. Let's take a listen.

[Megan Good]

And you had a celebrity relationship. Were you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Were you the only one that was ever involved with a celebrity?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wanye was banging Brandi, Brandy, even sending

[Lauren LaRosa]

her behind the music that you broke her heart.

[Megan Good]

Cause you fell in love with somebody else.

[DJ Envy]

You only fall out of love with somebody else if somebody makes you fall out of love.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They were saying she was really young when y' all dated. Yeah, she was not. Not that young. Not. Cause I don't want y' all to think Boys to Men was young.

[DJ Envy]

Weed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, she said she was. I was young, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She said she was 15 and she had to keep it a secret. Cause she.

[DJ Envy]

No, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, see, we did the thing when she was, like, 16, 17, around that time, you know? So you were still a boy, too. You had a. I wasn't old. I wasn't like, 38 years old. Nothing like that. She was old enough to get it. Okay, but was it legal in the state y' all was in? Is the. I mean, we was always in different states.

[Megan Good]

Oh, my gosh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Political.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no.

[DJ Envy]

It was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

It was a relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It grew and it. And it ungrew.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I done forgot more interviews than y' all ever heard. I don't even remember having that conversation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Oh, you had it. No, it was.

[DJ Envy]

You sure that wasn't there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was.

[DJ Envy]

Was real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember having that. What year was that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What year was that?

[Jessica]

Been interviewing for 15 years, so y.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was a long time.

[Jessica]

Don't forget a bunch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Documentary. Our documentary.

[Jessica]

Amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How year was that?

[DJ Envy]

That was a long time ago. Jesus.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I want to mention, too, in this book, outside of this, she also talks about things with her and Aaliyah, how they used to have to, like, team up with each other to make sure that people didn't pin them against each other. And she goes through a lot of different things in her book.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She just move on to that after we. After.

[Jessica]

Because you know what people don't go to. They gonna go to A Lit, then they gonna go to the R. Kelly, and then they go. You know what I'm saying? The story.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know one year was like, how did I get into this? I wasn't even on the podcast with Cam and Mason Shine the other day. Exactly.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I believe it was. I don't know, the year that he was here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, listen. And that's. That's. That's the story. Yeah. There's nothing you can do about it now except have an honest conversation about it if you want to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was 2014 when he was here. Sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

2014.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I just think there's nothing you can do about it except for have an honest conversation, whether it's, you know, Wanye, Brandy and. And just talk about how sadly that's common. I've heard both of y' all talk about how y' all dated older women before, and I've heard a bunch of younger girls talk about how they dated older men before, so I think we can have a conversation about the Times we had it before, we had a

[DJ Envy]

bunch of conversations about it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. When I was looking at this, I'm like, 16, 22. Like, that was me at that age.

[Jessica]

You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

I spoke to Lauren, and Aunt Lauren was like, that was me. I'm like, that doesn't make it right.

[Jessica]

Yeah, no, no.

[Megan Good]

And it wasn't right.

[Jessica]

And we always still say that, too. I mean, I know that it wasn't right, but even hearing her book, that literally was me, too. Like, you know what I'm saying? And it was normal to us. We knew it was wrong, but we tried to normalize it to ourselves.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't even think I knew you was wrong. I didn't know it was wr.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You had to know it was wrong. Because even Brandy talks about sneaking around. And I'm sure y' all didn't tell

[Lauren LaRosa]

y' all parents sneaking around. My mom just didn't ask. Like, I was always okay, so my mom left me alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you wouldn't have told her you was dating the 20 something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know. I know that. I didn't know it was wrong because I remember when I realized it was wrong, and I'm like, wow, how did I not know that that was wrong?

[Jessica]

That's crazy. But that's her testimony. Like, no, I knew. I knew what was up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

And I just.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I.

[Jessica]

That's what I wanted to do, though.

[DJ Envy]

So it's crazy hearing her now and hearing what she felt, why she did, the things that she did. She tried to keep them. She thought it would, you know, make her look more mature. Just very sad to hear a young

[Charlamagne Tha God]

girl having to go through when she had a daughter. She probably thought to herself, right. Damn, imagine my daughter at 16 dating.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, that's what I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why I remember. I know that. I knew that. I didn't know it was wrong because I remember the moment where I was like, oh, shoot, hold on. My niece. I'm like, oh, I wish somebody would.

[Jessica]

We was doing something back in the day because I was in school. Like, my boyfriend better come pick me up, period, like the rest of y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Jessica]

Don't drive whole time. You're a kid, Jess. This is a grown man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was driving people's cars to school.

[Megan Good]

I know.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Jessica]

Me too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You had a permit and you was driving your 20 wasn't even supposed to be driving.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, and my mom didn't know that, though. I did not tell her that I would park the car, like, a couple blocks from our house. But Phases is out now. There's an audio book version and also the written version and on the audiobook and on the written version, too. Brandy gives you, like, this PDF that credits like this, different songs that she talks about, and just some of the. The history. So, you know, I got to read Phases.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Speaking of books, can somebody bring my hall book back, please? Who moved my damn I book?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. Don't look at me. I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, if y' all ain't do the research, y' all had plenty of months to do the research. Bring my damn book back, please.

[Jessica]

Yo, and then Brandy song. Oh, Brook. She said, I'm young, but I'm wise enough to know that you don't fall in love overnight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what that was.

[Jessica]

The lyrics from Heart.

[DJ Envy]

I just wanted to. I wonder if Brandy had a conversation with W before, like, if they spoke.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, because of effective.

[DJ Envy]

They've been in the same industry for the last 20, 30 years. No, no, no, no, no. I meant if they ever crossed paths. If she ever said, yo, this is how I felt. I wonder if that conversation ever happened.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Maybe.

[DJ Envy]

I know he spoke about it, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he's talked about it a few times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We just heard him talk about it on the breakfast club in 2014. Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It sounds like whatever the conversations were maybe from him or whoever, she wasn't too fond of them. And that's why she's showing clearing her side.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She probably decided. You know what? I heard that interview on the breakfast club in 2014. I have no problems writing what I need to write in this book. Right?

[Jessica]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, donkey today. Who you give me a donkey to, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man 4 After the hour. We need Christy Gnome's husband, Brian Gnome, to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Don't be out here acting like a donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a big boy. I could take it if he feel I deserve it.

[John Leguizamo]

Ain't no big deal. I know Charlemagne guy gonna have some funny sweet say out his mouth if

[Charlamagne Tha God]

you gotta say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm mean.

[DJ Envy]

Who's getting that donkey?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That donkey. That donkey. Donkey, donkey, donkey, donkey, Donkey of the Day right there. The Breakfast Club.

[John Leguizamo]

You can call me the Donkey of the Day, but, like, I mean no harm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Neither do I. Don't hear the day for Wednesday, April 1 goes the former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's husband, Brian Gnome. Okay, if you haven't heard, Brian Gnome is a cross dresser, ladies and gentlemen. Okay. Her husband, Brian Gnome Noem likes to wear oversized fake breasts on fetish websites. I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go to Inside Edition for the report, please.

[Mimi Brown]

Former Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem is said to be stunned by a report that her husband may be leading a cross dressing double life. In a statement, Noem's representative says she is devastated the family was blindsided by this and they asked for privacy and prayers. At this time, the shocking story about Brian Noem was broken by the Daily News. The images appear to depict Brian Gnome wearing pink hot pants and a skin tight shirt stuffed with large balloons for breasts. We spoke to the Daily Mail's chief investigative reporter, Josh Boswell.

[Lily Herman]

So he didn't deny his involvement in this.

[Mimi Brown]

And in the photos you can clearly see it's him.

[Lily Herman]

So it'd be pretty tough to deny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It would be tough to deny and he didn't deny it.

[Mimi Brown]

According to the Daily Mail article, Brian Gnome sent the photos to people who were part of an online fetish community known as Bimbofication, which celebrates women with very large breasts.

[John Leguizamo]

He wanted to emulate that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He wanted to dress up like them and put even fake breasts under his shirt using balloons.

[Mimi Brown]

It looks like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It looks like balloons under the shirt. You can deny and say it's AI. Okay? This man was on bimbofication with fake breasts on. He wanted to give you a face full of his own twin engines.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He wanted to be smothered by his too warm back of sand. That's what he wanted you to do. He wanted you to motorboat him. Okay? What I don't understand is how you go from liking big boobs to wanting some for yourself. Okay? What a household the Gnome family is. All right, President Trump, you are really leaving a lot of money on the table not being in your reality show bag with this family. Okay? We can call the show Gnome Improvement or Gnome Before Dark. Maybe Gnome Economics. Or we can just keep it simple and call it Gnome. But between Kristi Noem, AKA Ice Barbie having an open affair with one of her aides and her homie husband being a cross dresser. This is a reality show waiting to happen. Let me tell you something. For those of us watching on Netflix or seeing this clip on social media somewhere, allow me to hold up today's NY Post. Don't you get bricked up over there, Envy. Okay? Don't you get bricked up over there on the front of the New York Post is a picture of Brian Gnome wearing the oversized fake breast. And they have the headline, what a boob. Drop on the Clues Bomb for the New York Post. Oh, my God. When they want to get you, they get you. Okay? The New York Post calls this a bimbo bimbofication kink. Bimbo vacation kink. Now I listen to Decisions Decisions with Mandy and Weezy. Drop on the Clues bonds for Decisions Decisions. Okay? Make sure you subscribe to their podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network. And I've read their book, no Holes Barred. Okay? Go pick up a copy of that, courtesy of Black Privilege Publishing. They talk about a lot of kinks. Okay? I've learned about pegging from Decisions Decisions. I've learned about scat play Yuck from Decisions Decisions. And I've learned about cross dressing from Decisions Decisions. I think they refer to it as training, okay? It's a BDSM lifestyle where there is a dominant submissive context where a person is trained to adopt ultra feminine behaviors, attires and roles. It commonly involves feminization through cross dressing. So Brian Gnome was indeed in training. Now we know why Brian stood by his. His wife of 34 years. Okay? Now we absolutely know, okay? Because even with the reports of her having an affair, okay, he can't say nothing. He was living a double life, okay? Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we like to wear double Ds. Okay? Double Ds for a double life. And this is what I don't understand about politics, okay? I don't understand people. I don't understand people who vote against their own interest. Interest. What's the point? Okay? Kristi Noem has been anti LGBTQ on a lot of issues, okay? When she was governor of South Dakota, she signed a Religious Freedom Restoration act, which LGBTQ advocates criticized as a measure that enables discrimination against LGBTQ individuals under the guise of religious liberty. Kristi Noem's administration terminated a contract with the Transformation Project, which was a South Dakota based group supporting transgender administration individuals, which later led to a lawsuit and a three hundred thousand dollar settlement paid by the state. And she has expressed opposition to same sex marriage. Okay? Like, like, come on, man. She got sued by the Transformation Project for terminating a contract. So my point is, Republicans like Kristi Noem don't support this lifestyle through legislation. They speak out against this lifestyle. Meanwhile, they got people in their family living this lifestyle, okay? Engaging in full blown training, all right? And don't get mad at me for calling it sissy training. That's the name of it, okay? I just don't understand why Republicans continue to vote and speak out against their own interests, okay? It's all performative. At least the Democrats on the down low don't vote against their own interests. Okay? You Republicans be out here cross dressing, sleeping with transgenders, okay? Being gay, but constantly passing anti LGBT Q plus legislation. I don't get it. I don't. I don't understand. Okay? Makes zero sense to me, all right? People like Brian need the LGBTQ community. They need the village, okay? Yes, they need the village people. It is indeed fun to stay at the ymca, okay? It will give people like Brian the strength to fully commit to be who they want to be. Cross dressing is a gateway drug if you ask me. Okay? Pretty sweet off. All right? The hard stuff is when you identify as a transgender, okay? When you don't cosplay in women's clothing, okay? You say, no, I'm going to identify as a full blown women, okay? And those of you who go get the big chop. Oh, drop on the clues bombs for y', all, okay? You go get the big chop and you get the sideboard coochie. I respect it, okay? I respect the robo coochie. I really do. That is commitment, okay? I am way too indecisive to make a decision that big, because once you take chop, you can't stop. And I personally respect that decision. And that is the type of courage people like Brian need to be around. He needs the courage to be himself, okay? He's in a world, in a political party where being who he wants to be in his double D's is frowned upon. And I don't like that. I don't like that. But you know what I don't like more? You know what I hate? Hypocrisy, okay? I hate people, especially politicians, who publicly have all this anti LGBTQ rhetoric, but in private, they. They popping that for the Internet, okay? It's always the ones with the dirty hands pointing the fingers. Please let Remy Ma give Brian gnome the biggest hee haw.

[Jessica]

Hee haw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hee haw.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You stupid.

[Jessica]

Are you dumb? That is crazy. Yo. The big chop is wild, though. That is not what they do anyway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean. Yeah. Cause all of them ain't big.

[Jaden Ivey]

That's true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some of them just get it built around the little penis because the little penis serves as a click.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Goodbye.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. All right. Thank you for that. Donkey the day what now?

[Jessica]

Don't do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anyway, Reading. I see it already.

[DJ Envy]

I be reading when we come back. Megan Good will be joining Us, we're gonna kick it with Megan. Good.

[Jessica]

And my girl.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, she's your girl now.

[Jessica]

Yes, that's my girl. I love her so very much. Everybody know I love you. Ask me. Ask anybody about me.

[DJ Envy]

We'll find out.

[John Leguizamo]

We'll find out.

[DJ Envy]

We'll find out why she was so disappointed in you. We'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Jessica]

Yes, we do.

[DJ Envy]

Megan. Good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Welcome back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Mimi Brown]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling?

[Megan Good]

I'm feeling good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good.

[DJ Envy]

Think about that.

[Megan Good]

Well, cuz I was like, am I going to say I'm feeling major? Am I feeling good?

[Jessica]

Feeling major, baby.

[DJ Envy]

Well, congratulations. You recently celebrated what, one year of marriage?

[Megan Good]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

How has that been? How has that one year been?

[Megan Good]

It's been so good. It's been so much fun. Just, it's a crazy thing because I feel like, like we're just such partners journeying in life and just enjoy each other and just have fun together and. Yeah, it's just been really nice.

[DJ Envy]

How is it different from your other relationships? Like that first year feeling? Because you've been through that first year feeling before. So how is this one different?

[Megan Good]

I think it's just about, you know, where I am in life and I think just the fact that we're truly best friends and, and I feel truly seen and I feel that this person helps me become a better person and it's someone who, that I just really, really respect. And yeah, I, I don't compare it like that. It's just different and it's amazing.

[DJ Envy]

And you ever want to give everybody the middle finger that thought it was just a, a ploy at one time, now they're just doing this just for the Internet, just to help them out. Do you ever want to just give it stick out your tongue one good time?

[Megan Good]

Probably earlier on I did. But I think at this point, you know, when you go through the journey and there's so many people preconceived notions and people who think that they know things and, and you kind of just have to get to a point where you're just completely free and you're just like, you know what those who know you and know your track record and know, you know, the goodwill that you have earned just by being authentic and being kind and all those things, those people will, will give you the benefit of the doubt and they'll be Open. Other people, not so much. And it's not. It's not really about me. It's more about their own things and things that they've experienced and things they may feel.

[Jessica]

And so, you know, not only are y' all together and married and in love and all the things, y' all have businesses together, and y' all both are still busy.

[Megan Good]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

How does that. How's that balance with, you know, personal.

[Megan Good]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Business. Like, how do y' all still find time to spend time with each other?

[Megan Good]

Well, that helps it, the fact that we work together, you know, but, yeah, it's been. It's been really interesting to build on our culture because it. It came out of, you know, being in a season where, you know, you're just trying to navigate life. And the work that we started doing with our bodies physically is something that he was already doing. But because I had been training off and on all my life, I never trained this particular way. And when I saw my body begin to transform as quickly as it did, but then, more importantly, it was the emotional things that were on me that were able to come off physically that I realized no amount of therapy, no this, no that is going to get something sometimes off of you that has to physically come out the of. And then, you know, my brother, Eric Bellinger, he just lost his mom.

[Jessica]

Shout out to Eric Bellinger.

[Megan Good]

And I'm sorry. Yeah. And Ms. Simone. And so he was in that season. You know, I just lost my godfather, Jim, and there's just. Everybody was kind of going through a season. Next thing you know, there's 20 of us doing this workout, and it really became about honoring each other and honoring our bodies and being really intentional, and that's how it was born. And so because it's such a weight of life for us, it's kind of like we're just doing life and walking in purpose and doing the things we really care about and sharing that with people.

[Jessica]

So this is a movement. How. How often is this. Every day that y' all do this?

[Megan Good]

He does every day.

[Mimi Brown]

I do it five days a week.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Megan Good]

Yeah. But you know what's crazy is as I started getting up with the 5am Crew now. Yeah. So I'm up at, like, 4:30am what are the things.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What are the things that you emotionally really realized you weren't. You weren't fully healed to face that you didn't know until you got there?

[Megan Good]

Well, I think there was so many things from childhood, from growing up in the business, from things that had happened in the past few years. To things that had been. Things that had been going on in my life for, you know, just. I had never thought of it that way or really dealt with it that way. And so for me, I actually just discovered a lot in that process. You know, discovered things I may have felt about my dad, discovered things I may have felt, you know, at. In my early 20s or whatever it was. And so it kind of just opened Pandora's box in a good way because it allowed me to really assess those things and decide what I want for myself and decide, you know, to be intentional about the future that I want.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How has all of that helped you now? Because I heard you say, like, you're ready to move into motherhood, and, you know, unlocking those things, relationships with your dad. How does that help you get mentally ready for when you step into motherhood, you know?

[Megan Good]

Well, I've never been a mom before yet, so I just know that. I think there were things in the past that I was. I still had built up from childhood that I think once I started really evaluating those things. And then also, I think it's a lot of. It's Jonathan, too. Like, the way I want to do life and the person I want to do life with, it makes me excited to be, you know, the mother of his children. Makes me excited to parent with him. It makes me excited to, like, go on that journey with him all while, you know, we're always learning and growing and unpacking as we go along. But it's wonderful to have someone to do it with. That helps me be better in the process.

[DJ Envy]

Do you ever get nervous about that phase? You know, because it's. You just, you know, you're booking more and more shows, you have the liquor line, you have all this thing going. But being a mom is difficult, too. Do you ever have any reservation being like, you know what? Not now? Or you're like, no, right now?

[Megan Good]

I think I did have reservations in the past because it was always like, there's never gonna be a good time. But I think that my mind has kind of changed with that because I'm like, no, actually, right now is a good time. I'm in a peaceful place. I've done everything that I want to do. I've lived a hell of a lot of life and everything else I want to do, I know that I'll do it better because of being a parent and because of being a mom. I know that it'll be hard. I know that, you know, I'll be juggling a lot. But, you know, again, I have someone to juggle it with. And I think that that's what I want to put my time and my energy and my heart into. And. Yeah. And I don't. I think that's the only last thing that I'm like, well, what is it that I want to do that I haven't done? It's. Mother.

[John Leguizamo]

Is he ready?

[Megan Good]

He's ready.

[Jessica]

He been ready.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He been ready.

[DJ Envy]

I was gonna say, how do you protect your peace when you talk about all the different things that you do?

[John Leguizamo]

How.

[DJ Envy]

How do you. Do you shut down? Do you not go on social media? Do you put two middle fingers up in the air and say, f the world? Like, so how do you protect your peace these days? You know, when it comes to everything? Because everybody's talking.

[Jessica]

He want her to put middle fingers up in the air so much. You. You done said that five times to her.

[DJ Envy]

I've hung out with her in the club, so maybe she done it in the club.

[Jessica]

No one has seen me do it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay,

[Megan Good]

you know what? It's. I've been through so many different spaces of, like, you know, when there was, like, the. The media takeouts and all that kind of stuff. And then after that, it was, like, social media, and then it was like, the church folks, and then it was people thinking that I bleached my skin, and then it was this. That it was this. And all of these things created what I was saying, that release, where I went from constantly being concerned and constantly getting my feelings. Feelings hurt. And constantly. You know, it's like, one thing about me and anyone who knows me, I'm still gonna do what I'm gonna do, but it's still not a good feeling to know that every time you step out the house, you're walking out to the firing squad and. And realizing for me that even though I was proud of myself for still stepping out and always being authentic and true to who I am, I was like, oh, you get shot up. Like, you getting shot up. Shot up like your ass has been shot. And sitting down and unpacking all of those things and asking myself, why do I care that much about this? And why does this affect me this way? And what is. You know, and what. Stuff that's good to take and stuff that needs to just be put aside. And in the process of doing all that, it just. It has gotten to a place where it's like. I wrote this poem that talked about that I always felt like I was on the edge of a cliff and that people were constantly, like, poking and prodding and poking and prodding. And I was just trying so hard not to fall off. And then I jumped. And when I jumped, I started flying. And that's the experience. You know, it's like I'm just in a place now where I'm like, things are gonna come. People are gonna say what they say, and the peace is knowing that it's really about what God thinks about me and what I think about me and my people that love me the most and truly know me think about me. So in that, I just kind of, you know, I disconnect. It depends if you get me on the right day, you might get the middle fingers, but for the most part, I kind of don't really. The car.

[DJ Envy]

Gotcha. Now, if you're listening and you're on, you're in a cliff. If you jump, you will not fly. If you're at the edge, you will not fly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was gonna say you just be so well composed through everything. Like, even hearing you talk about people poking and poking, it always feels like you come from that class of Hollywood that, like, it's just so, like, you don't even see or feel the pokes. You just kind of, like, move gracefully throughout your life. I know you're human, but you. Your composure throughout things are always very well.

[Megan Good]

Thank you. Thank. Well, thank you. The biggest thing to me is I don't want anybody else to control the integrity of who I want to be just because someone's poking and poking and poking. You want a certain reaction out of me. You want me to respond a certain way. First of all, I'll never give it to you. Second of all, it's more about you not being able to have control over me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Megan Good]

Based on the fact that you're just walking this journey out, too. You're just trying to figure it out, just like I'm trying to figure it out. Figure it out. Why would I listen to you? You know, we're all in this, and we're all experiencing it. So to each his own on his journey. But I think the biggest thing is I'm just like, you can't let other people control you. You got to be who you're meant to be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I think you have a lot of, like, us, like, not us here, but just, like, people that are fans of you or supporters. That kind of rally for you as well, too.

[Megan Good]

And I can feel that, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, they be going hard. Like when the nle, Choppa John, the majors, whatever that was, was happening, people was like, let them be in there, you know? In their marriage and be happy and do their thing. Like, why are we even talking about this?

[Megan Good]

Yeah, yeah,

[Jessica]

period.

[DJ Envy]

But when did you get to that place when you could let things bounce off your back? When did you get there and how did you get there?

[Megan Good]

It was a skin bleaching thing. It was because this woman had messed me up so bad. Had. And I realized I was like, people think. And I saw.

[Jessica]

Oh my God.

[Megan Good]

It's okay. No, please, no. Actually I was in a place where I looked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happened?

[Jessica]

Just be quiet.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, sorry.

[Jessica]

What happened?

[Megan Good]

I was like, I'm leave. I looked at it and I was like, I actually have to laugh cuz it's not like dead ass. This is actually true.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know, don't say I'm stupid. I have no idea what you're talking about. Skin bleaching. I don't know what the hell you talking about.

[Megan Good]

So the short version is I went to this esthetician in LA who was helping me with like anti aging things. And then and she had like, you know, these soap bars and all this kind of stuff. And the anti aging was like beautiful. So then she was like, well, I just want to fix like some of the dark spots that you have. And I'm like, no, it's kind of like natural contour. And she was like, no, but your skin will be so clear that it up. I start using the product, I instantly see that I'm getting lighter. And she's like, don't worry, just give it a few weeks. All your color will come back. I give it a few weeks and I look like so pale and so crazy. And then I go to shoot this show here in New York and I'm at a premiere and a picture was taken like where it was dark around me, but I was blown out. So I just look white, I just look crazy. And I went back to la. I flew home over the weekend and I was like, you need to fix this right now. And she was like, well, you know, it's a process. I was like, I don't care about no process. I was like, fix it. So she gives me this serum, I put the serum on. She said, stay in the sun for like 15 minutes. Something to myself. Like I'm like 39. I don't really like lay in the sunlight.

[DJ Envy]

Not supposed to be in the sun at all. No.

[Megan Good]

But I was so desperate. I wouldn't lay in the sun for 30 minutes. I came back in the house, tried to wash it off, it would not come off.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh my God.

[Megan Good]

I had to wash My face over and over and over again to the point of where actually flesh was coming off my face from scrubbing because it was, like, latched onto my skin. And so it was, like, really traumatic and, like, really kind of embarrassing because I was like, as a black woman, I would never do that to myself.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Megan Good]

And it just broke my heart to think that, like, young black girls would think that I did that or, like, I don't like myself. I was like, why would I do that all of a sudden at 39 years old? That's crazy. But what it was is the backlash that I was seeing. And I actually don't even know if it was as big as I thought it was. But because it was so humiliating, and because in the past, when something is wrong, I would be able to go, oh, well, here's what this is, or, this is not true. Now, if you don't like it, I don't really care, but at least you know the truth. I couldn't do anything. I was like, I look crazy. Like, I literally have to just sit in this and accept that people are going to think that I did this to myself. And there's no way to defend myself. There's no way to say it isn't true. It's not like I can go on social media and be like, it's not true. No, look at me. I look crazy. So. And then the realization of, like, what if it never corrects itself. Yeah, what if I'm stuck like this? What if this is like, that's it. That's my lot. That's what's going to happen in life moving forward. I'm just stuck. And in that time, I was just, like, praying and praying and praying, crying. I was like, lord, why would you let this happen to me? And then I realized, I was like, this is an answer prayer. The answer to the prayer is, you're so concerned. You kept saying, lord, help me not care what people. People think. Lord, help me not to be so concerned with this. Lord, release me from these feelings. Well, now you don't have a choice. And you have to still live your life. You still have to be happy. If you're stuck this way, you still have to have quality of life. You still have to figure out how you're gonna work. You still have to figure all these things out. And if that's what it is, are you going to be miserable and sad and on the floor, or are you going to move forward and have the most joy that you can have in life? So I made the decision to Move forward. The moment that I made the decision to move forward, my color started coming back.

[DJ Envy]

And Jess is making fun of you. She had a face like Michael Jackson, Sammy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

So.

[DJ Envy]

And you making fun of her now. Do you think it's funny?

[Jessica]

Take a sip. Just relax. I do want to genuinely apologize to you. You know, sometimes be funny all the time. You know, it was funny.

[Megan Good]

I'm not going to lie. It was. It was kind of funny.

[Jessica]

But now to hear. You know what, just. You just never know. That's the biggest thing about being a comedian. Shut up, Envy. That's the biggest thing about being a comedian. You just never know what people are

[Megan Good]

going through, you know?

[Lauren LaRosa]

And.

[Jessica]

And I love you. I've always loved you. And I'm very sorry about that because. Because to hear you even. Even hear your testimony about the process that you were going. You didn't know what was going on with your face, you know. And you like, look, fix this, you know, so. I'm sorry.

[Megan Good]

No.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Crazy thing is Mega's been up here a bunch of times and she ain't slight you. One time I forgot. I didn't know because definitely would have slated you. I would have said nothing to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wouldn't spoke to you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why you be so blessed though. Cuz you're posturing about things just so bad. I would have freaked out.

[Megan Good]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can we cheers?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Jessica]

Cheers.

[DJ Envy]

This early in the morning. Y' all want to drink this early in the morning?

[Megan Good]

5 o' clock somewhere I'm drinking apple cider vinegar.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So you got to do the cheers. Since Nebula 9 is yours.

[Megan Good]

Cheers to the weekend. No the week. And all the beautiful things ahead and enjoying life and different business ventures and quality of life for everybody and God being amazing.

[DJ Envy]

If you don't want to chance with Jess, I understand. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Megan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good.

[DJ Envy]

We wish you the best with everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you, Megan.

[Megan Good]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Podcast Narrator (Roald Dahl segment)]

It's Megan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jessica]

Lauren becoming a straight fat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody some details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit every brought to you by Top Dog on the Breakfast Club. You make me tired. Top Dog low. Hey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Three weeks ago. I bring so much joy to your life. When my hair was done bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not be lying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you need to hear in the

[Lauren LaRosa]

moment, trust me, you Don't. Real quick update here. So yesterday it was decided that Jay Z's defamation lawsuit against Tony Busby, who is the attorney that tried to file lawsuits again, or he did file, but they didn't go anywhere. It was dismissed. Filed that lawsuit against Jay Z for the sexual assault of the 2000s VMA party girl. Y' all remember that whole story, that lie, that nonsense, ton of inconsistencies? It ended up being dismissed. But, yeah. So Tony Busby was basically trying to make it where Jay Z could not move forward with his defamation lawsuit. And he was saying that Jay Z had filed in the wrong jurisdiction because Jay Z's team filed in Alabama where Jane Doe, the girl, is from. But Tony Buzby was saying, oh, no, it should be in New York, so we should dismiss it. A judge ruled yesterday that it will not be dismissed, but it will be moved to New York. And that other. Everything that will be decided in the case moving forward will be decided in New York, the Southern. Southern district of New York. So the other things that are on the table outside of the defamation conversation is whether or not Jane Doe, the accuser, should have to reveal her identity or not. So there will be some updates there. That's.

[DJ Envy]

That's part of the offense I'm sure Jay was talking about, huh?

[Megan Good]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Or defense. No, he said they're on offense now. Yes. Yeah, but he. I mean, we.

[Jessica]

We.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We remember because we reported on it. He came out the gate swinging, and he's not backing down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you're an attorney and you take these frivolous claims, you got to deal with everything that comes with taking these frivol.

[Caller Nate The Noble]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we'll. We'll keep you guys posted on that. Now, in other news, yesterday, Charlemagne gave Jaden Ivy donkey of the day for his anti LGBTQ LBG2 LGBTQ QA.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You sound like you got the doctor's office, the eye doctor trying to read the line.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought I was in it at one point. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. So Charlamagne gave Jaden Ivy Dunkey of the day yesterday for his comments. Let's take a listen to his previous comments.

[Jaden Ivey]

The world can proclaim lgbtq, they proclaim Pride Month. And the NBA, they proclaim it. They. They show it to the world. They say, come, come join us for Pride. For Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness. They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets. Unrighteousness. So how is it that one can't speak righteousness? How Is it one? One that.

[DJ Envy]

How.

[John Leguizamo]

How.

[Jaden Ivey]

How are they to say that? Man, this man is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I gave him donkey of the day for not minding his business. Okay, you got away from the bulls for something that, you know you didn't even have to say. What was the point of that?

[DJ Envy]

What did he respond?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, yes. So he is. Yes, he is responding further. Not to Charlemagne directly, but Booy responded to Charlamagne directly. So which response y' all want to go to first?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Both.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right.

[Megan Good]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Booy commented on our Breakfast Club Instagram, and he also also went to X and he was basically saying how it's not fair. He said, this is sad. It's no more freedom of speech anymore. Shaking my head. Comedians can't even make jokes about it no more. The power that has been given to that community is outrageous. Straight men and women no longer have a voice anymore. Shaking my head. If we speak, it's taken as hate. And I see no one preaching hate. Honestly, just because someone does not agree doesn't mean it's hate. It's sad how it's so easy to get canceled for your own beliefs and you can't even make a statement meant like, I only like. Then he says the P word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It will be taken as a shot to the community. I also think people in our community should stand up and speak when people get banned for not agreeing. Why be quiet when you. When your acceptance is greater than ever? It's so many people with power who really are afraid of corporations. It's corporate leagues. Corporations, leagues, etc, are afraid. Billionaires are afraid. And he says, hopefully Jaden will be able to still provide for his family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know it. I actually disagree with Boosie. It's very, very fair. Okay? Because free speech is not free. There is a cost to every word that comes out of your mouth. And if you're not willing to pay the price, then shut the hell up. Because you are not free from the consequences of your free speech. You can have the freedom to say whatever you want, but if you say what something like Jade Nivey said, you got to think about all of the people who own that team, who play for that team, the sponsors of that team. And if those people on that team say, you know what? You don't rock with us, so we don't rock with you, so be it. Now you got to stand on what you said. That's actually what free speech is. Free speech isn't being able to say what you want to say. And then when somebody gives you the consequences of what you Said now all of a sudden you're playing the victim like Jaden Ivy did. Jade Navy acts like he don't understand why he got wet.

[DJ Envy]

Now I mean, see I, I agree a little bit with Boosie. Yes, there is free speech, but there's consequences that come with free speech.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just said that.

[DJ Envy]

I know, I'm agreeing with you, but what I'm saying is until we own our own teams, until we have our own things where we can make the rules and the rules, regulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're. Yep. But you're wrong there too.

[DJ Envy]

Envy what you mean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz even if you own a team and you said some foolishness like that, you're still going to be consequent league.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't forget. Don't. Do we not remember when Donald Sterling lost the Clippers?

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because he wanted to express and be free to speak his racist views. And that was in a private conversation. What are we talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, so Jaden was having a conversation on Kerrigan Skelly's platform yesterday and he tried to compare this to when Anthony Edwards used a slur and, and was fined and instead that it's hypocritical that he was let go. Let's take a listen.

[Jaden Ivey]

What did I do to the players had said some derogatory thing to some, some male. I, I can't remember vividly what the situation was. But he called somebody a derogatory word. Right. He called them the F word. But like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Jaden Ivey]

All right. Yeah. So he was, he was like portraying that that person was gay basically. Right. And so I believe the NBA fined him for it. Right. But he said those things. Right. And they find him for it. And so how is it that he said something detrimental and basically hypocritical judgment because he's not a Christian.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it's derogatory. It's like a slur almost for homosexuals that if you use that word against them to be offended by it. I don't know the situation he's referring to, but I know he's not Anthony Edwards. That's number one. But it seems like Anthony Edwards was talking to one individual as opposed to calling out a whole community and calling a whole community unrighteous. It's a different ball game, man. I think so anyway.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't remember what Anthony Edwards said and who he said it to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, so there was, it was some. It was some time ago, back in 2022. Anthony Edwards, there was a video that was recorded. He was in a car, he. The window went down. He yelled A word out at some men that were outside of the car, and then the video was taken down, and he had to come out, apologize. But it was reported that he was fined $40,000.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just, I just don't like when people, you know, get on Instagram, Live, or any platform, say what they want to say, and then want to stand on the whole free speech thing. You are free to say what you want to say. You're not in jail for what you said. Right. But you still have to deal with the consequences of your words. Why do y' all think free speech is free? It's not. There is a cost to every word that comes out of your mouth, and if you're not willing to pay the price, shut the hell up. Shutting the hell up is free. I know that much.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, that is the latest for me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. That is the latest with Lawrence, brought to you by Top Dog Law, guys. So any accident, big or small, make

[Charlamagne Tha God]

sure you call Top Dog Law and just unnecessary problems. You ain't had to bother them people. Was not bothering you. Not one letter was bothering you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The letters I couldn't even get.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

You said they let go of the ilo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know. I, I, I said both just in case. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus Christ.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Arsenio Hall's book is out right now. Okay. All right. Salute to my guy. I'll send you a Hall dropping a clues bomb for. I'll send you a Hall a memoir. Okay. I'm not even joking when I tell y' all this is one of the best entertainment memoirs I've ever read in my mother freaking life. And I could be biased because it's coming. It came out on my booking print. Black print. Black is publishing. But, man, this book is incredible.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Congratulations to you, too. That's archiving history.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He needs to be celebrated. He needs every single flower that we got on this planet because the things that he did for you ungrateful Negroes. You know what I'm saying? The book.

[DJ Envy]

And hopefully he comes up this week and we can chop it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He will be here.

[DJ Envy]

All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to John Leguizamo for joining us this morning. Leguizamo. I said John Leguizamo for joining us.

[Jessica]

Okay, very good.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Also, Megan Good for joining us, man. You know, we were talking about, you know, one of her darkest moments, and she was like, you know she had an acne problem and she went to a dermatologist. They gave her this face wash and it made her skin lighter. And she said that was one of her darkest moments. She's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's a black woman.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, one of my lightest moments. And they said that, you know, at her lowest, you made fun of her.

[Jessica]

Yeah. I didn't know she was at an all time low. I did. But to be honest with you, yo, I used to go crazy, but I didn't even go crazy on her. It was like around October that I saw it, right? And so I was like, oh, damn. She went as Anne Hathaway. That was literally PG 13, just with the mess. I ain't never go hard on Megan because she ain't never did nothing to make me go hard on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you're explaining your loose losing, I

[DJ Envy]

never seen you apologize like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like you really apologize. If you're explaining you're losing.

[Jessica]

I really freaking love Megan. Good, yo. I really do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I just think he was a terrible person. Like, I was terrible. I was a terrible person. And so that. Yeah, that used to come. Oh, no, you was bad. You don't want to accept the fact that you was terrible. Horrible things about people. I've said some really cry.

[Jessica]

She wasn't there. You wasn't even here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you talking about? She was.

[DJ Envy]

You should do something like, you know, like give to her.

[Jessica]

Give to her what?

[DJ Envy]

Like.

[Jessica]

No, she doing good. Her and John ain't doing good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, her last name is good and she wasn't.

[Jessica]

Her last name is Major.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It is damn. Major. Good. Major. God damn. Well, she got an amazing life, don't she? Period?

[Jessica]

She sure do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She did, but not that day that just said that stuff about it.

[DJ Envy]

But definitely check out, honey. New beverage. Nebula 9.

[Jessica]

Yes, it was really good.

[DJ Envy]

Carbonated vodka cocktail.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course. You're not gonna say it's bad after what you did. It's good.

[John Leguizamo]

It's good.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Charlemagne, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do, but. Hold up, hold up, hold up. What up?

[Jessica]

I wanted to remind Newark, New Jersey, April 25 at 7pm For Black writers Weekend. I will be at Rutgers University. So get your tickets if you have not for of that. And then also April 30th at 7pm in Brooklyn. You say it's dumbo. Just say dumbo.

[John Leguizamo]

Brooklyn.

[DJ Envy]

Could you say Brooklyn?

[John Leguizamo]

All right.

[Jessica]

Brooklyn, New York. Powerhouse Arena. Get your tickets. I'm doing a book launch there as well. That's 7pm from 7 to 9pm, that's a Thursday night. Y' all. I'm gonna be signing books. We're gonna have a fireside chat about the book. Q and A's. I'll be signing the books, taking pictures with people. So just come out, get your tickets atjust hilarious official dot com.

[DJ Envy]

You better Rome with you?

[Jessica]

Yeah. Rome is actually gonna come with me to Rutgers University a few days before that and he gonna be with me in Brooklyn. You know, Rome family is from Brooklyn.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow.

[Jessica]

So he. Yeah, his. His mother's side. Everybody from up here.

[DJ Envy]

So you got to pay room when he comes out, cuz it's like your special guest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like.

[Jessica]

Nah, he gonna stay at his. At his people's crib. They, you know, he just catch the train up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He got it.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Jessica]

Chill out, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

He made all those millions off the bookie. Can they give roll a little something? All right, Charlemagne.

[Jessica]

You got a positive book.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People do got about a book. The positive note is simply this, man. There is no reset button in life, okay? You can't take anything back and you can't undo anything. All of your actions have consequences. And the things you say and do today will have a lasting impact on the rest of your life. You have to understand that and you have to be aware of it while making your decision. Visions. Have a great day. Breakfast club bitches

[Caller Nate The Noble]

woke up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up. Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Megan Good]

Guaranteed Human.