FULL SHOW: Mike Epps Apologizes, Donnie Simpson In Studio, Lizzo Says Ozempic Is ERASING Big People + More

Summary

The Breakfast Club: FULL SHOW — Mike Epps Apologizes, Donnie Simpson In Studio, Lizzo Says Ozempic Is ERASING Big People + More

Date: November 25, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God (Jess Hilarious on vacation)
Special Guests: Donnie Simpson, Mimi Brown, Call-in listeners

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Episode Overview

On this lively pre-Thanksgiving episode, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God hold down the show while Jess Hilarious is out, welcoming legendary broadcaster Donnie Simpson to the studio. The team tackles trending headlines from Mike Epps’ viral apology to Lizzo’s take on Ozempic and body image, delivers sharp commentary on pop culture (and Thanksgiving!), and invites audience engagement on everything from the legacy of Black media to holiday dinnertime debates. Other featured topics include a federal court decision affecting high-profile political cases, government layoffs in favor of AI, and call-ins that add signature Breakfast Club humor and realness.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Vibe at Breakfast Club

• Team Banter Without Jess:
  • The hosts joke about the testosterone-heavy energy with Jess Hilarious and other women staffers out (04:00):

    "Too many penises... It's just too much locker room banter." — DJ Envy

• Staff Shoutouts:
  • A moment of gratitude for the behind-the-scenes Breakfast Club team.

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2. Donnie Simpson: Black Radio & TV Pioneer

[04:13, 40:00–54:50, 57:44–61:08]

• Donnie’s Early Career:
  • Started in Detroit radio at age 15, balancing work and high school.
  • Inspired by a live radio broadcast at his mom’s record shop.

    “Within three months, I was on air. I was 15 years old… Detroit was the fifth largest market in the country." — Donnie Simpson (40:00)

• Move to D.C. and Career Growth:
  • Moved to D.C. after being scouted by NBC.
  • Endured financial struggles, hustled for growth.
  • Eventually flourished, became a household name.

  "What my fan base gives me is just amazing, man." — Donnie Simpson (54:10)

• Video Soul & BET Legacy:
  • Hesitated to join BET initially but did it for the culture, despite low budgets.
  • Show’s reach grew from 1.5 million to 40 million homes.
  • Shaped a young generation’s idea of “cool” Black media.

  “If you have something to offer [the first Black television network], you gotta do it. Let’s go." — Donnie Simpson (50:54)

• On Impact & Legacy:
  • Emphasizes authenticity: “He did him. You should do yours… I’m the only person I ever wanted to be.” (57:53)
  • Advice for aspiring broadcasters: “Dream big… Be relentless, be great, and be you.”
• Personal Stories:
  • Shares insights on meeting Michael Jackson:

    “Michael was very cool as long as it's a small group...he was just a regular dude, man, just brilliant.” (62:11)

• Reflections:
  • Didn’t realize at the time what an impact Video Soul had; hindsight brings perspective on “documenting the culture in real time.”

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3. Trending News with Mimi Brown

[07:37, 32:06, 35:47, 37:16]

• Federal Court Tosses Trump-era Cases:
  • Dismissal of charges against James Comey and Letitia James due to an improperly appointed prosecutor.
  • Letitia James’ case may return; Comey’s effectively closed due to statute of limitations.

  "These cases being tossed is great news… Good to know there are still some checks and balances in this country." — DJ Envy (09:27)

• Investigation into Senator Mark Kelly:
  • Pentagon reviewing Kelly’s comments to troops about refusing illegal orders.
  • Focus on Kelly due to his status as a retired military officer.

  "The irony of them investigating Mark Kelly... But Trump made death threats and nobody cares.” — DJ Envy (11:42)

• USPS Shipping Price Hike & AI Layoffs:
  • USPS warns major shipping increases from Jan. 2026.
  • IRS and other agencies replacing thousands of workers with AI tools.

  "I don't want AI working at the IRS. I need actual humans in there that we can yell and scream at." — DJ Envy (35:35)

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4. Pop Culture & Call-Ins (“Get It Off Your Chest”)

[12:44–20:14]

• Classic Black Media Débat:
  • Listeners argue whether Donnie Simpson or Ralph McDaniels was first “cool” VJ.
  • Some generational and regional debate (NY vs. South Carolina).
• Support for Local Artists:
  • Listener plugs her boyfriend's music ambitions.
• Thanksgiving Chatter:
  • “What time should dinner be served?” debate (see next section).

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5. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa (Delivered By Boys!)

[20:15, 21:21, 27:15, 29:41]

• Offset vs. Stefon Diggs Allegation:
  • Lauren sources say social media “set up” rumors are off-base gossip.
• Kandi Burruss Divorce:

  “Going through a divorce is definitely not the easiest thing…this is something that has been brewing for a while…We got two wonderful, beautiful children. I have no regrets.” — Kandi Burruss [21:56]

• Lizzo on Ozempic and 'Erasing Big People':
  • Lizzo’s personal essay on Substack addresses body positivity, fears that weight-loss drugs are shrinking plus-size representation.

  “That’s what Ozempic is supposed to do, Lizzo... People are just making their own individual choices.” — DJ Envy (27:47)

• Toni Braxton & Birdman:
  • Lauren’s notes fuel playful teasing about haircuts and celebrity couples.

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6. Mike Epps: Viral Apology Tour

[66:32, 70:29]

• On Celebrating Those Released from Prison:

  “We don’t want to send kids mixed messages about coming home from prison being celebrated…We should be happy when our people come home, but let’s not glorify the path.” — Mike Epps (70:29)

  • Clarifies he supports prison reform and has helped friends.
  • Hosts agree: celebrate growth, but “that is nothing to be celebrated by the masses.” (71:26)
• On Food Stamps & Poverty Cycle:
  • Apologizes for comments suggesting people misuse welfare; intent was to urge breaking generational cycles of poverty.

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7. Thanksgiving Dinner Debate

[81:19–97:53]

• Prompted by Martha Stewart’s TV interview:

  “I think [dinner] should be around 2 o’clock in the afternoon.” — Martha Stewart (81:27)

• Hosts Weigh In:
  • Charlemagne: "I’m not mad at 2 o’ clock...when I started doing Thanksgiving at my house, I did it at 2."
  • DJ Envy: "3, 4 o’ clock is good time...any of those numbers you can’t miss."
• Collins' Opinions:
  • Family time traditions vary widely—some as late as 9pm (!), some earlier for practical reasons.
  • Cultural nuances: one listener says, “Africans are always late no matter what.” (91:07)
• Moral:
  • "Three to four is [the] perfect time to eat Thanksgiving dinner." — DJ Envy (97:39)

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8. Charlamagne’s Donkey of the Day

[76:03–80:58]

• Recipient: Danan Ari (Iowa man charged with indecent exposure)
  • Story delivered with classic Breakfast Club flair and comedic sexual innuendo.

  “If you [want] excitement in your life, go on a micro adventure...When you’re horny though, you want that meat muffin.” — Charlamagne (78:54, 79:23)

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9. Other Noteworthy Segments

• Listener "Get it Off Your Chest" moments: Lighthearted, funny, sometimes outlandish call-ins keep energy high.
• Holiday Music & Event Plugs:
  • Atlanta’s Jingle Ball event lineup chat.
  • DJ Envy and team’s Thanksgiving event plans and local live show shout-outs.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Donnie Simpson on Authenticity:

  "I'm the only person I ever wanted to be... Don't be afraid of big, man. Whatever that big is to you." (57:53, 61:07)

• Charlamagne on Staff Energy:

  “It’s too much locker room banter... I just want y’ all to know that.” (04:00)

• Lizzo, via paraphrase (cited by Charlamagne):

  "We're in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they're tired of being judged." (29:23)

• DJ Envy, on Donnie Simpson & career moves:

  “He showed you that you can do so much more than just radio. But radio was always the foundation.” (107:33)

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Key Timestamps

• Donnie Simpson Interview: 04:13, 40:00, 49:27, 57:44, 61:08
• Front Page News (Mimi Brown/National Headlines): 07:45, 32:06
• Mike Epps Apology: 66:32–73:53
• Lizzo on Ozempic & Plus-Size Issues: 27:15–29:41
• Kandi Burruss Divorce Segment: 21:56–23:51
• Thanksgiving Dinner Time Debate: 81:19–97:53
• Charlamagne’s Donkey of the Day: 76:03–80:58

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Episode Tone & Style

The episode blends sharp humor, Black cultural commentary, and real talk about community issues, relationships, and traditions. With Donnie Simpson’s storytelling and wisdom, the show pays homage to media trailblazers and the value of authenticity. The hosts maintain their signature banter—sometimes outrageous, always engaging—while keeping space for their listeners’ voices and perspectives. The energy is playful, reflective, and perfect for the holiday season.

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For First-Time Listeners

You’ll come away with:

• Insight into Black media history (Donnie Simpson, BET, Video Soul)
• Real-world reflections on family, holidays, and changing cultural norms
• Honest, humorous (sometimes wild!) conversations about relationships, health, and breaking cycles
• A feeling of being part of a community—whether you’re headed home for Thanksgiving, or just need a laugh

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Bottom Line:
A vibrant episode alternating between nostalgia, pop culture critique, and raw advice—always in the unfiltered, communal spirit that defines The Breakfast Club.

Transcript

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[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess is on vacation.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Charlemagne the God peace to the planet is Tuesday.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

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. What is happening?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. What's up, bro? How you feeling, man?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I feel great. You know what I'm saying? And I thought about something right now. Here at the Breakfast Club, there's a lot of moving parts. Correct? Okay. So, you know, you got the talent aspect of it, which is, you know, you and myself. And you know Jess. Hilarious. And you know Lauren LaRosa, she comes in with the latest. Right? And then, you know, you got Red running the boards. You got Eddie the producer. Correct. You know, Sim works in the back.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yep.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Taylor's still on maternity leave. I thought she was gonna be here this week. You know, Vy floats in and out. She just. Whatever we need her to do. Sid works in digital. My point with all of that is Brandon, Nick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nick, Eli, Sydney.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Too many penises. And see, the. Jess isn't here. Lauren isn't here. Tim is all the way in the back. Taylor's not here. It's just too much testosterone. And, you know, y' all guys talk too filthy for me. It's too much locker room banter, all right? Especially with the young boys. And I don't want to be a part of that. I just want y' all to know that. Okay. Just wanted to throw that out there.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Okay. All right.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I got young boy sending me stuff in group tech text, you know what I'm saying? All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who are you sending? What's his name?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All right, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I'm just asking.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All right, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay. Donnie Simpson is joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, Donnie Simpson. That legend, the og he'll be joining us. If you don't know who Donnie Simpson.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Is, that's your fault.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that is your fault.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I ain't got time to teach you. You turn on the Breakfast Club and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Learn if it wasn't for Donnie Simpson, shows like the Breakfast Club and a lot of your favorite radio shows probably wouldn't exist. Cause he changed a lot when it came to radio. Also on television, I think Donnie.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Let me see. I was born in 1978. I think Donnie was the first cool black man I saw on tv. When I think about it, like, on bet, just on tv, period. I'm talking about just like the first cool black man I'm talking about as far as, like, I guess, from a VJ perspective, so to speak.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he also did radio for years in. He's from Detroit. The radio's from Detroit. He did radio in D.C. for years.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

But I didn't know nothing about that till later. Till after the. Really? Yeah. Because, I mean, I saw him on bet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But see, he's like. And I'm not talking about, like, as far as celebrity is concerned, like actors and things like that. I'm talking about as far as the VJ perspective. I think the first cool, cool black person I saw on television. I know I saw him before, um, TV raps.

[Donnie Simpson]

Absolutely. Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah. Video Soul was out way before that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, absolutely. Way before that. Yeah. So Donnie Simpson will be joining us this morning. He has a podcast, season two of his podcast. We're gonna be talking about all types.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Of Donnie Simpson show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. You know what I did yesterday?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

So if you dodge a bit. It's so black this morning. I mean, it is extremely dark.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's dark brown. But anyway, when it comes. I took my kids to get their braces.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause you have to wait till their. I guess the baby teeth start to grow in. And my teeth are effed up as a child.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Need braces already. How old are they?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

12 and 11.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh. Oh, okay, okay, okay. What you said babies. I'm thinking about the youngest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no. I got so many of them. 12 and 11. And I didn't know. There's so many options for braces. I didn't know. Braces indoor. They got ceramic braces. They got metal braces. They got Invisalign.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Invisalign, absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm like, jesus.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

So, yeah, yeah, I couldn't do it. I did braces for one weekend as an adult. Yes. A couple of years ago. Couldn't do it. No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what you do?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Took him off after the weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you do Invisalign?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

A little bit. I sleep with the retainer at night. That's about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. All right, we got front page news. Mimi will be joining us. Can we start the show off with some Jeezy?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, yeah. Please don't. Don't play. Take you. Take you through there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we do Jeezy Hov?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, go crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we do that?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

See, the reason I don't like this, because y' all not gonna let whole verse play because the song too long. That's why we gotta go get the Mimi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Back then it was six minute songs. What do you want us to do?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Did we get right to, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

We wasn't gonna get the whole verse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, I can't. I can't handle everything. I mean, we picked. We trying to put. Pick the songs. We can't pick how long they play now.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Speaking. Speaking of handling everything, man, I went to dicks yesterday. Hey, drop a bum. I went to Dick Sporting. All right, you know what, Mimi? Come on, Mimi.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Never mind.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I can't. You know what? I'm not doing this with you. See, that's what I mean when I say ain't none of the women around. You went to dicks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go ahead.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I went to Six Fort and Goods yesterday to buy one thing and ended up buying about five or six things. Okay. And that's why I realized I don't like going into retail stores anymore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But what you got, what you go for?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I went actually for some. Some drawers. I like wearing ethical underwear. And they. That was like the closest place that sold them. And then I walked in there and they had a. They had an assortment of Asia Wilson sneakers. I'm not gonna lie to you. I was like, jesus Christ.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they do. They got a whole wall of one of them.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, I did. I just went there for some draws, and then I'm like, yo, y' all got all these Asian Wilson snacks, Zigas, and they had a couple in my size, so I had to get them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yes, Yeah, I know what dick she went to. All right. Good morning, Mimi.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, good.

[Mimi Brown]

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

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Good morning, Mimi. How are you? Nice to see you, Mimi. Good to hear from you this morning, Mimi. We need the divine feminine energy in this room today.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm. I'm trying to send it through the screen right now. We're going to just sip it, ship it through. All right, y'. All. So this morning, we are starting with a major decision out of federal court, one that just wiped out two major criminal cases brought by the Trump administration. A judge dismissing the charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, after finding that Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor that was handpicked by President Trump, was never legally appointed, and the judge, as he simply put it, Halligan, missed the deadline. And when that deadline passed, the attorney general loses the power to appoint, and it shifts to the district judges. Now, as a result, all of Halligan's actions, including both indictments, were thrown out. Now, the cases were dismissed without prejudice, meaning the Justice Department could technically bring them back with a properly appointed prosecutor. But in James Comey's case, that window has already closed. And since the indictment was never valid, it didn't pause the statute of limitations, and that deadline has now expired. Prosecutors should not be able to refile. But we will watch what the Trump administration does. But the case against Letitia James, it could be brought again, but that depends on what the White House does next. They plan to appeal. Let's listen to what the White House had to say.

[DJ Envy]

I know there was a judge who is clearly trying to shield Letitia James and James Comey from receiving accountability, and that's why they took this unprecedented action to throw away the indictments against these two individuals. But the Department of Justice will be appealing very soon, and it is our.

[Mimi Brown]

Position that Lindsay Halligan is extremely qualified.

[DJ Envy]

For this pleasure position, but more importantly.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Was legally appointed to it.

[Mimi Brown]

So, yes.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah. First of all, these cases being tossed is great news. All right, just good to know there are still some checks and balances in this country. We all know both of these cases are politically motivated, part of President Trump's revenge tour. So just good to know the rule of law still matters to some people.

[Mimi Brown]

It still matters. So we'll continue to watch that and see what happens as they file that appeal and as that legal battle plays out. The Pentagon has sparked a new controversy of its own, launching an investigation into Democratic Senator Mark Kelly. The Pentagon confirms that it is investigating Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. He's a Navy combat pilot, or a former Navy combat pilot and a former astronaut for possibly violating military law. Now, officials say the review could even lead to recalling him to active duty for a court martial, something that is almost never done. Now, this all started after Kelly, he appeared in a video with five other Democratic lawmakers. We talked about that last week. Now, in that video, they told active duty troops and intelligence officers that if they were ever given an illegal order, they have the right to refuse it, which is. Which is true under military law. At President Trump, he blasted the group, calling the message seditious behavior and saying it could be punishable. Punishable by death. He later walked that back, but acute, but continued to accuse them of sedition. Now, a short term, short time later, the Pentagon, it announced that it had received serious allegations of misconduct about Kelly. And they are now reviewing the. If his comments broke military rules. Now, a lot of people are asking why just Senator Mark Kelly when there were five other Democratic lawmakers who were also in that video. Well, he is the only person in that video who is a retired military officer. Now, retired military officers, unlike veterans who simply completed their service legally remained under the uniform code of military service. That means they can be recalled to active duty and prosecuted if the Pentagon believes that they violated military law. Now, Kelly, he is responsible. Responding to this investigation this morning, saying that he has honored his oath from the day he entered the Navy through his combat missions for space shuttle flights and public service. He said the president's posts calling for him to be arrested or even executed are meant to intimidate him and it will not work.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, the irony of them investigating Mark Kelly for his comments. But Trump made death threats and nobody cares. Trump made death threats in, like that meeting with Mandani. Got those out of the, the headlines in two seconds.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, death threats. He was retweeting people who were calling for them to be hanged. You know what I mean? Like, that was just, it was, it was basically beneath the office. So we will continue to watch what that looks like. And coming up, behind the truth behind those early Friday. Was it Black Friday? Yep. Coming up, the truth behind those early Black Friday deals, what you've been seeing. We'll break down how to save money and the best time to shop. We'll do that in the next hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, thank you, Mimi. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. Call us up right now. 800-585-1051 is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Ray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray.

[Donnie Simpson]

Ray.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up?

[DJ Envy]

Are we live?

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got an indoor pool, a outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now.

[Donnie Simpson]

He'll tell you what it is. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yo, what up?

[DJ Envy]

What up, DJ Envy? Coach David, Coach Davis. How you doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Coach? How you feeling?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I'm good, Charlemagne. What up, my guy? Peace King. How you doing, brother?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, yo, check this out, man.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I know, I know.

[DJ Envy]

You know, you said that Johnny Simpson was the first coolest dude that you've seen on tv, right?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

I got you by a couple years, man.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, my man, DJ Ralph McDaniels, bro. Video music Box. You feel me?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Well, see, y' all was in New York. I was in South Carolina. We didn't have Ralph McDaniels in video in South Carolina.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, that's true.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

But I still think Donnie. I still think Donnie came before Ralph McDaniels. Nah, not at all. He didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I think they're in the.

[DJ Envy]

I think they're in the same. They're in the same era, just two different genres.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Video Soul debuted in 1981. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, that's. Nah, I think that's the same time.

[DJ Envy]

Nah. Video Music Box, I'm telling you.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, listen, I'm not. I'm not debating that. I don't know. But, yeah, I wasn't, you know, Video Music Box, that was. That was. That was Tri State based. I was in South Carolina.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It says Video Music box debuted in 83.

[DJ Envy]

83.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I got it June 26, 1981. For what? Well, I looked up Video Soul.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I looked up Video Music Box, Video Music Box, Ralph Medanz.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, so, okay. Yeah. So Video Soul came out first.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. All right. Well, two years, but same error.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, but I think it was different because Donnie was national with bet. You know what I'm saying? Donnie Simpson and Sherry Carr.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely, absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, brother, though.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yo, y' all gentlemen have a great holiday, man.

[DJ Envy]

Happy Thanksgiving, man.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Thank you, brother. Appreciate you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. It's Hudson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

I just want to know when. Like, at 9:50, when y' all wrapping up the show. This administration never come down and be like, yo, that was gay. But tomorrow, I need y' all to be just a little gayer.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

First of all, I don't know who this imaginary. I don't know who this imaginary administration is. Y' all think, you know, has his hand on this show, but no, that doesn't happen, sir. We made.

[DJ Envy]

That's all I thought.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Let's be honest, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who starts the show was like last night when I went to Dick's, like, that's.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I was talking about Dick Sporting Goods. That was ridiculous.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, that's a little crazy. It was a little ao. It was a little Al.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I wanted to know, too, Hudson, Why would they name the store Dicks, though?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Like, it was because there's people named.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dick Sporting Authority Sporting Goods.

[DJ Envy]

Richardson came down and told we needed a little gear.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Man, shut up. Everything isn't gay, guys. Now you got me Googling. Why is Dick Sporting Goods called Dick Sporting Good?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. I said have a good one, man.

[DJ Envy]

Have a good morning.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Dick Sporting Goods is named after its founder, Richard Dick Stack. That's his name, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Well, salute to Richard. All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Happy holidays. You're listening to the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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

[Donnie Simpson]

I hate the way that you walk.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

The way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress.

[Donnie Simpson]

Everything with me is blessed.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Call up next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051.

[Donnie Simpson]

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

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Envy. What's up, Envy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trav, if you say anything stupid on this radio this morning, I'm gonna hang up on you. Yeah, you already know what?

[DJ Envy]

I'm calling for a star.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You already know, sis. What's happening? Talk that talk trap.

[DJ Envy]

You already know what's going on?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, it's just us.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. Well, I called to say that we going to the bowl, baby. Five.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Five and one, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not going to no super Five and one, baby.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

We on the way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Travis giving.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Stupid stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I told him if he talks stupid stuff, I gotta hang up on him.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hi, this is Nicole Collins.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Nicole.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Nicole.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you call her from Nicole, I'm.

[DJ Envy]

Calling from Springfield, Massachusetts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Springfield. What's up? Get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to shout out my baby daddy. Maximax. He got a nice new song by Love Platforms, and y' all should take a listen to it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your baby daddy's music. You got us on Bluetooth so we can't hear you. Is your baby daddy in the car with you right now?

[DJ Envy]

No, he's. Well, he's right here.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, I respect that. I respect that, man. That you love him so much that you call up here supporting his hustle. How old is he?

[DJ Envy]

28.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Put him on the phone.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Let him. Restless. That's not too old to still be pursuing your rap dreams. Does he have it. Does he have a. Do you have a day job? What's up, brother? Do you have a day job?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, yeah, I work. Pathetics, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's your rap name, bro?

[DJ Envy]

It's Mackie Mac.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mackie Mac. I don't know about the name, but I'm gonna rock with you.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

From Massachusetts. So he probably inspired by Marky Mark.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Mark. Oh, Got you, Got you. All right, Mackie Mac. All right. Tell them where they can find your music. Mackie Mack, man.

[DJ Envy]

All platforms. I got the new song called Blinded by Love. It's a singing song that puts you in a mindset of the angel flow and Maxwell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we. Can we hear a little bit? Can we hear a little bit?

[DJ Envy]

Okay. That's all I'm doing for y'.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. All right, brother.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All right. I mean, listen, listen. I can't really tell much over the phone, but I like the fact that you are pursuing your dream, but you are also still having a day job that is very important, sir.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have a good one, bro.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Man, keep, keep, keep, keep working. You probably sound good in the studio, though. I don't know.

[Mike Epps]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But anyway, salute to him, Mackie Mac. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now, we got the latest with Lauren coming up. Lauren is not here now.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Did she send anything?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, Lauren sent me a bunch of stories. Okay, the first hour is gonna make us sound real Chatty Patty, though. I'm just gonna let you know when I say real Chatty Patty, what is it? Real Chatty Patty.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You know, if I need to get my fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You definitely need your fan. All right, it starts off with Kandi speaks about her divorce. Toni Braxton speaks about her silence on Birdman. And if they really split. And offset being accused of trying to set up Stephon Diggs.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, I mean, you don't have to do those. That's a choice, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then she got Lizzo saying that Ozempic is erasing fat people.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Now, you know I'm here for that one. Now I'm here for that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gonna get the ladies with Lauren.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

When we come back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Happy holidays. Wishing you and your family the very best this holiday season. From all of us here at the Breakfast Club, the Breakfast Club, everybody, it's TDJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne. The guy's club. That's Kalani.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Nobody loved that record. They didn't love that record.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. All right, well, let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fan. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

She'd be having the latest on this, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little. With everything.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Talk to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, so Lauren is on her birthday vacation, but she still sent the rumors and notes in. She says, yes, envy and bald, short, ugly guy. I'm speaking to sources poolside. Very on brand.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay, Twin.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, so.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay. Okay, Twin. By the way, this is a public service announcement. Stop calling people twin if you ugly. I just want to throw that out there. Damn, you're embarrassing yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, yesterday, all over, I guess all over social media, it was. Offset is being accused of trying to set up Stefon Diggs. All right, now, this Instagram model that I guess Offset was allegedly talking with released some text messages that say Offset was trying to set up Stefon Diggs. But Lauren spoke to sources, and the source told Lauren that the girl is a girl that Offset currently has beef with about some other things, and that these texts are in relation to their back and forth. That is completely separate from anything to do with Stefan Diggs, that he has nothing to do with setting him up, and he wishes them the best. So he basically. She's basically saying that the girl is. People are misconstruing the information, and it has nothing to do with Stefon Dix.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, you could have left that one for Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's not gonna be here. She ain't here to next Monday. She said.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I'm telling you what she said. Do these stories, girl. Listen, do your thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pull your fan out now. She says Candy Burris, formerly of Real Housewives of Atlanta, spoke out about filing for divorce last Friday and how hard it's been. She said she was doing Amazon Live shopping Experience and said, it's been a long time coming. And then she said, you should say pause after that. Envy. All right, well, this is her talking about the divorce. I swear, she did say pause after saying long time coming. But Candy talks about her divorce from Todd and said, it's been a long time coming. Let's listen to Kandi.

[DJ Envy]

And I'm sure y' all saw that I filed for divorce on Friday. Right now, it's. It's a pretty crazy time. I'm going to be very honest with you. I am up and down. Obviously, going through a divorce is definitely not the easiest thing. You know, sometimes, you know, you're cool. You know what I mean? You move in, you mix in, you move in, and you hanging out with friends. But then sometimes you have your moments of Sadness. And me being the Taurus that I am, I like to keep those moments to myself. And to be clear, yes, I filed Friday. But you know, this is something that, you know, has been brewing for a while. So all the times you've been seeing me online, like all of that means nothing. I've been going through it, child. But what I will say is Todd and I were together for our marriage lasted 11 years. We was together like 14. We got two wonderful, beautiful children. I have no regrets.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You know, whenever I hear a woman said they filed for divorce, I always wonder if the man knew it was coming. Because if you're not expecting it, that has to be a gut punch, right? And I don't know what hurts worse, you know. You know, getting the divorce papers are hearing. It was a long time coming. So. Damn, you've been not wanting to be with me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And I guess as a man, you should know when things aren't the same in your house. But you know, do you know the difference between when things aren't the same and you know, you might be trying to figure things out and work things out or when it's just over when the person is fed up done.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know what? With men, I would say a lot of times we are delirious. When a woman is done with delusional, you mean delusional and delirious, I would say, because sometimes you feel like you can fight for it back. Like, ah, it's not that bad. I can still this, she's still mine. And then when you get that paperwork, like that, oh my God.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

The vows say, you know, for better or worse, you know, till death for you part. Like, you know, you supposed. Like you're supposed to fight for your marriage. I just wonder, you know, when she says it was a long time coming, like did he know exactly or were they trying to figure things out behind the scenes but it just couldn't be done.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, wish him the best.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Also, Lizzo says Ozempic is erasing big people.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's how she said it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Is there any audio?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, there's no audio, but this is what she said. She published a personal essay a few days ago on Substack titled why is everybody losing weight and what do we do? Sincerely, a person who's lost weight. She said she's out here. She's currently weighs over 200 pounds and is still a proud big girl. And she feels as though plus sized women are becoming erased in the age of a weight loss drug like Ozempic. She wants the big girls back.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All right, first of all, that's what Ozempic is supposed to do, Lizzo, okay? People who don't want to identify as fat anymore, they take these weight loss drugs in order to lose weight, okay? And at some point in your life, your doctor will even say to you that you need to lose weight because obesity causes a lot of health problems, okay? At higher risk for disease, whether it's stroke or high blood pressure, pressure or high cholesterol. So if people want to use Ozipic to lose weight to lower the risk of getting those diseases, God bless them. And I also want to tell all the fat people out there, you are not your fat, okay? You are not your fat. Just because you lose the fat doesn't mean you lose who you are, all right? We all have a hidden character inside of us that we can unlock if we lose the weight, right? What does she mean? Fat people aren't being erased. They're just losing the fat. Nothing wrong with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hashtag save all big girls now, she says. So here we are halfway through the decade where extended sizes are being magically erased from websites. Plus size models are no longer getting booked for modeling gigs, and all of our big girls are not so big anymore.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

What's wrong with that, though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We have a lot of work to do to undo the effects of the Ozempic.

[Donnie Simpson]

Boom.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

First of all, how do you know everything is Ozempic? How do you know people just aren't eating healthier? How do you know people aren't just, you know, working out? Like, why does everything have to be blamed on the weight loss drug? What if people have just said, you know what? I want to make better choices, healthier choices, and they're losing weight? Like, what are we talking about? I don't know, being, you know, and in a lot of cases, in a lot of cases, not all being overweight is a choice. So when you start making better lifestyle choices, you start losing the weight. I don't see what the issue here is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And in closing, she said, we're in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they're tired of being judged.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, I think people are just making their own individual choices because they want to make their own individual choices. Just announced the Lane Bryant partnership. Already? What the hell is going on? What is this about? What is this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. Save all the big girls, I guess.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I don't know. What is this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And lastly, Toni Braxton speaks on Birdman. Now, Lauren says you gotta get this next one right. Envy. You know, Birdman don't play about Tony, and he don't play with y' all either. He really don't like y'.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But just play the audio of Tony Braxton talking their relationship. Romance is never dead.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

It never dies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You have to open.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Open yourself up to it.

[Donnie Simpson]

Okay, where is it for you today?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where does it stand right now?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

It stays good. Meaning? Just bring it on. So, okay. Are you married?

[DJ Envy]

I am.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay, explain that to us. Cause I heard you were married. Then you weren't married.

[Mimi Brown]

I heard a lot of different rumors.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, I heard that I'm getting 100.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And what is it? The amount? A lot. I heard that you're getting a big check from a certain former producer who's dropping off a bunch of money.

[DJ Envy]

I heard that, too. That big check.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

A rumored 160 million. The certain performer.

[DJ Envy]

That'd be rapper Birdman. Tony denies those rumors. By the way, the backstory, the two tied the knot and seemingly split. Split just 48 hours later. Last year, the pair apparently agreed to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call off the divorce in January.

[Mimi Brown]

We've been friends forever for 25 years.

[DJ Envy]

Romance from friendship.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I just want Lauren to know that no matter how many times she takes, you know, Toni Braxton's album cover into the hair salon, your hair is never gonna look like hers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all you got out of that?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's all I got. That's all you gotta do. All right, well, you could take that whole album cover, Tony Braxton from the 90s into the hair salon all you want. Your haircut will never look like hers. Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus Christ.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Have a great vacation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. And that is the latest with Lauren. Now, when we come back, we got some front page news. And then the legendary icon Donnie Simpson will be joining us. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bel Air is back for a final season on Peacock. And in the end, it's all love. Will and Carlton start senior year and the rest of the fam face new chapters of their own. Stream, Belt Air. Now only on Peacock. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Now. Last night there was an NFL game. I fell asleep for it. Did you see Charlemagne?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, I was watching. You know what I was watching last night? I was watching Syracuse versus Houston. Syracuse was playing Houston. I think Houston is the number three team in men's college basketball. And Syracuse almost won. They took them to overtime. Barely. Yeah, I just want. I wanted, you know, I wanted to see how good Syracuse was because they were undefeated as well. But they took them to overtime. Wow, that team is pretty impressive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now in Monday night football, the 49ers beat the Panthers 29. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Charlamagne. Good morning, Envy. How y' all doing this morning?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Blessed, black and highly favored. Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. Okay, so we start this hour by saying goodbye to one of the last living witnesses to the Tulsa race massacre. So, Viola Ford Fletcher, known to so many as Mother Fletcher, was the oldest known survivor of the 1921 attack on Tulsa's Greenwood community. She died yesterday at 111 years old. Her family says she passed peacefully with a smile on her face. Mother Fletcher. She spent her final years fighting for justice, giving interviews, appearing in court and retelling the trauma she carried ever since she was seven years old, when a white mob burned down Greenwood once known as Black Wall street, in just 16 hours, 35 blocks were destroyed. Thousands of black residents were detained and hundreds more beaten and killed. Here she is, in her own words, telling the story of how she carried this for more than a century. Let's listen.

[DJ Envy]

The night of the massacre, I was awakened by my family. My parents and five siblings were there. I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. I still see black men sinned being shot, black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and seafire. I still see black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We had the pleasure of actually meeting her when she actually came on the show and did an interview in red. And Mother Fletcher stopped through here 111.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Years old, man, what a life. And it's interesting to me when you have people who live through the history that we read about and we talk about and that's why you got to take advantage of having conversations with those elders while they're here. Man.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely, absolutely. And she was one of only two survivors left now, her friend and fellow survivor, Leslie Benningfield Randall. She is the last. Last year, on June, In June of 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court, they threw out their loss, which was a major setback in their 100 year fight for reparations. That basically means that their push through the justice system, through the courts had reached a dead end. Their attorney though, says she was still fighting even from her hospital bed, tired, but not ready to leave the work unfinished. So we will continue to just wish them well in their fight for justice. And as we move on, returning to a very different fight happening inside the federal government. So doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, it has shut down eight months early after laying off tens of thousands of federal workers. And now some of those very jobs that were cut, they are being replaced by AI. Now, one of the agencies that was hit the hardest was the IRS. After cutting more than 12,000 employees this year from customer service to civil rights to compliance, the IRS is now rolling out salesforce powered AI tools to pick up the work that people used to do. Now these agents, they will answer questions, sort through files and help move the cases along, but they can't make final decisions or process returns on their own. But it is a major shift that's sparking real concern in how the agency is handling its now day to day operations.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I don't want AI working at the irs. I don't need no room for error at the irs, okay? I need actual humans in there that we can yell and scream at. I don't need nobody playing with our money.

[Mimi Brown]

And to just pick up the phone when you have a question about your return or anything that you may have a question with about your money. So yeah, that we will see what that looks like, especially when it gets closer to tax season. That's going to be a real headache for so many people. And another headache, right? So if you're planning to ship anything next year, holiday gifts, birthday packages, anything, the postal service is warning that prices are going up. So for most, most packages you're looking at a bump of about 5 to 8%. That's basically a few extra dollars every time you mail something. That includes your everyday options like your priority mail, your priority express mail. The cheaper Slower services will see the biggest jump. One of the specialty international options, the one that people use to send like books overseas, that's going to go up about 40% now. USPS says it needs the extra revenue to upgrade its system and to keep delivering mail and packages six days a week. The new prices, though, they still need approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission. But if they are cleared, those new prices will kick in January 18, 2026. They also want to stress that this does not affect the price of a stamp. Regular mail will stay the same, but shipping will cost more, but sending a letter will not. So everything is going up. And lastly, it is almost Black Friday and a lot of shoppers, they are trying to figure out what is real and what is hype this year. So Black Friday, y' all remember it used to be predictable. You woke up at 3am, you stood in line, you sprint it for your TV.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Mimi Brown]

But those days are now gone. You remember that we used to watch the videos online of everybody pushing and shoving, going crazy?

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Yep. Well, now the sales start so early that people, a lot of companies, they are rolling out door busters before Halloween. And so shoppers are confused. So all over social media, people are asking the same thing. Is this the real Black Friday or is this a warm up? And it's a fair question because every retailer is shouting Black Friday week weeks in advance and it's getting hard to tell if the sale is the real sale. So here's what analysts are saying. They're saying the best and the deepest cuts, they usually still show up the week into Black Friday through Cyber Monday. So that would be this week. That's when those electronics, those big ticket home items and holiday gifts will hit their lowest prices. They say though, if you do see something that you want and it's a genuinely good price, you should probably grab it. But if you are chasing those rock bottom prices, waiting until Black Friday Cyber Monday stretch is usually your best bet. And they also suggest maybe getting a pricing tracking tool that will help you keep track of all the deals to help you find the best prices to save you a few dollars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Hey, I should have went, I should have waited and did some shopping on Friday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't want to go out there. It'd be too crazy on Friday. And you don't like people, you will go crazy.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, that's never happened to me before, man. I went to the Dick's Sporting Goods yesterday and usually I walk into a place and I know exactly what I want and I get it and I leave And I've been so heavy ordering stuff online lately that I haven't been in the store in a. But I walked in Dick's Sporting Goods just. Just to go buy some draws.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the underwear is nowhere near the sneakers. You see, that is not true. Nah. Cause the sneakers is all the way in the back. And the only reason I know is I had to buy.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And that's what underwear is.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

By fitting room too. And then you suit. When you're looking at the ethical underwear, I. The wall is right there full of Asia Wilson sneakers. And I was like, oh, shoot. It was Asia Wilson and Donovan Mitchell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donovan Mitchell, Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And I was like, I didn't know. First of all, I didn't know Asia had that many colorways. And then I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bunch of colorways.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I went and bought two pairs because, you know, that's home team and only.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Had one pair of Kobe's there, the size 10. When I went there the other day.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I didn't see the Kobe's guy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I was looking for Jackson.

[BET Announcer]

But anyway.

[Mimi Brown]

But yes, but that type of stuff doesn't go on Black Friday sale anyway, right? No, you probably.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You're probably right.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. They don't usually discount. There's the shoes and things like that, so. All right, y'.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit Bin News.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Thank you, Mimi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, now, when we come back, the legend, the og, Donnie Simpson will be joining us. He had his own radio show in D.C. and Detroit for years. You probably know him from Video Soul on bet. And now he has season two of the Donnie Simpson Show. We're gonna talk to him next, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Donnie Simpson]

My first soprano in the choir. So I got to sit with the girls, you know, next I. I get to sit with the girls the next year. But people would always record shop and. God, you sound like a dj. You ought to be a dj. And it was in one ear, out the other man. I wanted to be a Baptist minister. That was my first goal in life. And. But one day my mother had a live broadcast. One of the local DJs, Hal Perkins came in, well, set up his booth out front. They had a portable booth with, you know, glass encased. And did his show from there for three hours. And so he invited me into the studio to do specials, you know. You know, we got The Temptations Greatest Hits, on sale for 2.99 this hour. Whatever.

[BET Announcer]

And.

[Donnie Simpson]

But while I'm in there, man, I'm sitting there, man. I'm watching him, and he's got his headphones on, man. He's jamming to the music, man. I was like, man, I could do that. I could. That's what I want to do right there. I mean, it's just. This light was just. No doubt. That's what I wanted to do. And within three months, I was on air. I was 15 years old, you know, in Detroit. Detroit was fifth largest market in the country at that time. So, you know, I mean, what a blessing to get a start that young. And, I mean, I couldn't even do my whole show live. I was on from 8 to midnight. And law stated I couldn't work past 10:30. So after school, I have to go home. I mean, go to the station, record my last hour and a half, then go home, have dinner, do my homework, go back and go live from 8 to 10:30, put the tape on and leave.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What were you talking about at age 15 in Detroit? When this is when. What Temptations and all these groups and love and singing. What were you talking about at 15 in Detroit?

[Donnie Simpson]

The Temptations. Yes, the Miracles, Four Tops.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I mean, what year was that?

[Donnie Simpson]

1969.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, yeah. So 15 in Detroit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In Detroit.

[Donnie Simpson]

69.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

He was really 30.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah. Right. But, you know, I would. I've always loved music. So I would go into a Smokey set, right? Or I remember this happened with Smokey and Stevie. I played four or five songs by them. They would call on the request line. They didn't even have a hotline number. Just call, man. I was listening to you, baby, you know, and talk to Smokey, talk to Stevie, man. It was just. It was magical.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Detroit at that time, Motown was right there. Yeah. Like, you were in the heart of it.

[Donnie Simpson]

I was in the heart of it, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pick the records you played back then.

[Donnie Simpson]

I've always done that. Always. Well, that was, you know, that was the norm back then. Of course now, you know, nobody gets that privilege. But my whole career, I'm proud of that. I always had total control of what happened on my show, man. I wouldn't have done it any other way, you know, because, you know, I'm not a bit. It was never a bit driven show, you know, it was. For me, everything was. It was the music. I was. That was the main focus for me. So I had to have control of it or I wouldn't do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And how did you get to D.C. because most people. A lot of people thought you were from D.C. yeah. How did you get from D.C. so you're on radio in Detroit. You're 15. Your radio career starts.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And how does this. This young individual get out to Washington, D.C. yeah.

[Donnie Simpson]

Well, I got a call one night on the air on the request line, and this guy sound very official voice. Hello, is this Donnie Simpson? I go, yeah, this is Bob Henneberry from NBC in New York, and we'd like to talk to you about working at one of our stations, at our station in Washington. I said, come on, man, who the hell is this Rich? Really? Because your boys would play tricks like that, and then they hear you get all official, and then they go, oh, man, it's Claude, man. What you doing after the show tonight? You know, And. But it was real. And so I went there to meet with him. At first I didn't want to go because it was a disco station. And I said, no way I would do that. But then my oldest brother, who had a very smart business mind. I always wish I had his business mind. But he said, you always have to talk, whatever the offer is. You just. You have to listen.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I agree.

[Donnie Simpson]

So I went. They picked me up, took me on an interview at Arlington Cemetery. And it's like, is this Washington, D.C. or not? I mean, why is clandestine at the cemetery? It just was weird. But I ended up going, because when I went there, they were playing the Enchantment and some stuff other than just disco and. But, you know, I felt like it was opportunity for me, that it was NBC, that the station I was at in Detroit. We were their biggest station in their chain that you had opportunity for growth there. And they were gonna make me rich, man. I left Detroit making 13,000. They were paying me 27.

[DJ Envy]

Five, baby.

[Donnie Simpson]

But I won't let me find first car. First car I ever bought was a 1964 Ford Fairlane. $225, man. I burned so much oil, man. I pull in the gas station, tell them, fill up the oil and check the gas. But I thought I was rich when I moved there with that money, man. But I was broke as hell, man. I mean, very. Because I didn't factor in cost of living. From Detroit to D.C. it was like three times more. And I lost my side hustle because it wasn't popular. So, you know, so I didn't, you know, you're not doing the concerts and all that stuff. I didn't think about all that, man. Man, it was tight for a minute, and for Me, man, The moment that I remember most from that is I had a set of pictures. What? Back then, you had to get pictures developed, right? And it was $26, man. And I couldn't afford to get them out of the shop. And he kept sending me notices, man. It was the last pictures of my grandfather, man. And that, you know, we're gonna destroy him. You got three months, finally got enough money, man. It was too late. You're gone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Donnie Simpson]

You know, so that was always a motivating factor for me. It still is, man, that I don't ever want to be in that position again, you know, but it was that kind of tight for me.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry. Go ahead.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah, no, I said for a minute, but, you know, that was 77 when I moved to D.C. and by night, the end of 79, things just started to really, really, really pop.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[BET Announcer]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Donnie Simpson. Of course, you know him from his own radio show in D.C. and Detroit and of course, Video Soul.

[DJ Envy]

Lauren, when you were in it and you were doing what you were doing with Video Soul, did you feel, you felt that all the time, like the support from your people?

[Donnie Simpson]

Oh, without doubt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, before. Well, how did you get to Video Soul? Break that down before you jump into that.

[Donnie Simpson]

Okay. Well, I was doing radio In Detroit, in D.C. wkys was my station. At that time. It was owned by NBC. They're trying to sweeten the pot for me. So they started, they gave me television locally there. I did backup sports. I was a sportscaster for George Michael. I don't know if y' all remember him, but George Michael did the George Michael Sports machine, which is people consider the precursor to espn. And so I was George's backup for about three years and. But Bob Johnson had seen me doing tv. He knew, of course, of my music interests and love. And they were starting up this show called Video Soul. And he wanted to know if I called and wanted to know if I would be interested in doing it. And at first I wasn't well, because I've always felt I was always very careful about what I got involved in because I only have one thing to sell this image. I can't give you 20 rebounds a night. You know, it's just image. And so you have to be very protective of that. And I only got involved in things that were top shelf. Bet in its infancy wasn't a very.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pretty baby, Wasn't a top shelf. Okay.

[Donnie Simpson]

No, it wasn't. It looked like access, public access tv, you know. So after two days of thinking about it, it came down to this for me, that this is our first black television network. If you have something to offer it, you gotta do it. Let's go. And I was so glad I did, man. You know, I mean, I had no idea that thing would go as far as it did. I honestly only thought would last eight or nine months because we didn't have the titles for videos that the white artists had. We had like 20 videos. You know, record companies didn't give black artists budgets like that. And so. But, man, that thing just blew up, man. We went from one of them. We were in one and a half million homes when I first joined it. And when I left it was numbers like 40, 40 million, you know, and, you know, and then for me, it gave me, you know, it puts you in every nook and cranny of this country, man. Just, you know, I'm just grateful for that. I'm just so glad that I did that.

[DJ Envy]

Did you feel the support at first and the reason why with. From your people for real? Because from the outside looking in, it does feel like that. But I know a lot of times people celebrate people and things after the fact.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And being here at the Breakfast Club and coming from a non black outlet, I always say that I feel like people don't appreciate the Breakfast Club the way that they should right now. And it's unfortunate to see because, you know, you've lived this in real time and you had that support. I just think that we. I mean, we do a lot. But I think it would be the conversation around Breakfast Club amongst us, I just feel like should be different sometimes.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

So we get.

[DJ Envy]

We. I think Breakfast Club gets the flowers, but I think, on the other hand, I don't think people understand what's happening as it's happening.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, I think haters come with. I mean, you got, you got both. You'll have your supporters, you're going to have people that got something negative to say. That's just life.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I just wonder what it felt like to have the support and like how that helped you to further what you were doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just show wise.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Donny Hayes. Donnie was out here knocking on, knocking down all these women, listening to all these, you know, this is back in the day, man. Back in the day.

[Donnie Simpson]

No, bro, hey, bro, I was old early. I'm telling you, seriously, because we were married, me and my wife, man. We. We were high school sweethearts.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, okay.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah. Married at 19, had our first child one year, two days later, you know, like, I never even lived the college life, the campus life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Donnie Simpson]

You know, I mean, I went to school, but, man, I had a house with a wife and kid at home, you know, so I never. So that's why I was old early, man. But Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, they always say this, that, that had everything to do with my success. Because you had your base set so early, man said, we're still out, you know, we 20, not 29, 30 years old. Still trying to look for what you got, you know, you got it, man. You've had it for 10 years at that point, you know, so, yeah, so it was always solid like that for me. But the support of the people of, man, people have always given me mad love. I'm telling you, that's all I've ever known. And I. It's just the most consistent thing that I've ever experienced in life, man. Just the what, what my fan base gives me is just amazing, man.

[DJ Envy]

Is that why you're still so passionate about radio today?

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Podcasting and people hearing your voice because.

[DJ Envy]

You'Ve always been connected to the people.

[Donnie Simpson]

Always, always, you know, and it reminds me, I said this at Frankie's funeral, Frankie Beverly's funeral.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That.

[Donnie Simpson]

Because you know how people loved him. I said, you don't get love like that unless you give love like that. You got to give it first. And that's why he gets. And I think that's what people feel for me, you know? I love people, man. I just. I love people, man. They just been good to me, you know? It really happened.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

BET gave you a platform that became essential to black culture.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Was there a moment on Video Soul where you felt like, this isn't just entertainment. We're documenting our culture in real time.

[Donnie Simpson]

No, not. Not when I was doing it, man. You know, it's like, to me, I think that, you know, whatever it is that you do, you're just doing it when you're doing it. It's. It's a line in Elton John song Rocket man that I love so much when he says, and all the science I don't understand. It's just my job. Five days a week, a rocket man. You know, it's like I'm an astronaut. People look like, wow, this, man. And that's just what I do, man. That's just my job, man. You know, and. And that's the way I feel like when you're doing what you do, you know? You know, now all these years later, you look back because people make you look back and see the importance of it, and it's.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

It's.

[Donnie Simpson]

It's mind blowing because I know I didn't have those thoughts when I was doing it, man. I was just, I think, going to work.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's the difference between this generation now and the previous generation. We watched y' all make history. Y' all didn't know y' all were making history. So now we understand we're in history in real time.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah. You know, and y' all are, man. I mean, what y' all doing is amazing, man. You know, I mean, the platform that you have, the reach that you have, you know, I never had that in radio, and my show was always local. It did come to me once about syndicating it, but the problem for me was, well, go back to music. I said, well, what happens if I'm on this particular station? I know they're all slows, you know, adult contemporaries. Just, you know, it's Kim and you know what happens when I play Tupac? Well, we covered a Tupac song. You can talk about Tupac because everybody knows him, but we'll cover that with a Luther song. See, you have no interest in that. You know, it's the whole experience or it's none.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why Thea does what she does. Thea doesn't change for nobody. It doesn't care what market it is, what area. She's whatever that. What you get on that Breakfast Club is what you're getting.

[Donnie Simpson]

I love that, man. That's where it should be. You know, you want the whole experience. This is, you know, what you're presenting. This is who you are. I can't do a moderated version of me, you know? No. You know, and then, plus, for me, I felt like the only reason to do it was for money. I was okay, you know, well, two reasons. Money and then for to further your brand, you know, and it's like, man, BET gave me that in the way radio could never give it to me. You know, you put me in every nook and cranny of this country. I don't need it for that. I just. I'm not going to compromise on me, on who I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we got more with Donnie Simpson when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it. The OG the legend, the icon, Donnie Simpson. Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

How do you want your legacy taught to the next generation of host broadcasters? Just. Just black creatives. What's the headline of Donnie Simpson's story?

[Donnie Simpson]

He did him, you know, he did his thing. You should do yours, you know? Just never tried to be anybody else. I. I never. I've never met the man I wanted to be, you know? Never have, man. You know, and I've met some. Some great people, from Bob Johnson to Michael Jeward. I never wanted to be any of them. I'm the only person I ever wanted to be, you know, I remember this guy was out playing golf one day. I was with this older guy, and these. These kids were in the playground next to the golf course, and I hit my ball over there, and so I'm over there in the. This kid, he's about six, seven years old. He says, hi, mister, I know you wish you were Tiger Woods. I said, no, I like who I am. And. And the guy I was playing with said, that is just the greatest response I've ever heard to anything. I mean, without hesitation, I like who I am, you know, I don't want to be Tiger, you know, his money, his golf game, whatever. Yeah, I love his ball like him, but. But, you know, I just. I'm happy with who I am, you know, I am. I always have been, you know, I'm not perfect. We all have faults, you know, but, you know, even the bad things that have, you know, the stuff in my closet, man, whatever it is, all of it has made me who I am, and I like who I am. Because even those bad things, man, that you are, tests, you know, to correct you and to make you, you know, who you. Who God wants you to be, you know, and so. So, you know, so I. I like who I am, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you tell the next generation of broadcasters, the one that's waking up right now? Listening to this and say, I want to do this.

[Donnie Simpson]

That if this is what you want to do, first of all, just to know that it's possible, you know, that anything can happen, that it's not some pipe dream, that it's real, you know, Like, I used to take my kids with me to everything, man. My kids been the Neverland Ranch, you know, they knew Michael and Janet and Prince, everybody, you know, and it was for two reasons, was by design. One was that if you meet Michael, then you know that he's human. Two is that if you know one, then you must know that you could do that, too. It's not magic. It's not, you know, Whatever it is, I don't care who it is, it is real. I would say that to kids when I spoke in schools that, you know, that I know parents tell you something. Well, let's, you know, I want to be an actor. I want to be a basketball player, you know, that's such a fun. Oh, yeah, somebody's gonna do it. There will be the next Denzel Washington. There will be the next Michael Jordan. It may as well be you. Why not?

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Not.

[Donnie Simpson]

Why not Dream big. That's what I would say to them. Just dream big, man. Just don't be afraid of big, man. I love people with big eyes, man, you know, don't be afraid of big, man. Whatever that big is to you. And it doesn't necessarily mean money. Not everybody keeps score like that, you know, Whatever it is, man. So if this is what you want to do, then go after it. Be relentless. Be great, and be you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love it.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Before we close out, you got to tell us a Michael story before you. Before you leave. Michael went to the Neverland Ranch and just.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, you didn't hear what he said, though. He said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love it. You just can't say, I took the kids Neverland Ranch. They was on the rides.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Coming out. And speaking of celebrity, that's another person we'd be trying to say, stop saying somebody is the new Michael Jackson.

[Donnie Simpson]

Taxi.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

There is no such act, number one, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Donnie Simpson]

That dude, man, when I first met him, he was. God, I was 16, so Mike would have been 14, I think. I think that's right. Or 13 or something like that. First time I met him. But, man, you know, Michael was just. He's just a special dude, man. He was. The first time I went to the house, this was before he owned Neverland. This was the Havenhurst house. I couldn't believe they had a little cookout for me there. Right. And so when I got there, man, all these people standing out across the street, I thought it was a bus stop. They're just fans.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Donnie Simpson]

It's like that 24, 7, man. 24, 7, man. People out there, it was just. It's just crazy. But Michael. Michael was very, very cool. As long as it's a small group, you know, if it gets more than five, six, seven people, he kind of tightens up, you know, he was just be a little uncomfortable in that. But, you know, just me and him or a couple people, he's, you know, kicking. Just a regular dude, man.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Donnie Simpson]

You know, but just brilliant, man. And to me, I look at people like him and Eddie, and you don't get to that level of success without being smart, you know, that ain't no accident. That's not just talent. That's just brains, man. Michael was just. The dude was brilliant. I knew a guy who used to do lighting for him, and he told me. He said one night, Michael came to him and said, look, when, you know, we get to this point in this song, I want you to hit me with this particular light. Told him what light, which light to hit, and the angle to hit him from. And he said, I'm sitting there, man. I'm like, man, dude, I've been doing this for 30 years, man. Tell me what to do. He said, but I did it because he's paying me, you know? He said, but it created the exact effect that Michael said that it would. He said. Then I realized he's been doing this for 30 years, too. Michael, he was like. Like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis told me Prince was that. Jimmy says, man, I. I was a great piano player. I could play. Prince would come in and show me how to play my instrument. So I don't care who you were.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

He could.

[Donnie Simpson]

I'll play you on your instrument. That's Michael Jackson to me, man. You know that he can look at the reverence which all the dancers looked at him, and this is it. I mean, they're just freaking. These are dancers, professional dancers. When Michael does it, it's just. And on top of that, he's a singer and a writer and performing all that. But he can do that part, too. Better than anybody, man. You know, that's just.

[DJ Envy]

Did he have a deep voice for real, or is that.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah, man. He talked like Barry White. No, no, no, no, no. It was light. I remember one day we had. He had a party here in New York. As a matter of fact, he had just done a. I think a show for The UNCF and just a little small party. And so we went and it couldn't have been but 20 people there. Me, my wife, Liza Minnelli was there. Cindy Lauper, she had just happened with girls Just want to have Fun. Jimmy and Terry and just a few more people. But Michael was upstairs. It was a two story townhouse in the hotel. And so finally Michael comes down after about 45 minutes and he comes in and he says he's with his bodyguard, Chucky Dabease. And that was his name, D I B I S E. But he looked like Dabis because he's like 6 foot 8 and always wore a top hat, if you remember that guy. It's very imposing. And Michael walks into the room, he goes, he says, it's so bright in here. Chucky, stand here. He positioned Chucky next to a lamp to block out the light in the room. I was like, damn, this is crazy. This is crazy, man. A human light shade. Now I've seen it all, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We appreciate you, man.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I can't wait to read your book, man. We love you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you so much for all you've done for us out there.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Thank you.

[Donnie Simpson]

Appreciate you. Thank you, man. Thank you all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Meeting you and YouTube.

[Donnie Simpson]

Thank you all for having me, man. I really appreciate y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Plug the show. Season two, the Donnie Simpson Show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right, Season two of the Donnie Simpson Show. That's right, the podcast.

[Donnie Simpson]

Definitely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Check it out.

[Donnie Simpson]

Thank you. Check it out, man.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Thank you, man.

[Donnie Simpson]

God bless y'.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Donnie Simpson. Listen, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a street fan. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And everybody, she be having the latest on the beans, the Lord, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have little bit of everything. Oh, it's the ladies on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, now Lauren is on vacation. She's on her birthday vacation. So she's been sending me the stories. And we're gonna start off with Mike Epps, if you follow comedian Mike Epps. Yesterday, he apologized and did his whole apology on his Instagram yesterday. Well, first he was on the Jim Jones podcast about a week ago talking about people that just came home and how we celebrate people that just came.

[Mike Epps]

Home for black men. All these is gangsters running around talking this street. Straight trauma went Through a lot, been through hell. You get them cry, be on the side of the building crying they heart out for our young, for our youth. We have to start targeting and gearing celebrating those journeys. Those are the wrong journeys to celebrate, young men. There's no reward for coming home after 30 years. You don't get no fucking care package. You are failure. Get your ass out here and help these kids. Pay that back forward. You see what I'm saying? That's the reward.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

So what do you say? Wrong other I. I wouldn't say that they're a failure. But I think when it comes to celebrating people who come home from jail, it depends what they were in prison for. You know what I'm saying? If you were a political prisoner. Yeah, but he's not wrong about celebrating the people who come home from prison. I wouldn't call them a failure. I would just say that they made poor choices and they need to go out there and teach the next generation how not to make those poor choices.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, he apologized for saying that yesterday. And this is what he said during his apology.

[DJ Envy]

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[Mike Epps]

What's up, y'?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All?

[Mike Epps]

It's your man, Mike Epps. Man, I just want to get on here and clarify and clear a few things up. Number one, about the brothers coming home from prison being celebrated. I've always been a part of reform. I got brothers right now from my hometown that I'm trying to help. Help come home. They've been in prison forever. What I was trying to say is we don't want to send kids mixed messages about coming home from prison being celebrated. You know, feeling like you got to go to prison and do 30, 40 years to be celebrated. I think you guys misunderstood. That wasn't saying that it was wrong to be celebrated, but we don't want to send a message to the kids saying prison is great, that you want to go home, go do 30 years and come home home. You know, I don't think that's cool. So I'm sorry if anybody took it the wrong way and got offended. I love my brothers. I've been incarcerated myself. I understand what that is. But I might have said it the wrong way, but I mean, well, I'm.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All for reform and I completely understand what Mike Eps is saying. I completely understand what he's saying. If you have a loved one that went to jail for 20, 30 years and you happy that that person is home. Yes, but that is nothing to be celebrated by the masses. Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You sell it, you're happy that they come home. And I get what he's saying. We should, we should celebrate other things as well. We should celebrate when people graduate from college, when they, you know, become an attorney or when they grad med school, whatever that means. Celebrate. Yes, absolutely. But then he was on a breakfast club. I don't know if you remember, but he was talking about food stamps and the fact that he didn't love the fact that people were on food stamps.

[Mike Epps]

I'm actually glad they cutting some of these N s off food stamps because some of us need to not be on food stamps because it's a trickle down effect. You get the food stamps, then you go buy the food that give you cancer, then you eat the food to give you cancer, then you're sad.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

You.

[Mike Epps]

You walk around here, upset your diet. Now I'm telling you, some honest guy.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

True.

[Mike Epps]

Your diet then sent a lot of to prison.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

They gonna take all this and put it on Fox news.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And it's gonna say, Mike F. Says you don't need to be on food.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

You think so?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And you're gonna go viral and they gonna call you maga.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mike, you gotta finish it.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Well, that was conflating two different things, though. He's right about the diet part. Right. When you eat bad foods, you know, it leads to all types of other things. But I have no problem with people receiving food aid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, he apologized for saying that, you know, come on, Mike, be on food stamps.

[Mike Epps]

And about the food stamp thing. Food stamp thing was misunderstood too. What I was saying is this, is that we need to break the cycle of being on food stamps. There's three generations of people that have been on food stamps, of grandmother, mother and daughter. That's crazy. We gotta do better. We gotta. We can't think that we need assistance. I know there's some people out there that need assistance that's well fine and understood. But there's people out there taking advantage of the system. That's not good. So just want to apologize if I offended anybody. You know, I love y', all, man, and keep on doing the right thing. Peace.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, you got to break the cycle of poverty. You got to break the cycle of, you know, people not having financial resources.

[Donnie Simpson]

That's right.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's the. That's the conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. And lastly, Ice T, you know, his role on SVU was cut back a little bit, and he explains why you won't see him on SVU as much.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

It's just basically business. They brought Kelly back, and at the end of the day, they couldn't really keep. Keep both of us on full time as far as budget wise. So they said, okay, what ice will have you come in and out this year, and that way we could bring. Everybody wanted Kelly back, and we've got new cops and stuff like that. But I'm not leaving the show. I'm more concerned with going to season 28. So this year they said, ice, we're gonna work you a little less. Everything was cool with me. I understood. I said, you're getting rid of me. They said, no way. We can't imagine Law and Order without you. I've been on this show for 27 years. I'm not going to say nothing negative about that show. They've taken care of me for so long, so I just want to get to season 28. What has happened, though, has given me more time, so I got a chance to do other projects, other things. I've worked on music. So don't worry about me. Worry about earthquakes. I'll be okay. So, you know, I'm a hustler. You give me some free time, I find a free dime. You understand What I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

27 years is crazy.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You know what he said that was so ill and all of that, though? He said, I ain't gonna would say nothing bad about them. Been here for 27 years. They treated me great. Yeah, absolutely. That's real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You've been with a place for 27 years, made hundreds of millions of dollars, and you gonna have something negative to say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing at all.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I'm good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, that's the latest with Lauren. And Lauren wanted me to say, let captain save a skin tone. Know that I get Tony, Brandy, and Monica compliments all day. You could be. You could never be Morris Chestnut. His leg. Your leg swing when you sit.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Lauren LaRosa got crackhead arms.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay, all right. So she shouldn't talk about legs. Arms. No limbs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Don't even bring attention to your low limbs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, donkey today's coming up. We giving you a donkey, too.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Four after the hour, man. We need a young man named Danan Arai to come to the front of the congregation. He's been arrested for two counts of indecent exposure. Damn it, man. We'll discuss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we'll get to that.

[Donnie Simpson]

Next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Good morning.

[Donnie Simpson]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

With the donkey. It's time for donkey of the day.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

A bunch of donkeys around here with the he. Yes, you are a donkey. What the hell?

[Mike Epps]

What the hell is.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Some donkey? Today's just sell himself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh man.

[Donnie Simpson]

Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Who you giving don't get a good.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Well Rob 49 Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, November 25th. Damn. Thanksgiving in a couple of days, huh? Tuesday, November 25th. Donkey today for Tuesday, November 25th goes to a 30 year old Iowa man named Danan Ari. Let me start off by telling you all that Danon has been charged with two counts of indecent exposure. Okay, what is indecent exposure? Indecent exposure is the deliberate act of exposing one's genitals in a public place that is likely to cause offense or alarm to others. You can't be pulling out your pee pee in public people. Okay? You can't pull out your weenie at Walgreens. Your pekka can't be pulled out in a piggle wiggly. Do not pull your johnson out in a jersey Mike likes. It's a damn shame I have to be the one to tell you these things, but apparently that is the society we live in. Okay? According to a criminal complaint, the nun who is the big ass age of 30. 30 years old. Okay, 30. Steph Curry's number. That is not a little number. He should know better. But apparently he doesn't. According to this criminal complaint, drivers saw Denon standing at the back of his car as he exposed his genitals. The oncoming drivers. Okay, this man Danon was shifting gears and he wasn't even in a car. I bet you can't wait to know what highway he was on, right? Envy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nope.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Huh? For two days in a row on two different interstates. The first incident, he was out there at 7:30am Morning shift on I80 near Oxford in Iowa. The second incident was reported around 3:30pm Afternoon shift on Interstate 380 near North Liberty. Unseathing the trials of snake and traffic is in Insanity, okay, But that's the world we live in, alright? Now what concerns me about this situation is this young man told sheriff's deputies that he was fulfilling an excitement that was currently missing in his blah life. Those are his words. He said he was fulfilling an excitement that was currently missing in his blah life. So you needed excitement in your life, so you decided to present the meat stick on the interstate. You needed excitement in your life, so you decided to whip out the one eyed monster in traffic. All right guys, it's time to decriminalize sex work, alright? Make prostitution legal. This man was simply feeling frisky. He was a little hot and bothered. He could use a hug. That turns into sex right now. What do you mean you needed excitement in your life, young man. By excitement you mean you needed cheeeees. He wanted cheeks. He wanted that penis. Snuggie. That bearded clam. That baby cannon. Listen young men, you full of testosterone. Find a young woman to call your wife and enjoy life, all right? Don't tell me you needed excitement. When people are looking for excitement, okay, they change environments, all right? That's what normal people do when they looking for excitement. They just go change environments. Work from a new spot each week. Go on a micro adventure. Take different routes to familiar places, okay? Add a little color to your home environment. That's what you do when you're looking for excitement. When you're horny though, you want that meat muffin. That's what Denon wanted.

[Donnie Simpson]

Sex.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All right? Talking about he needed excitement. No, you need a girlfriend. All right? People who want excitement set challenges every month they go do some long distance running. 30 day boxing challenge. Add spontaneous adventures to your calendar. Go to a new restaurant, okay? A random comedy show. There's a lot of ways to bring excitement to a blah life, but. No, no, no, Danon, you are not being honest with yourself. You were horny. Okay? A growing goblin. A lust lizard. All right? That was you, Danaan. And if you were ever wondering what purpose of P. Diddy freak off served, look no further than sir Horny alike.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Denanary, please give this young man the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones. And be over there texting ferociously.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am not.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You are viciously moving your thumbs, searching the non awry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren is actually texting me from the beach and that's who's texting me.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

The hell is Laura texting you from the beach from?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For this next topic right here. Thank you for that.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Donkey today just sent me a bunch of middle fingers too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, see, she's Texting you too.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

He put. Okay, okay, okay. You funny today. No. Limbs was good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, thank you for that donkey today.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what? Lauren was just texting me. She was saying that Martha, Martha Stewart was recently on the Today show and she was talking about Thanksgiving and she started an argument yesterday on social media about the time that dinner should be served. Let's listen.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, next up is a viewer, Jane from New Hampshire. She has a question that a lot of. Hi, Martha.

[Mimi Brown]

What is the best time to serve Thanksgiving dinner?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I think it should be around 2 o' clock in the afternoon. People are hungry and they're starting to circle the kitchen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true. You know, if you have a bunch.

[DJ Envy]

Of guests and you don't want to wait till nighttime, you can eat and then watch the big game, you know, and then have more drinks and have fun. I love that. And eat dessert later.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Why are we so hungry on Thanksgiving? Like, like any other day, you know, you have your breakfast and you might have lunch and then you have dinner at regular times. But how come on Thanksgiving you just be hungry so early?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz it's all types of food. You smell a food, it's just nice. Not regular food. But I'm not mad at the 2:00'.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Clock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna tell you why. When, when I used to go to Thanksgiving at grandma's house, right then it was about five o', clock, right? And the whole family would have to drive there from different places of the other country to get to grandma's house. So we had dinner at five. But when I started doing Thanksgiving at my house, I did it at 2 o'.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Clock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Really? Because I get tired early. So after two o' clock you have breakfast that you can sit back, you play spades, you watch the football game, you can relax, you can go back for more or you can pass out.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And you don't want people in your house all times of night. You know what I'm saying? Because by the time the first game over.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right y', all, all right, y'.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, I'm gonna say it.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I'm gonna say first game, come on. First game, come on. Well, I say the afternoon game. The afternoon game come on like 4, 4:30 after the afternoon game. Y' all ain't staying for the late game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Seven o', clock, eight o', clock, it's time. Good night, y'.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I ain't mad at her, I'm not mad at her. I ain't tripping off 2:30.

[Donnie Simpson]

Cause 5 o' clock is late.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause that means at 5 we starting to eat. Then that means you gonna get dessert about 8, 8, 9. Then you're gonna want to talk. Then it's always the family member that's.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Drinking and you're gonna get high. But that's gonna be constant throughout the day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's, that's through the day.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then you gotta clean up. That means y' all not leaving till 11:12.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah. Everybody got time? Yeah. 2, 2, 3 o' clock is a good time. Early afternoon. Early afternoon. That's early. After that's mid afternoon.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

What is mid afternoon? Early afternoon is like 12:12. So yeah, mid afternoon, two, three o'. Clock. I ain't at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's discuss. What's the perfect time to start serving Thanksgiving dinner? 800-55-85-1051. Thanksgiving is two days away. What is that perfect time? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Call in right now. Add your opinion to the Breakfast Club topic. Break it down.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

With the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we were talking about something that Martha Stewart was talking about on, oh, Good Day New York. She was talking. Oh, the Today show.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yes, one of them shows about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One of them shows in the morning. She was talking about when you actually eat dinner. Eat breakfast. Eat dinner on Thanksgiving. I said two o' clock is perfect.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Perfect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To me, that's, that's great. That's in the middle. You get everybody out the crib early. Yeah, Grandma's house used to be five o'.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Clock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we was there all day, all.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Night, I think between 2, 3, 4. Any one of those numbers you can't miss. I asked the question earlier. I was like, damn, why you be so hungry on Thanksgiving? Salute to the homie, Miko Grimes. Miko said most people don't cook the night before. So you wake up hungry and no breakfast either. So by 1pm people start getting dizzy. I don't move like that personally. I'm gonna wake up and keep my same routine. I'm eat my two hard boiled eggs and my goddamn oatmeal in the morning. And you know, because I, I need those different meals, you know, to burn fat. So by the time Thanksgiving come out. And plus, you don't want to OD on Thanksgiving dinner either.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I. I usually. Thanksgiving is. Is you. When it's at my crib, I usually got to get up, have my little tea, and then it's. It's straightening up the house. Whatever's left to do is always. The outdoor ish. My wife made me do is clean this up and make sure this is good. And she does the indoors during Thanksgiving. Make sure the house look nice. If there's. Whatever it may be, just make sure.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Well, it used to be walking the dogs outdoors. I'm like, who the hell is outdoors?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, like cleaning up the outside so when people pull in, it looks nice and everything. So that's. That's usually what I do.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah. 2:00pm, 3:00pm, 4:00pm I'm cool on any of those moments. But I'm gonna tell y' all something, man. I was born in 1978 at my tender age of 47. I just don't like Thanksgiving food like I used to. I like. I like yams, okay? And I like dressing, not no goddamn stuffing. If you tell me that you made some stuffing, I don't want nothing. But you tell me you got some dressing now. I'm gonna eat some dressing now with some gravy on top.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, the chat said, my fiance said dinner starts at noon.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then he goes there. They're white. Yeah. Well, a little different.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's ridiculous.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're doing this too early.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All right. Red is Puerto Rican. He said that his. His. His wife is white.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they started one.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

They start at one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he said what he does, he go to that side of the family at 1, and then he goes to the Puerto Rican side.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah. At seven o' clock at night. Go eat the trash food first.

[Donnie Simpson]

Damn.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And then I get what Red said. He go eat the trash food first. Fake eat, and then go to Puerto Rican side to get that. Good, good. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He ain't say that. Don't get that man in trouble.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Hello?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Mimi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Mimi?

[DJ Envy]

Hi. What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What time do y' all start eating Thanksgiving, Mama?

[DJ Envy]

So I. In my household, it's just me and my husband. I like to do 5, 6 o'.

[Mimi Brown]

Clock.

[DJ Envy]

But my mom, her house is like 9 or 10 pushing 11.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's too late.

[DJ Envy]

I know she be cooking too much stuff and people coming over too late, but yeah, 9, 10, 11. It's crazy.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, 9, 10, 11 is nuts. Ain't nobody eating no goddamn yams and dressing. Dressing in turkey for breakfast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you know when it's that late.

[DJ Envy]

They be eating it. And Then baby leaving mom at the house at like 6 o', clock, 5 o' clock in the morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy. No, we're not doing that.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, Three, four o', clock, man. Three, four o' clock is good time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Now we used to go to grandma's house. Thank you, Mama. We used to go to grandma house. I used to dress the kids up in pajamas because it was so late. And then she lived in Brooklyn, Stour City. So we wanted to get out of there early. Anyway, we ain't want to be in Brooklyn la. Yeah, we wanted to get in and out. Let's go to another line. Hello, who's this?

[DJ Envy]

This is Shine from Boston.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what's up? Now what time do you start serving Thanksgiving dinner?

[DJ Envy]

All right. I feel like Thanksgiving dinner should be served around four. My family might kill me for saying it cause I never get it done around four. But I'm going with 4pm I think.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That'S a great time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

4Pm is cool.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Between three and four, I think I'm going. Yeah, four is cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like, I like. I ain't gonna lie. I like 2:30.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Between 2, 2:30, we start eating. I like that we pray. At 2:30, start eating. We good to go. Hello.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, y'?

[DJ Envy]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[BET Announcer]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Hey, Paulina.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Paulina, good morning. What time do you start your Thanksgiving feast?

[DJ Envy]

All right, don't judge us, but sometimes 8, 9 o'. Clock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's too late.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where you calling from?

[DJ Envy]

You must last year. Oh, from Knoxville, Tennessee.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Why so late?

[DJ Envy]

But okay, so what? Africans are always late no matter what. Like, no, they don't got no sense of time management. I said let's make sure we get done by 6, 6:30. Like, like the latest. But nope, we got there like nine o'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Clock.

[DJ Envy]

We started eating.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Now, when you say Africans, do you mean from Ghana?

[DJ Envy]

No, Senegal.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, Senegal. Okay. I know people from Ghana. Be late too. What Do y' all cook? What's. What's the. What's the dish? The dishes.

[DJ Envy]

We make turkey, brisket, oxtails, Mac and cheese. We don't really eat, like, cornbread. We just mix it up. There's a lot of lobster tails.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I don't know why.

[DJ Envy]

Rice, fries, biscuits, cornbread. No greens. We don't really like greens. No yam stuff. But we just. It's like an actual buffet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody on the chat said they're calling Homeland security on you because eight, nine is too late.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Late. That is too late. I'm gonna tell you something.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm a U. S. Citizen. Boo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How about that?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I'm gonna tell you something else, but I'm realizing I'm having a lot of conversations with friends and family over the last couple weeks. A lot of people fed up with Thanksgiving food. Like, a lot of people just be making their own things. Like, you know, I mean, we stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, nobody eats turkey in my house.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I like turkey. I don't like. I like smothered turkey wings. If you fry the turkey, I might like it a little bit. You know what I'm saying? That. That Cajun pigeon turkey, that Popeyes gotta be looking good. Somebody. I think I was talking to Angela Rye yesterday. She said she's getting a jerk turkey. Like, stuff like that. But if you got to do all that to the turkey, that's how, you know, turkey be trash.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Turkey want to be chicken so bad.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051. What time do you start eating and serving Thanksgiving dinner? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us with the talking about Martha Stewart, she was talking about what time she serves Thanksgiving dinner. People were mad. This is what she had to say.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, next up is a viewer, Jane from New Hampshire. She has a question that a lot of. Hi, Martha.

[Mimi Brown]

What is the best time to serve Thanksgiving dinner?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I think it should be around 2 o' clock in the afternoon. People are hungry and they're starting to circle the kitchen.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, if you have a bunch.

[DJ Envy]

Of guests and you don't want to wait till nighttime, you can eat and then watch the big game, you know, and then have more drinks and have fun. I love that. And eat dessert later.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So we open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Hello, who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hello, Quaila. How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Mama?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

She said her name is what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kayla.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, Kayla.

[DJ Envy]

Quaila.

[Donnie Simpson]

Quaila.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I thought she said Quaalude. I was like, what the hell? Her name is Quaalud.

[DJ Envy]

It's actually love Quaila, but yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What race? All right, now question.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

What time you get deported with a name like that? Okay. ICE will detain you with a name like that.

[DJ Envy]

I'm telling you right now, that's a pretty good name. I actually thought it was really elegant.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

It is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. I rock with you, Laquela. Well, let me, let me. It's L A, capital Q.

[DJ Envy]

A. Capital Q. I knew it. L, A, L, A. I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got. I'm R A, A, capital S. I know exactly where your mom was going. But let's talk about it. What time do you start serving Thanksgiving dinner?

[DJ Envy]

Okay, I'm thinking around 3:30. 3:45. Ish. I think 2:00 clock is way too early, especially for my black people. So, yeah, I'm gonna go about. I think about 3:30. 3:45 is perfect time. And everybody should be there. No later than 3:45, we can get started eating.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I agree with you, and I'm gonna tell you why else that is a great time. Nowadays, because of the whole daylight savings time thing, it'd be dark by 5 o'. Clock. 5 o', clock, it'd be pitch black. So. So 4 is perfect.

[DJ Envy]

And it's dark. Don't even come in the house.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's what I'm saying. It'd be Pitch black by 5 o'. Clock. Four is good.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mama.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. 3:30, 3:45.

[Mimi Brown]

All right.

[Donnie Simpson]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Bye, Kenya.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what time are you serving on Thanksgiving dinner?

[DJ Envy]

Four o'. Clock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Four o'? Clock.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. All the cook, all the main people that's doing most of the cooking, we usually get together maybe about an hour or so earlier and to get everything warmed up and set up, me. And by four, by five o', clock, we. We're eating. Everybody start coming in at like 4.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's a great time. And then, you know, I don't know if people realize that, you know, remember, they. They call it supper, right? Supper or dinner is. Is the evening meal. The peak time for that evening meal is between 5 and 7. So that's really when you're supposed to be having dinner anyway. So if you start at like 4 on Thanksgiving, you great. You. You right there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm telling you, two is good. 2:30 is good for me. You start at 2:30 and then you eat. You play your spades or your games. You play charades and all that with the kids. And then you eat again. And goodbye. Hello? Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hi, my name is Nay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, talk to us. What time do you start serving Thanksgiving dinner?

[DJ Envy]

2 o'.

[BET Announcer]

Clock.

[DJ Envy]

I think 2 o' clock is very reasonable because if I tell my family six o', clock, they not coming to eight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[DJ Envy]

And then they don't want to leave until midnight because they've been drinking.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

2 o' clock is kind of early. Can I ask you a question, respectfully? How big is your back?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

What?

[DJ Envy]

How big is my back?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why does she sound like she got a big back? What do you mean?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I was just asking. I just.

[DJ Envy]

That was rude. Is this Charlemagne?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said no. You know, it ain't envy. You know it ain't envy. So who you. Who else you think it is?

[DJ Envy]

First of all, charlamagne.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You like.

[DJ Envy]

One of my favorites. I be taking up for you all the time, so. And I'm from Detroit, and, you know, like, everybody be dogging you here, for real.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

But I be like, y' all better.

[DJ Envy]

Get up off Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's right. Get him up off me, baby.

[DJ Envy]

They always say they can't stand you. I be like, why are you. My face.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's right. Get them up off me, baby. You clear the room. Offensive line. I'm running behind you, baby. I'm behind you.

[DJ Envy]

To answer your question, no, I do not have a big back, but I do like to eat and I'm pregnant.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, I just heard something, that's all. I ain't say you had a big back, but I heard some, like, big back tendencies. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mom.

[DJ Envy]

Oh. Oh, okay. All right, all right.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You get a pass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The chat. The chat said you don't sound big back. They said just a little plump. They said the chat say you sound just a little plump.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All. Y' all mean, oh, my God, we love you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think so. Good one.

[DJ Envy]

I love y', all, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you back. Just messed up her whole thing.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Somebody on the chat said that back do sound wide.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The chat is crazy. Somebody said that throat is heavy. Damn it, man.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I'm just saying y' all heard what I heard. Heard. Don't act like y' all ain't hear that. You sounded like she was about to start rapping Rick and Ross lyrics at any moment. Okay. I was about to hear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my gosh. What's the moral of the story, man? What's the.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

The moral of the story is it gets dark around 4:30, 5 o' clock on the east coast because of daylight savings time. Right. And supper time is from five to seven, I think, you know, three to four is perfect time to eat Thanksgiving dinner.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, all right. Well, when we come back, we got the ladies with Lauren. Lauren ain't text me what to say yet, so y' all gonna find out when I find out. All right, don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I tell y' all something, then watching.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlemagne dance to this.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Let me tell y' all something. I want y' all to remember this for the rest of the week.

[BET Announcer]

What's that?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All you ugly people out there. All right, all you cosmetically challenged people, stop walking up on folks talking about, what's up, twin? All right? If you ugly, if you cosmetically challenged, do not be walking up on people talking about, what's up, twin? And you wonder why the person ain't say nothing back. It's gonna be a lot of that over the Thanksgiving holidays. People not seeing people for a while. And pulling up today, I thought, what's up, twin? And you ain't gonna hear nothing back. You know why? Because they think you're ugly. Stop disrespecting people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. What's up, Nyla? Nyla stopped through for a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, fellas?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was two penises in the morning because there was no other. No other.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Don't talk to my niece.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm talking to you. I'm just telling. I'm glad that you're here, because it was. It was getting disgusting. And now I got to do this. Lauren, the latest with Lauren, and it just felt chatty. Patty, so glad you're here. Okay, yes.

[Mimi Brown]

I got your back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's get to the ladies. Lauren becoming a straight thing. She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

She gets the details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

TV has having the latest on this.

[Donnie Simpson]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Nobody thinks about the origins of these dances, though. Like, why did y' all just sit around and start deciding that we gonna look hungry and make that a dance?

[DJ Envy]

They mean that's tick tock.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, Lauren is writing these because she's on the beach right now.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And bored as hell, and she actually.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just got on A flight. And the first story we're talking about is Christian. Com Combs. Now, Christian Combs is saying Diddy is coming home.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

And this is what he said during the holidays.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

How's your dad holding up? Is he holding up all right? There's a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's a lot of talk on the way home.

[Donnie Simpson]

Is he gonna be on the way home? Did you get the pardon in the new year?

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Let's see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fingers crossed.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Are you guys doing anything special for the holidays to, like, you know, in honor of death?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

We're gonna play the Diddy free joint.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The whole Christmas, whole Thanksgiving. That's right.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Home, though, man.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Just watch out. He might come home.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

So do you know something like, is. Is the president gonna never know?

[Donnie Simpson]

Never know.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Is he in contact with the administration? Do you know?

[Donnie Simpson]

I mean, is there anything you can tell us?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Kind of hope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just stay tuned.

[Donnie Simpson]

He gonna be home soon.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, thank you, brother.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All right, man.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Good luck.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

We know that, though, the Release date is 2028.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's not soon. That is.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I mean, it's two years from now, sooner than most. That's not home. If you say 2058. You rather say 28.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He making it sound like he coming.

[DJ Envy]

Home for the holidays.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, that's what he sounded like. He's coming home in the next couple of weeks. Now.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Take me through there. Take me through there now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren did ask a question. She said, envy. Tell Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, God. Tell her, leave me alone and worry about being bored on the beach.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said somebody just asked her if Diddy is home. And you know, you like to give out food and do food drives. Is it okay if Diddy helps you hand out meat?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Let me tell you something about Lauren LaRosa. Lauren LaRosa is out of the country, bored as hell, clearly. Okay, if you out the country with somebody, but. That was a good one.

[DJ Envy]

But here's the thing to be on this bitch, giving her some good ammo. I love it.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

If you at the. If you out the country with somebody, shouldn't you be focused on who you out the country with, having a good time?

[DJ Envy]

Why you putting her on blast about who she and where she at and what she.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I ain't say where she at. I just. I mean, it's obviously out the country. She posted about it on. Okay, but yes, clearly she bored, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anyways, hating her company now. Shaun T. Billups was. He pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he came up off and rigged poker games, taking millions of dollars from friends, people in the industry and More. His bond was set for $5 million. And Chauncey put up his Corrado home as Colorado home as collateral. So he's saying not guilty.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Damn, that's a big bond.

[DJ Envy]

I have faith in the Billups.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's because your last name is Billups. Yes, but you don't know if that man guilty or not. So you should relax. That's a big mind. I mean, he had to put up a half a million, but they know he got it too, though. So that's probably why they made the bomb.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We put up the crib. Yeah, he had to put up the crib. So if you put up the crib, I don't think I'd put up money. He just put up his crib as collateral. That's what I just said.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

That's still a lot, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It is.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I mean, for the bond to be 5 million, 10 is a half million dollars for even. You'd have to put up your house. That's a. You know, that's not. No. Play. Play Bond.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, also, Larry Ellison, they're saying that his family is bidding to buy the license of Warner Brothers and Discovery. So that means that he will possibly have the Rush Hour movie and the Rush Hour franchise. And Donald Trump spoke about it. He said he's pushing for homie Larry Ellison to bring back the Rush Hour franchise, and he wants to bring it back with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. I don't know why this is a story, but that's what Donald Trump wants. He wants to see Rush Hour. Maybe that's his favorite movie. I don't know.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Donald Trump, President Trump. There's so many other things that you could be doing. There's so many other things you could be focused on. Okay. I don't give a damn about what he thinks in regards to a Rush Hour four.

[DJ Envy]

Would he be directing this?

[Mimi Brown]

Like, what's his involvement?

[DJ Envy]

Why does he want that?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Would Jackie Chan get deported in Rush Hour four under the Trump administration? I'm just asking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe that's what he wants to say.

[Donnie Simpson]

Maybe that's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what he wants to do. Maybe they ride to LA and they. And then all of a sudden, ICE comes down.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Nobody got time for that. No. Relax. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Message. That's all we got. That's all Laura sent me.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I want to know who was high and hungry and came up with that dance, though. What's the name of the dance?

[DJ Envy]

To take me through that dance.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To take me through that.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Like, everybody be eating.

[DJ Envy]

There's two dances. That's not they're not eating.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, they.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

They are eating.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the eating? Yeah, you're eating.

[Mimi Brown]

Oh, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I thought, what's this one?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I think it came about cuz somebody was high in the club. High and drunk in the club. They homeboy next to them was eating and they kept trying to get some right. So that's the stir part. Like you and the person kept moving as they was dancing.

[DJ Envy]

And you, you not doing it right, by the way.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You're not doing it right. So where the wham in the circle come from? And what is a wham?

[DJ Envy]

That's the but.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Oh, Lord. That's why I thought that it was yam.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because when I heard the wham, the button, you take me through there.

[Donnie Simpson]

Wham.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Smell like a stink. Don't wham sound like a stink? No, it don't. I don't know. You call a stink but a wham, but you actually want to eat.

[Donnie Simpson]

You call it some yams.

[DJ Envy]

Like I'm about to say it's like yams. It's just a playoff thing.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, it's not.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

Yes, it is.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

You ain't going to eat no wham on Thanksgiving. You want yams on your plate?

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. You never know who might want what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, that is the latest for Lauren. Now also we got to announce what.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Is going on with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, ladies and gentlemen, listen. Salute to our station in Atlanta, our sister station in Atlanta, right? They're Jingle Ball. We already told you. They have Jermaine Dupre and friends. They have Little John and Friends, Nelly's performance and a host of others. Right?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now they just added. Oh, they just added Boss Mandela.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Okay. Dropping the clues. Boss with boss man dealer. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Also they just added Belly Gang Kush. Belly Gang Kush will be added to it as well. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. I'm actually flying out to Atlanta for the Jingle Ball. It's almost sold out, some tickets available and they actually gave me tickets to give away in the mix so you can get on the phone lines right now, 800-585-1051. If you want to go to our Jingle Ball show in Atlanta, you got to get your way there. We got you in the door, but you got to get your way in. You got to get your stay. But we got you tickets. So 800-585-105.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Good generational show. That's a good like, that's a good family affair because it's something for the uncs and the aunties. Right, and then it's something for the new generation as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I do like that lineup.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, again, it's. It's Big X the Plug performing Kalani Mariah the Scientist, Molly, Nelly, Little John and Friends, Jermaine Dupree and Friends, Boss Man DLO, and now Belly Yang.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, they ate with that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

So I just hope you let the old daughters go on a little early.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's not gonna happen.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

The unc and aunties can get up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

John, got clothes.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

What do you mean you want them to close?

[Mimi Brown]

Legacy.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I don't want them to close.

[DJ Envy]

That would just be rude.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

No, no, no. Clothing ain't what it. You used to be. People used to love the clothes. You don't need the clothes no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you want to go home early.

[Mimi Brown]

Are you speaking for yourself?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Girl, put that yam in a circle.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my goodness.

[Donnie Simpson]

Yeah, throw the.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Yeah, throw that. Wham. Whatever the hell y' all be doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe he needs to leave early.

[Donnie Simpson]

Just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just let him. Just let him get to his study early again. 800-585-1051. If you want to go to Jingle Ball Atlanta 96.1 to be, it's the. Our sister station. The show is Thursday the 18th, so if you want to see Big Extra Plug, Jermaine Dupri and Friends, Kalani, Lil John and Friends, Mariah the scientist, Molly, Nelly.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

December 18th. That's a day before Jake Paul dies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Cuz he fights Anthony Joshua on the 19th.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, and Kalani's been having the number.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One record for a long time. Like what?

[DJ Envy]

That's a great lineup.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

When is it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The 18th. December. You going?

[DJ Envy]

I would like to. Hello. I heart.

[Donnie Simpson]

Hi. Ask Louis V. Y' all need a DJ.

[DJ Envy]

Another one, an opener.

[Mimi Brown]

Legacy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Legacy. I'm not DJing.

[BET Announcer]

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[DJ Envy]

Oh. Oh, excuse me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, that's the Breakfast Club. Come on. We got tickets in the mixer.

[Donnie Simpson]

Keep it locked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's go.

[Donnie Simpson]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bel Air is back for a final season on Peacock, and in the end, it's all love. Will and Carlton start senior year, and the rest of the fam face new chapters of their own. Stream Bel Air now only on Peacock. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to Donnie Simpson for joining us this morning.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Man. The legendary Donnie Simpson. Man, I don't know what to tell y' all kids. You know, I'm. We. We grown. Okay? I was born in 1978. We grew up off Donnie Simpson in videos. So the first cool black man I saw on TV that wasn't like, an actor or anything like that, just to, you know. Just a dope dude. Yeah. You know, and inspired us all in some way, shape or form. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I mean, all the things that he's accomplished. And like I said, if it wasn't for him pushing the limits, a lot of your favorite radio shows wouldn't be here. So salute to Donnie.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And that's the other thing, too. He showed you that, you know, you can do so much, you know, more other than radio. Right. And. But radio was always the foundation. And Donnie Simpson was one of the first people I saw doing that, you know, doing radio in Detroit and then, you know, having. And being the host of Video Soul. Salute to that, brother, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, now, when we come back, we got the positive notice of Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

Good morning, everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne tha guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to everybody in Alabama. I'm gonna be in Alabama tomorrow. It's the Alabama. I gotta get the name of it. The Alabama University Turkey Day Music Festival. It's an R and B concert, so Ajahn B. Drew Hill. I'll be hosting. I'll be providing R and B sound. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. And then I'm shooting right back home for. For Thanksgiving. So I can't wait to see you guys tomorrow. It's the Turkey Day Classic. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. We'll have a lot of fun. We're gonna be having a good time in Alabama. All right?

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

And listen, I want to salute my niece, Chris Kalin, down there in the 843, Charleston, South Carolina. She is having her second live podcast experience this Friday at the Magnolia room in Charleston, South Carolina. West Ashley, to be exact. 720 Magnolia Road. Okay. And she's having her second live annual, her second live podcast experience with Cartier Brown, AJ from the We Talk Back podcast. And I will be there as well. So we'll see you this Friday, 720 Magnolia Road, Charleston, South Carolina. The Magnolia Room. See you on Friday, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And salute to Ashley of Care Wright. She's turning 40 today, so salute to Ashley. Happy birthday. You got a positive note.

[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

I do have a positive note, man. Since it is the week of Thanksgiving, it is the week of giving thanks. I want y' all to develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that Every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Breakfast Club bitches.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that taste always hit the right note. Just like the band at halftime. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an.

[DJ Envy (Ad Voice)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy (Main Host)]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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