FULL SHOW: Paris Hilton, Ricki Lake, Fergie & More Lose Their Homes To California Wildfires, Patti LaBelle "Upset At Her Portrayal In Luther Vandross Doc + More

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club Episode – "Paris Hilton, Ricki Lake, Fergie & More Lose Their Homes To California Wildfires, Patti LaBelle 'Upset At Her Portrayal In Luther Vandross Doc + More" (Released January 9, 2025)

In this compelling episode of The Breakfast Club, hosts DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God delve into a multitude of pressing topics, ranging from devastating California wildfires affecting high-profile celebrities to personal interviews with rising artists. The discussion is rich with insights, emotional narratives, and critical analyses, making it an essential listen for those seeking to stay informed and engaged.

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1. California Wildfires Devastate Celebrity Homes

[03:07] Jess Hilarious shares her concern over the recent California wildfires, particularly highlighting the destruction in Malibu. She expresses heartbreak over witnessing the destruction of her own home via live TV footage, reflecting the widespread impact of the firestorm.

[03:29] Charlamagne Tha God emphasizes the unprecedented scale of the devastation:

"They're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds lost their houses... some insurance companies canceled people's insurance months before, so a lot of people didn't even have homeowners insurance, so it won't even be covered." (03:31)

The hosts discuss the alarming increase in wildfire-related losses, noting that unlike previous years where only a few homes were affected, this year sees hundreds devastated. [04:17] DJ Envy adds:

"It wasn't just like, usually hear fires and you usually hear just a couple of people lost their houses... they're talking hundreds."

They also shed light on the systemic failures, including insurance companies withdrawing coverage preemptively, leaving many without financial protection.

2. Political Blame and Leadership Critique

[07:02] Morgan, the show's news anchor, reports on President Elect Trump's condemnation of President Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom's handling of the wildfires:

"Trump is blaming President Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom on Truth Social. He called Newsom 'news scum.'" (07:02)

[09:49] Jess Hilarious shares personal anecdotes from California residents like Chris and Leon Thomas, who recount their struggles with the fires, including shortages in water supply critical for firefighting efforts.

[11:17] Charlamagne Tha God discusses the broader implications of Trump’s rhetoric:

"Trump does always tap into whatever rage people are feeling... he's giving them somebody to blame." (11:17)

The conversation pivots to climate change, with [12:00] Charlamagne Tha God arguing:

"A lot of this has to do with climate change." (12:00)

3. National Day of Mourning for President Carter

[06:21] Morgan announces the national day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter, detailing his funeral plans:

"A state funeral is scheduled for President Carter this morning at the National Washington National Cathedral... President Biden will deliver a eulogy." (06:21)

4. Cybertruck Explosion and AI Concerns

[35:24] Charlamagne Tha God introduces a segment on the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas, attributing the planning to an individual using AI tools like ChatGPT for malicious intents:

"Matthew Livelsberger used ChatGPT to find information on how to carry out his plan." (35:24)

The hosts express concerns over the misuse of AI technology, highlighting the potential dangers when such tools are employed for harmful purposes.

5. Congestion Pricing in New York City

[37:05] DJ Envy and [37:14] Charlamagne Tha God critique New York City's implementation of congestion pricing:

"I heard people using leaves. I heard people using the little tint thing." (37:14)

They debate the effectiveness of the policy, questioning whether the intended traffic reduction is actually being achieved, especially given the persistent routines and reliance on the subway system.

6. Interview with Leon Thomas: Rising R&B Star

The episode features an in-depth interview with Leon Thomas, an accomplished singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. [39:34] Charlamagne Tha God lauds Leon as "the greatest new male R&B singer out right now." Leon discusses his journey from Broadway roles in The Lion King and Changing the Color Purple to his Grammy-winning work producing for artists like SZA and Drake.

[43:40] Leon Thomas reflects on his artistic evolution:

"I had to cut my dreads for [a role], and that was kind of like my last straw in acting... I needed to tap back into who I am as an artist." (43:40)

The conversation delves into mental health, with Leon sharing his experiences and advocating for better support systems for veterans and artists struggling with PTSD.

[47:23] Leon Thomas praises his collaboration with artists like Wale, highlighting the importance of lyrical depth and authenticity in his music.

7. Patti LaBelle Upset Over Luther Vandross Documentary

[31:48] Charlamagne Tha God brings attention to Patti LaBelle's discontent with her portrayal in a new Luther Vandross documentary aired by CNN:

"She was upset because the documentary didn't reflect her true friendship with Luther." (31:48)

The hosts discuss the importance of creative control and authentic representation in media, agreeing that LaBelle's decision to withhold her endorsement was justified.

8. Substitute Teacher Arrested in Florida

A disturbing report surfaces about Gail Wessel, a 60-year-old substitute teacher arrested for exposing elementary school children to explicit photos of herself.

[77:18] Charlamagne Tha God condemns the actions:

"It was her choice to expose those explicit photos to minors... She's corrupting these kids." (77:18)

The discussion underscores the severity of the incident, emphasizing the critical responsibility teachers hold in safeguarding children's well-being.

9. Cheryl Lee Ralph’s Successful Long-Distance Marriage

[99:16] Jess Hilarious highlights Cheryl Lee Ralph’s enduring marriage to Senator Vincent Hughes, who resides in Pennsylvania while she manages a demanding career in Los Angeles. Their partnership, spanning over 20 years, serves as a testament to effective communication and mutual support.

10. Chloe Kardashian’s New Podcast and Scott Disick

The conversation shifts to celebrity dynamics as the hosts discuss Chloe Kardashian’s new podcast featuring Scott Disick, her ex and father of her children. [99:35] Charlamagne Tha God humorously critiques the public’s fascination with their relationship history, reflecting on the complexities of fame and personal relationships.

11. Wrap-Up and Upcoming Features

As the show progresses, hosts promote various upcoming segments and guests, maintaining a balance between serious discussions and lighthearted banter. Leon Thomas's new album "Mutt" is celebrated, and the hosts express excitement for future episodes.

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Notable Quotes:

• Charlamagne Tha God on California Wildfires:

  "It looks apocalyptic... how did that happen so quickly?" (03:54)

• DJ Envy on Insurance Failures:

  "So when they lose everything, they lose everything, which is very sad." (04:17)

• Leon Thomas on Mental Health:

  "Everybody should be entitled to mental health resources, but especially somebody who went out and fought for this country." (36:08)

• Charlamagne Tha God on Patti LaBelle's Documentary:

  "You can sit down and do those documentaries and say whatever you want to say, but it's the way that they'll edit it and put it together that'll have you looking crazy." (72:55)

• Leon Thomas on His Music:

  "I'm trying to bring back live musicianship, real songs." (39:45)

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This episode of The Breakfast Club masterfully navigates through tragic events, political controversies, and personal triumphs, offering listeners a comprehensive and engaging narrative. Through insightful discussions and heartfelt interviews, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God ensure that the audience remains both informed and emotionally connected to the stories shared.

Transcript

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[DJ Envy]

Good morning, usa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wake that ass up.

[DJ Envy]

Charlamagne Tha God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. It's.

[DJ Envy]

Hey. Yes, it's Thursday. How y'all feeling?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am blessed black and highly favored man. Happy to be here another day, another day to serve our beautiful listeners. How are you, Jessica?

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm good. I'm good. One day before. Two days, I guess before the weekend. I got shows in California this weekend, so I'm still.

[DJ Envy]

Well, what part of Cal?

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, one show. Cabazon. I don't know if you say it Cabazon or Cabazon.

[DJ Envy]

Is that anywhere near Palm Springs?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, no. Malibu was like. Is like destroyed, so. Sending prayers out there. Like it. I've seen a lot of the videos. People just driving and they go, everything is just on fire. I know it's that it's gonna take a while.

[DJ Envy]

So many people lost their houses.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It looks. It looks apocalyptic. And, you know, the inter. I'm not gonna say an interesting thing, but it's just like, yo, you know, we all be so busy and there's so much going on in the world, and you always hear about wildfires in LA or wildfires in Cali. So I may not have been paying attention to it like I should have been, but, boy, just watching the videos and everything last night, then you start checking up on your folks and seeing people lose their whole. Houses and schools gone, neighborhoods gone. You like, what the hell? How did that happen so quickly?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, and it wasn't just like, you know, usually hear fires and you usually hear just a couple of people lost their houses, maybe 10 the most. But I mean, they're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. And what's even more sad, they were saying that some of the insurance companies months before seen this happening and cancel people's insurance. So a lot of people didn't even have homeowners insurance, so it won't even be covered. So when they lose everything, they lose everything, which is very sad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I was watching CNN last night. I think it was around 6:00, 7:00, and it was like 0% containment.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I seen that yesterday.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's like blocks and blocks and blocks of fire and there's no way to put it out. Like, you can see people trying. It's hard.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. They taking water out of people's pools. They trying whatever they can to stop it. And is. Is very, very sad. I seen that one video that little Duvall posted. I thought it was fake. I was like, this can't be real. But they're saying it was real. Is two gentlemen and their dog were in a car in their house and they're showing the video outside. And this, their whole house is surrounded by fire. They said that, you know, firefighters actually, you know, saved them. But that's crazy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, I saw that video. I guess it's real. I don't know. That's the other thing. When you're watching some of this online, you don't know if it's real or not. I mean, but people worse.

[DJ Envy]

Well, the news reported. That's why I said it's real. But it could, you know, news could have got it wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We know. I mean, we know enough people out in LA that was posting their own videos to know that it is a dire situation going on out there. So absolutely prayers up for everybody in la. And I, you know, like, I told my. A lot of my homies yesterday. Just tell me what, tell me what I can do.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because some things are just out of our control and this definitely seems like one of them.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. All right, well, today on the show we got Leon Thomas joining us. He's a singer, songwriter, producer, actor. He has a new album, Mutt, we're gonna be talking to. He actually Phenome.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Singer, songwriter. I think he's the best male R B singer out right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, he's been doing this too. And he's also a child actor too. He's one of my, my sister's favorites, really, to watch him on Disney all the time.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he did Victorious.

[Jess Hilarious]

Victorious.

[DJ Envy]

He did Lion King on Broadway.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he was Simba. He was part of the production of Snooze, the record that we play all the time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Maybe that's why we play it every day.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got a Grammy for that as well.

[Leon Thomas]

So that's what's up.

[DJ Envy]

We're gonna be talking to him, so. And then we got front page news next. So don't go anywhere. Wake your ass up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Good morning, Morgan.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[Morgan]

Good morning. In the Charlemagne and Jess, how y'all feeling today?

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, girl.

[DJ Envy]

Good.

[Leon Thomas]

Good.

[Morgan]

Okay. Well, today. Peace.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace.

[Morgan]

Today is a national day of mourning. I think you guys should know that a state funeral is scheduled for President Carter this morning at the National. The Washington National Cathedral.

[DJ Envy]

I thought he was buried yesterday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, they didn't want display, man.

[Morgan]

Oh, no, he was just lying. No, he's been lying in state at the Capitol rotunda. No, today he's his. He will be moved to the Washington National Cathedral. And President Biden deliver a eulogy with former presidents and other dignitaries expected to attend. Now, I think.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think sometimes you got to leave something that says, like, look, man, don't take me on tour after I pass away, please. Okay, Y'all can have all the services and stuff y'all want, but I don't need to be there. Just bury me, and then y'all go celebrate or do whatever. Honor me or do whatever it is y do, but don't take me on.

[Jess Hilarious]

Tour, technically, by doing the same thing.

[Morgan]

After.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

No, after his funeral today, though, he will have one more service in his hometown of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't say him. They having one more service. He already family. That's right. He. He checked out already. Like, man, what is going on? Bury me already.

[Morgan]

No, his family will have a private ceremony in Plains, Georgia, of course, and then he will be buried.

[DJ Envy]

He's going back to Georgia?

[Morgan]

Yes. They'll move his body back to Georgia later today. His wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter. No need to check mail today because it is a national day of mourning. The US Postal Service will not be delivering mail today as part of the national day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter. All other federal offices will be closed, too, as the funeral is held for Carter in Washington, D.C. now, switching gears. I know you guys want updates on what's going on out west with the fires. There have been five deaths confirmed, multiple injuries, over 300,000 people without power. And count. As wildfires rage in the Southern California area. And as you mentioned, the fire remains uncontained. More than 100,000 people are under mandatory evacuation notice and. Which has most recently been issued for the Hollywood Hills. And all schools in LA Unified School District will be closed today. Now, President Elect Trump, he's placing the blame on Southern Cal. On Trump is blaming President Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom on Truth Social. He called Newsom news scum. And while he said he refused to sign a water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water to be flown into many parts of the state, here's President Elect talking later in D.C. about that matter in those, the wildfires over in Southern California. Let's hear more from Trump.

[Leon Thomas]

Well, it's very sad because I've been.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come. You'd have tremendous water up there. They sent it out to the Pacific because they're trying to protect a tiny.

[Leon Thomas]

Little fish, which is in other areas, by the way, called the smelt.

[DJ Envy]

And for the sake of a smelt, they have no water.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They had no water in the fire hydrants. Today in Los Angeles was a terrible thing. Is that true?

[Morgan]

So the fire hydrants thing is true. The smelt part I'm still trying to figure out. So I will tell you that Louisiana County Fire Chief oh, no. Louisiana City Fire Chief Kristen Crowley says fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades have run dry, but fire crews are, they do have some contingency plans. And LA County County Fire Chief Anthony Munroney says they don't have the resources to fight major wildfires simultaneously, adding that maybe they can handle maybe 2, but not 4 at the same time. So let's hear from those California fire officials on this matter.

[Jess Hilarious]

Our apparatus do have that ability to draft water if we need to, out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of pools, ponds, any type of water resource. LA county and all 29 fire departments in our county are not prepared for this type of widespread disaster.

[DJ Envy]

There are not enough firefighters in LA county to address four separate fires of this magnitude.

[Morgan]

Furthermore, Newsom denied Trump's claim, saying there's no such document as a water restoration declaration. And of course, you know, Trump went on to criticize Biden and fema, saying that they don't have enough money to aid those in need. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that's what I was asking about. Is that true? So there no such thing as what he was talking about, that, what you said, the water declaration thing?

[Morgan]

No, there's no water declaration that has been, according to Newsom. He, he says there's nothing that he's aware of in regards to that.

[DJ Envy]

So I do wonder, like, how come, you know, they, they couldn't foresee this. Right. You see that the insurance companies foreseen and they dropped these people six months ago. So the insurance company seen it was happening. I wonder why they didn't have more firefighters out there or get alternative ways of getting water there.

[Morgan]

I'm not sure why they couldn't foresee this. In fact, there has been complaints in some of the LA neighborhoods about the fire hydra being dry before all of this happening. So, you know, in anticipation of these type of things happening in California, knowing that this. This type of thing happens in California. Yeah, they were. They were. You know, those officials were asking, hey, what about the. What about this? So, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So there is a system that failed people. Yes. Per usual. Absolutely.

[Morgan]

Yes, absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And one thing, one. One thing about Trump, he does always tap into whatever rage people are feeling because there are a bunch of people angry and, you know, they want to blame somebody, and whether that. Those person. Absolutely. Whether those people actually deserve to blame. He's. He's giving them somebody to blame.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Morgan]

Oh, absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

And the thing is, like, how do you beat nature, though? Because wildfires like this do happen all the time in California, and I think they did foresee it. They. I mean, they knew it would be this bad, but what can they do?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, this is why people. Well, that's why, you know, in a lot of ways, you know, I guess now is not the time to politicize things, but as people always do. Yeah. You could easily point to a lot of those Republicans and say, well, y'all don't believe in climate change.

[DJ Envy]

That's true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, y'all are climate change denials. And a lot of this has to do with climate change.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

But proactive, not reactive.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but like you say, foresee. It's like, you know, if they knew this was coming down the line because the insurance companies knew, how could they prepare, you know, alternative ways of water, get more water out there, you know, I don't know if what Trump said about the fish thing is true or not true, but it's like I. I feel like they could have prepared a lot better, you know?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Morgan]

Yeah. We'll talk more about Trump in the 7 o'clock hour, so stick around.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-58510. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club. Hey, Ray. Ray. Yo, Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy]

What up?

[Jess Hilarious]

Are we live?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

I got an indoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Here.

[DJ Envy]

Tell you what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy. What's going on? T from Queen.

[DJ Envy]

T from Queens. A part of Queens. T?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm from South Jamaica, Queens.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Southside. What's going on, brother?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing much. Yo, I rock. I rock with y'all, man. I. I Listen to y'all every morning. I do sanitation, but Envy, I got. I got phones to pick with you, man.

[DJ Envy]

What's happening?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yesterday you gave the storyline up for the Lion King. I was very just. I was very dissatisfied with that, man. I planned on going to take my kids see it this weekend, and you gave me the whole storyline.

[DJ Envy]

My bad, bro. You know what? Lion King already made, like, 160. Mufasa made, like, 160. $70 million already. I thought a lot of people have seen it. My bad, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You tell. You tell everybody the movie, but won't tell people Santa Claus fake. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Santa Claus is not fake.

[Jess Hilarious]

That is so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Kashif. I'm calling from California right now.

[DJ Envy]

Kashif, you in Cali? What part of Cali, Kashif?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm in Glendale, so I'm close to the Eaton fire. We're not in an evacuation zone, but there are five fires burning right now, most of them 0% contained, because they had high winds up to, like, 80 miles an hour the day before when all the fires started. Yeah. If you don't think that got to do with climate change, you're bugging.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, no, absolutely. I know it gotta be tough on you. I know you're not sleeping. I know you keeping one eye open just in case.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I haven't slept in 48 hours. Now, they didn't tell you how to evacuate yet?

[Leon Thomas]

No, not yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, prayers up to you, my brother. And the crazy part is, when people call you and tell you these things, what are we supposed to say? Prayers up.

[DJ Envy]

That's really all you can say? Hello, who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, this is Raven.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Raven. Good morning. Get it off your chest, Raven. Okay, so I'm from California, and, like.

[Leon Thomas]

The whole of, like, what Trump is saying is so true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When I was in school, we could.

[DJ Envy]

Only use the water, like, certain times of the day.

[Jess Hilarious]

If you use the water during the times like that, you're not supposed to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, and, like, police will come to.

[Leon Thomas]

Your house and you will get a ticket.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

But the thing about, like, not gonna.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say that's been going on forever, though, right? Like, for the last decade, they've been saying, like, don't use a lot of water if you live out in la.

[DJ Envy]

Or you can only use water on certain days.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, like, that's all over.

[Leon Thomas]

Mainly Southern California, Northern California, they have, like, a little bit of freedom, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Southern California, we have no freedom with.

[DJ Envy]

Our water more free.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, we're down There told, like, you.

[Leon Thomas]

Know, like, when to use our water.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When to shower, how long to shower for.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just, like, why we live next to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

An ocean, and I can purify the water and send it through the lines.

[DJ Envy]

And recycle and send it back out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not that hard. I know.

[Jess Hilarious]

I went to school with plenty of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People who became, like, scientists, and they study to see if they can, like.

[Leon Thomas]

Create better ways for the water system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they actually have.

[Jess Hilarious]

And it's like, they submitted so many times down.

[Leon Thomas]

They submitted so many times, like, their.

[DJ Envy]

And they just, like, turn them down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because they're just like, oh, well, we're.

[Leon Thomas]

Gonna spend too much money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you for calling.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest, Whether you're mad or blessed.

[Jess Hilarious]

I hate the way that you walk.

[DJ Envy]

The way that you talk I hate the way that you dress Everything with me is best. Call up next, 800-585-1051. Not just me, I'm with the culture feeling. Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, good morning. How you doing? This is Eddie Ford.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Eddie Ford? Boy, that's a blaze. Hey, good morning. Good morning, DJ Envy. Good morning, Charlotte.

[Jess Hilarious]

Bang.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, Jess. How y'all doing this morning? Good morning, Mr. Ford. Okay, okay, first of all, I want to say my prayers and thoughts to the families in California going through the wildfires. You know, like I said, I'm headed to work this morning. You know, I'm blessed to see 42 today. Today is my birthday.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, happy born day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations, black man. Hey, I surely appreciate it. You know, I'm going in to, you know, get this grind on, you know, before I get out working on, you know, go to my sort of basketball game this evening. I'm just calling to see if I can get a birthday blessing.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, absolutely, brother. Happy birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I appreciate it. I just wonder if I get somebody to send me a blessing to my cash app.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, oh, you mean that type of. Damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, what type of blessing he made?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Grown man, no money. Just because it's his birthday.

[DJ Envy]

Put your cash app.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gotta die. Be dying or something like, oh, my God, you got the gout. What's going.

[DJ Envy]

Put your cash app out there, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody might. No sob story, no nothing. Just, hey, man, it's my birthday.

[Jess Hilarious]

For the people who had the fires.

[DJ Envy]

He said, send me a blessing. I said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm saving my money for the people in LA who need it. Okay, all right. Hey, I really appreciate. I'm just calling this to get a blessing, you know, like, I'm a hard working father of five down here in Florida. Don't try to do the story now. You should have led with the story. Nope, nope, nope. I understand that. I understand that.

[Leon Thomas]

I understand that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I still want to put my cash up out there, you know, hey, is money sign edit. Eddie James Ford Jr. 21 with all the words capitalized. Yeah, I'm not moved to donate, brother. I'm not. I'm not gonna lie to you. You know what I'm saying? Hey, I great. Appreciate. I just want to call in and, you know, you get talking, get it on my chest in my present thoughts. California. Happy born day, my brother.

[DJ Envy]

Have a good one, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What I. What he should have did is he should have gave his thoughts and prayers to California and. And then he should have said if he was trying to finesse people, but he wasn't. He should have said, hey, if y'all want to donate to, you know, this thing I'm doing for California, send me some money to this cash app, blah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Yo, he said, he said, I'm just calling, you know, to get a blessing for my birthday. And he said, well, happy birthday, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy birthday.

[DJ Envy]

You know, exactly what the hell he did. I was blessing her. Happy birthday, brother. Jesus, get it off your chest. 800-551-051. We got just with the mess coming up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, man. A lot of celebrities lost their houses. I mean, completely go in California. So we'll get to that.

[Leon Thomas]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

We'll talk about that when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

News is real.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just don't do no lines. She don't spare nobody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shooter. She was able to get y'all to.

[Jess Hilarious]

See something and understand something that nobody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Could get you to see. It's time to set it off.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so the California Wildfire. So all eyes have been on California. We just been discussing it since, you know, we started the show. So many people in California have lost their homes, and even the people who have evacuated already, they don't even know if they still have homes or not. There's no way that they can even go Back to check. And these are one of those situations where it's really good to remind people that celebrities are people, too, you know, and everybody think is, you know, celebrities have money that they. They're not affected by certain things. And I just, you know, I want to shed light on some people. It was reported that Paris Hilton's home in Malibu burnt down. And then she shared this because she learned that her house was burned down while she was actually watching the news. She said, heartbroken beyond words, sitting with my family, watching the news and seeing our home in Malibu burn to the ground on live tv and something no one ever have to experience. She said, this home was where we built so many precious memories. It's where Phoenix took his first steps, her son, and where we dreamed of building a lifetime of memories with London. So that. That's, like, her one of her favorite houses. I know she got more than one, but this is still, like, where a lot of precious memories were with her and her child. And she went on to thank all the firefighters and encourage people to follow evacuation orders. And she also shared that her team is reaching out to nonprofits to see how they can help people that's being affected by the fires as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you said is true, too. Just money cannot protect you from natural disaster.

[DJ Envy]

Not at all. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It doesn't matter if it's wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, whatever it is, Mother Nature don't care about your financial status or class. Everybody can get it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Everybody is the same in Mother Nature's eyes. Even Kawhi Leonard. He reportedly had to take some time away from the Clippers to spend with his family during the wildfires. He bought a mansion in the Pacific Palisades for 17.1 million back in 2021. And that area, as we know it, is pretty much destroyed by the fires. The statue. The status of his home hasn't been revealed yet, but Ricky Lake, she shared that she lost her dream home in the fires. She said, I can't believe I'm typing these words. It's all gone with the heartbreak emoji. After a brave effort by our friend and hero, Ross, we lost our dream home. And she was just really upset about it. Yeah. Fergie is also. Her home was in the path of fires, and so the chances of it being burnt down are pretty high. And this is. This is so sad. It was this. This guy. His name is Chris. He was on Fox 11 News. He was begging for water on the news, begging for water to try to save his house.

[Leon Thomas]

I was told that my house burned down. I drove up, I needed to see it. I wanted to get some clothes for my son.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The entire neighborhood is burnt down, but.

[Leon Thomas]

Somehow my house does not even have a scratch. There's no fire damage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I went in, but the house next.

[Leon Thomas]

To mine is still on fire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I'm going around begging anybody to come put out that fire to protect.

[Leon Thomas]

My home because there's no water, there's no water pressure.

[DJ Envy]

I tried to turn on the water myself. I would have tried to put it.

[Leon Thomas]

Out, but I have no water pressure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I have no way of putting it out. You and your wife are just trying to go get bottled water?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, so my wife went to get bottled water.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna meet her down the hill.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we're just gonna try and throw.

[Leon Thomas]

Bottled water on it.

[DJ Envy]

But I don't know if that's gonna work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You need a lot more than that.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, absolutely. We need a lot more than that. But that's really sad when you're on the news and you're beggin. Rotimi actually got on social media and he encouraged everyone to pray for people who are being affected by the fires.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pray for everyone that's dealing with the.

[Leon Thomas]

Fires out here in la.

[DJ Envy]

We pray for speedy recovery, we pray for divine helpers, we pray for the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Blood of Jesus to cover your family.

[Leon Thomas]

And guide you guys.

[DJ Envy]

Something spiritual is not right, man.

[Leon Thomas]

Something's going on that we need to.

[DJ Envy]

Literally pray, knock off whatever spirit is.

[Leon Thomas]

Trying to hurt us as a people.

[DJ Envy]

So let's make sure everybody's okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right?

[Leon Thomas]

Reach out.

[DJ Envy]

If you know anybody out here in.

[Leon Thomas]

La, please call and just see if they're okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Very true.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. Hotels are full, trying to, you know, house people and you know, people who have evacuated their homes. And like Morgan mentioned earlier, Airbnb is offering temporary housing for people who are affected, giving people somewhere to stay. And Planet Fitness locations in LA are actually opening up their, their buildings to like, to like people who need showers and first responders and stuff like that.

[DJ Envy]

WI fi, they said.

[Jess Hilarious]

And WI Fi. Yep, yep. Locker rooms and all that with no membership required. So you can go. Meek Mill said prayers to la. I never knew about fire trauma until my house caught on fire. I was smelling fire in my sleep, jumping up for three years. I didn't pretty much. He's saying prayers to LA is what he's saying. So yeah, we know how meek can get. But yeah, somebody had reposted what he said and just peace to the planet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamagne tha God here. And I just want you to know if you're not on Amazon prime. You're seriously missing out. It's not just about the fast free delivery. Although, let's be real, that's a game changer. It especially was for me this holiday season. Prime is like your personal guide to everything you're into or want to get into. Whether it's binge watching the latest hit on prime video, you know, listening to your favorite playlist on Amazon Music, or getting those last minute gifts which same day free delivery. Prime's got you covered. And here's the key kicker. Prime isn't just about getting you closer to your passions. It's about helping you discover new ones too. Got a hobby you're obsessed with? Prime fuels it. Trying something new. Prime helps you dive deep into whatever's next. It's like me being passionate about mental health. You can order all kinds of books on mental health on Prime. My favorite is the Unapologetic Guide to Black mental health by Dr. Rita Walker. Prime gets you closer to what really matters, making all times of the year that much more special. Whether it's screaming your favorite movie or getting that perfect gift delivered the same day, prime makes everything easy and stress free. Whatever you're into, it's on Prime. Visit Amazon.comprime now the world is constantly changing.

[DJ Envy]

It's up to you to decide how to respond. Choose to be bold. To try something new. Choose to reinvent yourself. That's what Nissan did with the all new, totally reimagined Kicks. The dynamic new exterior styling immediately announces that Nissan isn't messing around the interior. A completely redesigned cabin with premium features like wireless Apple CarPlay and a panoramic moonroof make driving a Kicks immersive and exciting. And with new performance and safety features like intelligent all wheel drive, the Kicks is both fun and safer to drive than ever before. It is the dawning of a brand new era for the Nissan Kicks. Only one question remains. Is it a new era for you as well? Drive the all new reimagined Nissan Kicks today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Available Features Compatible device service and consumer activation of Nissan Connect Services package Required Use only when safe and legal. Subject to third party service availability. For more information, see nissanusa.com connect legal Apple CarPlay is a trademark of Apple Inc. Intelligent all wheel drive cannot prevent collisions or provide enhanced traction in all conditions. Always monitor traffic and weather conditions.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Morgan]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Scratch scratched everything out. Everything out that he said. I mean, I guess he's shared his experience.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He lost his home in a fire.

[DJ Envy]

Not recently. I think when he was younger.

[Jess Hilarious]

Not when he was younger. And it wasn't in la. He said he didn't know that that type of trauma existed. So I was just dealing with it as a kid. But basically all is all he's trying to say is prayers to la.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I second that. And if you are able to help, help. Because once again, something like this can happen to any of us. When Mother Nature knocks and ain't no bucking back, you are at Mother Nature's mercy. So all you can do is, you know, give it to God. Because those wild fires are out of control and this situation is out of our control.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we just beg it. When they say evacuate, just evacuate. I know sometimes people be like, and I'm gonna try to, I'm gonna stay here. I'm ride this one out.

[Jess Hilarious]

You talking about they didn't lose your life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Because you get stuck, you won't be able to get out. I mean, they were saying that they had to have a plow come and move cars off the road because it was so many cars on the highways and roadways where people were trying to get out and they just had to walk. And now emergency vehicles can't get through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. There's nobody on this planet that is not evacuating a fire. Yeah. This ain't like a hurricane or earthquake or anything like that. You have no choice. Unless you just want to burn to death, bro.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you'd be surprised sometimes.

[Jess Hilarious]

I wanted to say this yesterday. So Patti LaBelle, her team was reportedly upset about her portrayal, so CNN had aired a documentary about Luther Vandross.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right and left, Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

I, I understand it's a hard left, but. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Because what, you're making a hard left with this one.

[Jess Hilarious]

What, what are we supposed to be saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. Go to commercial.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, go to the commercial.

[Leon Thomas]

But I'm talking about this.

[Jess Hilarious]

I mean, I'm going to talk about it next next hour. So I wanted to cover it yesterday. Everybody kept talking. It was a bunch going on.

[DJ Envy]

We'll get to that next hour. Everybody else, we'll give you more information. Up next on Front Page News, More going to be joining us. And then Leon Thomas, R B singer will be here. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Leon Thomas]

Wake up, wake up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

[Morgan]

Listen, a lot has happened out West. President Biden has canceled what would have been his final international trip of his presidency. You was scheduled to go to Italy, Rome to be exact, today, but he has canceled that trip. And as a result of these fires in la, now White House press secretary Kareem Jean Pierce says Biden made the decision after returning to the White House from his trip to la, where he met with fire, police and emergency personnel responding to those wildfires. Also important to know Airbnb.org is partnering with with 211 LA for those who have been displaced. So if you have been displaced, 211 is a resource for you. Unsafe tap water advisories are also in place in communities affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Malibu residents are also being told to use only boiled tap water or bottled water for drinking and cooking. This is due to low water pressure in the area. Pasadena residents are also being told not to drink tap water in the eat fire evacuation areas. And city water system may have debris and elevated turbidity. Pasadena residents are being urged to only drink bottled water for the time being. So yeah, we'll keep you guys posted on what's going on in regards to that terrible, tragic situation out in la. Now let's talk international affairs. President Elect Trump says all hell will break loose if remaining hostages held in the Palestinian militant group Hamas are not set free by the time he takes off. Now, Trump held a press conference at Mar a Lago on Tuesday and said he will not tip his hand with regards to the Israel Hamas war. Let's hear more from Trump on Hamas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we have the right person.

[DJ Envy]

But I tell this, I don't want to hurt the negotiation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If the deal isn't done before I take office, which is now going to.

[DJ Envy]

Be two weeks, all hell will break.

[Jess Hilarious]

Out in the Middle East.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They should have never taken them. They should have never been. The attack of October 7th, people forget.

[DJ Envy]

That, but there was and many People.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are killed, they're no longer hostages.

[Morgan]

So Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said at the news conference, there has been a lot of progress on efforts to get hostages in the Gaza Strip released elsewhere.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who does that? Surprise, though. That's why I never understood what the pro Gaza, pro Palestine, you know, crowd was trying to prove by going so hard at Harris. Harris, like America is always going to support Israel. They're always going to support Israel's military and trust and believe when Trump says all hell will break loose if those hostages aren't returned, he means it. He gonna turn Gaza into a parking lot. And I wouldn't be surprised if the hostages get released and Trump still lets Israel's military have their, have their way with Gaza. So I, I never understood like when they would come and, you know, protest Harris, but wouldn't have that same energy for, you know, Donald Trump when he would be out campaigning somewhere.

[Morgan]

I'm fair enough.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Enough.

[Morgan]

In other news, more details are surfacing on the Tesla cybertruck explosion outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day. Police say, or police are, police say the man used AI to plan the attack. Las Vegas Metro Police Department Assistant Sheriff Dory Corin says a search history shows Matthew Livelsberger used chat GPT to find information on how to carry out his plan. Let's hear more from Assistant Chief Dorie Coring.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's trying to figure out where to buy fireworks and how much of it to buy. He looks at the equivalence of those fireworks and how they compare to TNT and other types of explosive material.

[DJ Envy]

He also says that he has graph.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He has graphic encounters from his military experience that replay in his head over and over and that now he feels like he's a shell of a human being with nothing to live for. This document was found as part of the digital forensic analysis of his phone. There's a variance of grievances and a constant evolution of his plan.

[Morgan]

They add that in a six page manifesto extracted from his phone, he mentioned political and social grievances, of course, that were mentioned in the audio that was played. What do you think about that? I heard you reacting to that Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that the, once again the system failed somebody. You know, that man is a veteran who dealt with PTSD and never got the help he needed. And to me, that's always the greatest travesty in situations like that. You know, when a. Well, anybody, I think everybody should be entitled to mental health resources, but especially somebody who went out and fought for this country. Like, I think there's been more than enough evidence that we can see the devastating effects and impact going out and going to war and fighting for this country has on people. So people like that should get all the mental health resources and care that they need when they're back here in.

[Morgan]

America and talk about it and bringing things home to you guys. In New York, congestion pricing has been underway officially since January 5th. Almost a full work week, and a lot of people aren't feeling it. New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he shared his thoughts, saying the NTA and the federal government did what they had to do as well as the state, which put the program in place. But he does believe it should have gone through the city council. Let's hear more from Eric Adams on congestion pricing.

[DJ Envy]

These are our roads and it's in our city.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I believe we should have had a.

[DJ Envy]

Greater impact on doing it, but that's not the reality.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's been two days. They're going to do an analysis of.

[DJ Envy]

You know, everything from housing pack and parking, traffic flow speeds. So there's going to be a whole analysis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is new.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So his administration goes on to say new rules to crack down on drivers with obscured license plates. Adam says everyone who avoids paying their toll takes money from those who do pay the toll. And he says they have to do everything possible to catch evaders, including making sure the laws allow for confiscation of vehicles and that penalties are severe enough to deter people from avoiding the toll. I've heard cases already where people are covering up their license plates. What about you guys?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I heard the same. I heard people using leaves. I heard people using the little tint thing. But I will say this. I've been, you know, the last four days I've been driving in, or three days we've been driving in, I haven't seen a difference in traffic at all. And I've been asking people that leave during rush hour time and they're saying they haven't seen much of a changes at all as well. So I wonder if it is working or if it's not. I'm, I really.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is 14 million people in New York? Like? How many people do they expect to just stop doing what they were doing to get to work?

[DJ Envy]

Especially with the subway so dangerous. Like, you know, you hear about people getting burned and stabbed and shot and gunshots and like nobody wants to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a matter of routine. Like, you're dealing with a city of millions and millions and millions of people, working class people who have A routine. Like everybody in this room right now. We know exactly what time we need to leave. Get up, up, leave the house, and get to work. Everybody feels that way. They're not about to change their routine.

[Morgan]

Especially in the winter. A New York winter at that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly. They gonna eat that $9 and complain about it every single chance we get. Okay, wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Facts.

[Morgan]

That's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on social@morganmedia. And for more news coverage, follow us at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio radio app and visit [e-mail]. thank y'all.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Morgan. All right, when we come back, Leon Thomas will be joining us. Leon Thomas, a R B singer, songwriter, producer, actor. He played in Lion King. He was on Broadway, Nickelodeon star. We got a lot to discuss when we. When we talk to him next, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's Dej.

[DJ Envy]

Envy.

[Leon Thomas]

Jess.

[DJ Envy]

Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Laura LaRosa filling in for just today. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, we have the brother, Leon Thomas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Welcome, bro.

[DJ Envy]

What's good?

[Leon Thomas]

What's good, y'all feeling?

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Blessed, black, and highly favored. Leon, you are by far the greatest new male R and B singer doing it today, man.

[Leon Thomas]

Thank you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That shouldn't even be up for debate, man.

[Leon Thomas]

Man, I really appreciate that, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you receive that?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, I mean, you know, to be honest, I try to just take it one step at a time. You know, I try to stay humble with everything, but I'm glad to be a new voice in R and B. You know, it's a genre that I love. You know, I'm trying to bring back live musicianship, real songs. You know, writing with the team that I have has been an amazing pleasure. And, you know, just bringing, like, that organic feeling back to the live stage is, like, a big thing for me.

[DJ Envy]

You know, for people that don't know Leon Thomas, you know, you started on Broadway. Tell everybody how you got your start and your way into being this R and B star.

[Leon Thomas]

Well, listen, I grew up in New York, started on Broadway out here. I did three Broadway plays from Lion King. The Carolina changed the color Purple.

[DJ Envy]

You were Simba in Lion King?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah, I was Simba in Lion King. And then, you know, I started booking movies and TV shows.

[DJ Envy]

How was that? I just took my kids to see.

[Leon Thomas]

Oh, no. It was insane.

[DJ Envy]

How was that training? Cause it's a lot of shows A lot of people, and it's live, so you can't mess up.

[Leon Thomas]

No, no, no. You can't mess up. It's eight shows a week. I was 10 years old when I did my first Broadway play, Shout out to my mom and my family for, you know, supporting me through that whole journey. And, yeah, man, I went from being a regular kid to starring on Broadway in a matter of months, you know.

[DJ Envy]

Now, how was that? Because it's not the typical thing New York kids do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

So you're singing, you're dancing, you're doing that. So how did you get into that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Part of New York Kids?

[DJ Envy]

No, because you don't go on Broadway. I don't know anybody. They went to Broadway. So it's very different.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

New York kids that go on Broadway. I don't.

[Leon Thomas]

I mean, I don't know. I had a couple homies who ended up in different plays, but for the most part. Yeah, yeah. It was definitely, like, a bit of an anomaly for my neighborhood in Brooklyn. It was kind of weird explaining it to my homies at school. Like, yeah, I was just doing a show last night. They're like, what was going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe kids from a certain area.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, not from New York. From the hoods of New York.

[Leon Thomas]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[Leon Thomas]

Nah, it was definitely a real pleasure, you know, but from there, I ended up doing a lot of TV and film. You know, I shot my first movie out here with Robin Williams and Terrence Howard called August Rush, which was an amazing pleasure. And that kind of brought me into a lot of TV after that. Yeah, with Nickelodeon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And he was on Victorious.

[Leon Thomas]

Victorious, yeah, yeah, yeah. With Ariana Grande. And, you know, that was a big journey. That was the number one show on the network at the time. We were beating out American Idol, and it was a way for the rest of the world to kind of really tap into who I am as a creative. But it took years of really honing in on who I am as an artist to get to this point. Producing and writing for a bunch of different artists, winning a Grammy, working with SZA and Babyface, Drake. A bunch of different people. It's been a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You wrote for Drake?

[Leon Thomas]

I actually produced for Drake. But, you know, shout out to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A lot of people write for Drake. Allegedly.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, allegedly, man. But, you know, I don't think there's anything wrong with it either, but it was a blessing to. I mean, it's interesting because I'm an artist and people see me as a singer. They kind of forget that. I also Produced a lot of big records. You know, my production game is pretty tight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you sing like a rap?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, on purpose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your lyrics are like that of a rapper. That's why when I see Freddie Gibbs on your records, Butcher, it makes so much sense to me. You still keep in touch with anybody from Victoria?

[Leon Thomas]

Absolutely, man. You know, I chop it up with ahrii. Avenghogia is a really good friend of mine. You know, Matt Bennett, a lot of the cast, we all hang out and do lunch. It's kind of like my last two years of high school were with them. So that's like my graduating class, essentially. We were all in school together, so we filmed, but we also went to school. So those are. Those are my really good friends.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Victoria and her mom. I did a. I hosted a New Year's Eve special with them. Oh, for real?

[Leon Thomas]

Oh, that's dope. That's dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ever roll for our.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, actually I worked with her on her first album. That was my first time going number one with an album. I did about like four songs on her first album, Yours Truly.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Leon Thomas]

So that was a real pleasure. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Did you know you always wanted to be a R and B singer? Like, was that the goal as a kid growing up, or did you always want to be an actor? And when did you pivot? When he was like, all right, this is what I want to do.

[Leon Thomas]

Listen. I feel like I did this role with Kathryn Bigelow. She's an Oscar award winning director. But I had to cut my dreads for it. And that was kind of like my last straw in acting. You know, I did this role for Detroit. I felt like, you know, I need to kind of tap back into who I am as an artist. You know, grew my dreads back, really got into my internal self meditating. Really, like tapping into who I am as a human being. And a lot of great music came out of that. You know, I always knew I wanted to be a singer, but I knew for a fact I needed to really present myself as who I truly was. It's so easy to play a character when you're always acting. You know, I needed to come to the world as my true self.

[Jess Hilarious]

When you were on the, like, the sets, when you, like, even with like victorious and stuff like that. Was your mom and like your parents there often or.

[Leon Thomas]

Oh, yeah, my mom, Ariana Grande talked.

[Jess Hilarious]

A lot about that too. Like how y'all parents were close.

[Leon Thomas]

Nah, they were there. They were there. You know, my mom was never like a momager, like over my over my shoulder kind of mom. But she was also very protective of my peace.

[Jess Hilarious]

Gotcha.

[Leon Thomas]

And mental health and making sure that I'm just like, in a good, Good. A good space while I'm. While I'm trying to create something timeless and, you know, shout out to her for just always, you know, creating safe spaces for me right throughout that journey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, probably from getting slimed. Yeah, yeah.

[Leon Thomas]

Definitely nuts. Definitely nuts. You know, seeing. Seeing how everything definitely. It was definitely, definitely insane.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't say that. Definitely nuts after that.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, it's crazy.

[Leon Thomas]

It's crazy. Cause, you know, I just saw the doc not too long ago. It was definitely eye opening. And a lot of my castmates, we hopped on a zoom call. We all wanted to talk about it. Luckily, during our seasons, it was very wholesome and chill, but, you know, shout out to anybody who dealt with anything bad. I mean, my heart definitely goes out to them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The thing I love about your music, too, is number one, I can tell you, you got a sense of freedom. Yeah, but does that come with money or does that come with just how you came up, you know, with your mom doing music? So you always felt free as an artist.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, I think the greatest thing about being an artist is that it's a great representation of being a free black man. You know, like, you know, being able to wear what I want, you know, say what I want on record is really important to me. You know, I try to stay as grounded and as real to who I am as I can be. I mean, I think it's really easy to want to be an artist and play a character who you think people want you to be. But I'm doing my best to just like, kind of just say what I want, do what I want.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know, when you come up with songs where, like, I like feelings on silent. I love wale. But songs like that, like, when I listen to it, each time I get something different from it. So the first time I listened, I was like, oh, this is like, guys just being like, we keep our feelings to herself. And then the second time I listened, I'm like, this is the trauma that they deal with. Because, like, he mentions PTSD and like, a bunch of other things. Like, how do you. First of all, sitting back. You wrote that?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

I co wrote sitting back and writing it with him. How do you be like, okay, here's all the things that we want people to get when they hear this? Or do you guys just write and whatever People get. They get like, were you dealing with something yourself then or.

[Leon Thomas]

You know, the way I wrote that record was really interesting. I was in. I was in Italy, actually. I was working with Yay and Ty Dollar Sign on the Vultures one project. And I just had some lyrics kind of, you know, bubbling up in my head. But I think it was one of those moments that it was just kind of stream of consciousness. I didn't really think too hard on my sections. That was like my second take that you're hearing there. It wasn't like me, like kind of really punching in a bunch of different ideas. It was just kind of flowing. And when Wale heard it, that was probably the hardest verse to get. Cause we did probably.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why did he come back outside? Cause he.

[Leon Thomas]

We did like five sessions to get that one verse. But yo, he's so talented in seeing how he crafted his verse. I mean, he would do like five bars at a time. And he really cared about the poetry of it all. And it's why I really respect him as an artist. He's just a true lyricist.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we got more with Leon Thomas when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess, Hilarious Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa joined us for this Leon Thomas interview.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course.

[DJ Envy]

Leon Thomas is singer, songwriter, producer and actor. His album Mutt is out right now. And we gotta congratulate you cause you got a Grammy for your record with sza. We tell everybody that we helped with that because we played snooze every morning four times. 6am Yeah, 6am you wrote snooze?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I produced.

[Leon Thomas]

I produced on Snooze, man. Yo, first of all, let's clear this up. Shout out to SZA for writing that record. We were producing in a separate room and she heard the instrumental and was like, what is that? And you know, there is something that I do where I like take my voice and I chop it up like a sample. Because clearing samples is really expensive. It cuts into the publishing. So rather than actually doing a sample, I'll just sing a little something, right? So she really liked that and then took it into the other room and wrote an amazing song. And being a part of the production on that with Babyface, the legendary Babyface, was a true pleasure, man. I mean, it was a real journey to see that song go from like a crowd favorite to a Grammy Award winning R and B song, man. That was definitely life changing for me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got A right?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah. The Rascals. Me and Chris Tynes, man, we've been working together since we were, like, 18. So it's really cool to see the growth. I mean, we started off, you know, a little shaky when it came to production, but it's nice to see us, you know, really develop into the producers we are now. We had great mentors, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

You have such big moments, like, even before that and during that. But it's like, I don't know, like, when do you feel like things started, like, to click finally where people were like, oh, shoot, Leon. Like, we get it now.

[Leon Thomas]

It's really interesting. I like to call it the Drake effect. When I was working. When I was working with Drake, all of a sudden label executives who have known me for years were like, I think you could be an artist, you know, And I was like, ah, okay. So I kind of peeped that, and I said, okay, well, let's start kind of building this out. But I knew I wanted that. That same formula that Drake had with Lil Wayne. And, you know, working with Ty Dolla Sign was a really smart move, not only because he's just an amazing artist, but because it was just nice to have a mentor who had done it already. So he's just kind of like, yo, try this. Make sure the look has this. Or, you know, even when it came to the music, like, here's how you really format an album. And I'm definitely doing a lot of studying, you know, shout out to Todd Dala San for sure. He definitely, you know, saw something in me that a lot of label executives were not sure about, and it's cool to see it developing. How did y'all do it real time?

[DJ Envy]

How did you and Ty Dolison?

[Leon Thomas]

I was actually working on his album as a producer on featuring Todd Dollar Sign. I was like, one of, I think, nine producers on a song with Kanye and Thundercat and a bunch of other people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nine producers on one record?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, because it's like, it was like 0.5. Like, I was just there, added this or that vocal and, like, some bass or something, but. But he had everybody play, like, their unreleased records. And I played him some of my first album as, like, demos, and Todd was like, yo, you're really tight, you know, as an artist. He was like, man. And he was originally trying to record one of the songs that I had, but I was like, nah, I want you to feature on it. And over the years, we became really good friends. I was working with him a lot and just kind of developed into a Whole situation with Sean Baron. Sean Baron is the guy who officially, like, put it all together with easy money and Motown.

[Jess Hilarious]

Is it tough navigating because people are getting to know you now and everybody's falling in love with your music now, and you have such a close association with Drake. You have to, like, pick and choose where you go musically and what you do musically with who, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Honestly, she's asking, can you work with Kendrick Lamar if you wanted to?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that's what she's asking. I mean, the way. The way I really look at it is just like, on a political level. I make R and B, you know, Obviously I make hip hop too, but I'm really focused on my artist journey, so. I mean, Kendrick is such a huge artist. I don't really foresee us working together in the near future. And even with Drake, you know, I still want to take my steps to really build on my own two feet as an artist. Right. So I'm doing what I have to do right now to really, like, grow my own business. Touring is a big thing for me. I'm really focused on that. I'm hitting the road all this year and working on more records. So, I mean, shout out to everybody, but. But I'm. I'm definitely focused on me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old were you when you realized Vibes Don't Lie? One of my favorite records. How old were you when you first realized Vibes Don't Lie?

[Leon Thomas]

I think that was. That was definitely early 20s. I think LA is filled with facades and people who are pretending to be something they aren't. People who move from their hometown and create a whole new Persona. So I think for me, just really studying folks, especially a lot of the women you deal with out there, it's really important to study their actions and not their words.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love the fact that you are encouraging women to keep their healthy.

[Leon Thomas]

Yes, I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you ever want to be a gynecologist? No type of health. Listen.

[Leon Thomas]

No, no, no, no. That wasn't on the list. I just listened, man. Yeah, listen. I just listen, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you. They tell you, like, hey, I'm not feeling the best today. No.

[Leon Thomas]

I mean, I just think ph balance is a conversation. And, you know, I just listen, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you was very, very specific. You said, she. She only drink water. She keep that healthy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. They said on Twitter you be talking crazy like that, but you sing it so people can't be back. You have that conversation in real life. But, like, you're not your homegirl.

[Leon Thomas]

You're not honestly you know what? I'm just big on shock value. I think songs, especially R B songs, have gotten a bit. Not boring, but I think we've. We've kind of already hit the golden era of R and B. So I'm just finding new ways to make people's ears, you know, perk up and their minds move. I think social media and podcasts are really interesting to me. You know, these phone mics bring out so many conversations. And I think as an R and B artists, I want to find ways to let that live on the record. And it doesn't always have to be, like, verbatim of what I'm going through in real life. I think it's important to create the drama. You know, I kind of see music as, you know, script and a score. So sometimes the records are just, like, really good dramatizations of, like, what I'm seeing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You've encountered some unhealthy vaginas. Don't lie.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm gonna say. So you.

[Leon Thomas]

I mean, I think everybody is.

[Jess Hilarious]

But, like, how. But like, how does that go for you now?

[Leon Thomas]

I mean, I don't think. I don't think it's now or like.

[Jess Hilarious]

Women expecting you to be like, all right, here's the check. Like, how do you. Cuz you got the songs? Like, they're there.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah. You know, I definitely got the songs, but I think it's just important to be honest with your partner, you know, communicate. But. But I think it's. It's a. It's a pretty interesting conversation I try to stay out of if I don't have to, you know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ever did the ear wax test?

[Leon Thomas]

No. I don't even know what that is, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You putting me on right now. It's an ear wax test. A little wax on it. Put a little pinky. Put the pinky inside of.

[Leon Thomas]

Hold on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is something. She got something.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. Healthy. It should be.

[DJ Envy]

Be honest. You listen to him.

[Leon Thomas]

Yo, that scene, you should do it on yourself.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know where he got anybody.

[Jess Hilarious]

You do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is nuts.

[DJ Envy]

That's some South Carolina back road thing that they do. It doesn't. Do not try.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That works. He.

[Jess Hilarious]

That doesn't. Your mom never told you you got some. Make it go. Drink ginger ale.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We a talking about stomach aches. We talking about.

[Jess Hilarious]

People think Ginger Al cure everything. Not ear wax. Don't listen.

[DJ Envy]

Put ginger ale on your vagina. That's why you single. That's why you single.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Delaware is crazy.

[Jess Hilarious]

My grandma used to be like, go get some ginger ale and lay down.

[Leon Thomas]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

About everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Leon Thomas]

No, no, no. We love ginger ale around here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did your therapist really tell you that you're too detached, or is that just something you tell women so you don't commit?

[Leon Thomas]

Nah, I think. I think, you know, that bar for me. I have a co writer, Bizzy Crook, and he lives in Miami. Great rapper. That was a bar that came from him. He's very deep into therapy, but I'm glad that we talked about it on record, because, I mean, it's something that I definitely did try out over the pandemic, and it's something that I actually really respect you a lot for a championing, you know? Thank you, brother. But, yeah, that was a bar from Bizzy, but I thought it was important to add in there, you know, don't.

[Jess Hilarious]

Try to blame Bizzy now.

[Leon Thomas]

Nah. I mean, yo, that's my co writer. You know, Shout out to him. You know what I'm saying? Like, we write a lot of our songs together, and I really respect a lot of the perspectives he brings to a lot of my poignant records. You know, he has some great bars.

[DJ Envy]

Can we get into a song of that? What you want to do?

[Leon Thomas]

That would be amazing. Yo, let's play. Yes, it is. That would be really cool.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's get into the record. Right now is. Yes, it is. And we got more with Leon Thomas when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lon LaRosa is joining us on this interview, and we're still kicking it with Leon Thomas.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren on for Dancing with. When I listen to Dancing with the Demons. Yeah. Do you ever get, like, Miguel references sometimes?

[Leon Thomas]

Absolutely, yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cause I was listening, and I'm like, oh, my gosh. Like, I wonder if. Like that, like, are y'all. Do you know him?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Leon Thomas]

That's like my big bro. We actually did a movie together. He was in Detroit, the one I had to cut my hair for. He. He was. He was an amazing. An amazing mentor for me for some years. You know, that bridge between R and B and rock and roll. He's traveled across that bridge many a time. I definitely look up peace to the planet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Leon Thomas]

Him when it comes to that. And you know, for me, because I play multiple instruments, you know, I definitely try to just embody a lot of that energy. But but I think we both have the same influences as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree with Lauren on that. Miguel, to me before you was the last great R B male R B singer. To me I'm just about the new guys. I'm not, you know, the OG legend I'm talking about. He's the. He was the last one to me and I. I felt the same way when I heard Dancing with the Demons. I feel like. I feel like you're talking to yourself on that record though. You said you can't seem to save yourself Never learn to ask for help Going out all night Searching for a feeling so, so what, what, what have you learned to ask for help?

[Jess Hilarious]

It's a one, but I thought. Cuz I took it as like it wasn't talking about a woman at some point.

[Leon Thomas]

Well, I mean, it's interesting for me. Like that record, when I wrote it, I wrote it in two different days. The first day I was, you know, microdosing on shrooms, so it's a bit of a haze. The next day I listened to it and I was like, man, this is really poignant stuff. I mean, it's just really talking about being up all night and searching for a feeling and it's trying to fill voids. I feel like, as you know, when you're in your single journey, you can try to fill a void with a stranger and that's not always very healthy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's fun.

[Leon Thomas]

It could be fun. It could be fun for sure, but. And then, especially when you're in the limelight, the second verse is more so talking about, about being in the limelight and trying to fill voids. Nobody really talks about the darkness that comes with the flashing lights. And yeah, that record was very deep and very personal for me. You know, I'm glad that people resonate with it.

[DJ Envy]

Now you talk about microdosing on shrooms.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Where does that put your mind? And do you always do that to produce and write?

[Leon Thomas]

Nah, nah. I mean, I think for this album it was an interesting opportunity to kind of unplug. I mean, I wasn't doing as many shows around that time too, so. So it was really helpful to kind of just get into my own head and try to figure out who I am, you know, I definitely did a lot of manifesting, a lot of just like writing down who I wanted to be as a human being around that time. A lot of journaling, you know, and looking back at that season in my life, it was a journey for me to evolve into who I am right now. I wouldn't suggest people just go super crazy on shrooms or anything, but I think microdose, you know, a small amount could be healthy if you're trying to just find yourself, you know. And at that time I was trying to find myself, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I microdosed I've macro dose too.

[Jess Hilarious]

You said you were trying to find yourself. Did you find yourself?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, but I mean, I feel like that's a constant journey. That's like the whole part of finding yourself. You realize it, it never stops because we're always evolving, you know. But it's great that I was able to do it through music that was like a version of musical therapy for me. And I'm glad that people are resonating with it, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Know, I love how you're normalizing dogs on Mutt. Not, not, not. I'm not a dog anymore. There is a young, unhealed version of me that would have really appreciated that, that record. Cuz you make it sound so fun. It's almost like women are just going to bring you in. Like, oh, br. Come in, you straight dog. Let me domesticate you.

[Leon Thomas]

Nah, I mean, I. I was really just documenting what I saw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cut it out.

[Leon Thomas]

But nah, nah, nah. It's definitely, it's definitely parts of me.

[DJ Envy]

It's definitely parts of me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now you document what you say we not getting parts of me post, you.

[Leon Thomas]

Know, post breakup where I just had to figure it out. But I think that's all a part of living, you know.

[DJ Envy]

Do you get nervous though?

[Leon Thomas]

This was a post breakup, like, album. Yeah, yeah, this was a post breakup album. So this is me documenting, you know, finding myself. First off, like, you know, you're kind of broken after that and then you gotta, you gotta put the pieces back together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her fault. Yes.

[Leon Thomas]

Nah, it's not her fault. It's our fault.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, listen, Leon. It's her fault that you ended up being a dog. You went through your phase.

[Leon Thomas]

It's her fault.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's very commendable too, that on the song Safe Place, you let the person you're dealing with know this isn't a safe place.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What inspired that?

[Leon Thomas]

I mean, I think knowing that I wasn't necessarily ready to settle down, I think that conversation definitely came up a lot during, I guess you would call it my face. You know, just understanding, like, yo, I'm not trying to settle down. This is a fun place. You know, this is a time period where I'm just figuring me out. Work is crazy, it's hectic, you know, and I think having that conversation was important to, like you said, just avoid people not understanding what it was at.

[DJ Envy]

The time because you're honest in music. But it's difficult to be face to face with somebody and be like.

[Leon Thomas]

It's very, it's very difficult, you know, I really try my best to be as honest as I can, but, yeah, those are hard conversations, man. You know, I can't sit here and say I've always done it right, or I'm perfect or anything. But I try. I try to be, like, real, you know, I try to explain myself, but even when you explain yourself, sometimes wires get crossed, you know? So unpacking it and communicating, you know, is an important thing later on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Don't no woman want to hear that after she just let you hit Raw.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah. It's not.

[Jess Hilarious]

Has a woman ever said that to you when you were trying to, like, create like a. All right, maybe this is, like, a thing. And she's like, yo, I don't want.

[Leon Thomas]

To do that to you. Yeah, actually, yeah. Yeah. In my early 20s, I was talking to this amazing artist, and, yeah, she was just like, listen, baby, this ain't a safe place kind of thing.

[DJ Envy]

You know?

[Jess Hilarious]

Anybody we know?

[Leon Thomas]

Now she's like, no, no, no. I don't think you got teared up a little bit. Yeah, no, no, no. It was all good for me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, at that point, shades are fogging up. I ain't gonna lie.

[DJ Envy]

No, you teared up a little bit.

[Leon Thomas]

But, yeah, yeah, you know, it was definitely. You know, it was definitely a realization for me. I was like, oh, it can happen on that side, too. I was like, 20, maybe 21, you know.

[DJ Envy]

You cried in the car. Yeah, yeah.

[Leon Thomas]

So I was, like, real young and kind of, you know, green, like, oh, okay. I bet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cool.

[DJ Envy]

So you all looking for a relationship now? If the right person, yeah.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah. I'm definitely. I'm definitely in that mode right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Are you dating? Would you date art, other, like, artists, celebrities? Or do you, like. How does that work? Are you doing that?

[Leon Thomas]

It's just hectic. I mean, you're kind of inviting the media into your life, like the one safe place you have. But, I mean, who knows if I really catch a vibe with somebody who happens to be fan. I mean, I don't really care about that side of things. You know, I've been in the game a long time. I've met some beautiful women who are amazing artists, but it's just about the human being, and it can be tough to. To really build something if both of your schedules are super hectic. So, I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want to ask a question, too, about the. The. Another record on Far fetched. Yeah, you said. Because we was having a big conversation this week about tricking because, you know, Skip Bayless Allegedly.

[Leon Thomas]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody. 1.5 million. Oh, my God. And you say Paid for my mistakes in Benzes and diamonds 250fronted like you was my artist 5G's just across the Atlantic we sat in silence for almost two.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, that's a horrible vacation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A quarter million dollars.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Benzes and Diamonds.

[Leon Thomas]

Well, listen, when I wrote that record, it was not for me. That was not a joint that I was originally going to use for me. It was for somebody really famous and really rich. But I just love the way it sounded. And I was like, well, you know what? I love to speak in a world where I can actually afford that. Why not?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's manifest that in lucid dreams. You talk about your significant other. Leaving things behind.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, that was a. That was a fun record. With Masego after.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why do you think that topic is taboo?

[Leon Thomas]

I don't really consider it taboo, necessarily, but I think it's just, like. It's just funny. Cause for me, I was living with my ex for, like, a couple years, so she just had, like, a closet filled with clothes at my crib. And it had been, like, a year and a half since we had broken up. So we were in the studio talking about different things. The guitarist and producer on that song Freaky Rob, his girl left a flat screen at the house that he had to use to watch Netflix. He was like, man, when is she gonna take this flat screen? And, you know, M. Diego also had a similar situation like that at his crib with the couch. So we were all just kind of using all of our different experiences, putting it into a song and, you know, just locking it in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's different when it's closed, though. Yeah. Did you clear.

[Jess Hilarious]

You cleared out the closet?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, definitely clears out the. Yeah, yeah. Cleared out the closet.

[Jess Hilarious]

Did you move out of the apartment, or you just cleared out the closet?

[Leon Thomas]

Nah, I'm still at the crib, you know? I mean, still at the crib. You know, there's definitely a certain interior design choices. I'm gonna switch up soon, but this.

[Jess Hilarious]

Is, like, rude recent.

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right. The album is out right now. Make sure you pick it up. And we appreciate you for joining us.

[Leon Thomas]

Y. Thank you so much for having me, man. It's a big opportunity.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much. It's Leon Thomas. The album Mud is out now, and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The news is real.

[Jess Hilarious]

Jessica Robin. Moore just don't do no l don't do. She don't spare nobody worldwide.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just worldwide on the Breakfast Club. She's a culture.

[Jess Hilarious]

She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time to set it off.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, so I was trying to report this first hour, and yesterday I wanted to do this. Patti LaBelle, her team is upset about her portrayal in the documentary for Luther Vandross. So cnn, they. They aired this documentary on Luther on New Year's day. And Patti LaBelle was featured in the documentary because she and Luther were really good friends, but she wasn't portrayed in the documentary like she would have wanted to be or like we would have even expected, being that they were really good friends. She. She allegedly participated in the documentary, but she declined to sign the release form because they denied her request of reviewing the full. The final edit. Like, so she wanted to see it.

[DJ Envy]

She wanted to see it before it came out.

[Jess Hilarious]

Of course, because they didn't. She decided. She decided that, no, I'm not going to sign the release. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she was right.

[Jess Hilarious]

She still. Yeah, she still appeared in the documentary, but it was a clip from a 2017 interview with Andy Cohen that she did. And before the clip plays, the documentary shows a commentary of Richard Marks, who was a friend and a colleague of Luther. And he was criticizing people who claim to be friends of Luther but shared his personal information. Basically, that's the clip of the guy talking.

[DJ Envy]

No clip.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's not. It's not.

[Leon Thomas]

It.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wow. Yeah. So basically, Andy Cohen asked my delays.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the producer right now. He's a Daisy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, He. He. Basically, she's sitting with Andy Cohen and. And he. She was speaking on how Luther didn't want to tell his mom. He didn't want his mom to find out, and he didn't want to disappoint his female fans. You know what I mean? He thought it would, like, just crush his. The star that he was or whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sam, you can't come in here whispering, we live on air.

[Jess Hilarious]

And then. So after that clip. After that clip aired or whatever, it was just basically after it circulated or whatever, then her. That's when her team caught one of it and just was like, yo. Like, this is. Apparently she didn't even see the documentary. That's because she's on tour. She's busy. But her team saw it and they just like, damn. Like. Because it. It doesn't even. They don't even stress the importance of the friendship Between Luther and Patty at all. It was how they edited. And then right after that clip of her sitting with Andy Cohen, it goes to him talking about how he chose. Why he chose not to speak on the sexuality. So it was kind of how they edited. Like, it was like they implied that she was the one who put out. You know, like, she. Like, basically she was outing her friend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So Patty was right to not sign off because she wanted to see it, because she wanted to see how she was going to be portrayed in the documentary. She's right for that.

[Jess Hilarious]

And it just seems like some type of give back. Like, because she didn't sign it, they wouldn't go found. They went and found that and had Richard Mark say, oh, his friend. Some. I didn't like how some of his people who claim. Claim to be his friends.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that would have been in there. Been. Been in there regardless, because, you know, yeah, that would have been in there regardless. I think what Patty is saying is true because you can sit down and do those documentaries and say whatever you want to say, but it's the way that they'll edit it and put it together that'll have you looking crazy. So she was like, yo, let me see it first before I sign off on it.

[DJ Envy]

And I would tell anybody out there that's listening, if you ever get a chance or if they ever want you to do anything for television, regardless if it's a small or big pause. One thing I would say that I learned working up here, and I think Charlemagne actually told me this. He didn't teach me, but I seen him do it, which made me know is Charlotte won't sign off on anything. I won't either, unless we get to see it first.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Because a lot of times they give you the paperwork first and be like, hey, can you sign this before we film? And then they already haven't filmed. Nah, I ain't signing nothing until I see the finished product. Because you ain't gonna have me looking crazy or taking things out of context because people will do that for ratings and clicks and likes. And now I ain't doing it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That happened to me with the Wendy Williams documentary.

[DJ Envy]

I remember all Lifetime.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I did. I. I did the doc, and I didn't sign off on purpose. My team was like, no, don't sign off till we see it. And when I saw it, I'm like, nah, I ain't like what he was trying to portray.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not the second win when we went to the documentary was the.

[Jess Hilarious]

The one that just came Out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, not that first one.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, no, not. Where's Wendy? It's the other one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't remember. It wasn't the last one, though. It was the one before that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. Well, speaking of Wendy Williams, her brother is selling free Wendy merch. Tommy is selling these shirts. He's reportedly selling the merch to help raise awareness for what's been happening with her as she's trying to be freed from her guardian or whatever. He says she's not free now with her liberties or. Or with which she wants to do. It's a movement. Wendy has been under a court order, guardianship, since May 2022, and she's been battling multiple health issues. We know that her guardian, Sabrina Morris, say recently claimed that Wendy is cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated. But her family and friends, including Charlemagne, believe otherwise. He's hope her brother is hopeful that she'll be able to move to Florida with them or whatever. And then in an interview with the son. With the U. S. Son, Tommy spoke about how much he enjoyed spending time with her when she came down for her son's graduation. But these are the shirts, and these really don't look like nothing that Wendy would wear, approve to sell, or tell somebody else to sell. So.

[DJ Envy]

So is it mugs, too? Because I see a mug. I see a free windy mug.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was merch, definitely. So I we. I just wanted to concentrate on just the t shirts by themselves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Them shirts ain't designed. That's when you go to one of them websites.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. And he just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you can just make custom stuff.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think I seen somewhere. It was 25.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is this real?

[DJ Envy]

Because I see something that says morning time and it got the brother's face on it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep, that is him. A 15 mug with morning time with Tommy face on there saying hello with no shirt on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, lord.

[Jess Hilarious]

So hopefully we get some justice for Wendy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wendy is not cognitively declined. Spoked yesterday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Not declined. Cognitively declined.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whatever they say.

[Jess Hilarious]

They said she's cognitively declined, cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is no.

[DJ Envy]

Can you find out if she's. If she behind these t shirts? Because I want to buy one, but.

[Jess Hilarious]

I want to see her cussing her damn brother house. She was like, why the f. Would you put this up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y'all want me to start being the Wendy whisperer?

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm. Yes, I'm. I'mma ask Wendy if she wants me to relay certain things.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm going ask her that.

[Jess Hilarious]

And if you can get up here for interview. You thinking about that? A little scared of that. We don't know what's going to come out of that mouth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not scared of that.

[Leon Thomas]

I'm like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want Wendy to be well. That's what I want. I'm not even thinking about stuff like that. I want her. I just want her to be well. But yes, I'm. I'm going to see if she wants me to start relaying certain things to the. To the.

[DJ Envy]

To the public.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, we will certainly be looking forward to it. That is Jess with mess.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. I prefer to get it from her if you're actually speaking to her because like with these things, I don't know if I should buy a mug or not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Smoked her yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

She said anything about the mug.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know that's right.

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right. Well, who you giving your donkey to, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Before after the hour, man. Well, we need a 60 year old substitute teacher named Gail Wessel to come to the front of the congregation. But this is a bigger discussion that I want to have and it is about nudity.

[DJ Envy]

Don't point that D laser at me, please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you talking about?

[DJ Envy]

That's not the D laser you got in your hand.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boy, are you on the cock of decline. What are you talking.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I didn't know it was a pig. You be pointing things at me all morning. I just want to make sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's wrong with him? J?

[Jess Hilarious]

But you do got a Dick Tracy laser in your hand and you are pointing it. And I know one thing. It better not. Come over here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would never. That's harassment. I only harass men.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely. I can't wait to file. So.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get the dunking the day next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club. The craziest people in America.

[Jess Hilarious]

I really got Bronx trouble.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time for Don't Give a Day.

[DJ Envy]

We in the Bronx.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The craziest people in America come from the Bronx. And all of. Why does the Sunshine State consistently produce such strange news?

[Jess Hilarious]

If I catch all ass, you touch it.

[Leon Thomas]

I whipper my Jenny eye.

[Jess Hilarious]

Y'all gonna touch it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It is just one of the many wacky news stories out of Florida on the Breakfast Club. Yes. Donkey of the day for Thursday, January 9th goes to a 60 year old substitute teacher named Gail Wessel. Now, Gayle was a substitute teacher for some elementary school kids at Park Avenue Private School in Lake Wells, Florida. What did your Uncle Charlotte always tell you about the great state of Florida? Say it with me. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. We was just having this conversation yesterday about the parental paranoia we all feel when we send our kids out into the world. Okay? We are sending them to school every day with the hope that the teachers and administration of the school they are attending treat our kids like their own. What a gamble that that is. Okay? Now, I get on this radio all the time and tell you that every day of our lives we are trying to avoid crazy, okay? How do we know we not dropping our children off to the crazy, though? That's why parental paranoia, the anxiety that you feel as a parent is such a real thing. And this story with Gail Wessel is absolutely not going to do anything to make your parental paranoia feel better. Because, see, Gail exposed some of these elementary school kids to something they ain't got no business seeing. And that something is her naked. Let's go to CBS10 Tampa for the report, please. Substitute teacher in Lake Wales is facing churches accused of showing students explicit photos of herself. This happened in November at Park Avenue Private School, but police have now found and arrested her. They say she tried to delete the photos while detectives were speaking with her, but later admitted to showing them to the elementary school kids. Investigators are asking you to come forward if you know anything about this case. Lock her up. Lock her up. These are minors, elementary school kids. I know we live in a world where they see worse on social media, but that's what discovery is all about. Okay? Little kids being curious and seeking out nude photos on their own is completely different than a big grown ass woman showing them nude photos of herself. Not to mention, Gail is not attractive. Okay, somebody print me out a picture of gay. You want to see what Gail look like?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me show you what Gail look like. Like, real quick. I meant to print out a picture. This is Gail, y'all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gail looks like her memoir would be titled 12 years of meth head. Well, she's 60, so actually probably 40 years. Okay, look, Gail is 60, but she looks like she just turned dead, okay? And she looks like she's been dead for a couple of weeks. What I'm trying to say is the woman is aging like milk. There is no reason for her to be showing her spoiled ass titties to kids, okay? It's wrong pictures period to be exposing miners to nude pictures of yourself as a teacher. But the delusion to think you are even show off worthy, okay? And I'm going to tell you, all right, you are Corrupting these kids in ways you may not understand. Because I'm going to tell you something that a lot of men don't talk about. Well, at least I've never heard it discussed publicly. And that is the first time we ever laid eyes on a naked woman. That is a very pivotal and important point in a man's life, okay? Every man remembers the first time we saw a woman in the nude. The other matter if it was in real life or a porno or a Penthouse magazine or Playboy. See, y'all generation got it easy, okay? We would have to sneak a peek of someone's Playboy or Penthouse magazine. Nowadays, you can just go on pornhub. Hell, you can just go on X. This generation will never know or understand what it feels like to just stumble upon somebody's porn stash, okay? Oh, the 1900s was a time your uncle, your big brother, your dad, your granddad, you just in their room looking for something else. And discovery of Annuity Magazine. What you talking about? Okay. Annuity Magazine filled with the hairiest of goodness, okay? I remember when I got my hands on a Penthouse and I put it in my Trapper Keeper. And we would gather around that Trapper Keeper often and look at those vintage 80s bodies. Every man remembers the first nude woman they saw. Envy, do you remember the first nude woman you ever saw?

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talker.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know if it was HBO or Showtime, but back in the day, at night, HBO and Showtime used to have them sex scenes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Porky's revival.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you talking about?

[DJ Envy]

Or cable, like, back in the day cable, like the high. The high channels used to have nothing but porn on all day. So if you put. If you, like, go up and down fast, like 135, 136, 135, 136. You get to see it clear red.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you remember the first woman you ever saw?

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, the same. Cable had it. So growing up, and then my uncle had a stash.

[Leon Thomas]

He had, like, a stash of, like, 15 Playboy books.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on now. In the bathroom, I knew exactly where I was at. Never forget it. Come on now, get it. Why am I bringing this up? Because Gail Wessel is not the first naked woman any young man should be exposed to, okay? Seeing a woman like Gail naked could easily turn a young man gay. Nothing wrong being gay, okay? By the way, I'm just simply saying we don't need this in the classroom. Governor DeSantis signed the don't say Gay bill. The law says public school teachers may not instruct on sexual orientation or gender identity in grades kindergarten through third grade. I am saying that someone like Gail has found a way around around that because she knows if she shows young men her nudes, they would never want to touch a woman. Okay, I'm looking at her mug shot. Look at her mug shot once again. Yo, just look. Just look.

[DJ Envy]

If I see that naked, I would never.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, man. All I can think to myself, on top of her other charges, showing obscene material to minus is one of her charges. She also needs to be charged with a hate crime. Okay, she looks like an old Republican senator. All right, just close your eyes and imagine a moose knuckle covered in plants, plain non fat yogurt. That's how Gayle looks. And I personally think because of Florida's don't say gay laws, Gayle was planted in that classroom and exposed those disgusting news to those kids so she can make those young men not want women. Her name is Gayle, and you can't spell Gayle without gay. And can none of y'all tell me I'm wrong because Facebook doesn't do fact checking anymore, so my conspiracy theory gonna fly. But seriously, what Gail did is disgusting and very perverted. And this is why more and more parents are choosing to homeschool their kids. Please let Kathy Griffin give Gail Wessel the biggest he ha.

[Jess Hilarious]

Please give this giant jar of mayo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The biggest he haw. Oh, my gosh, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cut it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's Michael Rappaport, man. Come on, man. Look at this.

[DJ Envy]

The new year is here and you want to stay locked in on whatever you're in into Amazon prime is a cheat code. See, a lot of people think Amazon prime is just about getting those packages delivered faster than you can say, I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Forgot to order that. But really, prime is not just one thing. It's all things.

[DJ Envy]

A place to stream movies and shows. With Prime Video, Amazon Music, and that free one day, same day delivery is everything you need to make the season stress free. Picture this. You're watching Thursday Night Football and Prime Video video, and the friends are coming through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You need the last minute snacks and drinks.

[DJ Envy]

Prime's got you. You want to kick back and chill after the game. Prime Video's got the movies and shows to keep your night rolling. And if you want to wind down, Amazon Music's got the playlist to keep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The vibe just right.

[DJ Envy]

So whether you're hosting, chilling, or just trying to make it through the hustle of the week, I know I'm doing all things above. Just know Prime's got your back. It helps you explore discovery, discover and get more of what you love all in one place. So visit Amazon.comprime to get more of whatever you're into. Whatever you're into. It's on Prime. Visit Amazon.com prime now. The world is constantly changing. It's up to you to decide how to respond. Choose to be bold. To try something new. Choose to reinvent yourself. That's what Nissan did with the all new, totally reimagined Kicks. The dynamic new exterior styling immediately announces that Nissan isn't messing around. The interior, a completely redesigned cabin with premium features like wireless Apple CarPlay and a panoramic moonroof make driving a Kicks immersive and exciting. And with new performance and safety features like intelligent all wheel drive, the Kicks is both fun and safer to drive than ever before. It is the dawning of a brand new era for the Nissan Kicks. Only one question remains. Is it a new era for you as well? Drive the all new reimagined Nissan Kicks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Could you imagine seeing that naked for the first time? You might not never want to touch a naked person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus, that's. Didn't I just say that?

[DJ Envy]

I'm just saying it again. That picture looks even worse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm trying to tell you.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus labor. It's not real. It's not real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's no such thing as Onlymans.com, right?

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. I have no idea. It's not something I've searched before and I wouldn't want that in my search history. But now it's in your search history.

[Jess Hilarious]

It says Onlymans.com is coming soon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Really? Well, our producer Mac said that there's some people pictures of Caitlyn Jenner posing on only mans.com and that's what this mug shot look like. He's stupid, so he must got something that we don't know. All right, Mac, M got something exclusive, man.

[DJ Envy]

He's got something new on his fire stick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Up next, ask Jess. Jess, fix my mess. 800-585-1051. If you're going through relationship issues, relationship problems or any type of problems, you can call Jess right now. Now. 800-585-1051. Just fix my mess. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club. Ask about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Relationship problems.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

You need to beat your coworker's ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Your coworker need to beat your ass. Call it up. It's Dr. Jess, and I'm here to fix your mess. It's getting very much messy. Let me fix this.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Jess, Fix My Mess. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, Jess, what's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, baby girl, how you doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm good. It's not even really a question.

[Jess Hilarious]

I just want to get it off my chest. Good morning. Okay. Me and this guy, after five years. He found another girlfriend after six, seven months, day breakup. I accept him back, not caring what happened over, whatever. And a girl keeps stalking, harassing me like I'm the problem because he don't.

[DJ Envy]

Want her no more.

[Jess Hilarious]

So you was the girlfriend before, and then you left him alone for finding out he was dealing with her. He. He went with her, and then now they broke up, and now you. Y'all two back together, and this girl is now stalking you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Talking harassment, everything. Okay. Okay, so how do you know? Is the communication done between them? Them too? No, because she was just calling yesterday. But, you know, she don't get an answer when I'm around. Now, when you're around. All right. But when you ain't around, she definitely.

[DJ Envy]

You know that phone picking up.

[Jess Hilarious]

I ain't stupid. And that's exactly why she still feel like she can harass you. Because he's telling her one thing and telling you one thing. It's just that he's expecting her to be in compliance when she's around you. And when he's around you. And she won't because of what he's telling telling her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

So you know what you gotta do, boo? You gotta leave that alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All the way.

[Jess Hilarious]

All the way. But what is it about him? What is it about him? Everything. He paying your bills? He then you down? Is he. He paying your bills? What are you doing? I'm waiting to hear something stick out. What makes it worth it? What makes it worth being stalked? When it comes down to what? I mean, financially, mentally, physically, he's there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When it comes down.

[Jess Hilarious]

Down to the streets and these little.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, these little girls, that's the problem.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. Is it worth being stalked by her? Not really.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because she pulls up, but don't do anything. It didn't call a cop and then.

[Jess Hilarious]

Call the cops on you for pulling up on you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. Okay. Well, it sound like, you know, it sound a little fun. If it ain't really detrimental to your. Your mental state or anything like that. I think you'll be fine. Fine. You know, but if not, you know what you got to do her mar, right?

[DJ Envy]

Let it go.

[Jess Hilarious]

Let it go or keep it. But this would have come with when you keep it.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly. That's why I say, you know what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You put yourself get yourself into.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right. But be safe. Be safe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You too.

[Jess Hilarious]

You too, guys. Thank you. No problem.

[DJ Envy]

Have a good one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what women put up with when they let a man hit raw they boy.

[Jess Hilarious]

And he sound like he doing everything, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[Jess Hilarious]

He doing everything else, too. And then that's natural because he eating two monkeys. Like, ew. Oh, my goodness. You kissing both of them in the mouth. That's weird.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. Call her up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the real deal. Help me, help me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God. I'm all up in your mess? I'mma fix it, fix it, fix it, fix it? Just gonna fix your mess? Cause my advice is real.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of. Just fix my mess. Hello. Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, this DJ bipolar man, myself, Central PA man. Way of bk. Brooklyn stand up. Pa Stand up. Lancaster, Harrisburg. Ready? What up? All right.

[DJ Envy]

What's your question, bro?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely sound bipolar. All right, so this suggests.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Jess, what's up? What's up, Lenard? What's up, Uncle Shala? Shala. Peace king. How you doing? Right? Peace king. Peace king. Peace to everybody in their family. Happy New Year. Happy holidays. They make this quick. So my kid's mother, we have three kids, we're going through a divorce. Known each other 20 something years. She works for the state, she won't let me see my kids. And she know how I get about my kids. I've always been there for my kids. I was the one getting them ready for school, doing it here, making breakfast, picking them up, drop offs, all that. Factual. So my whole thing. Thing is, I know she be doing taxes for people and scamming and doing all that. And I know a whole bunch of illegal stuff that she's been doing too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So should I. Should I. Should I return the favor or what's Up.

[Jess Hilarious]

What do you consider returning a favor? If I think what you turning that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In Brooklyn N. Listen, check this out. Hey, listen, just man. You know from the Wire for a fact, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You from baby anymore. If you were. If you in the streets, you ain't telling. I ain't in the streets no more. Right, but that's your baby no more.

[Jess Hilarious]

This the thing. This is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And this is for my kids. No, this is. It ain't about her no more. It's my kids. My father died. She seen my father dead. She seen me crying over him, knowing I didn't care about him and still talk junk about him after he died.

[Jess Hilarious]

I got you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got you. Nah, you're not even a person to me no more. Now the gloves is off.

[Jess Hilarious]

I feel you. But what you will be doing. Look, I understand. I understand. I. Even when I was in the streets, I would snitch on. So I don't even relate to all of that. I don't snitch. But look, this the thing. What you would be doing is taking food out of your baby's mouths because that's how she feed for them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The same.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, why don't you go to the courts if you go. If you want to tell so damn bad, go to the court and get it together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

$3,500 for a D. Down payment. A down payment. This is the commonwealth. This ain't New York. This commonwealth just for some. Just to get the. The stuff started is 3, 500 and every time. And listen, she works for the state so she knows how to make things prolong the best. Trust me. She's good at what she do. She's been there 20 something years since 9 11.

[DJ Envy]

Bro, he's already gonna snitch. He just wants you to say yes. Okay. He already snitching.

[Jess Hilarious]

I. I don't think you should.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no. I'm almost there. I'm almost there. Envy. I Listen, man, I'm the one that be taking care of him, bro. I'm the one that took care of him when we was together.

[Jess Hilarious]

I understand.

[DJ Envy]

So she gonna lose her job, go to jail and you just like eff it.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't. I. I do. I don't think it's good that that she's keeping your kids away from you. It's just the way that you going about it when you can just go to the course and I know you need 3, 500. I know, but go make something shake and get that her in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not that I need 3,500.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is that I need to feel better.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, you want some type of revenge?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't believe y'all are discouraging this man from doing the right thing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, do what you do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Understand what I'm saying? Now, see, now look, Charlemagne go to. Go to counseling and he understands. Bro, I've been through positive behavior therapy for nine years. Yes, nine years. Okay, tell sir.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, you would be. Because obviously she is ripping people off. Go ahead. I mean, the mother in me wouldn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, because.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wouldn't let you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because the thing is. The thing is. The thing is she look at it like, oh, my girl. Is this my girl? Is that n. How who is you judging you? You a POS too? Like, what you talking about? We all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so you got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who are you to judge?

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, so you're not saying you got a girl. She not over you said. Okay, all right. Spiteful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no, no. That's my kid. That's my kid's mom too. My girl. We have a kid too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, okay, all right, I get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We work third shift on the same machine day and night. Third shift. Okay. Argue nowhere near as much as I used to with her.

[Jess Hilarious]

If you got a snitch to see your kids. Snitch, brother, do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Word.

[DJ Envy]

You remind me of the scene you see. But you from New York. You've seen Belly, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, yes.

[DJ Envy]

You know the scene where he's eating a banana? He said. He said, I don't like that, dad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not me. That's the homie for men. That ain't me, baby. He 47 years old.

[DJ Envy]

That's his baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm more like. I'm more like little girls. What Jeff said is right. Go to the authorities or go to the courts, whoever you need to go to, and do the right thing, brother. Don't listen to envy. Dumb 47 year old.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just saying, don't put baby mother in jail.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

His baby mother, if she deserved to be in jail, she need to go to jail. Cuz she wouldn't have the court system. I've been through the court system for a long time. Your personal friends, they don't even hit you hard, especially when you work for the state.

[Jess Hilarious]

So she. So she going to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, man, talk to me. Talk to me, baby.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have to do that on my head. You understand what I'm saying? That pressure is going to make or release the children. Go do what you got to do.

[Jess Hilarious]

I will do what you got to do, man. Get your kids.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This kid going to see the mom no.

[Jess Hilarious]

That is so sad. I could. The mom and me couldn't be like, yo, go ahead, snitch on shorty. You know, I. But, I mean, she would do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On him in a heartbeat.

[DJ Envy]

She gonna go to jail.

[Jess Hilarious]

So is she gonna go to jail? He said so she be back.

[DJ Envy]

He got to take the kids to go visit her.

[Jess Hilarious]

He. He been doing everything for him anyway, so whatever. All right, well, that's it.

[DJ Envy]

Just fix my mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And if you want more, just fix my mess. Make sure you listen to the Carefully Reckless podcast on the Black Feck iHeartradio podcast network. Drops every Wednesday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Every Wednesday.

[DJ Envy]

He didn't even want you to fix the mess. He just wanted you to co. Sign with him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was ready to.

[Jess Hilarious]

He was in the car on his way to pull up, too. Right now. Now.

[DJ Envy]

At the courthouse. Right now?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus. Well, we got Jess with the mess coming up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. Listen, speaking of relationships and. And ex marriages and. And all of that type of stuff, Cheryl Lee Ralph has said something that I do not understand. I don't think I will ever be in this position when I'm married to my husband, but we gonna get into it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's Dej and Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ever disrespect Chris Brown?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was Chris Clown. You just did this now. Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

Let's get to Jess with the Marshall.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shoe. She was able to get y'all to.

[Jess Hilarious]

See something and understand something that nobody could get you to see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time to set it off.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, so I said that I wanted to understand where Cheryl Le Ralph was coming from, but she and her husband, Vincent Hughes, they've been together for 20 years. They got married back in 2005. Right. And he's a. He's a senator. Her husband is a senator. And so he lives in pa, Right. Pennsylvania. And she lives in la because she just all this time kept getting booked, you know, like the black golden goddess that she is. Right? And they decided a long time ago that she wasn't gonna leave Hollywood and that he wasn't going to leave pa, and it's been working for them. So she spoke to People magazine about how they've been be able to make this work for. Since the beginning. We met while I was doing Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway, and you fall in love with somebody and you realize he. He's not leaving his career.

[DJ Envy]

He is not Leaving Philadelphia. I'm not leaving Hollywood.

[Jess Hilarious]

And when you have children, you can't just pick up your children and move across country. No, that doesn't really work. So it just worked out that I.

[DJ Envy]

Was in California, he was in Philadelphia.

[Jess Hilarious]

And every two weeks we saw each other and it worked out well.

[DJ Envy]

And it has continued to work, work out well.

[Jess Hilarious]

We will celebrate 20 years of marriage. Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

And some people can't even get through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Two better than me. I couldn't do it.

[Jess Hilarious]

I could not do it either.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm a cancer. I like being up under my wife all the time.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I would say, I guess this comes with age and just being, you know, there and secure in your marriage. You know what I mean? But I just, I just still can't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It comes with age. When you named Cheryl Lee, you came out grown.

[Jess Hilarious]

I, I know, right? Yeah, I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ch been giving out that motherly favorite auntie energy.

[DJ Envy]

But I guess Abbott elementary is good too, because they shoot a lot of scenes in Pennsylvania because she's on that. So maybe they get to see each other a lot more.

[Jess Hilarious]

Every two weeks.

[DJ Envy]

They said they shoot a little bit in Pennsylvania and they shoot in la.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. I noticed, I noticed the show is based out of.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, like it takes place that might.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Be a lot in la. I don't know. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But they also said they shoot out in Pennsylvania. Because I looked it up, I was like, well, when she films, how does that work? But they said they shoot some scenes in Pennsylvania. I don't know if she's part of those scenes, but that would be tough for me. There's no way I can do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like being up under my wife.

[Jess Hilarious]

Too much and I, I, I, I can't, I can't do it. I be having a problem when Chris just be on the road, like for one day at a time. I can't do it. She spoke on some of the secrets of their successful marriage, saying they address issues head on and that he has his own motion that helps. He has his own life. I have my own life.

[DJ Envy]

He has his own real career.

[Jess Hilarious]

I have my own real career.

[DJ Envy]

So he is not looking at me thinking about status or this or that. He's doing his thing, I get to do my thing.

[Jess Hilarious]

We also live in separate places.

[DJ Envy]

When I go to see him, love to see him when it's time to leave. Bye, bye. See you soon.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm telling you, life is good. And I believe it because she's speaking that she, that's one secure woman.

[DJ Envy]

They said every, how Long.

[Jess Hilarious]

Every two weeks.

[DJ Envy]

No humping for two weeks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said something that they mean.

[Jess Hilarious]

I mean, they old.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jess Hilarious]

But you don't think old people. People, huh? But that's why we got roses and all of that stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's her husband name?

[Jess Hilarious]

Vincent Hughes. Let's see what he looks like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlie and Vincent.

[DJ Envy]

That's old.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Coming over for dinner, y'all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, she look good.

[DJ Envy]

I want to see if he look.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just look as good as her. And he a senator. You know, them politicians be aging like bananas. I don't care what race you are. Damn, you age real bad. No, because being a politician is very serious. It's. It's very aging. It's true. Stressful. So why y'all looking for that? I'm gonna move on. He look all right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, handsome, handsome older man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, that's nice. Let me see.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, let me see. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. He like an old. Old wallow. I like it, though. Like an old, handsome wallow. Wallow is handsome, but he's young. I'm talking about him. Yeah, he look good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He might be a wallow uncle.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. Moving. Moving on. Khloe Kardashian and Scott Disick. So Chloe has a podcast that she launches called Chloe in Wonderland. And for the first episode, she. She had Scott Disick on as a guest. Now, Scott Disick is her brother's ex, who all her children are by, except for the. The baby that she just had by her now husband, Travis Barker or whatever. But Chloe did call Scott, her brother and one of her best friends. So they are close, but not in the capacity that we. That we speculated. All right, so they've known each other for 20 years. Right. And they met when he started dating. Dating. When Scott started dating Chloe. But I used to watch the show Courtney. I mean, Chloe. My bad. My bad. Kkk.

[DJ Envy]

That's.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's the data system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Red.

[DJ Envy]

Watch the show Red. Correct.

[Jess Hilarious]

You immediately used to watch the show. Now, this is the thing. On the show, Scott is dating Courtney, but him and Khloe had a weird relationship. They would be closer than him and Courtney would be, like. They would have, like, date nights and all types of things. They would. They would talk and share, like, stories. It was just. It was a little too slimy for, you know, the public who was watching or whatever. Right. So that's why it's interesting to know that this is her first guest that she picked, and this is what she asked him because it was always rumors about them hooking up behind her sister's back. And so These. This is what they talked about on the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you and I ever hooked up?

[Leon Thomas]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, we haven't. And I didn't know if this was related to you and I or just in general.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why aren't we married?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if that's, like, together or why aren't we both not married? But I don't know which one it was or they mean to each other. That's what I'm saying. I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's a huge difference.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He hit she.

[Jess Hilarious]

You think so?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what it sound like to me.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I'm saying.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know. That's what everybody. That's what the whole America who've been watching these girls, you know, keeping up with the Kardashians back then. That's what everybody thinks. And you had him on as the first. The first guest, and the first thing you ask him, have we ever hooked up? And this man, whether he's playing or not, he say, f. Yeah. And she's like, no, we're not. No, we did not. You know, she didn't even get defensive about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He posted up that power for it.

[Jess Hilarious]

And then people was asking why they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain'T dunk on it. But he tried to post up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, yo, she's 6:10, man. Well, I. Oh, my God. She is not 6:10.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She is.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, she is not. She's like, 6:2.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. WNBA 2.

[Jess Hilarious]

God, that's so messed up. Stop. But anyway, people wanted to know, but obviously Chloe has No. Courtney has moved on. So Scott is no longer in their family. They just have kids together or whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But. No, that. But that ain't. You don't move on to the. That would still cause problems. Even if they say you don't move on. I'm saying even if they moved on, that would still cause problems. If you found out that you're still smashing your baby daddy or whatever it was, yeah, that's still gonna cause some issues.

[DJ Envy]

But that family's different.

[Jess Hilarious]

It is. It is very different.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think they're that different.

[Jess Hilarious]

And Courtney had got so fed up in a relationship with Scott. I mean, they was living in separate rooms.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They.

[Jess Hilarious]

They were sleeping in separates for a while, for seasons and seasons. And she just felt like he was a. I can't say. A hole.

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, yeah, he was a very rich. A hole when. And he's five years younger than Chloe Courtney. So when he met, he was just very immature, but he bonded with Chloe a lot.

[DJ Envy]

I could see the family doing that. And putting it on tv.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah. He actually bought them a lot of ratings, so. Yeah, that's just for the mess.

[DJ Envy]

All right, thank you. Jess, why are you looking like that? Why you looking so.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't care nothing about the Kardashians.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nope, don't. Not at all.

[DJ Envy]

He can't when they send him headphones.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I was confused, too, because I was like, damn. Well, who does Chloe call? The mama. The mama. Daddy. The alleged daddy. Dead.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right. The People's Choice mixes up next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, they said that's OJ's daughter. Allegedly.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what they were saying.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man. Who does she call for a complicated situation like this? Bruce.

[DJ Envy]

His name is not Bruce.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He didn't change his number.

[DJ Envy]

Sorry. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

Her name is not Bruce.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yeah. She called K. Oh, she called Bruce. He. He. He be Bruce sometimes.

[DJ Envy]

You know what you think, Cait?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Change the number. You know what? It's the People's Choice.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get to the mix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Goodbye.

[Leon Thomas]

Wake up, wake up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Leon Thomas for joining us this morning, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me tell you something, man. I am a huge admirer of Leon Thomas's music. I don't like to say a big fan, especially after Kendrick said, he's a fan. He's a fan. He's a fan. Now you can't be a fan.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why is he changing your mind about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything he did, man? But I. I really do like Leon Thomas's music. I listen to a lot of Leon Thomas. He's. He's dope. To me, he's the dopest male R B singer out right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

He actually is. And I didn't know. Like I said, my little sister put me on to him. I'm like, yo, this is the Nickelodeon kid. Like, he got. Yeah, he got. He's very musically inclined.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I don't understand why radio's not playing no more. Like, you know, to me, it's just like, to me, definitely should be if radio is not playing. And by the way, satellite Radio does play him a. A lot. They do. You know what I'm saying? Satellite Radio. What's the channel? What's the channel, G. Spin programs. I can't remember.

[DJ Envy]

Well, he does ovo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, well, they play Leon Thomas a lot. You know what I mean? But I just don't understand why regular radio is not playing them. Especially on the hip hop and R B stations. Okay. They should be playing the hell out of Leon Thomas. All right. Y'all sleep at the wheel program directors around the country.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's why they've been playing Snooze. That's what they say. He has something to do with that.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, when we come back, we got the positive notice. The Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. Everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time to get up out of here. Charlemagne, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Before we get to the positive note, your girl Jesse Laris will be in Cabazon. Or Cabazon, California. The show is almost sold out, so it's obviously some people there. I did not know that that was even like a. A place where people be. I'm gonna be at the Morongo Casino and Resort at 8pm get your [e-mail] or just hilarious official.com. and then the following weekend, I will be in Arlington, Texas at the improv. We got six shows on Friday, two shows on Saturdays, and two show two shows on Sunday, the 17th through the 19th. Get your ticket shot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That jewelry be sparkling. That jewelry be sparkling, boy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just a little.

[DJ Envy]

Just a little something. A little light work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So I gotta ask you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Try me again with a diamond tester. I don't care. What's up? Don't play with me. Yeah, you fly.

[DJ Envy]

You flying in the LAX or.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, no, no, no. I'm in Ontario.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah. I couldn't.

[DJ Envy]

I will see you guys tomorrow. Charlamagne. You gotta pop Positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do, man. And you know, we had Leon Thomas up here. One of the records I like from Leon Thomas's Vibes Don't Lie. And that is true. I don't trust words. I trust vibes. Okay? People can tell you anything, but a vibe will tell you everything. Have a great day.

[Jess Hilarious]

You got that straight from a millennial.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go ahead, Breakfast Club. Finish or y'all done?

[DJ Envy]

The new year is here and I'm trying to keep things simple this year. One thing to help me keep things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Simple is Amazon Prime. It's a cheat code to staying locked in on whatever you need. It's not just fast delivery. Prime's a whole experience.

[DJ Envy]

From Prime Video and Amazon Music to Prime Free One day delivery. It's got everything to keep my year stress free. Watching Thursday Night Football. Prime's got you with the same day snack delivery. Want to chill after the game?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Find a movie on Prime Video and kick back with some Amazon music.

[DJ Envy]

Whatever you're into, it's on Prime.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

You know I've been taking some time.

[DJ Envy]

Off drinking, but when I go out I want to be able to hang with the boys. So I've been checking out some non alcoholic beer options and Heineken 00 was the perfect drink for that.

[Morgan]

Yeah buddy, Heineken 00 is the official.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brew of endless possibilities because with Heineken 00 now you can Whether at the office, pre or post work workout, or.

[Morgan]

Relaxing at home, being 0.0% alcohol means.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can enjoy this alcohol free option whenever refreshment calls. Heineken 00 0.0% alcohol 100% taste only 69 calories now you can available at your local Heineken retailer or for [e-mail] must be 21/ to purchase. Enjoy Heineken Respond responsibly ABC Wednesdays Tim Allen and Kat Dennings star in the new family comedy Shifting Gears.

[DJ Envy]

Dad, I'm broke and I need a.

[Morgan]

Place to stay until I figure out.

[Jess Hilarious]

What the rest of my life looks like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So a couple of days when his daughter moves back in.

[DJ Envy]

The last time you walked out that door you looked back at me and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gave me a double bird.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was 18.

[DJ Envy]

The double bird was how I ended all our conversations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The wheels come off.

[DJ Envy]

Can we try to talk to each.

[Leon Thomas]

Other like rational adults?

[DJ Envy]

Have you watched the news lately? That's not a thing anymore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

New Wednesdays 8, 7 Central on ABC and stream on Hulu.