FULL SHOW: Porsha Williams Says 'I'm Rooting For Everybody' Amid RHOA Drama Surrounding K Michelle + Cast of 'The Chi' Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary

Podcast: The Breakfast Club
Date: May 19, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa, Mimi Brown
Main Guests: Cast of ‘The Chi’ (Michael V. Epps, Cortez Smith, Zaria, Imani Primer, Alex Hibbert)

Overview:

This episode delivers a dynamic mix of pop culture, political commentary, audience engagement, and an in-depth, moving conversation with the cast of ‘The Chi’ about the show's final season, its cultural legacy, and the real-life issues it mirrors. The hosts also dig into the latest drama among the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ cast, current political controversies (including the Trump anti-weaponization fund), and touch on breaking news, sports, and trending pop culture topics.

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Key Discussion Points and Segments

1. Opening Banter & Sports Wrap ([02:29]–[05:47])

• Hosts open with playful banter about the weather, DJ Envy’s travels, and Jess Hilarious’s book tour.
• NBA playoffs discussed: Spurs beat Thunder in double overtime (122-100). Anticipation for Knicks vs. Cavaliers game that night.
• Jokes about in-laws and sports rivalries kick off the morning energy.

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2. Breaking News – The Trump Administration “Anti-Weaponization Fund” ([05:57]–[11:51])

Major Story:
Mimi Brown reports on the Trump administration’s launch of a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded program to compensate people allegedly targeted by the Biden administration, including Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and January 6th participants.

• Quote:
  • Donald Trump (clip) ([07:23]): “This is reimbursing people that were horribly treated. Horribly treated... Their lives have been des. And they turn out to be right.”
• Charlamagne’s reaction ([08:12]):
  • “Imagine committing corruption on this level, but then saying something else is corrupt...$1.8 billion of our taxpayer dollars being paid out to insurrectionists. They’ve already been pardoned. Shouldn’t that be enough? Is freedom not enough?”
• Broader outrage among hosts over government spending priorities, especially as everyday people struggle with inflation, high gas prices, and education costs.
• Mimi shares that a five-member Attorney General-appointed commission will handle payouts; critics call it “unprecedented, unconstitutional, corrupt.”
• Quote:
  • DJ Envy ([09:56]): “He’s rewarding his allies. Those are his allies he’s rewarding. Hey, you ride with me, I got you.”

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3. Listener Reactions and “Get It Off Your Chest” Call-In Segment ([12:03]–[19:02])

• Callers voice outrage over the Trump fund and general government corruption/injustice.
• Notable caller, Eyvette: "We’re paying more for gas, more for groceries. Our rights are being denied left and right. And he continues to get away with it." ([12:18])
• Charlamagne reflects on how this policy incentivizes radicalization for Trump. ([13:55])
• Lighter moments include shout-outs to Jess Hilarious’s book, supportive fans, and Marvel vs DC movie trailer debates.

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4. Pop Culture News – K. Michelle, Portia Williams, & RHOA Drama ([19:09]–[29:46])

The “White flag” in the RHOA Drama ([23:41]–[29:46]):

• Lauren LaRosa gives updates on the back-and-forth drama between K Michelle and Portia Williams, describing Portia’s attempt to “be the bigger person”:
  • Portia posts on IG: “I’m rooting for everybody to get what they deserve. Although some may fall short. Real Housewives Atlanta is successful and we are winning now.”
  • Jess Hilarious: "I love how graceful she is too...she always extends compliments to the women" ([25:33]).
• Debate over who’s accurately telling the RHOA story, with hosts playfully teasing Lauren about “watching only clips.”

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5. Trending Sports & Culture News ([29:46]–[34:01])

• Jalen Brown vs. Stephen A. Smith Feud:
  • Stephen A. Smith questions how Jalen Brown can call a playoff loss his “favorite season.” ([30:19])
  • Jalen Brown fires back ([31:31]): "You’re not using your platform to do real journalism. Using your platform to use clickbait."
  • The hosts discuss athlete/social media dynamics and responsible journalism.
• Kevin Garnett’s 50th birthday, and remembering Malcolm X’s birthday, are celebrated.

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6. Political & Social News Deep Dive ([34:30]–[42:44])

Georgia & Kentucky Primaries ([34:30]–[37:34]):

• Georgia’s “biggest election day in years” with Senate & Governor races; Keisha Lance Bottoms considered the Dem frontrunner.
• Kentucky’s record-breaking, Trump-influenced primary battle.

Virginia School Shooting Case ([37:34]–[42:44]):

• Former assistant principal on trial for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings about a 6-year-old bringing a gun to school, resulting in a teacher being shot.
• Debate among hosts: school leadership responsibility vs. systemic pressures on educators.
• Just Hilarious: "Why didn’t the teacher just take it out of his backpack?...If you know that, you get the gun out." ([40:17])

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7. Main Feature: In-Depth Interview with the Cast of ‘The Chi’ ([43:26]–[67:42])

Themes: Legacy, Community, Trauma, and Growth

• Reflections on the Show’s Impact:
  • Charlamagne: “I feel like we watch y’ all grow up, man.” ([43:39])
  • Michael V. Epps describes joining young and ending with a found family: “It feels great just to be able to start this and end with it...alongside amazing people and be able to call them family.” ([44:06])
• Chicago’s Portrayal:
  • Cortez Smith: “We from Chicago...to walk the streets I filmed on some of the parts where I went to school at…It’s crazy, bro.” ([44:20])
  • Show balances tough realities with Black love, family, hope.
  • Zaria: “A lot of people think Chicago and think just violence and guns…but it just showed that we have such positivity a lot.” ([44:58])
• Real-Life Parallels to Trauma, Mental Health, and Healing:
  • Cortez Smith shares personal grief and therapy journey, connecting Nuck’s loss to family trauma: “We know how to mask it because we are taught to be tougher…You fighting demons you’re not unpacking. It’s okay to say you’re not okay, especially being a Black man.” ([48:14])
  • Man circles and therapy—on and off set—are vital for healing and representation.
• Character Development and Emotional Impact:
  • Michael V. Epps on Jake’s arc: “You’re really going to see Jake stepping more into his manhood and putting his foot down…he’s finally kind of found that peace and happiness.” ([50:32])
  • Alex Hibbert on Kevin’s journey: "Never let your circumstances define you. Kevin went through so much…there is a change, you can leave…” ([54:42])
  • Imani Primer & Zaria on the anchor of sibling bonds and Black community resilience and "hood love".
• Grief & Community:
  • The show’s commitment to tackling grief, cycles of violence, and healing in the Black community is explored with deeply personal anecdotes from the cast.
• Notable Quotes and Emotional Moments:
  • Charlamagne: "The shy has always done a great job of showing…emotional vulnerability, right. How that can exist together." ([55:40])
  • Michael V. Epps: "With this job, you gotta relive a lot of traumatic moments to better your performance on screen...you always gotta prioritize your mental health." ([62:21])
  • Zaria: “Girls don’t play about their big brother. Their big brother don’t play about them…she knows Bakari can do that too." ([57:50])
• Legacy of Lena Waithe:
  • Hosts and guests highlight Lena Waithe’s accomplishment creating the longest-running Black drama, centering authentic, multi-dimensional Black stories. ([110:12])

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8. Listener Reactions & Donkey of the Day – More on Trump’s Fund ([78:09]–[98:35])

• Charlamagne delivers a fiery “Donkey of the Day,” blasting Trump for the anti-weaponization fund:
  • "Americans out here arguing over student loan forgiveness and Medicaid cuts…But then you see our taxpayer dollars going to insurrectionists…that should just piss you off." ([93:08])
• Listeners call in to voice outrage, solidarity, and pose protest ideas (from tax strikes to community activism).
• Emphasis on holding all public officials accountable, regardless of party affiliation.
• Charlamagne: "President Trump is just paying off his goons. This is incentive for his goons to do his bidding again…You get a pardon and cash in your pocket.” ([98:35])

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9. Pop Culture Wrap-Up & Mental Health Awareness ([103:10]–[109:20])

• Uplifting moments: Young Miami’s gas and groceries giveaway for local families.
• Jess Hilarious shouts out upcoming comedy shows, book signings, and shares a quirky trivia fact about Shrek’s real-life inspiration.
• Charlamagne announces the annual Mental Wealth Expo for solutions-oriented mental health discussions on World Mental Health Day.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Charlamagne, on Trump payouts:
  “[Paying] $1.8 billion of our taxpayer dollars being paid out to insurrectionists...They’ve already been pardoned. Shouldn’t that be enough? Is freedom not enough?” ([08:12])
• Cortez Smith (The Chi), on the show's impact:
  “We already got a stigma on us (Chicago)...Every city got a hood. But we show Black love, right? Community, family.” ([44:51])
• Michael V. Epps (The Chi):
  “You see Jake evolve over the years…to see him kind of find that peace and happiness, I can’t wait for y’ all to see.” ([50:32])
• Charlamagne, on why the fund matters:
  “Taxpayer dollars should be used for Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and National Defense and keeping your local community running…not to pay a bunch of insurrectionists, bro.” ([89:52])
• Zaria (The Chi), on her character’s big heart:
  “She knows what that’s like...she’s from Chicago, so she knows like this is the system that we’ve been put in, but it’s breakable.” ([58:27])

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [02:29] – Sports, weather, morning banter
• [05:57] – Mimi Brown on Trump weaponization fund
• [08:12] – Charlamagne response to Trump payouts
• [11:51] – Primary elections preview (Georgia/Kentucky)
• [12:03] – Call-in: Listeners react to political stories
• [19:09] – RHOA Drama: K Michelle & Portia Williams
• [23:41] – Portia’s “white flag” and Real Housewives debate
• [29:46] – Jalen Brown vs. Stephen A. Smith feud
• [34:30] – Political news: Primary battles, Virginia school shooting case
• [43:26] – Full cast of The Chi Interview (8th/final season)
• [78:09] – Donkey of the Day: Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
• [89:03] – Listener reactions & community discussion on Trump fund
• [103:10] – Karisha/Young Miami’s charity, Clarissa Shields ban
• [109:20] – Mental Wealth Expo & closing notes

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Takeaways

• Cultural Impact: ‘The Chi’ sets a new standard for honest, empathetic portrayal of Black communities and intergenerational trauma, with the cast powerfully connecting art and real life.
• Real-World Concerns: The Trump administration’s decision to compensate allies is widely condemned as corrupt, with a focus on misplaced government priorities.
• Pop Culture Relevance: From the Real Housewives to contemporary music, the episode taps top trending topics with humor and sincerity.
• Grounded Solutions: Recurrent conversations highlight mental health, activism, and the importance of building community—on and off the screen.

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If you missed this episode:
Expect a passionate, immersive mix of politics, pop culture, and culture-shifting conversations—with laughter, honesty, and real talk from both the hosts and guests. Recommended for anyone interested in hip-hop culture, socially conscious entertainment, and the state of Black America.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

May 22nd on Paramount. The acclaimed series from executive producer Lena Waithe reaches its final chapter. The Chi. For seven seasons, these stories, these streets, this community have stayed with us. Now it all leads to this. As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried, one thing is certain. The Chi is more than just a series. It's a legacy. Don't miss the final season. May 22 on a paramount Premium plan.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio. Good Morning USA Yo Yo yo yo yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Justice League should be here in a second.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlemagne to go Piece of the planet is Tuesday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. How you feeling out there? I mean, on the east coast, the weather was amazing. I don't know how everywhere else, but it was 90 degrees for the first time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, you travel way too much to sound that stupid. It's been nice everywhere except for here. Cut it out. Okay. Down south been hot. Okay?

[Michael V. Epps]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. The west coast been hot. What are you talking about? You know, last week I went to Arizona. In March, it was 80, 90 degrees.

[DJ Envy]

You know, last week the Mets game was canceled because it was snow in Denver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that's. What is Denver? The Midwest. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Now we both sound dumb.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's not my point. My point is I've been to Phoenix. I've been to the Carolinas. I've been to Georgia.

[Michael V. Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hot. Been to Florida.

[DJ Envy]

Hot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's finally hot here. It's finally hot.

[DJ Envy]

About time, baby. Only for two days because tomorrow's gonna be back to 60s.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man. Come on, man. It's Memorial Weekend this weekend. Stop.

[DJ Envy]

It's gonna be back to 60 degrees.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But anyway, my stomach hurt a little bit this morning, too, because, I don't know, something that I ate out the refrigerator. You know how you'd be seeing stuff in the refrigerator and it might have been there for a while, but, you know, my wife wasn't home. She ain't cook, so, you know, I ate something bad.

[DJ Envy]

The fat back in you just made you eat it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And, yeah, I think it was some meat, but with some turkey meatballs that might have been in there a little too long. And as I was eating them, I could feel the staleness in them, but I still was eating them. And I don't fart in my clothes, so it's gonna be rough this morning.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, boy. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. The cast of the Shy will be joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[DJ Envy]

Michael V. Epps. Cortez Smith. Ahmaud Ferguson. Zaria. Premier or Primer. What's the last name? How you pronounce the last name?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I know you ain't asking me to hide. Okay.

[Cortez Smith]

Sorry.

[DJ Envy]

It's the eighth and final season of the Shy premieres on the twentiet second. Have you been Watching the shot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Not. I gotta catch up on like a season. I believe Kevin is a hit is wanted to Alex Herbert. Alex Hibbert.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, so we'll be talking about that. I missed the last, like I said, the last season of the shot. I don't know what happened with the shot. Like the first two seasons I was like all the way in, like dialed in. I loved it. And then it kind of just slipped off a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A lot of the cast started to change. You know what I mean? I like that. I always like the young core of. Of Kevin Papa. And what was my other guy named? I can't remember his name. That's the guy. Michael Place. But yeah, I always like that core. But yes, I understand what you're saying.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. But anyway, let's get the show cracking. Today is Yo Gotti's birthday, so let's start the mix off with some Yo Gotti. Of course we have front page news. I know a lot of you are tired if you watched the NBA playoffs last night. Double overtime. We'll explain it when we come back. 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 now. NBA finals conference, finals. Last night the spurs beat the Thunder 122 to 100, double overtime.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The spurs can win that series, by the way.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, they can. And last night, his name is not Sha Shay. He got his MVP award last night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Wemby looked like the MVP last night.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. 24 rebounds. It's crazy. Tonight the Knicks take on the Cavaliers

[Charlamagne Tha God]

and what, how many points? 42. Think he dropped?

[Caller/Listener]

41 points.

[DJ Envy]

41 points. 41 points. Yeah. So tonight the Cavaliers take on the Knicks at 8pm And I've already got messages from Andrew, which is my daughter's fiance. He's from Ohio. So he's been talking major ish and his mother hit me and grandmother hit me.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

Talking major ish. Like, I'm like, I'm like, okay. I'm like, all right, we're going to sweep you like we swept the last series. But yeah, so that happens tonight at eight. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V. jeff. Charlemagne. How y' all doing?

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. So we start this morning with a major development out of Washington. So the Trump administration, they have now officially launched a nearly $2 billion taxpayer funded program to compensate people who they say were politically targeted by the Biden administration. So last week we talked about this. Yes. When it was just a possibility. But as of Monday afternoon, it is now official, the administration announced the creation of what is being called the anti Weaponization fund. It's nearly $1.8 billion of taxpayer money that people can apply to if they believe they were unfairly investigated or prosecuted during the Biden years. So we're talking groups like the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, January Sixers, um, and again, because we can't stress this enough, this money would come from taxpayer dollars. So let me tell you how we got here. This all stems from President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS after his tax returns were leaked to the media several years ago. Now, that IRS contractor, he would later went to prison for leaking those records. But instead of continuing the lawsuit in court, the Trump administration has now agreed to settle that case basically with itself by creating this new compensation fund. And during a press conference yesterday, a reporter asked why taxpayer dollars should be on the hook for this nearly $1.8 billion fund. And this was the President's answer.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Well, it's been very well received. I have to tell you. I know very little about it. I wasn't involved in, in the whole creation of it and, and the negotiation. But this is reimbursing people that were horribly treated. Horribly treated. It's anti weaponization. They've been weaponized. They've been, in some cases, imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that they didn't have, they've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been des. And they turn out to be right. I mean, it was a terrible period of time in the history of our country, and they worked on it. I know the Justice Department, it's really been working on it very hard. There's been people that were weaponized and really treated brutally by a system that was so corrupt, with corrupt people running it, and they're getting reimbursed for their legal fees and the other things that they had to suffer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Imagine committing corruption on this level, but then saying something else is corrupt. I don't care what party you represent, this has to piss you off. 1.8 billion of our taxpayer dollars being paid out to insurrectionists. They've already been pardoned. Shouldn't that be enough? Is freedom not enough?

[DJ Envy]

But not only that, you have all that money to pay for the, for those individuals, right? This morning, when I went to the gas station, I had to go to six different gas stations because the gas was over $5 a gallon.

[Just Hilarious]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Like, it's, it's ridiculous. Like that money that you, you just finding, that you making a Taxpayers pay could have meant to help the taxpayers that can't afford gas, that can't afford food, that's having a hard time paying for schooling. Like all that could have went somewhere else. But you pay the proud boys.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's.

[Zaria]

Wow.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. So basically also a five member commission appointed by the Attorney General will oversee the payouts and decide who qualifies. The administration says there's no political requirements to apply for the money. But critics, of course, they say this opens the door for exactly what you're saying. Envy for Trump's allies, those proud boys, those Oath keepers, January to potentially receive taxpayer funded pro payouts. And this is also where the controversy is exploding. Democrats and government watchdog groups, they are calling this unprecedented, unconstitutional and corrupt. Nearly 100 House Democrats are already backing legal efforts to stop this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, this should have everybody up in arms like this. Like President Trump literally told you last week, he doesn't care about Americans financial situation, but now he's using 1.8 billion of your tax dollars to pay off insurrectionists. Okay. People who stormed the Capitol on January 6, people he already pardoned. Like I said before, is. Is freedom not enough? They shouldn't have been pardoned, but they already got freedom. But now on top of that, taxpayers got to break them off money.

[DJ Envy]

He's rewarding his allies. Those are his allies he's rewarding. Hey, you ride with me. I got you here. Here's some money. His loyalists, his insurrection is here. I got you here. That's crazy. Insane.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. And a lot of those, those people who were convicted on January 6th have reoffended.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Mimi Brown]

We've heard stories where they may have been pardoned or their sentence commuted, but we also know that a lot of them have also gone back to jail and things like that. So it's like not only do they get out for free, they get, you know, paid out as well. So there's a lot behind this. And also, really quickly, I want to mention, if you ride the Long Island Railroad, the strike is officially over after the MTA and the union leaders, they reached a tentative deal late last night. But if you're heading into work this morning, it's something important to know there will be no regular service for your commute this morning. MTA says crews, they need time to inspect the tracks, reposition the trains, and get workers back on the job safely. So limited service is expected to begin today around noon with full service returning in time for this afternoon and the evening rush. And Governor Kathy Hochul, she says that the deal includes raises for workers without raising taxes or train fees.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's good news. You know, you brought up a good point just now, Mimi, earlier, about the. The insurrectionists who've been rearrested. It was 33 individuals who were pardoned on January six who've been, you know, rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes since January 6th. Do we got to pay them, too?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are they eligible to apply and get our taxpayer dollars? Like, come on, man. Like, people should be, like, outraged about this. Like, I don't care what race you are, what party you are. 1.8 billion of your taxpaying dollars going to those guys.

[DJ Envy]

Nah.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, nah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you. All right. Well, coming up at 7, voters are headed to the polls this morning in major primary races across Georgia and Kentucky. It could have a big political implications going forward into November. We're going to break down some of those key races coming up in the next hour.

[DJ Envy]

All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. Again, 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now.

[Public Investing Announcer]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Keep calling 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Caller/Listener]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. It's Eyvette. How are you, Yvette?

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning, Yvette.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest.

[Caller/Listener]

Hi.

Okay, so this is my vent. This person that sits at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is. We know that he's insane, but the fact that he's doing something else that is corrupt and getting payouts. The lawsuits that he has had in his tenure is unprecedented. It's never happened before. He has gotten richer by lawsuits than anything else. We're paying more for gas, more for groceries. Our rights are being denied left and right. And he continues to get away with it. I don't understand this. And I am a law abiding citizen. And it's just amazing that we, the public, are not doing more about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's unbelievable. Like this thing, this thing with him using 1.8 of our taxpayer, 1.8 billion of our taxpayer dollars to pay off the Insurrectionist. That should have everybody outraged. I mean, like, like we should be flipping tables.

[Caller/Listener]

Everybody 100% agree with that. And the fact that it matters that he continues to get away with things is beyond me. I just don't get it. Our public is not that non intelligent. I'll say that he can continue to get away with these things. No one is challenging these things. I don.

Get it.

Well, this James in New York is. But others. The. Our Attorney General in New York, but others are not. And the fact that it's going on and on and on and this man still has another three point something years to be in office.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Caller/Listener]

Can you imagine where we're going to be in three more months? Not even 3.5 years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you know the thing that scares me the Most about this? 1.7. But not scared. Scared of the word I would use. But it. It incentivizes people to be radicalized for him. Because he already pardoned you when you tried to storm the Capitol for him. Now he's breaking you off with $1.7 billion for storming the Capitol for him. It just incentivizes people to be radicalized for Donald Trump.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Good news out of Roosevelt.

[DJ Envy]

Hood news out of Roosevelt. What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.

[Caller/Listener]

I ain't got too much bad to say. I just want to say I'm glad

that envy back in America and everything. I thought some people had guided them up and took him back to his country. We wasn't going to hear from you again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is my country. A matter of time.

[DJ Envy]

This is my country. Sir, I'm black. I did go to Mexico for a couple days, but. No, I believe.

[Caller/Listener]

If you say so. If you say so. I'll go with what you say.

[DJ Envy]

Goodbye, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you say goodbye to that man? Come from here. That's what I was going to say to you if you keep it up. I am from here. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

What are you talking about?

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, it's Tisha from Texas.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Tisha from Texas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're from Texas?

[DJ Envy]

What part of Texas you be getting through now?

[Caller/Listener]

In Dallas, Texas.

[DJ Envy]

Dallas. Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay. So I'm calling for Boo Boo. Is Boo Boo there?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, she's here.

[Caller/Listener]

Boo Boo. I love your book. It is so good. I downloaded it on the whatever audiobook.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I love it.

[Caller/Listener]

I love the way you bring us into your life.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you, Tisha. I appreciate you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boo.

[Just Hilarious]

You and my mother. So I wrote that in a book. That's my nickname. My mother and my father, Boo Boo the fool.

[Caller/Listener]

And when Rome said I'm Boo Boo's boyfriend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you a clown?

[Just Hilarious]

Because it's just Boo Boo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the funny thing is she said Boo Boo. Jess. I knew Jess had no idea.

[DJ Envy]

Just like we called him like who

[Just Hilarious]

Else called me that, but I'm like, dang. When she said she read the book, then I connected with, okay, I did put that in the book, because that's what my parents call me. But you're in Dallas. How far is that from Plano, Texas?

[Caller/Listener]

It's not far. It's like about 20, 30 minutes away.

It's a shepherd.

[Just Hilarious]

Because next weekend I'll be in Plano, Texas, at the comedy club there next Friday and next Saturday.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, well, then I need to be there. Okay. So, Jess, let me make you remember me. And I know y' all hate when you do this. I'm the one that you gave the ticket to that my friend had. Didn't give me my ticket. And I met you in Arlington.

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Shane gave you your money.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah. And you liked my pants.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, I remember. And I appreciate that.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah. I love your book. I'm your biggest fan. And also, congratulations on the voice work of the new Kevin Hart Show.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, I appreciate that. Yes. Lil K got an animation series about his life. Well, Kevin Hart, the show is called Lil Kev. I appreciate that. It's on Paramount.

[Caller/Listener]

You guys are doing big things. But, Jess, Boo Boo. I love it. My son's 27, so I have no business really reading it, but it's just

[Mimi Brown]

very good to me.

[Caller/Listener]

I love it.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm glad that you read it because, I mean, you took something from it and you let me know how it impacted you. But yes, Mic drop comedy Plano. I'll be there next Friday. Yes.

[Caller/Listener]

Mic drop. I know exactly where that is, and hopefully I'll get to see you next week.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you feel like you got no business reading the book? The book is for all ages. Yes. Tell deaf to we parent man. Go out there and pick up just hilarious co parenting memoir.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Caller/Listener]

What up?

Are we live?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is.

[Caller/Listener]

We lie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

This Sherrod Johnson from Jonesboro, Arkansas. What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's happening, my brother?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Chess man.

[Caller/Listener]

Nothing much, man. I know it's a lot going on in the world and this. What I'm about to say is really still. But Kevin Feige and Marvel need to Release that Avengers doomsday trailer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like the full, like, my God, it's on the way. You know what, though? I don't want to see the Doomsday trailer before I see Spider Man. Like, I'm cool. Like, let's watch Spider man this summer and then after Spider man, we can see Doomsday in the fall. Like, you know, we've been getting a lot of doomsday information over the last year. I'm not doomsdayed out yet, but I'm just ready to watch the movie. You understand what I'm saying, man?

[Caller/Listener]

I. I'll get it. But I'm just like, man, with what James Gunn is doing at dc, man, we got the Clayface trailer, we got the Supergirl trailer, and we've already got, you know, announcements for the next Superman movie. Like Marvel. Just like I understand they the redesign phase.

[DJ Envy]

What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

None of that stuff hitting, bro.

[Just Hilarious]

There you go. I was racing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm in the James Gunn. James Gunn has me interested in DC more than I've ever been. DC movies. But it ain't hitting like the Doomsday stuff, bro. Ain't hitting like the Spider man trailer, man.

[Caller/Listener]

But they got a 10 year run of just hit. Of course you ain't gonna compete with that. But I feel like James Gunn is at a great start. What the foundation that he's laid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree. I like, I like what James Gunn has done so far. And I'm really into the DCTV shows. I'm looking forward to seeing Atlant. You know, Peacemaker was good. Like, it's. Yeah, I'm. I'm all in. I'm in.

[Caller/Listener]

I know, I know this, I know this is silly, but that's, that's. I've got, I got that on my chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

Have a good one.

[Imani Primer]

Silly.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. What we talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, we do. So there might be a white flag being waved in this K Michelle Porsche drama. We gonn.

[DJ Envy]

They were just beefing crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We are going to talk about it. We'll get into it in the latest.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that next. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Yo, what up, y'?

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through there.

[DJ Envy]

She going.

[Stephen A. Smith]

The latest with

[Charlamagne Tha God]

on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool B. Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, guys. So a small little development here in the K. Michelle, Portia Williams drama. Not drama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So still talking about them people?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, we are. And I'm going to tell you why.

[DJ Envy]

They said you got it all wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got it all wrong.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're gonna talk about it because I didn't get it wrong. They're upset that we didn't talk about something that I think wasn't really significant. But we'll get to it. First, let's talk about the new update. So Portia Williams, yesterday, in the midst of all the back and forth, right. Like we talked about the Twitter back and forth between her and K. Michelle, that went down because there was a conversation about oysters that then involved or led to some jokes about vagina odor which came Michelle took personal. Now yesterday came Portia Williams posted this video that she did with the Sherri shepherd show. And we know that this is. But the timing matters. Let's take a listen to Portia on Sherri Shepherd's show. Now. It was A few weeks ago that K. Michelle was here. And when I tell you I was on the floor because she was throwing shade left and right at cast member Drew Sedor. Uh huh. DK Michelle, you think that she. Did she go too far or not far enough?

[Just Hilarious]

How do you feel about that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think they both have jumped off the cliff together. It is up and stuck. But, you know, it get like that sometimes. You're not gonna like everybody on the cast. You know, Drew is absolutely amazing. Star K. Michelle has joined the show and shook it up like she shake them tables. You know, one thing about it, I think that a lot of people who haven't done reality TV before come on and they're being thirsty, you know, but these girls are being spicy. Our new girls, they're not thirsty.

[Mimi Brown]

They're spicy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Spicy, yes. Now this is important because although this was pre taped because we know that Sherry Shepherd's not doing any more live interviews, Portia posted this yesterday amidst all of the drama. Right. And the caption said, at the end of the day, the day going in, I always give credit where it's due. Even if other strategies discredit me. I'm rooting for everybody to get what they deserve. Although some may fall short. Short. Real Housewives Atlanta is successful and we are winning now.

[Just Hilarious]

I love how graceful she is too. Like, she always extends like compliments to the women. Like whatever's happening on the show, even if it is big drama, she don't go and run her mouth and be catty on other shows when she's promoting the show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, even everybody flowers, I think even on the episodes and in the season from even what we talked about yesterday. Like, you see her still trying to do that, but this is her. Essentially she's being the bigger person here because she was engaged in the back and forth on Twitter. And you know, if you're watching the show, a lot of them are watching these things in real time, even though they lived it, but they're not getting to see the other people's side. So she's taking a higher role here. And I mean, I think that that's what the face of a franchise does. So I think that this shows that maybe next episode we'll see some growth. Now let's get into the conversation you guys brought up at the beginning of the segment.

[Mimi Brown]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

So I'm confused what you just said, how they made up. I didn't hear the makeup part, but go ahead.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Portia Williams is extending the olive branch. She's being a bigger person here. I said that we might have a white flag. And I think that this is the white flag.

[Just Hilarious]

By posting.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly. In the midst of making up stuff again. No, I'm not making up anything. I'm reading the caption in the midst of K. Michelle, you know, she's on X. She. Yesterday, she even alleged that Portia was, like, sleeping with one of her exes and telling her business. Like, there's a lot going on here in real time.

[DJ Envy]

That don't sound like a white flag, but go ahead.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was K. Michelle, Portia Williams, through the white flag. Okay. Okay, now you brought up the. The. You said I was telling the story wrong yesterday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some of the cast members said that as well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I. I spoke to some people yesterday, and we had a very great conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They got you right. They had to check you to let you know you was doing it wrong.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, you love to run these narratives. You just like that. You just like the producers on Real House of Atlanta last night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I said, hey, I don't watch this show, but they on your ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So yesterday. So in. So what. What is happening here is in episode six, which is the episode before the one we talked about yesterday, but it also opens up episode seven, Kelly, who is another one of the housewives, she's the one that does the and Waffles restaurant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Her and Portia are going back and forth and she calls Porsche's Hot Pocket Chili Cheese Frito Hot Pocket.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, they call the Pom Poms the Hot Pockets, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't ate breakfast yet, so I'm thinking you talking about food.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I heard this morning that you need to relax.

[Just Hilarious]

You might need to have something from K. Michelle. Cuz K. Michelle first said Hot Pocket on love and hip hop years and years ago.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, so later. And so then later in episode seven, you hear Portia Williams make these aimless jokes about the oysters, which K. Michelle took personal. So there are fans that are saying that she was responding to Kelly, but nothing has been cleared up and nobody wants to clear up anything. So we're here. That. That does nothing to the story.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You good?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, so listen, all Real Housewives fans, just like y' all did yesterday, get in the comments and let Lauren know she told that story. So I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, now. And the reason why they're throwing this back and forth is because, yes, Kelly and Portia do have an issue, but Kelly and Portia's issue is very direct, and I feel like you can kind of interpret it either way. And we said that Yesterday. I don't know if that was in the clip, but you can interpret it either. It was either aimless or portion of what she was doing. But you know, from everything that I'm gathering, she's taking a high road here and this is not what she wants to get into.

[DJ Envy]

I'm so confused. All right, okay, what's confusing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, so moving on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Housewives of Atlanta fans gonna get her, right? They listen. She's not gonna listen. She's not gonna listen. She gonna point at you and say that you. It's your fault. My fault? Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it's not Envy's fault. Envy just brought up something and we, we talked about it like I wanted the fans, I watched the show so it's, it's up for interpretation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They say you just watch clips. That's what they say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what's crazy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wife watch.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You'll be like, get out the comments and then we'll call you about the comments.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I looked at the comments cuz one of some of the cast members called me and said that you had the story wrong. They told me and then they said you need to go look at your, your own comments. You know, that's the new thing now. Remember Offset did that to us last week. Look at your own comments.

[DJ Envy]

He was wrong with that one. He was. It was like one comment.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, it's up for interpretation. And, and the producers of Real Housewives leave it very open as well too, which they're known to do. But that was my, the thing that I said yesterday. If you see that in real time, you're watching it. If you're portion, you see that they leave it open. Why not just clarify? Why engage in the Twitter forth? Because it leaves it up for people to be on either side, K Michelle's or Porsches. But we're moving on and it starts

[Just Hilarious]

up conversation to talk about it like we're doing now, which makes engagement.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Leave a comment. If Lauren got it wrong today, y' all make sure y' all discuss.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right now moving on, we're gonna go to a whole new back and forth that's going down. So you got a Jalen Brown and Stephen A. Smith. Now this has been going on this back and forth because Jalen Brown gets on twitch and streams, essentially. Now let's take a listen to what the root of the problem here is. Let's take a listen to the Jalen

[DJ Envy]

Brown plays for the Boston Celtics.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, Jalen Brown plays for the Boston Celtics. They played against the Sixers, they lost pretty badly. And Stephen A. Smith is basically saying that Jalen Brown should be quiet. But let's take a listen to the.

[Stephen A. Smith]

To recap, ladies and gentlemen, his ayah is because I basically said to him, he. He should be quiet right now. What I was saying is that the Boston Celtics played in the first round, the most storied franchise in basketball annals. 18 championships. The Lakers have 17. The Boston Celtics, who had never lost a 31 lead in the postseason, surrendered a 31 lead to the Philadelphia 76ers and ended up losing that series in seven games. In the last two minutes of that game, the Boston Celtics attempted six three pointers and missed all of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Them.

[Stephen A. Smith]

They were down two. You could have got to the hole. You're Jaylen Brown. You averaged 28.7 points per game this year. You are not a good player. You are a great player. You are a stud. And him not being able to close the deal, 24 hours later, he was on his Twitch account calling this his favorite season. How are you calling that your favorite season?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now, when. When I was watching Stephen A. Smith response, I literally heard Charlemagne. He always says, keep the main thing. The main thing. That's like what I kept hearing. I think that that's what Stephen A. Smith is literally trying to. Let's take a listen to some of the comments that Jalen Brown had for Stephen A. Smith that even made him respond.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

C. My offer still stands. You want me to be quiet and stop streaming. Well, I want you to be quiet and get off these networks because you're not using your platform to do real journalism. Using your platform to use clickbait.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And I think that this is like, you know, one of the new conversations we had it with kind of like with Rich Paul as well, too, with people feeling like if you're involved, you shouldn't be on platform speaking about things that are happening just because of business on the inside.

[Just Hilarious]

If you're an active player, active player

[Lauren LaRosa]

or agent like that, I mean, everybody has platforms now. So this is kind of.

[DJ Envy]

I don't have a problem with it. But you can't be mad when somebody has an opinion on what you did. You said that was your favorite season, but you lost. Right. So Stephen A. Smith is like, well, how was it your favorite season? If you didn't win a chip, if you didn't take it to the. To the limit, how was this your favorite season? You have Celtics. That's an honest question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And also, Stephen A. Smith was saying the fact that Jason Tatum didn't play majority of the season. So he's really trying to say, is there a rift between y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Correct. It was your favorite season. Because he wasn't on. Because he wasn't there.

[DJ Envy]

You were by yourself. Yes, That's a good question. I don't have a problem with that question. But. But Jalen Brown, he could say what he want. He could twitch, he could tweet, he could either stream, but people want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Stephen A. Said that yesterday.

[Caller/Listener]

We.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We should have played that clip. But he talked about how, you know, do you really want me to start reporting on you? For real? For real. I can talk about what the locker room said about you. I could talk about what the organization may think about you. I can talk about how Jason Tatum may or may not feel about you.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn. Yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See, cuz, he said it's a lot of stuff he chooses not to say, basically, like, I'm a journalist.

[Just Hilarious]

For real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, I mean, Stephen A. Smith. So we all know. And he also went through, like, a mashup, too, of all the good things in. In good conversations he's had about think

[Just Hilarious]

like, oh, my God, what do they say about me?

[Lauren LaRosa]

But it's.

[Just Hilarious]

What do they think about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, sadly, it works for both of them, though, because we're talking about Jalen Brown's twitch and we're talking about. We're always talking about Steven.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the latest for the hour.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, and speaking of basketball, Happy birthday to Kevin Garnett. So he is 50 years old. Y' all still out here kicking and

[Charlamagne Tha God]

stuff, but they would have been Malcolm X's born day, too.

[Just Hilarious]

No, I was gonna get to that, but we not. All right, well, happy birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Malcolm X. Because he would have been 101. And I was looking for a story to plug it in, but she don't do history. She is very much alive. Happy 78th birthday, Grace. Can y' all let me get to it? We still got other segments.

[DJ Envy]

What team Kevin Garnett played for?

[Just Hilarious]

The Celtics. Excuse me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, that's one of them.

[DJ Envy]

That's one of them.

[Caller/Listener]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

What was the major one? What was the major one?

[Just Hilarious]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not main.

[Just Hilarious]

What?

[DJ Envy]

That was his name. That.

[Just Hilarious]

That's when he was hot and on fire, when he was playing with Paul Pierce.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's when he won a champion.

[Just Hilarious]

The other people. Yeah, exactly. I know.

[DJ Envy]

I know a lot more than timberwolves, but. All right, thank you so much. Now, when we come back, we got front page news and then the cast of the Shy will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy with we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. Start off with sports. Last night, double overtime. The spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 122 to 115. That's it's going to be a great series. And tonight the Cavs take on The Knicks at 8pm at the Garden. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy. Jeff Charlemagne, How y' all doing this morning? Good morning. So this morning, Georgia voters, they are headed to the polls for one of the biggest election days the state has seen in years. The governor's mansion is open, open for the first time in eight years. A U.S. senate seat is also on the ballot. And every major statewide office is also up for grabs. A Democratic senator, John Ossoff. He is running for a second term and has no primary challenger, which is leaving that field wide open for him. But the real fight is happening on the Republican side where several big names are battling for the chance to take him on in November. And meanwhile, Georgia's governor race, we just said, I would say it's, it's wide open. Governor Brian Kemp, though he is term limited, meaning Georgia will elect a new governor for the first time in eight years. Now on the Democratic side, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is considered the frontrunner and one of the biggest names in a crowded field. She's laying out what she plans to do for the people of Georgia if she wins. Let's listen to what she had to say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My message has been very simple. Look at what I've done and look at what I plan to do on behalf of, of the state of Georgia. We created an affordable housing trust fund in Atlanta that I want to see scale statewide. We created a child savings account for all of our public school kindergarteners. I want to see that scale statewide. We want to expand Medicaid in this state. It has to be expanded. Just lastly, you know, polls are a snapshot in time. There have been some that are showing me over 50%. We need 50% plus one to win without a runoff. So we're going to keep taking our case to the people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll tell you one thing, when it comes to name brand recognition, Keisha's killing everybody. I don't even know who the Republican frontrunner is.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes, there is a former lieutenant governor, Jeff Duncan. He's also running now. He broke with President Trump after the 2020 election and formally joined the Democratic Party last year. But you're Right. There's a lot of names that people don't know in this election. And if we were going off of name recognition alone, that definitely puts her. But the polls show her, you know, at the top of the ticket right now anyway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And for Democrats, for overall.

[Mimi Brown]

For Democrats. Yeah. So, so what will happen is a Democrat and she hasn't reached, as she said that 51%, so that there is no runoff. And that's very important because in Georgia, if you don't reach that 50 threshold, then they will have to do another runoff next month.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I think that's amazing what they're doing. For those kindergarteners being entitled to a bank account, that's dope. That's really, really. I think every state should do that.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, for sure. And in Kentucky, another closely watched race is unfolding. Republican Congressman Tom Massey, one of President Trump's biggest critics inside the gop, is facing a primary challenge backed by President Trump himself. Now, this race has become the most expensive House primary race in U.S. history. More than $34 million spent overall, with millions of that coming from outside groups working to take Massey down. So we'll see what happens with that. Donald Trump did endorse the person that he is running against in order to keep Massey from running. You know, of course, Massey has been very, very vocal with the Epstein files and, and just, you know, fighting for accountability. And Donald Trump does not want him back in the House for that very reason. So the general election for all of these primary races is set for November 3rd. So we will continue to watch and see what happens. And shifting right now to Virginia, where there's a criminal trial underway for a formal former Assistant Principal, Dr. Ebony Parker. She is now on trial. She's accused of ignoring repeated warnings before a six year old student brought a loaded gun and shot his first grade teacher back in 2023. Do you guys remember this case? There was a little. A first grader who shot his, his teacher in the hand back in 2023. Well, there's new testimony giving jurors a clearer picture of what teachers say they tried to tell school leaders before the shooting happened. So according to testimony, four teachers, they warned Parker that day that the child may have a gun at school. One of the teachers, they testified personally that they went to the assistant principal on three separate occasions asking for the child to be searched. But according to testimony, Parker refused each time. And at one point, the teacher told jurors that Parker responded by saying the child's pockets were too small to hide a gun. Another staff member reportedly warned the child may have a weapon in the backpack. And a student allegedly told school staff that they saw the boy pull the gun out on the playground. But still, according to testimony, the child was never searched. And not long after that final warning, a gunshot rang out inside the first grade classroom. The teacher's name was Abby Zurb, and this is testimony from her civil trial. Let's listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you hear the shooting? Okay, once you heard the shooting, what did you think that was?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I knew it was the gunshot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And where did you think it had come from? From Abby's room. I see blood on her leg, so I knew she was hit. I wasn't really sure. On this side, I see Jen open the door, the kids screaming and running out.

[Just Hilarious]

That's crazy. So I think, why, why didn't she just. If everybody knew he had a gun or suspected that he had a gun and the kid said it, why didn't the teacher just take it out of his backpack? Like, why did we need to be the principal if we try and save lives? Because he could have killed another student. He could have killed the teacher. Like, if you know that, you get the gun out.

[Mimi Brown]

And that's a very, very, very good point. I think what the teachers were saying is they were trying to follow protocol. The vice principal, Dr. Ebony Parker, she was trained in this sort of thing. And so they went to her as they were supposed to. She apparently, according to teachers, ignored all of the warnings. And now she is on trial. She's facing eight felony accounts of child abuse and neglect. One tie to each child, prosecutors say was in danger inside that classroom. She pled not guilty yesterday. If convicted, though, she could face 40 years in prison.

[Caller/Listener]

Wow.

[Just Hilarious]

So. Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

What about the. The kids, parents? Like, nobody is being blamed.

[Mimi Brown]

That's a great question, Jess. So the, the child's mother, she also went to jail. She was sentenced to prison for child neglect on federal gun charges after investigators say the boy got the gun from her purse. So they did charge the, the mother as well. But to charge a teacher or a principal is unprecedented. And they say that it could start, you know, a standard in these school students of who's held responsible when something like this happens.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's gonna make it difficult for people wanting to be teachers because now you basically saying if something happens in that school, you could be found liable for it. Like, you know, she didn't mean for that childhood. You know, as a six year old, you would never expect a six year old to have a gun.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, but if it's more than one person coming to you telling you, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She ignored multiple warnings. Right. It's not like it was a situation where you saw a kid with a gun.

[DJ Envy]

That's totally right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You didn't act. The principal ignored multiple warnings.

[DJ Envy]

I agree. But 40 years in prison.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, if you ignore multiple warnings, you got a job to do.

[Just Hilarious]

And then you say out your mouth that her.

[Caller/Listener]

The.

[Just Hilarious]

The pockets are too small for a gun to fit in there. It's like you totally neglect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

At least call the police. Even if you don't want to intervene, call the police, do something. But you just don't ignore multiple warnings of somebody having a gun.

[DJ Envy]

He was negligent before, but 40 years is a lot of. That's a lot of time.

[Just Hilarious]

That's true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody's dead.

[DJ Envy]

I get it. And that's. That's. It's neg.

[Mimi Brown]

No, she's not dead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She got shot.

[Mimi Brown]

She got shot? Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, she got shot.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, all right. Well, Mimi, you said the teacher's name was. You ain't say anything.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm sorry. Well, the teacher's name had happened to. Yes, no, but she. She survived. The teacher did survive. She got paid. She got paid $10 million from. You know, she sued the city, she sued the school, and she deserves all of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And by the way, she didn't get 40 years. She's facing up to 40 years.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes, she's facing.

[Just Hilarious]

Facing up to 40 years.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. So we don't know what. The trial is expected to last several days, so we'll see what.

[DJ Envy]

Definitely unfortunate.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, we will leave it there. That is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv and make sure to check out my podcast, Front page News. We're going to discuss some more of this on there.

[Just Hilarious]

This.

[Mimi Brown]

This is a very polarizing case with people just leaning both ways. As you were just saying, Envy, you had one opinion and sure, you had another opinion. So we'll talk about it.

[DJ Envy]

All right? All right. Thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Now, when we come back, the cast of the Shy will be joining us this morning. It is the eighth and final season of the Shot on the 22nd. And we're gonna talk to the cast when we come back. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa and Mimi Brown are here. We got some special guests in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got the cast of the sh. What's the Word. Everybody introduce themselves like y' all a group. Ferguson.

[Cortez Smith]

I'm Michael Vs. Cortez. Smith.

[Zaria]

Zaria.

[Alex Hibbert]

Imani Primer and Alex R Hber.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like we watch y' all grow up, man.

[Just Hilarious]

I know. I was so hyped find out y' all was coming up. Oh, my God, look. So y' all here. 8th season shows don't live that long. We saw y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Just Hilarious]

Y' all were like. Like little, little kids when your little ass. I was so mad at you, you

[Lauren LaRosa]

know what I'm saying?

[Just Hilarious]

I felt like he was my real little brother. How does it feel to like. To have, like, to be doing a final season of this long living show?

[Michael V. Epps]

It feels great just to be able to start this and end with it and to be able to be a part of something that's bigger than myself and work alongside amazing people and be able to call them family now is just an amazing journey to be a part of.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah, it's definitely a surreal moment because you got to think about, like, we from Chicago, so to walk the streets. Like, I. I filmed on some of the parts where I went to school at.

[Michael V. Epps]

You know what I mean?

[Cortez Smith]

So I was like, bro, I was 24 years old, having my first scene around the corner from my high school. I was like, damn, this is. This is crazy, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did the show accurately reflect Chicago to y'? All? Yeah.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah, but it's like, politically correct, though. It's like, we can't go too in depth in it, you know? I mean, it get too controversial to put a bad light on us. We already got a stigma on us. Like, we so dangerous. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every.

[Cortez Smith]

Every city got a hood.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you feel like the show really helped put. Change that narrative?

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah, show black love, right?

[Zaria]

Community, family. We are more than just violent. Like, I feel like a lot of people think Chicago and think just violence and guns and things like that, but it just showed that we have such positivity a lot.

[Imani Primer]

I think you can see, like, it's a character for each person on this show. Like, our ensemble is. So we got so many characters, and I feel like anybody watching can relate to anybody.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I feel like the shy. To your point, Zaria.

[Caller/Listener]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To your point. I feel like it shows how the trauma starts, you know what I mean? Like, it shows how the trauma even gets inherited, you know, in. In black communities a lot of the time.

[Zaria]

Yeah. But it also shows how to come up out of it. I like that because a lot of TV and movies just. Just shows the trauma, and that's it. And that's where it ends.

[Cortez Smith]

And you know what it shows? It shows like, family. Like, we all congregate and come together to get ourself out of that trauma. And it really glorified the black woman in our show. Like, we need to keep pushing that because it's like we. We put the stigma on, like, black women. Like, they not needed. We, bro. That's our backbone. You know what I mean? We come from a woman, so we got to get more respect to him for sure.

[Just Hilarious]

Character development is very important in this show because, yo, I remember first seeing Nook his role, I went from hating him to. It's like, damn, I love him. Because how you changed. Like, at first you was working for Duda, and that's what she wanted to do, you know, Nook was like, all right, bad killer, killer, shoot him up. Bang, bang. But then you change the perspective, like, the mindset of the business or whatever. And even with, like, Bakari, he want to get out now, you know what I mean? And it's. It's just wild. Like, seeing the character development over the seasons, it took turns that I didn't think it would take. Like, I thought Nook was going to be killed for sure.

[Cortez Smith]

For sure. And he made it. That boy playing chess, not checkers, man. He's figuring it out. I don't know how he doing it, but he figured it out. Nuck is so complex, bro, because it showed, like, gangster have feelings too. You know what I mean? Like, and it just shows the product of, like, making the wrong choice in life. Like, I had so many full circle moments with. With Nuck as well. Like, he found out about the son through sickle cell. My father died from sickle cell, so it's like, it was like, literally, it was a full circle moment with that, you know? Yeah, bro, it was hard work. Like, I had a scene when I had to walk through the door and see my son for the first time. I had it in my mindset, like, damn, what if my father would have had an opportunity to see me for the first time? Because he didn't have a chance till he died right after.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So you talking about when you walk in the house? Yeah, I remember that scene.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow. So. So after that scene happens, right? And you're also, like, in your real life pulling from that emotion. Like, you go home and, like, what is that?

[Alex Hibbert]

Like, I ain't gonna lie.

[Cortez Smith]

I was, like, up for a minute. Because even, like, playing that role and playing the moment when I took dude out, like, I had to walk Down a path of what I thought I healed from, but I really didn't. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hold paths from gun violence.

[Cortez Smith]

My uncle passed from gun violence. And I put my mindset, if I was in the opportunity to take, take the, the life of the, the guy that took my uncle away. So it's like to, to walk and just rip that band aid off and be like, man, I thought I was healed, but I wasn't. Like, it took me a little while to get back normal and to come to work and just be a, you know, an actor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm glad that you say that because a lot of people would think that if you're from Chicago, you're kind of numb to it. Like, like that's. Gun violence is sort of the norm. I'm glad to hear you say it's not.

[Cortez Smith]

It's not, it's not. We know how to mask it because we are taught to be tougher. You know, we gotta have, have some type of character with that. But it's like, no, we go home and we sob. That's why a lot of people lean into drugs because they try to cope and mass what they're going through. And it's like, no, you need to sit down and unpack. It's not healthy and not cool to be like, oh, I can pop this perk or I can sit this lane and get over. No, you fighting demons that you're not unpacking. And it start with the household. It's the foundation. If our foundation ain't right, then we can't be right. And we got to unpack that. It's okay to say you're not okay. Especially being a black man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You had to go to therapy, right?

[Cortez Smith]

For sure. And I'm playing a role in yes. And I'm, I'm, I'm huge on man mental health. Like next month I got a non profit called Cortez Cares. Every June we do a man's mental health run and just get everybody together in the neighborhood and we have a, a man circle that I, I, you know, I use from the shy. And then we just come together and just whatever you got on your chest, just get it off, bro. It's a judge.

[Mimi Brown]

I like those, those man circles.

[Just Hilarious]

I do too, man.

[Cortez Smith]

It was dope,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

man.

[Cortez Smith]

Oh man, I couldn't get on there, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I used to, to look forward to it in the show. Like that was when they would, like after the show, they would go through their feelings in real life. I mean, not in real life because the characters, but I I was like, that was so genius to put that in. And it was early because BET even now has a show that does that. And then Kirk Franklin has, like, Kingston. Right. That's kind of the same thing. And I was like, that was so fire to put in there.

[Mimi Brown]

Did you guys share your real feelings during.

[Zaria]

During?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, we.

[Imani Primer]

We kind of, like, practiced before, but, like, being in the men's circle is so fun because off camera, like, we talk amongst each other all the time. So, like, once we start getting those scenes, I think we were all excited because, like, we got to be amongst each other. Cause each story is like, you know, it has those different storylines and different characters are with different characters. But those were, like, moments where it's like, us as men, whether you be young or old, we coming together on the show and we expressing ourselves and expressing what, you know, our character is going through. But it's also fun off cam, just being on set. Those long hours with our big brothers and us just learning game from them, and they hearing us and hearing what we going through, and we just talking.

[Mimi Brown]

Yo, and speaking of big brothers, because Jake, your character has evolved so much. Right. You went from being under two brothers.

[Michael V. Epps]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

To, like, becoming your own man and starting your own business. You know, Talk to us about your development, you know, as the seasons went on.

[Michael V. Epps]

Nah, that's one of my things I can't wait for y' all to see. Coming into this new season, you're really gonna see Jake stepping more into his manhood and putting his foot down. But seeing Jake evolve over the years has been my favorite thing to see and play because you see him go from the normal kid in the hood following his big brother steps to losing him, to then being adopted and living in a house where he doesn't really feel wanted or doesn't really want to be there to. Oh, my new big brother comes in. So now it's more of a new change I got to get used to. I don't really know him, but this is a big bro, so in a way, I have to accept him. I have to harbor him, you know, so. So just to see Jake in his final season and finally see him kind of find that peace and happiness, I can't wait for y' all to see.

[Just Hilarious]

He's smashing the first lady.

[Cortez Smith]

Hey, I'm so jealous of his character, man. He gets it, you know, he do his thing on that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No Bakari.

[Just Hilarious]

All right, real quick. I keep coming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I want to call you Kevin. Sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Just Hilarious]

So how was it acting with your. Your Sister. Like your actual sister?

[Imani Primer]

Well, she older than me by five years, but what everybody call us. That's big sister.

[Just Hilarious]

Not really twins.

[Mimi Brown]

Y' all are looked ex.

[Just Hilarious]

Wow.

[Imani Primer]

Shout out to our parents, Jean Strong. But, I mean, I remember being on set, we were filming episode. We were season six. I don't know the episode completely, but I remember just filming and Lena had sent me a dm. She like, hey, you know this because my sister also is an R B artist. She's like, you know this girl? So I'm like, I think she finna get a sync. Like, I'm thinking it's music. I'm like, okay. I text her like, I think your music finna be on the show. She sent me a voice memo back. Like, you know, we want to keep growing your arc. Like, is y' all cool? Like, how would she feel coming on the show playing? I'm like, what? Then my sister texted me because she was on tour at the time with Cash Paige in Canada. So she like, I'm getting a text from Carmen Cuba casting. Like, what is this? I'm like, bro, you about to be on the show. But it was such an honor. It was a blessing for our legacy, for our bloodline. Coming from Gary, Indiana, you see those siblings with like, Mike, Janet, stuff like that. But we just embraced the moment. And I also got to see my sister grow in another craft because we started, like, started off when we were young doing plays and stuff like that, but she transitioned into music. But you saw her over the seasons, like, really get a knack and a real love for acting again. So it was a blessing. And I'm honored that, like, you know, I'm gonna live life, continue to do my career, but always be able to say, like, I did a show. Not only a show, the longest running black drama with my sister.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pop it, pop it.

[Cortez Smith]

And OG was on it too.

[Imani Primer]

Yeah, my mom.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah, his mom sung on it too. I know.

[Just Hilarious]

For real, man, that's what's up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's so fire Yalls relationship on the show, it really spoke a lot to, like, you know, people be like, man, they just doing what they gotta do to figure it out. I feel like y' all relationship in a dynamic and. Cause we loved her then we didn't. That hurt. Like, you know, it really spoke to two kids having to just figure it out because y' all didn't have anybody

[Imani Primer]

and we didn't have anybody. And also, like, with time us being apart, it's like, you get to see Bakari at first be like, you sis, but you ain't been here. Like, I've been out here figuring it out myself, living this life by myself, trying to make ends meet for myself. But I'm excited for the new season because, you know, you may see that relationship grow.

[Just Hilarious]

So now, was it introduced to you before that? She was gonna be like a snake,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

you know what I'm saying?

[Imani Primer]

No, it wasn't.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, so that was just something.

[Imani Primer]

That was just something. We reading the script and she like, bro, they gonna hate me.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah, she dropped the dime on me too. It got me beat up, you know,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kicked out the mob for Back Door Britney.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Back Door Britney is crazy.

[Michael V. Epps]

Came in trying to take my girl,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

all type of stuff.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, you did take capture.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Michael V. Epps]

Jake knew I was coming with it, though. He know you lose him, how you get him.

[Alex Hibbert]

So dang, that's a fact.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Alex or Kevin. So right in the show, when you decide to exit the show and you're headed to college and the gaming stuff is happening, what do you think is like the biggest lesson that kids who are afraid to leave their neighborhoods but need to take that step should learn from your decision to go away to college.

[Alex Hibbert]

Never let your circumstances define you. Kevin went through so much, you know what I mean? And a lot of black boys have the same experience that I do. And a lot of black boys are different. We're not all the same. Yeah, we not all play sports and, you know, due to the music and all that other stuff, we have different goals and different things that we want to achieve. So I think Kevin in that sense and me playing that character holds an important part to the culture alone. And that's why I treat him with so much grace. And that's why as well, I departed the way I did because it is to show people that, you know, there is a change you can leave, you can boss up and change your environment regardless of whatever happens in this world,

[Mimi Brown]

you know, Is Kevin still a gamer in la?

[Alex Hibbert]

Well, that's for the audience to interpret.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay.

[Alex Hibbert]

You know, all I can say is Kevin is thriving.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's doing well, and we're not gonna get like a little sneak peek of nothing ever.

[Cortez Smith]

That boy is media trained. You see that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I like what you were saying though, because, like, the shy has always done a great job of showing, like the streets, but then like showing the emotional vulnerability. Right. How that can exist together. Why do you still think society acts like toughness and healing can't coexist?

[Alex Hibbert]

I mean, it's just what we intake, you know, that's what they promote when it comes to the music and all that stuff, that's all we seeing and hearing. That's all the youth is seeing and hearing. So that's why us being young black people that we are right now, we're here to change the. That, you know, I mean, change that whole ecosystem, change that whole mindset, you know, just put on those younger kids. I even look at my nephews and my cousins a different way and talk to them a different way, because I know I have a responsibility that I have to uphold.

[Imani Primer]

We all do.

[Alex Hibbert]

There's a big torch being passed down, and we have to do the work, and we got to be able to hold it up.

[Cortez Smith]

You know, that's a fact.

[Michael V. Epps]

But it's like, even. Like, even sometimes it's like as a man or a male, they expect you to put on that front, or it's like you can't have feelings or express or express feel away, you know, like, growing up in a house, that was something that I kind of heard. As being a boy, you're told to suck it up, deal with it, man it up. It's like, cry, dang. I can't even feel the way that I just fell down the stairs, or you just said this, and it hurt me. So it's like, that's kind of a weight that they just throw on us. Like, nah, you can't feel it. Like, well, you have to put on this front. You can't have. You can't feel your emotions. So that's also another reason why I feel like it's a lot of men out here that's feeling like they can't

[Cortez Smith]

be vulnerable with each other, especially. Yeah, my bad. I'm gonna just add this in. Especially being raised by a single parent, like. Like me and you, you know, we just had our mom, and, you know, our mom got to be 10 times harder because we go out in these streets, we can't be feminine at all. We can't be sensitive or nothing. We gotta, you know, I mean, literally go out in the streets and give 110 and be more tough than anybody, because back at home, we got a female that's raising us. You know what I mean?

[Imani Primer]

Piggybacking off what you said, just that. That community. I also feel like, you know, people don't really have somebody to listen and not just listen to respond. Like, really, like, listen and take in their feelings and emotions and where they are in the place they are in their life, you know?

[Mimi Brown]

Zarya, I love your. Your character, Lynnae. You know, it's. You're so vulnerable and you're so helpful with Bakari and you give him chance after chance after chance. Where does that come from? Does it because what you've been through or you see something in him, does it remind you of your brother? Like what is happening there?

[Zaria]

I think she sympathizes with him because of Jamal. That is her brother. And I have a brother in real life. And you know, girls don't play about their big brother. Their big brother don't play about them. And you can see Jamal don't play about me. And even like I think her seeing Jamal come out of jail and now like, you know, he's following God and he's really trying to change his life. He gets a regular job. He goes and marries Dom, played by Lala. I feel like she knows that Bakari can do that too. And that's why she doesn't give up, because she comes from that. So she knows what that's like. And she knows. She's from Chicago, so she knows, like this is the system that we've been put in, but it's breakable.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Zaria]

So she's just pushing him to get out of that.

[Mimi Brown]

And you lean on her a lot? All the time.

[Imani Primer]

Oh yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Is she fill a void for what Bakari's going through because he really doesn't have anyone?

[Imani Primer]

I think she does, but just that selflessness that she carries, you know, like. Like she said she thinks that Bakari can make it out and Bakari can change. So I just think that she just put her heart on her sleeve and she takes take it. You know what I'm saying? But I also do think that there is a void. But I think this season that you're going to be able to see stuff from her point of view as well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So do you think that. Do you think your character. Do you think Lynette ever sacrifices too

[Zaria]

much for Babari every time. She should have never put them guns in her closet. She's a goofy.

[DJ Envy]

I needed help.

[Zaria]

I'm glad the cops didn't find it. It's not like it's love, but it's

[Charlamagne Tha God]

like dumb as well.

[Just Hilarious]

And it is side B.

[Cortez Smith]

Like she didn't put some guns in the closet before. Have you took a charge though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You did take a charge.

[Caller/Listener]

They had me in a stolen car on prom.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, you took one. I. I wanted to, but I didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even know about taking the charge. Doing something you could get a charge for.

[Imani Primer]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just as bad. Answer that question, Jess.

[Just Hilarious]

First of All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you ever done something you could

[Just Hilarious]

have got charged for talking about the. That I was with.

[Zaria]

They was a criminal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Allegedly. Huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Allegedly.

[Mimi Brown]

The car.

[Zaria]

Yeah. But that's why I love our relationship so much, because that is like the hood love story that, like, so many girls and, like, you find a good girl and meets the bad boy, and you just want to save him so bad. It's like, girl, let him.

[Cortez Smith]

Hey, hey, pretty, pretty. Women love him. They love him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He told me to stash his guns, girl.

[Cortez Smith]

One of them got a switch on it. What guy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The show deals with grief a lot, right? What role do you think Unhill grief plays and how people just move through relationships in their community?

[Imani Primer]

I think it's. It's a lot of perspectives. I feel like you can look at it a lot of ways. Like, with my character, you saw him literally take someone's life because of grief and because how he felt. You know, Coogie was. He was the person in the neighborhood. Like, you know, he may not come from that walk of life, but, like, we know him. We respect him. Like, he off limits. You know what I'm saying? But. But obviously, you see wrong place, wrong time, a story that we all know in our communities. And you see him die, but you also see me come, you know, seasons later, right?

[Cortez Smith]

Cause we forgot that you. Well, the gangsters have to keep reminding you. Like myself have to keep reminding you. Like, I ain't running. But, you know, you done so much good, and we showed that you were just so lost in the community that you finding your way. And you don't want to be that guy. You just want to survive.

[Imani Primer]

But that community that I talked about, you see shot, he didn't give up on you. Yeah, he didn't give up on me. You see, Professor Gardner, all these different characters, that community where I'm able to express myself, I'm able to express my emotions, and I'm also able to get corrected because of the foundation and the seeds that they planted. So now I'm hearing it out of love instead of, like, you know, because, you know, we got positive figures in our life, and sometimes we might not listen because we don't know how to receive. But I just feel like over time, you saw his heart soften to just receive and listen. But grief can make you do crazy. Like, you seen me come in off the gate. Grief had me. I'm blowing.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah, for sure. Grief made you do some stuff, too. Like, you know what I mean? Like when you thought you lost your brother, but, you know, he came back

[Zaria]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what I said.

[Cortez Smith]

And you left back in your house.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[Just Hilarious]

He just came back and they want nothing to do with him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder how that impacts y' all in real life because. Because like you said, y' all are from Chicago, so I'm sure y' all have all dealt with different traumas. Right? But then you all. Then you gotta go be on a show when you still gotta.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Play about trauma. Like, when do you ever get to really disconnect?

[Cortez Smith]

You really don't know.

[Zaria]

That's life, though. That's life and art.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Michael V. Epps]

That's why I say you always gotta prioritize your mental health. Because with this job, you gotta relive a lot of traumatic moments to better your performance on screen. So it's like, if you already making sure your mental health is straight on a day to day, I really feel like you'll be able to maneuver through it.

[Cortez Smith]

Facts and keeping God first, man. God is real, bro. God is real. Manifestation is real. And God is real, man. Keep God first and just take time and ground yourself and stay grounded, bro. You know what I mean? And just go silent, Turn your phone off, turn the TV off. You know, I mean, just sit in your thoughts and unpack the things that you went through. Because, man, that can turn you crazy, though, for real.

[Just Hilarious]

The shot is definitely a very emotionally triggering show. Like, do. Do y' all have a most emotional season? I'm gonna tell y' all what it is for me, and I ain't even on the show. Okay, so when Keisha was kidnapped. Yeah.

[Zaria]

Season three.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes. That was so, like, it hit home. I never been kidnapped, but, you know, friends and family and it just happens to young black girls all too often. Right. And so much so. Don't nobody look. Don't nobody care to look. You know what I mean? Mean. And that's when I seen Kevin's character, like, it was like he was bothered he was going through it, but he wasn't handling it like you would think he would. But I. That's when I saw, like, character development for you. I'm like, oh, no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He really.

[Just Hilarious]

He. He going off in his mind about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like he wasn't giving up.

[Just Hilarious]

Not expressing it exactly. Like, you know, you would see somebody else do it. Like, was that like, what was the most emotional.

[Alex Hibbert]

I got a season for y'?

[Just Hilarious]

All?

[Alex Hibbert]

The most emotional season for me was actually season two. It was a lot of pressure brought on to me. I mean, I was working with phenomenal actors at the time too, as well. Jason Mitchell and all of that. And those scenes that we had to go through. You know, I have my father in my life, but just even thinking about him not being there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Alex Hibbert]

You know, that kind of made me, like, feel a type of way. And we had to portray that story. And he was going through so much in that time, too, as well, which I didn't know. So in that scene where you see us doing the haircut, that was real emotions. Both of us feeling things, you know, coming off the set and having a yo, let's debrief together, let's cry, let's be brothers together, and just, you know, bask in this moment away from the cast, the crew and everything like that. And we had multiple moments like that in season two and then season three when I had to kind of, like, pick up that mantle.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Alex Hibbert]

And it continued with those harsh, you know, topics that we were talking about. I just. Just had to, you know, suck it up a lot. A lot of the best artists, they. They have to suffer to put out the best work.

[Cortez Smith]

Man. You gotta. Because acting is displaying realness, you know, I mean, like, you. You have to be authentic. When it. And season three, the. To piggyback on that. Like, I had a cousin named Kiara Coes, man. She got kidnapped about 2018, and she still haven't showed up.

[Imani Primer]

No.

[Cortez Smith]

No trace of it. She was pregnant. She was a. A male kid carrier, if y' all ever heard about that. Happened in Chicago, and we don't talk about it no more. So this a shout out to her to just like, let's. Let's figure out something. Let's try to find her or try to, like, at least act like we care, because it was just a hot topic on Facebook. They talked about a little bit, and it just disappeared.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

But even Nook's character, when Keisha disappeared, went through a lot.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Cortez Smith]

Yeah, he did, though.

[Mimi Brown]

Was that drawn from your cousin, maybe missing your cousin?

[Cortez Smith]

Not at that. Not at that moment. Because season three was just, like. It was so fresh for me. I was just, like, so excited to be, you know, a part of something. You got to think about being an actor and entrepreneur. We get told know a lot. So once we get that.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Cortez Smith]

We just, like, I just want to be the best. I want to do the. The best thing I can do just to stay here and maintain. I didn't really start tapping until, like, my full potential until, like, the end of five.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay.

[Cortez Smith]

Season five and then six, when they really gave me a call and said, you. You're going to be in it I was working a job. I was on a cherry pick on the. At this warehouse. I ain't no about that, but I just, like, I'm just not gonna be broken. I got that call and said, like, hey, you about to be on the whole season six. I said, oh, yeah. Took that little vest off. I said, it's over with. I'm gone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But, yeah, Alex, when. When Jason's character no longer was on the show and you, like, moved on in different seasons, we. Right, because emotionally, you guys had that tie together. Was it hard for you to kind of have that person that you leaned on on set? Because we watched y' all build such a relationship on camera.

[Alex Hibbert]

I mean, of course, it's always hard losing a cast member, and it's. It was confusing at the time. Everything happened so quickly and during the downtime, you know, but everything happens for a reason. And plus, I had amazing people surrounded by me too, as well, like Jacob Lattimore.

[Just Hilarious]

I mean, yeah.

[Alex Hibbert]

Ronnie, who. Who played Natara. I don't know what's going on, but Natade and I just had amazing people surrounded by me as well to guide me too. And then even developing, we had Jason come in, you know, Jason Weaver and all of those other people just helped me and navigate it. And I'm a person. I soak up the game. I'm always asking questions, always observing, always looking around. I mean, that's why I don't really talk much, like observer.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, y' all really embody your characters. I'm just sitting here. Yeah, I really feel like I know y', all, but I don't even know y' all in real life. But you guys, you did such a great job.

[Cortez Smith]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, keep growing, man. It's the cast of the Shy Man.

[Cortez Smith]

Thank y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All. Appreciate it.

[DJ Envy]

Streaming May 22nd on Paramount plus the acclaimed series from executive producer Lena Waithe reaches its final chapter. The Shy. For seven seasons, these stories, these streets, this community have stayed with. Now it all leads to this. As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried, one thing is certain. The Cheya is more than just a series. It's a legacy. Don't miss the final season. May 22 on the Paramount plus premium plan.

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[Kal Penn]

hey everyone, it's Kal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook book project Hail Mary Massive Sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections and it's like okay, yo yo yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it.

[DJ Envy]

I was like, no.

[Ray Porter]

At this point, it would kind of be betraying the trust the. The author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that. That deeply, emotionally affected me. And I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say, like, oh, my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah, dude, me too.

[Kal Penn]

Listen to Irsay the Audible and iHeart audiobook club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get right to ladies us your talk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

LL Cool.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Mimi Brown]

The little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through that. Take me through there.

[DJ Envy]

She going.

[Stephen A. Smith]

The latest with Lauren

[Charlamagne Tha God]

on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool B.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So this was announced in the Harvard Gazette a few days ago, but it's kind of just being picked up, but I feel like it's not being picked up enough. Beyonce, and we've heard this before, where her courses are being used at colleges, so. But it's now being used at Harvard to teach history and government. So there's an adjunct teacher, her name is Aisha Roy, and she works at Harvard Kennedy School, and she's teaching students through digital technology about government services. So she went to the Cowboy Carter tour, and she was like, okay, this tour is amazing. They teach you about the erasure of. Of black people from country music. But she's like, no, it's a bigger conversation. Let's talk about how Beyonce is leaning into the erasure of black people from government and policy. So she created this. This curriculum that is now being taught. And they get into things like, you know, the U.S. social safety net. So, like, SNAP benefits, Medicaid. They talk about structure, era erasure. So, like, them taking, like, different history out of different courses, removing black people from government.

[DJ Envy]

And instead of using Beyonce's name to get more kids to enroll in class.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But they're using the actual. Actual. Yes, but they're using the actual music to do it. So, like, there's an example in the article where they talk about. In one of the classes, they were playing a song protector. You guys remember that song?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

About motherhood and all the things. And they use it to invoke emotion. But then they bring in black practitioners, former secretaries of Health and things of that nature. To talk about why it's important to have black people or people of color in those roles.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When it comes to different communities, because they're trying to build up a whole new genre or a whole new generation of policy makers, and they're trying to

[Just Hilarious]

make it, course, more likable for the kids. I think it's, like, more appealing to the kids.

[Caller/Listener]

100.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I think it's appealing, too, but I think it's also, like, just seeing the importance. Like seeing the importance of it through somebody who is on a bigger stage talking about it. Because it's biology, basically. But this has been happening. I know.

[Just Hilarious]

I've heard about it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They use it for marketing courses all the time. Fashion courses, stuff like that as well.

[DJ Envy]

I understand the marketing because it's. You know, when an artist does a rollout, it could be marketing, could be what they're doing, but when. And they take an album and they totally make it seem like something else, or it seems like they're using her name to get more kids to enroll in class.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, I think music and stuff like that is subjective. Right. And you could take what you want from it. Like the song Mother where she talks about the importance of, like, her child and raising up her next generation and who they'll be and stuff like that. You can flip it. You know, whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'd be a parenthood course or something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Obviously, it can be whatever you want.

[DJ Envy]

I never heard Beyonce say anything about SNAP benefits, but that's all right.

[Just Hilarious]

I get it. But.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But y' all know what she. What that I'm trying to make it.

[Just Hilarious]

That's my child, honey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That ain't different.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I understand.

[Just Hilarious]

But, you know, ultimately is to. To appeal to, you know, the kids more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

And that's fine. Whatever. Get them to learn what they need to learn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought it was a cool way to do it, but. Okay, moving on. Speaking of motherhood, yesterday Lotto confirmed that she has welcomed her baby in 21 savages. Baby, baby. Congratulations to them. Now she also finally shows us 21 savage in this vlog. So let's take a listen to Lotto.

[Caller/Listener]

I was already thinking about naming my album Big Mama.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I found out about you, and it just. Everything fell into place. And it's so crazy because I thought

[Caller/Listener]

this was gonna hinder me. Like, I was worried about making this

[Lauren LaRosa]

album sober and being tired and just exhausted as my body went through all these changes. 37 weeks today, basically full term, and

[Caller/Listener]

it's ending day now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm so ready to Beat my baby.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm never going to leave when my baby get here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like I need a million dollars to

[Caller/Listener]

show cuz I don't want to leave the house.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This will probably be the last video I make. Now.

[Just Hilarious]

Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whenever I hear about a black woman delivering a baby healthily, I, I'm always happy because of the way the maternal death rate, black maternal death rate is set up in this country.

[DJ Envy]

Congratulations to Lotto.

[Just Hilarious]

Emotional.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like she was literally crying in the video.

[Just Hilarious]

She's the first time mom too. She is serious. Like she's never gonna leave that baby.

[DJ Envy]

Something about all mothers say that I'm never leaving the house.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm never leaving this baby until they start talking and, or you. And you never see it coming. But yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, yeah, her album Big mama drops on 529. She's saying it's her retirement hour but I think she's playing with us. I don't think that's happening. But she's been rolling out vlogs and music through this pregnancy journey. So congratulations to that on 21 now as we wrap the hour. So this news was breaking today. I saw. So there's a guy who was arrested for smuggling cocaine and he used Kim Kardashian skims underwear line to do it.

[Just Hilarious]

I know that's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So there's a man named Jacob John Conle and he's going to spend 13, 13 years and six months behind bars because he was attempting to smuggle over $9 million in cocaine. Now this happened over in the Netherlands. He had the way that he did it, he had this truck, right? He drove this truck onto a ferry. On the truck there were 28 pallets of Skims clothing. So that's 90 packages containing about 2.2 pounds of cocaine. When he got on the ferry, the ferry is, was X rayed. So he was caught up by police over in the Netherlands as he was heading into exits as he was trying to cross the border and border patrol officers arrested him and in the beginning he denied any knowled of the drugs and then he confessed. He pled guilty to smuggling the cocaine in exchange for only $5,300. Well he will be. I mean this is, he's going to, he's, he's recently, you know, this is all happening now.

[Just Hilarious]

But he admitted that he was smuggling $9 million worth of coke for $5,300.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he said that it was in exchange for $5,300 he pled guilty to drug trafficking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, sound like skin has a new color to me. Race cocaine white Cocaine, white, easy.

[DJ Envy]

They probably were giving him $5,300 to transfer it over to the, you know,

[Just Hilarious]

the ferry the whole time. X ray his ass.

[DJ Envy]

Damn it.

[Just Hilarious]

That's wild. The whole boat got X rayed.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And, and I see an update here that he is facing 13 years and six months in prison.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

So you can get coke with the skims.

[DJ Envy]

All right, that's the latest. Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't.

[Just Hilarious]

I. I don't.

[DJ Envy]

Man, who you giving your doggy to, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, if you're a taxpaying citizen, as you should, should be, you should be concerned about this next story. And I want y' all to get on the phone lines now. 1-800-585-1051. Because if you haven't heard, there has been a nearly 1.8 billion dollar fund to compensate President Donald Trump's allies, and it is we the people, who have to pay for it. So President Donald J. Trump needs to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him, and then we're going to open up the phone line to see what we the people got about this situation.

[DJ Envy]

Okay? All right, we'll get to that.

[Alex Hibbert]

Next.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

[DJ Envy]

Wouldn't you love to see one of

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

these NFL owners when somebody disrespects our

[Charlamagne Tha God]

flag to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now.

[Imani Primer]

Out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's fired. He's fired. Trump, please step up to the congregation. Yes. You are a danger.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

When Mexico sends his people. They're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's a jackass. Yes. Donkey. Today for Tuesday, May 19th goes to President Donald J. Trump. Listen, my name is Leonard McKelvey, commonly known as Charlemagne Tha God. I am an American citizen and I reserve the right to criticize every elected official in this country, okay? Democrat or Republican, because we have the right to. And when you see blatant corruption happening in this country at our time, Spence, you gotta ring the alarm about it, okay? See, I don't know if you heard, but the Justice Department on yesterday announced the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump's allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration. Let's go to ABC8 News for the report, please. New this afternoon, the Justice Department just announced the creation of a new anti weaponization fund. It's paid for by taxpayers and worth well over $1.7 billion. The fund will compensate Americans who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration. President Trump accused the IRS of leaking his 2019 tax returns, but agreed to drop a $10 billion lawsuit in exchange for an apology. And creating this fund, some Republicans and Democrats are expressing concern. It's an utterly lawless plan that is being forwarded. And if our Republican colleagues have any respect for the Constitution and the powers of Congress, they will move to block it.

[Cortez Smith]

That's action that Congress needs to take. I don't think you can do that. You can't just take a billion or $10 billion unilaterally with the executive branch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Attorney General will appoint a five person commission to run the fund. According to ABC News, while President Trump won't receive any money. So rioters charged with storming the Capitol could qualify for payments. Basically, the President is able to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls with taxpayer money. If you are a Trump supporter who feels like you are politically targeted by the justice system, you can submit a claim. It doesn't matter if it was from the Russia collusion investigation to the nearly 1600 people who committed an insurrection in this country, you might be entitled to come compensation. And the compensation is coming from we the taxpayers. Does this apply to the 33 people who participated in the capital riots, who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted but got rearrested, got charged, got convicted for new crimes? Are they eligible to get some of our money? Okay, it's bad enough they got pardoned for trying to overthrow the results of an election, but now we got to pay them, even though they got pardoned and some of them committed new crimes. America, I don't care what your race is. I don't care what your party is. There is no way on God's green earth that we can be okay with this. I know America loves a good scam, okay? This country was built on pyramid schemes, all right? We live in an era where folks will get on a podcast and convince you to refinance your house to buy crypto, but using taxpayer dollars to create a $1.7 billion fund for your political allies. Do you understand how insane that sounds? Okay, Americans out here arguing over student loan forgiveness and Medicaid cuts, affordable housing and whether teachers deserve raises. But we got to sit back and watch Trump and his friends rob us of money that should be used for us. Okay? Taxpayer dollars should be used for Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and National Defense and keeping your local community running, okay? That's what taxpayer dollars are supposed to be for. People out here getting denied food assistance. Veterans who fought for this country are fighting for health care. Public school teachers are doing gofundmes for pencils and other basic supplies. You got libraries closing because it cuts the federal budgets. But you are using billions of dollars and taxpayer money, money that should be used to fund essential services at the federal, state and local levels for a political reimbursement program. Let's be clear. President Trump is just paying his goons, okay? This is incentive for his goons to do his bidding again if he needs them to. Okay? You, you get, you get a of part harden and cash in your pocket. What they gonna storm next? Voting boost in the midterms, perhaps? This is why people hate government, okay? You're taking money from people struggling to pay rent, buy groceries and survive inflation, which is surged under the Trump administration, by the way, okay? It's at its highest level in three years. You are taking taxpayer dollars and redirecting it to people who are connected to political power. This is why people get cynical about politics, because the rules, rules always seem different depending on who you are and who you're aligned with. And when you have a president like Donald J. Trump who doesn't even pretend to care, okay? That's what we have in the White House right now, a president like Donald J. Trump who doesn't even pretend to care. Do you remember last week when President Trump said, and I quote, I don't think, I don't think about Americans financial situations. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's what he said in regards to the Iran. He told you he doesn't care about your financial situation? Well, he was on Fox News with Brett Baer and he doubled down. Let's listen.

[DJ Envy]

You can imagine Democrats and political pundits,

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

the people get it jumped all over this that you made the other day. You were asked on the when you

[Lauren LaRosa]

were leaving, what extent are American financial

[Charlamagne Tha God]

situations motivating you to take a deal? Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters is that. And I'm talking about Iran.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

They can't have a nuclear weapon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think about American financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

That's right. That's a perfect segment. So make it again. But you can imagine how many people. Stop the sound bite at I don't think about America financial situation.

[DJ Envy]

So what's your response to that framework?

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Very simple. Now, when people hear me say it, everybody agrees. Short term pain. It's going to be short term pain, but the pain is much less than people thought.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Two things can be true. Iran doesn't need to have a nuclear weapon. But you as the President of the United States of America have to care about American's financial situation. That's the whole point of being a president. I would think that a president can multitask, okay? Especially a president that told you he was going to fix the economy on day two one. He told you that he won the election based off one word groceries, but he never cared if you actually could afford any, okay? Actions will always speak louder than words. Actions will always tell you what politicians value more than rhetoric does. And everyone's sitting around waiting for this golden age to happen. It's not. Okay. Not for you anyway. For him and his family, his allies. Oh, they getting fat while you off, okay? And that's why our taxpayer dollars going to this weaponization fund to compensate his allies should piss you off, okay? You should be outraged. You should actually be in the street protesting against this, okay? Not only is it corrupt, it is a blatant slap in the face to the economic hardships you folks are facing, okay? Trump told you he don't care what you're going through financially, all right? He's not even acting like he sees what you're going through. Going through, all right? He's not even. He's not even detached from people's economic struggles. He just doesn't care. He's pushing for financial windfalls for his allies, his family, not you. And we wonder why people get radicalized in this country. This is how Batman becomes Batman, okay? This is how Daredevil becomes Daredevil. This is the vigilante origin story. People play Tupac.

[Caller/Listener]

Please, you have to be logical. You know, if I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they tell. And they open the door, let me see the party. Let me see. Like, them throwing salami all over the. I mean, just like throwing food around where they're telling me there's no food in here, you know what I'm saying? Every day I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in, you know what I'm saying? We are hungry, please let us in. We are hungry, please let us. After about a week, that song was gonna change the. We hungry. We need some Food. After two, three weeks, it's like, you know, give me a little food.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we ragging out the door.

[Caller/Listener]

And after a year and you just like. You know what I'm saying? I'm picking the lock. Coming through the door blasting. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you hungry? You reached your level. You don't want any more. We asked 10 years ago, we was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, you know, the civil rights movement. We was asking, you know, now. Now those people that were asking, they're all dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just common sense, okay? If you're the President of the United States and you openly sound unconcerned about people's financial pain by using taxpayer dollars for political priorities, don't be shocked when Americans start wondering who government is really working for and then proceed to tear this government apart. Please give Donald J. Trump the biggest. He haul. Big ho. I don't care what race you are. I don't care what your party affiliation is. There's no way this situation don't piss you off.

[Stephen A. Smith]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's no way this situation don't outrage you. It's just. It's just impossible. Okay?

[DJ Envy]

And let's discuss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We open a. Please open.

[DJ Envy]

Let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. How do you feel? Donald Trump launches a compensation fund.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

$1.7 billion fund for his political political allies.

[DJ Envy]

Pretty much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Meanwhile, people out here getting denied food assistance. You know, you drive by veterans on the street holding signs all the time. They can't. They can't get nothing. They don't have no housing. They don't have no health care.

[DJ Envy]

Let's discuss. 800.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I told you. Public school teachers are literally having GoFundMe for pens, basic supplies. What are we talking about?

[DJ Envy]

Let's discuss. 800-585-1051 is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Stephen A. Smith]

It's topic time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, Charlemagne gave donkey of the Day to Donald Trump.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, Donald Trump. Because he started a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate his allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration. And guess who has to pay for it? Us. The taxpayers. That's right. Are taxpayer dollars going to people who committed an insurrection in this country, some of these people, 33 of them in fact, were pardoned, had or had their sentences commuted, but then they got rearrested. That's crazy. And charged and convicted with new crimes. So are they eligible for this $1.8 billion?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I'm sure they are. But like you said, this is a tax funded program. This is compensation fund. And we talk about everything that Americans need. We talk about the prices of gas, we talk about the prices, prices of food. We talk about teachers out there having GO funds, me to get gofundme to get pencils and books, basic supplies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taxpayer dollars should be used for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. You know, I mean, to keep our local communities running, not to pay a bunch of insurrectionists, bro.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hello, my name is Tracy.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Tracy. Good morning. Talk to us, Tracy.

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, y'. All grand rising. I was calling to say that we should all stop paying taxes. We should all go exempt on our paycheck. Every everybody. And then they would have to listen to us. If nobody is paying attention, what they gonna do?

[DJ Envy]

They're gonna put you in jail.

[Just Hilarious]

I was gonna say. I said that a few months ago. I would love to said you was like, we're gonna go to jail.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they'll put you in jail.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Which is. Which is messed up.

[Just Hilarious]

But everybody, if everybody stop it ain't enough jails. Like, if everybody. Because that's what I said. But then y' all looked at me like I was dumb.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, Cash, you're not dumb. You're not dumb. Everybody just not gonna do it. Everybody did it. They can't fit everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. I mean, there needs to be some type of general strike on something. I don't know what that would be like.

[Just Hilarious]

Who's gonna stop. Stop him? Like, I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, what up, dog?

[DJ Envy]

What up? What up, dog? What's your name, brother?

[Caller/Listener]

What up this Deontay, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Deontay.

[Caller/Listener]

What's up, man? You was right though. He is he just playing his goons. So when he try to go for this third term, they could be there and wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Caller/Listener]

But also he, when he got enough, he said, want to make America great again. He wanted to make a white Americans great again. That's why taking a lot of black jobs from the federal government. He's doing all this gerrymandering stuff. But we can't just look at Trump. We got to look at the Supreme Court. The people that's passing these laws. All these people got to be held accountable. For the stuff that he doing, bro. It ain't just him, though. It's the people that's above him too, too. That's. That's enabling his actions for him to even be the person he is today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree with you 100%. But I would like to say this. I don't even think he care about white America. He cares about the rich, and I don't even think he cares about the rich. He cares about him and his people in particular.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know how many white people out here hurting financially as well?

[DJ Envy]

He cares about his loyals, but that's

[Caller/Listener]

why he's telling them it's gonna hurt for a little bit because he putting them in position to get more money. But let me ask you this stuff. You know, y' all pay millions in taxes. I work a 9 to 5 little tax or whatever. How do you feel when you got to go pay your millions and that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's slow down money. I don't know what you're talking about. What are you talking about?

[Caller/Listener]

A $200 million?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree with almost everything he said. About 60% of that was not accurate. Jesus Christ. My God.

[DJ Envy]

But 800-585-1051 but he's right. We have to pay taxes. And it's crazy paying taxes knowing that part of your money is going to this compensation fund that he created for him and his people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, man, that's. Wow. If like I said earlier, when you got people out here being denied food assistance, when you got veterans out here who can't afford healthcare, I mean, so many people can't afford healthcare. My mother was a public school teacher in South Carolina for well, well over 40 plus years. Okay? When you got public school teachers who got to have gofundmes for basic supplies for students, but then you see our taxpayer dollars going to insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the results of an election, that should just piss you off. I don't want my money going towards that.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. Charlemagne gave Donald Trump donkey today. And that's because Donald Trump launched his compensation fund with Nancy, nearly $1.8 billion and his taxpayer funded for his loyalists. If he's just joining us, Donald Charlemagne gave Donald Trump donkey of the day. Now that's because he launched his compensation fund. It's nearly $1.8 billion is taxpayer funded. And you gave him donkey because of what, Charlotte?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because, man, $1.8 billion fund.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Going to compensate his allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration. And it's our taxpayer dollars that are being being used to fund that. Like, man, when you got people out here with, with, with student loan debt and Medicaid is being cut, you know, housing isn't affordable. You know what I'm saying? Teachers can't get raises. You just saw the TSA don't be knowing when they gonna get paid, right? But we gotta sit back and watch Trump and his friends rob us of money that should be being used for us.

[DJ Envy]

I wonder how do people feel who voted for Trump, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who voted for Trump twice?

[DJ Envy]

I wonder how they feel. Do they feel like it's a slap in the face? Like, hey, how do they feel? Because they, they're super.

[Just Hilarious]

A lot of his base too, are hurt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hurting.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, this is Keisha from Brooklyn.

[DJ Envy]

Keisha from Brooklyn, talk to us. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

So I'm not shocked by anything Trump does. This is not a shocker. They let a kid in the White House. I am very much convinced his favorite color is the number six.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything he's doing, Kamala already said he

[Caller/Listener]

did it, that he was going to do. He kidnapped the president, compensated, they oiled,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

started a war to avoid jail time,

[Caller/Listener]

time, like Charlemagne said. He said he didn't care about anything regarding America. He just cares about the nuclear bomb that our Ryan Bang has. So it's not a shocker.

I just hope going forward during the

[Charlamagne Tha God]

midterm, the way everybody showed up for those AP watches, that's how the polls are.

[Caller/Listener]

Crowded with a line because this had

[Lauren LaRosa]

to happen for people to take voting very serious.

[Caller/Listener]

This man is a child.

He does not care. You know, like a two year old

[Charlamagne Tha God]

with a silver or two in their mouth.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what he gets.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, okay.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Mama. Hello, who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Yo, yo, what's going on? Good morning, Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

What's your name?

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Talk to us. What's your thoughts?

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, so first off, Charlie, man, I read your book. Thank you for that book, and it's great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, sir.

[Caller/Listener]

My thoughts on it is this. I'm a veteran. I'm 53 years old. I, I agree with Charlemagne on what he said about, about the teacher situation. The veterans who don't have homes care anything like that. The average veteran pay if you're not Getting Retirement is 4, 500amonth. If you have kids under the age of 18, you get an extra 300 per child. So with me, I only, I only was able to do 18 years because they kicked me out because, you know, hey, you're medically done, mentally gone. We can't do anything with you. Here's your flag. Have a nice day. But I don't, I don't see how people don't understand what they're looking at every day on what this man is doing. Everything he said he was going to do, he did the total opposite. Yeah, but people believe in them all. Your MAGA this and MAGA that. And it's funny because I'm like, okay, the same people that said all this, now this man is ripping your pocket. And you still sitting up here like, what are we going to do now? He's taking this from us. He's taking. But you put him in office.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, they've made it look like a culture war. They made it look like a culture war. So if I get on the radio and criticize him, then people will be like, you just a Democratic shell. Oh, you just a tool for the left. But if I, if I criticize Democrats, and they'd be like, oh, you maga. You help Donald Trump get into office. It's just like, no, I should just be an American citizen who should be able to call balls and strikes. When something is right, it's right. When something is wrong, it's wrong. And this is wrong.

[Caller/Listener]

Well, like you said. But it depends who's saying it. If somebody else said nobody's gonna have a problem with it. But what you said. So, I mean, somebody's gonna have a problem with it, or if I say it, somebody's got a problem with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Caller/Listener]

But they fail to realize you're, you're the ones who's really being hurt. I'm not going to say, you know, what race or whatever, but you're the ones who's really being hurt. We have struggled. We know what struggle is. So we know how to put money to the side if we have it, because we know what's coming. They don't do that. So you sitting here telling people, well, I don't care about their financial situation. It's just a small thing for right now. But you, but now you giving money to people who was insurrected. And I don't, I don't understand that. You give them one. Come on, man. Nobody. I wonder how long this is going to take for somebody snap and say, you know what? We need to get this dude out of office. But it doesn't seem like nobody's going to push that issue because they're scared of them.

[Just Hilarious]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right, my brother.

[Caller/Listener]

That's my thing. Like, teachers deserve Way more than what they are getting. My grandmother was a teacher, and this is back in 40s, 50s, and 60s, but I see how teachers are being just pushed to the side. There's a lot of kids to deal with in one room. 30 kids in a room, but you paying them 35, 000 a year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. My mother, when my mother told me the most she ever made as a public school teacher in South Carolina was $30,000.

[Alex Hibbert]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it was. And she had five kids.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? So think about that. It was four. Five of us. Listen, man, if they came to me right now and said they had a $1.8 billion fund to compensate veterans, I wouldn't even care. I'd be like, please, let's make it more. If they. If they told me that they had a $1.8 billion fund to compensate teachers, I have no problem with my taxpayer dollars going to that. But to compensate President Donald Trump's allies.

[DJ Envy]

Compensation. Fun.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

It makes no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No claim they were unfairly targeted. No. And let's be clear. I said it during donkey today, and I'm going say it again. President Trump is just paying off his goons. This is incentive for his goons to do his bidding again if he needs them, too. You get a pardon and cash in your pocket.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man. I need y' all to storm the midterms come November. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying, like, that's what that seems like to me.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, when we come back, we got the latest with Lauren, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Streaming May 22nd on Paramount. The acclaimed series from executive producer Lena Waithe reaches its final chapter. The Shy. For seven seasons, these stories, these streets, this community have stayed with us. Now it all leads to this. As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried, One thing is certain. The Shy is more than just a series. It's a legacy. Don't miss the final season. May 22nd on a Paramount plus premium plan.

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[Kal Penn]

hey everyone, it's Cal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay the Audible and I Heart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project Hail Mary, Massive sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections and it's like okay, yo yo yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it.

[DJ Envy]

I was like no.

[Ray Porter]

At this point it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that that deeply emotionally affected me and I left it on the mic. That's great cuz it served the story. People will say like oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like yeah dude, me too.

[Kal Penn]

Listen to ear say the Audible and iHeart audiobook club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you walk out the bathroom screaming? You know what I'm saying? You feeling £10 pleasuring scream too. I ain't mad at it, but damn.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, everybody.

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

We are the Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

Let's get to the latest laundry. Coming with straight fast.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'll be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest brought to you by Top dog law on the breakfast.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So shout out to young Miami Carisha. She not got. You guys know she has that song that's rolling right now. Spin that. Well, she did the spin that gas giveaway over the weekend, which I thought was fire. She posted it yesterday, though, like a recap video. And what she did was she allowed people to pull up to certain gas stations first come, first serve. And she was filling up people's tanks. Yeah, like with the. The way that the gas prices and things are set up right now down the people were there. I saw some local news reports and people were so appreciative of being able to do that. But then she turned around and went over to Walmart and also covered, you know, people's groceries and different things that they were buying you. Moms that were there that needed help as well too. Yeah, she.

[Just Hilarious]

She loved the Karisha for that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it was 25 pre selected moms. They were surprised with a 200 Walmart shopping spree.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So yeah, you'd be surprised how far that go with people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yes, 200. That's a good amount of groceries.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. Walmart.

[Mimi Brown]

Yep.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that was in collaboration with Nana's house Behavioral health in Miami Gardens and in a councilman.

[Caller/Listener]

So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And she does. It's an organization that she has called Karisha gives and Kisha cares.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're dropping a CLU bomb for Kish.

[DJ Envy]

That's amazing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Now in other moves, sh News, shifting gears a bit. I said shifting shift. I didn't say anything.

[DJ Envy]

Why you so scared?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cuz you looked up and I'm like making sure. We know, I know. We got. I don't curse on the podcast. That was crazy, by the way. So in other news, shifting gears a bit. So Clarissa Shields over the weekend, you

[Charlamagne Tha God]

guys know she slapped the shift out of somebody.

[DJ Envy]

You just Scared me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stop, man, stop. Both stop right now. Stop right now.

[Just Hilarious]

Enough of the games.

[DJ Envy]

Continue on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Clarissa. Clarissa Shields was at the Ronda Rousey and Gina Ar. Fight. Shout out to Ronda Rousey, by the way. Seven. Seventeen seconds. That was, you know, done. But she was there.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn. She knocked Shorty out in 17 seconds.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She made her tap out.

[DJ Envy]

She did, yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, I mean, I knock out. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy too.

[DJ Envy]

It was like 1, 2, 3.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Hey, Rhonda, she came up here and she told us what she was gonna do and she did it. Exactly. So, yeah. So while Clarissa was there, fighter Alicia Baumgartner was also there as well too. And the two had an exchange of words. And yes, Clarissa slapped Alicia Baumgartner who. Who is threatening, you know, to take legal action. But late last night, MVP promotions actually posted that they are banning Clarissa from all of their events.

[Caller/Listener]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't agree with that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So they say mvp and she had just started building her relationship with them. MVP maintains a strict zero tolerance policy for hostile, threatening or aggressive behavior toward fighters, staff, media or guest. MVP does not condone or tolerate or accept Clarissa Shields behavior in that. That state setting. And it reflects poorly on MVP in women's sports, which we have worked tirelessly to uplift. Effective immediately, Clarissa is banned from all MVP events until further notice. There's a time and place for fire, attention and banter, but to physically attack a fellow athlete while there are guests inside a private. While they are a guest inside of a private VIP area is unacceptable in those sports.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That happens though, in combat sports. You know, these combat fighters, they see each other in person and it does. Does get very, very, very chippy.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes it leads to blows being thrown, people getting slapped. What was the last fight we saw that when it was Devin Haney, them crew, who they was banging with.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, that was the problem.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh yeah, yeah. That was his dad that got outside the garden. That's what you're talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't remember. My point is that happens at those type of events.

[DJ Envy]

But when it does happen, do those other athletes get banned as well or is it just like, ah, whatever. Because it didn't. To me it was him as bad. It just seemed like they were going back and forth. It just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, you don't got the audio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They said that there was no audio in the video. Like you. There's a video, you can see that. They, they said that. They said, well, we do have audio of the slap, but they said they don't know if it's worth Playing. But since you guys want to hear it, let's hear it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that sound like it hurt.

[Alex Hibbert]

Oh, there was another one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There was another audio clip that was better than that. What you, you heard, you heard the lead up.

[DJ Envy]

You heard it was a different angle. Yeah, it was a long.

[Just Hilarious]

She getting her face or something? Like what? I mean, she didn't. She snappy for nothing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, they, I mean, they exchanged words. This is like a known. She talked about Alicia Baumgartner when she was up here as well. And I know Alicia was trying to come up here as well too, after Clarissa left the show because she wanted to clear up some things that she said that Clarissa was saying about her. So they have a back and forth,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

told Clarissa, I whip your ass right now.

[Just Hilarious]

Right. Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, I mean, I, I, I see what MVP is doing, but I agree with you, Charlamagne. I think because they get back.

[DJ Envy]

I do understand what MVP is doing because he want to make sure that when boxers or anybody comes to the fight, they keep their hands to themselves, regardless of the chatter. But it seems like this happens all the time. Yeah, but you box in the ring, right?

[Just Hilarious]

Not outside.

[DJ Envy]

That's on both sides. You box in the ring. Like if you're a fighter, you come there, you want to be safe, you don't want to be feel like you can. It has to be some type of consequences. But if this happens all the time and nobody has ever got banned, that's unfair.

[Just Hilarious]

So MVP is Jake Paul's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And Clarissa was talking about when she was here too, that she had began building a relationship with them because she liked what they were doing in a women's sports. So.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. Damn.

[Michael V. Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no. I just want to tell y', all, man, that this is Mental Health awareness month. Right. And you know, every year I am blessed to do an event called the Mental Wealth Expo. And I just want to tell y' all right now that on Saturday, October 10, 2026, the mental wealth Expo is coming back to Newark, New Jersey. Okay. It will be at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in new work inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Event Center. You know, we're going to have an inspiring lineup of programming and conversations and a lot of special guests to be announced. I'm just letting y' all know early just because. And I want y' all to know that this year is focused on nothing but solutions. Like, you know, we have these conversations about eradicating the stigma and, you know, raising awareness of around people with mental health issues. But this Year is literally just all about solutions, resources, and tools for change. So if you're interested in attending, you can save the date in RSVP now at mental wealth expo.com mental wealth expo.com

[Lauren LaRosa]

a lot of people are looking for solutions in that arena, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. And 1010 is actually a world Mental Health day. So we're doing it on World Mental Health Day this year.

[DJ Envy]

So dope, dope, dope, dope. Congratulations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can never come.

[Just Hilarious]

Happy birthday to Yo Gotti, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Just Hilarious]

He is 45.

[DJ Envy]

You have to say that right there. Yeah, you act like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like it's all about you.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, it's all about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because I really.

[DJ Envy]

Doing homecoming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, because I wanted. I always want to go to the Expo and, like, experience it. And I'm trying to figure out therapy. And he always does it at homecoming and I trust the people he brings, but, yeah, that's it.

[Just Hilarious]

Happy birthday also to Sam Smith. He. Because I. Charlotte, don't talk about it.

[Alex Hibbert]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right.

[Just Hilarious]

Happy birthday to Sam Smith. He's 34, y'.

[Mimi Brown]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the latest for the hour brought to you by Top Dog Law. Any accident, big or small, called Top Dog Law.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, we got the mix, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to the cast of the Shot for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

Season eight, the final season happens on the 22nd of this month.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So salute to Lena. Man, I think it's so dope that Lena created a show based around her city that ended up being the longest running drama, I think black drama period, or something like that. I forgot what the actual record is, but eight seasons is a long time. And I mean, for her to be from Chicago and create something about your city that could have. That could have went bad. You know what I mean? People in the city might not have liked it. You know me, but they like it. And it's been around for a long time. So salute to Lena.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. And also this weekend, you're gonna be in Rhode island, right?

[Just Hilarious]

I'm gonna be in East Providence, Rhode island, at the Comedy Connection. Guys, so get your tickets for that. This Friday, we got two shows. This Saturday, we got two shows as well. And then I also have a book signing event Saturday from 1 to 2pm at Riff Raff and Bar. So make sure you pull up with your book. You'll get it signed. We'll have a fireside chat talking about motherhood, fatherhood, all things co parenting. And I will be doing meet and greet at the shows both nights Friday and Saturday at the Comedy Connection. Connection.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love Rhode Island. You do? Rhode island is one of the most underrated food places. Or maybe it's not underrated because they got a. What's the culinary school that's there? I can't remember right now, but they are. They have some great restaurants in Rhode Island.

[Just Hilarious]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Man, I like this spot called Irregardless Biscuit.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, that's that spot you told me about. I know. That was in Providence.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And there's another. There's an African restaurant called Afro Man. What's the spot called? Afro Leak, I think it's called. Okay, I'll send it to.

[Just Hilarious]

You had no idea. Yeah, that's what's up. Because I only know one person from Rhode Island. That's Claudia Jordan. I did not know.

[DJ Envy]

I forgot to call this one out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Afrique D Lounge.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay. Africa. The lounge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I freak the lounge. That's the problem.

[Just Hilarious]

It's just a freaky lounge. It's not.

[DJ Envy]

You know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They got good food. I mean, amazing food, actually.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, Now Jess has few a fact. Yeah, these always don't go the way that she wants them to go. But let's. Let's hear it this morning.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, this one is one.

[DJ Envy]

I got faith in you.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, blow some hair on your head. Listen, let me show you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't have any.

[Just Hilarious]

I said blow some hair on your head.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Just Hilarious]

Did y' all know. Did we know that the character Shrek was inspired by a real human being? His name was Morris Tillay. Yes, he was a Frenchman. He was a pro wrestler. He was born in 1903. Now this is back in the. Back in the dizzle. But this was. He was inspired. Shrek was inspired by a real human being who had a crazy looking head. Just like Shrek. Just like an ogre, but he was a human being. See, people don't know the origin behind

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shrek, but it also was a picture book. A picture book that came out in the 90s. You know what it was called?

[Just Hilarious]

What was it called?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shrek.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, it was called Shrek, but it

[Charlamagne Tha God]

was a guy named William, William Stigma, who made a picture book.

[Just Hilarious]

That's not where they got Shrek from. They got Shrek, the original Shrek.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Google some more and you'll Google some more. No, and you will see what I'm talking about.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, this is the 19.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right. You're Right about the other. You're actually. You're right about Maurice Delay, but it also. There was a picture book, a nice book that came out in the 90s, and it was actually called Shrek.

[DJ Envy]

Let me ask you a question. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought at the end of the movie they showed the guy I could be wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't remember.

[Just Hilarious]

After the credits and stuff.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I thought so. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought it.

[Just Hilarious]

But that's another movie that you talking about.

[DJ Envy]

Not that it was Shrek. It is, but I thought everybody knew that. My kids know that. Even my 4 year old knows that.

[Just Hilarious]

But it's okay, whatever, whatever.

[DJ Envy]

Where you get the information from?

[Just Hilarious]

What do you mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, she's not. She's right about. I'm just asking. Would you get it from reading?

[Just Hilarious]

Okay. It's a book about Morris Tay. I'm reading a lot of French books. You know, cuz I'm an author now. I be reading books, all that. So that was in one of the books that I read.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the book, the movie was from a children's book.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Called Shrek by William Stig. It wasn't just some movie that somebody made up. It made it based off the picture book.

[Just Hilarious]

So that means the picture book was based off of Maurice Talay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't think that's the way that worked, yo. Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

Either way, I was right. Thank you. And y' all learned something and y' all are welcome.

[DJ Envy]

You know what you should do? You should do something more on your culture, like Mexican culture, like. Because those are things we.

[Just Hilarious]

We don't know much about African American culture. Totally skipping over that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what Shrek means?

[Just Hilarious]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what it means? No, I don't fear terror.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Just Hilarious]

That wasn't the premise.

[DJ Envy]

That was on the full.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, what it mean and all of that. It's where they got it from. And it was inspired by a real person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, it was inspired by picture book in the 90s.

[Just Hilarious]

All right, now move on.

[DJ Envy]

You know. You know what you should really look up? The most popular food is no longer Italian food. It is fried chicken. Mexican food.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, man, stop. It's not representing for your. You're not one of us no more.

[DJ Envy]

You know what? You know what? Fill us on that fact tomorrow, all right?

[Just Hilarious]

Tomorrow.

[Cortez Smith]

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[DJ Envy]

You got a positive note?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do. And the positive note is simply this. How you do anything is how you do everything. Everything. Okay. It is a philosophy that emphasizes your daily habits, energy and attention to detail. Define your overall character. It means the small choices you make consistently shape the standard to which you hold yourself to across all areas of life. So how you do anything is how you do everything. Have a great day. Breakfast Club Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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