FULL SHOW: Ray J Makes Shocking Claim About Diddy 🤨, Mariah The Scientist Opens Up About Marriage + Tasha Cobbs Leonard Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary

Date: December 16, 2025
Podcast: The Breakfast Club
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Notable Guests: Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Mariah The Scientist (via interview), and Mimi Brown (news)
Main Segments: Front Page News, Latest with Lauren, Interviews, Call-ins/Listeners, and Discussion Topics

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Episode Overview

A packed and lively episode of The Breakfast Club blending the hottest pop culture news, serious topics, and candid conversations. The episode features a heartfelt, soul-baring interview with gospel artist Tasha Cobbs Leonard discussing her new album "Tasha" and personal faith journey, robust listener participation, analysis of current news stories (including the tragic Reiner family murders), controversy around the new Diddy documentary and Ray J’s claims, and a light yet meaningful interview segment with Mariah The Scientist where she discusses her hopes for marriage and motherhood. The hosts display their trademark banter while tackling everything from mental health to holiday hardships with their guests and listeners.

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Key Segments & Topics

1. Front Page News

With Mimi Brown

• [08:22] Deadly Shooting at Brown University

  • Nine victims, manhunt underway, open campus concerns, open discussion on university safety.
  • Exchange about campus security and if “open campuses” contribute to violence.
  • Notable Quote:
    • “Even closed campuses, students get in and out... it’s not like any campus is set up like a jail.” – Charlamagne Tha God [10:38]

• [12:10] Arrest of Brown University Shooting Suspect

  • FBI involved, victim names released, $50,000 reward issued.

• [13:19] Foiled NYC Bombing Plot

  • Authorities disrupt an extremist plot by the Turtle Island Liberation Front; imminent danger prevented.
  • Memorable banter: “Save some turtles!” – DJ Envy & Charlamagne Tha God [13:44]

• [34:31 & 35:46] Reiner Family Murders & Trump Backlash

  • Arrest of Rob & Michelle Reiner’s son Nick for their murder.
  • Trump’s inflammatory comments blaming “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” drawing intense criticism from all political sides.
  • Whoopi Goldberg’s emotional rebuke aired: "Have you no shame?" [37:21]
  • Discussion of Rob Reiner’s deep political engagement and impact.

• [40:16] Trump Lawsuit Against BBC

  • Trump sues BBC for allegedly deceptive editing in a documentary, claims election interference, seeking $10B damages.
  • Hosts highlight: The frequent pattern of high-profile lawsuits against media outlets.

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2. Community Voices – Listener Call-ins

“Get it off your chest” Segment [14:23-22:08]

• Listeners share struggles with mental health, depression cycles, nonprofit work, and frustration with call-in system.

• Notable Moment: Tiara, a listener, vulnerably shares her mental health battle:

  • “I’m exhausted from fighting my mental health alone...I just need some guidance, maybe mentorship or perspective from someone who understands the struggle.” [14:43]
  • Hosts offer personal outreach and words of support.

• Callers promote health/wellness outreach in black communities, discuss Kendrick Lamar’s mainstream leap, and realities around the “Real ID” system.

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3. In-Depth Interview: Tasha Cobbs Leonard

[43:08-73:14]

• Topics: New album, faith, grief, transparency, therapy, and the complex relationship between church and youth.
• Tasha describes how and why her album "Tasha" is autobiographical and rooted in lived testimony.
• On Vulnerability:
  • “I’m willing to be transparent if it’s gonna be somebody’s healing…that’s what the gospel is…being honest about what you’ve gone through.” [45:17]
• On Youth & Church Disconnect:
  • “Kids these days don’t want fluff. They want a real God...we’ve gotta take the fluff off and just give them the meat of who God is.” [51:31]
• On Mental Health:
  • Tasha shares struggles with self-rejection, depression, the intersection of faith and therapy:
    • “I would go to church and watch people be healed...and I would go home for three and four days…crying...There has to be more.” [67:02]
• On Grief Shaping Ministry:
  • Tasha reflects on personal loss, particularly her father’s death and miscarriage, and how these experiences made her approach to ministry and music more “culturally intelligent” and heartfelt:
    • “...those experiences really changed the way that I minister...” [70:24]
• Moving Prayer:
  • Tasha closes the segment with a heartfelt prayer for listeners struggling with depression or grief. [73:14]

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4. Latest with Lauren

• [73:42+] Mariah The Scientist Interview:

  • She opens up about wanting marriage and a family and her personal desires for stability and love, sharing that she intends marriage to precede children.
    • Quote: “I want to be married…I just want it to be out of love, not out of responsibility.” – Mariah The Scientist [74:44]

• Power Sessions Concert Success:

  • The sold-out Boys Mind Tour wraps, drawing over 330,000 fans with appearances by Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Trina, Michelle Obama, and Missy Elliot.

• Mariah Carey's Record:

  • “All I Want for Christmas Is You” becomes the longest-running No. 1 song on Billboard Hot 100 (20 weeks) [78:04]
    • Quote: “I had no idea [the song] would be such a thing...” – Mariah Carey [79:16]

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5. Diddy Documentary & Ray J’s Claims

[109:06, 116:04]

• 50 Cent’s Diddy docu-series sparks controversy. Jim Jones, Fab, and the Rap Radar Podcast discuss unauthorized documentaries.
• Heated exchange between 50 Cent and Jim Jones over podcast commentary and financial/legal accusations.
• The group debates the ethics of unauthorized documentaries, with the broader question of accountability in black communities in Diddy’s context.
• Toward episode’s end, Ray J makes shocking (and graphic) allegations about Diddy, which is discussed with both disbelief and characteristic Breakfast Club humor.
  • “Ray J is black. He’s yet another black person saying Diddy took his butt...” – DJ Envy [116:36]
  • The hosts stress the difference between rumor and verified fact, and the importance of getting both sides in documentaries.

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6. Listening Session – Holiday Hardships

[93:21+]

• The hosts and listeners candidly share their worst holiday experiences: financial toughness, family drama, lost gifts, and even crime.
• Heartfelt Moment: K.K. from Detroit shares her breast cancer diagnosis and her kids’ father’s death, expressing gratitude and faith through adversity.
  • “Even in season, when everything seems upside down, the Lord is still good.” [103:22]
  • Hosts and listeners embrace her with support and charity.

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7. Donkey of the Day

[81:06+]

• Recipient: President Donald J. Trump
• Reason: Cynically blaming Rob Reiner’s murder on “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, politicizing tragedy, hypocrisy (contrasted with prior Republican criticism of left-wing responses to tragedies).
  • “How do you turn someone’s tragic murder into politically motivated violence?” – DJ Envy [36:27]
  • “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite.” – Charlamagne Tha God [87:35]

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Selected Notable Quotes

• Charlamagne Tha God [10:38]:
  “It’s not like any campus is set up like a jail where you have to go through certain protocols.”

• Tasha Cobbs Leonard [45:17]:
  “I’m willing to be transparent if it’s gonna be somebody’s healing…that’s what the gospel is…being honest about what you’ve gone through.”

• Mariah The Scientist [74:44]:
  “I want to be married…I just want it to be out of love, not out of responsibility.”

• Jess Hilarious [96:00]:
  “That was the worst Christmas for me…We ain’t have no lights or nothing. And I had to steal everything. But those was the days I was getting down.”

• K.K. from Detroit [103:22]:
  “Even in season, when everything seems upside down, the Lord is still good.”

• Charlamagne Tha God [37:21] (quoting Whoopi Goldberg):
  “Have you no shame? No shame at all? ...Can you get any lower? I don’t think so.”

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Tone & Style

Consistently candid, humorous, sometimes irreverent, but with warmth and moments of emotional vulnerability. The show balances serious discussion with playful banter and community engagement, representative of The Breakfast Club’s signature conversational style.

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TL;DR Highlights (with Timestamps)

• [08:22] – Brown shooting, campus security, manhunt
• [35:46] – Trump’s controversial comments on Reiner murders and national backlash
• [43:08] – Tasha Cobbs Leonard on grief, faith, and new album ("Tasha")
• [74:04] – Mariah The Scientist on marriage, family, and personal goals
• [81:06] – Donald Trump awarded “Donkey of the Day” for hypocrisy in politicizing tragedy
• [93:21] – Hosts and listeners share worst holiday/Christmas hardships and triumphs
• [109:06] – Explosive debate over Diddy documentary, unauthorized storytelling
• [116:04] – Ray J’s wild claim about Diddy sparks disbelief and laughter

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A dynamic Breakfast Club episode blending real news, personal testimony, pop culture shocks, and signature “Donkey of the Day” social critique—all delivered with empathy and fun.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jessica]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what up, y'?

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's DJ Envy, and the holidays are here. The time of year that's all about connecting with loved ones in person or over the phone. In fact, hearing someone's voice can evoke a similar emotional response as a hug. And while most of us can hop on a video chat to really bring that connection to life, using tech isn't easy for everyone, especially some of the older folk in our lives. AT&T has been doing something special here to help. They offer digital literacy workshops that help older adults learn how to use technology to do things most of us take for granted, like video conferencing and sharing photos. Take Nancy Shand. She joined one of AT&T's workshops to learn how to video chat for the first time this holiday season. Nancy won't just be hearing about family gatherings, she'll be a part of them, sharing stories, opening presents, and making memories all through a screen. Nobody should have to go through the holiday season alone, so be sure to connect and stay connected to your loved ones this holiday season.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[DJ Envy]

Wake you up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake that ass up. Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartRadio. Good morning, USA.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess Hilarios with that ass up. Charlemagne, Nicole.

[DJ Envy]

Peace to the planet.

[News Reporter]

It's Tuesday.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. 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.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Jess? Sound like you about to lose your voice.

[Guest/Contributor]

I know, right? I had an event last night, another foundation event. We raised toys at Black Swan. We collaborated with btst. Chris Simon and his wife have a foundation in Baltimore City, and we raised a lot of other toys that's gonna go to 25 families down at the Horseshoe Casino at a dinner this Wednesday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's dope. Give back to the community as you. As you all should. Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

How the hell you lose your voice doing that?

[Guest/Contributor]

Because it was a cocktail. So that's if I had to host it and was on the mic telling jokes and all of this type of stuff. And so, yeah, it was from 7 to 11 last night at Black Swan in Baltimore. So, yeah, congratulations.

[DJ Envy]

Just drop one of those.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yes, this. I, I, I. It is a lot. It's taking a lot out of me doing this foundation work. But it feels good, though. It feels good. And the families is. That's going to be my relief, seeing them relieved. There you go.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I guess doing something for other people is so tiring. Oh, my God.

[Caller/Listener]

Shut up.

[Guest/Contributor]

Shut Up. I'm glad that I decided to start doing it. Yes, it's amazing. It is a lot of work, but, yeah, it's good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I guarantee you tomorrow you're gonna take a sick day because your. Your voice is almost there.

[Guest/Contributor]

No, I'm not.

[DJ Envy]

I'm actually gonna be vacation all after Friday.

[Guest/Contributor]

I know. It's okay. I'm gonna be in there in the studio tomorrow. Yes, I'm there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And if you have kids out there, they're saying the flu is ridiculous and so is strep.

[DJ Envy]

It's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's. It's a lot of cases running around, and that's why a lot of kids are sick. That's why a lot of people are losing their voices. A lot of problems. As Charlemagne called it a couple of weeks ago, the throat monster is taking over.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't saying nobody.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yeah, I used to be back that day.

[DJ Envy]

But you are now.

[Guest/Contributor]

He said. Yeah, envy said Judith.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you said me. I thought you said the throat monster got my throat pause.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Well, that too.

[DJ Envy]

I want to talk to you. I want to have this conversation. All I'm simply saying is this is why people go get flu shots. Okay. I've never been a flu shot type of person, but I understand why people do go get the flu shots because, you know, the flu mutates every single year. Every year there's a new variant of the flu. So people go get flu shots every year, I guess, to try to slow some of this down. But.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And no, it hasn't been working because a lot of people haven't been getting the flu shot. So what? And I had to dive into this the other a couple of weeks ago, but a lot of people haven't been getting the flu shot. And because they haven't been getting the flu shot, the actual flu shot hasn't been working enough. People haven't been getting it to make sure you have immunity.

[DJ Envy]

So that's why it don't work, then?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's what they. That's what they've been saying. People don't get it because if more people get the flu shot, it builds up an immunity. But because people aren't getting it like they should, it's not doing what it's supposed to be doing to the flu.

[DJ Envy]

Because they're not getting it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Correct.

[DJ Envy]

It's not. Because it don't work, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, yeah, because they're not getting that.

[DJ Envy]

Well, that's what I'm saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because people are not getting it. So they're telling people to go out there and get the flu shot. It'll actually help. And I learned something about strep, too. I learned strep is something that happens more often than we think. But the reason why we take medicine for strep is not because of actual the throat, is because strep can affect your heart. I learned all this the last couple of weeks down all this ish. Don't quote me. Google it. But I've been talking to doctors.

[DJ Envy]

I've been finding.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got six kids.

[DJ Envy]

My kids got flu, so fellatio can lead to cardiovascular issues.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus Christ.

[Guest/Contributor]

Jesus Christ.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's get the show cracking.

[DJ Envy]

You always gotta go there. Why there? You started off talking about you a throw monster. I'm just. I'm just matching your energy, King.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tasha Cobbs. Tasha Cobbs Leonard will be joining Just Play with the Shake Weight over there. Tasha Cobbs Leonard will be joining us today.

[DJ Envy]

She's got a new album called Tasha out now. And I love what Tasha Cobb Leonard is doing because she. Her music for ministry as well.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

You know, and she. And she's telling her personal story a lot through this album. And I. I'm a person that believes people's personal experiences can help others as well, because you never know what somebody else is dealing with, especially if they're going through the same thing that you're going through. So when you see somebody go through something and get through it and then tell you how to do it, it can be very motivational. So absolutely. Tasha Kab will be here to talk about it all this morning. So since we have Tasha Cobb Leonard, you know, coming in to do a little bit of preaching, let's start the show like that. God damn it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, I'm with you, man. We got front page news next.

[DJ Envy]

But what Dolph, this is a Negro spiritual.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right? This is Young Dolph is Preach.

[DJ Envy]

You God damn right about to cut.

[Guest/Contributor]

On some Kirk Franklin or something you talking about.

[DJ Envy]

Same different. Yes, same difference.

[News Reporter]

Preach.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get your ass up.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rest in peace, dog. Man.

[Guest/Contributor]

Man.

[DJ Envy]

Rest in peace, young dog. Lord have mercy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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. In Monday Night Football, the Steelers beat the dolphins 28 to 15. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

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

[Guest/Contributor]

Good morning, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. So we begin this morning in Providence, Rhode island, where a massive manhunt is now underway for the suspected gunman behind that deadly shooting at Brown University. The two people were killed nine Others wounded when the shooter opened fire Saturday afternoon inside the engineering building on campus. Police say more than 40 rounds were fired from a 9 millimeter handgun. Authorities have released new photos and video of a person of interest captured several hours before the shooting near the Brown campus. Now, the images, they show a man dressed in dark clothing walking alone on nearby streets, his face partially covered. Investigators say they do not yet have a clear facial image or a confirmed identity. Now, an earlier person of interest was detained over the weekend. He has since been released after police say the evidence no longer supported holding him. Police they are now warning, though, that that individual that's seen in the new footage should be considered armed and dangerous. The FBI has joined the search and is now offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the suspect's identification, his arrest and his conviction. And as the search continues, the mayor, Brett Smiley, the mayor of Providence, he was asked how a shooting like this could happen on the campus of an Ivy League university. Let's listen to what he had to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, Brown University is a little bit unique from, from other universities.

[Caller/Listener]

And it's something that I think is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Beautiful, which is it's an open campus.

[Caller/Listener]

Integrated with the neighborhood. This is not a school that has.

[DJ Envy]

A wall around it or a fence around it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Neighbors walk their dog through campus. And I hope that that can continue. And I think that it will because this. While it was a Saturday, it was during the final exam period, and so there were two final exams taking place.

[Caller/Listener]

The shooting occurred in a room where.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There was a study session taking place.

[Caller/Listener]

It was 4 o' clock in the afternoon.

[News Reporter]

And so the exterior doors were unlocked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that is, would have been typical on campus.

[Caller/Listener]

That wasn't a failure of protocol or anything like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, that's a stupid question. And the reason I say that is even closed campuses, students get in and out off the campus all day long. I went to Hampton University, which had a quote, unquote, fence around it, but students walk through the gate all day long. There's different openings for students to get backing into classes to the library outside the campus so you can get on campus. It's not like any campus is set up like a jail where you have to go through certain protocols.

[DJ Envy]

You do want the campuses to be secured. I remember, you know, going on college visits with my daughter, you know, over the last few months. I remember one of the parents, one of the school we visited, I remember one of the parents was just like, why isn't this place more secure? How come people can just walk in and Out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's all colleges, though.

[DJ Envy]

But, no, there's some schools you go to that look like. I'm not saying, but they look like Fort Knox.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, literally, unless it's a private, where it's fully gated and they don't let anybody on campus.

[DJ Envy]

There's some.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't see too many of them.

[DJ Envy]

That's something.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, President Trump, he's also asking.

[DJ Envy]

Or.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, actually, President Trump, he was asked why it's taken so long to identify a suspect to arrest the gunman. And he's pointing the finger at Brown University, saying they have their own police force. Let's listen to what he had to say. Cash Patel told you why it's been so difficult for the FBI to identify.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who the shooter is.

[News Reporter]

You really have to ask the school a little bit more about that because, you know, this was a. A school problem. They had their own guards, they had their own police, they had their own everything. But you'd have to ask that question really to the school, not to the FBI. We came in after the fact, and the FBI will do a good job. But they came in after the fact.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And we're now learning the names of the two students who were killed. Ella Cook, she was a sophomore and vice president of the Brown College of Republicans. And Muhammad, your Mokazar Cove, he was a freshman whose family says that he dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon. And authorities, they are asking anyone with any information, no matter how big or small, to contact the police or even leave a tip on the FBI line or even leave a tip online. Any way that you would like to leave that information. They're asking for the public their help in finding this suspect. And now turning to Los Angeles, where a federal or federal authorities say they stopped a New Year's Eve bombing plot. Now, federal authorities say they arrested. Yep. Four people accused of planning a coordinated pipe bomb attack across Southern California just weeks before the holiday. The FBI says the suspects were part of an extremist group called the Turtle Island Liberation Front. They were allegedly planning to plant backpack bombs at multiple locations in Los Angeles to explode at midnight on New Year's Eve. Investigators say handwritten plans, they detailed how the bombs were going to be built and how to avoid leaving evidence.

[Jessica]

Jesus.

[Mimi Brown]

Authorities, they moved in before the devices could be completed or deployed. But officials, they're calling it a credible and imminent terrorist attack, saying the arrest likely prevented mass casualties right before the holidays.

[DJ Envy]

And the Turtle Island. What's it called? Turtle Island Liberation Front.

[Mimi Brown]

The Turtle Island Liberation Front, they don't.

[DJ Envy]

Got nothing better to do? Like go do some drugs on New Year's Eve? Have a drink. All right. Get some cheeks. Go to church.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Save some turtles.

[DJ Envy]

Save some turtles. What about the goddamn turtles?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Save some turtles.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, coming up at 7. Before you return those unwanted holiday gifts, there's a change that you'll want to hear about that's definitely going to affect your wallet. We'll explain in the next hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

It's a new day.

[Jessica]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up.

[Jessica]

Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, this is Tiara. I used to be neighbors with Charlemagne. My grandmother used to hit on him in the elevator.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Oh, wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How many men did you see go in and out of the place?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Tiara.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. How are you?

[DJ Envy]

I am blessed, black, and highly favored. How your grandma doing?

[Caller/Listener]

Same as always, man.

[DJ Envy]

Send him my love, please.

[Caller/Listener]

I will. I'm calling because I'm exhausted from fighting my mental health alone. I live with severe depression and anxiety, and this year I've only felt genuinely happy, like, twice. I'm stuck in the cycle of burnout and brief relief, and I'm scared that next year will be more of the same. Charlamagne always talks openly about not letting his mental health stop his success, and that's why I'm reaching out. I'm a creative person who feels like life has been grinding me down. I'm starting to lose the person I used to be. I used to be the best.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

I know.

[Caller/Listener]

I used to be really talented and creative, and I know it's still in there, but I just need some guidance, maybe mentorship or perspective from someone who understands the struggle and how to move forward. Anyway, well. And I'm tired, but I'm still trying, and, you know, that's why I'm calling.

[DJ Envy]

I totally understand. Tr I'm put you I'm get your information, Eddie, please get your information. Write our number down and stuff. I'm. I'm call you later, after the show. T. All right.

[Caller/Listener]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Hold on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't hang up, okay?

[DJ Envy]

I'm not get our number right now, Eddie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Who's this.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, Andrew. It's Sharita from New Jersey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sharita from Jersey? What part of Jersey?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't tell you all that.

[Caller/Listener]

Every damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

What you mean, goddamn? You on the run or something?

[Jessica]

Jersey?

[DJ Envy]

You got warrants?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jersey's a bit. No, but.

[Caller/Listener]

But listen, I'm about to talk about your friend who.

[DJ Envy]

So.

[Caller/Listener]

I don't want him to know where I'm from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What friend?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Trash.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm sick of him. He needs to go for this year.

[DJ Envy]

Why? What trying to do?

[Caller/Listener]

Nah, I'm just tired of him every morning. He call every other day.

[DJ Envy]

Travis, a loyal Breakfast Club listener.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes, I am, too, But. But darn. But listen. Get a new system for the new. Y' all should not have to call 80DAG on time.

[DJ Envy]

Get a new what?

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

A system.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Phone system. There's a lot of people that's calling, Mama. The only one I agree with is.

[Jessica]

Is Trav.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't like when he start calling, talking about that cowboy stuff. I'm with you.

[DJ Envy]

I love Trav. You act like it's a new.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, y'.

[Jessica]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, Jess.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, baby.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy holiday.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't trying to stay cool. I'm trying to stay warm. Thank you, man, but salute to Trav.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trav ain't calling a couple of days after the Cowboys lost.

[DJ Envy]

Didn't he call yesterday? No. Cowboys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did he call yesterday?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he called yesterday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Jessica]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-5-5, 5, 10, 5 1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hello?

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

It's Deja from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Deja from Texas. What part of Texas?

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Dallas.

[Caller/Listener]

Texas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dallas.

[DJ Envy]

The best. Salute to Dallas, Home of the game, y'.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning, Charlemagne. I want to say one thing to you. I love you so much.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Caller/Listener]

So you are the reason why Cowboys is making us do a sign piece and our bags don't fly free.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you the reason? Are you overweight, ma'?

[Jessica]

Am?

[Caller/Listener]

No, I'm not at all at the gym right now.

[DJ Envy]

So. Why? Why am I the reason?

[Caller/Listener]

Because you always talking about them being a bus in the sky.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

They are damn. Southwestern Spirit Airlines is a bus in the sky. It's just a fact. Whatever.

[Caller/Listener]

I always fly southwest. I've never had any problems. Okay, but wait before I get off the phone. Charlie, man, I messaged you before. And envy. I have a nonprofit Can I tell my nonprofit, please?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Caller/Listener]

So it's a public health nonprofit. We teach about diabetes, blood pressure. We do screenings. We partner with some of the major hospitals in our area. Baylor Scott.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Right.

[Caller/Listener]

It's called Higher Than Health Wellness Therapy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say it again.

[Caller/Listener]

And we've done. We did a men's mental health event in October where we did. We had a therapist and psychologist come in and do a healing circle talk. And I would love to partner with your nonprofit as well. Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna put you on hold so you can get your information and check it out.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay. Can I one more time hire the health loan and parody. We're on Instagram from @ Higher Than.

[DJ Envy]

Health. Higher Than.

[Caller/Listener]

Health. Thank you. Higher Than.

[DJ Envy]

Health. Yes.

[Jessica]

Ma'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Am. And I want to salute to all the doctors. I. I went down a rabbit hole on TikTok the other day with. With doctors that are forced to do surgeries without insurance companies paying them. I guess there's. They. They. Insurance companies have to approve certain things, and sometimes they don't approve, but the doctors feel like their patients need the surgery anyway. And there's a lot of doctor officers and doctors out there. I've been watching that do the surgery anyway because they want to save the patient and they don'. Care about the health insurance. I want to salute to all those doctors out there. I went through a long rabbit hole last night, and it was just. It was. Jesus, it was. It. It made me tear up about. And there were kids that needed surgery. There were adults that had cancer, and a lot of times these. These insurance companies wouldn't cover them. So salute to all those doctors out.

[DJ Envy]

There. How deep down the hole did you.

[Guest/Contributor]

Go? He said he went down a long rabbit.

[DJ Envy]

Hole. That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy. You already hit a positive thing. Y' all just heard the rabbit.

[DJ Envy]

Hole. I heard.

[Guest/Contributor]

Everything. I know I did.

[DJ Envy]

Hear. Just answer the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Question. It was a long rabbit.

[DJ Envy]

Hole.

[Guest/Contributor]

Okay.

[Jessica]

Jesus.

[DJ Envy]

What's. What.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Started? I.

[Guest/Contributor]

Don'T. He dived right in, right?

[DJ Envy]

Indeed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello. Who's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This?

[Caller/Listener]

Hi. DJ Envy. Jennifer. Happy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Holidays. Happy holidays to.

[Guest/Contributor]

You. Good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning. Hey, who's that in the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Background? My.

[Caller/Listener]

Daughter. I have my son Chad. They are so excited every single.

[DJ Envy]

Day. Happy holidays to your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Family. Good morning to.

[Caller/Listener]

Them. They're so excited to talk to.

[Jessica]

Y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All. Hey, Jeff, I love you so much. For everybody, the whole east side High. So that being stated, I had called in just to talk about the Kendrick Lamar situation. Like we listen to Kendrick Lamar in our house. But he did become 1.0 when he went against Drake. Because they knew Drake, but they knew Kendrick song, but they didn't know his name. So he became like a household name after the.

[DJ Envy]

Beef. That man was a household name before the.

[Caller/Listener]

Beef. Well, sort of. We live in a very diverse.

[DJ Envy]

Area, and then white people know Kendrick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lebanon, he was a household name. But that Drake, I think, took it up a.

[Caller/Listener]

Level. We just came off a cruise. I had on a shirt that said they not like us and they were questioning in the shirt. It was a very unmelanated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crew. Yeah, No, I think. I mean, he is a household name, but I think that that beef, I think he turned it up a.

[DJ Envy]

Level. I'm not arguing with y' all about this no.

[Guest/Contributor]

More. He gained a lot of.

[Caller/Listener]

Fandom, knows his pain. She knew his phone. She knew his.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Name. I got you. Well, thank you, Jennifer, and enjoy your kids. Tell your kids happy.

[Caller/Listener]

Holidays. I wanted to say real quick, happy holidays. Is that as far as the star on your license? I know you have to talk about that for a.

[DJ Envy]

While. That's the real id.

[Caller/Listener]

Man. I've been in Georgia for 20 years and I didn't have a star on my license because I never had an.

[DJ Envy]

Id. Is that the.

[Caller/Listener]

Reality? Sorry, you have to have an ID.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First. Yes, you have to have an id. And they're requiring everybody, really, to get a star on their license, which is a real id. So.

[Caller/Listener]

They. In order to get a star, you can get a driver's license. I've been here 20 years and had a driver's license, but I never got an ID for the.

[Guest/Contributor]

State. Oh, I get what you're.

[Caller/Listener]

Saying. You have to have an ID first and then get a star for your driver's.

[DJ Envy]

License. I think just like Kendrick Lamar. Everybody knew that, man. Okay. I'm just saying we knew that. So we knew this already, man. That's why we was talking about.

[Jessica]

It. Thank.

[Caller/Listener]

You. You so mean. I love.

[DJ Envy]

You. I love you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mean. I love you. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest, Lauren coming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Up. Good morning, guys. Yes, good.

[Mimi Brown]

Morning. Hey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jess. Good morning. Yes, we do. We are going to be talking some updates in the Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle's killing. His son has officially been arrested for the murder. So we're going to get into those updates. Top of the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning. I just want to tell you, Lauren is like a magician. You had a pimple right here yesterday. It's not there no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

More. Oh, yeah, the skincare makeup. No, I don't have any makeup. I don't have any makeup on right now? I always come in here with no makeup, fresh face, and then I put the makeup.

[DJ Envy]

On. Lauren might have put the fake pimple.

[Lauren LaRosa]

On. Why would I put.

[Guest/Contributor]

A. Always get mad. She don't even be needing to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Make skin care regimen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now. The people gone, though, usually don't go. You see a.

[Guest/Contributor]

Little. That's crazy how he put you out there, though. Like, what if you want to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Buy know you had a.

[Lauren LaRosa]

B? It's. I mean, it's on my.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Face. What it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was. No, but what if it was.

[Guest/Contributor]

A cold store the whole.

[DJ Envy]

Time? Damn. Wow. That just gave every holiday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hurt. All right, next up next, it's the Breakfast.

[DJ Envy]

Club. Good.

[Guest/Contributor]

Morning. Lauren becoming a street.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thing. She gets him from somebody that knows.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Somebody. She gets the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

Everybody. She be having the latest on.

[Jessica]

This, the Latest with Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me. Sit your tired ass up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jess. All.

[Guest/Contributor]

Right. What's up.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Y'?

[Lauren LaRosa]

All? So Rob Rayner and his wife Michelle, we talked yesterday about the fact that they were found dead in their home with their throat slit and that it was suspected at the time that their son may have been responsible who was in police custody for questions, questioning, but no charges or no arrests had officially happened. But now their son has been arrested for the murder of his parents. Their son, his name is Nick Reiner. He's 32 years old. He's currently being held with no bell. At the time that his arrest appeared on the LAPD jail website, at first it said $4 million would be his bail, but now he's being held with no bell. He was arrested yesterday at 9:15pm so there were, like, you know, some hours in between where there are reports that he had checked into a hotel and that the hotel room was found with various, like, bloody things in the room. But yeah. So now people are trying to piece together, you know, what led up to this moment. There's been reports and conversations about an argument that happened Sunday in the home. But there's also now reports about an argument that happened Saturday at an alleged argument that happened Saturday at Conan o' Brien's Christmas party where people that were there are telling tmz, a source told TMZ that they got into the argument. It was loud enough for people around them to hear. Some of the family left, but not all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Together. So I was listening this Morning on the news, and they were saying that they believe he had mental problems before that they were trying to face, I'm sure. And they said that there were people coming to the house late at night, and he would leave the house late at night, meet people in the street, and then come back in the house. So they was thinking that he had maybe a drug problem, allegedly or something like that, I'm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sure. Yeah. So he's talked about. Nick has talked about his drug addiction. Him and his dad, Rob Reiner actually did a movie that, you know, talked about dealing with the drug addiction and different mental health issues that he went through, where Rob also talked about, you know, his side of things, being the dad in that situation. So, yeah, they've openly talked about it. I do know when he was or after he was arrested, Nick Reiner was placed on suicide watch. I did reach back out to LAPD to ask if this was something that is just protocol because of the situation or if there was, like, something said or like, you know, kind of what got them to that point to put him on that close suicide watch. But I haven't heard back on.

[DJ Envy]

That. I mean, tragic isn't a strong enough word. I mean, the person, the person you birthed, the person you raised, become someone that you don't even know, probably someone you don't even want to be around. And then that person who you gave life to takes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yours.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Oh, my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God. They were comparing it to the Mendez brothers, had Amanda's brothers killed their parents and saying it was the same kind of. Yeah, but it's gruesome and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Disgusting. Yeah, very much. And there's been a lot of people outpouring love and just talking about last conversations that they had. Michelle Obama was on Kimmel last night, actually, and she talked about how they were literally like a supposed to be meeting with Rob Reiner. Let's take a listen. We've known them for many, many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them that.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Night.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow. Last night. You all know this time of year is my recess season. New energy, new plans, new ways to grow my brand. And if you're trying to start 2026 ahead of the game, like, really ahead, now is the time to get moving. For me, Shopify has been the platform that keeps my whole merch business tight. As a creator, as a businesswoman, I need my tools to work hard. And Shopify is like having a chief of staff, a personal assistant, and a co founder all in one. And look, I always tell other women building their own brands, especially small independent black creators. Don't overcomplicate it. Whether you're running a side hustle or you're trying to run a full storefront, selling to your community or around the world, Shopify takes the guesswork out of everything. Shopify also like My favorite thing about it is they teach you as you grow, you can look up anything, get information on anything, and it's simple. They give you like easy 1, 2, 3 steps. I used to juggle 10 different logins and apps. Now one platform I manage my store, sell online, sell on social, even tag products right from my phone, wherever I am, and Shopify Sidekick. Listen, you keep hearing all about AI. Let me tell y', all, this AI is a lifesaver. It gives me reports, content, ideas, helps me edit images. It's literally like having a smart assistant in my back pocket guiding me to my next move. So let's be real. It's time to stop thinking and start doing. And there is no better way to do that than Shopify. Use our link shopify.com b e n now to start getting serious about building your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Future. Hey, what up.

[Jessica]

Y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All? It's DJ Envy and the holidays are here, the time of year that's all about connecting with loved ones in person or over the phone. In fact, hearing someone's voice can evoke a similar emotional response as a hug. And while most of us can hop on a video chat to really bring that connection to life, using tech isn't easy for everyone, especially some of the older folk in our lives. AT&T has been doing something special here to help. They offer digital literacy workshops that help older adults learn how to use technology to do things most of us take for granted, like video conferencing and sharing photos. Take Nancy Shand. She joined one of AT&T's workshops to learn how to video chat for the first time this holiday season, Nancy won't just be hearing about family gatherings, she'll be a part of them, sharing stories, opening presents, and making memories all through a screen. Nobody should have to go through the holiday season alone, so be sure to connect and stay connected to your loved ones this holiday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Season. Connecting changes everything. AT&T the holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year, filled with joy and laughter, a little bit of the festive chaos we all secretly love. From long shopping lists to travel plans to family dinners, it's a lot happening all at once. But this season, Coca Cola wants to remind everyone that the magic isn't in the hustle and bustle. It's finding joy in the little moments, like laughing over old memories, playing holiday games, or taking that first sip of an ice cold Coca Cola that cuts through all the holiday frenzy and brings the cool comfort to your soul. Because that's the good stuff. The joy hiding in plain sight. The sound of laughter mixing with the clink of glasses. The calm between the songs and the stories. And when things start to feel like they're doing the most, that crisp, delicious taste of Coca Cola can be the reset everyone needs. Just a little reminder that the season isn't about rushing, it's about refreshing. So wherever the holidays take you, slow down, take a breath and savor the moment. Enjoy a Coca Cola refresh. Your.

[Jessica]

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

[DJ Envy]

There. So let me get this straight. Your company has data here, there and everywhere, but your AI can't use the data because it's here, there and everywhere? Seems like something's missing. Every business has unique data. IBM helps your AI access your data wherever it lives to change how you do business. Let's create smarter business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

IBM. And we got the news. And let me just say this. Unlike some people, Rob and Michelle Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to.

[Guest/Contributor]

Know. They are.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not. They're not deranged or crazed. What they have always been are passionate people. In a time when they're not, there's not a lot of courage going on. They were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared.

[Guest/Contributor]

About. And they cared about their family.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And they cared about this country and.

[Guest/Contributor]

They cared about fairness and.

[Caller/Listener]

Equity. And that is the truth. I do know.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow. Yeah. So some of that was also in response to I know what Mimi Brown talked about in front page News where she mentioned Trump's comments that got some backlash. But yes, it's so sad. So sending some love to the family right here at the holidays too. Yeah. But switching gears yesterday I spoke to. I told you guys, I spoke to a source exclusively on the Kimora Lee Simmons and Russell Simmons back and forth, who had told me some things. Yesterday, Kimora Lee Simmons actually posted herself to her Instagram in response to Russell Simmons alleging that he's not. He was threatened to not be able to see his kids if he had went forward with suing her and saying that, you know, he was giving her $50,000 a month for some time. Posted. My Girls are Grown Women. Grown women in all caps. You know these are lies. Why are you typing from thousands of miles away in a non extradition country? Go negotiate and answer your.

[Jessica]

Accusers.

[Guest/Contributor]

Damn. Yeah, damn. Somebody. I saw somebody say he going to be downward dog for five months after this. Cuz y' all know we be doing the meditation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stuff. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Maybe this is the end of it. Maybe there will be more. So we will will, you know, keep you guys updated in the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Latest. Now, they always talk about Russell being in that country, and the reason he's in that country is because he. He can't come here. But Russ comes. Russell comes here all the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Time. I saw him a couple months.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ago. You just seen him in say less. He was just in Central.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Park. Yeah, he was walking.

[Guest/Contributor]

Around. Yeah, because remember my old cameraman, he sell waters in the park now. And Russell bought a water from him the other.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Month. Oh.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

What?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Why the hell was Russell Simmons selling.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Water? No, Russell cameraman was selling.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Water. I was like, oh, my go.

[DJ Envy]

Done like, how much Dr. Kamora get from him that he got to be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Selling?

[DJ Envy]

Allegedly. That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

[Jessica]

Allegedly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. Yeah. No, I mean, he'd be here. I've seen him. I remember when I saw him, I was surprised because I thought that. Yeah, I didn't think that he was not allowed to come back. I just thought he stays in Bali because it's just like he had a lot going on over here. So when I saw him just out chilling and say less, I was like, oh, look at Russell Simmons.

[Guest/Contributor]

You. You used to live in la.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right? Yes, Lauren.

[Jessica]

Yes.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yes. Did you know that Arnold Schwarzenegger was your governor? I bet you didn't even know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That. I did because TMZ and Harvey literally talked about it like, every single.

[Guest/Contributor]

Day. Oh, my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

God. Yeah, it was like a whole.

[News Reporter]

Thing. All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Girl, go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ahead. All right, that is the latest with Lauren. Thank you, Lauren. Now when we come back, we got Front page news. We're gonna be breaking everything down. And then gospel singer Tasha Cobbs Leonard will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's Dej Envy, just hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to and some front page news now. In Monday Night Football, the Steelers beat the dolphins 28 to 15. What's up.

[Mimi Brown]

Mimi? Good morning, MBJ. How y' all.

[DJ Envy]

Doing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Peace.

[Mimi Brown]

Good. Good morning. All right, so we start this hour in Hollywood where President Trump, he is facing backlash. Backlash after suggesting without evidence that filmmaker Rob Reiner's death was tied to criticism of him. Now police say Reiner and his wife Michelle singer Reiner, they were found dead on Sunday. Their case is being investigated as a homicide and their 32 year old son has been arrested and charged with murder. No motive has been made public as of yet. But despite that ongoing investigation, Trump posted on social media claiming that Reiner died because of what he called Trump Derangement syndrome, a term he uses to attack his critics. He wrote in part, a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but very once talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and uncurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome. He went on before finally saying, may Rob and Michelle rest in peace at the White House. They later reposted that response. And when asked about it, Trump, he doubled down. Let's listen to what he had to.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Say. A number of Republicans have denounced.

[Mimi Brown]

Your statement on Truth Social after the murder of Rob.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Reiner. Do you stand by that.

[News Reporter]

Post? Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He said he liked, he knew it was false. In fact, it's the exact opposite. That I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia. You know, it was the Russia hoax. He was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself in career wise. He became like a deranged person. Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our.

[DJ Envy]

Country. How do you turn someone's tragic murder into politically motivated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Violence? That's.

[DJ Envy]

Crazy. Like he's making, he's making it seem like dude got killed because of his feelings toward Donald Trump. Why would you even want to Put that out there. That someone would be killed for their opinion on a politician. And what are you saying about your followers and supporters? That they would kill someone because they don't like.

[Mimi Brown]

You. Exactly. And that pose. It sparked immediate backlash, including Republicans and conservative commentators who said the remarks were inappropriate. And exactly what you said, Charlemagne. Politicizing a brutal killing. Several GOP lawmakers and conservative voices. They called for sympathy. They called for restraint. And one of the loudest rebukes, though, it came from Whoopi Goldberg, who criticized Trump, Trump's comments on the View. Let's listen to what she had to.

[DJ Envy]

Say. The man in that White House.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Because he talked so much about Charlie Kirk and Kerry, and suddenly this is what he puts.

[DJ Envy]

Out. Have you no.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Shame? No shame at all? This.

[Caller/Listener]

Is. Can you get any.

[DJ Envy]

Lower? I don't think.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

So. And what do you have to say about what's happened around the world? Where is our voice as Americans? Somebody's got to speak up for us. Our hearts are breaking through all of this, through Rob, through what's happened.

[DJ Envy]

At Bondi beach, what happened at Brown.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

And you don't find the time to say, as Americans, we hate what's.

[DJ Envy]

Happening. You ain't my president, man. Well, the other reality is Donald Trump is the president. He doesn't have to comment on Rob Reiner at all. Rob Reiner isn't a politician. Rob Reiner's not an electric official. He's. He's an actor. So he didn't have to say anything at all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Mimi Brown]

Yes. However, Reiner, he was deeply active in politics in both California and nationally. In California, he helped pass the first five California. And helped pass marriage equality. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Yep.

[Mimi Brown]

She. She talked about how his reach, it went far beyond Hollywood with a lot of the civic engagement that he was into. And Governor Gavin Newsom, when he was trying to get, I think it was marriage equality here in California, he said that it was Reiner who came to his aid and stood beside him when a lot of his own fellow political party members were silent on the issue. So he's had a big voice in politics. And I know he has spoke out a lot against Trump when he was running for president the first time. And so I think, you know, that's what Trump is referring to when he's talking about the Russia hoax and he's talking about how. How Rob had a lot of things bad or negative to say about.

[DJ Envy]

Him. He was gonna run.

[Guest/Contributor]

Against. Him and his wife were slain. In their.

[Lauren LaRosa]

House.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yes. In their home, either, you know, What I'm saying, it's just.

[Mimi Brown]

Weird. What were you gonna say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy? I was gonna say. Yeah, he was. He was also. He was gonna run against Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor at one point. So he's heavy in the.

[DJ Envy]

Politics. Also, Schwarzenegger was governor of California.

[Guest/Contributor]

Just. Oh, my.

[DJ Envy]

God. Also, does Donald Trump know what happened to Rob can happen to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Anyone. I.

[DJ Envy]

Know. I know he got Secret Service and all the security in the world, but Rob got killed by his son. Somebody close to you can snap. Somebody close to you can flip out. So you should be very careful with that kind of energy, because don't think it can't happen to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. That is.

[Mimi Brown]

Right. Yeah, absolutely. And turning now to another Trump headline, this one involving the media and a major lawsuit. So President Donald Trump, he is filed. He's filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, accusing the broadcaster of misleading viewers in a documentary that aired just before the 2024 election. So it centers around a BBC documentary called Trump A Second Chance. It's similar in style to 60 Minutes here in the U.S. so Trump claims that the program, it edited his January 6th speech in a deceptive way, making it appear he directly urged his supporters to violently storm the Capitol. He was asked about this in the Oval Office. Let's at. Look, Listen to what he had to.

[News Reporter]

Say. I'm suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth. Literally to put words in my mouth. They had me saying things that I never said coming out. I guess they used AI or something. Even the media can't believe that one. They would. They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn't say and the beautiful words that I said. Right. Talking about patriotism and all of the good things that I said. They did didn't say that, and they got caught. That's called fake.

[DJ Envy]

News. Do we have the words, Mimi? I need. I need to hear what the BBC said that he.

[Mimi Brown]

Said. I looked. We don't have the. We don't have the words. That's because the BBC had to pull it. They have promised to pull it from all airing platforms and to never air it again. So Trump, he filed that lawsuit late last night in federal court in Miami, according to the complaint. Like, he just said, they edited parts of it. January 6th speech, they said. He says that they placed comments that he said nearly an hour apart, side by side, to create the impression that he was calling for violence. The BBC, they acknowledged their error and judgment and how the clip was edited, and they apologized. They pulled the documentary up from its platforms and said, okay, we promise we will not air it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Again.

[Mimi Brown]

The. The leadership, the BBC News leadership, including the director general and the head of New. They all resign. But still, Trump is arguing that the damage has been done and especially since that documentary already aired. And he accused the BBC of election interference even though he won. And he's seeking $5 billion for defamation and $5 billion under Florida's deceptive law practices for a total of $10 billion. The BBC, they regret it, but they say that it's not defamation. But, y', all, this is just another latest argument or series of lawsuits that Trump has filed against major media outlets. So we've got what now? The New York Times, the abc, cbs, Wall Street Journal. And he's already received multi million dollar settlements paid to the Trump presidential library from those.

[Guest/Contributor]

Lawsuits. Mimi, did you know that Arnold Schwarzenegger was your.

[Mimi Brown]

Governor? I did, yes. Like a long time.

[DJ Envy]

Ago. Oh, my.

[Guest/Contributor]

Goodness. This is so crazy. I didn't even know that he was a citizen. Girl, that man is from.

[DJ Envy]

Austria. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Australia.

[DJ Envy]

Australia. Australia, Australia.

[Mimi Brown]

Australia. No, he's from.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Austria. She's.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Austria. Thank you so.

[Guest/Contributor]

Much.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly. Oh, okay, okay. I thought it was.

[Jessica]

Australia. All.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Right. God, I didn't know that, you.

[Guest/Contributor]

Know, them type of people can be governor in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

America. All right, Mimi. Thank you.

[Jessica]

Mimi. All right.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Y'.

[Mimi Brown]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

Binnews.Com. thank you.

[Mimi Brown]

Mimi. See you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Later. Now when we come back, Tasha Cobbs Leonard will be joining us. She has a new album called Tasha. We're going to talk to her next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good.

[News Reporter]

Morning. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody. DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Her album is out right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tasha. We have Tasha Cobbs Learn.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Welcome. What's up? Good morning. You look beautiful. Thank you. How you.

[Guest/Contributor]

Feeling?

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Cold. Yes. It's freezing outside, but it's all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. It's freezing in.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Here. Yeah, Y' all all.

[DJ Envy]

Right. Blessed Black and Holly.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Stray.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. New album, Tasha, out right now. When people name their albums, like their name, usually it's very personal. So I know that that's what this.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Is. Yes. I remember Karen Clark Sheer. A few years ago, she did an album called Finally Karen. And I always wonder why did she name this, this album Finally Karen? And when I got to this album, I completely understood that she Was in a place where she was just settled with herself. Like, this is who I am. This is what I have to offer. And that's what this album is about for me. It is a testimony. So many testimonies bottled up in a bunch of songs from, you know, from miscarriages to grief to celebrations and blended families. I mean, everything.

[DJ Envy]

Is. How does the gospel community feel when you put yourself as the.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Focus? You know what? It's more so about the testimony that God has been faithful through those seasons. And I feel like it has been accepted much better. Because a lot of times we can hide behind, like, this fog of everything is holy, holy, holy, holy. You never go through anything. And I think people can relate more when you tell the truth about your story, that there are some seasons where I was sitting down, like, God, what are you doing? You know, and people can relate to that. But at the end of the day, even when we went into the writing sessions, my main thing was we're gonna always offer hope that we tell our truth. At the end of the day, God is still faithful, and he's been good, and it has been received so well by so many.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People. When you talk about all these things that you've been going through, you're never scared to put that much personal information out, Especially because people always say church folks are the most.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Judgy. Like, maybe not, you know.

[DJ Envy]

What? Thou shalt not judge. But boy, oh, my.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Goodness. Last year, I released a book called Do It Anyway. And that was probably one of the most transparent things I've ever had to do, is like memoirs. So I went back into my life and my story, and I realized that sometimes we can put these songs out, and people think you just singing pretty melodies, like your story is disconnected from it. And I saw through that book and the response of it that people wanted to hear more about the story. And so I'm willing to be transparent if it's gonna be somebody's healing, you know, if somebody's healing is connected to it, I'm willing to be transparent and tell my story. And I think that's what the gospel is, you know, just, you know, telling, being honest about what you've gone through and how God has always been faithful in delivering you from.

[DJ Envy]

That. You know, people always say. They say your music has always felt like a bridge between traditional worship and the emotional realities of everyday people. So what you're saying makes sense. But. But how has your understanding of calling evolved as your platform has.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Grown? Oh, my goodness, it is with every presentation or every entity. So with every album, I listen back to like some of the older albums like Smile and Grace and I hear this innocence that sometimes I honestly miss because being exposed in industry and being exposed to different platforms, it introduces you to things that you can't forget. You know, it's almost like I want to get back. But then too, you know, I've experienced so much life and so many testimonies of, of how God has been so good in every season, you know, you have this interesting dichotomy, like, hey, you know, the innocence was great, but then the experience is really good too because now I have testimonies that I can share that teach other.

[Caller/Listener]

People.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. With all the awards you won, Grammy Awards, Stella Awards, Dove Awards, Billboard Music.

[DJ Envy]

Awards. That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. What is success to you now? Because you didn't achieved everything as far as award wise. So what is success to.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

You? What do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. What are you. If you're chasing, what are you chasing now, if.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Anything? Wow. I, I love the season that I'm in. I'm married now. I have children, you know, family, that's my thing. I love to be home. I'm just coming off a 60 day sabbatical, which is just amazing. I love being at home with my kids and with my family. My husband and I, we pass, you know, so building community and family in the local, like a local church, has always been my heart. So I pursue that. And you know what? I believe that God honors my commitment there and it still gives him this trust. Like I can trust you with greater things because you are still committed to my local community, the people, you know, the mothers in the church, you know, I still love that. I still love to be able to touch people and relate to them and have community with them. So if I'm providing, pursuing anything, it would be that to be the best me that I could be to the people that I see every.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Day. And how do you give those church people hope? Because right now I feel like this is where people need it the most, Right? Groceries are high, bills are high, people are not making money. They feel like it's a crazy world with everything that's going on. How do you give those people hope now.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Man? I mean, the first answer that comes to mind is I keep giving them Jesus. But number two, one of the things that we focus on is what I'm talking about now, because community. A lot of people in our church, they are business owners, you know, they're entrepreneurs. And so within that community, if I can encourage everybody, okay, we're going to rally around each other. If you got a lawn service, we going to use you. If you. You know, those. I think we have to now, in this season, use strategy. Even in the Kingdom, like, you got to use strategy. Even though, you know, we. We trust God and he's going to be faithful and he's going to take care of us. But I still think we have to be wise with how we manage what God has entrusted us with. And so that's one of the things that we want to do. Just continue to build community, support one another, support each other's businesses, and I believe we'll thrive that.

[DJ Envy]

Way. In the Bible, they call it impartation, which is the sharing of. What is it? The sharing of something valuable. Yeah, like giving. Giving of.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Yourself. Yes. You find it. Like, when you read about acts, there was this moment where people were, like, selling their goods, and they would bring all of the good, everything that they earned, learned from the goods, and that's how the community survived, is that they would come to the church because people would bring all of their alms and their goods to the church, and the community survived in that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Way. Oh, you can.

[Jessica]

Go.

[Guest/Contributor]

Okay. When you were just.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Talking. I love y'.

[Guest/Contributor]

All, you were.

[DJ Envy]

Just talking about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Community, That's when I.

[Guest/Contributor]

Started feeling all this.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Turmoil. Oh, my.

[Guest/Contributor]

God. Crazy what you were saying about community, right? I. I always, like, find.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

It. I don't know what it is.

[Guest/Contributor]

Like. The youth will not willingly come to the church. Back when I was younger, we. We were more like. We did want to go. The only complaint that I had was church was too long, but I still wanted to.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Go. I still received the word. You know, my uncle.

[Guest/Contributor]

He. I went to my uncle's church. He's the pastor, and he. He was able to break it down in a way where everybody got it right. I'm just trying to figure out what the disconnect is between the church and the young.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

People. I.

[Guest/Contributor]

Don'T. I go to church and I don't see young.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People. Nah, I was forced. I ain't go front. I was.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Forced. Yeah, we had to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go. Yeah, I was.

[DJ Envy]

Forced. You had to.

[Jessica]

Go. But why.

[Guest/Contributor]

Though? Because it was. Was too long, and it was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boring. Grandma made me go. Yeah, you go into church, you gonna sit in that back and you gonna shut the F.

[DJ Envy]

Up. But you know.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

What? Now, I think that's not Dominican.

[DJ Envy]

Church. It's Baptist church. You.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Ask. I'm.

[DJ Envy]

Black. I'm not.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Dominican. But I do think that's missing, though. I don't think. I don't. Like, we were made to go. I don't think a lot of, I think a lot of kids now are having. They get to choose. And I think sometimes as parents we have to like gauge it, like manage our kids and what they're exposed to. So I do think some of the respons be on the parent, parental figure in their lives. But I think church has changed a little bit too because you have different options for teenagers. Like at our church. So our teens, they participate in worship and then we release them to their own thing. So they get taught, they have different games stuff that they play when they go out. Like we had Sunday school and all that kind of stuff. Now they actually have children's church. So a lot of times what I'm finding even in the, in our churches now, kids are being drawn to just different styles of worship. Now let me tell you this. Kids these days don't want fluff. They don't want all the religious fluffy. They want a real God, you know. And a lot of times we have to bring that to them. Like, okay, all of that other religious stuff that we were taught we gotta take. Give them just the meat. They want the meat of who God is. And I think they'll really pursue it much better. Like I have two teenage. Well, she's not a teenager anymore. We have a 23 year old and I have a 19 year old. And some of the questions that they ask us just about God, it's, it's, it's totally, it's much more mature than some of the questions I would have asked at.

[Lauren LaRosa]

19.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Right. Because they're exposed to so much more. And I feel like we have to take the fluff off and just give them like the meat of who God is. And that's what they really.

[DJ Envy]

Want. And I think being having it rooted in real life experiences like, like how your album is. Like when I listen to Pastor Torre or Sarah Jakes Roberts or Bishop T.D. jakes when they're preaching, it's rooted in something real that's actually going on that we're dealing with. And here are the scriptures that can help you.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Get. Yep. Something they can relate.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To. You got the song Church with John Legend. You talked about Teach me how to church on a Monday. Yeah, break that down for.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Us. So I feel like there are people, when I went into this album, one of the things that I wanted to do, I remember Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, back in the day, they used to have these songs where I was like, I don't want the person who just got saved Sunday to miss Out. I want to give them something they can relate to. And the truth is, they may come to church, and they may not understand everything. Like, they may not understand the church lingo and what we're doing, but they can understand lyrics that says, okay, God, I love what I felt Sunday, but teach me how to get that in my house today. Teach me how to feel you. Teach me how to pray. Teach me how to love on you and build a personal relationship with you today. So that's where that song came from. Because the preacher ain't gonna be in your house. You ain't gonna have the keyboard player there. Like, how do I build relationship with God on my day to day? And that's what that song is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

About. And your day to day, because on your first song on the album, I needed God. You or I need God, you talk about dealing with, like, social media comments and, like, the Internet. And I've never thought about gospel people dealing with comments. Because y' all are so like, I know Kirk Franklin gets a lot of pushback, but he's never talked about comments. And being in the comments, I was. When I heard that, I'm like, I wonder what she deals with on a day to day. Just like, all right, I see.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All. Leave me.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Alone. Like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How. What is your experience like with.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

That? Everybody has an opinion about everybody, everything. And sometimes they say in the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Comments, though, oh, they do you pray every.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Day? Oh, no. Did they talk about your clothes? They talk about your hair? They talk about, you know, just everything. It's the same. And I guess it's the platforms that have been given through social media. You have to manage it. You have to. You know, it could be good, it could be bad, depending on how people use it. And sometimes, as we're human, you know, you get in the comments and you're like, wait a minute. You know, because it's like you're focusing on. Okay, so one of the last things that happened with me, I wore a red outfit to the Stella Awards. It was amazing. I love that outfit. And I mean, the people was like, oh, she sold her soul to the devil. The color red. I'm like, what in the.

[DJ Envy]

World? The blood of.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Jesus. I mean, I could not. I could not believe it. And so I literally had to just take a moment away from social media because I'm like, y' all missed the whole moment. It was like, this is on television. Millions of people are gonna be watching. I had an opportunity just to spread the word of Jesus. And y' all talking about my clothes, You Know, it's. It's. So you're right. I have to just kind of pull away sometimes and refocus on what my calling is and who I'm called.

[DJ Envy]

To. Yeah, well, speaking of calling, when did you first realize that the ministry God gave you wasn't just about saving, but about.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Impartation? That's a good question. I love this. So my dad was a pastor, so they call him me a.

[Lauren LaRosa]

PK. All.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Right? And he started pastor when I was 10 years old, and I came from a family of singers, so everybody sing. All of my aunts, all my cousins, everybody. And I wasn't like the singer in the family. My dad actually was cultivating me to be a speaker, like a communicator. So my first sermon, I preached it when I was 10 years old. And I wasn't really singing on a stage like that, but I grew up in a small town called Jessup, Georgia, and we were bored, so we started, like, this teenage choir, everybody. It was like 50 of us. We had band singers, all that kind of stuff. And we were singing Kirk Franklin's song now, Behold the Lamb by Tamela man. And the lead singer could not make it. He got on a minor fender bender, couldn't make it to the concert. So everybody was like, tasha, Tasha, you gotta sing. I was like, guys, I don't sing in front of people. What's wrong with y'? All? So needless to say, I ended up singing the song that night, and just like people do now, when I open my eyes, people were crying. They were in the floor in worship. I'm looking at my dad like, okay, this ain't what we've been doing. This is different. They're looking back at me. And I think we realized at that moment that the singing and the songs would be an avenue that would be used for me to also get the gospel to people. So it wasn't like a dream either. I just loved. Like I just said, I love singing in church. I love building a choir. That was my thing. So it was never a dream to be on, like, major platforms. I just loved it, being in church. Like, I got disciplined by not being able to go to church. Like, what you talking about? I was one of the kids.

[DJ Envy]

Who was on the front.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Row. I'm there early. I loved church. So for me to have the platforms that I have now, it's just something new. It's not something that I dreamed about, I thought about. I just love to sing. I love to worship, and I love God's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Word. You talk about your dad. And I know you have your son do it anyway on the project. And I can't imagine how emotional that was for you recording that song, because I know it's based off of, like, a lot of life lessons he gives you in your.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Book. Yep.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yep. So talk about, you know, deciding to put that on this album and get the process of, like, writing it and recording it, what that was like for you.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Emotionally. Yeah. When I. When I wrote the book, I wrote it off of my dad's. The last thing that he taught me, the last lesson that he left with me. We were on the way to the Stellars. I had just released a song, Break Every Chain, and I was nominated for several awards. And my dad was an old school pastor, so for him to leave on a Sunday, it meant the world to me. So my dad and my mom came to Nashville, and he was. They had, like, this catwalk that year, and my son was positioned in the middle of the room, and he was literally probably three seats away from me, and I could see him just beaming from ear to ear. But leading up to going to the Stellars, the Grammys were seven days later. And he kept saying, daddy's gonna be with you in Nashville. I'm not going to la, but I want you to go anyway. Like, we're thinking, okay. Nobody ever thought she was going to la, you know, And I thought that's why he was saying that. So he showed up in Nashville, and on the way, I won three awards that night. And the last picture I have of him is him holding my awards up, getting on the elevator. He was getting on the elevator and said, dad. Oh, wait a minute. Let me stop you and take a picture. Let me see the backstory is, my daddy paid for my independent project with his full savings. He spent his whole savings. And so for years, he kept.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Saying, when does the executive producer get his money.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Back? That was his ongoing joke. So I promised him that if I.

[DJ Envy]

Ever. You know, I love a fresh.

[Jessica]

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[Jessica]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Guest/Contributor]

IBM. 10 athletes will face the toughest.

[Mimi Brown]

Job interview in fitness that will push.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Past physical and mental breaking.

[Mimi Brown]

Points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Here with an IFIT contract for 250.

[Lauren LaRosa]

$50,000. This is where mindset comes.

[DJ Envy]

In. Someone will be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Eliminated. Pressure is coming.

[DJ Envy]

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[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Awards. I will give them to him. So that night he took those three stellar awards home and he was so, so, so proud. The next morning he had a heart attack in the car. And he, and he died with my mom in the car. But he saved her life. Like even in that, it was just. The story is just absolutely amazing, like telling it. Oh, for sure. Yeah. So my mom and my dad, they, they dated since she was 13 years old. They were the only two they ever been with and in the car. So, you know, my father had a heart attack immediately. They're basically saying that he passed away. But even in death, he lifted his foot up off of the gas and you know, gravity is going to make you press the gas harder. He was driving, he was driving. He lifted his foot up off the gas while he was having a heart attack and the car just kind of floated into a ditch so that my mom wasn't harmed at all. And she was able to get out and just run across the street and say, hey, I think my husband's having a heart attack. I think he's having a heart attack. And in that moment, my dad used to always say, if I ever get a glimpse of God's glory, I'm not coming back. So that's our thing. Like, he's like, he ain't coming back. He's not coming back. But I remember him saying, baby, daddy's not gonna be with you in la, but I want you to go anyway. And in that, I believe that he was teaching me that life is gonna get hard, your heart is gonna be broken. You're not gonna understand this season that you're in, but daddy wants you to dig deep and do it anyway, whatever you feel like God has called you to do. And so that was the last lesson that he left with.

[DJ Envy]

Me. How.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Old? My. My father was.

[DJ Envy]

54. Young.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Man. He was young. Y. He was a great man. Yeah, he got paid.

[Guest/Contributor]

Back. He said, I'mma take.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

This. He said, where does executive producer get his money back? Why you didn't.

[DJ Envy]

Pay? Why you didn't pay.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Your. You know what? I didn't have it to pay.

[Caller/Listener]

Him. I was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Trying. He would not have taken.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

It. Yeah, I was trying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y'.

[DJ Envy]

All. Now, you've always been transparent about, like, therapy and, you know, healing and doing the inner work. What do you feel the faith community still misunderstands about mental.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Health? Oh, my goodness. You know, I think there's a greater focus on it than there has been in the past. And I feel like many people who are. Who have platforms are talking about it more. Like you were just mentioning Sarah. Sarah is very adamant about pushing, like, with her woman evolved. They talk about it all the time. We always have therapists there. She's a good friend of mine. And I feel like more people are being open about it. It wasn't just. It was something that was just kind of taboo, you know, because we got the Holy Ghost, you know, God's gonna help with everything. And I think now we can just kind of teach it a little different that God uses people to help us. You know, most of the time, what you will find when God is gonna do something in the earth, he's gonna use a man to do it, a person to do it, and so there's a greater emphasis on it. We could do better. You know, you have therapists like Kobe Campbell. She's absolutely amazing. If you never heard of. Y' all gotta go. Just kind of read some. Some of the stuff that she does. You know, she's absolutely amazing. So you have a lot of God centered kingdom therapists who are being exposed now. And I think Jack. Yes. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. And so you have a lot more of that that can be trusted and they're relevant. Like we were saying, you know, it's. It's like they. They know the language, but they also have the education to Help you manage, like your mental health. And I think it's great. I think it's a lot more exposure. We can do better, but I think we're getting good at.

[DJ Envy]

It. When did you know you needed it? Like, you know, if you're a faith person, you believe God is enough. When, you know, I needed, I need some therapy.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Too. Yep. I, I remember, man, it was about 2010 and I was actually a worship leader at my church. And I would go to church and I would like sing these songs just like I was just talking about and watch people be healed, watch them have moments in the presence of God. And I would go home for three and four days in the dark under the covers, crying. Didn't understand why. Just, you know, just heavy. And I remember one night, it just got so heavy. My cousin was my roommate and she was like, tasha, I gotta go. Like, it's, it's. You could feel it in my house, you know. And I remember probably after she left, maybe two nights later, I just woke up in the middle of the night, like, I gotta do something about this. Like, I can't, I can't continue to offer hope and inspire people. And I'm in this dark place every day. There has to be more. You know, for me going to therapy, mine was self rejection. I dealt with rejection very bad. I was, you know, we celebrate. Oh, Tasha got in trouble because she didn't want to go to church. This, this. But along with that was the, the Persona of perfection. Like I adopted this perfection. I remember being 10 years old and one of the deacons from my church would come to me and say, hey, my son is in your class. Make sure he doing his. Can you imagine the weight of responsibility a 10 year old has to take on? And so I adopted this thing. Like, I can't have any flaws. I can't have any issues. I gotta be perfect. And so I hid my flaws for years and that went into adulthood and it just turned into this darkness. Like I can't accept who I am because I don't think people will accept that. I don't think they'll love me, you know, I don't think they want me. And so mine was really birthed from self.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rejection. Did you ever question your faith? Like all the things that you've been talking about that you went through and I see all the things that you wrote on your, your album cover.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

The words which I love you ate that.

[Guest/Contributor]

Down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fire. Did you have a question your.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Face? I did. You know what? And it wasn't during those times That I was just talking about, it was actually more recent. My husband and I went through a miscarriage. And in that time, you know, I was like, man, God, I spend my life worshiping you. I spend my life inspiring and teaching the gospel of Jesus. And the one thing that I really wanted was the one thing that I did not get. And I remember walking through that, that season, I questioned, you know, my faith was shattered. I remember calling my mentor William Murphy, and I said, man, my faith is shattered right now. And he was like, good. That's a perfect place for God to put you back together. And I was like, of course you don't want to hear that right now. I'm like, okay, we don't want this lesson right now. But it was the truth that during that season, I realized just how weak my faith was, that, hey, it's the one thing that you wanted, but God wants to do it differently. I have a friend who. Her name is Jackie Green. And she says this. She was like, we often want God's will. You know, we want the promises, we want the prophecies, and we want the blessings, but we don't stick around to hear his way. And God's way for us was adoption. You know, we have a beautiful baby boy. His name is Asher. He's four years old. And he looks like us, acts like us. He's a perfect fit to our family. And it was God's way, not our way. And when I. You know, when I relinquished that, like, thinking it has to be done this way, and I allow God to do it his way, you know, my faith was. Is so much stronger, you know, so much.

[DJ Envy]

Stronger. When you think about your father, God bless the dead, you think about, like, miscarriages. How has grief shifted the way you minister to.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

People? Oh, my gosh. I love this question, because a lot of times we minister from a place, like, we just want to. You know, I just want my songs to be rooted in scripture, rooted in scripture. But sometimes we also have to have cultural intelligence about the people that we're ministering to. Like, there are people who are dealing with grief for real, and they don't want the fluff like we were just talking about. They want the honesty. And so for me, it kind of shifted my approach in ministry that I'm thinking there are people, though there may be thousands of people out here in this arena or wherever I am, but they are dealing with real grief, real heartbreak. And they don't want a false tasha. You know, they don't want the fake. This is just a Pretty song. They want somebody who's going to reach their heart, you know? And what comes from my heart, I believe will reach their heart. And so, yeah, those experiences really changed the way that I minister. I remember after my dad died, about two weeks later, I had a concert because I canceled everything for about two weeks. And I was in LA standing on a stage. And I remember just being heartbroken. And people are still worshiping, you know, they still with their hands lifted, but I'm on the stage destroyed. Like, my heart is broken. And a song from my childhood came back to me. And the song, you know, it says, I'll say yes, Lord, yes to your will and to your way. I'll say, yes, Lord, yes. I will trust you and obey. And then it says, when your spirit speaks to me, and I change the lyric right there on the stage. With my broken heart, I'll still agree. And my answer will be yes, Lord, yes. And in that moment, I realized that my gift wasn't just for the crowd, that it was also for me. Like, in those broken moments, God gave me a gift that would help usher me through different seasons.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Too. Tasha Cosville, we appreciate you for joining us. We got to close out with the prayer.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Though. Okay. Am I.

[Jessica]

Praying?

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. You don't ignore.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Anyone. But you said these are women of God right.

[DJ Envy]

Here. I do, but Jesus will ignore. I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pray. Willow is.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Tainted. Oh, my.

[DJ Envy]

God. This is.

[Guest/Contributor]

Crazy. And that ring.

[Jessica]

Baby.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Aw. Thank.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hello. Thank.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

You. All right. De Lord, thank you. Thank you for being good. Thank you for being faithful in every season. I thank you even for this platform, for all four of these amazing people who spread inspiration, who use their gifts and their talents just to help other people and to just be God in the earth. God, I thank you for the opportunity to talk about you to millions and millions of people, to anyone who may be listening, to anyone who may have heard, who may have in a. A space of grief, you know, a space of depression. God, I ask now that you would show yourself to them in a special way today. In Jesus name you be glorified.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Amen.

[DJ Envy]

Amen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Amen. Yes, Tasha. Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning. Thank.

[DJ Envy]

You. Amen, you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Heathens. That's right. Well, let's get to the latest with.

[Guest/Contributor]

Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thing. She gets them from somebody that knows.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody. She gets the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

Everything. She'd be having the latest on.

[Jessica]

The Latest with Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

LaRosa. Sometimes she has facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of Everything. What was the latest on the Breakfast.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Club? All right, y'. All. So more news out of the Power Sessions, which was our sold out concert that we did here in New York City. I told you guys that Mariah the Scientist performed, but she also sat down with Angie Martinez right before her performance, before we introduced her and talked a bit about what she wants her future to look like. Let's take a.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Listen. And in the next five years, you say, I want to settle down, but I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Still. What does that.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Mean? What does that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mean? Like, babies and.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Everything? I want to be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Married. Okay. And I want.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

To. Did everybody get the memo on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That. That's the. I hope so. And listen, that's my.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Plan. Can't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Speak. I can't speak for everybody. That's my plan.

[DJ Envy]

Though. That's what you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Doing. That's what I'm.

[Caller/Listener]

Doing. You know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And. But besides the say, I still definitely feel like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Babies. You want a lot of.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Kids? I want a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Baby. Are you like a big family girl? Like, you want a lot of.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Kids? Well, I only have one sibling, my.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Sister. She's my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Manager. So what are you thinking right.

[Guest/Contributor]

Away? I'm about to get to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It. Like, after.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The. Like after you leave here. Go get to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It. Or you want to do marriage.

[Jessica]

First? You want to do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Marriage? I want to be married.

[DJ Envy]

First.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. I really do. Because I don't know, maybe I just want a commitment that doesn't involve an obligation to a baby. You know, I just want it to be, like, out of love, not out of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Responsibility. Yeah, I feel.

[DJ Envy]

That. Yeah, I feel that. What the hell is that background.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Music? It's because in our edit that we have on the YouTube clip, they added, like, some festive, I guess, like wintertime music under the interview or.

[DJ Envy]

Drop. It includes monster Angie Martinez, by the way. I know Peter's not gonna like this, but that fur Angie was wearing was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Fire. Actually, she said it on our stream. Make sure you check out the Breakfast Breakfast Club Twitch account. She said that the. The fur was not real because she didn't want Peter to be on.

[DJ Envy]

Her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. But it looked. It was a great grade of faux.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fur. You know, the funny thing is I'm. I'm an only child. Like, I didn't have many siblings. I had no siblings. But because of that, I wanted so many damn kids because I was an only child. I didn't have nobody to play.

[News Reporter]

With.

[DJ Envy]

I. Dropping a clue. Let me tell you something about that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man. I thought about.

[DJ Envy]

It. I'm about to say the R word, but that's our little re real. Say, why you say.

[Guest/Contributor]

That? Why you saying.

[DJ Envy]

That? As a child, I didn't have many siblings. I didn't have any siblings. I was the only child. No, I was the only child, so I didn't have many.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Siblings. I didn't have many sibs. I had cousins that were like brothers to me, but I didn't have. I was an only child, so I wanted many.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Kids. That's okay. And I understand what you mean. I mix up my words too, but yeah. Shout out to Mariah the scientist.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nothing. Shout out to Mariah the scientist. And in just that clip, I thought it was nice to hear her talk about love. Especially after like you know, just the year that we've seen her have and she's actually a super sweet person. We did a give back at the Boys and Girls Club in Jersey over the weekend as well too. Yeah. So moving right.

[DJ Envy]

Along. How many little thugs? She said she wanted just.

[Lauren LaRosa]

One. I think she said she wanted to start. Yeah, she said she wanted to start with the one and then just kind of see where it goes from there. But it just sounds like she's ready to, you know, have a family, but get some, get the marriage.

[Guest/Contributor]

First. The ladies is. The ladies is speaking that they want families. Clarissa Shield said that she want a baby too and she's gonna have one 20.

[Lauren LaRosa]

26. I know it's right. Yeah, she said next year is happening. She's been saying that for a few. The whole year, ever since she met.

[Guest/Contributor]

Pat. Yeah, I know, but she said it the other day like crystal clear already bacon or something like, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna have a baby. She didn't say I'm gonna be pregnant. She said I'm gonna have a baby in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

2026. Well, she has a fight that she just announced. So I hope that nothing is baking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yet. But in other news. So we talked about the Boys Mind tour and the fact that they finished in Florida yesterday. I reached out because I was just wondering how many fans cuz we were talking about all the sold out arenas and all the things right with their tour and I was told, I spoke to the head of communications for the black promoters collective who put the tour on. 330,000 fans across the country came out for the duration of this full Tour. They did 32 cities and they ended in Florida as we mentioned yesterday. So shout out to everybody that came out to support them. Michelle Obama, Jay Z, Beyonce, Missy Elliot. I saw that Trina took the stage in Florida as well.

[News Reporter]

Too.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yep. And Shout out to me and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You. We went, oh, we were there. We had a.

[Guest/Contributor]

Time. Special.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Guest. We had fun. We did have a time. And wrapping up. Congratulations to Mariah Carey. She now has the record of longest running number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 list. This is.

[DJ Envy]

History. As long as there's a Christmas, that song is always gonna do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well. All I Want for Christmas is there. Yeah. So just spent this 20th week at number one. It took. Took the record or took over the number one reign from Lil Nas X in Shaboozi. And she talked a bit about what this means to her. Let's take a listen to her talking to.

[DJ Envy]

Billboard. With the 20th week at number one, breaking the record for the longest running number one song on the Hot 100 is Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yous.

[DJ Envy]

Yay. Mind Boned. How do you feel about breaking that.

[Guest/Contributor]

Record? It's amazing.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Honestly. It really is. I can't.

[DJ Envy]

Lie. I mean, you've got a incredible. Have this record with one Sweet Day and then it was taken from you for a.

[Jessica]

Second. So how did you feel in that moment.

[DJ Envy]

With. With Lil Nas.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

X. And then of course, Shaboozi ended.

[DJ Envy]

Up, you know, breaking the record for.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

The time that they did. I was upset, but what are you gonna.

[DJ Envy]

Do? Well, what you're gonna do is have a classic Christmas song that returns to number one every year. That's what you're gonna do. So did you know that All I Want for Christmas is you would be this for.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

You? No. I had no idea. That just became such a thing that I never could have predicted it.

[DJ Envy]

Ever. Mariah sound like she don't even know it's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Christmas. No, I think she a little tired. She's been doing her Christmas show over in Bay.

[Guest/Contributor]

Vegas. She looks so good. Yo, did you see Rihanna screaming from the mountaintops, baby? Yes, she loves Mariah down. But Mariah looks really.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good. She does. But she says at the end of this interview, she's like, I mean, it's Christmas and I'm doing these shows, but I just can't wait to get home and do my own.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Christmas.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And at the end of her closing for this Vegas show, she's like, this is our last show. Hallelujah. Thank God. Amen. So, yeah, I think that, you know, I think she's ready, but she. She's gonna have to do it again at the Olympics. She just announced that.

[Jessica]

So. So, all.

[DJ Envy]

Right. Her and Mary J. Blige tied man drop on the clues box from Mary Bl. They've been carrying this game on their back for a long time. Okay? Let them get their rest.

[Guest/Contributor]

Please. No, Mary Bl Ain't tired. Baby is sleep. She be like, look, y' all saying she. At least Mariah will sing. Murray be like, look, y' all bought tickets for y' all to sing. I ain't doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It. All right, well, thank.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You. She did the best she can with what she.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got. What she got, Charlemagne? We give it that donkey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Too.

[DJ Envy]

Before. After the hour. We need President Donald J. Trump to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him this.

[Guest/Contributor]

Morning. Lord.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus. What? I might not be here. No way. So you might as well. Facts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Facts. I like that.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Energy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Facts. All right, let's go.

[DJ Envy]

In. Let's go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In. Let's go.

[Caller/Listener]

In. Oh.

[DJ Envy]

Lord. Lawrence, where you.

[News Reporter]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

States. Wouldn't you love to see one.

[News Reporter]

Of these NFL owners when somebody disrespects.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Our flag to say, get that son.

[News Reporter]

Of a bitch off the field right.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Now.

[DJ Envy]

Out. He's.

[Jessica]

Fired. He's.

[DJ Envy]

Fired. Trump, please step up to the congregation. Yes, you are, adult.

[News Reporter]

Trump. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're.

[Caller/Listener]

Rapists. He's a.

[DJ Envy]

Jackass. Yes. Talk here today for Tuesday, December 16 goes to the 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. Now, if you haven't heard, film director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were brutally murdered. Their son, Nick Reiner, is currently being held on murder charges, accused of stabbing them to death, slitting their throats. Just horrendous on all levels, man. People said their son was troubled. He may have been dealing with mental health issues. Folks are saying they overheard robbing Nick, all arguing at a party, and the son was acting bizarre. Listen, I am sure that folks will be trying to figure out the why to this tragedy for a while, but the why isn't what we are here to discuss this morning. What we are here to discuss this morning is the hypocrisy of President Donald J. Trump. See, when the news of Rob Reiner's murder came out, Trump got on Truth Social and said something that just simply didn't need to be said. Let's go to NBC News for the report.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please. The horrific murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Reiner. Reiner is sending shockwaves through Hollywood and Washington, D.C. oh, boy. Reiner will forever be remembered as a TV and film icon. But he was also active politically.

[Jessica]

An outspoken critic of President.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trump. Trump's comments come after he wrote this incendiary post on Truth Social earlier in the morning, claiming the couple who were brutally murdered in their own home, quote, passed away because of anger Reiner caused while with his outspoken criticism of Trump. The post sparked immediate and intense backlash, this time from inside his own.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Party. I think President Trump should have said.

[DJ Envy]

Nothing. When someone is murdered, we should.

[Caller/Listener]

Show him and his family.

[DJ Envy]

Respect. You think that's the bare minimum? How do you turn someone's tragic murder into politically motivated violence? He's making it seem like Rob and his wife Michelle got killed because of Rob's feelings towards him. Why would you center yourself at the heart of a tragedy like this? Why would you even want to put out there that someone would or could be killed for their opinion of you? What are you saying about your followers and supporters? That they would kill someone because that person doesn't like you? Okay. What are you signaling to your followers? That it's okay to take out anyone, anyone who disagrees with you? Also, I know Rob was very heavy into politics and very vocal, you know, about his opposition to Trump. But the reality is, Donald Trump, you're the president. You didn't have to say anything about this if you didn't want to. Rob Reiner is not a politician. He's a film director. Public condolences from you would have been nice, but not necessary. So you volunteered this information for no reason and then doubled down when asked about it. Let's go back to NBC News to hear.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

It. A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Truth Social after the murder of Rob Reiner. Do you stand by that.

[News Reporter]

Post? Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He said he liked. He knew it was false. In fact, it's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia. You know, the Russia hoax. He was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself in career wise. He became like a deranged person. Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our.

[DJ Envy]

Country. Now, I'm not shocked. Is it disgusting? Yes. Appalling? Yes. But this is who Donald Trump is, folks. Keep waiting for him to be presidential. That's not who and what he is. Okay? He is the former executive producer, Celebrity Apprentice. All right? He's a Reality show star. There would never be any coof there. Okay, okay. A position doesn't make the person. All right? Just because you are president doesn't mean you will ever be presidential. Okay, you can change the top layer, but Trump was who he was before he got here. Not to mention he told us he doesn't wish the best for his opponents. Let's not forget.

[News Reporter]

This. Remember, over the last 11 days, we have heard stories of commentators, influencers and others in our society who greeted his assassination with sick approval, excuses, or even.

[Caller/Listener]

Jubilation. The man wasn't even.

[DJ Envy]

Buried. Oh, no, that's not what I'm looking for. I'm get to that part. Hold, stop, stop, stop. I want. When he said at Charlie Kirk's memorial, when he said that he doesn't. What's the best for his opponents? We don't have that. We have that. Yeah, play.

[News Reporter]

That. Charlie Kirk truly was. He was a missionary with a noble spirit. Spirit and a great, great purpose. He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erica. But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group and maybe they can convince me that that's not right. But I can't stand my.

[DJ Envy]

Opponent. Hey, man, he is who he is, okay? When somebody tells you who they are, believe them, okay? Donald Trump. Trump has no problem going to hell on his opposition. Can't be too shocked when somebody like that plays limbo with Lucifer, okay? But I was born in 1978, and I remember when Charlie Kirk got killed, Maga in the right crucified what they called radical left lunatics for speaking about Charlie Kirk's death or celebrating Charlie Kirk's death the exact way Trump just spoke about Rob. So for me, if it's one thing I can't stand is a lack of consistency and hypocrisy. I'm okay with you changing your mind. I'm okay with you being who you are. That's perfectly fine. But to become what you once condemned, to display the exact same behavior you told us was wrong, that you were willing to deport people over. Oh, we gotta call it out now. We can play the compilation.

[News Reporter]

Right? Over the last 11 days, we have heard stories of commentators, influencers and others in our society who greeted his assassination with sick approval, excuses, or even.

[Caller/Listener]

Jubilation. The man wasn't even buried yet.

[Mimi Brown]

And Democrat members of Congress were denigrating his memory. Many Democrats in elective office have.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now been totally captured by a radical.

[Mimi Brown]

Fringe of the far left base who want to dehumanize every person they disagree.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With. We must continue to call this wickedness.

[News Reporter]

Out. Some of the very same people who spent the last eight years trying to sit in moral judgment of anyone who disagreed with them about politics suddenly started cheering for.

[DJ Envy]

Murder. Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle aren't even buried yet. So call your president out, okay? The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite. Trump and his administration, they're both. And if you are a Republican who is not condemning this behavior after criticizing people for celebrating the death of Charlie Craig, then you are a liar, a hypocrite, too, okay? Representative Stephanie Rice of Oklahoma said we should be lifting the family up in prayer, not making this about politics. Representative Mike Lawler, Republican from New York, called Trump's remarks about Reiner wrong. In a statement, he said, it's a horrible tragedy that should engender sympathy and compassion from everyone in the country, period. Those are the kinds of statements Republicans should be making in regards to their leader. Okay, that's it. Anything else is true. Truly uncivilized. Not to mention, does Donald Trump know what happened to Rob can happen to anyone. I know he got Secret Service and all the security in the world, but Rob got killed by his son. Someone close to him snapping, flipping out. That could sadly happen to any of us. So you have to be very careful with that kind of energy because it can come back to you, okay? Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption in America. America, I hate to tell you, but this president is indeed the leader of a den of corruption. Please give Donald Trump the biggest. He all. Go subscribe to my YouTube. It's see the God Ctha G O D. You play too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Much. I just wanna let you.

[DJ Envy]

Know. Go to my. Just go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Please. The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year. Filled with joy and laughter. A little bit of the festive chaos we all secretly love of. From long shopping lists to travel plans to family dinners, it's a lot happening all at once. But this season, Coca Cola wants to remind everyone that the magic isn't in the hustle and bustle. It's finding joy in the little moments, like laughing over old memories, playing holiday games, or taking that first sip of an ice cold Coca Cola that cuts through all the holiday frenzy and brings the cool comfort to your soul. Because that's the good stuff. The joy hiding in plain sight. The sound of laughter mixing with the clink of glasses, the calm between the songs and the stories. And when things start to feel like they're doing the most, that crisp, delicious taste of Coca Cola can be the reset everyone needs. Just a little reminder that the season isn't about rushing. It's about refreshing. So wherever the holidays take you, slow down, take a breath, and savor the moment. Enjoy a Coca Cola refresh. Your.

[Jessica]

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

[DJ Envy]

There. So you're telling me that the AI that's meant to make everyone's job easier to manage just adds more to manage? On top of the thousands of apps the IT department already manages? Funny how that works. Any business can add AI. IBM helps you scale and manage AI to change how you do business. Let's create smarter business.

[Guest/Contributor]

IBM. 10 athletes will face the toughest.

[Mimi Brown]

Job interview in fitness that will push.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Past physical and mental breaking.

[Mimi Brown]

Points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Here with an IFIT contract worth.

[Lauren LaRosa]

$250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming.

[DJ Envy]

Down. Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

TNT True TV and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

HBO. Max in the World right.

[DJ Envy]

Now. You still want to play with this man? I'm just go subscribe to my YouTube. See the God, C, T, H.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A G O, D minus DJ Envy, by the way. All.

[DJ Envy]

Right. And give me your only fans for your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Feet. DJ Envy speak. Only fans, just in.

[DJ Envy]

Case.

[Guest/Contributor]

Peace. Y' all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stupid. Yeah. Gotta get my feet right. All.

[DJ Envy]

Right. Don't judge, Chase. Don't judge. I'm not all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. Now, thank you for that donkey today. Now let's open up the phone lines. I was having a conversation with my pops the other day, and we were talking about the worst holiday experiences, and I'm gonna tell you why. 800-585-1051. The worst holiday experience or Christmas experience that you could think of. So when my dad. When I was, like, younger, my dad was a police officer, he got chest pain, so he thought he was having a heart.

[Jessica]

Attack.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. The day before Christmas. And all I wanted was an aircraft carrier. A GI Joe. Couldn't afford it, but when my dad thought he was dying, he bought it immediately. Of course, he didn't pass, thank God. So talking about the worst holiday experiences, that happened to you also two years ago, if you ever had to build toys for your kids, or a doll house or a Barbie house, you know, they have them plastic things on there that's, like, really, really tight and hard to pop off. He heard me say, really tight and hard to pop off. He got.

[DJ Envy]

Excited. I ain't say something. What's wrong with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You? I used the knife to pop off the plastic tab, and I cut my finger and had to get 12 stitches on my finger. The night of Christmas, and I was in emergency room.

[DJ Envy]

Christmas. Should have got one. One stitch per day. 12 days of Christmas. By the end of the 12 days of Christmas, you'd have been.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good. Yo, shut up. So we're asking 800-585-1051, what was your worst Christmas experience, the worst thing that happened that you was like, this is just horrible. That's what we're asking this.

[DJ Envy]

Morning. I'm trying to figure out what the first story you told, who was it the worst experience for? Because you said your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dad. My dad. I mean, I was happy because I got the GI Joe, but my dad thought he was having a heart.

[DJ Envy]

Attack. I thought you was trying to say that your dad was mad he bought you the GI Joe. He only bought that because he was dying. He could have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Saved. I'm sure he was mad after. I'm sure he was mad after. I'm sure he wanted his money back. But it was one of those things where he was. He thought he was having a heart attack. He thought he wasn't. He thought he wasn't gonna make it. So he was. Was like, I just want to see my son happy. We can't afford it, but I'mma buy.

[DJ Envy]

It. I'm shocked. You play with GI Joe. You saying you strike me as a Barbie girl living in a Barbie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

World?

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Don't.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

It?

[Guest/Contributor]

Yes. His father wouldn't have boy.

[DJ Envy]

Though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Definitely not back.

[DJ Envy]

Then. No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. He called me all types of 90s slurs.

[DJ Envy]

Back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God. But anyway. 800-585-1051. I know my pops are.

[DJ Envy]

Listening. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pops. It's the Breakfast.

[DJ Envy]

Club. Good morning.

[Jessica]

Maybe if y' all talking about it, you know we talking about.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

It. It's topic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Jessica]

Discussion with the Breakfast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're asking for the holiday season. What is your worst holiday experience? One of mine was a couple of years ago. I was trying to put together a Barbie house. A Barbie house for my.

[DJ Envy]

Daughter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Daughter. And you know how they got them little plastic ties that you gotta. It's damn near impossible to get off. So I was cutting them off with a knife, and when I went to cut it, I damn near cut my finger off. Had to get like 12 to 15 stitches in emergency room for Christmas. So we're asking 800-585-1051. Now, Jess, you always talk about a story of you not having lights and having candle. Was that like, one of the worst.

[Jessica]

Ones?

[Guest/Contributor]

Damn. Like I was gonna.

[Caller/Listener]

Say. And no, I.

[Guest/Contributor]

Don'T. I do not always be talking about that like, yo. But yes, that was the worst Christmas for me. My son was like four. Four or five, I think. And we ain't have no. We ain't no lights or nothing. And I had to steal everything. But those was the days I was getting down. I was hitting all them stores. Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx Ross, everything Burlington. Like, all them little stores straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Up. And you never got.

[Guest/Contributor]

Caught? Hell, no, I ain't get caught. I ain't get caught. Until I started stealing from, like, out of the register at McDonald's or when I did the credit card scams. That was the worst of my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Life. All right. Okay. All.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Right. So.

[Guest/Contributor]

That'S. But, yeah, I was down real bad, but I'm not nailed out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now. What about you, Mr. Jehovah.

[DJ Envy]

Witness? You answered your question. Don't disrespect me. The religion I grew up on, okay, I grew up Jehovah Witness, so we never celebrated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Holidays. So when you come back to school and everybody talk about the gifts they got, you just gotta be like, I.

[DJ Envy]

Got. Nah. You know, it's so interesting. My dad always like, I always had what everybody else had, so it didn't matter, like, you know, I mean, if I wanted some high tech boots. Remember high techs? Yeah, daddy got me some high techs one year and I started to get the bootleg ones from Payless, but he was like, hell no. So he got me the high techs. I had the Nintendo when Nintendo first came out. So it's like that stuff for.

[Guest/Contributor]

Christmas, he would just get it for you.

[DJ Envy]

Anyway. Yeah, I mean, you know, even if it was the holidays, he might, he probably would still get it. My mom didn't necessarily like that, but you know, he was just. Same difference, you know, I mean, maybe he was taking advantage of the sales and stuff and you know, now that I got my own kids, kids and you know, my wife definitely celebrates Christmas. We celebrate Christmas in our house, you know, life is pretty good. Okay, God bless. Thank you. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God. Your.

[DJ Envy]

YouTube. Just in case you see the God Cth A G O D I hate him so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Much. Hello, who's.

[Caller/Listener]

This? What up though? This DJ Hit List Hit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

List. What up, man? We asking what's your worst Christmas experience.

[Caller/Listener]

Brother? So look, man, I stuck it to my people's room, my grand. Not my grandparents, but, but my parents room. I saw these tickets to the Chris Brown concert. I just knew for a fact.

[DJ Envy]

That they were for.

[Caller/Listener]

Me. It was Christmas time, we opened up the gifts and it was actually for my.

[DJ Envy]

Sister. So two weeks later gone by.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm actually sitting back at the crib pissed because my stepmom and my sister get to go with her best friend. Everybody knew I was a fan of Chris Brown too, so I was really pissed.

[Jessica]

Man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Okay, thank.

[DJ Envy]

You. What did you get for Christmas that year, by the.

[Caller/Listener]

Way? Man, I got, I got some clothes, I got some Jordan, stuff like that. But I mean, I was trying.

[Jessica]

To go to the.

[DJ Envy]

Concert. Nah, man, you got some Jordans. But don't run, don't breeze past. You got some Jordans. What number, what number Jordans you.

[Caller/Listener]

Got? I got the.

[Jessica]

Five.

[DJ Envy]

What? Man, you better be happy you got them Jordan fives. Are you.

[Jessica]

Crazy? I rocking with.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

It. What.

[Caller/Listener]

Colorway? It was.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Black. I can't.

[Jessica]

Remember. The name of.

[Caller/Listener]

It. But there was a black boy, so I would. I could be.

[Guest/Contributor]

Bad. My man's wanted to go see Chris.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Brown. I. I.

[Jessica]

Understand.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I mean I just went to.

[Caller/Listener]

The. The recent one, so I wasn't mad. I. I always go to.

[DJ Envy]

It. Yeah, you only gonna see Chris Brown once though. You can wear them Jordans for a couple.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Years. I. I want to ask Lauren, but I don't want to bring back bad.

[DJ Envy]

Memories.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? Her worst Christmas.

[Guest/Contributor]

Experience. Oh my God. Stop. Don't do.

[DJ Envy]

This. She might have it this year. The way she.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Going. Oh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stop. She got. Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's.

[Jessica]

There? Come.

[Caller/Listener]

On. It's the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dj. Dj, what's up? We're talking about your worst Christmas.

[Caller/Listener]

Experience. Yeah, I think I was like maybe like five or six. This is like 1989, maybe 90. And you know, I was raised in a foster home, me and my brother. So my foster mommy select my dad still come around to see us. So for the first time, we finally got us some Christmas gifts. We left, came back to the house, all the Christmas gifts was gone. Like our house was like burglar ride. Come to find out. Well, my mom, my fourth mom found out it was my dad. He went back in the house and took all the gifts.

[DJ Envy]

Back. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Legend. What do you do with the g. What he do with the gifts? He sold.

[News Reporter]

It. For.

[Jessica]

What?

[Caller/Listener]

Crack. We sold them, you know, to get high. This is like pre crack era.

[Jessica]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly. So your dad sold it for.

[Caller/Listener]

Crack just to get high?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's whack. And the reason I think that's whack is because he got a perfectly good mouth if he wanted to get.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cracked. What is wrong with.

[DJ Envy]

You? You know what I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Saying? You'll be a little monster have got that.

[DJ Envy]

Crack. What I'm saying, don't do that to your.

[Guest/Contributor]

Kids. Yes. Somebody in the chat said Christmas of 98. Crackhead stole all of our Christmas lights. Overnight plot twist. The same crackhead tried to steal the same. Tried to sell the same ones back to us two days.

[DJ Envy]

Later. Damn, I got to beat that crackhead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ass. We got Monique on the line. Monique, good.

[Caller/Listener]

Morning. Good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning. We're asking what's your worst Christmas experience?

[Caller/Listener]

Mama. So I found out my boyfriend was cheating on me on Christmas day. We went over to his mom's house to have like Christmas dinner. And the son told that he had been. He had spent the night with the mom the night.

[DJ Envy]

Before.

[Jessica]

Legend.

[Caller/Listener]

Wow. So I always hated Christmas because I never forgot that. Like I was like, man, every time it came around, like, I don't even want to do this, Holly. But now I just make my own movies with my own kids because I don't have.

[DJ Envy]

Time. So let me get this right. He had a baby mama.

[Jessica]

Right?

[Caller/Listener]

Yep. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Correct. And so he spent the holidays with his baby mama. So he spent the holidays with his.

[Caller/Listener]

Family. He spent Christmas Eve with the baby mama and the son. And then we went over to the mom house with me the next day, and the son told that they had spent the night.

[DJ Envy]

Together. I don't. That man. That man sounded like he got his.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Priorities. No, because he probably lied and said he wasn't there. And the son said, yes, exactly. I see Santa kissing. I see Mama kissing Santa.

[DJ Envy]

Claus. Are y' all together now? Okay, so. So here. So here's the thing. He had. He got a baby mama, and he had you, Santa's little heel. So therefore. And.

[Jessica]

He. And he.

[DJ Envy]

Spent. He spent time with both of. He spent time with both of.

[Caller/Listener]

Them. Charl, you tried me, by the way. It's my 40th birthday.

[Jessica]

Guys. Happy.

[DJ Envy]

Birthday. Happy 40th. Happy 40th. Happy.

[Caller/Listener]

40Th. Thank.

[DJ Envy]

You. Love.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y'.

[DJ Envy]

All. But I do want to tell y' all brothers, I told y' all this the other day, man, have some respect for you. You know, y' all shouldn't be cheating at all. But have some respect for your side piece during the holidays. Don't call her your side piece. Call her saying his little he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man. Hey.

[DJ Envy]

Man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This?

[Caller/Listener]

Wow.

[Jessica]

Hi. How you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Doing? What's up? What's your.

[Caller/Listener]

Name? Mama, this is KK from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Detroit. Kk, what.

[Caller/Listener]

Up? Just. I'm good. How are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You? Good. What's your.

[Caller/Listener]

Worst? Okay, the worst holiday was for me last year, years. December 5th. I found out I had stage two breast cancer. And then the day after Christmas, my kids lost their father. But in the midst of all of that, God is still.

[Jessica]

Good.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Tell me more. Tell me more. I need to know what God. I mean, I know God is good, but I just need to hear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some, like, a bright side, positive side of all of.

[Caller/Listener]

That. Okay. On a. On a good note is I'm in remission. I'm in the medicine part of my.

[DJ Envy]

Treatment. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

And. And it's hard, but I'm still able to push.

[DJ Envy]

Through. There you go. Got.

[Caller/Listener]

It. And I'm glad that the Lord is keeping my kids. They're great kids. 12 and 11. One just turned 11. Great grades. They get honored all through the teachers giving great recommendation. I'M just glad that the Lord has kept them and mine. They're not depressed and they just pushing through. And I want all the listeners to know that even season, when everything seems like upside down, the Lord is still.

[DJ Envy]

Good. I love this. I love your testimony so much, man. Because you know, if you really do have faith and you really do believe in God, you got to believe in God even when things ain't going your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Way. That is right. What you doing this year for Christmas, Mama, for the kids and all.

[Caller/Listener]

That? Well, because of my ailment, I'm not able to really work that much. But we just gonna fellowship with family and friends. It's not about the material. It's not about the material. I'm just trying to keep my kids humble and whatever they get, that's what they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get. What's your cash at, Mama? I'm gonna throw something in your cash after to. To help you with your. A little something to help you.

[DJ Envy]

A little bit remember the reason for the.

[Caller/Listener]

Season. Look at God bless you. It's dollar sign, capital N O R M A L I E. The last name is capital and then it's a K. You'll see it says.

[Guest/Contributor]

Kk. I'm in.

[DJ Envy]

Red. All right, I'm gonna give you more prayers.

[Caller/Listener]

Kk. Yeah, I'll take.

[Guest/Contributor]

That.

[Caller/Listener]

Anyway. That's what I need is the prayers. That's what I need is the prayers. But don't stop the Cash.

[Guest/Contributor]

App. I know that's.

[Caller/Listener]

Right. What else you see, it's capital N O R M A L I E and the letter K. I'm gonna.

[DJ Envy]

Be honest with you though, K.K. you blessed me this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

K.K. i see you.

[DJ Envy]

K.K. send it to me or Cash app to Envy. But you bless.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. You blessed me this morning. Just because I love people who have the type of faith that you have, man. Because, you know, a lot of times they say if you put your problems next to somebody else's, you'll snatch yours back, you.

[Caller/Listener]

Know? Right. Yeah, exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly. God bless you.

[Guest/Contributor]

K.K.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely. Thank.

[Caller/Listener]

You. I appreciate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That. No, K.K. can you just make sure you got it right fast? Cuz I want to make sure I ain't send it to the wrong person. I got a bad habit of.

[Caller/Listener]

Sending. Oh, okay, hold on. Give me two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Seconds. I'mma send. I'mma send two cuz I want to make sure I'm sending the right one.

[DJ Envy]

First. What if. What if she got another K in front of her name and we don't know it and it's.

[Guest/Contributor]

Kkk. But look, what if. Oh, my God, what if she was like, oh, this. You just sent me.

[Caller/Listener]

$10. I don't see it.

[DJ Envy]

Yet. All right, well, somebody got blessed this morning. And don't you take it back in me. You blessed us, okay? That's why I just send prayers. Okay? I know exactly who. I prayed for this stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Okay. Yeah, okay. You're a light skinned woman with glasses.

[Jessica]

Right? Sure.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Yeah. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. I sent it to you. That's right, papa, but I just sent it to.

[Guest/Contributor]

You. Yeah, she has.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To. She has to excite.

[Guest/Contributor]

It. That's all. Because he never sent you money before. So sometimes you got to accepted from new.

[Caller/Listener]

Contact. Oh, yeah, you.

[DJ Envy]

Do. That's right. Cash app may not come when it's sent, but it's always on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Time. I sent some money to you, man. Enjoy your. Your. Your holidays and, and get them kids something. Something nice. All.

[DJ Envy]

Right. How much you gave.

[Caller/Listener]

Them? All right, I appreciate you. Thank.

[Guest/Contributor]

You. All.

[Caller/Listener]

Righty. Y' all be.

[DJ Envy]

Blessed. All right. Do your tongue do how many.

[Guest/Contributor]

In the chat dropping their.

[Caller/Listener]

Cash?

[DJ Envy]

Ch. How.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Many? Yo, yo, he got how much? He said, use your tongue. I tell you.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Him.

[DJ Envy]

He. He got the tongue back to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me. You a freaky.

[DJ Envy]

Man. You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. Yo.

[DJ Envy]

You. I said, tell me how much you sent, but use your tongue. He go, Wait, this guy.

[Jessica]

Man. Oh.

[DJ Envy]

Man. For.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

300. What's the moral of the story, man? The moral of the story is.

[Guest/Contributor]

This depressing ass topic.

[DJ Envy]

Envy. It's not a depressing topic, man. This is a good topic, and I love to see how all of us have persevered. All right, this guy's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy. All right, let's get to the latest for.

[Guest/Contributor]

Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thing. She gets him from somebody that knows.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

Everything. She be having the latest on.

[Jessica]

The latest with Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everything. All right, y', all, so just a. A quick update of something that I just found on Instagram. I wanted to make sure I mentioned this because we talked about Russell Simmons and Kimor Lee Simmons in the back and forth earlier this morning on the show. So there's a clip on Russell Simmons Instagram that he posted four days ago in the caption. Well, first of all, the clip is from their E show. Their E show back in the fab lane that they have now. And the clip is about Aoki Lee, who is his daughter talking about living in Bali or just not eating American food. Since she's moved. And the caption that he put up says, proud of my kids. Proud of what they've become. Bali living. I do have to admit, Aoki living here is a blessing. So I'm trying to figure out now, and I've called, you know, my son, source close to Kimora, because I'm trying to figure out, like, I know we've seen Aoki and like, you know, we've seen her there, but she's living there. It kind of changes everything that I was told in the beginning. So I just wanted to make sure I put that out there just to present both.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sides. Why do we care so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Much? I think people are just. I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don'T. People care so much. That's their family. Who cares if she lives in Bali, if she lives in the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

States? I mean, when you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have. She's older than 21, but when.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You have one side, you know, saying, you know, I don't get to see my kid, or you're keeping your kid. My kid away, and then another side saying, I'm not keeping the.

[Guest/Contributor]

Kid. Like, the kids are.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Grown. Yeah, the kids are grown and making their own decisions. I think people are just trying to figure out, like, what is the truth here? It's all been put out online. So they're trying to figure out what the truth is here and what's going on. But in other news. So 50 Cent is. We back at it again with 50 Cent about this documentary. He is now going at it with Jim Jones and the guys over at the Rapid Body podcast, which is fabulous. Dave east and Mayo along with Jim.

[Guest/Contributor]

Jones. Damn, what New York.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stuff. Yeah, so they. They were talking about on one of their episodes, unauthorized releases and just giving their commentary on documentaries being un. Released without your authorization. And 50 responded to that. Let's take a listen to their podcast episode Documentary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boxer. You wanted to be a dope.

[Caller/Listener]

Documentary on who you are, what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. What you've done. I don't know, you've accomplished. Like, yeah, documentary is a big thing. Like, you don't want nobody doing a documentary about some, like, trying to just make your whole character look.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Weak. Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'S. That's petty.

[DJ Envy]

Behavior. I don't want to know the company that did it so we could.

[Jessica]

Talk. You know what I.

[Guest/Contributor]

Mean? Cuz if it's on me, I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Need, you know, I mean, I don't understand why that's, like, legal to do, though. Documentary is more like a. Like, how could it even be called. You call a documentary when.

[DJ Envy]

It'S. You can be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Google. So do you think that it's wrong or.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not? Yeah. So in that episode and at that part of the their episode, they do like different, like topical things that they read and they just react to it and get their opinion on it. So unauthorized release was the topic there. So 50 Cent posted and he says, these guys are squatters. They owe 200. He alleges they owe $250,000 dollars for the space they are filming their podcast. These bums are trying to win best dressed award and can't pay their bills. And then it's a whole swipe through. So you have the screenshot from the podcast. You have a screenshot of Jim Jones with an alleged report of something called.

[Guest/Contributor]

Somebody. You'll see these guys are.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Squatters. That's what the caption says. And then he put the definition of a spider. Oh, if you didn't know. I mean, I know, but if you didn't know. 50 Cent put the. The AI overview definition. Individuals who occupy a property without legal title, permission, commission, or at least often in vacant or abandoned buildings, deferring from trespassers by intending to reside there long term while squatting is illegal. He also posted the clip too, like a mashup of the clip. And he said, 50 Cent said in the caption, I understand Diddy was your hero. Stay down with him. I don't care if you let him play with your butt, then act like you don't remember. And I've been seeing, you know, Mino posted and responded and you know all the. That it's going to. The back and forth is going to start now. Mayo posted a photo of 50 Cent and said, meet Killer Curly, ladies and gentlemen. He helped me get my record deal before, so I'mma always be grateful. So it's going to hurt me to drag this inward to hell. F is the problem, Curtis, what's what has your G unit G string in a bunch? Is it the. Then he says the B word or the diabetes? But let's rap about.

[DJ Envy]

It. You know what's so interesting? I mean, outside of you know, what they got going on 50 and you know, Jim and Fab and Mayo and Davies. But you know what's so interesting about the 50 commentary for everybody saying a black man shouldn't be doing this to another black man. How come we not having conversations about what Diddy did to other black people? Like when you watch that documentary. Every person on that documentary, except for Aubrey o' Day is black. So how come nobody is saying black? A black man shouldn't do that to other black people. Because here's the thing. There are things we know Diddy, he did because we saw it. And there are things he's being accused of. We don't know if they are true, but either way, majority of people who are accusing him of something are black. So I don't understand why, you know, there's not more conversations about that. But Everybody's so, oh, 50 Cent shouldn't be doing this to another black man. What about all the black people? Diddy did and allegedly did stuff.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Too.

[Guest/Contributor]

Yeah. And then they'd be acting like he made stuff up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Guest/Contributor]

Because. And like, I've heard about a lot of this before the dot came out. It was just. The dot was like, damn. Like, to actually see it in a documentary, putting it all together is like, damn, the.

[DJ Envy]

Clarity. Like, can't nobody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make. Yeah, you can't make.

[DJ Envy]

This. You can't. I mean, you don't get me wrong. You can make stuff.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. But he didn't. We've been hearing a bunch of these stories forever. And guess what? Like I said, these are black people stories. Except for. Except one white girl was on that documentary. Four parts. Everybody else was black. I ain't heard nobody say, damn. Did. He shouldn't have been doing black people like that. But 50 Cent shouldn't be doing that to another black.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Man.

[DJ Envy]

No. Did. He shouldn't have been doing that to himself. All those other black people.

[News Reporter]

Allegedly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Answer Fab's question. You could do a documentary on whoever you want, right? You don't. You don't need the rights. You don't need permission. You could do a documentary on whoever you write. And what Charlemagne said is absolutely, positively right. If the stuff on that documentary is.

[DJ Envy]

True. I mean, some of it we know is.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

True.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. So if it's true. But it's not a problem, right? Because it's. You're telling that story whether it's good or bad. If it's a negative part of that story. Yes, you're telling that stuff. That's true. And another thing.

[DJ Envy]

Just. Just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Know. And I think they all know when you play with fifth. Fifth going to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wall. Yeah, but I did have.

[Guest/Contributor]

That. I did have that same question that Fab had. I did always wonder, like, yo, can you actually just do that without somebody knowing? Just do a documentary on somebody?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Expect. Absolutely. We could do documentary on you right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. On.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Me? Yes. Yeah. I mean, they're alleging things. You're supposed to vet it and like to try and protect yourself as much as you can. But, you know, when I was at tf, tmz, they have a whole situation with Tubi. We did docket. Someone just tagged me in one the other day. We did documentaries like five times a week on just random.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Celebrities. Like, that's another thing TMZ did. How many documentaries on Diddy? How many.

[DJ Envy]

Shots? Four of.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Them.

[DJ Envy]

Right. And nobody said nothing out yet? Nope. All the one they did for NBC.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Peacock. Well, not.

[DJ Envy]

To. I mean, I just don't understand the logic of. When y' all say 50 Cent, you know, shouldn't be going at another black man. But everybody on the documentary is black people accusing Diddy of these.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Heinous. But do y' all think in general. I know we gotta wrap up in general, do y' all think it's fair for not even just 50 because they were just having an unauthorized documentary conversation? In general, is it fair for somebody to be able to go in and screw, screw, go, and, you know, change the way people think of you because of a documentary? Y' all think y' all are public.

[DJ Envy]

Figures. How did they change the way people thought about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Diddy? There may have been people that might have known everything. You might not. You might have known some of it. But there. You might have known.

[Guest/Contributor]

Everything. I told you after the documentary, I was like, he is a monster and he should get 50 years. I was very.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Upset. Well, documentaries, like anything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I don't think documentaries should be done unless you get both sides. But that's not how the law works. That's not how it works. You could do a documentary on anybody at any time. It's just like a lawsuit. I can sue you for anything right now. I can say, I don't like the way your hair looks, and I'm gonna sue you cuz it bothers me. I could say Charlemagne uses the Shake Weight and he points it at me and I feel like.

[DJ Envy]

He'S. I say, you bought it for.

[Guest/Contributor]

Me. Get some sexual spray for her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hair. Me back ombre. Hairline. Oh, that girl over.

[DJ Envy]

There. All right, don't stop. Lauren, Load up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Again. I love Envy to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That. You sure we gotta.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go? Yeah, I love.

[Mimi Brown]

Envy. It's not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You. It's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Different. We gotta go play down.

[Jessica]

Black.

[DJ Envy]

Hush. Could we cuss for a.

[Guest/Contributor]

Second? Tearing down.

[DJ Envy]

Black. Tell that story.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Laura. Ray J was out and about, just enjoying his time with Sheila. And he said that Diddy took his butt too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Allegedly. Damn. Where Sheila? You got.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Audio?

[Jessica]

Yes. Let me hear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It. My ass open more than it's.

[DJ Envy]

Been ever in my.

[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

Life. Should I say I have to take.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everybody?

[Caller/Listener]

Everybody. You Got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One. My running Diddy. Yo, Diddy took my ass, okay? My ass open more than it's.

[DJ Envy]

Been ever in my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Life. I'm not playing with y' all no more. Try to fart my come.

[Caller/Listener]

Out. It's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy. Wow. I'm not playing with y'.

[DJ Envy]

All. I don't know what's true and what's not true, but I know Ray J is black. He's yet another black person saying that Diddy took his butt. I don't know what's true and what's. He said he can't fart. He said he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just. He just.

[DJ Envy]

Pooped. I don't know what's true and what's not. Right? I'm just saying it's another black person saying that Diddy took their.

[Jessica]

Butt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Okay, but like I said, if it's true, you can't be mad at.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It. It's.

[Jessica]

True.

[Lauren LaRosa]

True. What you about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That. You know.

[Guest/Contributor]

What? And that means weighing Ray J.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Out. And.

[Guest/Contributor]

That. That. That ain't no right there. That sounds like a good time. Because if your butt is that open, you was participating.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Willingly. All right, that is the latest with Lauren. Let's get to the mix. Jesus Christ. Morning, everybody. It's DJ.

[Jessica]

Envy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a salute to Tasha Cobs Leonard, gospel singer, for joining us this this.

[Guest/Contributor]

Morning. Love her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Album. Tasha is out right.

[DJ Envy]

Now. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Indeed. Yep. Make sure you pick it up. And also, Jess, you are in D.C. this weekend.

[Guest/Contributor]

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[DJ Envy]

Money. Lord have.

[Guest/Contributor]

Mercy. So get your tickets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y'.

[Guest/Contributor]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Com. All right, it's time to get up out of here. Charlemagne, you got a positive.

[DJ Envy]

Note. I do, man. I want to remind y' all that you got 15 days left until 2026. We are going into the year of the Horse. But we are still in the year of the snake, and I've been telling y' all that all year long. This is a year that you're supposed to shed, shed, shed, shed, shed. This is all about emphasizing renewal, transformation, letting go of the past, and embracing change. So just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. Buddha said that, and you got 15 days to get that done. Now is the right karmic energy to do it. Have a great day. Breakfast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Club hey, what up.

[DJ Envy]

Y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Tasha Cobbs Leonard]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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