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Ed Zitron
Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast. And this January we're going to go on the road to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada to cover the Consumer Electronics show, tech's biggest conference. Better Offline CES coverage won't be the usual rundown of the hottest gadgets or biggest trends, but an unvarnished look at what the tech industry plans to sell or do to you in 2025. I'll be joined by David Roth of Defector and the writer Edward Ongueso Jr. With guest appearances from behind the Bastards, Robert Evans. It could happen. Here's Gair Davis and a few surprise guests throughout the show. Listen to Better offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever else you get your podcasts from. I'm Jason Alexander. And I'm Peter Tilden. And together our mission on the really Know really podcast is to get the true answers to life's baffling questions. Like why the bathroom door doesn't go all the way to the floor, what's in the museum a failure, and does your dog truly love you? We have the answer. Go to reallynoreally.com and register to win $500 a guest spot on our podcast or a limited edition sign. Jason Bobblehead the Really no really podcast. Follow us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow. Very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a Playboy model. He was like, I'll take you to the top. I'll make you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated. We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel List. Listen to the Bunny trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey y'all. Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive Produced by Questlove, TheStory Pirates and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Smash Slam. Another one gone. Bash Bam. Another one gone. The cracker, the bat. And another one gone. The tip of the cap Cause Another1Each EP this episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus. Nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And if you get with me. Did you know? Did you know I wouldn't give up my seat? Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to historical records. Because in order to make history, you have to make. Make some noise. Listen to historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, usa. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Jess. Hilarious. Wake that ass up. Charlamagne, the God. Peace to the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. Good morning. Yes, to you. Wednesday, middle of the hump day. Good morning. What's up, Jess? How you feeling? What's up? I feel good. I feel good. You still stuck in with that nine inches? Yeah. No, no, no. It was. Most of it got plowed yesterday, so. Well, overnight or whatever. We thought it was going. We was gonna get hit again last night, but we didn't. That's the whole point of being with nine inches to get plowed. Okay. Good morning. How are y'all? Y'all feeling good out there? Kids ain't up yet. It's okay. No, no, no. Yes. You know whose birthday it is today? It's the leader of North Korea, King Jong Un's birthday. Why do we care? I'm just. Well, I'm gonna tell you. Well, yesterday he banned glizzies in North Korea. So if you eat a glizzy. Yeah. If you eat a glizzy in North Korea, you could be facing jail time. When you say a glizzy, you mean a hot dog. That's correct. Yes. Yes. Okay, so what is it? He's fear that his. In fear that his people are gay. Like, what is it? I don't know. I just. No, no, no. He doesn't want Western culture infiltrating North Korea. That's what it is. Yes. It actually, if you serve hot dogs, it's considered an act of treason because it's a. It's a. The popularity, I think, in South Korea of hot dogs are rising. So if you caught selling or cooking hot dogs, you face serving time in the labor camp. Labor camp, that's right. So no glizzies in North Korea. Ban the glizzies. It's more so about Western culture. They don't want Western culture infiltrating North Korea. Yeah. Stuff them with some rice. That might be good. So listen, if you imagine. If you can't put a hot dog in your mouth. Imagine what happens if you put a penis in your mouth. Jesus Christ. Lord have mercy. Good morning. All right. No bun, no mustard, no ketchup. All right. All right. Whatsoever. Good morning. All right, well, today on the show we got a couple of people joining us. A few. Chloe Bailey will be joining us. My cousin Chloe Bailey will be here. She's going to be here with the president of the naacp, Derek Johnson, and the president and CEO of bet, Scott Mills. Because the NAACP Image Awards is gonna be airing on February 22nd on BET and CBS. That's right. They announced the nomination. I don't know what Chloe has to do with any of this. Is she hosting it? We'll find out. I'm not sure. We'll find out. Yeah, we'll find out. Yeah. What she has to do with this. All right. Always a pleasure when she comes. I just wanna know why she with these two guys. Yeah, okay. Yeah. And I'm sure we'll get all into her business as well. Cause over the vacation, she was out in Nigeria. Right? Yeah. People be wanting to know why she with any guys. People always got something to say. Yeah. So we'll get all that information when she joins us. All right. Jess will have a lot of meth this morning. We got Donkey of the day at 8. 4 this morning. So, you know, if you have any Donkey of the day requests, feel free to send them in. That's right. Yes. And then we got front page news next with Morgan Wood. So we'll get to that next. So don't go anywhere. Wake your ass up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Good morning, Morgan. Good morning. Good morning, Envy, Charlemagne and Jess. Listen, there's a lot going on on the top of your headlines in the front page news. But first, let's talk about this breaking news out of California. Fire fighters continuing to battle ablaze. Moving fast through Palisades and the Los Angeles hills. The strong windstorm is making it difficult to control the wildfire in Pacific Palisades. The high winds are expected to continue to move through today. California Governor Gavin Newsom has advised residents across the region to make evacuation plans. We'll hear. We'll also hear from Margaret Stewart, who is from the Los Angeles Fire Department, who called the situation incredibly unpredictable. Let's hear from Gavin Newsom and Lafds Stewart. You may feel at home that you're Fine. Down in Riverside County, San Bernardino county, down in Ventura county, other parts of the state. But there's a reason we pre positioned hundreds of assets and personnel on Sunday in anticipation of this wind event. It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want to get everybody out of the area safely. Yeah. So Stuart went on to say strong winds have grounded all aircraft, including water dropping helicopters. And this is a developing situation, so I will keep you guys posted as this situation develops. Are these fires a natural phenomenon? Yes. They do not know how the fires started, but it does appear to be like brush. Brush fires. Yeah. I got family out there that said they haven't had power in the last two days, and a lot of the popular restaurants have been shut down because they've been burnt down. So if you have family out in California, definitely pray for them or tell them to evacuate if they need to. Don't tell them to stay there to try to save that house. Get the hell out if they need to. I mean, you gotta have the money to evacuate, and it's the middle of the week, kids are in school, you got jobs to go to. Like, it's not as easy as just, you know, up in and evacuate. You might not have a choice if they're burning. Yeah, I wish people. I wish more people could afford to have the choice is what I'm saying. You know what I do want to do? I want to ask a firefighter this. Why do they throw water on the forest fires? But didn't they tell you, like, not to throw water on, like, electrifiers or grease fires? Like, I wonder what's the difference? Every fire is different. Yeah, every fire is different. And that's why. I wonder why. Depending how they spread. Yeah, I wonder why. Yeah, different. Different ways they're ignited. Yeah. Different ways to handle different fire. Water would not handle a grease fire. We know that water and oil don't mix, so you would have to handle that fire a different kind of way. But moving on, Vice President Harris's Los Angeles home is actually in the evacuation zone in Brentwood in the eastern point of the evacuation zone. However, she is actually here in Washington D.C. the fire whip past at least 80 miles per hour has burned nearly 3,000 acres of land with no containment. The VP has issued a statement saying her heart goes out to those impacted by the devastating wildfires. And she also went on to say that her and President Biden are committed to ensuring that no community has to respond to the disaster alone, adding that they have already mobilized federal, federal resources to suppress the fires and provide overhead support. Moving on. This is just again, that's very sad situation. Moving on. The United States, we're still in mourning of the 39th President Jimmy Carter. Now, his remains arrived yesterday after being flown from Georgia earlier in the day. Carter's family and hundreds of lawmakers watched as a honor guard carried his casket up the steps to the Capitol. He is now lying in state at the U.S. capitol. Vice President Harris delivered the eulogy during a memorial service in the Capitol Rotunda yesterday and noted how Carter was able to broker peace between Egypt and Israel, adding that he was a respected global leader who will be remembered for his legacy. Let's hear from VP Harris on late. President Carter, through his unshakable belief in the power of American diplomacy, he secured the Camp David Accords. He instituted full diplomatic relations with China, which he would later call one of the most historically significant accomplishments of his presidency. Jimmy Carter established a new model for what it means to be a former president and leaves an extraordinary post presidential legacy. I bet President Carter's spirit is like, if you don't hurry up and bury me. Yo, I was thinking the same thing. I was just thinking, when did he die? Cause I feel like it's been a while. I died at 100. I'm ready to go. I don't need to be lying in state at the U.S. capitol. Y'all been watching me lying in state for the last decade. I was just thinking. I was like, man, when did he, I thought he died like way before New Year. Like, right, Like Christmas, right? He kind of, he kind of, he kind of did because he was kind of already. Shut up, man. Like, we used to see him like a couple months ago. He was just laid out, mouth wide open. All right? Like, he was lying for some time. He was crazy for some time. Well, that's. Let's run page news. What are we doing next hour? Next hour, we're going to talk about Trump and all the things that he had to say at his Mar A Lago presser. So we'll get into that. All right? And everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. Again, 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wait. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time 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? Hey, this is Mainstream out of Atlanta, Georgia, man. What's up, Mainstream? Good morning. Get it off your chest, brother. Okay, man. First of all, man, good morning to everybody. Charlemagne, Envy, Jess. Good morning, y'all. Peace, brother. Good morning. Now, I want to speak on this Luigi. Luigi thing, man. I know y'all gonna disagree because Charlotte, man, I hear what you're preaching. I've listened to y'all for 10 years. I know your angle. But my wife is in the healthcare field. Right. And when they're charging people $1,000 for a pill that cost them $10 and your family members are dying because they can't afford these pills, that's what people are upset about. That's why people in support of Luigi, because some of these pills that they charging a hundred dollars a pill, they're paying a dollar to make. And the health care field is getting over on us so bad that people are dialing prices. How do you expect somebody to feel sorry for Luigi when our loved ones close to us at dying because we can't afford this medicine? I agree with you about the price of medicine. I understand everything that you're saying. But killing people in the health going to change the price of medicine. Like you said, your wife is in the healthcare field. What if somebody got upset because, you know, they got charged, you know, too much money wherever she works at and they decide to kill her? Would that solve anything? But that's how I know how much deals cost, because she's one of the ones I know that's fighting the lower the cost of these pills. I'm fine. She's finding ways to help these people get pills at a cheaper price. Absolutely. But people don't know that. All they know is that she's a person that works in the healthcare field. Yeah. That man didn't deserve to die. You know, I mean, even though. Yeah, you're absolutely right. With what's going on with healthcare and the pills and the medicine and the shots. Absolutely right. I actually think that it should be free. That's the whole. It is foul. But that still doesn't give a person the right to just handle it on his own and start killing people. And once again, you said your wife is in the healthcare field, and I'm sure that she's doing a phenomenal job. And, you know, she's trying to help people, but for the folks who don't know that and just look at her and say, oh, she's a symbol of the healthcare system. And what if somebody wanted to take her out? Yeah, that's. That's. Would you agree with that then? I understand. Would you be so understanding? I get what you're saying. I get what you're coming from, but it's levels to it. There's levels to it. All right, man. We'll have a good one, brother. Hello? Who's this? Yo, what's up? Happy new Year, guys. Happy New Year, brother. Get it off your chest. Hey, I just want to give my daughter, wish her a happy birthday. Today's her birthday. Okay. How old is she? Hey, show them. You drop a clues ball for my daughter one time. Drop one of clues bomb for your daughter. What's her name again? Ariah Scott. How old is she? How old is she, brother? She turning six today. Oh, man, I got a beautiful six year old at the house right now, man. What you doing with your birthday? What you doing with your daughter today for a birthday? Well, we just. I'm gonna. I'm gonna give her a pizza party at school when I get off of work. And then this weekend she's into skating, so I'm gonna take. I'm gonna take the whole family skating. There's nothing better than putting a smile on your daughter's face, your child, period. But I mean, I got four daughters, so that's all I know. But there's nothing like putting a smile on your daughter's face, man. Absolutely. Right, Right. She wanted. What did she want for her birthday? She wanted a dog. And another. And a little sister. So we're actually pregnant. So we ain't tell the kids. That's what we. We might tell her. Yeah, I'm not getting a dog. She want two things that require too much responsibility and that she will not be. And that she will not be taken care of. Either one of those things. No. Because she don't even clean the room right now without giving me back. Exactly. That's right. So, yeah, we want. We want. Dang, I'm too excited. We're gonna. Mike, tell her we pregnant and go from there. But yeah, that's pretty much it, guys. Congratulations, brother. You gotta tell your wife. You got to tell your wife that you want to give your daughter the present, but you don't really want to. Do you just do that to get some. That's all I got you. That's it. Have a good one. Jackson's confused. How's it going? You know what she want for. You know what she want for her birthday, right? She want another little sister. Let's work on that. He said his wife is pregnant now. Yes, that's what he just said. You don't be listening. No, I didn't hear that part. So why did he say that she want a little sister? Cause they didn't tell her yet. They said they didn't tell her yet. They said they might tell her today for her birthday. You don't be paying attention. No, I wasn't. I did not pay attention to that at all. All I heard him say was, she want a little sister. No, he said his wife's pregnant, so he might tell his daugh. They haven't told the family yet. Oh, so his daughter getting what she want for her birthday, not the dog, but the sibling. It's very stupid for him not to tell her today that she's pregnant. That's why I was confused. Oh, boy. That she got exactly what she wanted. That's God. So why wouldn't you just tell her? Hey, you getting what you want? She's pregnant. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed, so you better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who this? Yo, yo, what up, man? It's your boy JB from Brooklyn. What's going on? JB from Brooklyn. What's up? Peace, jb. Get it off your chest. Yeah, I gotta get off my chest, man. This part of my mouth, it happened right before I went to work, and my car broke down on me, man. And I'm not sure. I just want to see if I can get a blessing from the universe today, y'all. The car broke down and you're in New York, so it's freezing right now. Yeah, it could be a call pack issue. It could be slip timing. I'm not sure, man, but it's hard to get a mechanic out here, so I just want to see if I can throw my cash up out of there. For me, all right. On this Rich Fatherhood one, make sure the one is behind it. Rich fatherhood one. And I appreciate all the help, y'all, man. You sound very down, my brother. Rich. Rich Fatherhood one. Yep. Yes. Make sure the one is behind it. Yeah, man. Appreciate y'all, man. Yes, sir. All right, bro. You know why that brother sounds so down. Because there's nothing worse in the world than being a man and having to ask for any type of financial help. Oh, yeah, that and the fact that life be life in that sometimes at the worst times, like, you just be minding your business. Sometimes your car break down, you be minding your business, the heat break down, you be minding your business, and things happen. Sometimes life be lifeing, and then you gotta call the radio station and put your cash app out there, because that's just the way things are nowadays. Time's a little hard. I just sent him a little something, man. All right. I said rich fatherhood won. A little something. Hello? Who's this? This is Donald. How are you? Good morning. What's up, Donald? Get it off your chest, man. Why does Donald Trump want to change the Gulf of Mexico to the name of a Gulf of America? That makes no sense to me. You want to take away daytime? What is it? The daytime. What is it? Daylight savings. Yeah, daytime savings time. I mean, focus on lowering gas. Not gas prices. Gas prices aren't bad, but grocery bills and raising minimum wage. You just focusing on your own agenda, bro. Like, and your supporters just think it's the greatest thing happening since sliced bread. Well, I will say about the daylight savings time, most countries around the world don't observe daylight savings time. Not at all. That was a long time ago. They did for military so they could save money on oil and gas. But, yeah, I don't. And I'm not even gonna sit here and act like I'm smart enough to even understand why he wants to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I really don't care about that. But I do agree with what you're saying. Like, you know, you. You ran on the economy, so you better start talking about things that actually impact the economy, bro. He ain't gonna do that, man. He just focusing on his own self. And that wig on top, too, bro. Cause, bro, that. That wig on top, man, he needs to let that go. Well, he. He might save Tick tock. I don't have a good one, brother. Hello? Who's this? This is Marcus. What up, dude? What up, Breakfast Club? What up, Marcus? What up, brother? Get it off your chest, man. I listen to y'all every morning. Appreciate you, bro. I'll be wondering about. I'll be wondering about Charlemagne, though, man. That's what I want you to do. You say a lot. They say a lot. He said a lot of fugazi stuff. I want you to wonder about me every day. He's suspect, bro. He's suspect. Do you think I'm handsome, man? That don't sound right, bro. You said a lot of penis jokes, bro. That's. That's suspect, bro. You think I'm handsome? I think you fugazi. You sweet, bro. I think you're sweet. I think you're sweet. So you think I'm handsome? I think you see. Hey, I seen. I seen you on tv. Did you like what you see? Lucky had a guy shadow or something, bro. They always say that. They always say I look like I got eyeliner on, but you're still not answering the question. Did you like what you see? Nah, I ain't gay, bro. You sound gay, though. Charlamagne, I respect you, but you said a lot of gay stuff, bro. I've been saying that for years. Envy, I know you ain't talking. You talking about you, not me. Listen, by the way, you. You was gone before I got here. Envy, you my dude. Envy. Envy, you my dude. Dude, thank you. He trying to. He's trying to turn me out. Ms. LaRosa. I got marriage spare for you, too. She's gay. Yo, shut up. She likes penis Charlemagne. Man, you gotta tighten up, bro. No, I can't be tight and loose at the same time. Jesus Christ. Loose ain't good, bro. But look, I love y'all, man. I'm a big fan. So you like it tight? Hold on. So you like it tight? So you like it tight? Listen to you, man. Listen, I know. I'm asking you questions. We having a conversation. You say loose ain't cool. I don't rock like that, man. I don't rock like that. Okay, Marcus, you have a good one, man. No doubt, bro. You, too. You be safe out there, brother. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. We got Jess with the mess coming up. Who we talking about, Jess? Dwight Howard and Shaquille O'Neal was beefing. Oh, boy. All right. Can you imagine if two. Those two people fight? What? One is, what, six, Three. The other one's seven foot. I wouldn't want to fight Shaq. If I was in Atlanta, I wouldn't want to fight Shaq. We ain't never really see Shaq take. Beat nobody ass, though. He always. Somebody always got the best of him. Just a little bit, but we'll talk about it, all right? Just a little bit. Just a little bit. We'll get to it. Next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to just with the mess News is real, whether it's Jessica Robin Moore. Just don't do no lines. She don't spell nobody worldwide. Just worldwide mess on the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shooter. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. Okay, so this is not really happy news, but for those who know Twitch from the Ellen DeGeneres show, he was the executive producer of that show. He's also. He was also a dancer and a DJ. He died by suicide back in2022. And we was shocked by his suicide because from how he was remembered consistently, he was a very happy person. Didn't show any signs of struggle and all of that. But yesterday, People exclusively released an interview with his widow, Allison Holker. And during the interview, she had shared some things that she had realized about him having an alleged drug addiction while she was preparing for his funeral. The moment I was with one of my really dear friends and we were cleaning out the closet and picking out an outfit for him for the funeral. And it was a really triggering moment for me because there was a lot of things I discovered in our closet that I did not know existed. And it was very alarming to me to learn that there was so much happening that I had no clue. So that was. It was a really scary moment in my life to figure that out. But it also helped me process that he was going through so much and he was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that. And he was wrestling with a lot inside himself, and he was trying to self medicate and cope with all those feelings because he didn't want to put it on anyone because he loved everyone so much. He didn't want other people to take on his pain. But it was very alarming and scary to find those things and have never known. She claimed that he had like a bunch of drugs, like shrooms, pills, and other things that she needed to look up on her phone that she wasn't familiar with. And she said these things were hidden in shoeboxes. And then following the interview, his family and friends had reacted to her comments. The first to say something was TV personality Candace Dillard Bassett. She's one of the housewives. And she had said, I'm not even going to say it, but this white woman is doing everything but protecting her black children and her Black husband's legacy. She could have kept that in her therapist office. Shaking my head, I respond. I mean, I agree with that because it's like, damn, you know? But when you look at it on the other side of things, you got people like other fans who were saying, like, she was probably trying to bring awareness of, you know, mental illness and drug abuse or whatever like that. And Candace followed up by saying she could have just easily taken this story to ESSENCE or ebony, where pivot. Essence or ebony, where care would have been taken to share such a tragically intimate story of a black man's plight against himself. Now, it's important to know all of this, that Twitch's autopsy, like, ever, if his report confirmed that there was no alcohol or drugs in his system at the time of his death, even Twitch cousin Dariel also went off on Allison. She said, I'm so tired of keeping my effing mouth shut, bro. She won't let our family see the kids. He wasn't an addict. He smoked weed and was actively trying to quit, that he wasn't some junkie. She also claimed that Allison made Twitch's mother and family sign NDAs in order to attend his funeral. Twitch's friend Courtney Ann Platt also chimed in and read Allison for Filth. I'm just reading a little bit of it. It said, this is by far the most tacky, classless, opportunistic act I have ever seen in my entire life. We all had to sign some weird NDA to attend his funeral. Even his own mother, who was treated like garbage this entire time. So it's just a whole bunch. Yeah. Obviously you can tell that she don't mess with the family like that. That's what you could tell just from there. But I kind of agree with the family. I mean, it's certain things that I would have wanted to be left out. Like if he did have a drug problem and there was a situation that he was fighting and nobody knew. I say you protected. That's just me. That's how I feel. I would protect any of my family members if that's what they were going through. Now, if it came out and she wanted to say it, it was out and about, and everybody knew. That's a different situation. But you're telling people. I just think, you know, like the family member said, just for the sake of the family, the sake of the mom, the sake of the children. That's things that if she want to discuss, discuss with the family on the low, but not to bring that out to the public. That's just my thoughts. Absolutely. And she was interviewed by people to promote her new book, so. Oh, so she's promoting a book. Oh, that's why she's done. Okay, that makes sense. Like, you know, first of all, send healing in. I'm sending healing energy to the family of Twitch. Until you said that part, Jess, I didn't understand the point of his widow telling those stories. Unless she's probably trying to, you know, show people signs for folks to look out for. But she's selling a book. So. So that's what that. That's about. Right. But if, but if you aren't even sure what Twitch is going through, why share that? Or what he was going through, why share it? Because she said she just found out when he passed. Like she didn't know. So the new year is here and you want to stay locked in on whatever you're into. Amazon prime is a cheat code. See, a lot of people think Amazon prime is just about getting those packages delivered faster than you can say I forgot to order that. But really, prime is not just one thing. It's all things. A place to stream movies and shows. 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Intelligent All Wheel Drive cannot prevent collisions or provide enhanced traction in all conditions. Always monitor traffic and weather conditions. Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast and this January we're going on the road to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada to cover the Consumer Electronics show, tech's biggest conference. Better Offline CES coverage won't be the usual rundown of the hottest gadgets or the biggest trends, but an unvarnished look of what the tech industry plans to sell or do to you in 2025. Interrogating their narratives alongside a remarkable cast of industry talent and award winning journalists, we'll have daily episodes on the ground, interviews and special panels covering everything from the BS of AI to the ways in which race and gender play into how people are treated in the tech industry. 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Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all, Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Smash, Slam. Another one gone. Bash, Bam. Another one gone. The crack of the bat. And another one gone. The tip of the cap. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. But once again, she's promoting the book, correct? Yeah, and the book is a memoir and it comes out on Friday. And not for nothing, there was no drugs in the system. They said the autopsy family. Imagine if he was just holding the drugs for his peoples. It could be a situation. She's promoting her book. And it's not just about promoting her book. I don't want people to think that she's just using her, you know, ex husband's death as marketing. She's telling her story, correct? If that's part of her story, that's in her memoir, I get it. I mean, but she a clown, though, because that's too much. I mean, in my opinion, she's a clown. Gotcha. So that's that. That's Jacks with the mess as well. All right, now, earlier, I know when we did the Tease, I was talking about Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight. I need to talk about it now. But I said he was. I said he was 6 3. You said Dwight Howard was 6 3. He's not 6'three he's like 73 or something like that, right? He's like 6 10. 6 is like 7 3. 7 3. Like 7 and 7 3. I got the 8. The. The size is wrong. But anyway, what's wrong with the. You always get guy sizes wrong. Shut up. Like, you can't take anything serious. That's why the guy caught earlier and said you always talking gay. That's why he said you suspect Dwight is 6:10. Okay. Yeah, he's 6:10. Shaq is like 7 foot 7 3. All right, all right. Well, when we come back, we got front page news then we have the president of naacp, Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of bet, Scott Mills and Chloe Bailey will be joining us. The NAACP Image Awards nominations were released yesterday, so we'll talk to them all about it. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Morning, Morgan. Good morning. Envy. Yes. And Charlamagne. Y'all doing all right this morning? Yes, ma'am. Okay, well, let's get into it. President elect Trump is criticizing President Biden as his time in office is coming to an end. Trump spoke at his Mar A Lago residence a day after Congress certified his election win and suggested the Biden administration is doing the American, American people wrong and claimed inflation is raising. Raging. Excuse me. Here's Trump's comments on the transfer of power. Let's hear more from President elect Trump. We are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration, and they're trying everything they can to make it more difficult. And I've been disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt to block the reforms of the American people and that they voted for. They just. We had a landslide election. We won every swing state. We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. Yeah. Trump had more to say. He also said that the Gulf of Mexico would be getting a new name. Let's hear those comments from the president elect. We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. What a beautiful name. What do you guys think about that? Gulf of America. We like it. Donald Trump. Whatever you want. Yeah. Yeah. Donald Trump Shows me was politically. Trump shows me what presidents can do if they want to do it. Donald Trump shows me what can be said. If you are willing to say it. It's not about what can't be done. It's about who has the political will to do it. I don't want to hear a peep from Democrats about nothing until they get the balls to say what's really on their mind in regards to this country and this world. Trump doesn't care if it sounds ridiculous. Trump doesn't care if it makes sense. It's no political correctness whatsoever. As I've been saying for years, the language of politics is dead. And Donald Trump, Trump killed it. Period. Well, while we're on the topic, President Elect Trump is declining to rule out the use of military or economic force to gain control of Greenland or the Panama Canal. He admitted that we need the respective countries for economic security. But he threatened to hit Denmark with tariffs if Danish officials didn't cooperate with his bid to take over Greenland. When asked if he would rule out military or economic coercion to get Greenland or the Panama Canal, Trump said, I can't assure you you on either of those two. Now, the President elect also said he would consider using economic coercion to convince Canada to become the 51st state and part of the United States. Now, let's not forget that President Elect Trump will be sentenced this week, Friday, January 10th. This comes as a judge is rejecting his efforts to stop his sentencing. Trump is going to be sentenced for a criminal conviction in his New York hush money case Friday. Judge Juan Mershaw set January 10th as Trump's sentencing date. Now, Trump's lawyers appealed the decision to dismiss his attempts and have his conviction tossed out. He is now scheduled, of course, to be sentenced on Friday, just 10 days before he is set to be inaugurated. I can't tell you one thing. Everybody involved in that New York case, y'all on that list. Letting you know right now, you know Trump got a revenge list and y'all on that list. You know who may not be on the list? Mark Zuckerberg. Now, Meta is ending its fact checking program in favor of a community based system similar to Community Notes on X. Now, the changes were announced yesterday by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and will affect Facebook, Instagram and threads. Let's hear more from Zuckerberg on that announcement. There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. These are things that we take very seriously and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that's millions of people. And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. Censorship, yeah. So Zuckerberg said the idea is to focus on reducing those mistakes and restoring freedom of expression. Now, he cited the recent election as a big reason behind the decision, criticizing governments and legacy media for pushing for more censorship. What do you guys think about that? So basically no more fact checking. Yeah, you can say what you want on these social media platforms. I mean, what's new? What is that new? That's not new. None of that matters anyway. Facts don't matter over feelings nowadays. People don't read the fine print and that's what those community notes are anyway, fine print. So, like the fact checking don't matter? The community notes don't matter. Like nobody cares about the truth and the lies. More entertaining. I thought they put up algorithms to stop a majority of that or to try to stop it, but I guess that that's all thrown out the window now, right? The algorithm that can stop it. I guess certain keywords and things like that. Yeah, they actually, when it came to fake news and stuff like that, they actually contracted a number of fact checking companies throughout the world, globally, to make sure that, you know, to basically watch these type of things. But yeah, that's not going to be the case anymore. So you pretty much get to say whatever you want to say. But what's. What. What would be changing? Haven't people been saying whatever they want to say on social media for years? Pretty much. That's what social media is. You may, you know, in the past, you may have received like a notification or your post may have been taken down or removed. Those type of things will not happen. Oh, so now your folks are just. Yeah, yeah. You know how you might end up in like the Facebook jail because you said something crazy? Well, maybe that's. That's not. That may not be the case anymore. And then certain lawsuits come from that too. Right. Like you say whatever you wanted and you end up being sued. But that's not going to be a problem now because no fact. Yeah, yeah. So basically, again, it opens that Pandora's box where it pretty much brings us back to ground zero when it comes to freedom of expression. Say what you want. I mean, that's the, that's really the biggest problem. The really, the biggest problem is that these social media platforms can't be held accountable for any of the lies that are on their platform platforms. Because, like, if I get on this radio and say something that's not true, somebody can sue me. They can sue the radio station, they can sue iheart. Like, they, there's a bunch of different people they can sue. You can't do that when it comes to these social media platforms. You can sue the person, the individual that said it, but not the platform's not being held responsible. Correct. All right, let's bring things home quickly to New York. The FBI says there's more criminal conduct by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. That's what federal prosecutors are claiming in a new court filing, with Adams telling News news reporters yesterday that he is taking the advice of his lawyer to stay disciplined. Let's hear from New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Even Ray Charles can see what's going on. I've said over and over again, I done nothing wrong. Let the attorneys do that. I have to run the city. I'm focused on running the city. I, I cannot make that any clearer. I'm focused on running the city. You know, I think this is clear what's happening right now. Reach out to my attorney. He's reachable. So the new filing doesn't provide specifics, but Adams has pleaded not guilty in a five count indictment and charging him with accepting luxury travel in exchange for political favors, mostly on behalf of Turkey. Now to the disclosure of possible additional criminal conduct came in response to Adam's lawyer requesting more information about the initial charges. Now, prosecutors have said a superseding indictment containing additional charges is likely in the mayor's case. Now, Adams is expected to stand trial in April. Of course, I'll keep you guys posted on what's going on with that. Otherwise, that's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood and I wanted to point out Mayor Adams said even Ray Charles can see what's going on. That's because Ray Charles is in heaven, okay? He's been dead. He's been dead for 20 years. Okay. All right, man, you should have used Stevie Wonder. He's still alive. Jesus. Oh, my God. That's all I'm saying. All right, that's news. Thank you, guys. Morgan Wood. Follow me on social at Morgan Media for more news coverage. Follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us@binnews.com. have a great day. All right now, when we come back, Chloe Bailey, the president of the naacp, Derek Johnson, and the president and CEO of bet, Scott Mills, will be joining us us. The NAACP Image Awards is out. The nominations were released yesterday, and the show is going to happen February 22nd. So we're going to talk to them when we come back. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren laros is here with us this morning and we got some special guests in the building. We have Derek Johnson, the president of the naacp. Well, welcome. You're here. We have Scott Mills, CEO of bet. Good morning. Thank you for having me. And we have a friend to the room, cousin to the room, Chloe Bailey, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back. Hello. How you feeling? How's everybody? Fantastic. All right, so we're talking about the NAACP Image Awards live, which goes down February 22nd, and you guys have released some of the nominations and you're about to tell us who's going to be the host. Actually, we're not yet disclosing. Okay. I tried. I tried to share other things. We assuming it's Chloe since she's here. Since she's here. Press run. You don't gotta run the press run. There you go. Well, you know, it's hard to be both a nominee and a host, so. That is correct. That's a first for everything. Why are you with them, Chloe? Like, why are you with them? Why are you with the people? We're family. We are definitely family. You know, growing up as well, sis and I, we would go and sing a lot of times at, you know, the events in Florida several times and things like that. And it was just really special to be a part of this today with praise this the movie I did with Will Packer winning last year. And, you know, it was a surprise to me today as we were announcing some of the nominations, I got another nomination. Congratulations. Congratulations. Know that prior to. Oh, God, is good. There you go. I'm grateful. I think the first time you all joined us in ATP, you like 11, 12 babies. Babies. Oh, yeah. Well, I think it's important for you to be here with them, especially putting your voice on it because I think there's always a conversation around, like the award shows that we have and whether people in and what level of celebrity supported or not. So I think you being here and, you know, being kind of like a face of it helps that. Are you at all, like Working with the NAACP in these Image Awards, are you at all getting out there for other award shows and just kind of being a champion of that? Like, in calling your friends and being like, hey, y'all need to make sure y'all show up. Like, which celebrities are you? Like, hey, make sure you show up. Particularly Beyonce. Beyonce came to the NXP Awards before her, and I know we getting there. Yeah. I think this one is really especially important because it is honoring us in all of our blackness. And sometimes it's hard in this world and society today to not feel valued or feel worthy enough. But definitely in this space, at the Image Awards, you know, we are celebrating one another for not only our skin tone, but also the incredible art that we put into the world. Yeah. How do we bring award shows back to where it used to be? Right. I remember as a kid, my money. Money. No, it's perfect way money. Because growing up as a kid, that's what we look. We aspired to watch. We aspire to. We wanted to see the NAACP Awards, we wanted to see the BET Awards, and some of our biggest moments culturally came from those events. Soul Train as well. How do we get back to that? Now you say money. What does that money mean? I mean, the large marketing house has actually put an emphasis on black culture in a way in which is not exploitive for their product line, but that's supportive for the culture set. What we have seen over time is a devaluing of shows like Soul Train, which love Soul Train, but escalation of resources for the Grammys or the Oscars or the Emmys. While their viewership has been going down, they're still investing in it. But then they say, your viewership is down. Yeah. You don't invest, but if you invest, people want to see black entertainment. People want to appreciate the culture. And it's not just in the US it's global. I agree with that. But, you know, there are some black people who think white ice is colder. There absolutely are. I mean, I think one of the things that was interesting post, you know, that very brief moment of racial renaissance we had in this country post Murder of George Floyd. Three months. Right, right. The post that when we were preparing to do the Image Awards with the naacp, I would get these calls from journalists, and they'd say, is there still a need for the Image Awards? Haven't. Partly. Beyond. Because they're so white. Right, right. And I said, you know, first of all, I think that suggestion means you really don't understand why the Image Awards exist. It is not. It doesn't exist because we were excluded from other places. First and foremost, it is about that our community values being recognized and celebrated by our community. And that has absolute value. But the second thing is what we understand about this country is it's terribly fickle, right? So today, oh yes, we're wonderfully popular and you want to include us in all of your award shows, but you know, this is not going to sustain and what the NAACP and the partnership with bet, we have a consistent commitment to celebrating excellence in our community and that's really what our partnership for the Image Awards is all about. Question for you guys. Because even in planning the show, right. So BET works with the NAACP to have the awards, the program on the network. People always give you guys a lot of flack for what's on the network and what's not saying that you need better shows or whatever the case may be. But the award show, the Image Awards are. It's always a good show, in my opinion. How much do you get tired of the conversation of BET doesn't have good stuff to watch. That's why we don't watch it. Well, it's fascinating. I think there are always going to be people who are critical. That's the reality of the situation. It's really fun. This morning before coming over, I listened to your best of clip that you guys have online and one of your Featured guests was Ms. Pat, right. And it was through Lee Daniels reaching out to BET to say, I have this series that only BET can create, the only platform in the world that can actually put this series out there there is bet. It scares everyone else off. It's an important message. So we looked at it. We love Lee Daniels. We greenlit the series, right. And it actually secured BET's first Primetime Emmy nomination because it was a really breakthrough show. And now Everybody knows who Ms. Pat is and she's going on. We're actually in the fifth season of that show. And whether it's that or the nominations that we received for Diarra from Detroit, I love that show. Right. Fantastic show. Diara Kilpatrick is an amazing talent and the show is great fun and the amazing work we do with Tyler Perry, the reality is we have the biggest investment in black focused content than any platform in the country. And even with that, you're never going to be able to satisfy every single audience. And so we recognize that they're going to be things that people love. They're going to be things that people wish for. They're going to be things that you know, people keep on saying, bring back music video shows. Music video shows don't work on linear television. That's just the reality. So what we focus on is what are the things that actually our audiences are really consuming and enjoying. So Tyler Perry's Sisters, we're going into the eighth season. It is the single most watched show among black people on all of television. Not all of cable, all of television. That's a fact. Right. So more than anything on broadcast television. So people say, oh, you know, there'll be some people complain about bet, but the fact that we have the single most watched show in black households. So that is a long way of saying we are always striving to be more inclusive. So we created our streaming platform, bet, to be able to create even more content, speak to diverse audiences. We think our tent poles, like the NAACP Image Awards, like the BET Awards, which this year is going to celebrate its 25th anniversary, if you can believe that. We think our tent poles are those to their name. They are the things that allow us to bring a huge cross section of the community together to come and celebrate what's really important to us as a community. One of the things this year, over 3 million folks tuned in. Sorry. As over 3 million folks moved in. Sorry. Tuned in to the BET Awards in 2024. And if you think about that, it means it's the single largest gathering of black people for a black event in the country. Right. There's Nothing else that 3 million black folks show up for that is a specifically black event. And so you still have this opportunity to catalyze, mobilize and engage our community. And you just have to be very thoughtful and have great partners like the naacp. All right, we have more with Chloe Bailey, the president of the naacp, Derrick Johnson, and the president and CEO of bet, Scott Mills. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Fizz Club. Lauren LaRosa is in on this interview as well. We're kicking it with Chloe Bailey, the president of the NAACP, Derek Johnson, and the president and CEO of BET, Scott Mills. The NAACP Image Awards will air on February 22nd. Now, Charlamagne, what does BET mean to your generation, Chloe, because you're 26. Yes. I think, you know, for me growing up, you know, I'm a music lover. I grew up loving 106 in park. Like, I think I could speak for everyone in my generation. You know, I know certain things go into a lot, but that was like the show for me to be inspired to get excited like, that was it. Like, I'd run home from school, and that's what I'd put on. So I was used to seeing people who looked like me who were succeeding in a field that I wanted to succeed in one day. So BET has always had a special place in my heart, especially think of all the groundbreaking performances. Like, you know, when Beyonce had her incredible performance on there, you know, I'm so grateful that I got to be on that stage two, three times. One of my favorite performances that I did on there was on bet. It was like this surprise, treat me mashup. So it's like, I feel like BET gives a platform for all black artists, whether they are at the top of their game or whether they're rising. And I think it's really special to have that support. So when you hear that, Scott, what do you think? So first. So I love it. And one of the things that we focus on is we understand People love 106 and park. Right. And so. So the fact that it doesn't work as a linear television show doesn't mean 106 and park is over. Because we can bring 106 and park back as a podcast. We can bring 106 and park back as a digital experience, and we can just. We are evolving what 106 and park will look like in 2025 because it does have that very important role. I've heard that you guys are trying to figure out a show like that. Yes. And we've got a number of really exciting executions because it's also. We're approaching the 25th anniversary of 106 and park as well. We'll go a little bit ad free 25 year. You know, we. We will. We will. You'll. There'll be some things that you guys will be really excited about, and we look forward to coming back and talk to you about 106. There you go. Yeah, noted. So, but I think the other thing that Chloe shared that is so important is we at BET exist to be in service of our community and our culture. That's what we exist for. And we understand that there's a broad ecosystem of different institutions and individuals that make up our community and our culture, and we are part of that broader landscape and that broader ecosystem, and we play a supporting, complementary role to our community and our ecosystem. And whether that's celebrating black excellence, whether that's mobilizing our community around important events, whether that's coming to the aid of our community, Post, you know, in the face of COVID But to Chloe's very specific point, one of the things that our team loves is to be a platform that both celebrates our most successful artists who are absolutely at the pinnacle of their careers, and simultaneously to identify and support those emerging artists, to give them the platform. Because we were so many artists very first time to be on television, right? So many artists very first time to perform. The number of managers and. And label executives who come up and say, you know, we are so appreciative to be back at the BET Awards because this is where our talent xyz got their very first break. That really resonates with our team. Can you tell us some of the points that you guys have planned for the NAACP Awards? We will be revealing performers as we get closer. We're gonna. We're doing a rollout now, and it's very intentional because we're trying to build the audience. The platforms by which people consume information is shifting every month. You know, as you know, we grew up listening to Tom Jordan. The morning show Breakfast Club took it over. Well, quite frankly, there's gonna be a podcast to Takeover. Breakfast Club. And so we're 160. What's happening? Burpas Club did not take over. Tom Joyner. Tom Joyner retired on his own accord. No, no, no, no. But it's. Tom Joyner was urban adult contemporary. He catered to the 2554 demo. We came around 18 to 24. And the breakfast Club is a podcast. Not just a podcast. We're the number one black podcast in the world and have been. You do everything perfect, but somebody gonna do it better later. Is that gonna be next month? They come up or is it gonna be next year? You're doing everything perfect. Why do we do that as black people? I don't know. You started that. Something to replace something. Why all of these things can't coexist. They can't coexist. But I, I'm. I'm. I'm responding to the tone. And the tone is we have legacy organizations, we have media companies that have. Have been a flag part of our community. We have a show we're on now where the podcast has been excellent. We had other shows that sunset. It is a part of the ecosystem of who we are as a community, and we should meet people where they are. Who's replaced the naacp? That's a good question. They ain't ready. But that's what I mean when I say that. Like, why do we do that as a people? Like, oh, just Replace that like, no, everything can coexist as one. You and I, we absolutely agree, but the tone set was something differently. Right? So if she is 26 and she can appreciate 106 in park, there's someone who's NACP. But if NACP is not the right vehicle or voice for them, I support them choosing the right vehicle voice because in the social justice movement, it's not a competition. It's an opportunity for our voices to be heard. Entertainment community is not a competition. It's an opportunity for our voices, our culture to be, to be experienced. And that's how we should be approaching all of this. And so where BET right now is in an industry that's shrinking overall, what Scott is doing is trying to figure out, okay, how do we continue to advance our culture and our voice where nacp, we are in a political dynamic that has shift. It is our job being the largest organization in 47 states to continue to evolve with, with that, we're not going anywhere. I don't want the Breakfast Club to go anywhere. BET shouldn't go anywhere. We should all be leaning to our culture, our opportunity and our voice. Well, I, I agree these institutions shouldn't go anywhere, but I do think they do have to evolve. Like, I doubt absolutely. I doubt I'll always be here as a host. I doubt Envy will always be here as a host. Right. People like Lauren, the Jesses will take over and everything, but when it comes to the NAACP or any of these institutions whose job is to tell our own story stories, us, it's our job. Right? And that's why when we took over, we, we saw the partnership with BTV on Park Paramount. We have a joint venture with Paramount tv. We will have a soap opera air next month on the 22nd on CBS Daytime. We're working, we're about to launch our podcasts. We have to evolve that our revenue streams have to evolve. How we approach this organization should not be driven by personality. It should be driven by mission and strategy. So we all have to evolve. Let me ask you a question. Sports doesn't work well on bet, does it? Sports works well on linear television. The challenge is sports rights have gotten insanely expensive because I look at all these HBCU, right? I DJed the Howard Hampton game was on CBS the other day. And I'm watching a lot of these college games on TV. And I always thought to myself, with all the HBCUs and how it's been a spurge of HBCUs, everybody supporting HBCUs was just always weird to me, why BET didn't put their arm around and be like, I need all those games here, so people actually come there. It's a great question. And in fact, when BET started, BET used to air HBCU games. I'm told that there's footage of Bob Johnson running along the sidelines doing live commentary on HBCU games. So I'm trying to look for it, but the reality is, because of the evolution of college football and because of the proliferation of access to sports across all these platforms, the demand, the viewership interest in HBCU sports right now isn't high enough to kind of support the investment. Having said that, the entry point that we think is really exciting, that we're really focused on, is you now have a bunch of brothers who went off and played in the NFL, have said, we want to remedy this dynamic where top black athletes feel like they have to go to other schools to be competitive. We want to remedy that dynamic. Right. So you saw, you know, you saw the recent announcements about. About the brothers. Right, right, right. Okay, there you go. And so now university. Right, There you go. So. And that. So now the opportunity is we take our footprint, our platform, our relationships, and then we bring them to these luminaries who are going back to these HBCUs and building those teams. And then we focus on the stories and the people and the journey, and we get a broader community to be excited about this. And we actually use it to build interest in HBCU football. And that, we think, is the way to actually elevate interest in HBCU football, which will then allow us to bring more games to the network. All right, we have more with Chloe Bailey, the president of the naacp, Derek Johnson, and the president and CEO of bet, Scott Mills. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's EJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne. The guy we are the Breakfast Club Lonerosa is in on this interview as well. Chloe Bailey is here. The president of the NAACP and the president and the CEO of BET is joining us this morning. Lauren. Now, Chloe, I gotta ask you. Yes. You bringing a date to the NAACP Awards? My godmom and my manager. Okay, so we gonna see no more burner boy? You'll have to ask him. You're here. He's not, uh. Oh, no, Vernon's not nominated. Nominated. Now he's not nominated, but you look at the sheet. He not on there. Chloe's on there. But I'm speaking of support. And, you know, we were seeing you out with him in Nigeria. So is that a new thing or. Nigeria was so beautiful. I've heard. I had the best time. I've heard. What about the nightlife? We saw you in the club with Burna. Yes. The nightlife. It was so many lights, so many, so many cameras. I know. So many cameras. You know, it'd be all like everything with you when you're causing. I ask Lauren, last time you were here was gonna. I mean, now is burning a boy. We want to know. Is that your boo? Is this a thing? Y'all together? Do y'all go together real bad? Y'all just having fun? What is it? Well, I'm a grown woman. So you do. I had a great time in Nigeria. I really did. So I guess I'm not gonna get an answer on if you cared about the. When you left, there was the video. People were like, oh, my God, the Chloe time is over. Now he's out with this random other girl. What? I didn't see that Burna boy. Yeah, he was out with a random other girl. Snitch. Cause I ain't even seen happy snitch that all over. But it's because we. Y'all were so heavily together. We were like, oh, shoot, we don't see her do this much. Yeah. And then. Yeah. So yeah, he's a grown man. It's like, I'm a grown woman. You know, I could imagine dating at 20 something and being put on the air by being so. Being super famous. Could you imagine the stuff that you did when you were young? Somebody videotaped you. Expecting the minute that you see her on that carpet, they going to be looking like cuz. Looking for who? Anybody. Anybody that she's with is always a thing. Anybody she's with, like, she could have been going to Bible study. I mean, you know, you had told me you was in there studying the Bible, I would have been like, you know what? God is good. Okay, my girl, you can study anytime, even in the club. I got my pin. I have the questions that I'd be wanting to know because. Yeah, no, I got. Mama done gave you that look. Keep it up twice. No, me and Godmom behind the scenes God, my moderate God on me before. So I love her. So she gonna let you know, though. But no, honestly, I don't mind. I mean, I hate to say this, but it's my life. I mean, it's what I sign up for. So I can only expect it. It's just about how I handle it, how I handle myself. So I don't Think it should ever be pissiness towards the people who ask me. And I think as a woman watching you navigate it, I'm always interested in how you deal with that. Because, for instance, you're here about the NAACP Image Awards, but it's like, we want to know that, so we have to ask. And being a person who's now learning how to be in the light of everything, I'm like, how the. How do you deal with it? Plus, her love life is very slow, Chloe. Like, very slow. I know you got a roster. No, she don't. No, she don't. Don't toler. You like, boom. Her phone is dry. Dry as heck. One thing I forget about getting on this radio. It's very dry. I am just. I am a wife. All I do is stay home. I just want to cook. I'm domesticated. This radio has made me be quiet. Quiet. Okay, well, guess what? You get on here and say, he's ready for that. I know he is. So it's preparing you for that. No, it's not. I appreciate it. Now back to the NAACP Award. Spicy chicken. Now, how are these nominees chosen? How do you guys choose the nominees? And how do you guys go to who's winning? And how do y'all expand the categories every year? Because, you know, things change, right? You got social media personality here. Now post podcast. Like, how do you expand the category? So start with the last question. We recognize that. That the industry is changing, so we try to keep up and we add categories. Digital content, content categories, Fashion design. There's a panel of close to 500 people. Half industry have non industry that's been selected across the country. And those are the individuals that review the materials and they nominate. Oftentimes, I don't even know what's being nominated to. I finally get it. And then once nominated, some of the categories are voted on by the public, and so it's by popular vote in some areas, and then in other areas is by those who are critics in the space to ensure fairness in the outcome. So there is a. A mix that we try to balance those two. Two things out. Gotcha. I also want to ask about comedy as well. You see, Netflix is heavy into comedy. You see a lot of they're giving comedy deals to damn near every comedian. Has BET ever wanted to jump back into that space? Because BET was one of the huge originators, especially of black comedy. That's right. With Comic View. Did Dion Cole put you up to this question? Because he's been beating me up about this. No, but he's been up here recently, but now he hasn't. Yes. So the reality is is we're always looking for the way back into places. Right. And we did a quick partnership with Kevin Hart and Heartbeat where we did a test run of bringing back Comic View. And part of the thing is that really understanding how our community wants to consume content, right. And also understanding some people will use certain content as a loss leader for other things. And I'm not saying who would be using as a loss leader, but there are other platforms that are paying using content as a loss leader for other things. So we're working with Dion right now to do peace to the planet Charlamagne tha God here. And I just want you to know if you're not on Amazon prime, you're seriously missing out. It's not just about the fast free delivery. Although, let's be real, that's a game changer. It especially was for me this holiday season. Prime is like your personal guide to everything you're into or want to get into. 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And at these conferences, I'll be joined by David Roth of Defector and the writer Edward Ongueso Jr. With appearances from behind the Bastards, Robert Evans It Could Happen. Here's Gare Davis and a few surprise guests throughout the show. Listen to Better offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcast from and check out betteroffline.com I'm Jason Alexander. And I'm Peter Tilden and together on the really no really podcast, our mission is to get the true answers to life's baffling questions, like why they refuse to make the bathroom door go all the way to the floor. We got the answer. Will space junk block your cell signal? The astronaut who almost drowned during a spacewalk gives us the answer. We talk with the scientist who figured out if your dog truly loves you and the one bringing back the woolly mammoth. Plus, does Tom Cruise really do his own stunts? His stuntman reveals the answer and you never know who's going to drop by. Mr. Brian Cranston is. What are you? Hello, my friend Wayne Knight. About Jurassic Park. Wayne Knight, welcome to really no really, Sir. Bless you all. Hello Newman. And you never know when Howie Mandela might just stop by to talk about judging. Really? That's the opening? Really? No really? Yeah, really? No really go to really no really.com and register to win $500 a guest spot on our podcast or a limited edition sign Jason Bobblehead. It's called really no really and you can find it on the iHeartRadio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Sup, y'all? This is Questlove and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the story pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids. Starting on September 27th, I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimini to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all, Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Smash, slam, another one gone. Bash bam. Another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine hole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A really fun thing in standup comedy. He'll be thrilled that you put me on the spot and ask the question. But we think comedy clearly works, right? We see it working with the Ms. Pat Show. The series we have with Dion Average Joe is a thriller that has a comedic line through it. We really see that our audience loves comedy. Ms. Pat. In addition to her Ms. Pat show, we do Ms. Pat settles it, which is her doing a crazy courtship. And so our audience is loving it. We think in 2025, given the way the world has changed, people need to laugh even more. And so there'll be an even greater demand for comedy. So we're leaning into it in a big way. Have there been conversations, Derek, about changing the name of the NAACP since some people think colored people is a slur? No. As we sit around this table, we got all the colors around the table, don't we? Yeah. No, we have not. I mean, we get caught up in some marriage semantics, we lose focus and and there's no need to go to the semantics. We are an organization that's been around 116 years. That's significant. When you talk about this concept of a. Of a surplus mindset that what we can do, we can stick together, we can work together, we can prosper together. Oftentimes say, well, black folks won't do what we can't do, we haven't done. We got to get away from that and not get caught up in semantics. At the end of the day, are we being effective with our mission? Making democracy work for all, ensuring opportunity for our community? That's our focus. The semantics go out the door. Yeah. I asked that because I think it was. Was it last year? It was a pre. It was one of the presidents. I forgot from which chapter. The naacp. He. They were upset because somebody used the word colored people somewhere. I have no idea. I don't see if you wonder. Every time I run across him, he asks a question because he's been saying, y'all need to change the name. He's been saying that since, like, 1982. Yeah. What does he see about the name that. Shut up. Shut up. I haven't. Shut up. What? I'm just asking a question. So lack of subtlety. Right? Right. At the end of the day, the Image Awards is the crown jewel of shows for African American. Right. It gives us an opportunity for all of us to come together and appreciate the culture we bring to this table. Save him. Save him. Right. And we do that intergenerationally across all of. All of the platforms. That's right. And you can. The voting is now open to the public at NAACPImageAwards. Dot. That's right. We appreciate you guys for joining us this morning. Yes. And stop dragging Chloe around for no reason. She's busy. She got things you could be doing. She wants to be here. She out here for her people. Oh, okay. Okay. Yes. Okay. That's right, lady. Yes. And I'm. Do you want a host? Yes. If you were. If you were not as the host, I think it would make so much sense because you out here outside, we don't know what y'all plan to. Y'all putting pressure on it. They might have another host and you just effing the ass. And she say she want a host, too. Yeah. Or. Or if I don't host, I could sing a little song. Listen, we've been rolling. When we announce the host, everybody gonna say, that is a great choice. Good decision. The host's going to come on with Scott and going to Talk about why that person is the host. And y'all gonna say, this is the best thing that could have ever happened. Absolutely. Collaboration be dope. Chloe girl. I know. That's right. Go, Chloe. Chloe. And Burna Boy hosting the nw that be a great collaboration, and you all can take credit for it. He brought that back up. I did. All right, well, it's Chloe Bailey, Derek Johnson, Scott Mills, we appreciate you for joining us. Check out the NAACP, the 56 NAACP Image Awards, February 22nd at 8pm and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Yes. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Yes. Thank you to NAAC President Derek Johnson and the president and CEO of bet, Scott Mills and my cousin, Chloe Bailey, for pulling up. That's right. Make sure you watch the NAACP Awards on February 22nd. Is Leon Thomas nominated for any NAACP majors? That's a good question. He should be. Yeah, that's a bad boy, that. Yeah, he's gonna be passing through one day this week, too. We're gonna be chopping Leon Thomas. No, we don't. Well, kind of. What you mean, kind of? We play Snooze every morning and he's a writer on Snooze. Man, shut up, man. Leon, he's. He's by far the best male R and B singer out today. Yeah, he gets. He absolutely, positively gets. We not. How are we not playing him on the radio? I don't know. Pull up something from his album, the new album. Mutt. Mutt? Yeah. I started to say musty I don't know why I can't wait till summertime when people stink and I go musty that's all you want to do, huh? Yes, but shout out to Leon. Leon. Now, you know he's started on Broadway. You know his history and all that, right? Childhood star and all that? No, not really. Well, if he comes by, I'll find out. All right, well, let's get to Jess with the mess. Don't do no lines. Don't do. She don't spare nobody on the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shooter. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. All right, so you got some more alleged beef with Drake. All right, so Chris Griffith, he's a designer, and he designed stuff for, like, sports, boxers and all that type of stuff. He posted some dms between him and Drake, and he alleged that these DMS are real. When he posted about it, everybody picked it up, all the blogs and everything. Academics said he spoke to Drake and he said, Drake is saying that the DMS aren't real. So. And when he posted these, he said that he, he never intended for this to go public or anything like that. But Drake apparently switched sides, so he wanted to put it out there. Now he had sent. I'mma read the dms. He had sent Drake a picture of some gloves or whatever, right? And he said, damn gang, you want to follow me? Now what he does is like he put the. The OVO stamp on the gloves or whatever, right? And he basically was just like expressing the Drake like, yo, I was down for you, you know, from college days, playing views on repeat with the volume high and all that from standing outside just shooting shows in the cold with my baby brother whose OVO deal fell through the cracks after coming to Toronto or whatever. Whatever. He basically said he put the OVO patches on Javante Davis gloves and all of that for free. On the shorts? Yeah, on the shorts? Yeah, on the shorts. On the shorts, yeah, for free or whatever. And then Drake commented back, I mean, wrote back and said, you askeding me to post a tape about you ratting on people, G. I just really don't come from a city or a friend. Friend group or where that is acceptable. I live by a code that become law. That's become law. We all just got to deal with our own ass. And I don't really, you know, I don't condone into this. I ain't got nothing to do with this, basically. And so what he's talking about is what Chris responded with. He said, a tried me on some gayish while I was designing his collection. He's talking about Stefan Diggs, who he names in this. He said, I didn't go, I didn't go full. And that's not rat and champ, I survived the hit and I had money on my head, so I spoke up. So basically he's saying Stefan Diggs came on to him or whatever, but he didn't oblige in it. And so he had got attacked, he had got beat up. In 2023, the attack was caught on camera in the LA apartment building. And Stefan, he alleges that Stefan Diggs little brother actually was the one who started to fight. He, you know, got beat up by yo player Stefan Diggs. Wow. Yep. So allegedly, this is all alleged? Allegedly. Yes, Drake. So he said. So he says, that's like me telling you that you read it for pulling. This is Chris saying this To Drake, he said, that's like me telling you that you read it for pulling Universal's card because they played with you in front of the entire world, much like my situation. You said survive with your head held high, and you spoke the F up. So Drake responds like, look, y'all. I mean, I don't know details, fam. I'm just showing you outside of perception, I think there's better ways to go about it. My opinion, Me and Universal is like. And pay attention to this. Me and Universal is like, if Nike was funding a campaign about LeBron cheating on his wife, not Adidas or Reebok Nike, the company he been with since he started. My situation is not no street ish. And that goes back to yesterday when we reported about this freestyle that he got. He said he was going to drop receipts or whatever. So people are speculating that. That. That he was going straight for LeBron's family. And these. These DMS would confirm that everything that he was trying to alleging his freestyle would be true. I know. Step one, Tyler having his name in people's mouth, though. Didn't they say he was sleeping with Cardi, too? Yeah, Cardi, a host of people he actually put on his Instagram. He said, I'm stopped going tit for tat. He said, beware by yourself. I don't give an F. Stop. Keep my name out your mouth. Pretty much. Oh, okay. You too. So Chris was like, yo, yeah, I get your point of view. I feel you to a degree. Crazy it might be or whatever, but he just wanted him to, like, help him out. He like, yo, how you think it feels to see myself getting beat up on this video or whatever by some people I know did it, and I know the reason behind it or whatever. Right? So Drake. The last thing that Drake said was, I'll think this one out and write my response somewhere else. Then other than ig, I'm on a plane right now. And so Drake later posted the. A picture of him in the studio, and the caption is three money bags. And it said, I thought this through. So I don't think you think it at all. Yeah, he said he. He thought it through, but that's what he also said in the dm. So they trying to put that together with that, and it just looked like he. He just try not to admit that the DMS are real. I mean, it could be. Who knows? Allegedly they are, but we don't know. Yeah, Drake got to get to a point where he. He has to. He can't go back and Forth with people. He's the bad guy. So everybody wants to take this time to post a. A dm, post a text message, post a phone conversation. He. He has to. But doesn't. Doesn't it all seem calculated, though? Like, you know, you put out this one message, and it says something about LeBron that goes viral. Then you reach out to ACT, tell ACT to say it's not real. But then you post a picture from the studio saying, I thought this one through. After saying in a freestyle, you know, don't make me ruin your public image. Everybody said that was about Braun. Come on, guys, don't let that. Come on, come on. Well, I pray to God he could be the petty king. I pray to God he doesn't go that. That far. Like, I don't want you praying to your. No, I'm just saying. Because if you got a problem with somebody, take it to that person. Right? And I hate when people do this where if you gotta punch me in my face, stab me. But when you start bringing my family involved. Here you go. I don't want that. Punch me in my eye. No, I'm not saying. I'm not saying don't be a tough, but I'd rather take. That's what you would do, right? You punch somebody. No, I'm just saying I would rather take a punch in the face than somebody mess with my family. Okay, right. Because. Because Brian got to go home and deal with that from Savannah. He gonna be scoring two points a game. One rebound, one assist. That's why I said, don't bring my family. That's why I say it's all calculated, and I don't know why we playing this game. He says this in the record, I want to ruin your public image. And he says the thing in the DM about. I'm not even gonna repeat what was said. Then he turns around and says it was fake to academics. Then he turns around and says, I thought this one through. Stop letting these biracial Canadians play with y'all, man. Okay, cut us out. It's all Drake Ish. So. Jesus, it is what it is. All right? Just with the mess. Thank you, Jess. Charlemagne. Who you giving that down, too, man? Four after the hour, we need a human jar of Hellman's mayonnaise named Aaron Elizabeth to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with her. Speaking of getting punched in the face, this part, she needs to get punched in the face. All right, we'll discuss. We'll get to it. Next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. I just wanted to know how you came up with the donkey of the day. Say it. Give it to him. Give it to him. There's a bunch of donkeys out here in these streets. We live a life where we bite our tongues based off who we may offend. We never would say anything. That is why Charlemagne, he's a donkey. That was. Oh man. Charlemagne. You giving dunk Get a day to who now? That damn Taylor drop one of clues bombs for Taylor made it. Man. If one thing Taylor going to do, she going to earn her money that she don't get, okay? She work hard for money that she don't get. God damn it. Salute to Taylor. Donkey of the day for Wednesday, January 8th goes to a 26 year old human jar of Hellman's mayonnaise named Aaron Elizabeth. Aaron is a registered nurse who shouldn't be a registered nurse anymore. And she was arrested because she's never gotten her ass beat in life. What do you mean, Uncle Charlotte? She's never gotten her ass beaten. Life. I mean exactly what I said. See, I was born in 1978, okay? And when you 46 years old like I am, then you can tell when a person has never been punched in the face. Okay? Not just punched in the face. Never had to go pick their own switch. All right? My dad beat me with an extension cord one time and made me go take a bath. Why? Because I was taking a lighter to the carpet in our single wide trailer in most corners, S.C. you can read about it in detail. Detail. And my first book, the New York Times bestseller, Black Privilege. Opportunity. Opportunity comes to those who create it. But what we are talking about here is consequences to one's actions. Okay? Aaron is doing BS because she's never been checked for her bs. Matter of fact, I can't even call this just bs. This is pure evil. This woman, Aaron Elizabeth not only needs her ass beat, she needs an exorcism. What do you mean? Uncle Charlotte, she needs an exorcism. Can you tell us why she's getting donkey of the day already? Yes, but just know if you're a parent, it's going to trigger you. Let's go. Let's go to the report, please. Henrico County's top prosecutor. Letting reporters know her office will continue to work very aggressively into the investigation into Henrico Doctors Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. In less than two weeks, one woman has been charged and arrested. 26 year old Aaron Elizabeth Ann Stratman. Of Chesterfield county who was denied bond by a judge Friday afternoon. While there has been an arrest for one person for allegedly inflicting injury on a single victim, I would emphasize this is an ongoing investigation spanning potential offenses committed in both 2023 and 2024. The ongoing investigation centered around seven babies in total. The hospital alerting the community online that four babies had, quote, unexplainable fractures in 2024, similar to an incident in 2023. The Strotman now facing charges for one child out of the seven. That news report came from ABC News. By the way, this chick was arrested after the hospital had to close the NICU due to mystery attacks on newborns. She was breaking the bones of newborn babies. Look, man, in my. In my second book, Shook on Anxiety playing tricks on me, I speak to the anxiety you feel as a parent every minute of the day. I call it parental paranoia. When our kids are out in the world at school or, you know, whenever they are in the care of another adult, we want that adult to treat our kids like their own. That's why I respect all jobs where people have to watch over other folks kids. Because it takes a special kind of person to show someone else's child child love, care and affection. This evil, sadistic, wicked, ungodly, unholy woman who looks like a Twitter egg with a salmonella outbreak is not one of those people, okay? Folks who take advantage of the elderly and children, especially newborns. There has to be something worse than hell for folks like you. I don't know what that place is because I'm not God. But I do know we can create hell on earth for people like that. And it starts with her getting punched in the face, okay? That's should be part of her punishment. She's been charged with malicious wounding and child abuse. I think those charges should be upgraded to attempted murder because when you breaking the bones of babies, newborns, you could potentially kill an infant. But I think she should have to also square up with these kids parents, the daddy and mama. F all that ain't no grace, ain't no mercy. Daddy. Hola. While mama gets off on her ass. Okay, I'm not trying to understand why Aaron Elizabeth did what she did. She got married. Mental health issues. So what? So do I. Okay? But this is so diabolical, so deliberate, done with such intention that I don't want to hear anything about Aaron Elizabeth's mental health issues. I don't want to see her pleading insanity, playing crazy. This woman knows exactly what she was doing. And even if she is crazy, which she clearly is. Even if she is mentally ill. Guess what? Batman still beat the hell out of every villain in Gotham before they got sent to Arkham Asylum. So please give this woman, Aaron Elizabeth, an ass kicking and let Chelsea Handler give her the biggest hee haw. Hee haw. Hee haw. That is way too much Dan mayonnaise. Sometimes you got to get medieval on people, bro. Medieval? That's what I said. Okay, I know what you heard. You heard Medea because you a. But I said medieval. Okay? All right? And. And sometimes that's what you just got to do. You got to get medieval on people. Okay? That's it. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Now this. This is coming from the movie Mufasa. Have you guys seen the movie yet? No, not yet. I was out the country. I want to see Mufasa and I want to see the Clarissa Shields the Fire Inside movie. Jess, you didn't see Mufasa yet? No. Okay, so let me, Let me, Let me. Let's open up the phone line. So in the movie Mufasa, if you haven't seen it, the reason that Scar and Mufasa have beef is explained. And of course, it's over a chick. Now what are you telling the movie? I'm just gonna tell just a little bit. 800. You just told the goddamn movie. No, I did not tell the whole plot of movie movie. 800-585-1051. The question is, if your friend is interested in someone and. And talks to you about how to kick it to this person, but that person is interested in you instead, what do you do? 800-585-1051. Now, Jess, this has happened to you before. Your friend was interested in the dude, but the dude didn't like her like you instead. Yeah, well, we both liked him, but she just jumped out there and wanted to talk to him, and then he jumped out there and told her no off. Cuz he been looking at me and so I started talking to him. That's it. Why would Mufasa and Scar be beefing over this? I was ready to say so they changed up the whole premise of the movie. It's about a. It's not. I don't know why he said it's his. About the whole premise. I didn't say that. But that's exactly what that does happen in the movie. But it's. It's. I don't want to give the whole details. But I ain't even know. I can't. I don't want to explain the whole thing like I explained right now. Come on, now, explain. You can't. You can't say that word. Yes, I can. No, you can't. Bring it back. You cannot say that word unless you identify as one I am. Okay, makes sense then. You can say it all you want. Yes. Say it again. No, I'm talking to you, Little Red. But listen, explain. You just explained the whole concept to the movie. So 800-585-1051, right? The question is, if you are interested in someone, but the person you are interested in is interested in your friend instead, what do you do? Tell me about Mufasa and Scar again, because I don't understand why this. This would be the premise of the movie. Like, what? They were beefing over a woman. You want me to break it down now? You want me explain it right fast? Yes. Okay. So I'm explaining right fast. Everything. This is crazy. So his name wasn't Scar at first. He had another name, right? And he was interested in this young tiger. Mufasa was a young lion, this guy here. And turned the Lion King to the title. So Mufasa. Mufasa was his ride or die. And basically, he told Mufasa, I like this, but I'm not really. I don't know how to talk to chicks. Can you help me out? And Mufasa was telling him things to say to make the chick like him, but he was saying it, but the chick still didn't like him. And the chick wound up liking Mufasa. Okay, so Mufasa. So Scar was like, yo, bro, like, I told you I liked her first. And he was like, well, that's not my thing. And Scar turned on Mufasa. And then you can. You can imagine the rest. We know lions have no concept of incest or any sexual standards. Sometimes the male actually comes back to the pride they're born in and then challenges the male and claims the female is the mate. And sometimes that female could be their mother or sister. So what's the problem? They could have been sleeping with the whole family and nobody would have been tripping. This is so crazy. I mean, at least they ain't gay. I mean, they'd be trying to put that in anything. So. All right, I'll take it. But I didn't know it was such a backstory about, that's so crazy. I ain't seen the movie yet, Jess. We don't know if they did not Scar might have got his car because he was fighting up, fighting for his boy. And Lion Jail caught a buck 50 across the face fighting for his boy in Lion Prison. Oh, my goodness. But 800-585-1051, if your friend is interested in someone, but the person is interested in you instead, what do you do? Has it happen to you? Let's discuss. That's how fine the person is. Jesus Christ. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's true. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the God we are the Breakfast Club. If you're Just joining us, 800-585-1051. This conversation is inspired by Mufasa, the movie that's out right now. Now, in the movie Mufasa, when you watch it, you realize Mufasa and Scar really started beefing over a young lion, right? Scar liked the lion. He went to Mufasa for advice to how to talk to the lion. And Mufasa told him, but the young lion didn't like Scar like Mufasa. And that's where the beef started. So the question is, 800-585-1051, if your friend is interested in someone, really like scarce somebody, but the person is interested in you, what do you do? So Jess said, this situation has happened before. Your friend likes somebody, but dude liked you. That's the thing. We both liked him, but she. Well, I. I just thought he was cute. Like, she, like, liked him. You know what I mean? So she jumped out there and wanted to say something to him, you know, he was like, damn, you know, I. I like her. And I was like, okay. She came back, she told me, I. I ain't think it was a problem because she ain't say it was a problem. The way she presented it, like, oh, girl, like he, he like you, like, you know. So I was, all right, that's what's up. I'm a talk to him. Was it ever a problem or. No, that's what it was. She. She just stopped talking to me. So of course it was a problem. She just kind of kept it a hundred. Now, Charlamagne, you've been married for a long time, but before that, if your friend likes somebody and the person liked you, what would you do? That has never been ever, ever a thing. I don't know. I don't know. Let me put myself back into the space. When I was out here wiling, being a complete mutt, like Leon Thomas said. Hold on. Give me a minute. Oh, my God. Okay, listen. Is that a dog barking? I think it depends on how good the woman looks, okay? If she's supposed to depend on how good you look, too, who picked somebody else? Who picked you over somebody? Don't act like I'm not handsome. Come on. I'm handsome now. Yes, you are. I'm handsome and I'm charming. All right? Okay. But I think it depends on how good the woman looks. If she's fine and my guy wants to get with her, but she wants to get with me, then why should I miss my blessing? And if my friend is really my friend, then he should want me to receive my blessing. Because what God has for me is for me, okay? So if he going to hate on you because this woman wants to get with you and not him, him, I shouldn't be friends with this person to begin with. And you know another thing that I can't stand? Guys do what I hate when guys be like, I'mma hit that. How you know, why are you making the decision for the woman? How do you know? How do you know that woman is going to give you any play whatsoever just because you called? And it sounds crazy to say, just because you called dibs on a woman don't mean she want to be with you. Am I lying, Jess? That. That is the truth. But. But most people don't look at it like that. They say if they call dibs, that's their first. Like, even. I'm talking to OVO El, right? OVO Eli. I asked him if that's happened to him, and he said, yeah, it happens all the time. But he said, really? Whoever calls first and goes for it first, they let him live. Yeah, but what about if you strike out? If you strike out, next man up to back, we. We. And by the way, we on the same team, right? So if I hit, it's a win for us all. I'll tell you about it. I'll tell you about it. I ain't gonna do all that. All right, I'm sorry. I ain't never been to smell your finger tie, but I'll tell you about it. All right, well, let's go to the phone lines. We got Shelly on the line. Shelly, good morning. Good morning. Hey, Shelly, where you calling from? I'm calling from North Carolina, Shirley. Hey, 704. 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You know, these guys out here, they, they don't really care. They're not too picky and choosy. So I feel like, you know, if I, I turn them down, they'll eventually go to my friends. So did you sleep, did you sleep with both of the guys? One of them, I did. Oh, okay. Okay, okay. All right. Yeah, but that gotta hurt your friend, cuz your friend gotta feel like maybe she doesn't look as attractive or she doesn't look as. Is she pretty? That's why I don't trust them because. No, and it's not that they're, you know, everybody has a preference. So. Would you sleep with your friend? You try not to say your friend. You try not to say your friend. Ugly, basically. No, I'm not. You know, so like, you know, some guys like Latino women, some dudes like white girls, some men like, you know, chocolate, dark skin females. So I love. Everybody has a preference. How much does she weigh? Jesus. See they why do you. Oh, now we getting somewhere. Now we getting somewhere. Play wobble wobble, wobble, wobble. One friend is small, so that doesn't really count. That's what I said. The other friend. The other friend. The other friend was at risk of a heart attack. Jesus Christ. No, I'm not saying that. Goodbye, Shelly. Y'all are messy. We messy. You. All you had to do is say, no, my friend ain't fat. But you can't say that goodbye. I can't say that. I can't lie on this radio. Ron. Good morning, Ron. Good morning. Good morning. Now, Ron, you broke, bro. Cold, man. Your man tried to holler at a woman and you started talking to her. Yeah, we was in college. So he was telling her, oh, I'll talk to him for you. Let's go out to eat. I don't make him pull up. But he never told me. So he. He was doing blind dates with her, not letting me know. So one day she ran into me at school. She's like, yo, how come every time you invite me out, you not showing up, but Jay showing up? I was like, what are you talking about? Because she told me the whole play, man. We end up getting married. We celebrated 25 years anniversary last month. Wow. But you don't speak. You don't speak to him anymore though, huh? Nah, we don't speak to him anymore. Damn. Yeah, but this goes back to what I said about why should you allow me to miss my blessing? Like, what God has for me is for me. Like, if. If. Like. That's why I understand when guys be like, oh, I'm. I'm going call dibs on her. Now, don't get me wrong, you know, the first time I saw my wife, I knew that was going to be my wife. Right? But clearly that was meant to happen. But that's not always the case. Just because you say you want to get with a girl, don't mean that girl want to get with you. 800-585-1051. This is inspired by the movie Mufasa, Right? If your friend is interested in someone, but the person they interested in likes you instead, what do you ado? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're opening up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. This is inspired by the movie Mufasa. If you haven't seen it, you got to see it. I took the kids to see it the other day, and it tells the story of Mufasa and Scar and how they don't f with each other right now. If your friend is interested in someone. So Skull was interested in someone, but the person that Skull was interested in didn't like Scar, liked Mufasa instead. And that started the beef. So we're asking 800-585-1051 in real life, what do you do? Hello. Good morning. Hello. My name is Nick. Hey, Nick. What's up, brother? Nick. So I'm. I'm asking the question again. So if your man was interested in somebody, somebody, but the person was interested in you, what are you doing? I'm gonna tell my man. It's like, yo, oh, girl, you know, it's really gonna be mad. Like, I'm gonna ask him, like, if it's really gonna affect our friendship. Like, if he really in love with this girl, I'm gonna probably fall back. But at the end of the day, I grew up in the Bay Area. I grew up in the two chores. So I'm gonna be like, hey, she choosing, man. Like, you gotta get over. I'm gonna make sure she got a friend or something for him or, you know, and then I'm gonna see how much I like her. If I really like her after, you know, we do what we do, I'mma keep it around, but if it's just whatever, I probably just smash some T. You know what I'm saying? But as for the movie, because I saw the movie with my kids, and I feel like in that movie, Mu kind of, like, was bad. I don't want to give away the movie, but, like, if somebody saved my life, my brother and I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for you, man. There's a million lines I could. You know, my thing with. That's. That's the thing. Yeah, yeah, but. But no, but, no. The reason. Reason I disagree with that is because of what you said, my brother. You just quoted the great. Too short. And the woman is the person who gets to choose. I don't know why y'all men think y'all got the option here when you say to yourself, hey, I want to highlight that girl. It's that woman's decision on whether or not she gonna give you some, brother. Yeah, but Mufasa should have told him, like, look, bro, but you know what's so funny? He's saying the movie. I'm choosing you. Hey, my bro like you. And she said, I'm choosing. She definitely said, I'm choosing than you. So Scar's a sucker. Muasa should have told Scar though. Mu should have told Scar was a coward. Like, Scar was a coward. He was lying. But he. That was still his weapon though. So I don't know. Yeah, Scar was telling me that Scar killed. Scar killed Mufasa over. Over a woman, basically. He did. But look at this. Look at Nino Brown. You know, the cnc. There you go. Look at these real weapons in these R B groups. Back all the way since back in the day, people. It's always been because of the women. Almost every rap group, everything start off of a woman. Susan and the one Shorty was a clown. That was her fault though. That was the. That was Shorty fault in. In New Jack City. That. That was her. She was a hoe. I mean, whatever. But he was in love though, because Mufasa and Scar would have never had a beef if Scar wasn't so sensitive. It was so much other things that happened in that movie that Scar could have been like, dang, bro, like. But it was all over Simba's mama. So what I'm getting is this is a movie for adults. I shouldn't even take my son to see this. I should just go see. It's good though. I ain't go front like. It's. It's. It's a. They be singing a lot though. And the songs be kind of funny though. Like, bye bye, you're gonna die. Bye bye. First of all, Ashton grown as hell. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we going have to see this. This don't sound like no kid. This don't sound like the same Lion King I grew up on. It's. It's different. I enjoyed it though. I ain't even going front. Well, what's the moral of the story if there is a moral? I mean, the moral of the story is, man, women make the choice. So I'm glad that they even said that in the movie because I don't know where the delusion comes from with guys where guys can just look at a girl and say, I'mma hit that. I'mma get that. I'mma f that. No, it's up to the woman whether or not she wants to f you or if she's going to allow you to hit that. So when your woman chooses, let the woman choose. I'm not about to fall out with my guy because, you know, she think my man look better than me. Or she want to get with my man for whatever reason. That. That's. That's extremely lame to me. All right, well, I'm sorry if you haven't gone to see the movie. If I spoiled it for you, I apologize. Go see it. I mean, it's made a lot of money already from what I saw. Yeah, so it's. It is. Is. But we got just with the mess coming up, what we talking about? All right, now we're gonna get into Dwight and Shaq and all that comes with that. All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I just got a new toy in the mail. Okay, what's wrong with you, man? I got a new toy in the mail and this toy is amazing. Okay? It is. I can't say it on the radio, can I? Oh, you can say penis light. It's a Dick Tracy laser. Okay, he can say that. He could have said that. Yes, you can say that. It's just a D laser. Let me see. What does it say? One laser plus five Ds. You remember the light that they shine? Remember you told that story, Jess, about Jamie Foxx? Yo, take that. Take it off my face, man. What's wrong with you putting the penis laser on him? I got one. He's been walking around all morning long with his penis laser shining on people's faces. Not people, just men. Okay? Harassment to do with anybody else. Okay, let's get to just with the best. Let's roll with the news. Is real pleasant, hilarious Jessica Robin Moore just don't do no lines. She don't spare nobody worldwide. J. Worldwide message on the Breakfast Club. She's a coach. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. All right, so Dwight Howard recently appeared on Ray Daniels show and they got on the topic about his long time beef with Shaq. That's what he said. Never disrespected him, but he's always had something to say. And, you know, there's times where I got enough said and I'm like, yo, Shaq, just gotta stop, man. Oh, so you actually talked about it, literally during Dancing with the Stars. Somebody said that they're really close with Shaq. And I said, hey, man, do you mind sending Shaq a message? You know, try to figure out like, yo, what's up? Yeah, can we. We have a sit down conversation? Cause every conversation or every time I hear or see something about you is you disrespecting me on some type of level. And at this point, I'm like, do we need to throw heads? Like, what are we doing? Because I have not ever. Like, for me, the only thing I would do with Shaq is mimic his voice. Do like that. Okay, so that wasn't audio I was looking for. But that was good that we played that. Cause we needed that too. But Shaq responded once he saw. Saw the response once he saw what how it said Henry Daniel's show. And he said, the fact that you think I care about you is funny, but I won't ever bring up your name ever again. Sensitive, big man. You're a jokester that can't take a joke. Won't ever say your name ever again. Have a great day. And now you have been deleted. Have a great day again. I don't know how many times he was gonna tell him, have a great day, but he really wanted him to have a great day. He also put hella hashtags. Hashtags I never cared. Hashtag trust me. Hashtag don't need validation. You do. Hashtag stay off podcast. Yo, Shaq is so petty. Hashtag the fact that you think I care, it's funny. Hashtag you gotta show respect to get respect. Now you're dead to me. It's pretty, pretty big for that. But Dwight said, I know you care. Cause your big insecure has been hating talking ish for 20 years. You too big to be insecure. Whatever. Whatever he told, he said, you always been jealous of me. You've been jealous of co, Toby, Penny, and Dweed. You also jealous of Charles too. So Shaq said, still don't care. Nice move. I see what you're doing. Your legacy is your new podcast. That's how you will be remembered. And you need views. Damn, I taught you well. Great job, hall of fame podcaster. But still don't care. You need to sit down. You need my validation. I don't need yours. Basically repeating what he was saying. And he said, he also said that he was too big to squabble or whatever. So he declined because he's too, too old. Dwight responded and said, by the way, I don't want people to get entertained by two black men going back and forth. Come on to the podcast and let's hash this out. Now, the beef between them, that is David Beaving, since Shaq was still in the NBA. And it started because Dwight Howard had started calling himself Superman, but Shaq used that, that name first for himself. So ever since Dwight took the name, you Know, Shaq been on his body real heavy, calling, calling him out about everything. How y'all think Clark Kent feels, guys? I mean, the original Superman, you know? Yeah, well, they mad at each other about it. And Dwight, he, like. He said, like you heard in the audio before, he actually tried to squash the beef when he was on Dancing with the Stars. Somebody. He tried to get somebody to know Shaq, like, to squash it, but it never happened like that. So we just waiting to see. It's interesting that Dwight called Shaq insecure, because Shaq is never struck me as the insecure type, and he's never struck me as the hating type. In fact, if you listen to Shaq over the years, he's always talked about how it's his job to help, you know, other people be better, whether he wanted to go help Kobe be the best, or he wanted to help Penny Hardaway be the best, or he wanted Dwayne Wade to be the best, or he wanted to go to Cleveland and help LeBron win a championship. Like, I've. He's always seemed very selfless to me. I don't know him personally, never met him, but that's just how it seems. But he will always criticize. He always do his job. Like, if he's watching a game and he feels like a player is not giving his all, from a basketball standpoint, he will criticize a player. He feels like this player is not doing this. He feels like this play is soft. He feels like this play is weak. So Shaq ain't gonna hold his tongue when it comes to sports, though. But I thought they said they were gonna fight, too. Didn't they say they was gonna throw hands or something? No, Dwight said he wanted to throw hands. He said, let's throw hands. The Shaq said, I'm too old for that. Shaq was like, I'm too old for that. I'm 50. Like, you know, you trying to squabble at 50, you mean? Best thing you should do is just stay on your podcast. That would be an interesting matchup, though, because we've never seen Dwight in action that I can react, remember? But Shaq Fu is always down for a scrap. Like, Shaq has always been willing to fight. But I've also seen Shaq throw a lot of punches and miss. He threw at Brad Miller and missed. He threw at Charles Barkley and missed. And the times I've seen him connect, he hasn't dropped a person. But he does get active. Yeah, But Shaq is 52 years old. Like, Shaq ain't fighting. Yeah. And Dwight is in better shape right now. Can hardly run somewhere. So it's not. I still think. But Shaq probably got that old man script now. Dwight have to fight dirty. Yeah. Do I have to hit below the belt? I wanted to get to this real quick. LiAngelo Ball has a hit, and everybody's surprised about this. He dropped a song last Friday. It's called Tweaker, and a lot of celebrities is actually surprised that they like it. Where the song at? We got it. Me. I'm kind of. We just show me some mo. You want to tweak it over me and I'm gonna show you how they go. Like the money in my pockets blow. Yeah. I see everybody saying it sound like that. Yeah. If you come from a certain era, it sounds like some early 2000s cash money. Cash money. You know, something out of Louisiana. I would definitely say. Yeah. Juvenile. Yeah. Up Louisiana. I could see Boosie on it. And actually Boosie actually wanted to be on it. And so did Money Bag. Yo. They inquired about hopping on the remix. Meek was on tweet Twitter trying to find it and everything. And now Rolling loud has announced LiAngelo will be performing during his first Rolling Loud in LA in March. So he's just gonna do one song? I mean, yeah, absolutely. He ain't headlining. I mean, but this. This song is actually. It's picking up. People been liking it. Yeah. Rolling Loudest door doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. And if I was a radio station, if I was a program director, I'd be telling my DJs to play that in the mix show. And I probably would even have that song, you know, programmed after 6pm Spike here and there, just because of the way that social media is talking about. But why do things that make sense nowadays? Right? Right. About that. Oh, and a person on Twitter said leangela Ball bringing back the bling bling era of hip hop by himself. And he will be remembered. That's crazy that he'll be. Be remembered for that. Was. Wasn't he some good in. In. In the league? No, he was like. He played in the G League. I don't think he ever made his league. Right. He just played in the G League and played overseas for a little bit. The other two brothers, three got some hot fire. So that's. That's what's up. All right, well, that is just with the mess. Thank you, Jess. Yeah. People's Choice mixes up next. Get your request in. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne. The guy we are the Breakfast Club. Salute to. To the NAACP president, Derek Johnson, the president of bet, Scott Mills, and Chloe Bailey for joining us this morning. Yes, salute to all three of them. Chloe should be hosting the NAACP Image Awards. I don't see any other reason for her to be running around with them. Right, okay, but like she said, if she can't host, she wants to perform. To me, that's a no brainer. But what do I know, right? And don't forget the awards air February 22. The nominations were announced yesterday. And you can actually go to their website if you want to cast your vote for your favorite artist. And salute to Dwight Howard and Shaquille O'Neal again. Man, it makes me just really wish that Celebrity Death Match was coming back. We were supposed to bring Celebrity Deathmatch Match back. It was supposed to be produced by myself and Ice Cube and MTV greenlit it and they announced it, but they never put it out. But stuff like that is what would make for great Celebrity Deathmatch. Shaq and Dwight Howard on there fighting, you know, Dwight fighting. Hitting below the belt. Whoa. Going for Shaq Sack. Okay, Sad part is when he does that, folks gonna say, Dwight not fighting. He. And they're having a good time. Dwight is engaged to a woman. So don't be. Don't be trying to do that, trying to say all that. He's newly engaged to a woman. He ain't on that no more. He was. What if he was delivered? Like, he don't do all that now, you know? Jesus Christ. All right, all right. When we come back, we got the positive notice. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time to get up out of here. Charlemagne, you got a positive note. Hold up. Before he do that, before he do that, I will be in Cabazon, California. Will be there with your guy, Desi Alexander at Morongo Casino and Resort. The show starts at 8pm get your tickets@ticketmaster.com or JessOfficial.com we'll be there. That's my first time in Comazone. But they said ain't nothing there but like a bunch of Native Americans. So. Calling all the Native American Cabazonians. I see y'all. Saturday. All the indigenous people. Foundational black, foundational Americans, you know? And I mean, you look at a lot of indigenous people, they look like black people. So. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Get your tickets. All right. Get your tickets. Not Just hilarious. Official document. Now, the positive note is simply this, man. You know, we always talk about hard work and you got to have hard work, you know, to get to where you want to be. But we never talk about perseverance. Perseverance is a word that we got to start coupling with hard work. Because perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. A lot of people do the hard work and then they get tired of working hard and they quit. But the ones that actually usually make it are the ones that have perseverance. So perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club bitches. Listen to me. This is Charlamagne Tha God talking. If you're not on prime, you're missing out. Prime's not just fast free delivery, although that is definitely a big perk. It's a collection of excellent services that help you get more out of whatever passions you're into or getting into. Like right now, I am really getting into past life regression therapy. 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