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Charlamagne Tha God
Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been.
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DJ Envy
Lucky enough to do stuff like Broad.
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Charlamagne Tha God
City and Narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
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Nikki
I love storytelling and I love you. So I can't wait.
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DJ Envy
Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on.
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Charlamagne Tha God
The iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.
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DJ Envy
You get your podcast.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast, here's the thing, I spoke with more actors, musicians, policymakers, and so many other fascinating people like writer and actor Dan Aykroyd.
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DJ Envy
I love writing more than anything. You're left alone, you know, you do three hours in the morning, you write three hours in the afternoon. Go pick up a kid from school, then write at night, and after nine hours, you come out with seven pages and. And then you're moving on.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Listen to here's the thing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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DJ Envy
This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes, but don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism, spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing. Karen, where have you brought us Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Pam
The OGs of uncensored motherhood are back and badder than ever. I'm Erica. And I'm Mila, and we're the hosts of the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast, brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network every Wednesday.
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Shakira
Yeah, we're moms, but not your momm.
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Pam
Historically, men talk too much and women have quietly listened. And all that stops here.
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Shakira
If you like witty women, then this is your try. Listen to the Good Mom's Bad Choices.
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Pam
Podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect podcast network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you go to find your podcast.
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DJ Envy
Good morning, usa.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
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DJ Envy
Jess. Hilarious.
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Just Hilarious
Good morning, Charlemagne.
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DJ Envy
The guy.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Peace to the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is.
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Pam
Pump day.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning. How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve our beautiful listeners. What's happening?
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DJ Envy
That's right. Wednesday, middle of the week. What's up, Jess? How you feeling?
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Just Hilarious
I feel good. I feel good.
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Pam
What's up, y'all?
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DJ Envy
You give a real, like, AKA this morning with the pink and green, like.
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Just Hilarious
You'Re about to play. Yeah, I love my shoes. Look.
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DJ Envy
Okay.
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Charlamagne Tha God
With the matching shoes.
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Just Hilarious
I call them the Jolly Rancho Pumas.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
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Just Hilarious
The Pink and Greens.
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DJ Envy
There you go.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah, I'm giving what up.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Charlotte, what's happening? What's going on? Happy to be here, man.
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DJ Envy
That's right.
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Charlamagne Tha God
How's motherhood, Jess? You always come in here every day and just act normal, like you ain't got a whole newborn at the house.
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Just Hilarious
Oh, my God. That's probably the only place I can be a little normal.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Really?
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Just Hilarious
Yeah. Between her and Ash, because, you know, Ashton is 12, so he's going into that teenage phase. And then, well, the teenage life. And then her, she's six months and two days. So she. She doing a lot like. She talking. She loud all the time. And I can't even be mad because I'm loud in my house all the time. But she is loud. When we try to get sleep, she loud. It's hard to get a nap in. Whatever. And she not a crybaby. She just scream and talk and just yell all day.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Is she on a regular schedule? Because you be. You got to get up at what time? 4:00.
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Just Hilarious
I get up at 3:50. 3:50 every day.
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Charlamagne Tha God
She be up or she be asleep?
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Just Hilarious
No, she sleeps. She goes to sleep at like 10:30 and then she'll sleep till 7. Yeah.
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DJ Envy
You know why? She probably talking all night. She probably want another sibling. So she probably like baby brother, sister my age. Talk to her?
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Just Hilarious
Not yet. Not right now.
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DJ Envy
Nope, not right now.
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Just Hilarious
I'm gonna take like two years off of that.
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Nikki
Okay.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah, that. Natural birth. Put me down for a little minute.
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DJ Envy
Put you down?
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Just Hilarious
Yeah, sure.
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DJ Envy
Tapped out for a little bit.
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Just Hilarious
You already know, so not right now.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Salute to all the working mothers out there, man. Absolutely. You know what I'm saying? Got the newborns at the house. Gotta get up in the morning and you don't still live your life like everything normal. Yes. Like you ain't lactating.
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Just Hilarious
No.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Dealing with postmortem. For real, man, Nobody talks about that.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah, it's a lot. And then the more that you do and the more time that pass, like your milk decrease depending on who you are. Cause every woman is different. But like it's a decreasing in milk flow. Like, the more time pass because I'm not making as much milk as I was like two months ago now, but I'm also doing much more. And she's eating solids now. So it's good. It's adjusting to her as she grows.
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DJ Envy
All right, well, salute to all the moms out there. Now, today on the show, Will Packer will be joining us.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Man. He's got a new book, who Better Than you? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big. Out now. So Will's always a good conversation. He always makes for good conversation.
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Nikki
That's right.
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DJ Envy
Well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Morgan will be breaking everything down. And don't go anywhere. 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.
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Just Hilarious
Good morning, DJ Envy.
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Shakira
Charlemagne the God and just hilarious.
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Just Hilarious
Hey, girl.
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Shakira
All right, let's get into it. So a federal judge is declining a request from 14 attorneys general to temporary block temporary. To temporarily ban Elon Musk from accessing data at seven federal agencies. Fourteen states as a asked for a restraining order to block Musk, Doge, Department of Government Efficiency, from firing employees and gaining access to sensitive records. Now, the group of attorneys general argued the power granted to Musk by President Trump is unconstitutional. However, the judge said the ags hadn't shown specific examples of how DOGE would cause irreparable harm to the states. I guess we have to wait and see, but President Trump and the first friend, Elon Musk, they took part in a joint interview on Fox last night. Trump credited Musk with implementing many executive orders he has signed since taking office. Again, Trump said that a lot of his executive orders will be ordered into law. And he said Musk works with his group at doge, who he referred to as geniuses, to get things done. Elon also expressed his affection for the president. And here's what he had to say.
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DJ Envy
If you read and believe the media, he'd become one of your best friends. He's working for free for you.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, I love the president. I just want to be clear about that. You don't care about that.
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Nikki
I know.
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DJ Envy
I love the. You love the president.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I think President Trump is a good man and he's, you know, it's nice the way he said that. You know, there's something nice about him. It really is, you know, because, I mean, the president has been so unfairly attacked in the media. It's truly outrageous. And I've, at this point, spent a lot of time with the president, and not once have I seen him do something that was mean or cruel or wrong. I really don't understand how. How what, you know, he's being allowed to do is constitutional or illegal. Like, why does an unelected person have that type of power? Like, over 12,000 federal workers fired. They fired and then tried to rehire nuclear weapons works workers, accidentally fired people at the USDA working on bird flu. Like, what happened to America first? You have a foreigner in control of people's money and livelihood. How is that?
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Shakira
Talk about it. So Musk went on to say that the assassination attempt on Trump in July only sped up the process of him endorsing Trump. And speaking from Mar a Lago, Trump called Musk a patriot. So let's hear those comments.
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DJ Envy
Elon is, to me, a patriot. So, you know, you could call him an employee, you could call him a consultant, you could call him whatever you.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Want, but he's a patriot.
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Shakira
So there has been a lot of hoopla around this whole Doge thing about who's in charge. So the White House has recently said that Elon Musk is not in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency. That's according to a recent court document filed. The filing, signed by the director of the Office of Administration at the White House, says Musk has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself. Right. I know President Trump has made public statements saying that Musk is leading Doge. So it's very controversial and it's, you know, we're trying to figure it out. So the affidavit says that Musk is a special government employee and serves as a senior advisor to the president. Furthermore, in that that I can say.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I'm not five, six. Hey, but you got eyes, right?
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DJ Envy
You're not five, six. You're like five two. Is there any good with Elon Musk, what he's doing? Huh?
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Charlamagne Tha God
You just the people talking.
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Shakira
I think this is really funny. So Hannity, Trump and Musk also spoke about X, the app formerly known as Twitter, and how X recently paid Trump 10 million dollar judgment, you know, he had that lawsuit out against him, but you know, it added that Musk got that had to cut that check. Basically, Musk got a huge, he said, Trump said Musk got a huge discount and he doesn't even realize it. The President sued the social media app before Musk got it.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And they all paying their tithes and offerings to Trump. Abc, you know, Paramount about to pay their tithes and offerings to Facebook already paid their tithes and they all, they all paying their tithes and offerings to Trump.
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Shakira
So furthermore, in that interview, Musk also said that he felt that the President isn't being represented and that the will of the people, if the President isn't being represented, then the will of the people isn't being represented. So speaking of the will of the people, in San Francisco, California, I think this is an interesting story, guys. Officials are investigating through three men who claim to be from the Department of Government Efficiency Doge. Authorities say that the men went to City hall wearing Doge shirts and MAGA hats and demanded records from several offices and employees. The men demanded digital information related to alleged wasteful government spending and fraud. City hall employees refused their request and called the police. Then the men fled the city before deputies arrived. And the sheriff's office says it does not believe the men were actually representatives of doe. So all that does is encourage this type of behavior. Having someone who is not, like you said, a government official, someone who has not been elected but seems to be leading the country. We call them the first friend.
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Charlamagne Tha God
All I know is if you run on the economy, man, and you know, within three weeks, you know, 12,000 people have lost their job, that's never a good thing. I want to salute the 50501 movement. They're the organization that led the protests on Monday. They had 50 protests in 50 states and they were protesting against, you know, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. And that was on Monday. And I mean it was literally, you know, thousands of protesters all across the country. So drop on a clues bombs for them.
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Shakira
Sorry, that's your front page news for 6am at 7am we'll talk about more with Elon and I guess we would call it foreign affairs and what's going on overseas and how that whole transpire, how all of that transpires. And then we'll also get into some aviation news and updates. So I'll keep you guys posted.
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Charlamagne Tha God
America is supposed to be ran by incompetent Americans, not incompetent foreigners.
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Shakira
Merit. Merit based merit.
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DJ Envy
All right, well, get it off your chest, 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. Whatever you're dealing with, call us up right now. Let's talk. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, The Breakfast Club.
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Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it.
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DJ Envy
Off your chest, Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk the way that you talk I hate.
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Just Hilarious
The way that you dress.
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DJ Envy
Everything with me is blessed.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Call up next. 800-585-1051.
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DJ Envy
Not just me, I'm with the culture feeling. Hello? Who's this?
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Charlamagne Tha God
This is Thickums from Brooklyn, and I'm coming for Charlemagne.
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Just Hilarious
Thickums, good morning.
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Charlamagne Tha God
From Brooklyn. Your name Thickums, Good morning. That's right, Charlemagne.
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Pam
Where's my gym membership?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Where's your gym membership?
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DJ Envy
Are you promising big girls gym?
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Pam
You think you're gonna.
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Just Hilarious
That's right. During the big back moments. He did say he.
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Charlamagne Tha God
That's right.
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Just Hilarious
I promised you a gym membership.
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Shakira
Yes, all gym memberships.
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Just Hilarious
And I've been waiting.
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Pam
Supposed to stay big.
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Just Hilarious
It was. It was called the unbig you back, Wasn't it Big? I know that membership. She did. She's right.
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DJ Envy
How much is it?
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Charlamagne Tha God
I don't remember this. $2,340 because now I need a personal trainer because he took so long. What's going on, Charlemagne?
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DJ Envy
She must be big.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I don't. I don't know what you're talking about. I ain't got nothing to do with.
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DJ Envy
Put your cash.
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Shakira
We want to run payback.
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DJ Envy
Put. Put your cash app out there. Maybe somebody you know, Charlemagne, will put some money in your cash.
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Charlamagne Tha God
No, no, no, no. Not somebody. Y'all going to put me on hole, and I'mma give Charlemagne my number. Say it. Charlemagne said it. I will say this. I don't remember saying that, but I. I do wish that we could partner with, you know, a Planet Fitness or somebody.
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Shakira
That's exactly what you said.
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Pam
You are saying it again.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, so I'm saying. I'm saying it's a wish. I wish that we could partner with a Planet Fitness. So. I don't do sales. We don't work like that. Well, guess what?
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Nikki
On big backs, work does.
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Shakira
Put in the work, Charlemagne.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, we need some. First of all, don't you ever talk to me about work, big back. All right, you walking around here. First of all, how tall are you? Let's look here. Look here.
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Pam
I am 5, 4, and 174, trying to get over.
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Shakira
Don't play with me.
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Pam
I just need to tone up a little bit, okay?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Just a little file cabinet.
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Just Hilarious
You ain't even big medium back. Look here.
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Pam
I just need to tone up a little bit.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And you said you were gonna help.
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Pam
Out, so where'd I help at?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Summertime is right around the corner.
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DJ Envy
You gonna throw some money.
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Charlamagne Tha God
This little £25 could be going in a minute. Get our information. So when we put this plan, that's.
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Pam
What I'm talking about.
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DJ Envy
$2,350.32.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I ain't got nothing to do with that.
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Just Hilarious
Thank you. Close mouths don't get fed, girl. That's right.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You need to close your mouth because someone's right around the corner.
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DJ Envy
Goodbye, thickums.
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Pam
Not no buy. Somebody get my cash app info.
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DJ Envy
Go ahead, put it out there. Go ahead, put it out there.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I ain't putting my info for everybody. It's a Charlemagne problem. He put it on the table.
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Pam
I put me on hoe.
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DJ Envy
You can eat them behind the scene. Hold on.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, yo, I didn't put that on the table. All I simply said was we need to have some type of partnership with a gym membership to help the listeners that are fat.
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DJ Envy
Hello, who's this? Fat is not a nice word, sir.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Man, please.
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Just Hilarious
F word. F word.
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Nikki
Hello.
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Just Hilarious
That's the F word. Hello.
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DJ Envy
Hey, what's your name? Hey, Erica. Good morning. Get it off your chest, Mama.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I don't got nothing to get off my chest. I just wanted to say hey to y'all and I want to see it. Just praying song for me for a second.
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DJ Envy
Oh, you want her to talk in tongue for you?
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Just Hilarious
You wanted. You want.
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Pam
Oh, no.
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DJ Envy
She wants you to talk your tongue for her one time.
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Just Hilarious
Coming in a Honda. That's right.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Amen.
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Just Hilarious
That's how you do it, girl.
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Pam
Hey, Charlemagne.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Peace. Peace, peace. Hey, can y'all tell me her birthday?
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Just Hilarious
My birthday next Wednesday, and I know.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I won't get through next Wednesday. Happy early morning birthday, Pisces.
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Just Hilarious
You're a Pisces, right?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Thank y'all.
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Just Hilarious
I am Pisces.
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Charlamagne Tha God
How old you turning? 36. Thank y'all.
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Just Hilarious
Shaman, you and I are the same age.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, okay. 40. What? 46. 47. I'll be 47 this year. Yeah, I'll be 47.
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Just Hilarious
I'll be 47 next Wednesday.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Salute to you, OG.
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DJ Envy
All right, Mama. Have a good one.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Thank you. Y'all, too. Bye. Bye.
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DJ Envy
Get it off your chest. 805. 8, 5. 10, 5, 1. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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Nikki
The Breakfast Club. Day this is your time to get.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It off your chest.
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Just Hilarious
Wait.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Wake up.
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Nikki
Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time.
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Charlamagne Tha God
To get up and get something.
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Nikki
Call up now.
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Charlamagne Tha God
800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
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Nikki
Hello.
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DJ Envy
Who's this year?
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Charlamagne Tha God
What's up, Envy?
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DJ Envy
What's up, Trav?
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Just Hilarious
Hey, Trav.
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Charlamagne Tha God
What's up, Jess?
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Just Hilarious
What's up, boo?
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Charlamagne Tha God
How you doing?
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Just Hilarious
My mom good.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Charlamagne. Peace, sis. What's happening? How you doing, girl? Blessed, black, and highly favored. What's the word, y'all? I was minding my business last week, y'all. I was minding my business last week, and somebody called in, mentioned to me multiple times, trying to get a reaction. Okay?
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Just Hilarious
Was it Sean.
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DJ Envy
Sean Stone?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, it. Yes, it was. Yes, it was Sean Stone, y'all. I ain't mentioned this man in a whole year and bring him up. Last year, I got my own little things I'm worried about in life right now. I'm trying to focus on my songwriting. I'm trying to focus on that hating on somebody, a straight man who just.
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Nikki
Don'T like me because he.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Because I'm gay. I ain't got time for it, and I'm over it. It's been seven years. I beat him in a rap battle seven years ago. He has not let it go, baby. You gotta let that go. He really ain't let that hurt go. He been hurt ever since you busted his ass in that rap battle. I'm not gonna lie to you, Trav. Yeah. Listen, in real life, you ever busted somebody ass, like, physically, like, you just. You just, you know, pounded him out and they couldn't get over.
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DJ Envy
You know.
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Charlamagne Tha God
What's so crazy, though, Sean? Back around that time, he was threatening me, right? Like. Like real life trying to threaten me. And I told. He clearly didn't know who I was. And I told him, sir, I'm gonna be at DJ Envy's car show. And I told him to come up to Emmy's car show, and I was gonna whoop his ass.
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Just Hilarious
I know, right?
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DJ Envy
It's a kid family event.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It was gonna be in the parking lot every. He. You were gonna know me and my cousins were going to trash him in that parking lot six years ago.
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Just Hilarious
Damn, Sean.
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DJ Envy
Damn. Y'all both in my car.
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Just Hilarious
Your cousin's gay, too?
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Charlamagne Tha God
No, no, my cousin's not gay, all right?
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Just Hilarious
I was go. Miami got beat by a bunch of gay. Gonna be crazy.
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DJ Envy
But don't be bringing that to my car.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Show me in the parking lot. Outside already in the parking garage. Nobody gonna know. Well, Trav, there's worse things you could have did to his ass and beat it. So I'm glad that's.
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Just Hilarious
Oh, my.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Glad that's all you thought about.
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DJ Envy
Goodbye, Trav.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Bye, y'all.
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Just Hilarious
Bye, boo.
- [17:59]
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Top of the morning. This is 5th AV.
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DJ Envy
What's up, 5th AV what? I get it off your chest?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, I mean, the only thing I want to say is there's a lot going on in the climate, the culture and everything. I just want to say simply that as an American who is black, I voted for Donald Trump. Born in Harlem, raised in South Jamaica, Queens. I'm proud of what he doing. And also as a proud black American, I want to say that our group is not making the progress we want to due to a lack of patriotism. We are leading with a physiological hatred for white people who we share the same country with. It's one thing to have an argument about things that took place in the past and want to make it right, but it's another thing to hate your own land and country that you cannot be deported from and expect the best from it. So we have to be American first. Black is second. I don't want to say like that, but we just got to bring more patriotism. You know, we gotta support America. We are Americans first and foremost. So that means that, you know, we belong to a greater dominant cultural group. Can I ask you a question? Yes. Can I ask you a question, since I do believe America first? How do you feel about a foreigner being in control of where the government spends money and a foreigner, you know, being responsible for 12,000American federal workers being laid off? And when you talk about, you know, you know, what would you say? You said you gotta be. Be black. Put black to the side. Yeah. Patriotic. Well, I mean, I wish that, you know, you would tell, you know, your. Your administration that you voted for that. Because, you know, when you look at things like the EEOC being dismantled or you look at how they're rolling back, you know, DEI initiatives, are you look at the Education Department cutting race based programs. Yes, and that's a great question. I'm glad you brought that up. And I want to answer that as a natural born, foundational black American. We want those things. You see, we tend to associate. What's the word I'm looking for? We tend to associate corruption with this white face. But over these last 12 years, throughout the Obama administration and everything, black people have had their chances. We have been coming in positions of leadership Overseeing many different states, from mayoral positions to political positions, even presidencies. And it is showing that black people are just as prone to corruption as well, if you look at different majors throughout the city. But we got to stop associating that. It's not about. But I don't understand what. I don't understand. Last quick point. You said, what about a foreigner? Okay, so America is a land of the brave, home of the free. Many foreigners here. It's not about where you from. It's about your mindset on America. If a foreigner has a positive mind state about America and left this plan and want to put it first, and that's fine. But if a foreigner like Ilion Omar or somebody like that is representing another country while in our Congress, we elect people that want to represent us, all Americans, black Americans, white Americans, people who are proud to be Americans, ain't no more waving another flag in this country. And black people have to stand up and take ownership and pride of this land that they helped build and be black Americans and share in that. We don't have to hate white people and teach our children. To give you a logic. I don't like these generalizations that you making. Like, I don't know who told you that all black people hate white people? Like, where did you get this logic from?
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DJ Envy
Well, you. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Y'all can have this conversation behind the scenes. Cause we gotta go. Get it off your chest where this.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Broad Generalization came from.
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DJ Envy
5, 8, 5, 10, 51. If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. We got just with the mess coming up, what we talking about?
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Just Hilarious
Speaking of freedom and letting it ring. ASAP is not guilty.
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DJ Envy
Freedom and letting it ring.
- [21:53]
Just Hilarious
Yes. Because he was preaching, brother.
- [21:55]
DJ Envy
All right, we'll get to that. Next. It's the Breakfast Club.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
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DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy.
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Nikki
Jess.
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DJ Envy
Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess.
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Shakira
News is real.
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Just Hilarious
Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody.
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Charlamagne Tha God
On the Breakfast Club. She's a coach. She was able to get y'all to.
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Just Hilarious
See something and understand something that nobody.
- [22:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
Could get you to see.
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Nikki
It's time to set it off.
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Just Hilarious
I'm happy that ASAP is free. There's another black man who can be home with his family. Like, you know, he's got them two kids, that wife. We might get a album from Rihanna. You think so?
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Charlamagne Tha God
You know?
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Just Hilarious
Yeah. Her man just beat 24 years I.
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Pam
Feel like we're not gonna get the album now because he just beat 23. They gonna be busy.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Did you what does that say about ASAP Rocky as a rapper that y'all want to hear from his wife but not him? Y'all just did that to asap.
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Just Hilarious
I mean, she can put him on the album.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I want to rihanna album because ASAP got found out guilty.
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DJ Envy
It's been 10 years for RiRi though, so I mean, people want an album.
- [23:06]
Just Hilarious
I mean, I ain't never gonna stop wanting that. I do love her. I like her.
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Pam
Well, yeah.
- [23:10]
Just Hilarious
So now we can focus back on her now that this man is free.
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Pam
Let me tell you. Listen, yesterday. So ASAP Rocky was found not guilty yesterday in court. He was found not guilty of all charges. So he's gonna walk free. And the minute that the the verdict was read, y'all talking about Rihanna just the his family, it went crazy. Let's take a listen.
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DJ Envy
VA 508-14-201 we the jury title action find the defendant Rakim Mayors not guil.
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Just Hilarious
I love that. Yo, he jumped over. Yes sir, that bench in Rihanna's arms.
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Pam
Uh huh. There were reporters in the court. Megan Kuniff, she said that actually Rihanna was in tears after they read the verdict and when he jumped over and hugged her. And his family was in tears as well too.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. No safer place to be than those woman's arms he dived into. That man was facing what, 24 years.
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DJ Envy
24 years, yes.
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Pam
And that happened pretty fast. I know it probably didn't feel fast for Rocky or for Rihanna or for his family, but 14 days they went went to deliberations yesterday, came back at the end of the day. It was around like 8 o'clock when the jury came back with the. The not guilty. And yeah, he was facing. He was accused of firing a gun at his former friend ASAP rally. So he was looking at some time. Now people though are asking what happens to rally Torelli because okay, so on one side you have ASAP's attorney who's like, he lied on the stand a lot. So what are we gonna do about this? Let's take a listen to Joe Tecopena asap, Rocky's attorney after court.
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Charlamagne Tha God
We're grateful for the jury. They saw through this barrage of a case. He said from day one he was innocent. He turned down a plea for almost no jail time because he was innocent. This was an extortion.
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DJ Envy
The extortion played out live in color in court.
- [24:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
What it says is that the district attorney should look long and hard at prosecuting Tyrell Ephron. We said that from day one.
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Shakira
They should do it.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Now they have him admitting to perjury. They have him committing extortion. The story saw through it and came to an enormously quick and speedy verdict for me. My partner Chad. We're honored to have represent that this amazing family is one of my closest friends. But he's also just a great, great person. Will probably get charged with perjury.
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DJ Envy
He should be.
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Pam
That's what they're pushing for.
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Nikki
He should get charged.
- [25:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
Maybe extortion.
- [25:32]
Pam
There's a few moments on the stand where he had said things and then it was debunked. And it was a lot that happened. But also too relly had filed that $30 million defamation law lawsuit against ASAP.
- [25:43]
Just Hilarious
That was first, wasn't it?
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Pam
That was do. It was like after the shooting but it was before the criminal case started. Yes, yes. And I. That's gonna have to be thrown out because he was alleging that because of the shooting and because of the statements that asap. Asap, Rocky's attorney was making. He was being defamed. He was being threatened online. And now, you know, in the court of law you were. It was found that this didn't happen.
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DJ Envy
If they could prove he lied on stand. He should have to be prosecuted. He should be prosecuted because there's no way that ASAP Rocky has to pay for attorney fees.
- [26:10]
Just Hilarious
Yeah.
- [26:10]
DJ Envy
Has to do all these different things and. And somebody who lies on the stand just walks now.
- [26:14]
Shakira
Crazy.
- [26:15]
Charlamagne Tha God
I never even knew who ASAP really was until this situation. And so now it's just like that's what you're known for. You're known for somebody who couldn't even rat right.
- [26:22]
Just Hilarious
And I know he wish he got shot now for real.
- [26:25]
DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Shakira
Or provide enhanced traction in all conditions.
- [27:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
Always monitor traffic and weather conditions.
- [27:23]
Pam
Snakes, Zombies, Sharks, Heights Speaking in public, the list of fears is endless. But while you're clutching your blanket in.
- [27:33]
DJ Envy
The dark, wondering if that sound in.
- [27:34]
Shakira
The hall was actually a footstep, the real danger is in your hand when you're behind the wheel.
- [27:41]
Pam
And while you might think a great.
- [27:42]
DJ Envy
White shark is scary, what's really terrifying.
- [27:45]
Shakira
And even deadly is distracted driving.
- [27:48]
DJ Envy
Eyes forward.
- [27:49]
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't drive distracted.
- [27:50]
DJ Envy
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- [27:51]
Charlamagne Tha God
Ad Council I'm Jay Shetty. My latest episode is with financial expert Scott Galloway.
- [27:58]
DJ Envy
If you are doing a lot of side hustles, it's very, very difficult to be great at your main hustle. The only way you're going to build real wealth and economic security is to go all in on one thing. That is greatness.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Focus.
- [28:10]
DJ Envy
None of this matters. None of it means a thing if you can have deep and meaningful relationships. Scott is a professor of Marketing at.
- [28:18]
Charlamagne Tha God
NYU Stern School of Business.
- [28:20]
DJ Envy
He's a best selling author.
- [28:22]
Shakira
He has earned a massive following through his lectures, podcasts and YouTube channel.
- [28:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
Scott Galloway how do we rewire our relationship with money? Because most of us have a stressful relationship with money.
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DJ Envy
If you want to be good at money, put down the facade and start talking to people about their investments, how much money they make, what they do with their money, how they save money. What I tell young people is you can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Seal. And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. The five families did not want us to shoot that picture.
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Nikki
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli is.
- [29:03]
DJ Envy
Based on my co host Mark's best selling book of the same type.
- [29:06]
Charlamagne Tha God
And on this show we call upon his years of research to help unpack.
- [29:09]
DJ Envy
The story behind the Godfather's birth. From start to finish, this is really.
- [29:13]
Charlamagne Tha God
The first interview I've done in bed.
- [29:16]
DJ Envy
We sift through innumerable accounts. 35 pages isn't very much, many of them conflicting. That's nonsense. There were 60 pages.
- [29:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
And try to get to the truth.
- [29:25]
DJ Envy
Of what really happened and they said, we're finished. This is over. It's not going to work. Dare get rid of those guys.
- [29:31]
Pam
There's that.
- [29:32]
DJ Envy
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Caan, Talia Shire, and many others.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun.
- [29:45]
DJ Envy
Take the cannoli starting February 19th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [29:54]
Just Hilarious
Yeah, he was lying. We really do wish it happened.
- [29:57]
Pam
Yeah.
- [29:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, congratulations to asap, Rocky. My advice to you is to never leave the house ever again. Again. Okay, But I can't happen. Don't communicate with any n words after 5pm the beautiful thing about situations like this, though, is you get to really see who's who. Like, I'm sure over the last however many years it's been, he's got to see who was like, really in his corner. So salute to you ASAP Rocky.
- [30:17]
Pam
Yes, he's gonna go home to his family.
- [30:19]
Just Hilarious
Moving on to Cardi B. So after I said that that Stefan was keeping her busy, she decided to tweet about Offset when she got to it.
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Pam
Yeah, well, you asked yesterday. Did she respond? Did she. Because you know, she'll get online now. Listen, she did it. She didn't say Offset's name in this tweet, but of course. And she deleted the tweet. But we. We know what this is given. So yesterday, after we reported about her amazing Valentine's Day weekend, Cardi got on Twitter and she tweeted, I'm getting harassed the worst way. I suggest you shut up and leave me alone in less than one hour or people's careers will be getting ruined. Including. Including is in all caps, you famous bees. That was getting at left. Leave me alone. Now, we don't know who she is claiming is harassing her, but the. What the fans, you know, have gathered from this is that this is in response to her being out and about having a good time and it being picked up that she was out and about having a good time with Stefan Diggs over the weekend and that the person that she is talking to on Twitter is Offset because she does that often when they're going back and forth. So I mean, the tweet was deleted and no one's gotten exposed. So I'm assumed that, you know, 35 minutes into that hour he realized, let me just.
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Charlamagne Tha God
She said, even all you famous girls. That was getting.
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Pam
Yeah, yeah, I guess, you know, she.
- [31:28]
DJ Envy
She said look at how Charlemagne put his hand on his hip when he yelled. Y'all said that.
- [31:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
Do it. I want to know what offset hit list look like. Okay. As an old head, we like to live by casually to the young boys, you know what I'm saying? I see you, nephew.
- [31:44]
DJ Envy
Yo, stop saying stop it, man. They got kids together. I want them to be able to work it out and be able to still, you know, move on, but still take care of the kids. You.
- [31:54]
Pam
Even though I'm happy Cardi is. It's doing her own thing. Only because you still got race kids.
- [31:59]
Charlamagne Tha God
You don't want Offset to do that.
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Pam
I don't want. I mean, I don't want Cardi to do that because even though she's out on her own thing and I understand how she feels about Offset, they still gotta raise them kids together.
- [32:07]
DJ Envy
They still got kids.
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Pam
It's a lot. You know what I mean? Why stir up the extra drama, girl? Just.
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Just Hilarious
But. But this. He keep on, like, poking at her, though. Like he poking at. Ever since he's been seeing her out, having fun, moving on, whatever with whoever it is. Like he maybe been poking. Yeah, he been trying to. Yeah. And he's been dragging his nuts all over. You know what I mean?
- [32:27]
Pam
So she need to drop hers.
- [32:28]
Just Hilarious
Yeah, she can do that. Put the moles out. I mean, put them out there.
- [32:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, but that's just gonna make all set look good. Depending on who the girls are.
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Pam
No, it's not.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, you're right. I'm speaking.
- [32:45]
Pam
Because depending on how close they are to her industry wise, like, if they in her vicinity too much, you gonna look crazy. Cuz your wife is Cardi B. You wasn't holding her down. Right.
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DJ Envy
I just pray somebody could get in between and be like, look, we got kids. Like, the kids can see this. Everything's online right now. Let's work this out.
- [32:58]
Pam
You can get between is tired. Envy. Oh, they tired?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. I don't like seeing their drama play out online, man. Salute to Offset Cardi. I hope that y'all figure it out. Shut up.
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Nikki
You just said that was a political answer.
- [33:11]
Just Hilarious
But what he really wants to say. Tell me everything, dude, seriously. Do it in the music. Put it in the music.
- [33:18]
Charlamagne Tha God
You can tell me one of y'all just. Just text me. Let me vicariously through, that's all.
- [33:22]
Pam
Don't drop.
- [33:23]
Nikki
All right, all right.
- [33:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
For real. Oo. All right. I can see that one. All right.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah. Thank you.
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Pam
I hope he don't listen to this side of the room.
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DJ Envy
That's just with the mess all right. When we come back, we got front page news and then Will Packer will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You're checking out the Breakfast Club.
- [33:42]
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy we are Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. All right. What's up, Morgan?
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Shakira
Listen, what's up? We're talking about or we're getting updates on what's happening in aviation. You see left and right there's all kinds of incidents. So nearly 300 Federal Aviation Administration employees have been fired by the Trump administration. The employees got their notices over the weekend in a move to call their union. In a move their union calls a hastily made decision in a agency already challenged by understaffing. Now, the workers affected include mechanics, aviation safety assistants and others. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted on Monday on X that less than 400 of the agency's 45,000 employees were let go and they were all probationary. He said none of them were air traffic controllers and critical personnel. Now this comes at the same time officials say two people remain hospitalized following Monday's plane crash in Toronto. 21 people were injured in the incident at Toronto Pearson Airport. And airport president Deborah Flint said the rescue operation was a huge success. She talked more about the incident. Let's hear from her. Emergency workers and responders mounted a textbook response, reaching the site within minutes and quickly evacuating the passengers. At the time, there were 21 injured passengers ranging from minor to critical but not life threatening injuries. A total of 19 passengers went to the hospital, local hospitals, with two more going to hospitals in the time period after we have completed the reunification process for all of the remaining passengers.
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Just Hilarious
Yes.
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Shakira
So the regional Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis was carrying 80 people aboard. Officials say first responders and the plane's crew, of course, like she mentioned, issued a executed a textbook response. And the plane will remain on the scene at the airport for the next 48 hours as investigators continue to look into the cause of the crash. I know that there has been rumors that there was a wind gust and then also now that video has been released, it seems like some of the landing gear could have been compromised. But again, we'll keep you posted. I don't want to get too ahead of myself in regards to what caused that crash.
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DJ Envy
Yeah, I was going to ask. They said in the video you can see the plane actually catches on fire as soon as it lands. So they don't know what the reason. Was it emergency landing or it was just a regular did they say or. No, still not there yet.
- [36:02]
Shakira
Again they, from what I've heard so far is that the landing to up until the point of impact was pretty normal. Really? Yeah. And then there was, it was almost like all of a sudden they were on their side and then upside down. So again, it does appear if you look at the video like the landing gear may have been compromised or one of the wheels of the plane which could have also catered to the, the barreling of that plane. So well, again, I don't want to get too ahead of myself, but they are investigating the cause of the crash and I will keep you guys posted.
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DJ Envy
Thank you.
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Shakira
So in foreign affairs, President Trump is blaming Ukraine for starting the war. Now, speaking from Mar Lago, Trump said he thinks he has the power to end the war and he thinks it's going very well. But he heard, oh well, we weren't invited. And well we, he went on to say, well you've been there for three years, adding you should have, you shouldn't have started it and you could have made a deal. He's referencing Ukraine, he's talking about President, Ukrainian President Zelensky. So this comes as the first peace talks between the US And Russia have in the Russian war in Ukraine are done. Secretaries of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials met with a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. He says the US Wants to move quickly with the peace talks in the Russia Ukraine war. Let's hear more from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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DJ Envy
We're going to appoint a high level team from our end to help negotiate and work through the end of the conflict in Ukraine in a way that's enduring and acceptable to all the parties engaged. We're going to appoint our teams respectively that worked very quickly to re establish the functionality of our respective missions in Washington and in Moscow. For us to be able to continue to move down this road, we need to have diplomatic facilities that are, are operating and functioning normally.
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Shakira
Yeah, I would agree. I think it's a little counterintuitive that Rubio is overseas having these peace talks while Trump is at home talking about, yeah, you should have started a deal and blaming Ukraine for starting a war that you know, they were once invaded.
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Charlamagne Tha God
So by the way, that's insanity though. Like, you know, you can't have peace talks if you don't have both countries at the table.
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DJ Envy
That's not a peace talk. That's a one sided talk like that.
- [38:02]
Charlamagne Tha God
Like that, that, that basically means like, you know, you giving Russia whatever it is that they want.
- [38:06]
DJ Envy
Yep.
- [38:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
And you're deciding. You're deciding Ukraine's fate for them.
- [38:10]
DJ Envy
Them. That's right.
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Shakira
So Ukrainian President Zelensky, he did say that his government didn't know anything about the talks, and he said that he will not accept a peace deal that is made without his country's involvement. Fair enough. Switching gears.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I don't believe that either, though. You say, I don't believe that he won't accept something if there's a deal that's made, you know, and it brings peace to the country. I don't think that he, you know, will not accept it just because he wasn't at the table. Because, I mean, what if it is a good deal? I don't know if it will be. But what if it.
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Shakira
Yeah, fair enough.
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Pam
And switch.
- [38:39]
Shakira
And just this last little story I thought was really interesting because we're always talking about, you know, who could be president, who could be next. Stephen A. Smith. He is considering running for president, kind of. I won't get too much into the semantics of it. Let's just listen to this audio.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Although I have absolutely, positively no desire to be a politician, because shaking hands and kissing babies ain't my thing. Being a professional beggar, looking for donors, looking for campaign dollars, looking for elected officials to try to curry favor with.
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Just Hilarious
Them so I can get what I want legislatively and be beyond.
- [39:09]
Charlamagne Tha God
Although I have no desire to do any of those things. I do have an insatiable desire one day when I'm more qualified, as I really dig my heels into this stuff, to be on a stage debating presidential candidates for the United States of America. And in order to do that, I would have to be a candidate.
- [39:28]
Shakira
What do you guys think about that? He may not be the ideal candidate, but it further speaks to your point, Charlemagne, that maybe the non traditional politicians are actually in demand. What do you think?
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Charlamagne Tha God
You know, the Washington Post called me about this yesterday, man, and you know, I repeat what I said. I said, Stephen A. Is a great media personality. I respect who he is in that space tremendously. I hope ESPN makes him the highest paid person at the network because he deserves it. But when it comes to him being president, look, you never know what God has planned for a person. But I have to say the fact that the media is entertaining this conversation, the fact that I've seen politicians asked about this shows how unserious we are.
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DJ Envy
He could just be talking, man.
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Shakira
That's the whole conversation that he's having. He's saying people are coming up to him, actually saying it to him. Stephen A. President So he's saying, where are we as a country?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Well, that's not.
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Shakira
A sports broadcaster is being considered running for president.
- [40:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, what happened was one of Donald Trump's old pollsters actually put his name in a poll and, like, he came back with like, 2% of the people said that they would vote for him. I think that was done purposely. I think it was done to be a distraction. And I think that, you know, when I saw Hakeem Jeffries asked about it, and I wish Hakeem didn't even entertain it because they're a bigger fish to fry. Like, you know, we Talked about earlier, 12,000 federal workers laid off because of Elon Musk. Unelected, you know, official controls how the government pays everybody. With Elon Musk again, Social Security will probably be on the chopping block next, all because this country decided oligarchy is better than democracy. So I got mad love for Stephen A. As a media personality, but entertaining a conversation about him being president at a time like this is just so unserious.
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DJ Envy
It's crazy.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It's such a distraction.
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Shakira
Maybe not him, but you. Do you think that non traditional politicians should. Somebody should step up. Non traditional someone.
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Charlamagne Tha God
That's not the only non traditional. The only. Yes. The only non traditional person that I would love to see in that field is Jon Stewart. Okay, literally, everybody, we got to get back to business.
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Shakira
I don't want to see the knowledge base.
- [41:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't want to see no more celebrity in Chiefs unless Jon Stewart decides he wants to take a real stab at it. I don't want to see no celebrity in Chiefs.
- [41:33]
DJ Envy
All right?
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Shakira
No celebrity in Chiefs. No more first buddies. All right, that's your front page news of Morgan Wood. Follow me on social Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow Lack Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us@binnews.com Y'all have a good one.
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DJ Envy
All right now. Thank you, Morgan. When we come back, Will Packa will be joining us. He has a new book, who Better Than you? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big. It's out now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Laura LaRosa is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. His new book, who Better Than you? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big, is out now. Ladies and gentlemen, Will Packer family.
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Nikki
What's going on?
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Just Hilarious
What's up?
- [42:16]
Nikki
How are you feeling?
- [42:17]
Charlamagne Tha God
Blessed. Black and Holly Baby, how you feeling?
- [42:18]
Nikki
I'm feeling amazing. You know, I'm up here. I'm up here with one of the most incredible platforms in media right now. Interesting time in media. Media ebbs and flow. We're in an ebb right now in the movie business. Charlemagne. I don't know if you know. Yeah, just, you know, coming off the strikes, coming off of COVID Like, the movie industry never really recalibrated. So there's a lot of folks out there that are hurting right now, a lot of folks that aren't working, a lot of actors out of work, writers. And so as a producer, you know, I'm just trying to keep people hired, trying to do what I do and create content. Most people out there, they don't realize because there's so much content out there and so many streaming services, like, oh, it's everything out there. I can see whatever I want. But actually, the media companies are making a lot less. So it's an interesting time in the business.
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Just Hilarious
Man, who Better than you is the name of the book. What made you decide to write this?
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Nikki
Yo, you know, I have been in the movie game for almost 30 years now, and I have dealt with some of the biggest names, some of the most impressive, successful people, some of the most toxic, insecure people. And throughout that process, I have gained a set of skills that I want to share with people about how you can be successful and manifest a more full life, how you can use some of the skills that I've learned that are transferable to any industry to navigate, be it. You want to start a new endeavor, you want to overcome a challenge, you want to pivot in your life. And so I'm telling stories I've never told before, stories from dealing with, you know, some of my Hollywood folks. Folks. But it's really lessons, right? It's lessons about this is how you deal with people, how you position yourself to succeed, and how you have healthy arrogance. Not to be confused with toxic arrogance, right? Toxic, arrogant, walks in a room and says, I'm better than everybody here. I'm gonna win because you're gonna lose, right? I'm better than you. Healthy arrogance, walks in a room and says, okay, number one, I belong in this room. Right? The most successful people feel that. They don't feel like, am I supposed to be here with all these important people? Healthy arrogance feel supposed to be here. However, I also have something to add to this room. This room is better because I'm in it, and I'm going to get other people to understand how they And I have a commonality in terms of our goal. If you can get other people to see the value in what you're going after, then you can then get them to row in the same direction as you and work towards your own goal. That's what leadership is, getting other people to realize that it's not me against you. If I can get you to understand that together, we both benefit from working together and accomplishing things that are my goals as well as your goals, your chance for success is increased.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You know, when I read about. You talk about healthy arrogance. I hear your interviews about healthy arrogance. It feels like you're saying you just got. It's like a sense of worthiness.
- [45:04]
Nikki
It's value. It is. It is very much understanding the value to place on yourself. Right? You understood Charlamagne because you talk about mental health a lot. We all have this drumbeat in our head, right? It can be a negative drumbeat of, I'm not ready, I'm not worthy. I don't have the skills. I'm not prepared. More and more you tell yourself that the louder those voices get. But there's a confidence muscle that you can build, that you can grow by telling yourself the exact opposite. That I am worthy. Right. That I am prepared. But it's really about assigning value. The thing I say to people is that. Understand from the time you are born into the time you leave this earth, you are building your brand. Brand everything you do, right? I mean, you can't make mistakes. Everybody does. But every decision you make in everything you do is building your brand. And it is telling people what value to assign to you, whether that's somebody that is looking to invest in you, looking to date you, looking to just hang out with you. You are telling them what your value is. And you have to be healthily arrogant in the way that you force other people to recognize your value.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Damn. Yeah. So if you don't have nobody, does that mean you're not worth nothing?
- [46:10]
Nikki
Well, you know, I'm not gonna say that. Well, you mean like a relationship?
- [46:14]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
- [46:14]
Nikki
Well, that just means that you have to be sure that you're surrounding yourself with people that understand your value.
- [46:19]
Pam
Quality.
- [46:20]
Nikki
It might mean that you're worth more than people want to give you credit for. It might mean you're single. Because other people don't recognize your value and you're not willing to compromise for it.
- [46:31]
Pam
You have something to say, Charlemagne?
- [46:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
What? What? Hit Dog will holler, won't they?
- [46:37]
Nikki
I'm asking the brother a question. I'm just asking the Brother's neck.
- [46:42]
Pam
You saw it coming this way, though, didn't you?
- [46:44]
Charlamagne Tha God
You did.
- [46:45]
Nikki
The sassiness of the. That caught me off guard. Is that what it is? Are you whipping your hair back? What's happening?
- [46:52]
Charlamagne Tha God
I was just asking you a question because I like what you're talking about. Okay.
- [46:55]
Nikki
All right. Well, yes, absolutely. So if some, you know, know somebody happens to be an amazing, beautiful, single sister, I don't know, you know, the relationship status of everybody here, but let's just say present company.
- [47:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
You keep looking over there, though. Why? Well, you can't look to Jess.
- [47:08]
Pam
Why?
- [47:08]
DJ Envy
You know, why look at her.
- [47:09]
Nikki
Because she said you had a sassy neck.
- [47:11]
Charlamagne Tha God
So she is.
- [47:12]
Nikki
She is immediately the most entertaining person at this table.
- [47:16]
Pam
I want to ask you about imposter syndrome.
- [47:18]
Nikki
Yeah.
- [47:18]
Pam
And when you. When did that. Like, when did you get past that or where did you deal with that at all yourself?
- [47:22]
Nikki
Absolutely. Deal with everybody.
- [47:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
Dealing. Deals with it.
- [47:24]
Nikki
Everybody gets to a point where they feel like, yo, do I belong? Right? Do I deserve to be in the most important spaces? And I've been very, very fortunate to be in some incredible rooms with some people that are, you know, some of the most powerful people from around the world, As I said, what I realize is that when I walk in those rooms, I cannot question if I'm supposed to be there. I need to realize, what is it that I have that nobody else in this room has, and how can I double down on that? Right? So black man, African American filmmaker in Hollywood, not a lot of folks at my level in the rooms that I'm in. Oftentimes it's all white people in those rooms. What I choose to do, instead of saying, okay, I'm the only black person in this room. I know they racist. I know they look at me a certain way. I know they have a negative perception. I'm walking in the room and I'm thinking, okay, you know what? I'm bringing something that nobody else else can bring. When I talk about my perspective, when I talk about my. My audience, when I talk about my community, nobody else can debate me on that, because I'm the only one with that lived experience, whatever it is in the rooms and the circles that you're in, what's the unique thing that you have? And then you triple down on that. That will help with that imposter syndrome. The other thing is that you have to understand, like, you don't have to be somebody that's just born with, like, an overabundance of confidence. It's something that you can Build. But you do have to build it by. By putting a success with a success with a success, right? Like, just like a bomb. JG said check with a check with a check. You got to build the successes. And sometimes to do that, you gotta come back and not say, okay, my first success has to be so big, Right. Just accomplish something. I call it fabricating momentum. I believe that Sometimes we get stuck on the first rung. The very first thing I'm trying to get started. I don't have any money. I don't know. People don't have enough work. That's okay, right? Don't make the first thing you trying to do to.
- [49:13]
Pam
To.
- [49:13]
Nikki
To climb the mountain, right? That's a lot. That's a momentous task. Make the first thing, buy the shoes, hiking boots, then buy a rope, then drive by the mountain and look at it. Well, you know, you've done three things, right? Get started. Do something that helps to build that confidence. We all need that.
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DJ Envy
All right, we got more with Will Packer when we come back. His new book, who better than you? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big, is out now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy? Just hilarious, Char. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Will Packer.
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Pam
Lauren, you have a chapter in the book. I think it's chapter 20. Yeah, chapter 21. All you need is one white guy.
- [49:51]
Nikki
Yeah.
- [49:52]
Pam
Get into that chapter a little bit because I know you just mentioned being the only in the room and kind of dealing with that. Like, talk to us a bit. Put in that chapter and why and kind of what your experience has been and why you titled it that.
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Nikki
Yeah, the chapter. Sometimes all you need is one white guy. And it's actually the irony of it is that I'm saying that what you need is an advocate, right? Everybody does. Nobody, I don't care who they are, are, how successful they are. Nobody does it by themselves. What I'm saying is that your person may not be white, may not be a guy, right? And so when I came into Hollywood, there was a white executive. It was a white gay executive. He used to tell me that he felt like he was trapped in the body of a black woman. I said, okay, his name is Clint Culpepper. I said, clint, first of all, don't tell nobody else that. Second of all, and get you some therapy to unpack that. But. But he was somebody that was an advocate.
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Pam
Could he play spades?
- [50:41]
Nikki
He was. He didn't play spades. He didn't know I play he. He didn't go to FAMU or nothing like that. But what I said was he wanted to make movies that were aimed at African American culture and I was interested in being an African American storyteller. I made him look good to the studio and so he then in turn gave me more power and more movies. Remember that advocacy is a two way street street. Oftentimes we have our hands out. I need somebody to help me. What can you do for me? The best way to get help and the best way to find your advocate. Right. Your quote unquote one white guy. I don't care what it looked like. It could look like Charlamagne, could look like Jess, it doesn't matter. The point is to get that one person, you got to add value to them, make them look smart, figure out what it is that they need and then once you are able to help them, they're going to want to continue to help help you. Right. This guy wanted to make movies that were similar to the ones I made. I made him look smart because I was able to make them for a certain number and they over performed in terms of their budget. And so we made a bunch of movies together.
- [51:41]
Charlamagne Tha God
Right?
- [51:42]
Nikki
But you got to figure out that person that you need. You got to find that one person. Nobody does it by themselves. And whatever that person is, figure out how you can add value to their lives. Don't just think about what can you do for me, what can you do for me? No, that's not how the people at the top level think.
- [51:55]
Charlamagne Tha God
Did he get out your joy? Did he let you create?
- [51:57]
Nikki
He absolutely did.
- [51:58]
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
- [51:59]
Nikki
Yeah. And it became a very semiotic relationship. It was a two way street. Right. So he was, he went out and got financing from Sony Pictures for the movie. Some of the early, like if you look at my think like a man's no good deeds obsessed takers. Anybody remembers those movies? Those are all movies that open number one at the box off. Those are movies that I made when I was at Sony Pictures and these are movies that he financed. But our very first one he gave, it was called the Gospel. Right? The Gospel. It was a gospel music movie. It had started Idris Elba. It was Idris's first movie off the Wire. Boris Kojo had all the gospel stars in it from Kirk Franklin, Ilana Adams, Fred Hammer, everybody. He gave me a budget to go out and do that movie totally on my own. I did not go spend the money frivolously and I did not go spend the money and not return it. I Went out, spent that money on a $3 million movie and it made $15 million. It's not all the money in the world, but that's five times what they spent on it. So he looked good at the studio. And so they said, oh, that's great. Who is this guy that you're working with, Clint? He said, oh, yeah, that's my guy. We want to make something else. And he continued to feed me as I continue to make him look good.
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Just Hilarious
Now, your book is motivational and inspirational. Right. But it leans on comedy, too. You love comedy. Because the interesting thing is the back the quotes. You got the quotes from Kevin Issa.
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Nikki
Yes. Kerry Washington, Idris.
- [53:21]
Just Hilarious
What made you do.
- [53:23]
Nikki
Idris's quote is that I did not authorize Will Packer to use my name in this book and he did it anyway. That tells you all you need to know about will packer. That's 100% true. All those quotes are true. Because I come at Kevin pretty hard. And so he said, you know what, I don't have to like this and I don't have to laugh at it. So if you look at the quotes, I reached out to my industry friends. I said, just be honest. Steve Harvey's quote is, buy my book first and then by wills.
- [53:47]
Just Hilarious
That's hilarious.
- [53:48]
Nikki
You know what I'm saying?
- [53:49]
Just Hilarious
That's how you plug yourself.
- [53:50]
Nikki
That's very much how, Steve. But you know, for me, it is a lot of it is told through humor. It's told through comedy. I have had an incredible career. I look back and I can't believe it's been 30 years in the game. I can't believe I've had the success I've had. That is because of the people listening to this show. It's because you all let me come on the show. It's because of the support of the audience, but the reality telling it now I can look back with levity and with light. And now I'm saying, okay, learn from what I. I went through. You know what I'm saying? Learn from that moment when Kevin Hart left me on the set of Ride Alone to go shoot a stand up special and almost sunk the whole movie.
- [54:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't want to hear you talk bad about Kevin no more. After reading chapter 22, which was chapter chapter 22. If all else fails, open a fruit stand. It benefits the fearlessness.
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Nikki
Yes.
- [54:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
And I don't want to give it all away.
- [54:38]
Nikki
Yeah.
- [54:38]
Charlamagne Tha God
But I'll just say you got into Jamaica with an inspired passport.
- [54:41]
Nikki
I snuck into a foreign country and.
- [54:43]
Charlamagne Tha God
You called Shayla to fix that problem for you. Going into a country with an expired passport isn't fearlessness, it's criminal.
- [54:48]
Nikki
It was not the smartest thing I've ever got.
- [54:50]
Pam
A Shayla behind you.
- [54:51]
Nikki
That's criminal.
- [54:52]
Charlamagne Tha God
And it was just started.
- [54:54]
Nikki
Shout out to Shayla. It was. You know what? The point of that when you read.
- [54:57]
Charlamagne Tha God
That chapter, sir, is sometimes you can get away with crime.
- [55:00]
Nikki
No, that is not.
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Pam
Snakes.
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Shakira
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Pam
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DJ Envy
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Shakira
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Pam
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DJ Envy
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Shakira
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DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
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- [56:44]
Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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- [56:55]
DJ Envy
He's a best selling author.
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Shakira
He has earned a massive following through his lectures, podcasts and YouTube channel.
- [57:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
Scott Galloway how do we rewire our relationship with money? Because most of us have a stressful relationship with money.
- [57:08]
DJ Envy
You want to be good at money? Put down the facade and start talking to people about their investments, how much money they make, what they do with their money, how they save money. What I tell young people is you can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
- [57:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
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Nikki
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DJ Envy
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- [57:41]
Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
35 pages isn't very much. Many of them conflicting.
- [57:57]
DJ Envy
That's nonsense. There were 60 pages.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And try to get to the truth.
- [58:00]
DJ Envy
Of what really happened.
- [58:01]
Nikki
And they said, well, Sage, this is all over.
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DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
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- [58:28]
Nikki
The point of it, and that is not what it was. It was the fact that I was first. It was one of my first dates with this new woman that I had met and met this amazing woman named Heather.
- [58:39]
Just Hilarious
And you sneaking into the country.
- [58:43]
Pam
You.
- [58:43]
Nikki
Know what it was, Jess? We got to the counter and my passport was expired. Because with a passport, you know, it's like seven, eight years or something, right? That's good. But that's also the problem. You don't think about it. I got to that counter and they said my passport was expired. This is my first trip out of town and I'm trying to be impressive. And she looking at me like, oh, I'm with that guy. I'm with the guy that don't even have an activity passport and don't check.
- [59:05]
Just Hilarious
This stuff out and you will pack up.
- [59:07]
Nikki
What? So I was like, I got to figure this out. So I do tell the Story about how I snuck in. The bad thing was that I was able to get out of America. And I didn't think about the fact that once I got into the country, my passport was still expired. And I would have preferred to be an American jail versus a Jamaican jail. So I kind of didn't think it all the way through. But here's the point. We all have situations, right? Life is hard where we have to then decide after we are in a situation that we can't control. Because once I got into Jamaica, I was there, I had the best vacation ever. Because at that point you gotta go hard. So I encourage people, right? There are times when you get into a situation that you just gotta say, you know what? There's nothing I can do but live my life to the fullest in this moment. Don't stress about it, don't get anxiety about it once you're in it. Once I was in Jamaica and I snuck in, I knew I might go to jail. I said, yo, I'mma have a good ass time.
- [60:02]
Just Hilarious
Well, you had to go hard cuz her group chat, she ain't wanted to tell her friends like what?
- [60:08]
Nikki
But, but I locked that down after. She's my wife now. That's Heather. She is here with me right now.
- [60:13]
Just Hilarious
Did you tell your friend?
- [60:14]
Nikki
Yes, she told as soon as it.
- [60:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
Happen you were an accomplice. I just want you to know that you can.
- [60:19]
Nikki
Oh yeah, Heather. Heather, definitely. Yeah. She had to flirt with the Jamaican dude to help us get into the country. I didn't want to say no, no.
- [60:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
I did, I did, definitely.
- [60:27]
Nikki
I definitely threw my wife out there. It's not one of my proudest moments. I said, baby, you got to do.
- [60:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
What you got to do. When Kev wanted to go do his stand up and go to the party after, yes, we here now.
- [60:35]
Nikki
Kev was completely irresponsible. Do not try to defend that man. He was irresponsible. He knew exactly what he was doing. It's the biggest movies, our careers. And he overbooked himself. Come on, man, that was the biggest.
- [60:45]
Pam
Moment of your career or life with Heather, you 15 years later.
- [60:49]
Nikki
It was, it was and it panned out. And one thing I will say about Kev, if anything works too hard, it wasn't malicious in what he did. He overbooked because he does work too hard. And that's the other thing. The most successful people who have accomplished things that you may look and say, how do I get there? The only difference between them and you is just that they haven't stopped that's it. They just keep going. They've made all kinds of mistakes, Right? They've had to pivot. And I always say, giving up and quitting are two different things. Never, ever, ever give up. But you can quit, right? You might be doing something the wrong way. You might need to quit. Everybody I know that's really successful has quit doing something, something, some way, and pivot it. The power of the pivot. Never give up.
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DJ Envy
All right, we got more with Will Packer when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here with us as well. We're still kicking it with Will Packer. His new book, who Better Than you? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big, is out. Now, Charlamagne.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I want to get to the art of the pivot, but first I want to ask you about the chapter that says, stay in your lane. Just make it wide. Lean into your things thing.
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Nikki
Yes.
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Charlamagne Tha God
How does one avoid being typecasted? By leaning into their thing. And when do you know the pivot?
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Nikki
Yeah, you know it. The whole point of that chapter is about when you have something that you do really, really well. Because many times people are afraid of being locked into something that people will think, that's all I can do. Right. But if you do that thing and you do it really, really well, do not stop. Okay? Don't stop. The most successful people have. Have a thing that they do and they do it well, then they use the ability to be successful in a lane to go out and do something else. I'm only able to write this book with a major publisher because I've been very successful in a particular medium. Right now I'm able to go and do other things. So don't worry about that. Oh, well, I can do so much other stuff. What's the thing you do really well? Do that. Triple down on that. Be the best person in that particular field. And by the way, find your passion within that. Right. Too many times people are telling me, well, I'm not passionate about something. I gotta wait to find my passion and before I go out and work really hard. And I'm telling you, you're building a brand from day one. Work hard. Today, I didn't have a passion to be a filmmaker, I will admit that. But I was. I did not. That was not my dream growing up. But I found that I was really good at knowing how to hire actors and raise money and self distribute. And then I Found the passion in storytelling, telling later. So I found the thing I was really, really good at, and then I found my passion within it. I encourage people to do that. Don't worry about being typecast. Stay in your lane, but you can make it wide. I'm not trying to pigeonhole you and I'm not trying to limit what you can do, but stay in your lane. Too often we are trying to do too much. And now you can't be the person that's doing everything the best. That is just not how humans work. What's the thing you do do? Well, triple down on that.
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Charlamagne Tha God
So once you've leaned into your thing and you find that thing, there's never a pivot from that thing.
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Nikki
It can be a pivot where you use that thing. You use your ability, you use your brand, you use the fact that you have got credibility in a particular space. You have done the exact same thing. You use the fact that you have credibility in one lane in order to then expand your lane. Right. But it should still all be about, this is the thing that I do. That's why I say stay in your lane, but make your lane wide.
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Pam
Is there ever a time where like, you're. Because, I mean, I'm. Look, I remember when you told the story about Kevin the last time you guys were here.
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Nikki
Yeah.
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Pam
And now I'm seeing in context of this book of like, who better than you? And I feel like in that moment he had the arrogance to be like, I can do both of these. I'm going to be fine, and it's all going to work out. But things like that can kind of get pretty tricky because what if it hadn't have worked out?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Right.
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Pam
Is there ever a moment where you have to tell somebody who's coming to you for this type of who better than you Advice, like, maybe this is not it for you right now. Maybe there's someone better than you right now. But that doesn't mean later you might not be able to have that. Who better than you, Eric?
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Nikki
You have to be honest with yourself, number one. Right. We live in a world where people think either they are too great or they are too awful. Rudyard Kipling has a poem called if. And my favorite stanza in that poem is, if you can meet with triumph and disaster. Disaster. And treat those two imposters just the same. That is saying that both triumph and disaster are imposters. Neither of them are real. Right. Too many times because we post them on social media. Everybody tell you, oh, my God, you the greatest thing ever. So Good or the opposite. They just hating on you, telling you how awful you are. Neither of that is true. You gotta stay even keeled. So the first thing you got to do is be honest about you and your skill set. It's the only way you're gonna get. Get better. Don't worry about external factors. You got to have a very honest conversation. One of the things I talk about in the book is how we have to make sure I'm a daily affirmation type of person. You're there encouraging yourself, right? Giving yourself positivity, telling yourself how you're ready, how you prepared, what you can do, but also being very, very honest with yourself. I don't care what you tell the world. Don't lie to yourself. Lie to your mama, lie to your cousin, lie to your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife. Do not lie to yourself. Yourself. Be very, very clear about what it is that you do well.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, you know, I want to talk to you about the Packer family model, too. If you want to have what others want, you have to do what others don't.
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Nikki
Yeah, I see.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You got your mom with you.
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Nikki
I got moms. I got.
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Pam
You know what?
- [66:05]
Nikki
It's something that mom instilled in me. You know, when I was growing up, mom and dad, they. They took me like, you know, like Simba and the Lion King and lifted me up and said, you know, whatever the sun touches is yours, son. Like, I encourage my folks with kids do that. Tell your kids, because that's when they're the most impressionable. Tell them they can do anything. They told me that. And so I was very audacious growing up with my family. It's me, my wife, we have four children. So that's the six pack. If you want to have what others don't, you have to be willing to do what others won't. Period. That is the mantra. The mantra is that understand whatever it is that you want to do, if anybody else can do it, then it's not special. You're not going to get it right. You're not going to get something that's unique. You got to be willing to do what others are not to get that thing. And I believe that the more you do hard things, the better you become at hard things. The more hard things you do, the easier hard things become. So don't run from doing hard things. Don't run from doing the things that everybody else says is crazy. That's the only way you're going to get strength and to build that muscle is by doing those hard things. Why say dream big? Because your dream has got to be so big.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Big.
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Nikki
Because there's going to be challenges along the way. It's got to be so big that it pushes you past those challenges, inevitably. Because if the dream is just a mediocre dream, like, man, it'd be kind of cool to do that. Then when you run into a speed bump that's really hard, you're going to say, you know what? It ain't worth it. I'm cool, right? But if the dream is so big, right? I mean, so big, four color, eight, four K, hd, like super crazy, beyond your wildest dreams big, then when you do hit that hard mountain moment, those challenges, you know, it's worth it to keep going and keep fighting because the dream is big enough.
- [67:49]
Charlamagne Tha God
Is Will Packer allowed to turn his own book into a movie? Yeah. Limited series.
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DJ Envy
Yeah.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
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Nikki
I mean, it's. I'm Will Packer.
- [67:55]
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
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Nikki
You know, I think about doing that. I could do that.
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Pam
I saw Heather in the background.
- [67:59]
Nikki
Is that, you know, what Heather say in the background?
- [68:01]
Pam
I don't know. I just saw something. Oh, it was. I was giving a lean, like, maybe, no, don't do it right now or something.
- [68:07]
Nikki
You know what? I made this book not to turn into a movie or a TV show. You never say never because, you know, one of my biggest moves is think like a man. Steve Harvey will tell you he never thought of that as a movie. Never. He never wrote it for that. I wrote this to give the master mentorship that I didn't have. I have people coming to me a lot and saying, tell me about your success story. Tell me about your failures. Tell me about what you had to overcome. And so when I tell these stories, right, and I talk about, you know, Beyonce turning me down five times or Idris Elba, you know, almost not walking the carpet at the first Emmys. And how you get past that, like, when I tell these. These stories, I'm doing that so that other people can benefit from them. So I could turn it into a movie. But that's not what I made it for. I literally made this book so that I could influence other folks who are either on their way up, thinking about making a pivot or living a life that they know could be a little more fulfilling.
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DJ Envy
Well, we appreciate you for joining us.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Will Packer new book, who Better Than you? The Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dreaming Big, out right now. Always a pleasure to see you. Go out there and buy this book, make it a New York Times bestseller, man.
- [69:12]
Nikki
Appreciate you, fam. Appreciate you, man. Thank you.
- [69:14]
Charlamagne Tha God
Thank y'all for having me.
- [69:15]
Nikki
Charlamagne. And thank you, because you are somebody that you know, and I told you this. We saw each other at the Democratic National Convention. And I told you I had written my first book, and I was inspired by your books and by reading your books and just seeing that process and the grind that you put in. So you never know who's watching and who you're inspiring. Thank you, my brother. Thank you for having me.
- [69:35]
DJ Envy
It's Will Packer. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Just with the Mess is up next.
- [69:38]
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning, everybody.
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DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne. The guy with are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the Mess.
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Just Hilarious
Jessica Robin Moore just don't do no lies. She don't spare nobody worldwide.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Jess Worldwide met on the Breakfast Club. She's a culture sh. She was able to get y'all to.
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Just Hilarious
See something and understand something that nobody.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Could get you to see.
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Nikki
It's time to set it all.
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Just Hilarious
So Drake is on tour. He been having tantrums, girl. He's been doing all types of acts. He's been, you know, trying to prove that he's not dead. He's very much alive. It's a lot going on.
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Pam
I don't even know why, though.
- [70:20]
Just Hilarious
I mean, but he is charting, so I am gonna give him that.
- [70:23]
Pam
Yes, he's charting. That is exactly where I was about to go. I don't know why, because at this point, I know we talked about it in here, and I know y'all don't care for sex. Some sexy songs for you. But the boy is moving. He is. Right now, Some sexy songs for you is supposed to be headed to number one on Billboard.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Congratulations.
- [70:43]
DJ Envy
Nice.
- [70:43]
Pam
Nice. That's a big thing for him because I feel like. I'm not even gonna lie. I feel like the Kendrick goggles of Not Like Us has changed the way a lot of people look at Drake, which is so unfair.
- [70:55]
DJ Envy
Drake is still a superstar. He still has core fans. He's still gonna hit number one on all those charts.
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Charlamagne Tha God
He still got the labels calling, saying what song you know should be at radio. So even through the lawsuit. I know, but did that last week.
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Just Hilarious
It's hard to not look at some of the things and then like, to see what he's doing. And then you just immediately think back to some of Kendrick's lyrics. Like, remember, he was like, I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, even the way that you dress.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
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Pam
People talk about his outfits, and I'm like, that's crazy, because I. I feel even the stuff he's been doing on tour. So, like, the shoot, there was like, one. One girl. He was, like, opening one of the songs and the flame through the Rosen jersey.
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DJ Envy
But, you know, you've been doing the shooting thing.
- [71:35]
Pam
But that's what I'm saying.
- [71:35]
DJ Envy
For a long time.
- [71:36]
Pam
In all said to myself, I'm like, but he's been doing this.
- [71:39]
Just Hilarious
Maybe I didn't realize how horny it was.
- [71:42]
DJ Envy
The same thing with the outfits. He been doing the outfits, too? No, no, no.
- [71:45]
Just Hilarious
He used to dress a little bit.
- [71:47]
DJ Envy
Them funny outfits and the matching outfits with the bright colors. He would do them too.
- [71:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
I ain't never seen him wear a T shirt that said, where do you see my D? And the arrow pointing his mouth.
- [71:54]
Pam
I mean, probably not that exact T shirt, but where was that at?
- [71:56]
Just Hilarious
That. That was that T shirt.
- [71:58]
Pam
It was, where do you see mine? And it pointed down.
- [72:00]
DJ Envy
There's no arrow pointing to his mouth.
- [72:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
He was pointing at his mouth, and he was.
- [72:02]
DJ Envy
That wasn't on stage. That was. He was walking around.
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Just Hilarious
I've never seen him with a hoodie on with smoke coming from the hole. Like, I just. You know, I. I think.
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Pam
I think even though, you know that's headed up the charts. I know. Give me a hug. Hit number one on, like us. Like a Apple music chart as well, too.
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Just Hilarious
Amazing.
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Pam
Yeah. I. I do think that the Kendrick Lamar not like us effect is a thing, because even he posted. Well, he. There was a video of, like, a drone that was flying around. I think it was just like a promotional ad. Loki for Drake and steak, which is where he be doing his sports gambling. And even when I saw that, I'm like, why he doing all that?
- [72:36]
Just Hilarious
It's like we've. We've been. Our blinders have been taken off.
- [72:41]
DJ Envy
But he did. He did these stupid videos before, you know, I mean, and everybody loved it before.
- [72:45]
Just Hilarious
They said he always.
- [72:47]
DJ Envy
He would always do these stupid videos.
- [72:48]
Charlamagne Tha God
Like conversation, like the workout.
- [72:53]
Pam
I wanted to show Dre some love because the music is chart, and I don't know.
- [72:56]
DJ Envy
How does it sound like love, but go ahead.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I know first of all, y'all are having a conversation about Drake. That's been going on since the beginning of time. Drake has always charted, and he's always been corny.
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Just Hilarious
I ain't never. I. I honestly never seen him as corny until just now, to be honest with you.
- [73:10]
Pam
We weren't considering him. And some girls are like, he can.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Og Drake over here, baby.
- [73:15]
DJ Envy
Day one, he's a Drake hater. OG but he's always done them stupid commercials like him working out and act like he's listening to music. He's listening to Taylor Swift as he works out. He's always done these stupid commercials.
- [73:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
And he also. He has a. A huge fan base. Even. Even whether or not Kendrick Lamar rap battle. We know that.
- [73:32]
Pam
And he's still charting.
- [73:33]
Charlamagne Tha God
But Drake still has a base.
- [73:34]
Pam
Yeah. 100. Yeah.
- [73:38]
Just Hilarious
Wow. And other news.
- [73:40]
Pam
Exactly. We're gonna leave him alone.
- [73:44]
Just Hilarious
Ain't giving us one. I got one.
- [73:46]
Pam
I wish. You know?
- [73:48]
Just Hilarious
No.
- [73:48]
Pam
Drake from Drake his birthday party. Yeah.
- [73:50]
Just Hilarious
Oh, we gave you one.
- [73:51]
Pam
Yeah. He literally raffles him off at his.
- [73:53]
Just Hilarious
Birthday party getting another one. Because you sit next to the biggest hater on here.
- [73:57]
DJ Envy
So he just gave you one.
- [73:59]
Pam
He raffles them. He gave out five that night.
- [74:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, I don't believe that.
- [74:02]
Just Hilarious
I swear.
- [74:03]
Pam
My sister used to dance for him on a Scorpion tour, and I went to his birthday party. He. That's. It's your little sister. No, she not. She not my real sister.
- [74:09]
Just Hilarious
I was ready to say, if you.
- [74:10]
Pam
Ever been to Drake.
- [74:15]
Charlamagne Tha God
You might as well just tell us now.
- [74:18]
Pam
I went to Drake's birthday party, and he gave away five Chanel bags that night. And I was one of them. I didn't think it was real. I even went up to them, was like, yo, what is going on? And they're like, we do this all the time.
- [74:28]
Just Hilarious
Than you. Right?
- [74:28]
Pam
I don't have it today, but y'all have seen it before. It's the big boy. The. The gray one.
- [74:32]
Just Hilarious
Okay, okay.
- [74:33]
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, yeah.
- [74:34]
Just Hilarious
The one that I said I like. No, no, no, it's not. She do got a big. No, she do got the big Chanel. That's the one I told her I like. I do like it anyway. In Tyler news. So she sat down with British. British. And with the last thing when she was up here, she was dragging Charlemagne.
- [74:51]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
- [74:51]
Just Hilarious
Ask her question and she look like, who are you talking to? Or what? I'm sorry, I shouldn't try to do it.
- [74:56]
Charlamagne Tha God
Was that she.
- [74:57]
Just Hilarious
It was something like that.
- [74:59]
Pam
Okay. Yes.
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Charlamagne Tha God
So, Tyler, you sound like you sell a fictional bag. I know.
- [75:04]
Just Hilarious
Yo, my bad, Tyler. I know you say it like that.
- [75:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
Go ahead.
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Pam
Okay, so Tyler was here at the Breakfast Club, and she was asked the question about how she identifies as a black woman or not.
- [75:14]
DJ Envy
Gotcha.
- [75:15]
Pam
She recently brought this back up when she was speaking to British voice Vogue. Let's take a listen to, though. What happened when she came here on the Breakfast Club?
- [75:22]
Charlamagne Tha God
Fool me on these debates that they Be having about your identity as a South African colored person. What is. What does that even mean?
- [75:30]
Just Hilarious
Can we.
- [75:30]
DJ Envy
Yeah.
- [75:32]
Just Hilarious
Can we not pour for more?
- [75:34]
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, I like that we keeping that in the interview, too. I like when they talk from the back and say, we can't. I like that even better.
- [75:43]
DJ Envy
All right. Tyler wasn't that bad, was it?
- [75:45]
Just Hilarious
Man, that baby whipped that neck around like. He asking a question that we said don't ask.
- [75:52]
Charlamagne Tha God
By the way, the label made that bad, okay? Because the label came in here and said, don't ask these questions. Of course I'm gonna ask that question.
- [75:59]
DJ Envy
But we told the label that we was gonna ask the questions. That wasn't gonna happen.
- [76:03]
Charlamagne Tha God
Look how I asked the question. I said, school me giving her an opportunity to.
- [76:07]
Nikki
You was polite.
- [76:08]
DJ Envy
You said it nice. It wasn't an attack.
- [76:09]
Just Hilarious
And then even. And then it was like, 12 things on the list we couldn't talk about. It's like, damn. Well, what else can we.
- [76:15]
Pam
Well, when she sat down with British Vogue in. In context, like, in. In, you know, fullness of the conversation, she was talking about, you know, just her career and representing where she's from and, you know, just how she's been handling all of that and what representation is like for her and why she doesn't feel the pressure to do so anymore. And they brought up the interview, and they said that the interview basically, like, made the matter kind of worse. And they asked her, you know, why didn't she answer? And she says, you know, me choosing not to say anything. I'm happy that I didn't. I didn't want to explain my culture and something that is really important to me on a platform that is just going to be purposeful, misconstrued. I've explained it a lot of times before, but people took that and put words in my mouth. They said a whole bunch of things that I never said and ran with it. If people really search, they'll see that. In South Africa, we had a lot of segregation. It was bad for a lot of us. They just classified us. And that's just so happens to be the name that the white people called us. They chose to call. They chose to call people that were mixed colored. And I'm not gonna lie, it was hard because all my life, obviously, I knew I'm black, but I also knew that I'm colored. So when I went to America and people were like, you can't say that. I was in a position where I was like, oh, so what do I do? What am I? Then she could have Said that here.
- [77:19]
DJ Envy
She could have said that here. She could have answered that here. Charlamagne didn't ask in a negative way.
- [77:23]
Just Hilarious
I mean, because it was true.
- [77:25]
DJ Envy
She could have just answered just like that. Right, that's true.
- [77:27]
Just Hilarious
In South Africa was a lot of segregation. There was a lot of things going on in the past and all that stuff. And she. She's still young, but ever since she was a little girl, you know, she's been called colored. And she get over here. And we care more about the actual color you are than. Than just being colored, you know, so it's just. There's cultural differences, but she definite could have said it.
- [77:44]
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, she's probably more prepared to answer it now.
- [77:46]
Just Hilarious
Yeah, I think that.
- [77:49]
Pam
I think she might have been nervous about how she would be challenged in this room versus the situation. Definitely British Vogue is a little bit more. But they're not going to. In his print, you.
- [77:58]
DJ Envy
But he said, what have been a challenger on, though?
- [78:01]
Charlamagne Tha God
I said, school me on it.
- [78:02]
DJ Envy
He didn't test it.
- [78:02]
Just Hilarious
He just said, to be very honest.
- [78:05]
Nikki
It is.
- [78:05]
Just Hilarious
This is a very intimidating room. Depending on who you are when you come up here for an interview. People do come. You know, they come up. Up here nonetheless, but they come up here just like sometimes people might come up here on edge. And until they realize how cool that you are and then that you're not this ugly person. You know what I'm saying? On the inside.
- [78:21]
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm glad you said on the inside.
- [78:30]
Pam
Once they realize his whole face match, you know, right.
- [78:33]
Just Hilarious
Then they'd be like, okay, he not.
- [78:34]
Charlamagne Tha God
So big, by the way, Lauren, you look better with that face. Chanel. But listen, you know, yesterday, right? We do this all the time. Whenever guests come up. Whenever guests come up here. If guests have things that we don't want them to ask, it's up to us whether or not we say yes or no to the request. That literally happened yesterday. There was a person that called and said, hey, I want to come up, but I don't want to be asked about this. And we said, well, we don't think. We cannot ask you about that. And so the person decided not to do the interview. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, that's. Nothing wrong with that.
- [79:04]
Just Hilarious
That's right. Well, some breaking news. Oh, my God. Break it real quick, girl.
- [79:08]
Pam
Cassie is pregnant.
- [79:10]
DJ Envy
That's not breaking. That was on. That was on the. On the stream hour ago, man.
- [79:16]
Charlamagne Tha God
Go adjust your wig, man.
- [79:17]
DJ Envy
That popped up about an hour ago.
- [79:21]
Nikki
Popped up an hour ago.
- [79:23]
DJ Envy
I seen it like an hour ago.
- [79:24]
Pam
So why you didn't say nothing.
- [79:25]
Charlamagne Tha God
Your wig. Like TI used to wear his hat to the side.
- [79:30]
Pam
You so mad.
- [79:35]
DJ Envy
Wake up.
- [79:35]
Charlamagne Tha God
You're locked into the Breakfast Club. I just wanted to know how you came up with the donkey of the date. Because you're mean.
- [79:43]
Just Hilarious
I am not.
- [79:44]
Pam
What did I do?
- [79:45]
Charlamagne Tha God
How to make donkey today. There's a bunch of donkeys out here in the street.
- [79:49]
Just Hilarious
That is why Charlamagne is here.
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Charlamagne Tha God
If we live a life where we bite our tongue based off who we may have seen, we never will say it on the Breakfast Club. In the words of Charlemagne, the God, he's a donkey. Oh, man. Charlemagne. You giving donkey the day to who? Now Donkey of the day for Wednesday, February 19th goes to Terrell Efron, known as ASAP Relly. Now, I never heard of the brother before this case with ASAP Rocky. If you haven't heard, by the way, ASAP Rocky was facing facing two felony counts of assault with a firearm in connection with this altercation that happened with ASAP Rally. But yesterday, he was acquitted of shooting asap. Really? Found not guilty on all charges. Let's go to ABC News for the report, please.
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Pam
A.S.A.P. rocky was looking at more than two.
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Shakira
Decades behind bars if he had been found guilty.
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Pam
So if we put ourselves in his.
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Nikki
Shoes, it's easy to understand the amount.
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Shakira
Of emotion and joy and relief we saw off from him when the verdict was handed down. Relief and joy As A dollar AP Rocky heard not guilty. The rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, literally leaping into the arms of his partner, superstar Rihanna. It was the first of two verdicts handed down in his favor as he faced two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Accused of firing a semiautomatic firearm at former friend ASAP Relly in November of 2020, 21.
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Nikki
This whole experience has been crazy for.
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Charlamagne Tha God
The past four years, but I'm thankful nonetheless. I'm thankful and it's we blessed to be here right now to be a free man.
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DJ Envy
Talking to y'all.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Thank you.
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DJ Envy
All praise due to God.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Drop on the clues bombs for ASAP Rocky. All praises due to God. Why they keep calling him Rakim? I thought it was Rakim. Ain't he named after Rakim?
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DJ Envy
Rakim.
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Nikki
Yeah.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, they keep saying Rakim, but let's be clear. ASAP Rally was just trying to get paid. All right? Nothing more, nothing less. And this is the world that we live in. When you are a person of stature, you know, some celebrity people think you got some paper, you will always look like a walking lick to those Folks. Which is why my advice to everyone who got something to lose. Isolation. All right? Put your boundaries up. Stay within your circle. Everybody that's not within that circle is dangerous. And as we see in this case, sometimes people in your circle are dangerous. Most of the time, the most dangerous. Now, I know this type of betrayal has been going on since the beginning of time, but we really in a sue happy world. And you got folks like ASAP rally who are looking for a quick payday and they don't care who they lie on to get it. Now, the reason ASAP really is getting donkey of the day is because he can't even rat right. All right, Relly, you just on the stand and got caught lying every which way. I mean, you took the stand and just lied, lied, lied every which way you could possibly think of. I'm talking up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right. Press B, press A, press start. Oh, really? You gonna need all the lives you can get. Okay? You got on the stand and tried to take Rocky out, but you're spinning the wind. And now you. You the one with hawk tour on your chin. Okay, According to Rocky's defense, you committed perjury. All right? Allegedly, okay? Some of your mistruths, according to TMZ in the New York Times included you denying shooting guns at a firing range in la only to be confronted with video of you shooting guns at a firing range in la. Rocky's lawyer, asap, Joe. What's his name? Taco. Taco Pina. ASAP Joe Tacopina Opina. He thinks you're a liar so much that he blamed the LA County's D A office for embracing perjury. Now, what I found interesting was there was these phone calls. And in the phone calls, you admitted you just wanted some money. Okay? In fact, you said you wanted to try to shake Rocky down for money in a certain way because you didn't want to be accused of extortion. Can we listen to that call? Because I'm gonna be on another island just relaxing.
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Just Hilarious
You get what I'm saying?
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Nikki
They're gonna be scrambling to find me.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Because now they have to go against Rocky, the state, and yet they have.
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Nikki
Evidence and this, that they're not gonna be the same when you present it.
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Charlamagne Tha God
To a jury and you don't have a complaining witness. Now, this call was presented in court. And listen to what really said about the call. Wonderful. You guys just keep playing fake audio tonight, like fake stuff.
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Nikki
I never said none of that to him.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It doesn't even make sense. It was in that moment that the jurors made up their mind, okay? Between this and the fact that the weapon Rocky had was a prop gun, by the way, Rocky don't ever do that. Why are you walking around with a prop gun? For protection. Okay? How is that gonna scare somebody, all right? Especially somebody with a real gun. What if they quicker on the draw than you? What if they pull theirs while you pull yours? Then what? You rich. Higher armed security. But listen, Relly, the moral of the story is, y'all Negroes watch too much power, okay? Matter of fact, you not even power you Empire. You wasn't even tryna be realistic, Relly, okay? If Relly was a gps, you'd never reach your destination. It'd be just a bunch of wrong turns and detours. He's the friend that tells you he's five minutes away and hasn't even left the house yet, just lying for no reason. And Relly, you found out first hand what happens when you put your hand on a Bible and lie. Rocky found not guilty. But you. Oh, no, no, no. You wasted the DA's time playing around. Somebody got to go to jail. Okay? Why not the guy who allegedly may have committed perjury? Why not the guy who allegedly was trying to extort their friend for $30 million? Rally. You said they was going to be scrambling to find you on an island. Well, I think that in the future, that island's going to be rikers. Okay? Please let Ribby Ma give Terrell Effron, AKA a SAP rally the biggest.
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Just Hilarious
He haw hee haw.
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DJ Envy
He ha.
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Just Hilarious
You stupid? Are you dumb?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Boy, Boy. People can lie.
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DJ Envy
He should be prosecuted.
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Just Hilarious
That's crazy.
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DJ Envy
If he was found.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Perjury, prosecute N Words can lie for no reason, can't they?
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DJ Envy
Because people gotta stop that.
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Just Hilarious
What?
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DJ Envy
All right, well, thank you for that donkey today.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Who. I tell you I'm lying, though. And I tell you, trust me, even though I'm lying. Okay? And I tell you that you should believe me, even though when I'm lying. The moral of the story is I'm telling you I'm lying.
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DJ Envy
All right, well, let's open up the phone line. Thank you for that donkey today. 800-585-101-051. There's a new study, and the study says 40 of women claim they avoid having children out of fear of becoming a single mother.
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Charlamagne Tha God
That's the topic y'all came up with?
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Nikki
Yes.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You got it. Yes, I did have one.
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Just Hilarious
What is it?
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Charlamagne Tha God
You okay? A working mother who wakes up every single day. How old is Molly now six months.
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Just Hilarious
Six months.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Six months. You work, you wake up every day, come to work lactating, doing stand up on the weekends. Okay. Where do you find the balance of work and family life?
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Just Hilarious
Literally still trying to find it. It's ongoing for me. I'm still trying to balance that. It's crazy. And then you know, that's just the things that you know, I do, I do so many other things still too. And then I had have a 12 year old son. You know I have a partner and that's why I understand even that study is like these women they are afraid of.
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DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Pam
Snakes, zombies, sharks, heights. Speaking in public, the list of fears is endless. But while you're clutching your blanket in.
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DJ Envy
The dark, wondering if that sound in.
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Shakira
The hall was actually a footstep, the real danger is in your hand when you're behind the wheel.
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Pam
And while you might think a great.
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DJ Envy
White shark is scary, what's really terrifying and even deadly is distracted driving. Eyes forward, don't drive distracted. Brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I'm Jay Shetty. My latest episode is with financial expert Scott Galloway.
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DJ Envy
If you are doing a lot of side hustles, it's very, very difficult to be great at your main hustle. The only way you're going to build real wealth and economic success, security is to go all in on one thing. That is greatness.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Focus.
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DJ Envy
None of this matters.
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Charlamagne Tha God
None of it means a thing.
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DJ Envy
If you can have deep and meaningful relationships. Scott is a professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business. He's a best selling author.
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Shakira
He has earned a massive following through his lectures, podcasts and YouTube channel.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Scott Galloway how do we rewire our relationship with money? Because most of us have a stressful relationship with money.
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DJ Envy
You want to be good at money? Put down the facade and start talking to people about their investments, how much money they make, what they do with their money, how they save money. What I tell young people is you can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Seal. And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. The five families did not want us to shoot them.
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Nikki
Leave the Gun Take the Cannoli is.
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DJ Envy
Based on my co host Mark's best selling book of the same title.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And on this show we call upon his years of research to help unpack.
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DJ Envy
The story behind the Godfather's birth. From start to finish, this is really.
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Charlamagne Tha God
The first interview I've done in bed.
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DJ Envy
We sift through innumerable accounts.
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Charlamagne Tha God
35 pages isn't very much. Many of them conflicting.
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DJ Envy
That's nonsense. There were 60 pages.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And try to get to the truth.
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DJ Envy
Of what really happened. And they said, well, it's the is over. It only stopped going to work. You got to get rid of those guys.
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Pam
It's a disaster.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features.
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DJ Envy
New and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Kahn, Talia Shire and many others.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun.
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DJ Envy
Take the cannoli starting February 19th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever.
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Just Hilarious
You get your podcasts being left alone to do it by themselves. You know I have help and it's still. You know what I mean? So I definitely.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And you got a lot of help. You got a lot of. You got a man. You got your mom.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah. Even with a strong supportive foundation, it is still so hard because when that baby want me, she only want me. She don't. You know it's Chris ain't lactating. No.
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Pam
No.
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Just Hilarious
And she know she be looking at that chest like boy, where. You know what I mean? So it's like, it's, it's a lot. It can be a lot at times. Times. But I'm still trying. It's ongoing. I don't have it figured out yet?
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Charlamagne Tha God
So think about all of the women who don't have the means that Jess has that listen to us every single day. And you know, they're trying to find, you know, that, that balance between work and family life because they still got to get up and go to work even though they got newborns and everything else. Those are the people I want to talk to this morning.
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DJ Envy
All right, well, let's talk some ladies. 800-585-1051. How do you balance work and family life? Talk to us. All right, we'll take your calls when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It's topic time.
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Nikki
Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion.
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Charlamagne Tha God
With the Breakfast Club.
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Nikki
Morning, everybody.
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DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're taking your phone calls, 800-585-104. And we're talking to women this morning about work, family balance and how difficult it is. And we started with you, Jess.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Working mothers. Yeah. Jess is a, you know, I don't know if people realize it, but they should. She got a 6 month old at home and a 12 year old.
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Just Hilarious
12 year old. Yeah.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And you still get up every morning to bring your ass in here to work.
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Just Hilarious
Absolutely.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Amongst doing a million other things.
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Just Hilarious
Oh, my gosh, yes. So many other things. And then, yo, you know, for a lot, a lot of people may look at me like, you know, and look at a lot of people with money. Oh, you got money, so you good. Yo, money is not even like half of it. You got to have the mental to do it. Like, you got to show up and you can't, you can't be tired, you know, with no baby. And we're just doing everything that I'm doing. Like, I have businesses, I got products, I'm, I'm in the middle of a rebrand. I'm touring. I'm waking up 3:30 every morning to make sure I look good to come up here. And then when you on the radio like this Breakfast Club, I can't come in here. Like, I don't feel like, like I have to show up. I gotta be just hilarious like, you know what I mean? Because then for the listeners, how they gonna wake up if I ain't woke, you know? So it's a lot. It definitely is a lot. But I do not have it all figured out. Like I need to try act like I do. I really don't.
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Charlamagne Tha God
So and you're allowed to be tired.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Like, you're allowed to come in here, you know what I'm saying, and have your days. And, you know, whether if listeners notice that or anybody in the room notices that there's a reason behind it.
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DJ Envy
Well, and then the main thing is when you go home is having the patience, right?
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Just Hilarious
Yes.
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DJ Envy
Because you have Ash that wants to come, and he wants to tell you about his day.
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Just Hilarious
Yes.
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DJ Envy
And then you have the baby. Baby that once mommy went.
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Just Hilarious
Yep. About her day, you know, and then I got so many.
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DJ Envy
And then you got your husband that you got to make sure your man that. You got to make sure that he's okay.
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Just Hilarious
Yep. And then even the baby's grandmother, the nanny, because I. I gotta make sure she's good too. You know what I mean? Just like. Like, if she has everything that she needs for the babies, she needs a break, and then I need a break, and then, you know, Chris need a break, and then he's still working it. Then he.
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Nikki
It's.
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Just Hilarious
It's. It's a lot to keep this thing going for.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Sure. You could cut out the fact. Cut out the outfit, though. You don't got to come in here looking good every morning.
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Just Hilarious
I cannot come in here looking like you. Like, I. I definitely want to come up. Don't want to come up here, just.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Throw on a sweatsuit.
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Just Hilarious
That's what I'm saying. No, I don't want to come up here looking like no studs, charlamagne. Like, I'm. I don't want to do that. Those days are over.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Those days you used to look like a stud. Is that what you said?
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Just Hilarious
No makeup, sweatsuits, walking in here, you know?
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Nikki
Cause it depends. It depends.
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Just Hilarious
When I got on a sweatsuit, I sound more like I'm just from around the way, you know? But. And I have to. I have to. I like to be Jessica Robin more.
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DJ Envy
Last week, you came in the sweatsuit. I thought you was here to fight somebody. I ain't gonna fight. I was like, we fighting.
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Just Hilarious
I was fed up.
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Pam
I was.
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Just Hilarious
I'd be wanting to come in and cut y'all out. Even I. I can't do it all the time.
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Nikki
Hello?
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DJ Envy
Who's this?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Shakira.
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DJ Envy
Hey, Shakira. Good morning.
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Just Hilarious
Good morning.
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Pam
Hi, Jess. Hi, Charlemagne.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, Shakaria.
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Pam
I see Landy.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Guess what ratio.
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DJ Envy
All right, now we're talking about work, family, balance. How you doing?
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Pam
So I did have a family about three years ago. It was me, my son's father. I have a son, and we had just Had a son and everything was going good until I had our child.
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Charlamagne Tha God
You know, he would, you know, call.
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Pam
Out of work for like, stupid reasons. So after I had my son, I had to get back to work.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I was working 10 hour shift at Amazon and I would come home, you.
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Pam
Know, kids not fed.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And he's just on the games.
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Pam
Why the fight? Into a shelter. I couldn't do it. I couldn't take care of a third.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Child who's supposed to be a grown man.
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Pam
And it was extremely hard.
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Just Hilarious
You know, I had suicidal thoughts and everything.
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Charlamagne Tha God
But I got through it.
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Pam
I left the relationship. And it's hard.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It's still hard.
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Just Hilarious
But I feel like it's better than.
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Pam
You know, having a grown.
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Charlamagne Tha God
A grown man deal without doing anything.
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Just Hilarious
That's right.
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DJ Envy
It's extremely tough, you know, so shout.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Out to all the moms, especially the.
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Just Hilarious
Moms who's dealing with stuff that I dealt with.
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DJ Envy
Thank you, Shakira.
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Pam
Yeah, thank you, guys.
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Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
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DJ Envy
And you know, also the men out there, you definitely got to help. I know a lot of times, a lot of men will feel like they worked all day when they come home, but just, just think of the mom. They worked all day, they got the baby, they got to cook sometimes.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah.
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DJ Envy
Take the baby in another room and y'all just chill out and give them time to watch her favorite show or just take a shower or just relax.
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Just Hilarious
Yeah.
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DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this? Hey, what's your name? Oh, hey, Pam. Good morning. Talking to us, Pam.
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Pam
So balancing the. Being a mother, like, so basically I'm.
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Just Hilarious
A single mother because my man is in jail in a whole nother state.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And I'm raising a teenage daughter and a nine year old daughter and that's that. It's hard, man.
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Just Hilarious
You know what I'm saying?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Like, you got to keep your faith.
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Just Hilarious
In God and just know that you gonna make a way even if it ain't no way.
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Pam
So all the mothers out there that, you know what I'm saying, don't got.
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Charlamagne Tha God
It going on right now or, you know, can't figure it out. Just, you know, it's giving me a love in myself because being a mother is.
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Pam
It's a different thing, you know, and people don't realize that until they had these babies, you know, but stay strong.
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Charlamagne Tha God
How much longer your man got? He be home.
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Pam
He be home March 18th. Shout out to Suge. Free Suge and BPRJ. He be out there the couple days.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, you be out in a couple weeks. How long you been down? Six months. You can't Wait to hand them kids off.
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Just Hilarious
Absolutely. Shoot. That's celebration.
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DJ Envy
Absolutely.
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Pam
I'm about to.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I'm about to load up on some plan B's, because I ain't having another one. What she said she going? Calling from.
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DJ Envy
Where you calling from, mama?
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Charlamagne Tha God
I'm calling from Florida.
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Pam
Orlando, Florida.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, okay, okay.
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DJ Envy
All right. Thank you, Pam. 800-585-1051. We're talking about family, work, balance, women. How difficult is it for you?
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Charlamagne Tha God
How to work your moms, man, salute to y'all. I knew that there was a lot of y'all out there, man, but, you know, they go through a lot. That woman said she had a lump in her throat. Pam said she had a lump in her throat just talking about it.
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DJ Envy
Wow.
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Charlamagne Tha God
I see Jess getting emotional when she talk about it.
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Just Hilarious
Definitely.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Fake ass dog.
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DJ Envy
800-585-1051. Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club.
- [97:33]
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning. If y'all talking about it, you know we talking about it. It's topic time.
- [97:45]
Nikki
Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion.
- [97:49]
Charlamagne Tha God
With the Breakfast Club.
- [97:50]
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If he's just joining us, we're talking about family, work, balance. How difficult is it for women, especially single women out there trying to do this all on their own? We're taking your calls. 800-585-1051. Just was talking about how difficult it is with her doing comedy and the Breakfast Club.
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Just Hilarious
And then one thing is like. Right. Another thing. Writing comedy. Yo. Writing comedy and then writing a book. And then also just trying to keep up with, like, the Internet, with the. The whole skit thing. Like, you know, because I used to do way more skits. It's like, yo, it's never enough time in a day to do all of that stuff, because I have to. You gotta write the skits. You just can't just do it. You gotta write it. You know, I used to be able to just do it. Like, things come to my mind, but with my mind being on so many other things. No. Things just don't pop in my mind. No more jokes. No. So I have to sit down and, like, meditate to write new jokes and figure out what I'm gonna talk about when I get up here. When I get up here. And then content, just. And I don't know. You never feel like you're doing enough.
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Charlamagne Tha God
How much material comes from your real life now, like, you know, your family, all of it. Dating a Mexican.
- [99:02]
Just Hilarious
Yes. All of that having a new baby at 32 versus when I was 19 when I got pregnant with Ash. And then just being the person who don't wanna talk on the phone to nobody no more. Cause everybody wants something and then even when they don't want nothing, they got problems. They want to hear. They want you to hear them vent. And it's like, like you ain't dealing with everything, yo. Like, damn. They take that just fix my mess very seriously. And I love for people to do that, cuz that is an outlet where I can, you know, help people. But damn, ask me how I'm doing.
- [99:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, you need somebody to fix yours.
- [99:33]
Just Hilarious
Definitely.
- [99:34]
DJ Envy
We got Lola on the line.
- [99:36]
Charlamagne Tha God
Lola, good morning. Good morning, DJ Envy. Hey, Charlemagne. Jeff. Peace. Lola. Hey, Lola.
- [99:42]
DJ Envy
Good morning. Ch. Talk to us.
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Pam
Well, the topic was about finding balance, right? And I think the key to finding balance is making time for yourself. Because I have three kids, so it's.
- [99:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
Hard to find time to do things for myself.
- [99:57]
Just Hilarious
And you know, we get so caught.
- [99:59]
Shakira
Up and busy and rushing around and.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Doing things and accommodating everybody else.
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Nikki
So I think the key to balance.
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Pam
Is finding time to do stuff for.
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Nikki
Myself, even if it's just going to get my hair done or taking.
- [100:08]
Charlamagne Tha God
Taking time to read one of my.
- [100:10]
Nikki
Books or I think that, well, it.
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Just Hilarious
May not be the main key, but.
- [100:13]
Shakira
I think that is one of the.
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Nikki
Keys to find a balance.
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Pam
Being a mother, because it is hard.
- [100:18]
Charlamagne Tha God
But you know, isn't it even harder when you got a newborn though? Because even if you go away to get your head done, then, you know, you lactating and your breasts start to get hurt, you're hurt and you can't wait to get back to them because you got to feed them and you know, they can't wait for you to get home because they won't eat right.
- [100:31]
Pam
And planning and proper planning, I guess.
- [100:33]
Charlamagne Tha God
Would be another key. So, you know, you want to make.
- [100:36]
Pam
Sure that you had that milk ready.
- [100:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
Before you go to your appointment.
- [100:38]
Pam
So you pump before, before you go. So I guess planning will also be okay.
- [100:43]
Just Hilarious
Sometimes it ain't even all about the plan. And I've been in the chair and had to pump while I was in the chair. You know what I mean? With other people in the, in the hair salon, like sometimes you can plan for things, but it don't go as planned. Like, you know, Nikki, good morning. Good morning.
- [101:01]
DJ Envy
Hey, how you feeling? Talk to us. We're talking work, family balance this morning.
- [101:04]
Charlamagne Tha God
Being a single parent, I think you.
- [101:06]
Just Hilarious
Never find the work balance I was.
- [101:09]
Pam
I got married in 2012. My husband incarcerated in 2018, and I've been a single parent basically ever since. And I think that does weigh heavy on women being afraid of having kids and being single, because I never intended.
- [101:23]
Just Hilarious
To not have a husband.
- [101:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
So, yeah, it was a blow to.
- [101:25]
Pam
The family, and it still is every day dealing with it. So I think I learned different techniques.
- [101:30]
Charlamagne Tha God
As I go, but I don't think.
- [101:31]
Pam
We ever figure it out.
- [101:32]
Just Hilarious
Yeah.
- [101:33]
DJ Envy
Thank you, Nikki, hold on.
- [101:34]
Charlamagne Tha God
You sound like. Did I miss. Did I miss. What happened to the husband?
- [101:36]
DJ Envy
He got locked up.
- [101:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
He got locked up. Okay. Okay.
- [101:38]
Pam
Yeah.
- [101:38]
Charlamagne Tha God
Y. How long you got?
- [101:40]
Pam
19 years.
- [101:41]
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
- [101:41]
DJ Envy
Jesus.
- [101:42]
Charlamagne Tha God
How long you did.
- [101:43]
Pam
Yeah, so.
- [101:44]
Charlamagne Tha God
So he's been gone since.
- [101:45]
Pam
It's been seven years now.
- [101:47]
Charlamagne Tha God
Wow. Well, hold your head up.
- [101:50]
Just Hilarious
Sorry about that.
- [101:51]
DJ Envy
All right, well, is there a moral to the story, guys?
- [101:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
I mean, I think there's no such thing as a mom who has it all together, and that's okay.
- [101:57]
Just Hilarious
Yeah. Yeah. No matter how much money you got, how much help you got, you know, you have to just do your best to stay mentally fit. That's, like, you definitely will go crazy with a bunch of money and a bunch of people around you. Like, you still just have to always make sure that you get in some time for yourself. You got to take care of yourself for sure.
- [102:17]
Charlamagne Tha God
You haven't been able to do drugs.
- [102:18]
Just Hilarious
The way you want to know.
- [102:20]
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what I'm saying?
- [102:21]
Just Hilarious
No. Although I did shroom on my birthday, and that was, like, a clarity thing. Like, it was like, I am doing something right. I am. You know, because I don't stream just to, you know, have fun. Like, I get a lot of clarity when I stream, too. Yeah. You know, and it. I got a lot of clarity with that trip.
- [102:38]
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, did you cry?
- [102:40]
Just Hilarious
Absolutely. Like, a lot. But I also laughed. And, you know, we played around, me and Chris. Like, we streamed together, and I. I got exactly what I needed from that shroom trip.
- [102:49]
DJ Envy
So.
- [102:50]
Just Hilarious
Yeah.
- [102:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
All right. Moms out there.
- [102:53]
DJ Envy
To all the moms out there and all the fellas out there, we said this before. Make sure you support. If you can, make sure you're there. Make sure you understand, because we cannot do what them women can do when it comes to work balance as Charlemagne say. Charlamagne been in this lactating thing right now. I don't know if Charlamagne's lactating, but he been in the milking thing. But definitely support.
- [103:11]
Charlamagne Tha God
My wife had four kids. I know how hard that is. You know what I'm saying? Just Sitting up here four hours at a time. I ain't seen her. I haven't seen her pump yet, but.
- [103:18]
Just Hilarious
I know she do because now more. I'm on a schedule now with it. 4:30 and then I pump at 12 because it's. I. It's longer times in between now because I'm not making as much as I was making. So I just. I pump three times a day now.
- [103:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's it. But we appreciate you busting your ass every day. Absolutely, Robin boy.
- [103:35]
Just Hilarious
Thank you.
- [103:36]
DJ Envy
All right, we got just with the mess coming up, what we talking about?
- [103:38]
Just Hilarious
Oh, my God. Cassie is having a baby. Biggest news of the day.
- [103:43]
DJ Envy
Oh, my goodness.
- [103:44]
Just Hilarious
Yes. Right? Who would. Who would expect it?
- [103:46]
DJ Envy
All right, we'll talk about that next. 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. Good morning on this Wednesday hump day. And let's get to Jess with the mess. News is real.
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Just Hilarious
Just don't do no lines.
- [104:15]
Charlamagne Tha God
On the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shooter.
- [104:18]
Just Hilarious
To get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you.
- [104:22]
Nikki
To see, it's time to set it off.
- [104:25]
Just Hilarious
So Cassie is on baby number three. Oh, my God.
- [104:28]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
- [104:29]
Just Hilarious
She got so much money. She gave more kids in the canon than them, though, so that's what's up. Congratulations, Cassie and her husband. What is her husband's name?
- [104:36]
Pam
Alex Fine.
- [104:37]
Just Hilarious
Alex Fine.
- [104:38]
Pam
Alex Fine. Yeah. The baby number three, she just posted on Instagram with the belly and the other kids in the photo. It's a blue heart, so I'm. I'm assuming it's a boy. Congratulations to her. But another love news. Kyle Kuzma. Winnie Harlow also got engaged.
- [104:51]
Just Hilarious
Congratulations time as well, too.
- [104:54]
Pam
Someone to slide that on in there since we're talking about love.
- [104:57]
Charlamagne Tha God
Dang.
- [104:58]
Pam
This is going to take a hard right turn.
- [105:00]
Charlamagne Tha God
Did we ever find out? Remember when Winnie had said that thing about you on Instagram?
- [105:03]
Just Hilarious
She was playing. She was like. Just because she said I said something about her spies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I did. I went back and I. I did say something, but it wasn't bad, though. It was. It wasn't nothing bad. Then she said, like, she was just playing. And it just seemed like she was more aggressive because she was intoxicated. But she said she was joking. She didn't really take that serious anyway. But I. I just. I called her Patchy Matchy or something like that. It was. It was. It was very harmless. It was all right, though, you know? Congratulations.
- [105:35]
Pam
But it was harmless.
- [105:36]
Just Hilarious
Yeah, you know it was harmless.
- [105:38]
Charlamagne Tha God
Jesus.
- [105:38]
Just Hilarious
She's a cutie, though. Her spots, her and her spot. She cute. Hard right.
- [105:43]
Charlamagne Tha God
Where we going?
- [105:43]
Just Hilarious
Where we going with this?
- [105:44]
Pam
See that, Diddy?
- [105:46]
Just Hilarious
Oh, damn. Hard right? Damn. From Passions to Diddy. All right, what's going on with him? What's up with him?
- [105:53]
Pam
So Puff's team, after Jay Z got this dismissal to happen on the civil side with the allegations of the 13 year old girl, all that stuff, now Diddy's team is like, okay, the window's open. Let's jump on in here. They are asking for dismissal, but they're asking for. On the criminal side, they're actually, they filed docs on Tuesday asking for the judge to dismiss Count number three of the U.S. attorney's case against Puff. The. The criminal indictment that they have. So act number three talks about like, the man act is supposed to be in relation to, like, how you transport people to engage in prostitution.
- [106:26]
Charlamagne Tha God
How many men you got to have sex with to have a man act?
- [106:29]
Just Hilarious
They got a man act for that.
- [106:30]
Pam
Let me tell you. It used to be called the white slave trafficking.
- [106:34]
Just Hilarious
Damn.
- [106:35]
Nikki
Wow.
- [106:36]
Pam
It used to be. It was changed In June of 20. June 25, 1910, it was. That's when it was passed. But yeah, so it's called the man act now. It's named after this.
- [106:45]
Charlamagne Tha God
This guy a man.
- [106:47]
Pam
Yeah, he is a man. But anyway. But what Puff is saying is that the reason, the only reason why they included this is because they are being racist. Because under this act, no black people have ever. I mean, no white people have ever been prosecuted. It's only been black, black people. He pointed out that this is the same act that the government used to take down Chuck Berry and Jack Johnson, who were both black men. And he also says that there is no white person that has ever been prosecuted under the white slave traffic act for hiring male escorts. And he basically, he's saying, me and my girlfriends had male escorts come into our relationship and it was consensual. And the escort service is legal. So why am I being punished for this? Y'all doing this because I'm a rich black man. So he's back.
- [107:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, the act is. And I just know that because I just looked it up because it sounds so crazy, but it's a federal law that outlaws the transportation of women for immoral purposes.
- [107:36]
Pam
Yeah, but he's saying that the transportation happened because the people wanted to be there. And the. The prostitutes or the male sex workers he was bringing into the relationship worked.
- [107:45]
DJ Envy
For a legal agency he said he didn't force them.
- [107:47]
Pam
That. That's. That's basically what he's saying.
- [107:48]
Charlamagne Tha God
I wonder if that matters, though, because it says the purpose of it is to prohibit the transportation of women for prostitution, debauchery, or other immoral purposes. So does it matter if they wanted to do it or not? Or is that just how people perceive. Receive whatever it is that you're doing? Like if the. If the judge said what you did was debauch are immoral, doesn't matter if the women.
- [108:06]
Just Hilarious
I think if the. If it was consensual and the women wanted to go. I mean, I think prostitution is illegal.
- [108:12]
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
- [108:12]
Just Hilarious
I mean, if you. Unless you want to do it.
- [108:14]
Charlamagne Tha God
No, prostitution is illegal even if you.
- [108:16]
DJ Envy
Want to do it.
- [108:18]
Just Hilarious
Oh, wait. Dang. Really?
- [108:20]
Pam
So what about the girls that sugar babies?
- [108:22]
DJ Envy
You want to tell us something?
- [108:23]
Just Hilarious
Yes, girl. Because that's why I was like, then I need to follow up. Yes. Cuz I was definitely out here sugar babying.
- [108:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
What devil was a prostitute, though?
- [108:32]
Just Hilarious
No.
- [108:32]
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
- [108:32]
Just Hilarious
But anyway, go ahead.
- [108:34]
Pam
He's trying to, basically. And.
- [108:35]
Charlamagne Tha God
And it says it prohibits the coercion or enticement of women or girls for those sexual purposes, but it doesn't say.
- [108:41]
DJ Envy
Men too, or just women. You.
- [108:44]
Charlamagne Tha God
You just can't. Why? Why you want to think about somebody and somebody so bad? Why?
- [108:48]
DJ Envy
Shut up. Go ahead, Lauren. I'm listening.
- [108:50]
Pam
Coercing for money, though, if it's your girlfriend or if this is a. Like.
- [108:53]
Just Hilarious
Like it's so confusing. It's such a slippery.
- [108:56]
Pam
Basically puff. Just saying y'all need to revisit all that baby oil.
- [108:59]
Charlamagne Tha God
How could it not be?
- [109:00]
Just Hilarious
Yeah. Like, is that in a man act that you cannot. Is it any type of debauchery?
- [109:04]
Pam
Do white people use baby oil?
- [109:06]
Just Hilarious
Hell no. For what?
- [109:07]
Charlamagne Tha God
It's gonna have nothing to do with white people. I don't even know why it's called the white slave traffic act.
- [109:11]
Pam
It used to be called saying that they're being racist. Okay. I don't know.
- [109:14]
Just Hilarious
No, he saw that Jay Z. He seen Jay Z was cleared and he was like, let me just take my chance.
- [109:19]
DJ Envy
Try to man that.
- [109:20]
Pam
See what's going on back in that.
- [109:22]
Nikki
Yeah.
- [109:22]
DJ Envy
Now the discovery process happened yet where they put everything out or they still haven't done discovery where they know everything.
- [109:27]
Pam
Against him yet still added more to the indictment. Remember, it was superseding. But no, that we haven't got there yet.
- [109:31]
DJ Envy
All right, well, that is just with the mess.
- [109:34]
Just Hilarious
Thank you, Lauren.
- [109:36]
Pam
All right, welcome.
- [109:37]
DJ Envy
Did you really look up baby oil in there to See if the. If it had baby oil in the man at.
- [109:40]
Pam
No, no, no.
- [109:42]
Charlamagne Tha God
She looked it up when just said it was a slippery.
- [109:45]
DJ Envy
All right, well, the people's choice mixes up next. Get your request in 8-800-585-1051 is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
- [109:53]
Nikki
Wake up, wake up.
- [109:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
You're locked into the Breakfast Club.
- [109:56]
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's Black History Month. What we doing today, man?
- [110:03]
Charlamagne Tha God
Every day during Black History Month, my guy, B. Dot, puts out a podcast called I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either on the Black Effect I Heart Radio podcast network. And today, he is speaking about Alice Parker. She was the genius who invented central central heating in 1919, proving that even in a world full of cold shoulders, her ideas could still heat things up. Let's discuss.
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DJ Envy
Alice Parker was this brilliant black woman born way back in 1895.
- [110:30]
Charlamagne Tha God
So already, you know, life wasn't handing.
- [110:33]
DJ Envy
Out participation trophies to folks like her. But Alice looked around at how people.
- [110:37]
Charlamagne Tha God
Were heating their homes using wood and.
- [110:39]
DJ Envy
Coal and thought, this is trash. I mean, imagine chopping wood in freezing cold weather just so you cannot freeze in your house.
- [110:50]
Charlamagne Tha God
Alice had the genius idea of using.
- [110:52]
DJ Envy
Natural gas for central heating. That right? She basically said, what if we stopped pretending we're on the Oregon Trail and brought some 20th century energy to the situation? How about that? Anybody in agreement with that? And she didn't just dream it up. She didn't just talk about about it.
- [111:06]
Charlamagne Tha God
She patented the design in 1919. That's like inventing Wi Fi before anybody had ever seen a computer.
- [111:13]
DJ Envy
And be clear, her design wasn't perfect. It wasn't what we use today, but it was revolutionary. It laid the groundwork for modern central heating systems. Without Alice, a lot of us would still be huddled up around space heaters arguing about who gets to stand the closest or them kerosene heaters and go to school smelling like pump 11.
- [111:31]
Charlamagne Tha God
And let's be real, there's only so many toes, you can lose the frostbite.
- [111:34]
DJ Envy
Before you start saying, maybe there's a better way, y'all. Now here's the kicker. Why don't we know her name? Why are you today years old, just.
- [111:43]
Charlamagne Tha God
Finding out about Alice Parker?
- [111:44]
DJ Envy
And she did this over a hundred years ago, barely a footnote in history. Meanwhile, Thomas Edison farts out a light.
- [111:51]
Charlamagne Tha God
Bulb, and we all act like he.
- [111:53]
DJ Envy
Invented the sun and he didn't even.
- [111:54]
Charlamagne Tha God
Invent the light bulb.
- [111:56]
DJ Envy
But that's a whole nother conversation for a whole nother episode.
- [112:00]
Charlamagne Tha God
It's wild how black women like Alice.
- [112:02]
DJ Envy
Were out here quietly saving the world while getting none of the credit. But her story should inspire us. She didn't let the fact that she was a Black woman in 1919, when.
- [112:11]
Charlamagne Tha God
The world wasn't exactly rooting for her, stop her.
- [112:15]
DJ Envy
She had an idea and she made it happen.
- [112:17]
Charlamagne Tha God
So the next time you cozy in your warm house, remember Alice Parker. She's the reason you're not out chopping.
- [112:23]
DJ Envy
Wood like a lumberjack. And if that's not worth a round of applause or at least a thermostat adjustment and her honor, I don't know what is.
- [112:30]
Charlamagne Tha God
Thank you, Alice Parker, for making winter survivable and for proving that sometimes the warmest ideas come from the coldest challenges.
- [112:40]
DJ Envy
And I didn't know maybe you didn't either. Happy Black History Month.
- [112:46]
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right. Make sure you subscribe to the I didn't know. Maybe you didn't need the podcast on The Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network, available everywhere. You listen to podcasts.
- [112:53]
DJ Envy
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. Salute to Will Packer for joining us today, man.
- [113:04]
Charlamagne Tha God
Make sure you pick up his new book, who Better Than you? By Will Packer, available everywhere books are sold. Now, Will is man. Will is a person that I just like to hear talk because he is very, very insightful. He's got a. He's got a. He's got a way of delivering wisdom in a very digestible way, man. And his book is the same exact way. So salute to Will Packer.
- [113:22]
DJ Envy
Absolutely. All right, you got a positive note.
- [113:24]
Charlamagne Tha God
Hold on, Jess, don't you got something going on?
- [113:26]
Just Hilarious
Yep. This weekend, this Sunday, I will be in Tampa. This Sunday, I will be in tampa, y'all. This February 23rd, y'all mark the date. I will be at Hard Rock Casino and Hotel with me and my brother Desi. We're going to be doing a show. The show starts at 8pm get your tickets@JessOfficial.com and listen, I need somewhere I can go to eat. I say this every single city I go to because I want to go to all the nice black owned restaurants wherever I go go. So make sure y'all sending me to the right places. Drop it in the comments in my dm, Whatever. Hit me up. I would love to eat. I do eat soul food. I'm back eating unhealthy so please send me to all the fried food places.
- [114:06]
DJ Envy
All right? Young, big back, I went there, and they said, I think he was there, too. Black owned, really, really nice. Can't remember the name of it.
- [114:13]
Just Hilarious
Damn, Florida got some real good food. But I just. I. I need to know where to go when I land.
- [114:18]
DJ Envy
Salute to Tampa. All right, well, you got a positive note.
- [114:20]
Charlamagne Tha God
I do. Also, I want to say salute to everybody at Crystal in Orangeburg, man. All the workers at Crystal in Orangeburg, 1486 Chestnut street in Orangeburg, South Carolina, man. You know that. That crystal is open 24 hours, so some of them been there for a long time. But salute to everybody on the breakfast shift at Crystal in Orangeburg, South Carolina, located 1486 Chestnut street in Orangeburg, Man. Salute to all of y'all. But the positive note is simply this. Release the need to be right, okay? When you believe something, you assume you are right. And you may even destroy relationships in order to defend your position. Let go of the need to defend your position, okay? Just release the need to be right sometimes. Have a blessed day, Breakfast Club. We all finished or y'all done? Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been.
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DJ Envy
Lucky enough to do stuff like Broad.
- [115:05]
Charlamagne Tha God
City and narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast, because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crazy crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week, I'll be sitting down with.
- [115:18]
Just Hilarious
Some of the most hilarious actors and.
- [115:20]
Charlamagne Tha God
Writers and comedians, people like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
- [115:25]
Nikki
I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait.
- [115:27]
DJ Envy
Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on.
- [115:29]
Charlamagne Tha God
The iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.
- [115:32]
DJ Envy
You get your podcasts.
- [115:35]
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast podcast, here's the thing, I spoke with more actors, musicians, policy makers, and so many other fascinating people like writer and actor Dan Aykroyd.
- [115:50]
DJ Envy
I love writing more than anything. You're left alone.
- [115:53]
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, you do three hours in.
- [115:54]
DJ Envy
The morning, you write three hours in the afternoon. Go pick up a kid from school and write at night. And after nine hours, you come out with seven pages, and then you're moving on.
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Charlamagne Tha God
Listen to here's the thing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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DJ Envy
This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently cancelled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 1515 minutes. But don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.
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Pam
Karen, where have you brought.
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DJ Envy
Not us. Cancellation island, where a second chance might.
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Nikki
Just be your last.
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DJ Envy
Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Pam
The OGs of uncensored motherhood are back and badder than ever. I'm Erica.
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Charlamagne Tha God
And I'm Mila.
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Pam
And we're the hosts of the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Podcast Network every Wednesday.
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Shakira
Yeah, we're moms, but not your mommy.
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Pam
Historically, men talk too much and women have quietly listened. And all that stops here.
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Shakira
If you like witty women, then this is your choice. Listen to the Good Mom's Bad Choices.
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Pam
Podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect podcast network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you go to find your podcast.