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Charlamagne Tha God
Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one.
DJ Envy
Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Charlamagne Tha God
I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known. At the end of the day, I'm.
DJ Envy
Literally a son of a killer.
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9th on the iHeartRadio app.
Jess Hilarious
App.
Charlamagne Tha God
Apple Podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, usa.
Lauren LaRosa
Yo.
Jess Hilarious
Yo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
Jess Hilarious
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, Yo.
DJ Envy
Jess. Hilarious. Good morning, Charlamagne to be here in a second. And it's Thursday. How you feeling, Jess?
Morgan
I'm good. I'm feeling good on this Friday eve.
DJ Envy
Friday eve?
Morgan
Yeah, sure. Listen, so you know I'm in Raleigh this weekend, right?
DJ Envy
Yep.
Morgan
Yo, and I'm like. I don't know why. My agents book me during Dreamville Fest, and it's the final one, so, you know, tickets been moving a little slow, and I'm a little ski. Because I'm not. No, you know, I. I'm a little slouch when it comes to selling out shows.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right.
Morgan
That's all I had to say. There's no ending. I'm just like, yo, so if you're.
DJ Envy
Out there, go definitely get your tickets to see Jess. She's performing. What's Friday and Saturday?
Morgan
Friday and Saturday.
DJ Envy
Friday and Saturday in Raleigh. Now, how far is Riley from Charlotte? That's the Charlotte.
Morgan
Five hours.
DJ Envy
Oh, wow. You know that.
Morgan
Exactly.
DJ Envy
Five hours.
Morgan
Five hours. All right, so Dream Real Fest is in Raleigh, right?
DJ Envy
It's in Raleigh.
Morgan
Yes, right. Damn, I wish it was in Charlotte.
DJ Envy
No, no, it is in Charlotte.
Morgan
No, it's in Raleigh.
DJ Envy
It is a rally. You checked it? Oh, no.
Morgan
I think you gotta clarify. You gotta, like, clarify for me because, yo, they gonna shut it down. Because this the last one.
DJ Envy
Yes, it's the last one, final one.
Morgan
So everybody who didn't get to see it before, you know, all them Raleigh natives, they gonna come out. And even though they. They treat me good when I come to the city, because I'm gonna be at the Improv Friday and Saturday. I'm like, yo, so now I gotta fly in tonight to do press there tomorrow to sell out the shows or whatever. But look, this. The crazy thing when I called the radio down there to go, because, you know, we broadcast out of Raleigh too. It's like, oh. I said, yeah. Then y'all can get free tickets too. They was like, yeah, we going to Dreamville, but we gonna see if we. I was like, damn. Even y'all go on the Dreamville.
DJ Envy
And the crazy thing about it is it's an all day thing.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
DJ Envy
So once I'm there all day, now I gotta go home and change and then come out and get ready for.
Morgan
A damn show like, yo, come on. But it's good. They're selling. They just ain't selling out.
DJ Envy
Yeah, well, definitely go support. Make sure you head out. And also, I gotta salute to everybody that's been pre ordering real life, real family. The book actually comes out on the week we're vacation. So just like you guys, they put the book out on Easter, Easter week. Not even here. All the TV networks are on vacation.
Morgan
Damn.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
DJ Envy
So it's similar to you. So. But it is what it is. But we appreciate everybody out there for picking up pre ordering real life, real family. It's all about raising kids. You know, we got six kids and the oldest 23.
Charlamagne Tha God
Three.
DJ Envy
And we talk about everything from ADD, ADHD, the. The sex talk with your kids, potty training. So it's a. It's a gamut of a whole bunch of different things. So if you're thinking about, it's from two different sides. Gia side and how she raises the kids, and then my side.
Morgan
I was just gonna ask you that. So she co wrote it with you?
DJ Envy
Yeah, we wrote it together.
Morgan
Hey, okay.
DJ Envy
We wrote it together.
Morgan
Did y'all beef during it? Like. No, I wanna write it like this or I wanna. You know how wives get.
DJ Envy
Nah, you know what it was is, you know, I always tell people, my dad is a retired police officer. He's ex military, so he's very disciplined. It's his way or the highway. There was no questions.
Morgan
Okay.
DJ Envy
And Gig allows questions.
Morgan
Gotcha.
DJ Envy
So, no, you can't go. Well, why can't I go? And she explains and breaks it down.
Morgan
Got it.
DJ Envy
Me, I'm like, nah, you can't go. Why? Cause I said so. Like, you should explain why you. Nah, because I said so. I ain't got time. But it makes a great dynamic. All right, well, Eli, Ellie Mystal will be joining us this morning. He's the author of bad law, 10 popular laws that are Ruining America. And we'll talk to him in a little bit. And then we got front page News. President Trump, aka Mr. Tariffs, he's been dropping tariffs left and right. We'll talk to him next. We'll talk to Morgan about this next, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast. All right, now let's get in some front page news now. Congratulations to Carmelo Anthony has been elected to the Basketball hall of Fame.
Charlamagne Tha God
Easy call. First ballot. Hall of Fame. Easy call, man. Easy call.
DJ Envy
Now the full class of 2025 will be announced on Saturday at the men's Final Four in San Antonio. So salute again, Tomelo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Easy call. There was never any doubt, not at all. That's the first ballot. Hall of Famer. Okay.
DJ Envy
What up, Morgan?
Eli Mystal
What up, what up, what up? And hey, Baltimore, shout out Carmelo Anthony.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Eli Mystal
All right, so let's get into the front page news. So, yeah, it's Tariff Thursday. It's tariff every day, right? So President Trump has signed new US Global tariffs, keeping in line with his campaign promise to saying that tariffs will end decades of unfair trade policies. So he spoke more on the order yesterday at the White House. Let's jump right into the audio and take a listen to President Trump.
Charlamagne Tha God
Today. We're standing up for the American worker and we are finally putting America first. My answer is very simple. If they complain if you want your tariff rate to be zero, then you build your product right here in America because there is no tariff if you build your plant, your product in America.
Eli Mystal
So Trump blamed past leaders for trade policies that he said were imbalanced, adding that tariffs stand to benefit Americans. As you heard in that audio, companies can also avoid paying tariffs if they make their products in the US Trump spoke more on this whole tariffs thing. Let's hear more from President Trump.
Charlamagne Tha God
April 2, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years. But it is not going to happen anymore. It's not going to happen.
Eli Mystal
So tariffs cover a wide range of products that are targeting several countries, including Canada, Mexico, China and the European Union. Now, Trump called the reciprocal tariffs Liber the day. April 2nd. Yesterday, yesterday liberation day for the US after trading partners have, quote, looted, pillaged and raped American industries for decades, leading to a loss of US jobs and manufacturing. All countries will have an immediate 10% baseline tariff on imported goods and many are getting hit with larger tariffs on top of that. Now critics claim the reciprocal tariffs are unfair and could lead to hyper inflation. You guys have any thoughts yeah, the.
Charlamagne Tha God
Thing about the tariffs I don't understand is what is the end game here? Like, you know, I hear him say it will end unfair trade policies, but you know, it just feels like, you know, they put taxes on us, so now we going to put taxes on them. And I guess he's trying to get people to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. but yes. Doesn't it just cost more to build here? Would they make it cheaper to manufacture here? Like, what's the benefit of building, you know, in America, just zero tariffs?
DJ Envy
Well, employees are cheaper in other places too. But that's a good question. And he was talking about other people charging US Tariffs as well. So he wants them to knock off their tariffs, which will knock off our tariffs. I guess that's what he's saying. But I thought he was against free trade and I thought he wanted more people to build here. But like you said, how can they build here if it's more expensive?
Eli Mystal
One of the things that is striking me is the auto tariffs and how that stands to impact a lot of Americans because it's not like we make all the parts, auto parts here in America. So we stand to still, even if you buy an American car, the price of that is still going to go up because some of the steel, some of the materials are not made in America. So it's just like, yeah, it still.
DJ Envy
Affects us, it still affects. And they're saying car prices will have to raise between 3 and $10,000. What it will do is it'll, it'll make used cars a premium, you know, I mean, because, you know, you won't have that extra 10,000 on your used vehicle, you know.
Eli Mystal
Absolutely.
Charlamagne Tha God
And I just don't understand how, you know, you're saying you're going to make it easier for the American workers, but you're doing things that are going to immediate hurt those American workers financially.
DJ Envy
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like this has immediate impact on the economy.
Eli Mystal
Yes, it does. In fact, there is a bipartisan effort to block the tariffs against Canada. Republicans, Republican, excuse me. Kentucky's Republican Senator Rand Paul is actually working with Democrat senator out of Virginia, Tim Kaine, who proposed a bill that would essentially end the emergency declaration put forth by the Trump administration to impose tariffs on Canada. Now, The Senate voted 51 to 48 in favor of the resolution that would block President Trump's tariffs on Canadian products yesterday. Well, actually, we don't have time to get into the audio, but I will say that there are four other Republicans that support this Democratic led measure. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. So the resolution, authored by Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine, is expected to stall in the House. However, the vote signaled bipartisan opposition on the sweeping levy. So this is. This is bigger than just whatever party you voted for. This is an American issue.
Charlamagne Tha God
Absolutely. But see, that's the whole thing, you know, that's why we have all of these conversations about party. And, you know, everybody goes back and forth, you know, at each other because you're a Democrat or you're Republican. But once that person is in the White House, at the end of the day, we're just all Americans who are impacted by the decisions of what that president does. Like, so you can scream Democrat, Republican all you want, at the end of the day, that is your president. We are Americans, and we're impacted by his decisions.
Eli Mystal
And that's. That's essentially what the senators were saying that, hey, look, if we could agree that we don't like this, then, you know, we can go ahead and put some forth, some measures to combat it. And this is something that, you know, those senators seem to agree on.
Charlamagne Tha God
All we care. I'm sorry, Morgan. All we care about is American people is, you know, keeping some money in our pocket and being safe. I don't care what your race is, your religion is, your sexuality is, your gender is. Those are the two things that you care about the most. Having some money in your pocket and being safe. That's it.
Eli Mystal
Period. Clock it. All right, so that's your front page for 6am I'll talk to you guys at 7, and we will get into what's going on with Elon Musk.
DJ Envy
All right? Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Phone lines are wide open again. 1-800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Eli Mystal
Hey, what you doing, man?
Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Who's this? Yeah, this is Jay.
DJ Envy
Jay, what up? Get it off your chest, bro.
Jess Hilarious
All right?
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm calling from the 843. Hey, what part of the 843? What part of the little country you calling from? Myrtle Beach. Okay? Salute to Myrtle beach, man. Y'all, y'all recovering from them fires yet? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Slowly but surely, by the grace of God. Okay. Hey, speaking about these terrorists, man, I didn't Vote. So I kind of feel like I ain't really got no say so on the matter. Plus, the fact that we're gonna be getting taxed, you know, when we dead and gone, man, I don't came to the conclusion to realize it is what it is. I'm gonna keep pushing, man. I'm in the process of getting me a car, and I know that's gonna affect me in terms of the way these tariffs going, but I'd rather ride than the walk, so I'm gonna get me a car anyway. Why didn't you vote, bro? I just wanted. Cause Charlamagne, they're gonna do what they want to do anyway. And I kind of feel like my vote don't matter because they're gonna do what they want to do anyway. Well, your vote does matter. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it.
DJ Envy
And if I. If you're looking for a car, I mean, March was the best time to do it, but it is April now. I would do your homework, and I would pick. Call companies against each other, pit dealerships against each other. Hey, this dealership's giving them to me for 25. Can you give it to me for 23? Go back and forth. You gotta. You have to use your negotiation game because them car dealerships ain't as packed as they were.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, on a better ending note, Charlemagne. Yes, sir. Hey, what you think about Myrtle Beach R B Music Fest opening up with Mary J. Blige and clothing with Usher?
DJ Envy
That sounds expensive.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I mean, I think R B Fest will work. I think anything that can. Can bring out grown folks will work. You know? I mean, remember when Tank was up here and Tank was talking about doing the R B Money Awards? I think any. I think anything like that'll work, honestly. Yeah. Yeah, it'll work, right? I was telling my co workers I was gonna run it past y'all if I was able to get through. I've been going to stuff like that all my life. One of my favorite festivals ever was the Sugar Water Festival with Erykah Badu, Jill Scott Flawtry, and Queen Latifah. Lord have mercy. That was a show, not a cocoa butter. All right. Hey, I appreciate y'all, man. Have a good one, brother.
DJ Envy
Be safe out there.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. All right.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
Charlamagne Tha God
This is Courtney.
DJ Envy
Hey, Courtney. Good morning. Get it off your chest.
Morgan
Good morning.
Lauren LaRosa
I want to get off my chest, man. We gotta stop being so empathetic to these folks that be calling on this radio and for people that be doing stuff online. Charlemagne, Just gave that man donkey of the day the other day for leaving his kids at the McDonald's. Come to find out he wasn't even at no interview. The police found holes all in his story. The daughter said he left to go drop off a backpack. Video surveillance got him walking back and forth between the apartment complex. They live there, and the McDonald's. They don't call a bank where he was supposed to have the interview at.
Charlamagne Tha God
This man ain't even had no interviews.
Morgan
This man was serving chickens.
DJ Envy
I didn't hear that, too. I seen somebody else say something differently, that they actually spoke to the girlfriend or the. The mother, Baby mother. And they said that he was at an interview. So I've seen conflicting reports, so I don't know what's true or what's not.
Lauren LaRosa
A bank manager.
Charlamagne Tha God
The bank manager did say that he.
Lauren LaRosa
Filled out an application on the 22nd and that they had kind of like an informal conversation for, like, 15, 20 minutes. But I don't know if this was the same day or whatever, but believe those kids, for that long, he was not at an interview. And the kids say this ain't the.
Morgan
First time he done left them.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I said that yesterday. I was just like, what job interview takes almost two hours? And what job interview allows you to go back and forth? You know, Because. Right. The witnesses said that they saw him coming back and forth, too.
DJ Envy
Right.
Lauren LaRosa
Man, these folks be playing in our face every day. Like, when I listen to y'all in the morning, every morning, somebody calling big. And it's always something going on. Like, man, that's why it's hard to.
Charlamagne Tha God
Have empathy for folks. Cause you just don't. You never know. You're absolutely right. What she just said is true. It's hard to have empathy for people because you just never know. And sometimes somebody will send you a GoFundMe and you'll read the story and be like, man, go f yourself. I ain't stupid.
DJ Envy
Yeah, well, he didn't call in, though. I don't. Cause she was like, people calling. He didn't call in. You guess. Game donkey for a story that you read.
Charlamagne Tha God
By the way, I gave him donkey just simply for leaving your kids. You don't jeopardize your child's safety in the pursuit of employment. Because there's no job on this planet that would make up for something happening to your child.
DJ Envy
Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning.
Jess Hilarious
The Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
It's a new day.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it off your chest. Wait. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-5851.
Jess Hilarious
Oh, five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yo, it's Deontha. 864. 864. What's happening upstate? Upstate South Carolina. What's going on, Jazz? When you gonna make your way down to South Carolina? I see you keep tiptoeing around us, but you ain't made it down here yet.
Morgan
I know, right? In the summer. In the late summer, Like August, September. Trying to make it to Charleston. I'm trying to come to Columbia. I'm trying to.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, people ask me that all the time. Yeah, I'm definitely be there. I got one more thing. Hey, Lauren.
Jess Hilarious
I know you're in the background.
Charlamagne Tha God
I know you're in the background. You can hear me. I've been tapped into your podcast, but I just wanted to say, did you throw a little extra stuff in? Because I know you talk about the.
Jess Hilarious
Stuff you already talked about on Breakfast.
Charlamagne Tha God
Club, but I want to hear a little bit more. Not just that thing you've been talking about in Breakfast Club, but it's a good part of no people.
Lauren LaRosa
I've heard that. And I've also heard that people want it longer as well, too, so I hear y'all. But did you listen to episode three you just started?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I don't listen to all of them.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay. Because episode three, we talked. We discussed the story that the Breakfast Club didn't touch. Which story was it?
Charlamagne Tha God
I got you. Hey, Charlemagne. Let me get a book signed, though. I got both your audio books. We got books up here. I'll get you a book, man. You know, the paperback for my third book, Get Honest to Die Lying came out yesterday, by the way. Hold on. Get you a copy. All right.
DJ Envy
Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Who's this? Good morning, DJ Envy. What's going on with you, my brother?
DJ Envy
What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right, listen, listen, listen. I feel like there's a lot going on with this whole thing with Lil Baby in regards to his involvement with this video being shot down. I feel like he's being set up and targeted because he's making a lot of strides that most rappers don't make. And I also noticed that a few months ago, the brother came out of Harvard and was in Harvard in classic. I think it's a setup. I don't like. I mean, I want us to just be more aware and not be so fast to judge him and what's going on with him. But you know, he did interview. I don't know you. You won't remember, but I met you the day before Angela Yee. Her last day. You had an event in Elizabeth at. At Barcode. And I met you that night. I don't know if you remember that. Two years ago. Yeah. That kind of clowned you because, you know.
DJ Envy
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Remember that?
DJ Envy
Yep, yep, yep.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, you didn't change your clothes. Charlamagne. Peace, my brother. Peace, King. Peace. Now, did you get in to go check out my trailer, Mr. Show Money on Instagram? No, I ain't get a chance. Oh, man. No, I want you to check it out. Come on, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna watch it. Hollywood Charlemagne. That's crazy, bro. I am going to watch. I do want to say something too about the little baby completing the Harvard Business School. You know, that was just a week long program. I'm not hating, I'm just saying.
Morgan
Oh my God.
Charlamagne Tha God
For real, it was a week long program. It's not a week long program.
Lauren LaRosa
A bunch of people going to it.
DJ Envy
But he still went.
Charlamagne Tha God
He still did it.
DJ Envy
He still, you know, succeeded in the.
Morgan
Course of time, the five days just to go up in there.
Lauren LaRosa
I mean, he's a little baby. He could have been doing.
Charlamagne Tha God
I know how people are about that. There's people like that. I actually graduated from Harvard.
Morgan
Yeah, I thought when he said that like, he meant like Lil Baby was actually going to schools.
Lauren LaRosa
He was there.
DJ Envy
It was a five day course. It was five day course.
Charlamagne Tha God
It was a week long program at Harvard Business School.
Lauren LaRosa
But that's how like us real HBCU grads feel about people who get honorary degrees too.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, well, y'all need to donate more money to y'all schools like we do.
Morgan
Damn.
Lauren LaRosa
He even go to a class?
Morgan
Who you?
Charlamagne Tha God
No, I didn't. But I donated a lot of money to South Carolina State. By the way, speaking of that, the deadline for my scholarship is April 16th, so you need to go send your essays in to South Carolina State University so you can be eligible for the scholarship.
Morgan
You give away scholarships?
Charlamagne Tha God
I sure do.
Morgan
That is what's up. I know that's right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Been doing that for a couple of years. Yeah, well, donate some money to them. Donate some money to them. That's my mom's alma mater. I showed up for mine. What's up, Lauren? Getting a little something now. What's up?
Lauren LaRosa
The podcast only got three episodes.
DJ Envy
800-585-1051. Now we got the latest with Lauren coming up.
Lauren LaRosa
We do Kanye west just dropped the song and he let us know Bianca, his wife, did leave him, and it's because of his social media rants.
DJ Envy
All right, well, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Jess Hilarious
Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning, everybody.
DJ Envy
We are the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
I gotta cross all T's dot all eyes.
DJ Envy
Let's get to the latest with Laura.
Morgan
Lauren becoming a straight face.
DJ Envy
She gets it from somebody that knows somebody.
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She'd be having the latest on the.
Jess Hilarious
Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit. Every boat is the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, so Kanye west has released a song. The song is called Bianca. This is from his new album, WW3. And the song talks about Bianca leaving him because of his social media posts.
Morgan
That was Ms. Juicy from the Rickey Smiley morning show. I already know it was. I know her voice when I hear it.
Lauren LaRosa
Well, the song in the song.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's the song. That's what you want to call it?
Lauren LaRosa
It is a song. Bianca want you back he talks about. He says that Bianca left him because of a series of tweets. Tweets? He doesn't specify which exact tweets, but there's been a lot of them because of a social media rant. He says that she came to him and said, look, I need you to get help. He said she was trying to get him committed. He said no, so she left. So he's been tracking her through, like, his car app, and until she comes back, he's not going to sleep. He also says that he is channeling the spirit of Donda. He feels like this is an attack from people who voted for Hillary Clinton and that he feels like people are trying to kill him right now.
Charlamagne Tha God
Why would that song bring her back, though, right? Like, that ain't the song that's gonna bring her back. That's the song that's gonna keep her away.
Morgan
That girl Price in somewhere with some clothes on so happy and warm finally.
Charlamagne Tha God
If you want to beg, you better go call Keith Sweat and put him on the hook, because that ain't it.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, well, I mean, but it confirms all of that because you guys remember there have been so many rumors about them being up and down, like, she's leaving him, the marriage is over, her friend. So it was like sources close to her friends say that like she's worried and she's blah, blah, blah. I think this confirms a lot of that. And what we were seeing, like when they would pop out in Tokyo, wherever they were happy after those reports was probably her just trying to make sure he was good. Very similar to what Kim Kardashian went through.
Charlamagne Tha God
I will say, I just want to speak for me.
Lauren LaRosa
Go ahead.
Charlamagne Tha God
I didn't need confirmation because I didn't care.
Lauren LaRosa
Oh my God.
Morgan
I know Bianca's dad is happy though. Yeah, I'm sure Bianca dad been wanting her out of there. Yeah, absolutely.
DJ Envy
So I wonder who's in Kanye's camp now. Like, who's he moving with and all that now? Because it was just them two, right?
Lauren LaRosa
Academic.
Morgan
Oh, absolutely.
Lauren LaRosa
So speaking of academics, posted some text yesterday from Kanye and the texts were in response to what we talked about up here about Jay Z not owning Kanye west masters. Like he had put that out through that could have missed interview and we debunked it. So there's a text where someone's like, hey, Charlemagne says Jay Z didn't own your masters. Is that true? Kanye says, you know what, I'm not sure Charlemagne won't speak up on how those women are trafficking my black kids. And thank you for. Oh, then he thanks him for posting something about Chloe and then he says, Charlemagne won't speak up about my position on the Jews. He'll only speak against me. What if 80 of what I said is fact and 20 was opinion or something I was misinformed about? My sentiment is still the same. I'm not a N word who understands publishing and master's usage etc. I always ask, what's the point of owning master tapes if you don't own the tape deck? So what does Charlemagne say? So who does Charlamagne say owns them? I'm happy I said it out loud so I can find out n words been blackballed from having any legal representation.
Morgan
What is your problem with him? You won't speak up or speak out.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't even know what he talking about, Mr.
Morgan
Mental Health.
Charlamagne Tha God
But I will say this. Why would he jump out there and make those claims against Jay Z and not even know if they're true or not? He doesn't even know who owns his catalog. He doesn't know who makes money off his catalog. Kanye just be out here talking, lying for attention and y'all eat it up.
Lauren LaRosa
80, 20 year old, but it's a turkey furnace.
DJ Envy
Can find out who owns the masters?
Charlamagne Tha God
No, he said he's blackballed from legal representation. Well, you don't listen. I don't listen. Clean your Dominican ass.
DJ Envy
But the reason I say that is because yesterday there was a rumor that Jay Z sold the masters to get his masters back, which was a rumor, too.
Charlamagne Tha God
They said all of that is nonsense. Yeah, it is.
DJ Envy
That's.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what else is ridiculous about them? Text messages. At the top of those text messages, what did he say about Jay Z at the very top? What do you say?
Lauren LaRosa
Jay Z white. A word is going too far. Remember that false idol song?
Charlamagne Tha God
How can Kanye call Jay Z white ass? Who act more white and see seeks more white validation than Kanye freaking West. This dude is out here with white lives matter t shirts on, selling them on his website, Swastika T shirts dressed up in KKK outfits. And you got the nerve to call another black man white? A black man that's out here way more blacker than you. Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one. I just knew him as a kid. Long, silent voices from his past came.
Morgan
Forward, and he was just staring at me.
Charlamagne Tha God
And they had secrets of their own to share. Gilbert King.
Jess Hilarious
I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott.
Charlamagne Tha God
I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.
DJ Envy
Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Charlamagne Tha God
I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known. If the cops and everything would have.
Jess Hilarious
Done the job properly, my dad would.
Charlamagne Tha God
Have been in jail.
DJ Envy
I would have never existed.
Charlamagne Tha God
I never expected to find myself in this place.
Jess Hilarious
Now I need to tell you how I got here.
Charlamagne Tha God
At the end of the day, I'm.
DJ Envy
Literally a son of a killer.
Charlamagne Tha God
Bone Valley Season 2 Jeremy. Jeremy, I want to tell you something. Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2 starting April 9 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear the entire new season ad free with exclusive content starting April 9th. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts. With a beautiful black wife and black family. Well, y'all just be letting these get away with anything and eating it up. It's ridiculous.
DJ Envy
I've never seen Jay Z's ass, so I can't tell you the color.
Morgan
Yeah, what Jay Z has got to do with this?
DJ Envy
He said Jay Z.
Lauren LaRosa
White. He said white. Amen.
Charlamagne Tha God
You can say ass. Shut up, man. Yeah, I wouldn't expect a white man. I would expect another white man to say that you a Dominican white man. He is a Dominican. I'm black. No, you're not.
DJ Envy
Yes, I am. No, I am black.
Charlamagne Tha God
Show me your birth certificate right now.
Lauren LaRosa
His butt certificate.
Charlamagne Tha God
Birth certificate. You want to be gay? This one is so.
Jess Hilarious
We want to be gay.
Lauren LaRosa
Swear to God.
Morgan
It's Young and May birthday.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, it is. There's a birthday cake out there with a dildo on the top right now.
Morgan
What?
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, my God, Jess, why you get so hyped when you said that though?
Morgan
I love Young and May she remind me of Jim Jones.
Lauren LaRosa
You already have a man. Girl, relax.
DJ Envy
What is going on here?
Lauren LaRosa
Happy birthday, Young Ma.
DJ Envy
What is going on? I'm sorry.
Jess Hilarious
For nothing.
Charlamagne Tha God
Drop one of CL bombs for Young.
DJ Envy
Now you going to drop a bomb for. Can you pull up a Young Ma song at least?
Charlamagne Tha God
Young and Mary monitor Jim Jones.
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
DJ Envy
What is going on here? All right, that's the latest law.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm sorry, Lauren. I'm sorry.
DJ Envy
You could get through it, all right?
Lauren LaRosa
I just want her to enjoy her birthday.
DJ Envy
All right, when we come back, we got front.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what to do.
Lauren LaRosa
No, actually I don't. But she raps. I'm sure she could talk me through it.
DJ Envy
You got it.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
DJ Envy
All right. Up next we got front page news. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Jess Hilarious
Wake up, wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning, everybody.
DJ Envy
Hey, everybody, it's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news Again. We gotta congratulate Carmelo Anthony. He's been elected to the Basketball hall of Fame.
Charlamagne Tha God
Easy call, man. First ballot. Hall of Famer, man. Salute to Melo.
DJ Envy
Absolutely. And also the NBA is looking into John Morant. They believe he might have been using his hands and arms to mimic a shoot. Like shooting a gun toward the Golden State warriors bench in Tuesday's game. So they need to that. Well, you know, they don't like you using a gun stuff and pointing fingers and stuff.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, they need to change the language and stop saying shoot. He shot the ball. He's shooting. I don't like. Who cares? Like, you know what bothers me about that?
DJ Envy
What?
Charlamagne Tha God
Steph Curry had 52 points in that game. 12 three pointers. And that's what we talking about.
DJ Envy
Hey, do an investigation. What's up, Morgan?
Eli Mystal
So Elon Musk. He will likely be stepping back from his role in the Trump administration. The reports come after the tech billionaire super PAC spent millions in a losing effort to get their Republican backed candidate on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Musk has repeatedly said he'll leave his position at DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, within his 130 day mandate as a non governmental employee. So if you're not an elected official or a non government employee, you're just a special employee by the government. Well, you only have 130 days to work.
Lauren LaRosa
So.
Eli Mystal
That sentiment was backed up by the White House spokesperson, Caroline Levitt, who called the reports garbage. But, you know, Elon Musk is essentially standing to be done with all of this at his 130 days. You guys have any thoughts on that?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. I never understood why Elon wanted to be on the front lines anyway. Like, when you look at, you know, how it's impacting his business. When you look at how it's impacting Tesla, like the sales are plummeting and the stocks are dropping. I never understood why he just couldn't be like every other oligarch and, you know, donate to these campaigns and be the puppet master in the shadows. I never understood why he wanted to be all up in the video, all up on the records, dancing.
DJ Envy
Well, when he first did it, maybe it backfired. Well, yeah, because I thought when he first did it, I thought the valuation of his company shot in the air. Crazy. And then I guess all the other eff is she been doing it just shot right back down. But I thought at first it was like a good move for Tesla.
Charlamagne Tha God
But the people who buy these Teslas mostly are liberals. Liberals are the ones who care about climate change and the electric cars and all of that. So like, you know, you. You get so tied in with maga. But they always say that if you're a businessman, you know, don't get so entrenched in, you know, any one political side. Because what Michael Jordan say. But Republicans too, like every Democrat. Republicans and Democrats both buy sneakers.
Eli Mystal
Yeah, yeah, it's giving. He was bored or something, you know, but yeah, we will see what ends up happening with my.
Charlamagne Tha God
Should have. Did what every other rich man does when they get bored. Go gay.
DJ Envy
What?
Charlamagne Tha God
Nothing. I'm sorry.
Eli Mystal
All right.
Morgan
Oh, my goodness.
DJ Envy
Can't wait for.
Eli Mystal
I'm like you, you, you know, you know, from experience, just.
Charlamagne Tha God
I've heard things.
Eli Mystal
All right, guys, I'm gonna bring things home to you. In New York, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, he's praising the dismissal of the corruption case that was against him, thanking his legal team. Adam said he's happy that he can focus on the city and the city's future and finally move on. He's also apologizing to New Yorkers for having to go through this with him. Let's take a listen to New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
DJ Envy
Let me be clear.
Charlamagne Tha God
As I've said all along, this case should have never, should have never been brought. And I did nothing wrong. I'm now happy that our city can finally close the book on this and focus solely on the future of our great city.
Eli Mystal
So a federal judge issued the decision on Wednesday morning to toss the case with prejudice, meaning it can't be brought back to court. This this week's this is weeks after the DOJ ordered the case to be dropped and just one day after Adams is required to file documents to appear on the Democratic mayoral primary ballot, which I believe you guys, Election Day is in June, right? So, yeah, it looks like you guys are going to be gearing up for that New York election.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, you should go listen to Eric Adams on My Guy Andrew Schultz podcast. Flagrant. Like, he talks. He says he feels like he was targeted by the Biden administration because he spoke out against the migrant issue. And he said that he feels like there's a permanent government that is in control. Like a permanent government that regardless of what happens in elections or who looks like the figurehead, he said he feels like there's a permanent government that's really in control. I just thought that was interesting for a sitting man to say stuff like that.
Eli Mystal
But that was prior to his charges.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Yeah. Prior to the charges being dropped.
Eli Mystal
I'd be curious to hear from Mayor Eric Adams, tap in how you feel about that now. I mean, do you still feel that's the case, being that your charges were dropped? A lot of people are saying that all of this is happening because he was kind of chummy with the Trump administration or that he, you know, was working with the Trump administration. So, you know, I don't know. We will continue to see, watch that situation and see or hopefully that particular situation. There is a closed book on his particular case. But, you know, I know he is still running for mayor, so we will follow that story and bringing things home to here in the DMV or in D.C. so former President Obama is apologizing for his surprise appearance in a family photo. Y'all, he photobombed this family. He was taking a walk on Monday to the cherry blossoms, which you know, are the cherry trees down here that were a gift from Japan down in the Tidal Basin when he strolled into a series of pictures being taken of the Moore's family's young two children. Now, the mom, Pamela Moore was focused on corralling the kids because there's no railing and it's, you know, near the water. So they were, like, making sure that the kids weren't walking towards the water or anything like that. But dad was like, whoa, is that Obama? Is that Obama? Is that Obama? And then when the mom finally, you know, got the shots done and all of these things, she finally surfaced and was like, okay, what were you saying? And, yeah, it was Obama, clear as day. Let's take a listen to the mom. Pamela, or excuse me, Pamela Moore in that incident.
Morgan
My husband's like, that's Obama. I didn't know.
Charlamagne Tha God
He's saying.
Jess Hilarious
I'm like, yeah, whatever.
Eli Mystal
I'm making sure I'm looking at Preston right now.
Charlamagne Tha God
After they're done with their.
Eli Mystal
Their shoes, I then pick Preston up, and I'm like, what did you just say?
Charlamagne Tha God
He's like, that's a bomb.
Lauren LaRosa
I was like, what?
Eli Mystal
I was like, well, did we get a picture?
Jess Hilarious
And then we went to the photographer.
Lauren LaRosa
And, like, she scrolled back, and we were like, we saw. We're like, we got it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
DJ Envy
Why do you apologize?
Charlamagne Tha God
I need to see.
Lauren LaRosa
So he basically.
Eli Mystal
It wasn't a real. It wasn't a real apology. He basically, you know, caught wind of what happened and sent a message to the black family.
DJ Envy
It's a black family.
Eli Mystal
Yeah, it was a black family. He said, preston and Bell, I hope you enjoyed peak bloom. My bad. For stepping into the shot. He wasn't like a whole issued apology from, like, a president, but it was.
Charlamagne Tha God
Just like, hey, my bad, President Obama. If you got caught out there with your second family, just say, that. Look like a nice family. Stroll was too clean.
Morgan
All that family out there enjoying themselves.
DJ Envy
Only controversy that man had was a different color suit. And now Charlemagne got a different family.
Charlamagne Tha God
My daddy had a second family. I know what that look like.
Eli Mystal
Years of no scandal, right?
Morgan
No family type scandals.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, man. Thank you.
Eli Mystal
All right, y'all. That's your pro page news. Follow me on socials at Morgan Media. For more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us@bi n news.com. thank y'all.
DJ Envy
If you haven't seen a picture, I'm sure the Breakfast Club will post a picture so you guys could actually see it. All right, when we come back, we have Ellie Mystal joining us. He's the author of bad law, 10 popular laws that are ruined in America. You're not gonna want to miss this. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
The Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.
Charlamagne Tha God
They call him Big Ellen.
DJ Envy
The reason I don't want to mess up your last name is my style.
Jess Hilarious
It's Ms. Stahl. Rhymes with Chris Stahl.
DJ Envy
I made that up myself.
Jess Hilarious
The kids used to say Ellie rhymes with jelly, and I didn't like that at all.
DJ Envy
So, welcome. New book out. Bad Law Man.
Charlamagne Tha God
First of all, Ellie, you know, you one of my favorite people to listen to. I love reading your work in the Nation. I started reading a lot more of your stuff a few years ago when I realized the Constitution didn't mean much okay anymore. Right. So I'm glad you're here. What got you into studying constitutional law?
Jess Hilarious
Well, I went to law school, and I hated it. I went to Harvard Law School, and part of the legal training is, like, they say that they're going to make you think like a lawyer, right? So what that means is that they take the way you think, which was fine to me, and they break you, and then they try to build you back up in this new, like, legal way of understanding the world. And I just never accepted the training. I like at every point when you're telling me that, like, oh, well, this is how it's always been done. I'm always like, by the slavers. And I should care about that why? And just so was a constant while I was in law school, like, back and forth in terms of my professors trying to kind of push me in a certain box and me resisting that box and not, you know, not all my professors. I. One of my professors was current Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She was great, right? But I would go to her office hours and be like, why is this like this? And she would say, Thurgood Marshall once said, it's like, I don't give a damn what Thurgood said. He was talking for a different time. What about our time? And so these were the conversations I had all the time. And that led to my first book and certainly my career in general.
Charlamagne Tha God
And that's why you feel like all laws before 1965 should be deemed unconstitutional.
Jess Hilarious
I said, presumptively unconstitutional, which is a legal dodge. I'm trying to lawyer my way around that. But my fundamental premise is that before the 1965 Voting Rights act, which I think is the most important piece of legislation ever passed in American history, this was functionally apartheid country. Not everybody who lived here could vote here. Not everybody who lived here could participate in the government here, the majority of people who lived here, if you think about not just black people, but also Latinos and also women, couldn't actually participate in the government. What do you call that? We have a word for that. It's that word is apartheid. And so if you're now going to say that we passed some law before everybody had a say, before everybody had a vote. Vote, and that law should still be controlling today, I say, hell no. Right? It's like Roy Breaker from Lock Stock, right? If the milk's sour, I ain't the type of P to drink it, right? So if you're gonna go all the way back before everybody had had a vote, I'm saying that presumptively speaking, that law should mean nothing. Now, I'm not saying that you get rid of every single law passed before 1965. Some of them I quite like. Like the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That was a good law. I also like the Sherman Antitrust Act. I like a lot of laws that were passed before 65. But my argument is that if we like the law, we could pass it again. We could pass it again this time. Asking everybody. And for that example, I didn't make that up myself. Right. The example that I'm using here is what they did in South Africa, right? When South Africa got over apartheid, did they just go back to their Africana racist constitution, be like, oh, we just need a couple of amendments. We just need a couple of changes here to make work? No, they threw the whole thing out and started again, this time asking everybody, this time having a completely new delegation of all of the people of South Africa, not just the white folks, but not no white folks. And they came up with a new constitution. It's one of the reasons why the South African constitution is generally thought of as one of the best constitutions in the world. And ours continues to be a piece of crap.
Charlamagne Tha God
We're talking to Ellie Mostow, a new book out now. Bad law, 10 popular laws that Are Ruining America. Can you talk about chapter three? Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airline?
DJ Envy
Now, I just want you to know Jess and myself were reading some of your chapter titles. Yes, we love them. We got to go through a lot of them. There's a couple out that me and her were talking, and we were like, these would be good if we were on edibles, but go.
Jess Hilarious
Do y'all like flying?
Morgan
Yes.
Jess Hilarious
Do you love flying?
Charlamagne Tha God
I do.
Jess Hilarious
You like flying? I hate flying. It is like the worst. It is always the worst day of my life. Well, I'm fat, so I gotta. I gotta squeeze myself into a small ass seat that ain't built for me. I got somebody's, you know, seat back right into my lap. I can't eat nothing.
DJ Envy
The seatbelt extender, right?
Jess Hilarious
I gotta get the most embarrassing moment of my life every time I have to do it. Ma'am, can I have a seatbelt extender? I'm a fatty, please. And then I have to, right? And then I, like, cry on the inside, right? The food's expensive, the liquor sucks, the surface service sucks. I'm always delayed. My bags get lost. It is miserable. It didn't always used to be this way. Flying used to be awesome. Spacious seats, good service, kind people. And they weren't nickel and diming you at every point. And what the reason why it used to be great and now it's not. Is this thing called deregulation. The idea. The airline industry used to be one of the most heavily regulated industries in the country. That makes a lot of sense. Sense because we're putting metal in the sky and hoping it comes down at a survivable rate. That's crazy. So it used to be one of the most heavily regulated industries in the country. With literal price fixing. Literally, they could. They, the government set the maximum price that you could charge for certain routes. And I know conservatives, Republicans, even a lot of Democrats like price fixing. That's terrible. That stops innovation. No, it doesn't. It makes flying a public service. And it makes it easy for people to get around the country. FDR thought it was a war plan, thought it was part of our mobilization plan for war to have reliable, cheap and accessible commercial air flight. Right? Democrats and Republicans gave the skies away literally to corporate Raiders in the 1970s. Now, when I started researching this book, I actually assumed that this was a Ronald Reagan program because most, you know, I don't know about your process. My process is usually like, if I see something bad, show me the Republicans, right? Show me what Reagan did. Because I'm sure it's his fault. And there's always a mustache twirling Republican, you know, behind every curtain. But for this particular issue, this Republican plan to deregulate the airlines and let corporate, let the market decide how we fly as opposed to the government. Government that was spearheaded by the Democrats. And as I did the research, Democrats that we all know kept coming up. Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, huge in this deregulation. Stephen Breyer, one of the Democratic appointees to the Supreme Court. For a long time, there were all of these Democrats that like Got sucked in. Ralph Nader, right. Got sucked into the gospel of deregulation. And once they did it, once the Republicans, I would say, snow job the Democrats into this thing. The first thing that happened when they gave away the airlines is the thing that has, that has killed the Democratic Party for my entire lifetime. This, the Airline Deregulation act came out in 1978. I was born in 1978. For my entire lifeline. Labor got gutted. Airline jobs used to be good jobs. Baggage handlers and flight attendants and pilots. Pilots used to be one of the best jobs you could get yet. And with market forces, with deregulation, those good jobs got slashed, right? And then you go into the Reagan era, where Reagan's like social safety net. Here's a big old hole. I'm cutting your social safety net. And people fell from good middle class jobs straight through down to the bottom. And they've never forgiven the Democrats for it. See, that's the, that's the thing that I think the Democratic Party didn't kind of realize when you, you cut labor. Labor used to vote for Democrats consistently, right? Not just black labor, white labor, this white working class laborers used to vote for Democrats. But once the market controlled everything, Democrats weren't helping them. And that's how they became, I believe it's part of the reason why they became obsessed with their cultural issues as opposed to their economic issues, because they felt like they weren't going to get ahead economically anyway. Right. If you tell people like, you're not going to get head economically, you're going to be poor, you're going to be struggling, but you're going to be better off than that black person over there.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right.
Jess Hilarious
They're going to be like, okay, sign me up, Trump. Like that's, that's how it happens. You get, you tell white folks that they're going to have nothing, but they're going to have a little bit more than black folks and white folks will sign up.
DJ Envy
All right, we got more with Ellie Mystal when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Ellie Mystal, the author of Bad Law. Now, you had a question, right? Chapter nine.
Morgan
Why can't we say gay? What are we supposed to say?
Jess Hilarious
You know, as I'm sure most of your listeners are aware of, I could have written the whole book, just Bad Law in Florida. Like you just gone through The Florida. This is terrible. This is. This is just racist. This is stupid. Right? I focused on the Florida don't say gay law because it is so particularly oppressive and stupid. The law says that you cannot teach about gender difference, sexuality differences, transgender issues. You can't say any of those words to school children, right? And if you talk to certain kinds of conservatives, they're like, well, that's fine. Why does. Why does a third grader need to learn about gay people? Why can't they just learn about reading, writing, Right? And I'm like, do y'all have third graders? Like, I got a 12 year old and a nine year old, right. They talk about all this stuff, not in a kind of. Of lascivious sexual way, but they're interested in who. In how these things work. Right.
Charlamagne Tha God
I wonder, though, would they be if they weren't taught about it in schools or showing it on television?
Jess Hilarious
Yeah. Because they just see it in their daily lives.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right?
Jess Hilarious
And so I use the example, if I. If I'm a school teacher and I'm, you know, I've got my wife and I have a picture of me and my wife on my desk at school, the kids see that it's me and my wife, that it's a man and a woman, right? If I'm a gay school teacher and I have a picture of me and my husband on the desk, they see that that's different. They see that it's a man and a man, and they might have a question about that. And in Florida, I'm not allowed to say why. And so you act like it. People act like it's neutral, but it's not. It is what the scholars call heteronormative. It's pushing the man and the woman. That's the normal way of doing it. And the man and the man, or the woman and woman, that's just crazy and weird when you could just say like, oh, that's my husband. Anyway, back to Matt.
DJ Envy
So what do you think about, you know, Trump's transgender bill, where it's just two genders, this, then the other. What is your thoughts on that?
Jess Hilarious
It's. It's, again, biologically, it's not true. There are people who are different. That's just a biological fact. We can pretend. People. People think that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is it biological or neurological?
Jess Hilarious
Man, I don't know. I'm not a scientist.
Charlamagne Tha God
Because I said neurological, because you can think you're in the wrong body, but I'm not. That's not biologically. I just the fact, man, I don't Biologically, it's men and women.
Jess Hilarious
I know. I don't think that's right. I think that there are I again.
DJ Envy
Something other than man and woman.
Morgan
You have aliens.
Jess Hilarious
I see now you're pushing me into.
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't say gay.
Jess Hilarious
You're getting me away from the law.
DJ Envy
But I'm just asking.
Jess Hilarious
As I understand it, there are people who are born with female hormones in male bodies, right? Or vice versa. And they want to express how they feel inside as opposed to how they look on the outside. But I think the larger point is not just that. I don't know. The larger point is I don't care.
Charlamagne Tha God
There you go, there you go, there you go.
Jess Hilarious
It's not me. I'm the way that I am. Right. I don't care how it doesn't affect me. Just somebody else being trans doesn't make me think, oh man, maybe I should. Maybe I should be trans. I always wanted to, to wear nice hats. Like that's not, like, that's not how my. Whatever. I tell a story in the, in the book about in my kids class. One of, one of the kids in my younger kids class came out as a boy after being a girl.
DJ Envy
At what age?
Jess Hilarious
I want to say eight. And you know, the parents were just like, how does one really. How is that? The kids were just like, yeah, whatever, it's Ramses now. It used to be Cleopatra. It's Ramses now, but.
Morgan
And then if I'm your mom, I'm like, no, I named you Corey. How are you just gonna come up and be Shakira today?
Jess Hilarious
But wasn't that weird? But that's between Ramses and his mom and the mom. That's not between me and that's not, that's not between the school and the kid. I don't have a say.
DJ Envy
But it kind of does. What does the school call them or her? You know what I mean? Because if your mama named you Corey and now you saying, I don't want to be called Corey, I want to be called Shamika. So now the school supposed to call you Shamika.
Charlamagne Tha God
I just don't think an 8 year old should be making that decision.
Jess Hilarious
Man, I go to, my kids go to a progressive school where like if my kid came in and said, I want to be called Ketchup today, they would call him Ketchup. They would call him what the kid wants to be called. And I think that's just the natural thing to do. If somebody comes and tells you their name, you say their name, right? You don't say actually You're Cassius Clay. No. You say you want to be Muhammad Ali today, guess what? You get to be Muhammad Ali.
DJ Envy
So if your kid goes to school and say, I'm Batman, they gonna call your kid Batman?
Jess Hilarious
They're gonna call my kid Batman.
Charlamagne Tha God
I think that's a little different. We're talking about name. Yeah. Because if I say, yes, this is my name, you call me my name. But if I say I am ketchup and I just stand still, and when hot dogs come around, ketchup coming out my head, that's just a little different.
Jess Hilarious
See, I disagree. I don't think Ramses does anything different in school now that he's Ramsay than he did when he was Cleopatra. I don't think that there's any. Doesn't learn differently, doesn't eat lunch in a different.
Charlamagne Tha God
He might start going to different bathroom. Might start going to other women, which make women uncomfortable.
DJ Envy
Kids uncomfortable.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Morgan
The other eight year old girls, all.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right, they're only eight. Ellie, do you.
Jess Hilarious
Do you know how uncomfortable kids are in bathrooms as they hit puberty generally?
Charlamagne Tha God
So now you send a little boy.
Morgan
Yeah, but now it's into a private stall. But you gotta walk past the sinks and other dudes before you get to the private stall. And it's like, what you doing here, Shamik?
DJ Envy
You have daughters and sons.
Jess Hilarious
Sons.
DJ Envy
All right, so your sons will not get naked in front of your wife and other women, but he will do it in front of you. Correct. If you have to change or if it's something like that. Now imagine a girl going into a boy's bathroom. Where urinal.
Charlamagne Tha God
He's gonna feel.
Lauren LaRosa
Feel uncomfortable.
DJ Envy
It's gonna make him feel awkward, don't you think?
Morgan
And even more uncomfortable than he would then, you know, so we were at.
Jess Hilarious
Citi Field and my boy going on the urinal and my boy just drops trout. Doesn't use the fly. Doesn't like just drops trow. Tis ankles and just takes a pee. Now I was uncomfortable. I was like, that's that. How was you raised? Oh, wait, that was me. Like, how did that happen? Right? And I was like, maybe you should pull. You know, when you do is. He's like, oh, why? It's my butt. Why? I was peeing.
Morgan
And I was like, he definitely sounds like your son.
Jess Hilarious
That's a fair point. Right? Like, people will get over it. People. People will learn. And again, we're talking about this from the perspective of making things more comfortable for the heteronormative kids in the school. We also should be talking about this in terms of making things more comfortable for the trans kids in the school. Because as much as we might say it might be uncomfortable for the trans girl in the girl's bathroom, for the other girls, imagine how uncomfortable it is for the trans girl in the boys bathroom as they hit puberty. And we know. And again, this is not me making it up. We know, statistically speaking, that trans women are the most likely people to be brutalized, to be murdered, to be beaten up, to be victims of domestic violence in this country. So if you're telling me that we can potentially save some trans kids from that fate, and the cost is that some girls have to be a little bit uncomfortable in a bathroom at a high school, that is a trade that I am willing to make, and that is a trade that I think society should be willing to make.
Charlamagne Tha God
I respect everybody's right to live, but I don't want to have this conversation no more. Like you said, what you said earlier is true. I don't care. Y'all lost the last election of your favorite people.
Morgan
You like to listen to them.
Charlamagne Tha God
I do. I just don't like this part.
Morgan
Listen, take them.
Jess Hilarious
Can I just get back to the law? Just really quickly, please? Just very quickly. On the law of this. The idea that we can discriminate against trans people but nobody else doesn't make sense legally. Right. If we're gonna have a law that treats everybody equal under the law, then we have to treat trans people with the same kind of respect and decency that we treat everybody else. And once you start trying to poke holes in that, you see, they're not stopping at trans. They're going right to gay. They're going right to all these other things, right? The chapter, it says the chapter say gay.
Morgan
Now we can't say trans.
Jess Hilarious
Now we can't say trans. Now we can't say say all these other things. Right? So again, from a legal standpoint, equality.
Charlamagne Tha God
You want to drop your trousers.
Morgan
Just pee right here. We're not uncomfortable at all.
Jess Hilarious
That's. We. We got to. We re evolved, right?
Morgan
Yeah.
Jess Hilarious
So, yeah. So just legally speaking, the easiest thing in the law is just to treat everybody.
Morgan
I got you.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
DJ Envy
We got more with Ellie Mustow when we come back. Of Bad Law is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning, everybody.
DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have author of Bad Law, Ellie Mostow joining us. Ten popular laws that are ruining America. Charlamagne.
Charlamagne Tha God
Why are people so nonchalantly discussing Trump getting a third term?
Jess Hilarious
Well, here's the thing. He can't constitutionally, but what he can't do and what he can do are two very different things.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right.
Jess Hilarious
If you understand that we live in a fascist dictator leadership and we do, this is what it feels like. I know that the New York Times hasn't said today fascism started, but like, it started, right? This is we are now living in a fascist dictatorship. And so when you tell the fascist dictator, hey, you can't do this legally, I might be right, but he might not care. So if you're asking me about the law, no, there is at the 22nd Amendment is ironclad on this issue. There is no wiggle room. You cannot serve, you cannot be elected. Did president more than twice. Doesn't matter if your terms were consecutive or non consecutive. They were very clear at what they wanted to do when they wrote that amendment. It's one of the most clear amendments in the entire Constitution that said Trump is a fascist dictator. My man lost the 2020 election and attacked the Capitol and came this close to overturning that election. So who's to say that he can't do it again? Who's to say that he can't be successful in doing it the next time? Right? Like, so we can't blithely say that he can't do something just because he's legally prevented from doing something. He's already shown he doesn't actually give a damn about what he's legally prevented from doing. So can I make a case for how he'll do it? Sure, I can make. I like to say one of the things that makes me a little bit of a different legal commentator than a lot of others is that I understand what white people are capable of. I've never forgotten what white people are capable of in this country. And if you want to tell me that Trump is going to run for a third term and has a way to win it, I can tell you how he does it. He gets himself. Because remember, we don't have one federal election system in this country. We have 50. So all he has to do is get himself on the ballot in red states that are already capitulating to him enough red states to get to 270 votes. The ballot process is controlled by the states, not by the federal government. You can say, well, like, he shouldn't be kicked off the ballot, but he should have been kicked off the ballot last time. Time because he was in violation of the 14th Amendment. What does the Supreme Court do? Oh, no, we shouldn't decide such things. It should be up to this 14th amendment. He should have been kicked off last time, but the Supreme Court didn't step in. Will they step in next time? I don't know.
DJ Envy
So with Al Sharpton and everybody saying is BS, that that can't happen. That's untrue. It can.
Jess Hilarious
No, it's not BS it can't happen legally.
DJ Envy
Got you.
Jess Hilarious
But let's not fool ourselves to think that Trump is not willing to act illegally. Right. He can illegally get himself on the ballot. He can illegally get himself to some version of 270 votes and he can illegally declare that he is still the President. And who's gonna check him? Boo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Jess Hilarious
Who's gonna actually stop him from doing that?
Charlamagne Tha God
It won't be the Supreme Court. I love the article you wrote for the Nation called It's Impossible to overstate the damage done by the Supreme Court. Do you think the Supreme Court would back him in something like that?
Jess Hilarious
I don't know. Wow. Not only do I not know that they would back him, if they don't, I don't know that he would would follow their order. Yeah, there's, there's been no evidence that Trump is going to follow a Supreme Court order that he doesn't like. And more to the point, there's been absolutely no evidence that he's going to enforce a Supreme Court order on the co President Elon Musk that he doesn't like. So even if the Supreme Court stands up to him, and I'm putting that in air quotes, there's no evidence that he'll actually listen to them because he control anything, that he controls the physical power of her. And I think people really under have to understand this and a kind of chest thumping way, like if he physically controls it because he physically controls the army, he physically controls the paramilitary, he physically controls the secret police. If he physically can control something, he doesn't have to listen to nobody legal, illegal, doesn't actually matter to him if he has physical control. Now, if he only has control because he's got to get other people to do his bidding in the states, in the localities, that's a place where the Supreme Court can kind of step in and maybe show some spine. Right. So if you think about these, these lawsuits that he has in New York against like Kathy Hochul, if it's a situation where like he has to force Kathy Hochul to do something and Kathy Hochul says no and the Supreme Court says no, well, then I don't think Trump can't force her to do it. Unless he's literally willing to put, you know, boots on the gw, which he might, but, you know, then we'd have some real traffic problems in Fort Lee. But if it's something that he has complete physical control over, I see no evidence of him actually following the Supreme Court order.
DJ Envy
Is there anything that you feel like this presidency has done good at all? Was everything bad?
Jess Hilarious
Not one thing. Because there is not one thing that fascism does well. And if I give them that credit, I legitimize all of. It's one of the reasons why I was so angry at Schumer's capitulation on the budget deal. If you say that you can work with these people here, there, and whatever, what you're fundamentally saying is that you just have a little bit of a disagreement on this, that and the other thing, you're not actually fighting fascism. You're just playing normal bull partisan politics, right? From my perspective, Trump is a fascist threat to the country. Nothing he do can be. Can be okay. And I want to have said that about other Republicans. I wouldn't have said that about Mitt Romney or John McCain or even W, Dick Cheney. Different. But. But even W. Right. You could find some things that you could work together with those people on because they were fundamentally Democratic presidents. I mean, Democratic it with a small D. Right? Presidents who believed in democracy.
Morgan
Don't get gay. Oh, we can't say gay. Oh, we're in New York.
Charlamagne Tha God
We're in New York.
Morgan
Don't get gay. Because you say small D and they were just thinking of small penises.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, you weren't.
Morgan
Yes, y'all weren't.
DJ Envy
What wrong with you?
Charlamagne Tha God
Jeff, I've got a couple more questions.
Jess Hilarious
I said small D and I said Bush, like in the same sentence.
Charlamagne Tha God
But, you know, what was the significance of Cory book, Cory Booker's filibuster?
Jess Hilarious
One of the things the Democrats can do since they have no political power, is start building narrative. Start. Start building move and start building momentum towards change.
Morgan
Right?
Jess Hilarious
One of the reasons why I wrote my book. Look, I wrote this before the election, before Joe Biden's first debate. I knew we were in trouble by the time, you know, while I was writing it. I was under no illusions. But I kept writing it, and I kept thinking that this would be a good time to release it. Because from my perspective, if we lost, this book then becomes my first attempt to write Project 2029. Ooh, these people are out here right now. Project 2025. When did they start writing that? In 2021, when they had no power when they had no political power whatsoever. That's when they started their plans for this current MAGA revolution. So from my perspective, this is the time when we have no power that we need to actually start thinking bigger and start thinking more actively. Right? When Republicans come into office, they come in with a sledgehammer and they smash things. Smash things that I hold dear or smash things that I care about. Right? When Democrats come into office, we come in with like super glue and tape and we're gonna, like, put the vase back together to make we gotta smash some things. My book is about what we can smash. What Corey was doing is that same kind of idea of building momentum to something bigger. And that is the best use of Democratic power at this point.
Charlamagne Tha God
Because something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Scoffield in Bone Valley season one. I just knew him as a kid. Long silent voices from his past came.
Morgan
Forward and he was just staring at me.
Charlamagne Tha God
And they had secrets of their own to share. Gilbert King. I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott. I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.
DJ Envy
Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Jess Hilarious
Evil.
Charlamagne Tha God
I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.
Jess Hilarious
If the cops and everything would have done the job properly, my dad would.
Charlamagne Tha God
Have been in jail.
DJ Envy
I would have never existed.
Charlamagne Tha God
I never expected to find myself in this place. Now I need to tell you how I got here. At the end of the day, I'm.
DJ Envy
Literally a son of a killer.
Charlamagne Tha God
Bone Valley Season 2 Jeremy. Jeremy, I want to tell you something. Something. Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear the entire new season ad free with exclusive content starting April 9th. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts.
Jess Hilarious
It's the only. It's the only power that they have, right? You can't actually stand up to them legally because you have no authority. You can't send them to them in Congress because you have no authority. No, I think they should be doing more of the and placards at the State of the Union. That was pathetic. Doing what Cory Booker did. Breaking racist Strom Thurman's record on the Senate floor. Like, these are the narratives and stories that we can be building now so that by the time we get to 2026. I'm not even talking about 2028. Time we get to 20, 26 primary season. That's the fight. Whether it lasts two years or five years or 10 years or 25 years is entirely up to us.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right, well, Ellie Mustel, his new book, Bad Law. 10 popular laws that are ruining America. I learned a lot from you, Ellie. I like reading your stuff, man. You are very good at what you do.
Morgan
I learned a lot in this interview, so I appreciate you. Thank you.
Jess Hilarious
Thank you so much.
DJ Envy
Alrighty. Ladies and gentlemen, pick up the new book, Bad Law. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. All right, let's get to the latest.
Morgan
With Law Lauren becoming a straight face.
DJ Envy
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.
Charlamagne Tha God
She gets the details.
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on this.
Jess Hilarious
The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes she have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.
Lauren LaRosa
So Drake just got a victory in court in the legal back and forth that he's having right now at Universal Music Group Group. So yesterday a judge, Judge Jeanette Vargas in New York denied Universal Music Group's request to stay discovery. So Universal Music Group was saying, yo, can you pause on this whole discovery letting us let Drake and team get into our business until we explore the motion to dismiss? This whole thing that they have acts, they want it thrown out. They say it's bs. He's just mad because he lost a rap battle.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right.
Lauren LaRosa
A judge said, well, we're still gonna, you know, that motion to dismiss, it's still gonna happen and they set a date for that. But no, I think that the discovery thing can happen and should happen. So I'm not going to say that we're going to stop it. This is a big deal.
Charlamagne Tha God
What I mean now, though, that means.
Lauren LaRosa
That Drake and team can go in and do what they've been saying that they wanted to do for a very long time. They can go in, they can look at the contracts, including things that are in relation to Kendrick Lamar, emails, phone conversations, basically just come in and get all in the business of, of communications and processes and operations and all of that stuff.
DJ Envy
I seen that.
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
DJ Envy
So they've been able to get Kendrick's contract to umg, his signing contract and his deals and all that. That sounds crazy.
Lauren LaRosa
Well, they haven't done it yet. They just got the go ahead to be able to move forward. I don't know Specifically which contracts they're asking for. But I think they. I don't. I don't know. Why would they need a signing contract?
Charlamagne Tha God
What are they going to discover that they don't already know, though? That machine that the machine puts, you know, a little extra oomph behind records that are already moving, just like I'm sure they're doing with Nokia right now.
Morgan
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, it's the truth, though. What are they gonna find out?
Lauren LaRosa
I think what they trying to go in and find out is, like, any wrongdoing of the machine making oomph and all that stuff, that wrong.
Charlamagne Tha God
If it's. If it's wrongdoing, then it's typical record industry practices that have been going on since the beginning of time that people like Drake have benefited from, that people like Kendrick have benefited from, that all of their artists benefit from.
Morgan
But what if it's not? What if it's not none that's going to make you look crazy?
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, we talk about that.
Morgan
Ain't even no foul play. Nothing going on.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's like a baseball player looking for steroids and you're like, o. It's the same stuff I've been using. Whether, you know, you was using it or not. No.
Lauren LaRosa
But to Jess's point, we talked about this on the podcast yesterday, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I said that if. If there's nothing found, he just looks like a crybaby. It just looks like. You know what I mean? But if there is things found and it can be something small, like it could be one employee that happened to maybe send a Uber or send a gift or something that can look. I mean, because there's certain.
Charlamagne Tha God
You have certain rules. Kendrick Lamar getting Uber.
Lauren LaRosa
No, I just mean, like, there's. There's certain rules. A big. There are certain rules around, like, bribery and, you know, I'm sure I don't know all the rules when it comes to radio, but I know, like.
DJ Envy
But that's not gonna be in a contract. And the sad thing about it, it's.
Charlamagne Tha God
Not gonna be in a contract.
DJ Envy
You stupid. But if you look at a judge, does the judge know exactly about the music industry to see what he's giving permission for? Like, giving giving up Kendrick's contract and I don't know what's in Kendrick's contract, but giving up how much money he's making and the money that's spent, that's nobody's business. But Kendrick and his label, like, why would that want to go to somebody else?
Lauren LaRosa
But that's only one part of it and I, I think once we see which contracts they pull and which information they focus on, we can kind of better understand, you know, why they did that. Another part of it was remember they talked about the bots or whatever that they said. They alleged that Kendrick was now Drake.
Charlamagne Tha God
Same bots that have been used for all artists, all Drake is going to expose his secrets that have helped him too. And I don't even know if they're secrets to be honest with you. Are they secrets or is that just record. Standard record business practices.
DJ Envy
I thought it was standard record business practice.
Charlamagne Tha God
All of this stuff, the bots to everything.
Lauren LaRosa
The bots don't matter no more because Drake's team yesterday in the court said that they've exchanged some, you know, letters back and forth and they're, they're withdrawing those claims. They're going to focus on other stuff. They, they really are trying to I think figure out the, the bigger picture of this is like the money that was put into bigger things. Not. Yeah, a few random.
DJ Envy
That's what they're looking for. The money that's put into Spotify, that's put in the streaming service, that's put in the radio, that's put in the tv. That's what they're looking.
Charlamagne Tha God
Same money that's been put into Drake for the last decade. What are we talking? Why was like, come on.
Lauren LaRosa
Streaming farms is what they backed away from yesterday.
Charlamagne Tha God
All artists haven't been beneficiaries of that because of these labels. Why are we acting clueless here people?
Lauren LaRosa
Well, Drake's lawyer spoke out yesterday when this was released. There was a short press release and at the bottom he had a one line statement. He said now it's time to see what UMG was so desperately trying to hide. Now I did reach out to UMG for a comment on this and have not heard back yet.
DJ Envy
I don't think UMG is trying to hide. I think UMG doesn't want to have to open the books for this artist and then they have to do it for every other artist. So they're just trying to protect umg. I don't think they have anything to hide.
Morgan
Battery and somebody else back.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, maybe Drake needs to see this for his own good cuz maybe he thinks Toosy Slide really went number one cuz it was a good record and that record was trash. Maybe he thinks Slime you out went number one because it was a good record and that record was also Slime.
Lauren LaRosa
You out went number one. After we talked about it in here.
Charlamagne Tha God
I remember, I don't remember any of it.
Lauren LaRosa
I do.
Charlamagne Tha God
But all I'm simply saying is maybe he needs to see that for his own benefit. Cuz you've been a beneficiary of these performance enhancing drugs as well.
Lauren LaRosa
Well, umg, actually they're arguing that the whole discovery evidence gathering process would be premature. It would impose undue burdens on them, especially given the pot, that the case could be dismissed. So they're saying we don't mind it discovery. But just wait, let's have the dismissal conversation first because this makes sense. If it's going to be dismissed, why we got to put all these resources and time and energy to do all this. So we'll see what happens.
DJ Envy
Nobody's winning but the lawyers, period. So you got two.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay. Another one?
Morgan
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
So Young Thug, Yesterday there was a motion filed by the state of Georgia to revoke Young Thug's probation.
Charlamagne Tha God
Jesus.
Lauren LaRosa
Yes. So the motion filed in Fulton County Superior Court yesterday claimed that Young Thug demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law, the safety of the witnesses, and the integrity of the judicial proceedings because he posted a now deleted photo online of one of the Fulton county investigators. Her name is Marissa Ververit. So she was testifying this week during the YSL trial and in. In relation to the. Remember those, those the little boys that were shot that we talked about, the 13 year old little boys in relation to all that stuff. And, and the court basically had barred video photos, all of that stuff. And Thug posted a photo. He called her the biggest liar in the DA's office. And she's saying that because of that she's received threats, her family has received threats. There's people flooding her comments, a ton of basically like she feels like she's in danger because of that. So they're saying this presents a clear and present danger to public safety and it's at the hands of Young Thug when. Which is should be a violation of his probation. Now, Thug came out because he deleted all these tweets, but he came out and said, I don't make threats to people. I'm a good person. I would never condone anyone threatening anyone or definitely participating in any of the above. I'm all about peace and love it.
DJ Envy
Thug got to be careful.
Lauren LaRosa
I don't even know why he tweeting about stuff like this. He tweeted about the young scooter.
DJ Envy
Probation, 15 years probation. They will do everything in their power to try to lock him back up. He has to be very, very careful.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Why do, why do people care about social media so much? What is the allure of social media. Because even if you're thinking that in your head, why run to X or whatever to post that? Like, there's got to be something in you that says, that's just not a smart thing to do.
DJ Envy
N. Not when he has 15 years probation and they will try anything to.
Charlamagne Tha God
Lock his ass back up.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. I don't understand. I would be so scared to even. I wouldn't even. I don't even walk by the court if I'm the, like, across the street. Don't even take me in the vicinity.
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't got no reason to be mentioning them people publicly.
DJ Envy
No, not at all.
Charlamagne Tha God
At all.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. Well, we'll have to see what happens with this because it's. If they do determine that this was a violation or there was a threat or whatever, there can be consequences. So.
Charlamagne Tha God
Jesus. And you know, they already mad that he got away. Yes, for the most part. I mean, even though they got him under probation for the next 15 years, for the most part, he got away.
DJ Envy
They are waiting for him.
Charlamagne Tha God
Exactly.
DJ Envy
To bring him back. Yes, absolutely.
Lauren LaRosa
And if he messes up the sentence that was stayed, remember, they. They take some of the time away.
DJ Envy
Yeah, let's do the full 20.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. He could potentially have to do that as well.
Charlamagne Tha God
A very slippery slope.
DJ Envy
Makes no sense. You stupid.
Morgan
That is crazy.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
DJ Envy
Well, thank you for the latest with Lord Sh.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes. You know, for after the hour, I have an update on a donkey that I did earlier this week. Remember Chris Lewis, the brother from Augusta, Georgia, who was arrested for deprivation of a minor after he left his kids unattended at a McDonald's?
DJ Envy
I don't remember that one.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, we have. We haven't. We have an update. More of a double down, actually. A double down. A double down on the He.
Morgan
Hawk envy was ready Cry for this man.
DJ Envy
I. I said he deserved serve.
Charlamagne Tha God
Shut up.
DJ Envy
From the information that I got.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. That's why y'all gotta shut up.
Lauren LaRosa
You give it. Gofundme. Dunkey.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, we'll get to it.
DJ Envy
Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Jess Hilarious
You're checking out the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
I want to know how you came up with the donkey of the day.
Morgan
Because you're mean. I am not.
Charlamagne Tha God
How to make donkey today. There's a bunch of donkeys out here in the street.
Morgan
That is why Charlemagne is here.
Charlamagne Tha God
If we live a life where we bite our tongue based off who we may have been, we never would say it.
Jess Hilarious
On the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
In the words of Charlemagne, the God, he's A donkey. Oh, man. Charlamagne, you giving donkey today to who now? Well, Busta Rhymes donkey Today for Thursday, April 3rd is a double down to a donkey that I did earlier this week. Chris Lewis, the 24 year old brother from Augusta, Georgia, Roger, who was arrested for deprivation of a minor after he left his kids, three kids, ages 10, 6 and 1 years old, at a McDonald's unattended because he had a job interview. Can I refresh your memory? Let's go to Fox 26 Houston for the report, please.
Jess Hilarious
A job interview ends badly for a man in Georgia. Chris Lewis was arrested March 22. Police say he left his kids in a McDonald's by themselves while he went to an interview for a job. He reportedly told police he did not have a car and lived nearby. Lewis said instead of making his three kids, who are 16 and 10 years old, walk home alone, he decided to make them stay in the restaurant. What we know is he was there from 4, the kids were there from 4:30. He returned at 6:18. And then the mother was on the way as well. But we don't know if she was called by police niece or him after the fact or if she was on the way anyway.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now let's talk. I gave him donkey today for one simple reason. You don't jeopardize your child safety in the pursuit of employment. Because there is no job on this planet that would make up for something happening to your child in that McDonald's. It's that simple. Salute to the good sister, Tony Rivera. Drop on the clues bombs for Tony Rivera. You know, she's always out here providing, you know, human trafficking awareness. And she told me it's so much trafficking going on in Atlanta and the Georgia area. She said black kids are going for a high rate right now. She's, he said 75 grand and up. Okay, and you just Gonna leave your three beautiful Black babies, 10, 6 and 1 defend for themselves in a fast food restaurant for an hour and a half? Times may be hard, but they gonna be even harder if God forbid, something tragic had happened to those kids. Now y'all called up to this radio station, y'all was all in the comments telling me I forgot where I came from. As if I ever came from a place where my parents was leaving me unattended at a fast food restaurant. I see people starting GoFundMes for the young men, man. Antonio Brown as of this morning has raised almost 80, 000 grand for him. Okay. The post on the GoFundMe says story caught me by surprise. A dad just trying to find a way to make money for his family. I know he shouldn't just leave his kids, but some people don't have the means for babysitting. Etc. This GoFundMe is set in place to help this man. I have spoken with GoFundMe and they will get the funds to Chris and his family. I haven't spoken to Chris yet, but I hope to do so soon. You haven't spoken to Chris, but you're organizing to raise money for him? Why? You don't want to vet the brother and make sure the story is what he says it is? Because to me, and I said this yesterday, the story wasn't adding up. I wasn't trying to cast doubt on the brother's story, even though his story sounded like it had bacterial vaginosis.
Morgan
Okay, yes, vaginosis.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, whatever. It just sounded fishy. Okay. I was just pointing out the fact that a job or job interview shouldn't come before the safety of your kids. Okay? A man's job is to protect and provide, and protect comes before provision for a reason. To me, when I heard the story, it didn't make sense. These kids were left alone for an hour and a half. What job interview lasts that long? And witnesses said they kept seeing Chris walk back and forth. What job interview lets you just keep walking back and forth? Oh, Charlamagne, you don't have no empathy, Charlamagne. You're speaking from a place of privilege. No, I'm speaking from a place of common sense. And common sense ain't that common in this modern era. So today we have an update from the same outlet that I got the story from, the Augusta Press. The Richmond county authorities released a full report Wednesday with more details. And based on the video evidence and the timeline provided by all parties involved, it was determined that Chris Lewis was not, I repeat, was not engaged in a job interview or application process during the time the children were left unattended. He was not really looking for a job while the children. Children were at McDonald's. Can I give you some details from the police report and the noted inconsistencies Captain Danny Whitehead noted in regards to the whereabouts of Chris while his children were left attended. Okay, let's start with the 10 year old. You know the kid's gonna tell it. Okay. She told offices that her siblings and her father walked to McDonald's from the Hendrix apartment complex. She said her daddy told her he had to deliver a backpack to the apartment complex and told her he would return shortly. The child also mentioned that her Father Chris frequently leaves them alone. Two witnesses said they recalled hearing Chris on the phone with someone and he was overheard saying he needed to drop something off. The witnesses stated that after this, the father left McDonald's, leaving the children behind for approximately an hour and a half. The 10 year old daughter contacted her mother on social media at approximately 6:00pm. The mother arrived at McDonald's at 6:12pm she advised that Chris was supposed to deliver a backpack to her mother at the Hendricks Apartments and had been told that he must take the children with him. The kid's mother immediately called Chris, who answered and stated that he was on the way back to McDonald's from the apartment complex. Chris arrived at 6:18pm still in possession of the backpack, and he told his child's mother that he had been trying to find her to give her the backpack. And the children's mother reminded him that he was not supposed to leave the children unattended. Don't go refunding your money from GoFundMe. Now listen to the rest. Now, Chris claimed he left the kids at McDonald's because he went to fill out a job application at the West Bank Inn, which is located adjacent to the McDonald's, and he was waiting for a call back for a possible interview. He said he left to drop the backpack off at the apartment complex, but during the time he lost his ID and he lost another car and he had been retracing his steps trying to find them. Oh, you can feel the nigga tree in this story rising. So Captain Whitehead went to the West Bank Inn to verify Chris's story. He spoke to the manager and she confirmed that Chris did come in on March 22nd and he did complete a job application. She also conducted an informal interview with him on that date. When asked if Chris would be expecting a call back for a formal interview, she said no, no. The manager provided video surveillance footage of when Chris was there. Guess what the times were. 1:12pm to 1:37pm the kids were left unattended at McDonald's from 4:30pm to 6:12pm so as I said before, based on the video evidence and the timeline provided by all parties involved, Chris was not engaged in a job interview when he left the kids at McDonald's. Furthermore, by his own admission, he was walking between McDonald's and the apartment complex, you know, during that period. And the distance between the two locations is 0.4 miles. Now, don't let any of that distract you from the fact that regardless of what Chris was doing during this time, you don't jeopardize your child's safety in the pursuit of employment or anything else because there is no job or anything else you could be doing that would make up for something happening to your child when you leave them unattended for an hour and a half in a public place. I'm just doubling down on donkey today. You can discuss amongst yourselves. Please let Remy Ma give Chris Lewis the biggest.
Morgan
He haw hee haw hee haw. You stupid. Are you dumb thoughts. I knew it. I knew it. And everybody was up here. No, I don't think the brother should get, you know, he should lock him up, slap him on the wrist and let him go because he was trying to do something. He was out here serving scrambled coke and smoke smack.
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn you.
Morgan
You walking back and forth and all of that. How you turn McDonald's into a daycare. Like, what's wrong with you?
DJ Envy
See, you can't change the goal post. Charlamagne move the gospel. And you can't change it either. See, Charlamagne reported exactly what happened, and that's what we made a decision based off what he said.
Morgan
Okay?
DJ Envy
Now, if Charlemagne didn't give the right information a couple of days ago, because a couple of days ago, Charlamagne said this man was doing a job application. Did he not say that a couple days ago?
Charlamagne Tha God
No, no, no.
DJ Envy
We did this based on what you said.
Charlamagne Tha God
First of all, you're not going to distract. You're not going to distract me. I get. What did I just finish saying? Because you know, envy don't listen, I said don't let any of that distract you from the fact that regardless of what Chris was doing during this time, you don't jeopardize your child's safety in the pursuit of employment or anything else. I gave him donkey of the day for leaving the kids unattended at a McDonald's for an hour and a half. I don't give a damn what he was doing during that hour and a half. Agreed.
DJ Envy
If so, when he was, I said, I agree he should get donkey of, but if he was actually going to a job interview, no, it was not doing no eff ish. I didn't think he should have been.
Charlamagne Tha God
No matter what he was doing, you don't leave your children unattended. And I said, as the child's mom said, the child's mom said, just you don't leave your kids unattended for an hour and a half in a public place.
DJ Envy
And I said, I.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's why I gave him donkey.
DJ Envy
I just didn't feel he should have got arrested if he was really getting.
Charlamagne Tha God
You should hold yourself accountable for not reading the right way way.
Morgan
And then also you gave me the tree.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, I didn't.
Morgan
And also I. I spotted. I smelled the tree a long time ago.
Charlamagne Tha God
You said your baby daddy would do something like that.
Morgan
I never said that in my life. Never ever, ever now would leave the kids with a random girl that he didn't know for three days. But he not going to leave his kids in a public place and let alone a McDonald's.
Charlamagne Tha God
By the way, that's crazy too. Leaving them kids alone for. With a random girl for three days is crazy.
Morgan
Absolutely.
Jess Hilarious
But.
Morgan
But it beats leaving them in a fast food restaurant.
DJ Envy
It's about the same.
Morgan
Well, yeah, it is kind of the same.
Charlamagne Tha God
McDonald's. Maybe I. Yeah, McDonald's might be worse cuz at least you got somebody watching the kid. You don't know what the kid. The person might do to the kids. That's cuz but you at least somebody's watching them. Just leaving them unattended in McDonald's for hour and a half. That's crazy.
Morgan
It's crazy. And the little 10 year old baby girl, she said my dad do this all the time. Like I already knew what that was. She getting tired of being a parent. Parent at McDonald's.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right, once, once again, you don't jeopardize your child's safety in the pursuit of employment or anything else. There's no reason to leave your 10 year old, 6 year old and 1 year old unattended at a damn McDonald's for an hour and a half.
DJ Envy
Up next. Just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. If you have relationship issue, relationship problems or anything like that, call Jess up right now. She fix your mess. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
X about me.
Morgan
Relationship problems.
Charlamagne Tha God
X about me.
Morgan
If you need to beat your co worker's ass, ask about me. Your co worker need to beat your ass. Call it up. It's Dr. Jess and I'm here to fix your mess. Fix your mess. It's getting very much messy. Let me fix this.
DJ Envy
Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Just Fix my Mess. Hello? Who's this?
Lauren LaRosa
Hi, yes, this is Alyssa calling from Jersey.
DJ Envy
What's up, Alyssa from Jersey? What's your question for Jess?
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, so my, my daughter's father, me and him became kind of like best friends. Like he became more like an older brother to me. Than more like a baby father. Like, I mean, like even open. He basically has an open invitation to all of my family functions. Like he don't even have to be invited. Like he know he can show up, no problem, whatever. So me, him, we used to sit or talk on the phone all the time.
Morgan
Like I would tell him what's going.
Lauren LaRosa
On in my life, he would tell me what's going on with his life. I have three other kids. That's not his.
Charlamagne Tha God
I would talk, you know, about my.
Lauren LaRosa
Kids, about life, like nothing. So one day I'm going through my.
Charlamagne Tha God
Daughter'S phone because she's a teenager.
Lauren LaRosa
I periodically check my kids phone.
Morgan
That's right.
Lauren LaRosa
And I see messages from. He has a whole girlfriend that I knew nothing about. And I see messages from this girl texting my daughter, saying how much he miss her, how much he loved my daughter. So at that point, like, I feel disrespected because I'm like, I thought we was like, cool, you know, I thought we was friends. Like, I thought we had a good co parent relationship. Like, you know, so why is it that we could sit on the phone and talk for hours, but you didn't feel comfortable enough to tell me that?
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what I'm saying?
Lauren LaRosa
You had a female. And not only that, like you was leaving my daughter around her. Now, I'm not mad about that because my daughter is a.
Charlamagne Tha God
She's a teenager.
Lauren LaRosa
She can open her mouth and she could say whatever she wanted to say. But as her mom, I feel like.
Morgan
I deserve the right to know where.
Lauren LaRosa
My kid gonna be at when she.
Morgan
Not in my presence.
Lauren LaRosa
Especially since he lives eight hours away from me.
Morgan
Okay, I totally understand. All right, now you set a mouthful and I'm going to just tackle this part because I can sympathize with you with that. Because me and my son's dad are the same way. You know, we call each other brother and sister. We're cool. He's invited to all of my family functions as I'm invited to his. I treat his kids with the same respect I treat my kids with. Like we. We're all. We all intermingle. Everything is cool right now. Now if. If Rome didn't tell me that he had a girlfriend, I would not be that upset because I, I understand what you're saying. You feel more so betrayed by your friend that he didn't come to you with this information because y'all talk about everything else. You feel like, why the hell you couldn't tell me that she was in a relationship? What's up. But. But. But you. You shouldn't be that angry about it. And then listen, are there any feelings there for him or like, any. Like, be honest. Like, is there any chance that y'all would ever reconcile enough to be back together? Is it. Do you have that you still got a little crush on your baby date? I'm not talking about, like, you like them in the slightest way. Like, is there. Is there anything there? So this is what I will say, that yeah, we were.
Lauren LaRosa
We were together in a whole another state. And when we broke up, I just packed up and left and I came back home. So I feel like there's a lot of things in our relationship that didn't actually get closed.
Morgan
And you never. Yes. So you never. You never got that closure, cuz you just up and left.
Lauren LaRosa
Y never talk, right?
Morgan
We never.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, exactly.
Morgan
Yeah, y'all never talked about anything. You never. Okay, so, yes, there is still some type of feelings there. And then you. And now you kind of resent him a little bit because now he has this girlfriend and things and. And you feel like, yo, you didn't even really. We didn't really even fully close our chapter. And that's probably honestly why he didn't tell you about her. Because he feel the same way you feel. Right?
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Morgan
Yeah. You gotta still, like, kind of understand his point of view too. Like, ah, I don't want to tell. I don't want to ruin me and my baby mama's relationship. We regret. Although we didn't end like, the greatest. We. We didn't give any. We didn't give each other any clarification on, like, what we were doing, you know, the end all be. All of it.
DJ Envy
We.
Morgan
We never, like, fully said goodbye the right way or whatever. He probably feel the same way you feel, but he's eight hours away. What do you expect for him to do? And I know you got a little something. Something going on with somebody else too, right?
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, so my right.
Charlamagne Tha God
So.
Morgan
So don't be saying that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, no, no, no.
Lauren LaRosa
I'm just saying I would have never disrespected him and given some man Wink's daughter's phone number without him even knowing that this guy existed. Because you basically gave this woman, like, full access to my child even when she's not down there with y'all.
Morgan
You get what I'm saying? How old is your daughter?
Charlamagne Tha God
She's.
Lauren LaRosa
She's 13 now.
Morgan
Okay. And so she didn't. She didn't tell you about the lady either. You just had to go through the phone and find out.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I happen to be going through her phone. Yeah.
Morgan
Yeah. Again, I. I feel like it's a conversation. I feel like both of y'all still have unresolved issues and unresolved feelings, and y'all just need to meet. It ain't. This ain't no phone conversation. Y'all need to see each other, and you need to tell them exactly how you feel. And I guarantee you that's gonna open the door. Door for him to tell you exactly how he feels. And y'all, I guarantee you, y'all probably feel the same way.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay.
Morgan
Yeah, but let me know. Call back up next Thursday. Do it before next Thursday so I can know. Okay, I will. All right, girl. Thank you.
DJ Envy
All right, mama.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right.
DJ Envy
Just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's the real Deal. Help me, help me.
Morgan
Oh, my God. I'm all up in your mess. Imma fix it, fix it, fix it. Just gonna fix your mess. Cause my advice is real.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of. Just fix my mess. We got Bob on the line. Bob, what's up?
Jess Hilarious
Hey, hey.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm just keeping real. Bob is not. That's just an alien.
DJ Envy
We know Bob is not your name, bro.
Charlamagne Tha God
We know that. I know. Hey, but look, look, I'm gonna face it real, because Charlamagne, a real dude. And Charlamagne probably gonna come down to my son.
DJ Envy
Look, no cursing.
Charlamagne Tha God
I go by Stretch, you know? Well, my childhood friend probably gonna hit this, but yes, I got a question, because I feel some type of. When I feel like I should def have a conversation with my friend on this, but so we have a mentor or somebody who's been in our lives for, like, at least 10, 15 years. Like, you know what I'm saying? Kind of have been helping us out with advice and things like that. And there's four of us that all grew up, you know what I'm saying? Kind of under his mentorship.
Morgan
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm the youngest out of the four. The oldest person is who I have a question about, because I want to talk more about this. Like, I want to approach. I feel like. I feel like what he did was wrong.
Morgan
Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
So he basically text I mentor his wife and was like, hey, your friends are some hoes. I feel like. I feel like that's kind of out of pocket because, like, the dude, you know, I'M saying, no matter what we've all been through, dude, they never looked at us different. He's always helped us out with our families. Like, it's like, kind of like, to me, it's like disrespecting your elder and like the fact that you even text the dude and was like, hey, your wife mad at you yet? Like, to me, it's out of pocket. Because if. I feel like if either one of us would have text your wife that you'd been upset and you want to fight it and you know, him out of all people, he's not gonna necessarily physically do anything to you. He may not talk to you for. Yeah, he may pray for you. You know what I'm saying? He's probably gonna start praying for you more, but there's nothing else he's gonna do, and you know that. And I just feel like, bro, that's. That's wild, man. Like, come on.
Morgan
So wait. So wait. So wait. Okay, let's back it up. So one of your friends texted Yalls mentor and told him that his wife. Or text the mentor's wife.
Charlamagne Tha God
He texted the mentor's wife and said, hey, your friends are some hoe.
Morgan
How did he get the mentor's wife's number?
Charlamagne Tha God
We all had. We. Like I said, we've all. They've been married for at least 10 years. We've all known them for at least 15.
Morgan
Okay. Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
So we're all like. Like, we're like family.
DJ Envy
You know what I'm saying?
Morgan
Right. And. And I guess y'all were hanging around her friends and they showed.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, no, no, no. We've never. We've never hung around their friends. It ain't never like that. We've always hung around here. We don't. This is. This is. Why would have texted her that? Because we don't hang around her. We don't hang around her friends. You know, like, we're all grown in adults now. We don't hang around them like that anymore. We're not kids.
Morgan
Right. I don't understand why the text even went to the wife. I'm just not understanding. Yeah, so what? So your question to me is like, what you should do about this or what?
DJ Envy
Because apparently I really want to confront him.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, bro, like, why in the hell would you even do that? Like, if somebody would have did that to your wife. Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season one. I just knew him as a kid. Long, silent voices from his past came.
Morgan
Forward, and he was just staring at me.
Charlamagne Tha God
And they had secrets of their own to share. Gilbert King. I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott. I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.
DJ Envy
Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Charlamagne Tha God
I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.
Jess Hilarious
If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail.
DJ Envy
I would have never existed.
Charlamagne Tha God
I never experienced, expected to find myself in this place. Now I need to tell you how I got here. At the end of the day, I'm.
DJ Envy
Literally a son of a killer.
Charlamagne Tha God
Bone Valley Season 2 Jeremy. Jeremy, I want to tell you something. Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2 starting April 9 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear the entire new season add from free with exclusive content starting April 9th. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts, if you would. If I'm not married, you know what I'm saying? But if I was married or if you would have to text that to the person I'm with about her friends, like, yeah, bro, we gonna have words, man.
Morgan
Like, yeah, but look, you ever think about this, though? I. And. And it's wrong. It is definitely wrong. And. And since you can't figure out exactly why he would text her that when y'all ain't hanging around the friends, when y'all haven't hung around his wife's friends, either he's just lying. He's a delusional ass dude. Or he knows something that y'all don't know because he actually did get to hang around.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, no, see, look, this is the thing. We're in two different age groups. They're in there like we're all in our 30s, so we don't hang around.
Morgan
You know, your friend might be doing some hanging without y'all. Yo, he might like the old chicks, man, and they might get down with the get down. And he wanted his. I just.
Charlamagne Tha God
I just feel like when they. Especially if they hoeing. No, it ain't. Look, all right, so here's. I give y'all. I hate to bring weights into this. Okay, okay. But even more the dynamic. They're a white couple. We're all black.
Morgan
Oh, okay. So that. Oh, so you're.
Charlamagne Tha God
They're biblically Christian face. Like, they go to church every Sunday. Like, they are, like, the ideal. Like, you know what I'm saying? What the other side would view As a couple successful. You know what I'm saying? So that's why I'm like, bro, no, like, it just doesn't make sense. And like, you text out, you text our mentor, like, hey, your wife mad at you yet? Like, bro, what?
Morgan
So, yeah, he text the wife and then text the mentor.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Morgan
So, yeah, talk to your homie.
Charlamagne Tha God
Just like, you know what I'm saying? If we should. If we all holding each other accountable, because, like, a lot I've done some messed up stuff and they've all held me accountable for it.
Morgan
Yeah, definitely.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, us holding you accountable. Like, bro, that's fine. Like, I'm not gonna lie. Like I said, if you would have done that. Bro, I can't say what with. With everything on the radio. But yeah, we definitely have word.
Morgan
Yeah, no, for sure. Okay. So no, that's just. If that's what it is, I think you should hit your homie. Y'all all grew up together. You should be able to have that conversation with him and figure out exactly what happened. And I bet you you better call back next Thursday, because I bet you he gonna tell you something that you didn't even know. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. Then you let. You told me they were right.
Charlamagne Tha God
He probably listening to y'all.
Morgan
Y'all, you know what I'm saying? Listen, call back next Thursday. I bet you he gonna tell you some things that he did that that y'all wouldn't even expect from them white church people. I bet you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, say no more. I got you. I'll keep you posted.
Morgan
All right, thank you.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right. What's wrong with the mentor's wife being hoes, though?
Morgan
That's what I'm saying. No, the mentor's wife's friends.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, what's wrong with the mentor's wife friends being hoes?
Morgan
I don't know why that's so hard to believe. That he probably cracked one of them. And they. You know what I mean? And he texted the wife like, yo, your friend's hoes, you know what I mean?
Charlamagne Tha God
But a bunch of white 50 something year old hoes, man, y'all supposed to be slinging big pee pee and getting paid them Karens and Becky's cut a check.
Morgan
Damn right. One thing an old white women gonna love is a young black man. So I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a. Yup. A young black penis.
DJ Envy
And I. I don't think a fantasy type thing.
Morgan
Right, his homeboy. Yeah, it's like a whole fetish.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like what Dr. Umar wouldn't approve, but shoot, you know, he's brave, right?
Morgan
And this, this, this dude, do not believe that. Like, he's underestimating his homeboy.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now, I do think it's corny for the dude to text that to the wife.
Morgan
And they're gonna text the mentor. Like, is your wife mad at you? Like, yo, you obviously ain't never had no white punk home ever, and you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Ain'T getting paid for it.
Morgan
Probably not.
Charlamagne Tha God
Dudes always asking where the hoes at. They with your mentor's wife.
DJ Envy
Just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
Morgan
See Lauren becoming a straight face.
DJ Envy
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody detail.
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything.
Charlamagne Tha God
She be having the latest on the.
Jess Hilarious
Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Charlamagne Tha God
Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything.
Jess Hilarious
Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.
Lauren LaRosa
So we want to take some time to send a congratulations to USC sophomore guard Juju Watkins. Juju, yes. So she was named the Winner of the 2025 Naismith Women's College Basketball Player of the Year award. Well deserved yesterday. Yes, for sure. I think what, you know, the past couple months or, like, you know, I mean, it's been a lot with her and her injury and her season ending.
Charlamagne Tha God
The last couple of weeks.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. Dang.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. It really hurts you go down because they would have definitely, in my humble opinion, been in the Final Four. I think they would beat Yukon and they'd be in the Final Four right now.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. Well, although that happened, you know, this is historic because she is now the first USC player to win the Women's College Player of the Year award since the legendary Lisa Leslie in 1994. So, you know, it's unfortunate, you know, that her season ended the way it did, but I'm sure she's really excited about this because she posted it and said she is so grateful. So congratulations to her.
DJ Envy
Congrats.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, man.
Lauren LaRosa
And in other news, Friday, the movie. I know that I think it was Mike Epps. He was up here and he talked about it happening. But now Variety just announced that Ice Cube has closed a deal for this to happen. Not just announced, but Variety announced that Ice Cube has closed the deal for Friday to happen at Warner Brothers in Newland Line. So he's reached a deal to write and star in the new Friday movie for Warner Brothers and New Line Cinema. The new feature, which is titled Last Friday, will mark the fourth entry in the comedy series and then the first in over 20 years. Following up after Friday, after next in from 2002. So Ice Cube has been, you know, open about his plans to make another Friday movie, though his agreement with Warner to star and direct marks a significant development in the project. So, congratulations, Ice Cube. And it's happening.
DJ Envy
I can't wait to see that.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's what my gu said when he was here. I think he said Cuba just did the deal.
DJ Envy
I don't remember the third Friday, though, do y'all? I don't know.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Morgan
Ricky Smiley played the Santa Claus. Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
You can see a little storyline reminder, and you'll remember it.
Morgan
That's because the first and second one is like. Well, the first one is untouchable. The second one was cool. And, you know, the third one. The third one is always like, oh, okay, nice.
Charlamagne Tha God
The third one could have been a TV show.
Morgan
Could have been.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. It didn't have to be a movie.
Morgan
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
How many episodes did that TV show have been?
Morgan
Like, two?
Jess Hilarious
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Maybe two. Maybe four. 30 minutes a piece. No, three.
Morgan
Yeah, something like that. Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay.
Morgan
But it didn't seem like a continuation of Friday, because if you watch the first one.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Morgan
Third one, it's like, damn.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, Got you. Well, I'm just happy to see it was happening because I know for a while he was complaining that he couldn't get the support from, like, the studios and stuff.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is the last one. Chris Tucker gotta be. He gotta be. You gotta have all the worlds combined and Chris Tucker. But then everybody's so, like, John Witherspoon. No longer. Bernie Mack. No longer.
Morgan
Even though Bernie Mack, he was the preacher, though, like, his. His part was real quick. They could still make it without, like, some of the acts, but I feel like some of the acts, they need, like, Devo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
DJ Envy
That's Pops.
Morgan
You know what I mean?
Charlamagne Tha God
What happened to his family? We ain't even see his family the last two movies. Where is he? Craig Mama. Craig's sister.
Morgan
What happened to Regina King is the sister. Yep. Nia Long is the. Yeah, he can still make it work.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is Felicia still smoking crack? Is Ms. Parker still fine?
Morgan
She look good.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good.
Lauren LaRosa
Is Craig's mom still D O? D?
Morgan
Yeah, she's still alive. She ain't around here somewhere.
Lauren LaRosa
Jess, they need you for this movie or you tapped in? Okay. Like, they need you to.
Charlamagne Tha God
That woman is 72 years old. That's. Jess is really 72.
Morgan
Whatever that's all we got.
Lauren LaRosa
L. Yeah, that's all we got.
Morgan
All right, cool.
Lauren LaRosa
So look.
Morgan
Scenario, right? So no, you know, I always give you. You two men to choose from, but I want to know what you would do in this situation.
DJ Envy
You still trying to find her man?
Charlamagne Tha God
Absolutely.
Lauren LaRosa
I told her he's gonna talk about it.
Charlamagne Tha God
I thought we got.
Morgan
We're not passing until she lands a man.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay?
Morgan
We're not gonna be past it. Okay.
Lauren LaRosa
You don't want me to be happy first? It's like I kind of want you.
Charlamagne Tha God
To be here a little bit, but just clearly still doesn't. But continue.
Morgan
I want you to be here. Don't do that.
Jess Hilarious
Stupid.
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, my God.
Morgan
Listen, all right, cool. I ain't going to be the one reporting, so you got to be here. Listen, all right, you're dating this guy for six months, y'all. Six months in. He moved you in. Of course. He wooed you and everything. You met his family and all. He's successful. Now y'all are out one night, right? And on your way out of the restaurant, a bisexual guy comes up to your man and he says, oh, this what we doing now?
Lauren LaRosa
Listen.
Morgan
And walks away. That's all he said. And your man didn't really give a response. He just kind of brushed it off like, oh, whatever, come on. He grabbed your hand, and y'all get in the car. First thing you do is immediately ask, what the hell was that about? And he tells you that that guy from years ago was his assistant. He. He was once his assistant, and he didn't like how he was terminated once the company went under. And he's just upset, and that's the first time he's seen him in years. What do you do? Do you believe that? Do you do more digging? Or do you just automatically throw him in the boat with the guy?
Lauren LaRosa
He's in the boat, and I'm definitely gonna dig. First of all, I'm not walking out the restaurant. Where are you turning now? We gotta have a conference call. This is a press conference now. I need to understand what you mean.
Morgan
Okay, so what would you have said to the guy? Because you're Lauren LaRosa, and one thing you do is reach out.
Lauren LaRosa
So the thing is reach out and touch.
Morgan
You're gonna reach out to the guy.
Lauren LaRosa
Let's hold hands and agree that I need to have a real conversation of. What did you mean by that? What do you mean? This is what we're doing now. What was your relationship? What was the. I'm confused because it's giving me that y'all used to deal with each other. And I didn't know that that was a past thing. If so.
Morgan
But the guy, his disposition, you know, your man is like, this is great. Like, look, go, go. I don't even. I ain't even got time for this. He grabbed your hand and the guy switches off like, okay, this is so sad.
Lauren LaRosa
You know, I don't care what my man is giving because one thing they gonna do is downplay and one thing I'm gonna do, get to the bottom of it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, okay. And what if you got your man phone later and saw that he text the gay guy? First of all, she's trans.
Morgan
Is that nothing about her?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
Now I'm not even asking questions. I'm out.
Morgan
Like, yeah, I can't date.
Lauren LaRosa
I don't want to date a bisexual.
DJ Envy
The latest with Lauren. Oh my God, this is sad.
Morgan
First of all, she's so sad cuz.
DJ Envy
She can't even get a man. You trying to just make up a fake man for her and she can't even get that right.
Morgan
Oh my God, that is so.
Lauren LaRosa
I did nothing wrong.
Morgan
This is a scenario that I'm creating.
DJ Envy
Jess, before we go to break, you know what happened? Gia was felt so bad. Ghost was like, I think I found somebody for Jeff. I found somebody for Lauren, right?
Morgan
Oh no.
Lauren LaRosa
He been getting calls all week.
DJ Envy
It was a white guy and Lauren turned him down.
Morgan
You turned down somebody wife? Yes, that. Okay, I got you.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you.
Morgan
You want the melanated kings.
Charlamagne Tha God
But okay would be pro.
DJ Envy
But now she's single again. All right, well, the people's choice.
Lauren LaRosa
So like how much money he make?
DJ Envy
Oh my goodness. The Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Black queens forever. Snow bunnies never.
Jess Hilarious
You're checking out the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now we're asking you guys if you call up here, a lot of people say they call and they can't get through. Well, we got an easy way for you to just get through to the Breakfast Club. Go to the iHeartRadio app. There's a little mic. You click the mic, it's a talk back feature. You can leave a 30 second comment for any of us. If you don't like the way Charlemagne looks. He's too short, he's bald headed. Whatever it may be.
Charlamagne Tha God
You think Envy look dirt dirty. Whatever it is, look dirty. Barefoot and dirty.
DJ Envy
Barefooted dirty. But whatever it is, you can leave a 30 second voice memo or voice note on that and we replay it on The Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay. Same thing we use when. When I did the. We, the people with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Jess Hilarious
Correct.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
DJ Envy
So definitely hit that up asap, because.
Charlamagne Tha God
I know people be having comments and they be wanting to say stuff about interviews that they hear. And, you know, sometimes we don't have a phone line or the donkey or the donkey today, you know, or just say said something that offended everybody.
Morgan
You know, when was that ever a thing? No, no, no. Not up here.
DJ Envy
From the time. And speaking of, Jess, you're gonna be in North Carolina this weekend.
Morgan
I will be in Raleigh, North Carolina.
DJ Envy
This weekend as J. Cole's Dreamville.
Morgan
The same weekend.
DJ Envy
All right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Envy.
Morgan
Because the more you talk about it, they're gonna be like, oh, no, I ain't gonna. I ain't going to our show. I'm gonna go see J. Cole for his last time. But yes, we're gonna be at the Improv tomorrow Friday. And then Saturday we have two shows as well. Well, and then Sunday, I'm going to be a Dreamville fest, too. So per.
DJ Envy
Okay, get your tickets. So get your tickets. And also, salute to Ellie. Mel.
Charlamagne Tha God
Did I say it right? Ellie Mustel. He's got a great new book out called bad law. 10 popular laws that Are Ruining America. I mean, I. I enjoyed the book because, you know, I've been wanting to know more about constitutional law. I don't think there's a better constitutional law scholar than Ellie Mustel. I don't believe, you know, his. His beliefs on biology. Biology. Okay.
Morgan
He's one of your favorite people. Yes. No, I, like, I have to love all of him.
Charlamagne Tha God
I do like reading his stuff, but I don't like his views on biology, but on constitutional law. Great.
DJ Envy
All right, well, definitely pick that up. It's called Bad Law.
Charlamagne Tha God
Salute to Louis V. Man. Louis V. Is here from our sister station 96.1 to beat in Atlanta, Georgia. He'll be providing the soundtrack at the Black Effect Podcast Festival April 26. Louie had a great idea. Louis, should I say the idea? Louie said we should get fans, right? Black Effect fans. Because if you've been to the Black Effect Podcast Festival, a line dance always breaks out. They always end up doing the electric. So, you know, we're gonna have the boots on the ground, Right. Louis V from the Met. He from the 803. So, you know you're gonna have the boots on the ground at the Black Effect Podcast Festival.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
So go get your tickets.
DJ Envy
So bring your fans when you. When you come out there.
Charlamagne Tha God
Or we might have fans for you.
DJ Envy
Or that make Black Effect fans.
Charlamagne Tha God
Louie got the button. Budget. We got the budget, but 96.1 to beat. Got the budget. They got the budget. Okay, so you might have it there, but black effect.com podcast festival. Go get your tickets for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival happening in Atlanta April 26th at Pullman Yards.
DJ Envy
All right, when we come back, we got the positive notice. The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning, everybody.
Morgan
It's DJ Envy.
DJ Envy
Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's almost time to get up out of here. And like you said, Louis V. Is here. Also Joe Strada from out Atlanta station. I'm gonna be in Atlanta, I think next week. I gotta do a bunch of podcasts, so set me up with Ferrari and all them to promote the book. Me and the wife will be heading out there. We go on our book tour.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right. You go to Atlanta, huh?
Morgan
First of all, yes, Atlanta is gay. Don't do all that. When you was down there for that cheerleading convention, my homeboy was like, why? Charlamagne? Trying to act like he wasn't looking at me. And I was like, yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
He was thick. I don't even know who she talked about.
Morgan
He was like. He tried act like he was there with some woman. I was like, that's his wife. He's like, he got a wife? And he was looking at me like that. Y.
Charlamagne Tha God
They want me to be trade. So.
Morgan
Okay, vocabulary. Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
Jesus.
DJ Envy
Leave us.
Morgan
Leave us.
Charlamagne Tha God
On a positive note, the positive note is this. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. So be grateful for something today, okay? Have a great day. Breakfast Club. Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one.
DJ Envy
Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Charlamagne Tha God
I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known. At the end of the day, I'm.
DJ Envy
Literally a son of a killer.
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
Summary of The Breakfast Club Podcast Episode: "Ye Fires Back at Charlamagne, Drake Gains Access to Kendrick’s Deal Docs, + Elie Mystal Interview"
Release Date: April 3, 2025
Host: Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious
Guest: Eli Mystal, Author of "Bad Law: 10 Popular Laws That Are Ruining America"
a. Carmelo Anthony Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame
The show opens with hearty congratulations to Carmelo Anthony for his well-deserved induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Charlamagne Tha God (04:13): "Easy call. First ballot. Hall of Famer."
b. President Trump's Tariff Policies Under Scrutiny
The hosts delve into President Trump's ongoing imposition of tariffs, a move aligned with his promise to rectify longstanding unfair trade practices. They discuss the potential economic repercussions and bipartisan opposition emerging in Congress.
Charlamagne Tha God (06:00): "What is the end game here? It just feels like, you know, they put taxes on us, so now we are going to put taxes on them."
c. Elon Musk's Role in the Trump Administration
Elon Musk is reported to be stepping back from his role in the Trump administration after his Super PAC's unsuccessful bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. The hosts express skepticism about Musk's active political involvement and its impact on his businesses.
Charlamagne Tha God (29:03): "Why couldn't he just be like every other oligarch and donate to campaigns instead of being all up in the front lines?"
d. New York City Mayor Eric Adams' Corruption Case Dismissed
Mayor Eric Adams celebrates the dismissal of his corruption case, allowing him to focus on his administration and the future of New York City. The conversation touches on Adams' previous remarks about feeling targeted by the Biden administration.
Eli Mystal (30:56): "A federal judge issued the decision to toss the case with prejudice, meaning it can't be brought back to court."
e. Former President Obama's Apology for Photobombing a Family Photo
An amusing segment highlights Obama's unexpected appearance in a family's photo near the Tidal Basin. He later apologizes for unintentionally photobombing the moment.
Charlamagne Tha God (34:16): "Just like, hey, my bad, President Obama. If you got caught out there with your second family, just say that."
The hosts address a controversial incident involving Chris Lewis, who was arrested for leaving his three young children unattended at a McDonald's during a purported job interview. Initial sympathy quickly turns to criticism as inconsistencies in his story emerge.
Charlamagne Tha God (70:12): "You don't jeopardize your child's safety in the pursuit of employment."
After reviewing police reports and witness statements, it becomes clear that Lewis was not engaged in a legitimate job interview, undermining his defense and highlighting the severity of his negligence. The hosts strongly condemn his actions and discuss the ethical implications of such behavior.
a. Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
Mystal critiques the deregulation of the airline industry, explaining how it led to poorer service, higher prices, and the erosion of labor unions. He argues that government oversight had previously ensured safety and affordability, which deregulation dismantled.
Eli Mystal (39:35): "The Airline Deregulation Act came out in 1978. Labor got gutted. Airline jobs used to be good jobs."
b. "Don't Say Gay" Law and Educational Policies
The discussion shifts to contemporary educational laws like Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which restricts discussions about gender and sexuality in schools. Mystal argues that such laws perpetuate heteronormativity and hinder the acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities.
Jess Hilarious (45:23): "If somebody comes and tells you their name, you say their name, right?"
c. Constitutional Amendments and Historical Legislation
Mystal advocates for reevaluating laws predating the 1965 Voting Rights Act, likening outdated laws to apartheid-era policies that excluded marginalized groups from participation in governance. He calls for reconstituting foundational laws to reflect contemporary values of equality and inclusion.
Eli Mystal (37:10): "Our argument is that if we like the law, we could pass it again... South Africa threw the whole constitution out and started anew."
Drake secures a legal win as a New York judge denies Universal Music Group's request to stay discovery in their ongoing disputes. This allows Drake and his team to access UMG's contractual and operational documents, intensifying the battle between the artist and the label.
Lauren LaRosa (63:27): "Universal Music Group was saying, 'Can you pause on this whole discovery?' But the judge denied it, allowing discovery to proceed."
The hosts discuss the implications of this victory, speculating on what Drake aims to uncover and how it might affect his relationship with Kendrick Lamar and the broader music industry.
A motion is filed to revoke Young Thug's probation in Georgia due to his alleged online threats against a prosecutor involved in a trial against his label, YSL. The incident involves Young Thug's derogatory remarks and the ensuing threats towards the investigator, raising questions about his compliance with probation terms.
Lauren LaRosa (68:01): "Young Thug posted a photo and called the prosecutor a big liar, leading to threats against her and her family."
The discussion emphasizes the importance of adhering to probation conditions and the potential consequences Young Thug may face if the court upholds the motion.
Ice Cube confirms a deal with Warner Brothers and New Line Cinema to produce and star in the fourth installment of the "Friday" movie series, titled "Last Friday." This marks the franchise's first return to the big screen in over two decades, sparking excitement among fans eager for a nostalgic continuation.
Lauren LaRosa (96:07): "Ice Cube has closed the deal for 'Last Friday,' marking the first new entry in the series in over 20 years."
The hosts reflect on the legacy of the original films and express anticipation for the new movie's release.
In a heartfelt segment, Lauren LaRosa shares a caller's dilemma involving unresolved feelings and trust issues between co-parents. The hosts, including Morgan, Charlamagne, and DJ Envy, offer guidance on communication and accountability in relationships.
Closing the episode on an uplifting message, Charlamagne Tha God underscores the transformative power of gratitude in overcoming life's challenges.
Charlamagne Tha God (91:53): "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more."
He encourages listeners to cultivate gratitude to enhance their well-being and personal growth.
This episode of The Breakfast Club navigates a diverse array of topics, from high-stakes legal battles in the music industry and the impact of political tariffs to insightful discussions on constitutional law with Eli Mystal. The hosts blend serious news analysis with engaging interviews and interactive segments, providing listeners with a comprehensive and thought-provoking experience.
Notable Quotes:
Charlamagne Tha God (06:00): "What is the end game here? It just feels like, you know, they put taxes on us, so now we are going to put taxes on them."
Eli Mystal (39:35): "The Airline Deregulation Act came out in 1978. Labor got gutted. Airline jobs used to be good jobs."
Jess Hilarious (45:23): "If somebody comes and tells you their name, you say their name, right?"
Charlamagne Tha God (91:53): "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more."
This comprehensive summary encapsulates the episode's key discussions, providing both depth and clarity for listeners and newcomers alike.