Are You Taking Your Child Back To School (Ramony Malco interview)

The god piece of the planet is Tuesday, Toronto. It up. Good morning. How everybody feeling today? Good? How you guys feel? I am blessed black and Holly Faver. Yeah, it was hot outside yesterday. It was hot. It was a hot one, yes, like ninety seven degrees here in New York. Yeah, it's gonna be a heat with if they say in ninety degrees the whole week. Very huge, guys, Yes, sir, it's

it's summertime. Okay. It's like literally it's literally like walking a bad walking in the bathroom with somebody's pumping it's pooping and saying it's station here. But you still do it too, Yes, we do. You still say that. That's the beauty of summer. The beauty of summer and the beauty of winter is when you walk outside when his ninety eight degrees, you say, damn, it's hot out here. It actually feels good to say that. It does. It feels good to announce that because we understand what season

that we're in the same thing with winning. Damn, it's freezing out here. It's supposed to be. It's winter time. I was catching up on some TV yesterday. I've watched The Shy. Have you been watching the Shot? Yeah? Me too, Like I'm so when I say I'm so behind on the show, I think I saw it like the first episode. I haven't seen anything since I have to catch up on watching. I may destroy you. Y'all watch that? No, what is that? It's also an HBO um and oh yeah,

yeah um the young lady from Chewing Gum. I can't remember what's her name? MICHAELA. Cole Yes from the UK. Yep, yeah, so that also comes on. That's a great, great show if you haven't seen that yet. I was just catching up on some things. Ninety day fiance, I have to catch up on. I know y'a don't watch that either. No, no, no, no, did you gonna watch that? That movie with knee along movie? Heard about it, knee along fatal Affair. I think it's called fatal Affair. Yeah. No, I didn't say did you

watch that? You just us you said, I look, I've been running around. I'm just gonna stay home. Yeah. I don't really like horror movies. I don't like to pay people to scare me. It's not a hard movie. It sounds like a hard movie, fatal and then the word of fair black men don't cheat that stuff that I like to stay with from like black men cheating in it really might out you know why? You why because I'm not gonna fall into that exactly what it is.

So then shelter the driving. Yesterday, I was riding my bike, getting my miles in and somebody pulled up next to me and say, Kiv scholamine this bike back. That's right, that's my bike. I thought about that. Listen, when you was on your little ride just today and you posted that picture on Instagram. I literally saw that. I said, that's my bike full I felt like right in Fridays, I want my bike. I want to be it's bike Beck. That's right, I want a bike. I want my bed.

I got that's my bike. Well, Rominey Malcol will be joining us this morning. We'll kick it with Rominey Malco. He has a new flick that comes out this weekend, so we'll talk to him. And he broke directed, edited and everything and starting, and we got front page was coming up. What we're talking about, Well, let's let's talk about baseball and coronavirus. What's happening there. We'll tell you about the album break that has caused them to postpone

three games. All right, we'll get to that next. Keep it Lockers the Breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news were starting you. Well, let's start with this. At least fourteen players and coaches on the Miami Marlins tested positive for COVID nineteen. So Major League Baseball has to postpone three games, and now they are raising questions about holding this season

even though there is a pandemic going on. Here is Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred was their discussion questions about the possibility of this season being, if not canceled, put on a hiatus. No, there really wasn't we built protocols anticipating positive tests at some point during the season. That the protocols were built in order to allow us to continue to play through those positives. And I think there was support of the notion that the protocols are

adiquette to keep our players safe. Yeah, I don't see how to contained that for a whole season. They're gonna be traveling. It's a lot more personnel in baseball. It's not like they can put themselves in a bump in one location like basketball players. I don't know how he contained it right because there are no fans at the games. They've banned high fives, there's no fist bumps, and there's no spitting amongst the players now here. As a commissioner

talking about what's going to happen. Moving forward, weard with testing and protocols. We have improved the testing. There was a timeliness issue early on. We've completely eliminated the problem of having pending tests that people were talking about. If that applies across the board in terms of the protocol. It is an evolving situation. We continue to look at them. We're looking at them again today to see whether there's anything that we've learned from this situation that might cause

us to make alterations. Hey man, I'm not a baseball fan. I'll tell y'all all the time, and telling y'all for a year. I like baseball better when everybody was on steroids. That's when the sport was at best. Okay, right now, I don't, I'm not. I'm not missing baseball. I was watching miss countdown. I was watching the NBA countdown last night, saying, this is why I love basketball. Basketball, So it's so amazing,

you know, it was such a great sport. The fact that it can even be contained in a bubble is amazing. How out the crowd though, Because I haven't seen any games yet and I was without the crowd, it look regular to me. I mean, I'm not gonna say it looks regular. Regular is not the word. It definitely looks different. But I'm I'm paying attention to the action on the court and think about it. Man, we live in a different era. We live in a social media era. The

crowd is on social media. You know what I'm saying. I enjoy it well. In the White House, Donald Trump's National security advisor, Rabbit O'Brien has tested positive for coronavirus, according to sources, So the White House declined to immediately comment. We don't know whether or not they're going to have to quarantine. But the University of Notre Dame announced that they will withdraw from hosting the first presidential debate that

was supposed to happen September twenty ninth. Now that will take place at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, according to a statement that they made. The president of the university, Father John Jenkins, said that he made what he called this difficult decision because the necessary health precautions would have greatly diminished the educational value of hosting the debate on our campus. So unfortunately, even though they would have liked to host that debate, they won't. I wonder why they

couldn't host the debate like that. Seems like a very easy thing to be able to socially distansion. He's got two candidates. I'm sure the security around somewhere. It's not like the moderator is right next to the people like that. Seems like it can be a very easy thing, the socially distanced that. And we were talking about these stimulus

checks in this next round. While Mitch McConnell has unveiled the Heels Act, the Republican Heels Act to address the coronavirus pandemic, there's another round of twelve hundred dollars stimulus checks on the way. According to McConnell, this bill is expected to cost about one trillion dollars. It gives a liability shield to businesses and funds to schools, and it caps at seventy percent of pre pandemic pay That is

the unemployment insurance supplement that lapsed last week. So this time the stimulus checks will include extra cast for people with adult dependence and if you have an adult or child that's depending on you, you qualify for a five hundred dollars payments. So if you earn up to seventy five thousand dollars, you get the full twelve hundred, but if you earn more than that, you'll get smaller amounts, and people who earn over ninety nine thousand dollars again

won't get any money. All right, People out there with their phones turned off and the only way they can communicate is by doing FaceTime audio if they got wildfi somewhere. So, yes, stimulus checks need to be out, all right, Well that's front page news. Get it off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent phone lines a wide opening number. Again, it's eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Is

the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're man or blast. So people to have the same anyting we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this yo? This is your boy chilling chill out of Pittsburgh morning and by morning morning. What's up? Man? I'm telling the morning ain't not? Baby? Hey, hey man, I just found out my neighbor all six of her kids got a d D them all six of them,

all different days. I mean, you got me sitting me thinking like I've never heard that in my life. Yeah, thirty one, all six kids got addd that that check gonna be crazy, you know, I mean, but this is just want to tell y'all good morning, man. Litten to more right, now y'all gotta kiding on my clothes in the morning and keep doing what you're doing. I'll call y'all back next week. All right, my brother, okay, all right, brother, y'all.

This guy with the different daddies, Hello, who's this? This is December eight calling from Atlanta, Georgia's they December, So your parents try tomb and they tried to make it a little fancy December. Yeah. I was born New Year's Eve, so everybody celebrates my birthday the true We'll get it off your chess, mama. All right, I want to get this off my chest. And I'm kind of horse this morning because I worked like eighty hours a week. But I'm tired of these parents that are petitioning the Cobb

County school Board to go back to school. These kids out here are going to go through coronavirus just like adults, and they're willing is to sign a waiver, a liability waiver that said they won't hold a school board liable if their children get sick, name or even die for coronavirus. Heard about that the school system is not the daycare center. That's your responsibility to take care of your own kids and keep your kids safe. And the more I hear

that they petitioned these school boys, they're stupid. Yeah, well, you know what I mean. I'm not bringing my kids to so I'm not taking my kids at school. But there's a lot of people that have to work and feel like if they have to work, they need their kids to get an education, so they're willing to put their school their kids back in school. You can't be mad at that. But that's when the parents need to come together and we need to find a way that

we can keep each other's kids. Where as the grandma's where the auntie's worth the cousins not expect the school to do it. Yeah, it's such a tough position to be in. Um. I think what makes it really bad and heartbreaking is having to sign away that says I'm fine if something happens to my child, if my child dies, and something like that. That right there, I couldn't even matter. Yeah. Never, I'm a mom and I would never say, hey, let

my child die so they can go to schools. To me, that is the craziest, don't I don't think that's what that letters says. I think the letters just the school is just not taking responsibility there. You know, I don't think the school is gonna try to kill a kid. I think they're gonna do everything possible. But when parents go in and out, back, back and forth to work, a parent could bring that to their child, you know.

But you know, some people don't have the luxury of having grandparents and aunties around, so they you know, that they stuck and they have to do what they have to do. You know, I'm not taking my kids to school, but some parents don't have that choice that Some parents feel like it's okay and they're gonna you know, they want their kids to get the education right, and they are telling you you don't have to send your kids

to school. Right, you have the choice to say yes or no. Yeah, that's the only said no. They agreed everything that's going to go virtual as of last night. But there are still parents that will still want other teachers to step up and say we'll do it, and the teachers are saying no. They're even teachers. They are taking their own family leaves so that they don't have to go back to school and they shouldn't have to sacrifice family leaves because they're scared they're going to say

I'm gonna get coronavirus, all right. I just can't imagine it, all right, I just I just don't understand why all peoples don't provide the option, like there should be an option. There should be an you for kids that you know, for parents don't feel comfortable bringing their children to school, whether this online classes something like, at least give them the option. Get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent,

hit this up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. What's doing? This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? We're good with your envy? Hey, what's up? Bro? Ellen? Telling was good, Charlotte Man, it was good. Yeah, Peace King, it's been a long time, a long time. Man. The

world crazy out here. I know y'all seen I fight the other day down here in Hollywood at the hard Rock. We'll fight, man. Some Spaniards people. They told that place up a bunch of young Spaniards. Dude, like it will probably something, Dude, and they twenties they will fight, and girls they were fighting. Guys they were throwing stuff. It was Maine. It's all over the internet right now. You

could check it out, hey. But also I wanted to tell y'all, Charlotte Mane, y'all have been out of the office. I wanted to send y'all my second book. It's called The New Man Role Reversal, The Rise of Feminism and the Fall of Masculinity by Gary McDonald. I want y'all to check that out. I want to send it to you, but y'all out of the office anyway. Send it back in the office one day. Send up. We got we gotta sign a death waver to come back into the office.

They might make us. Hello, who's this good morning? Get it off your chest. I'm calling because I'm just at a loss for words about how they're sending the kids back to school. I feel like it's too early. I have three kids of my own, and I'm not sending mind back. It has put me in a situation where I just got the promotion at my job. I've been there for three years and I finally climbed up the latter to where I want to be. But now they have this pandemic going on. It's not safe when the

kids coming home just with colds all the time. You know, they never really washing their hands like that at school. It's no one to be to ensure that they have masks on all day. It was to say that don't have the corona. So I'm putting, I'm putting in a situation like go to work or stay home and be at home, you know, a teacher, so I have to make that choice. And it's just it's not right. America is not doing right right now. So I wanted to get that off my chet. How old are your kids?

I just said that thirty seconds ago. It's as it shows how left up America really is, even more so than this, Yes, how old are you kids? I have a nine year old, in eleven year old and my third when she's sixteen years old. Thank you, thank you. I'm doing logistics, and I mean it seems like only even will be doing it for a little while because I'm to be at home, you know, home schooling, right, I'm not telling back. So it's like I came up and there's no aid for us. They don't they don't

talk about that. What are we gonna do. Yeah. I can't imagine no parents choosing their job over the well being up their kids, because you're going to work to feed those kids. If those kids are dead, what's the point, you know, as those kids get extremely sick, Like, what's the points I can't I can't imagine anybody being put in a position where they're gonna they gotta choose their job over their kids, and they're gonna choose their job.

I can't see that, right, And schools start next week, Lord, next week. So I just wanted to get that off my chest. And I hope parents just be saying and reconsider sending their kids to school, all right, thank you, thank you, you have a great day, you too, and say that's that's some of the choices people gotta make, you know, Do I do I work and financially support my family, or say I can't work and stay at home.

And I don't know if if any any any parent, any any parents probably is ninety five percent going who's the well being of their kids over their job. That's just that's just natural parental instinct, especially the mothers. Yeah, but you know there's a lot of parents that's out and about, right, now you know what I mean that's out and about and hanging out and going out and this, that and the other. A lot of parents are still

doing that as well too. I ain't talking about them, because if you mean about like this in the clubs and that parties and stuff like that, Yeah, I mean because if you are, we're talking about what we're talking about people who have a better sense of responsibility than that. People who literally next week have to decide whether or not to take their kids to school, are to go to work, not the people that's just out and about party and having a good time. Yeah, those parents, kids

are going to school. We'll get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five, one oh five one. We got roomors on the way. Yes, let's talk about Oprah. She is back on. We'll talk about her new television show and we'll tell you why Ellen's degenerous show is being investigated. All right, we'll get into that next keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. She's filling the team. This is the Ruble Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, it looks like

congratulations are in order for Drakey yet again. He has broke another record. He's surpassed Madonna for the most top ten hits and Hot one hundred history. So he just got his thirty ninth and fortieth top ten hits. That's for being featured on DJ Khalid's latest singles, pop Star, and also Greece, which opened that numbers thirty and number eight in the Billboard Hot one hundred. Welcongratulate gradulated hit

the Aubrey Go Yes. So right below him, Madonna has thirty eight, then the Beatles thirty four, Rihanna thirty one, Michael Jackson thirty, Mariah twenty eight, and Stevie Wonder twenty eight, but he has forty. All right, Yeah, I have a feeling that Rihanna's gonna break that record if and when she decided to ever put out another. All right, now, Ellen DeGeneres the show her workplace is under investigation by

Warner Media. We've been hearing a lot of things about Ellen Degenerous and how she's not the nicest person behind the scenes. You know, She's been called out by a few different people on Twitter and other people in the past have said, including comedian Kevin Porter, said that she was one of the meanest people alive, and he did a whole viral Twitter thread encouraging anybody who encountered her to come up and respond about their insane stories, and

people definitely did. There were thousands of replies. A new staff member was told every day she picked someone different to really hate. It's not your fault. Just suck it up for the day, and she'll be mean to someone else the next day. And that new stafford said they didn't believe it at first, but it did end up being entirely true. So now they're investigating for a workplace hostility. And you know, they said, this totally goes against the message that she recites at the end of every show,

be kind to one another. I wonder what exactly did they call me? Because tough doesn't always equate the mean, and I've seen a lot of women who get called mean. No, there's a difference between to me, would just be getting called, you know, a boss. It's not. It's a difference between tough and mean. And but that's why I asked, I wonder what they call me? Like, what did they call me?

And I think there's if there's enough people saying it, and not even just people at her staff, but you know, there's stories about her going to restaurants and complaining about a person's nails that was serving them, and just you know, all kinds of weird things. I mean, that's you, Charlot Mane, you worked. She tough or mean or neither? Um, I would say she was tough, Okay. Wendy was a perfectionist. She she operated on a high level, and she wanted

that from everyone around her. So as certain things that I'm sure some people would consider mean, you know, yelling, screaming, cursing at people, but I just considered it tough. She was meaning the guests for sure, though, like a celebrities came on the show. But but those of us who worked for her, I would say, just tough. Asked me, asked me, was miss Jones used to work for Miss Jones? Correct? Was Miss Jones mean a tough? See? Both she was mean and she was tough. She was both, Okay, both.

I want to say both my aunts. To see, it's hard for me to call Wendy mean. No, because hurt people. Hurt people, you know what I'm saying. And when I look back on this situation and what he was going through and everything she had to endure, you know, in her married life. I can understand why she would. She would possibly be seen as coming off mean to certain people. Yeah, well she would when it came to people who worked

with her. She was tough. When he came to those guests who came on the show and other celebrities that she was talking about me, Yeah, well, miss Jones was both. She was both. She I mean, it made me tougher, but she was both mean and tough. She didn't play about her ish. All right, Well, Oprah's coming back to television since we're talking about TV, so she's going to be doing her own show now and it's going to

be taking on a racism. It's a new TV discussion series for Apple TV, The Oprah Conversation, with debuts July thirtieth, and it's basically talking with white people about racism and bringing humanity back to the conversation according to Oprah. Okay, yeah, so I'm sure a lot of people will have missed her having her own daytime talk show. But her magazine, Oh, the Oprah Magazine is actually not going to be available

in print anymore. They said they're going digital. So that's the brand celebrating twenty years of Oh, they're thinking about what's next. They said, the partnership and the brand are not going away. It's a natural next step for the brand. It'll be more digitally centric. Okay for all the Oprah fans out there, And you know, I just wanted to bring this up since we've been talking about what's happening with schools and people having to sign a waiver to

send their kids to school. Emirates the airline has a new strategy. They need some passengers to get on their flights in the midst of this pandemic. You know, they are only operating at ten percent right now. So what they've decided to do is they're going to cover medical expenses, pay for quarantine costs and hotel rooms, everything for up to two weeks, and if the worst happens, if you happen to die, they'll also pay for your funeral. That

is available for travel between now and October thirty. First, they said it's valid for thirty one days from the moment that you take your first flight, and it covers you even if you travel to another city. So they'll be covering that insurance for you. To try to encourage people who are scared to travel to travel. Oh, that's that's nice him, thanks for covering my funeral. I'm good. I'm good. As soon as I see that death wave, I'm cool. I don't think there's no way I gotta

be that bad. I'll be right. All right. Well, I'm Angela Yee And that is your rumor reports. All right, thank you, miss Yee. Now we got front page news coming out, yes, and let's talk about this next round of stimulus packages. We'll tell you what they've decided. Also, is there a coronavirus vaccine that will be coming out sometime soon. We'll tell you what drug is in phase three? All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping locked this

to Breakfast club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomie the guy, We all the Breakfast Club. Let's get into some front page news where we're starting you. Well, let's start with Mitch McConnell unveiling the Heels Act with twelve hundred dollars stimulus checks. Another round of those can be expected. They said it will costs about one trillion dollars and they'll also be giving a liability shill to businesses and funds to schools. It caps at seventy percent

of pre pandemic pay. That is the federal unemployment insurance supplement that lapsed last week. So according to this acronym, HILLS is health, economic Assistance, Liability and schools. So right now, what they are saying is adults turning up to seventy five thousand dollars. Again they get the full twelve hundred dollars, but adults earning more but get smaller amounts, and then when you get up to ninety nine thousand, you don't

get anything. And they also are giving five hundred dollars payment for adults or child dependence, so not just if you have kids, but also if you take care of an adult. Okay, yes, that's beautiful. And I'm gonna tell you something else, man, They should pay for parents that

have to stay home and home school their children. There should be some type of payment for parents who have to I don't know, quit their job or take a leaver apthoms from their job or something in order to stay home because they don't feel safe sending their kids back to school. They should get some type of payment for that as well, or some type of health absolutely all right, Now, let's talk about a coronavirus vaccine in the US. The first phase three clinical trial of a

coronavirus vaccine started yesterday. So this investigational vaccine US developed by a company called Moderna. It's a biotech company and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. So according to Maderna, the trial is to be conducted at nearly one hundred US research sites and will enroll about thirty thousand adult volunteers. That evaluates the safety of course of the Maderna vaccine and whether it can prevent symptomatic COVID

nineteen after two doses, among other outcomes. They said that the side effects are minimal. It had mild side effects like fatigue, chills, had ache, muscle pain and pain at the injection site. Well you first, okay, tell me about it all right, now, enough of y'all go out there and take it from me and mind don't have to okay, do you think hi? And you know they're in phase three. Phase one isn't a small number of people and they

see if it's safe. Then in phase two they expand the study and that vaccine is given to people who have characteristics like AIDS and physical health. And now in phase three, the vaccine is given to thousands of people and tested for safety. So we said it's going to

be about thirty thousand people in this phase three trial. Well, you know, I thought, I've seen something in Atlanta where they would have Phase four and they would interviewing a woman last night on one of these shows, and they would like, you know, she feels good, she feels like she's helping, but she didn't know if she got the

vaccine or the placebo. She wasn't sure. They don't tell them so, but they were I think, well, this is the first phase three study and development in the US of cod COVID nineteen vaccine, and now fires are also as an experimental coronavirus vaccine, and they got the FDA nod for advanced trials in the US as well. So they said their vaccine is slightly different. It was it flavored. It comes in flavors. They're also including up to thirty

thousand participants. But they said that THEIRS uses an experimental approach that employs genetic material to stimulate an immune response against a key part of the coronavirus. I know that phase thing hasn't worked out too well. Okay, they had phases to reopen the country. I think we all phase nineteen in a lot of these places, and it doesn't look too good. And it's still in that open New York,

New Jersey area. You still can't go inside to eat in a restaurant yet, so it's still a little crazy. I don't know nothing about phase one, phase two, phase three, phase for it doesn't work is what I need to know. All right, Clearly these phaces things ain't working all right.

Staples is requiring all customers to wear masks, and their stores and the Walmart will not enforce their rules on wearing masks because they fear that the staff could be attacked by shoppers who are angry that they're being challenged. You know, people who try to come in the store without a mask on and then they attack the employees there. So they want to avoid physical confrontations. But staff members have been instructed to still serve people who refuse to

wear one. Walmart cut the bus. Walmart can afford arm security at the door. That's letting people know you can't come in without a mask on. And ain't nobody gonna beef with the armed security at the door. So knock it off. Don't even you don't even got to put your employees in that position. Walmart, okay, at don't make me doing the Walmart of the billion dollar corporation. They can afford to have armed security at the door, having

people reinforced, enforced the mask laws. So stop it, all right. And Google is adopting their work from home until at least July of twenty twenty one. That's what a person familiar with the matter is saying. Previously, they had said their employees would be working remotely through the end of twenty twenty but now that has been extended until July of twenty twenty one, and that was sent out in an email to employees. I think that's going to be

the new normal in a lot of places. I think that a lot of these businesses have realized they don't got to spend all this money on breaking mortar. It's gonna be a lot of working from home from a lot of these companies real soon. Abolutely. I read of their buildings all together and just had like one office somewhere. All right, Well, that is your front page news. Now when we come back, Rominy Melco will be joining us. We'll kick it with him when we come back, So

don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line, Rominy Malcole. Welcome, so welcome, thank you. I'm happy here as usual. Well, congratulations first and foremost for having a movie Tijuana Jackson. I know you've been talking about this movie for such a long time. But you wrote it, directed it, starting it, edited it, did everything right,

That's right. I had to. Yeah, I believe did, and I'm glad that I did too. Why were you committed to doing it yourself like that? Doing everything? Because the characters raw, the characters, you know, the things that I say on the YouTube channel kind of at some point got the whole channel demonetized. They stopped YouTube, stopped sending out up because it was so controversial. And that's the yeah,

and there's this. I've been doing that character on YouTube for at least twelve years, and that's the whole thing. That The irony with Hollywood is what they'll do is they'll tell you to tone down the language so that they can you can reach a broader audience. But then they'll turn around and say that because it's a black lead, we can only distribute it to herb in America. So there's like this contradiction of like watering down your product to deliver your products to the people that you made

it for. So um, it was, it was. It was important at least for me in this era of like how digital plats, you know, all these different digital platforms to try to at least take a shot at actual ownership. Well, let's talk about to Tijuana Jackson for those who may not have been watching the YouTube for the past twelve years, like like, who is Tiouana Jackson? What's your vision for him? My vision for him is this. I created the character really because I wanted to. I want to educate a

demographic of people who were not afforded this education. They grew up in the same hood that I grew up, and grew up in the same community, the same dysfunction I grew up in. Never learned about finance, never learned about personal development, never learned about the preservation of wealth. And I was like, I'm gonna use People look at me and they're like, he's so romedy, so damned corny,

they won't listen to me. But if I created this character who was funny and over and like this kind of like overly abrasive, I felt like people would connect better because they wouldn't really be judging me while listening to it. And it just took off within like two episodes online. The New York Times did a full write up This is back in the day, and then people started catching on. And then some dudes ripped one of

the videos and put it on World Saw. He thought it was a real dude, and then that now TJ gives some amazing advice. As we can see, he's a motivational speaker, right, and the movie, I guess the way the movie starts is he's in jail, he comes home, and he decides what he wants to do in life is be a motivational speaker and give advice to people. But you have to figure out how to make money from something like that. Now, who are some motivational speakers

right that have influenced you? Honest to God, can't tell you one motivational speaker really et though. Eric Thomas, Eric Thomas, the hip hop Preacher, Eric Thomas he's a great motivational speaking speaker. No, no, he is, and he's got his own style. I don't I don't know if anybody can be a motivational speaker, but I do know that there's a lot of gurus out there that are hilarious and

like self proclaimed guru. And Thatfork inspired the whole character was the fact that, like Yo, it's almost as if you've got like the most dysfunctional people in the world given advice to people. And I was like the different opportunity to take advantage of that because I love the irony. So the irony here is you've got the most institutionalized dude in the world trying to tell you how to liberate yourself. And so in this weird way, I think it's a mirror of everybody, because we all to some

degree or preaching what we most need to learn. What's interesting about the TJ character. Most brothers in jail do learn to liberate themselves mentally, so their body is trapped physically, but mentally and emotionally, they have to take themselves someplace else in order just to get by. So he's not really institutionalized up here because his mind has been someplace out for a long time. Well, okay, the damn Charlemagne.

That's okay, So let me explain where how I see that. Okay, I believe that he had to create an alternative reality in order to be able to sustain his dreams while he was in the inside, right, But I also believe that sadly, the process for that, he's so out of touch with the real world. The process for getting there

is uh is missing. He doesn't really understand it. So when he comes outside and he's finally out and free and pursuing his dream, he's running all of these a lot of these stumbling blocks, but they're kind of the self created. He didn't himself so rich. By the way, I just want to say, if y'all don't know nothing about the movie, it starts me Regina Hall, who plays his probation officer, and the movie's kind of like a metaphor and Tammy Roman and now Paula Brunson. But Tammy

Roman is uncomfortably real in this movie. It's it's uncomfortably real. I'm so glad I castor. But the point that I'm trying to make is is that you look at this character and you learn about what it really means to be on probation. You learn what it means for you, what it costs for your family to call you when you at home. You get to see the real deal. But you also understand that the system is really set up to disenfranchise you even more once you become a felon.

And he's got these big dreams for this alternate reality that he's created for himself on the inside. But when he gets out, the systems like na na nae. So his probation officers taking him to fill out these ninety nine fill out applications at the ninety nine cents store. He trying to figure out how to become a world and out life coach. If he doesn't get employed, he

goes back to jail, like the stipulation of his parole. So, you know, as funny as it is, that's what a lot of people are dealing with when they are inside, when they get outside the germ. You know, there was one part where you know where he was saying, Hey, I want to be a motivational speaker, and she was like yeah, okay, Like all right, you want me to

type that down. But I was saying, I got a couple of family members that when they come home, they don't want to go to the ninety nine cent store, they don't want to go work at home depot because they have bigger dreams. But then they're forced to. And then what winds up happening is they don't want to go to work, you know, because that's not their dream, and they're forced to. And then what happens when they're late, Then they have to go back back to the halfway house.

And that's the same circle that they go over and over. They don't allow people who've been sitting there for a while and say, hey, this is my dream, Let me try my dream. But they forced them to go to these jobs that they necessarily don't love, necessarily don't want to do, and they wind up going in that same

circle over and over and over again. And that's the whole point of the movie right there, is showing you how we do is trying to navigate around the system to pursue a dream and do it in a comical way, but just trying to educate people to be a bit more empathetic because I honestly see it, like, man, when I watched that videotape of Rashard Brooks when he was just talking about you know, I've made some mistakes. I'm trying to get back up on my feet. Don't look

at me like an animal. I got dreams too. I felt like I was seeing Tijuana Jackson in that dude that it gave me chills. It made me so uncomfortable. But that's the reality. And I feel like by watching the movie, people are going to have like a better

understanding and hopefully more empathy. Because you know, the reason I even the reason to do like me even knows about this is because growing up in my fame, my friends, you know, my homies, like their brother or somebody would get out of prison right and then you don't realize it. But it's not just the system that opacizes them, the family, the community. I kind of opacizes them too. People don't want, you know, your kids hanging out with him and all

sort of stuff. So I'd always be the dude who was just too soft to turn my back on her brother, and I end up hanging out with them, going on double days. I ain't hando business being on dropping them off the places I ain't hando business. Then you know that kind of and I kind of really started learning and understanding and developing this empathy that I probably might not have had otherwise. All Right, we got more with Romedy Malco when we come back, don't Move. It's the

Breakfast Club. Good morning morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne. The guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking in with Romedy Malco. Charlemagne. I don't want to give the movie away, but I do like the realization TJ came through towards the end, you know, because he kind of realized that his motivation only applies to him. But he realized in order for it to be effective, it

would have to you'd have to be selfless. And there was one line man that put it all in perspective when TJ said, when you have to beg a man twice your size to wear a condom, it doesn't do anything for your self I had to rewind that because I like what they just said. But in perspective, it makes so much sense. When you got to beg a man twice your size to wear a condom, it doesn't do anything for your selfless. It sounds like you speak of a personal experience. Charlomagne There's a lot of little

funny gems in this movie, as you can see. But listen, I do want to commend you because I know this has been something that you've been working on for so long. How long did it take you to actually start writing this movie and then get to this finished product? Because it is available July thirty first, on demand right and on Apple TV, Apple TV, It's gonna be on Amazon Prime, It's gonna be on Voodoo fand ain't gonna now pretty VOD pretty much any video on demand you can get it.

You know, I would say that when I really got serious and said this is gonna happen, it probably took me about five six years total. And I'm not gonna lie.

There was a moment where I kind of started feeling like I was being seduced by Hollywood and the possibilities of some prominent black producers in Hollywood who I will not name, were expressing mad interests, calling every day or you know, reading the script over and over, and I thought, damn, you know, these brothers might get it, you know what I'm saying. But in the end, I was living in Puerto Rico and I just kind of had this realization that.

It was like, I'm I'm kind of Hollywood side check right now, because I was hearing all these promises, you know, like, oh, I'm I'm gonna leave it, I'm gonna leaven, We're gonna get a house. And I never really got that commitment from Hollywood, and I realized I was wasting a lot of time by doing that. And when I really gave it thought, I had to it down and figure out how I was going to make the best product possible. I mean, that's when I decided to start a crowd

funding campaign. My manager called me when I started that crowd funding campaign and he said, a, fam, I don't think you should do this. I said, why not? He goes, You know we can get the money you've got interest. He goes, and it's not a good look for you to be an established actor to be asking fans for money. And I was like, whoa what wait wait? What what do you think I'm an established out these I was like, I'd assume that by now we to raise something. No,

and he was like hm. So we ended up having a little bit more of a talk, and what I ended up doing was I ended up putting in some of my own money starting the crowd funding campaign and what we the analogy we came up with it sometimes you got to start your own party, put the music on, or yourself a drink, get on the damned floor by yourself, and then send out the invitations. And that's that's basically what I did. So how did Will Packer and James

lo Fest become the EPs there? Because when I saw that, I was like, well, I thought Romany did this himself. But then I saw them at the EPs, it gave it to Hollywood. Phil oh Man, I lied, I lied. I thought y'allways didn't know that I'm playing. No. The real reason, No, after I made the movie. I made, I shot, wrote, directed the movie. Everything promoted money, finance the whole thing. After I made the movie, I never

really was concerned about being in Sundance. I was never really concerned about being like Tribeca or all these procedgious film festivals. I really wanted to take the movie to the places where people had contributed money. So that ended up being like Florida, Nashville, you know, Brooklyn, you know. And one of those places was Atlanta, And so Atlanta Film Festival was like, yo, we'll feature your film there. We won't you know, we won't have you compete, but

we would love to feature your film. And they had this uh they just remodelists. Theater had three hundred and ninety seats who packed it out, and the president of Wild pack the production showed up. Lopez saw it and after what he was like, you got that performance out of Tammy. I was like, well, Tammy kind of came with you got that performance out out of Reginia. I was like, well, Reginia showder what what a minute? You

wrote this whole thing? Yeah, you produced it. Yeah, And he was like all right, cool, so maybe like it couldn't have been Like but a week later, I'm driving across Daytona, Florida to Daytona, Florida to see my nephew graduate from White School. I get a phone call from Will Packet like eleven o'clock at nine Timmy, Um, he just watched it because the president to show the to him, and he was like, look, dude, I can't believe it. I'm really proud of you and I want to help

you sell this film. And he came on board and that was like one of the biggest blessings just because of the game that I've sucked up the conversations you hear when you're operating as an executive producer versus act operating as an actor for hire. How much did it calls to make that full film? I probably spent about four hundred thousand dollars. Wow, but that's amazing. You don't have to pay yourself, so at house, I paid myself.

I paid myself with equity. You know. One of the biggest lessons of the Hostel I always I've been peeping the game, you know. I poxed that, peeped the weakness in the rap game and sewed it. Well. I feel like I peeped the weakness in like as particularly you know, the film industry. But I ain't sewed it yet, right because this is my first one. But what I have peace is that if you really listen to like, you know, the issues that a lot of people have with Hollywood.

One is they have an issue with the creative accounting, so meaning they're always being told, well, you know, they ain't no more money. You know. I read this book called down in Dirty Hollywood or something like that, and they were talking about the wine steins and and and I'll ben affleck and and and and got done for a good real hunting and stuff like that. And I really took note of that. So I was like, okay, so awesome that you know the Key and Peel brothers.

I'm met with them before he made hit his hit, and I was like talking to them, and they're like, if we can figure out a way to get rid of this at retirement cost is p and a to be sometimes ten, fifteen, twenty thirty, forty fifty million dollars, we could create a direct you know, to consumer connection.

And that's what allays I started inspirement to do, keeping it at a low price point and getting just enough star power that you can actually fell incentivize the distributor to pick up the film with keithany and um and then the other thing was I was like, well, you know, we got this digital distribution. Let me tell y'all. Let me tell y'all something. Okay. There was no way in the world that I could predict coronavirus COVID nineteen. There

was no way. But when we would do when we were dealing with distributors, the way that the deal normally goes as you give up the lion's share of the film to distributors and then they put your film in a frigging and then a bunch of theaters, right, and then you get a cut once they had recruited all their money, not knowing nothing that was gonna happen in the future. I was like, no, no, now, we ain't doing that. We ain't doing that. So the distributor said, Okay,

I tell you what, what if we facilitated deal? What if we just facilitated meaning we'll help you position your movie. We'll take a very very small percent, but we won't be putting up a whole bunch of money for marketing and all this stuff, right, because honestly, they never do. And dude, shortly after we said okay and we got our contract COVID nineteen hits. So just imagine I would have gave up the lion's share of my movie to

be put in theaters when it's impossible. Now, yeah, we'd have been limited to a digital release anyway and little to no marketing. So I really feel like this is a This was like kind of seven difference, And I think that I've been asking for this for a long time and it just kind of happened where I ended up being able to maintain ownership and also kind of market on major platforms. So I feel I feel very

lucky right now. Keep it luck. We got over Romedy Malcolm when we come back, is the Breakfast Club going morning? Everybody is DJ Envy angela Ye, Charlemagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking in with Rominy Malco Charlemagne. I feel like the movie was like a pilot to me. It set it up like a pilot. I think I think it should go. I think it would be a better series. But but you mentioned your nephew in real life. Was he inspiration for your nephew

in the film? No? Eric um No, not a little eric No, No, No, he was, you know, honestly, man, he was kind of like me when I was a kid rolling around with my dad. My dad's one of the most truth dudes I have them metch you know, he my dad came. My dad came to Brooklyn and bought Trinidad with him film and so he would hustle

and dry taxis with no certification. He was my My dad was a hustling and I kind of always felt like I was riding shotgun with t J. So you know, little Eric was really bet But I'm so excited that you said you felt like it was a pilot, because that's kind of the point. That's the goal. The goal now is to actually be able to go forward and make the Tijuana Jackson TV show. And every single person went. Regina Hall showed up. I never forget. She just looked

at me and she's like, she looked around. She did a couple of scenes and she was like, this is going the series wrong, this is going to serious. Chammie Roman was the first person to say, she goes when you're ready to learn how to make money on this, let me know. Now, I'm like, oh, okay, because you know, she's a businesswoman, hands down and her acting is uncomfortably real through this. I swear to everything. And so that's the goal, Charlemagne. So I thank you for that, because

that is the goal. I was gonna ask Regina Hall, you know, what was the process of getting her involved in this film? Man? You know, I don't know a lot. I don't man, I don't want to incrimic. I'm gonna just she leaves her. She leaves that she had the preyer. She leaves the door open. I crawled into the back of that. When she was so having the work, I popped up on her life. I really had been telling her about it two years and she kept saying, I

want to play a hard bitch. I want to play and I was like, real, so, um, what I did was I just basically wrote it in a way that I felt like it would be appealing to her. And then rather than just say take this job, I went to her and said, I want your notes. He need your notes on this job. And she read it and called me and was like, what's fine with you? Baby? What's fine with this? Come out of your head? But you you're out this. I'm like, yes, you ain't right, baby.

He needs to talk to somebody. And I was like, you know, she'd go, Joe, I definitely want to do this. And I also think that this character should have more slang. Well, since since there's been a Tiawana Jackson, there's a real life version of TJ out here in these streets right now. I don't know if you know Willow from Philadelphia. He did twenty years and he's home now. He's like a life coach, motivational speaker. Are you familiar with Willow? I

am not. I'm familiar with a few brothers who've gotten off the joint and become motivation speakers, but I'm I'm not familiar with Wallows. Okay, but did you speak to somebody who actually went through that, like, you know, before you shot the movie or anything. No, I spoke to a lot of brothers who was in the jointing. You just reminded me, I gotta call my boy, and I gotta call my boy. They got feel so bad. My

boy called me like days are going and call him back. Um. You know, I don't know if you've seen them behind the scenes video, but we had a lot of brothers who would serve times on set, you know, helping me understand the process of the halfway, help you understand what it's, you know, doing nineteen years, what that means. And but none of them had ever really become motivational speakers or anything or that process. No, but you gotta you gotta talk to Willow. Let me tell you why I didn't

do that. I didn't want nobody saying I've stole these stories, right, you know what I'm saying, And it's it's you've been doing this for a lot, but you've been doing this character for such a long time. I don't know how anyone could say that now. I'm sure people still said that. I'm sure people still said you stole the story. I'm sure that that that's popped up. I had a couple of people say that, Oh man, my boy said, you sold the story. I was like, thank god, the social

proof exists. I've been doing this character since ninety nine. I've been recording this character since ninety nine, and then I've been online with this characters. In two thousand and seven, you go back to my space and fine tim on the jackon No. And I forgot to tell Wallow that because Willow did say that to me. Willow sent me to for this movie and Willow saying, there's my story, Yo, you do it, Stow my story, and I was I was like, damn, I said, but nobody could do it

like you, Wallow because you actually went through it. But then it did hit me, like, Yo, you haven't been doing this character for a longer? Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah I have. And look, man, you know, I swear to god, I didn't really make this character to make money. I was doing this because I really was like I want to reach these people like the same way. Nobody

reached my ass. Nobody came to me and said, hey, Sam, I know it seems crazy, but when you think of buying a house, you don't gotta come up with all the money for the house right away. Or Yo, dude, you know, I understand that people have done you wrong, but if you carry that around out to aid you from the inside out, you got to figure out a way they least understand the people that the people that hurt you were most most likely hurt as well and

probably still paying. And like, no one told me that. So I was like, how am I going to communicate that to these kids? Man? When you know you know how it is. How am I going to communicate that to these kids? When America is set up? And I'm so blessed because I went to schools in Trinidad and Tobago and I'm going to school in now and States of America. And I'm gonna tell you something that really stood out is that in the Caribbean, even if you're poor,

you still get a quality of education. In the United States of America, Yo, your your class and your income dictates the quality of education. And true to see and like that stood out, and so knowing that these communities, it's like they're purposely keeping the game from you, knowing that they're purposely trying to keep you ignorant, knowing that they purposely don't want you to know the etiquette of of pursuing investors, knowing that they don't want you to

know the etiquette of just simply managing the work. You know, a work environment, you remain, you remain basically when the menial jobs, you remain uneducated and kind of you know, ostracized. And so the game was from the beginning with this characters just kind of to help turn people on and stuff. And here's here's the ivany At. So I'm doing this to help these kids, and I call them kids, but they was like, you know, young adults help trying to

help them have a bigger vision for theirself. They turned around and told me I needed to make a movie with this character. It had never crossed my mind. Not only did tell me I actould make a movie through the character, they told me to start a crop funding campaign that they would finance it, and I did and

they did. So it turned out I'm sitting there trying to tell them how to how to grow life coaching them and they turn around and life coach me basicly and give me a big vision for myself, which is one of the reasons I say that line in the movie. You know, you got to ask yourself why I needed to drink to see a big future for you that you can see for yourself. That's kind of where that came from. Yeah, wow, Rominy, We appreciate you for checking

in and definitely go check it out. August thirty first, go see it and where can people see it again? How thirty first of me? Yo, Friday, you can see this. I'm so sorry I can get too comfortable with y'all. Friday Friday Friday. You can see this movie on ituned, Apple, TV, UM, Google Play, Amazon, Voodoo, fan Dango in pretty much any video one demand, even like cable, like some cable outlets

will let you get it. And you know, God willing man, y'all, y'all appreciate it, Roy, Thank you many yeah, hey, thanks for giving it for independent film like this, this major platform, y'all, And I really appreciate y'all dud this. It's crazy, but uh, y'all, yeah, y'all like regular listening now, man, y'all have grown a lot, and I feel like I've grown with you, so thank you. Fam.

Oh go guys, it's all right. Megan Nastallion, after having not said anything for the past two weeks since being shot in her foot and we don't know exactly what happened, she took to her Instagram live and she talked about getting shot two times than needing surgery. I was shot and both of my feet and I had to get surgery to get taken out, get the bullets taken out. And it was super scary and it's not funny. It's

nothing to joke about. It was nothing for y'all to start going and making up take stories about I didn't put my hands on nobody. I didn't deserve to get shot and do and thank god that the bullets didn't touch bones, they didn't break tendings. I know my mom and my daddy, it's my green hand to be looking out for me with that one. It's a damn shame

she has to explain why she didn't deserve to get shot. Yeah, yeah, and you know, it is difficult that all these people were making jokes and having nasty things to say, thinking it was funny I saw that fifty cent posted. Damn. I didn't think this ish was real. It sounded so crazy. I'm glad you're feeling better, and I hope you can accept my apology. I posted a mean that was floating around. I wouldn't have done that if I knew you was really hurt. Sorry, Yeah, I mean it's a damn sham.

She had explain why she didn't deserve to get shot. It's a damn shame she feels like she has to explain anything, a message to everyone out there listening, celebrity or otherwise. You don't owe anybody on social media nothing. Your life is not these people's entertainment. Don't think for one second you have to get online and tell people what's going on in your world, because guess what, if you're happy, they're gonna find a way to steal your joy,

and if you're sad, they're gonna make it worse. If those people in the town, it seems like that she's just trying to let her fans know that she's okay, you know. I mean that she has a lot of people that ride for her, been praying for so I think that's what that's what that was all about but she also went on to talk about how she was not ready to talk at first, and that's why it's taking this long for her to even say anything, and the muckle on I was protecting anybody. I just wasn't

ready to speak. Let's not know, you just immediately get on the internet and start talking about imagine being twenty five and you don't have both your parents. But Mamma was my best friend. She you know, I'm still really not over that. So you like, you're gonna try to feel like your space with a bunch of people that you think is making you happy, you know, And you know I've been saying that ever since her mom passed away. I just feel like, you know, she that's a difficult thing.

That was her best friend, her manager, Her mom was with her all the time. So that's not something that you just can just move on from and not have any effect from. You don't have to talk now, Megan. You don't owe anybody anything, not even your fans. The only thing you owe, the only person you owe is yourself to heal. Okay, not just physically from them gunshot wounds, but mentally and emotionally and spiritually. Okay, go find a therapist with somebody to talk to. F these people on

social media. But the joke's just gonna keep coming. I saw people making jokes last night. Really well, yes, you think you think people have sympathy for you when you get online. Come on, man, they like to see you miserable. They like to see you upset. They don't like They don't want you out here living your life like it's golden. Please. They they are happy that Megan the Stallion got shot. Man,

Misery loves company. You better believe that, especially online. All right, now, Kendrick Perkins has some things to say about Lou Williams going out and leaving the NBA bubble. He had an excused absence right to go to a funeral, but then he stopped by Magic City and he got some you know, he got some backlash for that. So Kendrick Perkins is one person who feels like that was irresponsible. Here's what

he said. I hadn't been a major city the wings of Fire, but in this case and all, seriously, come on, Lou will you gotta do better, man. Lou will is a six thing year bet. He knows better. He should know how to be more mature. You got a guy that's a rookie and Zayor Williamson who left for a family issue, and he helded it way better than Luke and I can't believe people still talking about this. If

it was not a Script club, nobody would care. If he stopped at KFC, Popeyes Zaxby's, nobody would even be talking about this. People go to the Script Club to eat. Okay, it's been happening since the beginning of time, knocking off man. The man was grieving and he wanted to stop somewhere he felt comfortable going to Magic City. That's it. They replaced the eating, got something to eat, probably got to smile a little bit, and he went home. Let the

man live now. Kendrick Perkins tweeted out, it's disturbing when a rookie and Zion Williamson can act more mature than NBA vet Lou Williams. That's because Zion Williamson also had an excused absence and he said, you didn't hear anything about him now. Lou will responded on Twitter and said, fifteen years in this business, and the most dirt you have on my name is stopping to get hot wings during a pandemic perk, shut up and stop laughing and saying it's just TV when you run into me too.

And then he said, but I digressed. I went home to see a man off to his final resting place. That was a giant in my life. I don't want that to get lost in all this attention. So again, long lived the Great Paul Williams Senior. Back to my quarantine so I can join the guy soon. Peace. Oh listen, Zion Williamson ain't had the wings that Magic City yet. All right, as soon as Zion gets the Atlanta and gets to taste them goddamn wings in Magic City, let's

see how mature he is as well. Okay, all right, well I'm hand it la Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss Yee. Charlemaine giving your donkeys. I need Tom Cotton, okay, he's a senator, um, I need him to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him. Please. All right, we'll get to that next keeping lock this to breakfast club. Good morning, it's time for don't give the day Democrat. So being dunky of the day, a little bit of

a mix like a dope other day. Now, I've been called a lot of my twenty three years. That donkey of the day is a new wife. Donkey to day for Tuesday, July twenty eighth goes to Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton. Oh, I can't tell you how heavy the mandais is on this one. Ladies and gentlemen. If you are allergic to that thick, cold white sauce commonly used on sandwiches and hamburgers, then you may not want to listen any further. But we have to get to it. Okay.

Tom Cotton has called the enslavement of millions of African people are necessary evil. In fact, he said the necessary evil upon which this country was built. His last name is Cotton. What do you expect? Okay? He wears that name proudly. You'd wear that name proudly too, if your ancestors would have one's profiting off it, not picking it all right, Cotton is what prolonged America's most serious social tragedy, slavery. All right, from the eighteen thirties to the eighteen forties,

the common phrase was Cotton is king. So of course Tom Cotton fields like slavery, wasn't necessary evil now, Henry Lewis Gates Junior once wrote, Cotton was one of the world's first luxury commodities and the commodity whose production most dramatically turned millions of black human beings in the USA themselves into a commodity bars. So it's not surprising to me that Tom Cotton would take the stance he took. Now, Tom Cotton recently introduced to Saving American History Act of

twenty twenty. It should be the Saving American's White History Act of twenty twenty. Okay. It prohibits the use of federal funds teach the sixteen nineteen Project to kindergarten students and K twelve schools our school districts. According to a statement from the senator's office, basically, he doesn't want the truth about how his country was found to be told.

Let's listen to what he had to say. The New York Times should not be teaching American history to our kids, Frank, The sixteen nineteen project is left wing AGAINDA It's revisionist history at its worst. The entire premise of The New York Times factually historically lauded sixteen nineteen project is that America is at root systemically racist country to the core and irritatable. I reject that root branch. America is a great and noble country. And I take it you believe

that slavery is an important part of American history. We have to study the history of slavery and its role of impact on the development of our country, because otherwise your canninger sent in our country as the founding father said that it was the necessary evel upon which the Union was built. But the Union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the force to expection an extinction. Yes, unfortunately that was not done in

a peaceful fashion. Now I need to bring light to these kinds of comments because we as a people need to know the unnecessary evil we are up against. And yes, I said unnecessary. Okay, it's people like this human jar of hellman's Tom Cotton, who stand in the way of the true liberation of black people in this country, who stand in the way of true progress. Now do you notice man Tom Cotton is widely seen as a possible

presidential candidate in twenty twenty four. Yes, a man who believes slavery was a necessary evil in this country wants to be a leader of the free world. Nicole Hannah Jones Troplina Clu's bombs for her. She was awarded to be Shears Public Surprise for a commentary for her introductory

essay to the sixteen nineteen project. She tweeted if slavery heritable, generational, permanent, race based slavery where it was legal to rape, torture and sell human beings for profit was a necessary evil, As Tom Cotton says, it's hard to imagine what cannot be justified if it is a means to an end. Imagine thinking a non divisive curriculum is one that tells black children the buying and selling of their ancestors, the rape, torture, enforced labor of their ancestors for profit was just the

necessary evil. Trop on a clues bos Nicole Hannah Jones. Again, that is my sentiments toast Crunch exactly. Okay, Tom Cotton love slavery. It's really just as them where he loves slavery. He loved the idea of slavery because his last name is named after the commodity that kept black Americans as a commodity. And that's probably why Tom Cotton obstructs every single criminal justice reform bill in the Senate because he loves seeing people incarcerating, because incarceration is simply what modern

day slavery. We all know what that Thirteenth Amendment represents. You see the documentary by being able to douvenay, and if you haven't, you should go read it. Okay, it's simple. The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution provides that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

You're committed crime, You're going back to being a slave, simple as that. And that's exactly what people like Tom Cotton want to do. Some research on the guy, that's all I ask you do your Google's. Tom Cotton fought hard against the First Step Act, and there's the main reason it's not stronger. He also obstructed the Juvenile Justice

and Delinquency Protection Act. Last week, he introduced the bill which Senator Kelly Loefler to create a gang member tracking database, and he's been pushing for an enhancements for fentanol in the federal system forever. He's also a huge wallmonger. Okay, remember that time the president wanted to buy greenland That came from Tom Cotton. And Tom also calls the pandemic the coronavirus the Wuhan, China virus, just like his president. Listen, man,

I'm not intelligent. I'm just articulate. Read that on YouTube yesterday. Thought that was very accurate about myself, and I pay attention, and I read a little bit, and I have people around me way smarter than me who informed me about these things. People like Tom Cotton would be happy to have us back in chains, simple as that if it

meant that this country's economy could be stronger. And what's even worse, Tom Cotton has no Democrats running against him for his seat this year, so he will be back in Congress and likely will run for president in twenty twenty four. Let's not forget this man's name. Okay, so you know who not to vote for. Okay, And how can you forget his last name when his last name

is literally the reason there was a civil war. His last name is literally the reason black people were or looked upon as property to begin with all right, and I even play white Devil's advocate with you. Tom Cotton, just for a second, you think slavery was a necessary evil, Okay, I can tell you why it wasn't. I can tell you why it was not a necessary evil. It is just evil. Because even if you say slavery is what built this country, right, which is true, my response would be,

what the hell was wrong with your hands? Okay? If you came to America to build this country, why not build it your damn self with the Native Americans and indigenous people that were already here. Nobody told you to kidnap Africans and bring them over here and violently force them to work for you for free. That didn't have

to go down like that. You could have put in your own work and treated the Native Americans who will hear good, and built this country with them, and then we would have all been starting on an equal playing field because we built this country together, as opposed to getting a bunch of Africans to build this country for free. It wasn't a necessary evil. It wasn't necessary for you to force us to work for you. That was a choice,

all right. Being a slave owner is a choice. Being a violent, murderous rapist is a choice, and so is being a donkey. Tom Cotton, you need to learn to make better choices. Please let Chelsea Handling hand them my white work, I mean light work. Hehaw heahaw. That is way too much. Dan Mann is all right, well, thank you for that. Donk here today. Yes, indeed, Now when we come back, let's talk about these kids in school. A lot of people are calling, all you're gonna bring

your kids? To take your kids to school? That is the question. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. I know for some people school starts in about a week or so. For us it's in September, But that is the question. Do you feel it's safe? Do you feel like kids should be in school right now? Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Will take your calls when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning. Your phone call in right now and you're

opening to the Breakfast Club top break it down. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. The Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club Good Morning. Now. If you just joined us, we got a lot of callers earlier today during Get It off your Chair and talking about kids going to school the school year. So we're asking eight hundred five eight five one o five one, are you gonna allow your kids to go to school this year?

Let's start it with you, Charlemagne. I don't know. My daughter is twelve. She has her own instincts, her own intuition. She says she doesn't want to go back. I respect it, but she also has no problem going to Chileing practice. So if you can go to Chileing practice in social distanced and I feel like you can do that in school as well. I'm as soon to be five year old. She just started school last year, so she didn't even get to finish her first year in the classroom. So

I don't know. I don't even know how that's gonna work out. So I think, like a lot of parents, it's just a lot of confusion on what we are going to do. And I also understand my circumstances are not like everyone else's because my wife is a personal trainer, so she works from home and I can afford a nanny. But even with that the problem is the school. My oldest daughter goes to right now is not offering an online option. So I really don't know how this is

gonna play out. And it says a lot about America that parents are being put in the position where they have to choose their livelihood are the well being of their kids. You can't even tell a parent to listen to their gut, listen to their instinct in a situation like this, because your instinct is to protect your kids. But having a job and providing for your kids, it's part of that protection. So it's just a terrible spot to be in. So to be honest with you, I

don't know what I'm gonna do. Yeah, you know, I kind of feel the same way. And the reason I say that is because, yeah, my son, he plays football and they have practice, so I mean they all practicing. My daughter is going to NYU, but she's only taking I think one class a week where she actually has

to go into that class. But the younger kids. The difference with the younger kids, I know, at least the older kids, they'll wear their masks, you know, I can tell them things I can't expect my you know, my six year old, my seven year old, my three year old to wear a mask a full day in school. I just can't see it. I don't see it. So it's about about protection, you know. But I see kids playing baseball, I see the lead us have started. I've

see kids playing team sports and go into camp. So it's like, you know, but I want my kids to kind of to have some type of normalcy, some type of being able to interact with other students, to interact with teachers, and being able to leave and do their work. So it's a tough decision as a right now today, I don't think so, but I don't know. That might change in the next couple of weeks. Now, yeah, I know you don't have kids, but what is your thought? You have a lot of nieces and god kids and

all lot of other stuff. I think that for people that's really on you, you know. I also think it depends on where you are, like what city you're in. I know in some small cities they haven't had a lot of issues with coronavirus. So if you feel comfortable knowing that, okay, and this you know city that I live in, maybe it's not as much of a concern as it is in some of the hot spots. But

I do think as a parent, as an individual. It's also hard for people if you don't have the technology at home to keep you on part with the other students. I understand all of that. I have a lot of my friends talking to me about their own kids. One of my friends has three children, and she's a single mom and she works, and she's like, look, I can't even go back to work unless my kids go to school. Her baby father doesn't pay child support, so you know,

she's struggling right now. And she's like, I don't know how I'm going to maintain this unless my kids go back to school. But then she's also concerned about their safety. So I just think, what are the guidelines at the school? Is following to ensure safety with the social distancing? And is it going to be limited smaller classes, more spread out? Are the kids getting temperature checked? You know? I think

you should take all those things into consideration. Yeah, I mean, you know, I think about it is Charlemagne, you and I both know. I mean, there are sick kids all the time, Like your kid always has running nose, you know what I mean? Your kids get sick, they get you know. Yeah, Yeah, the way my anxiety is set up. I ain't got time for all that. I don't got time for every cough, every running, No, because because I don't even know if other illnesses exist anymore, everything is COVID.

But also too, who protecting the teachers because you know the truth, you know, we don't know if you know how coronavirus impacts children, Like I think I read a story the other day that said the nine year old died of coronavirus in Florida. Right, but those teachers have to be exposed to those kids all the time, Like those kids could be asymptomatic character carriers, and the teachers are just there, wide open. And then those kids are going back to their parents, and those parents are going

to their grandparents. Like it's just it's just it's just all bad, man, It's just all bad. And like I said before, it's just it's a tough spot to be in because you your primary instinct as a parent is to protect your child, right, but having a job and providing for your kids as part of that protection. So it's just a really bad spot to be in. Well, let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this it's Courtney. Hey Courtney. Now we're talking about your kids going to school.

What are you thinking? So I am yes and a no. So I have a three year old and I have a seven year old, So I have one in daycare and I have one that's going in the third grade this year. So yes, they need to go back to school. Because my seven year old, you know, she goes to another person for that little bit of extra help with the reading and things like that that I cannot give her working, you know, forty five fifty hours a week. Um, and my three year olds he needs to interact with

other children. But to also think that kids school age are not going to run around and you know, make fun of it and you know, randomly licked their hands or something that will happen as well, so that fart's a little scary. But they need interaction with other children. Absolutely, I agree with you. Yes and no for me too, Thank you, mama. Let's go to ONEm online. Eight hundred five eight five one five one. Hello, who's this woke up? Those Jay Cotton Cotton don't relate to the Senator Cotton. No,

but his people might have had my people. You know what I'm trying. Whatever we very wide caught, but whatever, whatever we're talking about the schools, right, that's what we're talking about. What's your thoughts? I'm not boy all right now. They don't have a consistent plan. They should have been up. They should have came up with a plan on what they was gonna do to keep the kids at home. It should have been virtual school and already been in

the works. They should have already had it working out. I agree with you, well, thank you? Agree with you all right? Eight hundred five eight five one o five one. Are you letting your kids go to school this year? Let's talk about it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, call me and your opinions to the Breakfast Club topic on eight five five one five one morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Now if he just joined us. We're talking

about your kids going to school this year. You're gonna let your kids go to school this year? Hello? Who's this? This beon calling out a Richmand and Virginia. Hey, what's up? Bro? We're talking about your kids in school this year. You're gonna let your kids go to school this year? I'm thinking so, um, I got a I got a daughter that's going to first grade, and I feel as if, you know, the younger kids, it's very they needed to school right now, like that, she's not gonna look at it.

She's not gonna look at a computer or a tablet for like seven hours, and they're gonna have her attention no more than two three hours. She's gonna be like, okay, I'm over there. So I feel as if younger kids they need the school. I know, I'm here in college, they're doing have virtual and half in class. So like all the younger kids, they kind of do need to go to school because they really need it. High school they can probably do laptops, but right now, the young

kids really need it. So listen, I agree, younger kids need school, but younger kids also need their health, they need their lives, you know. So it's just like we got to make a decision at this at this at this moment, like I would hate to see, um, you know,

something permanent happened based off temporary feelings. Yeah, but you know, also it's like he said, with the younger kids, you know, you can't expect them to stand there look at the computer for five, six, seven, eight hours, you know, five hours, you know, so that's difficult. So what are you teaching for? An hour a day or two hours a day? The parents are not teaching, so they don't know the curriculum, they don't know how to teach, so your kids would

be behind. You know, an outbreak of coronavirus among kids all across the country, that would be Hello difficult, right, that would be hello difficult? Hello? Who's this? Yo? Yo? Yo? What? Good? Good morning? What's happening? I can tell you smoking this morning, I can tell you what. Thank you. I don't believe you. I don't believe you. Liar, liar passed on fire? No, no, my lits don't touch those things. But thank you, no timing, good morning. I'm great. I am feeling grace this morning.

So here in Detroit last year, my children got definitely notice the home saying hey, parents, can you send in righteol? Can you send in alcohol? Wife? Remind your children to use sanitizer. We need to to suspect this. We need to just suspect that. I truly believe that coronavirus manifested sometime last year in school, kids were massively getting sick like crazy numbers here in Detroit there is no way in hetch that I'm sending my kids into school. They

will be doing school online school. That's just that. There's have five girls the age range from eleven to sixteen, all fair sets. Two in middle school, three in high school. They're not going to in person schools. There's just no way you can tell me that my kids are gonna be good. First on my eleven year old her soul. She's not gonna keep that dang mask soon. I don't even check it into the stores because she don't want to keep the masks off right away. It's not going

to happen. All right, Well, thank you mama. All right, Well what's tomorrow left? There is a morrow? I don't know if there is a morrow. Man. Like I said, you can't even tell somebody to trust their instincts in a situation like this, because as a parent, your instinct automatically is to protect your kids, to protect your kids from any harm if you can prevent it. But having a job and providing for your kids it's part of that protection. So it's just a bad spot to be in.

So it really is listen to each their own type of situations. There's a small city in Georgia. They're going to be putting students in classrooms this week in Jefferson. So this week they're going to start in person classes without a mass requirement. Yeah, that's Jeffersons in high school. But there's a lot of schools that are open down. Like,

there's a lot of schools open down. I was talking to a friend of mine, his Jewish, and he was like, his kids are in school, and the bus picks him up, the bus drops him back off, and he says, they had no cases of COVID and and they're taking every proper you know, calls for it. And he and he has kids that I believe a like six seven. So I mean, people are doing it, and it seems like it's working. I just I just don't at my anxiety and my heart is telling me just chill out for

a little bit, so we'll just chill. I don't see it, but I thank God that, you know, I am in the position to be able to just chill. That's right. Everybody don't have that luxury, and it is indeed a luxury. So it's a tough spot for people to be in. All right, Well, we got rumors on the way, Yes, we are going to be talking about Kyrie Irving and he has committed one point five million dollars. We'll tell you where that money's going. All right, We'll get into

that next keep it locked. This to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the room as us to a Kyrie Irving. This is the rum of report with Angela all breakfast all right. So Kyrie Irving has committed one point five million dollars and that is for w NBA players who chose not

to play in this season. He said, whether a person decided to fight for social justice, play basketball, focus on physical or mental health, or simply connect with their families, this initiative can hopefully support their priorities and decisions for that donation. We've heard some players talk about their own health. Other w NBA players like Liz uh There's a few different w NBA players who have decided to opt out

this season, some for political reasons. Um, you know, Natasha Cloud is not joining her team this year to focus on helping to fight for social justice. For whatever reason, that's going to help. I love it. I mean I get it. Like when you believe in something and you got the money to put it up, do it like, salute to him for that. That's a great cause. That's a great, great deed he did. He's a personal decisions

for people. You know, we've seen some players who are using their time on the court to also discuss social justice and do things of that sort. Some people are sitting out to take care of things. Some people have health issues. For whatever your personal reason is, you know, you shouldn't be forced to go play during a time like this. All right now, Comedian Corey Hocum is under

the five right now. He did more than a culture podcast and he talks about a number of different things, and he thought he talks about the coronavirus pandemic and essential workers, and people were not happy what he said about people working at McDonald's. It's like, right now, it's the time in the world where a busters who mopping the floor of McDonald's can tell you to put on your mad I ain't got mopping up mask. If I got COVID and to kill you, I did you a favor. Yeah,

but people gotta understand he's a comedian. What he said was foul, but he's a comedian. You know, you can make jokes, but it's gotta be funny. Was that funny? It's funny to somebody, you know. I love Corey Holkam. Corey and I have different philosophies on that though, because I feel like you can learn from anyone. You know, I don't care if it's a crackhead. I don't care if it's an alcoholic, I don't I don't give a person that's showing you what not to do based on

how they've they've lived their life. I feel like you can learn from anyone, and I'm gonna respect your space. I'm gonna respect your authority. If i'm in McDonald's and you to manag Jim McDonald's, I'm gonna your spot. Such. Yeah, absolutely that. I think if he said if I got cold, if I got COVID and it killed you, I did you a favor, making it seem like people who work at McDonald's are less than beneath him, and are beneath him and don't deserve to live, which is absolutely not true.

Like that's nah, right, I'm trying to express some love right now too. We appreciate everybody that's working right now because it is. It is a risk, all right. Now. Another comedian that people are talking about is Phase on Love. He was on Hip Hop Uncensored podcast and he had this to say about jay Z just out of nowhere. Jay Z, I like him as a guy in the whole eric thing he created about this fake dope dealing.

That's why I stopped this like him, like, I don't think you ever want to fight like this is never so cocaine ever, because you know why he keeps telling all these stories about how he did this and did this, but there's no stories of the other side. Somebody gonna bust you, somebody, Nobody ever sold you pancake. It was always Miami Vice. Now that is one I can honestly say, why do we care well Love thinks about jay Z? Said?

He said, I know me and Hove haven't had the best relationship publicly, but FAZINE don't know what the f he's talking about, whether legally or illegally, and where it's got to it. Yeah, I don't know thinks about jay Z, Like, I don't even know why that was a conversation, how it came up about him and jay Z selling drugs. He didn't sell drugs with Jay. He didn't know Jay going up. I don't even understand. I was confused, Oh was fifty years old. I'm just assuming Hove having sold

drugs probably three decades. Yeah, why is this a conversation? Listen, it's podcast time and there's a lot going on in the podcast. For instance, Joe Biden, he had some things to say about Logic, who retired recently. Logic, you don't get to announce this because we don't care. Hey, let's celebrate Logic getting out. He does get some empathy for me. Well, since Danny has backtracked and he actually apologized to Lodge,

here's what he said last week. I came in here feeling pretty tumultuous, unable to properly read the room, and just hating myself and life. Honestly, and unfortunately I projected some of that onto you, Lodge, and for that I want to apologize. That was wrong of me. I should be able to think that you aren't the best rapper in the world, but celebrate your retirement. Definitely called them.

Lodge hopefully understood what he did wrong, and you know, and I'm sure Logic called them, and they had a conversation and he apologized, Joe Budden is not a fan of Lodgic. Expressing that you're not a fan of somebody does not mean you're doing them wrong. Okay, Well, I think he was just talking about letting him retire in peace. Also, he's retiring. If you have commentary on his retirement, you are allowed to do that too. Listen, Logic sold eighty

five thousand records last week. If I'm Logic, do I care about the opinion of Joe Budden or do I care about the eighty five thousand people who bought my record last week? Obviously he cares about the opinion of Joe Budden exactly. And that's and that's something we all have to work on. We all have to work on, you know, gravitating towards the energy that we don't agree with. Why we do that as humans, I don't know. But you have to be intentional about focusing on the people

who actually care about you, not the ones who don't. Yeah, well, Joe Button said that, you know, he felt he was disrespectful, so he moved walk his comments. All right, Well, I'm anti la yee, and that is your rumor reports. All right, thank you miss Yee. Now revokee. We'll see you tomorrow. Everybody else to People's Choice mixes up next, get your requested. Now it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Good morning. Everybody is cj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Gay We are

the Breakfast Club. Now. Shout to Romney malcol for joining us this morning. Yes, my guy Brownie always representing Brooklyn. I was talking about him yesterday because you know, he used to be a rapper, which I think is pretty hilarious. He was in this group called college Boys. Make sure you check out his movie Tijuana Jackson, Purpose Over Prison. It's out of this weekend, so definitely support. It's a good film. I mean, listen. I enjoyed it. I watched

it the other day. It's something about that damn Regina Hall. Bro Regina Hall shows up on screen anytime in a movie. It's like a light. So it's funny. It's pretty funny. And I will say this also, Tammy Roman did a great job, by the way, so you know you gotta check that out because she did a great acting job.

And tonight, by the way, I have my last episode of this limited edition on Fox Soul TV the Motown Countdown, and we're actually counting down some of the top motown songs and motown artists, So make sure y'all tune in for that, because you know, motown span from when it started in Detroit and Detroit until today. So there's some amazing motown artists today that y'all still listen to, like Little Baby m Okay, all right, well, when we come back,

we got the positive note, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is cj Envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne the gay. We are the Breakfast Club, Na Chalomage. You got a positive note, Yes I do. Man. The positive note is simply this. There is no blame. Okay, I released the need to blame anyone, including myself. We are all doing the best we can with the understanding knowledge and awareness. We have Breakfast Club. You're finish for y'all. Dune