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did you see? Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo turned on or you might not on. You might have him a sected me. The cord was cut. The cord was cut. Yeah, they cut the cord. That's all. They cut the cord. All right, Well, good morning, welcome back, Angela. Yee hey, I'm here. The piece to the planet is Monday. Yes, nobody got nothing now. I just came back from a wedding. I was in Atlanta, So shout out to Natari Nat

and then to Lewis. They got married over the weekend. Congrats to them. Yeah, It was in Atlanta at the Saint Regis. It was a beautiful wedding. I have to say it was a lot of activities. But yes, I know, we're not supposed to really post anything till after they post their stuff, but it was full of activities. And before that, I was in LA for like a week. So now I'm back in New York. I came home last night. My house is a hot mess because I

just realized I didn't prepare. I pack at the last minute, so I, stead of packing the night before, I wake up early. I woke up at like three in the morning and packed, and I forgot how terrible my house was until I got home. But now here I ended nothing fun this weekend. The weekend. The weekend is starting to feel like one sleep, okay, one sleep. Friday, I took the kids on the Eastern egg hunt. They had an Eastern egg hunt. I know it's early, but I

took the kids on the Easter hunt. Then I was Minneapolis. Why what I mean when is Easter? I mean I started early, though they had these towns happen early, so why I don't know that that that defeats the whole purpose, does it? So they think to Jesus, Yes, and on a certain day with Jesus laid eggs. What did Jesus do lay no eggs? What are you talking resurrection like that? I don't know that. That was in a minios. I

know it ain't no time. Nobody watched the Grammys last night. No. I was watching NCAA, the Woman's Championship, the Lady Gamecocks dropping the clues bond for the stock count of game national champions. We'll talk about that in front page news. What else we got? We are going to talk about a lot of airlines cancel flights. Like I said, I just got it in last night. My flight was delayed, delayed, and when I landed, I saw a lot of people and heard them talking about their flight was canceled twice

before they were able to get back to it. Will tell you what was going on over the weekend. All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping lock this to Breakfast Cloud, Go Morning, Look Alive. It's Monday. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Uie, Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club getting some front page news now. Congratulations to the South Carolina game Cocks. May beat the Huskies, sixty four to forty nine last night. Now tonight it is the NCAA Tournament, the championship game,

Kansas versed the Tar Heel. He dropping a clues bombs from my lady game Cocks. Okay, what Don Staley is built in Columbia is to be admired her second national championship and my wife's alma mater. So salute to the game Cocks. Now, Coach k it was his last game and North Carolina beat Duke Saturday Night eighty one seventy seven, and he spoke on his last game for me my entire time, coaching night always wanted at the end of the year or whatever, the last game is where you're

either crying for joy or you're crying for sorrow. And if you are, that means you've put everything into a him. I have a bunch of kids or crying. That was a good game Saturday Night. I wanted to see the storybook and that I wanted to see Coach ko too, you know, go out with a national championship, but you know, not the way things were. But he had a great, great career. I saw Drake bet one hundred thousand dollars on the Duke Blue Devils beating the North Carolina Guitar Hills.

But he lost him. Yeah, he lost that. He'd been doing good with his bat still recently, though. What else we got easy? All right? Well, Sacramento police are looking for the public's help. They're trying to find multiple shooters who opened fire downtown early yesterday morning. They killed six people and left the city with quote a broken heart,

according to the mayor. In addition to the six people who were killed, those twelve people were wounded at the scene in their tenth and K streets, according to police. In a statement, here is police Chief Kathy Lester is speaking on the shooting. The scale of violence that just happened in our city is unprecedented during my twenty seven years here at the Sacramento Police Department. We are shocked and heart broken by this tragedy. Now, what was that?

I saw the videos here and there, but I didn't dig in simply because it was the weekend and I didn't want to entertain that energy in the moment. But what was it? What was it like a mass shooting? Was it a fight? Well? Yeah, so they said that, Um, Well, investigators aren't interviewing a number of witnesses. I already have spoken to people, gotten hundreds, they said, of pieces of

evidence from the scene, including a stolen handgun. They said members of the public did send in tips and video from the incident, some of which had also been captured by a nearby police camera. So they're still investigating. They don't know what they're still investigating. It was just yesterday and that's what they know all right now. Airlines canceled more than thirty five hundred US flights over the weekend and delayed thousands more. They said that weather in Florida

and other issues was the reason for that. As people were going on spring break getting their flights for that people were on social media complaining about waiting on hold or in lines for hours to get their canceled flights rescheduled, and some of the people who are being stranded for days.

I was saying earlier when I landed, there were people discussing flying in from LA and their flight got canceled three different times, so they finally managed to get in, but they said it was weather in airspace congestion and that were the reasons, and technology issues as well. So people are still trying to get back and five people were injured Friday night in a shooting in South Carolina.

They said that officers responded to a call around eleven thirty regarding people shooting at each other, and when they arrived, they described a rural one lane dirt road and dispatches were having problems obtaining information from the chaotic scene. They said some occupants went to a house near the location and other injured parties ran south on Logan Farm Road to escape. The victims were four males and the one female,

age seventeen to thirty three. It's unclear what led to the shooting or if law enforcement agencies have made any arrest at this point. All right, well that is your from page News. All right, thank you, miss ye. Get it off your chess eight hundred five five one five one. If you need to vent, phone lines a wide open again eight hundred five five one oh five one, and don't forget next hour legendary talk show host Ricky Lake. I remember Ricky Lake? Right? Should we join another? Starting here?

Spray also, so we're gonna kick Ricky Lake and her producing partner Abby Epstein will be joining us. All right, So it's the Breakfast Locomotive. The Breakfast Club. I'm I'm telling what's you doing? Call of Yo? This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one five one. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello.

Who's this yo? Yo? What's up? Johnny from Okay? See Johnny, Johnny, get it off your chest, man, Keys, I just wanted to can say I'm blessed. Man, I'm on my way in the work. I've been blessed with the dream opportunities. I really just want to can thank y'all for everything y'all do for the culture. Man. I listened to y'all every day, and I wanted to give a shout out to Charlottagne. Man. I just got myself into therapy about two weeks ago. Man, just started trying to work on

my mental health. Man. I love handing at my brother. You sound like, Yo, you got your life together, King Man trying to bro. I also wanted to see if you had any boots that you're sent me. I'm in the said Tishon Shugues right now, I do. I'm gonna send you what I got up. I got I got some shallow waters By. I needed col packs up here to love letter than Yemmy, y'all, I think you like it. I'm gonna sending it to you, ol daughter, right man, I love that. Yep. Hello, who's this? Good morning? This

is precious they precious? Good morning. Hey, how you doing? How y'all doing, pous? Get it off your chest? Precious? All right, good morning. Like I said, I know that this is April. I tried to call y'all in February. I just don't like the way that we are teaching black history today. These kids. I know we y'all went through slavery or whatnot, but it's twenty eight days in February.

Since they want to give us February every day. If February we can see kids about something a black person invented for the first time or accomplished, every day, we could be learning about something that black people needed to accomplish in today's world or back end. The day I got my small kid, he's six years old, coming home talking about mama. I don't got no more friends, no more. He's the only black kid in his claims because he's black.

So I don't know exactly what taught him, but it ain't cusey black that he can't have no more print. He should have been coming home every day telling me something about something a black man deed. That sounds like two different issues. Though, that sounds like two different issues, Queenn. One is social and one is um educational. Like the social aspect, I don't know why you your young man don't have no friends. But what's the correlation between that

and black history. I think it's the education, not the social for that's who advocate. He came home and he learned about black history. He learned about slavery, he looked about black folks hit beat. Oh. So then he decided he didn't want to be around the white people no more.

There you go. You know, you can understand that. You can understand when when you when you first take in some of that information, or you watch something like Roots or Birth of the Nation, you'd be feeling like that you need some time away from white people for a second. Where you from. He's the only black kid in this past. So I'm just gonna do take a week off from school. We need to take a week off from white people. Who are you from. I'm from Folky Well, yeah, Florida. Oh, Florida. Okay,

just give him a minute, that's all. Oh, you put him in or you put him in other programs where he see something some more black kids. You're not where y'all saying. I want him to come home every day telling to be somebody. He's gonna learn a black person for the first time. Then get you something something. I understand what you're saying, but you you're really trying. You're you're trying to hide reality from your young man. Now.

I could teach that at home, but I want him to be coming home telling me, oh, Mama, to X, Y and Z just learned this today. He had visited this, or he visited that twenty eight days. Now we could be learning about some black folks twenty eight days. That's true, but he also gonna learn. He also gonna learn that ninety five percent of stuff that black people invented where people stolen. He's a way he's gonna be pissed off. Just give him a minute. Get it off your chest.

Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're man from you on the Breakfast club, you got something on your mom Come on, who's this yo? What's going on on breakfast club? Good morning? This is Tyler from Chicago. While y'all feeling Tyler, Tyler, get it off your chests. I'm good, I'm dood man. I just wanted to give

u well. First off, he welcome back, thank you. Great. Absolutely, but the guys y'all hold y'all held it down, So shout out to y'all um. But yeah, you remember the Fleet Club in Chicago, right, I saw they got right for the fifth time. Yeah. Yeah, I just wanted the man that's that's absolutely crazy. I just wanted to bring a little bit of awareness to that. Y'all got to stop hitting Fleet club man. One of the owners of the Fleet. Fleet Club is a sneaker store in sports

wear store in Chicago. He was bowing, he's booing Gotti from the group that r Kelly and the cash money was down with. So this store has been robbed five times. Yeah you get it. Hit. I don't know what's going on, like, I don't know if they got a target on their back and up, but y'all need to stop with the hate. Y'all need to you know what I'm saying, Uh, celebrate black excellence and celebrate black businesses because we don't really got no blue cheeks like that out here. That's home

by brothers. Yeah, it's discouraging. They stole like seventy thousand dollars worth of stuff in this in this last one. And I saw the videos surveillance footage that they put up and you could see somebody was on the phone with someone said it looked like they were instructing them on where to go to get the stuff that's bad. And they got people that they can trust. But I just wanted to bring a little awareness to that. Man. And you know, I'm just saying this, y'all need to

embrace black excellence. I'll need to love black clothing, black brand. Y'all need to show some love. Man. Well, it's sad because they say they're packing up, they say they're going, they're not They're not coming back. And like you said, like you said, we need we need stories like that in my own community. But absol movie and it's messed up, man, But hey, I appreciate y'all letting me get that off. Y'all stay didn't go fresh man, I owned didn't go

close in the Chicago Man. Okay, I'm trying to do my thing out here. I appreciate y'all, and you know, let me get that off. I said I to you, you guys fill a fleet club Chicago. I know they gotta go funding because they've been going through a lot. Hello, who's this? This is Chicode, Chicode. What I'm getting off your chests? I won't say that Black folks have got to stop saying we have got to do better. When Dealing Ruth killed all those black people in the church.

Now when black, one white person came to you and said, hey, man, we gotta do better. Hey, what that mean? I say that about white people though, like, yes, white supremacist white I mean, I don't even don't know if you can expect white supremacist to do better. But yes, America has to do better, This white racist system has to do better. What's wrong with saying that no Americans can do better?

I'm talking specifically about black people because see, when white people were attacked black people, they're always judged as individuals. What wouldn't black attack the white then we're always judged as the group, and so as a group, we're always carrying that burden, and that's that's my right. I get what you're saying, but I don't. I just I disagree. I think that you know, systemic racism is definitely a group effort, sir, So I don't. I don't. I don't judge.

I don't judge individual acts of racism as individual. I judge it as a byproduct of a larger system. Sure, as American, yeah, we should all be working towards that, but as a as a subset of that group, people shouldn't be carring that burden. Like if you don't live in that neighborhood, if you're not engaged in those activities, have nothing to do with say, when one black person does something, we don't have to say, hey, we got to do better black people, because when white people do

things that are messed up, no one says that. They just be like it was one bad seed, he had issues. Well, maybe we got a different sense, maybe we got a different sense of community because we're a smaller population. You ever thought about that, No, I mean that could be true too. But if you don't live in that neighborhood and you're not engaged in those activities, then you don't

need to be carrying those burdens. And when people come to you at work with their with their microaggression, you don't need to answer for those people because you don't live in that neighborhood and you're not engaged in those activities. Fan, I don't know if I agree. I don't hold everybody accountable for one person's asking for call. Yeah, I don't think it's a burden. But if I do see, you know, a black man moving a certain way, I do look at him as you know, part of a community regardless.

All right, we'll get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vent, you could always hit us up. I just want to shout out to Harvest of Ohio. It's a black woman that owns a bunch of dispensaries in Ohio. She owns I believe four or five out there. She's doing very well. She was talking to me about how difficult it was to get in the industry and how a couple of people even came up to her store and wrote nigga on her building because the one of

the very few black owned dispensaries. I met her over the weekend, very very good. And when you see that, I'm sure you get inspired and you feel like, damn, you know a lot of us really doing good out here. That's right, so that it's community. Yeah, but the same thing when you see somebody doing good, you salute them and you feel like we're part of a larger community.

When you see some of us out here wild and you'd be like, yeah, we gotta do better, and you go, you go try to instill something in that person too. I want to just shout out to that system. If you're out in Cleveland, make your you go, Ohio, I should say, make sure you go support her family owned black business. Good morning to her, all right? Have you got rooms all the way? Yes? And let's talk about Monique and Lee Daniels. They have ended their long lasting few.

They hadn't spoken for thirteen years. We'll tell you how it ended, all right, We'll get into that when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Monique. It's about is the rumor report Angela

Yee Fund the Breakfast Club. Well, it's been thirteen years since they last spoke, and now Monique and Lee Daniels have officially ended their feud and they are even working together. Over the weekend, Lee Daniels came on stage der Moni's comedy events and here's what happened. I'm so sad any year, y'all. She was my best friend, my best friend. Y'all think that precious was just that wasn't That wasn't That was God working through bolder us. I love you. That's a

beautiful apology. And you can tell it wasn't sid because it was what thirteen years later, it was public and you didn't have to do it right. She had accused Lee Daniel's Open Went Free an Tiler Perry of blackballing her because she would not promote their film during awards season. It wasn't in her contract, she said, and she didn't want to spend time away from her family. Now they

have denied blackballing her, resources said. The actress and the director didn't speak for thirteen years because of this disagreement. So they are going to be working together on Demon House should be replacing Octavia Spencer in that new Netflix movie. And there you have it, they'll be back together again. Now. I also saw that T. S. Madison was saying that she wanted to know. Let you know, for the record,

it was most deaf. Definitely her upcoming interview on Turns Out with TS on Foxhaul with her good friendly Daniels that most definitely shifted the atmosphere. With Monique, she said, trust me, I'm so happy that thirteen years have been fully mended. And she said, y'all was a right when people were saying fifty cent made this and that happened.

But the tone changed as soon as I stated that no moves was made till after that woman sat down with me, and then I showed where I sat down with Lee in an upcoming interview, and now it's so what child, So she's letting y'all know that the catalyst for all of this was from those interviews. Oh gay, all right? Now. Will Smith has resigned from the Academy after the whole situation with Chris Rock at the Oscars where he slapped him, and he did release a statement.

I have directly responded to the Academy's disciplinary hearing notice, and I will fully accept any and all consequences from my conduct. My actions at the ninety fourth Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I've heard is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home. I betrayed the trust of the Academy. I deprived other nominees and winners of their

opportunity to celebrate. So he goes on to say that he is resigning from membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and will except any further consequences the board deems appropriate. There's still gonna be more consequences, though I know. I'm sure the Academy is going to do something. I mean, they've showing it now, But I don't y'all think it's wild that they're starting to pull his movies Netflix. Well, they didn't necessarily pull it. They

put it on hold. So we don't know what's going to happen moving forward. And we don't know if he wanted things on hold or I don't really know what's happening behind the scenes with that. But it's upcoming Netflix movie Fast and Loose and Bad Boys for it has been put on hold following the Oscar stuff. That's not canceling yet, that just means that it's on hold. And to your point, year, if it's on hold, I'm sure it's on hold because he probably wants to go away

for a while. He probably wants to go somewhere and you know, continue on his healing journey. And Netflix and Apple, who are both set to release a slave thriller starring Will this year, has made They've made no public statements regarding plans to drop the movie or move forward these projects and all of that. Now, that's a lot, yeah, because he's doing that movie. Um, you've seen the picture with the with the slave with the whelps on his back.

He's playing that character to get the brother's name. But yeah, he's playing that character, all right. So there's also been a lot of people commenting on everything that's happened. Denzel Washington sat down with TD Jake's and here's what he had to say. He's a saying, when the devil ignores you, then you know you're doing something wrong. I'm not done.

Now you know the devil read them along. My favorite. Conversely, when the devil comes at you, maybe because you're trying to do something right and for whatever we the devil got ahold of that certain interesting. The devil is always there if you're asking me, though, And I think life is about choices, and sometimes we submit our will to God. Sometimes you submit our will to the devil. Well, Denzel was consoling as you saw Will Smith after everything happened

at the Askers. He was seeing consoling him during the commercial break. All right, now, Bill Maher has weighed in, and here's what he had to say about Chris Rock's heir A joke. I don't even know that. I don't even know because I didn't even know anything about g I Jane because I never saw it, so I didn't even understand what the joke was joke was at first. But here's what Bill Maher had to say, comparing a woman to de Me Moore looking your hottest, It's not

exactly the worst insult I've ever heard. I mean alopecia. It's not leukemia, Okay, alopecia, So when your hair falls out, if you are so lucky in life as to have that be your medical problem, just say, thanks God, it's not. It's not life's let name you know, it's part of for most people, it's part of age, and you know, just put on a wig like everybody else. I don't want to downplay alopecia. It's devastating for a lot of people who have it. So I don't know if that's

necessarily what the issue is. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know how alopecia impact Jada or any woman. So I can't tell her how to react to her condition because what maybe, like do you could be heavy to somebody. Yes, she's spoken on it, how devastating it is for her, but we don't want to make light of her alopecia. But I did enjoy Bill Moss take. Didn't agree with all of it, but I enjoyed it. I mean, I've seen a lot of comedians, a lot of people going at Jada. I think that's why. Yeah,

you know, that's the other issue. Though, you have a moment like that, and now you've opened Pandora's box where people to have so many things to say because you did you know, something happened so publicly and now everybody's that's like the hot topic of a goal. Will so well, I said, go at will go with Will got well, will not at it? Well, it was like speaking like,

go forth, go at will not as wife. I'll see what you're saying, you know what I mean, like let all this land to be towards Will, Will not not his wife. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. All right, Well that is your rumor reports. All right, thank you machine a front page news. What we're talking about, Yes, and today could be a historic day. We're hoping it is. And we'll tell you why. Okay, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, your

morning's will never be the same. Hey, it's Angela. Yee. Have you taken a look at the General Insurance lately? Switch to the General and you could say over five hundred dollars on your car insurance? Call eight hundred General or visit the General dot com the General Auto Insurance Services, Inc. An insurance agency, Nashville, Tennessee. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy we are to Breakfast clubles's getting some front page news now. Congratulations to the Gamecocks,

to South Carolina Gamecocks. They beat the Huskies sixty four forty nine. Man drove on a clues balls for the South Carolina game Cock. Okay, my South Carolina Lady Gamecocks. They won their second national championship on the Don Stanley. So we're dropping a clue bonn for Don Staley, big cock energy, damn it right one time for the eight old three to metro whatever you are a right And tonight the men's final is at nine twenty to Tall Hills take on Kansas, no one else. You get easy,

all right? Well, today the Senate is poised to vote on whether to confirm Katanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. They said she is in good shape to win a lifetime appointment and become the first black woman on the court. They are set to meet today and vote on whether to advance Katangi Jackson Katanji Brown Jackson to a judge on the US Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington, DC. So here's Senator Roy Blunt speaking on this. He is a Republican, she certainly qualified. I think you've got a

great personality. I think will be a good colleague on the court. She's certainly going to be confirmed. I think it'll be a high point for the country to see her go on the court and take her unique perspective to the court. All right, So looks like it it's gonna happen. But he did also say that he won't be supporting her, and he'll be joining others and understanding the importance of this moment even though he's not supporting her confirmation. All right. The House has passed a bill

again to federally decriminalize marijuana. Here is the passage of that bill in the House on this pot. But yay's are two hundred and twenty and the names are two hundred and four. The bill is passed without an objection, emotion to reconsider is laid on the table, all right. Now. The bill does also expunds the record of people convicted of non violent cannabis defenses. And h I don't know if it's going to pass though. Yeah, the Republicans the

Senate is not going to pass that. Like the headline is so misleading because that's still have to pass through the Senate and be signed by the President to become legislation. And this happened a couple of years ago too. A similar bill was passing the House but did not make it through the Senate. The Republicans have an issue, and

that is the More Act. That's what their real issue is, because when changing the nation strugg laws, the federal government should they also take steps to provide financial incentives to people who were most harshly impacted by the war on drugs. I say, yes, of course you have to do that, but Republicans say no. The House passes everything, by the way, the House passed the John Lewis Voting Right Acts the House passed, or the George Floyd Policing Act the House passed,

you know, to decriminalize marijuana. But if it doesn't pass through the Senate, it doesn't become legislation. It doesn't pass through the Senate and get signed by the President, it doesn't become legislator. And a lot of Democrats are saying that this is non negotiable, this equity grant all these programs that they're planning to have, because clearly, people of color, black people were affected most harshly by the War on drugs.

I think black people are four times more likely to go to jail for a drug offense for Canada, for cannabis than a white person. Is this such a misleading headline? Like I saw the headline this weekend and everybody's like, oh, yes, finally congratulation something like that. It means nothing. It passed through the House, still got to pass through the Senate

and get signed by the President to become legislation. The House passes everything, people, all right now, The City of la has agreed to spend up to three billion dollars over the next five years, and that is to how some of their forty one thousand residents who are homeless. According to a proposed settlement that was announced on Friday, They've also agreed to create enough shelter to accommodate sixty percent of homeless people in each of the fifteen council districts.

Those who are considered chronically homeless or who have a chronic illness will remain the county's responsibility. So this all stems from a complaint that was filed in twenty twenty by a group of business owners, residents, and community leaders. They accused the city and county officials of failing to address the desperate circumstances that homeless people face, including hunger, crime, squalor and the COVID pandemic. All right, so that is

your front page news. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now, when we come back, Ricky Lake will be joining us. Yea, I remember Ricky Lake of course, daytime talk show host. So we're gonna be kicking it with Ricky Lake and one of her produces, Abby Epstein, makes a lot of dope documentaries. Now talk to him when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are

to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Absolutely, Ricky Lake, the legend. You're too kind, Good morning, I see you. Ah well, funny you should mentioned that I'm doing a new show where I'm doing a podcast with my old show called Raised by Ricky. Yeah, what do you think? I think that's a great idea. I just realized what the concept is just now when you said it, because I just thought it was gonna be. You know, you're doing a podcast, you know, talking about current events,

but you're reliving the show. Yeah, we're gonna go back in time and break down these episodes. I mean, because you know, lemon on A Media is an amazing podcast company. These women are badasses and they approached me and I, you know, I've been asked to a podcast, as everyone has over the years, and I was like, oh, no, we to Abby Epstein, my partner, or not good morning

about my filmmaking partner. I'm so happy she's here, but no, this concept something about you know, first of it's the thirty This year's thirty years that I did the pilot of the Ricky Lations. Yeah, so I was twenty three years old when I did the pilot. I'm now fifty three, so you know, it was really interesting to me. I think what we were able to do back then. I

didn't think of it at the time is groundbreaking. But the issues we were able to cover, the way we treated gay people, the way we treated mixed race couples, the way we treat you know, it was just we covered a lot of bases, and I think it'll be really interesting to go back with the lens of now where we are now, Have we made progress? Have we

gone backwards? And we're going to have a co host that's gen Z, that's probably you know, someone who's non binary, certainly a person of color and who didn't grow up with me and kind of tell the story and bring back old guests, old experts, And I think it'll be a lot of fun. You know what I love about shows like Ricky Lake, even Donna Hue back in the day, even early Oprah. Y'all sat down with people you had differences with. You sat down when people you may not

have agreed with. Nowadays, if you do that, they'll call you problematic. Yeah, I don't understand that. I don't either, I mean, and that's why I'm glad I don't have the show that I I had back then. Now it just feels like you're walking on eggshells. No matter what you do, you're gonna piss someone off. And Yeah, I just think it's it's gonna be a cool experiment. I mean, I think we're all nostalgic for that time, the nineties, and uh, I'm up for it. No, I'd love to

see you and you'll do that. I would love to see that. I'd love to see anything before we didn't ask one question, how are you? I'm amazing the best me I have ever been, you know, which is like I did that show and my name was on the rug and I didn't really have a sense of who I was. And I think in making these documentaries that I've been making with Abby for more than fifteen years, I've really come into a place of like knowing who my voice and what I believe in and what I

stand for. And I've now you know, gone dark. I lost my partner five years ago to my older and suicide. But I've now five years later, met the man of my dreams and I just got married two months ago. I'm correct. I live in my best life. Thank you so much. How are you, Abby? I'm so good. I'm

so happy to be with this woman. We had our double feature premiere last night and we watched this movie we made fourteen years ago in the same theater that it premiered him at the IFC Center, Business of Being Born, and we just both sat there with my son who's now fifteen, who was born in the movie. Wow, and like we had chills the whole time, you know, because we were watching this going I can't believe that we made this in two thousand and eight. It still holds up. Wow.

It was powerful from the beginning before you guys met what made you start? The Rickey Lake Show? You were only twenty four years old. What said, what made you think this is what I want to do? You want to the honest truth. Absolutely, it was the job that came along. Honestly, I had been a guest. I don't you guys are younger than me, but I well, I'm fifty three and I was. I did Okay, I did

Hairspray when I was eighteen, and I Letterman. David Letterman was a big fan of John Waters, and so he would have me on over and over again, kind of like Sandra Bernhard back then. And it was from those appearances that they thought out of me. They were this guy garth An's here. It was a kind of media whiz. He wanted to do a younger show because he looked at Oprah and Donahue and they were skewing over fifty five.

So they wanted to do something to skew towards younger women, primarily women eighteen to thirty four, eighteen to forty nine. So they went on a search and I was one of a hundred women at that time. I went and flirted with three gay guys. I didn't know they were gay, but I just brought out my skills and they gave me the pilot, and I was like so broke. At that time, I was living in a poolhouse in the valley north of Victory if anybody knows where that is.

No one spoke English, and I, you know, I was kind of couldn't get my agent to call me back. And I got this opportunity. I was like, all right, I'll do it. Five thousand dollars. I needed my rent paid for a year, and I'll do it for that. Luckily, we renegotiated and it turned into this phenomenon and it wasn't a calculated move. Every step of my career, including the business of being born, is never coming from a place of like seeing the big picture. It's really about,

all right, that sounds good. I could do it. So I think I have this confidence in me and also this like naivete you know, and it's worked out. You got five well yeah, yeah, I did, but the first season. So then my agent did get involved and they packaged the show first, No, the pilot. The pilot was initially that was my opening bid was I'll do it for five thousand dollars, and then the first year, you know, at my salary, I don't remember what it was. But at the end of the first year the show was

such a huge success. This is nineteen ninety three, they gave me a bonus of a half million dollars. Wow. Really, yes, a lot of money in ninety three. A lot of that was a lot of money for real late, like I was broke. I My house was for clothes at that time. Yeah, I was needing that money. And it was you know that show it was I mean, it was just my life. Like I didn't have the concept, like I'm twenty four years old. I don't even know who I am, you know who, like the audacity to

get on that stage and moderate these panels. But I think looking back at it, I was I was the perfect kind of person for that role because I was a good listener. You know. It was very forthcoming about my own you know, hardshifts. I'm curious. I'm so fascinated by people. I don't judge people, and so I think

you're so real. You're so real. Anybody who meets Ricky, any of my friends, but anyone who meets Ricky in five minutes, they go that woman has the biggest heart and she's just so real, Like you don't meet a lot of celebrities that are like that anti celebrity quality, and I think that's really what worked on that show. The show was a party, you know. It was just like you know, the people that came to our show, they waited months and months and months to get tickets

back then, and you know, it was always surprising. I mean, there was a little formulaic. I have to admit, like I knew, you know, I knew from the names I could tell, Okay, this is a black story. The first guests. The first guests were always the most outrageous, you know, and then we'd have the white story and then we

you know, we'd balance it out. But I feel like we we did do a lot of good, like we you know, we we definitely saw people and many times that they're worst, But I feel like I treated everyone equally. I treated everyone with compassion and it was a good time. You said something earlier that was interesting. You said, um, you know, you said a lot right about what women had to go to because you're obviously talented, but you said you had to the executives. I didn't. I don't

think it was a prerequisite. It was just it was my m I mean, that I wasn't even like I was, you know, very like heavy set, and I you know, wore a big flower hat probably. I mean I didn't have a really a game. I didn't have any game back then, but I knew how to be charming and appealing and it worked. It worked in my favor. But um, yeah, that's the only game I know. We got more with Ricky Lake and Abby Epstein. Note move is to Breakfast Club.

Good morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, nadav. We ought to Breakfast Club. Were still kicking it with Ricky Lake. So what is the business of birth control? We well was in the same way. Did you ever see the business of being born? No? I urge you too, because it's really you know, we take a hard look at what birth, you know, the birthing world, the medical system when it comes to birth, and the same thing we look at the pill, the history of the pill,

the racist piece of it. Did you know that they tested you tell, they tested the drug the pill initially on rat black and brown women in Puerto eCOM. Yeah. I mean I think that at the end of the day, it's sort of like you can equate the business of birth control too, in a way the opiate epidemic, you know, it's really profits over people. It's it's the way, you know, we know women's bodies have been co opted and controlled and exploited for years. So, like Ricky was saying, the

film covers a lot of grounds. It's truly mind blowing. I think people sit there for ninety minutes and they're like, I didn't know any of the Like I literally didn't know anything in your movie. So one thing is we look at some of the products that are out there, like the neeuver ring that's had a lot a lot of women die on it, and you never hear about any of it. You never hear about any of it

because you get gag orders when you accept settlements. So when the drug company settles with all these victims, they're then not allowed to do any promotion. So the stories in our film are the families who wouldn't settle. They didn't take the money because they want to change the lay bling on these products. They don't want other girls

to die. So we tell that story. And then, like Ricky was saying, you know, we look back in time over the way birth control has been tied into eugenics the way that it's always been used to, you know, weaponize basically against communities of color. How obstetrics was literally founded on slavery in Africa. The pill was tested on women in Puerto Rico, and on and on and on. And then we also look at in a positive way.

You know, we look at this new generation that does not want to take the pill that their grandmothers took. They're woke, they're ecological, they don't want to put you know, hormones, yeah, and acrine disruptors in their body. And so if the pharmaceutical companies aren't going to come along with like healthier options, they're going to make them up. You know, we're going

to invent them. So you look at all these cool femtech entrepreneurs and in a way, I think, you know, the younger generation, it's like they're they're kind of a duet yourself generation. They're not going to rely on these big companies. And so, you know, we look at all the innovation that's happening, which is super cool, didn't explore any of Margaret Sanger oh yeah, okay, okay, oh yeah, okay, And that happened during the making the film. It happened

during the film, which was interesting. Yeah. So we originally I remember, like Gloria Steinham's on early cut, and you know, everyone was worried about that Margaret Sanger legacy, like, oh, you're going to take her down. I think we're really fair to her in the movie. But then at the end of the movie we show an update about how Plan Parenthood New York City took her name off the clinic, so you know that it's not so like they Plan parent finally had to come out and say, you know,

let's be transparent, like we cannot be identified with our founder. Um. So again, that's why I think the timing of the movie was so good, because I think having that conversation about Margaret Sanger five years ago what happened, like we would have gotten a lot of pushback. Yeah, my wife doesn't like berkend That's why I get a vasectomina because we just had off of daughters. She's six months old. Yeah, and it's like, yeah, she's refused to get back on

birth control because it makes us sick. She hates it. Yeah, it's awful, Like all the options are terrible, and you go out there and talk to anybody and they will tell you their birth control journey, and they'll tell you every product they used and how depressed it made them, or how they lost their sex drive, or how they got In my case, I mean I had hair loss. I don't know if you know, I was stealing my hair is pretty much it came back. But because birth control,

well that's part of it. I think it's a lot of things. I was putting extensions in my hair, I was coloring my hair. I was stressed about my hair. I have androw genetic alopecia, which is the you know, genetic hair loss over years. Yeah, it was all above, but definite. You mess with your hormones, think about it, you know, and it's like what we say in the film, it's like sometimes now these kids are getting put on twelve thirteen years old for acne, for cramps, you know,

like you'll see with your daughters. It's like you you got to make these decisions, right when you have like a thirteen year old, fourteen year old that's like, oh, but my period, cramps are so bad. And then the doctor saying, well, just put her on the pill. They'll take care of everything. That's how they treat everything, and that's that's not going to cut it. That's not gonna cut it for the new generation. So I think it's like,

you know, two things. One is there's a lot of things that people are getting put on the pill four that have nothing to do with birth control, right, acne, fiooids, pcos right. So we need actual treatments for these conditions.

We need studies, yeah, happen on women. Studies. Yeah. And then you know, we need to be more educated about the menstrual cycle so that there's other ways to intervene and relieve cramps or whatever the issues are, because what's happening is these girls are going on at like twelve, thirteen, fourteen, they're not really you know, they're hormones, they're not really developing.

They're on something that's cut like basically putting them into menopause at thirteen, and they're not, and they're staying on it. Then they stay on it for maybe ten twenty years. I mean this drugs were not designed or FDA approved to be on for twenty interviews. Did you know that when you're on these drugs it changes your pheromones? Yes, changes who you're attracted to. They do this T shirt test that was out of what's Sweden or something Scotland. Yeah,

so it's actually your so your pheromones. You know, it's like how you you can smell out attraction, right, so you know how if you like have sex with certain people, you like their smell, you don't like their smell, right, that smell is actually giving your body information about their DNA. It's actually telling you whether you're going to make healthy offspring with that person who and when you go on these birth control products, it takes that like animal sense offline,

so you can't smell anymore. So they say, like for women, the line is you're going to be attracted to someone who's more like brother than other, so you're attracted to more maybe kind of feminine men. You know, men that aren't don't have that kind of opposite polarity. And um so you hear this a lot anecdotally, right that women either go like are with a partner, decide they need

some protection, go on the pill. Suddenly they're not attractive anymore, or the opposite, or the opposite when they go off to family plan they suddenly are not into their guy. You're about to make YouTube conspiracy thing YouTube conspiracy so that it can't even help you. It canna make you change you do what gin do you like as well? No? No? Oh, okay? Conditions? So how did you get your hair back? Healthy? So? I you okay? So I think it's a lot of things.

Like I said, I don't stress anymore. I mean when I shaved my head in grand fashion the turn of twenty twenty, I mean I did it in a way like can you curse on the show? Okay? I said it like I was so done with struggling about my hair. It was my deep, dark secret. Every time I looked in the miericuld see my scalp, and it just it just drove me crazy, and the extensions were pulling. I'm sure many of your much of your audience knows what

that's like. It's just it's just it was painful. And it was because I was a public figure, and because I'm so outspoken and honest and authentic. I this was this piece of myself that I was hiding, and I just decided, all right, I'm gonna rock a bald head. You know, I don't know how it's going to look. My friends were telling me, don't worry, you can do it, You're gonna be able to pull it off. And I just did it and gave up. And then I came into finding this product that I'm now an ambassador of.

I've never taken an endorsement in my thirty plus year career. It's called Hark Clinican and it's a shampoo and extract and something about the fermentation. I can't explain it, but it's non toxic and it's helped my hair to be as healthy as as it can be. Now you know where I'm going next. Were you offended by Chris Rock's joke towards Jada Pink's I mean I was more offended by his actions. It's like it's by Will Smith's actions. I mean, like I used to say on my old show,

violence is never the answer. And the fact that it went to that extreme, I mean nothing, nothing that comes out of anyone's mouth justifies a physical altercation. But I also did feel for Jada in that moment, because I would hate to be the butt of that joke if someone were, and that was one of my fears. When I did shave my head, like I I didn't I didn't know what the reaction would be. And I couldn't think that far ahead, but I was so scared of people making fun of me or is calling me names.

So I definitely it definitely struck a nerve for me because I think women's suffering with that condition. Um, it's not funny. What if you know? Yeah, no, no, I think there's a lot to the story. I mean, we're all speculating, but I think there was a history with them and the Oscars. So I don't know. I mean, I saw this morning that hurt her. Her reaction to

the slap. After the slap, she sort of smiled. I mean, we don't know, but I know for me personally, definitely a joke about a woman's hair loss is not is not funny. We got more with Ricky Lake and Abby Epstein Note moves to Breakfast Club, Good Morning, everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Schalomagne the Gay We ought to Breakfast Club. Were still kicking it with Ricky Lake. Cha.

You did twelve seasons at a Ricky Lake well eleven, and then I went back and did a new version of the show that only ran for one year, but I won the Emmy that year, and you said you walked away from it. I did the first show, I just couldn't renew. Yeah, I mean it had kind of run its course. Nine to eleven had happened. I just I wanted to get out of New York. I was going through a divorce. I mean, it just it just kind of fell apart. I mean, you know, Maury just

ended his show. I mean, I feel like I could have had a run like that. I'm personnel. No no, no, no no. I love Maury, but I I yeah, eleven years was enough for the first show. The second show, I wanted to do more of a Donnie Who type show. That was my concept. I wanted to be elevated content, more provocative and thought provoking. And it didn't turn out to be that. Well. Difference between the first run in the second run because you want to end run successful.

I don't know. The first one. I mean, I think the timing of the first one and being in New York at that time was magic. You know. The second one, I was in bed with the wrong company. I think the executive that was in charge of my production we had different visions. You know, he wanted a different type of show than I wanted to do, and I you know, goes back to making the business of being born with Abby.

I kind of have a sense of who I am in a way that I didn't back then, and uh yeah, so it was just you know, in bed you did some good shows though you really did. We did, we did. I actually did a show on suicide, which is so interesting that I didn't have I didn't have a his like I didn't know that at the time, but I was called to do it and I fought so hard. He said it was never gonna rate. It was never gonna and I felt like we needed to do it, and it was one of the shows I'm really proud of.

How difficult is it for any person to have a successful daytime talk show? Oh my god, I think it's near impossible. I mean, in the time that I did my show eleven years and we used to go to the Nappy convention every year and there'd be you know, a dozen half a dozen new shows come and go and they you know, they'd last for you know, not very long. I think it's a rare talent. Like it's like, I don't think it's something that was taught to me. I think it was like a natural fit, you know,

for me. It's a unique relationship I think that you have with the world more than being an actor on a TV show. I feel like because Ricky was in everybody's living room and people ran home from school at three o'clock every day to watch Ricky Lake, watch Ricky Lake.

Like literally, you know, I can see just from traveling the world with her, Like We'll be in some hotel lobby in Australia and like, you know, like ten gay men will come up to her like sobbing, you know, and say, oh my god, you validated us and you don't know what you meant, and you know, And I think that they have a different relationship with her, just

because the nature of that show. It's like it's like she was the perspective of the audience, you know what I mean, Like she was she was sort of your lens into this like world of madness. So it's it's interesting to see I've never really seen um, I've never really seen anybody where it's kind of like her fans appreciate her and a way, like yesterday we're walking down the street and people are screaming her name down the street in New York. That's Ricky Lake. I saw you

Wendy Williams this morning. Hi, Ricky, Hi Ricky, Like she just feels approachable, more approachable in that way because I think we lose sense of how many people grew up on her, like it was one of the original absolute formats.

And I think the nineties celebrity actually meant something in the Yes, doesn't anybody you can lick You can lick the bottom of a toad foot now and be a TikTok s about you know what I'm saying, Like, celebrity meant something in the nineties, And it feels like everyone or a lot of people have an agenda, Like it's like it's whether sell a product or push some you know. And I guess in a way we are pushing art, but our thing is to help women. Like yeah, you know,

but yeah, celebrity has changed. I agree, And and just the tone that like like I don't know how you guys do it. I don't know if you ever like second guess what you're about to say for fear of like like backlash or something. But I feel like I was able to say, you know, I didn't have to like censor myself before I say can Yeah, we've been canceling a million times. I mean, we've been doing it for twelve years. Things have changed over has it shifted

in these twelve years. So it's things they try to go back and cancel us for. Yeah, yeah, you know, it's just that's the way it's part to me. Yeah, because nobody wants to have the conversation about how culture shifted. Yeah, it's kind of hard to hold people accountable for things they said, yeah in public forums ten years ago, fifteen

years ago culture exactly. I felt like that last night when we watched both our movies back to back, you know, and we're watching this movie we made fourteen years ago, and I'm a little nervous watching it, you know, just for that reason, because you're sitting there like, oh, did we have enough people of color in the movie. Oh God, we just said something about Britney Spears in the movie. Little you know, things that like today might not fly.

You know. I was going to ask, we always talk about the Mount Rushmore things, route much more, Mount Rushmore of comedians, what shit? Mount Rushmore of talk show host? Okay, Oprah for sure, Oprah, Donna Hue. I loved Donnie back in the day. I loved our cineo. I watched him. Oh can we do Late Night too? Oh sorry, okay, okay, daytime. Let me think, Oh my god, throw some names at me and I'll tell you what I think of them.

Um oprah Don was a good start. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean Sally Sally um oh, Monte Montell was a good guy to show with him. Yeah yeah, I mean there's more, There's more, but I'm like, there were so many. Come on, you just did that reunion on Tamaran Hall. Who was there? Oh that was Rolando was there and Montell was there. Yeah, Tamara Tamara was up here like last week and she said your name and Rolanda And I was like, I mean, you know quote I didn't.

I didn't didn't think of Rolanda. Hadn't heard the name in a wild like well, I mean tempest bled Zoe had a show, Carney Wilson had a show. I mean yeah, everyone. No, I don't think so. I think they only ran for a Queen Latima. Yeah, I mean yesterday I went and did the Wendy Williams Show without Wendy Williams. But it was in my old studio, so like I hadn't been back there. In like fifteen years, sixteen years or something

like that. They got Montell's old studio two. Yeah, uh Mont Maury was there too, the twenty six Street studios. But yeah, it's all just like it just feels like these chapters in my life. And now with this new podcast, I'm gonna do, I get to go back, right, I think it'll be good. Yeah, I wonder what the raised by Ricky podcast? What did he make you miss most about doing the Ricky Lake Show? The money money, But I mean it was funny money. I didn't even like,

like getting a bonus of a half million dollars. Come on, come on, it's like the budget of our entire documentary. It was just it was crazy. I'm okay, yes, I'm I'm just fine. I did not do like like I love Rosie O'donnald too. Rosie's a great, great, great friend of mine in a great talk show host. Um. Yeah, I don't have like the money that these other people have. But I'm also I saw Jim Carrey did an interview yesterday. He's retiring. He's like and he said he has enough.

And that's how I feel. I don't come from a place of the work. I do is not about the money I make now, It's really about putting out good work. Dude, talk show host reach out to you to get tips now and if they did, I'll tell you. Rosie and Ellen both called me before they went and did their shows because they wanted to know what the schedule was, like, how it worked. Um not late like no, not of late. I've been off the air. I haven't done my show

in so long. But but I feel like I do have some good pointers, and I would say the main thing is to be a good listener. That's you know, I think that's what I was best at, is reacting to what I was seeing. You know. I didn't wear an IFB, and that's something they fought me on every year. They just wanted, you know, the control room and the produces wanted to have access to me. And I didn't want anyone ever putting anything in my mouth, you know. So I would have Q cards if they needed me,

but I refused to have an IFB. So I just I just love that, Yes, that show. Back then, I didn't really know who I was, but um but I was in the moment and present and tried to be kind and tried to have some fun and do some good Yeah. One more quite tasteful water. Yeah. How did Ricky Lake want to be remembered? My goodness? Um has a good time. I'm a good time I am when Yeah, I mean I want you know, I want my legacy like it makes me happiest when people recognize me and

know my work. From the work I do with Abby, the Business of being Born, these documentaries I believe are changing the world, making the world a better place. And they're the most personal projects and they take a lot of work, a lot of effort, and I'm really proud of you. You have shifted some culture. We have we have. Thank you, thank you so much, Thank you so much. What can the documentary to be seen? Yes, we're streaming. You can pre order now at the Business of birth

Control dot com. We're self releasing it, so we don't have a big studio behind us. You just go to the Business of birth Control dot com and it's going to be streaming. Aprilife and the Ricky Lake Raid by Ricky podcast starting October twenty twenty two, available every are you listening to podcast? Exactly? All right? We thank Breakfast Club, thank you thank you having me, thank you your pleasure. Whoa. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on the

Breakfast Club. Well, the Grammys were in Vegas over the weekend and I was flying back from Atlanta when it was happening, but I did see some of the highlights. Now for the top winners of the night. John Baptiste got four trophies, including Album of the Year for We Are. He went into the night with eleven nominations and he got Album of the Year, Video of the Year, and then Silk Sonic took home two other big categories, Record and Song of the Year for Leave the Door Open.

Olivia Rodrigo was named Best New Artist and also won Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance. Um, we'll give you a lot of details about what happened, but let's get started with Trevor Noah. He opened up the Grammys and here's how it started. Don't even think of it as an award show. There's a concert where we're giving out awards. All Right, We're gonna be listening

to some music. We're gonna be dancing, we're gonna be singing, we're gonna be keeping people's names out of our mouths, and we're gonna be giving out awards all throughout the night. I wonder if last week's events impacted the way Trevor hosted the award show last night. I mean, he's a comedian, did he did he really feel like, you know, I'm gonna keep people's name out of my mouth because hey,

you never know? Yes, all right, well hell. Performers included Jay Balvin, John Baptiste, BTS, Billie Eilish, Her Lady Gaga, Cynthia Rivo, John Legend, Little nas X, and Jack Harlowe Nas. We're about to get into that right now. And here's Nas performing made you look, shooting a made you look you were slave to a page in my back book, getting paid money, play Puck j Quedo Can shooting Nah, made you look Queen's Yes, and here he is um oh. Also here is Silk Sonic. They performed, and they also

gave a speech. As we told you, they did win a Record and Song of the Year for Leave the Door Open. We are really trying our harness to remain humble at this point, Okay, but in the industry we call that a clean sweet, all right. To all the other nominees, y'all know we love y'all. We love y'all. All Right. Drinks is on Silk Sonic tonight. We getting drunk, Getting drunk, all right, And shout out to Jasmine Sullivan. She won for Best R and B Album for Hotels.

Well deserved. I think that I wrote this project to deal with my own shame and unforgiveness around some of the decisions that I made in my twenties that weren't favorable. But what it ended up being was a safe space for black women to tell their stories, for us to learn from each other, for us to learn from each other, laugh with each other and not be exploited at the same time. And that's what I'm most grateful for. So shout out to all black women who are just living

their lives and being beautiful. Hotels and the perfect soundtrack for any whole face dropping a clue bab for Hotels. I love that album was absolutely the best album of all that was last year. It came out right, Yeah, I think for the Grammars it had to have been all right now Doja Cat also one for Best Pop Duo Group Performance with Sissa for her song Kissed Me More, and she actually was in the bathroom when they were announcing it, and they were trying to get her to

hurry back. I have never taken such a fast pass in my whole life. Did she wash her hands? Probably? Thank you everybody. And you know what, Sissa, you are everything to me. You are incredible. You're on the U piting me of talent, of your lyricist. You're everything. Hi. I like to down play, but this is it's a big deal. If they called your name, would you have enough time to wash your hands live on television. No,

you gotta get there. You wash your hands after. And she probably had to pull up her you know, it looked like she had like a Onesian underneath. That's not easy to manipulate your clothes. And I'm sure she didn't start running back once they called her name. She was out of breath. Yeah, when she got all right, now, we told you already. John Baptiste got four trophies, and he had started out with eleven nominations, but he got the biggest awards. He got Album of the Year, Video

of the Year. And if y'all don't know John Baptiste here he is tlue to my guy, John Battize. Man, that's a great brother right there, dropping a cluded monster, John Beatiz a real week musician one Album of the Year, and salute to Jehan Sweet. That is a young man who I've known since he was a little jit. You know, he want to Grammy for John Batist's album as well. That's a little duvoce cousin. All right. Well, John Battiste is the band leader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

And by the way, he had recently did an interview and he got secretly married in February. He told CBS Sunday Morning what happened. And he was with his wife now for eight years and they decided to get married after she was recently diagnosed with leukemia for a second time. By the way, now here is his speech as he was winning. You know, I really I believe this to my core. There is no best musician, best artist, best dancer,

best actor. The creative arts are subjective and they reach people at a point in their lives when they need it most. It's like a song or an album is made and it almost has a radar to find the person when they need it. The most man lay show bands have had an amazing couple of weeks. I mean, with Quest Love winning some of the soul last Week and job but Teach winning for the Album of the Year the Grammy don't want if that's ever happened, If late show bands ever been in this popping? Have people

from late show bands ever been this popping? I know, but late show bands have to be amazing because that's a lot of work that they have to do and a lot of synergy every day, and then they also are really good at being spontaneous and just reacting to what's going on on the fly. I can't remember none. I remember Pauli. That's her name from back in the day on Letterman. I think that was the name Paul I think. I don't remember too many late shal bands.

It's the first generation. I remember, like you actually know who the late show band is. All right, well that is your rumor. Reports not gonna shout out Tyler the creator DJ Drey didn't finish we have to go. We're gonna come back, but more. There's a lot more that happened. The Ukrainian president Zelinski also spoke he wanted we're gonna get into more, don't worry. Yeah, he wanted one and you know drama. He was the one that was he voiced an album. He talked over the album. Who told

them that they won? Like, um oh I did see that live? Yeah there doing an interview. Who to my guy? Way, all right, well you give me two man. We need Memorial Herman Hospital in Humble, Texas to come to the front of the congregation. Okay, let's start off this Monday morning with some trauma. Why don't we We've been doing that. But yeah, it's all right. Four after the hour. We'll get to that. Next it's to Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same.

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something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I need what's getting that donkey, that donkey that don't don't don't, don't don't donkey other day right here the breakfast club. Bitches, you can call me the donkey of the day, but like I mean no harm. All right, Donkey of the Day for Monday, April the fourth goes to the Memorial Herman Hospital in Humble, Texas. They say everything is big in Texas, and that also applies to the size of the stupidity. Now, we talk about trauma a lot nowadays. Okay.

One of my favorite things to tell people is that if you don't deal with your trauma, your trauma will eventually deal with you. Everybody processes trauma differently. If you're trying to figure out what is trauma, it's simply an emotional response to something negative that has happened to you. Okay. It's three types of trauma. You gotta cute trauma from a single incident, chronic trauma, which is something repeated and prolonged,

such as domestic violence, are abused. And then complex trauma, which is exposure to varied in multiple traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature. Okay, when it comes to today's donkey of today and why Memorial Herman Hospital is getting donkey today, It's because they cost a queen named Betty Harris to have either acute a complex trauma. Now, what they did would have made for an incredibly traumatic but very entertaining April Fools Day, Joe, But it didn't

happen on April Fools. It actually happened back in early March, March seventh, to be exactly, okay, Betty visited her husband, Brian Harris at Deerbrook Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Listen to what I said. Betty visited her husband, Brian Harris at Deerbrook Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The visit went well, okay, but the next day she got a call from Memorial Herman Hospital and it went like this, let's go to NBC News for the report place. Betty Harris says she

got what maybe the worst call of her life. It came from a strange number she quickly learned was Memorial Herman Hospital and humble he said, it's about your husband. I say, my husband. I see, my husband is in a rehabilitation and he said, no, your husband is at the emergency room. I said the emergency wrong. So he said, yeah, he said he stopped breathing. I say, he stopped breathing. I said, so, what's what's wrong? I say, he's all right?

He said he did. Harris says she was devastated and also confused because she had just left her husband Bryant, at the Deerbrook Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center the day before,

where he was recovering from a knee surger. But at the hospital, Harris got an even bigger surprise when it was time to identify the body not my husband, and I was I was very Harris says she learned the mix up began at Deerbrook, where someone passed off Brian's chart when rushing another man to memorial herman where he died at a mistake, you understand, but it was just so horrifying Betty, who he's doing for emotional distress? Okay, that's the guy. Information the kind of news that can

cause fatally inducing stress. Betty could have had a heart attack right there on the spot. Betty could have taken that news so hard that she did something harmful to herself in that moment. She could have been so devastated, that she could have killed herself, and she clearly really believed y'all, because the news report said she called family and friends crying hysterically. Personally, if I was her, I would have called my husband. Okay, I'm not believing you

dead until I hear it from you. Seriously, we live in an era with an Internet is always killing people off. They're always making up stories at any given time. So the first person I would call when I hear about a loved one being dead is my loved one. If they don't answer, then this cause for concern. Okay, then I started calling around the family and friends. But it doesn't matter because clearly Betty was in a state of shock.

She was in a state of disbelief. Memorial on her in the hospital for a brief moment remixed her whole life, and on top of that, she had to go down there and identify a body that wasn't her body, and all she received thus far as in age uh. The Dear Book Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center apologized for the mix up, but the hospital memorial herman has not responded to the incident. But the rehabilitation center basically said, my bad.

Our team regrettably transferred a patient to the hospital with incorrect identifying paperwork. I appreciate the apology, but that doesn't take away discress and trauma that I experienced simply because door Dash bought me the wrong order. Okay. I hope Betty Harris sus that hell out of this hospital for emotional discress. Okay, for the emotional harm that you suffered.

If a hospital tells you that your husband died a day after you just left your husband in a rehab and you didn't even know he was in the hospital, didn't guess what you deserve it all? Okay, Betty, I heard you say. You just want the hospital and rehab facility to have better communication between the two. I agree, but that means nothing. You are hurt, Betty, Okay, don't get up, all right, to stay on the ground. They didn't have a wet floor sign out, all right. Your

neck is hurt, your back is hurt, your head is hurt. Wait, what do you mean you can't hear me, Betty? Betty, you can't hear me? Hello? Hello? What you can't see me either? Or we have to do something about this. Sounds to me like you are entitled to some form of compensation. Okay, please give a memorial. Herman Hospital and Humble Texas the biggest he hall. Where are the lawyers to help Betty out? Is this not a slam dunk lawsuits? Come on now? All right, well, thank you for that

donkey of the day. Now when we come back, our producer cave here talking us about something that he's seen on TikTok. Now, producers fifty five. He shouldn't be on TikTok. But I'm just joking. He was on TikTok and he was talking about a grandmother that left her own rules for her own funeral. These are my rules at my funeral. Listen up your cry, but don't cry too much. Don't make a fool of yourself. Birth is not I invited. Don't let her in, and you're better get drunk afterward.

Take a shot for me, all right? That happens all the time. Five eighty five, one oh five one. That just happened to be on TikTok. But people leave stuff like that in their funeral notes, all this funeral notes all the time. You already know how I want my funeral to be. Do you have rules for your funeral? Let's talk about it when we come back. Eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one. I've seen an artist over the weekend. He passed and they actually had a party at a club for him, but had his

body in the club. Yeah, I saw that. I think it's his whole family is there, his mom was there. I believe everybody was there. But I guess that's what he wanted for his So let's eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. What are your rules for your funeral? What is this is Monday? Guys, Jesus Christ, this happen to start off with eight hundred five five one five one. Let's talk about it to breakfast club

com one the Breakfast Club. It's topic time called eight hundred five a five one five one to join it to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Talk about it morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angel Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now if you just joined us, we're talking about rules for your funeral. Now. This came from our producers on TikTok and he's seen this grandmother post this. Let's hear it. He's are my rules at my funeral? Listen up? You cry, but don't cry too much. Don't

make a fool of yourself. Bertha is not invited, don't let her in, and you're better get drunk afterward. Take a shot for me. So we're asking eight hundred five A five one oh five one. What are your rules for your funeral? Let's start what you eat? What are your rules if you have any. First of all, used to have dreams all the time that I was at my own funeral, whatever that means. And so I just don't want my funeral to be really sad. I do want it to be like more upbeat and more like

a celebration of life. And so I have the about this and I think that I want to make sure that I plan it out so that it happens the way that I want. I don't want everybody to be like, you know, balling, crying or really sad. I want them to be like, man, let's talk about some great memories and let's have a good time. Uh No, I do not have rules from our funeral. I'm too busy thinking

about living the worry about stuff like that. Because truth to the matter is, when I passing about fifty plus years, it's no telling what kind of technology, it's gonna be available on how we're gonna want to be laid the rest, and I can care less about what happens at the funeral. I care more about the business, the will they, estates, the life insurance. I understand Grandma thinking about that because

she's old. I'm not that old yet be worried about what my funeral gonna be like in fifty years they might. They might be shooting bodies the mars because it's no more laying. The things happen unexpectedly. And I also think planning in your estate has to do with your funeral, because they do cost money, and sometimes people have passed and they don't have that planned out, and then it leaves a burden on people that not only our mourning, but having to put together a funeral and come up

with some money. Well yeah, yeah, well huh. The state, my state has been playing and already hopefully yours or you got four daughters, I'm sure you'll play this year. I just said that I can't more about the business, the will they and states, the life resuring, But as far as what happens in my funeral, why would I can't? Yeah? I mean I I don't necessarily have rules. I mean, my family know who I with it who I don't that,

so they know Petty already. I mean they do, they know who the exactly they should know the same people that don't come to the house, y you know what I'm saying, the same people that you don't be around, like you know that. So I don't have any rules and regulations. Um nah, I mean I really don't care. I want I really and this is gonna sound the cheap version of myself. I just don't want them to spend a lot of money. That's you. But that's why

you planning for it. You can pay once again, though, y'all don't know what the world gonna be like in fifty years, and fifty years they might just be shooting our ashes in the space. So who knows a lot of people die unexpectedly that weren't planning for it, especially you know, with the pandemic and a lot of things happening that they didn't anticipate it. And it's sad. So that's why I think it is important to make sure that you never know. God, y'all come implicating this. The

grandma is talking about people she wanted her funeral. She making it seem like a party, and we ain't talking about question yes on your back of your stomach. I don't. I don't want to be I don't want my body period. I want to be cremated or something I've always thought about that make me a tree? How do you not see how they're making everybody, uh trees. Now you can bury them and then a trio sprout do something like that,

make your tree. Yeah, you're not stupid. People go look in the future when they start digging up bodies, and it's gonna be all like the gelatin from the bbls and the breathton plants and the take abs. The men is getting in the beigean, you know, stupid stuff gonna look in the ground when they dig stuff up in the future. They're not gonna know what is what? What word?

What word? Treat your body? Why would have to dig up your ass the same way they dig up stuff now, the same way we find caveman's bones and dinosaur bones and stuff. Now, who you talk? Hello? Who's this? Hi? Oh my gosh, Hey guys, it's Nellie. However, good morning, Lily. Hi, Okay, So my funeral. This is something that I talk about all the time with my very close friends and family, but I actually want to please um invite only. I

know that sounds crazy. I'm very private and my real life and I want that to translate also in death as well. And I want everybody to wear em al green because of my favorite color. And then once you know the funeral services are over, I want to be cremated implanted as a willow or cherry bossom. Dope, okay, the tree of the thing. Hello, who's this all right? Kyle? What's something man? Even? How would you plan out your your funeral? What's your rooms? Bro? Yeah? My mom's for

my mom? She said, two or her sisters aren't invited because right now she doesn't get along with the waiter lives. It sold me and my sister that we don't act right, we might not even be able to get in. Actually gonna be there to stop y'all that what I'm saying. It's like, all of this is foolish. Now, let's be honest. You believe in spirit? I do now, your mom absolutely, your mom's on your mom's sister, so you're not gonna let her. And if you tell me not to bring

them in and they can't come in wishes. Come boy, you're gonna stop at the door now, you can't come in here, Yes, sir, that's crazy. Yeah, but then you know you got to keep that same energy for the rest of your life. So when the aunt come over to the house, you can't let her in the house. When I don't want to come to other events, you can't let her come. Now you're gonna be sitting there confused. I haven't I haven't talked to her about six years.

Who you aren't? Yes, Oh, it's a dove hurding, not on purposely though, all right, family drama, getting all right, thank you, brother, But yeah, I didn't want to say Charlom, Charlomnicut read all your books, man, They really taught me a lot. Bro. And even if y'all love all the current collections, I'm so you can do, and I love them just where you were. Thank you, brother, Appreciate you. King eight hundred five eight five one on five. We're asking do you have rules for your funeral? All right,

let's talk about it. It's the breakfast Club come morning, and your opinions to the breakfast Club top one morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Now if you just joined us, we're asking, do you have rules for your funeral? Now? This came from a grandma that posted this on TikTok. She's a grandma grandma too. She's not a fifty something, your fifty something, your grandma, grandma, grandma. These are my rules at my funeral.

Listen up, you cry, but don't cry too much. Don't make a fool of yourself. Bertha is not invited, don't let her in, and you're better get drunk afterward. Take a shot for me. So we're asking eight hundred five eight five one oh five one, do you have rules for your funeral? Hello? Who's this? It's Brianna. Brianna got some rules for your funeral? I do So. This might be well, Patty and even Emi spared it, but I'm kept are living well and causes. That's my mama cannot

come to my funeral at all. And this is because she and I have not had a relationship since I was seventeen, and she has never wished me well. She's never done anything loving towards me while I've been on this earth. But you can't stand over my body while I'm dead. No, if you can't give me that energy while I'm alive, you can't come to my funeral. Have y'all tried to fix it in any way, Queen, y'all

been to any therapy as a family or anything. Oh? Yeah, we tried, you know, when I've heard thirty last year and when it came to the point of her being accountable and just being an adult to certain things that she did wrong as a parent to her, she did everything and she could. She was the best mother. There's no wrong that she did. So things ended again, so

I respect it. You know, sometimes when you pray to God to take negativity out of your life, you know he he's swinging at You're not just swinging that spirit. She's swinging at people and things out of the embodiment of that negativity. And it can be your mom, it could be your dad, It could be people that you think you supposed to love forever. Yeah, I mean, if even my mom and anybody that's with her, that's the

guys either. And if y'all let her come and I see y'all in the afterlife in paradise, I'm coming to find y'all goodside. So you know, Petty, you gotta be the hole of grudge into the afterlife. Hello, who's this? It is Kaden? How y'all doing? Katie? What's going on? Brother? Much? Man? I'm just here work all right. So we're asking, do you have rules for your funeral? Oh? Yes, sure. So everyone's gotta wear a Halloween cost you and including my dad.

He's got to wear the Grim Reaper costume. The Grim Reaper costume. I'm gonna make my dad where the Grim Reaper costumes? What do you want them to do while they're there in costumes? I don't know. I'm not gonna be there and mediate anything. So why would your dad still be alive? Oh? If? Yeah? Yeah, this is the crazy thing. We were planning these things and we're saying things like, oh anything. You know, things happen so unexpectedly, but you show it making plans for other people, like

they're gonna be here. Yeah, just need one person to wear a Grim Reaper calls. He didn't change it. Now he's like, you know what, my dad might die before me. That's usually how it works. I mean, that's how it supposed to work. Parents die before the kids. Sir. Yeah, happens sometimes it does, all right, Well, you have a going sir, Hello, who's this song from far Rock? Queen tone from Queens Queens? What I probably ain't nothing? Ragular

ain't nothing? Rag alar what's good? That's goodie, bro ragularum. Just come tom come to my wig high when you're telling me bollo that mercy. How old are you, sir? Forty forty one? Yeah, exactly forty two year old? Quote things like that, come to my wig high when you're telling me about you don't want them high at your wake? They probably will be, though, because anything else to play true. I'm not mad at it, all right, we have a going sir, okay, but you have a go with Queen's Day.

That's a that's a lyric. Who is that comes to my wig? That's biggie right, and that's biggie alright. Well, what's the what's the moral of the story, guys? I don't know if there is a moral to the story. I mean, everybody's doing some pre planning, you know. I'm not mad at it. I'm just not thinking about stuff like that right now. I'm thinking about living, all right. Well, we got rumors all the way, yes, and let's talk

about Gerard Carmichael, his new HBO special. People were talking about it because he revealed that he recently came out to friends and family. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Listen, Oh gosh, reports club. Well, Elon Musk bought nine point two percent steak in Twitter, so now he is the largest shareholder. News of that purchase sent Twitter stock shares storing twenty four percent in pre market trading. So he

did not disclose what he paid for the years. But his steak was worth two point nine billion dollars as of the close of trading Friday, and three point six billion dollars after the spike that happened this morning, So he owns nine percent. Now he's a majority owner. He's well, he's the largest shareholders. Yeah. The marl of the story is talk spicybody. Elon Musk on Twitter. If you want to, you get your account the leading. Okay, immediately listen your

account the moss All right, keep playing. Now. Some people feel like he intends to go active and force change at Twitter, and we don't know what's going to happen, but he is passive still with the nine point two, so we'll see what happens and what does that mean. But you know last week his girl, well I guess it's his ex girlfriend. Now. Grimes had another baby via surrogate, and so she revealed that last week. But he does have a new girlfriend. So according to sources, the article

about their relationship called her a little off guard. Her name is Natasha, but she said that this was all before her. They're no longer together, so she's fine with the fact that he just had another baby, all right. Comedian Gerard Carmichael has revealed that he is gay his new HBO special Rothaniel, And you can't really just find it on the internet. You got to see the special in order to see the whole thing. But he gave he gave some details about his family history and his

experience coming out. He said that his father cheating on his mother became public knowledge, and he said, after that was out in the open, I was left alone feeling like a liar because I had a secret one that I kept from my father, my mother, my family, my friends, and you professionally personally, and the secret is that I'm gay. So here's the quick clip that we do have we don't have it. We don't have a cli Wait wait wait, he's running in. He's running in, and here is the

clip on The secret is that I'm gay. That's what we got. That's all we have all. I watched that this weekend and it's just amazing how when it comes to like issues with our parents or things that our parents did, so many of us have the same backstory. But swoo to my guy. Draw called Michael a couple of years ago on his HBO special home video, he told his mom he hooked up with dudes before. But I guess that's not the same as great up saying

I'm gay stuff. I would assume it. I mean, I guess he wanted to make the actual statement and say it because he had never just said, looks I am gay hook it up with guys. It feels like it. You could be bisexual, you could consider yourself whatever. But he's gay and he's talking about he talked about the hill On Brobs Club a couple of years ago. Yeah, all right. Now. Reports were saying that Kanye West is seeking help after months of unstable behavior. For the sake

of the kids. He said he's not making any public appearances or inflammatory social media statements according to page six, But according to his rep Jason Lee, he is saying that is untrue. He said, yea, he monitors all headlines pertaining to him and his family daily, and Jason Lee said that, yeah, does not respond to many headlines. But he said, if you don't hear it from his mouth, read it from his social media, or get it from

her press release, he approved, it's simply false. So for people who feel like that was true, according to his spokesperson Jason Lee, it's not. So he's not getting help that he has never said that. Well, we wish it was true. We wish Kanye was somewhere going to get get getting some type of healing. M All right, Now, let's take it back to the Grammys and things that happened on there. Cardi B ended up deleting her Twitter

account and she this was so weird to me. People were coming at her because she didn't attend the Grammys. Here's what Cardi B had to say about not attending the Grammys, Like, I literally posted earlier today that in my house in New York with my kids, you could hear my kids from the background. When did I ever gave hints that I was going to the Grammys and for you to call me lazy, and because I'm not going to an award, what why would I war? Do I have any new music? Why would I show up

with one nomination? And I lost it anyway, So you wanted me to go to the Grammys losing the war and me just be there small like that's great, that's great, Like come on now, Nick, come on now, I don't like that. And people were being disrespectful to her and her kids over the fact that she didn't attend the Grammys. How do people let social media? She ended up deleting her Twitter after that. How do people let social media

dictate their lives like this? You understand, social media is the home of the most miserable people on the planet, and it's a small minority of people. You're giving a small minority of folks the power to completely ruin your day. Why but when did a turn like that? It used to be fun, remember social media, Twitter, And it used to be fun, and that was actually directing your steps, like those people are Those people are never gonna give you your props, They're never gonna route for you, they

never gonna celebrate you. When you're doing good, so why are you giving them the power to ruin your day? All right? And just lastly, just speaking on the Grammys, congrats to all the women winners, but Baby Keen featuring Ken Jack Lamar did win for Best Rap Performance for Family Ties, and then Kanye got two Best Rap Song for Jail and Best Melodic Rap Performance for Hurricane Lucky Day, Best Progressive R and B Album, Her Best Traditional R and B Performance, and quest Love Best MU Music Film

for Summer of Souls. So congratulations to all of them, as well as Tyler the Creator who won the Best Rap Album award, which they didn't even air on television, which is so disrespectful. How you don't air the biggest genre in music today's category when it comes to the Best Roper Album on tell and he posted his acceptance bee to via Instagram so you can see it there. And that is your rumor report. All right, Let's get to the mix, to People's Choice mix. Let's go so

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to Ricky lake for joining us today. So look to the great Ricky lake Man. Make sure you check out her podcast, which I think is a phenomenal idea. I've been wanting to see, you know, people from that era do things like that for a while, because you know, if they're still here to tell the story, why not tell it? You know why? I let documentaries come out fifteen and twenty years later and somebody else telling your story.

So I'm glad to hear about her daytime talk show from her absolutely and also her friend, one of the directors, Abby Epstein as well. Yep all right, when we come back and got the positive notice to Breakfast Club. More envy Angela, yee, Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let me shout out to everybody out in Minneapolis. I was in Minneapolis over the weekend in Kentucky there right next to each other, did a club called New part Minor already owned. So wanted to shout to those brothers

out there. And I did a little real estate seminar. They had like a panel, so I was on the panel out there, so shout to that Moranato. A lady that was mad and said I hung up on it, But I told her it was actually read that hung up on it. It was not me. She came with a lot of gifts. She gave me some t shirts and stuff for you guys that I left at the crib.

So I'll bring that for y'all this week. All right, Well, I do want to shout out to the Tory and to two they got married over the weekend, to congratulations to them. Really beautiful, amazing wedding. It's nice to see love like that that two of them were so you could just see it like it was beautiful just the whole weekend, to see family and friends coming out to support them. I love you, not Tory, So congratulations to

both of you on your beautiful union. Nice Charlomagne, you got a positive note Before I do that, man, I just want to remind everybody that April is National Minority Health Awareness Month, and I got to salute the good

brother Robert F. Smith Man on this past Friday. I was in Hallan with Robert at the Wagoner in the Wagner Projects as he launched the mount Side and I Robert F. Smith Mobile prostate Cancer Screening bus, you know, and you know he's just hoping that and encourages more men to go out there and get tested for prostate cancer. So salute to Robert smith Man and salute to Steve Harvey. Chris Tucker said to Entertained, they were all out there as well. And you know, prostate cancer is something that

all of us need to be thinking about. You know, Black men are not only more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, but are also more likely to die from low grade pop prostate cancer. Man, And when you think of brothers like you know, Chadwick Boseman, think about you know, brothers like our good friend Reggio, say combat Jack. You know, they all wish they would have, you know,

caught it earlier. So that's why I'm encouraging brothers to go out there and you know, get their prostate checking. It's not all about that finger neither you know. It starts with the blood test right to see if you're predisposed, but there's some four play before the the actual prostate gets checked. Okay, that's the fun fact that y'all might need to know. I don't know if it's one or two envy, but we'll see in a couple of years. You got about a year because you gotta start getting

tested at forty five. Now they used to say fifty, but forty five is when they want you to start getting tests and says have you got your CHESSI? Ye, I don't know. I got the blood. I'm not predisposed to it. Ye know, I got tested last year. Oh really, how do you like it? Ak? Okay? Okay, but you know like that that the doctors should have a conversation with you before before you just yeah, you know what

that conversation is. You could possibly die, okay because black you're just saying because because because black men are more likely to be diagnosed a prostate cancer and also more likely to die from it. That's all I need to know. Man, Would you like to leave the room right now? Jesus Christ. So salut salutor Robert smith Man. He's doing great work and a positive notice simply this Removing yourself from that repeatedly triggers your mental health and hurts your heart. It's

top tier self care breakfast club. You're finishly y'all dumb,