International Women Day

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that little lady night here this morning? I don't know what he's doing, Okay, but happy International Women's Day March eighth every single year. Today. Well, this year the theme is break the Bias for International Women's Day, and we'll talk more about International Women's Day during Front Page News anathon March Women's History Month as well. Yes, it is okay, so you get a day within your own mouth. Yeah, but this is an international day, so it's global. Actually

we're starting in the UK. Okay, so internationally we celebrate women today and talk about a lot of different women's issues. Also celebrate women. It's not good enough just to say, hey, we have a day. You also have to talk about uh, you know, different things that need to be done, and

we need all the allies. So men need to also uplift women and make sure we celebrate our accomplishments are achievements, but also talk about equality, talk about gender parity, making sure we are fundraising for female focused charities, all kinds of things. I enjoyed the day a lot more last year when we had the day off. Okay, when they give all the guys here the day off, that was amazing. Yeah. Well, this year we want some equality that's not equality to

be got to work too. What would equality be? Equality is letting? I mean, how didquality I don't know what equality is, to be honest with you, Like, equality to me is such a subjective term in a lot of ways, right, because you know, when you say you want equality, what exactly does that mean when you say equity, that's different, Like, like, equity and equality are two different things to me. Now, the equity you can actually slice up give to a person.

Equality is just like, oh, i'm you know, let's let gonna treat you like an equal. Well, equity is part of equality, it's part of it. I would rather have the equity because equality can't be I don't think equality can be gauged. I don't think you can quantify your quality. Well, it depends. There's a lot of different factors that factor

into it. So, and yesterday was a very windy day, by the way, I don't know if I think a lot of people experience this, but I had just gotten home and when I tell you, they said it was winds in New York about seventy miles an hour. And now they're saying in the Northeast as much as one hundred and thirty thousand people don't have power. Jesus Christ. So we'll talk about all of that in front Page News. Also, do we have any guest today, I don't know what. Oh,

we do. We actually have Congresswoman Corey Bush. Congresswoman Corey Bush woman International Women's Day. She's a perfect example of somebody who is always pushing the envelope and making sure that she's heard. So yes, Congressoman Corey Bush will be here, also doctor Kim L. Delaney and Yvonne Okay, I'm I messed up her last name, Mabnafoy, Mabnafoy. Okay. We'll be here this morning. And they have this great series that's on Instagram and we'll talk we'll talk all about it.

But if you haven't had a chance to see it, it's Equiano Stories, and it's the second series that they've done. The first one is that Story told on Instagram. It was like a movie on Instagram. That one was about the Holocaust and I think it got like three hundred million views. So now this one dates back to before slavery, to show what was happening in Africa, how black people were thriving, how we were getting our own. Our history does not start at slavery, and that's the point of

Equiano Stories. So we'll talk about that this morning on the breakfast Club front page news. Next, Hey, it's the breakfast Club. It's International Women's Day DJMV, good morning. You're gonna bring us into front page news. No, International Women's Day. So he's fallen back to day. That is not what it means. What do you mean you supposed to celebrate us today? I didn't think I had to go to World lead. God seen the flyers and it just had all the women from the stations. All was like last year,

we was off. Last year. All the guys wasn't on the radio station. And then Eddie said bring your ass in. Eddie didn't have off. Okay, well you don't know what he identifies as calling? That be calling people men nowadays? What's wrong with you? We do what we do? Not? We do not? His name is Eddie F want what that stands for? Let's get into Well, Yes, today is International Women's Day, as it is every March eighth, and this year's scene is hashtag break the Bias? So what

does International Women's Day mean? Will imagine a gender equal world? This is, according to International Women's Day dot com, a role for your bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world where difference is valued and celebrated, so together we can forage women's equality. So today you will celebrate women's achievement, to raise awareness against bias, take action for equality. Uh and those are some of the themes for this year. Breaking the bias. We should be doing that every single day.

So some of those things include building workplaces where women can thrive. Instead of making women feel less, stand talking over them, making them feel like their opinions and values don't matter. Make sure women can thrive in your workplace. Elevate the visibility of women creatives, improve equality for women in tech. We all know there's a problem with equality

with women in tech. Forage women's empowerment worldwide. Celebrate the women who are foraging change and also empowering women's choices. In health, there's a lot of men trying to make decisions about what should happen with the women's body, So let's make sure we do those things. Also, fundraising for female focused charities and if you guys want to hit us up and let us know. If you're a woman and you have a charity that's focused on women, then let us know, hit us up. We want to make

sure that we can support and elevate you. The colors that symbolize International Women's Day are purple, green and white. And just so you guys know about the history, these colors originated from the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK back in nineteen oh eight. So it's not any particular country, group or organization that is specific to celebrate this. No one government, no one charity. But it's all about a collection effort to make sure that we

all care about humans rights. All right, all right, got it, got it, all right, and that is your front page news. Now get it off you know. Now, let's make sure today when you guys are calling in, you are celebrating the valuable women in your lives. If women want to call in and talk about your accomplishments, we would love to hear it this morning. Eight ye eight hundred five eight five one o five one, call us up. Happy International Women's Day. No clothing, Ye, it's the Women's Club.

Woke up, Wake up, wakes you're trying to get it off your chests. We want to hear from you on the breakfas club. Hello this Hey, this is Teresa. I'm calling from Washington Heights, Thomas. Sure, good morning, Teresa. I wanted to just pound out all the women that I work with, all the teachers. You know, we all work really hard. We all got master's degree and we're working hard to hate the kids. And I wanted to shout you off one of the most important jobs that we

have here. So we appreciate you. Shout out to all the women at what school you said, psy type PS forty in Washington Heights. You know, for a little while I taught in Washington Heights, I wanted to be a teacher. Oh amazing and one of the most important jobs. And y'all don't get paid like My mom's a school teacher's been a school teacher for thirty thirty plus years. The most I think she said she ever made was thirty

thousand dollars a year. And you know, with all our education, if we were in awe making, but we do it pretty yeah, and not just education. The fact that we trust y'all with our churn. All right, So I was a day, but we love you and we appreciate you. PS. Forty eight in Washington Heights. Hello, Hello, good morning, good morning. How are you doing. Blessed Black and Holly? Favorite brother? How are your brother? My name is Lauren Bora star Wars.

I live in Jacksonville, Florida. Okay, I started. I started a foundation for man domestic violence. We had a situation with my daughter, So I'm blessing all women. I'm trying to spread the word. The name of the foundation is a Underscore chan K Foundation. H I a NT foundation and I'm just trying to spread the word, trying to spread along to help and save save other women around. So that's all I want to try. White man from women.

I'm a I'm a minority man of a feminine man and twenty six years and I'm just trying to help women. I respect it. Why do you call yourself a minority man? Well, I just don't. I don't know. I mean why you black? Black man? Yes? Yes, I am say you black? Do you mean by a northy man? What kind of what kind of man? Jesus? Yes, I'm a fift three year old black man fighting for women in the bright. Yes, say that's what I'm doing. Brother. We left that and

we'd love to hear it. So your charity is about it's helping women who have experienced domestic violence, and it's too high of a proportion of women that have had that experience. So we appreciate an a plaud the work that you're doing, and we need more men to care about that too. Always Hello, who's this height? This is curbing out of Houston? What up? Brother? What's going on? Good morning? A good morning? How are you? I'm doing fine? Good morn morning brother, Good morning, searle man of God,

peace King? How are you doing? Black man? I'm doing all right. I'm going to celebrate my beautiful black queen. All right, shout her out? What's her name? I want to celebrate its Keller right here, all the youth and this my feutiful black queen. You know, to to celebrate teen years in July, and I just want to celebrate her and thank God for making me the happiest man alive. Yes, I love to hear it, the happiest man alive. Okay,

thank you, brother, thank you? All right? Eight on drink? Hey? Hey, hey, what's International Women's Day? What are you doing? All right? He's you know, he counts sounds to me like somebody don't want to do to work. Go yee. I don't know if he's taking more calls or what. Oh, we have to say the number than we tease and then we come back all right, eight hundred five A five one oh five one. It is March eighth, International Women's Day. We are celebrating women all morning on the Breakfast Club.

Call us up and let us know who you want to celebrate or if you're a woman and you want to celebrate yourself, your pairs, your friends, your family, call us up right now is get it off your chest. This is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're man or blast. So you better have the same indutry we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey? How are you doing this? Rout from watch Hike round foot up Ralph going on.

So I just wanted to time to I'm trying to get get you guys for the last couple of days. And uh I was thinking about the guy that was talking about big coin last week. Okay, uh I was just trying to basically state, why is it that we always gotta refer to like selling crack or selling drugs in order for like, for like us to understand something,

you know. And I just feel like people go up there and always always bring up crack of drugs when they're trying to like get get us to understand as opposed to, you know, say something positive together to understand. You know why. That's a good point, man. I was thinking about this, uh last week in reference to just conversations we have about the Hood, when we talk about providing opportunities, we always make it seem like a majority of the Hood is in the criminal activity, and that's

just not the case at all. So I understand what you're saying. The world, you know what I mean, it's a new world already. I mean, we gotta lift each other as opposed to, you know, keep putting a drag in each other even in the old world. Though most people didn't sell crack, majority of people in the Hood to Natchell crack, that's a fact. That's a fact, as

the majority used it. I'm not gonna say that your whole care that's not the case either, But I will say though for a lot of people, maybe maybe that individual and I don't know that gentleman's history, but maybe he didn't tacky, and maybe that's what he compares it too, because he knows I can't compare it to selling crack because I never sold crack. So maybe for himself, maybe that's what he was talking about because maybe he sold

it before and those the differences. But I feel like he did a lot of comparisons, though I don't think he just was comparing it to that. He was trying to explain in multiple different ways. I get what he's saying. I mean, I agree with the last call, and we all we do that when it comes to the hood. We always put things in criminal contexts. Hello, who's this yo, It's Jay Jay up lunch. I was just going to say good morning for morning Angel. What's going on? So?

I was just calling to say I bought enough for equipment to start my business, to start my LLC for my business just by my home two years ago. All I want to wish women happy women stay what my wife, my mother and my mother and law happy women stay and just put some good energy off this morning. Alright, all right, we left to hear it. Hello, who's this from Atro Detroit? The Nicole let that down? Good morning, Good morning, so mean, good morning dj V Queen. How

are you? I'm great? Thank you for asking. Um. I just wanted to wish my circle I happy International Women's Day. We're all veterans and we've all recently started our own business. I'm just asking for some positive vibes. Absolutely, what's your business? Um? Right now, I'm into beauty and healthcare. UM. I have a footmask that helps uh take off the dead skin. So I've been working on that. Oh I need that. Let me tell you. We'll gladly send you a package.

What's your website? Sell people listening? Because suppoint two for International Women's Day? Uh ww dot Victoria Rain r e I g N official dot com. All right, Victoria Rain, shout out to you in your circle and thank you for your service. Thank you? All right? Five five one oh five one. Now we got rumors on the way, Yes, and let's talk about another amazing women, Zoe Kravitz. She's getting rave reviews for her performance as Catwomen. But did you know she wanted to be in another movie and

they said she was too urban? All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is the rumor Report with Angela years but people are loving Zoey Kravitz and the Batman. And this was not her first time trying to break into this whole universe on the big screen. She had told the Observer that her attempt to audition for a role in The Dark Knight Rises was rejected. She was told she was actually too urban for the part. Can you imagine that now?

During a twenty fifteen interview with Nylon, she said the role she was seeking in The Dark Knight Rises with a small one and she couldn't even get in the room because the film wasn't quote going urban for the role, she said at the time, And she said, it was like, Yo, what does that have to do with anything? I have to play the role? Like, Yo, what's up, Batman? What's

going on with you? So, she said, being a woman of color and being an actor and being told at that time that I wasn't able to read because of the color of my skin and the word urban being thrown around like that, that was what was really hard about that moment. Yeah, I hate the word urban in any context, but especially in that context because he means you too much of a sucker to say black. Just say, hey, black isn't what we're looking for at this time, right.

So shout out to her though, because they are saying that she's amazing as Catwoman right now in The Batman, y'all gonna go see it. Or I don't be supporting DC. You stop it, man, I'm a Marvel guy. You can watch this this on TV. I know, I was just asking you. I don't know how that I might take the kids to go see it. I'm like, if there's any DC, I'll spending money on this, Batman or the Joker.

All right, Well, one hundred and twenty eight million dollars it made in the first week, So congratulations to them. All right. Mary J. Blige and PEPSI have announced the Strength of a Woman Festival and Summit. So they're doing this in partnership with Live Nation Urban. Let's celebrate that for International Women's Day. That festival will take place in Atlanta. It's three days devoted to music, comedy, and community building. That's going to be happening between May sixth and May eighth.

That's coming up really soon. I like that. So it's an apologetically curated four and buy women. That festival has been intentionally scheduled for Mother's Day weekend. Pre sale tickets do go live actually today at ten am Eastern. Every they announced everybody because I know they got a comedy show on Friday and they got a brunch on Sunday. And I saw the full music lineup, I think, right yeah,

so you can actually go. And it's gonna happen at the State Farm Arena, and so there's a lot of different performance obviously Mary's abliges performing to have all kinds of special guests like Shaka Khan, City Girls, Queen Nausea and Moore. And there's a gospel Sunday brunch. There's a lot going on, probably club from Mary J. Blich. You know,

it's crazy. It's almost like artists can can curate better shows than you know, corporations nowadays, because who's gonna tell Mary J. Blige know when she picks up the phone and tells you what she's doing, They're gonna, you know, other artists are gonna show up for her, you know absolutely. And everything kicks off at the Gathering Spot, which I love. I love the Gathering Spot in Atlanta. So that kicks off Saturday, May seventh. But the strength of a woman's summit,

So shout out to all of them. I see miss pat is going to be doing a comedy show. My Girls, seven Streeter is gonna be performing. Um it's amazing lineup, amazing lineup all right, now, grownish has been renewed for season five, So congratulations to them. Uh so, oh grown any now you know they can't be in college no more. Yeah, I haven't seen it in a while. I used to. I still love to show what I haven't seen it in a while. Well, Season four finality is going to

be happening in March twenty fourth. That's gonna feature Zoe graduating from college. Got you? Okay? That makes sense? Right, so Grownish, I guess you always still growing Season five deal. Clearly, she'll clearly be out in the world right trying to figure it out? Okay. And Lebron is getting into the culinary space. He has a new platform. It's called kitch KII no ki ttc h Now, kitch is a place for foodies to interact and to learn from some of

the most famous chefs in the world. This makes sense because people love watching all those food and cooking shows. So he has a really strict diet. He has a different routine for preseason, postseason, pregame, and post game. He said before competition for me would be like a chicken breast and maybe a little pasta. The carbs help because you're going out and playing a lot of minutes. But a salad and some veggies will have me perfectly fine. And before the game, I might have a protein shake

and some fruit and I'll be ready to go. So this is gonna be pretty exciting for him. They said. Kitch can be described as the twitch TikTok zoom of culinary y'all watch cooking shows not too much, even though I can't cook, but I enjoy it. You just be watching. I'm trans fact, so I'll be sitting there looking at the cookie shows, mouth of water times, I watch um exercise programs. I just sit there on account and watch watch. I'd be like I should get up and do that.

And I like the cooking shows that make things that we actually would eat, you know what I mean. But about shows where you see people traveling around and eating things you would love too, I love those to do. The name Guy Ferrara, whatever the hell. I'm surprised he's still alive, to be honest with you. Eats a lot of crazy stuff. But maybe they just take a couple of bites exactly, And there's no way that all the time. Yeah, all right, well that is your rumor report. All right.

Now we got front page news. What we're talking about. Yes, let's talk about what was. Well, you know, it is International Women's Day, so we'll discuss that some more. But also the crazy weather across the northeast. One hundred and thirty thousand people, more than one hundred and thirty thousand people who don't have power, and that's because of these crazy winds. There was crazy last night. Crazy crazy. All right, we'll get into that next. It's to breakfast. What you

look up? What's wrong with you? Man? What Cinternational Women's Day? Stop it? Man, seen nothing about the fir crazy. You start hearing about wind and blowing and talking about this crazy last night. I ain't got nothing to do with your six thoughts. Kids. It's breasting. This song offends me. I let it, Okay, who I cancel? All right, I'm outraged by this record. Okay, you don't have that energy because this record is two pro big D. What about

us average D brothers. We're celebrating International Women's Day. We don't want women out there struggling today. Okay, celebrate, let them celebrate energy, all right. Lunelle was up here. Luella, she an't got time to be having her up. She was just trying to make you feel good. She has no idea what I'm working with, even though it's not much. We all know now, But yeah, you know, nobody wants anyone to be offended. But today our International Women's Day,

I am offended. We are celebrating what about us average d humans? You guys can celebrate that on your own day. All right, well, let's get into front page news or you want to start, well, of course, let's start our International Women's Day March eighth, every single year. In case you don't know what International Women's Day is, it's also celebrating and uplifting all of these missions to help forwards a gender equal world. We celebrate women's achievements. We also

support increased visibility for women. We call out inequality, all of those things which should be happening every day, by the way, but today in particular, we focus on those things. Improving equality for women in tech is one of the missions this year. You know, if you work in the tech space, you don't see a lot of us there.

Also foraging women's empowerment worldwide, celebrating all the women who are forging chains, empowering women's choices in health because a lot of men are out here trying to make decisions about what we do with our body. So all of those different things, building workplaces where women thrive, and this is still an ongoing fight for equality. So happy International Women's Day and make sure you guys go out there

and celebrate and do something positive. Okay, All right? Now, More than one hundred and thirty thousand people have been without power in the Northeast as there were some damaging winds that swept through the region. More than sixty five million people from the mountains of North Carolina to Cape Cod DC, Baltimore, Philly, New York. They were under wind advisories overnight. They said there were gusts of up to seventy five miles per hour, possible three damage, dangerous road conditions.

There were three hundred and fifty reports of damaging winds late Sunday through Monday night. Also, so they said there was hail falling in some areas. Rain was quite heavy with this system, saturated the ground and so a lot of damage. There were some tornadoes in Iowa. Seven people were killed over the weekend, including two children. Dozens of homes were impacted, and so all of that going on with the weather. It wasn't It was a bit wild

last night. I've never heard and win like that. Yeah, And I kept hearing something like I was like, what is that? It was crazy. I've had that trampoline at my house for fifteen years and never had no problem bolted down. Like when I woke up this morning, it was upside down a man. Climate change is real, because yesterday it was like, what seventy degrees We're in New York. For everybody listening to those around country, it was like seventy degrees here in New York. Then now today it's

like thirty something. Yeah, and with the rain and the weather, it feels like eighteen degrees. So all right now. Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency this week that will be the first step toward regulating how digital currency is traded. They have raised concerns in recent weeks about Russia's use of crypto to evade the impact of all the chanctions in response to the invasion

of Ukraine. So as you know, the ruble, which is their their money, has sunk to historic lows and also they closed the country stock market. Two people familiar with the process said the executive Order on Cryptocurrency was expected to be issued, and it had been in the work so long before the war, so people were speaking on

the condition of anonymity to preview the order. It's gonna describe what government agencies, including the Treasury Department, need to do so that they can develop policies and regulations on digital currencies. And they expect that to include a request for the State Department to ensure American crypto laws are aligned with those of US allies. And also they'll be monitoring the stability of the US financial system and studying

illicit finance concerns. What does that mean? Does that mean that a lot of the other a lot of the cryptocurrencies are going to fall to the wayside, and it's only gonna be one that people focus on now. I don't think there ever will be one that people focus on, but they just need to regulate it because there's been a lot of concerns. You know, it's a global currency, and that's what I've been saying for a long time.

It's been wild, wild west. So now that the government starts to regulate these things, a lot of people are getting overall. People hopefully won't anymore. A lot of people lost a lot of money. A lot of people also made a lot of money. But they're gonna start regulating, so we'll see how to regulate all of them. Though they're gonna try. I would think that you would pick

one like bigcoin is probably the most successful one. You probably regulate all the coins and that what's the value of them and what their worth is because people put money into it, and then there's all these schemes and scams and you put your money into it, then you know, people take their money out. You you would last to know, and you lose your money. So they hopefully they're regulated some people, and a lot of those person don't lose.

Cryptos that pop up that you never heard of, So somebody's like pushing a cryptocurrency, then they get some influencers to post about it. Then you go ahead and buy this new crypto thinking you're getting in at a rock bottom price. But that's what I mean. They're not gonna regulate all of those. The regulations whill probably handle a Yeah, that's illegal. That's like a pump and dump scheme. People do that with stocks and they can do that with

crypto also. But that's what I think they're gonna get rid of a lot of those, and it's gonna be like one or two that they really focus on and regulation and I'll be the ones that everybody gravitate towards. Yeah, I think Ethereum is gonna be around. I think Bigcoin will be around, Silano. There's a lot that will still there'll be different options in different choices, but they do

have to make sure. And just seeing what's happening in Russia is really showing how people are managed managing to evade the sanctions because they're using crypto and so even though the Russian money has crumbled, they're still able to finance things using cryptocurrency, which is good for people in Ukraine. People are sending them crypto so they're able to use it. But how do you regulate that? So we'll see what happens and we'll see what these sanctions are looking like.

And that is your front page news all right. Now, when we come back, we have Congresswoman Corey Bush joining us. We'll talk with her when we come back, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, all the ladies. Some were wrapping all girl everything. The Breakfast Club is celebrating International Women's Day World Chase Cardi beat. Let's take a woman celebrating all the women in our lives and recognize all their achievement. We love you, ladies. Let's not forget

that you are amazing in your constribute our unmagic. Now it's the Breakfast Club morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and July Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. You have Congresswoman Corey Bush. Welcome, good morning, Thank you for having me them winning. How are you. I'm great, glad to be here. Absolutely, you know, I like you a lot of watch you when you know, pop up on MSNBC and stuff like that. And I like you because it's

a member of the Democratic Party. You aren't afraid to call out. Yeah, the Democratic Party. Why why is that? Well, you know what, just even walking in here, you have a picture of Michael Brown Junior hanging up in the room next door. That's how I got into this was just feeling like we were out there on those streets of Ferguson for more than four hundred days and it was like we were doing all of that work, putting

our lives on the line every single day. But we didn't have we didn't have much inside that can make change that needed to happen. Inside that was that was fighting for us, like fighting to the point of putting their name and reputation on the line. And so I didn't want to be in Congress to have a name or a title, or to make more money or any

of that. I don't care about any of that. I care that I'm saving lies it's black people dying every single day at the hands of police, or whether it's healthcare disparities, environmental injustice, so much over and over again. And I feel like if we don't address poverty head on, if we just do what's comfortable, people will keep dying. So I don't have time. My dad's been a politics for most of my life, and so I swore I would never do it, you know, but it was like,

how do we get this change? What did you see when your dad was in politics that made you say I don't want to be involved. He was just like always giving himself, so much of himself to every person that he met. He was the person that would build one person at a time, but so many like criticism and scrutiny and the corruption that would come around, and I would wonder, like, why do you volunteer to do

this work? Now? I get it now, understand because I've been able to see youth that he helped when they were sixteen seventeen, their families that he helped come back to him and say, because of what you did, you change my life, you know, and so but I just didn't want to have any parts of that. I just felt like, you know, that can't be my role. You got in a storm right now. Yeah. So for most people that don't know what is a congresswoman's job? What

is your job to today? I represent a district within the state of Missouri, so it's about roughly seven hundred and fifty thousand people. Usually m minus is a little less than that. And our job is to legislate, to to think about what's happening in our communities, what do we need, and write bills that would affect change in that area. To speak up for the district. So I know that Saint Louis is my district is Saint Louis.

Let me rep my city in my time. Look and so Sat. Louis usually number one, a number two for homicides fluctuating year after year. Usually we are number one for police murder year after year, number one for the murder of children. We have all of these environmental issues and so much that just attacks the black community. So for me and as the congresswoman, I'm looking at how do I make sure that I affect those things? Now,

let me ask you this. We've heard people say, and Charlemagne you've said this too, that the Democrats suck at messaging and so in particular, defund the police always kinds oft, always be right. And so I wanted to ask you what are se messages that you think Democrats need to get across so that people are clear on what needs

to get done. You know, I think that when we look at the American Rescue Plan last year, so much money and still money is still being allocated, being dispersed, but you know, so much came out of the American Rescue Plan. In Saint Louis alone, we were able to get seven hundred million dollars that we wouldn't have gotten had we not had our own office not pushed to get money. It's money for housing, it was money for you know, because so many people lost homes or needed

the rental assistance. You know, it was money for healthcare, it was money for just going in so many different areas, you know. But we gotta message that and say how that money actually affected the education system. Money went into schools, So we got to talk about that. But we also cannot be afraid to talk about what defund the police means.

You know, we cannot, And that's my issue. It's like the anger cannot be Oh, defund the police makes people, It pushes people back, it makes people feel a type of way. We don't want to say that, you know, because the Republicans are coming against us. No, you know, if they don't get to tell us what our message is, fix the problem. And then I won't have to say, defund the police, fix the problem, and I won't have

to talk about livable wages, fix the problem. And I won't have to sit here figuring out how I'm helping black women right now. Because even as we're saying, oh, these great job numbers came out today, Oh, America added three hundred and seventy eight thousand more jobs, which is wonderful, But for black women. Again, black women, our numbers did not get better. Our numbers got worse. Why is it that black women are the only ones who's unemployment numbers

got worse. Our messaging has to target that. Why do Democrats always let the right like co opt their slogans like the fund the police instead of just simply explaining what the fund the police is? To get the slogan this, explain what it is it? Why don't they do that? Bypartisanship, you know, that's what I hear all the time. Oh,

it's bypartisanship. We gotta make sure that we don't upset them because when they become it, when they come back into power, they're going to mistreat us what they already mistreat us. They do whatever they want that now, right, and they don't care about by partisanship. No, I'm really confused on how that works. Yeah, I don't get it. As the party, we should be able to stand up, Yeah, this is what we said, this is what we mean,

you know, and we take over that narrative. I was gonna ask with the sanctions that they put on Russian it always seems like they have no money for our community. But when it's time to help another nation, they can send an ammunition, they can send money, they can send all that stuff, so billions of dollars like it's nothing.

Absolutely ten billion dollar is actually right now I'm looking at Okay, while we're talking about all of this that's happening in Ukraine and Russia, what else is happening that is not being talked about? Because that's how so many things send it, rejecting to build a quotified abortion rights. Yeah, stuff like that exactly. I haven't three four days ago,

I haven't heard nobody talking about that. Really. Yeah, everything is just being like passed on, you know, even talking about how the black asylum seeker is over in Ukraine, how they're being treated. You know, we can't get enough attention put on that, you know, but everywhere we're seeing black and brown people being pushed to the side, no matter what part of the world you're in. Can I can I comment on your fingernail, your fails a fire?

But people, you know, oh, you're supposed to change your nails, and you're supposed to change your hair and all of this who I am And it's because you use your hands a last. Yeah, these are still my black history nails. You don't want to shout out your nail jack, you know what I mean? She's still paying for a price that's su But should so should the United States be sending over money and weapons to Ukraine. I look at

this two ways. I look at it from the standpoint of the person who's on the ground, who has to move and get out of there and get out of where they are just in case their home is bombed. You know. So do we need to make sure that humanitarian aid is there? Absolutely, But it should not just be us. Other countries should be helping to make sure that that is done, because if it was us and we needed help someone, we would need someone else to help us weapons. You know, I'm anti war, so I'm

not for that, but I do understand. I keep going back to what if it was me? What if it was my kids and they had nothing to fight with? The thing is for me. Why are we talking about sending more weapons and more weapons and we are not even talking about a diplomatic solution. What about a cease What about really making it clear that we need a ceasefire? What about talking to the allies, to those folks that do have good relationships with Russia. Why did I bring

them to the car. Why aren't we talking about Saudi Arabe. But why aren't we talking about some of these countries that have those relationships, Because I don't want to keep thinking about sending sending weapons because weapons hurting. You know, at the end of the day, those weapons will hurt innocent people. Do you think that will end up sending troops into Ukraine? I thought they did already. They're in the neighboring countries. Um, if the President keeps saying not,

I honestly don't know. But I also don't think that this is going to be something that's just going to last this year or next year. This is probably going to be a decade, you know, or more if we don't actually do something. All right, we got more with Congresswoman Corey Bush. Don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning, Charlomagne. What do you think about mansion and cinema making Biden looking so ineffective or the Biden administration just an ineffective period?

You know, to have these two senators that have been able to totally disrupt his agenda like it bothers me day to day when I think about the four million children that just went back into poverty because that child tax credit ended. Joe mansion Kirsten Cinema should not be able to make decisions for the entire country for people that don't have to live the way that other people have to live. They don't have those same issues that other people have to face and to make those decisions.

It's rehensible that they just don't even that nothing happens, and so they have no business being in those types of positions. If they don't care about regular people, if you are so corporate back that all you care about is those is those corporate donors, then go go do that work. You know, um, I feel like me and five of my friends people call the squad. You know, we stuck our next out. As much as we want

the infrastructure money, we absolutely want that money. We want to make sure that our roads and bridges and you know all of that. We want that money that was in there for climaing. But when you say, well we can give you this, but oh healthcare, home health workers, Yeah, we don't want to We don't want to deal with that. Oh children need childcare. Oh no, no, we don't want to pay for that, you know, we don't. We don't want money for community violence prevention, and we don't want

to lower prescription drug costs. We don't want to cap insulent thirty five dollars. No, we don't need all of that. We just need to take her of our rosen bridges. I have a problem with that. We stood up when the President made the phone call. He made a phone call to say and need you all to stand with me and go ahead and vote. We have to move forward. You know, we need to get the infrastructure package. We need to get that deal done today, that vote done.

I was clear and I said no. I said I wasn't. I wasn't supporting that. You know, I didn't. I didn't go to Congress. I didn't run the way that I ran. You know, after my very first run to get in Congress, you know, I suffered a very violent rate three and a half weeks later and I still ran. I still started running again for four months later. After my second race, I was t boned and couldn't walk the last two and a half months of my race Alexandra Kano Quartet.

Another car, a car was revving up and hit me, but I still turned around and ran again. And then even I had COVID the next time when I was running, but I still ran again because I was thinking about how do we make sure that these voices end up there that can make change, even if it hurts me. It was like, how can I turn my back on the people now? You know? And it's not that I don't respect our president. It's not that at all. But I came here to represent the people of my district.

I do respect that. But you know, sometimes they say, you know, staying busy is a trauma response. It keeps you from thinking about all the things that you're going through. So are you okay after all that stuff that you went through? Yeah, I'm you know, I still therapist. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, Um, I have a therapist, um, and I do things that help me to get through. So like this is a this is a yeah, well, well the

little things on it, these these run songs. If I'm having a moment where I'm starting to feel triggered, then you you rub on that and it helps to bring you back. Oh yeah, I got all kinds of tricks. So you're actively healing, Like I know you got my polysantal head. We do all that exactly. Absolutely, Okay, I'm president do right now to get some of these bills passed because some people feel like he's not being aggressive enough. Yeah.

So what I've been talking about with people that I work more closely with, one of those people being Senator Bernie Sanders, is just the pullouts, Like what can we pull out of that bill back Better Act and to at least get some of these things done. So what can we do as a standalone bill? So? Can we do community violence prevention money? Can we poll that five billion dollars out and go ahead and get that money?

You know? Can we do the childcare? You know? Can we make sure that three and four year olds are able to go to school and the parents I have to pay anything and so some of so just looking at how we can do that. You know, we didn't get George Floyd justice in policing, but can we do something to get ending qualified immunity? You know, I was just yesterday I was at a press conference with the Joseph family. Andrew Joseph, the third fourteen year old who

was killed in Tampa, Florida, eight years ago. Eight years his family has been fighting for justice for them, for their child and accountability actually for their child. But eight years and we still don't have We're no close to the ending qualified immunity. So those are things that we need to be looking at. What we can pull out from that bill, from any of the bills that we

haven't gotten. We don't even have voting rights. Do you remember on the campaign trail when Democrats actually cared about police reform, when they used to at least talk about it, like what happened Joe Biden didn't even mention it in the State of the Union. Yeah, you know, the Republicans have been able to shape the narrative just so. It's to the point of, no matter what you say about police reform, it means defunding the police. No matter what

you say about police reform, it means division. And for us, our voice has to be louder on what it actually means. And you you don't get to tell us how we can react, or how we should or how we should behave, or what our anger looks like, or what type of policies we should push forward. You don't get to tell us that if the problem still persists, Because twenty one had the highest number of police killings in the last

several years. Millions of people were out in the streets in twenty twenty fighting with justice and the numbers went up. Why is that because we're not doing what we need to do to address the problem. And like you said, if we would have heard that come across at the State of the Union the other night, that would have set the stage, set the narrative. It would have said for the rest of the year, this is already. Yes, they don't even mention it. How have you gotten a

response from the White House? Because I know you said that you criticize your Biden for not even mentioning saving black lives at the State of the Union. Have you gotten a response from them? No? I have not surprised. We haven't. But but but the thing is, our president and the administration they know exactly how I feel. In my conversations that I've had with the President or the Vice President or other parts of other members of the administration. I have been very clear from day one. I don't

believe they were surprised. Demos don't care about black people no more. I feel like they know they got us. They can our votes a damn their game yaranteed. And it's just like our issues and everything else can go to the backburn. You know what ends up happening is and this is something that at least, this is my opinion.

When I came to Congress, I was oftentimes told, well, like, don't say those things, because we got to make sure that we get you know, that we get our more moderate democrats reelected, because it's more important that we keep these seats than it is that we like really push in some areas. And I can understand wanting to keep seats because we need the numbers to be able to get things done. But you know, we can no longer push those communities to the side to be able to

save seats. We got to do both at the same time. You save lives and you figure out how to communicate to save seats. But Congress Owen Bush, how has voting rates become a far left issue the cornerstone of our democracy? How has that become a far left issue? Why is that a radical to talk about people having voting rights when we look at the history. You know, we had to fight to get those rights in the first place.

You know, it was it was definitely an issue of you know, of what white supremacy looks like in this country, and white supremacy is not dead. It didn't go anywhere, It didn't even have to morph. It is ingrained into this society. And so what we're doing is we're pulling the threads trying to break that apart. But when we have people who get in power and want to hold those structures, that's why that's where we get this from.

We get the rhetoric that says that, you know, if we talk about voting rights, then that means that you're trying to push a black agenda. You're pushing a black agenda. Well, the problem is when black folks and brown folks are in our Native community members are the ones that are targeted with the voter suppression. That can't continue to be

the strategy for them. As though right Dems can't always energize us to vote by telling us that our right to vote is being taken away, at some point they should be governing like they want us to go out there and vote for them. I want to go vote for them because they're actually doing things for us, as opposed to scaring me and telling me go vote because they're trying to take you right to vote away. Yeah. Yeah,

And so that's what I'm hoping. I'm hoping that at least with these pullouts that we're talking about these standalone bills that at least we can bring something home to say, look, these are the promises we made, so we have to deliver on them. You know, I don't blame people. I hear all the time when they say, well, why you know, like you told us that if we did this, that we would get these things, and now those things didn't happen, and so why should I Why should I believe that

something will change? Now? You know, I get it, I absolutely get it. But one thing that I tell them is that your vote is not just for that one person or that one thing. You know, there are ballot initiatives on that same ballot. There are other more local

people running for office on that same ballot. So I make it clear that it's so much more than I know that sometimes Congress and the presidency looks like, oh well, they don't care about us, but if there are also it's a lot of local issues there that we need to we have to care about. All Right, we got more with Congresswoman Corey Bush. Don't move. It's to breakfast club. Good morning morning, everybody, cj Envy angela Ye, Charlomagne, the guy we are. The breakfast club was still kicking it

with Congresswoman Corey Bush Charlomagne. So why should voters vote for Democrats in the midterms when Democrats haven't gotten done with thee said the Wood thus far. Yeah, but the the alternative to that is people who are actively working against us. But people will say, well, Joe Mansion is actively working against us. Yeah, right, but yeah, it wouldn't matter. Run somebody against him. Yeah, oh, absolutely, got against him. Absolutely absolutely. He might as well just go ahead and

be a Republican. You know, you know, you're one of the only ones that say that everybody else be scared to death to even say his name, like he's candy Man. Yeah. You know, let me tell you from what I've seen in my life, if they you know, they messed up by not killing me doing Ferguson. So now yeah they yeah, yeah, yeah, they missed. And so you know those bullets they hit my car, they didn't hit me, they didn't hit my daughter. That happened, Well that was another time. But what happened yet?

So just recently, you know, somebody came up to my car door. I was not in the car, was inside of my home. Um, someone was in my car that came up to the car. The person was like, what are you doing? Um, and they got spooked and they turned around and they started shooting and dumped about tim bullets into my vehicle. The person didn't get hit. Um. Yeah, so I came running like what is happening? But yeah, so no, we were fine. But I think it was just random. They you know, we didn't there was no

like investigation or anything into that investigation. Police didn't come. They didn't. I mean, they came and they took pictures, they got they you know, I don't know though, because I do live in a lethal toxic environment, you know, And we didn't catch anyone. We don't know exactly who

it was. Um. And it's not the first time I happened the place where I live now, I moved from the other place that my my car got hit with bullets at that place right in front of my home again, you know, another time like I like I brought up that was doing ferguson though in our car was hit with bullets. So you know, I've gone through so much, you know, I'm I'm more afraid of what happens to our people who don't have any type of help, that

don't have that are looking for an advocate. When I was sleeping out on the street, I didn't know who to talk to. I was sleeping on the street with my babies in the car. We had had nowhere to go, and I didn't know who to talk to. I didn't know how to get out of that situation. I remember being so hungry that I was only feeding my babies, and I would go for days without eating. I don't

want anyone else to go through those issues. So I'm more afraid of not being effective enough to help those folks that are going dealing with that than I am about some bullets that somebody can shoot at me, than I am about somebody hurting me and all of that. But I'm smart enough to know I gotta be alive in order to do this work. So that's why I have security. I know God protecting me, but I still sleep on my gap. You know. Look, he gives us wisdom. I only got to come to questions. I know you

gotta go, but I love this tweet. You without Democrats trying to out Republican Republicans is not a Winnie scratg What that mean? The whole idea that was another part of the whole defund the police. It was just that rhetoric, and you know, just making sure that they just keep drilling those points, but not just defund the police anything like if you if we take the Republican talking points, or if we allow them to tell us what we

think or to stop us. You know, when I think about the insurrection, when I think about being there that day when the insurrection happened, when these folks attacked the capital, you know, the next day we were right back at work, still working alongside people who were involved. Yeah, And I have to look at them every single day. I'm in coat committees with them, I'm in the halls with them.

They hop on the elevator like, those folks are around us, in their staff, around us all the time, you know, And so I listening to the things that they say. They talk every no matter what the conversation is about, it always goes back to the border and who's trying to hurt us at the border, and who are the thugs and just all of this kind of craziness. Those folks aren't standing up for Those folks don't don't believe that it should be equal. Think about folks that gave

their lives that their blood, sweat and tears. Think about what happened during reconstruction. Think about how Black Americans built, built, enslaved Africans, and then Black Americans built this country, and how we still have We still don't have what we should have from there's been no reparations. We can't even get equity to talk about equality. We can't even get

equity to even get to equality. We didn't even hear Biden talk about that, like all of those things that they used as talking points to real black people in the camp Paigture, I didn't him talk about racial equity during the State of the Union. Didn't him talk about police reform? Nothing? No, And so I talked about it. They talked about voting rights real briefly, So I'll talk about it. Congresswoman Bush, does it benefit black people to be a part of anyone particular party. Let me just

say this. When my very first run, I ran as an independent. I was running as an independent at first, and then I had to switch to a Democrat. I wanted to be able to go where the legislation was that meant the most for my community. But the issue is when we look at what has happened over the last even a few years since Donald Trump became president. The way he ran and what he believed is not

only in Congress anymore. It's in our secretary it's our secretaries of state, it's in our school boards, it's all over the place. So now we're at a point a place where now we got to make that decision because the Republican Party is so much like there's a lot of just anti blackness in an anti brown community, anti Asian community, anti anti anti so I think looking at who is going to care enough about your situation. I think right now we're still looking at the Democrats, even

though it's not great. I'm not even gonna lie it's not great. But that's why I'm pushing for help, getting more folks that are willing to do that fight. You know, that's where we have to be, y'all. Often one thing nowadays, our Democrats are really pro black? Are they just tolerant of blacks? Yeah? Yeah, that's what it feels like. That

feels like that's the party that tolerates us. Yeah. I can't call him pro black because the actions those well, you know what, I think what's weaved in there though, it's still money. Because I sit with these people all the time and they'll talk about like, yeah, Corey, we believe that, Yeah, we'll do that, And I say, well, why won't you Why won't you support me on this bill? Why won't you do this? Well? See, you know I you know I can't go against X or I can't.

So part of it is, you know, yeah, I support those things, but because of this money that I took, or because of how I ran, you know, those things, so that it's a that comes into play. My last question, congressmen bulls, how would you define our democracy right now? Oh? H it's suffering. Our democracy never was strong in the first place. Let's just be it never was strong because when you have whole groups of people where there's no equity and we're not equal in this country, was never strong.

But we're in a place now where I feel like it's being the little bit that we did have as being poured apart, ripped to shreds. And there has been this um mobilization happening that we didn't even see, that we didn't know about, and so we got to come out just as hard if we want, if we want to reclaim this democracy, and you know, to the point where we actually feel it should be, not just where it was, because we got to do better than what

we had. If we're going to do that, we gotta come out harder than we've ever been and we've got to do this thing differently than we've ever done it. And so I'm looking for more you know, quote unquote warriors soldiers that's willing to do that fight, right, Congresswoman Corey Bush, we appreciate you for joining us this morning. Yeah, thank you so much. Thanks for having and it's the breakfast Club. Good morning banding everybody A CJ mv Angela. Ye, God,

we had a breakfast. Corlet me shout out to Nothing makes me feel better than you're speaking to your kids in the morning. Shout to my my babies and my wife. They just dropped off for school, little Brookie, Chew London Jackson and of course Peyton r't Milwaukee. I go that's it. It stops there, star Solda. So in school, you know, they were asking, um, I guess they're teaching the kids, uh, you know, about respecting and standing other. So it's asking,

you know, Brooklyn, what do you want in life? She said? I want love? And respect. That's what I want. So I love the fact that the schools are really teaching them that. I like that. Okay, maybe happy, maybe happy. That's that's all life is about. When you when you're a parent, you know, life is about your kids. All you want to do is point to your children. When you see your children turning into well formed human that makes you feel great. Yeah, it gave me a happy

smile this morning. All right, let's get to the rumors. Let's go. It's about is the rumor report? Angela on the Breakfast Club. All right, well, let's talk about this mansion that's sold in La. It's one hundred and twenty six million dollars. It's LA's biggest mansion, one hundred and five thousand square feets. Who purchased that mansion, Well, that person has been a revealed church seggy and he is the founder of Fashion Nova. One hundred forty four, one

hundred and forty one million after all fees. That's crazy, that is crazy Fashion Noval. But he won bedrooms. That house better be nuclear bomb proof. One hundred and five squifte. You better have the best one hundred five thousand squift What are you gonna do it. Oh listen, God bless him. But that's a lot for a house. What does the house do? Give me some more? He told the time to be able to do more, to live in it. He said, the one Bell area is a once in

a lifetime property that can never be duplicated. There is nothing else like it. As a lifelong Angelino and collector, a a collector of real estate, I recognize this as a rare opportunity that also lets me own a unique property that is destined to be a part of Los Angeles history. Now, mind you, this house was going for five hundred million dollars. That was asking what does I guess it got it for a bargain at one hundred and twenty six million. Is it a spaceship on the weekends?

Can visit Mars? What does it do? I mean, it's it's a house that just has every amenity that you could poss imagine, from bowling alley to movie theater, tennis court, basketball courts, there's you name it, numerous bedrooms. He needs to have a lot of kids. Boy, I have six of my kids would probably will live in a couple of rooms. He needs like twelve kids and laws, all types of things in there that I mean, congratulations to him.

I love it. Well, Drake is selling three homes that he has in Hidden Hills, California, and he is selling those three homes. You can buy them all together, all three offered at twenty two point two million dollars. And you know, if you want to get that, you can make it happen. We told you earlier that he also just bought a new home as well. That's in Los Angeles, proper. I'm a biden. Bitcoin people aren't buying mansions with bitcoin.

Well Drake did with that house is dope too, because he purchased a house, any purchased the properties next to him, so nobody would live next to him. He has the space to put, you know, a gated vicinity around it, so nobody could just run upon his property. So it's just wild to hear that kind of money being thrown around, and like people paying that kind of money for houses when we have such a homeless pademic in America. Like

that's just wild to me, all right. And since we're talking about money, Chris Brown is listing his custom two thousand and twelve Lamborghini Aventador for three hundred thousand dollars. No, he sold already. He sold it to somebody else in the person as Motors in Los Angeles is listing it. But that is Chris Brown's ex Lambo yep x Lambo. I better not hearing none of them people complaining about

the price of gas. If I see Chris Brown or Draco, any of them people complaining about the price of gas. With all that money, they're going around gas with takis and change three dollars and change that a fact, it's five dollars. You got it, all right. And Chris Rock and Kevin Hart have anat cohead lighting a comedy tour. I love this rock heart can't wait. Only headliners allowed. So Kevin Hart posted breaking news excited to announce a

run of shows with Chris Rock this summer. A pre sale starts this Wednesday at ten am with Code Comedy. So you can go to Kevin Hartnation dot com and you can go ahead and pre order those starting tomorrow. He said. Chris has been a mentor of mine forever and more importantly a brother and a friend to me in this comedy game. I can't wait to make history with him and destroy these markets. And then Chris Rock also said more dates to come, So if you can

see the days they have listed. They got Brooklyn, they'll be at the Barclays, they got home there on New Jersey, they got the Garden, they got New York, New Jersey, the Preudential Center and Wanta, New York. And I wonder how different will Chris Rock should be with Kevin Then it will be on his um Ego Trip show because he's going on to the Ego Trip and Kevin Hart's going on tour too, right, yea, all right, well that is your rumor report. I can't wait to see both

of those shows, all three of them actually individually. All right, usually do Donkey of the Day, but today's women International Women's Day, March eighth, every year's International Women's Day. I don't know what they have planned. They just told me that I wasn't doing Donkey to Day. I didn't even know that, right, So we're gonna know what I'm saying. I didn't know. Nobody told me that earlier. So so who's who? I don't know, But we're gonna figure out

when we come back. But hashtag break the bias today for International Women's Day, talking International Women's Day. When we come back all right, and this the platform is all yees right. We want you guys to call in and say what you're planning to do to celebrate women today.

Now we wasn't doing that. Whatever I have to produce the show, guys know what's gonna let's let's give for International Women's gonna you know, she's gonna you know, and she's gonna be able to talk about what she wants to talk about, breakdown International Women's Day, talk about how hard it was for her to get an industry and everything that she went through. Letting me know, y'all ain't playing nothing. We didn't sound good. This is not like

women women organizing playing very much better than this. It sounds like a man put this together. Shout the eddie to produces breakfast Good morning morning. Everybody is stej MV and Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. Good morning, Good morning, International Women's Day. Good morning to all the women out there. What's happening. We appreciate you, we respect you, and we salute you. Yes, and this year's theme is hashtag break the Bias. So we are celebrating women's achievements.

We're also raising the awareness against biases and taking action for equality. So we're celebrating a world where a difference is valued and also a world for your biased stereotypes and discrimination. You know, we're not there yet, Okay, we're all aware of that, right, and so some of the things that people are saying, I will forge positive visibility of women. I will celebrate women's achievements. I will challenge gender stereotype, discrimination and bias. We will call out gendered

actions or assumptions. I will help forge a gender equal world. So those are some of the things for this year as we break the bias. We want to make sure that we continue to empower women's choices in health as it has been being challenged so much frequently, making sure women have con troll over decisions about their own bodies. Also forging women's empowerment worldwide. This is not just something in the United States. This is a global movement. Building

workplaces where women thrive. You know, you can create a better environment for women who are your co workers. Uh, so make sure you do that. Elevating visibility of women creatives and improving equality for women in tech. We all know tech is the future, so we have to make sure that there are more women involved in that space. All right, so happy International Women's Day. Yes, and let me let me shout out to a couple of women,

if you don't mind. Let me shout out, of course, to my wife, who is the love of my life, one of the CEOs of my life. She is the CEO of your life. And my daughter as well, who's who's another CEO of my life? In my BFF and my painting the ass I love my little daughter. My wife is my mother? Oh yeah, all right, my daughter runs these teams. My mother as well, who is the teacher and the nurturer and the warrior. She's when that worries all the time. Let me shout out to THEA Mitcham,

that's our boss up here. Snoot to her, all right, yeah, shout out to THEA six things moving here, And I want to shout out to our bentons. Who is I thought this was my break? No, I'm sorry, I was just shouting out a couple of women. His patriarchy. I just saw him just straight up co op everything that you was just saying. This took it from you, That's what I saw, shouting up women in my life the song. But yes, and I think for so many of us. Our mothers are the main person who we learned so

much from at an early age. Shout to my mom who works hard to this day. Okay, and she won't stop. She works seven days a week, So shout out to my mom's celast and tropically daddies won't stop because of puff Daddy. But never more. I mean, I hear so many stories. Stop cutting off, that's your problem, you're rude. I hear so many stories about women who work two or three jobs just to make sure that there's food on the table. Also come home and take care of

the household. So shout out to you. We love and appreciate you. Okay. And yeah, just a lot of women. I feel like I'm surrounded by women all the time. Shout out to the ladies of lip Service too. And that show was started really just to celebrate women and also make sure that we had a space that was safe, but we could talk about anything we wanted to when it came to relationships, when it came to sex. There's so many different taboos and restrictions when it comes to

women discussing things about ourselves. So I find that show to be really empowering and so just so much going on and we want to hear your stories as well. And actually coming up, we have two amazing women who will be joining us for International Women's Day. We have Kim Delaney. She's the director of Education and Programs at the DuSable Museum of African American History from Chicago. Also Vanne and Benefo. She's a filmmaker, a cultural consultant and historian.

And they're here to talk about Equiano Stories. And I don't know if you guys have seen this, but it's basically a movie that's on Instagram. This is the second of the series that they're doing, these Steelo Stories, and so it's an award winning film studio. And basically what they're doing is they're telling a story that's based on truth about a young boy named Equiano who was kidnapped

and enslaved in West Africa in seventeen fifty six. But it shows what his life was like before he was kidnapped, before he was enslaved, and you get to actually watch him tell his story through social media on Instagram. And so it's great for kids to be able to relate to these stories today. It's really it's hard to watch at certain parts but I do feel like it's really educational. So when you watch these stories on Instagram, you can

follow Equiano dot stories and see everything. But it's over four hundred people were on the cast in making this and it's a multimillion dollar production, but it's done in a really special way on Instagram. So I want to celebrate these women and they're here to talk about Equianna Stories. Coming up next on The Breakfast Club. Good Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have some special guests joining us today.

I can't wait to hear this. We have doctor Kim Delaney and we have Yvonne were welcome, guys. Thank you, thank you for having us, Thank you for having us. Now tell us we're talking about these Acquiana squian Stories. Yeah, we've been watching it and it's it's pretty dope. How you guys have been putting it out there and creating creative. So for people that don't know, explain what these are. Aquiana Stories is part of a series of movies we're

trying to make um stellar stories. So Stello Stories, the first series is a series of ten remarkable young people throughout history. So we're trying to get the history to the people. And our main target our young people, and this is the best place to get them is where they are, which is social media. That's why we tried that.

We're trying this new genre of um, you know, boy with the phone, girl with the phone kind of storytelling, so that we removed that idea of a director, so you know, it's as if they're talking to you one to one. So we believe that's the easiest way to get to people and get people to learn without realizing their learning. And this idea come about because it's fascinating to me watching these Instagram stories that are really educating you but also entertaining you. So whose idea was they

tell me how this whole thing happened. Um, well that was before I joined Stellar Stories because I'm an executive there. But from what the founders said, like they've been doing research thinking of ways to you know, break that chain off. If you don't read a book, you don't learn history. So I think from research and then finding out what's out there and you know kind of you know, thinking of out of the box ways to you know, make movies accessible to everyone. So that's how you know, it

just came about. And then with the first film. The first film was Ever Stories, which is a story about a young girl if a Heyman, who lived during the Holocaust, and you know, we turned her diary into a movie. So for each one we make, we perfect our craft. And how long is the movie? It's eighteen minutes in total for Equano movies. Why do you put it on? I've seen it and I love the love the stories that I was watching, But why on the story because

in the story, after twenty four hours it disappears. For Instagram, it doesn't disappear. Yeah, so you can set in such a way that it's there. It's like underneath, you know, underneath you end understory. Yes, so it's it's there. That's why we chose that, and we also have it on We're about to launch it tomorrow on TikTok as well, because um one of Kim's people said, oh, why why

isn't it our TikTok? That's why the kids. Yeah, So what we do our Stellar Stellar Stories, we try to be reactive and we're not stuck to one kind of technology or platform where the people are. We go there now you know everything is of course, it's course right, And although you guys are doing such a great thing, it has to be paid for somehows a way. Usually when you sell it to a you know, TV show or something like that, it's commercials that pay the bills.

So how were you guys, you know, getting moneys at donations to make sure that you guys can continue to tape and travel and do all those things. It's been funded. Um, Like, what we're trying to do is we're trying to get our name out there because we're not Disney, but we're trying to get to Disney levels. Okay, so the only way what we're trying to do is to get our name out there and then we start, you know from now.

We're not commercializing it because i'm first and foremost. You know, the first one was a holocaust, second one about enslavement, which are very sensitive topics. So we're not commercializing that. Yeah, it's funded by a philanthropist, Yeah, philanthropist. It's a multimillion dollar project. It's a dream come true for Disavo and for myself. I'm a retired professor of African American studies. This particular story It's a story that I learned in

familet and then taught in familet. So when it came to us to partner and consult on it, it was like a dream come true, especially on somebody else dollar. That's what I told them. This is the best project I ever worked on, because somebody else is paying for me to live my dream and teach African American studies to the world. So this is a true story. Let's talk about the story of Equiano. Yeah. So Equiano was a child in West Africa, right in Nigeria and Ebo Land,

and he was born in seventeen forty five. In seventeen fifty six, he got kidnapped in the slavery. But what's so beautiful about this story. It was different about this story is that normally the story starts in slavery. The power of this story and why I'm on the project is because when we tell our own stories, we start with humanity. Right. So he told his own story. He was the first person to write his own slave narrative. Right. The difference in his narrative and other narratives you see

is that he begins it in Africa. We see the love of his family, we see culturally specific things. And in all the years that I taught African American studies, that's that's what I loved most about the story. That it started with his family, and that's what we wanted to tease out. So this our particular telling of this story starts at age eleven and it ends at age eleven.

It's just that eleven year old period of him. As Ivonne said, all of the stories Cello are attempting to tell with this particular project, They've committed to ten stories, all told through the eyes of children. So we're passing the mic to kids to tell their own stories. Ava told our own stories and now at Rihanna telling his

own story. Now you get to see him with his mom at home having fun, but his friends, Donson and most of we also want to you tough today to relate to, you know, people that lived before so that they can't say, oh, they really lived normal lives, so I can't relate to that, you know, hanging out with friends, going on sleep of us and he's actually talking like he's doing his Instagram stories like I do today. But you get to see it all play out. And it

was hard because I knew what was going to happen. Yeah, you know, when they're like, do not talk to those people, he told you, don't talk to those people, and yeah, so I'm like, man, you know though, that's the hard part, but the powerful part is at the end we tell how he was successful. So he was able to save enough money to buy his own freedom, right, and then he did today what we would call crowdfunding, where he went to people and gap money and self published his

own book. To be popular, book had to do two runs. His book did nine. And then he used that that power that he garnered to help end slavery, which England was had the highest slave trade industry at the time. He used the power that he got from self publishing, crowd finding his book to help enslavery. All right, when we come back, we have more with doctor Kim Dulaney and Ivan Benee for when we come back, it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning. Well, where can people watch just

so we can let them know how to find it? Okay, so for them, right, the full movie right now is on Instagram and it's um the handle is Equiano dot Stories, equi A and oh dot Stories. And like I mentioned before, it's going to be We're going to start releasing it on TikTok and they've agreed to put us on the Discover page. So that's the you know, where's everything's trending, where everything's happening and they're expanding. Yes, there their black Twitter.

You know it was black Twitter month because and not Twitter, black TikTok. But they saw the project and so believe in the project that they're extending that. Right. It is amazing when I tell you just the story that you told, and like you said, I mean, I knew that what was about to happen, but I didn't know it was a real story. I love the way that it started. I love the fact that he was resilient overcame. Like you said, it is like something to be proud of.

Thank you. You know. The other thing when the when the story was told, it's so funny to me that like when he's saying, are they going to eat us?

Remember when he said so when I was teaching, when I first came across the story, you see all these horrific slave movies or slave stories that we had to read, right, and then I came across this story where he's saying, I didn't understand these people like we always washed our hands before we eat and then so it was funny to me that in a way he to not be in disrespectful, but he's staying, look, we're not the savage. I washed our hand before that. Y'all doing bad stuff

to each other. I'm wondering, like, y'all gonna eat us? What's up? You know? I you know how kids talk, They just you know, say what they feel. Yeah, Um, can I just put in that during the filming of this movie, Um, we were four hundred custom crew. Wow, from all walks of life. And at every point of this the shooting of this film, everyone cried at some point. It didn't working on it. They cried walking on it. It didn't matter whether you were the snake catch up

because we had snake catches. The village was built in the middle of a forest, so every morning the snake catches will come around and check for snakes and things like that. I wouldn't want that job. No, no, maybe let me add to that. In Chicago, Yeah, man, I would be like, help, you know, turn the camera off, give me a minute, you know, because it's too much. It was too much at time when we have to

dig in and find a way to explain it. But we don't want you know, trauma point and re injury people. So how but we got to absorb it and then find a way to release it, you know, in a way that's respectable. But the Somber Museum in Chicago, we have a brand new exhibit that accompanies it. It's awesome. We have um pieces from our own collections. Uh. Danny Dunson is a curative of that, and Brenda and Martin

built that. It's absolutely awesome. So uh, if people are in Chicago, come to Chicago, stop by and see that. It's a whole exhibits. It has what looks like a phone on the wall and shows parts of the movie on the wall in there with the artifacts that are placed in there. Um, the film is best field on the phone on the cell phone because that way you get the real power of the filming of the phone.

Filias if you're in there with Brian, I'm experiencing wall, what's he's experiencing and we want to watch the whole thing at once. But it's hard to put your phone down right right. But it is true that you can, like if you have other things to do, you can do that and you can you can see that. Listen. Also his voice is it means the voice that echoes. So we want to thank you all today for passing the mic and giving us space, and you all are now helping with us to have this voice that called.

All these years later again he wrote the book and published in seventeen eighty nine, and all these years later hear this story so relevant. You off like another movie out of this. Well, we can't say, but somebody had somebody an option to do. Somebody very famous, Will Smith made the trailer for us. The trailer for the movie for Us. Colin Kaepernick has commented. Offset commented that was dope to me. I'll say, yeah, that's cool. Who else we look at the result of this that the film?

Oh no, no, yeah, we sort of it's working on the film. Yeah. And somebody say it'd be cool to tell this whole story. So I heard that right away, like somebody is about to make this. Stello, Stellar Stories and the Solba Museum work together on that. We're very proud of it, and again we appreciate your a's amazing. We think y'all for flying into share this with this so we can share it with our audience. Thank you, mister Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is the rumor report

with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. All right, well, Nas has been named in the lawsuit. And that's all because he posted a picture. It was Na's tupacketing redman outside a club Amazon in nineteen ninety three, and that picture was from noted photographer Al Perreira and he posted that without permission or licensing the work. Here that picture to his personal Instagram. Yeah, I mean I heard Snoop talk about it yesterday. We have Snoops audio, so Snoop

was upset about it. And think about it like this. You take a picture, somebody takes a picture of you, that's your likeness, that's your face. Post your own picture. That's an old hustle thal that they got me for that like years ago, Like I posted a picture somebody took on my Instagram page on or maybe it was Breakfast Club that posted it. Whoever posted it, they definitely hit up on Instagram. Yeah. Yeah, this is where not supposed to the picture on Instagram didn't get and he's

in the picture he didn't get. Now you don't get paid for it, paid for now paid No, No, it's just on Instagram. And now even like when I heard post stuff, they won't post any pictures that they haven't either license to use or they don't have exclusive use for it, probably because when they hit me, yeah, and they had to pay for that. But it's not just them, I mean, it's a lot like they can't post anything. It's an old hustle photographer has been doing. They got

to stop that, you know. But it's it's hard because they can have a picture of you, you don't have to sign anything, and they own that picture of you and then they can do whatever they want with it. And this same photographer is the same one who sued uh. I think it was Kylie and Kendall Jenner for using photographs he took of Tupac and Biggie as part of a clothing line. Now you can't do that, you know, which I understand, but I also feel like that should

more go to the family too. All right now, Keisha Cole is on tv ones Uncensored, and one story she's talking about is actually being good friends with Eve, but Eve stopped hanging out with her. Here's what happened. It took a long time to learn to not put my hands on people. It was a thing that happened with Eve that you know, we're walking out and somebody grabbed her bag or something like that, and you know, I just kind of turned around to slap the girl. You know,

it's like, girl, what are you doing? You know what I'm saying? Like period, like back up? You know, and Eve is really pissed off about that, like we stopped hanging out. Like she was like I can't hang with Keisha, Like she can't be slapping people. I was like, wait, I slap somebody for you the post, but I just, you know, I should have left that to security. Somebody couns paid for that, you know what I mean. I

think we all learned that though. Hey man, I appreciate all my friends that are willing to put hands on people from me. All right, male and female. All right, we'll figure it out later. No, No, that was early on. Now that doesn't work like that. We'll figure it out because guess what, even if it's your security, you're still

gonna get held liable. Regardless if it's your security and you walking and somebody does you something, just because security puts hands on the person, don't make you anymore or Less liecurity, trying to de escalate the problem most times. But you know, we all had that one friend that a swing first and usually get you in trouble. Got me in trouble many times in this era. Somebody reaching for a pocketbook, that's my pocketbook, and in this ere I don't know if you're trying to rob me or not.

I don't have time to de escalate. I'm gonna put you in your face, slow things down. You better not get snatching that and you run off. Used to ask my person soon. All right, Now, let's talk about Skip Bayless versus Nina and Russell Westbrook. Now, Skip Bayless and Russell Westbrook clearly don't have the best relationship. Now, Skip Bayless was talking about the time when he actually had to hire security to go back to his own hometown.

As we rolled toward those finals, death threats from thunder fans in my hometown of Oklahoma City, real live, hardcore death threats, I thought, legitimate death threats, but I passed them along to ESP and security, who came back to me. Yep, legit need to be taken seriously. So as we are about to venture to Oklahoma City, my hometown, they had to hire me a bodyguard. A bodyguard. Now, Russell Westbrook's wife, Nina Westbrook is saying that she and her family have

been subjected to death wishes. She said, if you're a public figure, you have to be responsible for the type of example you set. Unfortunately, you must keep in mind the consequences of your behavior. When I'm being harrassed on a daily basis over basketball games and I'm having obscenities and death wishes from me and my family sent my way because you're expressing your quote truth. It's hard for me to get on board with that. And that's all because Skip Bayliss always has a lot to say about

Russell Westbrook. And here's a compilation of some of those things. Well, you're stuck with Russell Westbridge. We are Skip. What you want me to do about that? I could we just display the magnitude of the ten turnovers by running through them quickly. This is Russell Westbrook on display last night, turning the basket. That's just crazy. Bron James still has one big fly in his soup, one big fly. And I first guess this. I don't think you can overcome

Russell west Brick. He is completely out of control, and of course he west bricked the free throw. I'm a man that he called him a big ass fly and somebody's soup. But you know, I get what Russell was saying about his last name. He's very upset about that, but that's how fans are. They love you when you're bawling. They slandering you when you're down. And the only thing that changes the name west Brick is if Russell Westbrooks

starts bawling. Well, Russell Westbrook's wife, Nina Westbrook, goes on and say, I don't do the things I do to receive attention to get clicks of a show. This is not a game to me. Basketball a game is a game. This is my life, my children's lives, in my family's life. Shaming anyone for any reason is never the answer. And my hope is that the amazing and talented players that come after him don't have to be subjected to this type of shaming, name calling, in public scrutiny for playing

the game that they love. And Russell Westbrook also spoke about this in a press conference. Here's what he has to say about his wife. You know, one hundred percent stand behind my wife. And she's feeling because, um, it's not just about this year. Um. Right now, she's reached a point. Um, and my family has reached a point to where it's really weighing on them. Um. And it's very unfortunate just for me personally, because um, this is

just a game. The moment it becomes where you you know, my name is getting shamed, um, it becomes an issue. The only reason the name is getting shamed though, it is because of Russell Westbrook's play. The only thing that's going to change this is your play on the court. You're not gonna stop fans from slandering you when they're upset that you're not bawling for their for their team.

It's just not gonna happen. Everybody gets you think you think, let me getting into the beginning of time, Like every player in every sport gets slanted like this when they're not performing. So the only thing that's gonna change that as your play. All right, Well, that is your room of report my International Women's Day. I can't and my room of report late, but go ahead, all right, well, thank you so much. That is your Room of Report, presented by me Angela Ye on International Women's day and

be disrespect you. That's why I'm good to have friends that have flapped somebody for you see. And when we come back after the NIX series, Castle will be joining us. She's a crime fighting journalist out of LA She's gonna be talking about some of the gangs within the police department, deputy gang, deputy gangs. It's the breakfast club, good morning, police gangs, police gang, deputy gang. They have names. They

have all kinds of names. We've got the Executioners for one, the Caveman, the Vikings, Tasmanian Devils, Cowboys, pirates, there's a ton man. That's got to be a dangerous, dangerous job for you. They gotta hate you, oh, one hundred percent, they hate man. I mean a matter of fact. Just on Monday night, Sheriff of Los Angeles County died an hour long radio show where he just spent an hour bashing me and threatening me. That's not the first time

that happened. He actually threatened to post my home address on sheriff. Yes, that is crazy. It's it's crazy. And so did people support this sheriff initially? Yes, Initially he campaigned as a progressive and he was able to get the support of the Los Angeles County Democrats. But once he got into power, he's started doing all kinds of frankly, really bad things. We've seen an increase of deputies killing civilians since our sheriff has been elected, as well as

an increase of deaths inside the jails. And our sheriff he really thinks that this is okay. He said twice now that every police shooting across the United States is justified. I'm sure somebody asked why when he said that to what was his reasoning, Well, he doesn't really give a reason.

He's very much of the belief that the police are just justified in anything they do, whether that's shooting an unarmed black man thirty three times like they did Frederick Holder, or sitting by while someone like Gilanni Lovett overdoses in

a solitary cell in jail. And you know series, And just to bring it back to how series actually came up, we were talking about one of our listeners called in about Fedwick Holder and it was a case that we hadn't even heard about, which is a shame because there's so many things that happened that go under the radar, because there's so many things that happen, and I don't want us to ever get numb to what goes on. But like you said, he was an unarmed black man

on the highway. He was shot thirty three times. They shot at him thirty three times. He was hit seventeen times by gunfire. He was shot almost that point blank range with an assault rifle. There are pictures of his autopsy that you can see, and they have actually shot his mouth off. The deputies that did this to him are still on patrol. They have not been disciplined at all. And that's the case in so many of these shootings.

Just this year. It's only March, right, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has already killed four civilians this year. I was going to ask what got you into this? Was it something that was affected your family or were you tied to seeing something with television? What got you working so hard on this? Well, I grew up in Los Angeles. I've always known about sheriff's gangs growing up. I would hear it from my friends, my teachers, my mom.

They would always tell me, YO, be careful because these police out here are in gangs. Watch out for the white ones with the bald heads. Those are probably Vikings. And it was something that always interested me. And I've always been a bit of a nerde you know. I go to the library. I love to read books, so yeah, you know, so I'd always be going and trying to find out who these gangs are, what are they doing, and what do they want? But there really wasn't anything there.

There weren't too many newspaper articles, and there definitely wasn't any books. So fast forward to twenty twenty. I was working at a local radio station and I was out in the streets covering the protest that had erupted and respond to the murder of George Floyd. And while doing my job, I was actually shot with a less lethal munition by a police officer. Really yeah, rubber bullet straight on my arm and the resulting injuries. I fell down and hurt myself pretty bad and I had to be

on bedrest for six months. I couldn't get up, I couldn't walk, I was in a cast on crushes. But I didn't want to just sit back and rest because we were in a moment, and I think we're still very much in this moment. I wanted to make sure that I was doing something to contribute and to raise awareness. So I thought to myself, you know what, I should

start researching those deputy gangs. A couple of days after I got shot, an eighteen year old by the name of Andres Guardado was killed by two alleged deputy gang members in the gang called the Executioners, And it came out pretty quickly that the two deputies that shot him were alleged gang members trying to get into the gang, because that's how you get in. You get in by killing a civilian. So a cop gets into a gang,

a cap gang allegedly by killing a billion that's correct. Wow, this is so interesting to me because people already look at the police as a gang like in general, right, but to note that there's subsidiaries inside of the police force. What do the actual police say about this when y'all bring this to the police's attention and you say there's deputy gangs, what did they say? Well, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, he said multiple times that I made this all up just to get rich. I have not

gotten rich off of this. If anything, this has put a target on my back. Yeah, and the benefit right, really for you personally, No, I mean that's that's I mean, Eric Alexander, you come highly recommended. You know. She was like, you gotta have Shariso on the show. But she was saying because they want to increase the profile, because you haven't become a target. I have. Yes, the sheriff has

spoken about me multiple times in many press conferences. They also attempted to arrest me at a press conference that I attended. Um just two weeks after I finished publishing the series detailing the Deputy Gangs, I went to a press conference hosted by the Sheriff's apartment and I was there probably for ten minutes, and I was surrounded by sheriffs. They tried to drag me behind the Hall of Justice and I don't know what what what was the charge? Well,

they didn't say nothing. Do you think that the more you put your face I did, the safer and I'm putting safer and quotated to safer, you become I think so, I think keeping the profile high and you know, letting them know that I'm going to keep talking about this. Nothing is gonna shut me up. We'll keep me safe. Now for people who want to read about this you did? Is it a five part? Fifteen part? It's long, but it's worth the read, and it just goes to show

that this has been going on for so long. These deputy gangs have been around in Los Angeles for at least fifty years, and I'm the first person to chronicle this history. This is stuff that they don't want you to know, but this is stuff that everyone in Los Angeles and even outside of Los Angeles you need to know, because these deputy gangs, they don't play. We're still talking

with Cerre's Castle. She's a crown fighting journalist out of LA She's telling us about the games inside the police department and we'll talk to him when we come back. Is the Breakfast Club, Good morning morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy We are to Breakfast Club. We're still talking with Sas Castle. She's a crime fighting journalist and we were just asking her about how difficult it was to talk to members about the police gang. Yeah,

what do people want to talk on the record? Were they willing to do that or were they very nervous off the record? Yeah, So I got a couple of deputies that spoke to me off the record or on deep background. But for the most part, yeah, they are. Most of them are really scared to go on the record because they get threatened. They get death threats about other police officers, other police officers that want to speak out about what these deputy gangs are doing and the

control that they have in the department. They get targeted too. One of my sources had a headless rat placed on his car. Yeah, Now, what's the what proofed do you have? Charis that these deputy gangs exist? You know what I mean? Are you when you make claims that they kill a civilian to get into the game as a big claim? So what proof do you do you have? Well, I've got photos of hundreds of tattoos that these deputy gang

members have. They're all numbered, they have different designs, and as their police career goes on and they hurt or kill more civilians, you can see in the photos how the tattoo changes. Maybe a bullet is added to the chamber of a gun that the skeleton of the executioner is holding. Also, there's a lot of litigation, right, That's how I found out all this stuff. Los Angeles County actually tracks every case that is brought to the county

that mentions deputy gangs. So, for example, Undress Guardato his family brought a claim saying, yo, your deputy gangs, you know, killed our son, and the county actually tracks that. They have a spreadsheet of all these cases. It's like sixty so they know that this is happening, but no meaningful action or policy change has been made. But they have been lost. Tamataz this quest about one hundred million dollars and that doesn't come out of the sheriff's department either.

That comes from taxpayers. Right, So they're just white gangs or the black gangs or the Mexican or the Latino or like or is it just primary white gangs? So all of the gangs have white supremacist themes and underleanings. Definitely they are. There are some only Latino gangs. For the most part, they do not allow black people to join. They do not allow women to join. There are some exceptions and what they'll do if you're black, Um, maybe

they'll change the tattoo a little bit. For example, the Vikings, they had a Viking tattoo, but if you were black, instead of two horns, pointing up on the helmet, they would have one horn pointing down. Not really sure what that means, but there you go. The La County Sheriff Alex Villa in the wave. Yes, he's facing calls for impeachment from community organizations. Yes, what are the reasons? Well, well,

he doesn't think anything is wrong with this. He has said both that deputy gangs don't exist, and he also says that he's the only person that has done anything about deputy gangs. Which one is it? Exactly? So that's that's it can't be the only reason they're impeaching them though, right, Yeah, well it's a big braason. Okay, okay, um, you know he has not He supports deputies that you know, kill people, and as I mentioned at the top, we've seen a

huge increase in civilians that are killed. Um, and he is fine with that. He supports these deputies. He doesn't discipline them, He allows them to continue to be on the street. If they do impeach to sheriff, who do you think is qualified to replace him and clean up such a corrupt system. I don't even know if that's a fire everybody. I don't know. If I don't know if that system can ever be cleaned up, I think

it needs to be dismantled with. I don't people always say there's good cops, right, and there's just a few bad apples. But even with quote good cops, can you even exist within that system? No? Not in this system. I mean I've talked to a few good cops and they've been pushed out because they tried to do the right thing. There somebody you think could replace them. Well, that's the interesting thing. We are in an election year this year in Los Angeles. We do have several candidates running.

Interesting point is that more than half of the candidates that have entered the field are also affiliated with deputy gangs. Y, how do you get an internal investigation going? Because that's never happened either. You said it has not. No, it's And that's a great question. Angela Maxine Waters has sent multiple letters to the Department of Justice requesting a federal probe into this. We haven't heard anything back yet. Um, I'm steady hoping that the Fed show up because an emergency.

It is an emergency. People are dying out here in incredibly violent ways. The Feds could have internal gangs. You know what, I mean like, yeah, I mean that's a good point. The Feds did come and investigate the riff's apartment in twenty thirteen, I believe, and that actually resulted in our then sheriff and under sheriff, who is the number two going to federal prison? Who had back? Who who's the one that supports you and make sure that you're okay and at LA while you're running around and

you're doing what's right. I have a great community, m Maxie Waters. I don't know if that was part of yet. Yeah, Maxie Waters is a great supporter. Ye gang. I'm not affiliated, but I have a good community. Um. You know, the families that have unfortunately lost loved ones at the hands of these deputy gangs are really great to me. They're really thankful that I'm out here telling their stories. Um. I also want to shout out my girlfriend. She takes great care of me and she's been my rock through

all of this. And yeah, I mean I really couldn't do it without the community trusting me and you know, supporting me through this because it is tough. Now, how can people support you and make sure that they support what you're doing or even help if they can't yeah, I appreciate you asking. I would want everyone to check out the series. It's available at lasdgangs dot com. We also have a database on there where you can actually look up and see all of the police, all of

the sheriff's deputies. I should say that I have identified that are either full fledged members in these gangs or associates. You can follow me on Twitter, I'm at series Castle, I'm on Instagram, at your majesty. I would also implore all of the listeners to learn about qualified immunity because exactly that's what makes it so that when a police officer kills your loved one, they aren't responsible, you can't

personally sue them or get you know, damages. And we also have to do something about the police officer Bill of Rights that makes it so when a police officer does something that could be your crime, they get to review all the evidence with the union representative and a lawyer while they're at work, and if the charges aren't filed in a year, they get to walk free. Yeah. Well, yeah, them actually take all this information. And I'm going to

be doing a podcast on iHeartRadio called Traditional Violence. It's going to be all about these deputy gangs and going into a lot more detail. Well, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate you, our friendly neighborhood crime fighting journalists. Thank you so much. And anything you need from us, you know, always let us know. If they're stories that you need us to get out there, that you need us to link to, that you need us to mention in front page news, you know we're here for it.

I appreciate you. Thank you all right, Well, Suri's castlest the Breakfast Club. Now, ye you've got a positive note. Yes, and today's positive note comes from the amazing Serena Williams. The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other. Make sure you're very courageous, be strong, be extremely kind, and above all, be humble.