Jon Stewart Interview and John Legend Interview

Walkmo Dangerous Morning Show, Breakfast Club desises. Good morning, usc yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. Good morning, a jolo ye good morning's ambi cholo mine the god piece to the plane. It is Tuesday, Good morning, Good morning to rno damn damn no six this morning. Usually get the six six a little late. Wow, y'all,

y'all disrespect that you did that to Toronto. Man computer. Oh now you're gonna blame it on the computer. That wasn't no. You know you guys, you know what this is about, drum Thank you. You know what this is about. You about drum fan. I love Toronto. You're a Swiss beach fan and pick your side. Picking side so disrespectful. You know, the biggest drink for the six stop it. That is true. That is true. That is true. That is true. You do you do do a little too

much when it comes to mister aby Graham. That is very true. Now you you told me the day you told me Beyonce had no talent. I didn't say remember that and all because of Drake. No, without doing that, without doing this is that? No? No, you said Beyonce fighting Drake style man like that definitely did. Man, it's so fast. It was something to that effect. It was not anything that I remember you said. You said something like owls eat bees. Like, definitely said owls be eat Yeah,

I remember that owls beat bees. Yeah, I remember yours. That's why to be hot, be on your ass? What's wrong with you? Guys? Can you find your Instagram sucking? Who to go have breakfast with? This morning? J DJ D R A M. Want to be hot? To know where you go for breakfast? That's where you go for breakfast this morning? I have a I have a question this morning. So this fireworks situation, right, is this happening everywhere? Because fourth of July is coming up it was just Juneteenth.

I saw in New York they actually went to the Mayor's house, to Gracie Mansion to protest, just because people can't sleep at night because there's so many fireworks. Is this something going on across the nation? Let me tell you, it's getting so ridiculous here in New York. When I was using fireworks, Yeah, when I was a kid, you couldn't get fireworks. You had to drive to Pennsylvania or Virginia to buy fireworks. Now they, like I said, they sell it in the grocery store, they sell it in

the BJ's coscoal. You can get it, damn it anywhere, and kids are going crazy with them. They shoot Roman candles. I've never heard this many fireworks for so many nights in a row, all night long. Expensive. No, I mean, I grew up in I grew up in South Carolina, so we always shot fireworks. But I have been here. I've been reading a couple of stories with people complaining about firework activity all throughout the night. I saw in

Oakland complain. Yeah, we've always always had California, but they were they were illegal. You weren't supposed to have them. But you know, a little body I was gun shot. You heard in Brooklyn stopped. We always as a matter of fact, somebody on my black growing up, he blew his hand off from lighting fireworks on the roof. Yeah, we used to get the m eighties from the bodaggas or the jumping jacks or the Roman candles, or they had the tank that would roll a little bit and

then explode. But yeah, you didn't hear too many people that had them. All. We used to as a kid. We should take the m ads and put them in the telephone move and blow up the telephone move and get like two dollars in quarters. That was fun, you know, I mean, it was stupid stuff, but they banned it. I used fireworks. The woman who used to molest me when I was eight, I used fireworks to make cress stop. It was a little snap of things that you throw

and they popped. That's not fire works. Yeah, you buy them at the fireworks though, the little snaps. Of course, that wasn't a damn fireworks. Then you didn't light it with Don't tell me what my childhood was like. You don't light them with a lighter. Their little fireworks you throw they pops. Say fireworks though, where you buy the snaps? Where where do you buy those snaps from? Now? Then you could buy that like one of the little novelty

shops and dollar stores have them. Yeah, everybody has. I never I've never seen him in the novelties to only buy them into fireworks then, but I used when she used to touch on me, I started throwing them at a. I guess that's why she stopped. All right, Okay, that's a little awkward. But now, um, today, Yes, John Legend will be joining us, John Legend, John two Johns will be joining Johns, John Stewart, and John Legend. That's right, John. John Legend has an album out right now. John Stewart

has a movie coming out called Irresistible. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Um, I saw, I got some terrible, terrible reviews I read. I read those yesterday. Oh yeah, it did I read those yesterday? We see. That's one of the reason I don't like read reviews or listen to other people's opinions before I watched something before I consume something, because I watched it just on the script when they

sent it for us to watch. Because he was coming to do the conversation and I thought it was greatly Yeah, I enjoyed it. I wouldn't thought they got terrible reviews. Horrible they killed it. Wow. All right, well, let's get the show crack in front page news. What we're talking about, Well, maybe you're gonna be ready for some baseball soon. It didn't look like it was coming back, but now it looks like Major League Baseball is really trying to start

July twenty fourth. All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, DJ Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we all the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news when we're starting with ye, well, let's start. We're in Major League Baseball might be coming back around July twenty fourth, and they're targeting a sixty

games season. But first any players to sign off on a health and safety protocol and to pledge to arrive at home stadiums by July first in order to prepare for the season. So we'll see, it's been three months of negotiations and it still hasn't been worked out. I knew that immediately. Yesterday. I took my son fishing yesterday and as we were going fishing. I looked on a baseball field and they're playing a game. The little league

actually playing a game. So when I seen little league playing and like, these are kids playing, I'm like, oh, major League Baseball definite coming back. They allowing these kids in these different states to play, They're gonna bring major League Baseball back. That's not what it is. They've been trying to negotiate. But it all has to do with the finances of it also, so you know, they're trying to pack in as many games as they can, and there's a Yeah, that's what the real issue is. It's

not that they can't play. Oh, so they don't care about the same COVID. They care just about the money. Well, I'm sure they care about that also, but yeah, of course they care about that. Also, they gotta care about COVID. I'm sure that's the only reason that it's a delay and they're having the kind of I guess shortness season that they're having. I'm sure it's because of COVID. But but but people are not gonna make the same noise

about the MLB as they did about the NBA. And I don't find the MLB as a distraction and then they say that about the NBA. The NBA can't come back and they would be a distraction. And everything that's going on right now, you don't have the same energy from Major League Baseball. Maybe once they announced a real plan, we'll see, but yeah, it doesn't look it doesn't look that way. Now, let's talk about what's happening with Donald Trump.

He is focusing on restricting immigration into the United States. So he as you know, they have extended DOCCA, and he said over the weekend he intends to refile paperwork to end DOCCA, that's the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, after the Supreme Court rejected his first attempt to do so. Now, his reasoning for that is because he wants to make sure that the economy can recover and that people who

are US citizens can actually get these jobs. And Amazon, Google, Twitter, and other tech companies are speaking out against Donald Trump's freeze on immigrant work visas. So the company said they will the company said it will make American firms less competitive and less diverse, as he has extended that freeze on these work visas. So the tech industry does rely very heavily on the visa program and other work visas to recruit employees from outside of the United States, and

that's in particular for technical facing jobs. And so they're saying it's now an unbelievably bad policy that will undermine a merror because economic recovery and its competitiveness. If you guys pay attention to this whole immigration situation. Now, this NYPD shake Shack poisoning, whole scandal they said was not

what it was made out to be. If you guys remember three cops went to shake Shack and they said that they were poisoned, right, But now there's a full picture of what really happened because they said it tasted like bleach, so they threw it out. So it's saying it's impossible for them to have known that it was actually drinks that were made for police officers. Their drinks were waiting for them when they arrived at shake Shack because they actually placed an order using the mobile apps,

so you have no idea who's placing this order. They purchased three shakes across two separate orders, and the workers couldn't have known it was cops that were doing it because it wasn't done in person. They couldn't have done anything to the drinks after the officers arrived, because the drinks were already packaged and waiting for pickup. So what ends up happening is, you know, how they clean out the machines, and so when they clean out the machines,

they have this thing called the residual milkstone remover. It's a tip acidic solution that they used to combat build up in dairy equipment. So maybe there might have been a little bit with that. They tasted of that in their drinks, but it wasn't what it was made out to be, Like some officers were being poisoned and they don't know why this whole thing was blown out of proportion.

So they lied because it couldn't have been bleaching if they if they called ahead, and there's no way they would have known that they were police officers that were just like, it's just a random over each person just ordering food. Correct. Yeah, And I don't think it was the officers that lie because it did have a taste to it, and that's probably what the taste came from. But they said when they went back to work, I guess for some reason, you know, they made a huge

deal out of it. Their higher ups and made it a big deal. The Police Benevolent President Association president made a show of visiting the hospital and said that the police officers came under attack from a toxic substance that was believed to be bleach. That whole story just ended up spreading, and so I don't think it was the

actual police officers that made it a big deal. Well, just to play white Devil's advocate, what if they frequent this shake shock often and the workers their new their name. That's a possibility. Yeah, but it was, but there wasn't actually bleacher. It's probably the machine was just cleaned and you know how you get those first drinks after they cleaned the machine. That's true too, that's another possibility. Yeah, that's what they're saying. Happen. M okay, all right, well

that is your front page news. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. Phone lines are wide. Opening number again it's eight hundred five eight five one five one is to breakfast club. Good morning. The Breakfast club is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man or blast, So you better have the same inn. We want to hear from you on the

breakfast club. Hello, who's this yo? This key in Georgia? What's up? Broke? Get it off your chest A minium blast black Holly favor that Charlomagne will say. I woke up next know she didn't get get the hell out of my bed. But I love my god. Well, you don't have the same bed. It's not my daughter. She got her home bed, but she she she to bed every morning. So you know, sign your talk about his wife. Stop y'all know he wasn't talking about his wife. I did when he said my queen, that's what he did.

And then he said his daughter right after that my daughter, I didn't say it. My four yo does the same thing. My four yod has been doing that for like six seven months. Man. It is a struggle to make her sleep in her own bed. Yeah, I gotta get up out of them, not using she messing my money. But I want to talk about I want to talk about y'all. Interview yesterday with the Old Girl Man and King Angela King y'all. She was baking, y'all, She was really baking, y'all.

Y'all didn't see prepare man, y'all got to bring it. Hay off up. I bet you she's not gonna win today. She might not. I wasn't. I was. I wasn't trying to black. I wasn't. I wasn't trying to debate. I wasn't trying. I wasn't trying to I wasn't trying to debate her. I don't think. I just get very concerned when people trying to roll back women's rights and a woman's right to choose. I think that's concerning. It's concerning. But she was coming with some she was coming with me.

I'm gonna be real, y'all listening back to the interview, Yeah I did. I watched it. I watched it yesterday. Yeah, she cooked, she could. She definitely cooked the room. I enjoyed it. I th I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not. I mean, sometimes sometimes you just can't argue people. You just gotta let people say this side. I mean it is, why were you arguing like? I wasn't arguing though, I

wasn't arguing. I I think I think as a woman is very concerning to me for people to put out this false and narrative like if you're a pro choice, that means you're walking around killing babies. I don't like that. Yeah, it was a lot of different. I didn't. I didn't.

I didn't agree with that part. Yeah it was. And I also don't agree that if your child is trans that means you're encouraging to have sex or something like it's crazy to me what she said with that, like the whole the LGBT community, all those letters, the first three letters are sexually on it, or say you know what says or like those. I mean, let's just be real. Yeah, but I think when the kids come to you and says, look, i'm a i'm a boy or i'm a girl, doesn't

mean I want to have sex with whatever. It just means this is what I identify as a gender as well. Wait, man, appreciate you all. I mean, all right, brother, let's sir, get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, you can hit us up right now. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what's doing. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed eight hundred five eighty five

one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello, who's this? Hey? Hey, get it off your chest? Hey bo Hey Charlomagne. Oh my gosh, Charlomagne, I am a freaking huge fan UM to say how UM blessed I am because oh yeah, hey, I'm Charlomagne. I'm ordered your books. UM. I accidentally ordered like two or three of them online, I mean the audio ones. Can I get a hard copy? Yeah? Which one you want? Black privileges? Show one, both of them, both of them?

A right, leave you leave you leave your UM, leave your address with our producer Dan. Okay, all right, So I was okay, oh my god, Okay, UM, I was calling you in to say UM that I was. I'm so blessed right now because I was in an abusive relationship for like, um over ten years, and UM I ended up getting shot and be in my sleep by my ex and yeah yeah, and I've I've been suffering

from like severe anxiety and panic attacks and everything. And I've been using UM a plant from the South specific that UM the South specific people have been using for over three thousand years. UM and it's been really helping me. It's a commune um herbal supplement and I also sell it. So and I'm UM, and I'm trying to start my own business with this. UM. I want to send you from Stamples Charlottagne to help with them if if you

want to try it. Okay, let's trade. You said like I love natural stuff like that, So you send you book all organic, well our producer. I'll give you the an address when you hang, when you get off the phone. Okay, And um, you can follow me on Instagram. So I have a page it's UM, I sell Gava. Actually my dad has a Gaba farm in Songa. It's UM in a South specific and Um. The instagram is guest Gava. It's k E F new k A v A. Okay, Um,

that's my Instagram. You guys follow me, I follow you guys. UM. Also, I have a website guess who called out dot com where you can order and fight cob off from there. All right, I'm with you. I don't know. I think I could be wrong, but I think you saw Gavah. Yeah, Hello, who's this? What's up? Blake? Hey? What's up? Man? Get it off? He chests bro Man. First of all, I wanted to just tell y'all I'm a fan. I appreciate everything y'all do well. I was calling just to shout

my daughters out. This time of quarantine, we've been a start them a live blass line, So I just wanted to shout out they live glass line. Their names a Blair harmony and lyric question name the Little Glass nine. Uh. Their lib blass line is called musical Bliss. Musical bliss. Oh yeah, the Instagram is a musical blizz three one three. Are they artists? They there are two. One of them is two, the others nine and one to seven. So I just started something for them to do while we've

been stuck in the house. Oh that's nice, all right, brother, have a go on Today's Black's birthday too, Mann Bleak, Today's Bleak's birthday, Happy birthday of Memphis. Bleak. Bleak is a sensitive cancer like I am. Drop on a clues mom from menth Bleak. Get it off your chest eight D five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, you can hit us up at any time. Now. We got rumors on the way, yes, and we didn't get to this story yesterday. But let's talk about Bubba Wallace.

He's the only black driver in NASCAR's Top series and he found a noose in his team's garage. All right, who wow? All right, we'll get to that next keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Bubbo Wallace. This is the rumor report with Angela

year Breakfast Club. Well, Bubba Wallace, who was the only black driver in NASCAR's Top series, did confirm that on Sunday there was a new was found in his team's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway. And now they are investigating. The news was found by a member of Bubba Wallace's team, and it was just hours after somebody flew a Confederate flag over the track to protest NASCAR banning the Confederate flag at all events. So they're trying to figure out

who did this. Now NASCAR released a statement, we are angry and outraised and cannot stay strongly enough how seriously we take this heynous act. Yeah, that is totally fall. I heard Jesse Smolette was trending yesterday because people will believe and maybe he did it himself, but that's crazy. You can't go to work without seeing that they banned the flag. People still come out to Hija Jaha with the flags and trying to put it on their cause.

It's just so disrespectful man. Positively, Yeah, they were trying to do all these like truck drivers rolling past with the Confederate flag. It was like a protest parade with a lot of the people. They were people setting up camp across the street, and they were also displaying the Confederate flag. That's how much step flag means to them. And there were some Trump flags alongside the Confederate flags

as well. All right. In addition to that, Bubba wile this did Finnis fourteenth yesterday, drivers did rally behind him. It was a very emotional scene. So listen to this. It's been tough, it's been it's been hell. Earlier I would say hell, it's just been hectic, you know, carrying its weight and carrying his burden. I wouldn't really say burden either. I'm proud to stand where I'm at and carry a new face. Look at this first time right

here from Atlanta. The sport is changing. Sorry, I'm not wearing my mask, but I wanted to show whoever it was, You're not gonna take away my smile and I'm gonna keep on going. The pre rate steal was probably one of the hardest things I've ever had to witness in my life. From all the supporters, from drivers, from crew members, everybody here the badass fan base, thank you guys for coming out here. Yeah, definitely positive eyes for that brother man.

He's going through a lot, and I'm glad that they're rallying behind him. Yeah. Yeah, most people are so, and I know that's a hurtful time and things to go through. So you know, I'm glad that NASCAR is doing the right thing though, at least right all right, little baby. He's upset that Walmart has been selling fake gold chains with his logo on it, four pockets full of jewelry, and he's not happy at all. He called him out on Twitter. He said, Walmart got me ffed up. Did

y'all see these bootleg chains? I did see him. I Mean, the good thing about it is that's his logo, so he could probably sue if it's you know, his and his trademark. But remember we used to see that all the time. I've never seen in a Walmart, but we always used to see it in the mall where it was cash money. I've seen the Rockefeller stuff. I've seen Masterpiece ice cream trunk. There's been a lot of jewelry

in the mall though. Yeah, absolutely, we might have some of those chains, right, No, that mean ninety nine, all right. Carl Crawford is being sued for one million dollars by the mother of the child who drowned at his home. We told you about this drowning incident. It took place last month. It was a small gathering and it was a five year old boy and an adult woman who died when the little boy fell into the pool. She actually dove in to try to save the five year old,

and they both later died at a nearby hospital. Now, the mom, leb on Hersey, is saying that Carl Crawford is solely responsible for the incident. She says her five year old son, who suffered from drowning, wasn't properly protected, and that this pool had no fencing, no alarm system, and so she's holding him responsible. She went to one million dollars in her lawsuit against him. Yeah, you know, the defensing only secures it if around the whole yard.

But if you're out in the barbecue, having a you know, having a barbecue by the pool, a pool is usually open. I do know in Florida, which I thought was dope, they have these alarms that when you go outside to the pool, the alarm goes off like crazy, which I'm going to install in my house or my kids. Not a swim But he has insurance. I'm sure it's insurance to be able to take care of it. But you know,

it's a sad situation. It's definitely a sad situation. I don't know how do you claim whose fault it was? You know what I mean? Because when I'm out, I guess if it's on your property, I don't know, but it's in my kids my responsibility though, Like if I'm out at a pool party, I'm watching my kids to make sure my kids are safe. So I don't know who's you know, responsibility legally, I don't know how this

works legally. I don't know if you know this happening on your property, Just like if you slip and falling someone's property or something happens to you, you can sue, right, Yeah, that's if you slip and fall. But if my child, you know, goes into the pool or jumps into the pool, falls into the pool. Shit, As a parent, you keep an eye on your kids to make sure you know what they're at at any given moment. I'm just asking. I honestly don't know, and I would love to know. Yeah,

I mean, I don't know. They might. She's saying that it was unsafe because there was no way for if you're at someone's house and a child could just fall into the pool. I don't know, but I guess we'll see what happens. All right, Well, I man de la yee. That's your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now when we come back front page news, what we're talking about, Yes, we we're talking about Dak Prescott and his deal that he just signed with the Cowboys. All right,

we'll get into that next. Keeping lock this to Breakfast Cloud, Go morning, vj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy, we all the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news where we're starting you well, Dak Prescott has officially signed his thirty well received his alty one point four million exclusive franchise ten there from the Dallas Cowboys. They have until July fifteenth to work out a long term deal,

otherwise one cannot be done until after this season. So the good news is, I guess he'll be back for this season and he does want to stay. Is he worth the money having? I mean, I don't know what his deal is. I think I saw something yesterday that he signed a thirty one point five million dollar franchise tag for the Cowboys, But I don't know how long it is. I don't know if that's where. I don't know what that is. It's not a long term. Yeah,

it's not a long term deal. So they're saying that he will be one of the highest paid players in the NFL, and then they said next season that could increase by a mandatory twenty percent to thirty seven point seven million with a flat or lower cap in twenty twenty one. So they do want to do a long term deal before July fifteenth, But if they wait till after that, then you can't do it till after the season. Okay, Okay, got it? I hope we gets all the money that

he's worth. Runnun all right. Rhode Island. Now, I didn't know about this, but they saying Rhode Island might change its official state name because of slavery connotations. I didn't know. Rhode Island's full name is the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. So right now they're going to change the name to just Rhode Island instead of all that. I never heard anybody call it that, but makes sense, right,

all right now. Eight corrections officers at the Ramsay County, Minnesota jail where Derek Chauvin is being held in Minneapolis said they were briefly barred from the floor where he was being held the day that he was booked into the jail because they're black, according to the discrimination charges that have been filed with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. So they said when Chavin was charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, they were told to report

to the third floor of the jail. They said that the facilities employees of color were all on that floor. They had all been segregated from the fifth floor, which is where Chavin was to be held. So they said they believed that those action towards discriminatory because they openly singled out and segregated officers of color because of their

skin color. Now, according to the jail official, what he's saying is that he said, recognizing that the murder of George Floyd was likely to create particularly acute racialized trauma, I felt I had an immediate duty to protect and support employees who may have been traumatized and may have

heightened ongoing trauma by having to deal with Shavin. Out of care and concern and without the comfort of time, I made the decision to limit exposure to employees of color to a murder suspect who could potentially aggravate those feelings. He said. He reversed that decision within the hour, And it doesn't ever happen the other way around them. Right when they arrest somebody who's black, they're not like, Okay,

we're not going to have any white officers. I've never heard of that before with them, So I don't see why it should happen the other way, And why shouldn't they be able to do their job as police officers and handle the situation just because of the color of their skin. Absolutely yeah. If you know, if you're not gonna worry about potential prejud it's our potential bias when it comes to you know, people that you arrested are black and white officers, and the same energy should be

applied for the black officers as well. Okay, well, right now those officers are seeking compensation. Yeah, the black officers have some prejudice and some bias towards the white cop Derek shoving. They should okay, they should feel that way. Y'all don't have no reason to be prejudice and biased towards us other than the color of our skin. All right, well I am Angela. Yeah, and that is your front page news. All right, thank you. I want to I

want to salute Kentucky too. Man. They got primary elections today, Senate primary elections. We all know that less than a few less than uh, they have less than two hundred polling places to vote because Mitch McConnell, the state senator, has repeatedly refused to vote on bills to improve access to the ballot. So, you know, everyone exercising their right

to vote, be patient today. Thug it out, Andy and all, and always remember if voting didn't matter, then you know, why do they why do they go so hard to make it difficult for us to vote? Do it? Thug it out and stuck it out in Kentucky today, even though they cut the polling places from thirty seven hundred to two hundred and one polling place for the state's two biggest cities, Louisville and Lexington. Thug it out. Yeah, that line gonna be long, but like you said, thug

it out. Man. Please, if you can't bring extra water, please stug it out. All right? When we come back, comedian John Stewart will be joining us. Of course. He has a new movie coming out called Irresistible, and we'll talk to him about that very good film. And I'm glad I watched it before I saw the reviews for it because I enjoyed it. Okay, all right, well, we'll kick it with him when we come back to the movies. To Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club forty. Everybody

is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line right now on the zoom we have John Stewart. Welcome. Yeah, Hey, what's up, guys? Thanks going. What's happening? Hey, thank you for coming. First of all, I want to I really enjoyed Irresistible, man, really enjoyed. Thank you. Now breakdown what Irresistible is about. How it's about a young boy who's left alone over Christmas by his family. Thank you, John.

That would It's a movie about the current political system and the gravitational pull that it exerts, and how far away it's drifted from the problems and the facts on the ground of the real people that it's purporting to serve. And hopefully it's funny and uh and people have a good time watching, you know, right out of the gate. Not to give too much away, but you know, these political strategists, they admit their lying to us, yet the

American public still listens. Why. I think ultimately what they've learned is noise is an effective strategy to blunt any change of the status quo. And one of the best kind of noisemakers is to flood the zone with non fact and lies and spin to make it much more difficult for people to be able to discern what's real

and what's not. Because here's the other thing. We're busy and they count on that it's sort of like you ever look at your credit card statement and they send you that pamphlet that explains to you, like the rules. You cannot figure out what it is they're trying to tell you about your credit card rate, And it's done on purpose. They don't want you to know the ins and outs. They don't because that means you'll hold them accountable.

You know, there's a scene in the movie when I'm not gonna give it away, but Colonel Jack is basically saying that money is the problem in regards the politics. How can that system that will be dismantled? So I think that's what we've tried. You know, there was McCain, Fondal and campaign campaign finance reforms. But I think it's always nibbling at maybe the edge of it, you know, because when you have money in a system, I think we all know that system is going to protect itself.

Systems don't generally dismantle their own profit. So what happens is elections now become permanent, and so you've got billions and billions of dollars flowing into this thing, and everybody in that system is getting a case. But there out the other day, Joe Biden raised eighty million dollars. I think Trump raised seventy eight million dollars in a month. And that's not even the half of the kind of money that's flowing through this thing. And by the way,

that's the least of the money. The real money is the dark money that's flowing in from corporations and billionaires to influence that system. Also, in the movie, you show how Democrats don't know how to talk the regular everyday people. Why can't Democrats get their messaging right? So the Publican Party has an advantage in that they're more homogeneous. They're just talking to one group. The Democrat Democratic Party is really a coalition of interest. And you'll see no matter

where you go, you've got people. You've got DOCTA standing next to BLM, standing next to Free Palestine, standing next to Behalf, standing next to five guys going legalized park like it's a mishmash. And so there is no real singular common language for the Democratic Party to speak to each other, and certainly not to reach across and speak to you know, a Republican party that's become really entrenched

in that identity. Yeah, Republicans will go for their candidate no matter what, whether they agree with them disagree with them. And I feel like with Democrats, we do such a great job of being really divided amongst each other that we kind of like tear each other down so much that by the time it's time for an election. And we've seen that happen obviously with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

With the Republicans, whoever their candidate is, it doesn't matter they are behind them, Nie, they'll switch what they think depending on what they're leading or tells them. There's no there's no principle behind it anymore. If you look at the criticisms that were leveled at Barack Obama by the Republicans for eight years, well, Donald Trump by almost every metric, has performed worse according to their own criticism. So what

they do is they change the metric. So what they told you they believed in eight years ago, they've shown you they don't believe in now. Well, what do you anticipate happening in November? Man? I you know, I would say the focus for the left should simply be protecting the vote we can. You're gonna see four voting boots for eight hundred thousand people like protect the ability to vote.

They couldn't. They couldn't do that in twenty sixteen, though, Like they can't get an election security bill path because Mitch McConnell, we know its voted suppression. Not to mention voter depression just because people aren't enthused by Joe Biden. It's like it's gonna be bad. The hardest thing for someone like in your position to do is maintain your optimism and enthusiasm because they're trying to wear you down. You guys are are drivers of enthusiasm and interest. Keep

deconstructing the nonsense. What the problem I have? Sometimes with Democrats, they'll say, we need the largest voter turnout in US history to win this November, but we can't tell people all the things they are up against because they may not come out in November. And in the movie, Colonel Jack has a lie where he says, you can't win a battle if you're not honest about what you're up against. If DEM's told the American people the truth, we may

be energized to come out in November. Let people know, yes there's Russian interference, Yes there's voted suppression, Yes there's voted depression people are they're gonna try to steale this election from you, but we need y'all to come out in droves in order to beat that. Tell the truth completely agree. And part of what I was trying to show in the movie is that again there's rot in the infrastructure of those systems. You'll see here's what's gonna happen.

You're gonna see Joe Biden have to go out and talk to YouTube influencers, and he's gonna do it without wearing a tie because you know, young people, if you're wearing a tie, they don't know you know, you already kicks up. It's the one thing what I really you know, for Joe Biden, what Biden wasn't my guy? Perfectly honest? How much more in the Biden Warren Camper, h Sanders

Warren Camper. But he's my guy now because I do think it's not just about anybody but Trump in this moment, we are a nation in anguish and anger and fear. And here's my hope about Biden. This is a man who knows loss. He has suffered, his wife, a young child, son. My hope is that loss has humbled him to the idea of what it feels like to be an anguished people.

I feel like we need a leader in this moment of humility who is looking to understand their own ignorance and blind spots and do better and be humble enough to know what they don't know, and to be humbled enough by grief to know the pain that people carry with them every day. All right, we got more with John Stewart when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Commoney Morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne, the guy we all the Breakfast Club was still kicking

in with John Stewart. Charlomagne's autold Rolling Stone Magazine. That you believe the issue with situations like George Floyd's death is that we're addressing the wrong problem. Is that what you mean is that we should be addressing whites of emacy and systemic racism. That what you meant we should

be addressing equity? Okay. In the Great Depression, we formed the Federal Housing Administration, and it specifically wrote into federal guidelines for housing that black people couldn't get loans to buy their houses. The wealth of this country has been built on equity, and then there was redlining, and then

there were zoning changes. This is not happenstand, and you can't build a ghetto and then suddenly decide, Okay, that's not here anymore, but we are going to police the edge of it, and we're never going to tear it down because when you quarantine people, you cut off the economic tributaries that exist to feed that area. What you have to do to face this, and maybe this plays into what reparations could be, which is call it project equity, a martial plan to build black ownership, because you can't

negotiate equality from a subserve in position. So our generational challenge is to help build black equities. I just want to hear from from you guys what you think are the remedies beyond police and things like God No, the only way America can atone for its original sin, which is slavery, is through legislation and most importantly, reparations. So

I totally agree with you. There has to be some type of economic equity package that is, you know, presented to the black community like it's really it's really just that simple. Yeah. I think education is really important in making sure if our kids that they have something to do when they're not in school, but making sure that it's equal. Like just some people don't want to send their kids to school in certain districts and the school system is not good there. They don't have the right books,

the right tools, the right teachers. Even we have to make sure that we fix up neighborhoods that people living in that they have access to things that people in other neighborhoods have access to. If there is a domestic dispute that I agree that police shouldn't be called into

a situation like that. I do think that something that a mediator or someone that is specialized to deal with something like that, And I know we've said that also about people who suffer from mental health issues, addiction issues, things like that. I think certain cases, we don't need somebody with a gun to show up that may not necessarily know how to de escalate or handle that situation.

So I think there's a lot of things that are necessary, and there's a lot of things that we need in order for us to start achieving some of that some of that equity. Like you said, think what she said is the most important is knowledge, right, you look at for myself. I'm the first person in my family to graduate from college, the first person in my family to be an entrepreneur. Not because my parents didn't is because they didn't know how to. You know, we're trying to

get equality, and most white people have equity. You know, we're just trying to figure out how to get equity. You know, we still have to face the fact that the banks won't lend us money. We still have to face the fact that, you know, they push us out our communities, buy our communities, then put our communities back together, and then charge us three times the rent. John America still have to give us what they oh, call you white friends and tell them that reparations is all to

the black community. And how would you like to see that Who do we make the check out to, first of all? And how would you like to see that done? Because that's really so here's part of the issue. Right, We're still in a position that you've got to sell that to the white community. So you've got two problems. Run the large portion of white people who think black people are responsible for that that it's that that poverty and crime is of poor virtue and culture. By the way,

wouldn't talk about white poverty that way. If you listen to them talk about the rust belt poverty, the factory workers, well, those they're victims of circumstance. Black people come on suck it up. So that's one perception that has to be changed. The second is resource guarding. So another large portion might think, well, my life's not that easy, and why do I always have to give up my resources to go to people when I didn't do anything wrong? So how do we

bridge that gap? And I think the answer is, Look, we're stuck in this trickle down theory of economics where one point five car tax go to people at the top, and we've tried it since the eighties and it doesn't work. The job generationally for us is a marshal plan at that scale of building infrastructure, of creating you will change welfare and fluss by bringing money back to the dignity

of work, taking it away from the investor class. The pendulum is swung to fall, and I think that black people have to be in charge of their rebuilding effort. It can't be the white people in the government step out and say, okay, we're going to give you an opportunity zone. This isn't about an opportunity zone. This is about black people building equity for themselves and for each

other and being funded by an infrastructure in investment. And you could take hundreds of billions of dollars in funding and technical support and turn around, you know, one hundred of the country's most disadvantaged communities like you can focus on, you know, disparities in early childhood schools, higher education, skills and training, employment, health and environmental conditions that you could

literally turn the hood around tomorrow and ownership. And then what I would say is to make sure that in those infrastructure investments that middle class white people are also reassured that these replarations aren't being taken from you, that it's an investment in rising up and creating a much stronger middle class throughout the country. But also making sure that they're reassured that resources will also be available for them.

It seems so crazy when there's problems, right and they say, okay, well we're going to cut a tree in dollar check to bring the economy back. And then we look at all our communities and said, you could have cut these checks file communities years ago if it was that easy to make the money that's right, and that's what three trillion, four trillion dollars in this pandemic and we don't even know where it went right the exactly. You know what

else you can do? You can you can you can increase access to capital um both debt and equity by supporting black owned banks, you know, because those black owned banks are going to make sure that, you know, people get your money for entrepreneurs, are school owners, education, your homeownersaire, all that. And I definitely feel like the marijuana business has to come back into the communities since so many people were sent to jail for marijuana convictions and lost

so much. I think all the money they're they're making for marijuana and they're going to make a percentage of that has to go towards these programs as well. And that's another great point answer because look, man, I truly believe in power black I'd be in jail because when I was growing up, I pulled, but it would do I was given a past. It was drugs and alcohol

and Shenanigan's vandalism. If you're trying to tell me that black kids in this country do more drugs and white kids, no, but white kids don't go to jail for it, right, because it's just the part of being a kid. Right, So we've criminalized being a teenager. So let's say we did do something like that. Play it out. Who runs it? Somebody like Obama, somebody like like you need a point person of Robert Smith, Ye, Robert Smith riches African American

in America. Why not start making this a concrete proposition and start putting names and numbers and things to it and realize that in a way that we haven't been able to do before. All right, we got more with John Stewart when we come back, don't move? Is the breakfast Club good morning ej Envy Angela Yee. Chalomagne, the guy we all the breakfast Club was still kicking in

with John Stewart. Chalomagne. You know that's an interesting as you say that, because I mean, you've got legislation passed and you got people paid with eleven billful of first respond is how difficult was the incredibly difficult and the strangest thing was it was most difficult to convince those that supposedly represent patriotism in this country the most. It was Republican leaders who never fail on nine to eleven

to tweet out, don't forget our heroes. But when you go to their office and go and man, I'm here with the heroes and three of them have staged four cancer and this guy's on an oxygen machine. So what about that? That's the New York problem. Well, you can't really prove that it came from that. So the government is set up to deny, to continue the status quo so that the money flows to the people that they believe helped entrench them in their positions. And that's where

it has to change. What it's going to take is tremendous will, but almost more importantly, tremendous stamina. It also takes you white men like you, who have privilege and power to admit that white supremacy exists, to admit that systemic racism exists. I do feel like what's hard about that for people is you get defensis. Nobody likes to be called on their especially when they feel like it's

not really there. Look when I started on The Daily Show, right pretty much an all white staff, mostly male, and people would call me out on various about it, and I would get defensive until I had to stop and think about it. You know, there was an article written there weren't enough women writers, and I was sexist, and I was like sexist. I was raised by a single mother. My mother wore a T shirt that says a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, and

I'm a man. I drew up in the house where I knew I wasn't and I've never gone back into the writer's room and saying, you believe they Kevin Steve like Bob. Now, we had had a policy that all submissions there'd be no names on it, right, because we thought that's the way to not be sexist or racist things. But we still kept just hiring white dudes. And what we realized is the river that we were getting the material from, the tributary was also polluted by the same inertia.

And you had to say to them, send me women, send me black people, And all of a sudden women got funny. But they've been funny all along. We had a writer of color. He and I got an argument. I did a bit about Herman Kinge where I adopted Herman Kane's accent, right, and to me is just his accent,

but to that writer is a racist bit. And he called me out in a meeting with everybody around, and I got defensive and got mad, and it took me a long time to realize that the real issue was that we hired a person who is black and that because then they felt like they're carrying the weight of representation. So they suddenly feel like I've got to be the speaker of a rick and that puts a pressure on them. That so we think we're doing the right thing, but

we're not doing it in the right way. And those were hard lessons for me, and they were humbling lessons. Here's another one, socioeconomic. The television business, the radio business. It's run by people from Westchester and Long Island, right, because the internships weren't paid, so interns would come in. And if you're going to hire somebody, where are you going to hire them from the people you've met already?

The intern The only people who could do internships had parents that were rich enough that could allow those kids to take a little time off of college, live in New York City and do that job. So the whole thing is needed with inertia. And I don't consider myself malevolent, but my ignorance of that dynamic had real consequences. But she was willing to learn, though I honestly think that

most people are willing to learn. It's getting over the defensiveness to realize you're not being called racist or like or maybe you are or not giving so much of a ship that somebody might call you that, and be willing to say, like, we all have blind spots, and we still have blind spots. I know I do. But for us to dismantle the entrenched tributaries that continue to contribute to any quality of outcome of equity, it takes effort. Yeah, it's all got to be intentional. Men got to be

intentional when it comes to women. White people got to be intentional when it comes to black people's great people got to be intentional when it comes to gay people. We got to be intentional about it. I think that's the perfect encapsulation of it. I got a couple more questions about the Daily Show. You. I saw what you said. You regret the Daily Show's involvement in the evasporation, expectation, inviseration, I'm sorry, inviseration. Sometimes we'd have someone on, like like

Jim Cramer or something like that. It's what they would call good television, so that blows up on the on the internet or whatever. I don't regret that moment, but what I regret is sometimes you get in the mindset of creating those moments, those moments that weren't authentic. Yeah, it's like you're it's like you're your people pleasing too much. Like instead of going in there and doing what's natural, you want to do what you just saw work. So you want to do that again. Yeah, that happens. It

happens to Radio two. And then the second thing I think that's important to do, and this is the hardest one, is to give yourself. Right. For giving yourself is the key to getting over your own defensiveness and imperfections, like I had to learn and to forgive myself for being wrong in situations and that hurting people and not wanting them. But we have to be able to start having the

honest conversations because it's like everything else. You don't fix something if you don't get to what's really the cancer at the bottom of it. For a period of time, people that you were going to come back. Are you enjoying this behind the scenes more though? Law? You know, look at this face. This face was young man. I'm

aging like a guacamole president President of America. I feel like I took that conversation as far as I could take it for my own thing, and that show deserved and that audience deserved somebody who was going to bring a different perspective and an enthusiasm and an insight that I can't bring. And I think we've seen that play out. You know, to me, diversity is still technology, you know what I mean. It's like an old person when they

get a smartphone. It's new and I can work it, but it's not my kids when they get on the phone. It just is Trevor in this moment, just is yeah, and I still have to work. And I don't say that in the way of like white guilt. I don't mean it like that. I mean I didn't see the whole field, and by not seeing the whole field well enough, I wasn't able to make the kinds of changes that I should have made at the speed and depths I should have made them. Wow, we're always not going to

get it right, you know. And that's what therapy is for. That's exactly what it's for. Appreciate it. You have to tell us why the title is irresistible. Why is that relevant to the plot of the film, Because sometimes you can trap somebody with date, with lure that you know would be irresistible to them, that when you see how somebody views the world through that prism of conflict and left versus right and rural versus city, you can lay out something for them date that you know they're gonna take.

We would take debate every time. Holy don't just hit me. Did that goddamn pastry represent that in the movie? Boom, Okay, got you, got you, got you, got you, got you, got you, got you. I'm getting fat, got you, got you, got you got you And even when he now, I'm not gonna give it away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brilliant movie, John Stewart, brilliant movie. Man. Thank you for calling in and checking in and you know, stay up with us sometimes,

you know. Absolutely, guys, thank you so much for the conversation. I really appreciate it. Appreciate it. All right, it's John Stewart. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I think everybody is ch Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Eminem about report. This is the rumor report Angela Ye fun

the Breakfast Club. Yes, so an old version of a song Conway the Machines Bang from twenty nineteen has leaked out and it has Eminem's original feature and he's going in on Revolt and Joe Button. He jes had out Puffy Combs. Listen to this. Shut the puffy calls, but fu revote. Y'all are like a funk up remote. Now I get it while buttons broke because you press them. But he don't do nothing, No, especially when it comes

to Punch's throwing smoke. So the brunning roll. Take another boss that is clipping in al because all you're gonna get is an al smoke coming approach. So we don't got nothing in common, not even though he's got cold and he's an issue with it comes to blows. We used to teach each other's journal. Let's kick to the stuff. He knows. It's like always learning me goes all right, Well, there's no secret that Eminem is not a big fan of Joe Button. Yeah, well, I revolte catches Tree. I

think because state of the Coaches. I'm revolte see state, say stated the coaching say a black owned the whole TV network just because you're mad at what personality. It's a bad time people saying. People don't say F Power one oh five or after breakfast Club, they might say F Charlemagne. They do say after breakfast club. Yeah, they do, because you'll be doing y'all y'all be y'all be owning y'all own smoke. Though y'all y'all gone y'all own smokes.

Sometimes they're saying bad things that we had nothing, Like if I'm not even here for a day, they'll be like, F the Breakfast Club. I'm like, I wasn't even there. I'll take it. Yeah, I mean it is what it is that he gave it to the whole network because he doesn't like Joe Button Ma. I mean that means Effre me ma after Breakfast Club and K Williams F

no Orion drink Champs. Did he so F vote is the staff record label and mother Effre crew And you gotta think, yeah, wash a little button, GETU the skin like that so much? Though, um, I guess probably because the record he was signed. Yeah, it's old, but I think it's you know, because of what Joe Button said about him, and he probably feels like I thought it was cool. I you know, he was signed to the label,

and he probably feels like he was betrayed. All right, Little Yadi crashed his Ferrari on a freeway in Atlanta after hydroplaning. How scary is that? So they said it. Fortunately he was able to walk away with just minor injuries to his arm and that's it. So that's the most important thing. We're not sure what's gonna happen with that Ferrari, but they're saying it's totaled. Yeah, it's totals eight. Spider ferraris about I would say, knew about three hundred

and thirty thousand dollars. But he has his life. That's the only thing that matters. He has his life. He walked away alive, thank god. That's right, all right, all right. Jimmy Kimmel has announced that he is going on vacation, and that is after a lot of controversies has been happening, like this blackface sketch that resurfaced where he's playing kar Malone on comedy centrals. The Man's Show. Listen to this sometime a night call old look up in sky and

say what the hell going on up there? UFO Live on other planet, folding hole like et Kamalo Rido TV about white people getting deducted by alien sticking all kind of hell up big and that's a damn thing. Now. In addition to that, they've been circulating this clip of an interview that he did back in two thousand and nine with Megan Fox, where she was recalling an experience with director Michael Bay from when she was a teenager and she was working as an extra on Bad Boys Too.

She said, she was only fifteen years old, and here's what happened. I had just turned fifteen, and I was an extra and Bad Boys Too, really and yeah, they were shooting this club scene and they brought me in and I was wearing a stars and striped bikini and a red cowboy hat and like six and sheels and he approved it and they said, you know, Michael, she's fifteen, so you can't sit her at the bar and she

can't have a drink in her hand. So his solution to that was to then have me dancing underneath the waterfall, getting soaking wet. That's sort of a microcosm of how Bay's mind work. Yeah, well, yeah, well that's really a microcosm of how all our minds works. But some of us have the decency to repress those facts and pretend that they don't exist. Yeah, Jimmy, that shouldn't have been

a week. That should have been some men's thoughts. But if you felt that way, you know, he said it honest dead wrong, But honest, we really need to have a broader discussion about all of this, because everybody has the right to be offended. Everybody had the right to be upset. But I have an issue with retroactive outrage, retroactive punishments for things that were already public, because if it was public, that means it was appropriate at the time.

The context of time matters, because the eighties and nineties and early two thousands was a wild ass, feel fory ass time. If you sit at home and watch some of those old movies, TV shows, listen to old music, you will absolutely say, how the hell did we get away with some of this stuff? And if you didn't grow up in that era, and when you look back and taking some of that content, yeah, you're probably gonna be a Paul. I'm sure you will. Be, but it

was a different from a world back then. When I say, we are in a whole new world from where we were as far as censorship and pushing things to the edge, we are in a whole new world. I think people want. Tommy came out to address it, though, like Jimmy Fallon addressed his black face sketch that he did of Chris Rock and said he made a terrible decision and he was sorry for making that offensive decision at the time, and he said, thank you all of you for holding

me accountable. So the only problem a problem with that is is you know, these people are what were hurt by it, and even though that that they were hurt by it back then, maybe they didn't get the apology that they wanted back then. So now that it comes back out now, they could be getting the apology that they need it back then, you know what I mean, It's okay to acknowledge and behavior. Yo. Some of these

people probably weren't even born back then. And if you're gonna I also think if they're gonna do those retroactive punishments, you gotta punish everyone involved, not just the individual. You gotta punish the producers, the writers, the standards and practices, anybody that green lit those things. But I don't think

it should be punishments. It should be a conversation about conversation, right, how coaches shifted and yes, you're right, he should acknowledge that that was wrong, right, and how that shouldn't continue moving forward. But we need to have a conversation about context and how culture shifted, because boy, when they start digging into the eighties, nineties and early two thousands, it's going to be a lot of apologies. Well, I don't think Jimmy Kimmel's not being punished. He's taking a break

from the show. And here's what he had to say about taking a break. Tonight is my last new show for the summer. I'm taking the summer off to spend even more time with my family. I've been doing this job for almost eighteen years. I've done three thousand, one hundred thirty shows, and there's nothing wrong. My family is healthy, I'm healthy. I just need a couple of months off, right. So he's decided to take a break just to be

with family. He said he needs a couple of months off, and all these things have been surfacing, So that's what it is. I mean, it's not like he's got punished or lost his job, right, Yeah, I still think it needs to be a broader conversation, not just with Kimmel, but just the whole context of the eighties, nineties, in early two thousands, it was a totally different world because you see what happened to Jimmy Fowling, You see what

happened to Howard Stern. You see what happens you know, well, we haven't seen it happen in hip hop yet as far as like the content of that music. But I mean, if you think about the movies, the TV shows, like, it's just we should have a context about how culture

is shifted. But you know what the thing is when it does affect people like Megan Fox was trending yesterday, right, and if you know the full story of what happened to her, she basically kind of got black ball from the business because Michael Bay was saying that she's terrible to work with. He calls her an unfriendly bitch, he

said she's a porn star. He called Hi Miss hour Pads dumb as a rock, and he said when facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer tress and posing like a porn star, and yes, we've had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes it's very cringeable. So maybe being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But makeup be where she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside, probably due to her rotten childhood. Easily another

forty five minutes in the chair. So that was a letter that Michael Bay actually wrote, an open letter. And so I think when things like that can affect people's career later on in the future. Because Megan Fox is traumatized by certain things that happened to her, and she even said it on her own social media post, you know that there are people that she feels like need to be held accountable. Yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about content, but anyway, I'm Angela Yee and that

is your rumor report. It was a public letter that he wrote about Megan I'm talking. I'm just yeah, but I'm just talking about content, and I wasn't talking about Megan Fox. I'm talking about the content that people put out. All right, Well, who are you giving your donkey too? Bro? Four after the hour, we need to have a conversation about you know, this disease on this planet that has just caused nothing but havoc on this planet since day one, and that is old white Man. We'll discuss four after

the hour. All right, we'll get into that next keeping lock this to breakfast club. Good morning, Donkey, Donkey Today for Tuesday, June twenty third goes to a Laney College professor in Oakland named Matthew Hubbard. Matthew, I don't know you, but you made this weird. Okay, you made this awkward. I would think that when you are a teacher, professor, your job is to make kids comfortable. I don't care

if it's college or grade school. Kids have insecurities. Everyone is trying to do their best, and you should encourage that, okay. But instead you are the adult who wants to make things awkward okay for kids and magnify whatever in the issues these young adults may have. Now, Laney College has put Matthew Hubbard on leave because he asked the kid to change their name. In fact, he told the student anglicize their name. That means to make your name English.

And the reason Matthew told this student to change their name is because Matthew said it sounded like an insult in English. In fact, on the second day of class, Matthew sent an email to the student asking her verbatim to anglicize her name because it sounds like an insult in English. Oh the call Cassidy what. A student told CNA she was shocked and felt disrespected by the email, as she should have been, and that the professor had never seen her before or asked her how to pronounce

her name. The student replied back and told Matthew his requests felt discriminatory and warned him she would file a complaint if he did not refer to her by her birth name. He responded by saying her name an English sounds like an insult, and then Matthew replied, if I lived in Vietnam and my name in your language sounded like Eda Dick Gregory, I would change it to avoid embarrassment. He also then repeated his request for her to change

her name in his reply. Now Laney College President to mel Gilkerson said in a statement on Thursday that the college was aware of the allegations of racists and zena big messages from a faculty member at our college with a student about the pronunciation of their name. We take these allegations seriously and immediately placed the faculty member on administrative leave pending an investigation. Matthew Hubbard told The New York Times, the first email was a mistake, and I

made it thinking about another student willing to anglicize. But it is a big difference with someone doing it voluntarily and asking and asking someone to do it. The second email is very offensive, and if I had waited eight hours, I would have written something very different. This is exactly why historically we call old white men the devil. Okay, this is why nobody likes old white men. Okay, Guys like this give every old white man a bad name.

This is a classic case of whiteness. Okay, old white men can't help but to be racist, because when you are old white male, you have always benefited from the power that comes with privilege. Okay, the patriarchy is in your blood. Okay, it's in your blood to get a marginal lines person to change their name, because, Matthew, your ancestors with slave masters, and a slave name is the person to name given by others to an enslaved person.

Our name inherited from enslaved ancestors, so you just couldn't help yourself. You wanted this young woman to change her name because you thought it sounded like an insult. Who the hell are you, white man? Okay, go trim your earheads and leave people to hell alone. Now I know you're wondering, what is this young woman's name? Okay? What what about this young woman's name? Did this old white

man find so insulting? I would like to know myself, So let's go to ABC seven for the report police the Asian American Lady College freshman who was told by her professor via email to change her name to sound more anglicized. Math professor Matthew Hubbard says in emails to the student footboy Dan Winn, that her name sounded like the F word and asked her to change it now. When she declined, citing discrimination, he refused to use her

given name. Hubbert declined multiple requests for an interview, but tweeted an apology to Win, whose family confirms he sent an email to her as well. Hubbert has been placed on an administrative leave and Laney College is investigating. I don't hear it. What's insulting about her name. Drum isolate her name from me. I need to know what I'm missing because I don't hear it. Play fuckboy dn win No. I just I don't get it. Played played again, fuck

boy dn win Nope. Matthew Hubbart is just being a racist xenophoe who needs to mind his business and ignore what his ancestors they're telling him to do. Put her name in HD so I can hear it. Maybe I'm missing something because I don't hear it. Fuckboy dn win No, I don't get it, but I do know that this student released a great statement. She says she felt empowered not to change her name at his insistence. She says she decided to fully embrace it and let everyone know

that they should be proud of their name. She is a proud fuck boy Okay, and I salute her all right, she says, through this incident, she has been able to raise awareness. So what's happening and it's helped others be proud of their culture Okay and identity drop one of clues bombs for food boys everywhere? Damn it. Okay. He's also still waiting on a sincere and professional apology from mister Hubbard, Well, one thing you will learn in life, foot boy, is that the white man never gives those Okay,

we're still waiting on them. My bad about slavery, so get in line. In the meantime, please let Kathy Griffin give Matthew Hubbard the credit he deserves for being stupid. Please give this giant Jarro male the biggest Hea Hall. White people are crazy, O God. All right, well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Now up next, John Legend will be joining us. We'll kick it with John Legend when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Pj Envy Angela yee,

Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line right now. Just had a great Father's day, I should say, in Father's Day Sunday, John Legend. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, good morning, Well, how was your How was your father's day? How was that? Father's Day? Was good? Christie surprised me. She had a catered dinner in the backyard just for me, and she cheated me like a king. It was nice. What is it like to release an album? In this time in

these days. Well it's different. You know. We used to being out like we used to going out the Loute promotion, so everything is different, but we're making it work. Can you put out music that doesn't that isn't a soundtrack for what's going on right now? Though? Yeah, you know I thought about that because I was writing it before all this stuff happened. I wrote it mostly in twenty nineteen.

I wrote a few joints, like in January and February of this year, and then I was done writing, and I felt like I had a dope album by you know, beginning of March, and and soon as March comes around, everybody's on lockdown and the whole world change. So the question is do you scrap all of that and try to make something that's right in this moment, or do you get people what you've made, you know, which is what I made. It was an album that's more loving

and joyful and hopeful. I think it was great marketing to actually do the verses on the same day that the album came out. It makes perfect sense because yeah, I mean, it's been clear that every every versus has been good for the artists, you know, just to. You know, a lot of the artists, you know, haven't been making a lot of new music, so it brought them back to people's attention. And Alicia, we're kind of different because we're still making music these days and still making releases

and all this stuff. But most of my verses I spent, you know, educating people on what I had done in the past, you know, many years ago. Some of the stuff I played was from nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and three, you know, just letting people know that I was behind the scenes doing my thing. Even before you first heard Get Lifted. Yeah, I didn't know that you was on Everything Is Everything? Yeah, that was the first record I ever played on. How Lauren find Who? How

did that come about? So there was a girl named Tera Michelle. I was directing this church choir while I was in college, so part of the way I paid for like my experienses in schools, I was the director of music at this church and one of the choir members was a girl who had gone to school with Lauren Hill. And she was like, I'm about to go

to the studio. She's working on her solo album. Do you want to come to the studio with me, and so I was this studio with her and just chilling literally not trying to get in the way, you know. She was like, John, won't you played a couple of songs for her because I want her to hear you know what you can do. And so I played one of my own songs, a song called too Late, and then I played a Stevie Wonders song and then she's like one of Lauren was like, why don't you play

on this record we're working on now? So I played piano on the record and that was the first major recording and a partum. Wow did you do it for free? I got five hundred dollars and my name is in the credit on a classic album exactly, I was. I was very happy with that. That's all I needed. Now, let's talk about the versus bat a little bit, because obviously you and Alicia Keys have worked together. You guys

are friends. So how did y'all even decide? Because I know you both had been talking about it for quite some time and we kind of had a feeling it was going to happen. So what solidified that? Well, I was doing radio for my new music, and I think I was talking to Nick Cannon and he was like, well, who would you who would you do a versus me? And I was like, I feel like the one that would make the most sense will be Alicia Keys And I said, in fact, I think we should play it live.

You know. I was like, you know, do some of the songs on the piano, piano to piano. UM. Swizz and Alicia saw it, and and uh, Swizz hit me up. He called me and then we talked about it, and and that was it. I was like, my bad for calling your wife out in public, but you know it would be good, so let's let's good. And uh, everybody was into it. And we knew from the beginning that it was all love because we really respect each other, and uh, we just wanted it to be a celebration.

What did y'all say about What did you say about Teddy Raley's Wifeire you said something because Teddy Raley was like John Legend is old jokes? What did you say about Teddy Wholey's wildfire? Y'all gotta leave Teddy Raley alone? Man, I just I just when I had a technical moment because of the track wasn't playing properly. I don't want to do a Teddy Raley here, all of just playing

with him. You know, I love Teddy and uh he had had We had a rough time getting it together sometimes for the for the Bird's Battle, but I think Swizz and everybody have worked it out so everybody, you know, everybody's technical aspect of a little more on point now and they had a set up so there were no major problems. I know it was all love, but who one? Who do you think one? Because I'm not gonna lie.

I picked Alicia to watch you. I picked the Leisia not because you're not super talented, John, but just Alicia got a lot of records. Alicia has a lot of records. I think she has more solo hits than I have. But I think what I was able to show people was I was doing records that they didn't even know I was a part of. And I think that's what the cool thing about Versus is is you could show

people behind the scenes work you did as well. And so I think, you know, people are gonna judge what they were to judge, and so you let the people decide. But I thought it was fairly even, and I loved our collaborations. I just thought it was a good night for music. It was it was dope looking back out there. Some songs you're like, man, I missed this one, or I should have played this one. Also not really, Honestly,

I felt like I played the right song. There's like one or two that were on the bubble for me that I could have played one or the other, but I didn't feel like it would have made a big difference. I feel like the I picked the right joint. Listen, John, let's talk about the new album You Got Bigger Love. What does that phrase mean to you? It's uh, well, the album is joyful. It is full of love and songs about you know, um, resilience and hope and just

making it work through all the challenges. I was gonna ask you with Chrissy, I see y'all play a lot. Does it ever go too far? Black Baby? You're going too far. You called me, you call me that name, and enough is enough. You can't be calling me names like that. She calls you, she calls she calls you a bitch a lot, John, Gee, she does not call

me a bit a lot. Talking about when when she was when she was mad about the song lyric as she she said bitch to me and come on now, you can't say it to her though, Let's be clear, it's a whole another story. But that that is not a that is not a normal part of our conversation, not even in the bedroom. If y'all getting spicy, No, no, never, like she's never like, yeah, bitch. I was gonna talk about the album. I was gonna say, I like how you started it off with a nice little throwback to

duop sounds. I thought that was really sweet, So, well, what made you decide to do that? Well, that's all Oakfelder produced, And when we talked about he was like, we should do a song where duop meets trap, and so we got some a oas. We got the duop vocals that I Only have Eyes for You sample in first. It's just a perfect track to open up the album. It's fresh, it feels good, it's sexy, and it's a beautiful beginning to the album. All right, we got more

with John Legend when we come back, Don't Move. It's to Breakfast Club. Good Morning Morning, everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we all the Breakfast Club was still kicking with John legend Charlomagne. You know, in early June, John you said your friendship with Kanye West has evolved? What what? What? What? What does that mean? Well, I was just saying we're in a different place now because I'm not I had a five album deal with Good Music and that deals. Uh, so we don't have

a direct business relationship anymore. And then, um, he's up in my only most of the time and we're still cool, but we just don't see each other that much for work or you know, we're not living in the same place. Yeah. They was trying to make it about your politics being so different. Yeah, and our politics have been different for a while now, and that that is what it is. As you can tell from my boys. I'm not shy about, you know, being proud of the work we did together,

because we did some great work together. Absolutely, you think you could become friends with somebody now who's a Trump supporter, Like if you think you would be like real cool with somebody who's a huge Trump supporter, Um, I mean a new friend. It'd be different to make a new friend that somebody like me and Kanye got so much history. It's like you don't just get rid of a friendship because of but start anew and I don't know have

y'all ever gotten not from the secret service? Y'all be going hard on Twitter sometimes, Well, y'all used to We never threatened his life. We never said anything about his you know, anything about his life. We just just just uh demeans his character because he has no no character. Yeah, now your wife has definitely called the president of bitch. Oh yeah, bitch. When you when your when your five album deal was up, I'm sure they made a play

to resign you, right. No, you know, when you're signed to produce your production company at that point in your career, you're like, you're just like you're in a different power position at that point in your career. And partly due to the fact that Kanye helped blow me up, I was in a position where I didn't have to sign to anybody's production company. I could just do my own deal. Um, So you know, there was never any doubts that I would just sign my own deal after that five albums

was up. But like I said, I wouldn't be where I am without doing that deal with Kanye. So I'm having no regrets. What do you what is your thoughts on the word urban now that they're not going to use that at the Grammys anymore. You know, I just felt like urban was it was like talking around what you were trying to say. I didn't think it was racist or anything. I just always thought it was like kind of saying what you were trying to say, but not really saying it. Using urban as a as a

replacement for flat just always felt imprecise to me. So I feel like, just call it what it is. If it's black music, you call and it, just call it black music. If it's R and B or a soul or reggae or any other our music that we made hip hop, call it what it is. It's this love of blackness that we're seeing from these corporations and music industry. Do you think it's gonna last? You think it's just a trend? Well, I think some of it it's just

a trend um. I think everybody's feeling the pressure right now because people are protesting, people are seeing you know, horrific videos, are people getting suffocated in the streets and all that. So there is clear outrage and there's clear there's a clear moment where people are really paying attention to black lives I feel like some of these companies will do these little statements and do these little Instagram posts or whatever, and then go about their regular business.

But hopefully some of them will actually change. And to me, change looks like actually hiring black people and other people of color having their voices heard in the executives week. We need to see like actual inclusion inside the places where the decisions are being made, where the budgets are being determined and the money is being spent, not in an Instagram post. So how do we make that happen? Though? Because you know, I believe hope is not a strategy.

You believe hope is a strategy. Hope is the fuel, I think, part of the fuel you use to get the work done, because hope means you believe that if I keep working at something, we'll get it done. And so I think we still have to keep pressuring these companies, the governments, all of them, to do the right thing. And that requires tenacity, it requires vigilance, it requires transparency, data,

all these things. Hope it's part of it. If you look at what the activists, you know, people that started Black Lives Matter, and you know other organizations have been doing. They've been actually working on this stuff, you know, when nobody's really paying attention, and so they were ready for this moment. And so that means we have to stay vigilant. We have to continue to organize and be activists and speak up. And it's not a big moment like this.

We've seen you guys give a couple of hundred thousand to the protests that were locked up to make sure that their lawyers and bail were taken care of. Yeah, we gave a bail fund. We also gave to the Movement for Black Lives and then I always give to other organizations that are supporting ending mass criminalization, massive carceration, and that's an ongoing thing for us and for me particularly. Have you ever had any rats with the police yourself? Personally,

I have had running. We've nothing termed violent, but like when I was in college, they would just stop me for no reason. It's just having to prove that we're not a criminal. It gets frustrating sometimes and you can understand why sometimes brothers will resist because it's like it's ongoing indignity of having to prove that you should in the places where you exist, and that You're not a threat,

and I've definitely had to deal with it myself. Y'all go ask how this quarantine slowed things down at your TV, your TV and film production company. You got a very successful production company. I don't know, people know, Yeah, get lifted. Um. We've been putting out some great stuff. We were co produced on the Specialist Night. We produced a documentary that series that was on HBO called Atlanta's Missing and Murdered about the Atlanta child murders. And we have some great

stuff that we're working on. We have We were going to start Rhythm and Flow a little earlier this year, but we've had to push that back a little bit because we have season two of Rhythm and Flow coming soon as soon as we can get all the production happening. So you know, some things were delayed, but we're still moving and we're still excited about what we have going.

Of course, Sherman's Showcase was our comedy music show that we did a Black History months in June special that aired on Friday as well, and then we just got announced that we got picked up for season two for that, so we're excited about that. So we got a lot of things happening, and I'm excited to all the work. What happened to the Black Wall screen project with Tika Something, because now I see like it's like three Black Wall

screed documentaries coming out. What happened with that exactly? We were just talking about that with Hulu because we had originally planned to do it with Hulu and then it didn't get picked up, and we literally just wrote the email to our exact same who were like, yo, y'all got to pick us up. This is very relevant right now and it needs to be told, and so we're gonna try to resuscitate that. Did Hulu reply? We got

a nice reply. We got nice when I emailed somebody, they reply yeah, okay, okay, okay, they want to work all right, Well, thank you John Legend for checking in. We appreciate you. Your albums out right now, Big a Love, Yes, Yes, thank you for joining us, brother, thank you all right here, it's the Breakfast Club. It's John Legend, the Breakfast Club. She's filling the team. This is the rumor report with

Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, NBC Universal is removing four episodes of thirty Rock from streaming services and syndication because characters had black face. Now they remove these at the request of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, who are the show's co creators. Tina Fey released a statement, as we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in a race changing makeup are best

taken out of circulation. I understand now that intent is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy loving kidneys to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness. I think NBC Universal for honoring

this request. And there you have it. And we've already told you about Gone with the Wind being removed from HBO Max, and they're going to return that to the streaming services with a disclaimer about historical context as well. All right, Blake Griffin has recalled experiencing racism in a high school and you kind of look back and be like, oh, that was pretty racist. This was an episode of arm Chair Expert with Dak Shepherd as the host. And listen

to this. So my parents did a really, really, really good job of just rising above it. And so there's situations that my brother and back now and we're like, oh wow, that was like that was racist, you know what I mean? Like where because my parents didn't give it the power, it didn't affect us either, which I didn't realize what was happening at the time. But remember girls in like high school saying, oh, I like you, I like you thaying and they're like, I like you too,

but like I can't, I can never date you. I'm like, you're like why, Like my dad will let me. He's right, I'm sure everybody has had those experiences. Hell, it's been If you read uh Bobby Brown's book, Janet Jackson wouldn't bring Bobby Brown home because she said Joe wouldn't want her to bring a black man home. What happens, Yeah, Blake Griffin. His mother's white, his father is black. And this was while growing up in Oklahoma. So I have mercy,

all right. Fortnite has has removed cop cars from their game amid police protests. So the Shooter Survivra video game has removed those cars, and they were you know. Fortnite obviously is a super popular game. Even I played Fortnite at some point. Now players never used the police vehicles. They were just for decoration. So this just remove those from the game period. What why? That's getting kind of crazy, getting kind of ridiculous, like like what's next. You're gonna

cancel Paul Patrol? No, they better not. They definitely gonna cancel Paul Patrol. They better not. If they know what I know, they better not. It's only a matter of time. Well let's do us. Told the Wall Street Journal, I wouldn't say it's a political statement. I think it's just as being sensitive about the issues many people in our audience are dealing with. You need some sort of law enforcement. Though, you need some sort of law enforcement. You just can't

have uh no police officers. It'll be anarchy in these streets. Like if somebody breaking into your house right now, who are you gonna call ghostbusters? No, you're gonna call a goddamn police. Okay, So so you need some type of law and order. You just need you just need a better form of law and order. The police need a reform. And I hate people that say, no, it ain't cooling. Who are you gonna call him? Who you're gonna call somebody? Breaking Houn. Call stop, it's a damn lie, stop all right.

Singer Marie says that he recalls being stopped by Miami police, and he said he was held at gunpoint until a female officer recognized him. Now, he said, three months ago, he was driving in Miami with a friend who has a license to carry a can seal gun, and his friend got into an argument with another man. He said, my friend pulled out a gun and so did the other guy, so I got out to defuse the situation. He said he managed to calm everyone down. The other

guy with the gun eventually left. He said, my boy got in his car, he put his gun in the armrest, and then he went to his building to use the bathroom and left the gun. But Mario said he didn't realize somebody had called the police. They had witnessed the altercation called the police. He said, two cops came up

to the car with their guns drawn, shouting. He said, I forgot about the gun that was in the arm wrest, and when they asked me if there were any guns in the car, said no, there's no guns in the car. The officers then told him not to move and he put his hands up and the cops said, there's a gun right there. Why did you lie to me? And he was trying to explain. But then that's when the woman who was a cop appeared and said, wait, aren't to Mario and he was like yeah, and he told them,

don't shoot. And so he said he did experience racism, but he says, I've also experienced privilege as an artist. As an artist, I would say we do have privilege, whether it's sports, entertainment. We see power in all these different spaces. But with that also comes privilege. Oh yeah, he's right. Yeah. Dave Chappelle talked about it getting pulled over and the cop was like, oh, you're Dave Chappelle. Will know who you are. That's the fact, all right.

Nicki Minaj has congratulated the barbs because Trolls is number one on Billboard's Hot one hundred Songs chart this week. Here's what you had to say. Y'all did this with no playlist thing and no radio so for us to do that debuting, that's insane. So I love you guys so much. We just did the highest pure sales of the year. So yeah. The one thing she does want to get off her chest though, is things that have been going on in this industry for just way too

long as well. Yeah, like them, love them going number one with no radio play and no real support. That's that's big congratulations to them. All right. Well I'm Angela ye, and that is your room of report. All right, thank you, miss Eye. Now we'll see you guys in a little bit. Shout to revote everybody else to People's Choice mixes up next eight hundred five eight five one on five one, pull us up with your request. It's Memphis Bleak's birthday too, so I'm gonna get some Bleak on in the mix site.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning putting. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now we got a shout to the John's for joining us this morning, John Legend and John Stewart. Yes, salute to John Stewart and John Legend. Irresistible. I enjoyed it. I saw some bad reviews for it, but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I think that it's a good way to make people understand where we're at an American politics

in a very entertaining way. So if I think it comes out this weekend, so check it out if you if you get a chance to. All right, all right, all right, when we come back. We got the positive notes, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is d D j Envy and Jela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. Now, um, you guys be safe out there, supposed to be a beautiful day.

I ain't gon front. I ain't seeing nobody's social distance. Bro, I ain't seeing nobody doing what they're supposed to be doing. People are out about I don't know some days over. First of all, it's summertime. You know, the weather is nice. People want to be out. They've been cooped up for the past three months. It's gonna be very hard to give people the social distance in the summertime, very hard. But yeah, people are out. You wear your mask. I've

seen people playing baseball yesterday. They were playing basketball in the parks. I'm like, man, it's a rapp Let's make sure you wear your mask. That's all. You got A positive note, yes, man. The positive note is simply this. I trust the process of life. There's a rhythm and flow to life, and I am part of it. Life supports me and brings to me only good and positive experiences. I trust the process of life to live to bring me my highest good Breakfast club, you know, I finish for y'all.