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breakfast Club. Good morning, Usa 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 angela ye, good morning. He's any yoomage and the guy piece to the plane it is tuesday, Yes, it's tuesday. Was happening, good morning. I was just thinking last week, Hennessy sent me some flowers. What happened to them? I told you we were gonna regivet them. You what happened to my flower? I didn't.

I didn't know. One even took a picture. Sentence to me. I don't know what they looked like. Picture the car sent you a picture. The card. I second, I get a picture of the actual flowers. Somebody might have don them out though they might have somebody took them by it if if when it was that? What day it was that last week? Thursday? Yeah, so over the weekend they probably was all rotten and stuff. My pride throw them by. You was here yesterday? Yeah, was here yesterday,

thrown away over the weekend, custodians. What all right? Thanks guys. I'm gonna get a picture to see what they look like. Sent you picture to car so you know what it was the card. I wanted to see the flowers. They were beautiful, Thank you. They were. They smelled great for the moment, Yeah, all right, anything else I thought get it off your chests was after front page new I guess we're starting early, okay, Well, Kevin Hart will be joining us this morning. My god, Kevin Hart. How I

missed Kevin Hart yesterday? Man, he's sell in Budapest. He has a movie coming out on Netflix, Fatherhood, this Friday. That's right, so we're gonna be kicking it with Kevin Hart. That guy never stops. Never, Nope. When when you talk about people having a bunch of irons in the fire, he has a bunch of irons in the fire. You know, Father's Day is on Sunday. Yeah, nobody cares about us. We just out here, you know what I mean. We're lucky if we get a happy Father's Day, maybe a car.

I'm not gonna lie. I thought I missed it. I was. However, I'm talking about nobody cares about all jobs. Did we just hate to protect and provide? I mean, that's fine, you know. I hate that. I try to buy my father nice things every year and he never uses them. Like I bought him some like brand new nice sweatsuits, who matching sneakers. All he does is with these old promo t shirts. He refuses to wear things that I get him. I got him a Gucci wallet. He won't

use it. He uses his old wallet with a rubber band tied around. He knows what's in that wallet. He knows that rubber band keeps his wallet closed and safe, so he's good. He used that car about him, though, and he said that was too expensive. He really didn't want that. He brought it something a lot less. You know. The truth to the matter is, fathers really don't want anything, you know what I mean, Like I just like to know that I'm loved. I like to know that I'm valued.

I like to know that I'm appreciated. There's nothing I really truly want, that's the truth. Though I got. I got a beautiful wife, I got three beautiful daughters, I don't really I don't. I got everything I want. I really don't want. There's nothing I want. It's not about what you want though. It's a gift. That's why I like to get people gifts that they wouldn't get themselves. I think that's a great gift, Like I would have never bought this for myself. Thank you. It's like a splurr.

But what if I don't. I mean, what if I get it and I'm like thank you, But then I really don't seem no use for it. It's true. Now, it's a hard one because I mean anything that I want to get myself. So it's like it's words, it's nothing. You know, I don't really need anything. Give me a little peace. But then I don't want to hear y'all complaining about five this day. Y'all don't want nothing. Well, I just complained about it. I just complain about the

fact that you know, nobody really truly can nobody? Can? You know what I mean? Maybe it's allfall Maybe it's the energy we put out out. We don't want nothing, we don't care about, so we get it back. I don't know. I just try to offer all kinds of things, nice things. Say nothing but a bunch of stuff your daddy, don't they They didn't want to say he didn't want it. I'm just saying that he continues to wear these beat up old clothes. Maybe likes I will say that I

don't mind. I wouldn't mind a good sweatshu, That's what I'm saying. Sweats Is it like NICs and easy to wear? You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm cool with a good sweacher. I'm not gonna lie morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news. The NBA to Hawks beat the seventy sixes last night one h three, one hundred, Great game tied to two. Great game that was Clippers

beat the Jutah Jazz one eighteen one on four. They tied that series two two, and tonight the Bucks take on Nets at eight thirty. I told y'all Bucks in seven. The way it's looking right now, Bucks in six. But I'm gonna still stick the Bucks in seven because I feel like Kevin Durant can have one monstrous game and and and have have some help from his supporting cast and maybe pull one out. Maybe maybe to pull one tonight. Did they say when James Harden or Carriage Jamie Carry

not playing Game five? Both of them all right now? Dispute over a mask on Monday at a grocery store led to a shootout that left an employee dead and two people, including a sheriff's deputy, injured. The suspect entered the Big Bears supermarket that was indicator and there was

an argument with the cashier over a mask. They gave a few details about the argument, but said the whole thing was over a face mask, and suspect then shot the employ employee and she died from her injuries, and then a reserve deputy working security at the store fired at the suspect to return fire. Both were injured and taken to local hospitals. All these stories of people doing too much just escalated. You told one story, or somebody doing too much then told another story, or somebody doing

too much anything else. Did y'all see the video or the what was it the guard at Linux More getting shot? Yeah, two fifteen year olds or a boy and a girl shot the security guard at Linux moll when he was dressed in all black and he had the gun put on my side. How crazy is that? Man? This they're saying that this year is um Last year was a lot of shootings, but they're saying this year is already outpacing last year because people first in decades are starving.

They've been they've they've been hurting financially for a year and some change, and they out here in these creets. I was in Miami this weekend and I had like people running up on me saying, you got to do something in Miami to talk to these kids. These kids are getting these PPP loans and investing in hits on folks. I was like Jesus Christ, all right. Well, speaking of that, they're saying this is the summer of quitting, and a lot of people are quitting their jobs and not coming

back to the office. So they said more than three point nine million people quit in April, and that's the highest quit rate since the agency started collecting that information back in two thousand. A number of job postings has also hit a record high, with six hundred and ninety five thousand more open positions than unemployed workers. So that's the churn right now. I guess a lot of people are starting their own businesses, doing what they want to do.

You know, people are getting all kinds of benefits right now, so we shall see what's going to happen to get people back in the workplace. They're getting those pans and then you know, it's the whole talk about everybody being independent, you know, wanting to own your own thing, and a lot of people have pivoted during the pandemic. The one person said, after a year of unprecedented stress, a lot of people have been also burnt out and re examining

how to live their lives. People have had epiphanies over the past year. We all want to pursue life, liberty and happiness, and many of us have realized our job is not the best way to get there. Yeah, and people probably feel like they don't want to depend on anybody else in case, you know, the bottom falls out again. You know, last year when COVID happened, people got laid off, they couldn't make gens meet because they didn't know how to make their own money on their own. So and

these jobs ain't paying. Let's be honest. I'm not gonna say that they're paying. They may not be paying what you want, but they're paying living wage preditory. I mean, some people are like, I haven't had a break in ten years. You know, they got their master's degree, they got a good job, but they don't want to burn themselves out. Quality of life is important to people. Some people have gotten some good savings during this time. They

have financial cushions because of the stock market. You know, there's all kinds of reasons why I always tell you what you could do both. It's one hundred and sixty eight hours in a week, you know what I'm saying. So if you're working, let's just say forty hours a job somewhere, at least you know you got that, like you got that, that little safety net, and then you can pursue you got you know, you got one hundred and forty what eight other more hours? No, twenty other more?

I wan to pursue your dream. Some people just don't want it. They don't want to work they don't want to door. All right, well that is your front page news. Get it off your chests eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up right now for line to open us to Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club. Did your time

to get it off your chests? Whether you're Man or blast, so you better have the same endry we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club Hellos, good morning. I wanted to give a shout out the DJ Envy Charlomagne the guy and lead what's up brother now? Must Na must Man. I wanted to get out of my chests, given man out of the DM if my tag is under the life around there, I've been trying to get into the far shorts heaving and at Lanta. Man has been a struggle. What's been a struggle about the car

show man? I've been trying to understand how you wanted me to like go about an influ as far as entering. And you want to put your car in the car show. Yeah yeah, oh just email me, email me um DJ NV car Show at Gmail. I'm kind of car you got first of all, brother, I did, brother, but I ain't got no response. I got a twenty nineteen year one one la. I don't even know what that is. I don't even know what that is. Yuh man? All right, when we checking out, email me this morning. I'll make

sure my assistants you back today. All right? That's peace, man. The car show is you lot third in Atlanta. I can't wait for you guys to come sick. He sure it's not a Chattana, No mine is in Atlanta. The story you did was Hello, who's this? Who's the chatting dogle? Though? Hello who's this? Yo? Off your chests? Hey man, I got a few things say just started. Don't you ever, ever, ever, ever, ever started to quote all that negativity in the morning, man,

Ain't nothing came about yam O was good news? Man? News? The news is not good right now. I mean when is the news that a good though? They say when it bleeds, it leads on the news. Bro Hey man, that was crazy man. I want to I want to send some pace of positivity to the world. Love. I love y'all be positive day on this Tuesday. Wed't have Charlotte Man yesterday, but we got him today. The whole thing I want to say too um y'all, and this this don't play the same stuff every hour on on.

I know we've been doing positivity. I gotta still gotta giving y'all Dunky the day for that now, hold on, hold on, I slow down. That's the positive. Don't mess with everybody love Now you want to twitch it to negative, Well, it's the radio wave to go down. Put the Drake go down. Get starting to bleed on people who didn't cut you? Not that time, man, I'm every more dre Just duck and get out the way. Man, I'm the same way. I don't like hearing the same thing every

morning either, but it's the radio. Let's put a new CD in. How do you think this works? Bro're digital? We digital now? Baby. It ain't a new CD, but I feel you all right, Well, have a go with Drake show. You don't want to get this morning? Yeah, we're about to close to get it off your chest. Second, I'm really annoying, say it now for ever? Hold your PC all right, Well we have rumors on the week. You want good news and bad news, however you want

to give it to us? Just you know? Ay, Well, let's talk about in the heights, right, there's an apology now, and some people are upset about the movie, and we'll tell you why. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club for the morning, The Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, charlomagnea god out of Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rum Let's talk in the Heights is the rumor report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club well over the weekend and The Heights

made eleven point four million dollars. It did not get the expectations they thought it would at the box office. As you know, Lemmanuel Miranda actually did this movie. He's the one that did Hamilton and John M two, who directed Crazy Rich Asians, directed this movie. Now, the whole point of this movie was to show that Latin Americans are not a monolith, and a lot of the people who were part of the cast felt like they did

a good job as far as representation. But during an interview with the Route, there were some conversations about darker skin after Latino representation, and people do feel like In the Heights fell short of representing that. Now, talking to the roots, Felice lay On, John M two did notice that they missed the mark when she questioned him, she's a black New Yorker of Cuban descent. What are your thoughts on the lack of black, Lacktinex people represented in

your film? Yeah, I mean I think that that was something h we talked about and UM and I needed to be educated about. Of course, in the end, you know, when we were looking at the cast, we tried to get the people who were best for those roles, and that's specifically, and we saw a lot of people people like Daphne or Dasha. But I hear you on UM,

you know, trying to fill those cast members with darker skin. M. I mean, first, first about the box office, I was very confused about way to watching The Heights because for some reason, I thought it was on Netflix. Then I saw it on HBO Max and I saw it in theaters, So I was confused on even how to watch it. So I guess it's in theaters and on HBO, Yeah, HBO Max and in theaters. And I think it kicked off the Chebeca Film Festival and the Puerto Rican Day

Parade was actually there. They kind of led the Puerto Rican Day Parade. They did a small one. They had a Puerto Rican day perrede virtual That's what I thought. Yeah, it was mostly red, but had a little small thing within the Heights leading it. It was just a few blacks, all right now. Let Mamma Miranda actually wrote on social media. I started writing in the Heights because I didn't feel seen, and over the past twenty years, all I wanted was

for us, all of us, to feel seen. I'm seeing the discussion around after Latino representation in our film this weekend, and it is clear that many in our dark skinned after Latino community don't feel sufficiently represented within it, particularly among the leading roles. I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism of feeling still unseen. In the feedback, I hear that without sufficient dark skin after Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so

much to represent with pride and joy. So he did say he is truly sorry. He's learning from the feedback. But why does that feedback have to come from social media? Like these productions go through a lot before they hit the big screen, Like you know, you mean to tell me that nobody saw this beforehand? Like all these folks that work on these productions. I mean, just in casting alone, someone had to see this and someone should have said something. Yeah.

I mean that's the point. But now people, you know, once they've seen the movie, are responding, and there it is. I feel like a lot of times these movies get it wrong too. It's like an ongoing thing, which is great. There's a lot of people involved before it's actually hits the big screen. All right. Now, Wendy Williams and Garry Owen were spotted at dinner. I don't know if it was a date or what, but they were at the

reopening of Scotto's in New York City. Um and insiders are saying that the two of them were having a good time. You know, he had a very flirtatious appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, and that's why I said. Some of this reaction has been like, Okay, what's going on with the two of them? Here is Wendy Williams, would you like to have dinner? Because here's what I'm thinking, right, we go to Fresco by Scotto You're gonna melt say. I'm not saying listen, I'm gonna I'm not saying yes.

No on the air. That's how more rumors get started. Yeah, but I can clear this up. I got the purple chair every day, that's right. So it's it's like, yeah, you saw me ask him out. We went to Scotto, We had a good time. Then he took his uber back to his hotel and I took you know, my car back to my apartment, right, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, that's awkward now. She also did an interview with Interview magazine. Don Lemon interviewed her and she opened up about life

after her divorce. He asked about if her being so open about her private life affects her on air persona, and she said definitely. When we were married, I was very happy, but I had to make sure that when he and I divorced, my life wouldn't suffer, because if my life suffered, then that meant my son's life would suffer too. I loved Kevin, and he loved me, but I was probably too much for him. I guess he found somebody who was just regular and who would cater

to his every need. I tried, but hell, I gotta get up in the morning. The idea that the show wasn't called the Wendy Hunter show was a big source of problems. As somebody called him, mister Williams, all of a sudden, a sunny day would turn into a storm cloud. I'm disappointed in him, but I quickly got over that

because anger causes wrinkles. Now. She also talks about her issues with past addictions, and she said the reason why Kevin had her in a sober house was because the girl he had an affair with was about to have a baby and he needed to put me someplace where I couldn't watch TV. He took away my phone, he took away my cash, he took away everything that is Wendy Williams an interview magazine. All right, now, get ready for some concents. So y'all ready to be back out

and about at festivals at concerts. Well, there's gonna be a three day show and Kendrick Lamar is gonna do a one off show leading the day in Vegas festival line up. It's a three day hip hop festival that's gonna be in Vegas November twelfth to the fourteenth, with Travis Scott Teller the creator, and Kendrick Lamar as nightly headliners. They're gonna be named like Little Baby d Baby Does, Ja Kat and Scissa also on the bill Little Uzy, Burt Seweetie, YG, Polo, g r A Lanox, Jasmine Sullivan.

Sounds pretty dope. Now, mister Lamar doesn't just step out now, he does not. So if mister Lamar is headlining a show, when is that? It's gonna be November twelveth to the fourteenth. They're saying it's gonna be his only live performance of twenty twenty one. So should we assume that a new Kindrick Lamar project is dropping around that time? Now? The festival art makes it very clear that it's going to be a look back at his catalog, not something to

promote a new album, Shout your stuff all that. I don't know though I don't sound like him drink you know what I mean. I don't think Kendrick would just step out for no reason, even though it probably is a celebration of his classic catalog. I don't think he would step out for no reason. It's got to be something it isn't. Baby Kame on that lineup too, Baby Baby Cheams album Baby Came and Baby Keeams also I Made in America just fy catalog. I expect baby, No, Kendrick,

don't move Kendrick top dog them. They don't just know, they don't just move like that now when it comes to Kendrick. All right, well that is your rumor reports something else around us. All right, well we got front page news. Next what we're talking. Take to Nellie Sports Bar in Washington, DC. We're gonna talk about what happened after I get the story myself. Okay, shorts, Washington, DC. I'm positive sure it's Nellie and not Chinky own research

this time. All right, Well, we'll see when we come back. It's a breakfast lug go morning, So breakfast club, your morning's will never be the same. Angela yet here. And did you know that the General Insurance has been saving people money for nearly sixty years. That's a long time. So if you want the quality coverage you deserve at prices you can afford, check out the General eight hundred General or visit the General dot com. Some restrictions apply.

All right, how y'all feeling this morning? Y'all? Like man, listen, I'm blessed black and Holly favor you hear me? Okay, God is greater than God is greater than me than my enemies in the world. Okay, the Lord is my refuge, So shall I feel I don't have any enemies? Do we need to sage the room? Yes, I an I might have a chrystafer. Hold on, let me see and call a new prayer. Lets I don't know what's going on in this room today. Yeah? You good? Yeah? Why am I not good? I don't shoot at me. Why

would I not be good? I'm just asking. I want to give you my smoky court to put this from me in my protection. I'll wave it around. I'll wave it around you. I'm waving my smoky courts around even work. Let's get in some front page news, all right. Now, let's start NBA. Last night, the Hulks beat the six is one o three one hundred, Great Games beat the Jazz one eight to one oh four. Both series tie

two two. Now, yeah, you have front page news. They don't want to mention that the Bucks are playing the next tonight or the Bucks are playing the next tonight. Bucks and seven. Mind, let's go nets about this. It'll probably be Bucks in six, but I'm still say Bucks and seven because that was my original I'm thinking the next still got it? Now year, that's about the when the whole thing, you're out of your minds tell us the story about Chattanooga. I mean DC, go all right now.

A viral video of a young black woman being dragged out of Nelly's sports bar sparked a protest on Sunday night and caused the boycott the establishment. Keisha Young, she's a twenty two year old Kyle, the student at Morgan State University, has identified herself as the woman in that viral video. It shows the security guard dragging her down the stairs head first, and it's not clear from the

video why she was dragged down the stairs and removed. Now, on Monday, Nellies did say they fired the independent security vendor that they hired for Pride to Week and they are investigating the matter. They said it's ongoing and we will cooperate with any law enforcement investigation. However, we do not need to wait for the investigations conclusion before we take the size of action. We offer a heartfelt apology to all who witnessed the horrific events of this past weekend.

No matter what behavior occurred prior, nothing warrants mistreating and disrespecting one of our guests here is what Keisha Young had to say. It was altercation in there and they were trying to get some other people out because somebody else were a bottle in there. Somehow I got mixed up in an altercation because I looked like body else and I got a right step, but I didn't do nothing wrong and just first walking up the steps and

getting drying right right now, that is so crazy. Yeah, I love those brothers who jumped on that security guard. I don't care what that since to did. It was another way for security to handle that. If you see it one being dragged down the steps by her hair, you should absolutely positively intervene. Absolutely come on, that could be your your your mother, your sister, your daughter, you know, your friend, like come on that establishment day. I know

they fired security, but they should pay for that. That young ladies. That young woman's college. She's at Morgan State. I don't know how many years she has left paid for that and set her up for the future. She was embarrassed, she was dragged out your establishment. That video with viral. She's gonna have some type of trauma. Take care of that woman. She didn't know a lawsuit and she will face against the security guard, and this is not the first time Nellie has come under fire for concerns.

The activist group No Justice, No Pride organized the boycott in twenty eighteen after patrons noticed a blue Live Matter flag flying above the establishment, and they did apologize after that too, And so they learned a lesson about racial inclusivity and they were planning to make this space more welcoming. And that's a that's emotional trauma she has to live with forever. You know how many years of therapy she's gonna have to go through just having to relive that

moment over and old, especially because it's viral. No urban, no nobody black or minority should go to that establishment. This should be no DJ that should be allowed the DJ and that establishment, no artist performing that establishment. And today, take care of that young lady, all right. Now. So a woman in South Africa has reportedly given birth to ten babies at one time. Yes, and that's a new world record. She actually gave natural birth for five of

those ten and then five vs a Syrian section. I don't believe it she did. And that was that was no vtro none of that that was just naturally. I don't know, you know, what she did. But to the tense, sure you get the story? You sure you don't have ten kids boys and three girls. I am emotional. I can't talk much. If you see the picture of her hers, I mean, how much of these kids were individually? They gotta be small, gotta be like one pound, two pounds.

This one South African official confirmed the birth to the BBC and so, yes, how do you feed all? You cannot possibly breasthfeed all those babies. Human is not possible. Cannot physically breastfeed ten children. And they beat out that couple that day they have a show. Yeah, there's a couple that has a show one I believe it's TLC or one of them shows. And they have let let me get their name, Dion de Rico, the d Rico family. What about Optimon How many she had eight? Right? She

has eight? But her husbands in Vitro, the Drico family did. All is natural, but not at one time though one time? It's crazy. Well, last month another woman gave breath to nine babies at one time. Yeah, optimm kids should be grown now, honey, what a reality show? All right? Well that is your friend? Is the Optikids reality show? Why are you so obsessed with the optimon? I'm just asking, like, I want to know what those kids that I want to hear the story. They should be old enough to

talk now, right, I'm so sure. Yeah, I'm sure they can speak now. It's actually your optimon kids now really? Oh? All right? Well, when we come back, Kevin Hart will be joining us. Kevin Hart has a new flick that comes out this weekend called Fatherhood, and we'll talk to him about everything. She don't move. It's to Breakfast Club, Go Morning, Breakfast Club. Wanting everybody in cdj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a

special guest in the building online. We got Kevin Sir. How are you man? How's everything with you? Oh? Brother, I can't complain. Same o, same o, drinking milk, getting tall, making a do what ad and whatever it did, it doesn't So that means that I'm gonna get it done. Did that make sense? Where are you right? You don't have a You don't have a lactose intolerance right now,

I do not have a lactose intolerance. My stomach is definitely not right though I've been mil prepping, so you know, I'm on this uh this green and like a protein. So I'm definitely I'm definitely running back and forth a little bit. I'm in Budapest. What do you feeling out good? I'm feeling a movie called Borderlands, a movie for a lions Gate based off of a video game, A very

successful video game that has Borderlands one, two three. I mean, they got about between fifty to eighty million users that actively play this game and they decided to create a movie out of it. So it's myself, Kate Blanchet, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jack black Um. We are the leads of the movie Ariana Flow. I mean, we got a great cast directed by Eli roth Um. It's good. It's exciting. Something else that uh that I can throw my audience

on a loop with. It's for people that don't know how is budape You have to describe it because I've never been there, So like, what is Budapest. Budapec is in Hungary and it's two separate places, so you have Buddha and Pest. It's actually separated, so you yeah, then on the other side is pest. But the scenery out here, the architecture out here. The history is unreal. So the locations that you find the film in a are just

like nothing you'll ever see. You know, it's a it's a movie that's kind of got a sci fi twist to it, So these locations play a very significant part. Is that the movie you were training with Navy sales for. Yeah, I am responsible for all acts in this movie. I am playing the character called Rolling and Rolling is a soldier. So the director of one of the thirty audience for the Luke he wanted to cast me, and in casting me, we agree that I would take this uh serious and

goal completely different route. So I trained with some Navy seals. I did some high intensity weapons training and really got down with military. So in this I really am the role of a soldier. I'm combat hand to hand weapons, et cetera. So I can't wait, you know, for people to see it because it's it's gonna act, It's gonna have an that's what we wanted with the part. That

is very exciting though, to be able to have those abilities. Now, yeah, somebody else, I know, I didn't miss the Budapest was the last time you see the babies, the kids, But they're out here with me. I have come out here with me. Man, Yes, one school he's got my don't enough, you notice, But Kevin has a lot of money and he can. Yea. Once uh, one school stopped, I had

the family come out, you know. I mean, when you have the opportunity to film in these type of places, I think it's important to try to give your kids experiences that they can hold on too. So my kids love working on sets when I'm on sets. Uh, my daughters in turning for me right now. My son, he's in love with the world of action and stunt development and choreography. So I had my son come out work with the stunt team a little bit, just and learning

and understanding and just watching what I do. So it's it's one thing just to see the start that's attached to the dad. It's another to really understand the work that goes into it. So I've I've worked very hard on just make sure that my kids understand how movies are made, how they break down, and how significant the roles are that the entire crew and cast play. In this case, they get to see it firsthand. But it's uh,

it's a great time, you know, this movie. This movie, Fatherhood, is one that's very near and dear to my heart. It's a true story based off of this guy named Matt Loglan and a crazy turn of events that he had in life. You know, he was married, him and his wife were at the happiest point of their lives. She was about to deliver a baby. After delivering the baby, his wife passed away on the delivery table and it sent him in a you know, a crazy whirlwind where

he didn't want to live. He didn't know what his purpose was in life. And the journey of his progression as a father and his love for his little girl through that progression is a story that he wanted to tell, and it is one that we put on paper and u and made a movie about. And you know, when I found out about the movie and the role, I wanted to make some changes to it, of course, but I wanted to stay as close to his story as possible.

And we all agreed on the changes. And I loved the story and the opportunity because I felt it was the best It was the best time to change the narrative attached to a black man as a father, you know, on the big screen, when we're portrayed on the big screen. We're always on drugs, off drugs, in jail, out of jail, not around, can't be found, or we show up last minute,

and it's a story of why. And you know, this is one that kind of has a positive, positive message and through story right where you root for this guy. You understand the guy, but the love between he and his child are would really give him reason and want to go on. So it's a drama, it's a it's a real it's a real change for me. It's something that my artist is going to see and once again have the opportunity to go, Wow, it's me checking another box in my career and just trying to stay on

that road to progression. So I'm excited for people to see it. It's going down the jailer bear jerker just watching all of that and it brings up so many things, like we've been talking a lot about maternal healthcare too right and women dying you know, during childbirth, after childbirth, and how dangerous that is, especially for Black women. That's something that we've been having all of conversations about. And then, of course, like you said, just being a single father

and raising your daughter. What kind of connections did you have with your on screen daughter while you guys were filming. It's insane because a lot of the emotional strings that I had to tug and pour from, you know, I put myself as close to the position that Matt was in,

and you know, I can only imagine. I can't, I can't imagine, but I tried to, you know, put some type of picture in my head as to what it would be like if if it were me, if it were me and my little girl, And you know, a lot of those tear joking moments or because it's real, it was real for me in those scenes. And and I really I really went there by thinking along those lines.

And you know, Melody, my co star in this film, A little girl, She was so good, and our chemistry on camera and off it just kept getting stronger and stronger because we spent a lot of time together. But that bond, that bond on between a father and daughter or just a child in general, when worked, it's unbreakable.

It's a bond like no other man. And I can say for me, I use a lot of my real life experiences as a parent to pull those emotions to help me stay true to this storyline and make sure that I was in the grounded space of reality where people can believe and really relate, and I can say confidently, this is my best performance on screen in my career. This is this is, pound for pound, the best work as an actor that I've done thus far in this movie. All Right, we got move with Kevin Hart. When we

come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomie n the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kevin Hart. Now, how do you balance being a dad in all the work you do? Right? Because when we're coming up to you want to make as much money as possible to support your family, right, But then when you make money, it's never enough. But then you look at your kids and you're like, I have enough money to chill, but

I still wanted to continue to make money. So how do you balance the I'm a dad and then I need to make all this money because I'm setting up a future for legacy. How do you balance that? I think that all of those tiers that you just talked about are ones that you have to experience ultimately to get to the point when you see what's really important, right and as a guy that chases after success harder than anything that chases after w's multiple wins, that wants

it in all aspects. When it comes to this thing and family, you get to a weird space where you start to understand at the time that you think you're given to your family isn't as much time as you could be given. And you then go, you know, what, I need to prioritize my family the same way that

I prioritize my will and want a success. And it's it's a weird thing because you feel like, well, if I don't hustle and I'm not chasing after it, I can't get the money to take care of my family, which is true, which is why you need some success to make you see and understand what that is and what that feels like. But when it boils down to it,

time can't be replaced and you can't get back. And as you get older you realize that and that time that you kind of miss with those kids, you can look back on it and go, damn, you know, I missed a lot. You know, even though I was around, I missed a lot. You get to a place of just understanding the time is what's most important and that happiness that we're all searching for. It boils down to a place of the people that you're giving your time

too and that you're giving that energy to. So I got to a place of understanding that that's what really matters. The money's great, the success is right, but you know I was in that room in a hospital that money and success wasn't there. You just got the people that Connor are with you and that matter in that box

with you. So when it comes down to you being in that box, or when it comes down to anything happening that puts you in a position of a box, who are those people that you're gonna share that with it? Who are gonna be there with And that's where I prioritize my energy and effort now, like in making sure they know their worth, they know their value. And I'm you know, I'm about to be forty two still figuring it out. It's a never ending puzzle game that you

gotta just learn how to play correctly. And it's the best for me as a as a father, as a husband of figuring it out is new there's no handbook that comes with it, there's no tutorial, there's no study guide. You got to figure it out as you go. Now, Kevin, just to shift gears for a second. A big topic attimplate.

We saw a Cat Williams and Segi dentity and that going back and forth about stealing jokes, right, And it's a fine line because sometimes there's certain themes that are very common and you might feel like somebody took something of yours, but it could be just that they had a similar joke. Has that ever happened to you where you felt like, did this person still my joke? Or

is it a coincidence? You're you're in a pool where you got a million comedians and you know, I hate to say it, it's sad, but what what what material is that original today that that you haven't heard? Uh? In rendition up? You know, we we all are doing our best to make things our own, but you know it's the it's the same topics for each of us. Right in the case where I've had things that have been similar and I've seen somebody do something in a new one, you know, move on from it. It's not

it's not that serious. I've never made it that serious, and I never would. You know, it's it's it's it's too many of us. There's too many of us out there, and because of that, you know, you have to be understanding too. Sometimes it can be accidental. Sometimes it's not malicious. Now, if somebody's out there they're doing what you said word for word, that's just that's just a blatant level of stealing. But if it's the same topic sometimes and people have

done it, I've never looked that deep into it. But that's another reason why I try my best not to watch comedy. I don't. I don't really watch a lot of comedy. I produce a lot. I make sure that I develop a lot, but I don't sit back and watch it because I don't want to be in the same space of another comedian's ideas or another comedians thoughts. So I try to remove myself from that. It's best

that I can. You think the world is getting soft, And and the reason I say that is, I know you're a big basketball fan, and you watch basketball now and everybody gets a brown and they've gone out the game. You know, if a comedian makes a joke, they want to care with cancer coaches so fast. Do you think everybody getting too sensitive and too sol I mean, look,

it's a conversation that can go either way. And and do I understand the reason for some of the conversations that have been had and the changes that need to be made. Absolutely. Do I think that we all need to raise the bar on simply respecting and understanding one another and understanding the lines that that shouldn't be crossed

or or or that can be crossed. Absolutely, But do I also think that there's a world where, umre we're losing the idea of what a joke is or what the intent of a joke is done for right, Like it's it's not done with the intent and purpose to hurt, is done with the intent to get a laugh. And the risk in doing that is sometimes you don't get a laugh. That's the risk, that's the biggest risk. The

reward is is getting a laugh. I think that it's up to our job now is talent to just understand the respect level that we're supposed to have for people in general and trying to you know, trying to do our best and be an example of the change that we want to see within our world. I will say that flat out. Now. Everything doesn't need to become a conversation, Everything doesn't need to become a war of opinions. I think people are just forgetting that. It's very easy to

just not support something. It's very easy to not be a fan. It's very easy to change the channel. It's very easy to not watch that movie. It's very easy to say that this person isn't for me. I think we forgot that. And the same way, like it's easy for you to make that decision, it's very easy for other people to make the decision of Like, it's very easy. Some people like coffee, some people like tea. It's a choice. It's it doesn't matter, it's not it's not going serious.

And I think we're we're forgetting about the decision. We're forgetting that just because you don't like it, it doesn't mean that you have to voice or express your level of dislike in a way to where it now is destructive, in a way to where it's now offsetting to others that doe like that now creates this conflict that sometimes doesn't need to be had. So you know, I think eventually we'll get back to a place of just remembering who your fans of and who you are right, It's

it's it's very simple. I mean, I don't dislike country music, but I've never listened to it. It doesn't mean that I that I'm not a fan of it. But I can't. I can't tell you a song. I can't. I can't. I mean, I can't tell you his music. I know who did? I know you know the song that was a hit. But I'm saying it doesn't mean I didn't like it. It's just not for me. I've made the choice to say that's not my cup of tea. It's nothing wrong with that. It like, it's nothing wrong with

making those choices. So it's like there's this big divide and everything today there has to be a conflict of divide. It's it's me versus you. And if you don't like what I'm telling you you should like, then you stupid and well I don't get it if you can mispectfully disagree, Yeah, like you you think it funny? You dumb? He's he the funniest he not. It doesn't what what, It doesn't matter. It's a person to person choice, all right, What movie got mover? Kevin R. When we come back. It's the

Breakfast Cloubal Morning the Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kevin Hart Ye. I saw that I'm Bill maher situation where he waited on something that you said about white power and being at an all time high. He took it very literally and very literally. I meant what I said, though I wasn't wrong about about what I said. It wasn't a thing. And if he felt

that I was, that's fine for him. But Bill Mark can't speak from a position of knowing what the black community is going through still today, like you can't speak from a position of never experiencing and never being a part of and acting as if you do and if you have right where I mean. I looked at the video of to Day with more cops beating the young guy's ass. They broke this kid's ribs, eight of them holding them down. The damn the ribs. It's still happening.

So to my point of what I was saying to Bill Maher, there is a high level of white privilege that we're still seeing on display. There's a high level and it's at an all time high in today. It is in today, we're still experiencing it as if it's no consequence. To me, that still seems like the white

privilege that we're speaking of. If we're saying, oh god, these senseless murders are happening, Oh my god, this black man died, Oh my god, this black man was killed, Oh my god, this black was killed, and then you still continue to see it. It's almost as if, so what, there's no consequences. So that's what I'm speaking of. When you see the white women that are now confident, we're saying to black people and black women, you know, you

go back, you black. It's a reason for that, that confidence that I can do this and there is no consequence, is what I was speaking on behalf of. So for Bill Maher to act as if he's ignorant or blind to that, I thought it was ridiculous. I didn't think that that made sense. We're witnessing that we shouldn't be seeing in today's time. That's what I'm saying, Bill, You know that, Yeah, everything that you ever think. He goes back and forth and sesting the gas like you to

get this conversation to get that, well, I don't. I mean, I'm the wrong person to do it because I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give it that much energy. This is just of making sure that people in general understand what what just needs to be would need needs to be verbally said on a regular right. And that's if the goal in the world, this is very simple to me.

If the goal in the world is about equality, right, that means we have to understand the unfair gap in between that's prohibiting, that's prohibiting the surge of equality that we're all looking for. Right because we feel like there's a significant disadvantage. We're starting way from behind, and we're not getting any help to close the gat. So because of that, we're frustrated, we're angry. Because of that, we feel like we're being suppressed. Still, that's a part of

the problem. Help us close that gat. This is what minorities, black and brown people, this is what we're talking about about. From the start, there was a significant advantage for the white culture. You started out way ahead. There's no reason why I'm still giving financial financial advice and black communities about a checking and a savings account, because all we have is check cash in places and licks stores. That's not a coincidence. We're set up to lose, We're I

set up to win. So when you get older and you start to see this, you speak on it so that you can try to make other people more aware. That's that's all it is. So when you say things that show that you're still unaware, by going back and making a reference like you did and taking MODI said so literal and equating it to the days of you know, of waterfounds for blacks and hosing black people down and

sicking dogs on them while you're making my point. You're making my point, but you know it's it's It's one where I think we are seeing more corporations take responsibility and making sure that they have a diverse identity in the house. We're seeing more board changes where there's black personnel that's being involved. You know, in a lot of the place of business that I play and entertainment, I'm

seeing much more color on sets, much more opportunity. We're seeing women progress, We're seeing change, Yes we are, but is it anywhere near where it needs to be? Yet? No, it's not where it needs to be. What are you telling your son back to fatherhood. What do you tell your son Now he's a teenager, he's about to get his license, he's about to start driving, he's about to get on the road, And you know, what do you

tell your son? I know the neighborhood that I live in, and seeing me drive to that neighborhood is okay because of who I am, right, But they don't know my son, they don't know my daughter. Right, So the attachment to my child and whatever vehicle is not the same as if it's me, And those conversations with cops are different. They are they are different. I don't care, I don't care what you say. It's not the same. It's not the same in any way, shape or form. The questions,

the assumption of what are you doing here? Why are you here? What are you doing? Those questions are real. So when you act as if they aren't, and when you act as if it's not, as if it's not a true matter that really needs to be not just handled, not just addressed, but change for the comfort, for the comfort and safety of people and their loved ones and

their kids. Like that's a real thing. The gamble of all right, man, my baby driving this car at night they're going to said thing, Please, God, don't let nobody stop them at night, and think it's a situation where you know, they go to ask for papers and registration and my kids the one that reaches and it becomes why are we thinking like that? Why? Why is that? Why is that the immediate thought? And is that even a thought for the other side? It's not not. And

that's the problem. That's what we're saying. It's a problem. That's what we're saying is an issue. And that's the frustrating thing that I think that I think the high volume aren't truly allowing. You're not letting it register, You're not letting the discomfort register through the real actions that we're seeing on display. And yes, the internet can take it and blow things up and and and you know, we see a lot more than maybe we would have ever seen. But I swear to God, it is a

consistency behind the same narrative. That's a problem. That's what I'm speaking on. Nothing more. You know, during the pandemic, I've seen you picked a bike riding. Yeah, now what got you on the bike? When do you come into New Jersey to do some real riding? Up up the real hills, not not the flat lands that y'all do in La. No. You know we got cannons, we we got we got some real kids. We got real kids out.

Friends told me was out. You wasn't like a hill hilly hill guy Shaffer Shaeffer right now is Shaffer honestly was in the space where I wasn't with Shape. I said, Shape, I'm gonna leave you alone, and I'm ready. But you know I can go do it comfortable. I can put up anywhere between the twenty seven and thirty thirty two thirty four with some with some hills and stuff in it. Now, you know, if you guys got a crazy cadence and and you know y'all got a different rehythm. You know,

like I'm gonna have a conversation. I got no problem with saying get me to text me to tram. So I got I got the pack, I got everything I need, I got my kids, I got my repair kits of it. If I'm out with some people that need to go, you go. But what I like the calm that's attached to it, Like I'm I'm looking for the hobbies that act as uh as as a meditation. You know what I mean, Like the same thing that running was for me. Running is you yourself and and just a calm. That

bike is the same thing. You get out there with a nice group. Everybody ride that. When the trail you go on, the road you go on. If you're out there at the right time, it feels like it's just you. You get to be in your own space. Man. And I just like, I like shutting off. And that's that's what you have. Those jail shorts. I go the whole nine. I'm out. They make fun of me all the time. I'm like, you need the jail shorts. And as I'm out there, I'm out there in the whole leotard framed up.

That's right, giving you what you wanted to like a confident I'm good. And when you guys get off the bike, are you walking funny? No, man, it's a thing. If you if you, if you're a part of this lifestyle, it's a thing. There's no there's no share. You're good like it's it's good you you are. Can't even let the straps down on leotard and feel good about it. Don't your flip flops on, you know, as if you're clicking in. I'm also clicking in. I'm the real deal.

I'm not. I definitely did. You can get tough. It was tough. I was in that driveway. Oh man. Fatherhood is out this weekend. Make sure you go check it out, and we appreciate you checking in. Be safe, man, It's in the family. I love it a lot many ken. We do always appreciate that you checking in with the Breakfast Claus. It does mean a lot to us because you know you are going to be a billionaire by the time you're forty five. Hopefully you'll still be checking

in at that time. Listen, I'm never gonna change. I'm not going anywhere regardless of the success. I love you guys. You guys have been riding with me forever, which is why I'm gonna do the same in return. And to all the listeners of the Watchers, Please, guys, Friday the eighteenth is going down. Fatherhood. I promise you this movie just not disappointed. I promise, I promise. I promise You're gonna walk away with an amazing message, with an amazing amount of feel good at the end of the day.

And uh, lastly, I really do mean when I say live love and laugh. We don't have that much time, man, wasting our time when it's goddamn earth and doing it in a negative space. It does none of us any good. So try your best to adapt that good energy. Man. That positive energy is the best flow. Point blank. Fatherhead, just into apathy this day. That's right. Appreciate Breakfast Club. So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. I hate interviews on June. I just hey, I do too,

especially when it's our guy, Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart energy is always pure and it uplifts everyone around him. Mad I missed that one. All right, Well let's get to the rum as. Let's talk BET Awards. Oh gosport its Breakfast Club. Well, all y'all all ready for the BT Awards to Roger p Henson is going to be hosting, and Queen Latifa is getting the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award. So get ready to watch that on Sunday, June twenty seventh at eight pm. So it's gonna be live. Those

are two very good selling points. I'm already sold to Roger p Hinson hoston and Queen Latifa getting the long overdue Lifetime Achievment Award. I'm there, all right. You can also now vote for the twenty twenty one BT Awards Viewers Choice Award. The theme of this year's show is Year of the Black Woman, in honor of their contributions to the culture. Okay bomb for black Black women, all right. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been pictured kissing as

the return of benefits here. There were Papa Razzi photos in the New York Posts that showed the two of them kissing while enjoying a meal with members of j Low's family at Malibu's Nobu Sushi restaurant. They are left. They just picked up right when they left off. Yeah, they have history, they were engaged. He don't deserve that, though, especially after how you're ruining Batman. Well, I'm serious, just the fact ben Affleck rowing Batman. He don't deserve Jimlo.

Why are you to prize for ruining Batman? I mean they've been together before. I'm sure they're very comfortable with each other. He saw an inn and he in. Yeah, that's what happens. So I can't slip up guys, all right. Bernie Mack's daughter is talking about two actors who she would like to play Bernie Mack in a biopick. They didn't announce at the Tribeca Film Festival that that movie is gonna be coming. So the two people who Denise McCullough said that she would like to play her father

in that movie are aldis Hodge. You know aldis Hodge from he played mc wren and Straight out of Compton. He's also going to be playing He's gonna also gonna be playing Carter Hall Hawkman in the upcoming DC Extended Universe film Black Adam. Yeah, and he was in Underground Jim Brown and One Night in Miami he was in Hidden Figures. So she said aldis Hodge, And she also said YouTube star Mark Phillips, she would like to say see play her dad, Bernie Mac. I don't know Mark Phillips.

He has four million followers on YouTube and I saw that he saw what she posted and said how he said honored to even be considered as someone who could possibly play the role of the legend Bernie Man. Well, if she knows him, and you know he got that many follows on YouTube, I'm sure he's a star. Because Boydom Kid love those YouTube was and TikTok's they definitely don't be backing like they don't matter out here if

you want to. Yeah, she said that she loves h Mark Phillips and she feels like he would be a great candidate, and she said the energy that he has on YouTube reminds her of her father, and a lot of people on Twitter agreed with that. Oh, I gotta go check him or what's his name again? At all? Bernie Mac Mark Phillips be ridiculous. Yeah, I want to see his talent. Okay, if it's Bernie Mac's daughter. He was saying that this man reminds her of her father.

That's a big claim. I want to go see. Oh yeah, y'all are ridiculous. All right. Now, Kenya Barretts is gonna be making his feature directorial debut. It's gonna be Netflix comedy film starring Jonah Hill and Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris are going to co write and co produce the project, so it should be interesting to watch. It's going to be the first time he's doing, like I said, a

feature debut. But he does, of course have directing experience with some episodes of Blackish, and he also was supposed to direct the Richard Pryor biopic, and he's going to be writing and co producing that with Richard Pryor's widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor. All Right, Doctor Dre and Jimmy iven are opening a public high school in LA that's pretty dope. It's called Regional High School Number one, so right now, that's the name of it. It's not clear if that's

going to change or not. Students who don't live in that area will be provided with transportation now. Jimmy Ivene spoke about this in the La Times. He said, this is for kids who want to go out and start their own company or go work at a place like Marvel or Apple or companies like that. Doctor Dre said his desire is to inspire the younger me. He said, this is something new and different that might excite the

kids and make them want to go to school. So it's like a like an art school or they said, it's not necessarily it's not a music school or anything like that. It's about to it's trying to help bring out creativity. It could be in anything that it is that you want to do and that you're passionate about. I love anybody that opens the school. Man that doctor Dre Jimmy Ivin, you know jail and Rolls Lebron James. I think owning the school. I think did he owns

a charging school too? Right? Yea? Owning the school is a different level of bosses. That's different. Yeah, you know, so congratulations to that. You got to help doctor m Man. I I want doctor marking that conversation. Okay. He said he just needs some He got the building to help build out some of the stuff that just need to infrastructure, some electricians. He needs some plumber, he needs some contractors. He said, he'll pay for all the supplies. He just

needs some brothers help with the label. All right, well that is your rumor reports. All right, let me pay my meter. All right, chel man, who are giving that doctor too? I need Laura Trump. I don't know if it's Laura or Laura Laura Laura Laura, but I need her to come to the front of the kind of gation we'd like to have a worlder. All right, we'll get into that NEXTUS the Breakfast Club. Come on, Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete chuckdown of

Muslims entering the United States. When you love to see one of these NFL owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now out. He's fired. He's fired. Trump, please step up to the congregation. Yes you are down. Trump. When Mexico sends, you're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crimes, they're rating Hello, Hello Donkey Today for Tuesday, June fifteenth, goes to Laura Trump. Who is Laura Trump.

She is the daughter in law of the format twice in peat celebrity in chief of the United States of America. And it's safe to say Fox News is willing to use the Trump name for ratings regardless if there's a Donald in front of it or not. Okay, if it believes it leads. If it's Trump ratings jump. Hey, let's just be honest with each other, Okay, whether you agree or disagree with anything that comes out of a Trump's mouth. They moved a needle. Okay, I don't even know what

that means, but it's provocative. It gets to people going. And Laura Trump is no different. Okay. She was on Fox News and her appearance, well, it got the people going. What was she talking about? Well, she was discussing border security, and what did she say, Well, let's just say she chose violence for five hundred Alex. Let's go to Fox News for the report. It's graceful to see. And I don't know what you tell the people that live at

the southern border. I guess they better arm up and get guns and be ready, and maybe they're gonna have to start taking matters into their own hands. It should never happen. These people should never make this dangerous journey here. Let's listen to that one more time. She's talking about she's talking about border security, okay, and then what she thinks should happen to migrants. I guess listen, it's graceful to see. And I don't know what you tell the

people that live at the southern border. I guess they better arm up and get guns and are you ready? And maybe they're gonna have to start taking matters into their own hands. It should never happen. These people should never make this dangerous journey here. This is where we are, this is where we are. It's awful. This is who we are, this is what we are. America. Gotta stop

lying to yourself. I know, I know, we love to say America was built on faith and freedom, But the reality is America was built on violence, good old fashioned

white violence. There's a great book written by Herbert Shapiro titled White Violence in Black Response from Reconstruction to Montgomery, And in the book, Herbert speaks on the fact that we are taught that America is a society based on respect for the law and orderly procedures, and that the Constitution stands as a safeguard of individual freedom, and the courts and the police is supposedly established there and forced

the law. When a controversial issue arises in the American fabric, it is to be resolved not in the streets, but through the democratic processes of elections. I think we all have been alive enough to know that this may be true for some, but not for everybody, Okay. Herbert Shapirol also says in the book, the courts have most often stood silent in the face of racist violence, or I have turned their wrath against the victims, not the perpetrators.

The police have protected the mob rather than the mobs, and if often either, aid of the lynchures are displayed amazing inability to identify them. Where race is concerned legislative about judicial action to deal with controversial issues has often come late and been partial in nature, while white violence has continue to terrorize Black Americans without hinderance. This is true, but it's not just true for Black Americans. The same rule applies for anyone who isn't white. And Laura Trump

just proved that. This is why I'm talking about her but Shapiro's book this morning, because this is what he's talking about, violence generated by white racism and news media and other institutions that fail to educate Americans about the oppressive social conditions that have root in these criminal acts. Okay.

Herbert also discusses the irony of America associating violence as a behavior of black people when we all know in the history of America, white racism has generated more violence than anything Black people have ever done are thought about doing. By the way, can you imagine if a black broadcast that got on TV and said that black people need to pick up arms and take matters into their own

hands in regards to anything we don't like. What's crazy is the migrants aren't doing anything but seeking a better life. It's not like they're coming across the border and breaking into people's homes that live on the border, at least not that I know of. If that was the case, by all means protect yourself, protect your family, protect your home. That's what the Second Amendment is for. That's why I say, when you're black, owning a legal firearm in America is

a form of self care. But Laura Trump didn't tell people to take up arms because they're under attack or because their lives are being threatened. She's simply telling folks to take up arms because she doesn't want migrants crossing the border. Imagine if I told black people are any oppressed group, they better arm up and get guns and be ready and maybe they will have to take matters into their own hands. Is to take matters in your

own hands. Part. Do you realize what would happen if for press people in this country that what took up arms and took matters in their own hands. Since the government and other institutions in this country of never wanted to give us real justice, can you imagine this type of call the action geared towards white supremacy and racist institutions in America? Can you imagine a black Latino person on TV calling for oppressed people to get guns and

take matters in their own hands. In regards to a group of people, what's crazy about this is, you know, it's a blatant direct call to shoot migrants crossing the border. But if someone at the borders to actually take Lara Trump's advice, she would say she didn't mean it like that. She would blame it on fake news, even though we all heard of, you know, the privilege amongst us don't

do accountability. And what Lara Trump did is a stotastic terrorism atters fine, it's the public demonization of a personal group resulting in the instatement of a violet act. Okay, Lara Trump knows exactly what she's doing and why she's doing it. A matter of fact. Played play the clip again, dramas, play one more time. It's graceful to see. And I don't know what you tell the people that live at the southern border. Stop right then, stop right there, stop

right there. I don't know what you tell the people that live at the southern border, Laura. That's where you should have left it. That's where anyone should leave it when they simply don't know what to say. When you don't know what you should say. The best thing to say is nothing at all, because catch right, because silence can never be misquoted as soon as your mind says I don't know what to say, I don't know what

to tell you, leave it, okay. We live in this era where people feel like they have to speak, they have to be heard, but you should not talk unless you can improve the silence. Please let Cathy Griffin give Laura Trump the biggest he hall. Please give this giant Jaral Male the biggest he hall man. What's so sad is that who wants to really have to leave the place where they were born, they've known their whole lives. Nobody wants to have to do that. It's a dire situation.

Like they said, it's dangerous, and a lot of times people are even sending their kids right because they want to make sure that their children get a better life, because they have a better chance of their children being able to get in and seeking asylum than whole families. It's a difficult, awful decision to have to make. The

journey is already a death sentence, right. It's something that you may not make it, make it through, and then when you get here, you get shot imagine being so scared for your lif that you send your children without you because you want to make sure that they're okay, and then you try to meet it. That's awful. And by the way, I don't know what to do with the border. I'm not sitting here hacking like I have, you know, the plan to get the border in order.

I just know shooting them it's not the answer, not at all. All right, Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Now when we come back, who we kicking it with? Oh my god. Pernil Joseph. Doctor Pernil Joseph is an author. He wrote a book that I read called The Sword and the Shield, The Revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Junior. And I personally have never seen Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Junior humanized in the way that doctor Pernil Joseph humanized

them in this book. It's an amazing read and it's been out for like a year. I'm late on it. I just read it this year. But I can't wait to talk to doctor Pernil Joseph all about it. Yeah, the brothers from Queens, New York. We're gonna talk to him when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning, The Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is Steve j Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest with us this morning, Doctor Panel Joseph.

Now I just found out it from Queens, New York. Yes, absolutely. I read an amazing book called The Sword and the Shield, written by Doctor Panel Joseph. One of the best books I've ever read. I got around to it about a year later. I know it came out last year in March, but I got to it about a year late. But it really explores the revolutionary lives of doctor Martin Luther King Junior and brother Malcolm X in a very humanizing way, like like what made you want to explore them the

way that you did? Well, I've always you know, I'm gonna say what Muhammad Ali said about Malcolm X. He said, I fell in love with Malcolm X when he was debating people and talking to people about black history. So I fell in love with Malcolm X by the time I was eight, nine, ten years old. The Eyes on the Prize documentary series came out, and this is before Denzel's brilliant movie came out in nineteen ninety two. I

was nineteen when the movie came out. So I've always loved Malcolm X. I think my love for Doctor King has come as I've gotten older, as I've become a father, as I've become just a deeper adult, because you see, one how Doctor King was radicalized in part by Malcolm X. But but I've also come to see that certainly we need self defense what Malcolm X talked about, but we also need the beloved community what Doctor King talked about.

So my whole thing was seeing how they they went from being rivals and adversaries to being each other's alter egos. What did you learn a lot of this? Because you know in school, especially growing up so deep like it was that I have a dream speech, it was a little bit of Malcolm X. So what made you want to learn more about these characters, Malcolm X and Martin

Luther King? And you know, it was growing up in New York City and the you know, my mother was part of a hospital workers SCIU eleven ninety nine, and so we grew up in a city where we talked about social protest. I was a freshman in high school when Michael Griffith was murdered in December of eighty six and Howard Beach, a white mob chased them out into the highway and the brother was just destroyed by by a fast moving car and was trying to figure all

this stuff out in New York City. So this before David Dinkins. This is when Eleanor Bumpers, who was a black grandmother was murdered by the police at in our own home. And so all of that got me interested. But then certainly Eyes on the Prize premiered in New York in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight on PBS Channel thirteen over here, and we grew up in a New York City where Channel five before Fox News, we used to watch the drive in movies and you think about

Wu Tang, they talk about Shaolin. We three pm on Saturdays. This is before cable, This is before everything. We used to watch, you know, kung fu movies, right, So was this idea of you were watching kung fu movies? Hip Hop Run DMC lived on Hollis right up the hill, so we used to see Run DMC. We used to be able to go the shows they used to play at times right in ps. Thirty four, park Um, But there was all this racial segregation. Ed Koch was the

mayor of New York. Ronald Reagan was the president. All that got me interested in Malcolm X. First time I read about Malcolm my mother had the autobiography of Malcolm X in the house and I read that and that just got me going, Man, how old are you? Because you were talking like you fifty something? You look like you and you're okay, yeah, I'm forty eight. Okay, Wow, man, would you vegan a lot of water? A lot of water, a lot of been practicing yoga for twenty three years? Okay, okay,

and uh yeah, all that good stuff. Now, what does the metaphor in the book's title, the Sword and the Shield referred to? And I'm glad you asked that. So we usually think about Malcolm X is the political sword of the black freedom struggle. And I even write in this book Malcolm served as Black America's prosecuting attorney, so he was prosecuting the United States for crimes against black humanity that dated back to racial slavery. Doctor King is

usually think thought of as the shield. He's the America's apostle of non violence. Where Malcolm is Harlem's hero of self defense. We think about the ballot or the bullet speech. We think about Malcolm with a rifle by a window, and that's an iconic picture. What I argue in The Sword and the Shield is that both Malcolm and Martin are both Malcolm X is not only the political sword of the Black community. He becomes our prime minister who

goes to Africa from the Middle East. He becomes l Hodge Malik Shabaz and he wants to build the beloved community as well, but one that's rooted in truth and the truth of not just racial slavery, but our West African and our African heritage. So Malcolm is a Pan African all day, every day. But he's also a Muslim. He's also a radical internationalist. King is not just somebody who's a man of peace. He's a man of peace. He's a man of God. Both of them are men

of God. But King is also this non violent revolutionary King becomes so revolutionary after Malcolm X's death. He's no longer on speaking terms with the President of the United States because he comes out against the Vietnam War and he starts to say things like all white Americans have unconscious racism. He says the halls of the US Congress

of running wild with racism. In April fourth, nineteen sixty seven, at the Riverside Church in New York, he says that the greatest purveyor of violence in the US in the world is the United States of America. So that's the revolutionary King who goes to places like Marks, Mississippi and tells poor black people that during reconstruction they were promised

forty acres in the mule. They didn't get their forty acres in the mule, But he's gonna lead a poor people's caravan to go to Washington, DC until they get the forty acres in the mule. That's Doctor Martin Luther King Junior. So he's both a sword and the shield. But Malcolm is as well. And what I argue in the book is that the person who most influences Doctor King's radicalism is Malcolm X. You know they, you know Charlemagno. We talks about how Malcolm and Aki, Malcolm X and

Doctor King's Doctor King spoke. Do you think they were assassinated because they were possibly going to join forces to come out together and that would just be too much power. Well, I think they definitely are assassinated because they represent a threat to the American political system. I think that they would have gotten together. They spoke together once on March

twenty six, nineteen sixty four, at the US Senate. But one little known aspect that I get into in the book is that Malcolm saw a King in Harlem December seventeenth, nineteen sixty four. He was sitting next to Andy Young Andrew Young, a former mayor of Atlanta, a former UN ambassador, and he heard doctor King give a whole speech after King won the Nobel Peace Prize, and not just that. He speaks about that speech in Harlem a few days

later and says that it was a terrific speech. He's impressed, and he goes to Alabama to visit with doctor King, and doctor King's in prison, and he visits instead with Corretta Scott King, doctor, his wife and really political partner. We think of, uh, Correta Scott King is just his wife. She's a brilliant organizer, political partner, intellectual, she's his his

his better half, let's let's face it. And so when we think about Malcolm, Malcolm was ready to join forces with King, but on his own terms, he wasn't going to do the same thing. He Malcolm always believed in black dignity, King believed in black citizenship. Over time they both come to believe in black dignity and citizenship, and Malcolm X defined black dignity as the end of world white supremacy. All Right, we got more with doctor Panel Joseph.

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 are to Breakfast Club was still kicking it with doctor Panel, Joseph Charlomagne. Let's let's dig in on that a little bit more, because I love the concept of radical black dignity as weird, because I've read the autobiography of Malcolm X a few times, Love Message to the Black Man, Biolijah Muhammed Sweab by those books.

But I don't remember that concept, you know, explored as much as when I read Disorder the Shield, and I even incorporated a lot of the content of radical Black dignity and commissment speech I gave for South Carolina State, you know, about a month ago. But can you dig a little deeper on what that is. What is radical black dignity. Radical Black dignity for Malcolm X, is radical black political self determination. So what that means is that

Malcolm absolutely had this external critique. He critiqued white supremacy, critique institutions that were brutalizing Black people, the police, the whole deal. But he also expected a lot of ourselves. So Malcolm defines radical Black dignity as Black people coming to understand and love themselves through the pain and trauma of racial slavery and segregation and brutalization. That we have to understand that, but we have to not be as

hard on ourselves as we usually are. Because Malcolm criticized us for loving white people and loving white supremacy too much. But what that meant was that we weren't able to face how we had been subjugated, how we had been subjugated during racial slavery. Reason why Malcolm X goes to Africa three times because people don't talk about the nineteen fifty nine trip to Africa where he's in Egypt. He's in the Middle East. He meets up with President Vice

President n y El Sadat. He meets up with Prince Faisal Saudi Arabia, the whole deal. Malcolm went there, to the Middle East and to Africa even before he takes to Hajj, because he knew that black people had a history before the Middle Passage. So part of that dignity was we understood that yes, not only had we been kings and queens, and obviously not all of us were just kings and queens in Africa, but we had a

history before the US. We had a history before European I won't even call it conquest, but being captives here and really recreating Western civilization through our own protests. Another part of radical black dignity is black beauty and black love. Malcolm, following Marcus Mosiah Garvey, believed in the beauty of black people intrinsically black women, black men, black children, in black babies,

black neighborhoods. So when we think about this idea of self determination, and my final point is this is why Malcolm has a critique of racial integration, not because he doesn't want an equal society, but Malcolm was horrified by the fact that it took troops to bring black children to school in Little Rock Central High School in nineteen fifty seven, whereas King writes a telegram to President Eisenhower applauding that in September of nineteen fifty seven, Malcolm is

angry and mad about that. Why it's a sixth society where our children, little black girls and boys, have to be guarded by troops to go into a high school or an elementary school. And that's why Malcolm says American democracy is nothing but American hypocrisy. And very famously he says, you can't put a knife nine inches in a person's back, take it out three inches and call that progress. You haven't taken out the knife, and you haven't even acknowledged

the wound. So black dignity is us are standing our own struggle, loving ourselves through the joy and the trauma of that struggles. Remember the reason why Malcolm X is the best order in American history. And I'll say doctor King's number two. The reason why Malcolm's the best. Malcolm has a great sense of humor. He actually forces us to confront this through different parables. And when he talks about house negroes versus field negroes, he's talking about black dignity.

But he's also talking that we have class tensions in our own community. Sometimes you'll have historians and scholars to say, well, the house negro field negro is more complicated than that. Malcolm's giving us allegori is that everyone can understand. That's why he says, make it plain. So the house Negroes were black folks who had more identification with white supremacy and white masters. And that's why Malcolm says, when the white master got sick, the house negro said, we see right,

and field negroes. Malcolm defined them like he defined himself, black people who were catching hell every day and who were bold enough to resist against white supremacy. So black dignity is huge, huge, huge, And this is why when we think about the Malcolm and Martin, the dichotomy and the convergence, it's only because of Malcolm X that doctor King starts talking about black dignity. Doctor King starts saying black is beautiful, and it's so beautiful to be black.

Doctor King, by nineteen sixty seven tells us that they even tell us little white lies are better than black lives. Black lives. That's Doctor King, only because Malcolm X had taught all of us about black dignity before Malcolm. We were all negroes who turned into black people because of Malcolm X. And in the book you lay out how they each become the others alter ego. Essentially, to me, that's what the book is ultimately about. Can you explain

it absolutely? When we think about Malcolm and Martin. Over time, doctor King becomes much more of a radical and a revolutionary, speaking truth to power in an unapologetic way in the tone of Malcolm X. My great example there is when doctor King is in Marks, Mississippi in nineteen sixty eight organizing the Poor People's Campaign. He tells the poor black folks in Marks, Mississippi that the way they are living

is a crime. That's the exact language that Malcolm X used to use about this crime against black humanity that had occurred. For Malcolm, it's the ballot or the bullet speech. The ballot or the bullet speech is the first time Malcolm X acknowledges the need for radical black citizenship. He had always acknowledged the need for radical black dignity. But Malcolm hedges he doesn't believe in American democracy, never does

he believes in what black people. He says. The reason why I think we should do the ballot or the bullet is that I want black people to have a chance to utilize this political power and see where it gets them. Remember, Malcolm X had been in prison. Malcolm X's father had been killed early. He always felt it was a white supremacist attack. His mother had been institutionalized. Malcolm had seen what I call the lower frequencies of

the United States of America. So he was always about democracy working the way in which white people pretended it worked, right. But what he did was he had faith in who black people. He was schooled by his mother, Louise Norton Little, who was from Grenada. So Malcolm has Caribbean blood as well as the African African American blood. He was schooled by his father, Earl Little, he was schooled by the honorable Elijah Mohammed, but he was also schooled by all

these revolutionary leaders in the Middle East and Africa. Right, So when you think about Malcolm becomes closer to king through this acknowledgement that we need to end worldwide supremacy, not just through self defense, but we're gonna need that beloved community. But Malcolm hedges, he says, one I only believe in black people visa viva democracy thing. But two he says that white people and his language is this sincere white people can be part of the movement. What

did he define as sincere? He defined a sincere as what do Boys call abolitionist democracy, white people who are gonna be willing to put themselves on the line right to transform the entire world. So du Boys always said, and W. B. Du Boys is the intellectual who is the founder of the NAACP, one of the most important intellectuals ever. But what he wrote in a book nineteen thirty five called Black Reconstruction was he wrote the true

history of reconstruction. He pushed back against the lost Cause history that had said we were apes and monsters and we were raping white women. He showed how black people tried to reimagine American democracy. And the only reason the country exists in the form and exists now is because of our labor, our sweat, our sacrifice, our love, our patriotism. Right. And so when we think about Malcolm and Martin, Martin becomes closer to Malcolm where he becomes this unfettered revolutionary,

becomes a pillar of fire, an Old Testament prophet. He's Amos, He's Jeremiah, He's Moses. By the end of his life and Malcolm becomes closer to King where he starts to say that not only is he a prosecuting attorney, he becomes Black America's Prime Minister. In the last year of his life, Malcolm X had the office at the United Nations. Malcolm X could go and speak to Prime Minister Kwame and Kruma in Ghana. He could speak to nam Diaza Kiway in Nigeria. He could speak to Mohammed Babu, who's

the Prime Minister of Zanzibar. So that's when he becomes closer to Doctor King. So they really converge, and you could see the love and admiration that Malcolm has for him when he tells Correcti Scott how much he admires her husband in Selma. And when you read the statement that King sends after Malcolm's assassination, he expresses his admiration and says what a great man Malcolm X was who was constantly changing. So you can see the convergence between

both of them even in their lifetimes. Let me tell you something, man. His name is Doctor for Neil Joseph. The book is Disord in the Shield. I'm not even exaggerating when I say it's one of the best books that I've ever read in my entire existence on this planet. I think everybody should go out there and get the Sword in the Shield right now. It explores the revolutionary of Malcolm X and doctor Martin Luther King Jr. I can't wait to just read more of your stuff, Doctor Pernil. Well,

thank you, Charlottagne the guy. It's it's been great. It's an honor. It's a pleasure to be here. You're an icon, so so I'm really appreciative of this opportunity and to chop it up with you to dialogue, especially as somebody from New York City, a native New Yorker is doctor f Neil Joseph. It's the Breakfast Club, the Breakfast Club. This is the Ruble Report with Angela breast cures. When you said that you're sad, we have a breakfast Yeah, God, morning, everybody.

All right, he got some bad news. I don't know what happen. We finally took the barricades down. The barricades, that's what I call on the border. I can actually see you guys now clearly. Yeah, it's not looking good pressed all right. Now, let's talk about Black Twitter reacting to Destiny's Child cater to You seventeen years after it came out. They feel like, uh, this song is outdated and not good. Listen to some of the lyrics. Let me see what in hall. I want to let you

know what, so reassure you. My life would be purposeless without you. They're saying, ah, this is just too much. This message is in aging. Well, now I do want to say this when I listen to the song. In the hook, right, she does say let me cater to you because baby, this is your day. So I'm feeling like this is a day that she's doing all this for him, writing his bathwater. Yeah, Father's day is coming up now. The one thing I had an issue within this song. Listen to this part, which what you want

the next one. I'm not helping anybody to get you rag line. I had to draw the line at that. Now I'll run the bathwater, I'll do all that other stuff. I'm not putting your due rag on for you. Well, I mean here's the thing. That's that's the way. It's the very personal thing. I'm not gonna tie it tight enough. Yeah, And that's the way they choose to cater to their man. Like each man's needs a different Women can cater to their man however they want. That's crazy, But that conversation

about a seventeen year old soul. Yeah, but I do think, I do think that there's times your man is gonna cater to you, in times you're gonna cater to him. Yeah, And I think they enjoyed doing that. Yeah. And I think these people are trolls either. Trolls are people that are board doing doing social experiments because there's absolutely nothing problematic about cater to you. Catering to you works both ways.

As Angelie just said, it just so happened. Women made a song about it, and she said, it's your day. So it makes it seem like today I'm gonna do all this for you. Can we get into scrubs and pigeons next? Can we do that one next? And by the way, if you're not catering to your man, it's probably because you simply haven't All lives matter the song. If you're not catering to your man or your significant other, it's probably because you simply haven't found your soul mate.

When you find that one who has committed to you in a real way that's catering to them is nothing life. Okay. Now, Joe Exotic is launching his own cannabis line from jail, So if you guys want to get that, you know, you can get some of his Joe Exotic cannabis. But y'all want to smoke on some of that Joe Exotic, No, probably got math in it, definitely prob. All right now, James Harden has been appointed to the board at Sacks. He's an independent member of the board. He has made

a minority investment in the company. So he's going to bring his expertise to help grow high potential consumer brands, combined with a unique perspective as a notable fashion enthusiast. Smart. Yeah, that's dope. He's gonna need something to do because the Bucks and seven I don't even know Sacks were still open. I thought they were closing. A lot of them did close down, but there's still some open. Maybe they're regrouping,

but yes, they have closed in some location. Three all right now, Christy Takin has issued an apology after this whole bullying scandal that she had. If y'all remember she at first apologized to Courtney Stott in TV personality Courtney Stotting and this is for some things that she's said to her. Back in the two thousand tens and into two eleven, Stodden went, at the age of sixteen, married a fifty year old acting coach, Doug Hutchinson. Stadden is

non binary. They're now divorced, and Stodden was saying, at a child, you know, back in retrospect, it was clear during their marriage that she was being abused by an adult man, but she was widely considered to be someone ridiculous and mockable and people called them the child bride. They made a lot of jokes at their expense, and Christie Tiaguan also harassed and bullied her, and Courtney Stadden pointed this out. This happened when she was only sixteen.

She said, at the time when I needed help, I was being abused, And she talked about the tweet set Tiguan sent to her. She said, I hate you, and Stodden said it really did affect her at the time when you have somebody like Christie Tiaguan being a childish and bullying children. Now since then, Christie Tikan has apologized.

She got off of social media. Now she's written another apology letter called high Again, and she said, I've apologized publicly to one person, but there are others and more than just a few, who I need to say I'm sorry too. I'm in the process of privately reaching out to the people. I am soa It's like my own version of the show. My name is Earl. I understand they may not want to speak to me. I don't think I'd like to speak to me. The real truth and all of this is how much I actually cannot

take confrontation. But if they do, I'm here and I will listen to what they have to say. And she did go on to end it with I was a full I was a troll, full stop, and I am so sorry. Now. Michael Costello, who was a designer from Project to Runaway, he says that he was also bullied by Chrissy Tiguan and he posted, I didn't want to do this, but I cannot be happy until I speak my mind. I need to heal, and in order for me to do that, I must reveal what I've been

going through. I wanted to kill myself and I'm still traumatized, depressed, and have thoughts of suicide. He said that Chrissy Tiguan actually also send him messages. There was some posts that accused him of being a racist, but it was photoshopped, and Chrissy Tiguan then he posted the DM conversation she said. He said, Chrissie, can I call you? Because she posted it thinking it was real, and she said, no, I do not have anything to say to you. You will

get what's coming to you. And he said, Chrissy, I've never called anyone the end where those fake images were photoshop from a former gruntled employee, and she said, good luck with that. Lmayo. Hope that story keeps your already dead career going. And good racist people like you deserve to suffer and die. You might as well be dead. Your career is over. Just watch, all right. So she's she hasn't apologized to him directly yet, but we'll see

how she responds to that. Well, that's a prime example of everybody gets a turn, like you know, at some point though, this cancel culture comes for everyone. That's a fact, all right, Well that is your rumor reports, all right, show up the revolt everybody else to mixes up next, Let's go morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Yes, Kevin Hart for joining us this morning. Fatherhood is in Theatist and

Father's Day, by the way, is this weekend. That's right great, I mean not in THEATIS but on Netflix. It's on Netflix. Great content for Father's Day weekend, very very good place in keV. Juneteenth is also this weekend, nineteenth, and you know what, there's this huge event that's going to be happening. It's gonna be live Sheen but in person at Brooklyn Bowl with Earth When and Fire performing. You know I love that now Rogers and Chic India, I ree Darius Rocker,

Ali Black, Amanda Sales is hosting it and JB. Smooth. So man, it's gonna be in New York. Yes, apparently she'll be there. I think it's it's gonna be at Brooklyn Ball. They're filming it on Wednesday and then they're gonna stream it. Okay, that's dope. And also all shout out to Panel Joseph for joining us. Man pernil Joseph. If you have not read Sword in the Shield or if you want to listen to the Sword and the

Shield on audible, please do. It's about the revolutionary lives and Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X. And it just explores, it just explores their humanity in a way I haven't. I haven't seen their humanity explored. So salute to my guy Pannil Joseph. Okay, all right, when we come back. We got the positive notes, so don't move. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning now, Charloman, you got a positive note, I do, man. I want to salute Queen Anita Copas. She has a book coming out called

Shallow Waters. It is the secondary release on my book in print Black Privilege Publishing. It will be out August third. It's a young adult fiction book about the African Mermaid. Yummy yah. But I saw a need of Colpack's post this morning, a quote that I think is incredible, and she said, you can't f up anything that is meant for you, So stop being so scared of what will happen, trust your intuition and let your heart and soul guide you on this journey. I promise you you cannot mess

up anything that is meant for you. I agree, breakfast club. Y'll finish it. Y'all dumb