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to The Breakfast Club. Hit your ass. 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, Good morning angela Ye, good money. Charlomagne the Guy Beast to the Plane. It is Thursday. The weekend is hell. Were no nigga, It's hell. It's not okay. I stought bo weekend on Thursday. You know why? Why? Because you can do that in life. I can curate on weekend. Okay. So y'all can say what we can

start on Friday. I'm starting mine on Thursday the right I'm not mad at it and shout out to Detroit. This weekend, I'm actually having a wholesale day at my store. In Detroit private label. So if you are in the Detroit area and you want to buy some bundles, some wigs, some lashes, any of those things, I'll be out there for a wholesale day. You better sell some wholesale gas. That's what the money are now, and that's not possible

right now. But I saw all these tips online. They were giving people on how to conserve gas, like things that you should do to conserve gas so you don't have to keep on filling up your tank as frequently. Well, tell me what's the way? They said, using cruise control on the highway so you maintain a constant speed that will save you gas. I've heard that before. Yeah, because I guess you're not like speeding up too fast. How

else can you concern? It was like a whole bunch of they said, Um, drive more slowly, make sure your tires are inflated. See if your car has an eco mode. Get regular maintenance, and avoid driving in heavy traffic when possible traffic. You gotta go to you know, you gotta go to work at rush hour times right down to five, and avoid maintenance. How you avoid matenance? Yeah? Get me? I mean you gotta pay for you gotta pay for gas. Here's the thing about gas. There's no way around it.

It's just one of those things we all need. Well, unless you get it, let your call money. You can take the train. All these things you're talking about costs money. The train is definitely way cheaper than buying gas. Everybody don't have trained. I grew up in South Carolina. We ain't got no trains. But if you have a train, there's a lot of places that do so. Alright, public transportation, well period. My book finally came and drop a ball

for the book drop real life, Real love. I left one in front of you, Angela, and and I left one in front of you, Charlemagne. Face down, ass up, Yes, I see it. Yes. I figure you like to start from the back, so I you know, put it down, get right to the backgrou I need to say this, it's your day. I'm looking at my blurred point of black. Why would I start off? If you come from a similar ly dysfunctional background, the word if you come from

a wife similarly, what is that? Similarly? You wrote? If you come from a similar similarly dysfunctional background, you're just looking the scrimping a relationship that might not have gotten as much maintenances. I don't even talk about you gotta get regular. This is not what I wrote, Yes, it is. What I wrote was way sexy. No, it's not. Look at this. How do you tell your partner the sex without hurting their feelings? Gia answered that right away, simple answer,

you don't. If I'm being honest, I cannot imagine. Oh wow, so the sex isn't good. Shut up, my daughter. You got a cheerleading competition, so I'll be reading this this weekend. Well, you could definitely pre order that. Oh my god, is the whole chapter and how your sex isn't good? April nineteenth and you can lead. That is the funniest answer to a question. How do you tell your partner the sex isn't good without hurting their feeling? She said, simple answer,

you don't. I have been struggling for years. All right, Yeah, no, I get to that part in the book. It was you in for something you and for hell would we It was Oh wow, it was a long time ago. It was a long time. It was a long time. I have been struggling for years. I love listen, that was a long time ago. But I need to read context I don't. I don't. It was no context. It was true, but yeah, it doesn't even say that Envy. I was kidding. Okay, I thought maybe she did write that.

Why is DJ cluing Kirk Franklin together in a chapter? No, that not can make some odd combination. Well, Kirk Franklin a little baby did do a record together. Now see this makes sense. Charlotteyne the god fifty six, that makes sense. But Kirk Franklin, he's been an inspiration in my life and Clue was one of the first people to help me get in this industry. He's known me and geared for what twenty hell was Kirk Franklin inspiration in your life? I speak to him at the time to time advice

and things like that. I saw Kirk and the airport does the day too slut to Kirk? I want to cluse bond for Kirk Franklin. It was they went I saw Kirk in the airport in LA. They was going crazy for Kirk, like like a boy band. Okay, Yeah, there's a chapter How I Became DJ Envy, and then

it's his parentheses Envy. He talks about how uh it was ll cool J's bigger and defferent album, he said, And he said, I was standing at the bus stops sucking on a lollipop and a kid I knew named I haven't even read this yet, and I know that's out of context. That's it's definitely didn't say it. They're just making things up. Give it a book back, i'n give it to the show. Let's get the show cracking man. Who's joining us this morning? Uh? Yeah, sorry? She of

course it is from King Richard. She played Serena in Venus's Mom and King Richard. Um, so we're gonna talk to her and kicking with her, and um we got from page news. Next we'll be talking about we'll give you some updates on Russia and Ukraine, and we'll also talk about a city council meeting where somebody really broke down the whole situation. All right, we'll get into all that next when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club

the morning I'm holding. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Ye, Charlomagne, the guy we are to Breakfast clublet's getting some front page news where we're starting easy. Well, let's start with a Texas city council meeting. Now, this guy who is known as prime Time Stein aka Alex Stein, attended the meeting and he had a bluetooth speaker and he did a little rap that was very anti Putin and in support of Ukraine. Here's what that sounded like. They called

me prime Time ninety nine, Alex Stein. I hope you guys like my flavor. Nine to nine on the ground, all the time, go in Shane for Ukraine. Oh, bullet in time, always on the ground, always got a shine. And you know it's no lie, friend, excuse me, come on audio, where we're going? Now we're going. You just see everybody's sitting in the city council just looking. It's prime time. Let's let's start that one more time, guys, tonight it's time. Officure. You know I'm on the ground.

You stop for prime Time, baby, lad, I'm a freak. The vaccine name my body at the party imaginer at a city council meeting, and this is going on. Wouldn't surprise me at all in America in twenty twenty two, is what I expect, Okay, And then he also shouted out Senator Lindsey Graham for calling on the Russian people to assassinate Putin. After wrapping up by ay thanking the whole council. Okay, okay, drop on a clute mom for prime time once America has jumped to shark. Okay, this

American project has failed, all right. Either. Newton said that in the civilization is we know it in the societies, we know it as like twenty sixty mit professors predict twenty forty. All right. Joe Biden has called Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, a war criminal, and it's the harshest condemnation of Putin from any US official since the war in Ukraine began three weeks ago. So previously he stopped short of that, but he did say, now I think

he is a war criminal. How do we know that we aren't already in World War three and they're just not calling it that. But Zelenski has said that World War three may have already started. Yeah, it's not like it's not like America isn't providing aid for Ukraine. It's not like NATO was an assistant Ukraine. You know, clearly we're seeing Russia invade Ukraine. I think we're already in

World War three and they just not calling it. They haven't framed it as such, even though last week Joe Biden did say, you know, he wouldn't send troops in the Ukraine because then that would be the start of World War three. But it's like it's the difference between aid and equipment and everything else. To me. No, but he's been saying that since the beginning, that we're not going to send over any troops. And I think he

won't even shut down the airspace. It's like I'm not going to throw a gun, throw a missile, but I'm gonna give you Craine a missile so they can throw it exactly the same thing. But I think part of that is what Putin has said is that if they do send over any manpower, then that will definitely be well. I was reading an article in the New York Times and the headline is is Russia digs in? What's the risk nuclear war? And it's not zero? So okay, let's

be clear. This is all Putin's doing. It ain't like, you know, what are you supposed to do. He's bombing places. That's why Putin call I mean, that's why Joe Biden called him a war criminal. You know, he's bombing children's hospitals and all kinds of places, and that's not that is what makes you a war criminal. Yeah, I don't know what purposefully targeting civilians. I really don't know what's happening. All right, Well that is your front page news, all right,

get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one o five one. If you need to vent, fol on to wide open again. Eight hundred five eight five one O five one. It is to breakfast club. Coming the breakfast club. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man from you on the breakfast club. You got something on your mind? Hello? Who's this? Hey, it's Mike called it out of Westall Mike, what's up?

What up? Getting off your chests? Mike? Man? Listen, man, my brother has been My brother has been irresponsible on you know, most of his life. Right, So so he tells with my mom he's almost thirty, um, and and yesterday something I like it was just right. I've been running around working, I got school, got kids, whatever. Um. He was supposed to give me the money to put it in her account because she's ticking in the hospital right now, and he wanted to wait till twelve o'clock

last night to give me the money. So what I did was I told I told him that. Well, I told him that FBL came, he sent a pole off, but I just turned the breaker off to let him kind of soaking his actions. And um and uh, yeah, how do you think I should? I should leave it off before I tell him that, uh, before I turned him Not it's a breaker. I mean it's up to you, man, like the weather like though, is it isn't too hot? Nah? Man? Not really? I mean, has he done a prank to you?

Has he done something to you that you're getting them back for? Oh my god, all my life. Oh let it let it simmer for a second. Brother, Let's let god. Let God move you. Let God move you, to let him know when when the gig is up. Okay, alright, alright, And then you shouldn't tell him, EF, You should never tell him. You should just turn it back on. Yeah, I wouldn't after Yeah, I wouldn't tell him. Just just turn it back on and and find and find a way to be the hero in this situation, like I

got your power back on. Oh man, all right, I like that one. I'll do that. That's track. Hello, who's this? Jj JJ? What up? Getting off your chest. What's going on? Man? So I've been seeing on the news a lot of articles about you know, cute and giving out you know, chemical suits and whatnot. So I think we're already at the brink of World War three. It just depends on whether he's gonna pull that triggers chemical warfare and actually get you know, the needles just step in. I don't know.

It all depends on the world. You know, the US, you know we're gonna step out there and you know, show face to Ukraine if you know, a few steps up the chemical warfare news and all that. I don't. I don't, I don't. I don't even think we're on the verge, right. I think we're already in the midst of it and they just haven't having labeled it in such.

But it's a great article in the New York Times. Um, I think kim out yesterday and it really talks about that, you know how Russia, as the headline is Russia digs in what's the risk of nuclear war? It's not zero? And they break down why you know why they why this author breaks out why he feels like nuclear war is imminent most definitely. Yeah, there's definitely gonna put something

pop up. You know, one of these days, you know, some things is gonna happen, and we're just gonna have to see how humanity, we know, react to everything and what the US is gonna do and eight on whatnot? Well, I think Newton said the end of society would be two thousand and sixty. M Mit predicted two thousand and forty, so we'll see great. All right, get it off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vent, hit this up now. It's the

Breakfast Club. Go more, the Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up. Way you're trying to get it off your chest, Adam Black. We want to hear from you on the rest as well. Hello, Who's this is? Anthony from Florida? Was up? Anthony from Florida? Get it off chests? All right? First, I want to shout out the beautiful women in my life. My mom, she's traveling right now, she out of town. Stay warm. My wife at home with my kids are a spring break, my sister, my grandma out there in New York too.

But I want to just say, oh, I'm a new homeowner and I appreciate it. Thanks. I appreciate it. And Yo, every time people keep coming up to my door and trying to sell stuff like solar energy or like sure fire or stuff like why they always ask like are you the homeowner? Like that's a turn off to me, Like don't come there and ask me are you a homeowner or anything? Are you the owner of this home? Like I'm obviously here, Like that's a that's an automatic note,

Like y'all could first come up to the door. You see it's a new neighborhood, you know what I'm saying, Like I hate explaining that, Like I'm y'all, I'm thirty two. Like next time somebody I see if you're a homeowner, I'm gonna say nah, Like that's what I say. No, Yeah, I do that all the time. But I think they just don't want to waste their time talking to a person who's renting or doesn't own the home and can't

make that decision. I feel you. And then another thing I got before I go, Man, I'm a truck driver out here, and you know we're just moving away, like state to state and everything like like man, gas prices is going crazy. Really we didn't know, yo, Yo, And

the you know, the gas prices is going up. We're spending the hell of bread at the gas pump and they're not throwing us anymore bread on the load, just like it's getting lower, like they're making a stove, like we gotta like we I don't know what we gotta do. Like they know what's going on, and now prices is getting lower for us, so it's hard for us to eat out here, man. So the big companies just listening to this man, like, take take care of us out here, man,

because our pockets is really hurting right now. You know what I did see though, I see and I don't know if this is gonna change the game and the next couple of years, but I see Tesla is making starting to make trucks electric. Not a good game. That's not a good game for us, man, because like that's not expensive and all your company is gonna be able to afford. And people that I really got it out the mud and started with you know, one truck up

to twenty. You know, we ain't gonna be able to change o'all all these guys, and you know it's serious, man. That gets scary because like they're about to have trucks driving themselves, and what we're gonna do, Like, yeah, that's that's why I understand when people say things like that. They'd be like, oh, you know, Tesla's coming out with an electric car. That stuff's gonna cost money. It does. You're gonna have to be able to afford the electric

trucks in your electric cars everything. But in time, those trucks I think would be a guess, maybe I don't know, maybe a better situation because you don't have to put as much gas, you know, but you still gotta be able to ford it to old people. That's gonna be able to afford to the companies. And like he said, just now they're gonna have these self driving trucks. They're not even gonna need the drivers anymore. You can't see

not having anybody in the truck though. That's like a lot of the trains and things like that can drive themselves, but you still want somebody in case. You know, you must not know these corporations if they's much we never mind, well never mind. All I'm saying is manual label has been proven that it's not absolutely necessary since the pandemic, and if people can go automated they will go automated.

Andrew Ainman wandering about that for the long and Andrey Angler like, you need to build a wall around still come valley. He's like, you're worried about the Mexican y'all need to worry about the robots. Get it off a few chests. Eight, don't drip five eight five, one oh five. We got rules all the way. Yes, and Jesse Smillett is out of jail for now. I will tell you what happened, all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. It's about.

This is the rumor report. Angela Yee found the Breakfast Club. Well, while Jesse Smilett was in jail, he was fasting and he's taking Lent very seriously this year. He gave up food and they said he's planning to stick by this for nearly five more weeks. It's already two weeks into the fast, so he's planning to do that until Lent ends on April seventeenth. And he's taking things one day at a time. Now, well I think he started before that and by a week, yeah, and then he's been

doing a two weeks. So when lent started and then he's planning to do it for five more weeks. Get out now we're about to get to that now. So he was ordered to be released from jail on bond until his appeal is decided. So his legal team was able to get him released from jail, and that is just on bond, by the way. So this is all for him trying to appeal this disorderly conduct conviction for

lying to police about this alleged hate crime. He had been sentenced on March tenth to one hundred and fifty days in jail and required to pay a twenty five thousand dollars fine and one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in a restitution to the City of Chicago. Here is his attorney. The First District Appellate Court in Illinois in Chicago just released an order ordering and the Jessie Smollett

should be released from jail immediately. Now this appeal that we filed, the basis of our appeal was very simple. We told her appeler Cord that pending the appeal, Jesse ought to be released because quite frankly, I'm gonna put in layman's terms and not legal talk the case sucks. The cases bogus against him, and they released him, and that says a lot about what the appelate Cord thinks of this case. Yeah, I feel, you know, they really just messing with Jesse the way they feel he messed

with them, right, Like that's all this is. They feel you wasted all time, rand us all around. Now we're gonna do the same to you, and they're gonna continue to be on whatever Jesse's on. They can do this all day, all right now. Rihanna has been making some appearances with her belly for her fenty beauty line, and now in a new interview, she is talking about how

she plans to be as a mother. She's in her third trimester now and she told Elle magazine, you talk about my kids, it's over And she said that big root energy, tired sir. One of the Real Housewives mother told her, and that was Teresa, by the way, Judas, that's your friend, Envy. She said she does not play about her kids. She said, she will flatten you about those kids. And that resonates with me a lot because I feel like that's the type of mama going to

be psycho about it and so right now. She said some of the best advice she's gotten about motherhood was to focus on getting sleep now because she'll get very little of it when the baby arrives. Play with Rihanna, kid, if you want to. There'll be an oxtail bone with your name on it, buried in Barbados somewhere, all right, And Little Nozex is back on Twitter with a series of tweets, and one thing that he wants to know is which of his two unreleased tracks are you more

excited about? Which one should he drop first? One of them is called Late to the Party featuring Young Boy, and another is called Down South Hoes featuring Saucy Santana. And he said, we've been the f this summer, which one y'all want to hear first. I didn't even notice Little no disappeared. That's a wild because you know, at one point Little Knack's name was in the headlines every single day, and then it just went away. I didn't even think about it, he said. Okay, I'll be honest.

I haven't been posting online because I got a BBL. I respect it to say that until you walk in here, the fat ass, and you'd be like, damn little what else Let's roll with you. Bet people be taking time to heal from the BBL. For real. I had a friend who did it. We all we all do. Yeah. Now, Kelly Roland has gotten emotional as she was talking about reuniting with her exchange father after thirty years and so they had their first public appearance together as they discussed

the reconnecting and what happened with all of that. And here is what she had to say about her dad, you know, saying I love you. It was hold up. It was necessary to the little girl in me that needed to hear that. It was necessary to hear it from a man. It was necessary to hear it from my father. That is the base in the foundation of its psychologically. So when I'm talking to therapists and I'm asking him about this and it all runs back to the abandonment issue once you was like kind of tackle

your way through that. You're helping to navigate your way through trying to have functional as functional as possible relationship. Drop includes Kelly Rolling and her father. Also on the Today's show, her dad was saying that I wanted to tell Kelly that I love her and that I never gave her up. Imagine that thirty years being strange. You know, he would go to her shows and she would not let him backstage and all of that. Now here's what

you had to say about first meeting her dad. It wasn't until I had Titan, my first and I said I want to meet him. And by the way, this was after I lost my mother, because I lost my mother three weeks after Titan was born. So at that time, I think I still had these feelings of like, oh my god, I have no parents, and it was like, no, you do you have one left. Next thing I knew, I was at a home tell in Atlanta and I was on my way to walk in to meet him.

Before I walked in, I had all these thoughts of what I was going to say, had all these questions lined up, and as soon as I saw his face, it was a blank Wow, I love it. Man, slewth all A girl. Dad's out there, man, big girl dad energy pour in New York as fathers are important because the love you get from a father can really make a break a person, male or females. So I'm glad Kelly got that. No, that's that's good. And you know what you think about it right, you haven't seen your

father in so long. The fact that she was big enough to say, you know what, I'm willing to put my ego aside and meet him and have a conversation, well, because I don't know if I could be there. She said. It was Jay Z who gave her a key piece of advice which led to her meeting her dad in twenty eighteen. He said, love is all about risk. You got to decide if you're gonna jump, and so she

said she decided to jump. But imagine he was saying he would try to go visit her backstage while they were on tour, but she specifically told security to ban her father, and he said it was hurtful for him to be turned away by security at her concerts when she was in Destiny's Child. I mean you know that that was her mindset at the time, and and you don't know what you know she knew or what she thought she knew. Correct, you can't be mad at that?

All right? Well that is your rumor reports. All right, thank you, miss ye. All right, we got front page. I was thinking about something. Remember, um, I don't like when you think side. Nope. Remember when we were in Houston and Drake was in Houston. It was like twenty bodyguards looking to beat up Charlomagne. Remember remember that Clu wasn't there, charlomign wasn't there. I was in that club this weekend, and just made me think of that we were in Houston. This is when Drake and Charomagne Dad

have to do it. Nothing. I just thought about it right now, have you guys Kardashian's hands, Thank you, thank you. I just told you. I don't like when you think of that. Had nothing to do with nothing. Are we about? Are we about to play a Drake record of something? So you just randomly thinking about drafting it? Just randomly thinking about it just made me we weren't talking about Houston. Nothing. Just made me chuckle, Like, now, Kelly's Houston and Jason

ain't Kelly from us? No? No, ain't she. I don't know either way. That was random. Yeah, it was just it just made me think of it. Just guys, I don't know what your train of thought is it sowhere, I don't It's like I don't even think it's a train. Said the twenty guys that came up to the NBA. Okay, chuckle, Okay, let me right anyway, Front Page News. Next, what were talking about? Um, we're gonna talk about a California bill that would allow parents to sue social media companies for

their kids being addicted. Oh boy, all right, we'll get to that. Next is to Breakfast Club, Go Morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. Draft King sports Book is an official sports betting partner of the NBA. Download the Draft King sports Book app today and use code Envy for a special offer when you sign up. That's cold Envy only a Draft King sports Book. So funny, man, oh man, this is such a stupid ass radio you like, right before the break all your

kids and we go allergic to Pope eyes. Him and our produce had a whole conversation about her being allergic to partment. You made that up, you says, she went on the date the Pope eyes and she says she's allergic. Tottle boy, I don't know what would just be random, you know, that's whatever. Let's get some allergic to popeyes.

We'd argument, uh hello, right, all right, Well, California bill would let parents do social media companies for their kids getting addicted is called the Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act that has been introduced and has advanced in the State Assembly, and they said some of these companies do indeed intentionally design features and their apps that they know children are using that caused the children to use it more and more and more and exhibit signs of addictions.

So the question to me becomes, who should pay the social cost of this. Should it be born by the schools and the parents and the kids, or should it be born in part by the companies that profited from creating these products. Now, I feel like I've seen this before. I feel like a cigarette this happened to the tobacco industry at one point because you do that. No, no, no, I think I actually believe that people that's won this lawsuit because they say they designed cigarettes with enough nicotine

to create and sustain addiction. It's the same thing with these social media sites. They do create them for people to be addicted to them. Now, they said this bill would first obligate social media companies to not addict child users, and then they said damages could include a thousand dollars or more per child and a class action suit or as much as twenty five thousand dollars per child per

year and the civil penalty. But they said it would be a safe Harvard provision that would protect responsible social media platforms and being penalized if they took basic steps to avoid addicting children. So because if I remember correctly, if you know, I don't remember much. They said that the tobacco companies were lying about the nicotine addiction. So

I don't know about the social media site. The social media site saying hey, nobody can get addicted this when the reality is they know they create these platforms with features for people to be a right and some I do see like they do try to take some steps to protect and make sure that, you know, to help

try to avoid addicting children. Obviously you can't care of that, but you can do certain things, you know, like restricting the time and parents can oversee that and make sure it shuts off at a certain time or a certain hours. You talk cigarettes, you know, there's stuff and cigarettes that make it addictive, right, the nicotine if if you talk a little. But they used to say it didn't though that's the point. That was a lot, But what's in social media that makes the addictive? It's not a lot

of different things. It's not that. It's not like it's a chemical imbalance or something that you need like you fem for. It's not. It does. I can't break it down as eloquently as some of these people who you know, study these things for a living. But no, there's a lot of different things on social media platforms that keep people addictive. That's what they want. They want your time and your attention. They want you to spend as much time on these apps as possible right now if you're

going to be in the metaverse for all that. Oh my god. Yeah, you should watch The Social Dilemma on Netflix. I think that's what it was called. And remember they had the gram Kids that they were planning to do that spinoff app and they pause that app for now, so you know, I mean, I know they do certain things to make it more attractive and make kids want to watch it more. But addictive where you have to have it like nicotine. I don't know that I've been

saying that social media is addictive. You can see it. You should read You should read Digital Minimalism by cal Nuport. We had cal Upay before, and you should watch The Social Dilemma on Netflix. It breaks it all the way down all right now. As we're also talking about these rising gas prices, A Lift has detailed a fuel surcharge of fifty five cents to each ride given by drivers

that is going to offset Surgeon gasoline prices. They're going to be following Door, Dash and Uber who also announced surcharges this week, and they did release the details of their plan. This will be effective beginning next week. All of the money will go directly to the drivers. So the surcharge is not applicable in New York City because there's already a five point three percent increase in the

minimum earning standard for drivers there. So that should I have to pay for your gas, you should have to pay for the Uber drive gas. Yes, yeah, that's how he makes his money. Jesus. If you have to pay for more, how you for gas? Yeah, they got to pass that on to you. Okay, So based off the miles that I'm riding, correct, that's how much gas I should pay. That's probably what it is, I would hope. So it is based because I don't want to have to pay like you know, imagine I get a fifty

dollars search charge or something crazy and I'm going. But they said it's fifty five cents each ride, so that's not too crazy. I think that's reasonable. That's good. Yeah, all right, well that is your front page. But everything's gonna be rising based on the gas prices. Every Yeah, he's already as charging. When you get prices are gonna go up. Yes, everything, your grand Riding King. You know what Grand Riding King? All right? Well, um yeah, joining

us next. Don't try to mispronounce this name. She was in King Richard. She was the actress that played Venus and Serena's mom. I thought it was oh Ellis. Yeah, okay, she is playing our scene, which is Venus and Serena's mom and King Richard. So we'll talk to an amazing job. She sure did. And it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I want to everybody's DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. We got

a special guest joining us this morning. Yes, indeed, we have our j LAS welcome. I say it right, you said it all right, all right, I was nervous. Good morning. First of all, how are you I'm doing all right? How are you doing? I'm blessed Black and Holly. All right. Second of all, congratulations and all the accolades. That is amazing people. She played Venus and Serenus's mom and King Richard. Yes, but you can't pronounce that name. What Venus and serena mother?

You know now? Just how it looks right, Well, let me tell you NB jests of the movie on the plane, because now it's on the planes to watch it. But I watched on HBO Max and it came out in HBO Max and in theaters simultaneously. Yeah, I didn't know it was on planes, but I heard from our director Ronaldo Marcus Green that he saw a woman watch it on the plane and that she he watched her reaction while he was, you know, on the plane, and she was crying and everything. Joe was a woman. It wasn't me,

and he was definitely crying. Yeah, that movie. Movie was amazing. You played a great role. It was very believable. And I think what made me tear so much is just the inspiration of where they came from. Yeah, I think they had to overcome and everything that the mom or you had to overcome in the movie. It was just it was a really great movie. Like to see with the neighbor across the street. I think that was a really powerful scene. If you can just talk about that

for a second. That actually happened. A neighbor called child protective Services on the Williams family and they wanted to take the kids away from them because they felt that they were working them too hard. They did what they had to do. I mean they were they were This woman was the family or was essentially trying to destroy their family. And um so in that scene, I had to go over there and talk to her and pull a cotel a little bit. How nerve wracking and difficult.

It difficulty is that to play a real life character? You know what? For me, honest to God, it's it's a pleasure for me. It's a pleasure for me because I I these women that I've been playing. I've been playing a lot of real life characters lately, and these women that I've been playing, I just see them as heroes of mine. I think miss Orstein is a hero, you know. I played Sharon'salam and when they see us,

these women are are heroes to me. So I get the chance to correct history and the history reflects them as being you know, it doesn't reflect them at all, you know. So I get to stand in the in the in the gap of that. So I love it and I you know, to me it people like, oh do you feel do you feel like it's a burden. I'm like, nah, it's not a burden to me. It's my joy. What's not fun it's playing some stuff I

don't believe in. So yeah, haven't done that all between all the time, you know, because you know, you know, acting, as Halle Berry so brilliantly said, is an vocation rather than the advocation. Sometimes sometimes you have jobs that you gotta do because you gotta pay the rent, you gotta pay the mortgage. As job. Yeah, it's a job. I was gonna say, let's break this stuff from the beginning when they casted you for this movie. So yeah, break

that down how it happened? Would you have to read for because I know Will Smith was one of the producers on there, So break down how that happened and your fight for that if there was one, Yes, it was a fight. It was a fight, and I embraced fights. Um, you know, they they had I'm sure some more you know, famous people on the list that they wanted to go for. But when I knew that was the case, I didn't care. You know, sometimes you know something's for me. Yes, that's

what I felt. And I knew that I wasn't on their radiar in that sense, you know. It was just sent to me by my agent and just look at this and I was like, okay, yeah, they they're thinking about this person. I think you, Nick, I'm sure you got all the names that you could hold. Those women were And I said, okay, that's cool, that's cool. And then it opened up. And then so I started out,

you know, reading for it. I was in Mississippi, and I had my sister read with me, and and I went to Atlanta, had my sister read with me on the phone. We sent out tapes, tapes, tapes, tapes, tapes. That turned into a conversation with Ray Green, and then that turned into going to Los Angeles to meet Will for this chemistry read. And so I was doing Lovecraft Country at the time, and so at and shouldn't have

got canceled. We'll talk about that, lady, I agree. And so I had to on the down low on a Saturday morning fly out to Los Angeles to read with Will, and I couldn't change clothes on the plane, so I had to change clothes in the car on the way to Will Smith's house while the driver's asking me, you know where am I going? Because he knew I was going somebody's famous his house, but I couldn't tell him.

See what he's pepper peppering me with questions, changing clothes in the car, brushing my teeth in the car, spitting out my toothpaste and Will Smith's yard, Wow, my god, going inside. Now he knows it. Now, he would have did the same thing. Come on, okay. Then I read with him and his fantastic estate, and then he fed me, which is what Will Smith does. He speeds you. And then they didn't tell me whether they had the part

or not. And then I went home back to Atlanta, and a week later, at Thanksgiving, they told me I had the job. Can we tell I want to tap into the spiritual aspect of that. I want to tap into the discernment that tells you this is your role, because I read in the La Times how you wanted the role so badly and you fought for it, and now to see you nominated for you know, best supporting actress, clearly you were right. But what did that discernment feel like?

What was God saying to you that, let you know this is mine? Well? I think it was because I wasn't worried when I knew that they wanted other people, that they were thinking about other people, I just didn't worry about it, you know. And I'm not you know, I'm not this person who just who I'm not spiritually tapped in that way. You know. I hear people say things when God has something for you, it's for you. It's not that I was thinking in that way. It

just was I was not worried. I knew that if I could fight for this, if given a shot, I knew I would have a chance. I knew that, And I think it's because I love the Williams family so much. Venus and Serena are heroes of mine on and off the court, and I felt like I could speak to that and be honest and real about it. So if you let me in the room, I felt I'd be okay about it. So but then you know you have to fight for it. But then when you get the job,

the fight doesn't stop. The fight doesn't stop. So I knew I was up to it. I knew I was up for you meet the family and really get this note behind the scenes of a person, because you know and stuff that you see in the script, but then you have to know the person and you got to get the stories and this. So when did that happen

and how was that? Right? Well, I didn't get to meet miss roseen Um and I Venus and Serena came to set a couple of times, once when I was there and then another time, but I you know, I wasn't there, but um, yeah, I didn't didn't didn't get to do that. But they did was They did these recordings of miss or Sin and they just got to They just let her talk about her life and this was a it's so funny like and she just talked

you know what I'm saying. And what was so great about it is it was the first time she could speak for herself, do you know what I mean? Because mister Richard sort of took that space of being the spokesperson for the family and no one really asked her. There are only a couple of interviews where Miss Rossein talks at all. But in these recordings they did of her,

she got to talk about her childhood. She got to talk about how she sees sports, tennis, you know, and I listened to that and that was my That was my bible. That was my audio book every day. All right. We have more with ange Ellis when we come back. Of course, she was the mom and King Richard. Yes, she played Venus and Serena's mom and King Richard. So we'll talk to us a moment when we come back

as the Breakfast Club. Go Morning Morning, everybody in envy Angela y Charlomagne, the guy we are to Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with angeneu Ellis. He's an actress. She played Serena and Venus's mom in King Richard. Charlomagne. You know, you touched on it a little bit and you said it's because they didn't ask, you know, miss Orisine. But you know she was clearly that helping, you know,

with the with the development of the young ladies. Why do you think she she didn't get as much credit as mister Richard. Well, you know, here's the thing. She she wasn't She wasn't helping. She was she was she was the coach. She was the coach, you know, And I think that was the surprise of me for this is that finding out that he was a spokesperson, yes, a salesman or whatever, but she was their coach when they were on the court. It was her who was

out there coaching them. And she is more responsible for the for the play of Serena, which is very interesting, you know, and a little bit just a little bit, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and and people don't know that. I mean, you know, I'm sorry, but you know, history is written by men. The history of women a lot of times is written by men. And here's the thing, miss miss Orsin is not interested in that. You know, she's not

interested in being in the limelight. She just wanted her girls to be excellent and um so that's what she wanted us. She knew that mister Richard had to do that and she was good. She was good with that. So they were kind of like a perfect un in the ang really yeah, yeah, yeah, I do not show

that dynamic then what do you want to see? No, no, no, I'm just saying if if she helped with the actual development of the play and he was more than spokesperson, it's kind of like a for hip hop terms, like a Jay z Dame Dash because there was that scene where you were coaching Serena. He didn't even know she was competing. Yeah, and so then he found out and she was amazing, and he didn't even realize how great she was because you were doing that kind of more

on the side, Yeah, while he was focused on Venus. Yeah, I think that, you know, we had there was another scene that that didn't make the film because the film is two and a half hours long. Somebody asked about that early and I was like, I didn't seen that long. Yeah. Yeah, so there was another scene. There was a couple more things that were in there that they that didn't make it.

But I think what they did was is that they showed me on the court with her, you know, training her um and yeah, I thought they did show that. Maybe that was wrong. Maybe one time he took Venus and you and the daughter went to the court to practice, they didn't show that. I thought they showed that. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't see the whole film. I hadn't seen the whole film. You haven't seen the whole film because I'm scared they showed it that they showed

that they did. They're scared to see the whole film. Yeah, I am. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. Why because I was there. I did it, you know what I mean. And I'm like, I know what I wanted, and so if it doesn't meet that, I'm I'm gonna be I'll be too effective by it. And I don't want the experience that has been so great. I don't want it to be sullied by my own self. Critique. The toughest part of the to shoot, for you, the most difficult part, if there was any, it wasn't. I it wasn't. It wasn't hard,

you know it was it was it was fun. I mean, I got to go to work doing something I really loved, you know what I'm saying, and whatnot. That's not hard for me. I hear people ask questions like, how do you decompress? You know what I'm saying, Listen, I decompress from what though. I'm going to going to work. I'm getting paid to do something I love to do. I'm getting paid to tell miss or Seen Prices story, this woman,

this Titan of Tennis that people don't know about. That's what I want to do in my life, you know, because I feel like that's the kind of work that I do when I'm not acting, is try to push stories about black women, push narratives, but push history about black people. And so to get paid to do that on film? What am I decompressing from? So? What are stories that are important to you to tell? Right now? Oh? Right now? Well, you know I'm trying to tell um,

missus Fanny lue Hammer's story. Um, and I'm trying to tell miss Fanni lue Hammer story. And I'm also trying to tell missus Fanny lue Hammer story. Yeah you have it. Yeah, that is that almost getting? Is that in the works? Is that going to happen? We hope. So we did a short. I did a short with this director, Christine Swanson, who directed the Clarksisters movie. I did a couple of years ago, and that's out on it's on YouTube. Anybody can see that now. But we're trying to develop it's all.

I've already written it, um, so we're just trying to get it reduced. I love it. I was gonna ask for King Richard, how long did it take to film that? Because y'all shot it during COVID So I already said, you thought you didn't think the movie would ever get finished. No, of course not. We started shooting in January of two

thousand and twenty. We didn't finish until December of two thousand and twenty because we shot for We shot from January to March, and then the world happened, and then we stopped shooting, and then we came back in September and we finished in December. It was a miracle. That's long. I mean, that's a long time. That's a long as time. Wow. Yeah, what would be the normal shoot time for a film like three months? Wow? Yeah, we were gonna be start.

We're gonna start in January. We had rehearsals. We're gonna shoot for three months. We would have been done in early May. Wow. And I remember Will Smith gave everybody bonuses because of how why do you look like that? Why do you look like that? Go ahead, answer you ask a question, Ask you a question. No, I mean it seemed like the right thing to do, just because of how the movie was rolled out. I think you should ask the question, did Will Smith give everybody bonuses? No?

He did, know he did, he did. But I think what's important to say about that? Um? And I think it's important that I say this is that. Um, you know, as I said, after you get the job, the job, the fight is not over. Um, you have to fight to be and that kind of thing. And I did that job, and I'm thankful for it. But you know, I could have gotten paid better, see what you're saying. And so I told him this, and he did something

about it. And as a result of his doing his responding to the letter that I wrote to him, Um, not only did he address that with pain increasing my pay, but the other actors in the movie also got their pay increase, which which is the proof of when black women do well, everybody does well. See that's not how the story was told. And that's a better story. And the reason it's a better story is because we can't course correct any of this stuff if we don't have

these conversations. You had a conversation with him, he did something about it, did something about it. That's a better story. Then I gave everybody Yeah, you know, but you know, he that's that's how he wants to you know, frame it, and that's his world. But I think it's important that first of all, people know who this man is and what he did and first of all, and also that you know black women still have to fight to get

paid equally. I was going to say this and not taking anything from you, but you said, you know, some of the cast, you know, didn't get paid as they shouldn't. They got bonuses, maybe because some people would say, well, isn't at the agent's job to fight for your salary or what you get paid for and negotiating, Well, I think I can only what happened with the other people

in the cast. That's their story. I can only speak for myself, and so speaking for myself, you know, whether your agent, whoever your agent is, you know they can fight for having the best thing for you. But if you are working in within a system that doesn't believe that the work of black women is as important as the work of white men, no matter how much they fight,

it doesn't matter because at still a reality. And there's not a black woman in the world who who has had my path essentially, who doesn't have that story, not even the best like Viola David's. Absolutely say that, absolutely, and we got we gotta keep saying it until it's until it's made right, all right. We have more with Ellis when we come back of course she was the mom and King Richard. Yeah, she played Venus and Serena's mom and King Richard. So we'll talk to us a moment.

We come back. It's a breakfast club. Good morning morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy we all to breakfast club. We're still kicking it with angeneu Ellis. He's an actress. She played Serena and Venus's mom in King Richard. Charlomagne, I have opportunities. Four black women evolved over the years in Hollywood. I think now the conversation should be not just about representation, but because we see us all everywhere, right, But it's like how do we

see us? You know, in what ways do we see us? It's not enough to have a brown, black and brown face, although I like seeing it, you know, it's like what kind of stories do we get to tell? You know, even in this fight for you know, to tell Missus Hammer's story, you know, having to convince someone that you know that Missus Hammer first of all, that she matters, that she's important, that people would be entertained seeing her.

And the way that I've written is not in ray the way that I've written, it is not in a conventional way, so I have to get producers to trust that I can do it. And I was thinking about also the Critics Choice Awards with Jane Campion, a director of the Power of the Dog, and what she had to say in her speech about Venus and Sereni Williams and basically like saying, oh, they didn't have to play against the guys whatever, like I did. And then she

later did have to apologize. But I was like, why would you even say something like that, like during a time when you're getting your award, And it was like a put down and I just didn't understand that. But she did come back and apologize. What were your thoughts when you heard that as somebody who is connected to

Venus and Serena. Well, you know, Tony Morrison has this really great quote when she talks about how like when black black people are thrust into these conversations about about race, that it really is a distraction, you know, and and and distracting, meaning that you know, our movie king Richard, Venus and Serena that gets put on the side and now we're having a conversation about something. Miss Campion said,

you know what I mean. It's it's a distraction. Like what we should be doing is talking about King Richard will Smith and his incredible performance and he swept every award, you know what I mean. But now we have to give space to something Miss Campion said. And and you know, even though we're critiquing Miss Campion, what we're doing is we're centering her. And I don't I'm not interested in centering her. I'm interested in how we how we critique

race in a way that d centers someone. Somebody said at an award show, you know. And then here's the thing she has to answer for her, right, It's not for me to answer for her all her time, you know what I mean? A hard time role, your first movie role that you got my first movie role or TV role either. Okay, so my first TV role was New York On right? How was that? Malik Yoba? And again with Terrence Howard, we played like this Bonnie and Clyde h story. Um, I shot a gun and we

I think we died. You look back at that and just died laughing. Man, I just thought that was the coolest thing in the world. You know. Yes, that's a great first job. You from Mississippi and never shot a gun. I lied didn't, That's what I'm saying. I know you did some hunting or something. I forgot about that part that now I saw is the truth that you were so nervous the morning of the Oscar nomination that you turned your phone off because you didn't want to let

people down if you don't get nominated. Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, Yeah. You put that kind of pressure on yourself, like, oh, come on, you know you don't want to let people down because you got people that are just like already, I'm gonna cry if you don't get nominated. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, yo, that's not in my hands. I want anything to do with that. How many messages did you have when you tearing the phone on? Well, I think my phone was just tripping, and so I

had about two hundred and fifty messages. But some of them were double messages, you know, because they were like, why is it green? That's not right? Yeah? So crazy with that said, are you gonna be disappointing? Of course you would be, But how disappointed would you be if you didn't win? I'll be all right. It's on the twenty seventh, the twenty eighth hopefully will come and you know, life goes on one. That's how I feel, antelote. I feel I really feel that way because I never let

me tell you something. There's an Oscar nomination and there's also being on the Breakfast Club and I'm telling you, they're like, they're like right here for me for real honestly, And I mean that. I'm not blowing smoke up you, you know, I really mean that, you know, because I think what I love what you guys are doing, whether you realize it or not, is that you are pushing culture.

You're pushing culture with these conversations that you're forcing us to have um in this you know, entertaining entertaining way. You have Michael Eric Dyson on your show, you know, talk chopping it up, you know what I mean. Yeah, who was the sister that she was running for Congress and from Ohio exactly. So yeah, I'm happy to be here. So yes, I feel like I'm going. That's why I'm glad to see you at the Afkress because there's so many people who don't show up for award shows that

are for us. Oh you hosted it, yeah, you know, and I just I just always think that's so strange if this award show is for us and it's celebrating us. Yeah, I'm good to see you with Doctor's good to see you with the why don't you come to the askress? So it was good to see you there. Yeah, I was happy to be there. Why do you think that's important to show up? Well? Know, I love those expressions.

Sometimes to be your own people, and that that's sort of the context is usually negative, but I like it. To me, it's positive because sometimes to be your own people that prop you up, right, you know, um, And that's how I grew up. I grew up with people that looked like me propping me up. So that's where I want to be. Like the Image Awards, its soul Turing Awards, all of those things are first of all, the most fun you have into the Wars show. Come

on anyway? I have to would love Craft Country heavy right, And I don't know anybody from the show, so you're the only person I can ask this question. Why the hell did they cancel love Craft Country Listen? I don't know. Then y'all got nominated for a million what I know? Like the week after week after I'm like, huh, yeah, they didn't give y'all no reasoning nothing. Yet they calls me think, no, they did not. They did not. They were like, buy, how were you when you got the

call like that's not coming back? You weren't shocked? I was completely shocked because I was we were being told that they were writing it and all this good stuff, and then then I just got this random call saying that it wasn't going to come back at all. Yeah, that's crazy. If you had to I had to speculate. Um, I don't know. I just think that I think Lovecraft Country was a was a wild ride, and I think you have to have you got to have these courageous

people who want to stay behind that wild ride. You know. I just think that, you know, the kind of storytelling that our white male counterparts get to do, we don't get to do that kind of level of you know, breath of imagination. We just still don't get to do that kind of stuff. You know, we have a one you have someone like Barry Jenkins who pushes the envelope,

you know, in the way that he does. Misha Green did that with Lovecraft Country, and um, you know they she needed to be continue to be supported in that way and that that didn't happen. That makes zero sense to me. Yeah, me too. You're also in the new series sixty first Street. Yes, I am all right. So when does that start? I think in April? Okay, in April, and so that's based in Chicago. It is huh, what's your role on there? So we know? I play a

woman who's running for office. I have a son who has Asperger's um and I played Courtney b Vance's wife again that country. He can't get rid of me. That's beautiful. Yeah, well your mother can see you now. Absolutely, congratulations on everything. Where honor that you took some time to come up to see us. You might feel like it's a kid deal, but it's a really big deal for us to have you here. That's good. Thank you. I really appreciate that. And y'all keep up, keep up what y'all are doing,

because I appreciate it. You got to watch the movie too, it's amazing. You get a great job. You got to see yourself in it. Well, I appreciate you need like a watch party or something. How do you know you even Oscar Worthy? Listen, let me tell you something I'm Breakfast Club worth there you go. How about that? It's to breakfast Love, Good Morning's. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, Kim Kardashian was on the Ellen Degenerous Show yesterday and she's talking

all about her new relationship with Pete Davidson. You know, she hasn't dated in ten years, she said, like since before Instagram, so she's still learning how to do things. But she did decide to choose happiness. I mean, I think it's just in life, like, no matter what it is, I just think I encourage my friends and the people that I love just to be happy. And I went for it, and I went for it. I was like, you know what, I'm in my forties, Like sorry, like

just go for it, find your happiness. Yeah, And like I went for it and I took my time and I found it and it feels so good and I want to hold on to that forever. Yeah, Jesus Christ, that's why Instagram took Kanye's took his Instagram away. Wow, all right, we're gonna get into that second now. She so talked about people were saying there was this tattoo of Kim's name on Pete's chest when that picture was posted of him laying in the bed. And here's what

Kim Kardashian had to say about that. It's not actually a tattoo when you say branding, so like literally like an iron thing. Yes, went onto his body. Yes to brand Kim. Yes. I just think he was like, I want something that's there that I can't, you know, get rid of my tattoos, because he's in the process of getting rid of his arm tats and his neck tats. So he's like, I don't want to be able to get rid of it or to cover it up, and I just wanted it, like there as like a scar. Wow.

Well it's faster too than just sitting for a tattoo just to get branded. We're so cute, guys. It is cute. It's a durable Instagram might need to take Kanye Zi forty eight. That's serious, serious, That ain't just we just haven't fun. That's serious. Serious. Well, we've seen people get tattooed, but not necessarily branded someone's name unless they in a fraternity. But in addition to that, he has other tattoos, by the way, several. Here's what she had to say, Okay,

first tattoo, we god. I was like, oh it's so cute, thank you, Oh my god. You know, second whatever, I'm like, oh, that's so cute. But like that's what tattoo people do, right, Like they get tattoos of what's going on in their life. And so he has three tattoos. You it sounds like this is like the third. So the first tattoo, will you said? Kind of cute? So yeah, is it your name or is it like a little branding? Is my name? Right?

The other ones are like cute see things. I think my favorite one it says here it says my girl is a lawyer, and that one's really cute. They about to get married. Yeah, okay, instagrams branded too and Instagram make it seventy two hours. They about to get married. There a lot of people out there with tattoos, and the three taos about actually know people who have multiple tattoos, and you know, but that's what they're absolutely not. Maybe

let's just take Kanye's Instagram for a month a year. Well, it's been taken away and it's suspended for violating bullying and harassment policy. So they said he can be hit with even more sanctions if he continue to make posts that violate Instagram's rule. I'm confused because they left the post up there posted they leave up. I'm sorry. I saw I saw some stuff the leaded, just one with Pete's head they left. Oh, I would think that violates, don't you did? It depends on who they say he bullying.

He might say he bullying um, his ex wife. Yeah, so depends on who's getting bullied. And I saw a lot of people were, you know, went to free Kanye also free from what from Instagram jail? I guess, oh god, all right, now Kanye's gonna his next movies. He's gonna say he's gonna launching his own social media platform. Mona said, oh, he's gonna help Donald Trump with his because Donald Trump has a social media platform. Watch one of those two things,

all right now. Ellen DeGeneres, by the way, since we were just talking about her, gave her staff millions of dollars in bonuses as her show is coming to an end.

So the final episode is set to air May twenty six, and they said the exact seven figure some that will be distributed to staffords was not disclosed, but the source to cleared it was not even a question for Ellen to cover bonuses that was very important to her, and they also added that she's been incredibly generous to employee since the show began back in two thousand and three. All Right. Mary J. Blie recently spoke out in an interview promoting her new album Good Morning Gorgeous about her

decision not to have children. She spoke with Ease Daily Pop to discuss this, and here's what she had to say. But do you think you're ever gonna get to the day where you're like, damn, I maybe should have done it there. Yeah, So I'm good. I listen. I have nieces and nephews forever, and I'm always watching how people are scrambling around for babysitters. I don't want to go. I don't want to go through that. My freedom. I like being able to get up and go and move

and do what I want to do. I don't want to attend to someone all the time, you know right now, you know, But you know, I don't think why did you ask that question? It was the context. I'm not sure. This is just a clip that was circulating from Justin Sylvester. You know, we haven't always made the best decisions here on the Breakfast Club. Over the years, there's been a lot of things that have still said in this room that you know, I don't even y'all may not have heard.

And I remember some years ago, years years ago, years ago to Queen Mary J. Blige, the Queen called into this radio show. She called for something somebody hit in this room. I asked her, when is she gonna have some babes just like that we're gonna have Definitely wasn't

wasn't me. It was not Leonard. Okay, that leads one of the person all right, okay, we were a different show, and that answer was not She did not answer its eloquence, and she answered just now she did, Okay, everybody's evolved, nigga, that ain't your business. I don't know if she brought it up or he brought it up first in that interview. Oh yeah, and us, no, we ain't. You don't ask it was that he was him? That was that pronown

over there. That was eleven years ago, that fan right, eleven years ago, where do you want to have babies business? That was why do you care if I had the baby's happening for me? That was pushed my ass. That wasn't the contact drop on a clues month from Mary J. Blige. Damn, that wasn't the context. But we love you, Mary, Yes you do. That's a decision that's completely up to any woman. Whatever that she decided to do, that's on you. That's very true. All right, that is your rumor report what

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much money. Florida man is arrested after definitely say he rigged the board to his home and an attempt to electric hit his putant wife. Police arrested in Orlando man the breakfast club Benjie Donkey Other day with Charlom Haine, a guy. I don't know why y'all keeping him? Get ya elected? Me? Me don't here to day for Thursday March seventeen, goes to a spring Hill, Florida man named Thomas Eugene Coluchi. Now, what does your uncle Shaula always

tell you about the great state of Florida. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. Now, there have been stories like Thomas before, but I have a different perception of these kinds of stories now that it's twenty twenty two. Okay, there has been things that have happened in our society that make me give Thomas the credit he deserves for being stupid, but not really just slightly stupid. See Thomas

is a meth head, ladies and gentlemen. Okay. In fact, in his own words, here's an experienced drug used to experienced drug user, okay, a master of meth, a professional crank connoisseur, a human with a high degree of knowledge of speed. Yes, that is Thomas Eugene Coluchi. So imagine his surprise when he went out and purchased some of that cotton candy and that meth didn't hit like it should have. Okay, didn't produce the expected sensation. He wanted

nothing worse. And when you go out and buy your drug of choice and it ain't hitting on nothing, Matt, Well, Thomas did when any savage as speed user would do in that situation. He called the police. Yes, nine one one, we have an emergency. And emergency is I ain't tweaking and I want a tweak. Well, Thomas, maybe you weren't didn't know it. Let's go to w FLA news Channel eight for the report. Please. Forty one year old Thomas

Colluci called the Hernando County Sheriff's office Friday night. Authorities say he told deputies he bought meth from a man he met at a bar, he said, A right over to ye, and I heard him laughing in the background. Collucci told authorities he was a quote experienced drug user who quote knew what it should feel like. When I spoke it up, it looked like so stiff a little bit, and when I think I got what was best called, Colluci then requests an unmarked squad car from the dispatcher.

I don't want anything coming house because I'm really staring on. These guys are plotting to kill me. Okay, bar, so I could show him what he sold me. I really want to show a police office. And he told me, I really don't want to get arrested if something happens to me. Authority said Collucci handed them two bags of the drug. Field testing confirmed the presence of methamphetamine. Collucci was charged for possession of the drug and two counts

a possession of drug paraphernalia. Thomas said his meth wasn't hitting on nothing. I'm not too sure about that. It sounds like he was tweaking to me. He called the police because he did not want other people to purchase fake meth from the person who sold it to him. He wanted to put the person in trouble for potentially selling dangerous drugs. Listen, all of that sounds absolutely logical to me. Why because we live in the era of

supervised drug use sites. They have a lot of supervised drug insection injection sites, okay, which are medically supervised facilities designed to provide a hygienic environment in which people are able to consume illicit recreational drugs and prevent deaths due to drug overdoses. You hear about all these people dyeing a fenting all okay, fencing all overdoses. They have fenting all test scripts. Now you remember we had doctor Carl

Hard up here and we were debating with him. I'm a person who feels like we should spend more money on resources to get folks clean as opposed to creating safe spaces for them to do drugs. But doctor Carl Hart feels like we can have responsible adult drug usage. I would think calling the police to make sure my drugs are real and to report a drug dealer for potentially selling fake drugs is part of responsible adult drug usage.

I read an article a week ago on ABC News about the first official safe and Jecson site here in America, located right in New York City. Okay, local officials are allowing legal drug use to make it less deadly. I know, different states through different things, and there is no state like Florida. But as Thomas really wrong for being a responsible adult drug user? Is that even really a term, because that sounds like an oxymoron to me to have responsible in drug uses in the same sentence. But they

have these supervised consumption spaces. Remember about a month ago when they said the Biden administration was giving out crack pipes and the Democrats are so terrible that messaging. They couldn't explain what they were actually doing. Wow, they were doing what a lot of these safe spaces for drugs we're doing. It's called the Harm Reduction Grant Program, and they gave money to support community based overdose prevention programs okay,

syringe service programs, and other harm reduction of services. And part of the funding can be used to purchase supplies such as safe smoking kits, clean crack pipes, and overdose reversal medication. The same thing these safe spaces for drug you start doing at these you know sites, people bring

their own drugs to the consumption rooms. And this safe space has syringes and alcohol wipes, scraws for snorting, other paraphernilia, probably clean crack pipes, and most importantly, crucially, most impotantly oxygen and opioid overdose reversing drugs. See how easy I explain that, you dumb ask democrats. My god. The moral of the story is this, This energy. These new facilities y'all are opening all across the country are why people like Thomas feel like they can call the police and

let them know it's bad meth in these streets. Okay. That the reason I will give Thomas donkey today. It's because he should know better than to call the police. Okay, the police did arrest people for crimes and tell drugs like meth are decriminalized in this country. That's what's gonna happen when you call the police. Now. I don't know if supervised consumption spaces exist in Florida. I guess not. If the first one was just opened in New York, dug.

But if they did, that's where you should go, Thomas. Okay, not to the police, all right, and experienced meth user like yourself should know not to trust Pole. Pole Now look at you. Okay, it's all arrested, all right, charges all right? Also because you was a person who decided to snitch as if you wasn't doing something wrong your damn self. Yes, the man sold it to you, but you bought it because you wanted to use it. You're

both committing crimes in the eyes of the law. What if you called the police on you for using Hi Thomas, please give Thomas Eugene Colucci the sweet sounds and the Hamletones. Oh no, you are do the day, the doge, Oh the day? Ye? Now should we play a game? I guess where racy is? Or is it too easy? Meth Florida? I think that's easy, okay, Envy, do you think it's easy? Yeah, it's too easy. I still wanted to play though, now

it's easy? All right? All right, all right, well, thank you for that dog Any day up next ask a Yee eight on drip five A five one oh five one. If you need relationship advice at any type of advice, call ye now it's the breakfast club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. He need relationship advice, need personal advice? Just the real advice? Haul up man for asking morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. It's time to ask ye what line

you want to go to? Yeats to Hello? Who's this? Yeah? This is cute. Who are you from? Um? From the Bronx? Oh boy? Go now my question is um? When choking to your lady, I'm trying to like motivate her all right. My thing is like us gonna work worthy? Is it worth? Is it bad? Using that? Like, what do you mean by motivate her? Explain to me what's going on. I'm just trying to like put the fire underneath feed like we got bills and stuff like that, just be helped.

But just trying to be motivating her. But it's like it's coming from me. Oh, I don't know if it's coming from me. She ain't trying to hear it. So she turned me into the bad person. And then now she want to do be like yeah, forget this dude, or but it's like, Yo, I'm just trying to put the fire under you, trying to see your word that

you like dubbing me. Well, sometimes people can get really defensive because I think, uh, some people can be afraid to put themselves out there and do things in case it doesn't work out, and so that's kind of scary for people, which I understand. And then when it's the people closest to you trying to do that, she might not look at it as motivating. She might look at it as you acting like she's not doing anything great, you know what I'm saying. And that's kind of exactly

what she said. But my thing is what the thing that I'm talking about is actually happening with happening, And I will say, she was like, Yo, I'm not making tough up. We gotta do something about this. We gotta like come on out of that, give me an example, just build in general, just like because I'm kind of coming over for injury, so I needed her to take over like the crib, but she was just moving, so about it like that for my best fall forward. So I'm trying to push her, push her. It's like yo,

She's like, Yo, I'm just moved at my own time whatever. Whatever. I'm like, Yo, you can't be doing this when we got all this. Yeah, everybody doesn't. Everybody doesn't operate the same. But I will say this, when you are trying to, as you put it, motivate somebody, sometimes it could feel like nagging, right, I think it's a good idea to praise the things that they're good at, because a lot

of times is how you say things. So if you can acknowledge the things that she is doing and thank her for those things, I think that helps when you're trying to take it to the next level of you know, and being grateful, because sometimes people can tend to focus on what you're not doing instead of what you are. Even when I come from my hall sort the things that she is doing, it's like she will forget it and then laid on down the line be like, oh, now you don't do this for me, you will do that.

I'm like, yo, you not remember old of that from last week, like we talked about just to make me the bag up right. It feels like she's just getting defensive. And then maybe it's just the way that you guys are communicating, and so a couple of things here. Either I would try to get somebody to mediate the situation because it feels like y'all are not on the same level when it comes to how you communicate with each

other on the same wavelength. And the other thing I would say is, you know, like I said, people get defensive, so just be careful about how you talk to her, Like you know, they say, don't use the words never and the words always when you're in the middle, like you never do this or you always do that. And so I think it's important to focus on the positive, on the way moving forward, and also make sure you're contributing. Don't ask somebody to do the things that you're not doing.

And I'm not saying you're doing that, you know, but just be really conscious of having a discussion about what is triggering to her when you guys are doing these things, and what is it that she doesn't like about the way you speak to her. That way, you know, the best way for you to communicate things. And I've thought that before, but it's still sometimes don't even work. And I think that it's also important to talk to somebody when you're not angry at each other too, Like not

in the midst of an argument. You have to wait till you guys are, you know, maybe having dinner or sitting down and talking about things and setting aside a time to discuss, so it's not when you're both on edge, because then things tend to come out wrong and be received wrong as well. Give me those songs like what we all have dinner? All driving around and stuff. Is

she forgets about those conversations. So when I bring it back up and she's like, oh nah, that was never said all this time, I'm like, Yo, we disagreed to it, and now Jesus I know. But you know, it feels like you're blaming it all on her. And at some point you got to realize it's both of y'all too, you know so, and and part of it is owning what you're contributing to the problems in there. In how

y'all communicate, it's not just her, it's also you. If you can talk about how you can do things better and then let her know, you know, and let her add to that conversation and for you guys to come to an understanding. Sometimes acknowledging your own shortcomings is helpful too. AhR cool, That makes sense, all right, But I wish you guys the best of left. I know it can be really frustrating when you keep on going in circles

about things. That's thank you. I appreciate it, Okay, all right, ask ye eight don't five eight five one five one If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call ye Now, it's the breakfast Clugal Morning. I'm gonna keep a real some real advice with Angela ye gets ask Ye Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee Showman the guy. We are the breakfast club but in the middle of ash Hello, who's this? My name is lisba Hey, listen,

what are you calling from? I'm calling from Jersey? Okay, Well, Paul Elizabeth, New Jersey Elizabeth. Okay, what's your question for you? So I'm coming out of a ten your relationships, right, I'm only twenty six. Um, He's the only boyfriend that I've ever had, and now I'm entering the dating world

during COVID. It's very ghetto out here. So I wanted some advice from ye on like dating as a woman with like very little experience, because that's the only boyfriend I've ever had, So I don't know how to navigate out here. Okay, Well, where are you meeting people that you're dating? Or are you not really meeting people? I'm

not I'm not really meeting people, aren't honest? Ware? Okay, Well, I think and this is always my advice when it comes to dating, whether you're experienced at it or not, is to not put pressure on yourself and look at it as forming new friendships first, because anybody that you date is going to be your friend before anything. And so even if it doesn't work out and it doesn't turn out to be somebody romantically that you would be interested in, at least you can have found a friend

and that might lead to anything. And I also feel like letting people who you're cool with, no, hey, just so you know, I'm single and I'm available. So if you have anybody that you think would be good, you know, let me know. And moving around and going outside. You're not going to just meet somebody in the house unless you're online dating, and that's how you're focused. Are you better at online dating or meeting people face to face?

I honestly don't even know because I'm the type of person I respond to text messages in three business days, so that doesn't really work with online meeting. And my friends looking at the type of dudes that they talk to is like I can't really ask my friends for you know, right, you don't trust them, you know anybody, right, you know? I think it's also good to put yourself in certain situations where there's gonna be guys around, and

some times that might mean doing things alone. And so if there's like a you know, after work type of situation, or certain places where you can go where you know people will be headed to that you're interested in, or even doing some type of volunteer work or taking a class or things like that where people who you're like, okay, we share some common interest, that's a good place to meet people. But just like finding a job, you got to put yourself out there and really go for it.

It's not always just sitting back and thinking it's just going to happen and fall in your lap. Yeah, that's how I was thinking about things, honestly. But the last dude I was talking to not going to lie. He was a trapper and that wasn't experienced. And I'm like, never again. So I know what I don't want. It's just difficult finding what I do want. And girl, half the battle is knowing what you don't want and what those red flags are. So you already know from your

past relationship, I am never doing this again. If this happens, I know that's a red flag and I'm not doing it. And I think that's so important of having your own standard. So that's halfway there. Okay, thank you so much. All right, and you want to give out your Instagram so people can see you. Oh my gosh, my instagram is introducing Lee on Instagram introducing Lee. Yeah, l e, good luck. All right, let's see. Let's see if there's any worthy men out here for you. All right, good luck, ask

ye eight hundred five five one. We got rooms all the way, yes, And let's talk about Jocelyn's Cabaret. There's a lot of drama going on surrounding that show, and we'll tell you what the allegations are and what the Zoos network has said. All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. You ain't gotta do it? Oh oh oh oh oh blow the whistle. Oh hope, blow whistle. Oh oh, blower's whistle. Oh what you lways go too far? What you always

go too far? He just can't a good time. You'll take it too far? What man? Why are you stopping blowing? No, I'm not blowing no more. All right, let's get to the room. Let's talk Jocelyn. Listen, Oh, gosh report guys. It's well, there's a lot of dramas surrounding Jocelyn's Cabaret, and that's the reality show that she has on the Zeus Network. And so now Amber Alie, one of the cast members from the show, went live yesterday and said that she was attacked by Jocelyn and Joscelyn's fiance Ballistic.

Here's what she had to say. I get out, knocked your bitch out, But your bitch is steady rushing meat, steady attacking j Yeah, Amber, you're gonna keep running up and she's gonna keep doing it to your hands. She's gonna drop kick your ass again. He was, he was. He was airing it all, kicking it up when she kicked me as soon as I deckor ass. Now you want to rush me? What the same Jocelyn's world. Every time we told Jocelyn to fight one or one head up, she kept jumping up like she was about to but

raising and it could dine and kept running up. Bitch, you ain't gonna do nothing to set your ass down. You know damn well, you met your match this season. That's why you kick me out to capuret from jump. I think you should know how to fight. When you go on any reality show, you should expect to fight, and you should know how to fight. You're not supposed to be basic. Yeah, you're not supposed to do that. They should be security there so that this doesn't happen. Now.

Amber Alee was also in the hospital and she did say that she plans to press charges. I'm in the hospital because Jocelyn kicked me and Ballistic attacked me. But I only came to it because my rooves out, my real dairy Bruce, because Joscelyn had some big ass boots on and she kissed me and not Joscelyn the scout, and I was being attacked about Ballist kick next thing I know. And that's why I'm pressing because y'all, y'all

did that for their protection and that's not right. Ballistic put his hands on me, y'all should have held him back into the police got there, and y'all should have let him go to jail. I gotta I gotta protect me. They fight a lot on that show. Listen. I know, I don't care about what's not supposed to happen. I've watched enough reality TV to know what happens. So when you go on these shows, know how to fight, carry

a weapon, protect yourself at all time. Yeah, but they're saying that security was holding them back and that it was also her fiance. All right now. Riby, who's also from Johnson's Cabaret Keeping, was on Instagram and she was crying and here's part of that clip. So much pain right now. Don't like me. I'm in bed all day. I'm just in a lot of man in my back, hurts my web, gad trip my head, my face, my head.

I didn't do that. Nobody. Who was the girl, the woman that was fighting like Spider Man, like she was crouching down, Like, who was that cut? I swear that they were fighting. They've been fighting for like the last couple of episodes. Now. Joscelyn went on social media and she said Mortal Kombat. She said, I have Mortal Kombat. One hole, pimp slapped another one, pushed one into last, pushing one into last night's episode. Let me read it. I read that yesterday. That was funny. Yeah, keep crying

from your hospital bed with your broken ribs. One kick you flew into the next day rotting out that he and you dumb bitches. When you sign up for a reality show, you cannot file a lawsuit against anyone on the show. You dummies. That meacause it was me, And I was laughing about that yesterday because she really tweeted like how people be when they be describing themselves. In

the fight, I'm Mortal Kombat. One hole, and I kicked the other hole down the stairs, and I through another hole through a window, and I jumped on the top of the car like Spider Man, and my body claimed the pile drive the right through the top of the roof. And it was a convertible, but I made it a roof now. The Zoo's Network released a statement and said, the Zoos Network would like to thank all of our

viewers for their continue support. While our programming remains authentic, loud, provocative, raw, unscripted, and uncensored, under no circumstances do we condone bullying, unprovoked violence, and men attacking women. Currently, we are conducting a thorough review of the events that took place during the Joscelyn's Cabaret reunion, taping the safety of our talent, crew, guests and fans as our top priority. They always put those

kinds of statements out after the fact. If you decide to be on a reality show, protect yourself at all times. It's almost like they act like we don't know what's going to happen on a lot of these shows. How many how many years have we seen people fighting on these reality shows? At this point, you would think all these reality show would have some protocol in place where this doesn't happen at all. Episodes I've seen two three episodes Get this show. I'm talking about just in general

the culture of reality show period. You always see somebody end up going to blow. Yeah, that's why they have security that's supposed to break. The security always comes after the fact. They let about fifteen seconds of the fight happened before the interview. All right, well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your room of reports. Now. Wendy Williams was on Good Morning America. How did you see any watch the interview? Anybody we're doing the show? Are you saying it? How was it? It was a phone call?

She called in the Good Morning America on zoom. It was a phone call, so you couldn't see her face. TJ suited the TJJ TJ Holmes, but she was on the phone. Okay, was good? Anything interesting? Anything that she revealed anything. I was doing the number two at the same time, so I didn't know what I'm not Seriously, I was doing a number two at the same time. I forget when people was walking in and not. I would turn it off because I didn't want them to

know that was me in the stall. So you know, if they heard all right, you know, I just all right right now, they said. She addressed her health and legal battles and mental and physical well being. All right, people's choice mixes up next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Your morning zill never be the same. Angela year here and the General Insurance has been saving

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My books are starting to come in. Of course. My book comes out April nineteenth, Real life, Real love, right. I can't wait to read it. It's not just your book either, Bro, my wife's book, I should say. Keep saying this yours. Damn Yo, me and my wife's book. Bo Gear is gonna be on lift Service minus envy, so we're gonna have some unfiltered conversation. She's coming up here minus me too. I'm gonna let your you know,

interview without me hereby. You should be here for I think it would be better because, yeah, that sounds scary to me. You sound like that sounds like some shook stuff to me. You better have your ass here in this chat. You gotta do every press that your wife does. You should be doing with her because it is y'all book. It is. But I'm gonna she actually requested not to happen. They're doing the ladies thing. Yeah, so that's fine. And I want to shout out to Coppin State University. I'll

be there tomorrow. Um, you know, I'll be over there talking all morning and afternoon. So shout out to my boy Joshua Humberd at Coppin State University. And then it's wholesale day in Detroit from my store at a private label. So I'm so excited for that. So guys, make sure y'all come through and get your hair and your bundles and your wigs and everything. Wholesale sounds good to me. And when we come back, we got the positive note

the Breakfast Club Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club good morning. And we also have to shout out Andrew Ellis for joining us. She was in King Richard. She played Serenas in Venus's Mom. Yeah, did an amazing job in that movie. And she was in Lovecraft Country too. Yeah, and she's nominated for an OSCAR Best Supporting Atress this year. So salute to that. Queen. You got a positive I do

have a positive note. Suit to my guy Arnold Taylor, Man Caroline's All Day Charlotte seven h four Big CEO Energy, my man Arnold Taylor. I saw Arnold post this and I really, I really, you know, filled this message. He said. Some people missed the message because they are too busy looking for the mistake. And I think that's the world that we really live in. Like nobody listens with the

intent to understands anymore. They just want to reply, especially because they get rewarded for it so much because of social media. Man. So you know, sometimes man, people miss the message because they're too busy looking for the mistake. Look for the message. Breakfast club bitches, you don't finish for y'all dumb