Resmaa Menakem and Gia Peppers interview

Chomagne the guy, Peace to the plan. It is Tuesday, Yes, it's Tuesday. Good morning to you. The birds are chirping. How y'a feel today? Good morning? Yeah, man, feels good to be here, feels good to be alive. Man, God is good. Well, yesterday I smoked cigars for the first time, congratulating. Yeah, it's a weird thing. I had to film something at the cigar bar in Jersey and Scotch playing high end cigars. So I got a little cigar education, okay, and then

smoked a couple of cigars for the first time. Did you like it? It was okay? You know what I'm used to like feeling like cigars stink and they're terrible, but these were not. You know, I guess if you picked like some good ones, it was sweet tasting, it wasn't too bad. I don't know that it's like my thing, but at least I know about it, Okay, you know, all right? Well I was out of course. The book, my book, Me and My Wife' book, I should say,

comes out April nineteenth. So we're starting press. So I've been doing press all day yesterday. Yesterday I did fourteen interviews and then we start hitting the road. So we'll be if you have a bookstore, one of your favorite bookstores, and you would like us to stop by so we could talk about the book. It's a relationship book, all about things what to do in the marriage and things not to do in a marriage or relationship. So I know we're going to Mahogany Books in DC. I know

we're going to Bookends and Ridgewood. I know we're going to the La Book Festival in La. So if there's any bookstore out there that you want us to come by, we are coming to different cities and we are doing it just like a artists will do an album. We're getting in the car and we're going from city to city and hopefully talking to as many people as possible. We're super duper excited about this book. If you haven't pre ordered it, definitely pre ordered the book like I get.

Like I said, it comes out April nineteenth, so we're excited about that. So that was my day yesterday, me and the White's day Yesterday. My day were spent in front of the television. I've been watching a lot of TV. There's some great show of course, Abbott Elementary is great, super Pumped on Showtime, It's about Uber that's fantastic, Moon Night is fantastic, and Winning Time. The story of the

Lakers is great. But the highlight of my day yesterday, Okay, because for the past couple of months still is It's not hasn't stopped. It's all in conto. It's all we don't talk about Bruno. It's just everything is in conto. Everything's in random and conto videos and Contour on Roadblock and Contour on the TV. Yesterday I got my three year old to watch Lion King and she enjoyed it. No,

it's it's definitely gonna still be in Conto. My six year old still working on her when Lion King and I only got to the part where uh Foster came to save Symbol from the hyaenas came to save Simbol and Nola from the hyenas. But she was so intrigued. You know how. I know she was intrigued because when it was time for dinner, she didn't even want to eat dinner. She wanted to continue to watch The Lion King. And after she ate dinner, she was like, I want

to finish watching the Lion King. You said we'll finish it tomorrow. Okay, that made me proud as a father. Yesterday, Well, I band in count from my car for the next couple of days. Are you just a cruel father? Yeah? I can't. I can't take it one time it's not about you, bro, I could play it one time, it's not about you. One time I could play, but I can't play it over it's not about you and over. This is the point that nobody have to sing along.

They even got the sing along in Conto on Disney, plus the way the kids can sing along with the song. I'm tired of Bruno. I don't want to know who Bruno is talking about you. Yes, it is the first song selfish, I could take it. The second one I could take but ten times in a row. Whoa damn. See I can see what I would hurt a little bit. Wow, See, I can't mess with you. One and two. Huh Gia Peppers will be joining us this morning, Yahia Peppers man.

And also we have somebody else joining us. Right, my good brother Res Momenticum, the author of my Grandmother's Hands. He's got a new book coming out called The Quaking of America. All right, yes, so let's get the show cracking front page news. What we're talking about. Well, you may have noticed that there's not a lot of kmarts around anymore, and once these last few kmarts closed down, there will only be three left in the United States. Walmart and Target just took Kmar out. I forgot all

about Kamara. Don't disrespect Kmart, though, I forgot all about Kmar. That's the original mark. You know how many there used to be? How many? Two thousand three? What did they do wrong? All right? All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Go Morning, I'm talking morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela yea, God, we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. NBA tonight starts to play in tournament. I know on the East coast and

the Brooklyness take on the Cavaliers. On the West coast. I think the Clippers take on the Spurs the Wolves there. All right, what else we got easy? All right? Well, kmart is naring extinction. After one of them is closing in New Jersey. They'll be down to only three Kmart's in the continental United States. And so what they're saying is, you know, it was a lot of competition in a world dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon and kmarts. Decline

has been slow but steady. It's different shopping habits. Also, Target has better and trendier offerings. Walmart has a lower prices. Kmart file for chapter eleven bankruptcy back in early two thousand and two. Then they try to combine series in kmart and return them to their former greatness. But with the recession and the rising dominance of Amazon, that's continued to get derilled. And they're saying that, you know, the

CEO did not have a retail background. He was more interested in stripping off the assets of the two chains for their cash value. They said Serious should have never gone away. Kamart was in the worst shape, but not fatally so. And now they are both gone. S is going too. I had no idea. It's only the scrawn survive. That's why nobody should get comfortable because I'm old enough to remember when Kamarth mattered. I'm old enough to remember

when kmart was the only thing sports authority. I do remember Sports Athority, Dick Sporting Goods probably, but I mean, honestly, Amazon took over all of those places. Yeah, but you want to try things on. You want to go to DICKX and try it on. You want to you want to play with the balls. You want to kick you know what I mean? You want to you want to go through that like who wants to get ordered that stuff. When I walked in and saw you in that salmon this morning, when I saw you in that pink, I

knew it was gonna be on the day. You know we're going to try and I knew who. I knew it was gonna be on with him today He got his bid black today, got that paint on. They got that pink and paint when ever you got that pink and paint on. It is going to be a party, you hear me? All right? Well, Philadelphia has restored their indoor mask mandate as cases have been rising. It's the first major US city to reinstate that indoor mask mandate.

There's been a sharp increase in COVID infections. They're saying that confirmed cases have risen more than fifty percent in ten days, and that is a threshold at which the city's guidelines call for people to wear masks indoors. So starting April eighteenth, health inspectors will begin to enforce that mask mandated city businesses. So coming back, well in Philadelphia

is the first place because cases rose fifty percent. Okay, people dying though, if it's catching COVID, we know, I mean anytime there's more cases that people catch, because the tentages will go up. I thought the new stream it was saying it was a lot light of people were getting hospitalized. They were just you can't put the tooth paste back into YouTube. Okay, even told everybody to take

their mask off. Mask mandates over and now you think you think you can get people to put masks back on, please, you're about to catch hell. It's like fought in reverse. Okay, well that is your front page news. It's impossible, right far reverse. That's right. You can't. Once you fart is gone, ain't no grabbing that fart and putting it back in your ass. That's what I'm trying to tell them from the people in Philly. Get it off your chest. Eight

hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, phone LUNs a wide open, call us up right now again. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. Is the breakfast club, Come morning, the breakfast Club, Wake up, wake up, wake ya. You're time to get it off your chest, your man of blast. We want to hear from you on the breakfast block. Hello this Hello, Hello, Hello, Hey, this is seen. I don't know if y'all remember me from lad Sween. Stay

y'all hit me out for my split my disability. I do teen up from Spartanburg eight six four. Yes, I just wanted to tell y'all thank you, come in handy, because they did deny my own a pedio. Oh okay it d he paid and I appreciate it. It's one thing I wanted to clear up though, because because a couple of listeners to something DJ easily see it the wrong way, and I didn't take it the wrong way. You made the comment that it was like the blind leading the blind, and I just took it in for

saying because it's the saying. But they thought, oh, that's because that yeah, that's because you blind. You were blind in one eye. No, I was. I was saying that from South Carolina. You from South Carolina, y'all leading each other. Me just honestly didn't know. I didn't even know. Yeah that's what that mean. I ain't blind. No, I had nothing to do it blind because I was saying the blinding the blind because you couldn't figure Oh that's what

it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's how I took it, Okay, harmless, he was, Yeah, but I didn't take it that way, So I wasn't taking it. I wasn't going at you at all. I was just saying, Charlemagne couldn't figure out the cash happen. It was just like we all couldn't figure it out. That's all. Yeah, I know what you mean, but a couple of people and never won't be energy out there for Coles. I appreciate what y'all did. Friendly. No, thank you, Tina, Okay,

thank y'all. And I ain't worried about them. As long as you didn't take it the wrong way. That that's all I can Briana shouldn't even worried about it, all right, thank you so much. Then you have a gon queen. Okay, bye, I didn't even think about that at all because that wasn't my intention. Hello, who's this? Let me make money in queen? Hi, this is ring. I'm going from Alana Jorgia, and I want to tell you gay envy. First of all, friends, you're being a real hater about Brunana. No, I can't.

That's the best thing about the side a movie because the movie, No, it looks I can take it once or twice, but when when when it goes five six times, I just can't take it. No movie, that ain't. I can't hear you. Yeah, he just scrambled your signal. Yeah, your phone is terrible, but yeah, envious envy is very selfish because in conto's not about us his parents, it's about the kids. Thank you now, m Charla Mayne. You say you don't know why they talk about him, Let

me tell you why. Because that man did his job. Everybody had a power, and his power was to tell the feet through what he saw. And just like us, says regular people. Sometimes we don't want to hear the truth. They didn't want to hear the truth, so they him and the whole time. Oh, my kids told me that he just left his family. I ain't. Oh, they was in here for doing his job. He told them stuff. He told me. The phone is crazy. No, I get it. That's the era we live in. Nobody, nobody, nobody wants

to do in reality. They don't want the truth tellers around. They will cast him out. I get it. Get it off your chest eight hundred five A five one O five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chests, whether you're mad or blast so we better have the same any we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this? Hi? Good morning. This is Miriam, Good morning,

good morning. I'm very very happy to be on the show this morning. I'm so congratulations and be on your books, Charlotteyne and I have both your books. Thank you. So last week was my seventy first birthday. Thank you. I want to just rap on, do a rap by fifty cents so I love that gives me going every morning. Okay, let's do it. Okay, my blow, my Joe brought me the dough, that brought me, oh my fancy things far as my flows. My dude, look for me. I came

up at night. Ain't change. You should love me. Wait morning your hate. Oh you're mad. I'd be happy. I made it. I'm that cat by the bar to the good life, the hood. But you're trying to pull me back. Don't get the jumping club. My eye after smiles gone. If the roof on fire, just let it burns to talking about money at home, and I ain't concerned. I'm gonna tell you what Banks told me because o hen switch the stala and the hate and let him hate and wat the money. There you go. I like those

edits to edit. You edited all the gay slurs, the other F word. I love it. What did you do for your seventy first birthday? I just think I enjoyed my my, my great grandchildren. Um, I got gifts from my children and I just rest. I relaxed. I went and I got a manicure and a pedicure. And um, I also wrote a book in charlm and you're in my book. Is in my books because it's about my seventeen years working in the prisoner system. What's it called. It's called Broken Spirit. Let it go so you can grow.

It's on Amazon. Um, it's on Barnes and Noble. I'm gonna order it. Okay. Oh oh thank you? Oh my god. I want to interview him on my TV show. Well, I don't know if I can set up an interview with I'll send you a nice little package from from probably be a book and some liking some of that other stuff. Oh, can I ask Can I ask this

one quick question? Okay, thank you? So, since I'm seventy one years old and I loved hip hop, okay, because it just just me the it just puts me in the mood that I'm in right now all the time. Do you think, um, those of us who who are in our seventies are too old to love him? Not at all. Music. Music is music, and it's and it's black culture, and hip hop is like fifty fifty plus years old. Not at all, right, Okay, Okay, thank you so much. At the name of my TV show is

tell a Vision Television. I like that. I like that. I like that. Very clever, very clever. All right, mom, you hold on, we're gonna get you actors. I'm gonna send you a little a little fifty cent uh gift pack for you. Why do you have I'm going to his office today, so grab some stuff to send to enjoy queen. Oh well, you know what, Just tell fifty that I met him in twenty fourteen and he signed my book I love the fifty as Flo. I'm the

older woman. I'm the older woman when he came to living Son and instead of taking out his CD, I took out the book so he could sign it for me. All right, I'll tell him. But yeah, I'll take some stuff from his office and I'll send you some stuff. Okay. And and do you think you may may want to come on my TV show I'm local Okay, okay, we can send that and then you ain't gains going. We got a book coming out, so maybe so maybe I'll

send you the book too. When that way you can read the book and then you invite us up when you finish reading the book. Oh great, thank you? All right, yea, queen, let me get you all right. You know, older people never know how to get off the phone. You know I didn't talking that right? All right, Okay, we appreciate you man. Seventy one is a blessing man. I can't wait to see seventy one. God bless her. Get it off your chest. Eight, don't du five A five one O five one. If you need to ben, you can

hit us up. We got rumors on the way. Yes, and congratulations to d Jake Kaled. We'll tell you about the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and who was there by his side. This is so dope. We'll get into that next. It's the breakfast club, cod morning, the breakfast club. Listen. Oh gosh, report got breakfast club. Well, big shout out to DJ Kaled. He got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Congratulations to him. So Diddy was there, jay Z was there, Fat Joe was

there to help him get things started. To Yanna Taylor, Jeez, Nori, all of them join him as he got his start. Here's what he had to say. I want to thank my wife and my two beautiful boys. Aside. You're good, allow you good, you know we're the biggest right. I love them so much, Nicole. I appreciate you, you know, not only dealing with me, but just everyday light taking care of our kids. I'm not a regular type of person. I'm a different type of Look, there's only one Calid.

That's all I have to say. So I just want to say thank you, but I want to make it one thing super clear, but my start to represent the light, the love to shine on everybody. You know, God put me on this earth to be a light. You know, the room can be pitch dark, and when I walk in, it's bright. Drop on a clues bomb for Djali DJ Khalid. He also has that Jordan brand collaboration. I saw that he has coming out, so that looks nice and colorful.

Shout out to Chris Smokes. So Kanye looking disgusted every time Kali showed him one of the Jordan's I was wondering if that's just because of the whole Adidas. I'm sure, but this is like his third or fourth collaboration. So shout to Caliman. What Callida is doing is amazing all right. Now. Britney Spears has said that she's pregnant. She posted on Instagram. I lost so much weight to go on my mouy chip, only to gain it back. I thought, jeez, what happened

to my stomach? My husband said, no, you're food pregnant. Silly. So I got a pregnancy test and well, I'm having a baby. Four days later, I got a little more food pregnant. It's growing. If two are in there, I might just lose it. I obviously won't be going out as much due to the paps getting their money shot at me like they unfortunately already have. It's hard because when I was pregnant, I had perinatal depression. I have to say, it is absolutely horrible. Women didn't talk about

it back then. Some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her. But now women talk about it every day. Think Jesus, we don't have to keep that pain and reserved proper secret. This time, I will be doing yoga every day, spreading lots of joy and love. She has two other boys or one another boy. Yeah, this is just her first child with her She calls him her husband sometimes but

with Sam mess Gary, So congratulations to them, alright. A love and hip hop movie is allegedly in the works. This is an exclusive according to Jasmine Brand. Sources say that the fictional project is in the early stages and a script is currently being created. They're also saying some of the creators of the reality franchise are involved with production of this upcoming film. I saw that headline yesterday.

I wonder what that creative is, Like, Well, it's fictional, but then I guess a lot of love and hip hop kind of is also, so maybe it's some ye how would they started? How would? Yeah? I'm curious as well, all right now? Saturday Night Live comedian Molly Shannon has a book out today. Her memoir is called Hello Molly, and she talks about a lot of different things in there. She talked about visiting la in nineteen eighty seven. She had just gotten signed by Gary Coleman's agent, Mark Randall,

and she said he was hugely popular back then. He had just up to sitcom. She said she was over the moon, and she went out to dinner with her agent and with Gary Coleman. She said that Coleman was eighteen at the time, but very small because he had that kidney disease that limited his growth to four foot eight, but he was extremely flirtatious. She said. We had a great time laughing and joking, and then Gary Coleman asked her if she wanted to see the presidential suite where

he was staying. She said. Once in the room, he asked Shannon to sit on the bed. She said, the possibility of something sexual occurring hadn't even crossed my mind. Now I was an innocent virgin. Still, he was playful at first, tickling me, trying to lie on top of me, and smooched me. Then when I pushed him away and stood up, Gary climbed up on the bed and jumped off, using it as a springboard to launch himself to me, kissing me wildly and sticking his little baby hands under

my shirt. No, yeah, she said that. She pushed him away, and she said that she was able to flip him off the bed, but he repeatedly tried to kiss her. Finally, she got up and he draped his whole body around her calf, so she ended up dragging him across the floor, and she ran across the room and locked herself in the bathroom, while undeterred, he wiggled his fingers underneath the door. She said his relentlessness was unlike anything I've ever experienced.

She finally was able to escape the room and told her agent that his client is wild and never heard from the agent again. She's trying to buy a calf muscle. He was again because four couldn't Oh got you right? So she has a lot of interesting stories. It sounds like a great memoir. She's now fifty seven years old, and she talked about when she was four years old, her mother, younger sister, and cousin all died in a car accident while her father was driving after drinking too

much at a family celebration. She and another sister survived, and for a long time I was gonna ask for a while. Yeah, all right, Well that is your rumor report. All right? Gee from page was Next are we talking about? Well, let's talk about the University of Southern California. They have sued some YouTubers over some of their pranks. All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club com morning. So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. Hey,

it's Angela. Yee. Have you taken a look at the General insurance lately? Switch to the General and you could say, over five hundred dollars on your car insurance, call eight hundred General or visit the General dot com the General Auto Insurance Services, Inc. An insurance agency Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions apply. Hey, everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. All right, let's get to some front page news. But we're started well.

Two YouTubers have been sued by the University of Southern California, and that is for busting into classrooms and stopping the instructors so they could film viral videos. And now they're saying that Ernest Kanevski and you Goo By, neither of whom are enrolled at the school, performed a series of pranks in different classrooms and the goal was making takeover prank videos. There are. Most recent disruption went down a few weeks ago. Ernest and Ugo pretend to be a

Russian mafia member and Hugo Boss. They interrupted a lecture on the Holocaust. Hugo Boss manufactured Nazi uniforms during World War Two. They said the students were panicked. Some of them fled the room, leaving their belongings behind, and according to the lawsuit, the YouTubers presented a credible threat of imminent classroom violence. Here's what happened. Oh you could go home. Oh no, I'm just trying to learn. No colt the superior If you don't want to, why was everybody leaving

from just trying to learn? See securities? Should have shot him, you know what I'm saying. People like that. I wanted to they when they do these pranks, did they read the room or they just be going for the funny, Because common sense would say, if I'm going to come into a room dressed as a Russian mafia member interruption, interrupting lectures on the Holocaust, I would think it was

an imminent threat of classroom violence too. If I was in that class office as the rest of them point in a parking lot near the classroom, and no word on what these criminal charges will be, if they're going to press them at all. Should have shot him. You gotta kill him, Give a little legs shot of something, you know what I'm saying, because at some point in time, you have to read the room when it comes to these pranks. Why would you do something like that? Ever,

but especially at a time all right now. Former a Virginia police officer who stormed the US capital was found guilty on all charges yesterday. That man, Thomas Robertson, is a former sergeant of the Rocky Mount Police in Virginia. He faced charges including impeding law enforcement officers, obstructing an official proceeding, entering and remaining in restricted grounds, and tampering

with evidence. The jury did hear from multiple witnesses during the trial last week, and one juror told teen and that there was debate on every charge while the jury deliberated for around thirteen hours. And so during the trial they testify that a man carrying a stick, who prosecutors say was Robertson, hit him and another officer as they tried to pass through the mob of rioters during the attack.

Prosecutors did place clips of the incident. They also played some footage from police body cameras that were worn that day. So he has been found guilty on all of those charges. So closing arguments, his attorneys argued that he had no plans to go down and say I'm going to stop Congress from doing this vote and continue to suggest that the stick that Robertson had with him was simply a walking stick, but that did not stick. All right, Well that is your front page news, all right, thank you,

miss Yee. Now when we come back, we have an author joining us. He has a new book, qua of America. One of my favorite authors, one of my favorite people. Resume Mini. Him is the author of My Grandmother's Hands, which is a ridiculous New York Times bestseller. That book has been on the New York Times best seller list for so many weeks. But he's got a new book coming out called The Quaking of America. Yes, and he will be at my coffee shop today Coffee uplifts people.

So if you want to come and meet him and talk to him and have a conversation and get your book signed, you can do that. All right. We're gonna talk to him next and don't move. It's the Breakfast Club, Good Morning, Breakfast Club, The Power one oh five one, the Breakfast Club and Angela Year and Charlemagne the Guard wanting everybody's dj envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. He's an author. He has a new book,

Quaking of America. He's also going to be at Angela Ye's coffee shop doing an in store all right, Resumeminican, good to see black. Now you doing it? King, I'm doing good, brother, I'm doing good. Man. New book out, The Quaking of America, an embodied guide to navigating our nation's upheaval in racial reckoning Man the Beast. Okay, what's the title about. Whenever you write a book, the publisher always wants you to write the same book again, you know.

So I had originally started writing um a book called Our Grandchildren's Souls, and it was basically about legacy and how do we create a living, embodied, anti racist legacy culture as opposed to just like being nice to each other. And then January sixth, half as soon as that happened, I was like, I can't keep writing this book. I gotta, I gotta, because I think America sometimes we have seminal moments, and then what we do a lot of times is we forget those seminal moments. And I wanted to. I

wanted to enshrine it in the book. And so it really is about what it is that we saw on January sixth, and how that actually is a testimony and a testament to our history, to the intergenerational trauma, to the persistent institutional trauma, and then our own personal pieces. And so the quaking of America is really about how that shows up and what we begin to do about it.

I mean, really, right now, when you look at what happened January six people are not even really talking about no, not at all, and an attempted cool it is country haempted cool. And then what's going to happen in the future right after that, because you have some predictions as well, Right, that's not normal in a democracy. No, no, well it shouldn't be normal. It should be normal in any country.

But in this country we get we get so enamored with forgetting things right, and what ends up happening, I think sometimes is that we don't learn the lessons that we need to learn. When January sixth happened, I wasn't even watching what was you know, what was going on? And then all of a sudden, Maria, my wife, goes Rasma and she screams right, and she's upstairs in the bedroom. I come upstairs and you see like two thousand people

showing up to this thing. And so I just sat down and we started watching it, and then all of a sudden, you start seeing the symbols of our past. You start seeing the new show up right, remember, Then you start seeing the swastika showing right. Then you start seeing the AR fifteen showroom. Then you start seeing people kick the windows out. And I'm thinking, as I'm watching this, I'm like, ain't nobody dead yet? They haven't shot anybody yet.

If that had been if that had been six thousand black folks, or six thousand Indigenous people or six thousand Mexican people, there would have been enough body bags, right, and then and then when they finally started kicking in the doors and nobody stopped, I was like, this is

a seminal moment. My whole thing in the book was like, look, if we don't I if white people, and particularly white people, if you saw that and that didn't spur you to take a self defense course, that didn't spur you to learn weapons training, that didn't spur you to take a

psychological first aid course. If that didn't spur you to do that, then you're not seeing you're not taking what you just saw seriously in my grandmother's hands in January sixth reminded me that you spoke to how you know, before they did that to enslaved Africans, before they did that the indigenous people, they did it to themselves. They

did it to themselves. And that's the whole piece. The whole piece for me is that white, white bodies got conditioned around whiteness in the way that allowed them to not see not only our humanity, but their own humanity. Most white, most white bodies that are listening to this call right now, are descended from white bodies that were

fleeing something. So what we call American immigrants. Like most of the time when we think about it, we think about those black and white pictures of white people coming off the boats, right and all that different types of stuff. But if you go a couple one hundred years before that, most of them were fleeing famine, most of them were fleeing religious persecution, most of them were fleeing the Middle Ages. They were fleeing other white bodies who were brutalizing them.

And then they landed here. And then what ended up happening is that most of those bodies got sold. Right after the Bacon Rebellion got sold. The idea of whiteness by elite white bodies. So elite white bodies sold poor white bodies the idea of whiteness as a way to get around the brutality. And but that fleeing never got dealt with, and the conduit for dealing with it was

really the black and indigenous body. So all of that trauma, all of that hurt, all of that pain, blew it through their bodies, right, And so that's the whole setup. This whole setup is around. And this is why I talk about the difference between identity and body. Right, So black, brown, and indigenous people all have identities, right. We might be transgender, we might be gay, we might be straight, we might be whatever. We have all of these different identities, and

we are also bodies of cultural or black bodies. And what ends up happening is is that people canflate identity with pigmentocracy. We live in the pigmentocracy. There was a structure that was set up based on looking out in the fields and seeing seeing that you are less human, you are a species than the white bodies standing next to you. And so those pieces have never gotten dealt with in America, and in the quaking of America, I'm trying to begin to do that, trying to begin to

work with that. You know, I noticed that too, when we see people fleeing from Ukraine, and because they're white, we have a different amount of sympathy. But then people are fleeing from oppression and all kinds of violence in their countries, but if they come from black and brown places, it's like there's no sympathy for that, right, Sis, do you remember this was this was not even a year ago. We saw white man on horsebacks beating Haitians crossing the river.

If that is not a direct that picture, those pictures were direct ties to our historical paths. Right. The pigmentocracy is global. Right, when you watch people fleeing a war zone or war zone in the Ukraine, you have soldiers saying you can come on the boat, you get off the bus, you do that. That's based on the pigmentocracy. That's not based on whether or not those people are citizens. That's not based on whether those people are workers within

that country. That's based on a pigmentocracy. You are less human and you are more human, and so therefore you can get on the plains in the bus. And even though we're in the war zone and we're all trying to escape, right, That's what I mean. That's so in Quaking, I'm really trying to land that piece and have people understand that this idea of of black skin being less of a less human is the race question in this country is a species question. First, Is Charlemagne a human

or not? And the answer for America is no, he is not. It's sister a human or not. And the answer structurally and philosophically has always been known. It was in the Constitution, it was in the I mean it's three fifths. People always talk about three fifths three fifths being just a voting clause. No, the three fifth clause came out of debate, which means that you had people in the room debating how much those other bodies were actually worth. That idea transcends through time, and that's what

we're dealing with. When you see all of these you know, when you when you see the brutality that our people have experienced, you see it in in in in both big demonstrative things. You see it in mundane things like when you watch what happened between Brother Will and Chris Rock. You watched history walk up the steps, his own personal history, the historical, the intergenerational, and the institution. You could see

the pain walking up the steps. You could see the heartbreak and Brother Chris's face from that, you could see the heartbreak. And people talk about Chris, they talk about brother Will and they talk about Jada, But what they don't talk about is a person that was off to the side, that actually represented the community. And that was just the Lupeto nion. When you watch her face when that happens, you see heartbreak, you see fear, you see

all of those differently. Just slow the tape down. You see a rupture, and that rupture, that rupture has historical underpinnings. All right, we have more with Resumeminican when we come back, don't move. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, Yeah, angela Ye Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with author Resume Mendicant and don't forget he's going to be at angela Ye's coffee shop today

signing books. Ye. Another thing that's current that's been happening with Supreme Court Justice Katanzi Brown Jackson, and we saw her being questioned and the things that they were saying about her and to her, and the messaging that the

Republicans were putting out who were voting against her. And so that's something too, because I know a lot of what you discussed is also political in context too when we talk about Republican and their messaging and how Democrats operate as far as trying to be more concerned about policy, Yeah, yeah than anything else. First off, she wasn't being questioned. She was being what I call, and there's been a

lot of writing on this, is what's called spirit murder. Right, she would the questioning and the things that they were doing were about attacking and undermining her humanity. First notice the questioning. The questioning was not what have you done? Was the laws? What are the things that? Right? The question is was around are you human enough? Yeah? Right? And that's always the subtexts, yeah right, that's right. Question. No morals question her actual humanity? Do you just you

don't really deserve to be here? That spirit murder is a facet of America. Right, in order to enslave a people, right, black people were never slaves. We were enslaved, which means something happened. In order to do that, you have to spirit murder people. You have to undermine, you have to cut them, you have to make them believe that that the brother or the sister next to them is their mortal enemy. And what we have to begin to do

is we have to begin to change our language. We have to begin to change our language and make sure that it's an embodied language. Like when you were watching what they were doing to syst I would imagine just knowing you says that you were watching it going probably using not so good words, right, but but something about what they were doing, even though it looked like questioning, something about it seemed brutal. Yeah, right, that's the spirit murder.

I appreciate what Cory Booker said, but in that moment, you gotta check the white boys come on before you pour in there. Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, if it didn't feel right, it felt like you was like like you felt like you watched sis to get slapped in the face and you're, you know, you're, you're, you're pouring into her saying it was so good. You didn't do anything, you didn't fight back. But the person that slapped him is right there. That's you know, that's

the piece that I think in terms of quaking. Like a friend of mine, Uh, that red quaking, she said, res my grandmother's hands was like a warm blanket. Uh. Quaking is like a dark alley, right, because I'm moving into some places that people don't really want to want to go, and you just hit on it. Right. I love the fact that he poured into her. I love the fact that somebody said, I see you, sis, I see you, I love you, um, and I know what

they're doing. Right. That's beautiful, right, And at the same time, the piece that you're saying also needs to needs to come to the four two. Somebody, somebody should have said, and there was nobody that should have said that. They could have said it, right, but him at that moment should have said, Hey, all the stuff that they're doing

is filed. They filed. You ain't crazy, they are. They are out of pocket, and I'm gonna say something to him, right, But see, when we go to do that, now, we're responding from people want to want to position us as we're responding from what's small in us, and we're not. When we're protecting each other, and protecting doesn't all doesn't necessarily always mean physical protection, but Sometimes you gotta talk. Sometimes you gotta say, look back up, we're talking to

her like that. That's not that's not how we're supposed to get down. And you're not gonna do it. You may do it in front of other people, but you can't do it in front of me. Right, So you're absolutely right. And but but that's what quaking is about. It is about us beginning to really understand that they got this structure in the philosophy is going to is going to eviscerate you. So you might as well say

something while you're trying to do it. You know, in the first chapter of the book, you quote, uh, Stewart Stevens who says, for the first time since eighteen sixty a major American political party, the Republicans, doesn't believe America

as a democracy. How significant is that, Steve? We've always known that, right, That's right, We've always so So I had I had an indigenous brother tell me one time, um, when back this is years ago, when I was arguing about you know, uh, you know, political parties and stuff like that, you know, the Republicans and the Democrats, and one of the things he said, and we just both start laughing. When he said he said right wing, left

wing all part of the same racist birds. And and that's what that means, that that I don't you know in in in in the book, I really go at everybody. I'm going at because because I think we have to have a more mature understanding about what we're dealing with. This idea that we're going to, uh, we're going to resolve this by putting more Democrats in office, We're going to resolve this by putting more Republicans in office, or

or whatever really misses the point. The point is is that there is a racist ground founding of this country. And if you don't understand that, and if you don't have your own self interest clear, then you'll be fooled. You'll think that Joe Biden a dude who ushered in some of the most horrible laws as it relates to

black people. You'll think that he's your savor right as opposed to know, maybe what I need to do is understand what my self interest is and make sure that he applied that he does what I need him to do for our people. And so that's what that statement is about. It is about us being more and more clear about what we're seeing is actually happening. Yes, it's actually I mean because it's not normal. But for some

reason it's all coming off. It's like this is supposed to happen, like no, no, this isn't even politics anymore. It's not. And when you have listen, more white women voted for Trump the second time than the first time. I mean, just this, after all of that, after all of that, they voted for him in more numbers. That lets you know that there's something about that thing that he's selling that is so intrinsic to America that even when he shows you I don't give a hoot about you,

you still vote for him in droves. That's the fleeing stuff that I believe never got them right among white folks. Um what I call plantation ethics, right, the idea that you have a strong man, right in particularly a strong white man, that that that that absolves you of all of your sins, right and and we'll protect you at all costs. That's that runs through America, all right. We have more with Resuma Minican when we come back, don't move.

It's the breakfast club. Good morning Morning, everybody is d morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking in with author resume Medican that don't forget He's gonna be at Angela Ye's coffee shop today signing books. Charlomagne, I love talking

to you for a number of different reasons. But you know, even just the way you see things, because you know, hell, people see things differently, right, Like when you talk about the Christen Will situation, all I saw was pain period, right, But you also had some interests and things. When you saw Cordack Black, you said you saw something that that young brother worries me. The pain and the brutality and the things that he's seen and the things that he's experienced.

We have a tendency when people are stars in their in their movie stars and all of that different type of stuff, we have a tendency to almost almost shun their pain. And when I'm listening to the brother and I'm listening watching his cadence and watching his you know, his his the way that he moves. Um, there's a tremendous amount of brutality that that brother has experience, that he's seen and UM and I believe we have to

start to begin to see each other's humanity. And so when I see him, and I've saw seen you y'all interview him. Every time I see him, my heartbreaks. When I saw it, when I saw will you know, slap Chris, my heart broke because there's a rupture that has happened that that until it's so big and demonstrative, that's when we pay attention to it, right. But when it's when it's when it when they're entertaining us, we don't see

the rupture, right. And and when I called you about him, when I said, you know, if reach out to that brother, let him know, right, Um, That's what I was trying to get at was that I saw the I'm there, I'm I'm hurting, I'm in pain too, so I know what it's like when I see it, um. And so the idea of rupture, that seeing rupture and developing ways to repair that rupture is what we have to be about with each other. Yeah, I mean it's not normal, right, Like even when you saw what we saw what we

saw the oscars. Yeah, you get your jokes off and it's entertaining, but that's not normal. That's not that's a man who for thirty years, we have never seen any of that. You're absolutely right. So there was two pieces that happened for me that that happened that during that thing. The first one was when he started walking up. I was like, you could, you could experience it, right, And then when he did what he did, and you could.

You saw Chris's face and you could see the heartbreak in his face, like what you know, like that because that's that's that's exactly right. And but but the other piece that I saw, brother, was after that. This is what I called about the rupture. There was a rupture and then the repair was Then you had two older black men that wrapped up arms around Will, right, you had Tyler Perry and den Zail wrapped their arms around them. That's the repair pieces you called Chris checked on it.

That's the repair pieces, right. Those are the repair pieces that you keep coming back to. That we have to keep coming back to because otherwise we'll be trapped into thinking that the only thing that's out there is rough. Sure, Na, that's not the only thing. The standard is repair, The standard is loved, The standard is joy right, and when when when Will did that? And those two older brothers wrapped their arms around him and said, come here, man, I love you. This was out of pocket. And I

love you. When you reached out to Chris ay Man, I love you. That was out of pocket. Whatever you need, I got you, right, that's that's the standard. And you right, everybody's talking jokes. Everybody got their opinion. Right. If Will would have did this to me, I did, that's besides the point, right. The point is is that our people are hurting. The point is and it's going and it's gone unaddressed, continues to go unaddressed, and we have to start addressing it. I think that is a way to

protect black women. What happened, and I saw that conversation happening amongst a lot of people, right black You know how I protect Black women in my life. I don't hurt them physically. You know, I tect black way in my life. My wife. I don't cheat on my wife. You know, I protect black women in my life. I love my daughters right right, and yourself, and I do my own and and and I'm a therapist that I've

been a therapist for a lot of years. I have a therapist, right because because when you when you're in the middle of a thing. You can't see on the outside of a thing, right, you need somebody on the outside saying, Hey, this is what I'm tracking. This is what I'm saying. So how I love black women is to work on myself and get myself better and get myself healed. Right, so the black women that come to

come into my life are not brutalized by those unhealed things. Yeah, I think emotionally and mentally we could cause more abuse. It's about being a hurt individual. Exactly right, you know, exactly right. Our people have so much love in us. We have so much love in us, but it's been thwarted and brutalized. And even with that, we're still reaching out to each other. We're still saying, brother, I love you, Sister, I love you. This matters to me, right, But there's

a lot of on her. And here's the other piece. The brutality that our people experienced is not post we talk about post traumatic stress disorder. Our people don't experience post traumatic stress disorder. Our people experience pervasive and persistent traumatic stress disorder. It's still happening. Post would imply that it's done in past. We're still dealing with a pervasive brutality, a pervasive terrorism that is aimed at our bodies, and we haven't been able to articulate it, we haven't been

able to develop a cultural understanding of it. And so part of what quaking is is to say you're not crazy, you're not defective. What you think is actually happening, is actually happening. Even when you talk about the standard being Joy, Yeah, that shouldn't be a hard concept for me to grasp what it is. Yeah, Like if that black people standard, I don't. Yeah, Well, let me say this, Black bodies, black people don't come to the planet disconnected from creation itself. Okay,

we are representations of creation itself. The first human being on the planet was a black woman. We are descended from that. Okay. Joy is part of us because we are part of creation. What happens is is that the brutalness and the feralness of this white body supremacy system and structure thwarts it. It doesn't eliminate it, it thwarts it. It's like it's like putting a cap on on on some mountain dew and shaking it up. Right, it'll come out the sides and everything right. But but it gets

thwarted by the cap That's what trauma is. That's what racial trauma is. It thwarts it. But the but the essence is joy. Let me let me give you an example. When that thing happened with Chris and and and Will, you reached out to Chris because you loved him. That's the standard. That's the that's the standard. Right. If it had not have been the standard, you'd have been like, uh them, right, No, it was the standard. Right, you

went back to the standard. I love Besides all of this stuff, I love you, I love you, right, I don't care. I don't care who else reaches out. I love you. And so you made that move, right, that's the standard. We get so caught up day to day trying to deal with this brutality that we think the standard is the fighting, that we think the standard is the rupture. Yeah, that's not the standard. His name is Resum Momenticum. Yes, yes, he's one of our greatest teachers,

one of our greatest healers. Man, if you got my grandmother's hands and you definitely want to go get the Quaking of America an embodied guide in navigating our nation's upheaval and racial reckoning. Resume always a pleasure my brother, and listen, come meet him in person at my coffee shop, Coffee Uplifts people, Um and you will be there today and we'll make sure that everybody can come through get

their book signed. Right, we'll be having a conversation. I'll be there of course as well, because I wouldn't miss that for anything. And we really appreciate you, Sis. I appreciate you, I love you, thank you for what you're doing, and I just appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, thank you, thank you, brother always, it's resume momenticum, mister breakfast club. This is the rule of report with Angela Yet any Love is speaking out following the news that the reel

has been canceled. She said she is thankful for the people who have reached out to her, and she posted with the news of the real ending. I had to console a lot of crew and fans this weekend. I've been in this business a long time and understand it, but it still warms my heart that so many have reached out to me. We still have new episodes till June third the reel, so we'll miss seeing Nasha that was on for quite some time. Yeah, eight seasons, so

that's a success still, no matter what. All Right now, Kim Kardashian has fears that there could be another sex tape out there, and so she has hired attorneys to prevent any type of clips or anything from ever seeing the light of day, even though she said she's ninety nine percent sure that there is nothing. She just wants to make sure that, no matter what, any videos will

never ever come out. I saw that one of her kids actually saw about the sex tape on roadblocks while playing roadblocks, and so I'm sure that's not easy, but she has said previously she would addressed that with her children and be very open and honest about what happened. All right. Nia Long has talked about the pressure of being called ageless. She said, I am a proud fifty

one years old. She told people that well intended praise like being called ageless, can sometimes implicitly feed into unrealistic beauty standards. She said, I so appreciate the compliment, but I have to tell you there's so much pressure in this industry to stay beautiful and stay young, and I'm really not interested in leaning into the idea of perfection. I'm a proud fifty one, and eventually I'm going to age in a way where it's obvious, and I want

it to happen beautifully and gracefully. I don't really want the pressure of feeling like I have to be beautiful and perfect, because I think beauty comes at any age. That's interesting, And she's right. I don't think it's about being young, though. I think that you know, when you see when we were younger, older people used to look

actually older. So when you see somebody that's fifty something years old and they still look flawless, You're like, damn, that's how humans are supposed to age, right, I would think, right, supposed to get better with time. I think so all right. Now, Cam Newton was one million dollars worth of game, and he was talking about his childhood and his views of what a woman's role should be. Here is what was said. I grew up in a three parent household, my mom,

my father, and my grandmother. A woman for me is handling your own but knowing how to cater to a man's needs. And I think a lot of times when you get that aesthetic of like I'm a boss bitch, like I'm a dead so I'm a dad, no baby, Like, but you can't cook, okay, you don't know when to be quiet. You don't know how to allow a man to lead. Ooh, I don't know. That caused a lot of backlash on social media, saying you can't be a buss, but you don't know how to cook, you don't know

when to be quiet. I mean, it just sounded a little crazy to talk about women like that. So I mean, I get what he's saying, Like, the only difference is it works both ways, like we got to cater to each other. Like I personally I can do all that except the cooking. All right. If you're a man that knows how to cook, great, but I personally don't know how to cook. My wife is an amazing cook and she learned that from her dad because he's a cook. So I think, God, my wife knows how to hold

it down. The one thing I do disagree with him is the if you have to wait to let someone let you lead, and maybe you're not a leader, Like what does that mean? What does that mean when he says, um, a woman have to let you lead? I don't know, but I'm all in for roles at the crib, Like there's certain things that my wife expects me to do, and there's certain things I expect that. What I'm saying is it goes both, not like, oh she gonna do this,

I'm gonna know. It's certain things like you know, for instance, and to be quiet. My wife is not taking out the garbage. I'm taking out the garbage, yes, and if she takes it out, I get upset that take out. That's me, all right, And you feel bad when she got to tell you to do it. You do what she gotta tell you to do what you feel like, you didn't do what you're supposed to do, right? What job? The kind of what he's saying is that women need to let men lead and that I guess when that happens,

women have to be more submissive. And I don't know about that one, but he also said I'm going to tell the men to start being men. He said that sucker ish should not be rewarded, and what he said about the bad be thing too, I agree with that because most women who say that they say that based off just physical appearance, superficial things. I like when people say, you know, they're bad bees for what they are doing, for what they are accomplishing, not because of how they look.

You need to have more than just that. Correct. Well, you can be a bad bee and a boss bee and not know how to cook. Yeah you can. You definitely can't because he said, you can't say I'm talking about no, I'm talking about what he said. Oh, this is what he said. Okay, he said that woman for me is handling your own but knowing how to cater to a man's needs. He said, I'm a boss bitch. I'm at this. I'm at that. No, baby, but you can't cook. You don't know when to be quiet. You

don't know how to allow a man to lead. And I think there's certain times when a woman is going to lead in a situation. In certain times when a man is going to lead, you gotta be worthy of being a leader. Like that person has to look at you and say, you know what, this person is worthy of being a leader. I'm gonna follow this person because they're a good leader, not just because I'm saying, hey, Lee, you can let anybody. You can let anybody lead. That

don't mean that they're a leader. They might lead you off a cliff. And like you said, boss bitch, ain't gonna do what looks no bad bee, he said bad, bad bad bee bad. He said both. He said bad and he said boss. And you definitely can't be a boss just because of your looks. You know, if you're a boss and you actually are in charge of something, you know what I mean, you've got something to show for it. All right, Well that is your rumor report. All right, Well let's get to the bad bitch in

the in the room. I'm glad, you know, for a number of different reasons I did not I rubbed my chest other than just my body. Okay, okay, I am a bad beas be right, for a lot of different reasons. Well, you're giving that Julian Bridges. She needs to come to the front of the congregation. Let's talk diarya this morning. All right, we're getting walking up the ladder and you're hearing something splatter? What is that? Diarrya dia dia dia.

When you're chilling with your daughter, you feel that poopoo water. All right, we're gonna talk about it. Four after the album. Man, all right, it's the breakfast Club. Go morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Hey, it's Angela yee. Have you taken a look at the General insurance lately? Switch to the General and you could say it over five hundred dollars on your current insurance. Call eight hundred General or visit the General dot com. The General Auto

Insurance Services, Inc. An insurance agency Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions apply. Don't be out here at you like a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a big boy. I could take it if you feel I deserve it. Ain't no big deal, I know. Charlottegney, gott go out and funny. You gotta say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm Needing's getting that donkey, that donkey that don't don't don't, don't don't donkey o the day right

here the breakfast club. Bitches, you can call me the donkey of the day, but like I mean no, yes, don't here to day for Tuesday, April twelve goes to Julianne Budge. Julianne Budget is a forty seven year old woman from Utah who was arrested in a hit and run accident. Sadly, the two people that she hit have transitioned two men whose names have not been released. Two brothers died at Saint George Regional Hospital after witnesses attempted

life saving measures at the scene. Sending healing energy to the families of those individuals and may God be pleased with their souls. Situations like this will never sit right with me because I hate when people lose their life because of the carelessness and the recklessness of others. Okay, I don't know when we will realize that the number one thing that keeps us safe out here on this planet is human behavior. That's it. We are all relying

on each other to stay safe. And when you do things like decide to drive under the influence, it is one of the most selfish decisions you can make, because you're not caring about your life so much that you decide to get behind the wheel of a car knowing you got no business driving. That is not just the blatant disregard for the life God gave you, It's a blatant disregard for the life for everybody else who is

on the highway with you. Okay, imagine being the person who's not under the influence, got their seatbelt on, licensed registration insurance, all of the day. You're driving the way you're supposed to, doing everything you're supposed to be doing, and you getting the accident, Okay, hit by some donkey who decided they just had to drink or get high before they got behind the wheel. That is what happened

in this situation, except it was two bicyclists. Okay, but I'm sure they had their helmets on, they were in the bike lane. I guarantee they were doing what they needed to do to keep the ecosystems safe. And here comes the rupture that is Julie. Okay. Now, Julie told authorities that she had been admitted to a hospital the previous day and had been taking Fentonol through an IV drip. She also failed to field sobriety tests after the accident, and that's when police decided to lock Julie's ass up

for suspicion of driving under the influence. So let's be clear, Julie arrested in a hit and run accident while under the influence that killed two people. That's the real story. That's what happened. We could wrap donkey of the day right here. Okay, that's it, nothing more, nothing less. When I tell you some donkey of the days just sell themselves. Trust me when I tell you this, he haaw is selling. But that ain't the only reason Julie is getting the

credit she deserves for being stupid this morning. Okay, See, when Julie first got caught, that's not what she told police. Okay, of course she did not. At first. She didn't say, hey, I'm under the influence. That's why I ended up hitting and running and killing two bicyclists. Nope, nope, nope. She had another excuse. And when I tell you she pulled this one out of her ass, I mean it literally,

according to her, came out of her ass. See. Julie told police that the crash happened when she began defecating on herself uncontrollably due to a medical condition. I'm not making this up. I'm looking at the headline in the NY Post. The headline reads, Utah woman blames fatal hitting and run on uncontrollable defecation. Where I'm from, we call that diarrhea. Okay, good old butt mud poogoo pooh water that atol flavored you who. Let's go to Fox thirteen

Salt Lake City for the report. Police An update tonight from Southern Utah, we're learning more about the person police say hit and killed two brothers in Washington City this weekend. Investigators say the two men were among dozens of cyclists who were in the bike lane participating in the spring Tour of Saint George. They were hit around two yesterday

afternoon on Telegraph Street in Washington City. Forty seven year old Julie and Budge of Hurricane told police she had a medical issue m the Julie told police the crash happened when she began defecating uncontrollably due to a medical condition. Okay, Jesus all right. Julie told police that she had various medical issues, including irritable both syndrome, and that condition made her defecate on herself without warning, which caused her to

swerve into the men. She also admitted she hit the cyclist, but she presented yet another excuse when she said she couldn't get her vehicle to stop. Now, I didn't read a bunch of articles about this situation and listen to a bunch of different news reports. If you were going to blame this and run, Okay, man, I wish I could cresh right now. Because according to Julia, it wasn't just a hitting run. It was right. Okay, sugar honey,

iced tea. If you're gonna blame this accident on your ands having a dishonorable discharge, okay, if there's a sudden muddy playing condition going on in your drawers, then I have one question. Where is the dodo? Okay? I didn't see one police report that said we found biscuits and brown gravy anywhere on you. Okay, I have shoted on myself before. You shoted on yourself before, right, and I have yes, Okay, happened to me in Columbia Soucoy line of the ad L three drop on a Clowes BOMs

for the Metro. Happened to be right up here. What happened to you? Oh yeah, that's when you threw your drawers in the trash can. Yep, yeah, yeah, I remember that. That's when they really thought some wild stuff going on in this field. All right, Just let the record show. It happened to me years ago when I was leaving a king spot. And you know when your stomach gets the bubbling and you can feel that an'tal eruption starting to happen. When that hits your pants, it startles you,

but it doesn't make you drive off the road. Okay, when you're riding in a Chevy and you're feeling something heavy, all right, you know what it is. It's diarrhea. And guess what when I turned my underwear into a fudge fountain. I've never driven so perfect in my life. Okay. I don't want to swerve and look like I'm out of control when I had some Jingo jeans full of chocolate coleslaw. So, Julie Budgers, who did you expect to believe this? Okay?

And I go back to my original point. If you tell me that doodoo is the cause of your accident as a police officer, I want to see the doodoo. That is evidence, all right now. Julie Bridges is being charged with, let me look it up, two counts of automobile homicide due to criminal negligence, two felony counts of failure to remain at an accident involving death, two counts of duy with serious bodily injury by negligent operation, and

one alleged account of it being in run. She was also slapped the misdemean a charge of reckless driving and an infraction for improper plane travel. The moral, the moral of the story is, can we all start looking out for each other better? Please? Please give Julie budgets the biggest he hull. Two people dead just because of the negligence of one person human behavior, Us collectively are the only reason we're keeping each other safe. We have to make a conscious effort every day to do the right

thing so we don't end up hurting somebody else. All right, well, thank you for that donkey to day next. Whatever happened to them draws? Did you do away? That'd be a good NFT. I don't know the in the garbage to throw them out years ago? Right? Why did you take them out? No? I just I know somebody found them and they wrote a letter. What is royal with you? Peppers? Man? We're gonna kick it with Gian Peppers when we come back. You were just concerned about what maybe happening. I'm writing

you be resource. That's what I'm about to do, Gian Peppers when we come back. Is the breakfast club. Good morning, the breakfast club, the breakfast club. Your mornings will never be the same. Wanting everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the God, we all the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. That's right, Peppers. Love you guys. Are you? I'm good? How are you? Not too many people beating up this media game like you? Oh wow Wow.

That means a lot coming from you. Truth. But like I mean, this is the this is the media conglomerates that y'all. Y'all build so many things for businesses and y'all just killing it. I love to see all of you guys now. We'd love to see you. Every time somebody asked me, like who you think would be good for this, I'm like Gian Peppers would be good. Thank you. I love you, ye, thank you. It feels like families. So I'm happy to be here. How are you feeling? I feel great, Like it's a it's it's it's a

weird morning in New York. The weather's been really weird this week. But you know, I'm grateful to be here and be here with y'all. Like I've respect all of you guys differently. I've worked with all of you guys in different capacities, so I love that. And sometimes we feel guilty saying this, but you actually did really well during the pandemic. Yeah, and had a lot of accomplishments. Yeah, which was weird. Yeah, sometimes you feel bad like Dan things.

It wasn't that, you know, you know what. It was weird though, because like when we all know, live events are a major part of our income, right, Like at the end of the day, as a journalist, as a host, you make a lot of money doing those. Yeah, let me pull up traveling, let me and all of my events got canceled for those two first months during the pandemic.

And I'm super big on faith and spirituality, and I remember just surrendering because I was freaking out, like I was like, oh my god, what's gonna like, literally, what am I gonna do? I don't got the breakfast club, Like I'm not, you know, I didn't have a good hello exactly take a little cut, yeah, right, And so we had to take that week goal. Oh we did choice. I didn't remember when it came back because that's when George Floyd passed. Remember came back when the end was

by myself. I used to go ahead to you, no, but I was because I was like, that was a good point like that was bad. But yeah, so I remember just praying, being like, Lord, you open up whatever you want me to do, and literally the opportunity started to come after. I just started to get on Instagram lives like everybody else and interview people, Like actually interviewing people on live just kept me sane and in in my craft. So that was really dope. What did you

learn about yourself? Pemic One that I trust myself, I trust who I am, I actually respect who I'm becoming. There's nothing in this, in this in my career that I have been given. I earned every single spot that I have ever been a part of. I started interning. My first internship was with Donnie Simpson in his last year in Radio UM in DC Warning Radio UM and like that that was ten years ago and so like I earned it. So you know, that was the biggest thing for me. It was like I got to stop

doubting myself. I have to learn what to be confident about in myself. And so I just fell in love with who I am and I gave myself back to me. Like I think for so many, so many of us, we absorb people's energies and we become like reflections of who they are instead of finding out who we really are. And so the pandemic allowed me to just like get away from everything that was a bar And I don't

say that again. We because we are around so many people in energies, we end up absorbing and reflecting who they are instead of who we really are. And so what I realized was I was becoming reflections of all these people that I loved and admire. Right, it wasn't bad reflections, but it wasn't me. And so I was able to sit with myself and be like, I don't care that much about the beef. Like people just beef is a part of the job, right, so you have to cover it. But I'm like, I really don't care.

I get it, Like this has nothing to do with me. So, you know, I just if we have to talk about Will Smith Chris rob one more time, I think I'm a pass, Well, it's a bigger conversation, even when it is stuff like that. What's the bigger conversation, right? You know what I mean? I mean, for me, for that, it's mental health. With that, it's emotional intelligence. Men learning not a process the emotions without violence. That's a bigger conversation. Yeah,

it's everybody like there is no winner in that. There is no winner in that situation. It's really sad to see all four parts. So um yeah, but yeah, that's the biggest thing I did. I gave myself back to me. I want to I want to do one of these posts that you do because I want to go through these some of these Jesus. Okay, because you did a post and you kind of listed some of the accomplishments that you had and sometimes we got to remind ourselves of these things. Okay. So Black Girl Pod did our

first video series with Verizon Media. Not over It. You joined the We Are Ivy Park Box Game, Oh Beyonce, Thank you and team. That was when you also announced and launched them More Than That show, your first podcast, which is now in its second Yes, with your executive producing Exculate. Thank you. You joined the Entertainment Tonight Live Digital team. Yeah, it's your first Grammy Awards post show. Yes,

you made three appearances at that point. It was three on the Today's show Third Hour Today, covering entertainment's biggest moments and projects. You entail A also did some acting as journalists on Tyler Perry's The Oval on BT and you hosted a party for hashtags and Derela in nineteen ninety seven with your faves, the best party Ever. And you dropped a new episode of your YouTube series Give You the Game. Yeah, wow, okay, thank you, and you did ninety percent of that from your home. Yeah yeah,

that is absolutely amazing. I do want to make sure we commend you on this and that everybody listening if they, you know, don't follow you and didn't see that, if they can't even understand those things during the pandemic that you accomplished that you had to stop and give yourself credit for. So I want to give you credit. Thank you. I don't even platform here too, because that is absolutely amazing. I told you not to many people beating up the

media game Courtney Whittaker because she's she's the inswern here. Yes, that's my baby, that's my six We we just we U. Courney Whittaker and I were a part of Wayen. Shout out to Felicia Butterfield Jones and all of the founders, Serena Thompson, all of them. Um. Felicia is now the co president of the Recording Academy and just ran it

up at the Grammys. Um. But you know, we we came up together in this industry, and that was my favorite part of like being a part of my peer group, like Scottie Bam, Sylvia Obell, Danielle Young, like, so all of us came up together, especially in New York. And so when I had them and Ween, like we really felt like we had community. And then Black Girl Podcast we formed that and so we learned really quickly early on that like you need each other, we need people.

You have to have people that you can talk to in this industry. And so yeah, yeah, that's you're one of the people. Always mentioned him say this person should have been on the radio a long time ago. It doesn't seem like radios and interest anymore. Oh, I mean I love radio right, like it was my that's my first love. Radio. Like growing up in DC, we used to live for the radio and like every morning, my

mom we would play Donnie Simpson. Then in the afternoons and evenings it would be Big Tigger, DJ Flex and Rain, like it was such a thing for us. And so when I was able to get into radio, that was where I affirmed that I could do this. Donnie Simpson was is literal joy, Like it's there's certain people that you meet and you're just like, I think, I don't think you're human, Like you're just so nice, like your

literal joy. And he used to One of my favorite things was he was like fifty something when I met him and had been the original VJ. Like, first of all, all journalists, if you know who Donnie Simpson is, you must do your craft work like Donnie. He is the original VJ, the original green eyed sole person like he's

He's always been this guy that I loved. And in that time, the industry was very much reflective of making the band, like if you you wasn't about to kill the other person next to you and walk across the bridge to get some cheesecake making in this industry, and I was like, I just I like people like I don't want to have to harm anyone to get to the top. And Donnie affirmed that I could be a kind human being, like no matter what, it didn't matter

if it was Jill Scott or the janitor. Everybody who came into his studio when he was there left feeling better. And so that affirmed that I could do it too, Like I was like, oh, I want to do that. I want to make sure that if I'm seeing people, I see people like I see you like you matter to me, and that with so many suicides and so many things happening, that is even more important to me now. So yeah, that's that. My first love is radio, but

always into television. I want to create more projects. I have so many show ideas that I believe now now is the time for me to actually just kind of step into my own and create more storytelling. But yeah, I love all forms of media. I don't think we have to do radio. I think radio was a dream because that was it. It was either radio or TV all I well, don't hope we got more with Gia Peppers. When we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, Good Morning Pring.

Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we all the Breakfast Club is still kicking it with Gia Peppers. Ye. Yeah. What about obstacles that you've had? Do we have time? Because we also know being in this business, being a woman, being a black woman can be a lot more difficult. So what were some of the things that you went through? I think that to overcome. The biggest thing I think that I went through was real I remember. So watching

Genius was so beautiful to me. Shout out to Chika and Kudi and Kanye. As complicated as the feelings I have about Kanye, very complicated, But what I really loved to watch in that documentary was like that hustle of going into offices every day and trying to get people to see you, because that was me, Like I my first few breaks on TV was just on hosting in general.

It was just me going into offices and me like, no, I promise you, I'm gonna kill it, Like I promise you, I'm gonna kill it, and people being like you should probably go into local news. You're a really nice girl. You couldn't do great in Milwaukee. Now I'm not going to Milwaukee. I live in New York. So y'all gonna give me a chance to show you or not. And so for me, it was always just trying to prove that that I could do it and then finally believing

it myself. I was so used to struggling that when things started to finally happen, I couldn't believe it, like I was sabotaging it for myself, like I'd be like, oh, it's not really a good ideal. It's just that I didn't feel worthy of it because I'm so used to

grasping for it. When I finally got it, that's a whole different type of lifestyle and mindset you had to have, And so for me, it was grasping that, but then also being paid less then men in this industry is still a real thing, and it's a thing across all industries, especially for black women. We all know the gender pay gap is super real, but for black women, I think we made like twain cents on the dollar compared to

like white men. And don't calle me on that. I'm going to research that, but I know it's a it's a there's a major gap. And so for me, standing up for myself and negotiating what I really need has been one of the hardest things because we all know it's a relationship to a relationship, opportunity to opportunity industry. So just because you do it in one place doesn't mean they get you in another place. So for me, I've always been like, all right, the rate is the rate.

If it's an opportunity that I really love will sometimes we can do something with it. But I'm trying to be real about me being a businesswoman and me understanding that. And so for me, the biggest struggles were there, and then like self worth, like understanding that I am enough. What I say matters, my story matters. I didn't grow up like everybody else, but that doesn't mean that I

have to be anybody else. Um and understanding that, like not not being afraid of light, and being happy and being good and and and being a person who like likes to be integral, Like I don't care everybody can keep. It's a lot of shade out here. The Shade Room is grateful what they do. I follow them, but I think that like, there also needs to be platforms that are just as powerful that do the opposite of that right,

And it doesn't have to be quote unquote corny. You can still tell a great story, but what are what are we giving people at the end of that, what are they walking away with? And so that's what I'm really focused on doing. The daytime talk India's future. Thank you, Gia. My friends were like, I'm so surprised you never went up there because they're always correcting your neck, always saying isn't it G and you It's always like, no, it's G. You did the years I didn't. It's okay's and gear

when you get there. Yeah, thank you, Thank you guys. It's not every time your name is always mentioned in every TV room when it comes to any thank you talking anything. Thank shows all the time. Thank you, somebody hiring me, give me the job, two jobson. That's my sister. I love her so much. She's She's another person that can do no wrong and do everything right. But thank you guys so much for having me. Everybody, please tune into more than that everyone, Thank you more than that.

Thank you guys. The Breakfast Club, it's about report Angela. Well. Rihanna is on the cover of Vogue magazine and the article Oh baby, Rihanna's plus one. So it's a great shoot. If you guys have a chance to go and take a look at it. You can actually look at it online right now. The whole entire article is out and she talks about the internet having all types of thoughts like how dare she be this naked and this pregnant? But the vast majority of people greeted the moment with

a collective chair. Here was a beautiful woman at her most abundant, sexy, and strong, delighting in the creative play of getting dressed. So she also talks about her pregnancy. In this article, she talks about getting really close with Asat Rocky during the pandemic. She said that he became her family during that time and she feels like she can do any part of life by his side. She also talked about how it took some time to get over how well they knew each other in a frank capacity.

So sometimes somebody is friend zoned and then you don't look at them in that way. But they did manage to get through that clearly, So congratulations to the two of them. That's interesting because the best relationships start from friendships, Like your significant others should be your best friend, right, But sometimes you feel like, I don't know if I want to ruin this friendship in case things don't work out.

If y'all are really really tight and you find yourself attracted to somebody, and then you take those things into consideration. So she said it did take some time to get over that. When it works, you're elevating the friendship actually taking me too. And she also said that she recalled thinking to herself there was no way she would be shopping in maternity section. She said, I'm sorry, it's too much fun to get dressed up. I'm not going to

let that part disappear because my body is changing. And she said her goal is, in her words, to redefine what's considered decent for pregnant women. So there you go, all right now, w NBA's Kathy Engelbert, the commissioner is talking about Brittney Griner. They kicked off Monday's WNBA draft with an update on Britney Griner and she does remain imprisoned in a Russian jail. Here's what the commissioner had

to say before we get into tonight's events. I want to take a moment to reiterate the WNBA support for Phoenix Mercury Star Britney Griner. Please know that getting her home safely continues to be our top priority, and while we are facing an extraordinarily complex challenge, there is strength and community, especially the WNBA. She said, I know we're

all frustrated, but we do need to be patient. I know the players have been amazing at following the advice that they're getting and we're getting in order to not jeopardize her safety in any way. So we just continue to follow that advice and continue to work on it, all right, So prayers out to Britney Griner. I know they said she is safe fortunately, and I know it's

a crazy situation. She's been detained since February after allegedly being found with cartridges containing hash during an airport security check in Moscow. And I do wonder if more noises in being made about this situation because they don't, you know, for lack of a better term, don't want her to seem so important because then she'd be a bigger political piece for Russia. I heard somebody say that before. That's why they have been telling people not to make too

much noise about it. Well, the commissioner said they are following the advice that they're getting to not jeopardize her safety in any way. So I'm sure the reason why is because they're being told what to say, what not to say, and what to do. So we're praying for her safe return though, all right. Tory Lane says that he was not talking about Megan the Stallion and the shooting. On his new song Mucky James, he said, I see all these blocks trying to connect it to and honestly,

I have more sense than that. I would not play with the court order or the judge like that. Please stop that narrative. So those are his words, all right. Larry David has confirmed a new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, season twelve. He confirmed that Sunday night at an Emmy's event that was presented by HBO Max. They had a screening of season eleven episode The Watermelon, as well as a live panel discussion. And so there's no further details

on season twelve. But y'all know, I love of Your Enthusiasm. It's eleven seasons they've had so far, spread out over twenty one years. I never got into it. I never I never watched. It's hilarious. You could watch it on the plane. They show a lot of episodes. I'll check it out next flight when you're flying. But it's really really funny. Jabe smooths on there. M Vica Fox is on there for a while, Wanda Sykes is on there. Um you don't you didn't never watch Seinfeld either? No?

All right, well, you know he created Seinfeld Larry David all Right. Rick Ross has revealed that he's filming his own TV show and it will be about wealth. Here's what he had to say, and the perfect time is now. Yeah, So what I'm gonna do is go ahead. I'm gonna do me a show the time now. It's gonna be about wealth based on success. We actually film it right now, but I hope you're all ready for it because I'm gonna talk some big numbers. Big numbers. It's the nine

figure club. You figure, ladies, blow me a kiss, make love to me. In the metaverse, when when you say you're making a show about wealth, that he's going to teach people how to make money or show them how he's making money, because nobody just wants to see a show about wealth in two dollars twenty two and gas prices right at all time, I thought it was he was highlighting people that are doing well from the community, that adam making money. That's what I thought. I could

be wrong. Well, they haven't given much information. It's unclear if he's going to be on camera or he'll be behind the scenes. But you know, some way, somehow, he's gonna be talking about wealth. Let's just maybe it'll be entrepreneurship, maybe it'll be I hope so, I hope it's educational, Yeah, because nobody wants to see any lifestyles of the rich and famous type stuff going on right now when the gap between the halves and the have nots is so wide.

But with his business ventures, with his music, with his investments, he's got a reported net worth of forty million dollars to date, Ross doing great, So maybe some people want to see how can they put themselves in position or what are some ways that he's done what he's managed to do with his portfolio, because it's not all just for music, clearly, it's got to be it's got to

be educational. Yeah, I think for Ross, I think the major if it is outside of music, whether it's Checkers, wing Stop, or liquor brand or all the other restaurants, and it's soon to be car shows. You know you're gonna take He's gonna take the car show game, like there's gonna be no car show in the country that's gonna be biggest Rick Ross car show. You do notice right, No, it's not gonna happen. You know, he's gonna absolutely take the car show. I feel like for that. No, I

mean he got his own lane. He got his own lane for his car people. I got my own Yes, every two different lags. Oh you do car shows? Yes, Oh yeah I do. I do. You know we sold out last time Atlanta. We had about seventeen thousand people. You know, the one Atlantic City had about fifteen thousand people. You're doing the one in Houston. I'm doing one in Houston. You know, we'll be over ten thousand people, you know. And we got Miami and Houston versus in New York.

We're about to get New York and barrass Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna pull up in rosters too. He's been talking crazy, so I'm gonna pull up on his car. Don't don't, don't, don't do it. I don't know about that. Pull it on some roster's car show too. Not well, not right, But that is your room of report, all right. I don't forget My Houston car show is happening jan Team Father this day weekend. It's it's Houston versus New York. Shout to trade the truth. Shout the slim thugs, Shout

the Paul Wall, Shout the bun By Jay princes. If you lose this versus right, which you will, do you challenge Miami next because you can't challenge it. Whoever wins is get who gets the challenge? So do you want to New York loses? Do you just sponsor the next one? Houston versus Miami. No, I was just doing my car shows, and then Trade the Truth started talking smacks that I just want to do my car shows about your family. But when people talk smack, I don't back down to no.

Ross cars challenge. You know I'm there, true who has more cars? You are? Ros? Who's got more Beijing? And they bid you were Ros? Ross on both of them? Ross got No. Don't get a twisted I think in the industry, Ross has the most amount of cars. I think to say the most amount of they got the most amount of car I think Ross about two hundred cars. Drop on the clues Boss for Ross Man Ross you got about two hundred cars. Ross is not playing out here,

all right. But let's get to the mix, the People's Choice Mix eight hundred five eight five one five one. It's to Breakfast Club, Go morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. If you're a true music clever. You live for that connection with your favorite music and artists. Now, thanks to one of and the NFT revolution, that connection is about to get much deeper. Learn more about one of the new green NFT platform built for the music community at one up dot com morning.

Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the breakfast club Now. Shout out to resume Aminican for joining us this morning. Both to my guy resume Amentica man. His new book, The Quaking of America is out right now. He's a fantastic author. I recommend My Grandmother's Hands to everybody. If you remember, I was giving away, you know, copies of my Grandmother's Hands here on the radio.

I think it's much reading, much reading for everybody, and I'm sure Quaking of America will be more the same. I just love to hear Resume Resume talking. One thing about resumece books. They're experiences. You ain't gonna just read Resumeence book because Red has exercises after every chapter that you have to do physical exercises, and it's it's an experience. So suth to my guy Resumementicum, yep. And he's gonna be at Angela. Ye's a coffee shop today, righty Yes,

coffee Uplifts people will be there tonight. He'll be signing his books. You have an opportunity to get a copy and meet Resumementicum and have a conversation. We'll be discussing the quaking of America, all right. And also shout to Jia Peppers for joining us this morning, Big Jim. Yes, my girl Jia Pepper. She got a lot going on. Amazing to see how she's evolved as a media personality. Anytime somebody needs something, I'm like Gia Peppers would be good for that. Yeah, Ji is one of the best

doing it right now. Sleuth to young Jia Peppers. Absolutely. And then when we come back, positive notice to Breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scharlomagne the guy we all the Breakfast Club. I got seven days left to me in the wife's book, Real Life, Real Love comes out yesterday. We did fourteen interviews. I want to say shout to everybody that that interviewed us yesterday. We got a bunch more than we're hitting the road.

So if you haven't pre ordered the book, definitely pre ordered The book is all about relationships. Hopefully, if you're having problems in your relationships, it can help you to tell you things to do and then things not to do that I did but ivolved. Well, I cannot wait to have this sell Yeah, I can't wait to have this sello sit down on lip Service that will be out next week and we'll be talking to her this week.

And I know she likes to to drink a little bellies, no boy, yea, all right, well we got a positive note. I do have a positive note, man, and I want you to listen and hear me clearly. I don't know who needs to hear this this morning, but whatever you're going through, it's your fault, okay. Accountability is the acceptance

of responsibility for one's own actions. All right. Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes that reason is that you're a person who just makes four choices breakfast club, y'all, finish for y'all, dumb