Viola Davis Interview

guys are the basket. Look if we know this breakfast club bito, good morning Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. Angelie is out? What's up, Cholomagne? Peace to the planet is Friday? Yes, it's oh man, we made it to the end of the week. Man. Weekend is hell. Even though it sucks

to be in New York, New Jersey suits. Everybody that listens to us all around the country told Jabs in Orlando all last week, whining short pants and white T shirts. You know what I mean. Now we're up here with hoodies on and sweatshirts and jackets. The hell is happening? Who says short pants? Isn't it just shorts? I wear short pants? What the hell is short South Carolina? Okay, we wear short pants? What the hell? Just how you may want a short pants? Short pants? Niggah says short pants?

Just say short They short pants in my book. Okay, I'm calling them short up pants. My whole life's stop calling them show up pants. Now. It's like saying the short long sleeve like what that's just shorts, the short sleeves, short sleeve shirts. Because we're talking about you know what, short pants? All right, all right, but okay, long story, short pants. I was wearing them last week, all right, gay, and now we're back in the cold. Don't feel like

winning to you? It does? Come on, man, they say it on the east coast of seventy degrees the weekend tomorrow Sunday is gonna be in the seventies. Just when your texticle start hanging, they go right back up close to your body. No, I mean I got time for that. I'm old, all right, like mine to hang. Well, good morning. You see what this show starting this morning at Alady started talking about he's not here today. Okay, we got

an iconic show for you this morning. I dropping a clues bond for the show that we have planned for you today. We have two very special guests. She has a show on Showtime that premieres this weekend. It is called ze Way. Z Way is absolutely out of her damn mind. Okay, Yes, I call her a whole full market. If you've never watched her show, you are clearly missing out. And she will be joining us this morning. Yes, she will be joining us this morning, and also the icon

the Legend. Come on now, Viola Davis will be joining us this morning. Let me tell you something. Her book Finding Me, which I have in my book bag right now. I've read it, I've listened to it. I actually enjoyed listening to it more because she narrates it herself. Yes, this is absolutely positively one of the best books I've read this year. Really, oh man. But it's very triggering, very open, very triggering. Yparent you grew up a certain way if you had to deal with a lot of

certain issues. But we'll talk about it, okay. I think her book is gonna really help people in their healing process because it really is an exploration of her her inner child. Okay, yeah, all right, well let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Canada is gonna lift restrictions on the gaming don't blood. Yeah, you kind of just left me with the dot dot dot. I just want to know what there rescriptions on game, what the rescripting game man from doing. We'll talk about no

backdoor access. I need to know that story. You gave it away. Come on, man, and ain't even as excitement as I thought it was gonna be. All right, well, let's get to some new music. Futures albums out today. This is all Future Wait for You, okay, and this is Future featuring Draking from Future let me hear it. Good morning morning. Everybody's DJ Envy angela Ye, Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. That was Future Drake off for futures albums albums out today. It's called Wait

for You. The albums called I Never Liked You, Right, yes, all right, well, let's get in some front page news. NBA seventy six is Beat the Rafts one thirty two ninety seven. They advanced to the next series. This son's Beat the Pelicans one fifteen h twe on nine that Paul had a perfect game, fourteen for fourteen. He scored thirty three points. I watched that game. That was a phenomenal game, great game and Chris Paul and not miss a shot. They said that was the second let me

see the second time that's happened. Yep, and the Man's beat the Jazz ninety eight ninety six. Yesterday was also the NFL Draft. Do you know who the who your team picked up? I have no idea. I was watching basketball last night. I mean, it don't matter, you know what I'm saying, because we're going to the Super Bowl. So as long as we picked up some offensive linemen. Do we pick up some offensive lineen. I don't know who you did. As long as you did some, you know,

picked up some offensive linemen, we're gonna be fine. First first pick went to the Jaguars. They picked up tray Walker from Georgia. All right, now, one ticket, one person, one four hundred and seventy three point one million dollars. That was the powerball jackpot. And that ticket was sold in Arizona. So if you got family in Arizona, you live in Arizona, give him a call right now. The winning numbers were eleven thirty six, sixty one, sixty two,

sixty eight and the powerball number was four. Colue to that person, man, and I hope that Arizona has that thing where you can remain anonymous because nobody like rich people. Okay, it's a fact, so let's remain anonymous. Okay. Now, Health in Canada, they're saying Canada lift restrictions on gay men donating blood. That a Prime Minister of Canada said this is good news for all Canadians, but had taken too long. They've been trying to lift the band for the last

ten to fifteen years. I've been having problems. So after research, they said there is no difference, of course, So they are lifting the band on a gay man. I didn't know. I don't know that they had a rescription on gay men don't ate them blood. Yeah, now, this is what I don't understand. FDA announces a proposed band to band flavored cigarettes and blunt wraps. What is the difference between flavored and regular? Is it? Is it worse because it's bad? Anyway?

I don't ask me because I don't smoke either. It just doesn't make sense. What are they banning them for? What's the reason. They say, it's the combination of the tobacco and like the artificial flavoring that they use that make it more dangerous, make it more dangerous than what it does already. But already come a lot of stuff. I don't know, but they Oh, we need to lift the band or putting sweet stuff in your mouth. Okay, that's what we need to do. It's Canadas's Canada's lifting

bands on gay stuff. We need to live bands on gay stuff. You should be allowed to put anything sweet in your mouth that you want to, all right, And lastly, this is crazy. A Florida sheriff was forced to make a heartbreak and arrest while hunting local meths suppliers his own daughter. He had to arrest his own daughter. She was a meth supplier and he had to arrest her in a stig. She was a mother of three. She was delivering a large quantity of meth, he said. She

was arrested last week for trafficking and possessing coking. That police officer job, He said, I felt terrible about it, but I also knew that the quantity of drugs she was selling was unbelievable and that she had to be stopped. That's right. You are here to protect and to serve, sir, and that woman is a threat to our community. They said. They said, did it feel good? He said, no, it didn't feel good, but it had to be done. Clean up these streets, starting with your own home. That's what

I'm talking about. You know how they say if you want to really make a change, you gotta start in your own home. That man is starting in his own home dropping a clues bomb for that police office. Okay, you're going to jail. Jess what because I don't know. As soon as you said, math I knew what rich it was. Okay, as soon as you said meth I

knew the call Cassidy. In that situation, she's not gonna give it or the heads up though, like Lott, No, because you know why, cause you're messing up the family business. You know, I'm a police officer. Look, okay, you got to get out of Dodge for the next couple of days, trust me. No, don't ask any questions. No, go to go to Disney. No, you're going to jail because you know what happens in a situation like that. He's jeopardizing

not only his livelihood, he's jeopardizing his freedom. So if they find out he was helping her in any way, shape or for him and giving her any type of heads up, he gonna end up going to jail. I think he beat that of court. That's his daughter. I mean, listen, man, White people can do a lot of different things. So if you tell me, I think he'd beat that in court, Sure he could with the right attorney. But I respect

the fact he did the right thing. All Right, you're going to jail, man, all right, You're going to jail. And always told you if you didn't that create he was gonna end up here. Okay, didn't I tell you? If you didn't that grate you was gonna end up here. Now look at you, Okay. That would be a good conversation if he asked both breaks. Would you arrest your daughter and send it to jail? Hey, I would give a little heads up. It just depends. I'm not mad at him for what he did. I don't know what

I would do. I don't know what I would personally do in that situation, but I'm not mad at him for doing his job. All right. Well, that that lets me know he's an honest police officer. That is true. You lock your own daughter up. He gonna saying, geez, he ain't taking nobody on the side here what nope? All right, well that is front page news. Get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If you need to vent, hit us up right now, phone LUNs a wide open eight hundred five

eight five one on five one. It's Friday, damn it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what's doing if this is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eighty five one five one. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? DJA Katy? What's up? Brother? Again? Ja Katy? What's going on? DJ Michelle? How do you do not know what short fans is? Tell him again, we don't say short pass

He just say short. That ain't true, man, Listen, listen they say short parts, long pants, short sleeve shirts, long sleeve shirts. Now, how you don't know that? That's right? Talk to him, king, Where are you from? Off for a lot of deal floor. Maybe it's a South thing. Maybe that's just something we say the outside. Yeah, I don't know even if you go in the if you go in the stores, they got short pants and shorts and stuff like that. Enough, that's what I thought. So

you know J C. Pennis things like that. So you know, DJ man, you know your shorts up nors. You gotta get to our sut too. Man. That's right. I gotta get my social short pass. Then thank you brother. All right, you have a good weekend. Hello. Who's this? Hey? This is say tape from Greenville. Take from Greenville. Te what's happening? Getting off your chest? I want to say thank you Envy for that book me and my man, and it's

helping us to buy We're getting married Saturday. And I want to say you and your wife made a great book. And due to the pandemic push back our honeymoon. But you know this has been a great read and I just don't want to say thank you. Well, thank you so much. That's that's the reason why we wrote the book. We thought we could help a lot of couples and a lot of people thinking about getting married. And as you see, we've been through a lot, but we've been

able to work through it. That's why we say, the magic that holds it together. And you know we've been together since sixteen and fifteen, so it was our evolution. We grew together. But I think we grew to a great place for ourselves. We always say we cracked the code for our relationship and things are a lot better. You know, all the questions that person everything that really helps. Also, you know, can I get my cash up out so we could get help with our honeymoon? Okay, thank you.

So it's side. That's all Va and the levit and I just want to say all of y'all had to break this. I have a great day. Thank you so much. Hello, who's this? Good morning? Lagne? The guard is Oji Rob talk for the morning. Oh my guy, what's happening? Sir? Got some bass for us this morning? This good all as well. And look, man, before I start anything, I just want to say congratulations to you Envy and the mentions on the book. Thank you so much. Continue success

on that to you. You know what I'm saying, And shouts to everybody. They said the second restocking Barns and Noval sold out as well, so they're restocking today. So we are grateful and so thankful. Man, that so many people are out there supporting the book. If you haven't picked it up, pick it up. You can pick it up on Amazon or the Audible. All the bookstores should be restocked. And I just want to say thank you so much. Man. You guys are showing out and I'm

so humbled and appreciate it so much. Man. That's good, man, that's a blessing to have that. And it's a blessing for y'all man to be listening to me calling the man woul You know what it is, man, it's half tag boss for breakfast. Let's go ball for breakfast, baby Friday morning, Let's get some all right, check it out and check the paper around with skills on match on parallel oge setting a tone plating that price well unbelievable.

As soon as they can't touch him, he undersigned, but they think it was for working discussion, just not checked. Getting my feet wet character as I dominated through the songs of Wound zero, I'm forced to meditate before I violate me a hater or broke waynst hit for twenty five the Elephant Shot. But later, okay, okay, okay, okay, I'm your idol, your highest tide number. Not a Dominican, but I'm speaking so that you definitely dominic stand. I got to give the speech and it's a blessing, So

listen to the lesson I preach. Who yo yo yo yo yo yo yo rappers envy stepping to me? He wanted to get some but I'm not gay, so you know the outcome yet? What you mean? What you mean? You mean? Shout the og rode for the bars every Friday, always calling man, get it off your chests eight hundred and five eight five one on five one. If you need to hit this up now, it's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. This is your time to

get it off your chest. Whether you're man black from you on the breakfast club, but you got something on your mind. Hello, who's this here? Good Morning's work on. I'm back. We're good and being sholer man. I know ye out piece king girls. Get it off your chest, brother. Yeah, we got some new music. I gotta hurt. You mentioned future and drink Drink. That was hard. But I got some new music too. I got a new album, Ladies Night Dropping. Like I said, I got Life from the

seven one eighth. That's popping right now. I got musical roller coaster jumping on Spotify. Okay, you know the real underscore ancient greco Let's get it shaking man, it's Freaky Friday. Let's let's get it. Oh oh, I got it. I got another one for y'all, two real quick, got all the uncle like you. But it's gonna be funny. But when you're going back to Canada, can y'all can donate blood? Hello? Don't find game? Is Jack Jack from Hichi Society? How

y'all going back this club? Nothing? I want to shout out too amazing females, one being my niece Jayden Winfield. She's graduated from Jackson State tomorrow. I'm driving from Chicago the Minsissity to go see her right now, so I want to shout her out. Okay. My nine year old daughter started a dog tree business called Bonaparty dog Tree. Try to check that out on Instagram. And we have some gangster bites and we gotta get you some d in because I heard Chuck North a little podcast pcast

dog Chettle podcast. You gotta give you something envy. Yeah, send me some of the trees. A matter of fact, if you can. What's the link again. It's on her. Her instagram is bona Party. That's apt a wt I dog treet on Instagram and at three dollars for a five pack, y'all make sure y'all check her out. She's just started. She had her first pop up last Saturday, and she's so excited. And make sure you're setting those up here for that punk ass dog and we got okay,

you're gonna get him some gangster bite. We will thank you so much. You're welcome having good money. I'm telling y'alla, but leave my post gass doll. The little man said it's a punk ass dog. I believe it's a punk gass dog. Hello, who's this at hey? Get it off your chest? Man. I want to talk about these kids in Houston. Man ain't going crazy. So these Cadillatic converters, Man, they got me. Not just Cadillac converters, they'd be stilling

Honda converters. I don't know what it is with these converters, but they've been skilling like crazy. He ain't saying no Cadillac. He didn't say he said Cadillac. He said Candalynic. Thank you, thank you. Oh, ain't just Cadillacs, Hondas, and I couldn't. I can't get to work. I'm over in the uber right now. Manyin't got them? Damn it man. Yeah they got our camera, got Nick compare. They took his converter as well. Damn well, they're stealing. They're selling them for

pass They said that. They said those converters get like anywhere from five to eight hundred dollars or are they more expensive now or something. I don't know. Man can throw my cash up that man ahead, brother, all the sign, mister Wayne with two ease, mister Wayne, all right, brother, good luck. I really want to know why y'all stealing UH converters catalytic converters. Yes, I would like to know fuel line conversis catalytic cantalytic converts. I have no idea anyway.

Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eighty five, one on five one he from Houston to Damn it, man. If you have a problem, you need to vent and you can hit us at any time. Now, we got rumors on the way. What we got. What we got, you know, and we don't be doing the rumor reports, so you don't know what the hell about to happen. We ain't like, we got no new rules. It's the same stuff y'all see in online. So we'll figure it out for you and we'll be back. Yeah, we just

talk about it when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club coorting the Breakfast Club morning. Everybody is DJ MG, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Fifty's This is the rumor report with Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, when you owe fifty money, anger problem? Like what is that? What is that? Who is that? When you owe fifty who got an anger problem? I don't know what older that was? Well, when you owe fifty money, you better

have his money all right now? Fifty centing his lawyers are telling Tiara Marie, I want my money by Monday. It were back. This has been going on for years, Yes, for years now. This happened over you know a lawsuit that happened where a sex tape involved Tia Marie. It went viral. The clip was shared by fifty, and she accused fifty of putting it out, which he said he didn't. It was already out and attorneys In the end, the judge awarded fifty thirty seven thousand dollars. Tierra Marie said

she ain't got it. Fifty said you said you better, said you better find it. And they've been in court for the last two three years for fifty yards money. I see people saying, why it's fifty still on her about this? If somebody owed you forty thousand dollars, wouldn't you be on him about that too? Yes, And I don't want to hear. Oh, fifty got money, he got all these hit TV shows. Money is money when you owe me, I want my bread. Yeah, I feel the same way. And guess whether the roles of reverse you

think she wouldn't be on his head like that? Yes? She absolutely? Okay, knock at off businesses, business, get your money. Fifth, now, Lizzo. She talks about doing a versus but not necessarily rapping or singing with food, random combination of food versus who wins Lizzo versus Sweetie? Y'all just think Sweetie eats random combinations. That's It's not that it's not that uncommon pop eating like that. It's just don't nobody talk about it. She'll

do like, yeah, sometimes freezes it. I don't know if you've done something right. My food combinations are disgusting. Mustard and watermelon, we're not the same. It's unthinkable, right, I'm the vegan version. That's it. I've heard people talk about mustard and watermelon before. So Lizzo Sweetie food battle, who wins? I mean, I don't know. I've never seen Lizzo get down like that. I'm gonna have to go with Sweetie

from what I've seen. You know, Lizzo vegan too, Like what kind of weird combinations can you really put together with vegan? Yeah, you know, Sweetie puts together some nasty combinations to me, cheetos and ramen noodles. All that sounds to me like it's the tallest gonna win, and that that's gonna win that versus the tarlet. Okay, gonna get the best to Lizzle and Sweetie after that verses, Yes, it is now least. Lizzo also talks about having an

angle problem in that same interview. I had an anger problem, Like, yeah, I really did. I had an anger problem back then, and um I would fight, you know really, yeah, I think I had like a lot of pins up anger in me. Because I wasn't expressing it, yeah, the right way even through my music. I wasn't really tapped in like I am now to where I can just like let it flow. Because I think i'd written truth hers in twenty seventeen. So that was like the beginning of

me even realizing, oh, music can try for me. Yeah, I'm not an out of control type fighter. I'm I'm gonna get you cauld Yeah. Yeah, little looks like she get down. Also, I know people will probably think just because Lizzle was bigger, she probably would win that versus battle with Sweedi because they probably think she's been doing

a lot of wild food combinations or whole life. But just because you, you know, I got that weight on, you don't mean that you've been eating wild food combinations correctly, just be eating large portions difference. I mean, yeah, I guess now. Also, let's change against Steve Harvey. He was on E News and they asked him about Michael B. Jordan if he would give him relationship advice. What relationship advice would you give to Michael B. Jordan's really none

in me? You know, I'm not you know, he's gonna have to hurn it. I'm not gonna help so, you know, but he's a nice guy. You know, it's very respectful. So family is really great, a great family man. I know, it's father person. So it's going good for them, you know. Just relationships are hard, especially they young, and they're in a Hollywood type relationship. And I'm cheering for him, you know. Yeah. I'm not giving you no advice on how to continue

to do whatever it is you're doing my daughter. But if he's a good guy, don't you want him to That's all I want you to be. That's the only advice I'm giving you. Be a good guy, be a good, respectful human to my daughter. Can't you want to help him out? If he's a good guy, make sure he's you know, No, I just want him to be a good guy. Once I know he's a good guy and he's a respectful human to my daughters. That's all I can about. I ain't giving you no more advice other

than that. Figure it out on your own, young man, Okay, figure it out on your own. You wouldn't want to help the man if you like him, like, well, let me help him as a cheat coach. Steve Harvey's done enough of that he wrote that damn book. Okay, all right, he's giving enough cheak cold out. I'm not giving out no cheat cold. I want you to, you know, continue to earn your position and my daughter's life the right way. Plus, you know, she got to make all those choices on

her own regardless. Wuldn't you wouldn't you rather your daughter? You got four of them? I God for him. Wouldn't you rather your daughter know the real person as opposed to you know, me giving him a little cheek cold here? And oh you know she likes this, you know she likes that. Hey, you should do this, you should do that. Wouldn't you rather him him be himself? And she grow to love that person on their own, not because of the cheek coach put it like that. Then yeah, I'm

not giving him no cheat coach. Yeah, well Stevey. He also talks about his stylish weights. How does it feel to have so much drip? Trying to tell you something? I'm had it my whole life, even when I was wearing the big suit, you know, and that was really urban, man, that's what we wore. No talks talking to Magic and Michael Jordan. One time they said, man, we should watch you at night on showtime a depolo and see what you was gonna wear and we go out and getting made.

You know, I always love colors, man, you know when you're a game show host and the talk show host. You know, I tried to dress more, you know, more mainstream. It's not a lie. You see Michael Jordan's close back in the day, they looked they are right. They all had on drive fit, baggy ass suits and that was the style. They just didn't know when to stop the stole, like you know what I mean, like they got it. Got a time when you gotta stop. Steve be clean though,

and Steve outfits be like Sweeti's food combinations. I saw Steve. Steve had on a leather suit really like a leather church suit. Yeah, Steve ain't Steve Man, don't un be putting it on, you know, having everything. Man, he ain't playing a game, not at all when he's the og and the legend right, And that is your rumor report. Now when we come back, we got to talk your president Joe Biden. Who when you who talking to? You're

talking to the audience YouTube? Oh, I mean I voted for him, but you know I mean by the way. Every president is our president, right, all right? Trump was your president too, regards right, whether you want to admit it or not. I'm still trying to figure out whose hand he was trying to shake it. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Who's hand he was trying to shake. Somebody tell me that that's my president. Whoever's hand he was shaking, that's that's my president. We'll talk about it

when we come back. As the Breakfast clubc Morning. So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never be the same. What up y'all? As DJ Envy, make the switch to the General Insurance and you could save over five hundred dollars in your car insurance. Imagine what you could do with that money? Right called eight hundred General or visit the General dot com the General Order Insurance Services, Inc. And

Insurance Agency Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions apply. Morning. Everybody is dj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are to Breakfast club's getting some front page news. Let's talk your president, President Joe Biden. Now, Joe Biden says he is not considering fifty thousand dollars in student loan forgiveness, he says, but I'm in the process of taking a hard look at whether or not there will be additional debt forgiveness.

So now I like this because you're gonna tell another story. That's a minute that connects all of these dots. Okay, the campaign promise was they was gonna get rid of a student loan, that it was gonna give everybody that was in student loanedb like, what ten thousand dollars a piece. I think it was correct. Okay, but now they're not talking about that at all. Now they're not talking about that. Now watch this. Watch this. He's not going to take you fifty thou. But now your President, Joe Biden is

asking Congress for thirty three billion dollars in Ukraine. Aid more money for Ukraine. That's right, we have audio. We have almost exhausted what we call the fancy phrase to draw down authority. The Congress authorized Ukraine and a bi partisan spending bill last month. Basically, we're out of money. And so that's why today, in order to sustain Ukraine as a as a continues to fight, I'm sending Congress

a supplemental budget request. It's gonna keep weapons and ammunition flowing without interruption to the brave Ukrainian fighters and continue delivering economic humound of turning assistance to the Ukrainian people. They're asking for more and more money for Ukraine, billions and billions of dollars. But when it comes to something like student loan that in this country, they are taking a hard look at it, not promising nothing, even though

they promised on the campaign trail. They're just gonna take a hard look at student loan that now. But they ain't got no problem asking for money for a whole other country, thirty three billion dollars man on top on top of what they've already given them. Let me just ask your questions. He just said they ain't got no more, but he already always said they ain't got no more

money until they need more money. I'm just I'm just asking the question if if we started an airstrike with with let's just say, with with Putin, just to go get Putin, how much with that cost? I don't ask me. Are you gonna ask me some type of questions like I'm some geopolitical expert that I know how much the airstrike costs on Putin? I don't know it would be less than thirty three million. I'm so much. Man asked me things that I know, asked me how much the

number two is at McDonald's. How much is the number two? Back in the day it used to be with tax twenty four attacks, It's way way back in the day. Now we have more, you know, we're born in the nineteen hundred. That button about button byten. Also Biden also as asked for additional funding. This assistance would provide even more artillery, armored vehicles, anti armored systems, anti air capabilities that have been used so effectively thus far in the

battlefield by the Ukrainian warriors, you know. And it's going to deliver much need of humanitarian assistants as well as food, water, medicine, shelter, another aid to Ukrainians displaced by Russian's war and provide aid for those seeking refuge in other countries from Ukraine. It's also going to help schools and hospitals open. It's going to allow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukrainian people so they have something something in

their pot. Don't disrespect to anybody overseas, but I feel like we're helping all these issues that other people have, but we have these same issues here, right. We always talk about schools here are not funded enough, they don't have computers, they don't have books, a lot of kittles going up not up to par. Or military our retired vets are don't have the service and treatment that they need, but we're quick to ask for thirty three billion dollars.

That just sounds wild. Yeah, And when you hear things like this, um, you know, I hate to say it, but you know, you have to agree with with with Donald Trump, right because Trump repeatedly said the US provides you know, too much cash for for for for natal and things like that, spending big on maintaining military defense systems across Europe, and he wanted Europe to pay their FASH share instead of US paying all of that damn money. So I have to agree with him on that. And lastly,

something that I was excited about. Google said now that it's created a firm that users can submit to take things off of Google, Like if you have private information on Google, whether it's home address, logging, credentials, personal images, or anything, any documents that can hurt you, phone numbers, addresses, anything like that, Google may remove your personal information, which

is pretty good. It's too late night. They already got us. Yeah, that is true too, but for now one and they're saying that they will have a form that they can take all that information off. But they said, Google say they will automatically remove the results and that there must be a threat of abuse for the request to be considered. So I mean, I think that's a good thing about time. Now listen, man, everybody straighten up. Okay, Yes, there's there's

a queen and is about to enter this room. Legend. Okay. She goes by the name of miss Viola Davis. Yes, she has a book out call Finding Me. If you have not read Finding Me, if you have not listened to Finding Me, She narrates to herself, do yourself the biggest favor and go do that this weekend. I guarantee you you will want to after you hear this conversation that we're about to have. But yes, Viola Davis is about to join us. Yeah, and we're gonna talk to

her next. I don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Go morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlemagne, the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, a queen icon Living. That's right, Viola Davis. Well so much. Good morning. How are you today? You know what, I'm pretty good. I'm well rested, I feel alive. There you go. Okay, okay, Well, thank you

for taking time to come and sit with us. It's just so exciting show on the schedule of Viola Davis Finding Me. Yes man, man, this book is such a beautiful exploration of your your inner child. Like when you started the journey of writing this book, did you know you would go on that journey with your inner child as well? Yeah? That was the whole point that I needed to find that inner child. And my inner child was one that needed both healing and needed to be celebrated.

She was a survivor as well as someone who you know, held a lot of trauma. But I felt like I had to explore it because we were at that period of time. I wrote it during the pandemic, you know, the George Floyd of it all, the almand Aubrey, Brionna Taylor of it all, everything dealing with the COVID, with the election. I felt like I was having a crisis of meaning, and it was my way of pressing the reset button just to understand, man, Viola, what are you

supposed to do from here on out? It just was a big wake up call personally and you know, culturally. So that's why I wrote the book. I had to go back to the beginning of me. When you start during a pandemic, or this was something you were doing beforehand, and you were just so many projects. He was like, I'll get to it though this was pandemic. This is what I want to do. Well. I didn't want to do nothing during the pandemic, but I did start during

the pandemic. I had just finished How to Get Away with Murder. I literally just ended it that March, and then I started writing the book. It was something to do because otherwise I was going stir crazy. I wasn't the person who settled into the pandemic. I felt everything that was going on around me, and I felt the chaos of it, and I internalized it. So this book was great therapy. So when God made you sit still in you know, during the pandemic, what did you see

about yourself that you hadn't saw in a while. I saw a lot of things. I saw Viola as a survivor. I saw, you know, I keep telling this story ad nauseum. I know I've told it a lot, but I've always said you got to leave a legacy, right, So I said, you know, it's life. It's like a relay race. It's what you do with your dash of time. And what great runner you pass that baton, you know, off to, You pass it on to the next generation. They pass it on to the person you know who's after them

and after them. And I realized during the writing of the book, is those great runners are you at a different age? The six year old who survives it then, you know, may survive it really messy may have been inappropriate, but she ran her leg of the race and passed the baton onto the fourteen year old Viola, who said, I want to be an actor. In the midst of all the poverty, the abuse, the bed wedding, the sexual

all of that, she wanted to be an actor. She saw a way out and fourteen year old pass it on to the twenty eight year old who said, you know what, I need therapy because I want healthy relationships in my life. I want to be happier, and I don't know how to do that, and she passed it on to the thirty four year old Viola, who got married to the fort forty five year old Viola who

then became a mom. And then now I'm fifty six and I have the baton in my hand, and now what you know, what am I supposed to do with this part of my life? Because I would say, at fifty six, you're a little bit past midlife. So that's what I learned. It's like it's a constant reassessment of where do you want to be, what do your life, what do you want your life to sort of look like?

And I keep coming back to this because I know I know that, I know that, I know that the number one regret of the dying is they didn't take risks, they didn't become their ideal self. I don't want anyone to think that I wasn't brave. And I think that sometimes people hold off braveness and courage because they don't want to risk failure and they don't want to risk shame. And I think you got to risk it. And that's

been my biggest discovery in writing the book. You're say in the book that memories are powerful, right, Some people like to beget memories because it's so painful. It's so hurtful, but it seems like you use it as inspiration to push yourself. Why is that. I think the pain the trauma is equal to the joy and the peace in your life. I think that they're one and the same. I don't think that the pain and the trauma and the hard times are a detour from life. I think

it's a part of life. And I think that when you refuse to lean in to all of it is, you refuse to become connected to yourself. And that's why no one can connect with anyone else, because the only time we want to meet is with great stories of overcoming and winning. And then when someone feels like they are not overcoming and they're not winning, and they're not waking up happy every day, then they feel like they need to hide in the closet, not come out, not

open their mouths, not saying anything. There's no one to share with, there's no sacred space to be you. I count it all joy. Now, when I say I count it all joy, it takes some time. I'm sometimes account it all joy, But I do believe that it's all a part of life. I've been in too many spaces

where I haven't been able to connect with people. You just never know what people have gone through to get to where they are today, which is why memoir like this, where you were so open and honest about everything, it really helped us to see like where you come from when you're acting. And I wanted to ask you about your relationship with your parents because in this book you talk a lot about things that happened to you when

you were a child. What did you realize while writing this book about like your father and about your mother. I realized they did the best they could with what they had. That's what I realized. Because it's so hard to forgive your dad. I know, you know you talk about how abusive he was to your mother and things that you had to witness. So was it hard for you to even forgive that? Yeah, forgiveness is to me. I feel like forgiveness and faith are equal in terms

of they're the hardest things to achieve. It's they're so abstract, So it comes down to choice. I forgive for myself. I forgive because I don't want to carry that weight, the weight, the vengefulness of regret and all of that for me, it blocks everything from coming into your life.

And I don't think that anyone wants to see a sixty year old or here is sixty year old sitting in run their therapists saying, I, you know, haven't been able to make my marriage work or this work in my life because what my dad did when I was five. At some point your life becomes yours as well. That you said that because my wife was up here the other day and she was like, you know, when she forgave,

she be gave for herself. And I didn't understand it at first because most people think when you forgive, your forgiving the person that hurts you. But it's actually to to not to take away that pain from yourself so you don't have to deal with it anymore. That is that you say when you say I forgive for myself, Well, yeah,

that's part of it. I do believe it's a sort of prison, and not to get to philosophical of course, but I believe that when you get to the end of your life, you're not thinking about all the people that you hated and all the people that did you wrong. I don't think that you're thinking about that when you're

taking your last breath. I just don't. I think all of that goes away, and I think everything comes into sharp focus, which is probably making amends, probably being with the people that you love, probably sewing everything up, probably holding someone's hands. But I don't think that we're thinking about all of that. I think that once again, the only person you could say is yourself. That's the only thing that you could do. You can't keep backtracking as

what wrong someone did to you or whatever. You got to figure out how to heal that. It's like, you don't you haven't met all the people who are going to love you in your life yet, and so when you meet all these people who are gonna love you, they do not want to meet a vengeful person, okay, because they're gonna get the overflow of that vengefulness. As a matter of fact, they're not going to get the

overflow of that vengefulness. They're gonna get nothing. They're gonna go so far with you and then it's gonna stop. I've been with those people. They're called emotionally unavailable. We are well with Viola Davis. When we come back, don't move. It's to breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee Charlomagne, the guy we are to Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Viola Davis Charlomagne. I love how you held your father accountable but also humanize them.

Did you always see the humanity in him or was that something that happens as you got oh do it, you know with the more work you did on yourself. Absolutely, more work I did it on myself. The more I saw his humanity, the more I could connect the dots. You know. I thought life was like a Disney movie. People were just good or bad. That's it. The evil villain who just comes out just wants to destroy everyone. I didn't know that people acted because of specific memories

once again, trauma in their lives. The people, and we really demonize black people, you know, and very way. You wouldn't even be doing what you're doing if all those things hadn't happened to you as a child. Absolutely, because it was such an escape for you to be able to turn on the TV. You said it was Cicely Tyson right that you saw that made you even say this is what I want to do. Absolutely, that woman and that performance was everything. I remember the moment I

saw that performance because it was like magic. It was like it was a magician pulling a rabbit out of the hat. If you've ever seen the performance, she aged from eighteen to one hundred and ten, and you could not even believe it. From the first frame of that it was a mini series. And literally the wind stopped blowing, the sun came out, and I saw a portal way out of the poverty, the trauma. I just felt like, if I could do that, I could make a life.

I think sometimes you gotta see it, you know, And I know everybody just puts faith on people, especially on us, especially on black folks. I know that's all we had. And and but it's a lot. You know. You go up to young black kids who were coming from really challenging backgrounds, and people come up to them and say, you know, you could be what who and what you want to be. You just have to dream big. And then once you make it, you come back, you bring

your family up, you bring your community up. And I'm sure if that kid had a language, he would say, how that's a lot you just throw and then you gotta work ten times as hard. You throw all of that on their lap, and then at fifty. If they can't even get if if they can't achieve it at all, or they feel like they want to give up, then we just brate them. It's a lot that we put on them. So sometimes you gotta see it, you gotta hold it, you gotta somebody's got to throw you a rope,

they do. Honestly, What was you talk about, sicily, But what was some of your positive influences? Because you know, you talk about, you know, your parents and how you looked at your dad, and you talked about, you know, going to the white school and the white kids chasing me all the bricks, and you talk about all those things. So what positive influence did you have? What was your safe haven as a kid? If there wasn't there was

no one safe haven for me. What life becomes about is how someone can take you from A to a plus, from a plus to D, from D to you know, to M to M. You know, there are people who can carry you at different points in your life. It could be a teacher, it could be a parent, it could be a relative, it could be a stranger that gives you one word. I had a lot of teachers, even the first teacher who looked at me. And he was an acting coach who looked at me and told

me I was beautiful. That meant a lot to me. And the first person who just came into science class because he was a teacher and I called him in the middle of the day. He was an upward bound teacher and I said, I was having a panic attack. He came to the school. He interrupted science class. He said, I want to see viola. The science teacher said, you can't do that. He said, excuse me, sir, I'm gonna do it. Anybody, anybody who throws you a rope and

sees you and likes you. There is something about someone looking at you and liking you right, and even saying your potential when you can't see it absolutely, because sometimes you tuck yourself out of things right because of fear. But then someone tells you, like you're a science teacher, listen, you need to apply for this. You can do it, and you tell yourself, I can't do it. Why would

they take me? Why would accept me by somebody else believing in you and giving you the tools, Like you can't make excuses anymore after a while, And you know what, very seldom am I in a space. And I know y'all can say the same thing, but am I in a space specially as a dark skinned black woman, and could speak my truth about what that means the isolation of that experience, okay, because it comes at you threefold.

It comes at you through yes, white America. It comes to you through the experience and the culture of America, and it comes to you through even black culture. I'm just going to say it because it's called colorism. It's its own different sect of racism, and it is destructive because what you tell women in general is that beauty is a value, which it's not. Listen, I'm one of those people. I think everybody's beautiful, and I really do. I don't talk about stuff like that. Oh yes, well

the bull frogs. That's a different level. There was some meaning women. But you consider it a value. And with someone who you feel has value, you pay attention to them, You pour into them. You think that they're smarter, more valuable,

more everything. So when you go up to little chocolate girls who are darker than a paper bag and you're constantly telling them they're not as cute, they have bad hair, they have this that you're putting negative connotations and then you can now you can literally google people who seem to have had press conferences to talk about how unattractive they find darker skinned women. I mean, here's the thing. Even if if you feel that way, why are you

gonna spread that? How do you think people could have received that? And we know how difficult it is to get a leg up, you know in the black community, the lack of opportunity what we're running from, and then you're gonna put that on us and so And when you can't speak your truth in the room, then you feel like you have to hide yourself. It's very it's like physically painful. I want I want to ask you a couple more questions about your father because I found

that dynamic so interesting. And you said something in the book and on paraphrasing, but you said your father was an abuser who became a good partner. Yeah, and this era canceled coaches. Some people couldn't even imagine that happening. Can you explain he did? And I think he always had it in him. I think he was wrestling, you know. I always feel like it got two people that you wrestle with, right, and it's who you feed, and I think he fed the more violent aspects of himself. I

think he was running from a lot. But in the last several decades, I think, since I was probably in my twenties, he helped my mom raise a lot of

my relatives children, and he loved my mother. He was always there rubbing her feet, and towards the end of his life, I mean, I say towards the end, the last couple of days of his life, my mom would always say, every single day he woke up, even when he was suffering from dementia, towards the end, he would say, you know, may Alice, you know I'm sorry about what I did to you. Wow, I'm sorry. I feel like

that's everything. I mean, how many people do you know that even make amends, that even opened their mouths, And I think that that, I feel like that has to be acknowledged as an incredible character trait. All right, Well, no movie got more with Viola Davis. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking it with Viola Davis. Charlomagne have you had some conversations with your mom before this book came out about Yes, because I know I saw you talking to Oprah about that. So even afterwards, like after she read it, what did she say? My mom has not read it yet, but I talked to my mom all the time about it. Once again, there are qualities I love and my parents that probably are not the qualities that I elevated. And the quality that I love in

my mom is she likes to tell the truth. And I know that that sounds like really simple, but there's not a lot of people like telling the truth. A lot of people are very comfortable with telling a great, beautiful lie. She's not afraid of that of leaning in. I like my relationship with my mom now as an adult because I can ask her some pretty racy questions. Yeah. I want to ask you about a quote and it came from a sit down with your mom when you was telling her. I guess when you first about the

first when you was experience and abuse. You told her for the first time about all these abuse experience and you said success pales in comparison the healing. Yeah, could you expand on it? I think you know the point in the book when I when I wrote that, and it took me a long time to write that part is I mentioned that, you know, I'm living in this big house. I'm definitely living the American dream or whatever. And I think that people feel like, once you hit that,

then that's it. Ever, your life is sown, you've made it, and it's not it. I think that's man made meaning. The real meaning is healing. It really is. It's healing from the wounds. It's the journey to healing. And especially because you know, once I told her that once again, I expected a response that I would see on Thursday

night line up on ABC. And how can you expect that with something as complicated as sort of any kind of sexual assault that happens within families in this instance, my brother, and I'm telling my mother this, and this person, this brother, came out of her body. There's a simplicity in which we approach humanity, and I think that human beings are way more complicated than that. So the path

the healing is difficult, But for me, it's everything. It's not healing or healing has been the one thing that has gotten in the way of everything in my life, either gotten in the way of it or has released it. Ability hasn't even released things in my life. Awards haven't released anything in my life. Healing and whatever has happened, happening and internally in me has been everything has been the driving now narrative of my entire fifty six years.

You think you can ever get to a place of wholeness. I mean, I talk to my therapists about this. I'm not. I don't think you do. I think you because you'll have triggers right, You'll think you're fine with something and the next thing you know, you're triggered by it later on. You think you ever can get to a place. And I talk about that with memories, that memories are deathless. I don't know what that means. I feel like I'm

I feel like I'm whole. I do, But I feel like life is an absolute journey, just like you don't know how many people are gonna love you. You don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, and you don't know how you're going to react to it. You know, And once again, Thursday night line Up on ABC. I think everybody wants a TV response. I don't think that life is a destination. Life is about driving the car, and

sometimes the tank is completely full. Sometimes the tank is empty, and you're standing by the car waiting, you know, for a triple A to come and get you some gas. Some times to tank as a quarter full. You're constantly learning, you're constantly in process, but you hope for One of my favorite quotes is, I don't know the definition of grace, only that it meets you where you are and doesn't leave you how it found you. You want some grace in your life because you're never going to arrive perfectly

at any place. Let me get two questions this this week about to go back. You spoke about out of body experiences in the book, and you know you had them when you were younger. I totally understand that because

I had those two. But what do you think those experiences we're trying to show us about ourselves, Just the infinite power we have in our minds, and infinite power to transport ourselves, to explore our imagination, which is an infinite field where we can redefine, reimagine, and the power to relieve ourselves of the burden sometimes of negative negativity. That everything we have is within ourselves. That's what it taught me. Now I can't do it anymore. So I

don't know what that means. It seems like a thing that happened when you was young. When you get older, it don't happen anymore, exactly. I guess you know, when I you know, the world gets at you and the world begins to put up barriers around your life and boundaries that you didn't have when you were younger. Yeah, but I think that's what it teaches you, is that everything you have you have within you and in the

secret Silent shame? Why that chapter? Why do you think we as black people think we're doing ourselves a favor by keeping secrets for me? And it's just my opinion. I feel, especially as a black woman, that if I think shame is a big thing with black folk, and I think it's post traumatic slave syndrome, that there's a lot things that we weren't allowed to do. Look a white man in the eye, smile, look at a white woman.

There's so many things that we were punished for. But more importantly, as a black woman, I feel like a lot of the times when I keep things in it's because I know I'm not going to be protected. I know that there's not going to be anyone out there that's gonna rescue me. I'm saying I'm not saying that I need rescuing, But you know what, we need each other,

we really do. And the lack of adoration, the lack of protection, makes you keep things within and makes you try to just muster through and strong back even if you're broken inside. And who cares about the inner pain of black folk? You better care because certainly the culture in the past has not cared, and we have an aversion to therapy as black folk. I think that's changing, man. I do think it's changing too. I completely agree with you. But I think that's why we keep things in finding

me out right now. And there's so many great topics in this book that I know we can go in depth on at a later time. Fibruarries, that's this topic we're always talking about here with black women. I know you have the docuseries hungry for answers, and I'm excited to talk about too, so you know, hopefully we'll get

to continue the conversation about those things too. And I love how you end the book because I've never heard somebody talk about their eight year old self protecting them Now, it's always the other way around, so I would I just want to know how you even got to that point where you feel like the eight year old you was protecting you now. A therapist told me that. He said, I don't think you need to heal the eight year old. I think the eight year old was pretty tough. She

was a good custle. You're a good cussle, you know. To the audible version, I'm like, are you like Samuel lol Jackson Lote? But you know I love it? Right? Congratulations, right now, pick it up. It's Viola Davis. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, Man, Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club Man. Make sure y'all go get Viola Davis's book. Fine to me, I read it, but I also listened to it. That's my thing nowadays. I'd like to read and listen to

the book at the same time. She narrated herself. Phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal read man. I think it's really gonna help a lot of individuals with their healing. But it is very triggering if you grew up a certain way. But it's a great read. All right. Well, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Kardashians Breakfast Club. All right, let's start light. Let's start with Travis Barker. Now they're saying the hell they're saying that Travis Barker went to Robert Kardashian Senior's

grave to ask for permission to marry Courtney. He said, he wants to get married. Of course the dad passed away, so he went to the grave to ask for permission. Why do you listen, man, I understand why people go to grave sites, you know, but the grave site is really the symbol like a person's spirit still exists. You can talk to a person's spirit anywhere. So he didn't have to take that travil. No, I mean, nobody has

to do that. I understand why you do it, because you know, you you buried your your loved one, so you go there to you know, paying homage to the to the grave site. But it's just like, yeah, you can talk to the spirit of somebody anywhere. All right. Well, you remember a couple of months ago, Kanye was talking about getting the laptop back from Ray J. When he was sitting down with Jason Lee from Hollywood. Unlock. That's right.

Let's listen. You know, how are you going to bring me to s now and kiss the dude you dating right in front of me, and everybody's like, oh, that's that's cool. After I went and when he got the laptop from ray J myself that night, right, and then got on red I met this man at the airport, then got on a Red Eye, came back, delivered it to her at eight animal in the morning, and then I gave it to her and she cried when she saw it. Well, of course, keeping up with the Kardashians,

h they have a show us. I think it's on Hulu, right on Hulu. So the episode last night, Kim Kai talks about it and she's actually crying and all that other stuff. So Kanye flew last night and he came back this morning. Can't want to show you guys what he got me. He got me all of the sex take out, Oh my god. And he got her drive and airport and got it all. Kim Oh my god. I'm saying, I know Kanye did this for me, but

he also did this for my kids. I want to shield them from as much as I can, said Calf said, where's this coming from? It's your fault, that's mine. Okay, all right, go ahead, all right, let me let me RePhase that. Ray J said, cab. He said, all of this is a lie. Shaking my head. I can't let them do this anymore. So untrue. I would like to know what ray J is talking about. But what I also found interested in that clip. If you watch that clip, is that Kim said there was nothing on those tapes.

Like she said, it was like them at dinner and them doing like regular stuff. So like, why did they keep calling them sex tapes if there's nothing on them? Yeah, and why did y'all hear that in the clip of my triplets? Can you play that clip again? Let's tailor might have cut it, but that isn't there right, Oh, let me hear it. Listen, it's the end part. We gotta pull it up. We'll pull it up, pull it up, No, I said, pull it up. No, that's not it. Oh no,

mind right last night and you can't fast forward? No, no, no, sea back. Oh my god, and he home you got her guy and Raj at the airport and got it all. Kim, Oh my god, that's amazing. And no Kanye did this kid? I want to shield them from as much as I can. No. Oh, yeah, she keeps talking and she said, there's nothing really on the tips. She was like, they're at dinner and they're like doing regular stuff, a couple of stuff. Then why is she crying? Man? I don't know, because it's TV,

That's why. Why is it so because it's TV. If we're just going to get dinner and just change the beach, it's TV. Why is it so dramatic? It's TV? Okay, So like, why was it so? Listen? First of all, stop questioning the best? Who ever did it for reality TV? Okay? All right? Dropping a clue BUMX for the Kardashians. All right, we've been talking about them for ten years? Okay, all right? So you mean there was nothing, no other sex. They were just having dinner. Unless I heard wrong. I thought her.

I heard her say that they were just they it was just regular stuff on there, like them that dinner and them doing some other stuff. They want to cry, and I don't know, I don't know. Maybe she thought it was something else but it wasn't. I don't know. So he met him at the airport to get a

tape of them eating dinner. I don't know. Ray J say, they're all lying, Okay, he said, yap, all right, well he ray J on the phone and some other Kardashian news people are upset at kardashes because, they say, and they're receiving special treatment in the courtroom and this is what with their battle with Black China. They said, they're getting special entrances to get in and out of the courtroom, and also they have private rooms to sit and talk.

They said, this is not usually what people do, but because they are the Kardashians, allegedly, that's what's happening. Okay, that's all you got. Man's Kardashian news. First of all, at first I thought, you know what, they are celebrities, so I understand that. But then like, nah, we've seen celebrities walking out of court surrounded by cameras, so yeah, that would be preferential treatment. But that's all you up. Yeah, that's it. That's it, this Kardashian news. I'm just curious

she they really cried over dinner. That's all you got. All right, Well, that is your rumor report. I wish I had more. You just I thought it was another part of the sex state. But you're just telling me they just going to dinner, chilling on the listen to me. Yeah, I'm just talking. I'll just be thinking. I hear stuff. Okay, I heard that. I heard child. All right, what were

you giving your donkey? Man? Four after the Hour, we really need to have a conversation about how people don't know how to communicate with each other, no more especially men, young men when it comes to women. You know what I'm saying, and trying to highlight women. You know, we grew up in the nineteen hundreds, you know what I'm saying. We grew up in a very romantic era. Last decade. Come on, now, we grew up in a very right now, that wasn't the last decade a couple, you know what

I mean. But yes, we'll talk about that. Four after the Hour. I'm sorry that this young lady in Chicago had to go through this, but we'll discuss all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Breakfast Club. Your morning will never be the same. I teamed up with Zyrtech for this allergy relief message. Springtime brings a vibrancy to the air and pollen so I take Zyrtech when allergy symptoms start, save the tissues and

live vibrantly with Zyrtech. Starts working at hour one and stay strong day after death. If m HD one New York I Heart radio station. I was born to Donkey. It's the Donkey. Don't get Charlomane Devil Breakfast Club woll Donkey of the Day for Friday, April twenty nine goes to a student at a high school in Chicago. The high school is called Burlington's Central High School in Central Community Unit School District three oh one. That's a long

ass name for a high school. Okay, I want to salute one of the students at the school, a young sister, a young queen by the name of Kayla Haynes. Dropping on the clues bombs for Kayla Haynes police. I guess it's Prim season in a lot of places, and its Prom season in Chicago, and folks is chosen, Okay, trying to see who they want to go to Prim with, trying to see who to ask to go to Prime. And one things for sure, two things for certain, y'all

don't know how to talk to no women. Okay, listen, younges, this your uncle charlat talking. Okay, brother Lenard, I am forty three years old. I was born in the nineteen hundreds, dropping the clues bombs for everybody born in the nineteen hundreds. Okay, I didn't pass the ball, but I know a little bit, and I know that social media has made a whole generation of people socially awkward. Now, I'm a person that deals with heavy anxiety, so interactions with humans are already

awkward and have always been awkward. But growing up in the nineteen hundreds, I still developed great social skills because I had no other choice. Okay, I had to talk to people. I had to look people in the eyes when I talk to them. I couldn't hide behind an avatar or stay in my room on YouTube all day communicating with people through phones and computers. In fact, we spent hours on the phone actually talking to people. Think about that, Okay, I am an individual who hate small talk.

I hate trying to force conversation. So think about growing up in the nineteen hundreds and being on the phone with a person for hours, just talking okay words, hearing them actually speak their voice. Think about the people you used to sit around and just kick it with laughing, joking, crying, fussing, whatever it was. You learned a different set of communication skills. Okay, you understood how to read body language. You knew when someone was being sarcastic. Okay, you knew when they were

just joking. If it came to a debate, you had to know what you was talking about on the spot. You couldn't google things and copy and paste them okay before your post. So you sound smarter than you are, all right. You couldn't go online and see what everyone thinks about a situation. It didn't run with those talking points. We didn't spend so much time discussing what we think about things. We spent time actually critically thinking. Okay, smartphones

had made a generation of dumb people. Emotional intelligence is at an all time low. People don't have any comprehension skills, and that is why we don't know how to talk to each other. And you young and definitely don't know how to talk to women. Now, I'm not sitting here saying we knew how to talk to women either, Okay. I mean I grew up on Uncle Luke and death Rol records in the nineteen hundred, but I also grew up on Joda. See okay, I grew up on Love Jones.

All right, UNC knows how to be romantic. And I'm gonna tell you something. One thing I was always good at was a note. Oh those hand letters, Oh oh oh, those handwritten letters used to be game changes. Weren't they? Envy? They to drop writing the locker. When a human takes the time to write a letter, pass you a little note, whether it's you know, will you go with me? Check yes, no? Or maybe? Gotta have the maybe, always maybe because rejection hurts. Okay,

so you gotta have the maybe. All right? Oh when a Leah God Bless the Dead came out with four page letter, man, when you write someone a four page letter and then and then you enclose it with a kiss, I mean I never did that. Women do that because of the lipstick and that lipstick print on that four page letter. What I used to do with spray cologne on the paper way obsession back in the day dropped on the clus bumps where everybody who used to break alone on the ba and they used to write a

little sweetheart a letter. Okay, And I've always had a way with words, which explains why God hasn't me and the professions I'm in now. But all I'm simply saying is we understood the power of our words, because that's all we had. A guy grew up in Monks going to the South Carolina. I ain't no damn money, Okay. All I had was a gift to gap. And you had to put real thought, in real feeling into your words. And you had to walk up to that woman, looked him in the eyes and slipped him that note. And

he said he slipped it in the locker. Okay. But one thing to shore. Two things were certain when you saw him later and got that note back. They wrote you a note back and that number was on it. You know, you had to have at least minimum three hours of conversation. So when you got home from school and you took that phone from the kitchen and stretched that card into the living room. Yes, kids, we used

to have cards on the phone. When you stretched that card from the kitchen to the living room so you could watch Rap City, you were talking to that individual for at least three hours until your parents came home. Then your parents come home and fusted you because they've been trying to call in the line was busy. This is before a call waiting bro the nineteen hundreds was wow, who do we call for emergency? Where everybody was on the phote all the time, and you get that damn

busy thing. Though, all I'm saying is, y'all don't know how to communicate with each other. Okay, y'all how to communicate with each other without these smartphones and laptops. And I'm sorry that Paul Kayla Haynes had to go through what she went through. But Kayla was asked to go to the prom and her promposal as people in this district of Chicago outraged. Let's go to NBC five Chicago for the report police. The post on social media left

Kayla Haynes disappointed and surprised. How could someone in the right mind post this and think it was okay? A classmated Central High School in Burlington posted this for an online prom proposal. It reads, if I were black, I'd be picking cotton, but I'm white, so I'm picking you. She's just as wrong as him for her to even take the picture and sit there and say, yeah, oh my god, I would love to go to problem with

you with this racist poster. Kayla says while some may see it as a joke, she and many of her class hetmates do not. She recently met with the principle about the post. It's not just a black and white issue. It's also Asians, Indians, Hispanics being affected by this too, and that needs to be talked about. Eric Monroe Haynes as Kayla's dad. When I read it, I said, Wow, she handled it very well to me, and I think the problem now is how the school is going to

handle it. Kayala says she liked both of the students to apologize for that post. Meanwhile, the school district's not saying what if any punishment the students could face. If I was black, I'd be picking cotton, but I'm white, so I'm picking you. That is so disrespectful. This is why you have to have critical race theory in the schools. Okay, young man, I don't know what you've thought the conditions were when black folks was picking cotton in this country.

I don't know what misconceptions you have about that act of labor that made this country rich, but let me be the first to tell you that ain't it. Nope, Okay, that wasn't the move those weren't the words to use. And the fact that you've made it like it's a postboard. So he put thought into it his post board. He got actual cotton for the words, all types of stuff. And then somebody took that picture for you, and then you posted it online. Where is the filters, where is

the checks and balances? There's nobody that says what are you doing? And then when you tell them, they don't say stop them. Okay, somebody took the picture for you and let you put that online. I mean, come on, you might as well have said to her, hey, you look like trash. I need to take you out. Okay. Like I know, when we was kids, we would probably you know, act like we didn't like a girl when we really liked the girl. But trust me when I

tell you, insults never worked. You will attract more flies with honey than vinegar. Not saying women are flies, it's just to figure of speech, okay. In fact, women are sugar, and you should tell a woman, are you sugar? Because you're sweet and I want to spoon you? That? Ain't it? Okay? What about? Are you powdered sugar because you're sweet and fine? Ain't it either? What about baby, I just poured some sugar on myself. Are you ready for a sweet ride?

That ain't it either? Okay? My brother, Well, y'all just need to get some money, man, Just get rich because maybe we didn't know how to communicate in the nineteen hundreds, like I thought either, okay, but what I know is we was better than this. Yes, all right, please give that young man in Chicago the biggest he hall are your feet tied? You've been running through my mind all day? Okay, that's a good That was that? That hitting the nineteen hundreds.

Now I know y'all listening out there and y'all like that was whacked. But that hitting the nineteen in the nineteen hundreds, that hit? Okay? Yes, what else you have for so good? Well? I can't think of that. See and that's when Google comes in. Oh man? All right, all right, thank you for that. Donkey the day. All right, when we come back, ze what will be joining us? Who the hell is that? Ze Way? I don't know what the hell you just say. It's not like you

had a scroke. Ze Way will be joining us? It sound like you said Zebra, but ze Way will be here. Season two of Her show premieres this weekend on Showtime, and she's a whole full market. We'll talk to her when we come back. All right, Well, don't know if it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning, the Breakfast Club mornings, I'll never be the same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Julie Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guests in the building, icon Hello, morning,

how are you doing? Thank you for coming. I'm so beyond excited to be here. This is hollowed ground. I've watched every interview, maybe every Yeah, you guys are fantastic. You said that before, so I believe you. Are you finished? Are you done? She said? Are you done? Are you finished? She's here because Season two of ze Way premieres to today April twenty nine. April twenty nine, Today Today, And guess who is our first iconic at Charlomagne iconic, the

first iconic man shot I said? I said what I said? Okay, Now, if you've never seen any Way show, she has very interesting questions, like she'll be like, what percentage of white women do you hate? Okay, what you say? I'm an equal opportunity lover zero percent. Okay, she'll ask what do you hate more, slower walkers or racism? You know some people said slow walkers. I can say that. I know it depends what you did with every day. I mean, we know that, and leave what says on the show

slow Walkers iconic gets to walk around slow walker. Yeah, it's like a walk around racist too well, because if you get rid of racism, some people can use arrows. I walk around and that's grave. I love. Let's talk about your background before you got this show, because you started off with doing this show on your own on Instagram. Yeah right, so how did that even start? The endemic was wild. Everyone was breaking like they were making bread.

That's so I don't do that. And so I started doing this live show on IG Live where I would talk to people like Caroline Callaway or Alice in Roman or like Rose McGowan about race, and it just kind of blew up. But I've been working through this idea since like twenty sixteen. It was it was it that moment that made you discuss race. No, okay, I think that it's inescapable right since birth. You have to deal

with that. I don't want to deal with that. I want to talk about, like contouring, I don't want to talk about it sucks. Who wants racism? That's horrible? Yeah, so, but it's when you're a kid, you're you're you're, you're confronted with it and suddenly, okay, I've learned to process it as an adult now as anyway, has anybody ever after an interview asked you to take anything out, no comment? How's that happened to you? Yes? Yes, all the time

it happens. Let's be honest. Okay, you know sometimes you have to say why I can't hear you you're a phone. Sometimes you do that, and then sometimes you do want to save people from theirself or if you know what's going to go out, it might hurt other people. I see. Yeah. I am never in the position where I'm trying to be malicious and ruined people's lives. That's not fine, that's not entertaining to me. So I'm just trying to like have good conversations. So I really believe in consent in

the interview. Who would your best interview? And I will never say who my best? My interviews are like children. It's hard to pick a favorite. Could you pick a favorite? Really? That I will not endure that favorite really no, because it's like chat is so different than Mia Khalifa, which is different than Katchazmachikova, which is different than Charlomagne. Everyone has a different energy and it's like for all these different audiences and because we're coming together with different povs

to make one beautiful POV. You know, sometimes before you interview some better, you have a certain view of them, yes, right, yeah, and then after you sit down you're like, Okay, that person is completely different than I thought. Day. Where can you give us an example of when that's happened for you?

Every single person has surprised me. I'll say about my crew that when the Hanks interview, we do a two parter the interview and then we do his workout app called Hanks Fin And so for the first part of the interview, it's so tense that he walks out and it's pins could drop you can you don't hear anything? It's good. He's like, really, you guys are gonna say anything. It's quiet. And then by the Jim segment, the way the crew turned on me in support of this famous

baby hurt and so like it's like the energy. We're working through it together, right, and so I wouldn't say the crew expected what they what we got out of it together in that interview, Right, did y'all have any problems booking people for the second season because people saw the first season was like, oh no, I'm not going on there. Well you tell me you're a guest. Well, I actually felt that during the interview, I said, I

said that I would like. I didn't say that. I literally said to her, I watched this show because I'm a fan of it, and I said, I don't know how they gonna get guests for the second season. Here go on my dumbass great line. That was wild. That's wild. I mean, here's the thing. You're cool and like, I think it's about being Why did you make that curvice? I think that it's cool. It's cool to come onto the show and be open and be vulnerable and like

make something together and make have an interesting conversation. That to me is compelling. Like that to me is valuable. You guys have interviews every day. You are the most iconic black radio station. Like what are you talking? You guys have a hit show for a decade, Like it's a huge thing. And every conversation has a different energy and has and the really good conversations have people being honest and are you finished? Are you done? That's that's iconic.

Like that's so I'm just trying to have cool conversations and I think that what we I think the episode is hot. So for people that don't know, what was your breakthrough moment that got you this deal? Because there's a lot of women out there, a lot of people out there that want to do what you're doing, So what was your breakthrough moment that got you in position to get you your show? What was my big through moment? Honestly,

it takes ten years to become an overnight success. Like mostly my issue, or rather my solution, was just continuing to do it and taking time to focus on my art and invest in myself. And like I was working as a hostess and then I was like working at a comedy as like an assistant and like you kind of move up the rungs. But I just spent time on being like not following any trends and trying to be the people who are hot, but just being like what do I like, what is my perspective? What can

I do? Endlessly where I feel like, oh, I don't hate this. And the resolution was that I created this like interview genre because it mixes like my love of like Housewives and then my love of like I don't even know, daytime television, daytime television, and news Oprah Ellen, We just in Catti Lee, throwback, like old school even Tempest. We love, we love, we love. So I just that's

what I grew up on. I was born in the nineties, and so as a result, Yeah, I I made something that I'm really proud of and I'm really happy with time. Time is the answer. You've been in the business for a minute, though, you were right, or you're a writer on dr I what else? I wrote an episode of our cartoon President. I wrote an episode of Dickinson. I wrote for um Robin the way back in the day, okay, and then on the end before that, and then I

was an internet comedy Central that makes sense. So you already in the CBS Viacom family with DSA Marrow and then what somebody saw you doing the Instagram thing. It was like, you know what, this would be a good show. I think, Yeah, A lot of people saw me doing the Instagram thing, and thought that yeah before, Yeah, like, I'm very happy we have more with z Way. That's right, z Way. When we come back. Her show is on

tonight on Showtime. We go talk to someone when we come back, it's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning, DJ Envy, Angela Charlomagne, the guy we are to Breakfast Club was still kicking it with z Way. A show is on tonight on Showtime. When you when you had dreams of being a talk show host, is just to kind of show you envisions for yourself? Yes and no, honestly I

did it. I this show came about organically, So the show could not have existed when I was dreaming about being a talk show host because it's influenced by Eric Andre and like zach Alafanaki Ellen and to all those people. But um, I always wanted to talk show as a kid, Like there's always going to be a facet of my career that interviews people because I just love talking to you. You seemed like a conversation list, Like you seemed like

the person that was having random conversations with people. Definitely, definitely, I was definitely a weird person in the corner, Like, hey, do you like Naruto? Breathing. Okay, exactly an anime joke. That's a deep Oh make you uncultured first, okay, seem like me? Okay. Um Ya Naruto is an animate character who's um lovely. We were just talking about to the other day. Sassy Santana was up here Materialsanabroch so he was excited about the icon. Bob, I'm so thankful. I'm

so thankful to have that song in my trailer. I think it's absolutely fresh. It's so cool everybody to everyone, Yes, everyone's an icon because all I like about the word icon is the icon is subjective, right, Because to some people like Martin Luther King is an icon, but to other people like Roberty Lee is an icon and everyone has a different POV. And that's back to my thesis

POV POV. So do you believe they're right or wrong? Yes? Okay, what do you think about sociopath Because it's all about perspective. I'm not committing crime because I feel like you can't murder people, well unless unless that's what I'm saying. I can't murder people. That's bad, and I don't if it's what if it's in self defense, somebody trying and kill you. Are you threatening me? He's waiting for the interviewers come out. Oh no, no, no, no. Do I believe in right

or wrong objectively? Yes? I can say. I can stand by and say I have morals, I have ethics not to flex. Has anyone else I do? Working on my fitness's episode, Charlomagne's episode, is we said it to y'all. It's gretty to send it to Charlemagne that that people might not know if anything. I mean you're going to watch the interview and find out. But we talk. I mean, we talk about a litany. I enjoyed it. What was it? What was the experience like? For me? It's always a

great experience when you actually like a show. Yeah, and then you're on the show. Yeah, and the show feels like how when you watch? That's why I say it in the moment, like I cannot believe I'm sitting here getting caught up in all of these questions. He gets caught up. But it's beautiful, it's beautiful. We talk about black when we actually use clips from the Breakfast Club,

so we prom with the show. Yeah, because the iconic moments, Yeah, little Mama, Hello, oh god, Monique Leonard, Hello, yeah about the edits too though. Well at one point Charlemagne says, please don't stop this and say Charlemagne hates Potting. She's just asking for trouble. No comment. I watched the show. I know that I see it. It's iconic. It's great, Like you're gonna it's really fun. How much of the Way character is actually you? How much is it? It's

a character, the Zebra character so rude. I would ask as many questions in real life, like I would be a little more like I wouldn't be so nosy. She's a little nosy. So yeah, she's a woman about her business, whereas z Way the person is I mean, I'm just killing, but I bring my pur might bring my humanity to the character, and so that makes it funny. So in the interview, you get a real connection into the respective guests.

So Charlottagne, it's like they're really surprising moments and you've been doing interview for decades, but there are questions that you've never been asked before. Yeah, so it's it's just like, so but that character. Look, I'm not sitting here being like how many black friends do you have? Like that's that's comedy. That's a good question. But how many you guys asked? How many black friends I have? I don't know. I think you can turned the show white friends. Do

you have a few? How many Asian friends do you have? Well? Okay, you guys are really isn't the bit I was not trying to make. I don't know, I've never thought about it. Wow, this is who because I felt like I've never seen other one of them with an Asian friend. Okay, we're moving on. We're moving on. We are dot org dot org. Make sure y'all watch the show. It premieres today. What are these premieres on Prime, on Plus and everything for us? Yes? Yes, yes, yes,

okay showtime No, showtime is Monday, Monday. Showtime is Sunday at eleven day. But it starts streaming on Showtime as well as Paramount Plus, Amazon Hulu on Friday, April twenty nine, which is today. Yes, why don't you guys laugh? Are you laughing at a block woman? No, we're laughing with you. Your energy is infectious. Ze Way, Thank you for joining us, Thank you for tell you love what you do. So I think that's amazing. Well, ze Way, it's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning the Breakfast Club. This is the rum of report with Angela Yet now Future released his new album I Never Liked You Women playing the joint with Drake all morning long wait for you with that new Future signing like who heard it? I haven't heard, but heard it not as yet, but he has features of Kanye West, Gunna, Young Thug. Of course Drake is TG, Kodak, black Uh and a host of others. So definitely check that out

over the weekend. We gotta enjoy from anybody and hear her Future Come tell me now we gotta snip into the one feature and yes, let's hear it. Don't five sady, don't five five cooking out ball, I should creep powered out the same money from the all right, would that be driving set? Like that's hard? Okay, I gotta go check that out later. Absolutely Action Bronson. He released a new joint is called Coco Drillo Turbo. Damn. I ain't

heard that name in a minute, The Action Bronze. He lost a lot of weight too, a lot of weight. H Kilani. She has a new album out. It's called Blue Water Road. Every time I hear Kalani name, I think somebody about to say Kolani, but they say Klannion. I'm definitely checking out Killani later today. You gotta I know you got somebody got something. Let me hear some some k Let's do it. That's blast. You know what's so crazy? That record is too cold in New Jersey

for the record right now. I need it. I need to hit that record when it's warm out. That's gonna be This weekend, Push Shicety released Shisty Season Season certified. Turn that on. I know we got we got even any of that she did, No, she didn't putting no push Hicet, but his album is out this weekend. Also, um little Baby, he got a new joint. It's called Frozen Sad that she is glowing up. I got women

trying to get at me like you've been glowing up. Really, I know you see what's hading blowing up from the Frozen three soundtrack. Also up the sheet Really No, I don't know, I don't know. I'm just saying, how about to say to myself? Right? Also a Baby take got a new record called Dancing Queen. Okay, well you had art? Art? Were you asked? Well? You had art? Remember art was working with Saucy said yesterday, I'm gonna lose his mind to that one. Dancing queen. That's what all it is.

That's a dancing queen. Let's go big art now. Give Yon has a new records called Lie Again. Queen was hard? Who that is playing up? Give you to give you a man? Let's go back to dance. Yeah, let'sten every time. Give Yon makes good music. But I swear it just be sounding like the wins your white is going and it ain't raning every record like it has a tone to it. Sloot to give yan a. I want to hear that whole dancing queen start the nine o'clock Bobby's murder.

Got a record car they don't know. Let's say that forgot to get boating from knocked up in the whole netting the time before. Would a whole fan drops? All right? But that is some of the new music that came out today. Also, Wallet has a mixtape out. It's called more About Nothing that you could definitely check that out. That's a rerelease though, right, that's the one he put out with sign I felt back in the day, is

it Man's what you did? That? More song to it? Um? Sure? Okay, all right, Well, let's say a snippet of that uh that dancing Queen was one more time you say this baby tape. Baby tape helps us want to come roll dancing, earthquake dancing, to do dance more? I want to shoot each other. Do drugs? Okay, how about do drugs and dance? Jesus Christ's about don't do drugs? That don't I mean saying there's nothing wrong a little drugs or a little marijuana or something like that. You know what I mean.

But I'm just saying, it's just like, yeah, dance, I like that dancing queen, that dance and queen going hard or other violent stuff he was playing. Have you seen me in here with my polton? Do I just want to cool out? I gave you give you on and you almost fell asleep. Well, they ain't got nothing to do with me and everything to do. We'll give you on, all right, okay, smooth to give no m All right. Well that is your rumor report, all right, up next

to People's Choice. Make you know we throw it back on a Friday eight hundred five eight five one oh five one again. Don't forget our June nineteen Fathers day weekend. Of course, my car show goes down in the Houston Houston versus New York Car Show. If you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. And then July nine, you're coming to the A Atlanta. So shout out to Louis V A mono or a DJ's on the station out there, scream, We're gonna have a lot of fun out there. We're

starting to mix off with the U Dancing Queen. And you didn't give me on dirty though, because you had never played Give you on with all the records. You know, give you on as a certain tone. Okay, it's a certain vibe. Can't play give you on with Dancing Queen and Little Baby and everybody else? Well, am I supposed to play? I don't know either played. I don't know. I'm just saying not not not. It just sounded often there was new music. I can't do. Not play Dancing Queen,

so I can dance. We gag man, got the full version. Come, we'll play your hair snipping again. You want to get to the mixed? Hey, what all that? Man? Come? Do that little danils that little dancey did with Saucy? Hey, who did you showing me that dancing queen. Oh she really got dancing queens in the video. All right, I'm niggas queening out for it's the breakfast Club. The breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. What up y'alla's

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with yall mean the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now. We got a shout out to Viola Davis for joining us this weekend. Man pick up finding me great read. You can pick up the audible. So many great books out. Viola Davis Van Layton has a book out laws the book called Fat, Crazy and Tired. Uh. Torrey Torrey Roberts has a great book called Balance of Course, Real Life, Real Love, Me and My Wife's Book that is out

so you can pick them all up. And I know they do a bundle pack on Amazon which you give you a cheaper price if you pick them all up. Charlemagne's books are still out there. You still got Anita Cole package. Still have Tamika Mallory, Uh, Jamica Mallory paperback actually comes out Tuesday, the paperback version of State of Emergency, How to Win in the Country We Built It gets. It's released this Tuesday, coming May third. Absolutely so definitely do that. In Zwa ze Way, could you stop messing

up her name? Season two of her show premiths today. That's right, so you can watch it on Paramount Plus, you can watch it on Hulu and then it comes on television on Showtime at eleven pm on Sunday. I'm actually on the first episode of season two. If you've never watched zay z Way as a hilarious, ze Way as a nut, Okay, there's nobody that does interviews like ze Waye. All right, so so check her out, all right? All right? When we come back, we got the positive

notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is cej Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club, and let me shout out to one of my publicists, Earns Ernest sty and he's earned dukes on Instagram. Uh, and let me think I heart and also Abrams a lot of people are coming up to me and says that the rollout for the book has been amazing. That's because you know, I try to keep amazing people around me side. I want to say salute again to Abram's,

Shout to Ernest, shout to Chanelle. Those are the publicity people that really did their damn thing. Shout to iHeart for helping me out, Courtney and everybody else that put their hands in this book and really wanted to get this book out to the masters. I just want to say thank you again. You guys are appreciated now. Charlemagne, Yes, sir, you got a positive note. I do. Man. You know, we spend so much time talking about who did us wrong and not enough time, you know, saluting the people

who've done us right. So I just want to tell everybody this weekend, it doesn't matter who hurt you or broke you down. What matters is who made you smile again. Pay attention to the people that make you smile. Man, Breakfast club, you know, finish for y'all dumb