Speaker 1: Well, great news for Don Lemon after being fired from
Speaker 1: CNN last year. Reportedly, CNN and Don have settled on
Speaker 1: a separation deal that would pay Don Lemon approximately twenty
Speaker 1: four and a half million dollars, which is the amount
Speaker 1: that was left on Lemon's contract at CNN when he
Speaker 1: was fired. That's three and a half years worth of salary.
Speaker 1: Get your money done, twenty four and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1: He recently announced plans to launch the Don Lemon Show
Speaker 1: podcast on the X platform, and Don promises that his
Speaker 1: podcasts will allow him to be quote bigger, bolger, freer
Speaker 1: and the podcast starts March eleventh. Congratulations, you get.
Speaker 2: Your twenty four millionaire one time.
Speaker 3: Life change lives games well that you can you operate
Speaker 3: different than it spread out over three years.
Speaker 2: That's alienating to hear if you get to check at
Speaker 2: one time. Yes, Lord Lemons, chunk chunk, some money is changing.
Speaker 3: That's why I tell people, you know, if you get
Speaker 3: a little hit and you know, you get your I
Speaker 3: know people that are not gonna do it because I
Speaker 3: didn't do it when I was, you know, living at
Speaker 3: a different level. When my income tax check came, it
Speaker 3: was really gone before it came oh definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my income.
Speaker 3: Tax check was gone before it got there that day
Speaker 3: after he got that pretty much how they made the decisions,
Speaker 3: and then always a couple of things came up. I
Speaker 3: wasn't looking for a cad No, yeah, my little my
Speaker 3: little fifteen hundred were gone, or I got three thousand
Speaker 3: one time. You couldn't even talk to me, my daddy said,
Speaker 3: and money burning a hole in your pocket?
Speaker 2: Ay boy, yes, said that.
Speaker 3: Yes, I need to do because you and mamma and
Speaker 3: they're trying to tell me what to do, and I
Speaker 3: need to get away from y'all because I don't want
Speaker 3: do none of that. Listen, boy, take two thousand that
Speaker 3: money and said that, didn't that bank and act like
Speaker 3: it ain't over there?
Speaker 2: What rad to that?
Speaker 3: What did you do to be great to put it
Speaker 3: over there and act like it on over there? I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be wondering about that. I'm gonna be thinking about
Speaker 3: that two thousands the whole time is over there.
Speaker 2: It ain't nothing in this world gonna wear me like
Speaker 2: that two thousands sitting over there here.
Speaker 4: It's gonna worry you.
Speaker 2: Oh, it never made it, It never made it.
Speaker 1: Wow, Well, congratulations don Lennon got his money. Yes, and
Speaker 1: in some sad news, our condolences and our prayers are
Speaker 1: going out to the family of city Councilmen Eric Mays
Speaker 1: of Flint, Michigan. May's died over the weekend at age
Speaker 1: sixty five of natural causes, simming from an illness, according
Speaker 1: to his family. Flint's Mayor, Sheldon Neely, said Councilman Eric
Speaker 1: May's bolden career age of service made him beloved among
Speaker 1: his constituents, and his strong presence will be missed at
Speaker 1: city hall. May's oldest sister said that Mays leaves behind
Speaker 1: a legacy of Flint, a legacy in Flint for being funny, generous,
Speaker 1: and outspoken. We've all heard him.
Speaker 2: She said.
Speaker 1: She will miss her brother's loud voice and laugh along
Speaker 1: with the craziness he brought to the family.
Speaker 4: I don't give a damn what you think about me
Speaker 4: at all. Whatever you say, I don't give a damn
Speaker 4: what you finsh to do. You're nots to do nothing
Speaker 4: to me, Go ahead and try it, then you're not
Speaker 4: fit to do a damn thing.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 4: We're gonna sit here, right here, at this table, and
Speaker 4: we're gonna conduct bend, but you're not find to do
Speaker 4: a damn thing to me.
Speaker 2: We're gonna miss him for.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, Finally, probably the most flashy bishop of
Speaker 1: all time had his first day in court this week.
Speaker 1: This week, Bishop Lamar Whitehead's federal court trial started on Monday.
Speaker 2: In New York.
Speaker 1: Almost two years ago, Whitehead was indicted a wire fraud,
Speaker 1: attempted extortion, and for making false statements to fund his
Speaker 1: opulent lifestyle. He is, of course, best known for wearing
Speaker 1: I style jewelry and flamboyant designer suit and clothing to
Speaker 1: church and to court. Monday, he shocked reporters by wearing
Speaker 1: a conservative navy suit to court, and as he left
Speaker 1: the courthouse plan comments, but he laughed. The reporter asked
Speaker 1: him what designer he was wearing.
Speaker 3: Prisoners is a good place to start a ministry, you
Speaker 3: know there, I'm telling you, man, you just got to look.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know it seems tempting, man, but boy, you've got
Speaker 3: to just you got to walk that straight down. I'm
Speaker 3: sure glad I got on the right path because in
Speaker 3: the middle of it too.
Speaker 2: It's no way I can't know, but you could be president.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you think the ratings was high when Donald
Speaker 3: Trump was president.
Speaker 2: You let me up in there.
Speaker 3: Because I'm having all my meetings filmed in front of everybody.
Speaker 2: Really this morning.
Speaker 1: Some stuff needs to be confidential, though, mister president.
Speaker 2: You know American public.
Speaker 1: Some things need to be confidential.
Speaker 2: What some of your meetings?
Speaker 1: President?
Speaker 3: Just telling it all? What security gonna stop all that?
Speaker 3: This is what the Republicans saying today.
Speaker 2: This is why we ain't doing.
Speaker 3: It, and this is what these far left hand Democrats said,
Speaker 3: and we ain't doing that either.
Speaker 1: No, No, that's a part of your meeting.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna be Reinconnate and I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: Eric Mays in the White House.
Speaker 4: I do man, Yeah, as we go out, Oh nobody,
Speaker 4: but damn about what you're saying about what you're gonna do.
Speaker 4: You're not finna do nothing. You're talking about you brought
Speaker 4: up here with you like you got winning in your jobs.
Speaker 4: You might, but sit down and you ain't finna do nothing.
Speaker 4: Don't happen.
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes after the our President Biden joked with Seth
Speaker 1: Myers about Taylor Swift and endorsing him this year.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that.
Speaker 1: Right after this you're listening hardy morning show