Speaker 1: Wake up, Wake, come up, Envy Yee and Cholomagne on
Speaker 1: everybody that anybody comes to the breakfast club. You know,
Speaker 1: you get voice to people that would be voiceless. Right now,
Speaker 1: your show has the post of the culture. Yeah, everyone
Speaker 1: smells successful for y'all that now. Ain't nobody saying I
Speaker 1: don't stop to the team. It's a breakfast club. Wait,
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Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo. Good morning angela Ye, good money.
Speaker 1: Davy Cholmagne, the guy peace to the planet. In his Friday,
Speaker 1: it's Friday weekend. It's his father's day. What is it,
Speaker 1: Joe black Well, Sunday Sunday is black gay Father's Day
Speaker 1: because it's Sunday, will be June teenth. Um, it's Father's
Speaker 1: Day and its pride month and yoke for getting this
Speaker 1: Caribbean here. So it's black gay Caribbean father's Day. Well,
Speaker 1: happy black gay Caribbean fathers out there. Friday show, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Carl show Father's Day. All that are you letting black
Speaker 1: gay Caribbean fathers in for free. No this weekend. No, no,
Speaker 1: this is where their kids or their wives or their
Speaker 1: husband's pay for them. Yes, okay, okay, yes, all right.
Speaker 1: What are you doing for Black Caribbean Gay Father's Day? Charlemagne? Uh?
Speaker 1: Something I talked about later founded wild. I mean, you
Speaker 1: never know what you yesterday he was crawling on the
Speaker 1: floor trying to bite my cab, So you never know.
Speaker 1: I was doing a little bed crawl, that's all. When
Speaker 1: you're doing a bad crawl, bears getting hungry, your caving,
Speaker 1: tasty and tender. Got to congratulate the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: they won the NBA Finals. For the Warrior's easy called
Speaker 1: congrats to Steph Curry. Come on, man, Steph Cray. I
Speaker 1: can't I cannot believe it day on ESPN actually having
Speaker 1: debates or whether or not Steph Curry is top ten
Speaker 1: greatest NBA player of all time. Not only is the
Speaker 1: top ten greatest NBA player of all time, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: might be top five at the hell are y'all talking
Speaker 1: about the man revolutionized the game of basketball. And he's
Speaker 1: been to the NBA Finals six times in the last
Speaker 1: eight years, and he's got a record of four and
Speaker 1: two in the NBA Finals last night. He got his
Speaker 1: first NBA Finals MVP. What are y'all talking about? Is
Speaker 1: he top ten of all time? And besides that, Drake
Speaker 1: put out a new album last night. Yeah, Drake Han
Speaker 1: spending time in Jersey. Because that sounds like a Jersey
Speaker 1: club album. No, that sounds like that's that's that's Beverly
Speaker 1: that's Beverly Hills luxury hotel elevating music. That's not. That's like,
Speaker 1: that's like when you're in the SLS Hotel in Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills on a Friday night and the lights of them,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, and you got on you got
Speaker 1: on a suit with no tie, but you got the
Speaker 1: first few buttons of your shirt open a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Some slippers on, no socks.
Speaker 1: Very specific. Actually like the vibe, to be honest. I
Speaker 1: was riding into it. I love I love Jersey butt music,
Speaker 1: so I was rocking out for it a little bit.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't get to them. He was the
Speaker 1: last song I listen to. The last song I listened
Speaker 1: to was Downhill. So that's number eleven out of fourteen.
Speaker 1: I I like the vibe Yeah, sticky was very Jersey.
Speaker 1: Well he did rap on one that was the last
Speaker 1: one him in twenty one Savage, the last song Jimmy Cook.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I'm not I like when Drake raps.
Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest fan of when he does anything else,
Speaker 1: but uh, I like the vibe. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: It's very it's Beverly. It's very Beverly Hills SLS Hotel,
Speaker 1: sitting in the Bazaar lounge. You know. Now I watched
Speaker 1: Now I know why Calla kept saying grab your spritzers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I watched the game last night. Shout to Lynn's garage,
Speaker 1: who came on the show, who I'm doing a car
Speaker 1: show with. He's bringing a lot of the Houston cars
Speaker 1: and I'm bringing a lot of New York cars. He
Speaker 1: has a restaurant out here called Turkey lay Cut, and
Speaker 1: boy did I go there last night? And boy do
Speaker 1: I need to go on another died. I ate so
Speaker 1: much last that But it was turkey legs, it was pasta,
Speaker 1: it was corn, it was shrimp, it was um, you
Speaker 1: name it. I ate pause, I ate it last night. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll just purge sticky finger in your button make it
Speaker 1: come out the purge. Does that work? Yeah? Oh that's
Speaker 1: why you were running late. I saw the sticky finger
Speaker 1: in your butt to feel something and then pull it out.
Speaker 1: Everything will come out. You'll be fine. Okay, good morning,
Speaker 1: I try to I'm wanting America. Who we got joining
Speaker 1: us this morning? Okay? The CEO of Essence, Caroline Wanga,
Speaker 1: will be joining us this morning. Yes, a Corner Essence
Speaker 1: fest is coming up, which I'm so excited for. It's
Speaker 1: always fourth of July weekend, so D's actually on the
Speaker 1: fourth of July, right, so we're gonna be kicking it
Speaker 1: with a hund a little bit. And then we got
Speaker 1: front page news. What we're talking about, Well, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Delta now. The Delta pilots have published an open
Speaker 1: letter to customers. So for everybody flying, it's been having issues.
Speaker 1: And I would tell you my girl Laura, she's um,
Speaker 1: she works with me. She was trying to get back
Speaker 1: to Miami yesterday. Her flight was supposed to be at
Speaker 1: one forty five. She didn't even take off till seven thirty.
Speaker 1: So it's been a lot of flight. Was I supposed
Speaker 1: to leave at twelve yesterday? I didn't leave till six
Speaker 1: o'clock last night, so it's pretty crazy. Well, we'll talk
Speaker 1: more about that when we come back. And we got
Speaker 1: a new joint for y'all. Shout out to Diddy. Did
Speaker 1: he actually hit me yesterday and was telling me he
Speaker 1: got a new project FaceTime me. I gotta he FaceTime
Speaker 1: me yesterday. Oh that sounds crazy. I spoke to Diddy man.
Speaker 1: He told me, got a new record. Here it is.
Speaker 1: Let's get quick please, it's the Breakfast Glove good boarded
Speaker 1: and shot shot. Told job all right, that was new
Speaker 1: Diddy featuring Bryson till the morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Let's get in some front page news. Now. We got
Speaker 1: to congratulate the Golden State Warriors. They defeated the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics in six games, so congratulations to them. That was
Speaker 1: an easy call. Travel to clues Boster, the Golden Skin
Speaker 1: Warriors and Steph Curry, who was the MVP. Here's what
Speaker 1: he had to say. Well, don't you tell me he
Speaker 1: was in the work here everybody on the stage, how
Speaker 1: to partners at the beginning of the year, what were
Speaker 1: they saying we weren't even on the radar and now
Speaker 1: we're here with two trophies, and this it means a lot.
Speaker 1: Every championship journey it's different. How would you describe how
Speaker 1: would you describe this one? Just combined in our championship
Speaker 1: pedigree and our experience with some fresh energy, some guys
Speaker 1: that are really hungry to take the next step. But
Speaker 1: we've built this for ten eleven years and that means
Speaker 1: a whole lot when you get to the stage because
Speaker 1: you know how to win, and everybody who's been a
Speaker 1: part of this knows you that's about. So this is uh,
Speaker 1: this one hits different. This one hits different for sure. Yeahs.
Speaker 1: They the first team to reach US six NBA finals
Speaker 1: in eight years since the Michael and LEC Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 1: And I wish I was a gambling man. I wish
Speaker 1: I even knew how to gamble, like because I knew
Speaker 1: that I said the Wars were gonna win the championship
Speaker 1: since last year. You don't know how to gamble. I
Speaker 1: told you you got to start gambling as a way
Speaker 1: better odds than playing a lottery. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to gain believe I know how to say okay, I
Speaker 1: bet the Warriors win, but I don't know the odds.
Speaker 1: Fifty points, twenty points, I don't know that because they
Speaker 1: had they had the worst record in the league one year,
Speaker 1: then the next year they lost in the playing tournament.
Speaker 1: So to say that they were gonna win the championship
Speaker 1: the year after that sounded crazy, But I just I
Speaker 1: felt like they would. Yeah. I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: people posting them collecting their winnings. So cancelation to everybody
Speaker 1: who won, lout to the wars man. I really can't
Speaker 1: believe that they're on ESPN debating whether or not Steph
Speaker 1: Curry is top ten all time. He's absolutely top ten
Speaker 1: all time. He might be he probably top five all right.
Speaker 1: And Delta Airlines pilots have published an open letter to
Speaker 1: customers yesterday, and this is a director pell to people
Speaker 1: who have been frustrated there's all these flight delays and cancelations.
Speaker 1: They said, we have been working on our days off,
Speaker 1: flying a record amount of overtime to help you get
Speaker 1: to your destination. At the current rate, by this fall,
Speaker 1: our pilots will have flown more overtime in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two than in the entirety of twenty eighteen and twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen combined. That's are those were their busiest years to date.
Speaker 1: They said, if you've flown on a plane lately, planes
Speaker 1: are very full and plane tickets are very expensive. So
Speaker 1: they're going to be meeting with Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha
Speaker 1: Judge to discuss their operations because of all these delays
Speaker 1: and cancelations. And you know, they said, all the people,
Speaker 1: including the pilots, are working hard to restore our airline
Speaker 1: and deliver for our customers as we emerge from the pandemic.
Speaker 1: We continuously evaluate our staffing models and plan ahead so
Speaker 1: that we can recover quickly. But you know another thing
Speaker 1: is Delta announced recently they were canceling some one hundred
Speaker 1: daily departures from destinations in the US and Latin America.
Speaker 1: That's going to affect travel from July first to August seventh,
Speaker 1: and other airlines have taken similar measures as well because
Speaker 1: of staffing shortages and a lot of demand for flights.
Speaker 1: So what happened to all those pilots, what happened to
Speaker 1: all those flight attendants? They just didn't come back to
Speaker 1: work this all of them didn't go back. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they said any solution, it's going to be three,
Speaker 1: four or five years away. I was reading somewhere as
Speaker 1: some pilots are retiring, getting older, and then it's a
Speaker 1: longer process to get new pilots in. I think it
Speaker 1: takes like five years or something like that before they
Speaker 1: could fly commercial. Well listen, don't quit. Don't quit right
Speaker 1: before were about to fly out? Okay, can you give
Speaker 1: us some notice before you just quit andled? And I
Speaker 1: don't understand that they can't see this upcoming, like because
Speaker 1: flights are canceled and delayed and it's nasty out there.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I waited six hours for flight yesterday
Speaker 1: and it's it's happening every weekend. Yeah, and I'm a
Speaker 1: Jet Blue guy, right, but I do have a couple
Speaker 1: of big delts. I got jammed up with Delta last weekend.
Speaker 1: But I got a couple of big Delta flights coming up.
Speaker 1: And you can't even trust it. It's like gambling, like
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna get there and flight gonna be canceled.
Speaker 1: You know you may hit, you may not hit. And
Speaker 1: then when it is delayed, that your little thousand dollars
Speaker 1: miles that you're given us ay worth it like because
Speaker 1: people are really you know, have fun. They have weddings,
Speaker 1: they have parties, they have connections, and they're missing all
Speaker 1: of that lending. This is what they're saying is the
Speaker 1: real cause of this pilot shortage. It's an aging workface,
Speaker 1: workforce facing mandatory retirement, fewer pilots exiting the military, and
Speaker 1: barriers to entry including the cost of training. Yep, with
Speaker 1: all due respect, please retire if you're too old to
Speaker 1: be flying a plane. I'm I'm happy that's the case,
Speaker 1: but could you do it before we got to take off.
Speaker 1: Don't wait to get to the airport to say that,
Speaker 1: to say that you've had enough and they cancel the flight.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that is front page news. Get it
Speaker 1: off your chest eight hundred five eight five one oh
Speaker 1: five one. If you need to vent, phone lines are
Speaker 1: wide openness to breakfast club. Good morning, it's a breakfast club.
Speaker 1: Wake up, wake up if you're time to get it
Speaker 1: off your chest. Man or blas, we want to hear
Speaker 1: from you on a breakfast club. Hello, who's this Leo?
Speaker 1: Going on? Peace? Leo? What's happening? If he checked? Man?
Speaker 1: Guard man? How are you from? Like three different states?
Speaker 1: You you like you wagging the Warriors so hard. First
Speaker 1: you liked the Dallas, then you liked it the book?
Speaker 1: Who else? Who else you like? I don't time. I'm
Speaker 1: from South Carolina, number one, and I am a Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboy fan. When it comes to those other teams, I'm
Speaker 1: just picking who's gonna win this series, and I don't
Speaker 1: have what are you talking about a basketball team? I'm
Speaker 1: just picking who's gonna win this series. I'm a Knicks fan,
Speaker 1: but I seen who was gonna win this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, he liked three teams. Man, I'm I don't
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? I'm picking. Let me ask you,
Speaker 1: come ask you this question. Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 1: Have I been right about who? When I when I
Speaker 1: picked these series? Oh? No, okay, you just know the
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't count and you were screaming the Grizzlies Carolina Boys.
Speaker 1: I ain't never Yes, I shot said shout out to
Speaker 1: John Murandy from the Carolina is from South Carolina. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have a team. I'm I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan.
Speaker 1: I don't have a basketball team. You can't even Carolina,
Speaker 1: New York. Let me so, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: When you watch ESPN. I want you to see some logic.
Speaker 1: When you watch ESPN and you watch Stephen A. Smith,
Speaker 1: Jalen Rose, Kendrick Perkins, and they've picking who they think
Speaker 1: gonna win the series. Do you think in your mind, oh,
Speaker 1: they actually like that team, favorite team with this man man,
Speaker 1: I don't know that you know what? NV? You right?
Speaker 1: You're right, I don't know. Like you have a good
Speaker 1: weekend his Father's day weekend. He's like, I succeeded the
Speaker 1: war The Warriors and Celtics played in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: You either think one of those two teams are gonna win.
Speaker 1: So if I picked the Warriors, that mean I'm a
Speaker 1: Warriors fan? Is okay? It's just weird, right? So right? Hello,
Speaker 1: who's there? All right? And I'm sorry she had us muted?
Speaker 1: Did I did? I haven't I had a doobmuted. I
Speaker 1: want to say, I love y'all everyone. I look out
Speaker 1: everyone to get something because that's our my test. Let's
Speaker 1: stay in Ohio. Were Donna with the triple digits? It's hot.
Speaker 1: I work for a company, a factory company that is
Speaker 1: literally saved white, and we ain't got no air condition
Speaker 1: in that mother. What he cut I'm sorry that man. Listen,
Speaker 1: we get up the hundred to ten or one hundred
Speaker 1: fives year, it's damn there once weelve one twenty in
Speaker 1: that factory. I'm exaggerated, but I don't care. Well, don't
Speaker 1: you well, don't you forget to wear your de ordering,
Speaker 1: because ain't nothing worse than being hot and musty. And
Speaker 1: it's a burl in my job that smell like a
Speaker 1: tagsburger airy day, ma'am. She's in the car. We'll bring
Speaker 1: up some right guard. She's probably using woman's deodering, and
Speaker 1: she don't need to. She need to use something that's
Speaker 1: strong enough for a man and made for a man.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if cheeseburgers smell good or if you're
Speaker 1: saying that's a bad smells don't smell good on a
Speaker 1: good hungry day. But in this case, when I'm in
Speaker 1: a factory that's already over one hundred and five, that
Speaker 1: seems I get what you're saying. It's like cush. Like
Speaker 1: cush smell good when you're about to smoke the weed.
Speaker 1: But when you smell somebody underarm, smell like cush, it's
Speaker 1: like ill. Man. She's starting small like but I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning, The Breakfast Club. Your chest, whether
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Speaker 1: Any we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? You know? DJ? Every answer? Good morning, O Rob,
Speaker 1: what's happening? What's happening? Man? That's the man? Good morning y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all know that this Style Friday. But before I get
Speaker 1: it to anything right, shout out Nick Man for that
Speaker 1: footage from the last three Style Man, it's great. They
Speaker 1: appreciate it, you know what I mean. I don't take
Speaker 1: nothing like that for branded. Y Okay, okay, okay, Nick,
Speaker 1: shout out, You're sorry. That's check this out. These jewels
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Speaker 1: the Leaf things leaning running from Detox. They're getting low
Speaker 1: scared to death. See what I'm working with, Double funk
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Speaker 1: Been down before, trapped and locked in, never made excuses
Speaker 1: for nothing, just sport and took the wing. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Okay, okay, okay, he got an he
Speaker 1: got out what you I got this you wanted to?
Speaker 1: I mean I got something. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: in honor of the Golden State Warriors. They won the
Speaker 1: championship last night. You know what I mean? Basketball is
Speaker 1: my favorite sport. I like the way they dribble up
Speaker 1: and down the court, just like coming to King on
Speaker 1: the microphone. So it's doctor j An modis Malone. I
Speaker 1: like slam dunks. Take me to the hoop. My favorite
Speaker 1: player is the alley youp. I like to pick and roll.
Speaker 1: I like the giving gold because there's basketball, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna grab his bowls what there's no, No, you don't
Speaker 1: grab nobody's state. I didn't say said bowls. Now, you
Speaker 1: said I did not bow like elbows. Nobody says bows.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I got one blue to Chris said bows?
Speaker 1: All Rightbody in Queens, New York. So you're born and
Speaker 1: raised on the playground, is we? I spend most of
Speaker 1: my days chilling out maxim, relaxing old cool and grasping
Speaker 1: of some man outside of the bool. What I said, whoa?
Speaker 1: Now that was wild and be Now, you can't be
Speaker 1: grabbing outside of school as a charge. What's up with you? Bro?
Speaker 1: Come on, it's Caribbean pride outside the school. What's up
Speaker 1: with you? Wow? Wow? Okay, sorry that went left for you.
Speaker 1: It's all right, but listen, listen. I want y'all to
Speaker 1: have them, but we can be blessed you and your
Speaker 1: family bade me on that ground lyrics, Hello, who's this?
Speaker 1: After the morning y'all was pennsylman, pencilman? What up? Man?
Speaker 1: Nothing much? I just wanted to say Happy fall to
Speaker 1: Day to y'all. Man, thank you. The only person in
Speaker 1: that call when his Mother's day, everybody calls Happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: I want to say Happy Mother's Day to my mom.
Speaker 1: Out of all the callers we called that caller this morning,
Speaker 1: you're the only one to say Happy fall to Day. Yeo, Hey,
Speaker 1: I love y'all man. Y'all beautiful people, real for real
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Brother. Would it be possible to get some
Speaker 1: AC tickets some show? I like how he greets you
Speaker 1: up and then asked me something pencil massage me first,
Speaker 1: and then he was like, let me get some Happy
Speaker 1: Fathers Day. Man, you are amazing you're great, fall for man.
Speaker 1: You do your day. I was wondering about told get
Speaker 1: some tickets. Hey, hey, y'all are instrumental though to my
Speaker 1: every day man. Wake up and if y'all are all tree,
Speaker 1: y'all aren't there, it's a bad day, all right, Pencylman.
Speaker 1: I got you. And the car show. Of course, this
Speaker 1: weekend is in Houston. You're talking about the one in
Speaker 1: Atlantic City, which is August twenty. I absolutely positively got you, Pencylman.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I'll call in next week, Gert to Joe.
Speaker 1: Your weekend, Pennsylman sounds so cute, you know, like Pencilman.
Speaker 1: What your Instagram? I don't. I actually don't do social
Speaker 1: media voice. I'm talking about the nickname Pencilman. I thought
Speaker 1: you were saying his voice. You said he sounds cute.
Speaker 1: You would have asked, you're oh god, okay, yeah, well
Speaker 1: you're up there with Steph Curry and Drake today already
Speaker 1: life and dominion, that's what we do. But yo, enjoy
Speaker 1: your your gay father pride. Black Gay Father's Day is Sunday. Okay, Man,
Speaker 1: you got nervous because Charlotte said he sound cute. He
Speaker 1: was like I don't have no social media. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you yes, eight five eight five one o
Speaker 1: five one. We got rumors on the way. Yes. Well,
Speaker 1: since we're talking about that, the word bussy is added
Speaker 1: to the dictionary. Okay, for those people that don't know
Speaker 1: what bussy is. You gonna explain that when you come
Speaker 1: back to of course, you guys talk about it every day.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to the next It's the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Local Morning, the Breakfast Club. But everybody is DJ Envy, Angela, ye, Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the rumors. Let's push your Tea. This is
Speaker 1: the Rumor Report with Angela yea. Hey, what's happening family,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Or where you been hearing? My headphones
Speaker 1: were something. I just put my headphones out, three or four.
Speaker 1: It just got all quiet headphones anything. Can you walk
Speaker 1: into straight linewards it's just real quiet in the room.
Speaker 1: I just put my headphones on. Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: Push your Tea has announced the first clus performance in
Speaker 1: over a decade. That's going to be in at the
Speaker 1: Something in the Water Festival, and so get excited for that.
Speaker 1: The festival actually starts today, and so yes, he said,
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to discuss something in the water weekend finale
Speaker 1: June nineteenth, clips again, don't hit my phone. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: never done to something in the water. Let's stop rapping.
Speaker 1: He said, he's not going to be in the group anymore.
Speaker 1: Now are you okay? Are you drunk? So it's the
Speaker 1: first last night watching the game. All right, now, thanks
Speaker 1: to little nas X, you could finally see the word.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm allowed to say this word,
Speaker 1: but what word bussy? You already said it, You said
Speaker 1: it earlier. I'd just stayed on the air, all right. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: so now this is word could be added to the dictionary.
Speaker 1: He was saying, for Pride Month, it's really important that
Speaker 1: our government finally take a stand and adds bussy to
Speaker 1: the dictionary. Dictionary dot com actually caught wind of this
Speaker 1: and replied they said they could potentially make that edition happen.
Speaker 1: They said, we added to the dictionary, so anything's possible.
Speaker 1: So so for people that don't know what's bussy, you
Speaker 1: guys have boy poom poom, Yeah, I mean we do
Speaker 1: have all. Yeah, you guys all have it. This depends
Speaker 1: on how you use it. We don't. Technically it's not
Speaker 1: technically a what is it a busy? Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: technically a bussy until you use it as such. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just a butty black gay father Caribbean day, all right.
Speaker 1: Kevin Hard is going to be opening plant based fast
Speaker 1: food restaurants called Hearthouse. He posted, I'm thrilled to announce
Speaker 1: that I've collaborated with an all star team of partners
Speaker 1: and industry leaders to create an industry changing restaurant called Hearthouse.
Speaker 1: This thing is going to be huge. We're going to
Speaker 1: serve delicious, sustainable food that delivers can't believe it, flavor
Speaker 1: in every bite. We'll be opening our first few locations
Speaker 1: in the LA area, but we will be expanding quickly.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more. That's exciting. I would definitely try that.
Speaker 1: I love plant based food, so have a plant based
Speaker 1: fast food restaurant. It's always weird to me that they'll
Speaker 1: have like beyond burgers and Impossible burgers at restaurants, but
Speaker 1: they cook it on the same grill as a meat
Speaker 1: and it defeats the purpose. Sound like a good investment,
Speaker 1: all right? And Amy Schumer people are upset at her
Speaker 1: for something that she said. On the last episode of
Speaker 1: The Shop Now, Don Levin was leading a discussion about
Speaker 1: black vulnerability in the media and how necessary it is
Speaker 1: when Amy Schumer chimed in. But you were talking about like,
Speaker 1: you know, rappers and the aspirational sort of whatever, and
Speaker 1: I was thinking that I think it's the opposite for
Speaker 1: women like, well, okay, I grew up loving Little Kim
Speaker 1: and it was like the best and everything. But so
Speaker 1: I have a little bit of that, you know, but
Speaker 1: like Mobs maybe, or me Chelsea Hamler whatever, we're up
Speaker 1: there being like I'm a drunk, I'm a fat, or
Speaker 1: like you know whatever. And I think women like you
Speaker 1: take yourself down to be accepted. I don't think Tiff
Speaker 1: Hattish does that. Tiff it's like, if you've seen her
Speaker 1: late when she's like, this is what's this success looks like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not a assume, this is how is that
Speaker 1: going for her? I loved Tip Tip too. She's incredible,
Speaker 1: set a huge meteoric rise. I'm wondering if if people
Speaker 1: are going to get pissed at her. So people were
Speaker 1: saying it's giving hater the caudacity is tiff worried about,
Speaker 1: you know, and then somebody said, we don't even like Amy,
Speaker 1: why is she here? And then somebody said why is
Speaker 1: she on this platform and she's traumatized by Will Smith. Well,
Speaker 1: let me be the first to tell you Amy Schumer
Speaker 1: is not hating. And what Amy Schumer is talking about
Speaker 1: is the industry because when you are a woman, especially
Speaker 1: a black woman, who is outspoken, who speaks up for ourselves,
Speaker 1: they get labeled difficult in this business. I believe that's
Speaker 1: what she means when she said differently. I did take
Speaker 1: it as that she was saying, how is that going
Speaker 1: for her? As far as um is this making people angry?
Speaker 1: And people she's talking about our industry? Folks like, trust me,
Speaker 1: it's my pet peeve. I hear it all the time.
Speaker 1: People will say such and such is difficult, and usually
Speaker 1: it's black women who are outspoken and speak up for themselves.
Speaker 1: I hear it all the time. Yeah, So that that's
Speaker 1: how I took it. But people, of course she's not
Speaker 1: being specific. She should have said in this business, in
Speaker 1: this industry, executives will label you difficult if you are
Speaker 1: a black woman or a woman who speaks up for themselves.
Speaker 1: I hear that all the time with outspoken black women.
Speaker 1: First thing, it says, oh, she's difficult. Like how when
Speaker 1: you say how's it going for somebody? That that's usually
Speaker 1: a hated term. That's how people said that, even though
Speaker 1: she probably didn't mean it like that. But when you said, well,
Speaker 1: how's that going for her? But she should have said
Speaker 1: how's that going? In the industry because she probably is
Speaker 1: privy to inside information as well, and she probably his
Speaker 1: executives say the same thing. I promise you, man, when
Speaker 1: you are an outspoken black person, especially a black woman
Speaker 1: in this business, they will label you difficulties. They are
Speaker 1: cool with each other, so I'm sure they spoken probably
Speaker 1: told her, so it probably all depends on how Tiffany
Speaker 1: took it. Really, when somebody says how's that going for you,
Speaker 1: that's usually a hate Actually, that's seriously what it is.
Speaker 1: I actually said that to somebody last week. I said,
Speaker 1: you don't think it's screamed that. You know, every time
Speaker 1: you come to me and say such and such is difficult.
Speaker 1: Such as somebody said such and such as difficult as
Speaker 1: usually a black woman, you don't think that's scrange all right, Well,
Speaker 1: that is your outspoken black women get labeled as difficult
Speaker 1: in this industry period. Facts, it's wacking, all right, But
Speaker 1: we got fromt page news decks, so we're talking about yes,
Speaker 1: and we are going to be talking about these January
Speaker 1: six hearings will give you some takeaways from day three.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into that next. Don't move. It's
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Speaker 1: Let's getting some front page news all right. Now. Congratulations
Speaker 1: to the Golden State Warriors. They beat the Boston Celtics
Speaker 1: last night. Dropping a clue the Golden State Warriors, easy car,
Speaker 1: easy call, Warriors in six can tell you something else
Speaker 1: to the Warriors, Gonna repeat next year. I think so
Speaker 1: beat money on it now. I should right. I wish
Speaker 1: I had to bet money at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna repeat next ye, enjoy betting on games
Speaker 1: because you don't gotta be a whole lot of money.
Speaker 1: You could do twenty dollars out, you know, James, James Wadman,
Speaker 1: James Watman is gonna come back healthy. You know, another
Speaker 1: year for their young players, like the what's his name,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Commingo Commingo, the rookie you know, Pool Wiggins. They
Speaker 1: still got their calls, Steph Clay and Draymond Clay gonna
Speaker 1: be back at full speed. They're gonna repeat next year.
Speaker 1: All right, what else we got? Easy? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the January sixth hearings. Day three was yesterday.
Speaker 1: Two witnesses testifie who advised Pence that he did not
Speaker 1: have the authority to subvert the election, and they talked
Speaker 1: about how Donald Trump's attorney John Eastman put forward a
Speaker 1: legal theory that Pence could unilatery block certification of the election,
Speaker 1: but that was rejected by Trump's White House attorneys and
Speaker 1: Pence's team. But anyway, Donald Trump still tried to press
Speaker 1: forward and make that happen. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: revelations yesterday, but the most important one was that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump was told repeatedly that his plan for Pence to
Speaker 1: overturn the election was illegal, but he tried to do
Speaker 1: it anyway, And in a videotape deposition, Pence's chief of
Speaker 1: staff Mark Shortz said that Pence advised Trump many times
Speaker 1: that he did not have the legal or constitutional authority
Speaker 1: to overturn the results. And even Eastman, who helped devise
Speaker 1: the scheme and pissed it to Trump in the beginning,
Speaker 1: admitted in front of Trump that the plan would require
Speaker 1: Pence to violate federal law. According to a clip of
Speaker 1: that deposition, now here is Chairman Tho. Thompson talking about
Speaker 1: Mike Pence and his The former president wanted Pence to
Speaker 1: reject the votes and either declared Trump the winner or
Speaker 1: send the votes back to the States to be counted again.
Speaker 1: Mike Pence said, no, he knew it was illegal, he
Speaker 1: knew it was wrong. We were fortunate for mister Pence's courage.
Speaker 1: On January sixth, our democracy came danger slid close to
Speaker 1: catastrophe when Mike Pence made it clear that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: give in to Donald Trump's scheme. Donald Trump turned the
Speaker 1: mob on him, a mob that was chanting hang Mike Pence,
Speaker 1: a mob that had built a hangman's gallows just outside
Speaker 1: the Capitol. I hate how they called Mike Pence courage
Speaker 1: just like he wasn't there co signing Trump for four years.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody can change their ways. But guess what,
Speaker 1: Mike Pence, your co signs for four years led to
Speaker 1: that situation on January sixth, and it almost cannibalized. You
Speaker 1: can turn on you at any second, exactly. And former
Speaker 1: Trump White House attorney Eric Hirschman told the committee that
Speaker 1: Eastman told him he was willing to accept violence in
Speaker 1: order to overturn the twenty twenty election, and he described
Speaker 1: a conversation where he warned Eastman that his strategy, if implemented,
Speaker 1: was going to cause riots in the streets. And he said,
Speaker 1: there's been violence in the history of our country in
Speaker 1: order to protect the democracy or to protect the republic.
Speaker 1: So he basically knew what was about to happen. And
Speaker 1: this is what they're trying to show. This is some
Speaker 1: of the most compelling evidence of what actually went down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and also acause those riots and how Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: involved in all of that and making it happen and
Speaker 1: knew what the results would be. And also with the
Speaker 1: Mike Pence thing, is just a perfect example off. You
Speaker 1: want to see how somebody's eventually, you know, going to
Speaker 1: treat you, watch how they treat other people, because eventually
Speaker 1: it's going to be your turn. And that's what happened
Speaker 1: in the case. Exactly what happened. Who happened in the
Speaker 1: gate of Donald Trump and listen man five days ago
Speaker 1: to January six panelists said they got enough evidence uncovered
Speaker 1: to in Dight Trump, what're you going to do a deal? Jay? Okay,
Speaker 1: it's on them now. They put forward all this stuff
Speaker 1: we've never heard before. Now here's Aguilar talking about Mike
Speaker 1: Pence and Donald Trump and how there was a lot
Speaker 1: of tension and how their relationship had soured. The dispute
Speaker 1: between the president and the Vice president had grown to
Speaker 1: the point where the Vice president's chief of staff, Mark Short,
Speaker 1: was concerned that the President could, and mister Short's words
Speaker 1: quote lash out at the vice president on January sixth.
Speaker 1: In fact, mister Short was so concerned about it that
Speaker 1: he talked with the head of the Vice President's Secret
Speaker 1: Service detail on January fifth. Here's mister short and service
Speaker 1: for the Vice President's security, and so I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure the head of the Vice presdate Secret Service
Speaker 1: was aware that that likely, as these disagreements became more public,
Speaker 1: that the president would lash out in some way. Once again,
Speaker 1: if you want to see how someone who's gonna eventually
Speaker 1: treat you, watch how to treat other people. At some
Speaker 1: point it'll be your turn. You're not special, So don't
Speaker 1: stand by and you know, watch somebody do a bunch
Speaker 1: of foul stuff and think that eventually is not gonna
Speaker 1: happen to you. That's exactly what happened to Mike all
Speaker 1: Right and Two white men were arrested this week for
Speaker 1: allegedly attacking a black teenager who was just driving through
Speaker 1: their neighborhood. The incident took place in Sanford, Florida. That
Speaker 1: is the same city where Tory By Martin was killed
Speaker 1: by George Zimmerman more than a decade ago. The teen
Speaker 1: is identified as sixteen year old Jermaine Jones. He was
Speaker 1: just driving when the men threw a traffic cone at
Speaker 1: his car and a large rock through the vehicle's window.
Speaker 1: Jermaine's father CJ. Jones shared footage on Facebook, and in
Speaker 1: the video you can hear the men yelling at him
Speaker 1: to get out of their neighborhood. That's crazy right here,
Speaker 1: right right here time what you were doing? Burning out? Neighborhood?
Speaker 1: Burning out? I'm not in your face. Get out of
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. I got a gun. Who got the gun?
Speaker 1: The guy who's got a permit to carry? You're the
Speaker 1: one that would get gone, sighorhood? Get out of this neighborhood?
Speaker 1: Window mask. Can you imagine that this part seen year
Speaker 1: old that has to go through this terrifying experience where
Speaker 1: these white people that are throwing cones and rocks at
Speaker 1: his car just because he was driving. Get out of
Speaker 1: this neighborhood. You don't belong. This is why I was
Speaker 1: trying to visit his friend. Why I wish I lived
Speaker 1: Why would he say he was dragging? What they said
Speaker 1: he was doing, burning out? And how could you even
Speaker 1: catch up to him if that's pushing the gas and
Speaker 1: you know the wheel spin out? But like you said,
Speaker 1: how could they catch up? That's when I would I
Speaker 1: wish I lived over in that area because I swear
Speaker 1: as how I would get a hundred of my my
Speaker 1: little racing buddies boy, and we would drive around that
Speaker 1: block a hundred times. And you talk about my man
Speaker 1: what he had, a little Honda Civic. You talk about
Speaker 1: loud pipes and making noise. I would drive around that
Speaker 1: block a hundred times. Well, then I thought you were
Speaker 1: identified the menace. The men were identified as fifty two
Speaker 1: year old Donald Corsi and sixty one year old Howard Hughes.
Speaker 1: They were both arrested and charged with damage to property
Speaker 1: and Corsi was also hit with a weapon defense charge
Speaker 1: for allegedly throwing the rock, while Hughes is facing an
Speaker 1: additional misdemean the battery charge for allegedly hitting uh the
Speaker 1: white team with the traffic comb And then you throw
Speaker 1: a rock at my son's call. My son is sixteen
Speaker 1: years old. As a father, one am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to knock you in the neighborhood. Visit
Speaker 1: a friend. Fifteen year old Bailey Kennedy. He was in
Speaker 1: the car till the black team and the white team
Speaker 1: get out my neighborhood. You throw a rock at my
Speaker 1: son's called, break his window, and then and then and
Speaker 1: then pull out a gun and talk about what he hit.
Speaker 1: The guy had a gun on him, And I'm not
Speaker 1: supposed to knock on your doing whoop your ass, drag
Speaker 1: your your white ass all up and down that block.
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to, all right. I don't think you
Speaker 1: would do that. That is your front page. Don't know, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think you and that punk ass dog ain't
Speaker 1: doing that way. I playing my family. If you like
Speaker 1: me and that punk ass dog would be right on
Speaker 1: there and knock on the door, knock hello. I think
Speaker 1: I think you should go over that armed, knowing that
Speaker 1: he has a gun. I don't think you should just
Speaker 1: take the dog and your bike, right. He be a
Speaker 1: hundred riders, he said, a hundred bike riders deeper than
Speaker 1: little bikers, saying riders out, I say, bikers, you're talking
Speaker 1: about bike riders? Talk about that. You're talking about I'm
Speaker 1: talking about my cars? You know, how do the rallies
Speaker 1: and stuff like? I'm not talking so you thinking you
Speaker 1: just want to see you say that you and you're
Speaker 1: acting bad. One hundred people on ten speeds don't pull
Speaker 1: out what they punk as dogs, and we pull up
Speaker 1: on our bikes too. Why I'm not talking about the bikes.
Speaker 1: You just want to see me in a little show
Speaker 1: talking about the rid Y're gonna stop and get your
Speaker 1: all love days first. When you're listening to the new
Speaker 1: Drake album, you're gonna pull up on them. You know what,
Speaker 1: every Father's Pride Caribbean poooooooooooooooo, Happy Black gay father Caribbeans day.
Speaker 1: You know what, when we come back and see guys,
Speaker 1: I don't take nothing serious with you, no more man
Speaker 1: like you. So it's not serious between y'all anymore. We
Speaker 1: go together real bad to get a real bad. I
Speaker 1: ate your man. When we come back, the CEO of
Speaker 1: Essence will be Wong Guy, so we're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: about the upcoming Esten's Essence Festival and Moss it don't move.
Speaker 1: I hate y'all, both of y'all. That's not nice. You too, No,
Speaker 1: y'all not nice to me. It's the Breakfast the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club Power one oh five one, the Breakfast Club, Angela
Speaker 1: Year and Charlomagne the Guard Villas his night man Man.
Speaker 1: I got a driver and he's the only divide Morning
Speaker 1: everybody c j Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Guy. We
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
Speaker 1: the building, Big CEO, Energy of Essence. You so glad
Speaker 1: you made it up here before Essence Festival because I
Speaker 1: want you to talk about everything that's happening this year.
Speaker 1: And you guys just DRT the iconic cover with Danny Jackson.
Speaker 1: That's a life moment right there, right Like, it's not
Speaker 1: even about an Essence cover with Janet. It's about Janet,
Speaker 1: right and what she is and everything that she's been
Speaker 1: for community, the things she's fought through that gave a
Speaker 1: lot of other artists opportunity to be here. And I
Speaker 1: would say that's exactly what Essence Festival is about. It's
Speaker 1: critically important that people understand that it is the place
Speaker 1: where we celebrate blackness without having to accommodate everybody else.
Speaker 1: I love that, And so Janet being an icon makes sense.
Speaker 1: She's a part of the festival. But it's also about
Speaker 1: just being really honest about what blackness is and not
Speaker 1: having to feel like you gotta less in it for others,
Speaker 1: but letting others be a part of it if they
Speaker 1: want to. But it's their job to understand how we
Speaker 1: do what we do, So tell us how that started
Speaker 1: and when did it start? So the festival is twenty
Speaker 1: seven years old. Wow, It's always been in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: and I have to reinforce that, because the festival isn't
Speaker 1: the festival if it's not in New Orleans. It actually
Speaker 1: has always been in Willans except for three years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went to one year it was in Houston. After
Speaker 1: I didn't like that exactly like it. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And that's not hate on Houston. That's just about like it.
Speaker 1: They were born to together, right. And then the only
Speaker 1: other two years it hasn't been there are the two
Speaker 1: years of the Penhamic where we did it virtually. It
Speaker 1: is also the largest festival in the country by per
Speaker 1: day attendance. And then the third piece I'd say is
Speaker 1: what's happening right now that I'm even more excited about
Speaker 1: is what COVID gave us the opportunity to do virtually,
Speaker 1: was to be able to bring together a broader diaspora
Speaker 1: to experience this thing that we have had here in
Speaker 1: the US, but is really about global black culture, which
Speaker 1: is a part of our mission in this phase of
Speaker 1: essence as well. And so in twenty twenty, we had
Speaker 1: forty five million views of the virtual Festival in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one we had sixty five million views and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, for the first time the festival we both
Speaker 1: live and virtual with unique and hybrid experiences for all.
Speaker 1: So when you think about the momentous moment we're in
Speaker 1: right now with what we've been through, this is going
Speaker 1: to be the dopest year the festival yet because the
Speaker 1: whole fan can be together even if we're not in
Speaker 1: the scene. That's one thing I loved about the festival
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and no disrespect to the festival,
Speaker 1: it was an older person's festivals. They thought it's skewing
Speaker 1: younger and it was open to everybody. That's definitely you're
Speaker 1: just old in that. I will say the movie Girls
Speaker 1: even before the movie Girls Trip like for me because
Speaker 1: I've been going to Essence Festival for probably like ten
Speaker 1: years and I would tell like my friends, let's all
Speaker 1: go to Essence Festival every year. And then Girls Tip
Speaker 1: came out and it's like it is the perfect girls
Speaker 1: trip place. So that's that's great, and I'm glad you
Speaker 1: guys brought this up because one of the things right like,
Speaker 1: so Essence is the parent company of the festival, right
Speaker 1: there's like a whole company. Aside from that, but one
Speaker 1: of the things that is really intentional about what we're
Speaker 1: trying to drive in the stages, we are, first of all,
Speaker 1: black people are not a monolith, and this festival is
Speaker 1: the place where no matter what kind of black you are,
Speaker 1: you find something for you. Right. So to your point,
Speaker 1: it had a reputation of being not just for old
Speaker 1: but for the aunties. That's what people really say. What
Speaker 1: did that change? It's been changing for a while, but
Speaker 1: we are being even more intentional about it now. So
Speaker 1: right now, if you look at the statistics, sixty percent
Speaker 1: of the attendees of the festival are eighteen to thirty five,
Speaker 1: saying they just may not go to the same things
Speaker 1: right right that other people do. And so our charge became,
Speaker 1: how do we make sure that all of the people
Speaker 1: that are actually showing up can find something to do?
Speaker 1: So to start with something like you talked about with
Speaker 1: girls Trip, one of the things is we know the
Speaker 1: brothers come to festival. The data says it's about thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the audience is men. That really smart for
Speaker 1: them to come to. By the way, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot I've never heard a complain about their experience. But
Speaker 1: the piece I'm saying that for is the intentionality is
Speaker 1: for the first time we have a men's experience designed
Speaker 1: for black men at festival. We're calling it in His Zone.
Speaker 1: It's designed for black men there. It's not because the
Speaker 1: rest of the festival isn't for them, but we see
Speaker 1: them and recognize them and want them to feel like
Speaker 1: there's a space where they'll be able to do things.
Speaker 1: We have a younger generational set of programming behind Girls
Speaker 1: United that's really focused on the next generation of Black women.
Speaker 1: We are the essence festival of culture, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of other things happening outside of the Superdome, but
Speaker 1: even within the Superdome and the concerts, which is what
Speaker 1: a lot of people look forward to, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of diversity in what we've brought there. So we've got
Speaker 1: Nicki minaj on Friday night, We've got Janet on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: new Addition on Sunday night as headliners. But in the
Speaker 1: Nicki Minaje night is Beanie Man Thames is in that
Speaker 1: New Addition night. Those are all growing artist by the
Speaker 1: right right. And so the point that I'm making is
Speaker 1: part of our responsibility as a brand is to make
Speaker 1: sure that although we were built on the heels of
Speaker 1: black women, are and we are not at all hiding that.
Speaker 1: The reason why that's a really important critical community for
Speaker 1: all black is because black women are the conductors of
Speaker 1: black community right. The way that they look and the
Speaker 1: way that they go and what they influence tends to
Speaker 1: be right what a lot of people depend on or
Speaker 1: look to to understand right. And so being able to
Speaker 1: use the festival and the brand that is Essence to
Speaker 1: bring forth what it means for blackness to get back
Speaker 1: to the greatness it deserves globally is exactly what we're
Speaker 1: trying to do. And that mission is that big, that audacious,
Speaker 1: and we will start by making sure that people see
Speaker 1: a different kind of festival this year that helps us
Speaker 1: into our needs. Now, what about Essence needs. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So SENCTS has always been there. Some of the dope
Speaker 1: stuff that's happening with epens each as we took it
Speaker 1: outside and we're doing the first of our Essence Food
Speaker 1: and Wine festival that will feature food and wine from
Speaker 1: all different black vendors. Everybody may not want to come
Speaker 1: to the food festival, so of course the eats will
Speaker 1: be there as well, but it is about making sure
Speaker 1: that food and Wine Festival is happening, the film festival
Speaker 1: is happening. We have a gospel brunch that we're including
Speaker 1: to make sure that people are finding different things to do,
Speaker 1: but that we're also highlighting black entrepreneurs because one of
Speaker 1: our big goals is to continue to build black generational wealth.
Speaker 1: How does it feel to be back after a two
Speaker 1: year hiatus and when you realize, Okay, I think we'd
Speaker 1: be able to do this live, yeah, next year, when
Speaker 1: did your brain start? Well? The funny thing is I
Speaker 1: started this job in the pandemic. So I started this
Speaker 1: job right when the twenty twenty Virtual Festival was about
Speaker 1: to air, right, and I, like everybody else, was like,
Speaker 1: can we do this? And when we saw what happened
Speaker 1: with forty five million views of that festival, I like
Speaker 1: I rested quite a bit to say, oh my god, right, Like,
Speaker 1: the necessity of this thing goes beyond the fact that
Speaker 1: it has to be physical. Our community needs to be together.
Speaker 1: And so when we were able to do that in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and then saw us able to do it
Speaker 1: again in twenty twenty one, the thought coming back became
Speaker 1: probably bigger and better than it would have been had
Speaker 1: the pandemic not happened, which is, look at what we're
Speaker 1: now able to do. And we decided to be even
Speaker 1: more bold than audacious, and how we choose to offer
Speaker 1: this Life Festival because of what happened. Virtually the first
Speaker 1: time I've seen a new edition was actually at Essence
Speaker 1: Music Festival. And you know, most people don't know I
Speaker 1: do car shows. And my car show got to start
Speaker 1: on now he who didn't know? Ye, But most people
Speaker 1: don't know that the start. I got my start because
Speaker 1: Essence didn't happen. So I actually did my car show
Speaker 1: what I found out Essence wasn't doing it. Fourth to July.
Speaker 1: I did my car show fourth to July in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And usually you know our culture, black people, they want
Speaker 1: something to do, and because they couldn't go to New Orleans,
Speaker 1: I had twenty thousand people at Atlanta, which made me
Speaker 1: do the car shows from market to market to market.
Speaker 1: All right. We had more about Caroline Wanga, the CEO
Speaker 1: of Essence, coming up next, but right now New Drake
Speaker 1: out today featuring twenty when Savage here is Jimmy Cooks.
Speaker 1: Every envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with the CEO of Essence.
Speaker 1: She's talking about the Essence Festival and more. We have
Speaker 1: Caroline Wanga. Is it difficult for you guys to get sponsors,
Speaker 1: because I know a lot of times corporate white world,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get sponsors. They don't they'll sponsor everything else,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to us, it's very difficult. It's
Speaker 1: it difficult. So we're gonna have that conversation. So first
Speaker 1: of all, here's what you need to know. I am
Speaker 1: in corporate recovery. So I worked at the Target Corporation
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, right, so I know both sides of
Speaker 1: the conversation. One of the things that will be true
Speaker 1: in this new era of the Essence brand overall is
Speaker 1: we're gonna be really picky about who gets to be
Speaker 1: in partnership with us. I think that this brand has
Speaker 1: been through a lot of things over its fifty years,
Speaker 1: and there was a time when it was so malnourished
Speaker 1: by the organization that sat within that it had to
Speaker 1: take what it could get to stay alive. As I
Speaker 1: came into role and partnered with Rich Dennis, who is
Speaker 1: the family that put this company back in black owned hands.
Speaker 1: What became extremely important to both of us was one
Speaker 1: changing the way that the value of what we do
Speaker 1: as a brand is looked at festival. Included number two
Speaker 1: demanding that if you want to be in relationship with
Speaker 1: this brand, you have to be about black economic impact period.
Speaker 1: If you're not about that, we will happily help you
Speaker 1: put your check somewhere else. And the fact that we
Speaker 1: were unapologetic about that and we're willing to walk away
Speaker 1: if partners didn't want to be about that led to
Speaker 1: us being able to have record level partnership dollars happening
Speaker 1: coming into the twenty twenty two festival. But what's more
Speaker 1: important is as we engaged with those partners, what we
Speaker 1: said is it isn't just about us getting the dollars
Speaker 1: to be able to put this together. We mandated in
Speaker 1: a lot of those relationships that they are using black
Speaker 1: owned businesses to drive the way they show up at festival,
Speaker 1: and may that be in the contracts. That's not dollars
Speaker 1: that comes to essence to put this on. That's the
Speaker 1: people that will be set up activations and selling food
Speaker 1: and all these things that each of our partners do. There,
Speaker 1: we ask that that is also going to black owned
Speaker 1: businesses and try to make sure that that happens because
Speaker 1: for us, we don't want any partner that doesn't understand
Speaker 1: that their role with us is to continue to bring
Speaker 1: forth what it takes to do black generational wealth. Let's
Speaker 1: stay there for a second. YEA, how can these corporations
Speaker 1: start to be more inclusive? Well, I wouldn't use the
Speaker 1: word inclusive. I know what you mean by the question
Speaker 1: we're about black. I want to be really clear about that.
Speaker 1: I was a former corporate chief diversity officer, right, so
Speaker 1: I know what the word inclusion means. I understand what
Speaker 1: the diversity work is. I don't want to view you up.
Speaker 1: What do you mean in corporate America? It means that
Speaker 1: we make sure that all parties have equal and equitable presence.
Speaker 1: But the thing that comes with that is it is all.
Speaker 1: So I couldn't just focus on black, right, I had
Speaker 1: to make sure that women and Asian and right like
Speaker 1: you have to make sure it's not the paths are different.
Speaker 1: But no matter what in the corporate diversity world, everybody
Speaker 1: still swivels a little different in their chair when you
Speaker 1: talk about black, and so part of what we're being
Speaker 1: really clear about this isn't about being inclusive, This isn't
Speaker 1: about investing in diversity. This is about black and we
Speaker 1: are not going to dilute that. You need to be
Speaker 1: unafraid to say black, do black, invest with black, preserved black,
Speaker 1: defend black, hay black, do black all black. Absolutely, we
Speaker 1: are about making sure that blackness is returned to greatness,
Speaker 1: and the first step in that is not allowing anybody
Speaker 1: to come in and engage with us if they are
Speaker 1: not going to participate in the hard, difficult, no room
Speaker 1: for self preservation work of standing in the gap for
Speaker 1: those of us that are black, not because we can't
Speaker 1: stand in the gap for ourselves, but because they're the
Speaker 1: ones in the gap and we need them to get
Speaker 1: out of the way so we can get to what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to do. You know, I think that it's
Speaker 1: really important for us to also talk about you personally
Speaker 1: and your background, because you did bring up your fifteen
Speaker 1: years at Target. You started it off as an intern there,
Speaker 1: and so I just want you to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about your journey even coming in to essence, what
Speaker 1: made you leave Target to come to Essence and then
Speaker 1: being interim CEO and then becoming the CEO. So I
Speaker 1: just want you to give us a little background on you,
Speaker 1: just so people know who I can I can't. So
Speaker 1: the first thing that's most important say is I'm a
Speaker 1: Kenyan girl born in Kenya came to the US. Um So,
Speaker 1: I was born in Kisuma, but I lived in Nairobe.
Speaker 1: My parents professors at Kenyanta University. I just left. Look
Speaker 1: at you see it, and you see it. Look at you.
Speaker 1: He's a little writer. But I am not Dominican. I'm black,
Speaker 1: he says in Dominicans, I'm like, and I'm black. Well,
Speaker 1: you could be all black American. I'm black. So so
Speaker 1: I'm a Kenyan girl. Came to the US because my
Speaker 1: dad wanted to do his PhD. Ended up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Topic for another day. And so after I graduated from
Speaker 1: high school, I became a mom and y seventeen years old,
Speaker 1: and you can imagine, just like any other parent would
Speaker 1: feel there was concerned. So I went to an HBCU
Speaker 1: down in Texas that had a single parent program to
Speaker 1: get my degree, a Texas college. It's very small, but
Speaker 1: it was a school that had done a single parent
Speaker 1: program where they subsidized the cost of your child living
Speaker 1: in the dorm with you, your child eating in the
Speaker 1: cafeteria so you could go to school. And that's what
Speaker 1: HBCUs are right. They solved the problems that society doesn't
Speaker 1: solve so that we can get to what we're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. I'm not here without that school and that program,
Speaker 1: full stop. That's why I started with Target. So I
Speaker 1: started as an intern in their distribution center in Tyler, Texas.
Speaker 1: I decided to sell out and become a corporate drone
Speaker 1: so I could take care of this baby and make
Speaker 1: sure she could pay for college. And then I ended
Speaker 1: up coming to headquarters in Minnesota. So that brought me
Speaker 1: back to Minnesota, and I did a number of different
Speaker 1: roles in engineering from a distribution perspective, I was over
Speaker 1: in business intelligence. I did some roles in HR. I
Speaker 1: had my last role in that fifteen years was Chief Diversity,
Speaker 1: Inclusion and Culture Officer for the organization. I was definitely
Speaker 1: one of those people that because I had been a
Speaker 1: mom that long, I had lost sight of who I was,
Speaker 1: and so I was open to what other opportunities could be.
Speaker 1: I was talking to people within Target. I was talking
Speaker 1: to people outside of Target. And even though rich Lu
Speaker 1: Dennis and the Dennis family had the Shave Moister brand
Speaker 1: that had worked with Target for fifteen years, he and
Speaker 1: I had never met. We met at the twenty nineteen festival.
Speaker 1: I was asked to come and host a panel and
Speaker 1: when he asked about this opportunity to come to Essence,
Speaker 1: it was because of the way that I lived my
Speaker 1: life that he wanted me to come and help leave
Speaker 1: this brand. Why did I take it? It was a
Speaker 1: journey and recompense. And here's what I mean by that.
Speaker 1: Two very important things happened that made this the absolute
Speaker 1: right thing at the absolute right time. I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to join a group of people that went to Ghana.
Speaker 1: I had talked with my dad about being excited about
Speaker 1: going because I knew my Kenyan heritage. I'd known it
Speaker 1: from the beginning. My dad told me all those stories
Speaker 1: right it was undisrupted by the slave trade on the
Speaker 1: eastern coast. I was excited to go to Ghana because
Speaker 1: the remnants on the coast there of the transatlantic slave
Speaker 1: trade was something I didn't see in Kenya, and I
Speaker 1: was excited to see that so I was talking about that,
Speaker 1: and he paused. He said, well, there was another slave
Speaker 1: trade that happened on the eastern coast of Africa that
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of history behind it because it
Speaker 1: took slaves to Asia, but they weren't allowed to procreate,
Speaker 1: and so it didn't last as long. He said, So
Speaker 1: our heritage did interact with slavery in Kenya and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, Dad, you said it wasn't disrupted. And
Speaker 1: he says, well, the wongest did what they had to
Speaker 1: do to survive, which meant participate in the ensavement of
Speaker 1: other Kenyans. I can't lie to you about how heavy
Speaker 1: that sat on my spirit. And I just remember saying
Speaker 1: over and over, I'm going to fix this. So when
Speaker 1: I arrived in Ghana and spent time at the slave dungeons,
Speaker 1: I had a complete total meltdown a few months later,
Speaker 1: and I remember going back to Target and I was
Speaker 1: talking to the CEO there and I said I had
Speaker 1: to fix this. I told him this story. When Rich
Speaker 1: called a couple months later, this was the fix this.
Speaker 1: I have benefited from that story all the way up
Speaker 1: through my corporate career, from people who came before me
Speaker 1: that looked like me that sacrifice that fought that did.
Speaker 1: I can't not do what I'm supposed to do to
Speaker 1: continue to maintain one of the catalysts of that, which
Speaker 1: is this brand. And so between where I was in
Speaker 1: my life where I was really embracing who is Caroline
Speaker 1: and a moment where I understood something different about my heritage.
Speaker 1: Accepting this role as an act of service. It's recompense
Speaker 1: for those that fought before for me to be able
Speaker 1: to get to where I got to incorporate, and then
Speaker 1: to have another opportunity to do this with one of
Speaker 1: the biggest global black media brands. But also it is
Speaker 1: to give the opportunity for I owe, my niece and
Speaker 1: all the kids coming after to have another place that
Speaker 1: will tell them how great they are. I'm here out
Speaker 1: of service, not out of a job. Wow wow, I
Speaker 1: love that. Well. Definitely head out there if you can.
Speaker 1: I'll bet moisture. I think I'm DJing for shame moisture.
Speaker 1: Me and my wife, a son, and books, our new book,
Speaker 1: and the shame moisture that you have a book we do.
Speaker 1: We have essence authors, so they'll be space there for
Speaker 1: essence authors. We've got global black Economic Forum. We've got
Speaker 1: all kinds of different things going on essence fest dot com.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what you want to do, go
Speaker 1: down there. We'll show you the whole schedule and we
Speaker 1: look forward to see everybody. Everybody. Partner I Need a
Speaker 1: Copax is gonna be there with her Bookshallow Waters. Yes,
Speaker 1: and we want to continue to highlight as many folks
Speaker 1: as we can through this festival. So folks that have
Speaker 1: interest in this, even if you didn't get on this timing,
Speaker 1: please continue to stay in contact with us. We continue
Speaker 1: to try to make sure that everybody gets an opportunity
Speaker 1: to show what they're doing at this thing we call
Speaker 1: the festival. Man, I'll be there Wednesday to Monday. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be yeah. Before start. Some people took thirty days
Speaker 1: off for their job and claimed it was a holiday.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bust none of them out. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, Caroline one God, I say right, you did,
Speaker 1: all right? Well, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,