Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the underground tunnels in Brooklyn?
We call it 2020 more. I don't know how much more we can take. We're on day 11. Yeah, like there's some things happening. I don't know where y'all want to start, but first of all, how's everybody feeling? How's everybody doing? I feel great. I mean, yeah, before we get into... Before we go below sea level. Yeah, before we dig into some of this news.
Yeah, before we get deep into these topics.
Okay. Amara had her first swimming lesson. Oh, congrats to mama. Yeah. Mama! She was the only baby that didn't cry at all. So she likes the water. Those other pussies just would not. The tears the whole time. Amara's sitting there chilling. Yeah. Going underwater and shit. So it was fun. I had an anxiety attack the entire time. Yeah. Cause it's like, we're putting a, you know how to swim. Yeah.
I can, I can not drown. So you don't know how to swim. No, I can swim. Like you'd be kicking your legs paddle. No, I can, I can do the, the thing. Do it. That was your stroke. That was crazy to ask a man to show me. I can do the one in the Olympics when they go over. The butterfly? Like this. I can do that one. You cannot do that. No, he can't. I know he can't. He cannot do that.
You can't do a butterfly.
Bring a camera to the pool. There's no way you can do that. Is that a butterfly or a breaststroke? How long can you swim like that? Because that takes a lot out of you. I mean, I don't know right now because I'm not in the best shape. I'm getting back into shape. Okay. I could probably do that for... Like 50 meters? I don't know what meters is. Wait, what's the whole pool? 100 meters?
I think an Olympic pool is a 100 meter pool. All the way down? I think so. Okay, then give me like 30 to 40 meters. That's a long way to go. Yo, bro, that's crazy. That's like a full body. I could take breaks, right? I mean, yeah. Do whatever you got to do. But I'm just saying, I know you can't swim long doing a breaststroke.
I'm not saying a lot. So one way is 50 meters. So a down and back is 100 meters.
Then give me 25. I can do half of whatever the pool is doing a breaststroke.
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Chapter 3: How is the Young Thug trial impacting public perception?
Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I'm pretty sure it's not. Yeah. But either way... Swimming is, like... I wish I could swim every day, but my skin just would not accept that. Dries out. Yeah. I can't be in chlorine. Like, I just can't. Like, every day, like... But I would love to, like... I hate working. I've been back in the gym. I hate weights. I want to swim every day.
Just let me go in a pool and swim every day. I would love to do that. But I would come in here looking like... Well, a lot of pools now are saltwater. I think the one that I took Amara to for her swim lesson is like the last chlorine pool in Manhattan. Really? Yeah, I think saltwater pools are taking over. I mean, it's kind of crazy that chlorine has like lasted this long.
I feel like we should just be laying in chlorine. Yeah, it's like lead and pencils. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy to be just sitting in chlorine. But congrats to baby Amara on her first swimming lesson. And I went in like, this was the first time in my life I went into a pool with a shirt on. I didn't know what was appropriate. To get in the pool?
I've never been put in the situation where I was going to a pool with a bunch of children and parents. How old were they?
I didn't know them.
It wasn't in someone's backyard. You used to them like the MMG pool parties, made back music pool parties. Yeah, where people are of age. Yeah, okay. And bathing suits are optional. No, but it wasn't the instructors. What did they have on? See, I don't even want to say this because this could just go down like a deeper. He had on a Speedo and I felt really fucking uncomfortable.
Like a Speedo like the underwear? And it was orange. Well, so they could see it. Like it was zesty. And that was it? Like he made a Speedo look zestier than a Speedo.
He's also in a pool instructing kids like, well, come on.
Wait, a Speedo like the underwear? And I don't want to put, yes, like the, you know, the bathing suit, a Speedo. Google what a Speedo is. Like, what Europeans wear. No, Speedo is a brand, I think. I think it's a brand. Speedo is the brand. It's a type of bathing suit that men wear. You've never been, like, not in America and just seen a bunch of, like, men, international men wear these things.
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Chapter 4: What relationship advice do the callers seek?
I agree. And I don't want to, you know, and we'll get to the Aaron Rogers thing. I don't want to Aaron Rogers anyone and imply that they're creepy or doing anything weird. Cause he's been teaching there forever. He taught Kia how to swim. So I just found it odd that he was in a Speedo. Yeah.
and maybe I'm the immature one but you know it raised my eyebrows of like wait you're teaching babies in a speedo I came in a shirt yeah were you the only one with a shirt on yes yeah
And you never were like, okay, maybe I can.
No, but what about just wearing regular swimming trunks? Yeah. No, I had on regular swimming trunks. I'm talking about the instructor. Like, where's his regular just swimming trunks at? Why you got the Speedos?
I'm sure being that he's. This isn't Ibiza. Is he American? Where do you think he's at?
He's zesty. No, he wasn't.
He's not American.
Definitely West Indian. I'm not going to say sexual orientation because I'm not sure of it. But for someone that's lived 33 years, I kind of have a gauge of when someone is gay.
Emphasis on the gauge.
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Chapter 5: What changes are happening with The Breakfast Club?
So naturally, things would start to pull them away from what they all built together. Not necessarily a bad thing because you build things and you create things to move on and do other things. And, you know, everything has its shelf life and things like that. So it's not a negative thing to say The Breakfast Club is over. But obviously, it's not what it was, once was.
It's going through a bunch of changes and, you know, personalities are not there no more. Angelique's gone. So the chemistry is totally different now. If you're rotating guests all year... pretty much week to week, month to month. The energy is going to be different, different personalities mixed differently. So it's a different thing now.
It's still called The Breakfast Club, but it's a different thing now. It's not what it once was or what we grew up knowing it to be. I think that Charlamagne and Envy should both, honestly, aside from they're both getting paid very well being there, I think they should step aside and let it grow into something totally different.
But I think that's what a new hire would do where they could take more of the backseat, almost like GM coaching role. Like someone else can be the star, but they are still there. Let them still produce. Let Envy and Charlemagne still produce the show.
Yeah, which I think they were trying to do with Jess and some of those other co-hosts that they were bringing in to rotate to see who made the most sense. Because a lot of them were Charlemagne's friends and people that he has helped and put on already. So, I mean, I'm not sure what iHeart is doing or if that... Kind of says how they feel about the Breakfast Club in general.
And maybe it's not something they want to fully invest in. And it would take a certain amount of money to get Jess there or someone like Jess. I thought she would have been great. But my backup up until two days ago was Bitcoin Rodney. But then he was arrested. I thought he'd be a great fill-in.
He's been on The Breakfast Club teaching us all about Bitcoin the same way Caesar taught us about real estate. You know, Breakfast Club has always been there to teach us life lessons in the business world. But Bitcoin Rodney was... Well, let me start with this. Free. Free Rod. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Toes backwards. He... Scream free Rodney to those backwoods. Rodney free. Yeah.
For those that don't know Bitcoin Rodney or did not catch his episodes on The Breakfast Club, he's pretty much the Caesar of Bitcoin shit. He was arrested for an absolute Ponzi scheme for Bitcoin, just like Caesar. He was in jail. Then he was free and then just stumbled upon millions of dollars out of nowhere.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of moving to another city for a relationship?
He read one book at the law library and was like, yo, I understand Bitcoin now. Essentially what his Ponzi scheme was, people would invest into his Bitcoin business with somebody over in China that was his partner. Say I invested $3,000 with Bitcoin Rodney. I would then get $6,000 worth of their Bitcoin. So I would then be like, oh, wow. The moment I invested, I doubled my money.
You're up.
But then we found out his $6,000 meant absolutely fucking nothing. And then he ran away with my liquid cash. And now I'm sitting here with $6,000 of worthless shit that's just on my computer desktop. It's just a number on my screen. I can't spend it anywhere. So to me, he explained Bitcoin, but it's a Ponzi scheme.
He allegedly frauded more than $7 million through this fake investment scheme that you just detailed.
Well, Bitcoin Rodney about to be J-Pay Rodney in a minute. I'm going to hit him on his J-Pay and show him some love. I just, you know, I understand everybody's out here and everybody got these different moves they make and these hustles and things like that. I just don't know why everyone thinks that they're smarter than the federal government. I don't know. Like, I just don't, I don't get that.
Like, I just don't get how people think that they're going to, you know, run these schemes and run these, you know, These companies that aren't legit and aren't really doing business the right way. How long do you think before the IRS and the government come knocking and say, hey, listen, you owe us this. Now, if you have this money to give back, see, that's how the government works.
If you have the money to give back, we're good. All good. No harm, no foul, no blood. It's all good. But if you don't have that money... You're going to have to go sit down for a minute. And I just don't understand how people continue to run these schemes and things like that and think that they're outsmarting the IRS. Listen, they print the money. They know where the money's going.
They know where it's at. They know how much of it is out there. They print it. They put the serial codes on each bill for a reason. And if you think that you're going to outsmart the people who are actually printing this money, then just keep doing what you're doing and we'll see you on J-Pay. I just think so many people fall for the...
age old government thing where they just let you commit crime for a while like they know you're doing something illegal right but they're going to continue to let you do it so they can build the case and you're going to start getting this confidence of like i just got that play off and yeah there was no attention let me do this next one and then three years passes and you're like i think i think i have this under control i would have been arrested by now yeah and it's like oh yeah no we've been watching you for three years we just wanted you to get to seven million i think we were going to arrest you when you were at five thousand
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Chapter 7: How do long-distance relationships affect personal connections?
Yeah, you're the company you keep. Look at his team.
He brought some wild people onto that show. Yo, Bitcoin Rodney's crazy. Oh, man. But either way, man, Breakfast Club, I think that obviously needs a complete revamp, though. I mean, obviously, Charlamagne and NVR, Legends, and the Breakfast Club is one of the most iconic platforms that we've ever had in our culture, without a doubt.
But I think that it's obviously, it's something else now, and it's time for a whole new thing. Well, it should have been a sign because Hot 97 got to premiere the Jay-Z and D'Angelo song when Breakfast Club didn't. But they premiered it. And it made me feel bad because if this was years ago, somebody would have ripped that entire stream off the radio. We would have had it.
Oh yeah.
It was only like a minute snippet that, that Elliot posted. Um, Which I will say, when you're listening to this podcast, the whole song is out. So we're not going to dive too deep into this, but this is the day before it comes out. We only know the snippet. And I will say, I'm not sure where Hov has taken us in that snippet.
I know it's a 10 minute long song, so I'm not going to judge what I heard. I just, where was Sean going with that one? I think that we know by now, if Jay is going to get in the booth and record music again, it's going to be because he's going to say something of significance. It's not going to just be to just put shit out.
Obviously on the DJ Khaled album, God did, when he does things like that, when he puts out music... He's making a statement. He's teaching. He's trying to, you know, get people thinking on a different level, which is what he's supposed to do at this point in his career. It's like, what else can he say? What else can he do? Also a D'Angelo record.
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Chapter 8: What advice is given about navigating relationships and trust?
Like, you gotta... Dennis D'Angelo. But he was, like, talking on this shit. And I get, like... He was giving us some cool, like, grown Instagram captions. I slept on the couch because it's not a bed without you. Like, I see where he was taking it, but... He didn't have to do it in a weird accent and then rhyme it with daddy cigarettes or something. I was lost.
Well, the Book of Clarence is out January 12th. Shout out to James Samuels. The reports of the movie because they debuted and they premiered in L.A. last week. You flew out for the day. No, I wish I did, though, but I didn't. Day trip to L.A.? Sick. But I'm hearing great things about the movie. Same.
James is doing a great job, man, of just portraying, you know, Black excellence and Black culture and telling these stories from a different perspective than they've been told traditionally.
Yeah.
I just think that he's doing a great job. He's doing it his way. He did the entire soundtrack, produced the entire soundtrack, composed it. I have never seen a director also do the soundtrack. He's the primary artist of the whole thing. And I mean, if you know the Bullets and know James' background, he was a musician first, an incredible one at that.
I just think that's for the no one's really discussing thing. Maybe I'm wrong. I can't think of another director that has done that. I can't think of any other director that has done something like that. It just speaks to James' genius, his talent level, his vision. And I think that this is another installation and capsule of what his creative mind is going to give to the culture.
I think that this is just the beginning of it. I think that we're just starting to see James really hit his stride and deliver powerful projects like the Book of Clarence. The soundtrack, the amazing Lil Wayne, D'Angelo, Jay-Z. There was a bunch of other people on the track list that I saw, and I was just like, no, James is really- Your crush, Doja's on there.
Doja Cat, Kodak, Georgia Smith, Cudi. Yeah, and I'm excited to hear James on the shit more than the features. But can we make this about us before we get into voicemails? Let's do it. I mean, you're saying how amazing James is as a director. Can we tell the world what he said to us? Um, yeah. Somebody put us on FaceTime with James and he said, for some strange reason, you two can act.
And I wasn't sure if that was a backhanded compliment or not. Sounds like it. I mean, we weren't supposed to know how to act, so I guess it's not. Wait, when did you act? He's talking about the skits? Our sketches, yeah. Oh, okay. He was watching those and was blown away that Maul and I had any acting ability whatsoever. I could see why that would surprise somebody, though. I agree.
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