Best of full interview: Andrew Young & John Hope Bryant Talk 'The Dirty Work' Documentary, Friendship With MLK Jr. + More
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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The Breakfast Club BEST OF - Andrew Young & John Hope Bryant Talk 'The Dirty Work' Documentary, Friendship With MLK Jr., Recorded 2025. Listen For More!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:21.9 | Every day I wake up. The Breakfast Club. We're all finished or y'all's done? Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Shalamey and the God, DJ Envy, J. Envi, just hilarious. Envi's not here today, but Lauren LaRosa is. And we have an amazing guest in the building today, man. And's interesting when we talk about you know black history as if it's a thing of the past like you know |
| 0:26.2 | as if we don't have living legends and icons and people who you know actually talk what we're |
| 0:31.3 | there for the things that we talk about Mr. Andrew Young is here good morning sir good morning |
| 0:37.0 | how are you, brother? |
| 0:37.8 | I'm really glad to be here with you. Yes, sir. I'm long overdue. Man, who are you telling? |
| 0:42.9 | I need, I mean, I need to know where you are. Yes, sir. And I'm, I'm out of the sink. |
| 0:50.9 | She. I look at the book and be honest, I die lying lying and I probably, you know, I need to read that |
| 0:56.4 | quickly. Yes. Sir. John Hobbrien is here as well. John Hope Brian, good morning, sir. Good morning. |
| 1:05.8 | Good morning. Mr. Andrew Young has a new documentary out called The Dirty Work. It comes out on this Friday, 1017. |
| 1:12.8 | Why was it important for you to tell this part of your story now? |
| 1:18.1 | Well, I'm telling my story, and we see the glamour of the civil rights movement, and it was very glamorous. |
| 1:30.7 | But every one or two you see on television there were 500 to a thousand of us in the background doing the dirty work and it's the |
| 1:39.1 | way i got into it i was actually up here in New York in 1957, 58. |
| 1:47.5 | And Dr. King needed somebody to move with him to Atlanta. |
| 1:56.4 | My wife was from Marion, Alabama, which was a little country town near Selma, and we saw |
| 2:03.6 | the MSN, I meant it was a NBC documentary on John Lewis in a National Sitting Story. We just bought a house out in Queens. And I was |
| 2:21.8 | working up at the National Council of Churches. And when the documentary came on, my wife said, |
| 2:29.1 | it's time for us to go home. I said, we are home. She said, no, this is New York. New York can't ever be my home. And I said, well, we just bought this house. And we got a good job. She said, yeah. And I hope you'll deal with that. I said, well, what are you going to do? She said, I'm going back to my mama and Alabama. and I'm taking my children. And I said, well, |
| 2:52.0 | what do you want me to do? She said, I want you to sell this house and find a job down south. |
| 2:58.6 | And she was, the blessing in New York, though, was that she got a chance to go to Queens |
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