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The Breakfast Club

INTERVIEW: Wendell Pierce On Career Journey, Navigating Your Purpose, NPR, PBS Shutdown, Trump, CLTC + More

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Today on The Breakfast Club, Wendell Pierce On Career Journey, Navigating Your Purpose, NPR, PBS Shutdown, Trump, CLTC. Listen For More!

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.1

If a baby is giggling in the back seat, they're probably happy.

0:08.2

If a baby is crying in the back seat, they're probably hungry.

0:12.2

But if a baby is sleeping in the back seat, will you remember they're even there?

0:17.6

When you're distracted, stressed, or not usually the one who drives them, the chances

0:21.9

of forgetting them in the back seat are much higher. It can happen to anyone. Parked cars get

0:27.3

hot fast and can be deadly. So get in the habit of checking the back seat when you leave.

0:32.5

The message from NHTSA and the ad council. Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:37.2

Remember movie pass? All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass, who got pushed out of the company he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast Club. You're all finished or y'all's done?

1:12.2

Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning to show The Breakfast Club. Charlemagne the God, DJ Envy. Just hilarious, but Envy's not here right now. But Lauren LaRosa is in, and we got a special guest in the building. The great Wendell Pierce is here. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for having me. This is a real honor. I finally made it to the breakfast club. You know, I was just... I feel like you've been on before you. No, this is my first time, man. This is my first time. Uh, uh, wow. It's a real honor, man. You know, like I was telling you, I'm a jazz head, you know, so I'm listening to jazz in the morning and stuff like that.

1:44.6

And it wasn't until I was in London due a death of a salesman, you know, the two gentlemen would play my sons.

1:51.5

Everyone's like, you don't know about the breakfast club? I'm like, yeah, I know about it. I lied.

1:56.0

And then they would turn me on to it like every day. We got every, I got all my news. That was like my, you know, my associated press was the breakfast club, you know. So now that's why I was joking. I should come in here with my, you know, I have my little entourage and, you know, my bag of cash. That's right. That's your all moment yeah yeah right I love that yeah yeah yeah we're glad we're glad that you

2:23.3

finally yeah we're glad that you finally could join us man I wish I could be there in studio but

2:27.2

I had to be out of town this week no I understand how are you first of all I'm good man

2:31.7

it's been a real busy summer I've been enjoying myself

2:34.6

because I'm already back to work summer ended for me last week but it's been great I've

2:40.6

been traveling a lot you know I have discovered Angilla this is a great island

2:47.7

Anguilla baby that's right that is Charlemagne's favorite place to go. Oh, man. It's what I call a drop and plop, right? You drop your bag and you plop down. Oh, man. We should be giving it away, Charlemagne. But then again, they... Listen, I've been going there for years, man. I love it.

3:07.7

But it's an island that you go to if you like to do nothing. That's it. That's why you say, drop and plop. I love it. So I've been traveling around and, you know, had a busy summer because I had a lot of films come out this summer and coming out. So it's good. And back already and what I say and I just you have to say

3:25.5

for just for me personally you do not age okay okay I because I I discovered you on the wire

3:32.9

I'm from Baltimore City so that's right Baltimore in the house favorite show so why it's like it just

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