Speaker 1: Gee, I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
Speaker 1: everything and everybody.
Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Speaker 2: Lauren came in.
Speaker 3: Y'all, Clap it up.
Speaker 2: We have made it.
Speaker 1: We are here at one hundred episodes of The Latest
Speaker 1: with Lauren L.
Speaker 3: Rosa.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast the daily Dig on all things entertainment,
Speaker 1: news exclusives, and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now,
Speaker 1: y'all have been tuned into y'all homegrowd that knows a
Speaker 1: bit about everything and everybody for one hundred episodes now.
Speaker 3: But I do want to do a little recap.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the first four episodes of
Speaker 1: The Latest with Lauren L.
Speaker 3: Rosa.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are here, welcome. This is the first episode.
Speaker 1: This is the inaugural episode. I think inaugura means first.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to know that, Yes, inaugural means first. This
Speaker 1: is the first episode of The Latest with Lauren the Rosa,
Speaker 1: which is a podcast where we are doing all the things. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to start this off by saying, for everybody
Speaker 1: that you know reached out and called me or text me,
Speaker 1: you know, I made a lot of new support system
Speaker 1: and community, just you know, through people dming me on
Speaker 1: Instagram and you know all that stuff, just checking in,
Speaker 1: making sure I was good, making sure Jess was good,
Speaker 1: making sure you know, we understood that. Like yo, y'all, like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a moment for y'all to really show the
Speaker 1: world with two black women on a major media platform
Speaker 1: who are going to be faced with, you know, obstacles
Speaker 1: and different things will still come after this, what y'all
Speaker 1: can do and how y'all can do it. For everybody
Speaker 1: who reached out sincerely and wasn't trying to get some
Speaker 1: information for a story or get a quote or just be.
Speaker 2: Messy, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: I know that. Just appreciate you guys too, because for
Speaker 1: the first time ever in my life, I wasn't reaching
Speaker 1: out to break the story. I wasn't detailing the story.
Speaker 1: I wasn't regurgitating a story. I was a story. Nothing
Speaker 1: could have prepared me for that more than my relationship
Speaker 1: with God that I have right now. And I was
Speaker 1: raised in the church. I've always had a relationship with God.
Speaker 1: That's you know, my family and all of that, Like.
Speaker 2: That's just how I was raised.
Speaker 1: But I think when you're grown and you established that
Speaker 1: relationship yourself. It is so different and like a year
Speaker 1: ago when I decided to like get my apartment in
Speaker 1: New York and I was trying to figure everything out.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I did was I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna give my life to God again.
Speaker 2: Not gonna get emotional.
Speaker 1: It's a good emotion, though, y'all got me like be
Speaker 1: simone up her crun on this podcast about God.
Speaker 3: Like what is happening right now?
Speaker 1: But when I did that, though, I knew that it
Speaker 1: was a conscious decision, and I told myself. I taught
Speaker 1: myself then that I was like arming myself with everything
Speaker 1: that I was going to need to go to this
Speaker 1: like next level of things and God. When I tell y'all,
Speaker 1: I had no idea everything that was going to happen.
Speaker 1: And this is not about like the just Instagram live,
Speaker 1: I mean like everything. I just mean, like, you know,
Speaker 1: me being blessed with the opportunity to be at like
Speaker 1: I left a job. When you get on television as
Speaker 1: a personality, you don't take yourself off of TV. I
Speaker 1: don't care how imperfect that situation is, Babe. You figure
Speaker 1: it out and you make it work. And for me,
Speaker 1: you know, being at TMZ and being in LA and
Speaker 1: La is a number one market or you know, at
Speaker 1: least I could think things change, numbers change or whatever.
Speaker 1: I know, it's at least top five market. And you're
Speaker 1: on television and you're on prime time, your daytime talk show, and.
Speaker 3: No one really knew who I was.
Speaker 1: You know, people knew, but like people were it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the girl from TMZ to leave that and go to
Speaker 1: a platform where like I was able and you guys
Speaker 1: were able to learn me get to know who I was,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean. I was just like, man,
Speaker 1: God is really moving in my life. When I got
Speaker 1: on the other side of that, and now the conversation
Speaker 1: that's shaking the room is about me. Following jessco on
Speaker 1: Live on Instagram, I was like, oh shit, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: My first reaction was like, what the fuck, Like, what's
Speaker 1: happening right now?
Speaker 3: Wait? What? And I just knew it was.
Speaker 2: Something because people just kept sending me to live, sending
Speaker 2: me live.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, either she's on there, because you know,
Speaker 1: like behind the scenes, I knew that like things weren't perfect.
Speaker 1: I knew she wasn't the most happiest person. But I
Speaker 1: think in my role, I can only speak for myself.
Speaker 1: I was trying to do as much as I could
Speaker 1: to make sure that things worked out well enough where
Speaker 1: she could at least show up and do her job comfortably.
Speaker 3: Some chears warming up in here.
Speaker 1: Hello guys, and welcome back. This is episode two of
Speaker 1: the Latest with Lauren le Rosa. So you know, since
Speaker 1: j'all don't pop my cherry already and we two, you know,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say two strokes in, but you know
Speaker 1: you can do two strokes on the first time. We
Speaker 1: two episodes in. Now we're warming up to each other.
Speaker 1: You know, it's feeling like home. I'm excited to hear
Speaker 1: all the feedback. Thank you for everybody that joined the
Speaker 1: live that I did when I went live with the
Speaker 1: Black Effect Podcast Network and told me that y'all have
Speaker 1: been watching the show or listening to the show. I'm
Speaker 1: so used to being on TV listening to the show
Speaker 1: and you know, giving me some feedback. Today, I'm actually here.
Speaker 1: I have family here in my apartment as we are
Speaker 1: recording this. I have friends, My mom is here, y'all. See,
Speaker 1: my makeup is done. My makeup always be done. My
Speaker 1: makeup is done. My makeup is always done. Okay, the
Speaker 1: girls always giving. But today this is like special beat,
Speaker 1: special hair, because we are actually getting ready to head
Speaker 1: to the launch party for the podcast. It's a private
Speaker 1: launch party event that we're doing in New York, and
Speaker 1: I'm getting excited as the time goes on. It actually
Speaker 1: starts at eight o'clock, and it's about eight o'clock right now,
Speaker 1: but we still hear you gonna do this. Work comes first.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of like what the setting is. Episode three?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, hold on, I gotta cut in
Speaker 1: real quick. I know we recapping, but I gotta cut
Speaker 1: in and just let y'all know where my state of
Speaker 1: mind was within these like throwback episodes. By episode three
Speaker 1: of the Latest with Lauren La Rosa, I.
Speaker 2: Was literally running on fumes.
Speaker 1: I was not used to this daily regimen of you know,
Speaker 1: the daily podcast, trying to figure out the video, doing
Speaker 1: the audio. I'm up late doing all the edits, doing
Speaker 1: a rundown for the breakfast club stuff. My family start tripping,
Speaker 1: like my mother, my grandmother, They like, yo, what's going on?
Speaker 1: We ain't hearing from you. Everything was moving so fast.
Speaker 1: Everything was exploding and I'm I mean, I'm grateful to
Speaker 1: God that it did, but oh my god, I couldn't
Speaker 1: talk about it then because I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to sound like I'm complaining, but even listening to
Speaker 1: my voice and listening to myself in these first probably
Speaker 1: the first five episodes of the podcast, and that's why
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that all this is like dot minute
Speaker 1: you can just hear, you know, the wear and tear
Speaker 1: of all the things, like you know, Breakfast Club was
Speaker 1: happening and people were excited to see me there and
Speaker 1: the podcast had just been announced and we were running
Speaker 1: with the first episodes. I don't think people talk about
Speaker 1: enough about how, you know, when elevation happens, Like we
Speaker 1: pray for good things to happen, we pray to elevate.
Speaker 1: You work hards, you're consistent. You know, I'm learning in
Speaker 1: real time, so I'm doing well. I'm failing in real time. Shoot,
Speaker 1: I tell them sometimes. But people don't talk about enough
Speaker 1: how just learning to adjust and unlearning what you knew
Speaker 1: on one level, to relearn and learn for the first
Speaker 1: time things on this you know, elevated level.
Speaker 2: How that like takes a toll on you.
Speaker 1: Mentally and physically while having to stay together in front
Speaker 1: of you know all everybody. So you know, as I'm
Speaker 1: I'm listening with y'all reflecting back on these episodes, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, man, you could literally hear and feel it.
Speaker 1: Wow, episode three? What is today? Today's too?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Yes, this is episode three?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, I'm tired, y'all.
Speaker 1: So let me know how y'all feel on Twitter on
Speaker 1: Instagram as you're listening to this and you tag me.
Speaker 1: But I feel like at this point, we are so
Speaker 1: exhausted by these Diddy civil lawsuits and all of the
Speaker 1: things in the sensational like the sensationalize of information that
Speaker 1: are putting these lawsuits to make them go, to make
Speaker 1: them pick up, to make them spread that now people
Speaker 1: don't even care as much. It's like, I mean it.
Speaker 1: And again, there may be people who were actually victimized
Speaker 1: in these ways by Diddy. There may be that is alleged.
Speaker 1: We don't know until it plays out in court on
Speaker 1: both the criminal and the civil side, whatever makes it
Speaker 1: the court, right, But it's just kind of crazy because
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like it literally feels like it
Speaker 1: like came and went. Like at one point in time.
Speaker 1: I know, for me as on a journale side, like
Speaker 1: you know, as I'm choosing stories to do on the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club or choosing stories to like you know, actively
Speaker 1: get new angles and report on and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: I'm always like you know, looking for like, Okay, what's new,
Speaker 1: what's happening, what's happening? But the Diddy stop to me. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh another one, bro, another one. Can
Speaker 1: we just skip to the point where he go to
Speaker 1: court so we can see what's true what's not? Hold up,
Speaker 1: I'm back again to pop on in I'm popping in
Speaker 1: the flashbacks. This was so funny to me when I
Speaker 1: relistened to this episode because I'm like, girl, if only
Speaker 1: you had known you was gonna be in court every
Speaker 1: day right with Diddy? And that was a big moment
Speaker 1: for us here on the podcast as well, because we
Speaker 1: covered every day that I was in court, what happened
Speaker 1: in court, on the latest with Along the Roads and
Speaker 1: all those episodes are there in full for you guys
Speaker 1: to go back and listen to if you need to
Speaker 1: catch up as well. But I listened to this and
Speaker 1: I literally laughed, like, girl, you was you couldn't wait
Speaker 1: for court. Come you were in court every day tied
Speaker 1: to Tale sweet Walking again. Okay, y'all, this is the
Speaker 1: latest with Laurya l Rosa. I am Laura la Rosa.
Speaker 1: This is episode four, So let's get on into some things.
Speaker 2: We're taking y'all to court.
Speaker 3: We were doing a little.
Speaker 2: Court you know what I mean. If there's a Dun
Speaker 2: Dunn Taylor put that on in here, I need that.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's given litigation right now. So the first thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about was Drake. You guys know
Speaker 1: that Drake has been going back and forth with Universal
Speaker 1: Music Group over the song not Like Us, even though
Speaker 1: he's positioning it and claiming that it's not specifically about
Speaker 1: the song, that it's more so about the fact that
Speaker 1: his label did not protect him and that they allowed
Speaker 1: another artist on the label, speaking of Kendrick Lamar to
Speaker 1: drop out like Us, which Drake and team say is
Speaker 1: a very defamatory song. It's dangerous and there's no way
Speaker 1: that this should have been supported. So now he is suing. Okay,
Speaker 1: the lassit. There's been a lot of back and forth,
Speaker 1: but more recently the Universal Music Group side of things said,
Speaker 1: you know what, Judge, this all is bs, Drake, don't really,
Speaker 1: he doesn't honestly think that we did half of the
Speaker 1: stuff that he's claiming. He's claiming that they work with
Speaker 1: bots to make not Like Us a bigger song than
Speaker 1: it was. He's claiming that they, you know, paid third
Speaker 1: party bloggers to talk about it, that they paid radio,
Speaker 1: like just a ton of different things right that he
Speaker 1: has claimed over some time. He's claiming everything. But the
Speaker 1: song is a bop, and baby, the song is a bop.
Speaker 1: So this next episode that you guys are about to
Speaker 1: hear from like the first couple weeks of the podcast,
Speaker 1: is really really special to me because my mom was
Speaker 1: one of the guests on the episodes, and I've always
Speaker 1: said I wanted to do like a sit down, like
Speaker 1: some sort of content with me, my mom and my
Speaker 1: grandmom just because I feel like the generational conversations are
Speaker 1: good and there's you know, there's some things that aren't
Speaker 1: so good, but I think that, you know, it could
Speaker 1: help people to see us talk through it.
Speaker 2: So getting her on the podcast was fired.
Speaker 1: My mom loves to talk, she loves people, so she
Speaker 1: was more than excited to do it.
Speaker 2: But it was also special for me.
Speaker 1: Because you know when my mom, my mom is a
Speaker 1: stage four cancer survivor. If you guys have listened to
Speaker 1: my early episodes here on The Latest with Lona Rosa,
Speaker 1: I've talked about that.
Speaker 2: I believe, but my mom.
Speaker 1: I remember one time we had a conversation just about
Speaker 1: you know, my mom was just basically trying to comfort me.
Speaker 2: Early.
Speaker 1: She's like, look, we don't know how this is going
Speaker 1: to all work out, you know, with this cancer battle.
Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen. I'm not giving up.
Speaker 1: God has the last say so, but I just want
Speaker 1: you to know that, you know, everything I've been able
Speaker 1: to see you and your brother accomplished in life has
Speaker 1: fulfilled me. If I don't ever get to see anything else,
Speaker 1: I am fulfilled as.
Speaker 2: A parent and that.
Speaker 1: I know she was trying to comfort me, but it
Speaker 1: broke my heart because I'm like, man, it's so much
Speaker 1: to do still and this was years ago, so having
Speaker 1: her here on the podcast, and when I listened to
Speaker 1: this back to figure out whether I was going to
Speaker 1: put it here in this recap episode, I cried because
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, like everything she's gotten a witness from
Speaker 1: that moment, like two almost three years ago now two Now,
Speaker 1: my mom was in New York for the launch of
Speaker 1: the podcast, and I got her to sit down with
Speaker 1: me on the podcast literally the day after launch.
Speaker 2: So take a listen.
Speaker 3: Okay, all you gotta clap it up.
Speaker 1: That's right, clap it up, clap it up, and the
Speaker 1: energy going up. What's up, y'all. It's Laura l Rosa.
Speaker 1: This is the Latest with Lauren la Rosa. Now this
Speaker 1: is your daily dig, your daily dish on everything in
Speaker 1: all conversations, pop culture and just you know, those conversations
Speaker 1: that shake the room. Now, I want to first of all,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for coming right on back here with me.
Speaker 1: Y'all know, I'm the homegrown I know it's a little
Speaker 1: bit about everything and everybody. And today in the room,
Speaker 1: we been having a special guest a week, another special guest.
Speaker 1: I got the og who knows a little bit about
Speaker 1: every thing and everybody. My mom really is like complete
Speaker 1: opposite to me, though she's not her business.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: But my mom is here, Hey, mom, Yes, right, my mom.
Speaker 3: Lois is here.
Speaker 1: My family was in town because we did like a
Speaker 1: media kind of like meet and greet type of situation
Speaker 1: for the podcast. In episode previous to this one. If
Speaker 1: you have not listened to that, please go and listen
Speaker 1: to it. It's a live conversation with me and Charlemagne
Speaker 1: just about you know, like where everything started from for me,
Speaker 1: where you know, I'm at now and where I'm going
Speaker 1: and where I'm headed.
Speaker 3: So my family was in town for that.
Speaker 1: So my mom is still here and she came to
Speaker 1: film the podcast with me today. The way that we
Speaker 1: do it here, Mom, when we start off the podcast
Speaker 1: is we do a check in. So this is a
Speaker 1: grinding you know, behind the scenes of the grind check
Speaker 1: in where we just asked, how are you feeling good?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 4: I'm feeling great. That was a good opening. Last night
Speaker 4: really was really therapeic for me.
Speaker 3: Oh to hear me talk about everything. Yes, how do
Speaker 3: you feel when you like when.
Speaker 1: You're sitting in the audience and like you're hearing me
Speaker 1: talk about things that like, you know, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: my mom and brought also too, you lived them a
Speaker 1: real life with me.
Speaker 4: That's right. That's what I was about to say, is
Speaker 4: it just is the real life, and I appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Keep keeping it real, girl, yeh, keep it real. That's
Speaker 4: the way to do it. I congratulate you on that. No,
Speaker 4: go ahead, no, keep you real for you about you,
Speaker 4: and now let's get real about everything.
Speaker 1: About everything she said? Were ready to get on into
Speaker 1: some topics now here is one of my absolute favorite
Speaker 1: podcast moments. So I got something really really special for
Speaker 1: all of my lowriders today. If you've ever seen the
Speaker 1: show Girlfriends. And I kind of feel like a little
Speaker 1: like a dug when I say that, because who hasn't
Speaker 1: seen the show Girlfriends? But if you everor have not
Speaker 1: seen the show Girlfriends, We're going to talk a lot
Speaker 1: about it today in this episode because we have a
Speaker 1: icon joining us, MS Golden Brooks, who played Maya on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: A right, all right, good morning morning.
Speaker 1: Y'all are glowed up for learning and want a Sunday.
Speaker 1: All of y'all are given and all of y'all are glowing.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited to be here.
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, hi you guys. I'm Golden Brooks aka my
Speaker 5: Denise Wilks.
Speaker 3: Golden.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like another full circle woman for you,
Speaker 1: because you guys are the African American Museum in d C.
Speaker 5: We We were, we absolutely were. It's just it's you know,
Speaker 5: I think because Girlfriends was so iconic.
Speaker 2: I feel so old when I say that, I'm like iconic.
Speaker 2: But I think.
Speaker 5: Because it was one of the first shows that actually
Speaker 5: celebrated or you know, maur Buck to kill, you know,
Speaker 5: hats off to her showing black women doing yoga and
Speaker 5: eating sushi and wearing fly closed designer. I think that
Speaker 5: was the first time I ever heard about, you know,
Speaker 5: the well, not really the broken back because Sex and
Speaker 5: the City did it, but you had women of women
Speaker 5: of color wearing designer.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: We talked about it, and.
Speaker 5: I just think that on so many levels it showcased
Speaker 5: us in a way that we hadn't seen ourselves and
Speaker 5: all of our flaws, you know, And I think that
Speaker 5: that's something that I think women of color it was.
Speaker 5: It opened up a whole new conversation piece on the
Speaker 5: black woman in TV and what that looks like.
Speaker 1: Make sure you go check out the full interview audio
Speaker 1: in full everywhere you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted a talk show, and I've always said
Speaker 1: that when I had a talk show, I wanted my
Speaker 1: audience to come along with me, to grow along with me,
Speaker 1: because y'all got to realize I'm doing this all in
Speaker 1: real time.
Speaker 3: I'm learning, I'm figuring it out. I am.
Speaker 1: You know, everything that you're seeing is happening in real time, y'all.
Speaker 1: It has been a journey. Oh my god, it has
Speaker 1: been such a journey. I appreciate all of my Lowriders,
Speaker 1: which are my podcast community.
Speaker 3: So whether you're watching or you're listening, you a Lowrider.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I'm excited for us, so appreciative of you, guys.
Speaker 1: I really am. The Latest with Lorna Rosa. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a journey. It is a daily dig on all
Speaker 1: things pop culture to keep you guys updated, but it's
Speaker 1: a labor of love and a passion for me.
Speaker 3: I love to talk, as y'all can tell.
Speaker 1: I love to talk, but I also love just being
Speaker 1: able to come in here and figure it out with
Speaker 1: all of you guys, all of my low Rider community.
Speaker 2: So thank y'all for tuning in.
Speaker 1: Make sure you continue to tune in weekdays everywhere you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts The Latest with Laura La Rosa. Tell
Speaker 1: a friend to tell a friend if they're not listening
Speaker 1: to me, I don't know what they even doing. I'm
Speaker 1: Laura the Rosa. Everywhere I will see you guys in
Speaker 1: my next episode.