Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right la Hey, y'all,
Speaker 2: what's up.
Speaker 1: It's Laura the Rosa and this is the latest with
Speaker 1: Laura the Rosa. This is your Deli dig on all
Speaker 1: things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of the conversations
Speaker 1: that shake the room. Now we are back with another episode,
Speaker 1: so of course we gotta check in behind the scenes
Speaker 1: of the Grind at this point, y'all, if I'm being
Speaker 1: honest about how I'm feeling, just where I'm at and
Speaker 1: what is going on with myself, I'm counted down to
Speaker 1: days until we are on Christmas break. Like I am,
Speaker 1: honestly and truly counting down. I enjoyed the Thanksgiving break
Speaker 1: in my birthday so much. I know that this Christmas
Speaker 1: break won't be the same, because you know, we'll be
Speaker 1: on break.
Speaker 2: When I say on break, I don't mean here at
Speaker 2: the podcast.
Speaker 1: You guys will still get episodes here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but the Breakfast Club will be on break for about
Speaker 1: two weeks. There's no way I can go away for
Speaker 1: two weeks and not work and not watch news and
Speaker 1: not create news. And you know I'm not, but I
Speaker 1: am going to give myself some time, like the day
Speaker 1: before Christmas Eve to probably about like the twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: maybe the twenty fifth. Yeah, so like the twenty six
Speaker 1: I'll wake up and get back to work. So I'll
Speaker 1: give myself a couple of days and then I'm back
Speaker 1: at it. Headed to Ghana on the twenty seventh. I'm
Speaker 1: going to Gano for the first time. Taylor's here, y'all.
Speaker 2: Taylor Gang is back. Taylor made it its back.
Speaker 1: She's a mom now, yes, me, and she's back to work,
Speaker 1: and I know that sucks.
Speaker 3: Hime.
Speaker 2: Speaking of being back, are you excited to be back?
Speaker 3: It's not necessarily exciting, but you know I'm ready to,
Speaker 3: you know, start my new chapter being a mom and still.
Speaker 2: You know, working or working then you know, trying to
Speaker 2: be the boss to that. Have you fold?
Speaker 1: I mean it's only been like a couple of days
Speaker 1: or like, but you have do you feel like, oh
Speaker 1: I got the balance, like the unpacked of like waking
Speaker 1: up doing something with baby didn't come work.
Speaker 3: Not necessarily because my son's like.
Speaker 2: All over the place, like he's still grow.
Speaker 3: Like he's continuously growing and changing. So it's just it's
Speaker 3: just continue like adjusting.
Speaker 2: Well, were we happy to have you back?
Speaker 3: I'm happy to be back there.
Speaker 1: Yes, y'all tell like she had no baby nowhere, she
Speaker 1: looked exactly the same before her baby was here, like
Speaker 1: literally exactly the same.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: But yes, honey, I know you can't wait for the
Speaker 2: Christmas break either. Yes, let's go back. That's I came
Speaker 2: out perfect.
Speaker 3: I got to like.
Speaker 2: Get into it and then I'm like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: on break again.
Speaker 1: Ye yes, so I am counting down those days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm there. I'm counting down. But we are going to
Speaker 1: get into the latest and what's going on. What's going on?
Speaker 1: So let's do it, Okay, So first up, Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1: Y'all know, I don't know if I said it here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, but late Night TV, I just think,
Speaker 1: even though I know the you know, the market is
Speaker 1: changing and the game is changing, and people a lot
Speaker 1: of the eyeballs aren't there anymore. But Jimmy Kimble was
Speaker 1: still on air and doing the thing you all remember.
Speaker 1: Back in September, he was taking off air for a
Speaker 1: sec because ABC was upset about some comments that he
Speaker 1: had made after Charlie Kirk passed away, but then he
Speaker 1: was brought back on air. Scoured through the episodes. I
Speaker 1: don't know what episode number it is, but we covered
Speaker 1: that here when Kimmel was taken off of air and
Speaker 1: the things that were said by the FCC chair mem
Speaker 1: Brendan Carr, who you know, threw a very harsh warning
Speaker 1: to the network and said the network in Disney said
Speaker 1: we can do this the easy way, or we can
Speaker 1: do this the hard way. And it was just announced
Speaker 1: that not only is he back, I mean, we know
Speaker 1: he's back because we've been watching him, but ABC has
Speaker 1: just announced that in Jimmy Kimmel have just announced that
Speaker 1: they have extended his show for at least one year.
Speaker 1: After all of that commotion and the suspension and all
Speaker 1: of the things. So kim O put up a post
Speaker 1: from Bloomberg that it's titled Jimmy Kimmel extends deal with
Speaker 1: Disney ABC for at least a year and the caption
Speaker 1: he's throwing a shot back at Trump. In the caption,
Speaker 1: he says, I'm pleased to announce another no talent year.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The reason why this is a shot is because the
Speaker 1: Kennedy Center honors took place recently and President Trump was
Speaker 1: the host of the evening and he was asked about,
Speaker 1: you know, how he prepared versus not because he said
Speaker 1: he did not prepare, and he took a shot at Kimmel.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen, how.
Speaker 3: Have you prepared the host tonight?
Speaker 4: Well, maybe I haven't prepared. Maybe you want to be
Speaker 4: a little bit loose. If you look at the great
Speaker 4: hosts Johnny Carson, bau Hope, those are the greats. If
Speaker 4: you look at the Nacho greats like Jimmy Kim.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they got this, like I don't know, this
Speaker 1: little love hate ish thing going on. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I'm Kimmel, of course I'm leaning into it because I
Speaker 1: mean it makes sense, right, Like, this is the president
Speaker 1: of the United States that people pay a lot of
Speaker 1: attention to. So if he's gonna keep talking about you,
Speaker 1: you get on your show, on your and you respond.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 1: So Kimmel, as the comedian and late night talk show
Speaker 1: hosts that he is, got on his show to let
Speaker 1: Donald Trump know, listen, I'm married, Like, we can't do
Speaker 1: this flirting thing anymore.
Speaker 2: Very hurtful. I thought we were friends, I don't know
Speaker 2: what's going on. He is really fixated. I'm starting to
Speaker 2: think he might have a crush on him.
Speaker 1: Do we know if our media and television and streaming
Speaker 1: and you know, all of the things in that market
Speaker 1: are free of control from the Trump administration. No, we
Speaker 1: do not know, honestly, with everything that happened with that
Speaker 1: last merger, the sky Dance merger, and now the conversations
Speaker 1: that we're having with the Netflix and Paramount and Trump's
Speaker 1: involvement and all of the things, right, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like they're trying to block out Netflix from you know,
Speaker 1: owning certain things, and Donald Trump is like, you know,
Speaker 1: basically implying that that would cause a monopoly of the industry.
Speaker 1: But these last couple of big mergers in that space,
Speaker 1: Trump has been so heavily involved, and he's involved in
Speaker 1: this when he's saying he's going to be involved in
Speaker 1: the approval, we know the guys over at Paramount Ellison,
Speaker 1: that's his homie. So the monopoly to me is looking
Speaker 1: like it's in the President's hands, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: God be with us.
Speaker 1: Every time I see certain headlines with Trump that aren't
Speaker 1: like presidential or political related, I'm always, and I guess
Speaker 1: I mean people could argue that making sure that our
Speaker 1: broadcast and media lanes are not monopolized, it's political, can
Speaker 1: be political, right, But I'll be always trying to figure
Speaker 1: out like he don't have nothing else to.
Speaker 3: Do exactly, There's so much other stuff he needs to
Speaker 3: really care for, and this stuff I feel like should
Speaker 3: be lower in the list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, but we'll just have to like keep watching.
Speaker 1: I posted to my answer story yesterday that this whole
Speaker 1: like back and forth between Paramount and Netflix is literally
Speaker 1: like the New Real Housewives and Trump is any coin
Speaker 1: and Trump is Andy Cohen, and it like it's giving
Speaker 1: He's sterting up the girls, and the reunion is gonna
Speaker 1: happen like once the whoever wins the like the big
Speaker 1: that won't even be the reunion. That'll be like, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll be getting ready for a new season, but the
Speaker 1: reunion of this will be like because I know Netflix
Speaker 1: has already had their conversation with Trump Paramount and you
Speaker 1: know Ellison, that's that's his friend.
Speaker 2: They're talking all the time.
Speaker 1: There's going to be this one big meeting that they
Speaker 1: have to have or something like Trump is gonna figure
Speaker 1: out a way to get them all in the room
Speaker 1: to argue, just so he can be in the mist
Speaker 1: of it and say I figured it out and I
Speaker 1: did this, and that's gonna be the reunion.
Speaker 2: So we will be there, not physically, but we will
Speaker 2: be tuned in. We'll be locked in.
Speaker 1: This not another news Speaking of marriages and relationships, Gez
Speaker 1: sat down with Bishop td Jakes on Tdjke's podcast Next Chapter.
Speaker 2: And on this podcast, Tdjakes takes.
Speaker 1: Your Life, your story and the interview and divides it
Speaker 1: into several different chapters, and he dives really deep into
Speaker 1: like past traumas and you know, like how you've gotten
Speaker 1: from one place to the other, your background to who
Speaker 1: you are now, the building of your business, all those things.
Speaker 1: So he's talking to Gz about Jz's life in general,
Speaker 1: some of his hardships and when dealing with his mom
Speaker 1: and their you know, very tremultuous relationship. But then they
Speaker 1: get into relationships and marriage and Jez opens up about
Speaker 1: almost being afraid of bringing mommy issues into his marriage
Speaker 1: or relationship. And then they get to the part that
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of the blogs and people posting
Speaker 1: and talking about because there's a sense of accountability here,
Speaker 1: but some people are feeling like there's also a sense
Speaker 1: of arrogance. They get to the point where Jezi is
Speaker 1: talking about what he learned while in his marriage and
Speaker 1: through divorce.
Speaker 2: He said, he learned that he was a good husband.
Speaker 2: Let's sake a lessen, what did you learn from it?
Speaker 4: I learned I was a great husband. I can't. I
Speaker 4: got a beautiful daughter out of a situation, so there's
Speaker 4: no regrets there. But I learned a lot about myself.
Speaker 4: I learned that there's things that I continue to work on.
Speaker 4: I learned about, you know, my prefaces for things, the
Speaker 4: type of space that I need, the type of moments
Speaker 4: that I need to decompress about certain things. And this
Speaker 4: just unselfish nature. You know that I was selfish in
Speaker 4: my prior life, and I think just going forward in life,
Speaker 4: it just taught me how to like give someone else
Speaker 4: grace and actually listen to understand rather than just to
Speaker 4: listen to reply.
Speaker 1: Ye fire back, probably, so Genie has been posting Genie
Speaker 1: is Genie my who is the ex wife of?
Speaker 2: Or they're still going through the divorce. I believe, hold on,
Speaker 2: let me double check that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the divorce was finalized in June of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. But Genie my since then has been like,
Speaker 1: if you follow her on Instagram, she takes you on
Speaker 1: this journey of like single mom life and figuring out
Speaker 1: life after divorce, And so I think she probably will
Speaker 1: fire back.
Speaker 2: She's she's been coming off.
Speaker 1: The girl has been given very like zen like she's
Speaker 1: in this peaceful state, So we'll see if she keeps
Speaker 1: that state after his statement. But I mean, I think
Speaker 1: everything is up for interpretation. I think whenever two people
Speaker 1: decide that they're not going to be together, whether marriage
Speaker 1: or kids or not or are involved, you can always
Speaker 1: be en villain in somebody's story. So I think he
Speaker 1: has his view on the man that he was and
Speaker 1: the man he grew into from the situation, what he learned,
Speaker 1: what he didn't, and she's going to have her view,
Speaker 1: so I mean, I'm open to hear her response. But
Speaker 1: when I was listening to his response, the whole husband
Speaker 1: thing kind of threw me off because I was like,
Speaker 1: what does he mean?
Speaker 2: But I think what.
Speaker 1: He meant is that what he learned about himself and
Speaker 1: the things that he's taking accountability for, he's capable of
Speaker 1: being a good husband. I think at the time in
Speaker 1: their marriage and what they were going through, I think,
Speaker 1: even though he didn't say this, listening to it.
Speaker 2: It just sounded like they weren't good for each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was random a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I have it.
Speaker 3: I wonder. I don't know the story how they hooked
Speaker 3: up or any of that, but I remember seeing a
Speaker 3: picture with her.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing it and seeing it and I thought
Speaker 1: it was fake. I was like, wow, like what they.
Speaker 3: Got married really quickly too, they weren't dating for that long.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, so here's the timeline.
Speaker 1: So they made their first public appearance in August twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: They went Instagram official in September twenty nineteen. He proposed
Speaker 1: in March of twenty twenty, now prior to them making
Speaker 1: their first public appearance, and they had their daughter in
Speaker 1: January twenty twenty two. So things did move pretty fast.
Speaker 1: But they started dating back in late twenty eighteen. They
Speaker 1: met on the set of The Real, the talk show
Speaker 1: The Real, and then after that they begin dating and
Speaker 1: then you know, all the things happen. So I mean
Speaker 1: there was like, yeah, they had about a year after
Speaker 1: they had met and started dating.
Speaker 2: That which it can be pretty fast.
Speaker 1: But I also feel like, if you met the right person, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not want to judge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean me either.
Speaker 1: I think if you met the right person, timeline is
Speaker 1: just a moving variable. Yeah, for some I also think,
Speaker 1: because I think meeting the right person sometimes also means
Speaker 1: that even the things that you guys are finding aren't
Speaker 1: the best about each other or the best about you
Speaker 1: guys together, you are so locked in and there's silver
Speaker 1: lining that you are willing to work on it, I think.
Speaker 2: And I think.
Speaker 1: From covering the divorce of GZ and Gennie my hearing
Speaker 1: him in this interview, seeing some of the things that
Speaker 1: she's posted that you know she's learned post divorce just
Speaker 1: about relationships and you know, the new journey she's on,
Speaker 1: it kind of seems like the two had very different
Speaker 1: core values.
Speaker 2: I will say that.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, in me dating and like
Speaker 1: being intentional about dating like that that's something that it's
Speaker 1: very important to me.
Speaker 2: And that's not even something I've learned.
Speaker 1: I've always felt like, all right, when I get to
Speaker 1: a point where like I really seriously want to consider
Speaker 1: someone being in my life for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Core values matter because I think, especially when you have kids,
Speaker 1: if everything trips away, like if y'all hate each other
Speaker 1: to the bone one day, but y'all still got to
Speaker 1: raise that baby. Your core values if they align, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like there's a synergy there that
Speaker 1: can still happen even as co parents. So it seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, the core values were a bit different. But
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at him for taking accountability within things.
Speaker 1: And I'm also not mad at him for feeling like
Speaker 1: he can be a great husband and somebody it might
Speaker 1: not be to her, And I think in seeing people's
Speaker 1: reaction to it, they're like, oh, not a great husband,
Speaker 1: but it ended up being divorced or not a great husband.
Speaker 1: But she accused you of ABC and D in your divorce,
Speaker 1: you know, filings and documents. People got to realize, you know,
Speaker 1: you could be a great person to the wrong person,
Speaker 1: or you know, he might not have been the best.
Speaker 2: There are things. I'm sure we're not his best days.
Speaker 1: In that relationship, as in any relationship or you know, marriage,
Speaker 1: but coming out of it and learning, especially at his
Speaker 1: big age, you want to hear that accountability and that maturity. Sure,
Speaker 1: Like if we didn't hear it that I'd be a
Speaker 1: little disappointed, okay that period, especially because he has kids
Speaker 1: and he's been I mean, he's been a father.
Speaker 2: He had kids very young.
Speaker 1: But even when he talked about that in this episode,
Speaker 1: he talks about learning toil apologize to his daughter and
Speaker 1: some of the things he's recently learning and he's been
Speaker 1: a father, yeah you know what I mean. But again,
Speaker 1: he's growing, he's not And people are just people. Your
Speaker 1: parents are just people, married people, just people. You're figuring
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 3: No, for sure, I feel like my parents are still
Speaker 3: well not their marriage, but like even like with my dad,
Speaker 3: Like I feel like he's learning even to be even
Speaker 3: more like romantic with my my mom And how long have.
Speaker 2: They been married forty five years?
Speaker 1: See, Like and I think there's there will be so
Speaker 1: many people that'd be like if your man doesn't court
Speaker 1: you a romance you But he've.
Speaker 3: Done so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But like the thing, my dad's been such a provider
Speaker 3: for the family. Yeah, and you know whole lack like
Speaker 3: we've always went on family vacations. But I think he's
Speaker 3: starting to realize really what like bringing my mom joy
Speaker 3: and that's just being with family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, what I mean, And I love to
Speaker 1: hear that because I also think too that what you
Speaker 1: begin to realize, like when you're talking.
Speaker 2: To change, Yes, I when you think about spending life
Speaker 2: with some is.
Speaker 1: Like who you are day one, year one, if not
Speaker 1: who you are year forty five.
Speaker 2: That all so you have to relearn each other and
Speaker 2: that's like work. And that's what I.
Speaker 1: Meant by yeah stuff yep, And that's what I meant
Speaker 1: by like timeline with Geez and Genie Mitt, like you know,
Speaker 1: it seems like things progress pretty quickly with them, but
Speaker 1: I mean if you got if you are down for
Speaker 1: that ride with that person, you learn each other as
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: And I mean I know.
Speaker 1: People who've been together for me like since the first
Speaker 1: link literally and are now happily. Have a friend in
Speaker 1: Atlanta who met a guy. She's a model, he's a photographer.
Speaker 1: Literally met him. They have a whole life together now,
Speaker 1: three kids in I think they literally met, did a
Speaker 1: photo shoot. She finally gave in and gave them like
Speaker 1: went on a date. When from that first date they've
Speaker 1: never separated, moved in I think like within like the
Speaker 1: first like couple months of their relationship and three kids.
Speaker 3: Timing and knowing what you want matters a lot, like
Speaker 3: the intention I.
Speaker 1: Told you, Yeah, wow, we are we're in such different
Speaker 1: spaces in our lives tailor last time we were talking
Speaker 1: about relationship, I was in like such a different space.
Speaker 1: I don't think that I wasn't. I'm not even thinking
Speaker 1: I wasn't intentional in that part of my life. But
Speaker 1: I feel like it's I don't think if there's anything
Speaker 1: wrong with the per se, but I do think you
Speaker 1: start to realize, like you get you're giving your time,
Speaker 1: your energy, and and your body to people that you
Speaker 1: know you have no further plan with, like at all.
Speaker 1: Like because once I met somebody, like I mentally, I
Speaker 1: got to a point where I'm like, okay, like you know,
Speaker 1: everything's speeding up in life for me.
Speaker 2: I don't have time to just like do whatever.
Speaker 1: And then my intention change and I met somebody and
Speaker 1: I will relinked with somebody that I was just like
Speaker 1: I want to be so intentional about this, like I
Speaker 1: want to figure this out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think like as as people as we get older,
Speaker 3: certain things are more important, and intentions, I guess it,
Speaker 3: are more important.
Speaker 2: People dating people are.
Speaker 3: Just it's fine too, but I feel like it gets
Speaker 3: to a point where it's just like, all right, I
Speaker 3: went to be with someone and like grow grow with someone.
Speaker 3: That's important.
Speaker 2: It is. Why was Geez the best? That was Genie
Speaker 2: miy the best? They have a beautiful baby that's so cute.
Speaker 1: I saw a video Genie Might posted the other day
Speaker 1: of her baby girl like kissing her and telling her
Speaker 1: that she like her baby girl, like kiss her on
Speaker 1: her forehead and on both of her cheeks, and I
Speaker 1: told her she loved her, And it was like such
Speaker 1: a moment. I think Genie Mind said it like brought
Speaker 1: her to tears. So you know, a beautiful baby came
Speaker 1: out of that situation at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So let's keep it going. But make sure you guys
Speaker 1: go check out that full conversation. It is two hours long,
Speaker 1: but it's very in depth. It's super well done too.
Speaker 1: I mean it's Bishop Tdjake so dub, but it's very
Speaker 1: well done. It takes you through Jz's life story and
Speaker 1: kind of really helps you understand who he is as
Speaker 1: a man now and who he was then and kind
Speaker 1: of you know why why we've gotten some of the
Speaker 1: music and the things that we've gotten from GZ throughout
Speaker 1: the year is good and bad. So go check that out.
Speaker 1: It's called Next Chapter with Bishop td Jakes.
Speaker 2: But yeah, guys, that's it for the episode.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, guys, every single episode my Little Riders,
Speaker 1: y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about all these things,
Speaker 1: but y'all choose to be right here with me. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, guys, Taylor. We are so happy to have
Speaker 1: me back. Girl on the ones in food Blind the Pie.
Speaker 2: We'll catch you in the next episode. See you, guys.
Speaker 3: Dang