Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right Lauren.
Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, it's Laura L. Rosa and this is the
Speaker 1: Latest with Lauren L. Rosa, your daily dig on all
Speaker 1: things pop culture, entertainment news. I bring y'all some exclusives,
Speaker 1: but y'all know, we get into those conversations that shake
Speaker 1: the room behind the scenes of the grind checking in.
Speaker 1: I am right now in a space of just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out things as the eldest daughter in a family.
Speaker 2: I've been thinking a lot. You know.
Speaker 1: I spent time with my family. I told you guys
Speaker 1: for for July weekend. This weekend that just passed. I
Speaker 1: also did the same thing. And I don't know any
Speaker 1: eldest daughters who think that they're you know, their immediate
Speaker 1: family's manager or just oldest child in general. If y'all
Speaker 1: are hearing me, you know, if y'all are listening, y'all
Speaker 1: know my pain.
Speaker 2: Y'all know the struggle.
Speaker 1: It's just a very different feeling watching your parents and
Speaker 1: the people that you love get older, and seeing my
Speaker 1: mother and my grandmother age has been you know, it's
Speaker 1: a blessing to be able to see it and to
Speaker 1: be here with them and for them to still be
Speaker 1: here with me to do it. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I've been having so much anxiety, like to the point
Speaker 1: where like sleep is messed up and everything just behind
Speaker 1: feeling like it's getting to a point where I want
Speaker 1: my mom and my grandmother to live with me, and
Speaker 1: I just wasn't ready for that. So I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure all that out, like you know, you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to as an older child, oldest child and
Speaker 1: a family who's used to solving problems, you want to
Speaker 1: figure it out all in twenty four hours, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, But things just don't work like that.
Speaker 1: So that's been something that you know, and that I've
Speaker 1: been dealing with. If I'm just being honest, and I'm
Speaker 1: checking in for real, for real, because I told y'all
Speaker 1: in the beginning, if I ask you how you feel
Speaker 1: on this podcast or if y'all are you know behind
Speaker 1: the scenes of the grind checking in with me, y'all
Speaker 1: gotta tell me how y'all really feel. So that is
Speaker 1: what I'm doing right now. So yes, if I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: I am still dealing with, like some anxiety. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a guilt too, of like, you know, having to be
Speaker 1: away so much, having to be pulled in so many directions,
Speaker 1: having to be people, exhausted by the end of my day,
Speaker 1: to the point where sometimes I don't even like have
Speaker 1: the bandwidth to sit on the phone with family the
Speaker 1: way that I normally do, and if I do, I'm
Speaker 1: just not as engaged as I would be.
Speaker 2: It's a very weird space to be It's a new
Speaker 2: space for me to be in.
Speaker 1: So I'm just figuring that out, and I don't really
Speaker 1: know if there's much to figure There are certain things
Speaker 1: that I could physically do, but I think this is
Speaker 1: one of those things where you just go through it
Speaker 1: and you do the best you can, and then you
Speaker 1: create a new normal.
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: I'm in the midst of, you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: anxiety about that, but also creating a new normal so
Speaker 1: I can get away from this anxious feeling of like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I feel guilty because of you know,
Speaker 1: whatever I'm not able to do at the moment.
Speaker 2: So that's where I've been.
Speaker 1: But in the latest quick update, we also talked about
Speaker 1: today in news at my main job at the breakfast club,
Speaker 1: I reported on a story that a lot of people
Speaker 1: hadn't been talking about yet. TMZ had broken story that
Speaker 1: Diddy would be going to some rehabilitation facilities or joining
Speaker 1: rehabilitation programs while in prison, because he's not going anywhere
Speaker 1: right now, but there wasn't much details. They actually hadn't
Speaker 1: even fully confirmed the story. But now the story is confirmed.
Speaker 1: So Diddy is going to be going to these rehabilitation programs.
Speaker 1: These self improvement programs are a part of like you know,
Speaker 1: programs that are offered to inmates on federal lockup. The
Speaker 1: programs he's going to do specifically what addresses drug use
Speaker 1: and his violence against some women. So in additional information,
Speaker 1: the programs that he's going to be doing are cost stop. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a course that the Feds offer inmates who
Speaker 1: are focused on preventing sexual assault, domestic and dating violence. Now,
Speaker 1: according to the source that spoke to TMZ did he
Speaker 1: also will be doing therapy and this would be something
Speaker 1: that he'll be doing with a doctor who is a
Speaker 1: part of a drug abuse usage program. Now the sources
Speaker 1: are saying that this is Diddy's like roll to redemption right,
Speaker 1: like he wants to better himself. He wants to do better.
Speaker 1: But y'all know, like I know, I do think that
Speaker 1: anybody who is going through anything, they realize that they
Speaker 1: can't do beyond the point of getting themselves in trouble.
Speaker 1: Like you realize that you know your use of drugs
Speaker 1: and the way you treat women is lending you in
Speaker 1: front of federal prosecutors face and life in prison. Of
Speaker 1: course you want to redeem yourself. So I don't believe
Speaker 1: that Diddy doesn't want to redeem himself. I know that
Speaker 1: addiction is tough. I also think that they should be
Speaker 1: having some conversations about the fact that there's obviously a
Speaker 1: sex addiction too. But I think that sometimes people treat
Speaker 1: sex addictions as if they're almost like a an effect
Speaker 1: of something else. So because he has this drug addiction,
Speaker 1: the sex then comes in, and I feel like they're separate.
Speaker 1: I feel like even if he wasn't a person that
Speaker 1: was actively using or over using drugs, from what we've
Speaker 1: seen in court, I do think that the sex thing
Speaker 1: would still be there. I think that they should look
Speaker 1: into that, because you know, if we're looking at everything
Speaker 1: that was alleged of Diddy and the you know, the
Speaker 1: things that he has said that he willingly and consensually participated.
Speaker 1: And that's always been his argument is is this bedroom
Speaker 1: policing or did I really do something wrong to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, even if it's consensual, and these are consensual
Speaker 1: you know, adults who or these are adults who are
Speaker 1: consenting to these acts. It it's knowing when to comment
Speaker 1: down and completely stop it in his complete oblivion to
Speaker 1: that that is making me mention this right because in court,
Speaker 1: one of the last things that we heard in court
Speaker 1: the day that Diddy's bond was denied was the fact
Speaker 1: that the prosecutors were able to say literally the week
Speaker 1: that we arrested him, the day we arrested him, we
Speaker 1: came into his hotel room in New York to take
Speaker 1: him in custody after he knew that these searches had happened.
Speaker 2: Warrant had dropped all of these things.
Speaker 1: And his hotel room is set up in all of
Speaker 1: the manners that we've heard a freak.
Speaker 2: Office set up.
Speaker 1: There's the lights, there's the lubricant, there's the you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, I think there has to be
Speaker 1: some discussion and some exploration into that and what that
Speaker 1: addiction might look like for him one thing at a
Speaker 1: time or two things at a time, because well, two
Speaker 1: things at a time is kind him in trouble two
Speaker 1: things at a time, because that's where we are now.
Speaker 1: He's doing you know, two of the programs. But I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people will argue that he's only
Speaker 1: doing this because sentencing is going to come up. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing with addictionally, it's literally one of those
Speaker 1: things where it's like you don't know for sure, like
Speaker 1: you don't know if a person actually wants to get
Speaker 1: better and be able to not be controlled by whatever
Speaker 1: it is they keep returning to, or if this is
Speaker 1: something that they're doing to appease the people around them
Speaker 1: in the moment a piece, you know, something like hey,
Speaker 1: I'm facing the jail sentence, or you know, you have
Speaker 1: your kids or whoever bring your back, or even sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a personal thing, like you know, I know people
Speaker 1: who've dealt with different drug addictions where they personally wanted
Speaker 1: to get better. They check themselves into rehab, but addiction
Speaker 1: is hard, and once they start going back through it again,
Speaker 1: they're not strong enough to be able to say, you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't want to take myself back down
Speaker 1: that road again.
Speaker 2: So the criticism is rightfully.
Speaker 1: So do I believe that Diddy is a person who
Speaker 1: just one hundred percent wants to be better? I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. Do I believe that all
Speaker 1: of this has definitely shook him up a bit one
Speaker 1: hundred percent? I've seen it. I've literally seen him in court.
Speaker 1: Like I was going to say a word I'm not
Speaker 1: even supposed to on this podcast. I've seen him at court.
Speaker 1: There's no way that he walks away from this not
Speaker 1: remembering this for the rest.
Speaker 2: Of his life. But addiction is tough. So it's great
Speaker 2: that he's in these programs.
Speaker 1: But I can't tell y'all whether or not I think
Speaker 1: he's doing it because he actually wants to be better
Speaker 1: or because this is going to get him home and
Speaker 1: that's what he wants.
Speaker 2: And no one can.
Speaker 1: Really tell you that that's It's something that you see
Speaker 1: in real time.
Speaker 2: You see after he goes through these programs.
Speaker 1: How is he utilizing it and implementing it into his life,
Speaker 1: and what does that look like long term?
Speaker 2: Because that's nothing too. Addiction is not something.
Speaker 1: You just deal with one time or deal with real
Speaker 1: quickly you move on from addiction and battling addiction. I
Speaker 1: know people that'll tell you it's a lifelong thing. So
Speaker 1: we wait, we wait. He'll be did. He will be
Speaker 1: sentenced on October third, twenty twenty five. There will be
Speaker 1: a sentence in report some months before then, where you know,
Speaker 1: we'll begin to have conversations about where we think this
Speaker 1: will lie. I know, you know, prosecutors are saying, you know,
Speaker 1: minimum four to five years.
Speaker 2: His team is like, hey, you.
Speaker 1: Know closer to two. People are talking about the time
Speaker 1: served and him staying locked up right now. It's giving
Speaker 1: him more time served. I honestly think that that is
Speaker 1: why they conceded. His team conceded to not having a
Speaker 1: speedy trial was because of that. So listen, it might
Speaker 1: be soon he might be walking home as a freet
Speaker 1: definitely sooner than what we thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1: Y'all know, because even with these two charges, the man
Speaker 1: that he has two counts of it, that's twenty years
Speaker 1: up to twenty years that he's looking at. Both counts
Speaker 1: carry ten years apiece. So this is something that you
Speaker 1: just you know what I mean, you just got to
Speaker 1: wait back and kind of see how this goes, because
Speaker 1: it's not uncommon for convicted people to enter programs and
Speaker 1: do these different things because you're definitely trying to get
Speaker 1: into good graces with the court one hundred. But there
Speaker 1: are reports though, and TMZ actually reported this who broke
Speaker 1: the original story, and I think you know whoever their
Speaker 1: source is. I mean you can infer that as somebody
Speaker 1: who is very close to.
Speaker 2: What is happening.
Speaker 1: They understood what the pushback would be in a public
Speaker 1: right and people feel like, oh, you're just doing this
Speaker 1: because you want to come home. And they made it
Speaker 1: a point to mention he actually started drug treatment before
Speaker 1: his arrest last year and he just wants to continue that.
Speaker 1: But even that, people could argue, we know why you
Speaker 1: started that because the fans, the FED came by land
Speaker 1: and by sea. I will never forget the fact that
Speaker 1: the lead the fans came by land and by sea
Speaker 1: to to initiate all of this.
Speaker 2: That would that would check anybody up.
Speaker 1: That'll make anybody be like, all right, listen, even if
Speaker 1: I'm not changing one hundred percent, I got it. That's
Speaker 1: something something got to get right here. Connam McGregor. So
Speaker 1: this is a very weird story. I'm like on a
Speaker 1: lot of you guys, like I was very surprised to
Speaker 1: see Connom McGregor and Azojah Banks in conversation, like just
Speaker 1: in a headline, because I don't know, I just.
Speaker 2: Never thought that I would.
Speaker 1: But earlier today or earlier this week, Connor McGregor photos
Speaker 1: of him were everywhere because he was on a beach.
Speaker 1: He was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a beach with
Speaker 1: a woman, hugged up, enjoying his time, enjoying the weather
Speaker 1: and baby. The woman was not his fiance, not at
Speaker 1: all very clear on shots. It is like not because
Speaker 1: when I first saw the headlines, I'm thinking, I know
Speaker 1: he's engaged. He's been engaged since twenty twenty, so I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: he's engaged. Her name is de Devlin, that's who he's
Speaker 1: engaged to, and they've been together for some time. I
Speaker 1: was like, there's no way, Like maybe people are just
Speaker 1: mistaking her, like they don't recognize it's her in the photos.
Speaker 2: It's no way.
Speaker 1: You're just like sitting on a beach with a whole
Speaker 1: nother person doing the things that they're describing in the photos,
Speaker 1: like they're hugged up, they're obviously together. There's PDA of
Speaker 1: some sort. And then I saw the photos. When I
Speaker 1: saw the photos, I was like, oh, okay, no, they
Speaker 1: didn't get this wrong. He's just I don't even know
Speaker 1: how you explain it. I mean, he don't have to
Speaker 1: explain it to us, even though people are waiting for
Speaker 1: him right now to say something and he hasn't.
Speaker 2: So far.
Speaker 1: All he's done is wished hisself a happy birthday on
Speaker 1: X because today, July fourteenth was his birthday. But he
Speaker 1: gonna have to explain something to somebody and ain't us.
Speaker 1: It's definitely gonna be his fiance because these photos are
Speaker 1: pretty bad. So the photos come out, He's on the
Speaker 1: beach with this woman. They're there, you know, there is PDA,
Speaker 1: there's touching, they're sitting under like the same like umbrella
Speaker 1: kabana thingI like, there's no way you can get around
Speaker 1: the fact that they're there together and that we know
Speaker 1: of he is still very much so committed to d Devlin,
Speaker 1: who he's been with for some time. But maybe there's
Speaker 1: something we don't know. Because then after these photos dropped
Speaker 1: and this story came out and this was everywhere rapper
Speaker 1: Azalia Banks, who y'all listen, if y'all follow her, you
Speaker 1: already know sis don't hold back on social media.
Speaker 2: She is known for. She gonna air out, she's gonna argue,
Speaker 2: she's gonna go back and forth. That is what she does.
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate because people don't talk about Azalia Bank's music.
Speaker 1: And I actually one of the people who I was
Speaker 1: late to the event of Azalia Bank's music train only
Speaker 1: because I'd only known about the social media antics. But
Speaker 1: once the girls put me on to you know, the
Speaker 1: house music. I don't know what she qualifies or classifies
Speaker 1: her music ass, but once I got put on, I
Speaker 1: got put on. Azayabanks is on my saved playlist for sure,
Speaker 1: especially when I'm getting ready to go out for the weekend.
Speaker 1: But instead here we are talking about this, right and listen.
Speaker 1: She alleges that she feels like, you know, things were
Speaker 1: sent to her unwarrant, unwarranted. So I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: she can't speak out. I'm just saying that in the
Speaker 1: vein of you know, what people know her for, it's
Speaker 1: it's not her music, and she is a very talented
Speaker 1: in my opinion, music artist, so she posted photos of
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor. She alleges that these photos were sent to
Speaker 1: her unwarranted.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's a photo of Connor McGregor, allegedly, and he is
Speaker 1: standing naked. It seems like he's like in a closet
Speaker 1: mirror of some sort, and you see everything.
Speaker 2: It's front facing and you see everything. He's taking the
Speaker 2: picture on the phone and she.
Speaker 1: Tweeted these out and said, how you gonna send a
Speaker 1: B word some crooked d pics? Then threaten her not
Speaker 1: to tail and she tagged him. She said, n word.
Speaker 1: Do you know who the F I am?
Speaker 2: This is harm?
Speaker 1: Then in another tweet the tweet has since been deleted,
Speaker 1: Azalia Banks wrote, how are you really going to sexually
Speaker 1: harass me? And this is an and you know she's
Speaker 1: alleging this in these suits. She's alleging that she was
Speaker 1: sexually harassed. She says, how are you really going to
Speaker 1: sexually harass me? With the potato farmer d then threaten
Speaker 1: me not to tell honey, ain't you trying to be
Speaker 1: the president of Ireland?
Speaker 2: What is a given? Fam? You some f N sunscreen?
Speaker 1: There has been no comment on this still Connor McGregor
Speaker 1: did post an additional photo on his Instagram. It's a
Speaker 1: photo of him sitting in like you know, I would say,
Speaker 1: what is it like a he's sitting with his legs
Speaker 1: folded up. It looks like it's on a boat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's on a boat in the middle of the ocean somewhere.
Speaker 1: And his caption and all caps says every day pray.
Speaker 1: So there has been no direct response to anything that
Speaker 1: Ezel Banks has said. There has been no response to
Speaker 1: the photos of him and this woman on the beach.
Speaker 2: That is it.
Speaker 1: That is all I would keep you guys posted because
Speaker 1: this is wild and it is random, and Azelia Banks
Speaker 1: is a legend that this has been going on since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Now, she said in the tweet, me and
Speaker 1: Conda McGregor have and she allegens in a tweet that
Speaker 1: her and Kinda MacGregor haven't sent each other photos since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. But I do believe that she's being a
Speaker 1: little sarcastic when she says each other, because she's saying
Speaker 1: that she would sent these unwarranted photos from him. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think she's been a little sarcastic when
Speaker 1: she says to each other because she's then showing that
Speaker 1: the photos have only been coming from one way.
Speaker 2: Now I'm lex and the latest.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to a story that we
Speaker 1: talked about in the previous episode, y'all. I was so
Speaker 1: excited because, you know, there were reports that Uno was
Speaker 1: gonna come to the casinos and we were on here
Speaker 1: talking about whose rules is it? You know, who got
Speaker 1: house rules? All of the things? Right, Uno is not
Speaker 1: coming to a casino. It's not happening. So Uno themselves
Speaker 1: had to come out on Instagram and post to clarify
Speaker 1: because people were confused. What happened was Uno did go
Speaker 1: to Vegas and Uno was at the Palms casino in Vegas.
Speaker 1: But the way that it looks is is that they
Speaker 1: were just testing this Uno suite in the casino.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if they don't have planes.
Speaker 1: To hit the casino because the statement kind of gives
Speaker 1: that it could happen one day.
Speaker 2: But it's just not happening right now. But the people
Speaker 2: were confused.
Speaker 1: We took the press release and we took it as okay,
Speaker 1: Uno is about to be on the casino floor. Uno,
Speaker 1: I said, ah, y'all, ouna reverse not happening. So Uno says, hey,
Speaker 1: ONNO fans, we hate to be the bearers of bad news,
Speaker 1: but the floor isn't ready for us yet. We've been
Speaker 1: told that while they do have type security, it's not
Speaker 1: robust enough for Uno at this time. They addressed the
Speaker 1: fact that we all thought that Uno was coming to
Speaker 1: the casino as a rumor that has come to their attention.
Speaker 2: And it's not happening.
Speaker 1: They say, this is not an un A reverse car card.
Speaker 1: While we get this started, This is not an un
Speaker 1: A reverse card, while we get this sorted out. The
Speaker 1: Uno Social Club is rolling out bars in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin in August of this year.
Speaker 1: So basically, it seems like they're going to scale back
Speaker 1: a bit. And although the Uno Social Club will be
Speaker 1: a thing, it's not going to be an official game
Speaker 1: on the Uno Casino floor. And I know I also
Speaker 1: talked about this update on the Breakfast Club, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring it here because I feel like we
Speaker 1: were so excited low riders, like we thought we were
Speaker 1: gathering our troops and traveling to Vegas or wherever they
Speaker 1: want to take this. I was talking about how it
Speaker 1: would be to do this in Miami Girls Trip. We
Speaker 1: go to Miami, we go play uno, we win some money,
Speaker 1: have a time. Not happening right now, not happening at all.
Speaker 1: Let's we want to head to a bar, which is cool,
Speaker 1: but I think the casino vibe it definitely gives it
Speaker 1: a different level of stature in conversation.
Speaker 2: But in a quick update, I wanted you guys to
Speaker 2: just know that, no, that is not happening. So we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens.
Speaker 1: I'll keep you guys closer because y'all know I'm bringing
Speaker 1: you out the latest always lo Riders.
Speaker 2: Thank y'all for joining me. It is the latest with
Speaker 2: Laura l Rosa.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I tell y'all
Speaker 1: every episode there's always a lot to talk about with
Speaker 1: you all. Listen, y'all are always right here with me
Speaker 1: to talk about it, and I appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 1: I'll see you in my next episode.