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Speaker 1: everything and everybody. You don't know if you don't lie
Speaker 1: about that, right, Lauren cant Hey, y'all, what's up. It's
Speaker 1: Lauren L. Rosa and this is the latest with Lauren L. Rosa.
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Speaker 1: Behind the scenes of the Grind because I am flabbergascid, y'all.
Speaker 1: Taylor Rooks, broadcaster, media personality, sportscaster, the tailor Rooks. I
Speaker 1: think all of us, you know, the black girls and
Speaker 1: media and you know and reporting, we root so much
Speaker 1: for Taylor Rooks as we do a lot of the
Speaker 1: other girls, the Joy Taylor's, the Carrie Champions, the Jamail Hills,
Speaker 1: all of the girls. Especially you know me because I
Speaker 1: am not a sports but I am not a sports reporter.
Speaker 1: I can get a concept of a story in sports
Speaker 1: as it relates to culture and entertainment. But y'all be
Speaker 1: hearing me when I get through, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I do my sports stories on the Breakfast Club here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, I try and sick to what I'm
Speaker 1: good at, but sometimes the world's intertwined, so I dibble
Speaker 1: and I dabble. But those girls are so good. They
Speaker 1: know the facts, the numbers. They're hard at work, they're
Speaker 1: at the games, they're traveling or doing all the things.
Speaker 1: But what I love so much about what just happened
Speaker 1: with Taylor Rooks and the fact that she is married.
Speaker 1: She announced yesterday via her Instagram that she is married.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know she was engaged. I assumed she
Speaker 1: was dating. She's gorgeous, she's successful, she's young, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So of course I assume she was dating.
Speaker 1: But because we had never seen anything or heard anything
Speaker 1: about who she was dating, I did not know she
Speaker 1: was dating serious enough to be engaged and now married.
Speaker 1: So yesterday Taylor Rooks took to her Instagram to post
Speaker 1: photos from her wedding. I would say it was a
Speaker 1: surprise wedding, but baby, it's given. Well, only we were surprised.
Speaker 1: So many other people knew, so she posted the photos
Speaker 1: and she captioned it, what a night This is love
Speaker 1: with the wedding ring emoji. Now in these photos you
Speaker 1: see her and her new hubby under her veil. Then
Speaker 1: there's photos of her by herself walking down the aisle.
Speaker 1: There's photos of Taylor Rook's and new hubby. She's holding
Speaker 1: up her wedding ring. A diamond okay, it's a diamond. Okay.
Speaker 1: The girl the rocket sitting nice, but she has her
Speaker 1: hand on her hubby's face looks like it's like a
Speaker 1: photo booth picture from after the wedding, from the reception,
Speaker 1: and then there's photos of her and just like the
Speaker 1: people who attend it. And I think that's what's most
Speaker 1: impressive is the fact that not only was it private
Speaker 1: and very intimate, and you know, when you're in the
Speaker 1: public eye, you don't get to not share moments like
Speaker 1: these much because sometimes even if you're trying to keep
Speaker 1: it private, the people around you are so excited for
Speaker 1: you that they want to tell the world. And in boom,
Speaker 1: here you go. Everybody knows you engage, you married, you
Speaker 1: got a man, You gotta this, you gotta that right.
Speaker 1: The guest list was five star, and she still managed
Speaker 1: to be able to keep this wedding private. In attendance,
Speaker 1: there are photos of Mike Rubin, you know, music artist
Speaker 1: Jacques Harlow, Coco Jones, and her newly engaged fiance Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: who's NFL player, Saquon Barkley, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green. The
Speaker 1: people were in the building. Reports say that Taylor Rooks
Speaker 1: was married in New York, but I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: even know how we were confirming these reports because she
Speaker 1: didn't mention where she was married. So it's like, how
Speaker 1: do we even know that? We don't know anything? And
Speaker 1: it is so fire, Oh my god, congratulations and Taylor
Speaker 1: Rooks and her husband. There are little to no details
Speaker 1: known about her husband besides the photos that she posted,
Speaker 1: which I think are also dope. But yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was just so fly. I'm gonna the girls that
Speaker 1: I love to see, the career girls, especially at a
Speaker 1: young age, have all of the things, do the family thing,
Speaker 1: have kids, have a husband, be happy in the marriage
Speaker 1: and actually having it last, but also be able to
Speaker 1: also be able to, like you know, adamantly go after
Speaker 1: your career and your goals and establish a life for yourself,
Speaker 1: you know. And there's nothing wrong with this, right Like,
Speaker 1: there are women who you know, their lives and their
Speaker 1: careers and their names revolve around the men in their lives,
Speaker 1: their husbands, their kids, fathers. I'm not knocking nobody, But
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is is that my personal preference has
Speaker 1: always been for myself to be like, Look, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be in love, I'm going to be married, I'm
Speaker 1: going to have children. I'm going to have the big wedding,
Speaker 1: the faerytale wedding. You know. I want that for myself.
Speaker 1: And you know, I want my mother and my grandmother
Speaker 1: and my niece and you know, the people I love
Speaker 1: to be able to see me be loved correctly. But
Speaker 1: I've always been wor like, Okay, at some point in
Speaker 1: my career there's going to be a conversation about you're
Speaker 1: a woman, so what about family? What about marriage? What
Speaker 1: about this? What about that? And I don't want my
Speaker 1: career and the work that I've worked for to be
Speaker 1: tied to my relationship or my husband, not even not
Speaker 1: tied too. I don't mind that because me and my
Speaker 1: man so equally yoked. That's what it's always going to
Speaker 1: be given right, but more so, I don't want that
Speaker 1: to overshadow my work. Every single day I'm working like
Speaker 1: harder to get better at what I do and what
Speaker 1: I do and even what Taylor Rooks does, or you know,
Speaker 1: Jamel Hill, and you know, all of the women shoot
Speaker 1: shout out the stat baby on Kim and Mason's It
Speaker 1: Is What It Is. Me and her we've never met
Speaker 1: in person, We've tried to link up, but me and
Speaker 1: her have you know, become social media friends and watching
Speaker 1: her navigate her journey over you know, on It Is
Speaker 1: What It Is, while I'm here on Breakfast Club and
Speaker 1: you know what you guys on the latest with Lauren
Speaker 1: the roads of the podcast has been a journey, and
Speaker 1: we both always you know, say to each other that
Speaker 1: everything's just moving so crazy. So to see the girls
Speaker 1: have it all and be able to establish it all,
Speaker 1: but not have everything centered around or the conversation centered
Speaker 1: around your relationship status or what's happening in your womb,
Speaker 1: but more about the hard work that you're putting in,
Speaker 1: the points you're putting on the board, the great interviews
Speaker 1: you're doing, the great content you're putting out, the efficiency
Speaker 1: of all those things that matters to me. I can't
Speaker 1: speak for any of the other women that I just mentioned,
Speaker 1: but that matters a lot to me, a whole lot.
Speaker 1: So I thought the way that Taylor Rooks went about
Speaker 1: this was superfly number one superfly, and I just thought
Speaker 1: it was dope. I thought it was fired or see her,
Speaker 1: you know, walk down the aisle and celebrate and do
Speaker 1: all these things. And we had no idea it was happening.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't nothing little about this wedding. Baby, this
Speaker 1: was big Tailor Rooks, big wedding. Okay, guests, LIS's crazy
Speaker 1: set up. All the wedding looked amazing. It looked literally
Speaker 1: like a fair tale wedding. She looked beautiful as well.
Speaker 1: So congratulations, this sist. We see you girl. You did that?
Speaker 1: You ate that? Yes? Okay? Putting it on the Pinterest board.
Speaker 1: Not in other news today, we having a conversation about
Speaker 1: women in sports. Look at me trying to be you know,
Speaker 1: all in the women in sports conversation. Clarissa Shields will
Speaker 1: be fighting this weekend in Detroit. She's fighting Lonnie Daniels
Speaker 1: and Clarissa Shields is she's been. I met her at
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club when she came and we interviewed her
Speaker 1: my first time. I'm only interviewer, was my first time
Speaker 1: interviewing her, was not her first time here. But then
Speaker 1: she also came back to the Breakfast Club again, which
Speaker 1: I wasn't in the interview for, but she talked about
Speaker 1: wanting to be a mom in both of those interviews
Speaker 1: and what that looked like. You know, we're having a
Speaker 1: conversation about women with very demanding and big careers being
Speaker 1: able to go on and do all of the things right.
Speaker 1: I definitely think of Clarissa because I've been watching her
Speaker 1: journey since meeting her here on the Breakfast Club when
Speaker 1: she was promoting her movie The Fire Inside that came
Speaker 1: out on Christmas of twenty twenty four, which starts Ryan
Speaker 1: Destiny and it's the story of Clarisa Shield's life. One
Speaker 1: of the things I was thinking about when I was
Speaker 1: talking to her was just her sport is so physical,
Speaker 1: and being able to have a kid and establish a
Speaker 1: family and all those things also requires a lot of
Speaker 1: your physical as well, So I've always wondered what that
Speaker 1: exerience was gonna be like for her. Like, for instance,
Speaker 1: Clarisa Shields was on the Pivot which is you know
Speaker 1: the show with Ryan Clark all the guys, and she
Speaker 1: talks about not even being able to have sex before
Speaker 1: the fight because of the way that an orgasm affects
Speaker 1: a woman versus a band. Let's take a listen. When
Speaker 1: it comes to sex, right, men and women look at it. Different.
Speaker 2: Women have something called orgasms, and when women have that,
Speaker 2: it takes a lot out of you.
Speaker 1: I'm training two or three times a day.
Speaker 2: I don't got time to be trying to force myself
Speaker 2: to work out because I had a you know, orgasmy
Speaker 2: I would rather keep everything in And I feel like,
Speaker 2: to me, I feel like it helps me be more
Speaker 2: prepared for the fight. And when you go without you know, sex,
Speaker 2: and I mean you guys are men, it do make
Speaker 2: you be a bit more aggressive and you can lift
Speaker 2: more weights and you can squat more weight and everything.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing for me.
Speaker 2: That's a lesson to you young boys out there, women too.
Speaker 1: And then hear her talk about this, my first thought
Speaker 1: is is like, how long does cloversas shields have to
Speaker 1: go without sex? Because she's never specified she said just
Speaker 1: before a fight, and I'm like, well, how long? And
Speaker 1: how does that work? When you're trying to have a kid,
Speaker 1: miss of your career fights coming up, like it's just
Speaker 1: a lot to balance. I feel for anybody who things
Speaker 1: are growing, you have a lot to balance because y'all
Speaker 1: know we started this podcast and missed of so much
Speaker 1: growing and moving. For me, the Latest with Lorna Rosa
Speaker 1: has been not just a podcast and entertainment news and
Speaker 1: training topics, but you guys have grown with me through
Speaker 1: a journey of all of the things since meeting me
Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club, all of my low riders here.
Speaker 1: So my soft spot for women in the Spotlight who
Speaker 1: are figuring all this stuff out is like no other
Speaker 1: because I'm new here. Spotlight is to I know, nowhere
Speaker 1: near Clarissa and her like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like so I can't imagine, is what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people right now, unfairly are
Speaker 1: having a conversation about distraction with Clarissa. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people right now are having a conversation about
Speaker 1: women in any industry and across industries and what they're
Speaker 1: able to do and what they're able to balance and
Speaker 1: what they're able to not balance. And this episode, you know,
Speaker 1: when I was putting it together, and I was thinking
Speaker 1: about what we could do, you know, an extensions to
Speaker 1: everything that was trending today. The first thing I thought
Speaker 1: about is men. The girls is having it all. Okay,
Speaker 1: they got their men by their side, they got the
Speaker 1: business deals popping. Clarissa is dropping music and she previewed
Speaker 1: it last night in Detroit. Let's take a listen to
Speaker 1: is really short, but we got a snippet of one
Speaker 1: of her songs. Okay, what's up?
Speaker 2: Some people say I'm a killer?
Speaker 1: Oh dad, how fit the shots to the lift? Ooh?
Speaker 1: Her man want to take me in? And then I
Speaker 1: call him? What's the name? And baby? The girls is
Speaker 1: coming for all of it, all of it. So with
Speaker 1: this being said, I want to take y'all to the
Speaker 1: streets outside. We outside, we outside. Ode every other page
Speaker 1: because another thing that went down yesterday in the midst
Speaker 1: of the conversation of the girls having it all, people
Speaker 1: were so sad that Taylor Rooks popped out Mary like,
Speaker 1: I know the men be on the girls with the
Speaker 1: things going on, but by b where they said? Somebody
Speaker 1: said El Brothers. Media on X said, not only did
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson pull Magde Stallion but a light skin and
Speaker 1: word with waves just married Taylor Rooks. We up, it's
Speaker 1: our time. Baby. Twenty twenty five is the year of
Speaker 1: the Paige Brotherhood. Laugh out loud. The light skins is outside,
Speaker 1: That's what it's giving. A Corosiate kid said, we lost
Speaker 1: Coco Jones, Meg and Taylor Rooks all in a two
Speaker 1: month spin with a sad face emoji. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Kevkoke six on X. Let's send him some love, y'all.
Speaker 1: He tweeted, and he said, I just opened up IG
Speaker 1: and saw Taylor Rooks got married. Please respect my privacy
Speaker 1: at this time because these were the baths, these were
Speaker 1: the bays of the sports industry. Corusa Shields gets it.
Speaker 1: Taylor Rooks gets it. I understand, But I think that's
Speaker 1: crazy too. I wrote this line down when I was
Speaker 1: prepping for this episode. I really think it's crazy how
Speaker 1: big the conversation gets around women who choose to have
Speaker 1: it all this. Serena Williams went through this too when
Speaker 1: she decided to have her baby, her daughter, her first
Speaker 1: daughter with her husband Alexis and Venus. Williams announced her
Speaker 1: engagement at the same time that SYS made history at
Speaker 1: forty five years old, Venus Williams became the second oldest
Speaker 1: woman to win a tour level match, according to ESPN.
Speaker 1: She took this from a woman who was the oldest
Speaker 1: woman at the time in two thousand and four, she
Speaker 1: was aged forty seven who won Wimbledon. I say that
Speaker 1: to say, guess what headline lasted longer out of the too.
Speaker 1: Venus Williams announces she is engaged people being so surprised
Speaker 1: to see women have all of the things. When you're
Speaker 1: successful in your career is loud naomio osaka. People give
Speaker 1: it to her really, really hard whenever she doesn't win
Speaker 1: or doesn't perform at two hundred percent. I've even seen
Speaker 1: people openly say, you know, online, she shouldn't have had
Speaker 1: a kid at the height of her career. When the
Speaker 1: girls do finally get to have all the things, the
Speaker 1: way that we have conversations about them, it's so different
Speaker 1: than how we have it about men, completely different. And
Speaker 1: I get it. Babies don't come out of men's bodies.
Speaker 1: I get it. You know, women and men have different
Speaker 1: roles in marriages, and how do you know the marriages
Speaker 1: change what they're able to do outside of the home,
Speaker 1: and you know just I understand the double standards, but
Speaker 1: I do feel like this is the era of the
Speaker 1: women being able to stand next to a partner who
Speaker 1: understands our power. I was going to say, take back
Speaker 1: our power, but it's not even that standing next to
Speaker 1: the right person who understands your power so that you
Speaker 1: can have all things because the balance that you're gonna
Speaker 1: need to learn both mentally and physically, that partner sitting
Speaker 1: next to you, baby, ithing, it ain't nothing but a thing.
Speaker 1: So shout out to all the ladies. For some reason,
Speaker 1: we focus mostly on women in sports today, not even
Speaker 1: on purpose, but yes, shout out to the ladies having
Speaker 1: all of the things. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: there's always a lot to talk about, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys being right here with me every episode to
Speaker 1: talk about it. My lowriders. I will see you guys
Speaker 1: in my next episode.