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Beyonce won an Emmy + breaks records in front of an audience of haters + Diddy wants $100M for alleged defamation!
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Jeff Perlman
I'm Jeff Perlman. And I'm Rick Jervis. We're journalists and hosts of the podcast Finding Sexy Sweat. At an internship in 1993, we roomed with Reggie Payne, aspiring reporter and rapper who went by Sexy Sweat a couple years ago. We set out to find him, but in 2020, Reggie fell into a coma after police pinned him down and he never woke up.
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Jeff Perlman
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Dr. Leah Tritate
If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma, the saying it this is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft and whole. The Unwanted Sorority is where black women, femmes and gender expansive survivors of sexual violence rewrite the rules on healing, support and what happens after. And I'm your host and co president of this organization, Dr. Leah Tritate. Listen to the Unwanted Sorority. New episodes every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Let's get to it.
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I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody exclusives. You know if she don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey y', all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room. Getting on into the latest, we have Beyonce, Queen Bey herself, mother Beyonce. All the things. All the things. Okay, Wanna send a huge congratulations to Beyonce because Beyonce has won her first primetime Emmy for Beyonce Bolt. So she is on her way to egot status. Igot status, for those of you who do not know, is when you have an Emmy, a grammy, a Oscar, and a Tony award, um, and Beyonce, let me double check. I believe Beyonce has everything except for a ton. Okay. Yes. So Beyonce, of course. Well, I just told you guys that she has the Emmy that she just won for Beyonce Bowl. Beyonce won the Emmy as a costume designer for her Netflix special, Beyonce bowl in the category of outstanding costumes for variety, nonfiction or reality program. She won alongside other costume designers like Shiona Terrini. Mind you, let me tell y' all about Sheona Tarini. I interned at Cosmopolitan magazine while Sheona Terrini was there. She was lead market editor at the time. Sheona has always been fire, but she's come on with Beyonce as a costume designer. I like to say sometimes that, like, she kind of does creative direction as well, because all of the pieces that she brings into a lot of the various things that you see Beyonce in when she's performing and she's doing certain things are she ona Tahrini. But they tell a story. So I love, you know, when I wouldn't even call her a stylist. Costume designers, wardrobe people act as creative directors. And the reason why I say act as creative directors is because the clothing tells stories. And I think when you are a creative director, and I think. But I know when you're a creative director, that is your job, essentially, you want to be able to tell stories and convey it in a way that the audience picks up on it. It's creatively done, it's sharp, it's concise. It's exactly what the client or the talent needs. And Shiona is fired, so I wanted to give her that moment. But. So Beyonce is nominated next to Shiona Tahrini, her assistant, costume designers Erica Rice and Molly Peters, costume supervisor Chelsea Stabel and head of workroom Timothy White. Now, the awards will be presented at the 77th Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which will take place at the Peacock Theater in LA. It'll be a two night event. It starts September 6th and ends on September 7th. Now, they do have an edited version of the awards ceremony that will air on September 13th at 8pm Pacific time on FXX. So Beyonce is a part of the juried category for this Emmy award. So that basically means that she's not up against other people in this category. And they pick and they vote. There's a panel of people. The panel people, they sit, they evaluate and then they just say, yes, this person has it. And then it's given to that person after the vote and after the conversations. The professionals on the panel are people that are your peers. So these are people in the selected industry. So probably other people who worked in the costume design department, you know, the non fictional storytelling department. Things that are very relevant to who the person is and what the art is that they are discussing or deciding upon. The jury category is a one step process. As I mentioned, there are no nominees but there is a voting procedure. So they vote, you know, on whether or not you deserve the award. Beyonce took it home. Deliberations include an open discussion of each entrant's work with a thorough review of the merits awarding the Emmy. Now, Beyonce's also nominated for two other categories within this emm in relation to Beyonce bol. So she's also nominated for outstanding variety special live as a performer and executive producer and outstanding directing for a variety special. So Beyonce has won 35 Grammys, more than anybody in history. As we know, she received an Oscar nomination for best original song in 2022 for co writing Be alive for King Richard with Dyson. So that puts her halfway to egot status. Now let's talk a little bit about Beyonce Bolt. So you guys rem Beyonce bol. I hope you remember Beyonce bol. It streamed on Netflix. It was a Christmas special that Beyonce did. It was in her hometown and she performed Cowboy Carter's album live for an audience for the first time. So she did a medley of a bunch of different songs from the album. It was special because, you know, not only was it in her hometown, not only was it Christmas, Netflix had never really seen anything like this, but she also broke records. She pulled in 27 million viewers with Beyonce, Bolton, and y' all remember, they tried to shut our girl out of the country music Awards. Now let's talk a little bit about what Beyonce was able to accomplish. I want to just say, in comparison to the 27 million views that Beyonce received, a report on Hype Bae's website says that in 2024, the CMAs only pulled in 6.8 million viewers. Okay, clock it. That's what it's called when like they say, God prepares a table right in front of your enemies. A spread, okay? God prepared a spread for Beyonce right in front of her enemies. Because not only did she break records with Beyonce Bol performing that country music album that the CMA's did not even want, a lot of people in the country music world didn't want to even admit was a country music album. They said Beyonce need to learn the ropes a bit, throw herself into the country music world a bit. But Beyonce has talked a lot about growing up in Houston, Texas, and how music and country music influenced her. Even though the music she was making, a lot of people wouldn't have deemed country music. Even with Cowboy Carter. A lot of the songs on that album, people still argued weren't country songs because of various things. God prepared the table for you in front of thy enemy. Okay? Beyonce is. She is the mascot of that now. Beyonce Bold was a sight to see. You know, for the country music people to be telling Beyonce, stay in your place. This is not your world. Beyonce has used this moment in history with all of the strides that she has been able to make with Cowboy Carter to really teach people. And Beyonce does that a lot. All great artists do. Beyonce does that a ton. But during Cowboy Carter, she was able to, you know, in homage to western and rodeo culture, she was able to showcase a lot of people in front of 27 million people, essentially, because you could go back and stream it again and again and again on Netflix. So she brought out Mexican cowgirl Melanie Rivera. She also brought out bull riding legend Mertis Dietman Jr. Known as the Jackie Robinson of rodeo. She brought out Miss Rodeo Texas Princess 2004. She brought out Miss Rodeo Texas 2015, Nikki Woodward. She also brought out the first black rodeo queen in Arkansas, Jediyah Jadiah. Sorry if I'm saying your name wrong, Kirsch. Beyonce did the same thing. Even on the Cowboy album, Cowboy Carter album. She, you know, gave a lot of country music artists, even in talking about the album, even in going on tour, she gave a lot of people spotlight. And I think that's what it's all about. And I think that's why we keep seeing Beyonce be so blessed is because it's not just about Beyonce. Even though it is, though, even though this is Beyonce's Internet that we be on and all that, Right? It's not just about her and her career. And I think that's why we keep seeing her break these strides. And every single time there's opposition. Whenever the opps pull up, Beyonce goes somewhere, she sit back, pull out the lemonade braids, and be like, all right, I'm about to show you. I'm gonna let the work show y'. All. And, y', all, you're not gonna be able to get around me. I love that attitude. I love that mantra. I love everything about that. I recently joined the beehive. I wasn't always a beehiver, but it's not even because, like, I. I mean, I do know Beyonce's music. Everybody knows Beyonce's music. How can you not know Beyonce's music? But for me, a woman like Beyonce, and a lot of times with celebrities, I'm so enthused, like, excited by just who they are as talent and as business people. Beyonce is a businesswoman. But the brand of Beyonce is an institution, and you learn and take so much from how she moves. Like, I don't know if her wanting to stream on Netflix because, you know, everything's intentional, especially with, you know, talent like Beyonce. I don't know if her goal is to get the igat and she's strategically positioning herself and the places where we see her to be able to shoot her shot for that and knowing, like, okay, if I put. If I stream this on Netflix, and you've never seen this on Netflix, and I break these records, and I could potentially be nominated for an Emmy. I'm one step closer to EGOT status. Or if Beyonce. I mean, I know she's To a point where she's reinventing the will per se, of just different ways that her business, the institution I talked about, can continue to leverage and level up platform and numbers and business and just how they maneuver and how they do everything. And watching her is just grand. There are two people that I love to watch in entertainment. Black women. Issa Rae and Beyonce. Again, same thing with Issa Rae. I feel like with Issa Rae, it's always like a. She's, like, so silent. She stays above the noise, above the mess. But her work always speaks for itself. Crazy development deals, series that people continue to remember. You can rewatch Insecure 50,000 11 times. It never gets old. But just what she's been able to do with going from a YouTube online creator to really getting in the houses of these studios and these networks, and even doing all that while being talent like Issa Rae. When people used to ask me, okay, what is it that you want to do? What is your wheelhouse? You know, having a talk show, doing the things that I'm doing. Yes, you know, of course we're going Angie Martinez, we're going Oprah, we're going Wendy. We're going Ms. Info. We're going like I could name so many different women and shows and just things that encouraged me or wanted me to do certain things. When it comes to me as like a producer, as a content creator and also wanted to do other things as talent, I always point to Issa Rae because for a long time people were having the conversation about are you even. What is a multi hyphenate? Like what is that? Is it even possible at a high level? And then you look at a Beyonce who does. Beyonce is a producer, she is a director. At some point she probably costume designs, she's building set with her team. Beyonce has her hand in everything. Even if she's hiring people to do certain things and not physically, you know, or time wise, actually doing it herself. Because I think in order to be as great as a Beyonce or to be as innovative in breaking through doors and boundaries as Issa Rae, you gotta know everything. Because at some points, people telling you what you can't do, people be telling. And it's crazy when I think about it as a black woman because I think about how successful Beyonce is, how rich Beyonce is, how wealthy. Cause not even just money, but like wealth, like things she can actually pass on, things she's actually accomplished assets, you know, all of these things. As a black woman, I look at her and I'm like, wow. But then she does something like Cowboy Carter. And you still have people that will tell her what she cannot do. And she just lets the work speak for herself. God will prepare a table in front of thy enemy. Period. Congratulations.
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Jeff Perlman
American history is full of wise people.
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Unknown Host
Walt Whitman said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory. Those Founding Fathers were gossipy AF, and they loved to cut each other down.
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Jeff Perlman
I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history, and I find the answers, including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer. Hamilton pauses, and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it than to do it. Listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown Host
I'm Noah. I'm 13, and as you might have seen from the news, I got a podcast and I explain those fake headlines like your uncle would, like your cousin would, if he actually did the research. Honestly, adults don't ask the right questions. Now, you know with Noah de Barrasso is a show about influence. Who's got it, how they use it, and what it means. For the rest of you, it's not the news. It's what the news should be if someone Gen Z or Gen Alpha made it. And I'm watching everything.
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Jeff Perlman
Sheesh.
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Unknown Host
Majority of the youth 18 through 24 say they trust Republicans more than Democrats. From the economy. You kidding me? Politics is wild, and I'm definitely not here to tame it, but I'm here to make sense of it. Just what's happening, why it matters, and what it means for us. Bring your brain. Listen to now youw Know with Noah de Barrasta on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Sarah Spain
Get fired up, y'.
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All.
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Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people and an incomparable soccer icon, Megan Rapinoe to the show, and we had a blast. We talked about her recent 40th birthday celebrations, Co hosting a podcast with her fiance, sue, bird watching, former teammates retire and more. Never a dull moment with Pino. Take a listen. What do you miss the most about being a pro athlete? The final. The final. And the locker room I really, really like you. Just, you can't replicate. You can't get back showing up to the locker room every morning just to talk. We've got more incredible guests like the legendary Candace Parker and college superstar Az Fudd. I mean, seriously, y', all, the guest list is absolutely stacked for season two. And, you know, we're always going to keep you up to speed on all the news and happenings around the women's sports world as well. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get.
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Your podcasts, presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Now, Diddy is in the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Because, I mean, listen, I think we've been talking about Diddy so much for the last few months just because of all the things. But this report is a bit different. So a while back, I believe it was back in January. Yes, back in January, I did a report, we talked about this on the Breakfast Club, that Diddy had actually filed a defamation lawsuit. The defamation lawsuit that he filed at the time was worth. He was asking for $50 million. So in this lawsuit, he was claiming that there was a man and the man's attorney who were defaming him because the things that he was claiming or the things that these two were claiming, according to Diddy on a platform called News Nation, were completely not true. Now, this was back in January. So this. So what happens is, is you can go in at any point while your lawsuit is still being. While your lawsuit is still in court and you guys are still going back and forth and amended, that just means to make a change. So whether you add a new party or person that you are, you know, involving or suing in, whether you add new details, whether you up the amount of money that you're asking for because you now have new claims and new evidence of things. That is what an amendment is, and that is what happened here. I saw a lot of people tweeting me and asking me, where did this lawsuit come from and why weren't we talking about it? And I'm like, you guys don't remember? This is the same lawsuit. This is not new. And we did cover this lawsuit when it first was filed, but it was amended. So basically, now Diddy is asking for double the money. He is asking for $100 million. And he is claiming that he was defamed by a man named Courtney Burgess and a attorney named Ariel Mitchell. Because Diddy claims that when Courtney went on News Nation and News Nation's parent company is named in the lawsuit. But when Courtney went on News Nation and had an interview and had a conversation about Diddy and claimed that he had videos of Diddy during this, and this is like height of all of the, like freak off and loss. Not loss, yeah, but freak off. Height of the freak off conversation, the lawsuit conversation, the indictment conversation, the sex trafficking conversation, the RICO conversation. This is the height of all of that. So Diddy is alleging that Kourtney got on News Nation and said, hey, I have videos of Diddy in Celebrities, apparently, and also claimed that. And one of the celebrities that you could see clearly, like, they said that there were like screen grabs from an alleged video. Not that they saw it, but, you know, this is what he is telling them in this interview, that one of the celebrities named was Justin Bieber, who was allegedly kissing another man. Now in the interview, Courtney is asked, are these videos, are these things that you have valid according to Diddy? Diddy alleges that he was asked that plain and clear in the interview. And Kourtney says yes, for sure. The exact words from the interview were, yes, yes, definitely. Not only did Kourtney allegedly double down that what he had was valid, but in Diddy's new amended lawsuit, Diddy's legal team claim or allege that on News Nation, Kourtney also said that the eight celebrities seen in the footage, two or three of those celebrities were underage. So Diddy's like, listen, you went on this news outlet, you did this interview and you claimed, number one, that we're having all these freak offs with celebrities. You claimed that you had videotapes of this. You claimed, and you named one of the celebrities as Justin Bieber in this. You also said that about two or three of them were underage. These are all things that Diddy is alleging that Kourtney did. Right? And he's naming the attorney in this and throwing her in the mix as well too. And Diddy is saying that is completely not true. Now, I do think at this point, things like this, unless you're able to show proof of these videos, Diddy has a solid case here. In my opinion. That is just my opinion. The reason why I say that is now that the criminal trial has played out and we've seen all of the evidence that the government has been able to recover, including some freak off tapes. Right now, we in court, me being in court, we were not able to see the freak off tapes ourselves, but there was no discussion and they discussed everything very vividly. There was no discussion of celebrities being included on these tapes in court record. The conversation that was had in court was that Diddy and his girlfriends at the time, Jane Doe and Cassie, were on these recordings in these freak offs, right? Now they use that, right? They use these videos and seeing these women involved in these freak offs to then have a conversation about whether coercion was there and all the things. Right. But that's not even what Diddy is leaning into. But it is important to mention that in court, the federal government did not mention any celebrities involved. And granted, even if there were celebrities on these tapes, I did not see the tapes. But hypothetically speaking, if there are celebrities on these tapes, there was a lot of things redacted as far as names. And, you know, the jury were the only people able to even see certain things because they wanted to keep certain people's identities disclosed. They wanted to because of the sensitivity of everything. They wanted to keep people safe, including the women that were testifying, the people that were involved. But the main point and the focus of the conversation in court was Diddy, Jane Doe, Cassie, and male escorts. That was the focus of the conversation. So I think unless Kourtney and his attorney, Ariel, are able to actually show these videotapes and these screenshots, which is an easy way out of this, to be honest with you. Like, if I'm them, that's I'm going to court and just literally doing that, like, I'm not defaming you if I actually can show you that I have it and it's real. What Diddy is saying is, I don't believe y'. All. We don't believe you. We need more people. Run it up. Show us. But he has a case here. Because we have yet to actually hear from anyone who has seen a tape that was proven valid in that criminal case that named a celebrity. Now, on the other side, like I said, Courtney and his attorney, their defense is to just easily, if they got it, show it easily to do that. And we'll have to see how this plays out. But I don't think that this is a case that just gets tossed out. I do think that a judge actually takes the time to sit down and hear both sides and see the evidence that both sides having this because they both have very solid claims, especially Diddy, after going through that criminal trial and none of that type of stuff coming up. Now on the other side, like I said, you just show what you have. Show your hand. Boom, like that. That's literally it. So we'll see how this plays out. But I did want to give you guys that update because I think that whenever amendments happen, people think that there's like a whole new lawsuit. And it's not. This is just like a Hey, I want to add this. Hey, I want to correct this. Hey, this more strongly supports. So I want to make sure we get this into. And that is all that we see happening here. I haven't reached out to. I actually spoke to Ariel Mitchell when the original filing happened. I have not spoke to her on this, but will. So I will bring you guys more on that as I get it. So make sure you guys tune in, come back for the latest. Now at the end of the day, I always tell you guys there is a lot to talk about, always. And y' all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it, my low riders. But y' all choose to be right here with me. I appreciate you guys every single time you make that choice. Make sure you come on back for another episode. Tell a friend to tell a friend. It's the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is where you're getting all the. This is the breakdown. This is where it all happens daily right here. I'll see you guys in my next episode.
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Jeff Perlman
What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced.
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Unknown Host
He said, you are a number, a New York state number, and we own you.
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Jeff Perlman
Listen to shock incarceration on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast. You, the listener, ask the questions.
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Unknown Host
Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree?
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Dr. Leah Tritate
Were JFK and Marilyn Monroe having an affair?
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Jeff Perlman
And I find the answers. I am so glad you asked me this question.
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Dr. Leah Tritate
This is such a ridiculous story.
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Jeff Perlman
You can listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown Host
Every case that is a cold case that has DNA right now in a backlog will be identified in our lifetime on the new podcast, America's Crime Lab. Every case has a story to tell, and the DNA holds the truth.
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Jeff Perlman
He never thought he was going to get caught. And I just looked at my computer screen.
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Unknown Host
I was just like, ah, gotcha. This technology's already solving so many cases. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the.
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Dr. Leah Tritate
Iheartradio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma. This ain't it. This is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft and whole. The Unwanted Sorority is where black women, femmes and gender expansive survivors of sexual violence rewrite the rules on healing, support and what happens after. And I'm your host and co president of this organization, Dr. Lea Tritate. Listen to the Unwanted Sorority. New episodes every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown Host
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