Free Brittany Again? ( Loren sits with CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group Ginalisa Monterroso )

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Free Brittany Again? (Lauren sits with CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group Ginalisa Monterroso)"

Podcast: The Breakfast Club (The Black Effect Podcast Network & iHeartPodcasts)
Episode: Free Brittany Again?
Date: March 6, 2026
Host: Lauren LaRosa
Guest: Ginalisa Monterroso (CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group)
Topics: Britney Spears' recent DUI, mental health, conservatorships, support for those in crisis

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Episode Overview

This episode, hosted by Lauren LaRosa, dives into the developing news of Britney Spears' recent arrest for a suspected DUI in California. Lauren explores whether Spears’ post-conservatorship life has helped or harmed her and examines the complexities surrounding conservatorship, addiction, mental health, and the care of high-profile individuals in crisis. Special guest Ginalisa Monterroso, an expert and advocate in elder and disability care and the CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group, shares her professional insights on handling such cases with care, respect, and dignity.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Britney Spears DUI Incident

• News Break: Britney Spears was arrested for suspicion of DUI in California—a development that reignites public discussion about her conservatorship and overall well-being.
  • “News broke within the last like hour or so that Britney Spears was arrested for a DUI in California.” (03:03, Lauren LaRosa)
• Context on Spears’ past: Spears was previously in a 13-year conservatorship (2008–2021) led by her father, citing her mental health, drug/alcohol use, and alleged erratic behavior.

Life After Conservatorship

• After the conservatorship ended in 2021, Spears' behavior, online presence, and personal life have continued to stir concern among fans and the media.
• Ongoing questions: Did freeing Spears actually help her? Is she able to make safe decisions for herself?

Revisiting Conservatorships: Should Britney Be Placed Under One Again?

• Lauren’s Question: “Do you think...Britney Spears should be completely out of a...conservatorship?” (08:48)
• Ginalisa’s Response:
  • “No. And that could be very controversial, right? ...We shouldn't think about restricting her and keeping her in this box just because she had this DUI.” (09:14)
  • Emphasizes conservatorship should not be a first resort.
  • Advocates a compassionate approach focused on support, mental health, and gradual steps.

Notable Quote:

“Throwing her into conservatorship is just, you know, almost as if we're throwing her into prison and we, we forget about her... That’s not the right way to do things to me. That’s my professional opinion.”
— Ginalisa Monterroso (09:50)

Alternatives to Conservatorship

• It’s imperative to build a trusted team around the individual first, prioritizing therapy, support, and gentle intervention over legal control.
• “Step one is not the conservatorship. It's the steps we take, the steps to help. Where are the people that are going to come in and help her, kind of form a barrier around her...” (11:22, Ginalisa Monterroso)
• Importance of trust: Many who have experienced conservatorship distrust others, making it essential to rebuild connection before pushing outside help.

How Court Systems Handle Such Cases

• The courts often operate in black-and-white terms—either enacting full conservatorship or leaving the individual to fend for themselves, with little middle ground or nuanced options.
• “When you go to the courts, it's very black and white. It's not warm and fuzzy...” (18:08, Ginalisa Monterroso)
• The previous conservatorship was highly restrictive—controlling finances, personal freedom, reproduction, medical care, and creative output. Such terms fostered trauma in Spears.

Notable Quote:

“Conservatorships were meant and built to help people, to keep them safe, to protect them—not to control them and take autonomy away from them.”
— Ginalisa Monterroso (19:25)

The Missing "Middle Ground"

• Both Lauren and Ginalisa lament the “all or nothing” nature of current conservatorship models and call for a middle way:
  • Family or supportive community intervention,
  • Stepwise trust-building,
  • Tailored mental health support over institutionalization.

The Role of Family & Community

• Family should ideally be the first line of support, but not all individuals have supportive or trustworthy family members, making advocacy and external help crucial.
• “If you don’t have a family that you’re able to trust, or the court feels they cannot trust you...that’s why it’s always good to have a family bond with the potential ward and develop a trust so that the system doesn’t take them and body snatch them...” (20:33, Ginalisa Monterroso)

What Does Effective Rehabilitation Look Like?

• Rehabilitation should not be “one size fits all”—especially for high-profile figures who have been through multiple programs.
• Focus on individualized care, routine, trusted relationships, and not penalizing missteps.
• “Rehab to a person who has a mental issue is finding someone that they can trust, right? And working with that person step by step by step. And it takes a lot of work.” (22:56, Ginalisa Monterroso)
• Importance of patience:
  • “It's like trying to teach a baby how to walk. You don't stop teaching them because they fell. You pick them up and you teach them how to walk again.” (23:33, Ginalisa Monterroso)

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Lauren LaRosa on the human impact:
  • “If you’re the real person or the family of these people or just very connected fans… it’s something that you’re dealing with on a day to day… Britney Spears will have to deal with whatever the consequences of this are…” (06:25)
• Ginalisa on the system’s shortcomings:
  • “There should be a middle. And that's what's missing here in this whole structure, the middle part. People don't want to take the time. Right. It's a lot of work.” (20:33)
• Lauren on the stakes:
  • “My biggest thing is… not all the time do you have family members who can endure all of this… Who steps up then?” (19:25)

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Important Timestamps

• 02:15 — Start of episode content, overview of Britney Spears’ latest arrest and conservatorship recap
• 07:34 — Introduction of Ginalisa Monterroso
• 08:48 — Discussion: Should Britney be under a conservatorship again?
• 11:22 — Alternatives to conservatorship; the importance of team support and trust
• 16:42 — Explaining what Britney could and could not do under prior conservatorship
• 18:08 — Ginalisa on how courts approach conservatorship (black-and-white approach)
• 20:33 — The importance of family, support systems, and the “missing middle ground”
• 22:41 — Rehabilitation over jail: What genuine help looks like for Spears and others
• 25:12 — Ginalisa explains her organization, Connect Care Advisory Group, and advocacy model

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About Connect Care Advisory Group

• “We deal with the elderly, the disabled, and we assist them in preserving their autonomy...making sure they have all their needs met.” (25:12, Ginalisa Monterroso)
• Website: www.connectcareag.org
• Phone: [phone]
• Services are available nationwide, advocating to keep clients in their own environments with proper support.

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Tone & Takeaway

The conversation is compassionate, unflinching, and deeply empathetic—frustrated with the black-and-white choices the system offers, but determined to center people like Britney as human beings in need of dignity, trust, support, and individualized care. Lauren and Ginalisa advocate for new solutions—grounded in relationship, patience, and respect—for those at risk of being failed by both the tabloid gaze and the legal system.

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Final Thought

Lauren closes with gratitude for helpers like Ginalisa and a promise to keep her listeners updated:

• “You guys choose to be right here with me, my low riders. I appreciate you guys and I will catch you in the next episode.” (end)

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This episode offers an accessible, thoughtful look at what meaningful support—beyond headlines and harsh judgments—could look like for Britney Spears and anyone wrestling with mental health and autonomy.

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Hey y', all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa and this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby. Now today we are going to get right into a conversation. News broke within the last like hour or so that Britney Spears was arrested for a DUI in California. Now when you hear that at face value, it's already like, whoa, hold on, wait. I mean, it's Britney Spears. We're talking DUI here, or a suspected or alleged DUI because we don't have the test results back. But she was pulled over on suspicion of driving under the influence. And we know for several years Britney Spears was in a conservatorship. And now this conservatorship followed a health crisis that Britney Spears was going through. There were, you know, allegations of drug use and allegations of alcohol abuse. And there was an obvious mental breakdown in 2008 when Britney Spears had a few different, you know, things that happen, including her shaving her head. And then, you know, she was 5150 then. There was just a lot that went down. So Britney Spears was in a conservatorship. She was in that conservatorship for about 13 years. That conservatorship ended in 2021. It was led by her dad, Jamie Spears, who gained control over her finances, her day to day health, her day to day, you know, what she does, how she does it, who has access to her. And all of this was done for the protection of Britney Spears. But there was a whole Free Britney Spears movement, which I was living in LA at the time. And when I say movement, I mean, like, it was a real movement. Like I remember the Free Britney Spears protest. There are they. There were Facebook groups that I was like speaking to during the protest and different things. And Britney was going back and forth to court and she was fighting to get out of the conservatorship. She was fighting for her dad not to have control over her life. And just so many different things that it actually happened. Now when it happened, one of the biggest questions was how will her life be now? And, and will Britney Spears be okay? And since 2021, there been various things that have come up. I mean, reports of, you know, her allegedly pulling knives on, on people and, you know, issues with her boyfriend or boyfriend at the time, Sam Asgari, who was, you know, a background dancer and her boyfriend at the time, and, you know, conversations about her living conditions and, and the cleanliness of that and, you know, these alleged medicine cocktails that she's supposed to be taking for whatever health issue it is that she deals with and reports of her not taking them. There's just been things all over the place since her conservatorship. Some of the videos she's posted online have not been the best. Some of them have been very troubling. And people are still having the conversation about whether or not freeing Britney Spears from that conservatorship was helpful or harmful to her. And now this DUI arrest happens in 2026, some five years later since Britney Spears was freed from that conservatorship. So I wanted to have a conversation about that, but I wanted to do it in a way that wasn't just let's report on it and move on. Because I think when I talk about mental health and people that deal with it, whether it's like in addiction, whether it's a Kanye west and everything that we see him go through in the public, I think, or a Wendy Williams, I think people can be very touch and go as if this is something that like you report on and you can just move on from. But if you're the real person or the family of these people or just very connected fans, and Britney Spears has that very connected fans, it's something that you're dealing with on a day to day because you know, today is March 6, 2026. Right, but, and we'll talk about this and you know, maybe we'll talk about it for a week or maybe two weeks, but in a day to day, Britney Spears will have to deal with whatever the consequences of this are, whether it's jail time or rehabilitation or both, and so will her family. So I wanted to bring on someone to the podcast to have a conversation with me about this, who does work in this space. And I thought of a person who I got to know very closely when I was doing a lot of the reporting on Wendy Williams because she was helping Wendy Williams in the very early stages of Wendy trying to be freed from her conservatorship. Ms. Jeanalisa Monterosso, who is the CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group and she's a force like when I got to know Ms. Gina Lisa, I was like, I don't know how you do it all the time. She does it in her personal life, her professional life, but this is her work, making sure that people, you know, who deal with various addictions, mental health things, health things in general are taken care of and are treated the right way in and out of conservatorships. So. Jeannie Lisa, welcome to the Latest with Lauren LaRose of the podcast. How are you?

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

Thank you, Lauren. Thank you for having me. I'm fine. How's everything going with you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everything is going well with me. You know, I always tell you how Amazing. And how dope I think you are, because people who take the time to take care of people, I don't think the world gives y' all enough. And I know it can be tough because, you know, I've experienced it, but not on your level. But I've experienced it. So you're an angel on earth. That's. First of all, thank you so much.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

And so are you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We love you. Thank you. Okay, so let's get into Britney Spears. So she was. She was arrested in dui For a dui, an alleged DUI in California Wednesday. She was driving by herself in her car. Police say that they realized that there was, like, a car swerving dangerously throughout various lanes. They called for backup, pulled her over immediately, took her straight to the hospital to get her blood tested. And for those of you guys who don't know, sometimes a police officer will say, hey, let's do like a walk the line or follow my instructions test right on the scene. But when they want to make sure or they feel like it's a serious, you know, you're intoxicated, seriously, they take you to do a blood test if they have you right there on the scene. So that is what they did with Britney Spears. She wasn't injured or anything like that. They took her to the hospital solely to test her blood alcohol levels.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

And.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And all of this is following her conservatorship and just people being really concerned about her. Now, Ms. Gina, Lisa, in hearing everything about this new reporting, knowing Britney Spears's background, just from, you know, reporting, not. I know you never worked with her, but in your line of work, do you think that at this point, with all these instances, Britney Spears should be completely out of a concert conservatorship?

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

No. And that could be very controversial. Right? Only because we kind of see her maybe, quote, unquote, spiraling. But how many people get pulled over for dui, Right? It's. It's not uncommon. Right. We shouldn't think about restricting her and keeping her in this box just because she had this dui. I know we see a lot of things on the Internet that we look at and say, you know, that's something maybe we wouldn't do on an everyday basis. But this is a person who obviously is dealing maybe with some mental issues. And I think when we talk about conservatorship and someone who needs help, you don't want to run to the conservative part. Because I'm sure that conservative has traumatized Britney. The way it was structured, how confined she was, how she wasn't able to make any decisions. She didn't have any autonomy. You don't want to take that away from somebody. You want to make sure that she has a space to grow, get help mentally, physically, and be cared for. Throwing her into conservatorship is just, you know, almost as if we're throwing her into prison and we, we forget about her. That's not the right way to do things to me. That's my professional opinion.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So then what is the right way? Right? Because yes, people do get DUIs every day. You know, unfortunately this happens. But like, you know, it could have been bad. Like she could have been hurt and, or killed. Someone could have been hurt and, or killed. But also too, I think it's just even before you think about that, I think about the decision making. Like, you know, there have been instances within like the last like two to three years where you hear about it and you hear the reports and you're like, I don't know if Britney Spears is making the best decisions right now. And then you see this and it's like, that's not a good decision for sure. For sure. What do you do then? Like, if conservatorship isn't like, so she's not fully in a conservatorship and you want to be gentle of all those things. So what does that look like?

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

You come in full force with a team. And I know this was done before, but I think before there was, there was a lot more of out of control and, you know, a lot more self harm here. You know, she is doing some harm. But I think step one is not the conservatorship. It's the steps we take, the steps to help. Where are the people that are going to come in and help her, Kind of form a barrier around her, see if they're able to come in and, and kind of get some help, therapy, whatever it is. You just don't automatically go into a conservatorship. I know it was reported in tmz. Her sons are gonna come visit, some family's gonna come in. I think that's, that's very important. You know, people who are in a space where they're deemed maybe conservatorship, there's a trust component that they, they, they deal with. It's a fear that they don't trust everyone because everyone's gonna come up to them and tell them that they're crazy or they need to be locked up. That's why they kind of disassociate themselves with people and they don't trust anybody because everybody just wants to put them away. She has to be around trusted people who are going to work with her, who are professionals, who are going to understand her day to day. Just taking someone and locking them up again and just not putting anything structured and just treating them as robots. It's not the way to go. There has to be steps, steps here. Family. Let's see what the family does. Let's see how much help they get. But she has to get a trust, a buildup of trust, because remember, she was traumatized by the previous conservatorship.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, in her previous conservatorship, I just want to break down, like, what she was and was not allowed to do. I mean, she really wasn't allowed to do anything honestly.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

Correct.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was financial control. So, you know, she had like a $60 million fortune at that time because she's the the Britney Spears. And her dad had complete control over that, over her estate, controlled all the business deals, you know, expenses, investments. And there's always been an argument, like she even argued in court that she was not happy with how some things were utilized and how and where money was going. I think that that's always an issue with the conservatorship. But then there was like personal medical decisions. So she was forced to take medicine. And I won't say force, but she was, you know, they were having her take medicines, undergo therapy. She had spent some time in a mental health facility. At one point she claimed that that was like, against her will. They also had autonomy or like decision making over Whether she could reproduce or have children, you know what I mean? Or not. And just, you know, her movement, who could come visit her, where she could go, if she could even, like, put out music, like, all of that was controlled. And, you know, I, I get what you're saying, but I guess it's like, where in this mix of things, like, so right now, if a judge were to see this, could someone go back and say, hey, judge, I know you got her out of the conservatorship in 2021, but look at this. She could have killed herself for someone. She needs something legally again. Could that happen?

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

It could if there's a strong,

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a

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

strong push for it. But the person that's putting in that show, you have to remember when you go to the courts, it's very black and white. It's not warm and fuzzy, right? They're not going to be like, oh, let's help her. Let's. Let's put in this step program to mentally and physically get her to a place where, you know, she'll be able to kind of be okay out in the community. It's either, you know, you come in, we put you in a conservatorship and we take away everything from you, or you try to work it out in the community. I don't believe that her having this DUI pushes her into a conservatorship. What I do believe is that there has to be a team that comes in, right, and puts a plan and mental health professionals, and it has to be done very slowly and carefully because that whole list that you've read to me about what she could not do, that is not healthy, that is not keeping a person safe, right? That's controlling them, treating them like a robot, and just having them do whatever you want. It's just very controlling. And conservatorships were meant and built to help people, to keep them safe, to protect them, not to control them and take autonomy away from them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I get you, I get you. And I did see the story where, you know, as I saw, you know, some, some further reporting where they were talking about how her children are set to visit her and that'll, you know, that'll help her and that's helpful. Yeah, I just. My thing with Britney Spears and I think this was, you know, I've had conversations with you about Wendy Williams when I was reporting a lot on that. And my biggest thing is, is, you know, not all the time. Do you have family members who can endure all of this to kind of step in? And I Know, her dad, he, he went through the ringer with just. He was dragged. Like Jamie Spears was the villain. He was dragged. He was the most horrible person. But this is still his daughter. So it's like if he doesn't want to be involved and she doesn't have anybody and it gets to a point where, you know, maybe they discover or, you know, whatever. Maybe it does get to a point where she needs something guardianship wise. Who steps up then? Because we're looking at what happened with Wendy Williams in the court being in control and she's miserable, you know, now with that. So it's like, is it just the court? Like, what, what happens in that instant? Because it's like almost like she's abandoned. Like she doesn't have a person.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

Correct. And I don't know Britney's family tree. But guardianship and conservatorships, there's a foundation and that's family. And if you don't have a family that you are able to trust or the court feels they cannot trust you, then you cannot go to your family. Which is why it's always good to have a family bond with the potential ward and develop a trust so that the system doesn't take them and body snatch them and take them away from everybody. Because it's always either you're in a conservative conservatorship or you're not. There's never a middle. Right, Right. And there should be a middle. And that's what's missing here in this whole structure, the middle part. People don't want to take the time. Right. It's a lot of work.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It is.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

And, and the court doesn't have that time. And that's not how they plan. It's either you, you're going to come in or you're not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

And so that's where there should be a middle. The middle should start forming right now. She had this doi. Hey, this is an alarm for us. Let's see if we can gather up as a family. Let's see if we could try to, you know, build up trust. She's been through a lot. We have to kind of focus on the person with the mental health issue. We tend to blame a lot. We tend to make fun of, you know, everything that. But there is something in them that we need to respect that they don't get.

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Yeah.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

Which is why they run away from help.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah, I get you. So when you talk about help, then. Right. In closing, we talk about help. You know, I'm, I'm seeing the reporting of like, you know, of course her family and close friends, they want her to not have to do jail time, which could be on the table. But I think once they do a mental health evaluation, hopefully they see that like this is something bigger than just a person who just decided to just, you know, be reckless and drink and drive. Right. But because also too there's other reported there was a potential controlled substance found in the car. So that makes it, it's very in line with everything that she was getting in trouble with before her conservatorship. Right. So.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They talk about, they, they, they would rather have rehabilitation, see her in rehabilitation and in jail. What does rehabilitation look like though? Because it, because I think just putting her in a rehab facility. Britney Spears has been to rehab facilities.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

Yeah. And you know, a lot of people who have a mental health condition, again, I know I sound like a, it's repetitive. It's a trust component. Right. Everybody wants to drug them, everybody wants to call them crazy. And so rehab to a person who has a mental issue is finding someone that they can trust. Right. And working with that person step by step by step. And it takes a lot of work. You're not going to get it on the first try, the second try, it's going to be a whole bunch of times because you need to put in that routine.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

It's like trying to teach a baby how to walk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

You don't stop teaching them because they fell. You pick them up and you teach them how to walk again. And that's how you deal with re rehabilitation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

And unfortunately a lot of these programs do not have the time. A lot of them just want the money. So that's a missing component in our, in, in our world right now, that middle ground, to really understand someone, what they're going through, how they, how we can fix it, who they can trust, what is it that they want? Why don't we ever ask that person what do you want? Right. And if they say, hey, I want to live on an island alone, hey, we, we can't do that. But maybe we could find a nice neighborhood, right. That doesn't have a lot of homes. You kind of work with that instead of going against it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So with that being said, can you tell the people a bit more about, talk about what you do on a day to day and I don't know if your services are like, you know, for hire anymore at this point. I don't know your caseload, your workload, but I would love for you, I mean we have 8 million listeners nine. Over 9 million, actually. So I would love for them to get to know what you do in that instance. Because that's why I open this with saying every time I talk to you, I remind you how important you are and how special it is what you do. Because I know it takes a lot of patience. I know it does. And it is not a rewarding industry. Like you get treated really bad, you don't get paid as well a lot of times, but like you still do it. So I would love for people to be able to support what you're doing and to learn more about what you're doing because you do need that middle point. But those people are null and void most of the time in this medical field. So talk to us a bit about, you know, your company, your platform and what you need from people that are listening and watching.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

So our company, we deal with the elderly, the disabled, and we assist them in preserving their autonomy into remaining home with services and making sure that they're safe and protected and they have all their needs met, whether it's through government services, whether it's through private money. We go and we put all the services in place to make sure that they're able to still remain at home. They have food, shelter, medical, and no one is out to kind of put a conservatorship or guardianship and take them away from their space. And we are hired privately by family and friends and we utilize that money with our services to assist them to make sure that they're safe.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Got you. And where can they find you guys?

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

We have a website, www.connectcare ag.org. they can also call us. Office number is 646-745-9122.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And can they be based anywhere or is it just New York like it's, it's nationwide.

[Jeanalisa Monterosso]

And remember, we assist the elderly and disabled and we, we advocate to make sure that they're able to stay home and, and, and live in their own environment.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Got you. Well, thank you so much, Ms. Gina Lisa, our angel on earth. I appreciate you as always. Y. I called her literally as I was getting this segment together because I'm like, I need someone to talk about it, but I don't want it to be so stuffy. I want somebody I know actually cares about people in these positions because it's tough. Like it is tough. And imagine being a Britney Spears, you know, or a Wendy Wood. Like all these people have such public facing platforms and lives while going through this. So, so yes, we appreciate you and We thank you, Ms. Gina Lisa. I'll talk to you soon. I'll let you know when this goes live. Okay, guys, so that has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. There will be updates here. You know this Britney Spears story and conversation will not stop here. So we will be bringing you the latest when it comes to that. And I tell you guys, every single episode, y' all could be anywhere with any old body talking about all of the things, but you guys choose to be right here with me, my low riders. I appreciate you guys and I will catch you in the next episode. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.