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Klay Thompson and Meg Thee Stallion are official? + Uno’s entering the casino game
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Lauren LaRosa
This is an I heart podcast. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody exclusive. No, she don't lie about that. Right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, guys, it's Lauren LaRosa. And this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. So, you know, this is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and the conversations that shake the room. Our story, our lead story today. In the Latest with Lauren LaRosa, we we skipping behind the scenes of the grind because, you know, back on the grind. I really want to get to this because this right here, biggest news I've seen in some time. The latest right now is that Uno is coming to the casino, y'. All. So Uno is officially going to be a part of a casino experience in Las Veg, which is insane to me. So the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas is going to be setting up its first ever. The first ever, actually, in general, the first ever in a casino. Uno social club. So to be off the strip in Las Vegas, and after this happens, there are supposed to be more Uno clubs that are going to open across the US later this year, and that's according to Mattel, who owns the Uno brand. Now, it's unclear at this point if people who go into that Uno social club room will actually be able to gamble on the game or if you'll just be in there playing or, like, you know how it will work. But people are excited. Okay, the people are excited. I was asking friends in the room earlier, like, do y' all think that Uno belongs in a casino? And when I tell you now I'm a Uno player, and Uno was such a big deal, like in college. It's always a big deal drinking game wise. But I've never seen people play Uno for money. I know that it happens, but I've just never seen it. So I don't even know, like, what the rules are. Like, do you make money every hand you win or every game you win? Or, like, I don't know. I just know that Uno is so y'. All. Like, Uno is one of, like, the most competitive games ever. Like, spades is competitive as I don't know what in a black household, but I don't know if spades is diverse. Like, if it's as adversely. Is that a word? I don't know if spades is competitive across the board. Like, when you leave a black household, when you leave the black function and you go elsewhere, are they as competitive about spades? And you know how we do. Like, we yelling, we Slamming cars down, you know, your aunt and your uncle might not like each other. At the end of the game, whoever brought the potato salad, I hope it's good because if you sitting down and you messing up and you were on space, they going to find that moment to pull your card about how bad your potato salad was. Okay, spades is a thing, but Uno is a thing as well. But I've never seen it in this matter. Like, even with spades, I, I've seen people gamble on spades, on, you know, tun, on peanut, on different card games, but never with this. So I was more so asking, not because the game isn't popular, but I was asking because I wanted to know, like, how do you get paid? Because the point of going to the casino is to get paid. And baby, they chewed me out, okay? They chewed me out. But according to newsweek.com UNO is, I mean, I don't got to tell y' all this number for y' all to know. Everybody listening here has probably played Uno or experienced a serious Uno game where you knew, okay, this is life or death. But Newsweek is reporting that the UNO game is owned by an estimated 80% of American households. And that's across like ethnicities and cultures and things of that nature. And they're citing this number according to the National Museum of Play, which dubbed UNO as America's favorite game. Now when I'm thinking about America's favorite game, I'm thinking about UNO and I'm thinking about Monopoly because I feel like those two games kind of go hand in hand. But Monopoly is kind of like a niche. Like you have to have a certain interest level in games and board games in taste to really get busy and get crazy With Monopoly, UNO is easy. Everybody plays Uno. It's, it's the easiest to teach, the easiest to play, and the easiest to carry around as well too, because you throw it in your pocket, throw it in your bag. So now these, these social clubs inside of the casino will have, you know, just different themes to them as they pop up throughout the country later this year with different experiences as well. So I guess they're kind of like testing this out. So different experiences in the bars as well. So the Palms Hotel said that, you know, each event will transform everyday hot spots into the ultimate game night destination with UNO themed drink menus, tournament style play, photo moments and more. Y', all, that is going to be so fun. I don't know if y' all have ever had a drink night with uno. Like when you invite friends over, y' all chilling Y' all drinking or whatever, but it's going to be so fun. Now the only thing that I'm trying to figure out is what will house rules be? Because y' all know if you've ever played Uno, the house rules matter so much. Like, can we stack cards? How does that go? So very interested in seeing what house rules will be for UNO and who decides them. And then once decided, as these different UNO social clubs pop up throughout different states, does it change state to say? Because honestly, I feel like the group of people you're with in the state that they're in or where they grew up determines how they do a lot of things, including play uno spades as well. But Uno for sure. Like the way that you're able to. Cuz some people have it where like you can't continue to put draw twos and then you can't put a draw four over draw two. You can't. Oh, you can't like double stack. Like there's a lot of different rules that you go in and out of. So interested to see all of that. I'm not a big casino person or I was actually just in Atlantic City this past weekend in I did. Nothing in me ever wants to sit in the casino and gamble. First of all, casinos normally smell like cigarettes and I hate that smell. But I don't know, I'm just not a fan of losing money. And the games are just not fun when it's all those people and there's so much pressure and you're trying to figure out your money. I think Uno's gonna be a bit different. I really think Uno is gonna be a big different. Especially because it's already competitive without the money. So it's like, okay, let me know what y' all are thinking though. How y' all are feeling? Are y' all traveling to go play Uno? Because that's another thing too. If you're a real Uno player and you really enjoy the game. Like, for me, I'm just sitting here thinking, like, okay, I would love to experience it in Jersey. In Jersey. Ooh, not in Jersey, in Vegas. But then I would love to kind of see what the vibe is like playing Uno in a casino in Miami. You know what I mean? Like just being able to compare the two locations and the drink menus and the rules and all the things. Now up next in the latest. This is a very hard right, but I maybe not because a lot of people are trying to figure out we speaking about playing games. A lot of people are trying to figure out, right now, if our girl, Meg the Stallion is playing games with Klay Thompson, NBA player Klay Thompson, or if she is serious. Now, let me explain to you guys what I mean. So news broke. I wouldn't even say news broke. Meg thee stallion broke the news that she was dating Klay Thompson. Sometime last week she posted a picture and in a bikini, she was at the pool. And boom, in the background of the photo, in a very far background of the photo is Klay Thompson. We talked about this a bit on the Breakfast Club this morning as well. And then Klay Thompson posted a photo celebrating a street naming. And in that swipe through was Meg the Stallion. So it confirmed that they were dating. Now let me get on into my opening line. When I came in here, right, I said, the people want to know if Meg the Stallion is playing with Klay Thompson because people feel like she's had several public relationships. And when I say relationships, I don't know if they're actually exclusively dating boyfriend, girlfriend, but she has been spotted with several very, you know, people that people know. Tory Craig there was the, the soccer player from overseas as well that she was at the wedding with. Like, you know, and listen, this is how I feel about it. I feel like our girl is dating. That's a part of dating. You go out, you experience things with people, you know, you, you might let it get a bit serious until you discover that it can't be serious anymore and you can't move forward or if you're lucky, you move forward and it becomes a real thing. And then you, you out the streets. It's ghetto out here anyway. She ain't trying to be out here. Ain't none of us trying to be out here. But I think the reason why people are having a conversation and they do this all the time with women. Whenever a woman is dating, especially if she's high profile or if she's a high profile woman and she's dating men that are also high profile, it's like you can't be seen with anyone, but the one person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. Lori Harvey also gets a lot of these critiques that I'm seeing Meg the Stallion get because Lori Harvey is a person who will date openly, who you know will leave a situation and move on and get another boyfriend. And that boyfriend be just as famous as the last. And it seems like Madison is not afraid to do that either. And I understand people, people's like, oh my God, like, yo, we just seen you with Tory Craig on Tik tok a year ago. I get all that. I totally do. And I do think, you know, as I'm learning and navigating and, you know, things are in the public eye. One of the things that I'm learning is that, you know, who has access to you not learning. I knew it. But I think you consider it a lot differently when things change and people are. You have to begin really having a conversation about why people are around you or why you're giving access to certain people in certain ways. And in doing that and in having that conversation, you just get a lot more particular about who you seen with, who mom is meeting, who, you know, the family is meeting, and things of that nature. And I think that that's the thing that comes with age and immaturity as well, too. It's like, you know, Cause for me, it's like, I get it. Meg's dating. She's, you know, she's doing her one, too. She's getting to know people, and that's what you should do. But I think when you are a Meg thee stallion, even if you are seen having a smile, okay, not even having a drink with, but just having a smile while in conversation with a man. And you are single. Reports happen, right? So it is about just being particular just because, you know, if she's dating, she's dating, but being attached to everybody or to. I don't want to say everybody, because, I mean, we didn't see her date. A few people announced everybody. That's. That's unfair. But being attached to someone when you are a person of status is such a thing. And on both sides, the men that she's dealing with and they're choosing to be public with her, it's a thing for them. And it's a thing for her as well, too. So I understand people's pushback. But then I also feel like, what's wrong with Meg the stallion being like, hey, I tried that. That didn't work, baby, I'm moving on and I'mma try something else. Maybe it's something similar, but it's somebody different. I don't understand what the issue is. Anytime women choose to do that. JLo not. Not similar, per se, because people. People have this critique with JLo where they're like, oh, JLo is the problem, because, you know, she's been in very serious relationships and engaged, you know, several times, and they haven't resulted in happily ever after. So she moves on and she tries again with someone else. More recently, Ben Affleck. And that was their second time doubling back. And people thought, you know, Ben and Jen 2.0. We thought that, you know, this was it and didn't work out. So then people start having a conversation about like, okay, is the woman the problem? Is it wrong for us to see a woman dating people? Is she promiscuous? Is she, you know, all the things, all the things they like to throw at us because of that. So you know, it's like on one hand I understand the power of secrecy and mystery. That is where I'm at with things. But I also feel like, you know, more power to you if you want to publicly figure this thing out with, with you know, people as you date them and choose not to date them anymore. Cardi B. Recently talked a bit about this in one of her X posts or her ex spaces when she was live on X. Let's take a listen to that. She made a really good point about women dating in the perception of women dating. Let's take a listen.
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Cardi B
And I don't know why these men are calling me all type of sluts or type of whores or type of this on top of that, I don't know. I was a stripper, but even when I was a stripper, I, I was cuffed. I, I had a boyfriend, I had a fiance and, and even when he went, I was loyal to him and everybody knows that. And after that, after that breakup, I got married and I was married for seven years and I didn't cheated. And now I'm with a man that love me down. So I don't understand why these are so. But her and calling me all type of sluts and I'm like a terrible this, I'm a terrible that, I'm a terrible whatever the like I'm the I motivate to do better and be better and stay better. And that is a fact.
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Lauren LaRosa
And like I said, I mean Cardi talked about this. It's a fine line, right? Because Cardi mentioned she's always been in long relationships. She's all. And, and she's, she was dealing with offset for you know, six or seven years. They've been together for some time. But the minute that you start dating or you deal with anyone else, you get the whole title thrown on you. You get all these things. But when does a woman have a chance to really experience people, to figure out what she wants and she doesn't want. And I don't think that you have to do that publicly. I think that honestly I would much prefer it be in private before you pop out, because now you done popped out. The labeling happens. We can't get around the fact that the labeling happens and that there is a stereotype. But I do think that getting to experience someone in the public eye, seeing how they are when you take them into your environment, especially if you're a person of status, you know, and that's public, you know, these events or these outings or these, you know, whatever, even if that person is a celebrity themselves, you want to know that? And if I'm hiding and we not hiding, but if I'm. If I'm keeping you, no face, no trace, Mr. Wizard Kelly Forever. I don't know what that element is like. And then when we do it, it's like, you know, But I do think, you know, there should be disdain around at what point that happens. And I don't know. Meg's sister, you know, I think, you know, women, you know, and y' all let me know. Chime in, take it to the streets, to the tweets. Make sure you at me, at Lauren LaRosa. Let me know what your dating system looks like. For me, I had to develop it. I had never, as an adult, dated. I was in a relationship for a very long time, which I didn't realize. Like, okay, I went from a senior in high school all the way through college up until, like, what, like, two years ago, for real, dealing with the same person, even on the outs of that person, there was no real dating happening because I was still very much attached to that person. So what was happening, I wouldn't consider dating for real. So once I moved forward from that, I had to realize and have a conversation with myself. Like, I didn't even know how to date. I didn't. I didn't know how to date. I didn't know how to, you know, be in public with another person. And that was something I wanted to experience. So I had to take the chance of, like, okay, let's go in public then. Okay, let's go on dates then. Let's figure this out. Things are a lot different now than when I first started this, you know, whole dating season of life, because things weren't as elevated. You know, I didn't have a million lowriders listening to the podcast every day. But, you know, now that I've gotten to a point where, like, I'm dating more seriously and intentionally and I'm focused, you know, not on a bunch of different people. One of the things that I've enjoyed is I love that people don't have access to me. I love that the person that, like, you know, I'm focused on is what I'm focused on, and we're seeing where that goes. Like, you know, I think intentionality is what I'm speaking to, and I've begin to enjoy that a lot more. Whereas before, it wasn't there. Like, it, you know, I ain't out here getting all crazy, but I did feel like I needed to experience people and things to be able to know what my boundaries were. It's like when you go bowling for the first time, if you don't know that they have bumpers, they're not just gonna put them up for you. You have to know to ask for that. So I had to learn what I like, what I don't like, what I'm okay with. So I knew what to ask for, and I knew what to say. Hey, I don't want this when it's presented or when I'm dealing with it. So it's a hard space to be in. You know what I mean? Like, I just feel like, as women, sometimes we just can't win. The people love to hate Meg the Stallion anyway. We just being honest ever since, you know, everything with Tory Lanez, they love to hate Meg the. So she, you know, that. I don't think that's something she'll ever get around at this point, unfortunately. But when it comes to other women, like a JLo or Cardi B or, you know, anybody that you can think of out here dating, it's like, man, we can't even kiss the frog. Cause if we get a frog, if we get one too many frogs. Now we in our city girl era, and y' all gotta have a whole conversation about us. It's like, I gotta kiss the frogs and know when I met the prince. Cause then when I get the prince, I know exactly what to do with him. I know exactly how to treat him. Boom. You for the treats. We outside. We outside. We outside, outside. In the tweets, every other page. Our goal. Let me know what y' all are predicting. You know, will Meg the Stallion and Klay Thompson make it through the summer? Will they stay together? Is this a forever thing? Is. Is this just a fun thing? Because I think, you know, that's it as well, too. It's like, you know, you do got to realize that eventually, if things aren't sticking, it's just young and it's fun. And, you know, some women are okay with that, some aren't. Let me know what y' all think at me. Aurenlarosa everywhere at the end of the day, I always tell you guys, there's a lot to talk about, and y' all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it. But my lowriders, y' all choose to be right here with me, and I appreciate y' all for it. I will catch you guys in my next episode. And don't be all worried about who my prince is, either. Mind y' all business. This is an iHeart podcast.