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Lauren LaRosa
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human hey, what up y'?
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Charlamagne tha God
All?
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DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy. And the holidays are here. The time of year that's all about connecting with loved ones in person or over the phone. In fact, hearing someone's voice can emote a similar emotional response as a hug. And while most of us can hop on a video chat to really bring that connection to life, using tech isn't easy for everyone, especially some of the older folk in our lives. And AT&T has been doing something special here to help. They offer digital literacy workshops that help older adults learn how to use technology to do things most of us take for granted, like video conferencing and sharing photos. Take Nancy Shand. She joined one of AT&T's workshops to learn how to video chat for the first time this holiday season. Nancy won't just be hearing about family gatherings, she'll be a part of them, sharing stories, opening presents, and making memories all through a screen. Nobody should have to go through the holiday season alone, so be sure to connect and stay connected to your loved ones this holiday season.
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
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Charlamagne tha God
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- [03:56]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody exclusive. You know she don't lie about that, right?
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Charlamagne tha God
Lauren came in hot.
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Lauren LaRosa
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. It's so crazy because I just hit record to do this intro. I'm in the car right now. We are headed to the mountains somewhere. We're celebrating and bringing in the New Year with Bozma and her friends and all of her family. We are here in Ghana. I've been here since it's been like it feels like it feels like forever, but it also feels like I just got here because it's just such a good time. We've been here for about two days so we've been doing rewinds on the podcast and this is my first time doing this intro since Like Christmas. I've pre recorded so much content for you guys. Make sure you just had something. And I started smiling. I'm like, y', all, this year we really. We were. We were podcasters. This year we really did this. So currently you guys will hear in the background. Let me put the window down so you can hear more of it. So we are riding through a night market in Ghana. Currently, currently in traffic as we head to Bose Bozeman St. John and her boo thing. Keely, y' all know I was all up in their business when she came to the Breakfast Club. Formerly of. Well, not even formally. She's still there. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Yeah, it's. I don't know, it's just a good feeling to get back on here, hop in and do the intro real quick. I promise you guys be bringing you all new episodes. Of course. But before we do that, I did want to make sure we took a rewind. Took a second to look back because I said this year we were podcasting. But y', all, this year really, really laid a foundation that I'm so proud of. Here at the latest with Lauren, the Rosa, the podcast and I went back and went through and pulled our top 10 episodes from the year Low Riders. Let me tell y', all, we started off this year because the podcast turns one in March. So we started off 2025 just as an idea. We launched in March and we are now over 8 million listeners strong going into 2026. I am so excited for us. So just real quick. I know that there's been a lot going on in the news and you guys haven't really heard from me. I did want to take some time to send some love and some prayers to Anthony Joshua and his family and his team. That's the boxer from. From the UK who got into the accident. I know his family's from Nigeria, though, who got into the accident, the car accident in Nigeria, and reportedly lost two people very close to him, including train people from his training team. And that happened, you know, within the last, like, 24 hours as well. So there's been a lot of news breaking around that and a lot of people I know have actually traveled back. People who I know who are from Nigeria and Ghana. They've traveled back home to bring in the new year and because of the holidays. So I can't imagine, you know, what he's dealing with. Just kind of, you know, trying to figure all of this stuff out as he heads into the new year. So I wanted to open with that and Then, you know, bringing in some more lighter news. Beyonce is a billionaire. I've been seeing that everywhere. But Matthew Knowles told y' all a minute ago back in, I think it was like 2018, he sat down with Vlad and he said, beyonce been a billionaire. I'm sorry, I said millionaire. Let me get this right on Beyonce's Internet. Beyonce is a billionaire. Billionaire officially, according to Forbes, who announced this within the last 24 hours as well. But Matthew knows, told us a long time ago that baby girl was holding. Okay. And then I posted this to the Brown girl grinding Instagram. If you guys are missing hearing from me, make sure you follow us on Instagram, everywhere. Lauren LaRosa, brown girl grinding. And also on X. Because I am posting news actively as I see it there too. Y' all got a lot of funny replies to this one. But Diddy Suns, as we end 2025, are deciding they want to hop in the docu series game and do their own docu series about what it's been like going through all of this stuff as the sons of Sean Diddy Combs from the indictment to the trial to, you know, living life without their dad right now who was behind bars. And I did see that Justin went and, you know, visited Diddy on Christmas, which, I mean, I expected that, but that was a story as well too. So there are some things that have been happening. I promise we'll be back with all the updates and I'm going to bring you guys some exclusive content here from Ghana. And speaking of y', all, I went to Afro Future. I saw Rima perform live for the first time. It's been such a great experience. It has been such a great experience. So I got some audio from that I want you guys to take a listen to. Then we're gonna rewind it and just take a look at some of our biggest moments for the for the year. I hope everybody is staying safe, having a good holiday season and bringing in a new year the right way. Write down some things you want to accomplish cuz I already got some things listed for us over here at the latest. It's one of the Rosa, I will see you guys in the next episode. But wait, stay tapped in cuz there's a lot to listen to. We got Rema, we got the rewind. Let's go. See this day. We are all together to celebrate this day.
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DJ Envy
So I want you to have fun.
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Lauren LaRosa
You paid have that money to have fun.
- [09:27]
DJ Envy
So have fun. You know, don't give a about what what anybody think about you.
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Podcast Advertiser/Announcer
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- [09:33]
Lauren LaRosa
You want to take her for granted? What? Sam. Hey, what up y'?
- [10:54]
Charlamagne tha God
All?
- [10:54]
DJ Envy
It's DJ Envy and the holidays are here. The time of year that's all about connecting with loved ones in person or over the phone. In fact, it's hearing someone's voice can evoke a similar emotional response as a hug. And while most of us can hop on a video chat to really bring that connection to life, using tech isn't easy for everyone, especially some of the older folk in our lives. AT&T has been doing something special here to help. They offer digital literacy workshops that help older adults learn how to use technology to do things most of us take for granted, like video conferencing and sharing photos. Take Nancy Shandy. She joined one of at&t's workshops to learn how to video chat for the first time this holiday season. Nancy won't just be hearing about family gatherings, she'll be a part of them, sharing stories, opening presents and making memories all through a screen. Nobody should have to go through the holiday season alone, so be sure to connect and stay connected to your loved ones this holiday season.
- [11:49]
Lauren LaRosa
Connecting changes everything.
- [11:51]
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Charlamagne tha God
I do think, and this is, I think that conservative, traditional conservatives are going to take the Republican Party back. I think there's a political cool right now in the Republican Party that people aren't paying attention to.
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Lauren LaRosa
Oh, interesting.
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Charlamagne tha God
Yeah. I think that the, I think that this Epstein thing is going to be a way for traditional conservatives to take their party back. I really do. I think that, I think that, I think that they know this is the issue that has gotten the base riled up. The base, the MAGA base isn't letting this issue go. And for the first time, they know they can, you know, probably take their party back and not piss off the MAGA base. I think, I think, I think they're going to do that.
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Lauren LaRosa
Well, I would say, you know, we've never seen a typical election since the day that Donald Trump came down the golden escalator. So I don't know that. I don't know that we'll ever see another typical Kind of traditional election with traditional Republicans. I don't know. I feel like things have changed. The game changed. And to say that the old guard is going to kind of come back, that's a big statement.
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Charlamagne tha God
But that's the mistake Republicans are going to make. Republicans are going to make the same mistake that Democrats made. And I'll tell you what I mean by that. Barack Obama was a one of one, once in a lifetime, you know, political juggernaut. And since Barack Obama, every Democrat has tried to be Barack Obama. You're not Barack Obama.
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Lauren LaRosa
You got to be yourself.
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Charlamagne tha God
It's going to be the same thing with Republicans. Say what you want. Donald Trump is a once in a lifetime, one on one political juggernaut. You're not going to be Donald Trump. So if you think you're going to be able to do what Donald Trump has done, talk the way Donald Trump has talked, get away with what Donald Trump has got away with. It's not going to happen. So everybody, right now we have the opportunity to have like a huge reset. I think you should blow it all up. I think that people are really sick and tired of what we've been presented from both parties. By the way, we knew this before the last election. They were telling us that like 70% of people did not want to see a rematch between Trump or Biden. So it's like, we know we want something different. Everybody wants something different. So I think that if Democrats keep doing the same old thing, they gonna keep getting the same results. And if Republicans, you know, think that they can repeat what has been done and don't try to give the people something new, they're gonna get the results they don't want.
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Lauren LaRosa
Now here's the thing. This is not anything that Charlamagne has not been saying for, I think, I would say for the last month, maybe two months, he's been having this conversation about Epstein and why Democrats should not let up on it, why this should be the hot button topic that Democrats lean in on. The same way that Republicans lean in on transgender conversations and all those things. They have their topic that they lean in on heavily. They use it to incite the masses and get people listening and show, okay, here's what we can do. And they're changing laws and changing rules and all these things. That has been Charlamagne's point for the last like two months, right? And he's been saying it and yelling it and screaming it, but baby, when he sat across from Lara Trump and said it, oh, the people is upset. I tweeted out just the videos from the interview. And I never seen, I thought the Shade Room comments got messy, baby. I ain't never seen that many people arguing about the things. You got some people feeling like Donald Trump gathered Charlamagne. You got some people feeling like I've literally. One girl said, I've never wanted Charlamagne to be right as much as I want him to be right about what he just said on Fox News with Lara Trump. And I think the reason is, I mean, to his point, some of y' all thought that, you know, having Donald Trump in office would be the key to whatever it is that you need, whether it's more money in your household, the price of groceries going down, you know, being able to go work a job and, you know, not be targeted because you're a person of color working that job or. And I feel like you're just checking a box under DEI and just having DEI even exist so that you could even walk through the doors of the job. Let's talk about that. Right? But other people feel like the complete opposite. Now let's get into what Trump actually said. So Trump got on Truth Social, which is his version of X, and he said, the wonderful and talented Lara Trump, whose show is big rating success, put racist sleaze back Charlamagne tha God. First of all, I don't even believe that black people can be racist. But that's a whole nother conversation. Argue with your mom. And he put in parentheses, why is he allowed to use the word God? At least he capitalized God because you should when describing himself. Can anyone imagine the uproar there would be if I use that nickname? He doesn't have to. He's already positioned himself well above dictatorship. He's a low IQ individual. He has no idea what words are coming out of his mouth and he knows nothing about me or what I've done. Trump then continues like just ending five wars, including, mind you, let me just say for clarification here and for all purposes, I don't know if any of this is true. I am not the political voice or face. I know enough to get me to the ballot. I know enough to try and keep me safe. In this last election, it did not work. But I know enough. But I don't know if all this is true. And we know that President Trump loves to Trump things and speak very President Trump ish. But he lists some things that he says that he's done. So President Trump says he's ended five wars, including a 31 year bloodbath between Republicans of the Congo And Rwanda, where 7 million people have died and there was no end in sight. He didn't know that. Or India and Pakistan or wiping out Iran's nuclear capabilities. I know that he sent the strikes over there to Iran. Or closing the horrendous open border or creating the greatest economy where prices and inflation have come way down and where stupid. And he put stupid in caps and corrupt. Corrupt in caps. Joe Biden, of course, Joe Biden is in all caps. Set the record for doing the worst job as president ever. Ever is in all caps. But let's not shy away from the fact that Charlamagne actually says while they're on Fox News that he's been critical of Joe Biden as well. Let's take a listen to that.
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Charlamagne tha God
At the end of the day, man, regardless of who's in the White House, that person represents all of America. And I reserve the right to criticize both parties.
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Lauren LaRosa
Well, Ann, I would say that person is a representative of America and we should all want that person to succeed for America. Right? No matter your political viewpoints. Right?
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Charlamagne tha God
100% agree. Like when you ask me, you know, what do I think Trump has done, President Trump has done over the last six months? I don't want to say that I think he did a terrible job. But if he's doing a terrible job, I gotta call it like it is. And if it was a Democrat, respectfully.
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Lauren LaRosa
Disagree with you, you can have your viewpoint.
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Charlamagne tha God
But if it was, I gave President Biden the same hell too, you know, because I didn't think he was doing a good job. All we want is somebody in those positions that's going to do a good job. I'm not a party person in no way, shape or form. I want to say I'm an independent, but that don't make no sense because there's only two parties in this country, right? So you're going to end up voting for one of them.
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Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, Trump continues. But this dope, Charlamagne, I'm surprised if he's saying he thinks Charlamagne is dope or is he saying that like Charlamagne is on dope, but this dope Charlemagne will vote for Sleepy Joe or Kamala. Remember one year ago, our country was dead. Dead is in all caps now. It's the hottest because hottest is in all caps country anywhere in the world. Maga. We also got to remember too, that some time ago, Charlamagne was getting dragged. I mean, every auntie, every black church, every political head, black, white or indifferent, that was, you know, for The Dems. It's especially if you were black. Charlemagne wasn't your friend. Y' all remember that? Cuz he was saying things like this.
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Charlamagne tha God
Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible. Trump shows me what presidents can do if they want to do it. Donald Trump shows me what can be said if you are willing to say it. It's not about what can't be done. It's about who has the political will to do it. I don't want to hear a peep from Democrats about nothing until they get the say what's really on their mind in regards to this country and this world.
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Lauren LaRosa
So for people to use this as a moment of a. But wait, weren't you all for Sleepy Joe and all the things and we gotta get Charlamagne up outta here. To be honest with y'.
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Podcast Advertiser/Announcer
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Lauren LaRosa
The day that Kamala won the Breakfast club broadcasted from D.C. we broadcast it from Howard University. And you know, it was supposed to be historic, like Kamala Harris was gonna win the election, Black woman. And you know, after defeating Donald Trump, and we would be at Howard University, her alma mater, and you know, all things black would go down in celebration. And we were there and it just didn't feel like that was what was going to happen after a while and you're there in real time watching it happen. We ended up leaving before she was even able to come out and make the small remarks. No, I don't even think she came out and made remarks that night. But we ended up leaving nonetheless. We left before the actual voter night ceremony at Howard University was over. But I remember we broadcasted from Maryland the next morning and I remember texting Charlamagne and saying, what are you going to get on air and say tomorrow? Because everybody listens to you. When it comes to politics, everybody I know listens to Charlamagne. And I don't think it's because I think here, when Trump is talking about IQ and what he does or he doesn't know, I think a lot of times with politics, and Charlamagne has actually credited Donald Trump for doing this a lot of times with politics, people would like to make it seem like if you don't know everything, if you can't rattle off every poll number or every mass world event, you shouldn't be speaking and people should not be listening to you. But ironically enough, what Charlamagne has given Donald Trump credit for is going right through that and making it clear that that is not true. But Donald Trump is using the same rhetoric that people will throw at everyday people and honestly that a lot of the Democrats have gotten shit for, right? Because a lot of the Democrats people like to say they're elitists. They only want to talk and listen to each other. And when I say each other, I mean those people that I mentioned, the people who can rattle off all the numbers and all this, not the everyday people who are going through these things, who they might not know everything, but they know what they're experiencing every single day. And I think Donald Trump is missing the fact that. Cuz even Lara Trump said it on her show. Donald Trump is missing the fact that the everyday people, the listener to the Breakfast Club, to a voice like a Charlamagne, the God who is tuned in every day, who is relying on you to get information. So information, of course, and factual information is always important. But people just want to hear from someone who they believe filled them that they can trust. And he has become that. Donald Trump is making it seem like he doesn't understand that or know that. But baby, Donald Trump ain't taking his time to type out this paragraph, this essay, this thesis if he didn't believe it. I think the irony of politics always end up showing their hands because how ironic that Donald Trump used the Breakfast Club, right, to lean into that hot button topic to try and help him create commercial ads to win the campaign against Kamala Harris. Y' all remember this.
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Charlamagne tha God
Kamala supports taxpayer funded sex changes for.
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Lauren LaRosa
Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access.
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Charlamagne tha God
Hell no. I don't want my taxpayer dollars going to that.
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DJ Envy
Kamala supports transgender sex changes in jail.
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Podcast Advertiser/Announcer
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Charlamagne tha God
Kamala is for they them.
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Podcast Advertiser/Announcer
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Lauren LaRosa
But at the same time, the minute that Charlamagne disagrees and honestly, the disagreement wasn't even like a biased disagreement. It was very fair. It was. I have the right to criticize and I don't believe that you were doing a good job. And so here's what I'm going to do, right? But the minute that he hears that on a platform that, you know, he obviously wants to promote Laura Trump, his daughter in law, so he's going to lean in, he's going to pay attention, he's going to give it light. He does. But it's insane because the same person that has this low, he said low IQ and has no idea of the words that are coming out of his mouth. You ran these ads. Donald Trump for about a good six months. Like a very long time. To the point where anywhere I went, whether I was in church, I was with my family. It was a family cookout. The reunion. You had the aunties mad at Sister Charlene. Charlamagne. Tha. God. Okay, baby. All his. I talk a lot about him not having a hairline. He might have grew one back from the stress if he leaned into the amount of people who were upset at the Breakfast Club for that Trump ad. Because it was taken out of context. Number one, they were never campaigning for Trump or anything that he was doing. They were having a conversation about some of the trans law and trans conversation. But it's just ironic, right? But that's how this politics thing go. And that's what I'm beginning to learn is like, all of this is a facade. People don't really know who they're against, who they're with. Nothing at all. There was one part of this interview, though, that I feel like a lot of people are not gonna focus on because it's not the, hey, this is the argument between Trump and Charlamagne point. It is not the catty housewives vibe. But to my point of view, focusing on the people and what the people actually care for and what the people actually want done and finding a person who actually cares about that and wants to get it done and not just their hot button topic, and using people when it makes sense for them and then going against these people or going at these people when it makes sense for them. Right? Donald Trump talks about fake news and how the news is sensationalized. And he just got this settlement, this huge settlement, right? Because he claimed that 60 Minutes altered a Kamala Harris interview by editing the interview. Essentially, that leans into him feeling like the news was going to be reported or displayed in a very disproportionate way. I think that it's funny that then you see Donald Trump right now. If you are a person who did not, and I don't know how you wouldn't, if you're under. Maybe you're under a rock. But if you're a person right now who knows nothing about the Breakfast Club, nothing about Charlamagne, the guy, you would think that Charlamagne is this non neutral, heavily critical Trump hater. And I mean, we're not throwing up. We love you. Welcome back. Do the Harlem shake on the mace. Welcome back, Donald Trump party when the man walked back into office. But I think if we're being honest, a lot of people have had to come around to the point of The President is the President. So I'm gonna criticize you the same way I was criticizing everybody else. Because my main goal here is to get what I need as a United States citizen, to get what the people need as citizens.
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
So I show all of this to you guys to say Andy Cohen, you are focused on the wrong thing baby. We need the real husbands of the White House. The real girls of the White House. And we need to ace that because that's where all the drama is. One thing Donald Trump know how to do is start up a storyline. Because as y' all see, when he wants to use your voice, he uses it. When he wants to use your voice in another way, he uses it. I don't know. I'm feeling the real husbands of the White House. I don't know how y' all are feeling or the real girls of the White house. Cause it's very catty. This gives, like, this is bitter baby mama energy. Okay. I expect more of the man who is in my White House. But again, he also left out a lot of words in this Truth Social post. He also left out a lot of grammar in this Truth Social post. He also left out a lot of, like, common sense in this truth social post. So what did we expect now if I'm taking it to the streets in the tweets, you for the tweets. We outside. We outside. We outside.
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Lauren LaRosa
I go, I told y' all that I posted this as news. Make sure you guys are following me Everywhere. It's Lauren LaRosa everywhere. And Lauren Therosa, iconic on TikTok. I do things that get the people going online as well as far as posting my stories. I know. And when I do it, I don't do it to, you know, get into the Trump of all of the things. Like, I'm not trying to incite no riots. You know, I'm just trying to cause good conversation because that's what we do here at the latest, right? So when I posted this, I simply said, hey, and I tagged Charlemagne, Donald Trump is mad at you. And then I said, you know, Trump is taking shots at Charlamagne, the guy via Truth Social, following a Fox News sit down that he did. We are currently at almost 20,000 views. And that's like I literally just did this so it'll go bigger, but, man, people are going crazy. So Uche. I believe that's how you say it. Uche said quick, somebody sent Trump a book on a 5% lesson since he's so confused about someone using the God moniker and then someone else. Yeah, I'm Stacey Said, but yet he used Sharla for his campaign, ran paid ads with him and Envy's words to manipulate his fan base. Fraud. Woke and present on X Said, what makes him low iq? Talking about Charlamagne, what makes him a low IQ individual? Did Trump see his IQ results from the IQ test that he took, or is it simply because he's black? Well, let me tell you something. Woke and present Charlamagne is a little slow, but I don't think that Trump has seen an IQ test. I think Charlamagne just wanted to throw something at him to get him going because again, nothing was low IQ when he was using that ad to help him get seated where he is right now. It's just so funny to me when people like to act like they don't understand the Power of black voice, the power of certain individuals. There was a list going of black men that the black community did not want to see talk about politics anymore. It was like a, these people don't stand for us, so stop inviting them on your platform. And Charlamagne was one of the people. I don't agree with that. And it's not just because I work at the Breakfast Club. This is something that even prior to it was very clear to see that in a political space, when you're talking black voice, there are talking heads. Which is why a Biden comes on the Breakfast Club. And not even just talking heads, but black spaces. There is no space right now in media that is as mass, as wide ranging, as big, as diverse and as long running as the Breakfast Club. I challenge you guys, right? If you can find a media platform that reaches as many people, that covers as many wide range topics, that has the engagement in the numbers that the Breakfast Club does, the guests, and the intersection between culture, hip hop, politics, all the things. If you can find a show that does it, tweet me at me. Y' all know I be outside in the streets and in the tweets, I wanna know, because when people criticize platforms like the Breakfast Club and then moments like this happen, I'm like, do we especially black people, do we not see, like, why we should champion what we have? So, like, if your issue is that the Breakfast Club doesn't always have all the information, say that. Don't say, hey, Breakfast Club should no longer exist. Because obviously Donald Trump sees the beauty and the goldness in a Charlemagne tha God in a Breakfast Club. So does Lord Trump. They don't look like us. But that list that I'm talking to you about, that didn't come from a person that looks like them. It came from a person that looks like us. Y' all see where I'm getting at? So I'm gonna head on out right now because I'm sure you guys are already pretty mad. But make sure you guys tune in at the end of the day. I tell you guys all the time, there's always so much that we could be talking about, and y' all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it, but y' all choose to be right here with me when you do it. And I'm always so grateful for you guys, my lowriders. Make sure you guys tune in for my next episode. I had a lot planned today, and then Trump decided to wake up and I don't know, Charlamagne must be impatient. Child support on time. I don't know what's going down, but baby, it got the pot going. I will see you guys in the next episode with more it's always the Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
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Lauren LaRosa
Sunday mornings I've got my game day.
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
We're back for season four to talk to some incredible small business owners.
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Lauren LaRosa
Everyone's a rookie. That's how fast the industry is changing.
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
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