Love is In The Air (Rewind of Taylor Rooks wedding and more)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – "Love is In The Air (Rewind of Taylor Rooks wedding and more)"

Date: January 2, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts (Angela Yee, Lauren LaRosa)
Special Guests/Segments: Clarissa Shields (audio clips), discussion about Taylor Rooks's wedding

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Episode Overview

This reflective and uplifting episode dives into themes of Black history, personal growth, female empowerment, and the celebration of love and accomplishment—particularly highlighting Taylor Rooks’s private wedding and the multifaceted journeys of women in sports and media. The hosts deliver real-time updates from Ghana, touch on cultural history, and then pivot to a joyful rewind on recent high-profile engagements and achievements, sending a strong message of possibility to women everywhere.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. A Moving Visit to Cape Coast Castle, Ghana

Timestamps: 00:58–06:53

• Lauren LaRosa shares her emotional experience touring Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, often referred to as “the Door of No Return.”
• Rabbi Cohan, a Ghana-based guide originally from Mount Vernon, NY, emphasized the value of Black Americans reconnecting with their history and present outside of American narratives.
• The visit forced reflection on how Black history, especially slavery, is taught differently in America versus the visceral realities experienced at such historic sites.
  • Lauren notes: “We are taught things just so differently ... a lot of times the conversation around slavery... is about how we just conformed. And ... that is not the case.” (03:46)

Notable Moment

• Lauren shares her physical reaction to walking through the dungeons: “I started getting like, dizzy. I'm like, I gotta sit down. I can't imagine being in these rooms....” (03:33)
• Reflection on the “door of no return” and regaining of power by “walking back through the door,” signaling reclaiming agency and connection to heritage. (06:53)

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2. Celebrating Black Love & Major Engagements

Timestamps: 08:15–11:26

• The hosts “rewind” to recap uplifting news about engagements and weddings in the community, providing a positive balance to heavier topics.
• Noteworthy engagements mentioned: Tiana (Fabolous’s former stepdaughter) with G Herbo, Young Thug & Mariah the Scientist, Coco Jones & Donovan Mitchell.
• Special highlight: Taylor Rooks’s wedding, which was kept extremely private and later revealed via Instagram.

Notable Moment

• Angela Yee on Taylor Rooks:

  “We root so much for Taylor Rooks ... but what I love so much about what just happened ... is the fact that not only was it private and very intimate ... the guest list was five star. And she still managed to be able to keep this wedding private.” (11:26)

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3. Taylor Rooks’s Secret Wedding: Media & Career Women Having It All

Timestamps: 11:26–15:54

• Taylor’s ability to keep her wedding private, despite her public profile, is praised. Guests included Jack Harlow, Coco Jones, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, and more.
• The hosts muse on the societal pressures faced by career women regarding balancing personal and professional achievements.
• Angela reflects:

  “To see the girls have it all and be able to establish it all, but not have everything centered around ... your relationship status or what's happening in your womb ... but more about the hard work that you're putting in ... that matters to me.” (14:03–14:50)

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4. Women in Sports: Clarissa Shields’s Journey & Societal Expectations

Timestamps: 15:54–20:04

• Discussion on boxer Clarissa Shields’s balancing act between her demanding sport, ambition to have a family, and cultural commentary on women “having it all.”
• Clarissa’s interview about athletic training, abstinence, and preparation:

  “When women have [an orgasm], it take a lot out of you ... I'm training two or three times a day. I don't got time to be trying to force myself to work out because I didn’t have to, you know, orgasm. I would rather keep everything in.” (17:29–18:04)

• Lauren’s empathy for women in demanding careers—“My soft spot for women in the spotlight who are figuring all this out is like no other. Because I'm new here. Spotlight is still—I ain't nowhere near Clarissa and what her like ... so I can't imagine is. Is what I'm saying.” (18:08)

Notable Moment

• Clarissa Shields previewed new music, echoing the crossover ambitions of modern athletes:

  “Some people say I’m a killer. Jab to the mouth, then the shot to the liver. Ooh, her man wanna take me to dinner.” (19:41)

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5. Public Reaction & Cultural Conversations about Women "Having It All"

Timestamps: 20:04–23:30

• Social media reactions to Taylor Rooks’s marriage highlight how high-profile women’s personal milestones become massive talk points.
• The hosts discuss double standards between men and women regarding relationships, careers, and public perception, referencing Serena and Venus Williams, and Naomi Osaka.
• Angela encapsulates the episode theme:

  “...This is the era of women being able to stand next to a partner who understands our power ... standing next to the right person who understands your power so that you can have all things ... shout out to all the ladies ... having all of the things.” (22:50)

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Notable Quotes

• Lauren LaRosa:
  “In America, we learn black history so different than what I've experienced in real life here, not even just history, but also black present.” (01:38)

• Angela Yee:
  “To see the girls have it all ... but not have everything centered around your relationship status ... but more about the hard work... that matters to me.” (14:03–14:50)

• Clarissa Shields:
  “I’m training two or three times a day. I don't got time to be trying to force myself to work out because I didn’t have to, you know, orgasm... I would rather keep everything in.” (17:29–18:04)

• On social media reactions:
  “Somebody said ... not only did Klay Thompson pull Meg the stallion, but a light skinned N-word with waves just married Taylor rookie. We up. It's our time, baby. 2025 is the year of the beige brotherhood.” (20:04)

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Highlighted Segments with Timestamps

• Cape Coast Castle Reflection: 00:58–06:53
• Love & Engagement News: 08:15–11:26
• Taylor Rooks’s Private Wedding Details: 11:26–15:54
• Clarissa Shields on Balancing Career and Family: 15:54–20:04
• Cultural Commentary on Women ‘Having It All’: 20:04–23:30

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Tone & Style

The conversation is candid, vibrant, and supportive, blending deep cultural reflection with celebration and contemporary commentary on success, love, and societal expectations. The hosts speak authentically and directly to their audience—particularly Black women navigating careers and personal milestones—making the episode inspiring and relatable.

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Takeaway

The episode beautifully balances heavy, reflective storytelling with celebrations of Black love, female achievement, and the ongoing journey for women to define “having it all” on their own terms. It's a testament to resilience, ambition, and the full spectrum of Black womanhood in the spotlight.

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Listen for inspiration, history, and honest perspectives—not just on pop culture, but on the lived experiences and aspirations shaping the world right now.

Transcript

[Angela Yee]

This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human.

[Katie Couric]

If you only listen to one thing to make sense of the news this year, make it this. The final episode of this season of Next Question pulls together the most important conversations of the year. You'll hear David Graham on Project 2025, Liz Oyer on the plethora of presidential pardons, Tina Brown on the year's biggest scandals here at home and across the pond, plus much, much more. It's a crash course in the last 12 months, how we made it through the year, and a look at what might be coming in 2026. Listen to next Question with me, Katie Couric on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Angela Yee]

Let's get to it. Time to do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.

[Katie Couric]

You know, she don't lie about that, right?

[Angela Yee]

Lauren came in hot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, y'.

[Angela Yee]

All, what's up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

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. So we are back on the go again. I am currently traveling back down the coast here in Ghana. We went, it's about like a three hour drive depending on the traffic. We went up the coast to the Cape Coast Coast Castle, which a lot of people visit when they come here to Ghana. Though this castle, there's a, there's a few different castles that you can visit, but the Cape Coast Castle has the.

[Angela Yee]

Door of no return.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't even put it into words yet, and I' ma wait to do so. But we were able to experience a tour of. I want to call it a castle again. But our tour guide, Rabbi Cohan, who is a very well known rabbi here, he does a lot of the tours at the castle, especially when a lot of prominent leaders and different political people and civil rights activists come into the country. He does a lot of work with making sure that black people in America are connecting with Ghana in the way that they should and just understanding our history the way that we should and kind y' all know, we, we learn. And I say, when I say y', all, I'm talking to everyone listening to the podcast, but black people specifically, I think, not even think I know. In America, we learn black history. So different than what I've experienced in real life here, not even just history, but also black present. So going to the castle today, we talked a lot, of course, you know, about the slave Trade and, you know, black people being taken by boat and brought. All brought over the waters. And you know what that looked like? We literally went into, like, dungeon areas, like. And as he was describing, like, you know, these. And we're literally sitting in these dungeons that are pitch black because we also got there kind of late because of the traffic. So the. The sun was going down. We got to really experience what it would have been like. Not comparable, of course, to actually what these people went through, but just putting yourself in that room as literally the sun is down in its pitch back. Barely any access to outside, barely any fresh air.

[Angela Yee]

Like, it was to a point in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

One of the rooms. And I didn't even know what was happening, but I started getting like, dizzy. I'm like, I gotta sit down. I can't imagine being in these rooms. I think Rabbi told us sometimes people would be there.

[Angela Yee]

Like there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There's. There's one place where they would put people when you were sentenced to death by starvation. And he said, you know, depending on your fight. Because one of the things that we talked a lot about was, you know, us in America, we are taught slavery, as if depending on who's teaching it to you. And I think that's why the critical race theory conversation is so important. But we are taught about our history and about slavery. You guys will hear the cars and stuff because we're literally driving down the coast. You mind turning the radio down a bit? We're literally driving down the coast. So we're driving through, like, the city and there's like markets and stuff like that. So you'll hear the cars and all of that. But I wanted to make sure I got this to you guys in real time. But we're taught. We're taught things just so differently. Like, a lot of times the conversation around slavery and what we went through is about how we just conformed. And I mean, if you've ever been taught the lessons that you should have been taught about, and I mean, there's even movies and stuff at this point about how that is not true. Coming to Ghana and going to the castle that we just went to, which he called. I mean, I would call it like a dungeon. It was like a prison. It was a. A place that you went to liter. Most people die, be raped. It was very heavy. So it's just ironic that it's called a castle. But we're taught that we kind of just like laid down and took that. And that is not the case. Like, the rabbi was telling us that that room that I was Mentioning where people were put to die by starvation. Depending on your crime, sometimes you wouldn't even know you're sentencing, right, because people are speaking different languages. So you don't even know what you're being sentenced to and why that you're being put there, because you're not going to make it back out. And depending on your strength, some people will be able to last for 48 hours, 90 days. These are starving people who could have just decided to, you know, what? Suicide. I. You know, I'm. I can't take this. But they wanted to fight to be here and to try and make it out. And when he was taking us through the tour, I thought that it was just, like, genius of him to talk to us in a way where we really understood that and what that experience was in a different way than you're taught in the States, I will tell you that. Like, it's just different being here. And he's actually from Mount Vernon, New York, but he has been living here in Ghana for some time. He said he left back in the 90s. He got tired of all of the protesting and, you know, all the things. And look, I've recorded a lot of it, and he knows that we'll be using it for the podcast to ask.

[Angela Yee]

For permission, so you guys will hear.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A lot of that. So we'll get to that. But he talked to us in a way where it was like, okay, here's what happened. We're not going from that. But if we're being honest, here's, you know, here. Here's what we were able to do from it or take from it, even though things were being taken from us, literally, including our life.

[Angela Yee]

So even when we walked through the door, no Return, which was the door.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That they would walk through to then get put on the boats, to then travel, you know, across the waters to places. Now they have it where, you know, you walk back through the door, and it's kind of like taking your power back. So you come in and you. You learn all this deep, a lot of it, dark history. But then you. You walk out of there feeling, like, all right, like, nothing about my life and, you know, me being here and the things that I'm trying to do in this world or am doing in this world can be taken lightly. It's just a sense of responsibility. It's like a. I can't describe it, but you guys will get to hear parts of that tour in the next episode, so make sure you guys stay tuned for that. But just wanted to come in and Let you guys know, an update from Ghana, because I've been you guys live updates since New Year's Eve. And we're going to rewind it back to another episode. I'll be back here Monday morning. Our first full fresh episode back from the new year. To break down what this tour was like for me and to get into some of the news and all the pop culture things because there are some updates. So we're going to take a rewind back and talk about some love, some I needed some positivity, some uplifting after all of that heaviness. So we're rewinding it back to a love episode where Clarissa Shields is talking about she's ready to start a family.

[Angela Yee]

Another thing I saw, too, throughout the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

New Year, I know I like whether it was people celebrating here or back in the States, there was a lot of people that got engaged. I saw Tiana. And Tiana, who is the daughter of Emily, who is a stepwoman, formerly stepdaughter of rapper Fabulous, is now engaged to rapper G Herbo. Oh, well, this is old. But young thug Mariah. Scientists are also engaged. Like, this is the era of like, we're gonna solidify this love. Okay. Happy to see it. Love to see it. It's been all over my timeline. Taylor made it. Y' all know Taylor made it. She does all of the imaging for the Breakfast Club, but also she is the producer of this podcast.

[Angela Yee]

And y' all also heard from her a lot on Brilliant Idiots also got engaged on New Year's Eve. Girl, congratulations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I say that because she posted it.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, so I'm not breaking any news.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Here, so let's throw it on. Back to a conversation about some love, some family even get a little messy, too. I'll see you guys in the next episode. It's the latest with Lauren Rosa.

[Angela Yee]

Now, every now and then, I give y' all a little sprinkle of an exclusive. But today, the exclusive, not even exclusive because it's all over the the World Wide Web. It's all over Beyonce's Internet. At this point, we ain't even checking in behind the scenes of the grind because I am flabbergasted, y'. All. Taylor Rooks, broadcaster, media personality, sportscaster, the Taylor Rooks. I think all of us, you know, the black girls in media and, you know, and reporting, we root so much for Taylor Rooks as we do a lot of the other girls. The Joy Taylors, the Carrie Champions, the Jamel Hills, all of the girls, especially, you know me because I am not a sports I am not a sports reporter. I can get a concept of a story in sports as it relates to culture and entertainment. But y' all be hearing me when I get through, you know, I mean, I do my sports stories on the Breakfast Club or here on the podcast. I try and stick to what I'm good at, but sometimes the world's intertwined. So I dibble and I dabble. But those girls are so good. They know the facts, the numbers, they're hard at work, they're at the games, they're traveling or doing all the things. But what I love so much about what just happened with Taylor Rooks and the fact that she is married. She announced yesterday via her Instagram that she is married. I didn't even know she was engaged. I assumed she was dating. She's gorgeous, she's successful, she's young. You know what I mean? So of course I assume she was dating. But because we had never seen anything or heard anything about who she was dating, I did not know she was dating. Serious enough to be engaged and now married. So yesterday, Taylor Rooks took to her Instagram to post photos from her wedding. I would say it was a surprise wedding, but baby, it's given only we were surprised. So many other people knew. So she posted the photos and she captain captioned it. What a night. This is love with the wedding ring emoji. Now, in these photos, you see her and her new hubby under her veil. Then there's photos of her by herself walking down the aisle. There's photos of Taylor Rooks and new hubby. She's holding up her wedding ring.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Diamond.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, it's. It's a diamond.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

The girl, the rock is sitting nice, but she has her hand on her hubby's face. Looks like it's like a photo booth picture from after the wedding, from the reception. And then there's photos of her. And just like the people who attended. And I think that's what's most impressive is the fact that not only was it private and very intimate, and you know, when you're in the public eye, you don't get to not share moments like these much because sometimes even if you trying to keep it private, the people around you are so excited for you that they want to tell the world. And then, boom, here you go, Everybody knows you engaged, you married, you got a man, you got a dish, you got a that right. The guest list was five star. And she still managed to be able to keep this wedding private. In attendance. There are photos of Mike Rubin, you know music artist Jack Harlow, Coco Jones, and her newly engaged fiance, Donovan Mitchell, who's an NFL player. Saquon Barkley, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green. The people were in the building. Reports say that Taylor Rooks was married in New York. But, I mean, I don't even know how we were confirming these reports because she didn't mention where she was married. So it's like, how do we even know that? We don't know anything. And it is so fire. Oh, my God. Congratulations to Taylor Rooks and her husband. There are little to no details known about her husband besides the photos that she posted, which I think are also dope. But, yeah, it was just so fly. I'm one of the girls that I love to see the career girls, especially at a young age, have all of the things, do the family thing, have kids, have a husband, be happy in the marriage and actually having it last. But also be able to. Also be able to adamantly go after your career and your goals and establish a life for yourself. And there's nothing wrong with this. There are women who. Their lives and their careers and their names revolve around the men in their lives, their husbands, their kids, fathers. I'm not knocking nobody. But what I'm saying is, is that my personal preference has always been for myself to be like, look, I'm gonna be in love. I'm gonna be married. I'm gonna have children. I'm gonna have the big wedding, the fairytale wedding. You know, I want that for myself. And, you know, I want my mother, my grandmother, and my niece and, you know, the people I love to be able to see me be love. But I've always been worried, like, okay, at some point in my career, there's going to be a conversation about, you're a woman. So what about family? What about marriage?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What about this?

[Angela Yee]

What about that? And I don't want my career and the work that I've worked for to be tied to my relationship or my husband. Not even not tied to. I don't mind that, because me and my man so equally yoked. That's what it's always going to be given, right? But more so, I don't want that to overshadow my work. Every single day. I'm working, like, harder to get better at what I do and what I do and even what Taylor Rooks does or, you know, Jamel Hill and, you know, all of the women, shoot. Shout out to stat baby on Cam and Macy's. It is what it is. Me and her, we've Never met in person. We've tried to link up, but me and her have, you know, become social media friends. And watching her navigate her journey over, you know, on it is what it is. While I'm here on Breakfast Club and you know, with you guys on the latest with Lauren Larose of the podcast has been. And we both always, you know, say to each other that everything's just moving so crazy. So to see the girls have it all and be able to establish it all, but not have everything centered around or the conversation centered around your relationship status or what's happening in your womb, but more about the hard work that you're putting in, the points you putting on the board, the great interviews you're doing, the great content you're putting out, the efficiency of all those things. That matters to me. I can't speak for any of the other women that I just mentioned, but that matters a lot to me. A whole lot. So I thought the way that Taylor Rooks went about this was super fly, number one, super fly. And I just thought it was dope. I thought it was fire to see her walk down the aisle and celebrate and do all these things. And we had no idea it was happening. And it wasn't nothing little about this wedding, baby. This was big. Taylor Rook's big wedding. Okay, guest list. Crazy setup of the wedding looked amazing. It looked literally like a fairy tale wedding. She looked beautiful as well. So congratulations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Assist.

[Angela Yee]

We see you, girl. You did that. You ate that. Yes. Okay. Putting it on the Pinterest board now. In other news, today, we're having a conversation about women in sports. Look at me trying to be, you know, all. In the women in sports conversation, Clarissa Shields will be fighting this weekend in Detroit. She's fighting Lonnie Daniels and. And Clarissa Shields is. She's been. I met her at the Breakfast Club when she came and we interviewed her the fir. The. My first time, I only interviewed her once. My first time interviewing her was not her first time here. But then she also came back to the Breakfast Club again, which I wasn't in the interview for. But she talked about wanting to be a mom in both of those interviews and what that looked like. You know, we're having a conversation about women with very demanding and big careers being able to go on and do all of the things right. I definitely think of Clarissa because. Because I've been watching her journey since meeting her here on the Breakfast Club when she was promoting her movie the Fire Inside that came out on Christmas of 2024, which stars Ryan Destiny and it's the story of Clarissa Shields life. One of the things I was thinking about when I was talking to her was just her sport is so physical, and being able to have a kid and establish a family and all those things also requires a lot of your physical as well. So I've always wondered what that experience was gonna be like for her. Like, for instance, Clarissa Shields was on the Pivot, which is, you know, the show with Ryan Clark, all the guys, and she talked about not even being able to have sex before the fight because of the way that an orgasm affects a woman versus a man. Let's take a listen.

[Clarissa Shields]

When it comes to sex, right, Men and women, women may look at it different. Women have something called orgasms. And when women have that, it take a lot out of you. I'm training two or three times a day. I don't got time to be trying to force myself to work out because I didn't have to, you know, orgasm. I would rather keep everything in. And I feel like, to me, I feel like it helps me be more prepared for the fight. And when you go without, you know, sex, and I mean, you guys are men, it do make you be a bit more aggressive and you can lift more weights and you can squat more weight and everything. It's the same thing.

[Angela Yee]

For me, that's a lesson to you young boys out there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Women too.

[Angela Yee]

And in hearing her talk about this, my first thought is like, how long does Clovers of Shields have to go without sex? Because she's never specified. She said just before a fight, and I'm like, well, how long? And how does that work when you're trying to have a kid midst of your career, fights coming up, like, it's just a lot to balance. I feel for anybody who things are growing and you have a lot to balance because y' all know, we started this podcast in the midst of so much growing and moving. For me, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa has been not just a podcast and entertainment news and trending topics, but you guys have grown with me through a journey of all of the things since meeting me on the Breakfast Club, all of my low riders here. So my soft spot for women in the spotlight who are figuring all this stuff out is like no other. Because I'm new here. Spotlight is still. I ain't nowhere near Clarissa and what her like, you know what I mean? Like, so I can't imagine is. Is what I'm saying. And I think a lot of people right now unfairly are having a conversation about distraction with Clarissa, I think a lot of people right now are having a conversation about women in indie industry and across industries and what they're able to do and what they're able to balance and what they're able to not balance. And this episode, you know, when I was putting it together and I was thinking about what we could do, you know, an extension to everything that was trending today, the first thing I thought about is, man, the girls is having it all, okay? They got their man by their side, they got the business deals popping. Clarissa is dropping music and she previewed it last night in Detroit. Let's take a listen to. It's really short, but we got a snippet of one of her songs.

[Clarissa Shields]

Okay, what's up? Some people say I'm a killer. Jab to the mouth, then the shot to the liver. Ooh, her man wanna take me to dinner.

[Katie Couric]

I call her.

[Clarissa Shields]

What's her name? I don't even remember who I know you nervous.

[Angela Yee]

And baby, the girls is coming for all of it. All of it. So with this being said, I wanna take y' all to the streets.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You for the tweets.

[Angela Yee]

We outside, we outside. We outside. Outside in the tweets. Every other page. Because another thing that went down yesterday, in the midst of the conversation of the girls having it all, people were so sad that Taylor Rooks popped out. Mary Like I know that men be on the girls with the things going on, but baby, where they said, somebody said l brothers media on X said not only did Klay Thompson pull Meg thee stallion, but a light skinned N word with waves just married Taylor rookie. We up. It's our time, baby. 2025 is the year of the beige brotherhood. Laugh out loud. The light skins is outside. That's what it's given. Carosier kid said we lost Coco Jones, Meg and Taylor Rooks all in a two month spin with a sad face emoji shout out to Kev Coke 6 on X. Let's send him some love, y'. All. He tweeted and he said, I just opened up ig and saw Taylor Rooks got married. Please respect my privacy at this time cause these be the baes. These be the baes of the sports industry. Clarissa Shields gets it. Taylor Rooks gets it. I understand, but I think that it's crazy too. I wrote this line down when I was prepping for this episode. I really think it's crazy how big the conversation gets around women who choose to have it all. This Serena Williams went through this too when she decided to have her baby her daughter, her first daughter with her husband Alexis and Venus Williams announced her engagement at the same time that sis made history. At 45 years old, Venus Williams became the second oldest woman to win a tour level match. According to espn. She took this from a woman who was the oldest woman at the time. In 2004, she was age 47, who won Wimbledon. I say that to say, guess what headline lasted longer out of the two. Venus Williams announces she is engaged. People be so surprised to see women have all of the things when you're successful and your career is loud. Naomi Osaka People give it to her really, really hard whenever she doesn't win or doesn't perform at 200%. I've even seen people openly say, you know, online she shouldn't have had a kid at the height of her career. When the girls do finally get to have all the things, the way that we have conversations about them is so different than how we have it about men. Completely different. And I get it. Babies don't come out of men's bodies. I get it. It, you know, women and men have different roles in marriages and how, you know, the marriages change what they're able to do outside of the home. And you know, just, I, I understand the double standards, but I do feel like this is the era of the women being able to stand next to a partner who understands our power. I was going to say take back our power, but it's not even that. It's standing next to the right person who understands your power so that you can have all things because the balance that you're going to need to learn both mentally and physically, that partner sitting next to you, Baby, it ain't nothing but it ain't nothing but a thing. So shout out to all the ladies. For some reason, we focus mostly on women in sports today. Not even on purpose, but yes, shout out to the ladies. Having all of the things. At the end of the day, there's always a lot to talk about and I appreciate you guys being right here with me every episode to talk about it. My lowriders. I will see you guys in my next episode.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So.

[Katie Couric]

If you only listen to one thing to make sense of the news this year, make it this. The final episode of this season of Next Question pulls together the most important conversations of the year. You'll hear David Graham on Project 2025, Liz Oyer on the plethora of presidential pardons, Tina Brown on the year's biggest scandals here at home and across the pond, plus much, much more. It's a crash course in the last 12 months, how we made it through the year, and a look at what might be coming in 2026. Listen to next question with me, Katie Couric on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Angela Yee]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.