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Lauren came in hot, y'. All. Clap it up. We have made it. We are here at 100 episodes of the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is the podcast, the daily dig on all things entertainment, news, exclusives and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now, y' all have been tuned into your homegirl that knows a bit about everything and everybody for 100 episodes now. But I do wanna do a little recap. Let's take a look at the first four episodes of the latest with Lauren LaRosa. Yes, we are here. Welcome. This is the first. This is the inaugural episode. I think inaugural means first. I'm supposed to know that. Yes, inaugural means first. This is the first episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa which is a podcast where we are doing all the things. Okay, I want to start this off by saying for everybody that, you know, reached out and called me or text me, you know, I made a lot of new support system and community just, you know, through via people dming me on Instagram and you know, all that stuff, just checking in, making sure I was good, making sure Jess was good, making sure we understood that like, yo, y', all, like, hey, this is a moment for y' all to really show the world with two black women on a major media platform who are going to be faced with, you know, obstacles and different things will still come after this what y' all can do. And how y' all can do it. For everybody who reached out sincerely and wasn't trying to get some information for a story or get a quote or just be messy, I appreciate y'. All. I know that Jess appreciates you guys, too, because for the first time ever in my life, I wasn't reaching out to break the story. I wasn't detailing the story. I wasn't regurgitating a story. I was the story. Nothing could have prepared me for that more than my relationship with God that I have right now. And I was raised in a church. I've always had a relationship with God. That's, you know, my family and all of that. Like, that's just how I was raised. But I think when you're grown and you establish that relationship yourself, it is so different. And like, a year ago, when I decided to, like, get my apartment in New York and I was trying to figure everything out, one of the things that I did was I. I was like, you know what? I'm. Give my life to God again. Not gonna get emotional. It's a good emotion, though. Y' all got me, like, B. Simone up here crying on this podcast about God, like, what is happening right now. But when I did that, though, I knew that it was a conscious decision. And I told myself. I told myself then that I was, like, arming myself with everything that I was going to need to go to this next level of things. And when I tell y', all, I had no idea everything that was going to happen. And this is not about, like, the Just Instagram Live. I mean, like, everything. I just mean, like, you know, me being blessed with the opportunity to be at, like, I left a job. When you get on television as a personality, you don't take yourself off of tv. I don't care how imperfect that situation is, baby. You figure it out and you make it work. And for me, you know, being at TMZ and being in LA and LA is the number one market, or, you know, at least, because things change, numbers change or whatever. I know it's at least top five market. And you're on television and you're on primetime and your daytime talk show. And no one really knew who I was. You know, people knew, but, like, people were. It was like, oh, the girl from tmz. To leave that and go to a platform where, like, I was able and you guys were able to learn me, get to know who I was. And you know what I mean? I was just like, man, God is really moving in my life. When I got on the Other side of that. And now the conversation that's shaking the room is about me following Jess going live on Instagram. I was like, oh, shit, this is crazy. My first reaction was like, what the fuck? Like, what's happening right now? Wait, what? And I just knew it was something. Cause people just kept sending me to live, sending me live. I'm like, okay, either she's on there. Cause, you know, like, behind the scenes, I knew that, like, things weren't perfect. I knew she wasn't the most happiest person. But I think in my role, I can only speak for myself. I was trying to do as much as I could to make sure that things worked out well enough where she could at least show up and do her job comfortably. Some cheers. Warming up in here. Hello, guys, and welcome back. This is episode two of the latest with Lauren LaRosa. So, you know, since y' all done popped my cherry already, and we two, you know, I was gonna say two strokes in, but, you know, you can do two strokes on the first time we two episodes in now we're warming up to each other. You know, it's feeling like home. I'm excited to hear all the feedback. Thank you for everybody that joined the live that I did when I went live with the Black Effect podcast network and told me that y' all have been watching the show or listening to the show. I'm so used to being on tv, listening to the show and, you know, giving me some feedback. Today, I'm actually here. I have family here in my apartment as we are recording this. I have friends. My mom is here. Y' all see, my makeup is done. My makeup always be done. My makeup is done. My makeup is always done. Okay, the girl's always giving, but today, this is like, special beat, special hair. Because we are actually getting ready to head to the launch party for the podcast. It's a private launch party event that we're doing in New York, and I'm getting excited as the time goes on. It actually starts at 8 o', clock, and it's about 8 o' clock right now, but we still here. We gonna do this. Work comes first. But that's kind of like what the setting is. Episode three. All right, all right, hold on. I gotta cut in real quick. I know we recapping, but I gotta cut in and just let y' all know where my state of within these, like, throwback episodes. By episode three of the latest with Lauren LaRosa, I was literally running on fumes. I was not used to this daily regimen. Of, you know, the daily podcast, trying to figure out the video, doing the audio. I'm up late doing all the edits, doing the rundown for the Breakfast Club stuff. My family start tripping. Like, my mother, my grandmother, they like, yo, what's going on? We ain't hearing from you. Everything was moving so fast. Everything was exploding. And I'm. I mean, I'm grateful to God that it did, but, oh, my God, I couldn't talk about it then because I was like, I don't wanna sound like I'm complaining, but even listening to my voice and listening to myself in these first, probably the first five episodes of the podcast. And that's why I'm so happy that all this is, like, documented. You can just hear, you know, the wear and tear of all the things, like, you know, Breakfast Club was happening, and people were excited to see me there. And the podcast had just been announced, and we were running with the first episodes. I don't think people talk about enough about how, you know, when elevation happens. Like, we pray for good things to happen, we pray to elevate. You work hard, you're consistent. You know, I'm learning in real time, so I'm doing well. I'm failing in real time. Shoot, I still am sometimes. But people don't talk about enough how just learning to adjust and unlearning what you knew on one level, to relearn and learn for the first time, things on this, you know, elevated level, how that, like, takes a toll on you mentally and physically while having to stay together in front of, you know, everybody. So, you know, as I'm listening with y' all reflecting back on these episodes, I'm like, man, you can literally hear it and feel it. Wow. Episode three. What is today? Is suit known? Yes, this is episode three. Okay. Yes. I'm tired, y'. All. So let me know how y' all feel on Twitter, on Instagram, as you're listening to this and you tag me. But I feel like at this point, we are so exhausted by these ditty civil lawsuits and all of the things and the sensational, like, the sensationalized information that are put in these lawsuits to make them go, to make them pick up, to make them spread, that now people don't even care as much. It's like, I mean it. And again, there may be people who were actually victimized in these ways by Diddy. There may be. That is alleged. We don't know until it plays out in court on both the criminal and the civil side. Whatever makes it to Court, Right? But it's just kind of crazy because I feel like. It's like. It literally feels like it, like, came and went, like, at one point in time. I know for me, as on a journalist side, like, you know, as I'm choosing stories to do on the Breakfast Club or choosing stories to, like, you know, actively get new angles and report on and things of that nature, I'm always like, you know, looking for, like, okay, what's new? What's happening? What's happening? But the Diddy stuff, to me now, I'm just like, oh, another one, bro. Another one. Can we just skip to the part where he go to court so we can see what's true or what's not? Hold up. I'm back again to pop on in. I'm popping in the flashbacks. This was so funny to me when I re. Listened to this episode, because I'm like, girl, if only you had known you was gonna be in court every day, right, With Diddy. And that was a big moment for us here on the podcast as well, because we covered every day that I was in court, what happened in court on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. And all those episodes are there in full for you guys to go back and listen to if you need to catch up as well. But I listened to this, and I literally laughed. Like, girl, you was. You couldn't wait for court to come. You were in court every day, tired as hell, sleepwalking again. Okay, y', all, this is the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I am Lauren LaRosa. This is episode four. So let's get on into some things. We taking y' all to court. We doing. We doing a little court. You know what I mean? If there's a Dun Dun. Taylor, put that on in here. I need that. Okay? It's giving litigation right now. So the first thing I wanted to talk about was Drake. You guys know that Drake has been going back and forth with Universal Music Group over the song Not Like Us, even though he's positioning it and claiming that it's not specifically about the song, that it's more so about the fact that his label did not protect him and that they allowed another artist on the label, speaking of Kendrick Lamar, to drop Not Like Us, which Drake and team say is a very defamatory song. It's dangerous, and there's no way that this should have been supported. So now he is suing. Okay, the lawsuit, there's been a lot of back and forth, but more recently, the Universal Music Group side of things said you know what, Judge? This all is bs Drake, don't really. He doesn't honestly think that we did half of the stuff that he's claiming. He's claiming that they work with bots to make Not Like Us a bigger song than it was. He's claiming that they, you know, paid third party bloggers to talk about it. That they paid radio, like just a ton of different things. Right? That he has claimed over some time. He's claiming everything. But the song is a bop and baby, the song is a bop. So this next episode that you guys are about to hear from, like, the first couple weeks of the podcast is really, really special to me because my mom was one of the guests on the episodes. And I've always said I wanted to do like a sit down, like some sort of content with me, my mom, and my grandma, just because I feel like the generational conversations are good. There's, you know, there's some things that aren't so good, but I think that it, you know, it could help people to see us talk through it. So getting her on the podcast was fire. My mom loves to talk. She loves people. So she was more than excited to do it, but it was also special for me because, you know, when my mom, My mom is a stage four cancer survivor. If you guys have listened to my early episodes here on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa, I've talked about that, I believe, but my mom, I remember one time we had a conversation just about, you know, my mom was just basically trying to comfort me early. She's like, look, we don't know how this is gonna all work out, you know, with this cancer battle. We don't know what's gonna happen. I'm not giving up. God has the last say so. But I just want you to know that, you know, everything I've been able to see you and your brother accomplish in life has fulfilled me. If I don't ever get to see anything else, I am fulfilled as a parent. And that I know she was trying to comfort me, but it broke my heart because I'm like, man, there's so much to do still. And this was years ago, so having her here on the podcast. And when I listened to this back to figure out whether I was gonna put it here in this recap episode, I cried. Cause I'm like, man, like everything she's gotten to witness from that moment, like two, almost three years ago now to now. My mom was in New York for the launch of the podcast, and I got her to sit down with me on the podcast, literally the day after launch. So take a listen. Okay, Ma, you gotta clap it up. That's right. Clap it up. Clap it up. Get the energy going in here. What's up, y'? All? It's Lauren LaRosa. This is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. Now, this is your daily dig, your daily dish on everything in all conversations, pop culture, and just, you know, those conversations that shake the room. Now, I want to first of all, thank you guys for coming right on back here with me. Y' all know I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. And today in the room, we have a special guest all week, another special guest. I got the OG who knows a little bit about everything and everybody. My mom really is, like, complete opposite of me, though. She mind her business. I don't. But my mom is here. Hey, mom. Hey, baby. That's right. My mom, Lois is here. My family was in town because we did like a media kind of like, meet and greet type of situation for the podcast in the episode previous to this one. If you have not listened to that, please go and listen to it. It's a live conversation with me and Charlamagne, just about, you know, like, where everything started from for me, where, you know, I'm at now and where I'm going and where I'm headed. So my family was in town for that. So my mom is still here, and she came to film the podcast with me today. The way that we do it here, mom, when we start off the podcast is we do a check in. So this is a grinding, you know, behind the scenes of the grind check in, where we just ask, how are you feeling? Good. Good. I'm feeling great. That was a good opening last night. Really was really therapeutic for me. Oh, to hear me talk about everything. Yes. How do you feel when you, like, when you're sitting in the audience and, like, you're hearing me talk about things that, like, you know, I mean, you're my mom, but also, too, you live the real life with me. That's right. That's what I was about to say. It just is the real life. And I appreciate you keeping it real, girl. Yeah, keep it real. That's the way to do it. I congratulate you on that. No, go ahead. No, keep it real for you. About you. And now let's get real about everything. About everything, she said. We ready to get on into some topics now. Here is one of my absolute favorite podcast moments. So I got something really, really special for all of my low riders today. If you've ever seen the show Girlfriends, and I kind of feel like a little like. Like a duh when I say that, because who hasn't seen the show Girlfriends? But if you have or have not seen the show Girlfriends, we are going to talk a lot about it today in this episode because we have a icon joining us. Ms. Golden Brooks, who plays Maya on the show. Hi. Good morning. Y' all are glowed up for 9am on a Sunday. All of y' all are giving, and all of y' all are glowing. I'm really excited to be here. Oh, gosh. Hi, you guys. I'm Golden Brooks, AKA Maya Denise Wilkes Golden. This is kind of like another full circle moment for you because you guys were in the African American Museum in D.C. we were. We absolutely were. It just, it's, you know, I think because Girlfriends was so iconic, I feel so old when I say that I'm, like, iconic. But I think because it was one of the first shows that actually celebrated or, you know, Mara Bucket kill, you know, hats off to her, showing black women doing yoga and eating sushi and wearing fly clothes. Designer. I think that was the first time I ever heard about, you know, the. Well, not really the Birkin bag, because Sex and the City did it, but you had women of color wearing designer. You know, we talk about it, and I just think that on so many levels, it showcased us in a way that we hadn't seen ourselves and all of our flaws, you know, And I think that that's something that I think women of color, it was. It opened up a whole new conversation piece on the black woman in TV and what that looks like. Make sure you go check out the full interview audio in full everywhere you get your podcast. Listen. I've always wanted a talk show, and I've always said that when I had a talk show, I wanted my audience to come along with me, to grow along with me, because y' all gotta realize I'm doing this all in real time. I'm learning. I'm figuring it out. I am, you know, everything that you're seeing is happening in real time, y'. All. It has been a journey. Oh, my God, it has been such a journey. I appreciate all of my lowriders, which are my podcast community. So whether you're watching or you're listening, you a low rider. Okay. Yeah. I'm excited for us. So appreciative of you guys. I really am. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Like I said, it's a journey. It is a daily dig on all things pop culture to keep you guys updated, but it's a labor of love and a passion for me. I love to talk, as y' all can tell. I love to talk, but I also love just being able to come in here and figure it out with all of you guys, all of my lowrider community. So thank y' all for tuning in. Make sure you continue to tune in weekdays everywhere you get your podcast the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Tell a friend to tell a friend. If they not listening to me, I don't know what they even doing. I'm Lauren LaRosa everywhere. I will see you guys in my next episode.
