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Controlling Peace (The Beckhams revealed and Pastor Todd Speaks on Druski skit)
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Lauren LaRosa
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Lauren LaRosa
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Chelsea Handler
Of harm in even just reading the comments.
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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
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- [02:57]
Lauren LaRosa
I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody, you know, she don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. 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, baby. Now today, getting in to, you know, behind the scenes of the grind.
- [03:22]
Pastor Mike Todd
Back on the grind.
- [03:24]
Lauren LaRosa
You know, we like to check in here. That is our segment where we check in behind all the running around, all the work, all the things to see how you are really feeling. So today I'm feeling a bit all over the place. Not like I'm unorganized or I'm stressed. I think my. Depending on what we're talking about, my feelings change. So earlier this morning, I've been having these conversations with myself just about just remembering that I can't control everything. Like, so this morning I woke up and I said the serenity prayer. Like, you know, God, listen, please give me the serenity to understand that I cannot change everything. I know I'm not saying the words right verbatim, but the things that I cannot change, God, grant me the serenity to understand and remember that is what I said that this morning. And a big part of that is just dealing with, you know, situ, like I've had to really learn how to, how to separate because I'm a problem solver. So I've had to really learn how to separate issues and things that I can control and issues and things that I can't control so that I'm not stressing myself out and stressing myself into the ground trying to solve problems that are so beyond my control. And I think the reason why I'm feeling like that I feel kind of refreshed and revived. I went to la, you guys know, we just did the episode with DJ head shout out to DJ head of effective immediately out in la, we did that episode and that was such a. That that episode happened within a weekend. I took the MLK holiday Weekend to just go to LA and just like do nothing. Like hang out, chill, be with bae, just enjoy my time. Time, no work? No. I started to like line up an interview and I was like, nope, the only thing I'mma commit to and it depends on how I feel, you know, whether we'll, we'll do like, you know, Full throttle video, all of that. Because other than that, we could just do audio and I could post whatever to YouTube. The podcast, the latest with Lauren. The latest with Lauren, the rose of the podcast. Y' all know our commitment is like no other. But yeah, so I think in leaving LA this weekend and then it's like the minute you land back on the east coast, turn that phone on. All of the notifications just remind you of everything you left before the vacation hit. And that's the thing about being an adult. Like once you come off that vacation in that Kumbaya baby, the Unkumbaya hits you hard. So, you know, there were some things that I learned literally yesterday in the airport. Not going to share here yet, but y' all know I share, so we'll get to that point. But there were some things that I learned of yesterday in the airport and I was just like, listen, at the end of the day, nothing is dire need. Everybody is okay right now. You can't change anything about the news that you just got. All you can do is do the most that you can do within this situation. So my, my, my feelings have been going back and forth all day long between. I wish I could figure this out for my mom. And you can't do anything about that, Lauren. Like you literally can't. So that's where I've been. But I will say I was super proud of myself though. I coming back into work after a four day, or was it three days? Friday, Saturday, Sunday, three day weekend, because you don't really count Friday because Friday, like you said, trying to catch up with your week. So after a three day weekend, you know, there's a lot going on when you have those extended breaks. There's always a lot that happens over the break. So trying to prioritize what you're reporting on and what we're talking about here on the podcast, sometimes it's an issue because it's so much stuff, but I felt really good about my decision making today and you know, you can. I've gotten in the habit of like second guessing myself a bit and, and that's new for me too. That's a new space, a new thing that I'm dealing with. It doesn't fully feel like impostor syndrome. Like, I know I'm supposed to be here. I know I'm the person you guys are supposed to be listening to. But every now and then, I go out, in and out of. If it's not perfect, it's not right. And if I can't answer every question, oh, I just connected something in myself. Maybe that's why I do it in my work life, because I'm so used to doing it in my personal life where I'm always like, I. I just. There's this thing where I have to solve problems. I have to solve everybody's problems. See, that's why we checking behind the scenes of the grind, because we'd be really figuring stuff out here. The more I talk to myself out loud, I'm like, oh, okay, if y' all didn't catch what just happened. I literally just connected the dots of, like, me feeling like I'm not doing my best in a work setting or any. A professional setting of any sort, because I don't have the answer to every question. I just connected that back to not being able to solve every problem in my personal life. And I think. I think that's the oldest child thing. And so thank you, guys, lowriders for being my, you know, my little therapy session. I am going to get into therapy this year, though. I am very. I'm very intentional, and I'm aware that I need it, I'm aware that I want to do it, and I'm aware that the only thing standing between me solving that problem of actually doing it is myself. So I gave myself a goal. By February 28th, I need to be actively enrolled in therapy with my first therapist that I'll try for the first time ever in my life. So y' all gotta hold me to that. Okay? Now, speaking of therapy, let's get on into the latest.
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Katie Whelan
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Mike de la Rocha
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Dr. Jesse Mills
Hey there. This is Dr. Jesse Mills, director of the Men's Clinic at UCLA Health and host of the Mailroom podcast. Each January, guys everywhere make the same resolutions. Get stronger, work harder, fix what's broken. But what if the real work isn't physical at all? To kick off the new year, I sat down with Dr. Steve Poulter, a psychologist with over 30 years experience helping men unpack shame, anxiety and emotional Pain they were never taught to name. In a powerful two part conversation, we discuss why men aren't emotionally bulletproof, why shame hides in plain sight, and how real strength comes from listening to yourself and to others.
- [12:23]
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- [12:30]
Lauren LaRosa
Empathy and some compassion.
- [12:33]
Dr. Jesse Mills
If you want this to be the year, you stop powering through pain and start understanding what's underneath. Listen to the mailroom on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.
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Lauren LaRosa
So here's what's going down in the latest. You have Brooklyn Beckham, who is the son of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham. You know David Beckham. He used to play soccer. Is that what else is. I mean, he's just fine as hell too. Okay. I didn't know he owned the team. Victoria Beckham is former Spice Girl. Okay. That's how I know her of the. Of, you know, of the Spice Girls. Fashion designer. She has a beauty brand as well. But a lot of people will know her from the Spice Girl. She was Posh Spice. Legendary group. If you want to be my lover, okay. But yeah. So their son, Brooklyn Beckham is speaking out. So there have been rumors for some time that Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Beckham just didn't really fool with the family. Like, there has always been this conversation of that. And if you know anything about the Beckham family, you know that you don't know anything about the Beckham family. They have always done a really good job of keeping things tight. Like, you see, the first line that I said about them is just a gorgeous family. In my opinion, as a fan outside looking in. A lot of their family structure has been about, you know, of course, like all the love and all that stuff, but like the look of it. Like, they just look damn good as a unit. And that has always been a big conversation. When I see them on ads and when I see them get brand endorsements, I'm like, it's because they look so damn good. But also too, you really just don't know a lot on the inside about their family. You don't know a lot. Like, you don't know too much about Victoria Beckham and David Beckham's like, marriage, even little things and little rattles that you hear. They tell you what they want to tell you when they want to tell you it. Okay, so their son, Brooklyn Beckham, speaking out is a big deal. Not only do they speak out, there are paragraphs so I'm just going to read you guys the paragraphs and, and y' all think about everything I just said as I'm reading. So Brooklyn Beckham posted to his Instagram stories. I've been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed. So for a while, there's been speculation about what the relationship is between Brooklyn Beckham, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham. Now, of course, the first thing that, that fans speculated was that his wife, Nicola, Nicola Peltz Beckham, who he married in a ceremony that he also mentions in these Instagram posts, fans speculated that the issue was her and that she had basically drove like a wedge between Brooklyn Beckham and his family. Everybody knows that the Beckham family is like, like tight knit, at least from what we know. And I keep saying from what we know and from what we can see, because image has always been a thing with them. They've controlled their image. They've controlled the conversation around their family a bit. But more recently, things have started to slip. So Brooklyn Beckham did not wish David Beckham Happy birthday. That was like a headline at one point. You also had the. There was a Netflix documentary that came out that Brooklyn Beckham about the Beckhams, you know, David, Victoria, the family that Brooklyn Beckham did not participate in. And then randomly one day, Brooklyn Beckham. Not randomly, because again, there's always been a speculation. But Brooklyn Beckham posted once to his Insta story. I woke up. I woke up blocked and so did my parents. So there was a whole thing about why they blocked each other, what happened, all of this stuff. Right? So he continues, I don't want to reconcile with my family. I'm not being controlled. He's referring to his wife because the theory is that his wife is controlling him and she's broken him away from this image controlled family. And now he's able to live his life, but at the expense of a relationship with his family. I'm standing up for myself for the first time in my life. For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family. The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of life. I was of the life I was born into. Recently I've seen with my own eyes the length that they'll go through to place countless lies in the media. Now there was a story that was printed by the sun about Brooklyn Beckham allegedly sending his parents a cease and desist letter after his mom, like, liked. They alleged she, like, liked a video about, like, some food he was cooking. And he allegedly sent a cease and desist. And the cease and desist made it very clear that he did not want any contact with them, did not want to be referenced by them in any way. And if they were to reach out and talk to him, they would have to do it through his attorney. Now, this is all reported by the sun, according to a source, right? So he says. Recently I've seen with my own eyes the links that they'll go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out. My parents have been trying to endlessly ruin my relationship since before my wedding. And it hasn't stopped my mom or my mom. My mom canceled making Nicola's dress in the 11th hour, despite how excited she was to wear her design. We talked about how great of a fashion designer she is. I'd be upset, too, forcing her to urgently find a new dress. Weeks before our big day, my parents repeatedly pressured and attempted to bribe me into signing away the rights to my name, which would have affected me, my wife, and our future children. Now I remember conversations about them trying to control his image and that being an issue with his wife. And when I heard about it then and again, it was all on reports.
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Chelsea Handler
There.
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Lauren LaRosa
There hasn't been too much direct. That's why this is such a big deal, because it's like he finally is addressing all. Everything right. When I heard about it then the way that it was made to be believed. Because again, they keep blaming everything on his wife was kind of like what they did to, like, Meghan Markle when she got with Prince Harry. Like, it was almost like they made it seem like she was, you know, this new wife is trying to control him and control his linking to his family. This, like, big, you know, family because of everything she gets out of it. If she can control how he's involved and or lack thereof with their family. He said he continues. Brooklyn Beckham continues. They were adamant on me signing before my wedding date because then the terms of the deal would be initiated. So it sounds like potentially the parents are trying to protect him from. They. Well, they felt like they needed to protect him from his current. His bride to be at the time, current wife. My holdout affected the payday and they have never treated me with the Same sense. During the wedding planning, my mom went so far as to call me evil because Nicola and I chose to include my nanny, Sandra and Nicola's nani at our table because they both didn't have their husband. Both of our parents had their own tables equally adjacent to ours. The night before our wedding, members of my family told me that Nicola was not blood and not family. Since that moment, I started standing up for myself, my and my family. I've received endless attacks from my parents, both privately and publicly, that were sent to the press on their orders. And we can get into those attacks because that was also alleged. Even my brothers were sent to attack me on social media before they ultimately blocked me out of nowhere. This last summer, my mom hijacked my first dance with my wife. Now this is where it gets really, really freaking weird. Like incest weird. My mom hijacked my first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks in advance, to a romantic love song in front of our 500 wedding guests. Mark Anthony called me to the stage where in the schedule was planned to be my romantic dance with my wife. But instead, my mom was waiting to dance with me instead. She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. I've never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life. We wanted to renew our vows so we could. So we could create new memories of our wedding that bring us more joy and more happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment. My wife has been consistently disrespected by my family, no matter how hard we've tried to come together as one. My mom has repeatedly invited women from my past into our lives in ways that were clearly intended to make us both uncomfortable. Despite this, we still traveled to London for my dad's birthday and were rejected for a week as we waited in our hotel room trying to plan quality time with him. There goes the whole why didn't he post his dad for his birthday? He refused all of our attempts unless it was at his big birthday party with 100 guests and cameras at every corner. When he finally agreed to see me, it was under the condition that Nicola was not invited. It was a slap in the face. Later, when my family traveled to la, they refused to see me at all. My family values public promotion endorsements above all else. Brand Beckham comes first. Family love is decided on by how much you post on social media or how you quickly. Or how quickly you drop everything to show up and pose for family photo op, even if at the expense of our professional obligations. We've gone out of our way for years to show up and support every fashion show, every party, and every press activity to show our perfect family in quotations. But the one time my wife asked for my mom's support to save displaced dogs during the LA fires, my mom refused. The narrative that. Yo, sorry. Anyway, people listening. White people take their dog so serious. Like, I mean, black people do too. I. I've learned that this whole dog mom life, dad, dog, dad thing is like a thing as I've gotten older, especially when I lived in la. Oh, my God, don't people take dogs into restaurants, grocery stores? It's gross. But why? People don't play about their dogs or their animals. Okay, not talking to your mom because she wouldn't rescue animals. The narrative that my wife controls me is completely backwards. I've been controlled by both my parents for most of my life. I grew up with overwhelming anxiety for the first time in my life since stepping away from my family, that anxiety has disappeared. I wake up every morning grateful for life in the life that I chose and have found peace and relief. My wife and I do not want a life shaped by image, press or manipulation. All we want is peace, privacy, and happiness for our future family. Period. So there's a lot to unpack here. Let's get into the threats that he alleged were sent by his family. Hold on. I mean, that he alleges were sent to the press, which sounds like a private conversation between him, his mom and his dad. So David Beckham, of course, because this is everywhere. Like this Instagram post literally is on every blog, website. Like it's. Everybody's talking about brand Beckham's and the explosion that has happened over there. So David Beckham was doing an interview. He is working within the. How do you say? It's a unicef. He's working within the UNICEF space and timely enough for the platform, but not for him. This interview took place after his son made the post to social media. So he was asked about that. Let's take a listen.
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David Beckham
I've always spoke about, you know, social media and the power of social media, you know, for the good and for the bad. You know, the bad we've talked about with what kids can access these days. And it can be, it can be dangerous. But what I found personally, you know, especially with my kids as well, use it for the right reasons. You know, I've been able to use my platform and my following, you know, for unicef. And it's been the biggest tool to make people aware of what's going on around the world for children. And I've Tried to do the same. I've tried to do the same with my children to educate them. They make mistakes. Children are allowed to make mistakes. That's how they learn. So that's what I try to teach my kids. But, you know, you have to sometimes let them make those mistakes as well.
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Lauren LaRosa
In that video, he was on CNBC's Squawk Box and he talked about kids making mistakes in social media and he talked about the work that he's doing for unicef. But there was a UNICEF event that he was. That David Beckham actually attended as well, following Brooklyn Beckham's comments. And he was asked on the carpet about the comments and he just wouldn't answer. He. He walks off from the interview. A plus timing for those journalists who want to have those conversations with him, but not good timing for him at all. Especially not because, I mean, yeah, the Beckhams have just done a very good job of like pring everything because there's no way families don't go through things. And I don't, I don't think, Let me not say I don't think because their son is saying the complete opposite. I never perceived their pr, you know, branded lifestyles, because when I think of the Beckhams, I do think very branded, very clean, gorgeous, just, just almost not real. I've never thought about their situation as something that they were using to cover up all the drama that actually goes down. I've just always looked at them as people who have worked in. So like, they're like Victoria Beckham, you know, she performed and toured with the Spice Girls. Fashion designer, works in beauty. So everything about her career and her interests, even socially, seems to be very like, she's a person I would expect to always keep it together, at least publicly, because of the professions that she's been in. Same with David Beckham, with him being, you know, world renowned athlete at one time and model. And those are traits that I'm sure that they passed on to the kids. So I always thought of it like that. Like these people just know who they are. They're super. They're super freaking famous and they keep it real cute. Get their coin post on social and move on, baby. Brooklyn Beckham said, got to be quicker than that. Bring that as here, boy. Come here. Listen, there is in no world do I think there is a. Any parent who is ever, ever, ever, ever, ever happy with dealing with inside the home issues outside on the Internet. Like, these are conversations that I'm sure, you know, David and Victoria Beckham have tried to have with their son, Brooklyn Beckham. Even if not this specific conversation, maybe, you know, not even. Maybe other. Other conversations of sorts, because Brooklyn Beckham mentioned, you know, the. The headlines that came out about threats that, you know, were exchanged allegedly between him and his parents. So there's obviously been some smoke here. This is not new whatsoever, but it's just crazy to hear him unveil it all, to be honest with you. When I saw this, I'm like, oh, let us pull up a chair and steam some tea, shall we? Shall we?
- [27:22]
Katie Whelan
If you're feeling exhausted, puffy, anxious, foggy, gaining weight, or just not like yourself, you're not imagining it. Women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s are experiencing massive hormonal shifts, and no one is explaining what's actually happening. I'm Katie Whelan, co founder of Joy. I built Joy because I lived this. The fatigue, the mood swings, the weight changes, the confusion. Your symptoms are biological, not personal, and AI generated lab reports won't fix them. Every Joy lab includes a visit with a licensed clinician who specializes in women's hormones and connects every biomarker to how you feel. Energy metabolism, mood, sleep, skin weight, everything. Then we personalize real solutions. Hormone therapy, peptide therapy, supplements, and lifestyle protocols. Get started@joyandblokes.com today. This month, new customers get 50% off labs, and you can add our estrogen face cream for just $1 with clinician approval. Use promo code podcast@joyanblokes.com Every January, we're.
- [28:24]
Mike de la Rocha
Encouraged to start over. But what if this year is about slowing down and learning how to understand ourselves more deeply? What if this year is about giving ourselves permission to feel what we've been holding and knowing that it's okay to ask for help? I'm Mike De la Rocha, host of Sacred Lessons. This is a podcast for men navigating stress, emotional health, fatherhood, identity, and the unspoken pressures we're taught to carry alone. We talk honestly about mental health, about healing generational wounds, and about learning how to show up with more presence and care. If you want a healthier relationship with yourself and the people you love, then Sacred Lessons is the podcast for you. Listen to Sacred Lessons with Mike Dollarocha on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow Sacred Lessons with Mike de la Rocha and start listening on the free iHeartRadio app today.
- [29:23]
Dr. Jesse Mills
Hey there. This is Dr. Jesse Mills, director of the Men's Clinic at UCLA Health and host of the Mailroom podcast. Each January, guys everywhere make the same resolutions. Get stronger, work harder, fixed. What's broken. But what if the real work isn't physical at all? To kick off the new year, I sat down with Dr. Steve Poulter, a psychologist with over 30 years experience helping men unpack shame, anxiety and emotional pain they were never taught to name. In a powerful two part conversation, we discuss why men aren't emotionally bulletproof, why shame hides in plain sight, and how real strength comes from listening to yourself and to others.
- [29:59]
Pastor Mike Todd
Guys are a toxic, they're immature, or.
- [30:01]
Lauren LaRosa
They'Ve got something they just haven't resolved.
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Mood.com Advertiser
Once that gets resolved, then there comes.
- [30:06]
Lauren LaRosa
Empathy and some compassion.
- [30:08]
Dr. Jesse Mills
If you want this to be the year you stop powering through pain and start understanding what's underneath, listen to the mailroom on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.
- [30:22]
Chelsea Handler
This season on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, we've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani.
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Lauren LaRosa
Let's start with your cat.
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Chelsea Handler
How is she?
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Lauren LaRosa
She is not with us anymore. Okay, great, great, great. Way to start.
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Chelsea Handler
So this is a great beginning and hopefully you'll be able to, I don't know, maybe you will cry. Amanda Seyfried Life is so short. If you feel something like that, you have that fire in you for this experience, it's not for a guy. It's for the experience of being in love. And like, it's bigger than a guy. Elizabeth Olsen, I love swimming naked so much. And I know you love taking pictures of yourself.
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Lauren LaRosa
I love to be naked. I just want to be in my bra and underwear all the time.
- [31:02]
Chelsea Handler
Ross Matthews, you know what kids always say to me?
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Lauren LaRosa
Are you a boy or a girl?
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Chelsea Handler
Oh my God. All the time.
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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
I know.
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Lauren LaRosa
So I'm always like, hi. I try to butch it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused.
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Chelsea Handler
Yeah, but you're butching it up. It's basically like an angry woman. Doris Day, right?
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Katie Whelan
No, I turn into Bea Arthur.
- [31:19]
Chelsea Handler
Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or.
- [31:24]
Rebel.com Advertiser
Wherever you get your podcasts.
- [31:27]
Lauren LaRosa
Now, in other news in the latest, we're talking about things getting a little bit, a little feisty and then people having to come out and clear things up. Pastor Mike Todd of Transformation Church has finally spoke out about Drew Ski skit. Now let's take a listen to Drew Ski skit again before we listen to Pastor Mike Todd.
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Pastor Mike Todd
I'm gonna have Wanda stand up here. Wanda, please. Wanda told us earlier this month that she could not have a baby anymore, so I impregnated her with the word of God. I'm going to impregnate everyone with the word of God. You gonna get pregnant with the word of God. You gonna get pregnant with the word of God. You gonna get pregnant with the word of God. I had somebody in the congregation ask why I'm wearing Christian Dior and Christian Luboutons. Cuz I'm a Christian and I walk in the blood of Jesus. Give him some praise. I'm a Christian first and I walk in the blood of Jesus. Give him some praise. Give him some praise. So we are raising funds for a project in Zimbabwe.
- [32:46]
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
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Pastor Mike Todd
We are trying to get our congregation over in Africa. Amen. We wanted to raise $4 million for that.
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Lauren LaRosa
Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Mike Todd
That needs to appear today. We are not letting anyone leave until we reach our goal. Amen.
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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Mike Todd
Life savings here. Give him some praise for that. Giving his life savings up.
- [33:13]
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, so y' all see. Y' all see the skit now, y' all remember I told you guys here exclusively on the latest with Lauren, the Rosa podcast, that that that skit was one of Drew Ski's most viewed skits ever. Right? So it got the people going. Well, Transformation Church is only Pastor Mike Ty. I watch Pastor Mike Ty some weekends, some Sundays from church YouTube. He responded on the pulpit. So Pastor Mike Todd was doing a sermon all about moving forward and moving forward with the things that God has already equipped you with and will equip you, equip you with as long as you are utilizing his tools correctly. So the Bible not leaning on your own understanding, you know, that whole conversation, right. And how all of that is a path and a light. He lit up a Bible and lit up a Runway on the stage. Pastor Mike Ty going, okay, he gonna show you some, some theatrics around his sermon to Drew Ski's point. But yeah, so he has finally spoken out. The reason why it was so prominent when he spoke out is because there was a AI video that people made of Pastor Mike Todd and his Christian Dior suit with chains, looking just like Drew Ski in a Kristen Dior suit and chains. Because Pastor Mike tides fashion and the amount of money he spends on things. I mean, they do it with all pastors. I saw Pastor John Gray speak out this weekend as well too, who also gets it. And it was going viral when this get first dropped because people are like, hold up how the pastor got the, you know, I mean h you, you in the AP to Rolex. Like that's your watch master. Okay, cool. You Tell time real good over there. Your time is real healthy over there. But Pastor Mike Todd, I think just from what I've seen, he gets it. He gets it a lot. He gets it about the theatrics that he includes into his sermons. I remember he went viral for spitting on a man we found out was his brother, but we didn't know was his brother. One time he was preaching during the pandemic. That was like a whole thing because people were like, oh, my God, Covet. You can't spit on people. And then we found out it was his brother, his clothing. People questioning his masculinity because of his clothing. People questioning how much money he spends on things because of his clothing. It's just been a lot. And people love to do this with the young pastors, but specifically Pastor Mike Todd and a lot of Drew Ski skit people made a lot of parallels to Pastor Mike Todd. Let's take a listen to Pastor Mike Todd's response.
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Pastor Mike Todd
There was a video that came out this past week with a few hundred million views, and some people were trying to link it to me. And so I watched the video. It was hilarious. It was funny. It was all this stuff. And then people started trying to say different things. And the thing that I was most taken aback by was how much frustration it created in people. All this was was an attack on people's lives of distraction. Do you know how many people didn't spend time with their kids this week fighting with somebody they don't know? In the comments, there were people that did not do what God said to do this week because they needed to be in the know of what was happening in culture. And you thought it was some attack on the church? No, it was attack on your focus.
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Lauren LaRosa
Now, I'll tell y' all one thing. I was thinking about this as I was preparing for the segment. Pastor Mike Todd is saying, like, okay, this is noise. It's just distracting you from God's plan. And you know what God has in store from you. And if you get distracted, you want to, you won't arrive there. I think Drew Ski's just having a little fun being funny, but also, you know, making light of what be going down in some of these churches and how ironic and how crazy it is. But if they meet in the middle, I was thinking as I was preparing, if they meet in the middle, do y' all know how many lives could be brought to God from this? I was literally in the comments of Pastor Mike Todd's sermon because I watched it because I like Pastor Mike Todd, as a preacher, I have no issue with him. I don't care about what a pastor wears and doesn't wear. I don't mind if my pastors fly, if my pastor got money, if he don't. I don't care about any of that. If I am led by God to listen to your word and I feel like when you give me the word and you, you are being a shepherd of the the men above here on this earth, if my spirit leads me to believe that God has put you here for that, at least you know, I don't get into all of that, but I know other people are different. So I listen to the full sermon. I mean, and doing my due diligence and research for the subject, but also just because I do enjoy his sermons and I feel like they hit home whenever I listen. But I'm listening to the sermon. I'm like, man, this is actually a really great sermon. Like this sermon about. I like even I was listening to it and I wasn't listening to be preached to. I wasn't listening to hear God, but I was listening. I'm like, okay, God, I hear you. Like literally, I, I hear you from some things that I was. I've been dealing with having conversations with myself and with God about. And I'm like, man, I wonder how many other people are doing the same exact thing. Like, you came here for the mess, you came here for the tea, you came here for the latest, but you got spiritual awakening and healing. And now this might be a place that you visit every single Sunday, even if it's from the comfort of your home on YouTube. I don't know. I think that they're. I think they're wrong to something here. I think we. I don't know exactly what it is. I don't know if that means Juski needs to. To do a skit about a missions trip to get some of y' all on it, but we onto something. When I figure it out, I'll be back. It's Lauren LaRosa. This has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. I tell you guys, every single episode, my lowriders. You guys choose right here with me. Y' all could be anywhere with any old body talking about all the things, but y' all choose to be right here. I appreciate, appreciate you guys so much. I will catch you in my next episode. My brother in law died suddenly. Now my sister and her kids have to sell their home. After that, I told my wife we couldn't put off getting life insurance any longer. An agent offered us a 10 year, $500,000 policy for nearly $50 a month. Then we called Select Quote. Selectquote found us identical coverage for only.
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Lauren LaRosa
Whether it is getting swatted or just hateful messages online, there is a lot of harm and even just ra reading.
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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
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Chelsea Handler
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.
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Lauren LaRosa
You know Roald Dahl, he thought of Willy Wonka in the bfg, but did you know he was a spy? In the new podcast the Secret World of Roald Dahl, I'll tell you that story and much, much more.
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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
What?
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Lauren LaRosa
You probably won't believe it either.
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Katie Whelan
Was this before he wrote his stories, it must have been okay, I don't think that's true.
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Lauren LaRosa
I'm telling you, the guy was a spy.
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Dr. Jesse Mills
Listen to the Secret World of Roald.
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Lauren LaRosa
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