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Its Happening For You Not To You: Shannon Sharpe Updates/ Tina Knowels Open Up
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Charlamagne Tha God
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Lauren LaRosa
Let's get to it. Time to do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.
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Taylor
You know, if 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 Larose Taylor's hair here with me.
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Taylor
Hola.
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Lauren LaRosa
And Taylor's gonna be my Patrick today. So Taylor.
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Taylor
Yes.
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Lauren LaRosa
Oh, wait, Taylor, you be on me about making sure I do the segments.
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Taylor
It's time for the check in.
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Lauren LaRosa
Yes, yes, yes. Because if y'all don't know Taylor. Taylor made it. Who does all of the, like, audio imaging. So whenever you hear, like, the different segment, like, the music bringing in different segments on my show on Breakfast Club. Taylor is the producer behind all of that. She also edits all of the audio episodes that you guys are listening to. Before we go into that, I didn't even properly introduce myself because, you know, I might be some new listeners. So I'm Lauren LaRosa. I'm the home girl that knows a bit about everything and everybody. And this is the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. So it's a daily dig into everything, pop culture and all the conversations that shake the room, baby. Okay, now it's time for the check in.
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Taylor
Yes.
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Lauren LaRosa
Taylor, how are you feeling? How are you? How is baby pj? Do you get tired of people asking you about the baby?
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Taylor
No, not really. I mean, he's always doing, like. Lately he's just been kicking a lot. But it's exciting. It's a new chapter for me. But Right now I am feeling productive. These days are usually my busy days where I got to get everything together. Yeah. So I'm good. How are you?
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Lauren LaRosa
I feel grateful. I feel extremely grateful. I yesterday went out to dinner shout out to my 633 Auto Spa and Protech family in Brooklyn. It is a. It's a auto body shop, but they also do, like, they wrap your car as customizations, all of that. And I met them through a publicist shout out to Ros here in New York. I did an event. I hosted an event for them. And we were just at dinner last night talking because we're about to start working on some car things for me. And in us having a conversation, they were talking to me about cuz they're. Cuz the owners are young and they were talking to me about, like, just, you know, what they come from. They were talking about, you know, the fact that, like, they were super. Their best friends that own. I thought they were in a relationship, but they're not. They're best friends. And they were talking about how they were super, super broke together. Like, I mean, sharing food at some points while trying to figure out, you know, their entrepreneur investor dreams. And then they got something right and they did it consistently and they did it well, and they protected, you know, everything that they were working on. And now they're. They're good. They're good, good, good. Okay. Like, the coin is flowing and I just. I don't know, like, that conversation made me just realize how blessed I am and how grateful I am to wake up and do what I love every single day and be with people that are, like, you know, like minded and creative and like, it just feels, you know, you feel accomplished and like, you know, progressive and all that. Today it feels good being around people that are that way while things are moving and growing. So on my worst day, I feel. Today's not my worst day, baby. Every day it's a good day. It's like, no, but even on my worst day, though, like, I'm just grateful. So that's how I'm feeling today.
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Taylor
That's good.
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Lauren LaRosa
Yes. Well, you know, after we check in on the grind, we get right to it. We get to the latest. I do love to take y'all to court, you know, Your girl loves to take y'all to court. Love to take y'all to court. Now, Shannon Sharp, we've been talking about this lawsuit. I think this, like, day three of us talking about the lawsuit from the podcast to the Breakfast Club to any major media outlet, right? Now, that is what you know is being discussed. Literally, I would say less than an hour ago, there was a new audio released. This is a audio conversation between. Right. Between Shannon Sharp and the woman who was accusing him of sexual assault and rape. This audio is really, really bad for business. Let's take a listen. Oh, you're coming to LA tomorrow? Yes. Well, I don't know why you want to go out. Don't worry about it. G. Well, okay. Okay what? Well, I'm not really interested in. And getting choked, so I guess we're going. Yeah, I might choke you in public. Big black. I choked small white woman. It's not a good look, Shannon. Not a good look that you did what you did to me. Okay. This is the second audio. The first audio that was released. It was like. It was bad. He's talking about choking the F out of her. And, you know, but people were trying to say, well, you know, they're into that, like, what is it called? Bdsm, where people, like, be hitting each other, tying each other up and all of that. And that turns them on. They're into that, or they were into that, allegedly. And there were, like, text messages that dropped after that between the two that. That showed that. Right. But the woman is alleging that it went beyond just, you know, this is what we like to do to turn each other on because we are involved in a sexual consensual relationship. It now goes beyond that, where I'm actually physically and mentally being abused, allegedly. And, you know, she's claiming she was raped. Allegedly. This audio does not give. This is what we do to turn each other on.
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Taylor
Neither one of them did, though.
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Lauren LaRosa
To me, I didn't think the first one did either. That was only. The only point in the first one that kind of did was when she was like, I don't want to be slapped today. And I was like, does she just talk like that, or is that, like, her trying to be a bit of sexy? But this one. This. This. This second audio, I was like, oh, Shannon Sharpe is a dumb ass. Excuse my language. But that is the. That is the only way that I can respond to this. You are Shannon Sharp. How much money is Shannon Sharp worth? You are Shannon Sharpe. You are one of the faces of espn. First take, which is a Disney company. You club. Shay. Shay. You like all of these. His liquor brand. All of these things. NFL, you know, legend. All of these things tie into you for this one moment to be. This is going to be like the. The. The conversation around him, according to celebrity.
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Taylor
Net worth, is 14 million.
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Lauren LaRosa
14 million dollar man, according to celebrity net worth. And sometimes they get a little wrong. But you're a million dollar man, right? And this is what you're doing over like, I don't know, he must have been really, really comfortable with this girl because the things that are being said in these audios, it's just like, are you. I wouldn't even say that to somebody that I've known for 10 plus years. And you were dealing with this girl for two. And, and the way that he said in his last video that he dropped. We talked about that on the last episode, that she was. She's an only fans girl and she was paid, you know, to do things like, you know, the BDSM and all of that. It's almost as if, you know, at. Well, they did say it. They said, well, his lawyers alleged at a certain point their relationship became where he was basically paying her for those things. If. You know that if, If. Right. I don't know what. What is true and what's not in this situation, but the way that this is set up in the way SIS is set up, allegedly. Right? According to Shannon Sharp's team, if you know that this girl is allegedly right, like now you're able to see her and alleged that she's someone who was just taking money for these things. And you know, after all this stuff, why wasn't that a thought in your head during the time when y'all are having these conversations and you're literally on the phone predicting what your storyline is going to be?
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Taylor
I have a question, though. How far were these recordings, though? Like, was this. This isn't. How recent are they?
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Lauren LaRosa
So for the audios, we don't know the exact timeline because they're dropping audios with no real details. Like, super, like a large amount of context.
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Taylor
But the only reason I'm asking that is because how they're. How it pauses in the audio that they're releasing thing.
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Lauren LaRosa
What is that? What is the policy?
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Taylor
As in it seems like she's like, all right, I got that. Like, yeah, getting all that.
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Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. Like she knows. Yeah. 100. But we do know that these happened after 2023. 100. Because she met him in 2023 and their relationship spanned it from 2023, allegedly. According to her, their relationship went from 2023 to 2025. That's recent enough. It's at that point, Shannon Sharp is still Shannon Sharp. You get what I'm saying? So there should have been, like, I don't know, man. Like, I just think about how hard I'm working every single day to just figure all this out, to, you know what I mean, to build wealth, to build ownership, to, you know, perfect my voice, to. To perfect my talent and to put it out there to the world to allow a misstep like that to be the. You know what I mean? Like, I just feel like you should.
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Taylor
Just listen to Monique. Monique, yes.
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Lauren LaRosa
That's. Let's take a listen to that audio because that was interesting as well. No 26 year old girl. You don't need no 36 year old girl. This is your auntie talking to you. Take your ass and get you a old out there that can love you old. You're trying to hang out with these young and you can't do it, Shannon. You just can't do it. Now, y'all can say a lot of things about Monique, but my sweet babies, one thing she did was read Shannon Sharpe down and predict everything.
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Taylor
I think it was a joke, though.
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Lauren LaRosa
It was. But I think to me it was a joke.
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Taylor
But it's like, nah, but for real.
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Lauren LaRosa
But I mean, Unc be talking about the young girls all the time. He talks about it all, all the time. Right. So it's. It's. It's a known thing. It's out there. So I feel like she was just trying to let them know, like, yo. But also Monique is married to her baby, which what she calls her to her daddy, Sydney. She's married. She's locked in. She has a. I think at a certain point you get to a point where you realize that having that security of the wife, the home, the husband or whatever, it's a protection.
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Taylor
But is it how he does it? Is it comes off like he's trying to. He's trying to prove something?
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Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
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Taylor
Like, you know, he's still trying to.
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Lauren LaRosa
Hang with the young boy, like 100.
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Taylor
It's.
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Lauren LaRosa
It's giving your nephew a nephew that's you. But it's like the wrong way. Yeah, it comes off the wrong freaking way. A hundred percent. Now, I will say that Shannon Sharp's team, in response to this audio, is saying that this is a very small episode with no dates. Yeah, See, that's what I was telling y'all. These audios are being dropped by attorney Busby with no date or no full context. And he told. I told y'all what he told me yesterday. Like, basically, y'all Shannon Sharp's team, you know, he's saying y'all release text messages in Shannon Sharp statement, and there was no real context around them. So why can't we drop things with no context? But Shannon Sharp's rep has told tmz, who exclusively obtained this audio, that there is a very. This is a very small episode with no date or context attached to it. I don't know how you get it. Like, in the audio, she's saying to him, oh, that's not a good look. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't understand how you. How you get around that. And. And he keeps talking about this video. I am so nervous for this video to drop.
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Taylor
But you said it in the last episode, like, are they really gonna drop it because the client is in there, too.
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Lauren LaRosa
Well, at first. Great question, Taylor. At first, I did not believe that they would drop that video because the client. It was in there. But I'm not even going to hold you now. I feel like I wouldn't be surprised if we get certain pieces of that video. And the reason why I feel like that is because, number one, if she's okay with bearing certain things and doing certain things via only fans, she might be okay with this. Certain parts of the video. I'm sure she's not going to have herself out there. You know what I mean? Like, all butterfly legs open and all that. But certain parts of the video that get to the point she's trying to make and that don't reveal too much where, like, you know, maybe it's in. It's additional, you know, audio, but, like, you need to see the visual as well. I don't kind of see her having a problem with it. They've. They've bared so much already. And for some reason, Shannon Sharp is under the impression that this video is. Is. Is. He thinks it's coming. So, I mean, we just gonna have to, I guess, wait and see. I did reach out to ESPN because, you know, Shannon Sharp is on First Take, and Stephen A. Smith had talked about, you know, the higher ups at espn, you know, right now, just kind of looking into things and monitoring things. But I. I don't have anything back that I'm able to use at the time. But I will keep you guys definitely. I'll keep you guys locked. I've reached out on a couple different angles because I also want to know, like, how are the brands feeling around him right now? Like, he has that liquor brand that he, you know, he owns. Liquor brands have distributors. Distributors help you get in stores. Distributors is like Al Diageo was with Diddy. There's a lot of things to figure out here. So I've been Pick. I've been poking. I've been poking, I've been poking. And I, you know, just wanting to see what's about to happen like everybody else. So stay locked because we will definitely give you the latest the minute that I get it. Now up next to the latest, I think is not even think I know is a family that you guys are going to know. But that I think will also resonate with my, like, grateful gratitude feeling that I talked about at the top of the podcast. So Ms. Tina knows she dropped her book Matriarch. It is out now. So she's been doing some interviews and she's also been releasing episodes from her book. Now, in the book, she talks about, and she revealed when she sat down with People magazine that she had battled stage one breast cancer. She battled it. She has recovered from it. She is good now. In battling the stage one breast cancer, one of the things that, you know, she talked about was the fact that Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and Solange were her support system through all of this. And that struck home for me because if you don't know, I talk about it often because we're through it now. It's really tough to talk about when you're in it, but my mom is a stage four cancer survivor. My mom had cancer in her lung, and then it spread to her brain. When it spread to her brain, that's how we even caught it, because her functions, like, her ability to, like, just feed herself and things like that were slowing down. And I thought that it was a stroke because at the time, we had been going back and forth to the hospital because she wouldn't stop having strokes. But when we got there, they were like. I remember the day like, it was literally yesterday. I can still feel how I felt. They came in the room and was like, we found a mass in your mom's brain. And I was like, what do you mean? And instantly when you hear something like that, because I didn't know. Like, I knew about, like, stages of cancer and things of that nature, but, like, not as much as I learned after that. But, like, I just. I don't know. Like, I. You instantly think the worst. You do. And I remember going out and, you know, I had to tell my mom because when they came in the room to tell me, my mom was sleeping and I went in the bathroom because I didn't want to wake her up, and I just broke down crying. Like, it was bad. Like, I literally. Because you instantly think. You think deaf. Like, especially you hear stage four, like, you know what I mean? And Then you look it up and you see how, like, people talk about stage four cancer and just all these things. And, man, like, that was the darkest. That was probably the darkest, one of the darkest days of my life. But that period of her battling it was the darkest time I've ever experienced in my life. So when I heard Ms. Tina Knowles talk about Beyonce, Kelly and Solange being her support system, I'm like, wow, I don't know if I could have went through what I went through with my mom and been a Beyonce or been a Kelly Rowland or been a Solange. Like, I just. I don't know. I just don't know how I would have been able to get through that. Because at this time, right, they have their careers. You know what I mean? Things are happening, things are moving, and it's just. It's a lot to deal with. She didn't really get, you know, I think some of the things she's, you know, keep it personal. And she probably also, too, wants you to actually go and read the book. But I, I know with stage one or, like, because stage zero is a thing as well, too, your early detection. So, you know, like, normally, like, it doesn't physically deteriorate you as much, but there are women whose bodies react to early stages differently. Like, I know women who've been staged, like, super early stage but have still had to, like, cut their hair from breast cancer and, you know, things like that, because once they start doing the chemo. But it's a very. It's a very physical battle because of what the body goes through. But it's when you're the, like, I tell people this all the time. There is nothing in this world that I could go up against that I, That I would feel like, could stop me from getting, getting over, like over that hump and getting, getting to whatever the end goal. Is that a solution? Because when you are a child of a parent with a terminal disease or a terminal illness like cancer, you're preparing for death in real time. It was just so much that I was preparing, figuring out funeral stuff when I was talking to her about. I never talked to my mom about her funeral and what she. What she wants that to be, like years and years and years and decades from now when that happens. But like, even down to, like, the song she want to. Song she wanted played in, you know, just different things and, like, it really, like, there's nothing that I can not do after dealing with something like that. Yeah, it's like a feeling that, like, I can't even Describe. And, like, now I understand when. Like, when other people talk to me and they say, like, you know, people who've actually lost their parents, when they say, like, you. You never really get over it, and you don't know how to. You don't know how to tell people how you feel about it, because it's really one of them things that, like, if you're not in it, like, me and my brother are probably. And my grandmother. Because my grandmother was going through it. Through it with us, too. My grandfather, God rest his soul, was going through it with us, too. But me and my brother had a different connection at that time, because no one understood how we felt because it was our mom, and we're there, and I'm there, and you know what I mean? And we're at the hospital and we're staying. Like, it was just different. I cannot imagine being Beyonce. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's no. You know, luckily they had privacy where we didn't figure this out. But imagine all. Everything they had to go through just to have that privacy. Yeah, there's a lot of doctors visits. There's a. Like, I just can't imagine that. But in me hearing her say that she had them there with her to be able to support her through that, it does make you feel good, because I think that that was the biggest thing I learned about the whole medical system and the cancer battle. You gotta have an advocate. Like, I was my mom's advocate. I was telling them, like, nope, that's not right. Go check this. But when they first found my mom's brain cancer, they couldn't figure out where it was coming from. And at stage four, that means it traveled from somewhere. I remembered a conversation I had with one of the nurses. And I always look, to this day, I look at all of my mom's notes in her charts, all of her test results. I read everything. I taught myself that because I had to. I remember there being a small mass that they told me not to worry about. And I was like, I remember the date. I remembered everything. I went back in her file. I found the date. I found, like, I took it to the doctor, and I said, hey, can you guys go back and look at these scans? I think the cancer is going to be in her lung or somewhere near this. Because they went back and they were like, that was. That's it. It was lung. It's lung cancer. But imagine if my mom didn't have a me, you know what I'm saying? Where they couldn't really Figure that out. And it took them time. And time is everything. When you talk about terminal illnesses, like, you don't have time. You got to act so fast. So you need advocates. You need people in there speaking for you, speaking up for you. Please take a listen. Go. Go listen to the full interview on people. I know we played a it here, but go listen to that full interview with Ms. Tina. It really resonated with me. Like, it really. I don't know. I just have a. I have a different feeling for cancer survivors because I know what that journey is like.
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Taylor
Right?
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Lauren LaRosa
Well, yeah, that has been the latest. Now, before we get on out of here, y'all know we like to take it to the streets, to the tweets. Every other page are gold. I tweet this every day. I just. I just felt like this was something good to close on. This is not, you know, are typical where, like, you guys are responding. Something that I posted a lot of times. Y'all respond to this, though. But I tweet almost daily. God will never forget about you. A daily reminder. And in a lot of these moments where, you know, things is all haywire, things are all hectic, you know, you figuring out health, you figuring out legal situations. Like, man, dumb places is real dark, and they can get real dark. But, you know, I. I like to always think back to, like, what my spiritual and my faith journey is. And I think that that's where my sense of gratitude comes from so much too, because it's like, I've actively seen. And I talk about God a lot. I've actively, actively seen God work so much in my life. Like, from my mom being a stage four cancer survivor to me, you know what I mean? Doing what I'm doing. But when I hear stories like, Ms. Tina knows, I'm like, man, God, don't forget about nobody. Do we, like, he show up right when he's supposed to show up. I can't apply a lot of that to the Shannon Sharp situation because I don't know what's happening on over there. I don't. I don't know if that is Lucifer or if that is God, but someone will determine it, and it won't be me.
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Taylor
So if Shannon Sharp makes it out, go towards your age group, like, because you shouldn't have been messing with her in the first.
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Lauren LaRosa
If Shannon Sharp makes it up, go towards celibacy.
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Taylor
That too.
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Lauren LaRosa
Okay, just go. Just go where they don't go, okay, Shannon Sharp, go towards celibacy. If you get up out of this one. All right, unc Scare Straight program, period. Because, listen, Face getting older.
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Taylor
Because I feel like he's not trying to face that.
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Lauren LaRosa
A lot of people don't, though.
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Taylor
Yeah.
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Lauren LaRosa
But I think men have it really tough with that. Women is hard on us, too, but men got this thing, man. Y'all go do some crazy things when y'all feel like y'all getting older. Like, that girl looks like she is a college. But.
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Taylor
And that's what I'm saying, though. Like, that was kind of. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous, Shannon.
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Lauren LaRosa
Yes, very much so. Well, y'all, I. Yeah, I think that's what we learned from this episode. What do you think we learned from this episode?
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Taylor
God's always watching, child. God would keep. Will teach you. And he going to teach you, humble you.
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Lauren LaRosa
He will. And. And in those moments where good or bad, when. When he's always watching and you getting humble, it's happening for you, not to you. That is what I used to tell myself. Even. It's gonna sound crazy, but when my mom was going through her battle, I. And I was like. Things were all over the place. I was like, man, this is not happening to us. This is happening for us. I don't understand it right now, but when we get out of it, it's gonna. I don't know, there's gonna be some clarity or some sense of peace, and I've since gained that. So, yes, to you. I mean, for you, not to you. And God is always watching. Now that has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa, the podcast. I'll tell you guys, it's the time, and I'm gonna keep doing it, because I mean it. You could be anywhere with anybody talking about these things, because at the end of the day, there's always a lot going on. But y'all choose to be right here with me, and I appreciate you guys so much for that. I'm Lauren LaRosa, the homegirl that knows a bit about everything. And everybody, this has been another episode. Taylor, baby.
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Taylor
Pj.
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Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. Thank you for joining me. Signing out, y'all. See you in the next episode.