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Who’s next after Jimmy Kimmel? The View?? + The iHeart Music Festival did not disappoint
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Hey y', all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa and this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. Checking in behind the scenes of the grinding Just really quick before we get started. Today I am y'. All. I'm sleepwalking. Today we we went to Vegas for the iHeartRadio music festival, which, you know, I recorded a podcast for you guys while there. So you guys were able to hear from me, literally from Vegas. For all of the people watching on the video side, you gotta go on over and subscribe to the audio version of the podcast. I told you guys, we always do little audio exclusives that you will only get if you are an audio listener. So make sure you head on over there. But, yes, I'm sleepwalking today, man. I landed yesterday. It took me about an hour and a half, maybe two hours to get home. Eight, try to start getting ready for the day, because we're back up at 4am, 3.45am for the breakfast Club. And it was a weekend of events. So the iHeartRadio music festival, as we mentioned in the last episode prior to this one, is a festival put on by iHeartRadio, and it features some of the biggest names in music. Man, when I say so many different names. You had LL Cool J, who opened the show, Bailey Zimmerman, Big X, A plug, Ed Sheeran, diplo Glorilla, who closed out the show on the second night. Jelly Roll, who was amazing to see. John Fogerty, Justice. Mariah Carey. I am a Mariah Carey fan. I am a lamb. I had a whole experience just being there, excited to see Mariah Carey. I thought I was gonna get to meet Mariah Carey backstage because we were also streaming for the Breakfast Club's Twitch account. It's the Breakfast Club am on Twitch. So please make sure you go and check out that account. We recapped both days or took you through. It wasn't even a recap, honestly. Cause it was in real time. We took you through the experience of the festival. So I'm behind the scenes with, you know, all the radio execs and other radio personalities. And then I'm in the pit and I'm watching the show, and you just get to really experience it there. So please check that out. I'll be streaming a lot more coming up. I'm really excited about that. Um, but yes, man. Mariah Carey, Maroon 5, y'.
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Adam Levine is so fine. I didn't know. Okay? And maybe I did know, I think, because so what I realized in real time with, number one, this festival was that music. And this is very cliche to say, but music has no. Like, music has no boundaries. Like, music connects people in such a way. It's like nothing like that you've ever experienced. So, like, me and a person with the opposing. With an opposing political view, you know, different ethnic backgrounds, you know, even different gender, like, whatever. We could all be in one place and hear a song that we love and that reminds us of something. And in that moment, we will connect. 100%. We will connect. And even if the connection is not anything that lasts forever, it's just in that moment, just experiencing hearing that song and it taking you back to that moment that you're remembering that feeling that you remember it feeling the first time you heard the song or when a song got you do something. I was thinking about that at the festival. Like, yo, it's all these thousands of people in here, and. And we all here because we love music. And, like, our lives have been changed. Literally, my life has been changed because of music and radio and all these things. It was just. It was. It was a fire experience. So shout out to iheartradio and thank you guys for having me at the festival. I'm saying thank you. Like, I don't work for them, but they didn't have to invite me, so I'm appreciative to be there. Yeah. And me and Maroon 5, I did not know. I didn't know, number one, that I enjoyed so many other songs and then I knew so many of their songs either. I always thought the white boys at the cookout were NSync. Justin Timberlake, when he left NSYNC and Justin Timberlake, like, I really didn't have, like, a long list. But Maroon 5, Adam Levine, I don't know. He can come on over to my cookout, baby, any day. That man is gorgeous. And the way that they play to the crowd, just seeing him with the guitar and the tattoos. I actually have a clip from the stream of me singing. I don't know. I have a clip. Let's take a listen to this clip from the stream because, baby, I was in it. I didn't know. I like Maroon 5 this much, to be honest with you. I thought I knew about two songs, but I know I got a good little Maroon 5 catalog. Yes. So a great time. I also became a fan of Tate McCray. Y' all know Tate McRae. Okay, I'm late to. I'm so late to her party. And I apologize. Tate McCrae is. She has, like, her core group of fans called the Tater Tots. I met mad Tater Tots this weekend. Yo, like, honestly, I think Sophie, you laughing at me. You dedicated. No, I met them. No, I met. Yo, I met so many girls at this festival who were Tater Tots. And again, it was all because when she came on, I was standing there in Amazement. I'm like, Yo, Tate McCray, get busy. Like, the way she performs, like, she works, like, she very much a superstar. Works the crowd, works the audience. The dancing is there. Was she a dancer prior to. Okay, I knew she had to be, like, a dancer, not like a stripper. Like ballet and shit. You know, I knew she had to be a dancer of some sort because of the shoes that she was wearing. They were dance shoes. Her outfit and just her. Her ability. Baby, listen, I ain't seen a white girl hit her 5, 6, 7, 8. Like that almost ever. But Britney Spears probably was the last one. And now she dancing in front of refrigerators. Okay. It has been a long time, but I enjoy her performance thoroughly. I love the way she worked with the crowd and also her dancers. Baby, it was giving ballroom down. Okay? Them, they were going off. It was. It was just great to see. It made me even. Even before hearing the music, some of the are, like, really sitting and listening to the music, watching her. Because, I mean, you're hearing the music as you're watching her, but the dance breaks and seeing her dancers and just seeing how she worked the stage, I was sold. And then as she got into a couple of songs, I started listening to her sing, and I'm like, okay, you know, I see what this is doing here. This is very much giving, you know, the Britney Spears, like, you know, that whole vibe. She was there. But I'm a fan now. Tate McCray definitely got a follow for me on Instagram after that. So, yes, had a great time at the festival, to say the least. But your girl is tired. But nonetheless, let's get on into the latest. Now, here's the thing about, you know, our first story. I have been working and, you know, doing everything that I'm doing now for a few years in preparation of, like, okay, you gonna hit your big break. You gonna be making that money. You know, I'm talking, like, you know, there are some talk show hosts who are you looking at, like, millions per episode, millions per season of their show to get paid to come and talk about the things that they love to talk about, to express their opinion, to interview people, to introduce you guys, the audience to these people. That's always been a dream of mine. Like, I love the Storyteller. I love to talk to people. I love the app. But it's always been a dream of mine to, you know, have a talk show to do exactly what I'm doing right now. Introducing people to things and places and, you know, just all these different things I say all that to say I'm very disheartened by the fact that I walk into work now every day nervous about my job. And I'm nervous because y' all like, damn, girl, you took the job from just one. Was she taking it back? I'm like, no, that's. We're good. Not because of that, but Donald Trump. And I mean, everything that's happening right now with, you know, the way people are using their microphones and their platforms and how fast things are getting taken from them. So you guys know Jimmy Kimmel was recently pulled off of abc, and that has been such a conversation because people feel like his remarks that he made it didn't warrant the pulling from being on air that he received. Now, Jimmy Kimmel was speaking about the death of Charlie Kirk, the murder of Charlie Kirk, who is a political talking head who. He said things that definitely made people very upset, that targeted certain groups of people that he felt like was his truth. But not everybody agreed, right? Kimmel decides to talk about, you know, him in his passing, which leads to his show then being taken off air. Let's take a listen to Kimmel.
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We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang, desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from. And so I was with the architects that were designed. It's going to be incredible. And they came in, they said, charlie Kirk is dead. I didn't know what they meant. I said, dead. Charlie Kirk was shot, and they thought he was dead. Cause it was so horrific, you know, And I said, dead. And then we installed the most beautiful chandelier sconces you wouldn't believe.
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So following this, there have now been conversations about who's next and what next and where do we go from here. And I know for me, the day that I got. Look, I get alerts. I am alert down. I get alerts for every news station, major Twitter accounts that are posting breaking news. I could not believe websites. I could not believe the day that I got the notification that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off ABC suspended indefinitely. They want, like, you know, all these apologies and all these things happening, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I. I honestly thought that it was a joke. I thought that, you know, because in this world also right now, you have parody accounts that are announcing news that people are picking up and fan accounts and TikTok creators who were saying things and they're spreading. I just didn't think it was real. But when I confirmed it to be real, and I'm, and I'm listening to, you know, the, the news reports just about what's happening, it's scary. It's scary to just see. And again, someone died in this situation. So I think, you know, not even think I know it's always going to be a touchy point when you talk about life or death or lack thereof. But I do think that the bigger conversation that has been happening from this and from Kimmel's comments are freedom of speech. And even if that is a thing and what happens when people are not allowed to have that. So that's just been scary for me, especially because I feel like I'm just now, I've been doing things for a while, but I feel like I'm just now starting to hit my stride. I'm like, damn, like y' all coming for the girls now. I just, I just got here. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a political talking head. I'm not a, you know, any of that. But there are things that I express my opinion on when it comes to politics. So just from personal experience that this is a scary time right now, let's just say that. So after Kimmel happened, there's been all these conversations. And then the FCC chairman, a guy named Brendan Carr, got on a podcast. So he was on a show this week called the Scott Jennings Radio Show. And on this show he talked about ABC's the View and basically how they might be next. Let's take a listen.
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Well, look, you can be unfunny. That's fine. A lot of people are sort of saying that, well, people are punishing Kimmel because they don't like a joke that he told. But, you know, we don't need to rehash it here. But obviously what he said was not a joke. It wasn't presented at all that way. But when you look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the FCC does have a rule, all the equal opportunity rule, which means, for instance, if you're in the run up to an election, you have one partisan elected official on, you have to give equal time, equal opportunity to the opposing partisan politician. So far, so good. But there's an exception to that rule called the bona fide news exception, which means if you are a bona fide news program, you don't have to abide by the equal opportunity rule. And over the years, the SEC has developed a body of case law on that. And it suggested that most of these late night shows, other than SNL are bona fide news programs. And potentially I would assume you could make the argument that the View is a bona fide news show, but I'm not so sure about that. And I think it's worthwhile to have the FCC look into whether the View and some of these other programs that you have still qualify as bonafide news programs and therefore exempt from the equal opportunity regime that Congress has put in place.
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Now this is a big scary. It's a bit scary because you have to think, okay, so the equal time rule that he's talking about is basically a rule that is set as precedent by the FCC which basically says that you have to allow people of an opposing opinion from the other side when you're talking about these political things. Right? People from the other side, you know, if they're running a campaign or whatever, should be allowed equal time. If they want to come on your platform, they should be allowed equal time. They should be allowed, you know, to push back and all the things now just some history. The View was founded by Barbara Walters. It's produced by ABC News. And because of that, it's very unclear here if what he's even talking about about it being a bonafide, bonafide news platform is even legit. But the whole thing, the fact that that is even a conversation about being investigated, I don't know, it's just kind of crazy. Now abc, which is where you watch the View, is a FCC regulated network. Now there are different shows that you know, even though they're discussing news and you know certain things like that, it's more of like, it's almost like satire or talk back. Like you're not turning on these news programs to be told something first, to be educated. It's more like personality based stuff. It's more almost like, I would say, reaction. Our generation of media for the kids, we will call it reactionary. So these are platforms where you have these talking heads, these talking figures who are giving their opinion and they may, there may be a moderator who presents facts or presents a story, but it's very opinion based and things of that nature. It's not driven to educate someone or to change an opinion. It's solely out there for you to a bunch of opinions. And there are aligned opinions and non aligned opinions. Like the ladies on the View go back and forth on their panel all the time. Not everybody there thinks the same. And it's done that way on purpose. But then you also have shows like SNL where SNL is not, you're not Turning on SNL to hear a news report of, like, what's going down. But if you watch snl, it's because you want to see how are they going to make fun of this? What is the satire around this? What is their opinion of what was funny on this? But I will say the fcc. The same rule was raised by Carr about SNL back when Kamala Harris came onto the show. The FCC looked into it, whether it was a thing or not. And granted, Trump's organization the same amount of time on the show. Like, that was one of the things that happened. So I think it's just scary to even be having these conversations because it's, like, in violation at all at anything, of anything. Fcc. And FCC has been governing television and radio and all these things forever, like, for years and years and years, but in violation of any of that, everybody's TV licenses and, you know, time slots are up for question, up for grabs. But in a time period where people want more spotlight on your show because you have opinions that they do not necessarily agree with, that is scary as hell, especially as somebody that is, like, trying to build in this media space. Like, not even just as, like, a talk show person. Like, I'm talking about storytelling. So, like, I want to make. You know, I was going to say I want to make tv, but now it's like, everything's on streaming, but y' all know what I mean. I want to make series, I want to act, I want to write, I want to direct a lot of that stuff. Like, the more I get into this and, you know, as I've set out, you know, I look at, like, Ava DuVernay, Issa Rae, people who are doing storytelling in a really fly way, but there's so much intention and direction and influence in what they do. You get scary when you think about stuff like that. People as intentional as that, you know, because they have a deeper calling and responsibility. And I think as black creators, even if we don't want to accept it, we do have a responsibility. It's like, man, can you even. How do you fulfill that responsibility through your work? When everything is being censored? That is really scary. And it's not even being censored, like, in fair play, because, again, the FCC has been around for a very long time. There are rules and regulations behind. You know, even on Instagram, you can't just post. You can post crazy things on social media. But there are now social media platforms that do have a certain type of, like, monitoring system. Like, I even sometimes get crazy comments and I'll notice some of the comments are, like, hidden instantly by Instagram because of the words that they use that they deem harsh or, you know, like, censorship is there to a certain extent, but it's always been there as a bumper to protect. Now it's, like, to punish. And that is scary. Just because someone doesn't agree with you, especially as a young person trying to figure out and navigate this whole space. My biggest worry is that, because I've always been really excited to even be doing stuff like this. Like, to be able to be here on this podcast and be talking to you guys and, you know, leaving the Breakfast Club every morning and coming here and just being able to really get out my thoughts and my opinion on things and provide you guys with, you know, we do the stories and we do the rundown, and we do all the facts and all the things. But you really get to learn me hearing my opinion. This is exciting. This is an exciting time for creators to be able to do that and for the underdogs to really become the legends. It's very scary, though, because when you think about what cuts through, not that I think things should be sensationalized or people should just do or say things to break through, but I do think that authenticity matters. I do think that substance and intention, when you pick up the microphone, matters. And I think that that's what makes. It's like, the cream will always rise. Y' all ever heard that saying, the cream will always rise? I think that's what, like, that is the cream. And right now just feels like, okay, as we're rising and as these things are happening, what is our life going to be like if we can't get on this microphone and tell the truth? I understand, you know, things that are free. Freedom of speech is not free. Nothing is free. My mom has always taught me, there ain't nothing free, baby. Okay? You get a gift from a man, he wants something in return. So either be ready to give it back in return or be ready to say, hey, I don't need this. You got one or two options. Nothing in life is free. But at the same time, I do think that there's. There is. There is a certain sense of. Freedom of speech is not free because there's consequence. But if I'm doing it with purpose, if I'm doing it with intention and the responsibility we just talked about, I should be able to do it. And right now, it just feels like we're not. If the view gets off air, it feels like we can't. Like we not. And I will say I was nervous, too, because the day that Kimmel got suspended, we were all waiting to see what the View was going to have to say. They ain't say nothing, but they finally did. Let's take a listen. Did y' all really think we weren't gonna talk about Jimmy Kimmel? I mean, have you watched the show.
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Over the last 29 seasons? Yes.
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So, you know, no one silences us. And to all my friends in Italy who reached out, you have to know it's okay. We're still here. We're still broadcasting. And when the news broke last week about Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, we took a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it. First we did the same thing with Stephen Colbert.
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Then our show was on tape on Friday.
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But we are live here today, and we're getting into it now. Mm.
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Well, the view is standing 10 toes down, baby. They ain't backing off. You're not gonna get them. I mean, I. It's like, I'm not surprised if you watch the View, you know? Like, they ain't going down without a fight. Even if they were, I don't think they're going down, but if they were, baby, they gonna fight to the very end, period. But I do. Like, I hear what they're saying, but, man, it does not feel like that free speech is not a real thing. It just doesn't feel like it is. Like, I know that it's supposed to feel like you should have the opportunity and, you know, things should be uncensored, and people shouldn't be able to. Like, the government shouldn't be able to patrol and do certain things. But Trump has literally been saying what he wanted to do and doing it for this. It's been happening. So to me, it's like, literally one of them things where it's like, damned if you do, damned if you don't, because if you. If. If the View doesn't say anything about this. Right. They look like, okay, well, now we're bending to the things that we always fight against. If they lean in and they say too much, Chuck won't be all up in there. But any minute, he can get to take down the View, because he had a whole list of, like, here's exactly who I want up out of here. He told us a long time ago, the media and anybody that was sat in a position that he didn't really care for there was going to be free speech is not free. To sum this up. Okay? And it's one of the scariest things ever. Getting into an industry where you understand how controlling the mind and the media is such a powerful tool. You talk about nuclear bombs and Trump understanding what to do with nuclear bombs and, you know, nuclear strikes and all the things our president is literally. Our president is literally taking over all of Our major media 1 merger, 1 firing, 1 suspension, 1 FCC wrong comment to the next. That is. That's dangerous as well. Like, I really.
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