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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Joys.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody, you know, if.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You don't lie about that, right, Lauren came in hot.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura l Rosa and this
is the Latest with Laura l. Rosa, which is your
daily dig into everything pop culture, news, breaking, exclusive, but
for real, for real. The conversation is that shake the room.
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. We decided on the name, want to reveal
it at the end of the episode, so y'all stay locked.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
But y'all know how we start off.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
With a little you know, grinding check in because it
look it gets a little real.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Patrick, We checking in how you feeling? Let me give
my regular voice song because last time you was cutting up.
Let me just talk regular, all right? So, dang, what
am I feeling?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How you feeling today? I'm feeling accomplished, accomplished. I like
that you sit and you think about it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I do like that because I feel like you're not
just like throwing answers back at me. You actually are
thinking about how you feel in real Timmey, you're saying it,
why do you feel accomplished?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Patrick?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Because I feel like I do have some doubters and
just sticking with what my passion is and just just
kind of just moving forward with it, taking all the
punches and just moving forward and just staying with it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And I think that's why.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Feel and progressing and you know what I mean, and
seeing a growth of yourself. I'm gonna tell you right now,
the hate be hating, okay, like it be happening. And
you know what's crazy is I feel like people have
always said to me, like people want you to do well,
but they don't want you to do better than them.
And I ain't never I never felt that, but now
(02:30):
I kind of see It's like okay, but I also
feel like too, It's like when you come from that
mean where it's like I was raised in love, so
I could never be a hater.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I show too much love for you to be a hater.
All of that that like that that should.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Live with you when you think about your naysayers, your
daughters and all of that. And for me, I don't
really sit in that like you might get me. I
might be mad for a good like day or two,
you know what I'm saying, But after that, I'm like, Okay,
bet heards you. Because when you spend that black baby,
it's gonna cost you. It's bust that you turn. It's
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gonna cost you Okay, like that that fuels me. It
makes me get creative, it makes me you know it
just I don't know, it makes me up it. So
I hope Patrick, that's how you feel. And I'm happy
that you feel accomplished because you're doing a great job
and we are learning and doing in road time. But
the beauty of that too has been we've been able to,
you know, start showing our process in real time, and
(03:24):
I think for young creators that are, you know, figuring
this all out. My platform has always been about transparency.
It's always been about Yo, I don't got this all
figured out. I'm moving, I'm grooving. I'm sticking and moving.
I just happen to be good at what I do.
So doors are opening, but when I get in those doors,
a lot of times I'm having to like feel my
way to the light switch first time, first time, or
(03:46):
I did that with college, I'm doing it here with
this you know podcast.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I'm a new podcaster.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So we just got the green light officially and kind
of got our understanding of what our flow should be
to be able to post videos this same day that
the audio goes live, which is a game.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Changer, drop a bomb for the game changers.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay, so we are looking for a backup editor to
help Patrick out. So if you're in the New York area,
and yes, I know it can be done digitally, but
I want someone here in New York. I think because
of how timely things need to be, how much content
we're shooting, I need to be able.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
To pull up on you and drop off a hard
drive if we need to.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Baby, I ain't trying to, you know what I'm saying, like, yeah,
we are looking for that. But for me, I think
I'm feeling because I know how i'meeling. I can't put
it into one word, but I'm feeling like I just
got back to school all over again. Like I feel
like I just walked into class homeroom for the first
time freshman year, first day of school, and I don't
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know if you remember freshman year, high school, freshman year
of college, that first day you feel so like your
eyes are so open wide and it's like, oh my god,
like you're ambitious, you're ready to go, like you're That's
how I feel. I feel that way because I think
I've done some pretty cool interviews at this point. We've
done and we are doing, and there's so much more
to come, some really fun stuff. But I'm so big
(05:07):
on like I just want to make sure, like I
pray to God, like I literally pray that God keeps
me like in a place of like focus, because as
the brand grows, there's gonna be a lot of all
that fun stuff, a lot of the glitz and the glamour.
But like, for what I do, I have to like
sit down, do the work. I create newsroom hours for
myself because I need to do the work. I need
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to call people, I need to watch what's going on
all that good stuff. So I'm feeling like I just
checked back into school because I felt myself kind of
getting too caught up in the brand of brand, the
brand of brand, and I'm you know what I'm saying,
boom bringing on back baby.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So that's how I'm feeling today. So I think we're
both feeling really good feelings. Absolutely, let's get on into
some things today. In the latest, you know, we have
some updates. You know, your girl love taking y'all of court,
a lot of take y'all a court. So first on
the docket, we have to be honest with y'all. This
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is probably one of the most interesting updates that I've
done on Diddy in some time, and it's not really
much of an update. So earlier today reporter legal reporter
Megan Cunif I follow her on Twitter, you should as well.
She tweeted a document from the court that explained how
Brian Steele, Young Thug's attorney and we talked about this
(06:24):
was officially put on record in Diddy's case for Diddy's defense.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Now, this this is a big deal. When we talked
about this.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Last I told you guys, what how big of a
deal and how great this would be for a puff
if this were to happen. Basically, that means that a
judge is saying, Brian Steele has done everything at missions wise,
so he's legally submitted everything he needed to submit to
be able to show that he can come and stay
the night over the attorney's homes in the Southern District
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of New York. So it's called it's something called pro
hag vice, and that just means that as a non
local attorney, he's gonna be able to work with the
other local attorneys in ddd's case to help figure this
whole thing out and to be able to represent Puff
big deal here because Brian still is damn good at
what he does. Okay, but when this document was posted
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by Megan qniv earlier today, I was like, Okay, well
that's good, but like you could be put on record
and he could still decide not to go forward. Money
checks cannot clear, Like, there's a lot of things that
can prevent you from officially being retained. So I reached
out to a source close to the situation, was very
familiar with all the inside workings of these things, who
(07:37):
confirmed to me that Brian still has been officially retained.
And when I say officially retained, my next immediate question
to them was, so is he already working with the
attorneys like he's clocked in. They made it clear and
attorney does not do all of this. And when they
say all of this, they mean go through the process
of getting cleared admissions wise, so submitting the paperwork and
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having the conversation and the back and forth with the
court so that the court can say, hey, you're allowed
to come on over here. Yeah, you can come over here.
You can sit with us, and here are the rules
when you sit with us. An attorney does not do
that unless their plan is to get active the minute
the first day outside get active. So I'm told that
Brian still has already been strategizing with Puff's team since
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the moment he was cleared admissions wise. Now, Puff does
have a court case today Friday. In court, they're going
to be having enough couple of conversations. They're going to
be talking about whether his case is able to be
pushed out two months or not. If not, he goes
to court in a few weeks, they're going to be
able to talk about, you know, this Cassie video and
(08:43):
whether this video is going to be able to be
used in court as evidence or not. They're still hung
up on that because what Puff's team is saying is
that the video. They're still arguing that the video was
like distorted, it was an edited version, you know, all.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Of those things.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Meanwhile, the prosecution is saying, no, CNN had an original
copy of this video, which is what we use. Puff's
team is saying, well, bring in a specialist. Let's have
someone go through and look at this video. So all
of those things are gonna be talked about in court, right,
So my next question was, well, is Brian still gonna
be in court on Friday they could not answer that
question for me. But Brian still does not show up
(09:19):
to court because what I predict what happened is that
Puff's team is gonna get granted more time, so they'll
get those two months to prepare their case, and in
preparing their case, Brian still will really hone in, get
way more familiar, and then he'll pop out after that period.
I also predict that he's gonna kind of lead strategy
within this, but I.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Couldn't confirm that.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I did try and confirm that and couldn't confirm that,
but it would make so much sense, especially after what
we just saw him do with Young Dub. I also
did too acts if you know, if there was any
response from Puff, how is Diddy feeling about Brian still
being brought onto this case. Did not get an answer
to that, but I will have that answer for you guys.
But I can say that I was told that the
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team themselves, you know, the full legal team, it's super excited,
and that Brian still after you know, being briefed on everything,
kind of you know, just just a bit in order
enough to know if he wanted to take the case
or not. He is very optimistic that Puff is.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Going to be a free man. And that's a big statement.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Now, let's talk about predictions real quick when it comes
to what I think Brian Steele will lean in on
and you know what the strategy will be. But specifically
for him, I think one of the things I mentioned
this in the last episode will be the the you know,
the no evidence presented. But I think the way that
he's going to do it is instead of being like,
there's no evidence, there's no evidence, there's no evidence, it's
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going to be like his rights were violated. He was
put through ABC and D as a high profile man,
a wealthy man, like you know what I'm saying, and
because of that, here's everything he lost, here's everything that
was damaged, and there was no evidence presented this whole time.
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I think Brian Steell is really good at making the
people that he represents look like human beings.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
But I think that that's one of the things he's
going to try and do.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I also think that he's going to really hone in
on this Cassie video. I think that he is going to,
you know, just again make it a point of Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
We saw the video.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
My client has apologized, but that has He's not being
charged for what we saw in this video. And I
think Puff's attorneys tried to do that. Mark Agnefilio tried
to do that in the beginning, but he wasn't successful
at it, and I think it's because his approach in
the court it just wasn't strong, like you didn't even
believe him. And I also feel like Puff was advised
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wrong from the beginning on that video when it came
to like him acting like it didn't happen, you know,
the way that.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
The apology was set up.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So this will be a fresh start to build a
different narrative around that video.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Now, don't get me wrong, that video is so disgusting.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I don't know how it will happen, but I think
because of the attorney that I know Brian still to be,
he's going to not try and minimalize what we see
at all. He's going to make sure that Puff knows
he needs to be very empathetic about what we see.
He's going to make sure that the court understands that
Diddy's team understands what they saw. And it's also very
(12:22):
empathetic to that because it did not come off that way.
It came off as this man who was super powerful
and super rich who does not care about anything, and
his team is following right behind him. When it comes
to that. Brian still is damn good. But baby, he
got his work cut out for him. If he is
able to clear Diddy in this case, this will probably
(12:44):
be one of the biggest he got off since OJ Simpson.
Let's talk about that online. Y'all tweet me about that.
Instagram me about that. How do y'all feel? Next topic,
Drake's legal team is using the biggest stage known period
as their best witness in this whole defamation lawsuit against
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Universal Music Group. So Drake filed a complaint a while back,
and just twenty four maybe forty eight hours ago, Drake
amended that complaint. Drake points at the fact that this
Super Bowl halftime where Kendrick Lamar performed, was one of
the most viewed halftime shows of all time, with over
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one hundred and thirty three million people watching across platforms too, television, streaming,
you know, anywhere you could get it.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
The people was eating it up.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
They called this Super Bowl performance an assassination of character
of another artist, and the reason why and how they're
positioning it is actually really smart I think Drake is
on to something with this one. I don't think it's
going to change the way people view him and his
people think he's a whiny baby. Is giving light skin
(13:54):
real quick, like that's how people feel about this. I
don't think it'll change that, but eagerly I think he's
onto something. So what he's saying is that So what
he's saying is that because Kendrick Lamar had to not
say pedophile on the super Bowl stage, there's no way
that these brands involved cannot say that's the feminatory. There
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are multiple brands, Like when you make the decision to
perform the super Bowl, there's a ton of different people
who like help you decide things. This is something that
has been happening with the super Bowl for years and
years and years where the week of, almost I believe
it's a day of, they do run through a performances,
They check set list, they you know.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
What I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They want to make sure that legally everything complies. So
Drake's attorneys were really smart and basically saying, hey, wait,
so y'all saying that this man can't say this on
y'all stage. He can't put y'all in harms way or
in danger. But he can say it on a song.
Kendrick Lamar can say this on the song and y'all
gonna push it and y'all gonna promote it. And when
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we say to y'all at oh, you know, Drake's house
was shot up and they're leg that it was because
of the song, or when they mentioned Drake had to
take his son out of school because he didn't feel
like it was safe, or he had to move his
baby mom's out of where she was staying because he
didn't feel like it was safe, all of these things
because of a song that claims something.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Allegedly.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It's like, y'all don't know what I'm talking about. I'm
just upset that I lost a rat battle. But I
would go as far as to say even Kendrick Lamar,
Kendrick Lamar made a very obvious choice not to say that.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
He teased it, you're.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Really gonna do it, You're really gonna do like he
knew you know what I'm saying, But he didn't say
the word. He didn't say the word pedophile. Everybody was
tipt on because they didn't want to end up in lawsuits.
And I think what Drake's team is trying to say
is hmm, I wonder why I think Drake is on and.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Something with this one.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
But yes, so our next story we still in court,
I promise y'all. We almost off the docket. Okay, the
updates are almost done, done doone. Our third topic is Meg,
because Meg thea Stallion wants Tory Lanes to get in
trouble again.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Okay, Megan is not playing with Tory Lanes.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I don't know if this is like a calculated like
eventually he's gonna run out of money for attorneys and
can't fight back and he's gonna sit down and be
quiet soon, or if you know, legally they're just like
I mean, it's it's her. She got one of the biggest,
baddest teams, you know what I'm saying, Like she coming
out the rock Nation gates and swinging. But yeah, she
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wants them to get in trouble again. And I'm all,
key not mad at this one. Today. I need to
have a conversation with y'all about conduct and a deposition. Okay,
So a deposition is when you know you're sat down
by attorneys from the opposing side, you know what I mean?
So the ops their attorneys sit you down, y'all have
a conversation. They ask you some questions because they're trying
(16:53):
to get more information. The information that they get a
lot of it sometimes can be used as evidence. It
can be used as a way for them to strategize,
like it's just you're laying everything out on the table,
y'all basically coming to each other as a woman, okay
with the receipts. So, when that conversation happened with Tory
Lanes and Megda Sillion's attorneys, because megde Stallion had asked
(17:15):
for Tory Lane to be deposed while he is locked up,
while he's still incarcerated in the lawsuit that she has
against a blogger who she claims that famed her because
this blogger was allegedly paid by Tory Lanes to do so.
The judge said, okay, he can be deposed, they can
have the conversation. But baby megda science team to file
(17:35):
something that said when they got there and they started
doing it, it was insane. They described Tory Lane's deposition
as disruptive, inflammatory, and inconsistent. They said in the documents
that it was so bad that even Tory Lane's counsel
had to disavow the deposition. So what they're saying is
that even his ley with counsel was like, yo, bro,
(17:56):
come on, dog, you're tripping. So because of this team
was like, okay, Judge, we want to put y'all on
notice that this is what happened. We mated our money,
we wasted our time, and because we wasted our money
in our time, he should be held in contempt of court.
So let us know why we shouldn't feel like that
and why we shouldn't move forward with pressing for that
to happen from you guys, from the judge, like from
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the court.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
So the judge is like, okay, taking a look at it.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, based on everything I'm seeing here, let's move forward
with this. I'm gonna allow for you guys to put
this on record in the court. I'm gonna give Tory
Lane some time. So Tory Lane has until April thirty,
twenty twenty five, So a few weeks from now, about
like two weeks from now, to come back and say no,
I wasn't in contempt of court.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Here's what actually happened.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
But baby, one thing the court don't play about is
you wasting their time, their money, their resources, and you
just being very like, do you know who I am?
I could do what I want. They gonna make an
example out of you every single time. Now, I will
say I have reached out to Tory Lanez's team to
see if there would be, you know, just any clarity
on this from their side of it, and I was
(19:05):
not providing anything. I did let them know that I
was gonna be doing this podcast episode, I was gonna
be talking about this, and I would love to have
presented both sides, but we don't know from Tory Lane's
side what was said what wasn't said at all. Now,
if Tory Lanez is found in contempt of court for
you know, these alleged actions today or the alleged these
alleged actions this week in the deposition, what will happen
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is is, uh Meg, the science team wants Tory lane
to have to pay for their attorney, their attorney fees
and basically like everything they had to come out of
pocket to make this happen. They like, tore you owe
us money, run us our coin, No Wood and Nichols,
run us our coin. And then they're gonna come back
and do it again, and the second time though, they're
not gonna have her team deposing him.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
They're like, let's get a special Master of the court.
Special Master.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I looked it up because I'm like, what is the
special Master of the court, But I figured it was
like kind of like a mediator, which it is basically
a special master. Of course, an appointed neutral party. It's
often an attorney or retired judge who assists a judge
with specific task in a case, such as resolving different disputes,
gathering evidence, or making recommendations. They are essentially a judge's
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helper who can perform tasks that would rather otherwise overburden
a judge. So this is just a person that can
come in a neutral party. So that way, you know,
if if Tory felt like, you know, what he was
being asked, or the conversation that was happening was very
one sided, or whatever whatever made him respond to what
they're a legend he did, this neutral party is basically
supposed to make it where he don't feel like that
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and he don't go through that again because this person
has no ties to either person.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
So hopefully second time's a charm. What we take away
from this episode long It's a lot.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Of information to download, y'all. I know, but I think
you know you could take away that things are moving.
But for me, one of the things that I've been
feeling because things are moving, and we talked about this
in Alive and if you with Charlotte may make sure
you go check that out on the YouTube channel. I
keep plugging it because it is such a good convo.
It's just the pivot, the art of the pivot, and
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when things are moving like this, you know just how
it feels and what you remember and what you tell yourself.
And for me, what I've been telling myself is, Lauren,
never stop talking to your younger self. Never stop talking
to your younger self, Lauren, because the minute you stop
talking to your younger self, you are going to tap
out of that. Like innocent, I really want to, you know,
(21:26):
do the work. I want to do good work. I
want to do good period. Like don't let these things
take you because they will.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Be outside.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
We outside, we outside outside. I tweeted out what conversations
are you having with your younger self right now? And
y'all went off. We almost had like one hundred thousand
views on this tweet. So the each hero said, my
younger self never imagined I be here. I would tell
her to enjoy life more, let life flow and to
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trust her intuition, and she'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I have that conversation with myself all the time, like
if I could only tell my younger self, girl, baby girl,
baby girl like girl like you like, oh ah, baby girl,
Like what y'all know what I'm saying, specially the black
girls listening. It's like, I don't gotta say much. Y'all
just understand what I'm saying because y'all know we speak
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through like h through like feeling. Another person tweeting I
thought that this one. I was like, wow, man, it's
just opinion, said, explaining to my younger self that the
choices my mom made weren't poor. After all, the choices
made were guided through the experience of addiction. It's okay
(22:43):
to forgive those traumas experience because she couldn't help herself,
let alone me.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That was deep. Jim Liz Keaton said.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
The conversation that she's having with her younger self right
now is you did everything you said you were going
to do, put that anxiety, put that in. You did
everything you said you were going to do. Put that
anxiety to the back and relax. We were doing cartwheels
in the park. Now, baby, I felt that on a
spiritual level, bringing the church temper rines and a shot.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Abu said, oooh ooh, ooh, y'd when.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I tell you, I felt that, like I think when
you're ambitious and you know you want certain things for
yourself and you've been exposed to more, I think you
get so like, oh my god, am I doing this right?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And my this and my dad? Is it gonna work out?
Is it gonna?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
But it's like now looking back, I would tell my
younger self, and today I still talk to my younger
self just I said, stay motivated. But I talk to
my younger self just about forgiving myself for not understanding
that I was hurt all along and like I had
what it took all along. I think that like you
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cosplay right, like you do good things, and people hype
you up, and people you know, the people around you
love you and they fill you up. Like I was
raised in so much love. I never felt anything else
but that. So I never felt inadequate, and I never
operated from a space of inadequacy. But there were times
where I was like, Man, if this don't work, then
what And I told you at the beginning of the episode,
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because we still in the streets in the tweets. We're
still in the streets in the tweets right now. I
told y'all that we had decided on the name for
you guys, the community that watches us, that listens to
us daily here at the Latest with Lauren La Rosa,
and we have decided drum.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Roll, please.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
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Make sure you comment low Writer. If you're watching this
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if you're you know, listening to this as you driving
or whatever you're doing, let me know that you you
with the gang, you with the mob? What was they
thinking they can't play with us all twenty twenty five
and beyond.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I really appreciate you guys for tuning in.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I tell y'all this every episode because I truly, at
the end of the day, there is always a lot
to talk about, and you could be anywhere with anybody,
you choose to be right here with me to talk
about it. So I appreciate you, guys. I'm Laura l Rosa.
This has been the latest with Laura l Rosa. I
am the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody bringing you all the good good.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I'll see you guys in the next episode.