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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
came in.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, y'all, it's Laura l. Rosa and this is the
latest with Laura l.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Rosa.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is a deadly dig in all things pop culture, entertainment,
news and exclusives, and y'all know we get into them
conversations that shake the room as well behind the scenes
of the grind, checking on in with you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We are mid week, back.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
To work after being off of the breakfast club and
waking up at three am. I keep checking in with
y'all about this because baby, I am struggling this morning.
I freaking barely made it through my alarm, so it's
running late this morning. And I was just thinking about
you know, as you get older, taking vacations from work,
it's like you celebrate the vacation and having the time off.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But man, getting back to work is hard.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Getting back to waking up at three four o'clock in
the morning is insane at thirty three years old. But
I Am not complaining about having to do it. I'm
just tired. I'm tired. But we are almost through the week.
First week back, I got some really good stuff for
you guys today. I'm always excited here on the podcast
when we get to talk about variety of topics, like
I know, we get into the entertainment news and the
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pop culture stuff, which is normally like the dating and
you know kind of like the you know how all
those things go. We are going to talk about that
because my girl, Cardi b is out in Paris looking
amazing and there has been a little bit of an
update on her and Stefon Diggs. But before we get
into that in the latest there's a story right now
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circulating everywhere. It's all over the place, and I thought
that this story was pretty interesting. So Mattel those that
is a company that makes Barbie. Mattel has actually introduced
its first ever Barbie doll with type one diabetes. They've
been making toys that are representative of like you know,
skin to and disabilities and you know, different things. Right,
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this Barbie with type one diabetes is you know, geared
toward expanding representation even more and Mattel wants to inspire
more children with this Barbie. Now, this makes me happy
because I feel like, on face value, when people see
this story. It's like, who would even understand a Barbie
with type one diabetes, right, because this is not a
person who can talk to you about their condition and
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what they're experiencing and how they manage it or anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So what is the point.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But then I went to look at the Barbie, and
I'm like, Yo, this is fire because not only you
know it, does this Barbie just give Barbie like you
can dress her up, you can dress her down and
change your clothes, but she comes with a lot of
accessories that any young kid dealing with diabetes has to
learn about and has to learn how to carry around,
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has to learn how to manage, how to use in
case of emergency, and just in managing their care.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And I don't think that we talk enough about, you know, as.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Keys or when we were kids, how you know what
we played with as far as the dolls and toys,
and what we watched on TV, what we heard on
the radio, what we learned from our friends, how much
it actually influenced our life. And when you think about that,
if any of you guys out their parents, but if
you're a parent of a child dealing with type one diabetes,
I think that this normalizes the conversation for a kid
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around diabetes.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's again where we are.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
In our society today, in our medical world today, people
with diabetes, you know, who are managing their care talk
about it outwardly and openly because it is something that
is you know, it's a normal thing for some people today,
and it's been made to be one of those things
that people can talk about because you know, everybody's dealing
with it and because of our technology in our medical system,
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it's made it a lot easier for people who were
going through and managing care to do so. But kids
are different kids, don't you know understand that on face
value all the time, like, hey, I'm not the only
person going through this. If their friends and their friend
group depending on how old the kid is, y'all know
how all that goes. They're ousted out or they feel
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different and you're not that can mess with a kid.
But I think you know you've seen this Barbie. You're
able to play with this Barbie. Barbie dolls are so
regarded your actual kid and you have a Barbie, there's
an excitement around, you know, seeing this Barbie doll who
is glammed up and dressed up and can go everywhere
with you and it's you know, always just ready to play,
and it just always put together and seeing yourself and
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that I think is important, which is why they did,
you know, the ethnically diverse Barbies and all the different things.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So, there was a press release that came from Mattel,
and the press release read that Mattel is announcing a
new Barbie.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This addition is going to be an addition to the
line that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Enables more children to see themselves reflected and Barbie in
encourages dialplay that extends beyond a child's own lived experiences.
Mattel says they want to foster a greater sense of
inclusion and empathy. See, we just talked about that pillars
and all of the pillars of the Barbie brand. Now
this Barbie because they want to make sure the design
truly captures, you know, what it's like to be a
part of the Type one diabetes community. They say that
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Barbie the brand worked closely with Breakthrough T one D
which is the leading global Type one diabetes research and
advocacy organization, and that organization is actually committed to celerating
life change and breakthrough secure prevent and treat type one
diabetes and all of its complications. So Barbie worked with
this organization because they wanted to make sure they accurately
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showed the medical equipment that this Barbie comes with, because
this is the medical equipment that anyone with this condition
may utilize at the same time. So that's a part
of the Barbie's look, and it has a very stylish
look and feel, like you know, it matches the Barbie's
outfits and things of that nature. So again, it just
makes it very kid inclusive. We all are inclusive no
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matter what we're dealing with on the day to day.
Friendly some of the things that the Barbie comes with
a continuous glue coost monitor.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And I also think too that this is fire because if.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You are a kid and you're having to learn about,
you know, your glucose monitor and wearing it on your
arm and what it's for and why you have to
wear it and why it's important, it's the same way
as if a kid were to watch a cartoon or
something like that that in a very kid friendly way
breaks down type one diabetes and how to care for it,
like you can do it through the Barbie.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
If you are that child's parent.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So the glucose monitors are small, they're very wearable devices
and what they're for is they continually measure a person's
blood sugar levels. And then in addition to this, the
Barbie even comes with the phone to help track her
blood sugar levels throughout the day. They also have an
insulin pump that comes with Barbie, which we know is
you to figure out, you know, what your insulin dosage
should be, and that's attached to her waist. She has
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a blue polka dot outfit on now the Poko dot outfit.
It's the top matching a skirt and it has ruffles
on it. The colors themselves represent diabety awareness. And then
the Barbie also comes with a purse. Now the dog
comes with a blue pastel purse. The kids love to
take the purses off the Barbies and put it back
on and interchange the outfits. But inside of the purse
the Barbie carries and I thought that this was really
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important because I remember having a family member and my
family with diabetes and they would have to eat certain
snacks throughout the day to keep their levels in a
certain place. Inside of the Barbie's purse, she carries very
essential things. So she carries her type one diabetes supplies,
and she also carries snacks when she's on the go,
which is again a perfect way to explain to your child, like, look,
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here's how your life is set up. Your friends may
and I have to snack on these type of things
throughout the day, but here is why you have to.
And here's how Barbie carries hers, and here's how you
should carry yours. I thought that this was fire and
it also touched my heart to hear I also, you know,
it's to me. I never like to hear about kids
who are dealing with different illnesses. I just think that
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kids are just so innocent. They don't have a choice
at you know, how they're born, when they're born, and
all those type of things. So it's just always a
very sensitive topic when you talk about kids. We're dealing
with any medical condition that has to be managed in
the care because also their kids they don't understand you know,
intolen dosages and having to take into it and you know,
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having to check in on things. So I thought that
this was a dope way to be able to have
a conversation, especially if you're a parent, to be able
to do so and be able to help them understand
and managing their care.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Now we're going to take a swing of things, a
hard swing here in the latest.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
But I mean we're still talking about parents because we're
going on over to our girl, Cardi B. Now, Cardi
B is out in Paris for a couture a fashion week,
and she has been killing it. Carti has literally been
the eye of the week, which is not uncommon anytime
Carti does these fashion weeks, especially when she has new
music coming. She uses the opportunity as a platform to
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eat it up and to cause conversation around herself and
that she has been doing the looks have been looking.
Carti has a stylist. His name is Colin Carter. Colin
has been working with Carty since the start of her career.
Colin is amazing, Okay. Colin is one of those stylists
that tell stories throughout all of the clothing that he's
stalling his talent in. He works with Victoria Monet, now,
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Kelly Rowland, so many amazing people, but it is very
obvious Cardi B is his muse and they are so
amazing together. Now, the reason why I'm talking about all
this Paris fashion week stuff is because Cardi B was
over in Paris Fashion Week minded her cute business. Okay,
she decided to scrub I'm gonna safe for whatever reason. Now,
because we talked about this on the Breakfast Club and
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I said that the reports were that she scrubbed Stefan Diggs,
who she is currently dating, the NFL player, from her
Instagram and because of that, the reports were that there
was trouble in Paraditce that they may have been broken up,
and there is now an additional report that says that
is not true. So what happened was Stefan Diggs does
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these YouTube content videos. These videos show like him working out,
him doing you know, the community give back days that
he does. It's just kind of like a you know,
you're going along on a ride and and day and
his life type of thing. In one of those content videos,
there is a video of Cardi B working out with
Stepan Diggs. Now it is obvious that this video is older.
I would say about MAYB. About a month ago, Cardi
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B had posted video from the gym with Stephan Diggs
and she was encouraging him. Let's take a listen to
that video because it was hilarious. We get to it
by seven.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's right, Like we knew she ain't been in the
gym with him.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You know, that wasn't a startling revelation that didn't make
us think, Okay, there is no trouble in Paradise. But
it's the timing with Cardi B recently being separated from
Offset and trying to get back out there and have
talked about how hard the separation has been for her
off set, talking about how hard it has been for
him and trying to figure out cod parenting. Cardi B
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stepping back out in Dayton is a big thing because
we've seen Cardi being Offset separate before, but Cardi B
normally goes back to OFFSET, and now we're seeing her
in a castle with Stefan Diggs. This is the guy
she's dating who took her to that castle to stay
for a bit for vacation.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So it wasn't a big surprise.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You know, we heard Cardy in the gym cheering on
her men, but the timeline was definitely something to point
to because it is in the midst of all this
conversation of is their trouble in Paradise? With Cardi B
and Stephan Diggs, and I think a lot of people too.
Not only are there people out there that are rooting
for Cardi and want to see her move on and
be happy, or you know, even if she decides to
stay wherever she's at, they want to see her happy. Right,
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But there are people out there that feel like Stefon
Diggs is not a great match for her because there
is conversations around him and other women often, and you
know he's a NFL player. Just all of the things, right.
Cardi B on her Twitter account retweets a clip. So
there was a fan account that tweeted a clip of
Cardi B working out with Stefon Diggs in a new
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YouTube video. The tweet said Cardi B working out with
Stephon Diggs and Stepan's new YouTube video uploaded today with
a heart. Cardi B's Twitter account then reposted the video. Now,
all the breakup rumors were swirling, right, I reached out
to Cardi B's team for an update of.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like, hey, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
She just deleted the photos because you know, this is
a part of the rollout as far as like she
wants to clear her Instagram and make it all about
her and her music. Not that she's using him for
the rollout because that also is a conversation. I don't
believe that though. I actually believe that when Cardi is
publicly seen with somebody and she's invested in them, she is.
It was the same way with all said. I've been
told you know, there was no comment, so you know
that it was left open. So when people see her
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retweet this and she hasn't said anything about anything in
the midst of all this, hey, are y'all still together?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
What is going on?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Is their trouble in paradise? Of course you take that
a's oh okay, they're good then heard you? So. A
source close to Cardi B and Stephon Diggs actually told
TMZ that Stefan Diggs and Cardi B are not officially
broken up in spite of you know, anything that is
swirling around, in spite of her removing him from her Instagram.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And then Cardi B went on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It seems like she was responding to all of the
noise online about them.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
This is in true Cardi B. Fashion.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, She tweeted, check the f up, go to dinner,
go shopping, go to the park, get off the internet,
dot dot enough in all caps with exclamation points, like
she is.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Tired of the people talking about her, like y'all ain't
got nothing else better to do.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Now. I don't know exactly what is going on right,
Like I don't know if the scrubbing of the Instagram
because for me, even when I reached out to her team,
I said, look, even if it's nothing going on, because
they literally just went Instagram official. What Cardi b posted
that was Memorial Day. It's only we just went through
fourth of July. That's all of this stuff is new.
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There's a lot of eyes there because it's new. So
her scrubbing him, she instantly knows that's going to send
a message, even if she is not intending for it to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You gotta know what's going to So what's the message.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I still don't know why that happened, why he was
from her Instagram, But as of now, the update is
they are not completely broken up. And I also don't
know exactly what that means either, because you can be
not completely broken up with somebody and still going through
whatever you're going through behind the scenes, trying to figure
it out or whatever, and I don't want that for
CARTI I feel like at this.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Point CARTI has been through enough publicly.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
She has kids, her babies are getting older to the
point where you know, they might venture onto a TikTok
or you know, or whatever, and I don't want. I
just would hate to be a mom trying to figure
it out in this space where I'm super famous. I
have my babies, my kid's father is super famous as well.
The new guy I'm dating is super famous as well,
and I have to publicly go through anything that is
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more than love and happiness. But that's the update as
of now. Anything additional, y'all know, I'm trying to figure
it out. For y'all, I will bring it back here
to the latest with Lauren and Rosa because that is
what we do. As I tell you, guys, every episode.
You guys could be anywhere with anybody talking about these
things because there's always a lot to talk about at
the end of the day. But y'all are right here
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with me, and I appreciate you, guys, my lowriders. I
will see you guys in my next episode, and as always,
talk back.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Let me know. I'll talk to y'all in my next episode.