October 8, 2025 • 29 mins
Dollie Parton, the Legend, needs to cancel some dates to look after her health. Also, AI is harming the surviving family members of beloved celebs, including Robin Williams and MLK Jr. whose family members are asking for a reprieve.
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Are you doing, how you feeling?
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bit exhausted these last couple of weeks. October is always
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October is always busy for me because it's HBCU homecoming season.
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I feel like I was saying today, I feel like
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Like boom boom boom boom boom boom, like it's no
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I get tired because you're not sleeping as much because
you're anticipating these heavy days, and it can be overwhelmed.
But yeah, it's just the tiredness. The growkiness kicks in.
It got pushed through. But I always tell myself, you
can't complain about how much food on the how much
food it's on the table when the plan was to eat.
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So I am not complaining, but lord, I can't wait
to get home today and rest.
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This is the first day I'll get home before like
six seven o'clock.
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Okay, it's happened in Friday, October tenth. Make sure y'all
come out now hopping on into the latest. Speaking of
dates and bookings and being everywhere, Dolly Parton country music legend,
Dolly Parton has had to cancel some show. So a
few days ago, almost about a week ago, now, Dolly
(03:34):
Parton came out and told her audience and told us
the fans that she would be canceling some live shows
she had in Vegas lined up for. Like it was
a couple of different days. It's like six or seven
dates in Vegas. Tickets were on sale, all the things.
People were excited. So Dolly Parton came out September twenty eighth, right,
(03:55):
so this was about a week ago, and she said,
I want the fans and the public to hear directly
from me that unfortunately I would need to postpone my
upcoming Las Vegas concerts. As many of you know, I've
been dealing with some health issues that has been a
topic and a lot of people thought because of those
health issues, Dolly Parton was actually gonna like take a
step away from music. Because at this point, Dolly Parton
(04:17):
ain't got nothing to prove, and you know, at her
age and you know everything that like touring and these shows.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And just the hustle bustle takes.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's like, why so people thought she was about to
take a set back because she had been, you know,
taking a set back a bit. So she says, I've
been dealing with some health challenges and my doctors tell
me that I must have a few procedures. As I
joked with them, it must be time for my one
hundredth mile checkup, although it's not just the usual trip
to see my plastic surgeon.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay, Dolly, I know that's right, girl, she said.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
If it ain't broke, I'm still gonna fix it. I'd
be in a plastic surgeon's office every day, know the girl.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So she continues, in all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Seriousness, given this, I am not going to be able
to rehearse to put together the show that I want
you to see in the show that you deserve to see.
You pay good money to see me perform, and I
want to be at my best for you. While I'll
still be able to work on all of my projects
from here in Nashville, I just need a little bit
more time to get show ready, as they say, and
don't worry about me quitting the business, because God hasn't
(05:14):
said anything about that or anything about me stopping yet.
But I believe He is telling me to slow down
right now, Lord Dolly.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yes, please, Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't think people understand how strenuous it is performing.
There is travel, there is long hours because there's hair, makeup,
there's rehearsal, there's an actual performance, and then there's recovery
from the performance. Like you're on your feet, you're moving,
you're grooving for hours at a time when you're performing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Then she doing meet and greets afterword.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That takes a lot out of you too, Interacting with
all them different people and different energies and the talking
and the smiling.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For hours after a show.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a lot, multiple dates, it's a lot to put
on her, so she says, But I believe He is
telling me to slow down right now so I can
be ready for more big adventures with all of you.
I love you and thank you for understanding, Dolly. So
she posted that, you know about a week ago, and
although I think you know, it made fans concerned a bit,
(06:19):
but I think she handled this very well. She handled
it like any celebrity would any old school celebrity who
understands and I'll say old school because of her age.
I'm not harping on that. I just mean I think
celebrities of a certain fame or like time period understand
that if you don't control the narrative, the narrative going
to control you. So she said, look, I'm not about
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to be absent from all these shows and be removed
from the road, and people just speculating about my health,
especially because she's been doing this for a long time,
and that is a conversation wants artists get up there
in age anytime they're pulled off of something or whatever.
I know, Gladys Knight, there's been conversations around her health
and whether she's, you know, healthy enough to be torn
weren't on the Queen's Tour that she's doing with Shaka Khan,
(07:02):
Pat and LaBelle and Stephanie Mills. It's a conversation that
people have, right So she's like, I'm gonna address it myself,
which I thought was great.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Calm some fans down, even though it alarmed them still,
but it was great.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So then Dolly Parton's sister posts to Facebook and she
scares the hell out of fans. She's asking for prayers
for her sister on Facebook, and people instantly just thinks,
people instantly from here think that this means everything Dolly
Parton just said to us about I'm just letting y'all
(07:39):
know first. It ain't nothing too crazy. I just need
a little tune up. And when I saw the apology,
I'm like, oh my god, are we about to lose
Dolly Barton? What is about to happen? And I'm reading
it from my phones today Gods because running out of
the house late because I woke up late from all
of the long hours that we've been putting in forgot
my computer at home, but here, so she says on Facebook,
(08:03):
this is Dolly part and sister.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
This is our folks. First post she had to post too,
because she had to clear some things up.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So in the first post, she says, last night, I
was up all night praying for my sister Dolly. Many
of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately,
and I truly believe in the power of prayer. I've
been led to ask all of the world that loves
her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
She's strong, she's loved, and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
With all the prayers being lifted for her, I know
in my heart she's going to be just fine. Godspeed
my sissy, Dolly. We love you with a heart. Man.
When I tell you, the headlines were like, Dolly Parton's
sister sends extra love and prayers, request extra love and prayers?
Is it the last for Dolly part and dundu dum like?
(08:46):
It literally sent people into a frenzy. So then her
sister had to post and say, I want to clear
something up. I didn't mean to scarity want to make
it sound so serious with asking for prayers for Dolly.
She's been a little under the weather, and I simply
ask for prayers because I believe so strongly in the
power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little
sister asking for prayer for a big sister.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you all for uplifting her. Your love truly makes
a difference. Baby.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
They got in on Facebook comments so fast, talking about
what's going to happen?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Is she okay? Is this the last two ride for
Dolly Parton? She told us she was going to be good.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Now you're here saying she needs prayers and what is
going on, so she had to clear it up. But
then Dolly Parton had to come and make a video
to further explain that she's going to be good as well,
because all these things with her sisters stirred the pot
even more so. This video, this is actually breaking. I
saw this as I was coming here to the podcast.
This video was posted not too long ago. Let's take
(09:41):
a listen to Dolly party She says, I'm dead yet, honey,
stop playing with me.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than
I am, do look sick than you. I'm working hard
here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's mind at ease.
Those zobies that seemed to be real concern, which I appreciate,
And I appreciate your prayers because I'm a person of faith,
I can always use the prayers for anything and everything.
(10:07):
But I want you to know that I'm okay. I've
got some problems. As I mentioned back when my husband
Carl was very sick. That was for a long time,
and then when he passed, I didn't take care of myself,
so I let a lot of things go that I
should have been taken care of. So Anyway, when I
got around to it, the doctor said, we need to
(10:28):
take care of this, we need to take care of that.
Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things
so I could be closer to home, closer to Vanderbilt,
you know where I'm kind of having a few treatments
here and there. But I wanted you to know that
I'm not dying. Did you see that those that AI
picture reband me? Oh lordy, I mean they had rebad
(10:52):
my deathbed, and we both looked like we need to
be buried. But now, I thought, my lord, but if
I was really dying, I don't think Rebba would be
the one at my death man. She would not come
visit me earlier. But anyway, there are just a lot
(11:12):
of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard
it from me, you'd know that I was.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Okay, y'all.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I made Dolly Parton get in here and tell y'all
she ain't dead.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
She ain't ready to die yet.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
AI is insane, y'all know what else going into another
story in the latest because okay, so Dolly Parton just
had to clip the fact that she's alive. She may
not be as well as she nermally is, but she's
getting to it and she's still able to move around.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
She's actually in the studio.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
For everyone listening to the audio of the podcast who
cannot see that video, Dolly Parton is, And I posted
to our brown Girl Grinding Instagram if you want to
go and check it out. It's brown Girl Grinding all
common spelling. Dolly Parton in that video is actually sitting
in what looks like almost like a voiceover studio because
there was like a green screen behind her and then
there's like a mic in a chair, So she's working
on something as she said she would be. She said,
(12:01):
I'll be home working, just gotta stay close to the home.
I just can't get on the road with you. I'm
trying to tell you all that travel booking life ain't
no joke. And I feel that. And I'm thirty three
years old, and after a week or two weeks, I
literally schedule a weekend where I don't even let people
know I'm home because of how much it takes out
of you. I can't imagine, and who am I. Dolly
Parton is Dolly Parton, so you can only imagine how
(12:26):
grand her travel is, her meet and greets are.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All the things.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
AI is really a mother effort though, because Dolly Parton
having to respond to something like this, because I definitely
know her sister's Facebook post contributed to the scare. I
was gonna say some, but I would say a lot,
but also too that AI photo. Now in other news
(12:58):
in the latest Martin Luther King's daughter, doctor Bernice King,
and Robin William's daughter, Zelda Williams, Robin Williams is the actor.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Everyone knows Robin Williams. I don't have to describe who
he is. Huge actor.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He puts so much joy in our lives for so long,
and then he passed away. He died of suicide some
years ago. His daughter had to get on Instagram and
acts people and fans to stop creating and sending her
AI videos of her dad in. Martin Luther King's daughter,
(13:33):
doctor Bernice King, recently retweeted a Variety article detailing Robin
Williams's daughter asking people to stop sending these videos and said,
I concur because you know the same thing she says
is happening with her and her father, Doctor Martin Luther King.
So Zelda Williams, Robin Williams daughter, posted to her Instagram story.
(13:54):
If you've got any decency, just stop doing this to
him and to me, to everyone, even full stop.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's dumb.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's a waste of time and energy, and believe me,
it's not and not as in all caps.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's not what he'd want. You're not making art.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You're making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives
of human beings, out of the history of art and music,
and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll
give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's gross.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So there was a Variety article, as I mentioned, and
you know, the headline of the Variety article says Robin
Williams daughter Zelda Tels fans, please just stop sending me
AI videos. Doctor Bernice King, who is the daughter of
Martin Luther King, retweeted this article this headline on X
and she says, I concur concerning my father.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Please stop.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Over the weekend, I saw there was a AI video
of Kobe and he was like, you know, in this
AI video, he's like streaming and like playing like one
of those like in some game he was playing on
like either like a PS five. He was gaming in
some way like playing a video game, and he was
streaming in this AI video and I saw people on
(15:11):
X having a conversation about how insane it must be
to see your loved one being placed in like a
who's passed away, being placed in like a real setting
of today, as if they're here, and that just like
randomly pops up on your timeline, Like how traumatizing and
(15:31):
like gut wrenching that must be for a person who
has had to deal with not being able to see
the person that they love in real time anymore, or
hear their voice, or see their mannerisms or just you know,
certain things in your life that are happening today just
not be able to share it with them because they're
not here. And then all of a sudden, something is
(15:52):
created where now you can place those people, their mannerisms,
their likeness, their voice into something real time, just for
fans to see. And you know, I mean, I guess
there are some people that enjoyed that. And there was
a whole you know, back and forth a discourse on
X about is it helpful or harmful to do that
(16:16):
with big celebrities, because you know, the conversation that I
saw was the whole point of you know, because these
people were so well beloved. It's kind of like the
Tupac hologram is how they tried to compare it. Because
these people are so well beloved. People of the future
are people now right, People today who may not have
(16:36):
gotten to experience them in real life when they were alive,
want to still experience them. And that's where AI comes
in as a tech, you know, resource to be able
to do that. And on the other side, the common
sense thought is, but there are real people who really
did experience these people, who lived their everyday life with
these people. Their lives depended on these people like Kobe
(16:57):
Bryant's daughters and his wife who's who you know, Vanessa
who no longer have him, doctor Bernice A King and
you know her brother Martin Luther King the third, and
just so many other people, Robin Williams's daughter and their
family that I have to look at this and be like,
we didn't ask for this.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Though now and people.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Talk about AI and everything that it will do and
how it will help. I think these are the moments
where you're able to have the conversation that a lot
of people who don't think that AI is helpful try
and have where they're like, but AI and anything tech
like that that just goes that is just trained to
do something because of a push of a button or
HTML code or whatever it is that you do the
(17:37):
program AI is to sensitized like a human being, I
would hope. I mean, because you got to think about it, right,
Like there is a human behind the AI at some point.
But it's easier to stand behind an AI release of
something versus having to stand next to something that you've
(17:57):
said or done yourself as a human. And I think
a human being would be more sensitized to things like
this like okay, does their family want to see this?
And when I say a human being, because again, like
I said, when you talk about AI, there is a
human there, Like someone has to create the idea that
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is then executed into an AI version. So there's someone
somewhere that is like, oh, this would be a good
idea and then they make it into AI, and AI
is what the world gets. But it's completely different if
you're a person that is standing on the platform or
more you know, if you were if you're taunting a
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person's legacy in any way as a real human and
not an AI or a bot or whatever. It's so
different than if you're able to hide behind technology, is
my point. And I think that's the scare that a
lot of people have when it comes to AI in
every genre, in every.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Facet, in every facet of life.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's like, if you're able to hide behind technology of
this sort, where does a human factor come in? And
do we consider the human factor? And that's a little
bit scary that you have to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I think this is one of the things where you
take it to the streets and the tweets, and I mean,
I want to know how you guys feel outside, we outside,
we outside, outside every page I think. I mean, I
can't imagine if it was me. I can't imagine if
it was me. And I'm getting on my timeline and
I'm reliving someone's being in their existence and I didn't
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actually do it. And you know, like I think too,
like with family of celebrities, they have it, they have
it rough. And I think for me in the space
that I sit in, because I remember all of the
flat that and you know, I'm talking about just human
error now, not AI era.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Human error are human.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Actions that can be perceived as insensitive or error. I
remember being at TMZ when we did the Kobe Bryant
death story, and there were a lot of people who
were upset that the story was even covered because the
way that it came out in news other places, you
know later was that Kobe Bryant's family had not been
(20:16):
given a heads up or just had the time to
deal with the news of Kobe Bryant and his daughter
GG crashing and not making it, you know, and dying
in that helicopter crash.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But TMC had posted the story, and I remember.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Everywhere that I went for about two months, that's all
everybody wanted to ask about it, is like, is it
true that you guys didn't give his family a heads up?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
How do you feel about like stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And when you're working there and you're a part of
a brand, it's kind of like, you know, I don't
even think it's just because of where you work. I
think in this world of content, in being able to
post and upload and update or control someone's emotions from
a piece of content that you're doing, whether it's a story,
(21:09):
an exclusive, a report, or an AI version of video
that now family members asking you to take down.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I think what I learned in that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Moment from the Kobe Bryant situation was that the covering
of the story. And you know, that's a lot different
because I also know how the newsroom works, so I
know that there is no story that doesn't go unalerted.
Typically that's the rule of thumb like something like that.
Especially because of who it was, you of course have
(21:42):
to reach out, you know, work with you know his team,
and you know all the things right. And I think
at the same time, in a situation like that, it's
like people are so caught up in celebrity and you know,
things being mundane and things just becoming a job that
(22:04):
the human factor sometimes it just like it disappears. And
I think when you live in that world where that's
what you're doing every single day, it's kind of tough.
It's like, you know, you're in a space where it's
like you have a job. But at the same time,
now removed from the situation, and you know, outside of
(22:26):
that outlet, number one, if I'm being honest, I don't
know a news outlet that would have held that story.
But number two, now that I'm where I'm at and
I'm able to like kind of look from the outside end.
I don't know if me personally right now, like if
I had gotten that story first right now on the
(22:47):
Latest with Laura the Rosa, whether we were here on
the podcast or at the breakfast club, I don't know
if I would have done that story not first anyway,
not until I was able to, like you know, like
speak to I would have to be in a okay
place about being a person to talk about that, and
I just don't know where I'm at now I.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Could have done that. And I'm not saying this to
like say that.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know, I feel like TMZ did anything maliciously or
like you know, it was just like f his family.
I know in that situation that wasn't the case, even
though it's not. It hasn't ever been presented that way.
But I do know even if you call and you
give a family a heads up or or whatever was done,
because I you know, heard that the proper measures were taken,
(23:31):
which is giving heads up to like.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You know, different people on his team or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And then of course you got people on the outside
saying that is not what happened.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I wasn't my story. I can say that, right, but
what I will say is.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
We're getting to a place now and content in reporting
and just so many other things that I feel like
being human again is kind of leading a bit like people,
because there's so much of the other stuff out there,
like AI videos and people who are not even with
us anymore, that people make just to get views on
(24:06):
a YouTube channel to be able to monetize something.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Like I think, because you're seeing stuff like that, people
want things that make them feel human. And I don't
know what that balance is between the things that made
people feel human, it made people feel good and all
the other stuff that sometimes happen when you're working for
a media outlet, like when you get a story, you
(24:37):
have to follow that story and you have to put
that story out.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The balance between that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And I think the AI situation and conversation is a
bit different too, because as a you know, like as
a as a RANDO person who just creates an AI
video because you're a fan, that's one thing, especially like
I see a lot of these things on like TikTok too,
or like they're using these videos to like sell product,
Like you'll create an AI version of like a random
(25:06):
celebrity dead or live to just like sell a product
and get someone's attention.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I think that is a bit different because as.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
A journalist there's supposed to be a responsibility of like
a why are you telling this story?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And sometimes it is just to inform. But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I just.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I think that the tide is changing. I think that
there are more people who want to wait and not
be first, but be a person, be factu at the
same time, and yeah, like everybody and what I do
want to lead conversation. I want to lead conversation, right,
That's the tagline for this podcast is exclusives. But in
where I sit now, a lot of times I'm thinking,
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like when things are like when you just you run
and you put things out, whether you've proven it to
be true or not. At the end of the day,
there's other people on the side of that content, is
what I'm trying to get to. So when you think
about Dolly Parton and her sister, even though her sister
did not mean no harm, Dolly Parton's on the other
(26:06):
side of that content, and her fans are going crazy
thinking something happened to her when she talked about that
AI photo of her and Riba McIntire, Reba McIntyre is
like at her bedside and she's dying. There's other people
on the side of that content, Dolly Parton's family who
was probably already super protective over her because of her age,
(26:27):
and just you know, things just are sensitive as you
get up there and you know you're a big superstar
who doesn't get the time to take care of yourself
the way you need to. There's other people on the
side of that, so or other side of that, I
don't know. I just think I feel like the tide
is changing, but it could also be me and my
(26:48):
mental and what I want to take changing as well too.
I still follow all the brands and this is not again,
this is not a not the TMZ because like I said,
I don't know any outlet that would have had that
story and wouldn't have and had it factual and you know,
one hundred percent ready to go and wouldn't have broke
that story. But I think that's always the question for
(27:13):
me now in the space that I'm in, and it
should be the question for anybody online because at this point,
you don't even got to be in a certain position
to be able to affect people with your content. You
could just turn on your phone and create a TikTok account.
So what are we really getting out of this? What's
the you know, what does that look like to the
(27:35):
other person on the side of that content? Is what
I ask myself a lot now. It's a tough space
to be in. I don't know if there's ever really
answer to that, especially what I do as far as journalism.
And you know, even if shoot interviews, y'ash, what's on
the other side of it and isn't worth it?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Is the question.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I'll see you guys in the streets and the tweets
because I want to hear from y'all. You know, do
you guys, you know, at any point in time do
you think creators, whether it's media outlets, people on social whatever,
do you think we'll ever get to a point where
people fully stop in their tracks and say, but who
(28:17):
do I affect on the other side of this?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And are they okay? Before I do this? Y'all think
we'll get there. I don't know if we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I feel like we salacious cells too much like how
sex sells. Salacious things sell too much for us to
ever do that. But let me know what y'all think
I'm learning, I'm growing. I'm here with y'all, and I
don't know how we got to the roundabout. We just
got to and closing out this show. But it made
me think of that and how I felt having to
answer those questions about yeah, you know, being at the
(28:46):
TMZ at that time, and feeling as a person like
man his family has to deal with that, and but
then feeling like, I mean, but what outlet would have
held that story? And then looking at you know, doctor
Bernice King and seeing her response to all of these things,
and things about the torture that Robin Williams's daughter must
be going through. We didn't make Dolly Parton get online
(29:08):
and post a video. She is Dolly Parton. She you know,
she got other things to worry about.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But now we're here, let me know what y'all think.
Will we ever get there? It's the Ladies with Laura
l Rosa. At the end of the day, you guys
could be with anybody anywhere, but you choose to be
right here with me. I am so appreciative of that,
my Lowriders. I will see you guys in my next episode.
Twist.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's laurenl Rosa and this is the latest with Lauren Rosa.
This is your teleidig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. So
we are going to get right on into the latest
of you know, and what we do over here, we
do a little thing called behind the scenes of the
grind check in.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Now, behind the scenes of the grind check in.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Is when you know, I say, when you're going, going, going,
you never stop to ask yourself how.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Are you doing, how you feeling?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And asking for real, like not just asking just to
get through conversation. So if I'm checking it behind the
scenes to the grind, you know, today I am a
bit exhausted these last couple of weeks. October is always
a busy month for me, even though it's just beginning.
October is always busy for me because it's HBCU homecoming season.
(01:05):
So like, I'm out, I'm about and I'm doing a
ton of things. Speaking, we got the Delaware State University
homecoming coming up this weekend October tenth, in October eleventh,
and I'm hosting a alumni party Friday, October tenth and Womington,
Delaware at the Queen Theater. If you guys are listening,
you can go and get your ticket to IFL events
and come and party with me. Alumni and our friends
(01:28):
and our grown friends. Come out and party with us. Saturday,
we're at the Dell State game. You know, we got
DeShawn Jackson with the football team. You know, former NFL
player Deshaun Jackson. So a lot of people are anticipating
homecoming this year and just all the things right, like
so much coming up. So I've been running, I've been ripping.
I've been running. But I always think about this when
(01:52):
I feel like I was saying today, I feel like
the day is going.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Like boom boom boom boom boom boom, like it's no
minute to like slow down and whatever. I feel like that.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I get tired because you're not sleeping as much because
you're anticipating these heavy days, and it can be overwhelmed.
But yeah, it's just the tiredness. The growkiness kicks in.
It got pushed through. But I always tell myself, you
can't complain about how much food on the how much
food it's on the table when the plan was to eat.
(02:22):
So I am not complaining, but lord, I can't wait
to get home today and rest.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This is the first day I'll get home before like
six seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Okay, So yeah, that is me checking in behind the
scenes of the grind Low Riders. I hope y'all are
feeling well and doing well out there. I've been meeting
a lot of you guys while I've been ripping and running.
I've been in Memphis for the podcast Festival. I've been
in DC for the third Girl Marshall Leadership Institute full
of HBCU students and you know, about to be graduates.
I've been some places and I've met a lot of
(02:53):
you guys that listen to the podcast. And I love
that you guys aren't enjoining the content, So listen. Keep
pulling up on me wherever you see that. I'm a
bee at Low Rider as I want y'all to be there.
So if you want to enjoy Homecoming Weekend, IFL events
dot Com Delaware State University's Alumni Homecoming Weekend party.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Kickoff hosted by me baby.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay, it's happened in Friday, October tenth. Make sure y'all
come out now hopping on into the latest. Speaking of
dates and bookings and being everywhere, Dolly Parton country music legend,
Dolly Parton has had to cancel some show. So a
few days ago, almost about a week ago, now, Dolly
(03:34):
Parton came out and told her audience and told us
the fans that she would be canceling some live shows
she had in Vegas lined up for. Like it was
a couple of different days. It's like six or seven
dates in Vegas. Tickets were on sale, all the things.
People were excited. So Dolly Parton came out September twenty eighth, right,
(03:55):
so this was about a week ago, and she said,
I want the fans and the public to hear directly
from me that unfortunately I would need to postpone my
upcoming Las Vegas concerts. As many of you know, I've
been dealing with some health issues that has been a
topic and a lot of people thought because of those
health issues, Dolly Parton was actually gonna like take a
step away from music. Because at this point, Dolly Parton
(04:17):
ain't got nothing to prove, and you know, at her
age and you know everything that like touring and these shows.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And just the hustle bustle takes.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's like, why so people thought she was about to
take a set back because she had been, you know,
taking a set back a bit. So she says, I've
been dealing with some health challenges and my doctors tell
me that I must have a few procedures. As I
joked with them, it must be time for my one
hundredth mile checkup, although it's not just the usual trip
to see my plastic surgeon.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay, Dolly, I know that's right, girl, she said.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
If it ain't broke, I'm still gonna fix it. I'd
be in a plastic surgeon's office every day, know the girl.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So she continues, in all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Seriousness, given this, I am not going to be able
to rehearse to put together the show that I want
you to see in the show that you deserve to see.
You pay good money to see me perform, and I
want to be at my best for you. While I'll
still be able to work on all of my projects
from here in Nashville, I just need a little bit
more time to get show ready, as they say, and
don't worry about me quitting the business, because God hasn't
(05:14):
said anything about that or anything about me stopping yet.
But I believe He is telling me to slow down
right now, Lord Dolly.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yes, please, Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't think people understand how strenuous it is performing.
There is travel, there is long hours because there's hair, makeup,
there's rehearsal, there's an actual performance, and then there's recovery
from the performance. Like you're on your feet, you're moving,
you're grooving for hours at a time when you're performing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Then she doing meet and greets afterword.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That takes a lot out of you too, Interacting with
all them different people and different energies and the talking
and the smiling.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For hours after a show.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a lot, multiple dates, it's a lot to put
on her, so she says, But I believe He is
telling me to slow down right now so I can
be ready for more big adventures with all of you.
I love you and thank you for understanding, Dolly. So
she posted that, you know about a week ago, and
although I think you know, it made fans concerned a bit,
(06:19):
but I think she handled this very well. She handled
it like any celebrity would any old school celebrity who
understands and I'll say old school because of her age.
I'm not harping on that. I just mean I think
celebrities of a certain fame or like time period understand
that if you don't control the narrative, the narrative going
to control you. So she said, look, I'm not about
(06:42):
to be absent from all these shows and be removed
from the road, and people just speculating about my health,
especially because she's been doing this for a long time,
and that is a conversation wants artists get up there
in age anytime they're pulled off of something or whatever.
I know, Gladys Knight, there's been conversations around her health
and whether she's, you know, healthy enough to be torn
weren't on the Queen's Tour that she's doing with Shaka Khan,
(07:02):
Pat and LaBelle and Stephanie Mills. It's a conversation that
people have, right So she's like, I'm gonna address it myself,
which I thought was great.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Calm some fans down, even though it alarmed them still,
but it was great.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So then Dolly Parton's sister posts to Facebook and she
scares the hell out of fans. She's asking for prayers
for her sister on Facebook, and people instantly just thinks,
people instantly from here think that this means everything Dolly
Parton just said to us about I'm just letting y'all
(07:39):
know first. It ain't nothing too crazy. I just need
a little tune up. And when I saw the apology,
I'm like, oh my god, are we about to lose
Dolly Barton? What is about to happen? And I'm reading
it from my phones today Gods because running out of
the house late because I woke up late from all
of the long hours that we've been putting in forgot
my computer at home, but here, so she says on Facebook,
(08:03):
this is Dolly part and sister.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
This is our folks. First post she had to post too,
because she had to clear some things up.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So in the first post, she says, last night, I
was up all night praying for my sister Dolly. Many
of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately,
and I truly believe in the power of prayer. I've
been led to ask all of the world that loves
her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
She's strong, she's loved, and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
With all the prayers being lifted for her, I know
in my heart she's going to be just fine. Godspeed
my sissy, Dolly. We love you with a heart. Man.
When I tell you, the headlines were like, Dolly Parton's
sister sends extra love and prayers, request extra love and prayers?
Is it the last for Dolly part and dundu dum like?
(08:46):
It literally sent people into a frenzy. So then her
sister had to post and say, I want to clear
something up. I didn't mean to scarity want to make
it sound so serious with asking for prayers for Dolly.
She's been a little under the weather, and I simply
ask for prayers because I believe so strongly in the
power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little
sister asking for prayer for a big sister.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you all for uplifting her. Your love truly makes
a difference. Baby.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
They got in on Facebook comments so fast, talking about
what's going to happen?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Is she okay? Is this the last two ride for
Dolly Parton? She told us she was going to be good.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Now you're here saying she needs prayers and what is
going on, so she had to clear it up. But
then Dolly Parton had to come and make a video
to further explain that she's going to be good as well,
because all these things with her sisters stirred the pot
even more so. This video, this is actually breaking. I
saw this as I was coming here to the podcast.
This video was posted not too long ago. Let's take
(09:41):
a listen to Dolly party She says, I'm dead yet, honey,
stop playing with me.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than
I am, do look sick than you. I'm working hard
here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's mind at ease.
Those zobies that seemed to be real concern, which I appreciate,
And I appreciate your prayers because I'm a person of faith,
I can always use the prayers for anything and everything.
(10:07):
But I want you to know that I'm okay. I've
got some problems. As I mentioned back when my husband
Carl was very sick. That was for a long time,
and then when he passed, I didn't take care of myself,
so I let a lot of things go that I
should have been taken care of. So Anyway, when I
got around to it, the doctor said, we need to
(10:28):
take care of this, we need to take care of that.
Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things
so I could be closer to home, closer to Vanderbilt,
you know where I'm kind of having a few treatments
here and there. But I wanted you to know that
I'm not dying. Did you see that those that AI
picture reband me? Oh lordy, I mean they had rebad
(10:52):
my deathbed, and we both looked like we need to
be buried. But now, I thought, my lord, but if
I was really dying, I don't think Rebba would be
the one at my death man. She would not come
visit me earlier. But anyway, there are just a lot
(11:12):
of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard
it from me, you'd know that I was.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Okay, y'all.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I made Dolly Parton get in here and tell y'all
she ain't dead.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
She ain't ready to die yet.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
AI is insane, y'all know what else going into another
story in the latest because okay, so Dolly Parton just
had to clip the fact that she's alive. She may
not be as well as she nermally is, but she's
getting to it and she's still able to move around.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
She's actually in the studio.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
For everyone listening to the audio of the podcast who
cannot see that video, Dolly Parton is, And I posted
to our brown Girl Grinding Instagram if you want to
go and check it out. It's brown Girl Grinding all
common spelling. Dolly Parton in that video is actually sitting
in what looks like almost like a voiceover studio because
there was like a green screen behind her and then
there's like a mic in a chair, So she's working
on something as she said she would be. She said,
(12:01):
I'll be home working, just gotta stay close to the home.
I just can't get on the road with you. I'm
trying to tell you all that travel booking life ain't
no joke. And I feel that. And I'm thirty three
years old, and after a week or two weeks, I
literally schedule a weekend where I don't even let people
know I'm home because of how much it takes out
of you. I can't imagine, and who am I. Dolly
Parton is Dolly Parton, so you can only imagine how
(12:26):
grand her travel is, her meet and greets are.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All the things.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
AI is really a mother effort though, because Dolly Parton
having to respond to something like this, because I definitely
know her sister's Facebook post contributed to the scare. I
was gonna say some, but I would say a lot,
but also too that AI photo. Now in other news
(12:58):
in the latest Martin Luther King's daughter, doctor Bernice King,
and Robin William's daughter, Zelda Williams, Robin Williams is the actor.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Everyone knows Robin Williams. I don't have to describe who
he is. Huge actor.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He puts so much joy in our lives for so long,
and then he passed away. He died of suicide some
years ago. His daughter had to get on Instagram and
acts people and fans to stop creating and sending her
AI videos of her dad in. Martin Luther King's daughter,
(13:33):
doctor Bernice King, recently retweeted a Variety article detailing Robin
Williams's daughter asking people to stop sending these videos and said,
I concur because you know the same thing she says
is happening with her and her father, Doctor Martin Luther King.
So Zelda Williams, Robin Williams daughter, posted to her Instagram story.
(13:54):
If you've got any decency, just stop doing this to
him and to me, to everyone, even full stop.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's dumb.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's a waste of time and energy, and believe me,
it's not and not as in all caps.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's not what he'd want. You're not making art.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You're making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives
of human beings, out of the history of art and music,
and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll
give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's gross.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So there was a Variety article, as I mentioned, and
you know, the headline of the Variety article says Robin
Williams daughter Zelda Tels fans, please just stop sending me
AI videos. Doctor Bernice King, who is the daughter of
Martin Luther King, retweeted this article this headline on X
and she says, I concur concerning my father.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Please stop.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Over the weekend, I saw there was a AI video
of Kobe and he was like, you know, in this
AI video, he's like streaming and like playing like one
of those like in some game he was playing on
like either like a PS five. He was gaming in
some way like playing a video game, and he was
streaming in this AI video and I saw people on
(15:11):
X having a conversation about how insane it must be
to see your loved one being placed in like a
who's passed away, being placed in like a real setting
of today, as if they're here, and that just like
randomly pops up on your timeline, Like how traumatizing and
(15:31):
like gut wrenching that must be for a person who
has had to deal with not being able to see
the person that they love in real time anymore, or
hear their voice, or see their mannerisms or just you know,
certain things in your life that are happening today just
not be able to share it with them because they're
not here. And then all of a sudden, something is
(15:52):
created where now you can place those people, their mannerisms,
their likeness, their voice into something real time, just for
fans to see. And you know, I mean, I guess
there are some people that enjoyed that. And there was
a whole you know, back and forth a discourse on
X about is it helpful or harmful to do that
(16:16):
with big celebrities, because you know, the conversation that I
saw was the whole point of you know, because these
people were so well beloved. It's kind of like the
Tupac hologram is how they tried to compare it. Because
these people are so well beloved. People of the future
are people now right, People today who may not have
(16:36):
gotten to experience them in real life when they were alive,
want to still experience them. And that's where AI comes
in as a tech, you know, resource to be able
to do that. And on the other side, the common
sense thought is, but there are real people who really
did experience these people, who lived their everyday life with
these people. Their lives depended on these people like Kobe
(16:57):
Bryant's daughters and his wife who's who you know, Vanessa
who no longer have him, doctor Bernice A King and
you know her brother Martin Luther King the third, and
just so many other people, Robin Williams's daughter and their
family that I have to look at this and be like,
we didn't ask for this.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Though now and people.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Talk about AI and everything that it will do and
how it will help. I think these are the moments
where you're able to have the conversation that a lot
of people who don't think that AI is helpful try
and have where they're like, but AI and anything tech
like that that just goes that is just trained to
do something because of a push of a button or
HTML code or whatever it is that you do the
(17:37):
program AI is to sensitized like a human being, I
would hope. I mean, because you got to think about it, right,
Like there is a human behind the AI at some point.
But it's easier to stand behind an AI release of
something versus having to stand next to something that you've
(17:57):
said or done yourself as a human. And I think
a human being would be more sensitized to things like
this like okay, does their family want to see this?
And when I say a human being, because again, like
I said, when you talk about AI, there is a
human there, Like someone has to create the idea that
(18:17):
is then executed into an AI version. So there's someone
somewhere that is like, oh, this would be a good
idea and then they make it into AI, and AI
is what the world gets. But it's completely different if
you're a person that is standing on the platform or
more you know, if you were if you're taunting a
(18:38):
person's legacy in any way as a real human and
not an AI or a bot or whatever. It's so
different than if you're able to hide behind technology, is
my point. And I think that's the scare that a
lot of people have when it comes to AI in
every genre, in every.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Facet, in every facet of life.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's like, if you're able to hide behind technology of
this sort, where does a human factor come in? And
do we consider the human factor? And that's a little
bit scary that you have to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I think this is one of the things where you
take it to the streets and the tweets, and I mean,
I want to know how you guys feel outside, we outside,
we outside, outside every page I think. I mean, I
can't imagine if it was me. I can't imagine if
it was me. And I'm getting on my timeline and
I'm reliving someone's being in their existence and I didn't
(19:32):
actually do it. And you know, like I think too,
like with family of celebrities, they have it, they have
it rough. And I think for me in the space
that I sit in, because I remember all of the
flat that and you know, I'm talking about just human
error now, not AI era.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Human error are human.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Actions that can be perceived as insensitive or error. I
remember being at TMZ when we did the Kobe Bryant
death story, and there were a lot of people who
were upset that the story was even covered because the
way that it came out in news other places, you
know later was that Kobe Bryant's family had not been
(20:16):
given a heads up or just had the time to
deal with the news of Kobe Bryant and his daughter
GG crashing and not making it, you know, and dying
in that helicopter crash.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But TMC had posted the story, and I remember.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Everywhere that I went for about two months, that's all
everybody wanted to ask about it, is like, is it
true that you guys didn't give his family a heads up?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
How do you feel about like stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And when you're working there and you're a part of
a brand, it's kind of like, you know, I don't
even think it's just because of where you work. I
think in this world of content, in being able to
post and upload and update or control someone's emotions from
a piece of content that you're doing, whether it's a story,
(21:09):
an exclusive, a report, or an AI version of video
that now family members asking you to take down.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I think what I learned in that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Moment from the Kobe Bryant situation was that the covering
of the story. And you know, that's a lot different
because I also know how the newsroom works, so I
know that there is no story that doesn't go unalerted.
Typically that's the rule of thumb like something like that.
Especially because of who it was, you of course have
(21:42):
to reach out, you know, work with you know his team,
and you know all the things right. And I think
at the same time, in a situation like that, it's
like people are so caught up in celebrity and you know,
things being mundane and things just becoming a job that
(22:04):
the human factor sometimes it just like it disappears. And
I think when you live in that world where that's
what you're doing every single day, it's kind of tough.
It's like, you know, you're in a space where it's
like you have a job. But at the same time,
now removed from the situation, and you know, outside of
(22:26):
that outlet, number one, if I'm being honest, I don't
know a news outlet that would have held that story.
But number two, now that I'm where I'm at and
I'm able to like kind of look from the outside end.
I don't know if me personally right now, like if
I had gotten that story first right now on the
(22:47):
Latest with Laura the Rosa, whether we were here on
the podcast or at the breakfast club, I don't know
if I would have done that story not first anyway,
not until I was able to, like you know, like
speak to I would have to be in a okay
place about being a person to talk about that, and
I just don't know where I'm at now I.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Could have done that. And I'm not saying this to
like say that.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know, I feel like TMZ did anything maliciously or
like you know, it was just like f his family.
I know in that situation that wasn't the case, even
though it's not. It hasn't ever been presented that way.
But I do know even if you call and you
give a family a heads up or or whatever was done,
because I you know, heard that the proper measures were taken,
(23:31):
which is giving heads up to like.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You know, different people on his team or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And then of course you got people on the outside
saying that is not what happened.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I wasn't my story. I can say that, right, but
what I will say is.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
We're getting to a place now and content in reporting
and just so many other things that I feel like
being human again is kind of leading a bit like people,
because there's so much of the other stuff out there,
like AI videos and people who are not even with
us anymore, that people make just to get views on
(24:06):
a YouTube channel to be able to monetize something.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Like I think, because you're seeing stuff like that, people
want things that make them feel human. And I don't
know what that balance is between the things that made
people feel human, it made people feel good and all
the other stuff that sometimes happen when you're working for
a media outlet, like when you get a story, you
(24:37):
have to follow that story and you have to put
that story out.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The balance between that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And I think the AI situation and conversation is a
bit different too, because as a you know, like as
a as a RANDO person who just creates an AI
video because you're a fan, that's one thing, especially like
I see a lot of these things on like TikTok too,
or like they're using these videos to like sell product,
Like you'll create an AI version of like a random
(25:06):
celebrity dead or live to just like sell a product
and get someone's attention.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I think that is a bit different because as.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
A journalist there's supposed to be a responsibility of like
a why are you telling this story?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And sometimes it is just to inform. But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I just.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I think that the tide is changing. I think that
there are more people who want to wait and not
be first, but be a person, be factu at the
same time, and yeah, like everybody and what I do
want to lead conversation. I want to lead conversation, right,
That's the tagline for this podcast is exclusives. But in
where I sit now, a lot of times I'm thinking,
(25:46):
like when things are like when you just you run
and you put things out, whether you've proven it to
be true or not. At the end of the day,
there's other people on the side of that content, is
what I'm trying to get to. So when you think
about Dolly Parton and her sister, even though her sister
did not mean no harm, Dolly Parton's on the other
(26:06):
side of that content, and her fans are going crazy
thinking something happened to her when she talked about that
AI photo of her and Riba McIntire, Reba McIntyre is
like at her bedside and she's dying. There's other people
on the side of that content, Dolly Parton's family who
was probably already super protective over her because of her age,
(26:27):
and just you know, things just are sensitive as you
get up there and you know you're a big superstar
who doesn't get the time to take care of yourself
the way you need to. There's other people on the
side of that, so or other side of that, I
don't know. I just think I feel like the tide
is changing, but it could also be me and my
(26:48):
mental and what I want to take changing as well too.
I still follow all the brands and this is not again,
this is not a not the TMZ because like I said,
I don't know any outlet that would have had that
story and wouldn't have and had it factual and you know,
one hundred percent ready to go and wouldn't have broke
that story. But I think that's always the question for
(27:13):
me now in the space that I'm in, and it
should be the question for anybody online because at this point,
you don't even got to be in a certain position
to be able to affect people with your content. You
could just turn on your phone and create a TikTok account.
So what are we really getting out of this? What's
the you know, what does that look like to the
(27:35):
other person on the side of that content? Is what
I ask myself a lot now. It's a tough space
to be in. I don't know if there's ever really
answer to that, especially what I do as far as journalism.
And you know, even if shoot interviews, y'ash, what's on
the other side of it and isn't worth it?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Is the question.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I'll see you guys in the streets and the tweets
because I want to hear from y'all. You know, do
you guys, you know, at any point in time do
you think creators, whether it's media outlets, people on social whatever,
do you think we'll ever get to a point where
people fully stop in their tracks and say, but who
(28:17):
do I affect on the other side of this?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And are they okay? Before I do this? Y'all think
we'll get there. I don't know if we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I feel like we salacious cells too much like how
sex sells. Salacious things sell too much for us to
ever do that. But let me know what y'all think
I'm learning, I'm growing. I'm here with y'all, and I
don't know how we got to the roundabout. We just
got to and closing out this show. But it made
me think of that and how I felt having to
answer those questions about yeah, you know, being at the
(28:46):
TMZ at that time, and feeling as a person like
man his family has to deal with that, and but
then feeling like, I mean, but what outlet would have
held that story? And then looking at you know, doctor
Bernice King and seeing her response to all of these things,
and things about the torture that Robin Williams's daughter must
be going through. We didn't make Dolly Parton get online
(29:08):
and post a video. She is Dolly Parton. She you know,
she got other things to worry about.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But now we're here, let me know what y'all think.
Will we ever get there? It's the Ladies with Laura
l Rosa. At the end of the day, you guys
could be with anybody anywhere, but you choose to be
right here with me. I am so appreciative of that,
my Lowriders. I will see you guys in my next episode.
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