January 2, 2026 • 22 mins
Loren is reporting live again from Ghana, and this time she is letting us in on her experience visiting the Cape Coast Castle (slave castles). She also, mentions some engagements that came into the new year including Gherbo and Taina and our very own TaylorMade producer. Moreover, throws us back to when Taylor Rooks surprised the world with her wedding pictures and more
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
what's up. It's Laura L. Rosa and this is the
latest with Lauren L. Rosa.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment,
news and all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So we are back on the go again.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I am currently traveling back down the coast here in Ghana.
We went it's about like a three hour drive depending
on the traffic. We went up the coast to the
Cape Coast Castle, which a lot of people visit when
they come here to Ghana.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
UH though this castle.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
There's a few different castles that you can visit, but
the Cape Coast Castle has.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The door of no return.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I can't even put it into words yet and I'm
a wait to do so. But we were able to
experience a tour of I wanna call it a castle again.
But our tour guy UH ride By Kohan Uh, who
is a very.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well known ride by here.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He does a lot of the tours at the castle,
especially when you know a lot of like prominent UH
leaders and you know different UH political people and civil
rights activists come in to the country. He does a
lot of work with making sure that uh, black people
in America are connecting with Ghana and the way that
(01:30):
they should, and and just understanding our history the way
that we should and kind of where y y'all know,
we we learn on And I'll sai when I say y'all,
I'm talking to everyone listening to the podcast, but black
people specifically, I think, not evenythink I know, in America
we learn black history so different than what I've experienced
(01:50):
in real life here, not even just history, but also
black present. So going to the castle today, we talked
a lot, of course, you know about the slave trade
and and you know black people uh being taken uh
by boat and brought all brought over across the waters.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And you know what that looked like.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We we literally went into like dungeon areas like yeah,
and as he was describing, like you know these and
and we're literally sitting in these dungeons that are pitch black.
Because we also got there kind of late because of
the traffic, so the the sun was going down, we
got to really experience what it would have been like,
not comparable of course to actually what these people went through,
(02:33):
but just putting yourself in that room as literally the
sun is going down in its pitch back, barely any
access to outside, barely any fresh air. Like it was
to a point in one of the rooms, and I
didn't even know what was happening, but I started getting like, dizzey.
I'm like, y'all gotta sit down. I can't imagine being
(02:53):
in these rooms.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I think.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Uh Rabbi told us sometimes people would be there like
there w there's there's one uh place where they would
put people when you were sentenced uh to death by starvation,
And he said, you know, depending on your fight. Because
one of the things that we talked a lot about was,
you know, people, I especially us in America, we are
taught slavery as if depending on who's teaching it to you.
(03:15):
And I think that's why the critical race theory conversation
is so important. But we are taught about our history
and about slavery. And you guys will hear the cars
and stuff, cause we're literally driving down the coast. You
might turning the radio down a bit. We're literally driving
down the coast. So we're driving through like the city
and there's like markets and stuff like that. So you
(03:36):
hear the cars and all of that, but I wanted
to make sure I got this to you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
In real time. But we're taught, we're taught things just
so differently.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Like a lot of times, the conversation around slavery and
what we went through is about how we just conformed.
And I mean, if you've ever been taught the lessons
that you should have been taught about h A. And
I mean there's even movies and and stuff at this
point about how that is not true. Coming to Ghana
and going to uh, the castle that we just went to,
(04:06):
which he called not n I mean I would call
it like a dungeon.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It was like a prison.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It was a a place that you went to literally,
uh most who die be raped. It w it's it
was very heavy. So it's just ironic that it's called
a castle. But we're taught that we kind of just
like laid down and took that and that is not
the the case. Like he the Rabbi was telling us
(04:31):
that that room that I was mentioning where people were
put to die by starvation depending on your crime.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Sometimes you wouldn't even know your sentencing.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right because they're if people are speaking different languages, so
you don't even know what you're being sentenced to and why,
but you know that you're being put there because you're
not gonna make it back out. And depending on your strength,
some people would be able to last for forty eight
hours ninety days. These are starving people who could have
just decided to you know what, suicide I you know, I,
(05:01):
I'm I can't take this. But they wanted to fight
to be here and to try and make it out.
And when he was taking us through the tour, I
j I thought that it was just like genius of
him to talk to us in a way where we
really understood that and what that experience was in a
(05:21):
different way than you're.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Taught in the States. I will tell you that, like,
it's just different being here.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And he's actually from Mount Vernon, New York, but he
he's been living here in Ghana for some time. He
said he left uh back in the nineties. He got
tired of all of the protesting and you know, all
the things. And look, I've recorded a lot of it
and he knows that we'll be using it for the
podcast to ask for permission. So you guys, will hear
a lot of that, so we'll get to that. But
(05:46):
he talked to us in a way where it was like, Okay,
here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We're not going from from that, but if we being honest.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Here's you know, here, here's what we were able to
do from it or take from it, even though things
were being taken from us literally including our our life.
So even when we walk through the door and overturn,
which was the door that they would walk through to
then get put on the boats uh to then travel
you know, across the waters to uh to places now
they have it where you know, you walk back through
(06:15):
the door and it's kind of like taking your power back.
So you come in and you you learn all this
deep lot of it dark uh history, but then you
you walk out of there feeling like, alright, like nothing
about my life and you know, me being here and
the things that I'm trying to do in this world
or am doing in this world can be taken lightly.
It's just a sense of responsibility. It's it's like a
(06:37):
I can't describe it. But you guys will get to
uh hear parts of that tour in the next episode,
So make sure you guys stay tuned for that. But
just wanted to come in and let you guys know
an update from Ghana because I've been giving you guys
love updates UH since New Year's Eve, and we're gonna
rewind it back to another episode. I'll be back here
(06:57):
Monday morning, our first full fresh episode back from the
New Year, UH, to break down what this tour was
like for me, and to get into some of the
news and all the pop culture things, because there are.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Some updates to dates. So we gonna take a rewind
back and talk about some love.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Some I needed some positivity, some uplifting after all of
that heaviness.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So we're rewinding it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Back to a love episode where Clarissa Shields is talking
about she's ready to start a family. Another thing I
saw too throughout the New Year, I know, I like,
whether it was people celebrating here or back in the States.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
There was a lot of people that got engaged.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I saw uh Tiana and Tianna, who is the uh
daughter of Emily, who is a step well formerly step
daughter of Rapper Fabulous, is now engaged to rapper g Herbo.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh oh well, this is old but young thug.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Maritas scientists are also engaged, like this is the era
of like we're gonna solidify this love. Okay, happy to
see love to see it. It's been all over my timeline.
Taylor made it, y'all know tilor made it. She does
all of the imaging for the Breakfast Club, but also
she is the producer of this podcast, and y'all also
heard from her lot on Brilliant Idiots.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Also got engaged on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Girl congratulations, And I can say that because she posted it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay, so I'm not.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Breaking any news here, So let's throw it on back
to a conversation about some loves and family. It don't
get a little messy too. I see you guys in
the next episode. It's the latest with Laura ma Rosa. Now,
every now and then I give y all little sprinkle
of an exclusive, but today the exclusive not even exclusive,
because it's all over the world wide Web. It's all
(08:39):
over Beyonce's Internet. At this point, we ain't even checking
it behind the scenes of the Grind because I am
flabbergastid y'all. Taylor Rooks broadcaster, media personality, sportscaster.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
The tailor Rooks.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I think all of us you know, the black girls
and media, and you know and reporting reroot so much
for Taylor Rooks, as we do a lot of the
other girls, the Joy Taylor's, the Carrie Champions, the Jamel Hills,
all of the girls. Especially you know me, because I
am not a sports I am not a sports reporter.
I can get a concept of a story in sports
(09:13):
as it relates to culture and entertainment. But y'all be
hearing me when I get through, you know what I mean.
I do my sports stories on the Breakfast Club here
on the podcast. I try and sick to what I'm
good at, but sometimes the world's intertwined, so I dibble
and I dabble. But those girls are so good. They
know the facts, the numbers. They're hard at work, they're
at the games, they're traveling or doing all the things.
But what I love so much about what just happened
(09:35):
with Tayler Rooks and the fact that she is married.
She announced yesterday via her Instagram that she is married.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I didn't even know she was engaged. I assumed she
was dating.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
She's gorgeous, she's successful, she's young, you know what I mean,
So of course I assume she was dating but because
we had never seen anything or heard anything about who
she was dating, I did not know she was dating
serious enough to be engaged and now married. So yesterday
Taylor Rooks took to her Instagram to post photos from
(10:09):
her wedding. I would say it was a surprise wedding,
but baby, it's given. Well only we were surprised, so
many other people knew. So she posted the photos and
she captioned it, what a night. This is love with
the wedding ring emoji. Now in these photos you see
her and her new hubby under her veil. Then there's
photos of her by herself walking down the aisle. There's
(10:32):
photos of Taylor Rooks and new hubby. She's holding up
her wedding ring, a diamond okay, it's a diamond, Okay.
The girl the rocket sitting nice, but she has her
hand on her hubby's face looks like it's like a
photo booth picture from after the wedding, from the reception,
and then there's photos of her and just like.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The people who attend it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And I think that's what's most impressive is the fact
that not only was it private and very.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Intimate, and you know when you're in the public eye.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You don't get to not share moments like these much
because sometimes even if you're trying to keep a private
the people around you are so excited for you that
they want to tell the world. And in boom, here
you go. Everybody knows you engage, you married, you got
a man, You gotta this, you gotta that right. The
guest list was five star, and she still managed to
be able to keep this wedding private. In attendance, there
(11:24):
are photos of Mike Rubin, you know, music artist Jacque Harlow,
Coco Jones, and her newly engaged fiance, Donovan Mitchell, who's
NFL player, Saquon Barkley, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The people were in the building.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Reports say that Taylor Rooks was married in New York,
but I mean, I don't even know how we were
confirming these reports because she didn't mention where she was married,
So it's like, how do we even know that, we
don't know anything, and it is so fire, Oh my god,
congratulations and Taylor Rooks and her husband. There are little
to no details known about her husband besides the photos
that she posted, which I think are also dope.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But yeah, it was. It was just so fly.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm one of the girls that I love to see
the career girls, especially at a young age, have all
of the things, do the family thing, have kids, have
a husband, be happy in the marriage and actually having it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Last, but also be able to also be able.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
To, like you know, adamantly go after your career and
your goals and establish a life for yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And there's nothing wrong with this, right Like, there are
women who you know, their lives and their careers and
their names revolve around the men in their lives, their husbands,
their kids, fathers. I'm not knocking nobody, But what I'm
saying is is that my personal preference has always been
for myself to be like, Look, I'm going to be
in love, I'm going to be married, I'm going to
(12:52):
have children. I'm going to have the big wedding, the
fairytale wedding.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I want that for myself. And you know, I want
my mother and my grandmother and my niece and you know,
the people I love to be able to see me
be loved correctly. But I've always been worried, like, Okay,
at some point in my career there's going to be
a conversation about you're a woman, so what about family?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What about marriage? What about this? What about that? And
I don't want my career.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And the work that I've worked for to be tied
to my relationship or my husband, not even not tied too.
I don't mind that because me and my man so
equally yoked. That's what it's always going to be, given, right,
But more so I don't want that to overshadow my work.
Every single day I'm working like harder to get better
at what I do and what I do and even
(13:40):
what Tayler Rooks does or you know, Jamel Hill, and
you know, all of the women shoot shout out the
stat baby.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
On Kim and Mason's It Is What it Is.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Me and her we've never met in person, We've tried
to link up, but me and her have you know,
become social media friends and watching her navigate her journey
over you know, on It Is What it Is, while
I'm here on Fast Club and you know what you
guys on the latest with Laurena The Roads of the
podcast has been a journey and we both always, you know,
say to each other that.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Everything's just moving so crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So to see the girls have it all and be
able to establish it all, but not have everything centered
around or the conversation centered around your relationship status or
what's happening in your womb. But more about the hard
work that you're putting in, the points you're putting on
the board, the great interviews you're doing, the great content
you're putting out, the efficiency of all those things.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
That matters to me.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I can't speak for any of the other women that
I just mentioned, but that matters a lot to me,
a whole lot. So I thought the way that Taylor
Rooks went about this was superfly, number one superfly.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And I just thought it was dope.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I thought it was fired or see her, you know,
walk down the aisle and celebrate and do all these.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Things, and we had no idea it was happening.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And it wasn't nothing little about this wedding, baby, this
was big Tailor Rooks, big wedding. Okay, guess let's crazy
set up on the wedding looked amazing. It looked literally
like a fair tale wedding. She looked beautiful as well.
So congratulations, assist, we see you girl.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You did that. You ate that?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yes, Okay, putting it on the Pinterest board, not in
other news.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Today, we having a conversation about women in sports.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Look at me trying to be you know, all in
the women in sports conversation, Clarissa Shields will be fighting
this weekend in Detroit. She's fighting Lonnie Daniels and Clarissa
Shields is she's been. I met her at the Breakfast
Club when she came and we interviewed her my first time.
I'm only interviewer once. My first time interviewing her was
(15:37):
not her first time here. But then she also came
back to the Breakfast Club again, which I wasn't in
the interview for, but she talked about wanting to be
a mom in both of those interviews and what that
looked like.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You know, we're having a conversation about.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Women with very demanding and big careers being able to
go on and do all of the things right. I
definitely think of Clarissa because I've been watching her journey
since meeting her here on the Breakfast Club when she
was promoting her movie The Fire Inside that came out
on Christmas of twenty twenty four, which stars Ryan Destiny
and it's the story of Clarisa Shield's life One of
(16:12):
the things I was thinking about when I was talking
to her was just her sport is so physical, and
being able to have a kid and establish a family
and all those things also requires a lot of your
physical as well. So I've always wondered what that exerience
was going to be like for her. Like for instance,
Clarissa Shields was on The Pivot, which is you know,
the show with Ryan Clark all the guys, and she
(16:34):
talks about not even being able to have sex before
the fight because of the way that an orgasm affects
a woman versus a band.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
When it comes to sex, right, men and women may
look at it different. Women have something called orgasms, and
when women have that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It takes a lot out of you.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm training two or three times a day. I don't
got time to be trying to force myself to work
out because I had a you know, orgastiny. I would
rather keep everything in And I feel like to me,
I feel like it helps me be more prepared for
the fight. And when you go without you know, sex,
and I mean you guys are men, it do make
you be a bit more aggressive and you can lift
(17:12):
more weights and you can squat more weight and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's the same thing for me. That's a lesson to
you young boys out there, women too.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And then hear her talk about this, my first thought
is is like, how long does Cloissa Shields have to
go without sex? Because she's never specified she said just
before a fight.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And I'm like, well, how long?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And how does that work when you're trying to have
a kid, miss of your career fights coming up, like,
it's just a lot to balance. I feel for anybody
who things are growing, you have a lot to balance
because y'all know we started this podcast in the midst
of so much.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Growing and moving.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
For me, the Latest with Lorna Rosa has been not
just a podcast and entertainment news and training topics, but
you guys have grown with me through a journey of
all of the things since meeting me on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
All of my low riders here.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
My soft spot for women in the Spotlight who are
figuring all this stuff out is like no other cause
I'm new here Spotlight to I ain't nowhere near Clarissa
and what her like, you know what I mean, like,
so I can't imagine is what I'm saying, and I
think a lot of people right now, unfairly are having
a conversation about distraction with Clarissa. I think a lot
(18:20):
of people right now are having a conversation about women
in any industry and across industries, and what they're able
to do, and what they're able to balance and what
they're able to not balance. And this episode, you know,
when I was putting it together and I was thinking
about what we could do, you know, an extensions to
everything that was trending today, the first thing I thought
about is men and the girls is.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Having it all.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Okay, they got their men by their side, they got
the business deals popping. Clarissa is dropping music and she
previewed it last night in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let's take a listen to.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is really short, but we got a snippet of one
of her songs.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Okay, what's up?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Some people say, I'm an killer? How thin the shots
to the her man want to take me in? And
then I call him, what's the name? I know you nervous?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
And baby the girls is coming for all of it,
all of it. So with this being said, I want
to take y'all to the streets for the tree be outside.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
We outside. We outside. Okay, every other page.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Because another thing that went down yesterday in the midst
of the conversation of the girls having it all, people
were so sad that Taylor Rooks popped out Mary like,
I know the men be on the girls with the
things going on, but by b where they said, somebody
(19:43):
said el Brothers. Media on X said, not only did
Klay Thompson pull Magde Stallion, but a light skin and
word with waves just married Taylor Rooks. We up, it's
our time, baby. Twenty twenty five is the year of
the page brotherhood, laugh aloud.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
The light Skins is outside, That's what it's given.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Corosier Kid said, we lost Coco Jones, Meg and Taylor
Rooks all in a two month spin with a sad
face emoji. Shout out to keV Coke six on X.
Let's send him some love, y'all. He tweeted, and he said,
I just opened up IG and saw Taylor Rooks got married.
Please respect my privacy at this time because these were
(20:23):
the baths, these were the bays of the sports industry.
Corosa Shields gets it. Taylor Rooks gets it, I understand,
but I think that is crazy too. I wrote this
line down when I was prepping for this episode. I
really think it's crazy how big the conversation gets around
women who choose to have it all this. Serena Williams
went through this too when she decided to have her baby,
(20:46):
her daughter, her first daughter with her husband Alexis, and
Venus Williams announced her engagement at the same time that
since made history. At forty five years old, Venus Williams
became the second oldest woman to win a tour level man.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
According to ESPN.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
She took this from a woman who was the oldest
woman at the time in two thousand and four, she
was aged forty seven who won Wimbledon. I say that
to say, guess what headline lasted longer out of the too.
Venus Williams announces she is engaged. People be so surprised
to see women have all of the things. When you're
successful in your career is loud Naomi Osaka. People give
(21:25):
it to her really, really hard whenever she doesn't win
or doesn't perform at two hundred percent. I've even seen
people openly say, you know, online, she shouldn't have had
a kid at the height of her career. When the
girls do finally get to have all the things. The
way that we have conversations about them. It's so different
than how we have it about men, completely different.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And I get it. Babies don't come out of men's bodies.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know, women and men have different roles in marriages,
and how do you know the marriages change what they're
able to do outside of the home, And you know,
just I understand the double standards, but I do feel
like this is the era of the women being able
to stand next to a partner who understands our power.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I was gonna say, take back our power, but it's
not even that.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
It's standing next to the right person who understands your
power so that you can have all things. Because the
balance that you're going to need to learn both mentally
and physically, that partner sitting next to you. Baby, it
ain't nothing, but it ain't nothing but a thing. So
shout out to all the ladies. For some reason, we
focus mostly on women in sports today, not even on purpose,
(22:28):
but yes, shout out to.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
The ladies having all of the things.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
At the end of the day, there's always a lot
to talk about, and I appreciate you guys. Being right
here with me every episode to talk about it. By Lowriders.
I will see you guys in my next episode.
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment,
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
So we are back on the go again.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I am currently traveling back down the coast here in Ghana.
We went it's about like a three hour drive depending
on the traffic. We went up the coast to the
Cape Coast Castle, which a lot of people visit when
they come here to Ghana.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
UH though this castle.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
There's a few different castles that you can visit, but
the Cape Coast Castle has.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The door of no return.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I can't even put it into words yet and I'm
a wait to do so. But we were able to
experience a tour of I wanna call it a castle again.
But our tour guy UH ride By Kohan Uh, who
is a very.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well known ride by here.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He does a lot of the tours at the castle,
especially when you know a lot of like prominent UH
leaders and you know different UH political people and civil
rights activists come in to the country. He does a
lot of work with making sure that uh, black people
in America are connecting with Ghana and the way that
(01:30):
they should, and and just understanding our history the way
that we should and kind of where y y'all know,
we we learn on And I'll sai when I say y'all,
I'm talking to everyone listening to the podcast, but black
people specifically, I think, not evenythink I know, in America
we learn black history so different than what I've experienced
(01:50):
in real life here, not even just history, but also
black present. So going to the castle today, we talked
a lot, of course, you know about the slave trade
and and you know black people uh being taken uh
by boat and brought all brought over across the waters.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And you know what that looked like.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We we literally went into like dungeon areas like yeah,
and as he was describing, like you know these and
and we're literally sitting in these dungeons that are pitch black.
Because we also got there kind of late because of
the traffic, so the the sun was going down, we
got to really experience what it would have been like,
not comparable of course to actually what these people went through,
(02:33):
but just putting yourself in that room as literally the
sun is going down in its pitch back, barely any
access to outside, barely any fresh air. Like it was
to a point in one of the rooms, and I
didn't even know what was happening, but I started getting like, dizzey.
I'm like, y'all gotta sit down. I can't imagine being
(02:53):
in these rooms.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I think.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Uh Rabbi told us sometimes people would be there like
there w there's there's one uh place where they would
put people when you were sentenced uh to death by starvation,
And he said, you know, depending on your fight. Because
one of the things that we talked a lot about was,
you know, people, I especially us in America, we are
taught slavery as if depending on who's teaching it to you.
(03:15):
And I think that's why the critical race theory conversation
is so important. But we are taught about our history
and about slavery. And you guys will hear the cars
and stuff, cause we're literally driving down the coast. You
might turning the radio down a bit. We're literally driving
down the coast. So we're driving through like the city
and there's like markets and stuff like that. So you
(03:36):
hear the cars and all of that, but I wanted
to make sure I got this to you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
In real time. But we're taught, we're taught things just
so differently.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Like a lot of times, the conversation around slavery and
what we went through is about how we just conformed.
And I mean, if you've ever been taught the lessons
that you should have been taught about h A. And
I mean there's even movies and and stuff at this
point about how that is not true. Coming to Ghana
and going to uh, the castle that we just went to,
(04:06):
which he called not n I mean I would call
it like a dungeon.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It was like a prison.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It was a a place that you went to literally,
uh most who die be raped. It w it's it
was very heavy. So it's just ironic that it's called
a castle. But we're taught that we kind of just
like laid down and took that and that is not
the the case. Like he the Rabbi was telling us
(04:31):
that that room that I was mentioning where people were
put to die by starvation depending on your crime.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Sometimes you wouldn't even know your sentencing.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right because they're if people are speaking different languages, so
you don't even know what you're being sentenced to and why,
but you know that you're being put there because you're
not gonna make it back out. And depending on your strength,
some people would be able to last for forty eight
hours ninety days. These are starving people who could have
just decided to you know what, suicide I you know, I,
(05:01):
I'm I can't take this. But they wanted to fight
to be here and to try and make it out.
And when he was taking us through the tour, I
j I thought that it was just like genius of
him to talk to us in a way where we
really understood that and what that experience was in a
(05:21):
different way than you're.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Taught in the States. I will tell you that, like,
it's just different being here.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And he's actually from Mount Vernon, New York, but he
he's been living here in Ghana for some time. He
said he left uh back in the nineties. He got
tired of all of the protesting and you know, all
the things. And look, I've recorded a lot of it
and he knows that we'll be using it for the
podcast to ask for permission. So you guys, will hear
a lot of that, so we'll get to that. But
(05:46):
he talked to us in a way where it was like, Okay,
here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We're not going from from that, but if we being honest.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Here's you know, here, here's what we were able to
do from it or take from it, even though things
were being taken from us literally including our our life.
So even when we walk through the door and overturn,
which was the door that they would walk through to
then get put on the boats uh to then travel
you know, across the waters to uh to places now
they have it where you know, you walk back through
(06:15):
the door and it's kind of like taking your power back.
So you come in and you you learn all this
deep lot of it dark uh history, but then you
you walk out of there feeling like, alright, like nothing
about my life and you know, me being here and
the things that I'm trying to do in this world
or am doing in this world can be taken lightly.
It's just a sense of responsibility. It's it's like a
(06:37):
I can't describe it. But you guys will get to
uh hear parts of that tour in the next episode,
So make sure you guys stay tuned for that. But
just wanted to come in and let you guys know
an update from Ghana because I've been giving you guys
love updates UH since New Year's Eve, and we're gonna
rewind it back to another episode. I'll be back here
(06:57):
Monday morning, our first full fresh episode back from the
New Year, UH, to break down what this tour was
like for me, and to get into some of the
news and all the pop culture things, because there are.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Some updates to dates. So we gonna take a rewind
back and talk about some love.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Some I needed some positivity, some uplifting after all of
that heaviness.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So we're rewinding it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Back to a love episode where Clarissa Shields is talking
about she's ready to start a family. Another thing I
saw too throughout the New Year, I know, I like,
whether it was people celebrating here or back in the States.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
There was a lot of people that got engaged.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I saw uh Tiana and Tianna, who is the uh
daughter of Emily, who is a step well formerly step
daughter of Rapper Fabulous, is now engaged to rapper g Herbo.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh oh well, this is old but young thug.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Maritas scientists are also engaged, like this is the era
of like we're gonna solidify this love. Okay, happy to
see love to see it. It's been all over my timeline.
Taylor made it, y'all know tilor made it. She does
all of the imaging for the Breakfast Club, but also
she is the producer of this podcast, and y'all also
heard from her lot on Brilliant Idiots.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Also got engaged on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Girl congratulations, And I can say that because she posted it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay, so I'm not.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Breaking any news here, So let's throw it on back
to a conversation about some loves and family. It don't
get a little messy too. I see you guys in
the next episode. It's the latest with Laura ma Rosa. Now,
every now and then I give y all little sprinkle
of an exclusive, but today the exclusive not even exclusive,
because it's all over the world wide Web. It's all
(08:39):
over Beyonce's Internet. At this point, we ain't even checking
it behind the scenes of the Grind because I am
flabbergastid y'all. Taylor Rooks broadcaster, media personality, sportscaster.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
The tailor Rooks.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I think all of us you know, the black girls
and media, and you know and reporting reroot so much
for Taylor Rooks, as we do a lot of the
other girls, the Joy Taylor's, the Carrie Champions, the Jamel Hills,
all of the girls. Especially you know me, because I
am not a sports I am not a sports reporter.
I can get a concept of a story in sports
(09:13):
as it relates to culture and entertainment. But y'all be
hearing me when I get through, you know what I mean.
I do my sports stories on the Breakfast Club here
on the podcast. I try and sick to what I'm
good at, but sometimes the world's intertwined, so I dibble
and I dabble. But those girls are so good. They
know the facts, the numbers. They're hard at work, they're
at the games, they're traveling or doing all the things.
But what I love so much about what just happened
(09:35):
with Tayler Rooks and the fact that she is married.
She announced yesterday via her Instagram that she is married.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I didn't even know she was engaged. I assumed she
was dating.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
She's gorgeous, she's successful, she's young, you know what I mean,
So of course I assume she was dating but because
we had never seen anything or heard anything about who
she was dating, I did not know she was dating
serious enough to be engaged and now married. So yesterday
Taylor Rooks took to her Instagram to post photos from
(10:09):
her wedding. I would say it was a surprise wedding,
but baby, it's given. Well only we were surprised, so
many other people knew. So she posted the photos and
she captioned it, what a night. This is love with
the wedding ring emoji. Now in these photos you see
her and her new hubby under her veil. Then there's
photos of her by herself walking down the aisle. There's
(10:32):
photos of Taylor Rooks and new hubby. She's holding up
her wedding ring, a diamond okay, it's a diamond, Okay.
The girl the rocket sitting nice, but she has her
hand on her hubby's face looks like it's like a
photo booth picture from after the wedding, from the reception,
and then there's photos of her and just like.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The people who attend it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And I think that's what's most impressive is the fact
that not only was it private and very.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Intimate, and you know when you're in the public eye.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You don't get to not share moments like these much
because sometimes even if you're trying to keep a private
the people around you are so excited for you that
they want to tell the world. And in boom, here
you go. Everybody knows you engage, you married, you got
a man, You gotta this, you gotta that right. The
guest list was five star, and she still managed to
be able to keep this wedding private. In attendance, there
(11:24):
are photos of Mike Rubin, you know, music artist Jacque Harlow,
Coco Jones, and her newly engaged fiance, Donovan Mitchell, who's
NFL player, Saquon Barkley, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The people were in the building.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Reports say that Taylor Rooks was married in New York,
but I mean, I don't even know how we were
confirming these reports because she didn't mention where she was married,
So it's like, how do we even know that, we
don't know anything, and it is so fire, Oh my god,
congratulations and Taylor Rooks and her husband. There are little
to no details known about her husband besides the photos
that she posted, which I think are also dope.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But yeah, it was. It was just so fly.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm one of the girls that I love to see
the career girls, especially at a young age, have all
of the things, do the family thing, have kids, have
a husband, be happy in the marriage and actually having it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Last, but also be able to also be able.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
To, like you know, adamantly go after your career and
your goals and establish a life for yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And there's nothing wrong with this, right Like, there are
women who you know, their lives and their careers and
their names revolve around the men in their lives, their husbands,
their kids, fathers. I'm not knocking nobody, But what I'm
saying is is that my personal preference has always been
for myself to be like, Look, I'm going to be
in love, I'm going to be married, I'm going to
(12:52):
have children. I'm going to have the big wedding, the
fairytale wedding.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I want that for myself. And you know, I want
my mother and my grandmother and my niece and you know,
the people I love to be able to see me
be loved correctly. But I've always been worried, like, Okay,
at some point in my career there's going to be
a conversation about you're a woman, so what about family?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What about marriage? What about this? What about that? And
I don't want my career.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And the work that I've worked for to be tied
to my relationship or my husband, not even not tied too.
I don't mind that because me and my man so
equally yoked. That's what it's always going to be, given, right,
But more so I don't want that to overshadow my work.
Every single day I'm working like harder to get better
at what I do and what I do and even
(13:40):
what Tayler Rooks does or you know, Jamel Hill, and
you know, all of the women shoot shout out the
stat baby.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
On Kim and Mason's It Is What it Is.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Me and her we've never met in person, We've tried
to link up, but me and her have you know,
become social media friends and watching her navigate her journey
over you know, on It Is What it Is, while
I'm here on Fast Club and you know what you
guys on the latest with Laurena The Roads of the
podcast has been a journey and we both always, you know,
say to each other that.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Everything's just moving so crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So to see the girls have it all and be
able to establish it all, but not have everything centered
around or the conversation centered around your relationship status or
what's happening in your womb. But more about the hard
work that you're putting in, the points you're putting on
the board, the great interviews you're doing, the great content
you're putting out, the efficiency of all those things.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
That matters to me.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I can't speak for any of the other women that
I just mentioned, but that matters a lot to me,
a whole lot. So I thought the way that Taylor
Rooks went about this was superfly, number one superfly.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And I just thought it was dope.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I thought it was fired or see her, you know,
walk down the aisle and celebrate and do all these.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Things, and we had no idea it was happening.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And it wasn't nothing little about this wedding, baby, this
was big Tailor Rooks, big wedding. Okay, guess let's crazy
set up on the wedding looked amazing. It looked literally
like a fair tale wedding. She looked beautiful as well.
So congratulations, assist, we see you girl.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You did that. You ate that?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yes, Okay, putting it on the Pinterest board, not in
other news.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Today, we having a conversation about women in sports.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Look at me trying to be you know, all in
the women in sports conversation, Clarissa Shields will be fighting
this weekend in Detroit. She's fighting Lonnie Daniels and Clarissa
Shields is she's been. I met her at the Breakfast
Club when she came and we interviewed her my first time.
I'm only interviewer once. My first time interviewing her was
(15:37):
not her first time here. But then she also came
back to the Breakfast Club again, which I wasn't in
the interview for, but she talked about wanting to be
a mom in both of those interviews and what that
looked like.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You know, we're having a conversation about.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Women with very demanding and big careers being able to
go on and do all of the things right. I
definitely think of Clarissa because I've been watching her journey
since meeting her here on the Breakfast Club when she
was promoting her movie The Fire Inside that came out
on Christmas of twenty twenty four, which stars Ryan Destiny
and it's the story of Clarisa Shield's life One of
(16:12):
the things I was thinking about when I was talking
to her was just her sport is so physical, and
being able to have a kid and establish a family
and all those things also requires a lot of your
physical as well. So I've always wondered what that exerience
was going to be like for her. Like for instance,
Clarissa Shields was on The Pivot, which is you know,
the show with Ryan Clark all the guys, and she
(16:34):
talks about not even being able to have sex before
the fight because of the way that an orgasm affects
a woman versus a band.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
When it comes to sex, right, men and women may
look at it different. Women have something called orgasms, and
when women have that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It takes a lot out of you.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm training two or three times a day. I don't
got time to be trying to force myself to work
out because I had a you know, orgastiny. I would
rather keep everything in And I feel like to me,
I feel like it helps me be more prepared for
the fight. And when you go without you know, sex,
and I mean you guys are men, it do make
you be a bit more aggressive and you can lift
(17:12):
more weights and you can squat more weight and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's the same thing for me. That's a lesson to
you young boys out there, women too.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And then hear her talk about this, my first thought
is is like, how long does Cloissa Shields have to
go without sex? Because she's never specified she said just
before a fight.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And I'm like, well, how long?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And how does that work when you're trying to have
a kid, miss of your career fights coming up, like,
it's just a lot to balance. I feel for anybody
who things are growing, you have a lot to balance
because y'all know we started this podcast in the midst
of so much.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Growing and moving.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
For me, the Latest with Lorna Rosa has been not
just a podcast and entertainment news and training topics, but
you guys have grown with me through a journey of
all of the things since meeting me on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
All of my low riders here.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
My soft spot for women in the Spotlight who are
figuring all this stuff out is like no other cause
I'm new here Spotlight to I ain't nowhere near Clarissa
and what her like, you know what I mean, like,
so I can't imagine is what I'm saying, and I
think a lot of people right now, unfairly are having
a conversation about distraction with Clarissa. I think a lot
(18:20):
of people right now are having a conversation about women
in any industry and across industries, and what they're able
to do, and what they're able to balance and what
they're able to not balance. And this episode, you know,
when I was putting it together and I was thinking
about what we could do, you know, an extensions to
everything that was trending today, the first thing I thought
about is men and the girls is.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Having it all.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Okay, they got their men by their side, they got
the business deals popping. Clarissa is dropping music and she
previewed it last night in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let's take a listen to.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is really short, but we got a snippet of one
of her songs.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Okay, what's up?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Some people say, I'm an killer? How thin the shots
to the her man want to take me in? And
then I call him, what's the name? I know you nervous?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
And baby the girls is coming for all of it,
all of it. So with this being said, I want
to take y'all to the streets for the tree be outside.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
We outside. We outside. Okay, every other page.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Because another thing that went down yesterday in the midst
of the conversation of the girls having it all, people
were so sad that Taylor Rooks popped out Mary like,
I know the men be on the girls with the
things going on, but by b where they said, somebody
(19:43):
said el Brothers. Media on X said, not only did
Klay Thompson pull Magde Stallion, but a light skin and
word with waves just married Taylor Rooks. We up, it's
our time, baby. Twenty twenty five is the year of
the page brotherhood, laugh aloud.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
The light Skins is outside, That's what it's given.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Corosier Kid said, we lost Coco Jones, Meg and Taylor
Rooks all in a two month spin with a sad
face emoji. Shout out to keV Coke six on X.
Let's send him some love, y'all. He tweeted, and he said,
I just opened up IG and saw Taylor Rooks got married.
Please respect my privacy at this time because these were
(20:23):
the baths, these were the bays of the sports industry.
Corosa Shields gets it. Taylor Rooks gets it, I understand,
but I think that is crazy too. I wrote this
line down when I was prepping for this episode. I
really think it's crazy how big the conversation gets around
women who choose to have it all this. Serena Williams
went through this too when she decided to have her baby,
(20:46):
her daughter, her first daughter with her husband Alexis, and
Venus Williams announced her engagement at the same time that
since made history. At forty five years old, Venus Williams
became the second oldest woman to win a tour level man.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
According to ESPN.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
She took this from a woman who was the oldest
woman at the time in two thousand and four, she
was aged forty seven who won Wimbledon. I say that
to say, guess what headline lasted longer out of the too.
Venus Williams announces she is engaged. People be so surprised
to see women have all of the things. When you're
successful in your career is loud Naomi Osaka. People give
(21:25):
it to her really, really hard whenever she doesn't win
or doesn't perform at two hundred percent. I've even seen
people openly say, you know, online, she shouldn't have had
a kid at the height of her career. When the
girls do finally get to have all the things. The
way that we have conversations about them. It's so different
than how we have it about men, completely different.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And I get it. Babies don't come out of men's bodies.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know, women and men have different roles in marriages,
and how do you know the marriages change what they're
able to do outside of the home, And you know,
just I understand the double standards, but I do feel
like this is the era of the women being able
to stand next to a partner who understands our power.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I was gonna say, take back our power, but it's
not even that.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
It's standing next to the right person who understands your
power so that you can have all things. Because the
balance that you're going to need to learn both mentally
and physically, that partner sitting next to you. Baby, it
ain't nothing, but it ain't nothing but a thing. So
shout out to all the ladies. For some reason, we
focus mostly on women in sports today, not even on purpose,
(22:28):
but yes, shout out to.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
The ladies having all of the things.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
At the end of the day, there's always a lot
to talk about, and I appreciate you guys. Being right
here with me every episode to talk about it. By Lowriders.
I will see you guys in my next episode.
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