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January 9, 2026 37 mins

On this episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa, Lauren is joined by Mimi Brown (Front Page News, The Breakfast Club) for a raw, real, and necessary conversation.

They break down Fetty WAP’s first days home from prison, his emotional Breakfast Club appearance, the friendships that truly showed up for him, and the quiet transformation you could feel in the room. From faith and accountability to redemption and second chances, this wasn’t just an interview — it was a moment.

Then the conversation turns personal. Loren opens up about her mother’s cancer journey and a sudden health insurance scare that reflects what millions of Americans are now facing as Obamacare subsidies expire. Mimi explains what’s really happening with Medicare, Medicaid, and employer insurance — and why everyone should check their coverage immediately.

This episode is about survival, loyalty, faith, exhaustion, and learning how to be still in a world that never stops.

Because behind the headlines, real life is happening.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
came in.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren L. Rosa and this
is the Ladies with Lauren L. Rosa. This is your Deli.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and all
of the conversations that shake the room. Baby Now today,
guys on our episode coming in Hot Miss Mimi Brown TV.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Loveyone to Love with Me. So excited of course.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
So our audience here they are called the low Riders,
okay because they be riding from me. Okay, when they
be coming from me, they be riding for me. So
you know, that's our audience, that's our community. So it
is Mimi's first time here on the podcast. Mimi does
front page News on the Breakfast Club. And I have
her here today because I'm trying to figure out world domination.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Now I'm joking.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I have her here today because I wanted to talk
to you guys just about like health insurance and some
of the things that are going on with medicare. Because
of a very personal experience that I've recently encountered that
we're gonna talk a little bit about but there was
so much showing down today. Mimi was at the studio
with us all day today at the Breakfast Club, and
we had Fetti WoT pop up at the show and

(01:20):
she was there for that, and you know, just some things.
So we're gonna talk through that, talk.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Through the day.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So y'all gonna get to hear me talk about more
than just front page news today.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yes, I'm excited little more than one dimensional news to
get into it a little.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Bit, Yes, yes, for sure. So here on the Latest,
we do a segment when we open the show. It's
called behind the Scenes of the Grind the check In.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I started this even though I'm I don't have a
co host on the show, like it's literally just me
and the low Riders and the cameras. But the reason
why I started the check in, even though I'm in
here talking to myself, is because I felt like in
the beginning when I started this podcast, almost the year
were literally you know, almost a year next month, March

(02:08):
twenty fourth, when we started this podcast, I had so
much happening so fast. It has been a crazy year.
But I think one of the things that I realized
that I didn't do enough of was just take a
second to sit down and checking on myself.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
And I realized how.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Much that played into negatively positively, but also kind of
like ambiguously as well, where like some days I was
just there, I wasn't my day wasn't good, my day
wasn't bad. I was literally just getting through the day.
And how that played into like everything I do on
work and how I show up for people just in

(02:43):
my real life too. So I was like, girl, you guys,
start checking in on yourself seriously. So I felt like
if I made it a part of the podcast and
how we opened the show, I would have to take
the second to do that. Yes, yes, So we're going
to start with the behind the scenes of the grind checking.
So miss me, me brow else checking it behind the
scenes of the ground.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
How are you feeling? And when I asked you that,
I mean, how are you really?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
That's a mixed bag because I'm so excited to be
in New York right yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
On the East coast, so I live in LA.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
I usually do the show remote, and so to be
here is so exciting and to just to you know, physically.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Mentally be here. But I will say this.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
When it for what I do with the news, it
is very exhausting, only because it is a very fast
moving news cycle.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
All the time. There are things that are hitting you
while you're sleeping.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
We're living in a time that I never thought that
we would be in, and because I care so much,
I can't escape it, right, So it's one part of
because I care about what's happening in the world and
what's happening to people. But then there's the other side
where like I have to do it for my job, right,
so I can't escape it. And so for me, I'm
doing good right now because I think I'm in the

(04:05):
fog of the excitement.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
But if it were a regular day.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
And it was a Friday, I probably will be more
mentally exhausted from the week, from the headlines, from whatever
happened that drove us into another wave of Oh my god,
I can't believe this is actually happening.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
And we're between twenty six.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
You said something that I heard and I'm like, damn,
Like I know what that feels like.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
You said, I can't escape it, yeah, And I like
often feel like, you know, like we have jobs that
I think a lot of people are like, oh my God,
like if you want to do news in a pop
culture space, we are very very blessed to be in
the space, and you know what I mean to be
doing the things that we're doing in the platforms that
we're working with. But I always wonder to myself, today's

(04:52):
actually Angie Martinez birthday.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Happy birthday, And if you're.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Listening, I don't know if she listens, but if she does,
who that is the she is like on my mount
rushmore of people who do what I do. And I've
been blessed to be able to meet her and have
you know, you know, a few conversations with her because
of the station in Powawunafi one, which is the station
that the Breakfast Club is on in New York. But
I was reading or rereading her book when I was

(05:18):
coming back from Ghana, and it just hit so differently
this time around because of the year that I've had
and one of the biggest things in the book that
I feel like I didn't hear her talk much about,
and I was like, man, I hope she reads another book,
because it is is like, what was her escape from this?
Because even when she had her son, and I know

(05:38):
you have a son. Even when she had her son,
she talked about like how difficult it was because she
was in the thick of it. She was at the
like that's like if I was to get pregnant like today,
you know what I mean, Like she was at the
thick of Like, Okay, things are changing, people are paying attention.
Your career is in a very pivotal point, and I
don't want to be pregnant today. I know that I
needed I'm gonna, yeah, I got I know, I got

(05:59):
some more time to put in, you know what I'm saying.
But you know, those are things that I think about,
like okay, you know, building a family, and not even
just like building a family, but like just having time
for myself, Like I need to go get my nails
and I haven't done it because like I can't find
the time in between when do I sleep?

Speaker 3 (06:15):
When do I I.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Can't escape it, like I always feel like I'm going
to miss something always.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
And do you people ever say you never put down
your phone?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Will always tidy and girl, I got two of them
right on boat. I'd be like, all right, this one
posting the content. This one is the.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Emails like it, like, yes, because you feel guilty almost
Like if I stop and I take a few moments
for myself, I feel so guilty and I feel like
I've missed something. So, you know, I think for both
of us what we need to do in twenty twenty
six is really try and find a balance, like a
moment where we can escape. Because even now as I'm
saying this, I see your phone lighting up.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
My phone is lighting.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Girl, literally right now, you made me look at my phone. Yeah,
I mean, but that's what I'm saying. It's hard to
escape it, it really is. And so I think for me,
I'm gonna try and be more intentional to actually.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Take the days off that I have off.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
But I mean I feel like, oh my gosh, I'm
just gonna break over the weekend. I need to know
what's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, And during the weekends, I feel like, even though
I've gotten a lot better at having a good time,
but like I'm still cause it's like I like, till
we were talking about this, like I like to like
watch things as they happen.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Me too, feel like I like to watch my timeline.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I like to, you know, watch interviews when they're first
posted before they make it to blogs and social media
gets an opinion of them. Like I like to do
all of that type of stuff, and I feel like
I use my weekends for that. But like even just
in unpacking my apartment and organizing my life so that
my work life isn't chaotic, I've had to almost bargain

(07:48):
with myself to be able to find time to do that,
and then I feel, you know, I'm in this phase
of like trying to save money and make sure I'm
doing the right things with money, and I feel bad
when I have to hire people to do things like
just clean or like it's just.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
But saves your time, it does, it saves yours, yes,
and so you shouldn't feel bad because you can't do
everything else, Like I've had to learn how to do that,
especially as a mom, Like I feel guilty when I'm
doing this and I don't give my son the time
that he needs, but then the house still needs to
be cleaned up. Then I, you know, I need to,
so I've had to learn how to outsource. So don't
feel bad for that because.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
That will give you so much is your time to
feel bad feeling And every time I say that I'm like, girl,
do you hear yourself? There are so many people who
like don't even have that option, like shut up, but
me for me to feel bad feeling is like like
I could do that just as good as the person.
I'm about to pay this a couple hundred dollars too,
And it's couple hundred dollars could go to my savings account,
it could go to you know, like thing, I just

(08:43):
thought of something right now, like literally in this moment,
I thought of something that I could be doing with
my money, and I thought of something that I need
to pay, not for myself but for someone else.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Like there's just so much that right.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
You tell me that you were at times mentally I
mean just physically mentally exhausted.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Right girl.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Hell yeah, So I think you know, if you carry
that into uh like just day after day, week after week,
that's gonna take a toll so that that money that
you're talking about saving is gonna impact your health, which
is not worth it at the end. So I think
you know, when I when I look at it like that,
you know it's money well.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Spent, you know.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, Yeah, I tell I've watched I tell myself that. Yeah,
but yeah, I just that I can't escape it. I'm like, yo,
I always think about and reading Angie Martinez. This book
made me think about it again, Like how do I
create those subtle escapes for myself? Where like I'm still
able to tap back in and do my job when necessary,

(09:39):
but at the same time, I'm enjoying life and enjoying
what's happening right now and enjoying people in my life
and taking the time I need for myself to this
not be so burned out and just show up for
people and show up for myself, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Like, does our job really afford for you to be
able to do that?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
You have to steal those moments and that and I
think that's that's what we have to figure out how
to do when and how to do it, cause you
I have to literally.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Steal those moments you just do.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
You know, girl, I ain't stolen a long time.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
We don't have to keep each other one.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, I ain't stolen a long time to do it?
Ma me Like, girl, ain't never stole nothing.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't know what you I'm gonna be here preaching her.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
I don't do it myself, Okay, but we don't figure
it out.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, So behind the scenes of the ground, we are
figuring out how to balance it. A lot about that
to hear though, like just figuring out how to balance
it all, and like what that like really honestly looks like,
because I think it's different for everybody as well too,
Like what mine looks like is different than what yours
look like, especially because like I don't have a kid yet,
and when I do, my kid is gonna be brand new,

(10:38):
I'm saying, bran new miners.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, so he's pretty self sufficient, Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Your mind's gonna be brand new York.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
To pill him out the pack, you know what I'm saying,
Killing them out the pack, Throw him in the microwave,
get them going.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, I'm not gonna put my kid in the microwave.
It was a joke. It was a joke.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
But we're gonna get on into the latest. So first
up in the news, all over your timeline, Fetti Wop
at the breakfast club. So today was a very interesting
day because Fetti Wop, who you know, I was able
to break his first statement since returning home from prison,

(11:17):
popped up at the breakfast club and decided that you know,
he wanted to have a conversation about so many things
about you know, family, about music, or you know, lack
thereof right now because he's focused on just like spending
time with his kids.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Uh, you know what. His first couple of days out
have been just a lot.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
It was such a wide ranging conversation. But and I
felt bad for feeling like this. But when I was
sitting there with Fetti Wop as we were talking to him,
in my mind, I was like, I'm really happy for him.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
I was really happy for him too. He's in a
different place mentally.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
You could yeah, yeah, yeah, But it just felt weird
to be like, I'm really happy for you had to
do all that time in jail.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Like that's how I was thinking. But then I'm like, like,
I'm like.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Man, jail really changed his life, if not saved his life,
you can tell.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
And I don't ever want to see anybody behind bars.
I know that that it's rough, especially you go from
being Fetti Wop on top of the world, right. Money
issues are not because at the time that all of
his issues were happening before he ended up behind bars.
There were conversations about different money issues and him having
fun things in his career and just different things by himself,
which is how he ended up in a predicament which

(12:34):
landed him behind bars. But yeah, I just the time
that he was able to sit down, and we talked
about that, like sitting still, being still. The time he
was able to sit down, I think really really changed him.
Not granted, it's only been about forty eight maybe seventy
two hours depending on the day you watching this video or.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Listening to this audio, since he's been home. But I
don't know. That's what I took away from the conversation.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
You know what I took away. I loved how he
talked about realizing and I don't.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Think you need to go to jail to realize it,
But I love how he talked about realizing who was
really down for him? Yeah, when he was there, Yeah,
you know, because they you guys talked about you know,
he would spend money on his twenty friends to go here,
to go there and do all the things. And then
when he was there, you know, he named a handful
of people literally on one hand, who showed up for him.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Girl, it wasn't even five people. It wasn't even fun,
he said. Coiler Ray fifty fifty cent Chief Keith. And
there was somebody else's family, his family.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
I think there might have been any.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Look, we had the clip.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Let's take a listen to who Fettie Wop talked about,
you know, really being there for him and what that
looked like.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
Was the industry there for you when you were locked up?
Like whose artist labeled people? Family? Family included family? Uh? Yeah,
my family was there industry Nah man, let me see,
oh coiler Ray coler ray uh fifty cent uh Chief Keef?

Speaker 3 (14:13):
And like in what way when you stay there?

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Like what was it? Well? Of course she actually she
actually helped me out with a record. I put out
an album called King Zoo right, and she actually she
featured on the record. She did a whole TikTok thing
for me. She and she just did it off to
love like she pushed it as if it was her
own record. So like, I don't even know how to
thank her for that, you know what I'm saying, because
she didn't have to do that. She was already she

(14:37):
already she's doing her thing, you know what I'm saying.
You know, and she from Jersey, so that they have
like this theory with people from Jersey where we like
to pull each other down. So for her to help
lift me up in my time with darkness, it was like,
thank you a lot. You know what I'm saying. You said, man, fifty,
U fifty did a lot for me. From from day one,

(14:58):
it was like he reached out like yo, whatever you
need to, just holler at me, you know what I'm saying.
And I'm like all right, And then it was like
where is money going? Like what you know what I'm saying.
I ain't used to that I'm used to. It's always
the other way around, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
So it was just like it was it was it
was nothing like he whatever I needed, he was right there.

(15:18):
Like he answered the phone. He he didn't shoy you off.
You know what I'm saying. All the way down to
the time I'm about to come home, he say how
you're getting home and stuff like that, you know what
I'm saying. So like if anything, like as far as
as far as financial and like mental like help, he
was probably there the biggest Oh yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Fifty was like helping you diversify like income and different
things like that as well to what were conversations like
about when Fattie Wob comes home, fifty cent is giving
you what advice of Like here's what you should be
doing business wide because the industry has changed so much.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
I can't curse right yo, yo, stop sucking up. You
know what I'm saying. I should have should have never
stopped making music, like you should have kept going hard,
Like you know what I'm saying, that's fifty fifty going
fifty goe. He gonna say what he wanted to say,
Like you know what I'm saying. He ain't got no filter.
So uh, it was good. It was It was everything

(16:16):
he told me. It was just like you know what
I'm saying, just get back to it, like, don't waste
no time this time. You only got this. This this
my last chance. You know what I'm saying. However, that
however that sounds to people, But you know, if you're
in this industry, you know what that means. You know
what I'm saying. So you gotta you gotta make a count.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's the story of it. Like you know, you at
the top, you got everything going for yourself. You can
do everything for people. Everybody's around when things are dark
and you can't do as much for people they're not around.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
You see who's down for you?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
And there's a clip going viral of Fetti Wop running
into French, Montana and Max B in the hallway. I
probably want to five to one. You know, the powers collided,
they stopped, they had a conversation and and I think,
you know, Max Bey is a person who just recently
came home as well too, who I'm sure has so
many conversations that he can have about people being down
for him not being down for him, right, Like you know,

(17:10):
like that whole it's crazy how it all works, like
that cycle of like you get on, you're able to
change your life and change other people's lives. And then
the minute that you can't do, the minute that you
have to say no, the minute that you can't into
the phone as much, people stop.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
People saw.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
But you know what I like, what's the through line
of all three of those people that you just named,
Max By, French, Montana and Fetti Wop. Is that even
Max B he was talking about you know he did
eighteen years, Yeah, the eighteen years, and he talked about
French just kind of being there for him.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
I thought that was so fire, right, But I think
it's so fire to see French Montana and Maxby's relationship
play out in road time, like max By coming home,
friends shaking him to the game, making sure he's straight, because.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Everybody needs somebody.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Everybody needs somebody like a specie when you are locked
up or whatever that may look like. But you know,
just to see their friendship, you know, for yeah, years,
That's that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
And one of the other things too that I thought
was pretty interesting.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'd ask Fetti Wop about Masika and some tweets that
Mesika had tweeted out, and it was very like, I mean,
I think by now, by now, I've kind of anything
that's like pop culture and trending or whatever, we're going
to ask about it when the interview happens, right, And

(18:36):
I've kind of gotten in a space where and when
we do these interviews where it's like because sometimes like
it's not the most comfortable thing to bring up, especially
because when I'm listening to Fetti Wop talk in my mind,
I'm like, I don't know, Like it's a weird space
to be and it's like, you don't know other than
what someone's sitting in front of front of you and

(18:57):
telling you right. So when I'm hearing him say, yo,
I just want to spend time like I wanna. Everything
was about making up for time that was not spent.
Will my kids forgive me. I'm gonna get back to music.
I've already been in the studio, but like right now,
Redemption is putting that time in. And then you see

(19:17):
her tweets online where Masika's like, you know, verbatim, She's
like she's calling Freddie Wapper disappointment. She says, how do
you get out and be an immediate disappointment? I hate
believing in the nigga that I know I shouldn't believe in.
And he proves me the f right, prove me wrong,
and she put wrong on all cats, prove me wrong
for once, damn first day out and steal a bitch

(19:39):
ass nigga go back. I don't play about my babies
and I don't give an f who don't like it.
Sorry for the curses, y' y'all, not really curse secked
out in the pot. My kids have been through enough.
Let my babies down, and you're gonna see a different
side of me. And I get it as a mom.
If she feels like her kids were wrong, she gonna come.
She gonna come like you about her baby.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
You're af you feel like someone's messing with your kids.
Whatever that may look like, right, you definitely do.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
But in talking to him, I'm like, even when I
asked him about it, it was kind of one of
them things where my first instinct was, I don't know
what's going on inside of their situation, but I hope
for the remainder of the time that we have to
see them interact with each other until their baby is,
however old, where they don't have to be as direct
in communication. They can figure it out off the internet.

(20:27):
Because it seems like he is really trying to be
in a piece, a place of peace in space where
things are growing.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
But again we don't know. I'm not taking away from
him and what he said to us.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I can only go about what he's saying to us, though,
And I hear her on one side as well too,
so you gotta kind of, like, I guess, you gotta
kind of take both into account. But let's take a
listen to Fetti when I ask him about Mosika and
how he handled out. I saw Masika tweeting about Yeah
that who I was going to ask a question regardless

(21:00):
you all in his bedroom. But I mean, okay, so
I'm asking you. I saw her tweet about disappointment, and
I know you guys have a daughter together, Like, what's
the plan for you or her moving forward?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Because that gets loud.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
I appreciate her for you know, I appreciate her for
making sure she making sure that my daughter knew that
I love her. She didn't, she didn't try to keep
her away at this time. You know, during that time,
I was damn uh you know, whenever I called for her,
she let me talk to her. You know what I mean.

(21:34):
I don't got nothing bad to say about her, So whatever,
I don't know, I don't be I'm not really a
social media person. Would you jump back on the reality show?
Would you do that? I promise my gods, I'll do
it for them. But I don't you know what I'm saying.
That's not that's not nothing that I would have chosen
for myself. But like I said, when you when you're down,

(21:56):
you just like dam I should have did that, man,
So I could you know what I'm saying, Like just
a whole bunch of things you just wish you should
have did. But yeah, as far as that situation, I
don't have nothing bad to say about nobody, even when
it comes down to what you asked me earlier. As
far as my daughter's mom, like you know, like, no
matter what happens, as a man, you stand up, So

(22:20):
it doesn't matter what anybody says about me, you know
what I'm saying, Like you take care of my you
take care of my kids. I'm a love you forever.
It doesn't matter, like you know what I'm saying. And
I appreciate each one of my kids moms. You know,
they all healthy, they all in school, they all breathing,
they all doing their thing, you know what I'm saying. Like,
and you know, oh yeah, And I want to say

(22:44):
I appreciate my daughter lawrence mother too. She was there
at the beginning of this bit for me, you know,
when she didn't have to be. You know, she was
going through her own thing, you know what I mean.
So yeah, I just I don't have time for negativity.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Man, he seemed no matter what whatever's happening, he did
seem grateful.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
For her holding him down. You whatever that may look like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Right, right, even if at like a surface level of
just like, yeah, just answering the phone when.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
He calls so he could talk to his daughter, is
what It sounded like. He was just grateful for that.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
He sounded like he was just grateful for that.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeo.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know, we don't know all.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
The details, but you know, just judging from his response
and again as a mom, I get it.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
If I feel like my child isn't getting something from
their father, I might get you know, raw raw on
you too. But I do understand also where he's coming from, like,
you know, just thank you.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
You know, well, listen, I hope that you know, all
of the gratitude and everything that we've experienced from him
in this interview to day is what carries on throughout
his release. He does have, you know, some strict guidelines
around his release. I know he'll be on these strict
guidelines for the next five years. Drug testing can be

(24:00):
a thing. He won't be able to open bank accounts,
l to reprove from the Feds, and even then it
still he'll still have to let probation offices know about
like taxes and any income. Of course, no alcohol or
drugs unless prescribed, which is why they you know, potentially
will be doing the testing, and if it's up to
a judge, he may be tested, you know, through a

(24:20):
rehabilitation program which is set just for him, just to
make sure that he stays on track throughout this time
that he'll have to be involved in, you know, this
next level of like what monitoring from the government looks like.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
And for those of you guys who made it, remember.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Fetti Wop was arrested some years back, and again he
completed a three year sentence out of six years. So
back in May of twenty twenty three, fetti Wap was
sentenced to six years, so he completed three and he
is now home. But when he was first busted, he
was busted with over five hundred grams or more of
cocaine and thousands of dollars in cash. But I think

(24:59):
it's a big deal that the court decided to let
him go, you know, all these months early. I think
it speaks volumes to just what he's been able to
do rehabilitation wise for himself and what we saw that girl. Yeah, yes,
it was evident. I've never that's not true. I guess

(25:20):
I had before, but yeah, sitting with him, I was
like Okay, I'm I truly believe he's going to use
his second chance that God has given him to make
the most out of his situation.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
And he did.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
That was so touching. It was because I think for
a lot of for a lot of people, when you are,
you know you have because he has fame. I don't
know how much money he may have left or not,
you know what I'm saying, But he has fame, he
has a notoriety.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
There's still platform.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
There could still be such an entitlement to what he
thinks he should have because of who he was before
he was thrown behind bars. Everything about the person that
sat in that breakfast club room with us today was
stripped of all of that. There was no entitlement, There
was no There was a lot of accountability, and I
think that there.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Was a lot of God in that room. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
He didn't talk much about faith besides saying God said it,
but you could literally feel like, oh, his purpose and
his like and maybe that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Maybe asked him because someone was.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
It Charlomagne, Charlamagne.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
They brought up a proverb I believe it's forty six
ten where God talks about being still Psalms Psalm's forty
six ten. I think I googled lem Meca so Psalm's
forty sixteen. Yes, this is what Charlamagne brought up. Be
still and know that I am God. I'll be exalted
among nations. I'll be exalted in the earth. Let's take
a listen to that moment. That was a moment where

(26:45):
I was like, oh, baby, God is God is welcome
with this man.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
And I am so happy to hear, so happy to
see it.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Now as we move on, just you know, quickly, because
we didn't already ran it down until is gonna kill
me at the amount of time. I brought me Me
Brown here today because I mean, first of all, she's
in New York, so it's like, why not have superstar
on the podcast. But also yesterday in real time, I

(27:14):
was getting phone calls about my mom's insurance and my
mom comes to New York. For those of you guys
who do not know, the low riders who don't know,
my mom is a stage for a brain and lung
cancer survivor. So at this point she is doing skins
every three months just to like check up, just to
make sure that nothing's growing, nothing's there all of that stuff,

(27:35):
and we always have like a little stumble stumble when
it's time for her skins, because you know, hospitals are overwhelmed.
Approvals from insurances don't happen all the time on time,
So that was no biggie.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
I'm like, okay, I know how to handle this.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
We call third parties, We push their approvals ourselves by
just saying flagging the fact that we don't have authorizations.
Her doctor is such an advocate. Boom, We're doing all that.
And then my mom called me and says that her
home health aid agency has called her and said that
they will have to take her home health aid off
of the schedule because her insurance is saying that they

(28:10):
don't have like it's canceled.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
She doesn't have it anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Her home health aid, though, did show up today, and
I haven't talked to her insurance yet because when I
finished life yesterday with just getting her calmed and you know,
back and headed to deliver with my brother, I was
so exhausted. I was like, I'm gonna deal with them tomorrow.
But my mom let me know that her home health
aid did show up today, so I'm not for sure

(28:37):
what's going on with her insurance or not. But I
do know that we've been having some hiccups and we
were told that it was canceled by the Home Health Agency.
And I went to Memi and I'm like, yo, where
did Trump leave off? Because I thought he backed off
of this. I thought we were okay.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
So yes, we talked about this a little bit, you know,
and I think it's it's and we said when you
told me this, Lauren, I was like, you know, we
always talk about twenty million people who you know, may
no longer have health insurance, who may be kicked off
their health insurance.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
But you put a name to.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
The face literally yesterday, right, You put a situation to
the face. And I think what's happening is people are
finding out in real time that as of December thirty first,
twenty twenty five, that they either no longer have health insurance,
they can no longer afford their health insurance, or some
of the services and benefits that they had with their
health insurance are no longer viable. They will no longer

(29:36):
apply to their account anymore. And that is just because
the Obamacare subsidies that would keep things low so that
people can afford to have those health insurance.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Health have that health insurance they expired.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
And Republicans who are in charge of the House, who
are in charge of the Senate, they have not put
together a healthcare plan for the American people.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
And so right now.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
I've of, you know, the first second, going into the
second week of January, there are millions of people who
will no longer have health insurance. And you know it,
it is It is a thing that I think that
most people don't think about, right because we again, some
of the things that are happening in the world are

(30:21):
things that we've never really had to deal with.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Right those are just afterthoughts.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
You know that you know, you can get affordable health
insurance some kind of way, but right now it is
really hard. We've never been in this situation, and so
I think, you know what people need to do is
call their insurance plans, check on your premiums, you know.
And this is not just going to affect people who
have Medicare or Medicaid. This is going to affect employee

(30:47):
led insurance programs. So even if the corporate insurance, even
your it's going to go up because it's all it's
all pay more for us though, you're going to have
to pay more because if if, if they kick off
you know, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicaid or ACA programs, that's going

(31:07):
to affect, you know, insurance premiums.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Insurance companies are still going to have to get paid.
That's going to affect the people who have insurance through
their job.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
You know, It's always going to be a domino effect,
and so well a lot of people think it's not
gonna affect you because oh, I, you know, I have
it through my job. It definitely will affect you. Your
your services that you usually get, make up out of
pocket expenses maybe more. I just think before you go
to the doctor, before you schedule your checkup, before anything

(31:36):
this year in twenty twenty six, you just need to
call and make sure you still have the same coverage
that you thought you had as a blast here, you know,
because Trump didn't back off of it, and he has
no plan for the future going forward. I will say
this today's Friday, So as of Thursday yesterday, the House Republicans.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
January fifth, January I'm sorry very eighth.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
January eighth eighth, whooh.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
I said fifth? There always three days later January eighth, Wash.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yesterday they had a healthcare vote in the House. I
think it was about seventeen Republicans voted with Democrats to
to reinstate those Obamacare subsidies that would push back those prices.
But it now heads to the Senate, which it is
expected to have a tough time. So the way the

(32:22):
process works, the House will vote on it, the Senate
will vote on it, and then the President will sign
it into law. I don't know if the Senate it's
going to pass the Senate because you know, they have
their own things that they want to add to it
that may not go overwell. You know, they want abortion,
stricter abortion laws, just things that really.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Don't affect every day people.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
I just, you know, we should care about our fellow human,
that's all. And we should just care that people really
need to get their cancer screens, where people really need
to take their baby to the hospital or whatever that
may look like. But right now it's not looking great.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I just wanted you to the conversation we had yesterday,
which is insane because before all of this, like a
few months ago, my mom's insurance called and were like, hey,
because everything that's happening with the new administration. We're just
calling in because certain things are changing.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
We want you to know. So we talked through all
of that.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
But I did not think it would get to this
point where like I'm having to wonder, does my mom
not have health insurance?

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
And then I'm like, Okay, I'm not rich, but like,
I know, I can help her pay for health insurance
if I have to. Like I think, God that I
have a job, you know what I mean, But I'm
thinking about people who, even with the job might not
be in that place, you know what I mean, to
be able to pay out of pocket. And it's just,
oh my god, it just it just stops, and it's
like you just have to Like literally yesterday it was

(33:46):
just like well boom, here you go.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
And I didn't even have the bandwidth to begin to
dive into all of that.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I can't imagine someone who not only doesn't have the
you know, the means to pay for it, but also like,
if you are a sick person going through something, what
you want me to now sit on the phone and
figure out insurances.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
It's it's beyond it's almost cruel. It is cruel, right
because when you think about the people who just need
it for their everyday survival.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
And they can't get it.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
It's it's I talked to someone a couple of weeks
ago who told me that their insurance premium jumped from
three hundred dollars a month to twenty two one hundred
dollars a month and they've been forced to cancel it.
You know, So what do you do in those type
of situations? So it's we're not.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
You know, I don't know. I really don't.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
I don't know where we are headed, but it is
something that I'm committed to following and seeing where we
go from here. But you know, it's just it's really
all up in the air if you ask me, I
think we're focusing.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Too much on foreign issues versus issues right here at us.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
It's always been a complaint about our government, regardless of
the administration. Like I know, I remember people who were
saying that about like Eric Adams in New York and
like you know, Biden at one point, just like we're
worried about like take care of home first. It has
always been a conversation about the government. But yeah, gird,
I just needed I needed that conversation. So I'm like,
if I need it I know there might be someone

(35:15):
else out there that also needs it as well too,
So let the people.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Know where they can follow you at. For more information
like this, Please.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Follow me at Mimi Brown TV. And I'm also talking
about these issues Monday through Friday during Front Page News,
so make sure you tune in. I'm always literally trying
to break it down in a way that is understandable
for our everyday life, because I think a lot of
people are like, oh, I don't follow politics or I
don't know what that means. But I literally make it

(35:44):
my life's work to tell you how this is going
to show up at your front door.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
It's mems Am I Am. I spelled it out for
the audio listeners too.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yep, Am I am I Brown like the color, So
Mimi Brown TV on all platforms.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, y'all, this has been another look at baby PJ
so cute.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
He ready for this podcast episode to be over. He
misses me.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
They're gonna try to say I didn't know how to
hold him. I'm gonna show you.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
I'll yeah what I was doing stories not knowing how
to hold the baby's.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Head, Lauren, I know how to hold a baby.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
That's not what I heard all right, y'all, we're gonna
wrap this podcast episode because I need to show me
me that I know what I'm doing. Okay, like they
got my name out here, I'm gonna play all the clip.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Okay. They were telling me I didn't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
I knew what I was.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
Doing when Lauren was holding Tailor's baby. It's scared to
is shadow. I knew what to do. You know what.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
It's not my time yet, but when it is, thank
you for trusting me with your baby. Damn watched the
Means too much of in Babies dancing, and.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Taylor's baby loved me. Okay, he didn't cry, so I
got this. So we're gonna wrap this episode. Low Riders.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
I tell you, guys, every single episode, y'all could be
anywhere with anybody talking about all of the business and
all of these things, but you guys shoes to be
right here with me the latest with one of de Rosa,
and I appreciate you, guys, my little writers, so much.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Every single episode. I will catch you guys in my
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