September 22, 2025 • 23 mins
The iHeart Radio Music Festival was fire! Loren talks great artists at the festival and the power of music. She also talks about the very real fear that is permeating the world of journalism after Jimmy Kimmel’s temporary removal. The head of the FCC is talking about censoring the View and SNL.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Lauren Rosa and this is the latest with Lauren Rosa.
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Checking
in behind the scenes of the grind. Just really quick
before we get started today, I am a y'all.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm sleepwalking today.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We went to Vegas for the iHeart Radio Music Festival,
which you know, I recorded a podcast for you guys
while there, so you guys were able to hear from
me literally from Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
For all of the people watching on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The video side, you gotta go on over and subscribe
to the audio version of the podcast. I told you guys,
we always do little audio exclusives that you will only
get if you are an audio listener, so make sure
you head on over there. But yes, I'm sleepwalking today, man.
I landed yesterday. It took me about an hour and
a half maybe two hours to get home. Eight tried
(01:08):
to start getting ready for the day because we're back
up at four am, three forty five am for the
Breakfast Club and it was a weekend of events. So
the iHeartRadio Music Festival, as you mentioned in the last
episode prior to this one, is a festival put on
by iHeartRadio and it features some of the biggest names
in music.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Man when I say so many.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Different names, you had Elokouj who opened the show, Bailey Zimmerman,
Big exa plug At Shearing, Diplow, Glorilla who closed out
the show on the second night, Jelly Roll who was
amazing to see John foger Ty, Justice, Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I am a Mariah Carey fan. I am a lamb.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I had whole experience just being there excited to see
Mariah Carey. I thought I was going to get to
meet Mariah Carey backstage because we were also streaming for
the Breakfast Twitch accounts. The Breakfast Club am on Twitch show.
Please make sure you go and check out that account.
Re recapped both there's or took you through. It wasn't
even a recap honestly, because it was in real time.
We took you through the experience of the festival. So
(02:14):
I'm behind the scenes with you know, all the radio
execs and other radio personalities and then I'm in the
pit and I'm watching the show and you just get
to really experience it there. So please check that out.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'll be streaming a lot more coming up.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'm really excited about that. But yes, man, Mariah Carey,
maroom five, y'all. Adam Lavigne is so fun. I didn't know, okay,
and maybe I did know, I think, because so what
I realized in real time with number one this festival
was that music And this is very cliche to say,
(02:47):
but music has no like, music has no boundaries. Like
music connects people in such a way it's like nothing
like that you've ever experienced. So like me and a
person with the opposing with an opposing political view, you know,
different ethnic backgrounds, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Even different gender like whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We could all be in one place and hear a
song that we love and that reminds us of something,
and in that moment we will connect one hundred percent,
we will connect an even the connections not anything that
lasts forever. It's just in that moment, just experiencing hearing
that song and it taking you back to that moment
that you're remembering, that feeling that you remember it feeling
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the first time you heard the song or when a
song got you do something. I was thinking about that
at the festival, Like, Yo, it's all these thousands of
people in here, and we all here because we love music.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And like our lives have been changed.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Literally, my life has been changed because of music and
radio and all these things.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was just it was. It was a fire experience.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So shout out to iHeartRadio, and thank you guys for
having me at the festival. I'm saying thank you, like
I don't work for them, but they didn't have to
invite me, so I'm appreciative to be there. Yeah, and
Ma and Maroon five, I did not know. I didn't
know number one that I enjoyed so many other songs,
And then I knew so many of their songs either.
I always thought the white boys at the cookout were
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in sync, justin Timberlake when he left in sync and
justin Timberlake, Like I really didn't have like a long list.
But Maroon five, Adam Levine, I don't know. He can
come on over to my cookout baby any day. That
man is gorgeous and the way that they play to
the crowd, just seeing him with the guitar and the tattoos.
I actually have a clip from the stream of me singing.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I don't know I have a clip.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Let's take a listen to this clip from the stream,
because baby I was in it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't like Maroo five as much. To be honest
with you, I gotta know about two songs. But I
thought I.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Got a good little yes, so a great time. I
also became a fan of Tate McCrae.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Y'all know Tate McCray.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, I'm late. I'm so late to her party, and
I apologize. Tate McCray is she has like her core
group of fans called the tater Tots.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I met mad tater Ties this weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yo, Like, honestly, I think Sophie laughing at me the
tator No I met them, now I met yo. I
met so many girls at this festival who were tater tied.
And again it was all because when she came on,
I was standing there in amazement.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm like, yo, Taate mccraig get busy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like the way she performs, like she works, like she
very much a superstar, works the crowd, works the audience,
The dancing is there. It was she a dancer prior
to Okay, I knew she had to be like a dancer,
not like a stripper like ballet and shit. You know,
I knew she had to be a dancer or some
stort because of the shoes that she was wearing. There
were dance shoes, her outfit and just her her ability. Baby, listen,
(05:48):
I ain't see no white girl hit her five six,
seven eight like that almost ever, but Britney Spears probably was.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The last one. And now she danced in front of refrigerators.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Okay, it has been a long time, but I enjoyed
her performance thoroughly of the way she worked with the
crowd and also her dancers.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Maybe it was given ballroom down, okay, them they were
going off. It was. It was just great to see.
It made me even before hearing the music.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Some of the are like really sitting and listening to
the music watching her, because I mean, you're hearing the
music as you're watching her. But the dance breaks and
seeing her dancers and just seeing how she worked the stage,
I was sold.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And then as she got into.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
A couple songs, I started listening to her sing and
I'm like, okay, you know, I see what this is
doing here. This is very much, giving you know, the
Britney Spears who like, you know, that whole vibe.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She was there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But I'm a fan now Taate mccraig definitely got to
follow for me on Instagram after that. So yes, it's
had a great time at the festival to say the least,
but your girl is tied. But nonetheless, let's get on
into the latest. Now here's the thing about, you know,
our first story. I have been working and you know,
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doing everything that I'm doing now for a few years
in preparation of like, Okay, you're gonna hit your big break,
You're gonna be making that money. You know, I'm talking like,
you know, there are some talk show hosts who are
you looking at like millions per episode, millions per season
of their show to get paid to come and talk
(07:17):
about the things that they love to talk about, to
express their opinion, to interview people, to introduce.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You guys, the audience to these people.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's always been a dream of mine. Like I love
the storyteller, I love to talk to people. I love
the yap, but it's always been a dream of mine
to you know, have a talk show, to do exactly
what I'm doing right now. Introducing people to things and
places and you know, just all these different things I say.
I have to say, I'm very disheartened by the fact
(07:45):
that I walk into work now every day nervous about
my job. And I'm nervous because y'all like, damn, girl,
you took the job from jess Mine. When she taking
it back, I'm like, no, that's We're good. Not because
of that, but Donald Trump, and I mean everything that's
happening right now with you know, the way people are
(08:07):
using their microphones and their platforms at how fast things
are getting taken from them. So you guys know, Jimmy
Kimmel was recently pulled off of ABC, and that has
been such a conversation because people feel like his remarks
that he made it didn't warrant the pulling from, you know,
being on air that he received. Now, Jimmy Kimmel was
(08:27):
speaking about the death of Charlie Kirk, the murder of
Charlie Kirk, who is a political talking head who you know.
He he said things that definitely made people very upset,
that targeted certain groups of people that you know, he
felt like was his truth, but not everybody agreed, right,
Kimmel decides to talk about you know him in his passing,
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which leads to his show them being taken off air.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let's take a listen to Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We had some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
As anything other than one of them, and everything they can.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
To score political points from.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And so I was with the architects that design it's
going to be incredible, and they came in they said,
Charlie Kirk is dead. I didn't know what they meant.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I said it was dead. Charlie Kirk was shy.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And they thought he was dead because it was so horrific.
Can I live? And they said dead?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And then we installed the most beautiful chandelier.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You Wisconsins, you wouldn't believe.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So following this, there have now been conversations about who's
next and what next and where do we go from here?
And I know for me, the day that I got look,
I get alerts. I am alert down. I get alerts
for every news station, major Twitter accounts that are posting
breaking news.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I could not believe websites.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I could not believe the day that I got the
notification that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off ABC, suspended indefinitely.
They want like, you know, all these apologies and all
these things that happen and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And I honestly thought that it was a joke.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I thought that, you know, because in this world also
right now, you have parody accounts that are announce to
news that people are picking up, and fan accounts and
TikTok creators who were saying things, and I just didn't
think it was real. But when I confirmed it to
be real, and I'm listening to, you know, the news
(10:29):
reports just about what's happening, it's scary. It's scary to
just see and again, someone died in this situation, So
I think, you know, not even think. I know, it's
always going to be a touchy point when you talk
about life or death or lack thereof, But I do
think that the bigger conversation that has been happening from
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this and from Kimmel's comments are freedom of speech and
even if that is a thing, and what happens when
people are not allowed to have that. So that's just
been scary for me, especially because i feel like I'm
just now. I've been doing things for a while, but
i feel like I'm just now starting to hit my stride.
I'm like, damn, like y'all coming for the girls now,
(11:13):
I've just got here.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a political talking head.
I'm not a you know any of that, but there
are things that I express my opinion on when it
comes to politics. So just from personal experience that this
is a scary time right now, let's just say that.
So after kim Will happened, you know, there's been all
these conversations and then the FCC chairman, a guy named
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Brendan Carr.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Got on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So he was on the show this week called the
Scott Jennings Radio Show, And on this show he talked
about ABC's The View and basically how they might be next.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, if you can be unfunny, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
And a lot of people are sure of saying that.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, people are punishing Kim On because they don't like.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
A joke that he told.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But you know, we don't need to rehash it here valously.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
What he said was not a joke.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It wasn't presented at all that way. But when you
look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the
sc does have a rule, all the equal opportunity rule,
which means, for instance, if you're in the rub to
an election you have one partisan elected official on, you
have to give equal time, equal opportunity to the opposing
partisan politician. So far, so good.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
But there's an exception to that rule, all the bonafide
news exception, which means, if you are a bonafide news program,
you don't have to abide by the equal opportunity rule.
And over the years, the SCY has developed a body
of case law on that, and its suggested that most
of these late night shows other in SNL are bonified
news programs, and potentially, I would assume you could make
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the argument that the View is a bonified news show,
but I'm not so sure about that, and I think
it's worthwhile to have the SCC look into whether the
View in some of these other programs that you.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Have still qualify as Spotify news programs and therefore exempt
from the equal opportunity for heeing that Congress.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Is put in place.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Now this is a bit scary, it's a bit scared
because you have to think. Okay, So the equal time
rule that he's talking about is basically a rule that
is set as precedent by the SEC, which basically says
that you have to have you have to allow people
of an opposing opinion or from the other side when
you're talking about these political things, right, people from the
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other side, you know, if they're running a campaign or whatever,
should be allowed equal time. If they want to come
on your platform, they should be allowed equal time. It
should be allowed, you know, to push back in all
the things. Now, just just some history. The View, which
founded by Barbara Walters, is produced by ABC News and
because of that, it's very unclear here if what he's
(13:54):
even talking about about it being a bonaflie bona fide
news platform is even legit. But the whole thing is
the fact that that is even a conversation about being investigated.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I don't know, it's just kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Now, ABC, which is where you watch a View, is
an FCC regulated network. Now there are different shows that
you know, even though they're discussing news and you know,
certain things like that, it's more of like it's almost
like satire or talk back, like you're not turning on
these news programs to be told something first, to be
you know, educated.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's more like personality based stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's more almost like I would say reaction like that,
like that are generational media for the kids, we would
call it like reactionary. So these are these are platforms
where you have these talking heads, these talking figures who
are given, you know, giving their opinion and you know
they may there may be a moderator who presents facts
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or persons of story, but it's very opinion based and
things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It's not driven.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
To to educate someone or to change an opinion. It's
solely out the there for you to a bunch of opinions,
and there are aligned opinions and not aligned opinions. Like
the ladies on the View go back and forth on
their panel all the time. Not everybody there thinks the same,
and it's done that way on purpose. But then you
also have shows like SNL where SNL is not you're
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not turning on SNL to hear a news report of
like what's going down? But if you watch SNL, it's
because you want to see how are they going to
make fun of this? What is the sattire around this,
what is their opinion of what was funny on this?
But I will say that FCC, the same rule was
raised by car about SNL back when Kamala Harris came
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onto the show. The FCC looked into it, whether it
was a thing or not, and granted Trump's organization the
same amount of time on the show. Like that was
one of the things that happened. So I think it's
just scared to even be having these conversations because it's
like in violation at all anything of anything FCC and
SEC has been governed in television and radio and all
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these things forever, like for years and years and years,
but in violation of any of that, everybody's TV licenses
and you know, time slids for question of for grabs.
But in a time period where people want more spotlight
on your show because you have opinions that they do
not necessarily agree with. That is scary as hell, especially
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as somebody that is like trying to build in this
media space, like not even just as like a talk
show person, Like I'm talking about storytelling, so like I
want to make you know, I was going to say
I want to make TV, but now it's like everything's
on streaming.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But y'all know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I want to make series, I want to act, I
want to write, I want to direct a lot of
that stuff. Like the more I get into this, and
you know, as I've set out, you know, I look
at like Abel Duberne E say, people who are doing
storytelling in a really fly away but there's so much
intention in direction and influence in what they do. You
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get scary when you think about stuff like that. People
as intentional as that, you know, because they have deeper
calling and responsibility. I think, as black creators, even if
we don't want to accept that, we do have a responsibility.
It's like, men, can you even how do you fulfill
that responsibility through your work?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
When everything is being censored? That is really scary.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And it's not even being censored like in fair play,
because again the FCC has.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Been around for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
There are rules and regulations behind. You know, even on
Instagram you can't just post ad You can post crazy
things on social media, but there are now social media
platforms that do have a certain type of like monitoring system.
Like I even sometimes get crazy comments and I'll notice
some of the comments are like hidden instantly by Instagram
because of the words that they use that they deep
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harsh or you know, like censorship is there to a
certain extent, but it's always been there as a bumper
to protect. Now it's like to punish, and that is
scary just because someone doesn't agree with you, especially as
a young person trying to figure out and.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Navigate this whole space.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
My biggest worry is that because I've always been really
excited to even be doing stuff like this, like to
be able to be here on this podcast and be
talking to you guys and you know, leaving the breakfast
club every morning and get coming here and just being
able to really get out my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And my opinion on things and.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Provide you guys with you know, we do the stories
that we do the rundown, and we do all the
facts and all the things, but you really get to
learn me hear. In my opinion, this is exciting. This
is an exciting time for creators to be able to
do that and for the underdogs to really become the legends.
It's very scary though, because when you think about what
cuts through, not that I think things should be sensationalized,
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what people should just do or say things to breakthrough.
But I do think that authenticity matters. I do think
that substance and intention when you pick up the microphone matters,
And I think that that's what makes it's like the
cream will always rise. Y'all ever heard that saying the
cree will always rise? I think that's what like, that
is the cream. And right now just feels like, Okay,
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as we're rising and as these things are happening, what
is our life going to be like if we can't
get on this microphone and tell the truth? I understand,
you know things that are free. Freedom of speech is
not free. Nothing is free. My mom has always teld
me that ain't nothing free.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Okay, you get a gift from a man, he wants
something in return, so either be ready to give it
back in return or be ready to say, hey, I
don't need this. You got one or two options. Nothing
in life is free. But at the same time, I
do think that there is a certain sense of freedom
of speech is not free because there's consequence. But if
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I'm doing it with purpose, if I'm doing it with
intention and the responsibility we just talked about, I should
be able to do it. And right now it just
feels like we're not. If the view gets off air,
it feels like we can't like we're not. And I
will say I was nervous too, because the day that
Kimo got suspended, we were all waiting to see what
the view was going to have to say. They ain't
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say nothing, but they finally did. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Y'all really think we weren't gonna talk about Jimmy Kimmel.
I mean, have you watched the show over the last
twenty nine seasons, so you know, no one silences us.
And to all my friends in Italy who reached out,
you have to know it's okay. We're still here. We're
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still broadcasting. And when the news broke last week about
Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, we took a breath to see if
Jimmy was going to say anything about it. First we
did the same thing with Stephen Colbert. Then our show
was on tape on Friday. But we are live here
today and we're getting into it now.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Okay, Well, the view were standing in Tinto's down. Baby,
they ain't backing off. You're not gonna get them. I mean,
I it's like I'm not surprised. If you watch a view,
you know, like they ain't going down without a fight.
Even if they were. I don't think they're going down.
But if they were a baby, they gonna fight to
the very end.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Period.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
But I do, like I hear what they're saying. But man,
it does not feel like that free speech is not
a real thing. It just doesn't feel like it is.
Like I know that it's supposed to feel like you
should have the opportunity and you know, things should be
uncensored and people shouldn't be able to like the government
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shouldn't be able to patrol and do certain things. But
Trump has literally been saying what he wanted to do
and doing it for this it's been happening. So to me,
it's like it's literally one of them things where it's
like damned if you do, damned if you don't, because
if you if the view doesn't say anything about this, right,
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they look like, Okay, well now we're bending to the
things that we always fight against. If they lean in
and they say too much, Trump won't be all up
in there any minute he can get to take down
of you. Because he had a whole list of like
here's exactly who I want to buy to here, he
told us.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
A long time ago.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
The media and anybody that was sat on the sat
in the position that he didn't really.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Care for.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
There was gonna be free speech is not free to
sum this up, okay, And it's one of the scariest
things ever getting into an industry where you understand how
controlling the mind and the media is such a powerful tool.
You talk about nuclear bombs and Trump understanding what the
do with nuclear bombs, and you know, nuclear strikes and
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all the things our president is literally our president is
literally taking over.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
All of our major media.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
One merger, one firing, one suspension, one FCC wrong comment
to the next.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That is that's dangerous as well. Like I really, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'm like, am I the only when y'all done went
back and checked my contract the other day? What happens
if I don't have this job? That's scary to think about.
At the end of the day, there's always a lot
to talk about, y'all. Every single time y'all are right
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here with me to talk about it. Y'all know, I
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Lona Rosa, and i will catch you guys in my
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I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Lauren Rosa and this is the latest with Lauren Rosa.
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Checking
in behind the scenes of the grind. Just really quick
before we get started today, I am a y'all.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm sleepwalking today.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We went to Vegas for the iHeart Radio Music Festival,
which you know, I recorded a podcast for you guys
while there, so you guys were able to hear from
me literally from Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
For all of the people watching on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The video side, you gotta go on over and subscribe
to the audio version of the podcast. I told you guys,
we always do little audio exclusives that you will only
get if you are an audio listener, so make sure
you head on over there. But yes, I'm sleepwalking today, man.
I landed yesterday. It took me about an hour and
a half maybe two hours to get home. Eight tried
(01:08):
to start getting ready for the day because we're back
up at four am, three forty five am for the
Breakfast Club and it was a weekend of events. So
the iHeartRadio Music Festival, as you mentioned in the last
episode prior to this one, is a festival put on
by iHeartRadio and it features some of the biggest names
in music.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Man when I say so many.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Different names, you had Elokouj who opened the show, Bailey Zimmerman,
Big exa plug At Shearing, Diplow, Glorilla who closed out
the show on the second night, Jelly Roll who was
amazing to see John foger Ty, Justice, Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I am a Mariah Carey fan. I am a lamb.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I had whole experience just being there excited to see
Mariah Carey. I thought I was going to get to
meet Mariah Carey backstage because we were also streaming for
the Breakfast Twitch accounts. The Breakfast Club am on Twitch show.
Please make sure you go and check out that account.
Re recapped both there's or took you through. It wasn't
even a recap honestly, because it was in real time.
We took you through the experience of the festival. So
(02:14):
I'm behind the scenes with you know, all the radio
execs and other radio personalities and then I'm in the
pit and I'm watching the show and you just get
to really experience it there. So please check that out.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'll be streaming a lot more coming up.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'm really excited about that. But yes, man, Mariah Carey,
maroom five, y'all. Adam Lavigne is so fun. I didn't know, okay,
and maybe I did know, I think, because so what
I realized in real time with number one this festival
was that music And this is very cliche to say,
(02:47):
but music has no like, music has no boundaries. Like
music connects people in such a way it's like nothing
like that you've ever experienced. So like me and a
person with the opposing with an opposing political view, you know,
different ethnic backgrounds, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Even different gender like whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We could all be in one place and hear a
song that we love and that reminds us of something,
and in that moment we will connect one hundred percent,
we will connect an even the connections not anything that
lasts forever. It's just in that moment, just experiencing hearing
that song and it taking you back to that moment
that you're remembering, that feeling that you remember it feeling
(03:29):
the first time you heard the song or when a
song got you do something. I was thinking about that
at the festival, Like, Yo, it's all these thousands of
people in here, and we all here because we love music.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And like our lives have been changed.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Literally, my life has been changed because of music and
radio and all these things.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was just it was. It was a fire experience.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So shout out to iHeartRadio, and thank you guys for
having me at the festival. I'm saying thank you, like
I don't work for them, but they didn't have to
invite me, so I'm appreciative to be there. Yeah, and
Ma and Maroon five, I did not know. I didn't
know number one that I enjoyed so many other songs,
And then I knew so many of their songs either.
I always thought the white boys at the cookout were
(04:09):
in sync, justin Timberlake when he left in sync and
justin Timberlake, Like I really didn't have like a long list.
But Maroon five, Adam Levine, I don't know. He can
come on over to my cookout baby any day. That
man is gorgeous and the way that they play to
the crowd, just seeing him with the guitar and the tattoos.
I actually have a clip from the stream of me singing.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I don't know I have a clip.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Let's take a listen to this clip from the stream,
because baby I was in it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't like Maroo five as much. To be honest
with you, I gotta know about two songs. But I
thought I.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Got a good little yes, so a great time. I
also became a fan of Tate McCrae.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Y'all know Tate McCray.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, I'm late. I'm so late to her party, and
I apologize. Tate McCray is she has like her core
group of fans called the tater Tots.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I met mad tater Ties this weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yo, Like, honestly, I think Sophie laughing at me the
tator No I met them, now I met yo. I
met so many girls at this festival who were tater tied.
And again it was all because when she came on,
I was standing there in amazement.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm like, yo, Taate mccraig get busy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like the way she performs, like she works, like she
very much a superstar, works the crowd, works the audience,
The dancing is there. It was she a dancer prior
to Okay, I knew she had to be like a dancer,
not like a stripper like ballet and shit. You know,
I knew she had to be a dancer or some
stort because of the shoes that she was wearing. There
were dance shoes, her outfit and just her her ability. Baby, listen,
(05:48):
I ain't see no white girl hit her five six,
seven eight like that almost ever, but Britney Spears probably was.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The last one. And now she danced in front of refrigerators.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Okay, it has been a long time, but I enjoyed
her performance thoroughly of the way she worked with the
crowd and also her dancers.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Maybe it was given ballroom down, okay, them they were
going off. It was. It was just great to see.
It made me even before hearing the music.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Some of the are like really sitting and listening to
the music watching her, because I mean, you're hearing the
music as you're watching her. But the dance breaks and
seeing her dancers and just seeing how she worked the stage,
I was sold.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And then as she got into.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
A couple songs, I started listening to her sing and
I'm like, okay, you know, I see what this is
doing here. This is very much, giving you know, the
Britney Spears who like, you know, that whole vibe.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She was there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But I'm a fan now Taate mccraig definitely got to
follow for me on Instagram after that. So yes, it's
had a great time at the festival to say the least,
but your girl is tied. But nonetheless, let's get on
into the latest. Now here's the thing about, you know,
our first story. I have been working and you know,
(06:57):
doing everything that I'm doing now for a few years
in preparation of like, Okay, you're gonna hit your big break,
You're gonna be making that money. You know, I'm talking like,
you know, there are some talk show hosts who are
you looking at like millions per episode, millions per season
of their show to get paid to come and talk
(07:17):
about the things that they love to talk about, to
express their opinion, to interview people, to introduce.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You guys, the audience to these people.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's always been a dream of mine. Like I love
the storyteller, I love to talk to people. I love
the yap, but it's always been a dream of mine
to you know, have a talk show, to do exactly
what I'm doing right now. Introducing people to things and
places and you know, just all these different things I say.
I have to say, I'm very disheartened by the fact
(07:45):
that I walk into work now every day nervous about
my job. And I'm nervous because y'all like, damn, girl,
you took the job from jess Mine. When she taking
it back, I'm like, no, that's We're good. Not because
of that, but Donald Trump, and I mean everything that's
happening right now with you know, the way people are
(08:07):
using their microphones and their platforms at how fast things
are getting taken from them. So you guys know, Jimmy
Kimmel was recently pulled off of ABC, and that has
been such a conversation because people feel like his remarks
that he made it didn't warrant the pulling from, you know,
being on air that he received. Now, Jimmy Kimmel was
(08:27):
speaking about the death of Charlie Kirk, the murder of
Charlie Kirk, who is a political talking head who you know.
He he said things that definitely made people very upset,
that targeted certain groups of people that you know, he
felt like was his truth, but not everybody agreed, right,
Kimmel decides to talk about you know him in his passing,
(08:52):
which leads to his show them being taken off air.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let's take a listen to Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We had some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
As anything other than one of them, and everything they can.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
To score political points from.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And so I was with the architects that design it's
going to be incredible, and they came in they said,
Charlie Kirk is dead. I didn't know what they meant.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I said it was dead. Charlie Kirk was shy.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And they thought he was dead because it was so horrific.
Can I live? And they said dead?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And then we installed the most beautiful chandelier.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You Wisconsins, you wouldn't believe.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So following this, there have now been conversations about who's
next and what next and where do we go from here?
And I know for me, the day that I got look,
I get alerts. I am alert down. I get alerts
for every news station, major Twitter accounts that are posting
breaking news.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I could not believe websites.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I could not believe the day that I got the
notification that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off ABC, suspended indefinitely.
They want like, you know, all these apologies and all
these things that happen and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And I honestly thought that it was a joke.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I thought that, you know, because in this world also
right now, you have parody accounts that are announce to
news that people are picking up, and fan accounts and
TikTok creators who were saying things, and I just didn't
think it was real. But when I confirmed it to
be real, and I'm listening to, you know, the news
(10:29):
reports just about what's happening, it's scary. It's scary to
just see and again, someone died in this situation, So
I think, you know, not even think. I know, it's
always going to be a touchy point when you talk
about life or death or lack thereof, But I do
think that the bigger conversation that has been happening from
(10:52):
this and from Kimmel's comments are freedom of speech and
even if that is a thing, and what happens when
people are not allowed to have that. So that's just
been scary for me, especially because i feel like I'm
just now. I've been doing things for a while, but
i feel like I'm just now starting to hit my stride.
I'm like, damn, like y'all coming for the girls now,
(11:13):
I've just got here.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a political talking head.
I'm not a you know any of that, but there
are things that I express my opinion on when it
comes to politics. So just from personal experience that this
is a scary time right now, let's just say that.
So after kim Will happened, you know, there's been all
these conversations and then the FCC chairman, a guy named
(11:36):
Brendan Carr.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Got on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So he was on the show this week called the
Scott Jennings Radio Show, And on this show he talked
about ABC's The View and basically how they might be next.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, if you can be unfunny, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
And a lot of people are sure of saying that.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, people are punishing Kim On because they don't like.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
A joke that he told.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But you know, we don't need to rehash it here valously.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
What he said was not a joke.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It wasn't presented at all that way. But when you
look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the
sc does have a rule, all the equal opportunity rule,
which means, for instance, if you're in the rub to
an election you have one partisan elected official on, you
have to give equal time, equal opportunity to the opposing
partisan politician. So far, so good.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
But there's an exception to that rule, all the bonafide
news exception, which means, if you are a bonafide news program,
you don't have to abide by the equal opportunity rule.
And over the years, the SCY has developed a body
of case law on that, and its suggested that most
of these late night shows other in SNL are bonified
news programs, and potentially, I would assume you could make
(12:48):
the argument that the View is a bonified news show,
but I'm not so sure about that, and I think
it's worthwhile to have the SCC look into whether the
View in some of these other programs that you.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Have still qualify as Spotify news programs and therefore exempt
from the equal opportunity for heeing that Congress.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Is put in place.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Now this is a bit scary, it's a bit scared
because you have to think. Okay, So the equal time
rule that he's talking about is basically a rule that
is set as precedent by the SEC, which basically says
that you have to have you have to allow people
of an opposing opinion or from the other side when
you're talking about these political things, right, people from the
(13:31):
other side, you know, if they're running a campaign or whatever,
should be allowed equal time. If they want to come
on your platform, they should be allowed equal time. It
should be allowed, you know, to push back in all
the things. Now, just just some history. The View, which
founded by Barbara Walters, is produced by ABC News and
because of that, it's very unclear here if what he's
(13:54):
even talking about about it being a bonaflie bona fide
news platform is even legit. But the whole thing is
the fact that that is even a conversation about being investigated.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I don't know, it's just kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Now, ABC, which is where you watch a View, is
an FCC regulated network. Now there are different shows that
you know, even though they're discussing news and you know,
certain things like that, it's more of like it's almost
like satire or talk back, like you're not turning on
these news programs to be told something first, to be
you know, educated.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's more like personality based stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's more almost like I would say reaction like that,
like that are generational media for the kids, we would
call it like reactionary. So these are these are platforms
where you have these talking heads, these talking figures who
are given, you know, giving their opinion and you know
they may there may be a moderator who presents facts
(14:49):
or persons of story, but it's very opinion based and
things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It's not driven.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
To to educate someone or to change an opinion. It's
solely out the there for you to a bunch of opinions,
and there are aligned opinions and not aligned opinions. Like
the ladies on the View go back and forth on
their panel all the time. Not everybody there thinks the same,
and it's done that way on purpose. But then you
also have shows like SNL where SNL is not you're
(15:15):
not turning on SNL to hear a news report of
like what's going down? But if you watch SNL, it's
because you want to see how are they going to
make fun of this? What is the sattire around this,
what is their opinion of what was funny on this?
But I will say that FCC, the same rule was
raised by car about SNL back when Kamala Harris came
(15:36):
onto the show. The FCC looked into it, whether it
was a thing or not, and granted Trump's organization the
same amount of time on the show. Like that was
one of the things that happened. So I think it's
just scared to even be having these conversations because it's
like in violation at all anything of anything FCC and
SEC has been governed in television and radio and all
(15:58):
these things forever, like for years and years and years,
but in violation of any of that, everybody's TV licenses
and you know, time slids for question of for grabs.
But in a time period where people want more spotlight
on your show because you have opinions that they do
not necessarily agree with. That is scary as hell, especially
(16:19):
as somebody that is like trying to build in this
media space, like not even just as like a talk
show person, Like I'm talking about storytelling, so like I
want to make you know, I was going to say
I want to make TV, but now it's like everything's
on streaming.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But y'all know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I want to make series, I want to act, I
want to write, I want to direct a lot of
that stuff. Like the more I get into this, and
you know, as I've set out, you know, I look
at like Abel Duberne E say, people who are doing
storytelling in a really fly away but there's so much
intention in direction and influence in what they do. You
(16:55):
get scary when you think about stuff like that. People
as intentional as that, you know, because they have deeper
calling and responsibility. I think, as black creators, even if
we don't want to accept that, we do have a responsibility.
It's like, men, can you even how do you fulfill
that responsibility through your work?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
When everything is being censored? That is really scary.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And it's not even being censored like in fair play,
because again the FCC has.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Been around for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
There are rules and regulations behind. You know, even on
Instagram you can't just post ad You can post crazy
things on social media, but there are now social media
platforms that do have a certain type of like monitoring system.
Like I even sometimes get crazy comments and I'll notice
some of the comments are like hidden instantly by Instagram
because of the words that they use that they deep
(17:42):
harsh or you know, like censorship is there to a
certain extent, but it's always been there as a bumper
to protect. Now it's like to punish, and that is
scary just because someone doesn't agree with you, especially as
a young person trying to figure out and.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Navigate this whole space.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
My biggest worry is that because I've always been really
excited to even be doing stuff like this, like to
be able to be here on this podcast and be
talking to you guys and you know, leaving the breakfast
club every morning and get coming here and just being
able to really get out my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And my opinion on things and.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Provide you guys with you know, we do the stories
that we do the rundown, and we do all the
facts and all the things, but you really get to
learn me hear. In my opinion, this is exciting. This
is an exciting time for creators to be able to
do that and for the underdogs to really become the legends.
It's very scary though, because when you think about what
cuts through, not that I think things should be sensationalized,
(18:38):
what people should just do or say things to breakthrough.
But I do think that authenticity matters. I do think
that substance and intention when you pick up the microphone matters,
And I think that that's what makes it's like the
cream will always rise. Y'all ever heard that saying the
cree will always rise? I think that's what like, that
is the cream. And right now just feels like, Okay,
(19:00):
as we're rising and as these things are happening, what
is our life going to be like if we can't
get on this microphone and tell the truth? I understand,
you know things that are free. Freedom of speech is
not free. Nothing is free. My mom has always teld
me that ain't nothing free.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Okay, you get a gift from a man, he wants
something in return, so either be ready to give it
back in return or be ready to say, hey, I
don't need this. You got one or two options. Nothing
in life is free. But at the same time, I
do think that there is a certain sense of freedom
of speech is not free because there's consequence. But if
(19:36):
I'm doing it with purpose, if I'm doing it with
intention and the responsibility we just talked about, I should
be able to do it. And right now it just
feels like we're not. If the view gets off air,
it feels like we can't like we're not. And I
will say I was nervous too, because the day that
Kimo got suspended, we were all waiting to see what
the view was going to have to say. They ain't
(19:57):
say nothing, but they finally did. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Y'all really think we weren't gonna talk about Jimmy Kimmel.
I mean, have you watched the show over the last
twenty nine seasons, so you know, no one silences us.
And to all my friends in Italy who reached out,
you have to know it's okay. We're still here. We're
(20:21):
still broadcasting. And when the news broke last week about
Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, we took a breath to see if
Jimmy was going to say anything about it. First we
did the same thing with Stephen Colbert. Then our show
was on tape on Friday. But we are live here
today and we're getting into it now.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Okay, Well, the view were standing in Tinto's down. Baby,
they ain't backing off. You're not gonna get them. I mean,
I it's like I'm not surprised. If you watch a view,
you know, like they ain't going down without a fight.
Even if they were. I don't think they're going down.
But if they were a baby, they gonna fight to
the very end.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Period.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
But I do, like I hear what they're saying. But man,
it does not feel like that free speech is not
a real thing. It just doesn't feel like it is.
Like I know that it's supposed to feel like you
should have the opportunity and you know, things should be
uncensored and people shouldn't be able to like the government
(21:29):
shouldn't be able to patrol and do certain things. But
Trump has literally been saying what he wanted to do
and doing it for this it's been happening. So to me,
it's like it's literally one of them things where it's
like damned if you do, damned if you don't, because
if you if the view doesn't say anything about this, right,
(21:50):
they look like, Okay, well now we're bending to the
things that we always fight against. If they lean in
and they say too much, Trump won't be all up
in there any minute he can get to take down
of you. Because he had a whole list of like
here's exactly who I want to buy to here, he
told us.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
A long time ago.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
The media and anybody that was sat on the sat
in the position that he didn't really.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Care for.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
There was gonna be free speech is not free to
sum this up, okay, And it's one of the scariest
things ever getting into an industry where you understand how
controlling the mind and the media is such a powerful tool.
You talk about nuclear bombs and Trump understanding what the
do with nuclear bombs, and you know, nuclear strikes and
(22:37):
all the things our president is literally our president is
literally taking over.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
All of our major media.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
One merger, one firing, one suspension, one FCC wrong comment
to the next.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That is that's dangerous as well. Like I really, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'm like, am I the only when y'all done went
back and checked my contract the other day? What happens
if I don't have this job? That's scary to think about.
At the end of the day, there's always a lot
to talk about, y'all. Every single time y'all are right
(23:17):
here with me to talk about it. Y'all know, I
appreciate y' all. My lowriders. Listen, tell a friend to
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