The Breakfast Club - All Good News ( Tyler Perry's 250K Surprise and Brandy Gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame)

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Loren LoRosa checks in behind the grind after wrapping a special hometown project tied to Wilmington and shares why this new work means so much to her. Then she breaks down the latest on Tyler Perry’s TSA gift card story in Atlanta and clears up what his team says really happened. Plus, Brandy finally receives her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with emotional words from Issa Rae and Babyface.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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y'all what's up it's la rosa and this is the latest with la rosa this is your deli ding on all things pop culture entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room baby uh now today we are checking in behind the grind back on the grind i literally just wrapped an interview for a song like um i wouldn't even call it at the doccy series i don't know what i would call it but i'm working on something that is you know pretty uh special It's something that has to do with my hometown of Women's in Delaware where I'm from. And I'm really excited about it. I want to do so much more this year of using the platform that I've built here with the podcast

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report that is circulating via a local out of Atlanta that Tyler Perry's team in the $1,000 gift cards that they issued U-TFA agents are now being rejected and are being held by higher ups at the airport because of protocol measures that were not adhered by Tyler Perry and, you know, rules just around getting monetary things to TFA agents. Now, I was told that, that this reporting was completely false. So over the weekend, Tyler Perry and King went to the Atlanta airport, and they gave out $250,000 worth of gift cards, $1,000 a thousand dollars a piece to various TACA agents, totaling $250,000.

Now, if you guys remember, we didn't cover this here on the podcast, but you may have seen some reports about it, but for those of you guys who have not out, refreshable, memory. About a week ago, Tyler Perry's team went to the airport with a large sum of cash and wanted to give cash out to all the TSA agents who were there and working and not receiving money. The TSA agents were not receiving money because of a government shut down, which, you know, as of yesterday was reported to not completely up-cooked to a stop, but basically some agents are reported that they've received some retroactive paychecks. But, from the report that I've seen, this kind of varies depending on where the agents are based

and, you know, it's going to take some time to get to everybody. But they were working and not getting paid any money. So Tyler Perry was like, hey, let's go. Let's get them some cash direct. When they got their hand off the cash, they were stopped. The reason why they were stopped was because they were not allowed to give cash on hand to any of the airport employees. There's just rules around gifting. to employee, the TSA agents.

So, Tyler Ferry and team went back to the drawing board. I'm told that they worked with the TSA assistant federal security director, and they worked with them very closely on Thursday of last week. And what they came up with was a gift card process. Now, this gift card process made it where the TSA agents will receive $1,000. It would be allowed to be received. So Tyler Perry's team took all of those gift cards up to $250,000 worth to this federal security director, this assistant federal security director who then disperse the gift cards to the TSA agent. So the reporting of anything other than that, what I'm being told on the record from Tyler Perry's team is not true.

Now, I did just get off the phone with them because I know prior to my reporting, there were report that a security director is basically holding the gift cards because there's some sort of hiccup still. But Tyler Perry seen this completely confused. They are trying to get back in contact with the people that they worked with, but they're like there's no way this would be happening because we came and did the $250,000 donation directly to that office that people are holding as,

the office that is saying that if it was not able to be dispersed, someone would have given us a call and no one had. So as of right now, exclusively I could tell you guys that Tyler Perry team and Tyler Perry are telling me that they've been able to give out these gift cards via an assistant federal security director at the airport at land of the Hartst Road, Jackson International Airport. Story is developing. I'm literally waiting on a call back just because they wanted to call and just poke around because they're confused. And that happened last week, Friday. We went through a whole weekend,

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Every day you listen is another chance to win. You know Roll Doll, the writer who thought up Willie Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been. Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roll Doll, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life.

His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans. What? And he was really good at it. You probably won't believe it either. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you. I was a spy. Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelt's?

Played poker with Harry Truman and had a long affair with a congresswoman. And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock before writing a hit James Bond film. How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful? children's author ever, and what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids. The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote. Listen to the secret world of Roll Dahl on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckerd found himself at the center of a paternity scandal. The family

court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story. This began a years-long court to prove the truth. You doctored this particular test twice in so much. I doctored the test ones. It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case. I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for. Sunlight's the greatest disinfected. They would uncover a disturbing pattern.

Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg Alespian and Michael Naranini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trap. Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Americopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges.

This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're trying to keep up with everything happening on and off the court, we've got you covered on the podcast, flagrant and funny. You look at the top. four number one seeds. What do you think UCLA is going to do? Break down that for me, my friend. Obviously, Yukon is the overwhelming favorite in this tournament, but I'll be honest, I think people are kind of sleeping on Texas. Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to Yukon and that right after that would be Texas. S&C is so deep and so thick and just about

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Ten shots five, city hall building. A silver 40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene. From I-Heart podcasts and Best Case Studios, this is Worshack, murder at City Hall. How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that. July 2003, Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest. Both men are carrying concealed weapons. And in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead.

Now everybody in the chamber is docked. A shocking public murder. I screamed. Get down, get down. Those are shots. Those are shots. Get down. A charismatic politician.

You know, he just bent the rules all the time. I still have a weapon. And I could shoot you. And an outsider was a secret. He alleged he was a victim of flat down. That may or may not have been political. That may have been about sex. Listen to Roershack, murder at City Hall, on the IHeart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Other good news. Brandy, our girl, the lyrical Bible, okay? The Harmony Bible has received her star on the Hollywood Walkout. It's not the job. I feel like this is now overdue. I feel like she's had such a massive career and broken so many barriers and records and have amassed so much success that she should have been had a star in the Walker Fame.

But maybe that's just me feeling like that. But she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today in California with her family in attendance and Ida Ray and Babyface spoke on her we had and Brandy also spoke as well too. Let's think of a listen to Brandy accepts the star and just talking about how this is like a dream any day time. Back then I was just a little girl with a big dream, but growing up in Hollywood made those dreams feel close enough to touch. Seeing the stars on the walk of fame lit something in me.

It made me believe. it made me affirm over my own life I'm gonna sing my way onto one of these stars and I did that is what makes this moment so profound for me so full circle so sacred I am beyond grateful let me tell you all something okay

Moesha literally was one of the reasons I wanted to work at television I met Megan Good the other day not Megan Good but I saw Megan Good the other day she came by the breakfast club and I was telling her you on television brandy gabrieu union like y'all were the girls especially brandy and megan good brandy i'm trying to tell you that i used to sit up in my room sitting up in my own no pun intended i used to sit up in my room and write in my diary and talk to myself the same way bramie did on moisha when it came i wanted to

be moesia i wanted to live in california i wanted to go to school where brandy he went to school and go hang out at the den and just, you know, be able to walk in the house and say, what's up, what's up Uncle Frank? Like, I wanted that life because it was what you saw on TV. And it was cool. Like, her friends were like, you know, everybody had their thing. And they were performing and there were open mics and she was young and trying to figure it out. And then she goes and becomes Cinderella with Whitney Houston.

Brandy has literally been a living testament of representation matters before that was like the cool thing you said literally before that was the cool thing to say so it was amazing to see her get her star on the walk of fame but it was crazy at the same time because she was so like in awe and like shop and taken the back and I'm like girl you deserve about full five leon of these okay you have really inspired so many generations and not just in television but also

in music as well too let's take a listen to Issa Ray who spoke at the induction ceremony the walk of the walk of fame scar ceremony I thought it was so fitting for Issa Ray to speak because when you think about representation and television and doing things

your own way and storytelling and being you know the black girl in the space who's like really a black girl and really rap for us and tell the stories that are near and dear to our heart. The new age version of what Brandy did with Moisha was Easterail Institute. Let's take a listen to Easterail. The first time I saw Brandy, I had no idea how much I needed to see Brandy. I was in fourth grade when I want to be down came out and that single was the first tape I ever

bought. And when the brokenhearted remix came out on the school bus, I was so excited when it came on the radio. It came on the radio and I was singing it and I was sitting next to my crush and he was like, who sings this song? And I was like, Brandy proudly. And he was like, then let her sing it. So that was my first heartbreak.

Thank you, Brandy so much for that. Brandy is a star for so many reasons, but her transition to acting was a game changer. While her first official role was as Thea's daughter and Thea, it was really Moesha that made me understand what was possible. It was the first show that I'd ever seen told from an ordinary black teenage girl's point of view, set in LA,

the same city I was born in, and we'll move back to that same year it premiered. Brandy made Moisha someone I wanted to befriend, the girl I wanted to be at a time when beauty standards on television looked nothing like us. Brandy was the

standard. And then of course, baby face had to pull up, okay, because don't ever forget that my girl is the vocal bible period and if you have ever heard brandy live on a stage you understand why they call her that you understand it not live but seeing brandy perform live in concert with monica on the boy the boy's mind tour i remember watching her on that stage being like and it's so effortless like you know sometimes the singers you see them sing and it's like was like, all right. Like, you know they hang it.

You can see it. You can feel it. Brandy be hanging down and literally just be like jokingly like, belting out of tune real quick. It's so effortless. Like, I all the time think about whether talent like that, like Greenbee, Monica, you know, the girls of that generation, lyrically vocal, vocally sound by just the upper echelized of celebrity that they aren't.

If that even, like, well, we, I don't. I don't, I don't, a lot of things come back around. I don't know who will ever get there again. It was just a different time, man. Like, Brandy was acting, singing, Broadway. Like, I don't know if we ever get back there. Let's take a listen to Babyface. You've got to come in the music with Brandy.

I'm so honored to be here and speak for you. When I think of the first time I met you, I think was somewhere in 1995, We were on to a voice to men and baby face, and you opened up. You were this little girl that was opened up and singing, I want to be down. And I wanted to be down with you then, because you were amazing.

The voice that I heard, I didn't know that so much soul and so much good feeling could come out of someone so young. It's like you had already been here before. And when I finally got the opportunity to actually work with you on the Waiting to Excel project, which I have to tell you, when Whitney and I sat down, we went over a list of who we wanted to be on the album. And yours was the first name that came up,

that she said, I want Brandy on it. And she said because you had one of the best voices she had ever heard. For me, you have a very, you have. have one of the best voices I've ever heard. You give one of the best feelings I've ever heard. The soul that's in your voice, the way you move your voice. You're like an athlete, the way you can move your voice.

No one can do it the way you do it. Nobody can. Okay. Brandy, if you're listening, I've been saying it forever. I need to play you in a biopic. Okay. Hey, Swin. Congrats, Swin.

So excited for her. Oh, my God. That is, it's a goal of mine as well, too. And people always talk about the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I think nowadays it's not as like, oh, my God, right? Depending on the longer you're talking to, because now people know that, like, okay, it's paid for. And normally it's paid for by something. So, like, people do it when, like, they have movies coming out, and the movie budget will take care of it.

I know Brandy had, Brooke is my age. Brandy has her book phases coming out. So I don't know if maybe the marketing budget around. the book is making sure she gets her Hollywood Walk the Fame Scar because it's a talking point. It's a marketing point. It's a, you know, it gets the people going. And they bring in need of that, right? But it just puts you top of mind in the media and the press.

And it's just, you know, something that just, it looks great. It feels great. It's a moment for people to celebrate you. But it's also, it's a great press moment. It's so positive. People then remember, you know, all of your accolades. And it funnels down to whatever you're going on. So a brandy has her new book, Faze is coming,

and now she has a walk-a-fank star and thank God they didn't let Ray Diggin nowhere near to my head. I'm Lauren the Rosa. This has been another episode of the latest with Lauren Rosa. We daily dig on all things about culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shape the room. I tell you guys all the time, y'all could be anywhere with any old body talking about all of these things,

but don't choose to be right here to meet my lowriders. I'll see you guys. Also counting down the Black Effect Podcast. April 25th in Atlanta, I'll be hosting it. So I'll see you guys at the Black Impact Podcast Festival in my next episode. You know, Roald Dahl. He thought up Willie Wonka and the BFG. But did you know he was a spy?

In the new podcast, The Secret World of Roll Dahl, I'll tell you that story, and much, much more. What? You probably won't believe it either. Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you.

because I was a spy. Listen to the secret world of Roald Dahl on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twins, but the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax. You doctored this particular test twice, Ms. Ellen's, correct?

I doctored the test ones. It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg, a lesbian, Michael Mancini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young.

This is Love Trapped. Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Lori Siegel,

and on my new podcast, mostly human, I'll take you to some wild corners of the tech world. I'm about to go on a date with an AI companion at a real world cafe right here in New York City. There's no playbook for what to do when an AI model hallucinates a story about you. Mostly Human is your playbook for how tech can work for you. Anyone can now be an entrepreneur.

Anyone can build an app. And it's very empowering. Listen to Mostly Human on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that. A shocking public murder. This is one of the most.

dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics. I scream. Get down. Get down. Those are shots. A tragedy that's now forgotten. And a mystery that may or may not have been political. That may have been about sex. Listen to Roershack, murder at City Hall, on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're trying to keep up with everything happening on and off the court, we've got you covered on the podcast, flagrant and funny. You want to start with the first pleasure for the Big Ten coach of the year? Oh, whatever.

Would you like to? You're a Spartan, is that what I'm getting? Exactly. So whether your bracket is busted or you just want the real talk on what's happening during the tournament, open your free IHeart radio app, search plagiarine and funny with Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill. And listen now. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. This is an IHeart podcast.

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