The Breakfast Club - Girl, Get Up (Updates on Nick Reiner and Doechi vs Tyla)

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

Lauren LaRosa returns from Ghana with a renewed sense of purpose, pride, and clarity — breaking down how the trip reshaped her view of Black history, power, and possibility. She unpacks Dolce’s “Girl Get Up” as her official anthem of 2026, the industry backlash surrounding Black women in success, and why colorism and gatekeeping still dominate the conversation. Plus, Lauren covers the dismissed $5M lawsuit between Mary J. Blige and Misa Hylton with an exclusive statement, and delivers the latest updates in the disturbing Nick Reiner case — including his attorney stepping down and what that could mean moving forward. This episode is about legacy, resilience, truth, and refusing to shrink in a world that profits from your doubt.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know if you don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa. This is your daily dig on all things, pop culture. entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. Wow, guys, we are back in the studio. Some applause added right here.

Man, I haven't been in the studio in like, it's been some weeks. The break was, I don't know, it was good. It was really, really good. I don't really normally, like, take breaks per se. Just because I think, I don't know, I feel like out of mind. I feel like if in this world of like pop culture and things as they happen, that things happen so fast that if you're too unattached and too out of office, you'll miss so much. So, I mean, I did take a break technically.

So like if you guys follow me anywhere on social, you know, like I'm posting stories. I'm doing a ton. I took a step back and didn't do as much. I still did something, still posted, you know, some stories here and there, you know, just things that I saw or, you know, exclusives and some. breakdowns. I know we did the break the break. I know we did the Drake, Aiden Rawes and state um civil lawsuit. Uh, it's and if you want to go and read all the about I won't even get into that because now we're like weeks out from that. It's, it's, you know, it's pretty late at this point.

But, um, we were, you know, a few of the first outlets. I was like probably the second outlet, maybe the third. Um, I would say, though, one of the first major outlets that I saw covering that lawsuit, which is it's a class action lawsuit, but in that class action lawsuit, there are two, and we talked about this on the podcast, so, you know, we won't go back in death. But that lawsuit, we talked about it over the break. That's one of the stories that we broke. I also received, within the last like 24 hours, I received a statement from Lisa Hilton, who is the former best friend for over 30 plus years of Mary J. Blige, and also shares a child with Sean Diddy Combs. her son Justin Combs is

Diddy's son. She had been suing Mary J. Blige for some allegations of bad business practices for $5 million. That lawsuit was recently dismissed. So we did that as well before returning here to the pod and we'll talk about that a bit today. So you might have solved those

and I was checking in as much as I could while traveling. I was in Ghana trying to do as much as I could. I didn't want you guys to kind of sell out on me and just be hearing a lot of the same things you've already heard already. I know every single day we get new downloads, we get new viewers.

So new to some, old to others. But I was checking in. And Ghana was like, man, it was, I always want, like, I've always said like, okay, I wanted to visit certain places. You know, Africa being one of those places. And I'm open to going to so many different places, you know. in Africa, but starting with Ghana, I think, was like the best thing that I could have done. Just a life-changing trip in general. And you know what's crazy is when I, like, whenever I hear people talk about, like,

vacations that they've had, especially ones where, like, they're going and they're, like, connecting with, like, their roots and, like, their ancestors and stuff like that. And they say, like, oh, it's life-changing. For me, in my mind, I'm always thinking, like, oh, there must have been, like, this super, super, super deep, crazy, spirit. true experience. And I think, and I know that you do get that, you do get a sense of that. The minute that you return anywhere that you instantly just feel like you belong. Because that was like a crazy experience in itself. And I suggest that anybody that is

able to travel to Africa, black people, you need to go. Man, like I've been trying to get there for, I think it's been like three years now. and it was a birthday gift for my boyfriend for us to be able to go for the holiday. And like, what I thought the spiritual experience was, whenever I heard people say like, oh, you know, going back, going to Africa changed me or like, whatever. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be. And when I say that, I just mean the spiritual experience itself was just being there and just being. Like, it's so weird to say that.

And when I've ever, ever, ever heard people say that, I've always been like, what the hell? Like, what type of mushrooms? Like, are y'all smoking? But literally landing there and just seeing black, like, it's just black people everywhere. And then, I don't know, like, when you travel out of the country, not even out of the country, there's places in the U.S. When you travel to them as a black person, you know, like, okay, I'm here, but, like, this wasn't built for me. Like, and if it was built for me, it wasn't, it wasn't continued in that way, because I believe we built a little bit of everything, but it wasn't continued in that way. Like, you, you feel like the outsider.

There's like that whole minority majority conversation, right? Like, you feel like, it's just, I can't even put it into words, y'all, like, it's just a different feeling. Landing somewhere that already feels like home. Like, I never felt like I was visiting somewhere. Like, I felt like I'd been there already. And I kept seeing that. Like, people that I was meeting in Ghana who were like, because everyone gets so excited when you're there and you tell them like, it's your first time there because they want

black people to come to Africa and experience it and connect and get reconnected and, you know, just all these different things. But when people would ask me, like, how was the trip or how's your first experience here? I would literally say like it feels like I've already been here before. And that alone is like such a spiritual experience because I think the only other time I've been somewhere and I felt like, oh, I'm supposed to be here and I've already been here and I'm instantly just comfortable was being on an HBCU campus. Those were the only two times.

Like the whole trip I was trying to liken it to something or like another place that I've traveled or, you know, just the feeling that I felt when I was there. I was trying to make it make sense to explain it to other people as they were asking me. My friends in the U.S. wanted to know how it was going, what the feeling was, you know, all these things. And I was like kind of the only other thing I could remember, the only other time in my life I could remember, not being somewhere new and having to put up such a guard and a wall and make sure like I'm walking the right way. I'm posture the right way. I'm this. I'm that.

I'm presenting. I'm walking in the room the right way. I'm speaking the right way. I'm this. like the only other time I've had to not worry about all that was walking on the hbc u you campus because it was i mean it's not africa you but it's the same thing of like you're surrounded by people who look like you who feel like you who identify with you even though these people obviously like you know we've grown up you know culturally very different but like

have we um i don't know it just it was it was an open experience um i will be uploading some audio from my tour that I did of the Cape Coast Castle. I wanted to put it in this episode. I don't know how much we'll be able to put in. So we had a tour with Rabbi Cohen. And Rabbi Kohen is a man who is from, he's actually from New York, but he left New York. He told me like in the 90s. And when we did our tour with him of the Cape Coast Castle, which, you know,

know they're the slave castle so there's various slave castles um in gana on the gold coast of west africa uh now gana um where black people were enslaved and these you know black people were put it was it's literally like a penitentiary penitentiary like they were put in bondage they were thrown in dungeons and dark rooms and just housed as like cattle until they were put on a boat and shipped. Like they literally walked through the door of no return and just never came back. So you get to experience, you know, and see so many things. I want you to guys to hear a bit of the audio.

And if you like what you hear, I will be uploading a bonus episode that is strictly just my conversation with Rabbi Kohen as we were doing our tour through the Cape Coast Castles in Ghana, which can also be. called forts or I don't even know because he made a good point like I don't call it the castle because the people that were here weren't treated like queens and kings you know what I'm saying and I'm like yeah I feel that I didn't even think about like why do they call it a castle so let's take a listen to rabbi Kohen and this is where we started our tour just take a listen you know a warning it does get pretty heavy take a listen the canons couldn't get them

So the thing was about competition. White people fought to get a piece of Africa. Because having a piece of Africa meant the source of their wealth. Europe had been the poorest continent that the world had ever seen before. Because Rome was not considered a part of Europe like that, and neither was Greece. They were the Mediterranean. So the Europeans were the poorest people in the world until they came in contact with Africa. And they came down here, every European nation wanted the peace of Africa. So you have the English here, in Omena, you had the Dutch, and the Elwayland, you had the Germans.

You had in this small spot here. So every European nation needed a piece of Africa to get rich, just like Africans now are trying to get to America. Africans will go anywhere in the world but Africa, because they want money. They don't need no more sunshine. They don't need no more richer earth. They want money. So because of money, they would travel anywhere. Well, 500 years ago, white people were coming from all over Europe trying to get.

get to Africa to get money. And now the whole thing is shifted around. And because we don't know ourselves, white people, Chinese people, they come here with no money and they leave here rich. And Africans are trying to leave here to get money. Because they've changed our whole government around. They changed our whole education around. They changed our whole church around so our mind is not correct. How we even see ourselves? So in Krumah was the first one to come back and try to open that up because Krumer spent 10 years with us in America. When Krummer, when Krummer, to America's name was Francis. When he came back here, he was Kwamey. Because he came and got Africanized with us, even though he was born in Africa. So George Padmore, W.V. Du Bois,

all of him, he sat under all their feet, John Hendrick Clark. And he came back and said, no, I'm going to light this fire in Africa. That's why a lot of people in his hometown didn't even understand him. Because he came back different, talking with fire, with his hands, and talking and excited, they didn't know he was possessed or what? Because he'd been over to the U.S. and got that fire and said, I'm coming back to Africa, I'm free my people. But because we don't have our own schools, we don't even teach that here.

We don't even teach that the black star come from Marcus Garvey and gone as swag. The black star come from, we think it's a football team. We think it's an airline. When that is the liberation star of liberating the black man. The colors are Ethiopian colors, because Ethiopia is the only African nation never colonized.

So Kwame and Kuma and Kuma said, I don't need the thing in no, we've got colors already. colors of Ethiopia. We only put the black star in it. So now they destroyed Holly Salasi. They destroyed the royal line of Judah and Ethiopia. They've destroyed our minds. We still don't getting taught to the next generation will know these things. In spite of the horrible conditions, they could have honorably chose suicide. They could have honorably taken, put their life in line for danger just not to go through another day of this horror. But there was some

that chose to live and not die. And that's why we are. are. We only exist because of their choice of that. And I always say it's because of that choice that we have to make a covenant amongst ourselves that our greatest contribution to our ancestors is to live our life to its full potential and never accept mediocrisy or failure as an option. You can't just survive to be mediocre people and say that our ancestors suffered for that, for us to act a fool. We owe it to continue to struggle until we're totally victorious because they chose to live and not die so that we can be. You want to know what my evenings actually look like?

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and just really be like, it was another, like, it was a grown-up spark of, of, uh, Yeah, I mentioned going to HBCU, but I always tell people that going to an HBCU made me realize, like, why the world needed me and why being black in the world was, like, my, like, freaking, that was my superpower, right? And going to Africa as an adult who has been navigating throughout the world and figuring out things for myself and figuring out, like, who I am and why I am this way

and like what imprint I want to leave on the world and who I want to show up as every single day in the world and with the people that I love and people I don't know, strangers, like all that stuff, right? All the things that you think about, I think especially as a black person in America, I don't know about, you know, anybody else listening that's black or watching that's black, but for me, I'm all, like,

I feel like I stress myself out thinking about what am I doing today that is going to make it easier for my children, for my niece. And I think that that's a common thought that any person, yellow, green, white, black has. But for me, I've always felt like the pressure was like really, really immense and the stress was really, really immense because, you know, my mom and my grandmother have done really well in the fact of like, God forbid, anything happens to them.

I'm not starting at zero, right? But I'm also not starting at a lot of what other people that are. that I know. You know, I have friends whose parents, and black people too, whose parents have done very, very well for themselves. And, you know, and we've always had a conversation about, like, you know, reparations and what that would have looked like if black people had been able to actually acquire that in the way that they should have.

And how that would have trickled down to generations in that in comparison to other races in America. So for me, I'm always, like, really, really like, I think every, single day. There's not a day that I don't think about. Is what I'm doing today going to put my niece and my children in a position where if they are uncomfortable, if they feel like they have to belittle themselves, if, you know, they are struggling, if like just anything, they don't have to get it out the mud. I, like, I want, oh my gosh, like when I tell you guys, I just feel like, you know, we have contributed so much to this world to get it out the mud. But get it out the

thing is tired. I'm not bringing that in the 2026 and I'm not bringing that into my children's lives nor any generation that is attached to me in my family. Like you will not have to get it out of the mud because we didn't start from slinging mud. We started as these queens and these kings who were figuring things out with our hands and building like worlds. And being in Africa makes you think about that and put all that into perspective. And then it makes me think about like to be honest with y'all like one of the things i was thinking about while i was going through all of the tours and not even just the educational stuff that we did there throughout that tour but just partying in ghana and getting to see people's homes and the massive amount of wealth that some of these people

have and oh my god i'm like yo they lied to us like i'm sure you know like everywhere else there is poverty there and everywhere else too but man we were in a new year's eve party with a men young about my age who was going to do wealthiest men in the country owned hotels like and I mean like the major hotels like think about a black person in America 33 34 years old owning the MGM grand casino and hotel like that is how wealthy like former presidential candidate I'm going to look up his name actually hold on the oh wait he's 45 he's 45 he's He does not look 45. Like, I thought he was my age.

This man looks so much younger. In person, he looks. The pictures I'm looking at online, he looks a little bit older, but we, I didn't meet him. I went to a New Year's Eve party for Bozeman St. John. I told you guys about that party. We heard some audio from that party as well in one of the prior episodes when I was live from Ghana.

So please go take a listen to that. But yeah, Nana Kwami. He, real estate owner, developer, entrepreneur, and he owns a hotel. in Ghana, it says here that he is 45 years old. I thought this man was like 34. But just being around someone who has masked that amount of wealth in Ghana and like seeing him out every single day on the street and like, I don't know, it was just like a, I would say it was eye opening, but I feel like that doesn't do it justice.

It was very much like, it made me think about the things that we give two shits about over here. And to be honest with y'all, I left Ghana feeling like embarrassed. It's like, yo, there's so much greatness that we have within us that we could be doing. And some of the things we are sitting and taking our time and doing for the love of TikTok in the stream in the chat is crazy. Like, I literally, that's one of the things that I thought about so much when I was there. I'm like, yo, we are embarrassing.

Like, what are we doing over here? And not that you're not going to get people, you know, trying to go viral on TikTok. everywhere, right? Any country, whatever the case may be. What I'm saying is, is that I went there and I felt like, yo, we are great. We are so much greater than we even. I think that there is, of course, that sense of, you know, black pride. But being in a place where it's like, your people who came before you didn't just like roll over and take anything. They fought. They fought not to be enslaved. Even those people that we talked about in the castle at the Cape Coast castle, they fought. Their story was not that they were just there and they just like

bend it to the wheel of whatever. No, they fought. People built, you know, economies from nothing. Figured out gold and land and so much from nothing. And we have so many resources here and we still find ways to get online and be like, we don't have this, we don't do that, we can't do this, we can't do that. I sort of started to feel like to like, I understood why during the endemic everybody, I was like, I'm going to move back to Africa. It's so free there. Like, I don't know. It's just a different feeling. You want to know what my evenings actually look like?

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Dochi and Siza released their song is Dochi's song, but Siza is feature on it. It's called Girl Get Up. That song, that is the song of my 2026. I don't know how much. we can put in this in this episode just because of copyright but that song is my song of 2026 now granted i'm not going to get into all the bullshit i'm not going to and y'all don't really

cussing here but it was needed at that point in that moment i'm not going to get much into it but speaking of a lot of like just BS there's been a big conversation around doche for some time to be honest it wasn't just you know aiden ross who was trying to make it seem like you know Don't deserve what she had going on. But he is one of the big people, not big people. He is one of the people with a platform that has begun to amplify that conversation. And I know that I saw him and Takashi 69, who I don't even understand why we are still even talking about him, honestly.

Like, I think that his time for certain things has come and went, but I get it. He has platform. And, I mean, I don't got nothing against the, against. against him but when it come to certain things I'm like why do we let certain people who we know can't even stand on their own tent toes about what they have going on dictate how we look at and talk about other people right so they put out of this song to dochi uh aiden ross feels like dochi was coming for him um and some things that she had released prior but the song girl get up quiet all of that noise and one of the things that she says in the song she says this wouldn't

even be a conversation and I'm paraphrasing because I don't know word for word yet but this is my song of 2026 basically what dochi is saying is if the it girl if the girl that was on top and killing this shit right now wasn't a black girl if the it girl wasn't a black girl this wouldn't even be a conversation and I am not targeting her I am not pinning women against each other I'm about to have a really honest conversation with y'all about what we witness with tyla when Tyler, very talented, beautiful girl, you know, her hits came and they were moving, going. And yes, she was getting industry plant conversation a bit. You know, people were having that whole thing.

And I do remember people trying to have the conversation about, okay, she's been able to be positioned very well. Is it she has the right team behind her? And shout at her to her team, I know someone that works with her who is really good at what she does. So I know she has a great team behind her. but when a woman like a Tyler who is obviously lighter skinned um hair texture a lot different right when that happens and her success is going crazy there's always this conversation about like is this able to are we able to have this as a thing and as a as a simulation as a model of fast track to success whether you're talented or not i'm not saying that tyla or dochi are not talented of course

i'm not saying that dochi like i just told you all that's my song of 2026. Dolce is one of the most talented people in this shit right now to me. And I'm not knocking Tyler either. But what I'm saying is, every time there's like this like

spurt of success, people always want to argue, shit, it happens with me. People always want to argue whether you deserve it or not, whether it's hyped or not. But people can't do what you do on a day-to-day basis. So I would never take anything away from either one of these ladies. I want to make that very clear because I hate what people do it to me.

But I do want to bring in this conversation. When Tyler's success was moving growing doing it was doing it was happening fast there was a conversation about how much her fair skin uh played into that they also tried to have the conversation with flow milly and they were comparing flow milly and the fact that you know she had full mili was doing well like she had the beats deal she had the songs she had a lot happening for her and then they were comparing her situation to like a ice spice situation who was a fair skin woman um and i think what the conversation is it's more about like the rise and the ability to rise and the support that you get as you're doing it

from like the brands from these major machines and dochi for me i feel like dochi is so fucking fire oh i'm cussing too much in this episode but i'm just so excited i'd be so excited by people like Don't you because I think real art is winning. Real art is back and people are so pissed off. And I, oh, I love to see it. I love real talent, like getting what it deserves on major platforms and major, like, all this stuff. I hate the hate that comes with it.

So I hate what we're seeing like the Aidan Ross and all those people do, especially because she's a black woman. And let's be honest, I don't care, because he's saying that like, he only came at her because she came at him. I don't care who came what, when, where, last, first, second, barely came, don't come at all, whatever. Whenever a white man is in any position to disparage talk down on, call a black woman, all types of beads, and like, whatever, it's never going to fly well. And it shouldn't. Like, it just shouldn't, right?

I think, though, my point is, is that we always have these conversations about, like, race. and skin tone and skin color and, you know, lighter skin this and darker skin that. And I think it's just dope to see Dochi just not be stopped by that and just create and talk to you about it. Like this song, she's really talking about like, yo, listen, y'all can say whatever y'all want to say. The album is here. It ain't going nowhere.

Like, it's so, like, it did what it needed to do. and you are still mad. This is my life. Like she posted this and her caption was Life Update. It was just so effortless. It was such an effortless like, I hear y'all. I don't really feel y'all though. I see y'all, but y'all don't really see me because if y'all really saw me,

y'all would understand that all of this greatness over here, you're not going to stop this. You can't, and I'm not going to let you. And I know that, like, Dochi used a vlog. I've seen some of her past YouTube videos where she, was talking about, you know, just the different things she was going through life and whatever. People try to make it seem like this girl came out of a, like a dark shadow on Monday and was, you know, Kendrick Lamar's favorite for the year by Friday.

It didn't happen like that. There's literally video proof of this girl going through it, like barely affording to make it day by day because she was trying to chase this dream of things, right? No one ever cares about that type of stuff, though. It doesn't matter. And that's why I'm glad she handled it the way she did with this fly-ass song and visual and snacking you back in your face with her talent. And gearing the conversation to what really matters, the fact that it doesn't matter if you think that she should have it.

God gave her to her anyway. And she's going to keep showing you why he did. Oh, my God. Please take a listen to that song. Like, that is the song of 2026. Girl, get up. Oh, my gosh. I want to have a conversation.

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In music news, Marrije Blige. So Mary J. Blige was being sued by a former best friend, Misa Hilton. Misa Hilton is like fashion icon. She was stuck on the sidest side. or architect side. A lot of people from her day will call her one of the architects of, you know, it girl style. We're talking about it girls. One of the architects of it girl style. Misa Hilton, you know, famously styled Little Kim for some time. And style Little Kim, one of the biggest moments in her career that I can easily point to that a lot of you guys would know when Little Kim went to the

Met Gala. She was styled by Misa Hilton. Little Kim at that time was the first rap female rap artist invited to the Met Gala. She's done some big huge moments in fashion. Has been friends with Mary Gia Blage all of this time up until

these recently things have fallen apart obviously because they ended up in a lawsuit against each other. And she also has a son with Sean Cuddy Combs. Now, Misa Hill had some time back, we did an exclusive interview with her attorney, a guy named Nick, who told me that Misa was suing Marri J. Blige because there was a breach

of contract. Marri J. Blige and Misa Hilton were doing some business in regards to a music artist named Votto, a New York based music artist named Votto, and some things went wrong. So let's take a listen to what Nick told us a while ago. That lawsuit has now been dropped. A judge said, look, you made all these claims. She's talking to Misa Hilton. The judge says, Meese and Hilton, you've made all these claims, and when it was time for you to defend all these claims, claims, which are very serious claims, you're claiming millions of dollars and damages to your business and, you know, things of that nature. When you had to, you know, when the kitchen got hot, it was time for you to show and prove you, the judge says, the judge alleges that she abandoned her responsibility to do so. so the judge dismissed this filing. Mary J. Blige had asked for it to be dismissed.

She said that it was frivolous. And then, you know, the judge came back in and said, you know what, I'm going to dismiss it because there are certain deadlines that haven't been met. And the judge was really upset about that because, you know, once these things are put in the court, especially when you're dealing with parties, you know, both of these parties are very well-known in pop culture.

It's going to pick up. It's just not something that, obviously, the judge is too excited to have any people, in time on if you're not going to go all the way through with it. Now, I did reach out to Misa Hilton. Once the news of this lawsuit being dropped was released, because, you know, we had kind of heard from Mary J. Blige's side in her last filing. When Mary J. Blige filed a response to Misa Hilton's original lawsuit and she said that

this was just made up, this is Mary J. Blige alleged this whole thing, this lawsuit was just filed to basically harass her, that it was frivolous. She claimed a ton of things. We heard from Mary in that answer. So now that this was dropped, I reached out to Mesa just to see if there was anything that she wanted to say, and she gave me a statement. So Misa Hilton says in response to the Mary J. Blige lawsuit that she had filed being dismissed by the court, she says over the years there have been people very close to me who

have hurt me deeply, and I chose not to pursue them, even when I could have. That reflection led me to ask myself, why would I choose a different path for someone I once caught my sister? Through this experience, I learned that mixing family, friendship, and business is not always wise, and that even in painful moments, there are meaningful lessons to be learned. While I don't agree with everything that was done, I chose peace. This entire ordeal has taken a significant toll on my mental health and has caused me to reflect deeply on life, memories, relationships, and their true purpose and meaning. I pray for healing for all of us.

Case code. Um, sad thing to see. I think anybody who knew the relationship just as a pop culture fan, knowing the relationship of Misa Hilton and Mary J. Blige in that time period and like everything that they were able to, you know, even, you know, Misa working with her as a stylist and, you know, everything that they were able to cultivate during that, that, that, that, you know, bad boy era, just style-wise, look-wise. Um, and everything I'm sure they probably went through together.

But being friends for that long and going through everything that they have, um, it's kind of like a folk tale, like hearing of their friendship. And then now it's just not anymore. And it ends in a dismiss lawsuit. Nick Reiner, uh, the son of Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner,

uh, you know, famed director and actor in Hollywood. Uh, it's been alleged that Nick Reiner killed his parents, Rob Reiner and Michelle Ryner in their home. Uh, very gruesome situation like oh my god like literally it's being a leisure he slit their

throats with a knife um but his legal team has pled or they plan to enter in or and continue to enter in these pleas of not guilty uh uh it's been you know assumed that they would do it based on like insanity and you know just some things that have been um said about you know just where nick riner's mental state was at the time because of medicines that he was or wasn't on and there's a lot happening over there but most recently his famed attorney alan jackson who was the attorney who got karen reed off of the case uh for allegedly killing her boyfriend who was the police officer in boston has stepped down as his attorney and when he became his attorney i was like how the heck is he affording him i mean i know he's the son of rob reiner michel reiner but like

I don't know what he was doing outside of just being our son. And I know that he had had some drug issues and, like, you know, different things that he had talked about over the last couple of years. So I just didn't know work-wise, like, what he had been doing to be able to retain such a high-powered attorney. And now this attorney has had to step off the case and will not say why he has had to step off the case. He's just saying that these, you know, things are beyond Nick Reiner's control. But he is 100% confident that under the law in California, Nick Reiner will be found. not guilty. So it does sound to me, if I'm predicting, that they're going to lean into that

pleading not guilty for, you know, purposes of insanity. But there's a lot more that's going to be unveiled here and that we're going to be seeing in the next coming days. He'll be headed into court within coming weeks with now a public defender. So we'll be back in court. I mean, we left court because Mary J. Blas's situation was dismissed. And we'll be right back into court because there's a lot still with this Nick Reiner situation. You guys know that we've been following that very closely here at the latest with Lauren the Rose of the podcast. So I'll keep you guys updated in our in our upcoming episodes. We are back, baby.

It's 2026, girl, get up. Okay? Let that greatness shine and glisten all over everybody. That is the energy that we are given all year. And I am, like, I am so dedicated to keeping that energy, that vibe and all of this, like, sense of being that I just walked into at the dawn of 2026 and Ghana all year and for the rest of my life, okay? And I'm breaking the spirit this year.

So I hope you guys feel the same way. I will see you guys in my next episode, Lowriders. I tell you every single episode you guys are here with me listening to all these things. You could be anywhere with anybody hearing them talk about it. But you choose to be right here. And I appreciate you guys for that. I will catch you in my next episode. episode. In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you. Don't let them down. Unlock elite gaming tech at Lenovo.com.

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