The Breakfast Club - Klay Thompson and Meg Thee Stallion are official? + Uno’s entering the casino game

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

Loren talks Uno in casinos!! Are y’all traveling for Uno, who makes the house rules?? And Will Klay Thompson and Megan Thee Stallion survive the Summer?YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Our story, our lead story today in The Latest with Lauren LaRosa, we skipping behind the scenes of The Grind because, you know... -♪ Back, back, back on the grind, grinding... -♪ I really want to get to this because this right here, biggest news I've seen in some time. The latest right now is that UNO is coming to the casino y'all. So UNO is officially going to be a part of a casino experience in Las Vegas which is insane to me. So the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas is

going to be setting up its first ever, the first ever actually, in general, the first ever in a casino UNO Social Club. So to be off the strip in Las Vegas and after this happens, there's supposed to be more UNO clubs that are going to open across the US later this year and that's according to Mattel who owns the UNO brand. Now, it's unclear at this point if people who go into that UNO social club room will actually be able to gamble on the game, or if you'll just be in there playing or like, you know how it will work. But people are excited. OK, the people are excited.

I was asking friends in the room earlier, like, do y'all think that uno belongs in a casino? And when I tell you now, I'm a uno player and uno was such a big deal, like in college is always a big deal drinking game wise. But I've never seen people play uno for money. I know that it happens, but I've just never seen it. So I don't even know like what the rules are. Like, do you make money every hand you win or every game you win or like, I don't know. I just know that UNO is so y'all like UNO is one of like the most competitive games ever. Like spades is competitive as I don't know what in a black household, but I don't know if spades is diverse like if it's as the as adversely is that a word?

I don't know space It's competitive across the board like when you leave a black household when you leave the black function and you go elsewhere Are they as competitive about spades and you know how we do like we yelling we slam the cards down You know, yeah, I'm your uncle might not like each other at the end of the game Whoever brought the potato salad I hope it's's good, because if you're sitting down and you messing up and you reneging on spades, they're going to find that moment to pull your card about how bad your potato salad was. OK, spades is a thing, but Uno is a thing as well.

But I've never seen it in this matter, like even with spades. I've seen people gamble on spades, on, you know, Tunk on Pinoch on different you know, Tunk, on Pee-Nuck, on different card games, but never with this. So I was more so asking, not because the game isn't popular, but I was asking because I wanted to know, like, how do you get paid? Cause the point of going to the casino is to get paid,

and baby, they chewed me out. Okay? They chewed me out. But according to Newsweek.com, Uno is, I mean, I don't gotta tell y'all this number for y'all to know, everybody listening here has probably played Uno or experienced a serious Uno game where you knew, okay, this is life or death. But Newsweek is reporting that the Uno game is owned by an estimated 80% of American households and that's across like ethnicities and cultures and things of that nature

And they're citing this number according to the National Museum of Play Which dubbed UNO as America's favorite game now when I'm thinking about America's favorite game I'm thinking about UNO and I'm thinking about Monopoly because I feel like those two games kind of go hand-to-hand but Monopoly is kind of like a niche. Like you have to have a certain interest level in games and board games and taste to really get busy and get crazy with Monopoly. Uno is easy. Everybody plays Uno.

It's the easiest to teach, the easiest to play, and the easiest to carry around as well too because you just throw it in your pocket, throw it in your bag. So now these these social clubs inside of the casino will have you know just different themes to them as they pop up throughout the country later this year with different experiences as well. So I guess I kind of like testing this out. So different experiences in the bars as well. So the Palms Hotel said that you, each event will transform everyday hotspots into the ultimate game night destination

with Uno themed drink menus, tournament style play, photo moments and more. Y'all that is gonna be so fun. I don't know if y'all have ever had a drink night with Uno, like when you invite friends over, y'all chilling, y'all drinking or whatever, but it's gonna be so fun. Now the only thing that I'm trying to figure out is what will house rules be?

Because y'all know, if you've ever played UNO, the house rules matter so much. Like, can we stack cards? How does that go? So very interested in seeing what house rules will be for UNO and who decides them. And then once decided as these different Uno social clubs pop up throughout different states, does it change state to state? Because honestly, I feel like the group of people you're with in the state that they're in or where they grew up determines how they do a lot of things.

Included play Uno spades as well. But Uno for sure. Like the way that you're able to, cause some people have it where like you can't continue to put draw twos and then you can't put a draw four over draw two. You can't, um, Oh, you can't like double stack. Like there's a lot of different rules that you go in and out of. So interested to see all of that. I'm not a big casino person at all.

I was actually just in Atlantic city this past weekend and I did nothing in me ever wants to sit in the casino and gamble. First of all, casinos normally smell like cigarettes and I hate that smell, but I don't know. I'm just not a fan of losing money and the games are just not fun when it's all those people and there's so much pressure you're trying to figure out your money. I think Uno's gonna be a bit different. I really think Uno is gonna be a big difference especially because it's already competitive without the money. So it's like Okay, let me know what y'all are thinking though. How y'all are feeling are y'all traveling to go play uno? Cuz that's another thing too. If you're a real uno player and you really enjoy the game like for me

I'm just sitting here thinking like okay, I would love to experience it in Jersey in Jersey. Ooh, not in Jersey and Vegas I would love to experience it in Jersey, in Jersey, ooh, not in Jersey, in Vegas. But then I would love to kind of see what the vibe is like playing Uno in a casino in Miami. You know what I mean? Like just being able to compare the two locations and the drink menus and the rules and all the things. Now up next in the latest, this is a very hard right, but maybe not because a lot of people are trying to figure out we're speaking about playing games A lot of people are trying to figure out right now if our girl Meg the stallion is playing games with clay Thompson NBA player clay Thompson or if she is serious now, let me explain to you guys what I mean So news broke I wouldn't even say news broke Meg the stallion broke the news that she was dating clay Thompson broke, I wouldn't even say news broke, Meg the stallion broke the news that she was dating Klay Thompson sometime last week.

She posted a picture in a bikini. She was at the pool and boom, in the background of the photo, in a very far background of photo is Klay Thompson. We talked about this a bit on the breakfast club this morning as well. And then Klay Thompson posted a photo celebrating a street naming. And in that swipe through was Meg the stallion. So it confirmed that they were dating. Now let me get on into my opening line

when I came in here, right? I said, the people wanna know if Meg Thee Stallion is playing with Clay Thompson, because people feel like she's had several public relationships. And when I say relationships, I don't know if they're actually exclusively dating boyfriend, girlfriend, but she has been spotted with several very you know

people that people know toy Craig there was the The soccer player from overseas as well that she was at the wedding with like, you know, and listen This is how I feel about it. I feel like Our girl was dating that's a part of dating. You go out, you experience things with people, you know, you might let it get a bit serious until you discover that it can't be serious anymore and you can't move forward. Or if you're lucky, you move forward and it becomes a real thing and then you out the streets.

It's ghetto out here anyway. She ain't trying to be out here. Ain't none of us trying to be out here. But I think the reason why people are having a conversation, and they do this all the time with women, whenever a woman is dating, especially if she's high profile, if she's a high profile woman,

and she's dating men that are also high profile, it's like you can't be seen with anyone, but the one person you're gonna spend the rest of your life with. Lori Harvey also gets a lot of these critiques that I'm seeing Meg Thee Stallion get because Lori Harvey is a person who will date openly, who will leave a situation and move on

and get another boyfriend and that boyfriend be just as famous as the last. And it seems like Meg Thee Stallion is not afraid to do that either. And I understand people's like, oh my God, like, yo, we just seen you with Tori Craig on TikTok a year ago.

I get all that. I totally do. And I do think, you know, as I'm learning and navigating, and you know, things are in the public eye, one of the things that I'm learning is that, you know, who has access to you? Not learning. I knew it, but I think you consider it a lot differently when things change and people are, you have to begin really having a conversation

about why people are around you, or why you're giving access to certain people in certain ways. And in doing that and in having that conversation, you just get a lot more particular about who you're seeing with, who mom is meeting, who, you know, the family is meeting, things of that nature. And I think that that's the thing that comes with age and maturity as well, too.

It's like, you know, because for me, it's like I get it. Meg's day in, she's you know, she's doing her one, two. She's getting to know people and that's what you should do. But I think when you are a Meg the Stallion, even if you are seeing having a smile, OK, not even having a drink with, but just having a smile while in conversation with a mean and you are single Reports happen right so it is about just being particular just because you know if she's dating she's dating but being attached to everybody Or to do I want to say everybody because I mean we didn't see her date a few people announce everybody

That's that's unfair, but being attached to someone when you are a person of status is such a thing and on both sides the men that she's dealing with and they're choosing to be public with her it's a thing for them and it's a thing for her as well too so I understand people's pushback but then I also feel like what's wrong with Meg DeSylian being like hey I tried that that didn't work baby I'm moving on and I'm gonna try something else maybe it's something similar but it's somebody different I don't understand what the issue is anytime women choose to do that JLo not not similar per se because people people have this critique with JLo where they're like oh JLo is the

problem because you know she's been in very serious relationships and engaged, um, you know, several times and they haven't resulted in happily ever after. So she moves on and she tries again with someone else more recently been Affleck and that was their second time doubling back and people thought, you know, Ben and Jen 2.0 we thought that, you know, this was it and didn't work out. So then people start having a conversation about like, okay, is the woman the problem? Is it wrong for us to see a woman dating people?

Is she promiscuous? Is she, you know, all the things, all the things they like to throw at us because of that. So, you know, it's like on one hand, I understand the power of secrecy and mystery. That is where I'm at with things. But I also feel like, you know, more power to you if you want to publicly figure this thing out

with, you know, people as you date them and choose not to date them anymore. Cardi B recently talked a bit about this in one of her ex posts or her ex spaces when she was live on X. Let's take a listen to that. She made a really good point about women dating and the perception of on X. Let's take a listen to that. She made a really good point about women dating and the perception of women dating.

Let's take a listen. And I don't know why these men are calling me old type of sluts, old type of whores, old type of this, old type of that. I don't know, I was a stripper, but even when I was a stripper, I was cuffed. I had a boyfriend, I had a fiance. And even when he went to jail, I was loyal to him.

And everybody knows that. And after that, after that breakup, I got married and I was married for seven years and I didn't cheat it. And now I'm with a man that loved me down. So I don't understand why these are so but her and quantum you'll type of slut and I'm like a terrible this I'm a terrible, I'm a terrible whatever the like. I motivate to do better and be better and stay better. And that is a fact.

And like I said, I mean, Cardi talked about this, it's a fine line, right? Because Cardi mentioned she's always been in long relationships. She's all in and she's she with Offset for, you know, six or seven years. They've been together for some time. But the minute that you start dating or you deal with anyone else, you get the whole title thrown on you. You get all these things.

But when does a woman have a chance to really experience people to figure out what she wants and she doesn't want? And I don't think that you have to do that publicly. I think that honestly, I would much prefer it be in private before you pop out because now you done popped out, the labeling happens. We can't get around the fact that the labeling happens and that there is a stereotype.

But I do think that getting to experience someone in the public eye, seeing how they are when you take them into your environment, especially if you're a person of status, and that's public, these events or these outings or these whatever, even if that person is a celebrity themselves, you want to know that. And if I'm hiding, and we not hiding,

but if I'm keeping you no face, no trace, Mr. Wizard Kelly, forever, I don't know what that element is like. And then when we do it, it's like, but I do think there should be disdain around at what point that happens. And I don't know Meg's system, you know, I think, you know, women, you know, and y'all let me know, chime in,

take it to the streets, to the tweets, make sure you at me at Lauren LaRosa, let me know what your dating system looks like. For me, I had to develop it. I had never, as an adult, dated. I was in a relationship for a very long time, which I didn't realize, like, okay, I went from a senior in high school

all the way through college up until, like, what, like two years ago, for real, dealing with the same person, and even on the outs of that person, there was no real dating happening because I was still very much attached to that person. So what was happening, I wouldn't consider dating for real. So once I moved forward from that, I had to realize and have a conversation with myself.

Like, I didn't even know how to date. I didn't, I didn't know how to date. I didn't know how to, you know, be in public with another person. And that was something I wanted to experience. So I had to take the chance of like, okay, let's go in public then. Okay, let's go on dates then.

Let's figure this out. Things are a lot different now than when I first started this, you know, whole dating season of life. Um, because things weren't as elevated, you know, I didn't have a million low riders listen to the podcast every day. Um, but you know, now that I've gotten to a point where like I'm dating more seriously and intentionally and I'm focused more seriously and intentionally, and I'm focused not on a bunch of different people, one of the things that I've enjoyed is I love that people don't have access to me.

I love that the person that I'm focused on is what I'm focused on, and we're seeing where that goes. I think intentionality is what I'm speaking to, and I've begun to enjoy that a lot more, whereas before it wasn't there like it, you know, I know you're getting all crazy, but I did feel like I needed to experience people and things to be able to know what my boundaries were. It's like when you go bowling for the first time.

If you don't know that they have bumpers and I just going put them up for you. You have to know to ask for that. So I had to learn what I like what I don't like what I'm okay with so I knew what to ask for and I knew what had to learn what I like, what I don't like, what I'm okay with. So I knew what to ask for, and I knew what to say, hey, I don't want this when it's presented or when I'm dealing with it. So it's a hard space to be in, you know what I mean? Like, I just feel like as women sometimes we just can't win.

The people love to hate Meg DeSoggen anyway. We just being honest. Ever since, you know, everything with Tory Lane, they love to hate Meg DeSoggen. So she in So she you know that I don't think that's something she'll ever get around at this point unfortunately But when it comes to other women like a JLo or a Cardi B Or you know anybody that you can think of out here dating It's like man. We can't even kiss the frog cuz if we get a frog if we get we get one too many frogs Now we in our City

Girl era and y'all gotta have a whole conversation about this. It's like, I gotta kiss the frogs and know when I met the prince. Because then when I get the prince, I know exactly what to do with him. I know exactly how to treat him. Boom. You for the truth. We outside, we outside, we outside, outside in the tree. Every other page are gold. Let me know what y'all are predicting. You know, will Meg Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson make it through the summer? Will they stay together?

Is this a forever thing? Is this just a fun thing? Because I think, you know, that's it as well too. It's like, you know, you do gotta realize that eventually if things aren't sticking, it's just young and it's fun. And you know, some women are okay with that, some aren't. Let me know what y'all think at me,

at Lauren LaRosa everywhere. At the end of the day, I always tell you guys, there's a lot to talk about and y'all can be anywhere with anybody talking about it. But my low riders, y'all choose to be right here with me and I appreciate y'all for it. I will catch you guys in my next episode. And don't be all ready to run with my princess,

either mind your business. I will catch you guys in my next episode and don't be all worried about who my princess is either my job isness.