The Breakfast Club - Oprah's Biggest Confessions + LeBron's Miami Mystery
Episode Date: July 22, 2026This week, Loren breaks down Oprah's powerful conversation with Keke Palmer—from why she never married or had children to the lessons that shaped her career, faith, and billion-dollar legacy. Pl...us, Loren shares her biggest takeaways as she reflects on building her own platform and finding balance while chasing success. Also in this episode: the internet is buzzing after the Miami Heat accidentally posted a "LeBron James introductory press conference," fueling speculation about his NBA future. Was it just a mistake—or a major hint?YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Back on the grind.
So checking it behind the scenes of The Grind today.
I don't know why today felt a bit,
and I'm literally only speaking for today.
Normally it's like a general consensus
of like how I've been feeling
or like follow up to things that we've talked about
within the space.
But I don't know.
Today was like a flustered feeling.
I am really trying to figure out
how to balance or make the most time
out of the weekdays, man, 34 years old.
And I'm just realizing like, yo, you are really an adult.
Like, you are the new adult out here.
And it is insane to me that that is so.
I don't know how our parents had all the time to, like, work, do homework,
probably at your school, whenever the teacher called home,
actually have a life of their own.
Like, now that I'm thinking back on it, I'm like, yo, did my mom ever really
have a life of her own after she had me and my brother are like did her life just like fully shift
and that was not a thing because I can't imagine having children right now to all of the parents
out there that are listening to the podcast hopefully this is y'all like daily fix of something
that like is yours that you can do without the babies all up in you mama need this mom I need that
because I got to give it to y'all I don't understand I can't fathom how you guys do it like
the parents who, you know, I mean like full time, full time parents.
Like this morning, I woke up and was just like getting ready for work headed in.
And I was thinking about everything that I set out to accomplish the night prior to prepare for my day, the following day.
And in the midst of some of that, I literally fell asleep and woke up and it was time to go to work again.
And I'm like, man, like, Beyonce got these same 24 hours.
and she became an icon, a billionaire.
So I know I can do it, but Lord have mercy.
The process of figuring out what that flow is,
because I don't think that there's ever really a balance.
I've said this before.
I think it's like a flow state you get into where, you know,
it's like discipline and, yeah, like I just trying to figure all of that out
while also trying to imagine, like, what it would be like,
once I'm married and I have kids and, like,
where they fit into this lifestyle.
Yeah.
And honestly, one of the reasons why I think I probably fell asleep and woke up thinking about that is because of a conversation that we're actually going to talk about in the latest with Lauren the Rosa today.
Oprah.
Oprah and Kiki Palmer were having a conversation.
And they got into the fact that Oprah has never married, never had children.
So we'll get to that.
And the latest, just want to let you know where my mind was at as I check in a bit.
but I'm doing these things now
and I've talked about this before on the podcast too
where when my days feel like this
I just like no I need to take a second
and like slow my day down so
once I wrap work for the day
I'm gonna have me a little
session of like I just need to shut everything
off for about 30 minutes to
an hour
and maybe it's an anxiety thing
too I've never knew that I'd even
dealt with anxiety but when I hear people describe
anxiety and what that feels like
I think that's what I like feel sometimes
when I feel this way.
Like, everything just feels so like
like, ah, like, flustered.
Like, I'm, you all know those images of, like,
somebody sitting in a chair that spins all the way around
and, like, they're just spinning, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin,
like, literally my days feel like that sometimes.
Today was one of them.
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Now, the Miami Heat, speaking of conversations and things going a little crazy, Miami Heat is under some fire right now.
Not really under fire, but they are a topic of conversation right now because there was a YouTube link or a YouTube video that was made public on their YouTube channel.
And I don't think they should have made public.
And I'm going to tell you why.
So they posted a link to a scheduled live stream.
And the live stream was titled LeBron James introductory press conference.
Now, you guys know, for those of you guys who aren't like big sports, you know, enthusiasts.
And again, y'all probably likes sports.
Like we rarely talk about sports here on the podcast.
But when we do, it's when it's something that bleeds into pop culture and to conversation.
LeBron James is that.
So LeBron James announced that he is no longer.
are going to be doing any more seasons with the Lakers that he's going to be a free agent.
He's going to try to figure out a new team to go to.
He got a chance to play with Brani, and now he's trying to figure some things out.
There's always been a conversation, not always, but in the last, I would say, like, maybe
five to six years, there's been a conversation about LeBron and retirement and when it's
going to happen.
And, you know, what would be that, like, final nail in the coffin that, like, made it
happened or how it would look like when it happened.
A lot of people do believe him announcing that he wanted to leave the Lakers, because he's
he said before that playing with Bronny was like on his list of things to do before he got
up out of here as far as I got about out of the game and retired.
And he's done that.
We got to see that on the court, those moments.
But a lot of people have been trying to figure out, you know, what that would look like.
I think for a lot of people, they thought that it would happen while he was on the Lakers.
But now we know that that is not the case because there are a few prospective teams that people believe LeBron.
LeBron might be considering one of them being.
the Cavaliers, which is where it all began for him.
Another being Golden State,
where you have Steph Curry and Jermont Green,
and people were like, okay, that could be like a trifecta.
And then you also have Philly.
People think Sixers are in the conversation.
Now, in Miami, he posted this video, this link,
and it was followed by the date of July 27th.
It is July 22nd.
It's followed by the date of July 27th.
and they said a spokesperson came out for the team and said that this was a mistake.
They told Shams, who is a journalist over at ESPN, who always gets the exclusives,
I would love to actually talk to Shams, not because of like a love for sports,
but because of a love for the craft of like storytelling, breaking news, and he's so good at it.
Like I'm not an NBA or a sports.
Like I don't die.
I don't like sit on all of the like ESPNs of the world.
in the sports outlets.
But when I see something,
normally it's on X from Shams, I trust it.
And I think that that's a brand
that he's built over time
that I would love to sit down
and have a conversation with him about.
So maybe we'll figure out
trying to get that here on the latest
with Laura Rosa.
But so on Tuesday,
there was a late Tuesday.
There was a statement
that was posted by Shams
saying that the possibility
of the signing in that post,
that YouTube post,
was mistakenly posted
to the team's YouTube channel.
It was later deleted.
I don't know y'all.
So now people, I mean, the heat have been loosely a part of the conversation.
I know I saw an interview or like a headline about a week or so ago where the president,
Pat Riley, talked about how Giannis, another NBA player and the team would welcome
LeBron James if he decided to come to Miami.
But people, I don't know, big slip up or preparation.
I will say, like, when I used to work in a newsroom, we were prep posts.
And we were prep posts just knowing, like, all right, this is so bad.
But we were prep posts based on, like, death stories.
So, like, if there were, like, certain celebrities who were, like, super, super, super, super, super, super old,
we would have post prepped for if we got a tip that they had passed away and we were able to confirm the story.
So that you wouldn't have to write it up, you would be able to, like, get it up and it would be already ready.
we would have prep post for different outcomes.
I remember when the Meg DeSalleon, Tori Lane's case happened.
We had a prep post for if Toy Lane's beat the case and was able to go free.
And we had a prep post for if he didn't.
We didn't know how many years he would be sentenced to.
We didn't know a lot of things or like what he would be looking at.
But we had those type of things prepped.
And I think in a lot of stories you do that.
Like I wouldn't be surprised right now if, you know, not sports teams.
but if news outlets don't have stories prepped, because you don't know when LeBron James's announcement is coming.
Like you have no idea when it's coming.
There has been no real timeline laid out.
The only thing that we know from conversations literally directly from LeBron and from his agent
Rich Paul are that he's weighing a lot of things.
He's weighing family.
Of course, he's weighing money.
He's weighing legacy.
But you don't know when it's coming.
So I think most outlets right now, and now,
Now we're learning the teams are doing it too,
are taking the odds of where he might go in the conversations
and just trying to be prepared for.
But it's a crazy slip-up, though.
This is like an insane slip-up to make.
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My first thought is like what's up with the snacks?
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She beat
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You get the palm for that
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You talk about journalism.
You talk about insane moments, breaking news.
You got to talk about Oprah.
Oprah is the OG.
She is the goat in all of this.
And she sat down for baseball.
This is Kiki Palmer with Kiki Palmer.
And I enjoyed this conversation thoroughly.
It was about an hour long.
And Oprah got into a ton of different things.
Oprah talked about, you know, just the moment that she knew she needed to own her show,
the Oprah show and the fact that she owned it 50% outright.
But what I thought was, like, so big from the conversation was what inspired her.
Like, I would say it's like representation as far as like, you know, seeing a,
women on the television.
But she talked a lot about Mary Tyler Moore
and seeing the production credits
at the end of her show.
Let's take a listen.
Part of the reason I am who I am
is because I was watching the Mary Tyler Moore show.
And at the end of the Mary Tyler Moore show,
remember this?
There's a little M-T-M
and a little cat that comes out
and goes, meow!
And it was her own production company, M-T-M.
It's the first time that I realized,
oh, you could own yourself.
You could own your product.
You could own what you're putting out into the world.
And M-T-M is what gave me the vision to believe that could happen.
And I remember when I started in Chicago, and I said to one of the suits, I said, you know, one of the things I want is to one day become a mogul.
And the next day, he was like, how dare you use that language?
How dare you say that?
That's what he said to me in 1983.
How dare you use it?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I wanted to be, I want to be a mogul.
Why do you think that he said that?
Why do you?
He said it was so arrogant and it was so, yeah.
Yeah, it was like so full of myself to think that I could become a mogul.
I'm greatest fear is not that we're inadequate.
Our greatest fears that we're powerful beyond measure.
Okay, come on, Marianne Williamson, quote to me.
That was so good.
Now, another thing that I was surprised that Oprah was like so open about,
even though she didn't, she didn't talk much.
about it. But like Oprah don't really get into these things. Kiki Palmer brought up the fact that
everybody's always saying like I'm trying to find me a Stedman and that whole sentiment. And Oprah opened up
about being with men who dogged her out before Stedman and how lucky she was to have him. Let's take a
listen. I often am like, I need me a Steadman. Now I don't know nothing about you and Stedman's
actual relationship. But what I'm curious of is what you found, how much did it differ from what
you thought you wanted? Oh, let me just tell you. I
paid a price to get there because
I was a fool for many years.
Now that's T-boo. I went
through some man troubles in my
20s. One of the biggest things that
I took away from this
conversation was Oprah talking about
intention and
how
intention, I think you start out, of course
with intention because you have an intention to achieve
and do something.
But
understanding your power and your platform
and being intentional about that throughout
the work and being such a boss in her area from the beginning.
Like even when she wasn't syndicated, when she was just in Chicago,
how all that played a part into like who the Oprah is that we know and talk about today.
Like what she chose to talk about, how she chose to talk about it and pushing that line,
but like also being inviting enough where people want to come on the show.
They dived into that conversation a bitch, which I appreciate it because I think for me,
I am in real time learning that fine line.
But when I started out in all of this,
because I wanted to be on the other side of things.
Like I started out wanting to be an actress and a model.
And I'm still going to do those things.
But I was like, I'm going to retire with a talk show.
Like that was like a after everything else happens goal for me.
But things flipped.
One thing happened before the other.
I've always told myself, like, when I got to a point where I was like interviewing people
and, you know, talking trending topics or whatever it may be, I wanted to be like,
the person that people wanted to pick up the phone and call when things were happening.
Regardless if you agreed with the fact that I had to talk about it or not, and Oprah kind of gets into that.
Let's take a listen.
This was Jeff Jacobs who said this to me.
Shout out to Jeff Jacobs.
Shout out to Jeff Jacobs who said, what if you owned yourself?
It means you'd have to take the risk yourself that maybe it wouldn't do as well, but you don't have to take a salary.
You would get whatever the show was going to make.
This is like advertising.
This is when we went syndicating, yeah, when we were syndicated.
And I said, sure, because I believed in myself.
And that is the reason why I am where I am,
because I believed that ownership was the way for me.
And you know what?
At the time, local stations couldn't even syndicate you.
So nobody believed that the Oprah show was going to be as big as it was.
And the reason why I got the greatest percentage, the percentage that I did,
is because none of those guys thought it was going to be that successful.
If they thought it was that successful,
They would have never given me 50%.
Did you feel that sacrifice in the immediate, meaning when you took,
so it felt all the same essentially?
It felt all the same to me.
It felt like I knew that the show would be successful because it was successful in Chicago.
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What's up, fam? I'm sports journalist Ari Chambers.
Hey, what's up, y'all?
It's your girl, Sam J.
And we're the host of everyone watches women's sports,
a new podcast from Together and I Heart Women's Sports.
Because let's be real.
Women's sports is giving us way too much to talk about these days.
So Kelsey Finler, she became the first female solo rower
to go from California to Hawaii.
My first thought is like, what's up with the snacks?
Like, what are we eating?
The highlights, the rivalries, the breakout stars,
the moments that take over your entire timeline.
And the conversations that start during the game
and somehow keep going all.
week. Every week, we're breaking down
the biggest stories across women's sports.
Naomi Osaka, showing out.
She beat Sabalinka.
Shout out to you, Naomi. You get the palm, Naomi.
You get the palm for that.
Because we're not just interested in what happened.
We're interested in why everyone's talking about it.
Because everyone watches women's sports.
Listen to everyone watches women's sports.
On the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcast
or wherever you get your podcast.
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Guestrars, collaborators and friends, including director Jonathan Chrysall, the mayor himself,
Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.
Kyle is going for it here. You fully improvised, not just words, but a song.
Well, I thought he was going to write. I thought you were all going to write a song.
I remember you thinking that.
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shout out to Kiki Palmer
I thought that this conversation was fire from beginning to end.
I also am just like, I don't think that people understand how much of a job it is to build platform.
Like Kiki Palmer has a production company that is producing products and content outside of her.
It's a business.
Like Kiki Palmer herself is a business as well.
She just recently did her TED Talk.
She has baby, this is Kiki Palmer, which is her sit down talk show where she just
interviewed Oprah and she's very consistent.
And I know a lot of people will look at it like, I mean, well, she's Kiki Palmer.
Of course, she can be very consistent.
To be honest with y'all, I feel like I'm more surprised that she's Kiki Palmer and she's
as consistent as she is because a lot of times you watch celebrities who have already
accumulated a certain, you know, point of success, start these podcasts and start these shows
and don't keep up with it because of schedule, because of other work things, but also because
they've amassed a certain level of success.
fight the hunger that Oprah is talking about in her early days in this interview, it ain't there
after a certain point. Like you've, you've amassed what you've set out to do. But you can tell
that Kiki Palmer is like, she's in it. And like her intention is to grow her brain and to
really have conversations that like people actually walk away with it feeling like, okay,
this mattered. And I'm down for her. Kiki Palmer broke down. Like she was crying in this
interview. They started talking about the pressures or, you know, if there were any pressures for
Oprah being a black woman in the space.
And she was talking about being the only black woman
in the newsroom. And I'm like, been there.
But Kiki Pomer literally started crying.
Let's take a listen.
Because I always saw myself as a little black girl
who was truly God's child.
So much so that when I started school
and I didn't even know who my father was at the time.
When I started school, I used to tell people,
they say, who you're dad? And I go, Jesus is my daddy.
And they go, this girl crazy.
She up here talking about Jesus.
Jesus is our daddy. So I really grew up believing that I could do all things because I was God's child.
And so when I walked into the newsroom and I was the only black woman there, I just assumed I was supposed to be there because God had made the way for that.
It never occurred to me to feel like I didn't belong because I knew God had created the path for me to be there.
When I got the job in Baltimore and, okay, so why are you crying?
Because I feel that exact same way where even in my human moments where it's scary or you can, you know, people call it imposter syndrome, whatever.
My courage has always came through because I have such a deep faith in God.
I don't have a little bit of autism.
the source, it's like, no matter what feels seems strange on the outside, it has never
guided or stopped or thwarted my ability to push forward. And I think the tears are also
coming from, first of all, it's an overwhelming sense of recognition. And then it's like,
how do, how, when people don't have that, when they don't know that, when they can't find
their connection to that, I also feel grief for that. Yeah. Because certain things are out of
your control, but that does not mean
that it can stop you. And yet we are
living in a world where people feel
absolutely stop. Shout out to Kiki.
Shout out to her. Like,
I'm watching, and I am inspired, girl.
Like, when we build out the latest with
Lauren the Rose of the podcast and all the different entities
that I want to have under my branches as talent,
I look at people like Kiki Palmer, Issa Rae,
Oprah, Rihanna,
like Tiana Taylor, like people that are
like really doing things at a high level,
multi-hyphen-it's at a high level, but it's serious and it's consistent and it's real
business.
Like, it's not no play play at all.
And I'm inspired.
I walk away feeling like I am not doing enough and I'm not mad at that feeling.
Sometimes you got to feel that way to keep things afloat and to keep things going.
This has been another episode of the latest with Lauren LaRosa.
I tell you guys, every single episode, y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about all
of the things, but you guys choose to be right here with me.
My low riders, I appreciate y'all, and I'll get you in my next episode.
This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea.
Every week, the news gets worse.
The world gets crazier, and Yamanika is here to tell whoever's responsible,
you're the problem.
Do you know I just found out who Sidney Sweeney was?
If he got a bunch of women, then I should have a bunch of men.
Do better or do less, so I don't have to do so much.
I'm Yamanika, and I'm out.
Listen to You're the Problem with Yamanika on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
or wherever you get your podcast.
I'm Nick Taturo.
You probably know me from NYPD Blue,
the longest yard,
or Spike Lease Black Klansman.
And on my new podcast,
delivering happiness with Nick Tatourl,
I deliver pizza to a new guest.
I've shared a slice with everyone,
from Seth Rollins.
What are you doing, my belt?
To Bill Burr.
I don't think I've ever met somebody
so exactly out of their mind as I am.
And now, we even have more great guests coming up,
including the great John Tuturo.
It's called happiness.
Delivering happiness.
And many, many more.
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On Raiders of the Lost podcast, we explore cinema like no one else,
including huge interviews with stars like Ryan Gosling on Project Hail Mary.
It was like the Josh Shark.
Didn't always work.
Came with its own problems.
That's what made it great.
The cast of Obsession.
On set, there was so much magic happening with each scene we were putting together.
Deep dives into classic.
like 2001 a Space Odyssey or Fight Club,
plus weekly episodes on all industry news.
Listen to Raiders of the Lost podcast on the IHeart Radio app,
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And for more, follow at Raiders of the Lost podcast
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Hey, Portlandia fans.
Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen here.
The Dream of the 90s is alive in podcast form.
We're launching Podlandia, A.O. rewatch,
our brand new podcast where we revisit every episode of Portlandia together,
breaking down sketches, going deep on our iconic characters,
and pulling back the curtain on how it all got made.
And we'll also be joined by the people who helped bring it all to life.
Guest stars, collaborators and friends, including director Jonathan Chrysler,
the mayor himself, Kyle McLaughlin, legendary musician Amy Mann, and many more.
Kyle is going for it here.
You fully improvised, not just words, but a song.
Well, I thought you were all going to write a song.
I remember you thinking that.
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