Issa Rae’s Insecure Rewind Podcast ‘Block Party’ + Building Your Foundation & Remembering Your Why
The Breakfast Club
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4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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On this episode of The Latest with Loren Lorosa a behind-the-scenes grind check-in about Mondays as a fresh start, emphasizing the importance of building a strong foundation through discipline, honesty, accountability, and remembering your original “why,” especially while navigating growth pains as a first-generation success story. Loren then shifts to Issa Rae and the impact of Insecure, and discusses Issa’s new rewatch podcast “Blocc Party” with Prentice Penny, which revisits key moments and behind-the-scenes stories 10 years later. Loren highlights revelations from the first episode, plus Issa’s intentional casting choices for two dark-skinned female leads and non-celebrity “real people.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | Give me that excuse me. |
| 0:11.0 | You know if you're going to lie about that, right? |
| 0:12.2 | Lauren came in hot. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey, y'all, what's up? |
| 0:16.4 | It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode of the latest with Lauren LaRosa. |
| 0:22.0 | This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations |
| 0:27.2 | that shake the room, baby. |
| 0:29.4 | Now, we all know, my low riders, we always start off with a behind the scenes of the grind |
| 0:35.7 | checking. |
| 0:37.5 | And it's... with a behind the scenes of the grind checking. Back on the grind. |
| 0:40.9 | And it is the start of the week. |
| 0:42.9 | It is Monday. |
| 0:44.9 | And I think, you know, Monday for me, it always symbolizes the chance to, like, start fresh. |
| 0:51.7 | Like, no matter what it is that you do, no matter what your is that you do no matter what your profession is |
| 0:56.6 | you know your focus is daily monday is like a new sense of like optimism i feel like sundays are |
| 1:02.7 | like the preparation for that it's like okay you know friday you're still dealing with whatever |
| 1:08.3 | it was thrown your way that week you know know, good, bad, or indifferent. |
| 1:12.0 | Saturday, put it behind you. |
| 1:14.5 | You might be out, grab a drink. |
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