Clearing the Air After the Cult Episode

Untraditionally Lala

Lala addresses fan reactions to her comments on Mormonism. 
She and Easton unpack their family experiences, growing up around the church and the line between belief and pressure. 

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2026-05-04 14 min Transcript

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00:00:00
Speaker 1: Hello, gorgeous.

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Speaker 2: It's Lala Kent.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Untraditionally Lala.

00:00:07
Speaker 2: Hey you guys, it's la La Kent. Welcome back to.

00:00:09
Speaker 3: The bonus episode of Untraditionally Lala.

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Speaker 2: I'm here with the Saving Grace Easton Burningham. Welcome.

00:00:16
Speaker 3: I don't even know why I do that. Still, you're my co host, buddy.

00:00:19
Speaker 1: Well, some days I'm here, some days I'm not, and it's pretty great.

00:00:21
Speaker 2: That's what we talk about today.

00:00:25
Speaker 3: We got this in the DMS and it actually made me a little sad. Tell me so, this person said, I would like to respectfully go toes with Laala.

00:00:38
Speaker 1: Regarding reding recording.

00:00:41
Speaker 3: What do I have to say regarding the past negative comments on Mormons. I'm a huge Laala fan, but my heart breaks whenever I hear Mormons being talked about in a negative way.

00:00:52
Speaker 1: All right, let's hear her out. Well that was it, Okay, let's hear us out.

00:00:57
Speaker 2: I want to say this.

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Speaker 3: I never want anybody to feel when I talk about things, to take it as a personal attack. But how could you not write if I'm going in on the Mormon religion and the people who are a part of it in a negative way, how could you not take that personally? If you are a Mormon, I will say this, there are very depending on where you are.

00:01:24
Speaker 2: I grew up in Utah.

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Speaker 3: The Mormons in Utah are very I have met Mormons across the country who are the most wonderful people I have ever met in my life. The Mormons that live in California beautiful, amazing, the kindest. Even in Utah, I have met wonderful Mormons. You have to remember that when I talk about this religion, take Mormon wives out of it. That was my life growing up in that state, my dad's entire family. So when I when I think of Mormon's that is a very personal thing to me. I go into a place of how my dad's side of the family treated my dad, how my dad's side of the family treated my mother, who was not Mormon, treated us, my Mormon grandmother on her deathbed, and the things that she said to my dad said to my mom. So I make these blanketed statements which I should probably work on. There's a lot of things. Let's just put this out there. There's a lot of things that I should probably work on, guys. But guess what, same with fucking you guys. I can't be the only person.

00:02:37
Speaker 2: Working on shit.

00:02:38
Speaker 1: Well, I was just going to say, like at that point, like my grandmother could have worked on a whole lot of shit.

00:02:43
Speaker 3: Yes, So when I make those blanketed statements, it comes from a very deep rooted pain and experience that I had with my own family members and just we're a part of that time here.

00:02:56
Speaker 1: We would go every Sunday to my dad's house and when I tell you, there were over thirty five people every weekend, Like it was a huge family. We were embedded in this shit and we had fun. I think cool, the whole family. That should tell you everything. The whole family on the wall, white T shirts and the whole shit. So there you go, photo shoot. We were embedded in this shit. Yeah, when we were strang she might be different than ours, but our story, I think is not that oft from a lot of others.

00:03:27
Speaker 3: As we got older, things as a little kid, it was like the funnest place to go, right with Sunday dinners at Grandma's house, all of the cousins. As we got older, Easton and I my mom started not going anymore and I would start clocking little comments that were made.

00:03:43
Speaker 2: I then had a boyfriend.

00:03:45
Speaker 3: My uncle at the time was now the bishop at a church, and he was always the coolest one. But he was like, I have a really cute guy for you. And I was like, ooh, tell me more. And he was like, if you convert to Mormonism and you get baptized, I will introduce you.

00:04:00
Speaker 2: But like that where it's like, well, that's a little fucking weird.

00:04:03
Speaker 3: So I want to apologize to this woman because not all Mormons are the same. I do have a tough Uh it's hard for me to swallow religion as a whole, any organized religion because of what I experienced the documentary, the documentaries, and then we got Mormon Wives where we watch these young girls kind of fucking crash out because the religion.

00:04:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, the backlash and the guilt and not living under the Mormon religion and everything that they stand for. It's like Jesus.

00:04:38
Speaker 3: But then, by the way, I had a woman who was like a second mom to me growing up who who the Mormon Church ended up really saving her soul.

00:04:50
Speaker 1: Yeah. I know a lot of people that, Uh, here's the thing. Everyone's different. Religions are different, and everybody's gonna like a different religion That's what's so great about it is everyone especially on me there. It is because I'm me.

00:05:05
Speaker 3: If you want to educate me, I want to be educated.

00:05:07
Speaker 2: I want to know about it.

00:05:08
Speaker 1: Impressed me on it. But this is why I really enjoy it and how we grew up. If I start to see you lighting up and talking about what it's done for you, maybe I'll go, could I attend one with you? But if you're like you're pushing it now, I'm out. Don't ask me questions.

00:05:27
Speaker 3: Mormon Wives is so poppin' that they just announced that they're having Mormon Wives Orange County.

00:05:34
Speaker 2: What was the what was the response to that?

00:05:36
Speaker 1: Dead silence in the crowd? Dead serious on that too, Like really yeah, dead fucking silence almost like what do you mean the crowd? Because they introduced all of these shows at the Hulu like Hulu event where there's all these people and so it's the it's like Miranda Layla and Jesse and all of the original Utah Mormon Wives MHM introducing them and they're like and here they are Orange County and they start walking in and they go up on stage and like they're dead silent on their mics. No, cheering. It's the most awkward thing in the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think you got it for me. For me. I think people are going to warm up to it.

00:06:18
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I'm just saying it was just the how they revealed it was weird. Everybody made it weird. Will it be good? Maybe? Probably? But I won't be watching Okay, that's fine. Yeah, well, I don't watch anything. Somewhere you go, I'll be watching sports. Sports.

00:06:34
Speaker 2: By the way, did you see that Lenny Kravitz.

00:06:38
Speaker 1: Daughter is doing? Daughter?

00:06:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, Zoey.

00:06:41
Speaker 1: She's such a bitch. She's very she's unique looking.

00:06:48
Speaker 2: That cool.

00:06:50
Speaker 1: That cool. That's called aura. You just man, your dad gave it to you and you're doing well with it. And your mom, well, her mom has to be hot. Who's your mom?

00:07:04
Speaker 2: Lisa Bonet? Where do you live? She was married to.

00:07:07
Speaker 1: Jason giving me a bonet? I'm repulsed. You sick. Fuck we're here, we're we're partying.

00:07:18
Speaker 2: You have single handedly brought me out of my depression.

00:07:21
Speaker 1: Thank you.

00:07:34
Speaker 3: Anyway, back to Holly Kravitz, Okay.

00:07:39
Speaker 2: Allegedly.

00:07:41
Speaker 3: She's engaged to Harry Styles after eight months of dating.

00:07:45
Speaker 2: When you know, you know, I was just gonna say that. When did I When did I go from being such a cold hearted bitch to.

00:07:53
Speaker 3: Like when you know, you know, like now when people tell me after one date, I knew I was going to marry that person.

00:07:58
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know that feeling.

00:08:00
Speaker 1: I know that feelings.

00:08:01
Speaker 3: I see people get married have babies for how okay, Well, so she was engaged to Channing Tatum?

00:08:10
Speaker 1: How long before that break off?

00:08:13
Speaker 2: Eight months ago? Just kidding, I see nothing wrong with it.

00:08:22
Speaker 1: Hey, with who she is? Quick, she knows who she is with that aura, she knows who she is.

00:08:27
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you get married.

00:08:32
Speaker 1: You can get divorced. Actually, fuck it. It's a couple of signatures, right, No, with some money, but if you do it right.

00:08:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's already been divorced. She's who hasn't I don't know?

00:08:44
Speaker 1: So like third one is a charm? Maybe right? Is this her second or third?

00:08:48
Speaker 2: It'll be her second marriage.

00:08:50
Speaker 1: So maybe this won't last, but the third one will. And maybe she was dating like Easton Birmingham or something on her third She.

00:08:58
Speaker 2: Just wants a regular old Joe.

00:09:00
Speaker 1: Hey, I can make you laugh here and there, you can. I know, I just need a lot of money and then maybe I'll get laid.

00:09:08
Speaker 3: Oh by the way, though, is like, no, no, it's my next lifetime.

00:09:17
Speaker 2: I need to have a dick, like I just want one.

00:09:21
Speaker 1: No, Can I be honest, If it were a choice every day, I'd pick a penis what you guys go through? No, no, no, I would pick a penis. Sometimes I wake up and I brush my teeth and I'll leave halfway through the damn like I even put the odor in on man's a man, that's disgusting.

00:09:38
Speaker 3: But as you get older, I do feel like you start well at least I have for me, for me, all of.

00:09:46
Speaker 2: The things that and this is.

00:09:49
Speaker 3: Obviously a part of my trauma obviously, and I've spoken about this before.

00:09:54
Speaker 1: You have trauma.

00:09:57
Speaker 2: A dude with like money and power that scares me. And I don't know when I want that.

00:10:10
Speaker 1: Well, you know where.

00:10:12
Speaker 3: I'm like, No, I'm gonna need to, like, I gotta be with someone who's either like right where I am. You have to at least be able if I'm like, let's go to Hawaii, Like I don't really want to flip the bill for you because I got a whole entire family, Like I need you to be able to like.

00:10:30
Speaker 2: That for yourself.

00:10:32
Speaker 1: No, you don't.

00:10:32
Speaker 2: You don't have to pay for me. A lot of fucking money and power.

00:10:37
Speaker 1: I want a lot of money.

00:10:39
Speaker 3: Makes me a little nervous because if it doesn't work out, which it hasn't for me, for me where I feel like under the thumb a little bit hands around the neck, I don't love that feeling. Yeah, and maybe if I didn't have a baby and may yeah, I don't know.

00:11:01
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck.

00:11:02
Speaker 1: I just want a lot of money. No power, that's it. Just money equals power. I think, Well, you're never gonna know I have it. I'm just gonna no I have it.

00:11:12
Speaker 3: I know you well enough to know if you had a fuck ton of money, we.

00:11:16
Speaker 2: Would all know it.

00:11:17
Speaker 1: With my closing cars, yes, yeah, would I post?

00:11:20
Speaker 3: No?

00:11:21
Speaker 2: What else is there?

00:11:22
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:11:22
Speaker 2: The posting Instagram would be the first.

00:11:23
Speaker 1: Thing to go. Oh yes, all of it?

00:11:26
Speaker 2: Really?

00:11:27
Speaker 1: Yes, I would make like just.

00:11:29
Speaker 2: Like even with your session with TikTok.

00:11:31
Speaker 1: Yes, burner accounts, I don't need to post. I just like to swape.

00:11:34
Speaker 3: You don't have a Burner account now and don't post. So Eason is living the same life if you had money?

00:11:39
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, Yeah, if you got. If I had money, no one would know the difference. I wouldn't post then, and I don't post now because here's the thing I've you know, throughout the day, I've had nice cars coming never posted them.

00:11:51
Speaker 3: Can I tell you I've been watching Your Friends and Neighbors second season?

00:11:57
Speaker 2: Are you watching it? Did you watch the first season?

00:12:00
Speaker 3: There's a lot of money, but they're all in like, uh, the finance world, high high power, high level show, Like no one's really like they don't need to be on Instagram or whatever. Watching that show with they just entered James Marsden, who's like so fucking hot.

00:12:19
Speaker 2: This show is so good. I cannot believe.

00:12:23
Speaker 1: Yes, John and his Ham and who who else is?

00:12:27
Speaker 2: Who's the girl in it? Olivia Mun's in it?

00:12:30
Speaker 3: And one of my favorite act I can't even believe I'm blinking on her name.

00:12:34
Speaker 1: I feel like I watched an episode and I could be very wrong. Did this come out with land Amanda Pete?

00:12:39
Speaker 2: Yes, she plays John Ham's ex wife.

00:12:41
Speaker 1: It is Didn't this come out when Landon was still living here? Okay? I watched a couple of episodes with the with you guys or with Landon? I remember and I did enjoy it.

00:12:50
Speaker 2: When I tell you, I popped two magnesium and start a new episode and then two after it ends, and.

00:12:56
Speaker 1: Then okay, thirty minute episodes or an hour, it's.

00:13:01
Speaker 2: Between forty five minutes in an hour.

00:13:03
Speaker 1: I can only do thirties.

00:13:04
Speaker 2: And it's so good.

00:13:05
Speaker 1: Now I'll give her a go. I'll give her a go.

00:13:08
Speaker 2: You have to give it a go.

00:13:09
Speaker 1: But I always fall asleep. And then my biggest pain in the ass is like going back and seeing what episode I fucking remember, and then it's like, it gives you a recap. That's what I love.

00:13:17
Speaker 3: It gives you a full recap at the beginning. Also, what I'm looking forward to this week is a new episode of Rhode Island that I'm gonna go home and watch today because it's the best.

00:13:29
Speaker 2: Reality show on television right now for me.

00:13:32
Speaker 3: You, guys, thank you for listening to another bonus episode of Untraditionally La La.

00:13:35
Speaker 2: I love you, guys.

00:13:36
Speaker 3: I'm gonna catch you on Wednesday for a regular old episode again on Monday for the bonus, And remember an Unlikely Affair with Amber Childers and Myself comes out every Thursday at nine pm.

00:13:46
Speaker 2: You can catch it that night. If you're a night owl or Friday morning, love you, bye, bye,

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