100.) The 100th Episode + IceMan Dropped (5/15/26)

Summary

The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show

Episode 100: The 100th Episode + IceMan Dropped (5/15/26)

Overview

This milestone 100th episode marks a celebratory moment for The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show, blending festivity with their signature music, culture, and real talk. The trio—Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Peter Rosenberg—celebrate both their show’s longevity and the much-anticipated release of Drake’s new album, “Iceman.” Listeners are treated to candid debates about album reviews, family and parenting stories, pop culture nostalgia, listener Q&As, conversations about youth sports, and an earnest discussion about evolving parenting techniques—all delivered in their lively, authentic style.

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Major Themes & Discussion Points

1. Celebrating the 100th Episode and Drake’s "Iceman" Release

• The crew opens the show with excitement over hitting 100 episodes, coinciding with Drake’s latest album drop.
• Festive Vibes: Silver "ice" balloons and playful digs set a fun, upbeat tone.
  • “Yo, you guys didn’t know that us and Drake was aligned like that?” – Ebro (01:41)
  • "Happy Drake day baby. We got the ice balloons." – Rosenberg (01:32)

Reviewing "Iceman"

• Immediate reactions are mixed, with hosts admitting they need more time before issuing full verdicts:
  • “I need till Monday. I can't do this album comes out Thursday night at midnight, I drop full review by Friday morning. And in fact, people who do that are hackadoodle do's.” – Rosenberg (02:31)
• They poke fun at instant-review culture and debate whether anyone can really absorb an album's value on first listen.
• Discussion on how Drake’s style—particularly his "Instagram caption raps"—continues to dominate and engage audiences.
  • "He's got Instagram caption rap. He's always..." – Ebro (03:42)
  • Playfully note the cultural impact: "Can you imagine how crazy it would have been if Drake had been around in the away message era?" – Rosenberg (03:59)

2. Pop Culture & Nostalgia: "Family Matters" Flashbacks

• The trio reminisce about the 90s sitcom “Family Matters,” discussing characters Stefan and Myra and their own memories (09:27–13:28).
  • "Stefan. Now, I probably never even seen the show. Probably only seen the intro." – Rosenberg (10:08)
  • "She was the cute girl who was in love with him. She was super cute." – Laura (10:28)
• Brief but heartfelt conversation about actress Michelle Thomas (Myra) and her untimely passing.

3. Family Moments and Real-Life Parenting

• The hosts share recent family stories, like their Mother’s Day link-up and kids playing together (13:29–16:07).
  • Discuss the nuances of young kids wanting independence, learning physical skills, and how parents adapt (16:07–20:18).
  • Humorous but practical fitness talk: "I started upping my bicep curls over this last week...because Maya’s at 20 lbs, and I'm already realizing I have to switch arms pretty quick." – Rosenberg (16:13)
  • The importance of core strength and parental adaptation for things like traveling with toddlers.

4. Youth Sports: Pride & Pressure

• Ebro highlights his daughter's (Issa’s) flag football performance as girls’ varsity flag football is approved in New Jersey (21:04–25:34).
  • They discuss the joys, pressures, and increasing competitiveness of youth athletics.
  • "But I also think this Drake album is in time for the summer." – Ebro (03:37)
  • "Issa’s not a trash talker...she likes defense a lot. She likes playing receiver—that's the thing." – Ebro (23:56)
• Touches on gender dynamics in sports and how height can be seen as both a privilege and a challenge, especially for girls (24:33–26:08).

5. Life as a Short King (and Queen)

• Fun dialogue about height, confidence, social dynamics, and the “short king” experience (26:24–31:34).
  • Multiple anecdotes about dating, sports, and the unique camaraderie among short guys.
  • Memorable exchange: “Because when we laying down, we the same height.” – Lou (28:50)
• They riff on Rosenberg’s wrestling experiences and the varied representation of size in wrestling culture.

6. Listener Questions & Parenting Advice

• The show includes a Family Affair segment addressing real listener questions and emails (throughout; key: 37:08–60:08).
  • Listeners open up about balancing support and pressure in youth sports, facing parental burnout, and keeping a supportive home environment.
  • Notably, "Chrissy," a mom, sends a voice note expressing frustration about her 4.5-year-old daughter not listening (51:04–60:06).
    • Ebro and Laura offer constructive, empathetic advice focusing on collaborative routines, modeling behavior, and the developmental realities of parenting young kids.
    • “Stop telling her what to do and do it together...Some of this is her wanting your attention. That's why she doesn't listen to mom that way.” – Ebro (53:21)
    • "She wants to feel independent...I always said, you need some help or you got it? And she’ll tell me she got it." – Laura (54:40)

7. Show Evolution, Listener Connection, and Community Feedback

• Multiple emails comment on the show’s transition from radio to digital, increased interactivity, and community-building.
  • Feedback about not losing the show's “core values” amidst new formats and "algorithmic hustling" (64:13–67:36).
  • "ELR Superpower has always been engagement with the community..." – Ebro reading listener Kendu’s email (65:04)
• Merch updates—Laura handles fulfillment herself, and the team appreciates the visual support from listeners worldwide (68:17–69:45).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On “hack reviews” and album absorption:
  “People who do that are hackadoodle do's.” – Rosenberg (02:31)
• On Drake’s quotability:
  "He's got Instagram caption rap..." – Ebro (03:42)
• On women and height:
  "But when you're a tall woman...our whole lives she's has to be like conscious of like, damn, is he gonna be taller than me?" – Laura (25:34)
• “Short King” pride:
  “Because when we laying down, we the same height.” – Lou (28:50)
• On parenting techniques:
  “Stop telling her what to do and do it together...Some of this is her wanting your attention.” – Ebro (53:21)
• Family pride:
  "It's just joy. That's it...she is positive, fun loving. Like, I couldn't ask for it. Like, I'm so lucky." – Ebro (34:48)
• Meta commentary on digital evolution:
  "We went from 0 to 100 real quick. Like, this happened fast." – Peter (34:14)
• On losing the "core values":
  "The platform provides that. But we must remain cognizant as to how we've arrived at this point today. Remember, ELR now has a global presence...Continue to empower the masses..." – Listener Kendu (66:01)

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Key Timestamps

• 00:55 – Album talk: Drake "Iceman" initial reactions and review culture
• 03:42 – Instagram caption rap and social media culture
• 09:27 – "Family Matters" nostalgia and Myra discussion
• 13:29 – Mother’s Day, family stories, and kids’ independence
• 21:04 – High school girls’ flag football approval and Issa’s highlights
• 26:24 – Short Kings, height, and masculinity dialogue
• 37:08 – Listener emails and voice notes begin
• 51:04–60:06 – Parenting struggles and collaborative advice for “Chrissy”
• 64:13–67:36 – Maintaining show identity, community, and “algorithm hustle”
• 68:17–69:45 – Merch love and community shoutouts

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Tone & Style

The conversation throughout maintains the show’s signature blend of affection, sharp wit, and honesty. The cast regularly teases each other, shares vulnerable anecdotes, and invites listener participation—creating an inclusive, communal energy. There is a seamless interplay of humor (“hackadoodle do’s,” short kings, dad jokes), deep empathy (family loss, parenting hurdles), and pop-culture savvy.

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Conclusion

This special 100th episode is a kaleidoscope of celebration, reflection, family, community, and culture—anchored by white-hot takes on new music drops and timeless, real-life parenting wisdom. If you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, this episode is a fitting showcase of what has made The Ebro, Laura, & Rosenberg Show both enduring and endearing: sincerity, humor, and a deep-rooted sense of being in this together.

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Transcript

[Ebro Darden]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

What they did to your family. You're lucky to make it out alive.

[Ebro Darden]

Streaming on Peacock.

[Laura Rosenberg]

These men are going to come after

[Ebro Darden]

me, taking them out. It's my only chance. Put a bullet in your head. From the co creator of Ozark.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Looks like a family was running drugs execution style.

[Ebro Darden]

Killing. It's rare for the Keys. Any leads on who they might have been running for?

[Laura Rosenberg]

The cartel killed my family.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm gonna kill them.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All of them.

[Ebro Darden]

MIA Streaming now only on Peacock. Just don't call it a podcast. The Ebro Laura Rosenberg show. Okay, Drake album out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hey, yo, we're celebrating the Iceman, baby.

[Ebro Darden]

We got and it's our 100 the episode. So we got ice silver colored balloons.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Y happy now?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Happy Drake day, baby. We got the ice balloons.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

100 ELRs and the Iceman same day.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, you guys didn't know that us and Drake was aligned like that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

You guys are so stupid. I cannot.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Laura.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. We're celebrating our 100 show. That's what we're celebrating.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And we're celebrating ice boy who's come with the Iceman 6 God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

How y' all feel about the Iceman? Let us know in the chat. Have you had a chance? I know it just came. Have you had a chance to listen? Are you declaring it a classic?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Come on, come on.

[Ebro Darden]

I haven't. I'll be honest with y'.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All.

[Ebro Darden]

I woke up this morning, I tried to listen on my way in and I heard some stuff I liked. But no buts. I, I, I was riding to it and I was kind of, you know, because I was trying to get here.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

So I was just like thumbing through it. I wasn't absorbing lyrics. I wasn't, you know, we need time beats. I heard I liked. You know what I'm saying?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'll say this. I need till Monday. I can't do this album comes out Thursday night at midnight. I drop full review by Friday morning. And in fact, people who do that are hackadoodle do's.

[Ebro Darden]

You need.

[Peter Rosenberg]

How can you determine an album?

[Ebro Darden]

You could do a I'll give you 20 if somebody. That's all they did. Which is not what we did. But assuming the album came out at midnight.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

And you were up at midnight.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right. And you don't stayed up. And you.

[Ebro Darden]

And you stayed up and you listened to it and you went through the lyrics of it and whatever. I feel like you could give a pretty good analysis of that by, you know, this time, if that's what you did.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You could. Yeah. But even then, it's forced because you really do need to sit with something. Well, you know, still trying to give you a proper J. Cole review. Remember I said it had no skips?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. You do got to sit with it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. J. That J. Cole album's amazing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's amazing. But it did have a couple skips.

[Ebro Darden]

It absolutely has.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And I showed up. I showed up. I was like, I don't think there's any skips on here. And you looked at me like, interesting, interesting. I. I need a little bit more time. Say, give me the weekend.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. But I also think this Drake album is in time for the summer.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I mean? So summertime. Drizzy outside, you know, I mean, he's got. I definitely heard. And people love this about Drake. I definitely heard raps that people will use as their Instagram captions. He's got Instagram caption rap. He's always.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Can you imagine, Real quick. Can you imagine how crazy it would have been if Drake had been around in the away message era?

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, the. I can you. Yo, the girls with the away messages from Drizzy would have been insane. He missed the away message.

[Ebro Darden]

That's all right. He'll be all right. I think he'll be okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, no, he's powering through, I think. I think it's gonna be. I think it's gonna be a good season for the Iceman. I think there's gonna be a lot of makeup breakup to make up.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know, I think it may be the success of it based on how it's feeling. It'll calm down. People feel a little bit better about things.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, so the projections. The projections I've heard before the album drops projections was like, he's gonna sell 600,000 first week. First week. And I was like, that is a lot in this era, in this right now. And then I heard some people were like, nah, more three and a half, four. So let's see.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But over time, you know, what the streaming is going to do well.

[Ebro Darden]

And. And I think he's gonna do the thing where you have. And I don't. I don't know. I gotta look around. But I heard. Remember when Taylor Swift's last album, you could buy like multiple p. You could buy the album many different ways. So there was like seven different album covers, right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

There was like different vinyls.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

There was different versions of the album. I'm not sure he's gonna do all that, but I heard speculation that he might.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Do you get annoyed when people go, oh, I'm gonna get. I'm gonna go get some vinyls. No, I'm gonna buy vinyls.

[Ebro Darden]

I've never. I paid attention.

[Peter Rosenberg]

People pluralize vinyl. They'll be like, yeah, I'm gonna get vinyls. No, it's vinyl. Just one.

[Ebro Darden]

Don't be that guy. You're from a different era,

[Peter Rosenberg]

by the way. Don't forget the vinyl. Take Girls Break Spinal, but you're from

[Ebro Darden]

a different era of vinyl. Don't be a vinyl snob, though. Well, now you know what you know. I'm sorry. Let me apologize.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you.

[Ebro Darden]

Let me apologize.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Please apologize.

[Ebro Darden]

You're going to be a vinyl snob. That is who you are.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you.

[Ebro Darden]

You are a snob, especially about things that you've been into before they got popular down. That is who you are. Don't change. You're going to be angry by people saying vinyls.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, I want them to support it. What I'm mad about when it vinyls is how much they're charging for these vinyls.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The vinyls are very expensive.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't understand this plan of, like, we're going to. And vinyl is getting more popular, supposedly. We've been hearing that now for what, 10 years?

[Ebro Darden]

No, but it is. It's a fact.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But 50, like, new albums are.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, bro, 50 bucks.

[Ebro Darden]

I've seen 75ers.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, it's. Yeah, I remember when I used to go to 12 Inch Dance, which, by

[Laura Rosenberg]

the way, ay, yo, back in my day.

[Ebro Darden]

First of all, get off my lawn.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Do you realize that it was called. Do you realize that the store was called 12 Inch Dance? And it was in Dupont Circle, which is the gayest part of D.C. and it was called 12 inch. And don't you guys remember? I told you the story. Laura's your favorite. I showed up to the store and there was the one very flamboyantly gay guy who worked behind the counter. And he was always wearing the tightest 12 inch shirt when I'd get there. And because I had this T shirt back in the day, which my wife recently bought me a couple Years ago, she found it on ebay and reboot bought it for me for my birthday. It was just. The whole shirt was just red shirt, Lucky Charms logo on it. And I used to wear it all the time. Don't know why. Love that T shirt.

[Ebro Darden]

Did you like Lucky Charms?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, I'm a fan. I enjoy the product. No, I enjoy the product. Everyone does. But. But he. I guess he saw me wearing it one time, and then every time I'd show up in the store, he'd be like, what's up, Lucky Charms?

[Ebro Darden]

Of course, Laura loves that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But no, I would go into. I would go into 12 inches. And when you walked in, right on the right, they had what? They had the out the albums for sale. And I remember if an album was like. If it was like 17.99, I'd be like, damn, 17.99.

[Ebro Darden]

Rahsaan's still laughing at that loose bitch I threw out. Cause you're his little bitch. Lucky Charm.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What?

[Ebro Darden]

That's what you were saying.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's what you're going for.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, my God.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That doesn't make sense. Actually, that's not even what that relationship would be.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Lucky Charms.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, what's up, Lucky Charms?

[Ebro Darden]

Hey, yo, Iceman, though. Iceman. I'm very happy. Because no one cares, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No one cares. You don't like Drake. Yo, Ebro, respectfully. For the whole Internet. For the whole Internet.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Watch this.

[Ebro Darden]

Respectfully.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Shut the fuck up, bro. Stop it. Everyone's sick of you saying you like Drake and you're excited for the album. Listen, I know it's true. You are gonna listen to the whole album. They're never gonna believe you.

[Ebro Darden]

You shut up and hate him. I was just trying to promote for the fact that people tuned in and they might be excited to have Drake for the weekend. It's been a long time since they had a Drake album.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All weekend, too. Weather might be nice, sun.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I mean?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Roll the window.

[Ebro Darden]

That's all I was trying to do. But if you guys hurt your feelings about me, that's Drake. And Rosenberg represents how you feel.

[Peter Rosenberg]

By the way, this might have been the most popular thing I've ever done on the Internet. But anyways, we are gonna. Monday, we'll have a more thorough, you know, breakdown.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, and. And for. And. And let's not forget, in the album, I did hear some pettiness. You know what I mean? The pettiness is in there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I thought we were waiting till Monday.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm not gonna give specifics because I don't know the. The references Completely. Because I didn't spend enough time before this 8am show. But I just wanted to let everybody know, if you haven't got to it, there's definitely going to be some dissecting of lyrics and intent and shadiness and, you know, all the things.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, we'll get to it, though. We'll get to all of it.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, what happened to the Family Matters intro? Oh, oh, there it is. Family Matters time on a Friday. It's all about family. It's all about the fox. The family of the show. The friends of the show, some people say is even harder to find.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, then there must be some magic clue inside.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Ah, Steve Urel. Stefan or Kel?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Stefan.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now, I probably never even seen the show. Probably only seen the intro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do you know who Stefan is?

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know. You know about Stefan, right?

[Ebro Darden]

That's his alter ego.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

I seen. I seen that clip. I never watched the episode, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know Myra?

[Ebro Darden]

Myra? Who's Myra?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Myra. Look at Ra's face.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Baddie.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. She was the cute girl who was in love with him. She was super cute.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, but not Laura.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no.

[Ebro Darden]

He wanted Laura, but the baddie wanted him. And that was a story. I do remember that Laura.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm gonna look up Myra because that name isn't a baddie name. I'm gonna be honest.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The way the guys here were like, oh, God. Myers.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo. Speaking of. Speaking of Laura and Family Matters, I can't believe we never took Urkel saying Laura and used it on the show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Laura never.

[Ebro Darden]

We never found that we are failed.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Did you get the Ron clips yet? He sent you some Ron Drops.

[Ebro Darden]

The Ron. We got the Ron Baskeem drops.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. They in there yet?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, not yet. Not yet.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Michelle Thomas.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is who played Myra.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's cute, right?

[Ebro Darden]

Rashawn's working Feverishly loaded for the show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I need to show you. Yeah, you see, look. Klo. She was a baddie.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Died in 1998. Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She died at 30.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. Super young.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes, she was.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She was with Malcolm.

[Peter Rosenberg]

A rare cancer. Intra abdominal desmoplastic, small round cell tumor. She never smoke or drank. Was a vegetarian. Damn, that's terrible. This really took a left turn.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not pleased with.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Anyway, but she was a beautiful girl and she was really funny on the show and.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, she's in that era. The. The Myra from Family Matters. Your Topangas.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Who's a big wrestling fan. Topanga's always out at all the wrestling. They love Topanga. My man is married to her.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right. You did tell.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Remember the guy who we had on the show? What was his controversy?

[Laura Rosenberg]

She was so cute.

[Ebro Darden]

Myra.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Damn, that took me out. All right, you're back in high school. Who are you taking to prom? Scott? It's got Topanga one. It's got Tatiana, Ali, Ashley. Ashley, if you will. Who's the third one?

[Ebro Darden]

That's a pink Power Ranger.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Power Ranger. I'm not into it.

[Ebro Darden]

Who's for Tiffany?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Bad picture of Tiffany. Amber Thiessen. That's just a bad picture of Tiffany. Kelly Kapowski. Myra's there now. Get Candace Cameron out of here. Respectfully. Oh, get Lisa. Lisa Bonet is one. Just move her right to one.

[Ebro Darden]

No, Lisa Turtle's not here. But Lisa Bonet or Christina Applegate. My two options. This is it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's a. That's called a red blooded American. American. It's Applegate or Bonet. Yeah, that's it. Although love to Winnie from the Wonder Years. You know what I'm saying? Love to her. Winnie Cooper gets love for sure. But.

[Ebro Darden]

But I. Keep it real. Ashley, though. Or Myra. Feel like I have a good time at prom.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Either way. Either way. No. Some baddies on this list for sure. All right, sorry. So family matters.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Want to get. You want to hit him with the video out of the gate?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, sure.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The collab. The big. The.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, the big link up.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The. The big link up from last weekend.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So funny.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The Mother's Day link up as we

[Ebro Darden]

celebrate iceman on our 100th. Wait. 100th episode.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There you go. All right. Show the link up. This is when we went to that little cafe.

[Ebro Darden]

She's big link up, by the way.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Kenza was just straight playing fetch with.

[Ebro Darden]

Good throw, mj.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You see MJ with the two handed.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the run.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, the run.

[Ebro Darden]

The run is crazy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The bop Run. I told you she likes to shake it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's so cute.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't like to tell her saying my niece likes to shake it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She does.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, good. One day she's gonna understand what that means.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Shake your booty.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The funniest part about this is that the ball is just the container that the actual toy.

[Ebro Darden]

No, but that was. That's the best thing about kids is we think we got to buy them toys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Maya, look.

[Ebro Darden]

Give them a box. They'll figure it out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Y. Y. Oh, it was cute.

[Ebro Darden]

That was great.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I kind of want to see that walk again.

[Ebro Darden]

The. That was. I thought that was the run.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's like. Yeah. Hold on. It's the run. This is like her. This is her new. I don't know why this has become her run. Look at this throw, though.

[Ebro Darden]

First probably gets a reaction from it. That throws great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, it's cute.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. Nice.

[Ebro Darden]

I love it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. Peter and Natalie hit us up for Mother's Day. They're like, are you guys around? Do you want to link up? And we had just finished. Oh, look, there's Kenza and baby Maya.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Kenza's finally able to, like, hold her because she's been asking about this for a minute, and now she's still saying, though, can I carry her?

[Laura Rosenberg]

And we're like, no, no, no.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She almost weighs as much as you.

[Ebro Darden]

Are you sure Kenza knows? I'm not going to ask her mom. I'm going to ask her uncle. Are you sure Kenzo knows that that is a person, not a toy?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

You're positive?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes, she knows.

[Ebro Darden]

And you're sure that this Kenza knows that this is not a pet? This isn't like a. Just a.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes, yes, I do. I do. I think she. I know. Do. I think she knows that, like, how fragile? Maybe? Not maybe.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, but I mean, but like, you know, you can. You don't have to just carry her. Like an accessory. It's not like, you know, throwing on a backpack or just like.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But it is cute. I do understand, though. She's very cute. And I like picking her up and carrying her.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So I understand she sees everyone else doing it. So she. She told me. She's like, but everyone else carries babies. I was like, I know, but you're still very small.

[Ebro Darden]

So I was like, okay, so she does know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

She knows it's a baby.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sees that everyone else does it. She's like, me too. But she was very happy that she got to carry her.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I started. I started upping my bicep curls over this last week.

[Ebro Darden]

You've had to.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes, because Maya's at £20, and I'm already realizing I have to switch arms pretty quick.

[Ebro Darden]

Do you feel like real talk. Do you feel like your wife can carry her longer than you?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, but I know where you're going. It's built in. They have a trick, though.

[Ebro Darden]

The hip.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The hip.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The hip is a big one.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She sits on the hip. She told me that. She was like. She was like, I'm not holding her all the way. She's putting her legs around me. And I'm like, whereas you and I, we're just straight holding them. We're not Doing it right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You're not dipping that hip.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We're not giving the hip.

[Ebro Darden]

I can't. I don't think I might not.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It doesn't work.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't have any.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But literally, it probably is literally built in there.

[Ebro Darden]

Maybe that's what the hip is for on ladies. That's why y' all got hips.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So. But, like, I've just been finding that I have to switch arms pretty quick.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And so I was like, if she's 20, then I need to get my bicep curls to, like, 25, 30 at least I wasn't doing big bicep curls.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If I could be doing, what, 30 pound bicep curls, that could be enough. And it's mostly bicep. Right. That's some shoulder and shoulder in general.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Do it all, bro. Because you'll feel it after a while.

[Ebro Darden]

You're like, I'll be honest.

[Peter Rosenberg]

With just shoulder press.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I'll be honest.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There's nothing you could do.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's just going to be a nightmare

[Ebro Darden]

because you're going to be sore from trying to build up. And so you. Every time you pick her up, you're going to. Your arm's going to be hurting anyway because it's going to be tired from trying to work out. Yeah. You should have started this six months ago.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It'd be already two years ago.

[Ebro Darden]

You're too late.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, I'm gonna keep going.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm a power start with your absolute. Start with your core. You think core is important, so I always think core is important. I think core is the most important. Core. Core and hips and legs are way more. Because.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because they're giving you the stability.

[Ebro Darden]

Stability. And if you're. If you're just doing all arm right now, you want to, like, use. You know what I mean?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Time to lock in. Because I go to. Today's the 15th.

[Ebro Darden]

Mm.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I leave for Italy in two weeks, and I'm gonna have one week in Italy with this girl.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, but she walking, though. She.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She will walk some, but she doesn't hold hands yet. No, she doesn't want her hands. I trot. It's annoying.

[Ebro Darden]

No, you have to do it. You can't not. She can't win this battle.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, she won't. I know. But. But still. Am I going to want to do that all the time?

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Got to kind of teach her, like, hold hands. Make it a thing. Hold hands.

[Ebro Darden]

We're holding hands.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yay.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's hold hands.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yay.

[Ebro Darden]

Have to a Must you live in the City, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, I know in general. But I'm just saying on this trip, even with that when you're in street in cities like Rome and Florence.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, she should be in the stroller. She should be in the stroller.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But. But stroller is not always good in Rome and Florence, right, Laura, Isn't some of it annoying?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've never been to Rome or Florence.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, what about when you're in Sicily?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sicily. It was a lot of hills. A lot. Yeah. The. The stroller would have been. You have to strap up. Everyone who had babies were.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I find the strapping up to be even worse. How about that? I find her strapping up, like when I wear her.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I find that to be more annoying in some ways.

[Ebro Darden]

It's hot.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's just. And it's just like it's lower back hits my lower back.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. You got to get your core together.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's core. You're right.

[Ebro Darden]

One hundred crunches a day.

[Peter Rosenberg]

One hundred crunches a day. All right. Starting right now, today. All right.

[Ebro Darden]

Crunches a day.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If I do 100 crunches a day throughout the day, so I can start out, hit like 25, come back, hit 25, or do 50 in the morning, 50 at night.

[Ebro Darden]

How about that? 25 and 25. 25 and 25.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay. All right, all right. I gotta do this work.

[Ebro Darden]

But you won't be. I'm gonna just tell you, you won't be ready.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Can I get approved? Can I improve?

[Ebro Darden]

Absolutely.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now we have the Laura, the situation. Do we do it right? We're on an American Airlines flight and we booked, you know, they do the 3, 4, 3 for these international flights.

[Ebro Darden]

Mm, yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And we just booked a full three. Yeah. So we have that.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Boom. We'll be good.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's what you're supposed to do.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, you know, I got an idea. Strap my Uncle Ebro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Uncle Ebro wants to pay for a first class upgrade for everybody.

[Ebro Darden]

I just had 10 grand real quick.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Strap my on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right.

[Ebro Darden]

And start walking the neighborhood.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Just start. I know. I should do that too.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. A couple times a week and then. Or get on the treadmill, put her on, strap her on, and walk on the incline.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Whoa.

[Ebro Darden]

For like 10 minutes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She probably like it too. She probably think that's exciting.

[Ebro Darden]

You put a little Miss Rachel on. You know what I'm saying? And just.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What better motivation? Hi, friends.

[Ebro Darden]

There you go. Get it locked in.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right. All right. Yeah. Two weeks away.

[Ebro Darden]

Ebro, Laura Rosenberg. Gmail dot com. That's how we get all the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Are you going on vacation again, Rosenberg? Have fun. What's next? A doctor's appointment?

[Ebro Darden]

I thought you had to work out there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It is Worth, but I'm turning into it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, that's smart.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's the play, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You have to go all the way.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Get one ticket for free.

[Ebro Darden]

Figure it out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Figure it out.

[Ebro Darden]

You know, I mean, speaking of family matters, did that I show you guys the Easter foot recent Easter football vids?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No. And you also didn't mention that New Jersey has approved varsity flag football for

[Ebro Darden]

girls high school level.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Laura, you hear that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I know. I sent it to him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So that's going to happen if she wants to do it.

[Ebro Darden]

Sound. Seems like she does. Like she's. That's what she's all about.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Why would she not want to do that? She said she didn't know about college.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But high school, she's in.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I think she's definitely playing through high school.

[Laura Rosenberg]

As long as she keeps having fun, that's. That's the main focus.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Keeps her focused, keeps her busy.

[Ebro Darden]

She's definitely having fun. But, you know, dad has got to prep her because now that it's become this national phenomena. Right. I've been telling her for years that this is going to get to a point where this gets real competitive and people are like, taking this like, serious serious. So it won't be as, like sometimes won't be as fun.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Because you're gonna have parents dumping gazillions of dollars into their kid training with NFL Pro, all that. Yo, the kids athletics, bro, is out of control. But anyway, this was a tournament weekend before. Excuse me, young Issa. Highlight reel. Let's go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Breakaway on.

[Ebro Darden]

Watch the hand raise. I like that one.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow. Boom.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's too easy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's go, baby.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's too easy. Now, honestly, these kids ain't up the level. It's too much. There's too much.

[Ebro Darden]

Issa.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Look at this up top. Got it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's go, Issa. Let's go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Damn. The other girl thought she was about to catch that, too. She was tight.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Thought wrong.

[Ebro Darden]

Get that interception. Interception going.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, boom.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, they be doing that, but she's. Issa's not a trash talker. She doesn't. It's just not her thing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If you go back and watch that on the third one, the other girl on her team really thought it was her moment to shine. Go back and watch that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How you do that, Pete, it's not.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Listen, it's not intentional. These things just happen. I Just feel for the shorter kid, you know what I mean? So this is too easy. This one, by the way, is such light work. It's crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think it's this one where the girl behind her is like, oh, I got one. I'm wide open now. Their routes might have gotten crossed. Here she is. That girl. No, here she comes. The other girl up. No. Oh, dang. She thought.

[Ebro Darden]

No. He said there was a girl on Issa's team behind her.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, they crisp. They crisscrossed.

[Ebro Darden]

I think there was just. They had Esau on one route and the other girl was in the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

By the way. But the route runnings. That's tough. Learning to actually run routes is proper thing.

[Ebro Darden]

No, they have routes. They have timing routes. They have like. Yeah. They have audibles. They have all type of.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He hasn't considered quarterback, too.

[Ebro Darden]

I asked her. She's actually a really good quarterback. She doesn't want the responsibility. She's not passionate about it. So I said, don't do it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, that's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, that's. It's a lot of responsibility, you know, but you don't want strength like you would think it would be.

[Ebro Darden]

But she. I don't think that's. She just hasn't wanted it. And they've offered it to her and she's just like, no, I'm fine.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'd rather be receiving.

[Ebro Darden]

She likes defense a lot. She likes playing receiver. That's the thing. So we'll let that. You know, me about to get this

[Peter Rosenberg]

full ride to college. It's gonna be crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

But, you know, she grew fast, right? I don't know if Issa's, what, five' five now?

[Peter Rosenberg]

You have no idea. It could be over.

[Ebro Darden]

This could be it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm five' four.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, no, she's taller. She's taller than your mom. She's taller than Jazz, Taller than everybody.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She's taller than Jazz, too. She's taller than everything.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Me, I think the only person she's

[Ebro Darden]

not taller than is my mother in law.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, you.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Jazz mom is five, nine.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's promising for.

[Ebro Darden]

And Issa said that she wants to be five, nine months.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Five, nine.

[Ebro Darden]

She used to not. She used to really get upset about being the tall girl. Like that used to be a thing. Like, she's. I hate being a tall girl because she's been tall her whole life.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right?

[Ebro Darden]

I'm like, yo, come a time, trust me. I was a tall kid, and then all of a sudden, now everyone will catch up. Like six. Six.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's like, you're not that tall. You're tall.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm tall. But there's dudes that are like. And then when you play sports, by

[Peter Rosenberg]

the way, tall privilege is such a thing. More for men than for women. Because for women it can also be a disadvantage depending on your situation.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I understand her fears, but tall privilege for men is an underappreciated thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like it's. You don't. And listen, I'm not saying there's not annoying things about it also because people like make it, oh, play ball. But we're like, if you're a pretty. If you're a half decent looking guy and then you throw in like 6, 5. It. It's a game changer. No, it's a game. It is a game changer.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But when you're a tall woman. My best friend Sasha, been tall our whole lives. You know, Sasha's. I wanna. Is she. She's like 5 11.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's 5 11's up there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's like 5 11, 5 10, 5 11. But our whole lives, she's has to be like conscious of like, damn, is he gonna be taller than me? It's always the thing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's the thing. It doesn't work for women. It can, can have negatives.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. We would go shopping. She's like, I can't get any heels, man. I can't play myself. And I used to feel like, yeah,

[Ebro Darden]

you can get the little. She was like, nah, my little baby.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She did it, she did it.

[Ebro Darden]

She was like, no, stick with a flat or go heel.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes, yes, yes. But it's fine.

[Ebro Darden]

Find you a man that, you know, likes that, you know what I mean? Because there's definitely men out here that don't mind a tall, tall woman.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. So she. They're Gucci, but.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But, yeah, but men don't even realize when they're super tall. Like there's, and there's levels of short for men. Like I am just at the line. I'm just at the line where it's something I don't think about. And I pass as like regular height. I'm just that.

[Ebro Darden]

What is the average men height? Five seven.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, what is it?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Five six, five seven, five eight. Probably five seven, five eight, five eight. Is that where I am? If you're, if you're five, four, five, nine. Five nine is the average five nine.

[Ebro Darden]

Damn.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Five nine feels.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, feels tall.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Globally it's five seven and a half.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Seven and a half.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Globally, five seven and a half. That's why I'm going to Europe. No, but Like, I'm not at the. Like, I mean, listen, we have a short king amongst us. We do lose a short king. I mean, Bascom's borderline short king. How tall are you? Bascom? Ron Bascom.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ron.

[Ebro Darden]

Ron Bascom.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're five six. Five six, five six, Lou.

[Ebro Darden]

Five three. Five, three, five, three.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Short king.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's my short king right there. It's hard though. And then. Yo, I work with Alan Hahn. Allen's six six, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Damn. Really?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Six six? I can't stand anywhere near him in photos, bro. I'm just like, get. I'll be over there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Cause you look like Kevin Hart.

[Ebro Darden]

Don. Isn't that Don is what?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, Don's like 5, 10, 5 11. It's fine.

[Laura Rosenberg]

6 6.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Even up to like 6 2. It's like being near the person. I don't feel like when I'm in pictures with you, like, oh, God, with Allen, it's that extra four inches. No, six' six is different, but to the same time, it's like, did you play ball? I play a little D3 in college. Ah, fuck outta here. And that part's annoying that I'm guessing. Everyone's always saying, do you play ball?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If you really can't play ball, right? It's like you're immediately illusion.

[Ebro Darden]

But it's not that he couldn't. He just didn't go. That wasn't his.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, he played his. He played.

[Ebro Darden]

He played to where he could play. D3 is. Listen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Stops real.

[Ebro Darden]

It's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, D3 is real.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Would Sasha everyone be like, you play basketball, you model. She's like, no, no and no, no. I have no interest. That's literally every time. Every time we would go out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But for men, they get treated. It adds a certain level of power and prestige that if you don't have it, you do have to like make up for.

[Ebro Darden]

But that's the. But that's why some people turns into a complex.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You mean being short?

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ebro Darden]

Some people complex because they're like, I'm trying to make up for my size.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Lou, do you think about your. Your height a lot? You have his mic on?

[Ebro Darden]

No, not really.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Actually.

[Ebro Darden]

Actually, for me, it's just.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This is who I am. This is normal. I've lived with it all my life, like, whatever. Like a lot of people look at so much into it, like, oh, you're short of that.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't give a fuck. Right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because I've dated girls 5, 9, 5, right? 5, 9, 5, 8 or something like that. And short women as well. Like, none of this shit bothers me. Really?

[Ebro Darden]

Because when we laying down, we the same height

[Peter Rosenberg]

shots of my short kings.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I'm saying?

[Peter Rosenberg]

We took a photo. I have this photo. I won't even post it. I have a photo that's so nuts of me and three other short kings posted with Omos from WWE. Nah, bro. It's so insane.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How tall is Omos?

[Peter Rosenberg]

7 4.

[Ebro Darden]

But by the way, the last time I saw you on wwe, you had a bunch of short kings jumping on a desk with painted faces gyrating in your face.

[Peter Rosenberg]

For the record. For the record, they were.

[Ebro Darden]

Am I making it up?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No. But they went beyond short kings. Those were very, extremely short Kings.

[Ebro Darden]

Those were little people.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Those were little kings. They were little kings.

[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay, they were. They were Danhausen's friends, the Minihausens.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And they. Yo, my man. Hitting the straight worm on the desk.

[Ebro Darden]

No, the athleticisms of the mini houses needs to be studied.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I see. It's crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, but also, I did see. And you know, we'll get back to family fought Friday because we have your emails and things. I did see there was some blowback for the mini houses.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, really?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. In your con, in your comment, what were they saying? They were angry about this being. Is this what wrestling's come to? Wwe.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's. Yeah. I was like, always been.

[Ebro Darden]

I was like, is this new? I've seen this sort of shenanigans for always generations.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Those shenanigans are part of the fun there. It's A. It's. I love my Short Kings. You know what I mean?

[Ebro Darden]

You said they were Little Kings.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I love my Little King.

[Ebro Darden]

Because the sh. The sh. The Short Kings and the Little Kings, I don't know if they want to be categorically the same.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No. Because it's not quite the same thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, if you. If you put Lou in the category with the Little Kings.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's tight now, but look, it's not the same thing.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not the same.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no. I saw. But I did see a video moving around of one of the guys who was in, who was with Danhausen, because, you know, they bring in these wrestlers who are little people, and one of the guys they brought in put up this video of him being. Oh, here it is. Look. It says, look, you can't join wwe. You're disabled. And it's showing him as a little kid in a wheelchair, and his feet are sticking opposite directions. And he's only like three, you know, two and a half feet tall. And, yo, he made it to wwe. Got to have this night and perform and do all this stuff, and I thought it was pretty cool.

[Ebro Darden]

That's dope.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

While you were doing that, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the one decoration that sits behind you on the shelf, and it started to bother me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I see one. Something else. You need something else here?

[Ebro Darden]

You're. You guys's commitment to, like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Remember you said, how long will it take for him to get annoyed?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I need something else.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's been a week.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm gonna add a couple more things

[Ebro Darden]

because there's zero commitment to the beautiful space.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think there's. I actually really like what we've done. I think Ebro won't admit it, but that's actually gotten. All right. He's cool with it. I think he's cool with the other side.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I've seen people in the chat comment on the hat, too.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, the hat's the thing. People are spotting it. I just wanted to be.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't care that they spotted a hat on a shelf.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Why do you think there's something else that. I want everything to be purposeful. Westside guns, wrestling, brand heels. It fits for something to be here. The. The. You know, all of these things have some purpose that fits. I don't want to just shove in a bottle of liquor.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Or a book. We agree it needs to be something. So I'm just. It will happen. I seem to think of the right thing. I thought about a turntable this week, but I Think it was a little too big. What would you think about a turntable of some sort there? Like a record player?

[Ebro Darden]

Like, you'd have to put it on its side to show on camera, because

[Peter Rosenberg]

otherwise it won't really. It would just look like that. You just see, like a thing.

[Ebro Darden]

You would just see the side.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What about like, you have a. You have an npc.

[Ebro Darden]

It's too big and heavy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know, it's like a real thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Unless you. We'll look, there's a mini. Yeah, I was gonna say there's a.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like a box of the npc. Mini would be kind of fire. I'm kind of tempted to get it, even though I know I won't use it.

[Ebro Darden]

You guys know it's our hundredth episode, right? 100 episode. Keep it. 100.

[Laura Rosenberg]

100.

[Ebro Darden]

So whose idea was it to celebrate the hundredth episode?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean. I mean, producer Griff pointed out, but I thought it was great.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It was great. But the short answer is Griffin.

[Ebro Darden]

Got it. Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Short king answer is Griffin.

[Ebro Darden]

And now that you see this on camera, you're feeling it, Laura.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I do. I like it.

[Ebro Darden]

I like it. You like?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think it's the 100 looks cool.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know, I just have to say, too, from the beginning, like, we went. In my opinion, we went from 0 to 100 real quick. Like, this happened fast.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. On Iceman.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I knew someone would get it. We went from 0 to 100. Yo. She took me seriously. She was like, you're right. We did go to zero. Real fucking quick.

[Ebro Darden]

Real quick. Zero to 100 real quick.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

All right. What do we have next?

[Peter Rosenberg]

We have a voice note. We have a. What are we talking about?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I want to give Selassie some love before we get to the voice note. I got a picture of Selassie. You know what I'm saying? I don't get to. Her mom is real. That's the Lassie. Just hanging out on a sunny day. I thought it would bring some light to your life.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Joy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Look at that smile.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Look at. She's so cute. It's just joy. That's it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, I real. A real life broke down in tears the other day when I got sent that picture.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I was just like.

[Ebro Darden]

It's just like, yo, that kid right there, man, just. Bruh. She is positive, fun loving. Like, you couldn't. I couldn't ask for it. Like, I'm so lucky.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I know. I feel you, dog. I feel you, dog.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I mean? So, yeah, you get sent those photos and I think I was on the road. And, you know, I think we talked about on the show, like, traveling. Did we talk about traveling? When you're, like, leaving the house thinking, like, damn, I really love my family.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Has she gotten. Is she now, like, sad when you leave?

[Ebro Darden]

No, not there. I think it's just kind of been where she. When I jump on FaceTime. So when I jump on FaceTime, I'm either with Issa driving to and from. Like, she's like, daddy, Issa. And it's like a convo. Or she's like, daddy, you on the airplane. And then, like, I'll show her the airplane. She'll be like, well, but you don't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She doesn't.

[Ebro Darden]

Because I'm guessing that when I'm walking out the house, she's like, daddy, where you going? She's at that level, but not, what are you doing? But that's her thing. Daddy, what are you doing?

[Peter Rosenberg]

But she's not at the. Like, why. No, but that will come, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It will.

[Ebro Darden]

It could. It could. Or she could be accustomed to me coming and going, which makes me sad

[Laura Rosenberg]

because I do it with Kenza. And then she's like, mommy, you have a work meeting, you have a dinner now. She says it. She says it. So. But then sometimes she'll be like, mom, I don't want you to go. I want you to stay with me. And then I'll be like, all right, I'm gonna cancel this.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Have you done that before?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've done it. I've done it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Not a lot, but a casual.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, something super casual that I could reschedule. Something easy. I'll do it. Because when she tells me she wants to hang out, you get all choked up. Like, let's. Let's do it.

[Ebro Darden]

Facts.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Have you. I like Maya's new version of when she. If she has, like, a mini meltdown about something, like, you know, usually it turns out she's hungry or whatever. The thing is, this is just new. Like, let's say you put her down. You're like, sure. No, I picked her up. And then you put her down. She just immediately folds over onto her head. Like, you know, like, the. She'll do the, like, lean face to the ground.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And then you hear that. Like, she couldn't even take it. She just crumples under. And I'm like. And you pick her up. And I'm like, what is going on with you?

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's funny. All right, so let's get to these emails.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's go. Ebro. Laura Rosenberg at Gmail. We got two Voice notes. Do we have any videos this week?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No videos. Why y' all shy? Send us videos.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I mean? They don't, you know, I want to see you guys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Laura wants you to send nudes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not nudes, just fun videos. Come on. Fs.

[Ebro Darden]

Josh, I don't know if anybody's going to read your email.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know it was a lot like. Guys, come on. Keep it short, tight. We. We can't do.

[Ebro Darden]

There's some great. And by the way, Josh and his. The subject is academics. Looks like he recorded voice to text. Missing punctuation Jock. Josh. So you did record send us a voice note. Josh.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Josh.

[Ebro Darden]

Because this is definitely hard to read and he does say some positive things in there and that's why I'm pointing it out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

He said that basically people are seeing you guys and how authentic and real you guys are and the show's basically great and a lot of people had impressions of you guys being a Hot 97 for the last 10 years. And he would listen to us every morning and he thinks that people are really getting to know us in this format.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right, all right. I hear that too, friend. Thank you.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, Laura, what you got?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's see. This is from Pooh Bear.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Pooh Bear.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think it's. You are Pooh Bear.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, I was. I was almost impressed.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know. I was like, pooh Bear, Happy birthday. No. All right, shout out to the whole crew. The old man, Lady Lauda, Griff, Ron Baskeem, and even the family still back at the plantation. Lol. But a special shout out to PMD for bringing the OG MJ Rosenberg to the show. Was so interested when his appearance was announce that I decided to finally take the plunge and pay for Patreon. He did not disappoint. And not for nothing, being the father of a seven year old boy makes it extra special to hear the way Pete talks about his dad. The thought of my son speaking so highly of me someday is absolute. Dad calls. Oh, Pooh Bear.

[Ebro Darden]

That's dope.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That was dope.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's very sweet.

[Ebro Darden]

So you got a lot of positive feedback on mj? Yeah, the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The Patreon comments are. Was really, really nice. Everyone. People really did want to hear him back. They really want to hear more from mj.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know, I was scanning, like, let me see if I find some heat so I could get up there.

[Ebro Darden]

How many did you guys look?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right? Nothing.

[Ebro Darden]

Did you guys look through all these emails? Because there's another one from Stewart. Love to MJ and England elections is what he's talking about.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

He just said, what a Patreon. MJ is probably the coolest man I've ever listened to. Wow, Peter, you're lucky to have this man as your dad. No wonder you're so open minded. Anyway, the Patreon convo has raised questions in my head about what is happening recently here in the uk. There is no doubt we've had a rise in violence against Jewish. The Jewish population. We've had stabbings outside synagogues in Manchester and London and Jewish ambulances set on fire. After listening to your conversation on Wednesday, the question it raised in my head, was it possible that the Israeli government are involved in this rather than the narrative being pushed that it's Iran and the IRGC who are involved? To me, Iran have nothing to gain by attacking people in the UK because we haven't joined the war led by the USA and Israel. But we would join if Iran attacked people here. Which is why I had the thought in my head about the Israeli government.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, if you listen to what my dad was saying in the, in the Patreon episode, you would certainly think it's on the table that crazy things would be done to try to garner sympathy or, or empathy, whatever it is. So I, I don't know. I know nothing about what's happening there, hate crime wise. And I do believe that, you know,

[Ebro Darden]

one of the hate crimes, one of the hate crimes in there, they were, it was like they said Jewish people got attacked, but also Muslim people got attacked.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It is in England.

[Ebro Darden]

By the same person. Yeah. Who was a Muslim person? I think so.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's just a crazy person doing crazy things.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, but I don't know if that applies to all the incidents, but there was definitely an incident that made it across my algo. But anyway, shout to. What was his name again? Stuart. Shout out to Stewart. He said. He also said, I didn't expect you guys to answer this live on the show, but if you get MJ to delve into this on his sub stack or an email to me, I, I'd love to hear his thoughts on this. We just had our local elections too, and Trump's mate and his party have made even more inroads as a parent to two daughters and a disabled adult son. The future is looking scary right now and I can't fix it. Love to the show. Keep doing what you're doing and love hearing what you guys do daily. It fills me with hope. Rosenberg. Please hurry up and validate me. Hurry up with validate me. I think It'll really help me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Shouts to my guy, Omar. He's in the building right now. We're putting the studio together, getting things right. I'll pass that on to my dad, though, about the England stuff, what he's seen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I want to remind you guys also that the merch is on and popping. We brought back Blood in the Water white version.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Blood in the Water White updated with

[Laura Rosenberg]

new logo and everything. It's doing very well. And if you don't hurry up and cop, it's going to be done.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know how Ebro does it might

[Laura Rosenberg]

be done by show. So I was like, let me remind everyone really quick, because I see some people talking about merch, so go shop Ebro. Laura Rosenberg, show.com.

[Peter Rosenberg]

all right, here, I'll read one here.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This is a little while back, but it's about youth sports, which I think is a good theme given where we are today.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I really love listening, you guys. I've been listening since day one. From Orlando. Shouts to Orlando. I'm there all the time. I heard you talking about your daughter playing flag football. When you said you're not putting pressure on her even though she's good because you want her to enjoy it, that really hit me. My daughter played soccer for over 10 years. She was amazing, played on elite teams, and I was on the field with it through all of it. But her dad put a lot of pressure on her, especially during games, and little by little, it took the joy out of it. She ended up losing her love for soccer completely and is now a stripper. I. Just kidding.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, my God. Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I added that, boss.

[Chrissy]

Gosh.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sorry. She ended up losing her love for soccer completely. And to this day, I can't help but wonder what it could have been if she had just been allowed to enjoy the game. So when I heard you say that, I just wanted to thank you. You're protecting something in your daughter that really matters.

[Ebro Darden]

Aw, thank you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's dope.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That is really dope. Because people do get hyped. And then it's like, once you're good, now you really have to. And by the way, I think Ebro would. Has talked about this before. He is going to always encourage her to complete the tasks that she starts.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But if you decide that this isn't the thing for you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. If you're not happy anymore. Right. Be like, all right. If you don't, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You get nervous before our games at all. Or no.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I get nervous when I know

[Peter Rosenberg]

she's nervous, but this football doesn't make

[Ebro Darden]

or, like, it's like, a bit like, it's an important moment. Like they're in a championship game, and I know that they really want it. I think I get nervous.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right, don't lie. Don't lie. How crazy are you on the sidelines?

[Ebro Darden]

Not at all. I don't say much. I'll be like, yeah, Isoko, okay. But I'm not, like, screaming at the ref.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But there's also other parents that you'll be like, look at this guy.

[Ebro Darden]

Not really. I'll be honest.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's not bad. The phone. It's not bad.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not bad.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, that's good, because I've seen something.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm like, oh, yeah. I mean, I've definitely seen. Now, mind you, there are coaches that are yelling at the kids in ways that I'm like, all right, bro, chill out. Or there are coaches that are, like, cursing and stuff. And that took me aback. Efforts.

[Chrissy]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

I was like, wait a minute. Like, this is crazy. So there's. There's some of that, but not a lot. Like, some of it's toned down, but also too. Like, there is. And I have. But by the way, when Issa first started, I was more vocal, and I was like, more like, yeah, nah, nah. You know, and yelled at the ref or whatever a couple of times. So that has happened. But I. Over the time, I was kind of like, what are you doing?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right, right, right.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay, let them play. And I don't think it helps Issa. Like, it's not helping Issa for me to be.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No. I feel like baseball would make me more nervous than football, by the way.

[Ebro Darden]

In what way?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Just I think it.

[Ebro Darden]

Bats in baseball are just like, oh, like injury.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like, no, no, no. The. The. The striking out is, like, this kind of overt disappointment, you know, that kind of. It exists more than in other sports where, like, you feel embarrassed a little bit or baseball just provides a lot. It's hard.

[Ebro Darden]

I. I'll be honest. There's a piece of me that I want Issa to win, and I want them to win, and I want them to do well because it builds confidence. Right. An L is good for you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, losing is good, too.

[Ebro Darden]

Losing is good for you. And then we get to. And we're going to talk about how you feel like, in this moment. And I'm big on. I'm super big. Y' all are getting punched in the face right now. Can you keep your composure?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right. And not melt down.

[Ebro Darden]

Right. Can't. And if your teammates are melting down, can you still show up every play? Like, this play could win the game. Can you change the energy? Or if this team is dominating you, can you find some ways to get small victories that improve your mentality? You know what I mean? Like, I'm big on that. Like, that's just. But that's life stuff.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You mean like the time I was playing in an adult men's League at 25, and I heroically melted down and then threw a chair onto the court, was ejected, and they canceled the game. Oh, they canceled the game.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, at, like, LA Fitness?

[Peter Rosenberg]

The equivalent. I mean, it was. It was like a Maryland adult men's league game. And we were getting.

[Ebro Darden]

We were like, at the ymca.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. And we were getting run out of the building, and I started getting into it with someone. Oh, my God, they threw it. They called me tech. They kicked me out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I got kicked out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I got to the bench. I just took the chair. I went full Bobby Knight to the chair. And they canceled the game. And I'll never forget it. My friend Indy, we were walking out. He was like, what's the matter with you? You don't have your own reality show that's. Nobody's watching this. You're just an asshole.

[Ebro Darden]

I was like, yeah, I mean, look, I've definitely melted down during sports, but I don't recall melting down because we were losing bad. I normally would melt down if I felt like somebody was trying to hurt people. Like. Like, yo, you're trying to. Like, you're.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, it started getting. It started getting. We're getting physically manhandled. That was kind of. But it was still inexcusable and stupid, right?

[Ebro Darden]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

No, Laura, I don't.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was a catcher.

[Ebro Darden]

I remember a different baseball bat story, but go ahead.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, that's a different one. Yeah, I was a catcher. I was in elementary school. I remember I was in sixth grade. And you know when people are batting and they throw the bat? This bitch threw the bat at me, like, on purpose.

[Ebro Darden]

It wasn't just like, I released the

[Laura Rosenberg]

bat and it hit you, and it smacked me up. So I took the bat, and I followed her to first base, and I hit her, and then that was it.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, wait. And so you got kicked out of the game?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, it was over.

[Ebro Darden]

And then you never played baseball?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it was a rap for me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Laura's parents thought she was about to be the next Fernando Valenzuela.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But. But. But I didn't get in trouble because I told my dad what happened. He was like, it's okay now.

[Ebro Darden]

Now. And then. And then you proceeded.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She did, bro. You know, when you bat and then you throw the bat backwards and she did it on purpose.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You sure?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Positive. Positive.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I wish there was a replay. I would analyze if I believe her. Neither.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, I can't believe you guys don't believe.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, because people bat, right? And so she hit the ball.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. I don't even know if she hit. Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. She was going to first base.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She hit it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. So she hits the ball, and you think she had enough time. And how old were you?

[Laura Rosenberg]

6th grade.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Which is 11.

[Ebro Darden]

11 years old. So, yeah. Issa's age. Yeah. It could get chippy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So she hit chippy and she looked back. She was through the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know. Well, look it. That's the end of my baseball.

[Ebro Darden]

Now, was it. Was it a throw or was it a fling?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it was like a. Like a fling.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. See, that might have been inadvertent.

[Chrissy]

N, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, you did it, too.

[Ebro Darden]

Producer Grim might have been an invert, Laura, because. And also, you don't have a lot of baseball bat credibility because at. At 11 years old. Well, eight years later, the baseball bat in hand.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That was later.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Are there pictures of you playing baseball?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I need to see it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I wish.

[Peter Rosenberg]

When you go home, can you look?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm gonna ask my mom. I don't really have too many pictures of my childhood.

[Ebro Darden]

So eight years later with the baseball bat in hand, I want to go back to that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Laura was on, like, the East La Gatos.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Her little team.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't even live in east la.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That was the team you were on, though, in my story that I made up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So funny.

[Ebro Darden]

So why you gotta bring. How old were you, which was sixth grade, when you took the baseball bat and destroyed your boyfriend's house?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, that was much later.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, that was later, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, how old?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think, like, 18.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, so like I said, 17. Seven years later. Eight years later.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So you're saying a pattern? There's a pattern.

[Ebro Darden]

The baseball bat. She was like, oh, you know what that bitch did to me with the baseball bat?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Watch what I do with this baseball bats.

[Ebro Darden]

Do not let Laura get a baseball bat in her hand. It's the moral of the story.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, my God.

[Ebro Darden]

Rosenberg or no. I think we got a voice note. Let's go to Chrissy. Chrissy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Chrissy]

Hey, El Army. Hey, y'.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All.

[Chrissy]

I want to be quick, but I also want to give y' all a shout out and say, y' all uplift my mornings.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, thank you, Chrissy.

[Chrissy]

I want some advice because my daughter is really, like, taking me through the wringer, and I just need some community support.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Chrissy]

She's four and a half.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Chrissy]

We don't punish her with, like, whooping or, like, spankings or anything. And I'm just running out of ways to kind of get her to listen to me. She listens to her dad. No issue. But me, she just gives me a hard time. It's not all the time. It's moments where she feels like she doesn't want to do what I ask her. And she'll throw her toy on the floor and not pick it up. She'll scream. She'll stomp her feet. And so far, I have taken her TV away, I've taken her tablet, taken her dresses, you know, had a heart to heart with her, multiple conversations, expressing to her like, it's important that you listen to mom, you know, follow my directions and all that kind of stuff. But I just can't get through to her. I'm talking to her, asking for advice from my family and friends, and I just feel like I have exactly exhausted all of my options. And I am beyond frustrated. Spanking her is not an option.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, it's not gonna work.

[Chrissy]

I just don't know what else to do.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not gonna help you.

[Chrissy]

I'm at a loss. And I feel like I'm going crazy because I'm trying so hard not to parent like my parents. And I'm just thinking to myself, maybe it's this Hard because I'm not spanking her. Maybe that's why I was spanked when I was a kid. Because it's just so frustrating to try to get through to your kid when they don't want to listen. And it's simple things. Brush your teeth. I don't feel like brushing my teeth. Pick up your toys. I don't want to pick up my toys. What am I supposed to do? And even when I take her stuff away, it doesn't even affect her like that. Like, she is an intellectual kid. She likes puzzles.

[Ebro Darden]

That's your answer.

[Chrissy]

Reading books.

[Ebro Darden]

That's your answer.

[Chrissy]

She likes coloring.

[Ebro Darden]

That's your answer.

[Chrissy]

Do I take everything away from her?

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know.

[Chrissy]

But I just really want y' all advice and help with this matter and. And I really appreciate y'.

[Ebro Darden]

All stop telling her what to do and do it together. Stop thinking. A four year old, which she does have the capacity to like learn things and remember things, whatever. But the systems you want to put in place, you're gonna have to be there with her doing it. Hey, let's brush our teeth. Hey, let's clean up. You. Some of this is her wanting your attention. That's why she don't listen to mom that way. And some of this is also just her, you know, trolling you and getting a kick out of the reaction. There's times, and at least this is what I try to do. I'm not saying I don't fail, but you got to get up off your ass and just stop saying, go do a thing. Let's go do a thing. Hey, I need your help. Hey, let's. It's got to be a group effort because you're saying you have an intellectual child. You can't. So the, the whippings, even if that was the thing, wouldn't do it. It wouldn't even work.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Because your child's thinking.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

So you gotta outthink your child and. And parents stop thinking because you said it once or twice or 20 times that it's done. It's not a. Kids aren't a set it and forget it. You know what I'm saying? It's just, they're. It's not how it works, man. They will with certain things. Other things, not so much.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a moment when I was like, kind of like in your situation when I was frustrated with Kenza. And I remember I yelled at her and then she started. She looked at me and started like her tears, which it wasn't an instant cry, just Tears were coming down. And I looked at her and I was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was like, come here. So we sat down. I said, I'm sorry for yelling at you. That was not nice. Mommy's just because she says my. My feelings are angry when she's angry. So I said, my feelings are angry too. So how about this? We breathe. I was like, we'll pick it up together. But it hurts Mommy's feelings when I keep telling you to do something and you don't want to do it. Remember we talked about a mess? And then she was just listening to me. She's like, okay, Mommy. And then I helped her. I helped her do it together. And then I tried to ask her nicely. I was like, kenza, can we. Can we pick up? It's time. I was like, you know, I saw the dollies that you put out there. Let's put them away. Do you need help or you got it? She was like, I got it, Mommy. Because she wants to feel independent, you know, I always said, you need some help or you got it. And she'll tell me she got it. So that's been. That was working for me because at first I was frustrated too. I'm like, I already told you, you know, I don't spank my kid, but I do do a timeout in that corner.

[Ebro Darden]

We spend. We spend every waking moment from the time our child is born holding their hand to do everything. Everything. Then all of a sudden, and I'm air quote all of a sudden, because probably not all of a sudden, but it kind of is, because now all of a sudden, they're four years old. If you think about it, 12 months ago, what were you doing with your child?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

18 months ago, no time. You were doing something different. Now all of a sudden, because they speak better and they're physically more capable of doing things, you think that they're not still mentally like that two year old?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right, Right. And they're still trying to understand, too.

[Ebro Darden]

They're still trying to figure out patterns of speech, time and place.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Feelings, feelings, their own feelings. They're like, why do I feel like

[Ebro Darden]

this sense of urgent time, literal time? Like you're like, yo, I've been telling you this for five minutes. They're like, what's five minutes? What are you talking about?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right? Have they even learned time yet? Really?

[Ebro Darden]

What is he saying? We need to do this right now. What's now? Like, you mean now or like when I get ready to. Like, what are you saying?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

And so sometimes you got to be like, listen, every night at this time, we're going to do this thing. And you got to be there as a parent every night at that time to do the thing. Then it becomes a thing. Now we have a routine. We're going to just like your go to bed routine is the pajamas and the brush, the teeth and the thing. You got to do the thing. All right? Then when they start to understand a little bit time, you go, look, see, there's a 9,00 when that clock says that every day we're going to do this, and we're gonna do it together. And then after a while.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think. I think we found something out for this lady.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It sounds like she really is just trying to give an instruction and think that that's enough. And for some kids, that. For some kids, it could be.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's unusual, by the way. It will be.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right. It's just not right away.

[Ebro Darden]

We're not. You're not there yet.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Did she say it's her first?

[Ebro Darden]

She didn't say it was her first, but it sounds like it. And she was saying, well, the. The daughter listens to the husband. Some of that is tone of voice and some of that. Also parents remember the or mom specifically. And there's books about this. You can read articles about this. Psychologists have written about this for, you know, a generation probably. There's something between children or humans and the person that they're closest to where they are meaner to the people that they're closest to than they are to the people that are like a step away from that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's literally true forever.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, but.

[Ebro Darden]

But people forget.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And so she's saying she doesn't listen to me. Well, she's not listening to you because you're her mom. And she's like, I know you, and I don't have to. And I can. And we could get into it with her dad. She's like, bro, be coming in and out the house. His voice is mad deep. I don't know, bro. Wow. Let me just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And it's also because your children are more comfortable feeling. Feeling more around you, so. And that comes with all feelings. You know what I mean?

[Peter Rosenberg]

So there'll be upside to it at some point, too.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sending you a hug. Cuz I know it gets frustrating, but you got it, man. You got it.

[Ebro Darden]

And also ask your husband for help. Y' all should be doing these things together, the things that you're asking her to do. He should be backing you up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yep.

[Ebro Darden]

And y' all should all collectively be doing it together. So like right now in our house, if I'm chilling and Selassie's going to brush her teeth, guess what, Daddy, Come, come. Because a few months ago she's two and two and a half, right? Is that she? Two and a half? Yet she turned two in February.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Almost half.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's call two and a half. I gotta get off my ass and do the thing right because it's gonna make the thing easier. We're gonna do it together because that's how we started it. So for the next little while, if I'm sitting there chilling. Daddy brush teeth. She think I gotta brush my teeth, which I probably do because I'm a breath stink. But still I don't feel like it right now. Just like she probably don't either. But guess what? Get off your ass and let's go do it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's a good message, you know, I

[Ebro Darden]

mean, back to the emails. Rosenberg, what you got?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Let's see. Let's keep it short because I gotta go. Omar says hello. I'm a new listener. As I was aware of your show on the radio, but never listened to radio as I just stream off my phone. I saw the clip about Mia and I just wondered, has an artist's political affiliation. Excuse me, Been broadcast in the past? I think if I remember right, most artists or pretend to be political, I don't know. By the way, I think Sexy Red also supports Trump. Has anyone else? What do you. Sorry, bad choice, guys.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes, Omar. Rappers, political affiliations or support of potential. A lot of rappers. M.I.A has been political her entire career. And I think there's a disappointment in Mia because she has supported immigrants.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, but she supported immigrants. She supported, you know, she anti establishment kind of artists. And now you're a Trumper now she's a brand Republican.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Brown Republican or something, which I think is a grift anyway. But yes, there's other rappers and things like that that were just like about materialism and that's who they are. And they're definitely. We know their political alignments better 1.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm gonna be fast. We gotta wrap here.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Darren, is that you doing?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I was gonna do okay. Not Darren, this is. But this is J. Cruz. It's not bad.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Friend of the show for 10 years. Like you. I'm not from New York, even though I've lived here since I was 13. I'm now 46. But you're not from New York. But there are levels because I'm definitely a Brooklyn girl now that I Live in Long Island. I'm an educator and you were and still are a part of my work commute. What's crazy is that hot I would get you mid thought and then have to leave you mid sentence to get to work on time. You're still part of my morning commute, but now I'm listening to your podcast. What's wild to me is that before I would catch you for the 20 to 40 minutes my commute would last, there were times I would miss something that you would bring up later and I would get pissed that I missed the reference. With the podcast, I now get to listen to your whole show. So you have become a part of my commute home and everything in between as well. I've been keeping up, but I was only a day behind before all the school breaks here in New York, so now I'm around three episodes behind. Anyways, I can't skip them to catch up because I have serious fomo. I might miss something.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, Jazz is going through the same thing right now with our show. Yelled at me the other day like, babe, what's going on on the show? I haven't listened in three days. I was like, why haven't you? Well, I've been busy in the mornings and Selassie's schedule's changing. I got yelled at because she didn't listen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's up to you. And by the way, you're not missing that much. I'll be honest. I mean, it's a great show, but you're not gonna fall it for that far behind. It happens. With that, I want to share some tidbits. One, if you ever want to expand, the educators of the NY metro area would love something from 7 to 8am let's chill out for a second, lady. But we love you.

[Ebro Darden]

Rosenberg is so anti Semitic.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I was already saying earlier. I'm like, why do we start at five days? We should have started at three and worked our way up. We started giving by the way.

[Ebro Darden]

There's no work up with you started at 3. You wouldn't went up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You would have been like, why are we doing something?

[Ebro Darden]

You would have never went to four or five.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I disagree.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I disagree.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I disagree. I'm telling you I disagree. I'm telling you I disagree. But now you can't go back looks out of the utter.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know, I know, I know, I know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm telling you I would. It's. But no, you're never getting me earlier, earlier off the table. But we could. But again, we did say we could work on different things. There could be other shows that we record. Drop things at other times. Yeah mj. After watching the documentary leaving Netherlands, I could never bring myself to unsee or unknow. I feel ick to his songs despite having loved them as a child. Can't see the Broadway show or the movie. I just can't compartmentalize. Okay. People saying they miss you and not knowing you are on YouTube or Apple Podcasts is wild to me. Have they heard of Google? Literally, if you put Ebra Lauren Rosenberg in the search bar, the first thing that comes UP is the YouTube show. And if they need the Cliff Notes, they just have to press the AI mode. It'll be an entire explanation.

[Ebro Darden]

Lou is so excited that the search engine optimization is working.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Love my El army merch. You should create a page on your website for out and about with your El army merch picks.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, cute.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay, maybe also your website should include the email addresses for Fot Friday and Gurus and a link to sponsors. Thank you for staying our lives.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Cute. Okay, we'll take those.

[Ebro Darden]

I want to piggyback short though. And this is for cuz I know we got a rap today from Kendu. He feels like the show has deviated from its core. Core.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Go ahead, Kendall.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What does he mean?

[Ebro Darden]

But Good morning, elr. Welcome back, Laura. We really miss you. Last Wednesday's show really triggered me. It's as though the show deviated from its core values this morning. While I recognize that was that what has been accomplished in 2026 thus far has been absolutely tremendous for the show, I want to witness and be a part of the many successes that lie ahead for us. Rather than do or say nothing, I thought I'd connect with you all via email because I genuinely want the show to succeed. What happened last Wednesday?

[Laura Rosenberg]

What happened last?

[Ebro Darden]

This was written on 5, 6, 20. What happened last Wednesday? Oh, talking about academics.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay, all right, all right. Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Elr Superpower has always been engagement with the community. That has been demonstrated through hip hop, culture, politics, social awareness, humor, the catalyst for critical thinking, solicited advice, AKA the original gurus, philanthropy, and of course through sharing and displaying what positive family structure is and looks like. And then this person goes on and on to basically say within a matter of three weeks of leaving Hot 97 broadcast from home, now you got a new studio and because you've made it the successful pivot to YouTube and he basically is saying he feels like we're asking for subscribers and hitting the hype button and the subscribers would come and everything will happen and everything you do in this space now is forever. And so if we do something, it could be used against us in the Internet court of law. Like asking for subscribers or looking like. Like the thing when we joked around not having guests. Sure, right. And then people threw that in our face. Like, look at this show's failing because they can't have guests.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is that what he's overall trying to say?

[Ebro Darden]

He's ultimately getting down that. Trust me, I understand the rationale behind hitting the hype button. We are, however, living in a precarious times. I can assure you the likes will come. The amount of subscribers will increase. Simply stay true to what each of you are doing during the show within the studio. The globe needs substance. We need truth. We need credibility. We need to continue to be prime examples in our community. The platform provides that. But we must remain cognizant as to how we've arrived at this point today. Remember, ELR now has a global presence that is outstanding. Continue success to you, Ebro, Laura, and you, Peter, and to all those within the studio, within our loyal chat. Continue to empower the masses domestically, internationally. But that. But I had to read it. I didn't want to read it all, but Kendu is clearly in the chat,

[Peter Rosenberg]

so, yes, can do.

[Ebro Darden]

And feeling like he can't do his talk and feeling like we've lost our core values because we were likely talk.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Engaging in the.

[Ebro Darden]

Engaging in the Internet.

[Peter Rosenberg]

One of our core values has always been arguing with people in the Internet.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hello. Hi, I'm Peter. Have you not heard me the last 20 years? This is what I do.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But we do have our. It's a good portion of listeners, again, who are first timers to the YouTube space. Right. And I've had people tell me, I don't know who these people are. I don't care. I'm here to listen to you guys. So I understand that too.

[Ebro Darden]

But yeah, we do engage in the shenanigans, sometimes too much. But you know what? It's part of the algorithm. Hustle.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I'm saying? And when it comes to hustling, I will hustle loan algorithm.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Thank you, guys.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, Iceman is out. Drake, how you feel about it, man?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yo, you guys didn't give any love to my dad joke right there. And it was really, I thought better.

[Ebro Darden]

I missed it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I said, I tell you what he can do is talk. That wasn't good.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's pretty good.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's a good dad joke, I think.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, God.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm still A new dad. So the humor is still building.

[Ebro Darden]

No, you do that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We.

[Ebro Darden]

You were doing dad joke, folks, before you were there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I was.

[Ebro Darden]

I. Yeah. A lot of you, really.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right, guys. April Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm shutting this merch off in a minute. It's moving fast.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Don't let him. I'm not gonna.

[Ebro Darden]

Blood in the water. New version of the tea. New logo in white.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

And. Yeah. Nah, because here's the other part that y' all don't realize. Laura does all the merch by herself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not by myself.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, not by herself, but she. She manages the team and. And is done manually, let's say like that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

And they want to run it up and, like, keep it on sale. And I'm like, yo, this poor lady's got to put all of these boxes together. Watch out. Chill out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I want the fights to get what they want. And honestly, yo, the pictures of them, like, all over the world is fire, right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's pretty.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm into it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, shout out to everyone who's sharing all these cool photos. I just got some more. I got some cool F photos. I was like, wow. Wow, these are fires. Can you post them? Yeah, I always ask, can I post? And they're like, yeah, yeah, we should

[Peter Rosenberg]

do a bunch of posts, like, with, like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, Louie does it big, but

[Peter Rosenberg]

you done, like, big carousels.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, he does carousels.

[Ebro Darden]

He's done one, bro. He did it one time. Yo, these two, bro, that will act like, drive me insane. They do something. Nah, bro, it's happening all the time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

His props, because he does do it, and he posted his stories, too. We'll show y' all love, though.

[Ebro Darden]

Thank you, E. Rosenberg. Man, have a great weekend listening to the Iceman 100th episode. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Shout out to Ron.

[Ebro Darden]

Thanks to Lou. Thanks to Griff and all of the FS and everybody out there supporting the program. The next time, we get some damn balloons here. What are we doing? 500.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. 500,000 subscribers.

[Ebro Darden]

100,000 subscribers.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Keep these. See how long it lasts.

[Ebro Darden]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

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