103.) Knicks Legendary Comeback + Summer Jam Lineup (5/20/26) UPDATED.

Summary

The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show – Episode 103 Summary

Episode Title: Knicks Legendary Comeback + Summer Jam Lineup (5/20/26) UPDATED
Date: May 20, 2026
Hosts: Ebro Darden (“A”), Laura Stylez (“B”), Peter Rosenberg (“A”), with guests and callers referenced
Theme: A spirited breakdown of the New York Knicks’ epic playoff comeback, cultural news, internet awareness, preparedness in uncertain times, hip hop culture (esp. Summer Jam), and lively listener engagement.

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Episode Overview

This episode runs the gamut from sports euphoria—specifically, the Knicks’ stunning playoff comeback—to cautionary tales about health, fake internet content, and global disease outbreaks. Blended throughout are candid reflections on pop culture, hip hop event lineups, thoughtful discussions on civic engagement, and deep appreciation for their community of listeners.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Knicks’ Legendary Playoff Comeback (03:50–10:13)

• Rosenberg’s Superstition: Rosenberg credits his recent bets for the Knicks’ winning streak since they were down 21 points to Atlanta, referencing wrestler Danhausen’s “uncursing” (03:50).
• Recounting the Game: The Knicks trailed by 21 in the fourth quarter versus the Cavs—statistically given only a 1% chance to win—but turned it around miraculously.
• Jalen Brunson’s Heroics: Brunson “went absolutely crazy,” dropping 38 points on 15/29 FG (“Jalen Brunson doing Jalen Brunson things” – Rosenberg, 07:24).
• Fan Reactions & City Vibe: Social media and in-person celebrations erupted outside the arena: “It’s packed out there every night. Yo, if they win the finals... it would be crazy” (08:00).
• Playoff Outlook: "If you win the first game in a best of seven, particularly in a conference fight, it statistically really leans towards your favor for winning the series." – Rosenberg (09:47).

2. Global & Local Health Concerns: Ebola Outbreak (10:23–14:35)

• Laura’s Awareness: WHO and NBC News report a spike in Ebola in Central Africa, including a dangerous vaccine-resistant strain ("...a rare version...has no vaccine and no treatment," – Laura, 11:47).
• Societal Implications: The abrupt cut of international aid and preventative measures is called out (“USAID money... had people across Africa keeping an eye on all medical situations”—Ebro, 12:06).
• Cultural Commentary: Laura and Rosenberg discuss Americans’ detachment from global risks until they impact the West directly.

3. Internet Authenticity & Social Media Algorithms (17:11–22:13)

• Rise of Inauthentic Content: 90% of online material is reportedly advertising or sponsored in some way (“...90% of what you see on the Internet is really advertising in one way or another.” – Rosenberg, 17:18).
• Algorithm Spiral: Hosts relate personal stories about how discussion and interaction with certain content (e.g., vegetarianism, animal cruelty) snowball into their feeds, impacting views and consumption.
• Advice: “Whenever somebody sends me something that sounds just too crazy, I do a quick Google... see who else is reporting on it.” – Laura (22:13)

4. Civic Engagement & Preparedness (29:34–33:14 & 43:00–46:41)

• Callers Weigh In:
  • Ali urges “learning first aid and CPR, learning how to grow food and farm... we’re so dependent on everybody else…” (30:37).
  • Conversation about the critical (but overlooked) value of keeping cash at home, water, and prepping for disaster.
  • Laura: “Another thing I bought is a solar powered charger.” (32:44)
• School Board Elections: Adrian tells of organizing to preserve dual-language learning in schools: “As somebody that's a first generation immigrant... My 11 year old now is bilingual...” (44:08)
• Cultural Insight: “We're the only country that considers speaking multiple languages as ghetto.” – Laura (46:35)

5. Hip Hop and Summer Jam Lineup (52:05–53:39)

• Event Dissection: Laura’s subdued reaction to Summer Jam (“I don’t care.”—52:05); Rosenberg focuses on the regional aspect: “Who’s the biggest headliner? ... The baby and Rick Ross.”
• Underground Artists Spotlighted: Rosenberg is surprised by the inclusion of Griselda-affiliated artists: “Where’s the Rosenberg show that plays those artists?” (53:14)
• BET Awards Nominations Preview (54:09–55:42):
  • Cardi B and Kendrick lead nominations.
  • A recurring critique is artists being nominated without recent releases.

6. Community, History & Show Identity (47:41–51:51)

• Listener Bonding Stories: Multiple callers reflect on listening to the show with family, building generational connections (“We love you guys. Thank you, Kika.”—B, 48:23).
• Show Reflection: Rosenberg contrasts ELR’s authenticity to commercial radio, especially The Breakfast Club: “I’m incredibly impressed... But... this just sounds like a YouTube show they’re airing on radio...They weren’t even close to messing with what we were doing... Different and better.” (49:20–50:36)
• Philosophy: “The passion and thoughtfulness and honesty of ideas, I think is just unique.” – Rosenberg (49:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Knicks’ Comeback:

  “And I just want to say before we celebrate how great they were after that, they looked like pure, unadulterated she.” – Rosenberg, 04:59

• On Civic Proactiveness:

  “We got to be prepared...As a group, as a family... we always kinda are reactive and not proactive.” – Caller Ali, 29:56

• On the Internet:

  “...90% of what you see on the Internet is really advertising in one way or another.” – Rosenberg, 17:18
  “Everything on the Internet is not real, guys. It’s not.” – Laura, 23:09

• On Language & Education:

  “We're the only country that considers speaking multiple languages is ghetto.” – Laura, 46:35

• On Hip Hop Shows:

  “Where's the Rosenberg show that plays those artists?” – Rosenberg, 53:14

• Show’s Self-Awareness:

  “No, different and better. Why can’t we be better?” – Rosenberg, 50:31

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Knicks Comeback, Game Recap & Celebration: 03:50–10:13
• Ebola Outbreak & Preparedness: 10:23–14:35, 29:34–33:14
• Internet Fakery & Social Media Spirals: 17:11–22:13
• Local Politics & School Board Elections: 43:00–46:41
• Summer Jam & BET Awards Nominations: 52:05–55:42
• Listener Stories & Show Identity: 47:41–51:51

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Additional Highlights

• Supreme Court Critique: Representative Lu’s clip denouncing John Roberts for partisanship (25:00–27:21).
• Meat Consumption Reflections: Ongoing debate about vegetarianism and marketing influencing lifestyle choices (35:15–37:44).
• Callers’ Smart Commentary: Shout-outs to audience members for critical, nuanced contributions (41:17).

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Conclusion

Episode 103 is a jam-packed, multi-layered reflection of the Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show’s essence—raw debate, informed and humorous cultural commentary, and sincere listener engagement. Stories of the Knicks’ glory, warnings about health and the internet, deep dives into local activism, and playful hip hop banter make this episode a standout for both new and loyal listeners.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

About how washed we are. Great. The great state of washed.

[B]

Oh my God. So I believe Rosenberg forgot his glasses at home.

[A]

I did confirm, yes.

[B]

And I have. This is the last pair of contacts before I got. I got a new set, an upgrade. But these are still a little, you know.

[A]

So wait when you. When, when that happens, how long like do you don't take Them out. Do you wear them every day?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And you don't take them out at all, really?

[B]

No, till the end of the night.

[A]

Oh, you take them at the end of the night?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're disposable.

[A]

Wait, and so how long is it supposed to go for a day?

[B]

Yeah. They're dailies, but the prescription in them is not. It doesn't work for me anymore. So I had to get a new joint with some stronger ones.

[A]

And this is the old one?

[B]

Yes. Today's the last day that I've wearing the old one.

[A]

So when you get a pack, you get like a pack of 30 or something. Or 60.

[B]

Yeah, but they're expensive. So I'm finishing this box and then I'll switch over. Today was my last day.

[A]

Yo, and they. And do you ever wear them, like, for two days or. You can't.

[B]

No, no, no. You can't, you can't. You can't. These are just dailies. You can't.

[A]

You gotta take them out.

[B]

Yeah. At the end of the day, I. My eyes start feeling a little dry. I feel like I want to pop them out by like 8 o'.

[C]

Clock.

[B]

I'm like, I'm done with this.

[A]

I wonder if I should try. I just don't. Like, I've gotten used to the glasses now being just what I look like and what I do.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But maybe at some point I'll try the contacts.

[B]

Yeah. Honestly, you saw me for the past couple years, I've been with my glasses and I bought a bunch of them, but I was like. I started wearing my contacts. I'm like, why am I not doing this?

[A]

Yeah. I mean, it does seem like an easy thing to try. Yeah.

[B]

It was a little annoying at the beginning because you got to get into the groove of putting them in your eye. You know what I mean? After that, now I'm just like.

[A]

Well, anyways. Welcome to the Washed hour, folks. It is Ebro Laura Rosenberg. It is Wednesday morning, May 20, and we know not everyone comes to us from New York City, but if for those who are in the New York area, it was a vibe last night. I cannot believe the good luck that I have given the New York Knicks. Oh, God. Since I bet the Knicks, they have not lost. My first bet was after when they were down 21 against Atlanta. They've won eight straight since I started betting. Yeah, Me and Danhausen. Yeah. Shout outs to Danhausen. He uncursed the Knicks after they were down 2:1 and they have not lost since.

[B]

This is so exciting.

[A]

It Was now, Was it on in your house? Did you pay any attention last night?

[B]

No, no, I, I had, I had stuff to do yesterday.

[A]

It was Laura. The comeback, the level. They were down 21. Was 21. Yeah, it was 22% chance of winning. Yeah, they dropped statistically to a 1% chance of winning.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

And they were down 22 in the fourth quarter. They had really. And I just want to say before we celebrate how great they were after that, they looked like pure, unadulterated she.

[B]

So there was no hope. You guys were like.

[A]

I mean, they just, just the, the offense, it completely turned into nothingness. The Cavs weren't even. Here's the interesting part. Now that I look back at it, I realize it makes sense that they won, because the Cavs really never started playing particularly well. The Knicks were just bad. Their offense looked completely stagnant. They did not look like the team they've been over these last seven games, for the most part. And then Jalen Brunson went absolutely crazy. Oh, Bascom has a highlight.

[B]

Okay, okay, let me see.

[A]

Let's see if we can show it to the team. Mitchell on the basketball. This highlights already early. Mitchell, three pointer, left side. This is as good as starting.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Kind of turn things into a blood bag. Goes inside. Oh, Euro 5. I can barely see now down 18. 18 minutes left in the force. Cleveland.

[C]

Boom.

[A]

At this point, it only takes a couple of shots to put it's 93, 70. And this is when Brunson just started going off every possession. By the way, James Harden, good night and good luck. Oh, oh, not James Harden again. Bow.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

You don't understand. It was possession after possession after possession. Then Mikhail Bridges from the corner. Oh, no, that was. That one was. Who was that one again? Shamet. Yeah, Shamma hit the roll. Yeah, sorry. Bridges was the one before that. Now the Knicks down two again. 30 seconds left. Don't want to give up a three.

[B]

Oh, look at this, everybody. Oh, my God.

[A]

And then at the end of regulation, they easily lost.

[C]

Look at the rollout.

[A]

And you knew when they got to overtime, Cleveland was finito. And that's exactly what it was. They did not ever relinquish the lead in overtime. Jaylen Brunson doing Jalen Brunson things.

[B]

Man, this is so cool.

[A]

And they win again. So that is eight straight for your New York Knicks. Not only that, they ended up covering the points. I, I, I admittedly was scared to touch the points. Yesterday it was six and a half. I bet. I'm a. It was A vibe. In fact, I think we have some of the energy that was shown outside the building.

[B]

Let me see.

[A]

Yeah, it was a situation last night. Yeah. I mean, and I had been out there yesterday before the game, we did our show live from 7th Ave. Like.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Where they have, like, the big party.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And by the time we went off the air, when we started at 3, it was dead. From like 5:30 to 7. It was lit. And they've been having. I can't believe they're still having the party, because it's packed out there every night. Yo, if they win, if they get to the finals and they win the finals. Ooh, no, it would be crazy. You have anything over there, Bascom? Here we go. Four way.

[B]

No. Oh, that was a quick one.

[A]

It was a very weird video, but it was. You understood. No, it was just two weird cosplays, one guy drinking something. The point was people were going super hard last night. Shout out to all the Knicks fans.

[B]

Yeah, man, how exciting. This just makes me so happy. I listen, I see the. The amount of people celebrating in the chat. As soon as I open up my social media, that's all I saw.

[A]

Oh, yeah, no, it was. It was crazy. Of all the wins they've had in the playoffs, Laura, what's made it interesting is they've mostly been blowing teams out, so there haven't been a lot of these ones. This. What this became, I would say, Louie, that's sort of the signature win now for the playoffs. Brunson had 38, 15 to 29 from the floor. He was only 1 for 6 from 3. And the Knicks were not particularly good from the free throw line. They were 21 to 32 from the free throw line. All the. All the ingredients to potentially a losing game. But Jalen Brunson down the stretch in that fourth quarter was absolutely bananas. I thought. You know what? I thought they were going to lose it, Louie. I don't know if you had this feeling. They got it to four, they get the ball back down four, all the momentum. And then Cat with the foul. Yeah, yeah. Cat has the offensive foul. Grabbing an arm for no reason. I'm like, oh, Cat, no, no. And the Knicks just kept fighting through. Cat was not great yesterday. OG Was not great yesterday. And yet they still managed to get the win. So they're up one nothing now. And the stat, Laura, if you win the first game in a best of seven, particularly in a conference fight, it's. Statistically, it really leans towards your favor for winning the series.

[B]

I love this I love this.

[A]

For Knicks fans, it's going to be a really fun couple of weeks. So shout out to the Knicks and the Cavs. Oh, boy.

[B]

All right, so as I'm looking at all the headlines, you know how I feel about disease.

[A]

You're a big disease guy. I know that.

[B]

I just. Every day I open my eyes and I'm like, how did we get here? So according to the World Health Organization.

[A]

That's the who.

[B]

Yes, yes, yes. And according to NBC News, they're basically sounding the alarm on the rise of cases of the Ebola virus. Okay? Because it's. It's. Right now it's going crazy in Central Africa. So it's not only, you know, spreading at an alarming rate, but it's gotten to the point that health officials are on their edge because it could be the next pandemic. Guys, I'm. This is scary as hell. Do you. Did you guys watch Outbreak Ebola?

[A]

Ebola is like, it ain't Covid.

[B]

No, I. I don't know.

[A]

How fast did it kill you?

[B]

I don't know. And I don't know the survival rate. But this is. I'm sorry to be a little graphic, but it basically makes you bleed from every hole in your body. Eyes, nose, mouth, ears, everything.

[A]

This is right up Laura Styles alley.

[B]

I know, I know, I know. But this is crazy. They're saying that 131 people have already died, with another 531 suspected to have contact the virus as well.

[A]

Yo, this is across Central Africa.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. And then there's a. To make matters worse, the particular strain of the Ebola virus. I can't pronounce this. Bundy Bugio virus is a rare version of it that doesn't have a vaccine and there's no medical treatment for it.

[A]

Well, listen, not to go blaming people for this, but you know that USAID money that spent millions and millions and millions in Africa, and they were like, why are we spending money in Africa? We don't care about Africa. Fire. Everybody cut all the money. When Elon Musk and Doge decided to completely purge usaid, one of the many things USAID did was have people across Africa keeping an eye on all medical situations. What do we need to do to help people?

[B]

Giving people vaccines that are much needed and treatment. I mean, people were making fun of the fact. They were like, why do we, you know, ship condoms or give them condoms? I was like, because there's no access to it in those areas. So at least some kind of protection is what we can use. Because it starts small and then it keeps growing and growing and growing, and next thing you know, it's here. So I don't think people really put, you know, put that information and they don't take it like, wait, this could affect me one day. Everyone's so greedy and.

[A]

Well, you know, and you know that the powers that be, they still will see something like this and they don't see it as a reason to do anything different. Yeah, because they're like, no, but it's not here. And. And, you know, listen, hopefully it never ends up here, but the thing is, you're rolling the dice with it every single time.

[B]

Absolutely. Absolutely.

[A]

I can't take it.

[B]

Yeah, man. I just. I did not think they were going to hit us with a.

[A]

Can I tell you the truth? This is a blind spot for me.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

For some reason, since the like, 90s, I always. I have to take a minute because I confuse Ebola and E. Coli,

[B]

two very different.

[A]

Don't act like they don't sound similar situation. You don't think Ebola and E. Coli sound similar? One's really bad for cows. One's really bad for people.

[B]

That's it. That's the only difference.

[A]

But the one that's bad for cows would still be bad for people. If the cows have it.

[B]

If you eat it, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

But it's not as bad as.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway.

[A]

All right, so great, everybody. If you wanted things to feel like the old days, you officially have Laura Stiles back on Ebola.

[B]

Watch. I know, I know.

[A]

Oh, my God. And I just hate that you can't, in this version of the world, feel comfortable that you have a government that's got it under control.

[B]

Right?

[A]

That's the worst part, guys. We don't even rock with the World Health Organization anymore. No, those aren't even our people anymore. So it's an absolute mess.

[B]

Yeah. Anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to bring you. Bring you down with this, but it's just something that popped into my timeline and I was like, yeah, we need to talk about that.

[A]

Let's run through some of the show algo stuff we haven't gotten to yet. How about that? Okay, there's some stuff that we missed. For example. Let's just go in order. Bascom. Let's start with video one. What do we miss here? We did we. Drake and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. No, we didn't. What? Bask. Why do you. Why do you always do this? Listen up. It's about to be smoke. Ain't nothing but some I wrote about a rich ass that's deep in the game. They call me Drizzy Drake and I'm keeping a name I sport Nike shoes, I got a mic to use to talk bad about you. I don't like you fools got a Oakland show tonight, baby. My young boys front of yacht going crazy. I'm on a bridge with a tank unleaded. I pull up early to that yanking already I said yank in the city and I really got rank. You see the backpack to the front, you getting spanked? I really blow airs for the front of it. New out blue diamonds on the front of it Shot my little cousin, Mr. Having none of it, trying to campaign, yeah, drizzle back running wild, wild, living large, yeah. And I put it on cedars and a boulevard when I lost big out of yeah, I took it hard. Need to call up a star for some chrome heart. You my new girl, you got to look the part. Hey, it's Mr. Make a Pipe down there. Go. Yeah, that's a way go now. Too hard for the radio. Yo, it actually works. Yeah, that's actually kind of fire, like, not even an insulting. That's like.

[B]

That's. I know. That's like, I like it. It's a little bop.

[A]

I was interested in. Oh, watch out, everybody. Drake talk. I was interested in how like that. That line. The. Too hard for the radio. Like, he obviously is now has something. He has, like, some beef with radio. Now, when did Drake and radio become not friends? Since you guys started talking bad about him. No. Is that he. That's not like radio still playing Drake that. Never time, of course. But, yeah, that's. That's a theme throughout it, though, is too hard for the radio.

[B]

I don't know. I don't know.

[A]

I wonder. I wonder if it's tied into all of his, you know, his feelings about the nefarious powers that be in the industry who could be down to take him out.

[B]

Could be.

[A]

I feel like Drake still gets a lot of radio play. All right, number two. This one is one Ebro needs to see.

[B]

Okay, let's see

[A]

about the Internet

[B]

and

[A]

how everything you see is fake. So this was an article in New York magazine. After research, the estimate is that 90% of what you see on the Internet is really advertising in one way or another. Now, unfortunately, this is a written article and two blind people are staring at the screen.

[C]

So.

[B]

Yeah, but this is really interesting.

[A]

Congratulations.

[B]

Every time one of my girls sends me a video of, like, you know, this is killing you, you got to use this product, this is what you got. I was like, wait, wait, wait till the end. They conveniently have a link to purchase. I'm like, always pay attention. If they're selling something, that's exactly what they're doing. They're selling something. And they'll take like a small truce and then make it a whole marketing campaign for whatever the herb, you know, special toothpaste, whatever, whatever they're selling.

[A]

But if they're saying that, it says the primary tactic by companies like, I can't read any of it. The hell am I even trying for? But it's not even ones where it's just a link, because sometimes there won't be a link.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

It's just telling you, oh, you know what you should try is blank. And this is. This is sort of why I get into it with Ebro sometimes. Because no matter how smart a dude Ebro is and he's relatively young, he still has a little bit of old man in that. Everything is, did you see this? And I'm like, yeah, bro, I see lots of stuff. Like, this is. That's why, like, some of my. I like to have stuff vetted. It's not just like, I'm old timey and I only want to watch Dan Rather. Like, that's not the only reason I'm like that.

[B]

Yeah, you want to look a little deeper.

[A]

It's just because I know what's happening. Like, we're getting yo Natalie. Natalie's algorithm is so interesting to watch because between her having a baby and her care about the health of the baby, like, it just takes her on journeys and once she starts going into one place, like, we, we. I really had to, like, tell her in all seriousness, two days ago, she had to reset her algorithm because she has been interested in. In us eating too much meat and maybe we shouldn't eat meat. And she thinks we should not eat meat, by the way. I agree. I will go as far on the journey as she wants to go. I'll try my best. I only pulled off vegetarian for a year once, but I truly in my heart believe vegetarians are right. We are wrong. We just do it because we're fat pieces of shit who want to eat stop everything and we're lazy and we don't want to change our habits and we're marketed to. So we eat meat. I don't think we're supposed to. It causes heart disease. I think it's cruel. I think the whole system of it is cruel. I think no matter how not cruel, we try to make it. It's probably still going to end up being cruel.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm just not for it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

That said, I'm a coward and I'm gutless, and I basically just like a hamburger.

[B]

Right?

[A]

So all of that to say, once she started seeing it, congratulations, you played yourself. I didn't mean to play that. That was God playing that. But once, Once she started talking about it and seeing it, the algorithm started going so crazy with the animal abuse videos.

[B]

Aggressive, aggressive.

[A]

That I said to her yesterday, I'm like, yo, bro, you need to make whatever decisions you want to make in terms of this and reset your algorithm, because it is literally going to show things to you that, like, I'm saying, it was showing things. Horrible things, Violent, horrible things over and over again.

[B]

I went down that rabbit hole once and I told her about this. So to this day, I can't eat veal.

[A]

Oh, no, no.

[B]

Because I saw, I, I was. My algorithm started forcing me down these horrible, violent videos that truly make you sick. And then, listen, I eat meat. But I, I. When I see it on the menu, Peter, I'm like, yeah.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

I don't even feel it grosses me out. Never have because of the. And I never even really thought of it that way until I saw those aggressive, violent videos on Instagram. So, yeah, you, you're right. It just, it takes you somewhere else, man. You got to be so careful. And also, for, like, new moms, everyone wants to follow, like, cool accounts with suggestions, but then it could also take you down the road of the anti vax movement. And then everything is poison. You should only, you know, purchase from here. Like, it will really make you spiral.

[A]

Yeah. And of course, in there, you're going to get some good stuff and some good thoughts, but, like, discerning what is being fed to you for a reason, and what you're just discovering, as that article pointed out, is a very blurry line.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always kind of just whenever somebody sends me, like, something that sounds just too crazy, I do a quick Google search just in case, just to see who else is reporting on it. That's what I want to see. And like, yesterday there was an article, I don't know if you guys saw, that skims had a connection to, like, this smuggling operation. Like one of the, I guess one of the shipments of, like, skims, like Kim Kardashian skims had. Yeah, look at $8.4 million worth of cocaine in it. Obviously, you know, skims came out was like, bro, we have no connection to this. It was just, you know, they got caught up in a. In the shipments.

[A]

Look, look, this is nuts.

[B]

But I see it and I'm like, wait, let me. Let me do a quick Google search to see who else is reporting on it. Because it was so crazy to me that I'm like, I have to look.

[A]

And I just think that sometimes. And I have to imagine if it happens in our group chat. It's happening everywhere. People just see things. It feels like fact, you move on. It looks completely reputable. I'm not saying it's like, you know, and in fact, that. And on the flip side, if you can find, you know, an Aaron Rupert. That's how you say his name. Aaron Rupert. Or even a. Here's why, Kevin. If you find some people who it seems like actually do the work.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Then those do become your new reputable people to follow in the hopes at least. And hopefully you learn over time. Like, no, they consistently are doing the work before they report something.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because the thing is, there's no real reason to not do the work. It's all right there for you.

[B]

Right?

[A]

But people are just lazy and I understand it. And we live in our phone. And yeah, man, I tell my friends

[B]

all the time if it. If it looks suspicious. I was like, just do a quick Google. So just to see who else is reporting it. I was like, so. She's like, my. My homegirl was like, so what am I looking for? To see if you see any reputable outlets also discussing it? And she's like, I never thought of that. Like, come on, just Google it. Like, everything on the Internet is not real, guys. It's not.

[A]

844 ELR. ELR 3 is the phone line if you want to get down with the show, have any thoughts, ideas, things we haven't gotten to that we need to get to.844ELR ELR3 tomorrow on the show with Ebro out, we decided we need to have someone come in who could bring that fire. And we're going to bring our guy, the former congressman who was completely attacked by and eventually lost to the powers that be at apac. Jamal Bowman, still super active in the community, doing lots of great stuff. Also a hip hop head sports fan. Just general good guy.

[B]

Yeah, he's so super cool.

[A]

Jamal Bowman's going to pop by for tomorrow's show and just hang out with us. Let's go to video 3, Bascom, and see what we can learn here. The evidence is clear. Chief Justice John Roberts is an extreme political actor that has led the most partisan Supreme Court in U.S. history. Every single decision by the U.S. supreme Court happens to benefit Republicans politically. And it is completely hypocritical because recently the US Supreme Court said, oh, we can't interfere in states elections when it's too close to election. And they said that because had they interfered and done the right thing, it would have helped Democrats. And they said, we can't do it because it's too close election. And then with their recent decision in Koolaid, not only do they gut the Voting Rights act, they also do it very close in election and they take the unprecedented step of expediting their decision specifically to interfere in state elections. So this is a radical Supreme Court that is making decisions simply to benefit Republicans. It's going to in massive Supreme Court reform when Democrats take control. And that will be because of the actions of extreme political actor John Roberts and this partisan Supreme Court. See, that's a great example. What the f was that clip? I'm sorry to Representative Lu. He's.

[B]

He's done this before, which is great, by the way.

[A]

He's on the right side of history.

[B]

Yes, yes.

[A]

But he also, we have seen him stand up at that podium and just be like, you know, and go off on the Epstein files and talk about how this one's a rapist. And that one's like, I know this is hard for my fellow progressives to see. I'm not saying he's not on the right side of history. He is. But he still randomly sometimes gets up there and says stuff that I'm like, you're still just saying stuff just to say stuff. He's an extreme actor. John Roberts is a very right wing judge. That is what happens. If we had the opportunity as Democrats, we would do the exact same. We messed up. We had the opportunity multiple times to pack the court. We didn't do it. And guess what? God bless rbg. She screwed us over.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

As great as her life was, the impact she had by not retiring may have been almost. It could end up being more impactful than the incredible work she did on the court. So we can throw a press conference and say that John Roberts is bad. And yes, I agree with you, but what are we saying?

[B]

I know somebody got mad at me for saying that exact same thing. Get mad about rbg. And I was like, it's not that I don't appreciate all the work that she did, but bro, it's like after a while she was so old, I was like, she should have just retired so we could put another progressive.

[A]

You retire and you bring in a 37 year old progressive person and you're there for fear. That's what they did. You realize the Democrats have had this happen to them twice. It happened with Nixon and with Trump, that they packed the court with their people. And yeah, he's right. They're gonna have to try to. If Democrats get back in office, we're gonna have to try for extreme reform to try to make it work and really bend around the rules and change them so we can try to make the court more progressive. But yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, John Roberts is bad. So is Kavanaugh. They're bad.

[B]

But Amy Cohen, Barrett, she's right there.

[A]

Griff, we have someone on the phone line.

[B]

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[A]

Preparedness or we need to get you a mic. This is so bootleg.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Like, how does.

[B]

Who needs a mic?

[A]

How does Louis have a mic? But Griff sounds like he's down the.

[C]

Down the street.

[B]

We need to get your or the

[A]

Slush or Trump slush fund. Which one you want? We'll go to. What's the first one you said? Preparedness. We're not prepared. All right, let's do preparedness.

[B]

All right, let's see.

[A]

Ali. Here we go. Ali. What's up hey.

[C]

Yeah. Hey, what's going on? Yeah.

[A]

What's poppin man?

[C]

So I'm, I'm gonna keep it 100 with you right now. There's so many things I could talk about because you guys are in all of them. But one. The biggest thing is we got to be prepared. Like we got to really start looking at preparedness because as a group, as a family, as a people, we don't do it. We always kind of are reactive and not proactive. So if we don't start right now, like doing everything from learning first aid and cpr, learning how to grow food and you know, farm, all the things, we are so dependent on everybody else we're never going to be able to fend for self. That's kind of the way we've been conditioned, set up.

[A]

Okay, I agree with you.

[B]

I'm following. Okay.

[C]

So, so, so the next things are one, there should definitely be term limits. Like y' all have no idea. Multitasking right now. So I'm trying to get as much in as possible. But there should definitely be term limits for the Supreme Court.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

But the other side of it is literally we really have to start getting back. But I like on the preparedness, that's really where I live. Like we really got to start kind of digging into that because we are so quick now. I'm a gen X or 2, so I'm used to kind of being resilient. Right. As Gen X's, we grew up with us having to figure it out ourselves. We were latchkey kids. We were on our own. We had to deal with the bumps and the bruises and it wasn't all the buffering and you know, the stuff that will protect us. We have an entire generation that can't do that. And now we got to find a way to split the middle.

[A]

No, it's. Listen, Ali, it's a great call, I think in general. And thank you for the call, bro. I appreciate you.

[B]

Yeah, thank you.

[A]

I think in general he is right. Like the level of preparedness or lack thereof. And like we're sitting here knowing that at any given moment, being that the people who run things are not smart, don't care about our well being and have taken the people who are prepared out of power.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That if we don't do a little bit of the extra work. It's a scary. It's a really scary. Think about it. Think about crazy. Just this city is.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And how left things would go if all of a sudden power was unavailable. Gas was unavailable. It's. It's really scary.

[B]

I know. I was having this conversation with Ricardo because I was like, you know, I think everyone should have some cash in their home.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Like, everyone should have some kind of cash. Because what if all of a sudden, Internet is down, phone lines are down. What are you gonna do? Your credit card doesn't work.

[A]

Yeah. Your card can't do. Only thing that'll help you is cash. In theory.

[B]

Assuming that's just. Just in case. That's the only thing you can hold. And you can be like, okay, at least I have something to hold me down. I don't know where I'm going. But at least you have some money. And I think everyone should have some money. Another thing I bought is a solar powered charger.

[A]

Yes. Natalie bought solar powered chargers. Got a couple of those. She. She talks about this a lot. But, like, even food and water.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, how much water do you have in the house? Like, I'm talking about. Even if it's just keeping one case of waters.

[B]

Yeah, I do.

[A]

Like, just in case. And you're right. Having, having, having, like, I don't know. Even if it's. Even if it's two grand in cash. $1,000.

[B]

Whatever you can.

[A]

Whatever you can. 500.

[B]

500 bucks.

[A]

Whatever the number is that you can have. It's such a really good point.

[B]

Yeah, man.

[A]

Hold on. We have a lot of super chats real quick in the guap today. I saw in the comments yesterday after yesterday's show, there were some people who were offended by my joker.

[C]

If you.

[A]

If you're gonna give us 99 cents, just don't even bother. I was just having fun, guys. It was. 99 cents is very sweet if that's what you can afford to give. We appreciate it. It was just. It was being silly. All right, man. This no glasses thing is tough.

[B]

Oh, God. Okay.

[A]

Pierre. Pierre Gaines says good morning. I've been listening since February. Get this damn ad out of here. I've been listening since February. Love the show, the vibes, the laughs, and just the overall flow. I need to get some merch to represent the show. Thank you guys for what you do. Are the shirts still up or not? No, we took those down.

[B]

Yeah, we took.

[A]

How do we do? They did good.

[B]

They did really good. Yeah, we sold out. I'm thinking about putting up some dope. Just classic logo tees and just keep those up there. What do you think?

[A]

Yeah, no, I'm down with it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. You mean the current logo?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just some logo tees. Like, if people want them we'll probably give some away too. I think we should.

[A]

And I do like the idea of a vintage, the original logo tee that we call it the down from the down since day one logo tee for the people who've been down since the first week when we were just rocking by the way. Speaking of which, shout out to Chase who does other designs who got married last weekend.

[B]

Oh my God. Congratulations Chase.

[A]

Chase and his lovely bride locked it down this past Friday. So big congrats out to Chase and the wife. All right, Grim. BK says the worst meat is constantly eating grilled steak because it releases a cancer causing chemical at high temperatures. Chicken and salmon are your best option. Yo, red meat is no question the worst thing. What's that? Griff? They say it for chicken too. It's the. It's the cooking with the direct flame.

[B]

Oh, for chicken too.

[A]

Don looked it all up.

[B]

Oh man.

[A]

And they say chicken too. That's not great. Ayo, Eric, thank you for the love on the super chat also. Yes. Oh, here we go. Good morning and bless up a whole ELR team and EL Army. Would you please shout out my son's birthday? His name is Niam. What are we going with?

[B]

N?

[A]

I am Neam. Yeah, like Liam. Yeah, but Neum.

[B]

I think it's neo.

[A]

He turns 11 today. Young Neum. Happy birthday, buddy. Mommy and daddy love you so much. Aww.

[B]

Aw, that's sweet.

[A]

I love to hear that. So, yeah, back to the meat thing for a second. Listen, I love steak. It's delicious. Red meat is. If you look around, it's so many of the diseases that happen, particularly heart disease. But like, we're just not really meant to be eating red meat like that. Like, even if people want to make the argument for me with Mia that we are supposed to be able to eat some animals, even though I would argue we don't have the teeth for eating flesh. We don't have the speed to be able to like hunt, hunt in the wild. We have to cook to make it so we don't die when we eat it. Like, I just don't believe we're meant to be putting it into our bodies. By the way, if you really want to get into it, we are the only species. By the way, these are all Coleman McCarthy gems that I heard year after year from Coleman. We are the only species that steals the breast milk from another species to drink it. Like everything we do does not really make sense in the natural order. And you see the results in people having issues eating dairy and people getting heart disease. There's so many things that show us we're not supposed to be doing it, but we have been marketed to. And this is what Natalie's been on. I gotta tell you, I love Natalie. I have not given her enough credit for this. How much I love hearing, like, the revolutionary voice that she has in her since she's been on this every commercial. Yesterday we heard the. What is it? Hardee's, We've got the meat. She was like. And I heard her under her breath, like, you mean the animal flesh? Hardee's, We've got the animal flesh. I heard she said it to herself. And I'm like, no. That's one of the things Coleman always used to teach us, though. The grocery store sanitizes it. They put the meat in this way where it's like. You're used to seeing it in these packages where it doesn't look like animals anymore.

[B]

And they.

[A]

Ground beef looks like nothing.

[B]

They add coloring to it.

[A]

They add coloring to it, which is wild. They package it in a way where steak looks like. That looks like steak that doesn't look like animal.

[B]

No.

[A]

Chicken strips don't look like animal. And, like, when you then see what these animals are like, like, we have tricked ourselves into thinking cows aren't like real animals and don't have feelings. And then you see these videos of people loving on their cows, let's say on, like, their dairy farm, where they have a couple of cows who they still steal milk from, but who they love and treat respectfully. And like, you're like, oh, these cows are real animals. They're like dogs. Why do we act as if these animals don't have feelings?

[B]

I know, I know, I know.

[A]

Who do we have here? Griffin, actually, guys hung up. But Kevin is online defending not getting rid of rbg.

[B]

Okay, I would like to hear that perspective.

[A]

Kevin, you think RBG should have stayed until death?

[C]

Yeah, it's not stay till death. Come on, Rosenberg. This is the point that I want to make, okay? We did have an opportunity to see someone, so let's put blame where it goes. Mitch McConnell and the Republicans stopped Obama. There's no saying that. There's no telling that if they would have done that when RBG stepped down. So one of the things I would like to see us do, that other call of the first one I heard, stop the craziness. Maybe we don't need to grow our food. Just pay attention and stop being apathetic. 84 million Americans did not vote in the last election.

[B]

That's right.

[C]

And what y' all were talking about earlier with misinformation is what is important. Were in this crap because of misinformation. Like everything boils down to misinformation. Also that we're more sexist than we are racist, but both of those things. But the RBG thing, I've heard it so many times and I really, really don't think that they would have allowed him to see somebody else, which is in and of itself insane that we let. I never understood that stop a sitting president.

[A]

Yeah, I never, I never got that. Why, why is it always the Democrats though, who managed to get stopped when the Republic. I remember at the time being like, why can't they just push this through? How is. They just kept him waiting, kept him.

[C]

Well, they were in the majority though. So one misconception is that the Democrats are so weak right now and they're the opposition party. But we're misremembering history that the Republicans were in the majority all those times that we think that they were in the minority stopping things. They were in the majority most of those times.

[A]

Right.

[C]

And that's why. And look, look, I'll say another thing. Democrats haven't always been extremely united. When Obama had full reign the first two years, Lieberman stopped us from having Medicare for all, a Democrat. So you know, we just need to be more tuned into what's going on. And I do think people like Gary Chambers and other advocates, Stacey Abrams, I think these people and have really helped to raise awareness and get people more plugged in. And I'll say this one last thing. I am 50. Much like Ebro in the Old Dad's Club. I just had a kid last year.

[A]

Oh man, congrats.

[C]

10 months and I went back to college and I am back in school finishing my degree in political science with a bunch of Gen Z students down here in Louisiana. I will tell you this. If Gen X and baby Boomers think their Gen Z kids are like them, they're not. And I do think it's going to show up at the ballot box. I really do. They're different. They really are different.

[A]

Amen. Thank you for this call. This was great. Appreciate you.

[B]

Thank you. I like him. I like that.

[A]

By the way, that sums up. You want to know why our show is simultaneously great but niche because our listeners who take time to call are 50 year olds in Louisiana who decided to go back to school, get further education while teaching.

[B]

Amazing.

[A]

We just have amazing people that are very, very smart.

[B]

Our audience is so smart and so plugged in. And I Love learning from them. We have so many. I used to go on, I'm not really on Twitter anymore like that, but, you know, there were certain people who had hit us with a amazing little tidbits of information. I'm like, I love you.

[A]

Yeah, we have some great people. Speaking of which, who? We do. Yeah. More information about local elections in Westchester. That happened yesterday. Oh, you know what? We need that real quick. Elizabeth jumped in the super chat, said, shout out to former senator Doug Jones for winning the Democratic nomination in Alabama's primary to face Tommy Tuberville for governor this November. All right, so we will see if Tuberville could be ousted come November also, or no, Tuberville is trying to win. Who's running for governor. Got it. Also, QD said, I have an idea for Trump's DOJ slush fund. The Southern disenfranchised voters should apply because they've been run by the federal government. Great point. We'll see how that plays out. Was on hold. Who is this? Adrian. Okay, Adrian. What up, Adrian?

[B]

Hi.

[A]

Hey.

[C]

Hello. I'm so happy to have you guys. I'm such a big fan of the elr.

[A]

Oh, happy to have you. What do you got for us, Adrian?

[C]

So yesterday was a school board vote for my town, the village of Portchester, New York. Love my village, but we were fighting to keep a dual language program. We were literally organizing to get a vote so that we can get busing and to do a language program for bilingual community to stay. Because they're trying to dismantle it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

After the DEI and everything. And I just came to realize that, you know, the vote actually went different than we thought. The school, you know, the voting at the actual schools was favorable to us, but 99% of the category where there was early voters went to the candidate that's trying to dismantle all of the dual language programs and the biliteracy in the schools, which is such a shame. So I just wanted to call in. I know you guys have been supporting local politics, and that's something that resonated with me after hearing you guys talk about getting involved.

[A]

What percentage went to the person who wants to dismantle?

[C]

So there were 124 early votes.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And out of that, 99% of them went to a guy called George Ford that was essentially just trying to work on dissolving dual language programs. And as somebody that's a first generation immigrant in the country, it's been phenomenal. My 11 year old now is bilingual in Spanish and English and is Going for a dual diploma, bilateral diploma.

[A]

Why would anyone not want dual languages? It doesn't make any sense.

[B]

Because it's pure racism, bro.

[C]

It does not make any sense.

[A]

Yo. People love their racism so much. They love it more than anything even. Certainly more than education. You know, thank you for the call that. That's an update. And we'll. Tomorrow we'll talk to Jamal Bowman more about local elections and all the sort of national elections. We'll kind of get the scope for that.

[B]

Yeah, because he used to be a principal.

[A]

Yeah, he's a principal. He's a congressman. He's done it all.

[B]

I will tell you, at my daughter's school, they were also like. I mean, they didn't have to fight. Fight very hard because everybody was on, on point. You know what I mean? But the dual language program is so clutch. It's clutch because. And it's super important because A, it helps children who are Spanish speakers kind of like feel included. Like, when I go to my daughter's school, they say buenos dias. And they say everything in Spanish and in English. So now there's a bunch of kids that are not native Spanish speakers that are learning how to speak Spanish.

[A]

Including your daughter. Yes, that's the ill part. The thing that. So we want. We're hoping Maya goes to a dual language in our neighborhood. There's a French one. I think we'd like to find Spanish for it to be the most useful possible. But if we didn't find one and the closest school that made sense was French, great. Learn French. Who doesn't want their kid? So to Laura's point, if you have kids that are from a home where they speak lots of Spanish, great, that's super useful. Or French, whatever the language is. Or if they don't, like Laura, who wants to teach her daughter Spanish, but her and Ricardo, like most second, third generation people, say they're gonna have their kids speak Spanish and then just naturally get lazy. And this is what we are like. I want my daughter to speak Hebrew. My wife doesn't speak it enough to her. Her grandmother does sometimes. It's never going to be enough for her to hold it. So, like, it's such a great opportunity for the kids who are from those homes to then learn the language because the school can help you guys make your life so much easier and making her understand Spanish.

[B]

We're the only country that considers speaking multiple language is ghetto.

[A]

I know. Like, ew.

[B]

Oh, my God. Multiple languages. Speak English. Meanwhile, everyone else I know that lives in other countries speak, speaks like, five languages. You feel so stupid, by the way.

[A]

That is America. Ew. You speak another language. That's like ghetto. Why do you speak that language?

[B]

It's so ignorant.

[A]

And then you go to Europe and you feel so embarrassed. Cause you're, like, trying to put together one thing in Spanish or French or whatever to be like, je ma' appel, Peter. And they're like, oh, no, no worries. I speak perfect English and French and Dutch and Spanish and Portuguese. What can I help you with? And you're like, oh, sorry. It's so embarrassing.

[C]

I know.

[A]

All right, who else we got? Griff, please take Kika right now. This is a good story. Kika. What's up? Kika?

[B]

Hey, good morning.

[A]

Good morning, Kika. What do you got?

[B]

So I just dropped my daughter off for her last day of high school at St. Francis Prep in Queens, and we've been listening since she was in middle school. Every day in the morning on the way to school.

[C]

Even when you guys went on your

[B]

podcast, she made me wait to listen to it so that we can listen to it together on the way to school and on the way home. That era has ended.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

A little bittersweet.

[C]

But she.

[B]

She claims she's gonna listen to you when she's in college.

[A]

Wow. Where's. Where's she going to college?

[B]

St. Joe's in Philly.

[A]

St. Joe's in Philly. Well, that. That's such a cute way for you guys to, like, stay in touch, because you both listen to the show. You listen up here, she listens down there, and you guys can connect over all the brilliant hijinks on the show.

[B]

Yeah, she's got her ELR T shirt too.

[A]

Aw, this is beautiful.

[B]

We love you guys. Thank you, Kika.

[A]

That is so, so cool. Thank you so much. And congrats on getting her to this point. That's a huge accomplishment for you guys.

[B]

Thank you so much. The time flies.

[C]

Enjoy your little kids, guys.

[A]

Oh, thank you.

[B]

Thanks, kids.

[A]

Kinka, that's sweet.

[B]

I know. That's awesome.

[A]

I remember back in the day, people would be like, yo, I grew up listening to you. And I'd be like, hahaha. And now I realize that if you were, like, 5 years old when I started on the radio, you're, like, 24 now. And I'm like, oh, So I guess that would be fully growing up on us. It's kind of wild.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, I know. I love when people tell me, like, this is the show that allows them to bond with their teenagers. I think that's fire.

[A]

No, that's super cool. Like, and.

[C]

And.

[A]

And it's interesting that we're able to even tap in right to that crowd. I just gotta tell you, this is just such a different animal than other stuff that's out there. Like, and the show's not perfect. No show is perfect.

[B]

Of course not. You know, we could be all over the place.

[A]

We can be all over the place. All of us can be. Well, no, not all of us. Let me be more specific. Ebro and I can have our moments of being like, too much on a given thing, or whatever it may be. But overall, like, the. The passion and thoughtfulness and honesty of ideas, I think is just unique. And as I've had time to, now that we're no longer on the radio, listen to other things. And I'm glad Ebro is not here to cut me off and do some pretend thing where I have to be, like, all magnanimous. I'm not saying anything horrible. I am incredibly impressed, incredibly impressed by. By the brand building and the giant that the Breakfast Club has become. Props to them financially. It's amazing from a listen. I love radio from a listener standpoint. I'm listening. I'm like, this just sounds like a YouTube show that they're airing on the radio. Like, this isn't. I'm shocked when I knowing that we were. And they always did well. Like, we would battle back and forth in ratings. They always did well. They did their numbers. And again, their marketing was so good. Their awareness was so high.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, bro.

[A]

They weren't even close to messing with what we were doing on hot.

[B]

It's just different.

[A]

No, different and better. Why can't we be better?

[B]

I don't like to go and be like, compare. I just think we're. This is our little world is just different.

[A]

No, you're right.

[B]

I don't need to compare us.

[A]

To compare us is the theft of joy. And I'm a master at stealing, Joyce. But no, I just let me not make it about anyone else being worse. You're absolutely right. It's just what we do stands out.

[B]

Yeah, that's it.

[A]

And, like, the level of authenticity of our conversation and not turning on the show on a random morning being like, wait, what random person am I listening to them do an interview with? We stopped airing interviews years ago.

[B]

We would air like three minutes, maybe our clips.

[A]

Yo, you show up and like, we do the long form interview. And now the sad part about that for artists was is they're coming in being like, well, I'm doing Hot 97. And they're getting a few minutes on the radio, but then the rest is for YouTube.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And the YouTube channel become utter and complete garbage. So that's why I'm excited about them being able to come do this show now, because we do our morning show here as a separate thing. Very seldomly will we do an artist interview in the morning. You kind of have to be someone who we think there'll be a really compelling reason to listen. Like the Jason Lee thing. Is Jason Lee the biggest celebrity in the world? No, but we knew it would make compelling content for our morning listener.

[B]

And I will say there's people that get annoyed with us when we bring in guests. They want to hear just the regular show. I've seen those comments.

[A]

No, for sure. And I think that was a sweet spot that we found. Oh, speaking of talking ish about the radio, big summer jam announced me yesterday. Were you locked in, bro?

[B]

I don't care.

[A]

That's it.

[B]

But I just don't care.

[A]

It's the Experience. Oh, the Experience. Who's the. Who's the big head? Who's the biggest headliner? Well, they have to be from New York, New Jersey or Connecticut. So it's the baby and Rick Ross. Why are you doing that, Louie? You coming for him? I'm just saying. Yo, King Louie's had enough. Wait, they said. Are those the biggest artists of the French. French Montana, Max B. Okay, that's. But those are the. That's the Fetty Fetty Wa Jersey. Yeah. That's big. Especially they're going to be in New York. Speaking of Jersey and Fetty Wap, congratulations to Drew Ski on opening his Rita's, by the way.

[B]

Yes, congratulations.

[A]

We love Drew Ski.

[B]

Follow him. DJ Drew Ski and support his business.

[A]

And you.

[B]

This guy are amazing.

[A]

And Fetty Wap came out. I saw him, like, making slushies for People Fire. And he had his big opening last week. Yo, the thing. You know what got me the most annoyed about the Summer jam lineup? Because I missed it. And then I. I was told that it happened, and I went and someone sent me the flyer. And yo, the. The. The Rosenberg acts that they have opening up on the. On the stage. Yo, the Conway 38 Special Rock. Marcy Stove got. Where's the Rosenberg show that plays those artists? That's so. I don't even understand how they. I don't even know who had the phone number to book those artists. That was the one thing that stood out to me.

[B]

You know what? Good for them. They get to hit the Stage. Good for them.

[A]

You know what? I'm happy for them.

[B]

Yes. They get to hit the stage.

[A]

Laura, they get to hit the stage. You know what you get to do?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Save me by doing the rundown.

[B]

Thank you. Let's go. All right, so. So Cardi B is leading the nominations for the 2026 BET Awards with six nods, followed by Kendrick Lamar and Mariah the scientist with five nods each. Dochi Doja Cat.

[A]

How is Kendrick still leading these things?

[B]

I know, I know.

[A]

He didn't drop last year.

[B]

Teyana Taylor Latto with four. So let me see. I'm just gonna cover quick hip hop ones. All right, all right, all right. But this one's. Okay. Let's go to album of the year. Let's see this category. Okay. Am I the drama? Cardi B. Tyler, the creator. Don't tap the glass.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Wale. Everything is a lot.

[A]

I love it.

[B]

Heart sold separately. That's Maria the scientist. Like God. Sort them out. Clips. Leon Thomas, Monk deluxe and the fall off. J. Cole and the romantic. Bruno Mars.

[A]

Oh, you know, that's a pretty good category. Yeah, I know. Listen, Ebro's not here to say anything. Is it me or was it quiet for the Bruno Mars home? Kind of quiet?

[B]

Yeah, it hasn't been as celebrated as I thought it would be.

[A]

Kind of like I like it. Does it have hammers on it? Like, it's just. I don't listen to pop radio, so I don't know.

[B]

I'm sure. I'm sure they're rocking it on the Z1 hundreds and.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know. But it does feel like it's been quiet. The BET Award nomination is very random for the Bruno Mars album. The rest of the categories.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Really solid.

[B]

All right, let's go. Best female hip hop artist. Cardi B. Coi Leray, Dochi Doja Cat, Glorilla Lotto, Megan Thee, Stallion, Monaleo and Ykneys.

[C]

They.

[A]

They are. This is the. This is my issue with the BET Awards. They literally sometimes just put famous people in who did not drop in the previous year, but great people in that category.

[B]

All right, and then the best male hip hop artists is ASAP Rocky.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Baby Keem, BX, the Plug, DaBaby, Don Tolliver, Drake, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and Ti.

[A]

Again, Kendrick did not drop a project last year. I do not understand. But God bless.

[B]

Yes, yes, yes. So, yeah, those are the categories.

[A]

The BET Awards is end of June.

[B]

Let me tell you right now. Hold on.

[A]

Or early June. It's soonish. I know it's you know, it's coming up.

[B]

Oh, I don't have it right here. When is it, Louie? Can you look it up real quick? When is it? But yeah, it's coming up. I mean, look it. It's a fun show to watch.

[A]

Oh, I love the BT Awards. Love the one I like. Even when I went and sat in Rosie. June 28th.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

June 28th. It's my friend Allison's birthday. That's so nice. Is that it for the rundown?

[B]

Well, I don't know if you saw this, but we were talking about Shaweetie. We were talking about Saweetie. Dang. I was like, you, girl. She's been hit with this lawsuit. So according to tmz, she's being sued by this concert promoter, Moon Dream Productions. You know, she backed out of a deal to perform shows in Japan. So what happened was they gave her a hundred thousand dollar deposit up front. She agreed to a $200,000 deal. And then the company is now saying that Sweetie never performed on the scheduled shows, but traveled to Japan on the visas they helped secure and then perform for other promoters, the same dates. Yo, they're trying to get her for $3 million

[A]

now. I do not know if any of this is true.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

If it is true, congratulations. You played yourself. That. That's a crazy thing. That would be crazy work if you skipped the show and showed up and did other shows.

[B]

That's crazy. That's crazy.

[A]

But the bigger question that surrounds this is why did you start calling her Shaweetie?

[B]

I don't know. We used to call her that, and it just came out of nowhere.

[A]

The funny thing is, we're fond of Shaweetie, and yet we had two jokes we always did, about her. One was saying Shaweetie, for some reason, we became like white men from the 1930s.

[B]

Old school Detroit.

[A]

Yeah, she my favorite oddish Shaweetie. And the other. You know what the other joke was, too?

[B]

Wait, I forgot.

[A]

During. That's my type. We said the voice was so high that we'd go,

[B]

that was you.

[A]

That was me. Yeah. And the shawiti came from her drops. Like, she was very pronounced going, it's saw, weedy. And that's why we started saying Showeet. Exactly. Yeah. I recorded the drop.

[B]

All right, so we just mess with it, but we listen. I think she.

[A]

That's my type. That song still rings, though. Oh, you put that at a party still? No, that's my type. Still goes. And so does the. The. The big D energy. That's not her. Is it still you get the idea. Those songs are together in my.

[B]

That's the rundown intro for the outro.

[A]

No, no, no, no, no. No. Intro for the. No, no, no, no, no. Intro for the outro. No, here it is. Intro for the outro. It's. Damn, I feel bad. You're a real piece of Laura. I can't believe you brought all those things up. All right, some more things in the Super Chat, please. Let's see. Let's see. Rest in peace to Kenneth Adams or Adam from the Lower east side.

[B]

Oh, sending you love.

[A]

And shout out to every hood in the Lower east side. Shout out to El Army. Thanks, Chris. I appreciate. Appreciate you. Sorry. Rest in peace.

[B]

Yes, yes, yes.

[A]

Can't edit Kibo says shout out to Chris rab winning District 3 in Philly. Okay, need more democratic socialist ideologies in office. Does seem like there's a movement there. Um, JW said, yo, who is Funk Flex throwing shade at with the Summer Jam comments? It sounded like Ebro.

[B]

Sounded like you, bro.

[A]

Louie. I didn't. I didn't hear it all, but that's what it sounded like, right? It sounded like it. What. What were the specific lines? Well, I. I don't remember the specific lines. It was just basically, no more out of towners. Not out of towners are not controlling what's happening at Summer Jam anymore. So. So it's. So it's Ebro and TT Titi's from the Bronx. True. But she came back from somewhere else, you know what I'm saying? From Virginia. Katrina B. Who's from. Yeah, by the way, Katrina B. God bless her. She ain't from here.

[B]

N. Bro, I think it was Ebro.

[A]

You think it was just Ebro?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Why you do that?

[B]

E's like, that's my best friend, yo.

[A]

No, yo, the craziest thing is when Ebro. Ebro does this thing, I. Yo, I wish I could run. Like, when you get to know someone really well over time, and it's like every. You know, Ebro said that thing about noticing patterns. He's got big on noticing patterns, which is basically called. I'm judging my friends and family constantly. But that's what we all do. So I wish I could understand the psychological thing that he does where anytime you talk about someone who's either shading him or outright hates him, and he's like, nah, they're good. I wish. I mean, listen, it's healthier. It definitely seems healthier and cooler than my approach of being, like, F them. I completely, like, appreciate it. But I also Wish I understood it because you will be like, yo, this person really talking ish about you? Like, nah, that's my guy.

[B]

And I just roll my eyes. I look at him and I just roll my eyes at him. He knows.

[A]

Now I want to say this about Flex. Flex is the kind of person who can love you and shade you at the exact same time. Flex and I had whole beef, went at each other back and forth on the radio and I still never took it very seriously. So he is an odd duck in that way. But by saying the no more out of towners running Summer Jam. First of all, Ebro hasn't run Summer Jam in years. And when Ebro ran Summer Jam, it was still at its highest heights.

[B]

It was at MetLife.

[A]

It was at MetLife Stadium. Now what it's at at this point, by the way, it does sound fun. I'm not going to say it doesn't sound fun. It sounds fun. They have like a 7 o' clock show, it looks like. Then there's an 8 o' clock show. And then after that, like for the last few hours of night, my guess is it'll just be DJs. I guess that's what the experience. Well, they're gonna announce more artists in a couple weeks, so maybe so so. But my guess is cuz sounds like the stages are early, then it's a party later. Sounds fun. I'm sure it'll be a good time and worth people going. But what we can't do is act like Summer Jam is in the glory days right now. That is what post pandemic, it just never really bounced back in the same way. We cannot pretend that. So while I hope it turns out great and everyone has a great time, if Flex is taking shots at Ebro's era running Summer Jam, bro, that's when it was 50,000. That's when Drake and Nikki and Lil Wayne were all on stage. Like that's what was happening in the Ebro. There's a documentary on YouTube of Ebro running Summer Jam. The video alone has like 20 million views. It's a doc of just how crazy and big Summer Summer Jam was. It'll never be that again.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Look what you made me do, Laura. No, no, that was you.

[B]

I literally. I said I don't want to talk about this.

[A]

I thought you brought up Summer Jam anyways. Oh no, it was jw in the Super Chat, This person whose name I cannot try to read without my glasses, art says Adrian. Oh, it's Adrian, I guess. Thank you for having me keep dual language programs alive. They are so important. Laura's sentiments were 100% spot on. Keep them growing.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Shout out to everyone in the chat and the super chat today who jumped in. Also, folks, listen up. If you want to get these gurus back, we need to get a good replenished guru email situation.

[B]

Yeah. Chad, send us some emails.

[A]

TheOriginalGurusMail.com TheOriginal GurusMail.com Send your emails. Don't forget a week from tomorrow, the first validate me. So head over to Validate me show on YouTube and subscribe to that because we'll drop next Thursday. Tomorrow, Jamal Bowman on the show. We're going to do a lot and we'll take more phone calls from you guys as well.

[B]

That's right. All right, see you guys.

[A]

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