115.) Donald Trump Crashes Out + Knicks In 4?! (6/8/26)

Summary

The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show 115: Donald Trump Crashes Out + Knicks In 4?! (6/8/26) Episode Airdate: June 8, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show dives into two major headlines: the excitement (and tension) surrounding the New York Knicks’ historic playoff run, and the chaos caused by the invitation of President Donald Trump to Madison Square Garden for the Finals. The hosts dissect the cultural and political implications of bringing Trump into this moment, the effect on the fan experience, media coverage, comparisons to other legendary sports droughts, and the city’s vibe. The second half looks at pop culture headlines (Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce wedding rumors), a Trump “Meet the Press” meltdown, and a hilarious, honest conversation about travel nightmares and American decline. Throughout, the show keeps its signature blend of insight, irreverence, and real New Yorker energy.

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Knicks in the Finals & Trump’s Disruptive Visit

The State of the Knicks (00:42-06:00)

• Laura Rosenberg unpacks the emotional swings of Knicks fandom: The Knicks “did everything to lose that game,” and the wins haven't been dominant blowouts.
  • “What we can’t do is act as if the Knicks have just crushed San Antonio in two straight games. Right? These have been very close games.” (01:00)
• Ebro Darden counters, underscoring the Knicks’ identity as “come from behind” grinders all season: “Victories have been a thing for them.” (01:31)
• Both agree the playoff run feels surreal: “Knicks fans are in a dream state. Like, this doesn't make sense. They've won 13 in a row.” – Laura (05:02)

The Trump Invitation’s Fallout (02:06-06:56)

• Jim Dolan is lambasted for inviting President Trump during this precious sports moment.
  • “That's because you're Jim Dolan, sir. ... Congratulations. You played yourself. You invited the President.” – Ebro and Laura (02:06)
• The invite leads to heavy security, shutting down the beloved watch party outside MSG—a true disruption for regular fans:
  • “No way to enjoy an event more than adding TSA screening.” – Laura (02:10)
  • “People want to at least...I'm right here. I'm outside. I'm in proximity to the vibes.” – Ebro (03:49)
• Discussion about how city-wide enthusiasm can’t be replaced by generic locations: “Bryant Park is pretty close,” but “it's not right outside.” – Laura (04:12)

Tone-deafness and Class Divide (04:34-06:56)

• The hosts riff on how billionaire sports owners are disconnected from average fans:
  • “These rich people just don’t care about regular people. They are not in tune. Well, or are in tune and don’t care.” – Ebro (12:55)
• Price of fandom highlighted: “Tickets behind the scorer’s table... $200,000. That is not normal.” – Laura (13:28)
• “People want to be around the Garden, man,” as part of a larger “lifestyle/cultural talk...not even sports talk.” – Ebro (07:28, 08:59)

Presidential Politics in the Arena (06:57-13:00)

• Audience expects Trump will get booed, but networks likely to mute negative crowd reactions:
  • “If you hope to see Trump get booed on television, I suspect we won’t hear that.” – Ebro (06:12)
• Mood depends on the Knicks’ game situation: “They show him for the first time...the boos state and how bad it will be will vary.” – Laura (06:31)
• Speculation about where Trump will actually sit—court side or suite—and its symbolic import. (22:42-23:17)
• Reference to Obama’s sports attendance for context.

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The Knicks’ Cultural Significance

Historical Comparison & City Unity (07:03-09:02)

• The hosts draw parallels to legendary sports droughts, but note there’s no direct comp for NYC’s unique place:
  • “A team who hasn’t won a championship in 50 years in the largest media market in the world...you can’t compare it to anything.” – Ebro & Laura (07:03-07:58)
  • “The Knicks… they don’t even register. It is the Knick city. All five boroughs, Knick City.” – Laura (08:44-08:49)
• Discussion of how this unifies the city regardless of sports preference, more so than the Jets, Giants, Mets, or Nets.

Stakes & Superstition (09:04-12:26)

• Anxiety about jinxes (the “jinx” debate over betting) and the possibility of blowing this dream opportunity, especially with “external” disruptions.
  • “Why would you risk it? Why would you? Why? Everything is set up for this to be the greatest dream of all time.” – Laura (09:06)
• Knicks’ “headroom” for more improvement; recognition of unsung contributors; statistical history (winning streak close to record) (11:37-11:58)

Emotional Resonance (15:40-17:28)

• Emotional stories of generational Knicks fandom—chasing a dream not just for this team but for parents and children:
  • “The amount of friends that I have who've lost their parents, who watch the Knicks with them... they've never had this.” – Ebro (16:04)
  • Compares the moment to Red Sox and Cubs breaking their curses.

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Pop Culture & City Slogans

“My Mayor Muslim, My Bagels Jewish, My Christian Dior” (19:11-21:24)

• Viral city “slogan” clip is playfully dissected.
  • “It doesn’t make sense, but that doesn’t matter… People, I think, really love ‘my mayor Muslim, my bagels Jewish’… it feels unifying.” – Ebro (21:10)
• The phrase becomes a symbol of New York’s chaotic, multicultural unity.

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Listener Calls & Community Vibe

Knicks Fan Engagement (14:01-15:23)

• Callers chime in, expressing their Knicks love and superstitions. Example: “Wemby’s a baby cry… We gotta keep the love up to New York, baby. We here.” – Ramon, caller (15:23)

Real New York Takes

• Digression into generational experiences, what sports mean to families, immigrants, and New Yorkers’ sense of identity.
• Everyone from “Mom Donnie” (a favorite superfan) to “birthday Bob” gets a mention, grounding the media hype in personal connection and everyday fans. (14:01–15:23; 23:19–23:49; 34:11-35:43)

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Broader National & Global Headlines

Trump’s Media Antics (Meet the Press Meltdown) (50:04–54:57)

• Trump stormed out of a “Meet the Press” interview, ranting about “crooked” media/elections.
  • “That’s how they vote. Crooked. Just like you’re crooked. Your press is crooked and Meet the Press is crooked...” (50:48)
  • "Let’s call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling." (51:37)
• Laura and Ebro break down the circular logic and paranoia of his rhetoric.
  • “Every accusation is a confession. You have to.” – Ebro (55:07)

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Rumor Mill & Rundown Segment

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Wedding Rumors (38:43–41:32)

• Rumors: Swift and Kelce to wed at MSG July 3rd.
  • “According to sources, the advantage of MSG: there are no windows… There’s also underground parking, and guests can enter and exit without crowds.” – Laura (39:12)
• Hosts laugh about white/Black haircuts and how celebrity relationships affect fashion choices.

TV & Culture

• “Snowfall” spinoff following Wanda & Leon (47:46-49:39)
• Riffs on theme songs, TV show music choices, the value of a good cover song, and the economics behind soundtrack decisions.

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Real-Life Parent Struggles, Travel Rants & American Decline

Travel Nightmares (28:09–41:56, 62:00–68:12)

• Laura recounts the pain of international travel with a baby, comparing U.S. airport lines, European customs, and the myth of “greatest country in the world.”
  • “We're nothing. And we're kind of floundering right now. They're still there in the middle of what they've been doing. …Greece is in this conversation. Italy's in this conversation. Egypt's in this cover[ation].” – Laura (31:02–32:10)
• Ebro reflects on air travel’s discomforts and the corporate hustle:
  • “They making money, bro. ...But the companies ... get government subsidies... you’re paying twice.” (66:18–67:27)

Gun Laws, Safety, & American Paranoia (57:19–61:11)

• Brief detour into guns, the 2nd amendment, and why the American “uprising” argument is outdated:
  • “Your guns ain't standing up to there… They got drones.” – Ebro (59:06, 58:16)
• Frank discussion on teaching kids gun safety.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Trump at the Garden: “You don't want to mess with anything.” – Laura (12:10)
• On being ‘in the moment’ as a city: “No, it's not even sports talk. It's more of, like, a lifestyle cultural talk.” – Ebro (08:59)
• On access and class: “Just shows you how...rich people just don't care about regular people. They are not in tune.” – Ebro (12:55)
• On New York’s diversity: “My mayor Muslim, my bagels Jewish, my Christian Dior.” – viral slogan (20:28)
• On election denial logic: “It's just casting doubt. It makes no sense. Elections are all bad...But you won.” – Laura (54:23)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:42-06:56 Knicks playoff analysis, Trump invite, city security/tension
• 07:03-09:06 Historic context for the Knicks, city unity
• 09:06-12:26 Jinx fears, emotional city mood
• 13:11-17:28 Fan calls, generational sports passion
• 19:11-21:24 Dissecting the viral "mayor, bagels, Dior" New York slogan
• 38:43-41:32 Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce wedding rumors
• 47:46-49:39 Snowfall spinoff and TV music choices
• 50:04–54:57 Trump “Meet the Press” meltdown & analysis
• 62:00–68:12 Travel difficulties, air industry rants
• 57:19–61:11 Gun laws, American decline, and safety
• 68:12–70:10 Parenting and travel, sign-off

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Conclusion

This episode is a masterclass in real New York sports/media commentary, balancing relief, anxiety, and joy over the Knicks’ run with sharp cultural critique—especially regarding Trump’s insertion into the moment. The hosts are deeply engaged, frequently hilarious, and unafraid to ask tough questions about who really gets to celebrate, who sets the tone of the city, and what all this really means for New York and the broader U.S. context right now.

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Listen if you want:

• True-to-life, energetic Knicks fan debate—fear, superstition, and joy
• Incisive and funny takes on Trump, Dolan, and the billionaire class
• Candid reflections on the meaning of community, family, and sports history
• Genuine New Yorker perspective on pop culture, politics, and American decline
• Laugh-out-loud moments on everything from haircuts to babies on planes

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Hosts: Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, Peter Rosenberg
Notable Quotes and timestamps are woven throughout each segment above.

Transcript

[Ebro Darden]

Just don't call it a podcast. Oh, damn. Okay. The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Experience. That's right. It's a show. It's a patreon. It's a family affair. It's live experion. That's right. 844 ELR. ELR. I have to imagine Knicks fans want to call and get some time today. So the liners just be there for you if you just need to, I don't know, pontificate, coagulate.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, the last game was Friday, right?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, that was a game. Crazy game.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And listen, let me. I'm gonna. Let's talk about the things that people don't want to talk about. Knicks did everything to lose that game.

[Ebro Darden]

And the refs tried to help the Spurs.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo.

[Ebro Darden]

It was. I mean, listen, the reason I say

[Laura Rosenberg]

that is, is this whole thing has been so amazing. And I'm not. I'm truly not trying to troll Knicks fans. I've been so enjoying this. I'm here for it. But what we can't do is act as if the Knicks have just crushed San Antonio in two straight games. Right? These have been very close games.

[Ebro Darden]

Game one was a pretty good shellacking, though. The coming from behind. You know, they were down 13.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's what I mean. But they were down. They had to come back.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It kind of happened the same way in both games. It's just the Knicks ended up getting both. Right.

[Ebro Darden]

Which, you know, I mean, I. I hear what you're saying, but fair enough. I think it's the point. The Knicks have kind of been that team most of the season. This. These come from behind. Got to work for it. Victories have been a thing for them.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, no, for sure. And this. This team, they've been in the playoffs, been their. Their lights out. They're a different team than they even were in the regular season. I say all of this to say, yeah, why in God's name would you do anything to mess with the mojo of this team and this fan base? Like, inviting.

[Ebro Darden]

That's because you're Jim Dolan, sir.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Congratulations.

[Ebro Darden]

You played yourself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You invited the President of the United States. Which removed. Even if we don't get into the politics of it all, Ibro. Just the fact that the fans have been enjoying what they've been enjoying, and now they gotta get there over two hours early on a workday with no. Can't bring a bag in the building. It's. They're calling it straight up TSA screening because no. No way to enjoy an event more than adding some TSA screening.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, you know what struck me the most, too, is just the sheer disconnect of this invite to the individuals who can't even afford to be at the game but want some sort of, like, I want to be near the Garden. I want to be outside. I need to experience this. That's what hit me the heaviest, which I was like, wait a minute. So now you're not going to have watch parties?

[Laura Rosenberg]

So they. But they are. They are having their watch parties. Apparently, the watch party they've been doing right off 7th Avenue had already been off as of the Eastern Conference finals.

[Ebro Darden]

It was. And then they put it back.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, wait, they did put it back.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes, they put it back. Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I need to get a straight answer. You guys are.

[Ebro Darden]

They were out. They were showing them outside the arena watching when they were in San Antonio.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They were out right off 7th Avenue, the place where I was doing my show from.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So they did put it back. Oh, sorry. I thought. I assumed it had been off and stayed.

[Ebro Darden]

No, they put it off. And then Mom, Donnie was like, let's run it. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's do it for the people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And now they had to cancel it.

[Ebro Darden]

Now they've canceled it because your man wanted to invite you. Yo, you see?

[Laura Rosenberg]

So. All right, that's. That's. Yeah, that's even worse.

[Ebro Darden]

So that. So these are. Now, look, maybe there. Do we have any word they're going to do it. Maybe they move it over to radio.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They have a. They have. They added a couple of really big ones.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I knew that. But there was like, proximity. People want to be around the Garden, man. That's what I'm saying. Like, people want to at least. Like, I couldn't afford to get in, but I went over. I'm right here. I'm outside. I'm in proximity to the vibes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't want to. You know what I'm saying? Yes. There's. There's watch parties all over the city.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Every bar is a watch.

[Ebro Darden]

There's. The whole city's a watch party. But, I mean, that Garden watch party,

[Laura Rosenberg]

Bryant park is pretty close.

[Ebro Darden]

It's decent. It's cool, but it's cool.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's cool. But it's not right outside.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's not. John Blaze.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And so now you. Not only. You don't have the watch party outside, and it's still going to be craziness all around the Garden because the security and police and all. The president. So it's just. It's just so tone deaf. It's very risky.

[Ebro Darden]

My office is right across from the entrance to the Garden, so I'm there every day.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right?

[Ebro Darden]

And the. You know, they've had the barricades up, you know, blocking the street so that people stay on the sidewalk for, you know, the last couple of. I mean, hell, through the Eastern Conference finals. The vibes over there have been great. I don't know what they're gonna be like today.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know it's weird.

[Ebro Darden]

And I'll go after we finish the show. I'm gonna head over there, but. And I'll let y' all know in the morning what the vibes are like,

[Laura Rosenberg]

but I'm just curious.

[Ebro Darden]

It's completely whack. It's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's. And it's also just. Is. This is a dream. Knicks fans are in a dream state. Like, this doesn't make sense. They've won 13 in a row. Ebro. I've bet everyone. By the way, Dave, why'd you.

[Ebro Darden]

Why'd you make a note to tell

[Laura Rosenberg]

me I've won a lot of money? No go Knicks. No, it's crazy. They've covered 12 out of 13 times. I bet them every single night, and they just keep coming.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, time out. Time out. What'd you say, Lou? He jinxed it. Who, me?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've been saying it. I've been saying it after every game. I'm keep betting the Knicks. I'm gonna keep betting the Knicks.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, what are you saying? You're saying you're gonna bet the spurs now that he said. Oh, it's a jinx.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've been saying it. The jinx is over. Shut up, Louis. This has been a thing. But I say all that to say it's been a Ebro. It's a dream state for the fans.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's amazing. And now. But I'm having it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But now you're adding this thing. Why are you doing this?

[Ebro Darden]

Because there. There's some sort of favor tax. I can't help. But every time there's some sort of rich billionaire, let me canoodle in. Get.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And they've already been.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, they've been canoodled. They've been spooning.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. This spoon has just happened.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, they've been doing that. So. Yeah, that's whack. It's completely whack. And if you hope to see Trump get booed on television, I suspect we won't hear that. They'll. They'll, you know, quell that audio, cover it with something. They're not going to let that fly.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They need to. It's all about timing.

[Ebro Darden]

Social media will show you the real. But the booze.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The booze state and how bad it will be will vary, I think, depending on what's going on in the game. Meaning they show him for the first time on the screen and the Knicks are already up 20. Could be a different reaction than if Somehow they're down 14 and they show Trump on the screen. Because some of these people. Ibro. Don't care. I'm just. We think everybody in there. Oh, you love basketball.

[Ebro Darden]

You must. That's why I said, if you're looking to. You know, I'm gonna tell you what I was so excited to talk about today.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hmm.

[Ebro Darden]

I was. I've have been so excited to talk about this historic moment in sports history. What we're gonna see tonight. Because I don't think we've ever seen anything like it. Maybe. And maybe, you know, a comp. A team who hasn't won A championship in 50 years in the largest media market in the world.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, now you. But now there can't be a comp.

[Ebro Darden]

But that's what I'm saying.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Once you add.

[Ebro Darden]

But that's. That's an important, I think, component because of the coverage. Like, I think a lot of times, you know, when, When. When you see championships won in other cities and they're a big deal, like they haven't won. It is a big deal. When you layer across the top just the amount of coverage a city like New York gets from the people who live here, the media outlets who are here and the world that just covers New York City. Like it's a layer of.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you can't.

[Ebro Darden]

Excitement that. You can't compare it to anything.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No. See. Yeah. When you go beyond the sports part of it, there's no comp. If you were to. If you were. I would have said. I would say Red Sox, really big deal. I'd say Cubs. That was you.

[Ebro Darden]

But. And that was huge.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Huge. This.

[Ebro Darden]

But also, baseball's not as popular as best.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Baseball is not as popular as best.

[Ebro Darden]

You don't have a football comp, do you?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, no, no. I mean, honestly, it'd be like if the Jets. It would only be the Jets. The jets would be the only thing. But the jets don't unify the city.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The jets are the city's more Giants fans. I'd say. I'd say it's 60, 40 Giants fans.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

The Knicks, the Mets would be a

[Laura Rosenberg]

big deal, but not like this.

[Ebro Darden]

Like this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Again, they're 40% of the fans. The Nets don't even. I love. We love the Barclays center, love the

[Ebro Darden]

Nets, and we're going to celebrate Brooklyn if they ever sniff it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But they don't even. They don't even register.

[Ebro Darden]

Not.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They don't register. It is the Knick city.

[Ebro Darden]

That's it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All five boroughs, Nick City.

[Ebro Darden]

And I mean. And you have the location of the arena, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, there's no comp. That part. There's. I didn't know where you were going to go. That part. Because in terms of greatest runs, it's up there anyway.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, it's not even sports talk. It's more of, like, a lifestyle cultural talk.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's crazy. It's. It's.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I can't. It's so big.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I'm gonna go back to what I wanted to start with today. Why would you risk it? Why would you? Why? Everything is set up for this to be the greatest dream of all time. I had this thought the other day when I'm showing that they're showing, like, Charles Barkley and Shaq, like, this is incredible. I've never seen this many fans from another city just in the building after the game's over, while they were doing inside the NBA, by the way, we also should pause and take a moment for how great. It was all very weird when the TNT thing ended and they went to espn. You know how dope it is now that the finals end and after Mike Breen finishes the call, it's then inside the NBA. Like, do you really celebrate how dope that is?

[Ebro Darden]

That.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wait, what?

[Ebro Darden]

We'll talk another combo for what was awkward about the TNT club.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Just, it was kind of, like, weird because it ended. It was sad, and they didn't get that many games. At first. They were like, oh, they're only doing X amount of games on espn. And it seemed like it was going to be sort of like, are they. Are they really doing it? And then they've done the entire playoffs on espn. It's been awesome. So I'm just saying, when you watch after the Finals, you get to see inside the NBA. Fantastic. So they're saying, have you seen anything like this before? And I'm just, like, watching the Knicks fans, like, crying and, you know, all these celebrities that are there. And I'm like, if this goes bad, this footage would end up as the most painful footage of all time. You cannot do it. You have to finish this off.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm not. I'm not thinking about it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They haven't been crushing them like that. The spurs are. The spurs are very good.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, this is the. This is the upside, I believe, for Knicks. This is what I'm focused on. Brunson has not been able to. Brunson his way through this. Yes, he's hit clutch shots, but it's not like he's, you know, averaging 30 points, 25 points.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's not what. That's not what they're doing.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not what they're doing. You also have, and I told many people this, you have Mikhail Bridges who can step up and showed it in game two. You have that. You have a deeper team coming off the bench. Right. Like, you have a great rotation that the spurs don't really have. Like, you guys have. The only thing they have is Wimy, and Wimy has not been down in the paint, and it hasn't worked for them. And he may go down there tonight, but Mitchell, Robinson and Cat are doing the work.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, I'll push and then.

[Ebro Darden]

And oh, and also OG I mean, yes. OG in game one, pop some threes in a row. Amazing. Obviously, Game two, dunked on Wemby, you know, muscled him in the paint, which everybody loved. But it's not like OG has been going. Going off crazy. So there's a lot of headroom for the Knicks to still go crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There are ways the Knicks could still play better and do other things. I agree. I think they will win. I want to be clear. I think they will win. I think it will then probably be a sweep, which is absolutely insane. But then you're talking about they've won 15 in a row in the playoffs, which is historic. Absolutely historic.

[Ebro Darden]

And I think that's some sort of tie of.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, right now they're second. Would. Would. Would 15 tie it. 15 with tie.

[Ebro Darden]

15, 15 with tie. So which was the Warriors? Yes, the Warriors. Right. The. The team that was so.

[Laura Rosenberg]

One of the greatest teams ever assembled.

[Ebro Darden]

The team that was so good they wanted to outlaw being able to make

[Laura Rosenberg]

teams like that, by the way. So I think all of these things will happen. The only thing I'm cautioning and why. I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but I'm just pointing out why I hate the Trump thing is mess. You don't want to mess with anything.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm with you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

It's too late. But guess who messes with stuff.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Exactly.

[Ebro Darden]

James Dolan. Constantly. For historically and what's always.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He hasn't been during this. It's been this whole thing of, like, he's laid off and Leon Rose and World Wide west, they've put together this thing, they're just cooking. And then right now it's like, let's put Trump in the building. Let's make the fans a deal with the annoyingness of it. B, have to cancel an event outside. C, have to have the booing, cheering.

[Ebro Darden]

Just shows you how. How they. How these rich people just don't care about regular people. They are not in tune. Well, or. Or are in tune and don't care.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, we know Trump doesn't care. Never cares. He wants. He wants to be hot, he wants to be on the screen. He loves being controversial and divisive. But you would think that like season ticket holders, CEOs that have all these, you know, hundreds of that, y'. All. I'm told that tickets behind the scores table. I know somebody who has season tickets behind the scores table. $200,000.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That is not normal.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes, 200,000. So these people that have had these tickets, they make. I'd have to. Who can pay that? A lot of people, Lou. There's a lot of rich people out here, Lou. If you didn't know, know it. There's a lot of rich. And by a lot, I mean relative to the population of Earth, not a lot, but there's a lot. And especially here in New York City.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I mean, how.

[Ebro Darden]

Griff, who you. Sorry. Rosenberg, who you got online? Griffin.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We got Ramon, who's talking Nicks. And then we have Bob. It's his birthday.

[Ebro Darden]

And let's get Ramon up. We in the Knicks vibe. Bob, we got you for your birthday. Hang on, bro. Ramon. Yes, Sir. You're on ELR844ELR. ELR3. The phones is cracker lagging. I'm glad we got them. They've definitely served their purpose the last couple of weeks. N. Ramon, talk to us about these Knicks, baby. Rosenberg, what's good? Ease up, ease up, ease up. Nick, let's go.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nick, baby, I mean, listen, I'm with you. I'm with you. It's all, let's go, Nicks. I'm with you. I'm just a little. It freaked me out a little bit, that's all. I was like, why are we messing with this? Mojo? Don't mess with Ramon.

[Ebro Darden]

Have you been a lifelong Knicks fan? I. I don't want to say lifelong because my parents never were too much into sports. Sports. But as I matured and I got kids, I started to fall in love with the game. And I love the Knicks. I'm from New York. There it is. Where you live? Now I live in Jersey. There it is. Ramon, we love you for checking in on the ELR show, bro. Go next. Yes, I just want. Go ahead, go next. I just want to say Wemby's a baby cry. We can't put no attempt to. This wiener from the office going to the show. We got to keep the love up to New York, baby. We here. There it is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He called him a wiener. You don't get that every day.

[Ebro Darden]

I want to say, and I've been telling a lot of. Anybody will hear me this, obviously, I'm a Lakers fan. I've always said nickel team. I mean, yeah, you're a bad Lakers fan. I'm not a great fan of anything.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you really. I'm glad you're just a bad fan.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I'm a bad fan.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But you're a Lakers guy.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, that's how I came up. Right, but so I mentioned it last week, you weren't here. You know, issa's grandfather was 17. He's 70, so he was 17, 18.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, it sounds right.

[Ebro Darden]

Something like that. When they won last, Issa watching Issa have this moment with her grandfather. Fire.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right? I bet that's forever.

[Ebro Darden]

That's forever fire, bro. Like, and the amount of friends that I have who've lost their parents, who watch the Knicks with them and have never in their life, in their Life. They're not 50 yet, they're 46, they're 48, 49. Have never had this. That's me and my dad, Griffin. Is that. Never had it. Like, I'm calling people like, yo, I'm just checking in on you. How you feeling?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know it does feel really unusual. I think that's the. Now you can have a comp conversation.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

To the Red Sox and the Cubs, right? Those fan bases those parents and kids watched every day and you're like, yo, we're having this now. You know what I mean? And I know this is hard for New Yorkers to hear about, but the Red Sox part, that extra magic was along the way. They first come back, ever from down three.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Against the Yankees and then just mop the World Series. So if you at that point were an old 70 year old man with your 40 year old kid and your 12 year old grandkid, that's so that's more of a comp. But yeah, when you add in the New York of it all. And it's also cool to see, you know what it's like. It would be like if the US was amazing in World cup this year.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because the Knicks, New York being the underdog isn't a thing. New York is always the most braggadocious. We're the number one. Number one. Number one. This team's actually. And that's another reason I go back to the Trump thing and like, why do you have to invite him? This is that one time where it feels like a lot of the country is rooting for New York because they got no connection to the Spurs. Wemby is becoming a love him, hate him kind of guy.

[Ebro Darden]

Love him, hate him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, it's. It's becoming that it really. He's a going to be the best player in the league. Not even a question about it. It's already. He may already be that. It's in the conversation already. Oh, his attitude, which I love. It's what makes him great to me. Like, he's so not the friendly, low key European. He is like the talking. He is going to be a. You love or hate him.

[Ebro Darden]

But I listen, man. As much as he made mistakes in game two and he's been, you know, set up to be the face of the NBA and all those things, I can't hate the kid.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. I'm just saying it's going to happen in time. You heard the guy right now. The last guy who called had shit to talk about Wemby. When you're up against him and he's that good and he complains and he's talking trash and he sends his role players out to foul people like a henchman. No, he's gonna be a heel.

[Ebro Darden]

I like it. I like it. I like it for him, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I love him. I think he is the league's wet dream, bro. They're about to wrap up, everybody. LeBron's about to get wrapped up. You know, Steph got the Chinese sneaker, sneaker.

[Ebro Darden]

Now it's over.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Once you get the sneak. Once the Chinese sneaker deal's done, you're making the podcast is coming with the wife.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm pocket watch watching that sneaker deal. That different type of money, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you get in the bag.

[Ebro Darden]

How do you feel about. How do you feel about the slogan? Let's get clip 11 there. Rahsaan, how you feel about the slogan?

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[Laura Rosenberg]

Today, Black Music Month, Amplified Voices is sponsored by AARP. Sorry, what are you throwing up here? Clip 11 slogan My Mayor Muslim, my bagels Jewish.

[Ebro Darden]

My Christian New York.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He said my bagels Jewish. Yeah, Yeah. I didn't. It took me this time to understand it. You said it yesterday. I. I was like. I was. I forget where I was. In the car come back from the airport, I watched like three times.

[Ebro Darden]

What did he say?

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's Jewish. My.

[Ebro Darden]

My bagel Jewish.

[Laura Rosenberg]

My mar. Is Muslim. My bagel's Jewish. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

My Christian Dior.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That doesn't make sense.

[Ebro Darden]

No, but it does.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know you don't. Run it again.

[Ebro Darden]

Run it again.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No one has Christian Dior.

[Ebro Darden]

He doesn't have his Christian is Dior.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right, okay. Got it.

[Ebro Darden]

Got it. My mayor Muslim. My bagels Jewish. My Christian Dior.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's just the video. It's just perfect.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no, People are. You know, people are running with this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, they're actually making it a saying.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes. It doesn't make sense, but that doesn't matter. I think people, first of all, the Chris, my Christian is Dior makes no sense.

[Laura Rosenberg]

People. Is that almost a pop smoke? Is it almost like playing in the pop smoke A little bit? Little Christian Dior.

[Ebro Darden]

Dior, whatever.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because. What else?

[Ebro Darden]

Whatever.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What does it mean?

[Ebro Darden]

People, I think, really love my mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish. Like, they love that because it feels unifying. It's. Yes, it's unifying. It's such a New York thing. It's. You know what I mean? And it's just chaotic. It's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's Knicks, it's Nicks, it's Knicks, it's New York, it's Nick's. Oh, yeah, that's great. We have some fan funding here, as they call it the Super Chat. Lil Deontel says nobody wants that Mucine X06 minivan built walrus at the game.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, yo.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Bonnie says if the Knicks lose tonight, it will be due to Trump.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She says Trump making this epic Knicks Run about him is tragically on brand. Everything he touches turns to shit. Stay away from us. That toxic negativity, Eric. Motion says with Dolan, who is historically a malignant character, just to be generous, inviting potus. Does that set up a White House visit pending a nick win? Oh, absolutely. Let's cross one bridge at a time.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And.

[Ebro Darden]

And there will. I suspect there will be Knicks who don't do it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah, for sure. And then Mehdi says, well, that's. Will the teams take a knee today? I. I don't. I don't think that's. I don't think anyone's been taking a knee. So I would say not tonight. Where. Where. He'll be in a suite, I assume.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, he's not. No, wait. Lou says no, no, I think they're. He's gonna try to be courtside.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You think or you know?

[Ebro Darden]

I think he's going to be courtside.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I.

[Ebro Darden]

For what I heard he's not going to be in a suite. Where do you hear this, Lou, what is your. The news. What. And what did they say specifically, other than Trump will be at the game? No, they haven't said. That's because. Specifically. So why are you going? When. Since whenever. Last night I read it. That he would be courtside. That's what they're saying. Wait, you're hearing that, too? Rah. Yes, I've heard the same.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's in these streets.

[Ebro Darden]

I will be shocked. I want to see it. Let's go to Birthday Bob on the line. Bob. Happy birthday, Bob.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Half.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, we lost him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he's there.

[Ebro Darden]

Bob, you there? He's not there. Gr or he's not. His line's not open. His line's open. He's not talking.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sorry. Birthday Bob. We tried. It's his birthday.

[Ebro Darden]

It's your birthday, Bob.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's Kanye's birthday.

[Ebro Darden]

We're focused on. Bob. Enough.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Enough focus on.

[Ebro Darden]

We got Trump. We got. We got Kanye.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We can't. We can only do so much.

[Ebro Darden]

These people won't. Just won't leave us alone.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, we. It's going to be a little while till we get out of this thing. Chris Osorio says Trump wants to be Obama so bad.

[Ebro Darden]

Did Obama show up to any professional sports? Oh, yeah, yeah. Endeavors.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, for sure. But I don't know about finals. I'm not sure about Finals. Definitely hit. He hit all the games. He had all the local Washington games. For sure.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And then he'd hit other stuff periodically.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, big ones like this.

[Donald Trump]

Too big.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's what I'm saying I don't know about finals or Super Bowls. Now remember, we're just days away. Also from the ufc. White House extravaganza too. What? He definitely never did say days.

[Ebro Darden]

You mean weeks? Because isn't it July 4th?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's not July 4th.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not?

[Donald Trump]

No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why would that make sense? Because they said it was gonna be the birthday.

[Ebro Darden]

250 years. Nah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What about when's Trump's birthday?

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, Obama was courtside at an All Star game. Yeah. He wasn't a sitting president. Was 2000.

[Ebro Darden]

It was this year.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So.

[Ebro Darden]

So. No, I was talking about when he was president. Thanks, Ron. Hey, Ron. Hey, Ron. Basine.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know you got Ron drops on

[Ebro Darden]

there, by the way. I do, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There's some Ron in there. Cuz. That was a Ron drop right there.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no more Sasso. Now everybody call me wrong Sasso, man. That's Sasso. Used to be wrong. Okay, Ron, let's get to the point.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. That's the one. That's the one we said, did Obama go to any big games like this? He said, well, he went to an All Star game. When? This year. So no. The answer was just a short no. But wait, what's the date on ufc? Is it this week?

[Ebro Darden]

This weekend?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's this weekend, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

They're hosting graduations. You played. They're hosting now. Something similar to what Ron Baskeem did happened last week. So the UFC is happening at the White House.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Correct.

[Ebro Darden]

On the lawn. They built an installation for it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Ebro Darden]

And I asked Griff, have we ever done other interesting entertainment things at the White House? He brought me a list of like, controversial moments at the White House. I'm looking. Has there ever been some sort of boxing, ballet?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why are you asking?

[Ebro Darden]

Wrestling.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Know the answer. You know the answer.

[Ebro Darden]

I wasn't sure.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No. The answer is no. What, like Teddy Roosevelt had his dogs fight a bear at the White House.

[Ebro Darden]

Teddy Roosevelt had his dogs fight a bear on the White House law.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Different times.

[Ebro Darden]

Similar.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Similar. Honestly similar.

[Ebro Darden]

Now, did they build. Was it a spectator thing?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No cage. No cage.

[Ebro Darden]

No cage.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Was it? No. Were fans there?

[Ebro Darden]

Were fans there just walk up to lighthouse there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, back then you could just roll up.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, God. So you could just be at the gate chilling.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I also like, let me just say the last. To put a bow on this whole Knicks Trump thing.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't even like how you did that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What?

[Ebro Darden]

I would prefer you to say, put a bow on this whole Knicks conversation and the distraction of Donald Trump you said Knicks, Trump, like it's the same.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't mean it that way. To put a bow on the whole Trump. Me not liking Trump going to the Knicks game thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Israel and Iran, that ceasefires off.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. They're. They're. They're. They're shucking artillery at each other right now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So things are picking up in the

[Ebro Darden]

Middle east, and Trump caught. Tweeted. Well, he didn't call. He's more professional than that. He truth. He truthed and told him to stop. Stop their shit.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So. So Trump's in the middle of this whole thing. There's a lot going on to want to mix this up in the middle of midtown Manhattan.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, that's why they do want to do it. He's looked the. The news cycle is heavy with him right now. That's his thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He loves the news cycle.

[Ebro Darden]

You got him. We'll get to the Meet the Press clip.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Jared Kushner and Ivanka. Trump's Albanian endeavor.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Where the Albanians have burnt down the President's house. And they're getting active out there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yep.

[Ebro Darden]

Then you have this. Trump at the Knicks game, Trump at the US with the ufc.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Walked in on the interview. What was the other thing? Was there another one this weekend? I don't know. I was so busy seeing how popular the US Was based on how they treat Americans in airports in Europe now. Congratulations.

[Ebro Darden]

You played. How'd you feel? Did you see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Did you put the video in that? I said, this is so real quick. We mentioned this on the show. I believe you were off, but you saw the video in the chat. We showed the video on ELR last two weeks ago of those CNN women at an airport in Europe saying, look at these lines. If you're not an EU citizen, they came up with a new thing to get your passport checked. The EU line is mad fast. The non EU line, essentially for world traveling, which basically amounts to a ton of Americans, if we're being honest about travel. Endless line. Endless. We got to Milan, bro. We just survived eight hours with the baby on the plane. You get to Milan, you pull out this line. It was like a roller coaster joint. You know, the one that keeps going.

[Ebro Darden]

Exactly. And you step into a room, you think you're there, and there's more line in the room.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Correct. The only reason we lucked out is as we were getting to the zigzag, after about an hour waiting, we started to get to the zigzag. Natalie noticed them moving a family somewhere else with babies, and she Was like, where are they going? Let's just follow. And we just jumped with these other families and they'd opened one more lane and we jumped. We. They let us skip, basically. They let a bunch of family only skip a big line. We're leaving Rome now. Yesterday we get to the airport, something I never do. Like three and a half hours before my flight. Because I just cannot imagine trying to hustle this baby through a bad situation.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not good.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not good. Very proud of myself. Up like five hours before my flight. Got everyone ready. Let's go. This is what I saw when I got to the airport in Rome. This is insane. We're cordoned off into a separate area for just the US and Israeli flights. The US and Israel segregation.

[Ebro Darden]

Nah, it's crazy. The fact that it's just US and Israel is crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It looked nuts. I'm like, wait, that's.

[Ebro Darden]

So that, that's who we're linked up with. That's the squad.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Exactly. That's our squad right there. That's basically all we got left.

[Ebro Darden]

That's it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So I just found it.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, and the uk. I mean, yeah, I went to the. When I went to London, it was, it was still smooth. It was still smooth because remember Brexit? Remember Brexit.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah, Right.

[Ebro Darden]

So they're also London. UK and EU is different.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

That's a different relationship to the rest. Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And let me just tell you, man. Bro, have you been to Rome before?

[Ebro Darden]

Nope. Wait, yeah, obviously no. Venice.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You've been to Venice?

[Ebro Darden]

Venice, yo.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Moving around Rome for a couple days. You know how we always laugh at the idea of like, greatest city in the world or greatest country in the world because A, it's absurd and then B, just deciding that it happens to be the one that you're from. So it is absurd. But when you think about what a baby we are as a nation, when you're in a place like Rome, where

[Ebro Darden]

they're talking about thousands of years.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's there, bro. No, it's just there. No, like you're, you're, you're eating dinner and then you walk around the corner and some insane looking thing from thousands of years ago that's incredibly impressive. Is there. And they have all this culture, like all the sort of Italian culture that's become cliched that we've like, we kind of, you know, joke about the real feel of Italian culture is really like that. Like, you're like, wow, this is a. Y' all have a whole thing that you've been doing for thousands of years. How do we even have the nerve to come out of our mouths saying, greatest thing ever? How. Congratulations. They've been doing this longer than you, Sway. Thousands of years. We're nothing. And we're kind of floundering right now. They're still there in the middle of what they've been doing. I'm not saying they haven't had bad moments. Of course they have. Every place has. But to see the overarching culture and feel and the whole thing. We're not in this conversation. Greece is in this conversation. Italy's in this conversation. Egypt's in this cover. There are places that have been doing this longer.

[Ebro Darden]

China's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, they've been. I think they might be millions of years. I'm not sure. It might be.

[Ebro Darden]

China is different, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So, like, it's.

[Ebro Darden]

And by the way, 100 years ago, was having a tough, super tough time. And now when you talk about China, they're kicking our ass. No, no, no. They're kicking our ass in every way. You know, it was glossed over when Trump and the whole executive world went to China just recently and, like, came back with no notes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So what did that mean? What was they.

[Ebro Darden]

People took it as like, Trump basically just gave China Taiwan and, like, cut a deal on some, like, you know, because that's been. The standoff is basically like, China's like, Taiwan's ours. Taiwan's like, no, we're not. And we want to be a part of NATO and we want to work with the US and we want to be our own sovereign thing. And China's like, absolutely not. You belong to US and the US stays in the way. And, like, 80% of the world's, like, chips are made in Taiwan. So that's like the phone chips, etc. I think computer chair. I don't know if their phone. All the chips. Except Lays, not Lays and not all

[Laura Rosenberg]

the ones that make you sick. We got that. Yeah, we got that.

[Ebro Darden]

But so anyway, a lot of people interpret it as, like, it was so quiet when they came back from there and so eerily positive that there was some sort of deal cut that, you know is going to do a disservice to Taiwan, basically.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We would never do that. You know, that video you sent me on Instagram was fire. I don't know if you didn't send to the chat, though.

[Ebro Darden]

Which one?

[Laura Rosenberg]

The. The punk rock.

[Ebro Darden]

The. Oh, the new.

[Laura Rosenberg]

My new favorite favorite song about America. We got to get that.

[Ebro Darden]

You want to play that. That's great for the. You lie. Fourth coming up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, maybe we could debut it on the Patreon this week if you want. But it's a hell of a song.

[Ebro Darden]

It's a good tune.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Really good.

[Ebro Darden]

Ebro's Algo comes through.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So multiple people said, can somebody. Can somebody get Obama a ticket? Courtside? Come on. That's what Casey said.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's not do it, guys. First of all, Mom, Donnie's gonna be in the building.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, but he's gonna be up in the cheap seats.

[Ebro Darden]

Mom, Donnie sits in the three hundreds. He said he bought his own ticket last time. He's going with some friends this time. He's a real fan. He doesn't mind being in cheap seats. By the way, Mom, Donnie was there in what was a game. Was that game. What game was that? Game four of the Eastern Conference finals, maybe.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I forget which one was last game.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I think it was game three or game three. Yeah. Is that right? It wasn't a big dust up? No kerfuffle?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, cuz. Cuz he's there.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He goes in like a regular person.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what I'm saying.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

It doesn't. It didn't have to be a negative. Positive. It didn't have to be nothing. I didn't even see a lot of social media about it. Only his.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think. And how would there be when he moved, when the man looks like every other New Yorker, like in literally looking. And when I say that, I mean every way. How he physically looks, how he dresses, carries himself, like he just goes in with regular people. There's no big kerfuffle.

[Ebro Darden]

He's got a couple of. He's got a couple of goons. He's got goons.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I feel like when he's in the seats, the goons just off to the side watching him, and it's pretty low key. That's not, you know.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I saw talk of like, you know, some rich dudes being like, yo, Mom, Donnie and Trump, y' all stay away from the game. You know, I was like, no, don't put this on, mom.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was Donnie Deutsch. I saw that clip.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, is that who that was?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was that, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Who's that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he was like an old MSNBC guy. I forget.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, God, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Doing this, doing the.

[Ebro Darden]

Don't try to put them in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not the same equivalency.

[Ebro Darden]

Don't do that. Mom, Donnie been at the games, is a real fan. Is a real fan. Look, Trump, he's from Queens. Gotta assume he's a fan.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he's allowed to like the Knicks. Sure. He was in 99, 94.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, there you go. So he's been at finals before, but now's not the time. But it's tough. It's tough if you're a fan and. And he's been a supporter of the team. Look, I don't like it, but no matter how you slice it and dice it, Trump is from Queens.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's hard. It is an awkward spot, and even for Dolan. I'll even sympathize with Dolan if Trump

[Ebro Darden]

sent him a text like, y' all want to pull up?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. Or even just say, congrats. This is incredible. I love. I'm so happy for you, Jim. Congrats.

[Ebro Darden]

Mmm. Damn it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What do you do? You don't invite him. It's the president United States, and you're a rich guy who's doing.

[Ebro Darden]

When he wasn't the president of the United States, he was there, the games with you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So, like, while I know it's easy to villainize Dolan because he's made it easy over the years, he's been staying out of things. If you do look at it from a Give him the benefit of the doubt kind of side kind of awkward, like, same way Mom, Donnie plays the game with Trump. I get why he. And by the way, if they run into each other, if that does happen, they'll shake hands. Oh, they'll be. He'll. They'll be doing the dance. The dance will be done. Mom. Donnie will do the dance, folks. He's not gonna try to talk trash. He's gonna hit a little.

[Ebro Darden]

Hey, how you doing, buddy? Good to see you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hey, one thing we can agree on. Both Knicks fans. How about that Jalen Brunson? Am I right?

[Ebro Darden]

Talk to him. Talk to him. How you like this socialism?

[Laura Rosenberg]

So maybe, maybe, maybe Dolan was in a tough spot.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Are we doing the rundown today?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know. I was just.

[Ebro Darden]

Is that how this show works? We've never had this experience.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, we did. We did. We did the rundown when Laura was out.

[Ebro Darden]

We did. There's something you care about.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm looking right now at some of the stories here.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There's some stories Griff gave us, some easy stories. If you wanted to hit a couple, that's up to you.

[Ebro Darden]

All right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There's also just other things we could do. We haven't gotten to. The Trump storm out, the temper tantrum at the Meet the Press.

[Ebro Darden]

Mm.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The Scott Pelley interview. We haven't gotten to that 60 Minutes. Of course, there was a mass shooting. You know, that barely makes news in America, though. So that's just like.

[Ebro Darden]

Where was this?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a Saturday. That was in Ohio. Twelve people were hit, critically injuring two.

[Ebro Darden]

Was it at an event or supermarket? A mall?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was a historic festival.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, got it. And did they get the shooter?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, according to Louis, who's a great source here. Yes. Oh, there's also the. Or. Sorry, Griff. There is also Taylor Swift news, which ties in. Sounds like rundown.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's do it. It's time for the rundown.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She'll be back tomorrow.

[Ebro Darden]

Now we have the rundown with Rosenberg.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right. All right, great. I'll. I'll start with Taylor Swift, then. You got to start with the big names, right? Big Tay Tay. Sources are saying that it led to TMZ, that between a thousand and twelve hundred people will show up at MSG on July 3rd to watch Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get married.

[Ebro Darden]

Now, MSG getting married at the Garden. What's the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It says.

[Ebro Darden]

It doesn't sound fly.

[Laura Rosenberg]

According to sources, the advantage of Msgr. There are no windows, no photographers can get pictures. There's also underground parking, and guests can enter and exit without crowds.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, it's a huge. I guess they could just build the wedding inside of the bowl.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, that's what they're gonna do.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They'll make it like a thing inside look like msg, Right. It'll be probably curtained off, and it'll look like some fancy ball.

[Ebro Darden]

It'll be beautiful. I'm sure it'll be fancy schmancy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It won't.

[Ebro Darden]

Look, it doesn't sound.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it sounds weird.

[Ebro Darden]

It sounds whack. Like, if one of your friends was like, hey, we're getting married at the Garden. Well, you're either, like, a big Knicks fan, right? Which is like, yo, we get married at the Garden. Like, what other scenario would that be where you. I never heard of fire.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've never heard of it.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm sure it's happened before.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a good question.

[Ebro Darden]

Now, this is the story that I heard now that this. When this came out, because I didn't see the Garden part, but that was just like, Taylor and Travis are making it official. Baby on the way.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Baby on the way. And so they don't want to Baby scene.

[Ebro Darden]

No meaning, like, we got to make it official so that we can get the. Cuz. We can't. We can't have baby out of wedlock.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, that's not happening. That's nuts.

[Ebro Darden]

That Might out of control.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That maybe was old Travis, not this Travis.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that Taylor would never.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You can't never Taylor.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what that would do to the brain?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, my God.

[Ebro Darden]

A baby out of wed. So they say. Pretty. That was with the speculation. The talk is that pretty quickly after this wedding. When's the wedding?

[Laura Rosenberg]

July 3rd.

[Ebro Darden]

So look how fast we're hearing about the wedding, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What kind of white haircut you think Travis gonna have going for this thing?

[Ebro Darden]

You think he's going stash no beard or he's bringing the beard back?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a great question because stash no

[Ebro Darden]

beard is a specific choice.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And it's very white.

[Ebro Darden]

And it's very white.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's very white. It's very popular. Also, does he go like straight, part,

[Ebro Darden]

like, part comb over?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Like with the comb to the side.

[Ebro Darden]

Or does he go. If he goes. No facial hair.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No facial hair at all. But what kind of hair? What do you do then? Because he's definitely not going baldy.

[Ebro Darden]

No, that's old Travis low. The low cut with beard. It's not happening.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's old trap. We don't do that anymore. That's. You're with Taylor.

[Ebro Darden]

That was when you was dating black girls.

[Laura Rosenberg]

When you had black girls, you had the black haircut. Now you get the white man haircut. Now that you're capable. Listen, I'm not going to. Hey, if I was capable, maybe occasionally I would. I don't know what I would do if I had hair.

[Ebro Darden]

That's racist.

[Laura Rosenberg]

These are these white men decisions when you just have, like, lush. I don't know if Travis's hair is lush. I think it can grow.

[Ebro Darden]

I think it's pretty lush.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think it is.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, pull up some recent Trav Taylor photos.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I think he can have like the full.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't even know what I would do. I don't know what that would be like. So I wonder what he does. I think he goes some sort of. Some sort of back with products.

[Ebro Darden]

So he's definitely not cosplaying ethnic is what you're saying?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it won't be beard. This, like, that's racist. Now question. Is my beard look cosplaying ethnic?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, is this. Is the baldy with this kind of cosplaying ethnic? A little bit.

[Ebro Darden]

It's become. In. In years past, it would be now. It's a little. It's a little. You know, what is that ubiquitous? It's like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like everybody has bald.

[Ebro Darden]

You have limited options. But look, when you used to get A lineup lining up back in the day was you was. Oh, you was trying to get sauce. You was trying to have some swag with a lineup.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because white people didn't even care.

[Ebro Darden]

They didn't even know what a lineup was. At the white barbershop, they'd be like,

[Laura Rosenberg]

white people, the only line of when you get a haircut is. Is when the neck. The neck hair gets so thick that it, like, starts to connect to the beard. Then they're like, all right, we got to get the line back, yo. You know why people always laugh? This is, like, a great cultural difference. Whenever I mention I need to get a haircut today, if it's in front of black or Latin people, they think. They say nothing. They go, oh, okay, word. White people go, haircut, you're bald. Every time. They don't understand what I could be needing to do, and they get a kick out of me needing a haircut.

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[Laura Rosenberg]

Black Music Month. Amplified Voices is sponsored by aarp. They don't.

[Ebro Darden]

Is it generational? Is it like, which. Because there's definitely white people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not young y. I guess young, young people or people who have a beard also wouldn't. But if they're like, yeah, like, 50 plus, certainly 50 plus. It's a laugh.

[Ebro Darden]

It's like Don and Han, they laughing at you, Alan.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know. They both get it. They know it. They've been around me enough. And by the way, Don actually keeps this thing pretty tight for. For an older gray beard. But, like, no, it's all the time. They don't get it. So to your point. Yeah. Back in the day, white people didn't

[Ebro Darden]

even think about he was getting a lineup.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, you. That you're trying to.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, you think you black?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Who you white chocolate. So yeah, Travis gonna go. He's gonna go white cut for sure.

[Ebro Darden]

Look, there he goes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's lush.

[Ebro Darden]

And how recent are these picks? You can't show Leon Baskine.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's recent, bro. That's the Super Bowl. That looks like the super bowl two years ago. Oh, my.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, that's the wedding.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's the wedding vibe. By the way. You remember when those sweaters were super in though, that Boys to Men era sweater? The Perry Ellis. Those sweaters were Alex Vanderpool era. Yeah,

[Ebro Darden]

the argyle sweater. No, he's going, I might bring that back. Yeah, it's a little hot right now, but, you know, maybe for the fall, I'll bring back an argyle.

[Laura Rosenberg]

By the way, but look at your jacket. In the studio, we keep it cool. You can wear winter gear in here all year long. True. That's the beauty of it.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, this is. Yo, let me tell you something. Spring got this stuff on. You might. You guys are gonna see a lot of this Nike tech.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why you got this sale?

[Ebro Darden]

There was a sale of sale. Yo, but feel this material. Oh, what is that, velvet? No, but it's just like it. It. It's. It's. It's. It's light. It's not hot.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's nice. That's nice.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not hot.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's cool.

[Ebro Darden]

It's good.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's hot at night.

[Ebro Darden]

It's good at least to 80. And then you're like, all right, let me take this off.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And you have the pants, too.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, top and bottom. And I went and got some shorts. They had shorts on sale. Everything was like 30% off.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That would make a big deal. Crazy, because it's. Because full price is insane. Did I. Did I. Did I tell you, though, what is this velvet thing?

[Ebro Darden]

No. What? From coming to America. I know the joke.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Of course you do. Everyone does. It's part of the culture. Did I tell you that when I went to my guy, Barry Blaustein, Shiva, his daughter told me that when they were making Coming to America, he went to her pop pop, which is Barry's dad, I guess. And he's like, dad, what would a. What would an old Jewish man say to compliment someone else on their clothing? And. And her pop pop went, what is this velvet? And that's the origin. And now I was like. I told him, like, you guys, everyone says that. Now you say ubiquitous. No one even knows what it's from

[Ebro Darden]

when you say it, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's just built into what we say. What is this velvet? It was just cuz someone's grandpa was like, yeah, that's what you say. I thought that was so funny to

[Ebro Darden]

me because velvet, when it came out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What is it another thing old Jews like to say. By the way, I don't know why this is true. If you're eating steak, you got to tell people it was falling off the bone. When they say the meat is falling off the bone.

[Ebro Darden]

Brisket talk. That's big brisket talk.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If it falls off the bone, that's how you know.

[Ebro Darden]

But you know what? Black people said it too, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Falling off the bone.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. You know, cook out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, most of these things.

[Ebro Darden]

Smoke. Yo, anybody smoking some meat? Pause.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it's falling off the bone. Yo, guys, One of our favorite shows is getting a spin off. Oh yeah, Snowfall.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, I saw. I saw the trailer.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You saw the trailer? Ready?

[Ebro Darden]

I saw a trailer on Hulu. Yeah. I was watching paradise with. With the wife Jazz yesterday and.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, you're still finishing last season. Paris.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm so. I'm on that Yoda.

[Laura Rosenberg]

By the way, I can't get to TV shows.

[Ebro Darden]

We have a toddler.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Some of the. Some of the songs in paradise ever take you out?

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's like, why, why did you do a cover of that song? You didn't need it. Why? Like, it's a great show, but when they do these silly covers of silly songs.

[Ebro Darden]

So look, so I had to talk with a TV person because I was, you know, on Friends and Neighbors. Friends and Friends and Neighbors, yeah. Also weird covers.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes, they do do weird covers. Also.

[Ebro Darden]

Apparently it's a cheaper thing to do, no? Well, no, I don't know if it's cheaper, but in that particular case, the individual who wrote the show and is passionate about the show wanted those songs. So the people doing. Working on with kind of like. And I think the same thing on paradise where there's people who work on the shows that think this is cool.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Even the main song that they go back to, another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins. It's a cheesy ass Phil Collins song. Oh, think twice. It's just. But they the remake to remake an already cheesy.

[Ebro Darden]

What do you want to use? Coolio.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What?

[Ebro Darden]

Gangsters Paradise.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Paradise. Don't get me started on Gangsters Paradise.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, look, Pastime paradise, the original Stevie Wonder joint. That would have been a good move.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So anyways, yeah. Snowfall is coming back. It's going to follow Wanda and Leon. Yeah, I thought Wanda and Leon. We already knew. We're getting their own show. Is this another show?

[Ebro Darden]

No, I think this is it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This Is it? Okay, got it.

[Ebro Darden]

They go to Africa.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. It's about. It's so Gail Bean and Isaiah John, who. We've had them both on the show.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's gonna follow.

[Ebro Darden]

That was the other show, not this show. We got on this show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, we have it on this show. We have not. It's anyway, so that's gonna be cool. I didn't realize it was being sold as officially a spin off, but it is the drop a snowfall saga, so they're really leaning into that. And lastly, you want to hit this. Donald Trump, Meet the Press.

[Ebro Darden]

Donald Trump, Meet the Press interview in the rundown.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Kristen Welker.

[Ebro Darden]

Now shout to the. Is Kristen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Kristen Welker.

[Ebro Darden]

Kristen Welker on this and holding the line and standing on business.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's done this, by the way. Kristen Welker. It's funny. She's not like super aggressive at all, but she sticks. She just doesn't get bullied.

[Ebro Darden]

These are the facts, buddy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And she just doesn't get bullied. She's gotten into with a bunch of people over the last year and this I think she flew out to, she said like Indianapolis or Minnesota to do this interview and this happened.

[Donald Trump]

Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later they're nowhere close to picking up?

[Laura Rosenberg]

State and local officials acknowledge that they are slow. They're urging.

[Donald Trump]

No, they're crooked.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They're urging the votes to be counted quickly.

[Donald Trump]

That's how they vote. Crooked. Just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked and Meet the Press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's really. Well, you play right into their hands. Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with this rap. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I want an election in a landslide And I got 94% bad press. But Mr. President, you know why I got that present? Because you have no credibility.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But you've never presented evidence.

[Donald Trump]

Let's keep talking about.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I want to talk about.

[Donald Trump]

You have more evidence. There's more evidence than ever presented. Let's talk your elections in this country. We're like a third world country. Your elections are crooked and you're crooked. Your election is crooked and UC.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You just.

[Donald Trump]

And CNN, Mr. President, your one sided crooked network. So let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.

[Ebro Darden]

Mr. President, let's please.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I know.

[Donald Trump]

For an hour on and off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what? A country can never be great with its.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen, we traveled all the way to

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wisconsin for this interview.

[Ebro Darden]

I was more interested in seeing if he could stand up on his own and how he would look.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was tough. It was tough.

[Ebro Darden]

Have you seen him ankles recently?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Have I seen his ankles recently? I can't say I have.

[Ebro Darden]

They've been. There's been a thing of people taking pictures of his feet not fitting in his shoes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I haven't seen that because of

[Ebro Darden]

the amount of swelling, which, you know, obviously hypertension. And.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ron, you hear that? See, Ron, you gotta watch out. We don't want you to have you looking like Trump.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, you want us to do feet watch on Ron Basquin? Ankle watch.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Anyways, that was your rundown, if you want to put a bow on it.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, there you go. Intro for the outro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, that didn't look good. That didn't make any sense, what he was saying.

[Ebro Darden]

No, Good for her. I don't know if people have actually picked apart what he was just saying right now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, let's. Let's get into it.

[Ebro Darden]

Your.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Your elections.

[Ebro Darden]

Your elections. As if he doesn't live here or represent this nation. Then he said, I won in a landslide. 94. After saying that the elections are rigged.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

And then said, but I got bad press the entire time. What does one have to do with the other, sir? Yeah, so in his mind, what's left of it, something about coverage and the. And how the elections go are in. Supposed to be in sync.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

When you think that's what he said. I mean, that's what he's insinuating is I got. I won and I got bad press.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, go ahead, Luke. No, he's still talking about the one he lost because this was.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This started out.

[Ebro Darden]

He just said, I won.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And he said, I won, though, also.

[Ebro Darden]

But this is. Remember, this is coming off the January 6th conversation and the slush fund and. Yeah, yeah. So it's essentially him going back to the one he lost to Joe Biden. And that's the thing I want in a landslide. He still is fighting to say he won that election. And that's where all of us.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And that's. She. And she's. And that's certainly what she's responding to because she's saying there's no evidence.

[Ebro Darden]

But still, you just won, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But yeah, you won two out of three so you're saying all the elections are bad. What about the two that you won? Including. Including the one against Kamala, which was historically close. It was like one of the closest elections ever.

[Ebro Darden]

And some say it was tampered with.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Correct.

[Ebro Darden]

By, you know, Elon and other individuals.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But this whole thing, this play, if it doesn't work out for the US, like, if this whole thing comes crashing down. Word to Hulk Hogan's theme song. If it comes crashing down, this whole conversation he's been having about the elections are invalid will be a big part of it. Cuz it makes no sense. It's just casting doubt. It makes no sense. Elections are all bad. They're all bad. You're crooked, they're crooked. They're all crooked. Everything's crooked. But you want. You and your people have been winning. You dominate both houses of Congress. You won two out of three elections.

[Ebro Darden]

And you have the Supreme Court.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And you have the Supreme Court. How. And you're still saying everything's crooked.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So that means he knows eventually they're gonna start losing them.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, but they all fight. Also remember, remember, every accusation is a confession. Right? When you're dealing with narcissists and these psychos, man, you gotta remember every accusation is a confession. You have to.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But what's the. What's the.

[Ebro Darden]

The upside is all the money that

[Laura Rosenberg]

they're making but like, is the upside

[Ebro Darden]

and the fact that they have made so much money in the last. In this last 10 years that. I mean, the amount of. Bill, the amount of people I know that have made so much money, it's crazy people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But.

[Ebro Darden]

But the only thing we got is each other, bro. The only thing we got is each other coming together like we've seen the Albanians doing. And I'm not saying we ain't down

[Laura Rosenberg]

for work like that.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm not saying it's time to go start burning stuff down. Some people would say it is. Yeah, but all you got is the pushback we're seeing at the. At the. At the voting house, at the polls.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's it. And that's what this is about. Casting doubt on all of it. That's what. Because he knows they're gonna lose, so he has to keep. Yeah, but casting doubt. Otherwise, what's the upside to this whole election thing, specifically?

[Ebro Darden]

These things have been investigated. And so you're either going to accept. Look, there's a large swath of individuals who will never believe that anything works in this country ever. Then there are individuals who make a lot of money to make sure that you continue to believe that so they can make money off you. So the more you distrust your systems, the more it makes it easy for them to shovel your tax dollars out the back door. And they're doing it right now, and everybody knows it. So you got a couple of options. Keep doing what you're doing, which hasn't been working, or try to actively participate and elect individuals that you can believe want to do a good job.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Because if you want. If you think you're gonna get to the. We're gonna like, turn this thing upside down, there's gonna be more. January 6th and all that. If you guys think that's the path, those of you that you know want to do that, good luck to you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think the people on the side of good are really mostly built for that. The. The ripen doodle on the walls not

[Ebro Darden]

gonna go wipe, dude.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They're not. They're not the wipe doodle on the walls kind of group. So you probably want to vote because the picking up arms thing, I mean, I have a 16 month old and by the way, I tried to.

[Ebro Darden]

What do you mean? You got getting guns and going to the streets. Who are you shooting? Who are you shooting? They got drones. Who are you shooting at? I was like, I saw a headline the other day, it was like, Cuba's government starts to arm civilians just in case.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know who you shooting at.

[Ebro Darden]

I know it's drones and robots and stuff. Like who?

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's why I've always had the argument against gun nuts when they try to get back into what the actual amendment is about.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I think, look, I'm a. I am a lover of guns.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Lover.

[Ebro Darden]

I like guns. The lovers. Strong lovers. I'm not a lover.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't love her music, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah. I don't. I wouldn't say I love.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You're good with. You're fine.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm fine with guns.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There you go.

[Ebro Darden]

But I want laws in place for people who are mentally unwell to not have them and people who, you know, and also like red flag laws and things like that. Like when people doing crazy stuff. I can get their guns taken away.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I'm saying? Like, that's a real thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm just pointing out that the argument to always respond. We need these guns to fight back against the government as an argument doesn't play well. No.

[Ebro Darden]

Because they got guns is blow out your best. They, as Andre3001 said.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Correct. Your guns ain't standing up to there.

[Ebro Darden]

No. No. But I mean it's good for safety, you know, safety in your home.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And yeah, Space boy in our chat just wrote, lover of guns is crazy work. That's why I'm here, bro. I just try to keep people from saying some. That I'm like, you sure you want that? Like, who.

[Ebro Darden]

Who are you? I mean, I do like guns. Not that much. There's. I'm not a lover. I'm not a lover. I'm not a collector. I'm not. I don't have like multiple.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, do you know I had Peter Guns on Validate me last week?

[Ebro Darden]

I saw clips.

[Laura Rosenberg]

By the way, great interview.

[Ebro Darden]

He was.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He was friggin great. If you haven't heard it, go listen to it. He's such an honest dude. Like, I mean, like beyond the sex stuff, like honest about aging as a rapper. Talking about how whack it is to be famous and not rich. Like just a really honest dude. You know his name, his name was like Pete Lover or something like that. I'm forgetting what it was. But Pete Lover or something like that. And when he caught the gun charge, his neighbor who was disappointed in him was like, you're not Pete Lover, you're Peter Guns. And he said he went to Lord Tariq and was like, Yo, Mr. So and so just said, I'm Peter Guns now. Lord Tariq was like, that's fire. And that became his name. Yo, go check it out if you didn't hear it. And he told the story because Pun loved guns. When you said lover of guns, I thought of Pun because Pun was like a crazy. Had mad guns. Lover of gun. I was like, I think Ebro has a firearm. I don't know if he's a.

[Ebro Darden]

He's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He shot guns a couple times. He's not on weekends. Like, yo, ISO, we going to train this after football. We go shoot these guns?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, when she's 12, we talked about it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Did it. She wants to shoot a gun?

[Ebro Darden]

No, she was absolutely terrified.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So why did you. You want her?

[Ebro Darden]

I wanted to learn.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, calm down, Malcolm. You got. You got her out. You're gonna have.

[Ebro Darden]

She's gonna take a class. Is it. Have a gun?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why do you want to take gun

[Ebro Darden]

safety is a gun we. Because if. Listen, if you're gonna own a firearm, you want to make sure your household has gun safe training.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So what about jazz?

[Ebro Darden]

Yes. She already taken class.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She took it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because you were like, we want to keep.

[Ebro Darden]

No, cuz. Well, mostly her. Mostly her and her girl went and took a gun safety class.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Got it.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. Yeah. Not because we're out here shooting guns.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Got it.

[Ebro Darden]

But just because if that's gonna happen in your home, you need to make sure everybody understands what the hell is going on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Which is why when that table broke out of nowhere.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was like John Rambo up in here. That was.

[Ebro Darden]

No, that table breaking was crazy. I've talked to mad people about. They were like, I've never heard Dave.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And no one. No one came back and said they'd heard of it.

[Ebro Darden]

I mean there's people who like, you must have done this like I guess on tempered glass tables if you missed the episode. Our tempered glass table in the dining room at 3am Everyone asleep just explodes. Sounds like somebody just. Batman just swung off the roof and

[Laura Rosenberg]

kept in the glasses sound like. Right.

[Ebro Darden]

You.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's insane.

[Ebro Darden]

And so I guess if you. If you crack the edge of a tempered glass table, that's the only. You know how like that. That's the only way it could actually break.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So for example, question for you. The other day, Natalie was bringing bear to my parents. They met off the turnpike somewhere. And a truck came off a. A rock came off a truck smacked our windshield.

[Announcer]

Yikes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Created the little like big one. And it's spidering down.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And so I just looked at it because I hadn't seen it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. It won't shatter. There's actually in the windshield. Those are different. They actually have a material in the windshield that's like a Jeep it together material.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So it's spreading. I got to get it replaced. My guy at MB White Plains said they'll probably have to replace the whole thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because. But I don't have to worry about it just imploding.

[Ebro Darden]

No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Got it.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it'll because those. But it could. It could completely spider. Yeah, completely. But it should never just fall in. Unless somebody like did something.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But that happening in your heart, bro. I'd have a heart attack if I just heard a sound like that. It was. Did you feel the heart was your heart?

[Ebro Darden]

I was out of the bed before I was at the door, before I even asked questions. Like at the door of the bedroom before I even like process. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I didn't even know the legs still had it in them, bruh.

[Laura Rosenberg]

By the way.

[Ebro Darden]

I realized in this I was like low, yo. Now that I think about it, I was kind of like hips were low.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, like you were ready.

[Ebro Darden]

I was kind of like, yo.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, how would you not be? Your family's in the house and you hear an insane sound.

[Ebro Darden]

Selassie slept through the Whole thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Incredible. Could I have borrowed her on my way back from Italy yesterday?

[Ebro Darden]

Because let me tell you, borrow my

[Laura Rosenberg]

child, let me tell you, didn't sleep through the whole thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no. You don't think Selassie would have slept

[Laura Rosenberg]

through the whole thing, bro, let me tell you what Maya, she cried 50% of the flight. And by the way, it's seven hours to Milan, it was almost nine back from Rome. You know, it's slower going back. It's a little further, whatever. This girl, bro, you give her, her. The only thing she had were these European cookies that we kind of used on the trip as like a little like, calm down. We'd give her those and she'd be like, I take the cookie, be all happy for a minute, finish. She napped for two hours. Then the crying would come. When I'd pick her up, the second I picked her up, waving to the whole plane, smiling, pointing. I'm like, these people don't like you. You're screaming and, and you're a lunatic. But then the second I pick her up, she just wanted to be up, see everyone. Oh, bro, it was so draining. It was such a long. That flight was so, so you give

[Ebro Darden]

in and you walk her up and down the aisle.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I, I, I did some, I didn't do it constantly. I probably could have done more of the walking up and down.

[Ebro Darden]

Get ready, bro, get ready. I'm gonna tell you right now because

[Laura Rosenberg]

those coach aisles are so tight, I'm hitting people as I walk by them. It's nasty work, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what, that's what you want the audience to think. You was in coach.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I wasn't coaching. God is my witness. And I'll tell you one thing, these airlines are out of friggin control. The way back was better because we were in the second row of the main coach. On the way there, we were like almost in the back of the plane. I don't know why it's worse, but when you're in the middle of a section, it feels way worse. You feel way tighter than being at the front of the section. My point is this. People spend a lot of money for those coach tickets. Those aren't cheap. Going to Italy, that's an expensive ticket. Coach or. Nah, bro, I'm 58. The seat in front of me was on my knees.

[Ebro Darden]

I can't fit in them.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You like, can't do it.

[Ebro Darden]

I can't do it. I have to like sit up straight and slide my leg under the front seat or try to get an exit row and not lean back.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But so what do you. So, I mean, I guess.

[Ebro Darden]

Or get that very front coach.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You could do the middle one because with a little kid you can't do exit.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, not a little little, but you could do it with a toddler.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Over two.

[Ebro Darden]

Over two. Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's just, it's. But it's unreasonable. And not only that, when they come by with the cart, where do they make these carts that only fit the exact width if God forbid, a baby's finger was out when that cart came by, bro, there's no room. It's just not reasonable, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, they're not thinking about your baby. Don't care about people over 62.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And they're not. And they just want to squeeze as many people.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, they're not thinking about that. They making money, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But they're not. And then none of these airlines can make money. I, I just get. We. We suck.

[Ebro Darden]

Is that, Is that. Are they not making money?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sorry. Sorry.

[Ebro Darden]

Are they.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not enough for the billionaires who need to collect more and the.

[Ebro Darden]

And the stockholders who want to get more margin every quarter.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Every quarter need more.

[Ebro Darden]

So it's not that they're not making money. They're not making enough money for them to say we earned more and more every quarter. Quarter. Because then to do that, then that's stock price.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because I'll tell you what, I looked around, those planes were very full. A lot of people still seem to spend their hard.

[Ebro Darden]

They have a good. And they got a good hustle going because they can keep crying we're not making money and get go and get our tax dollars as a kickback. So the more they cry, we're not. We need subsidies. We need subsidies because we're doing a service for the American public.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, and there's no regulation on the way their, their pricing works so they can adjust the price. Oh, it's day before the.

[Ebro Darden]

You heard me correct your tax dollars. So yes, you work and pay taxes. Then you work and you still have to pay for a flight. But the companies that operate in the United States get government subsidies your of your money to operate.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So here's my.

[Ebro Darden]

So you're paying twice.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So let me ask you a question without getting your pocket and you haven't hauled the whole family to someplace very far right?

[Ebro Darden]

Not yet, no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Are you gonna go. Are you gonna get four business seats? It could cost you four business. It would cost you $20,000.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm gonna buy a row or something.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But that's what I'm saying. So that's what I did.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I'll buy a row of economy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's what I did. I thought I'd be good. It's terrible. It's terrible. You have the.

[Ebro Darden]

I've done it. I've done it with Issa before.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And you didn't feel incredibly tight.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a nightmare.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not fun.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not good. Natalie thinks I'm overusing the word nightmare.

[Ebro Darden]

Now what I. Now, for your travel work. Travel, you're getting your points, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah. But I. The problem is I get points, and I. And I've been. Gotten better. I've gotten some status at Delta. I've done better.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The problem is, though, depending on where you're going and when you want to travel, like, I'm not as good at you as you are at being committed to United. Like, you're committed to United.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, yeah, because it works for where I need to go, and it works because.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Exactly. You're going to the bay in la, basically, because I'm hitting all these different places. Sometimes the flights are so nasty. Like, we took American to. To here. I don't want to fly American again. I really didn't enjoy the experience very much.

[Ebro Darden]

American is bad, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Bro.

[Ebro Darden]

It was Delta's. Delta's fire. I'm gonna keep it 100. You like Delta 1?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Delta 1 is fine.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no. But even. Even, like, just their whole. Seems dope. United's good. It's very good.

[Laura Rosenberg]

My number one's Delta. My number two is United, Right?

[Ebro Darden]

Very good. American. I know from people who. That's what they have to use. They're like, bro, terrible.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It looks.

[Ebro Darden]

But you know what? It's called American. And by the way, hit the button

[Laura Rosenberg]

that one because. Because that's the brand you want.

[Ebro Darden]

That's the brand, and it lines up. It's on brand right now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I am being corrected. Maya did not cry 50% of the time.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, oh. Here's the thing about moms.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know. No,

[Ebro Darden]

Maya did not cry 50% of the time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Keep in mind, this woman. This woman. The second the flight ends and we get up, she's apologizing to everyone around us to the point that I'm like,

[Ebro Darden]

babe, who is this you're talking about?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Natalie?

[Ebro Darden]

Why are you doing that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's apologizing.

[Ebro Darden]

The show's over. All right, Sorry. All right, let's wrap it up, guys. Just got back from a family trip he wants. He's trying to ruin his whole week by which is. What are you doing right now?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was Just saying.

[Ebro Darden]

She didn't. Why? Why? But why? Why?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I thought I was being helpful.

[Ebro Darden]

She said the baby didn't cry 50 times.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No. 50, maybe.

[Ebro Darden]

And Natalie was great mom.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, no.

[Ebro Darden]

Natalie crushed the best mom.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She really did crush.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, nailed it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I did okay.

[Ebro Darden]

This trip, it was not about you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't do anything.

[Ebro Darden]

Exactly. Nothing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hey, go Knicks. Have fun tonight, everyone. Man, either way, we're on tomorrow.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen, we will be here. Elr.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think they win. I'm betting them again.

[Ebro Darden]

We'll see y' all in the morning. Please like and subscribe and all the things shout to. What is it? Danny from the Stop. And Ian Schwartzman and. And I. There was a whole convo on Twitter about us. Man, I love y' all brothers, man. Y' all really showing us love with the pro promo, man. And I feel like we've been ingratiating into the Internets a little bit in

[Laura Rosenberg]

some way more than I expected, you

[Ebro Darden]

know, I mean, it's kind of cool, man. Appreciate y'. All. See you tomorrow. Just don't call it a podcast.

[Announcer]

This is the beat of 250, and we're celebrating Black Music Month, a celebration of the legacy, creativity, and global influence of black music. Today, we honor Frankie Knuckles, the legendary godfather of house music. Frankie Knuckles helped transform black rhythm into a worldwide movement. At Chicago's iconic Warehouse Club during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Frankie blended disco, soul, gospel, R B and electronic sounds into something entirely new. Best. The sound became house music. Joyful, spiritual, emotional, and free. House music was created by black, Latino and LGBTQ communities, who turned the dance floor into a space for expression, connection, and liberation. What began in Chicago quickly traveled around the world, influencing club culture, pop music, dance music, and what we know as edm. Frankie Knuckles was more than a dj. He was a visionary who changed music forever. During Light Music Month, we proudly celebrate his groundbreaking sound, influence and lasting cultural legacy around the globe.

[Laura Rosenberg]

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