148.) Hunter Biden Is Outside + Inspectah Deck Joins the Show (7/24/26)

Summary

The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show – Episode 148

“Hunter Biden Is Outside + Inspectah Deck Joins the Show”
Date: July 24, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this Friday edition, Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Peter Rosenberg dive into everything they missed during the week, bringing their trademark blend of humor, cultural analysis, and candid conversations. The episode revolves around Hunter Biden’s recent political visibility, their role as a safe space for nuanced discussions, a look at viral odd sports content, and engaging with listener questions about financial decisions and Donald Trump's cultural legacy. The show also teases an extended conversation with Inspectah Deck and reflects on their growing digital community.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Recapping the Tony Baker Interview & the Show’s Evolving Brand

[03:00–05:10]

• The hosts reflect on their recent show with comedian Tony Baker, focusing on how organic and deep it became, extending from hip-hop nostalgia to profound discussions of personal tragedy.
  • Laura Rosenberg: “I loved him. Thought he was literally a great guy, great human being. ...He’s got a good way about him...His smile is kind. He’s a lovely man.” [03:12]
• They debate whether their program has become a “safe space” for honest, varied conversations—including grief—without sensationalist motives.
  • Ebro: “I would love our program to be a safe space for people...maybe people see us as [that] because they know we’ve dealt with serious topics or can and we can’t have fun and do all of it. Maybe they feel safe.” [04:40]
  • Laura: “I like the sound of that as a brand for us.” [05:01]
• The hosts joke about their audience, including “clip farmers” who take memorable show moments viral, admitting it’s great marketing.

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2. Hunter Biden's Public Emergence and Political Commentary

[06:00–09:55]

• Ebro brings up Hunter Biden’s active presence on social media, reading aloud a recent post where Hunter discusses American division, oligarchy, and the need for a “new New Deal.”
  • Hunter Biden (as read by Ebro): “We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided on purpose by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. ...Health care as a human right...an end to endless wars and a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy.” [06:12]
  • Laura: “None of that happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another.” [07:12]
• Ebro notes the rising usage of “truth and reconciliation” as a political slogan, observing a mansion with a “Truth and Reconciliation 2028” sign. [08:32]
• Laura and Ebro explore if Hunter could become a serious political figure, given the precedent of scandal-ridden leaders.
  • Ebro: “Could he [run]? Yes, we have a convicted rapist...” [09:02]
  • Laura: “I’m growing to like him... recovering addicts have learned a lot that a lot of people haven't learned about themselves.” [09:57]
• They get into the semantics of addiction, with Laura clarifying: “You’re never not an addict.” [09:39]

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3. Politicians, Power, and Internal Conflict

[10:23–12:31]

• The show plays an audio clip (unattributed, likely Hunter or related pundit) asserting that Washington is run by a “closetocracy”—a closeted “gay mafia”—and that unresolved internal conflict among closeted politicians fosters public harm.
  • Speaker: “Everybody knows there is like this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C...that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world.” [10:23]
• Ebro supports the premise, arguing that people who “haven’t been accepted for who they want to be” wielding power creates “inner pain” that reflects poor leadership (citing Lindsey Graham as an example). [11:50–12:28]

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4. Viral Moments: The Funniest in Culture This Week

[12:31–15:13]

• Laura shares a viral Chris Brown club story, evoking laughter over an incident where an unnamed artist (alluding to Kanye West) interrupts a performance to rant for 45 minutes, culminating with the punchline: “Such and such ain’t stick they finger in my booty.” [14:23]
  • Ebro: “If that ain’t the most Kanye story of all time...you knew the Internet was gonna piece it together!” [14:54]
• The hosts revel in the absurdity, delivering genuine camaraderie and pop-culture analysis.

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5. "Ebro’s Algo": Odd Sports from the Internet

[15:11–19:59]

• Ebro shares his obsession with unusual sports that appear in his social media algorithms.

  • Volleyball-like backflip soccer: “Look at these athletes, bro...tremendous. Why is this not being covered? ...This should be in the Olympics!” [15:28–16:08]
  • “Cycle ball” (a mix of bicycle rugby and soccer): “Two people on each team. Ride a fixed gear bicycle with no brakes or freewheel. The ball is controlled by the bike and the head...” [17:53]
  • Laura (on the sport's history): “Artistic cyclist Nicholas Edward Kaufman. First matches played on September 14, 1883.” [18:22]

• The crew is shocked by the longevity and complexity of these sports.

  • Ebro: “Mind blown.” [18:34]
  • Laura admits to reconsidering after learning “cycle ball” dates to the 1880s.

• The segment closes with Ebro inviting audience submissions for “Weird Sport Wednesday.” [21:03]

  • Ebro: “If you watch the program, send more videos of interesting competitions. ...I’m down for Weird Sport Wednesday.” [21:03–21:08]
  • Laura: “Now if we make it a thing, I’m down for that.” [21:01]

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6. Listener Q&A: The “Trump Account” for Babies & Financial Literacy

Manny’s Question [22:47–26:34]

• Manny, a welder and longtime listener, is conflicted about opening a government child savings account branded with Trump’s name—the so-called “Trump account”—despite its financial benefit.
  • Manny: “It’s $1,000 on the table...but I also just feel a little nasty...I would love to hear your guys’ perspective.” [22:47]
• Ebro and Laura agree it’s really a federal program, not uniquely a Trump policy, and advise against “cutting off your nose to spite your face.”
  • Laura: “So Trump’s bad. We all agree. I don’t hate this idea of starting an account and giving people an account with $1,000 in it for a baby.” [25:25]
  • Ebro: “Most of those buildings with his name on it, they’re not his buildings either. ...he just likes to put his name on stuff.” [26:15]
  • Laura: “At some point, this account will have nothing to do with Trump. It’ll just be money your daughter has.” [26:28]

Other Listener Feedback

• Erica requests they feature their “Gurus” advice segment before super chats so it's not rushed.
  • Laura: “She just wants gurus to be earlier and have more...get more priority.” [26:49–27:00]
• Another listener, David, proposes a deep dive into financial literacy, recommending “education only” programs with no sales pitch.
  • Ebro: “The reason we haven't delved into, like, what you should be doing with your money… I don't want to feel responsible for you potentially losing your money.” [28:20]
  • They tease bringing on financial advisor Ian Dunlap in a future episode.

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7. Hip-Hop & Trump’s Pop Culture Legacy

[30:01–31:01]

• Mo from Battle Creek, MI, asks about Trump's prominence in hip-hop rhymes of the ‘90s despite his controversial history, and whether Trump is now the most polarizing figure of their lifetime.
  • Mo: “How did New York hip hop reconcile putting Trump in the rhymes, making him the benchmark for wealth…and to some degree putting him on a pedestal even though he didn't rock with us?” [30:01]
• The question is left open-ended as the show transitions to end the segment, but it’s clear this topic resonates for a longer discussion.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Safe Spaces:

  • Ebro: “I would love our program to be a safe space for people.” [04:40]
  • Laura: “I like the sound of that as a brand for us.” [05:01]

• On Hunter Biden’s Politics:

  • Hunter (read by Ebro): “We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided on purpose by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight.” [06:12]

• On Political Leadership & Internal Conflict:

  • Clip Speaker: “What I believe, the only reason that that is relevant is because I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world.” [10:23]

• On Viral Moments:

  • Anonymous Artist (Chris Brown Story): “Such and such ain’t stick they finger in my booty.” [14:23]
  • Ebro: “If that ain’t the most Kanye story of all time...” [14:54]

• On Weird Sports:

  • Ebro: “This should be in the Olympics! ...You know why it’s not in the Olympics? Because nobody in America can do that.” [16:08]
  • Laura: “If they had said that was invented in 2020, I honestly would have kept mocking it. The fact that that's been around for 100 some years, that's crazy.” [19:59]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 03:00-05:10 | Reflections on the Tony Baker interview, “safe space” brand | | 06:00-09:55 | Reading & discussion of Hunter Biden’s activist posts | | 10:23-12:31 | Analysis of “closetocracy” and inner turmoil in politics | | 12:57-15:13 | Chris Brown club story & commentary on viral moments | | 15:11-21:08 | “Ebro’s Algo”: Exploration of odd, viral sports | | 22:47-26:34 | Manny’s dilemma: Should he open the “Trump account” for his daughter? | | 26:34-28:44 | Listener requests & financial literacy programming | | 30:01-31:01 | Mo asks: Why did hip-hop put Trump on a pedestal? |

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Tone & Style

The hosts maintain their trademark blend of unfiltered debate and cultural satire, switching fluidly from heavy subjects (grief, politics, generational inequality) to humorous pop-culture moments and genuine community engagement. They are self-aware, referencing both their influence and vulnerability as public figures—consistently inviting the audience into deeper, more candid discussions.

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Summary Takeaways

• Political Engagement: The show underscores the importance of open conversations about current political figures (like Hunter Biden and Donald Trump), highlighting both their flaws and societal impact.
• Cultural Commentary: Through listener questions and viral clips, the hosts explore how hip-hop, politics, and even obscure sports reflect broader social realities.
• Community Connection: The team takes pride in being a thoughtful “safe space,” engaging in honest debate and listening to their fanbase’s feedback and dilemmas.
• Signature Blend: The episode is emblematic of The Ebro, Laura, & Rosenberg Show’s unique style: as deeply committed to honest discussion as they are to jokes and Internet culture.

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Transcript

[Ebro Darden]

When you join Sam's Club, you get way more than you'd expect. You don't just get value. You get insider tips from fellow members. You don't just pick up a pizza. You actually vote on its toppings.

[DJ Envy]

Mmm.

[Ebro Darden]

Bacon crumbles.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You don't just visit the club, because with the Sam's Club app, everywhere can be the club. You don't just shop the latest finds.

[Ebro Darden]

You find your people. And at the end of the day,

[Laura Rosenberg]

isn't that what it's all about?

[Ebro Darden]

Come join us, Sam's Club. Just don't call it a podcast. The EO Laura Rosenberg Show. Rosenberg, you called this an intro song?

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What else?

[Ebro Darden]

Not a song. It's just a beat.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

I said.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I said the intro.

[Ebro Darden]

I thought you called it a song. I was like, we don't have.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I said I didn't. I said I. I said, I. I. I was getting bored of the intro. I think it's a dope beat, but I didn't love it as an intro is what I said.

[Ebro Darden]

Got it. I just like it because it just goes. Okay. Like, we're. Okay. Let's start the show.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, and it's not. It's not bad. I'm being nitpicky. It's definitely not bad.

[Ebro Darden]

Why? You don't beat, but you wouldn't rhyme on this if you was an mc.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, that's good. That. That part I don't think to be a negative, because I don't think an intro needs to be something you'd rap on. I don't know. I don't know what I think it's missing for the intro to a show every day. I don't know. That's why I'm not. This isn't a useful criticism. I don't really have a right.

[Ebro Darden]

Because you don't have a solution.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I'm just saying, like, sometimes I hear it. I'm like, eh. Do you ever have that feeling when you play it?

[Ebro Darden]

No, because I'm not that emotional. All I like about it, honestly, is the. Oh, okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What about the words? Can't describe it. That I just noticed.

[Ebro Darden]

Never even played it this low. Full disclosure. Me and Jerry did this beat.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What do you mean we. Me and Jerry? What did you do?

[Ebro Darden]

I think I did the drums on it. What you do? I think he did the. What, You.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You played the drums?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, like program the drums. Recall. And he's playing the base, and then I forget where we got the. This is like 10 years ago. I didn't even know it had Applause it. I forgot that. Yo, that applause was cool. Thanks for the applause. Anyway, Ebro Laura Rosenberg show. This is the Friday version of things where we get to what we miss. And if you want more, you want extras for the patrons on Patreon, because that's where we're getting the emails.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Family Friday and Inspector Deck, part two.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, Inspector Deck was moving out. He was a good time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And this is a whole. And part two is totally different than part one.

[Ebro Darden]

Shout to Tony Baker, who's on the program yesterday, the extra long Tony Baker conversation. That was a good hang. Do you guys. Listening, watching. Do you guys like when we just hang out with somebody like that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Good question.

[Ebro Darden]

I want some feedback on that because we just kind of went into it, like, we didn't really. I love what he does on Instagram. He seemed like a great guy. I never met him before he came on the show. Rosenberg, great guy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I loved him. Thought he was a literally a great

[Ebro Darden]

guy, great human being, big following on the gram. So I DM'd him and asked him to come on the show. That was really like the whole. And he came. He had shows in New York, pulled up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was. I just really found his. I really liked his way. I liked his way.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, he's just a real good.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's got a good way about him, man. You know, he's the good, smart. His smile is kind. He's a lovely man. From the second he sat down, talking wu ta. And we have the same hip hop taste.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know, and then we had a good.

[Ebro Darden]

He's a real hip hop nerd.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Real. An east coast leaning hip hop nerd from the same era. And then, you know, we got into very serious tragedy talk.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Which I'm always up for. I'm always up for a. Let's get deep into the tragedy talk.

[Ebro Darden]

Really?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Guest or Contributor]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I generally like to have. I mean, I don't like it, but I feel like once you're there, you have to do it.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, absolutely. Can't run from it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So when he mentioned in the interview that he lost his son and we're both like, whoa, I didn't know that. I assume you didn't know that.

[Ebro Darden]

I had. I had seen that on his Instagram.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You remember, but you didn't remember.

[Ebro Darden]

That wasn't like at the front of

[Laura Rosenberg]

your mind and then like, oh, wow, I forgot. Yeah. So I didn't know that. So once that happened, you're like. In some ways it was like the Deck interview where like we did all this other stuff and then he's like, man, I really been going through it and kind of dealing with a lot of my issues now and then, like, all right, well, now we're going to a different interview.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I don't know. I would love our program to be a safe space for people. I would love if this program became that. Maybe it is that and we don't know that we're. That Maybe people see us as. Because they've seen our work over the years and they know we've dealt with, like, serious topics or can and we can't have fun and do all of it. Maybe they feel safe.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I like the sound of that as a brand for us.

[Ebro Darden]

I like that. I mean, it's very mature. I like. I want to mature.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I definitely think that more than other there more than other places, you would think of this being a comfortable place where if, like, your angle is to talk about something, you. You're not going to get salacious questions or feel like people are trying to clip you into saying something. You know what I mean? I think people would feel that way.

[Ebro Darden]

But no shade to our clip farmers.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I'm saying?

[Laura Rosenberg]

We love the clip.

[Ebro Darden]

We love our clip farmers. It's great marketing. We live the way you clip farm. We live the way you monetize our content. Keep going. You know, I mean, it's great marketing for us. We appreciate you very much.

[Caller or Listener]

We love it.

[Ebro Darden]

We love it on this. On this version of the Friday program that we are doing henceforth, we like to get things that we weren't able to get to this week that we thought were awesome but just didn't get to it during the program. At the top of the list, on my list, I have Hunter Biden. Are you guys seeing Joe Biden's son out here? Just talking.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's.

[Ebro Darden]

He's having a time tweeting, talking, Instagramming.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's yapping it up.

[Ebro Darden]

No, he's going. Here he is on Instagram. I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here. Here's what I learned. We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided on purpose by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They've captured our government, denied our health care, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt. I believe in a new New Deal. Health care has a human right. Healthcare as a human right. Excuse me, the right of every family to a decent home and an end to endless wars and a Divided or. And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy. Because these machines were built on the whole of a human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.

[Laura Rosenberg]

None of that happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another. And they have to answer for it. Always get into Ebro talk now. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it. The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take it back, take back what has already been stolen. I learned in recovery that you can't heal what you won't name. Neither can a country this big. Ebro talk right here. Nice. He's getting to it.

[DJ Envy]

The.

[Ebro Darden]

I was driving by a mansion the other day, not in my neighborhood, in another neighborhood where there are mansions. They had, like. It was like. You ever seen those mansions where the property, like, goes up? So you're driving on the road and. And there's, like. They have, like, bushes and flowers and things like this, and there's, like, a wall, and they have, like, their. And then it goes up into their yard, and the house is like, up, up. And you gotta, like, drive up. It's one of those on the wall, on a main kind of throughway. And these people, the whole neighborhood's got money that they had a sign that said, Truth and Reconciliation 2028.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's fire.

[Ebro Darden]

And it was like a political sign.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right?

[Ebro Darden]

It wasn't like, for a candidate, though. It was like, here's what we stand for in 20. It was like, this is what we want to see in 2028.

[DJ Envy]

So.

[Ebro Darden]

And he said those same words right there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I want. Do you think Hunter Biden could continue what he's been doing, talking, et cetera, being out there and be anything? Or is he just like.

[Ebro Darden]

Could he. Yes, we have a. We have a convicted rapist.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he's not a convicted rapist.

[Ebro Darden]

Convicted sexual assaulter.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He wasn't convicted of sexual assault.

[Ebro Darden]

He had to pay the woman.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Correct. He's convicted of libel.

[Ebro Darden]

An alleged rapist and convicted of libel, as well as so many other things. Who is currently in the office? So you're asking would a former addict whose father was a.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Was always an addict, but he's in recovery. A recovering addict.

[Ebro Darden]

A recovering. Oh, so you don't ever recover.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You're never not an addict.

[Ebro Darden]

You're never not an addict?

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. A recovering addict. You don't think that. That who is on a path and doing the work and you don't think they can hold off?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know.

[Ebro Darden]

Would you vote for him?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know what his aspirations are. I'm.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, aside from that, just, I'm

[Laura Rosenberg]

growing to like him. And obviously I'm someone who appreciates a recovering addict because recovering addicts have learned a lot. Yeah, they've learned a lot that a lot of people haven't learned about themselves. So I don't know if I, you know, it seems I'm now just learning from these pieces like that what he stands for. I wouldn't want someone. I wouldn't want him if he was a repeat of his dad.

[Ebro Darden]

Go to clip one.

[DJ Envy]

I believe that the biggest problem in America is, as in, in Washington, D.C. with the federal government is a. Is it not the oligarchy cases? It's the closetocracy, as I call it. It is. And I'm, and I'm being totally serious. Everybody knows there is like this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exist in Washington, D.C. and everybody knows every single one of them who's gay. And so it's. And what I believe, the only reason that that is relevant is because I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world. And they do. And so what they do is their whole lives they've been closeted. And so you have this, like, black ball inside yourself, this like, black blackened heart by the fact that you can't be who you want to be. And so you take it out on everybody else. And these men, largely men, have done exactly that. And they are. Everybody knows who they are. Everybody. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Interesting. Interesting.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Ebro Darden]

Interesting. So I wanted to put, I mean, putting it out there. I'm here for it. Because that idea that people who have inner turmoil, inner pain, and they, and they ascend to the highest heights of things of power and that inner pain, that un. Kind of. They haven't been accepted for who they want to be. They don't feel like they could be accepted for who they want to be. They don't feel like they could be the, the honest version of themselves. That was the whole Lindsey Graham story.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, that's what I think He's. That's where it started.

[Guest or Contributor]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Conversation. Yeah. No, obviously, if that's a real thing, that could be very problematic because you're starting from a place of lying and being miserable and angry and lashing out on a much different note because it's ish. We missed. And if you want more of us today, we're heading over to Patreon a couple minutes. I just really enjoyed this clip and I don't often see clips of Chris Brown being funny, but clip seven, I thought was a really fun club.

[Guest or Contributor]

So there was this artist. Yeah, this artist wanted to. To go out to the club with us. Like so, you know, huge artist. So I'm like, all right, cool. Meet me at MC Crib. We going to go to the club. It's, it's, it's, it's night. It's turn up night. You know, it's. It's going to be another artist in there performing. And that artist song was the number one song in the. In the country. I'm talking about going crazy. We get in the club, I make sure we got the whole section full of women. So the person in there, he looking

[Caller or Listener]

around

[Guest or Contributor]

the song, come on. The other artist is on stage, start singing a song, the whole building erupt. I'm talking about.

[DJ Envy]

It erupts.

[Guest or Contributor]

Like everybody, girls in our section, they going crazy. I look over to this person, you ain't feeling it. Yeah, I'm talking about not a smirk, not a head nod, nothing. I turn back to look at the artist. By the next time I turn back to look at the person in my section, they gone. I don't see them. I'm like, what is. I look up, the is on the DJ booth right next to the artist that's doing the song. And he just like this. The. When the song goes off, the takes the mic. Takes the mic. I'm thinking he about to do his songs or do some. I'm like, oh, this crazy about to

[Ebro Darden]

go crazy in here.

[Guest or Contributor]

Yeah. The goes on a 45 minute rant. I'm talking about talking. I'm talking about saying all of everything. That about nothing. The last thing I hear, such and such ain't stick. They figure in my booty.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't even play that way.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Great clip, right? Shouts to R B money. That's a great.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, if that ain't the most Kanye

[Ebro Darden]

story of all time, man. And you knew the Internet was gonna piece it all together.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You ain't gonna stick your fingers in my booty. I don't even play like that. Why can you just let can down in the DM or whatever it was? Just play. So anyways.

[Ebro Darden]

Nah, it's a good time. Good time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I wanted to give you that this week.

[Ebro Darden]

Nah, it's a good time. I I on Ebro's algo, things I miss. I don't know if you guys have this in your algorithm, but do you guys get, like, odd sports, like sports that you've never seen being played before?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

You do.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And you've mentioned this. Why? What do you got?

[Ebro Darden]

Go to clip four, please. Look at these athletes, bro. What is happening, bro? Look at this. Watch this. No, I don't know where I started following these dudes. They're doing backflips, spiking the ball, bro, on pavement.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And they're. It's like volleyball, but soccer.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. I mean, you know what I know. All I know is I see tremendous. Why is this not being covered? This is what I. This should be in the Olympics. You know why it's not in the Olympics? Because nobody in America can do that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. That's a very good point by you. That was. That was impressive stuff, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

And they do it, yo. And they. And the audience is like, yeah, this is normal. That's not normal.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, that wasn't normal. Doing full pele kicks like that on pavement with a.

[Ebro Darden]

Again and again and again, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's not normal. I've never seen it.

[Ebro Darden]

Another clip. Go to five.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We gotta grab it.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no, no. This is. Look at this. Look at this sport. What is happening here? What is this? Roll it again. I want to see it one more time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's bike hockey.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's. But it's soccer. Look, look. Oh, it's chaos. No, no, no. Yo, that's not impressive to y'.

[Guest or Contributor]

All.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I just don't know what's wrong with you. Why is this on your algo, bro?

[Ebro Darden]

Because that stuff is impressive.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I'll mention certainly, like, No, I didn't see it. I'm like, it's politics.

[Ebro Darden]

You know, I saw that. Yo, couple things I always love to point out with people who have different competitions going on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right?

[Ebro Darden]

There was a ref. There's somebody who refs that. That means there's, like, an organization. They know the rules, then they know the rules.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The book, like, oh, you can't do that.

[Ebro Darden]

Do that. Violation. Blew the whistle. They had bikes designed for the sport. That means that there's an industry. They had a specific ball. They had uniforms, goals. They had a place to do it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, it was just a gym.

[Ebro Darden]

Still run the clip again.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's called cycle ball.

[Ebro Darden]

Are you sure?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Otherwise known as radball.

[Ebro Darden]

See, look at this. He passed it, yo.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he set him up.

[Ebro Darden]

The two people you saw the assist,

[Laura Rosenberg]

two people on each team. Ride a fixed gear bicycle with no brakes or freewheel. The ball is controlled by the bike and the head, except when defending the goal. History the sport was introduced in.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know. I don't even know where to begin. Last year. I don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

1883.

[Ebro Darden]

Get the out of here, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Artistic cyclist Nick Nicholas Edward Kaufman. First matches played on September 14th of 1883.

[Ebro Darden]

Mind blown.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Mind blown.

[Ebro Darden]

Was that the big wheel, small wheel bicycle? We don't know, Rahsaan.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I think that was the 1900s. The game of cycle ball is played by two teams of two players in two halves each lasting seven minutes. Matches take place on a rectangular field measuring 14 meters in length and 11 meters in width. Goals are square and measure 2 by 2 meters.

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

There have been the UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships since 1930. Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

See Ebro's Algo.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

We're gonna learn something out here, B.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right, well, if you want to learn more, join us on Patreon, where we're going now, folks. We'll see you over there.

[Ebro Darden]

That was crazy. Crazy. Cycle ball.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow, bro. Man. You know what? I have to say, I was ready to make fun of you and say, why are we doing this? But that was actually.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, because I.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If they had said that was invented in 2020, I. I honestly would have kept mocking it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The fact that that's been around for 100 some years, that's crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

Crazy. Well, I think that's part of why. What do we have to do now, by the way?

[Laura Rosenberg]

We have. We're going to do some. We're going to get to part two of inspect the deck.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, thanks for. Thanks for jumping over on Patreon. If you were just watching Cycle ball

[Laura Rosenberg]

video, but now we have. We have some voice notes, we have some video, some emails.

[Ebro Darden]

The reason I think these sports that I've never seen before interest me is a. It's a different type of discipline. Like the, the dudes doing backflix flips, kicking the ball. Like that's incredible to me. And I think they were barefoot as well, which is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Were they barefoot?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, maybe they think they were barefoot. Then the Cycle ball. Like, I just never have seen these things before, and I'm very intrigued. Like, there's leagues. Matter of fact, if you watch the program, send more videos of interesting competitions.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, you know what? I'm down for that now if we make it a thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I want to see, because I'm into it for some reason. I'm into, like, different.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You talking about weird Sport Wednesday?

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, I'm down for Weird Sport Wednesday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I love right now on IG.

[Ebro Darden]

Then, Dr. They hit a hammer in the nail, and they have teams and whoever could get the nail completely flushed. So there's a Dominican dude who runs a cafe by where I bike, and he has a video of me trying to do the hammer and the nail.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So what is the goal?

[Ebro Darden]

They have a basically a piece of wood, and they give you in a nail that's kind of sitting in the wood. And the competition is who can get the nail into the wood with the least amount of hits. Basically.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What? It doesn't go in on one.

[Ebro Darden]

Absolutely no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So the wood is hardwood.

[Ebro Darden]

It's hardwood. Yeah. It's not.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's. So it's how many shots.

[Ebro Darden]

It's. Who can get it in. In the least. And it's a long nail. It's not like a short. No, it's not a short nail. The nail was like this long, bro. Like, the nail was like, ok. And.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And it's also about how flush it is. You don't want it to bend or anything.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, you can't let it bend. It's got to go straight down. But you know what I figured out, though, when I did it? So you see how I'm sitting here, and it's kind of like I'm at the even. They have the table so high that if you could actually get up over it, you would have a better shot. But because you're hitting it from this angle, it's harder when you get up over a nail. If you're really doing a hammer nail at some of your crib, you're really at this angle up above. Once you're trying to hit it at this angle, Tough, tough with a regular hammer. I missed a thousand times. They made fun of me forever. I'll try to find.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I did not know that was a

[Ebro Darden]

thing, but it's a competition. Let's see where you want to go. Rosenberg, here you have the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You have the voice notes over there.

[Ebro Darden]

I do have voice notes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Manny has a daughter he wants to talk about.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, here we go, Manny.

[Caller or Listener]

What's good, y'?

[Guest or Contributor]

All?

[Caller or Listener]

I hope you play this one. Big fan of y'. All. ELR army veteran right here. You want to call it my fault for cussing. But anyway, let me talk business. So I have a daughter and she's eligible for that Trump account. I'm thinking about doing it, but I'm also conflicted. You know, it's thousand dollars on the table that can develop and accrue interest over time. That sounds very beneficial to her future. I've, you know, watched, you know, earn your leisure's perspective on it and a lot of other people. Outright Journey is another great investment channel as well. And I've listened to their perspective on it and, you know, it's convincing me that maybe I should just do it. But I also just feel a little nasty. It's, it's an icky feeling to support somebody that I don't support. And I just would love to hear your guys perspective on this kind of thing. You know, I'm a nine to fiver. I work as a welder. My work, my wife, she works with autistic children. So we're getting up and every day and getting to the bag and supporting, you know, the communities. We do have a custodial account set up for our daughter and it's a 529. So that's been going and that's been doing its thing. But, you know, more opportunities, the better. And I just want to set her up for the future. And I'm thinking that this might be something that I would consider. Love to hear your opinion.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, 100 on any investment. What's the downside?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hit? The downside he's considering is just the moral. I don't want to do something Trump did. It sounds like.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, but when you make investments or are investing. Right. Like I don't, I don't quite understand the Trump account, but isn't it just a federal government account? It's not Donald Trump's per se. It's the US Government. Right, Lou? Yeah. So whether Trump is there or another president is there, what's the downside?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I, I can, I don't think I ever actually did it. But Maya's eligible. It started right. Her birthday was the beginning.

[Ebro Darden]

And so would Salasi be eligible?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I think Slossie might be too old.

[Ebro Darden]

Two and a half too old.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I just think it started in January of 25.

[Ebro Darden]

Got it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I could be wrong. That's what I believe. I didn't do it. Maybe for the same reasons. I just didn't feel like doing it. But like he's A welder. And he's doing his best to stack money however he can. If you could start an account that you don't have right now, otherwise, isn't that cutting off your nose to spite your face?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So Trump's bad. We all agree. I don't hate this idea of starting an account and giving people an account with $1,000 in it for a baby.

[Ebro Darden]

And they're giving you the thousand?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, they're giving you the thousand to start.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, they have that, I think. Didn't they do this in New Jersey also? Didn't Governor Murphy start an account?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I think it was not. This idea is not a Trump original.

[Ebro Darden]

No. And I think they're going to start doing it in New York City. Didn't Mom Donnie say he was going to do this in New York City, too?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't hear that, but I believe.

[Ebro Darden]

I feel like I heard that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Either way, if you think it's a good idea and something that'd be beneficial,

[Ebro Darden]

you should do it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, it's not.

[Ebro Darden]

And I don't know where you're hitting us from, Manny. Maybe there's some more local things that you may not have heard of. You know what I mean? If. But yeah, I mean, Trump likes to put his name on things. Like he did with the Stimmy checks. Yeah, it's not his money, bro. He just likes to put his name on stuff.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Correct.

[Ebro Darden]

Most of those buildings with his name on it, they're not his buildings either.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

They just paid the light. They paid him the license.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Now, you still wouldn't want to live in one if you don't like him because you don't want to see his name every day.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. I'm just saying he puts his name on shit.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But in this case, at some point, this account will have nothing to do with Trump. It'll just be money your daughter has.

[Ebro Darden]

So they have it. I want to shout out to Erica, she has a small request. Can you guys do gurus before you read Super Chats, please? I feel like that's a better way to end the show instead of rushing through a segment. We all really like. Love you guys.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So she says do the gurus first. She feels like the gurus get rushed.

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[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think the Super Chat has anything to do with it, but I think in general, she just wants gurus to be earlier and have more.

[Ebro Darden]

Get more priority.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's fair.

[Ebro Darden]

We have David talking about Fight More financial Literacy. Wants to help with it. Longtime Fox here patron and frequent super chatter DJ Tate Tastic we see him. Yeah, we see him a lot. I'm listening to Wednesday Wednesday show and I felt compelled to write to see if you should explore a conversation together. In my day job I work with New York life and lead the African American market. We're a group that's been around 23 years before DEI dedicated to protecting and growing wealth in the black community. As a part of how we serve the community, we have an education only offering called balance well being. Balance wellbeing.com for everybody watching and listening right now where we offer education only online financial resources and education only financial workshops. When we say education only that means we guarantee no specific mention of products or services. In addition, we also a complimentary one hour education only sessions as a follow up where we again guarantee there's no mention of companies, products or sales. I think these personal education only sessions help alleviate Ebro's concerns around pushing people to buy a thing. I could see some of the content from the workshops being a great conversation for a show because yes, I keep saying the reason we haven't delved into like what you should be doing with your money on this program is because I don't want to feel responsible for you potentially losing your money.

[Guest or Contributor]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

And I don't, you know, I don't think that also the ways that I think are good for me with my money are necessarily good for everyone with their money.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, it's a very personal thing.

[Ebro Darden]

It's a very personal thing. So. But balancewellbeing.com if you want to go check it out. I don't know if I want to do a whole show. We're supposed to have master investor Ian Dunlap on the show next week. We tried to get to him this week. I got pulled in 50 directions and we had to skip over having them on. But we're supposed to have him on Monday. It's my guy, Ian Dunlap. Is he.

[Laura Rosenberg]

In fact, I've watched his master investor.

[Ebro Darden]

He's one of them. If you got money to invest well.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So what does that mean though? He will advise you on.

[Ebro Darden]

No, he's literally telling people this is what I think you should invest in if you want to have an active investment. And here's these companies and where I project them going based on these understandings and this is what their financial is

[Laura Rosenberg]

where I think this one's going.

[Ebro Darden]

And then. But it's very much not a mutual fund where you're just like. It's still actually very specific to these businesses. Like, you know, here's where the AI world is going, this company's making this piece in the AI machines. We should invest in this company because these companies are ordering a bunch of this piece and they're gonna see these type of increases over X amount of time. Yes,

[Laura Rosenberg]

Mo writes us and says Is Trump the Most Polarizing Figure? Growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan parentheses Kellogg Serial City in the 90s I was exposed to certain New York personalities like Trump and Giuliani through east coast hip hop because a lot of rappers put these dudes in their songs. After learning about Trump's stance against the exonerated five, taking out a full eight page ad demanding their death penalty, redlining New York and refusing to rent to black people, how did New York hip hop reconcile putting Trump in the rhymes, making him the benchmark for wealth and hip hop and to some degree putting him on a pedestal even though he didn't rock with us? Smith and Wesson had a song called Black Trump and they were Coco Brothers at the time, but it's the same group. What's it about this dude that makes people forget how horrible he is as an individual and as a businessman, allowing him to still gain a mass following? With that said, do you all think Trump is the most polarizing figure in our lifetime in a pop culture sense?

[Ebro Darden]

Just don't call it a podcast.

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