33.) Addressing The Bad Bunny Hate + First Thoughts On J. Cole Album (2/10/26)

Summary

The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show – Episode 33

Date: February 10, 2026
Title: Addressing The Bad Bunny Hate + First Thoughts On J. Cole Album

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Overview

This episode zeroes in on the backlash to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show and the broader cultural and political anxieties it exposed, including language, race, and the shifting demographics of America. The hosts passionately dissect criticism from public figures (Mase, Chris Brown, Megyn Kelly), explore the meaning and impact of Bad Bunny’s performance, challenge attitudes about cultural representation, and segue into first impressions of J. Cole’s new double album. Throughout, the show maintains a mix of humor, righteous frustration, and camaraderie, touching on everything from NFL beefs to problematic celebrity headlines in hip-hop.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bad Bunny Halftime Show Backlash

• Criticism from Mase and Chris Brown

• Ebro expresses frustration at “Bad Bunny hate,” especially critiques based on language or the show’s cultural character.
  • "I have feelings about it because … this is an opportunity where black and brown people — and Puerto Rico has people from all different races … The experience of Puerto Ricans is the experience of literally every oppressed minority in the United States. But we walk away on some selfish... I only give it a 4 out of 10." (Ebro, 04:44)
• Laura Rosenberg highlights the lack of understanding by critics:
  • “I do not understand coming away from the Super Bowl with any sort of criticism higher than 'oh, that kind of music is not for me'.” (Laura, 02:12)
• Mase’s criticism is especially called out as ironic, given his own past and (as mentioned by Laura) recent political leanings toward Trump.
• Chris Brown’s shade is debated — was it jealousy or just preference for different performance styles? Ebro suspects deeper divisions at play.

• The Show's Deeper Cultural Commentary

• Ebro passionately connects Bad Bunny’s set to histories of oppression, specifically drawing links between Black and Puerto Rican histories—and how halftime shows can be opportunities for community expression, similar to previous moments with Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé:
  • "You have the biggest stage in entertainment… And there's artists who take that opportunity to make a statement and rep for their community. That's what we saw the last two years.” (Ebro, 07:44)
• Salsa as metaphor: Ebro gets philosophical about salsa music’s roots (“salsa is Latin soul… flavor and spice”) and the power of historical awareness, saying that “most of you artists out there … you aren’t rooted in anything real. It's just a money grab.” (Ebro, 05:15)

• Reactions from Non-Spanish Speakers

• Laura and Laura Styles point out many non-Spanish speakers are open-minded and used the show to learn.
  • “It’s crazy how proud people are to not speak another language. Meanwhile, all these people in every other country across the world speak multiple languages.” (Laura, 27:44)
• But most critics don’t want to do even minimal intellectual work (“most people are lazy and don't want to do it.” – Laura, 09:08).

• The Megyn Kelly Rant (19:43)**

• The hosts play and dissect Megyn Kelly’s viral anti-Bad Bunny/anti-multicultural halftime rant, finding it reveals deep-seated fears about the “loss” of white American culture and the refusal of “assimilation.”
• Standout Kelly quote:
  • “To get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America ... We don't need a black national anthem. We don't need a Spanish speaking, non-English performing performer.” (Megyn Kelly, 19:43)
• Ebro translates Kelly’s subtext as:
  • “Our imposing, our whiteness, our language, our belief system on everyone else is the code that we're holding on to.” (Ebro, 22:00)
• The team connects Kelly’s rhetoric to broader demographic shifts (play a news clip about minority births now being the majority in the U.S. (24:33)); asserting that this is the true root of such cultural anxiety.
  • “That's the root of the whole thing, man. Like, make no mistake what Megyn Kelly said about. That's why in Britain you've lost your da, da, da, da.” (Ebro, 26:36)

2. Cultural Representation, Learning and Joy

• Laura Styles emphasizes the choice to “stay in the joy” and uplift, sharing an emotional video tribute to Puerto Rican women as the base of their society.
  • “Puerto Rican women have been the blocks of society. We've carried the weight.” (guest video, 28:52)
• The show repeatedly urges listeners to see moments like Bad Bunny’s performance as opportunities for unity and learning, not division.

3. First Reactions: J. Cole Double Album

• Context and Structure

• Ebro explains the double-disc:
  • Disc 29 covers J. Cole at age 30; disc 39, his nearly 40-year-old perspective.
  • “Knowing that, the first time I heard it, I was kind of like, wait, he's talking about back in the day ... Now that I have this lens, I'm listening ... differently.” (Ebro, 36:22)

• Reviews and Process

• Laura Rosenberg critiques the trend of instant album reviews:
  • “That album is 90 minutes long. You had a judgment in 30?” (Laura, 35:09)
• The hosts debate classic double albums (“I think this has the least skips of any two disk I've ever heard.” – Laura, 38:45)
• Rosenberg points out both the reverence for hip-hop history (“he starts the album with James Taylor... Petey Pablo feature…. using the DMX record … a lot of derivativeness…”) and some musical risks J. Cole takes.
• Ebro argues this album is “for the fans,” not for critics (“He doesn't care what you think… If you were not a fan … before this album, he did not make this for you.” – Ebro, 40:23)

4. Other Headlines & Hip-Hop Updates

• Super Bowl Halftime Ratings

• Early viewership estimates place Bad Bunny’s halftime at a record 135.4 million viewers, surpassing Kendrick Lamar (133.5 million).
• Bird’s eye: The show’s global impact may be even larger (“I want worldwide numbers. That’s what I really... want to see.” – Ebro, 49:36)

• Ja Rule vs Tony Yayo & Uncle Murda Airplane Incident**

• Recap of viral footage of Ja Rule sitting in front of Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda on a flight, and resulting tensions.
  • “You hop on a plane and then you're sitting right in front of your ops.” (Laura Styles, 53:44)
• The incident aligns with the launch of a new podcast for Yayo and Murda. The hosts joke about the never-ending G-Unit and Ja Rule beef.

• Diddy Faces New Sexual Assault Allegation

• Diddy is accused by music producer Jonathan Hay of a sexual assault involving a shirt formerly owned by Biggie.
• Laura and Ebro, while cautious, discuss the context of broader abuse scandals (referencing the Epstein files) and the distressing plausibility of such allegations.
• “Everything’s on the table... Like all these papers we got laid out here. Everything’s on the table.” (Ebro, 59:10)

• Other Headlines**

• Briefly acknowledge the passing of Lil Jon’s son (emotionally addressed; 51:44)
• A fun, irreverent segment reading out live YouTube “superchats” and ribbing listeners who ‘tip’ the show for shoutouts (44:40–47:47).

5. Listener Letter: Navigating Racism at a Super Bowl Party

• A listener (“Fought for Life”) upset her fiancé stayed at a party where guests chose to mute Bad Bunny’s set and watch a Kid Rock TPUSA show, signaling discomfort with displays that center non-white cultures.
• The hosts agree she’s overreacting but validate her sense of frustration over casual acts of exclusion.
  • “You just gotta know you tripping. It’s not a burn it down situation.” (Ebro, 70:27)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Salsa is flavor and spice. Salsa is Latin soul.” — Ebro (05:15)
• “The experience of Puerto Ricans is the experience of literally every oppressed minority in the United States.” — Ebro (04:57)
• “To get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America.” — Megyn Kelly (19:43)
• “Our imposing, our whiteness, our language, our belief system on everyone else is the code that we’re holding on to.” — Ebro (22:00)
• “It's crazy how proud people are to not speak another language.” — Laura Rosenberg (27:44)
• “Chris [Brown] has some songs about happiness. Trying to be happy.” — Ebro (10:57)
• “We was woke before woke was co-opted by Republicans.” — Ebro (10:34)
• “I want everybody to pay attention. That's what you should be getting from this. That's what the anger is about.” — Ebro (26:14)
• “If you were not a fan of J. Cole … before this album, he did not make this for you.” — Ebro (40:34)
• “He starts the album with James Taylor. … There had to be some people in the EL Army who heard that James Taylor start the album…” — Laura Rosenberg (41:07)
• “If you look at the last five, [Super Bowl halftime numbers are] all up there. … Beyonce's not up there. Rihanna's up there. Kendrick's up there.” — Laura Rosenberg (50:14)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Bad Bunny hate and Super Bowl analysis: 01:56–21:32
• Megyn Kelly anti-Spanish-language rant & reaction: 19:43–23:46
• United States demographic shifts & news clip: 24:23–26:36
• Community joy, Puerto Rican women tribute (video): 27:09–31:54
• First reactions, J. Cole’s double album: 34:58–44:44
• Super Bowl halftime viewership stats: 48:39–51:40
• Ja Rule, Yayo, Uncle Murda plane drama: 53:30–55:43
• Diddy new assault lawsuit and Epstein context: 56:29–60:52
• Listener advice – racism at a Super Bowl party: 64:22–70:51

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Tone and Language

• The hosts blend thoughtful social commentary (especially Ebro’s righteously political framing) with wry humor, irreverence, banter, and insider language typical of tri-state hip-hop radio.
• Language is casual, sometimes profane (“shit,” “bitch,” etc.), but always expressive and passionate.

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Conclusion

Episode 33 of The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show is a punchy, culturally urgent episode that uses the Bad Bunny Super Bowl backlash as a springboard for probing big American questions: whose culture gets centered, who feels entitled to critique, and what we all lose when we ignore the chance to learn from each other. It also delivers early, fan-focused J. Cole album analysis and humorously rides the latest in hip-hop news cycles, all while engaging deeply with their community of listeners.

Transcript

[Ebro]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Get angry.

[Ebro]

Don't do that. Ebro Laura Rosenberg show live on the YouTubes. Hello. Hello.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hey.

[Ebro]

Hello. Hello. Hello. Everyone out there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You intentionally not playing the song.

[Ebro]

Oh. Intro.

[Laura Styles]

Let's go.

[Ebro]

What's happening? Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It felt naked without it.

[Ebro]

It did used to it, right? It's settling in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. It didn't. It felt weird now. I was like, what are we doing?

[Ebro]

Listen, if you are tuned in here today, tell a friend to tell a friend and hit the share button. You know what I'm saying? Hit the likes too, and subscribe. Pound it. Pound it. You're into that. Smash.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Smash it, bro.

[Ebro]

I don't think you got to be that aggressive. I don't even think it's even set up for you to be that aggressive.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know. Really, it's. If you smash it or pound it, it's not what you want.

[Ebro]

It's not. I think it has sexual connotations. That's really why people been using that, because you're your finger.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh.

[Ebro]

And so I think that's what they.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why isn't it like, bang it. Finger bang the button.

[Ebro]

Don't take Laura Styles dance move floor style.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Style.

[Ebro]

Don't take a dance move. Now, hopefully you've bounced around all this morning to your different entertainment outlets, whatever they are. And at 8 o', clock, let's make it an appointment for everybody to gather around. And gather around, you know what I'm saying, before the 9 o' clock check in at work thing. I like people listening in their cars. I'm hearing they're using the. The. The Bluetooth. Oh, it's working for folks in the cars.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We love that.

[Ebro]

We got a lot of things to deal with today. We got Ja Rule and Tony Yayo and Uncle Murder on a flight. That's what everybody talking about. I still got some feelings left over from yesterday's Chris Brown and Mace antics. I know I got some feelings. I got some feelings.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I didn't see the Mace thing till the end of the day.

[Ebro]

Mason thing wasn't even really that bad.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was just. Just. Yeah, it was just a bad take.

[Ebro]

Yeah. I mean, look, everybody's entitled to their opinion. I think for me, I'm so emotionally tied to what Bad Bunny's trying to accomplish.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, you're you. I will say this. I think I'm the most objective of the three of us.

[Ebro]

I think so.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I still like Bad Bunny and Lean. I mean, listen, I went to Puerto Rico for a show thanks to Ebro, so I can't say I'm completely objective here. Yeah, but relative to Laura's passion for him early on, you were such an early adopter, sort of publicly. Yeah, I think I'm probably the most objective. I do not understand coming away from the super bowl with any sort of criticism higher than, oh, that kind of music is not for me. Like, I don't feel it. It just doesn't hit me the same way. If Metallica had done it, maybe it wouldn't hit you. Or maybe Kendrick last year didn't hit you. The people bringing up language and stuff really, really sends me. The lack of awareness of the moment really sends me.

[Ebro]

Well, listen, I didn't even finish watching what Mace had. I just knew that, you know, he gave it a 4 out of 10 or whatever. Weren't you doing Puerto Rican judo in, like, one of your first hit songs? Weren't you, like, incorporating, interpolating as. You don't know. You don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Great reminder, by the way, why I never like. I like Mace. But why would people like, yo, Mace is the greatest.

[Ebro]

Well, let's not do that. Let's not do that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You don't know.

[Ebro]

You don't know. And then with Chris Brown, it's just kind of like, were you. Are you in a jealous space? Were you just seizing the moment to troll? Was it really negative? Because it was just a text and him throwing, like a little side smirk. Was it really.

[Laura Styles]

It was shady.

[Ebro]

It would know. It was absolutely shady. But I don't know if it's like full on jealousy as much.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All he had to do for it to be fine was the same message, but it goes, I wish this could be me one day. I would love this to do this. He didn't need to say, like, it looks like, but that all of this.

[Ebro]

Is not everything I'm saying right now is not really why I have feelings about it.

[Laura Styles]

It.

[Ebro]

I have feelings about it because y' all know me. This is an opportunity where black and brown people and Puerto Rico has people from all different races, all different ethnic backgrounds that all speak Spanish or they speak English or they live on the island or they live in the United States. And that island has a history that's tied to the same oppression that black people are going through and black and brown people go through here in the mainland United States States. So you have Bad Bunny out there literally making a statement about all of that. And it was an opportunity for everybody to be like, yo, that's dope. That's beautiful. We could all come together because we're all that. The experience of Puerto Ricans is the experience of literally every oppressed minority in the United States. But we walk away on some selfish. I, I wish it was me or it should have been me or, or I. I only give it a four out of ten. Meanwhile, Mace. What? Weren't you listed in the Trump supporting rappers list?

[Laura Rosenberg]

He was. Yeah.

[Ebro]

His name was up there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Really? Yeah. Is that true?

[Laura Styles]

I don't know. I didn't see that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. You're gonna have me Googling down here.

[Ebro]

Where are you, Google?

[Laura Styles]

But regardless, it's just like, if I'm to say, like, oh, it's safe to say that they need me. It's like I.

[Ebro]

And so I sent a video over this morning. Rahsaan, do you have it? The history of salsa. The Fania Peace Run that piece. This is where I'm at with it at all times is salsa. Salsa is flavor and spice. Salsa is Latin soul. Salsa es rhythmo rhythm. It started some history, culture. And that's the problem. Most of you artists out there, that's complaining and people, y' all don't have no purpose. You're not rooted in anything real. It's just about money. It's just. It's a money grab. It's not about building community.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, you're right. September 2024, he expressed his love for Trump.

[Ebro]

Here, mix with the Indian. See, this is us right here. They don't want us to come together around this energy right here. Cuz this reminds us where we come from and how we connected. And I think that's why I still got is because people missing this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

From Europe.

[Ebro]

The 88.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not to mention, this is flames. This is just fire.

[Ebro]

The sons and bodies came to the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

United States here with the influence of jazz. Love your ass. Here's E sitting on the wall on the cooler again. Y trying to get people to lear.

[Ebro]

Trying to get knowledge.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You really think, bruh, these people, people.

[Ebro]

Don'T want Chris Brown guy. I think one of Chris Brown's children's like half Puerto Rico.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm surprised by the way, but by.

[Ebro]

The way, they're critiquing Bad Bunny's performance. They weren't critiquing what it stood for. Maybe they don't understand what it stood for.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They definitely didn't care. They didn't.

[Ebro]

But I think that's the piece where it's like you have just like last year with Kendra. You have the biggest stage in entertainment. The biggest stage in entertainment. You can stop that. It was Queen super fling. You have the biggest stage in Entertainment. And there's artists who take that opportunity to make a statement and rep for their community. That's what we saw the last two years.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And as we mentioned yesterday, Beyonce really did with the formation. That was a big moment.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Ebro]

And I don't think sometimes people are just so shut off. They're just worried about money, likes, clicks, ticket sales, whatever. They're not thinking about purpose. Y' all don't have no purpose, man. You're not rooted in anything beyond just charts and money. And maybe that's why you don't feel this sort of thing or you don't understand why it's important. So I had to just get that off this morning.

[Laura Styles]

Some people just don't want to try, though, because I saw so many people that are not Spanish speakers who are like, wow, I'm learning. I'm looking into things. I'm understanding. I'm listening for my, you know, Latino friends that are breaking things down to me, like, with an open mind and an open heart. And as they learn, they're just like, this makes it even better. You know what I mean? But I just think some people who are.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But these are people who want to learn. And to be fair, this idea of watching the super bowl halftime performance and then doing the work to understand the meaning is a new concept. And most people are lazy and don't want to do it. And if they don't feel a passion, they're not going to do it well.

[Ebro]

And that's also why for all of you out there that complain about where music is, or you complain about where hip hop is, or you complain about artists and what they make. That's why is because artists know too many of y' all or enough of y' all don't care to do any work, so they don't even try to do any work. They just keep shoveling you the same shit. They've been, oh, we're not supposed to be cut on, right? The same stuff they be. They. They've always shoveled you. That's why everything sound the same. And ain't nobody pushing any. Because they know as a culture here in the United States of America, we don't want to do no work.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This is. This is very similar to the initial Kendrick conversations from the teens when I got so many people hit me up angry that I was pushing the weirdo rap. The weirdo rap. The weirdo rap that I was really pushing was Tyler and Kendrick and stuff like that. And people were like, this is weirdo rap. This is nerd rap. You have to think. You have to actually do work here. We just want stuff for the club. It's literally for people like us who are backpackers. We kind of always had our third eye open when it came to hip.

[Ebro]

Hop and wanted more. We was woke before woke was co opted by Republican.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, the original. The original woke. The original woke. So a lot of these people, let's be honest, you're going full circle again to Mace and Chris Brown. Respectfully, what has either of their music ever said about anything ever? I'll wait. Get back to me.

[Ebro]

Chris has some songs about happiness. Trying to be happy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, I love happiness. Happiness is great. We love happy.

[Ebro]

Well, and once again, I think we should note, but be realistic. I think we should note that maybe Chris Brown was looking at the backflips and the lack of backflips and choreo that Bad Bunny was doing. Maybe, maybe he was just looking at that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

From what I've heard, by the way, Chris Brown is such an ill performer that as an individual song and dance man, maybe he does completely surpass Bad Bunny. I don't know. I didn't go to his show. Maybe he does.

[Ebro]

No, no, no.

[Laura Styles]

That sounds incredible.

[Ebro]

No, on the choreo and the dance is not even the same thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. It's a different lead. It's a different thing altogether.

[Ebro]

And maybe that's why. And I'm trying to give. I'm trying to be like, you know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That'S what he's talking about.

[Ebro]

Diplomatic here.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I guess that's what. That's definitely. He wasn't saying it, I'm sure in any sort of personal way. Except he thinks, yo, you want to see a show? I'm a classic sing, dance, pyro flying. I'm gonna give you that. This isn't that. Did you see any. Did you see any of the video? Well, you were there. The videos that were moving around of what it looked like when you were in the stadium. Yeah, it just looks like a TV performance. Yeah, like you're not watching a live show.

[Ebro]

No, it was made for tv.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's made for tv. Like you literally couldn't see. It's trees and like a camera moving through the trees. And maybe Chris is saying, like, I would give you the Michael Jackson flying up, you know, a different kind of thing. You just. The way you framed it was on some hater ish stuff.

[Laura Styles]

That's it.

[Ebro]

That's it. Well, and the time for me, my feelings are tied to the timing. Yeah, well, yeah, the time, it was everything. Like, why? Why? Right now, because. And once again, I think it's either because, A, they want to create divisiveness because they're working for the ops, or B, they were just looking at it in their own little bubble and they're not tuned into the purpose of what this really stood for at halftime.

[Laura Styles]

It could be all of the.

[Ebro]

Or it could be all the above.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

But I, I, I, I, I honestly think a lot of y' all working for the Ops, straight up, you have no care for the community. You have no care. All you care about is your fans. You don't care about a greater community. You don't have a greater purpose. And that's fine. You know, you don't have to if that's not what you're into. But that's not what type of time I'm on. So I'm have feelings about it.

[Laura Styles]

I get it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think that's totally fair.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And yeah, that Mace. Mace being someone who doesn't. That doesn't resonate with him. That was never Mesa's style. Mace was fun. Mace was club music.

[Ebro]

But you know what?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Also, it's a lack of discipline. People see something that makes them feel away, and then they immediately want to post it. I'm trying to find. See, I, I held on. I held backy, bro.

[Ebro]

Why? What were you gonna post?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm trying to see if I had it because I'm gonna play it for you. Oh.

[Laura Styles]

I'm like, you had something in the drafts.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I, I, I.

[Laura Styles]

It.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I may have threw it away. I decided not to post it at the time.

[Ebro]

But you're gonna bring it up right now in front of our, you know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. Cause I'm fine with the point.

[Ebro]

It was just like, hopefully we're okay. 2000 people tuned in live right now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was doing the dance, though.

[Ebro]

Oh, you were?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was doing the dance because it's the super bowl and I already went after Jake Paul in a big way and that, you know. So I decided to do the dance and not post it at the time. But what I really wanted to post was, now it's a little bit more productive than I wish. I wish it was me doing halftime instead of this bunny. But what I was going to say was, a Robert Kraft, I really appreciate you spending your money on a commercial to combat anti Semitism. And I'm not saying that kids haven't ever been picked on in school. However, I really think it sticks in my craw that you.

[Ebro]

I don't even know what a craw is. Me neither. Sounds like things get stuck in it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It sounds like things get stuck, though. You are flag waving for anti Semites and white supremacists and supporting the genocide in Gaza, which is creating more antisemitism than anything else possibly could. And then you just want to run and throw up the commercial. That's like, we need to stop bullying kids in school for being Jewish.

[Ebro]

But you didn't do it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't post it during the super.

[Ebro]

Bowl because you were doing a dance.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I decided to dance till the end of the game. Well, also, I had a drink. Some. I think that if I'm gonna drop a political video, don't do it when I've been drinking.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know what I'm saying?

[Ebro]

It was a full on vid.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

It wasn't just as a tweet.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it was.

[Ebro]

It.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was to the camera.

[Ebro]

Oh, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was like, we have a platform for this now.

[Ebro]

You could have went, hey, I'm drunk right now. I had a few. It's how I feel.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This is how I feel. Craft.

[Megyn Kelly (quoted)]

I'm loose off the goose.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why don't you go down to Orchids of Asia, my guy? We remember you. Wow.

[Ebro]

Wow.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, nothing made me. Nothing made me happier than seeing Rodney Harrison, who I've never particularly enjoyed on NBC. I think he's a douche because I think all the Patriots are douches. Crying on the sideline about. You didn't see this, but no, before the game, him talking about Coach Belichick not getting in the hall of Fame.

[Ebro]

He was crying.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not literally, but whining about it. Oh, it made me feel great then to watch the. The Patriots get shellacked. Belichick didn't get in. Kraft didn't get in.

[Ebro]

I can't lie. I'm into it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Patriots get smacked by the Seahawks. The left wing, liberal, nutty Seattle beating up the MAGA. Patriots. Robert Kraft, the biggest. Ugh. The up in the White House every day ass kissing douche of the cinch. I loved it. The guy who dressed. Yo, you want to talk Zionist? We throw the word Zionist around loosely.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's become very loose. People don't know. People don't really know. Your man Robert Kraft for years drags his entire football team to Israel.

[Ebro]

Really?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah. Drags the entire team every year.

[Laura Styles]

Wow.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't know that that's his thing.

[Ebro]

No idea.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Four years this goes back. I mean, I will say this. He's not a Johnny Come lately on the issue. It's. He's the real deal.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, and. And so as A result. I, I, you know, and then he's always, I think, been a Trump guy because you got a couple things. You got the money, you got the Israel, you got the just general bad guy. Politics. Yeah, but, yeah, watching them, the Patriots get, you know, my dad is so petty. My dad's like, what a. Did you enjoy the game? I was like, no, dad, it was a terrible game. He was like, yeah, but watching the Patriots lose, I was like, I hear you, dad, but he won't.

[Ebro]

MJ was out here like this. He was screaming at the screen like, bitch.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I, I was very pleased on the. On my afternoon show. I was very pleased. The phone calls we got about the halftime were all people who enjoyed it, including some people. Like, I didn't know what to expect. I don't. I heard people say it, talking one way. I just liked it. That was fun.

[Ebro]

Like, about women, beautiful women dancing and phenomenal salsa, merengue, reggae, thong music. What's not to like, bro? Like, even if you're not into the political statement, what is not to like? And if you grew up in the Tri State area around Puerto Rican people, you were inundated with these sounds. We all grew up with this music. What are y' all talking about? I don't get it, but I. I honestly believe. Once again, we've confirmed that you said Mace is working for the ops.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, no, he didn't say that. Not working. But in 2024, he said he leans Trump. He's probably Trump. They said that in 24. That's working for.

[Ebro]

Like I said, working for the ops.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a little opy.

[Ebro]

What do you have over there, Rahsaan? I don't need Mace's video.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He'll want to see.

[Ebro]

I don't. I don't need his judgment of a phenomenal halftime performance.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, if people came out and said that they. It wasn't their favorite, and they didn't, you know, like, hey, I didn't do the. I didn't do the research after. I just. It was fine. I didn't love it. You have the right to feel that way. For sure. That is absolutely everyone. I just find it funny that the language thing. The language thing is funny for me because I've been a Kendrick fan since 2010. I didn't understand half the things that MF said last year. People want to act like they live.

[Ebro]

He was speaking English.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He was speaking. You're telling me that you watched that live at a party and you knew what the hell Kendrick was saying? Without the breakdown.

[Ebro]

It took You a few times they.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Took you, you watched the Think pieces, you saw the break. No one understood it. Live it. But you know, put, put this itch, Megyn Kelly on the screen now. Let's just get straight to it.

[Ebro]

What's this here? I haven't seen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You haven't seen this one.

[Ebro]

I saw the headline, did not watch the video. If I see Megyn Kelly's name, generally speaking, I'm not giving it time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's gone. She went from whatever conservative news host she was to then she had the whole lawsuit against Fox and oddly got propped up as sort of a feminist hero for a moment.

[Ebro]

Then because she got some sexual assault.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Abuse because she was on the other side of like Roger anybody. Correct. And then after leaving Fox or getting exiled, whatever it was that happened, she's now decided she had to grift further to the right. So she's in the full on Ann Coulter. We've seen this blueprint before. The blonde lady, a demonstrative, angry, mean, bigot blonde lady. We've seen this before, but this sent me last night.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, she gave us all that and more.

[Ebro]

Let's see.

[Megyn Kelly (quoted)]

But to get up there and perform the whole, the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America. Who gives a damn that we have 40, 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States? We have 310 million who don't speak a lick of Spanish. This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country, not for the Latinos, not for the country. We don't need a black national anthem. We don't need a Spanish speaking, non English performing performer. And we don't need an ICE or America hater featured as our primetime entertainment.

[Ebro]

Okay, what is the national language officially.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The national language of the United States? Here's on our side. That's what I'm.

[Megyn Kelly (quoted)]

I mean, English and, and there's been a push for many, many years to make it, to make it an official. You don't have one documented thing.

[Ebro]

You don't have one.

[Megyn Kelly (quoted)]

If you would have let me finish the comment, I would have pointed that out to make it official. Okay, so you're trying to make official this attitude. Great Britain have lost your culture. You ceded your culture to a bunch of radical Muslims who came in and took over and now it's gone. We're not allowing that here. Whether it's Hispanic, whether it's Muslim, it's not happening in the United States of America. That's why President Trump was elected. And whether it's bad, telling the truth, American. But Refuses to speak English in his performances or anybody else. We have to keep the super bowl, which is a quintessential American event. Football, that kind of football is ours. They call it American football. And the halftime show and everything around it needs to stay quintessentially American. Not Spanish, not Muslim, not anything other than good old fashioned American apple pie. There should be a meatloaf, maybe some fried chicken.

[Ebro]

And English, maybe fried chicken.

[Megyn Kelly (quoted)]

That's what the super bowl should be said.

[Ebro]

Maybe fried.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She did really say that. The quiet part out loud, though. No.

[Ebro]

There was two things of all of that noise that y' all I believe you should be paying attention to.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro]

One, you have ceded your culture. Right. Your British culture. And that is why we voted for Donald Trump, because we are not doing it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

Which means our colonialism.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

Our imposing, our whiteness, our language, our belief system on everyone else is the code that we're holding on to. That's what you should have received from that whole thing that whatever, wherever you come from, whatever language, whatever belief system, whatever culture, it ain't you. You have to bow down and give that up if you want to exist in our space.

[Laura Styles]

But that's why they love the. That model minority. You know what I mean? The ones who will assimilate and.

[Ebro]

Yeah. Change your name now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The ones who came out and said they didn't like Bad Bunny.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What a great opportunity to line up with the whites.

[Laura Styles]

Right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I agree. I like English. Are we. We're all friends. We're all together. Right.

[Ebro]

Well, and. But see, now, we always talk about this. The marketing statement didn't say that. The marketing statement said we could all come here and express ourselves freely. That's what the marketing state.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's what it's supposed to be.

[Ebro]

That's what it said.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Colors, creeds, race, religion, all of it.

[Ebro]

That's what it said.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We don't even have an official language to our great ally Piers Morgan's point. God.

[Laura Styles]

Every day that I see a clip of him, like, what is happening?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I mean.

[Ebro]

Well, it's just been a couple of days. It's only been a couple of days.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's an interesting one. He's. I actually. He's one of those people that can make me want to punch him in the face, but I do think he gives his authentic opinion. So sometimes it just goes, you know, different places. But the mate. Yo, she was. I've never seen that.

[Laura Styles]

She's angry.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She went all the way. You're not taking our country. That's our white country.

[Ebro]

We're not taking our meatloaf.

[Laura Styles]

Maybe fried cheese.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Maybe fried chicken. Meatloaf and apple pie. The.

[Ebro]

Maybe fried chicken. Yeah, that was a shot.

[Laura Styles]

And what about when she was like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That was intentional.

[Ebro]

That was intentional. Maybe fried chicken.

[Laura Styles]

Maybe because in her anger towards.

[Ebro]

That's. That's how racist she is. Fried chicken for her is black.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The Latino. Latinos, Latino that sent me that. This isn't about Latinos, bruh. I can't get. What a terrible.

[Laura Styles]

We don't need Espanol. We don't need the black national anthem. Like, she has to throw it in there.

[Ebro]

Hey, yo. Run, run, run. My clip from the news from attorney Ben Crumps. IG I got this from. But I think it's moving around.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right.

[Ebro]

Minority births in the United States. This is what they really mad about.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, let's see.

[Ebro]

This is what they really mad about, right?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, for sure.

[News Reporter]

White births in the US have fallen below 50% for the first time ever. That's among the findings in a new study published today by professors from the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell. One of those researchers, Dr. Amos Grunebaum, calls it a historic milestone.

[Ebro]

Minority women were now the majority, the majority of birth in the United States for the first time.

[News Reporter]

The study analyzed CDC data on 33 million births in the US tracking trends by the mother's race and ethnicity. It revealed white births at 49.6%, while other groups taken together, including Hispanic, Black and Asian, unity 50.4% of all births. Births. The analysis also offered an explanation for the shifting demographics among Hispanic women.

[Ebro]

They have children, usually at an earlier age, and they have more children than.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Pregnant bellies. Is nuts for B roll guys.

[Ebro]

And to show it, they should just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Show penetration when it comes to maternal.

[News Reporter]

Health for minority women and children.

[Ebro]

Wow. But no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's how he says. This was the nightmare. This is why they got to start getting really loud now. Because this was always. They've had this fear for decades.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That they're going to lose it. And now the numbers. Oh, I don't even want them to see it. She's going to send them to a different place.

[Ebro]

But no. But that historically speaking, when you say different place and things get violent and that's not what I want. I don't want to see that. Normally you would be like, I want to see it. I don't want to see it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You don't want to see that.

[Ebro]

I don't want to see it. But I want everybody to pay attention. That's what you should be getting from this. That's what the anger is about. That's. That's the root of the whole thing, man. Like, make no mistake what Megyn Kelly said about. That's why in Britain you've lost your da, da, da, da.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Crazy.

[Ebro]

No, listen, y' all went out around the world, colonized, abused, raped and killed.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Pillage. Don't forget pillage.

[Ebro]

Pillaged.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Now they pillaged.

[Ebro]

Then you wanted cheap labor or free labor. It comes with some. It comes with some.

[Laura Styles]

I just.

[Ebro]

As Malcolm X said, the chickens have come home to roost. And y' all mad, mad, mad.

[Laura Styles]

I'm choosing to stay in the joy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I love that for you.

[Ebro]

That's the best form of protest. Young Laura Staff.

[Laura Styles]

Because there's so many. You sent me a beautiful video yesterday that had me in tears. Like, I just. I'm choosing to stay in the puddle of joy.

[Ebro]

There you go.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I love that for you, Cher.

[Ebro]

You want to share the video with the people?

[Laura Styles]

Oh, we can, we can.

[Ebro]

Do you have the video? I don't. I don't know who this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, I don't want to see it. I don't want to sit. I can't see any more Spanish. I'm gonna wake up speaking Spanish.

[Ebro]

Somebody's gonna clip that and then run that right. There he is. We always know you're gonna put you right next to Megan Kelly.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's crazy how proud people are to not speak another language. Meanwhile, all these people in every other country across the world all speak multiple languages. And we're like, you better speak hours and. And only hours or.

[Ebro]

Embarrassed, you know? You know, you know, Nazi Germany was. Was trying to be like, America, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro]

No, they don't forget that. Well, like, we throw Nazi Germany.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They saw Jim Crow like, oh, this.

[Ebro]

Time they was like, how'd y' all run that play? Talk. Talk to us about how you ran that play. We're gonna take it up or not.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro]

We got some modern day torture we're gonna run. Y' all was doing the old school stuff. We're gonna run this modern day killing of mass people. Yeah, you got the clip of. Let's. I don't know who this is. I wish I could give credit, so I apologize. Let's see it. Translate, please.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Talk to you about something for a moment.

[Laura Styles]

It was a quick moment.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Look at you, man.

[Ebro]

They were standing next some blocks.

[Laura Styles]

There's so much going on. The block of cement is the main thing in construction of any house. Not dancing, sitting serious on top of the blocks. Puerto Rican women have Been the blocks of society. We've carried the weight. Very rarely celebrated. We've been the silent face. You don't always see it in the pen. Without the root, everything falls apart. We've been the base based in the community.

[Ebro]

Based on language. I got that.

[Laura Styles]

Because the majority of us stay home teachers. I got super emotional to understand. It's such a profound looking at women. And she's just thanking him for the recognition.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That was nice. That was nice. She could edit it down a tad.

[Ebro]

But I thought, I think she was editing. You didn't see all the edits.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Ebro]

She was still.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She was still trying to cut this thing down.

[Ebro]

Well, no, she was overwhelmed.

[Laura Styles]

No, it's a very cool, very emotionally overwhelmed. It honestly, when he said, wait, Ibro sent this to me, I was like, I was in tears because it's beautiful. And the way she says it, she's like, yo, the women at home are so many times just overlooked. Like that's what you're supposed to do. But they're. They're the ones who hold everything together. And she specifically said that Puerto Rican women are always overlooked. Nobody ever remembers that they are the base.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, that's because you know, you got a beta cuck snowflake like bad bunny who wants to prop up women. It's not what it is to be a man.

[Ebro]

Put women down and then, you know, I'm sure there are people watching this who have Puerto Rican heritage. The experiments that happen on women. Yeah, you know, de Stale. The sterilization of women. And yes, just like the way women on the island of Puerto Rico were trafficked and dehumanized. Like it's a. It's a lot man. And that's why like when you're talking about Mason, Chris, like all back.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We're back.

[Ebro]

Yeah, we're back. No, I don't understand where you all are just sitting here watching this and you're so lame. Like you're so narrow minded and lame. Like you have.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you didn't spend five minutes. Just go on. Everyone's on their phone. Listen, I'm not saying you have to be my wife whose entire timeline for the week leading up and since is breaking down every second of the Bad Bunny. I'm not saying it has to be you, but spend five minutes scrolling, you're gonna see a couple of think pieces on it that go.

[Ebro]

Oh, wow.

[Laura Styles]

Yo, can I tell you, I was on threads yesterday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, hit the button.

[Laura Styles]

No, no, no. But it's actually a positive thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay, God bless.

[Laura Styles]

Because I saw A hait. For a moment, I thought we weren't included. And then somebody said, ah, ah, ah. He did say, aiti, you know, and then she was like, yes. I started looking and then I saw. So all these different people from different islands, from different countries who always feel unseen, they were all celebrated that they. There was acknowledgement and.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And the fact that.

[Laura Styles]

Saw my flag. I never see my flag.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There was an easy one, too, that even Macer Chris Brown could have caught on to when he said the whole thing about America. God bless America, and then names every country in the Americas, ending with the United States and Cuba and Puerto Rico. Yeah, that. Just taking God bless America and flipping it on its head to say God bless all of America. Small thing that anyone could catch that. You're like, oh, that's dope. Also, the football thing was a dope touch at the end with the little message on the football. Together we make America. Is that what it is?

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Together we are together Together we are.

[Ebro]

We are, we are America.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Together we are America.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not hard, guys. Just.

[Laura Styles]

It really isn't.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Give it five minutes.

[Laura Styles]

Or.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Or just say you're not into music like that.

[Ebro]

Or just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You don't have to talk about it at all.

[Ebro]

Or just say you work with the ops. You know what I'm saying?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know if it's always working with the ops. That's like. That's more aggressive. Like, Nikki now works with the ops, but that's. I would say even Amber, it seems, works with the ops.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They're friends. They do things together. They're working the average person who just.

[Ebro]

Yeah, but you might be covert. Covert operations specialist. I'm watching everybody.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You mean me, you, or the. The proverbial you?

[Laura Styles]

The days.

[Ebro]

The days. They're covert. Like, they want to act like it's all good because in the YouTube comments.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They'Re like, yeah, I did think Rosenberg might secretly be down with Trump. Are we going to get to J. Cole at all? I feel like we're doing a bad job for hip hop so far.

[Ebro]

Well, I was actually giving J. Cole a chance to marinate because I feel like people just need time. There's people who rushed out on the J. Cole.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They are, bro. You.

[Ebro]

That's another album is 90 minutes long. You had a judgment in 30.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You didn't listen to the album. Listen, I love Joe Budden. Joe, hold of button real quick. You could not. They dropped a review that day.

[Ebro]

You played yourself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've been listening for two days. I'm on the last couple of songs, I don't know, people really sat there with. And I. And by the way, I'm doing things I know Joe doesn't even do. I'm moving around on the subway with headphones on. Like, I'm actually doing the thing. Like most people, adults, a lot of adults, if you drive around, you're out in Jersey, you don't have time to sit and really sit and marinate on this album.

[Laura Styles]

Well, I've gone through half of it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It takes time.

[Ebro]

Talking J. Cole. It's Ebro, Laurel, you had a flight. Let me reset. Let me just reset the whole.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Ebro]

And we appreciate all your subscriptions. We appreciate all of your patreons and everything. So please share around and please, like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I'm gonna get to the show. I'm gonna get to the super chats as well. I want to make sure. Griff, will you send me the super chats?

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let me get to the shout outs.

[Ebro]

That's everybody in the chat now. And, Laura, we gotta get to your rundown and low down. You got stuff for that. I listen to disc 29. So is everybody aware that on the J. Cole album, there's disc 29?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's disc one, bro. Yes, it's the first.

[Ebro]

There's a reason why. It's just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sure, I understand.

[Ebro]

So I found this out and it helped me, and that's why I'm sharing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro]

Disc 29, the first disc, is when he was turning 30 years old. It's a retrospective. It's a look back at him going home and, like, analyzing his friend group and where he's at in his life at 30 years old.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That is useful information.

[Ebro]

Disc 39 is where he's at right now. Because I don't know how. Or turning 40 years old. Yeah, I don't know how. Jason.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right around there.

[Ebro]

Right around 40. So knowing that, the first time I heard it, I was kind of like, wait, he's talking about back in the day when I listed the first cd. Then I was like, oh, okay. Now that I have this lens, I'm listening to disc 29 differently. And I'm listening to this 39 differently because I have this context text. Excuse me, which helps me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

41. 1-28-85.

[Ebro]

Right. So this past birthday, he turned 41. Just turned 41. So this 39 is literally like the last couple years.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Last couple years.

[Ebro]

Right. Because there's some songs in there. Like the one where he's talking about, like, I think he's talking to his lady. Yeah, like where he's like, you know, I didn't know. I, you know, talking about falling in love and how deeply in love he is. That's right. Now somebody accepting him for all of his mistakes. Or even the song where he kind of interpolates the common I used to love her concept samples Common Delight. But then does the I used to.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Love her concept and then does I love her again? Is that a different song?

[Ebro]

No, that is the song.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm talking that word samples Common samples.

[Ebro]

The light, which is the I never knew a love.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, that's right. He does sample the light. It's not.

[Ebro]

It's not. I used to love her. So he's sampling the light but then.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Doing I used to love her exactly.

[Ebro]

As a concept, which is dope.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's dope. If I was going to be, I'm going to say a positive first and a criticism.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I do think you're right. I think we should wait for maybe the end of the week to really give a full breakdown so we can all spend time with it.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So far in my listening to me, what I feel when I see the features, how many tracks it has, how big it's supposed to be. I see J. Cole as a rap nerd throwing his two disc in the ring. Like everyone did it, right. The big. The biggest did the two discs. Yep.

[News Reporter]

Yep.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Biggie, Pac, Nas, Bone Thugs. At the time, everyone who was big was dropping their double disc.

[Ebro]

Yeah. And it's actually a super hip hop nerdy thing to try to do the double disc.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. Wu Tang did it, I would say right now. And I know this will be blasphemy to some people. I think this has the least skips of any two disc I've ever heard.

[Ebro]

No, you're wrong. I'm hitting you with the buttons.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think it has a lot of. You think it has a lot of skips?

[Ebro]

No, no, no. I, I. The least is Bigs the least.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm gonna have a whole different episode. We're having another episode.

[Ebro]

Yeah. Well, that's a Patreon.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

Big Stew disc is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it has it to me. It has a couple. Yeah, but I don't know that. I don't know that I heard this. I don't know that I heard the Skippers on.

[Ebro]

I, I heard a few more than. Not a lot. There's not a lot of skips for me on this call. I'm not saying that there's a few though, which is more than two. Big has two. And we're, we're We're. We're. We're. What's it called? Splitting hairs.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Yeah. Also. And also Biggie. Biggie is now tough to even truly analyze in an honest way, because there was the way you felt in 97, 98, and there's the way it hits now, now that he's gone. And this is his body of work.

[Ebro]

And by the way, I didn't have.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There are records on there I had no use for 97, 98. That now I'm like. Like, I like this joint now.

[Ebro]

I absolutely agree.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So that makes it hard, you know?

[Ebro]

But you can only judge it for now, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You get you.

[Ebro]

Everything is in the mirror.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And this is where we are now.

[Ebro]

Now this.

[Laura Styles]

I feel like people are trying. Just trying to find something negative, though, because you saw people are bad. He's got part of his rollout, too, that he's doing is like. He's. I forgot. He's. He got his, like, old car, put a new engine in it, and he's gonna go across the country selling CDs.

[Ebro]

I want to tell y' all something about J. Cole. He doesn't care what you think. He doesn't care.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It doesn't seem like it.

[Laura Styles]

I like about him.

[Ebro]

No, no, no. That's why his. He did this double disc for his fans. If you were not a fan of J. Cole or a deep J. Cole listener or any of that before this album, he did not make this for you. This was not him coming back trying to prove anything to anyone who had a feeling about how to. The seven Minute drill played out. He don't care what you think at all.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I go back and forth whether I think he doesn't care at all. Because.

[Ebro]

No, no, no. If you're not a fan, like, this is fan. I mean, he's got Petey Pablo in this. In this joint.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He starts the album with James Taylor. Guys, if you're. There had to be some people in the El army who heard that James Taylor start the album.

[Ebro]

Like, where do I. Where's Whitish Wednesday coming back?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Whitish Wednesday. No, that hit. That hit. The whole thing is Petey Pablo features.

[Ebro]

And then he's using the DMX record. The comment.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, that was. That was gonna be the one thing I would be critical of.

[Ebro]

And you didn't like how I used it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, it's not that. It's a lot of it. There's a lot of derivativeness to it. There's a lot of project. Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna reference this. I'm gonna Reference that there's a lot.

[Ebro]

Of it on the. The. The. I expected that. Only because when he gave us the track listing, though, it was a picture of his room as a kid or something.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

With all the different posters on the wall.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

And he was basically like, these are the. I looked up to y' all. And I, like, I literally looked up to y'. All. Like, it was on the ceiling of my room.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro]

Not only did I look up to you, but I looked up to you. And so I was like, okay, so this album is gonna. Because I think everything's intentional. It's not loose. So with artists like Kendrick, Drake, Cole.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Awesome. I see through Drake in.

[Ebro]

Well, no, he's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But he's not as intentional as Cole or Kendrick.

[Ebro]

I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that.

[Laura Styles]

But I. I feel what you're saying.

[Ebro]

I wouldn't say that. I think. I think he has times when he very much is and other times when he's not.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think there's times when he starts out being intentional and then by the time it gets to, like, the meat of the album and he wants to get it done and just put one.

[Ebro]

Views was intentional, though. Like, Views wanted. It was very intentional. Like. Like, if you're reading this, I feel like was intentional. What was the other one? With his. With his head in the clouds. What was that?

[Laura Styles]

What's the one?

[Ebro]

I'm, like, seeing it with a blue sky. And he was like. It had multiple covers. Him as a kid and him as an adult with clouds, the sky in the background.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I. I can. I can picture. But isn't that a problem that we can't remember? Or is it just that we're washed?

[Ebro]

No, it's just that we're washed.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

And then we're, you know, we're Drake haters. So there's that part.

[Laura Styles]

Drake haters.

[Ebro]

But no, I think Views is intentional. If you're reading this and nothing was the same.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was intentional. But that doesn't mean it. The intention landed.

[Ebro]

That's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, you're being nice. No. Intention.

[Ebro]

No, no. I'm just saying the attempt. These people are trying to tell us a story with their album cover, with the titles of the songs with the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro]

I mean, they're trying to tell it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Easter eggs.

[Ebro]

Yeah. That's what they're doing. So anyway, to Cole looking at the ceiling, and then you're saying he used maybe over sampled or over interpolated or whatever in the album. All. That's a valid critique. But I expected it. Sure.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I'm not saying I don't like it. I'm just saying there were like every couple of songs he's doing another song.

[Ebro]

But I also get cool.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But also a bit like.

[Ebro]

I think he ventured out in some ways I didn't expect. Sonically, I think he ventured out in some. In some ways there was a couple, like pop leaning, guitar riffy things I didn't expect to hear from him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

No, I think almost like crossover poppy joints.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. I mean, but then the poppy ones are the ones that I kind of expected it. The Burner Boy one hit the way I would expect a J. Cole kind of single to hit the. The ones that I could tell there. There are a couple on here that I go, these are J. Cole single vibes.

[Ebro]

Now the Thames record. Yeah, but that's not even the one I'm talking about.

[Laura Styles]

I like that record.

[Ebro]

I like that record. I like that record. I'm talking about this one.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's get back to that.

[Ebro]

Oh, sorry, sorry.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What are you doing?

[Ebro]

Sorry.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sorry for that vibe kill.

[Ebro]

Yeah, I know. Sorry.

[Laura Rosenberg]

While you're doing that, can I just shout some people out real quick?

[Ebro]

Of course. Super chat.

[Laura Styles]

Let's go. Who's in here?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sharon Lee.

[Laura Styles]

Sharon.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Big up to Sharon. She came through with the nice. With the. With the real gift for the squad. Yeah, Makes me want to do the dance.

[Ebro]

Well, what's she through at? What?

[Laura Rosenberg]

She threw at 20 bones.

[Ebro]

Oh, she wants to take our clothes off.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, she wants to see Ebro strip. Oh, man, here we go. Shouts to Jay, shouts to Eric. Motion. Shouts to BK from the dmv.

[Laura Styles]

Nice.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Shouts Bassin de da. These people all gave a very low amount. So they see they get a quick shout out.

[Ebro]

Not taking our clothes off.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nah, Nads, I appreciate me sound like my GG HO7SX. Terrible name, threw us 10 bones. Moreno, the man is backdropping another 20. Yo, my man, you trying to date us?

[Ebro]

No, Moreno trying to take us out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, you come to the club and tip me this much, at some point, you and I are together.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Bastard with a couple more bones. Jersey girl. So glad we got the Ablale back. Yay. Marvin Cel x23 said, Imagine hating us so much, but forget that we are here because an Italian guy was given Spanish ships by the Spanish to colonize stolen land. Facts, it's the coolest cat shout out to you. JSC186EL Army Swipe down to temporarily close the chat, then click. Okay, I don't know what that means, but you could try that Wait, what did I like?

[Ebro]

That's how you like. Oh, people was asking, how do you like? So you got to swipe down to close the chat. Hit the like button and open back up. All right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, there we go. And. Yeah. Scooby the Don and Chef Daniel Brown all jumping in. Whoa. And then Phoenix. 5, 7, 6.

[Ebro]

Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What you about to do? I'm about to put my knee pads on.

[Ebro]

Oh, wait, yo, you about to give.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Don't get my knees dirty for this.

[Ebro]

Rosenberg give it top.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's time.

[Ebro]

Rosenberg giving top for tips.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You tip.

[Ebro]

No, it's just Rosenberg gift top.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This is crazy. Phoenix came through with a 50 spot.

[Ebro]

No, no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How about hand at least? Hand Hand relief at least. Eye contact. Two fat. Chill. How did.

[Ebro]

How does he know that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. How did I make a joke about getting down on my knees? You would think that's as pause as you could get. And then your man comes through and goes, eye contact. Yo, chill, Griff. He wants me to look up in this imaginary beach.

[Ebro]

Yo, Griff, I didn't need. I didn't need to know you, like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, bro. No, Griff, we don't. He was like, look it.

[Ebro]

I don't need to know you, like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Just gave us way too much intel.

[Megyn Kelly (quoted)]

God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

True Fat Productions came through with a lot, too. Been listening on YouTube since 2014 in Texas. Thanks for. Thanks for the great. Being great at hip hop. I don't know. Thanks for the great hip hop upbringing. And jw, big shout out to you as well, jw.

[Laura Styles]

All right, all right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Super chat coming through.

[Ebro]

It is a super chat.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, Chris said you need to make eye contact with me. No, we didn't. We didn't. Today was the day we found out. Yo, Griffiths. One night. I'm about to spit in your mouth.

[Ebro]

Yo, Griff, everybody's showing too much. I don't want to know you like that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You don't believe me? I can say that joke all you want. That ain't knowing me. I'm just saying. I'm trying to push the envelope as far as we can go. All right?

[Ebro]

Did you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Didn't you want to play something or fail?

[Ebro]

But it's fail.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's. Let's wait. We can.

[Ebro]

Maybe.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We have a new Patreon to drop tomorrow, so maybe we'll play some joints on.

[Ebro]

Yeah, yeah. Listen, Studio 1.0 has some great things about it. It looks great on camera.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, I think it's great. Yeah, we're doing good.

[Ebro]

However, technologically speaking, behind the scenes, things are a bit of a struggle. And with that and with that, we're going to get to Laura Styles because she's got the rundown. Laura got the rundown.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Turn that up. Screens on GLOW when she pull up.

[Ebro]

Headlines heavy, but we still caught up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nice. Still flashing. We don't slow up, you guys.

[Laura Styles]

Bad Bunny has broken viewership record for the super bowl halftime show.

[Ebro]

I mean listen, these numbers according.

[Laura Styles]

These are early reports, but they're saying 135.4 million people tuned into Bad Bunny on Sunday. Kendrick Lamar had the previous record with 133.5 million. And then they're saying, you know, Michael Jackson, who had 133.4. But that's in 1993. I always. Michael Jackson is so separate. There's no social media.

[Ebro]

It's all different animals.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, that's why it' that's why it's. The only thing interesting is Michael Jackson on that list, respectfully. Maybe the fact that Bunny's number one. Given that people said they were going to protest.

[Laura Styles]

Right, right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'll give that a little bit of intrigue.

[Laura Styles]

I felt like they kind of felt the same about Kendrick too.

[Ebro]

So.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But, but what I'm seeing is every year the numbers just get bigger and bigger and bigger because the super bowl is unlike anything else and it's just a friggin beast.

[Ebro]

Well, I want to worldwide numbers. That's what I really.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, no, no, that. Well, that's intriguing because there's the Bad Bunny one going to be somehow much bigger.

[Ebro]

Yeah, I want to see worldwide, I want to see that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But in terms of us numbers, to me, Michael Jackson's the only one. That's interesting because to be up there with all these other ones that are from right now and that was the first one when they said we're going to go for it and try to get you to stay around. And people did it to the point that the numbers hold up to today. I think that's interesting. But these other, the other ones are a little bit like.

[Ebro]

Well, let's just be honest, we're cynics. Right. So. And I'm with Rosenberg on this, these numbers the first Tuesday on, when it happened in a Thursday on a full moon. It was the, you know, we've been on that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, biggest ever, don't get me wrong. Biggest ever. But if you look at the last five, they're all up there.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Interestingly, Beyonce's not up there. Rihanna's up there. Kendrick's up there.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, really?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

Beyonce wasn't Well, I mean, I got a shout out to my Apple music family. You know what I'm saying? It's different. We've been involved the last time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it's true. The Apple, since Apple is where the number's been up.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

All right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think they said it's because of the press conference, but not. But not you, Zayn, specifically. They said they were like. They were like Ebro.

[Ebro]

Can't tell you. Crazy number that I heard, though. I think it was like 60 million people saw that press conference.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No way.

[Ebro]

That's what I was told. I don't know. I didn't see it, you know, but I definitely might. Probably went up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Really?

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And it probably. It probably showed in different ways too. I wonder if in Latin countries, like, it was on tv.

[Ebro]

Well, yeah. Well, so in the room. So the, The. There was a line to get into the. In the room. There's always a line, right?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

The line was like something we've never seen before, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like an endless line.

[Ebro]

No. And I didn't anticipate that. Spanish sports media, who are mad aggressive, bro. Spanish sports media, you never seen anything like it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Really.

[Ebro]

The way they yell at you, the. When they crowd around for a photo, people screaming at each other, elbowing. I ain't never been around nothing like that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow. Now, did you see big. What looked like TV cameras just airing it. Like, where do people have, like, did new stations have a setup?

[Ebro]

Had the biggest. The big cameras.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Big cameras.

[Ebro]

But I don't know who they were. I don't know them all, but they definitely said the numbers were crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's interesting.

[Laura Styles]

That's cool. A story that we haven't touched on, but. Oh, man, this is so heartbreaking. So Little John shared this tribute that. Oh, man, it's a tear jerker. His son, Nathan Smith, passed away. He was found deceased in a Georgia pond.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I saw that. Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

Now I saw. When he was publicly asking help. You know what I mean? He was trying to find his son. And then he thanked, you know, the police department, detectives, everybody who was involved in the search, but I cannot. Guys, this was so heartbreaking to see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't. Yeah.

[Ebro]

I gotta tell you, I didn't. Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't even. I don't even have the words.

[Ebro]

Or you could send out prayers to Little John and the family and anybody losing a child, I can't. My brain can't wrap around.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

And any parent that's watching this right now that's had to deal with that sort of thing. God bless you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. God bless. And. And, you know, people get through it, and people find a way and have other children. I think John has other chill. I believe John has other children. People find a way to get through it. But, man, just seeing the news and when he showed those pictures and we.

[Ebro]

Don'T know if the young man had some health issues going on. We don't know why he went missing or.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, no one.

[Ebro]

Not that I read, and I don't know if it's valid. I read they said he walked out of the house, like, with no clothes on or something.

[Laura Styles]

Saw that too, but I haven't seen it. Like, it's just nobody.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know, so that's why he has one other child. Child. Just. Just sending love, man. Yeah, It's a good dude.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. Okay, so, Tony.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right. Yeah. Let's get into. Oh, you have the.

[Laura Styles]

You have an uncle Murder.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Is this not low down?

[Laura Styles]

We could take it to the.

[Ebro]

Oh, it's taking to the lowdown. It's about to get messy in here.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You got that drop?

[Laura Styles]

Oh, my gosh. It's time for the low down with Laura style.

[Ebro]

All right, Laura, stop.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, man. So we see a video of Tony Yayo and Uncle Murder on a plane. On a flight, and Ja Rule is sitting right in front of them. And I see them cussing each other out, but I'm like, what a coincidence, bro.

[Ebro]

You pussy ass. You this and that. No, they was getting it in a little bit.

[Laura Styles]

So listen through the tweets and people commenting. They're saying that. That according to them. They say that Ja Rule made a scene so he would be purposely removed, according to them, because at one point.

[Ebro]

That was according to 50s IG, right?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. But then Ja Rule tweeted that, you know, he threw a pillow at him and knocked his hat off. The whole thing is just funny to me because what a coincidence, guys. You hop on a plane and then you're sitting right in front of your ops.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I just wish I could have been on that flight.

[Ebro]

Oh, God. We got the vent. Let's see it. It suck ass job.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Great promo for Murder. And Yayo's podcast starts today.

[Ebro]

That's Murder Yayo podcast out today.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. That's crazy, right? The timing to get that promo.

[Ebro]

I mean, it's great promo. It's great promo. Listen, one thing you can always count on, I think, for the rest of our days is that they're never going to like Ja Rule.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Doesn't seem like them getting together and being friends is on now.

[Ebro]

Didn't 50 and Ja. Run into each other on a plane once before. I remember 50.

[Laura Styles]

That's what you were saying, but I don't remember this.

[Ebro]

Yeah, I feel like I saw a video of this a while back. Y' all in the chat, did this actually happen? And 50 was saying that he just kept walking past Ja Rule because he knew he was making Ja Rule uncomfortable. So he kept. He just kept walking around or something.

[Laura Styles]

He would do that. Imagine he's just walking back and forth and back and forth.

[Ebro]

And yo. And shout out to Ja. Rule's not letting this go either. I don't want this. I don't want anybody to think, like, yeah, job was awesome. I'm chilling. And these. These dudes was antagonized. I think Jaws on the same page. They're on.

[Laura Styles]

He never backs down.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ja. Yeah. I mean, listen, at what point does this go from, like, it's impressive that they could hold the beef this long to it's corny. Like, at what point? What age? 75 years old.

[Ebro]

So there's nobody that you would. You could run into on a plane right now that if they said something to you, not clapping, bang?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't say that, but I. But I have, like, I have, you know, recent issues that developed relatively recently. I don't know, 30 years from now.

[Ebro]

Well, they've been in the public side. That's the other part. They've all been in the public eye for this for the whole time. So 20 joints about. It's been about 20, 23.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You have it being public.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. That would put us at.03.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

In other news, guys, Diddy is now facing another sexual assault lawsuit, and it's moving forward. So a music producer by the name of Jonathan Hay, he says he's accusing Diddy of assaulting him in 2020 at a studio session. According to the court filings, he says that Diddy forced a non consensual sexual act on him, provided drugs and ketamine.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, listen, unfortunately for Diddy, we saw there's this. Evidence suggests this is on the table.

[Ebro]

You played yourself.

[Laura Styles]

The part that I thought was a little. This is where it gets like. He did an interview with the New York Post.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro]

This is the victim?

[Laura Styles]

Yes. He claims that in the assault, Diddy had a T shirt once owned by Big.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, I saw this story. No, this story's crazy. No, you. You ever heard the story?

[Ebro]

No.

[Laura Styles]

He's claiming that after the assault, he says, rest in peace, Big before throwing the T shirt at him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, bro, hold on. Y' all kids Are kids out of the car? It's 9 o'. Clock. Kids are out of the car. Right.

[Ebro]

You sure?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Or they're so young that they won't get it. I'll try my best.

[Ebro]

All right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They. This alleged situation was at a place where Biggie's old stuff is there. I don't know if it was a warehouse or there was stuff in the studio, but Biggie has old clothing there. And what I read. The accusation is Puff got himself off into one of Biggie's shirts, and after he wiped his joint, he threw the shirt at the guy and was like, rest in peace, Big. Give me one shot of you, bro. Just get that. Just get that face right there. That's. That's what I read, bro. So, yeah, no, it's not good. No, it's not. It's a bad. If that's true, I'm deeply offended by the rest. In peace, Big. I mean, the whole story's bad.

[Ebro]

I'm stuck today. Just right in this moment is where I'm stuck, because I've been reading these Epstein emails, these Epstein files.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, boy.

[Ebro]

All of my. So when I was a conspiracy theorist, Full. Full on, y' all know, I used to be worse. And as other people got more conspiracy theorists, I was like, yo, chill, y'. All.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Y'. All.

[Ebro]

Now you on this. Relax.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But, you know, went the other way. Classic backpacker chill.

[Ebro]

Y' all jumping on a bandwagon late. But after reading these files, how do you not believe that these people are into these sexually deviant things that people say they're into or turned on by these. With this weirdo Ish. That people are turned on by? Like, how do you not. I'm telling y', all, it's in there, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If you read.

[Ebro]

And I'm not. And I don't know. I'm not saying that what the victim is saying is fact with what Diddy did and all that. I'm just saying everything's on the table. Like all these papers we got laid out here. Everything's on the table.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If. If. You know, based on what I've read from the Epstein stuff that I've read, which isn't everything. Oh, it makes. It makes the rip Big T shirt thing. Not even. No, no.

[Ebro]

But.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I know. I'm agreeing with you. The stuff you read is so heinous and insane. And obviously there is truth to some of it. We don't know every detail, but there is truth to some of this stuff. Now, I don't know when it starts getting to the worst Parts of it. The eating of children and just like the most scary stuff that our brains can't quite process. I don't know, because you hear certain things, like the hove Pusha thing, and you see stuff that you're like, this is made up from a bad tip line. Right. So we have to keep that same energy about.

[Ebro]

But no, but some of this is emails between individuals. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about an FBI tip line. I'm talking about emails between individuals.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, you saw the one email that everybody wants to get unredacted.

[Laura Styles]

Which one?

[Laura Rosenberg]

They don't know who the email's from. But someone writes Epstein an email and says, your littlest girl was very naughty.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And the name's redacted. And people are like, why the f Is that name redacted? These victims.

[Ebro]

Victims should be redacted, not the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And some sicko who clearly had sex with a minor is in there and it's redacted.

[Laura Styles]

Crazy. It's crazy.

[Ebro]

I thought that's the email. Then there's the other email where you have the guy who's the professor at one of the universities.

[Laura Rosenberg]

American University. Yeah.

[Ebro]

Who got an 11 year old pregnant in Mexico, and then they had a marine stand trial for him, and he got like some judge paid off, and now he's still working and never got charged.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And some Marine went to jail.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

For him.

[Laura Styles]

Yep.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So can I be honest? As disgusting as it is, I sort of thought we were going to have a. Oh, my God. Sort of laugh about the Diddy throwing the shirt. I didn't know we were gonna land well.

[Ebro]

No, because of my. My expression and my lack of, like, ability to articulate my feelings is tied to. I don't know, like. I can't say that that ain't true. I can't say it's so crazy it ain't true. Based on everything we're seeing right now. And we always heard stories about, like, you know, things that, you know, sexually deviant things that people are into, but I just ain't my world.

[Laura Styles]

But it doesn't mean it's not true.

[Ebro]

But it doesn't mean it's not true.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Big shout out to Isabella in the super chat.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Dropped us a 50 spot.

[Ebro]

Oh, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Isabella, you just paid Louie for a month.

[Ebro]

Yo, somebody make it clap.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, it's not me anymore. I've done enough.

[Laura Styles]

Thank you, Isabella.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I miss you. Thank you for everything. Shouts to sir dweaking Shouts to Rod. Shouts to QV Fought for life, turned El Army Rider.

[Ebro]

I'm tell you something, we all wait, Ebro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We also have to shout out our awesome listener who was showing us love yesterday on her social media. Who's popping.

[Ebro]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Laura Styles]

She did her. Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, with. I never hear her say her name. I only read it. Rayleigh is how I assume what her name is.

[Ebro]

Oh, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But well, with Rayleigh. Well with R A, E, L E. And I'm sorry if I'm getting your name wrong.

[Ebro]

Rayleigh.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think it's Rayleigh.

[Laura Styles]

Rayleigh maybe.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, she's got a popping Instagram. Yeah, she's like a New York area based influencer.

[Ebro]

No, she's like a life coach, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Life coach?

[Ebro]

Yeah, she's helping women build their speaking.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Skills and social confidence and swap doubt for self trust.

[Ebro]

I can't just let you fly with influencer. That's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nah, it's too loose.

[Ebro]

This is a profession.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you're right, it feels loose. No, she's amazing, but she does awesome stuff and she's been showing us mad love. I thought we could maybe get her on for a special guru session. Maybe have her join us sometime.

[Ebro]

I like it. I like it. But when we. When the whole thing went down, when we parted ways with the last situation, she posted about that too.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah. That was the first time I saw.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, and shout out to Ari Melburg for using a piece of her show.

[Ebro]

Do we have that? Ari? Do we have Laura on the Ari Melba show from last night?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, it's just a clip of a clip of us.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ebro]

Ari on our show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's too crazy. Maybe I'll show it.

[Laura Styles]

Shout out to Ari Melville.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it was shout out to you. It was you breaking down a really good fundamental part of the bad Bunny Bunny situation.

[Laura Styles]

Yes, it was great. But anyway, you guys, that was the lowdown. It's time for the low down with Laura St.

[Ebro]

Listen, if you want to get to the gurus, the original gurus, gmail.com. it's time for the guru.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ah, Send those emails.

[Laura Styles]

The original gurus. Gmail.com. where the gurus unite to fight for what's right. Ebro, burn the sage.

[Ebro]

Excuse me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why would you do that?

[Laura Styles]

Oh my God. Rosenberg. Who's out there? Who needs us? Who's writing to us?

[Laura Rosenberg]

So many people. Laura, reach out to the original gurusmail.com theoriginalgurusmail.com your destination for clarity. Dear gurus, my fiance and I are getting married this year. We're Hispanic and he is half white. We were invited to a super bowl party this Sunday, but I declined because I'm going through an emotional time. I encouraged him to go and enjoy himself. When he came home, he told me there were two TVs playing during halftime. One TV was switched to Kid Rock's Turning Point USA show on mute because one person wanted to watch it. First of all, what the F channel was that on?

[Ebro]

It was on the Internet, right? It was just YouTube or something.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know. What are you doing? What are you doing?

[Ebro]

Congratulations, you played. What are you doing? It bugged out. Sorry, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

While the other TV had Bad Bunny with the volume on, he also mentioned that someone approached him and said they hoped he wasn't offended, explaining that they didn't care for the halftime show and hadn't watched Kendrick Lamar last year either. The whole situation immediately bothered me. I asked why he didn't leave. He could have watched the rest of it at a bar or at home. He got upset that I would want him to go to a bar alone. He said he questioned why they were watching it. They laughed about how ridiculous it was and he stayed because he was trying to have a good time with his friends. He also said he doesn't like to get emotional over politics and didn't view the situation as political. I told him, side bow, it wasn't about politics, it was about racism and they played in his face. He explained no one said anything racist, but it being on was all the racist I needed. And the fact that someone felt the need to single him out and say I hope you're not offended says a lot. What frustrates me most is that no one needed to watch either show. They could have talked, eaten or done what they do. They didn't really watch the halftime anyway. It it being played felt like everyone in the room was enabling ignorance. Let me skip ahead because this is long. We agree politically and he's not maga, but I struggle with him staying in spaces where things like this could happen openly. I'm not asking him to cut off his friends, but I do believe that when situations like this arise, removing yourself matters. You represent yourself, your partner, your people. You shouldn't feel comfortable being put in that position. In general, he feels I'm overreacting because I'm emotional and grieving right now. But I'm so mad. He's my best friend and I can't imagine life without him. But I'm not going to lie. I'm considering burning it down. I just don't like that and feel so strongly about it. I don't have room for that with anyone around me, no matter how much I love them. Am I overreacting? Should I be wording things differently? How would you have reacted to this situation? Thanks. Fought for life out of the gate. You are overreacting.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm gonna give you the burning it down if that's the only thing. Oh, girl, you're mourning right now. You love him. I assume he's your support system. He's there for you. And he didn't handle. He didn't handle what you deem to be an offensive situation the way you would have.

[Ebro]

That's right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That doesn't mean he disagrees with you about it being uncool.

[Laura Styles]

Right, right, right, right, right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Also, is the person who turned on the T Pusa his closest friend? Or was it some douchebag who happened to be the one who had control of the tv? You know what I'm saying?

[Ebro]

How big on a part TV, they had two TVs on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. So. But was the person who made this decision to have a separate TV with the T Pusa, was that his, like, best friend? We don't know how big. I don't know how big the party was.

[Laura Styles]

And I think maybe what bothered her is because when they were like, we hope it doesn't offend you, he probably didn't say anything. I would have been like, yes, but that's what you're going to do.

[Ebro]

Well, so the thing about the T Pusa thing, the performance from Kid Rock, it is based in racism. Racism is also political. Guys. Stop saying it ain't. It is. It's not political. Republicans versus Democrats.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That.

[Ebro]

But it's political. When you exist in a space where the. The dominant power structure favors one group against others, the others are called minorities, that's political. That's a structure. That's an institution, which makes it political. You feel what I'm saying, just for clarity.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. It is political. It is political, but it's also more than political. To her point.

[Ebro]

To her point. It is more than political. Right. Because it's deeper than rap. It's deeper than rap. So for her to be offended.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro]

And she would have handled it different. But to your point, Rosenberg, for her to think everyone's gonna handle things to her liking.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Congratulations.

[Laura Styles]

If you were there, burn it down situation.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No. And that worries me. Like, you need to. You're obviously going through a lot. You said you're mourning and you're going through something. I would relax and. And leave a little bit of grace here. If you were there and you Told him you were offended or you told him, like, hey, I feel uncomfortable. I want to leave anything like that. But you weren't even there. He didn't put you the idea.

[Ebro]

It wasn't your house. That's the other part. This is not her home.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not her home.

[Laura Styles]

Nope.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not his home.

[Ebro]

That's right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You weren't there and feeling threatened. He was on his own. Her throwing in the you represent us.

[Ebro]

No, she just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, we're stretching a little. Yes. But that doesn't mean he has to do everything.

[Ebro]

She didn't give us her name, right? She didn't put her name in it. I want to shout her out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Fought for life.

[Laura Styles]

All right.

[Ebro]

Hey. Fought for life. I love the fact that you just want to turn up and, nah, we're here for it. And just blow things up. You know what I'm saying? I'm into it. You know, you want to go ham, but also, you tripping a little bit.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

You just gotta know you tripping.

[Laura Styles]

It's not a burn it down situation. It's not. It's not. And listen, I'm with you. I would have said, yes. I'm offended. But if this what you're gonna do, like, do it, then, you know. But that's not how he handled it. And I think she's just upset because she feels that he didn't stick up for himself. But maybe at the time, he just didn't want to even acknowledge it or give it any power. He was with everyone else watching. Bad Bonnie.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm just laughing.

[Ebro]

Did you do that for the Latino?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Latino. So funny you say that. My dad. My dad just texted me live.

[Ebro]

Oh, he's listening. He's watching.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I don't think so. No, he wrote, did you see Megyn Kelly on Piers? I have never, ever heard anyone this full of sick hate. He's pretty good now. He switched on Israel. He did. By the way. He full switch. Oh, yeah. He full switched on Israel. Okay, Pierce, he went from at the beginning. He. He did the natural thing of at first very upset and emotional. And then as time goes on, it's like, all right. Sort of feels like the retaliation's over. Hey, what the hell's going on here? Like, he did a natural evolution of. Now he's arguing the other side.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So shout out to Piers Morgan, man. Yo, man, Pierce, man, Who knew? Strange bedfellows. I'd rather. Listen. I'd rather hang with Piers Morgan than Marjorie Taylor Greene. I'm never buying that one.

[Ebro]

Not buying it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Never Never.

[Ebro]

What about if your man switches up George Santos? No, no, no, no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think it's a hard comedian.

[Ebro]

What's the comedian on hbo?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Bill Maher?

[Ebro]

Bill Mars.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He ain't switching. He's been going this way. He start. He used to be. Bill Maher, used to be the face of, like, progressive politics on tv, and now he's just like. But then that was when people didn't know his Israel stuff always sucked, right? And his Islamophobia is long documented, but now he's just. Now he's just literally the old guy who doesn't realize he's the old guy and his opinions suck. And he thinks the entire Democratic Party and anyone who leans towards the actual left of the left is like a looney tune. He sucks. But this is a fun game, though. If they switched, would you be. Would you. Would you accept them post switch?

[Ebro]

Nicki Minaj comes back next week. Like, guys, I was tripping next week. Next week.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, how could I believe that? It couldn't be next week, right? It would have to be quiet for a long time.

[Ebro]

See, now I believe next week. I believe next week. Next week. She'll be like, yo, I was tripping, guys. I had to do. I had to do a thing real quick. I was tripping.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What kind of tripping is that?

[Ebro]

I don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've never heard of tripping.

[Ebro]

It's called hustling. It's called algorithm hustling.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I wasn't tripping. I was actually hustling.

[Ebro]

I was actually.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I got a bag.

[Ebro]

I got a bag. I had to get some things cleared up. They're cleared up now. I'm back.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think. I think unfortunately for Ms. Mirage, I think the unfortunate thing is too much stuff now is coming out because people have been waiting. Are you guys seeing that in your algorithm at all? Yeah, a lot of people starting to chat and tell their stories.

[Ebro]

Oh, really?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, about you being mean. There is the mean stories are coming.

[Ebro]

Congratulations, you played yourself.

[Laura Styles]

Super famous. I think his name is Sir John. He does Beyonce's makeup.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The.

[Ebro]

The.

[Laura Styles]

The best of the best. He. There's a clip that's moving around. They claim that is from an older interview, but he says that Hype Williams had asked him to do Nicki Minaj's makeup at one point. He said absolutely not because he has seen her abuse other people in the. In the industry.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So the chickens are coming home to roost. That situation as well. I don't see it. Yo, but why didn't she show up for T Pusa man.

[Ebro]

Yeah. If you really. Yeah. You should have made that a thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That made no sense. Now listen, they're gonna have to, of course, you know, switch up on all of their values because her blending in with them makes no sense.

[Ebro]

Well, she would have been up there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ass clapping because she's considering she pedals sex and porn and ass clapping. So they'll have to do. They got to figure out. Now she's gonna have to figure out what to even do musically now that she has, you know, the Erica Kirk.

[Ebro]

Crowd, she'll try to put out a. Once you put out like a religious album, so.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, that'd be tight.

[Laura Styles]

Or America First Raps.

[Ebro]

America First Raps.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's gonna be crazy Monster. Monsters gonna be.

[Ebro]

Do you guys believe the headline Drake allegedly passed on making an appearance with bad money?

[Laura Styles]

I don't.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Don't believe it.

[Laura Styles]

I don't believe that.

[Ebro]

No, no. Just checking, see if y'.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All.

[Laura Styles]

I don't.

[Ebro]

We didn't hit Lindsey Von US Olympic.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Skier with the congratulation.

[Ebro]

You say. Why? Why would you say this about a US Olympic skier? Well, before she was scheduled to compete, she blew her knee out and decided she was going to go ahead and do it anyway.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Now people are saying that the ACL doesn't have anything to do with this particular thing. Whatever. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. But the whole thing is. It's very sad. But she was indignant that at 41 years old she could win this thing. So even when she tore acl, she was like, I'm going. Do you have the video of that?

[Ebro]

Damn, there she goes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He means the volume. Give me the volume. Oh, no, you can't. Lindsay Vaugh pulls out of the gate and hopes.

[Ebro]

Nia's already shot. Knee brace on. Done.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, boy. Oh.

[Ebro]

And you see the way her body turned. It was black confidence, all that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's going to be multiple surgeries.

[Ebro]

Had to be airlifted off and suffered a complex tibia fracture.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I feel terrible.

[Ebro]

It's bone damage.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We have to hit you with the button. But it's terrible. Congratulations.

[Ebro]

We're not hitting you with the button. I'm not hitting you with the button cuz you wrecked in a race. I'm hitting you with a button because you shouldn't have raced and then you wrecked.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's not just cuz you wrecked.

[Ebro]

That's right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But you were like, I'm doing this.

[Ebro]

And everybody was like, I don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Trust me, I got this.

[Ebro]

You pressing and you're 41. Let me tell everybody something about your body after 38, 39. When people tell you, yeah, it's probably not for you. You know what you should do?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, listen.

[Ebro]

Sit down.

[Laura Rosenberg]

SP Ronan coming through with the late super chat. Shout out to you. SP Ronan. Shout out to you. Casey. Casey.

[Ebro]

I want to shout out to all the nurses that got their deals worked out. A month on strike, standing in the cold. But there's a batch of nurses that are still striking over at Presbyterian. Grift. Is there an update on those nurses at Presbyterian? They still haven't signed. Wow.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The hospital has agreed to a proposal. They haven't agreed. All right.

[Laura Styles]

Hospital has agreed to a proposal.

[Ebro]

4, 000 more nurses remain on the picket line as labor negotiation stall at Presbyterian. New York Presbyterian.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo. Good for these nurses, man. Keep fighting these. These a holes. Making $5 million to run a hospital and not paying the nurses. Shout out to Casey. Casey. With what? I think I'm gonna give this the super chat comment of the day.

[Ebro]

All right, here we go. On the radio. On the close.

[Laura Rosenberg]

100% of the people who tuned into a separate halftime show would also want separate water fountains.

[Ebro]

That's a fact.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That is a bar. That is a full on bar. Yeah.

[Ebro]

No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Shout out to the nurses, man. I just want everybody to know I paid $68 this morning for an Uber because I feel like ish. And I was like, I'm not subwaying today.

[Ebro]

$68.

[Laura Styles]

It's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. It was six Ebro. It was 68. And here's the insult. It was a bleeping yellow cab van when I got outside. This was an X, bro. An X. It was a cab van for 68. They are. Congratulations.

[Ebro]

You played yourself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The level to which they don't care anymore. The level to which we're like, we are just going to take from everybody. It's. I need mom Donnie to be looking at the Uber and cab situation.

[Laura Styles]

There's snow, there's ice.

[Ebro]

And it's rush hour.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's cold. It's cold and it's rush hour.

[News Reporter]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Insane.

[Ebro]

Listen. Another episode live from the new Stu Studio. 1.01. 2.0. Coming soon.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Patreon. Oh, two things. Announcements. We hit 50,000 subs overnight.

[Ebro]

Wow. Rob. Whoa. I don't. I don't even. That's a bomb.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

Love that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

50,000 subs on YouTube. So shout out to y'.

[Ebro]

All.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And we have a Patreon that we're dropping tomorrow. They're. They're. We're considering a themed episode. So we're gonna pay attention on the Patreon and see what we decide to drop. And I think we have our first guest in studio tomorrow.

[Ebro]

Really?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, it's coming through, I think so.

[Ebro]

First in studio, guest live.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know. We gotta discuss that.

[Laura Styles]

All right, all right.

[Ebro]

Based on the time, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Based on time, yeah.

[Ebro]

I'd love to hear feedback from all of you out there. Is the 8 o' clock thing working for you? Are you able to use this in your car on your commute? Is this, is that a part of your life? You know what I mean? Cuz you can wake up. If you're like an early person, you wake up, maybe you're driving trucks, whatever you're doing delivery, things like that, and then you get enough of what you're hearing over there, you come join us at 8 o'. Clock. We appreciate for a good hour convo, some laughs and some insights and fun. And I would like to end the show with this breakdown.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nice. Is crazy.

[Ebro]

Of the history of the Puerto Rican flag, that Bad Bunny was.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, the one that. The one that was illegal.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

Yes. I feel like that's important because once again, many of you rushing to judgment on Bad Bunny. He's representing for his people, he's representing for all of us. He's representing for building community and. And, you know, standing up in the face of a problem. Oppression and colonials. Colonialization. Let's get that rasan on the out, man. Ebro. Laura Rosenberg.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sa.

[Ebro]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sam.