46.) First Reactions & Thoughts On Iran Attacks (3/2/26)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show

Episode 46: First Reactions & Thoughts On Iran Attacks (3/2/26)

Date: March 2, 2026

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode is a raw, immediate response to the weekend’s dramatic escalation of US-Iran hostilities and their global effects, blended with sharp, personal, and often humorous cultural commentary. The hosts—Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Peter Rosenberg—share their initial thoughts on the Iran conflict, the US and Israel’s roles, domestic reactions, and touch on viral news, pop culture, race, peace movements, AI's ethical dangers, and memorable weekend stories.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Personal Updates & Algorithm Realities

• [01:11–06:11]
  • Joke-filled banter about weekend routines, family life, and missing trending stories due to algorithm bubbles.
  • Viral confusion over Jim Carrey’s supposed “new face” at an awards show—revealed to be a prosthetic-wearing impersonator.
  • Reflection on aging in the public eye and how social media shapes perception.
  • Notable Quote [05:28] Peter Rosenberg: “Turns out he's a different person!” (on the Jim Carrey impersonator).

2. Pop Culture & Viral Moments

• [06:26–11:17]
  • Discussion of public figures aging, referencing Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, and how time changes celebrity images and audience expectations.
  • Recap of Dion Cole’s comedically edgy prayer at the NAACP Image Awards, slyly referencing 50 Cent and Nicki Minaj.
  • Satirical commentary on Trump’s selling of bibles and public reactions, especially Nicki Minaj's endorsement.
  • Notable Quote [10:47] Laura: “We bind that spirit in her ass, Lord.” (about Nicki Minaj’s behavior).

3. Immediate Reactions to Iran Escalation

• [13:21–16:49]
  • Sudden shift in tone: Laura breaks news of “full war with Iran.”
  • Discussion about the bombings in Israel, Dubai, Qatar, and the global ripple effect—real-time reports of airspace closures and civilians, including Ebro’s acquaintance, being stranded.
  • Analysis of US-Israel relations: questioning the idea that “Israel controls the US,” or if “they are basically the same thing.”
  • The panel critically distinguishes between Jewish identity and Israeli government policy to avoid old anti-Semitic tropes.
  • Notable Quote [15:06] Peter: “If we say Israel controls the United States, to me that can be easily part of another picture...Because the Jews run everything.”

4. Oil, Geopolitics, and Historical Context

• [16:49–20:21]
  • Exploration of the role of oil in the US/Iran/Venezuela relationship, with Laura explaining Venezuela’s heavy crude needs Iran’s lighter oil for processing.
  • Hosts connect historic US interventions (like removing Iran’s democratic leader and installing the Shah) to current problems.
  • Painful acknowledgment of US hypocrisy—claiming to “free people” when motives are financial.
  • Notable Quote [18:39] Laura: “No, because if they wanted to free the people, then they would be doing this a lot of places. There has to be a financial interest.”

5. Complexities of Regime Change & Moral Ambiguity

• [19:50–23:20]
  • Debate on Iranians’ hopes for “freedom” contrasted with the reality of violence's cost (e.g., bombed schools, civilian deaths).
  • Critical view of simplistic American narratives—regime change often results in other “bad people” rising to power.
  • Trump’s public statements about killing Iranian leaders discussed for cynicism and realpolitik.
  • Anxiety over possible terrorist retaliations against US or allied targets as a consequence of escalation.

6. Reflections on War, American Hypocrisy, and Peace

• [23:41–32:31]
  • Worry over decision-makers in the US defense sphere—are they competent and humane?
  • Storytime: Rosenberg recounts the death of his Peace Studies teacher, Coleman McCarthy, a noted promoter of nonviolence and conflict resolution, tying his philosophy to the moment’s urgency.
  • Discussion of societal obsession with vengeance over reconciliation; Laura references TV show “Shrinking” showing themes of forgiveness.
  • Notable Quote [35:07] (Coleman McCarthy): “If you want a chance for peace, don't talk to your friends, talk to your enemies.”

7. The Cost of Endless War & US Global Conduct

• [37:07–42:22]
  • Hosts discuss Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, Trump tearing it up, and the consequences—now Iran really is closer to nuclear capability.
  • Conversation about how demonization of “enemies” justifies violence; historical examples offered.
  • Criticism of America’s self-image as peacekeeper while actually destabilizing regions for profit.
  • Example of how US sanctions inadvertently harm vulnerable populations (Cuban doctors expelled from Central America).
  • Notable Quote [42:22] Peter: “The marketing to keep these weapons suppliers spending...We’re such a lie.”

8. AI, Ethics, and Future Warfare

• [42:23–48:00]
  • Reporting on the controversy between Anthropic (an AI company) and the US military: Anthropic refuses to allow fully autonomous AI weapons without human oversight, getting labeled “woke.”
  • Sam Altman’s OpenAI is keen to fill that gap, leading to hosts’ alarm about a future where robots make kill decisions.
  • Notable Quote [47:32] Peter: “They literally… want robots to be able to decide, bro. They want Terminator to happen for real.”

9. Striving For Peaceful Advocacy

• [48:00–49:05]
  • Laura and Peter reflect on the risks and stresses of publicly advocating for peace, but stress that leading with humanity and compassion is necessary, despite being smeared as “anti-patriotic.”
  • Notable Quote [48:25] Laura: “You have to know that being on the side of history that embraces humanity… is the right.”

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Other Notable Cultural & Viral Segments

Wiz Khalifa’s Romanian Legal Woes

• [49:37–53:07]
  • Recap of Wiz getting a 9-month jail sentence in Romania for weed; debate over cultural ignorance, law, and possible legal strategies.
  • Memorable Moment [51:47] Peter: “Now you’re stunning on the government… and they’re going to try to stunt back.”

Nipsey Hussle Square Dedication

• [53:20–56:30]
  • Audio from Lauren London and Black Sam at the renaming of Crenshaw & Slauson to Nipsey Hussle Square.
  • Reflection on Nipsey’s journey, legacy, and tragic lateness of the honor.
  • Notable Quote [53:41] Lauren London: “One day, they gonna name this whole section after me. And here we are today.”

Audience Engagement / Feedback Loop

• [56:43–61:45]
  • Reading live chat/superchats; shoutouts to loyal listeners.
  • Discussion about new and former critics discovering the show’s depth.
  • Laura shares a touching recent encounter with an Israeli viewer who values their balanced, humanistic coverage.
  • Notable Quote [60:57] Peter: “I wish people would actually listen.”

Inside Baseball: The Move to Digital

• [61:45–63:35]
  • Reflection on why the show left traditional radio platforms—corporate constraints limited the reach of their most urgent, unedited conversations.
  • Building their own digital space enabled honest coverage of controversial subjects.

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 01:11 — Show starts, banter, algorithm commentary.
• 06:26 — Viral Jim Carrey story and celebrity aging.
• 09:40 — Dion Cole’s prayer at the NAACP Image Awards.
• 13:21 — Shift to Iran news and global fallout.
• 16:49 — Oil’s central role in US/Iran/Venezuela geopolitics.
• 19:50 — Regime change, historic US/Iran context.
• 23:41 — Fears of terrorism and war consequences.
• 26:00 — Rosenberg’s tribute to Coleman McCarthy.
• 35:07 — McCarthy’s peace philosophy clip.
• 37:07 — Obama, Trump, and shredded nuclear deals.
• 42:23 — US militarism, Cuban doctors & sanctions.
• 43:42 — AI, military ethics, and existential risk.
• 48:00 — Emphasizing compassion and resistance.
• 49:37 — Wiz Khalifa’s Romanian arrest.
• 53:20 — Nipsey Hussle Square dedication.
• 56:43 — Shoutouts, live listener comments, and fan emails.
• 61:45 — Reflections on digital freedom and engagement with haters.

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Tone & Notable Quotes

• The show intertwines outrage, humor, empathy, and world-weary candor.
• Peter, Laura, and Ebro balance pop culture zingers with passionate, principled critique of US foreign policy.
• Memorable moments include candid admissions of fear, moral struggle, loving tributes to peacemakers, and inside jokes about the harsh realities of politics and media.

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Selected Notable Quotes

• Peter Rosenberg [05:28]: “Turns out he’s a different person!”
• Laura Rosenberg [10:47]: “We bind that spirit in her ass, Lord.”
• Peter Rosenberg [15:06]: “If we say Israel controls the United States, to me that can be easily part of another picture...Because the Jews run everything.”
• Laura Rosenberg [18:39]: “No, because if they wanted to free the people, then they would be doing this a lot of places. There has to be a financial interest.”
• Coleman McCarthy [35:07]: “If you want to have a chance for peace, don’t talk to your friends, talk to your enemies.”
• Peter Rosenberg [42:22]: “The marketing to keep these weapons suppliers spending...We’re such a lie.”
• Peter Rosenberg [47:32]: “They want robots to be able to decide, bro. They want Terminator to happen for real.”
• Laura Rosenberg [48:25]: “You have to know that being on the side of history that embraces humanity… is the right.”
• Lauren London [53:41]: “One day, they gonna name this whole section after me. And here we are today.”
• Peter Rosenberg [60:57]: “I wish people would actually listen.”

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Closing Thoughts

This episode stands out for its grounded immediacy, showcasing the hosts’ honesty about their fears and confusion regarding world events, while refusing to give in to fatalism or cynicism. Their insistence on leading with peace, fact-checking nationalist narratives, and poking holes in official stories make the show both vital and relatable. The digital platform gives them space to be thorough, nuanced, and bold—qualities urgently needed in times of turbulence.

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Transcript

[Ebro]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Coleman McCarthy]

nothing to get it ready.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The countdown is complete.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There's no going back. Our directive is clear. Hang on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The Ebro Laura Rosenberg show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We are live. Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Almost on time, too. Very, very close. No, it's very close.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's crazy. Well, and right before we went live, Rahsaan was trying to act like he was ready to go live, but he wasn't ready to go live.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, and when I asked, he was almost ready.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he was almost. But when I asked, he was.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Of course.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was like, wait, when did you become the I'm ready guy? When did you become Tevin Campbell? All right, That's Laura, that's Rosenberg.

[Ebro]

I'm Ebro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If you're new here, welcome. If you're not new here, we love you to death and we appreciate you, man. Make sure you subscribe and hit the buttons and share all the things and get the algorithm really riggedy. Rocking on a Monday, yo. You know, Mondays are like one of the bigger days of the week for us.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah. When people. I, I, I, I guess that's people are up and going to work or up and not going to work.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I jumping at the show early. Maybe there's a sense of urgency after the weekend.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That could be it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And, you know, speaking of the algorithm, man, my, my constant proof of people live in their own world. And one of the main people who I see that in my life is Ebro.

[Ebro]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is you see Ebro's response in our chat today?

[Ebro]

Which one?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That he had never seen the Jim Carrey things. I'm gonna need to be filled in. I don't know what you're talking about.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yesterday. Was this all yesterday, bro?

[Peter Rosenberg]

This is from Thursday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I didn't see it at all. I didn't See one thing on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, we all live in our own. Each individual sculpted reality.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How about this? I saw a Jim Carrey throwback post of him doing something. Didn't investigate further. And Jazz actually brought up Jim Carrey in the house. Like, I need to know what's going on with Jim Carrey.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So you did hear things. I made it to your peripheral. But you didn't post after post.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, but I was in Storage wars, man. Saturday was like, you know, Alvin A running around with Issa, getting her to. I went to see. Are you guys familiar with Freya sky by any chance? No.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I saw you went somewhere, but I didn't know what it was.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So the teenage girls like Freya Sky, British winner of I think or runner up something on a show called Eurovision, which talent show.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not familiar with big show, but she's the. She's brolic on there. Anyway, she had a show at the Hammerstein Ballroom, okay. In Manhattan Center. So we went over there. One of her besties is big fan.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Issa was like, okay, I've heard she's the medium fan.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. But her friend was a big fan. So all the dads that are kind of part of the Alvin Ailey dad click. Couple of dads linked up. We went to Freya sky went to dinner.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That Saturday. And then Sunday, I was Storage wars, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What does that mean?

[Laura Rosenberg]

That means, you know, house is getting cluttered. Jazz is frustrated with the clutter. I'm constantly like, well, let's just throw it away. Let's just throw it away. Let's just throw it away. And she's like, no, I, I, I, I want to keep this and I want to keep that and I want to keep this. And we have three car seats and a duna and a this and a that and a. So I was like, look, let's get some bins and let's get into these storages.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Storage.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This weekend I was in storage all day. So that's why I'm not up on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But this is. But you're up on a lot. You're chained. He. This isn't like an indictment. This is just the world we live in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, if you're not in my first few scrolls, I may not catch.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But, like, I feel like that just kept. I don't like, I don't know why it hit me. It just kept hitting. And then people like, basically, Jim Carrey showed up to an award show last week. The Brits or whatever it was or BAFTAs, whatever the hell it was. And when he showed up, everyone's like, he has a whole new face. The funniest part of this is I'm such a Jim Carrey defender. Like, in my brain. I. I like. Not that I'm some obsessed fan, but I like him so much. I love what he stands for. Love the things he says. He's. And I'm like, it looks. He looks fine to me. He looks fine. No. And yeah, there we have. Was actually an impersonator wearing a prosthetic. It was not Jim Carrey.

[Ebro]

No, listen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I believe that was Jim Carrey.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The person on the left here. My gosh, Not Jim Carrey. No, no, go back to it. Let me say it again.

[Ebro]

His name is Alex. He's known for changing his. He's a makeup artist and other people's looks. Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think he made Kim Kardashian.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, it looks like Jim Carrey to meet him. Yo. I wouldn't have thought nothing of him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And they were like. And everyone's freaking out. I'm like, so my man had a little Botox. He had a little, like, oh.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because he looked a little.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They were like, he looks so different. I was like, he's not a different person.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He does not.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Turns out he's a different person.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He does not have Mar A Lago face. I'll tell you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, it wasn't Mar A Lago face. Not at all.

[Ebro]

Ricardo sends it to me. He's like, it's a clone. And I was like, oh, God, here we go. You know, he always meets the conspiracies. And I was like, whatever. And then I went looking at, like, the nose. I'm like, the nose is different. But I was like, all right. Next thing you know, I see that it was finally revealed that it was so.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, but it was just. It was a big. Everywhere I went on ig, it popped up on Twitter.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I popped up.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I got the nose for you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I wouldn't have cared. That's right. I wouldn't have delved into it at all.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Did I send. I didn't send it to the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you didn't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It didn't affect my life. No. But I'm just surprised that that's what. I mean when he's like, someone's gonna have to explain this to me. It's crazy that we all are in our phone scrolling things and we are all seeing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I thought it was a bigger deal. Like, if that would have came across my timeline and people were like, have you seen Jim Carrey? I'd have been like, what happened?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's why it was my. That was my response too. I'm just going, okay, he looks a little. All these people in their late 50s and 60s to me, look like different people.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because very few of them are just letting it go now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You definitely start to look different after 50. I got news for you. After 50, after 5055, you're looking different because remember Hov and even Pharrell and a lot of cats were looking pretty nas. They were looking the same.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Exact same.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Same 50, mid 50. It's like, oh, you're starting to age a little.

[Ebro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Which is natural.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No matter. No matter how what. How much money you got, it's gonna hit you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I can think of an example. I'll. I'll be able to think of some examples where you're wrong. I'll tell you what.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There's probably some.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There's that Sam Jack video that was moving around. Sam Jack's like, what, 75 was this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Was this ham at the NAACP Image Awards.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He looked great.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, look, some people have been old a long time. Also facts. Morgan Freeman is who knows how old.

[Peter Rosenberg]

150 years old.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And he's been old long.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sam Jack's kind of been old since he rolled up and coming to America with the shotgun. Yeah, he's kind of been old since

[Laura Rosenberg]

he might have been 35 then.

[Peter Rosenberg]

77. He's 77 now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How long ago was that?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's 87.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So was that 50?

[Peter Rosenberg]

He was in his late 30s.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, but he looked old. See, I'm gonna let you know he was old then. So it's true.

[Laura Rosenberg]

88.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's 88.

[Ebro]

Oh, God bless him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

88 years old.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So Morgan Freeman's been old my entire life.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah. Although I'll tell you, the age thing is weird, man. The people who you thought of as being super old and then found out they were in their 50s at that time or late 40s, and you're like,

[Laura Rosenberg]

that's how people see us.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I know. And then you look at your age now and you're like, nah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, we're old, though.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I don't think people see us and think those guys got to be definitely in their 60s.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, absolutely people. Well, they don't say 60s. They don't say 60s. But old to them is 40. Especially for the 20 something Uzi Vert fans. They think I'm old.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, you call yourself old and you've like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I just.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're very gray and you played ahead.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, why not?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Besides that, though, you wouldn't be that Old.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think the times have changed. I think old in the 80s and 90s, it's just different.

[Ebro]

Of course. And also, we're starting to see people who. Who engaged in a lot of plastic surgery, and as they age, you really see a difference.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, that's true, too. They end up looking extra nuts.

[Ebro]

Yeah, yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, let's not even pull up. What's going.

[Ebro]

Oh, God.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What's going on with the Osbornes, bro?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, we didn't play Sam Jack's Jesse Jackson. You want to see the Sam Jack now you got. You brought up Sam Jack so that before I have him inundated with whatever crap.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I am somebody.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Looks great. It doesn't matter where you live or who you are. You matter because. Say it with me. Somebody. You can overcome any obstacle because I am somebody.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And we will continue his mission.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Will.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This feels like it's 1985 from this country's history. Because we are somebody. I am somebody. I am Reverend Jackson because of you. We are somebody.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right on. Now, do we have Dion Cole at the same. At the same NAACP image?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now which. Which Dion Cole do you want? Because he had a few. Mom, that was cool.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know. Which one do we have? I had the one where he brought up 50 cent and the prayer right where he's talking about Nicki Minaj.

[Ebro]

Well, okay, I was going to use that in the rundown, but go ahead.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, my fault, my fault.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Lord, I want you to bless our sister Tiana Taylor, Lord. Keep her single and away from 63 green eyed men with muscles, Lord. Give the average man a chance with her, Lord. Hell, give the average woman a chance with her as well. Lord, I want you to bless our brother. 50 cents, Lord. Damn it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's on it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But that pettiness begin that day going by fast at work, don't it?

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know what, Lord?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Bless him with some more petty ideas, Lord.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That'll help us at work, Lord.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Definitely. Lord, we want you to bless our sister Nicki Minaj, Lord. Yes, she's been going through a lot lately or it hasn't been herself, Lord. I believe whatever's in her is affecting her brain, Lord. Take it out her, Lord.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We bind that spirit in her ass, Lord.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I respect Deon Cole doing a full prayer bit at the NAACP Image Awards.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, that's, you know, that's envelope pushing. I think it's the second year in a row he did it last year.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, the same bit.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Same bit.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's a good. That's. If you want to push the envelope in, like, a black room. Like, that going to straight church bit is. That's edgy stuff from Dion Cole. I like that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I like.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yo. Nikki is catching it at every. Every gathering of famous people. They are taking a moment.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

To let her know what's going on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How can they not?

[Peter Rosenberg]

How can you not?

[Laura Rosenberg]

How can you not? It's bananas. It's ridiculous.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And it's so over the top. It would be one thing if she was like, if it had been in any way a lighter version of what it's been. I think maybe she could have skated a little bit. The fact that it's so over the top, you know, the posting. Trump's Bible. She posted a signed Bible.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm not seeing any. Once again, I went and looked.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, this was me. This. I went and looked. I wonder what she's even saying recently on her page. I am.

[Ebro]

You know, I saw the signed Bible.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And this is going to be. Mr. President, thank you. This is one of the most important items I'll ever have in my life. And it's a signed Bible. Congratulations. From a man who's never read the Bible. Why would you want to sign of all the signed dollar bill from Trump? You know, I'm getting. If you were a Trump person and you had a signed dollar bill from, like, cool. That's. That's who he is. He's a. He's a money guy. Why about a Bible?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because he was selling the Bibles. I can't even believe that religious people allow this to happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right. Without protesting.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Which is. Which is also why I've almost tuned out of a lot of things with him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because it's so.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Some of it is just so ridiculous.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We're not playing such a. It's. We're not.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What are we even talking about? You put out Trump Bibles. You put out your own version of.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You don't even care. You don't even. You're not even committed to the bit. If you were committed to the bit, you wouldn't do a Bible. It's too far. After that interview years ago, when they're like, what, your favorite Bible verse? He's like, oh, that. I love them all. They're too many. And he could not come up with one. And then there's a video. Mickey doing the same thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I would take it the other way. I would even say, maybe that's why he did it. He was like, oh, I got away with that. Let me keep running it. Run this thing up.

[Ebro]

And he did.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And by the way, the Bibles are free. He's charging for his. That's how. Yeah, you can. That's how.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Congratulations, you played yourself. You can get one at any hotel you go to.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right. Yeah, they're free.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Walk right in. No problem.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Ebro]

They're always at the little drawer next to me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's it. So I didn't know anyone needed a Donald Trump, but imagine being a religious person. Be like, let's. Let's pray tonight, guys. Let me get. Grab my Donald Trump Bible real quick.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you need a mental healthy vow, sir.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, that's crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

A lot of people out here need a mental healthy vow. Especially after this weekend where we go full. We go full war with Iran, huh?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Full bore war.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's where we're at now. You know, I think people said this was gonna happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Before people voted for him, people said that this was what he was gonna try to do. People told everyone that Israel would have complete control over him. And now we are. Israel's being bombed. Dubai was. I saw some videos. Somebody caught something. Caught on fire.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, missiles.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Missiles are going to Dubai.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Dubai got hit with something. Qatar. Qatar got hit with something. Multiple places are getting hit with things falling out. Either I guess from attacks on bases or just things being intercepted in the sky.

[Ebro]

I have a. My, one of my old interns, I still follow her on Instagram. She is stuck in Dubai right now. She's scared and she's been kind of documenting everything she sees. She's just stuck. She's like, there's no flights. I'm stuck here. She's a flight attendant, by the way.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wow. And when. When could that end? If the war doesn't end, when is. When is Dubai going to say, when will they know the airspace is safe?

[Ebro]

I don't know, but it's very scary.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Although I'm starting to like, I keep going in different directions on the whole United States, Israel, Iran thing. In terms of like, where I point exactly what it's at. Is it that Israel owns Trump and can do whatever they want? Yes or no, Is it. Or is it that Israel just is the United States?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So it's not. That's the thing. Because the other version of. Here's why I point out the distinction. The other version of it to me makes. It's always the Jews are the scapegoat. So if we say Israel controls the United States, to me that's also. Can be easily part of another picture of. Because the Jews run everything.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Aren't we fighting against that? Narrative that all Jews are aligned with Israel is not a thing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We're trying. We're trying our best.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm here on this show. I mean just on this show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, on this show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's just act like that's not the same thing. You got to do the work that

[Peter Rosenberg]

you're actually smart enough to know that. Not the same thing. Fair enough.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I also do think like we keep acting as if Israel is ever going to do something in this stage. If they. Are they really going to act without the United States or is it really. They're all the same thing. Bibi can pressure him like their friend,

[Laura Rosenberg]

like he's in the cabinet. They've definitely recently acted without the United States.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They did make the rogue. The first attack was pretty rogue. Right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. And.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But also the cutter attack.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. They've done that. That, that's happened. So. Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So one.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And that's why I say yes to both.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right, right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They do whatever they want. Yes. They kind of can bitch them around.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But they also mostly are just doing it with the United States is backing weapons.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And not only that, but even if the United States acts like their hands off. I think in some regard the United States is like, yeah, yeah, go do that. Because we can't do that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Which is the whole point of the agreement anyway.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That, that goes back to that though, that really it's just an outpost for the United States in Israel. And like, you know, I saw a post, a conversation earlier, don't forget like the Christian Zionist movement is in scale, I believe, donations, etc. Bigger than the entire Jewish population of the world.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There are more Christians who are like, we need to make sure that the Jews have Israel and Israel is safe. There are more Christians saying that than Jews.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, you can't just say Christians anymore either.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, of course not.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You have to say right wing Christian nationalists.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You got to say the whole thing. Sycophants for the end of the world for the Jesus's return. Like literal sycophant.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The full right wing crazy living their life under the Jesus is coming home and we're good.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And by the way, it's our job to make it happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Not that you can't have a belief in your heart or something that Jesus is coming back, but once you start dictating policy around the book, we've got a problem.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, no, no. And starting war for on behalf of the book, that's what this is all that's a part of this. So the Iran thing, if you're Wondering. And so some people are talking about the oil, right? Iran's oil and Venezuela's oil have a relationship. Do you guys all know about this?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Remind us.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Apparently, Venezuela's oil is so heavy crude that to pump it and move it, they need something in Iran's oil to do it. And that's what the relationship was all about.

[Ebro]

Yeah, Ricardo was telling me that, too.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You mean this would explain why even though Trump said that the nuclear capabilities had been taken out in Iran already, now that the Venezuela thing has happened, that's why all of a sudden, we have to go back to Iran. Whatever.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Whatever lie they told Netanyahu's been acting like Iran's gonna have nuclear missiles in tomorrow since 1987.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So let me ask you this, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is that piece related to the oil too, or is that just related to Netanyahu's crazy vision of, like, domination expansion?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Second piece. So now this is where we all start to work in concert. What are your interests? What are my interests? Oh, maybe this works together. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't like Iran. I want them out. I want freedom to do whatever I want in the Middle east. We've made friends with a lot of the other countries.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You got to remember, America is only interested if there's money to be made. That goes all the way back to World War II.

[Ebro]

I thought that they were doing this because they wanted to free the people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, because if they wanted to free the people, then they would be doing this. A lot of places. There has to be a financial interest. Right? Like, because, remember, don't. Don't ever forget how President Trump allowed the Taliban back in control of Afghanistan. Remember, they all wrote. They wrote him a note, a love letter, and that was like, hey, you guys can have Afghanistan. But Afghanistan is still in shambles.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So it's not about the people, guys. No, there's just nothing in Afghanistan that we want right now.

[Ebro]

What was flooding my timeline all of a sudden was just like, obviously. Look, I know. I know people who live in Iran who are happy, right? Celebrating, finally, that they feel like this is going to be an answer to, like, over 40 years of, you know, the craziness they were living under. Right? There's this video that I saw. I don't know if it came across your timeline, but it's like an Iranian person with a MAGA hat saying, I don't understand. This is not about left or right. Why can't you guys see that we're finally free, right? Why. Why would you. Why would Democrats be against this? I'm like, well, because they didn't want them bombing schools. Did you see the all girls school that was bombed? All those children that were innocent children that were killed? Yo, seeing those images of those bloody backpacks will send you somewhere else.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I, I didn't see those images.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, and not only that, but so Muhammad, most mostly. Good day. How did you pronounce his name? He was the duly elected president or leader of Iran before, after two years. This was during Nixon. After two years, we ousted him and we put in the Shah. The reason the government in Iran is the way it is today is because of the United States of America.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But this is always how it is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And so the Shah was in there. So they, the like Muslim population, the kind of conservative Muslim population of Iran and leftists in Iran were so upset with how the Shah and how corrupt the Shah was running Iran that they ran, they exiled the Shah and put in this current type of government because they thought that the Shah had lost his values, his religious values, he was too aligned with the west, et cetera, et cetera. Iran's been trying to have their own thing for a long time now. Did they elect some bad people or some bad people took advantage of them and, and, and it's been horrible for the last, I don't know, however many decades. Absolutely. According to what we know. But guess what? This happens. And here, that was the next line.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And in Israel.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So that's, that's the problem is that when people point out, and this is fair and people are asking this in earnest. Yeah, but isn't the, isn't he bad? Isn't the Ayatollah bad? This guy's bad, right? Yes, but so are all the other players involved. And for right now, the idea of celebrating, obviously I couldn't tell someone from Iran what to feel, but from my perspective, they're going, they're immediately going to have someone who's the same or worse. Who's there. Well, Trump's better.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Trump was just talking to press yesterday and they were talking about how they basically killed the potential first, the, the, the Ayatollah, the second in charge, the third in charge. All these people are apparently dead. And Trump was basically like, yeah, who we thought was going to be the second is dead and who we thought was going to be the third in line is also dead. So they don't there. He's basically like, let's see how this works out. But in the meantime, they're going to be trying to get in there and get this oil.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now, obviously, the fear that I have and I'm trying to get my make sure my wife doesn't because she did two nights ago spend her nights doom scrolling and going to very dark places.

[Ebro]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is that what I guess gives me the most agita at this moment personally for our loved ones and ourselves? Just being selfishly is if they attack, if someone decides they're really gonna make an impact, they would probably do it through terrorist means. That's probably what they would do. It could be in Israel, it could be in the United States, it could be at a base somewhere. Right? We know they've already killed Americans with strikes, but I'm saying some sort of terrible terrorist attack. If God forbid that were to happen, then where are we going? Your little one grew three inches overnight. Adorable. Also expensive. Sell their pint sized pieces on Depop and list them in minutes with no selling fees because somewhere a dad refuses to pay full price for the clothes his kids will outgrow tomorrow and he's ready to buy your son's entire wardrobe right now. Consider your future growth bird budget secured. Start selling on Depop where taste recognizes taste. Payment processing fees and boosting fees still apply. See website for details.

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[Peter Rosenberg]

Where are we going from there?

[Laura Rosenberg]

If, God forbid, we go to full

[Peter Rosenberg]

scale war, then we go to full scale war. But this full scale war is not Colin Powell and is not Other people who were also men of war, who are not heroes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Those were the headlines yesterday. You saw those. No news stories where people were like, all of the responsible individuals that worked in the Defense Department have been fired. Who's in there making these decisions?

[Peter Rosenberg]

So it's gonna be Pete Hegseth who's decided it is gonna be a joke of a human being. Not only like, an inexperienced person, but a seemingly unkind, kind of violent leaning person.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You guys remember the whole leaks on the signal chat? Remember that?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Of course.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The whole leak with the journalist signal chat thing.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So I don't. I didn't send the video over, but there's a video of. What's the guy from tmz? Harvey.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Harvey Levin.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Harvey Levin having a conversation with a journalist who's in D.C. at Joe's Crab. And the guy from the journalist decides to jump on with Harvey Levin from a restaurant. Harvey's like, why are you at a restaurant? He was like, well, I was gonna run somewhere else and do this, but I was listening to an interesting conversation. And Harvey's like, what conversation are you hearing? He was like, I think we're going to this Iran thing's gonna happen today. Because he was sitting in a booth next to people who work.

[Ebro]

Oh, my God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And he was on TMZ at Joe's Crab show at Joe's Crab in D.C.

[Ebro]

look how loose this is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listening to a conversation next to him about what's about to happen in Iran about 10 hours before it happened.

[Ebro]

If you want top secret, go to Joe's Crab.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Guys. The moment of Saturday was. Was so brutal. So. So for everybody. But I woke up to a text from my dad that I think I could see. I can't really see that well. When I wake up in the morning particularly, and I look at my. I just see. It says. I think it said, yep, war or whelp? War. This is me waking up in Chicago on October 7, 2023. I woke up in Indianapolis Saturday morning. Same thing, right? I'm like, oh, my God. Within hours of that, my brother hits me and says, did you hear that Coleman McCarthy died? Coleman McCarthy was my peace studies teacher from high school. But to say he was a teacher is like a massive understatement. He was a. This incredible man who chose to teach peace with his time after being a journalist and a Trappist monk and a scratch golfer who played two PGA Tour events and a guy who interviewed Mother Teresa and Desmond.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Super most interesting man in the world, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't even realize until reading his obituaries this weekend. I didn't realize. I didn't remember the monk part, that he spent five years as a monk. He stopped by a monastery and decided to stay for five years.

[Ebro]

Wow.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And then essentially couldn't deal with the not talking and doing stuff. Was like, I probably. They said to him, like, you should probably. If you're desperate to go to town and read the newspaper, this isn't the right place for you.

[Ebro]

Five years.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That was, like, in the early 60s. And then he ends up becoming a journalist and getting to write. But he became a sports writer at first. But as the story always tells is, he kept asking, when did the Dodgers leave Brooklyn? And people were like, this isn't suited for you either. So he just became this, you know, incredible voice for peace everywhere. He went. The Washington Post in 1969, where he started. And he ended up in my high school in 1982 saying, I'd like to teach a class for peace. They were like, well, we don't do that. We don't have money for that. He's like, I just want to do it. And then he spent the rest of his life till he passed away last week at 87, teaching over 15,000 students. When I tell you this man was of principle, like, there's no line in which he breaks when it comes to violence. None. None. So there's not an animal product that he wears. There's not an issue in which. So every. So when I went to his class every. There's always, like, a few conservative kids who would go to class. Like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna get him. My parents been telling me about this Colin McCarthy. And when I get to his stupid peace studies class, I'm gonna let him

[Laura Rosenberg]

know what time it is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And these were, like, some of his favorite kids. Like, he loved this. Cause he wanted all of it. Like, he wanted all of it. And so often, I'm not saying he would turn all of those kids into, like, peaceniks, but he would change the way they saw the world for sure. And they would always come at him, what about this situation? What about that situation? And it was always the same, even in uncomfortable situations. Abortion. Anti abortion. Did not believe the government had the right to be involved in abortion choices, but believed that people should learn all the alternatives to abortion. And he taught all. No, he taught us how to walk out of class. He leads walkouts every year. He's always outside with the kids, pissing off all the other teachers because he's got all these seniors outside. Maybe the most impactful Thing he did in my class and he did this many times was when you got to the death penalty part, he brought in a woman whose daughter had been murdered by a drug addict.

[Guest Expert or Analyst]

Oh, gosh.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They had like let a drug addict stay in their house Essentially.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And the drug addict ended up murdering. No, I may be confusing stories either way. Her daughter was brutally murdered by a drug addict. And she ended up forgiving this man and then befriending this man and then kind of became like sort of his family as the years went on. And she came and spoke to our class, bro. To watch people's brains melt as they can't understand not having the. Not following the instinct of vengeance and violence. But you're stuck because you can't say anything to her.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What are you gonna do? Tell her she's wrong? That she's found the way to find peace for herself? Because Coleman's being anti violence also extended to those who had committed violence. You know what I mean? So no matter what the subject was the Holocaust. He will tell you about the towns that peacefully resisted. I was watching a video of him Yesterday going over 7 countries in the last like 30 years that all overthrew their governments without violence, with strikes, with so many different ways to do it. He changed so many people. He was such an amazing guy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's one of the main plot lines of that show. Shrinking. I love.

[Ebro]

I started watching it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hey, nice.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I gotta catch back up. Wait, what's one of the main storyline?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, the daughter whose mother got killed and the main character, what's his name?

[Peter Rosenberg]

The, the guy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Jimmy. Jimmy. His wife gets killed by. By drunk driver. Was he drunk? Yes, he was drunk. But anyway, his wife gets killed.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, that's, that's, that's in it from the beginning.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's in it from the beginning. And he's raising his daughter.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Daughter, right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And you know, all is angry, angry. But then he goes on his own journey of drugs and irresponsibility and things that have affected his daughter also. So you got mom died. I'm supposed to be the responsible parent, but because I'm hurt also my hurt is now not being there for my, my child. But anyway, they, you know, I'm not gonna give it all away, but they end up befriending and the daughter ends up getting close to the man who did it, who killed her mother.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, wow. I did not know. That's. That's in this season or that second.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's second season. And ended up getting close to him. And then just that whole. And he needs them. And they need. Because he's so remorseful, but they are in pain. And then they end up clicking. I ain't gonna give the whole thing away.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But it's right there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it's right there. It's in the show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, so. So I don't want to spend all day making people sad. But like my heart hurt Saturday. And he was 87 years old. He died in Dominican Republic. His wife had died three years ago. They've been together forever. So, you know, he died of pneumonia at 87. It happens.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I am sad because we don't have a lot of people who are willing to literally give up everything to teach peace. And like he had to fight and struggle to teach peace. Like it was everyday effort to get people to let him teach a class on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And now when you say we, you mean we us in this room or we us in the world?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, we in the world.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So this doesn't have. This is not happening anymore or something.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, his program continues. It's at the places it is. But I just don't know. We can't afford to lose a lot of people who are willing to dedicate their whole life to this. Now, Coleman's whole thing was it's easy to teach peace. All you have to do is start pick up the books, start reading and start talking about it. But obviously, and I was looking through my emails with him and in 2007, an article came out about me in the Washington City Paper. And he's like, Peter. I could just read it in his voice in my head. He's like, peter, I read the article. It's very impressive. We're all very impressed by the way. He's very funny. Ishtalker funny. He grew up with a stammer. So it's kind of built in that he has a little bit of a. When he talks like he has a whole. He has a gimmick, right? And watching his old clips, it's like watching him do stand up. I know all the routines, okay? He did it in every first class. He'd do the same quiz in every first class. Pull out a hundred dollar bill, set the $100 bill down. All the kids get excited and he goes, who's Robert E. Lee? And they raise their hand. Who's Ulysses S. Grant? They raise their hand. Who's Napoleon? They raise their hand. And then he starts saying, who's Emily Bulch? Who's Jeanette Rankin? And he starts naming the great Peacemakers and nobody knows who they are. And he goes, that's because you should go back and sue your school district because we're all being ripped off with fake education. And he would go out. He has the whole thing. But this man, I forget the point I was trying to make in that specific spot.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You were saying he had a routine in his whole.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, so I remember the email. Thank you, ibro. So in 2007, he wrote me. I saw the article. Washington state paper. Oh, Peter, very impressive, Very impressive. You've done your Larry King thing. Now it's time to do the real work and come home and teach. That's where we need you. And he was dead ass because he always thought I was a great student who was super passionate about these issues. He was like, it's time. Good run. And then I saw another email from him in 2014 and I responded, by the way, in 2014 he wrote me

[Laura Rosenberg]

and you were like, not yet. I'm trying to get to this rap station.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I know exactly. I wasn't here yet. 2014, he's like, I just saw the New Yorker. Well. And he had like a different tune. Like he was now starting to believe maybe I could make an impact. But to him, really, no matter how famous or big you get talking, the real work was in teaching peace. Baskin. I gave a clip. I couldn't decide. There's so many great clips. Here is this is like during the Obama administration, someone asked him about what should be done about the Iran missile problem.

[Coleman McCarthy]

What would you do with the ayatollahs? I would do what exactly what we said before. If you want to have a chance for peace, don't talk to your friends, talk to your enemies. Obama, get on the airplane and fly to Kabul and go talk to them. Oh, oh, oh. You can't talk to evildoers. You hear that? And we demonize them. It makes it easier to kill them all. They're subhumans. And so we did it with China and it worked. We did it with Soviet Union. It worked. And that's what we ought to do. And still we keep demonizing each other. You remember during 1991, George Bush wanted to find out, what can I get the public to do to get behind me that I can go invade Iraq. They did a poll and it came back, call Saddam Hussein another Hitler. And that's what Bush called him the next day. What started him saying, call Bush, he's the great Satan. So you're Hitler and Satan fighting each other. They were demonizing. And so that's what you see. Very few politicians will do that. They appeal they all you have to do is say, we're being attacked. That's what Goebbels once said. And why you tell them the public we're being attacked. Condemn the pacifists for being disloyal.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That last bar is what you're seeing right now. Everyone who's being a pacifist about this and simply saying, I'm against wars being called disloyal. Happens every single time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, Every time. And I'll be honest, once again, back to the algorithm thing. And he seems like a great man, by the way.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He was. Coleman, rest in peace. Go look him up and get all his books. He's got a million books. He's got a million videos. I promise you will love this man. Coleman, I loved you. You were the best man.

[Ebro]

Thank you for sharing that, Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thanks for letting me share it, guys.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He. He brought up a good point where he was like, obama, go talk to them. Obama did end up talking to them.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. In the end. In the end, we ended up getting

[Laura Rosenberg]

an agreement, and there was an agreement, and they stopped enriching uranium. Uranium. To get towards a nuclear warhead, and they were allowing international inspections, and the sanctions got lifted, and people had a problem with that. And then Trump tore up the deal, and now we're here.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yep. And a lot of.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I missed this step in there. Trump tore up the deal and they started enriching uranium, and they're very close to a nuclear warhead. For real now.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now. They are, yeah. Because the deal was torn up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But what about when we did it and Trump said we had the most successful attack of all time?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, clearly not, because we're back again.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Congratulations. So here's my question yourself. Are we back again because they really, on some level, they did really enrich uranium and are getting close, or is it because of the oil thing or both?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I think both. It's. Look, if you're going back because they enriched uranium, the reason they're enriching uranium is because they feel like you're trying to cut off their lifeline to the world. I don't know where we get off thinking, like, you could just beat someone into oblivion and they're just going to lay down and take it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, this is the. This is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This is like you have. Well, to your. To your professor's point. Point. You got to go have conversations with people, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, but if we demonize them all and we say they're evil, and then you turn around, become an adult, and realize, well, who really is the evil one?

[Laura Rosenberg]

But not We've been doing this, our

[Peter Rosenberg]

country has been doing.

[Ebro]

Why would you muddy the waters? I want to look like the hero.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I want to look the new Hitler.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Who on earth have we have we killed into oblivion? And there hasn't been a terroristic response towards us because. Because of it. Where is that at?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Where there never was no. You last a while. Depends how long you last. We lasted a while. Before 911 happened, there'd been a big gap between PanAm 103.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What's a while?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, a few years, you know, a few decades.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Is that good enough? Two decades, Is that what people want when you talk? You just brought about your. You got talking about peace. Is that good enough? That's not peace, man. But we don't having not having open lines of communication with people who are trying to conduct business to the world and take care of their constituency. Look, look, I know we try to run around the globe and police the globe and try to act like our way of doing things is the only way and the most righteous way, but we're liars.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, hold on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We're liars.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We spend 55% or something of our total budget on weapons.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, but that. But once again, we're lying to our own population. Right. Which is. Oh, we're keeping peace. We're not. We're creating instability, actually. Right. If you look at what's. What we've done in South America and Central America. What has it done?

[Ebro]

Oh, okay. I have something for you on that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay. And then if we, and if we look at what we've done in the Middle east. What has it done?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, but while they're doing it, they get to tell everybody that we're policing the world and being good. Number one, we're destabilizing. Number two, we're making profit. Well, that's my next step. But number two, we're making very rich these weapons companies, which is what we do, which is why we spend 20 times what our. I think we spend more than our top 20 would be enemies. All spend on weapons combined mind is what the United States spends over the weekend.

[Ebro]

I sent Rosenberg a video that really hurt my heart, but my mom sent me the first one. So, you know, Cuba, Cuban doctors go to different countries to help. Right? Well, because, you know, there's their education, their medical education is beyond. Right. They're very great. And there's not enough jobs in Cuba. Right. So there's Cuban doctors that have been in Guatemala specifically serving the indigenous people in rural areas. They're all leaving because of the U.S. now, I sent Rosenberg a video again. In Honduras, the same thing is happening because nobody wants smoke with the U.S. meanwhile, all these vulnerable people will suffer and die.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, and the piece in there for the audience that may not be picking up is the reason the Cuban doctors are being kicked out by Guatemala and Honduras is because of our sanctions currently against Cuba. That's right. And Guatemala and Honduras are not in a financial situation to be able to tell the U.S. no, of course not.

[Ebro]

Of course not.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So all these places fold up and do whatever they have to do and the people don't matter. They're trying to just kiss the ring.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Ebro]

And people were. Will die.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And you know, I just keep thinking about all the things I saw watch Coleman say in these videos this weekend about how he's never stood for the national anthem because it's a war song. You know, everything we do is war. The whole thing is war. Listen to that song. I think about every time I hear the song. The whole song is a war song.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's all being. Everything we are sold on is about war.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Every time. Every. And by the way, this isn't about the individual because you know, again, the simpletons will always make it about where you're attacking the troops. Of course not. I don't blame the actual soldiers who do what they're told to go do or need to go do it because their situation. But all we do is when you go to baseball games, all they do is stand up and make you honor people who've been in combat. Yeah, people who have, you know, been in war. That's all we honor. How often do you go to a game and they make you stand up and take off your hat to honor teachers or nurses or first responders? It is always in every. How much money does the NFL get from the army and everything? And that's again, not about the soldiers. It's about the narrative.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That is the marketing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The marketing to keep these weapons suppliers spending. Spending us bullying. Bullying. We're such a lie.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, and then just this weekend and remember I told you guys to join Jump off chat GPT and jump off Claude. Have you. Have you been seeing those headlines off Claude too? Well, no. Yeah. If you're interested in using AI.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh no. You talking about the. The anthropic thing is. Do we not get to it yet on the show?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, we. Well, I had been talking about what. Remember last week I told you guys what anthropic was? I had no idea it was.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But didn't you say you didn't tell the guardrails thing like the story about what happened in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Actually, well, I told about what they represent. I did not talk about how the U.S. department of Defense basically. Oh, no, we did. About blacklisting them. Yes, because they.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We talked about it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We wouldn't allow. Well, it happened this weekend.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah, they went there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They went there. But the company for Open AI, the company that owns Chad GBT, OpenAI, was willing to jump right in the slot.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, you don't say. Were they the number one champ Altman, the number one Trump supporters in all of tech? Basically, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sam Altman and them jumped right in and are going to allow killing autonomous weapons killing without any human oversight. Meaning you can use AI weapons that are completely artificial intelligence. No human oversight. And that was the big thing for anthropic. You have a video? Rahsaan. Let's. Let's see this.

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[Guest Expert or Analyst]

And so we have said to the Department of War that we are okay with all use cases. Basically, 98 or 99% of the use cases they want to do, except for two. One is domestic mass surveillance there. We're worried that, you know, things may become possible with AI that weren't possible before. So there's this way in which domestic mass surveillance is getting ahead of the law. The technology is advancing so fast that it's out of step with the law. That's case number one. Case number two is fully autonomous weapons. This is not the partially autonomous weapons that are used in Ukraine or, you know, could potentially be used in Taiwan today. This is the idea of making weapons that fire without any human involvement. But we have some concerns about them. First, the AI systems of today are nowhere near reliable enough to make fully autonomous weapons. You know, anyone who's worked with AI models understands that there's a basic unpredictability to them that in a purely technical way we have not solved. And there's an oversight question too. If you have a large army of drones or robots that can operate without any human oversight, where there aren't human soldiers to make the decisions about who to target, who to shoot at, that presents concerns.

[Laura Rosenberg]

See? And so Anthropic stood up to the government. Now they've been labeled a woke.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They call them a woke. Trump specifically went online and called them a woke something or other. They're woke because they don't believe in letting robots kill people without human instruction.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And you gotta add something else in there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I hate being woke like that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know, robots that aren't even don't exist yet. It's not even the capabilities aren't there. So you want us to allow it to do something that doesn't exist? It sounds like our old contract at the Plantation station, right? You want us to show up somewhere that's not there, Commit to it in documentation. It doesn't exist, man. But. And we're not going to allow you to make it exist because we don't believe that it's reliable enough to not just be killing indiscriminately.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So it's just like to people who think that everything's all the same, one thing is all the same. We have never elected a government, honestly. We have never elected a government who's not interested in killing around the world to do whatever the US does for financial gain. For financial gain. We've never, not one president who he liked more than others has ever been much better in that regard. It's what the us, what we do. However, there are then degrees to which you want to be indiscriminate with your killing. They are saying we want to be able to be indiscriminate with our killing. We don't even want guardrails. We literally. No. You know why it is woke? Cuz they really want not alive people to be able to make decisions on kill.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right?

[Ebro]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's how woke is just human to them. If you're human, you're woke up. Because they want robots to be able to decide, bro. They want Terminator to happen for real.

[Ebro]

We are living in a black mirror

[Peter Rosenberg]

episode every day and it keeps getting worse. And the Craziest part is we just. No one can even question it. And we have to be like scared to some degree, because otherwise we'll get shouted down as being anti patriotic just because we were stupid enough to believe what's on the page.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But shouting down, it doesn't really work. People have been trying to shout me down for years. I'm still.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, you're a lucky one. Some people get shouted down.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, you can't give up, man. You gotta. You have to. You have to know that being on the side of history that embraces humanity, embraces people from all walks of life, embraces like lifting people up and positivity is the right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But that's, I think, what's important. I'm trying to learn this right now. For our own ability to thrive and continue to be able to say the things we want to say while doing what we want to do, I think it's important to lead with that way. You have to leading with that because it's easy to get caught up in leading with the anger of like, what's wrong with you people? Why can't we just. But if you do lead with. And that's why I seeing a lot of Coleman stuff made me think about that. If you always lead with, no, I'm always on the side of peace. I'm always on the side. Whether it's Palestinian kids, Israeli kids, Russian kids, Ukrainian kids. I am on the side of kids. Don't die. Bombs don't drop. If you lead that way, it's hard. People can still call you a B word if they want to.

[Ebro]

Oh, they will. Look at Ms. Rachel.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, of course, the fact that Ms. Rachel was. They was trying to shout down Ms. Rachel was bananas. It's crazy. That's how you know, congratulations. People aren't. Well, that's how you know people aren't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They've made her a full on enemy.

[Ebro]

Yeah, yeah. No, that's how you know you're not to die.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you're not. Well, there's something wrong with you. Laura, you ready for the rundown?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sure. All right, let's spice it up. We got super chats too. Let me get a check.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do it right after the rundown. You have low down too. Oh, the Dion Cole. My bad.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I mean, that wasn't that low. It was lowish.

[Ebro]

All right, so just. I don't know if you guys remember, but Wiz. Wiz Khalifa, that's what I'm talking about. Was stopped by Romanian police in July of 2024 after smoking weed on stage at the beach, please. Festival in Romania.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The beach, please.

[Ebro]

That's what it was called. Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now that's crazy, bro. Beach, please in Romania is w. So

[Ebro]

he was arrested and, you know, was found in possession of more than 18 grams of weed and that he consumed on stage. Now, a Romanian court, this happened on Thursday, rejected an appeal by Wiz to annul his nine month jail sentence. I was handed down to him. So Romania has some of the harshest drug laws in Europe. So just possession of cannabis alone, even if it's for personal use, it's criminalized. And the prison sentence is usually between three to two years.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Two and three years?

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

For drugs in any way, it's three months to two years or three months to two years?

[Ebro]

Yes, yes. So it's not clear.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So they wouldn't throw it out.

[Ebro]

They're gonna do.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, they wouldn't throw it out. That's probably precedent. Right? So some of that is, hey, we need to let it be known. And when people visit here, we're serious about our laws. So we're not throwing this out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That doesn't mean he'll go to jail.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That doesn't mean he'll go to jail. But it's just like, hey, but you

[Peter Rosenberg]

got to come here and go to court.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right. Right. And if I'm whiz, if. Or maybe. Maybe they'll give him a virtual. I don't know, maybe he could send a lawyer. I don't know. But if I'm whiz and there's not documentation that y' all told me the laws when you hired me to come to Romania, is that really on me to know the laws when I was hired to go? I mean, technically, yes, but I might find a loophole to sue the. The organizers.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You got to hope that one of his people didn't get documents that said that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because they could have.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yo, remember last week when I said I wished I loved anything as much as racists love being racist?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think the only cop is how much weed heads love weed. Like real weed heads. Like this? Yeah, like you. No. Come on. No one said anything. Why can't people resist it?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's like a day, and then I gotta know, did he smoke on stage?

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

On stage?

[Ebro]

Yes. In front of everybody.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. That's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now you're. Now you're stunning on the government.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. That's the real congratulations you played. Because if he just like, maybe backstage by his love. Cuz, I guarantee you they got weed in Romania, right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Of course.

[Ebro]

Was on. So that's what makes it crazy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So you tried to stun on them, and now you're going to be like,

[Laura Rosenberg]

oh, my bad, my bad.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't want to go. And they're going to try to stunt back and say, no, we got to show people we're serious.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Make an example out of you, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't want. Yo. But maybe this is why. Maybe now Amber's friendship with the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The Magas with.

[Peter Rosenberg]

With Maga can help. Maybe I could maybe try. We don't know who. Do you know anything about the Romanian leadership?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't. I know they. Well, they went and took out Andrew Tate. Remember? That's the same people went and arrested Andrew Tate for his trafficking.

[Ebro]

Oh.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And Trump got him out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know if Trump got Andrew Tate out, but I remember that they went, you know, but they.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They lobbied for. They did. I think. I think the magas were lobbying to get Andrew Tate out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I could hope we didn't waste one on Andrew Tate. Cause that would be a shame. And not get whiz back. Cause we got Andrew Tate back.

[Ebro]

And I'm sure Wiz has his connections.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Listen, I gotta tell you, this is one of the ultimate nightmares for me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We're going overseas and getting in trouble.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yep. And the idea of now you're sitting here and you don't know what's gonna happen, and you might have to go back, and you're like, there's a chance I'm gonna spend two months to three months to two years in a Romanian.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Y' all remember what happened to Rocky?

[Guest Expert or Analyst]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yo, the fact I saw him talking to you about it. The way he was able to, like, look back and laugh at it, I was like, I, I.

[Ebro]

How?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because I guess he's been through a lot of things. Cause I would not be able to laugh at that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That.

[Ebro]

Yeah. That's crazy. In other news, something positive happened over the weekend. So the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson was dedicated to Nipsey Hussle. All happened on Saturday. Now, here's a video of Lauren London and a short, beautiful speech that went viral yesterday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Lord.

[Ebro]

Okay, I'm gonna be really, really quick. It's a short story.

[Laura Rosenberg]

When me and it first started dating, we would drive by over here, and

[Ebro]

he would be like, you know, boogie, one day they gonna name this whole section after me. And here we are today. So thank you all for showing up. Thank you to our family for being strong and beautiful and inspiring me. So God bless you. All and peace and love.

[Guest Expert or Analyst]

With.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I say all that to say how important Black Sam, this parking lot is and how. How important this corner is, from little kids to ownership and even what happened to my brother in this parking lot. I think that his spirit and his soul is here in this. In this section.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And it's an honor for the city and the people to rename this location Nipsey Hussle Square. It means a lot to us. I know it means a lot to Bro. And the last thing I'm gonna say, man, Bro wanted to inspire people. Oh, beautiful.

[Ebro]

Beautiful.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because he said. Because, you know, the part that's on set is, of course, that he said to Lauren London, one day, they're gonna name this after me. And he didn't mean two years later or whatever it was.

[Ebro]

Right, right, right, right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It was supposed to be 50 years from now.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. And not in this way.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And not in this way, but it is beautiful.

[Ebro]

Something that pissed me off, though. This morning when I was coming in, I saw a report. They're saying a shootout happened at this event. No, guys. So there was a, A shooting that happened down the street, but LAPD said it had no connection to this ceremony into. You know what I mean? So people already trying to tie it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That happens all the time. It happens out here when we doing, you know, the West Indian Day Parade.

[Ebro]

Right, right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Going down Eastern Parkway or whatever. And there's like, oh, there's a shooting. Well, there's. It's Brooklyn, guys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There are shooting, Right?

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know what I mean? Like, these things happen or.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, near. Near.

[Ebro]

Yeah, but that was beautiful, right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, that was. That was really nice to see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I, I, I just.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He was such a great dude, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We have phenomenal conversations with Nipsey. Yeah, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I remember the last time I saw him at All Star. Right before it all, I mean. But, yeah, but I guess weeks before he passed, and he just. Because he was just getting it. He was just getting there. Like, history won't. History ends up confusing timelines, you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like that's happened with Dilla and, like, a lot of different people, even Pac, people don't understand, like, what they were when they were alive. Exactly. Because they can become so, in some cases, different. They're fully realized. Like, I don't think Mac Miller, for example, was pretty much the guy he was. Whatever. But in the case of Nip, for example, he'd been growing, growing, growing. Victory lap was the beginning. He called it victory lap because to him, it was that. But really, that was the beginning of him becoming a huge star. Yes.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like, it was just starting. It's crazy.

[Ebro]

Yeah, man. But yeah, that's the rundown.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, let's shout out some of these peoples real quick. I think people are against this. People are not. People are up for it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, what's King Lou do during the show? He texts.

[Ebro]

He's online.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he's managing the chat. Okay. So he's seeing what people are talking about.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You want him to find out Out?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, not. Yeah, normally he's sitting right here where I could see him. He's not here today sitting there. He's sitting on the other side. Ask him what they're saying. What are they talking about? What are they responding to?

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know, we asked right now, what

[Laura Rosenberg]

are they responding to? King Lou.

[Guest Expert or Analyst]

All right, well, we're.

[Peter Rosenberg]

In the meantime, while. While Lou lets you know, T.R. the doctor gave us a big old 50 spot.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right.

[Ebro]

Wow. Nice. Thank you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Good morning, everyone. Everyone needs to delete chat, GPT and download. Claude AI shouts to you EO for putting us on. For the medical professionals. Use open evidence.

[Laura Rosenberg]

AI. Ok.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't know what that is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Cool.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Scooby to Don says a lot of

[Laura Rosenberg]

dons out here with a week of hell.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm thankful for you guys and The El Army.

[Laura Rosenberg]

OK, thank you, man. Appreciate it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

JW always in here. What up, JW? JDubs who I feel like is JW, but maybe not. Love this story. Rosenberg, shout out to peace. And now to the late but always great Mr. Coleman. Yes, Coleman McCarthy. Great guy. Yasser Casakas said this is for taking time to shine a light on a positive person in his life. Thanks, Pete. Oh, that's cool. LBN Jackson says I'm on punishment today for talking about 47. What does that mean?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Trump?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. On punishment from who?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nell says been rocking with you all for years. I support you on Patreon and we'll follow you off a cliff. Yo, my man came through with a 50 spot and he's on the Patreon.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hopefully we will not take you off a cliff. Yeah, no, that is not a part of the plan.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, let's. Let's hope it doesn't go there.

[Ebro]

Oh, but thank you, guys. Make sure you hit that, like, button, please. That's how our videos survive.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You need those likes, those comments, the shares also tell a friend, like a lot of people still don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, are you guys aware, you know, that meme of the kid? Kid standing in the fast Food restaurant side eyeing with the soda in his hand.

[Ebro]

Yeah, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Is run this Popeyes kid story. Is this. Was this kid always from New Jersey, bro. I didn't know that. Now he's like state. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Excuse me, Excuse me. Excuse me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Now it's hot out here from zone six. You guys just won a state championship. How you feel? Feels great. Feels great. Yes, sir. What are you about to go do right now? I'm not gonna give me some chicken. Did he just say he about to go get some chicken? Yo, you still waiting on that chicken,

[Coleman McCarthy]

yo?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I wonder.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Anyway, he's from. He's. I think he's from East Orange, right? East Orange, New Jersey. I came across my timeline. I was like, yo, that. Look, look. Memes to dreams, Popeye.

[Ebro]

Memes to dreams. This is so cool.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He said, let's get the. Popeye said, let's get this bread. Ing. So I wonder how good he is. I wonder if he's like, yeah, I don't know. Like, go get an nil. Deal with Popeye's good facts.

[Ebro]

That's fire.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If he could be a college player.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, that's a great story.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's cool.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Now you. Sorry, what were you gonna say?

[Ebro]

Just something really quickly. Yesterday, I was at a restaurant in the Lower east side, and this really nice young man was kind of like standing. Standing at the bar. Finally, when I walked by to take Kenzo to the bathroom, he said, hi, Laura. And I was like, you know, sometimes you forget. You're like, do I know you? Super sweet. He was this. He says, hi. I forgot his name. And I really wish I would remember his name. He's like, I'm Israeli. I just wanted to let you know how seeing you guys make me feel. And he watches our show religiously and he says that the things you guys cover, he's like, they're so close to my heart. And then, you know, he started telling me about his family members in Israel that he's lost. But he. He really appreciated our conversations. And it was such a nice. It was such a nice conversation. So I was like, I will tell the guys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That is really dope. It doesn't match with the people who tell me that I hate Israel and myself hating.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Jim, it's not about you. Right.

[Ebro]

Well, that's why it doesn't matter.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But that's why I should tell you.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not think about that and think about him.

[Ebro]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's trying to help you. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I just wish that guy. I wish people there were more. No. Well, people Just paid attention. No, that. It's not even. All they'd have to do is actually listen. That's just. He's someone who actually listens. No, you know what I'm saying? He's a good person who listens to the show.

[Ebro]

It's true. I wish people would actually listen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It looks like there was more you wanted to say, but then you said, you'll wait.

[Ebro]

I. This is just me being petty, but there is this guy who listens to our show who has a blog called the Stop. Right. And I think I mentioned him earlier. His name is Danny.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro]

At first I was like, I don't even acknowledge him. He's a hater. Because he did this whole, like, interview with Adam22 or whatever, how much he hates Ebro and he hates us. He hates you, right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Who? Adam22 does.

[Ebro]

No, the guy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, the guy does.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What was Adam22?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, what did Adam22 have to do with it?

[Ebro]

Agreeing. He was there. You know, they were all a guy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Adam 22, too.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I have. Back in the day.

[Ebro]

Fast forward. Right. He's been in our chats. He gave us, like, $40 in, like, our super chat. He was like, yo, I can't believe that this show is really, like, good. And now I listen to it every day. Louie said this screenshot to me, and I just. It made me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So what was he listening to before?

[Ebro]

That's what I'm saying. People don't listen. They just regurgitate. All the hate that comes to you guys.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, no, but what's important in this is this is why we had started down the path of building this space.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because when we were at the last gig, 80 to 90% of the conversations we had couldn't hit the digital format.

[Ebro]

Nope.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And it wasn't because it was potentially like, trying to, like, silence our voice. It was because they didn't invest in the staff enough so that we could get edits of all of the different content that we covered. Covered. And maybe they didn't want to populate their algorithm. I don't know what they're. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because they could have done what we're doing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They could have done this, but they just weren't doing it. Which is. Then I was like, well, look, we're gonna do it ourselves.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We're trying. You feel like that shade towards you. It's smaller now, but it's only focused on this. Then you guys had to do the whole station.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right?

[Ebro]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Stop happening.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You stop getting that content once I left. Well, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

When King Lou, they Let you go then. Yeah, I just thought that was really. But anyway, that's why we were on this path. That's why this happened so fast.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This happened so fast because we were already on this path. But they didn't want to give. We wanted to do the show from here and on Hot at the same time. They didn't want that. But whatever, now we're here. But my point is, is I wonder what people who hated the show before were actually seeing or not seeing or. I don't know what they were watching.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, they've. They've only seen. I. I'm. What I'm gathering is based on the hate that I get. Yet they've seen a few stories. Whatever their artist is. Whenever we interacted in a negative way with their artist or whatever it was or, or, or. Or complimented an artist they don't like, those are the only things that made it to them. They're not hearing the conversation every day.

[Ebro]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They didn't download the podcast. Hit them with the button. Congratulations, you played yourself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And on that note, that's the show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, man, the guru's gotta wait till tomorrow.

[Ebro]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

People get mad that we miss the gurus.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, guess what? We need more emails anyway. So send your emails to the original gurus. Gmail.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Looking at Rosenberg like, what the f. You talking about? We got mad email.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Do we.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We always.

[Ebro]

We'll always welcome more.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes, we need more. Trust me. We need.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Somebody's lying. Somebody's lying. And my. Listen, today, where's a. There's. There's bombs being dropped around the world. So there was a pressing issue we felt we needed to kind of COVID which was Iran and where this is going to go. Shout out to my Michael B. Jordan and Coogler. They had a busy weekend with the NAACP Award Image Awards. And then you had the SAG AFTRA Awards, where Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How does that line up for Oscar, generally speaking? Is that a SAG afra. Yeah. I mean, no, Golden Globe. They're all, you know, it could add up to an Oscar.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't know if it works that way. It can be an indicator, but you just never know. Right? You don't know. And thank you guys for the space. Talk about Coleman today. I appreciate it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's love. Great guy. And we didn't get to the Osborne's

[Peter Rosenberg]

face N. We'll do that tomorrow. Yo, Dre says with Ebro since Portland, the reason I got into broadcasting. Laura never changed. Pete, I thought you were in the box.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The box.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Pete, I thought you were in the box. Oh, he means an elimination chamber.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You have to broadcast outside Chicago.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Chicago. We did for the first half, and then they. And they brought us inside for the second half. It was so. And the inside was so dope. It was. It was perfect.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it was cold in Chicago, bruh.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Bruh. No, bruh. I couldn't believe I knew it would be cold, but I didn't know that. That lake hit is different.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It cut.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I was barely out there. And it was bad. It was bad. But. Shout out to Chicago. I had a great time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

See y' all tomorrow. TI Is supposed to be on tomorrow. See how this works out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, let's see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Peter Rosenberg]

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