52.) We Have Plans, The Nation Has Problems: Iran, Ye, Mamdani (3/10/26)

Summary

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Episode Summary:

The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show – Episode 52: "We Have Plans, The Nation Has Problems: Iran, Ye, Mamdani"
Date: March 10, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show centers on the complex contradictions of American politics and culture in 2026. The hosts deliver pointed, often impassioned commentary on recent developments in the Iran war, media manipulation, Kanye West’s controversial comeback, issues around gun violence and mental health, and local New York City policy debates. Listeners are treated to raw approaches on truth, accountability, and the often-bleak realities facing both the nation and their home city.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Iran War, Media Spin, and Public Trust

• The episode opens with skepticism about claims that the U.S.-Iran conflict is nearing an end.
• Political gaslighting: The crew questions how, after "all these years of being lied to," Americans continue to trust politicians and major media outlets, noting the disconnect between official narratives and international news reports.

Notable Quotes:

• “How do people believe these people?” – Ebro (01:32)
• “When you see them talk and tell you something’s going good, and you’re getting other information—it’s not going so good—how do you believe them?” – Ebro (01:39)

Memorable Moment (02:47):

• They discuss Trump wearing merch at a “dignified transfer” for fallen soldiers ("He wore a baseball cap when dead soldiers… because you got them in harm's way." – Ebro, 03:49), comparing it to how past presidents faced extreme scrutiny for much less.

Media Manipulation:

• Laura describes how Fox News ran different footage to hide Trump’s perceived mistake, calling out the network for literal "fake news" (02:47–03:02).

• They debate whose narratives to trust: American media, “independent journalists,” or international outlets. Ebro notes, "All the news is now controlled," referencing both state and corporate influence (07:49).

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2. Cult-Like Politics, Embarrassment, and Comedians as Truth-Tellers

• Discussion reflects on how it’s sometimes easier for followers to persist in belief than admit they’re wrong—likening current U.S. politics to a “cult” (06:45).
• Laura highlights late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel as an example of someone persistently calling out political absurdities despite personal risk, demonstrating the erosion of fear among some media figures (08:22).

Notable Quote:

• “To still be believing what you’re seeing? This is a cult. We’re dealing with cults.” – Griff (06:45)

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3. Tucker Carlson, Controlled Opposition, and Political Grifts

• The show questions Tucker Carlson’s shift from Fox News to anti-war commentator, calling out hypocrisy and possible ulterior motives due to his family’s direct ties within the current administration (son as deputy press secretary to the VP).
• They note Carlson's connections with other right-wing figures (e.g., book review for Pete Hegseth), ultimately questioning his legitimacy and impartiality (10:29–12:00).

Notable Quote (11:16):

• "When your son is the deputy press secretary for the vice president and you’re using your podcast to just ask questions, you are part of all of it." – Anonymous Guest Clip

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4. Kanye West: Music, Redemption, and Responsibility

• News breaks of Kanye West’s first LA performance in years and a pending new album. The team debates whether interviewing Kanye would be ethical or valuable, given his history of problematic statements and alliances.
• Ebro is skeptical of offering a platform, questioning whether any interview would be productive or just “milking him like everybody else has milked him” (15:17).

Memorable Moments:

• Recaps of past Kanye shows, debating whether anyone still wants to attend given his controversies (17:35–18:42).
• Laura proposes that maybe it’s "our turn" for the big interview, but Ebro’s reticence and moral calculus set the tone for a nuanced debate.

Notable Quotes:

• "I don’t trust any of this. I don’t trust. I don’t believe you." – Ebro (14:06)
• “Would you ever have an appetite again to talk to Kanye West?” – Laura (13:08)

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5. Gun Violence, Rihanna Incident, and Florida’s Loopholes

• Laura brings a disturbing update on Ivana Lizette Ortiz, who shot at Rihanna’s mansion, underscoring the dangers of easy gun access for mentally unstable individuals.
• Discussion highlights systemic flaws—how mental health crises regularly meet with inaction unless violence occurs, and how gun laws in states like Florida contribute to such risks (21:22–23:06).

Key Insight:

• Even when clear warning signs are present, institutions lack capacity or authority to intervene until after an incident—a theme that repeats with both violence and homelessness.

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6. Local NYC Policy: Parking, Taxation, and “Mom Donnie”

• Deep dive into New York City’s latest budget woes, including a controversial proposal to eliminate free parking citywide (30:00+), which the hosts see as regressive and likely to hurt lower-income residents more than the intended wealthy targets.
• Discussion of attempts at progressive budgeting and how “Mom Donnie” (Mayor Shahana Mamdani) is facing backlash for paying real wages to people who help shovel snow or count unhoused residents—moves which threaten entrenched interests and corporate contracts (27:26–28:19).

Notable Quote:

• “We have plans, but we also, as a nation, have problems.”—Ebro (25:30)

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7. Final Segment: Relationship Dilemmas (“Guru” Email)

• The team answers a long, heartfelt listener email: a woman grieving the end of a 20-year relationship with her child’s father, seeking advice on coping, letting go, and rebuilding her identity.
• The hosts offer a mix of tough love and empathy—emphasizing grief is normal and recovery is slow but inevitable, especially when identities are so closely intertwined.

Standout Quotes:

• “How do you truly let go of someone you still love? How do you accept that they don’t choose you anymore?” – Listener email (44:08)
• “It’s a sad tale, but a tale as old as time.” – Ebro (44:39)
• “Embrace the pain. I’m telling you right now, as someone who’s done that… she’s gonna be on the floor weeping.” – Laura (49:09)

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8. Community Engagement, Patreon, and Merch

• Frequent shout-outs to super chat contributors and Patreon supporters; ongoing playful banter about merch ideas (ELR mugs, t-shirts) and the challenge of running a digital media business in 2026.
• Brainstorming potential for “Small Business Monday” segments to support the show’s community (40:20).

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Additional Highlights & Quotes by Timestamp

• [02:58] Laura: “And not only that, they’re the ones who call out fake news. Yeah, that’s literal fake news.”
• [03:49] Ebro: "[Trump] wore a baseball cap when dead soldiers... because you got them in harm's way."
• [06:45] Griff: “This is a cult. We’re dealing with cults.”
• [14:06] Ebro: “I don’t trust any of this. I don’t trust. I don’t believe you.”
• [15:17] Ebro: “Now we’re just milking him like everybody else has milked him.”
• [25:34] Laura: “We have the plans.”
• [25:38] Ebro: “We have plans. The nation has problems. See what I’m saying?”
• [44:39] Ebro: “It’s a sad tale, but a tale as old as time.”
• [49:48] Laura: “That's joy in there. And you will be okay.”
• [51:08] Ebro: “Try to keep whatever connection that is positive, the positive pieces healthy... you guys [can] be awesome co-parents and friends.”
• [53:22] Ebro: “You could be a phenomenal person... and he’s just like, I want to go have some other punani.”
• [59:23] Ebro: “This is why I'm against getting in serious relationships young, man. Some of y’all be too young to be having all these kids.”

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Timestamps of Significant Segments

• 01:00–07:49: Iran War, Trump’s media incidents, and questioning official narratives.
• 08:22–09:49: Jimmy Kimmel, bravery in comedy, and media fear.
• 10:29–12:00: Tucker Carlson, controlled opposition, Carlson–Hegseth connections.
• 12:16–17:53: Kanye West’s return—debates over platform, accountability, and audience responsibility.
• 19:50–23:53: Rihanna shooting incident, gun violence, mental health and gun laws.
• 24:00–26:26: Systemic failure in mental health support, homelessness, and government funding cuts.
• 30:00–37:45: NYC budgeting debacles, parking policy, taxation, and political priorities.
• 44:33–55:46: “Guru” segment: breaking up after a lifetime together, grief, hope, and moving forward.
• 57:04–End: Listener/fan shoutouts, community engagement, ending banter.

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Conclusion

This episode weaves together the personal, the political, and the cultural—critiquing American media, war narratives, celebrity redemption, gun policy, and the complexities facing their home city. The hosts emphasize skepticism, call for accountability, and ultimately recognize the messy realities and deep-seated problems facing the “nation with plans.” The final word? Vulnerability—as they close with real-life relationship pain and mutual support for their growing listener community.

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Notable Episode Title Mantra:

“We have plans—The nation has problems.” – Ebro (25:38)

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Transcript

[Ebro Darden]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The Ebro Laura Rosenberg showed he's ADD about it.

[Ebro Darden]

I am.

[Griff]

I know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why is that better than the why? This looks like work, but coffee is part of the work thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, but couldn't you have, like, a cool mug or something that you just have, like, a straw and, like, could you have, like, an ELR show mug that we could sell?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I. Now, I like that. But I treated myself to today and stopped by a little local independent coffee

[Griff]

place, got myself a little $10 latte.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I got a. I decided to go low. I got the 450 iced coffee.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay, what's four? What do you mean?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's $4.50. I didn't want to mentally let it go to, like, $7 today. I wasn't. I wasn't doing it.

[Ebro Darden]

Got it. Got it. Well, look, we got a lot of stuff to get to. You know, they say the war with Iran, the war that's not a war. Is almost over.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wait, is that what they're saying now?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that's what Trump said. He said it'll be over soon.

[Laura Rosenberg]

O. Why? I said that.

[Ebro Darden]

Why?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because I'm guessing them gas prices and people's 401ks and everybody's money, that's going the wrong direction.

[Ebro Darden]

Yep.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm guessing that's pushing them towards maybe this isn't so good. You play my guess.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. That there's that, and then there's the fact that, you know, we're not doing good. I don't care what he's gonna tell y'.

[Caller/Guest]

All.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think about it. Take your time. He's pensive. He's looking.

[Ebro Darden]

After all these years of being lied to. Bold face, lied to. How do people believe these people?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't.

[Griff]

I don't understand.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, how when you see them talk and tell you something's going good and you're getting other information that it's not going so good, how do you believe them? Who do you believe? Rosemary, you just told me a story that he showed up as soldiers who were dead were brought home yesterday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. The dignified transfer.

[Ebro Darden]

The dignified transfer. And he showed up with a baseball hat on you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes, he showed up wearing a baseball hat. The. The Trump merch hat.

[Ebro Darden]

The Trump. So he's selling merch at the joint White.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The white hat with the gold USA. It'll cost. Cost you $55 on Trump.com here.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's have a look at it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We have it now. The interesting thing about this video, you got to pay attention to is Though assuming they have the one that I sent them, the, the top is what actually happened yesterday. That's CNN trans. That's him wearing the gold, the white and gold baseball hat. Fox was so embarrassed by it after it initially aired underneath that they ran a different dignified transfer from last year.

[Griff]

My God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So you don't see him with the hat on. That's FOX News covering. Congratulations, you played yourself.

[Ebro Darden]

Just freeze that. Freeze that on camera, please. Go back to that rollback to that. I want to leave that up for a second.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

Want us to absorb what's taking place because how do you, how do you believe these people?

[Laura Rosenberg]

And not only that, they're the ones who call out fake news. Yeah, that's literal fake news.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, they are.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But right there, if you pause it, that right there, that image on top, that was yesterday. That is Trump wearing a baseball hat. Remember they called out Obama for wearing a tan suit. They called out Obama because he once lifted up his latte to greet a soldier. They came after Biden cuz he looked at his watch once during one of these specific things. He looked at his watch once and like, do you have somewhere better to go?

[Ebro Darden]

I don't remember this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They went after Kamala once because on Memorial Day weekend she said, have a good long weekend. They came for a long weekend. That's all Memorial Day is to you. Or Veterans Day, whichever one it was your man posted up with the baseball cap. You have to take a baseball cap off during the national anthem at a baseball game.

[Ebro Darden]

You wore a baseball cap when dead soldiers, soldiers coming home because you got them in harm's way.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That part. And you couldn't take the hat off to do it.

[Ebro Darden]

You killed these people, got a promo and then now I don't know if we have the clips of him yesterday talking about his decision to go into Iran and that he was told by Jared Kushner, Mark Rubio, Marco and Hagseth. Let me see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It wasn't. Rubio was very quickly approaching the point of no return in the United States. It wasn't Rubio. Intolerable in my. It was Wyckoff. Based on what Steve and Jared and

[Ebro Darden]

Pete and others were telling me, Stephen, Jared and Pete, that I thought that

[Laura Rosenberg]

they were going to attack us. I thought they would if we didn't do this at the time we did it. I think they had in mind to attack us and that night. So there's that lie, but there's another one. And I meant to send this to the. Send this to the group I think I did. I sent it late last night. I don't know if you guys watched it, but I didn't call for it. Someone asked him again because on Air Force One, he was asked about the school where 174 children were.

[Ebro Darden]

That was like, listen, even your own people standing behind you on the plane.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So on the plane, when they asked Trump about the 175 school children in Iran that were killed, Trump tried to say, that wasn't us, that was Iran.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I saw that Hague sets behind him like, and they like, Pete, is that true? And he goes, we don't have any, we don't have any evidence to show that. This is Pete Hegseth, guys. This is a guy who will say literally anything, saying, I'm not going to say that because I know that's not true. And then later, a reporter said to Trump, how could you possibly say it was Iran who did it when no one in your administration, including the guy whose job it is to know this, will say that Iran could have hurt their own?

[Ebro Darden]

Now, Trump, to Trump's defense on this point, he did to that reporter say, I don't have all the information.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's his credit. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And if we get information that supports what you're saying is true, then we'll own that. He did say that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. But he's, but he's still the one saying he thinks it may have been them. Yeah, no one thinks it may have.

[Ebro Darden]

That goes back to my other point. What do you guys want to believe? Do you want to believe our media and our current government, or do you want to believe the news we're getting? Because if you watch the international news. Yes. The international news is saying our bases all over the Middle east have been destroyed.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And we're not seeing this.

[Ebro Darden]

And we're not seeing this news. They're also saying more Americans have been killed than we're being told.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because currently we're being told it's seven.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Griff]

At some point, I don't know, I think, you guys, this is a cult. We're dealing with cults.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You mean to still be believing what you're seeing?

[Griff]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think also some people are just embarrassed at this point.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's the thing I think also is at this point, you now have to ride the whole thing. You have to keep riding this rather than admit you're wrong.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I'd go with embarrassment. You have to admit you're wrong.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

You have to go embarrass me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Look at me. Look at me. When I called Don legreca, moron the other day. What'd I do? Stop. You know what? I'm wrong. That's my bad.

[Ebro Darden]

You're a name caller.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm a name caller. I recognize that. Listen to this week's Patreon. You'll learn all about it. We went really into depth on my history of being a psychopath. But sometimes you got to say I'm wrong.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And instead, these people are going to ride it. Till now. We're in this war. 175 school children were killed. Seven Americans. We are. We know are dead. You're saying. They're saying maybe more.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what other international news sources are claiming.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not confirmed here.

[Ebro Darden]

Not confirmed here. But once again, I ask you, how could you? What do you believe?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right?

[Ebro Darden]

Especially when all of the news is now controlled. All of your news is controlled and. Or all of your news, unless here's the issue. You have, quote, unquote, independent journalists that if I bring in reports and I show them to you, Rosenberg will go, yeah, I'm supposed to believe somebody sitting in their bedroom?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Correct. But on the flip side.

[Ebro Darden]

But then, if you watch cbs, NBC, they're all in fear of being fined by the FCC for saying something against the government. So I ask you again, who do you believe?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Congratulations, you played. And I respond again by saying, the only person I know clearly doesn't seem scared anymore is Jimmy Kimmel. I was watching Jimmy Kimmel do a bit about the. About Trump yesterday. Yo, my man. The level to which he will not let off the gas, bro, is he's at a point now where it's braver than I'm capable of being. Cause if Trump ever decides, you know, once this country goes, if this country were to go all the way to where we know they dream of it going, oh, they're bringing Jimmy to Times, to the town square. I mean, every time they show him. They showed him at the dignified transfer wearing the hat, and they show him looking down, and Jimmy's like, ah, there he is, checking his diaper to make sure he didn't soil himself. I mean, he every. Just pounding. So some. Something happened with Jimmy.

[Ebro Darden]

You and Jimmy work for the same company, right? So it's actually good. You can actually go farther. How they gonna get rid of you?

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. I mean, you let look at. But that's Jimmy's job. But Jimmy's not in sport. I'm in sports. Jimmy's allowed.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I'm saying you go hard here and not be worried about how it affects you. There Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because look at me. I'm just doing what Jimmy Kimmel does.

[Ebro Darden]

Precedent's being set.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And then if they come for me, God forbid I go, I gotta get Jimmy on the phone.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right, Jimmy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I was trying to be.

[Ebro Darden]

Or at least Jimmy's attorney.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right, right.

[Ebro Darden]

And you'll still get this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But. That's right. But everywhere else. You're right. CBS is completely compromised at this point.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, as NBC. And I don't know about NBC, but I don't know that. I don't think they're being that brave.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it doesn't feel like it.

[Griff]

Everyone's scared.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I. I get it. It's tough. It's not good.

[Ebro Darden]

In other news, remember how you were bringing up Tucker Carlson the other day and about how you're like, everybody's posting Tucker Carlson and you know, I'm not just read.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I didn't always agree. But now he makes so much sense.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, so I've always thought it was a grift. Right. I do believe he's a white supremacist, but I feel like he's willing to go wherever. Wherever the grift is. Yeah, right. He has traveled to the Middle east and met with people and maybe he's learned. Maybe he's seen some other things. Whatever.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

But I want to play you guys this clip. You have clip 11 over there. Let me see it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's see how our number System works. Clip 11.

[Caller/Guest]

He's calling. It's been conducting interviews and just asking questions and talking about how he's opposed to all this military action. Meanwhile, his son is the deputy price secretary of the Vice president. This man is serving as controlled opposition. When your son is the deputy press secretary for the vice president and you're using your podcast to just ask questions, you're no longer just asking questions. You are part of all of it. And you are serving as the reasonable role that over the next few weeks and months is going to be warming up his audience to a larger full scale. Never mind the fact that he worked on Fox News with this guy and then wrote the book review for this book. His news may be well produced and well articulated. Ask yourself, who is he really doing this for?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Talk about it. Wow.

[Griff]

Wow.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Although, I mean, that's not even my. And that's not even my biggest issue.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, of course it's not your biggest issue, but I thought it would help.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Like add to the.

[Ebro Darden]

Add to the illegitimacy. And the reason, once again, who do you believe?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right, right.

[Griff]

That's really interesting. Information. I did not know that.

[Ebro Darden]

Did not know Tucker Carlson's son worked for the vice president.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Did not. Did not remember Tucker Carlson and Pete Hadse were co workers. Did not know that Tucker Carlson actually, you know, put some commentary in Pete Hegseth's book. What did he say?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Did he put it in the book or. He reviewed the. I was.

[Ebro Darden]

He did a. Excuse me. Did a review for the book.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He didn't write the forward. He did the review. Yeah. You. More information that shows that Tucker Carlson is not a legitimate, unbiased.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Person.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right. That's right. Laura, you ready to get to the rundown?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, we're going early. I like this. Big day, the rundown.

[Ebro Darden]

Turn that up. Screens on glow when she pulls up Headlines heavy, but we still caught up. Light still flashing we don't slow up.

[Griff]

So Kanye west just announced a new show in Los Angeles. All right, so it's his first performance. Remember? He just. I don't know if you guys saw the footage of him in Mexico City. He did that in January. So this is his first live Los Angeles show since, I guess, 2021. That was the last time.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen, man, shake the cobwebs off Kanye.

[Griff]

Let's see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yay back.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I want to hear the music, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Is he coming out with new music?

[Ebro Darden]

He was supposed to drop an album. Yeah, but he signed a gamma. What's this month? But ok, this month. Supposed to have a new Kanye west project.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I thought yesterday, you know, since Ebro's, you know, pulled off a couple of great bookings for us, got us TI Before TI Started shaking around, you know, popping up, I thought should. Is it time?

[Ebro Darden]

For what?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Should Ebro break glass in case of emergency and say, yo, yay. Man, you hit us up many times. You said you wanted to talk. Come on through. We want to see. We want to see if you're really about the things you're saying. Would now be a good time to talk to Kanye? Would he say yes? Seems like he's not talking right now. It seems like this is not talk mode. It's do show mode. And would you have an appetite ever again? Will you ever have an appetite again to talk to Kanye West?

[Ebro Darden]

So I thought about this the other day. Not for this, but just in general. The upside is, obviously people tune in. People are gonna watch. It would be a big.

[Laura Rosenberg]

For us, for our fledgling program. It would be a big start, a big kickstarter right in the ace.

[Ebro Darden]

But I also. Because I. I think there's a part of me that Wants to like Kanye to just not talk at all. I don't want to be a part of him talking.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But what. But what if it turned out good?

[Ebro Darden]

I don't trust it. I don't believe that there's not a part. It's kind of once again going back to, like the Trump of it all and all. I don't trust any of this. I don't trust. I don't believe you. I don't. What are you going to say?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know.

[Ebro Darden]

What are you going to say? Okay, you're going to ask him. You're so you're going to run down the litany of what about this thing? You sorry about that? What about this thing? You sorry about that? What about this thing? Remember that time you went up and kissed and licked Donald Trump's kneecaps? You sorry about that? What about the time you called him your father? You still sorry about that? What about. So you're going to run down the litany of Kanye west problems and just have him just get barraged by them?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think we package it. I think we package it all up into one apology. But I did not run down the whole list.

[Ebro Darden]

No, but. So my point is, is after all this last 10 years of all of his nonsense, I don't really have anything to talk to you about.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I hear you.

[Griff]

I don't think this is a clean slate for him. I think he's sorry and he met with the rabbis, but he's like, yo, I'm just sorry for the Hitler song, but everything else is still standing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I don't know. That's. Although he did he remember, he also said he's very sorry to black people who he let knows.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. His letter was not. And I thought that. Now just put out your music, man,

[Laura Rosenberg]

and just let time go by.

[Ebro Darden]

Let time go by. Let time pass. Let us actually see some, you know, behavior that supports, like. Because other than that, we're just milking him like everybody else has milked him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. And that's what I'm saying is, isn't it our turn? Don't we deserve to get everyone else got, you know, everyone else had their moment.

[Griff]

I'm so checked out.

[Ebro Darden]

No, we got. We got kind. Remember on the last show, he called in early? Remember Early? We had Kanye. We was early. We got called in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

He was like, he, bro, I love you. We need that clip.

[Griff]

That was weird.

[Ebro Darden]

Find the Ebro. I love you, Kanye clip.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I forgot about that.

[Ebro Darden]

Remember? And he called in one morning just to tell me he Loved me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, no, it was cool. It was cool. But I mean, like the big sit down, you know what I mean? Tucker Carlson got one.

[Ebro Darden]

Did it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Drink champs got two. You know.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. I just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But no, you're a good person for not wanting to exploit it. I only would be willing to do so if it was exploiting the idea of him trying to now be positive, then I'm down to do that. But you're probably right. He would probably be a nothing.

[Ebro Darden]

Now. The people out there watching, they're going to want it. They're going to tune into it. Then there's going to be. People will be like, why are you doing this? Especially if he looks bad. If he looks bad, then we look bad. If he looks great, we look great. Because we're just taking a guy that we used to really revere and like, and just continuing to drag him.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[Griff]

Because what are you going to do? Okay, let's say he looks good and he comes and he says, yo, I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry about the anti Semitism, but I still love Trump. And I'm still, you know, I'm still with it. Candace is my girl. What. What are we doing?

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. That's an interesting point. If he splits the difference.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And he's like, he gives you a little bit, but he doesn't go all the way. You're like, but that still sounds terrible, bro. I know. Then we end up getting to a big thing with him, and then what did we do?

[Ebro Darden]

We got some clicks. All right. Yeah. Cool. And now we're also got people tuning into his album and we made him a headline again and story.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. And then he. And then it turns out to be. Listen, you're right. I'm just trying to think of some big stuff, man. Want to get us that hundred thou. Wow. Before we get to July. That's. Listen, I'm putting the brand first in this case.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I think too. Sometimes I just feel bad sometimes. Honestly, I just. When things are just bad, I don't like it. But I. I would rather things be not bad.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it's also selfishly motivated. Not just because I want the clicks for our show, but also because I'd love for it to go good and be able to be fully back in on. Yay. I loved. I want to go to the concert. I used to love Kanye concert.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, if. And you know, I guess because of everything and me not liking a lot of the music he's dropped recently, I'm not excited for a Kanye concert, but he's at his old joints, but I've seen those. And I saw him when he was at his height, when he was really, really rocking. So do I want to go show up now when it's. Is it riggity rocking?

[Griff]

What's the last show you went. Was it when we went together to Life of Pablo? Probably the Garden.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah. In the suite. Did you come to my suite?

[Griff]

No, we were like in the audience.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, you went on the floor.

[Griff]

Yeah, we were like on the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You didn't come to the Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

Remember when I went mosh pitted with Travis Scott under the floating stage?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Any of you guys come to the suite at Pablo?

[Griff]

No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, damn. I guess people I like better. No, it was a great time. Pablo was great.

[Ebro Darden]

It was great.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. You know, that was a great show.

[Ebro Darden]

And I. But I also saw him and Drake in LA at the Coliseum. Or was that him and Drake? No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

Him by himself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You didn't go to the makeup show, did you?

[Ebro Darden]

No, it wasn't. It wasn't him and Drake.

[Caller/Guest]

Duh.

[Ebro Darden]

It was him by himself in the Coliseum, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, him and Drake did the Larry Hoover show.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Go to that, did you?

[Ebro Darden]

That was at the Coliseum.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. You went to that?

[Ebro Darden]

I was there. Yeah, I was at that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because that was. Apple was involved.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That was the Drake doing a show with a gun to his head.

[Griff]

That one. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That was the.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I feel like I was at that one.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was. It was the Drake. Hold up a copy of today's newspaper if you're all right.

[Super Chat Contributor]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because I was like, he did not want to do that. That show. I forgot about. That was already. When it was bad.

[Griff]

That was such a weird.

[Ebro Darden]

I saw that.

[Griff]

But yeah. All right, can we get. Let's get some positive news.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, we go the rundown.

[Griff]

Scott is hitting the road. She just announced her tour. To whom it may concern. 36 dates just June through September, including Nashville, DC, Atlanta, New York. She's coming to New York July 16 and 18, going to King's Theater. So. Yo, her album is dope.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I haven't spent time with it yet. I feel a little guilty.

[Griff]

That's dope. She got a joint with Tierra Whack that I like two shirts on there. It's dope. And she gives you just Jellyfin Pilly.

[Ebro Darden]

King Lou reports and Griff Report. They did a quick chat poll. It's 5050 on whether or not we should work on a Kanye interview.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Really? 50, 50.

[Griff]

Wow. Okay, okay, Interesting. Now this right here, come on. Let's go to low. Because I couldn't believe this.

[Ebro Darden]

The low down.

[Griff]

Let's go low. Hold on to your speakers. It's time for the low down

[Caller/Guest]

with

[Griff]

Laura St. Now, yesterday we talked about that woman, Ivana Lizette Ortiz, who drove up to Rihanna's mansion with an AR15 shot at the mansion, and one of the bullets penetrated the walls. This was very scary. So now that people have been doing a little bit of digging, you guys, some of these videos that are popping up online are very disturbing. Like, look at this one.

[Super Chat Contributor]

Listen, Rihanna, when you die, God is taking me to my future.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Huh?

[Super Chat Contributor]

You want to kill me? Shut up.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Super Chat Contributor]

Shut.

[Ebro Darden]

That was not.

[Super Chat Contributor]

Yeah, she's a witch. She's a witch. I'm a watchman. She's a witch. Get that stupid girl out of here.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay? They.

[Super Chat Contributor]

They can't do this. They can't do this. That's why you got Rihanna over there all jealous, because how am I? How am I? Because her faith is the devil. Rihanna's faith is the devil. Okay? I don't like her, and she's always trying to steal from me. And she has not ever put out.

[Griff]

You can wrap this up. She only did her little sad, but it's.

[Ebro Darden]

So this is the girl that drove by and shot at Rihanna's house?

[Griff]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

And. And the whole thing we were saying yesterday about her not knowing it was Rihanna's house, clearly she had a thing where Rihanna's.

[Griff]

Exactly.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, that part's very clear. The videos are obsessive and so not. Well, this could have been so much worse.

[Griff]

There's more.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, there's way more. She's been going on and on video after video.

[Ebro Darden]

So now she had a gun. Yeah, which. That's problem number one. How does a person with this sort of mental health issue have a gun?

[Griff]

Well, I don't think it's hard to get an AR15 in Florida.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that's where I was going to go. Yeah, it was going to point to Florida. So then she drove from Florida. How did she get from Florida to California?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm assuming she just drove.

[Ebro Darden]

I mean, it's crazy. People out here. It's people on the brink, and then it's crazy. And here's the thing about that. Even if you were to report her and say, hey, there's this woman online saying crazy stuff, and they investigated her and she had done nothing. They do nothing. Nothing happened.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know.

[Ebro Darden]

Because she's an adult, she would have to admit herself to some sort of psychiatric.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Facility.

[Griff]

I think that this conversation is so tough. Because when you people look at her and they're like, she needs help. Where's her family? She needs help, guys. No one can force her into a facility to get help. No one can force her to get medication.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How does she get a gun, bro?

[Ebro Darden]

Florida.

[Griff]

Yes. I think you could just walk on up to whatever store and just be like, money.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Imagine there's someone who spends their life doing stuff like this. And then you could just walk in the store like, I need a gun. And no one does a check to see, like, what is this person doing in there?

[Griff]

No, no, no, they don't care. They just care about the transaction.

[Ebro Darden]

Thoughts and prayers, man.

[Griff]

That's it. That's what makes it wild. That's how I always. If I was a responsible gun owner, I would be. I want stricter rules. I want people to know what the hell they're doing.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If you loved it and you were like, I love my guns and I'm responsible with mine, wouldn't you want other people to be responsible?

[Griff]

That's one thing I never understood.

[Ebro Darden]

But, you know, well, I do think there are responsible gun owners who feel like exactly how you feel. It's the state of Florida. Like, there are certain states that are irresponsible.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I was. For some reason. Someone posted yesterday the clip of when Wiz and Snoop were at Hip Hop 50 and when Wiz did see you again. And they showed all the images behind him of artists who had died. Yo, guys. When you watch that run through of how many artists are dead in the past decade, most of which by gun violence. Not all, but most of which by gun violence. It's insane. And I say that to say we're. I'm just grateful that nothing happened to Rihanna. That's. Yes.

[Griff]

Oh, my God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's like. That's real. Like, bullets went into her home.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's insane.

[Griff]

Anyway, that's the rundown, guys.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That was love

[Griff]

for the low down.

[Laura Rosenberg]

These people.

[Griff]

I don't know. I just keep thinking about what Ebro said. It's something that I just really gets under my skin. How it's like when it comes to domestic violence, right? And women that are feel that feel threatened, they're like, yeah, so and so is making threats. Police can't do anything. They can't do anything until you're actually hurt. It's crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You would think you. But the hard part is if you go the other way, where do you draw the line on so and so said something threatening. I need you to go do something. You'd think they'd be able to find a line. Like you could find a line between someone's in an argument with someone and says, I'll bleeping kill you. Yeah, you'd think you could find a difference between that and a series of videos where someone looks unhinged and is repeating a theme. You know what I'm saying?

[Ebro Darden]

I. I would. I don't know, bro. I think you could build my pay grade. I don't. I can't help you.

[Griff]

I think the only thing you could do is get a restraining order or.

[Ebro Darden]

Or somebody could flag this. They could investigate it. They could keep an eye on the person, but once again, she was still able to get a gun. If you can't stop her from giving a. Getting a gun, you're gonna stop her from driving across. What are you gonna do? We got problems, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, man.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, we have plans, but we also, as a nation have problems.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right? We have the plans.

[Ebro Darden]

We have plans, the nation has problems.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Facts.

[Ebro Darden]

See what I'm saying?

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's true.

[Ebro Darden]

Do you guys want to do other shirts?

[Laura Rosenberg]

We've got problems.

[Ebro Darden]

We got problems.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, that doesn't sound like anyone would want that, though. But it's facts.

[Ebro Darden]

We have big problems, but people got problems. I think people need to embrace them. Yeah, I think this, and I think culturally, we don't embrace our problems. Like, we don't openly talk about or actively go down a path of trying to fix our problems. Like, we just don't. We try to defund our. We defund a lot of our problems.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yep.

[Ebro Darden]

Like what. What institution in the last 20 years that you can think of has. Has the funding to even support a woman like that? Where. Where is it?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, where. Where are you. Where are you sending.

[Ebro Darden]

Especially right now, where the government's cutting everything.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Where's the money coming from?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. And it's the same, obviously, with the people who. You know, homeless people who.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, like in New York. In New York City right now, tonight. So a couple of weeks ago, they were supposed to go do annually. There's like a go count. All home, all the homeless people in the shelters outside. Like, we need a number so that we can allocate dollars to make sure they have the proper support. That's something that New York City does. Right. A couple of weeks ago, though, we had a blizzard, so they weren't able to do it. Today, literally, today they're asking people to sign up and get paid to go outside Tonight. Today. Tonight. And count. Help count homeless people. Half the. Like, half the people they need have signed up so far. They need, like, a. Like, 50% of the people. Like, they need 1,200. They have 600 to count. Yeah. To count tonight. And you could. I mean, if you're listening to us talk right now and you want to make. I think they're paying. You can sign up, make some money and help them count homeless people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I've never heard of that. I didn't know that's a thing.

[Ebro Darden]

That's a thing. And what's interesting is, even during the blizzard, remember, mom Donnie was paying. How much were people making? 60 bucks an hour.

[Griff]

No, I think it was like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Was that 30?

[Ebro Darden]

I heard 35. I heard 45.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I heard.

[Ebro Darden]

I heard a couple of different numbers during the blizzard to help shovel. So come to find out, there are corporations mad at mom Donnie for doing that.

[Griff]

Oh, because they want the gigs for their.

[Ebro Darden]

Because. Because companies used to get those contracts as kickbacks. And so instead of doing that, mom, Donnie was like, nah, we're gonna go to the people and just pay the people. And the wages he paid were way above minimum wage.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do we know where they landed? Because at first, they didn't announce what it would be. Do we know where the wages landed?

[Ebro Darden]

No, I heard like 35. I heard a bunch of different numbers. What do you have, Griff? 30 in the chat.

[Griff]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And 30. It's pretty good.

[Ebro Darden]

30. Where you could just sign up and. And remember they did the whole thing. You need two forms of ID So ICE didn't show up harassing people and all this sort of thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, and they. And. And it. By the way, the second round worked. Yes. I mean, things got clear very quickly. But listen, it's not all sweet with mom and Donnie right now.

[Ebro Darden]

Why? What happened?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Now I got a concern.

[Ebro Darden]

What's that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

What? I saw a headline the other day.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't have I got a concern music. I wish I did. We yo put on the list. We need conspiracy theory music and we got a concern music. Or this is serious. Whatever. Music.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Time to get serious.

[Griff]

Okay. Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I read a thing the other day that they're considering to try to make up. They try to figure out how to make up these billions that they need back.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay, right. Because, you know, because Hoko may not raise taxes on the rich.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because Hoko may not raise taxes. And because Adams was, you know, doing hookah in the club and lost five bill real quick.

[Ebro Darden]

Should be noted the amount of people they need to raise taxes on. Taxes on. In the state to make up this money.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Take a guess how many people do you think it is, Lawrence?

[Griff]

We're doing like percentage.

[Ebro Darden]

No, there's go total number. Like a number.

[Griff]

So we're thinking about the billionaires, right? Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Millionaires and billionaires.

[Griff]

Let's just say, I don't know millionaires and billionaires in New York.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it's more than. My guess is not. It's not just you have a million. My guess is it's the higher.

[Ebro Darden]

It's a higher end.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not you. It's not. You have $3 million.

[Griff]

That's what I'm saying. So I'm trying to think like because

[Ebro Darden]

people in the whole state is the whole state.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm going to crazy number. That's why you bros asking this way. It's a crazy low number. I'm going to say it's 500 people.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's more than that. I'm told it's more than that.

[Griff]

A thousand.

[Ebro Darden]

30,000.

[Laura Rosenberg]

30,000 people would pay 30,000.

[Griff]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If it was a thousand.

[Griff]

That's a lot of billionaires.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's a lot of people that make a lot of money.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Half of them probably don't even live here.

[Ebro Darden]

But there's 8 million people here.

[Griff]

I know, I know, but it's like

[Ebro Darden]

30,000 is not a lot of people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

30,000 people wouldn't sell out Summer Jam. Just put it in perspective. Right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. Well, I would now because can't put it in the stadium anymore.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But the thing I'm concerned about is I heard them speculating on removing all free parking from New York City. Do you see that all that's crazy. Meaning alternate side parking, which currently makes up 70% of parking. 30% is pay parking. 70% is alternate side in the city

[Griff]

or in all five boroughs.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. I believe in the borough.

[Ebro Darden]

No. Everywhere that means like even on your block. Right. That would be residential also.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, no. Throughout the city, everything. That's why that they would say let's just get rid of this alternate side parking thing and it's meters all the time. That would be for me. That's I, I.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what it is.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It would be bridge too far because they have this. Can't do it.

[Ebro Darden]

You're out.

[Griff]

There's a thing parking.

[Ebro Darden]

Parking would send you out on. Mom, dad.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, no, no, it wouldn't send me out on. It would send me out on. I maybe sent me out on New York City altogether. Like you're now telling me. You cannot just be a person who has a car and goes to the city. You have to pay Garage prices essentially, there's no way to just hustle.

[Ebro Darden]

Well so you know, that's been coming for a while outside of Mom Donnie getting drivers. Regular car driving people to not drive, especially in Manhattan has been. They're going to keep pushing that. They want cars gone. I've been telling you that since de Blasio.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I know. It would just be foul. It would just be foul. Again, this is not a rich people issue. The richest people, they try to claim

[Griff]

it as one though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right? The richest people's cars are in garages.

[Griff]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The rich, the people who park in the city run the gamut from you have no money to you have pretty good money. It's all kinds of regular people park their cars in alternate side parking. If you were rich, you think every Monday and Thursday from 9:30 to 11 you go and sit. Sit your ass in the car.

[Ebro Darden]

No, look, I feel. I feel you. I'm just thinking of all of the problems that this city has. Right. And him thinking about or considering him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know if it's just whoever

[Ebro Darden]

floated this idea out. Okay. This is all because 30,000 people won't be asked, can't be asked, don't want to be asked, whatever to pay one more percent in taxes.

[Griff]

One more Kathy Hochul because she doesn't want to do it.

[Ebro Darden]

And so this is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But the brave Democrats, you know.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, but I'm also interested in how you guys feel. This is why Mom Donnie's throwing these ideas out because in time you'll be asked to vote. The thing that mom Donnie screwed up though, and we talked about this. There was a lieutenant, the lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado was aligned with raising taxes is on the richest. And he was going to run against Hoku but he dropped told he dropped out because he saw Mamdani and Hokul aligning and he didn't think he had a path to win because Mom Donnie and Hokul were aligning. But now Hokel, she gave him his pre K and she gave him all of these things but she's not giving him the one thing that's going to help him close this budget.

[Griff]

The one thing he ran on.

[Ebro Darden]

And so did mom Donnie play himself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, that's crazy. We did not lose power on our stream. We just lost all of our lights and.

[Griff]

Oh, okay.

[Ebro Darden]

That was interesting.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Griff, you just hit a power strip or something.

[Ebro Darden]

Yep. Clumsy. You should probably shouldn't be sitting over there.

[Griff]

Oh my God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know. I didn't. The red lights stayed on.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, well, we're back yo, that's the one thing. Look, power out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo. You talk about Mom, Donnie, you lose everything. That's crazy. No, no, listen, it's. It's. It's wild.

[Griff]

I just can't believe nobody's running against her. I just. I hate it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not like she's that respectfully. And I don't hate Hokel up and down the board or anything. This is just a weak. Another.

[Ebro Darden]

But now you can't hold her to anything.

[Griff]

That's what I'm saying.

[Ebro Darden]

There's no the Republican candidate. Nobody even knows their name, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

The Democrats just going to win, so. And it's not like Hochul should be an unbeatable candidate. She's not exactly the most charming electric politician you've ever seen.

[Ebro Darden]

I mean, her approvals have gone up the last few years for sure. Since she took over from Cuomo. Look, she won. She won and stayed on the job, you mean?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, after taking.

[Ebro Darden]

After taking over, sure.

[Griff]

But I remember when she ran, though. Wasn't she, like, lazy? She didn't hardly even campaign.

[Caller/Guest]

Remember?

[Griff]

She was just kind of like, her

[Ebro Darden]

husband's in big real estate, isn't he? Like, doesn't he own part of the. Like the. Didn't he help build the Buffalo Bill stadium or something?

[Griff]

Oh, there was, I remember, some chatter.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And I think also part of it for her was just stay out of the way and don't give people a reason not to vote for you. Because she had name recognition, she'd already been there. It was kind of like, let's just keep this thing.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's keep this thing on the rails. Listen to the super chat we go before we get to the gurus, who's. Who's checking the super chat.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You staying up? I got it. Look at you staying on point with making sure we get to the gurus today. I see what you're doing, Ebro. Listen, man, I respect it right now.

[Ebro Darden]

Somebody got run point in this room. You guys are just meandering today.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Lights are getting turned off. Craziness.

[Laura Rosenberg]

All right.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't even know why you sitting that close to that thing.

[Griff]

All right, who's in the chat?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Here we go. Super chat. We got Marvin, who says, happy birthday, Ebro. Over a week early.

[Super Chat Contributor]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Thanks, Marvin.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's nice, though, man. Or a week earlier, Moreno. The man came in with a light. Little light spot today, but he gets a shout out anyway because of how consistent he is.

[Griff]

Of course he does.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, we need to meet Moreno. The man. I got questions.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He said, I tagged y'. All on a post on Insta. I'll do the call. I'll do the call. Does he mean, like, the intro thing?

[Griff]

Yeah, I think so.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. So let's look for that. Let's look for Moreno. The man's tag of us, JW came through. JW just comes through and drops him. Money. He's just like. He's like the regular at the strip club who doesn't have enough money to go to the Champagne Room. But he's here to give you a couple dollars.

[Ebro Darden]

So this is the question. I have you guys dropping in super chat all the time. Money, we appreciate y', all, but how come you're not subscribed to the Patreon? Or are you? Or both.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Or both.

[Ebro Darden]

And you're just listen, I would love to know. That's why I said I got questions, baby.

[Laura Rosenberg]

K Love says, keep it up, fam. With the news segments important in this day and age, Ebro's feet is fire. Also, big up Rosenberg's dad. Enjoy his viewpoints. I'll tell my dad. Nice Juju says, blame an organization called Transportation Alternatives. Yo, if they had to hit us, it wasn't enough. They're not getting enough from the toll. If they're not getting enough from the toll right now, let's make you pay for every parking spot.

[Ebro Darden]

By the way, remember the toll, the toll money goes to the mta. It doesn't go to the city, bro.

[Griff]

Nobody gets congestion.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I wonder what this would be, though.

[Griff]

Yeah, we had congestion pricing.

[Ebro Darden]

Goes to.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know where the meters go.

[Ebro Darden]

Meters go to the city.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Meters go city. Got it. So they're like, now we want to get some too, right? We should all get to take from the people.

[Ebro Darden]

MTA has its own budget. That's not the city's budget.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right. And remember, even if you pay your. When you pay meters, the cheapest you can get a meter for at this point is five an hour. Yo, this is so foul. This is this little trick that they have on the meters. I don't know if you. You have the app, right?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So the Park NYC app. So if you pay on the app and you go pay for an hour, it's $5. Okay? If you try to go pay for two hours on the app, it's $13. However, if you pay once an hour, it's $5. So I pay once an hour and set an alarm. When I, like, go to my other job, I have to pay the meter the whole time. I set an alarm for once an hour and repay it. But you Know they're playing that game, hoping you'll just mess up and they can catch you with a ticket.

[Ebro Darden]

Now, I got a question for you. Why do you do this to yourself? Can you not afford. Are you having financial problems? You can't afford the extra money?

[Laura Rosenberg]

What do you mean?

[Ebro Darden]

Like, why would you set an alarm every hour?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I don't want to give them an extra. What? Adds up to like, another $12 a

[Ebro Darden]

day just because for the day. I thought you were just saying for like a couple hours.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm there for four hours.

[Ebro Darden]

Got it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If I do, if I pay it, it'll be 26 or more. 28 instead of 20. Yeah, I'd rather save them. Saving, because you're not getting up and going anywhere. It's just on your app. You just have to remember to go back to the app and hit park again. You know what I'm saying?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

This is. Stuff's adding up, bro.

[Griff]

Does it does that up?

[Laura Rosenberg]

We come to this place. We got a. If I drive here, I got a garage. We got a $9 once a day. I'm paying the $9 to go drive up and down. They get you, bro. Bk, as you can see, I forgot my glasses today. BK Bajan said. Morning, fam. I just got the merch. Thanks to Laura for making sure everything worked out. Wow, you got the merch and you sent us money. JW says I'm a lady Rosenberg. Smiley face. Oh, JW spends another $5 just to say I'm a lady Rosenberg. I can't see.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen. And so the reason I'm asking is because the way they're throwing money at us and the way you're trying to Dodge $3 here is just an interesting.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The combination.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. I don't get any addition of it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If they started paying for my part, if I was taking this to pay my parking.

[Ebro Darden]

I think they think you do get it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, one day I hope that I will. But right now, bill's got to get paid. So everything you do will one day lead to maybe me being able to pay for a parking. We don't know. But thank you to everybody. I think the Super Chat was super useful about the Super Chat, potentially, and as we build community is for people to get in there and, like, send people to their businesses. To me, I look at it as like a low way of advertising. Like, you. You're not able. You're not ready yet to do a full ELR sponsorship deal. But, like, hey, throw in some money and say, shout out to someone. You know what? I'M saying that could be a good way to build community and get our people supporting each other's businesses. Because I. I think we have a little special community we're building.

[Griff]

We do.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We.

[Ebro Darden]

Do you guys want to do, like, small business Monday?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do we need another day?

[Ebro Darden]

Free promo Friday for.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No. A free promo. Well, that's basically a five. Friday is in a lot of ways.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, now a lot of Fox Friday is just showing love and talking about real talking. It's not a lot of business. No small business promotion in there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you're right. You're right.

[Griff]

But feel free to shout out your business.

[Ebro Darden]

Promote my business Monday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think that works, like, as a.

[Griff]

As a thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, that's just not dope to me, what you said.

[Ebro Darden]

Tell them about my business Tuesday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Talk about my business Tuesday. That's about it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, it's guru time. Let's go. Guru. I need that intro. Damn it, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You had it.

[Ebro Darden]

I had it, but I don't know where it went. It's not on here anymore. No, look, all my stuff is right here.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What was the reason?

[Ebro Darden]

Intro, Look. Oh, there it is. Rosenberg.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Laura, you know, you are a beautiful queen. Ebro, don't ever play yourself.

[Ebro Darden]

You're not a guru.

[Griff]

Breathe in.

[Ebro Darden]

Breathe out.

[Griff]

The original gurus. Gmail.com. the original gurusmail.com. where the guru unite.

[Ebro Darden]

Hey, Griff, can you find the news story where the new leader of Iran, which is the son of the ayatollah that got killed, has now threatened Donald Trump and said, basically, don't play yourself. You could be next. This just happened last night. I just saw it on my phone. But I want to make sure it's real. All right, I heard it on 1010 win. I just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think there's a great SNL sketch to be done about them announcing who the new Supreme Leader is in Iran and everybody not wanting that job and

[Griff]

people being, like, just looking away.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, everyone's getting killed. Who gets the job? And they're like, all right, guys, big announcement time. Who wants to be the next Supreme Leader? And, like, a table of people, like, I send your messages, guys, to the original gurusmail.com. the original gurusmail.com your destination, for clarity. All right, first of all, a lot of love. This is a long email, so I gotta skip through your love. We appreciate being part of your routine and bringing you positivity and realness every single day. We appreciate you. Thank you.

[Griff]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

34 years old, I've been with my son's father for 20 years. We basically grew up together. He's been my best friend since I was 13. We share a beautiful nine year old son, a lifetime of memories, and a bond that shaped who I am.

[Griff]

All right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Recently, he told me he doesn't feel the same anymore. He says we're not compatible and that he's not happy. He believes there may be something better out there for him. Hearing that from someone who has been your person for most of your life is heartbreaking in a way I can't fully describe. Man. I imagine that this isn't the first time we've been here. In 2019, we separated for about a year and eventually found our way back to each other. So part of me keeps holding on to hope. But this time feels different. He seems sure. I've been in therapy for eight years, working on myself, trying to grow, trying to understand my patterns, trying to better be better. Not just for him, but for me and our son. I love him deeply. I still see the good in us. I wish we could work both on ourselves and fight for the relationship instead of walking away from it. But I also understand that I can't force someone else to choose me. I'm trying to respect his space. I don't want to be selfish. I don't want to guilt him into staying. But I am devastated. He wasn't just my partner. He was my safe space, my best friend, the person who understood me without explanation. Even though I have a family and a small support system, it's not the same. I'm grieving. Not just a relationship, but the future I thought we would have. The idea of starting over at 34 after being with the same person since childhood feels terrifying. I don't even fully remember who I was before him. My question is, how do you truly let go of someone you still love? How do you accept that they don't choose you anymore? And how do you rebuild yourself when so much of your identity was intertwined with them? I want to be strong for my son, for myself. I want to love myself enough to move forward. But right now, I feel torn between respecting his decision and holding on to hope. Thank you for listening. I'm so sorry this is too long.

[Ebro Darden]

Nah, it's not too long.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, man, it's sad.

[Ebro Darden]

It's a sad tale.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

But a tale is old as time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I knew it. I knew you were gonna say it

[Ebro Darden]

was a tale as old as time, but sad nonetheless. So I don't want to minimize her pain or any of that. But, ma', am, it's Gonna hurt. And it's gonna hurt. What is it, Half the amount of time that you spent. So if you've been with him for 20 years, you got, like, 10 years of pain on the horizon.

[Griff]

Dang.

[Ebro Darden]

And, I mean, that's what they say.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, listen, it's. I. I did those numbers. I lived those numbers. It's not.

[Ebro Darden]

Not these numbers.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, but I.

[Ebro Darden]

Different numbers. I don't think any. I don't think there are many people who can relate to being with someone since they were 13 or 14 years before to 34. I don't. That's like. And that's why she was like, I can't remember who I was. Because you didn't know who you were when you got in this relationship.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, But I was 25 to close to 40. It's not 13 to 34. But it was.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's serious.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was. It was.

[Ebro Darden]

But 13 to 34 is a no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You haven't even been an adult on your own in any way. Although I'm not gonna lie. When I got divorced and looked back at my life pre that relationship, it was pre 25, bro. That does feel like I was a child. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? When I go back and look.

[Griff]

And I will say, like, 34 is

[Laura Rosenberg]

not old, but that's. But see, that's the thing, though, on the flip side. So you got a couple things working for you, man. I'm gonna help you out real quick. I'm gonna explain to you why your situation could be worse.

[Ebro Darden]

Number 50.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You could be 50. You're 34.

[Griff]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Number two, y' all share a child together. One part that I think, at least about my situation, that, you know, now I'm happy how things worked out, because it worked out beautifully. And Maya's here, and it's a less complicated world. But at the time when I was going through it, one of the things that was so debilitating was this person's not even going to be in my life anymore. Because when you don't share children, that's generally how it goes. That's. You move on with your life, and you start a new life. You don't want to have your ex around your life. This person's not leaving your life. Y' all are a family to some

[Ebro Darden]

degree, however, they don't want you romantically anymore.

[Griff]

I just don't want her to feel like that's some sort of, like, a false hope.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You don't mean it, but I don't mean it about hope. What I mean is over time. You will get excited about a. I know you can't feel it yet, but you will one day get to have a better, more exciting romantic relationship. That feels good.

[Ebro Darden]

However.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And that person who was your ex is not going to be dead. They're still going to be the father of your child.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't think. I think it's too soon for a silver lining. I think she needs to. You know, what did Kendrick say to Drake? You gotta, you know, go to ayahuasca, that joint, rip the soul from the bottom and do all of the. Only because there's nothing more beautiful and innocent and magical than falling in love in your teens. And I. You know, you may fall in love again. You may have love again. You will have love again. But you will always remember. And you gotta be honest with yourself, that. That 15, 16, 17, you and your boo booed up young.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it doesn't feel like that right now. And it hasn't for years.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I know, but she. If she's looking to hold on to that or any piece of that, that's where I. I believe you're going to. You could trip yourself up and hit yourself with the butt.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Sure.

[Ebro Darden]

Because people often do that. They trick themselves to believing. That's why she's still holding on to hope. She's holding on to hope because she thinks they can get back there.

[Griff]

Well, listen, that's the one thing that I. I want her to face reality. I want her to listen, though. Listen, he does not want to be with you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, but, Laura, you can't. You don't know him. You don't know him. I don't know him. We can't remove the hope from her.

[Griff]

But I'm just going by what she's saying.

[Ebro Darden]

But isn't this, though. Isn't there a part of this, though? She said he did it before.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes, that's what I'm saying. I'm not telling her to all let go.

[Caller/Guest]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

But why does he get to keep playing with her Also, though, He shouldn't.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And she should go move on with her life as best she can. But I just know today we're not going to convince her because three hosts that she likes love her.

[Ebro Darden]

No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Give up hope. No. There's always going to be a thing that sits there. What I'm saying is the hope will come and go.

[Ebro Darden]

And I'm not saying give up hope. I'm saying let your soul burn slow because it's pain. This is pain.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no.

[Ebro Darden]

Embrace the pain.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm telling you right now. I'm telling you right now, as someone who's done that, that's not. I don't think you're helping. I don't think you're helping because she doesn't need us to tell her to feel. She's. Feel. She's gonna be on the floor weeping.

[Ebro Darden]

All right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

In pain.

[Ebro Darden]

There's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That part. Ain't going anywhere. What I'm offering.

[Ebro Darden]

Speed it up. Get into it. Get involved.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What I'm. Get to it. So you get it. I'm just offering that. The relationship that you're mourning that you're saying is like, that in your brain now. You're like, how can it all be gone? What I'm saying is it's never gonna be all gone. You guys created a life together that you're gonna love forever. And one day, whether you ever rekindle or not, you'll either rekindle and that would be nice, or as insane as it is to picture, 20 years from now, you'll be with different people, still loving that child and knowing we did that together. Oh, for sure.

[Ebro Darden]

But what I'm saying is that's joy in there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There's joy in there. Joy in there. And. And you will be okay.

[Ebro Darden]

But he just don't want you.

[Griff]

Yeah. And I just think you should.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know why you're doing, to

[Caller/Guest]

be honest with you.

[Ebro Darden]

She knows that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why is he doing it?

[Ebro Darden]

But no, she doesn't.

[Griff]

There's hope.

[Ebro Darden]

She does. No, she's heard it. She heard it. She heard it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But she says she's devastated. She's feeling it. Like, I think she's feeling it. Sorry, Laura, what were you saying?

[Griff]

No, I just feel like, to your point, you can lean into, like, yo, I picked a great father for my child.

[Ebro Darden]

There you go.

[Griff]

And he did an incredible job, doing an incredible job to our. To our heart. You know what I mean? Because to you and to him, that's what you will always have in common, this wonderful child. That's your connection. But that's the. To me. To your point of, like, he's always going to be there in that sense. I feel like she should lean into it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's a. That's something he's not. Because when. When you don't have that, it is sort of like a death because the person is gone from your life.

[Ebro Darden]

How about this?

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's not what's happening.

[Ebro Darden]

How about this? The more you embrace where he wants to go and what he wants to do and be a real friend and supportive and try to keep whatever connection that is positive. The positive pieces healthy. And you work on focusing on, you know what, people grow apart, things change, yada, yada, yada. That can hopefully get you guys to a great place of being awesome co parents and friends.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And. And something that is very healthy. Doesn't have the romantic part, but it is very healthy for your son and for you to know. You know what? We had a great run. It was beautiful. It was magical. And even the way it ended was nice.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's all positive. And I'll also say on the hope front, the more that you accept this and just find ways to be positive and do your own thing, if there ever was going to be a shot, it will come from you handling it well and doing your best. That's how it goes.

[Griff]

And just to put the cherry on top, you're 34. You have a whole life ahead of you. You can discover yourself, maybe truly find who you really are.

[Ebro Darden]

And what we're really not even asking is, you know, does this come down to like the sex part, Bro, been with you also since he was a kid. Is what he really saying is, I'm tired of hitting it. I'm tired of this sex. I love our life. I love you. You're awesome. Doing this with you still is just not doing it for me no more. And as. As you, if you can mature and have a mature conversation about that, that's a real thing that people just don't frame that way. And I know I'm being crass, but

[Laura Rosenberg]

sometimes people about how lame people are,

[Ebro Darden]

that's how people get.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, men are like that too. Like, it's that important to them to

[Ebro Darden]

be like, but I'm just bored hitting this, yo.

[Griff]

But regardless, he doesn't want you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right? And if that. And if that is the case that he's just bored hitting this, consider this a blessing. If you're willing to walk out on 20 years and a kid because you need to go get some new, then guess what?

[Ebro Darden]

Guess what? It's. I'm not saying something that hasn't happened and people haven't done. Or it's like, no, you're saying the truth. But once again, he the same way. She's like, I don't remember who I was. He never found out who he was either.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right?

[Ebro Darden]

He's still a guy that's like, yo, I. This is the only thing I ever had.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, he wants. He. There's probably a part of him that still wants the challenge. He wants to know if he's cool. He wants to know if he can get other people.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He wants to feel validated. I just only had. Trust me, trust me. That's probably a big part of it. But you can't fix that for him.

[Ebro Darden]

No, but. But the reason I'm putting that on the table for her, so maybe she can understand this doesn't even have anything to necessarily do with you as a person.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

Right. Like, you could be a phenomenal person. You guys got a phenomenal life and a phenomenal connection. And he's just like, I want to go have some other punani.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Facts.

[Ebro Darden]

And that's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And.

[Ebro Darden]

But I can't tell you that. I mean, so he could try, but that might send it into a whole other spiral. But maturity is that, you know, if you guys have a chance to talk, being mature, being open minded, having honest dialogue could go a long way.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm sorry, though. It's. I'm gonna be honest with you. It sucks. And it won't be, you know, if it does it turn out to be the end. It won't take full 10 years for you to. To be all right, but it's gonna take some time.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And just walk in the kitchen tonight and be like, yo, is this just you're bored having sex with me?

[Griff]

No, just pour into yourself. That's it.

[Ebro Darden]

Just ask himself. Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And by the way, I mean, listen, if that was the real conversation though, then it could be like, hey, maybe I want to explore something else. Sometimes a break can be useful, you know, but it requires a lot.

[Griff]

I'm done.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But Ebro might be right. He might be so scared of saying, I just want to go hook up with other women, that he now has to burn the whole thing down. When really might be like, I don't want to burn the whole thing down. I love you, but I want to have sex with other people.

[Griff]

Yeah, but what if she's not open to an open relationship?

[Ebro Darden]

But I think they should at least have that convo so that she can understand that this isn't. Has. Has nothing to do with her.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Listen, there are people out there who are like, hey, if I have to choose between you having sex with other people and being alone, I would rather be alone. There are other people who would go,

[Ebro Darden]

man, I'm tired of having sex with you too. This is a great idea, and I

[Laura Rosenberg]

don't want to think about you having sex with other people, but let's go do our thing for a while and reconvene, have some fun. You know what I'm saying? And I don't want to lose you.

[Ebro Darden]

Forever. Or in the chat right now? Because I. I don't know. I don't know if. I don't know if. If we've had this conversation. I don't recall where I had it, but the amount of married people that live in different places, like down the street from each other or around the corner or near each other. They're married. They have different houses. The numbers are very high. Higher than you'd expect.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I'm sure we keep talking about that.

[Griff]

I don't know anyone, so.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know. Me neither.

[Ebro Darden]

That live. They're married. No, they're married.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We're not sophisticated, Laura.

[Ebro Darden]

And they live in separate places.

[Griff]

Charlie Ralph is the only one I know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Charlie Ralph. You're good.

[Ebro Darden]

You got one. I was shocked by the amount of how common it was.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow. Good luck, miss. We're sorry. We're there for you.

[Ebro Darden]

Damn.

[Griff]

Sending you love.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nope. We don't need an outro. We don't need that. We just need the outro.

[Ebro Darden]

Music, please stop.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Stop it. And stop playing the intro so loud. You play the music so loud, it's like. It's. It's like he thinks we're in Lion King.

[Ebro Darden]

Speaking of Lion King. Speaking of Lion King, did you see the. Did you see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I'd already. I'd already seen the clip.

[Ebro Darden]

No, not the one.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The Lem response.

[Ebro Darden]

The. The guy who actually sang his response.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes, I know Lebow.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, you told us.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I reached out to try to get him to see if he could pop on.

[Ebro Darden]

What'd he say?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know. His assistant hit me back and said, Mr. Lebom will let us know. Know. But I said, we'd love to talk about it.

[Ebro Darden]

So if you. If you don't know. There was a comedian who's. I don't know which country in Africa he's from, but he was sitting up with Godfrey and them joking about the lyrics to the Lion King song and

[Laura Rosenberg]

how simple they are.

[Ebro Darden]

And how simple they are, when truthfully, they're not simple. But if you read them on paper without context, it could come off. But he was just being funny.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. I spent New Year's with Lebo M years ago in South Africa.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Great guy.

[Ebro Darden]

Seemingly very, very popular. Anyway, people have. Since it's gone viral, people have now, you know, it got to Lebo M and he called the dude an idiot.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And actually went through the lyrics and was like. And. But then the comedian didn't want to, like, apologize or.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Lebow just wanted to, you know, show some respect for these great lyrics. These Lion King bars.

[Ebro Darden]

Real quick.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Shout out to Jeffrey, man. Jeffrey Cabrera coming through. Thank you, buddy. Yo, Rick said I'm subscribed to both. Plus I got my family to follow the YouTube channel. You? Yeah, he's subscribed to Patreon and he's throwing us.

[Ebro Darden]

Appreciate you.

[Griff]

Yo, Rick.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Bethania 2011 came through. Fred said you guys are awesome. Much respect always from. No, I can't call you that. Word. The Village R word. I'm not calling you that. Any shouts. Producer Griff Nell just came through and threw us 20 bucks on the love.

[Ebro Darden]

Thanks.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Love. My twins. 08 through 20 bucks and said love the show. Laura, we need the Bochinje crew T shirts.

[Griff]

Oh, God.

[Ebro Darden]

And Laura, have you been in the boat? CJ chat.

[Griff]

I. You know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get in there.

[Ebro Darden]

The answer is no, Tina.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Chrissy also came through and blessed us too. Thank you, Tina.

[Ebro Darden]

Instead of just being like, no, I have not. I've been busy doing other things.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm gonna jump in there today. Thanks, guys.

[Ebro Darden]

Can we do something for people who can't afford to to be in the super chat? Cuz now I feel bad every. Every day we're shouting out people who donate money. Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Give money we can have a portion of. How about we pick a portion a few times a week where I just. We jump in the regular chat and just try to grab.

[Ebro Darden]

And we're looking for birthday shouts or you know, something positive vibe, something that we could share with the larger group. Not just your shenanigans.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Shouts to Craig Valentine. Shouts to Spanx's dynamite, Judon Foster, Jerry Dub, Jess, Jessica Fury. Is that guy Chino Newark Marley, Craig Valentine. Armed and dangerous. There you go.

[Ebro Darden]

That was a long Zach.

[Griff]

Shout out to Spanx. She's been with us like for years. Goes hard, always consistent.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, we appreciate that.

[Ebro Darden]

Does she wear Spanx, you think?

[Griff]

I don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But shouts to mama, Squish, Miguel Baez, Lizzie McD. That's dope. Thanks.

[Ebro Darden]

Shout out to all the guys that in their relationship.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hip hop heist. Happy birthday.

[Ebro Darden]

You got out there and you just told your lady. You know what? I'm tired of hitting it. I need something new, you know what I'm saying? He was honest. Shout out to all the guys. Were able to pull that together and

[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

There you go.

[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

Not good. It's not good. But listen, this is why I'm against getting in serious relationships, young man. Some of y' all be too young to be having all these kids.

[Griff]

And being married by 22 is crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Crazy 25.

[Griff]

I even think 28.

[Ebro Darden]

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[Griff]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Griff]

What do I do?

[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Caller/Guest]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Griff]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

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