65.) Freedom Friday + Clearing the Air (3/27/26)

Summary

The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show

Episode 65: Freedom Friday + Clearing the Air (3/27/26)
Date: March 27, 2026
Hosts: Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, Peter Rosenberg

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Episode Overview

This "Freedom Friday" episode is classic Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg: a dynamic mix of pop culture breakdowns, honest debate, and unfiltered reactions, all wrapped in their signature humor and chemistry. The trio moves fluidly from nostalgia and media commentary to mailbag wisdom and family moments, all while reflecting on their transition from legacy radio to all-digital independence. Listeners get insider insights on industry shifts, personal stories, and community engagement—plus the usual comedic banter and rapid-fire topical pivots that make ELR’s Friday shows beloved by fans.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Nostalgia & Pop Culture: DuckTales and Hall & Oates

[01:49–04:55]

• DuckTales Theme Song:
  • Ebro shares a viral video celebrating how “fire” the DuckTales theme is, sparking a brief, high-energy panel nostalgia moment.
    • Ebro: “The DuckTales theme song had no business being this fire!” (02:01)
    • Laura: “I used to dream about diving into gold coins.” (02:13)
  • Discussion of the blue-eyed soul sound, its composer Mark Mueller, and whether Hall & Oates could have written it.
• Potential John Oates Interview:
  • Ebro mentions a potential upcoming interview with John Oates (of Hall & Oates) for his Hulu show, joking about who's cooler in Hall & Oates and referencing their now-mended feud.

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2. Shifting the Media Landscape: Old School vs. New School & Industry Reflections

[05:01–14:47]

• Rosenberg’s Career Shift:
  • Excerpt from Demizza’s coverage [06:21] underscores Rosenberg’s move from Hot 97 to “multi-platform storytelling” and his new Hulu music-driven series, Double or Nothing.
  • The hosts discuss legacy radio's transition into digital, the challenges and creative freedom that come with doing their show independently, and the changing media “scorekeeping.”
    • Ebro: “Some people are keeping score in a game that we were not playing.” (08:58)
    • Peter: “It’s interesting that with the… perception that it’s all new, for us, that it’s all new.” (08:56)
• Beefs, Gatekeeping, and YouTube:
  • They unpack their differences (and occasional tensions) with figures like DJ Akademiks and Vlad, the cultural conflict between legacy voices and fast-paced digital personalities.
  • Discussion about YouTube output:
    • Ebro: “DJ Vlad’s popular YouTube channel has 50,000 videos. We’re playing different games completely.” (10:14)

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3. NYC Issues: Pothole Blitz & Transparency in Local Politics

[12:38–16:45]

• Mayor “Mom Donnie’s” Pothole Campaign:
  • Peter recaps NYC Mayor’s “pothole blitz,” with citywide transparency and publicized repair hotlines.
  • Open question as to whether these efforts are real improvements or just propaganda.
    • Ebro: “It’s great to see...” about pothole fixes, but openly questions the follow-through (14:13–14:16)
• Social Media Scandals:
  • Hosts discuss the fallout from the mayor’s wife's old tweets, expressing disappointment and frustration over vetting and handling of political optics.
    • Laura: “Why didn’t his team do a better job... that’s the first thing that popped into my mind.” (14:59)
    • Ebro: “None of it’s great, but at the same time, she’s not mayor. I just want the guy to do a good job.” (15:49)

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4. Listener Mailbag – Emotional Support & Real-life Advice

Condolences for Listener’s Loss [17:24–19:53]

• Laura & panel read a touching email about a listener’s wife losing her father, offering support and reflections on grief.
  • Laura: “Sending you guys a lot of love…” (17:53)
  • Rosenberg: “If you’ve been through it, like myself… it’s natural. You gotta go through the process.” (18:56)
  • Ebro: “The natural order of a parent dying is not nearly as bad but still sucks ass. That’s the amazing part…” (19:22)

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5. Advice & Social Commentary: Race, Relationships, and Modern Work-Life

"Play That Funky Music, White Boy" Email [22:33–27:54]

• White woman with biracial children wonders if she’s “race obsessed” for thinking about dating dynamics and scarcity of good Black men for her friends.
  • Peter: “We’re all race obsessed. We live in a race obsessed society. Everything’s about race—it’s not our fault.” (24:33)
  • Laura: “Just a good human. That’s what you want.” (25:24)
• Extended talk about interracial dating, cultural expectations, and that, ultimately, love is about finding a good person.
• Light debate and jokes around dating preferences and community perceptions.

Workplace Politics [65:16–71:13]

• Female manager in hospitality writes in about being singled out for lateness while caring for her child; asks if she should fight the write-up or focus on finding new work.
  • Peter: “The fact of the matter is if you weren’t late, they wouldn’t have anything to say to you … you’re already arguing from a point of weakness.” (69:34–69:58)
  • Gurus’ advice: Acknowledge the issue, correct behavior, don’t rock the boat—focus on exiting to a better environment.

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6. Personal Finance & Retirement Wisdom

[37:53–42:31]

• The hosts offer reflections on the reality of retirement, college costs, and smart investing.
  • Peter: “College ain’t necessarily gonna get you a good job… you have to be more knowledgeable about investment, property ownership, making sure your investments lead to your retirement than I think any other generation.” (38:26)
  • Discussion of 529s vs. money market accounts and advice for saving for kids’ educations or future needs.

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7. Health & Community Support

Bell’s Palsy, Stress, and the Impact of Environment [42:31–44:53]

• Laura shares news of friend and WBLR personality Déjà Vu’s health challenges (facial paralysis).
• Talk about the insidiousness of stress—how it affects individuals differently, especially based on upbringing and environment.
  • Ebro: “Being completely stressed is normal. And you don’t know that.” (43:59)

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8. Family Matters & Real-Life Moments

Pierced Ears Stories [48:29–52:16]

• Both Laura and Ebro share audio/video and real-time reactions to their young daughters getting their ears pierced—the family prep, nerves, and the generational “when is the right time” debate.
  • Laura: “I wanted to pierce her ears as soon as she came out…” (48:31)
  • Ebro: “It’s different when you know you’re choosing to do something physical to them.” (52:02)

Voice Notes & Listener Segments [45:01–55:18]

• Shoutouts from the Bronx and calls for more Rosenberg “impression” content (Russian Rosenberg, “Redneck Rosenberg,” etc).
  • Steve in the Bronx: “Not for being a hip hop purist… but for those damn impressions!” (45:25)
• Suggestion from Ebro’s partner Jazz for new Family Friday segments (“Do For Love”; “Your Mom’s In My Business”).
  • Team considers integrating them as Gurus sub-segments rather than standalones.
  • Laura: “If you feel like wow, this is really talking to me—write us!” (57:04)

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9. Show Transition, Self-Promotion & Social Media Vulnerabilities

[58:13–62:51]

• The hosts reflect on the challenges and feelings around posting professional “wins” on social while keeping authenticity.
  • Ebro: “Because we’re so annoyed about the concept of social media being ‘look how cool I am’… Because the three of us kind of, I think, live by the idea that the coolest things we do, we don’t post.” (58:46)
  • Peter: “I always hear this thing in the back of my head going, so what, Ebro? We’re tired of you.” (61:10)

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10. Celebrating Community & Show’s Purpose

Listener Testimonials & Closing Thoughts [35:12–37:44; throughout]

• Heartfelt emails from multi-generational listeners crediting the show for inspiring resilience and family dialogue.
  • Listener: “The historical institution where [the show] started, but you are the heartbeat and the pulse of the people. Thank you for keeping it going.” (37:32)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• [01:04] Laura: “We’re the greatest partners of all time.”
• [08:58] Ebro: “Some people are keeping score in a game that we were not playing.”
• [24:33] Peter: “We’re all race obsessed. We live in a race obsessed society…”
• [19:22] Ebro: “The natural order of a parent dying is not nearly as bad but still sucks ass. That’s the amazing part...”
• [42:31] Laura: “Deja Vu… half of her face is paralyzed. Just to remind you how common it is…”
• [38:26] Peter: “College ain’t necessarily gonna get you a good job… you have to actually be more knowledgeable about investment, property ownership...”
• [45:25] Steve in the Bronx: “Give Rosenberg his first flowers—not for being a hip hop purist, but for those damn impressions…”
• [52:02] Ebro: “It’s different when you know you’re choosing to do something physical to them.”

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Key Timestamps

• [01:49] DuckTales viral intro; pop culture nostalgia
• [06:21] Demizza/Narrator: Rosenberg’s career moves + DJ Akademiks conflict
• [12:38] Pothole blitz & NYC transparency
• [17:31] Listener condolences – grief and healing discussion
• [22:33] Race, relationships & “gentrifying the dating market?”
• [37:53] Overcoming health adversity and workplace adversity
• [42:31] Bell’s Palsy – stress and health stories
• [48:31] Family Matters: ear-piercing milestone
• [54:13] Jazz’s “Do For Love / Mom’s in My Business” segment ideas
• [65:16] Workplace “op” advice: being singled out; find a new job
• [58:46] Posting wins on social media—showing gratitude vs. showing off

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Tone & Energy

The episode is warm, candid, and fast-paced. There’s a sense of community and realness—balancing humor with vulnerability—as the team navigates everything from barbed industry rivalries to personal and family challenges. Listeners are included in the journey, whether it’s through submitted dilemmas, shared grief, or big and small victories. The show exudes a uniquely New York resilience while broadening the conversation for a global, digital audience.

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For New & Returning Listeners

If you haven’t caught the show before, this episode is quintessential ELR: no topic is off-limits, listener emails are given heartfelt attention, and the hosts address the real-life changes facing both themselves and their audience. Their independent digital relaunch means even more direct engagement, industry transparency, and community-driven content—anchored by three media veterans who remain as honest, funny, and culturally resonant as ever.

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Connect with the Show:

• Twitter/X: @theelrshow
• TikTok: @ebrolaurarosenberg
• Email submissions: (various, including [e-mail])

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Note: Ad reads, intro/outro music, and other promotional segments omitted for clarity and content focus.

Transcript

[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Laura Styles]

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[Isaac Wayne]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

come home to Disney. Let's go get ready for a new case.

[Laura Styles]

We're the greatest partners of all time.

[Jazz]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

last name the Snake Dream Team get new habitats.

[Laura Styles]

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

Just don't call it a podcast. The Ebro Laura Rosenberg show. Okay, Ebro and Laura and Rosenberg on a Frau for for Friday.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes, Laura, is there anything that hit that that you more agreed with in the algorithm of things you saw this week than the video I sent you of the guy rocking out saying the DuckTales theme song had no business being this fire?

[Laura Styles]

That was so good, yo, the guy.

[Ebro Darden]

But the way it's a straight up blue eyed soul banger. It literally sounds like a Hall of Notes record.

[Laura Styles]

I think people forget, but I told Rosenberg. Yeah, I used to dream about diving into gold coins.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, that was Laura's response. I used to sit there and dream of diving into gold coins.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now it's a fire intro.

[Ebro Darden]

Fire intro. Life is like a hurricane. They really nailed it. Who wrote that joint?

[Laura Styles]

It is fire, Fire, fire, fire.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, you know who we might get on the program?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Who's that?

[Ebro Darden]

I got a text last week when the announcement came out about my show in development in Hulu at Hulu.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Someone reached out who I know through something else who works at A publishing company. And he was like, hey, I saw about your show. It's gonna get flagged, though. It's on. It's on streaming. I checked.

[Laura Styles]

History.

[Ebro Darden]

Fire. I'm surprised. You know, it feels like too young for you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It is. I think I. I recall I used to go to someone's house after school

[Ebro Darden]

and like, their little sibling kids were

[Peter Rosenberg]

watching it, like a little sibling.

[Laura Styles]

And I was like, too fire for you to ignore?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I don't know. I just heard it a lot for some reason.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, you feel, like, slightly old for

[Peter Rosenberg]

it, but I can't remember a show.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, the show was good too.

[Laura Styles]

Fun show. Okay, Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

So. So real quick.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, okay. It was written by Mark Mueller.

[Ebro Darden]

Mark Mueller.

[Laura Styles]

He wrote the demo in less than an hour airing, aiming for pop radio sound rather than a traditional cartoon song.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I got needs a remix. That sounded thin. I'm gonna keep it on it didn't I? I remember a little bit more oomph.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Well, by the way, maybe the version available for streaming is not the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Anyways, this person reached out because they were like, hey, I have a client who could be interesting for your Hulu show. And I said, oh, yeah, cool. Possibly. I said, would that person be up for doing an interview? And they're going to be in town in October. And that person is, Ladies and gentlemen, John Oates of Hall and Oates. And I said, that would be a fun conversation.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's like, who's cooler, John?

[Ebro Darden]

Or, I don't know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Didn't they have a falling out yet? Something.

[Ebro Darden]

They mended it. I think they recently figured it out.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know. Truthfully, I don't know. This is one of the things to have the conversation about. I don't know exactly. I kind of feel like it might be Hall. I feel like it's always the main guy. That's often the problem in the situation.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Daryl Hall, John Oates.

[Ebro Darden]

Darrell hall is seen as the bigger of the two because Oats the block. Yeah. Oats's crazy mustache.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Crazy fits. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

But, but, but his, like, harmonizing was fire, too. But Daryl.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And he did some producing too, right?

[Ebro Darden]

Or something. I. I don't know who did more producing anyways, though. I said we'd love to have a conversation sometime, though.

[Laura Styles]

That's pretty cool.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I like to hear yo things we didn't get to this week. Speaking of Rosenberg's Hulu situation, shout out to my Guy Demizza, who did a little coverage on you in the whole academics kerfuffle this week.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You saw, you saw that clip. Handy Rasan, what number was that?

[Ebro Darden]

Griff, the Mizza who's like, he found himself in a new. His. Well, how would you describe what his. His brand?

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's like a industry. Music industry news Instagram reporter. Yeah, slash. But I know he's doing some other endeavors too, so I don't want to.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no. But for his social media.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, social media, definitely. Like. And he'll hit you with the. What's his little catchphrase?

[Laura Styles]

Story developing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, story developing. Yeah, he'll. He'll close. So he's leaning in on like, you know, this week. He's got a little voice too.

[Laura Styles]

It's cool. It's cool.

[Ebro Darden]

But he, for recent years, he hadn't been in front of the mic right. Well, he been behind the scenes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So the backstory on Demizza, I met him when he was Assistant Program Director, Power106LADJ and then also ended up putting out producing records and. And putting out records right too. And you know, he's got records with Jermaine Dupree. He's got. Right. Like Mariah remixes. Like he did a lot of. A lot of notable things. You got the clip though, of our guy.

[Narrator]

Peter Rosenberg is stepping into a new phase of his career after leaving Hot 97 and launching a new show alongside Ebro and Laura Styles. At the same time, he's expanding into television as a creator and executive producer of the upcoming Hulu comedy Double or Nothing. A music driven series centered around generational contrast and creative reinvention. Move marks a clear evolution from traditional radio into multi platform storytelling, positioning Rosenberg as part of a broader shift in hip hop media. You gotta tip your hat to that. He's also been moving across platforms for years, including his role as a regular commentator on the wwe. Now on the Ebro side, it's heating up. A recent on air clash with DJ Akademiks highlights the growing divide between legacy voices rooted in radio culture and relationships, and new digital personalities built on speed, volume and online influence. The feud has gotten personal with Ebro openly questioning academics credibility, while academics has fired back at traditional media, accusing it of bias and gatekeeping, especially when it comes to artists like Drake. But if you zoom out, this is bigger than both of them. While the approaches differ, both represent powerful models in today's landscape, underscoring that the future of media isn't just about choosing sides. It's about understanding how to operate across all platforms. And as the ecosystem continues to expand. Congratulations, Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

Hey, thanks man, that was nice. I appreciate it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Interesting enough, which I. Which is. Which is funny. As long as we've been making digital things, we crack jokes about this. We've been on YouTube at least I have since 2004 or 5. Rosemary, you've been on YouTube doing stuff since oh, 5? Yeah. Most of the stuff that we were putting on the Hot 97 channel when we were there, we allowed them to run that and their teams to run that. So we weren't really able to. Even as much as we push it would be based on staffing and what the priorities of the business are. We weren't able to say, hey, put this out, do this here, do that there. We did take some things under our own kind of management for social media with, you know, certain IG accounts and things like that. But yeah, it's interesting that with the

[Ebro Darden]

look, the perception that it's all new

[Peter Rosenberg]

for us, that it's all new.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. I realized when I was having that conversation the other day about how some people are keeping score in a game that we were not playing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

It's almost as if, when I've had my back and forth with the Vlads and the academics of the world, it's as if they're saying, like. Because I'm sure in insulting them, maybe at times I've been like, whatever, YouTuber. I'm sure I've said something like that while being annoyed, but they're acting as if, like, I'm taking a dump. Like, that's not a good way to handle your business.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, no, but it's not that.

[Ebro Darden]

It's that you tried to. You dumped completely on the fact that we enjoyed old media. Like, that is literally what our passion was. No one, no one said, hey, don't do YouTube. In fact, we were on YouTube. It just wasn't our endeavor. I looked the other day when I think Vlad had threatened to. Wanted to box me or whatever it was and in thinking about keeping how we keep score differently, because I remember one of the things he did was he pulled up my YouTube channel and was like, Rosenberg's had this YouTube channel for X amount of years. He has 50,000 subscribers.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's pretty good.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, Ebro. Exactly. I only have a couple hundred videos over the last 20 years.

[Laura Styles]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

So for fun again, just. And not to point out that this is, like, bad, but just how different our approach is to.

[Peter Rosenberg]

To work.

[Ebro Darden]

DJ Vlad's popular YouTube channel has 50,000 videos. 50,000 videos. This is a completely different. Yeah, we're playing different games completely.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Why? But now that we are also at that level, of speed and. And moving. Because the controversy, or a part of the controversy even in this studio that y' all looking at on this family fought Friday, which we're getting to big stuff. The controversy exists that I was building this space regardless of where the Hot 97 relationship was going. Because over years of me pushing and prodding and trying to work with different management, ownership changes, the speed at which and the items that they put out weren't up to par. That was like a whole thing. But I believe in the Hot 97 brand. Like, I think it's a great brand. It serves a great community, and I was glad to be a part of it.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, and we loved the daily radio that you can, like, just catch people on the radio.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But the amount of content that we were making every day, 80% of it, 90% of it was not being seen or marketed. That was a problem.

[Laura Styles]

90%.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

For sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

For the convers, even just now. Yes. You would see. Congratulations. You played yourself a little bit. You would see Laura talking about whatever's going on in the news. But the conversations that you guys have subscribed to either here on YouTube and you're hitting the hype button and doing all the things shout out to the Yellow army or y' all that are on Patreon and people are walking up like, yo, I love. I love the combos you're having. I'm like, wow, you really didn't.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. Some people are just brand new.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They never heard our conversation. They think we're on this now. They think us talking about you talking about Israel. The way you talk about it is a newfound thing for you.

[Ebro Darden]

Right. In the last. Since December.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They can go on YouTube right now. What year was that? We talked to AOC when people. 2018, where we're calling Israel a white supremacist institution. I'm calling Netanyahu a racist. I'm sitting down with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez before she was even really on most of Yalls radar.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So they just didn't know.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. So it looks. So as a result, it makes it look as if we're brand and we are new to it in the sense that this is our place, that we go every day.

[Laura Styles]

Correct.

[Ebro Darden]

But anyways, shouts to the Mizza is the point.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes. Big up to Dumiza. Another thing I missed this week. Are you. Have you guys been following the mom? Donnie. Transparency on the potholes. And do you like it?

[Laura Styles]

I saw it. Yeah. I'm with it.

[Ebro Darden]

What's the transparency on the pot?

[Peter Rosenberg]

So you didn't see it. Do you have that? Rahsaan. Let's take a look at these slides up here.

[Ebro Darden]

I apologize. I'm a little behind. Sorry.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's okay. He had a pothole blitz. This is from mom Donnie's Instagram account. Not a rush, mayor. There's. But there's potholes everywhere. My time literally crying, hang up. My car tires are hanging on by a threat.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. He wrote on it, right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, you went one too far.

[Ebro Darden]

Pothole blitz.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That was Saturday. Pothole blitz one. And then they had a number you could call. And then you have the next slide after that. Or was just those two.

[Laura Styles]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, they were like.

[Laura Styles]

He was hiring people for it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He was hiring people, investing in getting people out to work, covering potholes. They did some sort of, like 20,000 different potholes. And we're like, yo, hit this number. And with 36 hours, we'll be there to cover Powells.

[Ebro Darden]

And so what's the. What's the interesting part? Besides, like, that's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't remember a time when this type of conversation was taking place, because potholes have always been a convo.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And you, as a non New Yorker, but who has been here for a long time, do you remember a time?

[Ebro Darden]

No, I don't. But there's still a pothole that I'm dealing with every day.

[Laura Styles]

I mean. Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

Are you reporting? I didn't report it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Got to report them.

[Ebro Darden]

96th street off the west side High. I would have thought someone would have seen this. Right. As you enter on 96th street to the west side Highway. But not. It is a problem. So it's great to see that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, and then for the chat, we didn't get to it this week, but are the. Are they. Is this real or is this propaganda?

[Ebro Darden]

You mean, is it really getting done?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is it. I've seen it get done. I've seen some things change. But is it affecting your life? I would love to see in the chat. If you live in the city, in

[Laura Styles]

New York City, I doubt it's propaganda. Do you know he's being. They look at him with a microscope.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Laura Styles]

So they're waiting for any type of, like, you know, lie or, you know what I mean, to come at him. So I don't think I. I think they know that. So why would they put false information out?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Where are you at on his wife's old tweets?

[Laura Styles]

I don't know. You know, I was looking at some of them, and I was just like, ew. Yeah, I thought they were gross. I was like, girl. And then you.

[Ebro Darden]

Ah.

[Laura Styles]

I, I. To be honest with, the first thing that came to my mind is like, why didn't his team do a better job of, like, going, doing a background check and checking everything that was out there? Because, you know, when he started his campaign, they were already, you know, taking. Pulling him apart. So I just thought that's the first thing that popped into my mind.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What about you?

[Ebro Darden]

I'm sending. Sending a text to his team right now.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What are you saying? We're talking about his wife's tweet I

[Ebro Darden]

wrote, so how about just so. Because now we're into full.

[Laura Styles]

Like, I know I'm talking to somebody on his team, too, and I'm just like. They were like, are you okay with just not.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, he's doing potholes, guys.

[Laura Styles]

And I was just like. I mean, we would like an update.

[Ebro Darden]

I get it. No, I still see him out. He's still. He's making time to talk to, you know, other influencers and different people. He's got time. He's got time to chat with people.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We're not influential enough. And you're not from New York City.

[Ebro Darden]

Facts. And I. I feel that the Weiss stuff is. Yeah. How'd they not clean it up sooner? Her. Her comments on October 7th were not good at all. The N word thing was not good. It was from 2013. You make of that what you want A long time ago. None of it's great. None of it's great, but at the same time, she's not mayor, so I just want the guy to do a good job.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. You know, and back to Ebro's point, I don't remember a time when anybody was like, potholes is an everyday problem. We're going to find a solution and we're gonna work on it and execute. I don't remember.

[Ebro Darden]

I remember Eric Adams saying he was gonna solve the rat problem.

[Laura Styles]

I mean, yeah, he had a red zar, remember?

[Ebro Darden]

But it did not happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Congratulations.

[Laura Styles]

You played out here, giving each other high fives.

[Ebro Darden]

Where's the trash? What happened to those, like, super, state of the art trash bins?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I see some of the trash bins.

[Ebro Darden]

They. Are they there?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Cuz I. I don't see them somewhere. I see him.

[Ebro Darden]

You see them in Brooklyn?

[Laura Styles]

I don't see. I haven't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I see them from time to time when I'm driving around the city late. I see them.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Out on people's.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Near where I'm at. I've not seen them yet. Those trash cans that was supposed to Be such a thing. So congratulations. Maybe it was caught up in the $5.4 billion that was lost. You know what I mean? But I do. I would like to hear from Mom Donnie, though.

[Laura Styles]

Yes, we. I think we all would.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Freedom Friday. Friday. Freedom. Fat Friday. Family time.

[Ebro Darden]

There it is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You guys want to get to the emails? Ebro Law, Rosenberg, Gmail, or do you want to go to family matters first? What are you guys feeling? What's the vibes? What are you feeling right now?

[Ebro Darden]

I'll do. I'll do whatever you guys want. I'm.

[Laura Styles]

I'm feeling Family Matters. Okay, let's do. Let's do some emails.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Emails it in.

[Ebro Darden]

Here we go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Laura Styles]

All right. Can I start?

[Ebro Darden]

Go.

[Laura Styles]

All right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I just felt like I wanted something

[Ebro Darden]

coming up on a hot Friday.

[Laura Styles]

All right, guys, it's your guy, your AI guy, Dennis here. Glad to see you guys are all doing great. Congrats to Ibrah on his birthday and Rahsaan on his newborn. I was wondering if you could extend your condolences to my wife, Hannah. Last week, she lost her father due to old age. Her mother passed at age 50 several years ago. May they finally be at peace together.

[Ebro Darden]

Aw.

[Laura Styles]

Sending you guys a lot of love. He passed the moment she boarded the plane to see. See him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Damn.

[Laura Styles]

Luckily, he knew in his last moments that his children planned on flying in for him all the way from Amsterdam to Jakarta. And, of course, you are the favorites. And Hannah especially loves the guru segments. I thought it might be lovely, a lovely gesture if you guys got to, you know, share some condolences and thank you all so much. A man, we're sending you so much love. That's a tough situation, man. Especially, you know, when you're, like, on your way to see somebody.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, that's. I'm sorry, Hannah. That's. That's just terrible. I listen, from what I hear, I haven't been through this. From what I hear, everyone's parents die. And from also what I hear, it's never great. Yeah, it seems to be varying degrees of not great.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It'll never be great. Not like America. It'll never be great.

[Ebro Darden]

It's never getting made great again.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It'll ever be made great to lose parents, it's just.

[Laura Styles]

But sending you love.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I will say to anybody out there who has been through it, like myself, who has lost both parents, you're gonna have to go through the process. There's no way around the process. But while you're going through the process, maybe you can remind yourself that it's natural.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And I hope that, I mean that's all you got. That's really all you got.

[Ebro Darden]

And I hope that helps.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's all you got. I was just trying to get you something.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, it's that that's the natural order of things. Right. The unnatural order of a child dying we all know is the worst thing that could possibly happen. The natural order of a parent dying is not nearly as bad but still sucks ass. That's the amazing part. It's what's supposed to happen and still sucks. And I feel so grateful to have my parents and I think about you guys when I get to be with my parents that, that how lucky I am and also feel scared and watching them get older.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, and the reason I say like that's all you got is because when you're going through the process or you're thinking about all the good times or you think about the things that you wish you'd done or the, it'll. It's. I also liken it to like lifting weights where there's like, if you've ever lifted before, there's a weight that's like super, super heavy. And if you want to accomplish it, you're going to have to pick it up. Yeah, tough.

[Ebro Darden]

Over and over again.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And you have to pick it up again and again and again. So there's no, you can't really work around it. If you want to deal with that thing or accomplish that thing, go ahead.

[Laura Styles]

I will say, I don't know if this is. Oh yes, it's okay to bring it up. But I will say if you have older parents, have the conversations of how they want things to work out. Do you know what I mean? How they want to be buried. Have all the conversations. Because what you don't want to do is when it hits last minute trying to figure things out and you don't know if this is what they want. So it's a hard conversation to have. But do it, do it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Quick email shout to Cap in Detroit. He said the set list. You know the organization of the show's taking shape nicely. Loves it. Laura's rundown low down Ebro's algo but I think we're missing a spot for Rosenberg. What about Rosenberg's ran into the day a couple days a week. He's always about hot about something. Lol. Keep the great content coming. Much love.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm down for it but it can't be forced so it couldn't be like scheduled. But I could tell you guys, yo, I got one and we could Theme it on social or whatever. But like I'm not gonna. Yeah, I'm not gonna have it every day.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And does Rosenberg really need a slot? Because he takes all the slots.

[Ebro Darden]

Thank you. I do the rundown. I do the lowdown.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You do it.

[Ebro Darden]

I do Ebro's algo.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I just go, yo, it's time for Ebro's algo. I throw it up and he's like, yo, here's how I feel about this.

[Ebro Darden]

That is, by the way, I don't really sit here and thinking I have a need for a segment. I feel pretty good. And you do the gurus and I read the. Well, I'm a great email reader.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Top notch listen.

[Ebro Darden]

So validate me. I can't wait to read emails. I'm one of the great email readers you've ever seen. You know, I read emails in the afternoon too. For Judge Legreco on Fraud Friday, I'm the email reader.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Listen, and that's a good. I want you to know this. And I think about. These are things I think about as I get older in the game. What are the things that you could bring to a show just to have a gig read.

[Ebro Darden]

I could read.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's time to read with Rosenberg. You'd be like 70 years old. They got a little intro and you read emails and stuff.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Read the news with some like, you know, with academics. When he takes over everything.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, okay.

[Ebro Darden]

I'll be his reader.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You'll be his reader.

[Ebro Darden]

Act. That'll be cool if you could look out, bro, that'll be nice.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Rosenberg, what you got today? Okay,

[Ebro Darden]

let's read Katie's Katie. Last week I heard Ebro mention the term race obsessed. And it really got me thinking. I'm a white woman in a predominantly white college town in the Midwest. But now what you're picturing, I promise. But not what you're picturing, I promise. I grew up in one of the few black and brown neighborhoods in my city. All of my friends have been black women my entire life. I've always had an immense amount of love and appreciation of black culture, people and community. My homegirls are all single black women. We're all attractive, intelligent, goal driven women. Being in a college town, interracial relationships are very common. My girls constantly bring up how disappointed they feel when they see black men and white women together. I have three biracial black children and have mostly dated black men. I've been single for almost 10 years now. I don't have a physical preference, just a proximity. Due to my social circles, there's a scarcity of good black men for my girls to date. Not only that, but ish is just hard enough for black women in America, let alone our community. Perhaps I am also internalizing some of the assumptions and judgments I hear from my girls in the group chat. I thought it would be good to be more open to connecting with white guys. The problem is it can't be any old white dude. He's got to be like Rosenberg or Seth Rogen. So my question for the gurus is, am I gentrifying the dating market or are we race obsessed? How do I intentionally meet more white guys with good politics and great music taste? Or am I overthinking all of this? And is love truly just love? Signed? Play that funky music, white boy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Katie, that's funny.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, it sounds like your friends. It sounds like on some level I was thinking she might be bothered by the fact that her black friends are all saying how annoyed they are to see all the interracial relationships. She has three interracial children, so she is the white half of the interracial relationship.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She's thinking they're talking about her. And they may say, no, not you, Katie. But they are. Katie, I gotta let you know, they're talking about you. But honestly, it's also. We're all race obsessed. We live in a race obsessed society. Everything's about race and literally everything. And it's not our fault. Matter of fact, I often tell people, should talk to your forefathers. He's the people on the COVID of your money. Yeah, they set this up. We're just operating in it. And it's not up to the, the, the. The marginalized individuals to figure this out. They're just the victims of it. It's really up to the individuals who dominate the, you know, dominate everything, which tends to be white. But in your scenario, I think you need to just find somebody you like.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, that's what it sounds like.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because it is. It's hard for everyone. I hear literally everyone from all walks of life talk about how hard it is to find someone.

[Laura Styles]

A good human. Just a good human.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. And for your kids too. Like, you don't need to think about. I don't think you need to think about what race of person they end up finding. They just need find good people. Yeah, that's what I thought she said because she has. She said. Oh, oh. Maybe I misunderstood it because she said there's a scarcity of good black men for my girls to date.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She meant her son.

[Laura Styles]

Girlfriend. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Either way, the point is life's too short, bro. As much as we can have all these theories on what should be. I don't think any one of us at least would begrudge anyone who just met someone they liked.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, have you ever had a moment when you spent time thinking about, From a. From the, from the viewpoint of judgment, the race of your friends. Partners.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Only if one of the individuals is disrespectful to the cultural.

[Ebro Darden]

But again, that has things of. But that has to do with disrespect. Not. Has to do with their.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, only if it's like, oh, you're. You only like him because he feels some like, fantasy. You don't really.

[Ebro Darden]

But I can tell that you're not

[Peter Rosenberg]

really on board family. You don't like nothing about who he really is as a person. You just kind of like the idea

[Ebro Darden]

that that would have not been a thought that you had when they. When they met. You would have been a thought you had when you're like, oh, wow, you're whack. I didn't know that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And I gotta say, I've seen those scenarios. It usually heats up because of the children. It usually heats up when one or, you know, other side of the parent is like, no, I culturally want my children more engaged in this over here with my family than. And I don't really like your cultural stuff.

[Ebro Darden]

Right. We don't like how you guys like to dance and have fun at all your parties. We like to sit around and watch television. Small talk and small talk. Or my family's case, not have fun and dance, but have deep political talk constantly. The entire.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sounds like a great Friday night.

[Ebro Darden]

Sounds like. As the British guy standing next to my dad at night. Fernando said, it's like the bloody BBC.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait, what?

[Ebro Darden]

I've told you the story.

[Laura Styles]

Meanwhile, when I picture this happening in his living room, I picture my family just dancing at all hours of the night, not giving a damn about their children.

[Ebro Darden]

I told you, my dad was at. My parents were at Nando's in London and my parents were just talking, blah, blah. And at some point a stranger interrupted. It was like, you're like the bloody BBC. Because my dad was just going, so funny. My mom.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, my God.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I also want to know. I got a shout out to Omar, bro. Omar says, e Cola. My Rosenberg. Sorry, in Hawaiian. Omar, you sent six emails. My guy.

[Ebro Darden]

He said it. Oh, no, Griff said that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Griff said that. He's talking to me about Jack Harlo. Please stop. He's 30 he's young. He knows better EO something I don't know.

[Ebro Darden]

And then he's apologizing to me and go. He's going on and on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Jack had substantive relationship. Omar, relax. Appreciate the love. Six emails is a little

[Ebro Darden]

Griff said. He also said it would help if him and I had a phone call. We don't need to have a phone

[Laura Styles]

call about this phone call.

[Ebro Darden]

What?

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, Omar, in all seriousness, you might need to meet. You might need to get therapy. Better help betterhelp.com and they don't even advertise up here because you can talk to somebody about all of this.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot, Omar.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know what I mean.

[Laura Styles]

You know, a paragraph is fine.

[Ebro Darden]

Aren't we voice note time? We.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It is voice note time. Let's see what we got here. We got what about Isaac?

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Isaac Wayne]

Yo ELR family, what's good? It's Isaac Wayne checking in from California.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What music is that playing Friday?

[Isaac Wayne]

Yo, I just want to go ahead and make this real quick. The age old question that usually comes up on the show, is landline still available for people or do you got to use that Internet phone. Well, for somebody who's in the telecom industry, or used to be, straight answer is, yes, you actually can. Just depends on your infrastructure. I think Rosenberg touched on that. But, yeah, if it's your. If it's in your infrastructure and you're in your community, if you're premium needs older, more than likely you do have it at your home or out just outside in those little pedal stools. And a tip for y', all, just because we are in war. And I don't know if anybody's prepping,

[Peter Rosenberg]

but why is he talking over instrumental? Am I bugging or is he talking over instrumental?

[Isaac Wayne]

Like a big old 80s phone, cell phone has clips on the end of it you can eventually find on the wires. You clip on the wires, you find a dial tone. That's important because if there is any power out, there's a central office again, to that infrastructure somewhere in your neighborhood. You probably never see it, but that has the dial tone and will have power because it has battery backup for some time, even after we have no power. So y' all be safe. And I hope y' all just never going have to catch that butt. You feel me?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Congratulations. You played well.

[Laura Styles]

He had his own production and everything.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I knew this guy had a whole beat going on in the background. Production. Isaac. What? What? What was he talking about?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, but I'm mad that you talked over.

[Ebro Darden]

Talked over the best part about the survival phone.

[Laura Styles]

What are you talking. You're Bunker Ebro.

[Ebro Darden]

Why would you not want to know that?

[Peter Rosenberg]

He said.

[Ebro Darden]

He said there are phones that have, like, clips and you can clip them to the phone.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. Wow.

[Laura Styles]

I was like, really? I'mma Google that.

[Ebro Darden]

I kind of need this stuff, guys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're feeling like you need to know what's going on?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, bro. I don't know, man. So I'm in watching Paradise. I'm like, is this the time for me to be watching this show?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait, is there a new season?

[Laura Styles]

Yes, fam. Where have you been?

[Ebro Darden]

Whoa.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hit me with the button, yo. Bang. Congratulations. What is what? How long does it wait?

[Ebro Darden]

Episode seven aired this week.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Say what?

[Laura Styles]

I can't wait. When is the next.

[Ebro Darden]

I gotta tell you, I know this is this.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Congratulations.

[Ebro Darden]

This is for Family Friday. Ebro lives so deep in his own algo. When we talk about it, he is the example of his reality is not reality. No, I swear, Laura, he didn't know anything about the Bachelorette thing. I don't watch the Bachelorette.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Saw the headline. I just.

[Ebro Darden]

That was everywhere.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't read it. I didn't read it.

[Ebro Darden]

Sterling K. Brown. I've been trying to get Griff. We've been trying to get a hold of. He's doing everything.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He is. I haven't seen.

[Laura Styles]

Did you see him in a spirit tunnel?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

He's effing outside, bro. For what, Laura? A month. It's been a month straight.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Haven't seen everything to do everything but this show.

[Ebro Darden]

Sterling K. Brownette. We. And we watch you on the show, Sterling. He's done everything, promoted.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Are you guys sending out our metric? You know these people only come if we send them metrics. Do we have a new one sheet.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know if our metrics are enough though to be like that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But you got to send it.

[Laura Styles]

Producer Griff's sister went to school with him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I'm like, yo, company, you got to send.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no, we found. I found the public. You think I didn't find the public,

[Peter Rosenberg]

but did you send a metrics?

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know if we sent metrics, but.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because remember when we were on the. On the, on the. The big logo. When we had the big logo on the plantation, they would just come up. Because it was the plantation.

[Ebro Darden]

Correct.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And they wouldn't know nothing about us. They may have seen it depends though.

[Ebro Darden]

But I think Sterling, I think Sterling knows what time it is. I do.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I have faith. I have faith.

[Ebro Darden]

I faith.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But you guys haven't secured it. So as as of now.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I mean at least we knew it existed. 7. Your man didn't know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No man. But I'm happy.

[Ebro Darden]

It's good. Season two.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I'm happy because that means I have seven episodes or something and that, that, that's hard to find.

[Ebro Darden]

Are you watching or no? Laura, do you watch or no?

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

You're up right now.

[Laura Styles]

I'm in. Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

I have to say though, I really prefer the EP that are about Xavier and his wife more than I prefer about Katie and like the inner workings of the bubble. I care more about Sterling and his wife than I care about the.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, I do too.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, but I think that's. You guys. I gotta watch. Let me watch.

[Ebro Darden]

You think it's a this is us connection?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think you guys are holding on.

[Ebro Darden]

Well. No, I'll also say this. The show's very good. Sterling K. Brown is kind of head and shoulders in my opinion, talent wise on a different level than everyone else. Like they're good people on the show. But he's. Sterling K. Brown is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's the bee's niece. No, he's special Yo, Denise.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, that was gonna go there.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Go ahead, Laura.

[Laura Styles]

Okay. Okay. Good, Denise. Proof that guru's worth.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's the one.

[Laura Styles]

Salute to the El army generals. This email is a Freedom Friday thank you. And a little family matters. I wrote in when y' all were at the plantation, and it was Ebro and Shawnee's reminder that helped me. Ebro is a guru.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Laura Styles]

For those of us that need tough love. And no, not the garbage guru. A real deal. My current life situation has pulled inspiration, motivation from you three. And I had to say thank you. I'm fighting the masters and making my exit off a major plantation. A government employee who is in the process of medical retirement due to a serious medical condition that I want to bring awareness to because it can happen to anyone. I develop Kata Aquina syndrome and have been partially paralyzed for over a year. Oh, my God. Guys, Someone close to us. Okay, I'll tell you afterwards. I am still pushing for a full recovery. I can walk with a cane and walker so far. Oh, congratulations on the progress. I have been at it for almost a year now post surgery, and I got plans. My former supervisor, sadly, another woman of the diaspora made it impossible for me during my FMLA attempts to return to work with accommodations and other situations I won't get into. She wanted to take me out, y'.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All.

[Laura Styles]

Point blank, period.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Damn.

[Laura Styles]

It's caused me so much added stress on top of the medical situation. But I'm from around the way y', all, so punks jump off to get beat down.

[Ebro Darden]

Wow. Strong.

[Laura Styles]

I got mentally ready and started fighting back, filing my EEO and retirement before attempts to remove me with nothing. I saw how y' all are navigating your situation on the air over at the place and we shall not name and more importantly, your immediate comeback and future plans. I want to thank you for your transparency. And it reminded me, don't stop. Pause for grief, but don't dwell. Always, she said. Although there's always blood in the water, ELRV is ready to take over and the people are with you. Thank you for continuing to give us conversations on the things that matter and in the way that it should be done. With discernment and respect. Respecting the opinions of others. You teach the youth. Shout out to all the parents who expose their kids to this. And you are helping the Fox raise. Future Fox. It's a family affair. My children have grown up with the show. 23, 18, and 14. My oldest called me with joy when you guys brought back her favorite button. That's racist. And Many times our evening family conversations come from topics on the show. The plantation.

[Ebro Darden]

Maybe that's racist.

[Laura Styles]

The historical institution where it started, but you are the heartbeat and the pulse of the people. Thank you for keeping it going. This is an amazing email, yo.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm so sorry that you're dealing with that and so impressed that you're just like. She's just. She's just battling. She ain't. She ain't messing around.

[Laura Styles]

But I love her outlook on life, though.

[Ebro Darden]

That's a push.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And if there are young people watching this, and even, you know, even if you're not, you know, as. As old as I am, or maybe this emailer who has a 23, 18, and 14. There were always. We used to. And I don't know if you guys felt this way growing up where your parents were like, yo, get a good job, get your. Go to college, get a good job, buy a home, retire. That was kind of like air quotes. The American dream, right?

[Laura Styles]

That's right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That is not necessarily the order it is. College ain't necessarily gonna get you a good job, especially if you don't get a degree or something, you know, certification in something that's a growing business that can get you an actual retirement. And so you have to actually be more knowledgeable about investment property ownership, you know, making sure that your investments lead to your retirement than I think any other generation.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, I would think. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like, it's not like it used to be. Like, look, you work for the big company, they're going to give you the pension if you join the union, and you're kind of good. I remember I was looking at the pension for the union we was in. I was like, I can't live on this.

[Ebro Darden]

Right? Nope, it's not great.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It was like $150 a month.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Literally, it was something crazy. After I retired, Craig, luckily I started my own retirement because I had a friend who was in finance, and he encouraged me to get involved, and I put up my. Start my own retirement when I was 28 that I've just been paying into all these years that'll start paying me back money when I'm 60. Yeah, bro, you gotta really be on it, bro. And I wasn't putting a lot of money. It was like 150, you know, if I could raise it, maybe I was doing good. I was putting 400.

[Ebro Darden]

But adds up.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah, it adds up because they're taking that money and investing it, and you're making 5% on it every year.

[Ebro Darden]

Right. And then you stop thinking about It. You're just putting it in, and then it's just.

[Laura Styles]

It's compound interest for your kids, like starting your 529. Like, I've been putting a lot into that 529 I logged in the other day. I was like, oh, wow. Yeah, my kid's gonna be okay. You know what I mean?

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I. Other way. Other than a 529. Where you got. What's going on over here? Griff's distracted me. What happened?

[Ebro Darden]

No, no, it's. It's. It's not useful information.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Got it.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Other than a 529. I actually talked to my guy, was like, if my kid decides they don't want to go to college, what happens to this money?

[Ebro Darden]

What does happen?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, you can pull your money out, you're going to get a tax hit, but you can't use the money that you made on the investment. He explained in my. The way I understood it, so that means I invested in something that if it's not used the way they tell me to use it, I can't use the. The. The gains.

[Ebro Darden]

That's correct.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't like that.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So why don't I put the money in something where I could do both.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Do anything you want.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I did a money market account instead. I'm just putting money in that.

[Laura Styles]

But I believe it's 529. You could also go, like, as long as it's under the education. Umbrell asked about trade schools and stuff.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. That you could do that. That's.

[Laura Styles]

I don't care about that. Ken's getting an education. That's. You're doing that.

[Ebro Darden]

Right. Although, you know, these days, my feelings on education.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, no, so the. That's why when Issa was up here, remember, she was talking about the corporate job that comes from a convo I've been having for her for years, where I'm just basically like, yo, I want you to be happy first and foremost. But you got to know to survive, you have to have some sort of trade, something you can do that can always make you money, that you have a certification for, whatever that is. Find the thing. Nursing, you know, cosmetics, whatever it is. But you also in. And in that process, it's just. Yo. But you might actually also want a corporate job that you could do that if that's where you're. Makes you happy, where you get to go at nine. Because she sees me working all hours, and it's like, yeah, because my job is not your regular 9 to 5. Some people wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing. Right. They want to show up at 9, they want to leave at 5, and they don't want anyone calling them full stop when you're after business. Yeah, like I don't want to talk to you on Saturday. Like, she sees me taking calls on Saturday morning at 9am or sitting up at 10pm because I'm talking to my. In Japan or something. Like, she don't someone. She may not want that. So it's me talking. You got to talk to your kids about all of this.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah.

[Laura Styles]

Wait, you guys. So this is what I. I don't know if you guys saw, you know, our friend deja vu.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

At wbls, guys. She woke up and half of her face is paranoid.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No.

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

Bell's palsy.

[Laura Styles]

I. It's something else. But she's been wearing a mask. And the reason I'm talking about it, because she put it on social media. So she's been talking about it, but it just. Just to remind you how common it is. Whoa, guys, I know two other people who just woke up and half of their face was paralyzed. They had Bell's palsy. My two other friends.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And did it go stress now? Bell's palsy could go away though.

[Laura Styles]

Yes. But one of my friends, like you could. Could still tell like on the certain areas of his jaw that didn't. He's like 85 back.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. My other friend recovered pretty good, but.

[Jazz]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And so what's going on with deja vu?

[Laura Styles]

Facial paralysis. She's taking it day by day, and

[Ebro Darden]

all you can do is take it. Can you eat when that happens?

[Laura Styles]

I mean, yeah. I mean, it depends on how bad it is, but I think it's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's happening on the other side of your. Your mouth. Nah, man. Yo, sending love and light to our friend, man, that's terrible, Deja. But you'll get through it, man. You will get through it. And by the way, stress is toxic for your body. Super toxic. Stay on top of all your health, you know, stay active, cardio, get all the things. Do as much as you can. Change your food. Listen, because some of us are dealing with super stress and you don't even know it because your neighborhood was stressful, your family was stressful. Everything you know is stress.

[Ebro Darden]

So you don't even know. Right. Being completely stressed is normal. And you don't know that.

[Laura Styles]

So many people have that reality. You know, when I, I had to drive back to where Ricardo is from in the Bronx, I Physically could see him change. He tightens up, and he's always like. And he's like, I got to get out of here. He's like, I just don't feel good being here.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Damn.

[Laura Styles]

And he's like, I never realized how toxic my environment was until I left.

[Ebro Darden]

That's so crazy. Think about, like, how literally reverse that is of my life. If I go home to visit my parents, I may be bored, but when I pull into their neighborhood, it's literally

[Peter Rosenberg]

like, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, twee.

[Ebro Darden]

Quiet sky. Nothing to the opposite of something. I could fall asleep outside on the lawn, wouldn't think about it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, that's why I keep telling you, not from New York. That right there, they sense that on. You go home. You go home. Relax.

[Ebro Darden]

I thought it would be a statement about, like, privilege. Well, like, that's what I was trying to get to is the difference.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You ain't from New York. You ain't stressed enough.

[Ebro Darden]

But what if you're not on edge enough? Wait, but what if that neighborhood was in, like, Westchester still?

[Peter Rosenberg]

They would still might be, like, Queens. No, no, no.

[Ebro Darden]

Or like, somewhere in Queens, Long Island.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Might get you a pass. I'll give you a pass. I'll give you a pass. But that's like Flex going at P Rock from Mount Vernon. Less stressful up there. Yo, we got another voice note. Let's go. We got Steve. Hey, ELR show. This is Steve in the Bronx, bx. I want to give Rosenberg his first flowers.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes, I love flowers.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Being an Al, not for being a hip hop purist.

[Ebro Darden]

Thank you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But for those damn impressions. Always cracking me up. So my top three are Russian Rosenberg. Oh, yeah. Russian Rosenberg. And Racist. Not racist. Redneck Rosenberg. Redneck Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

Blurry line.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And then finally, real, real rap Rosenberg. Rosenberg. You know when he's like, you ain't real. Those are my favorite Rosenberg impressions. So keep up the good work, bro. And hold your head, man. These people are haters, man. And it's only because you're white. Because that whole thing about not being from New York. Cause Charlemagne is not from New York. Yeah, exactly. They don't give him grief. But he also got bopped, and you didn't get bopped, so always keep that in mind, man. All right. I love the show, guys. Keep it up. Wait, he said real Rap Rosenberg, Redneck Rosenberg, and Russian Rosenberg. That was it.

[Ebro Darden]

Russian Rosenberg is Trump's wife. Is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is really, you know. But it was also the Nets owner before.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, Mikhail Prokrov.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Exactly.

[Ebro Darden]

I forgot about that.

[Laura Styles]

Yo, and he was the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He was the owner of the New Jersey Nets.

[Ebro Darden]

New Jersey Nietzsche. Yeah. I forgot about the Brooklyn Niats. I totally forgot about that.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, my God. What about Mexican sports reporter Rosie Brooks, my friend?

[Ebro Darden]

I think that was private. I think that was just me and you. I think that was behind the scenes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yo, Laura trying to get you.

[Ebro Darden]

I was wearing an actual wig and just going up to pop. Laura.

[Laura Styles]

Ebro. Ebro. When he crossed the phone.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I can't believe Laura keeps going. She's still going.

[Laura Styles]

The photo of him in the wig pops up on my phone wearing a

[Ebro Darden]

Lakers shirt with the hat. And I'm like, yo, Mahina. Laura Styles.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, yo, listen.

[Isaac Wayne]

Love it.

[Laura Styles]

They love it.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, it's mahi.

[Laura Styles]

So funny.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, they might give you a pass. I. I can't. I can't help.

[Ebro Darden]

But you can't coach. You can't. Laura.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Laura's Guatemalan.

[Ebro Darden]

She ain't from New York, and she

[Peter Rosenberg]

don't even get along with Juanito right now. We're done. You're done. You're done. Yo, let's get to Family Matters.

[Laura Styles]

Okay,

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're done. Hey, same guy from the ducktale.

[Ebro Darden]

I saw. I saw a skit on the algo using this song this week. They took this theme song and applied it to, like, 1999 raw. So it was this song with the characters like Vince McMahon and Stone Cold Trish Stratus.

[Isaac Wayne]

It was awesome.

[Ebro Darden]

It was really good.

[Laura Styles]

That's cool.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So real love bursting out of every scene. It's the bigger love of the family. Who wants to go first? Who's got Family Matters? You'd love to share?

[Laura Styles]

Okay, I'll go. So you. I don't know if. Yeah, the audience knows that. When I had Kenza, I lost a fight with my partner. I wanted to pierce her ears as soon as she came out. I wanted to do it early because that's what my family does. Like, two months. Bow. And Ricardo was like, no, it has to be her choice. We're mutilating her. And I was like, oh, my God.

[Ebro Darden]

Why you gotta go? Hit him with a button. We love you, Rick.

[Laura Styles]

But, you know, I was like, fine, we'll wait. And I was like, how long are we gonna wait? He's like, until she wants to do it. So I'm like, damn it. Then it's gonna hurt. And I was like, whatever. So the time has come. Kenza was like, mommy, I'm ready. I wanna get my ears pierced. So I asked her on a Thursday no, she brought it to me on a Thursday. I said, are you sure? Okay, let's see how you feel tomorrow. Friday, she woke up. I'm ready. Can we go today? I said, no, I can't. We have to make an appointment. She was like, tomorrow? I was like, all right, we'll do it tomorrow. And we finally did it, guys.

[Isaac Wayne]

Wow.

[Laura Styles]

Check this out. And she was so proud.

[Ebro Darden]

This isn't gonna make me dead, is it? Will we see any dead people there?

[Laura Styles]

No, she. Is there going to be blood coming out?

[Ebro Darden]

Will there be a shark that's on fire and bleeding and dead?

[Laura Styles]

So watch this and start getting her ears. You going to look at me?

[Peter Rosenberg]

One, two, three.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait. They did them the same time.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That was cool. You did it. She ain't cry. They did.

[Ebro Darden]

Same time. Wow. Now.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Go ahead, Kenza.

[Ebro Darden]

Now flip the script. How about this? That's Saturday. Sunday morning, we went to a. Our friend Megan and Josh. Their. Their baby atlas had his first birthday. We went to Addie's birthday, and on the way home, Natalie's like, the place that I want to get Maya's ears pierced on the east side. Let's just drive by. And I'm like. I said to her, I'm like, nat, you know, you keep talking about it, you're gonna be annoyed because she keeps thinking it's too late, that she's getting to an age now where now she'll be fussy. And I said, you're gonna keep. We should just. If you want to do it, do it. So she said, let's just drive by and see. We didn't know anything about what's happening with Laura. We drove by, no line at all. We popped in, and here is the video of me holding Maya during the ear piercing.

[Laura Styles]

Perfect. Ran the dot.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I can't believe you guys hurt my niece like that.

[Ebro Darden]

Look how serious my face is.

[Laura Styles]

I know. Did you want to cry?

[Ebro Darden]

I know it hurts.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, man. Y' all are torturing. It's mutilation.

[Laura Styles]

Perfect, Rick.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're right on the dot.

[Ebro Darden]

No, we're all done now.

[Laura Styles]

You told. You did it, mama.

[Ebro Darden]

You did it now. By the time Natalie comes and picks her up, it basically stops.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This is the end. I can't believe you guys tortured her like this.

[Laura Styles]

Her giant tears slowly fall.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Ricardo's right. It's mutilation. Literally within four.

[Ebro Darden]

No, within 10. Swear. Swear to you within 10 seconds that we handed her a little spray bottle.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And she was like, never thought about

[Laura Styles]

it again, but it is lastly when you did it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Same, same.

[Laura Styles]

Okay, okay.

[Ebro Darden]

It is. It does suck, though. They can, like, issu was the same even though she. Even though she'll cry like that about whatever. Baby can cry like that because you took a toy away from them.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

It's different when, you know you're choosing to do something physical to them.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I'm saying? It does. I'm not gonna lie. Like, when I play that video back, her cry, it hits you. Even though, like. Like I said, I could take away her Ms. Rachel Tony and it would make her cry that much. But it's the. It's the principle of it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I got two for Family Matters today. The first one comes from Jazz.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This is what's going on in my house right now.

[Laura Styles]

All right, let's see.

[Jazz]

Good morning, elr. So sometimes I come up with these segment ideas, and when I try to run them past Ebro, he doesn't show favoritism. He's like, just send me a voice note. So here it is. What if for Family Fridays, there was a segment called do for Love. And the intro music would be Bobby Caldwell do for Love, of course, which pulls in that whitish window they vibe. Right? Then people tell the crazy thing they did for love. And then we find out at the end if they're actually still together or if they broke up. And we hit them with a congratulations. If they made it. But we hit them with a congratulations. You played yourself. If they did not make it after doing all that Crazy is for love. Right. So I think that could be fun for Family Fridays. The other segment would be called your mom is in my business. And the intro would be that.

[Ebro Darden]

Pause it for a second, please. Yo, let's just. Let's just, like, be clear about how old school a hip hop head eo is with that. She just said the other statement's called your Mom's in my business is literally a K solo song from 1990.

[Laura Styles]

I love it.

[Ebro Darden]

That song is 36 years old. All right, go ahead. Sorry. Let me see.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't think I paused it.

[Jazz]

Right, right. And people tell the crazy thing they did for love.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. That's the end of do for Love, by the way. Where did that come from?

[Jazz]

But we hit him with a congratulations.

[Ebro Darden]

Why did she think of if they

[Jazz]

did not make it at the door?

[Laura Styles]

Yo, Ricardo comes up with stuff I'm sure Natalie does, too.

[Jazz]

Family Fridays. The other segment would be called your mom is in my business. And the intro would be that classic hip hop song that we all love.

[Laura Styles]

Right.

[Jazz]

By K. So I don't think Anyone would mind hearing that, right? On Fridays. And then we go into stories. People calling in or writing in and telling about their mother in law who just won't stay out their business. We know there's a lot of crazy mother in laws out there, and I think we would enjoy hearing those stories. So let me know your thoughts. Thanks for listening.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Let me know your thoughts.

[Laura Styles]

I love it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We got homework.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. Okay. A couple things.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

One, both are great ideas. Two, the your mom's in my business. While it was never a segment, I feel like we did something whenever gurus were like that. Shawnee would play your mom's in my business every time. Like, so that was. She may not have even realized that that happened before, but like, we were always playing it. Or I'd be like, no, you got to play your mom's in my business.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So.

[Ebro Darden]

But conceptually, it's a lot of fun because guess what? Mother in laws do in the business. Me in the business.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

The first one, the do for love is interesting.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like, I can't believe you guys are actually talking through this. I didn't think this was gonna go this way.

[Laura Styles]

It's a good idea.

[Ebro Darden]

It's more like. It's more like.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Cause I was ready to get up here.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, the do for Love for me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Congratulations. You played yourself.

[Ebro Darden]

Both. Both. Here's the only issue I have. Both of them actually fit kind of more inside the gurus as sub gurus than their own segment, if you know what I'm saying. Because.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because that's a time for a Do for love guru.

[Laura Styles]

Right?

[Ebro Darden]

Like, I want to tell y' all my story.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's time for your mom's in my business.

[Ebro Darden]

Moms in our business right now. Like, it just kind of feel. They feel guru.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's not its own thing. Could be.

[Ebro Darden]

Could not. We also can't play the songs, babe.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm a bad guy. Because I was ready. Look, if Natalie or Ricardo came with an idea, I'd have been like, out of here. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

I thought those were great ideas.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I like it.

[Laura Styles]

I like it. I like do for Love a lot.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. And I just. I like it. I like it. I like that she's like. And it has gives the vibes of Whitish Wednesday.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because she'll be talking to me and

[Ebro Darden]

I'll be like, babe, I'm not thinking about the show right now. I just want to go to bed.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's 8 o' clock at night.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Styles]

But she hasn't seen you all day. She wants to talk about it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I know. And that's why I was like, you know what? Send a voice note.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. He's so foul.

[Ebro Darden]

He's like. Ebro's like, I don't have time to talk to you about this. I need to send the group eight emails for my. For Ebro's Algo right now.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. I'm busy doing other. Other things for the show.

[Laura Styles]

I'm trying to see if netting I was alive.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I know. And also seven fingers.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, yeah, exactly. And also if I came in with those ideas, it would have been.

[Laura Styles]

No, I don't think so. Do for Love is a really good one.

[Ebro Darden]

That's. That's a fun one.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Liars. You guys are liars.

[Ebro Darden]

Why?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because coming from her, I'm watching you guys be like, it's so nice. We love jazz because, yo, Griffin, my lion, yo. He knows it too. If I'd have came in like, yo, guys, let's start a new segment called do for Love. Roseburg, shut your ass up. Oh, you all in love now with your wife? Do you want to cheat about everybody? Love. Yeah, right.

[Ebro Darden]

I definitely wouldn't say it like that. Ebro would say that if we had come in with that idea. Listen, as I said. But hold on, I'm keeping it real. It's a good idea. I don't know if they warrant their own segments or they just fit within segments we already have. But they're good. Those are good little bits.

[Laura Styles]

They're good, too. So, okay, for the audience, if. If you feel like, wow, like, this is really talking to me, like, write us. Write us to the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

In.

[Laura Styles]

In the gurus.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, either one of those.

[Laura Styles]

And just title is do for Love.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The only problem is I don't know if we could play.

[Ebro Darden]

We can't. That's the problem. We can't really play them.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We can't play Bob. Well, right.

[Laura Styles]

No, no, we won't play the songs.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We definitely can't play Pot.

[Ebro Darden]

No Interscope. Stop that stamp. And by the way, it may be my favorite Tupac Zone. I stopped that, too. Yo, Bobby Caldwell. For the record, he. He should not be as, like, niche a name as he is, because he's kind of a niche name. His big records are Big Bro in the Remind me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Even in the yacht rock doc.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They didn't big up Bobby Caldwell.

[Ebro Darden]

No, not really.

[Laura Styles]

Was he in it at all?

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's not considered. But he is, though.

[Ebro Darden]

But he's the ult. I mean, that's why yacht rock is stupid as a phrase. He's not yacht rock. He's Blue Eyed soul. That's where it gets.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But Michael McDonald was also considered blue eyed soul and got the yacht rock.

[Ebro Darden]

Yacht rock thing. But then because. But Bobby's stuff was more straight ahead. He's just soulful music. Whereas I think Michael McDonald played in the like happier soft rock. Same with hall of Notes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Like Sarah's smile is super soulful. But then kisses on my list. And, and, and the other one that sounds like the DuckTales theme. Like some of the bit super big ones. Man Eater are like, that's yacht rock. That's why on our show the main character Sam Hart, he. He will fight.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What show is this?

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, it's one we're talking about earlier. Double or nothing's. That gonna be it? We don't know but. Well, if it's anywhere, it's Hulu.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There you go.

[Ebro Darden]

We don't know if it'll be there, but that's what we're hoping for.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You better act like it's called watching it.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I believe it'll be there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sam, say thanks to Hulu for giving you a shot.

[Ebro Darden]

I already thanked them, didn't I put up a whole post last week. You know, that was a really funny experience, by the way, the posting about the show. Because, you know, I don't, I don't generally like to do that, the like pat on my back post. But after Deadline put out their story after two years of work and all it did was throw in a little Mark Ronson and Peter Rosenberg. And I was like that. I came up with this whole thing. You gave me one. No one even cares. And I realized, and this is about all of us, honestly, all three of us are in this category because we're so annoyed about the concept of social media being. I use it to pat myself on the back and show how cool I am. And because the three of us kind of, I think, live by the idea of the coolest things we do, we don't post. It's like, nah, this is real life cool. I don't need to post it. Yeah, it's also a fail though, because again, they're scoring a different system. That whole social media thing, the amount of congrats I got, I'm like, y' all don't even know really how legit what I posted was. Like, all I did was post a source article. It wasn't even the Deadline article. The Deadline article was the third thing. The source article was a little blurb. But I figured if I don't put this up now, if this show never Gets made. I'll never get credit from anywhere that I created a show that was sold to Hulu for development with Mark Ron.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I always feel like if I share with people the things I do or.

[Ebro Darden]

You look like an a hole.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I look like I'm poo pooing on everybody's life. My life's amazing.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, maybe if you don't go into it with that as the sound of

[Peter Rosenberg]

it, but that's what it would be. That's when I post about something.

[Ebro Darden]

No, but you could do it with a caption that's rather. Y' all dickheads out here losing. Look at me. Sorry I'm not in my basement. I was too busy hanging out with. But if you were just like, hey, had an amazing opportunity this weekend.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But you don't really do that. I don't. Well, but that's because some. Also, some of the things are just like, not.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, it would be weird.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It just feel. It doesn't feel.

[Ebro Darden]

I agree. The coolest moments, I'm always like, if I was a douche, I'd take a picture right now. But I'm not, so I can't. Yeah, but sometimes I thought this was one where I'm like, push yourself. Put up the post telling them what you did. Otherwise you won't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I always feel. I always hear this thing in the back of my head going, so what? Ebro, we're tired of you, right?

[Ebro Darden]

Who's that? Who's that voice?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Whatever that. I think I'm tired of myself. That's the voice. Like, it's like, I'm tired. I'm tired.

[Ebro Darden]

You've been Ebro for so long.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But even with us doing this thing, like, where it's like, yo, you weren't on the Internet and you didn't do the things. You didn't do a podcast. I was doing two radio shows a day. I felt like I was talking enough. I needed to now do another podcast and talk more and. And do more and more and more because you don't care enough to go see the things I'm doing. And I'm. And I'm supposed to chase down the algorithm and like.

[Ebro Darden]

And also. So I just signed the paperwork on my. My new Real Late situation. Right. I'm gonna announce that in a few days or whatever. And again, I have to announce it. Cause I'm grateful for the opportunity. I'm excited to be in a place where I can play music again. All of those things. But to your point, it's like, oh, announce another thing here. I. Oh, Rosenberg. Really? Congratulations. It's like. Nah, I'm just saying, for the people who like my underground thing, I'm gonna keep doing it. But you have to announce it.

[Laura Styles]

You have to. You want them to find you.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, yeah. And the people who are bringing me on, the reason they're bringing you is. Cause, like, we want you to tell

[Peter Rosenberg]

people you're doing it. Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

So it's like, don't you congratulate me. Just send your music when I announce it.

[Laura Styles]

Just.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's cool. Congratulations. I think we do. I think we do get sick of ourselves, though. And we get. And I think.

[Ebro Darden]

Because I know my wife gets sick of it.

[Laura Styles]

All right.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, Peter, you're so great.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. I gotta thank my lady, though. She's the best. She's like, tell people. Tell people. No, tell people. People need to know. I'm proud of you. You look great. This is awesome. She's on that type of time for sure. 1000% rule.

[Ebro Darden]

That's why I think. And. And she brings great ideas to the show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Look at that.

[Ebro Darden]

Unlike you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So done. I got. I got a clip. That's right. Young Issa, cross the middle. Touchdown. This is stuff I like bragging about right here. My children.

[Ebro Darden]

This you can brag about.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is that a little trot into the end?

[Ebro Darden]

Why is that why the kids all did the jump? Celebrate the jump.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, my God.

[Ebro Darden]

I didn't see it again. I didn't see it again. I wish you could have zoomed it. That's your video.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. That's all I had. I know. I didn't take that video. I got that from a parent.

[Ebro Darden]

I just want to get a tighter.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Can you zoom in on it? Rahsaan, let me see it again.

[Ebro Darden]

Anyway, though, in stride, extend, avoid the flag. Yo, did she watch the flag football game? The fanatics flag football game?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, we were out there. I think it was the same time.

[Ebro Darden]

It was Saturday. I'd be curious or her thoughts about it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

So, you know, the NFL players got mopped.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes. I saw the score. And no worked.

[Ebro Darden]

And part of it was that, you know, flag football is a different game.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

They operate a different way. They avoiding flags, the kind of plays you run, everything is different. I'll tell you one thing, though. Jaden Daniels played in that game and he didn't do very much. He really just threw the ball a little bit. Yo, do you see the play of Joe Burrow running?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, there's. Yo, if I was a Bengals fan, Joe Burrow running and spinning.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What? What are we doing?

[Ebro Darden]

Saquon running and jumping in the air for a flag football game. I mean, yo, listen, I know those guys like Michael Rubin a lot, but my God, man, I mean, you got a season.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And I think probably in their minds they play like that practice though, right? So it's, it's like no contact, right? So in their mind it's not.

[Ebro Darden]

But as a fan, it's nerve wracking to watch like Jaden, you know, obviously he had a really rough year last year with the injury, so. Yeah, scary stuff.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Listen, guru time.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, boy, Here we go. Hey, yo. It's time for the gurus.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Rosenberg. Laura, you know you are a beautiful queen. Ebro, don't ever play yourself. You're not a guru.

[Laura Styles]

All right. Do you original gurusmail.com the original gurusmail.com where the gurus unite to fight for what's right. Burn this age, Ebro. Hi, Rosenberg. Who's writing to us?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Zen.

[Laura Styles]

Who needs us?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Zen.

[Ebro Darden]

So many people are in need of the original gurusmail.com. the original gurus at. Send your message today. You never know when you're gonna hear it. Hey, hey, Bob, Bob, Bob. All right, here we go. I'm just deciding where I want to go with this one. All right, here we go. I'm going to read this one about a woman's job and her mother. A mom that hates my job. I'm a 32 year old mother, fiance and daughter working in the hospitality industry for about 10 years. Started in management at a young age, and while I still consider myself early in my career, I've never experienced a situation like the one I'm currently facing. We recently had a new manager join our team back in December. One day I had to call out of work because my daughter got sick at school and needed to be picked up. I communicated everything and even offered to come in for part of the day once my fiance got home. I was told not to worry about it, just come back the next day. However, when I came in the following day, I was immediately pulled into the office and given a write up for being late over a half hour four times in February. What's confusing is that managers at my job don't clock in. So the only way to track lateness would be by reviewing camera footage or documenting on a said day. No upper management documents. How I know because they make me do it. It feels unsettling to think that someone went back and reviewed nearly a month of footage, especially on a day when I had just called out to care for my child. For context, I'm not the only manager who's been late. There are others who have been significantly later than me by hours at times or have missed time altogether with no communication. My lateness at most has been around 15 minutes. This situation makes me feel like I'm being singled out or used as an example, and I can't help but question if the timing right after I called out for my daughter plays a role. I guess I misunderstood the title here. Sorry. I'll also add that I'm the only manager of six at my level with a child, which adds another layer to how this feels. The other managers with children is two tiers above me. What's different this time is how I responded. In the past, I might have reacted emotionally raged or spoken out immediately, but this time I stayed quiet and processed everything in plain terms. I'm a Taurus and I might have dragged everyone down with me. I'm realizing that I'm growing professionally, even if I'm still figuring out how to navigate situations like this. I recently completed my master's degree and I'm actively looking for new opportunities because I'm not happy in my current role. We have an anonymous HR portal and corporate HR office I can email, but no HR present at my job. My question is should I keep my head down and focus on finding something new or is this something worth addressing? Now, how would you handle this in a professional and strategic way? I truly appreciate your perspective. P.S. i love your show. Thank you for moving to YouTube. You're part of my daily routine after dropping my daughter off and I really enjoying listening to your honest, genuine conversations. Sincerely, just a working mom.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hey working mom. And all the other working moms. And and I would. I got a sneaky suspicion that what you're feeling is probably accurate, but how you gonna prove it?

[Laura Styles]

Right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

And then once you prove it, I don't know what industry you're in, but once you prove it or whatever and the other CEOs and executives start sharing that this is happening and whatever the lawsuits and the fallout is, is it going to be will there be retaliation? Because while retaliation always happens in there some protection. Can you once again, will you be able to prove it when you go out to get another gig and your name has kind of been circulated around amongst the individuals because you know that's happening.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. I mean because even if you ask, I'm curious. How did you guys get to the conclusion that I was late on these days? What method did you use to find this information?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I'm just curious like how you got.

[Laura Styles]

I don't clock into. So I just want to know, how do you know that I was late on these days snitches. We can't get you that information, miss. We can't get you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And is there any fob? Do you. There's no fob on a door.

[Ebro Darden]

Here's the problem though. As someone who, when it comes to my daily jobs, can be a little bit on the late side when you're the person who does run late. Even if, you know, my lateness isn't affecting anything. That's the problem with being late. You're not in a position to really make arguments.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Because the fact of the matter is if you weren't late, they wouldn't have anything to say to you. So it does put you in a tough spot because you're already. You're already arguing from a point of weakness, which is that you're you. You know, there's some level of lateness. And if she's telling us it was only a few times and the latest was 15 minutes. As someone who's late, I know that we have a tendency to scale that back a little bit. You know what I'm saying?

[Peter Rosenberg]

What are you saying? It's probably 25.

[Ebro Darden]

There's probably a little more times. And there was probably that one time when it was 30. And there was the one time when it was. You know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And then didn't she. But didn't she point out she had to go out? Cause of.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that's the really whack part. So the really whack part is you took a day. They told you to take a day because of your child. And then when you came back in, that was when they decided to tell you, you know, why are you late all the time?

[Laura Styles]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

So it kind of made it feel like they were waiting on you, which it seems like they are. All of this says to me, keep your head down and find a new gig.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yep.

[Laura Styles]

Cause you gotta op on the inside.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, there's. There's. What I would do is, in fact I might go the other way with it. If you wanted to play the game, just to be safe. Was thinking about our conversation. I heard you loud and clear. I know I've been late a few times. Not going to happen again. I assure you of that. And then make it your business to not be late again. So they don't even have a way to do anything with you. But I'd still. Then be working on your way out the door. But the idea of sitting down and being like, hey, I want to Know how you know Ebro? There's no win here. I do not see the win.

[Laura Styles]

No, because you were still late.

[Ebro Darden]

You were late. You don't have a real good leg to stand on.

[Laura Styles]

So. Yeah, sorry, I just say I like your advice. Just tell me it's not gonna happen again. Don't let it happen again and find a new gig. So say the guru.

[Isaac Wayne]

Wow,

[Laura Styles]

she got an op.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen, I know because I'm the last one who's at my meeting, my pre show meetings every day from my other show. And every once in a while I'll hear like the little jab about it. Even though I know our pre show meetings are literally us just making fun of each other and hanging out because we've already figured out what we're going to do that day. But guess what?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Connect with you.

[Isaac Wayne]

And they.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It might be important for another player to have that bonding moment and loosen things up. But if you not here, but if

[Ebro Darden]

you give them the reason to have something to say, then you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, and for everyone else, there's cameras in parking lots. There's a fob that you use to unlock a door.

[Ebro Darden]

There's still nasty work though.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, but they gonna do it. If they trying to figure out a way to save money. They trying to figure out a way to save money. Or someone else is lacking. You're not lacking. And they use your inconsistencies or lateness as to point as a. What about ism? Oh, no, I was trying to finish that, but she wasn't hit. Nah, we would have went over that if Rosenberg was at the meeting.

[Ebro Darden]

Ah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, you heard? Nah. But why were you guys on doing this talk break so long and. And I thought we weren't going to go talk, but Rosenberg wasn't there. Yo, er, Rosenberg. Another phenomenal week. Shout out to all the love, man. The haters sharing our content and the people who love us. You know what I mean? Sharing our content. Shout out to the Ellipse Army. Shout out to all the guests and artists that we get support from. Been a great week, you know, I mean, that travel this week was a little hard, but I'll see y' all next.

[Laura Styles]

Listen, get that merch because it's not going to be up for too long. Hey, get the merch.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Listen, I'll be trying to close it quick. I'm trying to close it right after the show.

[Ebro Darden]

Too quick. Nah, this one. Give them a couple days.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This is a forever, not a manual fulfillment system.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Two days, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There's one two people putting boxes and stickers on things to get it in the mail, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, we might have to figure that out. That's tough.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Laura Styles]

This is the powerful new single from Daughtry. It's called Antidote.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Train. Going off the tracks looking by. It's hard to watch the poison take

[Ebro Darden]

control

[Isaac Wayne]

when you don't have the energy.

[Laura Styles]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

The wrongs we must right. The fights we must win. The future we must secure together for our nation. This is what's in front of us. This determines what's next for all of us. We are Marines. We were made for this.