71.) Backlash & Thoughts On Kanye Show + Trump Goes Off (4/6/26)

Summary

The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show — Episode 71: "Backlash & Thoughts On Kanye Show + Trump Goes Off"

Date: April 6, 2026
Hosts: Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, Peter Rosenberg

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Episode Overview

In this electric Monday episode, Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg dive deep into the latest pop culture controversies, including the backlash surrounding Kanye's latest performances, the Trump social media tirade about Iran, and buzzy moments from sports and social media. The show features the crew’s signature banter, sharp commentary, and uniquely unfiltered takes on everything from celebrity apologies and political hypocrisy to viral stories and listener dilemmas.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Family Updates, Easter, and Cultural Holidays

• (01:22–07:50)
  • The crew recounts their holiday family activities, including Laura taking her daughter to her first Easter egg hunt organized by a new, youth-led Manhattan church (V2).
  • Amusing exchanges about the hidden religious context of Easter activities and double standards in parenting mistakes.
  • “She had cake. Birthday party. Has she had ice cream yet?” – C (05:00)

2. What’s Trending in Wrestling, Women’s Sports, and Algos

• (07:51–19:36)
  • Laura previews hot stories: Cardi B’s collab with NYC’s mayor, the Kanye wireless festival backlash, and the Gucci-Pooh Shiesty saga.
  • Rosenberg gives a wrestling fandom download: WWE’s business maneuvers, celebrity cameos (Pat McAfee, Lil Yachty), and crossover moments.
    • On celebrity appearances:
      “Rappers been popping out at wrestling!” – C (11:17)
  • Women’s college basketball drama:
    • The hosts debate a heated moment between coaches Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley, unpacking whether the fallout was personal, racial, or PR strategy.
    • “She fell for the bait.” – C (14:58)
    • Rosenberg: “That’s literally not even what I saw. I just saw two big-time coaches…” (15:08)
  • Discussion about the NCAA’s four-year rule for women and UCLA’s seniors (Lauren & Sienna Betts).

3. ESPN, Stephen A. Smith, and Political Blowback

• (20:22–26:23)
  • Rosenberg announces he’ll appear on ESPN’s First Take before WrestleMania.
  • Ebro voices his ongoing issues with Stephen A. Smith, especially relating to his statements on Black women and politicians.
    • “My problem is how he talks about black women and how he goes at black politicians, specifically women.” – C (22:39)
  • Commentary on the fickleness of political posturing, referencing figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Candace Owens.

4. Kanye West’s Return to Big Stages and the Wireless Festival Backlash

• (41:35–54:20)
  • The crew unpacks Pepsi and Diageo's pullout as Wireless Festival sponsors after Kanye’s booking as headliner.
    • “Congratulations, you played yourself… I’m shocked nobody had this convo.” – C (41:35)
  • Deep dive into the “thawing” of public and industry forgiveness toward Kanye despite (and sometimes because of) his past anti-Semitic and racist actions, with focus on celebrity attendance and the complicity/performance of apology culture.
    • Rosenberg: “He made a song called Heil Hitler… and now y’all ran to the concert.” (45:00 / 49:50)
    • C: “There are people who don’t love any rapper shenanigans… and they still go for the music and enjoyment.” (48:38)
  • Laura details which celebrities were on stage and in the audience (Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott, CeeLo, Dave Chappelle, Erykah Badu, et al).
  • The group reflects on the double standards for scandalous artists and the speed at which antisemitism is forgiven versus other forms of bigotry.
    • Rosenberg: “People forgive Jew hating quick.” (49:10)
    • C: “He made a song called Heil Hitler, guys!” (49:50)

5. Trump’s Threats Toward Iran & Social Media Outrage

• (26:22–36:03)
  • The hosts react to Trump’s inflammatory Truth Social posts, in which he threatens attack on Iran and offends both Muslims and Christians (“Praise be to Allah” on Easter).
    • “Not only does that just completely offend and make fun of the entire Muslim world… but it also offends Christians on Easter.” – B (29:31)
  • They reflect on escalating oil/gas prices and trickle down anxiety – Ebro’s daughter even notices at the pump.
  • Broader critique of US foreign policy and how international interventions rarely work out humanitarianly or geopolitically.
    • “The US has never gotten involved in anything for just straight up humanitarian gain.” – C (35:25)

6. Listener Mail/“Guru” Segment: Open Relationships and Race

• (61:17–70:13)
  • A listener asks for advice after being pressured into swinging and watching his wife with Black men in particular, despite feeling deeply uncomfortable.
  • The trio debate consent, honesty, and race—probing whether discomfort is sexual, emotional, or racist (“The racist part is that you see a Black man having sex and go, ‘I could never’… that’s the real racist part of it.” – B at 69:14).
  • Ultimately, the advice is to have an honest conversation, revisit boundaries, and possibly transition to a non-monogamous relationship where he doesn’t participate/spectate.
    • “If you want to stay with your family, make the call. Say, listen, I don’t want to be a part of this anymore.” – C (65:36)

7. Pooh Shiesty, Gucci Mane, and the “Snitch” Discourse

• (54:25–59:00)
  • Laura breaks down Pooh Shiesty being federally charged for allegedly threatening Gucci Mane at gunpoint to get released from his contract.
    • C: “This was a business transaction. It’s not a street transaction. What are we talking about?” (57:40)
  • They mock the absurdity of Internet “street code” criticism, reminding listeners that real business differs from contrived street loyalty.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Corporate/Social Forgiveness:

• “There are other people who have said things a thousandth as anti Semitic as Kanye West, and they had to go to goddamn Hebrew school for a year…” – B (44:56)
• “He praised Hitler and he made a song...” – C (45:00)
• “I do not downplay use of the N word... He made a song called Heil Hitler, guys!” – B (49:49)

On Trump:

• “Open the bleeping strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. And then, of course, there is the beauty of: Praise be to Allah.” – B (28:46)
• “Not only does that just completely offend and make fun of the entire Muslim world… but it also offends Christians on Easter.” – B (29:31)

On Sexuality and Race (Listener Mail):

• “The racist part is that you see a Black man having sex and go, I could never... that's the real racist part of it.” – B (69:14)
• “If you want to stay with your family, make the call. Say, listen, I don't want to be a part of this anymore...” – C (65:36)

On Street Code Nonsense:

• “Pooh Shiesty had an ankle monitor on, man.” – C (57:17)
• “They weren't in a crime operation together. That was his [contractor]...” – B (58:20)

On Self-awareness/Social Media:

• “Sometimes we got to look in the mirror and be like, we didn't... we didn't do anything engaging.” – C (25:34)
• “The ones who are... it's very heavy political... those get no views. I'm suspect of those.” – A (25:27)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Family/Easter/Parenting Banter – 01:22 – 07:50
• What’s Popping in Wrestling & Algos – 07:51 – 13:17
• Women’s NCAA Basketball Drama – 13:17 – 19:36
• ESPN/Stephen A. Smith/Politics – 20:22 – 26:23
• Trump’s Iran Posts/Oil/Gas Chat – 26:22 – 36:03
• Cardi B & NYC Childcare Initiative – 37:40 – 40:57
• Kanye, Wireless Backlash, Celebrity Complicity – 41:35 – 54:20
• Pooh Shiesty & “Snitch” Discourse – 54:25 – 59:07
• Listener “Guru” Segment: Open Relationships & Race – 61:17 – 70:13

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Original Tone & Language

True to the show’s vibe, the banter is fast, layered, irreverent, and unfiltered. The hosts are self-aware, intersectional in their criticism, and equally willing to laugh at themselves and the world. Whether roasting corporations’ hypocrisy, the rapid return of the “cancelled,” or exploring sex and race, they keep it bold and real.

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For New Listeners

This sprawling episode is a masterclass in contemporary conversation: real-time reactions to headlines, mix of deep dives and pop quizzes, and raw audience/life engagement. It’s for listeners who want to stay plugged into pop culture, politics, and debate without having to wade through platitudes or sanitized opinion.

Transcript

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Oh, man. How could you not?

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We didn't really big up Passover last week. You know what I'm saying? Big up to everybody who did the Seder. Got things in order for the new year. A lot of spring. Spring festivities.

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Fall.

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Fall. Around the same time Selassie got her first Easter egg hunt. If you watch the Friday program, I'll include that in family matters this week.

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First Easter egg hunt. Yeah. Okay.

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We just out strolling around, saw an Easter egg hunt. We didn't know it was tied to a church.

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Oh.

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The red egg represented the blood of Jesus.

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Oh, man.

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Oh, yeah, but that's. I mean, you. You didn't think the Easter egg hunt was completely unrelated to anything, though.

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I just thought it happened to be some rando Easter egg hunt in the park. I thought it was like some community organization.

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Because they do have those.

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They have those, but they're not. They're always connected to the holiday.

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The holiday. But no, this was put on by a church.

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Put on by a church?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah. Yes. Which I was fine with. I had a kid. It was for good. You know what I mean? I grew up around a church.

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Yeah. You don't have a church here, huh?

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No.

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Neither do I, but I don't go to church.

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Never Joined.

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Laura, I didn't even think for a second that you were going to Ebro. I thought may. He does occasional bring up fond memories of his.

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Oh, f. The best.

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Well, I mean, you know, listen, so I didn't know. I didn't think either of you would have a church. I don't have a synagogue. And there's some cool ones in the city that, like, I would.

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Cool churches, too.

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Yeah. There you can find ones that you could get down with. I just. Just haven't.

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You know, this. And this church was. I want to shout them out because they were nice people. Bunch of young people starting their own thing over in. What. What part of Manhattan were they in? I think maybe they, like, do something in Times Square.

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This sounds like a cult more than a church, what you're describing.

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No, it was definitely a church.

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A bunch of young people who get together. I think in Times Square. Laura. It's giving cult.

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No, no, don't do them like that.

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Well, we don't know who they are,

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so it was definitely. It was definitely a church. It was okay. Biblical church.

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Biblical churchy stuff.

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Yeah.

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Maybe they're.

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You should be a spokesman.

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Right. Maybe they're in Hell's Kitchen or, you know.

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No, no, but they were definitely fighting

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back against the devil, perhaps.

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No, but they were definitely. You know, there are some churches who, like, they don't have, like, a. They haven't got their own building yet. Like, you know what I mean? So they're, like, renting out spaces to, like, congregate and build their.

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Sure.

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Congregation. It was one of those. I want to Say it was V2 is the name of it. V2. Yeah. And they had a few young Pat. Like, it was really young. Like, the pastors were, like, 7 years

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old, 30 years old.

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Why are you doing them like this? Why. Why are you treating people like this? What's wrong with you?

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It was just the early descriptors that you gave were very funny.

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Well, because I never met them before. I don't know much about them. I was learning on the mo. I was learning as. Walked up to an Easter egg.

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And so you. She did that. She did. Well, she did the hunt, though.

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Yeah. And then. And then collected a bunch of eggs. And then I gave some. The eggs had candy, and I wasn't gonna give her candy. She's a toddler, so I wasn't gonna just give her rando.

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Right.

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What did they have in there? What are the things? Not Fruit Roll up.

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Tootsie Rolls.

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Tootsie Rolls? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tootsie Rolls. And things like that. So I. I snuck and took a couple of eggs and took the tootsie Rolls out and then gave her the eggs back.

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I let her keep those.

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Yeah, let her keep those. She had a great. Got a great time with the plastic.

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Has she not had any candy yet?

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I don't think she's had cake. She had cake.

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She had cake. Birthday party has shred ice cream yet?

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She had ice cream? Yeah, I don't think she has. She had.

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You ever done the straight up processed candy, though?

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Yeah, I don't think she's had just like a straight crack. Sour Patch Kid.

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Right. Stress, straight hair on.

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We haven't done that yet. And she has had soda or anything like that?

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No, no, no.

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It's way too young for that.

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Yeah, Maya's only on the. Maya's really only on water and pouchies. I don't think she's ever had anything to drink. Although I'm not gonna lie, some of those pouchies, those joints taste delicious.

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You know, they're amazing. Chock full of sugar.

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Yeah, the apple. An apple.

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Smack it.

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Purple banana ones.

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Yeah, those ones are. Now her mom's trying to make her own pouches these days. She's trying to get into the pouchy biz with them.

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Good luck with that. I've seen this operation before.

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Yeah, I did, and guess what? The one, she made one the other day, poured it all over her face, squeezed straight out of the bottle inside her ear.

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Oh, my God.

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To the point, guys, if I had done the same thing, there's a chance. I say I need to go to a hotel and stay somewhere else. That's how bad it was.

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It's the second time you brought this up on the program where you feel like there's a double standard between mistakes and mom making mistakes.

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But I give my wife credit, though. It happened and I looked at it, I was like, if I. And she was like, you would be

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dead if you did this.

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She knows it. She's admitting it. It's a double standard.

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How do you feel about this?

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As long as you're able to laugh at it and know that it's wrong.

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That's right.

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And know that you're.

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And know.

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And just me pointing that out is really saying you messed up, too. I'm like, damn, you really got. Because I'm not really tripping off of it. We can wipe off her face and

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it's not a big deal.

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It's gonna be okay.

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Not a big deal.

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We could put Oxiclean on the outfit. Everything will be all right.

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You should save some of this for family Fridays.

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You're right, you're right. Sorry. Let's.

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Let's see, cuz, I got. I got storage.

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You got stuff.

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What? I got heat coming this week. Friday, if y' all tune in. Family Friday.

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I thought it was a nice thought cuz that when I. When I first had Kenzo, I was like, I might try. I said I might try.

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Try what?

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To make. Yes. And that's it. Not making this.

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I know it's. No, that's hard. You guys get the frozen fruit, you mix it all up, you put it in the little plasticky thing.

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It's a. It's operation.

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It's an operation.

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Jazz is on it, though. Jazz is big juicing. Big blending fruits. You know, cuz we do a fruit smoothie in the house.

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I know. Yeah.

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So there's a big. The big. The smoothie operation is there's a lot

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of smoothies happening, being made already, you

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know, I mean, it's already a part of the program.

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So adding the smoothie to the pouches,

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and that's not a thing.

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Yeah, but.

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But also Selassie's on to her own cup now. You give Selassie a water bottle, she'll unscrew the top, start drinking, put the top back on.

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Oh, she just wants to stunt now that she doesn't need a straw.

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Yes, I want. Or take my cup. She wants to drink from my cup.

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That's big.

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Yeah, well, until there's something in it she ain't supposed to have, right? Then it's all big. You place yourself. Listen, the rundown is. Is moving today. Laura Styles, you got some big stories. What are you working on?

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It's a lot going on Ebro. So we have to talk about Ms. Cardi B and the mayor teaming up on something really cool. I was a pleasant surprise when I saw this pop up on my algorithm. I'll tell you about the brands that pulled out of wireless because of the Kanye booking and. Yes, and we will talk about Pooh Shiesty and the craziness behind the story.

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Don't know anything about the Pooh Shisty.

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Just wait.

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Wasn't on your algo at all?

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Nope.

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Wow.

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Pooh Shiesty's really never been on my algorithm.

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Gucci Mane. Not on your algorithm.

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Gucci.

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It's. It's a big hip hop story.

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Yes.

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I wasn't. I wasn't really in my algo this weekend to see it.

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Oh, well, then that's why you didn't see it.

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I was. And it was more wrestling stuff when I was.

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Wow. What's going on?

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The wrestler, bruh. A lot. I don't. A lot was happening.

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Good, bad. What's happening?

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Let's see. Friday night, I'm in.

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Once Rhea Ripley came by the show. I'm locked now. I want all the stories.

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I love her.

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Yeah. Laura pulled me aside afterwards. I was like, I. I just want you to know, I. I think she's my favorite.

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Yeah.

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I really love.

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I can't give her a favorite. Bianca's been great.

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Oh, Bianca's the best.

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Bianca Belair.

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The two of them love.

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How dare you.

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The two love each other. They're. They're the best. Friday night was just an interesting night of wrestling. They hyped up this big moment where Randy Orton, who has a match coming up with Cody Rhods, and he's been on the phone with someone and it's been. Who has he been on the phone with? Who's he. Who's he been talking to? Lou, you've been following, right?

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Oh, no.

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Oh, you're a bad guy. No. So who. Who's he. Who's he on the phone with? Who's it going to be? And all the speculation about who it was going to be and all these fun WrestleMania. Yeah. This is part of their story for WrestleMania.

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Okay.

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And then it turned out he was on the phone with Pat McAfee. And Pat McAfee, congratulations.

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You played yourself.

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People were not. The wrestling world was not happy. And then Pat showed up and proceeded to basically take a dump on the entire wrestling business and say, you. You needed me because the product has sucked and it's been boring. And now I'm here. And would you. He was an interesting choice.

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Let me not put any area income in harm's way. So let me tell you. Let me take it from here.

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So appreciate you having that thoughtful process.

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Let me take it from here. For wrestling fans, if you're into that. So now that there's like a vc, big VC company that is over the wwe. This is one of those big corporate moves, you know? I mean, this.

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Do you already know this? No, I'm just picking up the online rumors being reported. I have no information, but the online rumors being reported is that McAfee's involvement was a direct call from his agent, who is Ari Emanuel, who owns tko.

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What are we even talking about?

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That's what they're saying. That's what the rumors are saying.

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Yeah. I didn't know that. I just put it together. That's so obvious. But it's also two huge platforms forms.

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Right?

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Right. So I think business. Look, it could be irritating to a wrestling fan. Like, what, Pat? What are we even doing? Right? This has nothing to do with wrestling. But if you zoom out a little bit, this has everything to do with merging huge audiences together. Right.

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And remember, ESPN now is the home of WrestleMania.

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Oh, well. What are y' all mad? Y' all should have seen this coming.

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And then Stephen A. Smith is next.

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And then Stephen A. Smith on WWE is next.

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And then Yachty showed up with Trick. With our boy Trick Williams. Okay, yeah, Yachty popped out. People were complaining about that as well.

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Well, why? Why now? Why is that a complaint? Rappers been popping out at rest.

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It was. You know what I think? I think it was.

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That's just Yachty hate train. That's what that is.

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I think it was also a combo of, like, it happened the same night as the McAfee thing.

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So too much.

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It was too. It was too much at one time. But, yo, shots to Yachty. He's so happy. He was, like, in there in the ring, like, really lined up with Trick Williams. It was random. Him and Trick kind of popped up out of nowhere over the last few weeks, but I thought he did a really good job.

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Now, Laura, you saw none of this in your alcohol?

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No. Well, I saw Yachty post something, and I sent it to you. I was like, what's this about?

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Okay, so you saw Yachty.

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Yachty posted something, was him. And I show speed and, like, you know.

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Oh, oh, oh, yeah.

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Because I don't need the full story.

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All right?

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They just made.

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Well, I show speed is more of this. They just. They just mocked. Someone made a fake mock poster of WrestleMania.

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Yeah.

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And they have this poster that's Triple H, and it's like CM Punk and Roman and all the people. Someone made a new version of the poster, and it's still Triple H, but It's yachty. Pat McAfee ishowspeed. Just all the celebrities they have, and it was a pretty funny little dick.

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Now, this might have hit all of our algo. Okay, go to clip five there.

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Oh, boy.

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Don and Gino, they are the two icons in this game right now. They both started out very humble. Bound here.

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The officials will hold the players.

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Now, dawn and Gino getting into it a little bit on the sideline line as Gino has to be held back. And dawn and Gino, that's part of what makes this rivalry such a compelling one. Now.

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Shouts to my guy. Ryan Ruka.

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Shout out to Ryan now. UCLA Went on to win the women's national championship, but shout out to Don Staley in the South Carolina Gamecocks, who took the L to UCLA but got that big win right there against Gino. Now, how much was that. Was that on your algorithm at all?

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No.

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Oh, yeah. Heavy. Of course.

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Heavy on mine. Heavy.

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Yeah. I mean, the same as any, like, big, sportsy moment.

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What? Did you have any feelings about how Geno handled that?

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I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand what was happening.

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Apparently it was about a handshake. Pre game handshake. Then there was some chippy play during the game. I watched a lot of it because I was actually. I was actually pretty surprised at how Geno handled it.

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Why? What did he do?

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Well, clearly he antagonized Don Staley to get her out of a professional character right there, which I think he did on purpose because they got beat up pretty bad by South Carolina. And I think he wanted the story to be about that interaction more than he wanted it to be about his legacy and them losing to Don Staley.

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Damn you. You put a lot of. You made a whole. There's a whole background.

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But that's not even just my take. That was like a take that was happening.

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So this isn't just two coach who were mad that one team got blown out by the other and had.

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No. This was about a handshake. Because he went on after the game after. Well, no, I had. He was doing that after the game. There was a. Apparently a. A missed pregame handshake, but there's video of Dawn Staley going to shake his hand, but then there was some other, like, televised handshake that he thought was supposed to happen, and he waited for three minutes. And she wasn't there for that, apparently. Allegedly. But that's after the whole entire game.

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Right. Mind you, we've seen a lot of people act after they lose a game. Badly in a big spot, though.

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Yeah, but he's. What she's mouthing about is him accusing her of missing a handshake, of being disrespectful. That's why she's like, what are you talking about? Like, I would never. She was pretty animated about it. Yeah. And I think he knew he could get her like that and get her animated like that.

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And she fell for the baby and

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she fell for debate. And so now you're gonna. You saw visuals of that constantly. Of a black woman going at a white dude and him walking away calmly.

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Oh, that's not how I took that at all. Yo. That's literally not even what I saw. Oh, Rosenberg denies seeing race. You don't see any. I just saw two big time.

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Yo.

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Two big time coaches who were like, yo, what? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I, I, I, that's all. I've seen it a thousand times.

[C]

Well, I guess the, the, the, the commentary on it was really about, I guess during the game, one of Geno's, the Yukon player, tears her own jersey on purpose to make it look like the game was out of control. And the Gamecocks were, like, grabbing jerseys and tearing jerseys. Geno jumps on camera, like, you know, one of those quick in between quarter interviews and says, the rat, you know, I can't believe this game's out of control. Basically, I'm paraphrasing. And then, you know, my. One of my players jerseys is ripped. Da, da, da. And they went to the video, and you see the girl rip her own jersey to try to, like, turn it into a thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

This is a whole thing.

[A]

My God, all this drama.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'll tell you one thing, y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

And when I say y', all, I mean the world. See a black woman and a white man interact in some way. It has to be, bro. Is there a world, though, in which the entire thing is everything that you've said so far, all can play out within what I just said. It was for sure, like one team beat up another team. Yeah. That is the most decorated coach, championship wise, I believe, ever, in women's basketball history.

[C]

Uconno area.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, for sure.

[B]

Dawn Staley's the new.

[C]

She's the new.

[B]

She's one of the new generation of incredible coaches. And she smacked him and they had an awkward. I don't know. That's all. I, I'm not saying there's not way more to it because obviously I'm not privy to it.

[C]

I think people were more surprised. Most of the narrative was surprised at how Geno handled the loss. Well, like a. Yeah, that was most of the shock. It was more about him making a big deal out of a handshake after the game.

[B]

Oh, God.

[C]

And their vid. And there's video of her going over and shaking his and the entire team's hand before the game.

[B]

And he's still.

[C]

And he's still bitching about that after the game. That was most.

[B]

In a post game presser. He bitched about it.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Got it.

[C]

It was on some like. And it was on some, like. I said what I said. Everybody's like, oh, boy. What? What?

[B]

Well, listen, people lose every Day B. No, I didn't. I didn't. I saw it. I knew there was probably more of a story to it, and I just.

[C]

And then people, obviously, you see that going on. People gonna take it and run with it. They're gonna turn it into something.

[B]

Yeah. What? What, you mean two.

[C]

Two of the biggest coaches in women's college basketball who are friendly most of the time. And then after a big win for, you know, South Carolina, they're jawing at each other. They're gonna take that and turn that into something. Especially because they were. There's not really like. And there was. I think the other thing was shocking. There was not animosity between them before.

[B]

I know nothing about the relationship prior. I know nothing about the South Carolina Yukon. Really. I know.

[C]

I don't know if that's a thing.

[B]

Me neither. That's why. So I don't have any. Like, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I've been watching the women's final Forks. I really haven't.

[C]

Yeah, I tuned in and caught UCLA win last night, which is a big story, because those seniors, you know, women's basketball, they have to stay four years before they can go to the pros, unlike the men.

[B]

They say four years. That's at a certain age.

[C]

I thought it was four years.

[B]

Griff. They have to say four years. They do. Okay.

[C]

They have to say four.

[B]

No disrespect. It's bad, what I just did.

[C]

Why?

[B]

You said something. I went. Really? Is that true? And I went to Griff, and then Griff said, yeah, four years. No.

[C]

All right. And Griff got stuff wrong last week. Bad, bad stuff wrong last week. But. But at any rate, ucla, it was the. I forget her name, man.

[B]

Bill Walton.

[C]

Nope, that's men's basketball.

[B]

Kareem.

[C]

No.

[B]

Well, Lu Alcindor.

[C]

Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?

[B]

Baron Davis.

[C]

Why are you doing this? Why? Who? Why are you.

[B]

I don't. Because I don't know anyone.

[C]

Well, there's two sisters on the team.

[B]

Oh, the o'. Bannons.

[C]

Stop.

[B]

Sorry. That was a good one, though.

[C]

No, it was. That was a good point.

[B]

That was a good photo. Charles and Ed o'. Bannon, brothers from ucla. It's something.

[C]

Stop, man. Stop. So anyway, one of the sisters came to play with her, with her older sister, and they went on to win a chip and. But anyway, yeah, he texted names. He texted names. Because I'm botching the names.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But, yo, one of the girls, man, she's like, yo, Bets. Bets. Yes.

[B]

Bet sisters.

[C]

Yeah, the Bat sister. They. They played together and went on and got the. Yeah, Lauren and Sienna bets. And they got that chip last night, which was. What do you have? Oh, Gino apologized. Let me see it.

[A]

Expedia. You're here. But are you here Here? You go to Hawaii in your head all the time during meetings, in the car. Hawaii is on the mind. But when you're ready to go, there's Expedia, the one place you go to go place places. Flights, hotels, vacation homes, cars. You can save when you bundle or book as you go and still save. So what are you waiting for? Expedia. The one place you go to go places. Members only. Savings vary.

[C]

There's no excuse for how I handle the end of the game. It's unlike what I do and what our standard here at you at Connecticut is. I want to apologize to the staff, team South Carolina. It was uncalled for.

[B]

Didn't say Don Staley specifically, though.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Nor do I see any logo on that apology. So I just worry with our show that that's just a random meme that was pulled off the Internet.

[C]

You never know.

[B]

No, you never.

[C]

It hasn't been vetted. Where. What was the source of that? Lou said it. Yeah, espn.

[B]

Espn. That's legit.

[C]

Can't trust them either, the way they're getting into wrestling.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, they're so.

[C]

I mean, that's all made up anyway.

[B]

Oh, go, yo, chill, fam, chill.

[C]

What's going on in Super Chat today?

[B]

Let's see. Oh, by the way, I do want to say, speaking of. Speaking of espn, in spite of Ebro's best efforts to trash the relationship, I will be on First Take the Friday before WrestleMania this year.

[A]

Let's go, Pete.

[C]

Wait, wait, wait. What effort did I make to trash the relationship?

[B]

No, no, I'm just kidding. I'm just some. Just some awkward. Some awkward text exchange where I had to fade back into the bushes.

[C]

Well, me and Stephen A. Getting after each other.

[B]

Well, that's one way of putting it.

[C]

Yeah. How would you put it?

[B]

You getting after Stephen A bro out here.

[C]

He. He out here.

[B]

No, no, we don't need to start again.

[A]

Yeah, we don't. Let's not. Let's.

[B]

We don't.

[C]

Now it's even worse. Now, I'm not the only one, by the way, with the Stephen A. Blowback and his political rhetoric and the way he's handling things, I am the least of his concern.

[B]

A lot of people, and I will say I don't want to do this, but I don't think people like Mike Ballard sent me a text the other day about Stephen A's politics. Yo, you may not like Stephen A's politics. He has always been a right leaning guy and yesterday he went on social media and blasted Trump. Like, I'm not saying he's some. I'm not saying anyone needs to go to Stephen A for their political takes. You do whatever you want and that's, that's. I don't really care. But like, everyone who sees him say anything says he is like a complete puppet for the right. I don't share a lot of takes

[A]

with him for sure, but I've seen that.

[B]

But I've seen lots of where he goes after Trump too.

[C]

But people really ignore my biggest problem.

[B]

People really ignore that though, and just repost the other ones. What was your problem?

[C]

My problem is how he talks about black women and how he goes at black politicians, specifically women.

[B]

I've seen him go up a lot of white politicians, though.

[C]

Well, I'm just talking about black women. Okay?

[A]

No, the most annoying thing for me is people sending me tweets of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Candace Owens denouncing Trump. I was like, get this.

[C]

I don't.

[B]

Nah, the Marjorie Taylor Greene do not care. I know we're get to the Trump thing in a second, but the Marjorie Taylor Greene thing sends me people actually propping her up like, yo, she's. I was like, you can't take someone who you called an utter and complete joke previously. This is a woman who wore a baseball hat that said MAGA to the State of the Union and sat there like a kid online waiting to get an autograph at a convention from the president. And now she's the one you're gonna point to and be like, see, you look stupid, right? What are we seeing an idiot now saying, all right, super chat. Jw, always in the super chat.

[C]

We appreciate it.

[B]

Cash a rod been riding with y' all for about a decade. The lane is wide open for ELR and I listen every morning.

[C]

Appreciate it.

[B]

In the words of Hov, keep going. A cell x23 always there. Pat as a Bischoff type guy is okay. If they don't build and start a faction, bring attitude ERA back they played themselves.

[C]

Wait, what's that mean?

[B]

This is all waste of Randy. Honestly. They're saying Pat could play like an authority figure kind of guy, like this guy Eric Bischoff back in the day from wcw and play like a specific sort of part where he would usher in other people with him.

[C]

Ah, maybe that's the play.

[B]

Maybe it's the play.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Maylene Chandler with a big old 50 spot.

[A]

My God.

[C]

Thanks, Mayleen.

[B]

Just happy y' all are here. Bought me and a friend an annual patreon to your show to keep going. Love y', all, yo. That's so fire, yo. You know? And shout out to the people who keep discovering us. My friend Barry Schwartz hit me up this weekend. He was like, hey, I was with my friend Sarah and she loves your guys show. He goes, she didn't even know you guys were still going. I put her on and had her subscribe.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

He was like, one at a time.

[C]

That's how it is.

[B]

Shouts to Barry, thank you. And I hit up Sarah and I said, welcome back. She was like, I missed you guys so much. I didn't even know some people. And I saw she didn't follow me on Instagram. So, like, you may love our stuff. Still not follow us on social.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

So one at a time.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Or you just don't even see it on social. Doesn't make your house because our E. Bro, Laura Rosenberg page man, I watch those posts go up sometimes. Struggle central.

[B]

Oh, what in terms of engagement.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But then it's like if we collaborate with one of us, all of a

[B]

sudden it goes, well, sometimes. Sometimes not.

[C]

Sometimes no.

[A]

I've seen some that are throttled that

[B]

I'm like, oh, yeah.

[C]

Or maybe they're just whack posts. Sometimes I. Sometimes I'm looking at our post and I'm like, if I just saw this, would I give a damn if I didn't know us, would I care?

[A]

The ones who are. It's very heavy political. They get that. Get no views. I'm suspect of those.

[C]

No.

[B]

Well, that could be true too.

[C]

But now some are just whack us. Sometimes we got to look in the mirror and be like, we didn't ask. We didn't do anything engaging. And there's nothing causing anyone to do anything with this.

[B]

What are you grabbing onto? Or do we need to get. As a program director once used to say to me, I can't remember if this is you or not. Who did used to say, get to the effing? Was that you?

[C]

I might. Sounds like something I say.

[B]

Was it you or is it like

[C]

Steve, sometimes there's too much foreplay.

[B]

Yeah. Get to the effing.

[C]

Especially with a Rosenberg story. A Rosenberg story. You like foreplay?

[B]

I wouldn't even tell you to put up one of my stories on social. How about that? Now One of my opinions.

[C]

Oh, nah, you get into it, but

[B]

you got to cut right to the opinion. You don't want to have me straight.

[C]

No, Chase.

[A]

All right, Just get to the chats before this turns into something.

[B]

That's it. That's it. We. We shouted out. Let's. We got to get to the Trump tweet. What are we, what are we doing? We have to.

[C]

Have to.

[B]

Yes, we have it.

[C]

So what do you, what do you want? Let me, let me. I got options for you. All right, all right. So there's Aaron Parnas, which is him just doing the Aaron Parness thing. He may or may not care, but I. So I went and found some other guy I'd never seen before.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[C]

This guy I've never seen before. Not a serious person, by the way.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

But all he does is read the tweets and it's pretty damn good.

[B]

And he's.

[C]

What would you like to say? It's the way he reads Trump's tweets.

[B]

Oh, is he the one who, he puts the all caps. He like, adds.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. You've seen him before? Yeah, I've never seen this guy before.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I've seen him.

[C]

But anyway, there's tweets before the main tweet.

[B]

There were.

[C]

Yes. So I didn't know that.

[B]

They're always your tweets before the main tweet. We don't know.

[C]

And they're not even tweets. They're from something else. There you go. Yeah, let's have a look. Let's go to number 11 there.

[B]

11.

[C]

I wonder what would happen if we finished off what's left of the Iranian terror state and let the countries that use it. We don't be responsible for the so called strait. That would get some of our non responsive allies in gear and fast. President DJT if Iran doesn't fully open without threat the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Trump. Donald J. Trump. With a little more time, we can easily open the Hormuz Strait, take the oil and make a fortune. It would be a gusher for the world. President Donald J. Trump. Remember when I gave Iran 10 days to make a deal or I didn't

[B]

know he did all this.

[C]

Set up the Hormuz Strait. Time is running out, dash. 48 hours before all hell will rain down on them. Glory be to God. President Donald J. Trump. No, Trump is not losing his nerve on Iran. Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Dash. Just watch. Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump. Yo, now, the reason it's necessary is because it. It really captures how insane and all over the place. Your man is broke. It's no, it's yo. And. And somebody was like, yo, this is where he is now. I was like, he's been doing this for 10 years.

[B]

There were a few things that made yesterday special. Do you have just the truth or no? Yeah, let's just see the truth. The thing. So they're special. Open the bleeping straight, you crazy bastards. Is even by his standards, you don't see a lot of F bombs. He doesn't pull F bombs. I'm just telling you. I mean, he's the. He is the sitting president, United States, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. And then, of course, there is the beauty of. Praise be to Allah. That does a lot of work. Praise be to Allah. You can pull it down, bask him. That does a lot of work. Not only does that just completely offend and make fun of the entire Muslim world. Right.

[C]

Two billion people, by the way.

[B]

Two billion people. Not only that, but here's the beauty of what that little sentence does. Does it also offends Christians on Easter? Why are you. You're supposedly Christian. I know, I know. You're this.

[C]

If that's what we're doing.

[B]

Yeah. If you're among the people who pretend that he's Christian. Well, you know what? Praise be to you, because that's just insanity. But I just love that he managed to offend between Christians and Muslims. Just billions of people in one fell swoop.

[A]

He don't care.

[B]

On Easter, no less.

[A]

Yes. And listen. He didn't care. He. I heard, I read or saw. I don't even know how many Easter celebrations he was supposed to attend.

[B]

He skipped him.

[A]

I'm out of here. He was out golfing. He does not care.

[B]

You know, people also thought he was dead this weekend, which y' all gotta stop doing, man. We can't just randomly have these days where, like, he's in the hospital and it turns out there was absolutely nothing. True.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Or that we learned.

[C]

I have no idea. I didn't. Until they announced he's dead. I don't know.

[B]

I thought it was going to be that he was gonna fake die and then resurrect himself.

[C]

That's what I was going for. I thought he was gonna be like, look, I'm Jesus. I came back on Easter. Look at me. I thought that's what they was gonna do.

[B]

That. That is where I thought we were going.

[A]

It could happen.

[B]

That's where I thought we were going.

[A]

Clown show.

[C]

Laura, I'm with you. I am not surprised by any of it. And I wouldn't be surprised how many people try to spin it and act like it's normal and do all of these tap dances to, to, to make us try to believe this is like what's supposed to be happening now. Laura, the, the Pope speaking out. So you know he's been spoken. Well, no, but, but this weekend when he was, you know, embracing the Muslim religion and embracing other religions and like really being, you know, speaking out against the war and just. It was a lot he said this week. Weekend.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Did any of the ant. The, the Christians going at Catholics come across your algorithm at all? Did you see this? I saw people alleged Christians going.

[A]

Talking about it, how Christians were coming at Catholic for not being, I don't know, real Christians. Real Christians.

[B]

I don't remember if you sent it to us though, because I watched a video from that this weekend. The divide. The divide between the Christian right and Catholics.

[C]

Yeah. Like Christian nationalists and Catholics.

[B]

Christian nationals hate. Really secretly or not secretly hate Catholics.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And look at it as, as a per. Of Christianity, more or less that.

[C]

Right, that's what I'm gathering.

[B]

That. That's what I saw, you know, around.

[C]

It's. Listen, boys and girls, it's a mess out here. No, but listen, I hope hopefully none of you, all that watch our program are falling for the banana in the tailpipe because all of this is division for monetary gain. Because they're just trying to keep you distracted from the fact that the United States of America and Israel have gotten ourselves into a no win situation with this Iran thing.

[B]

So now he's set up where if tomorrow night at 8 o' clock Eastern, they have not opened up the Hormuz Strait, that he's got to rain down hellfire and brimstone.

[C]

But by the way, on Iran. Right. By the way, simultaneously this morning when I'm listening to the news, more ships are going through the Hormuz Strait than since the day this started. Those countries are doing direct deals with Iran. Let that sink in. No, it's. It's open. It's just not open for the United States and it's not open for people who are allies of the United States and the United States is not in control. That's the story. So if you really pay attention to it, people are going to. Going to get their oil. Yeah, it's just not us or anybody affiliated with us.

[B]

Because I also was saw a story yesterday that all of this is not coincidental, given the whole Venezuela situation, that the United States has access to lots of oil that it can get to. Should this never work out?

[C]

Yeah, allegedly.

[A]

Were you the one that was telling me that they want certain oil because that needs to be mixed with the Venezuelan oil?

[C]

Yeah, because the crude in Venezuela is hard to move and they need something. I don't. Listen, all of it adds up to what, what, what's oil sitting at this morning? $108 a barrel or something. And even my daughter, we pulled up to the gas station the other day to fill up the tank and she was like, why is gas so expensive?

[B]

What was it?

[C]

She's 11.

[B]

What was it?

[C]

It was like 470 something.

[B]

And if, and if this whole thing.

[C]

And then she looked, she was like, we spent almost a hundred. I didn't even know she knew what this was. She's 11. The magnitude of a hundred dollars versus five. She was like, that was almost a hundred dollars.

[B]

She knows what a hundred dollars is.

[C]

No, I know, but like, I didn't know she was, you know, paying attention. Paying attention. She's paying attention. And I don't know that she absolutely understands what's going on in Iran like that.

[B]

Yo, I don't think you. I think you kind of disrespected my girl Issa right now. You don't think she knows these things? Have you, have you had a conversation with this child?

[C]

She knows. I might have told her about it.

[B]

Right?

[C]

I don't remember.

[B]

And she's with you all the time, right?

[C]

I don't. And we have the news on all the time.

[A]

Okay, so there you go.

[C]

She may know.

[B]

This is all. Obviously it's all scary. It's been scary. But I was just listening to NPR yesterday or the BBC and just hearing what the Iranian people are going through right now. These people have just been getting ping ponged all around. They have this bad regime, then they're told that they're getting saved by the Americans. Now they realize, even those who are willing to believe the propaganda at first, like, oh, the United States is gonna make things better. No one feels that way anymore. Like, that sentiment is gone.

[C]

Well, if you, if you did ever

[B]

believe that, well, graduation, they're in a desperate spot.

[C]

Not get it. You're hopeful, you're hoping.

[B]

Maybe you still get the button.

[C]

History, but you still get the button.

[B]

Congratulations.

[C]

You. I want to say maybe we've said on show the United States has never got involved in anything for just straight up humanitarian gain.

[B]

No. And nor do they get in anything international and really ever have it work out, Period.

[C]

There's full stop.

[B]

Also, I need people. I'm not, believe me, I promise you, I am not trying to let the horror show of criminals and monsters that Israel is off the hook. But if y' all believe this whole thing is Israel just pushing the United States to do it, hit the button. Because this whole hormone. What does this have to do with Israel anymore? When was the last time you heard the US Mention Israel?

[C]

Go ahead.

[B]

They used that as the way in. We're here with Israel, but it's cover.

[C]

It's covered because they're both running their own play.

[B]

That's what I'm saying was, though, as part of the narrative of the Jews run the world was Israel literally is pulling the trigger and the US Is doing whatever they want.

[C]

But that's also based in the fact that Netanyahu had tried to get Biden, had tried to get Obama. No, no.

[B]

Oh, for sure. He's always working everybody. That's for sure. What I'm saying is Israel is evil and separately, so is our government. And they both see a reason to try to destroy Iran and simply be best friends with Saudi Arabia and these other places that will be better for their business. They've always wanted Iran up out of there. And I'm just really scared for the people there.

[C]

And a lot of that has to do with the straight Hormuz, though. It has a lot to do with that.

[B]

If we could just get them out of the stuff that's theirs.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

If we could just get the people to not be there. Who are there when it's their stuff.

[C]

Well, and we, you know, we still don't take accountability for the fact that they had a democratically elected President Mossadegh who nationalized the oil and the CIA and everybody went in there and destabilized and put in the Shah, and the Shah was corrupt. So, like, that was. That happened.

[B]

What you mean back to what we just said? Every time the US Gets involved in anything, it's a colossal fail.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

And everyone should feel good about that. That's not, you know, specific to Republicans. That's everybody.

[C]

Nice everybody.

[B]

That's just how we do. That's The American way, baby.

[C]

You ready for the rundown? Laura Stone.

[A]

Let's go.

[C]

Let's get to it. You think? I know where the intro is right away. Laura got the rundown.

[B]

Turn that up.

[C]

Oh,

[B]

oh.

[C]

Headlines heavy, but we still caught.

[A]

Did you guys see? Ms. Cardi B. Has teamed up with the New York City mayor, Zoran mom, Donnie. To launch the citywide initiative. Listen, providing 2K is incredible. And what I love about this, it's 2,000 seats that he's pushing for. And it's targeting the Bronx and Queens and neighborhoods who need it the most. You know, this is life changing for families. I don't, you know, not. You guys have kids. But I just got to reiterate, for people who don't have kids, kids, child care is insane.

[B]

Insane.

[C]

20 to $40,000 a year saying.

[A]

So this would allow people to be able to go to work. You know what I mean?

[B]

So would this be for anybody?

[A]

I mean, obviously you have to apply. It's 2,000 seats for now for free childcare. So you do have to apply.

[B]

Got it. So starting with 2,000 seats.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

For kids.

[A]

Yes. So he teamed up with. With Cardi B. Because he was just like to help push the initiative. And then they're doing like a citywide little contest where they're going to create a jingle to push the initiative and Cardi. And then they're gonna judge it.

[C]

I'm thinking this is why your wife ran into him at the Garden.

[B]

That is correct.

[C]

The video I saw was. Seemed to be backstage at the Garden. At the Garden.

[B]

No, he was on the train just sitting by himself working on some stuff. And he was on his way to the Garden.

[C]

Got it.

[B]

So it was probably to meet with her because when she was like, I'm going to Cardi B. Are you? Hahaha. And he was like, actually, I am. I'm sure it had to be.

[C]

Now for anyone out there that lives in the city and has tried to get their kids. Maybe Rasaan, have you tried to get your kids in this program? They have it for 3 and 4K. Does your, does your income have anything to do with your access to this? No.

[B]

Districts. So they have it in a specific district.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So in Brooklyn is like it's in two districts. District depends on the district.

[B]

That depends on the district.

[C]

So your address has to be in that district though.

[B]

How many your kids got in? Oh, you're not in. Extended to 12,000 next year. Got it.

[C]

12,000 next year. So you're excited by this? Are you a mom Donnie fan at this point. Not yet. You're not there.

[B]

So he's. Again, we need to get a microphone for basketball.

[C]

Well, no, we just put a mic over there in that area. It'll pick up the whole thing.

[B]

We have one of those.

[C]

Yeah, we just. It's not plugged in. But nobody started that because we have extra mics that we could plug in.

[B]

So if you put one.

[C]

I've just been waiting. Yeah, I've just been waiting somebody.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I also have this.

[C]

Does this work? Yep, it sounds great. He's had that the whole time. I've wondered why he had a mic on his face the whole time and never used it. See? You see what I'm saying now? Now you're with me, Rosenberg. Go zoom in on Rosenberg's face.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

Wait, I specifically said last week.

[C]

I know.

[B]

It would be so cool if. And I remember I brought up Howard Stern, Right? And he has a cool sounding little headset.

[C]

I've wondered why he's had a mic on his face the entire.

[B]

Talk to us again on that.

[C]

Check, one, two.

[A]

Oh, my.

[B]

Like, you know, it sounds like he's coming from space. It's fire. Like, he doesn't sound as good as us.

[C]

It sounds like he's in his own. What you want?

[B]

That's what I wanted. And he had it sitting connected to it. Literally connected to his face.

[C]

And are you asking yourself, why didn't anybody bring this information to the table?

[B]

Or when he talked, why didn't he just.

[C]

So now am I the only one that now goes, why do we have stuff and nobody takes initiative to set it up and use it? Or are you with me yet? I'll wait.

[B]

Yeah, I'm thinking about it.

[A]

All right.

[B]

It's a big deal. Taking a side with you puts me in a dangerous place politically. You know what? Yeah. It's like, I'm done. It's all politics. You know what I mean? Where you want to be.

[A]

All right, so it's a great thing, and I'm very excited for all the communities who need it the most. Okay. In other news. I know this was all over. I just. Was Kanye. Kanye, Kanye. I saw the sets and I saw the people in the outrage, but two things. The headlines are that Pepsi and Diageo have just pulled out of the wireless festival. At. They were one of the main sponsors. What I read is Pepsi.

[C]

Sorry, Laura. Congratulations, you played yourself. That's for the wireless festival. Because I'm shocked. Nobody had this convo, like, hey, we're gonna go to our biggest sponsor. Make sure that this is clean.

[B]

Can you imagine you're running Summer Jam. We have back in the day when they could actually find a presenting spot sponsor. And he had a huge Pepsi, I think, multiple times. And we're going to put on a really controversial artist. You're not. Or someone else wasn't making the phone call to Pepsi to say, this is what we're doing.

[C]

Well. And not that. And by the way, we would never give said sponsor the power of authority to say we can't.

[B]

But.

[C]

And maybe they did and knew this was going to happen. But I'm still hitting the button because it's not a good look. It's not what you want.

[A]

Yeah. Because if they would have spoken about it before, they just would have not made the ask. Yes.

[B]

Or.

[C]

Or said, hey, Pepsi, maybe this year ain't for you. Come back next year. And we wouldn't get this announcement. The announcement of them pulling out is not what you want if you're wireless. Because they could have kept this a little bit cooler.

[A]

Right, right, right, right, right. So that was that.

[B]

So. So, okay, couple things. The concert. The visuals at the concert looked incredible. It looked like he really had kind of perfected the different things he'd wanted to do over the, Like Pablo, Yeezus, all those tours. To me, the sofa looked like the best one I've seen.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I will say I was surprised. I knew he was having the concerts. I knew that there's been a thawing of sorts, like, oh, everyone's starting to, you know, including myself.

[C]

Well, he put out.

[B]

So look, he put out the statement,

[C]

put out the apology letter, and he's been mostly.

[B]

Kept his mouth shut.

[C]

Quiet. No, he had a B. Had a shout to big boy. Did an interview with him when he's ranting and raving and yelling at the camera. Wasn't that.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

You guys didn't see that.

[A]

But I thought that was old.

[C]

Was that old? I thought that was new where he was like, I could say what I want. That wasn't new.

[A]

They recycle clips a lot, so.

[C]

Okay. Okay. My bad.

[B]

Yeah, I don't think he did anything. Okay. His album. He didn't say anything. That sounded weird to me when I listened to it at the concerts. We certainly would have seen the clips if he said anything crazy at the concerts. Now, remember, a wise man named Ibrahim Darden has always said Kanye magically forgets his mental illness and knows how to say all the right things and stop messing up when it's time to make some money. You have always said that. And he has been on that run of quiet time. Let's focus on the right things. Because there was all that stuff. You know, A year ago, Kanye couldn't get a venue in the US and it was because aggressive and whatchamacallit. Live Nation and Live Nation run the venues. And we're like, no. Now he's at Sofi. He's finding his way back in. Seems like everyone's thawing. Wireless jumps out, has him headline. And I did cross my mind this weekend when I saw the two shows sold out and I saw the celebrities, I was like, damn, everyone. Really? Like, I'm starting to thaw. Y' all went and forked over money and cheered and screamed, I'm not there yet, guys. Yeah, you're just. He didn't do anything, yo. There are other people who have said things a thousandth as anti Semitic as Kanye west, and they had to go to goddamn Hebrew school for a year and nearly get a bris in public to beg for the apology from the Jonathan Greenblatts and the ADL's of the world.

[C]

This man praised Hitler and he made a song.

[B]

Sorry. Called how after praising Hitler, he made a song.

[C]

No, no, no. And sold Confederate flag and said and

[B]

did the whole White Lives Matter skit.

[A]

Remember the KKK outfit?

[B]

Oh. Sat with academics in a weird hotel room wearing a black KKK outfit for an entire interview a year ago. One year.

[C]

And never forget the Yo, Rahsaan. Between. Since we back into Kanye talking business, can we get a compilation made of Kanye at the White House with Donald Trump just to remind people.

[B]

Oh, that's classic. And that's light work relative to where he went, though.

[C]

No, no, no. All that's light work. But I just wanted to remind people.

[B]

Yeah. So all of that stuff. And we've seen so many people had to apologize for so much less. And this man never really. He wrote the one little letter.

[C]

I think he was going DEFCON 3.

[B]

I'm going DEFCON 3 on the Jews not only said anti Semitic things, try to physically scare people and harm them based on their past trauma. I'm going to scare you with harm and act dangerous. And then wrote a letter in which he really apologized to black folks in it, at least with one sentence. He tried to the Jews thing. He kind of was like, ah, I made some mistakes. Blah, blah, blah. There was never a straight up I'm sorry that I referenced Hitler. That I've learned he didn't do that. If you go back and look at the letter it really didn't include all that. And now he's back.

[A]

And never a reference to all the KKK stuff.

[B]

No KKK or Hitler. He just moved on. And now y' all ran to the concert.

[C]

And who's y', all, though?

[B]

80,000 people each night.

[C]

Well, that's not surprising. It's Kanye west and they don't give a damn.

[A]

On the stage with them was Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott, CeeLo and his daughter, obviously.

[C]

Well, but. And also CeeLo and Trav are on the album.

[A]

Yes, yes, yes. I said on stage. Okay. And then in attendance, Dave Chappelle, Winnie Harlow, Chloe Bailey, the Game. Those are just. And obviously it was like YG Marley, but he was there, so.

[B]

Yeah, you said Erica was there too, right?

[A]

Erica Badu and her daughter. Yeah, she went viral for posting her. Her and her daughter at the concert.

[B]

I'm just glad Game took a night off of sliding in people's DMs to.

[C]

What is that?

[B]

What do you mean? That's not. Make your outgoing.

[A]

Yes, yes. He uses the same pickup line for like.

[B]

You didn't see this. There was a compilation out a couple weeks ago of Game using his same. He was. He's just DMing people shit like stuff like D6. And they're like, what? And he's like, oh, I thought you were a vending machine because you a snack. And there was a compilation of mad people. So that's why I said I was just happy tonight. Off the.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

People ran out, huh?

[C]

Well, no, I thought you guys shot. So the. The show's been on sale for. But I mean, how long ago is this? They went up before the album.

[B]

Six weeks.

[C]

Yeah, these sold out right away. That didn't. I. I saw that. I was shocked at that part that there was two sold out SoFi Stadium shows without a new album. They. These people bought this. These tickets without the new album. So this wasn't like. And they were there for the classics, clearly, which he did a lot of. And yes, there is a thawing on Kanye because I think people.

[B]

No one wants to hate Kanye.

[C]

Nobody. Yeah, people don't want to hate Kanye because the art that he makes is great. And I think that's, you know, look, like we said on the album, relative to a Kanye album, this new album is good. Relative to hip hop, it is still outstanding.

[B]

Right.

[C]

You know what I mean? So I think there's people who are like, I. There's people who don't love any rapper shenanigans. From them selling crack in the neighborhood to everything else. And they still go for the music and enjoyment. There's people like that. Right. But I do think we're living in a time where people are like, wait a minute, he said a lot of bad stuff, but he didn't actually kill anybody. And there's people actually killing people.

[B]

Well, and then I just be honest with you guys too. And again, I'm not trying to do the feel sorry for Jews business. Let's be honest. People forgive Jew hating quick.

[C]

They do. And word gets forgiven.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

People on the left though.

[C]

Justin Bieber's out here moving.

[B]

Eminem's moving.

[C]

Morgan Wallen's moving. They're moving.

[B]

None of those even sniff what Kanye did. Those are. Those are like a one off thing that was then begged for forgiveness.

[C]

Well, this is two of them. Morgan Wilder never begged for forgiveness.

[B]

What did he do?

[C]

Nothing.

[B]

He gave nothing.

[C]

He's like.

[B]

He's pushing. He seems like a bad guy. Yeah, but the. The other ones you're talking about, like, years ago in a big Me a cool culpa and all that, Kanye went all Ebro.

[C]

He made his own. No, he made a song called How.

[B]

No, no, Ibrahim, listen, you know me. I do not downplay use of the N word. That is just serious.

[C]

He made a song called.

[B]

He made a song called Heil Hitler. Guys. No, we're gonna have to really.

[C]

And you said the beat was banging. That's how much I love Kanye.

[B]

No, it's fire. No, listen, but it's.

[C]

But this is the problem.

[B]

Yeah, but I'm not running out to the concert.

[C]

No, but nonetheless. Still the problem. You're willing to joke about the beat on how Hitler.

[B]

The irony is too. I would make that joke about anything. I'm just allowed to make this one because it's Jewish. So I will. I'm. No, but I'm just still uncomfortable.

[C]

I'm still just saying still falls in this weird place of like, it's bad. But I guess what I'm trying to say is we're living in a time where we're inundated with actual violence.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Children starving, being bombed. Like, craziness.

[B]

You mean being done by the person who he ran up and said, you're my. You're my daddy. Can I get on my knees for you?

[C]

Boom. Right? So we're living in this crazy. And. And the people actually out here committing murder and supporting genocide is like us and our taxpayer dollars and like Cory Booker and Kamala. And like, we're living in this weirdo universe where people are like, wait, what's Actually bad. And I'm not saying what Kanye did is like a genocide. I'm not saying that. And I'm not saying politics should be compared to. I'm not saying any of that. I'm saying for the. For the lane. It's an upside down universe. And so we're talking about a guy who did bad things, said bad things, but we're also talking about people, what we're asking to, like, pledge our allegiance to who are dropping bombs or paying for bombs being dropped on children. It's just a lot for people.

[B]

I hear what you're saying. I feel like, though.

[C]

And by the way, a lot of these people. And by the way, I'm making an excuse for the people who didn't care. Like, I'm making this up.

[B]

No, no, you are. I was literally gonna look at Laura to say. I think what he's doing here, though.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Is something you do where you intellectualize things in a way that is giving people the benefit of the doubt out. I think what. I don't. I don't want to speak for Laura, but I just. I've seen you talk about these people before. I think at least half these people went out are these young Kanye morons who literally. He does no wrong. They agree with what he says, and they're for. They're good with it.

[A]

There's that, and there's people who are forgiving.

[B]

And then there's that part.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

No, no, no. I think, too. I agree with. I agree. I agree with all of it. And I wasn't at the show, so I can't tell y' all what the audience looked like. If I was there, I'd have been able to confirm or deny what you guys.

[B]

I do wish.

[C]

Cause I could walk around and look at an audience and be like, oh, you guys are just some trolling ass suburban teenagers. You don't care about anything. You just care whether the sneakers are hot and the beats hot and you're having a good time. You don't care.

[B]

Based on the kids I saw, like, slam dancing or whatever you call it on the floor and punching each other in the face very much that that crowd was there, there. I do wish Dave didn't go, though, bro. Dave. Dave. I don't love. Me and my dad in our constant fight of my dad saying Chappelle hates Jews and me being like, no, he doesn't, dad. Just. This didn't help, bro. You showing up. You didn't need to show. You just lost a point in the argument with my dad.

[C]

You're down one.

[B]

You just are down one. Because you didn't have to show up to this show. You could have waited long.

[C]

But I think if Kanye would have reached out to you and invited you to the show, I think you would have. You wouldn't have said. Said no.

[B]

I said no to Wyoming before all of this.

[A]

Right. I don't. I don't know.

[B]

I really did. And I. I wanted to get some free stuff and go.

[C]

They asked, and I was like, I can't make it.

[B]

They said when they saw you, yeah, I can't go. But you. But you, in the best of times, would not stay an extra day away from your family to go to a concert. No, sorry.

[C]

And. And I gotta say, this is unpopular, and I think that I. Look, I saw the setup of the concert.

[B]

The coach you about to on it.

[C]

I don't care about. You stand on the globe, bro. You stand on top of a dome. I can't really see you. It's.

[B]

By the way, if you don't see. If you don't see the up close screen, you don't see him at all.

[C]

That's what I'm saying. I can't.

[B]

So the visuals.

[C]

No. And I'm not saying it's not dope. It looked dope.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

That's not what I'm saying. It looked incredible. But I've seen so many Kanye installations. I'm installation Doubt my guy. You know what I'm saying? Get on that stage and let's rock. You know what I mean? Like, I like.

[B]

How about a dope live band behind

[C]

you, yo, and there's. And by the way, like, I, you know, I leave the art to Laura, man. Laura will tell you, at a certain point, y' all went beyond my level of comprehension. When I'm. I'm trying to feel the music like the art. When the art is doing more than the music. I'm out, man. I can't see. I can't see what's happening.

[B]

Right. I hear you.

[C]

I don't know what's going on.

[B]

It's a globe, man.

[C]

And you're standing on a globe.

[A]

Cool.

[C]

You got a harness so you don't fall off the globe. Like, how much about that.

[A]

Oh, my God. But yes. All right, all right. Y' all want to keep going? You want.

[C]

Well, we didn't even finish the. We didn't get to poo Shy and Gucci, man. You don't want to tap into that. Listen, that might be this, though. Lord. You might need a new intro.

[A]

Get the button ready.

[C]

Speaker.

[B]

I Missed the devil, man. I miss Devlin.

[C]

I, I, I was out once. Y' all named the Devlin.

[A]

All right, Right. Rosenberg, you said this, this didn't hit your algorithm, but please pay attention, because I was like, oh, my God. So Pooh Shiesty, him and his crew have been federally char. Federally charged in the robbery and kidnapping of Gucci.

[C]

Not crazy.

[A]

And he's been captured on tape. Hit the button, Ibrah.

[B]

Whoa. Hit the button.

[C]

That is Congratulations.

[A]

So, all right, here's the story. So the department of. So, excuse me. I'm sorry. So Pooh Shicy. This is what they're saying. He allegedly, okay, Executed an armed takeover. That's what they're calling during which they say Shiesty forced Gucci at gunpoint to release him out of his contract. Gunpoint. Release me out of my contract. Here's the paperwork. So they're saying. This is what they're saying now, that the feds are including that several pictures and surveillance from the buildings in Gucci Studio. They have all of this. They were. They actually show where the group of suspects were entering the building. Okay. At one point, one of them leaves to get a duffel bag, comes back, okay, and that's where he had an AK47. That's the AK47 that the crew used to threaten Gucci to sign the release.

[C]

It's so like, the FBI has this thing all the way laid out. They have video of the guys outside the studio. They have the rental car of Pooh Shiesty's dad. When he picked it up, he returned it in a certain day after the incident mess.

[B]

They have Shisty has parenting like this in his life.

[C]

Oh, that's right. Thank you. Rah. Pooh Shies. He's wearing an ankle monitor the entire time. Matter of fact, gets a phone call from his P.O. right? And said. Saying, basically, hey, why are you not at home? And him saying, hey, I called someone else. They told me I could, you know, go. I don't know what he. What his excuse was. Go to the studio.

[A]

The student.

[C]

And they were like, no, you need to go back home. So they contacted him while he was in the process.

[A]

Rosenberg.

[C]

The only thing that says to me is, you wanted to go back to jail.

[A]

He just left jail six months ago.

[B]

Well, it's been real, pal.

[C]

Congratulations. You played yourself.

[B]

I like when I get things right. I never checked in on Poosh iced tea, and I feel like I made a great call.

[C]

You got one.

[B]

Yeah. This was not. I didn't miss record.

[C]

FDO is still going crazy, though, since he.

[B]

Well, now it's going to go more crazy. You know, people love someone who makes terrible decisions, goes to jail.

[C]

Jail. Well, now they just like, they, like real. They feel like it's all so real. You know what I'm saying? Keeping it real goes wrong.

[B]

Super wrong.

[C]

Now the, The. The. The Internet streets, because I'm not in the real street. So this is all I can get from the Internet. Are mad at Gucci man, calling him a snitch? Ladies and gentlemen, your pooh shy had an ankle monitor on, man. By the way, there were other people at the studio also. Gucci man. This was a business transaction. It's not a street transaction.

[A]

What are we talking about? Surveillance?

[C]

They're sur footage. What are y' all talking about? But that's how ridiculous people are.

[A]

It's wild.

[B]

I just want to know who these losers on the Internet are. You people who spend your life commenting on. On bossip and Hollywood. Unlocked yet, Y' all. Don't forget Shade room and Shade Room.

[C]

Boss up.

[B]

Y' all are so connected to the streets. I know, right? I don't. I don't.

[C]

Look, that's how to touch you.

[B]

Yeah, seriously, y'. All. Yet you guys are so committed to the street culture code that you need to call out snitching all the time.

[C]

I, I.

[B]

Who are.

[C]

It doesn't make any sense.

[B]

We don't believe you. We don't believe you calling him a

[A]

snitch when there's video, bro, they don't know.

[B]

What? Why would you not even if he picked up the phone and called the police. Hey, a guy who I gave a. A record contract to just threatened me with an AK47. That doesn't make him a snitch. They weren't in a. They weren't in a crime operation together. That was his.

[C]

It was legitimate business.

[A]

That's not what happened.

[C]

Oh, man, no, no, no.

[B]

I'm glad I missed it.

[A]

The video of him walking out to get the duffel and coming back, I was like, yo, this is.

[C]

No, no, no. They got all the video, bro.

[A]

It's so nuts.

[B]

Yo, man. And his father was in on it.

[C]

Yeah, Yeah.

[B]

I would have expected more from the shiesty family tree.

[A]

Father was arrested, too. Damn a mess. But yes, now you know what happened. That's why everybody was like, this is wild.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Let's get to the gurus. Hey, yo, it's time for the gurus.

[B]

Rosenberg, man.

[C]

Beautiful queen. I might cancel the gurus because we

[B]

didn't get to a story that we had to get to which is what? The Jake Paul.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Do we have to get to that?

[B]

I don't know. I think we. Thank you, Laura.

[C]

Tell me why, because I really don't know why we need to get to Theo Von and Jake Paul pontificating on him, putting on blackface.

[A]

We're getting into it.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

Why does that matter in the. In the scheme of.

[B]

Well, how about this? I'm low on emails anyway.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

The original. I have a couple. But the original gurus. Gmail.com. i could use a day of re ups.

[C]

Griff looks perplexed on your low on email. Yo, I searched.

[B]

There's only. I only see one new one.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Test originally 2. I see 2 edges. No, he's right there. No, he's right there. Two or three. He's right.

[C]

Oh, Chris.

[B]

Right.

[C]

I thought y' all said the show was popping. What happened?

[B]

Females are always not representative. Not everybody needs advice from the gurus. So, Ebro, what do you think? Should we do a good right now or should we hit the story?

[C]

Because if we love the gurus, I don't think they love or care about Jake. Like, literally talk about it tomorrow, people get mad.

[B]

We're gonna skip tomorrow. All right?

[C]

That's a fact.

[B]

We'll wait till tomorrow.

[C]

I don't think it's any important.

[B]

It's definitely not important. No. All right, here we go. TheOriginal. Gurusmail.com. send your emails today. Hey, gurus. First off, I've been a big fan of the show for years.

[C]

Thank you.

[B]

I'm glad you made it out of the Plantation station. Well, if you're gonna use that terminology, it would be off the Plantation station and onto bigger things. Much respect. I'm reaching out because I'm in a situation I never expected and could really use some outside perspective. I've been with my wife for about 18 years, married, high school sweethearts, and we've only been with each other. We've built a life together and have three kids. Overall, things have been solid. But over time, the bedroom side of our relationship became a bit stale. I just want to say, so far, that's not. That's not news. 18 years. It's become a bit stale. Yo, send us the email. If it didn't get a bit stale. That's news.

[A]

All right, Continue.

[B]

Sorry. Sorry, sir. My wife suggested trying new things. Okay. Including swinging. This was never my idea, but I agreed because I love her and I didn't want to shut her down. We've been living that lifestyle for nearly a Year now. And honestly, I've been uncomfortable with it the entire time.

[C]

Oh, then now this is serious email.

[B]

Well, now things. No, listen. In the words of the great Jim Ross business, just pick up.

[C]

You buried the lead a little bit.

[B]

Yeah, bruh. The final straw for me was when things escalated to bringing in other men into our love life. Yeah, Specifically men with darker complexions. Oh, wait, hold on, hold on. Now. This is taking turns, yo. The twists and turns. This email is.

[C]

I can't believe they didn't want to do the guru.

[B]

Me neither.

[C]

Yo, see why they can't be trusted.

[B]

No, Ebro's right. Ebro that age. Great for you. I want to be clear. I'm not racist in any way. I'm is. I'm the least racist person in the world. I just. I just don't like the darker complexions. I want to be clear about racist. But that dynamic made me deeply uncomfortable and pushed me further away from the situation. I recently told her I don't want to continue, but she's made it clear to me she isn't willing to stop and really enjoys this lifestyle. Now it feels like we're on a completely different page and neither of us wants to compromise. I don't want a divorce, but I also don't want to keep living in a way that doesn't sit right right with me. I feel stuck between staying and losing myself or leaving and losing my family life as I know it. What would you do in a situation where two people love each other but want completely different things in a relationship that can't seem reconciled? Appreciate any advice. A husband trying to figure it out. The first thing we can do is definitely lace you up with this button real quick.

[C]

Facts. The biggest of buttons. Well, not really. Why? Because he agreed to do something he wasn't all the way in on from the gate. Yeah, but what was he gonna do? It sounds like she wanted other. Other penis. I don't know. She wanted under other penis. Which, like, that's what this comes down to.

[B]

Okay, how about this, though? Hold on, hold on, hold on. I have a solution and this is the only solution. Well, there's. There's. Either she agrees to end it with you and she understands and respects you, and y' all go back to being boring and try your best to make it work. Not gonna work the old fashioned way.

[C]

It's not gonna work out.

[B]

Why? Because she wants it too. It's obviously if it's important enough to you that you started making these moves where you're getting banged out in Front of your partner you obviously cared a lot about.

[C]

She said to him straight up, I'm not stopping.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

She's passionate about this. She's in.

[B]

Passionate.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The words y' all are using is so such a nice way of describing this. Anyways. Can we just remove the swinging part and make it an open relationship?

[C]

Well, it already is.

[B]

No, no, no, no. He's there seeing his lady get banged out. Can we just go to, like. Like. We are. We love each other. We agree. We're not gonna. But, like. Yeah, she goes out sometimes. It does a thing. I do mine. And I understand if that's. That's scary, too.

[C]

That.

[B]

Because you're just worried that she's in a. This woman is obviously so pressed off the dills. Respectfully. That not. I meant it, dude. Because the hard part is I meant

[C]

it, but it's part to respectfully partner.

[B]

Yeah. No, I meant. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to the guy, but she is, so it's

[C]

all disrespectful, but, like, taking it all in the mouth. She's taking.

[B]

You don't have to. To do what you're doing. That's my problem. Stop it. I said respectfully and I meant it.

[A]

I understand what you're saying. Go on.

[B]

So what? I think the only option is if, you know, she's not willing to stop and, you know you're not into it. We're not. I don't even know. We'll see if we have time to get to the complexionism thing, but maybe I'll just do this separately and it's not a together thing. And that way at least you don't

[C]

have to see it, because that's the only solution.

[A]

I hear you, but he has to really be okay with that. That.

[C]

Well, he said he doesn't want a divorce, Laura.

[B]

He doesn't want a divorce, but he doesn't want to see his wife getting banged out.

[C]

So don't see it. That's it.

[A]

Is it only seeing it or it happening?

[C]

Well, he's got to find out. So why don't you. Why don't you do the relationship thing?

[A]

I mean, listen, that's not a bad idea. I hear you. I just. I wonder if this is something you can't wonder.

[C]

You can't want my list. My advice to you, sir. Stop wondering. Make the call. If you want to stay with your family, make the call. Say, listen, I don't want to be a part of this anymore. If this is making you happy right now, it's not for me. I love you. I'm gonna be here and boom, boom, pow.

[A]

I think he's gonna look at it as a way of her falling in love with someone else.

[B]

Well, that's the scary part.

[C]

Or. Or what is he. What's his other option? Continue to show up and watch.

[A]

And watch.

[B]

Nah, bro, stop, bro. Yeah, I guess.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

If someone told me, you know, I don't. I really don't kink shame. I know it's a big thing to say is that you don't kink shame. We all kink shame. But. But if someone were to tell me I'm in an open relationship, I would go, oh, that's interesting.

[C]

Cool.

[B]

If someone says to me, we swing and dudes come over and have sex with my wife while I'm there, I'm just being honest about my bias. I'd be like, okay, they're vastly different things. You know what I'm saying? I can conceive of an open relationship. I can't conceive of. You can't. You don't see the difference?

[C]

I can't conceive of any of them. I'm not in any of them.

[B]

I'm not into any of.

[C]

If I'm in a relationship, let's do the relay. This is me. If I'm in a relationship, let's do the relationship.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

If we're not doing the relationship, we're doing something else. I may not be interested, you may not. Period, full stop.

[B]

But I can't picture a world ever in history.

[C]

But this is their relationship.

[B]

You're right. No, listen, I'm judging.

[A]

I'm from the chat guys. Real dreamer said so. Wait, if she liked white guys, would he be less bothered?

[B]

I don't want to.

[C]

Well, so we were going to get into that. I do want to.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Because he brought it up. He brought it up that, like, you didn't have to tell us that. And so if you're trying to say you're not racist, I don't believe you. Because.

[B]

And do we know. We don't know what racy is?

[C]

No, but for him to say I'm not racist, it would.

[B]

It would.

[C]

It. He wouldn't say that. A black person wouldn't say that. A black person wouldn't say, my wife decided to bring in darker, complex black guys. I'm not racist. Like, it just wouldn't happen.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree with that.

[B]

That could be a complexionist thing that exists.

[C]

No, I don't know. But I don't determine the term the way he used the word.

[B]

Yeah, I hear what you're saying. The reason I thought maybe he wasn't white white was because he said darker complected instead of saying bringing in black guys. Are you saying he said that to avoid sounding racist?

[C]

That's what I'm saying.

[B]

Got it.

[C]

Okay. But anyway, sir, you're there. Sounds racist. But by the way, multiple things can be true. A, he can be intimidated by the black dude she's bringing in. Yes, that's part one. He could also just not like watching his wife get banged out.

[B]

That's how I would feel.

[C]

You see what I'm saying? Not interested.

[B]

Interesting.

[C]

So, you know, but yeah, it. I mean, keep showing up to the bang out sessions and, and say, listen, honey, I don't really like you being banged out by black dudes. So let me see how I feel. If you get banged out by a white dude and sit around, watch. Or get banged out by a lighter complected dude and see how you feel about it.

[A]

Because what is he gonna say? Rosenberg, hey, I'm okay. Let's have this open relationship. But I'll have a problem.

[C]

Wait, Laura, let me cook for some black eye. Let me cook for. And sir, can you email us back after she gets banged out by a white dude with you watching and let us know how you felt about it? Because I want to know. Well, maybe it's not the. Maybe it's not the dark complexity, but

[B]

he's done it all. Because it said, we've been doing this for nearly a year.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

The final straw for me was when things escalated to her bringing other men into our love life. Life, specifically men with darker complexions.

[A]

He's specifically racist.

[B]

Or. Yeah. Is it racist? Yeah, I guess it probably is.

[A]

I mean. Yes, because he has a. Specifically has a problem.

[B]

Yeah, no, you're right. It's based on some sort of insecurity that black men are able to do something you're not. It all gets to racist.

[C]

He's probably seeing her like it more. That's really what it is.

[A]

He's like, damn, that's not. I can never do that. I can never give her that.

[B]

But that's. That's the racist part. Yeah, the racist part is that you see a black man having sex and go, I could never. We're too different. What? It's like. It's like they're different species. You know what I'm saying? Like what? That's the. Now we're getting into the real racist part of it.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

To me, it Would be the penis.

[C]

That's why I wanted to get into it.

[B]

To me, it would be the penis entering the wife. That's the part that I would. No, me personally. Regardless of the color of the penis.

[A]

Yes, yes, yes.

[B]

It's the whole entrance into the wife that I'm not about.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Before I have time to be concerned with like. And he is dark, man. I just wish that dick was lighter. I can't. I don't. I don't.

[C]

You just said that, man. Why we're not cursing on the program.

[A]

All right, so, I mean, subject.

[C]

I know, I know we contextually said a lot, but why did you have

[B]

to throw it all out the window? I'm sorry. I've been doing a bad job. Congrats. I'll do better.

[A]

Look, he could present the open relationship, okay?

[B]

But also, you need to think about the whole race thing, bro. Because that didn't sound like the least racist. That sounded like a Trump version of I'm the least racist guy you've ever met. Anyways, good luck though, buddy.

[A]

I mean, maybe give us a follow up. I'm interested.

[B]

I am interested.

[C]

I told you guys. Listen. Never listen to these two. Never listen to these two about the guru.

[A]

So say the gurus.

[B]

Nairo nailed it today. No pun intended. Another black guy nailing it.

[C]

Yo, subscribe and share and hype and do all the things, man. Appreciate all y'. All. How was you tune in today. We had some people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People Staying consistent.

[B]

I'd like to, if we're being honest, I'm like, as our subscribership goes up.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I am surprised that our live doesn't really get bigger. Like, our live is staying at like that two and a half. Yeah. I mean, maybe we already have the people who are like, I prioritize it.

[C]

I have time for this.

[B]

Right?

[C]

At live at 8.

[B]

Yeah. Because it seems like people really come on board and watch it later quite a bit.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So either way, we're grateful for all you.

[C]

All of you. New Patreon this week. What happened?

[B]

Jeff came through with a hundo.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Jeff ibra. Laura Rosenberg. Y' all are amazing. Stay up, love from one of your biggest fan wrestling tonight. That's right.

[C]

Monday night night Raw.

[B]

Trini Blood says don't forget Kanye said slavery was a choice.

[C]

He sure did.

[B]

Bonnie also said you guys should consider a Collab with some YouTubers. Few have taken Ebro's quote of, now we're just on YouTube out of context. Like Armin Wiggins and Funky D out of content. Yo, people really take their YouTube ish really seriously, bro. Like, when you say the world word, we're just on YouTube now. They're like, don't you talk about it?

[C]

But that's the joke. Because we've always been on YouTube.

[B]

But he just meant now that we're not on the radio anymore. Don't worry about it.

[C]

No, but it was all bait. And by the way, a lot of y' all saw that bait moving around this week about us talking about or over the weekend about us talking about people not wanting to come on the show and all that. We were just cracking jokes and being self deprecating. But our audience knows. But it was taken out of context.

[B]

Nothing.

[C]

But also we know when we do the self deprecating thing that it's gonna move around. You know it. Especially on the Internet, anytime we start cracking jokes on ourselves. Yeah, it moves around.

[B]

Yo, should we do a fake one where like we completely, completely make it fake, but leak it and I'm down. I'll do it if you want. Where I start crying about how bad this is and how bad we're failing and how much I just wish we never got fired. And we just see if academics makes it a whole. Like we just. And it'll be like Rosenberg cries mid show. No, I don't want. I shouldn't do that. It's a bad look. Because to your point, it ends up being a bad look.

[C]

But just like I when I was like, yo, how we do today? And we'll act like they gave us a bad number. And then you, you storm out, you throw your headphones down like, I can't do this anymore. I'm on wwe espn. It's.

[B]

It's embarrassing.

[C]

It's embarrassing to me. I can't.

[B]

Rosenberg calls Ebro an embarrassment, says, you've ruined my life.

[A]

Ruined my life.

[B]

All right, peace out.

[C]

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