72.) Trump Threatens Iran Again + Offset Shot In Florida (4/7/26)

Summary

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The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show: Episode 72

Trump Threatens Iran Again + Offset Shot In Florida
Date: April 7, 2026
Hosts: Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, Peter Rosenberg
Summary by: PodcastSummarizerGPT

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Episode Overview

In this wide-ranging, live episode, Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg dissect breaking global and pop culture news, focusing on Donald Trump’s escalating threats toward Iran, a bizarre media landscape, and the shooting incident involving Offset in Florida. The team juxtaposes weighty topics like Middle East geopolitics and media manipulation with hip-hop industry facts, wrestling drama, and their trademark banter. Throughout, the episode captures a sense of real-time chaos—from international brinkmanship to the volatility of the music and entertainment world—while maintaining the show's unfiltered, humorous tone.

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Key Topics and Insights

1. Wrestling Drama and Media Realness

[03:26 – 14:44]

• WWE & CM Punk's Viral Promo
  • The crew react to CM Punk’s unscripted promo on WWE Raw, which included direct shots at ticket prices and management (Ari Emanuel, Endeavor’s head), blurring reality and storylines.
  • Rosenberg notes the “meta-ness” of WWE, with management drama now becoming part of the show:
      “You have no idea, I have no idea what level of conversation was had with him and anyone else before he went out, mentioned the ticket prices on television, called out Ari Emanuel, the head of the board…” – Laura, [07:05]
  • The team muses on WWE’s strategy to use behind-the-scenes controversy for publicity and fan engagement.
  • Discussion on “algo hustling”—manufacturing virality for ticket sales and trending moments.

2. Trump’s Threats Toward Iran and the Fractured Information Landscape

[12:12 – 14:44, 49:04 – 67:04]

• Trump’s Social Media Bluster

  • The panelist share Trump’s latest threat to Iran, including the chilling statement:
    “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will…” – Trump, [49:10], read by Ebro
  • Laura and Ebro stress the disturbing reality:
    "That is literally Hitler talk. Like, we are talking about end the world, annihilate people, gas prices, smass prices. He is talking about murdering people." – Laura, [58:49]

• Media War: Iran’s AI-Generated Lego Rap Videos

  • Ebro highlights bizarre Iranian propaganda: AI-animated Lego-style videos taunting US military losses, mingling meme culture and geopolitical threat.
    “Yo, they're treating this like Drake and Kendrick... Guys, people are actually dying.” – Ebro, [14:44]
  • Discussion of satellite evidence being blocked and the wider chaos of both real and digital propaganda.
  • Laura brings up the distortion in media coverage, with focus shifting from Gaza and Lebanon to whatever’s trending algorithmically.

• Economic & Geopolitical Context

  • Ebro explains the petrodollar system and its connection to US influence, discussing how oil deals and sanctions become levers of global power.
  • Critique of the US tendency to try to dictate global affairs, with historical perspective on Israel, Lebanon, and Iran.
  • The hosts push back against Stephen A. Smith’s political analysis in a fiery segment: “Once again, Stephen A. Smith, you're in over your head, my guy.” – Ebro, [66:17]

3. Shooting of Offset in Florida

[34:14 – 41:18]

• Details & Rumors
  • News breaks that Offset was shot near a Florida casino, with speculation about Lil TJ’s involvement and a rumored past gambling dispute over $10,000 between them.
  • The hosts emphasize the importance of not jumping to conclusions without facts: “We don't know about the gambling part. We don't know if they were actually getting into it with each other. We don't know any of that. That's all I'm saying.” – Ebro, [38:27]
  • Reflecting on cycles of violence and the environments some artists come from, Rosenberg and Ebro discuss how trouble can “follow you around” due to choices and upbringing.

4. Kanye West, Wireless Festival, and Culture Wars

[41:56 – 48:28]

• Festival Fallout

  • Sponsors pull out of the Wireless Festival over Kanye’s history of antisemitic remarks and Nazi references. The festival’s owner, who previously lived on an Israeli kibbutz, stands by the booking in the name of forgiveness, but controversy rages.
  • The hosts debate the balance between forgiveness, accountability, and cultural influence.
  • Notable quote: “Kanye gets celebrated...but it goes to your other point. Kanye west is way bigger and got way more motion.” – Ebro, [48:19]

• Social Media Hate & Antisemitism

  • Candid talk about the waves of antisemitic and racist comments that accompany any mention of Kanye or Israel.
  • Laura: “I'm telling you, to me, the thing that's mind numbing. Did Laura just watch the Delaki? She's big on incels right now...” [24:33]

5. Pop Culture, Audience, and Show Evolution

[54:05 – 58:15]

• Listener Engagement
  • Hosts seek direct feedback from live listeners, learning about consumption habits and content preferences, expressing genuine appreciation for dedicated fans.
  • They reflect on the need to “evolve” the show and keep the entertainment value high.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Trump's Iran Threats:
    "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will..." – (Trump, via Ebro) [49:10]

• On Wrestling & Media Meta-Narratives:
    “If you want to know why people like me obsess over wrestling...it is because of moments like this where you have no idea, I have no idea what level of conversation was had with him and anyone else before he went out.” – Laura, [07:05]

• On the Digital Information War:
    “Yo, they're treating this like Drake and Kendrick... Guys, people are actually dying.” – Ebro, [14:44]

• On Social Media Fandom and Hate:
    “Kanye ensured that those people were like, oh, I like this guy.” – Griff, [24:21]
    “I'm telling you, to me, the thing that's mind numbing… they're not bots. These are people.” – Laura, [26:28]

• On Audience Loyalty:
    “Those 2000–2500 people. Like, I really want to get to know y’all.” – Ebro, [56:48]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 00:58 – 03:26: Show warm-up, music banter
• 03:26 – 14:44: WWE Raw, CM Punk & meta-wrestling drama
• 14:44 – 19:56: Trump’s auto pen to kids; Iranian Lego rap videos; media propaganda
• 19:56 – 32:46: ICE deaths, Lebanon, Gaza, social media's impact on information flow
• 34:14 – 41:18: Offset shot in Florida; speculation around Lil TJ, cycles of violence
• 41:56 – 48:28: Kanye, Wireless Festival, fallout, debate on forgiveness and cancelation
• 54:05 – 58:15: Listener feedback; show evolution and live audience loyalty
• 49:04 – 67:04: Trump’s direct threats, Stephen A. Smith’s take, global power politics
• 67:04 – 74:14: The Guru segment (advice column, relationship Q&A); show close

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Final Takeaways

• Theme: The episode captures a chaotic intersection of international conflict, celebrity news, and the volatile nature of modern media narratives.
• Tone: Unfiltered, rapid-fire, blending seriousness with sharp humor.
• Value: Offers insight for listeners into how media, social trends, and politics are colliding in real time, all while highlighting the power and pitfalls of modern platforms in shaping the conversation.

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For more, follow the hosts on X (@theelrshow) and TikTok (@ebrolaurarosenberg). The show continues to drive unfiltered cultural debate with fresh takes—and welcomes audience voices shaping its next evolution.

Transcript

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[Laura Rosenberg]

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[Ebro Darden]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Show Announcer]

The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, man, we are here on a Monday. The live version we get, we go live all the way live, 8:00am hey.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. You got freestyle this morning. Bars.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Bars.

[Ebro Darden]

I know you've been plotting on bars

[Laura Rosenberg]

on this for a second. I know, because you hear it, and just, like, it's like a Coast Contra kind of joint.

[Ebro Darden]

We could just, you know, up on Coast Contra now. Yo, you know who's got a fire album?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Their videos dropped, like, three. I saw him three years ago.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I was. I was kidding.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, that's my feelings.

[Ebro Darden]

No, but they're dead. Or two of the guys. Dad, Rascast, new album got some fire on him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We talked about this. We did, yeah. You should listen to the show. No, it's dope. We talked about this on the show.

[Ebro Darden]

They got a joint with. He got a joint with Absol. That I really love Called Latency.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, we missed him. He was in town at some point. We missed him.

[Ebro Darden]

No damn playoff show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But, yeah, shout out to Rascast. The ra.

[Ebro Darden]

Me and Rascast used to be outside back in the day.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Really?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, man, it's really outside.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Outside, like what? It's like Sacramento.

[Ebro Darden]

Just, like, doing stuff. Yeah, L.A. sack the bay all over Cal.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

Just going places, doing things.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And do you ever reach out?

[Ebro Darden]

No, I haven't reached out a long time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Damn. What about now with his new album?

[Ebro Darden]

I should.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you are in a position to be somewhat helpful to someone who drops a new album.

[Ebro Darden]

I should reach out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I would think so. If you like it. Have you mentioned on your program.

[Ebro Darden]

I have. I play it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, okay. Well, then you're doing what you need to do.

[Ebro Darden]

And Layton said played it yesterday on the Ebro show, Apple Music, three o'.

[Griff]

Clock.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, listen, as soon as I have

[Ebro Darden]

a show, it's happening. What happened?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm going to the place today where one needs to go to record the. The Voice work and promos and the

[Ebro Darden]

stuff to, you know, do the roll out. The roll out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So I'm excited. I'm excited to start playing the tunes.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Although I'm not gonna lie, the last couple of months of when Sunday comes and I'm like, I gotta do my show. And then I'm like, no, I don't. I don't do anything on Sundays has been a nice little breakaroo.

[Ebro Darden]

We're going back in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Because it was 18 and a half years of Sunday would come and no matter where I was in the world, at some point, I was shutting up for a couple hours to get the show done.

[Ebro Darden]

Question it don't fall off on this one. You know what I mean? Stay locked in, cuz. Getting fired from two jobs.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nah, you can't.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, you can't have.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, especially with the level of salary I'm getting for this new one. To get fired would be embarrassing.

[Ebro Darden]

You're already bitching about the pay.

[Griff]

You're not doing it for the.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo. You just. Yo, in. In one little set segment on the show, you just bitched about the pay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I didn't.

[Ebro Darden]

And bitched about working on Sunday that well, actually.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Guess what? How about this though?

[Ebro Darden]

Don't get fired before you get started.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How about this? Going to be on Sundays.

[Griff]

Okay, can you tell us when or no. You want to wait for the big reveal?

[Ebro Darden]

But this is too long. Like we've literally said nothing and been talking about this for two minutes. Can we move on?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'll give it a couple. You did this. He was out.

[Griff]

Oh, God. She.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Can you show my wrestling clip? Cuz my wrestling last night my program was fire.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, so on Raw last night. Who is this person that called.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, CM Punk. Who is this per. You about to hit CM Punk with a. Who is this person? Don't do that.

[Ebro Darden]

He's not CM Punk, but I'm just. I'm. I'm doing for the audience. Doesn't you assume everyone knows these things about wwe? Does everyone in the chat know who CM Punk is?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Actually, I gotta look at the chat and see what the reaction is to that. That's a good question.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm curious, like, everybody, you know who he is?

[Griff]

Yes, but only because of you.

[Ebro Darden]

But do you know him by face? I mean, would you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Would you recognize him by face?

[Griff]

Probably not.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do you remember when he hit us up one day many years ago, went, can I come in? I've got some things I want to say about Chris Brown. And just showed up live in the morning and wanted to get some things off about Chris Brown.

[Ebro Darden]

So he's really clearly a person who has something to say.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

And last night at Raw, he went at Pat McAfee.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, he. It started out as a promo about Roman Reigns, who he has a match with the WrestleMania. And that was normal. But as we talked about on our show yesterday, Friday was kind of weird with the whole McAfee, Cody Rhodes talking about the upper management of the company and RA Manual. Things got very weird. And, you know, Punk couldn't have the mic in his hand after something like that and not bring that up, even though it's not his story, to be clear. So you have that clip. Ask him.

[Show Announcer]

And you would think I'm done, but I'm not because everybody's getting it tonight. Pat McAfee.

[Ebro Darden]

A lot of people miss that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I did.

[Show Announcer]

Buggy, whipped arm, no brain, hillbilly. You think you can come here to the business, my business of pro wrestling, and run your mouth? Well, you just wrote a check that your narrow ass can't cash. You want to talk about ticket sales? Do me a favor. Call up that agent that was foolish enough to shoehorn you into this business and this show and tell him to lower the ticket prices,

[Ebro Darden]

man. And the people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, listen, if you want to know why people like me obsess with wrestling, it is because of moments like this where you have no idea, I have no idea what level of conversation was had with him and anyone else before he went out, mentioned the ticket prices on television, called out Ari Emanuel, the head of the board of the whole thing, one of the most powerful people in all of Hollywood, owns Endeavor and wmg.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And literally gets up there and says, if you want to talk about the ticket sales, tell your agent to lower the ticket prices. I mean, the world was on. My world last night was on Till. Well.

[Ebro Darden]

And so there's a piece of your brain that has you thinking that this isn't a part of some larger plan or promotion. Your brain. Your brain automatically jumps to. CM Punk did that without making sure that was good to go.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm trying to understand a world in which anyone would have said politics are assiduously avoided in wwe.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, but he called it. I mean, it's not like he said anything. One side. He just called him maga. Fee. It's not like a. What does that mean?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't know, but it was trending last night. And it's not something that's discussed. Like, it's. I'm trying.

[Ebro Darden]

No, he didn't say, like, anything about being MAGA or not.

[Griff]

I mean, he's basically calling him out for being maga.

[Ebro Darden]

He just took a photo with Trump. You told me Pat McAfee did the other day.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Not the other day. No, there was a picture. There was a picture a few months ago, but that hasn't. But that wasn't in ww. What I'm trying to say to you is.

[Ebro Darden]

But now they brought him in, is my point. Like, they have not. Pat McAfee in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes, of course. He's always in. He's in and out.

[Ebro Darden]

He's part of wwe and ESPN is in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. I'm just saying the combination of things that Punk talked about there, it's very hard for me to picture people saying, oh, yeah, that sounds like a great idea.

[Griff]

Right, Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Please call him. Please bring up MAGA in any way. And then also mention that people have been complaining about the ticket prices. Cannot.

[Ebro Darden]

Now, you could be.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I see where you're going, which is you're a yo, yo Mark, is what you're saying. And of course, this was.

[Ebro Darden]

No, I wasn't even thinking that. I wasn't thinking anything slanderous at all. I was just like, I think this is a great plan for them.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The real. You mean the. Lean into the reality.

[Ebro Darden]

Lean in. Well, they bought. They bought into something. Whoever. What's the agency called again?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Endeavor.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah. Whoever is in now on this and Vince McMahon is out. Whoever this major corporation is that's in on this knows what they got into.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And they know what obviously works. And WWE even going back to wwf always talked about management and the machine and the business and all the meta.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ness is part of it.

[Ebro Darden]

Even when you told me that, you know, the. Isn't the rock on the board and Triple H, all these, like. All of that is openly talked about. This board and these people and yeah, so this is just. This is part of the story now. So.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So you're absolutely right. And the fact.

[Ebro Darden]

I mean, I'll go with you. That maybe the maga fee thing is like. Okay, no, no, I think.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think a lot of scripted or something. I think a lot of the things that he said were very. His choices and he was getting the things off. He wanted to get off. But I think obviously he was still handed a microphone last night being like, yo, CM Punk, go do what you do. Well, so someone was. They. They had to have an awareness that he was gonna go rogue.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I'm very much in on the controlled opposition thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Like, yeah, that gets right to your radio.

[Ebro Darden]

It gets right to the whole, like, yo, when it. When there's crazy talk going on about you keep the story inside your team.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

Don't let other people control your story. Y' all got drama going on, fans upset. People are mad about something. Let's talk about it. Keep the show in the show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it worked great for us last time, you know, because we were very big, talking about management and what was going on inside.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, it's still good, by the way.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It did. It's still. It was great.

[Ebro Darden]

It's great stuff.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Great content.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. And they played right into exactly what we said was going to happen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That we did talk about that for sure.

[Ebro Darden]

So why. And, and, and we're still here having this show and having success and people have tuned in because of that storyline.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Facts. That. That is facts.

[Ebro Darden]

So we've in a sense essentially controlled the storyline. So much so that now when we do something on our show, other people talk about our storyline.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, true.

[Ebro Darden]

Promoting us.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Someone in our chat just wrote, WWE is algo hustling.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Griff]

I mean, it's trending. That's what they wanted accomplished.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The fact of the matter is back to the fact that me and my fellow fans are such stupid marks. The fact of the matter is, two weeks ago, everyone's like, ah, ticket sales are lagging a bit. Is this. Is there not enough energy around Mania Now? A couple of things have happened and everyone is talking about it. Whether you're complaining and saying, I can't believe they sent Pat or whether you love it.

[Griff]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Everyone is talking about it now. We're less than two weeks out, so you're welcome. Yeah, exactly. So who cares? And Ari Emanuel is going to cry. As long as people are talking about it.

[Ebro Darden]

That's all I care. And. And who do you really think is upset about Maga Fee at a time when the President's the most unpopular. The president's more unpopular than Satan. Like, pick a. There's more people probably.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You don't mean that.

[Ebro Darden]

Are Satan worshipers than. There are people who are happy about the president.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a good transition. Ebro, because I have to tell you guys, the video yesterday of him talking trash. Donald Trump talking trash about Biden in the auto pen to a group of children.

[Griff]

I was like, this is.

[Ebro Darden]

He's trying to relate to them. He's like, what can I. They know what a pen is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So funny.

[Ebro Darden]

Dude.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It was an SNL sketch. It was not real life.

[Griff]

Just mumbling.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's like, you know that he used an auto pen and blah, blah, blah. And then you see Kill.

[Griff]

Kids are like, okay, give me my candy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo. That was the crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

We have that video, don't we? We don't have Trump on the auto pen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think I sent it. Because you couldn't hear that well.

[Griff]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But if y' all haven't seen it. Donald Trump trying to complain to children about Joe Biden's auto pen actually happened.

[Griff]

It's ridiculous.

[Ebro Darden]

There's. I don't even know how you guys rank anymore. What's more ridiculous than the next thing? I have no idea how you keep up with it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You want to make a list for yesterday? Because yesterday was a lot. There were so many different statements yesterday. Because he rambled for an hour and a half.

[Ebro Darden]

I can't keep track. I have no idea. Honestly. I sent. I sent it in the chat. I don't see you guys. But I just realized yesterday, because I've been watching these, that these Iran Lego videos are real on the Internet. Have you guys seen these?

[Laura Rosenberg]

You mean really made by Iran?

[Griff]

I don't know.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm looking around the room. You guys have. Yes, I saw them play one right

[Griff]

here, but I just. I don't know.

[Ebro Darden]

Look.

[Griff]

Are they real?

[Ebro Darden]

So today's part is supposed to be power planting Bridge day. Iran allegedly.

[Show Announcer]

Open the straight or you'll be living in hell.

[Ebro Darden]

Censor the satellites. How?

[Laura Rosenberg]

What we did to your bases.

[Show Announcer]

You're losing your mind. And you're losing this war face. You tweet like a madman, threatening power plants and bridges. Praise be to Allah.

[Ebro Darden]

You sound unhinged.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You.

[Show Announcer]

You want us living in hell, but you're the one scared of the sky. Begging every satellite company to hide what

[Ebro Darden]

we did to your guys. 17 bases hit.

[Show Announcer]

C130 and Blackhawk's gone.

[Ebro Darden]

100 million wasted just to save one pawn.

[Show Announcer]

And you're Blocking the photo.

[Ebro Darden]

The world doesn't see how bad Little I ran up your military power plan.

[Show Announcer]

Open the straight or you'll be living in hell.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I want out.

[Ebro Darden]

Sensor the satellites. How will we do to your base? Where are we?

[Show Announcer]

You're losing your mind and you're losing this wall.

[Ebro Darden]

Face it, sacred defense. We still standing. Yo. They're treating this like Drake and Kendrick.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I want out.

[Ebro Darden]

Guys, people are actually dying.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I want off the ride.

[Griff]

I know. It's, it's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So wait, Iran is putting that out.

[Ebro Darden]

Whatever their PR network is for the government, Iran is putting that on social media.

[Griff]

That's the story.

[Ebro Darden]

And I had been ignoring. I'm like, who's making these AI videos? But I saw someone covering it. Like they are actually making these.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

And it was. And with this whole blocking the satellite images, that was a big story yesterday because there was, you know, the Internet's been following like these satellite images of arm military bases, American military bases in the Middle east getting decimated.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And posting photos. And our government now is blocking access to these satellites.

[Griff]

Yeah, I read that yesterday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because they don't want anyone to know that we took any hits.

[Ebro Darden]

They don't want anyone to know how much damage our military has taken.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I. I heard on the BBC this weekend.

[Ebro Darden]

But can we go back to how fired at Little record?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. By the way, AI. AI is bad because that's like not. That wasn't bad.

[Ebro Darden]

Are you. What. What is AI that might actually be an artist.

[Griff]

You think people in the chat like that's hard.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it feels like that. You think that was an artist? I assumed it was AI.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, okay. I don't know. I thought maybe it was an artist.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ask the chat. They think AI or artist. I'm going AI.

[Ebro Darden]

Well the Lego. The video we know is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, the video for sure. But I assume the lyrics, I assume the lyrics artist could be. I assume it's all a.

[Ebro Darden]

It could be.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So I did hear a thing the other day on the BBC though. That one plane of the US's that was hit by Iran, we have 20th. It's like one of our really, you know, highest tech most expensive planes. And the US said it was like dinged and would be operating the next day fine. Which by the way already doesn't sound realistic. But then like satellite images of the base that were originally seen show like. No, it was much worse. Like they took out one of these 20 super expensive planes that we have.

[Ebro Darden]

All of it is chaotic that we're getting rap AI Lego video updates. It's all Chaotic. Think about it. Think about how crazy this is.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's underselling it. Chaotic doesn't even do it well.

[Ebro Darden]

And, and then how about this? Yesterday I saw a headline that said Iran is doing direct deals with the UK Oil to go through. Because I told you all yesterday there are countries going through the straight of Hormuz.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, you said this on the program.

[Ebro Darden]

And they're going to get their oil or do their business, whatever.

[Griff]

They're like, whatever.

[Ebro Darden]

U.S. and Iran is like, yo, Europe, U.K. we'll do direct deals with you. Yo, you know what that does to the US and because remember, none of them wanted this. Anyway, so today's supposed to be the bridge and power plant day.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Griff]

Tonight what's supposed to happen?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, he says that if by 8:00pm Eastern or 7:00pm Eastern, whatever it is, they haven't opened the strait to the US that they're taking out bridges and power plants. Then yesterday he was asked by the New York Times, don't you feel that going after things like bridges would be a violation of Geneva and violated? And he, his response was, where are you from? The guy was like new York Times. He's like, fake. You're fake. You're failing.

[Griff]

Yeah, that's what he does.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, failing. You're fake. I always, I, you're fake. When he says you're fake to someone, not even that's fake news. He updated it to your fake.

[Griff]

He's like a toddler throwing a tantrum.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. It's so bananas. People are dying and well we listen.

[Ebro Darden]

Something you guys got to get used to. They don't care about people dying. So we watched them commit a genocide live on social media. Basically in Gaza.

[Griff]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

While we're, while we're doing all of this, you know that thousands of people have died in Lebanon courtesy of Israel and they're taking over trying to take southern Israel. So there's Israel or Lebanon. Excuse me. So that's actually happening right now. But we're not seeing that news because we're inundated with the Iran news and there's like a million people displaced in Lebanon.

[Griff]

Yeah. And in the U. S. I think the 15th person just died in one of the ICE detention centers. I also read something that almost made me cry. A three year old that was sexually abused in an ICE attention center.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow. And is the child out now?

[Griff]

I don't know.

[Ebro Darden]

So listen, congratulations. That's about all we could contribute is that congratulations, you played yourself and giving you all the information. You got to listen. This midterm is coming in Hot. And there's going to be a whole psychological operation on you to make you question who you're supposed to vote for in this midterm. But I tell you what, some of these establishment Democrats, clearly, these Republicans, anybody that stood by and watched us get to the point where we are right now with no end in sight. Who we got in the super chat? My guy? Anybody? What are they talking about in the chat?

[Griff]

See?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Scentless fart who sounds like a really high brow individual. Good morning, y'. All. I'm up early. Please speak to the police brutality capture on the body cam of DeShawn Williams in Jacksonville, Florida. I saw that moving around yesterday.

[Griff]

I didn't see that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I was on the air and I wanted to be able to watch it in full.

[Ebro Darden]

Somebody pull that clip.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Can y' all pull that clip? Let's try to get to that. Whatever the good one is. JW just comes through and gives us $5 every day.

[Griff]

Oh, J Dub, thanks.

[Ebro Darden]

Thanks, J Dub.

[Laura Rosenberg]

If I was J Dub, you know what I would do? Because J Dub is really nice, comes with $5 every day. I would wait like 20 days and come with a hundred spot to get your, like, big credit instead of the casual, you know what I'm saying? I end up being too casual when really JW gives us a lot of money.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, he's made $5 a day every day.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think he's a sheet. No, no, he. I can't tell. For the pictures too. I'm too blunt. Tina, Chrissy, a regular also. Of course. Good morning. Got my T shirt yesterday.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, yo, my stuff showed up yesterday too, that I ordered.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I will cut it up and make it cuter. Also, please watch the movie anniversary. Very timely. Love you guys. Keep it up. I left my shirt here yesterday. Did you see that? Left here?

[Griff]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

What shirt?

[Laura Rosenberg]

My El army shirt.

[Ebro Darden]

The new ones?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

You have it?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I have one, but I left it here.

[Ebro Darden]

How'd you get one?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I asked Laura to bring me one.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, you didn't buy this toe?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No. Or last time.

[Griff]

You have to buy it next time.

[Ebro Darden]

I bought. Well, I only bought. I will not only bought, but I bought like five different shirts.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

You. Yo, but I. I bought.

[Griff]

I didn't buy last to my guys.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Griff]

Yeah, I just want.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I just want you to know Ebro's making it sound like he's supporting.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no, no, I didn't buy the fulfillment, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's a test. No, he's testing Laura's fulfillment. He's like, let me see how this order process. Works.

[Griff]

No, I saw E's order. You saw it come in, that's fine.

[Ebro Darden]

But I didn't buy the light. I would have did that the last time, but.

[Griff]

But I was like that. That's right. My G supporting the cause. That's what I say.

[Ebro Darden]

But I also. Like I said, I bought five I wasn't gonna ask for.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Who are you hooking them up? Who are you getting them for?

[Ebro Darden]

I got, well, Issa jazz myself.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So you really into the. This is the green El army field unit joint.

[Ebro Darden]

I mean, I don't know if I'm really. It's not like I'm aware it on the show. I may wear it, but I just

[Laura Rosenberg]

ask you which ones you got. Like, which ones?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, just the green. That was all we could have.

[Griff]

Yeah, that's going on right now.

[Ebro Darden]

Can we make baby clothes?

[Griff]

It's just the sizing. Maybe I'll do some small teas, like for like little kids. It's just the size run is so much. But let me look into it. I was thinking.

[Ebro Darden]

No, they're like only baby clothes.

[Griff]

Yeah, but still. What, just onesies? Yeah, no, they don't really. They're okay. They just don't move like that. You know what moves is the toddler tees. Like four teas, five teas, you know, like salasi right now and up that

[Ebro Darden]

two T is big.

[Griff]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What's two T? Two T's for two year olds.

[Griff]

Yeah, but depending on your toddler, that's the thing too.

[Ebro Darden]

Got one of them big brolic kids, right? You gotta go up getting them a youth small.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Shouts to DJ Catch 22 Unity or else. And let's see. Oh, lnuts83, who says wanted to say happy birthday to my beautiful wife Melissa.

[Ebro Darden]

Melissa, happy birthday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Love you, gu.

[Ebro Darden]

Happy birthday. That's nice, Melissa.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. That's great to hear.

[Ebro Darden]

Laura, can you tell us what you got coming up in the rundown?

[Griff]

Well, we're gonna cover the. The Offset and Lil TJ story that's bubbling. Everyone keeps asking the chat. When are we gonna talk about it? It's coming up. I got an update on Lil Nas X. And we'll talk about more drama surrounding Kanye west and the wireless festival.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, man, our post yesterday on Kanye,

[Ebro Darden]

man, I saw you complaining about the comments I read. I saw the comments you responded to. But then there was a bunch of other comments that were like normal human beings.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Of course.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, but Ebro, I expect the ones from normal human beings.

[Ebro Darden]

You don't expect anti semitism and racism.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I just like in our chat.

[Ebro Darden]

But I don't think those are people. I think they're just people on social

[Laura Rosenberg]

media and it makes it to them.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, they're an Algo Rosenberg.

[Griff]

There's a large chunk of Kanye fans who do not.

[Ebro Darden]

These aren't even Kanye fans. These are just people who want to say mean stuff about all Jewish.

[Griff]

Maybe a combination.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But there is.

[Griff]

There is the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There is a little crossover.

[Griff]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

It absolutely fits on the Venn diagram.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Kanye ensured that those people were like, oh, I like this guy.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

But that's been enshrined in culture for a long time. Just being mean to Jewish people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, Facts. That's what I'm saying. And some of them. But the crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

Just being mean to Pete. Just being mean.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I just. I just.

[Griff]

To me, the incels.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm telling you, to me, the thing that's mind numbing. Did Laura just watch the Delaki? She's big on incels right now.

[Griff]

Because I'm listening to the podcast.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, why do they get a name that's Bo Bothered me for a long time?

[Griff]

Because it's like a whole thing that's happening. It's like a movement.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, the whole incel movement. Like. Well, I've been irritated that they got like a designation and a name for a long time. Like, we put that much effort into really people a category.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, think about how bad the Nick. The nickname means. What is it doesn't mean involuntary celibacy.

[Griff]

Yeah, that's what.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's not a great name. No one wants to have sex with you as your name is not dope.

[Ebro Darden]

Well. And because nobody wants to have sex with you, it causes you to lash out and just be.

[Stephen A. Smith]

Yes.

[Griff]

It's not targeted and yes, yes. No. I'm just really, really into the fact that a lot of people don't know what their kids are watching online and how quickly they type gym stuff, like whatever gym, you know, on TikTok, and they just kind of get throttled into this manosphere of like toxic masculinity and it just gets pulled in. And these like 12, 13, 14, 15 year olds are like, this is my home. This is where I belong.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Because there's a bunch of dudes in here who like fitness and athletics or MMA or whatever, and they don't know anything about dealing with women or anybody else from any other walk of life.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But yeah, I guess I am still just like I am triggered by the. The combination of Stop bitching. All you do is victimize and complain. No one hates Jews, by the way. Y' all ain't even Jews anyway. Yeah, I don't know. You don't see the irony in what you're saying, Kanye? Why are you complaining? See, Kanye's right. Wait, don't. Why y' all met. Yeah, he made a song, but guess what. Have you. Did you see how people reacted to him? So he made a Heil Hitler song. What's wrong with people? They type this. They're not bots.

[Griff]

No, no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

These are people. They're writing this on up.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, yeah, they're not. They're not AI, no, but they are bots. They are programmed individuals, right? Sent out to antagonize. And some people. And honestly, some people just believe this stuff. Like, that's just who they are. They don't know any Jewish people. They don't know any black people, or what a Pick a thing. They don't have any women giving them positive energy in their life.

[Griff]

That's it.

[Ebro Darden]

Why they blame their mom or they blame their dad for their lives.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There are so many Jewish people in the Epstein files. Why the focus of the trajectory of black men in their opinions? There are so many of everybody in the Epstein files.

[Griff]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And again, that's where I go back to that loose talk of Donald Trump's

[Ebro Darden]

not Jewish and he's mad. He's always in the Epstein files the most.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's the most popular person in the Epstein files. But again, just throwing out the words loose in the Epstein files. Push a T is in the Epstein files. It's called nonsense.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, push is actually not in the Epstein file.

[Griff]

No, no. People. People assume.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, they remember that was an FBI tip, but that wasn't a part of the files. They just dropped it on the same day as they dropped other things for the file.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's all the same.

[Griff]

It's all this. That's why Jay, when are you guys gonna talk about the Epstein files? I said. Somebody said that to me. I said, what we did. And if you read. It's a bunch of nonsense, you idiot.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Here's a. Here's a real person with. Who's got 400 followers.

[Ebro Darden]

She said, wait, what are we doing with these people?

[Laura Rosenberg]

If genocide can be committed to Palestinians and y' all support that, then I'm with Kanye. Y' all make me sick.

[Ebro Darden]

We see that once again. That person clearly doesn't listen to the program.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, no, it's not even the program, though. Like, how do you not realize that you are sick, that you view all. Everybody the same?

[Ebro Darden]

Like, well, this person is clearly triggered by the genocide in Gaza and has no kind of purview into reality. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like that. What does that mean? How do you even make that statement?

[Laura Rosenberg]

But why? How could someone be so triggered by the genocide in Gaza algo and not be triggered by the Holocaust, which Kanye west made a mockery of?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, because the Holocaust isn't in their algorithm.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not hot right now on there. No, they've never watched a documentary. They didn't. No.

[Ebro Darden]

Holocaust. The old joint, B.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it's fat.

[Ebro Darden]

No, it's fat.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, facts get in the algo if you want people to care.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, you got get that algo popping.

[Griff]

It's so wild.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, so I guess you're right. It's weird that I get that. I still see it. I just.

[Ebro Darden]

I get triggered by things on social media too. And get up. Get up on platforms to talk about, you know, fans of Drake and fans

[Laura Rosenberg]

of what actually triggers you, though, because you more often than not are like, why are you triggered? When do you actually get triggered?

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know. It happens though. I know it at.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

It happened the other week when I was calling people fans. I was like, yo, you're a fan, your customer. You know what I'm triggered by? I'm triggered by fandom. Hyper fandom of just an artist. And you think like, you're actually in the convo, right, Of. Of general hip hop culture, right? I am triggered by that. That's one thing that gets me when it's like, yo, you don't love hip hop, right? You love this artist you idolize. Talking to me like you actually care about hip hop beyond this artist.

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[Ebro Darden]

I know you don't.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right?

[Griff]

Yeah, the blind fandom is really wild. Like, I see so many comments now reacting to our videos on Twitter and it's like a combination of like the general haters and like now all the barbs are, you know, detest.

[Ebro Darden]

What did we do to the bar?

[Griff]

And they're all MAGA now.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, you're all MAGA now. I can't stop it. Let's get to the wrong. I can't.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wait, wait. Can you just explain this one to me? Tell me if I'm wrong. Someone wrote in our chat. Now, is Rosenberg going to read all the anti Palestinian comments, Racist and genocidal comments written by all the Jews online?

[Ebro Darden]

They're not in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They're not in my comments. You want me to go find them? Other. I'm referring to the people in our.

[Ebro Darden]

But.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So this is Wrong with you.

[Ebro Darden]

That sort of thing. That level of stupidity. Right. Does trigger me. Right. Because it does happen sometimes where people act like they're like. You know, like when we used to be like, yo, this is a. Oh, this is just a podcast. Or this. Oh, now we're stuck on YouTube. Also when we make those comments, it's tongue in cheek. It's funny. We've always been on YouTube. We've been putting content on YouTube since. I personally have been putting content on YouTube since 2004.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, those nasty looking Smack fest videos.

[Ebro Darden]

From the beginning it was popping.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, no.

[Ebro Darden]

Smack Fest was.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You could tell. You could tell how old it is based on the video.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Griff]

How great old.

[Ebro Darden]

When did you make your first parody

[Laura Rosenberg]

skit on YouTube or the first. The. I think 0506.

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[Ebro Darden]

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[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And that triggers.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Without even the knowledge of.

[Ebro Darden]

So that. That. I think that's probably the place where I'm like, what are you talking about?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I had. I had a. Last week I got crushed because I didn't even bring this up with you guys. I got crushed in the wrestle on the wrestling Internet because this very popular wrestler IO sky did a move called the suicide dive last week and she landed so badly and I. And someone posted it and I reposted and said this. I said this is why I tell people at Evolve, which is where I do commentary, and I said, and even some people on the main roster. Why do you do the suicide dive? The Juice isn't worth the squeeze because

[Ebro Darden]

it's super dangerous, and people don't really

[Laura Rosenberg]

care because they happen all night long, bruh. The Avalanche. I got, like, two. Two wrestlers that I'm friends with said something like belittling to me about it. One of which I know for a fact was joking because when I hit him, he was like, people think I was serious. The other person I didn't talk to, I don't know if she was serious. And then one really, like, respected wrestler was intentionally belittling to my point. Yeah, yo, the Avalanche of hate that I took for just expressing. I think this is dangerous.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that's because you're not a wrestler.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I'm not a wrestler. Not a wrestler.

[Ebro Darden]

You're not a wrestler. You're not from New York, and I'm

[Laura Rosenberg]

not from New York, and you're not black, and I'm. Yo, bro, I got nothing.

[Ebro Darden]

You got nothing. Which is why we're getting to the rundown.

[Griff]

Let's go. Look, all of this is just coming out right now, but reports are saying that Offset was shot in a near Florida casino. I've been reading that he was shot in the leg. Okay. But he's okay, stable condition. He's being monitored. Now, there's rumors. Because people are just saying right now there's rumors that Lil TJ was involved. Some people are saying that Lil TJ was shot as well. And then some, you know, some are saying that, like, his lawyer, that he wasn't involved in it at all.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, and then I also heard. Laura, he was there, but he wasn't shot. He wasn't hurt. Yeah, so involved in the shooting. No, there. Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Is the.

[Griff]

Now, if you remember, Lil TJ and Offset have had a lot of back and forth over, like, a $10,000, I guess, that little TJ had given Offset when he was down. So there's been a lot of beef over that money. The whole gambling situation is like. People lose their minds. Gambling.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's. That's a. That's a big thing, period. I was. And we were gonna.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, are we jumping straight to. This is about gambling? What do we. I don't. How did we jump?

[Laura Rosenberg]

We know that is. How. How much do we believe that it's about gambling?

[Griff]

That's what the reports are saying.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, about the 10, 000. Yeah, that's a loan. But how did we.

[Griff]

Well, yeah, because it was at the heart.

[Ebro Darden]

Because they Were at a casino. I get that. But, yeah, you were, like, losing their mind gambling. I'm like, wait, so now we're.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, because there was also. Laura was saying that at one point, Cardi, during a crash out session on their relationship, mentioned the gambling being a problem.

[Griff]

A lot of people have been talking about Offset having a gambling problem.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Didn't you and Offset have a bet?

[Ebro Darden]

He owes me $5,000.

[Griff]

Oh, God, he does?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Was it a serious. Yo, Baskin. Come on, man.

[Griff]

Oh, God.

[Ebro Darden]

Offset's fine. He's. I called him. I tried to call him last night, but.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But was it a serious bet?

[Ebro Darden]

Like, we bet on the super bowl and you in New Orleans now, if

[Laura Rosenberg]

you had lost, would you have paid him?

[Ebro Darden]

I mean, I bet $5,000. I was prepared to pay him 5,000.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You were prepared to?

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That is funny, though.

[Ebro Darden]

I've talked to him a thousand times since then and jammed him up about $5,000. No, of course, Cuz clearly somebody that didn't pay his bet. Like, why. I'm not gonna chase you around. Five grand's not a big deal to me.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, see, why you got to turn into a. By the way, if it's not a big deal to you, why would it be a big deal? Little teacher?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that's where I was gonna go, that. I don't think that TJ's got more

[Laura Rosenberg]

money than I think it would be.

[Ebro Darden]

Over $10,000.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Everything's five grand. Not being a big deal is relative, by the way. Like, it depends who owes you five.

[Ebro Darden]

Me and Offset are we. Me and Offset are in a good enough situation where I don't need to

[Laura Rosenberg]

borrow money from you.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, it wasn't a loan. We made a bet.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You made a bet right now, tj. So the suggestion is they were gambling at some point, and Offset was like, oh, man, I'm down. You got money. And TJ said, here's 10 grand for the original 10. No, we don't know.

[Griff]

It's all rumors.

[Ebro Darden]

So let's see. That's why I said, why are we jumping all the way to gambling? Like, yes. Cardi said what? She said, yes. They were at a Casino. The 10 grand, I don't think has to do with gambling, whatever that story is. And we don't even know if TJ was involved. We don't know anything.

[Laura Rosenberg]

A lot of people in the chat would like you to give them five grand.

[Griff]

If it's a little.

[Ebro Darden]

We plan on it once Griff gets our phone set up up that I've been asking for for weeks. We plan to do cash giveaways.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I was gonna say that. So TJ was on live and said

[Ebro Darden]

that when he gave him the $10,000, it was in the casino.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He was down.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, it was at. That was at the casino, literally yesterday.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, not yesterday. This was like, a while, another time. And they were back at the same casino.

[Ebro Darden]

We don't know if.

[Griff]

I don't know if it's the same,

[Laura Rosenberg]

but we were back at a. But they were at this casino, but

[Ebro Darden]

we don't know if they're going at each other. That's why I'm saying. Why are we jumping to this?

[Laura Rosenberg]

So where do you not want to jump to? Where do you want to stop? Just how wacky.

[Ebro Darden]

What would you like to say?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do you have his mic on, too? Yeah, sorry. Say it again, Louie.

[Ebro Darden]

I said little TJ was booked last night in Broward County.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Lil TJ was booked last year.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, yeah, for the incident.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, listen, then. Regardless of it.

[Ebro Darden]

But we still don't. I'm just saying we don't know about the gambling part. We don't know about the gambling part. We don't know if they were actually getting into it with each other. We don't know any of that. That's all I'm saying.

[Griff]

Number one, all we know is that officer was shot.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right. And he's okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And he's okay. So, number one, let's say we're all happy. Offset is okay.

[Griff]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Number two, if you're saying, as a fact, little TJ was booked, I would also like to present this, but.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, congratulations, you played.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Whatever happened, yo, T.J. cannot stop.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, but see, you don't jump there either. Because of TJ's past incidents, right?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Him being near something.

[Ebro Darden]

Him being near something.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And how does that not get you?

[Ebro Darden]

And you could give him the button,

[Laura Rosenberg]

but he also could have been still the button.

[Ebro Darden]

He could have also just been having a great time and some other things. Went. All I'm saying is we don't have the info. That's all I'm saying.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, who did I apply this to? When I've heard too much information about someone over and over again, I lean towards being like, but what were you doing there? And why with tj, who has. Like, he's so popular. He's had such a great opportunity. He just keeps coming back to things that are not good for him. Like, what are we doing? How do you want this story?

[Ebro Darden]

This is another. This is a. This actually may fit in the Validate me one day.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it might. It might.

[Ebro Darden]

Because there are people who come from lifestyles, and they. And I have family members like this. It's always. There's always something going on. There's just always something going on. It just follows them around. The choice, their choices, who they hang out with, the times of day they choose to hang out with, where they hang out, how they Dr. Like, all of the things add up to problems for them.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And so, you know, some people just don't know how to not do that because that's been their whole life. It was like the other day when. Or just the other day, I saw Pooh Shiesty's mom on the Internet and. And talking about he's. I raised him to be a slime. And. And I was like, oh, I mean,

[Laura Rosenberg]

you mentioned Pooh Shiesty's parents.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what I'm saying. Like, Pooh Shiest never even had a chance like some kids.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, when your parents name you Pooh Shiesty, let's just name, like, here's our little baby Pooh Shiesty. Everyone goes, this isn't gonna go well.

[Ebro Darden]

But I'm just saying, when she said

[Laura Rosenberg]

she raised him to be a slime.

[Ebro Darden]

No. His dad was with him at the robbery, though.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I know. That's how. What I'm starting with. The dad was at the robbery. You said the mom said we raised him to be a Sloan.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, that was like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Don't tell me that it's off the table that they named him Pooh Shiesty at birth. It's on the table. Didn't, though. Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

That's not what happened. I'm looking at his real name, but I'm just saying, some kids, you know, are. Some people are just born into situations. They even have a chance, bro. I know, and I don't know. Listen, and we've known Lil TJ For a long time, and as the news comes out and we get more.

[Laura Rosenberg]

His name is lrell Danelle.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not. It's not push ice.

[Ebro Darden]

Not at all.

[Griff]

There you go.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, what else you got today?

[Laura Rosenberg]

And.

[Ebro Darden]

And offset. Get well, man.

[Griff]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, man. That was a scary moment, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, it says here quavo with a post amid news offset with shot. What's the. Oh, just prayer hands.

[Griff]

Just prayer hands.

[Ebro Darden]

Of course. Listen, just because they're not making records anymore doesn't mean they're not family.

[Griff]

Of course. Of course.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Has Cardi's. Cardi didn't say anything.

[Griff]

I haven't seen anything yet. I mean, you know, Maybe she was.

[Ebro Darden]

Privately. She absolutely did. That's the father of her children. All the shenanigans go by.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, listen, I'm 100 sure. I'm not, I'm not judging whether or not she did. I'm just curious.

[Griff]

So let's see. You know, we talked about Pepsi dropping out of the wireless festival because Kanye and Diageo Now Rockstar Energy, PayPal and Budweiser have dropped out. Now the thing right now is that the prime minister is describing Kanye's booking as deeply concerning. And you know, of course he started citing his anti Semitic remarks, praising Nazis. So now the ministers are considering whether or not to allow Kanye west into the UK under rules that permit the home office to ban foreign nationals if their presence is deemed not conducive to public good.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So, so why wasn't this a thing? So the booking happened.

[Ebro Darden]

So the. The organizer of the wireless festival, the owner of the wireless Wireless festival is an IDF soldier. No, an IDF relax. His name is Melvin Ben, managing director at the festival Republic. Forgiveness and forgiving people. A second chance of becoming a lost virtue in this ever increasing divisive world. Ben, who leads the wireless festival, blah, blah blah, said he is deeply committed to anti fascism and he also lived in a kibbutz in a community in Israel for many months in the 1970s. This is the guy who owns the wireless festival. He said in his statement, what yay has said in the past about Jews and Hitler is a abhorrent to me as it is to the Jewish community. The prime minister and others who have commented and taking him at his word to Yay now also, if it wasn't before I become a person of forgiveness and hope in all aspects of my life, including work. And so he basically just goes on to say, I would ask for people to reflect on their instant comments of disgust at the likelihood of him being and offering forgiveness and hope to him, as I have decided to also do.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, that's nice.

[Ebro Darden]

So that's his position. The guy who organized, who's literally organized, who's literally booked him. The organizer and well, I would like to respect.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Respond to his comments with oh, and

[Ebro Darden]

he also said Kanye west has a legal right to come into the country and to perform in this country.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So let's hit him with the button.

[Ebro Darden]

The organized.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes, because if you felt that way, I respect it. I am king. Forgiveness. You guys know I'm ready. I'm hoping to forgive Kanye as soon as I can. I want to enjoy Kanye, but something else should have been done than because the Problem is,

[Ebro Darden]

there is a possibility.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I mean, he did put out the letter. I mean, if you. If you take that letter and think like, oh, that's nice. That's enough. One year ago. One year ago, he was standing in a Klan outfit making a song called Heil Hitler. Not five years ago, one year. Like, maybe they needed to have a conversation. Maybe. Maybe they should have done a controlled conversation and put the clip out and allowed, like, to have a moment where people could see him showing some level of sincere contrition. Not just he's back on stage at Sofi being like, worship me. I'm God. I stand on the world. Like, I don't know.

[Ebro Darden]

But listen, everybody, no matter what he did, no matter what Kanye did or whoever did leading up to this moment was going to make everybody happy. This wasn't gonna happen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And the whole government getting involved, by the way, is way too far.

[Ebro Darden]

But. No, but, you know, listen, I get it. The. The. The prime minister felt like, let me make sure I say something on behalf.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's in the algorithm right now.

[Griff]

It's not the first time an artist has been banned from a country. Look at Tyler.

[Ebro Darden]

Wasn't allowed. And in London, they shut down some shows, too, for his. Remember from the.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They thought he was homophobic.

[Ebro Darden]

Home of some homophobic and potentially causing riots or it was some sort of thing back when Tyler got killed. Canceled for a second. So there. There's precedent here. But once again, the festival. Standing by Kanye, the festival organizers, clearly someone who is in touch with what, you know, being a Jewish person is and is a Jewish person. And lived on a kabutz.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, on a kabutz that was attacked on October 7th. I got to tell you.

[Ebro Darden]

No, he. I didn't.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I thought that's what he said.

[Ebro Darden]

I think in the 70s, he lived on a.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, but I thought it was the same kibbutz that was.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, that was. Got it. Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I will say that is a big hammer to drop in terms of my seeming like someone who would be sensitive to the player.

[Ebro Darden]

But also, there's a lot of role playing that goes on in these situations when blowback happens. Right. So we're assuming that they all didn't communicate. They didn't communicate with advertisers, they didn't communicate with the prime minister. That's why. But there's also saving face of these advertisers and the prime minister that said, hey, if there's going to be. If there's negative blowback, we're going to have to go out and make a Statement. And this is going to be on you. Like, that's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's.

[Ebro Darden]

We should put that on the table. I don't know if that happened, but it's not in implausible.

[Griff]

I just think it's so interesting because people are continuing to drag Chili over her Trump support. Right?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no. Multiple things can be true at the same time. And we can multitask. Like, Chili can get it. Kanye could get it. Everybody could get it.

[Griff]

Kanye is not getting it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's the thing. Kanye doesn't. Kanye gets celebrated.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, no, that's not true. He's on the show. But there's advertisers literally saying, we're not participating. AEG and Live Nation are like, we are not booking this person. Individuals that are standing their ground are standing their ground. Like, it. Stop acting like everyone's all in. Just because he's not getting yanked.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I guess you just don't see. You're right. But because he's so massive, you do see support for him. Whereas, like Donald Trump, whereas we've impeached

[Ebro Darden]

him two times, he keeps coming back.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But. Whereas TLC doesn't have the same motion right now. So all you see for, you know, this woman who liked a bunch of posts and is.

[Ebro Darden]

And donated and donated.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I don't even care. I gotta tell you guys, the amount of time I give Chili right now is low. Okay? I'm busy.

[Ebro Darden]

How dare you. You love waterfalls. You love waterfalls.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I like waterfalls. I love. What about your friends? And ain't too proud to beg if we're having a conversation.

[Ebro Darden]

Even baby, baby, baby. If we're having a baby, baby, baby, I love creep.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, no, no. Creep's the one. Creeps. The one Creep.

[Ebro Darden]

I like baby, baby, baby more, though.

[Griff]

You know pajamas.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah. Though the. So pajama. You see those pajamas, you go tlc.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But my point is, I see what Laura is saying also. Like, you will get torn down to like you. It seems like you can't even move anymore because of things like liked posts, which are, I don't support but this man.

[Ebro Darden]

But it also. But it goes to your other. It goes to your other point. Kanye west is way bigger and got way more emotion.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's what it comes down.

[Ebro Darden]

Comes down.

[Griff]

Okay?

[Ebro Darden]

And so if you got motion and you're big enough, you could be President,

[Laura Rosenberg]

United States, no matter what you say and do.

[Ebro Darden]

There you go.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You could drop an F bomb on Easter Sunday and then say, praise be to Allah.

[Griff]

That's right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

As a quote unquote Christian, and then

[Ebro Darden]

skip all The Easter events. Go play golf and nobody blinks an eye.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Show up to the kids hanging out on Easter and go, y' all see Joe Biden in the auto pen. No one cares.

[Ebro Darden]

What do you got?

[Griff]

Laura Griff just sent me a. A link that said Kanye west was blocked from entering Australia over the Hitler song, by the way. Next one, let me see. Oh, you're gonna have to read this because I'm blind.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Damn, that's unfortunate.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, this is from Trump. This is what you want.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's threatening, basically.

[Griff]

Okay, this just.

[Ebro Darden]

Annihilation of Iran. Trump sent another truth and made a bunch of threats, and you guys. A whole civilization will die tonight. We can't take this. I can't take this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, but why are you acting like it's not. It doesn't fit into what we do on our show.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no, but I put it up on the screen. Send it to him so we. Everybody can watch it. Because I. Once again, another thing that triggers me spending time reading things that Donald Trump says on social media and taking it at face value.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You want to try to do what the guy does and see if you could yell it with the punctuation. Don't yell too loud. Into the.

[Ebro Darden]

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will disguise a joke. However, now that we have complete and total regime change.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Was that caps?

[Ebro Darden]

No, but whatever. He capitalized complete and total regime change.

[Show Announcer]

No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He did.

[Ebro Darden]

No, no, no. Just the first letter. Like it was the title of something.

[Griff]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevail. Maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen. Who knows he capitalized that. We will find out tonight. One of the most important moments in a long, complex history of the world. 47 years. He had to use. 47. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Did he just say long, complicated history of the world? Yes, he just referred to the entire history of the world. Is that.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's deep.

[Ebro Darden]

God bless the great people of Iraq.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, God bless the great people of Iran.

[Ebro Darden]

Yes.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The ones he's threatening annihilation to.

[Ebro Darden]

But no, he did. He did capitalize the first letter of complete and total regime.

[Show Announcer]

Who knows? Who knows?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why is who knows the biggest thing he said?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, because. That's why I didn't want to read it, because we don't know, you know, why Taco Trump always chickens out and he's like, it might happen. It maybe will happen.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We will. Yo. He's back himself. Into a corner. And the whole world now is going. You're chickening out because you're not going to destroy the global economy. Not because anyone thinks he's too nice to kill people, but are you really going to destroy Iran?

[Ebro Darden]

Iran is doing direct oil deals with countries, bro. There are 20% of the world's oil comes through there. If, if this happens tonight, the way he's articulating it, I mean, listen, guys, I don't know what to tell you. Gas is gonna be $10 a gallon. I don't know what's gonna happen. I really don't. And, and by the way, I saw. You know, and we should all be buckling up because there's speculation that the economy is gonna come undone like this in the. In the what, what, what are these cycles of, like the economy of recessions and, you know, economic fail in the United States or whatever it is. We're like in cycle. And it always happens under a Republican president.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Always has to. But they love the economy. They love money so much. Yeah, but they Democrats waste and spend on social programs.

[Ebro Darden]

They break it so that they could buy it cheap.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

So they. So for all of us that don't have the capital and we're just like hanging on for by thread, check to check. When they decimate the economy, all the rich people get to buy everything that's broken cheap. And so then when they build it back up, they own everything and they get to make all the money again.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Speaking of people who have and don't have shouts to T.R. the Doctor who's in our super chat.

[Ebro Darden]

T.R.

[Laura Rosenberg]

the Doctor, he goes 5008. Nothing for Ebro yet. We go at Rosenberg for having physical therapy. Pascala876 says, Wow, 49.99. She came with nice or he or she, I can't tell. Fought for life here. Got my ELR army T. Love it. Keep doing what you all do. F the plant station. Oh, and FDT Isabella the Great came with 1999. Just cuz and Abu came through and said my issue with Kanye is the back and forth between controversy and product releases. It has happened too many times to be coincidental. Abu from Abuja, Nigeria.

[Ebro Darden]

Appreciate you now, Laura. Thanks, man. Actually done with the rundown.

[Griff]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, you were?

[Griff]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, before we move into the guru, it's almost guru time. I want to talk to the chat and the audience. I'd love to get some feedback for you. All that we have. Well, we were talking yesterday. We have about what? About 3, 000 people that pop in here, give or take, live every day.

[Laura Rosenberg]

25, I'd say, is the really.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's call it 2500. And I want to know, I'd love to. For you to chime in, in the chat, how many of y' all are able to make it Monday through Friday? How many of y' all just make it a couple of times a week? You know, just want to. I'd love to learn if we're doing a good job, because we're what, now four months in this?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do you mean? Just to be specific? Yeah, we're half months. Yeah. 72 episodes. So, yeah, a few months. Are you trying to ask people specifically whether they like to come to the live show? Because they're here live.

[Ebro Darden]

They're here live.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And does this work for them?

[Ebro Darden]

And this is working for them. Is the way we're delivering the show working for them? Because we gotta evolve this thing. Like, I was thinking about this a lot yesterday. Like, yeah, we're gonna do this. This is the new gig now. But as it goes on, it's gonna, you know, things change. Things change. And we want to keep the entertainment hot. The entertainment value got to be up. Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You can't just keep doing the same thing over and over and over.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right.

[Griff]

I'm looking at a lot of Monday through Fridays and Fridays. I see a lot of these. I'm here Monday through Friday. Early thoughts here.

[Ebro Darden]

Are you at home when you're listening or watching? Are you in the car? Are you able to drive in the car? What's the thing for you and what do you want more of? What do you want less of?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, we want seven to ten.

[Ebro Darden]

Seven to ten. You don't want us up here for three hours, and you don't even have three hours every time day.

[Griff]

Like, oh, my God.

[Ebro Darden]

And honestly. And for people who want us to do more, the reason we do an hour is because we're gonna see you tomorrow.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm a Monday through Friday listener, but live only once in a while. I'm here live Monday through Friday. I don't come through Friday usually. Don't care for Freedom Friday. Well, guess what it's called Fought Friday. How dare you.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I'd love to hear more about that. Why? You don't care for it because you want the news. You want topical convos. You don't really love the reading of people's email.

[Griff]

Interesting, because I hear people that love Freedom Friday. Well, of course, you know, they love family matters. But I want to hear from you

[Ebro Darden]

that's just one person.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Laura. I'm at work. I watch when I'm at work. Monday through Friday, I'm watching. Y' all need to play music sometimes, too. Not really an option on here.

[Ebro Darden]

We can't. We wish. And now if you're on Patreon, we

[Laura Rosenberg]

hit you with some music live. Every day live, Monday through Friday, driving. I'm at work. Car and work.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, so some good feedback.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But listen, keep in mind, these are people who are here right now.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So it'll be interesting also is to get to read the comments later for people who watch the video.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, so the reason.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Go through those.

[Ebro Darden]

But the reason I'm partial to these individuals. Right. Who are listening here now is because you know how much effort it takes to think about us in the morning. We appreciate you so much to be with us live. Like, that's a. A very different commitment level than someone who kind of gets to it when they can not. And I'm not saying that people who get to it when they can, like you're less important or anything. I'm just saying the people who can and do at 8am they clock in with us. Those 20002500 people. Like, I really want to get to know y'. All.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And by the way, y' all need to pound that, like, during the show, please. But I feel the exact same way about the people that we just can't see when they watch, who may have their pattern of. They sit and watch it with their partner every night at 7 o', clock.

[Ebro Darden]

For sure.

[Griff]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But, like, the way that their schedule works, they're like, I don't want to be in and out of it. I want to sit down and enjoy the whole. I mean, we have this beautiful aesthetic now after all these years. And let's be honest, this is a fairly attractive show for a radio program. Well, they think we want to spend some time.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't feel like the Internet's given us. This is how I know people hate our guts. Joe Button, shout to you. Our studio looks fire by any measure.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, I think so.

[Ebro Darden]

But the last week when you. When you were at home and your Internet was out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nah, they came for us.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, man.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Look how broke down.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, man, this is a disaster. That's how I know they can't stand.

[Griff]

Literally, they're still on.

[Ebro Darden]

But it's like a love hate relationship. Because, like, why would you cover that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

On the day I was moving, you literally had to get me. On the one day I was moving, had no Internet.

[Griff]

And then I'm Just like, they were like, look at Ebro. Can't even come in. He is. Is in Cupertino celebrating Apple's 50th anniversary. He doesn't have to be on 5

[Laura Rosenberg]

o' clock in the morning.

[Griff]

Yes, 5 o' clock in the morning over there. And he prioritizes this show to get on.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, but it's not a good story, though. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, guys. Never. Never ever in your life. But no, I appreciate the feedback. Everyone and everybody making time and everybody that could make it to us live.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I just want to say before. I just want to say before we close out and go to the gurus, because Ebro just like shouted. We kind of played through that moment. And I know, Laura, I'm gonna talk to you because I know he goes, oh, I don't want to get caught up, yo. The leader of the, quote, unquote leader of the free world did literally get online this morning. The first thing he said was, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. That is literally Hitler talk. Like, we are talking about end the world, annihilate people, gas prices, smass prices. He is talking about murdering people.

[Ebro Darden]

And the only way to do that, what he's talking about, is with a nuclear bomb.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, so that's what I'm saying. So now the other line we're gonna have is Trump always chickens out. So you have one option, which is he chickens out. Or even much scarier than that is he does it and says, I gotta show people what time it is. Granted, none of us believe that'll happen, but he's threatening annihilation to the Iranian people.

[Griff]

That's right.

[Ebro Darden]

So remember when, like, we had this whole thing about, like, don't vote for Trump. You don't want this guy who's a reality TV host next to the nuclear buttons.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Everybody was like, he's out of the deal. It'll never happen. Da, da, da, da. Listen, now we're at one of those crucial inflection points.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And then how about this?

[Ebro Darden]

What did you say, Rashan? You have a microphone.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's pushing out to push the button.

[Griff]

Okay, hold on.

[Laura Rosenberg]

We didn't get to it. But that's what Stephen A. Said. He got messages from people saying, oh, this is all for play.

[Ebro Darden]

He's not really gonna do anything. You wanna play the Stephen A. Clip real quick before we get to

[Laura Rosenberg]

the guru and before he plays? I just wanna say one thing about that, though. There was a lot of talk about yeah, but don't worry, cuz there's always people around the President.

[Griff]

Look at the people around him.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He got rid of any credible. There used to be some somewhat semi tiny bit credible people. They're all gone. They're all gone. It's all sycophant fanboys who are just literally. He could call your wife a dog to your face and you still go, whatever you want, Mr. President. There's no one left to tell him

[Ebro Darden]

no when they want. Listen. No.

[Griff]

Do you trust Cash Patel?

[Ebro Darden]

They're all.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Have you looked at Cash Patel? You saw.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't do that.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you saw him with the high. You saw him chugging beers with the hockey.

[Ebro Darden]

Just because you can't. He can't look at you directly doesn't

[Laura Rosenberg]

mean we can't treat him seriously.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I'm saying? Just because he can't make eye contact. Let's watch. Now, this is Stephen A. Responding to my guy, Matt Barnes. I. To Matt Barnes.

[Stephen A. Smith]

He's doing it, etc. Do you know that when the President went out and was so disrespectful towards the Muslim community by sitting up there and saying what he said about Iran and how they need to open the Strait of Hormuz and all of this other stuff, and then he ended it by saying, praise be to Allah. Do you know that five minutes after I posted on social media about how vile that was to the Muslim community, to the Islamic community a world the world over, do you know it wasn't 10 minutes later that I got text messages from an abundance of people that said to me, damn it, Stephen, don't fall for the Okie doke. The man wants them to think he's crazy. He's trying to get a deal done. And they know that he's willing to be trifling and ratchet and all of this other stuff because he doesn't want them to think he's predictable. He wants this stuff over and he's gonna get it done in two weeks. You wait and see, Stephen. It's all a smokescreen while he's sitting there talking that junk, cussing him out, going crazy. He wants to be perceived as a loose cannon just to give the impression that he's crazy enough so they could get a deal done. But why don't you tell the truth, Matt Barnes?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Wait, what?

[Stephen A. Smith]

You'd prefer that Obama, that Trump followed the Obama philosophy and give $1.7 billion in cash to the Iranians in hopes that it will assuage their venom and hostility? And as a Result, they won't want to kill Israelis and Americans. You want them to be Joe Biden and lift the sanctions so they can have access to stuff, so they can continue to be the number one sponsors of terrorism.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But it was working. The whole Obama and Biden's deal was. It was working.

[Ebro Darden]

This is so stupid. And this is why I saw something where Stephen A. Was talking about, you know, if I. If they want me to debate Gavin Newsom, I'll be at the debate. Guys, for the world to function, okay, there can't be a situation where you believe that America gets to dictate to everyone around the world what they can and cannot have. Israel's existence in the Middle east has caused a lot of problems, historically speaking. And we're watching right now the nation of Israel disregard disrespect and just go ham. Some people believe rightfully so. I am not one of those people. I don't think this is a solution for them to take southern Lebanon, displace millions of people.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What would the solution be? Yeah, where are they?

[Ebro Darden]

Not this.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How could this be?

[Ebro Darden]

So the expansion of this nation under Netanyahu's stewardship. You guys think this is a better plan than what was happening before, where Obama, Biden and others throughout. By the way, this conversation has been going on with Iran for 45 years, right? 47. Whatever. Whatever it is. Keeping some sort of economic balance and figuring out how to coexist, while we may not all agree on everything, is not a better solution than just trying to bomb your way into authority.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Under the Obama deal with Iran, the sanctions situation, et cetera, they agreed to inspections. Ebro, I believe there were 1500 inspections where international bodies went into Iran, checked out their facility and saw that they were not developing nukes. 1500 times. There was no proof in any way that Iran was doing anything. Trump tore up the Obama deal because he wanted to tear up Obama's deal for the same reason he calls him Barack Hussein Obama. It is to villainize Barack Obama. It is a personal vendetta because your man Donald Trump is still the joker hiding in the darkness at the correspondence dinner when Obama made fun of him, right? It is all, well, ego.

[Ebro Darden]

And so remember the petrodollar. Remember US Cash? Using US Money to buy things is a thing that keeps our dollar value, our dollar valued highly, right? So the giving of cash to nations, which we do, is so that they can buy stuff using our dollar system, which keeps our dollar system and one of our biggest value propositions on planet Earth in play. If that doesn't happen. Guess what else? Guess what? They're using other countries money.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

And in the oil market, if we want to continue to have the power and influence we have on the globe. You want people using the US Dollar. That's what this whole Brics conversation is about. Where Brazil and China and these other nations are trying to use another dollar system which devalues our. Our dollar.

[Griff]

Yeah, I read about that. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

So once again, Stephen A. Smith, you're in over your head. My guy. You're in over your head. And I know you want to keep this thing popping for yourself. Stephen A. I know the sports thing. You've done it for a long time, and now you're on to the next hot thing, which is politics. And I just want to tell you, it may work out for you. I don't know. I'm not going to vote for you. I don't think it's a good decision for anybody to vote for you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You.

[Ebro Darden]

I'mma hit you with this button. You played yourself because on your way to doing it, you continually show yourself to be uneducated. And then. And. And out over your skis and over your head, however you want to frame it. Let's get to the gurus.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Hey, yo, it's time for the gurus, Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

All right. You know, you are a beautiful queen. EO don't ever play yourself. You're not a guru.

[Griff]

Let me shake. Let me shake this fear off. Breathe in, breathe out. The original gurus. Gmail.com theoriginal gurus gmail.com. where the gurus unite.

[Ebro Darden]

See, I really. Y' all really think bro's gonna drop a nuclear weapon on Iran in it?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Do I really think it?

[Griff]

No, but the fact that we don't know is scary enough. Thank you.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen, you get what you vote for, man, I don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yeah, Iran didn't vote for him. The people of Iran didn't vote for.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, I'm saying the chaos and instability. We've been talking about chaos and instability. And emotional instability has been the path this whole time.

[Griff]

All right, let me Z.

[Ebro Darden]

And even. I guess that's what Stephen A. Did. Get right from people who text him. They. Well, he wants people to think he's crazy and unhinged.

[Griff]

Well, all right. Can you just burn some sage, please?

[Ebro Darden]

Zen. Zen.

[Griff]

All right, Rosenberg, who's out there? Who needs us? Who's writing to us?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Good to hit a short and sweet one because we're over time. But by the way, I will say we have a Patreon dropping tomorrow. I Often say the episode you can't afford to miss. Nah, it's the episode you can't afford to miss.

[Ebro Darden]

Really? You think it was.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think everybody cried. I think everybody cried. It was. Listen, I'm not gonna, like, tease. It was. It was a very emotional, really good episode. One email in particular just sent us to an interesting place. If you want to get email with us, Patreon drops tomorrow. Okay. TheOriginalGurusMail.com send your emails today, folks. Anonymous here. Good morning, Laura, Peter, and old man Ebro. Congrats on the ELR show and being free from the plantation. Thoughts for life. Thank you, quickest guru ever. My man and I have been together 10 years. I'm six years older than him. I'm 47. He's 41. We went from having adult time five to six times a week to two to three times a week. How do I nicely let him know I want it the way it was in the beginning? Sincerely, a cheetah, not a cougar.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay, you can tell him, sit down, talk to him about it. Just make it sexy if you wanted to lead to where you want it to lead. You know what I'm saying?

[Laura Rosenberg]

And just hope he doesn't talk to any of his friends and get any other insight, because people are like, wow, you're putting it down two to three times a week and she still needs more. Damn, my guy, you're getting taxed out here. He's putting in that work. She's like, ah, I need that five or six. My man's coming two to three, ten years in, maybe.

[Ebro Darden]

And by the way, to the emailer, maybe you fell off.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Interesting. Take Hebrew.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm just saying, what are you. What are you doing to contribute? What are you doing to get it popping? You know what I'm saying? Maybe it could be something like, for 10 years, he always initiated, and now he's like, I'm just tired. Maybe you need to initiate.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I won't even. I won't even let the disrespect for my man go that way that he's like, I'm just tired at two, three times a week, ten years in, my man's putting up hall of Fame, bro. You get to the hall of Fame every time. At this rate, 10 years in, two to three times a week. That is Ted Williams numbers. You are going to the hall on your first battle.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, but I'm just saying, like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I know, but I'm not even. I'm not dignifying her. I'm not. I'm not dignifying.

[Ebro Darden]

You're not trying to help solve their problem. You're just gonna say, nah, what he's doing is good enough. Yes, enjoy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You know what? Nah, you know what? Go out. Go see what else out there that she's not there.

[Ebro Darden]

Bro, why are you jumping to this?

[Laura Rosenberg]

I'm defending my guy.

[Griff]

You can talk to him and then. And see. Okay. Why don't you get an honest answer from him? He could be tired.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, and also. And also, we're jumping straight to it. It's late. They were doing. They were having sex six times a week. She might mean when she says adult time, because she wasn't specific about what adult time is.

[Griff]

We are assuming.

[Ebro Darden]

We're assuming that. That. That she means stupid.

[Griff]

But what else would adult time be?

[Ebro Darden]

Plugging the hole. You know what I'm saying?

[Laura Rosenberg]

We understood. Why do you always go to the next one that's not sexy?

[Ebro Darden]

Happen to serve.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So what else would you suggest? Adult time? This.

[Griff]

Yeah, because she didn't say dates.

[Ebro Darden]

You know, some people have. It could be cuddling on the couch. Watch. I'm being nice. I don't know. I don't know. But I'm just assuming it could be other intimacy. That is not sex. Because that is a thing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, I just. This is. Aaron. This.

[Ebro Darden]

This is like, you know, for adults out here, it is a thing to just be like, yo, we cuddled. It was great. Spoon, and it was a great night.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I don't think she means that, though. And I just want to say she sounds like a Yankee fan. She sounds like a Yankee fan complaining about Aaron Judge. He doesn't step up enough in the playoffs every year.

[Ebro Darden]

No World Series.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Your man's. Your man's hitting 50 home runs batting 330 every year. Solid in the outfield. She's like, yeah, but I need a championship. All right, no, listen. Obviously, everyone has their own different needs. Say something. If you want to say something, say something.

[Griff]

Communicate.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I just let him know Rosenberg said, salute. You're going to the hall, my guy. First ballot, hall of Famer.

[Griff]

Communicate. Maybe change things up and see if, you know, see if you guys can halfway.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yo, listen.

[Ebro Darden]

These are no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Ted Williams bad at 406. That's what I mean. This guy's Ted Williams. He's out here every night. Just. That's. And she's like, ah, but I could.

[Griff]

Somebody said, if she's over 30, she got worms.

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What?

[Ebro Darden]

That's too far.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, what does that mean?

[Griff]

I don't know, but it's hilarious.

[Ebro Darden]

It's ridiculous. Clearly your friend here thinks that that's amazing.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's got worms. That's what makes stupid. But I don't get it. She's over 30. She. What is she like?

[Ebro Darden]

She thinks it's amazing, bro.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But do you understand what the joke even is?

[Ebro Darden]

She's got some sort of bodily worm. I guess because she's older.

[Griff]

It's just so stupid.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But is there a way to understand the joke that I'm missing?

[Griff]

She's trying to justify that something's wrong with her. So she's like. She probably has worms. I don't know if worms affects your sex drive. Like, I don't know if it turns it up. I just think it's ridiculous.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's over 30.

[Ebro Darden]

I think you're overthinking. She's not. She's not thinking at all.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You're.

[Griff]

I just think it's stupid and funny.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's really what sent her, though.

[Ebro Darden]

That was interesting high comedy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Good luck, lady. We wish you the best.

[Ebro Darden]

There it is. Time to get out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I. I think it's time to wrap. EO's got to go to the bathroom for 20 or 30 minutes

[Ebro Darden]

and it was only 10.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Laura was yesterday 10.

[Ebro Darden]

I looked at the clock.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, you're gone for the first 10. Then the texts start coming. He. He disappears for a while. We have to have a meeting. We're waiting to have a chat. And then all of a sudden the texts start rolling. He's sending clips now. So now he goes from doing what he's doing to. He's just scrolling on the can. That's the next new segment on the show.

[Ebro Darden]

Scrolling on the can. You don't scroll on the can. It used to be magazines. Magazines next.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Scrolling on the can with the old man.

[Ebro Darden]

They don't have magazines. Magazines next to toilet.

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[Laura Rosenberg]

You gotta scroll in your phone.

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[Ebro Darden]

Listen, thanks everybody for your participation today. New Patreon dropping tomorrow. Subscribe. Hit the like button. Do all of the things.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Send your. Send your emails for Friday. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

If you enjoy five Friday. I didn't get to my new Jesus Christ classic songs, man. Cause, you know, we was coming off of Easter. I wanted to get to those. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow.

[Laura Rosenberg]

There you go.

[Ebro Darden]

Ebro's Alo's popping with Goofy Records. I really love them. I really love them. Ebro. Laura Rosenberg. Thanks for locking in. Just don't call it a podcast.

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[Griff]

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[Griff]

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