85.) Family Matters + Reading FOTS Letters (4/24/26)

Summary

The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show – Episode 85: "Family Matters + Reading FOTS Letters" (April 24, 2026)

Podcast: The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show
Hosts: Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, Peter Rosenberg
Episode Theme: Family Matters Friday + Listener Letters and Community Conversation

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Episode Overview

This Friday’s episode is firmly centered on “Family Matters,” a recurring segment where the trio dig deep into all things family: Parenting, sharing personal stories, and responding to questions and feedback from their passionate community of listeners (FOTS – Friends of the Show). The show is marked by a flowing, honest discussion that brings the hosts' different perspectives on parenthood, privacy, and family life to the forefront, while keeping their signature warm banter and comedic edge.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Technical Studio Updates & Show Format (00:00–03:00)

• Ongoing tech issues are discussed, with Ebro gently roasting the team about studio upgrades and why things seem perpetually "almost there".
• Discussion about phone lines and mic setups, highlighting the informal, behind-the-scenes vibe that defines the show.

Memorable Moment:

Ebro: "We've been almost there for a while. I don't know why we're not quite there there." (01:00)

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2. Professional Updates & Milestones (03:00–07:00)

• Peter Rosenberg shares excitement about his new show on Shade 45, including interviews with Stove God Cooks and a notable call from Rakim.
• Anecdotes about Rakim loving home improvement stores and the quirks of celebrity life.

Rosenberg: “[Rakim] wanted to live near a place where he could, as he put it, go to Lowe’s without having to change his outfit.” (04:04)

• Weekly recap: Special mention of Buju Banton’s interview on their Patreon, discussing Jamaica’s rebuilding and Buju’s music.

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3. Listener Email: Sharing Children’s Lives Publicly (07:12–13:45)

Main Question:

A listener named Chris, a therapist, asks the hosts how they handle sharing stories about their children, if they've spoken with their partners/kids about it, and whether they ever consider privacy concerns.

Host Responses:

• Laura: Openly discusses her partner's support and possible future limits but isn't at that point yet.
• Ebro: Shares he always checks with Issa’s mother and gives Issa a heads-up before sharing anything, emphasizing boundaries and not oversharing private matters.
• Rosenberg: Is still figuring out boundaries with Maya, discusses keeping some of her content private, and notes how growing recognition of kids can be unsettling.

Ebro: "...we are not sharing ...the most personal ...relax." (08:45)
Laura: “I have gotten tons of messages of people thanking us because they’re on this parent journey as well.” (10:37)
Rosenberg: “I don’t love that email. It sounds like...Judgy. Yeah, Chris.” (10:56)

Child Recognition & Privacy:

• The awkwardness and concern when children get recognized in public, leading to deeper discussion about how much to show online.

Rosenberg: “I don’t like either of those— that makes me super uncomfortable.” (12:01)

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4. Proud Parent Moments – Issa Sings! (13:46–18:47)

• Ebro shares old audio and a new clip of his daughter Issa performing as Morticia in her school’s Addams Family play.
• The crew expresses pride and amazement at Issa’s poise and vocal performance at just age 11.
• A lighthearted callback to Addams Family pop culture and inside banter about childhood tastes influenced by parents.

Rosenberg: “That poise! How old is she?”
Ebro: “11.”
Rosenberg: “He said 11, not 15. Laura, you didn’t think that was incredible poise?” (16:32)

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5. Kids, Pop Culture, and Parental Influence (20:00–23:32)

• Laura’s daughter Kenza’s fascination with Wednesday Addams and all things “death”—prompting a hilarious, honest review of what children absorb through shows and parental behavior.

Ebro: “Parents gotta understand that what their kids are absorbing will affect their behavior.” (21:16)

• Fun ribbing as they deconstruct Kenza’s influences: Halloween, Day of the Dead, and her father’s conspicuous IG tastes.

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6. Responding to Listener Feedback: Family Fridays & Format (23:10–40:00)

• Varied feedback on Family Fridays: Some fans love the family focus, others want more “topics.”
• Rosenberg’s unapologetic position:

  “To the person who said that, I would just like to say, go bleep yourself. Nobody cares.” (23:12)

• Listener Ronald praises the show and asks them not to engage with online negativity or beefs.
• Joking about device usage (Rosenberg’s phone vs. iPad for reading emails), keeping it real with their quirks.

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7. Voice Notes & Video Submissions – Listener Love (25:50–37:00)

• Steph’s voice note: A long-time listener (and Jewish fan) thanks Rosenberg for his balanced takes and notes her “internal voice” now sounds like him.

  Steph: “If I’m rehearsing an argument ...I hear it in Rosenberg’s voice.” (26:40)

• Reflection on real-life validation vs. social media noise.

• Freeze’s video: A blast from the past—Freeze from Seattle gives love, shares vintage photos with Ebro, leading to nostalgia, light roasting, and a flurry of 90s/2000s radio stories with deep cultural context.

Ebro: “I taught Freeze how to roll blunts in the 90s in the station van.” (32:17)

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8. Parenting Sick Children: Remedies & Routines (41:47–46:27)

• Yonzeli’s question: How do the hosts handle toddlers being sick, and what’s their blend of medical/holistic approaches?
• Vitamin C, fluids, and elderberry are go-tos; but no extreme remedies without pediatrician input.
• Humidifiers, “snotsucker” debates, and generations-old remedies (raw garlic, “wellness formula”).

Ebro: “I’m definitely not giving my 2-year-old black seed oil and these naturopathic remedies without a pediatric input.” (42:08)

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9. Rotating Guests & The Impact on Show Dynamics (37:01–40:45)

• Listener Erica suggests more guest hosts when one is out; debates about how this can disrupt vs. enrich show chemistry.

Peter: “Sometimes it’s good depending who the person is. And sometimes... it changes the dynamic of the show.” (38:48)
Laura: “I hear the opposite. Some people don’t want guest hosts.” (39:38)

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10. Behind the Scenes: Group Projects & Scheduling Woes (49:35–54:44)

• Cypher Sounds and Rosenberg nostalgia: Discussion about why their old show isn’t as frequent anymore—scheduling conflicts, shifting priorities, and the reality of creative partnerships.

Peter: “I feel like Sif and I have a relationship where he made decisions on how I am as a person when I was 27... that doesn’t change.” (51:02)
Ebro: “He’s not that into you.” (52:22)

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11. Changing Social Norms and Cancel Culture (56:14–58:15)

• The hosts ponder how jokes and bits from their early career would not fly today, noting the shift in cultural sensitivity.

Rosenberg: “I used to make jokes that, like, related to black people. I do not make those jokes anymore. It will not play.” (56:48)

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12. ‘Gurus’ Segment & Listener Protections (58:10–64:00)

• The “Gurus” advice segment receives emails about potential guests (Hasan Piker controversy—are they giving problematic people a pass?), prompting pledges for thoughtful, not soft, interviews with future guests.

Ebro: “So thank you, Omar, for sending that video... he’s obviously got to deal with the October 7 convo, so let’s see what he has to say.” (63:32)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Banter

• “We've been almost there for a while. I don't know why we're not quite there there.” — Ebro (01:00)
• “He wanted to live near a place where he could... go to Lowe’s without having to change his outfit.” — Peter Rosenberg, recounting Rakim (04:04)
• “I don't love that email. It sounds like... Judgy. Yeah, Chris.” — Peter Rosenberg (10:56)
• “At some point, parents gotta understand that what their kids are absorbing will affect their behavior.” — Ebro (21:16)
• “Go bleep yourself. Nobody cares.”— Peter Rosenberg to naysayers about Family Friday (23:12)
• “I taught Freeze how to roll blunts in the 90s in the station van.” — Ebro (32:17)
• “I'm always taking zinc. I take zinc every day. Just thrive probiotics...” — Ebro (44:27)
• “I used to make jokes that, like, related to black people. I do not make those jokes anymore. It will not play.” — Peter Rosenberg (56:48)
• “He’s not that into you.” — Ebro, on Cypher and Rosenberg's scheduling woes (52:22)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00–03:00: Studio banter, tech updates
• 03:00–07:00: Rosenberg’s new Shade 45 show and Rakim stories
• 07:12–13:45: Handling privacy re: sharing children’s stories
• 13:46–18:47: Issa’s school play performance (listen for audio gems!)
• 20:00–23:32: Wednesday Addams influence, kids and pop culture
• 23:10–40:00: Family Friday feedback, defending show format
• 25:50–27:39: Steph’s voice note; Rosenberg’s perspective legacy
• 32:00–36:56: Vintage radio stories, photo nostalgia (Freeze’s video)
• 41:47–46:27: Parenting sick children, home remedies vs. medical care
• 37:01–40:45: Adding guest hosts: dynamics and challenges
• 49:35–54:44: Cypher Sounds & Rosenberg: creative tension, real-life context
• 56:14–58:15: Cancel culture and changing social norms in comedy & radio

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Tone & Style

• Warm, authentic, with classic radio banter and inside jokes
• Candid, occasionally irreverent, but always informed by empathy and respect for audience
• Encourages community interaction through emails, voice notes, and video submissions

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For New Listeners

This episode epitomizes the “family as community” ethos, blending humor and honest, introspective dialogue about parenting in the digital age with an openness to community feedback—both positive and critical. The hosts’ chemistry, vulnerability, and willingness to revisit their own histories (with all the mess and love that entails) make it an engaging listen for fans old and new.

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To join the conversation:

• Email: [e-mail]
• X: @theelrshow
• TikTok: @ebrolaurarosenberg

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“Just don’t call it a podcast.”

Transcript

[Ebro Darden]

Just don't call it a podcast. The Ebro Laura Rosenberg show. Okay, Listen, boys and girls, Ebro Laura Rosenberg Friday show, Family Friday, Font Friday, all the things. Griff, how far are we away from A, getting Yalls mic over on that side of the room set up, which was set up, and now not set up, and B, the phone lines are fully set.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We just need to do one last step.

[Laura Styles]

One last step.

[Ebro Darden]

One last step for phone lines.

[Laura Styles]

I got you. Okay, so we're almost there.

[Ebro Darden]

Almost there.

[Laura Styles]

We're all.

[Ebro Darden]

We've been almost there for a while. I don't know why we're not quite there there. I don't understand. The updates I get are sporadic. It's tough to get updates, Ryan.

[Laura Styles]

Okay. And we need a tutorial how to use it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But we had his mic, though. All we need is a wire.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know what happened, bro, but we don't have.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Don't we have it, though? Oh, it's tied up.

[Laura Styles]

All right. So it's coming.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's not for lack of effort.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. That feels good to you? That justification? I'm asking you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Me?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. You like it?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, yeah. This is. It's tough to blame anyone because the guy who you brought in to do engineering stuff is the one who changed. It's not like Griff pulled the line.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I mean, it was the only engineer we could get because the other engineer we thought we had left us high and dry.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, this is the one you got. And he tied the wire up. So I don't know what, you know, what's Griff supposed to do at this point?

[Ebro Darden]

We don't have. I'm not blaming it. I'm not blaming Griff. I just asked if you were good with it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I, I, I. You know, the other day during the show, I was like, oh, man, I wish they had their mic plugged in.

[Ebro Darden]

How many days ago was that?

[Peter Rosenberg]

A couple days.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay. I feel like it was by next week.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think we'll have this mic back

[Ebro Darden]

before you went to Wrestlemania.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It might. Might have been. I'm back, though, baby.

[Ebro Darden]

Nah, listen, a lot of great things happening on the program this week. Obviously, we have Bujubontown on the Patreon. Hopefully you're a subscriber to the Patreon, so you can go check that combo out. Love sitting down with the great Buju Bantan. He's got a new single out, Butterflies, and we'll talk to him about the album and all of his plans and the rebuilding of Jamaica.

[Laura Styles]

So he's in a good space.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, man. Outside moving around now. We got voice notes, we got videos that you guys have sent in. We had a busy week this week, Lor Styles. Do we go family matters or is. Did we ever decide if family matters is the whole Friday? We made that decision.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's the whole thing.

[Ebro Darden]

It's the whole thing. Family matters.

[Laura Styles]

Family matters.

[Ebro Darden]

So you can write us, you can video us, you can voice notice you're a part of the family.

[Laura Styles]

I want more videos.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, you heard the woman. Ebro Laura Rosenberg at Gmail. There you go. Get them over here. All right, here we go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's a tower of dreams.

[Ebro Darden]

Here we go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, don't stop it now.

[Ebro Darden]

They're going to.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They're going to take you.

[Laura Styles]

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

[Ebro Darden]

What's going on? Who goes first? Where do you guys want to go? Voice notes, video, or email?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm sorry. I'm a little. I'm a little distracted. I'm still promoting. Last night was my first show on shade 45.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay, what are you promoting?

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I'm getting. I'm just getting out the stuff from yesterday's show. So I'm sorry. I don't want to be distracted.

[Ebro Darden]

How did you open the show there on shade 45

[Laura Styles]

strong.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's how I opened it.

[Ebro Darden]

What'd you do?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I had stove God cooks on the show.

[Ebro Darden]

Nice.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I got a phone call from. You may be Familiar with the 18th letter Rakim, Ala.

[Ebro Darden]

The R list.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The tone's got to get set. You know what I mean? I wanted him to come in. You know, Rakim lives. He moved away from the city. He wanted to live near a place where he could, as he put it, go to Lowe's without having to change his outfit.

[Ebro Darden]

There you go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Cuz when he lived in New York, he felt like when he wanted to go to Lowe's to just get some mulch, get a doorknob, and get a doorknob. He's like, nah, I still had to dress up.

[Ebro Darden]

Phillips screwdriver. I got to.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I got to go play Rakim just to go get a Phillips screwdriver, you

[Ebro Darden]

know what I mean? Now I need some bathroom caulk.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, literally, he needs.

[Ebro Darden]

Hey, yo.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hey, yo. You don't want to have to dress up and wear your chains to go get bathroom caulk, but when you live out in the middle of nowhere in

[Ebro Darden]

the bathroom, you know what I mean?

[Peter Rosenberg]

By the way, I'm not kidding if y' all have never heard it. Back when Syphon and I were still doing one up, like, a few months ago, we had the long conversation with him. He spent a lot. Rakim, now, your man loves Lowe's, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

He brings it up a lot.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, and really cared. Like, it's part of, like, his life is living. He's living how you want to live. He's off in the middle of where he's at working on his lawn.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, you know. And also, we don't know Rakim well enough to know that if he. Is he a handyman? You don't know. Have you ever asked Rakim, are you like, a handyman?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, now. Well, now I know. I mean, if you care that much about going to Lowe's, like, for instance,

[Ebro Darden]

like, Juvenile, who has an amazing album out if you haven't taken time to go check it out, his new album. His dad was a carpenter. Juvenile can make furniture. Oh, that's fire and cabinets, I'm told. Okay, so, like, we don't know Rakim. I was. Anybody ever stopped Rakim been like, yo, do you like remodel homes? Like, is that why you like Lowe's so much?

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I'll be honest. I didn't ask him if he actually straight up remodels homes. I didn't even specifically say, what kind of work are you do? I should have that. Next time I talk to him, I'm gonna do that.

[Laura Styles]

He's gonna be like.

[Ebro Darden]

Because he might be like, yo, look. Nah, you know, I like to handmade cabinets.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. I don't know the level to.

[Ebro Darden]

That's why I'm always at low.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I just know he enjoys his Lowe's. And by the way, if Lowe's is paying attention, I would be getting that man to do voiceovers for my commercial so fast.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, the interesting thing about Lowe's is I'm not sure that's where their brand is. The owners are aligned in that way.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What do you. I'm told you know that about Lowe's?

[Ebro Darden]

I. I've heard that. Like, that the Lowe's family, or the family that owns the company's not.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Not what we want.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what I've heard. But maybe I'm confused now with Home Depot.

[Freeze]

I don't know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, let's start the family Friday like this. I I Speaking of family and people who are aligned with us.

[Ebro Darden]

But that was about your serious XM show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes. On shade 45.

[Ebro Darden]

Shade 45.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Shout out to Paul Rosenberg, shouts to Ron Mills, shouts to J Ones, shouts to Sway, who had me on this week, and his team to announce Heather Tracy, et cetera.

[Ebro Darden]

But it's what day and what time?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thursday nights, 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific.

[Ebro Darden]

That's usually how that works.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Every Thursday. Yeah. Well, it's national. You know, I'm not. Not used to thinking nationally all the time.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, there you go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know, so Real late with Peter Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

Very nice.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We're back, baby.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, Laura, you got an email.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, yeah. We can jump to the emails. Oh, this is interesting. Being that it's family matters.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Laura Styles]

It's from Chris. It feels like y' all speak more about your children on the show. I'm a. The therapist in me is curious if you've had a conversation with your partners or children, of course, age appropriate, on how they feel. I'll be honest. I fast forward through a lot of it because it feels like I'm in business. I have no right to. I have a kid. And try to keep my socials private as well as not give details about his personal. His personality in sessions. Just some thought I would like to ask about.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, you want to go first here, Laura?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. I have spoken to my partner about it, and he's completely fine with it. I mean, he knows how transparent I am with my life, and I pretty much have shared everything with y', all, so he's okay with it. Maybe there's a time when I decide, like, hey, maybe we should, you know what I mean, like, start limiting the amount. But I'm not there yet. So as of right now, me and my man are aligned.

[Ebro Darden]

Issa came on the radio and did her first interview when she was three years old.

[Laura Styles]

Yes, yes.

[Ebro Darden]

So, yes, I've talked to her mom about it, and now that we have, it's on the Internet. You can just grab it. Yeah, he's a nice man. If you missed that, somebody go grab it and bring it up for Family Friday. It's out there in the world. And I talk to Issa now, I'll be like, you know, like, today, for Family Friday, I'm gonna show something that I told you guys earlier in the week I was going to show.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

I told Lisa I was going to

[Peter Rosenberg]

show it until you'll give her the heads up.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I'll be like, hey. Or hey, I talked about this.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

You know, but then. But by the way, we are not sharing. I have an 11 year old. I am not sharing with y'. All. The most personal.

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

Relax.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

You know what I'm saying? Like. Like, think about.

[Peter Rosenberg]

For the most part, I feel like you also have. But no, I have, but no, I can't remember.

[Ebro Darden]

Have not.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No. It's all fair, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've had conversations about things that you don't put on the air.

[Laura Styles]

We got to be careful because sometimes our memory is blurry. What we said on air and off.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, no, no, you're right. Also, I don't trust Ebro fully. You know, he never.

[Laura Styles]

He's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

As he gets older, he might think he did something he didn't, but. No, you never have.

[Ebro Darden]

I. Like, there's so many things with. With regard to Issa that I have not shared.

[Laura Styles]

Of course.

[Ebro Darden]

And. And obviously, as your child gets older, we're not just talking about a drawing in a classroom. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're talking about interpersonal relationships and things they might have gotten trouble doing or, you know, other personal details that I would never show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I do. I do have questions about how long I want to continue to show Maya on the Internet. Like, and is there an age when I'm gonna go, you know what? At this age, I think, you know, I don't want her to be. She should build her own identity. I think that's for everyone to choose. And me and Natalie go back and forth about. You know, she has a profile that we keep private just for friends and family. Like, all of those things are things we discuss. But when it comes to stories, like,

[Ebro Darden]

I don't feel there's things you won't

[Peter Rosenberg]

share, of course, but, I mean. Right. But she's a year.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I'm just talking to the. I'm talking to the email.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right, Right.

[Ebro Darden]

Feels like what we're sharing now is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm curious to what they think is. I. I now. I did recently annoy Natalie with sharing, like, a relationship detail that she could have had left out. And I said, oh, I'm really glad you told me that. I'll make sure now to have a. Like, understand that that's something I. I wouldn't talk about. Not a huge deal, but, like, a little thing. But it wasn't related to the baby.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like, I don't.

[Laura Styles]

And I. I will say I have gotten tons of messages of people thanking us because they're on this parent journey as well. So they're like, I love that you guys share. Share the version of you as a parent and how you guys navigate through life. So it's interesting that she said that. It's not for her, but I get tons of messages, people loving it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't. I don't love that email. It sounds like. I don't know, it Sounds judgy. Yeah. Chris.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, she said it's a bit.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Judging the therapist.

[Ebro Darden]

This is a. From a therapist. She's a therapist who's likely come across kids or parents or parents and kids where the kids feel like the parents over share and it somehow has affected how the kids have, you know, self esteem or maybe social media. Maybe parents are putting private stuff on social media and the kids are like, it's embarrassing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I'm just curious to what she would have heard us do that would have led her to having that thought.

[Laura Styles]

Just sharing. Because some people, you know, are very private about their children. They don't even put them on social media and if they do, it's just the back of their heads, you know, which I understand too. I'm like, I'm not judging.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I get it.

[Laura Styles]

We're good right here. We're pretty good.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think so at least with our

[Laura Styles]

significant others, like, they're, they're okay with us sharing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. I'm going to figure out, you know, how much I want to show, like, literally show her face. Just. I remember Ebro told a story years ago about Issa getting recognized when he wasn't around.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. Happen to Kenzie too.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. I don't like either of those three that, that I don't like.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

At all. It makes me super uncomfortable. So I have to think about that. That didn't make you rethink things when.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But you, in the end you decided it's okay. Yeah, I just like, it freaks me out a little bit. Which part Being that Issu is recognized when you weren't there.

[Ebro Darden]

It'll freak you out. But it's too late. It already happened.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, but. No, but I have.

[Ebro Darden]

So now I have to make her aware now.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, now she's of an age where you could feel a little better about it. It's that middle ground.

[Ebro Darden]

She wasn't without a parent when it happened.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I know, but I just, you know. Speaks to you.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, no, it's something. It's definitely something where you're gonna be.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Have to think about, you know.

[Ebro Darden]

But here's the other part. The other part is I walk around with my kids, so even if it's not same on. And we live in the area, you know what I'm saying? Where it's like. And I was explaining this to somebody the other day, we live in an area where I'm going to see the same postal worker, I'm going to see the same UPS driver, I'm going to see the same garbage Folks, I'm going to see the same people at the corner store. I'm going to see the same people, you know, the construction workers who are working on a nearby building that I walk by every day for the next three years while they're working on the building and I'm with my kid. You know what I'm saying?

[Peter Rosenberg]

So, yeah, one way or the other,

[Ebro Darden]

I'm being seen with my children. So I have to. I have to walk in a space where it's like, you know, they have to be prepared. I have to be prepared.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. And I firmly believe that experience, like, shapes who we are to some degree versus, like, certain people who operate in ways and say crazy things. And I'm like, oh, man, you don't. You don't have family. You don't. You don't understand what it's like. You wouldn't go certain places if you had. When I say go certain places, I mean say certain things. Yeah, yeah, if you had family.

[Ebro Darden]

Here's Issa's first interview.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, does Daddy dance with you?

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Yes, he dance with me, like, all the time.

[Laura Styles]

All the time. Is he good or no? Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

Thanks.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

All the time. He sleeps all the time.

[Ebro Darden]

Sleep all the time.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He sleeps all the time.

[Ebro Darden]

He sleeps a lot.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Does he eat a lot?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, he. A lot.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

What does he eat?

[Ebro Darden]

What kind of Scotty bean.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, okay.

[Laura Styles]

What kind of food do you like?

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

I like vegetables. Like, eat vegetables. And she's so.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What is she, Two, two and a half, three?

[Ebro Darden]

I look back.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Vegetables.

[Laura Styles]

And you like to drink it?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Water.

[Laura Styles]

That's your favorite. What's your favorite song, Issa? Oh, 24 karat.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Oh,

[Ebro Darden]

she's still cute.

[Steph (Caller)]

She's like.

[Laura Styles]

I'm gonna give you this whole song. Hold on.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, since you had Issa singing right there. Is that other one ready? Rasan? This was Issa's solo. She's playing Morticia.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

In the Adams family at her school play over the past weekend.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

My daughter's getting married I can't believe it's true she doesn't ask a mother before she says I do and how about my husband? In constant naive deceive Is getting serious these Ohins won't leave But I can let these latest troubles Rob me of my bliss for when I'm scared of true disaster Hiding Yes, Morticia, death is just around the corner Patiently strike one Unplanned electrocution that's the kind of land I can comprehend When I'm feeling unins I need a little spree I'm reborn knowing the death is

[Peter Rosenberg]

corner.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Get it? Seth is just around the corner. Death is just around the corner. Hi.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Who's this?

[Ebro Darden]

Student. Kids.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You want to show them?

[Ebro Darden]

It's too late.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Stop. Nah. Quit football, bro. Quit football. No, that po. Her level of poise. How old is she?

[Ebro Darden]

11.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Are y' all watching? She's 11. He said 11, not 15. 11. Laura, you didn't think that was incredible poise?

[Laura Styles]

I think it's amazing.

[Ebro Darden]

It's amazing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That level of, like, calm and slow and enunciated. Nah, bro.

[Laura Styles]

That's very confident.

[Ebro Darden]

There you go, Uncle P. Uncle P.

[Peter Rosenberg]

How good that was? Sounded great.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

She works hard, man. The girl.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She's a star. Is morticious. The star, right? Like the main thing.

[Ebro Darden]

No, Gomez, because his Wednesday's got a big part.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Gomez is really like the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't remember the Addams Family story.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that. That particular play is one specific thing. Yeah. Because there's multiple Addams Family movies. Then there's obviously the TV show from back in the day. Then there. Wasn't there something there? Something else?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Then I prefer Adams Family values, which had the MC Hammer, the Addams Groove on the soundtrack. Oh, go. They do what they want to do, say what they want to say. Live how they want to live. Play how they want to play. You don't remember that? Congratulations.

[Ebro Darden]

You played yourself. Wait. Yo, wait. How old were you when that happened?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Eleven. It wasn't good. I don't. I wasn't like, the fact that you retained it, but I retained. Congratulations.

[Ebro Darden]

You played yourself.

[Laura Styles]

1993.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know, it wasn't, like, my favorite Hammer, but it was. I was 18.

[Ebro Darden]

There was no way I was watching.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think I saw it. Yeah, I think I saw it.

[Ebro Darden]

But that's age appropriate.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You should see a family. An Adams Family movie.

[Laura Styles]

Go.

[Ebro Darden]

But even retaining the hip hop of it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hell, yeah. The Adams Groove, bro. I see that record around all the time. I'm like, that song sucks.

[Ebro Darden]

But anyway, it was young Issa.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You know what I mean? Wow. Well, listen, listen, Ebro. You may want to show off and all that. You like? Yeah, yeah. East is impressive, you know? Sure. The. Starring in a musical.

[Ebro Darden]

Listen, guys, it's. It's her the entire. By the way, she has done this. Just so you know, her entire school does this annual play. The entire school. So some of those kids are like, they're not in that scene. But there's kindergartners that pop up.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right, Right.

[Ebro Darden]

Everyone's in. So every year they're doing this play that's really cool. And so now. And so when you get to, like, fifth, sixth, you know, seventh, eighth grade is when you start to get, like, the primary roles.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right, right. You know, so it makes sense.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So she's, you know. Well, either way, I'm doing a bit, so don't ruin it.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, sorry.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So, yeah, so Issa may be talented and all that, but she ain't the only kid with talent. You know what I'm saying? Roll the clip, Bascom. Look how excited she is.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Give it to her.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nah, give me the whole piece.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This is brand new. Like, this is. This is while I was at Wrestlemania. Like, I. I've seen her take bites of pizza since she was tiny. Tiny. You know? You know, it's Natalie, so she's always doing that. But this, like, I can grab a piece of pizza and eat it. Yeah, this brand fresh, brand new.

[Ebro Darden]

It's a big deal.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's a big deal. I haven't seen her do it yet in person. Eat a piece of pizza.

[Ebro Darden]

That's a big deal.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, she was so excited.

[Ebro Darden]

Now, you know, around my way. Watch those crispy edges.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, she didn't. I'm sure she didn't have it at the way end. You mean like the.

[Ebro Darden]

The crust or just any, like, little crispy, flaky. Yeah, you know what I mean?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, for sure. I'm guessing that she made it.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm sure mom was on point.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think she letting you know if I was doing it. Yeah, no, I would only let her hit, like, the easy bites. There's another video I didn't put in, though, of Natalie ordered a sandwich the other day. And, you know, she'll always, like, hold the sandwich and let her, like, try to take a big bite of it, which is mostly. She doesn't get that much. It's mostly just for a hilarious visual. But in this case, she just took the whole hoagie in both hands. It was the size of her head.

[Ebro Darden]

So you're confident she's related to you?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, it is very clear watching these eating habits.

[Ebro Darden]

You know whose child is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, both of ours. It is. We'll be mindful of. We'll be keeping an eye on this. But anyways, that was Maya's big talent, eating.

[Ebro Darden]

That was a great little family update. What you got for kids?

[Laura Styles]

Anything I didn't. I know, because everything I had.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No death songs, too many kids murder videos.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, interestingly enough, after Issa did the Addams Family, I started thinking about. Didn't Kenza have a thing with Wednesday?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, she loves winter.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Her birthday was Themed Wednesday this year. Yeah, right.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what I thought. And you let her watch that show?

[Laura Styles]

You know what?

[Ebro Darden]

Answer. This is a yes or no question.

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Ebro Darden]

So. And you don't understand why she's into death.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Great call.

[Ebro Darden]

We like guys. So at some point, parents gotta understand that what their kids are absorbing will affect their behavior. Like, we're not tying this together.

[Laura Styles]

She loves the Wednesday cartoons. She. She loves it. She walks it.

[Ebro Darden]

In love with a character that likes electrocuting her little brother, killing animals. And you were like, why is she like this?

[Laura Styles]

I just didn't think that everything else is going to be death. Moving forward, she's fine.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But it could. It could. He's not wrong, though. And I don't have any issue with any of it. But it could be partially why.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, no, no.

[Laura Styles]

Yes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't have anything with it. I think it's Ricardo. I think she sneaks. She catches Ricardo watching. Like she's overhearing IG videos about disappearing politicians and crazed conspiracy.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, I go with E. All the above.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Ebro Darden]

Wednesday is her favorite thing.

[Laura Styles]

Loves Wednesday.

[Ebro Darden]

She's born on Halloween.

[Laura Styles]

That's right.

[Ebro Darden]

Her mother is into the Day of the Dead.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's right. Dia de los Muertos.

[Ebro Darden]

Likely. Her father is watching nonsense on Instagram.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Instagram.

[Ebro Darden]

To me, all of this adds up. And I don't know why we were up here acting surprised.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Congratulations. We're acting brand new.

[Ebro Darden]

It's just funny you didn't put this together yourself.

[Laura Styles]

I did, but I just didn't think that she would make her, like, school project, like her historical. Whatever the characters. I think that all of a sudden it's gonna be like, yeah, this is my version, except dead. I just didn't think it was gonna work.

[Ebro Darden]

But that's what Wednesday would do.

[Laura Styles]

It is very Wednesday would do. But, you know, I listen. It's not like I was like, kenzo, why'd you do that? I left.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is she going just as hard?

[Laura Styles]

No, no.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She's starting to fizz. Yeah.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. I mean, she still does little things,

[Peter Rosenberg]

but sharks burning and no sharks burning. Also, I did see another comment the other day on a YouTube video, I believe, of someone saying, like, I don't like family Friday. I skip. I don't need to hear about everyone's family. We want to hear about the topics. And to the person who said that, I would just like to say, go bleep yourself. Nobody cares.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, my God, Rose.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, listen, I love that people support our show and I want and I appreciate all of you and we will take some things under advisement, but this ain't a request program. We're not. I don't even like taking requests to dj. I'm certainly not getting told. Don't tell me about your family on your show. Sorry. You can create your own podcast and not talk about your family.

[Laura Styles]

Honestly matters that we do every Friday.

[Ebro Darden]

That's what we do. I would like to shout out Ronald who says don't take the bait.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you, Ronald.

[Ebro Darden]

He said the show has been a joy to watch and listen to. It's a part of my routine. When I can, I watch it live. When I can, I make sure I listen before the sun is down. But it would be great for everybody, especially yourselves, to not engage so much on what academics is saying about him.

[Laura Styles]

Oh yeah, I get those.

[Ebro Darden]

I think this is less pointed at Laura because she's the only one focused on what's today's topics points every day. Ebro sometimes get into it, but Rosenberg really let himself go by. Whoever DJ hosts or fake punk ass DJ streaming reacting to songs will not talk about them. And I know what it feels like. I do my hustle on the media game again, not asking for a job. E bro, relax. I'm a TV writer for soap operas. Brazilian soap operas are another level of production.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I bet they are.

[Ebro Darden]

It's like y' all regular TV dramas. And touring with my new standup hour. Hahaha. Keep the hip hop on, the politics on and the family on, negativity out. And that was Ronald.

[Laura Styles]

Thanks.

[Ebro Darden]

Thanks, Ronald.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I appreciate that, Ronald. You're right. I'm working. Listen, I've been doing good with my Twitter end of my Twitter life. So one step at a time. I'm God is still working on me, folks.

[Ebro Darden]

And Mike has a qualm with you, Rosenberg, before we get to a voice note.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Speaking of Rosenberg not getting trolled.

[Ebro Darden]

That's why I did it in this form.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I won't even. All right.

[Ebro Darden]

I haven't seen Rosenberg. Why do you read your emails on your phone when you got a big ass iPad right in front of your face? I don't know why it irks me. My kids do the same. Ish. Read a book or watch a show on their phone and the iPad is sitting right next to them. I'll watch the show and see you hold your phone directly in front of the iPad. Make it make sense.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I got. I switched my password and got logged out. I haven't logged back in yet. You're right. I'm going to do it. I'm Going to do it right now. We got these nice iPads. I should do that. Good point.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's go. Voice note time. We got Steph.

[Steph (Caller)]

Good morning. I've been laughing about something in my head for months, but since you said you needed voice notes, I figured I would send it in. Even though I have no idea how to record a voice note, I'm out here talking to my camera, recording a video of nothing. I don't really know how to use YouTube either, but I'm figuring it out for you guys.

[Laura Styles]

Love you.

[Steph (Caller)]

Anyway, I'm a long time listener and I'm a Rosenberg fan, so. So all day I listen to Rosenberg talk about music, about sports, politics, and I often agree with Rosenberg's takes, but even when I don't, I like the way he articulates his takes. Okay, but it's gotten to the point now if I'm rehearsing an argument in my head or I'm trying to formulate my own take on something, I hear it in Rosenberg's voice.

[Ebro Darden]

All right.

[Steph (Caller)]

And Rosenberg made a comment a while back on the old program about half how listeners, favorite personalities on the show tend to fall along racial lines. I'm a Jewish woman, so that kind of for me. But I think it's a really important part of Yalls contribution that you help us hear things from all your different perspectives. So appreciate you guys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

A.

[Ebro Darden]

That was nice.

[Laura Styles]

Thank you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I honestly, I. That was really nice. I don't get that sort of like really. That. That felt really good. What was her name again?

[Ebro Darden]

You feel validated?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I do. What was her name?

[Ebro Darden]

That was Steph.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Steph, I receive your words and I truly appreciate it. It's been a week of people saying really nice things to me, and I've tried to receive all of them. Like at WrestleMania, people were just like, you're everywhere. You're really doing it. And you're like, you know, in my crazed brain, I'm always like, am I? So I really try to, like, receive it from people, and I really appreciate that.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I think that goes to show you need to get out and life more because you. You in real life, when you're walking around and people are driving by or you're at an event, our show gets so much love in real life.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right. And that's why not being on Twitter and being out in real life is so much more effective.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I don't. I think my brain has shifted to not processing social media full stop as real life. But I also had a thought the other day. I haven't been involved in social media as long as y'.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

All.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, you were. You guys were in, like, AOL chat rooms. I was never there. I was never on MySpace like that. I was never on early Facebook. Like, I did none of that stuff.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, you can't.

[Laura Styles]

No top eight.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No top eight. He didn't. I was networking Twitter and Instagram mad late. Yeah, relative.

[Ebro Darden]

But there was. But. But there was a time when you guys were on social media that it was, like, a real dope place.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, it was fun.

[Ebro Darden]

So you learned it in a way that it was dope. I never learned that. I only jumped into social media to troll. I was being trolled. People were talking ish, and I was like, oh, they talking ish over there. I'm going over there. Let's get it. Let's get active.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. You literally bought followers the day you showed up.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's how not serious you were. And that you already knew it was toxic enough that you're like, oh, people are doing that, so let's just do that.

[Ebro Darden]

Whatever.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I mean, you ended up losing them over time, but for.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I think they run out. It was only like. I think I spent, like, $15 and got, like, 100,000.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, no. It was a lot early.

[Ebro Darden]

It was like pennies to get free.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, pennies. And they fall apart quickly. But at first, you jump in the game. It makes people bleed.

[Ebro Darden]

That's probably why my accounts won't grow now. Because it's been flagged for, like, God, no, that's real. Right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

But it does it. No, because you're shit. Your. Your. Your account grew nicely afterwards.

[Ebro Darden]

No, but like, earlier this week, remember, I was on Instagram Live, and you

[Peter Rosenberg]

were like, everybody, though, they've. They've throttled lives.

[Laura Styles]

It's everyone lives.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Lives don't work anymore. Yeah, lives do not work. There used to be times when at the right time, my life could really be active. Absolutely cannot do it now. Nothing I do is fire online. It's crazy.

[Ebro Darden]

Or it just looks like nobody cares.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I don't think it's you. But anyways, that is an interesting point, though, because we did interact with it differently. I was in chat rooms. I did all.

[Ebro Darden]

And it was like, y'.

[Steph (Caller)]

All.

[Ebro Darden]

It was normal. It was like your friends were there. You feel it was.

[Laura Styles]

We would share HTML codes for fun. Like, hey, I could make the screen stripes. I could do this here. And it's like this long code that we used to copy and paste and share. All right, well, Louie shaking his head because I did that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She went a notch nerdier than I thought she. I didn't know Laura had that. I didn't know. That's base camp Styles right there.

[Ebro Darden]

That's Artemis. That's Artemis 1, Artemis 0. What do you got, Rosenberg?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay, what do I have? How about Camille, who has a segment suggestion?

[Ebro Darden]

All right, Camille, let's hear it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She says, okay, we absolutely need to have a memory Lane Monday segment.

[Yonzeli (Caller)]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, tell us more.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Extra credit for video footage like Rosenberg's hat crash out.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, by the way, I saw you guys did, like, I go away for five minutes, and the video is called have Ebro and Rosenberg fallen Out? And then everyone in the comments is talking about what an a hole I am for the hat crash out. So thank you.

[Laura Styles]

Anyways, somebody had asked if we've ever fallen out of the.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, it was a question. That's why it was based on a

[Peter Rosenberg]

listener question, you know, and where do you think. And you know, where King Louie went? How could I get that in the title of the show? Anyways, this felt so good to watch. I'm so thankful to still have you guys around forever A fought. Also loved hearing more of Laura and not having her be interrupted so much. Yeah, because when one of us is removed, Laura doesn't get interrupted nearly as much.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, well, mostly you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What? You are the worst interrupter. And don't. And don't take it to a vote, because you'll lose.

[Ebro Darden]

We might have to take it to a vote.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Don't. I won't win many votes against you. I'm confident I'll win that one. Of course the chat will say it's me. The chat thinks everything is me.

[Ebro Darden]

I'm just saying I was gonna take it to a vote.

[Laura Styles]

What do you think?

[Ebro Darden]

Anyway, we should. We.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Does Laura get a vote in the chat? She could be. Could Laura be the deciding vote?

[Laura Styles]

I don't know. It's kind of 50. 50, man.

[Ebro Darden]

Wait, like, if Laura interrupts.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, no. Who interrupts her more, me or you?

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, got it, got it. Or herself. Anyway, get a vote. All right, let's go. We got videos. People have sent in videos.

[Laura Styles]

I'm so excited about this.

[Ebro Darden]

It says here that my. My guy Freeze. Shout out to my guy Freeze. I think he's still working at a radio. Freeze. Used to drive the van for me. I taught Freeze how to roll blunts in the 90s in the station van.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Laura Styles]

Freeze. Okay.

[Freeze]

Yo, what up, Ebro? Laura Styles Rosenberg, man. Freeze. Ebro. What's up, man? West coast over Here representing. I'm up here in Seattle, Washington. I try to watch you guys show every morning, but unfortunately, I do a morning show as well. I'm the executive producer and on air with the Jubal show. It's nationwide through iHeartMedia. And so I don't, you know, the Evil Empire. I know how Ebro is about all that, but. Yeah, so I don't get to watch the show until later on in the day, but I always catch it. I respect and love what you guys are doing. Keep doing it. And Ebro, show them some of the photos I sent you of you with the hair on the top of your head instead of the bottom.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

What?

[Laura Styles]

Yo, look at Ebro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nah, you look nuts, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

Shout out to my man, Greg Lawley.

[Laura Styles]

Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't know where we were doing that. I don't know who that. That's for. Me and freeze, though. That was Michigan.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Michigan, Jersey.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, me and Dub C N, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nah, bro.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

So good.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nah, you look nuts, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

Yo, I got some more, though.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're almost a completely different person.

[Laura Styles]

I mean, now the face is the same.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, I know, but the. The look changes.

[Laura Styles]

I mean, he has no hair on top.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The. The look change, like, totally changes how you.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Connote, like, it's.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I've talked about how, like, people think I'm whiter now that I have no hair.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Can you run the pictures back again? I'm taking those in still.

[Ebro Darden]

I got some more. I got more close ups, though, too.

[Laura Styles]

Okay. All right. All right. There you go.

[Ebro Darden]

Let me see.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I mean, like, your face looks the same. It just gives a completely different vibe.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

How. What year is this? You think you bro 97 or something?

[Freeze]

Nah.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Could be that old, right?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, it could be 97. Could be 97.

[Laura Styles]

I love these. These are so dope.

[Ebro Darden]

Could be 97.

[Yonzeli (Caller)]

Here.

[Ebro Darden]

I put some more in the chat. I found I've been hitting my old friends. I used to do, like, Shout to Conscious Vibes in Northern California. Doug and Dre, we did a lot of parties together and like, booking Goody Mob and KRS and which you asking them for photos. I was like, yo, y' all got any photos? Because, you know, people took photos at events and stuff.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right, Right.

[Ebro Darden]

It's not. You walked around with a camera back.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, I've been asking. I've been asking people for the same. Any photos of me? Can I have them? I don't have anything.

[Ebro Darden]

I got an ill one. I got a fine, though, of me interviewing Andre 3000 and Big Boy first album and I have like the little portable mic and I'm like leaning across the table to like try to get the interview.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Damn, you can't find that one.

[Ebro Darden]

I gotta find that joint.

[Laura Styles]

That's fire.

[Ebro Darden]

Cuz when I.

[Peter Rosenberg]

My. My Outcast interview, which was a big ass deal for me at the time, I. I think there's photos from that too.

[Ebro Darden]

You gotta find it. Yeah, I have the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I do have the signed source frame though, with them on the COVID of the source. And Andre 3000 wrote, it was my first big interview on FM radio, like not on college radio.

[Ebro Darden]

And

[Peter Rosenberg]

Andre wrote tight interview. Very professional. It was when the Dungeon family album came out.

[Laura Styles]

That's fire. Now you got me digging my Darren,

[Peter Rosenberg]

but I don't have.

[Ebro Darden]

I gotta find.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You guys should do this at a different time.

[Laura Styles]

I know, I know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'd like to say it to both of you.

[Laura Styles]

All right, all right.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I just sent them some more over to the chat.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You've quickly found.

[Ebro Darden]

Not that one, but I've sent other ones if you guys are interested. You know, I am who I am. The 90s were the 90s. I had hair at a time there was interesting.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's just. It's just interesting. It's fun.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, you had hair too. Look, there's me with the red man mascot. Oh, this is that. This has been the early 2000s.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That stock's the name. Yeah, that stock's the name. So 2000.

[Ebro Darden]

2000. Yeah, that's me with the goody mob.

[Laura Styles]

Wow.

[Ebro Darden]

Can't really see my hair and I don't know what that's from. I just found a photo. We'll send a photo.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Looks like you're rolling a blunt, though. That's the vibe. It's giving.

[Ebro Darden]

It's giving. I'm rolling something.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's given. Rolling a blunt and then looking back and saying something

[Laura Styles]

so dope. All right.

[Ebro Darden]

You see Salasi's face? Yeah, that's a lossy's face. All right, back to emails. Laura Styles on this Family Friday. Make sure you like and subscribe and do all the things Lou is concerned. Our subscription, our subscribers are leveling off.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Did he say that? I mean, he was concerned?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, no, I said, lou, how we doing?

[Laura Styles]

He was like, okay, here we go. This is from Erica. Hi, squad. I've been rocking with you all for many years and rocking with fine ass ebro since the 90s. I have one suggestion for the show. Maybe take a vote on this one. But when you know one of you is out, please consider adding a guest. I think a Surprise guest would be fun. And getting different views would be a benefit. Politicians, entertainers, doctors, lawyers, sports minus wrestling. Because wrestling sucks. Sorry, Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, can we wrap this up? This is an idiot.

[Laura Styles]

Love you guys. Keep up the good work. And shout out to MJ Rosenberg on Substack because his content is real ish.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's facts. And that's a great point at the end. But the rest of that was a trash email. Number one. We literally have done what you did already.

[Ebro Darden]

That's right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And truth be. And here's the part that really gets my goat a little bit. I think even Ebro and Laura might agree that of all the guests we get like, honestly, the safest interview of like, you can bet they'll be able to roll and talk about different stuff. It might be wrestlers. They might be as good as anyone we talk to as far as not showing up and being like weird on that day and doesn't have much to say or like, they're actually great interviews.

[Laura Styles]

Everyone we've had so far has been fantastic.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They're always great.

[Ebro Darden]

I think she's hating on Russell. I don't even think what everything you're saying. I don't even think it's about that. I think she just wants to have another dynamic on the show. And the wrestlers we've had have been about wrestling. So she may not be a wrestling fan, but if we imagine we just had Rhea sitting in doing the goo and doing whatever.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now I. But anyways, we've been doing what she said, but I. I have mixed feelings on it. I like having the guests when one of us is gone. I also don't. It's.

[Ebro Darden]

Tell me what you're thinking.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sometimes it's good depending who the person is. And sometimes, like people said the other day, it changes the dynamic of the show. So you get a lot more Laura, you get. You guys have your vibe when I'm not here. We have our vibe when you're not here. Like, I think there's good things to that and I don't like to be beholden to guests because you never know. And it is hard. We say we want to have them just sit in. It's hard to do it. It often ends up turning into an interview and people don't want.

[Ebro Darden]

But now there. There are the. The Rob Markman's, the Nadesco's. The journalists kind of take to consider.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But we don't. We though I love both of them. Neither of them have spent enough time on our show where they'll come in and it'll seamlessly just be like three friends. We have to get a rhythm over time.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. And then I hear the opposite. Some people don't want guest hosts.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I know they see a guest that are like, I'm out.

[Ebro Darden]

I tell you what, people want to be entertained.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Love what you're saying. Couldn't agree with. Couldn't agree.

[Ebro Darden]

Hot take. They just want to be entertained. And so what she's saying is she might be more entertained. She's entertained by all three of us. Loves it. Might be more entertained if there was a new dynamic. That's what she is saying. That singular individual. Right out of all of the 60 plus thousand subscribers we have and 20 something thousand viewers we have live every day.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. Just her thoughts, just her thought.

[Ebro Darden]

And we appreciate you caring so much.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, we're figuring those things out. And it's situational. I mean, Ebro's schedule is dealing with like, it's like. It's like dealing with a professional baseball team. Like, I know they would know their schedule better.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, they have a schedule.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. And they have a travel department that it's completely set. Actually, I take it back. He bros like a professional baseball team. If they were just going rogue, like, they're just making it up as they go. Your man just hits you. He's like, yo, by the way, I'm gone Tuesday. I'll be back the following Monday.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, let's get.

[Peter Rosenberg]

By the way, I'm leaving Wednesday. I meant not I'm coming back Sunday. And you're like, wait, you changed both days, bro. Both.

[Ebro Darden]

Here's Janzuli. Peace.

[Yonzeli (Caller)]

Peace. Family. I'm gonna do my best to be under 60 seconds. This is Yonzeli checking in. Excuse me now, I got a few questions. I got a lot of questions. All right, my first question. How do Y' all this Fall 3Y'. All. How do y' all handle your toddlers during sick times? You know, Ebro, I know you normally do the holistic method. No black seed oil, oregano oil for yourself, but do you give that to your toddler? No, Laura, I want to know the same thing. Peter, I want to know the same thing. How do you deal with your sick child? I have a toddler, and times are rough when they're sick, and then I become sick. So how do you, like, prevent yourself from becoming sick as well? Second question. Rosenberg, we need that real late. The album and the show. Okay, Come on with it. When is that popping? Next question. Laura, you ever thought about bringing a Vision Fest outside of New York? Like, you know, maybe Virginia. The south. Atlanta.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Yonzeli (Caller)]

Texas. Never thought about it. Just a question. But anyway, man, those are my questions and whatnot. I hope I ain't run up too much time.

[Ebro Darden]

No, you did good.

[Yonzeli (Caller)]

A minute for the rambling and rumbling and that, but y' all have a great day. Have a great weekend, man.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, thank you, Yonzeli Yanzily.

[Ebro Darden]

So we'll start at the top.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Definitely not giving my 2 year old black seed oil and these naturopathic remedies without a, you know, some sort of pediatric input. Like, I'm not. Remember their immune systems. They have new immune systems. So you got to let their immune system do some working and learning too. But vitamin C. Yes, right. Vitamin C, fluids. And then if it, you know, obviously if their temperature is bouncing into the 100 plus range, we're going to the doctor.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, absolutely. And listen, me too. I tend to lean. I try to make better choices. Like instead of Tylenol, I'll go with genexa. Just because genexa doesn't have all the dye and the extra stuff. But it's still the same thing. It's still. So I. I just try to make better choices. But I'm with you. I'll give her like elderberry. But if we gotta go to the doctor, we're going to the doctor. I'm not playing games.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And yeah. And I don't have a lot of experience yet in this regard, so. I mean, we, we literally. Maya's so little that, like, last a couple weeks ago when she was all snotted out, I mean, you know.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nastiness. I went to the. I went to my local pharmacy and I was like, hey, is there anything I can do for my year and 3 month old? And they were like, use a humidifier and suck them. Suck them. Snots.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Which I don't use this. I don't use the sucker. I just use the squeezer.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

So the squeezer I've had success with.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I've heard the suckers better.

[Ebro Darden]

The long tube jam.

[Laura Styles]

I can't.

[Ebro Darden]

I have a lot of success with that one.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm good.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, I couldn't do it. Ebro. I know it has a blocker in there, but I was like, I know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't. But people describe it.

[Ebro Darden]

What do you think it's gonna, like, go into your mouth or something? It's. The tube is. It's a chamber. It's stuck in the chamber.

[Laura Styles]

I know.

[Ebro Darden]

It has a long hose on it. You've seen it, right? Also, yeah. It has a little sponge. It doesn't just.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I. I'm with you, Laura. I just don't like it. Is it. Let me ask you this, is it much better than the sweezer?

[Ebro Darden]

I. That's what I'm saying. I've had success, like the amount that I'm able to get.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But doesn't she hit it, hit it and fight?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, she used to and now it's kind of like we turned it into a little bit of game and you know, got to it and now she's cool with it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And she'll let you do it? Yeah, I have to. When I, when I use the little squeezer thing, I usually cover her eyes and she knows, she knows that's the routine. Like when I cover her eyes, it's cuz we're sucking boogers out, but she'll like let me do it.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, that's good that she lets you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, for the most part.

[Ebro Darden]

But she's still wiggling a little bit.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She's still wiggling sometimes, but yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And then I'll say on a personal. My preventative is I'm always taking zinc. I take zinc every day. Just thrive probiotics. Good for the gut out there. Preventative. You know, getting, keeping your gut health in order actually is going to contribute to your overall health. So keep that gut in order with the just thrive probiotics.

[Laura Styles]

And then I do elderberry supplements.

[Ebro Darden]

I don't do those all. I only do those when I'm about to get sick. And I only up my vitamin C heavy when I feel like I'm getting sick.

[Laura Styles]

I'm talking about when the kid's sick.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, when the kids sick.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah. That's what I do. I the same. I double up on vitamin C, extra zinc. Because when they're sick. You're gonna get sick, bro. It's just what it is.

[Ebro Darden]

Now I take black seed oil every day. Every day I take black seed oil.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

And I mean I take a lot of vitamins.

[Laura Styles]

Me too.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm really, for me, I'm vitamin C and zinc. Every day when I'm being on point until I forget.

[Ebro Darden]

There's so there's this, there's this thing my mom's been giving me since the 90s. It's called the wellness formula. And it's like echinacea and ginger and all this stuff ground up into a capsule. And my mom was giving it to me in the 90s. My mom also would give me raw garlic, like so just raw garlic. You just cut it up in cloves and swallow it. Swallow it. Like if you're really getting it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And was this a vampire, Was this a vampire concern as well? Or just.

[Ebro Darden]

It keeps all evil? All the evil.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, like they. We do like Jarabes where it's like raw garlic and lemon and like raw honey.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. So I give that a spoon. So when Issa got to about five years old, I take raw garlic and, and put it in one of those grinder little stone things and get the, to try to get the juices moving out of the garlic. Then you put the squeezed lemon in it and put some honey on it. And I put that on a spoon and just give it to Issa twice a day.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nasty.

[Ebro Darden]

But that was like five years old when she was like a little bit

[Peter Rosenberg]

old and she's getting around other kids

[Ebro Darden]

and, and yeah, but that was once I saw something coming on.

[Laura Styles]

All right, do we have any other videos?

[Ebro Darden]

We do have videos. Let's see what we got on this family Friday.

[Laura Styles]

Okay. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. April, Laura Rosenberg.

[Ebro Darden]

What up?

[Tony (Caller)]

It's Tony from the Bronx over here. Tony, now living in Zephyr Hills, Florida. Just want to tell you guys I love you guys. Watch you guys every morning and I still have a whole playlist on YouTube of your old stuff from the old plantation. I'm trying to make this one quick because I guess iPhone Apple won't let you leave these long clips. But I love you guys. Keep it up, man. Please keep it up. Forget what all the other ones are saying. They don't matter. They don't matter. Your el army matters and the ones that been with you since day one matter. So I love you guys, man. Keep it up. You guys keep me going out here. Boring ass. Zephyr Hill, Florida Love you guys.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hey, it might be boring. It looks quite nice though.

[Ebro Darden]

I gotta see the landscape. I just sky those random towns. It's like flat.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Bro, Just seeing you wear a T shirt in April looks nice. Because let me tell you something about here. It's been that bullish that I. That I knew it would be. By the way, I knew the 80s

[Ebro Darden]

was a pump fake.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It was. It's a joke. It's going to be till May, guys. It's going to be full on bull ish till May.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, remember this week we had BS, but we had 260s. We had two 60s.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not like you, bro. I'm demanding. I'm white. I have privilege. I demand. 60 in April does not make me throw a party, bro. That's what you're supposed to do. Mother nature.

[Ebro Darden]

That's normal. 60 in April correct.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's what I'm saying. You were trying to, like, give credit for it.

[Ebro Darden]

You don't get. Oh, no, I was just saying we were, you know, on pace, but it is a longer. It is a longer, more hectic, annoying Monday.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This past Monday, Natalie texted me. She was like, oh, I'm so not motivated with this weather. And I'm like, how bad is it? My plan landed Monday night. I stepped out of the airport. I was like, oh, I didn't know it was winter here. Yeah, because I was in Vegas. It was 75. It was perfect.

[Laura Styles]

Ugh, sucks. All right, you want to do one more?

[Ebro Darden]

Back to the emails, Laura Staff.

[Laura Styles]

All right, this one's from J Code. I'll start by saying that you got to push the podcast recordings to people that miss you. I'm a personal trainer who's in and out of the car seeing clients all day, and it's so refreshing to just throw on yesterday's or even this morning morning's episode and have the conversation continued way better than when you guys were at your old gig. And every time I turned it on, it was either curved rerun or damn DJ John segment. Smh. Anyway, I love how much you continue to dig into the weeds of what this country's facing politically. It's so important, and you're doing an incredible job helping your audience become more politically literate. Financial literacy is something I'd love to hear more of. Obviously it shouldn't be financial advice, but I'm 34, self employed and from the lower. I'm from a lower middle class upbringing. Everything I know about financ finance, I've had to teach myself. And it's mind blowing how little the average American really understands about finances at a macro scale or even, and more importantly for their personal well being. Keep doing your thing. It's the. This is the best version of y' all that I've heard, though. Though I appreciated the first week when you actually cursed. And I've been tuned in ever since. Cypher sounds and Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, J. Cole, that was dope. Thank you.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, I remember those cypher sounds in Rosenberg days. Word is those days are long gone. We may never see them again.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't know. I mean, I never again. I don't know, but I. I need a break. It's pretty dead, bro. Oh, man, it's pretty dead right now.

[Ebro Darden]

What do you mean? He just had his birthday. Chappelle was there. Angie Martinez was there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah, I got a. I got Laurie. I'm sure you got a Message. Laura, you got a nice invite, I'm sure.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, No, I didn't get an invite.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You didn't know. Oh, I would have thought you did. I got a. Like the day before I got an invite to the after party and I was like, I'm at Wrestlemania anyway.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

But I would have been more intimate anyway. Probably the after party is more important than the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

And he probably assumed you could just show up to the main thing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I guess you're right.

[Laura Styles]

I won't do an after party on a Thursday night, like at midnight. A fam.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

I can't keep up with cyber sounds of Dave Chappelle. Can't have. I can't do it. No dudes go still go to 4am

[Peter Rosenberg]

oh yeah, for sure.

[Laura Styles]

Six, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No. Yeah, I just, I don't know what'll happen. But at some point, like we know it's just, you know, it's in a weird. It's in a weird space. Not like terrible, but just like, you know, scheduling. Scheduling.

[Ebro Darden]

What are we talking about?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think.

[Ebro Darden]

What are we talking about?

[Laura Styles]

Problem?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, there's always stuff to talk about. I just feel like there's a perpetual built in thing. I feel like siphon. I have a relationship. This is Family Friday, right?

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I feel like Sif and I have a relationship where he made decisions on like how I am as a person. When I was 27 years old, 28, 29 years old, he sort of decided how I operate to some degree. I showed him how I operate. And you know, Cyph is a lot of things, but when he decides on something, like he's pretty decided on what he's seen and I think I am that to him. So like fast forward 18 years. If we have any issues with our show, I feel like he always is like, well, you know, Peter's just difficult. And I feel like myself and the audience who stayed with us for all these times, like, I don't think it's just Peter's difficult. I think there's. You live a crazy life and you're all over the place all the time and getting you to sit down and do something tough. And so I feel very like blamed whenever things aren't working out. Meanwhile, I'm like, the behind the scenes is my man's got text after text from like, when can we do this? When can we do this? When can we do this? And it's, I'll get one window. Hey, I can do an hour here and blah, blah, blah. And then I hit him that day. I'm like, we doing tonight? No, I'm doing a show.

[Ebro Darden]

All right, well, you know what? This sounds like. He's not that into you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I agree. I agree. And yeah, I don't know. And.

[Ebro Darden]

Or currently. Not that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Because I think you guys have always gone in waves, though. Yeah, there's always been waves.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I also think Sife. I think. I think the One up fans love Scythe more than, like, anything. And he'll be like, nah, nah, I love them. I do. I love my One up fans. They're my favorite. And I'm like, but you don't show that. You don't really ever want to do it. And I think he. Listen, I get it. He's very busy. He loves his comedy. He's got a radio show he's got to do every day for Odyssey. I get it. I miss doing it. I like doing it. But also, realistically, the flip side, for me, we left Hot 97. Our schedule may be slightly less time consuming now, maybe, but, like, not much. Right. Less money. Less money for sure, but not less time. Really?

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So, like, in terms of thinking of where I'm gonna get time, like, I remember at one point I said to Natalie when I was thinking about leaving hot, I was like, I don't know, like, you know all this, blah, blah. And I think about, we have the baby, blah, blah. And Natalie was like, wait, you're gonna quit the place that pays? You quit wonab. You do it in the middle of the day and you make no money? What are you talking about? And I was like, quit one app

[Ebro Darden]

that was a grown up thought.

[Peter Rosenberg]

She was like, I know you like doing it, but like. And I know you care about the people who love your show, but if you're looking for time, don't give up the place that's giving you a salary every day. She was like, and the job's easy. You have fun with your friends every morning. That's all you do. You're gonna quit that and the money that gets it to deal with trying to court. What are you doing? I didn't quit One APP at that point, but I heard what she said. Fast forward to now. We're doing this on my end, looking at myself in the mirror. Yeah. It's also hard for me to prioritize the time because we're here every day till the time that we're here doing extra stuff, working on things, meetings, etc. Then I have to go do that. Plus, now I do my rest.

[Ebro Darden]

So it is partly your fault.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So it is partly my Fault.

[Steph (Caller)]

Oh, God.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But Cyph is annoying.

[Ebro Darden]

That was a long explanation, man.

[Laura Styles]

We got there, though.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sorry.

[Laura Styles]

I'm sorry.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm working on being.

[Ebro Darden]

You're emo about it. You're clearly emotional about the Cypher sounds and Rosenberg thing. And is it exacerbated by this phenomenal party he just had with all these celebs that you weren't able to be at because you had another phenomenal.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, that part's a little insulting, though, because when you do a Big. And Friends and you put like, it's all about your friends, and he puts on Max Glazer and he puts on Chappelle and he puts on Mo Amer. All the people you sort of do things with and it's like. I mean, I do go on stages and hold microphone. I'm actually pretty funny and good at doing those things.

[Ebro Darden]

So you are triggered by that. Yeah, but you wouldn't have been able to go anyway.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The ask would have been nice. But I'm doing the big. Come on. And he's just trolling. He knows that. But am I crazy to think that, like, you might have included me in that?

[Laura Styles]

Like, crazy. I don't think that's crazy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

By the way, Cyphe keeps me away from Chappelle for sure. Chappelle loves me and Cyphe keeps me away. He does not. Yo, when I see Chappelle, yo, I'm from Maryland. I'm a hip hop nerd from Maryland. Me and Chappelle's natural organic bond is really strong. There's no. I. I feel like I'm kept out of the room.

[Ebro Darden]

But you're not doing the work.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like, no, it's like, there's no work. What work?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, for Syphe, Syke's working man, Sipes is putting his comedy cyphers. Put this time into this comedy thing, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I'm not trying to do that, but I'm just opening up, invited to something fun.

[Ebro Darden]

DJing for Chappelle on the Chappelle show, like.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And he's paid. It's paid off. He's done really well and he's. And he's gotten very good. But I mean, like, I just.

[Ebro Darden]

So he just doesn't have time for one ep, so why not? Fans, this is another chapter in the siphon Rosenberg saga of starts and stops. They'll be back.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I'm dropping. In the meantime, though. I'm dropping old ones. I'm editing. I'm cleaning up the cancelable material and dropping old episodes.

[Laura Styles]

Okay, okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Oh, it should be. It should be called this episode was canceled. That'll get them.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That would be every episode. So you just got to go through and chop them up.

[Ebro Darden]

That said, because, bro, you go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If you were to go back and listen to even, like, your early days on the morning, you'd be like, this isn't. It doesn't.

[Laura Styles]

There's a lot of things. I'm like, how do. What? Oh, every time changes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Everything changes. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Some jokes don't fly anymore.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, every. But in every single topic, basically.

[Ebro Darden]

Like, some jokes don't fly.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No.

[Ebro Darden]

Just at all.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But our general tone doesn't even fly.

[Ebro Darden]

It doesn't?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No. The cat. I used to make jokes. I used to make jokes that, like, related to black people. I do not make those jokes anymore. It will not play.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Even in a room where it's like, no, there's a black guy here, there's a Latin girl here, and there's a white Jewish guy here. So we can all just kind of say what we want because we give each other passes to make. That's not the thing anymore. That being in the room doesn't give you the pass. Now to the rest of the world.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah, things got more sensitive, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Our bits. That we used to do.

[Ebro Darden]

But it's mostly white people's fault. It's all white people. Y' all didn't start tripping with this Trump stuff. We still jokes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Facts, facts. And they're. And they complain and think that the other people are sensitive. No, you guys are.

[Ebro Darden]

You're sensitive.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're sensitive.

[Ebro Darden]

Black guy became president. You got sensitive. And now we can't tell jokes no more.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Correct.

[Ebro Darden]

That's exactly what happened.

[Peter Rosenberg]

100% what happened. Our old bits, yo. Our Black History Month.

[Ebro Darden]

Incredible.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They were so nuts.

[Ebro Darden]

Incredible.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And really funny. And. Yeah, it's dead. What about black and his black and history?

[Ebro Darden]

No, I love black. Black in history. I think you can still run. People got. Because that was early cancel days. You'd be like, you know, Bill Cosby,

[Peter Rosenberg]

Black and history, not black history. Black and history. That was g. No, listen, man.

[Ebro Darden]

We had some good stuff.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We did.

[Ebro Darden]

Are we doing gurus on a Friday?

[Peter Rosenberg]

We do. We do gurus on Friday now.

[Ebro Darden]

Yeah. Let's get into it. Guru Friday.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's get it popping.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hey, yo. It's time for the gurus.

[Ebro Darden]

Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

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

[Ebro Darden]

You're not a guru.

[Laura Styles]

The original gurus at Gmail. The Original gurus. Gmail.com. where the gurus unite to fight.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, that Music is loud. Sorry about that, Laura. Where the gurus fight was right. And unite.

[Laura Styles]

All right. Burn the sage.

[Ebro Darden]

Unite to fight. Not unite the right. Unite to fight for what's right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sorry.

[Ebro Darden]

Huh?

[Laura Styles]

Burn the sage. All right, Rosenberg. Who's writing to us? Who needs us? Who needs advice?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I realize a good video I forgot to send y' all this week. I had so much happen at WrestleMania was like. It was so all encompassing and busy. And then the west played your video

[Ebro Darden]

earlier in the week.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I know. I appreciate that. I heard. I heard you still call Triple H. Triple X. I did, which is super

[Ebro Darden]

upsetting, but you know what I meant.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, we know what you meant. It just sounds terrible. I was. But I meant to send you a clip of. I bet. My bad, Bascom. I meant to send Baskin the clip of what? Okay, so, like, a few weeks ago, you came up on my. On my show Ebro. Laura Rosenberg.

[Freeze]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

You said.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. In the post show, baby. That you didn't know if Jade could handle a match at WrestleMania with Rhea Ripley. I'm gonna ask you a tough question. Were you impressed about anything by Jade Cargill tonight? I mean, look, I. I'm never gonna speak down on someone when they've actually shown me that they can go. And Jade, she brought it tonight. She had me laying on the mat a couple of highlights.

[Ebro Darden]

You take us through.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's what I was saying. That's a pretty nice compliment as you were able to win the women's championship. That's basically it. But she did put her over. How?

[Ebro Darden]

When you say put her over, what

[Peter Rosenberg]

do you mean putting someone over? Ropes. No, putting someone over is saying that. You know, putting something. Saying something positive about them, making them so. By her saying, like, she brought it tonight because she was pretty direct about, like, I don't really know if she's ready for this. Like, I didn't think. I didn't think Ria was being in character when she said that. I think she was being sincere. Like, I'm not sure that she's ready for this match. I'm a see, you know.

[Ebro Darden]

Right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm going to see what she can do. And I think she was impressed. But no shouts to Logan Paul, though, who was on first take.

[Laura Styles]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And. And he got asked a question. He was like, yo, where's Peter Rosenberg? I thought Peter Rosenberg was gonna be here. So I just shout out to look, yo, I saw Logan the other day, and I was with someone else.

[Ebro Darden]

Can you wrap this up? Your stories are going to other stories, and we're trying to Finish the guru. You're doing stories on stories.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't get so much wrestling this week. I should have made better time for it. I'm sorry. You know what?

[Laura Styles]

We'll figure it out.

[Ebro Darden]

Why don't you get to the gurus, man?

[Peter Rosenberg]

The original gurus. Gmail.com theoriginalgurus gmail.com your destination. For clarity, bro.

[Ebro Darden]

Stories be having stories.

[Laura Styles]

They just kept going on and on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm still here, guys. No, I'm here. I'm listening to you talk about me. Aloha, original gurus. Okay, I've been on a much needed hiatus from the show. We all know why. Oh, no, it's him. It's Omar. Yes. Oh, who's Omar? The guy who sent 50 emails. Well, Griff forwarded to me. Still.

[Ebro Darden]

What does he want?

[Laura Styles]

Just summarize this, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He said, I see the rumors about Hassan Piker being a potential guest.

[Ebro Darden]

All right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay, Ebro, I know you follow the guy, but watch the video below, specifically starting at the 545 mark. After seeing how he speaks to and about the community. He meant that ish Rosenberg. Don't get ahead of yourself and put your foot in your mouth on this one. Let Hasan explain why he's out here dogging black people the way he did in this clip. You could ask him where was his heart when he made that statement, since that was the COVID you used for Jack Harlow. We don't know his heart. If there isn't some real pushback or a serious discussion on this, then consider my hiatus officially permanent. I'll be watching to see if you guys actually hold it down or just give him a pass per usual.

[Ebro Darden]

Per usual.

[Laura Styles]

Per usual. We've never met him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You think we're big pass givers?

[Ebro Darden]

Well, I did have a question about. Because I did not. I have not been able to find the video. And I'm glad he sent that because there are people who are saying that Hasan Pikers had some negative things to say about black folks in the black community. And so thank you, Omar, for sending that video. So. And. And there's definitely even like, I saw a comment from our guy, Def Not Ant, where someone was like, yo, is this Hassan Piker guy, like a. A dangerous? You know, not dangerous wasn't the word. But, like, is he for the community and the culture? And Def Nyan was like, absolutely not. Oh, 1,000%. So I was going to ask him about that. Why is that perception out here? And maybe we'll show the clip because he's got to deal with that he's obviously got to deal with the October 7 convo, so let's see what he has to say. He's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He definitely seems to be a flawed vessel. The question is, is he a flawed vessel? That's worth seeing if there's, you know, a full redeemable good story there. I don't know enough about him, so I can't even. So I won't put my foot in my mouth today, Omar.

[Ebro Darden]

Let's see where it goes.

[Steph (Caller)]

All right.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah, we'll see where it goes when we have him.

[Ebro Darden]

Is that confirmed? Hasan Piker? Confirmed.

[Laura Styles]

Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

Okay.

[Laura Styles]

Yo, chill out, man. Just know it's confirmed.

[Ebro Darden]

But you didn't know what's on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Did I miss it?

[Laura Styles]

It's on the calendar.

[Ebro Darden]

Well, he did this weird thing this week where he put a question in the calendar.

[Laura Styles]

Oh, my God.

[Ebro Darden]

And I talked about this earlier on. Earlier this week on the show. I was like, yo, Griff, you put a question in the calendar? And so you accept the. If, like, I didn't understand what I was supposed to do with it.

[Laura Styles]

It.

[Ebro Darden]

So it was a question in the calendar. It wasn't a text or an email.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now I see it in the calendar.

[Laura Styles]

Okay, okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But, like, I don't see. When things pop up on the calendar, I don't get an alert, so I have to, like, go look it up on the calendar. Anyways. That wasn't really a guru, but that was the gurus.

[Laura Styles]

We gotta go now.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sorry I botched it, guys.

[Laura Styles]

All right. Have a great weekend. Yeah.

[Ebro Darden]

I mean, you were talking about yourself.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I know. I store a story. I'm working on it. Okay. I'll be less wordy next week.

[Issa (Ebro's daughter)]

Week.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I want to be appreciated when I do, when I work on it. Okay. Give me positive feedback if I do the work. Okay. That's what I need.

[Ebro Darden]

Is this validate me thing helping you validate your figure out your own validation issues?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'll tell. You know, I'll let you know. I'm recording this weekend.

[Ebro Darden]

Nice.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We'll see how it goes.

[Ebro Darden]

Are you recording with someone?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes, yes, I have someone. I have someone coming on who's from our world.

[Laura Styles]

Major. Okay?

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's from our world.

[Ebro Darden]

All right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

And he is definitively someone who has this problem. And when I tell you guys afterwards, you're gonna go. That makes sense.

[Ebro Darden]

It is. So you got SiriusXM, you got Validate Me Happening.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And. And. And a lot of time on Ebro. Laura Rosenberg,

[Ebro Darden]

kind of.

[Laura Styles]

We'll see you guys on Monday.

[Ebro Darden]

Subscribe.

[Laura Styles]

All that good stuff next week. We're doing a new merch Merch drop.

[Ebro Darden]

So you make sure you merch manager Laura next week.

[Laura Styles]

It's coming.

[Ebro Darden]

It's been out the loop, bro. I told you. Who hasn't been working on elr?

[Peter Rosenberg]

What did I miss? Y' all talked about this in the group.

[Laura Styles]

Yes, it's coming.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't even get approval. I didn't get to look at it.

[Ebro Darden]

Just don't call it a podcast. That.