Ebro Darden (2:43)

And if it wasn't for the great management who coached us up, we wouldn't have been able to do it. Like, do they understand that we were winning and doing great for years? And the people running around who would be leading us did not even know what was happening. It was just a completely self contained operation.

Laura Rosenberg (3:01)

Well and, and I didn't know. Like I, I think I'm at a stage in my, in my life where I'm looking around and I'm like do people know how I got here? Do people know what I actually do? I don't think so. Do people know the actual work that I'm able to accomplish things I've done on behalf of major corporations on a day to day basis. The teams I met, they know nothing. They just think I get in front of a microphone like but by the way it's not their fault because a lot of people just get in front of a microphone and just go and don't have any behind the scenes planning, programming, organization or managerial skills.

Laura Styles (3:41)

My favorite thing that I read the other day was like them trying to make fun of you. Like look at you at your little Apple music little show. Haha. Don't you, don't you know that we all know that the real money goes to the executives?

Ebro Darden (3:53)

You.

Laura Rosenberg (3:54)

I was like oh I, I, I'm one of those too.

Ebro Darden (3:58)

But that did you know what that's, that's worthy of the congratulations you played yourself.

Laura Rosenberg (4:05)

It's like. But I, but you know what? People don't know and so, and I don't talk about it. So I guess hit me with the button because if I'm frustrated maybe I should do more. Pat myself on the back and doing interviews and running around and talking about all the things I'm involved in.

Laura Styles (4:20)

People.

Laura Rosenberg (4:20)

But I never wanted to be that person.

Laura Styles (4:22)

Call you a program director and that hasn't happened in how many years?

Laura Rosenberg (4:25)

Whoa. 10?

Laura Styles (4:27)

More than 10, I think.

Ebro Darden (4:29)

No, just.

Laura Rosenberg (4:31)

Yeah. I haven't even been, I haven't even the last. Some people ask me about Summer Jam still. I haven't been involved in Summer Jam since the Pandemic. The last one. Pandemic maybe.

Laura Styles (4:43)

Yeah.

Laura Rosenberg (4:44)

Probably right after.

Ebro Darden (4:46)

I even have moments at my other show. God bless. God bless my other show. Don Hana Rosenberg Having a great time over there at ESPN New York. And this happened was when it was the K show too. I love my co hosts and I love everyone's ideas but sometimes I will throw out an idea and I see people like. And I want to like smash the table and be like guys, I've been coming up with ideas that win in New York City in the morning since 2007. Why don't you just believe me? I love you guys. I love you guys. But I turned the winning on quite a bit when I got here. And it wasn't just cause I'm like great on the air. I know I have learned through the years at hot ways to trigger things and get things off. Trust me, I'm not just throwing things at the wall willing. But we live in an era Ebro, where like, I don't want to say specifically, but there's someone in my orbit where I do things who is so bad and on air so bad. And I talk about it with someone else, I work with them.

Laura Rosenberg (5:50)

When you say bad for the people watching and listening right now, what do you mean? Do you mean, do you mean not entertaining? Do you mean unprofessional? Do you mean. What do you mean? Because there's a lot of ways to be bad at doing this because there are some people who are. Mike comes on entertaining, captivating. Maybe they don't speak well and you might say they're a bad speaker. However, very entertaining. Right.

Ebro Darden (6:17)

So. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So. So what I'm referring to is it's not that they're stupid or don't have any, you know, anything interesting to say there, There could be some interesting things to say in there, but the packaging of it is done so badly and no one. And this is very common, I found. I don't know how you guys feel in my, in my time in entertainment, rarely do people coach anymore at all.

Laura Styles (6:44)

No, that doesn't happen.

Ebro Darden (6:45)

They just let the person go. And I'm like, you really want this to be representing the product? Like this is because this is representing other people who are professional and did put in the work and when you don't and. And now we live in an era where if someone has, you know, some followers, someone see someone cares about what.

Laura Rosenberg (7:02)

They want to see goes viral, just.

Ebro Darden (7:05)

Give them, throw them on and they forget that being a broadcaster is not the same as content creation.

Laura Styles (7:13)

Yeah.

Ebro Darden (7:14)

Like there actually is something here that's professional.

Laura Rosenberg (7:17)

Well, and then being able to do both, right. Create content, make people laugh, also take serious angles and have serious insights on things, have music skills. Right. Able to play music, present music, pick hits. Right. Like all of these things are different talents. Some people have all of them. Some people have some of them. But I think, yeah, we're living at a time where the audience doesn't know the difference and. And won't really know the difference until they start to like compare and contrast.

Ebro Darden (7:52)

Right.

Laura Rosenberg (7:52)

And so that's what my unraveling as they have framed it was about, was this kind of world that we're in where it's like, yo, so y' all think because I'm not doing the morning show anymore at that radio station at somehow everything that I did there, which you may not know about, or everything that I was doing on a day to day basis to keep that thing focused and targeted is just left there and it can't be duplicated again.

Ebro Darden (8:22)

Well, but this is why one of my frustrations with the last many years there said I to be at a place that's rudderless is really challenging. Speaking of which, I'm glad you said that station. I don't want to send you E. Around the bend, but I'd also be remiss to not. I'm sorry, I have to do what's right for the world and say what needs to be said.

Laura Styles (8:42)

Okay.

Ebro Darden (8:43)

Yo, they. They played the clip of Ebro. I'm being. Our faults are telling us that they played the clip of Ebro talking to Rocky on Hot and wouldn't reference Ebro in the club.

Laura Rosenberg (8:53)

Y' all trolling me. Y' all trolling.

Ebro Darden (8:55)

That's.

Laura Rosenberg (8:55)

And by the way, I'm not saying the audience is trolling. I'm saying Mero and Cass, Mia Bell.

Ebro Darden (9:02)

Maybe they got an instruction.

Laura Rosenberg (9:03)

Cass and Juanito, y' all trolling.

Laura Styles (9:05)

Maybe they got an instruction.

Laura Rosenberg (9:07)

Yeah, no, they did get an instruction. And the people who gave him that instruction, y' all trying to get. Y' all trying to. Y' all trying to get me active out here. Y' all trying to activate. Why? Why? Why? But, but you know what? Once again, this is bad management because the audience knows. So you look stupid.

Ebro Darden (9:25)

The audience knows. And if you want the show to be successful, you want them to gain as many people as they can. If they show love to us, it will endear them to people in the morning show audience that's already there. Because I don't know if you know this, we had a really big audience that we cultivated over the last 18 and a half years. So, like, you can't pay for that sort of camaraderie with audience.

Laura Rosenberg (9:51)

But you can do not only that, but. But also just camaraderie between shows. Like, we're not competing. This is not a. This shouldn't be a competition to them. Right? Like, people could go, listen to Mero and that squad. People could bounce over here and listen to this. People can listen to this later. Listen to that live. People have options. And you know what? We live in a world where human beings exercise them and that's what they love. Many people love about the time and place we're in, in the media landscape is they have plenty of options to choose from. They don't have to stick to one place. They don't have to feel trapped to one audience or one, you know, content distributor. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, y' all trying to troll me with that. I'm not falling for that.

Ebro Darden (10:31)

No, don't. Don't take the. Don't take the banana in the tailpipe. You don't. You don't need that. And.

Laura Rosenberg (10:35)

And it's probably. Honestly, I bet you it was. And this is my bet. My bet is there was no instruction to do that. They just played it safe out of fear.

Laura Styles (10:46)

Sure.

Laura Rosenberg (10:48)

They played it safe out of fear, not knowing what to do, because they're all green. Many of them are green. And many of the people in that room or all the people in that room aren't in a position to make an executive decision.

Ebro Darden (11:01)

Right. No, that's. That's. Oh, no. How could they be? And by the way, shout out to Kaz, who got this amazing opportunity from this area. Always been a supporter of ours. Wonderful guy, loves Hot 97, respects the brand, and yet got this opportunity. You're not showing up there and then being like, let me just take a risk for no reason, because it's an unnecessary risk.

Laura Rosenberg (11:24)

Well. And it's way too soon.

Ebro Darden (11:26)

So, you know, listen, that. Who are they to take advice from us? We're like, nah, trust us. You're fine. Take as many risks you want. What could happen? Shoot some shots.

Laura Rosenberg (11:36)

Well, but I do appreciate the promo. Y' all not gonna get me out of pocket today. I'm just not in the mood for that. I do appreciate the promo. And. And my Apple music show is live every day. All you do is hit the Apple music app and you can hit radio. And I'm there live every day. Three o'. Clock. It's all music. It's like, you know, damn near 95 music I'm playing. Yesterday I started the show, it was cold outside, so I started with reggae classics. Oh. Vinnie McLean. You know what I'm saying?

Ebro Darden (12:03)

I don't know about. You don't know about Betty McLean, my guy.

Laura Rosenberg (12:05)

Some under me slang tang. Yeah.

Ebro Darden (12:07)

I mean, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Laura Rosenberg (12:09)

You know what I'm saying? Some Barrington Levy. It was vibes, man. And then I jump on Tick Tock. Yo, and. And yo, man, somebody got to be paying these people to work as hard as they do to hate on me, man.

Ebro Darden (12:19)

On. On Tick Tock. What was on TikTok?

Laura Rosenberg (12:21)

Yeah. Just the. The comments live. And I play records on Tick Tock because you can't do it on ig. So I'll start on ig like, yo, you know, I'm about to go live on the air. You know, everybody tune in. Then I'll jump over to Tick Tock and go for, like, 30 minutes live, blending some records, picking some songs, having fun, whatever. And then. But there's people who literally every day spend 30 minutes or however long I'm on live, just trolling.

Laura Styles (12:50)

It's so funny. And what kind of. I just think, what kind of a loser are you to be like, okay, 30 minutes of my time right now.

Allie Jackson (12:57)

To be a hater?

Laura Rosenberg (12:58)

That's why I said it. Got to be paid. You have to be paid actors.

Ebro Darden (13:01)

I mean, listen, it's in the comments.

Laura Styles (13:03)

You're giving them a lot, a lot of credit.

Laura Rosenberg (13:06)

Well, no, no, no. And I'm into it. Because you're working hard. This is, like, real work. Because they just keep posting, and I'm not responding. So you just keep posting.

Laura Styles (13:14)

Keep posting, and we'll take the engagement.

Laura Rosenberg (13:16)

Now we got the ELR Army. The ELR army jumps in there. The EL army jumps in and starts mixing it up and promoting this show. It's pretty good.

Ebro Darden (13:26)

Oh, I love that. I love that. That works for us. I just pulled up my TikTok live. I'm gonna see if I just sit here and do absolutely nothing. I never go on live just to see if hateful people just show up, just to be like, ao fu.

Laura Rosenberg (13:39)

Let me see. I'm gonna turn on my TikTok live right now too.

Ebro Darden (13:42)

Is there a way we could collab? How does this work? Two boomers. Two boomers. Invite another host. Hold on. Invite another host and go live together. Hold up.

Laura Rosenberg (13:53)

Yeah, no, you absolutely could do that.

Ebro Darden (13:55)

I'mma see. I'm. I'm going invite you. Hold on.

Laura Rosenberg (13:57)

All right.

Laura Styles (13:58)

The search for hate.

Ebro Darden (14:00)

Because they're there, Laura, trust me. The other day, I posted something about football. I posted about. It says, you're not on live, so I guess you have to go.

Laura Rosenberg (14:09)

I just jumped in. I just jumped in.

Ebro Darden (14:11)

Let's see.

Laura Rosenberg (14:11)

Invite. Invite. I'mma invite you.

Ebro Darden (14:13)

No, no, no. Hold on. I'm already there. I'm already. Oh, you already invited me. Okay, here we go.

Laura Rosenberg (14:16)

See? Boom.

Ebro Darden (14:18)

Look at us now.

Laura Rosenberg (14:19)

Turn your volume down. Don't be a weirdo.

Ebro Darden (14:20)

I did. I did. My volume is down.

Laura Rosenberg (14:21)

All right, we are live on TikTok right now. Make sure you subscribe. Ebro, Laura Rosenberg.

Ebro Darden (14:28)

Yep. So, guys, I posted the other day on. On Twitter, something about the Bills game.

Laura Rosenberg (14:34)

The.

Ebro Darden (14:34)

The catch, no catch thing. I believe it was that, right?

Laura Rosenberg (14:37)

And that was your. Your video that you posted.

Ebro Darden (14:40)

Maybe it was the video. I posted a few things about football. I know it was related to football.

Laura Rosenberg (14:43)

Got it. Got it.

Ebro Darden (14:45)

And someone jumped on and started talking ish about my daughter on a football post.

Laura Styles (14:52)

What?

Ebro Darden (14:54)

Yo, what's. What's up with your daughter's eyes? It looks like she's got fetal alcohol syndrome.

Laura Rosenberg (14:59)

Whoa, Whoa. What? What?

Ebro Darden (15:01)

Literally as nasty as humanly possible. And by the way, I looked and I. And I commented back, and then saw it was not a bot. Like, this was a real. It was a former listener. He knew things about me. He was like, yeah, you know, snowflakes like you who take paternity leave. I was like, oh, you actually look.

Laura Rosenberg (15:24)

You're a fan.

Ebro Darden (15:25)

No, you're like a fan.

Laura Styles (15:27)

And screenshot it and put his profile up. Post it.

Laura Rosenberg (15:31)

Put it on your story. Here we go.

Laura Styles (15:34)

People are. You know, because they hide. They write all these disgusting things. Like, you got to be a loser, a complete loser to write negative things about children.

Ebro Darden (15:44)

Imagine her. Like, I always think about that. Your friends and family, if they knew that you respond to radio host and you talk about their newborn children and insult them, you would be proud to be that person. That's who you want to be in your life, bro.

Laura Styles (16:00)

Screenshot his profile. Make it live.

Laura Rosenberg (16:02)

We are. There are degenerates out here.

Ebro Darden (16:04)

The lawyer's ready.

Laura Styles (16:05)

He's coming from my knees.

Ebro Darden (16:06)

Tia Styles is ready to spice this thing up.

Laura Rosenberg (16:09)

There's a lot of degenerates out here, and one of them is the President of the United States. I don't know if you guys saw this guy rambling at the World Economic Forum.

Ebro Darden (16:16)

Well, I. I thought about this last night. I said. I said, if Ebro. I said, if Trump in. In Switzerland didn't make it to Ebro's weird algorithm, I'm gonna be unhinged.

Laura Rosenberg (16:26)

Trump in Switzerland was. Wow. They were just letting him freestyle. And why was he standing at the podium and the other guy was sitting behind him on the seat? Like, did he not want to sit down with the guy? What. What was the setup here?

Ebro Darden (16:36)

Are you talking about?

Laura Rosenberg (16:37)

He just walked out and rambled like. I don't understand, bro.

Ebro Darden (16:40)

The. The speech was insane. And this was a really interesting one because so many other people were there. Like, not all these world leaders were there, but then even, you know, Gavin Newsom was there. Al Gore was there.

Laura Rosenberg (16:51)

Yes.

Ebro Darden (16:51)

All these. All these Democrats Are there too listening and grilling this dude as he makes. Yo, Ebro. He referred to Greenland blatantly as Iceland multiple times.

Laura Rosenberg (17:00)

Was it blatant or. He just doesn't know the difference.

Ebro Darden (17:03)

Yeah, sorry, sorry. I guess you're right. Was it blatant or he does.

Laura Rosenberg (17:06)

Well, you remember that's Darth dementia right there. So we don't know what's going on upstairs.

Ebro Darden (17:10)

I thought about. I don't want to get our things. Like, I don't want to get us to taken down. So I won't. We won't be able to play it. I guess it'll be good for Patreon next week, but it'll be old by then. Yo, Kimmel, bro. Last night when I. Before I went to bed, I opened YouTube for a second and the Kimmel got recommended to me. He. It just. It had just went up. Yo, yo, Ebro, respectfully, you think that you go hard.

Laura Rosenberg (17:32)

Kimmel goes hard, bro.

Ebro Darden (17:34)

On the size of the platform that everything about his wife, about him in bed, about. Yo, did you hear the line that Trump said they love being in. In Greenland before they were calling me daddy someone.

Laura Rosenberg (17:48)

Oh, yeah, they called it. No, he was talking about Europe.

Ebro Darden (17:50)

Yeah, he said, they called me. They were calling me daddy. Kim was like, no, no, you can't hear. They were calling you fatty. Yo. He lit one zing after another on like. And then they break down his. They call it present dementia and they just show him flubby. Yo, Kimmel doesn't care. He wants more smoke. He's ready for it.

Laura Rosenberg (18:12)

Yo, I'm shouting out to people who the. My. One of my favorite things on Social too, and with the haters is a, they don't know what's going on. So they don't know all the different endeavors we have going on. B, someone goes, this is where you ended up. I've been sitting in this seat at this. At this point for years. They're saying, this is where I ended up. But I think they mean Tik Tok Live. I think that's what they mean.

Ebro Darden (18:37)

Oh, here we go. I got Rosenberg Sucks Diddy. I got. Okay, I got Carton owns you.

Laura Rosenberg (18:43)

Okay, okay, then we have user 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2136. Who says one minute in and I'm already hearing about Trump. Oh, my God, give it a rest. You're not. You don't. You don't even have a name.

Ebro Darden (19:00)

You're not a real person.

Laura Rosenberg (19:01)

You don't even have a picture.

Laura Styles (19:03)

Yeah, I mean, it's A good time. All right, end it because, you know, I think it's official. I think either was it today or yesterday when TikTok is now officially owned by Oracle.

Laura Rosenberg (19:14)

Yeah. The Ellison family has now taken over your TikTok. So if you're still on TikTok, you must know that Zionist Trump enthusiast right wing psychopaths now control all the algorithm, your data and everything on TikTok.

Ebro Darden (19:34)

Perfect.

Laura Styles (19:35)

It's going to change.

Ebro Darden (19:36)

It always does, bro.

Laura Rosenberg (19:37)

And let's never forget all of this. China is getting our data. You know, this is a national security risk, tick tock, blah, blah, blah. Was just so your data and your behavior on TikTok could get moved into an American corporation that also owns Paramount, right, that also owns a lot of the federal infrastructure for data management, so that they could bundle all this behavior together and study the population or monitor the population, either or, and wouldn't have to go through China. Meanwhile, simultaneously, all of this data, all of this usage, all of your behavior is sold to the highest bidder, AKA advertiser, around the world anyway. So they have access to the data anyway. They just wanted to take TikTok and give it to an American corporation, one of Trump's buddies. That's really what this is about.

Laura Styles (20:39)

Let's be specific. Trump's buddy and donor.

Laura Rosenberg (20:42)

Absolutely.

Ebro Darden (20:43)

So also let's not leave out the fact that, you know, Trump saw the stock market, it seems plunge and itched up on the tough talk and very clearly stated in that speech yesterday, we will not show force in Greenland. We will not. And there's a reason he worded it because at first he almost fumbled his way through it and then was like, we won't. It was like someone told him, you have to make it official that the United States is not going to do something that stupid so the market can rebound.

Laura Rosenberg (21:17)

You think it was market related?

Ebro Darden (21:20)

I'm not smart enough to know these things. That is what Al Gore said and that is what other people were saying with algorithm.

Laura Rosenberg (21:28)

I mean listen, he invented the Internet, so I'll go with facts.

Ebro Darden (21:31)

He that that is the belief people have because like it didn't come from any other sort of, you know, world view or understanding, but that because it hit the market so badly, they were like, oh, you gotta back off and say this isn't happening.

Laura Rosenberg (21:44)

But now you know, but well, and also the fact that, you know, yesterday we reported here, Canada, Europe, the European Union are all basically like, yeah, no, we need to get our military together and get our independence together separate from the United States. We need to have our own relationships around the world. Yeah. Psychos can't be trusted. Exactly. Hit the button.

Laura Styles (22:08)

To no surprise.

Ebro Darden (22:09)

It's. It's a disaster.

Laura Rosenberg (22:10)

Congratulations.

Ebro Darden (22:11)

You played your son well.

Laura Rosenberg (22:12)

And also, destabilizing NATO, just so we're clear, is what Vladimir Putin wants. Of course that's helping Russia.

Ebro Darden (22:25)

Yo, do you know that Denmark lost, Had you already heard this line, that Denmark lost more people than anyone per capita after 911 in stepping in to defend the United States and never heard that fight. Fight for NATO.

Laura Rosenberg (22:40)

Yeah.

Ebro Darden (22:42)

That's one of the reasons they take this all, the whole Greenland thing so personally is like they literally were like, we gave lives recently, like in 20, in 2001, we volunteered. Like, those are our people. We want to fight next to you. And. But, you know, Trump is itched up. And now when they asked him about the deal in place and are we.

Laura Rosenberg (23:00)

Going to own green up here?

Ebro Darden (23:02)

You probably can, but he's like, he's like, we have a great deal in place.

Laura Rosenberg (23:06)

Sounds like he's got something else going on. And while he does have other things going on.

Ebro Darden (23:10)

That's not what I'm trying to say. But when he was asked about it, you know, so does the deal in place include the United States having control of Greenland? He's like, it's a very long term deal. It's a long deal. It's a great deal. Like, it didn't happen. You said you did. What's the line again? Ebro. Trump always chickens out. It's Taka again. You said you were going to do it. You said, you said we were going to have Greenland. You already backed out.

Laura Rosenberg (23:37)

Taco.

Ebro Darden (23:37)

Taco.

Laura Rosenberg (23:38)

Taco.

Ebro Darden (23:39)

Oh, out. Oh, Taco. Trump always chickens out.

Laura Rosenberg (23:42)

Chickens out. Taco. Well, speaking of maga and things falling apart, do you have the divorce? This is kind of a long clip, so kickback. I want to give props to the creator who put it together, but I don't have it.

Ebro Darden (23:55)

Is it a good clip?

Laura Rosenberg (23:56)

Is it worth the clip?

Ebro Darden (23:57)

Because, you know, you guys.

Laura Rosenberg (23:58)

Did you guys watch it? Did you guys watch it? Resolutions got you down.

Ebro Darden (24:02)

Scoop it or swirl it.

Laura Rosenberg (24:05)

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Ebro Darden (24:24)

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Laura Rosenberg (24:26)

Start the Ninja Creamy diet today.

Laura Styles (24:30)

I don't know which one.

Laura Rosenberg (24:31)

I sent it to you guys last night. It's about divorce.

Laura Styles (24:34)

Okay.

Laura Rosenberg (24:35)

About Divorce relative to white folks in America and MAGA right now. Okay, that's what I'm interested of. Kind of like the family in the United States. Okay, run the clip.

Laura Styles (24:50)

All right.

Guest Speaker (Commentator on Divorce and MAGA) (24:50)

Racist.

Laura Styles (24:51)

Thousands of women just in Minnesota saying the same thing.

Ebro Darden (24:57)

I am prepping for a divorce 24 hours later.

Laura Styles (25:01)

Since I made that video talking about all of the divorces happening in Minnesota, I recognize that it's not just Minnesota. It is nationwide.

Guest Speaker (Commentator on Divorce and MAGA) (25:10)

Let's talk about the spiritual bill payment that has finally come due. For generations, the white American household has presented itself as immune to dysfunction, which is a false standard that the racists weaponized against the true family architects, which are the copper colored indigenous Americans who have had to live for generations with wars on their households. For instance, this country manufactured welfare acceptance and the removal of the head of household in order to receive government assistance when white families didn't have to adhere to the same rules. So when racists make jokes like, good.

Ebro Darden (25:40)

Thing my daughter doesn't want a black man so she doesn't have to be.

Guest Speaker (Commentator on Divorce and MAGA) (25:43)

A single mom, you're making fun of the fact that you racist fools built an entire identity identity on the myth of the black American dysfunctional family. Well, the chickens have come home to roost and the white family is toast. The chaos in Minnesota is the key to the unraveling. All around you. White women are looking at their husbands, their partners, the supposed protectors, and they're saying, hello, are you seeing this? Are you gonna do anything? And the response from the white man is a deafening, cowardly plea to stop watching social media or worse, silence. They are too scared to actually get upset about it. They are refusing to protect their women and children because at their core they're terrified. They are paralyzed by the very monster they helped create. This whole thing is karmic retribution. So what will you do, white men, now that the cat is out of the bag and you're all just a bunch of kittens and your ex wives see it? They are sick of the beta half men wannabes who cosplay toughness online but crumble when real danger appears at their doorstep. Currently, 42% of women are divorcing MAGA men, which I find to be very revolutionary and brave and I 100% support these women. High numbers of divorce is the realization that the men in their lives are not only inferior, but are a liability.

Laura Rosenberg (26:53)

Wow, 42% was the number that jumped out to me. I don't know how that data has been collected, but I'm sure these women are speaking, speaking up and speaking out. In this time. And I thought that was just an interesting thing. Obviously there's a historical significance which is a one conversation, but the, but the current state of affairs. I wanted people in the chat because we've had people write in. Didn't we have a guru the other day from someone who was talking about her husband? Or was it her friends?

Laura Styles (27:25)

Her friends. It was her friends.

Laura Rosenberg (27:27)

Her friends. Oh, no. Someone. Someone left a comment on a post about her husband running out of the room every time we came on. Because he's.

Ebro Darden (27:36)

Oh, no. Me talking about Israel.

Laura Rosenberg (27:40)

You talking about Israel? That's right.

Ebro Darden (27:41)

It made him run out of the room.

Laura Styles (27:43)

Run out of the room. This just makes me think about the post that I've seen. Now, I haven't read Project 2025. I'm not going to sit and tell you I read the entire thing. Right. But there's the big push going on to make it harder to divorce.

Ebro Darden (27:58)

Yeah.

Laura Styles (28:00)

They really don't want women to be able to make that choice.

Laura Rosenberg (28:03)

Well, you know, up until the 1980s in the United States, it was hard for women to get a divorce. You know why? Because they couldn't get a goddamn bank account.

Laura Styles (28:10)

Yep.

Laura Rosenberg (28:11)

They couldn't rent places on their own or buy.

Laura Styles (28:14)

Buy a home.

Laura Rosenberg (28:15)

Buy like. And this is not all over the United States, but in many states.

Laura Styles (28:19)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Laura Rosenberg (28:21)

So it just recently, in the last, you know, 40 years, 45 years, became easy for women to choose whether or not they want to be with someone. Now, you guys think this is forcing or easy to leave? Is it? You guys think this MAGA divorce thing is real?

Ebro Darden (28:39)

I don't.

Laura Styles (28:39)

It could be.

Ebro Darden (28:40)

I don't know if. I don't know. I don't know about those numbers. But you. I would certainly believe it. You know what I mean? Because I do generally feel, if you look at it, men are generally respectfully worse than women from a, From a moral, ethical standpoint. If we look, if we break it down, men are often at the, at the core of the bad decisions that happen in a family. So is it possible that there are a lot of women who have gone along for a while and quietly been like, well, that's just my husband, and are now looking up and going, all right, this is out of control. Yeah, 42% feels like a high number, but I don't know where my man got that from. Again, back to our constant conversation about where we get news from. But it's an interesting thought. And, and I. It wouldn't shock me to see that those numbers are going up.

Laura Rosenberg (29:25)

Well, can you email us Ebro Laura Rosenberg at Gmail or the original gurus at Gmail.

Ebro Darden (29:32)

Yeah, whatever.

Laura Rosenberg (29:32)

Might be a cap catalyst. Love that for some emails where people are actually dealing with this because we know it exists. We know it exists in people's families where they're just like, I am not rocking with my family right now because they are way off the. The rails, you know, praying to the orange God. And then you have just women who have kind of, you know, looked past their behav. Their husband's behavior as that's just what men do. And that's just what men are like and starting to realize, like, nah, this ain't good with me to live this life and I don't want to lay next to this person and I don't want my children to think this behavior is okay either.

Ebro Darden (30:12)

Now, I do think there's also something to be said. Natalie and I talk about this a lot and I. This could be a controversial topic that in America, a lot of times women, whether they want to or not, not always. I'm not remotely saying always, but very often women can end up being shape shifting somewhat to what their husbands are like. Like, Natalie was saying this in a problematic way. She was honestly about herself. She was. I look at my history and see how I've been affected by the partners I've been with. I mean, and by the way, if you're looking for the proof in the pudding, just look for the times when you see her Instagram stories go complete liberal, screaming at the world like, you know, she has been.

Laura Rosenberg (30:52)

She was never like that before. She was what she was what you say.

Ebro Darden (30:54)

I'd say the belief system was. That was in there. But would she be publicly, you know, would it be something that really affects her?

Laura Rosenberg (31:01)

Well, I know for one thing, she wasn't going to be at multiple WWE events a year.

Ebro Darden (31:05)

Okay, well, but she did like wwe. That is.

Laura Rosenberg (31:08)

Yeah, but she wasn't gonna be at the event.

Ebro Darden (31:09)

No, no. She had grown. She had grown out of it and I brought her back, is what you're saying. So it is interesting though, because she was saying that sort of with a level of remorse, like, it's kind of messed up. She was like, in America, it seems like a lot of us women end up sort of taking on the personality of the men that we're with a lot. It happens a lot. And if. If you believe that that is even the possibility of being a thing, it probably also happens a lot in these MAGA households.

Laura Styles (31:35)

No, absolutely. I was talking to one of my girlfriends and she says she has a group of friends that happen to be, like, from her man side. Right. All of them are conservative because they're me. Their men are conservative. Not. Not. Not just conservative. They're maga. Because their men are maga. And when she asks, like, do you honestly believe in all this? And they're just kind of like, they rather. Some of them rather not have their own views.

Laura Rosenberg (32:01)

Rather get along, man.

Laura Styles (32:03)

They just go along to get along the house. So they're just gonna go along with it, which is.

Laura Rosenberg (32:08)

Well, hit them all with the button.

Laura Styles (32:09)

It's sad.

Laura Rosenberg (32:10)

You're playing yourself.

Ebro Darden (32:11)

Yeah.

Laura Rosenberg (32:12)

One day you play yourself, you're gonna be looking at yourself in the mirror and you wasted your life being somebody that you weren't. True. And not being true to yourself.

Laura Styles (32:20)

And the way these cycles are moving, they want. They want one vote per household. Have you heard that one?

Laura Rosenberg (32:25)

I've heard that.

Ebro Darden (32:27)

I wonder why the.

Laura Styles (32:29)

That should be voting.

Ebro Darden (32:30)

Wonder why they feel that way. Speaking.

Laura Rosenberg (32:31)

Well, this is also why this. The. The people of this ilk never wanted women to vote. In general.

Guest Speaker (Commentator on Divorce and MAGA) (32:36)

Of course.

Ebro Darden (32:37)

Yeah. Because it could go this way. Literally, it could go left. Although I will say, guys, I find in general, this is going to be also slightly controversial. I don't know if you guys had this experience sometimes. Like, another thing me and my wife were talking about. You ever find, like, I'll find women in my life who, like, you meet their man and you just, like, oh, man, you just ended up with a guy. It's just. Just a guy.

Laura Rosenberg (33:01)

Oh, he's just. Yeah, he's just. He's just a. He's a. He's just a. He's a skin and bones.

Ebro Darden (33:07)

Yeah.

Laura Rosenberg (33:07)

Like, obviously, there's no personality at all.

Ebro Darden (33:09)

I was talking to my own.

Laura Rosenberg (33:10)

He's got a skin suit on. He's just standing there sucking in oxygen.

Ebro Darden (33:14)

And. And the women. And the women. And the women are, like, lively and have personality and lots of things. Thoughts, and they still look good and they're doing their thing and, like, their husband. Just like, women are out here just settling is what I'm saying. Women are out here.

Laura Rosenberg (33:29)

Well, no, some of that also. No, no. But some of that also is that particular person you're describing. That woman and that man, they work together because she is so dominant. Right. If. If that man also had his own. That woman may not be able to. That woman needs to be the center of attention. She needs to be the star. The spotlight is on her. She needs to drive the idea. She needs to, you know.

Guest Speaker (Commentator on Divorce and MAGA) (33:51)

Well, I'M not.

Laura Styles (33:52)

I'm not saying that you're wrong, Ebro, because that's also a certain character.

Allie Jackson (33:56)

Yeah.

Laura Styles (33:56)

But I also agree with Rosenberg. There's. Yo. I know a lot of women who are just like. Who are executives, and they're like, yo, I just want a decent human being who has a job and is respectful.

Laura Rosenberg (34:08)

Oh, for sure. But is that settling?

Ebro Darden (34:10)

It's just a low bar for men because they don't have many options. That's how I see it.

Laura Rosenberg (34:14)

Okay.

Ebro Darden (34:15)

We just want someone who's not going to be mean or abusive or dangerous.

Laura Rosenberg (34:19)

Listen, man, you got. Listen, you gotta. You gotta buy what's on the shelf. You gotta buy what's on the shelf. You got. Yeah, you walk into the store, you look around, you need to go home with something, and you know, you get the best that you could get.

Ebro Darden (34:35)

Oh, and there is one other piece to remember about that. I think this is important. Men who are more exciting and more charming and more likely got more options. That comes with risk.

Laura Rosenberg (34:47)

That.

Ebro Darden (34:48)

That purchase comes with risk. Now, did they. Are they divorced? If so, win. Because maybe they've already. Maybe they already learned and you're getting them. Maybe you're getting the refurb. It's the rare situation where the refurb is better sometimes than out of the package. You might want the refurb.

Laura Rosenberg (35:07)

That's right.

Ebro Darden (35:08)

But to Ebro's point, sometimes. Sometimes it's a refurb. And they didn't actually do the repair. They just. They just rubbed a little dirt on it, put it back in the package, ran it back out.

Laura Styles (35:21)

Anyway, really quickly. I just want to give a birthday shout out to some of our Fox in the chat. Erica B6471 and Queen Medina. Happy birthday, guys.

Laura Rosenberg (35:31)

Happy birthday to the Fox. Now, merch manager, Laura Stack.

Laura Styles (35:35)

Yes, sir.

Laura Rosenberg (35:36)

Day is Thursday.

Ebro Darden (35:38)

Yes, sir.

Laura Rosenberg (35:38)

Are we landing the shipment of the merch today?

Laura Styles (35:44)

So remember, shipping is tomorrow. So I'm going. Actually, I remember, Aaron.

Laura Rosenberg (35:48)

Thursday.

Laura Styles (35:49)

I. I'm going to the headquarters today to just, you know, make sure that things are moving smoothly. But no shipping is Friday.

Laura Rosenberg (35:56)

And then it'll take another week for people to get their T shirts about.

Laura Styles (36:00)

You know, depending on where they live, some people might get it sooner than others just because. Depending on where they live. But yeah, and I'm excited for everybody to get their stuff.

Laura Rosenberg (36:08)

When do we unveil new merch for people who miss this one?

Laura Styles (36:13)

It's up to. Yeah, this one is done. You're not going to get another one of. Of this one. That's it limited A dish and all of them. The next one is also going to be limited. I know.

Ebro Darden (36:23)

We're doing another limited one next.

Laura Styles (36:25)

Yes. So if you miss it, you miss it.

Laura Rosenberg (36:28)

Well, we also. Listen, let's just be honest. We don't know how much money people have. You know, we're already asking for 9.99 on Patreon. You know, I mean, then we're gonna sell you a T shirt. Like, at a certain point, we gotta pace this so that people can, you know, I mean, get. Get a little money to support the program. We can't just be running through people's pockets. Right. Well, and on top of that, we got to manage our budgets as well, which means we can't just buy a bunch of blank T shirts and have them sitting somewhere. And we don't even own a goddamn warehouse. And they're just sitting in a box in Laura's man's closet with his sneakers. And we're waiting, like, figure out the next time people want T shirts.

Ebro Darden (37:02)

And while we're at it, while we're mentioning this, I do want to give another shout out to Chase, who came up with our initial design, our initial logo.

Laura Rosenberg (37:09)

He made the.

Ebro Darden (37:10)

Like. Chase didn't know. Chase helps me out with a lot of stuff. He didn't know anything. I hit him up on a Friday, like, hey, we're not at Hot 97. Can you throw some ish together real quick? And he basically gave us what has been our initial aesthetic, and we just want to shout him out for being. Showing love. He's a good man.

Laura Rosenberg (37:28)

Now, before we move further into the program, we got to get to the rundown. It's time for Laura Styles.

Laura Styles (37:33)

Let's go.

Laura Rosenberg (37:34)

And the rundown.

Ebro Darden (37:35)

Oh, man. And. And Griff sent me the. The one with the new. With the beat on it, and I don't have it in here yet.

Laura Styles (37:43)

Come on, bro.

Ebro Darden (37:47)

Laura got the run down. Turn that up. Screens on Glow when she pulled up.

Laura Rosenberg (37:52)

Headlines heavy, but we still cut.

Ebro Darden (37:58)

Can I ask you a question, though, real quick, Laura, before you start throwing down?

Laura Styles (38:01)

What?

Ebro Darden (38:01)

And can I ask maybe a poll In. In the. In the. In the room.

Laura Styles (38:05)

Do we.

Ebro Darden (38:05)

Do we like this intro? Is it too radio? Like, are we still trying to do radio too much with this intro? What's our honest feeling?

Laura Styles (38:13)

All right, I like it, but I would love a poll. Let's do it.

Ebro Darden (38:17)

Eo, where are you at with it?

Laura Styles (38:18)

He's going to set it up. I like it.

Laura Rosenberg (38:21)

I don't know. I like it. But I could also go the other way. And I also think asking the audience what you just asked them, I don't even know if they're. Maybe they're savvy enough to know the difference. Oh, I just.

Ebro Darden (38:30)

How dare you, sir? How you.

Laura Rosenberg (38:32)

Well, no, in. In the context of like, do they. It's just. Do you like it or not? You know what I'm saying? Like, is it good or not in their minds? Not like, I don't know if they.

Ebro Darden (38:40)

But like, it could be as simple. Once we get our. We. We. Once we got our initial voice work back, once we produce with some of just the basic drops we have, it could just be like it's the rundown all over styles and we hit a.

Laura Rosenberg (38:50)

Baby, but you can't talk. They don't know what voice work is either. Do they know what voice work is? Is that a known thing? I'm seriously asking. I'm not trying to be condescending. I don't know what people know. I don't know what people care about. I really don't.

Ebro Darden (39:03)

Once we have the things that just go, it's Laura Styles with the rundown. It could just be that and a beat. It doesn't have to be the rap song is what I'm saying.

Laura Styles (39:10)

Right, right, right, right, right.

Ebro Darden (39:11)

Anyway, sorry, Laura, what do you have?

Laura Styles (39:13)

Let's focus. Okay? We're gonna go through some light stuff first before we get into the juicy. The Vince Staples show has been canceled, guys.

Laura Rosenberg (39:20)

Oh, man.

Ebro Darden (39:21)

Damn.

Laura Styles (39:22)

After two seasons, it premiered in 2024. Second season drop November 2025. I did say, I did read that the. The viewership wasn't as great. Listen, I gotta be honest.

Laura Rosenberg (39:36)

Down a little bit. I.

Laura Styles (39:37)

Sometimes I would go in, I. I could never really stick with it, guys.

Laura Rosenberg (39:41)

Season two was a little bit more obscure than season one, which was already obscure, which was already obscure. But I like season two. Artistic for myself. I liked it, I enjoyed it, I didn't finish it.

Ebro Darden (39:52)

I mean, I'm being honest. So, like, that's probably telling. I think it's really good. I think he is amazing. I think Vince is gonna have a great run in entertainment and in all the things that he does. And it's a bummer that this happened. I can't say I'm shocked because Ebro mentioned it was irreverent. It was weird, you know, Atlanta esque in that way, but didn't keep the full storyline necessarily, which is, you know, when you try something avant garde like that, you were taking a risk. But I just want to shout him out because getting to that point where he got two seasons of a Netflix show is such an incredible accomplishment.

Laura Styles (40:35)

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Ebro Darden (40:37)

Guys, I've been. I've been working on something that I may have news on soonish for you that is not near at that step. Yo, when I tell you, creating. I'm not talking about. Respectfully, I'm not talking about pitching a documentary, creating a dramatic television show and not a scripted show and getting it to air is an unbelievable haul. So the fact that they came up with that show and made it all the way there and did two seasons is an incredible accomplishment. He should be super proud of.

Laura Styles (41:13)

I mean, I want to see more of him.

Ebro Darden (41:15)

You're going. We're definitely going to see more events. There's no way not to.

Laura Styles (41:18)

Did you guys catch the. The interview with him in Zway? Oh, one of my favorites.

Laura Rosenberg (41:23)

The whole thing, I love. It was like. It was like. It happened on the Ebro Laura Rosenberg show. I posted the whole thing. I gave context. It was. It was amazing.

Ebro Darden (41:30)

Yeah. I watched. I watched a good chunk of it. It was hilarious.

Laura Rosenberg (41:33)

Serious.

Ebro Darden (41:33)

Yeah.

Laura Styles (41:33)

All right, so.

Ebro Darden (41:34)

And.

Laura Rosenberg (41:35)

And it should be noted that the type of hilarity that happened in that interview and the. The types of jokes that Vince made. Right. You know, I don't always land for the mainstream. And. And the thing about Vince show on Netflix, had they really honed in on the target? Remember, is Adult Swim still around? I think it's still around in Cartoon Network.

Ebro Darden (42:01)

Like, Rick and Morty's still ringing off.

Laura Rosenberg (42:03)

Yeah, Rick and Morty. That's right. It is that. I know they don't air stuff like that. They're animated. They're more that. But, like, remember Loiter Squad? Tyler's Loiter Squad, which was just him and his boys doing slapsticky. Like, that's all. It's alternative comedic humor. And then when you're black doing alternative comedic humor, it's even more niche. Right.

Ebro Darden (42:24)

Because I was gonna say that, yes.

Laura Rosenberg (42:25)

There's not like a lot of. A lot of black comedians that are doing that. They're not your mainstream comedians. And I. It might. This might be a business opportunity for me. I just. It just clicked in my head. They need a space. There needs to be a space where people who get different types of humor who are not white can gather and do their humor.

Ebro Darden (42:48)

It's a. It's a really good point. And I know there are spaces like that in. In la. Like, I know there are places for.

Laura Rosenberg (42:55)

I know there's clubs, but I like, like video.

Ebro Darden (42:58)

Yeah. To people to consume it.

Laura Rosenberg (42:59)

Skits stand up like a real place.

Ebro Darden (43:02)

Because you're right, Ebro, the level of like, niche nerd humor, you're now going double niche when it's black, right?

Laura Rosenberg (43:08)

So, like, for instance, what black comedian would have got away with how many seasons of Curb youb Enthusiasm?

Laura Styles (43:14)

Oh, God, how many seasons?

Ebro Darden (43:16)

Well, curve. I don't know if I, I, I don't know if I like the comp. Just because I don't know how many people are getting away with doing that much period of anything. You know what I'm saying?

Laura Rosenberg (43:25)

Right. Larry David's Special. But I'm just saying that type.

Ebro Darden (43:28)

But I was going to go, I was going to go another place. There's a, there's that dude who, who now has the chair. What's the show called? The Chair Factory or whatever that show's called that's popping off right now on Netflix. And I'm forgetting homeboy's name. And you see the look Laura's giving me because she'll have no idea who he is. And it is big among white people and, and like in an altar. Very weird alt comedy crowd.

Laura Styles (43:48)

It's called the Chair. I'm gonna look it up.

Laura Rosenberg (43:50)

The Chair Factory.

Ebro Darden (43:51)

Is it the Chair Factory? But Laura, it's, it's, it's a very weird form of humor. And it's either gonna be for you or not. You know what I mean?

Laura Styles (43:59)

Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Next is the forbidden clip. No, I'm just kidding. I know. We played a clip of ASAP Rocky and April's interview.

Ebro Darden (44:10)

It was just ASAP Rocky on Apple music. Okay.

Laura Styles (44:13)

Just ASAP Rocky.

Ebro Darden (44:15)

Sorry. Tim Robinson is the, is the, is the comedian and writer I'm talking about. Look him up, guys. But yes, would be hard to pull that off at this point and pull multiple seasons as a black talent. I think it'd be really tough.

Laura Styles (44:27)

Okay, so Ebro and ASAP Rocky sat down for an interview. Right now it's available on Apple Music. But check this out. He is opening up about Drake.

ASAP Rocky (44:37)

I think hip hop tactics and beefs is like wwf. It's like wrestling all the way.

Ebro Darden (44:43)

Right?

ASAP Rocky (44:43)

But this thing between us, it's not real smoke, but I just don't with him. You know what I mean? We was once friends. I feel like it's over females. I feel like he wasn't happy and he expressed that. And I think at some certain point when everybody getting older and it's just like you supposed to be moving on for you to still be picking at a female and all that, that's soft to me, you know what I'm saying? And I didn't put out an album. I ain't put out music for me to really say something back, you know, And I finally did say something back to a few people, you know, not just. It ain't just about one person. I'm talking to whoever. Whoever feel like I'm talking to them, you know, And I do think that Petty and we all. It's like I said, it's enough money, it's enough women, it's enough fame spotlights to go around, you know, I mean, we're not really tripping off nothing. But is it real smoke? It could never be. They not. That ain't smoke.

Laura Rosenberg (45:44)

I feel it's pretty direct. And he says he feels like it was over females. And it definitely. It's weird, man. Drake fans, y'. All. Weird, man. It's real weird, man.

Ebro Darden (45:53)

Why weird? I mean. Yes, but keep going.

Laura Rosenberg (45:56)

Well, because I saw people saying, like, oh, Rocky's just talking about Drake to sell his album. And I was like, well, wasn't Drake talk about. And his wife. Like, didn't that happen? We didn't see that happen.

Ebro Darden (46:12)

It. No, no, it 100% happened. These people are weird, bro. The line's funny. On Patreon. On Patreon. We. Oh, and I. And I do. I was told there was an issue we had with Patreon, so.

Laura Rosenberg (46:28)

Oh, man. Hit the button.

Ebro Darden (46:30)

No, it's.

Laura Styles (46:30)

It.

Laura Rosenberg (46:30)

There's either ready or we wasn't ready.

Ebro Darden (46:33)

Well, since you played yourself. Because we ran it through YouTube. Even the fact we played a lot of music on it, and even though it was unlisted on YouTube, YouTube still came for the video. So now we have to re upload it. Not on YouTube. So just hang tight for one second. It'll. It'll go up in a minute.

Laura Rosenberg (46:53)

It's not what people paying for this. This is some real.

Ebro Darden (46:57)

No, this is. Honestly, I can't tell you the truth. It literally happened to me last night. I did a live on my. I did a live on my wrestling Patreon. Thought I could just watch a random episode of AEW Live while I was doing it. It knocked it off. I was like, oh, YouTube still YouTubing. I thought we were a private YouTube.

Laura Rosenberg (47:13)

Is YouTube even more focused now?

Ebro Darden (47:16)

So we're gonna get it up. It'll still be up on Patreon shortly. It just won't be as a YouTube video. But okay. When we played the Rocky clip yesterday, because we played some music and had some fun, it was interesting to Hear him say the line repeatedly in that record. I stole your. Because it's, like, hilarious. Because, like. And respectfully, Rihanna, she's your. You know what I'm saying?

Laura Rosenberg (47:37)

Well, we don't even know if that's the one he's talking about. Because he said we don't know. Right.

Laura Styles (47:44)

He did say girls.

Laura Rosenberg (47:46)

He said females, plural. You didn't say stole your female. And to that. And to that matter, what you guys said on Patreon yesterday with regard to Rihanna never visibly being that into Drake in the first place. Was it ever. Even his.

Laura Styles (48:04)

Yeah.

Laura Rosenberg (48:05)

Quote unquote, Was it all just a work for us? Speaking of work, work, work. Was it just a work.

Ebro Darden (48:11)

Wow. I see what you sell music. Was it a work?

Laura Rosenberg (48:14)

Work? You don't ask me half. What.

Laura Styles (48:17)

Oh, God. Oh, God. All right, so there's that. But let's get into the lowdown because you guys are gonna.

Laura Rosenberg (48:24)

Oh, the mess.

Laura Styles (48:26)

You guys are gonna like this one. Rosenberg, let's go low.

Ebro Darden (48:30)

Laura, I'm just. I'm told that also the Oscar nominations just dropped.

Laura Styles (48:34)

Okay, well, we'll deal with that in a minute. Right now.

Laura Rosenberg (48:39)

Wallow in the mire.

Laura Styles (48:41)

Yes. Because y' all gonna love, love this one.

Laura Rosenberg (48:43)

All right, let's get into it, then. It better be good. Yo, where's Hot Rod Rick's intro for the Lowdown? Rosenberg, you slipping over there.

Ebro Darden (48:52)

Oh, yeah. Do we agree we wanted to use the hot rod?

Laura Rosenberg (48:55)

Give him a run. I didn't hear Laura's confirmation. It's just me, the devil. Satan, shut up for a second. It sounds terrible.

Laura Styles (49:02)

Yeah, if you got it, roll, roll it.

Ebro Darden (49:04)

I don't. Okay, it's time for the low down, guys.

Laura Styles (49:12)

As the ice storm threatens the power grid in Texas.

Laura Rosenberg (49:16)

Okay?

Laura Styles (49:17)

Senator Ted Cruz was caught on a plane headed to California.

Laura Rosenberg (49:22)

Laura, this ain't the lowdown. Like, this ain't even that.

Ebro Darden (49:27)

I'm hitting Laura with the button. Laura's getting the button.

Laura Rosenberg (49:30)

This ain't scummy. He is scummy. But this ain't like some real. Again, Ratchet. This ain't like. I thought you was taking us to some ratchetry. You know what I'm saying? I thought.

Laura Styles (49:43)

I think this is Ratchet. He's Ratchet for leaving his people when they're about to get hit with the biggest ice storm.

Laura Rosenberg (49:50)

I thought y'. All. I thought you was about to leak some sex tapes or something. That's what I expected. Not Ted Cruz.

Ebro Darden (49:57)

Yo, guys, guys, come on, man. Lord, I tried to hit you. You don't want to listen to Me in the Rundown. Nominated for an Oscar. Tiana Taylor for best supporting actress.

Laura Rosenberg (50:09)

Oscar nominated.

Ebro Darden (50:12)

Yo, how about that?

Laura Styles (50:15)

Oh, my gosh.

Ebro Darden (50:16)

Yo. That is amazing.

Laura Styles (50:17)

What an amazing year for Tiana. I'm so happy for her, man.

Ebro Darden (50:22)

That is amazing.

Laura Rosenberg (50:24)

We just took the, the largest dump on your whole lowdown and then Rosenberg just snatched it back.

Laura Styles (50:30)

Oh, I don't mind. We're celebrating Tiana.

Ebro Darden (50:32)

I don't care.

Laura Rosenberg (50:33)

Centers Best picture.

Laura Styles (50:35)

Fine with that.

Laura Rosenberg (50:36)

Center's best picture. Center's best original score. Good, good, good, good, good. Let's go, Coogler.

Laura Styles (50:44)

All right, we'll talk about the, the whole thing.

Ebro Darden (50:46)

Can I just hit this real quick? Sorry. Best picture, Begonia. F1. See, this is what I was talking about the other day. Remember what I said the other day about how they're too loose in these Oscars?

Laura Rosenberg (50:55)

Is F1 really good. Best picture.

Ebro Darden (50:58)

It's best, it's best picture vibes.

Laura Rosenberg (51:01)

I don't.

Ebro Darden (51:02)

It feels like a big ass budget, fun movie. Best picture feels nuts to me. But begonia, F1. Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme. One battle after another. The Secret agent. Sentimental value.

Laura Rosenberg (51:17)

I don't know what that is.

Ebro Darden (51:18)

Sinners and train dreams.

Laura Rosenberg (51:21)

I don't know train dreams either.

Ebro Darden (51:23)

I, I happen to know train dreams because my, my old neighbor was a producer of that film. But I, I, It's a, it's like a, it's a movie about trains and Native Americans. It looks, it looks very Best picturey.

Laura Rosenberg (51:35)

Slow. El Roy Lindo. Best supporting Actor. Shout out to the OG Tell Roy.

Ebro Darden (51:40)

Lindo who else was in best Actor. Ebro, are you just naming black people? That is, you see them?

Laura Rosenberg (51:46)

No, I was just seeing Griff send us notes on it.

Ebro Darden (51:48)

Griff?

Laura Styles (51:49)

Who else?

Ebro Darden (51:49)

Who else is in best. Who else is in best actor? I'll just be curious if the Rock got it because I just watched.

Laura Styles (51:55)

I think he said not named yet.

Ebro Darden (51:57)

Not named yet. But Ebro just said no.

Laura Styles (52:04)

All right, guys, Sorry.

Laura Rosenberg (52:05)

No, that, that. Wait, let's see. Oscar's best actor contenders. Okay, but that's not nominators. Those are contenders. People are, people are expecting Timothy Shalam, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan.

Ebro Darden (52:22)

Well, that I'd be curious to see if the Michael B. Jordan thing, because that was such a big conversation about him being snubbed at the Golden Globes.

Laura Rosenberg (52:30)

Got it.

Laura Styles (52:31)

Oh, Coogler got the best director.

Laura Rosenberg (52:33)

Coogler, Best director. Yo, fam. Are we really processing how big this center thing is for Coogler and just black film? Are we really understanding the significance here of him owning the ip, like, all of that talk that is like, remember all that talk about the way this sinners thing happened For Coogler, it was very like. It does. It just doesn't happen for directors.

Ebro Darden (52:57)

Yeah, no, it was. It was A, it doesn't happen for.

Laura Rosenberg (52:59)

Directors full stop often. And B, it doesn't happen for black directors, like, ever.

Ebro Darden (53:05)

Right now. Coogler's the man, bro. I mean, listen, I can't say I'm shocked by this. The path he's been on has been pretty crazy.

Laura Rosenberg (53:12)

It adds up. It adds up. But still, when you see it. Best actress, Jesse Buckley. Hamnet. Rose Byrne. Let's see. I don't know. Renee. Whoever that is. Kate Hudson. Emma Stone.

Ebro Darden (53:28)

Emma Stone was awesome.

Laura Rosenberg (53:31)

Wait, you saw Begonia?

Ebro Darden (53:32)

Yeah, I told you already. I told you all about it. That you would love it. Man, you know how frustrating it is to tell someone about a movie?

Laura Rosenberg (53:41)

So much space in my brain.

Ebro Darden (53:43)

Then why tell you? You're not gonna remember it again. You're not gonna even care. It.

Laura Rosenberg (53:49)

It's about my white people stuff. Hard drive is full. Often I have to remove stuff.

Ebro Darden (53:54)

It's Begonia is about the two crazy people who decide that this CEO is actually an alien and they kidnap her.

Laura Rosenberg (54:03)

Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah.

Laura Styles (54:04)

Okay, great.

Ebro Darden (54:06)

Can't wait to come next time.

Laura Rosenberg (54:07)

It's a comedy, though.

Ebro Darden (54:08)

No, I wouldn't say it's a comedy. Maybe. Maybe a very dark comedy.

Laura Rosenberg (54:12)

Got it.

Ebro Darden (54:13)

All right, you ready?

Laura Rosenberg (54:13)

For the house? For you. Well, that was a failed lowdown. And you're amazing.

Ebro Darden (54:19)

You mean that was your rundown. Ebro. Running. Running down the stolen rundown was mage.

Laura Rosenberg (54:24)

You guys ready for the original? The low down. You squashed the whole lowdown.

Ebro Darden (54:27)

No, you squashed Row down.

Laura Styles (54:29)

You.

Laura Rosenberg (54:29)

I said it wasn't a low down story.

Laura Styles (54:31)

Then we got stormed with the. With the Oscar stuff.

Ebro Darden (54:34)

Yeah, the storm.

Laura Rosenberg (54:36)

Speaking of storm, Ted Cruz is on his way out of the storm.

Ebro Darden (54:39)

Yo.

Laura Rosenberg (54:40)

What a loser, by the way, again.

Laura Styles (54:44)

Yes, that's what I'm saying. That's why I think he should be dragged to hell.

Ebro Darden (54:47)

Yo.

Laura Styles (54:48)

He's such a loser. But you know what? So are the people that vote for him. So are the people who vote for him. So crazy.

Ebro Darden (54:55)

I just. I just can't believe that's actually real. I, like. I can't. Like. You really thought that was a good idea? I just can't believe that. I mean, I do, but. Good Lord. All right.

Laura Rosenberg (55:06)

Ethan Hawk. Shalam DiCaprio. Michael B. Jordan Wagner Mora. Best Actor.

Ebro Darden (55:12)

There you go.

Laura Styles (55:13)

There you go.

Ebro Darden (55:14)

Come on. But I I still feel Michael B. Jordan is more deserving of best actor than Sinners is deserving of best Picture. My hobby.

Laura Rosenberg (55:23)

Fair enough. I mean, you could go with that.

Ebro Darden (55:25)

I like Sinners, but I loved Michael B. Jordan. Like, he legitimately plays two different twins as different people. Like, to me, that was amazing. I. I thought the center was. I thought Sinners was really cool. I didn't think it was amazing, but I thought Michael B. Jordan was amazing.

Laura Rosenberg (55:40)

Yeah, the amazing part for me with Sinners was how much the business part. Culture. Well, no, the black culture and the.

Ebro Darden (55:47)

And.

Laura Rosenberg (55:47)

And the stuff and the context. Right. Like the thing. Just the Asian family down in Mississippi and the blues and the, and the. And the tying of Irish. Irish culture and. And blues together, which is the formations of what we know now to be country music, which was, you know, Irish clog dancing and tap music, like all of the cultural intersections.

Ebro Darden (56:08)

Well, that was. That was.

Laura Styles (56:09)

I love that part of it.

Ebro Darden (56:10)

That was what we talked about at the time. That sort of.

Laura Rosenberg (56:12)

I ended up being my mouth, by the way. I cursed a lot.

Ebro Darden (56:14)

You. That. That was what sort of disappointed me with the film is the first 45 minutes. The setup. I was so into the setup of, like, the. The background. I was learning so much. So, like, the cultural part I really loved. And then, yeah, when we got to the vampire part, I was like, as an Ebro, did say this probably before I even saw it, which may have affected me. I was just like, I don't know that I needed the vampire movie here. I felt like I was just going to go into this sort of interesting cultural blast.

Laura Rosenberg (56:40)

But they're blood suckers. They're vampires.

Ebro Darden (56:43)

And then the killing scene at the end, I was just like, what are we. What is going on? We just had a bloodbath for no reason.

Laura Rosenberg (56:48)

That was for a reason. Kill them Races.

Ebro Darden (56:50)

Yeah, I know, I know, but it's.

Laura Rosenberg (56:51)

Just, you know, blow their. Blow there. Take them. Blow them to oblivion. But anyway, see, bro, Laura Rosenberg show. We got to get to the original gurus. Ladies and gentlemen, we take your emails at the original.

Allie Jackson (57:02)

Okay.

Laura Rosenberg (57:05)

Or, excuse me, the original gurus. Gmail.com. rosenberg, pay attention. Get the elements together for the guru. Let's get to it.

Laura Styles (57:13)

Breathe in, breathe out. The original gurus. The original gurus. Gmail.com theoriginalgurus gmail.com that's where you email us, Rosenberg. Who's out there? Who needs us?

Ebro Darden (57:28)

So many are in need, Laura, and they send us their emails at the original gurus. Gmail.com. and also, I Should remind everyone it's a great day to send your voice notes and emails to us for Freedom Friday as well, of course, as that is coming up tomorrow. Ebro Laura rosenbergmail.com hello Friday Freedom Friday. Freedom. That's right. Hello, Ebro Laura Rosenberg. The OG Gurus I'm in a relationship with a woman who has two daughters, ages 10 and 12. We've been together for about a year. I'm not their father, but I am a father myself, and I know how much a man's presence can shape a child, for better or for worse. My question is simple but heavy. How do I show up as a steady, positive male figure in their lives without overstepping or forcing a role? That isn't mine. That isn't mine. I want to model respect, consistency and healthy love, especially at an age where they're forming ideas about men and relationships. I don't want to be distant and don't want to pretend I'm dad. I want to move with care, intention, and humility. What should someone in my position get right and what mistakes should I avoid if my goal is to protect the kids, support their mother, and still honor my role as a father to my own children? Relationship talk A Jays PS Please bring back the Blood in the Water design. It would look dope as a crew neck. It is a crew. Friend of the show.

Laura Rosenberg (58:53)

Crew neck. Sweatshirt, sweater.

Ebro Darden (58:55)

Oh, sweatshirt. Sorry. Got it. Friend of the show, Andrew.

Laura Rosenberg (59:00)

Blood in the Water I think will come back. It just probably won't come back with the same color scheme or same color tee or same logos. It'll have some. Here we are. It's Blood in the water. Exactly. Because blood is in the water.

Laura Styles (59:11)

Some people wanted Sangre nilawa.

Laura Rosenberg (59:14)

They want the Spanish version. We're gonna do that for Latin Heritage Month.

Ebro Darden (59:18)

I, I, I feel like, I feel like. While I 100% appreciate the sentiment of this message, to me it sounds like from how you care and how you understand the situation, you don't need to overthink this.

Laura Rosenberg (59:35)

That's exactly what I was gonna say. You're overthinking it, bro. Just keep loving people.

Ebro Darden (59:39)

You sound like a good guy. Don't. Don't disrespect the dad. You know, be supportive, especially depending on, like, one thing. I note that I love about my friends who are in stepdad situations, assuming the relationship between the mother of the child and the father is at least, you know, I'm not even talking about if it's something that's psycho bad. And he didn't mention that. So I'm going to assume that's not the case, but assuming it's somewhere between, eh, not great and pretty good, continue to play a role where you're. You always help make things smoother, not the opposite. You know what I mean? You're not fueling into them having any issues into anything around that could be. Be a positive force in all of it. People getting along, the kids being in a good spot and just be there as their friend. At this age, they're 10 and 12. They're not 2 and 4.

Laura Styles (60:29)

Right.

Ebro Darden (60:30)

So they already are forming their ideas of what things are. You will model just by being you.

Laura Rosenberg (60:36)

And being a dude.

Laura Styles (60:37)

And if there's certain things that, that that is special or that the biological father cares about, always make sure you honor that too. You know what I mean? Certain things that are. Like when you're like, I don't know if I should be doing this, whether it's, I'm just making this up, a first basketball game or whatever. Special moments like that. Talk to your partner and say, hey, I know they have a thing with basketball. They never been to a basketball game. Should I, should I be the first one to take them to a basketball game? Maybe you should check with dad, because that could be dad's special moment. But I just think he should keep that in, keep consideration.

Ebro Darden (61:09)

Great call.

Laura Rosenberg (61:10)

Did he say that he had a good relationship with this, these kids dad?

Ebro Darden (61:14)

No, didn't. Didn't mention it at all.

Laura Rosenberg (61:16)

Didn't mention it. Well, I should we assume that he does.

Ebro Darden (61:19)

I think we should assume there's no major thing one way or the other or he would have included it.

Laura Rosenberg (61:23)

Because if there isn't no thing major one way or the other, then you should try to, to Laura's point, understand the things that are important to that dad in this transition and moving forward so that you could try to help reinforce those things with the kids.

Laura Styles (61:39)

Right, right, right, right.

Laura Rosenberg (61:40)

Especially if the mom is aligned on those things as well.

Laura Styles (61:43)

Yeah, you sound like a great guy. Yeah, you sound like a great guy with a good heart. Just don't overthink it. So say the gurus, man.

Laura Rosenberg (61:54)

Ebro, Laura Rosenberg show. We'll be back tomorrow, 8 o'. Clock. Yo, I think we'll have an interview tomorrow.

Ebro Darden (62:01)

We do. Do we do With Yaya.

Laura Rosenberg (62:04)

Yaya Abdul Mateen ii. That's right.

Ebro Darden (62:08)

Yeah, look him up. Really, really impressive dude.

Laura Rosenberg (62:12)

No, no. Great conversation. New Disney plus show Wonder Man. If you're in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or you're in the Marvel Comic universe, whatever it's Called you know, about Wonder man. So they're bringing that to the forefront and we'll talk to him about it as well as other things. Does the Patreon fix? Hit yourself with a button to our page to Rosenberg.

Ebro Darden (62:36)

Patreon is live, uploaded and published. We are good to go is fully there. It includes Ebro melting down the great breakdown of the Rocky album. We.

Laura Rosenberg (62:47)

We J. Cole.

Ebro Darden (62:48)

A big J. Cole talk. A big Jay Z talk.

Laura Rosenberg (62:51)

Big Jay Z talk.

Ebro Darden (62:53)

So lots of music and a bit of a meltdown. It's. You're going to enjoy it. And honestly, for big shout out to everyone who signed up the first day to signing up today.

Laura Styles (63:01)

I know. Thank you, man.

Ebro Darden (63:02)

It's crazy. Seeing the support is really motivating.

Laura Rosenberg (63:04)

Oh, yeah, that's right. I had to address Fat Joe on his Patreon, too.

Laura Styles (63:08)

Oh, boy.

Ebro Darden (63:09)

All right, so we talked to Fat Joe, too.

Laura Styles (63:11)

And I just want to remind you guys, we are on Apple podcast, too. So if you want audio, you can go there, subscribe, and give us five stars.

Ebro Darden (63:20)

Yeah, and by the way, Ebro just trolled Joe. I just want to be clear, Ebro just saying I addressed Fat Joe made it sound like something happened. That did not. He literally addressed the video.

Laura Rosenberg (63:30)

I did. I did.

Ebro Darden (63:31)

We just talked about.

Laura Rosenberg (63:33)

Listen, wait, yo, you want me to. You want me to get people to subscribe or not? Like, what do you. Pick your side.

Ebro Darden (63:38)

Just get melting down.

Laura Rosenberg (63:39)

Pick your side, bro. Pick a side.

Ebro Darden (63:41)

See you tomorrow, guys.

Laura Rosenberg (63:46)

Just don't call it a podcast.

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