PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Sh*t We Missed (7/3/26)

Summary

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The Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg Show

Episode: PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Sh*t We Missed (7/3/26)
Date: July 3, 2026
Platforms: YouTube, Patreon

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Overview

In this special “Family Friday” episode, Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Peter Rosenberg announce a significant shift: future Friday shows will be available exclusively on Patreon, deepening their engagement with their core listener community. They debut a new segment, "Sh*t We Missed," recapping headlines and viral talking points from the past week that deserve fresh scrutiny and the show’s trademark candid breakdowns. The episode blends cultural commentary, personal anecdotes, and reactions to sports, music, memes, and local injustices, all in the fam’s lively, unfiltered tone.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Announcement: Family Friday Moves to Patreon

[00:20–02:21]

• Effective immediately, Friday shows—including Family Friday content and listener interaction—are Patreon exclusives.
• Laura stresses that this allows for a more intimate, community-driven vibe:
  “It is sort of such a good... It's a family thing. So it is cool for it to be on Patreon... The patrons hit different. You know what I'm saying?” [01:19]
• The team is actively brainstorming ways to add value for patrons during this period of reassessment in summer 2026.
• Nikki confirms liking the move and higher engagement.

2. Debut of “Sh*t We Missed” Segment

[02:26]

• Laura introduces a Friday-only new segment where they revisit overlooked or under-discussed moments from pop culture and news, starting with a taste for the main feed before moving all such content behind the Patreon paywall.

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Sh*t We Missed: Weekly Rundown

A. Sports and Social Media Hot Takes

Emmanuel Acho’s Caitlin Clark Take

• [02:45–07:23]
  • Laura calls out sports commentator Emmanuel Acho for saying the WNBA would be “better without Caitlin Clark”:
    "We missed the worst take in the history of sports...A man who's becoming quite proficient at horrifying takes. Emmanuel Acho." [02:45]
  • Ebro links Acho’s provocative comments to “algo hustling”: "It's not news if you're a dork and you do dorky shit on the internet...this is just algo hustling, which, by the way, we all participate in." [03:50]
  • Panel rejects Acho’s point and internet overreactions comparing a recent on-court altercation to George Floyd:
    “People on the Internet were comparing it to the choking and murder of George Floyd...These are unserious people.” [05:43]
  • Laura and Ebro highlight the WNBA’s ongoing history of star white athletes, e.g. “Why do people act like Brianna Stewart and Sue Bird never happened?” [07:23]

Viral Sophie Cunningham Meme

• [07:28–08:47]

  • Laura describes Sophie Cunningham’s finger-pointing meme’s viral explosion, laughing at its interpretations, especially:
    “The best one was when a toddler sees someone with deformities at the grocery store. That's crazy.” [08:00]

  • Nikki, Ebro, and Laura share cringe/funny stories about kids reacting to people with visible differences.

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B. Pop Culture and Music

Naomi Osaka’s Wimbledon Kimono Look

• [10:34–11:15]
  • Ebro and Laura react to Naomi Osaka’s Wimbledon entrance styled in a kimono:
    “That was her, that was how she walked out. The Osaka Japanese look with the kimono...a photo moment and a homage to culture.” [10:50–10:58]
  • Nikki and Laura praise her stylist’s creativity:
    “She's been killing it.” [10:41]

Dream & Jay-Z New Music Rumors

• [11:18–12:50]

  • Rahsaan Bascom cues up a clip about The Dream hinting at unreleased Jay-Z music.

  • Team agrees there are no bombshells; it's the same as Dream told them.

  • Ebro claims his ear for music is unrivaled:
    “One thing I will...always die on is my ability to pick fire records. You ain't gonna take that from me. Ever in my life.” [12:25]

  • The Dream’s upcoming album "Love Hate 2" (with an Usher collab) to drop July 10th.

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C. Local News: EZ Pass Corruption

[13:18–17:59]

• Ebro applauds investigative journalist Masa Saeedi and activist Tamika Mallory for leading a fight against allegedly exploitative EZ Pass fines in the NYC area.
• Airs a segment with Chief Thomas Taffy—who’s frustratingly noncommittal about fee policies.
• Laura and Nikki cite cases of people facing bills in the tens of thousands of dollars.
• Ebro shares his personal experience lawyering his way out of massive fines, stating bluntly:
  “If I'm a regular person. Nah.” [15:43]
• The crew plugs Mallory's "In the Toll Trap" movement and tolltrap.com for those seeking help.
• Ebro rails against bureaucratic agency silos:
  “You're telling me if I have an account in New York and I'm traveling in Jersey that the EZ Pass people in Jersey can't see my account in New York? Why?” [17:15]

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D. Media Watch: Sensational Headlines & Charlamagne/Obama/Trump

[18:48–19:49]

• Rahsaan Bascom tries to bait Laura with a viral clip:

  • Headline: “Charlemagne defends Trump and calls Obama a hypocrite.”
  • Laura clarifies it's just Charlamagne pointing out both men act tough online but not in person.
  • She objects to the misleading framing:
    “The language they used here makes it sound like Charlemagne is attacking Obama... I'm not gonna say there was nothing there. That's a nothing.” [19:13, 19:45]

• Ebro and Laura agree viral shows often “edit up” for clicks; Rahsaan and Luke are called out for "algorithm pumping." [19:49]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Patreon Move:
  “The patrons hit different. You know what I'm saying? That family, it’s a tighter knit family.” – Laura [01:17–01:38]
• On Emmanuel Acho:
  “A man who's becoming quite proficient at horrifying takes. Emmanuel Acho.” – Laura [02:54]
• On Internet Outrage:
  “It's not real. Yeah. And that's why I brought up the Internet is. It's not real.” – Ebro [06:41]
• On EZ Pass Reforms:
  “How, as a regular person, am I supposed to figure out whatever happened?” – Ebro [15:02] “They’re just outright screwing us intentionally.” – Laura [18:04]
• On Sensational Headlines:
  “Why do you have me defending Charlamagne? Yo, we gotta go to Patreon.” – Laura [19:35]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | Notes | |-----------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 00:20 | Patreon Announcement | Future Friday shows Patreon-only | | 02:26 | Sh*t We Missed debut | Segment intro | | 02:54 | Emmanuel Acho’s WNBA Take | Caitlin Clark debate | | 07:28 | Sophie Cunningham Meme | Meme culture and kids’ reactions | | 10:34 | Naomi Osaka’s Kimono Look | Wimbledon outfit appreciation | | 11:18 | Dream/Jay-Z Music Tease | No big music news, plug for Dream’s coming album | | 13:18 | EZ Pass/Toll Fees Corruption | Exposé, activism, audience call-to-action | | 18:48 | Media Watch, Charlamagne Clip | Headline clickbait deconstructed |

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Tone & Style

• Signature Family Friday: Unfiltered, hilarious, tangential, deeply personal, uninterested in “hot take” grandstanding for its own sake.
• Panelists mix serious local advocacy with light-hearted takes and meme commentary.
• Fans are encouraged to join an evolving, paywalled community for deeper, realer content and direct interaction.

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For Further Content

• Family Friday and deeper content: Patreon.com/EbroLauraRosenberg
• Activism link: tolltrap.com

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Transcript

[Ebro]

Just don't call it a podcast.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The ebro laura rosenberg show. Oh, okay.

[Ebro]

So here's the deal. Today we locked this in so that we can make an announcement today.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And the announcement is on a holiday weekend, no less. Hey, listen, America 250. A holiday unlike any other.

[Ebro]

I mean, did the first 250 really count?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No. By the way, this is the perfect announcement for America 250. We need some money.

[Ebro]

But no but for. But for. For today and, and for the foreseeable future, the Friday show that you guys are getting right now will actually be available on Patreon.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Ebro]

It'll be Family Friday, available on Patreon. So if you want to get what the goings ons with the family and with this family and our. Our family, and if you even email Ebro Laura Rosenberg Gmail, and we read you emails and voice notes and you send in videos, we're doing all of that on Patreon. So join us there.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And it makes sense for a variety of reasons. If you heard this week's Patreon, you heard us discussing some of them, but also, like, it is sort of such a good. It. It's a family thing. So it is cool for it to be on Patreon. We're sort of, you know, listen, we love everybody, but the patrons hit different. You know what I'm saying? That family, it's a.

[Ebro]

It's a tighter, more.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's a tighter knit family. They're committed to the family. And also, I kind of like the idea of us keeping our family stuff behind the paywall and stuff like that for, like, our community. So, yeah, I'm cool.

[Nikki]

I'm with it.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I think it's. I think it's a good idea. And I do feel. We had a conversation this week with our phone of thoughts, and we've been brainstorming privately about how do we super serve our patrons more? Because we are in a period right now this summer of 20, 26, of assessing what we've done the first seven months and making decisions on what we do in the coming months. So we got to try different things, you know, to see what works. And we thought. Nikki actually suggested this. We had been discussing and thought, you know what? I like Family Friday.

[Ebro]

Let's give more to the patrons.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Patreon, the Patreon fam.

[Ebro]

So, yeah, jump over there now. Before we break out of here today, Rosenberg, there were a couple of.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I had a new segment I wanted to bring to our new version of Family Friday. We don't usually do news stories.

[Nikki]

All right.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But I thought we could do a new segment on Friday. It's called We Missed.

[Ebro]

We Missed. All right, so we will give this one away.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. But from now on, it'll just be part of Patreon on Fridays.

[Ebro]

All right, now, what are some things you think we missed this week?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, we missed the worst take in one of the worst takes in the history of sports, in the history of man.

[Ebro]

Who did it come from?

[Laura Rosenberg]

A man who's becoming quite proficient at horrifying takes. Emmanuel Acho.

[Ebro]

Talking about when I saw his name on the paper, I was like, here we are again.

[Investigator Masa Saeedi]

No.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Why is he.

[Ebro]

No, no, no. Ho. Academics.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's oo.

[Ebro]

Excuse me. Acho academics. Dame dash.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You're throwing Acho right in there with. That's how bad you think it's going?

[Ebro]

Well, because now it's just.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You're just saying things.

[Ebro]

Well, no, but it's not news anymore. It's not news if you're a dork and you do dorky on the Internet. Like, if you're a doofus like academics and you pay for dates.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, that's also on the shit we Missed.

[Ebro]

That's not news. Like, that's. It's not a news story that you are doing what we thought you do.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And so in the case of Acho, if you're a guy now who says intentionally performatively provocative stuff, this is just

[Ebro]

algo hustling, which, by the way, we all participate in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's fine. But, you know, you got to be respectful of it. You can't just treat us like whores.

[Nikki]

All right, let's watch it. I'm curious.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Here's number 23.

[Guest or caller]

The W at this junction in time would be better without Caitlin Clark because she is a bigger distraction than she is an additive. What are you talking about? Caitlin Clark has gotten the WNBA over the necessary threshold they needed. Now people are watching. Now we realize, oh, there's talent in the W. Talent that's actually even greater than Caitlin Clark. And I'm not just talking about bigs like Asia. I'm talking about the Olivia Miles. I'm talking about the Paige Beckers. Hell, I'm talking about the Kelsey Mitchells. Kaitlyn got the necessary eyes there, but now that the eyes are there, we don't necessarily need her anymore. Unless we can take off ourselves for Caitlin Clark and stop trying to act like she's a messiah. The WNBA could and would be better off without Caitlin Clark.

[Ebro]

All right, what are you talking about?

[Laura Rosenberg]

What are you saying?

[Ebro]

Well, I don't Even understand, like.

[Nikki]

So it makes no sense.

[Ebro]

It makes no.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, there's no way to make it make sense. The distraction that she caused. So last week, there was this big could do, as some might say.

[Ebro]

Or is it to do?

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's to do. But someone I used to work with would say could do.

[Ebro]

Oh, so someone did ask.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Yes. No, someone say a big could do. And I was like, did you say could do? It's a big to do. There was a big thing where Caitlin Clark had another incident where someone got physical with her and she got sort of like.

[Ebro]

But it wasn't. But it was a scrum.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, it wasn't a big deal. She got. She's got sort of woman handled in a play. Like she went down to the ground

[Ebro]

and somebody was on top of her. Their hand went onto her throat.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And when you slow mo it, it looked like one thing. When you watched it in fast motion,

[Ebro]

it was a basketball play.

[Laura Rosenberg]

How about this? I don't even think it was a flagrant. I honestly. In fast motion. I didn't even think there was a. People made it a big.

[Nikki]

Okay, how does she react?

[Laura Rosenberg]

She popped up.

[Ebro]

Okay, so people. People on the Internet, by the way. And we're going to get to the Internet and Acho's tape. People on the Internet were comparing it to the choking and murder of George.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, they didn't stop, bro. You're not being serious. It's family Friday. It's America 250. Why are you doing this? On the holiest of days.

[Nikki]

Why do you keep. Oh, my God.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What are you saying? That did not happen.

[Ebro]

It did on. So I said it was on. I prefaced it by social media. These are unserious people. I'm just letting you know that people were like.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Nothing that was said at the Kevin Hart roast about George Floyd could be more offensive than comparing what happened to Caitlin Clark to George. It was nothing. All right, so anyways, people made a big deal about it, and it was the same Caitlin Clark thing we've seen a million times. If they don't start protecting her, then what's gonna happen? This league is out of control.

[Ebro]

But, you know, that's just the Internet.

[Chief Thomas Taffy]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

It's not real. Yeah. And that's why I brought up the Internet is. It's not real. His take even is based on Internet noise of people who didn't watch the NBA prior to Caitlin Clark acted like there weren't phenomenal white women forever in the wnba. Balling out, by the way. Ballin out. It's been Forever. They make such a big deal about Caitlin Clark. I feel bad for, like, other white women. No, like, I feel bad. I feel bad.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's not the best player in the league. She's really good. She does a lot of things really well. She still has room to grow all those things. It's just.

[Ebro]

Why do people act like Brianna Stewart and Sue Bird and, like, never happened, don't exist?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, I'll tell you what. Another white woman in the WNBA did have a big week. This meme went as crazy as any meme over the course of a day I've seen in a long time. And it's Paige Cunningham. It's. Sorry, Sophie Cunningham, pointing at another player. Right? And, yo, the. The evolution of this meme. I don't know why.

[Ebro]

I don't know.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It went absolutely crazy.

[Ebro]

Because it's funny.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Did you keep. You didn't now, Bascom. You didn't put in my favorite version of it.

[Ebro]

So.

[Laura Rosenberg]

So everyone was saying, like, different things, applying different lines to that meme. The one that I thought was number one, There were all these ones, you know, when my wife sees that I left a bowl in the dishes, you know, all the sort of basic ones. But the best one. Please roll the clip again. The best one was when a toddler sees someone with deformities at the grocery store. That's crazy.

[Nikki]

Yo. It literally is the worst.

[Ebro]

The worst when your kids are like, oh, what's that?

[Nikki]

Oh, my God. No. What about with me and Kenza? We were talking to somebody that had, like, just a lot of, like. Like keloids kind of.

[Ebro]

Oh, like moles or.

[Nikki]

It was a. It was. It was. But they were big. They're like the size of a quarter.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, that's.

[Rahsaan Bascom]

That's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

I would. I would kind of freak out.

[Nikki]

Yeah. And I just like, you know, Ricardo's having a conversation with the person about clothing, and she's like, why is your face like that?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, she didn't.

[Chief Thomas Taffy]

She wears.

[Nikki]

What's that? But. And I was just like, oh, my God. God. But he was.

[Investigator Masa Saeedi]

He was. He.

[Nikki]

He was like, yeah, I know. I gotta get him removed. He's like, I'm sorry. That's just how I was born. He was so sweet about it. I was like, I'm sorry. He's like, she's.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But can you just get him removed?

[Nikki]

He was like, she's a kid.

[Ebro]

Well, if it's keloids, they're coming back. If it was, like, some, like, moles. Which people?

[Laura Rosenberg]

So keloids. Come back to the point. Is sometimes you just may not feel like it because you keep getting them removed.

[Ebro]

And they go, they're coming back. Because it's scar tissue. Yeah, scarring.

[Nikki]

This person had him on his ear also. That's why I thought it was cute. I don't know. I'm not a dermatologist.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Guys, thank you. Someone told me a story. So because of that meme and the toddlers looking to form these, a friend I was with told me a story. I don't want to say who because.

[Ebro]

Oh, here we go. Another Rosenberg. I had a couple.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, no, we're not bad. It's just hilarious. It's about his kid.

[Ebro]

So every episode. Where's your new drinking game?

[Laura Rosenberg]

He said, when my kid was little, he was like, I'll never forget the exact words. His kids are grown now. He said, I'll never forget the exact words my kid used. His son. They were walking on the boardwalk and a little person walked by. And when the little person walked by, he might have been three feet past him and his two year old son went, what was that? And they were like that. No, that's a, that's a little person. That's someone who, they're, they're, they're, they're a big person, but they're just, they're smaller. And two years old went, nope, not for me. I like my big people.

[Ebro]

Big. Yo.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Kids say crazy. Not for me. What are you talking. Why are kids, why do kids do these things?

[Ebro]

Nope, not because they're funny and they saw us do them. And then they apply it to the right. And they apply it to the right context at the wrong time.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Laura, what's Naomi Osaka outfit?

[Ebro]

That's, I threw that in there. That's from Ebro's Algo.

[Rahsaan Bascom]

All right, let's see.

[Laura Rosenberg]

What I don't know. This is 25 Wimbledon.

[Nikki]

She's been killing it, by the way.

[Chief Thomas Taffy]

Woo.

[Nikki]

All right, let's go.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Is this like a Japanese.

[Ebro]

Yeah, she's Japanese.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She's doing the whole.

[Ebro]

That was her, that was how she walked out. The Osaka Japanese look with the kimono.

[Laura Rosenberg]

She went full kimono to what point? Like till warm ups.

[Ebro]

Yeah. Just to walk in and you know, you know, it was just a photo moment and a homage to culture.

[Nikki]

Her stylists have been on it though. She's.

[Ebro]

But it's been a, yeah, it's been a reoccurring theme. Right. Like every, every match I, I, I enjoy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, she's been doing a different, like a theme, different looks.

[Nikki]

It's cool. I like It.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Let's see what else I have in here that we didn't get to. Oh, 24 the dream. Talking about the possibility of Hovito dropping music.

[Ebro]

Let's hit.

[Rahsaan Bascom]

Jay's always working. He's always working. Whether he puts it into this, you know, this thing and sell it or not is one thing, but he definitely has. He has smash records at the house. Yeah, I try not to bring them up because I just bother myself when I think about them. And you just literally ruined my day just by itself. You have no idea. Now I'm like, yo, let me go through the song. Yeah, that's a hit. That's a hit.

[Laura Rosenberg]

And, you know, have you ever.

[Ebro]

So nothing was basically nothing new. No new information.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Same thing he told us.

[Nikki]

Yes, I was gonna say. Sounds like what he said on our show.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He's. He keeps. He keeps saying there.

[Ebro]

I will say this, though. The Dream has fire music that he's put out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, his.

[Ebro]

That's available. Two new singles.

[Laura Rosenberg]

He does.

[Ebro]

Yeah. I think the album. Let me look the album. He's got a joint with Usher. That's crazy. And he's got this other joint. There's. Oh, man, y' all gotta get to the Patreon. Where we go through music, bro.

[Guest or caller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Big, big music.

[Ebro]

I ain't gonna hold you, bro. We really. I don't do a lot of things good, but one thing I will. The hill I will always die on is my ability to pick fire records. You ain't gonna take that from me. Ever in my life.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I think you're pretty good at picking fire records.

[Ebro]

Ever in my life.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But you're not gonna play it now, are you?

[Ebro]

No, we can't. Okay. Love Hate 2, which is out.

[Laura Rosenberg]

When's it out?

[Ebro]

It's out. The album comes out July 10th, so next Friday. But, yeah, he's got this record called Tampa with Usher and. And this joint I really love called Bring that Body. Speaking of the dream. So if you went to.

[Guest or caller]

If you.

[Ebro]

If you have an affinity for the dreams music like myself, I listen to

[Laura Rosenberg]

a lot of old dream. Lot of old dream.

[Ebro]

Nice. Got some great stuff in there, man. All right. We're doing things we. We missed. Do I have any more that I. I want to. I want to throw this up just because we were on it early.

[Rahsaan Bascom]

And.

[Ebro]

Shout out to Tamika Mallory, clip 20.

[Nikki]

Oh, you don't know how this. I just makes me so happy.

[Ebro]

No. People have picked up the baton on the easy pass.

[Rahsaan Bascom]

Corruption.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's this very personal Freeba.

[Nikki]

Yeah.

[Investigator Masa Saeedi]

The MTA connected us to Chief Thomas Taffy.

[Chief Thomas Taffy]

As part of government, we build things. People use these things and they have to pay to use these things. And when they pay, there are no fees.

[Investigator Masa Saeedi]

Let's talk about the fees online. The MTA says after 60 days, the fee is $50 for each unpaid toll. Are those one time fees?

[Chief Thomas Taffy]

I'm. I'd have to say that I don't know about the fee that you're talking about, but in general, once again, if you pay the toll, there will be no fees.

[Investigator Masa Saeedi]

But it's a question of notice and proportionality. So that's why we're hoping to get clarity on how the fees escalate and also the deals that the MTA makes. Some people get no discount, some people get an 80% discount. Are there written rules guiding who gets

[Chief Thomas Taffy]

a deal that I'm not aware of?

[Investigator Masa Saeedi]

The MT declined to answer our questions later stating email. Chief Taffy's on camera responses speak for themselves.

[Nikki]

He doesn't know they didn't speak for themselves.

[Ebro]

Well, and so I want to shout out Masa Saeedi who has, who's an investigator for CBS New York who has taken on this mission. Over the last several months. Tamika Mallory has now leaned in and created a collective of individuals putting pressure to not only on the mta, the Port Authority and, you know, the, the different, the state agencies and whatever to really figure out how we can get some alignment on these fees.

[Rahsaan Bascom]

Right.

[Ebro]

Like I don't even. I go through so many tolls in the day, I don't know who to talk to. There's five different agencies. How, how as a regular person am I supposed to figure out whatever happened

[Laura Rosenberg]

with your terrible situation when you had like tons and tons and tons.

[Ebro]

I went and found a lawyer and then they knocked off a bunch of fees and then I just paid the tolls.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Oh, really? You did? You fought? You fought? You had to fight payroll?

[Ebro]

I had to go find a lawyer that I know who does like traffic stuff.

[Nikki]

Yeah.

[Ebro]

And you know, I'm friends with a lot of black attorneys in the city, so I just call yo, you got a person with a. Yeah, call so and so. And then they'll call so and so.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But had you not been able to.

[Ebro]

If I'm a regular person. Nah.

[Nikki]

How long did it take you to do all this?

[Ebro]

Couple of weeks.

[Nikki]

Why are you laughing?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because if I was a regular person, but fortunately I'm not.

[Ebro]

Oh, God. I had to be honest with you because I wanted to basically say, yo, for regular people, you're not doing all

[Nikki]

that he's not wrong.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, it was just how it sounded was insane. But it was accurate.

[Nikki]

No, my Homegirl has an $18,000 bill right now.

[Ebro]

That's crazy.

[Nikki]

And she's trying to get answers, and she's, like, just going in circles.

[Ebro]

Well, let me see. I. Well, tell her I'll link her up with the attorney to help me.

[Nikki]

Follow Tamika Mallory, though.

[Ebro]

Follow Tamika Mallory. She's working on it. We gotta. We're trying to get her on the show, too. She's got a whole movement called in the toll trap. They actually, earlier this week had a. A virtual doubt Town hall. And so. Tolltrap.com.

[Laura Rosenberg]

tolltrap.com.

[Ebro]

Yeah, they want people to register. They've gotten state senators involved. They, you know, people are. Jumani Williams is involved because people can't get a straight answer. Yeah, people are really. And in. And in 2026, you're telling me if I have an account in New York and I'm traveling in Jersey, that the easy pass people in Jersey can't see my account in New York. Why.

[Laura Rosenberg]

That's crazy.

[Ebro]

And then if I go through and. Because, you know, the tunnels on the Hudson river are run by Port Authority. The tunnels on the east river are run by, I believe, the mta.

[Rahsaan Bascom]

Not.

[Ebro]

They don't talk. So let's just say I have an account. My account's paid, but I go through and it doesn't read. So I'm going to get a bill with fines. Because your thing didn't read my account that is active. And so that's now on me. You don't have a mechanism to now go. When you look at my account, say, oh, this account is active. There's a balance in there. But will just charge the account that doesn't exist.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Crazy madness. Well, this is tul.

[Ebro]

Am I asking too much?

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no. It's.

[Nikki]

It's wild.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's been insane. This is one of those many things in America. You go, they're just outright screwing us intentionally.

[Nikki]

Yeah. And because no one has ever found an answer or has been passionate enough to make noise and have a big platform, they just keep.

[Laura Rosenberg]

They just keep going and add the feeds.

[Ebro]

How long was I screaming on the radio about this?

[Laura Rosenberg]

10. It's got to be 10 years. They started because you screamed for a while about.

[Ebro]

No, I was screaming for a second. It was. It. Because it's bananas.

[Laura Rosenberg]

The bills, the amount of tickets you were getting in the mail at one time was. We never seen anything like it.

[Nikki]

It was crazy.

[Laura Rosenberg]

But. Okay, we gotta head over to Patreon.

[Ebro]

Okay.

[Laura Rosenberg]

You want to know how messy Bascom is, though? He literally tries to get my attention. He's like, hey, hey. And I'm like, what? And he's like, seven.

[Ebro]

Seven.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Look at number seven on our seven on things we miss.

[Ebro]

Why do you want to go to seven?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Because he just thinks I'm gonna unravel or something. And I watched the clip, and I wasn't even. It's a nothing burger, so.

[Ebro]

And just for the audience. So we're not keeping anything from you. The clip is basically, the headline was, Charlemagne defends Trump and calls Obama a hypocrite. That. That the video is actually him just saying that they didn't keep the same energy when they were in each other's face.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Meaning. And. But the language they used here makes it sound like Charlemagne is attacking Obama. All he's saying is, is that in the viral clip where Obama said, basically, when Trump sees me, he doesn't have the same energy as when he tweets about me. Charlemagne's kind of like, yeah, but you're

[Ebro]

the exact same way, right?

[Rahsaan Bascom]

Yeah.

[Laura Rosenberg]

It's not a crazy take at all. I mean, but this headline makes it sound like he was like, pro Trump. Why do you have me defending Charlamagne? Yo, we gotta go to Patreon.

[Ebro]

Listen, it's fact.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, I'm a man of honesty. I'm not gonna say there was nothing there. That's a nothing.

[Ebro]

But just so y' all know, a lot of these shows, it's the people behind the scenes, because Rahsaan Bascom wants to get a scummy clip that he could edit up and him and Luke and get the algorithm pumping.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, they do want to help move the show. Trying to do it.

[Ebro]

We've asked for other things to help move the show. How's that been going?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Come.

[Ebro]

What do you.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Come on, man. It's America 250. All right, we're. We're going to Patreon. If you want to enjoy Family Friday, we're going to continue there. See you on Patreon Friends.

[Ebro]

Later, y'. All. Yo, do we do an outro for this?

[Rahsaan Bascom]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ebro]

Patreon is where it's at on Fridays. Join us over there. Six months of giving y' all free. Ish. Now they like, yo, y', all, you all want to charge us?

[Laura Rosenberg]

Patreon.com Ebro Laura Rosenberg. Because, well, I had the thought the other day when I was. I had the thought. I'm like, kind of feel like we should probably be charging for more shows when I tell Ebro I feel like he's gonna push back against this and.

[Ebro]

Well, no, I just want to make sure the people who are paying get stuff. It's not like I don't want to charge. It's.

[Guest or caller]

I want.

[Laura Rosenberg]

No, no, no.

[Ebro]

It's not sure that we're actually giving them something.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Well, yeah. And also, in, like, at first I was like, oh, we've already done one thing. You can't change it. Then I was like, why? Why not? No, we did a really. We gave you the first seven months. Here's basically everything all the time, right? I don't know that that's a tenable long term plan. We're kind of figuring this out as we roll.

[Ebro]

So lock in.

[Laura Rosenberg]

Lock in on Patreon.

[Ebro]

Just don't call it a podcast.