The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 1.) The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - Leaving HOT 97, Drake DM's Ebro + What's Next (12/15/25)

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

Ebro, Laura Stylez & Rosenberg are back like they never left! With Laura tapping in as she heads with the family on her annual holiday trip, Ebro & Rosenberg sit down to discuss their departure from H...OT 97 and the ending of Ebro in the Morning on the station, their history with the station, Ebro receiving a DM from Drake, recent news, and what’s next! Stay tuned for latest updates: X: @theelrshow Tik Tok: @ebrolaurarosenberg New Instagram & Facebook pages coming soon…  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Just don't call in a podcast. Here we are. It's blood in the water. Ebro and Rosenberg. No Laura Stouse who, yo, you know what's crazy, bro? So we was going on vacation. Laura had a scheduled vacation.
Starting point is 00:00:21 As she does every year for a very long period. Every year. So she's stuck, by the way, again, having travel issues. By the way, and I'm of the thought that maybe she just shouldn't even planned a trip at this point. I travel a lot, Ebro, so do you. Knock on wood, neither of us have hit any of the terrible issues hit this year. Every time she stepped out, I feel like it's been a go leave the plane, come back, go to the airport. She's just told that she was stranded in New York or delayed in New York five hours, probably because of the snow that we just had, and then
Starting point is 00:00:58 got to Atlanta late for the connector flight. So they got, they're stuck in Atlanta. for whatever that's going to look like to get to their next destination. So maybe we'll hear from Laura Stiles later this week. Now, people want to want us to get to the news at hand. What would happen? What will get to? Oh. Yo, there's blood in the water, Roseburg.
Starting point is 00:01:19 It's blood in the water. No, that's crazy. Oh, they swirling. I want to shout out to Shoney Culture Cast 1, DJ Juanito. The ones who are still over there. You know, keep doing your thing. Stay focused. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:01:33 I want shout out to Funk Flex for the, you know, for the love. You know what I mean? Bro was emotional, so that's love. I have mixed feelings on all of this. I think I don't know. You know, Flex doesn't think you like it. That's really what it is. And you don't think Flex likes you.
Starting point is 00:01:50 Flex told you that or you just think that? No, Flex told me that before. He doesn't think I like him. He don't think you like him full stop. Or, and then he also has said to me, man me and Rosenberg man it's just like it's like man I respect him so much but you know like we just can't like we don't vibe and I said well because y'all are the same
Starting point is 00:02:13 and he was like what do you mean I said well you're you're both sensitive you're both um like super super like proud and stubborn and you're both um don't trust nobody but I'm not but he that's really the don't trust I'm more trusting I I overtrust at times. He really doesn't trust anyone. And I think I get that energy from him. And it makes me not trust him.
Starting point is 00:02:39 Well, because he, because y'all are the same. But, but we are, I mean, we are both, Leo, he's a Leo too, right? Yeah,
Starting point is 00:02:45 he's a Leo too. So we're, there is a weird, I love, I love for flex. I love flex. I care for him. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:02:52 I just, there's always been, not always. We have this back and forth. We're like, we're good. We're not quite good. But yo,
Starting point is 00:02:58 he's been that way with you before too. Yeah. Yeah. But I think some of that is just like, that's just familial, you know, static. You know what I'm saying? In the system. It's like, you know, Cass was like, yo, Flex was like, yo, should I do this?
Starting point is 00:03:14 I was like, of course. Do your job, be? Like, we work for a company. But then the difference between me and you is, is I didn't have the call with him yet. So he called Ebro during the day, Friday. He didn't call me till late Friday night, and I still haven't talked to him. Well, I've talked to him multiple times. And now you talked to him.
Starting point is 00:03:32 So I didn't. So you had the emotional talk with him. I haven't heard him. So it's easier for me on the outside to say, like, come on, E, bro. There's no way he didn't know about all of this. No way. That's Funk Flex. He knows everything, bro.
Starting point is 00:03:47 But I think they, so I think, you know, look. Which Lannister is he? Which character is he? He knows everything, bro. He's probably, what's the little bro name? The brother. The guy who knows everything who just walks around. No, no.
Starting point is 00:04:01 The Lannister brother, who we kind of all rooted for, wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't doing incest with Ceresy, and he wasn't, it was, um, Griff, which Lannister are we talking about? You there, Griff? Tyrion. Tyrion. Oh, you meant literally, well, you meant literally the little guy.
Starting point is 00:04:21 Yeah, I meant the little guy. Oh, okay, Terry. I would have said, I didn't know you. Right, because Tyrion was kind of like a good dude. Like, he wanted to be a good dude, but unfortunately he was a Lannister. And he had to play the games he had to play. And he had to play the games he had to play. Look, Flex's, Flex has been doing this a long time.
Starting point is 00:04:37 It's Flex's responsibility and his passion to put what he loves first, which is DJing and being on that radio and figuring out how to do that as much as he can. Me, on the other hand, I had one obligation. My one, or two, I had an obligation to the audience to make sure I got up there every morning and said the things that needed to be said whether they were uncomfortable or not. And I had an obligation to us as a team. Those are the two obligations I've had.
Starting point is 00:05:08 A lot of people don't know, man. I've been working for Apple for 10 years, bro. Yeah. 10 years. And so that's really my primary job. And by the way, and are you saying from the beginning part also that like you're also a little different
Starting point is 00:05:23 in that you were comfortable for a long period of time not being on the radio. Like that doesn't have to be your. That's not my thing. I don't have to be, it's not, yeah. Like, a lot of people don't know that. They think, and then also people think, like, I wanted to be back on the radio. Like, that was a thing because I think most people want to be on.
Starting point is 00:05:43 They want to be hot. They want to be whatever. I've been off the air, on the air, brand stations, supported shows, produce shows. I've done a lot of different stuff. It's not really like I have to be on the air to pay my, right. Pay my bills. No, me, I'm more like flexing that way too, where it's like, yeah, I need to be. I want to be talking all the time.
Starting point is 00:06:05 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And look, man, I appreciate all the love and support, man. A lot of people call. A lot of people's like, yo, chin up. You know, because when that fired comes out, people, oh, man. Oh, it's different. Yo, and then, yo, my favorite shit right now is the blood and the water shit.
Starting point is 00:06:25 What do you say? What do you mean? Ah, the blood in the water shit is my favorite shit. now you just, the people who've been waiting for you, they're just waiting, they hate your guts. They're like, oh, yes. This is like, no, there's a holiday gift to some people. They are excited.
Starting point is 00:06:41 But I saw the same thing and I got some of it as well. But like they really aren't aware that this was not our primary thing anymore and like hadn't been for a long time. How do they not know that? Well, because they don't listen to the show. And they don't really pay attention to us like that. And I think also, I think, I think also like
Starting point is 00:07:00 as much as people try to say radio doesn't matter it matters especially developed heritage brands yeah yeah you know what I mean my favorite my favorite thing too and this is how this is how out of their gourd people are people are like oh now you want to be on YouTube
Starting point is 00:07:23 I saw the same thing I was like I bet I want to come to YouTube Now that we started YouTube now they want to come to YouTube But it was like y'all haven't been watching us on YouTube this entire time? No for a long time for like a really long. I've been on YouTube since 2005 doing Smack Fest. No Smack Fest was the original radio station on YouTube thing before podcasting on YouTube was ever a thing.
Starting point is 00:07:54 We were doing radio on YouTube before podcasts were on YouTube. people going to make up whatever narrative they're going to make up. And you and you know what? Everybody's doing it for entertainment. Look, even the way I live in. No, some of it's for actual pure hate. Like, no, like real in their heart anger. Like getting it in.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Well, no. And the other thing I love too was cats really got up on Saturday morning to do a morning to do a morning show about us. Like cats that don't, yo, it was cats that was up at 6 a.m. What do you mean? No, no, no, no. They did a show, two hour shows at 6 a.m. Who did?
Starting point is 00:08:28 like we would. Oh, you mean podcasting? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, they was, they was delivered. They was ready to deliver the news. Oh, no, we got to have the news has to be delivered here. Yeah, no, we didn't matter. It's crazy because we haven't mattered for so long, though. It was not a good time for that.
Starting point is 00:08:43 No, I had the same thing. So the one thing I will say I liked was, actually, hold on. Let me just tell the story real quick. So Thursday night, I get, obviously if you listen to the show, and most people watching this have been listening, we've been hinting at this for a good year and it ramped up
Starting point is 00:09:00 I mean more than hinting hinting. Day before I said you might want to follow us this could be it. I said it Friday. No, no, no, Trump, when Trump got elected this time around, I was like, y'all, this might be it. You can go back and look at the tapes. I was like, they're coming for media.
Starting point is 00:09:18 They're coming for media this time. It's been heating up for a long time. So then Thursday night, I randomly get a text from the guy under the guy who's the person we deal with. And he sends me a text and he goes, hey, do you have a few minutes tomorrow for me to run a few things by you at 10 a.m. And I said, I texted Ebro and Laura. Griff told me he's called Head of Audio.
Starting point is 00:09:41 Okay, I'll play along. So I hit up Ebro and Lord. And I go, did you guys, I said, they want to talk to me at 10 a. m tomorrow. And Ebro, Laura, both go, me too. And I'm like, wait, how do they have a meeting set with us that we don't? or Ebro immediately Spidey senses kick in. He goes, oh, guys, this could be it.
Starting point is 00:09:56 This could be it. And I'm like, no, this isn't it. Then I started doing the math, though. The history of radio is right before the holidays. Every time. I'm working without a deal. Laura's working without a deal. How long have you been out of your deal?
Starting point is 00:10:12 Five months, six months, maybe longer. I don't even remember. It's been a back and forth. And Laura's the same thing. She's been going back and forth. I've been going back and forth. Ibrose has been going back and forth, but he still had a deal. So I'm like up.
Starting point is 00:10:25 And then I'm like, oh, but I bro's deal is almost up. Like, and it's Christmas. We were going to be gone for three full weeks. This is a chance for them to start doing whatever they were going to do and hope they could just ease their way into the year. He might be right. So I woke up that morning with a weird feeling on Friday and debated when we got on the air.
Starting point is 00:10:44 Should we like get into it? Like radio, this is it. Like we're doing now. Should we do this on Friday? But I was like, Yeah, we'd already prepared Freedom Friday. Like we, so we- I like this version better, though.
Starting point is 00:10:56 I think it ends up being better. We hinted at it, moved on. I went to go get a haircut. Five minutes early. He changed it to 10-15, because I guess he called Ebro first. I don't know. I mean, I'm assuming.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Yeah, because when I called you, you already knew. Oh, okay, all right, right. But I didn't know, I didn't know if I got, I don't know. I just thought maybe we connected at a time. I didn't know what happened. Yeah, so I guess he kept you at 10.
Starting point is 00:11:20 He hit music. can we do 1015? I'm like, all right, he calls me at 1010. All he said. And this is the only reason, honestly, because I've been really thinking about doing this for a long time. And it's been it's been a cloud over me. And I've been the really curmudgeonly one for a long time. The only thing that bugged me is the way it went down was just so classic radio. I hadn't been, like I just didn't expect it at this stage of my career to get the, hey, this is so-and-so. I'm here with so-and-so from legal. That's how the call started. Hey, it's so and so. I'm here with so and so from legal.
Starting point is 00:11:53 I went, okay? He went, Peter, today's going to be your last day. You've been terminated. And that wording after nearly 20 joints was a crazy. I was like, you didn't just hit me with the, I've been at the auto plant for 20 years. You didn't just. Yo, but Rosenberg, how many times on the air, many times have we talked? about, hey, y'all, we just guys with jobs, bro.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Like, we're happy to be up here. We got jobs. They own these microphones. They own the licenses. It's a classic Ebro line. They on the microphone. I'm going to do what I do. It's going to get the numbers.
Starting point is 00:12:37 They can walk in here tomorrow and decide that they want to do something else. And so then I go, the lady jumps in. And I was like, oh, ma'am, this is very Ebro. I was like, oh, ma'am, I don't know you. I don't know you. We're going to, you can talk to Dipperstein. I'm not going to have, that's my manager. I was like, I'm not going to have a conversation with you.
Starting point is 00:12:56 Exactly. I said, I'm good, but I said, but then I went, but I said to the guy, I went, but yo, my man, that's how you hit me. I went, you hit me last night with a couple of things to run by you. So wait, now, why are you not saying his name, though? I don't know. I just like, why, Bob? I don't know any of the anything's, so why bother?
Starting point is 00:13:13 No one knows him anyway. So why, you know what I have logic is in the moment? I mean, they shout in the mouth all the time. Oh, they do? Well, listen, you can feel comfortable. I don't give a shit. No, I was just wondering if you knew something I didn't know. No, I don't.
Starting point is 00:13:26 I just, I just have never mentioned it. I guess, I get, look, for me, I think it's this. My biggest pain in all of this is the reason I continue to do that job was because I felt we was doing a great service in the city of New York. That's, you know, look, I was interviewing politicians and local politics and talking about shit that was going on in the streets and voting and shit before. was the end thing to do. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? So it became the end thing
Starting point is 00:13:56 and, you know, a lot of people talk about it and, you know, but that, and we've talked about this many times too. I feel weird every time we said, we've talked about this, told you so, we've talked about this. But I guess it needs to be said. Talking about politics
Starting point is 00:14:13 and having an opinion on politics on a corporate-run media entity is always real. And I think that's the most important piece about, I think, what everybody should be paying attention to now. And I see a lot of people in the comments. I see a lot of people, you know, now we could just talk about, now we could just listen to the music. Now we could just play rap records. And I'm going to tell you some, being black, making those rap records is political.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Hip hop is political. Now, it's going on to become pop music and just for the charts and, and all that. And yes, it's for having a good time. But being black and having a good time is political, bro. In a society that's trying to erase you, having a good time, finding joy is political. And for the white people who wanted to be a part of it, it was clearly political. It was like, I'm making it. a political cultural choice about what I'm into.
Starting point is 00:15:25 And it's a statement. When you were in the 90s and you were a real white boy who loved hip hop, that was your cultural identity, which of itself was a political statement. But I just needed that to be said because there's a lot of people who just want this. Look, man, cats record music talking about what they've been through and what's going on with them and friends who are dying and their, their, uh, uh, aspirations. that's political when you black, man. But remember now, so the people that were, quote, competing with, the people who are, you know, they've been on YouTube, they've been streaming.
Starting point is 00:16:06 It's not political to most of them. I'm not talking about Joe Bud and someone, he gets it, right? There's some people who obviously get it. But a lot of them, Ebro, it's fun music and it's money and it's popping shit and it's being lit. They don't have any political lens. They think the only conversation to have is, are you getting? money or not. That's it. So they don't, we're playing different sports.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Yo, so I jumped on X because that's where the cesspools. Oh, it's, it's the worst I've ever seen it. No, it's so good, though. It's so good. So I put up a tweet. Let me see here. Wow, DJ Vlad is still tweeting. Wait, he's still going? Yeah. He's one of the ones I'm thinking about. He loves the money. He loves money talk.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Um, let me see. I forgot what I somebody said something and I said that's because Drake is right wing. Yeah, you said, you said, you said that's because Drake and AC are both right wing. Drake leaves comment under post about Ebro's morning show getting canceled and he threw up an axe because, you know, I got axed. And, um, and I said, that's because Drake is right wing and so is, so is sack. I called him SAC. I like that, too. But I didn't think that was controversial.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Like, is that it? Sacademics, sack of shit openly campaigned for Trump. He went to Mar-a-Lago. He was on Rumble. That's not. I didn't think that was controversial. Then, and I, and Drake was on podcast with people who were openly and supporting podcasts for people who was openly,
Starting point is 00:17:53 campaigning for Trump. Oh yeah, gifting them Rolexes and, you know, rubbing up on the sack. And so, you know, the community notes, readers added context. You know, that's my favorite on X. Drake has never openly said which side of political aisle he is on. However, there are times when he has openly supported left-wing causes. And so then everybody put up causes he supported, left-wing causes he supported. I don't, what's a left-wing cause, by the way? Charity? I mean, I think, yeah, I think he's, I'll put it this way. I think you're oversimplifying if you say Drake's right wing. Like, I get why you did it and I, you know, I do go.
Starting point is 00:18:34 But yeah, like he was on the artist for ceasefire list. Like he does do things that are not in line with right wing. And he definitely didn't used to be. If he is that, it's definitely. Well, Marjorie Taylor Green is currently on the politicians for ceasefire. Is she not right wing? It says, wow, hold on. Very good point.
Starting point is 00:18:56 I'm at, do I have an air horn? Like, what are we talking about? That's fair. That's fair. You're right. That doesn't mean that. Our sound effects are trash in this new iteration. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:19:08 Well, you know, it's early. It's early. It's day one. It's day one. Listen, we got. No, that's a fair point. But anyway, I just love that. But speaking of Drake, are we going to talk about these DMs?
Starting point is 00:19:22 Oh, that's where you want to go already? I mean, what else? I mean, listen. Well, yeah, so I called Ebro. I called Ebro. I thought maybe it was just me who got smoked because I was already outside my deal, et cetera. And Ebro picked up. He's like, yo, I'm like, I guess you already know the news.
Starting point is 00:19:39 He's like, they clipped you. I was like, yep. And he was like, me too. Ha! And then I felt, that felt good. Because I thought I was like, oh, am I out here on my own? This is trash. And then I was like, damn, they got all of us.
Starting point is 00:19:52 And then we waited. We hit the group text. And like five minutes later here. It was Laura with the, they got me too. And then the surprise one for me was Griff went through. Yo, I didn't know Griff was going to get clip. Why didn't clip Griff? I was like Griff is one of the most hardworking
Starting point is 00:20:06 generally, like just keeps his head down. It supports everything. Supports everything. Shows up to summer. I didn't think that. By the way, also, dumb. Dumb. Are you going to try to launch a new show? You probably want an experienced morning show. Y'all are, that's dumb.
Starting point is 00:20:21 And also, it's important. Natalie said this to me yesterday. It's very important. when I talk about my frustration, which will happen over time, I really want to make a clear delineation. You are never going to hear me talk shit about Hot 97. That place is literally in my DNA. You will only hear me talk shit about Mediaco.
Starting point is 00:20:37 The company that now owned them. I don't want to come like, Hot 97 for me will always have a positive connotation. No, that's so much longer. It's literally, that's us. Well, and I think too, Hot 97, once again, my commitment to Hot 97 was really based. around what it meant in New York City and for the greater community, right? I say it a thousand times, man. A lot of the work that I did up there and given space so we can have the conversations
Starting point is 00:21:07 with activists in the community, supporting AOC before anybody supported AOC, having Mom Donnie up before that was the cool thing to do. You know, like Jamani Williams, Erica Ford, you know, shout out to Dana Ratchel. Shout to Tamika Mallory and my son. Like, we, we did a lot of work in creating Carmen Perez. You know, man, we had- It goes on and on, though. You're naming the main ones who we've had repeating.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Yo, Rosenberg and them used to make fun of me, son. Because we would do, like, real activist talk. And they would be like, yo, this is going to get a thousand views on you. No, a thousand. Yeah, that was, well, that was what things were better. And I'll be like, yo, man, I don't care, man. We're doing it. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:52 No, and I'm like, we again, we just did this. But I guess the tough thing. No, he's Sharif on the cooler in menaces society. Like, you just come on, man. Now, me, I, listen, if you make your moves in the community and you're trying to better people's lives and figure out how to get them through the next day, the next week, the next year, man, I'm trying to make space for you, man.
Starting point is 00:22:10 Straight up. Like, that's just, I don't know. That's how I was raised in radio. That's why I love it. You know what I mean? I'm a radio kid, man. I've been doing this house 15 years old. I've done everything at a radio station.
Starting point is 00:22:22 like literally everything you could pot other than sell advertising you never did sales huh i never did sales but i did marketing though man let me go delete what i just wrote would you write man well i saw because you mentioned it i saw that what academics had just posted about what which got me tight because it's not true he wrote um he wrote how to d'ybro and rosenberg employed for almost two decades even though they were never the top show in their market were probably unprofitable their last 10 years. And the day they get let go, the first thing they do is trash the company
Starting point is 00:22:59 instead of being appreciative for what the company did for them. That ungrateful attitude is what keeps employees like this forever employees. They'll say the same thing about the next company that fires them. And I wrote, hey, bitch, been nothing but gratitude. Get off my nuts. I shouldn't. That's not what I did. Wait, what did we do?
Starting point is 00:23:16 We trashed the company. You know, these guys are obsessed, bro. It really does. It does. No, they're, what they are is they're gunning for slots. They licking boots and gunning for slots. There's blood. That's why it says blood in the water, bro.
Starting point is 00:23:28 They licking boots and gunning for slots because who, if you're, if you're any of these guys, you would love to have access to the artists and the frequency and the brand in some way, shape, or form. And the floodgates are open. Right? And by the way, they're going to be trying. trying stuff up there as they should. They try new talent, you know, try, give people shots.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Like, all of that should be a go, I think, no. What do you mean to try for it? Yeah. They're not going to put a 55-year-old white cop on the air. I'm sorry. That's not, that doesn't make sense. But it might, though. Well, because they get views.
Starting point is 00:24:11 True. If it gets views, that's all that matters, man. All that matters is, is it getting views, man. All right, I updated my post. I think this is better. What'd you say? I said, that's a lie, and they're still not hiring you unless they need a cop for security. Better or no?
Starting point is 00:24:34 Now, while we're here, man, Rob Reiner and this story with his, yo. Oh, I like how you tease the Drake stuff and then you say, but let's get to the news of the day. That's a good point. You know, the Rob Reiner shit's fucking horrible, bro. So wait, what's the story? His son is the suspect? Oh, I didn't know. I haven't seen that yet.
Starting point is 00:24:49 Oh, son. He hasn't seen that. His son is the suspect? Yo, what really, we're really crushing. And Griff says the son is a drug addict. Yo, what really crushes me about stories like this is that Rob Reiner, who has been in our lives since we were conscious of what entertainment was.
Starting point is 00:25:11 All in the family. Our whole lives. You have this life. Now, obviously, he had hard parts of his life we don't know about, particularly if he had a drug addict son that is suspected of killing him. So I'm not saying his life was perfect. He obviously had shit going on. But to a.
Starting point is 00:25:26 have lived a life of that much success, doing that much cool stuff, seemingly being happy. And then when you're 78, whether it's his son or not, you get stabbed in your home to death with your wife. Ebro, it's like your whole life, no matter how good it was, ends up being tragic. He made it to 78 and his life's still tragic to me. Like, that's so fucking ass. Damn. No, it's bad.
Starting point is 00:25:51 It's not good. It's not what you're saying? You're going to step all the way out of the limb? Let me jump out on and let me and say. It's not what you want. It's lit. And it's sad. And I want to go a step further.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Yeah. Not only is it not what you want. It's sad. This is, no, it's super. And, yo, Rob Reiner was, damn, it was throat slit by family member. That's the headline TMZ has. Oh, man. Throat slid by a family member, possibly after an argument inside their home.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Oh, my. Yo, I, I mean, and I immediately thought of Marvin Gay getting shot by his dad. Yo, can I tell you the truth? Is this crazy to say? I know you can't say worse than being shot by your dad. Throat slitting of a family member may take the cake over shooting. No, no, no, no, no, it's different. I'll get you this.
Starting point is 00:26:44 It's different. Shooting is insane, but there's a distance from it. And you did this thing. And you're like, oh, my God. Slitting. Knifing someone is so intimate? It's so, it's the, it's so intimate. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:26:58 piece to the Rob Reiner and his wife. That's a horrible piece of news. All right. Now, speaking of violence, I hear they're coming at you with violent DMs. Um, do we have, I sent it to you. I'm not sure it makes sense. You want me to pull it up? I created a video of the DM. No, no, because. Give me a moment. You, you set the scene. All Laura's on the plane. So call us. She'll jump on the yard real quick. We got our first special guest. Laura Stiles. Laura Stiles.
Starting point is 00:27:28 All right. Let me see if I can do this right. So this is officially Ebro, Lauren Rosenberg. Please share. Please subscribe. It's the beginning. We don't know what the eventual like other things are going to be, but this YouTube place that we're in. Thank you to everyone who invented YouTube, by the way. We appreciate you.
Starting point is 00:27:47 And shout to the YouTube team over there reaching out to show us love and supply us with support in any way, shape, or form. Okay, okay. I want to do... Yeah, Griff, we're talking about the Rob Reiner thing, just one last piece of how sad it is. The daughter found them. Oh, Jesus Christ. So it affected the whole family.
Starting point is 00:28:08 The whole family's destroyed. So she lost... Wait, and if you're the daughter, that means you lost your parents and your son did it? I mean, your brother did it? Yeah. No, it's terrible. It doesn't get more terrible.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Is it going to let me do this? Let's see. Doesn't get more terrible than that. Google Chrome may not be able to They may not let me show me Now I'm gonna tell you one of my hottest tweets I am You got a hot one? I got a hot one
Starting point is 00:28:38 All right Do people actively discuss how great a peanut butter And jelly sandwiches? That got a lot of engagement It got huge engagement Food talk Damn why is it not letting me do this? This sucks
Starting point is 00:28:53 By the way there's anyone out there Who feels that way Who doesn't feel that way? Oh my wife's not into peanut butter and jelly She's not? divorce her right now whoa whoa whoa can't be trusted really can't be trusted she doesn't it's not like she hates it she doesn't it doesn't connect for her it wasn't a thing in her house
Starting point is 00:29:11 she doesn't like care isn't that crazy I don't I don't know I don't know how I don't know how you don't care I hate peanut butter never had a PBNJ Griff Griff can't be trusted either no wonder they fired all right now you support that let him go so you guys had some you guys had some shit back and forth that was funny to see from 2020. There was love. It was all love in 2020. It was nice in 2020. It looks like you cleaned it up. Cleaned what up? No, like we're, because you guys had already had weird moments pre-2020,
Starting point is 00:29:45 for sure. I'm here to remind you. You forget. But it had like, mine weren't as bad as yours. Maybe not. Maybe not. But there'd be there had been the back and forth. I never threatened to beat him up a Hebrew school. Fact. That was a, that was, that was something I said. Now, I went, what was the quote again? It was good. It was so classic. Well, for me. Yeah. What did you say? say you say yeah he wouldn't have been he was acting tough about meek mill and for some reason it bothered me and you said what about hebrew school and i said i said he wouldn't have been the toughest kid in hebrew school or like i nah you said it's somebody's name oh i gave a name you were like you weren't tougher than i don't
Starting point is 00:30:21 know let's see if i if i if i if i google peter rosenosa lucas or somebody no lucas peter rsloomo i've always threw slomo loose you love using slomo um which there was no kid named shloombo um which there was no kid named Shlomo in Hebrew school. When I damn, I said a lot. Oh, here it is. Oh, man. Here's the quote. This is good.
Starting point is 00:30:46 I said, at Drake wouldn't have been the toughest kid in my Hebrew school. Stop. Make hits for the club. Don't try to be hard, please, ever. And before people start going at me, let me remind you, I don't care what Drake stands have to say ever. Damn, I really, I don't hate Drake at all. He's super talented.
Starting point is 00:31:00 He's taking hip hop to a great place, but trying to be hard and stir things up is lame. that's not good enough for the OVO hosts they're coming from other bad that's they're gonna bring that back up I said disappointed in Drake someone has has you really gas bro dissing hot in New York City meek meek in Philly you're an actor bro
Starting point is 00:31:18 you're as soft as me I don't know because I guess I guess he he tried to talk shit after the meek thing was over but you the thing you're talking about with the names was I think when we talked about it on the air I think I added more sauce to it um all right let me just read
Starting point is 00:31:34 the thing. So now out of the blue with everything that's happened, apparently someone posted about our show ending, they posted a clip of Ebro talking about it, and Drake put the axe emoji under it. Yeah. And it got reported everywhere because that's the error we live in. And Drake
Starting point is 00:31:50 knows that, by the way. He knows one emoji if his gets fucking posted. If it's something like that. Well, first I want to say, Drake, I appreciate the promo. No, by the way, that's huge. It's a big look. Even though it hasn't been the best run recently, you're still one of the biggest in the game, so we really appreciate that. Oh, look. I'm told, I'm told while I was looking,
Starting point is 00:32:10 guess what? Hold on. Look what I'm, Whoa, our first guest. Laura Stouse checks in. Our first guest on Ibro, Laura Rosenberg is Laura. Wow. And the fan. I'm in travel hell, but I just wanted to check and say, hi, I'm going on a vacation. I need a break.
Starting point is 00:32:30 Yes. We already told them that part. We told them that part. Don't get in too much trouble. I'm Save all the good stuff for later. Well, no, you saw Drake's DM to me? I did. I did. Now, first, before we shared, do you think I handled it good? I think you did.
Starting point is 00:32:47 I'm proud of you. You didn't go too crazy. Not too bad. No, it's not too bad. It's not too bad. Not too bad. I mean, he had to add a little spice in there. I'm okay with that.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Yeah, he, no, bro really like, bro is really trying to come at me. No, I'm going to read. I'm going to read, Laura. We were about to read it right now. I'm about to share this with the people. Okay, read it. Read it before I get kicked out. All right, here we go.
Starting point is 00:33:09 So out of the blue at 3.30. It said 3.30 yesterday, Ebro, so that means to me Friday night into Saturday, 3.30 in the morning is what I'm thinking this is. No, I thought, yeah. Well, yesterday would be Sunday. But you saw it. Sunday. You saw it this morning. Okay, so Saturday night into Sunday, 3.30 in the morning. Yeah. I'm going to, Laura, I'm going to mute your.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Yeah, mute yourself, Laura. Just listen to us. Here we go. So, so 330. a.m. Saturday into Sunday. Drake DM's Ebro. Die slower, pussy. We got some shit for you. Ebro replies, relax. You're salty about losing to Kendrick. You're not mad at me. Love, bro. No, it's a good response. Honestly, I think it's great. That's a really good response. He's not mad at me. Why would you be mad at me? Mad of me for what? No, no, he's that I'm stop. He's definitely mad at you. And he's been mad at you.
Starting point is 00:34:07 He's, he's a hundred percent mad at him. Why would he send him? He mad at me for what would I do? And you surpassed me. Literally, it's the most loose DM he's ever sent you. That's great. No, that's, that's, and by the way, if I were you, I would do what Drake would do. Sue, feels like a threat.
Starting point is 00:34:23 Oh, shit. Feels like a threat. Yo, die. It feels like a threat. He said die, and then we got some shit for you. I'm going to court like you, Drizzi. I'm going to court. Yo, Rosenberg.
Starting point is 00:34:34 You got lawyers in your family. You're Jewish. Who you got for me? We got plenty. Who do you need? Line them up. Who wants? Yo, I mean, look, I lost one of my jobs, though, so I need that like.
Starting point is 00:34:45 No, no. Great. Well, no. How about this? They only get paid on the win. We need someone who only gets paid on the win. How much I got to give them, though? Like 50% is it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:34:53 It's probably pretty high for that, like 30, 40%. It might be. But it's worth it. But it's money I wasn't expecting, so I'm down. You could get a few million right now. You can get a few million right now. Die slower pussy. No, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:35:04 It's crazy. No, by the way, bro, what's wrong with you? And that goes right back to the things I was saying in 2016. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. I know. I'm not saying you don't know hard people, but stop it. You are not that.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Stop. And what do you have for me? Like, what, what, what? That's what I'm saying. Like, what do you have? What is it? What's the special delivery? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:24 What do you have for him? That's the threat. It's probably. Listen, I love you. I got to go. Love you. Bye, love you. Travel safe.
Starting point is 00:35:29 Check in with us. We're going to do. We're going to be. Listen, we got a show to do stuff. I'm, uh, Sue. It's unfortunate that Drake decided to take that bad. By the way, let me add context. The thing that sent him over the top that put him into,
Starting point is 00:35:49 I hate his guts territory, like a die slow pussy when you're drunk at night. He was up sipping Cavassier late at night vibes. You think, you know, you think Drake sips Cavasier. Yeah, it feels like in a big, you know. You think he's a Cavatina. And uh, whatever. Doesn't he have his own alcohol? Whatever it is he's sipping late at night.
Starting point is 00:36:06 But the thing that sent him there is the poison thing. Oh, Drake is a sickness. A Drake is a, Drake is a, sorry, sorry, Drake is a sickness. And even whenever you tried to explain it further, it never got that much better sounding. And the headline was only Drake's a sickness. Oh, yeah, because his fans are sick off of his brain.
Starting point is 00:36:27 They're sick. They're out of their minds. Sick. He is a sickness. So that. Out of their. mind. I think that that sent him into like some other level with you. No, the hyper fandom sickness. Oh, the way, when did his when did his fans get this way? It's only the battle
Starting point is 00:36:44 that did this, right? They weren't like this. They're worse than Barbes, bro. They're like man barbs. We should start calling them Marbs because they are the fucking worst these people. They're insane. They didn't, yo, I used to think Drake fans were just hot girls like my wife, your wife. That's what Drake fans were. When did they become virgin? who just sit around like he's the greatest. We hate Kendrick. When did that? I don't know, bro.
Starting point is 00:37:07 I don't know. I don't know. I really want to have somebody come on one day and talk about the hyper fandom. Somebody who actually works in the kind of bot business. Like somebody who has done this, if you're out there, please reach out to us. Like what do you want to understand?
Starting point is 00:37:31 Info at ebro laura rosenberg.com. Oh, do we have that? Is it an actual address? We'll make it. It's happening right now. Okay. Info at ebro laura rosembourg.com. I really want to understand because it, so it was articulated to me that the way it works is marketing budgets allocate dollars.
Starting point is 00:37:59 Oh, it's Ebro Laura Rosenberg at gmail.com. There you. That's what it is. go. You can use that. Ebro Laura Rosenberg at gmail.com. But no, set up the info at ebrolor rosembourg.com because we have that website. Ebro Laura Rosenberg. Yeah, but we're not able to set it up today. So go with the first one for now. All right. Use the Gmail. But anyway, it was articulated to me that marketing budgets were allocated. And then from those marketing budgets, there are individuals who will sit at home and they're a part of multiple like fandom groups.
Starting point is 00:38:33 because I've actually, and I'm not going to say any names, I've actually met people who are fans of one group and they were also in the other groups of warring factions, by the way. And they just jump on social media. So sometimes some of the people you see arguing, they're arguing with themselves to create the engagement. It's the way it was told to me.
Starting point is 00:39:02 And so they're paid like via cash apps and PayPal's. And you think that's, do you think that's where these people are? Because yo, bro, when I posted the stuff about Drake, I get ratioed so bad. It's so fast. And it's like, well, you people aren't following me. How are you seeing? How do you immediately see everything? Well, but it's also like, but if you pay these companies enough money, these tech companies,
Starting point is 00:39:33 enough money, there has to be ways to control narratives, right? Like these platforms can create and control narratives, bro. Like, that's the thing. I wrote, because I wrote, where did the thing go? Maybe it was a comment so I don't see a pop up on my page, but it immediately got ratioed out of control. And then the same thing I wrote, I used to think of Drake fans as attractive women who like to party.
Starting point is 00:40:00 Now it's like weird Twitch commenters who are absolutely virgins. immediately ratioed. So you just tweeted that minutes ago? No, no, that was yesterday. I tweeted that one. Oh, got it. Like, that immediately ratioed. Like, everything, it's just, it's just weird.
Starting point is 00:40:18 And I never thought of Drake. Oh, here it is. Yeah, bro, I posted, when I hit the, when the Drake complex posted, Drake replies to Ebro in the morning's cancellation announcement. And I wrote it's behavior like this that has made it impossible for people to defend the whack shit. he does. But happy Hanukkah, my one time pal, I truly wish you well, even if you're celebrating
Starting point is 00:40:38 what you believe is our demise. Spoiler alert, we're about to be much bigger now that we won't be held back by a company that is and has been completely lost ever since they bought the station. And 945 retweets, 1.6,000 comments, and I'd say 1.5,000 of them are just, fuck you, I get people like you. I mean, they think that we, they really, think we hate Drake too they think like yo I saw the funniest comment I've ever seen Joe Button went on Logan Paul's podcast and Logan Paul's co-host said so so who do you think actually won the Drake Kendrick battle and the look on Joe's face is exactly how I felt I'm like what do you mean actually there's only Drake was like I think I think what everyone
Starting point is 00:41:29 thinks what like what are we I can't understand Jake Paul's co-host. No, Logan Paul's. Or whoever. Yeah. It's indicative of people who are, who really only like hip hop for the engagement that it gives on social media and internet. They don't really listen to it.
Starting point is 00:41:49 Or hearing it in the party. Or whatever. That's the extent of it. And so to them, they think the winner was decided by what took place on social media. Right. Wait. And do you think Kendrick lost on social media?
Starting point is 00:42:05 Well, no, it was up for debate on social media. Oh, it was some debate. Got it. Because they both had it. It was like, nah, they bought bots or these streams, the streams. Yo, by the way, who had the most streams is the winner. Like, none of those things were what I was looking at. How Trump- How-epping?
Starting point is 00:42:19 How Trumpy is it that the Drake people were like, they cheated? When you know they cheated. Because Drake's right wing. He literally, it is a straight Trumpism move to go. We know they cheated. We're going to have an election, but it's not going to be fair. The result, like he did it from the beginning. And then what did he do when he lost?
Starting point is 00:42:42 It's not fair. I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm going to court. And I'm going to court just like Trump. But don't say that because Drake's not right right. According to the community notes on X. Yeah, said he's not right way. Well, I mean, I guess they're not proof he's right.
Starting point is 00:42:57 He's never publicly said his political stance. Which is part of why we give Drake a hard. time in the first place. Well, and that's also one of our most recent and triggered the hell out of you. No, that triggered me. When he played with the N-word
Starting point is 00:43:13 and he played with Kendrick wants to free the slaves, all of that as a half-white Canadian, you'll never forget. I'll never forget. I never forget him using his white mother to tell him to not use the N-word on a beef record. And the first word out of his mouth was the N-word.
Starting point is 00:43:31 As if it was something that you could just play with. Right. you'd already he'd already gotten away by the way it's not like prior to that anyone except for kendrick saying the line that he said drake had always we don't want word he'd always no but i but and people won't understand the nuance of what i'm saying right now right right right it's really about like yo the n word is not universally accepted by black folks it's a it's a it's a bad word It's a slur. There are many black families.
Starting point is 00:44:06 You are not using the N-word in your house in front of elders, in front of your... What? In front of people who we used to actually hear it in real life out of the mouths of kids. No, just period. Just period. In your home? What are you talking about? Even music playing it, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:44:24 I don't even know if I've used the N-word in front of my daughter, bro. Issa, I don't think, has ever heard me use the N-word. we don't use the N word in the house. Right, right, right. That's an interesting nuance, bro, that people wouldn't even understand. Like, what are you talking about? Like, that's street talk.
Starting point is 00:44:41 That's for outside. That's for me and my boys. That's for like, like... It would be like, even though it's not at all the same in terms of what the word means, from a street word standpoint, you could say the word pussy on the show. You're never saying in your house
Starting point is 00:44:55 in front of your family in front of your daughter. No, no. It's outside talk. Yo, a kid at East of school. school called her a bitchy-ass nigger, a black kid. After she had topped him and caught a ball over his head to score a touchdown during a flag football game. He got upset, called her a bitchy-ass nigger. And she was like, what's wrong with you?
Starting point is 00:45:18 You're embarrassing your family was her response. No, she didn't. Yes, she did. She went straight Michael Kay, Don McGrecker. You're embarrassing in your family? You're embarrassing your family. That's amazing. And then when I asked her what happened, she was.
Starting point is 00:45:31 It's just like, it's sad. He's the representation of his family. That's perfect. Perfect. Great. But just so that people understand, like, so boom, your white mother says, hey, voice note, whatever the hell, you probably shouldn't be. And the first thing out your mouth is the end word.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Nah, and by the way, he told her to do it. Andy, Andy. However, it was set up, but it's, once again, you're playing with something that causes people pain as if it's not a serious thing. And I get it was a rap beef and all that's fine, but you didn't have to do that. But you didn't have to do that, especially as someone who is, A, not Black American, black, yes, but not Black American. And B, someone who is being critiqued for using black culture,
Starting point is 00:46:21 black American culture specifically as a costume. That was the critique. There was other ways to play that. But it was a rap battle and things get crazy. So fine. Cool. But then the slavery line, I was like, oh, no, this, this ain't going to go well for you, my God. You're not, you know, you think, you think everything's for play, play. And a lot of people who are visitors to hip hop think everything is for play, play. But, and now, by the way, those are the people that he be friends. Those are the streamers. Those are those people who don't get it who aren't, he doesn't, he never wants to stay. He never wants to have any relationship or conversations. with the people who might hold you accountable for the things that hip hop's actually about. And by the way, all of us fuck up.
Starting point is 00:47:10 That's okay. Of course. It's 1,000% okay. Whether you're mixed, white, black, you know, Caribbean, African, whatever. And you want to be a part of this hip hop culture thing. There's shit that nuances that people don't get. up and that's okay you know be like yo nah i i fuck that up i fuck that up listen i i always i
Starting point is 00:47:39 always took issue with and addressed this with him when i knew him multiple times that he never would go as much as drake has put people on and he's done a great job of that he's always gone one step short of doing the super dope shit like he had a whole he had a whole verse from because he's not rosenberg stop stop it and i don't want to make this all about drake. Remember the pun v. Line though? Even though he wants us to make it about him so he could drop this Ice Man album because that this is what he needed.
Starting point is 00:48:09 He needed, he needed enemies, more enemies to come out because he needs me and you and people like me and you to be his enemies, Joe Button all that. So he could drop this Iceman album because he don't want it to be about Kendrick or more. He can't want it to be about Kendrick more. He can't. There's a he still, didn't he lose the lawsuit? Now he's bringing it back. Like he can't want that to still be the discussion.
Starting point is 00:48:29 He's got to change the discussion. I think that's probably true. But, but. But just to that point, he's here for the, he's here for hip hop, yes. And I want to commend Drake because Drake didn't have to battle, Kendry. No, we like there's a part of, there's a part of saluting him for that, man. He's never backed down from a battle. And I respect the fuck out of that part.
Starting point is 00:48:49 And he should be saluted for that. But then, but then you can't also make one terrible decision after another. Let's play with Tupac and AI. Let's play with the N-word. Let's play with, he made all of these terrible mistakes. and would just double down further because no one's around him, the same people who no longer talk to us and won't communicate with us because they think we're evil, they weren't willing to be like,
Starting point is 00:49:11 hey, bro, this isn't really the move. That's not real friendship. Calling out other people who might actually be telling the truth about you and saying, shut up, don't say the truth. We don't know that to be true. No one, no one stopped him. But nobody can't stop him. Who's going to stop him from what he wants to do?
Starting point is 00:49:27 The reason I don't believe it is because I think those people then instead of cutting off people like myself, you, Seifah sounds, other people who had, and by the way, Syf didn't come anywhere near anything you or I said. They just thought he played a song and they cut him off. Okay. So I know that if people are being that sensitive, if they're being that sensitive, those aren't the kind of people who are telling the truth because they'd be hitting you and me up on the side and be like, hey, let's have a conversation. Not just fuck you, I'm cutting you off. Have a conversation. Let's talk. What is your problem with what we're saying? But no one wants to say it to him. So they just want to
Starting point is 00:50:01 everyone to shut up. No one wants Drake to be gone. I don't want Drake to lose. I don't want Drake to go out sad. Who wants that? I just did it thing last week. Was it last week? Yeah, last week.
Starting point is 00:50:12 We did Rap Life Review Live, which is something I do on Apple Music. And by the way, you can check me out every day, 3 o'clock. There you go. On Apple Music. Damn right. And so, and I'll be playing some Drake.
Starting point is 00:50:25 But I'm gonna be, yo, we're gonna have to talk about what Stove God Cook decided to do with his latest single, Goatstan. Why? What did he do? I haven't heard of yet. It's been out for several weeks. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:50:38 Stovegod decided, you know what? I'm going to drop a club-feeling record. Something with a bop. I'm going to drop a bop. Okay. And it's fire. He dropped a bob. Oh, well.
Starting point is 00:50:48 And it's fire. Stovegod has very much bop capability. That is confirmed. Super bob capability. Yeah. He had it with the Marvin Yee joint. It just never really went. Yeah, it didn't go.
Starting point is 00:50:57 It didn't go all the way. But it should have. But at this time after the FICO, I think it's like a... The timing's different. The timing's different. Agree. The timing's different.
Starting point is 00:51:06 But anyway, but yeah, we get in that sort of stuff on Apple music. And the music talk. But yeah, no. Yeah, but anyway, Rap Life Review live last week, I was, it was a live audience. And they were really, and of course it was in L.A. So there was definitely some, nah, nah, because we was talking about 2026. And I'm like, yo, this Iceman, this Drake, it's going to be big. Like, this is going to be big.
Starting point is 00:51:28 And they're like, nah. I'm like, yo, why are y'all doing it? Why are y'all acting like Drake ain't going to drop fire? Why are people doing that? They're just not the crowd you had there is not interested. We live in a very divisive society where it's like all or nothing. But they're full of shit. You know, there were people in there that acting like Nokia wasn't on fire in 2025.
Starting point is 00:51:51 It was. I didn't like it, but it was. It wasn't for me. But that wouldn't have been for me prior to any of that. Any of that. Any of that. People got to stop. And just because he lost a battle and we don't like certain shit about his decision,
Starting point is 00:52:06 you don't have to like him, but you should at least be honest. No, he's, well, listen, I've said this. How many times we said this? He has more hits than any other rapper by far, by far. And that's the game he wanted to play. And he won. I don't know if anyone will ever catch him. Like, it's that many.
Starting point is 00:52:23 I don't know. It's endless. So like, you could never take that away from him. And by the way, for the audience, That's why we always talk about him, because he's been very successful. I know. They act as if, like, we're weird because we play his music, even when we were, like, not, you know, into the battle, whatever shit we said about him. But you still played his music. Duh, we were on a radio station.
Starting point is 00:52:46 Not anymore. Are you sad? So, yeah. Are you sad? No, am I sat? I thought I would be, and it's felt very freeing. and I appreciated the people reaching out to me and saying congrats.
Starting point is 00:53:02 Oh, yesterday was weird. I'm on the train back from D.C., from WWB from John Cena's last match. And I kept thinking, I got to do real late. And then I was like, no, I don't. Oh, man, damn. That was weird.
Starting point is 00:53:16 Yo, I've been doing real late when I would be on my honeymoon, when I would be across the world. At Sunday, I got to get on my computer and put my show together for 19 years. So that one yesterday was weird. I kept being like, well, when am I going to send the show to trip? Well, but that also is right there.
Starting point is 00:53:33 So you, just for the audience, while Rosenberg came to the Ebro-Laura Rosenberg show on a daily basis for the morning show, he, I think, was more committed to real late than he was to the morning show. The morning show was just how you got your money. Right, right. But, well, and then it became just to hang. The morning show paid the bills. And then it was like, well, I get to hang out with my friends. that was that right that's why i stayed for the last year because i've been so grossed out and i i feel like hot 97's the giving tree and it's being stripped down to nothing and i'm really upset but that's what but that's
Starting point is 00:54:07 what very listen i told everyone that's what venture capital does right it's the it's the nature of it but i hated it grosses me out so much but my wife her attitude was yo you wake up you go in the other room you talk to your friends and then it's over at nine o'clock and they pay you let's just keep making the money because like i'm me making a stance wasn't going to save the station at this point like there there's no they've made the decision on how they're doing it i now might as well just hang out my friends and take money from these people till my time is done and get to talk and get to talk to the audience who we will who no matter how many people we gain no matter how well we do we're going to lose some of them there's some people we're going to lose oh 1,000
Starting point is 00:54:53 There's no way around it. And so like, well, I think I think the truth, because radio in itself, most of the people tuning in, they're not, as we call in radio, P1s. No, P1s. Right. They might, we might be, no, that's the wrong phrase. They are P1s. We might have been their first choice when they're listening to the radio. Right.
Starting point is 00:55:14 But how much time are they spending with the radio? How much time do they actually spend, which is why radio stations are so repetitive is because even your P1s, people. who choose you first, they might have 20 minutes for you a day. That's, and that's in pretty good. Right. And that's pretty good. That is fucking phenomenal. Facts.
Starting point is 00:55:38 Yeah. If you can do that, man. You know what I mean? Like, for instance, we had about, I think we had about 350,000 people coming through our show every 15 minutes. according to Nielsen. Okay. Right, which puts us at the top of most shows in the city.
Starting point is 00:56:01 I think the morning zoo, Elvis, and them probably do like four or five. Yeah, yeah. 100,000. And so then it's just a function of how long you can keep someone, how committed they are to you, right? And because we're multicultural, right? We got you, we got Shani or had Shani. We got Laura bilingual. we were hitting a lot of audiences that a lot of shows don't hit
Starting point is 00:56:28 and bringing people together in ways that don't get brought together, which I don't know, you know, I don't know if people want that. I don't know if people want multicultural inclusivity. And we're going to find out because we're still going to deliver on that. Yeah. In fact, I got to go ahead. I may not want it. We'll see.
Starting point is 00:56:49 We'll see. There are conversations to be had. Yo, the phone. But, yo, shout to Super Radio. That was cool. Showing support. That was cool. You didn't ask them for that, did you?
Starting point is 00:57:01 No. They just stepped out there and put a statement out like, hey, we're going to stay with them. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll be, we're still here. This week we're supposed to be on vacation, but we jumped in today to, you know, seize the moment because there was blood in the water. No, we had to. By the way, I hadn't even thought of it, so you said the DM today.
Starting point is 00:57:23 And then when he said the DM, it was like, we should probably be. do something today, right? Like, because also today's the day, Flex was on the air. So people are curious about that. I didn't listen for a, I didn't listen for a second. Notice to Flex. I just didn't listen. So there's a lot of things happening behind the scenes that I'm not sure I should
Starting point is 00:57:39 divulge in public as of yet. Then don't. Normally I would say fuck it, do it. But in this case, no, no, no, I got to chill. I'm going to chill for a little bit. In this case, it's an actual chill situation. By the way, I still got to have conversations because I've been, my deal was up, but that
Starting point is 00:57:56 doesn't mean exactly what I thought it meant. So I got to call my union rep, you know what I mean? Oh shit. Unions? No, we got to have the unions on the union's been hyper aware that things have been unsavory seeming to them for a while. They're aware, you know, our studio.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Wait, you got to, so y'all, it's a union situation of foot. Well, there has to be. Any time a place just yo, why do we have a union? The reason we have a union is because if someone picks up the phone and calls you and goes, hey, today was your last day. you're fired. That's what the unions for.
Starting point is 00:58:28 Are you sure? Was that okay? What do you own me? We got to talk through this. Sag after, baby. We protect the, they protect the broadcasters and actors and everybody performs in this country.
Starting point is 00:58:37 So, no, we got to have conversations, but no, overall, I'm not sad. And I appreciated the people who reached out, like friends. A lot of people are to hit me with,
Starting point is 00:58:45 yo, congrats. Not, I'm sorry. I got a few of those. I got a few of them. I'm sorry's, I never feel good.
Starting point is 00:58:50 You're like, I'm like, guys, I still, you know, I had people going, I did not check in to like the academics and Vlad ranting about us. But when they talk about like what a like I just would hear about it from someone.
Starting point is 00:59:02 And I'm like, do they realize I'm standing next to John Cena at ringside three hours before his last match? I have my own. I was like, yo, you didn't see. I just had Mariah Carey in Las Vegas. And I had the clips performing last week. And we had while. But you think it's different. But here's what you got to realize.
Starting point is 00:59:21 It's just different audiences. and people see people are responding to fired. People are responding to terminated. People are responding to you losing something. Or that thing that you lost was the place where they interacted with you the most. And by the way, even though that's a lie because they didn't, it's just that's the one they were bitter about.
Starting point is 00:59:42 No, that's the one they were bitter about. Because no matter how much that the acts and the Vlads will tell you that were losers, because we didn't adapt to streaming right away when they were kids. They didn't dream to be streamers. They didn't dream to be streamers. They dreamt to be on Hot 97.
Starting point is 01:00:02 And then they kill us that we got to be on Hot 97. Congrats, it worked out for you. Why are you worried that we were on Hot 97? Well, and we have a cool headline, too, which is the longest running morning show in the history of that radio station. Yeah, it's a pretty good one. Pretty good.
Starting point is 01:00:18 Pretty good. It's really good. Like we were with people for over a decade, bro. By the way, is anything else even close? Nothing's close. Nothing's close, right? Nothing's close. Nothing's close.
Starting point is 01:00:32 The other thing I want to point out to, this is more important to me, is the whole us being on streaming. People have been watching us on YouTube for 20 years. You know how I got the job at Hot 97? On YouTube. Because Ebro saw me on YouTube. YouTube. But we're just excited to jump in. Thanks, guys. Could you open the doors at YouTube? They were like, now they want to come over here. You're not there. You don't know. We were there every day, by the way. We put our content every day on YouTube. If you Google, if you were to go
Starting point is 01:01:08 through YouTube, you, YouTube people, I guarantee you there's more shit of me on YouTube than you. It's been nonstop for years. What are you saying? But thank you for opening the doors for us, because we might have to show up there too. But I think I'd like to, you know, I think we'll end up like on the box as well. I think radio could be in the future too. Well, that's what a lot of people want to do. So let's see how it works. So we'll have some chats.
Starting point is 01:01:34 We'll have some chats. Listen, we do need to make a commitment to, you know, if you're watching us right now, I would like to figure out what that is. Is that a live show every day by 9.30 a.m. You mean like you get a show every day still? Every day you'll get content from us at 9.30 a.m. On the April Laura Rosenberg channel. I think we got to go earlier though.
Starting point is 01:02:02 You think where I go? I think we got to drop. Whatever we do, I think it has to be earlier because I think people are used to having us on their way to work. So boom, we hit them at 8. Hit them at 7.30. 7.38, I think, is when you drop every day. So we do the live from here, 738.
Starting point is 01:02:18 We go live. So you could be driving in your car. you could open the YouTube app you could subscribe to Ebro Laura Rosenberg and boom you could just play us in your car is that what you're saying that's what I'm saying and well and podcast so the podcast will drop in the same time
Starting point is 01:02:32 and then the podcast will drop after the line no I don't know or some man don't overcomplicate it okay at seven I'm trying to understand I want people to I think when we get there and again we were supposed to start vacation this week so up through the holidays we'll we'll figure out what we're figuring out but when we come out of the holidays I think it's that every
Starting point is 01:02:50 morning, they are still getting an Ebro, Lauren Rosenberg show at whatever time. Whether you watch it on YouTube, whether you listen, it's dropping for you every morning. You know what I'm saying? Okay. So you still have that rhythm in your life of whatever show it is, 60, 90 minutes, whatever, it's there for you every day still. Okay. Because that's, I think, what we owe our people who have been there for us every day.
Starting point is 01:03:13 Got it. That's my thought. Okay. But we'll talk to Griff. We'll talk to the squad and figure it out. there it is well listen subscribe and share Ibro-law Rosenberg
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