The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 109.) Wedding Stories + Success of Drake's Three Albums (5/29/26)

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

Today on Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg - Laura, and Rosenberg are talking about the Rahsaan's Birthday-Hospital Trip, Wedding Stories, Sushi the Turtle, FOTS Friday, Drake's Album Success, and so much more! (5/29/26) Support the show on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just don't call in a podcast. The Ebro-Lara, Rosenberg, show. Wow. Oh, wow. How the hell was that, bro? I feel like I've been waiting all week for this show to start. Happy Friday, fam. We made it through the week.

Oh, I have been waiting all week. That's right. Happy Friday, y'all. Oh, man. I was just telling Rosenberg behind the scenes, how Kenza doesn't say because. She says, because. I mean, because.

And I was saying back to her that I remember being like of the age as a little kid. I remember like being unsure about words like and not understanding. Like one I remember really well. I did not understand the word spatula. Okay. When I was a kid. Okay. I never heard of a word that just ends in an A like that.

Right. So I always assumed it was an accent and it was called a spatula. A spatula. And people are like, oh, get the spatula. And I'm like, because it's, what's a spatula? English words don't. And by the way, in retrospect, I kind of think I was right. Spatula.

That's so funny. What is a spatula? There aren't a lot of, there aren't a ton of words like that. And I remember, I remember trying to sing the words to wishing well by Terrence Trent Darby. Okay. Never. I would just go, like, is like a wish to see. well to kiss and tell a whistling well a gossom assum chew I'd always sing gossom at some chew

and to this day I don't know what he was saying it's so funny Louie can you find out what Terrence Trent Darby was saying on wish and well today's the day I want to solve me that's so funny and she says she says Jesus she's like baby cheeses I'm like okay well think about it it Doesn't make the word Jesus doesn't make sense. Cheese makes sense. She knows cheese. She loves cheese. And she loves cheese.

And then you hear there's a person like you hear a name Jesus. It's like what is that? Cheese. Cheezes. Yeah. Cheese. It makes sense. Ah, Jesus.

Like, it would be like you're at a table and you want them to bring you cheese. And you go, Jesus. Jesus. We're ready for you to cheese us. Hilarious. Oh, my God. You know what day today is? Oh, get the haters.

ready. I read the comments of people like, I don't like Freedom Friday. We're not here for your family. Shut up and talk about the topics of the week. I know. And then I get comments. I absolutely love your conversations

about being a parent because I feel like I'm talking to my friends. It's, it's to me it's literally what makes the show different than other shows. Yeah. We're such a family show. And that's why I love that about our show. I think that's what You can go anywhere and get people talking about the topics of the day.

And we give you that. But on Fridays, we bring the family in. Ah. All right, what happened over the weekend? Over the weekend, not even over the week. Jesus, I'm looking forward to this weekend. Jesus. Jesus Christ.

Well, no, no, because I have been holding this. You said this because I've been holding it since the weekend. So we went to, why do I feel like I'm like in, like, like one ear more than the other. Did you like mess with my ish? Well, maybe I've I turned this down. Okay. That's a little better.

Okay. Sorry. We went to a family wedding last week, okay? The wedding was my cousin Liz, who's on my dad's side. But it was in Boston where all of my family that I'm close with on my mom's side lives. So it ends up being a double whammy. Yeah. First about the wedding.

I just have to let people know this. when I tell you that the Rosenbergs are about this life I have never in my life been at an event this progressive no it's no it's crazy to the point that like I love it and I'm laughing at it because it's like

you've never you don't realize that there people don't think white people like this exist okay first of all it was a mad multi-ethnic wedding like their friends are just everything right um black white Latin, gay, trans, disabled, no, it's... Everything. No, it's...

You don't see it. Okay. You don't see it. And I don't want to hear from black or Latin people either, because we know everyone is basically equally segregated. You go to a wedding, it's basically a black wedding. You go to a Latin wedding, I mean, I give you guys some credit. You see some diversity.

It depends. White weddings sometimes are straight white. Obviously, these are all with caveats. But I'm just saying very often when you go to a wedding. That's like what I feel like has made. our events like fairly specials. It's pretty diverse because of the worlds that we all coexist. So for me to go to a family wedding and it's this diverse

was just cool and interesting. But that's not what I'm talking about. I really didn't even, that was an afterthought. Yo, the rabbi gets up to start the ceremony and I'm not kidding. It was basically like, welcome to the wedding of Liz and Alexis. I am Rabbi Greenberg from the fuck Israel congregation.

Oh my God. No, not literally, but like literally. It was, I think the name of the synagogue. The synagogue was literally called like the anti-Zionist something synagogue. I was like, I've never heard people stand on business like this. Okay. Every single like piece of the ceremony where there was an opportunity to talk about like equality and it was awesome.

Like it was just, I'm just saying, I don't know that people realize that there are people who are really about this life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it's not, for some people, it's not like, just Twitter.

Like, my cousin was, like, practically living in a commune and it's like straight up against capitalist society. They included no gender anything. The word wife didn't exist. The word bride didn't exist. It wasn't you may kiss the bride.

It was you may share your first kiss as a couple. Like anything related to the patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, yo, Israel, gone. Does not exist. It was just to me incredibly interesting and like cool and impressive

and also funny at times too. Because I'd be like waiting. I'm like, how are they going to handle this part? And then I'd be like, oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it was just, and I'm not joking. I got to find the name of the congregation.

It was a Boston synagogue that literally anti-Zionism was like in the title. I was like, I did not know this. That's cool. I do find it interesting though because I'm, listen, you know, I'm very progressive, right? But I'm not with the erasure of like you can't say like bright or groom. Like, why not? You know what I mean? Or like when people say like, hey, you know, you shouldn't use the term breastfeeding.

You should use chest feeding because it includes everyone. No, no. Stop. Hold on those are two different things. So I'm just giving you examples. Okay, okay. I'm giving you different examples, right? And I just be like, but why not?

No, but that one's stupid. Because chest feeding is stupid because men can't breastfeed. Yeah. But I can make an argument at least for why you would say we don't want to do the typical patriarchy of marriage. Okay. Like I can make an argument for that. Like the idea of like being referred to as wife does come with a lot of things in American history. That like you can't quite remove all the way.

that doesn't mean that you have to disagree with it, but I understand why someone would be like, I don't really want to be called wife, I want to be called partner. Because like man and wife is a concept. So yeah, I prefer husband and wife. Sure, and I get, exactly. And by the way, I didn't talk to them about this.

So I don't know, maybe some things were just happenstance and I was just looking for it. But I was interested to see if they would say, you may now kiss the bride. They did not. You may now share your first kiss. as a married couple. Which I'm with too.

I like it. And they'd also always said like, their wedding story was awesome. It was beautiful. They had friends who were like singers. Like the singing was great. It was a beautiful ceremony. I loved it.

Super touching. But they didn't even know if they'd ever get married because they don't really believe in individualism and people, they really believe in like a more communal lifestyle. Like they don't really believe in a lot of this stuff.

But they decided, I think as they said during the ceremony, like, based on seeing like friends and families who had some good experiences and seemed to think it was pretty cool, we decided like, why not we'll get married. Right. But like it wasn't a given that they were even going to get married. I do appreciate when people get married in their own way. You know what I mean?

I think everyone wants to make everything super traditional. And I really applaud people who are like, hey, I want to celebrate my union, but I'm going to do it this way because this is what fits us as a couple. Exactly. So I like that. And it was just right when they started out and the rabbi said he was from the anti-Zionism, whatever. He's like, oh, we are going down an interesting path here today. Let's go. Anyways, congratulations to Liz and Alexis.

They're having a second wedding in Cyprus where he's from. Oh, okay. I don't think we're going to make it. I kind of want to, but it's just aggressive, but I'm sure it's going to be a time. That's fire. So the day before went and saw my, like I said, my cousins on my other side. My cousin Annie, who's my first, my little cousin, she has two daughters. Rosie, who's like four, and Cici, who's like two in change.

Maybe Rosie's five. Cici's two in change. Cici's a hoot. Cici's like a cartoon character baby. And the moment that I'm about to show you was, I guess she had just been hugging Maya earlier. And so you'll hear my niece go, Cici, go hug Maya again. And you'll see what the result is. Okay.

Go give Maya another hug. Go rescue Maya. She's so cute. Wrestling moved. Oh, oh. That was an all-a-shock-holems. Chokeslammed her. Yo, I want that video to be redone with Jim Ross going.

My God. Can you run that one more time? I need you to see Laura look closely. Give Maya another hug. She locks her arm under her chin. Like a real chokehold. Look. That's not a hug.

No. Maya's face like, oh God. Yo. So I can no longer blame boys for doing insane things. Kids just do. And she loved her. She was like so obsessed with her. And so yes.

I need to see Maya respond a little better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She'll learn though. As things like this happen, she'll learn. No, no, no. I'm actually joking. I see it more of the opposite. I like that she doesn't care.

I do like that she's just like, oh, like she's unfazed by it. You know, listen. She's the thing. You made a cute baby. Okay, look, Kenza is obsessed with baby Maya. True, but she's yet to choke her or tackle her. No, choking or not yet. So far, none of that.

What are you speaking of baby, Kenzo? What do you have? Let me see. Wait, I forgot what I shared with you guys? What was I going to share with you yesterday? Was it? Oh, okay, no. So I celebrated my good friend Georgette's birthday, right?

So, you know, as you guys know, we lost a part of our crew. So we needed to, like, do some team building, some bonding. I like this. You know what I mean? Because we've had, you know, Shell's passed away, so it's been really hard. We've all been dealing with grief in different ways.

Like, to be honest with you, Rosenberg, and I'm not going to get emotional. I'm not going to get dark. You can. But I have been having moments like nightly where I cry.

Yeah. And all of us, like we talk about it. Like, are you okay? We check in with each other and stuff like that. Sorry,

by the way, I didn't mean to like be disrespectful. I mean like, of course you do. No, no, I get it. I would think you're going to have those for a long time.

Yes, yes, yes. I don't feel like you're being dismissive for anything. So for Georgette's birthday, we were like, we have to do something fun, right? But this was all Georgette. Gergette basically orchestrated her own fun birthday and invited us, which I love her. So we went to a place called The Big Game Show, and we had the most fun. Now, this is in Midtown. Anyone couldn't go.

It's kind of like those escape room places. And I believe in the same building, they had an escape room. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, of course. Yeah. So this was the big game show. It had a whole. We played against each other, three against three,

and I just had the most fun. So I'm just sharing like a little recap that you get at the end. Oh, they give you a recap? Yeah, yeah. Great big game show. We had to build whatever, whoever can make it the tallest without toppling over. Step away from those towers.

We were Team Red. Very nice. Very nice. They got to showcase Showdown Wheel? Bro, they had everything. The coolest. It was so cool. So cool.

Okay. Oh, there's one of American Dream Hall. That's me. I got a 2000. Look at me. Hi, hype. Oh, then there's a picture. Yeah.

Yeah. It was so good. Like, I kind of want us to do this against some box. See my moves? Oh, yeah, I know. We all know that move. Everyone's in the movie. Wow, that looks so fun.

It's so fun. So I think I'm going to reach out to the event. Maybe we could do, I don't know. First, I think maybe we all go on a like, a little date night to see to feel it out and then maybe we do us ELR fam against some thoughts that would be really fun or what if we did old old ELR fam versus new oh my god yeah I mean it's kind of crazy now can you like drink there like they have drinks or no no no it's not like it's not like it's not like it's like you're literally there to do

the game and how long does it go it's an hour it's an hour but it was so much fun yeah and then you guys do like a little dinner or something yeah afterwards we went to go get some tacos and some marg's and that's it. It was cute. It was cute. So happy birthday, Georgia. I love you so much and that was so fun.

So it just inspired me. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to bring this to the team. That is really neat. When I saw the picture, I was like, where are they?

Right. Everyone was hitting me up like, where is this? And I'm like, I'm surprised. I've never heard of this, but it's awesome. It's called the big game show.

So look it up. Now, how's sushi the turtle? Sushi the turtle is still going. Well, of course. For the next 70 years. It's, it's, um... So going.

It's so funny because we're, we're planning a trip. We're going to Puerto Rico. And I looked at Ricardo. I was like, so who's going to take care of sushi? And he's like, oh. Hey, y'all. It's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder what if?

Like, what if it doesn't hold up? That sofa was four days old. You should have ordered from Wayfair. With Wayfair, there's no what if. Just style you love and quality you can trust. Visit wayfair.ca. Wayfair, every style, every home. I didn't think about that.

I was like, well, get to thinking. Wow. Wow. Yeah, you didn't think about this, huh? Right? When you offered the turtle. Because his excuse was always like, because I want a dog, and I'm campaigning for a puppy. And he's like, what are we going to do when we have to travel with the dog? I was like, duh, my friends will watch the puppy.

So now I'm like, what are we going to do? So what does the turtle require every day? Nothing. You just have to feed it fresh food, little pieces of kale or collared greens and carrots. Every day? Yeah, that's it. And a little water. That's it.

And where does it go to the bathroom? In the, it's enclosure, and then you have to clean the enclosure every couple of days. Got it. Yeah. So, but you can't just leave it food for a few days? No, you can't. You do have to give it food each day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It has to be some fresh green. So we'll see. I'll let you know how it turns out. So the thought, I guess, would be can we bring the enclosure to someone's house? Uh-huh. And then like, hey, here's a thing and just give it lettuce once. Is it twice a day? Once a day.

It's very easy. It's just once a day. But you just have to find someone. Uh-huh. Maybe the newlyweds will want to. Maybe, yeah. Hang out, you know, what better way? What better way to celebrate?

Oh, no, no, they can't because they're coming to the trip. It's, we're going to be celebrating Ricardo's 40th birthday. So it's a family trip. Yeah. Well, I'll keep you guys updated. Okay. All right, well, shout out to Sushi the Turtle. Mm-hmm.

All right, you want to get into some Fatt Friday. Yeah, let's do this. So we have some voice notes, Rosenberg. And we have some video. Right. How many videos are we have? Three videos? All right, you want to start with a video?

Yeah, I love the video. Let's see, let's start up with a video. Ebo, Laura Rosenberg, what a do? Coming at you live from Bridgeport, Connecticut. Yeah, I just want to say very much appreciate everything you guys do and the information you guys put out in the world and everything. Yo, man, I've been a fan of you guys since 2018. I was in college, man. My mom was dropping me off.

You know, I ended up passing. I got my career. I'm thriving. I'm actually teaching part-time at the college. I graduated from, too. So shout out to my kids. I just graduated. Shout out to the class of 2026, man.

I'm proud of them. Anyways, man, you guys keep doing amazing work, man. I always will tune in. I'm subscribed to the Patreon. I'm subscribed to the YouTube. I mainly listen to the podcast. But, you know, you know, you're off the plantation. people try to get paid i understand that i gotta help out but you know also ibo shout to the lady

i appreciate her uh her business i definitely caught me one of them little golden passport charms fires fired right how to get that for a friend of mine and i plan on getting a few more man shout to all the ladies out there handling their business traveling the world you know shout to everybody handling their business and doing their thing but you know big shout to the ladies we i appreciate y'all but we all should appreciate you all more anyways you yo, I keep on doing your thing, Rosenberg. Your dad is definitely coming to the cookout. Anytime he wants.

I would let you come to, I don't know if I would let you have too much drink, you know. Maybe a little smoke or something, you know, and you can chill out. Because I don't want you arguing, motherfucker. Yo, I appreciate y'all, man. Keep on doing your thing. I would definitely keep on tuning in and listening every day, man. Y'all doing a good thing, man. Shout to Griff.

Shout to the boy. To the boy, my skin, you know? All right. I keep on doing your thing, be easy. Oh, thank you so much. That was so fire. Shout out to my skin. That was so good.

I love that. Speaking of which, man, today, Fought Friday might be a good day to talk about old Ron. Oh, no. Ron's birthday was not a great situation. Yeah, we were not good. I think we didn't celebrate him enough. I'm mad at that.

Well, he didn't celebrate him enough. because he ended up in the damn hospital. I know. Basqueam, you want to talk about this? Oh, look at his face. You want to come on camera and talk about her? You want to wear the headset? You want to wear the headset?

Head set. All right, he doesn't want to be seen for this story. All right, go ahead, Ron. So tell us what happened on your birthday. And happy belated birthday. Oh, thank you very much. So basically, like, my birthday was Thursday. Tuesday night.

I was doing some edits, and then I looked down on my foot, and I saw that it had a headset. swelled up like a balloon. Oh my God. It was like eight months pregnant. That's how fat it was. So I showed her to my wife. She was like, yeah, I've been telling you to go to the doctor.

So I just put my foot elevated overnight. The next morning, it run down a bunch, but it wasn't like completely gone. But it wasn't as swollen. Came into work Wednesday. It was fine. And then Thursday, which was my brother. birthday after after the live i was like you know what let me just go get checked out to the hospital um and they ran some tests to the x-ray the sonogram on the leg uh EKG on my heart and oh

blood you know what the sonogram actually said this is crazy this the sonogram actually went congratulations you saved yourself never seen the sonogram was for the legs just to check for blood class but luckily everything came back negative but Blood work, X-ray, EKG, everything was fine. So, you know, at the ER, they only really treat you for life-threatening disease. They couldn't pinpoint it what it was. So I have to just follow my doctor. They think it could be from sleep apnea.

Yeah. The doctor came in a few times and I was just, like, knocked out. So, yeah, they think it could just be from that. Like, if you don't get enough oxygen out of your system, because it's a swelling. I mean, listening to Bascom talk, you can just hear the sleep apnea. I know, no, I was talking,

I was giving him a little pep talk because I have loved ones who've been through sleep apnea. And it's crazy, Rosenberg, because you really are not getting proper rest at nighttime, so you're exhausted throughout the day. Yeah, and he has 10 kids, so imagine. No, and, no, seriously,

the oxygen is not getting to your brain to do all the things it needs to do. But when you listen to Bascom talk, he literally, you know that interview with Biggie when he's laying back and he's like, No More money More

That's I can hear the sleep apnea Oh my God That's crazy That's crazy He's such an a-ho I can't So wait

So in all seriousness Um Hold on me Before I get serious Let me get more jokes out Um I I liked it on Bascom's

39th birthday He decided I'm gonna make a statement I'm going to show the world that black does in fact crack. Oh, no. How do we get here, Bascom, and how do we get you to rest? Because, like, and I want to hit you with the button again. Your foot was swollen enough that you said you looked pregnant.

And he just said, I'm going to put this up. I'll go to the doctor when I get a minute. That is so scary. Yo, if I had, I just want to let you know from the world of why where I reside, growing up in a very suburban, like, Jewish household, if you feel anything that's that level of, like, I look at it, looks weird, I'm going straight to the doctor, King Louis? Well, look, it happened the day before

because we were sitting over there, getting ready to leave, and he's like, yeah, man, my foot's been swollen for the past day and a half. I'm like, dude, you should probably go to the doctor. He's like, yeah, my wife said the same thing, but, you know, I'll give it a day. No way. I'm like, no, bro. You play yourself. He's like, you know, look.

We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Ask him, when you notice something that's that, like, aggressive, you don't think I just need to go to the doctor right at the second? Yeah, I hate doctors. I just hate hospitals. I hate doctors. I hate all of it. We all do.

It's not fun. Yeah, it's not fun. And it's also being scared of the result. Right, of course. If I'm being honest with you, I just didn't want to hear anything bad. I had some chest complications earlier in the year. What was the chess come? I just woke up a few times feeling serious.

seriously weak. And, like, I would bathe in the shower, and then, like, I couldn't stand up, so I had to come out, sit down on the toilet, they catch my breath. But then, oddly enough, like, three hours later, I'll come into work, come here, and, like, it went away. But that happened, like, twice. Did you report that to a doctor? Thursday when I went to, I told them. But I didn't see a doctor at the time. You didn't see a doctor?

You were too weak to get up? Yeah. Bascom, what the hell are we doing, bro? I know. you could accidentally pass down and hit your head in the shower. You know how dangerous that is? You really just ruined all the jokes that I just made. Oh my God.

Because now I'm actually concerned. So now here's the important question. What are you, you made a joke in the text. You know, once Ebro hears the news, Dr. Darden kicks in. He starts breaking down, you know, if you eat bread, you will die. If you eat cheese, you will die. You know, all of the Ebro is. Yeah.

But I will say this. But what, like, is your diet bad? You obviously don't sleep enough, that's for sure. Yeah. That's a huge one. Don't sleep alone. Probably eat, probably late. And are you eating crap?

Not crap. Louis just looked at Griff. How often do you have a bacon, egg, and cheese from a bodega? Every morning. Oh. Every morning. Congratulations. Yeah.

I mean, listen, I know that's the norm for everybody, but you get to an age, guys. you can't do that anymore. I was telling him, I was like, yo, you got to have a high protein breakfast. It's not fun. Listen, getting old, it's not fun. But we have to take care of ourselves. And more than ever, you have to go to the doctor.

We're falling apart here. And I know we preached us on this show because we actually care. I care about our audience. Everyone is scared to go to the doctor, but if you don't go, it's just going to get worse. And you have family members. You have children.

You have people that love you that want you here for a long time. So you guys, you have to. You have to change your diet. It. Baskam, you got to make that change today, like Michael said. We're going to be on you. Yeah. Yeah, I'm definitely on it.

I got to drop some weight. Yeah. That'll help you. How much weight have you gained? That'll help you out. Like 40, maybe? I'm 200. That's the largest I've ever been.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was crazy is for Ramadan, I was like 164. And then it took four days. I would back up with like 200. What? It happened so fast. It's never happened that quickly before. Wait, wait, in Ramadan,

but that's a lot of water weight if you were that low. Maybe, yeah, probably. If you were, that's a lot of water weight. That's big. How tall are you? Five, six. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, listen, well, you got to do something. And those are like sort of serious things. I mean, like, the fact that you felt weakness, that almost worries more than the swelling, that you felt like weakness and couldn't get up. Yeah. So what are we going to do about this? So I tell people because, you know, everyone's mentally exhausted.

We're behind a computer like this, right? You don't get up. Like being, what is it? Sedentary is terrible. You have to get up. I'm like, get up, walk around, do a little stretch in between. It doesn't matter what you're doing. Most people spend like eight hours behind a screen.

You've asked them for, in particular. And they're so tired and you never get a chance to actually move your body. So listen, we preach health on this show because we care. And not too many people talk about it. And it's easy to just ignore it. But we love you, Rassan. So we're going to be on. Yeah, bro, you got to pull together.

I'm not going to give you the Ebro speech, but yeah, you got to pull together. And you got four kids, which is good. I'm not even saying that like you got to be there for your kids. I'm saying we're the opposite. Those kids will kill you. Like four kids are going to wear you. Like, one is wearing me out. Like I just, that just seems like a lot of work.

More reason. And then you, what did you say? That's more reason for you to get it together. Yes. But like the amount of work that they provide is so, there's so much of it. You're not sleeping a lot. This show requires a good amount of work. I know you took on some other work as well.

You're eating like even if you just replace your yo bro tomorrow just just I'm Chabani Greek yogurt you know I'm saying like keep it simple and some fruit like that's literally all like if you replace the the bacon egg and cheese every day with a Greek yogurt so a few nuts pause some water and call it a day like because because you're you're eating home-cooked meals at night no most of the most of the I mean sometimes we get a little Lazy, we do a little fast food. Got it. Okay, I don't mean, like, I'm not trying to, like, cast aspersions or anything.

I just, I don't know. I literally all are religious, so I assume every night they're having, like, some big family dinner. No, it's always halal, but it may be fast food halal. Which is different than having it at home, obviously, too. Just prioritize high protein, bro. Just try to eat up the cars. And stop eating at night, too.

Once you hit, like, that 7 o'clock, there's no more eating. Yeah, people were saying that 6 o'clock, I don't, how do y'all do that? Like, 6 p.m. is so early. You just do it. You just do it. It's hard. Even if I'm not coach baseball, like, we don't come out of practice to like 637. Like, I get on them.

You don't have to do exactly Ebro's deal. Yours could be eight and not six because you're up later doing work. That's fine. But you do have to have a cutoff. You know what I mean? Like that's many hours before bed in a perfect world. Yeah. But also it's, but again, it's also what you're eating to.

Like so if you're eating, wait, so what do you put on your bacon egg and cheese? You need bacon. It's turkey bacon. It's turkey bacon. It's still grease. I do psych myself on it. It's much healthier. No, it's not.

And it's not. Because it's still nasty turkey bacon from the bodega sitting in the same grease that they cooked the pork bacon on probably. No, no, halal cart. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's still not good, is the point. And the bread's doughy bread.

My biggest problem is gummies. Like gummy beers and gummy worms. Oh, you got to stop that. A pack of a night. No. Easy. No. Beef gelatin.

Beef gelatin. Yeah. You know, my man was addicted to gummies, too, Rosemary. It's so good. like we're not doing this in this house we're not doing this i'm trying to i want you to live you eat gummies every day yeah we got to let that go every day it's so good one or two a night every day yeah it was one it slowly got up to two no what kind uh beers and worms yeah which which brand arabo bro harribo no not haribou there's uh i forgot i don't know you grab the random joints from the

bolega yeah because they have beef gelatin because it's beef instead of poor yeah yeah Nah, bro, that's literally empty sugar. That is the nothingness of nothing. Don't tell me you're ever drinking. Don't tell me you're drinking regular soda. Ginger ale, healthy soda. That is not. Don't tell me, it's regular.

Don't tell me it's not the zero calorie. Don't tell me it's the regular drug. The Canada dry regular with sugar. Yes. Yeah, healthy soda. Healthy soda, I can't. No, there is healthy soda. It's called seltzer.

That's it. That's the healthy soda is. Seltzer. What your mom said about ginger ale back in the day. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's not healthy. You can't drink ginger ale.

Get out the house now. Yeah. Treat it as a treat every now and then. But yeah. Gingerail, gone. Gummies, gone. Turkey, the bacon, the fake bacon sandwich, gone. You eliminate those three things and just replace them with water or seltzer instead of the ginger ale.

some yogurt in the morning instead of the breakfast sandwich and when you're desperate for a snack even though it's best not to eat at night replace that with a handful of nuts or some sort of um use that you can at bro and get a good score snack there are some healthy snacks out here you could get

and if you really like a gummy person you know you can make them with like a natural juice or a natural situation they have I forgot what it's called agar agar it's made out of seaweed it's like it quagulates the juice and I've done it from my kid before and you just make it.

They're half decent, right? Yeah, because you know what you're putting in them. I take her apple juice, her watered down apple juice, and I make them, and she's just like, she eats them. Damn, bro. We got to start this immediately, Bask them. We can't, listen, you know how many people we've had die? We can't lose you, bro. We love you too much.

No way. We can't lose you, bro. I'm not doing another, I'm not doing another. My Instagram has too much death content. I need to keep it fresh. I can't have you messing up my content. We still have Joe. No, that's not, that's foul.

You know, you know what? And Chris, we can always bring Chrissy back. You know what? Oh, my God. You know what on second thought, basketball? Just keep pounding them. It was jellies. No.

But what I was going to say, we did mention the food and all that stuff, but I think there's another key thing here. How do we get you to sleep more? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I know you have the kids and stuff, and we do work you to death, but how can you get a little more sleep?

Yeah, I just got a bunch of my town a little bit better. Yeah, and maybe, maybe we got a fine way to get, Joe in here one day a week. We'll figure it out. But anyway. But you got it, you got to, honestly, you got, you have to sleep. And if, and if the sleep apnea is a thing, are you going to go see a GP? You're going to see a regular doctor?

Yeah, I got a, got a, yeah. Okay. I've been on my friends too, like, what's happening? I just told one of my home girls, I was like, yo, listen, it's not because, you know, this is not about vanity. I was like, I just, we have to, we have to drop a couple pounds. I was like, because it's going to affect. you. No, it's real. It's going to affect you. And not for nothing. Like, no, it's not about vanity.

But give me a one shot there, Joe. Give me, which is my camera? This one right here. Yo, I'm turning 47 in July. This face card never gets declined. You know what I'm saying? Do the work. I cannot. Do the work. Shut up, Rosenberg. 47? Come on 47. No, well, that's the only place the face card gets declined. No. But in all seriousness, like,

We generally do as a show of people, Ebro's over 50. All of us are chasing 50. And none of us are perfect. Yeah. But like everyone's doing work to at least like keep it together. And now, Vaskim, you got to pull your shit together, bro. We can't lose you. We love you, man.

We love you too much. You work really hard. You got to sleep. We got to figure out the sleep apnea. And just get, you know, some of this. By the way, he might cut out some of those food options and immediately see improvement. Yeah. Because stuff like, I just recently heard something about dreams.

drinking calories. It's the biggest waste, bro. Mm-hmm. Like drinking calories. That's one of the main reasons I try to drink less. Yeah. I like drinking. But like I'm just drinking empty calories.

What I'm doing? One of my home grows is like dieting, right? And then I'm in a car with her and she's like, yo, I ordered something from Starbucks. Can you just run and get it? I look. I was like, what the hell is this? A frappuccino? You might as well eat two Big Macs.

No, a frappuccino's nuts. I was like, this is a milkshake. It's a coffee flavored milkshund. Shake. Now, by the way, I want to. What do you mean? It's coffee. I was like, no, it's not.

Bro. No, it's not. You know, I've been pissed off recently. I've realized how much Starbucks and Duncan have, like, tricked us into they're fine. And they're not like fast food. Bitch, they are fast food. Starbucks, yo, Starbucks is the most brilliant marketing of all time. They were like, let's have such a clean brand that people will think like it's appropriate

to take a meeting at a Starbucks. You realize how crazy that is? Yeah. They are McDonald's. And yet it would not be unacceptable if you were meeting with someone kind of important to just say, hey, you want to sit down at Starbucks? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bro, it is McDonald's.

They have tricked us. And yes, of course, if you just go get a black coffee with some oat milk, whatever the thing, you can get stuff that's fine there. Right. But people end up going, hmm, I'm going to get the iced shaken. I'm going to get, that's what I like to get. I love the shake, the ice, the shaken espresso is slamming. And then you look, it's 270 empty calories. Now, lastly, while we're up here preaching, I want to be clear.

I'm not Ebro. I don't eat literally one half a cassidia a week or I go to the hospital. My weekends, I have a cheeseburger, I have French fries, I have a drink, I have a good time, more than I should. But when I hit that Monday through Friday, it's like the day in, day out. I'm at Trader Joe's every day before ESPN getting a little tuna salad, which scores quite nicely on my Yucca app. I'll get some pita crackers, again, nice 80 score on my Yucca app. Couple of crackers. I get a nice green juice.

Some baby carrots, whatever, man. And throws down some cashews and that's my eating for the day. Like, we just, bro, I would get, if I was eating what Baskin was eating,

bro, I walk around 200 pounds all the time. I look good. I'm like okay at 200 pounds. Yeah. If I was eating gummies and ginger ale loose every day, guys, I would be here at 260. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. Like, it's so easy. It's super easy. Like that's, anyways, we're preaching. Sorry. I mean,

yeah, just because we love y'all, because we've, and we're all a work in progress. Ebrook and say whatever he wants about himself, I don't ride a thousand miles over the weekend. No. But, you know, I do little things. Try my best.

I watch my shows on the treadmill. That's why. And by the time I'm done with the episode, I'm like, oh, I just walked two miles on an incline. So little things like that because I, too, don't like it, but I'm doing it. So just sending you a lot of love. Rassan, we love you so much.

We love you, buddy. Let's do, do, do, do, do, do, do, all right. Read a letter, Lauren. All right. Here we go. This is from Mark. First, huge shout-out to the whole E-L-R family, Ebro, Rosenberg, and Laura. Ron, too, for quick.

First things first, you guys get me through my dialysis sessions. To any chance we can get a jersey or a cap next. I like the hat idea. I like the hat idea, too. Maybe we'll do that for the next March drop. We talked about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll look into that.

Peter, how can I get a cheap heat t-shirt? Really loving your political breakdowns. It beats the brainwash news. And finally, any chance I could still get signed shirts. Love the decor in the studio. Thank you. This is from Mark. We're working on the signed shirts.

Honestly, I forgot. But I did buy a fabric pen. I have it here. So we'll start getting some of those together. Cheap heat shirts. I don't currently have. any available. I'm going to do another one soon.

I may still have, like, depends what size you are. I could maybe have a rocky shirt in the stash. Those ones are very special. But I'll let you know as soon as I have a new cheap heat shirt. All right. Maybe with another one.

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I love hearing all your takes and your fans. conversations. I love how you are all real and honest with each other. I wanted to hear your thoughts on vaccines. I work in a school on Long Island and I feel like it's been a huge topic recently. There's a lot of conversation and opinions online about it. And since you're all parents, I'm really interested to hear your take and how you guys feel about everything now. Love you guys. Thank you for making my mornings better every single day. Oh. Thank you.

That was a nice message and I just equally got annoyed. About how we feel about vaccines? Yeah. I just, I can't believe we're here. Well, were people question vaccines? Yeah. It's like. Well, it's become, it's become, let's be honest, it's become blurry territory because,

well, not because of COVID in my eyes, but I just think the conversations around vaccines has been evolving. And you have a lot of people who have become averse to, you know, too many at one time or, you know, very specific things. Like, even when we talk about with Ebro, Ebro always sounds sort of, like, if you were to just listen to Ebro on the surface, you would at the very least think him and jazz sound vaccine reluctant. That is the energy that it gives.

But when you ask them straight up, he absolutely vaccinated their children. They absolutely do. But you hear what I'm saying? The way the conversation sounds is it's always kind of like, and my wife is sort of similar. Like, oh, I'm going to do it, but can I do it in as slowly? slow away as possible while still making sure that she's good. So that's what I did.

So when I first had Kenza, my partner was very like, how do I do this? This seems like a lot. And I was just like, all right. Let's be honest. Loris, Loris. He was one notch. He was one, he was one hair from Shawnee Land. I was like, listen.

She's covered. Listen, okay, I had to break it down a lot of like, I had to give him the data, right? So yeah, I spoke to Ebro and he was like, hey, we spaced out Issa's vaccine. And this is how we did it. And I basically brought it to my doctor. I was like, yo, what do you think about this? She's like, it's perfectly fine. So I'm the type of parent that I don't get more than two at a time.

Two is the max. And I'll come back in four weeks, five weeks. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with making multiple trips and spacing it all out. We just did that. Yeah. And I think that's perfectly fine. If you talk to your pediatrician, it just, I, it really hurts my brain.

When I see, I saw an article not too long ago, there's a rise in infant bleeding because people now, even hesitant to give the vitamin K shot at birth. A vitamin K shot is not a vaccine, but people have gotten so brainwashed by the internet that they just don't want to do anything. So the reason for the vitamin K shot is because when babies are born, I guess they're not, their blood doesn't clot the way it's supposed to. They're too new, you know what I mean? So that's where the vitamin K shot comes in.

But the fact that I read that so many babies have died because of this. Because they bleed? Yes. Like they get hurt and they believe? Yes, yes, for whatever reason. But I was like, whoa, this is all preventable. Like, it's all preventable. But I really think that you should do, yes, you can do your research.

But do not, your research does not include just going on random anti-vax YouTubers to tell you like, hey, this is all poison. But once the algorithm starts feeding you, that's the part that I know I get become a broken record on this subject. Shit. Sorry. Sorry. It's just like you're putting your kid's life at risk. A friend of mine, her son was in the hospital for whooping cough and was very, very bad.

That's what I'm going to say to the point where I was like, oh my God, I can't believe we're here. And then she's crying because she's like, man, maybe I should have given the vaccine. Rosenberg, I was living. I had to just walk away. So that's how I feel. No, no. Everything you said is valid. And this is one of the reasons, though, I do constantly bring up this algorithm-ish on the show.

And even with Ebro on the stuff that like he cares about like politically and I'm like, bro, we're still getting fed stuff. Like even if you think like your algorithm is good, it's still suiting like Natalie has been on an anti-meat kick. And don't get me wrong. Good. Like let's, I'm down. But once you start getting fed stuff, no pun intended, it's just going to keep reinforcing and reinforcing. And it doesn't mean that there's not an agenda behind it. Yeah.

All right. So let's see, let's see, let's see. Here we go. Hypocrisy? Peace and blessings to all of you. I want to express my love and appreciation in total, but that's going to be two pages long. But thank you. I'm playing catch-up episode-wise. I'm currently in late April, early May. A woman wrote a letter about the April 11th episode praising Laura for checking Ebro and Rosenberg about making general status. The hypocrisy comes because Laura only speaks up when the general statement depicts women in a negative light. It was made true because the very next episode, Ebro made a general statement stating something nice about girls and Laura said nothing. Also, when Rosenberg said something about all men, Laura said nothing. She did go on a rant about her hating when they say all, but they don't do that. Rosenberg, stop pandering and grow a set.

I understand you guys want to protect Laura, but part of that protection is correction. Can't protect, but you can't correct. Remember, and it's giving Damon Wayans on Living Color, but remember, if a general statement is made, only, quote, hit dogs holler. Only people who the statement applies to will try to disqualify a statement by saying not all.

Other than that, I love you all, and the work you continue to do, thanks for it all. I want to say this from the bottom of my heart. Shut your bitch ass off. Oh, no, she did it. From the bottom of my heart, because what am I going to do? I'm not going to sit here and every single time become the police. I just pointed that out that one time, and guess what?

We all talked about it, and I think Rosenberg and I've been doing a great job about it. But every single time I'm like, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, like, shut up. Whoa. It's from the bottom of my heart. She said from the bottom of my heart. Yeah, I cannot. No, it's an, I hear what he's saying. It's unrealistic for every time we make a generalization.

Bro, this show, there's a lot of generalizing on the show. It makes sense that Laura would, as the one woman on the show, like, hey, guys, you're generalizing women here. I just, I hear what he's saying. I think it does come from love. I don't think it's an attack, but like, it's not a realistic. It's just not realistic. Right. We'll do the best we can.

That's it. If I feel like some, of course when I say stuff about men, it's grossly exaggerated also. We're doing the best we can. This is a really interesting one. I have an email. Okay. It's from Nat. Hello, Ebro, Laura and Rosenberg.

I am so pleased that Laura Rosenberg spoke about in cells the other day. Laura mentioned Discord. I'm a child. I am a child and adolescent mental health social worker. And I'm learning some of the more seriously harmful things that are going on in the community. Discord and other apps is a very dangerous app where predators target children for sexual abuse luring them to engage in self-harm and violent behavior. I also want to highlight two other disturbing issues regarding the risk and safety of children

and teenagers. Bullying at school and cyberbullying is right and is traumatizing children, leading to depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicide attempts, and more. Schools, the community and society are not doing enough to eradicate bullying. The other concern I have is that teenagers are buying Benadryl, ibuprofen, Tylenol, and over-the-counter meds from pharmacies and overdosing on them. What? I've heard of Benadryl, but Tylenol?

Yeah, I didn't know that. Oh, my God. There should be laws for an age limit in purchasing these medications. Thank you for always thoughtfully raising important topics. And I must say Ebro's parent advice is phenomenal. Yeah, man, like this is really, really eye-opening. That's what I always tell parents like, you have to like learn about everything that's going on. So many people have had horrible things happen in their family with their teenagers.

And they're like, I thought it was a normal teenager. I thought he was just on his computer. Yeah, but what is he watching? Right. What is he engaging with? Like we've had people close to us, Rosenberg, who a close friend of us was related to that death that happened in Florida. I know. That shook me to the core.

I know. The AI, sorry, go ahead. Yeah, the AI chatbot. that practically encouraged self-harm to a young man, and he committed suicide. Yes, no, no, the chatbot being a woman, essentially, playing a woman, essentially was like a young girl, was like they fell in love.

I know this sounds insane to us, but fell in love, and then basically said the only way they could be together was if he, like, joined her on the other side. And this person who is closely connected to us, through a close friend of ours, a family of hers, committed suicide. Yeah.

I cried reading the article because I can't even imagine that poor mother. Like, it's wild what's happening on the internet. And there are a few lawsuits now and there's some fighting happening. Yeah.

And again, this goes back to earlier in the week what we were talking about. Let's see if I can find the exact quote from Pope Leo. Yeah. But also if your kids are on Roblox, is it Roblox?

Yeah. Just watch out, man. I would never allow my kids to be on Roblox. That's not happening. So what's going on on Roblox? I don't know because I'm not on it, but I know that there's a community

where you can chat with strangers, I guess other people who are playing the game, but there's been so many cases that like men are luring young kids. And then eventually they'll be like, yeah, I'll meet you at the gas station or I'll come out the house at this time. I'll be waiting for you outside.

There's so many stories. If you just look it up, look up Roblox lawsuits and Roblox incidents where predators are harming children and you're going to see everything that pops up. Like you have. to be careful, man. Do not trust just any device with your children. Specifically when they're like super young, you have to be careful. Here's a quote from Pope Lea. Artificial intelligence needs

to be disarmed. The word disarmed is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity, the Pope is essentially screaming that we have to do something here. Yeah. Because if this gets away from us, and right now it's on the path to, and another, I'm not trying to make this all political, but another Republican administration, this group of Republicans will, it'll finish us. I don't know if you saw, there was a story that came out, and I think I saw it on BBC.

This happened in the UK where it's like a school posted like a group picture of, I don't I think it was like a soccer team, an all-girls soccer team, and they were all underage. Maybe you can look this up, Louis. But somebody took that photo that was posted on their website and turned it into an AI porn situation, where they were blackmailing the school for money or else we're going to release all of this footage of these young children. And to me, it's like AI has the capability to stop all of this, and they won't do it. The fact that you can do this should scare the crap out of you that this is being done. It was a real thing.

Yeah, man. It's, Popolito's right. You found it, Louis? I'm looking for it. Oh, yeah, yeah. But just overall, just even on Twitter, right? Yeah. You can, there are people who are using the chat about on Twitter going like, let's say it's a normal.

Oh, it's all the time. Yeah. It's like take clothes off of Laura styles. Right. And they'll do it and they'll show a picture, you know, indicating that it's crazy. And it's happening a lot with underage girls and things like that, which they have. We're not, our society is not capable of doing this. Like we, I just don't have any faith in us.

Let's see another video, shall we? Yeah, yeah. You have another video there? What up, ELR family? What's up? This is Calvin from Charlotte. That's right. I'm not from New York.

Get over it. I've been listening since about 2017, 2018. That curve, that was my joint. That's what got me in. But then I stayed for the rest of it. the shenanigans. I had to clown myself because I was listening to the Marsha Ambrosius, that Casablanco. I'm like, yeah, I need to let y'all know about that. Check it out. It's got hella classic hip-hop samples that y'all would appreciate. And then it was like, oh, it came out

in 2024. So you know what I get. Congratulations. You played yourself. Anywho. I know we retired. L-L-J cool, J-R. But I don't know. know I must have missed a day and came back and we were doing a ribididit. Ah, where did that come from? I scroll back through the podcast and all that trying to find what did I miss. So that's been bothering me for a long time. Join us on the Patreon. I'm over here at the Patreon.

Are you come on over here with us? There's no ads. No ads, buddy. Join us. I love him. I love him. Calvin. We are here.

We are here. Oh Calvin, you're so dope. Thank you so much. Calv, that's love, bro. And I'll tell you. So the Arribida was, it was a few months after LLJ Cool Jha, Trump was talking somewhere and he just completely fumbled. And he was like, in the rubidia.

And so we then had both going. The LLJ Cool Jail on the Ribbidah on. But you know what? That's a great observation. That's funny. Yeah, it was just a little drop that we found. That was funny. Calvin, thank you, man.

I'm getting the sense he's a Carolina Panthers fan. Let's see. Hold on. More stuff to get you. Let me read one. Okay. Man, you guys are really coming through. Ebro Laura Rosenberg at gmail.com.

Ebro Laura Rosenberg at gmail.com. Okay. Uh, did, do, do, do, do, do, do, uh, okay, real quick, um, ELR, my family and I love your show. My husband and I listened way back. and now our daughter, Winter Ivory, just graduated from kindergarten. Not a graduation. And we would love if you could give her a shout of graduation to her for her family matters Friday.

Congratulations, little Winter Ivory. Yes. That is, I want to tell you one thing. They put a lot of white in that name. Aw. Oh, cute. Winter Ivory. Kenseth is not having a step-up ceremony.

Well, good. Yo, the teacher was like, yeah, we don't do that here. I was like, okay. Well, no, it's right up my alley. I mean, listen, cap and gown for kindergarten. I mean, what are we doing? It's cute, though. Winter ivory happens to be adorable, but winter ivory can aspire to one day

wearing a cap and gown at proper high school graduation. Just kidding. Enjoy yourself, guys. Real quick, Laura, Elr me. Rosenberg needs to hit himself with the button for saying Drake doesn't have a classic album. Congratulations. you plagued yourself um that's rude take care as a certified classic literally anyone outside of an old school boom bap head will tell you that just because he personally doesn't think

so doesn't change what the culture accepted by that logic someone could say the same about good kid mad city if they didn't like it personally also hit yourselves with a button for saying you'll never listen to cushion orange juice that is arguably a top five mixtape of all time. No, I didn't stutter. Ask the streets if you don't believe me. Until you take the time to listen to it, you have no place to give your opinion. Congratulations. Bro.

I know how much people love Cushing Orange Juice. I know. I'm probably not going to go back now and spend time with it. Maybe I should, but I remember it being a certified mixtape everyone loved. I still disagree. Like, as

old and washed as you may think I am, I was still somewhat young and not completely washed when Take Care came out. And yes, it was super popular and loved. I do not believe it gripped the entire culture the way Good Kid Mad City did. And I think you're lying to yourself if you say that it did. But it's an opinion. That's it.

Everyone has their own opinions. Like I think the argument about Drake is like, I hear it all the time. People say he has classic songs but not a classic album. You know. Louis, go ahead. Well, I was going to say, take care is, he's right where universally people will say take care is the classic album. And I've heard nothing was the same as also in the conversation. But do you hear what I'm saying that like the same way that that was in a conversation,

a really diverse large group of people agreed good kid Mad City was an instant classic? Yes, 100%. They did. Like, I'm not making that up. That's not just because I'm a Kendrick guy. was there for it. I promise you, it wasn't just Kendrick Stans. There were people who did not know anything about Kendrick Lamar. Heard Good Kid Mad City and were like, oh, okay, this is one of those debuts. And I know it wasn't his debut debut, but his mainstream debut. They were like, this is that

thing. Take care. His fans love it. Other people were like, if I hear Marvin's room again, I'm going to kill myself. Like, it was not a complete home run for everybody. So, this, guy can get mad and say it's just a me thing but i'm telling you it didn't have that bonafide classic moment the way that good kid mad city did i'm sorry so and that's fine uh who cares but like don't don't don't don't don't pour piss on my head and tell me it's lemonade or whatever the catchphrase is what well then you know what i'm trying to say yeah oh god what he got laura all right one last one um this is from chanelle shout out to the team good morning ELR i just wanted to write in and say how much I truly love what you guys have created after leaving the plantation.

What you're building is special. And I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. I appreciate the time, the energy and dedication you guys put into the platform and to your fans. The guru segment and Freedom Fridays give people a space to feel heard, express themselves, laugh, heal, and get real advice. And I think that's an amazing thing. You guys are genuinely awesome and get me through my mornings with your energy, honesty, humor and consistency.

I subscribe to the Patreon because I absolutely love to support what y'all doing. And I refuse to pay YouTube's ridiculous prices to avoid ads. But trust me, annoying ads or not, I'm still tuning in because I love you guys in the community you've built. I hope you guys continue to grow and receive all the success, money, blessings, and opportunities you deserve. Much love, respect to all of you for always showing up for your audience. And also, shout out to the EL Army, because without them, none of us would be here either.

But seriously, though, love you guys and thank you. That was just a beautiful, positive message. Chanel, thank you. That was so nice. That was so dope. All right, let's hit one more video before we go. And if you want to send your videos or voice notes or emails, Ebro-Lora Rosenberg at gmail.com. We have one last video, right?

Yo, what's up, gang? It's J. All right. Figured since y'all take in videos now, I'll match the voice to the face. Yes. I'm always sending your voice notes. This is for everybody. body, especially Laura and Ebro.

Just want to say sorry for your loss. Hearts, thoughts, and prayers been with you all the whole time. Never seen Ebro get that emotional, so that kind of got me. But I've definitely been praying for y'all. I've been to fight for a long time, even brought my wife along when we got together about seven years ago. And she, Laura's her favorite. Oh, love you, Laura. I love you too.

So this is for Rosenberg, though. Listen, bro. I get the whole validation thing. I listen to you all day long. I listen to you on here. I listen to you on ESPN. I'm looking forward to validate me. I know that's gonna be a part of who you are,

needing that extra validation, but you get a lot of love, man. You gotta say F the haters, like, F them. And even besides like what I'm saying and strangers, it's not even about us. You got love at home. Your wife loves you, the baby loves you, parents love you, family loves you,

even on Laura love you, Griff, uh, Ron, basking, you know what I mean? Oh, thanks Ron.

So I say instead of focusing on the hate, focus more on the love and, and, you know, just take it from there because that's what's most important. All right. Love you all. Oh.

Love you guys. Thank you for that beautiful video. That was fire. I love you guys. Thank you. That's incredibly sweet, Jay. Sorry,

I wasn't also getting emotional. I did have something in my throat. And I hope you enjoyed the first Validate Me episode, which is up right now. And everyone, please go subscribe and check it out. We need the whole EL Army to support, validate me. And that's really, that's nice. I sincerely appreciate that sentiment. I try to think of that stuff all the time.

That's the thing about people like, you know, deal with this stuff, though. It's like you can think about it all the time. And it's just like a constant battle that you have to like keep sort of fighting. Yeah. But hearing it from you is still incredibly sweet. Oh, no. Laura, what is going on? Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Important people call me. Anyway, thank you guys. Love you. I'm leaving today for Italia. Yes. Safe travels. Sunday, I'll be on the clash in Italy from Torino. Then we're going to Florence and we're going to bounce around and do our thing.

You're going to Puerto Rico? Yeah. Next week. Oh, that's next week? Yeah, yeah. Okay. So I don't know. Maybe I'll pop on next week.

Probably not, though. So if I don't talk to you, I love you all. Subscribe to validate me. And Laura, have a wonderful weekend. Thank you. Bye, guys. Best scheme, take care of yourself. You gave us a thumbs up.

I think he means it. Just don't follow the podcast.