The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 11.) Friday Freedom, Trae Young Trade, + The Gurus Devolves (1/9/26)

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

Today on Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg - Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg discuss Proud Boy Money, Trae Young Trade, Family Matters, Booger Picking, Friday Freedom, Addressing the End of HOT 97, 50 and Cam, Meeting in the Guru Department, and much more! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just don't call it a podcast. Get down. Do it again. Do it again. Hold on. Let me get to the end so I can restart. Get down.

Get down. It's the Ebro, Laura Rosenberg show. Good morning, everyone. We are back again. Friday edition. A lot of things lined up. We have Laura's rundown. That's right, the rundown with Laura Stiles.

And it might get low down. When it gets low down, Rosenberg, what happened? It gets low. All the way down. Hell. It's so ridiculous. You know, it's a Friday freedom, too. You know, we got your emails.

You can email us, Ebro Laura Rosenberg at gmail.com. We also have the OGs. That's right. The original gurus. And you can email them, the original gurus at gmail.com. But first and foremost,

I didn't get to this this week. Okay. But it's been on my mind. What are you going? Rassan Bascom, run the clip of these proud boy lawyers talking about them getting paid, please. Going to empower people that are loyal to the president, but beyond the reach of the law, if they are given money, which it seems like the president is trying to do, you know, the proud boys are seeking $150 million in damages. The Department of Justice is currently opposing that, but we don't know how that's going to play out. We're going to have a situation very similar to what we've seen in other countries, where you have essentially militias or.

paramilitary forces that are loyal to an administration but unaccountable to anyone or any institution and paid with our tax dollars precisely well shout to that guy i i uh frame that incorrectly that was actually someone uh speaking against them getting paid and but articulating that the proud boys won a hundred and fifty million dollars hit the button yo that is that congratulations you played yourself well and it in this person person, that gentleman speaking right there, said the president was considering it. Luckily for us, the Department of Justice finds it to be a problem. The same Department of Justice that's always aligned with the president.

We'll see where it goes. But I just had to get that out the way early in the program today because I have been watching that for a couple of days. And my brain just couldn't fathom. But as we articulated a few days ago, one of the major problems in the United States, of America is that we have rewarded white supremacists, Nazi, negative, domestic, terroristic behavior since the Civil War. Over and over again. We have not, over and over again, people do not get held accountable.

They get pardoned. No one goes to jail. None of that. And a lot of it falls in this kind of American exceptionalism, idea where we think we're better than we actually are. We're terrible. A woman got shot and killed. A mother got shot in the face by an ICE agent.

An American, a U.S. citizen. That's right. And this isn't the first person killed by ice agents. Yeah. This is the first one I think that that has been caught on film and got national attention. I believe so. And by the way, if you thought there'd be any sort of different reaction or outrage because the lady was white. Congratulations. You played yourself.

Apparently these people view a white lesbian woman who's on the side of justice and looking out for her neighbors. They view her just as bad as they view people of color. Because there was no sympathy whatsoever. Oh, and they immediately, immediately started jumping to her sexual orientation. Her pronouns. Her pronouns calling her kid an orphan. Disgusting, bro. People are disgusting.

No, no, no. It's bad. It's bad. Congratulations. You plagued yourself. But the proud boys, they should get their $150 million. That would be, can you invent? That's an obscene amount of money we're talking about.

That would, that's like a dangerous would change the trajectory and impact of the proud boys amount of money. What thousand percent? How much money have they ever had? They could not have ever. I think they've been fringe enough. I don't think they've been sitting on any sort of money like that. I mean, right now they're making ice money. Oh, because you mean they're working for ice?

That's the word. Right. But if they get the $150 million, they don't have to do the dirty work of ice. They can hide in their caves and do their work. Yeah. Speaking of hundreds of millions of dollars, did you guys see, you know, the Somalian community got pegged with the whole fraud, the government fraud and welfare fraud. and all that is fraud in Minnesota.

But the real ringleader of all of the fraud, the $250 million Minnesota welfare fraud scandal, has been ordered by a judge to forfeit her Porsche and luxury goods. That's a white woman, ladies and gentlemen. That woman is not wrong. You plagued yourself. Saw the picture. It doesn't look Somalia.

Well, listen, I don't know what everyone in Somalia looks like, but I'm pretty sure that's a white lady from Minneapolis. Minnesota $250 million fraud. Let me look up this woman's name. We've got to start putting a name with this sort of behavior. Let's see. Her name is, da-da-da-da. Wow, they do not want to put her name in these stories.

Amy Bach is her name. Congratulations. You played yourself. The alleged mastermind behind Minnesota's 250. $50 million feeding our future fraud scandal tied to the Somali community is facing forfeiture of porous property, designer handbags, and millions of dollars after a federal judge approved a preliminary order. She had $3.7 million in bank accounts and cash also.

So did it directly tie to Somalian people or no? Well, it directly tied to the Somalian community, some of the Somalian community because, A, there were people working with her who were from that community. Got it. And those people have, by the way, already been in trouble and arrested. So this whole thing coming out at this time was only seized by the JD Vance's online

and the Elon Musk's online so that they could start working to create all of this chaos in Minnesota. Tim Waltz stepping aside as governor. Tim Walts has been actively involved in trying to get these people held accountable for the fraud. And they make it. Wait, under the Biden administration.

Right, right, right. They make it sound like Tim Walz was just like he's into it. He's part of it. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. What else you guys got today for hitting the button? Oh, man. What other?

Oh, we did. I forgot to mention this yesterday. Trey Young going to the Washington Wizards. Congratulations. You plagued yourself. Wait, he asked for a trade and that's where he ended up. No, no. Or he wanted to go there.

He not only asked for a trade, he asked to go to the Washington Wizard. Congratulations. You played yourself. Do you know the level of not caring about winning in life that you have to have to ask to go to the Washington Wizards? And there's no world where he knows something that we don't. No, the only world that exists, I believe, is that the original executive who traded to draft him is now an executive with the Wizards. And so it was a safe and comfy landing spot because the league now basically believes, what a lot of the players had believed and fans have believed,

which is that Trey Young's vastly overrated. So he wanted to find a landing spot. Obviously, he has not worked out for him in Atlanta over the last couple of years. And he wanted to go. What happened to all the ice tray and all the, I mean, there was moments. He had moments in the playoffs with Atlanta.

There was moments. Like, why, how is this spiraled so out of control? Why is he a bad guy? What's happening? Things come at you quickly in this league. And all of a sudden, people get hip to things. You look at 24, 25 last year. He was averaging 24 points a game. Now, he shot a terrible percentage from the floor, 41% from the floor, 34% from three, which isn't god awful.

And average 24 points and 11 assists last year. You know, the guy still puts up numbers. This year he's down to pay. He's at, he's at, he still shoots 41% from the floor. He's got 19 points and 9 assists a game. But by the way, those are still pretty good numbers. But they just decided in Atlanta, he was not the guy. It is not working out there. And he requested a trade and wanted to go to Washington. I'll be honest, I have not followed the Tray Young fall off very much. But when I heard he requested Washington as someone who grew up in Washington and still

in many ways considers, you know, D.C. home. Congratulations. You plagued yourself. It's never good either. Listen, Bradley Beale couldn't do it. John Wall couldn't do it. All right, Gilbert Arenas could do it. Hell, Michael Jordan couldn't do it.

No one can do it. So, Trey Young is not going to be the guy to do it in Washington. It's going to be miserable. But you know what? Get that money, my guy. You'll be all right. Congratulations. You played yourself.

Got some good restaurants down there. Now, here at the Ebro-Laure Rosenberg show, you may have noticed the last couple of shows, my sweater game. I've never seen anything like this before. How are you guys feeling about cozy the cozy cardigan guru? I don't,

I don't like it when you start rubbing on your chest as much, but like that part, nah, I'm not into that part. So what happened? You went shopping and you just was like, oh, let me cop some of these.

Nah, nah, I've had these for a while. You know what I'm saying? I just, you know, these are kind of like winter garments that I break out on,

you know, when I'm cozy around the crib. You know what I'm saying? And since we're heavy broadcasting from the crib, even though we do have... Oh, there are plans, folks. Big plans. Big plans. Never forget. Here we are. Blood in the water. That's right.

Sharks are circling. No, I like today's sweater. I like today's sweater. I like today's sweater. I like today's sweater even more than yesterday's sweater. Well, yesterday's sweater was just a black sweater. Right. This one, this one's got something to it. This is sit by the fire or weather. Oh, yeah, absolutely. This is getting ready for the... Now, Lauren Rosenberg, one day, we will have to bring the family in to our other plans the bunker the estate oh yeah that's right that's on the horizon god been getting built for a long time

underground now do you hasn't been that long it's been a conversation year and a half it's been a conversation been a conversation for probably two years yeah rosamette you know what's so funny it's like okay i have ebro right building his bunker right and then on the other side i have one of my best friends and business partner Sharifa, who is obsessed with the bunker situation. Oh, I took her up there. She saw what I had going on. What did she say about it? Oh, she's sold.

She is making plans. She is figuring this out. She has plans to join other plans. Griff says, Griff says construction started a year. Yeah, because I bought the land in 2023 at the end, like maybe beginning of 2020. I would like some Friday Freedom emails about how Rich Ebro is.

Let's continue. Listen, you know what a black man gets some money everybody celebrates. I know. It's when a white man gets to money, people go F out of here. Where's the F out of here, sir? If a white, even if he doesn't come for money, if he gets any money. Oh, no, no, no, a white Jew? I had to come from money.

Nobody wants, you had upstairs when you was a- I had upstairs. That's right. You had an upstairs. But anyway, yeah, so permits and everything done 2024, 2025, we started construction, late 2024, 2025. Okay. Oh, Griff says the sweater is giving Mr. Darden's neighborhood.

Now, big time. Big time. It's giving Mr. Darnes neighborhood. Listen, put a poll in the chat there, Louis. Oh, God. Do they like the sweater game? All right. Throw it up.

Look, coming up on the show, we have to get to the gurus. We will get to the rundown and the lowdown. And now, Laura, you were saying when you were out the other night, Um, Rosembourg's wife, Natalie. Yeah. Had an idea. Oh, she came out with, she,

she gave me a suggestion for a possible segment, and I really like it. She thinks we should call it family matters, play the little Family Matters theme song, and each of us take turns discussing one thing that's happening with our family, our kids. This is real hokey. A partner, but I like it.

Oh, no, I like it too. We do it anyway. This is a type of question. corny carrying on I like. I like it. Oh, I got the theme song ready. Laura doing like a cool dance, the Family Matters theme song is not on my opinion.

That sound is so 80s. You don't understand. Y'all people don't get it. The grand design. They don't understand. The kids don't understand what a good theme song. Oh, the corny guitar is a saxophone coming in. Time for the beach.

big old hook. This makes family life feel so fun. I know. Well, guess what? I'm currently holding an L right now. It's not fun. Big L. Okay. That's fine. It's beautiful. It's amazing. It's fun, actually. It's light. It's cool. Big L right now. After all the years of me talking about, you know, with Issa, when Issa, when Issa was a kid, you know, she slept in her own bed and Salasi's not going to run the house. She's going to be in her own bed. You know, I keep track of wins and losses. Right now, L. Solossi's running. Salasi's running rough shot, huh? Yeah, just last night,

so last he was in the bed. What happened was we got set back from, remember, we had strep in the house over the holidays. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so when the toddler gets sick, you want them in close proximity, monitoring breathing, making sure they're comfortable.

So then she ended up being in the bed, you know, trying to get her comfortable. Mm-hmm. After we got better with strep, then it was just kind of like, okay, she's fine sleeping in her bed, but then we'll wake up at four in the morning. and it's like, okay, I have to come to work

and where I use the room where she sleeps, my studio is right there. So I'm going to end up waking her up. So she ends up going into the bed, usually around six anyway. So if she wakes up at four, what are we doing? Right. What are we doing?

I'm getting up going in there and laying down at her room, or I'm going to just go get her and bring her into the bed because I got to get up anyway and leave her in there with jazz. So she's waking up at four, and now you're bringing her into the bed. Yeah, but the last.

couple of nights we've been sitting in the bed at 8 o'clock 8.30. And she just starts getting comfy. And then we fell asleep and she slept in the bed the entire. Oh. Congratulations. We played yourself. Of mommy and daddy, don't you dare rip this away from me. Well, and when we were on vacation, we had the crib.

You know, I mean, look, it's a vacation house so you don't have that much space. Her crib is in our bedroom. Issa sleeps in the other room in the vacation situation. And so her crib was in the room. So she ended up in the bed with us on vacation. Damn it did a whole vacation or a damn in the whole trip. Oh, she's in the bed. Don't she's in the bed.

No, no, no. It's actually you're in her bed. Congratulations. You play yourself. Now, luckily, luckily me and mom are on the same page. And we're going to start to do the work to unwind this over the next week or so. All right. But when I travel, I have a feeling it's going to fall apart again.

I'm going to sit back, sit my coffee, and watch. Could happen. I've been waiting. No, listen, I've been patiently waiting, like I'm an M1 said, and 50. I've been patiently waiting to see Ebro in a situation when all of a sudden everybody's, it's not all going perfect. Because he nailed it with Isa. He nailed everything was just boom, boom, boom, boom. She's on point.

So it looked like he just knew. everything it all clicked so it is exciting for the people now to see ebro scrambling is a new season a new storyline we never see it oh wait based on what i said it feels like full scrambling not yet it feels like on the road to scrambling yo because salasi is an independent baby nah solace got solacio had you on the ropes around it salaci will give you that it no no no no show how you on your heels You think you're on your toes for a second, but then she's just quick, starts moving. And she's, and she's persistent.

You know what I mean? She's still, she knows how to apply pressure. Mm-hmm. And she works her angles. Celacio will work her angles. She'll go from super, super cute to daddy. I love you, love you, love you. Butter above?

To full, to full waka upside your head. Scratch your eyeballs out and then go, sorry. No, come on, man. They manipulate. Dead ass, bro. These kids are smart. I got, I wish I could show you guys the video. I probably could if I sent it to Bascom.

Yo, Maya yesterday. So our, our close, close friend, I think I may have told you guys, that one of our best friends moved to New York, my friend Allison. And Allison has a daughter, Evelyn, who's just turned nine. Okay. I think just turn nine. When I tell you that she is the cat's pajamas to Maya, I mean, Maya thinks this nine-year-old, everything that she does is the coolest thing possible, the funniest, she laughs at everything

she does. And last night was one of the all-time best. For some reason, they were over here, and Evelyn was just pretending to sneeze. and Maya's laugh because Maya hasn't really gotten into laughing yet. I don't know what's normal and when babies start to laugh a lot. She will only laugh at very specific things.

And they laugh and then they get serious, right? Yo, I just said Bascom the video. We'll see if you can put it in the system. Yo, she's doing this. When Evelyn's sneezing, she's hysterical. And I'm like, that's so good. You like that, huh?

And I go, ah, pachoo. she looks at me like honestly what the fuck's wrong with you? Like I know you didn't come in here and just ruin this joke because because Evelyn sneeze now that's funny what you're doing I don't like it I don't like what you're doing and I want you to stop it. Yo she looks at me so nuts I was like oh I'm sorry I'm not your cool little friend well also hits yourself with the button because We don't curse on this program and double whammy.

It's a family. This is a deep family segment. Please edit that somehow. Congratulations. You played yourself. Wow. Anyway, really quickly though, Kenza is going through her discovery stage where she's discovering boogers in her nose and I can't get her to stop picking her nose.

No, no, no, no. This is in your DNA, Kenza. I know. This is a part of your genetic makeup. I know. I know. She, Peter, she's on the, the couch like that and I'm like Kenza don't do that your hands are dirty you're going to get sick

I'm trying to find different ways of telling her to stop picking her nose she's like but it's fun oh my god it is genetic by the way but it's fun can't you can't you just explain the isn't this a parenting moment to teach the truth Rosenberg stop it no this is this is a truth moment where you say we all pick our nose you don't just sit there and do it she doesn't doesn't care about the truth right now. She is feeling the comfort of her legacy. That's right. Wait, Laura, were you doing it

yelling the elders? Were you doing it for the elders? Laura, were you doing this in front of people too? I was a loose bicker, bro. I was just in my nose. Had a collection. I'm disgusting. Laura stored the boogers.

You don't remember me telling you that in my, next to my bed on the wall I had behind a I had a bunch of them collected and my mom discovered it and she whipped my ass. No, it's so that's that's a that's a Kenza. Kinsa, Kinsa, live your truth, and embrace your heritage. No, by the way, your heritage is the craziest. I can't stand you.

Doing it for the elders. Yeah, picking buggers. No, not picking buggers. No. Play that, play that bitch, Mark. I know, I wanted to. Yo, so, but did you try saying to her? hey, yes, we sometimes people pick their noses.

However, I would like you to go ahead and not do it in front of people. That's not appropriate. It's rude. I told her that and she said, yes, mommy, okay. I was like, look, we can go to the bathroom. I'll give you a tissue. You can clean yourself up. She just says, yes, mommy.

And next to you know, like two hours later, I turned around and she's like doing something. Bob, I can you guys you guys an honest question? This is obviously risking myself and I'm exposing a lot here. Okay. Is there anyone in the world who doesn't sometimes pick their nose privately? Of course. No, who doesn't? Who doesn't?

Oh, doesn't? I don't believe them. Like, is there, everybody picks their nose, bro? Everyone doesn't. You stuffed up. Yeah, no, no. I picked my nose and still flick boogers from time. Oh, no.

You're rolling flicks sometimes. No, I'm a rolling flick, man. It's gone. Oh, come on. It's dirt. It's just dirt. Nothing. No, listen, man.

You, yo, and anybody, out here lying you're a liar no because I picked my nose but I have a tissue like oh you're glad you're not you're not you're not you're not going to convince us that you were stashing and store of boogers and now all of a sudden you've evolved to be some like pristine I only burger picking machine only get out of I only pick boogers with a tissue handy and get out of you don't roll one thing I've always wanted to cover what you Lars now is the reason you go get these $9,000 nail jobs and so you can sit up and cave creep. Congratulations.

And get all up in your names of passages with some expensive booger picking nails. Get out of it. Oh my God. Yeah, this is a hot. A long ass nails are meant for bugger picking. Yo, this is a tape. You think these are luxurious scoops? That's right.

Now you're talking. They're like free those scoops on your fingers. But for bugger. Now you're talking. You know, this. He wasn't very shut up. Laura, he had been holding that one. He'd been waiting.

I've been waiting. I'm tearing up. The fact that she just said, well, no, I do it, but I have a tissue. No, bro, I'm going to keep a real, too. There might be people out there in the world who've been like, I was on the West Side Highway. I pulled up to a light. I swear I saw Rosenberg just digging in his nose and flicking out the window. One thousand percent.

It's happened. 1,000 percent you have pulled up next to me and seen me in deep. Nuffles deep. Scraping is. brain. Ah, getting told. This is what Friday Freedom is all about. All right, hold, let's let's let's

palette cleanse. Baskam, you have the video of Maya? Okay, okay. Let's, let's palate cleanse. Good job, Evelyn. Uh-huh. Might cry from it. Do you see the face she gave me?

Yeah, she was like, bro. You almost made her crying. She was going to punch you in your face. Kind of terrible sneeze. is this? Well, not only that, but you're interfering with my connection I'm having right now. I'm making a friend. Here you come. Hey. She loves Eve. Now, she loves Evelyn is so cool to her. She thinks it's all funny. That's so cute. No, that was amazing. I was, that made me laugh out loud. That was amazing. That little baby's got the cutest little laugh. I know, and I've barely gotten

them. So when we get them, it's like, amazing. You're like, oh, my God. No, but even the way her face scrunches up like the whole real is it just the whole thing. Evelyn's mom Allison calls my a scrunch face killer because she hits me scrunch. She loves that scrunch nose. You guys ready for some freedom to be

free? Yo, listen, it's Friday Freedom where you can email Ebro Laura Rosenberg at Gmail. Do we have the Ebro Laura Rosenberg band available to set off Friday freedom? Oh man. Playing their favorite hit. The deedle, deal.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Friday Freedom. Your time, your space, emails and voice notes. How do you feel? What do you hate? We got it all for you on Friday Freedom. Did Griffson send us this stuff over already? He did. He did. We got emails for you, pal.

All right. How many emails? How are we doing out here? Our Friday Freedom's cool. We've got a few so far. I got a bunch. All right. All right. Looks like about that. Here we go. Shout to Dominique. Hit us with a quick one. Love to see the show still going. Looking forward to the actual formatted version. All of you get the button though. For no mention of Uncle Murder 2025 wrap up.

It was really good. And you all and you all are mentioned have a good day from Chicago. Yeah. Congratulations. You play. I don't know if that's a button. Um, but, but I appreciate that. Shouts to me know, no. I mean, sounds to Uncle Murder. Did you even hear it? I did hear it. And what did he say? Well, you know me. I didn't, I didn't care for it because he literally just said ebro's name five times acting like no one else left the radio station. But what did he say about? Just like that HH-907's a mess. Enough is enough is enough was fired.

Then later happened. Then they got rid of E-Bro and then you know blah, blah, blah, blah. So you later E-Bro and then blah, blah, blah, blah. Bye-bye E-bro. And I'm like, damn, murder. So that's why it's so to this woman, Dominique, that's why I didn't come up. Yeah, I was, I didn't even hear it.

Second of all, Rosenberg didn't want to bring it up because all I mentioned was me. And Lawrence Fousinth was in Thailand. She was in Thailand. So I didn't hear it so late, though. I only heard it a couple days ago. So. Well, and,

and Baskin said it was 17 minutes long. They're always long. But listen. It's gone too far. 17. You can wrap up the year in hip-hop in five minutes. Nah, there's a lot going on. 17.

Although the time is what makes it funny. That's how murder gets to add his humor in. Is he needs, you need the room. So I get it. Shout to uncle. Hi. All right, Laura, what you got to? Here we go. This is from Venetia. Good morning, fam. I want to start off with a huge congratulations to you guys on your freedom and can actually be able to do what you want to do best. You guys are in inspiration and I applaud you all. I have deleted the app and completely gave up listening to that other station. However, before I completely jumped ship, I did hear 2.5 seconds of Shawnee culture. How did his voice get clear? Was that part of his contract? No, stop.

I'm asking for a friend. Anyway, many blessings. Continued support, loving thoughts. Here we are. Blood in the water. No. I'm telling you, Peter, people have told me this. They're like, all of a sudden, he's so clear.

How is it funny? How is it funny? How is it awesome? So look, we got to do some house cleaning, though, before, Rosenberg, before you get into your email, because there's another email here from Ellie. She says, Hey, ELR, Ellie here, 10 plus year fan. For the past year, I've been nervous about y'all leaving the show at the radio station.

We Shall Not Name. Hearing that it was abrupt and unofficially announced that y'all would not be coming back on was incredibly heartbreaking. I am so thrilled that y'all were able to get YouTube and the podcast going so quickly. I think it was a great move to retain and help console the FIts. Admittedly, I listened to the first five minutes of flex following Monday morning and have not turned on the station since. y'all were the only reason i listened to the station the big question comes up since ebro had some veiled words about shawnee during episode six as a fat cousin can y'all elaborate on what's going on with the relationship with the other cousin shani casin wanito together as a radio family y'all felt

like blood family and cousins what's going on so happy to still have you i have to say i'm just trolling shon i love shawney to death yes yes of course i was at birthday the other day me and my lady was there hanging out. It's love. I talked to him the other day. I called him after I threw the shots at him, laughed and giggled about the shots I threw at him. Shawnee's in a situation where he's got to do his job. Yeah. Like if he's opening the mic every day and he's in that space, A, he's got to protect his

income. Yep. There's no telling what could happen with that new company. B, you know, that's that's his job. And he and he's up there with Juanito, whom we love and cast one who we love and meabelle whom we love and whatever the new iteration becomes those will also be people that we like and care about and love and so they got to do their job and their job is to turn on that microphone and figure out a way to compel people to tune in and entertain will we throw shots out of them from time to time absolutely will i troll shawnee because now all of a sudden he's got bits and skits and he's on time and his voice is clear well will i crowling because now you're up there doing the soft shoot trying to keep you again

but you're a revolutionary Rastafarian who doesn't quote but you're out here you know scrambling to keep a paycheck coming in absolutely but that's because I love and by the way he would have you Ebro would have made those same jokes no matter what ibro everything that you said to make fun of Shawnee is the same things you made fun of him for to his face that's right so but obviously and I appreciate the email because it is an odd situation and I will say I am happy that cast Juanito and Shawnee are still, you know, assuming they want to be there, are still employed. Like that's a silver lining to what has happened.

Simultaneously, it is weird, right? Like I didn't picture it happening this way. I kind of pictured when it would all go down. It would all go down. So it is, there was a moment of like, damn, like I just didn't expect it this way. But if there's any sort of silver lining to it, I think it's that, A, next week when when people find out what the new show is going to be I really like and and care for those people too and I'm happy that our people are over there still doing work you know

what I mean so it is awkward it is uncomfortable I'm not going to lie to you guys I don't like I want to hear Shawnee I want to and I've watched his clips that he's posted because I know Shawnee's kind of been leading the ship so I want to get to see Shawnee and be proud of him in that moment but I also haven't like turned the radio on very much either like that just being honest, which is a bizarre thing. Natalie said that to me the other day. Because she's madder than I am, obviously. Like it's hit her like, you know. Yo, I've noticed that about jazz too. Jazz is really. No, she's hot. Natalie's hot about it. She's like, jazz is angry. I turned on the station. Same in my house, by the way. Yeah.

I turned on the station when we were driving once. She was like, turn that off. I was like, it's a mix show. You know what I wasn't even tripping off? I want to hear what's going on. She's like, turn it off. And she's like, you know how weird it is for me as a born and raised New Yorker who always had Hot 97 programmed first to now she's like you will never hear me play it ever like and I get it it's protection of us and defensiveness

and I understand it so help me understand that is that just because like the people closest to us they want to be mad for us or is it or and this is another thought I had is it because they saw us sacrifice time with them

and and and tailor their lives and our personal lives to do that job for so long that when something ends in that fashion that feels like we weren't appreciated, they're not accustomed to understanding how the game goes. Well, all those things. You said a mouthful there. I think it's all those things, right, Laura? I think the main thing is like you treated my person like crap.

Because in the end, you know, and this goes sort of back to the, DJ Vlad conversation the other day about him saying we are us acting ungrateful. Yo, hot 97 is in my soul. Like I will forever be. Guys, I was there for 18 and a half years. I will be Peter Rosenberg from Hot 97 to some degree literally till the day I die. So it's part of me. I love Hot 97.

But, but I'm not going to say that the last moments weren't disrespectful because they were. So I think because of that, I think because it was, it ended nasty. That's going to make our loved ones particularly hot rather than if it did cleanly sort of we just parted ways. Yeah. And they also. No, and they are also super close to it. So they've kind of experienced all the BS that we went through.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Like every, you know, obviously I can't name the things that we went through. but so they know. So at the end, at least on, at my house, particularly upset. And it's funny that you said it because I didn't know that you guys were going through the same thing. But it's mostly because they've been writing with us with every single thing. Now I've had to tell, I've had to tell jazz to relax. Why is that point?

Because this is family matters again. We're back, baby. Oh, but it's Friday freedom. Oh, sorry, sorry. Okay. You had to tell her relax now. Just like ain't like nah, nah, nah, you know, ready to be like nah. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa. That's, listen, we were, I was there for 22 years. Shush. Maybe longer, but let's call it 22, I think. 23. In multiple capacities was at one point vice president of three radio stations. Was at one point vice president of three radio stations for the former owners of Hot 97, Kiss FM, 101, 9 RxP.

I did many things there. Established many, many things there, help people a lot, a lot of things. I've had a conversation with Flex recently just about how thankful he is for the work that I helped him do and supported him on. Or Angie Martinez thanking me and like all of that kind of stuff. flight. So when a company or any corporation is bought, the new company doesn't have reverence and regard for the history or what the brand meant or means. It's all about looking forward. I always knew that our end there would not be a celebrated ending. Right. They can't afford it. They couldn't afford to allow us to be on some like week-long campaign tour to end.

They wanted to try to make it abrupt during the holidays when they knew people weren't paying attention or were busy doing other things, when the ratings books were in influx and so that they could start something fresh and new like they're about to start on Monday. Tuesday, I think. I think they announced Monday and it starts Tuesday. Next week, whenever it is, yeah. So, yeah, I never anticipated it being smooth once new ownership came in, and especially the way I saw new ownership managing the brands. Right.

And by brands, this isn't also, by the way, what you see going on with Hot 97, you know, BLS is also a part of that family. Yeah. You know, and so much love for, you know, our OGs and elders over there at WBLS as well. You know what I mean? That's family. So listen, man, shout out to everybody who want. But those are all, none of the is talking that we're doing, none of the, you know, poking and trolling.

It comes with any ill will. You know what I'm saying? At all. You mean to our people? To our people, yes. Of course. I have some slight ill will. but not towards our people at all.

And, you know, and I'll, and again, we're not mentioning anything about what the plans are for the station. But, you know, I've reached out to, to some of the people involved and give him my love and blessings and support. And like I said, I ultimately, that brand is hot 97 super important to me. And I would love to see it prosper in the future. So, all right, let me get to an email. Friday Freedom. Let's see. Friday Freedom. Let's go.

I have a few things here. All right, Isaac. Ebro, Laura Rosenberg. Sorry, Ibrough, Roseburg, Laura Stiles. What up, homies? This is Isaac out of Denver. I've been listening to you all for decades and was scared the day you all left Hot 97

because there was blood in the water. Oh, man. It's blood and water. Here we are. It's blood in the water. And then a day later, you were back on YouTube and podcast apps. That's what's up. I do have some need for that guru talking advice, but I really just wanted to let you know

that you got love coming out of the Mile High City. Congrats on the love and the numbers. You guys will be fine and have control of your message and support of the culture. That's huge. Yeah, I have one that's similar. Let me jump on this real quick. It's from Irwin.

Excuse me, Irvin. Good morning from Long Island. You guys are the best trio in the YouTube universe. When one door closes, God opens another one, and you guys kick that door down with more creative control of your content. So I think this show will be award-winning. Keep your foot on the neck of the naysayers.

They will fuel for your success. One love, DJ Gotti, fought for life. Hashtag blood in the water. Yo, man, they really like blood in the water. I thought y'all was hyping it when you were like, nah, they love blood in the water. It's so funny. They really love it.

Listen, they're into it. It was a moment in time. When I heard you say it, it couldn't go on. I told you, Laura, the reason it really happened was Ebro just casually said it to start the show. But I was so obsessed the first day with seeing how our show was doing that every time I'd go to YouTube, like, yo, are people watching? I'd hit it. And I just hear, blood in the water. And I just kept hearing it over and over again.

And now, here we are, it's blood in the water. That's right. I got a shot out, Nasley. NBA Dominican entrepreneur mom living of two living in Whitestone Queens what up She says living light despite my cranky husband although he has his reasons any who she wants curved to come back Oh Nasly curve's not coming you play yourself no it's not it's not it's not curved is not coming back But she also wanted a job but nasly hey I hate curve let me just get it all out I hate curved yeah

I I I I invented rider die very proud of it I hate it too it looks let's move on wait been there and done that I I think curved I think you came up with curved or didn't we isn't curved kind of a thing grip says it was a team effort yeah but isn't curved also kind of a rip-off like I think curved is also done in different ways in in other places yeah yeah yeah rider die at first we were smoking and the problem with rider die was though ride or die took real work like you were you were really relying on people to give you a lot and so it's when we ran out let's be honest we didn't we covered every scenario griff we did 400 rider died

400 is that true yeah trust me griff knows he has them all he's go here go to deal on ride or die we'll see how this we'll see how much blood gets in the water but maybe we could archive him one day hey let's see we'll see we'll see maybe we could archive we'll see maybe we could archive one day. I also want to shout out to, let me see here. This is, her name is Luce, like Kenseth's middle name. Aw. Luce Marie Mac. She says she truly admires the way we uplift culture, community, and honest conversations and wanted to take a moment to share her work. She's a Dominican American children's book author and producer, creating

culturally affirming stories for children and families rooted in Afro-Di-Sporic identity, family, and social-emotional learning. She's got 2D-Svian. animations, children's books. She's created over 25 short animated videos, won awards. She has a book called The Secret Plotano, which is number one on Amazon. Oh, nice. She's got animated episodes currently streaming on Quilli TV and KidsB TV. Most recently, she released a Bacha, but Bacha Tika is how you say it, Bacha Tika.

Yeah, like a little Bacchata. Bacchata with Contolo Press, a joyful musical celebration of cultural rhythm and family bonds. Anyway, I was shouting her out because she sent us email for Friday Freedom and you guys should go look her up. She's in here building. That's right. She's got doing it all. I'll look for it. Yeah. And also big shout out to DJ Tommy Riz. I don't know. He goes hard. No, he's going hard. Campaigning for us. I love him. So just wanted to acknowledge him. Well, there you go. Friday Freedom. Get your emails over. Ebro Laura Rosenberg at Gmail. Laura, are you ready for the rundown with Laura Stiles?

Give me a little. She's not ready. Give me a little song. I need my music. With the Ibro Laura. The ELR band. The ELR band. The ELR band, excuse me.

Here we go next. What's you got there? So this is breaking news, especially because this is someone who Ebro has a huge, huge amount of love for. And we love them too. We love them too. Bruno Mars has announced the romantic tour. No, no, no.

We're going to throw, you know, we're going to throw up a Bruno Mars appreciation episode. We have to. We have to. When I get this music, we're going full Bruno Mars appreciation. He's taking his BFF Anderson Peck, aka DJ Pee Wee, and they're going on tour. Oh, man, I love it. I'm at the shows. You know, that's the first concert I took Easter, too, was a 24-carat Magic.

Wow, really? Oh, yes, I remember. That's right. We don't have to double back as a family and maybe make it Salasi's first concert. Wow. Nice. So pre-sor goes live. It's right now.

When's the out? What's the date? Officially. Tickets are on sale, January 15th. But what's the, what's the album? Is there an album? It's called the romantic.

So the album is called the romantic. That's right. He announced that too. And did he, does he give us a date for the album or just a tour? I've heard rumors circulating that it's a February album or late January, February. It's called the romantic, right? Valentine's Day.

Kind of feels like the move. Talk about it. Talk about it. Oh, this is going to be so much fun. I love this. So yeah, I'm excited about it. And kicking off in Vegas, April 10th, excuse me, is the, uh, the concert.

Family trip to Vegas? We might have to do it. I mean, I might, I might have to wait until they come to. I can catch it. I feel like there's like four arenas here. We can catch it. I think I saw him on for the last one, for that tour, Ebro, 24-carat magic. I saw him in, um, on Long Island. Great show. Okay. Well, look, August 21st and 22nd at MetLife. Oh, wow.

Stadium. So, so let's, you know, stadium. Salasi will be two and a half. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. He headed towards three. Yo, so.

He's stadium. Bruno's going stadium too, huh? No, he needs to, bro. He can do it. That's Bruno Mars, bro. People forget, man. People forget. This guy has catalog.

He's a phenomenal performer, songwriter. Like, Bruno does not, he, I don't think he's appreciated. I kind of agree with you. But I still wonder, does he have, like, I know people love Bruno. Like, his songs are mad popular. Does he have 60,000 coming out each night?

How many shows is he doing? Two at Met Life. Back to back? Back to back. I met life. Yo, all I know is when he did Brazil and some other places. Well, Brazil is different for it. They, yeah, that's, it's.

No, it was crazy. I think people will try, depending on how many stadiums he's doing, it could be a thing where people travel to the area. to check him out at Medline. How many, well, how many dates? Laura, do you see all the total dates? Is it like, do you see the whole list? Let me see.

Let me see. I don't know how many. This is too small, but it's a lot. It's a lot, though. It ends October 14th in Vancouver. At a stadium also? It doesn't say here, but I'm sure. That's just, no, listen, I'm a big fan.

It took me time. I didn't love Bruno first, and then I really. Wait, what? I didn't care. Get yourself with the butt. Is that a button to have not always been a Bruno Mars? Absolutely. Yes.

Congratulations. You praise yourself. You're treating Bruno Mars like he's Stevie Wonder and needs to calm down. He's really dope, okay? He's not a life-changing, oh my God, he means so much to me. Like he's an incredible talent and pop artist. He's dope. Yes.

You don't got that Bruno Mars song that really like hits you? It pierces your heart? Pyruses my heart. Talking to the moon. Let's go. No, it does not pierce my heart. It pierces my like vibe sensation. Like I like Versace on the floor, 24 carrot magic.

There are songs, I love to hear. I turn them up loud and jam out. What I'm saying is he doesn't like emotionally affect me. No, no, no, not at all. No, no, no. Listen, what Rosenberg is saying, fine. And I'm fine with you saying it because, you know. but so my only question is will that still translate i'm not this isn't like negative

will it translate to stadiums all i mean no fire bro let's go don't don't get us white don't get our show don't get our right right right right right because you're playing bruno off your phone he's got pure fire i just a lot of times the the people that do stadiums just have like a really intense connection with their base but listen i under so you don't you don't feel like he's got a the rabid and them like that But I underestimated Chris Brown's rabid fandom, and he sold out MetLife multiple times. Yes. No.

Yo, and by the way, and remember, Bruno just nailed that lady Gaga. Hey, yo. Right? Yeah. Whoa, yeah, that was crazy. Hey, yo. That joint with, that die with a smile. And the, uh, he got that international banger.

Don't forget. No, he got a lot of. This is a family show, Rosenberg. Everyone's going to wait. If you can take your kid, you will. No, no. Especially with that appetite. I'm taking up.

I'm going to take. a two-year-old. No, it's going to, it's going to be a great show. Let's see how much these tickets cost, too. Because you know these stadiums are going to. Do you need a ticket for a two-year-old? Absolutely. You need a ticket for everything.

It's not an air, it's not a flight. It just feels like it says. Up to? Why? Well, first of all, she'll be over two. She'll be two and a half. And you know, they start charging you after two. Damn, that's so whack.

Right. By the way, I could be wrong. I'm assuming they're going to, they're going to ticket me for a two-year-old. I like give up but anyway that's all you got in the rundown I noticed this week we did not get to the Jim Jones wait wait wait calm my damn Calmate that's coming right now

the lowdown because this is Oh switch to the lowdown is messy to the lowdown because it's messy Rosenberg get on you get on your job It's time for the lowdown with more styles Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Guys, I, how did this, I mean, I know there was tension between Cameron and Jim Jones,

but I guess it's back and it's public now because they started trading shots on social media. And then 50 chimes in. And you know when 50 chimes in, he's just going to steal the pot. So you got a, all right. So Cam's post, which basically kicked all of this off, he said something not directly to Jim Jones, but Jim Jones knew it was about him. You said, how are you worried about me when your heat off and rent due? When your heat is off and your rent is due.

And then Jim Jones hops into the comments making it clear that he thought the shot was, you know, about him. And it says, damn, I hope y'all can chip in and get the heat back on. That's what 50 wrote, okay? And in the same screenshot, it's kind of hard to follow, guys, because the grammar and punctuation is not there. Right? Okay. But Jim Jones says, do your shoe, punk. I think you meant do your show.

Oh, okay, okay, okay. Spelled shoe. And then Cameron says, what's wrong, Campo? Your heat is off too? I didn't know. It's hate for you to be, I hate for you to be 50 years old with no heat. What's your Zell, bro? I got you.

I don't ever enjoy this beef, to be honest, is you? It's not fun. Yeah, it's not. It's not what you want. And then, you know, they started. taking out like there's a screenshot of like a video of Jim Jones like getting some food from like I don't know it looks like a lady who's either selling it but like somebody outside 50's making fun of it he's saying it's cold as a bitch over there uh eff it you know just making fun of the

whole thing so I just hope that this doesn't turn into anything I also saw Jim put up a video of him walking around his film studio that he had um listen this is all While this is not what you want to see, no. I have to admit that I see this all as promo. Because at the end of the year, Jim Mayno, Davies, and Fab,

dropped their freestyles over 50 cent records, which was promoting their podcast. Cam and Mace have a podcast. 50 cent trolls everyone and is fine mixing it up with memes and things like that. Which then ultimately, I got a I'll bet $50,000

that within the next eight weeks well because it was 50 cent I was 50,000 I was 50,000 yeah. Within the next eight weeks 50 cent is promoting a show, a movie or something.

So all of this gets them hot and keeps them talked about in the algorithm. To me, it's sad to see people who we, you know, who we like not getting along, Cam and Jim. I don't think 50 was cool. It's cool with Cam because remember they had a thing.

And remember when Jim Jones and them jumped, didn't they jump on stage with 50 cent when Cam and 50 had something going on? So that happened. So anyway, I say all that to say. At the end of the day, this algorithm hustling is working out for it. It's always algorithm hustling in the end, isn't it? It's all algorithm hustling. Because if it was real problems, guess where they wouldn't be?

On the internet. On the internet. You know what I feel like they could really use? Wow, Griff said 50 Cent announced something yesterday. He stays announcing something. He always has a project. Guys, you know what I feel like they could really use, though, honestly? Huh.

The original gurus. Oh, let's get to it. Come on, bro. Hold on. This will help. This will help, Laura. This will help clean it up real nice for you. Here you go.

Breathing in. That's right, Rosenberg. The Zen. You're into a booms at e-mail.com. If you would like to send us a problem, you're having. Wait, wait, wait, wait. We didn't say that you're going to start giving out email addresses at the beginning of the set. Oh, wow.

Oh, wow. So I'm really in the garbage, man. I got to sit in the back of the bus. We all. This is crazy. So I got to pick up trash. We have rules of regulations. I'm in pride it.

Wow. Sitting in the back of the bus. I don't know how it's the back of the bus. That's crazy. All right. Here we go. The original gurus at gmail.com. The original gurus at gmail.com. Your destination.

White man telling me when I can and can't talk. This is great. It's where you email us. Now, Rosenberg. Who needs our help? Who's out there? Who needs to be safe? The original gurus at gmail.com.

The original gurus at gmail.com. Your destination for clarity. Zen, zen, zen. All right, guys. I'm a 32-year-old woman, and I met a 34-year-old man in mid-October. From the start, we hit it off. Great conversation. Great dates.

And overall, he's been a genuinely good person. He pays attention to details, remembers the small things, it does thoughtful gestures, and honestly makes me smile and feel happy again. We're still getting to know each other, so I'm not saying this is anything super serious yet, but I do feel that if we continue moving forward, this could become something. Here's where I need advice. I've only had three real relationships of my life, and this experience is completely different from anything I've known before. In my past relationships, I was always the provider, the planner, the giver, the one constantly 10 steps ahead. with this man I feel safe enough to relax. He brings out my soft girl's side and I find myself and my feminine energy

instead of always operating in my masculine. I genuinely enjoy feeling carefree and supported. That said, because this dynamic is so new to me, I sometimes worry. I want to make sure he feels appreciated and that the energy feels reciprocated to him. His birthday's coming up and I've been thinking about doing something nice

but unsure that it might be too much or too soon. He hasn't expressed any concerns. In fact, when we talk, we both openly say we appreciate each other. I think my fear comes from my past experiences more than anything he's done. I guess my real question is, how do you show appreciation in a healthy way when you're used to overgiving? And how do you trust a good thing without letting old insecurity sabotage? Or do I simply need to shut up, stop overthinking and enjoy the ride?

Lastly, I just want to say I've been a long-time listener since I graduated college in 2016. Even when I moved to Rhode Island, I downloaded the app just to keep listening every morning. I love the YouTube version of the show, no commercials, more authentic. Well, there may be commercials one day. And you can really feel the evolution of the platform. And Ebro, you've always been a guru. Thank you for everything you do and for creating a space where conversations like this feel safe and real. Please feel free to share this on the air.

Okay. Aw. They met in October. That was the thing I had to remember was how long they've been dating. Because the real, the overall answer is you need to chill and enjoy the ride. But specifically for the birthday guys, is there an answer to how she could show appreciation without ODing? So I think it depends on what he likes. You know, there's some people who don't want like a big celebration.

They just prefer like a quiet one or, or, you know, something more intimate. But I just say if you want to get him something, a little gift or however he likes to be celebrated, just do it. Don't rethink it. Yeah. Like don't let your insecurities or your past kind of cloud you from showing the love that you actually feel. This is the perfect spot to do something. something that's just genuinely thoughtful and not about big price or anything. Like this is like he always talks about how he loves, you know, I'll use me for example,

vintage shirts and you went on eBay and you bought him just a shirt that was $75. And you were like, I know you love this band here. Or you always mentioned this team. And I got like it's to me, this is a perfect spot to just show you listen to him and you want to give him something thoughtful, not some huge demonstrative thing. It's been three months. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That's why I'm not a guru.

Why is this so complicated for her? Because they've only been dating for three months and she's used to, I guess, having to be the person in relationships who does everything. And in this early relationship, he's sort of been caring for her. And she doesn't feel her footing of kind of how to be. I don't know. It does sound like she's overcomplicating it.

But, Ebro, this is what makes you not a guru. Our job isn't to question why she feels. No, no, I asked you. I didn't ask her. Stop being a hoe. I'm new here. You're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna, I'm a new guru. I'm trying to learn.

So I asked the question. In two days, you've called me a ho twice. We're gonna have to wrap that up. There's no. Oh my God, I know, roll that hoe and throw it away. What are you doing? Well, you prefer, she was being a difference to me. That was not remotely being a...

I'm just saying our question, when you asked a question, this is what makes you not a guru. Listen to the email and answer the, and answer the woman's email. You started saying, well, what's so complicated? And I'm saying, We don't know. She doesn't know.

She's asking us, why is she making it so complicated? Now you want to throw all kinds of bitches and ho. Well, no, I was asking you, why is it complicated? Maybe you had some insight into why she's making it complicated. We're talking it through. And we're telling her she's overthinking it. So listen, we're just going to wrap this up right here. Don't overthink it.

Do something from the heart, something special. Don't overdo it and show him appreciation on his special day. That's a man a gift on his birthday. It's his birthday, right? It's his birthday. Yes. So say the guru. I'm a gift, man.

Sometimes guru. Yo, I'll be honest. Hold on. Let me keep it real with you, Laura. We should talk over the weekend. No, you and I got to talk. No, you and I got to talk. That was for day two.

That was horrible. Now we have to have a meeting in the guru department because of you. No, this is not good. You know, when I show up, I show up. That cardigan is not working. Yeah. Okay. I'm cozy.

I'm cozy. Cozy card. All kinds of. Diches and hoes from I I know Laura did I like say anything crazy When he asked a question? No you did not I felt like you were attacking me I'm insured about my position Let write us an email I'm happy to help you well

But like I don't have to go all kinds of bitches and hoes First it was the Stephen A thing I'm just trying to protect my job he calls me a ho The man already cost me one job he wants to cost me number two Why don't you call it? Oh by the way now you want to have Becky Lynch on the show he he he won't bring Becky linch pull up Yeah let's talk about this this this Pipsqueak, ho-ass bitch. Oh, my God. She did not say that.

She did not say Pipsqueak, ho-ass-bid. All right, man, we got to wrap it up. The weekend clearly is needed. It's time. I know. Let's delegate. We'll discuss whether Ibril will be a guru on Monday. Hey, wait, wait.

You're going to revoke it already? I'm getting fired from another day. You're under revision, okay? Yeah, no. Wow, pending. I'm pending. Yeah, no, this is pending. We got to discuss it over the weekend.

There's a lot to deal with. Let me, where's my outro music? Damn it. Look, you're the one that needs to be pending. You can't even hit a goddamn button. I don't know. No, my button's been freezing on me. And I don't, up there.

God. It's the curse of the old job. Have a great weekend. The ghost of the old job. That's called the curse of Shawnee. When a drop's not ready, it's the curse of Shawty called. He broke our Rosenberg show, subscribe, man. Just don't call it a podcast.

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