The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 111.) The Ticks Episode + HOV's Freestyle (6/2/26)

Episode Date: June 2, 2026

Today on Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg - Laura, and Rosenberg are talking about ticks, HOV's Freestyle, MIA suing Kid Cudi, sinkhole fears, gas prices, UFC at the White House, and so much more! (6/2/26)... Support the show on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:22 free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Just don't call in a podcast. The Ebro-Lora Rosenberg show I've been doing this thing the last couple of days I walk in the room at like one minute before we're about to start the show I want to sit down and I want to go right into the show hit me with the button
Starting point is 00:00:54 congratulations you played yourself because it still takes us three minutes to get What are y'all doing? Why we can't just start the show? I think we were ready. No, Laura, stop, yo, I'm going to tell y'all, when Rosenberg get back, we're going to stop lying for people, man. It's June. It's June. It's June today. Though, I was definitely sending her some videos that I wanted in the last minute.
Starting point is 00:01:19 Don't we have a cutoff time as like 740 a.m? I violate. Laura wants to talk about ticks today, y'all. Because I was so stressed. She finally decided to go outside in her life, and now she want to talk about something that's been outside. If you've been outside in the summertime. It's spring and summer in the fall. Well, I think it's mostly spring and summer.
Starting point is 00:01:40 Ticks. Now, there's a whole tick epidemic. And by the way, if you live upstate New York or you live out in Connecticut or you go to Martha's Vineyard, I think even the Hamptons, too, any of these, you know, even Staten Island. This ticks, Jersey, everywhere. If you're out in these parks, hiking, you know about the ticks. And so Laura wants to talk about ticks today. Okay, first of all, I've been really into this because one of my, when I'm, when I'm, when, my friends has been dealing with all these issues and she was like, what's wrong with me?
Starting point is 00:02:09 And she finally found out she has Lyme disease. And that's it. You have it forever. I mean, listen, you have, so there's, there's, we'll get into it. But there's, there's different ticks. But the one tick that's, you know, really moving around are the tick. The popular tick. That the one that everybody got is popping is the one that comes from, I think it's called the
Starting point is 00:02:28 Lone Star Tick. It's got a white dot on the back. But at any rate, it carries some, some sort of enzyme that if you, get bitten by it it can make you allergic to meat and dairy yes or hooved animals really is the way it goes it's like me whatever it is but um so we'll get into tick talk not tick to tick talk with laura stow sounds like a future song 844 ELR ELR 3 um what's the big talk on the internet's king lu what are they saying out here today they still talk about the jZ jZ free step yep you know that got the algorithm going that's got them popping out yeah what where are
Starting point is 00:03:05 at now in the Jay-Z conversation. I saw Rory and Maul have been given their updates of what took place at the what is it, the Roots picnic. Yep, especially after the rumors from I think Tasha Kaye saying that they got kicked out and everything like that. So they're
Starting point is 00:03:21 responding to that first and then they're just saying. Now wait, time out. You think that looks, that's supposed, that looks good on camera to y'all? We're all showing Lou sitting in the dark, Rassan? I know. That looks dope to y'all. That's what I was like, nah, we can't do it. That was a dope look, Rassan.
Starting point is 00:03:35 I need, I need, I got, I need questions. It's like a glare. You got, you just, what is that? I just saw, yeah. What is that? Are you afraid of the dark? It's a little behind the scenes. That looks good on, I need to know, y'all getting the chat.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Does that look good to y'all? Teeth and glasses, that's all you see. That's not fire, bro. I think it's brighter on my screen than it is. I need to know what they're seeing out. I need to see what they're saying in the internet's because that did not look dope on my screen. But everybody's like, Bruce was losing the dungeon. Why they got, yo, and why are you showing that?
Starting point is 00:04:17 It's not even, that's like a side of the room that we don't want to show on purpose, bro. Like, who made that decision? Meanwhile, at the dungeon. Yo, who's making decisions around here for production? Yo, this is fun. Yo, Rassan's just loose. He thinks that's a good camera angle. Nobody, did somebody ask you for that, Rassan?
Starting point is 00:04:34 People relax them from behind the scenes. I'm talking to be on the movie. No, bro. I need to. Griff, do something, man. You're the executive producer. Say something to somebody. The chat said, put your lighters up.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Get Lou a lantern. Yo, man, what is this? Grim B.K., you have jokes. Grimby K gave us $1.99 to say someone get Lou a lantern. Yo, no matter how hard I try to make this look like an established show. These individuals work against me in every way, shape, or form that continue to want to be low budget. No, big deal.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Yo, all they want to do is just be low budget for the rest of their days. No matter how hard we try. How the hard we try to make it look like we have a high-end production, here go Rassan making decisions to just show Lou sitting at a stool in the dark. Oh, God. And by the way, for whoever footy tick, my feet do touch the ground. Come on. Why they doing that?
Starting point is 00:05:38 Come on, man. Why are they doing you like that? Anyway. All right, let's look at clip number of 14, Ron Baskin. All right. All right. That's what you get for allowing Laura Stiles is sending late clips. The Tasha K thing was interesting because she just straight applied, right?
Starting point is 00:05:58 She was just like. According to everybody, yeah. Yeah, she just accused them of Rory and Malik getting kicked out of the section by Jay-Z. Before you hit that, Reson. you guys said Tasha K That was the name y'all used Isn't there history tied to her? So why are we
Starting point is 00:06:14 Why are we spiraling about something that she said As if it's valid? Well, because the internet went with it And ran with it and everybody had it Once again, the internet ran with it. Sometimes you just got to stop yourself Before you get wrapped up in it. I think the bigger question is
Starting point is 00:06:27 How is she's still allowed to do this? Especially after 5. Allowed to do what? Tell a lie about Rory and Ma. It's the internet. Hit the clip, man. Let's see. So I think it was halftime or something So I look at my phone and I see text from from from from from from from from from
Starting point is 00:06:40 from from from from from from from from from from from from from and I'm like okay so he did he did which we all said was probably going to happen won't get into what our conversation was from there he said to get your uncle no he didn't say that but um that you know that's so great he's talking to Drake during this I'm next to Biggs on the riser I chose the side oh no no but I'm with Biggs but the whole thing on the rise or with us I don't I don't know what's happening so everything that we're talking about. I don't even know what was said.
Starting point is 00:07:09 So he was saying, he was, you know, picking out certain things that he said. But the one thing that Drake said was like, yo, but what's up with the hair? That was what everybody. Now, mind you, I haven't seen a picture. They're going to kill, they're going to kill Drake for that because they, no, my. No, but what's up with that? Everybody was saying, like, everybody was shot at. We've never seen Jay.
Starting point is 00:07:28 Talk about somebody's hair. That is a fact. And the last time we saw him he had wicks down in the middle of his back. So it was kind of like, like, is that a wig? Is he cosplaying right now? some NWA? Is he on his EZE? In, all right. In Drake's defense.
Starting point is 00:07:44 Not saying that's what Drake said, but that's what the internet was saying, like, yo, like nobody understood the hair at first. I'm glad to know. Listen, debating Hobbs' hair is the last thing Drake need to be doing with his time. Bro, we, bro, you just have colored barrettes in your head, B. I know, I know. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:08:07 That was just a second ago. The woman who did Jay's hair came out and said it took her four days and four bottles of sacred to get it all out. Oh, good sacred promo. I know, I know. I like it. But yes, I'm like, come on, man. You're the last person to be talking about somebody's hair. Like, stop it.
Starting point is 00:08:24 Let's go. But it was interesting. Another interesting piece in that that I found, you know, notable was, Marl was there. Drake's watching wherever he's watching And Maul's Not claiming basically He wasn't really picking up all this On all the sublimbs
Starting point is 00:08:43 Or was that Rory talking No it was Maul. Mar was basically like I didn't even know what was going on Drake's texting me Paying attention on what was going on And then he jumped to talking about the hair But yeah nah Drake Stop talking about other people's hair B
Starting point is 00:08:59 You plagued yourself Congratulations you played yourself you play yourself stop it but he was paying attention and it's game on of course of course I like game on I like the I like the way this summer is shaping up y'all thought this hip-hop thing was gonna get dull I mean and look I ain't gonna hold y'all I thought Drake had I thought Drake had the whole road to himself this summer surprise yo yo I thought he had the whole road to himself surprise he's gonna be a I thought he was just going to roll out.
Starting point is 00:09:35 It didn't work out like that. Hove had something to say. And then Hove is going to be at the Yankee Stadium in a couple of weeks. We got the big, I know there's a, isn't it 30 years of reasonable doubt? Yeah, yeah. You have reasonable doubt.
Starting point is 00:09:52 25 years of blueprint. Uh-huh. And then I think it's like Sunday they added, it's like. We still don't know exactly what that. I think it's just like hits, greatest hits. I'm assuming. Extra in any. But no, I can't imagine that when Hoves shows up in New York City, it's just the show.
Starting point is 00:10:11 I can't imagine that's all we're getting. I feel like, I feel like there's an album coming. Me too. I do. It's coming. I don't know when. You feel like an album. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:24 Yes. I feel like there's an album coming. There's rumors that he's been cooking. And why not? I feel like it is. But, you know, we'll see. We'll see. There's people out here who are really excited about a Jay-Z album.
Starting point is 00:10:39 I'm one of them. Yeah. 4-44, his last one was amazing. That's right. It was so good. And we're living in a time musically where sampling, lyrics, you know, that instant vintage sound that you get from a Griselda, the rock Marseys of the world, the stove god cooks.
Starting point is 00:11:03 You know, you just got a Nause and premiere album Six, seven months ago We're coming off what the clips did with Farrell Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah There was that last stove got Cook's release Was a single produced by us Swiss beats Yeah, and then all of the mass appeal drops too On top of it
Starting point is 00:11:22 Yeah, and so put that all together in your brain And let's imagine Hove links up with the legends That he's linked up with in the past And maybe throws in an outcome Miss a hit boy. Mm-hmm. I could see it. Look at Louis smiling for a year.
Starting point is 00:11:40 You feel me? Like you feel like when you start thinking about what the music could actually sound like. I feel like it's coming, bro. We'll see, though. I feel like it's coming. Now, are you covering the rest of this dad? You tried to bombard me with Daphne Joy talk yesterday, Laura Stiles, in the rundown.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Is that still a top priority for you in the rundown today? It's not a priority, but we're going to talk about it because it was trending yesterday. There was a lot of chatter about her, uh, her choice of words. Well, I'll break it down to you. And of course... We might as well do it right now. All right, let's do it.
Starting point is 00:12:13 So tell me what we're doing here. All right. I see Daphne Joy Q&A. What is this? Well, okay, so we'll jump into that story. Well, hit me with my song. Oh, you want to do it in the rundown? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Oh, I thought that wasn't in the rundown. It doesn't have to be in the rundown. It doesn't have to be in the rundown. So Daphne Joy is the most... mother of 50 cents son. That's right. And the crazy sex tape that leaked that everybody was talking about. Everybody said, where did this come from?
Starting point is 00:12:44 Is it real? Vlad came on and said, yeah, it's real because I had previewed it before. So it's definitely not AI. So she made a statement yesterday. And so we went from Tasha Kaye being the validator of truthful stories to DJ Vlad. Welcome to the best. Since Vlad's reviewed the tape, we're all good now. But go ahead.
Starting point is 00:13:07 All right. So here's the statement that she put out. It was like, you know, when you read it, you're just like, you have. I was like, you know what? Yeah, it sucks. Your private moments in front of the whole world to judge you. And she says how she played a fool and she was in love with this man, blah, blah, blah, right? As you can see, she goes into a lot of detail.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Which man? With Diddy. Okay. And that's why she wanted to satisfy him. And that's why she played a part in the videos, right? So that was everybody was to take, everybody took it. It's like, oh, so yes, yes, this is. confirmation that's 100% real.
Starting point is 00:13:37 Yep. Like she participated in this willfully. Then the internet was roasting her because, bro, all of a sudden, she shows up on like a live and this starts doing like this weird Q&A. And the Q&A was just like her saying like, I don't know, do you have it Rosanna? So I just kind of handpicked some questions that I've been asked. What? And, yeah, so let's start.
Starting point is 00:14:05 What? What? Nah, that's crazy. What? Like, what are we doing? Like, this is, I just thought it was so embarrassing. I'm like. Clearly, she was smiling there.
Starting point is 00:14:25 She was willing to play along. Clearly, she's leaning into the moment. At first, she was so hurt and humiliated. And now she was like, yes. That's what she said in writing. That's what she said in writing. Let me get my 15 minutes in. The video started recording.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Her humiliation probably subsided a little bit. And or if you was really hurt and humiliated, I don't know how many people jump in the front of the camera. Exactly. Exactly. Got an only fan to sell. Does she? I'm not familiar.
Starting point is 00:14:59 Yeah. Oh, she got to get that money. So it's all promo. Anyway. And so we are. Are we convinced? It's always hard for me to It's always hard for me to remove someone's financial
Starting point is 00:15:19 aspirations and hustle Away from some of their adult decisions that they make Right especially when you see the people that she's chosen to be with Okay So when now you tell me she's got an only fans I remember what was going on with the Diddy case Where they were saying that she was being moved around And you know
Starting point is 00:15:47 There are individuals who are willing to be in relationships For financial gain Absolutely for the experience The proximity to wealth, etc., etc. Yeah So now you tell them she's got an only fan This whole thing comes out There's a sex tape comes out
Starting point is 00:16:02 She claims she's humiliated Lou says, well, she's got to sell only fans. So I think all of it has been promo. All of it has been a financial opportunity to some degree. And I guess it's hard for me. And I don't know the woman never met her. I'm not saying she's a bad person. I'm just saying she's about that bread.
Starting point is 00:16:19 And she's willing to use her looks, her body, you know, her, the men desiring her to get financials. I think it was because in the statement, people were, were, they were, the question was, was she a victim? clearly not. She did this will willfully like yes But then I guess two things She could have done it woefully But she expected it to be a private moment And then it just became public
Starting point is 00:16:45 But yeah And yeah I mean look that's that's always bad But it's always bad But cameras was rolling Yeah yeah yeah And I mean I've never filmed myself In the act like that But I remember
Starting point is 00:17:02 Even before we had cell phone cameras When people had the handicam when somebody sets up the handy cam back in the day you assuming that that tape was going somewhere if you didn't take it with you so at this grown-ass age if someone's filming and you're not the in sole possession of
Starting point is 00:17:27 the content you have to assume it's moving yeah man because it didn't look like it was a hidden camera You know what I'm saying? He didn't look like a production, so. Oh, you watched it, watch it. I know, I told you I watched like five minutes of it. No, no, you were.
Starting point is 00:17:42 You was in there for production? I just saw a clip on Twitter. Hold up, hold up, hold up. I saw a clip on Twitter. I was like, oh, oh, oh. Yeah. She said, oh. Anyway, in other news, MIA is suing Kid Cuddy.
Starting point is 00:18:03 All right. Yep, over getting booted off the tour. Now, if you guys remember, you know, Kid Cuddy had gave her the booed because she went on stage. I think it was May 2nd during a stop. And she basically started going off talking about, I think the exact quote was, I've been canceled for many reasons. I never thought it would be canceled for being a brown Republican.
Starting point is 00:18:27 I can't do illegal, though some of you in the audience could be. And then obviously people started booing, da da da, da, da, Kid Cuddy was like, hey, you weren't supposed to go into anything. political got the boat now she's suing him so I wonder how that's showing him for unpaid they signed a contract I was supposed to be on a certain number of dates yeah she's suing him for millions and so now because you kicked me off and that wasn't contractually something you should be able to do you owe me money yes and she also claims that the reason that he kicked off the tour is to drum up ticket sales that he wanted the controversy uh so we shall see
Starting point is 00:19:08 But in more positive news, guys, guess who's back? Guess who's bizak? Serena Williams. Yes. She dropped. She's back to the tennis courts, man. She dropped the news via this Nike ad. Here, let's play it.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Let's play it. Uh-huh. I got to change my number. Nike, and let's sell some clothes. Yes, of course. It's a moment. And by the way, you know, summertime's here. Girls be rocking them tennis skirts now.
Starting point is 00:19:54 That's, you know, they're going to be in that Serena Williams at the day party. No, and now that it, you know, tennis has had like a new popular emergence. So now everyone's going to be wearing those outfits, bro. It's not just in the tennis courts. Sure. Yeah. And also, too, big up to Serena. I mean, seize the moment.
Starting point is 00:20:12 You know what I mean? If you're feeling great and your body's in a certain place and you think you can get out there and go back at it, It's tough to retire, man. You know, it's really hard when you've done something. I mean, man. Venus is still playing, right? No. No?
Starting point is 00:20:28 Is she playing the term like a year ago? Yeah, but I thought she retired. I thought Venus retired too. I don't think it's an official retired. It's not official. Okay, no official. Okay. But when you've been doing something, I mean, like, I can relate.
Starting point is 00:20:40 I've been doing this house 15 years old. On the microphone playing music, talking is. So I was 15. So when people are like, When you're going to retire? I'm like soon, but I keep showing up. I tried to show up late today. I've been trying to show up late the last couple of days.
Starting point is 00:20:59 And I'm still here. 39. 39 grand slams. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Serena's. Serena. And so my point is, is she probably feels really great.
Starting point is 00:21:15 She's seeing what the competitive landscape is like. Yeah. She sees a business opportunity as well. And so let's make a run at it. You know what I mean? And our daughter's getting older. Maybe she can, you know, maybe she's inspiring her daughter in some way. You know, obviously your children seeing you get up and go to work and accomplish something, right?
Starting point is 00:21:38 Like get up every morning and go after something. It's great for your kids to see. Right. It's great for your children. I think it's good. You know, I know, like I think about Issa right now. Issa's whole life. She's seen me waking up five, six o'clock and when I see her mom waking up.
Starting point is 00:21:51 getting after it. Issa wakes up on her own with her own alarm, gets herself together, makes her bed. She's been doing like six years old because that was the norm. Right. You know what I mean? So to some degree,
Starting point is 00:22:02 I'm sure there's a catalyst in this for Serena is kind of like seeing her young daughter and being like, yo, I want her to see me when she can remember me, right? Because she, her oldest. Olympia is maybe like, I want to say eight or ten. So, and I think her youngest is about, three, four.
Starting point is 00:22:22 Yeah. So I feel like she took some time. You know what I mean? And she feels strong and she's been like she, I've always, like I follow her on social media. She never stopped training. That's right. So Olympia's eight.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Okay. And the baby's name is Adira. Adira. Adera. Shout to the Ohanian Williams family. Yeah, man. No, they've been supporters of us, man. Yes.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Yeah. Alexis come on the show. What's the events he does? Athlos. Athlos. Yeah. Issa went out to that track joint. That was inspiring for her.
Starting point is 00:22:56 I went to it. It's actually incredible. Yeah. It's an, I think they're going to London next. But it's an, if you get a chance to go watch it, the tickets are pretty affordable too,
Starting point is 00:23:05 but it's a family event. And it's just highlighting incredible female athletes. Yo, yeah. Laura's more in our, in our marketing department in Griff these days. Laura,
Starting point is 00:23:17 can you get us some Athlos collabo ticket giveaways? Yeah, but it's in London. No, like, doesn't it come to New, isn't there a New York one that happens every year? Like they alternate or they move it? Yeah. Or am I making that up?
Starting point is 00:23:28 Because I remember it's been in New York. Yeah. Multiple times. I don't know if they're going to come back, but I'll check. I'll reach out to them. Okay. Because it really is, honestly, guys. It's an amazing show.
Starting point is 00:23:36 It is fun. It is well organized. Visually. It's beautiful. And the women make money. That's the other part. That's literally the point of it. The point of it is professional athletes have another outlet to compete and get paid.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's dope. When I was there, each winner got a Tiffany crown. So, you know, that's worth already a lot of money. We're selling that if we need to. And Serena personally crowns all the girls. So you see them all, like, super honored and crying.
Starting point is 00:24:05 It's beautiful. It's beautiful. So shout to Serena back out, back at it. We're going to be ruined. I saw, I saw Naomi Osaka and a bunch of other black tennis players gathered to have like a little, you know, private little dinner hangout session. I don't know if you guys saw us a few days ago. Lou, you saw that on the internet.
Starting point is 00:24:31 It was coming for Naomi because it was just black athletes. And Naomi was like, I'm not apologizing for working professionally in a space where we don't have many of us. And we need to gather with each other to uplift each other because we are all. all dealing with different levels of racism and microaggressions, et cetera, et cetera, in the workplace, right? And so when you are a marginalized group and a minority in spaces, you will notice, we all do it.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Women do it when they're in large groups with men. Black folks do it when they're in large groups with whites and others. Latinos do it. Asians do it. Yes. Everybody does it because you want to connect with somebody who's having a like, uh, uh, um, you know, a, and it's a similar experience. And so, yeah, Naomi was on the gram, like,
Starting point is 00:25:25 I'm not apologizing for that, y'all. Sorry about that. One thing I'll never apologize for is uplifting black athletes and, you know, bringing us together. Good for her. Especially, you know, Naomi can be a little shy sometimes. I just love to see her, like, fired up. She's a mom now, so she fired up too.
Starting point is 00:25:40 She ain't shy no more. Good for her. I love that, no. I love that. Well, yes, that's the rundown. There it is. Entourage. The run down, turn that up.
Starting point is 00:25:48 Now, for the audience, you guys know I like to bring you inside, you're working. Every day, and I've been late the last two days. I ain't going to hold you. Walked in right at the top of the hour. But Laura always sits me down and goes, here's what I'm doing in the rundown. And make sure I don't get to it before she gets to it.
Starting point is 00:26:10 On the sheet today, and by the way, for the last several months, Grist's been doing a great job here. Yeah. Here's what Laura's going to cover in the rundown. And it says here she's going to do MIA, Serena Williams, and the ticks. Now, outside of that section was Daphne Joy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought we was going to do Daphne Joy outside of the rundown and then do the rundown and get to the ticks.
Starting point is 00:26:35 No, Laura wanted to do now she wants to flip it on me. Sorry, I was just like, no, that belongs here. That belongs over here. It doesn't, but I'm just saying, Laura, you don't have to do all the things you're passionate about in the rundown. But let's get to the ticks. Oh, it's stressing me out. It's stressing me out. Yo, so my home girl, I'm not going to say her name, but she has been dealing with,
Starting point is 00:26:56 she just couldn't figure out what was wrong with her body. Finally, after three years, she found out she has Lyme's disease. And I didn't know that there was no cure for it. But then another friend of mine who usually goes to Martha's Vineyard was like, yo, I'm thinking about not going. And I was like, why? She was like, this whole tick issue. So I started, you know, looking into it.
Starting point is 00:27:15 She was like, there's a specific tick. that's going around and it's not just Martha's Vineyard, it's in a lot of places, but if you get big. It's the lone star tick is what they call. It's that you can develop this crazy meat and dairy allergy, which has changed people's lives. Now, Rassan, how are we looking? All right, let's go. Watch this. Ticks are making people allergic to red meat and dairy.
Starting point is 00:27:37 It sounds crazy, but it's an allergy called alpha-gal, and it's been spreading across the United States, but it's getting especially bad right now on Martha's Vineyard. We went there and met with an epidemiol. who's been tracking this allergies rise across the island. But it's a molecule that's in the bite of a tick, specifically Lone Star ticks in the United States. And when it bites us, our immune system might decide for an invader, don't like it,
Starting point is 00:28:03 and I'm going to create an allergic response. Some of us never mount that allergic response. We don't actually totally know why some people become allergic and some people don't. Now, Alphagall is sometimes called the Midnight Allergy, because it can hit several hours after. you eat. This happened to Tom Murphy, who ate a steak dinner and then went to bed. Everything was fine, everything was normal, and about two or so in the morning, I woke up
Starting point is 00:28:26 and I was having trouble breathing. A lot of trouble breathing. At that time, they had to send the test off the island. I mean, it wasn't on anybody's radar. The doctor hadn't even heard about it. So what were the things you can't eat anywhere? Well, you can't eat anything, any meat that comes from an animal with a hoof. So no beef, no lamb, no pork, no venison. Ticks already had been a big problem in Martha's Vineyard, but the lone star, which carries Alpha-Gal, has been spreading especially fast. It's a very aggressive tick. When we went on a tick hunt in Tom's yard with a tick biologist, we found two lone stars among 21 total ticks. They are a different beast. We've got a good climate here for ticks since we're out on the ocean.
Starting point is 00:29:06 We have plenty of hosts, like very overabundant deer, other over-abundant hosts, that the ticks just have no problem finding a meal. and they just weren't here on the island before. Somebody brought him. Somebody brought them? That's what you're going with? I'm like, somebody brought that. I mean, it could have came a number of ways. Obviously, it could have came from animals.
Starting point is 00:29:27 It could have came through shipping. It could have came through some sort of nefarious activity to attack Martha's Vineyard. No, because it's not just there. It's in a lot of places. Bro, this is crazy, though. We are going to attack Martha's Vineyard. No, first of all, if you've been upstate or you've been hiking or you've been doing any outdoorsy behavior where there's deer or anything like that, the conversation around ticks, at least for me, since I was a child, have been like, watch out for ticks and Lyme disease.
Starting point is 00:30:00 So it's not new for, at least in my world. Now, there has been an increase in ticks this year because of the type of weather we are having this year. Why? You say why. You see how delayed the heat has been? Yeah. We're already in June, right? Ticks and mosquitoes, if you notice, you haven't really seen a lot of mosquitoes either, right?
Starting point is 00:30:22 Because all ticks and mosquitoes all start to come out when it starts to get humid and the moisture and all of that sort of stuff. So that means this year it's all going to happen rapidly. Same thing happens with allergies. Right. Remember how like winter was long? And then all of a sudden, boom. everything blooms, pollen's everywhere and everybody's allergies.
Starting point is 00:30:44 So when you have these seasons where they're very abrupt or winter's very long and then all of a sudden it gets really, really hot, you're going to have these explosions, they say. And why do I know this? Because y'all know I'd be upstate and I'm doing it up. So I pay attention to this kind of talk. Obviously for the kids, obviously for myself.
Starting point is 00:31:02 And so when you get bit by a tick, right, you have like 24 hours to get to hospital treatment whatever to make sure you don't get the effects of the Lyme disease so it's not like an instant you get bit and it's dunzo for you the other thing is when you are hiking in tall grass or bushes or rubbing up against plants and all of those things walking on hiking trails you should probably want to wear some sleeves and you want to wear like longer flowy pants I know on hot days people we want to wear shorts and all that, but don't be up in the bushes with your skin exposed
Starting point is 00:31:38 because that's how you're going to get a tick. The other thing, when you get done and you get in the shower, you got to check yourself. You're supposed to check you and your kids. You go across their body through their hair and everything looking for ticks. Do they get under your skin?
Starting point is 00:31:54 They can burrow into your skin and now they have tick removing tools that if you plan to be outside this holiday or whatever, There's tools that can help you remove a tick because some people, when I was young, they used to be like ticks go in clockwise and to get them back out, you got to go counterclockwise.
Starting point is 00:32:13 I don't know. Twist them off. Well, you like twist them out of your skin. I never did that before. That was like some old head talk. So that is definitely not something I would suggest is valid. But they do have tools that you can like tick removing things that you can buy on Amazon or whatever. They also have, that's why you wear insect sprays.
Starting point is 00:32:36 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. So they have sprays for insects, whatever. Also, if you have going over to, like, I don't know, family members' house, whatever, ask them if they've sprayed for mosquitoes and ticks. So, like, right, well, it probably would have been a few weeks ago, but I know at our property upstate, I start spraying in April. Every year regardless.
Starting point is 00:32:58 Spraying for ticks and mosquitoes, we spray once a month. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boom, we keep the grass cut. Make sure, you know, because there's going to be deep. are coming by they're gonna have ticks on them so you want to make sure you know none of the babies get hatched because that's really what you're doing with ticks and mosquitoes is you're killing them before they hatch or at least trying to i mean to me the scariest part is like getting bit and then like getting the allergic reaction in the middle of the night well no so that for that man
Starting point is 00:33:26 he would have he would have gotten bit not known he's gotten bit another 24 hours would have passed then he would have ate meat then he would have had the reaction so it would have been over a few several days. I don't think it. The way I understand it's not instantaneous. Once again, I haven't been bit. I'm also not a professional. This is all information that I've either read or has been shared with me.
Starting point is 00:33:46 So make sure you check with your local physician and keep yourself safe. 844, ELR, ELR 3. Do you have Lyme's disease? Oh, you texted it to us. What? Let me see. Let me see. From Erica B6471.
Starting point is 00:34:08 My aunt had untreated Lyme disease. She ended up in the hospital for three weeks. Oh, my God. Due to all the rising issues, she started having rashes, fevers, hair loss, fatigue, headaches. Damn, Erica. That's crazy. It's real. Lyme's disease is real.
Starting point is 00:34:23 I knew somebody with Lyme's disease as well. They were a horseback rider. I'm not there's somebody you all know, but I'm not going to put their business out there because it was a long time ago. And I think they're doing well. Like, I think they, I think there is a way to either manage, maintain, or do something. with Lyme's disease to make sure it doesn't affect you long term. That other thing they're talking about, that alpha gal, whatever that is that you're getting
Starting point is 00:34:48 from the Lone Star with the allergic to meat and dairy, I don't know. I don't know anything about that. I never heard of that until this year. I just started learning about this. So this is some newish. So, Laura, what are you going to do when you go out to the Hamptons on your, you know, delightful getaways with the family? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Because now you guys got to watch, now that Laura has found out a new, of new fear has been unlocked. She may not leave the house. Y'all make fun of me. Guys, for the chat in the audience, I have this fear of sinkholes. How long has it been, Griff, that I've been talking to about sinkholes?
Starting point is 00:35:23 Ten years. Ten years. One of the first things, yeah, that I spoke to producer Griff about, because you see them all around the world, like St. Colin, you know, in India. And now all of a sudden this year, there's all these sinkholes here in the United States. There was one in LaGuardia Airport.
Starting point is 00:35:39 my G? Yeah, the ground just opens. That's it. And you fall in. And Laura, what are you going to do about this? I don't know,
Starting point is 00:35:46 man. I'm not going to walk anymore. No. I'm just kidding. It's good. Oh, my God. I can't.
Starting point is 00:35:52 There's been sink holes in Brooklyn, though, the small ones. I just don't want to know. Don't tell me. Now, is the fear that somehow you're going to be trapped in it?
Starting point is 00:36:00 Yeah. Yeah. And it's going to get you. Yes. Yes. Yes. You know I'm claustrophobic, bro.
Starting point is 00:36:03 Now, mind you, Laura Stiles will travel to the ends of the earth for excursions every December. She goes to some of the most insect-ridden locations on the planet for fun. Some of which I mean, I even question like, yo, I heard the cockroaches. They are mad big, bro.
Starting point is 00:36:22 And she'll be like, yeah, I mean, you see them, but it's no big deal. You get to go to these little markets and have these little eel foods that are amazing. Speaking of Thailand, by the way. But you know what's crazy? Like, I'm not like, I'm not, like, I'm not scared of like spiders and like a roach like I'll stop on a roach I'll kill a spider
Starting point is 00:36:42 and then my man is arachnophobic so he'll freak out but I've just you know it's certain things that bother me but yeah I know I look I know people feel me in these sinkholes man really sinkholes you think people are out there like yeah I'm I'm sinkholephobic yep yep see everyone's talking about it at the chat yep fear of holes yep telling you I'm telling you hilarious all right anyway um listen um we've been at least i have i don't know about everybody on this show but i've been watching how
Starting point is 00:37:10 this iran thing is playing out where are we we're nowhere i'll tell you the most the thing that affects us the most is it's gotten so bad with what we all care about which is gas prices they are saying that we won't see anything near three dollars a gallon until 2032 because of how this has messed up the international market of oil.
Starting point is 00:37:39 There's also conversations now that Israel's military and America's military will become one in the same. Now, mind you, it kind of was anyway because we fund it basically, they buy stuff from us, whatever, whatever. And I read before that we sent troops over there to train. And the NYPD is trained by the IDF here in New York. York City people have talked about really yeah on like you know urban training city
Starting point is 00:38:08 training in the way they the IDF monitors what's going on in Gaza or what's going on in Tel Aviv in these cities they've used some of that training here with the NYPD that's a documented thing yes but now it's supposed to become more incestuous and that's what they're they're aiming for at least that's the word You also have Iran saying we haven't heard from anyone on anything. They're online. Meanwhile, we're five weeks out from the celebration of 250 years. Have you guys seen the, I saw it next to MSG yesterday.
Starting point is 00:39:01 The billboard or it was like one of those digital boards. It said UFC. at the White House. Have you seen that promo? I haven't seen that. I'm bringing that in for tomorrow's show. I have not seen it. It is so...
Starting point is 00:39:16 Nah, bro. Griff, run a Google for me. Congratulations. You plagued yourself. What are some of the wildest entertainment things that have happened at the White House? Oh, there's a good one.
Starting point is 00:39:29 Right? Because I think we need context here because, of course, we all sit in we're like, who would and why would... Mm-hmm. We be holding an ultimate fighting championship at the White House. To celebrate 250 years, I personally think it's on brain.
Starting point is 00:39:50 I hear you. It's still a clown show. No, no, no. Guess what America is? Yes. That's why I think it's on brain. Also, what do we love the most in this country? Violence.
Starting point is 00:40:03 Yeah. So why wouldn't UFC at the White House? So all of our, you know, hope of a better world, more inclusivity, a melting pot, a nation where everyone's welcomed, no matter your background, your creed, your color, your religion, you da-da-da-da-da-da-da. All of those shenanigans we've been marketing to the world for 250 years. We sit here at the 250th birthday None of that shit is true Bro So what's gonna happen
Starting point is 00:40:43 It's like on the actual day They're just gonna showcase the fight And like fireworks No you saw the thing that they're building Yeah yeah yeah but they're gonna do that And that's it happy birthday Well they was gonna have Millie Vanilly in them I mean you know
Starting point is 00:40:55 Only Millie Only Millie no vanilla And not the real And not the real Millie Vanilly And no young MC but when they got Flo Rider and Vanilla Ice Yeah
Starting point is 00:41:07 Congratulations You plagued yourself Flo Riders a nice guy too He shows up to get the bag He's a he's a nice guy He's always showed up to get the bag But he's never given a damn about nothing Yeah
Starting point is 00:41:20 With them hit records and getting to that bag You don't care about nothing And you got vanilla ice Ice Ice Baby Congratulations You played yourself But that's what they want They love that
Starting point is 00:41:33 And by the way Vanilla Ice don't make no money off that song Ice Ice Ice Baby. And so he's like, look, I'm showing up to the opening of an envelope. That's hey. Anybody, if anybody's showing me, love, I'm there. You want me up there. I don't know what Vanilla Ice stands for, stood for in his private. I don't know nothing about that man.
Starting point is 00:41:51 I think he's a known Trump supporter. Oh, he is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a problem. Not surprised. Reson, do you still have in your photo bank over there,
Starting point is 00:42:03 the picture of the picture of? the White House with the UFC build outside. We showed it the other day. I don't know if you still have it. No, he don't have it anymore. I wanted to show that to the people one more time because there was a new photo yesterday with it. Go to clip number one for me, Rahsaan.
Starting point is 00:42:20 This is also being speculated with regards to Trump and Iran. Trump is about to give $300 billion in war reparations to Iran. And they're trying to hide it by calling it a post-war investment fund. That's $300 billion. But one, America doesn't do charity. And number two, Iran has called this a reconstruction program because they demanded reparations for bombardment damage that some Iranian officials are estimating at $300 billion to $1 trillion.
Starting point is 00:42:44 And all of this is happening because the truth doesn't have the fucking cards. Iran has embarrassed us on the world stage by hitting far more. U.S. military assets than the Department of Defense has admitted to. And the Iran war has caused the trade of Hormuz to be closed, causing gas prices to go up so much so that experts are now saying that we won't go back to under $3 per gallon until after 2032. So to recap this entire fucking mess,
Starting point is 00:43:07 Donald Trump got us into a war with Iran, going so far as to Obama's school with 160 children in it, to distract us from the fact that he was in the Epstein files, underestimated Iran's military strength and strategy as a global player who directly impacts the oil and gas market, and who constantly critiqued Obama's nuclear deal saying this. Barack Hussein Obama made maybe the worst deal I've ever seen
Starting point is 00:43:27 because he gave all power in the Middle East to Iran. Trump's been so full of dollars. When Obama gave one point, $37 billion to Iran to release American hostages only for Trump to turn around and give 300 times the amount Obama gave Iran. 300 billion dollars. And on top of all of that, the reason we relied to and told of why we were bombing Iran in the first place was because they had enriched uranium, which would be used to create nuclear weapons. That conversation isn't even on the table because any talks of nuclear weapons would be tabled to a second phase of the fucking negotiation.
Starting point is 00:43:59 The reality is this. $300 billion will be given to Iran to fix a a mess an incompetent president and his administration made, and you will still be lied to, being told that there is no money for Americans to have free health care or child care because we need more money for wars. Anybody who believed Trump was America First was lied to for the billion fucking time.
Starting point is 00:44:19 Well, they were successful. Yeah. Successful because the Epstein files, nobody cares anymore. People don't talk about it anymore. That's right. And that was the point, right? It was all a distraction. They wanted to make sure that everyone,
Starting point is 00:44:33 attention was moved somewhere else and congratulations they succeeded. No one, no one will be held accountable. Congratulations. You plagued yourself. Yo, the amount of sexual assault, the amount of pedophiles that see less time in jail than like people who sold marijuana,
Starting point is 00:44:53 there's people in jail longer for selling marijuana. Still, by the way, still. Than sexual assault. And we should all look, I'll be honest. I don't know about y'all, but we should feel ashamed. I do. As much as I've talked about these topics and tried to kick and scream and spit and cuss
Starting point is 00:45:17 about how ridiculous and stupid this stuff is, people just don't care. And when you look at the Medicare for all Medicaid for all conversation in this country, it's 1,000% tied to individuals who are so stupid that they believe that them having something. that they worked for and keeping something away from people who need it makes them feel more accomplished. Yeah. Yes. And the history of it is tied to white supremacists and white racists in this country, keeping it away from black folks. And that's how dumb, poor white people are. Cut off your nose and spite your face.
Starting point is 00:46:00 But it's not just white people. Latinos are in there, Asian folks. Well, historically, it was white people. trying to keep medical and all of this away from blacks. But yes, now you have the Latinos who think that they are blankitos. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I, it is wild to me, though,
Starting point is 00:46:20 because the other day I was like, you know, when you check trends, Louis, have you ever seen any talk of the obscene files anymore? It's gone. Well, where would you see on social media networks that are currently owned by people who want to talk gone? Facts. Like, where would you see?
Starting point is 00:46:36 Would you see it on media networks that are owned by the same people who own the social media networks who want to talk on? By the same billionaires who wanted to where would you guys see this talk about the Epstein file? You would see it in independent places, which is why when Rosenberg's here and he's always talking about not believing somebody on Instagram or it's coming from a valid source. What's the valid source? Earlier, y'all was saying Tasha K and Vlad were valid sources for information. We're talking about gossip, but I know I were talking about gossip, but I'm just saying that. And this is like where we are today. No, it's a very complicated place because somebody asked me, he's like, why do you guys have Kevin on? I was like, well, because he's actually reporting.
Starting point is 00:47:15 He's on the scene. Like he's there covering everything in a very fair way. And nobody else is doing that. I mean, I'm sure there's other independent creators. But right now, for me, I watch him more than I trust other outlets. There you go. And so you would, look, I'm from old. So I'm from a time where you would hope that.
Starting point is 00:47:36 these outlets the CBSes the ABCs the CNNs or whatever were these kind of like real journalism and they vetted things or whatever um but I even think back to that why did we believe that they were owned by corporations too had agendas yeah but at least there were certain journalists that you felt like they actually did the work you know what I mean they did the work they cared and then some of those people they got rid of they're gone But I'm saying for the network, not the individuals. I'm saying for the network, because even to this day, right now, if you say the wrong things or don't behave the way that they want you to behave when it comes to delivering content,
Starting point is 00:48:21 if you editorialize too much, you're sitting here with us. Yes. I'm like having us. Yeah, man, it is a tough time because people, like I have the one question that people ask me all Tom is like where do I look for information that's true like where do I find this ground news no ground and look I like ground news but the reason I always bring that up is because if you are really looking and you know not everybody's actually looking they want to go somewhere and have someone tell them what's going on but if you're actually looking you get to go okay these are the things
Starting point is 00:49:01 I'm interested in and the app delivers it to you and then it tells you who's covering it and so you can look at the slant. In which way they lean. In which way the coverage of the thing leans. Is it leaning more left? Is it leaning more right or is it more center?
Starting point is 00:49:16 And then you can even see how much of what side is covering it, which is all really telling to me. If the left is all talking about something and the right is not talking about it at all, based on what we know about the right, they got something to hide right why are you not covering this thing and so then you can go find kind of a center outlet you know that is more straight down the middle here are the facts yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:49:45 read up on it and discern for yourself if this is something that's pertinent to you or if you want to but that that's ground news also look i'm biased but i like the apple news app me too apple news is great yeah yeah great aggregator of everything that's going on out there if you're If you want it to, you open up the app every morning, you can see what the big stories are based on the things that you've said. Here's the things I'm interested in. And it's going to deliver it to. I think I'm going to get ground news because I usually use the Apple News,
Starting point is 00:50:13 but I'm going to check it out. Yeah, ground news just gives you a slant. It's not Apple News is going to give you what you need. Ground News is going to tell you who's covering what and what the slant in the deal is. I think that's important, though. It's important to know that. I'm going to check it out. Because if you care, which I'm a person,
Starting point is 00:50:30 I think I wasn't here last week and a week before. I was in and out traveling. When I'm not actually doing this job, I definitely listen to a lot more music. Okay. And I definitely read a lot more news, newsy news. I like the daily. Okay.
Starting point is 00:50:53 The daily podcast. I think it's, it's, I recommend it. It's like 30 minutes and they give you just like the headlines. I believe they deliver it in a very balanced way. Right. So that's just me. But yeah, that's one thing that I've been. And then, you know, I check out NPR.
Starting point is 00:51:09 I try to check out some of the most, you know. And I actually even go to Fox News just to see what they're talking about. Right. Just because I need to be informed. Yeah, I know. I don't. I just to see it, be like, okay. I'm good.
Starting point is 00:51:20 I can't take their graphics and their colors. I know, I know, I know. I feel like you're trying to do something to my brain with this whack. Yeah. Why is everything so bright and yellow and blues and what's happening here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're trying to, because you know what it is. They're trying to make you feel like everything's hunky-dory with all those bright colors while they're delivering you.
Starting point is 00:51:38 They're just sending you down into an abyss of hell. Lies. And evil and lies. But it's all like blues and blondes and, you know, reds and white folks acting like everything's all good. You're a liar. Yeah. It's not all good and you're evil. Let's get to the gurus.
Starting point is 00:51:58 And yo, it's time for the gurus. Rosenberg It's all right You know you are a beautiful queen Ebro Don't ever play yourself You're not a guru Surely I am
Starting point is 00:52:09 I am Khalid The original gurus At gmail.com The original gurus Atgmail.com That's where you write to us Where the gurus unite
Starting point is 00:52:19 To fight for what's right Ebro Fern The Sage Zen Zen Okay Oh wow So this one is
Starting point is 00:52:29 Mixed and confused. Mixed about what? Hey, Ebro, Rosenberg and Laura. I need some guru wisdom. And Ebro, I'm really hoping you can weigh in since you're mixed too. I'm an only child and grew up only knowing my white side of the family. My dad always told me that he was indigenous and that I was mixed with white and indigenous.
Starting point is 00:52:52 But recently, a friend looked at a picture of my dad and told me straight up, he ain't indigenous. He's black. I ended up taking a DNA test and it flipped my world upside down. Zero indigenous DNA. Instead, I'm a mix of white and several different black nationalities. Now, I'm a total loss.
Starting point is 00:53:13 When people ask me what I am, I'm just very confused because I've been light to. If I just say I'm white, then I'm ignoring a huge part of myself. But saying I'm black gives me a major imposter syndrome. I never met that side of my family and I wasn't raised in the culture.
Starting point is 00:53:30 And even if I was around friends and in my neighborhood, I just want to be proud of everything that I am and I feel awkward claiming an identity that I didn't live. How do I navigate this? And how do I proudly own being mixed without feeling like a fraud? Thanks, guys, sincerely, mixed and confused. Well, let's stop the moment. How old is this person?
Starting point is 00:53:53 I don't know. Does not say. Maybe. Maybe. In the United States of America, a racialized society, there is a construct of race. Race is a made-up construct, social construct, of how you present in society. There are mixed people who present as white. And in this nation, you had people, and you had black people who present as white.
Starting point is 00:54:27 Like they have black parents who, you know, generation, generation, generation, there was definitely some white person in there. Their fair skin, they show up in society based on their features and hair textures and these other things that present you racially. People would assume they were white, so they were allowed privileges in society
Starting point is 00:54:51 based on their appearance, even though they knew they were black. Okay? So that's very complicated. Yeah. Because society looks at them as white, but they know culturally, ethnically, they're black. Then there's people who they have, you know, mixed like myself. They have a black parent.
Starting point is 00:55:12 They have a white parent. A Bob Marley, a Drake, a Barack Obama, a Lenny Kravitz. We can go on and on and on of individuals that everybody says is black. They accept that they're black. but they have a white parent but they also culturally are probably were raised in closer proximity
Starting point is 00:55:36 to black culture yes so this person I would have to see a photo of this person I have a friend who I've known you know last 15 years she's also black and Jewish okay she was raised and there was a she put out a documentary
Starting point is 00:55:51 she was raised in Woodstock New York by her Jewish family and her mother and her whole family never told her she was black. She didn't know she was black until she was, and she's lighter than me, hair textures kind of straighter, wavier, you know. So she could pass.
Starting point is 00:56:10 She could, there was something there, but there's Jews, North African Jews, Jews who are Arabs, Mizrahi Jews, Sephardic, whatever, who also, they consider themselves to be Jewish, but they don't necessarily consider themselves to be. black okay so it is complicated and so I understand the confusion but you sir you're an
Starting point is 00:56:32 american and your father um I don't know what these people look like but there were also generations of black folks who took on uh either because that was their culture being of an indigenous tribe because there are black indigenous tribes that is a thing right Cherokee Chalktau, Muskogee, Cree, and even here in the Northeast, there are tribes that when you see them through their lineage, they are dark-complected, kinky, curly hair, indigenous tribes. And they were here before the slave trade started. So there's a lot of complex stories. So your father could be, for sure, an indigenous person in his mind.
Starting point is 00:57:23 I was like, as a DNA. Because his family, when he was born, said that's who we are. Yeah, yeah. The DNA says something different. But that was the story he was told and they probably took on that story for survival.
Starting point is 00:57:35 We know people like that who just found out they was. Yes. They were not. Who they thought they were. Right? Like, we found out somebody was like, they thought they was Cuban. They found out they was Puerto Rican.
Starting point is 00:57:45 But their family had taken on this Cuban identity to be safe in South Florida. The Puerto Rican identity. Or excuse me, the Puerto Rican identity to be. safe in, you know, whatever environment they were in and just kind of blend in. They didn't want. Or we have some other friends who are like first generation and their families didn't teach them
Starting point is 00:58:01 languages and traditions because when their families showed up here, they didn't want to be ostracized. Yeah, when they wanted to assimilate and move in. So everybody's got a story. But for this individual, I would say first, how do you present in society? And so you can racially be black. You can culturally not be close to, you know, black. American culture and traditions.
Starting point is 00:58:25 That's a thing for sure. But you could also take it upon yourself to learn those things. Right? Like, often in our society, we think black culture is tied to, like, how you dress and how you speak. That's not true.
Starting point is 00:58:41 Like, that's just not not all black people speak with the same intonations and cadences and not all black people are out here using slang. Not all black people care about rap music. music and hip hop like it's just that's just a something that you know has been a narrative that's been created almost a stereotype to some degree so for this individual who's saying that they're
Starting point is 00:59:04 confused you are black racially and then culturally and and and you are black ethnically but culturally who you associate with and that's just a part being American yeah and I also and correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not a mixed person but I I mean I guess but But I, I, you're mixed differently. Differently, correct. But, but, and the reason I say that is that's important, right? Because I'm sure there's been social scenarios that you've been in where people have assumed your thing.
Starting point is 00:59:41 Yeah. Yeah, all the time. All the time. And you're like, no, I'm Guatemalan and Honduran. And they're like, oh. Yeah, I'm not Honduran. What is it? Guatemalan.
Starting point is 00:59:51 And then my dad's side is Guatemalan and Belize. Belize. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um, but you know what I mean? It's a different mix. And that has its own cultures. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Starting point is 01:00:00 You know what I mean? So every, and by the way, most black Americans, most people in America are mixed. Like, yeah. Like, take somebody like Fat Joe, who is Puerto Rican, I believe, and Colombian. Or is it Cuban? Cuban. Cuban. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:19 Most people just assume he's Puerto Rican. Right? Because he's in New York and Puerto Rican. culture and influence and, you know, all that kind of dominates the Latino kind of culture. Right. And that's where he felt he fit in. And that's where he felt like he fit in. Right.
Starting point is 01:00:36 So, you know, people are mixed. Griff, you're Belizeon and. So, Black American? So, Gryph is Black American from the South. Uh-huh. Because, by the way, Black American from the South and Black American from the North and Black American from the West is culturally different in some ways. and so but racially when you if you was to see griff
Starting point is 01:01:02 you would go that's black man yeah you would hear him talk and you would be like that's not a black man but that's my point when you're talking about race you know what I'm saying it's how you present in society so what I was trying to say is that it's I feel like
Starting point is 01:01:20 it's okay for him to say like hey I just found out and I'm learning yeah it's not you can say that I don't think there's anything wrong with that Well, look, brace yourself culturally. Black people talk a lot of shit. And so they're going to make fun of you, just like I made fun of Griff. But that's how we show love. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:36 It's all love, bro. Don't, and by the way, it's okay to be confused. Yeah. And it's not like it's everything I just explained, I'm sure somebody's going to email or text and tell me I'm wrong or I'm right or there's more nuanced than I was able to articulate whatever, whatever it is, because it is a complicated conversation. Correct.
Starting point is 01:01:57 But one thing about that. the U.S. and this is my own filter and lens and y'all know I am we live in the United States of America all of those nuances I just talked about and different things are cute it's cute to talk about
Starting point is 01:02:11 I'm I'm Guatemalan and Belizean and I'm Belizean and black American and Indian and I'm half Cuban and I'm half Puerto Rican and I'm this and I'm that it's all cute and I and I'm not being I say it's in all due respect in the United States of America
Starting point is 01:02:27 how the police respond to you and how society responds to you and how the workplace response to you when you show up that's what you are everything else doesn't matter your community your friends they're going to love you regardless this race thing is made up by the government my ability to put my government name ibrahim on a job application and then show up looking like myself and not pre-judge, be prejudged by my name, my appearance, still get the same pay, not get harassed by police. Those are, that's what we're fighting against. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:09 Yeah. All this other stuff is like, yeah, no, that's beautiful. You're, you're culturally mixed and not and not. But the real thing in this society and y'all know it's even more relevant and prevalent right now, how you show up in society is dictating how you feel about what's going on and your level of safety. Yeah. That is very true. And to this guy, because he says, look, even though I never met my side of the family and I wasn't raised in the culture, he's like, it just gives me major imposter syndrome. I don't think you should. I think you should open up and
Starting point is 01:03:43 just be honest about who you are in your journey. And then maybe you'll find something cool if you start digging into that side of the family. And also just always say people talk shit. They don't mean they don't love you, man. People talk shit about me all the time. They tune in every day and give us money in the super chat and give me likes on the gram and shit talk shit about me, talk shit about my look talk shit about me not knowing I'm white, call me white boy
Starting point is 01:04:07 black people been calling me white boy my whole life you know what I'm saying it's people talk shit and so I think what you need to really focus on is showing up as yourself yeah that's it right trying to figure out you know
Starting point is 01:04:21 you know how people who don't love you feel about you is a whole journey that might be a waste of energy depending on how old you are too. Like just, you know, if you're black ethnically and you don't feel connected to black
Starting point is 01:04:38 American culture, start going to some black American cultural events and learn and just have a good time and be yourself. Hopefully this help. So see the gurus. The gurus. We got, get out and vote from what section is
Starting point is 01:04:56 voted? primaries in New Jersey and New York today. Yes, go to vote.org. Make sure you know where your location is. Just make sure, you know, you register correctly, all that good stuff. Now, King Lou on the rap, what was the super chat talking about? Ayanna P said, happy 15th birthday to my daughter, Joe. She's absolutely amazing.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Thank you for helping me celebrate her. Happy birthday, Joe. Happy birthday. Big Bouch of, I don't know what to say. Laura ain't messing with them Australian spiders. I'm not. The lunatic. The lunatic doesn't show the rest of it.
Starting point is 01:05:38 Listen, if your hand is too complicated, lose, not getting too. But all centralized systems are failed. Healthcare, education, food supply, justice system, et cetera. Society is in decay because people think that these systems benefit or work for us. All sense of security, produce your own security. Okay. That's some real end of day's talk right there. I don't disagree completely, but if we can elect individuals that can't be corrupted
Starting point is 01:06:03 and we can trust that our tax dollars go to individuals that will manage it well, maybe some of these systems would be a little bit more sustainable at this current juncture. But y'all, everybody thought it was something to play with. Y'all thought the boogeyman wasn't real. And now here we are. That's it? No, there's a couple more. Eric Motions said currently on Fox & Friends, it's story time.
Starting point is 01:06:27 They're reading a children's book entitled America. I'm glad you were born. Okay. My point, exactly. The 10-year-old seven-year-olds. Oh, God. And Big Bouchabee said Laura has a Puerto Rican face, but the cheeks is Vin as well. I'm neither.
Starting point is 01:06:49 Yo, ELR, man. We appreciate the EL Army. We appreciate everybody hyping and sharing and liking. Love you. Subscribe. We will see you tomorrow morning. Love, have a great day. Bye.
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