The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 119.) Rosenberg's Travel Stories + Reading FOTS Letters (6/12/26)

Episode Date: June 12, 2026

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We made it's Friday. It's Friday. Ebro and Laura and Rosenberg. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, we will look at some videos, you guys are saying. Griff, do we have voice notes? No voice notes but video. Okay.

I'm fine with that. We look at emails Ebro-Lor Rosenberg at Gmail Rosenberg is wincing at some emails so that's a good sign for content No, no, no, it's a We only have two videos And it says one is someone giving an explanation

Of regional Mexican music Well, that's a follow-up, Felix, who was on last week with a video. He's back with a follow-up explanation. We were talking about what he said in his video about regional Mexican And I said, I was being told that they're calling it Musica Mexicana now

Because it encompasses regional Mexican is tied to more traditional and Musica Mexicana includes like a peso plumas of the world. Got it. It's new hip-hop sounds. Okay. I mean, Musica Mexicana just means Mexican music. Right. So. Right.

Wouldn't that include everything? Yeah. But I was, this is what I was told. Okay, okay. You're doing the best you can. The regional Mexican thing was tied, I had a certain connotation. So they wanted to upgrade. Shout to Felix.

Shout to Felix. And we'll get to your video. So, Yvette also sent a video. and now Rosenberg you're betting earlier this week with regard to the Knicks brought a loss

Well no that's a long time ago It was Monday I just I went I don't think it brought a loss But I tried to excite The might have been worse than Trump showing it I tried to make the Knicks fan Feel confident and happy I doubled the amount I know

I bet normally I've since now gone back To my regular motion All right I will stay with that on Saturday Just keep betting the Knicks Okay For five hundred

That's it No I'm not gonna mess with it That's it Let's just hope but goes the right direction. That's all I can do. All right. Family Friday.

I didn't send over any family material. Did you guys send over family material? I said something. So did Laura. Oh, man. I screwed up. Laura, what did you send? No, mine's just a cute little picture.

Let me see. Cute little picture. It was on my IG, but I just wanted to show my boo some love. Oh, happy birthday, Ricardo. Celebrated his 40th birthday. Wait, I didn't play this. Yeah.

By the way, Laura's full of shit. Rush, what I say this is family Friday. Why am I doing this shit? Because go back to that photo. What? It's not about Ricardo, bro. She's all in his scene, right? Like she's leaned all the way over.

And she just looks great. Oh, my God. She knows that's a great picture of her. I think it's a great picture of both of us. I thought it was great. It's what they used on the ground. Yes. So it wasn't.

Now, if it would have been something different. Right. Because I had already seen it, I let it slide. You're on to something. But you did. Yeah. These are such haters. I cannot.

Go back to. photo one more time. No, look at her. Look at her smile. It's perfect. It's cute. It's very cute. Filter on that joint? No. No. No. Ricardo looking slim, too. Yes. He's been on his health kick. He's doing really good. Is he like counting pounds and all that? He lost like 20 something pounds. Lately he's been a vacationing, but. That's going to you're supposed to have a moment? No, he, listen, it was 20 pounds down is a major thing. That's big right here. And is he noticing he's feeling and noticing the difference? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, he's, he doesn't like to talk about it. He doesn't like to make it a big deal. Even though I make it a big deal. Yeah. He's like, it's okay, man, it's okay. I'm just, you know. Listen, if Rick literally doesn't eat, drink soda ever again, he'll naturally lose weight. Well, that's, I've been, I've been the chopper of the house.

Chop that out. Oh, la choppa. Yeah. Nothing's worse. Nothing's worse than those empty soda calories. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if there's a worse way to waste some calories. That's his vice.

And that's his thing. And that's his thing. People are just like, he doesn't care about a piece of cake. No, no, no, no. He wants the drink. So crazy to me. I'm so much more wasting on a piece of cake. Me too.

I want the cake. Anyway, no, we had to one other time. I had to choose. Taking ice cream over cake every time. No, no, I need a balance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it depends. Ice cream to me is more regular.

I have ice cream in my house. I don't have cake sitting in my house. You see what I'm saying? Like there can be a... Yo, I've done good. I've gotten ice cream out, too. You don't have a... You don't ever have ice cream in your house?

We do, but it's not there currently. Like, we'll go get, lately we've been walking down to the ice cream shop. And just getting the ice cream, you eat it, and you move on with your life. Yeah, yeah, that's good, that's good. Yeah. But the thing is, if you have a pint, you can have a Hagenas pint, we're big on Hagenas in the home.

Really? Yeah, that's the preferred ice cream. Interesting. I like it too. Interesting. More than Ben and Jerry's, huh? More than Ben and Jerez. I do both.

But Hagenas has that, even though politically I love my Ben and Jerry's, Hagendaz has that limited ingredients. Just a few simple ingredients. That's why I like it. I think Ben Cohen is he's out on Ben and Jerry. I think Jerry's out too. Oh, they're both out now? Maybe Jerry still works for the company.

Through Ben and Jerry. So they're both still there. No, not both still there. That's different, though. I'm focused on the actual ice cream at this moment. Okay. And we do like the politics. We do like the Hagenadoz.

So we'll keep a whatever, a coffee, a strawberry in the house. Strawberry. And you can't work on a pint for, like. It'll last a few weeks. You don't have a couple of weeks. There's a couple spoonfuls here, a spoonful there. A few weeks, yes. You're going to make it last.

It's a... What a Ron just said. Ron scoffed. Your Ron drops. Ron, let's get through the point. Sausole, man. That's sasole. Yeah, it's not a few weeks of my house.

Well, we know, Basker. Now, Bass, did you hear the gummy bear story? Did you hear the gummy bear story? I was here for it. No, the level of stashing and hiding. No, I didn't. Sorry, there's a new story. Well, I didn't know if you knew that I got,

I didn't know if the piece of the gummy bear story of Ron Baskin that you got included how he was stashing the gummies in the couch and would eat them in front of his children, they can't have them. Nope, I didn't get that part of the story. You investigated further and got more. I needed to understand. Because he was like, yeah, no, my kids, they can't eat like that. I was like, but wait, you're guzzling bags of gummy bears

at the end of the day. You had them stashed. Where are they? You had them stashed on the couch? Yeah, it wasn't hidden. Everybody know my stash spot, so I don't have to get up up the couch and get it. So I don't have to get up off.

That sounded way worse than, okay, yeah. I'm sorry. I haven't had any in two weeks. Yay! No, I will say we've got to give him credit. He has walked in with his yogurt, with his salads. Is that for real? Bascom, you've been doing better every day?

I see it. Yo, Baskam, I'm down five pounds. I weigh in every Sunday. Okay, respond. Wait, but time out, time out, time out. Oh, my God. Is it amazing to you at all? How quickly you lost five pounds?

Does your brain go, whoa? Yeah, yeah. I wasn't even to say about the weight loss. I was going to say, though, dead ass. I didn't know what he'd been doing, and it's early, so I wasn't going to say very much yet. He looks in the face already a little different. Like you look younger

Your skin is looking like getting that poison out will affect you immediately And I say that as someone who I have a friend in WWE last week Who's an incredible physical shape who said to me you're aging backwards So you take that from me when it comes from me there you go You take that's Montes Ford who told me that wow Yeah no he always says that Congrats on the on the baby and all this stuff too right Him soon come soon come

They're about to have that baby very very soon yeah I miss their I missed their baby shower. It looks like a hell of a time in Florida. Good transition back to the Family Friday of it all. We were in Italy last week, had a great time. We were in Rome for a day. And I saw that Becky Lynch and Seth were going to be in Rome at the same time. I don't know if you guys know this.

It's Family Friday. We can say this. Becky and Seth are now also part of the Dipperstein family. Oh, okay. So we're all sort of now connected in. in different ways, right? So I hit up Becky and was like, you guys gonna be in Rome.

They said, yes, and I said, oh, we should get together. We're gonna be there with the baby. They said, we're here with the baby. They're kids like five. So they said, do you have any interest in coming on a tour of Rome with us? A golf cart tour of Rome.

And I was like, keep in mind, so far at this point, in Florence, all Natalie and I did was like take Uber's to town and kind of wander around with the baby and eat. Like, which is a lot of what there is to do in Florence. I mean, how many times do I have to see David's penis? I've seen the shalom.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've seen it, you know what I'm saying? So I was like, wow, a golf cart tour. That sounds like what you should do in a city like Rome. So we went, Seth and Becky and their family were gracious enough to take us on this golf cart tour. And Becky and says daughter Roo is like five and was very excited about baby Maya. And they spent the like three hour thing together where Rue only wanted to sit next to Natalie and Maya in the golf cart, right?

And you'll relate to this given Kens's age. Becky was like, this is the first relief I've gotten all week because Rue is now off of me for like a few hours to be all over the baby. And Natalie's basically babysitting both. And Natalie, my wife

is so freaking great with kids. She just like registers the brain, the wave that the kids are on and is so fun with them. She truly is. I don't know. Like, she really has a thing with kids. I don't even know that she knew that she had it. She's just so fun with them. So she's hanging out with Rue and Maya and they were really into each other. Then that night,

Becky and Seth were both on the WWE live event in Rome. They both had matches. Becky had a match against Sol Ruka. Seth had a match against Bronbreaker at the Palazzo del Sporto in Rome. And Natalie and I went to the non-televised. Non-televised events are the freaking best. Why? Because it still feels like you don't remember that it's this huge conglomerate and TKO and it still it still feels like what it used to be organic I don't know why it's just different so we went to the show and their daughter was there and was backstage it's probably less stress when you're walking around like it's just different it's just oh yeah no one's there right all of the extra people that now exist in w w w's corporate structure gone they're gone so when i went backstage and say hi to people it's literally two producers and talent

That's all the, you know, health people, the medical people and security, that's it. So their daughter, Rue, came out from backstage to see Maya in the crowd. And this was their reunion. So they'd hung out in the morning. And this is their reunion when they saw each other again. Wave goodbye to her one more time, Rue. Maya's like my friend. Okay, bye.

Bye. So cute. It was so cute. But she really did. Maya actually listened to her earlier. When this little girl was trying to tell her to say some of her words, Maya was actually like doing it with her. It's just been so fun this last few weeks.

She's had a real like emergence into toddlerism. Yeah. Over the last few weeks, I'm watching her like play by herself now. Mm-hmm. Like taking the horse and going. Right, right, right, right. And taking the car and pushing it.

All these little things that she just wasn't doing a few weeks ago. And it sounds like small time relative to. when kids are five, six, seven. No, no, it's important though. But seeing her do all the things. It's huge in a lot of ways. I'm not even sure. You realize, right?

Because there's some parents who are still waiting for that moment. Of course. Right? Developmentally. So when you get these moments where you're seeing certain progress, like when I, you know, when I had Issa, I didn't realize how rare some of the things she was doing was. Right? Jazz works with, or, you know, worked with autistic kids before,

um, uh, Solasi was born. And so jazz is aware like watching is like, yo, this is, she's aware how rare some of these milestones, you know, can be. Well, and also, and also just people's just time takes different, you know, like, time is different for every child. That's right. Whether on the spectrum, not on the spectrum, you, they have different things that they hit. And for Maya recently, these little things. of like, just running up to me when I get home and kind of hugging the leg and doing all of those little things

and just kind of like treating me more like daddy is just like the best. And I was funny because, you know, it took her time to get comfortable with Rick. Yeah. You know, and Rick was very excited to meet Maya, right? And like, was like at first. And so I right away, with people I love,

I am definitely, I admit, if I like love the person, I am very comfortable being like, here's the baby. Yeah, yeah, right? And so at first, she was just like, mah! And it took like three or four times before her to, like, kind of treat him like Uncle Rick. Like, I know this guy.

I'm cool. Otherwise, her aversion to men at first is, I have to tell you, as a father, very satisfying. That's right. I love it. You want to see. We went to a doctor, and it was a fill-in doc, because before we left, remember,

she had the snot situation. Yeah. So I took her to the doctor to make sure we were good to travel because she was very sneezy. The snot was just everywhere. Her doctor was out. It was a male doctor.

And when that doctor came in with the stethoscope, bruh, she was crying at things she's never cried about with her female doctor. She just naturally, also she does this backing up thing that is the cutest friggin thing when she's unsure of something

in any way, she's just like, yeah, let me back up. Uh-huh, uh-uh, uh-uh. Where are you going? It may not even be something. I need to assess, I need more time, create space. Yes. She also says more about now everything

to where we don't even quite understand what more means. Like she wakes up, she just had her milk. She's not, it wouldn't be time to eat yet. And she's just like, more, more. But why are you saying it wouldn't be time to eat? More. Because last week she was a different person.

Right. So maybe she does always mean food, but sometimes it's more and then you offer food, no, you offer water, no, you're like. Maybe she just wants more attention. Maybe it's more of something. that we just don't know what it is. But her moa is the cutest sounding thing. More.

More. More. More. They're cool, man. I told you traveling with your kid. No, they change. Yeah, it changes. It's like, look, you're going to have some ups and some downs.

But other than that, you just roll out with them. Strap up and roll out. Her strap up rollout game was great. Yeah. The eating, us having 1130 dinners, because we were jet lagged the whole trip. We never recovered. So we would be out at dinner at 10.30, 11 o'clock. Yo, she was a road dog

Eating dinner with us that late Be fine, we'd get home She'd get in bed I'm exaggerating She'd get in bed by around midnight But we'd be out at 10. 10.30 doing the whole thing Oh, we got the slumber pod

What's that? Put us on, son. Never even heard of it. It's irrelevant for you But it could still be relevant for you. Talk to me. Slumber pod was recommended by our friend Zach and Amanda

If you're traveling and you want to make sure that you, A, can keep your baby napping in case like the hotels aren't super dark. And B, you want to keep a level of separation from the child so they don't feel like they're in the bedroom with you for a week straight. So then when you get home and they're like, no, I'm in the same bedroom as you.

The slumber pod is a tent that you connect and put over the pack and play. And it makes it completely pitch black and give separation from the room. So we put the slumber pod over her pack and play She napped every day on our trip And when we would put her down at night By the end

It was such a rhythm of the pitch blackness of it You put her in, you zip it done Done Wait so you rented a pack and play on the road Or you travel? The hotels all have them Yeah, I was just wondering Yeah, no no if you check What type of hotel you were staying at

Well, some were better than others We did Airbnb We did hotel first in Torino And then we did you did Airbnb because bro we're looking at the hotels in Florence and Rome you know even when you get up to seven eight hundred dollars a night which to me is a lot of money to pay for older hotels that are just like not great no they're not so we ended up doing an Airbnb the one we got in Florence was like 300 a night yeah dude it was two bedrooms it was really nice it was new it had a

washer dryer had a balcony but we only searched for ones that have a crib of available. But I, if you do want a trip with Salasi at this age, I do, I know she's better at co-sleeping

though, because Salasi will straight sleep with you guys sometimes and it's been okay. Maya's tossing and turning when she sleeps with us. It's so annoying. I think Salasi's a little bit.

She has her moments, but she also, when we travel, we'll try to ask a hotel for like a crib and she'll sleep in her own space and she's good with that. But we just liked having

the complete separation. And by the way, we watch TV. It's pitch black for her. So we, Natalie, was big, she was really enjoying watching the Food Network in Italian. She was very much enjoying. Really? Well, she

loves the Food Network in general. I didn't know this. You don't really need to know the language. But the food looks amazing. And she's, you're still watching the same thing. And their vibe is, Bra I'm telling you, Italy was the shit. It's amazing. Listen, when I went, I was, I was, like, yo, Ebro, we randomly, Ricardo was like, let's just go. And I was like, okay. And then my friend

had just been to Sicily. So I was like, we're going to do Sicily. And I did my research. One of the best trips. The food is fantastic. And I don't know how it was with you, but with me, they celebrated having a child. They were like, Bambino. They made sure she ate first and took Kevin. I was like, wow, this is nice.

Laura, the stereotype of the waiters and the baby. I'm going to tell you there's right now. Waiters did things with our baby that if they did it in America, I'd be like, get the fuck away from the baby. Yes. They kissed her. No, they would literally kiss her. Oh, ma'mma, bambina.

And it's like, you find it very charming in Italy. If I was at Applebee's and I'm like, yo, Derek, get the fuck back. But they love, they all had a, they all had, and like, you're in these restaurants that are really, like, highly regarded and nice Italian places. They did not balk at 10.30 at night and you having the little Bambina. Don't they eat later? Yeah, they seem like it. They also have long dinners. Like people.

But you guys, it's interesting to hear you guys talk about Italy, a place that we all love food from and people from and culture from. And you guys are talking about it like it didn't exist. until you went there. You got to go. You got to feel it. No, but it's crazy. I mean, like I said, I've only been, I've been to Venice and Monopoly. I've never.

Monopoly? You mean Napoli? No, I thought it was, no. Monopoly is the game. No, no, no, there's a small town on the east coast. Oh, then I don't know. Color me ignorant. I don't know.

It's a small town. Monopoly, yeah. What did you go to there for? Well, because I was going down the Adriatic Sea. So I went from Venice. We flew into Venice. And then we got on like this mini cruise. ship went down the Adriatic

Sea to like Dubrovnik and Montenegro and then we swung back across the Adriatic I remember you hit random ass places in general I was like oh this is so cool and went to restaurants and it was just dope and then I have friends they go to what's the place? Lake Como

Lake Como and I bro is Rich Talk I've never been so you know how many places there are to go there that's the part that bugs me out I've never done Venice I've never done the Amalfi Coast I've never done the Amalfi Coast I've never done Napoli. Is Tuscanese a whole other thing? Tuscanese, well, Tuscanese a whole area.

Okay. And it includes, like, Florence is in Tuscany. But then there's like, we considered leaving Florence and going just into Tuscany where there's vineyards and all these small towns and all that shit. But like you're talking about, there's other places that Sicily, never been. Bologna, supposed to be insane food city. You don't say, Bologna. No, isn't it funny, though, where you're like. Because you're like, really? Really?

Italy's dope, really? You don't say? You don't say? But it just hits different. Like, listen, England's cool. It's cool. No, it's cool. No, it's cool. It's cool. It's cool. London's dope. No, London's dope. No, I love Nando's. Perry, Perry. All been, been on it. And there's dope African restaurants. And there's no African stuff. But the funny things about it.

I've never been. When you're, you never in London at all? Never. Well, if you've never been, it's a great place to go. I'm teasing. but Italy's just fire because you don't, after like five days we're like, should we get non-Italian food? Should we like go to? We're in Rome.

There's obviously other. Yeah. It's a huge problem. Why would I do that? Because you've had pasta now, two meals a day for five days straight. I went to a steakhouse. Well, you can just go get seafood.

You can. Italian's seafood? No, the menus had a lot of seafood. But when you sit down, you start reading the description, like, oh, we got to. And the way they do their lasagna is so, different. The creaminess of the lasagna is so

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We had pizza a couple times Um It's not a New York slice It's very much A different thing But it's not like you've never had pizza like that in your life To me it was the pasta dishes That hit more and

Well the pasta is better Yes grip Bigger food Oh no chicken pie No they had eggplant palm Chicken and cheese won't happen Not doing it in Italy According to Griff

Wow You know what I don't mess with Seafood and cheese I feel like it was blown. Seafood and cheese. When do people have seafood and cheese? Lobster mac and cheese? It's not my thing.

Yeah. Or like Ricardo loves a tuna melt. Oh, I got a chew. It's cool. It's cool. I've had a salmon burger with cheddar cheese. But I do like this take from Laura, though. I do like this take.

Yeah, like why do you need to mix cheese and fish? Lobster mac. It's amazing, but I don't need it. It's good, though, but I don't need it. It's a great take. Yeah, I don't need. Overall, you can leave it alone. You know what I mean?

You don't need it. Nah. But the stakes we have, we're slamming too. It was great. Recommendedly. By the way, European food, I can't speak for Germany or the Nordic. So I'm going to leave you all out of this because y'all do some different things. Germany has so many, like, people from all over.

They have just fantastic restaurants. Right, right. But I've never been, so I can't. I'm not a big brat worst guy. I'm not a big, you know what I mean? But I was eating good in Cologne. But I do like one of those big press. missiles you all got. Yeah, facts.

But generally speaking, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece. They eat good food. And it's better ingredients. And their standards are different. And Laura, you know, was talking to me when I was there because I wanted to get some medicine about stacking up in your medicine in Italy. You know, the pharmacy at the train station is... You got to do it. Wait, what? Everything is better, Ebro. They have higher standards for medicine, beauty products, like things that would cost you $10,000. I'm exaggerating, obviously.

You can get them for a fraction of the price, and it's just better quality ingredients. What type of medicine you all keeping? Cough syrup. I got cough syrup. I got them. Yeah, toothpaste. The one thing that we had,

we had one bad reaction to food. There's a sandwich spot that Natalie wanted to go to, I guess probably for Instagram, and slamming sandwiching. Breads popping with different meats. Deli meats are the kind of vibe sandwich with cheese, tomato, blah, blah. And we got it before getting on the train.

And we got on the train. And 50 minutes later, it was like pain, like a cramping. I looked it up. And apparently not uncommon to have, because of the sodium content in cold cuts, if you just have, if you're not really doing that kind of stuff, it can be super impactful. So we stopped at the pharmacy when we got to Rome and I got some stuff for it. Immediately helpful. Awesome.

They just, we suck, bro. I mean, you're not telling me. You're not having been saying. Yeah, no. I just don't think about medicine. It was just I wanted to hear more about stopping. We got diapers. Yeah.

I just go to the pharmacy. I mean, listen. This entire episode's been dedicated to Rosembourg's trip to Italy. We haven't got to a video of email. Then it just became dedicated to Italy. Then it was just Italy. By the way, I don't know if you guys know this. Italy has amazing food.

No, it's crazy. Breaking new. Not only that. They've been around for a long time. They've been doing this. No. They've been doing this longer than you sway. I promise you they've been doing it longer.

I know it's America 250. They also have, did you guys do any high-end clothes shopping? So we went to the big Italian luxury brands. So we went to luxury brands for sure. But we're not cheaper. Well, they are slightly cheaper. But you have to go to the airport and get the tax back. That's the biggest piece.

I did almost buy a fire Louis Vuitton jacket at the airport. But then when I did the math, I'm like, this is cheaper, but I'm forgetting, these are euros. It's not, so like, oh, this is,

and then we left, and I was like, you know, F it. But I did like this shirt, for example, just a random collar shirt. Yeah. What I like doing in, I did it in Brazil,

and I did it in, in Italy. I like finding the mid-tier clothing brands they have there because I find that some of the international sort of mid-tier brands. I love that in Japan.

It's just dope or shit than our shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I got multiple, I got a pair of jeans and multiple collar shirts from this mid-tier, kind of like a banana, republic-y-level store there. Yeah. They just have more sweat because it's Italy and it's nicer shit. Before we jump into our emails, I will say, you guys, we have so much love in Puerto Rico.

Really? I got stopped one, two, three, like four or five times. And just people are just appreciating us and loving us and said, when are you going to bring the team? Like, we want, you know, we want to see you guys here. Like, so much love. Like, it was beautiful. Really? Even the TSA, it was like, Lauda?

And I was like, and I was like, yes. And then we started talking. He's like, yeah, watch your show. He's like, he showed me his YouTube. I was like, oh, my God, this is great. It was really cool, man. It all goes back to the governor looking like Chris Farley. Yeah.

By the way, I didn't think much of it at the time. You're right. Yeah, man. You know, what if we did? And this is getting a little bit down the road. But what if a little bit down the road, we made that like a destiny? the nation thing to do where we went to Puerto Rico and like found a situation where we could

offer listeners to go do you know like if people were looking for a weekend away yeah yeah yeah here's where we're going this is a thing I mean it's a commitment to you know you really got to lock in with the Fotz right you're around but but I think it would be cool and to support the island and the sort you know because we all have such a fondness for Puerto Rico I think it'd be really it's beautiful yeah every time I go back to the island I'm like I'm coming back did you send over any videos no I just the picture of me and Ricardo That was it? Because they were outside.

I saw videos on your grand. Yeah. I saw videos too. We went to Lucillo Beach, which was really beautiful. Family, like they had all these little kiosks and stuff. You guys, you would love it. Like, jazz would love it. That's my type of vibe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jazz loves Puerto Rico. Her mom, her grandfather is Puerto Rican. And I think her dad, too, was Chinese Puerto Rican. Yeah. Yeah. Jazz is a, is unity. Has she done the full 23 of me?

No, I don't think so. She's Chinese, Puerto Rican, black? Those three. Okay, okay. If she starts with that many, that means she has probably even more. But that's her immediate understanding of her dynamic. But even that is such an interesting starting point. Those are the people who I love to see their DNA thing.

And also, too, when you say you're Puerto Rican as a ethnicity, it's complicated. Right, because that's not an ethnicity. Right. So her dad is black, but he's from Puerto Rico. So he could have native in there too? It could have native, but he's dark-complected black man. No, I'm sorry, her grandfather. Right.

So her mom who is like, yeah, my dad's from Puerto Rico. They're black people from Brooklyn as far as when you see them. Right. Her father, her biological father is Chinese and I think Puerto Rican from the lower east side, like some real New York combo mix. No, not DNA, no, that's 203. But was cultural. Chinese or New York Chinese like whatever that cultural dynamic I love that no it's fire but

yes Puerto Rico loves us and we love Puerto Rico all right yeah we're coming back there go oh by the way it's the parade this weekend Puerto Rican Bay Puerto Rican Day parade tomorrow Festival 116 tomorrow that's my favorite yes this is fun Saturdays on 116th is is is the best and then obviously the parade I think I'm gonna be out there I wonder Joe I wonder what fat Joe's doing this year with how popping him and Jada are I wonder if they're doing something at the parade. And I saw Nike doing some amazing stuff too, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They put out a sneaker this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, they did? What's the sneaker? Yeah, it's a shock. Uh-huh, yeah. That's dope. Cool.

You got that picture of Salasi over there? I saw I sent across some pictures of Salasi guys because Salasi at the age now when she will pick up my phone. So cute. Yo, that's hilarious. That's shot. She's looking, like, it looks like she's like going over her. Salasi walking to school.

Oh my god, this kid. She's so good. Salasi took that picture of me and jazz. Wow. How talented. I didn't approve that photo. She's done. She's tight.

You're dead. I'm done. Move past it. Keep going. Go fast. Oh, that's a nice one. She took that picture of herself. You know, that is hilarious.

Well, because on my phone, I have the button set where you can get right to the camera. She's smart enough to just be like, poop. And it should be like, say cheese. Oh, wow. That's the next set because say cheese. Maya's not a, that's it. That's it. Now she's taking.

pictures yeah yeah she's not there no she wants to get to your phone to get you to pose to take pictures wow it's a thing phone's crazy bro they made the for the phones knowing the kids were gonna get like this for they think they didn't knowing the kid mya literally snatching your phone open it yeah yeah yeah yeah sometimes i see it with two hands it's like she's as a typewriter i'm like what do you because she sees y'all do it she's just mimicking i got kenza my uh for kensas cousin who lives in palm springs gifted kansas something called a tin can. It's a tin can phone.

So it's like a regular phone, but it's like, it's through Wi-Fi, and you can only call whatever numbers you program into it. So right now she could only call her cousin. Yeah. It's cool to see her,

like, pick up the phone. That's interesting. And talks to her little cousin for like five minutes. I told you guys I lost the phone battle with Issa, right? I told you.

No, no. Did I miss that? Issa got a phone now. Last week. Because she had a sixth grade trip and it was a sleepover trip with the whole school or her class, her grade,

and her mom. mom was like we need to get her phone she had a watch for a while but yes we went to the phone and i said what i would prefer is we get the phone for this trip and then we give her the phone when you know because she's got an iPad at home she don't need to be sitting on a phone right you know what i mean and and she still has the phone congratulations you plagued yourself transitions to the emails oh screen time for kids from elisa all right let's go a long time listener here and i just want to say how happy i am for you guys having your own platform so well deserved i love tuning in live during my morning commute

when a listener suggests you do a PSA on screen time and the dangers of kids face online. And I thought it was a brilliant idea in here's why. So many of your listeners are parents. You've always encouraged your audience to get informed and stay involved in my school district. There's actually an organization working to rethink

tech policies. Things like whether kindergartners really need Chromebooks. The research increasingly shows that more screens in schools hasn't translated to better academic outcomes. Matter of fact, in New York State, didn't the governor, Kathy Hockel, just do something with schools.

They banned phones in schools. I don't know if it's New York state or New York City. And they're also evaluating the use of screens in classrooms. So that's a real thing. Yet when parents raise these concerns to the school board, their feedback is being dismissed as something only affluent, crunchy parents care about. That framing frustrates me because I don't think that's true at all.

That said, I do think there's a real socioeconomic debate. mention to this conversation worth unpacking. It's no secret that many of the Silicon Valley executives behind these addictive platforms quietly keep their own kids off them. So who is really being protected here? And who isn't? You have a wide, diverse audience, and that's exactly why your voice matters on this. You can both inform and share your own experiences in a way that reaches people across all

backgrounds. On that note, Ebro is rooting for you in the phone battle. And honestly, if ESA just needed a phone for a school trip, a flip phone would have done the job. I said the same. Oh, God. Holding firm, no social media is the right call. Stay strong.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking out the anxious generation by Jonathan Hate, I think is how you pronounce it. It's a powerful look at what screens are actually doing to our kids. Thank you for always tackling the topics that matter and making your listeners feel like they're a part of the conversation. Love you guys. Elisa, yes. Thank you very much.

I said it to Lisa the other night, too. I was like, you know, that phone was only supposed to be meant for the trip. So I'm evaluating whether or not, you know, you get to keep. keep this phone just I kind of like left that hanging in the atmosphere yeah as you should because she has no social media on it and she's been doing pretty good it's not like she's just like if there's no social media I'm not as concerned yeah right right and she can't download apps so she can't download her own apps but she can't get on the internet and you do kind of like you gotta be a little careful with YouTube

shorts though now she's been in shorts for a while shorts is basically yeah it's basically but there's no I don't I don't know if there's there's liking a photo, but I don't know if it's so much. She's not like in the comments. No, you don't, people don't look at comments much. But I'm just saying like the. And she's not posting either. But the swiping, yes, and the content, yes.

And the guiding you certain places. Yeah, yeah. All right. And, you know, Issa's on her hair journey right now of learning. You know, she's got a 4C curly hair. And so, you know, learning how to manage it and slick it back in a pony and growth and all that is obviously something I want her to learn for herself. Like we could obviously take it to a hair.

get braids or take it to a hair salon do whatever or I could do it and people in the house could do it. But her learning how to manage it herself is kind of part of what's happening right now. But I explained to her that the images that she sees of all of these blonde, straight-haired, you know, what is seen as popular on the Internet, it's going to shape how you see yourself. Right? And like right now where she's, you know, dealing with the texture of her hair and how how big it is or how like poofy it is or I don't want flyaways. I wanted to look a certain way. And I'm like, this is because of the content that is just so you know, I don't have a problem with what you're saying. But just so you know, you have now started to think this specific thing is the only thing that's beautiful.

So I'm just like Lee planting that seed with her. So she starts to, because it's a real thing where people who have different texture hair, when their hair doesn't look like everything that they're seeing in the Billboard. and television and the popular programs, they don't feel like it's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say there is a beautiful movement of young girls who are embracing the curly girl movement, and I really enjoy that.

But it ain't on the YouTube shorts like that. It's not on her algorithm. And she's not in a school where there's a bunch of girls like that, right? Yeah. As of yet. So it's a challenge. It's definitely a challenge. I get it.

All right, let me hit you with an email. This is from Dante. I want to let you guys know that I'm going through a triple whammy of a divorce. Social anxiety and unpacking a lot of grief and issues that I have not handled over the last several years. I had a breaking point and spent about two weeks barely being able to get out of bed due to a pretty bad panic attack.

It was work to get there to get dressed and be present for my daughter. But before I reached out to get proper help, I needed and went back and watched a lot of your hot 97 shows on YouTube to keep my mind off the situation. I'm not a New Yorker and I was really only familiar with you guys from a other ventures, ebro on Apple Rap Life Review. I burned through a lot of your hip hop 50 videos and those really kept me entertained as I fought all of this. And I want to thank Rosenberg because episode one of validate me made me push through and

realized this isn't the end of my world. I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and lost 11 pounds in one week. Damn. And was able to put on and was put on some pretty heavy meds. I'm getting the counseling that I need now and taking things day by day getting better. but I sincerely want to thank you guys for your show because it's one of the things that's helping me cope. I'm not 100% there, but I'm getting there.

I love you guys from the bottom of my heart and thank you. And P.S., we love the chaos of the show. And if you guys are not aware of the five stages of forming a team, research it. You guys are definitely in storming phase. Listen to you guys talk about the Mondani topic while Rosenberg is out. It was funny. Please keep it going.

You guys are awesome. I love that. Oh, Dante, wishing you a lot of love. Yes. Yeah, bro. Let me tell you, that divorce, that adult divorce thing is no joke, bro. Now they don't talk to you about that. They really don't cover it.

And like the, I feel like it's a thing maybe a little bit for women that's like, oh, she went through a divorce. It's really hard. The men are like, and I'm not trying to do the whole like, men, no one ever thinks about our mental. I think it should happen. I think there's a space for that. Well, there's a lot. And now it's being a little overdue. done. Like now we're overcompeting of like. Oh really?

No one talks about men is almost like overstated like no we talk about men some. But I do think in terms of divorce. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just not talked about that it's like the level of loss and identity and all the things. It's just hard. So we're definitely to get into it

a lot on validate me as people going through the divorce men and women. It's just such a real thing. Before we get to this next, Laura, it just crossed my mind because I was reading through an email. my friend group and this extends to the West Coast this is a national friend group Laura Stowe

National friend group okay this is a cousins friends multiple people who have ordered merch from the show yeah all right my cousin DJ shout to him yeah he ordered a sweatshirt got a t-shirt yes yes yes did he email I don't know I don't know all right I don't want to hear any complaints unless you email the E LR merch at gmail.com Because, yes, there's been hiccups. But in order for me to fix it, you have to email. Joe Traynor can't, doesn't know if he ever got his, his, his, his merch.

Well, email me so we can look it up in the system. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's hard because I'm dealing with different companies for different things. So I have to like reach out, hey, what's going on with this? What happened? And they, you know, they have to look into each one. Mitch, my boy Mitch.

He just got this over the weekend, he says. Okay. I don't know which one is that. Is that blood in the one? water the most recent yes yes let me see okay he but I don't he just yo he just wrote yo I need to speak to the manager about my shipping time and then the entire group chat started to crack jokes yeah about about shipping just different things so I wanted to bring that to your attention yes in my life there's one two three four five six seven people in his chat but only only two

complained about shipping time now my boy freeze he said he washed and and he washed his shirt one time um he said he bought a three x he's lying we never even sold it no i started selling it three x for freezes for people who wanted it oh god so he said he bought a three x and he and he watched it one time and now it's an ex-l he's giving it to his daughter oh but you shouldn't have put it in a dryer gyp shit what's wrong with you damn that's a big ass three x it's big i looked at it i was like oh my god really i mean you should be able to dry it yeah not if you know if you know if you have a certain body type you know when you buy a shirt it's a wrist shirt it's a risk You're not supposed to put it in the drive.

You're supposed to air dry. If you want to keep it fit in a circle. If you need to. Now, everybody knows this. But I will say. If you're in the fat boy club and you're over 200, 205, I can wear an XL. Better not dry that joy.

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Oh, no. First, I want to say I listen daily during my commute and genuinely enjoy the content that you all put out, even the more chaotic moments. That said, I do have a serious concern about the decision to platform Hassan Piker. In my view, he has a record of harmful and offensive remarks about black communities

and other marginalized groups because of that I chose to skip that episode entirely. Okay. I understand the goal of building a broad and engaging platform, but this felt like a misstep. presenting him in a way that downplays or dismisses those statements as simply dumb things doesn't sit right, especially given how consistent his rhetoric has been over time. Peter, I think this was particularly noticeable in how you framed him.

Lauren Ebro, I also felt there was an opportunity to challenge this more directly. At the end of the day, this decision reflects on the show, and it was disappointing to see someone with that track record given a platform here. I've included some pictures for you all to see his support for this fascist administration. What? He does not support the... First of all, Ebro had the idea to have Hassan Piker on the show, okay? I had my own questions about him because of his... Some of his anti-Israel stuff can go fringe close to some things that are iffy for me.

I didn't mean to downplay anything about the critical of black communities thing. All I tried to do was frame what I know his angle is, which is that, again, he sees things more based on class than a race, as a lot of socialists do. That's all I said. I didn't think his answer when we asked him about racial stuff was great.

I didn't. We asked him, he basically said, all it all came down to a Nicki Minaj situation and he kind of wrapped it up and tried to tie it up real quick. But remember,

I did push him back on the fact that he's not from America and he admitted that he's ignorant on certain social things. So once you've admitted you don't know and you're not technically from here and you present as white in society.

Yes, you're, is he Muslim? I don't know if he's Muslim or not. I don't know what his faith is, but he. I think non-practicing. Yeah, but he presents as white. So he understands his privilege in society, and he's from Turkey. You're a white guy in America.

You have a blind spot. And we said that. And we established that. I will say this, though. I'll take this from the email. I do think we have a tendency, particularly you, Ebro. But I do think we, ah, all of us, we have a tendency to, if we like something good about someone and we see the good, I think when we have them on, we have a tendency to downplay

some of the things that people have big questions about with them and to be like, no, no, no, they're good, they're good, trust us. And I think for some people that can rub them the wrong way because they want to see you grill the person that much further. Right, but I call bullshit. Okay. Because there's people who have problems with you because you're a white guy and you speak in spaces where you're not supposed to speak, but I know you. And there's things that you say that I don't particularly like, but I know you have blind spots because guess what? You're not black. So you play with things that pisses some people off.

But you're on the show. So am I going to sit here every week and argue with you? Or are you going to, the times you've been like, yo, my bad. I screwed up. I take it. We move on. But it's different when it's the people who you talk to every day, no, than when you have a guest on. Yeah, but I don't, I'm not having him up.

I didn't think Hassan Parker was a good idea because I want to address his blind spots on black people. I had him up here because he has motion as a progressive and he's embracing certain politics. Right. I don't expect him to he's not a politician he's not running for office he's not running for anything right right that's true

he's not even asking for a job so I don't like his take on black people I don't like I don't like Trump's take on black people either I didn't I didn't like I don't like Biden calling himself a Zionist I didn't like that there's a lot of shit I don't like I don't like Kamalist take on Israel's a lot of shit I don't like but sometimes we get in and I

I don't like it I'm not gonna like there's nothing they can say to make me like. So I move on to the next topic. And I will say for her, because she said she skipped the interview on purpose, right? Is that what she said? Yeah. So maybe watch it to see. Well, that's the part. That's where she kind of did lose me the most. Maybe you wouldn't, maybe you'd watch it and think that it was addressed pretty well. Because I thought Ebro and Hassan had a pretty good back and forth there about the black thing.

Again, I didn't love his answer. And I liked how you handled it. And I do want to apologize. I want to apologize to everyone. Because at this juncture, at this moment in history, if you're not an overt white supremacist, towed the line for Trump, caped to cover up the Epstein files and pedophilia and all type of other sexual abuse and assault, actively participating in, like,

figuring ways to, like, steal democracy from underworking-class people. We can have a conversation about your blind spots, but we got bigger fish to fry, guys. I'm just trying to. It's a really underrated profound point, though. Because like we we actually have to get past the Well no no we don't have to get no

crushing someone though and saying they shouldn't be in the conversation because they had one comment on one thing I didn't like when you're up against outright Nazis and someone made a joke that you're like I feel like that joke had a little bit of a racist tinge to it I it wasn't a great joke are you literally supporting apartheid state no I thought about you because when I went to the spirit to go see no doubt I got mad messages like oh you're supporting miss Maga, I said, wait, let me ask you a question because I said, because I asked my friend who works

with her. I was like, break it down to me. Is it going to break my heart? She was like, no, bro. She's just very Catholic now. It's like she's very religious and she had controversy with the halo. You shouldn't pay to pray, all of that. I get that. I don't really like it. Has she come out and said, I'm wearing the hat. I said, send me, please, because I want to know. Where did she say I support Maga? I am Maga. I support Trump. I support anyone in that. Yeah, but it's who she aligns with. Okay, how? Show me. No one. I can't. There's enough people who are out right. She married. Look who she married. A country singer? Yeah, that's not, that's not fair. Show me where she said, I support him or show me something. I got one. No one could give me one.

I got someone who hit me up this week and he goes, yo, do you hear Mitchell Robinson is, is Trump? He's a Nick. You hear Mitchell Robinson's Trump? Damn. He likes country music. Oh, wait. I saw, I saw something about him. I said, bro. I said, I said, you saw that he's Trump? He was like, I heard I went, I think he drives a truck and I think he loves country music and he talks shit to the other Knicks because they listen to hip hop and he loves his country.

I don't think he's made any political statement. To your point again, we don't in this time need to then jump to. We have enough targets to actually have. And look, I'll give you, in the Gwen Stefani or let's use the Mitchell Robertson, I'll give you, you're concerned

sure that they're that the things they associate with are closely connected to things that are problematic and so you're giving it a side eye i'm not quite sure i'll give i'll give you that space well maybe the people with mr robinson they don't even know what country music he's into well but that's what i'm saying you're generalized but even with that where it's like she married troy shelton no no no blake Blake Shelton. Troy, Blake, Chad. Whatever. See, by the way, good con.

Those are good names that go together. But nonetheless, I don't know what his affiliations are, but you're assuming because he sings country, that's why I use both of them, that he's either. Has Blake Shelton ever been Maga? Griff? But all I'm saying is for some people, them not being overtly against is problematic for them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That will be a thing where it's like, yo, bro. But they don't even know who's against it because they think there's the same people who come to me and go, are you ever going to speak out about genocide? I said, I've only done it 500 times. Yes. They don't even know is the point. Oh, my God.

Somebody, listen, somebody sent me a clip from our friend Danny from the stuff. We love Danny from the stuff. It was like a small clip, but it was something like, you know, Rosenberg says he's not a sinus, but people have hit me up saying he secretly is a sinus. I was like, no, they did. No, they did. I was like, how many times does this human being have to stay how he feels?

He's yours in a way. His father got canceled for standing on the right side. Like, oh, but he secretly a Zionist. Yes. Wait, who said, who, someone hit Danny and said that. Yes. And Danny said that, you know, I don't know. He says he's not, but people have told me that he's a Zionist, secretly a Zionist.

I was just like, we're so ridiculous. Is that, you know what that would speak to? Remember when I told you I went to my, my brother-in-law's birthday party last year? I went to a Middle Eastern restaurant and they were playing Israeli music. And Natalie's family was all excited in dancing. And I was like, Natalie, someone was going to take a picture. I think of Zionists. Yes, I have Israeli people in my life that I love

and I sometimes fight with them about Israel. That is a fact. I am definitively not a Zionist and I'm not even someone who believes that use of that word is only used to be hateful to Jews. We talked about this on Patreon. But y'all don't pay attention.

And some of you just hate Jewish people. Let me honest. Some of y'all actually really just assume I have to be evil on some level too. And some people assume a lot of things about all of us. Everybody has an assumption, but yeah, there is some lack of trust tied to your profile. Yep, yep. Being a white man and jerch.

And jerse. And jerse. Yeah. Lack of trust there, man. Yeah, well, I mean, guess what? If you don't trust me at this point, you can do it, and I say this all due respect, you can always suck my dick. It's an option. There you go.

Because I've been doing this now for 20 years and I'm tired and I'm a dad and I got a lot of lot of shit going on. You haven't heard me say it enough. And one day I say something too matter-of-factly about an artist that you like and you're like, oh, I think you're actually, you know what? I don't think that. Maybe you're the douchebag. Maybe you're the bigot. Does that ever cross your mind? No one gets to judge you. What did you have? You had to shut your white mouth? No, I was looking for my theme song, man. Do the dance? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, damn. My group, though. That was the name of my group, that was the name of You don't know the name of the group.

No, I know the song. Oh my God, Ebro. Get off my deck. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that. All right. Let's get some videos. Rassan.

Let's check out a vid on Family Friday. Oh, yes, that's right. Salasi got a gymnastics medal. Salasi, what is that? It's your first medal. Look at Mommy. Say wave. She's like, so abstract.

She's like, so abstract. She's like, I got an award, fan leave me alone yeah so freaking you yeah I saw you I saw you put those fire ass little baby

Travis gotts on over the weekend oh yeah Ricardo was like look look look Yeah what was that from that was like from yeah did Ricardo gift though

yeah yeah yeah yeah I went and caught me a pair after Salasi got some the all black dunk the all black cactus jacked dunks with the like a what color

lace is that like a gray yeah yeah Lace or something. Uh, video from a listener where we got family Friday. Ebro, Laura and Rosenberg. Good morning family.

Let's get straight to the point. Give me the button. Congratulations. You played yourself. I played myself by not plugging myself in in one of the most important and fun videos I've ever made. But I'm going to learn from it before I plug myself. I want to earn it.

So I'm going to give you guys a quick crash course on why regional Mexicano is now. called Musica Mexicana. If you ask me, tomato, tomato, same thing. But I would say from 2018 to 2023, the whole landscape changed to what we now have today. A lot of pioneer artists like Nathanel Cano, peso pluma, Fuerza Regida, Legado 7, heresia de Patrones. I can go on and on. All of the artists deserve their props.

But those were some of the main ones. pre 2017 2018 artists were still wearing Tejanas in their suits wearing crocodile boots and now you got artists like Nathanel Cano

Fuerza and Pesso wearing designer all dripped out they got most of their influence from hip hop artists like ASAB Rocky Kanye little baby

not only did these rap artists influence how they dressed but they also changed how regional Mexican artist portrayed themselves on social media, how their music sounded. A lot of these main pioneers started to use different sounds, even started using beats, even 808 beats at one point. And now regional Mexianal Mexican isn't so much regional.

With that being said, check me out on Instagram and TikTok. Felix. Martinez 260. I'm pumping out regional Mexican content almost daily. And I want to start doing other genres as well. well check out my podcast where i interview these artists on youtube and on my socials charlano con compas and ebro like i told you man if you hear about any openings at apple or anywhere you know in the music i'm a jana department i like you hit me up man i promise i'm good for it check out my

content let's get in touch yeah felix he's tight yes did a full stand-up routine thank you he broke it down last week we were sitting down last week you was sitting down And then we said you didn't plug your podcast I could tell he had he had a whole microphone last week I was like so you have a show but you didn't do something right right right So you missed the moment so we gave another moment There you go And everybody got the breakdown of

Musicaa Mexicana I like it Laura you got an email Let me see me see me see let me see Let me go Sorry it wasn't ready Don't we have another video too? Yes we have one more video

You might just hit the next video too I was trying to break it on I know there's five, six pages emails here. Good Christ. All right, I'm ready. We ain't on you, Laura. Oh, okay, here we go. Hey, guys, been a fan since the very beginning.

Lifetime fan of the old spot, of the old spot, but fuck them. True. Respectfully. Rosenberg, salute to you and the launch of Validate Me. Thank you. Between ELR, Cheap Heat, WWE, I listen and watch pretty much everything. There you all. Friday's episode about Bosteems.

health made me right this. Oh. I'm bost schemes. I'm 42. 20-year smoker cigarettes have always been heavy since youth. Kind of crazy. And I ate crazy. Sometime last year I decided enough was enough and I started to change.

Unfortunately, it was too late. I spent my 42nd birthday in the hospital because I had a heart attack. God darn it. Artery fully blocked. I went to the hospital at 276. As of yesterday, I'm 239. There you go. I quit smoking and I'm hitting the gem.

Tabascom, it's never too late until it is. Wishing y'all all the best. Take care is a classic Rosenberg. You're bugging. That's a great message. Thank you, man. Anthony, yes. Listen, and I appreciate your honesty.

But yeah, I mean, listen, you know, we always say it's never too late. And then, you know, he got like a crazy, life just smacked him up. No, that blocked artery, bro. Speaking of which, Ron, have you? you have you went back to the doctor yet or are you just doing the work first i'm doing the work first but don't you need to make an appointment i do let's squeeze this yeah i'm gonna get that and and do it do me a favor next time you have something like a grotesquely swollen foot rather than say let me just put this up overnight and see how things pan out i'm gonna go ahead and suggest you go straight to the

doctor what do you think about that yeah well the cool part about getting all the way older. Oh, I'm excited. And by cool, I mean bad. I was going to say, where is this going? What is it? Because my back hurts. Is that you all of a sudden are human.

And all of that, you know, for men, you think, oh, you know, I can run through brick walls, I drink, I'm, wow, and I'm, wow, while and I get up the next day, go to work, I eat whatever I want, rah, rah, rah, and then one day you wake up and you're just immortal. Yeah, no. And you got problems. And now you're on medication. And you're on medication. And they're telling you what you have to eat. And they're talking to you about taking off limbs because you haven't listened. I know.

And your kidneys are going to stop working. And you're now, your family's crying. And I'm making it. And the reason I'm making it this morbid is because I've seen it. And it's usually for dudes, it's what it takes for somebody to be like, bro. My dad was laying in bed with gangrene feet. Oh, my God. arguing with the whole like and I'm over here in New York he's there out in California

family members in the waiting room you're not cutting off my feet bro put him on the phone let me talk to him hey bro check this out I'm in a meeting you want to live or die it's where we're at I decide now because I need to add this new Neo and fabulous record right right this is happening I got to go back in this meeting I know well but the moral of story is people don't took off work to come support you. I'm getting yanked out of a meeting because you won't make a decision on and everybody's crying. And this costs money, man.

Right. And no, when you're here now, the doctors don't want to cut off your feet. You have no choice. Why did your dad end up dying after he did those things? Because your kidneys, your body can't heal, bro.

Once you're, once they're already at cutting. Why was his kidneys so bad? Because he got diabetes. Your body can't get rid of it. fluids like everything's breaking down. And the diabetes was from eating like shit? Yeah, it's just from high blood pressure.

Not going to the doctor. You know, he thinks just being brolic and lifting weights and doing push-ups is it. But I get to eat mayonnaise and bolognaz and tuna melts and drink soda and Mountain Dew or not Mountain it was ginger. Oh, ginger ale. King of ginger. He's from that generation. Baskin's a ginger ale.

It's ginger ale. Gingerail. Yo, it's sugar, bro. It's not ginger. Growing up, my neighbor, I saw him lose all his hands, all his fingers. How many hands did he have? I mean, like, all his fingers on his hands. Like, he was left with, like, maybe I think he had a thumb and, like, one finger on each.

It was so sad. And that's not enough to be. It was so sad. Successful in what you're trying to do. That sucks. But the reason I'm saying it like that is because all of us, me included, right? Like, everyone, you got to keep telling yourself, bro, do I want to live or die? And if I want to live and I want to be here with my family, I'm going to make these appointments.

And I'm going to go let them put this microscope up my butt. I'm going to go let you. Did you even do that yet? I got the appointment. Jesus Christ, this is taking long for you. Appointments made. But, you know, like, they were like, yo, you could do it at home.

Just pooping this little thing and send us to poop for whatever. No, they did. What? What? What? What is that? They have to look at your butthole canal to make sure there's no crazy war. No, but they do it.

They offered. I'm telling you, they offer that to people now. To shit in the bag? I'd rather you just go ahead. Go ahead, Lou. Yeah, so I've been, I've been begging my dad to do this. because they keep sending they still send the box right like the doctor will send the box you basically do like a stool sample you send the box back and then they'll you know

they'll take a look at the stool sample and then see if you need further well because the thing of going so going even know about that so right now right so going to the but but in that case let's say you have polyps so they find something so you still got to go let them take a spoon full of take a spoonful of your insides so you get the polyps out right so but so when you go in there to get their appointment, right? They can handle those things while you're already there versus doing the one two. Some people want to do the one on the two.

I'd rather just go in. So you just get to the two and the three. I don't need to shit in a box. No, just see what's in there. But none of the left, but the reason I include myself is because all of us, no matter how healthy you think you are. I need to check up and blood work done again. You know what I mean?

But like, even there's a place down here in Lower Manhattan basqueam. It's called Soren Medical. That's where I went. And I paid a couple of hundred bucks And they don't remember when I took that 3D scan of my heart Right? Because that's what runs in my family There's no cancer or nothing But everybody died from the heart

Every both sides Damn There's no cancers whatever You say oh woo-o-do-do Okay, yeah It was only a couple hundred I think it was a few hundred dollars They don't they I didn't

It's not crazy No it's a but I met with a cardiologist That they have that they did a scan of my heart And so now I can go in every five years and they can see. I need to do that. I said soren. Soren.

S-O-R-I-N medical. The appointment was easy to get. You lay in like what's kind of like an MRI machine. They put some fluid in your body that allows the machine to scan your heart. You get a full scan. Do you have to go in the tube? No, it was only like to like halfway too. Very scared of the tube.

Hate the tube. We hate the tube. Getting the tube or die. And even if you're healthy, you still got to get checkups. Financial district? Yeah. All right. All right.

But anyway. Yeah, they do average. I've heard them run ads, I think on Eyeheart. It was running ads or something. But anyway, my doctor actually referred me over there. Well, this got dark a little bit. But I bring that up because, yeah, Baskin, Ron. And the listeners.

And the listeners. Everybody out there try to be proactive. Women are so much better at being proactive about their health than men. So much better. Just the arguing to make the appointment. Did you go to the appointment? And did you get the results? I'm like, I have two children.

That's I am. I don't know why. Why? Don't you want to know what's going on your body? Men truly think because they don't, you know, you guys have to go do serious or more serious understandings of your body at an earlier age than men do. Men don't, I mean, a man could spend 40 years being fine. Like you go in, back in the day, they used to just hold your balls and you turn your head and cough.

That was as invasive as a physical was. Here's the thing that men need to remember. How many times either in your own life, news stories, movies, everything, how many times you remember a woman randomly keeling over and dying? Right. You're not saying it doesn't happen. Not saying it doesn't happen. Yeah.

I can't think of it. Men, we could stay here all day. That's a man thing. Well, and by the way, it ain't random. I'm not saying it never happens, but men keel over and die. Right, because they haven't been checked on. Haven't been checked on. But it ain't random.

No, but we're also just more apt for it too. Our hearts are worse. All those things seem to be worse. Women live longer. All of those things are there. So, yeah, men get to play the non-invasive. I don't have to go to the doctor and have people put me in stirrups and do all that. But men also run a higher risk of just that 50 years old.

We've seen it a million times, unfortunately. Yo, man, it's the Ebro-Lor-Rosenberg show, man. Happy weekend. Have a great weekend. Go Nix. Let's go next. Puerto Rican Day parade. Let's go.

Yo, listen, go out to Festival 116, eat all the fried food and rice. Do it. You can take. Balance. And then Monday. In that gym. Make that appointment. Get on that treadmill.

Drink that water. Get that sleep. All right? That's it. We love y'all. We get about. Oh, that's tonight. There you go.

I don't feel like we've gotten the gurus really this week that well at all. Not been a good guru week. Not been a good guru. All right, we'll get on it. We'll get on it. Shout to all the guests that pulled up this week. Darya Lisa, Avila Chevalier. That's right.

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