The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 154.) Ebro Is Over It... (8/3/26)

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

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Just don't call it a podcast. The Ebro-Law-A-Rollah, Rosenberg show. August 3rd. Yeah, man, busy weekend. Weather was pretty decent around the way, but now you might be waking up in the tri-state area in a mass amounts of rain, at least for the next hour.

And then the sun's supposed to come out later. But the amount of water that was coming out to sky right now was like, it was like car wash levels. Yes. It was car wash level. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it was, it was an interesting night and morning because it was doing this all night, right?

I think so, yeah. Or at least this early, early part of the day from like 3 a.m. Because I woke up and heard the rain hitting against the window. And I remembered that jazz had put Salasi shoes outside to dry. Oh, no. You played yourself. Yeah. Congratulations. You played yourself.

Those shoes are soaking wet again. Yeah, yeah. Been there. Been there. So I had to go get those. That was early this morning. But anyway, let's get into the week or the weekend that was. I had a good weekend this morning.

Laura, how was your weekend? It was good. Hung out with the fam. There you go. Hit a pool. That's it. Just kind of ran around. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hit a park too. Had a little gathering with friends. I have Fort Green Park. Very nice. It was light, but nice. It was nice on Saturday. Saturday was really nice. A little bit of humidity on Saturday.

Yesterday was nice, but once again, humid put up some miles on the bike with the squad. Over the weekend, though, let's see. The big headlines were everybody talking about this FIFA thing with the Trump family and, you know, different soccer organizations saying they're not going to support FIFA on this endeavor, which is great to see. Lots on Trump do-doing himself at Lindsay Graham's funeral.

I don't know if you guys saw those videos. I did, but sometimes I don't know if they're, you know what I mean? AI or what it actually is. The one where it's like the, I guess the CIA agent that's next to him and his face just like. Yeah, there was one that looked kind of stunned and normal and then people took it. Then people took the original video and went far with the AI. Right. That was that was a thing.

also speaking of of trump the people who allegedly vandalized the the uh what is it called the reflecting pool in dc have been uh exonerated uh charges dropped i think is the term i saw thanks lou and trump's pissed which points to the fact of his his ineptitude with regard to getting the pool done in the first place and don't we aren't isn't it common knowledge that trump paid one of his buddies yeah who had no who had no expertise in this area and basically gave him 15 million to do some hodgeposh. Yes. I thought. I thought.

So how did they blame somebody for vandalizing? That's what I don't understand. Someone had to get blamed. So a Randall got blamed for it. Yeah. And then they got cleared because obviously they didn't do it. Well, yeah. And now he's mad.

Oh, my God. We're such an embarrassment. Well, look, guys, I'll be honest. after I woke up kind of started hitting me yesterday I'm over all of it man it's all a clown show man like it's all stupid

it's all just dumb yeah but we have to live here no I know we're living in it but it's like I can't get up here you know and I'll be y'all you guys know I go through periods of this if you've been paying attention to it acting like I give a shit is like

really really really really hard like it's like you know I will I will turn on the news this morning Trump was gonna bomb Iran more but nope they're having a meeting at noon what the reporting on this they do this every time it's like I can't understand how they keep falling into this clown show every time it's the same report he does this every two weeks yeah why not just report he's lying to you again well because they're not going to and that's and that's it's And that's why, like, because they can't do that. Yeah, they'll get sued.

They'll get sued. Or, you know, people say you're disrespecting the office of the president or, like, it's fucking dumb. It's fucking dumb. You know what I mean? Like, even this right here, I like this kid right here. I threw this video on here. There was a video circulating Marco Rubio basically saying that you can't come to the United

States if you got anything bad to say about Israel. Did you guys see this video circulating? I like these guys. Mark Leinarko never ceases to amazes me. This may have been his most iniquitous statement yet. President Trump, the United States will stand with the Jewish people. Hello, what? We wasn't standing with them before, and when you say Jewish, I know you mean Israel.

We have implemented a vigorous new visa policy that will prevent foreign nationals from coming to the United States to foment hatred against our Jewish community. We are holding international organizations and nations accountable for rhetoric against Israel. So we now banning people from traveling to the United States? from traveling to America if they talk shit about our greatest liability. So people can move, groove, vibe, slide if they're talking mad shit about us, mashing about the president. But as soon as they talk about the blue or white, ban, can't come through, can't pull up out the colorite per side.

That sounds insane. And also sounds like America really is not the main priority in this country. That resurfaces in the manifesto of monsters, like Iran and Sarah's killer. But we do see an eventual light at the end of this long tunnel of suffering. Who the fuck is suffering exactly? I mean, I know the Palestinian people are suffering. I know the people of West Bank who are also Palestinian are suffering. I know people in Lebanon are suffering.

Who suffered? I know nobody in Israel is suffering because people are traveling right now to this day. Can imagine the Middle East in which the Abraham Accords eventually reign. So thank you for the opportunity to address you. Abraham Accords ain't going to do shit. They have nukes now and still won't let anybody in the world know. They've had them for 50 plus years and somehow that country is the only one that doesn't have to let anybody know. I have to tell you that the real problem are Jews.

Jews in the Upper West Side, Jews in the Upper East Side, Jews in Park Slope, the Jews who voted for Mamdani. Remember, 7,000 Jews voted for Adolf Hitler in 1932. Most of them ended up in the gas chambers. Back you just casually compared Mom Donny to Adolf, but I can't compare BB the bomber to Adolf. It's fucking insane. And if I were to say those same things, immediately labeled anti-Semi. I would have been banned, cult. but when they're not aligned with what you want to push narratively, all of a sudden, they're the problem.

Well, and that last person talking there was Alan Dershowitz, who is a Jewish guy. Big, big Epstein guy, too, by the way, all over the file. And he goes on to call Jews who supported Mom Dani's stupid and Jews in Park Slope in these other areas around New York City, dumb idiots. Interesting. Like, that's what I mean. Like, I'm over. Like people are and I guess the reason I say that is because I'm not sure who actually believes this stuff

No, but people do people do yeah and I can't I don't know what to do with that anymore I like there's no I'm exhausted guy tired your your your sentiments are how I feel about the whole like fouchy situation The whole RFK and fouchy situation it is exhausting having to have people like send me and people People that I know, look, the vaccines were killing people. You guys were in denial and pushing the Vax and it's your, you know, your fault. You're part of the problem. What? What are I saying?

And I just had this conversation like earlier because people were just like, yo, hey, you know, it came out that the Vax has killed some people. News flash, nothing is one size fits all. We talked about it at the time. Peanuts can kill people. Tylenol. you know penicillin but then there's the number of people who have lived because of it so but it's like people cannot think in a broader term well and they also just aren't smart or they don't want to

or they don't want to which is you know good luck good luck to you which is also back to why I'm over I you know like who are we talking to who are we dealing with I'm not debating you losers like you can't even and this is where I start to like sound super elitist and like super like bro sometimes you're talking to people who can't do the basics in life like you don't have the basics together like homeownership paying taxes taking care of your children having health care like these are basic things why am I talking to you I you feel me Like, I can't take you. I can't take you serious.

If you can't, at my old age, at 51, I can't take you serious when you can't take care of yourself and you can't even take care of your family. I can't take you serious. Sorry. Yeah. So sometimes it's like, bro, you're arguing with people. They're sending you things. I'm looking at your life.

And I'm like, you have no credibility with me. because your life's not in order, bro. Like, it's just not in order. You're not prepared. You're not prepared. You are talking to me about something that's clearly just, you just can't grasp. And I get it.

Vaccines are scary and vaccines have killed people. You know what I'm saying? But when you have a global pandemic taking place, right? And you have mismanagement going on at the federal government level. And you have something, so mismanagement already took place at the government level. That's right. And so people were playing catch up,

trying to figure out a solution for most people. It wasn't going to work for all people. Right. Some people were going to die. And then there's people who just, once again, weren't taking care of themselves and already were sick, unbeknownst to them. And they took something that made them worse. Yeah.

And scientists are not magicians. They lead with hypothesis. They lead with the data that they have at that moment. Specifically, where you're dealing with a pandemic that's changing every minute. But even when I hear the conviction in your voice, Laura, if you're trying to explain it, you're wasting your breath. You're wasting your energy. It's a waste.

Oh, my head hurts. It's a complete waste. And people are going to make decisions that are best for them and their family. You know what I mean? My encouragement at the time was mostly based on people who needed to keep employment. Now, there were people who decided to sue and say, hey, I'm not taking the facts. And they sued and some of them were able to get their job. jobs back. A lot of them got nothing. A lot of them got nothing. Some state employees and union

workers did, but there was other people who they didn't have that. So if you wanted to keep making money and you wanted to stay in the game, you had decisions you had to make. You had to do it. And I wasn't going to, I'm not going to get up here and tell you to not do something like that could potentially keep food on the table on the roof over your head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to be the one to do it. And so you got to be able to make those decisions for yourself. And so hopefully you did make the best decision for yourself. I had, you know, look, my brother almost died. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And I was angry too. My brother has MS. And he takes drugs that suppress his immune system, which means he does not have an immune system, basically. And the doctors at the time were like,

oh, well, we don't know what's going on. You know me. I'm screaming. What do you mean you don't know what's going on? He doesn't have an immune system. From the producers of Super Troopers, And Super Troopers 2 comes, you guessed it. Broken Lizard and their rowdy patrol squad returned to the scene of the crime. In Super Troopers 3, the mustaches are thicker, the maple syrup stickier, and the pranks crazier than ever. Buckle up for the funniest comedy of the summer.

Super Troopers 3, only in theaters Friday. Get tickets now. And so no matter, even if you give him the vaccine, he's not going to be, his body's not going to make antibodies. It's not going to happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so he gave him the vaccine. He started getting better.

Then he got worse again. Then he got better. And now he's all good. Yeah. And he continues to have to get the vaccine. And he has to get flu shots and these other things because he doesn't have an immune system. Right, right, right, right. You know what I'm saying?

So he's got to protect himself. That's going to be the solution for some people. There's other people who have phenomenal immune systems. They can get COVID, bounce back. Their body's going to learn the virus. they never got the vaccine and they're good to go. Yeah. But that's not going to work for everybody.

Well, yeah. Nothing is one-tice-fits-all. You know what I mean? So, you know, and also, look, I'm one of the people who don't trust the government. Like, never have. But some of this is just science. Some of this is just understanding what's best for you,

what's not best for you talking to your daughter and knowing what your body is all. I mean, talk to your doctor and knowing what your body's about. So, you know, like I'm saying, I'm over it. I'm over trying to convince. Yo, play clip two for me. See, there's a reason why Marjorie Taylor Green said that she just suddenly realized that all of MAGA was a lie. Why Nick Fuentes says that the whole thing was a scam.

Why Alex Jones of all people on planet Earth is now calling for Trump to be impeached and convicted or removed through the 25th Amendment. Why Tucker Carlson left the Republican Party and said that he would be tormented for the rest of his life over the fact that he voted for Trump. Don't twist yourself into a pretzel trying to imagine these people. people having a sudden change of heart. The reason why these people are fleeing the ship is because they have the most to lose. Unlike elected officials, these people are not collecting a government salary. Their careers survive on parisocial relationships built through the MAGA community. And now just like the real housewives of Igloo, South Dakota, their community is crumbling. Just look at the data. These people I mentioned above, they have the dashboards that show the

data that the New York Times just published today. They aggregated the collective views of 12 of the most popular right-wing influencers. And what they found was that these people have lost in some cases more than half of their audience in just 12 months. This includes people like Benny Johnson, Candice Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Charlie Kirk. It's really seen a mysterious drop-off. Some of these individual creators were getting close to 30 million views per week just last spring. But as of right now, some have dropped by up to 86% in weekly views. These people are desperate to stay relevant, but they know that 12 months from now,

relevancy will not flow through MAGA. They're looking at the views. They're reading the comments. And most importantly, they're looking at all the brand deals. they are not signing and all the bank accounts that just aren't replenishing like they used to. If I just attended trending up, the Magasphere should be rebranded to trending down. So when people tell you that MAGA creators are turning on Trump, do not be mistaken. These people are not defectors.

No, there are nothing more than Canaries in the coal mine. Grifters. That's all. And I make a lot of fun of a couple of my friends that are big like Joe Roganites, I call them. Right? Because 10 years ago, I was telling you. y'all Joe Rogan's a goofy a goofy and people all he has people on they have good convos I cool cool cool fast forward to now this whole thing those a lot of my same friends

jobs drying up great they they operate on grants and scholarships and these other programs that work for colleges different things like that all that's not being funded anymore Hmm. You know me? Well, like we always say, people don't care until they start affecting that. Until it's affecting them. That's really what it is. And I, and all, and you know, all my, all my, you know, friends that I'm speaking are, are black men.

And you guys know I've said on, on, on, whether it's public airwaves, I may have said it on here. But if I haven't said it on here, hey, black men, you're not white. So what's good for white boys and they run around, think everything is a joke. everything is dis-you're not them. The way the economy affects you and your loved ones is not the same as your little white buddies at the job. Your little white finance friends. It ain't the same, man.

You're not going to be, it's not going to hit the same. It just ain't. And so now you see all these podcasts just trying to flip the script because they know this Trump grift is a rat. 85% is crazy. Somebody told me in the comments that Andrew Shultz got it the worst. You know what's funny? I haven't seen him pop up on my feed because he used to just pop up.

I don't follow him. I don't subscribe. And he would just be in the Algo. Any hot take with Trump in it was always in my algorithm. I don't see it anymore. I forgot until you just reminded me. Hey, election season is coming. Don't hold your breath too long because it's going to start funding it again.

Yep. Now Lou, Lou does research on like digital marketing and things like. that how much money a month are these podcasts or you know digital creators calling whatever content creators likely spending to market their content across platforms a month i mean it depends of course on the platform but thousands of dollars like 10 000 i would say over 10 000 a month to make sure you're popping up in the album yeah in different ways in different ways because they're making millions a month so that's nothing sponsorships yeah and all in sponsorships yep so if you can get the

algorithm really going in your favor. It's lucrative on the ad on the advertising side. Tremendously. But not to mention who owns these platforms now because certain things are you you can't how can I put this certain things are preferred and pushed. You know what I mean? Like how many creators have you seen that were huge on TikTok that are banned or shadow band?

I just saw a post you know a tizzy E&T who always calls out the racist. Yeah, he got banned. He had over 8 million, 8 million followers on TikTok, and his video was like, yo, I posted a video and nothing that he posts is made up or salacious. It's all facts. Criticizing ICE, and that's the video that got his whole account, take it down.

Can we get, you think Tizzy could have time for this program? I like, I like his content. I never met him before. Yeah, he'll be super cool. And I saw them promoting, he's got a Discovery TV show about to pop up. So maybe he want to come on. We can promote this Discovery TV show. Yeah, but he is a big example of people getting banned.

And then not to mention all the Palestinian creators that were on there telling their truth, they're all gone. Well, TikTok, remember, is owned by the Ellison family and Paramount and all that now. That's all in the same umbrella, Oracle. So that whole TikTok thing is, you know, yeah, done so. And I think I read somewhere that meta just did a deal with like newsmax for their news or something. Yeah. Oh, what? I didn't see that.

And YouTube with Peacock. Everything is just. And YouTube is with who? Well, YouTube has a deal now with NBC. Yeah. Which I think is now I can't keep track with where everybody's owned. But NBC is not owned by somebody else. But so starting next year, YouTube premium, if you have YouTube premium, you also have Peacock.

Okay, okay. So that's that. And there was another deal going to come in. But NBC and ABC, I mean, ABC's Disney. Disney, yeah. They seem actually very relatively progressive. And I'm using that word as like not in its truest sense, but like relative to like CBS, Fox, you know, Paramount.

And these things that are very. very, very unabashedly Maga, Trump, conservative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I say balanced, sure. Right, like it's relative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they're not progressive like a MS now would be. Right.

Which is why they spun off MSNBC to something new because NBC was getting bought by some. Yep. I'm still shocked at the Newsmax situation. Newsmax is definitely right. Yeah, but I think meta recognizes that their Facebook users, who their Facebook users actually are. I think this is more about Facebook than it is about Instagram. Yeah.

Because Facebook news and, you know what I mean? Like that's your, and that's what like you always talk about Laura, where you're always like, there's no even centrist, left-leaning Latino news, nothing. And if there's one, please, Chad. let me know because that's why people are all gravitating to independent journalists like Kevin like here's why Kevin because there if you listen if you're in New York City if you listen to la mega it's straight conservative and people don't connect the dots because it's in Spanish but when you listen when you truly listen you're like oh wait this is straight conservative right wing maga

talking points yeah and then when you look at all the other news right louie for the most part everything is super conservative. And I peep because I'm like, you know, my mom doesn't live close to me. But when we're together, I was like, I say, let me, you're like a child. Let me see your phone. And I scroll and I try to see the things that she's looking at. And we have discussions because, and I'm like, mom, you know these are opinions, right? This is not real news.

And for an older person, you're talking to somebody who's 70. They're like, but it's on the internet. And I'm like, yeah, mom, but it's somebody's opinion. So a lot of these people are still voting. And that's where everything comes together because they truly think that these lies on Facebook that our opinions are facts. Well, that's why that I brought up the Newsmax deal

because that's conveniently happening on Facebook right before the midterm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? So, you know, there's a lot going on out here. Speaking of a lot going on, go to number three. Let me see, let me see. What's just taking?

I'm scared where you're going to take me, man. Oh, God. Okay. Oh, that's a bacon recall. Guys, a bacon recall. Have you guys seen more recalls within the last two months, like, than our last 10 years? Yes.

Yes. This is scary. Lettuce, strawberries, raspberries. Then we go to eggs. There was a huge egg recall. Bacon. What else? Maple leaf food.

recall 12,000 pounds of smoked bacon. Every day we see something now. States affected, Idaho, Oregon, Washington sold at grocery store outlets. If the dates on your bacon are, let's see here, sell by dates of September 1, 24, 5, and 7, 2026. Highest risk level. Yo, I'm at the supermarket ebro, and I mean, I'm looking up the farms where the berries come from. to make sure that it's something I could feed my daughter. Well, now, because we, everybody was off Driscoll, right?

Yeah. Yeah. The pesticide thing. And by the way, Driscoll is everywhere. You can't even get rid of it. You can't run from Driscoll Farms. Bro, I had to go to another supermarket just to buy strawberries because Driscoll is everywhere. Yeah.

And then Taylor Farms was the source of, of Doodoo Gate. Yeah. Explosive Diarrie Gate. And now, you know, y'all heard the whole. story on the Taylor Farms and they like you know big maga donor there was like some regulations that they wanted to go away Trump allegedly uh and that administration you know finagled and changed some regulations that would have caught this normally but you know now we're focused on what do we focused what was we focused on last week oh I know instead of everybody dodo-doing on themselves

it was Trump do-doing on himself at Lindsay Graham's funeral. Bro. Let's go to number four. Look at, look at the Secret Service man behind him. Watch. I cannot. Look at Trump. What's Trump doing?

Run that back one more time. He leaned back. He was squishing that thing. No, look, look, look. Ew. Wait, wait, wait. Watch Trump. Trump like adjust and, bro.

Watch bro's play. It looks like he let one rip. This is not true, guys. Guys, I thought this was AI. That's not AI. That one's not AI. I thought it. Now, there are AI ones, but that was straight front of the TV.

Do you think he still has a job? That guy? I mean, he didn't say nothing. He just was, you know, caught off car. Now, when you down, when you down, from some of you, listen, man. man. They might have moved him.

They might have moved him off that duty, but I don't know if he lost his job completely, but he might be off. That was a natural reaction. No, that's his face. He tried so hard. Bro, but it was not, it was his face,

but run it real more time. We got to watch him. Watch Trump, though. Look at the guy next to him. Look at his eyes. He's like, oh snap. I saw, I saw. He looked straight.

Guy next to him's eyes, they got big. He took a lift, too. That's terrible. Nah, he's not. And other funny news, since we're off to shenanigans now. Oh, my God. Let's check this, yo, let's check this National Anthem with the OG Martha Reeves.

I feel bad, though. Because it's the women's pro baseball league long. This is the coverage that's getting. You know, damn. Tell y'all something. If you ever notice, You notice how Rassan like edits clips down. He didn't even edit that clip down.

Normally I'm mad. I'm kind of irritated because I have something. I want to make a point. Rassano edit out the whole damn point and everything to just shorten it. He didn't even edit that. I feel like you needed to hear all of it. He didn't even edit that. It's not.

You didn't need it. Did you need to hear all of that? It wasn't going to get better. Yes. It's not worse than Carl Lewis, though. And he still got the, worst. I think the Olympics.

The Olympics, Carl Lewis. Where was that at when he did that? That was at a Laker game. That was at a Laker game, right? Dang. Listen, Rosenberg, as you've noticed, isn't here today. He was at SummerSlam WWE all weekend. And guess who he ran into?

Go to 12. If Shoney Culture was still on the show, this would be a big deal. You may not recognize that man. That is a very fit and clean-cut Darius Rucker. Right, hooty and the blowfish. He looks great, nice and fits. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, man. Because remember, the famous, it's infamous, famous, hilarious moment of shiny culture, not knowing that hooty was a black man. Yo, that will forever be so funny. He was like, wait, he's black? He was like, boy. Yeah. No, people were like, wait, what, that was like the whole.

I mean, they had great songs too, but... He looks great, though. He looks great. hilarious. Let's get to the rundown, Laura Stow. Let's do it. Laura got the rundown, turn that up. Screen's on glow when she pulled up.

Headlines heavy, but we still cut up. Life still flashing, we don't slow up. All right, a few congratulations are on the way to Miss Coco Jones. She got married to Donovan Mitchell. Okay. So they purposely kept their winning plus. We were private to ensure an intimate ceremony. So we got to see just some small, like, little clips of them having a beautiful moment on the dance floor.

So Coco Jones is the sweetest. So congratulations to both of them. Congrats, Coco. Also, happy 16th wedding anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. Harris. T.I. and Tiny celebrated their anniversary by renewing their vows in front of their loved ones in Jamaica. So, you know, that was moving around and I saw pictures of them. So it looked really, really, really, it was really, really dope. But did you guys see?

Vibes Cartel announced he's having a baby with his fiancé. So we have the vid, Rassan. So we're not she watches, right? Now tell you no, now I'm going to read the kid in the life. Pia inside. That was it. That was it. That was all thing.

Yeah, that was it. That's dope. If you watch them, yo, their relationship. is like a little reality show. So they're always like, you know, on social media having like little moments. But that was super sweet. I mean, she's been with him for a long time.

Wow. So congratulations to them. Vives Cartel has seven children. So that would be his eighth. Yes. Eighth child. Seven. Yeah.

He's got kids that's out here making records too. Lickle vibes and a couple of other cats. Super dope. Yeah. Lickle Vives and Lickleckle Addy. That's right. So shout to Vives, man. Good friend to the show that Vibs Cartel always pulls up on us, man.

Absolutely. Another big story that was moving around, BTS, they just had a huge concert at MetLife, but they opted out of submitting for the Grammys because of a new category that was created called Best Asian Pop Music Performance. Yeah. They said that they don't want to be divided by region or language. They want to be included in everything else. so they decided that they did not want to submit their music for the Grammys.

But the Grammys were like you can still be eligible for everything else, but we're just creating this specific category. That's right. I think what they're doing is admirable because it makes a statement. I'm all for that. Simultaneously, though, hearing what the Grammys had to say, which is basically like, I mean, you could submit for whatever you want to submit for. Yeah.

You know what I mean? if you submit for let's say they submit for pop categories okay they could still be included in record of the year song of the year these kind of general categories um if you submit for let's say this new category what was it called it's let me see hold on sorry it's best hold on best asian yeah Asian whatever yeah it's best Asian pop music performance best Asian pop music performance, because that's genre specific, you can't also be in another genre. Right. So it would be like if you submit as an R&B artist, right, like you submit your music as your

album as an R&B album, let's say, you can't also be in a pop album. But I've seen artists like Siza who have songs nominated in different genres. Like you'll have a song nominated in a pop genre. She'll have songs nominated R&B genres. You'll have, you know, songs in the general category Or an album in the general category So I'm not quite sure what their statement makes I'm all for a statement

But I'm not quite sure what this means Right? Because couldn't in theory They have a song in this new category As well as songs In general categories and other categories Yeah. Right? Because we've seen it before.

Yeah. So I'll leave that thing. Maybe there'll be some other discoveries later on. Also, so Tyga dropped a new album in an 80s persona called Starpace. Listen, let me tell you something about Tiger. There's probably some hits in there. I haven't listened. But I guarantee you there's going to be some records in there that you're going to hear and be like, yo, there's a good record.

So, you know, people have mixed feelings about the rubber song. I like it. That's the Phoenix Flexing song. I like it. What's not to like about it? Because AI? Yes, because people are like, how could you? Don't do that.

I think most people are just mad because AI. Or alleged, well, he says it ain't. The internet says it is. It's a song. People, artists obviously, and there's people who don't like AI. And that's what Tyga's getting on this one, too. People are like, oh, my God. He's getting AI accusations.

We don't know if it's AI, though. Oh, all right. Could be. I'm over it, guys. Y'all decide. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like I didn't told y'all multiple times how I feel about a lot of this shit And y'all be mad at some of y'all be mad at me uzi vert put out a new EP this week too

Y'all listen to it no I didn't are people singing his AI? No, I'm just bringing up that uzi vert put out some music No, I got a shit on y'all come on man It didn't hit my algorithm either what it didn't hit my algorithm either what it did not come on man Uzi versus a rock star that shit'd be everywhere bro oh man All right that's the rundown That's the rundown Intros, the outro

Yes Run down Turned that up Screen's on glow When she pulled up Headlines heavy But we still cut up Wait

We didn't talk about Your favorite time of the year What's that? Yeah The summer playlist Wait but how did this become my favorite part of the year? I don't

I'm I'm Say what now You used to say Do you think Obama Actually picked some? No that was Rosenberg's issue

with the summer playlist was that he didn't like the playlist because he's convinced that Barack Obama doesn't listen to the songs, like the songs, pick the songs, whatever. That was what, how did I get put on me? Wait, do you want to see the playlist? Yeah. It's on Apple Music. It's my favorite.

It's my favorite time of the year. What are you talking about? Well done. You know what I'm saying? This is my favorite time of the year. You know why Apple Music put out Barack Obama's summer playlist? I mean, he has some good joints on here. Yeah.

Listen, my thing was always like he put songs on there that he loves. Uh-huh. Okay. Then there was his daughters and his wife. Yeah. I've seen Michelle at Beyonce concerts jamming. And I tell you what, most of the black women I know, right, that are even over 55. So Issa's grandmother, Salasi's grandmother.

my aunts, they are still very in tune like wanting to know what the new music is and listening like they're very in tune with that. That's my experience with, you know, black women over a certain age. So they still want to be cool. They want to know what's going on

whether or not they like it or not. Hell, this weekend, I feel like grandma was singing, spend that young man. How can you not? I feel like that happened in the house. Feel like that happened. Quiet on the creek was definitely

Issa was doing some dance moves. Quiet on the creek. So, and grandma might have jumped in. I don't recall, but I say all that to say that, I think it's plausible that Barack either has been played those songs and said, yeah, yeah, throw it out on my list. I like that joint. Or has been sitting around with Michelle and the kids

and these songs that's playing plus the joints he liked. It has to be. That's all I ever said about the Barack Obama playlist. Rosenberg is the one that wants to argue about whether or not and get up, yeah, listen, there ain't no way. There's no way to listen to Boston Delo. I was just about saying, I think Obama's a big fan of Boss Man Delo. I don't know about big fan, but if the kids was playing it, he was like, hey, I like this little ditty.

Telling in there. She's really got my head bobbing. Or whatever Barrio is going to say why he's smoking a joint. That's my favorite thing. That's the only thing I want to know about Barack. Do you still get to smoke a joint from time? He has to. Barry O definitely blazing something, right?

Why wouldn't you? With all this going on especially? No, no. Why, if you worked your way to be president of the United States and now you're retired and you're Barack Obama. After all the stress he was under? Yo, I am smoking a joint. That's what you do all this work for.

So that you can kick back. He's about to be what, 65? Let me see, yeah. He's about to be 65? 65, okay. He's going to be 64. Oh, he turns 65. Yeah, 65.

Tomorrow. Happy birthday, Barack Obama. 65 tomorrow. Yeah, man. he's smoking a joint. And it became legalized on his watch. Yeah, true. Well, I mean, is it, not at the federal level.

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Let's see what they got in here. Oh, yeah, they got the Beverly Monroe brushes. They got the little mini hair straighteners. Yeah, she has everything. Fall slash. Being a girl, dad, I'm really, really up to the time on the beauty thing. I saw the moms this week. So Issa had a, her, had to celebrate her birthday.

So we did a party for her and her friends this weekend. Okay. And they went to a sports. spot in the city where you make plushies. You know the plushies that the kids like? So they got a room and they got to make plushies for a couple hours, her and her and her friends.

And then we walked to a restaurant. So it was a great afternoon. But I heard the moms talking about beauty care. And the fact that these girls who are all 11, maybe 12, are already now in the Sephora. Yeah. Yeah. That's normal?

So it can be because Sephora also sells hair care products. Okay. So when I get a little weirded out, and this has been a conversation of so many blogs, is like when 11-year-olds are looking for skin care that's like $60 skin care, like you do not need that. So the price. So it's not only the price, but it's also you don't need all of that on your face. Okay. You don't need all these like, you know, chemicals that are engineered.

for like someone a little bit older. Right. You know, that's where I feel it's a little. And when you say engineered for someone older, because I've never really done face care like that. So like there's certain products that are to remove dark spots on your face, right? Like if you're in the sun for too long,

some women develop and men develop dark spots. Like why would you need that for an 11 year old little girl? Yeah, I've always been to throw a little lotion on. Yeah. Keep it pushing. Some lotions have retinol. So it just depends.

What's retinor? It's supposed to be like super anti-aging and I think it's supposed to like get rid of wrinkles and maybe dark spots. Okay. I just feel like you don't need that at 11. Right, you're 12. 11, 10. Yes, put some shay butter on your face.

You know what I mean? And just drink some water. Yeah. Yeah. Get like a clean. And when I mean clean, that means usually products that don't have all these extra like chemicals in them, you know? So that's when it gets a little weird.

But I'll tell you like as a mom, like your kid sees you putting on stuff. they want to be like you. Like I use like these under eye patches and Kenza wants to do it. So I just cut some out of a paper towel wet it and put it on her face. So she feels like she's a part of it. Right. But it's nothing. It's literally a wet paper towel that I'm putting on her face.

Yeah, I recall one of the mothers saying something about like the price of things. Like, hey, you know, I'll let her put some stuff in a basket and then I'll review what's in the basket just to kind of like, like you said, make them feel like they're doing something without actually them doing too much. Mm-hmm, but it gets very expensive. Like, bro. Yeah, Sephora, bro. It's expensive. So that's the big discussion.

Some moms are like, hey, if it's not harming them, you should let them be a part of their skincare routine. Let them live. And then other people are like, they don't need that. They're too young. Right. Well, interestingly enough, so all these years, Christmas and birthdays, Issa has never put together like a list of items that she wanted. Okay.

This was the first year she put together. like a literal list okay of like I want this backpack I want you know these I want to she wanted a ring I told her when she was 12 she could get a second piercing in her ear so we're going to get the second piercing in the ear that's nice she wanted a new phone case because you know we talked about the fact that she got a phone a few months ago she's been doing really good with that okay are you going no nothing no nothing crazy it was just like your girl is really out here trying to you You know what I'm saying? She's on her glow up.

You know what I mean? Like she's really on her, you know, not to put her, you know, she's been working hard this summer, right? So she's been doing trainer some days, double days, football, like really, really grinding it out this summer. She woke up the other day talking about, Daddy, I got abs. And we're showing her whole living in a shirt, showing her whole family a little two-packed. I was like, all, chill out, chill out, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill.

I mean, she's working hard, bro. She's working hard. Yeah, so she earned it. And so we, you know, everything that was on, it wasn't anything crazy on unless she asked for nothing, you know what I'm saying? Like super expensive. She doesn't want, like, designer bags,

you know what I'm saying, nothing like that. A few weeks ago, so a few weeks ago, we was driving through the city and, you know, we was going down Canal Street. And, you know, jazz, my lady was like, oh, let me jump out. You know, she likes to look.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to be nosy. She ain't go cop nothing, but she wanted to look. At any rate, Issa was like, can I have like a bootleg coach bag? Like, she wanted like a fake joint. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And she was like, I don't really want like a real joint. But Jazz actually bought her like a real, a real, like her first real coach back. Oh, nice. Yo, she was hype on it. Like, hype. But, you know, me, I hear the girls, y'all talk about, like,

the going down on Canal Street to cop the like fake bags is like it's like funny in a game or stuff like this yeah like girls get like a kick out of like oh what did they have down there just on some like um but it was interesting that like seeing isa turn 12 and be like I want like an actual purse I went a little bag yeah yeah yeah like an actual purse which was and a coach bag is a good starter bag right right right right but I didn't even know girls were still into that I I didn't even know. I didn't know what the like, I didn't know what young girls like was a thing. Like coach bags were still a thing.

Or some girls like a tell far bag. And that's not expensive. It's a couple hundred dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not crazy. Yeah. But some girls like their first bag is like a tell far bag. Oh, but that's not expensive either.

No, no. They just sell out a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He personally makes it affordable because he believes that all girls should be able to afford it. Right. They just sell out.

Right. But there's a store. It's funny because he has a store down on Canal Street. And then like there was this whole thing where it's like, and I hope I'm not getting this wrong, but where he was like letting the bootleggers bootleg his stuff. He's like, sure, go ahead. Right, right, right.

I don't care better for me, you know? And sometimes people were saying that they might have gotten some real ones, like to just, you know, mix it up. But yeah, he's very much like it's New York City. That's what you do. I don't care. Right. They can bootleg him right in front of my store.

Yo, man, shout to tell for it. I love, love, love that. Because you know what? This used to happen at Summer Jam, too, right? Like, you used to be a thing people making the bootleg summer jam shirts. And I remember we used to I always used to be like yo don't shut down those people selling And sometimes are better well not only that but it's also like it's a part of like the kind of Hood economy in a way right like summer jam happens once a year you know what I'm saying hip hop comes from the community let everybody get to some some bread today bro at the jZ concert they were amazing bootlegs oh nah what outside was crazy they were so good yeah you can't shut

that down, man. That's part of it. That's part of the whole deal. Let's get to the gurus. Hey, yo, it's top of the gurus. Rosenberg. All right. You know, you are a beautiful queen. Ebro, don't ever play yourself. You're not a guru. Hey, Griffey. Let me see.

Okay, hold on. It's not coming up. Let me see. All right. Here we go. No emails. The guru is over. I knew this day would come. I found it. Oh, this is a quick one. The guru is in shambles. Hello, all. I'm a big listener from Texas. I will be traveling to New York in a few weeks for my second wedding anniversary.

Now, this is an easy guru. Okay? He's like, where is a good place for me to take my wife for an anniversary dinner? We're staying on 42nd Street near Times Square. Don't do it. You already screwed up. You already screwed up. Botsed it.

You botched it off top. Times Square? No. I would love some advice. You botched it. I want to give him a shout up, but I don't know if you want to. his name out there, so maybe I'll just keep it. I'll keep it. Okay, staying up, listen,

people like to stay on 42nd, because it's Times Square. Don't do it. I wouldn't recommend it. But he's already there, Ebro. So where? Wait, when's he coming to the city? It says, yeah, in a few weeks. He could change that.

He can cancel that change. Listen, if you're not locked into the hotel, maybe try going a little bit downtown. There's some nice hotels on Park Avenue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Down more in the 20s. There's hotels, obviously. Let me see.

Tribeca might be too pricey, though. Those hotel prices get crazy. I'm trying to think where's some good, not affordable, but just, you know, mid-tier quality hotel. Yeah, because you can go Hotels.com or any of those and just look for the cute boutique hotels. You'll find something. You know, the real thing with the Times Square Hotel is not that they couldn't be a nice hotel

because there's definitely a nice hotel. It's just that a lot of the, that stuff is so overrun and chaotic all the time. If you want that complete, you know, as soon as you hit the lobby energy, yeah. But if you want like, hey, let's go to Times Square, but then let's also enjoy some other parts of Manhattan that aren't as hectic. Like, I would advise you get in a hotel somewhere else. All right, but he's asking like, where should he take his wife for an anniversary dinner?

But it just depends on what you like to eat. What style You know what I mean If you are If you have a restaurant I'm gonna just tell you this If you have a nice enough Restaurant in New York

Okay For you to stay open It has to be pretty damn good To compete Yeah I'll put it to you like that So the odds of you striking out Completely striking out

And getting bad food You would have to show up To like a chain restaurant To strike it out and get bad food in time square yes don't have dinner in time square do not have dinner in time square don't do that what kind of food do you want what's your price point because this is new york city you can have Brooklyn chop is on 47th he could take a walk up a little bit okay Brooklyn chop

Rassan says okay that's kind of that's kind of a that's a scene people like it yeah yeah yeah if you want something like intimate and not flashy but still really really that's really that's kind of a that's a scene people like it yeah yeah yeah yeah if you want something like intimate and not flashy but still really good food. I love this Italian restaurant downtown in Sohocau, Emporeo. It's super good. It's very intimate, though. It's a small restaurant, so get a reservation. Yeah.

But it's not impossible to get. So it just depends. It depends on what you want. So this is broad. So if you want email us back, let us know some specifics because I don't know. Are you guys a vegetarian? Do you guys want a steakhouse? It's a lot.

You got to have anything. And you're talking to, you know, Laura Stiles is Buzi, New York. So she's in all the artsy's farming. Fartzy underground spots. And he's talking to me, I won't even, listen. Listen. Actually, no, I had lunchtime square this weekend.

Actually, I had luncheon Times Square this weekend. So I was going to say I wouldn't even go to Times Square, but I had to. It was the Easter's birthday. Okay. And they, you know, the plushy spot was like a few blocks off Times Square. And then that was the spot they picked. So, you know, that's where we end up going.

We was at the yard house. Times Square. Okay. But do not go to Yard House for your anniversary. It is not, it is a beer and like sports bar spot. Don't, don't do that. But yeah, it's tough to tell you exactly where. But send us another email and we can try to give you some better insight.

Yeah, you can go a little Italy. You know, there's still amazing spots in Chinatown. There's amazing spots all over Tribeca, like I said, Battery Park. There's so many different places you can go. Chat says hunting fish club, Philippe Child. Like, those are all good ones too. Hunting fish, Philippe Child. Those are all good.

Staple's been to all them spots. Yeah, just get a reservation. What did you say that grip? Yeah. Oh, hunting fish is tough to get in? Yeah. You just got to, you know, I got to do a little research. Once again, I wouldn't know.

And we hit us up. I'll try to help you out. Yeah, it is. Yo, that's the gurus. Thanks. Now it's time for the outro. Get up out of here. Listen, guys, I'll be honest.

I wasn't really in the mood today Really? Could you tell? I wasn't in the mood, man Actually, you seem pretty cool. Say what? I said, you seem pretty cool today. You wasn't moody or anything?

No, that's what I'm saying. I wasn't in the mood to give it anything, any energy. Like, sometimes it's like, you know, I'm affected by what's going on and other times I'm like, nah, this is dumb. It's all dumb.

I get that. It's all dumb. It's all stupid. And it's also like I'm often looking around like, you know, we're being played, bro. Yeah. That's why I need breaks from social media because that's how I feel. This is all a big social experiment and we're all being played. We're all being played.

But by the way, I have a hard time. We've always all been being played here in this social experiment of the United States of America. Like it's always been a game. it's always been a sham there's always been lies there's always been withholding of information by the government there's always been people getting killed by our government and i'm talking about citizens you know mean like it's all like look at history and we continue this like hamster on a wheel thing you know like even right now where you have in new york city you have mayor who actually is giving people hope okay crime is super down people are really enjoying it and

maybe and maybe they are naive right who knows what this will look like in two three years but i tell you what right now if you're between the ages of 18 and 30 in new york city you're having a phenomenal summer man yeah you're having a phenomenal summer you know uh programs for kids people are trying to find solutions to things. The mayor's just not out here just delivering problems and chaos all the time. When he's confronted with people trying to be negative, he diffuses it and really points to the work that needs to be done. The work, the work, the work that needs to be done.

People are finally feel seen. That's really what it is. Like I've seen people saying like for once, I feel like somebody is listening to me. Everyone has been living in horrible living conditions and been calling 311 to let's, you know what I mean? and to nothing. Finally, we're seeing some change. How can you be mad at that?

People are trying to make him the villain. And I was going to say, and I'm seeing him actually go door to door to regular citizens of the city to like announce like different things that he's doing and things like that so they have the knowledge of what's going on. Like the mayor of New York City

is going door to door to residents. Yeah. And then by the way, even if that's marketing and narrative shaping and all that, phenomenal marketing phenomenal narrative better than the other options that we've had so why wouldn't you be excited about that you know what I'm saying um and I think that's where like I wake up and I see people going at him trying to continue to make it negative negative negative and him trying to go

positive positive positive and I you know that's why I started the show by like yo man I'm over it man like there's there's definitely young people out here who want to do something positive and we just got to help those young people stay focused or doing something positive. All this arguing over democratic socialism and arguing over, you know, what's the policies, man? Do they want health care for people? Do they want to help people get jobs?

Do they have a path to finding solutions? Let's support them. That's it. You know what I mean? See y'all tomorrow, man. Ebro-Law-Roszenberg. I think Rosenberg's back tomorrow. And so we will continue.

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