The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 17.) Stephen A. Smith On Running For POTUS, Ludacris Addresses MAGAFest + A BIG Announcement!(1/19/26)

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

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Shopify. coms. Just don't call in a podcast. No, Rosenberg, drop a fire beat to start the show. You know what I'm saying Monday morning? You know what I mean? We got to come in. Just what kind of vibe you're looking for?

It's something. Just go. It's a little something to chat on, I mean? Chat to now. We hear nothing. Are you not hearing it? You're not here? Oh, okay.

Fail, hit the button. If I failed, I have to make an adjustment then. So if I hit the button, I'll have the same problem. Oh, what is happening here? here. Well, you have to try to work on Martin Luther King Day. Today's a day of rest. I wonder if people are tuning in. Are they sleeping? Are you getting a beat now? No. What were you doing for the whole half an hour when we were setting up the show? I mean, I don't know why you're not getting the beats. You should be getting the beats.

That I'm playing you from the thing. No beats. No beats. No beats rhymes in life. I'm playing. I'm playing the beats rhymes in life the same way I play every time. Man, here, turn the show off. Let's start over again. It may not work again. So, wait, nothing that I'm playing right. You can't even get a good on. You gotta start showing up 30 minutes early

to make sure your equipment is working, man. So we don't have nothing. So we showed up today, you got nothing. Nothing. Ebro, if I showed up two days ago, this would happen. This is just the board's not playing you sound. I don't know what to say. You're hearing me, though.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We can hear you. I don't know. I really don't know. But, I mean, I'd like to think it's my board honoring Dr. King and saying today's a day of rest. There you go.

My board is like, what are we doing? The whole Dr. King, today's a day of rest. I think it's a day of service. I don't think it's a day of rest. Is that? I think we're both making it up. No, no, no. Seriously, Dr. King thing is a day of service.

Yeah, I always thought it was a day of service too. A day of rest is like you're taking from the Bible or something. No, no. I haven't a day rested or something. Well, I mean, it's a day off of work. That's why people I think would go with it's not. Yeah, no, but I think technically the Martin Luther King, holiday, you know, yes, people take off work, but it is always like, how are you going to be

service to your community? How are you going to be service to your family? How are you going to be service to, you know, people in need? Because that's what Dr. King, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have done. He was in service to people. Right. Right. Well, I also always feel like MLK has so many titles that just going MLK ain't doing it enough. Like, I think you gotta say the whole thing. At least once a show. Like, okay, if you want to say MLK Day, cool. But at some point in the day,

you have to say Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Just to make sure, you know what I'm saying? You acknowledge me. Well, does it balance out if I don't ever actually say MLK? If I always say a version of Martin Luther King. That's pretty good. It's pretty good. I don't really do MLK.

I don't think MLK is really that much of a thing. It's not ringing off. MLK isn't JFK. Like JFK, you don't even have to call him by his name. JFK is whatever at the airport Martin Luther King gets the full you got to call him or Dr. King I'm going with Dr. King

I think just Dr. King. But a good Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I think goes a long way. Just say it one time. Yeah, it's a little extra respect. You know what I mean? I like when I like when I think I have a drop from Ghostface once where he called himself a Dr. Martin Luther

Starks. Or Dr. Darten. No, to Dr. Darden. Dr. Darton. Dr. Dutton. Starks. Dr. Carton and Luther Starks.

Yeah, different than Martin. Well, listen, we're going to get into some MLK tidbits, you know what I'm saying, some things you didn't know about the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Maybe you did know and needed a little reminder. We also, Rosenberg was unraveling on behalf of the bills. So was Cardi B.

On the Patriots. Well, yes, well, Cardi B in favor of the Patriots. You in favor of the bills. Thank you for that. Oh, I think I figured out what button I accidentally had pushed. Tell me if you have a beat here. Hold on. Hold on, folks. Have a beat. Yeah, there we go.

All right, all right, okay. So you're saying. All right. I just, I tap the mute. Yo, this mute button on this board, like barely, the red light barely gets red. Blame the board because you don't know. Hit yourself with the button. Yo, but for the record, when it comes to Cardi B,

congratulations. I was annoyed during the game because I'm like, you know what? Why don't they show Cardi B on camera the way they show Taylor Swift? You know why. I well I found out the main reason why is she wasn't there well I was I jumped straight to racism I feel well I by the way that's where I went that's what I was looking for I was looking for the let me make the comp and get angry but then I saw this video pop up on my timeline I said oh this is what's going on okay jake jesus welcome down I don't know I got walk him down I think she said digs she said Jesus Jesus I heard Jesus yeah Jesus walk him down something at one point

Diggs calling him by his her man by his last name I don't know what else she was saying but did he have a good game he had a touchdown okay so that's a celebration he had 40 yards in a touchdown I don't know if that came after the

after the touchdown my guess is that was after the W okay yeah you know and for you NFL script followers the the Patriots and Chiefs have now one of them has been in the last 15 AFC championship games. See, that's not even the real script.

The real script is they want, they want celebrity, Cardi B and Taylor Swift. And then what happened with the Bills? The Bills thing was crazy, man. Watch Rosenberg unravel here. This is, I didn't expect to see this. And afterwards, I'm going to tell you, I'm such a casual.

that I just laid out. I didn't even have any feelings about it when it comes to watching football. I thought they changed the rules. Watch Rosenberg. And I'm not a Bills fan, but would share this with Bills fans. We should be more and more angry. You guys should be more and more angry. How on earth was that an interception?

How on earth? I've been watching football for 40 years. 40. That has never been an interception. And not only do they call it an interception and rob us of Josh Allen in a championship game, instead we'll have the Broncos without even having Bo Nix in the championship game. They didn't even want to look at it. They acted like it wasn't even controversial.

It was nothing. It was just, oh, not the regular interception. Trot up. What? This was to determine who goes to the championship game, and they acted like that was a run-of-the-mill play. When in history, is that a run-of-the-mill interception? It was a catch-down, field goal, bills win.

Insane. So now, back to, so. first of all, I saw that and I was like, that's always been a catch. He hit the ground in control of the ball, even if the other guy's arms was near or even around the ball, he caught the ball first.

Then a rollover and the defensive guy comes up with the ball, that's never been an interception. But then I laid out because I was like, I don't watch football as much anymore. Maybe they change rules or something. Right. Which is a good thought by you.

So I just laid out. But when I saw your thing, I was like, yeah, I knew I knew what I was saying. Well, listen, people are really gaslighting me in the comments. That's not even a conversation. That's an interception. Listen, we can get into a back and forth about whether he ever had possession. I understand why in fast motion, it looked like he dropped the ball very quickly.

But to me, and the Bill's head coach, Sean McDermott said this too. You played 19 games or whatever. This game was three hours in. they, the ebro, they weren't even going to stop and take a look. No, it's crazy. Sean McDermott had to call a time out and go, can you guys at least look? And they looked for a second. Well, by the way, this is also overtime where I thought everything got reviewed in overtime.

Well, or is that incorrect? I don't know if overtime. Because I know in the final two minutes, everything gets looked at. Correct, correct. Oh, I know this. It would have been on them to look at it. So they couldn't challenge it. They had to get looked at by the refs.

And the refs were just, yo, they were about to snap the next play in 20 seconds. Chris says every turnover and every TD gets reviewed. That's always been a review rule. Right, right, right, because it's a turnover. So it would be reviewed no matter what. So the fact that they didn't stop to go, this needs an actual full review,

they were just, they were on the field on the ball in 40 seconds. So now I'm into the script writers. back to the script writers. You say, Bo Nix is not starting for the Broncos. No, he's done. He's out for the year, yeah. And so who started for the Broncos?

Jared Stidham. And who are the Broncos going up against? Patriots. Easy win for the Patriots. And you know, take us us back to 9-11. Oh, man, here we go. In the suck rule. What does America want right now?

Patriots. America, wave the flag. All of that's in the script. They want the Patriots going as far as they can. Great story, new coach. They get to tell the old Patriots story because Rabel's the coach, all of that. And they get to, like, wave the flag and say, we're American Patriots. All marketing.

You know what? That's a good angle. You know, Trump's going to be all in on the Patriots. Trump's going to be all in on the Patriots. Drake May is good. I like Drake May. Something about him. I like him.

Where did Drake may go to school? I don't know. Trump U. Trump University? Rassan says I sound like his dad. He said all black men of a certain age share a brain. Because we've seen a lot, man. We know the games that have played.

Of course, is the Patriots. I can't believe. Yo, we were one catch, one bull-ish interception. away from us at least having as a family, you know, everybody with the heart was going to be pulling for Buffalo. Yes. Everybody. Yes.

And instead of getting in New York, hopefully, the whole country, if you didn't have another team, you were rooting for Josh Allen and Buffalo. And now we get the Patriots and the Broncos, oh, kill me. And then last night, yo, Caleb Williams with one of the illest last second plays, I have ever seen in all football just to then throw an interception and lose in overtime. I hate to do it.

Congratulations. You played yourself. Damn. Yo, he just threw it to a spot and his man wasn't hustling to get to the spot. The defensive dude was picked it off. Damn. I guess that's what it was. That's what it looked like on the replay. Can I tell you the truth though? I felt like after he connected

on the last second pass, Caleb his swag was so high. He was like, let me just chuck this thing. Let me chuck it over. I just felt like that drive, they didn't need to take the shot there. They could have just kept marching their way. And yeah, he wanted to highlight. Damn, if that's the case, hit the button again. But I definitely wanted to see the Bears in the playoffs.

I mean, the championship. Yeah, it would have, it would have been. I would have been special. Chancellor, you saw Chance the Rapper had the Chicago Bears, a little hype, you know, before the game song. Oh, no, I didn't. He was out there. No, he put him in Chicago Bears and did a song up and did a song.

He did like a little bar barred it up for the bear barring it up for the bear. Okay, Chance. I didn't know he barred with the Bears. I didn't even catch that. It's been moving. He got an S&L moment on this album. He barred it up for the Bears. He was, did you see Chance on New Year's Eve?

No. You know, they did New Year's Eve countdown in Chicago this year. I watched it at home with the family. Chance was ocean. New Year's Eve. this year. Chance has been moving up. Okay, chance. I missed that.

Ebro with your chance update. Laura, you should have a chance update in the in the rundown. I'm invested. I'm invested in the chance thing. I'm invested in a chance thing. I really love the album. I love Chan as a rapper and him being, him not getting, I think his, the coverage that he was getting when his, when he had his other manager, I think is a part of a conspiracy. I don't understand. Have you ever said that to him?

I've said it to chance. He won't publicly admit it, but he kind of shrugs it off. Was there some real drama with his ex-manager? Well, yeah, whatever their business falling out was, but I feel like whatever the hype was with Chance when he was with his last manager, Pat, as soon as he and Pat parted ways, now all of a sudden nobody's hype on chance anymore

because he put out one bad album according to his fan base. Really? I'll be honest with you. I just don't see him. Well, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is the algorithm hustling. People are,

people pay for this algorithm hustling. But I just don't understand. Was Chance's old manager, I was always myth by how they were so successful, so fast, and what his managers, what Pat's connection was, did Pat have some,

like, deep connections? I know we have money. I know Pat came from money. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. He got, he got the last name of a big real estate agent, but I don't know if they're related.

Corkron real estate, I don't know if that's the same. It's a good conspiracy, though. I like that for your conspiracy, though. But I will say it also looked like, look, I wouldn't claim to be like, you know, the biggest chance to rapper fan, even though of recent I've gotten more, became more of a fan as he's gotten older

and I think the music's gotten better, in my opinion. But I wasn't all the way in on how a lot of people were when like acid rap and all that stuff came out. but man people the social media used to go hand for chance oh yeah they were in and then he gets married

has children puts out one album that people claim isn't good which by the way I compared it to other albums I was like what do y'all even talking about was it really that bad no they acted like he straight up

forgot to how to rap they they acted like he started rapping over frog farts why are you doing that And then all of a sudden this album comes out and it's spectacular. He's talking that talk and people are not doing the backflips. I saw some people post a little bit about him because the coloring book came out in 2016. You know, everybody was on their 2016.

2016 is still going. Let me tell you something. Laura, that was a great segue. Let me tell you something. I went back into my phone and I just scrolled back to 2016 and just started in January and just started. I sent you got some stuff. Yeah. Ebro, Lauren Rosenberg got busy.

busy in 2016. Oh my God. We did a lot. I posted a couple and then and then when I saw yours I was like, oh yeah, I forgot about all that. I forget. Well, not only that, but the videos we used to post in 2016 for the internet's were so immaculate and so beautiful in 2016 that if you compare that to what we were doing when we ended up parting way. Oh man.

It is no, yo no wonder we was pissed. off at the plantation on the out at this last. No, it was not good. We pretty much had our own basement set up. No, no, not. But even that we had the main studio, we had a whole other studio. Yes.

It was, we had a fire. Yo, man. Bro, we was on fire. We got to get back to that, bro. We were lit. We had a great guest. It was fun. Watch.

Yeah, I would like that. That was super outside, man. Not even just in the studio. In studio, out studio, out the country. out in the world. No, we went to Japan. Yo, we did Summer Jam in Japan in 2016, bro. We broadcasted our show from Japan.

Remember? That's right. Favorite things we ever did. Oh, really? We was moving in 2016. Yeah, we was under stew in Tokyo at 6 p.m. And then we went out to dinner, like... Ebro, you don't say.

One of Laura's favorite things when we did the show live from Asia. You don't say, that was what you're favorite thing? Wouldn't have ever picked that. Wouldn't have put that on my bingo car. Well, you wouldn't have put that on your bingo car. It's so fun. You know, I posted a summer jam.

I don't know if you guys saw I posted Summer Jam from 2016. I saw. They're just the promo flyer. Did it look like the ones we've had recently? Not at all, my guy. 2016 was the one where a storm hit, remember? And they canceled Gov ball. And I had planned for Kanye to catch a helicopter all the way over to a MetLife Stadium.

From Gov. I was the one that shot a rest in peace, man. Shout to Jeff Costello. Why? What was Jeff doing? Remember he shot the documentary of the backstage, putting the whole joint together. That's the one that's online. Yeah, yeah. Where the storm hits and I'm plotting with the weather service

to like get Wayne on stage and that whole French Montana situation, the Callet's, it was all of that, I think. Yeah, he did a great job. Jeff did a great job with that, Doc. That was when we would do content on there that would get like millions of views. Actually, do well. Well, that was, it's interesting. Everybody's like, yo, welcome to the internet.

And it's like, yo, you know how much content we have that's on, been on the internets for, I don't know, a long time. We've only put fractions of our stuff. And I think, you know, people got it confused. Now, people forget Laura Stiles. They absolutely forget. I also was reminded over the weekend that I invented Smackfest. Yes. Which is now in the international.

No, no, no. I was, somebody was like, yo, didn't you? And I was like, yes, I did. Yes. And then I really thought about it. When you hired me in 2011, I was a YouTube correspondent. That's right. And I was like, why?

I was so mad at you. Well, you didn't even want to be a YouTube correspondent yourself. Yeah, she wanted to do. I was like, no, I'm telling you. This is where it's going. No, I don't want to do this, bro. Now look at you. Your whole life is YouTube.

I know. You just up with the button. You could have, you had a great. You could have led to charge. Congratulations. You played yourself. Wanted to be on radio. Great call.

Right. Briff says Rosenberg FaceTimed. you from the concert was that uh japan summer jam just stunting that you was in japan oh yeah summer jam japan why'd you do that to griff sounds about right saying no words just stunning i mean i was probably trying to share we probably said let's say how to griff listen it was 2016 you know things were crazy out there it was crazy i was loose in these streets my amex blue cash every day card is my go-to accessory when i shop i can earn 3% cash back on u.s online retail purchases try on the blue cash everyday card. Learn more at Americanexpress.com slash explore dash BCE terms and cashback cap apply.

Listen, Laura, how was your weekend this weekend? Weekend was good. I went to go see Zootopia 2. It's Fuego. It's fire. I'm going this Friday. I'm taking a fan. And I bro, it's what you expect. You know what I mean? It's like they get they get busy. The messaging is great. Zootopia 1 was great. Yeah. So you guys are going to enjoy that. I went to like one of those old school movie theaters with it with kensa so we had a good time what's the old calling it opia it's like yo rosenberg the seats the snacks the you know what i mean the actual theater is like stuck in like the 80s but it's cool really 80s i didn't know that was a thing yeah yeah it's really small in brooklyn i'll send you a link is that the one with like the

couches and stuff where you sit down like you sit down no no and the seats are very are very much in 1980s they're not that great but it's cool and Then yesterday I had a chance to watch a screener for a really important film that I, and I texted you guys last night because it really moved me, the voice of Hin Rajab. Yeah, we got the screener for that. I got to watch. Guys, let me tell you right now, I was crying. First 10 minutes, I'm crying.

Now, give the backdrop. This is our, this film is an independent film takes place in Gaza. Yes, yes, in Palestine. And it's basically about, you know, this six-year-old, who, you know, this was all over the internet. I remember when it happened, but it follows the story of the rescue team, which is like four of them, the dispatchers. They're in the only, I guess the only call center that's left.

And they're like, somehow the uncle was able to like connect them with the little girl. And she had her aunt's phone. And mind you, they were all killed in that car. So she was. Oh, that was the little girl in the car. Yes, I remember the stories. Yes. It was just her with a bunch of bodies trying to survive.

Oh, my God. And her little voice will break you. It will break you. Just, you know, everything, those, those amazing, incredible people were trying to do to save her life. And at certain points, you see, like, them using their cell phones to, like, record certain areas. And they did an incredible job of showing, like, real actual footage of the real people during that moment. But I'm not going to, you know, the end of it. is tragic. The whole thing is tragic. The whole thing is obviously, it's horrible, right?

But it's just like, it made me think, right? Because we hear that and we see the headlines and war, bombs, murder, killing, right? You become numb after a while. You do. You kind of just keep scrolling and scrolling where there is because you don't feel like feeling at that moment for your mental health. But the reason this film is so important because it will remind you and it will make you feel. It's really important. Catch it at a local. movie theater. What's the title one more time? The independent movie theaters are the ones that are showing it.

It's called The Voice of Hind Rajab. Hind H-I-N-D-R-A-J-A-B. But it is powerful. It is beautiful. Is this one of those many movies that the, I guess, the inner workings of Hollywood, I've been reading these articles or trying to like make sure some of these movies don't get seen or get celebrated? Or is this?

or is it being celebrated? You know what, Ibro, like, before this, before we got mailed, like, information on it, like someone sent us the screener and, like, information. I didn't even know it was out. Right. So I don't know. And I started, like, asking friends of mine,

and they didn't know either. So that's why I think it's important that we talk about it and chat, if you're listening, if you're watching, like, just look it up. But then you said, you said Brad Pitt's company did it, though, right? Yeah. So it has energy. producer, yeah. So he's got, it's got good support. And shout to Michael Scholnik, too. My brother over there, who's always been active and on the front lines working with us at the gathering for justice or I don't know if you guys know that name Michael Skolnik. But, you know, before it was before it was in vogue to be, you know.

He's been outside fighting the power. He's been outside. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I both want to watch it. It's a tough thing because like the, I both. want to watch it and then also like because it sounds amazing and then it's like I it just re it's like do I feel like reopening the the portal to feeling miserable yet again because you're right I have now gotten more numb to it and kind of moved on like I don't think about it every every day I'm sometimes I feel like that's the least we could do in our privileged lives yeah no I hear you is is give is give a moment to feel what other people are going through right like I think I think that's That's kind of, I know it sounds corny and cliche or whatever, but honestly, we live such, many of us live such privileged lives, especially relative to what's going on in Gaza, in the West Bank and Congo and these places.

Like, can we get, can we give 90 minutes? You know what I mean? Well, yeah, it's just what I'm wrapped up. In my family, when I'm wrapped up in that is, it's not night. It's not a day. It's every day, every conversation. Oh, true. And I'm like, you know, you know, well, you guys are, you guys are in the midst of it. It doesn't mean you should like give up. You and your wife are in the midst of literally a culture, almost like a, a culture reset. You've been going through for like the last, in minimum 18 months where you're looking at a place that your families, both parents, both parents sides, whatever their politics. So I know your parent, but I don't know hers,

are looking at a place where you disagree with what the government's doing and you disagree with how the country even got started and feels like you got lied to. So the whole thing is deeper than just you locking in for 90 minutes on a movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's never days that go by where I don't think or talk about it. It's not like from before October 7th until now, there's never a day where I, like, have completely checked out

and I'm not thinking about what's going on. That has never happened. It's certainly a regular conversation. But that also doesn't mean that you shouldn't. But also now I'm so dialed into the misery of our own country. But at the same time, we've also spent no time really talking about Iran, which is not great either. Well, Iran's so complicated. It's, I mean, it's, it's so bad. But at the same time, I mean, like, but also, do we overcomplicate it in the sense that there are people

that are still just being tortured? Well, no, Iran's bad, right? The leadership in Iran is bad. why it's being destabilized and whatever's going on with it right now, you know, people are claiming that Israel has something to do with that. But then you have people who aren't there who left a long time ago who are happy that this, the Ayatollah is getting pushed out. And then you have people who are like, yeah, but we don't want the Shah's son back because he was terrible. I watched the thing with Farid Zakari on CNN about the Shah

and that whole situation before the Ayatollah. and what's set to, like, it's just, it's a lot. And then you, and then you say to yourself, okay, after all of this mayhem and Bedlam, could you actually get to a place where you can have a trustworthy election, a free, fair, trustworthy election, and will America and Israel be the purveyors of said trustworthy election? Well, consider, I don't think we'll have one here. I would say, no, that worries me.

Like, what? And that's why I say it's complicated. But it's so complicated in that like, I literally see Israeli people, all they're posting about is what's happening in Iran. It's bizarre a world. No, it's all they're posting about is nothing in America. They're only posting about what's happening in Iran.

That's all they care about. On the flip side of the coin, because of the Trump involvement or Israel involvement, you then have everybody else because there's still clearly horrible things happening. I mean, I think even on the minimum end, thousands have died in these protests. And then other people, and then other people aren't talking about it. Like, they don't even want to look at it because it's like, well, I don't want to be on the side of the thing that's lined up on the Trump, Israel side of it. But just like Venezuela, one, Trump being bad, doesn't make other people good.

That's right. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, we are all so motivated by whatever our angle is that it's hard sometimes to even just hold empathy for who, the people are in the place where the thing is that's happening. That's right. It's a mess. Well, listen, even here in our backyard, right?

Here in our backyard, I've never heard, I've never heard of this person, but this person, Jake, something. I never heard of him either. Never heard of him, but people throwing his name around like I'm supposed to know. Decided it was a good idea to get up in front of protesters in Minneapolis and say it is. A few moments later. A few moments later. A few minutes later. A few minutes later.

Let's go. Open the door. Oh, my God, drive, drive, drive. Oh, my God. Just shut. Stop. Right. Let them go.

Let him go. Hey, hey, pull over. Pull over. Pull over. Leave it. Get out of here. Get out of here. No.

Y'all just let him leave. It's not working. Hey. Start. We don't know. It's got her mouth. Let her mouth. That's the lot.

No. Well, apparently, according to, Lou, this guy, that guy that got punched in the face and basically got out of there by the skin of his teeth. He's the ex-January 6 who got pardoned and he's running for office. Of course. Now, that is what you call a paid provocateur. You're going to get up in front of people who are already emotional and ready and just antagonize them some more. And apparently he was in the streets all weekend, spewing Nazi nonsense was the quote.

The other part that was interesting about this story with that guy. guy right there was his name it doesn't matter Jake whatever it was it was a bunch of black kids that got him out of their safe yeah I saw and so look he didn't get shot he didn't get killed I think a couple of blows to the face couple of punches in the face no big deal and then hit him with the button why would you get up there on a microphone and say that wait well I was in the middle of putting some audio back in the thing so congratulations you played yourself button right now no that's two buttons one we're not ready for the button and then another button because i was trying to set something else up but um either way i've hit him with this congratulations

you plagued yourself but but this is this is i want to say this to everybody watch them right now i don't know how many people woke up with us this morning on this uh reverend dr martin luther king junior day um but it's important over the next several months that we don't fall into the emotional chaos. And it's going to be very hard because you're going to want to see people get their ass-wooked or worse. You're going to want that.

Don't do that. The only reason I say don't do that is because I don't believe it sets the stage for us to get where we need to be in November. I believe they take all of these scenes and they take all of the narrative like they did, you know, during the protests during COVID. And they spin the narrative into,

and remember, we have Instagram, but the algorithm on TikTok can't be trusted. So your stuff's not being seen. CBS News isn't covering balanced reporting what's going on, right? So the narrative gets spun to people who are not locked into the internet, who are not looking at this stuff, as if these cities are out of control. Meanwhile, vast majority of people getting out and getting their voice heard, just like back in during COVID when people were outside. And after George Floyd, vast majority were peaceful. And there were paid provocateurs showing up to start.

problems. There's video circulating now of people who show up in masks and they just throw a Molotov cocktail and then dip. What about remember when there was like piles of bricks just conveniently just like left in certain places?

Yes. Yes, of course. They would just leave bags of bricks on the streets. Yeah. Yes. I forgot about that. That was so crazy. Wild. And they want to make sure they capture the moment to see look how violent these people are. We need. We need the, we need, you know, soldiers on the ground to protect everyone.

And you hear people screaming in that last video we showed. It's not worth it. Let him go. Let him go. There were people escorting him away from the incident even after he got, he went there to start problems. And by the way, he goes there to start problems. He gets helped out of there by individuals who are there protesting who don't agree with him. Who happened to be black?

Who happened to be black? And he's still going to leave there and continue his Nazi rhetoric of, you know, slandering people and being an evil human being despite these human beings, keeping him from getting his ass dragged down the middle of the street. Bro, Lucid, huh, that he was, he ended up being, uh, drove in by a trans person. That's the person who drove off with him to save him. Wow. Now, mind you, imagine if this was January 6th.

How many people got, did anybody get grace during January 6th? They were smashing police officers, stopping police officers. Well, that was because, but that was an actual violent mob. That was a legitimate violent mob versus protesters, in this case, who were being intentionally antagonized. And even in that case, they still didn't. end up truly harming this guy. Right.

Like I was lynched. I was like, you need to look up what that means, sir. Goodbye. Now, we have a Don Lemon clip. Rahsa, can you, can you, I just, the Don Lemon clip is funny because I want to see the beginning of Don Lemon trying to speak to this protester. The protester ends up like, really like calming down. But when Don Lemon first tried to approach the protester, that was the part I really

wanted, Rassan, was the beginning. beginning. You cut that part out where the protesters started talking the the stuff that we love. I know. So let's just watch what you cut up or something. But the beginning was the more interesting piece to me. But he was too hyped up. He was so hyped up. He didn't even know who Don Lemon was. He was like, I don't know you, fam. He didn't trust the media. He didn't trust nothing. Yeah, but if you they're not just going after criminals. They're going door to door and they're targeting any black and brown person they can find. And all of America is next. If you live by a black or brown person, you're next.

They're above the law. They outnumber our police. You're a white-in-assist agenda, no? Because there's a point where whites got to stand up and recognize that this is a white person problem, and we need to represent our black and brown neighbors and disavow MAGA. We need to put an end of this. We need to put an end of this. We fucked up so bad.

Damn, he said that tears, when he said we effed up so bad, the tears of his voice, it sounded like he voted MAGA. I know. He might have. He was like, we f*** so bad. Because as upset as I am, I would never utter the words we bleeped up so bad. That would never come to my mind. Well, he goes on to say that something that we've been talking about on this show, which is this is the end result.

This is the lie. I think he says something like this is the logical conclusion, basically for a nation that has never addressed its past. Never, never thoroughly gotten rid of Confederate flags, never thoroughly gutted the, the Nazi thought process and all of that propaganda. Never like Germany and other nations made that sort of thing illegal. This is the logical conclusion when you allow this to just continue to fester under this false guise of free speech. Because speaking of free speech, bring up the football player that put in the genocide on his face. Aziz al-Shahir of the Houston Texans.

he got fined $11,000 which is peanuts to him I'm sure I wanted to start a go fund me and everybody told me to side bab but it but it but it was just not because he needs the money but just for the spectacle

why do people tell you to shut your because he's rich he doesn't need any money also I mean it's not a I imagine that's not a specific I assume they find people who do anything thing with their eye black. No. When they put Love You Mom, when they put God, when they put, you know, Bible verses. Oh no. You don't find them. No. Oh. But I was in Rosenberg. I thought it was anybody who wrote anything. Come on guys. You know how many people we've seen right stuff on there?

I mean, I guess right. By the way, what genocide was he talking about? That's an interesting one too, right? He didn't even say what genocide was. Right. So, what, we, we're talking about. Right. Now speaking of genocide, can I tell you my disappointment of the weekend is not even in the fact that I saw clips of Gavin Newsom, you know, agreeing with Ben Shapiro that it's not technically a genocide in Gaza. It wasn't even that part that bothered me as much as why if you're maybe someone who's going to be serious about defeating Donald Trump is, do you think that this is the time to spend your time to spend your time to doing a podcast where you're talking to one bigot after another.

I know because it's not the first time. We've seen him do it with multiple. No, that's what he does. He wants to do. He wants to do this and he has a theory behind it. What is? What is? What I would like to ask?

Well, that he thinks these conversations between people who are on far. He thinks there's something to gain in these conversations with these people that if you could find some common ground, maybe you can get some of their people. I would like to ask Gavin Newsom how that's going. A what? That's a real. a real movement. I saw a whole, I saw a whole commercial. It was like a 90-second commercial from this institute that did these studies about people in America, blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah. It's a whole, there is a whole movement. So brace yourselves of this whole, we need to, we need to sit down with people we disagree with and have conversations. And I would like to say, F out of it. That's, that's sort of That's sort of where I'm at. And not, not because we can have conversations with people we politically disagree with, right? Like I don't have a problem having politics. I've said this a thousand times. You don't like black people.

I can't have a conversation with you, bro. You want black people gone. I can't have a conversation with you. So maybe I can make the case that Ben Shapiro is on the, the more reasonable side of right-wingers I despise to have a conversation with. I don't believe that I don't believe that Ben Shapiro is like a white supremacist or anything like that. I mean, look, he went on the breakfast club. No, he's a, many people go on the breakfast club. But no, I don't think he is Stephen Miller.

But my point is, because I hear your point, Ebro, first of all, I agree with you. Exactly. If you're, if you're just an out-and-out racist, there's nothing to talk about, period. But also, even if for a Ben Shapiro type, who I think, sure, you could maybe have an intellectual argument with. Gavin, the seriousness of what's going on, is this what you need to be doing with your time? Like, are you really going to be the man to try to lead us out of this muck and mire? Is you podcasting through all of this stuff rather than standing up? He's not aggressively standing up against ICE right now. Frankly, if that guy's dead serious about trying to win the election, he should probably be in Minneapolis.

He should probably be out there with people talking to people doing the, thing. Not chatting with Ben Shapiro, bro. Yeah, I don't know how that plays as a governor of a different state, but. Yeah, I don't know you there. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I, and I'm being serious when I say, I don't know how to play. But I mean, I don't know. I guess it depends on whether his plan is being governor of that state or really

trying to lead us against, because he's been the one who's been the most direct about we are going to lose the country. We're not going to have elections. Remember, when ICE was in L.A. or the fire in L.A., or they're still in L.A., but when they were, when they had the National Guard there, all of that, he was very, he was very much on the front lines and very vocal

and very good. He was. He was. He was. Very hard. There is a world, and I'm saying it again, there is a world where many of us do not want to see people who are going to you know, get comfy and have

these, you know, agree to disagree conversations with the people who have created the atmosphere who have supported and helped create the atmosphere we have right now. I am one of them. But best believe as we get to the midterms or we get to the next election cycle, we are going to be inundated with people who are trying to be like we need to hear both sides.

That's how we bring the country back together. But once again, like, for instance, if you're a person that's like, yeah, January 6th wasn't violent, I can't have a conversation with you. You're a liar. Like, you're a stone cold liar. Well, that's the question. If you, if you think that Confederate flags and Nazi propaganda just falls under free speech. Can't rock with you. You're a stone cold liar. It does fall under free speech, but you know that's not what this is about. So the question is how many people are like that all the way over there and there's nothing to be talked about? And how many people are there enough people there who voted for Trump who may be looking around going this isn't exactly what I wanted?

But that's what Joe Rogan and the likes are going. where they're like no i didn't want ice doing all this even though and by the way i would before i have a conversation with you i'd have to ask you how did i know that this was going to happen and you didn't that means you didn't believe what they were saying that means that you listened to him talk and you did not believe or you heard them talk and you didn't say well how are they going to round up two million they're claiming these numbers two million 21 million people who came up how are they going to going to find these people. So that means you're dumb. So that might also be another reason why I don't want to talk to you is because you're an effing idiot. And I can't take you serious. Because

why did my dumbass who is not as rich as any of you guys or even have access to any of these people, I was able to discern that it would be a stone cold disaster if we run around and round up millions of people? How did I know that? And you didn't. So I guess I can't have a conversation when any of these MFers broke. Because they thought it was just leftist propaganda. No, you thought it was just like, oh, politicians say crazy-ish. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they just say, they're crazy.

They say whatever. They don't really mean it. Listen, Ebro, nobody is asking you or me or Laura, thank God, to have a conversation with these people. The question is if there's going to be a free election, because, again, I don't really believe we have a choice. I think, I think that democracy is probably over. But if we are able to have free elections, the question is, though, Is there a candidate who could get some of those people? That's the question.

That's the game Gavin Newsom's trying to play. He thinks apparently, now I will say this, him talking with Charlie Kirk in wake of his killing does age very well for Gavin Newsom. And that's what he wants. He wants to document it. It age well. He was willing to have convoy.

Correct, because there are those new, you know there were those new Charlie Kirk people who became obsessed with him after he died, who were like, He just seemed like he was X, Y, and Z. Another, another batch of, another batch of buffoons I can't talk to. Shut your bitch ass up. I can't do it, man.

Shut up. But Ebro, that's why we're not nominating you. You're not going to run. That's also why we're here on YouTube. Because I'm not willing to have the combo. Yeah, I don't, and I'm happy with the YouTube part, but we can't run you for president. No, and that's why. That's why I can't work.

They won't let me work for, you know, whatever, whoever owns Hot 97 anymore. I'm not sure, guys, I'm not I'm just not, I can't. And by the way, I want the audience to know whoever's watching us today. Do we got people today? Did people wake up with us today? People are, listen.

Not as many as a regular day, but they're here. That's all right, man. People are here and active. I did. I did. Even though I feel great that we're not doing that show anymore. Like, I've woke up multiple days and been like, yo, I'm so happy.

I'm not doing that show or working anymore. I have, I still looked in the mirror and was like, yo why can't you just do as you're asked and told why can't you do it what is wrong with you I don't believe you actually think that though

me and jazz have talked about it I've been like yo why can't like because I start thinking about my children and I start thinking about like yo like safety and and this content lives forever that we're putting out and later on when my kids are older and they see stuff and like

why can't I just be there yeah Let's bring the world together. And, you know, I believe the children are the future. And, you know, landed a free home of the brave. And where did you land? Do you land on you're an asshole? Where'd you, where did you land? I landed on hit the button.

F out of here. Okay. Hit the button or F out of here. F out of here. That other button. F out of here is now formally the other button. Okay. I can't do it.

I can't not do it. And you know why? Because I need my kids to know stand for something, B. Don't get so caught up in materialism. Don't get so caught up and having nice things that when push comes to shove, you're not willing to middle finger of every goddamn body in sight. So that whole setup of you looking in the mirror was just for you to pop the crowd at the end because I'm a hero and I told my kids, we stand. I looked in the mirror and I said, why can't you just do what the others do?

Listen, I jokingly say that all the time. Why didn't I do blank or why I could have done blank? And then I go, but I couldn't have done that because it's not who I am. Now, in one sense, I'm patting myself on the back where it would be good because you're, you stand for something. And then in another sense and I'm like, but also why spend time debating it? Because you know it wasn't in your DNA. You weren't capable. But you do have to reflect, man.

Because look, you do have to go, why can't? Can't I just, and it is. Also, you do. That's not who I am. But we also, let's not act like you're a moron and don't know time and place. Like, you do it when you have the platform to do it. I have, I feel like I have an obligation as a black person in America, a black American with a Jewish mother that when I am on a microphone and we are having conversations about things that matter in this society and in the world. world that I have to stand my going. Facts.

Now, you know, if we're in a business meeting and it doesn't have anything to do with, you know, socio-political, righteousness, blah, blah, blah, freedom and liberation. Sure, we got to have conversations about money and capitalism and making money and all that stuff. But as soon as it delves into making sure the common person is okay and we like at least give people a chance and some hope, I can't just keep kicking people when they're down, bro. I just can't. I can't do it. I mean, we made this our home to do so.

That's just what it is. Like, our show is that. But put all my dancing music. Because every now and then, you know, you got to do the dance. You got to keep a job. This isn't really... You got to put food in the fridge. You know what I'm saying?

You got to do the dance. Listen, just dances have been done. We've all done it. It's just not as many as others. Well, it depends on the dance floor. I'm on a different dance floor. I'm not going to some of them dance floors. That's the problem.

I'm not showing up to them clubs. I'm not trying to get in them clubs. As someone said in the chat earlier, I mean, they said, breakfast club is dancing with the stars. I thought that was a bar. Come on, man. Dancing with the stars is crazy. By the way, I'm paying attention to our chat.

Shut to everybody checking it, man. You guys are amazing. 1.8K. Hello. Hi. And listen, because they're like, they're mad at me because they're saying, why? Why? Why? Why no merch on a Monday? We sold out.

We sold out. We have some more amazing, amazing designs coming your way. And listen, I tried to get more merch on a Monday, and I was told it's too soon. You want to drop another one today? I was going to drop another one today, a new one. No, just chill, chill, chill, chill. We got plans. You got plans.

Ebro and Laura over here act like we're running Supreme. They want to have all the hot drops. Can these people support us, please? They just want to buy our damn shirt. They just want to rock for the team. And they did. And they did. We did really well.

More, way more than I thought we were going to do. I was so happy. I know. Yo, Laura, Laura's initial number speculation was so, you know, the disrespect that she had for the family, the ELR Army. I did it. Not E, bro. The E-L-R-R-M-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E. That was fire.

Except for you spelling it, E-L-R-M-E-E-E-E. I don't know why. I spelled it. I spelled it E-L-R-M-Y. And then I put in. R M-E-E just to be funny. Oh, okay. So it's not, it's FOTS slash E-L-R-R-

No, no. So the FOTS are the friends of the show. That's everybody. Okay, okay. We will hope to establish an EL Army, though. Yeah, that's out here fighting in the streets. Well, and we'll have, you know, then we'll have merch that's associated with the EL Army.

You know what I'm saying? And we got fatigue, hoodies, get some camo going. Some orange and popping, you know what I'm saying? I just thought, I thought you both thought we wouldn't get it. He thought we would read it, ELR my. So he wrote ELR me. I spelled it out. But I think, fanatics up there.

But I like, the reason I like it is because, you know, I love the guy. I love him. But let's just be honest. Joe Budden stole Fots from us that acted like he invented it. So now if we use it, people are going to think we're stealing it back now that we joined the internet for the first time. They're going to think we've used and FOTS though. Did he keep using friends of the show?

I don't know. After he stole it? I don't think he kept using it. You think we could take it back freely? Well, there's no take it back. never stopped using it but we were on the radio ebro we weren't on the internet we were just on the radio no one knows that we existed you know oh well we weren't we weren't really doing it like that anyways of the show is a ebro in the morning creation stop it anyways that whole thing that whole conversation we just had though that turned into you know why why we do what we do and how you know

ebro can't just play play games it was really just overall though you know gavin newsom if you're going to get serious get serious or if we need someone or we need someone or we need someone else to get serious. I got someone. I got someone. You do? Who's that? Stephen A. Smith. Oh, God. That's you. I know you said that you haven't ruled out running for president in 2020. How seriously, though, are you considering it? I'm considering it. I'm considering it in all seriousness because I've had very, very serious people approach me about it. I have no desire to be a politician. I work for ESPN. I work for ABC. I work for Walt Disney. I'm doing quite well. Life is good. You know, and I love my job.

I have great bosses. You know, I have my own YouTube channel. You know, I have a partnership deal with Sirius XM for two, not one, but two radio shows. I hope y'all had a wonderful, happy holiday season that God has blessed all of you. I have my own production company where I'm producing scripted and unscripted content. Plus, I'm doing first-taker morning. I got a lot on my plate. And I'm thoroughly and enjoying it.

I've worked very, very hard over the last several decades to be in this position. And I like my life. But the flip side to it is that, you know. So he's getting approached by powerful people to run for president. I wonder why. It's because you do the dance, Stephen A. And they know you'll get up there and do the dance. And they would love put some money in your coffee.

Let's see you up there and your pinstrike. Talk short. Now, do you think Stephen A and I are in a good place right now, Rosam? Nope. Probably not. Nope. And here's me in the chat. Yeah.

Listen, I say this as someone who loves you, Stephen A. Do not run for president. If you want to get this thing back on the rails or he's not running for president. Please don't. When he said, when he said, I'm considering this in all seriousness, that's when I knew he wasn't serious. I know, there's, yo, Stephen's situation is so good right now. He would absolutely alienate people. he wouldn't win.

I mean, being, I think that's a reasonable, you know, I don't think he could, I don't think he could win. I don't know who Stevens' base would be, right? Because so much of Stephen's appeal is that he pisses people off on all sides. The whites hate him, the blacks hate him, the every, he's got, he's got people who hate him everywhere. I don't know what he would make as his base. It would make a lot of noise, but would it help his, bro, you're talking about doing the dance being, you know, doing the things you got to do to make money would would running for president i just don't see how it helps stephen at this point like he's i don't see it i do it is it is a fun it is a fun thing to keep going but come on is he really doing

that is he that interested in politics i don't know we shall see i hope i hope there's someone i what i was trying to say those i i didn't mean stephen a smith someone else needs to come along here and get serious. Well, we'll see what happens, man. Let it play out. We don't have a lot of time, man. We don't have a lot of time. It looks like, listen. We may not have an election, so. Well, yeah, we'll see. Listen, there are definitely people I would love to have on this show that are on the internet saying there's no world where we're not having elections or midterms.

They literally, they've already started. And I hit a few of them like, please, can I talk to you about this? Because why do I believe that if it gets violent enough, they can suspend the elections? and say that it's unsafe. And what did they say? Well, they didn't hit me back. But midterms have already started. And not only that, not only that, meaning there's places already having,

Senate elections, different things that are already like on the rails to, you know, having, having, oh, you mean that having primaries, primaries, local state, all types of things that are like around the corner in weeks. Oh, oh, because it would be, in theory, you'd be having primaries in the spring.

Right. to then have the generals in the fall. And like King Lou just said, there's just going to be ice at every voting situation. That part. Scareing people away from voting. But here's the solution to that. Early vote or mail-in ballot.

Damn near, every state has it. Yeah. Oh, you know what I mean? If you're worried about being antagonized by jabroney's who think they're tough running around with their little joby job, hoping to get their little $50,000 bonus. and, you know, antagonizing moms, you know what I mean?

Just vote early. You know, we haven't even mentioned the Greenland thing, really. How embarrassing is. It's so, no, it's so embarrassing, bro. Hit the button. I don't know which one you mean. Beyond, I don't know.

I'm with you, Rosenberg. It's beyond embarrassing. No, there's the button. And then there's the other button. God, is you meant. Congratulations, you plagued yourself. That's the button. And that's the other button.

is it weird Laura I want to go back to the Greenland for a moment but Laura is it weird and am I just being that person that for some reason I'm curious for the chat maybe put a poll up in the chat I was shot down when I brought this up but there's something post radio that isn't hidden for me about congratulations you played yourself anymore because the beat don't drop man it's maybe that's it the beat don't drop and maybe we get that white listed and we could

we could do it and we could drop the beat yeah because it was that we had a dedicated conversation Now we just, you know. I don't know, but there is something about it that like reeks of the radio so much that makes me not like it. Also, we get a little crazy with it when I say we, I mean Ebro, where he says to say it 93 times a day. And by the end, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm, I just feel like I'm associated. Maybe if you brought, maybe if you came to the table. I like it.

You're right. In fact, we're supposed to get DeLora's rundown today, which has a whole intro that I thought was great that nobody's even got to yet. Um, actually we, um, I, all I have is a demo version. Okay, can we try the demo? This is, um, so we have a Laura version. Um, we're working on what the permanent one will be. In the meantime, I believe. I like Hot Rod Ricks.

But that's for the, first of all, that's for the lowdown. Hot Rod Ricks is low down. Hmm. Not rundown. I think, uh, that's not it. Yeah. Where I put it in. Oh, no, lo, lo,

Laura got the rundown turned that up screens on glow when she pulled up Headlines heavy but we still cut up Light still flashing we don't slow up And then the beat comes boom back in there But I sure he didn't send us that version I shortened that down to that And then he's got to give us the instrumental

To have it kick off right there What do you think of that? What do you think of that though? I like it I like it well it's like it's a little generic But what I really liked about is that the light still flashing line I thought that was hard I said, you know, I like the homage.

I think it sounds good. You enjoy it, energetic. Makes people want to dance. All right, cool. So hopefully by tomorrow we'll have it with the proper instrumental. But that was the edit me and Griff put together to kind of tighten it up. All right. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. And speaking of dancing, Ebro, the world will dance when Bad Buddy hits that stage now, you know, over the weekend. Bad Bunny just hyped up everyone when he released his, I guess you could say the commercial for the Super Bowl halftime show. It was. Yet another commercial. There's been several, but this one was this Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show. And this ad they put out is, I mean, perfection? Could it be best?

Yes. It was beautiful. It was to Baile Inolvihabil, and it has people from all walks of life, you know, dancing with El Conejo Malo. But I thought it was so beautifully done, man. I don't think I saw that one. Different person. I mean, and he covered it all of Rosenberg.

I guess I saw the shorter one that was just Ebro talking, say. Black, white. Yeah, this isn't me talking. This is him dancing. And as he spins around with different people, different, you know, people from different walks of life pop up. And he's dancing with men and women and grandmas and black and white and Asian. And fathers.

Yeah, like bringing the whole world together. And I got to say, man, you know, for me, this is the kind of protest and pushback I like to see. Right? you have people completely trying to act like this, this Super Bowl halftime show is going to be some sort of exclusionary thing because he's not speaking English. But not realizing that music,

even if you don't understand the language is what brings people together at a time when so many people are divided over different issues. Like this joy and dance moment, that's how you bring people together, man. That's, that's, It's going to be fire. Check it out because all it is is pure joy. That's all it is, Rosenberg.

It's going to make you smile. I'm going to go back in, yeah, I don't know why I didn't catch that one. I saw I kept seeing the other one, the short one, but I'm going to watch it. Yes, yes, yeah. So that was, were you trying to hate on me voice in the Super Bowl stuff? It's the opposite. That's the one I just said that I. Yeah, but it sounded like you were like, I just kept seeing the Ebro one.

Lord, I have a question. Did it sound like that when I said it? I didn't take it like that, Ebro. He literally just made that. As a matter of fact, we were hyping your ass up with your voices all over the Super Bowl. weren't here and we had we were on the show we were hyping you up crazy yeah good to hear you know I don't trust y'all that was great now yeah you're your lord my god he's so sensitive it's so crazy years of trauma of you guys wanted to see my down for you're so crazy about you weirdo

every time I every time I get popping out here you know what I'm saying overburg or laura stouser me down yeah look and now we said and now it was downfall cam and we're stuck with them look at us we all we all fell together hit the button did you guys okay so So the headlines are out, right? That Nelly and Ludacris were part of, you know, Kid Rock's Country Music Festival. But then over the weekend, they were saying Ludacris pulled out. That's the wrong headline, by the way. That's not what happened.

I spoke to Shaka Zulu, a good friend of mine who text me after the show and was basically like, sent me the flyer and said, we were never on this show. They tried to book us and jump the gun. I personally think it's a hit job and would appreciate you getting this out for me. Wow. So he never pulled out because he never agreed. He was never on the show.

And so people who are framing it like he pulled out of something he was going on. Oh, everyone is. Everyone. Everyone is framing us. He pulled out because of the backlash. Well, damn. That's messed up, bro.

They should really put that out as a formal statement. What it sounds like, what it reads like to me is the offer came. they were debating whether it made sense and while discussing it they just, the guys who were doing it just put it up like, oh yeah, he's doing it. That's what it sounds like to me.

But also, wouldn't Luda get a little bit more grace from us? What has Luda ever aligned with that has been questionable, historically, politically? I just think that people don't know anymore. We were all surprised when... Didn't the right, Didn't this righteous right attack ludicrous and make him lose his Pepsi endorsement?

Yeah. Hello, Riley. Was it? He was already, that's before this era. Yes. That's the, that's the old era, the old era that we thought was the worst error you could have. So I, and y'all in the chat, let us know. But I don't remember Luda ever popping up being aligned with this sort of stuff.

No, I don't even think that's it either, but people change. I'm telling you, you see all these artists now that are all of a sudden, it's like, yes, they're okay with it. They're okay with doing that dance. Not only. So I think people are just kind of like, we don't know what to expect. We don't know anymore. Not only that, not only that, but it's the internet, bro. There's no, there's no grace.

There's no, wait a second. This person is never saying, I was more saying us and kind of like, you know, the more logical us. I don't expect that for the internet. You got it. Yeah, yeah. You could literally have been perfect your entire life. And then they see, they hear something. That's not even true.

and they're ready to end you. So good to hear Luda's not doing it. So Nelly's just rolling with it, though. He's good. But y'all know where Nellie's at, man. We had him on the show. Yeah, but he didn't go. There's no middle ground, man, on the Trump thing, bro.

I'm sorry. There isn't. Guys, there's no middle. There's just either, I'm cool, and I'm on the dance floor doing the dance, or I'm not. I don't like his rhetoric. I don't like his policy.

I don't like what he stands for. By the way, there's Republicans who are willing to say that. Very few. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't even know why people are acting. But usually, and, you know, Nellie and I had, you know, people, he got offended. What I would recall he got offended when we had that conversation? He was unhappy with how it was framed.

Yeah, that's a good way, buddy. But here we are again, Nellie. an opportunity for you to say you know what kid rock nah not so much and we ain't heard of Pete no he's he that's where he stands well why that's what's what's saying he had an opportunity to be like yeah no i don't want to be on this festival i'm not aligned with this why i just don't understand it like now they he has i know i know this i don't want to count people's money but you've got enough money to skip this one bro you don't have to go stand next to the the right and we're dropping gun toting biance hating racist you don't have to do this but maybe he doesn't

care at all well yeah i mean listen some people think it's all you know we got there remember you know both sides are bad bro i mean she it's all the same they're all politicians they're all the same he's probably i don't trust any politician you think obama was so good he was deporting people right but you're willing to get you're willing to go to kid rock's festival and what would it how did you describe kid rock one more time rosamber uh uh uh i an N-word dropping, gun-toating, Beyonce hating racist? Yes. That's enough for me.

Well, that was- Nelly, you're good with that. I just don't understand what he's doing. Come on, man. Ashanti talked to him. Not all money's good money, bro. And some money, some money is going to help prevent your money in the long one. Well, I got news for you.

This moment in history won't be forgotten. This won't get forgotten like, you know, James Brown posing with Richard Nixon or, you know, Easy E up there with Reagan or Michael Jackson up there with Reagan. This won't get forgotten like that. Well, and for good reason. We thought at the time it could get no worse than hanging out with Ronald Reagan. Boy, were we wrong? We didn't know.

Listen, the man sprinkled some crack all through the hood. You know, it destroyed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives. But it wasn't like this. That was just regular president talk at the time. This is different. That was just CIA trafficking drugs to fund a war movement. We accept that that's what America is. We accept that.

This, though, this is different. Laura, you ready for the lowdown? Hey, no. She's not ready for the lowdown. No lowdown today. My lowdown was Stephen A, man. We already dragged him. Oh, sorry.

No, no, I want to be clear. Y'all dragged him because me? Oh, sorry. It's Rosenberg. doing that day. Mickey my, yo, put your Mickey Mouse ears on, bro. No, no, Rosenberg.

You need Mickey Mouse ears when you do this. I know, I do. I do. Rosenberg. You need to keep the Mickey Mouse ears like right next to you. Zoics? So when we start going crazy, you just put your Mickey Mouse ears on. Maya, let me borrow her here. She doesn't need them.

That's funny. So, Laura, so we didn't finish it. So the Greenland thing, the thing that I think I read an article last night about that, that, like, upset me the most was, yo, if you just hear what Danish people are saying. Like there are these Danish people like,

what happened? Like we thought we were, wait, we thought we were French America. We helped you guys here. Like he literally talked Ish about the Danish military being weak. And they're like, don't get us wrong. Like we know that if you all want to take Greenland, there's nothing we could do. But like

we fought alongside America. We were allies. What are you? Why are you threatening us? Why are you insulting us? And by the way, supposedly, they basically have already given the U.S. free reign to Greenland. They have. They're like, you could do what you need to do here. That's a real thing. By the way, that's a real thing. But here's the plot to us.

And this is what I want everybody to pay attention to in Venezuela and everywhere around the world. And this Greenland thing. Trump is doing this for his corporations. He's not doing it for people. He is not doing this for the American people. He is doing this for corporations and his billionaire buddies. Normally when you have a president trying to access minerals or destabilize a nation and put in puppet leadership, it's somehow to benefit the American people prices here, keep prices low, get more resources, blah, blah, blah, blah, benefit the GDP, ah, ah, ah. This is all just for corporations to raise their margins higher. to get more money. That's the whole thing. It is not to benefit us in any way, shape, or form.

Wow. So this is, this is, you know, but there are people out there, they go, yeah, you, bro, but if it benefits the money, it benefits the bottom line, the stocks and the much stuff. It's not, there's no trickle down, guys. Has it been trickling down? Did Reagan's policies trickle down to anybody?

Trickle down economics? What do you mean to save the country? We're doing great. Everyone got rich because all the trickling. Is Wall Street success is trickling down to you right now? Yeah, I'm drowning in money. Yeah, well, we got a, we got a raise from hot many. No, you know what?

It's not trickling down, people. All right. You guys ready for the OGs? Ah, the original gurus. While you get that ready, while you get that ready on this MLK day, that's right the reverend dr martin luther king junior birthday observation okay what you got um this this guy follow him on social media we've i think we've talked about this on air before but it's just a it's a wonderful martin luther king junior uh m lk family tidbit run the clip

am i the only one that did not know the connection between dr martin luther king and julia Roberts? It is such a deep, fascinating connection. So when the Kings were living in Georgia, Koretta Scott King wanted to get her children into a theater school. So she's calling all the theater schools in Georgia, none of them will accept the kids because they're all segregated. She calls this one school in Decatur, Georgia, a woman picks up, Mrs. King explains the situation and asks if they'll accept their children. The woman says absolutely. So she takes the kids into the school and the couple that runs this school accepted them with open arms. Now, this couple ran the only integrated theater and acting school during those times, and it was highly frowned upon

because racial discrimination was at an all-time high. The couple that ran the school was Betty Lou and Walter Roberts, Julia Roberts parents. So the King family and the Roberts became close. They developed a bond, and then Betty Lou got pregnant with Julia, and in 1967, Julia Roberts was born. Since they ran an integrated school, that school struggled financially, so they couldn't afford Julia Roberts' birth. So who stepped up and paid the bill? The Kings. So the King family paid for Julia Roberts' birth, all because Julia Robert's parents welcomed their children into their school. Wow. This is an amazing story to me and an amazing piece of history. Big shout out to the King family.

Big shout out to the Robbers family. This was real dope to me. Shout, his name is Global Mind Apparel on Instagram, but that's just an amazing story on this. Yeah. Celebration of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Yeah, that's a good story, too. Because we definitely did talk about this before,

but I feel like every time we do, someone who is like, oh, my God, I never knew. So I like it. Yeah, I, whenever I first heard that story, I thought it was amazing. And I was like, I knew I loved Julia Roberts. I knew there was something just good about Julia Roberts. You ready for the guru?

The original guru, the OGs. You kidding me? Of course I am. The original gurus at gmail.com. The original gurus at gmail.com. That's where you send us. Your problems. We're here to help you.

Rosenberg, who's out there? Who needs us? Who's writing to the original gurus? The original gurus at gmail.com. The original gurus at gmail.com, your destination for caleric. Zen, zen, zen. Hello, gurus. As a Jersey girl who moved to Vegas, I'm so grateful for your podcast because it gives me a little taste of home every day.

I love living out here, but a lot of these people are weird, and I need my daily dose of East Coast. Anyway, long story short, I'm basically in an abusive relationship with my boss. She's a partner in a law firm. I'm a paralegal and also her assistant. Some days, she wants to shower me with gifts and make me feel like I'm doing a great job. Other days, I'm in tears on the ride home because she can be such a CUNT. I got an offer at another firm for more money that's way closer to where I live. Five minutes versus 30.

I'm concerned she's going to counteroffer me more money to stay. I don't want to stay unless she offers me a lot more money than maybe I do. Is that selling my soul? Yes. I want to leave respectfully and professionally and not burn any bridges. My fear is I'm going to have to tell her that while the money is for sure an incentive to leave, I also need to leave the toxic work environment she's created. How do I approach this?

Love you guys. stressed out in Vegas. Isn't this a great, isn't this the perfect write a professional letter situation? Yeah. Now I guess you have to give two weeks. No, you don't, don't, do you?

I mean, it's the professional thing to do. Right. And if you want to leave it, she says she would to burn any bridges, you should. So you could write the letter, give the two weeks. And then at that point, if she continued, she would really turn it up and make it bad for you, then you can just walk out. That's it.

Yeah. But you are going to have to talk to her. She's, you know, she's going to approach you about it. You're going to have to have a conversation. But what do you mean if there's more money I'm thinking about staying? You're saying you're stressed. What's wrong with you? Get out.

That's a real thing, Laura Stiles, where people, money, people are willing to do the dance. Hit the music. That's right. Even if it's, you're tearing up that mental health. That's right. We'll do it. Lauren, they'll do it.

We've done it. Stop acting like that you've done it. I know, but I'm not doing the dance right now. I think she should leave. No, you're at a certain place in your life where you're not willing to do the dance. But depending on where you are in your life and how important opportunities are, there are definitely people who are doing the dance for the money in places where their mental health is not. Yes, yes, yes.

So great. Understood. But in this particular case, she has an offer that's closer, more money. Everything that she wants she's getting. So I just don't see any reason for you to stay. I mean, listen, it would have to be, listen, if you're going to, I'll say this, if you're going to sell your soul, you better make it worthwhile. It better not be that the new place is giving you 20 grand more and she's like, I'll give you 30 more. Now, if the new place is giving you 20 and she comes back and says, I'll give you a hundred more.

And then you won't have a conversation about it. Okay, but she's not going to do that. So a lot of times, too, when people get these offers and they're like, oh, they offer me more money and you'll be like, well, how much more? Oh, $2,500. and I would go, you know what that is after taxes. So they offered you $2,500 over the course of a year. And you bust that down over the course of every two weeks plus taxes. That's like no money.

And you hate it. Bottom line, she hates it. And she has a new opportunity to start a new life. So I think she should just quit, do it professionally, follow Rosenberg's advice, write the letter, give the two weeks, and just keep it moving. So say the guru. Bow. Get down, get down.

Easy. You solved a problem. The gurus have solved the life. Really quickly, y'all sat with that Rocky album by any chance? I love that Rocky album. Pretty good, right? I liked it too.

Listen, people are out here acting like Rocky hasn't made like trap hybrid alternative music before. Y'all ain't been listening. My first run through it, it had not grabbed me yet. I got to go back and, I rode to it. I've listened to it multiple times. He gets eclectic.

No, it does, but that's, but I've heard that on multiple Rocky album. Yeah. Laura, he gets what? He gets what? Electic. Inclectic? No, I know. I'm making fun of, um, Cam Newton.

You didn't see the Cam Newton club? He was, his was end. Yeah, where he said enlectic. And then he said, how do you spell it? And he said, encollecta? It didn't. Yo, Cam Newton is the special. Yo, we will play an algorithm us while.

He's getting them numbers. Cam Newton doing their algorithm. What's? You know, you guys know I don't trust someone. As soon as I see they have an outfit that they have to wear every time. Oh, not, no, no, no, no, no. Laura. Yes.

It was, uh, what's bro's name that had the blue Patagonia vest? Oh, no, I'm out. Oh, my God. What's his name? That was my guy, man. What's his name? The guy from Black Lives Matter. Yes.

What was our man's name? I guess you're not seeing him anymore. We're Kesson. Yeah. Yeah, McKesson. DeRay. DeRay. I love Dewey.

That was a good dude. Dorey who wouldn't even look at me and Rosenberg? Hi, Ebro. Dorey only wanted Ebro. He wanted him some Ebro, boy. Oh, no, don't do that. Don't do that. He was just, he was focused on black lives.

Y'all didn't have nothing to do with that. Yeah. Let me. I'll put him on the Mount Rushmore. People didn't give two shits about us. I'll put him on the Mount Rushmore with Lizzo. Him and Lizzo, don't even know me and Laura were on the show. They're like,

so anyways, E. I can't, cute, cute, Well, no, and back to people with outfits, anybody with a hat. If you wore a big brim hat, you know, if you just decide that you have to have a hat every time you're on camera. No, but people are trying to have an identity out here,

Rosebar. Why you're such a hater, man? Well, you know, it's back to the original point of why can't I just do the things that would make me more successful? That's right. Why, like, if you had like a yarmulka that you always wore, that had like some

a bedazzled yarmica that said, I could be Ben Shapiro out here. Yeah, for me, I like, I have this weird thing is that I've always felt like if you just rely on, you rely on what you're saying and what you're doing and what your talent is, that should be enough to stand out. You don't need to wear a uniform. But evidence suggests that uniform thing. It helps. It brings off for people. I know that guy.

He's the guy with the hat. It's Branding, Rosenberg. It's the guy with the vest. I love that best. Don't you see the irony? He's black. Now, Rosen, if you would focus on the fact that you promised the audience. an announcement today.

Oh, what do you mean? You think I didn't, you think I wasn't to let the show in without giving an announcement? Oh, okay. Okay, okay. Let's prepare. Let's prepare.

Let's go. All right, chat, pay attention. Good announcement. Okay. So, so tomorrow it goes live because we're saving it for the start of the week. Today's, you know, with the holiday being, it's still kind of the weekend.

But as of tomorrow, chat, we're going to link you up with the official Ebro, Laura Rosenberg, Patreon. situation, which is going to be your portal to a whole lot of content that you missed, that you've been waiting to get back, more content from the show every single week, and it's behind the paywall, which means a couple of things. Music, foul language, less dancing. Not overly foul.

I know. It's terrible. For no reason. By the way, Laura, remember that moment when he just drops a big F bomb in two days. Oh, no, I'm going to be cussing. So, so tomorrow morning at the top of the show, we'll drop you guys with the link. And we were debating about when to do it. Is it too soon?

You know, Ebro is a perfectionist. He wants everything to be just right. But what I explained to him, and I believe I'm writing this, Laura. Okay. Is that Patreon isn't about perfection. Patreon is about taking the people ride with us the hardest. and letting them be along on the ride on the journey to perfection. They want to be with us from day one.

And so on the Patreon, we'll get to do Whiteish Wednesday. Can't two things be true? Can't we be day one and be great on day one? Well, great and perfection aren't the same thing. Well, I just don't feel like we're at our best yet. That's my problem. Well, best and great aren't the same thing. But I think what we're doing is still pretty great.

And I think people will love it. Patreon will have Whiteish Wednesday. It's going to have us playing new music, talking about new music, bringing back some classic things. It's going to be a fun time. And some behind the scenes conversations. Yo, maybe even we show them the plans. We can even show them.

A sneak peek? Nah, bro. Relax, man. Relax. Nah, we'll see. Relax, B. So to everyone who came out. Don't act like there's not going to be haters in there who subscribe. Oh, no.

What? The haters, bro. The people, once they are, once they're throwing down some money, No one throws hate more than the people who support you and think they now have a piece. Nah, it's crazy. No, but there's even haters on our chat

and the ELRV is cooking them. Yo, the EL Army, yeah, don't play with those people, man. I'll tell you right now. Yo, shout out to P, B, NYC, who said, y'all take Snap. I figure it out, I'll figure it out. Listen, we're going to do what we can do. Does Patreon take EBT?

No. We'll figure it out. listen we'll see but we'll still deliver here on YouTube for y'all yeah we're gonna we're gonna be here every day but this is just for the people who do want to support and want some extra content maybe you got a long commute you want even more that's gonna be what patreon is so tomorrow we'll drop the link for you we're excited to do it griff says all over patreon is friends of the show by the way used by joe button say it again that's fine it says friends of the show is all over patreon oh oh because that's what he calls his patreon people is it making

you friends of the show. Got you. Okay. He stole it. Guess what? We will too. We're going to have a friend of the show off. Yo.

Facts. We invented it. Anyway, so we'll drop you the Patreon link tomorrow morning, folks. Enjoy the day. We love you. Enjoy the day off if you have it.

Think about Dr. King today. Today's a day of service. Or as Rosenberg likes to say, a day of rest. Hey, serve, rest. Whatever works for you, man. Anytime Rosenberg could kick his feet up somewhere.

He's the kicking up fetus person you've ever seen. Oh, man. I can't wait. I can't wait until we're back on, like, in a real studio. And you guys will see how often this dude is trying to figure out a place to put his feet up. I don't think the new desk doesn't lend itself to feed up, unfortunately. The old one, though, oh, man. Ebro-Laure-Rosaberg, subscribe, share, do all the things.

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