The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 26.) Friday Freedom, Nicki at the White House + Family Matters (1/30/26)

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

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Ebole Rosenberg. We're on. Yo, yesterday we went live and we were on for like, I don't know, a couple of seconds. And I was going, are we live? Are we live? I got correspondents via text

from people who support our show that are just family members faster than I got communication from... Why are you doing this? Why are you starting? Like, every day you're going to start this way? It's bad, right? I shouldn't do it.

Give them a break some days. I think people will just. deserve a moment. I'm still sitting here reeling. Deserve is a stretch for me, but go ahead. I'm still reeling from post popping up on my, uh, my Twitter page of Nikki, uh, wandering around the Oval Office meeting all these. Oh, I saw that. I saw that. And I just, Laura, what is going on with her outfit? What the hell? Why does she look like an ostrich? What is happening? Well, I think she wore, of course. She wore it. She wore a, she wore, she wore a, she wore a, she wore a, she wore a fur coat and because of her

bodunk a dunk the fur coat you know ends up looking a little protruded like an ostrich it's not it doesn't look right I just wanted to say but dunk a dunk because that hasn't been said in a good 20-25 year

you bring it back you're a throwback not a bad dunk a dunk why don't they say but don't they say but don't get dunk anymore no her in the white hat with the with the fur coat can you just close it stop looking at it. Just stop looking at it.

I know. My friend just sent me like another out of her with Katie Miller. I was like, I don't want to see it. I don't want to see it. I can't do it. I don't want to see it. Don't look away, guys. Don't look away. Because if you look away, you'll potentially forget when she tries to do the next 180 and come back home. Because where do you go from here? Where do you go from here? I guarantee whatever Trump's trying to do with the midterms and stop voting and they were down in Georgia, like stealing ballots or something.

yesterday they sent the FBI into Fulton County, Georgia. You saw that? I saw that. Was that two days ago? Wait, wait, what happened? The FBI pulled up in Fulton County, Georgia and started stealing ballots from like, I think it was the 2024 election or something claiming that, I don't know, something was going on where they were down there.

And the woman was basically saying they are trying to steal the election in Georgia. They are trying to cause some sort of chaos in Fulton County. which is a predominantly black county, which ultimately usually decides where the state of Georgia might go. She was basically breaking it down Rosenberg on like how illegal it is and why and she was just ringing the alarm.

Y'all should be scared. This is what they're doing. They're abusing their power and they're trying to take your voter voter data. Well, yeah, I mean, we know that. That's, isn't Laura, isn't that what you were saying the other day about what they've been doing in Minneapolis

saying handover your vote? That's what they want. They want the voter information and we'll get ICE out of your, out of your area. This is crazy. Nikki's new friends. You got some interesting friends, bro. Well, listen, man. Guys.

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to do it. It's right. Well, we got family matters. We got Friday Freedom. You know, we'll still get to the rundown. Maybe there, maybe Laura's got something planned in the lowdown. No, we don't do rundown Fridays. Well, yesterday we didn't even.

do the gurus. Well, that's, that's, we will today. We got to get some consistency going on here. This is lack of effort. No, but you just forget. You're the one forgetting. I'm not blaming y'all. I'm blaming us.

I'm not, it wasn't an accusation to you. We're hearing your blame for all of us, and we're just turning around and putting it squarely on you instead. Do you see what's happening here? It's called being bad teammate. All right. I like it.

We do, we never do the rundown on Fridays, and we do the gurus every day. except yesterday, we had so much to do that after an hour you were like, hey, we got to skip the gurus. It's rare. On the radio show, it's very rare to skip the gurus too. It's happened.

It's happened. It happens. What radio show are you referencing? I don't remember. Oh, it's moved on. I've moved on. I don't remember what you're talking about. It's only hearing forward.

It's now, baby. It's all right now in front of us. Yo, I got a shout out to Killer Mike, who I saw out here in Los Angeles. and he was staying the same hotel. And he was very, very, he was giving us our flowers. Oh, really? He was like, yo, man, the way you guys just came back shooting,

the way you guys just landed on your feet, you know what I mean, just square. Like, man, phenomenal. I was like, yo, man, thanks, bro. Is he coming on the show? I didn't ask, but I'm assuming he would. I don't see why he wouldn't. Yeah, I don't see why he would.

And he's got a new project he's working on probably, and I'm sure we'll see him. But we are working on guests. And we are lining up guests for the new stew. A lot of great feedback on the new stew. Yes. A guest poll would be a, that's interesting. Who would you want to see?

Realistically, like don't write Beyonce. Right, you know she's not coming. Or Rihanna. Or Drake or Rihanna or Travis Scott. Or. Travis, you don't think would ever come on the show you? Travis ain't coming back. He came once.

No, no, no. Travis came multiple. times took over the show we opened up the whole show for him and like just let him do whatever we celebrated Travis on his on his ascension and now nothing well you just think because he's gotten too big not because he doesn't not because he dislikes us yeah I just think he's too big and what if he said Michael Rubin was here if Michael Rubin was here would he come and no if we were actually having a uh uh uh what's it called fanatics party after party at our studio he's there Travis Scott's there Matter of fact,

Yo, Michael Rupert, we got a new stew. We can have like, how many people you think we can fit in the new stew? 10? You mean to be on the air or to? No, no, just hanging out. Just hanging out. Oh, oh, no, hang out.

30. Yeah. You think 30 people in it? Chill, chill. Maybe we'll go to 20, 20. 20. Yes. So everyone could be safe and comfortable,

20, 20. Speaking of polls, content idea for Patreon. Should we talk about that here or is that something we should talk about other places? I think content idea for,

no, have it to, go ahead. It's Friday, go ahead. Friday night Flavis comes back. Yo, that's not our show.

You really want Pete Rock to age you, huh? Oh, my God. That was future flavor. Sorry, that was future flavor. No, I'm trolling. I'm trolling.

No, but in that vein, though, If I'm a Patreon subscriber and we gave them Friday night or Saturday night live music content, is that Fuego or Fugazi? I think it might be fun. It might be cool. I just wonder how many people will be tuning in on a Saturday night because people are out. Are they? Are they?

Say, there's that part too. Lori, you're out. No, no, Ebro, she's out. People are out. Our audience is 30 plus. They might be out. But what I'm talking about like 8 o'clock. Okay, okay.

7 o'clock, 8 o'clock. You know what I mean? Like a nice Friday night. You're looking for something to do. Boom, flip on the Patreon. We're live. Or something is live Friday night, Saturday night. But do you mean like a mix show?

I don't know what I mean. But yes, could be DJ, could be Convo, could be live performance. I think that we're very capable of having some really cool live performances. Because the stew has tentacles. Now, the stew got situations. Got situations. But I think Laura just went, am I out of school?

Am I out of whatever for saying, Ebro, that Laura's going? That's another step. That's another step. I mean, we're talking about wishful thinking, the future. No, no, Ebro's we could do. Like, Ebro means something that we could fire up next week if we wanted to. Yeah. Like, he just means playing music.

But yes, but we could still, what Lars saying is, has it. No, in time, in time, I think we could. Yeah. Oh, exciting. So that could be cool. So what I'm asking is, and maybe in the chat they could talk, what I'm asking is, is that content that you would love to have from us via Patreon because we can't do it live on YouTube.

So it would have to be Patreon. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. All right. Well, no. Roseburg can't decide. He can't decide. Well, the only thing I'm thinking about is, like, how do those DJ mixes work? Like, my wife loves to play in our house in the living room while she's hanging out with the baby.

She loves to have on, like, a DJ playing. It'll be a Neo Soul mix. And it's just a DJ in his house playing music or whatever thing. Why? So there is a way to do that and not get flat. Well, let's just do it and we see what happens. You can go live on YouTube, demonetize it. Yeah, you can't monetize it.

And because you're not stealing video, you can get away with playing it. But if you started playing video, got it. Yeah, and I was talking about Patreon. I'm trying to, listen, guys, we have people giving us their hard-earned money every month. I'm trying to find out ways to incentivize, A, doing that because we are charging a pretty penny.

I think $10, $9.99, whatever you guys call it. That's not light. Like, people have to think about that. Like, that has to be a consideration. Like, am I going to commit to this? And if you're watching this right now, and you can consider that, please go ahead and subscribe. We appreciate you.

But I'm trying to figure out how to make sure that that has the real value we need. Okay. It would be fun, though. I would be open to it. Okay. I do want a DJ again. That was a heavier lift than I anticipated when I started. I've had DJ friends ask me, when am I going to be a guest?

They're ready. Oh, really? Yeah. That's nice. They're ready. Do they got a following? Anybody actually want to see them? Like, what we're talking about?

Yeah. We're talking about some legends. Like, what do you mean? Whoa. We know some amazing people. I didn't know who you were talking about. I didn't know who you were talking about. I didn't know if it was like Juanito, who your beef and weight, hit you on the side.

And he thinks people want to see him, DJ. No. F-k out of here. Yikes. That came in quick. By the way, I just want to point out, none of us are in control of the drops right now. And whoever hit that was quick. No, they heard Juanito.

No, they heard Juanito. And they said, I can't get a drop hit that fast ever. And they came through quickly. I couldn't even finish my thought. I was going to say, let's hit family matters if you have drops. You have that? Do they have that? I don't know this.

It's time. Woo. Got everything today. Conditioning. This day and age to read any good news on the news paper paper. Love and tradition of the grand design. Some people say it's even harder to find. Some magic clue inside these gentle ones are.

All right. Now turn it all. We don't want to get flag. Too much. Too much. All right, right. Let's go by. Yo, I have never watched more, full episodes.

I can't, maybe five, full episodes. No, it wasn't your era. What years were that? What years was already? You were like, R.GIF. Yeah, TGIF, Ibro was already like a young teenager and outside. Right. No, I was.

TGII.F, what are you talking about? Oh, God. Thank you for proving the point. That was the lineup on Fridays on ABC. Yeah. Friday. I was outside. I was not watching C.O.

Rosebar, you were watching dinosaurs? I didn't watch dinosaurs. What? Dinosaurs. I watched Full House and Family Matters, though. And I watched Full House and Family Matters. Yeah, me too. And I watched strangers at some point on Friday.

We were eight years old. Wait, perfect strangers was Fridays? I think at some point it moved to Fridays. Because I watched Balki Bar Takamas. Don't play with me. That was earlier. Yeah, that was, that was, you know, by the time, 13, 14, Ebro was outside.

You know? Yeah, I was in the streets. I was in the streets 13 years old. Oh, yeah, no, I wasn't, I wasn't still on my mommy's teat. You know what I'm saying? Oh, shut up. Like these two couldn't even go outside. My dad was like, you ain't going nowhere.

I'm like, fine. What else would you say? Rosenberg keeps going, I was eight. Yeah, I'm not going to say. I was eight years old. By the time I was 14, my parents still wouldn't let me go to like concerts downtown or anything. Oh, wow, yeah. That was still just hanging out of friends' houses.

I was at the, I worked in the mall at, 14. So at 14 years old, I was working at two stores in the mall where I was unpacking boxes. And the mall closed, I think, at like 9 o'clock at night. And so I had to, I still had to get home via bus or bike. And I said, and that's when I started, and around my way, that's when I started, like, playing music. Like this one, this cat used to do these house parties. And that's when I, I would like, you know, on the way home as he was setting up. You know what I mean? Get a little second to go see what's going on type of thing before I had to be in the house. But I couldn't stay out until like 11 o'clock.

But I was trying to, I was moving around a little bit. Rosenberg, what was your first job? Like your very, very first job? I had so many. But the first one? First one. First one was at the synagogue. Oh.

At the Hebrew school. Okay. Beth Shalom? No. Or Kodesh. I was at the synagogue. I went to Beth Shalom. What were you doing?

I was helping with Hebrew school with the little kids. Oh, that's nice. But they had me in the office. I was, you know, filing papers, doing Xerox copies, just helping out in the Hebrew school. Then my second job, then my second job was at the reggae record label,

my friend Allison, who you met the other day, Laura. Yes, yes, yes. Allison's uncle, Dr. Dredd, he owned the record label in Silver Spring, so I did that. Then I was at Foot Locker. All right, all right, right. I had a lot of jobs. I was front desk. Front desk at a dry cleaners.

That was my first job. It's an important job. Wait, Laura, you know, it's crazy? When I was, when, so my grandmother owned a dry cleaners in Albany, California, which is right outside Berkeley, Richmond, that kind of area. So when I was like seven, no, no, yeah, like five, six, seven, I was working the front desk at the dry cleaners. Oh, nice. I remember, yo, how about this?

I remember having a Walkman, my first Walkman I got for Christmas, sitting at the front desk, and I had two cassettes. Okay. Oh, here we go. I had Cool it now. Okay. And I had Michael Jackson Thriller. So no, I had to be nine. That's 84, right?

83, 84. So I had to be 8, 9-year-old. Yeah, the album's 83. What? Thriller's 83. 82. Oh, 82? I think 3 was actual release date.

Yeah, so I was 7. Oh, wow. No, I was working at the drive news at 14. Because my tape was to Cal. That was my tape. Good tape. Great tape. No, I was right.

I was right. Sorry. The album is November 29, 82. And the crazy thing is it can get confusing because the single for Thriller is the last off the album, a full year later. Ah, got it.

Okay. But I definitely remember having that when it dropped. I got that or around when it dropped because I got it for Christmas. So that was at November, so it was a month after a drop.

All you could do when the girl's mind came out, came on is fast forward. old school fast forward. I didn't even know I hated it. You didn't know you hated it? You know, no, I didn't know I hated it then. You know why? Because I was seven and I had zero taste.

You know, like the rest of you people who jump on here telling me what your kids like and, oh, listen to the kids. Yo, F these damn kids. You know, they don't have no taste. They don't have no context. They don't have no. I didn't know that Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney singing about a girl and them fighting over a girl was, excuse my language. Dog. I didn't know

That's harsh Yeah I didn't know Family Matters But anyway Origin stories Well speaking of family matters Rosenberg you have a big story right What's happening with you man

I don't want to like I honestly don't feel like getting all Like too deep because it's confusing And it's to put me in a mood But essentially we moved into an apartment Because we needed space All right And

I think people remember that saga Yes I think so And it's just not even though there's upside to it there are things we like about it bro it's something else every day like we are just every day there's

something that annoys us that the Maya's room is cold this thing isn't working the lobby when it snows is so slippery that literally your word you're going to die yeah I had to fight with these people and say I'm helping

y'all out you need to do something or someone's going to harm themselves badly. This is like a skating rink. What are you doing? It is. I was just at his apartment, Ebro, and he's 100% right. Someone's definitely going to bust their ass.

Wait, what y'all was doing? I didn't get the invite. What's happening? Let's talk about, since we're talking about family matters, I didn't get the invite to the gathering. That's what type of time won?

Well, Laura, Laura, did you mention? A lot of stuttering going on. Well, did Laura, did you mention your thing that you were doing in the city to Ibra? I don't know if my man did. Oh, wow. Did Ricardo text you?

Ricardo hit me with the last minute text. About? He probably was like he's not going to come. Saying they were having brunch and Soho. A little brunch and so. Go ahead. But it was to celebrate, you know, the artist he's working with Ryan Witherspoon. Got it.

So, you know, he just dropped in a single. Yeah. So it was just like a brunch. And so Ricardo reached out and hit me. and my friend Allison was coming over and then Natalie was like oh see if Laura and Ricardo want to pop by if they're in the city

and so they pop by. No, he hasn't hit me about that. I only get hit when I can help them get on playlist and actually help him make money but nobody wants me to come have a meal. You know what I'm saying? Nobody wants me to just hang out but please help us make money

and promote our artists. You know what I'm saying? He would have said absolutely not on a Saturday. I'm watching. I'm watching how this plays out. Tell you man, Laura Stiles that, you know, I'm watching them. I'll tell him that you're offended because you didn't get an invite.

You know what I'm saying? Not that I was going to come. I thought it wasn't. I thought it wasn't. I wasn't going to come on a Saturday because. I already asked me and I was like, I got to come. Well, the other part is Saturday, you know what Saturday is. Saturday is me, Salasi, and Issa, okay?

We leave the house promptly at 9 a.m. We get smoothies and bagels. Okay. And then we got to get Issa to Alvin Ailey by, uh, by, uh, no later than 930 so she can start stretching and warming up. And then I got to get Salasi back down to gymnastics. Do gymnastics. So I'm in there with Salasi on the balance beam working on forward rolls and all that.

They get back uptown, pick Issa up, and then we go get lunch. So we're not. The answer is he wouldn't have done it no matter what. I know. But here we are. So, yes. So Loras saw my apartment for the first time the other day. So Natalie hit me is like, do you want to swing by?

And because also, you know, yes, she was like, I'm my friend Allison is here. I was like, all right, yes, we'll swing by. So anyways, long story short, there's always something. This apartment is very expensive. The hallways are nasty as hell. They're doing a construction two apartments over from us that I'm pretty sure is unpermitted and they're doing it on some shady-ish. Hard to explain why.

It's just weird. It's just effing weird. Today, Natalie opens the door. I'm not home, obviously. I can't say Natalie's in, you know, having the best time dealing with everything while I'm in Saudi Arabia across the world on roller coasters with wrestlers. It's already not the best, you know, situation. That's exactly how she feels. She opens the front door and it's completely draped off like you're in a fuck, a bleeping hazmat situation, like a blue.

Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one to learn. So she can't even walk out our door. There was no heads up, nothing. Nothing. It's all with these people, right? And so here's the part that's, I fear how Ebro is going to react to this because I know his, I just know him. But we still have our other place.

We're in the process of setting up to sell it. And it's really hard because we go there and we're like, we're leaving the place we like. and we hate the place we are. I know. We're debating what we do and whether we just take the next month to minimize the stuff because we know we could have stayed there

if we didn't have a ton of stuff. It was a manageable place for one child. Yes. But not when you're a collector with 90 pairs of shoes and all your records. We could go back and make it work there. Yo, I don't have a garage, bro.

I know this sounds super spoiled. I'm sorry. Send your emails. No, listen. Ebro Laura Rosenberg at gmail.com. Spoiled Rosenberg talks about parking lot. My car is currently under, I don't know, nine feet of ice. Like, it's just a lot, bro.

Rosenberg. You can't even include the fact. Sorry, Laura, go ahead. No, I was just going to say, listen, you know my man is a collector. Collector. Yeah. Is it? Yo, we get in it.

This is family matters. We're in it. You know how I feel. You know how I feel, right? But you said, porner? No, hoarder. Horder. I was like, wait, what?

So he told me back to Nikki Minaj and Trump again. Oh, like, what? So, and I was a collector, too. I'm not going to front. I had time. Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. You're late. You were late on that one.

Whoever was actually, you must be Griff. You were late on that one, but I see where you were going. No, no, no. You guys already know. I, bro, you already know. I had tons of Supreme Limited Edition, this and sneakers. Guys, I got rid of so much junk after Kenza came into our lives. And one of the biggest, to be honest with you, me and Ricardo don't fight.

We fight about stuff. Yeah. Because I'm like, you got to get it out. You got to get it out. And I have this thing that's like, you're bringing five sneakers in. Some of them has to go out. You know what the problem is, though? But, Laura, that's a good thing that you guys fight about it.

The problem is me and Natalie don't fight about it because we both want it. I know. I know. And then we say, we're going to do it. We're going to do better. We're going to. But the bottom line is, like, Laura, you know, I mean, Ebro, you haven't been to my home in a while, but you've been in that home too.

My old apartment is enough for us and a small child. It's not that crazy. It's manageable. It just, we didn't have it. So let me ask you this, Rosenberg since we're in family matters. Do you love the inside of this apartment that you're in? Of my new one? Yes, the new one.

I like it and it's more comfortable than our old place. I like it. I'm not going to go as far and say, I love it. Like, as Laura can attest to, a lot of the spaces in the hallways, it's not like the living rooms that much bigger than our old living room.

No. It's got a longer hallway and more bedrooms. Long hallways and more bedrooms. And smaller rooms and like a lot, more smaller rooms. More small rooms. It's not that much bigger. The main thing that would hurt Natalie

is she would lose the kitchen. And in this kitchen, she can actually, there's an island. She can like prep and cook. Our other one is small, challenging kitchen. So you've been in this new place 12 weeks? No, not even. We're coming up on eight weeks. And we just had a snowstorm and the weather's been trash and the building is well-documented

trash. The question I have for you is when the sun is shining again, will it feel different? Will it feel different? Yeah, I don't know. This is what I'm going to be wrestling with because the only other thing is if I'm going to try to deal with these these landlords if I'm going to try to deal with them my best play if I have a hope is probably top of spring to get out because that's when people rent right so if you want to make the move if there's a chance they'll let us get out because I call the lawyer yo the system is so foul the lawyer was like listen are there running across your room if not you're probably gonna waste a lot of time and money if you try to make this illegal reason to leave they have all the power the landlords have all the power

right right we live in a favor New York City's a financial city you know that's what mom that's why you have a mom Donnie fighting the and people voting for that is because the the the the financial hub the big real estate big corporate They run New York City. Yeah. And you know what happens when you talk about these violations? You You these violations they get slapped on the wrist.

Nothing happens. Maybe they pay it. Maybe they don't. She just showed me that it's both of our doors. We have two doors at our apartment. Both of them are completely covered. By the way, what kind of nastiness is happening out there that you have to cover our doors to? I know.

And why didn't they give you a heads up? You have a child. How are we going outside with our child? How are we taking the dog out? I'm sure it has something to do with this construction. Right. And whatever. If I were her, I would take a pair of scissors.

And I would cut a slit in the tarp, excuse my language. And I'm going to buy my business. Well, we're going to have to, but like, that's still a little iffy. What are you doing out there? Yeah, you don't want to expose her to any weird dust. No, yeah. I mean, there's definitely dust. And there's

Fumes And by the way You're already exposed If you're in your house She should definitely Put a mask on And maybe a face covering On a baby

No the baby's not gonna go out It's also zero degrees outside There's nothing to go out What are you going out for right now? Right So maybe that's why they just Maybe that's why they tarped it They're trying to insulate it

Maybe it's cold in that joint And they were like you know what There's an old building Let's just throw up the tarp Let me ask you a real question Let me ask you a real question I called a couple of environmental places about coming to check out the place for me.

Yeah. The first place won't like 900 to even show up. Was this for the mold inspection? We never got an update on the mold. No, yeah. Not for mold. I'm not even as worried about the mold because I don't think the mold was related to my health.

Like, we're fine. We're all doing okay now. Okay. They have like 11 different lead paint violations. So let me ask you the question. What's the likelihood if they've had that many different violations of every sort humanly possible.

What is the likelihood that there's not some sort of effery underneath what we can see in this apartment? Oh, for sure. I have a neighbor friend who went in the light. He went in his lights and took pictures. And he saw that they clearly had cut through firewalls to make their apartments bigger.

Yeah. You're not supposed to cut through firewalls. They're there for a reason to block fire. if God's right there was one. That's right. Not only that, when he stuck his camera up there,

he saw tons of debris. Like, they dropped the ceiling and left bullsh stuff on top of the ceiling. Yeah? So we could have nasty rocks and unhealthy things above us.

Oh, there's definitely mold. There's definitely asbestos. Yeah, no, there's definitely asbestos. And lead paint. So my question is, if they've done all of those things,

What are the odds that we're not being affected by it at all? Well, I think, listen, this is family matters, and this is a family matter. And since we're your family and we're dealing with this matter, we also want to make sure you know, congratulations, you plays yourself. I didn't know where he was going. I don't know. Sorry, Pee. Congratulations, you plays yourself. No, it's the most, it's the most, it's perfect.

It's the definition of congratulations you pledges. No, 1,000%. Now, congratulations, you plagued yourself. That was today's family matters. It was a great episode. We got some Laura in there. We got some Rosenberg. Thank you for sharing.

On my end of the stick, everything is great. ESA's 11. I just missed her science, her STEM fair at her school, which I'd never missed before, but because they moved it to a Thursday instead of a Saturday. And I'm currently traveling, dealing with Super Bowl next week. And this week was versus. Matter of fact versus tonight, Apple Music, 8 o'clock Eastern, 5 o'clock Pacific. Mike Will made it versus hit boy.

And I'm hearing the special guests. Wow. Oh, man, this is going to be fun. Let's see if this works out, though. Let's see if it works out. Because everybody's in town, it's the Grammys. But anyway, but I had to have a long conversation with Issa where she, you know, she's a big sister now. Yes.

She's got a very busy schedule with flag football and Alvin. The stresses of school, she's kind of feeling like, you know, she's a sixth grader now. She's, you know, talking about high school. She's, you know, looking around at what the world has to offer. And she's got a lot of stuff going on. Okay. I can't put all her business out. But she was like, Daddy, I don't feel like, I don't, I don't feel like we get to talk anymore.

Uh-uh. Now, mind you, we opened up our Apple Music Studios in, Los Angeles in August. So I've been out here a lot more. And I've had to travel a lot more to get out here and do content out here. Normally, Issa and I would have, me and Issa would, I would pick her up from school, we'd take her to dinner. That was like our Monday thing, take her to practice.

But because she's had flag football and I'm doing Apple music, I haven't been able to get her from school. Mom's had to get her taking her practice. Plus, now you're a big sister. So every time she's at my house, we walk in the house and it's Salassian, toddler, run around and it's chaotic. I'm like, listen, I completely understand. So we have one of those talks.

And I was like, anytime you want to talk, just let me know. She's like, well, sometimes you seem so busy. And then, you know, we have family stuff and we're having fun doing other stuff. And it's just like, you're just, and I was like, listen, anytime we need to talk, you just say, Daddy, we need to talk and everything stops and we focus on what you need. Like, we're in that zone. Yeah. We're having that kind of talk.

And then she's also Check in on her. Hey, maybe Well, no, I so, I'm glad you, I'm glad you said that. So I often text her,

right? She's got her little watch now. I can text her, right? But I'll text her like, because she can't have it at school. So I'll text her after school if I'm traveling or even if I'm in the city and we just, you know,

she's doing her thing. But she doesn't hit back. But I'm not going to text her mom and say, hey, she hasn't hit me back. And she was just like, well, I'm busy sometimes.

I haven't looked at it. And I'm not really good on text. And I just want to see. face to face and I just want to talk. Oh, she used you with I'm not good on text? Yeah, she's with I'm not good on text. You're crazy. But no, she just wants her dad.

And I think also this is the other thing I think kids go through. They reminisce on when things were, I mean, adults do it too. You reminisce on when things seemed much simpler, right? When we had more time together during the pandemic, which were formidable years. Like she was, you know, during the pandemic, she's like, what? six, no she's six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, yeah. That's like formula where I was like, you know,

everybody was home. I was with her all the time every day. Like we were doing, you know what I mean? And now she's 11 and she's like reminiscing like, we used to be able to do this and we used to be able to do that. I'm like, yeah, you know, times have changed, you know, times of. And so. The guilt.

Now, I don't think, I didn't, I didn't receive it as guilt. I received it as like, I'm glad that you can articulate yourself, first of all. Yeah, that's very good. I received it as like, this is an opportunity to just talk about how hard growing up actually is. And I reassured her that like if you run through the list of everything that you have going on right now, including being a big sister, including like just becoming a preteen and all of the school stuff and all of the extracurricular stuff, a mature adult would be struggling with your schedule. and missing their significant other or missing their family. Like what you're saying is completely the way you should be feeling.

It's completely healthy. You have nothing to worry about. And I'm here for you whenever you need to talk. Like it was one of those conversations where it's like, I miss you too. I wish we had more time also. Let's figure this out. Let's set aside time. Let's, you know, we did all of that stuff.

So that's pretty great. That's actually all together. It sounds pretty healthy right there. Listen, what more could you ask for, right? Right. Not a lot. But I will say, Kenza did hit me real quick. Like, everybody's parents came to so-and-so.

How come you went there? And I was three. Right after we wrap this up, I'm going to the school. Because I'm going to go whatever recital. Open Friday or recital. You got to do it. I'm like, I'm here. I promised her and she'll remember P.

But you promised me. That's right. So I got to go. No, you got to deliver. Listen, and you have to be proactive, Laura Stiles. You got to be in that calendar. Yes, yes, yes. You got to be in that school calendar.

Listen, I've definitely missed them. They have these open Fridays that they do periodically. It'll be in the calendar, and I've definitely had to drop and cancel work stuff. Like, yo, I got to get to my daughter's school. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Or, and so you got to check that schedule, man.

If your calendar ain't tight with these kids, it's a thing. Yo, Ibro, do you ever, do you ever think about how long it's been since you would like regularly pick Issa up? I mean physically. Oh. Oh, man. No. I was like, come here, give me a hug. I mean, Issa, Issa's like, what, how, Issa's taller than you now, Laura.

Yeah. For sure, right? I'm five, no, no. Obviously, the time has passed. Issa might be as tall as you, Rosenberg. Now, she's close. like obviously the time has passed but isn't it crazy that like

I just think about that all the time when I'm picking up Maya because she's a baby still and like one day it's not going to be like this and then you look back and you don't even know when the last one happens right like every every it goes quick

it goes quick all right guys we gotta get to freedom Friday Friday Freedom Friday Freedom Friday Friday Freedom Friday Freedom um we got some time man shout to everybody in the chat we are on the road as you can see. And we appreciate you guys to lock it in and talk some ish in the chat.

Yo, we got some amazing trolls in our chat. I don't know if they're fads. But the trolls, they come through. They pull up. And we appreciate your engagement. You know what I'm saying? Got to say that. Friday Freedom.

Okay. Let's see. Freedom of Friday. Do we have any voice notes? I don't see any. We do. We have voice notes. You don't see them.

There's a ton of there. I'm looking at at the top where it says, here are the emails and the voice notes for this week. Then it says Friday Freedom emails. No. And then... Your email is like on drugs. Maybe.

That's so weird. Okay, yeah, we do. Let's start with Ozzy. You got Ozzy over there? Oh, my voice notes are all the way at the bottom of all of the emails. Family, what up? Ozzy from Texas right back at you. You know I had to hit y'all up.

I told y'all, if y'all remember, when you were at the old plantation, that I was going to be riding with y'all wherever y'all went. Well, y'all went, and I went with you, baby. Here I am. Oh, thank you. Now, I'm even going to do the dance for the $10 Patreon, all right?

What? Do the dance, baby. Let me run some by you real quick, right? Since I'm giving you my $10, let me, let me run something up the flagpole. Now, did you hear about the TikTok, the girl on TikTok that wrote a jingle for Dr. Pepper and they used her jingle in the commercial in the National Championship game?

You got like $2 million or something. You know, great story. So let me know what y'all think about this. And now, the lowdown with Laura Stiles. Oh, yeah. Hit the oh, yeah. Right. Now, listen, we're going to, listen.

How much you charge it? Let me know, family. Oh, I see, you're the fact. It depends. It depends on price. Well, hang on. We got to hit a price because, listen, you know, we're on a budget now. We got to make sure Laura can pay a mortgage, griff, or sign.

You know what I mean? We got to make sure. Because me and Rosenberg got multiple jobs, so we're making it happen. But we got other people got to take care of. Now, Ozzie, what we could do is cash app you back your $10 and you sign off on us using your voice. You know what I'm saying? So we can get you $10 back. Here you go.

Or excuse me, 999, whatever it is. That's true. Will that help? Yeah. maybe he'll let us use it for $999. Ozzie's dope. All right. What do we got?

First email. Okay. Go ahead, Laura Stavis. I got one. This one's from Freddie Mac. All right. I'm excited that you all have returned. Basically five minutes after getting fired, there's no stopping this trio.

I'm a truck driver that listens to you guys on the podcast app every night. You guys make my 14-hour days go by quickly. I have a suggestion for Wednesday since this. There's a YouTube music obstacle causing whitish Wednesdays to be potentially allocated to Patreon. Correct, my friend. How about washed Wednesdays? Here me out. Okay, I like this so far.

Where the Fots can write in and hit themselves with a button for being washed. Okay. Episodes around the time Peter heard himself trying to run up the stairs, had me dying, laughing hysterically. Thank you. When Fots wrote in or called telling their stories, I laugh so hard. I would love to hear more of those stories. And also, the image for your show should have a shark in the background because blood is in the water. Thanks for my email.

He said, I would be honored if y'all could hit me with the button. Hit Freddy Mac with the button, man. He deserves that. Congratulations. You played yourself. Now, Blood in the water is the merch moved. I don't know if Laura Stiles, the merch manager, is going to decide to bring that back at some point,

but I hope she does. Maybe. We'll see. The reason I said blood is in the water, just to reiterate, so we don't lose sight of it, was because something had happened to us, and the sharks were circling.

And they wanted, they really, people really wanted to devour our whole existence. They wanted us gone. Blood was in the water. water. People were getting aggressive. The savages were out. It was a crazy time. We saw it. We saw it. They did not know. They did not know about, I mean, now y'all correct me if I'm wrong, and I think we talked about this on the Patreon. When I brought up the new stew, do you think people took it serious? What do you mean? I mean, like when I was telling y'all, when I was telling, look, even the former people we worked with, hey, y'all, I'm launching a new stew so that we can really.

look right on social media and look right on the internet's because I always felt that our content wasn't moving around our studios that we worked when were not conducive to looking awesome pond the internets and we needed a new stew and I was going to make that investment so that we looked great do you think people thought I was playing I think they I don't think they took you serious. They were probably called for us to get one variation of our so-called studio. We can't even get that done.

So how can he? Right. Yeah, I can't call it. I can't call it. You took it serious, Rosenberg. But you did, now let me ask you this, Rosenberg. Did we, did we, what's the term I'm looking for? Are you impressed by how it landed? Is it better

than your expectations? I think we talked about that on the, on the Patreon. On the Patreon? Yeah, no, I mean, my expectations were that it would be good. I think I can't really, like, give you a full assessment until I feel like this is the product we're putting out. Right. We haven't done that yet. We put out, we put out our Patreon, which is halfway there, and I still think there's great things about it that are better than anything we've done in years.

But we're not at the full capacity. Like, even the stuff I saw yesterday was 30% better from a week earlier. So I can't give you the full thing, but I'll say I believe it's going to end up being something that for the first time in a very long time we're like proud of the product. I don't know that I even felt that proud of the way the hot stuff looked and the best version of hot stuff. Right. It was never amazing. I hated the back room with the couches. Yeah.

I hated the second studio that we moved to. Then we eventually just did it in the proper morning studio where you probably always should have done it. and that was the best version of it. Eddie, I didn't even love that. But remember, the reason we never stayed in the main studio when we were at 395 was because there was a show that we'd come on after. And so we really only had that one studio. So we ended up going to the back so that we could just make extra content

for guess where we've been for, I don't know, 20 plus years on YouTube. And I'll say something respectfully. They should have arranged a long. time ago if they cared about that, that the midday show would be from the other studio and we just lived in that studio because the morning show matters, but

we didn't. Anyways, yes, I'm very impressed with it. I'm excited to see it get to its next level. It was fun to be in there, all the things. While we're talking about that, let's go to Giovanni on the voice note. I'm gonna, and like my music my hair can't be able to continue my rhythm.

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Hello, Laura Rosenberg, Good morning. It's Giovanni out here in Vegas. And man, let me start off by saying, And, man, we, y'all, y'all had us scared. Y'all had us scared.

We saw the blood in the water. We don't want to believe it. Ebro, you was telling us, man, did not want to believe it, but it happened. The old plantation let y'all go. But, hey, y'all found new ground. Y'all's out there. Y'all, y'all giving the community what we need, what we love, and we appreciate y'all for that. You know, I'm going to be like Rosenberg right now.

And I'm not trying to throw any shade to the old plantation. But, you know, I've been seeing on the socials, you know, congrats out to Miro for getting the gig, man. I'm going to tell you right now, Mero, big shoes to fill. Real big shoes to fill. But you're going to do your thing in the city, man. But I've been seeing the socials. Sonny Coach are on the socials. He's hot.

Oh, my God. Boy, it's as clear as day. You know, and I've been looking at the studio. Studio looks real nice, real nice. I don't go too far. Socials are really hot with, you know, with the new show and the new iteration of the show. So keep it up. But, you know, it's kind of shady, you know, how they did you all.

But guess what? You have your community out here that has been following you for the past couple weeks on YouTube. I caught the t-shirt, blood in the water. I can't wait for that thing to come out. Thank you. Oh, thank you, Giovanni. Thank you, Giovanni. Thanks, man.

I get it. I think I may have overstated the quality of the studio since we left. They did add wallpaper, though. So you got, you know, that was right at the end. That was that was what we really should have known when the new wallpaper popped up. Right. This is a big, this, they consider this a big expenditure. Well, I'm glad you brought that up because, you.

just like the new apartment you currently live in. Yeah. New wallpaper is not going to fix the problems that they have with technology, camera angles. Cleanliness. Cleanliness. That goddamn bathroom. And I'm going to say it again. What WBLS, the legendary heritage black radio station in New York City, the conditions they work in

are disgusting and embarrassing that that has been allowed. Crazy. No, it's crazy. And I couldn't tolerate it. I'm saying something. Like, I couldn't take it. I can't. And once again, it's because I know what we come from.

And I know what it deserves. It should be, yes. And I know what it deserves. And I also know how much money the owner of the property has and is unwilling to invest because he keeps losing money because he makes bad decisions on who the leadership is and doesn't know how to run a goddamn radio station. But that's nor here nor there because it ain't mine.

It ain't mine. Remember, that was the comp I was making the other day to the apartment situation. We are all at the mercy of people with a lot of money who are going to do what they're going to do. Yep. And are willing to stall you out, get lawyers, do all the things. That's what the nature of the beast is. All right.

Let's take another email, shall we? All right. You got one or you want me to go? No, I got one. Let's go. Let's go. I want to come with something good here. Okay.

All right, here we go. In the spirit of Ebro's voice, say what you want to say, feel how you want to feel. This is a yes, king, yes shout out and a PSA. Okay, okay. You guys talked on Thursday about, this is last week? Yeah, last week about MAGO women who take on their men's views and how you see strong, smart women with good personalities, he's dating with guys who were kind of dating guys who were kind of numb nuts. Ebro made a comment that this kind of woman needs to be the center of attention and drive the ideas.

While women definitely be out here settling. That's a very specific character, as Laura pointed out. Here's to testify that charming, confident men who are decent human beings do exist. And I wanted to make something known for the good of kings listening. Smart women have standards. Well, we find masculine and sexy and confident are men who are unafraid to be empathetic, respectful of women and speak up to defend us when it matters. There are plenty of well-intending men who hear their friends say racist, misogynist, or homophobic things and stay quiet or just roll their eyes and laugh. My yes-king yes challenge is to call your boys out when they say things like this.

There's nothing sexier than a man who is confident enough in his masculinity to do the uncomfortable thing. Call out gross behavior. Good guys staying quiet and accepting that ish from the people around them is giving secure small D energy. For example, when you guys brought up heated robbery last week, I noticed some homophobic comments in the chat. Very

cringe in 2026. Just saying it doesn't make you less of a man to stick up for those more vulnerable than you. If your friends call you gay or soft for acknowledging that, probably not the crew you want to be with. There's a reason so many single Republican men in D.C.

Kindness and humanity is sexy to smart women. I want to shout out Ebro and Rosenberg. You're both examples of charming, emotionally intelligent men. The way you can be vulnerable and introspective on the air is refreshing. And case in point, look at the brilliant, beautiful women you've both got in your lives. Men listening can take note, and women listening should stop settling and dump your MAGA boyfriend. So speaking of MAGA boyfriend in this whole thing. Thanks, Kat.

Didn't we discuss on the Ebro Laura Roseberg show? Was that last week? I played an Instagram clip. Griff remind me of someone talking about the divorce rate among women or white women married to conservative MAGA supporting men. And that's like a thing now. Yeah, we talked about this because I remember bringing up how they, that's why they're trying to make it harder for women to get a divorce. Right.

Yeah, that's a thing. So this is a thing. And, you know, I think there is, there are, there are women who settle. They want to have a family. They've accepted that, you know, boys will be boys kind of attitude thing that is out there. There are some women like that, but there's a lot of other women who haven't accepted that. Yeah. Yeah.

You know. And I just don't understand, like, how could you be with somebody? Like if your person, right, is MAGA and they stand morally, how could you be with somebody who stands for everything that you don't? Like, I don't see how people can do it. I do not understand that. I think some people, especially women, have been socialized and conditioned to be okay with their opinion not mattering. It's all about support. It is for some women, and I see that.

Yeah. I still, because I grew up in a very traditional Latino household, and I was quick to give the middle figure up. Like, I just do not understand. How can you literally live with somebody, have children with somebody who has hate in the heart? I know. But I will tell you, like, listen, I think we all,

all of us have there are men that we know, who may be in our families and friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who we have, that we love. And they have some viewpoints that you're like, how, how is this a viewpoint? It becomes very sticky. I look past this email that seems worth definitely reading.

Friday Freedom, if you want to email Ebro-Lora Rosenberg at Gmail, I know we have to kind of hustle up here and get to the gurus, but Ibrahim-Lorin-Rosembourg, loyal listener 15 years from the old station to the podcast, YouTube, now Patreon. Oh wow, man, listen.

Love you. I signed up because I genuinely support the show and want to see it succeed. That said, I have two serious concerns, both involving Rosenberg. Oh. First, the Satan voice bit needs to go. Oh, man. Satan, yo. They're going to protest.

Well, but listen, this isn't even where you think it's going to go. Okay. This isn't the Howard Stern show. I know Rosenberg is a fan. It consumes a lot of stern content. Not anymore. I have many times. I do occasionally.

But the imitation is obvious. Well, I guess I don't consume enough because I'm not doing an imitation. But the imitation is obvious. Or you didn't know. You didn't know. I didn't know. And honestly, distracting. I stopped listening to Stern years ago for various reasons, and I don't want that same energy carried into this show.

If I wanted Stern, I wouldn't be emailing you. I'd be listening to him. There's another part that's, I think, more serious than this. that's not an if you mean that I'm generally imitating Stern like it's giving Howard Stern I suppose that could be an assessment like

it reminds me of a bit they would do on Stern okay if you're saying that's an actual bit he does I don't know that that bit came up because it's a built in voice effect on my board and we think it's hilarious no it's funny

it's funny like I guys it's not often that I go back and watch a moment from our show and laugh again. The 5-e-o thing from the other day with combo with the Satan voice, we'd laugh out loud. It was funny. So I respect your opinion, but I don't think comedic taste should be, quote, a serious concern that you have. That's just a matter of taste.

But it goes on to say second and more importantly. Okay. The recent conversation about religion crossed the line. Rosenberg casually referencing Islamic extremism blowing up buses, etc. was unnecessary and harmful. What exactly is that helping? Comments like that only contribute to Islamophobia, which has existed in this country for decades and continues to have real consequences, especially given recent events in places like Minnesota and Texas. When someone randomly tunes in on YouTube or the podcast and hears that kind of language, it reinforces the false

assumption that Muslims are extremists or terrorists. As a Palestinian Muslim living in New Jersey, I found that deeply offensive. Not all extremists are terrorists. Not all Orthodox Jews are Zionists, nor are they bad people. Not all Catholic priests represent the worst actions associated with their faith. You know where I'm going with this. No religion should be reduced to its most extreme examples. Freedom of religion.

Boy, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't even let you finish. Like we don't talk about this? Well, no, no, no, no. Well, that part, but the person emailing said that they've been with us and in this for a minute. Did we mention terrorism and Muslim folks participating in terrorism extrapolated away from all bad extremism within religion? The exact opposite. It was done.

The only reason I said something like about Muslim extremist or terrorism was because we were talking about how there's terrible extremism everywhere. Yes, we always talk about Christian nationalists. I even brought up cult because I was watching a good little Hulu duck on cult. Every religion has extremists that are insane. Every group, every group, every ethnic group, racial group, religious, whatever. I understand the sensitivity to that being because Islamophobia is worse, in my opinion, than any other sort of religious phobia in this country. It's right.

I mean, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, they battle. There's a lot of stuff there that's bad and hard for everybody. But just for that, though, remember, people see Jews as having a level of protection because they represent as white and have financial power, not all, but many, in society that brown, Arabic-speaking Muslims don't have. Yes. So there's even a higher level of sensitivity. What I find frustrating about the listener who I obviously appreciate your level of dedication to the show. While the term may have offended you because any time you hear something like related to Islam, terrorism, explosions, I understand why all of those things would make you extremely sensitive. And coming from you.

remember that part of it and coming from your mouth. But if you've been listening for 15 years, I can't tell you the level of resentment I feel that you would hear my opinions about everything every day, the honest and critical way that I speak about Jewish stuff and Israel stuff with a level of criticism so much higher than I've ever spoken about anything related to Islam. And it would propel you to write me an email

that I ever even said it because what we're not going to do is be incredibly hard and appropriately so on Israel every day and pretend that Palestinian extremists have not blown up buses in Israel. We are not going to do that and that may hurt to hear. But just as Jews and specifically, not Jews, Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine. can also admit that terrorist groups have blown things up in Israel. These are facts. And it's not fair for you to expect me to be so self-critical. And if I even utter the word related to, come,

that's just unreasonable. I fear you. I'm sorry you felt that way, but that is unreasonable. Well, people do get unreasonable about their ish. People do get unreasonable about their and who the messenger is about their is. They don't think that I could have ever had any queasy moments on this show where you, Ebro, No, they're not thinking about you. They're all talking about my stuff and I just sit here going, they don't think that could ever feel anything.

They're not, but what you're asking for is empathy? Is that what you're saying? That would be empathy. Listen, that doesn't always, that's a muscle that takes work to exercise. Mahamah, you're a good person clearly, but that was a bad take. I'm sorry. That was a bad take. That was a specific conversation.

I know, Ebro, it made me go crazy. Like, wait, there was a conversation where we were loosely just, I just threw that out there. Yeah, I couldn't even listen to the email anymore. I was like, wait, when did this happen? But you know what? People, man, the way the human brain works and the way people are, if they haven't worked on that muscle of empathy or really their listening skills or looking in the mirror and really critically analyzing what triggers them and why they're triggered and why something coming from. Rosenberg's mouth is triggering you, but if I were to say the same thing, it doesn't trigger you as much. A lot of that is, all of that is tied to our social programming, right?

It's tied to, and we all have it. I'm not excusing myself, but I have to check myself sometimes too, where I'm like, I don't like this messenger, but they're not lying. But why don't I like the messenger? Well, it's because there's a lack of trust. Well, why is there a lack of trust? Well, because there's history tied to whatever my experience was or whoever that person was, or the big one, the race of that person

or the gender of that person. Right? So there's a lack of trust. So really what that email says to me is Muhammad has a lack of trust for Rosenberg because Rosenberg is a white Jewish person and we're speaking on something that triggered him. No matter how long he's listened.

No matter how long he doesn't trust. He doesn't trust. I still see it in the comments. I saw it in the comments yesterday or whatever we had a recorded show. I was in the comments reading. Someone's like, yo, I just know Rosenberg's a closet racist.

I still see that. No one is ever happy, bro. They're never happy. They're never happy. But, but, but, but, and that's why I brought it up in those terms, right? I wanted to use some real responsible language. That was, that was there. Because Muhammad is clearly somebody who loves us is, is, is not smelling his own, is not smelling his own doo-do here.

And, and, and, and, you know, it's a good conversation. You're not smelling yourself, Muhammad. And we all stink is what we're saying. We all stick a little bit. We all got some ish. We all got some ish, man. We all got some ish. Now, we appreciate your emails.

Once again, you want to get on Friday Freedom. We got voice notes we didn't get to, but we got to get on over to this guru, man. The original gurus at Gmail. That was my heart. That was my heart. The original gurus at gmail.com. Wait, not.

Griff been on point. Ain't no way he left out the harps. No, the harps built in. He doesn't have the harp. That's another built. Oh, damn it, man. Maybe we could add it afterwards. If you hear one.

No, that wouldn't it. Whatever that was. Yo, but the effort, though, no, the effort was dead. All right, all right, all right. The original gurus at gmail.com. The original gurus at gmail.com. Yeah. Your destination for clarity.

Is it just me or do other mothers feel this way? I just need to validate my offense, I guess. The statement, ma'am. We're going to have to ask you to control your children is very annoying, unpleasant, and downright disrespectful. Been a loyal thought. I suggested it as singular. When it's singular, the show is joining. I'm not getting to that part.

Okay. She goes on, says she loves the show. Okay, yes, I'm in Texas. Sucks to be me. Shout out to Shawnee. Still have respect for him. Limited respect for him, she says. Come on.

Yikes, guys. I'm a single. mom of high energy twin boys, four-year-old toddlers. Sometimes I have no choice but to take them to the store or shopping with me. My mom lives with us, but she could use a break because they're so

high energy. Anyways, all this talk of high energy is making me feel that whatever was said. It was valid. It was valid. It was valid. It was valid. She said, anyways, last weekend I had to take them because I needed to buy them new shoes. One of them had tossed one shoe out of the

car window last week, but he's only found comfort and fit in this particular brand. I remembered he'd mentioned once that they were too small, so I knew from the experience that guessing his new shoe size would be a waste of time. You all know these kids grow by the week. Anyways, we get to the store and they start a wildland. I'm caught between trying to find the exact same shoe and locating a possible size and being a zookeeper to these wild, wild boys, each running in opposite directions of Monster Mommy.

Is she put that in quotes? I done what's in my nature to do, which is knock some chill into them. I know all of these white, parentheses said in Shawnee's voice. White. And some men would have clutched their pearls. I deeply offended by this statement. I can't seem to get past it. I truly understand how annoying it is to have infants running around unhinged.

They're not infants. However, saying it to an out of breath, exasperated, frustrated parent in a cruel tone, control your children. It is the equivalent of you're not a good mother. I'm pissed at her. I know I'm never going to go back in that store. Don't believe I'll continue to be a subscriber to that brand ever again. Oh, so it was someone who worked at the store, and it was the store of a specific brand. Right, right, right.

I can, I will go first quickly. I validate your feelings. It would feel terrible to have that said. That being said, sounds like what you need to do is. Control them damn kids. but I validate your feeling No, facts. Facts.

Yeah, man. Yeah, I mean, I've been in situations where kids are whiling out and Kids, Kenza. No, no, don't say kids. Kenza. No, I'm talking about other people's kids.

Oh, no. I give Cancel. No, with her kids, she can while out. You know what I mean? I don't play around. I just, I don't, I have a hard time when people, okay, do not take care of their children. If we're at a restaurant and your child is screaming at the top of her lungs or his lungs

while everybody else is eating and you're just acting like, oh, they'll stop when they want to. What? What is wrong with you? Well, it doesn't sound like, first of all, this person sounds like they're aware that their children are wild and chaotic, okay? So let's sit that side. four-year-old boys, twins, right, is a different challenge than I think any of us can relate to on this program.

There are sacrifices that it sounds like you already make as a parent because you know your kids are wild. You need to take this instance on the chin because you know your kids are wild. Yeah. You should what I'm saying? Like it's not as if you're delusional. Well, she, listen, she might be trying. She said that what was her line? She said that, you know, she would have snatched her kids up or she, whatever, whatever,

but didn't want to do it in that moment because she felt like she would be judged or the people watching might say she was going too hard. I know some people who have boys that are, the more you try to control them, the more chaotic it is. they are ready to go to war all day long. The only thing you can do is keep them in a space where they can be active, as active as they want to be. They got horrible, I mean, listen, some boys are dealing with the hormones are crazy. They can't sit still, even if you discipline them. Like, it's a thing.

I've seen, I have nephews that are, we're disasters. They're good now. They're like 11. But when shout to my, shout to my dude, Maul, You know what I mean? You were a disaster, my guy. A disaster. Yo, my little nephew, Xavier, a disaster.

Great kids now. Could, yo, the parents could not do anything. They couldn't do anything. All they could do was take them to activity, take them to school, and have them in the house. There was no restaurants. Couldn't do it. Couldn't take them. To what age?

So what age we're talking about? man, at least like nine, eight, eight. And so you're going to have to make the sound. You have a set of those kids where you're going to be like, listen, we're going to go in this restaurant in the first 10 minutes. They're going to be pulling menus. They're going to be doing whatever.

Maybe they'll be chill. Maybe they'll listen. In the second 10 to 15 minutes, we're going to give them a little iPad. Maybe that'll hold them for a second until the food comes. And in the third 15 minutes, we're going to be wrapping. this up and getting in the car. There was a period I had to do that with Issa where it was like, all right, listen, I know at about 20 minutes

she going to start tripping, which means one of two things. I'm taking her out and everybody else gets to stay for dinner and I'm taking her home or we're wrapping this whole thing up. Right. You got to be realistic with yourself. You got to and you got to just make a check of her. I'm going to tell you the truth is it does sound like she kind of punted here and was like, I'm going to

just worry about the shoes. And their kids were running around the store. scream like that's annoying because guess what other people got kids they're there dealing with their like it's hard it's tough to deal with and i want to encourage this parent i don't know what your financial situation is um i think you can do kids shoe measurements uh they have amazon can send you something to the crib for you to measure your kid's shoes and feet boom leave and then you can and then you can order cop shoes online also cop the shoes cop two pairs if financially you can and send one back. Amazon takes

returns. All everybody takes returns. You know what I'm saying? Where you don't have to put yourself in that situation anymore. That's exactly right. And don't blame the brand for one employee in a store somewhere. That's ridiculous. That's going too far. Yeah, if you want to complain you could say, you could complain to them and say that

the employee was rude. That is straight up. But make sure you tell them that this employee was also right. Make sure you mention my kids were wilding. Your employee was an a-ho, but they were right. But that's not the point. Exactly. Anyway, I hope this helps. So say the gurus.

So say the gurus. Outro music, please. It's time. I got to go. Bring in the Ebro-Laura Rosenberg show band. That's right. Another week in the can. Hey.

I think I got to hit up. Yeah. Right? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It's good, though. This is a heater. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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