The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 43.) State of the Union Reaction + Lil Uzi Moment Anniversary (2/25/26)

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

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Technic outside this morning, Laura Stoules, couldn't get a car. No taxi, no Uber, no nothing was coming through for you, huh? Mm-mm. I was stuck. I tried multiple times, guys. You know, I love being in the stew, but I could do it. Well, look, man, we still got a show. We got a program to do.

Last night, Rosenberg went live on the ELR channel for the state of what were you calling your thing. You had a graphic and everything. Live reaction. Live reaction with Rosenberg. Yeah, we lasted about 30 minutes to 40 minutes. Not the full 90 minute. Was it 90 or more?

What to end up out? Can we get the official? I heard it was 90-something minutes. Yeah, state of the union No, it was like an hour and forty Almost two hours Yeah That's more than 90 minutes

That is more than 90 minutes That's it Now it was terrible It was terrible And you know Devlin jumped on Of course Your favorite new character And he was like

And he was actually like I'm mad because I talked to him About how to make this good And this is boring Oh man Devin hit Trump with the He didn't even have Like that's the thing

His stand up has fallen off It's not tight It's not a tight hour anymore. He's doing a loose two hours, and it just wasn't good. That's when you know it's over. Yeah, man. So we had a good time. Shout out to the EL Army that hung out with me.

We had a good time chatting, but it was ridiculous. Can somebody make sure we have Joy Ann Reed at her pre-state of the Union with the Trump supporter running down on it? I want to see if we can find that video. Also, we need to talk about how bad the hockey team played themselves. Oh, man. Talk to me. What happened? You prayed yourself.

They just really, they really, you could play a game of like, you know, hey, they didn't really know what was going on. They had just won, and the president called. And I wanted to play that game. You did play that. No, no, no. You did play. Fun naive game to play.

Yeah. They don't necessarily know. But when eight of them, it ended up being eight, when eight of them show up to the state of the union. And the way that they did it was like a wrestling situation. where he like cued them. He started going off on the most insane rant of the whole thing. He gets to this insane part where he starts going,

we've been winning so much. People are saying, Mr. President, I can't take the winning. I can't take the win. No, it's the most insane. Like, because even for Trump, you're going, but my man, this is the state of the union and you're doing this. This isn't even you're speaking in Iowa. This is the actual, and he's doing this full like,

ah, yeah, yeah, crazy voice. In Congress? In, he's doing the whole thing. Do you think people actually understand that like the president of the United States doesn't visit this chamber? Like, it's not a thing. And so the executive branch goes to the legislative branch and literally the president talks to them and the country because Congress represents the country, right? The House and the Senate represent the country. They're talking to them as he's talking to the people.

giving them the state like of the union. What is going on business-wide? And the union, they're referring to the United States. Right. The state of the union. The unified states. How is it all going? That's right.

Can you move your water bottle? So sorry. So, um. I mean like literally to get it out. Okay. Here, get this table right here. Okay. He don't care, guys.

Yeah, Kirkland's not paying up here. Costco's not paying. So, so after he did the whole, the whole setup of, I'm winning the entire new one. winning and they speaking of winning and they had the team waiting to come out wearing the matching sweaters and they get they come out to people you know is there a worst more L chant in the world in USA you play yourself you wait no man I can't you that chance always whack you want a good three letter chant give me ECW that's a chain you know what I'm saying right EC dub ECDA

you're out on USAH I've never been in even during the best of times when I'm proud of country. Wow. Really? It's just corny. USA is just a corny chant. Oh man, I didn't know you know the state of the union's even worse though. Again, look, y'all know I could give a damn about a USA chant, but I didn't know you. Have you ever done it? I don't think so. I was, I said yesterday, have I ever done a USA chant? Like, I've never, I've never finished the national anthem at a W.W.E. show or a game and been like, USA. I don't have ever been in that zone. Well, you're unpatriotic. No, I'm proud. I hit you with bitch. Wait.

I'm proud to be an American something. Anyways, it was embarrassing. Laura, did you watch any of the state of the union? No, bro. I didn't watch any of it. I just saw the highlights. I saw El Han Omar

clapping back. You know, I saw that. I saw Representative Al Green getting escorted out because of the sign. Okay. Listen, Representative Al Green, I, listen, you are, you are, sir,

an elder and a legend, and you've done tons of work. Yes. I'm still a lovely. with you, love and happiness. No. Different Al Green. Got it.

Different Al Green. All right. What are you pointing to? They have video, a picture. Oh, yeah, video. Let's see. The Al Green. Let's see.

There's him being escorted out. Right? That was his protest. And somebody snagging. We will never go back to where we were just a very short time ago. We're not going back. Today, our border is secure. And then the conservatives are chanting U.S.

as a black man is escorted out with his sign that was basically like black would the sign say black we are not apes yeah our spirit black people are not apes I believe bro I can't tell you how much it angers me maybe I'm triggered from the past but the idea that black people are showing up to a room full of white people and holding up signs to proclaim that we're not animals is is angering at levels I don't even know if I have the vocabicap. Think about that. You have to show up. You still have to show up to a room with a sign that says we're not animals.

Think about that, bro. It's insane. First of all, you feel the need to do it. Second of all, there was a narrative running around about black people being animals that the president posted a meme of. Like the fact that that still happened, it takes me to yesterday. When I was talking about the Touretman and BBC, not editing out the N-word. Right.

Fast forward, we have this woman at Hunter College here in New York City on a call with a little eighth-grade girl, and she's calling black people stupid on the call. We have that video? Oh, you're doing it now? Bro, that video? No, but I got a bundle all this in a place because the amount of time I hear about anti-Semitism and what needs to happen because of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitismness and blah, blah, blah. Yes, that's a fact.

Something needs to happen. But, bro, the way they play with black people? Crazy. No, it's bananas they want to keep us angry. But nannas. And so when Al Green has to show up with a sign because look, he's like, yo, somebody got to do something. Gotta say something.

I wish the sign said F y'all. I know. And to see them try to rip the sign from him. That angered me too. Let me see. Let me hear this Allison Friedman lady again. Did you guys hear what this professor said during an online meeting where an 8th grader was talking about the.

possibility of a school closing by the Department of Education. Let me play the clip for y'all. It's a Friday. He delivers lessons and helps us fit those skills into our lessons. What school is that like they're just two dumb to know they're in a bad school. I mean, apparently if you've trained a black person well enough, they'll know to use the back. You don't have to tell them anymore.

Allison Friedman, what you're saying is absolutely hearable here. to stop. Now she claimed she was trying to teach someone about what is systemic racism, but the fact that she said that they were too dumb to know that they were in a bad school and she used the word black. I don't know. These folks are unraveling y'all. And they're trying to get us to unravel with them.

Yo, listen, for the Allison Freeman lady. Congratulations. Disgusting. They claim they're doing an investigation. on her remaining a professor at Hunter College. I'm sure there's people watching right now. They went to Hunter College. That's sure.

Very popular place for our education. So isn't the simple investigation? We heard you? Yeah. And what were you? So sorry, what were you trying to say now? And then she goes, oh, my God. No, it's not that.

I was explaining to the person next to me. I was reading from an article. What is it going to be? What is the thing? That might be what her claim. Might be that she was quoting something. that had that quote in it, and it sounded like it was hers. But unfortunately, ma'am.

Congratulations. Why are you doing that on the call, but whatever? Yeah. And maybe, well, she didn't have her mute on. And to your point, why are you doing that while a black student is talking? Because now it sounds like you're referencing this black student calling her stupid. That's what it sounds like. That's what it feels like.

But now you add all of these things up in the course of two days. Just a regular two days. It's a regular two days. if you're a black person, how are you feeling right now? You feel like people are playing with you, like they're trying to get you out of pocket. So the next thing that comes along, somebody at your job says something slick.

You think you still got some patience left for that? I just, I implore all of you out there if you're like me and you're triggered by these things. You know, take a deep breath. Stay on your square. Think about the bigger picture. We need our jobs. We need to pay our mortgages.

We need to make sure our kids are in school. we need to make sure we're not in jail. That's the most productive thing we could contribute to this. And also find joy. The most productive thing you can do when you are faced with this sort of stuff is find joy while we do the work on the other side, which is to get these people out of office to vote. The midterms are on the way and focus. That's why I couldn't turn into the state of union last night.

Because you're not, Trump, you're not going to get up there and talk about how border patrol agents are under investigation for helping Epstein. You're not going to do it. We know you're not going to do it. We have the Montemeter IG. There's a great follow on Instagram. Have you guys seen this story? No.

So the Guardian just released an article that Epstein had a close connection with Border Patrol. At least six different officers had a close relationship with him, including private text messages, emails, asking him for financial advice and alone, flying on his private jet, and even coming to the island. And let's talk about how that connects to the blue butterfly zones that are now in the Dillie Concentration Camp on. I call it that because that's exactly what it is. We have reports of child abuse, SA, people being denied food and medical care, lights being on

all the time, mold and bugs in the food that they do get. They've also been deporting people and losing track of where they are. One woman was pregnant. She's about to give birth any day now. They lost track of her and her two children. They could not find where she was. Thankfully, she has been located. But also, they recently had a woman give birth in the hospital, and less than a day after giving

birth took her and the newborn back to the Dillie Center, which has an active. measles outbreak, and I don't have to tell you how dangerous that can be for a newborn. Now, with the Border Patrol officers, there were at least six of them. Only one was ever investigated. Some were never looked into at all, even though the relationship with Epstein was established. In fact, one of them, an officer, Rouch, a woman who dated Rouch, reported to the FBI that he actively participated in helping Epstein with his trafficking in and out of the island. In fact, Epstein would plan his trips around when certain officers were going to be working Border Patrol. And if any officer gave him a hard time, he would

report it to his friends who would then reprimand or supervise any officer that gave Epstein a hard time. So you're not going to cover that at the state of you? I don't think they're not going to get into that. Never brought that up. Never brought that up. And if you pay attention to this Dilley Center, they had like the woman Montemeter just said there, this Dilley Center is obviously where they're keeping people who have been apprehended

by ICE. And they are keeping teen girls separate from the rest of the population. Hmm. Really? And nobody can monitor what's happening with them. No. Nobody can walk in to see any of these circumstances. I mean, you've seen officials try to go in there and just take a look. Just take a look. And they're not allowed to.

This is sick what's happening. So you're not going to get that at the state of the union. You're not going to get that. You're not going to get the reality that Trump is removing black history, actively removing black museums, black history and things like that from museums, you're not going to get any of that. You're not going to get, what else, he's not going to cover what's happening with the health care system. Not going to cover that.

He's not going to get into the fact that they're trying to push through a surgeon general right now that is, I believe, a IG wellness influencer. I'm sorry. She never finished medical school. That's happening today. Look it up. The new surgeon general. That they're trying to push through.

The old surgeon general. the black man that Trump had appointed. He even said that this is an embarrassment. It's an IG wellness influencer, yes. No, they didn't cover that. He didn't mention the deaths of Renee Good or Alex Preddy. Nope, not getting into that. And when he did bring up the Somalians and the people in Minnesota

that he wanted to disparage because of quote unquote fraud, he definitely didn't bring up that it was actually a white woman who was the ringleader of the whole thing. No, no, he didn't. I did see. I did see him bring out a, I think it was a Venezuelan like woman and men who were like reunited for the first time. And of course, of course.

And then Latino maggas are just going to eat it up. You see this is what freedom looks like. Continue to dangle that carrot in front of their faces. That's right. It's disgusting. To Ebro's point, people are stupid. Because there were a lot of times last night. You know, they showed the 100 year old veteran

and they showed the little girl who was rescued by the, they're going to show you people that if you have a heart, you go, okay. You know, that's someone who's worth clapping for. That's right. That's literally the most basic trick in the book. I can't believe people see that and go, wow. Well, maybe Trump isn't so bad.

But no, they didn't cover any of the things you're talking about you, bro. It was not worth your time. Listen, you made the right choice. I didn't spend my time. What did you do last night? Salasi and I watched Moana two for the 40th time at dinner together. W. Played her drums.

She got a new keyboard for her birthday. Somebody got her keyboard, I don't know, who did it. So it has little beats on. it little wow we did that um jazz and I had dinner

together while grandma was playing with uh solosci down in the play this sounds great so we got a little quiet you know 20 minutes look at you

just to how was your day in it wow this sounds like a much better choice checked in with Isa and her mom they finally made it back home because of snow storms

because they had weren't able to get home Isa was not easy's not feeling well so she you know I've maybe caught a bug or something so I had to catch up with her

yeah Well, I'm probably going to Florida. They had a, we talked about our football game. It was like a... But it was Orlando, right? It was Orlando. So it got cold, then it got warm. But I know these flights to Orlando, when I take these flights to Orlando, which is pretty

regular, I'm ducking. I'm running and ducking. Why? What's going on? Because it's Disney flights. So it's mad families. These planes are just filled with families and kids and Disney and swimming in water parks and kids.

And you just got to stay long and keep firing all these trips to Orlando. Also, real quick, let's start things off by a, uh, Hit me with the button. Okay, I like it. Congratulations, you plagued yourself. Yass night, finally got out there. Did the work, brought a couple shovels. Nice.

Got the car. Because I got to drive to Connecticut, so I got to be prepared to go to Bristol, Connecticut. So I got the shovels out. Did a pretty good job. That snow is heavy. Yeah. Like a foot and half of that snow on your car, you're lifting real. Yeah.

And then I woke up this morning. They tell people who aren't normally active to like make sure they don't go into cardiac arrest. I should be in that category right now. I was fine physically, but then I walked out and just saw this this morning. Oh, yeah, a fresh little coat of snow on your car. The fresh coat of snow after the work on the snow was a crazy feel. Yo, tell me a year. This is for our New York area Fots and East Coast Fots.

Tell me another year where like snow is just this regular, just part of every other day. It's like we live in Minneapolis. Or I don't know where it plays. Chicago, Buffalo. Or Buffalo. Buffalo gets a way worse than this. Yeah, no, this is regular, right? But this is, like today's snow on a regular year would be something that we talked about.

Yeah. This wasn't even. No, it's not. By the way, it's gone already. It's a stopped. It's moved through that fast. All right, good. And then we're supposed to have sun laid on.

I saw like 45 and sunny this after. We get some melting today. That's right. So anyways. And the weekend's supposed to be sunny. So you have plenty of time to shovel, hopefully some things. melt, you know what I mean, and the slush is easy to kind of take. You know, what's always good is one of those brooms. Having one of those big brooms that, you know, the long brooms that we used

that the janitor used to use at your high school. Yeah, I used, the broom is what I used the most. Yeah, that broom is tough. I let it rock for like 15 minutes. Yeah. Which actually made a difference. Yeah. Then use the broom and I started to be able to push off big, big chunks of it. The broom is the way to go, fan. That's how you do it. So, yeah, man. You made a good choice. what it comes down to. Yeah, I decided to stay away from it, guys, because I just didn't, what are we looking for when you see a state of the union?

You're looking for something uplifting, maybe some real talk about where we are, what we need to focus on, what we're going to focus on in the next year. That's why I usually look for. Priorities of the government. And I'm sure you got priorities of the government, but it sounded like you didn't lose shaking his head, no.

Not really. Not a lot. It was mostly just how many times can I repeat the same thing, the border? He must have repeated that the border is safer than it's ever been a hundred times. Anybody play the bingo? I posted the bingo card. We talked about the bingo. Bingo was great.

You played? How much of it was. No, I didn't play, but I saw a couple of them. I was like, yep, this happened. This happened. A few happened. I don't think it was all of them. Someone were dated.

I just want to know how quick you got bingo. Right, right. I don't know how long quick the bingo would come. Because don't play a drinking game. You got a hangover today. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're done so today.

So that's the State of the Union. Shout to MeJ, by the way. MeJ. 9-2-8 came through with a big 50 spot in the Super Chat. Hey, man, thanks for the love. Anybody in the chat see anything interesting in the State of the Union? You think we're glossing over? It says here about an hour into a speech. Trump issued a calculated challenge to the legislators in attendance.

Stand up you if you agree that the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. Did anybody see this portion? I imagine this is when Ilhan wouldn't stand and AOC wouldn't stand. Yeah, it says Senate Democrats have obviously refused to funding president's immigration crackdown unless major reforms were put in place. So Democrats sat motionless. Republicans in contrast stood in mass and cheered for more than a minute.

Trump obviously called the Democrats crazy. Boy, oh boy, we're lucky to have a country with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country. Real quick, what was the actual quote he said again? Stand up if what? The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. No, it's not.

I'm not standing for that. That is not the first duty. That's not the first duty. The first duty has to do with illegal aliens? I don't think that's the first duty. No, I don't. Sorry. I thought the first duty was to protect the Constitution.

How about destroy the Constitution? No, that's their first dude. Oh! I thought it was. It used to be. Yo, people who really... Listen, I get it. Just to everyone out there doing the dance, we get it.

We understand. You're doing the dance. We understand you've got to do this. You show up to your job and you're like, oh, me and my guys, they all love Trump, so I just kind of stay quiet and they love Trump. Lord, hit your dance on them. Yeah, you got to hit the finger bang.

It is what it is. We get it. You're doing this. If you actually could watch the word. being said last night and the way that man was talking and you could actually be proud of that and think this is my America. I'm so happy to be here. Like not not you're faking it for the dance.

If you mean that in your soul, you are a moron, a blithering idiot. You cannot think that someone who handles themselves that way. You cannot believe that that is a smart, good people. You would never teach your children to handle. handle themselves the way this guy does. So now Trump ran on affordability. And I'm going to ask people in the chat. I saw this moving around on social media.

Do you feel like things are more affordable for you now? Or headed in a good direction? Real question. According to independent estimates, Trump's tariffs have cost U.S. households anywhere from $1,600 to $2,600 per year in the form of higher prices. Now, mind you, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Trump's sweeping global tariffs, which he had words for them last night. According to this, he called them an embarrassment.

A disgrace to our nation. They should absolutely be ashamed, calling his tariffs illegal. Any pledge to continuous tariffs using other means to do so. I mean, listen, he has the court, six, three. And the court went six, three, against his tariffs. So he's boo-boo-faced. He's butt-hurt. Quote, tariffs will remain in place under alternative legal statutes.

Yeah, so they're going to search. A solution that will be even stronger than before. So then why you bitching? Do not care about the law. They don't care. 90% of economic costs associated with the tariffs have fallen on U.S. businesses and their customers. Yo, he's, yo. If you choose not to believe what many outlets are saying about the tariffs, that's on you.

But I got to tell you, you are being played, played, played if you support the tariffs. No, no, no, you're being a different type. That's so crazy. There's nobody in business that, there's nobody in business that agrees that the other countries are paying for the tariffs. And the money being collected is coming from other countries. Like you are being played. Other countries are telling you that they're not paying the tariff. No.

No, we're paying. And then they claim they're taking tariff money and doing things. Wait, that's your money. That's your money. They're just taking more money from you. And then many people vote Republican because they don't want new taxes. So instead of adding new taxes in, they put tariffs on and still milked money from you. What you got?

You got a clip. I'm a coffee shop owner, and I usually pay $20 to import a bag of coffee beans. And now I have to pay $25 because of the tariffs. And I'm the government. I'm taking the money even though the stuff. Supreme Court hasn't decided if it's legal for me to do so. But here's your receipt. Now I have this receipt that could be worth $5 if the Supreme Court rules the tariffs illegal, or it could be worth $0 if it is ruled legal. But no one knows how the Supreme Court is going to rule.

I'm Howard Lutnik, Epstein's good buddy, and the current Secretary of Commerce, and I'm here to take advantage of this business owner because I know something you don't. I'm going to offer this business owner $2.00. of real cash right now for the receipt of her tariff money. I don't know if this receipt is ever going to be worth anything. And in this economy, I have to take what I can get for my business to survive. So I'm going to accept the daughter. Oh, it just so happened.

The Supreme Court ruled that the tariffs were illegal. So now I get to exchange this receipt for the $5 that she paid. So Lutnik gets to collect double. I don't know if I needed the high school, the high school musical. The Trump administration. No, this is definitely the coffee cafe version. Some people might need that explanation.

No, no, listen, it's useful information. The production value left something to be desired. But it's not a great situation. This is, we are getting ripped off every which way. And you're right, it's funny. They play with the words tariffs and taxes. Because, you know, Republicans hate taxes. That's right.

They love tariffs. But the tariffs are making us spend more money. But they've already, they've already created a narrative that taxes are bad. The truth is, though, I'm curious to see what polls come out in the next days, as much posturing as he did last night, the only people who I think are still jumping up and down for him are like hardcore MAGA at this point. You know what I'm saying? I think they are still going to be in trouble. Not that again, I'm not of the mindset of don't worry, we'll win the midterms and everything will go back to normal. I don't know if we ever have a real election

again. I'm not sure. Where's the, uh, where's the Kamala clip? You got that handy? I haven't seen this yet. You haven't? You saw Rassan throw it in there. I just saw Rassan throw it in. What was his quote? Who's going to tell her? And I was like, who's going to tell her what? Well, I don't know what she said, so I don't know who's going to tell Kamala what, because I don't know what Kamala said. Will you run again? I haven't decided. You're still thinking about it. I might. Yeah. That's what I've been saying. That's what I closed the book, and I'm like, oh, she wants to. She's just thinking about it about it if that was my impression. I don't know if that's what you intended, but that was my impression. No, the book is about a specific period in time. There was no agenda beyond what we've

discussed already, which is just sharing with people. You know, the reality of the experience. And so here's who's going to tell her is who's going to tell her nobody wants you run again? I'm assuming that's what it was. That's what it was? Bascom. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I, I, I have no, I have nothing but positive feelings towards Kamala. No, no dis whatsoever. I do not think in, listen, we say every election is the most important election of all time. If we are able to have a free election next time, I think we would all agree this is a pretty important, would be an important one. Is she the person who's going to galvanize people?

That's the question. Would people get excited about Kamala Harris? Considering everyone said after that last election, I didn't feel very excited about my options. say that. A lot of people seem to feel. Too many. I'll go with too many. Too many. More than you are. In my world, a lot of people were excited. No, early, but by the way, in my world early on, the excitement on the internet

was on fire. I'm saying in my immediately household. Like in my immediate, friend, too. It was excited. So I can't really just listen to people in comment sections. True. In my immediate world, it was people were excited. But I will say as it went on and we got closer,

even though I didn't like that people kept saying, what does she stand for? You know, I thought that was sort of unfair. I'm like, what does Trump stand for? You know, I thought she was good. I didn't think she has, she doesn't have epic charisma, right? Okay. And the truth of the matter is we are up against a guy who is the one of the worst human beings to ever watch. But he is a cult leader who has a magnetic personality to the kind of people who like him. That's right. Kamala seems like a really- And billionaires, tech bros, who can manipulate the narrative and work to social media, and big funding.

But those tech bros are interesting, right? Because the rich tech pros are going to be for anyone who gets up there and says they're better for the money. And they're going to cut them. They're going to roll back. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, I think Elon, Elon, from what I'm learning about Elon and the Peter Thiels, they have a more serious agenda than just making money.

Oh, you mean the deeper dark state, like we're going to take over the whole world and that they want a technocracy and they want like, you know, and they actually believe in white supremacy, bro. These are people who are from South Africa and they're on that type of time, my guy. Yeah, I agree. I also feel like they know that money can make them do whatever they want. So they're like, oh, we have the money to make them say yes to this, this, this, this. They're easy to manipulate because they have money. So that's one of the reasons I truly believe that they love this administration because they can buy whatever they want. That's a good point. And know that they're dumb. Everything's for sale right. Yeah. Well, they,

Dumb or don't care? Like what? Or both. Whatever you want to pick. Whatever combo. So look, my thing with Kamala and this is, I'll say this, anybody watching this right now, if you think the left is going to push forward a mom-dani-like character. Congratulations.

Well, AOC would be the one if there were one. If you were to believe that they were going to push one forward, it would be AOC, I would think. She has a true national president. I believe the Democratic establishment is more. interested in attracting moderate Republicans than they are attracting more young and leftist leaning people. Well, hit the button. I agree.

Hit which one. Congratulations, you plagued yourself. Congratulations. You plagued yourself. Because that's not going to win you the election. Well, and I think that's people's biggest problem. The playing safe right now is not the play to win. Well, hopefully somebody's listening.

It wasn't 2020. It was in 2020. Well, look, I don't have any bad feeling. about Kamala. If Kamala ran again, I'm voting for Kamala. Like, do you think Gavin? Do you think Gavin? Do you think Gavin is going to run? I think Gavin wants to run. I mean, that's what he's doing all this

work for. I don't think I'm doing all of this. Why is he doing interviews in Atlanta, Georgia, if he's not thinking about running? Yeah. I think this is running. I think this is early running. Yeah. And Gavin, by the way, is a moderate Democrat. He's, him and Kamala are not dissimilar. They're the same. They're kind of

the same. Things you really like a little wishy-washy on some stuff, attractive, you know, good people to present. Will they galvanize people in a real way? Gavin's not going to get out there and go against our alliance with Israel, by the way. So if you're expecting that, congratulations. You plagued yourself. But I don't think neither is Kamala. No, 1,000 percent.

She didn't, she didn't last time. I didn't know if I needed to reestablish. Yeah, that she was lined up. I think her husband is Jewish, right? Her husband is Jewish and her husband's like, again, that doesn't mean. He's not a Zionist, but I don't know. But I don't think he's terrible. I don't think he's great.

I think he's just kind of, whatever. Look, America completely turning its back on its alliance with Israel, guys, I don't see it happening because I'm going to say it again. And maybe we need to keep repeating this. America is not aligned with Israel because they just like Israel. It's not about that. They use that to get us all duckies and bunnies or at least try. That's not what it's about. It's a literal geographic location and a very important place to control the economy as much as they can of oil.

It's not the same as our aligning with countries in the EU where it's like, no, they're allies. They make sense. We're like-minded. That's it. And as you can see, Trump can easily turn on them. And that's tied to a history. The Israel thing is much, it's obviously deeper. And I'm not, I don't think either of us are claiming we even understand the fullness, the full depth of what that is.

Yes, I think it's geopolitical. I always just think it's about money first. Money, oil. Money. And then other weird. I don't know. It's weird though. Well, now we're learning the Epstein stuff.

So clearly it was deeper than we understood. There's the, there's the, don't forget. There's the extreme Christian right. Christ is coming back. That part. More money. But that's more money. But that's also money from the evangelicals.

And remember the Saudis and Iran don't rock. That's not. They're not on the same. type of time. They're not aligned. Saudis in Iran don't like each other. We're aligned with the Saudis. We chose that a long time ago. Which is why we're ready to go to war with Iran. No problem. I thought that was because of Israel.

Because they're Hezbollah and all that. Well, that too. But they won't put down their missiles. That's right. So you don't put down your weapons. We got to kill you. Only we and them have weapons. You don't have weapons. And then Israel can have whatever they want. And nobody can even check on what they're doing. No. And even when we don't even ask to look. And even when we told them what to do, they say, go F yourself, we're doing what we want anyway.

We were, all right, good thought, good thought. Well, I mean, if you didn't have politicians in there with Epstein, you know what I mean, dancing around with little girls and your draws, maybe they wouldn't have been able to hold that over your head. I think there's a lot of things they have. I think there, I think the Israel having things over U.S. politicians is more than Epstein. Oh, it goes way before that. That's, they've had, they've had that on smash. Way before that.

Yeah, their, their technology and ability. to get information on people's different level. Laura, you ready for the rundown? Let's do it. Laura got the rundown, turned that up. Screen's on glow when she pulled up. Headlines heavy, but we still cut up. Life still flashing.

We don't slow. Up, up. All right, we talked about this before. But, and I said it, the big rumor right now is that Jay-Z is probably going to have a reasonable down 30th anniversary concert in New Year. So we talked about him dropping that website, jZ30.com, all right? And there's a suspicious two-week booking gap at the Barclay Center from June 19th to July 30th. So people were like, hmm, none of it is confirmed, you know, but this is all based on the fact that someone, we don't know who,

has blocked out two weeks of time at the Barclay Center. And you're positive, it's not, uh, what's the, what's the bill? boards I always see Shen Yun. Oh my God, Shen Yun's up on a... Shen Yun has a location. They do? A permanent location? We're positive. It's not. What's the other one? Harry Styles.

Harry Styles. Because he's doing, I think... The Gardens. You know how many shows he's doing? I don't. How many? Something like the whole month or something, right? I think he's doing... Residency. No, but it's how many? It's 30. I think he's doing...

Wow. So our people... Look, I'm all for it. I like artists doing what. Bad Bunny just did or what some artists were doing in Vegas where it was like, hey, you want to come see me? Come to this town. You know what I mean? Make it a vacation. I'm for it. No, it's cool. The Harry Styles thing always baffles me. I don't know how it happened so fast. It got so big.

But Jay-Z and Barclays for a couple weeks, we talked about this yesterday. The timeliness is crazy. Yes, that's what I'm saying. So look, nothing is confirmed, guys. But I am excited about it. Because I would love a surprise show. Now, remember when the Barclays open, Hove did eight, nine, ten shows. Two weeks.

Two weeks. When we were at the Hot 97, we were broadcasting live over there. Me, Angie, we did a whole thing from over there. I think you made that up. No, we was over there. Definitely. I don't think you were on the air. I wasn't on the air.

Oh, oh, you mean Angie was on the air? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you were with Angie. I was just working. Right, you were just doing your job. I was just doing my job. We didn't do a morning show thing there, but we did. We were all.

Because nothing would be there at 6 a.m. I feel left out. Me and Seif, though, I think we did play a set, though, before he came out one night. Yeah, see? We did a bunch of stuff there. That was, I went to a few of them. They were great. Yeah.

Listen, even though I love the Barclay Center and I support them as a place and I want them to do as much as they can, I wish he also hit MSG, like not just two weeks in Brooklyn. Right. Shearly selfish reasons. Because I'd be able to hit more shows. Easier if you're in the city to go hit MSG. I got it for yourself. Just myself. Listen.

Oh, when you're booking shows think about it. about Rosenberg. I mean, listen, MS. She's a convenience spot. Lawrence is a very, it's convenient. I mean, Barkley Center convenient, too. I mean, you can catch how many trains you got to get from your career? No, one. There you go. You just sit for a long time. But you get there. You get there. No, it's great.

I think that is what's happening, by the way. They're selling the vinyl for dead presidents. They're making a whole could do, if you will. So maybe it's, but now, maybe it is some shows, but maybe it's also like an installation, like what they did at the Brooklyn library. Could be, but I don't see not one show, bro. No, no, no, no, no. I said some shows. I don't, you know, I don't, I don't know if it's 10. Right, right, right, right. Okay, I'm with you with that. I'm with you.

I'm sure. I'm sure they're going to take over a plaza or an area because they can't do that and have an amazing installation. So I could see that happening. So, but, uh, summertime in Brooklyn, you know, what I'm trying to pinpoint is to be serious, not about my selfishness. I think what to me sounded cool about the prospect of a radio city or an MSG was just it being different. That's really it. I just feel like the Jay-Z Barclays thing for a monster amount of time I've done before. Like I've experienced it.

Whereas saying he had a residency somewhere else felt like something exciting. When that Barclays thing was when? A long time ago now. 15? 17. I think it's 09. It's something like that. It's a long time ago. 2012? Artleys open 2012?

So 14 years. Somewhere around there. Yeah, it's a long time. Hobie's coming home Hobie's home Laura what else? All right So let's please go to the lowdown Because this is

Oh I can't believe this got nasty Oh man Where's the lowdown I should probably have this closer Why can't I find it? Oh To your speakers

For the low down With Laura Stuy All right What you got? So things are Even messier between 50 cent and TI So it continues. The back and forth, the taking shots. But yesterday, everyone was like 50, you're going too far.

So you all saw when he posted a photo of Miss Tina Knowles. Right. So what happened was is that Tina posted a re-shared a picture or video of Tiny and just pretty much uplifting her, you know, calling her beautiful, holding her down because as we all know, the internet does come for Tiny. And they and they do, you know, come for her look. So Tina was just uplifting. It was a beautiful little, like, you know, post about her. 50's response was a picture of Ms. Tina Knowles kind of disfigured. It looks like bad plastic surgery was obviously altered. And his caption was, I'm not going to do it.

But this is just getting weird. Little effed up albino kids and grandmothers getting involved. W.T. Yo, it's out of control. Listen, Laura, do you want the tiny clip? We have it. Sure. Sure.

We can see it. That's it. Said nothing about 50. That's it. It's real ambiguous. Yeah. It's uplifting. That's it.

Yeah. Wait, guys, there's more. Oh, man. 50 continues. Then he says these rap and you put a little ninja emoji. They're soft. You got to watch out for these killers. They'll get you in the elevator, L-O-L.

post pictures of Solange. Oh, man. Like, you know, her face, like, and trying to take her earrings off at another post. Oh, God. And the beehive was upset. They were coming for him. And even, you know, people in the comments were like, you're going too far. You're going too far.

He eventually deleted him. So because I've argued with 50 publicly and privately, I know that he thinks this is funny. Well, yeah, that's, that's, he thinks everything's funny. My concern now is people who don't know. him like that and they think he's always trying to be mean he is what do you mean what you do publicly is what you are well no no I guess how is he something else no no I guess not mean means not the word like he's not just joking around in a bad taste you know what I'm saying like they think it's real like like he means to someone or something like that no he's

I'm trying to say okay so he's no he yeah and I hear what you're saying but while he's not being dead serious he does cause harm. No, you're right. You're right. And I guess that's why, look, 50, you got to relax, bro. Like, everybody's not all the way. I don't think Tina knows even knows what's going on. I don't know that she thinks that her post was somehow going at 50. But he just wants to get at Hove. He wants to get at them. That's it. Like, it's ultimately, you know, 50 had a great career and what he does in business is impressive and all that. And I personally enjoy engaging with him.

And when you talk to him, I think he can be a super fun guy. I love when he comes up and we chat. I got no personal issues with 50. But what he puts out of the world is not great. He's an a-hole. Like, this is nasty a-hole. He's being a complete a-hole for no reason. And people celebrate it.

They love it. And like he's being, he thinks being a public bully is like so cool and fun. Like, bro, 50, you're 50. What are you doing? You're not 12. you're 50 literally like this is it makes no sense to just make this the energy you put out in the world all the time like if that's what you want your legacy to be is like bully who at the end hashtags his liquor company if that's like what you really want to have your thing be I just think

he's kind of better than that or I want him to be better than that maybe that's the way I'm thinking is because you know I guess I know him privately so you know that he's like a smart thoughtful human being yeah why it doesn't it doesn't transatlant translate on it doesn't translate bro and then with something like this that's somebody's grandma bro yeah like these are grandmothers bro like what are we doing no and what does tina noles do like Tina knows all she does is publicly like love on her kids like and her friends and her friends and she supports stuff and she's like i don't know what the tina knoll's beef would be unless you're so no but that's my point like what are you even doing fifth like why why why why and then and then obviously

pictures of him and Tyler Perry to try to just, you know, to act like y'all in my head moving, promoting his Broadway play with Taraji and, and Cedric the entertainer. You know what I mean? Like, it always, but it's just like, come on, man. Come on, bro. So, yeah, he took us to hell. Yeah, he did. That's it for the lowdown.

How you guys can keep going with this Devlin thing? I don't know. Devlin should start his own podcast. Oh, hey, don't know. You guys can have Devlin Day once a week. It's its own, you know what I mean? You guys jump on like Rosenberg did Devlin live last night for the state of the union. No, 50 is literally 50.

He's 50? He turned 50 this year? He is literally 50. In July, he will be 51. Now, he's 50 cent, for real. Man. Listen, bro, when it gets to the grandmothers, I'm turned off, man. No, there's no need.

Like, it's just. I just don't see where the winds are, bro. Speaking of things, end in bad, bring up my Britney Spears. Let's do a Britney Spears check-in. Why? Why? Why? Are you making it sound like you're happy?

I'm not happy. This is not a good look. This is terrible. Okay. I just checking. I thought you were going for bed. I just said things are ending bad. You said, bring me my Britney Spears.

It makes it sound like you want to do a dance with her. Oh. She's dancing. No, no, no. She's not doing that dance. Here we go. Different dance. What has happened?

What is happening? With signs laughing at the middle thing is your. So you're talking about it. Billy Hollis is probably hyped for a second. She used her song, but that was funny. All right, guys. Is she joking, like, is she trolling? I don't know.

Well, at this point You would have to assume Because she The last one I remember seeing She had some nods, remember Oh yeah, the knife talk Night talk was big Are you got now

You got seem upset by me playing this or something Like you guys didn't want to cover this or something No, what? No, it's just because we know it's a mess That's why. There's nothing positive about it And this serious question, it's not joking When was it not a mess?

Well, because it's been a mess for a good 20 Like the federaline stuff was all the mess, right? The hair shaving, sex tapes, like, how long has it been a mess? No, no, no. It's been a mess for 20 years. But it's just really sad because I saw some clips recently moving around. You've talked about this before, Ebro, but, and so of you, Laura.

The amount that she was sexualized as like a 13, 14, 15-year-old, the whole world sexualizes girl made her this huge star, but in this weird, ogly, creepy way. You know, Justin did not do right by her publicly. Multiple times. So everyone, they just used her up in a perverted, weird way. And then when they were done with her, she's just been, you know, she left like this.

It's just horrible. This is an American story. You want a real American entertainment story? It's what we're seeing with Britney Spears. And then I feel like two things can be right at the same time because like, I, she needs help, guys. I feel like she needs help. Like, she's not okay.

For sure. I truly feel she's not okay. Wasn't the, what is it called? Conservatorship. Yeah. That's what I'm getting to, Epro, you know what I mean? And I also can see how her parents,

who, to Rosenberg's point, have been using her, her entire life. Okay? And then do this crazy conservatorship or whatever. And then also abuse the conservatorship. Yeah. And be greedy and take things from her. So all of that can be true.

And it's like we were off for the free Britney movement because we're like how horrible to be under this conservatorship, to have no say. And then that's gone. And then we're still concerned about her. Well, yeah, I've been on that. Like it seemed like she kind of needed a conservatorship. But it's who's in charge. It's not that one. Well, I think when you see what the way this story's ending, the who's in charge part, no one responsible has ever been in charge.

I guess not. Which is how you allow your 13 year old. old, 14, 15 year old to end up in a predicament where they're being sexualized at a young age for money, even though it was just entertainment and it was music and all the things. But I know that I wouldn't allow Issa to sell that. No. Like, hey, the label's into her. She's talented.

She can sing a little bit. She can dance. We think there's something here. Cool. What's your plan? Well, we're going to put her in a Catholic school girl outfit, really short skirt. What? What are we doing?

Her middrift all out and two pig tails. Oh, boy. It's sad. It is just really sad. I saw a montage interview of like all these crazy interviews from like early 2000s Rosenberg. And it's like every single one was just treating her like crap. Like the way they approached her and the questions. It was just sad to see.

Nah, it's crazy. I saw some, I saw a clip from some Britney doc. And it was some guy talking about like, there's nothing more intriguing to older men than women is there than girls as they're becoming women. When you now and now overlay Epstein. Well, that's what I was thinking about already, of course. And you're like, oh, yeah. That's how this

happens. And that's how we got here. Yeah. It's sad, man. I just wish someone was available, I wish she was able to, like, go to a real mental health facility for a long time. She could get better. Well, and to your point, we're assuming

based on these videos that there's a problem. Right? Because that's all we know. Because why would anyone choose to have this be the only thing they're showing the public? Right. Right. That's it. That's all you want the public to get from you. But maybe that's the significance of the middle finger and the little dance move. Maybe it's all the F you to all of us because of all of the things we're saying.

And she realizes that that was her reality. She just sold her publisher for $200 million. And so really, no, if the joke's on us. The joke might be on us. I, bro, I love that version. I just made up. I just made that up. No, the one you made up about it being, I love that.

We'd be remiss, Ebro, because we're getting late in the day to not talk about power from Wooten. Yes. When did that come out that he passed? Yesterday. I just saw it yesterday. A Method Man posted. Then I saw Genius posted. Then I saw Rizzo posted.

It was all yesterday. Did anybody see anything different? Rest and peace, power, man. It was had the pleasure of working with you on many occasions, working with the Wutang. Um, just a solid person. And from my experience, a great human being. And I guess you could tell from the outpouring of love and admiration, uh, a lot of people agree.

He, um, he was, what, 53, I believe. We don't even, I don't know what, what, what the cause was of his passing. I do not, I do not know that. No. Um, he was such a critical part of, you know, the whole. thing. Him and Rizzo were best friends. Yep. Power was the guy behind the scenes, man.

He was the, and if you watch the TV show, if you watch the TV show, oh, there you go. You know, obviously some of it is fictional, but they really focus on power is a huge part of the show. That he's a big part of how they got there. Piece to power on my whole unit, you know what I'm saying? He's the backbone, like him and Rizzer are the backbone. They were the ones that control the Wu logo, you know, that sort of maintain the brand. You got to pay that licensing fee to use the Wu.

Locco. Yeah, maintain the brand and, you know, it was just really, really sad and surprising. But yeah, rest in peace, power. Rest in peace. If the, if the BAFTA situation couldn't get more annoying, you know, I started the program talking about people playing with black people constantly. Do you have the, shout to Kev on stage. You know what I mean, a funny guy on the gram in other places doing, making his own great content. Do you have that clip, Rassan Basket? Google has apologized after an AI generated news alert about the BAFTA Film Award. The Risholert Included the N-word. Would you like to see the news alert that Google's AI sent out?

Of course you would. Here it is. How the Tourette's fallout unfolded at the BAFTA film dot dot dot dot, the Hollywood reporter. See more on niggers. Interested? Not interested. Oh my God. See more on niggers.

During Black History Month. They, they, but Google apologize. and they said it was an AI. It's always an apology, man. Sorry. Sorry, though. It's AI. Why does your AI know that?

The same way the Tourette's guy knows that? Right. Why is that in the programming, man? No, but it's in the program. Like, we're talking about something that's in the programming. The Tourette's guy knowing it makes more sense than the AI. No, the AI knowing it makes sense too. They both make sense why they know it.

I know because it's in places. Listen, we just, I let it fly here on purpose. Didn't even ask them to edit it so people could feel the impact of that. Yeah, and you felt it. Why is there like a thing that doesn't let that? Because you imagine the F word wouldn't be used. I have to imagine there's a thing in place. No, Rosenberg.

The reason it's not in place is because I'm telling y'all they like doing this to us. I guess you're right. They enjoyed the backlash. They enjoyed the coverage. They enjoyed the outrage. It gets click paid. It gets shared. It gets all that.

And somewhere, somebody somewhere that could have done something is sitting there laughing right now. You have to be right. Because why else? Why else would it be? They're laughing. They're laughing in our face. Isn't it crazy? The N word we know is the worst word in the American, in the American English sort of vocabulary.

Okay. N words the worst word. And it's not on the list of words you can't say. Yep. By the FCC you're talking about. Yes. So why is the F, why is the S word? The S word is bare.

shit it is barely a curse I don't care if your kids hear it because guess what they've heard you say it the s word is a nothing burger it means nothing can't say it if we said that on the radio today I get in trouble yeah I mean the end of you get me in trouble but for different reasons you are allowed to say it legally why is that they it's on purpose you don't remember when Elon took over X how the surge and that particular word went up by 500% oh because they because they did they were blind blocking that world. Exactly. And then he was like, no, we got to let that fly. We need to be seen. Listen, I also had a theory. It popped in my head yesterday. Tell me if you agree. Anybody that calls Twitter X, you can't trust them. I love this theory from you. This is one of your best.

Well, because now I get if you're a journalist and you're on television and that's the name, the professional name and it's the business name and that's where you're using. But in regular convoy, if somebody calls Twitter X, I don't trust you. you off top, boom, don't you? I love this. I love this. I'm there and I didn't even know I was there, but I am there. But you feel me? Like, why are you calling it that?

You play in the Elon Musk game? You know it's Twitter. Do you say you X or you say you tweeted? It's Twitter. Right. You read a tweet or you read an X post? Nah, you're right. If I have to open up the site, I always type in Twitter.

Oh, B too. Just redirects you. I only do Twitter. I don't type in anything. Yeah, if I go there, I'm on Twitter. That's funny. Speaking of Twitter, yesterday, the Oozevert trolls.

Yo, shout to the Oozevert trolls. They brought up, or was that 20 years ago? How long ago was it now? 10? 10 years ago. 10 years ago, you man, Uzibert and I had to sit down. The gift that keeps on giving. I mean, the promo I give from the Uzi Verp fans is fantabulous. A couple of things they don't know.

I like to be proven wrong. I would love an artist to prove me wrong. I'm into that. have me look at your work ethic and your and your ability to rhyme and and look at you and go I don't think so I don't know if this is going to work out for you prove me wrong yeah Oozever put in that work that's great I love how many times have you seen Oosie lovely combo I love that guy great guy no I don't how many times have you seen Ouzi after all this five or six but people take it's not like he does a lot of interviews so it's not you know right he's not

Right, right, right. But people take this. Very seriously. Very. I mean, it's the B'all. It was the anniversary. 10 years. That's so good.

They waited for this. You know, it hit me yesterday. I wonder when Issa's going to pull up to me and be like, Dad, why did you say that about Little Uzi Vert? Because, you know, now she's old enough to, like, start seeing stuff. Yeah. Right, right, right, right. It'll be a good time.

It's actually close to now. Like, she's the target age range, I feel like for a little UziVers. She's almost there. I think they've gotten older now. I mean, UziVERS is, what, 30 years old? But I still feel like. Still shimmying and leaning backwards. Some things just stay with kids, though.

Yeah, true. You know what I mean? True. And UziVert's the consummate troll. He's the greatest. Remember the whole diamond in his forehead and all that? He's the best. Oh, I forgot about that.

Yo, he's been trolling. I've been trolling. It's been a great time. For years. It's a great time. UziVert fans, y'all are the best. Love y'all. That's nice.

Of all the people who come for you, they're your favorite? Oh, for sure. Why, they're nicer? No, I just, I don't know. There's no. then Uzi Varts are very I guess because he's nice Right so I see you know what I mean I see it is all the same

All right So if you'd der rank the people that come for you Yeah The OVO bots Mm hmm the Minaj bots Mm hmm the Verte fans Yeah Who what are you ranking them

As like So best is who I enjoy What am I ranking them off Uzi Vans are number one Enjoyable Oh what about the Kodak fans I don't know is that a thing Kodak fans

There's a hive There's a Kodak hive Yeah And they can put together thoughts and say everything you're not not slumped on the keyboard they don't care as much they don't care they're not even that brolic out here like that towards

me every nine it's in my hypothesis the flare up but it's tough for them you know Kodak fans is tough because his he has like right now UziVirt fans got a thing he's got a number one song Uzi does? Yeah where you been bro you haven't heard the UziVert song Laura do you know the UziVert song

For weeks it's been number one I heard it I just don't know the name of it So she knows it Wow How's it go I mean how do any I just want to rock Rock rock

No it's similar though Is it similar It's similar It's up tempo But it's the number one song man It's number one on Apple music Number one in Nepal It's called what you're saying

I don't know if we can play it here Because they'll shut us down No I don't It's the fashion one It's like the fashion thing And it's like a whole All right stop Stop stop

That's enough That's enough And then does he actually do anything on this one I mean, because I just want to rock that song and nothing ever happens. It's good. I like it. You think you would, you would, you would, you would, uh, you would cover him as doing something on this.

Doing something? Yeah, like, do you hear him? Yeah, he's on it. He's on it. He's on it. But the song is good. It's fine. It's boppy.

No. But it's not like he's barring it up like he can. Like we know he can. Yeah, but like I want to rock first. I want to rock the same thing. Great song. You can hear the whole song. Wait, what part was this ever?

It just, the song just happens. It's like a thing that just... This is similar. This is similar. A thing just happens. No, no, no, but people love it. It's big on TikTok. It's big in the background of stuff.

I heard it and I feel intrigued to hear more of it. Yeah, because it sounds good. Yeah. He makes music better. He makes big record. Yeah. Rock star. You think he's rock star?

It's close. It's close, bro. All he needs now is what, the classic album and the arena tour. You're moving the goalpost. No, that's what the rock star was from then. I've always... But you had to have a classic album? Don't rock stars have classic album?

I mean, I don't know. Does White Snake? They were rock stars. I wasn't even thinking like Wayne. I was more in the hip-hop space of rock stars because I think that's what he's going for. He's not going for Bon Jovi. You know what I mean? Who also has a classic album?

But yeah. I was thinking more in the hip-hopper sphere of people trying to be rock stars. I mean, that's kind of a Wayne thing. He was considered himself a rock star, right? Then he made a rock album and guess what? It went Kirkplunk. Congratulations. You played yourself. Man, damn.

Shout to Flavor Flave on the close. Oh. I just got a shout out. You know, remember. No, gurus today? Is it late? Too late? No, I just wanted to shout out to. I wanted to shout out. No, we got to get to the gurus. We had complaints yesterday.

All right. I didn't know if you guys were ready. I just wanted to give Flavor, Flav a shout out before we get to the gurus. The gurus would be the close. Do we have the Flavor Flav clip? Hey, yo, Hillary Knight and the women's hockey team. I know y'all got my invite to come to Vegas. I want to go bigger and better.

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All right? And I got you guys. All right, we're going to throw a big party, you know what I'm saying, one night and all Olympians are invited to come to this party, all right? I mean, we got to build up everybody. And that's what this is all about. You know what I'm saying? So I want to see everybody bring your body to the party, all right? Flavor, flavor.

Why do we, let's get down? All right. Well, because remember the whole story. Love him. Remember the whole women's water park? The whole team? Yeah, he's like part of the Olympic situation. Well, I didn't think everybody remembered that he was a part of that.

So I wanted to, like, you did the hockey thing, and that was kind of the fallout. I wanted to, for the men's hockey, I wanted to give the positive flavor. But where's the party? What's actually happening? It's in Vegas. And then you have, like, airlines, Alaska Airlines is giving flights. So he actually, there was... Hotels have chipped in for free stays.

Cool. the people are getting like spa treatments and all this stuff in Vegas like it's a thing but the information was like included on the post under it or something no it's just been circulating god okay yeah I just didn't know what he was talking about because he was like I just want you all to come party with flavor flavor and I'm like that's not an invitation oh yeah and then yeah I think it was down there on his post if you just get a message from someone it says come party with flavor no location and you're just like that's not a real invitation yeah I don't know what I'm supposed to do yo I think we got to get to the gurus yeah man um but I need an intro for the gurus

Do I have that? Alright, let's do it. What happened to the guru intro? It's not here anymore. I did play it yesterday. It's not here anymore. All I have is... You know, you're not guru.

Well, I mean, that does the job. And I have... And that's not it. No. And I have... Man, if this is a reverse, if I were the one doing this right now... I mean, you should be frying me right now. I can't...

Oh, there you go. I had to go dig up. I was stolen. You know, you are a beautiful queen. Ebro. Don't ever play yourself. You're not a girl. The original gurus at Gmail.

The original gurus at Gmail. Breathe in, breathe out. No? No, I mean, it's something. The Original Gurus at Gmail.com, your destination for clarity. Let's get to it. All right, good morning, gurus. Hashtag Ebro has always been a guru. Lauren Rosenberg, you two may have more experience with this. As someone that had to unfortunately deal with losing a loved one from drug addiction years ago,

someone that I love and I'm very close with. I'm in fear that they are going to potentially die from this as well. They've come from a history of sexual abuse and they've experienced that they've experienced as a child and also as an adult. Their use of drugs such as opiates is their way to self-soothing from those traumas. and unfortunately, how some recovery centers give patients all sorts of prescriptions for SSRIs or other drugs without really doing the work is helping them. How do I help them? Or is it something that I can only just stay by them but realize that if they want to get clean,

they'll have to do the work. It hurts me to see them going through at times and hearing how they want to recover. But also knowing that the addiction has a hold on them so strong, knowing that it will kill them. Opies, drugs laced with fentanyl. Damn. Et cetera. They live in Patterson, New Jersey,

where the amount of people suffering from addiction is super close to that of the Kensington area of Philly. Thank you so much. That Patterson got it going on like that, Patterson. I didn't know it was like that over there. This is rough. Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't,

I never had this exact situation where, you know, I knew someone was. Opiate addiction? Yeah, where I knew someone was like killing themselves, you know? They mean, I, I'm not familiar with opioid addiction. opioid addiction to know if they mean figuratively or literally

I assume they mean I'm sure it's literal yeah I assume it's literal but I don't know what they're saying like you know I guess there's there are levels right like you're doing them they started out as a pain drug you're now still doing it you're still sort of functioning in ways and then they're straight you're leaned

every minute you know what I'm saying you're just high as a kite I don't know when your life is in shambles you're living on the street you know all that I mean Listen, you have to try to, if this is what's going on, I would think you have to rally a group of people around here and maybe do an intervention and do the work that's required to do an intervention. Find a place that you would be able to maybe send this person if possible. And I don't know if there's family and that you could also lean on and pull together an intervention. I don't know what the other option is besides tell them you love them and you know you can't stand by and watch them.

You're not going to support their lifestyle. I think the reason the emailer said you have experience is because of just the addiction part. Because isn't there some sort of, with all addictions, there's some sort of similar issue? I think the root causes can all be very similar. But the problem is when you start getting into deep physical addiction, we're having a separate. Chemical. We're having, yeah, we're having chemical dependency. Yeah.

Now we're having a separate conversation. You know what I'm saying? Like that's going to require more than a little bit more than like, hey, go to really good therapy and come up with the program and read the black book or, you know, the black book. What is that? Alcoholics Anonymous. Like, you know, by the way, I'm sure it would be useful.

Right. But I feel like when you're into full-on opioid addiction, now we've got an actual chemical dependency. You know what I'm saying, Laura? I think one of the hardest things here is a person has to ask. actually want the help. That's the hardest part. Yeah. Because you can do everything you said, Rosenberg, rally around them and, like, get family

to, like, you know, want to step in and show them all the love and support. But if that person doesn't want it, there's really nothing you can do. And I've seen people in this space. I've had friends who've had relatives, I mean, as close as, like, brothers, who have been addicted to certain things. and, you know, family has tried. And when they don't want the help, I think that's the soul-crushing part

because you're literally seeing them crumble. And there comes a point where you can help them as much as you can. But if they don't want the help, sometimes you kind of have to step away and just let them know, like, I'm here for you, but I can't watch you kill yourself. There was someone who once told me that they were helping a family member and it was like, it happened in step.

it was like connecting with them in a real way and letting them know they're loved and appreciated and that they you want to support them and then finding out if they really really wanted help they really really wanted a life change and once you can kind of get them to this yes I don't want this to be my life then maybe you can love them and and coerce them and hold their hand into a treatment facility knowing that after that treatment facility they might relapse again and go back. And so it becomes this ping pong, but over time, they begin to remember how great they felt being loved, cared for, and trying to be sober. And so that gets them on the path. It's kind of, you know, you kind of like, you know, things just

get kind of, you know, what's that called? They, they ebb and flow into a positive space over time. And for the email, I think that's maybe something you could just try to. to do. Try just one thing. It's not going to be a flip of switch and everything's going to be all perfect again. I don't think that's the way this works. I think this is can you get step one done, which is them acknowledging they want help. That's that's like a boom, which is why the intervention thing is what often people do, because when they see the amount of people who are like, hey, we're upset enough to come get together and have this awkward moment with you. Yeah. That it's like, oh, this is a problem. That's right. So,

I'd be curious to see if this person has reached out to family and friends of the person also. I would not want to try to do this alone, though. It's a lot to take on. Why you? Like, he didn't say it's my absolute best friend or my brother, right? Like, does it need to be you? Are you the only person who can do this? Can you get support and kind of put something together?

But we wish you the best, so say the gurus. So say the gurus. No outro. No, all right. You know you are beautiful. It doesn't make sense. When I use intros for out. Well, like, I thought it was going to be different.

It was like, it's time for the gurus. gurus, gurus, gurus, and then a beat. That was a bit. But just the whole intro again is crazy. Great show today. TV shows. Remember, they have the big intro. I remember, like, the Good Times outro?

Oh, it wasn't. The Jefferson. That's Jefferson. Maybe we get Callet to hum the outro. No, the Jefferson outro. Yo, we didn't shout to Super Chat at all today, Rosenberg. You slip it on the J.O. I did one.

That's not enough. Oh, man, DJ Sol Riffick came through with a Hyundai. See? Philly Fott. I've been rocking with you guys every morning for 10 plus years. Keep it popping. Love, man. Let me see if I missed any other big ones.

Yo, man, you hearing those whispers, Laura Stavs? I'm hearing there's trouble in paradise. They don't unfollow us on the ground. Oh, that's crazy. Nah, the old plantation is something funny happening, bro. The block is crazy. No, they blocked all of us on the gram, B. Yo, that is the most bitch-made thing I don't ever heard of.

It's crazy. What is wrong with y'all, bro? No, listen, pay us our money and you can leave me blocked if you want, but it's still crazy. No, that's a whole different issue. Why are you? Why are you, why? Why? Is it like, is it because, no, seriously, but you know what?

Let me stop the outro. Let's stop. Is it because... Oh, she. No, no, no, it's not even that dramatic what I'm about to say. Like, for real, for real. Because I left a couple of positive comments supporting Mero or Flex or whatever the post was about because it came up on my timeline. I thought flame emojis, whatever.

Does is, are they concerned that like my name or our names in front of their listeners is like reminding them that we're not there? And by the way, this is me really trying to be understand what why block. No, it's crazy. I think I could actually like, I have some. thoughts. Okay, let me. But no, no, I don't know if I want to say them here. Oh, got it. But I think like, Patreon episode? Maybe, maybe on Patreon. By the way, we have Patreon today. Today's Wednesday. So Patreon dropping shortly, so you get on the Patreon. But yeah, I have theories, but either way, it's bitch made. But the whole thing's been

bitch made. No one could have a straight phone call. No one can say any, no one can say words. I've never had something end like this that has to be this way. And it's crazy because I don't really know y'all. There's not even some deep thing. Like, why? And so because it's bitch made, I'm going to be honest with you. Yeah. I'm be honest with you. And Rosenberg doesn't like this about me. It makes me feel like they're my friends. No, no, no. That's not what you're going to say.

I like them. They're nice. Yo, we're not going away. It's not like we're gone. It's not 20 years ago where something completely disappears that has a following and a brand. Right. You can't just erase things and act like you're the big behemoth and things are just gone.

Right. So the plans that I have and the money that I'm going to spend on the plans that I have, are going to, it's going to make it worse that y'all be a little bitch. Why why don't you have one like this one? Well, because the money's spending part. Because you're always like, yo, stop spending so much money. We could have got that for free. No, because he says, I'm spending.

But in the end, we're all spending. He just says I, and it sounds gangster. He's front in the cab. We're spending money. No, they're going to be annoyed, bro. They're going to be annoyed when they see it. It don't have to be like this. It doesn't.

Why? Why are you making it this way? That's all right Patreon later on