33.) Addressing The Bad Bunny Hate + First Thoughts On J. Cole Album (2/10/26)

Just don't call it a podcast. Don't do it. Ebro Laura Rosenberg show. Live on the YouTubes. Hello. Hello. Hey. Hello. Hello. Hello everyone out there. You intentionally not playing the song? Oh, intro. Let's go. What's happening? Okay. It felt naked without it, it did Getting used to it, right? It's settling in Yeah, it felt weird now I was like, what are we doing? Listen, if you are tuned in here today Tell a friend to tell a friend And hit the share button, you know what I'm saying? Hit the likes too And subscribe too Like pound it, pound it Smash it, bro I don't think you gotta be that aggressive I don't think it's even set up for you to be that aggressive I know, really, if you smash it Or pound it. It's not what you want. It's not. I think it has sexual connotations. That's really why people have been using that. Because you're using your finger. Oh. And so I think that's what they want. So why isn't it like bang it? Finger bang the button. No. Laura Stiles. Don't take Laura Stiles dance move. Laura Stiles style. Don't take her dance move. Now, hopefully you've bounced around all this morning to your different entertainment outlets, whatever they are, and at 8 o'clock, let's make an appointment for everybody to gather around and gather around. You know what I'm saying? Before the 9 o'clock check in at work thing. I like people listening in their cars. I'm hearing they're using the Bluetooth. It's working for folks. That's so nice. They're using the cars. We love that. We got a lot of things to deal with today. We got Ja Rule and Tony Yayo and Uncle Murder on a flight. That's what everybody's talking about. I still got some feelings left over from yesterday's Chris Brown and Mace antics. I know. I got some feelings. I got some feelings. Well, I didn't see the Mace thing until the end of the day. Mace's thing wasn't even really that agreeable. It wasn't bad. It was just a bad take. Yeah, I mean, look, everybody's entitled to their opinion. I think for me, I'm so emotionally tied to what Bad Bunny's trying to accomplish. Yeah, I will say this. I think I'm the most objective of the three of us. I think so. And I still like Bad Bunny. I mean, listen, I went to Puerto Rico for a show, thanks to Ebro. So I can't say I'm completely objective here. Yeah. But relative to Laura's passion for him early on, you were such an early adopter sort of publicly. I think I'm probably the most objective. I do not understand coming away from the Super Bowl with any sort of criticism higher than, oh, that kind of music is not for me. I don't feel it. It just doesn't hit me. The same way if Metallica had done it, maybe it wouldn't hit you. Or maybe Kendrick last year didn't hit you. The people bringing up language and stuff really, really sensitive. The lack of awareness of the moment. Well, listen, I didn't even finish watching what Mace had to say. I just knew that, you know, he gave it a four out of ten or whatever. Mace, weren't you doing Puerto Rican judo in like one of your first hit songs? Weren't you like incorporating, interpolating? You don't know? You don't know? Great reminder, by the way, of why I never, like, I like Mace, but why would people like, yo, Mace is the greatest? Well, let's not do that. You don't know? You don't know? And then with Chris Brown, it's just kind of like, were you, are you in a jealous space? Were you just seizing the moment to troll? Was it really negative? Because it was just a text and him throwing like a little side smirk. Was it really? It was shady. No, it was absolutely shady, but I don't know if it's like full on jealousy as much. All he had to do for it to be fine was the same message, but it goes, I wish this could be me one day. I would love this to do this. he didn't need to say it like it looks like but now all of this is not everything i'm saying right now is not really why i have feelings about it i have feelings about it because y'all know me this is an opportunity where black and brown people and puerto rico has people from all different races all different ethnic backgrounds that all speak spanish or they speak english or they live on the island or they live in the United States. And that island has a history that's tied to the same oppression that black people are going through and black and brown people go through here in the mainland United States. So you have bad bunny out there literally making a statement about all of that. And it was an opportunity for everybody to be like, yo, that's dope. That's beautiful. We can all come together because we're all that the experience of Puerto Ricans is the experience of literally every oppressed minority in the United States. But we walk away on some selfish, I wish it was me, or it should have been me, or I only give it a 4 out of 10. Meanwhile, Mace, weren't you listed in the Trump supporting rappers list? He was? Yeah, his name was up there. Really? Yeah. Is that true? I don't know. I didn't see that. You can have me Googling out here. Where he goes? But regardless, it's just like, for him to say like, oh, it's safe to say that they need me. It's like, I am. And so I sent a video over this morning, Rahsaan. Do you have it? The history of salsa, the Fania piece. Run that piece. This is where I'm at with it at all times. Is salsa. Salsa is flavor and spice. Salsa is Latin soul. Salsa is ritmo, rhythm. It started in Africa. And that's the problem. Most of you artists out there that's complaining and people don't have no purpose. You're not rooted in anything real. It's just about money. It's just a money grab. It's not about building community. The basis of salsa. Oh, you're right. September 2024. this expresses love for Trump see this is us right here they don't want us to come together around this energy right here because this reminds us where we come from and how we connected and I think that's why I still got through it it's because people missing this not to mention this is flames I know it's just fire and partners, coming to the United States, here with the employees of Jazz, the brass. Here's Ebro sitting on the wall, on the cooler again, trying to get people to learn, trying to get knowledge. You really think, these people, people don't want to. Chris Brown guy, I think one of Chris Brown's children is like half Puerto Rico. I'm surprised I didn't get into the deep dive. By the way, They're critiquing Bad Bunny's performance. They weren't critiquing what it stood for. Maybe they don't understand what it stood for. They definitely didn't. They didn't. But I think that's the piece where it's like, just like last year with Kendra, you have the biggest stage in entertainment. The biggest stage in entertainment. You can stop that. The West Coast. Super flame. you have the biggest stage in entertainment and there's artists who take that opportunity to make a statement and rep for their community that's what we saw the last two years and as we mentioned yesterday Beyonce really did with the formation was the beginning that was a big moment yes yes and I don't think sometimes people are just so shut off they're just worried about money likes clicks ticket sales whatever they're not thinking about purpose. Y'all don't have no purpose, man. You're not rooted in anything beyond just charts and money. And maybe that's why you don't feel this sort of thing, or you don't understand why it's important. So I had to just get that off this morning. Some people just don't want to try though. Cause I saw so many people that are not Spanish speakers who were like, wow, I'm learning. I'm looking into things. I'm understanding. I'm listening for my, you know, Latino friends that are breaking things down to me, like with an open mind and an open heart. And as they learn, they're just like, this makes it even better. You know what I mean? But I just think some people are lazy. But these are people who want to learn. And to be fair, this idea of watching the Super Bowl halftime performance and then doing the work to understand the meaning is a new concept. And most people are lazy and don't want to do it. And if they don't feel a passion, they're not going to do it. Well, and that's also why for all of you out there that complain about where music is or you complain about where hip hop is or you complain about artists and what they make. That's why is because artists know too many of y'all are enough of y'all don't care to do any work. So they don't even try to do any work. They just keep shoveling you the same shit. They've been. We're not supposed to be kind of right. The same stuff. They be. They've always shoveled. That's why everything sounds the same and ain't nobody pushing any because they know as a culture here in the United States of America, we don't want to do no work. This is this is very similar to the initial Kendrick conversations from the teens. When I got so many people hit me up angry that I was pushing the quote weirdo rap, the weirdo rap, the weirdo rap that I was really pushing was Tyler and Kendrick and stuff like that. And people like this weirdo rap is this nerd rap. You have to think. You have to actually do work here. We just want stuff for the club. It's literally, for people like us who are backpackers, we kind of always had our third eye open when it came to hip-hop. We was woke before woke was co-opted by Republicans. Yeah, the original woke. The original woke. So a lot of these people, let's be honest. You're going full circle again. To Mace and Chris Brown. respectfully what has either of their music ever said about anything ever. I'll wait. Get back to me. Chris has some songs about happiness. I love happiness. Happiness is great. We love happiness. And once again, I think we should note that maybe Chris Brown was looking at the backflips or the lack of backflips and choreo that Bad Bunny was doing. Maybe he was just looking at that. From what I've heard, by the way, Chris Brown is such an ill performer that as an individual song and dance man, maybe he does completely surpass Bad Bunny. I don't know. I didn't go to a show. Maybe he does. No, no, no. But that's incredible. No, on the choreo and the dance, it's not even the same thing. Right. It's a different league. It's a different thing altogether. And maybe that's what I'm trying to give. I'm trying to be like, you know, that's what he's talking about. Diplomatic here, I guess. That's what that's definitely. He wasn't saying it, I'm sure, in any sort of personal way, except he thinks, yo, you want to see a show? I'm a classic sing, dance, pyro, flying. I'm going to give you that. This isn't that. Did you see any of the videos? Well, you were there. The videos that were moving around of what it looked like when you were in the stadium. Yeah. It just looks like a TV performance. Yeah. You're not watching a live show. No, it was made for TV. It's made for TV. Like you literally couldn't see. It's trees and like the camera moving through the trees. Yeah. And maybe Chris is saying like I would give you the Michael Jackson flying up, you know, a different kind of thing. you just the way you framed it was on some haterish stuff that's it well and the time for me my feelings are tied to the timing yeah well yeah the timing was everything like why why right now because and once again i think it's either because a they want to uh create divisiveness because they're working for the ops or b they were just looking at it in their own little bubble and they're not tuned into the purpose of what this really stood for at halftime it could be all of or it could be all the above yeah but i i i honestly think a lot of y'all working for the ops straight up you have no care for the community you have no care all you care about is your fans you don't care about a greater community you don't have a greater purpose and that's fine you know you don't have to if that's not what you're into but that's not what type of time i'm on so i'm gonna have feelings about it i get it i think that's totally fair yeah and um yeah i that mace Mace being someone that doesn't resonate with him that was never Mace's style Mace was fun, Mace was club music but you know what? also it's a lack of discipline people see something that makes them feel a way and then they immediately want to post it I'm trying to find I held back to you bro I'm trying to see if I had it because I'm going to play it for you I may have threw it away I decided not to post it at the time but you're going to bring it up right now in front of our No, no, because I'm fine with the point. Hopefully 2,000 people tuned in live right now. I was doing the dance, though. Oh, you were? I was doing the dance because it's the Super Bowl, and I already went after Jake Paul in a big way. So I decided to do the dance and not post it at the time. But what I really wanted to post was... Now, it's a little bit more productive than I wish. I wish it was me doing halftime instead of this bunny. But what I was going to say was, Ayo, Robert Kraft, I really appreciate you spending your money on a commercial to combat anti-Semitism. And I'm not saying that, you know, kids haven't ever been picked on in school. However, I really think it sticks in my craw that you don't even know what a craw is. It sounds like things get stuck in. It sounds like things get stuck, though. You are flag-waving for anti-Semites and white supremacists and supporting the genocide in Gaza, which is creating more anti-Semitism than anything else possibly could. And then you just want to run and throw up the commercial that's like, we need to stop bullying kids in school for being Jewish. But you didn't do it. I didn't post it during the Super Bowl. Because you were doing a dance. Because I decided to dance. Well, also, I had a drink. I think that if I'm going to drop a political video, don't do it when I've been drinking. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Oh, this is a full-on vid. Yeah. You were a camera in your face. It wasn't just a tweet. No, it was in. It was to the camera. Oh, man. We have a platform for this. Nah, you could have waited. I'm drunk right now. I done had a few. It's how I feel. It's how I feel, crap. I'm loose off the goose. Why don't you go down to Orchids of Asia, my guy? We remember you. Oh, wow. Wow. Nothing made me happier than seeing Rodney Harrison, who I've never particularly enjoyed on NBC. I think he's a douche because I think all the Patriots are douches. Crying on the sideline about, you didn't see this, but before the game, him talking about Coach Belichick not getting in the Hall of Fame. He was crying. Not literally, but whining about it. Oh, it made me feel great. Then to watch the Patriots get shellacked. Belichick didn't get in. Kraft didn't get in. I can't lie. I'm into it. Oh, Patriots get smacked by the Seahawks. the left-wing liberal nutty Seattle beating up the MAGA Patriots. Robert Kraft, the biggest, ugh, the up-in-the-White-House-everyday-ass-kissing douche of the cinch. Oh, I loved it. The guy who dragged—yo, you want to talk about Zionist? We throw the word Zionist around loosely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's become very loose. People don't know. People don't really know. Your man, Robert Kraft, for years, drags his entire football team to Israel. Really? Oh, yeah. drags the entire team every year wow i didn't know that that's his thing no i didn't fit four years this goes back i mean i will say this he's not a johnny come lately on the issue it's he's the real deal yeah like and and so as a result i i you know and then he's always i think been a trump guy because you got a couple things you got the money you got the israel you got the just general bad guy politics yeah but yeah watching them the patriots get you know my dad is so petty my dad's like what did you enjoy the game i was like no dad it was a terrible game he He was like, yeah, but watching the Patriots lose. I was like, I hear you, Dad. Yeah, MJ. No, he won't. MJ was out here like this. He was screaming at the screen like, bitch. Bitch. I was very pleased on my afternoon show. I was very pleased. The phone calls we got about the halftime were all people who enjoyed it, including some people like, I didn't know what to expect. I heard people say it, talking, and I just liked it. That was fun. What's not to like about women, beautiful women dancing and phenomenal salsa, merengue, reggaeton music? What's not to like, bro? Like, even if you're not into the political statement, what is not to like? And if you grew up in the tri-state area around Puerto Rican people, you were inundated with these sounds. We all grew up with this music. What are y'all talking about? I don't get it. F*** out of here. But I honestly believe, once again, we've confirmed that you said Mace is working for the Ops. Well, no, we didn't say that. Not working. But in 2024, he said he leans Trump. He's probably Trump. He said that in 24. That's it. That's working for it. Like I said, working for the Ops. It's a little oppie. What do you have over there, Rassan? I don't need Mace's video. He don't want to see it. I don't need his judgment of a phenomenal halftime performance. Listen, if people came out and said that it wasn't their favorite, and they didn't, you know, like, hey, I didn't do the research after. It was fine. I didn't love it. You have the right to feel that. Yeah, for sure. That is absolutely everyone. I just find it funny that the language thing, the language thing is funny for me, because I've been a Kendrick fan since 2010. I didn't understand half the things that MF said last year. People want to act like they live. He was speaking English. He was speaking. You're telling me that you watched that live at a party and you knew what the hell Kendrick was saying without the breakdown? It took you a few times. You watched the think pieces. You saw the break. No one understood it live. But put this itch Megyn Kelly on the screen. Now let's just get straight to it. What's this here? I haven't seen it. You haven't seen this one? I saw the headline, did not watch the video. If I see Megyn Kelly's name, generally speaking, I'm not giving it time. She's gone. she went from whatever conservative news host she was to then she had the whole lawsuit against Fox and oddly got propped up as sort of a feminist hero for a moment probably because she got some sexual assault abuse because she was on the other side of like Roger Ailes and then after leaving Fox or getting exiled whatever it was that happened she's now decided she had to grift further to the right so she's in the full on Ann Coulter like we've seen this blueprint before the blonde lady a demonstrative angry mean bigot blonde lady we've seen this before but this this sent me last night yeah she gave us all that and more let's see here's but to get up there and perform the whole the whole show in spanish is a middle finger to the rest of america who gives a damn that we have 40 40 million spanish speakers in the united States, we have 310 million who don't speak a lick of Spanish. This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country, not for the Latinos, not for the country. We don't need a black national anthem We don need a Spanish speaking non performing performer And we don need an ice or America hater featured as our primetime entertainment Okay what is the national language officially the national language of the United States? Here's on our side. That's what I thought. I mean, English. And there's been a push for many, many years to make it an official documented thing. You don't have one. If you would have let me finish my comment, I would have pointed that out. People have been pushing to make it official. OK, so you're trying to make official this attitude. You and Great Britain have lost your culture. You ceded your culture to a bunch of radical Muslims who came in and took over. And now it's gone. We're not allowing that here, whether it's Hispanic, whether it's Muslim. It's not happening in the United States of America. That's why President Trump was elected. And whether it's telling true American, but that's why English in his performances or anybody else. We have to keep the Super Bowl, which is a quintessential American event. Football, that kind of football, is ours. They call it American football. And the halftime show and everything around it needs to stay quintessentially American. Not Spanish, not Muslim, not anything other than good old-fashioned American apple pie. There should be a meatloaf, maybe some fried chicken, and an English-speaking performer. Maybe fried chicken. That's what the Super Bowl should be. She said maybe fried. She did really say that the quiet part out loud, though. No, there was two things of all of that noise that I believe you should be paying attention to. OK, one, you have seeded your culture. Right. Your British culture. And that is why we voted for Donald Trump, because we are not doing it. Yeah. Which means our colonialism. Yeah. Our imposing our whiteness, our language, Our belief system on everyone else is the code that we're holding on to. That's what you should have received from that whole thing. That whatever, wherever you come from, whatever language, whatever belief system, whatever culture. It ain't you. You have to bow down and give that up if you want to exist in our space. But that's why they love that model minority. You know what I mean? The ones who will assimilate. Yeah, change your name. The ones who came out and said they didn't like Bad Bunny. What a great opportunity to line up with the whites. I agree. I like English. We're all friends. We're all together, right? But see, now we always talk about this. The marketing statement didn't say that. the marketing statement said we could all come here and express ourselves freely that's the marketing state that's what it's supposed to be that's what it said colors creeds race religion all of it that's what it said we don't even have an official language to our great ally piers morgan's point god every day that i see a clip of him like what is happening well i mean well it's just been a couple of days it's only been a couple days he he's an he's he's an interesting one. He's, I actually, he's one of those people that can make me want to punch him in the face, but I do think he gives his authentic opinion. So sometimes it just goes, you know, different places. But the, you know, she was, I've never seen that. She's angry. She went all the way. You're not taking our country. You're not taking our white country. We're not taking our white mouth. Maybe fried chicken. Maybe fried chicken, meatloaf and apple pie. Maybe fried chicken. Yeah. That was a shot. And what about when she was like, that was intentional? That was intentional. Maybe fried chicken, Maybe because in her anger towards that's that's how racist she is. Fried chicken for her is black. The Latino. The Latino that sent me that this isn't about Latinos. Bruh, I cannot wait. What a terrible. We don't need the black national anthem like she has to throw it in there. Hey, yo, run, run, run, run my clip from the news from attorney Ben Crump's IG. I got this from, but I think it's moving around. All right. Minority births in the United States. This is what they really mad about. Uh-oh, let's see. This is what they really mad about right here. Yeah, for sure. White births in the U.S. have fallen below 50% for the first time ever. That's among the findings in a new study published today by professors from the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell. One of those researchers, Dr. Amos Grunabalm, calls it a historic milestone. Minority women were now the majority. The majority of birth in the United States for the first time. The study analyzed CDC data on 33 million births in the U.S., tracking trends by the mother's race and ethnicity. It revealed white births at 49.6%, while other groups taken together, including Hispanic, black and Asian, made up 50.4% of all births. The analysis also offered an explanation for the shifting demographics. Among Hispanic women, they have children usually at an earlier age, and they have more children than... This B-roll isn't saying. No, just pregnant bellies. Pregnant bellies is nuts for B-roll, guys. They had to show it. They should show penetration. When it comes to maternal health for minority women and children, Dr. Brunabon says this fight is unjust. Oh, no, they're tight. No, no, no, no. This was the nightmare. This is why they got to start getting really loud now. Because this was always, they've had this fear for decades that they're going to lose it. And now the numbers, oh, I don't even want them to see it. It's going to send them to a different place. Well, no, but historically speaking, when you say different place, things get violent. And that's not what I want. I don't want to see that. Normally, you'd be like, I want to see it. I don't want to see it. You don't want to see that. I don't want to see it. But I want everybody to pay attention. That's what you should be getting from this. That's what the anger's about. That's the root of the whole thing, man. Like, make no mistake. What Megyn Kelly said about all you, that's why in Britain you've lost your da-da-da-da. Crazy. No, listen. Y'all went out around the world, colonized, abused, raped and killed. Pillaged. Don't forget pillaged. Pillaged. No, they pillaged. Then you wanted cheap labor or free labor. It comes with something. It comes with something. I just as Malcolm X said The chickens have come home to roost And y'all mad mad mad I'm choosing To stay in the joy I love that for you That's the best form of protest Young Laura Stav Because there's so many of you sent me a beautiful video yesterday That had me in tears Like I just I'm choosing To stay in the puddle of joy There you go I love that for you You want to share the video with the people Oh, we can. We can. Do you have the video? I don't know who this is. It's an Español. Yo, I don't want to see it. I don't want to see it. I can't see any more Spanish. I'm going to wake up speaking Spanish. Somebody's going to clip that and then run that around. There he is. We always knew. I'm going to put you right next to Megan Kelly. It's crazy how proud people are to not speak another language. Meanwhile, all these people in every other country across the world all speak multiple languages. And we're like, you better speak hours and only hours. or work. Aren't you embarrassed? You know, Nazi Germany was trying to be like America, bro. Yeah, yeah, no, they saw it. People forget that. We throw Nazi Germany around. They saw Jim Crow. They was like, how'd y'all run that play? Talk to us about how you ran that play. We're going to take it up or not. We got some modern day torture we're going to run. Y'all was doing old school stuff. We're going to run this modern day killing of mass people. You got the clip of I don't know who this is. I wish I could give credit, so I apologize. Let's see it. Transmate, please, Mo. I want to talk to you about something for a moment. It was a quick moment. Wow, Benito, que grande. I get this one thing, Mo. Look at you, man. They were standing next to some blocks. Yes, in the blocks. There was so much going on. She said, I didn't really think about it until this morning. It just clip on my mind. I started analyzing. If you're from Puerto Rico, you know. The block of cement is the maintaining construction of any house of origen. Not dancing. Sitting. Serious on top of the blocks. Puerto Rican women have been the blocks of society. We've carried the weight, the household, the structure. rarely celebrate it. We've been the silent base. You don't always see the destruction. Without the root, everything falls apart. We've been the base in the household. Base in the community. Base in the language. I got that. Because the majority of us stay home teaching our children. That homage to the women in front of black. I got super emotional to understand what it meant. It's such a profound way of looking at women. And she's just thanking him for the recognition. That was nice. That was nice. She could have edited it down a tad. But that's not the point. I think she was editing. You didn't see all the edits? She was still trying to cut this thing down. Why not? She was overwhelmed. It's very cool. Very emotionally overwhelmed. Honestly, when he said, when Ibrow sent this to me, I was in tears. Because it's beautiful. And the way she says it, she's like, yo, the women at home are so many times just overlooked. Like, that's what you're supposed to do. But they're the ones who hold everything together. And she specifically said that Puerto Rican women are always overlooked. Nobody ever remembers that they are the base. Well, that's because, you know, you got a beta cuck snowflake like Bad Bunny who wants to prop up women. That's not what it is to be a man. To be a man is to put women down. And then, you know, I'm sure there are people watching this who have Puerto Rican heritage. The experiments that happened on women. Yes. You know, the sterilization of women. Yes. just like the way women on the island of Puerto Rico were trafficked and dehumanized. Like, it's a lot, man. And that's why, like, when you're talking about Mason, Chris. We're back? Yeah, we're back. Because I don't understand. No, I don't understand where you all are just sitting here watching this, and you're so lame. Like, you're so narrow-minded and lame. Like, you have no. You didn't spend five minutes. Just go on. Everyone's on their phone. Listen, I'm not saying you have to be my wife. whose entire timeline for the week leading up and since is breaking down every second of the bad button. I'm not saying that has to be you, but spend five minutes scrolling. You're going to see a couple of think pieces on it that go, oh, wow. Can I tell you, I was on threads yesterday. Oh, hit the button. No, no, no, but it's actually a positive experience. Because I saw a Haitian woman said, man, for a moment I thought we weren't included. And then somebody said, ah, ah, ah, he did say Haiti. you know and then she was like yes i started looking and then i saw so all these different people from different islands from different countries who always feel unseen they were all celebrated that they there was acknowledgement and and the fact i saw my flag i never see my flag there was an easy one too that even even mason chris brown could have caught on to he he when he said the whole thing about america god bless america yeah and then names every country in the Americas ending with the United States and Cuba and Puerto Rico. Yeah. That, just taking God bless America and flipping it on its head to say God bless all America. Small thing that anyone could catch that you're like, oh, that's dope. Also, the football thing was a dope touch at the end with the little message on the football. Together we make America. Is that what it is? Yes. Together we are America. Together we are. We are America. We are. Together we are in America. Yeah. It's not hard, guys. It really isn't. Give it five minutes. Or just say you're not into music like that. And you don't have to talk about it at all. Or just say you work with the ops. You know what I'm saying? I don't know if it's always working with the ops. That's more aggressive. Like, Nicki now works with the ops. But that's, I would say, even Amber, it seems, works with the ops. They're friends. They do things together. They're working. The average person who just has a statement. Yeah, but you might be covert. Covert operations specialist I'm watching everybody You mean me, you, or the proverbial you? The days They're covert, like they want to act like it's all good Because in the YouTube comments they're like Yeah, I did think Rosenberg might secretly be down with Trump Are we going to get to J. Cole at all? I feel like we're doing a bad job for hip-hop so far Well, I was actually giving J. Cole a chance to marinate Because I feel like people There's people who rushed out on the J. Cole Bro, that's another thing The album is 90 minutes long. You had a judgment in 30. You didn't even listen to the album. Listen, I love Joe Budden. Joe, hold the button real quick. You could not. They dropped a review that day. Congratulations, you played yourself. I've been listening for two days. I'm on the last couple of songs. I don't know. People really sat there with. And by the way, I'm doing things I know Joe doesn't even do. I'm moving around on the subway with headphones on. I'm actually doing the thing. Most people, adults, a lot of adults, if you drive around, you're out in Jersey. You don't have time to sit and really sit and marinate on this album. I've gone through half of it. It takes time. Talking J. Cole, it's Ebro Laura. You had a flight. Let me reset. Let me just reset the whole thing. Okay. And we appreciate all your subscriptions. We appreciate all of your Patreons and everything. So please share around and please like. And I'm going to get to the Super Chats as well. I want to make sure. Griff, will you send me the Super Chats? Yes. Let me get to the shout-outs. Shout-out to everybody in the chat. Now, and Laura, we've got to get to your rundown. You got stuff for that. I listen to disc 29. So is everybody aware that on the J. Cole album, there's disc 29. It's this one, bro. Yes, it's the first one. There's a reason why it's this. Sure. I found this out and it helped me. And that's why I'm sharing. Okay. Disc 29. The first disc is when he was turning 30 years old. It's a retrospective. It's a look back at him going home and like analyzing his friend group. and where he's at in his life at 30 years old. That is useful information. Disc 39 is where he's at right now. I don't know how, or turning 40 years old. I don't know how. It's right around there. Right around 40. So knowing that, the first time I heard it, I was kind of like, wait, he's talking about back in the day when I listened to the first CD. Then I was like, oh, okay, now that I have this lens, I'm listening to disc 29 differently and I'm listening to this 39 differently because I have this contest text. Excuse me. Which helped me. 41. January 28th, 85. Right. So this past birthday. He turned 41. Just turned 41. So this 39 is literally like the last couple of years. Last couple of years. Right. Because there's some songs in there, like the one where he's talking about, like, I think he's talking to his lady. Yeah. Like where he's like, you know, I didn't know I, you know, talking about falling in love and how deeply in love he is. That's right now. Somebody accepting him for all of his mistakes or even the song where he kind of interpolates the common I used to love her concept. Samples common the light, but then does the I used to love her concept. And then does I love her again? Is that a different song? No, that is the song I'm talking about. Where he samples common. Where he samples the light, which is the I never knew a love. Oh, that's right. He does sample the light. It's not I used to love her. It's not I Used to Love Her. That's right. Sampling the light, but then doing I Used to Love Her. Exactly. As a concept, which is dope. No, it's dope. If I was going to be, I'm going to say a positive first and a criticism. Yeah. And I do think you're right. I think we should wait for maybe the end of the week to really give a full breakdown so we can all spend time with it. Yeah. So far in my listening, to me, what I feel when I see the features, how many tracks it has, how big it's supposed to be, I see J. Cole as a rap nerd throwing his two discs in the ring. Like everyone did it, right? The biggest did the two discs. Biggie, Pac, Nas, Bone Thugs. At the time, everyone who was big was dropping their double discs. It's actually a super hip-hop nerdy thing to try to do the double discs. Right. Wu-Tang did it. I would say right now, and I know this will be blasphemy to some people, I think this has the least skips of any two discs I've ever heard no you're wrong I'm hitting you with the buttons I don't think it has a lot of skips no no no the least is Biggs the least is Biggs I'm gonna have a whole different episode another episode yeah well that's a Patreon Biggs two discs is shee to me it has a couple yeah but I don't know that I heard the skippers on this. I heard a few. Not a lot. There's not a lot of skips for me on this call. I'm not saying that. There's a few, though, which is more than two. Biggs has two. And we're what's it called? Splitting hairs. Yeah. And also, Biggie is now tough to even truly analyze in an honest way because there was the way you felt in 97, 98, and there's the way it hits now, now that he's gone, and this is his body of work that we're left. And by the way, I didn't have either records on there. I had no use for 97. That's right. That now I'm like, I like this. I absolutely agree. So that makes it hard. You can only judge it for now, though. You get you. Everything is. You're right. You're right. And this is where we are now. Now, this should feel like people are trying, just trying to find something negative, though. There's people are bad. He's got part of his rollout to that. He's doing is like he's I forgot he's he got his like old car, put a new engine in it. And he's going to go across the country selling CDs. I want to tell y'all something about J. Cole. He doesn't care what you think. He doesn't care. It doesn't seem like it. What do you like about him? No, no, no. That why he did this double disc for his fans If you were not a fan of J Cole or a deep J Cole listener or any of that before this album he did not make this for you This was not him coming back trying to prove anything to anyone who had a feeling about how the seven minute drill played out. He don't care what you think at all. I go back and forth whether I think he doesn't care at all. No, no, no. If you're not a fan like this. Yeah, if you're not a fan. I mean, he's got Petey Pablo in this joint. He starts the album with James Taylor, guys. There had to be some people in the EL Army who heard that James Taylor start the album. Like, where's White is Wednesday coming back? I guess White is Wednesday? No, that hit. That hit. The whole thing is fire. The Petey Pablo feature is fire. And then he's using the DMX record, the comment that we talked about. That was going to be the one thing I would be critical of. You didn't like how he used it. No, no. It's not that. It's a lot of it. there's a lot of derivativeness to it. There's a lot of project. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to reference this. I'm going to reference that. There's a lot of, on the, the, the, I expected that only because when he gave us the track listing, though, it was a picture of his room as a kid or something. Yeah. With all the different posters on the wall. Yeah. And he was basically like, these are the, I looked up to y'all and I, like I literally looked up to y'all. Like it was on the ceiling of my room. Right. Not only did I look up to you, but I looked up to you. And so I was like, okay, so this album is going to – because I think everything is intentional. It's not loose. So with artists like Kendrick, Drake, Cole. Austin, I see through Drake it. Well, no, but he's not as intentional as Cole or Kendrick. I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that. But I feel what you're saying. I wouldn't say that. I think he has times when he very much is and other times when he's not. I think he has times when he starts out being intentional, and then by the time it gets to the meat of the album and he wants to get it done and just put one hit on it? No, Views was intentional, though. Like, Views was very intentional. Like, if you're reading this, I feel like it was intentional. What was the other one with his head in the clouds? What was that? What's the one? I'm, like, seeing it. With the blue sky, and it had multiple covers of him as a kid, and he was an adult with the clouds, the sky, and the background. Baby blue. I can picture it, but isn't that a problem that we can't remember? Or is it just that we're washed? No, it's just that we're washed. Yeah. And then we're Drake haters, so there's that part. Drake haters. You know what I mean? But no, I think views is intentional. If you're reading this and nothing was the same. Nothing was the same. It was intentional, but that doesn't mean the intention landed. Listen. You're being nice. No, intentional. No, no, no. I'm just saying the attempt. These people are trying to tell us a story with their album cover, with the titles of the songs, with the – Yes. You know what I mean? They're trying to tell a complete story. Yeah, that's what they're doing. So anyway, to Cole looking at the ceiling and then you're saying he used maybe oversampled or over interpolated or whatever in the album. Oh, that's a valid critique. But I expected it. Sure. And I'm not saying I don't like it. I'm just saying there were like every couple of songs he's doing another song. But also a bit like I think he ventured out in some ways I didn't expect sonically. I think he ventured out in some in some ways. there was a couple like pop leaning guitar riffy things I didn't expect to hear from him yeah no I think almost like crossover poppy joints yeah I mean but then the poppy ones are the ones I kind of expected it the Burner Boy one hit the way I would expect a J. Cole kind of single to hit the the ones that I could tell there are a couple on here that I go these are J. Cole single vibes now the Thames record Yeah, but that's not even the one I'm talking about I like that record I like that record I'm talking about this one Let's get back to that record What are you doing? Sorry, sorry Yeah, that vibe kill Yeah, I know, sorry Here, while you're doing that, can I just shout some people out real quick? Of course, super chat Let's go Who's in here? Sharon Lee Sharon Big up to Sharon She came through with the nice With the real gift for the squad Yeah Makes me want to do the dance What would she do at? What'd she do at? 20 Bones Oh, she wants to take our clothes off Yeah, she wants to see Ebro's trip. Oh, man. Here we go. Shouts to Jay. Shouts to Eric Motion. Shouts to BK from the DMV. Nice. Shouts. Bassin. Dada. These people all gave a very low amount, so they usually get a quick shout-out. It's still a shout-out. We got to take our clothes off for them. Nah. Nads. I appreciate all of these. Me sound like my. Gigiho7SX. Terrible name. threw us 10 bones. Moreno, the man, is backdropping another 20. Yo, my man, you trying to date us? No, Moreno's trying to take us out. Listen, you come to the club and tip me this much. At some point, you and I are together. Oh, God. Bassett with a couple more bones. Yerzy, girl. So glad we got the Ablale back. Yay, Ablale. Marvin, Selex23 said, But imagine hating us so much, but forget that we are here because an Italian guy was given Spanish ships by the Spanish to colonize stolen land. Facts. It's the coolest cat. Shout out to you. JSC186. EL Army. Swipe down to temporarily close the chat, then click. Okay. I don't know what that means, but you can try that. Wait, that's how you like? Oh, people was asking, how do you like? So you got to swipe down to close the chat, hit the like button, and open back up. Oh, there we go. And, yeah, Scooby to Don and Chef Daniel Brown all jumping in. Whoa! And then Phoenix, 5, 7, 6, 6. Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. What are you about to do? I'm about to put my knee pads on. Yo, you about to give go right now. I'm going to get my knees dirty for this. Rosenberg giving top. No, it's time. Rosenberg giving top for tips. You tip. Rosenberg giving top. No, Phoenix came through with a 50 spot. How about hand? At least hand relief. Hand relief. at least um two fabrics chill how did how did i know that no no how did i make a joke about getting down on my knees you would think that's as pause as you could get and then your man comes through and goes eye contact no chill griff he wants me to look up in this imaginary beach i didn't need to know you like this no bro no griff we don't he was like look up at it i don't need to know you Yeah, now Griff just gave us way too much intel. Oh, my God. Two Fat Productions came through with a lot, too. Been listening on YouTube since 2014 in Texas. Thanks for the great, being great at hip-hop. I don't know. Thanks for the great hip-hop upbringing. No problem. And JW, big shout-out to you as well, JW. All right, all right. Super chat coming through. It is a super chit-ass. That's you guys. Yo, Griff said you need to make eye contact with me. That's wild, bro. No, we didn't. Today was the day we found out. Yo, Griff is one night I'm about to spit in your mouth Yo, Griff, chill Whoa, everybody's showing too much I don't want to know you like that You don't believe me I can say that joke all you want That ain't knowing me I'm just saying I'm trying to push the envelope As far as we can go Alright, didn't you want to play us something Or fail? I did, but it's fail Let's wait We can maybe We have a new Patreon to drop tomorrow So maybe we'll play some joints on the Patrol Listen, Studio 1.0 Has some great things about it It looks great on camera. Oh, I think it's great. Yeah, we're doing good. However, technologically speaking, behind the scenes, things are a bit of a struggle. And with that, we're going to get to Laura Stavs because she's got the rundown. Laura got the rundown. Turn that up. Screens on glow when she pulls up. Headlines heavy, but we still cut up. Light still flashing. We don't slow up. Up, up, up, up, up, up. You guys, Bad Bunny has broken viewership record for the Super Bowl halftime show. I mean, listen. These numbers. These are early reports, but they're saying 135.4 million people tune in to Bad Bunny on Sunday. Kendrick Lamar had the previous record with 133.5 million. And then they're saying, you know, Michael Jackson, who had 133.4. But that's in 1993. I always, Michael Jackson is so separate. There's no social media. It's a whole different animal. Well, that's why it's the only thing interesting is Michael Jackson on that list, respectfully. Maybe the fact that Bunny's number one, given that people said they were going to protest. Right, right, right. I'll give that a little bit of intrigue. I feel like they kind of felt the same about Kendrick, too. But what I'm seeing is every year the numbers just get bigger and bigger and bigger because the Super Bowl is unlike anything else. And it's just a freaking beast. I want to see the worldwide numbers. That's what I really like. Well, no, no. Well, that's intriguing because is the Bad Bunny one going to be somehow much bigger worldwide? I want to see that. But in terms of U.S. numbers, to me, Michael Jackson is the only one that's interesting because to be up there with all these other ones that are from right now, and that was the first one when they said, we're going to go for it and try to get you to stay around, and people did it to the point that the numbers hold up to today. I think that's interesting. But the other ones are a little bit like – Well, let's just be honest. We're cynics, right? And I'm with Rosenberg on this. These numbers don't. The first Tuesday when it happened in a Thursday on a full moon, we've been on that page for a while. I mean, biggest ever. Don't get me wrong. Biggest ever is biggest ever. It's a big thing. But if you look at the last five, they're all up there. Yeah. Interestingly, Beyonce's not up there. Rihanna's up there. Kendrick's up there. Oh, really? Yeah, Beyonce wasn't. Well, I mean, I got a shout out to my Apple Music family. You know what I'm saying? It's different. We've been involved the last couple of years. By the way, it's true. Since Apple, the number's been up. Yep. All right. I think they said it's because of the press conference. But not you, Zane, specifically. They said they were like, Ebro. Can I tell you a crazy number that I heard, though? I think it was like 60 million people saw that press conference. No way. That's what I was told. I don't know. I didn't see it, you know. But my Instagram number definitely went up. Really? Yeah. And it probably showed in different ways, too. I wonder if in Latin countries, like, it was on TV. Well, yeah. Well, so in the room. I think it was. So there was a line to get into the room. There's always a line, right? Of course, yeah. The line was like something we'd never seen before. Right, like an endless line. No. And I didn't anticipate that Spanish sports media, who are mad aggressive, bro. Spanish sports media, you've never seen anything like it. Really? The way they yell at you, when they crowd around for a photo, people screaming at each other, elbowing. I ain't never been around nothing like that. Wow. Now, did you see big what looked like TV cameras just airing it? Like, what do people have? Like, did news stations have a setup? Well, in the back, they had the big cameras. Big cameras. But I don't know who they were. Right. I don't know them all. But they definitely said the numbers were crazy. That's interesting. That's cool. A story that we haven't touched on, but, oh, man, this is so heartbreaking. So, little John shared this tribute that, oh, man, it's a tearjerker. His son, Nathan Smith, passed away. He was found deceased in a Georgia pond. now I saw when he was publicly asking help you know what I mean he was trying to find his son and then he thanked you know the police department detectives everybody who was involved in the search but I cannot guys this was so heartbreaking to see I don't yeah I gotta tell you I didn't I yeah I don't even I don't even have the words or you could send out prayers to little John and the family and anybody losing a child I can't my brain can't wrap around yeah and any parent that's watching this right now that's had to deal with that sort of thing god bless you yeah god bless and and you know people get through it and people find a way and have other children i think john has other children i believe john has other children um people find a way to get through it but man just seeing the news and when he showed those pictures and we don't know if uh the young man had some health issues going on we don't know why he went missing or yeah no one not that i read and i don't know if it's valid i read they said he walked out of the house like with no clothes on or something. I saw that too, but I haven't seen it like, it's just speculation, you know? He has one other child. Just sending love, man. Yeah. Okay, so Tony Hale. Alright, yeah, let's get into, oh. And Uncle Murda. Is this not Lowdown? We can take it to the Lowdown. Oh, let's take it to the Lowdown. It's about to get messy in here. You got that drop? Oh my gosh. It's time for the Lowdown with Laura Stey. Alright, Laura Stey. Oh, man. So, we see a video of Tony Ayo and Uncle Murda on a plane, on a flight, and Ja Rule is sitting right in front of them. And I see them cussing each other out, but I'm like, what a coincidence, bro. You pussy ass, Amy and that. You this and that. No, it was getting it in a little bit. So, listen, through the tweets and people commenting they're saying that according to them they say that Ja Rule made a scene so he would be purposely removed according to them because at one point you're saying but I was according to 50's IG right yes yes yes but then Ja Rule tweeted that he threw a pillow at him and knocked his hat off the whole thing is just funny to me because what a coincidence guys you hop on a plane and you're sitting right in front of your ops I just wish I could have been on that plane we got the vid Let's see it. Suck ass job. We're on the plane. Suck ass. You fucking suck. We're on the plane. Great. Great promo for Murder and Yayo's podcast. Starts today. That's Murder Yayo podcast out today. That's crazy. Right? The timing to get that promo? I mean, it's a great promo. It's a great promo. Listen, one thing you can always count on, I think, for the rest of our days, is that they're never going to like Ja Rule. It doesn't seem like them getting together and being friends is on there. Now, didn't 50 and Ja run into each other on a plane once before? I remember 50. That's what you were saying, but I don't remember this. Yeah, I feel like I saw a video of this a while back. Y'all in the chat, did this actually happen? and 50 was saying that he just kept walking past Ja Rule because he knew he was making Ja Rule uncomfortable, so he just kept walking around or something. He would do that. Imagine he's just walking back and forth and back and forth. And yo, and shout to Ja Rule. Ja Rule's not letting this go either. I don't want this. I don't want anybody to think like Ja was on some I'm chilling and these dudes was antagonizing. I think Ja is on the same page. They're wrong. He never backs down. Ja? Yeah. I mean, listen, at what point does this go from like, it's impressive that they could hold the beef this long to it's corny. At what age? 75 years old? There's nobody that you could run into on a plane right now that if they said something to you, you're not clapping back. I didn't say that. But I have recent issues that developed relatively recently. I don't know 30 years from now. Well, they've been in the public side. That's the other part. They've all been in the public eye for this. For the whole time. So 20 joints about. It's been about 20, 23. You have it being public? Yeah. Yeah, that would put us at 03. Yeah. In other news, guys, Diddy is now facing another sexual assault lawsuit, and it's moving forward. So a music producer by the name of Jonathan Hay, he says he's accusing Diddy of assaulting him in 2020 at a studio session. According to the court filings, he says that Diddy forced a non-consensual sexual act on him, provided drugs and ketamine. I mean, listen, unfortunately for Diddy, we saw there's evidence suggests this is on the table. You played yourself. The part that I thought was a little, this is where it gets like, ah. He did an interview with the New York Post. This is the victim. Yes, he claims that in the assault, Diddy had a T-shirt once owned by B.I.G. Oh, I saw this story. No, this story's crazy. No. You ever heard this story? No. He's claiming that after the assault, he says, rest in peace, Big, before throwing the T-shirt at him. No, no, bro. Hold on, y'all. Are kids out of the car? It's 9 o'clock. Kids are out of the car, right? You sure? Or they're so young that they won't get it. I'll try my best. All right. This alleged situation was at a place where Biggie's old stuff is there. I don't know if it was a warehouse or there was stuff in the studio, but Biggie has old clothing there. And what I read, the accusation is Puff got himself off into one of Biggie's shirts. And after he wiped his joint, he threw the shirt at the guy and was like, rest in peace, Big. Give me one shot of you, bro. Just get that face right there. That's what I read, bro. So, yeah. No, it's not good. No, it's not. If that's true, I'm deeply offended by the rest in peace, Big. I mean, the whole story is bad. That's where I'm stuck today. Just right in this moment is where I'm stuck. Because I've been reading these Epstein emails. These Epstein files. Oh, boy. All of my... So, when I was a conspiracy theorist full on, y'all know I used to be worse. And as other people got more conspiracy theories, I was like, yo, chill. Now you on this? Relax. Went the other way. Classy backpacker. Chill. Y'all jumping on a bedwagon late. But after reading these files, how do you not believe that these people are into these sexually deviant things that people say they're into? Or turned on by this weirdo ish that people are turned on by? Like, how do you not? I'm telling y'all it's in there bro and I don't know I'm not saying that what the victim is saying is fact what Diddy did and all that I'm just saying everything's on the table like all these papers we got laid out here everything's on the table if based on what I've read from the Epstein stuff that I've read which isn't everything it makes the RIP big t-shirt thing not even registered I'm agreeing with you The stuff you read is so heinous and insane. And obviously there is truth to some of it. We don't know every detail, but there is truth to some of this stuff. Now, I don't know when it starts getting to the worst parts of it, the eating of children and just like the most scary stuff that our brains can't quite process. I don't know. because you hear certain things like the the the the whole pusha thing and you see stuff that you're like this is made up from a bad tip line yeah right right so we have to keep that same energy about but no but some of this is emails between individuals that's what i'm talking about i'm not talking about an fbi tip line i'm talking about emails between individuals well you saw the one email that everybody wants to get unredacted which one they don't know who the email's from but someone writes Epstein an email and says, your littlest girl was very naughty. Yeah. And the name's redacted. And people are like, why the F is that name redacted? These victims have gotten exposed. The victim should be redacted, not the... And some sicko who clearly had sex with a minor is in there and it's redacted. Crazy. It crazy I thought that the email Then there the other email where you have the guy who the professor at one of the universities American University Yeah, who got an 11-year-old pregnant in Mexico and then they had a Marine stand trial for him and he got like some judge paid off and now he's still working and never got charged. And some Marine went to jail. Yeah. For him. Yep. So, can I be honest as disgusting as it is i sort of thought we were going to have a oh my god sort of laugh about the the diddy throwing the shirt i didn't know we were going to land well no because of my my expression and my lack of like ability to articulate my feelings is tied to i don't know like i can't say that that ain't true like i can't say it's so crazy it ain't true based on everything we're seeing right now and we always heard stories about like you know of things that sexually deviant things that people are into, but that just ain't my world. But it doesn't mean it's not true. But it doesn't mean it's not true. Big shout out to Isabella in the super chat. Okay. Dropped us a 50 spot. Oh, man. Isabella. You just paid Louis for a month. Yo, somebody make it clap. Yo, it's not me anymore. I've done enough. Thank you, Isabella. I miss you. Thank you for everything. Shouts to Sir Tweaking. Shouts to Rod. Shouts to QV. fought for life, earned EL Army rider. Let me tell you something. We also have to shout out our awesome listener who was showing us love yesterday on her social media. Oh, yeah. Who's popping out here. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I posted her, yes. Well with – I never hear her say her name. I only read it. Rayleigh is how I assume what her name is. Yeah. But well with Rayleigh. Well with R-A-E-L-E. And I'm sorry if I'm getting your name wrong. Rayleigh? Rayleigh? I think it's Rayleigh. Rayleigh, maybe. Yo, she's got a poppin' Instagram. She's like a New York area-based influencer. No, she's like a life coach, bro. Life coach. Helping women build their speaking skills and social confidence and swap doubt for self-trust. I can't just let you fly with influencer. Nah, it's too loose. This is a professional. No, you're right. It feels loose. No, she's amazing. But she does awesome stuff, and she's been showing us mad love. I thought we could maybe get her on for a special guru session. Have her join us sometime. I like it. I like it. But when the whole thing went down, when we parted ways with the last situation, she posted about that too. Yeah, yeah. That was the first time I saw her. Oh, and shout out to Ari Melber for using a piece of her show. Do we have that? Do we have Laura on the Ari Melber show from last night? Well, it's just a clip of a clip of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to show Ari on our show. Yeah, it's just too crazy. Maybe I'll show it. I wish that's Ari Melber. No, it was a shout out to you. It was you breaking down a really good fundamental part of the Babon situation. Babon. Yes, it was great. But anyway, you guys, that was The Lowdown. Oh. Oof. It's time for The Lowdown with Laura Steyer. Listen, if you want to get to the gurus, the original gurus at gmail.com. It's time for the guru. Send those emails. The original gurus at gmail.com. Where the gurus unite to fight for what's right. Ebro, burn the seeds. Bitch! What? Huh? Excuse me? Why would you do that? Oh, my God. Rosenberg, who's out there? Who needs us? Who's writing to us? So many people, Laura, reach out to theoriginalgurus at gmail.com. Theoriginalgurus at gmail.com. Your destination for clarity. Dear Gurus, my fiance and I are getting married this year. We're Hispanic, and he is half white. We were invited to a Super Bowl party this Sunday, but I declined because I'm going through an emotional time. I encourage him to go and enjoy himself. When he came home, he told me there were two TVs playing during halftime. One TV was switched to Kid Rock's Turning Point USA show on the movie because one person wanted to watch it. First of all, what the F channel was that on? It was on the Internet, right? It was just YouTube or something? Oh, no. What are you doing? What are you doing? You played yourself. What are you doing? It bugged out. Sorry, bro. God. While the other TV had Bad Bunny with the volume on. He also mentioned that someone approached him and said they hoped he wasn't offended, explaining that they didn't care for the halftime show and hadn't watched Kendrick Lamar last year either. The whole situation immediately bothered me. I asked why he didn't leave. He could have watched the rest of it at a bar or at home. He got upset that I would want him to go to a bar alone. He said he questioned why they were watching it. They laughed about how ridiculous it was. and he stayed because he was trying to have a good time with his friends. He also said he doesn't like to get emotional over politics and didn't view the situation as political. I told him, Sibow, it wasn't about politics. It was about racism. And they played in his face. He explained no one said anything racist, but it being on was all the racist I needed. And the fact that someone felt the need to single him out and say, I hope you're not offended, says a lot. What frustrates me most is that no one needed to watch either show. They could have talked, eaten, or done what they do. They didn't really watch the halftime anyway. It being played felt like everyone in the room was enabling ignorance. I'm going to skip ahead because this is long. We agree politically, and he's not MAGA, but I struggle with him staying in spaces where things like this could happen openly. I'm not asking him to cut off his friends, but I do believe that when situations like this arise, removing yourself matters. You represent yourself, your partner, your people. you shouldn't feel comfortable being put in that position in general. He feels I'm overreacting because I'm emotional and grieving right now. But I'm so mad. He's my best friend, and I can't imagine life without him, but I'm not going to lie. I'm considering burning it down. I just don't like that and feel so strongly about it. I don't have room for that with anyone around me no matter how much I love them. Am I overreacting? Should I be wording things differently? How would you overreact to this situation? Thanks, Fought for Life. out of the gate you are overreacting yes I'm going to give you the burning it down if that's the only thing oh girl you're mourning right now you love him I assume he's your support system he's there for you and he didn't handle he didn't handle what you deem to be an offensive situation the way you would have that's right that doesn't mean he disagrees with you about it being uncool right right right right Also, is the person who turned on the T-Pusa his closest friend? Or was it some douchebag who happened to be the one who had control of the TV? You know what I'm saying? How big was the party? No, it was on a separate TV. They had two TVs on. Right. But was the person who made this decision to have a separate TV with the T-Pusa, was that his best friend? I don't know how big the party was. And I think maybe what bothered her is because they were like, we hope it doesn't offend you. And he probably didn't say anything. I would have been like, yes, but that's what you're going to do. Well, so the thing about the T. Pusa thing, the performance from Kid Rock, it is based in racism. Racism is also political, guys. Stop saying it ain't. It is. It's not political Republicans versus Democrat. But it's political. When you exist in a space where the dominant power structure favors one group against others, the others are called minorities. That's political. That's a structure. That's an institution which makes it political. You feel what I'm saying? Just for clarity. No, no, it is political. It is political. But it's also more than political, to her point. To her point, it is more than political, right? It's deeper than rap. So for her to be offended, yes. And she would have handled it different. But to your point, Rosenberg, for her to think everyone's going to handle things to her liking. Congratulations. Yeah. If you were there. It's a burning down situation. No. And that worries me. Like you need to. You're obviously going through a lot. You said you're mourning and you're going through something. I would relax and leave a little bit of grace here. If you were there and you told him you were offended or you told him like, hey, I feel uncomfortable. I want to leave. Anything like that. But you weren't even there. He didn't put you. It wasn't your house. That's the other part. This is not her home. It's not her home. It's not his home. That's right. You weren't there and feeling threatened. He was on his own. Her throwing in the you represent us. We're stretching a little, yes, but that doesn't mean he has to do everything. She didn't give us her name, right? She didn't put her name in it. She doesn't want to shout out. I want to shout her out. Fought for life. All right. Hey, five for life. I love the fact that you just want to turn up and not we're here for it and just blow things up. You know what I'm saying? I'm into it. You know, you want to go ham, but also you tripping a little bit. Yeah. You just got to know you tripping. It's not a burn it down situation. It's not. It's not. And listen, I'm with you. I would have said, yes, I'm offended. But this is what you're going to do. Like, do it then, you know, but that's not how he handled it. And I think she's just upset because she feels that he didn't stick up for himself. But maybe at the time, he just didn't want to even acknowledge it or give it any power. He was with everyone else watching Mad Bonny. I'm just laughing. Did you do that for the Latino? Oh, Latino. It's also funny you say that. My dad just texted me live. Oh, he's listening? He's watching? No, I don't think so, no. He wrote, did you see Megyn Kelly on Piers? I have never, ever heard anyone this full of sick hate. He's pretty good now. He switched on Israel. He did, by the way. He did? Oh, yeah, he full switched on Israel. Okay, Piers. He went from at the beginning. He did the natural thing of at first very upset and emotional. And then as time goes on, it's like, all right, sort of feels like the retaliation's over. Hey, what the hell's going on here? Like he did a natural evolution of now he's arguing the other side. Yeah. So shout out to Piers Morgan, man. Yo, Piers, what is it? Yo, man, Piers, man. I'm lonely. Who knew? Strange bedfellows. I'd rather, listen, I'd rather hang with Piers Morgan than Marjorie Taylor Greene. I'm never buying that one. Never. What about if your man switches up? George Santos? No, no, no. What's the comedian? On HBO. Bill Maher? He ain't switching. He's been going this way. Bill Maher used to be the face of progressive politics on TV. And now he's just like... But then that was when people didn't know his Israel stuff always sucked. Right. And his Islamophobia is long documented. But now he's just literally the old guy who doesn't realize he's the old guy. And his opinions suck. And he thinks the entire Democratic Party and anyone who leans towards the actual left of the left is like a loony tune. He sucks. That ain't happening. But this is a fun game, though. If they switched, would you accept them post-switch? Nicki Minaj comes back next week like, guys, I was tripping. Next week? Next week. No. how could I believe that? It couldn't be next week, right? It would have to be quiet for a long time. See, now, I believe next week. I believe next week. Next week, she'll be like, yo, I was tripping, guys. I had to do a thing real quick. I was tripping. What kind of tripping is that? I don't know. I've never heard of tripping. It's called hustling. It's called algorithm hustling. Yeah, I wasn't tripping. I was actually hustling. I was actually hustling. I got a bag. I had to get some things cleared up. They're cleared up now. I'm back. I think, unfortunately, for Miss Mirage, I think the unfortunate thing is too much stuff now is coming out because people have been waiting. You guys seeing that in your algorithm at all? Yeah. A lot of people start to chat and tell their stories. Oh, really? Oh, about you being mean. The mean stories are coming. Congratulations. You played yourself. Super famous. I think his name is Sir John. He does Beyonce's makeup. The best of the best. There's a clip that's moving around. They claim that it's from an older interview, But he says that Hype Williams had asked him to do Nicki Minaj's makeup at one point. He said, absolutely not. Because he has seen her abuse other people in the industry. So the chickens are coming home to roost for that situation as well. I don't see it. Yo, but why didn't she show up for T-Pusa, man? Yeah, if you really are, you should have made that a thing. That made no sense. Now, listen, they're going to have to, of course, you know, switch up on all of their values because her blending in with them makes no sense. Well, she would have been up there ass clapping. Because she's considering she peddles sex and porn and ass clapping. So they'll have to do... They got to figure out now... She's going to have to figure out what to even do musically now that she has, you know, the Erica Kirk crowd. So try to put out a... Won't she put out like a religious album or something? Oh, that'd be tight. Or America First Raps. America First Raps. No, it's going to be crazy. Monster is going to be different. Do you guys believe the headline Drake allegedly passed on making an appearance with bad money? I don't. Don't believe it. I don't believe that. No. No. Just checking. See if y'all believe it. I don't. We didn't hit Lindsey Vonn, U.S. Olympic skier with the. Congratulations. You played yourself. And you say why? Why would you say this about a U.S. Olympic skier? Well, before she was scheduled to compete, she blew her knee out. And he decided she was going to go ahead and do it anyway. Now, people are saying that the ACL doesn't have anything to do with this particular thing, whatever. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. But the whole thing is, it's very sad, but she was indignant that at 41 years old, she could win this thing. So even when she tore her ACL, she was like, I'm going. Do you have a video of that? Damn. There she goes. Give me the volume. Give me the volume. Oh, no. You can't. Lindsey Fong pulls out of the gate. It hopes of more Olympic glory. Nia's already shot. Knee brace on. Woo. Done. Oh, boy. Done. And you see the way her body turned. It was terrible. Lack confidence. It's going to be multiple surgeries. Had to be airlifted off and suffered a complex tibia fracture. I feel terrible. Bone damage. We have to hit you with the button, but it's terrible. Congratulations. We're not hitting you with the button. I'm not hitting you with the button because you wrecked it in a race. I'm hitting you with a button because you shouldn't have raced, and then you wrecked. Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's not just because you wrecked. That's right. But you were like, I'm doing this. And everybody was like, I don't know. Trust me, I got this. You probably shouldn't end your 41. Let me tell everybody something about your body after 38, 39. When people tell you, eh, it's probably not for you. You know what you should do? Listen. Sit down. SP Ronin coming through with a late super chat. Shout out to you, SP Ronin. Shout out to you, Casey Casey. I want to shout out to all the nurses that got their deals worked out a month on strike standing in the cold. But there's a batch of nurses that are still striking over at Presbyterian. Is there an update on those nurses at Presbyterian? They still haven't signed. Wow. The hospital has agreed to a proposal. They haven't agreed. All right. Hospital has agreed to a proposal. 4,000 more nurses remain on the picket line as labor negotiations stall at Presbyterian, New York Presbyterian. Yo, good for these nurses, man. and keep fighting these a-holes making $5 million to run a hospital and not paying the nurses. Shout-out to Casey Casey. I'm going to give this the super chat comment of the day. All right, here we go. On the wrap, on the close, on the close. 100% of the people who tuned in to a separate halftime show would also want separate water fountains. That's a fact. That is a bar. That is a full-on bar. Thanks. Yeah, shout-out to the nurses, man. I just want everybody to know I paid $68 this morning. For an Uber, because I feel like-ish, and I was like, I'm not subwaying today. $68, darling. No, no, it was $68. And here's the insult. It was a bleeping yellow cab van when I got outside. This was an X, bro. An X. It was a cab van for $68. Congratulations. You played yourself. The level to which they don't care anymore. Yeah. The level to which we're like, we are just going to take from everybody. I need Mom Don to be looking at the Uber and cab situation. This is crazy. There's snow. There's ice. And it's rush hour. It's cold. It's cold and it's rush hour. That's right. Yeah. Insane. Listen. Another episode live from the new studio 1.0. 2.0 coming soon. Patreon. Oh, two things. Announcements. We hit 50,000 subs overnight. Wow. Bravo. I don't even. That's a bomb. Love that. 50,000 subs on YouTube, so shout out to y'all. And we have a Patreon that we're dropping tomorrow. We're considering a themed episode, so we're going to pay attention on the Patreon and see what we decide to drop. And I think we have our first guest in the studio tomorrow. Really? Yeah. It's coming through? I think so. First in studio guest, live? I don't know. We've got to discuss that. All right. Based on the time, right? Based on time, yeah. I'd love to hear feedback from all of you out there. Is the 8 o'clock thing working for you? Are you able to use this in your car on your commute? Is that a part of your life? You know what I mean? Because you can wake up. If you're like an early person, you wake up. Maybe you're driving trucks, whatever you're doing, delivery, things like that. And then you get enough of what you're hearing over there. Come join us at 8 o'clock. We appreciate it. We'll have a good hour combo, some laughs and some insights and fun. And I would like to end the show with this breakdown. of the history of the Puerto Rican flag that Bad Bunny was from. Oh, the one that was illegal? Yeah. Yes. I feel like that's important because, once again, many of you rushing to judgment on Bad Bunny. He's representing for his people. He's representing for all of us. He's representing for building community and, you know, standing up in the face of oppression and colonialization. let's get that Rassan on the out man Ebro Lord Rosenberg Thank you. 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