When Hugs Turn Into Red Flags

Are hugs harmless comfort — or a covert control tactic? Tune in to Nina’s What’s Trending as she breaks down a viral conversation about hugging as manipulation and how to spot emotional red flags in relationships. Also on the rundown: a Midwest pig who just shattered a weird world-record attempt and a new Louvre heist documentary that’s got everyone talking.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for Nina's what's trending?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
So hugging is trending this morning, and it seems like
such an innocent thing, but for whatever reason, it's something
you need to be watching out for in your relationships.
And I'll tell you why in just a second. But first,
have you trained your pet? Can your pet do anything? Cool? Umm?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
She can fetch like I can fetch. No, Vitoria has
a cat. I have a dog. Yeah, he can do
some things. Yeah, Like like if I say guard, he'll
get down and start growling and barking. Oh well, that's cool.
I scary, except he'll probably run away if anybody actually
did any thing, because he gets scared for you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, I bring this up because it turns out if
you try hard enough, you can pretty much train your
pets to do anything. And there is a pig that
lives outside of Chicago who is so trending this morning.
His name is Norbert the Pig, and he's trending because
he just got againness world record or one one if
you will.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Because he's skateboards. If you can not see the.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Video, they're calling him Porky Star. No, yeah, Tonyk like
Tony Stark, not thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
That one. That guy. So they're calling this there's a
lot of like little bulldogs that skateboard. I used to
have a French bulldog a long time ago. I trained
at to skateboard. It was cool.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But I can see you with a French bulldog. Yeah,
and they remind me of pigs, so that kind of
makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, it was fun. It is so cute.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
But anyway, he won because he took a thirty three
foot ride in just over eleven seconds, and I mean
he was cruising. In other news, this is really interesting
if you've been following the Louver heist, it is getting
its own documentary on CNN. So totally knew that was coming.
I kind of expected a movie like Ocean's eleven. But
there's still time. The heist, the Louver Stolen Crown Jewels

(01:40):
will era this Sunday on CNN at eight pm, and
we'll start streaming everywhere on Tuesday. And it's going to
be a special investigation about how the thieves disguise themselves
as construction workers. It's going to be all of the
details and probably talking to some of the police. I
don't know police officers, but federal officers or whatever. Do
you call federal if it's in Paris.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I don't know. That's whatever their thing is.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah that I didn't see a video on them yesterday though,
and it was kind of interesting because they like, if
they wouldn't have looked suspicious, it's pretty easy to say.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I think that they are just construction workers, Like they
had one of those really big ladders. It just goes
to show if you walk in anywhere with confidence and
act like you're supposed to be there, most of the time,
people will not say a word. Yeah, I've gotten onto
movie sets. I've gotten all kinds of places. Wait what, Yeah,
are you serious? Yeah. There was one time I was
I was in Hollywood and I was with some friends
and it was like later. It was like in the

(02:31):
evening and we were out drinking and stuff, and we
were very hungry, and we walked by they were filming
a movie and it was like a closed set, but
they were filming a movie. But we saw the craft
services table and I was like, I was like, just
follow me, and we all walked in there and we
sat there and ate ate the food at the craft
services I had to have for all the actors. Yeah,
but we eventually had to leave because one of my
friends would not stop hitting on one of the actresses.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's not blending in anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I no, you wasn't blending in at that point. I
was like, we gotta go, man, we were gonna get arrested. Man,
you stop. She doesn't want any of your shrimp. Man like,
I'm pretty there's a whole thing shrimp over there. Wow,
my shrimp. Like no, that's definitely a lesson. Yeah, but
you can get anywhere usually if you just act like

(03:16):
you're supposed to be there.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, and they did, so if you're interested in looking
into all of the details that will be airing this weekend.
And lastly, hugging is something that you need to be
watching out for because now psychopaths even use hugging in
devious ways in your relationship to control their partner. So
hugging has become a big topic of conversation and people
are starting to analyze what each hug meant at what time.

(03:37):
So that's a deep ty. I feel like I only
told you that because you take it lightly. I think
it's okay to hug the people that you love.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
So they're analyzing what hug with the hug at each time.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Because if somebody is hugging you after, like in the
middle of an argument or at a time where they
want something from you, Yeah, they're using physical touch as
a way of men of manipulation.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Right. Sometimes people hugging in the of an argument is
a coping mechanism for themselves because they want to feel
safe and know that they're still good. It's not to
like necessarily manipulate it for you. It may not be
what you need, you know, Like, trust me, I've I'm
a person like that. If we're arguing, I'll be like,
he can here, give me hug. We can still argue, yeah,
like while we're hugging me, like you're an idiot, You're
an idiot, you know. Yeah, No, I mean we can
still argue. But for me that helps because it makes

(04:19):
me feel safe to know that you're, like still are
going to care about me even though we're in an argument.
But I've been with people who don't want to be touched,
so I have to remind myself, like they don't dig
being touched. But most of the time, like I haven't
really been emotionally safe, but you know, now I am,
which is cool. So if my girlfriend now doesn't like
to be touched. They'll be like, okay, just remind yourself
that she doesn't like to be and you're safe and

(04:39):
it's cool, right. But some people do see it as
like being manipulative, like you're hugging for to like get
them to shut up or whatever. Sometimes it's not that,
you know, yeah, sometimes it is that though, So you
gotta pay attention, I guess. So, yeah, you should really
pick apart every single hugg oh geez, all day, all night.
Just don't hug, just just another that's another good idea
of just be aware that's what's trending.