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SPEAKER_00 (00:15):
Well, hello and good
morning.
Happy New Year, my little lovebunnies.
I hope you're doing great.
Well, what do we have in storefor you today on the last little
bit of episodes I have left onthis podcast?
30 was the last time I looked,which means after this one, 29.
Yes, Carol, that's how numberswork consecutive order.
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I think that people know that.
Alright, what do we have goingon today?
I tried to pick out I tried tofick out, I tried to pick out
some light um stories for youtoday.
But first of all, did you have agood New Year's Day?
We were off yesterday.
I'm back at work today.
Uh I don't know if we're gonnabe busy or not.
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There probably won't be anybodyhere.
I love driving in this morning.
There was hardly anybody on thestreets, on the highways.
Reminded me of the days back inthe pandemic of 2020.
Uh with when everybody stayedhome, but I still had to go to
work.
Um, okay, where was I going withthis?
I forget.
Oh, we had we had our greens, wehad our black-eyed peas, we had
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our ham, homemade macaroni andcheese.
Um, and it was delicious.
It was a good time.
All right.
But we are now 2026.
It's gonna be a great year,right?
Hopefully it will be.
They did swear in a socialistdemocrat mayor for New York
City.
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We're gonna see how that goesthis year.
Alright, let's see.
Woman shocked at first dategift.
I can't make this up.
Now, this is bizarre.
When I first found out what thegift uh gift was, I thought, oh
no, don't touch it.
But she did.
Alright.
I'm so skeptical anymore ofanything.
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Um, an Aussie influencer hasgone viral over the odd gift
given to her on her first date.
Celeste Joan has taken to TikTokto share a story about an
unusual first date.
She said that she matched with aman on hinge and decided to go
on a date after he was soforward in their messages.
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Alright.
First of all, I don't like that.
He immediately replied with hisnumber and said, Hey Celeste,
I'm deleting this app.
I would love to text youinstead.
You really intrigue me.
That to me, red flag number one.
Just no, you how no, you don'tneed my phone number right now
to text me.
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Alright, he booked a place andsaid, Great, Tuesday night at
eight, let's meet there.
At least he's willing to justmeet her, not come to our house
and pick her up.
When she arrived to the date, itwas clear that he was even more
of a catch than she expected,and here's why.
Look, I let's read the story andI have comments on it.
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What do I see at the bar next tohim?
She said.
This is lasagna.
He had brought me lasagna, hishomemade lasagna recipe for me
to try at the bar.
This gift, as bizarre as it mayseem, was calling back to one of
Joan's hinge prompts, whichread, My love language is known
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as lasagna.
Uh-oh.
So alright, he gets points forthat.
I can't make this up, she said.
This smells incredible, but Iwould not eat this.
What if there was like drugs init or something?
This smells incredible.
Joan even pointed out that thelasagna was made in the correct
way with the sauce made two daysprior.
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Morning.
Well, that's what he tells you.
How do you know?
I don't know if I'm going to beable to go on another date, she
said.
There's no date that's evergoing to top this.
I'm not going to tell him howgood it is because he'll get the
big head.
But that's amazing.
Why not tell him it's delicious?
Especially if there's no drugsin it, right?
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If you've enjoyed it, tell him.
Goodness.
Uh but would you have done this?
If you went out on a blind datelike this and somebody brought
you food, would you have eatenit?
No.
No.
First of all, I wouldn't begoing out on a date like that, I
don't think.
Oh my gosh.
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You can go finish reading that.
I just thought that was bizarre.
Okay, moving on.
Oh, sneaky customers are usingAI to alter pictures of takeout
orders for a refund.
This is not funny.
Speaking of food, here we go.
Uh, let's see.
Uh, and I am not surprised bythis at all.
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Artificial intelligence has beenused to carry out increasingly
sophisticated frauds fromfinancial aid schemes to
impersonating loved ones todemanding money via voice
scammers.
Now, food courier services arereporting as spike in scammers
employing generative AI to maketheir food orders appear
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undercooked or bug ridden sothey can score a free meal from
Uber Eats, DoorDash, and otherfood delivery companies.
First, you're already too lazyto get your ass up, out of the
bed, shower, put some regularclothes on, brush your hair.
I'm not even asking you to putmakeup on if you're a girl, but
at least put some regularclothes on and brush your hair.
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You can't even go out and getyour food.
You have to have it delivered,and now you want it for free and
you do you pull this kind ofcrap, you are a disgusting human
being.
Doctored food photos haveentailed everything from melted
cakes to superimposed f flies ontheir pastry, showcasing AI's
uncanny ability to reproduceconvincing photographic
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evidence.
We are just awful people.
I'm not, but they are.
You're not, but they are.
I mean, who does this?
Uh well, it's the people thatstay home and get high and play
video games.
That's that's what that's whodoes this.
And and if they do happen to goout in public, they're wearing
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their pajamas, their hair isdirty and not combed.
I know I've already gone overthis, but more and more when you
go out, look at these people andhow they're dressed and their
appearance.
Mm-mm.
Editing my picture so I can getmy money back on DoorDash
boasted one culinarycounterfeiter on X alongside a
composite of a hamburger thatthey made look dangerously rare
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via digital.
They're admitting this.
Why?
In another post on Threads, abozo detailed how they were able
to make a chicken leg looksimilarly undercooked using
Photoshop prompting the fooddelivery app support to
reportedly apologize for theinconvenience and refund them.
$26.
This is y'all are terrible.
You're you know what you'regonna do?
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You're gonna do this and you'regonna put them out of business,
and then you are gonna have togo out and get your own damn
food.
I cannot believe this crap.
Oh, they were quickly ripped bycommenters with one critic
writing, This is not funny,dude.
WTF, I hope you and others getlocked up, said another.
Not like you're working thathard anyway, since you can't
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afford$20.
Oh my gosh, no kidding.
Oh, I can't even you can gofinish reading that.
That's just appalling.
Alright, so oh now, ladies, thisis for you.
Once a wardrobe staple, thisitem now makes you look old.
Can you guess what it is?
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Luckily, I don't wear themanymore.
Now I admit I used to wear themall the time.
Yes, even to work.
I know.
But when I wore them to work, Ialways wore a long sweater on
top of them.
Yes, I'm talking about leggings.
Sales overall dropping in thespiritual mecca of the legging
Lulu laid off 150 people in Junefor a variety of reasons.
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First hand reports from pantsytrenches in London and New York
make it clear.
The fastest way to identify assomeone old enough to have
watched Sex in the City thefirst time around is to
claw-like be holding on to youractive wear.
When a 37-year-old friend askedChrissy Jones, owner of the
ultra cool yoga company Sky Tingher for her advice about
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leggings.
According to the Wall StreetJournal, she said this blunt
response, we're not wearingleggings anymore.
What are you wearing then?
You are a boomer if you'releggy, if you wear leggings.
Ouch, but also true.
Those not for me.
I'm not a boomer, I'm a Gen X.
Those on the style front lineshave called it, I think leggings
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might be over.
Veteran fashion editor justokay, who cares what these
people say?
Um let's I want to get on towhat they're wearing.
They're still out there, ofcourse.
Chances are you're wearingleggings right now.
I am, but the MirandaPriestley's of Instagram and
TikTok have decreed it skintight pants are the dodo of
duds.
Then what are you wearing?
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Leggings?
Will they will they even tell usin this article?
I don't really want to read onto find out, but leggings now
join their mid-Augy siblings,the skinny jeans.
Oh, I still wear skinny jeans.
Come on.
I have one pair of skinny jeansthat I wear occasionally.
And the ankle sock.
Oh, what's wrong with the anklesock?
And suddenly looking painfullydated.
I don't care.
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I'm gonna be 60 this year, sowhatever.
For two decades, I don't wearleggings because it's not very
flattering anymore on me.
Uh for the two for two decades,extremely form-fitting pants
ruled the fashion roost sinceBarack Obama was a freshman and
senator, and we all thoughtPresident Bush was the worst
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thing to happen to the U.S.
since the invention of highfructose corn syrup.
Who is writing this article?
It was in it was in about 2005about leggings.
So, okay, let's let's move on tocurrent days.
I want to know what people arewearing.
Now, let's see, does it eventell us?
I'm sorry, I'm scrolling down.
My gosh, this is a long article.
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Good, but they're not telling uswhat they're wearing.
At least I haven't.
Amongst 18 to 24 year olds,there have been a more than 400%
rise in searches for baggy gymoutfits on the now cool again
Pinterest.
Let me tell you though, with thegym I go, no.
They are still wearing the skintight.
My goodness, these girls thatprance around in these gym
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outfits, my God, they might aswell be naked in there.
I mean, don't get me wrong, theylook nice, they look good, but
who who works out like that?
Here I am, I do wear leggingswhen I work out.
Here I am with leggings in a Tutoff cut off cut-up t-shirt that
I wear.
You know, because I can't haveanything up around my neck.
I gotta cut the neckline out ofit.
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And, you know, with my Converse,and here they are prancing
around in their Lululemons andwhatever other their skin type
color matching coordinated.
And they just all they wear is asports bra.
They don't even put a t shirtover top of it.
I'm like, how do you work out?
And their hair is all done upand up in a bun and looking
pretty.
Yes, I still have my makeup onbecause I go to the gym directly
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from work and there I just don'twant to take it all off.
But wow, I just can't believesome of these women what they
work, what these little girlswork out in.
It's crazy.
All right, we need to move on.
Question of the day.
Okay, I asked the gent thequestion this question the other
day.
I wanted to stay off of socialmedia, so I just put my phone
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down.
I started to try to think ofthings to talk about, like do
you would you rather have thisor do that?
You know, that kind of thing,just to start a conversation.
So my question to him was, wouldyou rather go on a cruise or go
to Disney World?
Now, back in the day, I wouldhave loved to gone to Disney
World, but now today I would notwant to go there, and that makes
me sad because it's way tooexpensive, it's probably
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overcrowded, although I wouldlove to go, but I don't want to
spend that kind of money.
You know, I'm not we've onlybeen on one cruise before, and
that was our honeymoon cruise.
It was fabulous back in 2008.
We went on a Mediterraneancruise.
We visited four Greek Isles,Istanbul, Turkey, which was an
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experience, Ephesus, Turkey,which was nice.
Uh, we got to see all the ruinsover there.
That was that was reallyinteresting.
And um, then we also went toNaples, Italy, Rome, Italy.
It was nice.
Well, after the cruise, um, wetook off from Rome and then we
came back to Rome.
And uh we also went to Sorrento,Italy.
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That was nice too.
But after we got back from ourcruise, we stayed in Rome at a
hotel that for a couple moredays just so we can stay and
explore Italy.
It was so nice.
I did not want to come homeagain.
This was in 2008.
I'm sure it's a lot differentnow.
Nowadays, I would not want totravel anywhere over there,
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anywhere overseas, anywhere.
No thank you.
Uh, so I'm glad we got toexperience that.
But a cruise, I don't know.
I've heard so many horror horrorstories, horror stories, horror
stories about cruise lines thesedays.
I don't know if I'd want to goon a cruise either.
If I did, it would be on areally short one.
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Well, I don't want to say reallyshort.
That wouldn't make itworthwhile, would it?
But I wouldn't, I would in otherwords, I wouldn't want to go on
a far away cruise.
I'd want to stay closer to home.
And I'm sure they have those, sowhatever.
Um, that's my question of theday.
Would you rather go on a cruiseor Disney World?
Okay, I gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Love y'all.
Bye, happy new year.