January 11, 2025 • 55 mins
Can celebrity media coverage cross ethical boundaries? We kick off this week's Thirsty Topics episode with a fiery debate sparked by Hayden Panettiere's controversial interview with People Magazine. As Hayden navigates her return to the spotlight, we question the media's responsibility in respecting her boundaries amidst her personal struggles. This conversation raises critical questions about journalistic integrity and the relentless pressures faced by public figures, inviting listeners to reconsider how fame and privacy intersect in the entertainment industry.
Why did Kendrick Lamar headline the Super Bowl performance in New Orleans instead of hometown hero Lil Wayne? We tackle the buzz surrounding this unexpected choice, pondering marketing strategies and the music industry's intricate politics. From Lil Wayne's gracious response to speculation about Jay-Z's influence, this segment unravels the complexities of artistic recognition and commercial decisions. Throw in potential tensions of a dual performance, and you have the perfect recipe for an engaging exploration of celebrity collaborations and industry dynamics.
Switching gears, we shine a light on pressing issues such as athlete health, the emerging "sharenting" trend, and Diddy's mounting legal woes. Can parental oversharing on social media compromise children's privacy? What does intermittent sobriety reveal about Gen Z's evolving lifestyle choices? We wrap up this episode with a personal touch, sharing anecdotes on parenting in the digital age and celebrating life's joyful moments while advocating for mindful online sharing. Tune in as we dissect these cultural phenomena, offering insights, humor, and candid reflections on today's celebrity-driven world.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I am Lauren Selrod and I'mMeryl Clemo.
Meryl, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you.
I had such a fun show lastnight at the Comedy Store in La
Jolla.
What a fun it was like almost200 people nice it was the
nicest crowd ever.
So if anyone's there from thatshow cuz I actually told him to
listen today- very nice, verynice.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Are you relaxed now?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I feel relaxed.
I feel, I feel relaxed.
I feel relaxed, but I'm also.
I have energy to get into someof these ridiculous topics.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yes, there was a lot of crazy stuff going on last
week.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, yep, a lot of the stuff is still kind of
trickling into this week.
I know Would you like me tostart with something that kind
of got lost in the shuffle, butstill I find relatively
interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You know what?
Yes, go ahead and start.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, so do you know the actress Hayden Panettiere?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I love her.
She was in Nashville and a fewother like great.
I think she's a great actress.
But you know, she kind of wasoff the grid for a few years
dealing with some personalissues and now I think she's
slowly starting to dip her toein the water.
Years dealing with somepersonal issues and now I think
she's slowly starting to dip hertoe in the water.
And, uh, recently she did aninterview with people magazine
for to promote her movie,upcoming movie and people were
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saying that.
People were saying that peoplemagazine shouldn't have run with
the article because in ithayden is speaking very, very
slowly.
Um, it's not quite sure.
No one could tell if she's likesober or not.
You know she's speaking the way.
I am now tired after a show,basically, but no one has to
worry, I'm just drinking hotcocoa here.
But what happened was peoplewere saying that the magazine
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was being exploitative bykeeping her in it and asking her
to take it down.
And then Hayden put out a postabout it and what I thought was
really interesting is she hadshe said that she was doing an
eight hour photo shoot and shewas just really tired.
She had some family and homeissues going on that she was,
you know, made her not hernormal self.
(02:18):
But the thought that I thought,the part that I thought was
interesting, was that her repactually stopped the interview
early because it was obviousthat she was fading.
But then People Magazineassured her and said no, no, no,
it's going to be beautiful,we're going to do a great job
with it.
And then I feel like they kindof screwed her over by ending up
publishing it the way that itwas.
So she had to come out and postthis big thing about how she's
(02:41):
going through grief.
You know, she's just whatevermedication she's on is between
her and her doctor, and it wasjust a big kerfuffle, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I mean.
The real sad part about it isis that her representative did
the right thing by stopping it.
But you know, you can alsoargue that why did she even
attend it in the first place?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Right, right.
And if I was People Magazine,they're probably not going to
want to reschedule it, becausethen what if she cancels?
You know, if you have thisgreat interview, I feel like
Hollywood stars are.
Just there's a big chance thatHayden could be like, never mind
.
I actually decided to not do it.
They have her right then, andthere it's a tough call.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean.
The sad part about it is,unfortunately, especially when
you're doing interviews,depending on the person doing
the interview.
If they're, let's see how can Isay this in a tactful?
Way, if they have integrity,they wouldn't have shown it.
Yeah, that hot or that viralmoment is more important than
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worrying about a person's imageor what their feelings are.
Which is one of the bad partsabout being in entertainment is
how cold some people could be.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I know, don't you think they have to deal with
that?
A lot Like what if this is justhow Hayden is now?
Like you know, maybe she's,this was an extra tired and
extra slow version of her, extratired and extra slow version of
her.
But I think also, as a generalpublic, we have to come to grips
with, like, sometimes, ourcelebrities that we once were,
like you know, perfect lookingand just like on the ball, like
she may not be like that rightnow for many different reasons.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's true, and the other thing that I think they
have to be careful about, too,is other celebrities.
See, this, yeah, happens is isthat you may have some
celebrities if they're bigenough, but, like you know what
I saw, what you guys did toso-and-so.
No, that's okay, I'll take apass yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And that has to be really jarring as a celebrity,
where you're like, okay, you'reprobably insecure anyway about
what you look like now andhayden probably has like a good
idea of what is going on withher and then to like put
yourself out there and getreflected back by the public
like, ah, you look even worsethan we thought.
You know, that has to hurt onsome human level.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh yeah, and you know the sad part about it is, meryl
, even the public sometimesforget that celebrities are
human beings too, and you knowthey have feelings, they have
emotions and you know what theyhave bad days too.
Even though they try to hide it, they have bad days as well,
too.
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I actually love her as an actress, so I hope that
she's able to Get whateveremotional and physical bounce
back as much as she can for thisera, because I think she's a
really good actress and reallypretty and cool.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I agree.
I agree.
We'll definitely keep her inour prayers.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yep, not People Magazine.
We will not be praying for them, unless they want us to be
correspondents, in which case wecan tactfully handle all the
interviews.
Just let us be nice to everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Absolutely.
Talk about being nice Now,unless you're from another
planet.
I know you've heard of LilWayne.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Now the Super Bowl is going to be in New Orleans next
year and there's a lot of stuffgoing out over social media
about how Lil Wayne felt like hewas snubbed, and a lot of his
fans and other artists feel thesame way.
Now.
When they had the Super Bowl inCalifornia, you know you had Dr
Dre on there, you had Mary JBlige, you had basically you
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know all your West Coast onthere and supposedly 50 Cent,
when he made that appearance,wasn't supposed to be on there.
But Eminem made so much of abig stink he said if he wasn't
going to get on there, if youdidn't let 50 Cent on there,
then I wasn't getting on there.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Wow, that is really like writing for someone.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Oh, absolutely so.
Basically, you know, lil Waynedoes a lot of entertainment
that's coming out of Louisiana.
Obviously, the biggest one isLil Wayne and Lil Wayne, you
know, definitely is a GOAT whenit comes to what he does.
He's well known, people knowhim, he's done a lot of stuff,
produced a lot of stuff.
(06:55):
I don't know.
Do you think it was a snub bynot having him perform in New
Orleans?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I know, okay, I have so many thoughts, I guess, in
the first it's Kendrick Lamarwho is performing right, correct
, correct.
Okay, I have so many thoughts,I guess, and the first it's
Kendrick Lamar who is performingright, correct, correct, okay.
So my first thought is like thatdoes make Kendrick make sense
for the moment, because of youknow, obviously, the whole Drake
stuff and I feel like just froma marketing and programming and
like overall excitement pointof view, unfortunately to me
(07:24):
Kendrick does seem like thehotter choice right now and you
know, that doesn't mean that LilWayne hasn't earned it or that
he's not like extremely stillvalid.
But I think the overall momentin the wave of like Kendrick
Lamar because I feel like he'salways been popular, but right
now seeing those big, you knowthose videos of like his
amphitheater concerts and I feellike they're wanting to go for
that, but I mean it's so funnybecause I saw some Tik TOKs of
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people like I wonder why LilWayne wasn't picked, and then it
was all his videos of himperforming, just kind of like
screaming into the mic, and I'veseen some clips where I'm like
I don't, I could see how thismight not be like the best
marketable option, but I don'tknow.
Like I feel like maybe he wassnubbed.
But also I saw an interviewwith him where he seemed really
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humble and aware about that.
He was like, oh man, if I knewthis I would have kind of tried
over the past couple of years, Iwould have really gotten my
shit together even more and likeI thought that was a really
good, astute observation of himwhere he was able to like put it
back on himself and basicallysay like I wasn't snubbed out of
nowhere, it was more like acombination of me maybe not
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giving it my all these pastcouple years versus yeah, I mean
.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
One sad part about it is we.
We tend to forget that themusic business is just out of
business.
Let's face it kendrick Lamar isone of the hottest Entertainers
out there, right now noquestion.
But I do understand all theuproar and the upset Because
that is Lil Wayne's hometown andwho knows when the next time
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they'll have a Super Bowl there.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I know, and do you think I know, Lil Wayne stands?
Their answer is obviously yes,but to me Lil Wayne is not in
the like Rihanna, Beyonce, LadyGaga, like you know, that type
of category I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It depends on what genre you like.
I mean, like me, I listen toall different types of genres,
yeah, but if you're into the hiphop, hip-hop or the rap genre,
you know he ranks pretty high.
So you know it's it's kind of agive and take because, see, the
sad part about it is I couldkind of see both sides.
I really yeah, yeah, me too Icould too.
(09:37):
you know, I could see from abusiness standpoint of view why
they went the direction theywent, but I could also see the
nostalgic point of view as welltoo, being that, hey, lil Wayne
is the hottest thing to come outof Louisiana, and you know, you
have him in his backyard in hishometown.
So I can see both ways.
I really can.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Do they usually make it a purpose to have performers
like where it's their hometown?
Like was last year, usher um,yeah, last year was Usher.
I also didn't know if, like thecity that it's in, is that like
a running thing to try to getperformers like I think
sometimes it's a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
All depends on what they do cuz yeah you know, the
Super Bowl does try and movearound to different cities and
different venues to kind ofpretty much give every NFL team
the opportunity to host theSuper Bowl.
So, like I said, it's a hardthing because I can see I mean,
there's a lot of rumblingsbehind the scene about how Jay-Z
(10:38):
had a lot to do with this- ohyeah, I heard that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because of the beat that's going
on.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I guess he had a prior beat With like.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Birdman or something.
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now I'm hoping that's not the case.
If it is, it's kind of prettyfoul to do that.
But you know, in social media,if it's the case, it will come
out at some point.
Maybe not soon, but at somepoint it will will.
But I just hope that's not thecase because that is kind of
crappy to do this to someone,you know just I know because you
have a personal beef with them,you know right?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
that wouldn't be right.
But what I could see is ascenario where they're like
kendrick is just on his game andlike, locked in and ready, and
we don't know if lil wayne islike, can, like, he could
obviously bring it, he's amazing, but like to the.
To that extent, I don't knowyou.
Now.
Okay, what do you think?
If you were Kendrick, would youinvite?
Would it be a slap in the face?
If he asked Lil Wayne?
He's like would you want tocome out and do something with
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me, or do you think that's like?
That's almost just like.
If you don't want me at all,you know, if you don't want me
as the person, I'm not evengoing to be like to a song if it
was me, I would probably.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You know, obviously I'm not going to turn on this
opportunity because it is theopportunity of a lifetime, but I
would just pull away and saylook, you know I apologize.
You know, obviously I didn'thave anything to do with how
this came down.
But you know, would you justcome on with me?
Yeah, a song or something, ormaybe a few bars or something,
so we can give you your flowersand recognize you as well.
(12:03):
Yes, I would expect.
Yeah, a song or something, ormaybe a few bars or something,
so we can give you your flowersand recognize you as well.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, I would expect yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
To me that would be a classy thing to do.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
A hundred percent.
I would expect rejection.
I would expect him to say no,thank you, but I would totally
nonetheless still throw out theinvite and say you have three
weeks to let me know We'd loveto have you.
You have like three weeks tolet me know We'd love to have
you.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And I think That'll kind of calm down all the issues
as far as You're not going toquiet every single person, but I
think the majority of peopleWill be okay with that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, that's true.
I see Lil Wayne as veryrespectable and I know he has a
lot of great songs.
I just don't know if AmericaSuper Bowl is the right fit, but
I'm probably wrong.
There's a whole subset of that.
When I think of Usher and thosekind of people, I just think of
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something that's a little bitmore mainstream.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I'm probably wrong and people are probably
yelling at me like you, stupididiot well, you know a lot of
people aren't aware of this, butlittle wayne actually has more
hits behind the scenes than infront, because you know he's
produced a lot of people andthere's a lot of big time
artists you know, like nikkiminaj and other people like that
.
That's on his label.
(13:21):
So you know, besides him as anartist, you know he's produced a
lot of hits as well too, overthe years yeah, so I wonder a
show where he brought out.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I hate to say he needs like other people, but
yeah, like I don't know if hecan carry it all by himself, but
I'm open to every type ofdiscussion, as we always are.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh yes, oh yes it'll be interesting to see.
I mean, they have a little bitof time to work this out, so
we'll see how it ends up beingright yeah, I have friends.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
One of my best friends actually won tickets to
go to the Super Bowl in NewOrleans whoa really yeah, yep,
it's my, my, like what my bestfriend from home, michelle, and
her husband and it's so funny,they, they have no kids and I
feel like they're the livingexample of doing like dual
income no kids, correctly,because they travel all over.
And so she's like, yeah, we'regoing to the Super Bowl, like of
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course you are, like I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Nice, nice.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So she'll be there to report back on any.
Whoever it is, kendrick,whoever, there you go, there you
go.
Well, okay, this is the shiningstar of our Week.
This is the best news we haveIs this hippo Mudeng, who I'm
obsessed with.
Most of the world is obsessedwith the hippo.
My friends are like please stopPosting mudeng memes Every day.
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I'm like which Meme am I?
So, in case anyone doesn't Know, there's an adorable baby hippo
in Thailand at the Khao KiaoOpen Zoo named Mu Dang, and she
went recently viral becauseshe's so funny, where she's a
pygmy hippo, a newborn pygmyhippo, and she became a megastar
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when her zookeeper startedposting pictures of her getting
a bath and just like biting theknee of her zookeeper.
Like you know, it's very funny,obviously it's still a baby
biting its knee, and then she'llgo from these wild like she'll
be happy and smiling and sweetand then the next thing she'll
be scowling and upset and it'sjust the funniest, like side eye
(15:23):
and so people just are obsessed.
And now people are there's aline to go see her like almost
you know an hour long line everyday.
Um, everyone says she's justeven cuter in person and mu dang
literally means bouncy pork inThai, so the name was chosen by
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fans on social media.
Right now she has cartoons,latte art.
Everyone and their mother arejust obsessed with Mudeng I just
love it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That is definitely a feel-good story, yep.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Mudeng is so cute.
I'm like why can't I just havea baby hippo?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
You know, the crazy thing is, literally, people will
literally just watch that baby,just sleep and just be in awe.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I know, and of course they had to deal with, which
makes me out of my mind upset.
But some people were likesplashing water at her or you
know, like wrestling her,agitating her to try to get her
to wake up, and so of course Ifeel like all of our listeners
know.
But of course, like when you goto a zoo, please, everyone,
just like be respectful.
And it drives me crazy whenpeople are like tapping so hard
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on the glass of snakes or youknow anything.
It's like these are creaturesin their little habitat.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, it's stupid to me because one thing is, when
you're pouring water on thatanimal, what happens is that at
some point the zoo is going toget tired of that, and now
you're going to be complainingBecause there's going to be an
enclosure that's far away tokeep people close, and then
you'd be complaining about that.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes, let Mudang be.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, it's just stupid.
But yeah, for a dirty animal,it is a cute little baby.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It's so cute.
Honestly, if babies actuallylooked like that, I would have
three baby hippos right now.
I would be a mother yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The only dangerous thing is when they get old.
They'll probably kill you, butyou know I know it's OK.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'd be more than happy to go out that way.
I'm happy with that and it's sofunny.
I saw a video of a guy talkingand he was a guy that had a
girlfriend and he was talking toa single guy friend and he was
like you know that you have agirlfriend when you could talk
about a mudang's day, because myboyfriend needs to, I told him
you need to know who this hippois.
This is important.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
That is so, so true.
I'm going to predict thatthere's probably going to be
some stuffed animals forChristmas this year.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh, absolutely, oh my God, yes, maybe even some
Halloween costumes.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That is true.
But yeah, Mudang is a cash cow,no pun intended, a cash hippo
oh yeah, they need to have, uh,some type of baby every week to
kind of quiet things down inthis crazy world, you know yeah,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Mudang is like the one saving grace, and just being
able to pick which mood you areis really getting me through
this oh yes, oh yes.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Talk about a mood.
Have you heard of Tua Tagovolia?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I have, I watched the football show, that he was in
the HBO show or something.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yes, yes, you know who he is Good, good, yep, yep.
Just for some people who don'twatch NFL, he's the quarterback
for the Miami Dolphins and hejust recently got his third
concussion.
So now there's buzz aroundbetween fans and other people
saying that maybe he shouldconsider retiring because he's
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had a number of concussionswithin the last few years and
it's know it's a big thing aboutNFL, about player safety.
Now I know some NFL playersthat have played great game over
the years.
You know this is back in theday and now they're kind of like
mush now because of the amountof concussions and the injuries
to their bodies.
(19:19):
So do you think that, withthree concussions in a matter of
a few years, do you thinkthey're kind of blown out of
proportion or do you think it'sa legitimate concern?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I think it's so concerning.
And they have that shell helmet, right, but not a lot of people
are wearing that Mm-hmm, orthey wear it for practice but
they're not wearing it for games, is that?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
right, yeah, from what I heard, I guess it's
optional for the place to wearit in the game, where I've never
seen in the game, becausethey're probably.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You know like, no, I'm not putting that on.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You know that makes me look you know, whatever, yeah
, but I don't know.
I mean, you're talking aboutyour head, though, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I know.
Okay, well, I definitely tellme if I'm tell me what you think
about this too, but I thinkit's like obviously it's
definitely of concern.
Um, I would hate to see himhave to stop his whole career at
such an early age, you know,just because of these things.
But like I don't know anythingabout football, but I feel like
I've been watching some plays ofhim like that what showing when
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he gets a concussion, and I'mlike is he not training
correctly as well?
You know, is it a mix of, ofcourse, like concussions just
happen and people get likesacked and hurt out of nowhere.
But I feel, like one or two ofthe plays I've seen, he's like
like going into it almost.
It's almost like are you, is hetraining and doing the right
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moves correctly?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
this probably isn't the worst thing to say, but I
don't know, I know, I know whatyou're saying, because when
you're getting ready to take ahit as a quarterback, you should
be sliding.
There is a proper way to slide.
I'll admit that I really don'twatch a lot of Miami football
because I'm a Bears fan.
The dangerous thing is thatwhen an opponent is coming close
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to you and you see thatopponent coming, you know you
really should be taking a slide,because once you slide, then
that that defensive player hasto back off.
You know they could come up andthey could tag you, but they
can't give you no shot as you'regoing down.
Okay, right so, and you know,then again he may be prone to it
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.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
We don't know yeah, yeah, I'm totally not trying to
like victim blame and be likeit's his fault, obviously.
I mean, no matter whose faultit is, I still think with a
concussion he's going to have totake obviously some time off.
But then also like learn.
If he comes back, like learndifferent moves and different
training to the part where, likeyou said, where he just even if
he it's not his first instinct,he has to learn how to like go
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about it with not injuringhimself so much yeah, because
the reality is the averageprofessional player, regardless
of what they play, plays betweenfive to ten years on average.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Really.
Now, if they're a great player,they can obviously be in a lot
longer than that, but this isthe average whoa.
Even if you you're there, youknow, let's say, 20 years, okay,
you're still retiring.
When you're around 40 or alittle after 40, you're still
young, very young.
You got your whole life ahead.
So to me I would say that youknow, when you start getting
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those shots to the heads likethat, you really have to think
about it and ask yourself how amI going to be for my family
when I walk away?
Yeah, the reality is that to beretired, even if you have a lot
of money, that money does youno good if you're not able to
(22:43):
enjoy it.
Exactly, and your family andyour fame and your everything,
absolutely yeah, and again, Idon't want to take away from you
know his career and everythinglike that, because I know you,
you know you spent your wholelife getting here and you're
finally at that point at the nfl.
I get it, I truly do, but atsome point you also think about
your health too.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, and I wonder.
I understand those like shellhelmets or whatever the soft
soft helmets.
They may be geeky, they may bewhatever, but it may just be
like.
I mean, I would love to hear ifit really the reasons why
people wouldn't want to wearthem, if it's all like vanity
reasons or if there's actualperformance reasons that are
like it slows us down X amount.
You know that stuff.
(23:24):
But they may just have to comeup with, I don't know, a sleeker
version of that that peoplewant to wear and agree.
And then, because I saw a studywhere that went down like 50%
or injuries went down 50% afterpeople wore those.
Yeah, I think it's a combo ofthings, but I think people do
need to.
It's a combination of taking itseriously, players learning
(23:46):
different ways to not have ithappen so often.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I don't know, I think if one person has the courage
to wear it in a game, I think alot more people will start
wearing it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah me too, I think you take that first person.
Yes, I do too.
I should wear a helmet even forlike recording with us.
If it was me, I'd be out ofbubble raft and like Also, how
annoying would it be if, like Imean, I'm sure he has a very
supportive wife, because I sawin these, the show that I
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watched they all seem like theyhave very like.
Yay, you know, go wives.
They all seem like they havevery like yeah, you know, go
ones.
But if you're like, wonderful,my husband is out making a
living, great, and then now he'sback home and like nursing a
concussion again, I'd be like,oh, it'd be time for me to take
up some different hobbies orsomething just to get out of the
house.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But, um, yeah, yeah, well, we'll definitely make sure
that we keep them in ourprayers and hopefully he doesn't
get any more concussions.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, no more concussions.
Ok, oh my gosh, I love this one.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
OK.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I have to admit, this is the first time I've ever
heard the term sharenting, whichsounds like a little too close
to sharting.
Are you aware of sharenting?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
sharting?
Are you aware of sharenting?
You know what?
I wasn't until I looked it upand I was like wow, really Okay.
But I do see, I do understandthe term though.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yes.
So sharenting is when, as youcould just imagine by combining
the two words, when parentsshare pictures of their kids on
social media and they're lookingnow at the repercussions that
that could face for children,when parents are constantly
consistently posting pictures oftheir own, you know offspring
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how that then affects the kids,getting bullied, predators.
You know, like, I havedefinitely a lot of thoughts
about this, where a lot of myfriends that have babies it's so
weird how they've sharedpictures of their babies and
then they can see that like it'sbeen saved like 86 times or
something, and I'm like who issaving a picture of someone
(25:57):
else's child if it's not likeyour grandchildren, I mean,
unfortunately, we know theanswer, you know, but a lot of
my friends have decided to likenot post pictures of their kids
at all after seeing theirpictures get saved by others
online.
So I feel like that is, youknow, the normal thing about
sharing things.
It's just, it's kind ofannoying and no offense, but
(26:17):
like, not many of us want to seethe same kids posted over and
over.
Like.
Just starting with the surfacelayer of like, I think we care
less than people think we care.
But the deeper connection isyou don't know who is saving or
sharing those types of images,um.
And then I feel like the middlelayer is just when kids are
(26:38):
young.
They don't have consent to whatis posted of them.
So if you're like postingpictures of your kid like
splashing around in a bathtub orsomething like, that's a little
embarrassing for a kid to lookback and see that it's there
online.
You know like I would be so madif I had saw that my, because
there are like pictures of melike young and like really,
really young, like a littlebathtub splashing around.
I'm like if that was online onFacebook, I'd be so embarrassed,
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online on Facebook I'd be soembarrassed.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No, I agree with you.
I mean even with my son.
Believe it or not, I don't posta lot of pictures if any of them
and my son's grown he's 20years old I still won't post.
Now there's certain points,like for a birthday or whatever,
I may post something on there,but everyday posts Now do I have
some silly, embarrassing photos?
(27:22):
Absolutely, but I don't putthat out there.
I have silly posts of my wifeand absolutely posted me.
Those are on social media,those are between the family.
That's it, cuz I said.
Part is you're right, bullyingthing is a real thing also to
one day Some of these kids aregonna become our president, some
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congresswomen, senators andstuff like that and anything we
did in the past.
You physically have to figureit out.
Anything they did in the pastis most likely on social media.
So it's a whole different term,whole different time, different
(28:04):
term, whole different time.
So I think there is such athing as too much, because I've
seen people post picture afterpicture after picture of a
picture of their kids and it'slike, yes, you know, teach his
own, but uh, yeah, I wouldn't bedoing that that is the kind of
thing too, is that, especiallywith babies?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I felt like to me when you say you posted like
cute and funny pictures of yourson when he's 20.
Like that's that's, that'sthat's normal.
And like funny to me it's whenI see people constantly taking
pictures of newborns dressed upor like their toddlers, and it's
like you'll have Instagramstories and it's like 18 of them
every day.
I'm like I see I've seen enoughof your child.
You know like those types ofphotos are perfect for a family
(28:40):
chat.
Or you know people create likeshared photo albums where there
are grandparents and like niecesand nephews that want to see a
hundred photos a day after thekid.
But yeah, and I mean to me it'slike less of the bullying thing
is real.
But I also think peopleshouldn't be that worried about
like like my mom all the timewill post pictures of me where I
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don't have makeup on or I'm not.
You know, I'm just like mom.
I think I saw something thatsaid, like anytime you think you
look good, just look at likethe pictures that your mom posts
of you.
But I think we should worryless and less about that, like I
don't care at all about lookinggood all the time on social
media and more about who who issaving the pictures and if
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they're public.
You know these, these weirdosthat are just using them for
whatever weird purposes they are.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That's true, it's sad , but you have to be aware of
all this stuff and be mindful.
As far as baby pictures, I'mnot a big fan of that.
I have zero pictures of my sonwhen he was a baby on social
media Zero, even though we havea pictures of my son when he was
a baby on social media Zeroyeah.
Even though we have a lot ofpictures of him, none of them
are on social media.
But, like I said, to each hisown, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, and I have to remember sometimes too, I think,
like out here in Los Angeles,like I'm friends with so many
people on Instagram that I don'treally know as people, but then
when I look back at like someof my hometown best friends from
Pennsylvania and like they livea much more, almost like I'm
almost envious, you know, like abeautiful but like a smaller
online life where, like if theyonly follow 98 people like, then
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their, their shared thing isactually people that they like
their friends and family.
So I always have to rememberthat, like just because I'm kind
of out here in the wild west ofonline things, like when I
scroll on Facebook, I don't evenknow who the people are Like,
who are, who am I looking at,but most people most normal
Americans, I feel like are onlyfollowing friends and family.
(30:36):
So I have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, like I said, you know, if a person wants to
do that, definitely you have theright to do it.
Just be careful.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yes, but we only need 18 photos of them going to
kindergarten.
I don't think we need.
When you're about to post the19th angle, just stop right
there.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So you mean, 30 pictures is too much?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's too much.
Them going to kindergarten thencoming home.
Unless they want to see 18photos of me shopping at Target
like picking out toothpaste,then everything should be
allowed.
This might even be a haterthing for me to say too, but I
don't even like pre-sharenting.
When there's too many baby likebump pictures and like
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pregnancy photos, I'm not thebiggest fan of that I haven't
seen a whole lot of that thoughoh, I see too many.
Oh, okay, okay, I I feel like Isee like too many, but I don't
know.
To me you should get one everyother day.
So you're allowed three and ahalf photos a week, according to
the national council ofsharenton there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Ah, we are at this point right now, where we are
about to hit the biggest subjectthat has happened within the
last couple of weeks.
Oh man, unless you're inanother universe, um, I'm quite
sure you've heard of this.
Last week, sean Puffy Combs wasarrested.
He was denied bail twice, evenafter offering to put up $50
(32:16):
million bail.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Now this week they're saying that there's a target on
his back.
I don't know.
What do you think, meryl?
What are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh my gosh.
Okay, my first thought is thatI don't think I've ever heard of
a story where there's so manylike tentacles of things going
on.
You know, like recently I'veheard Bill Cosby, 50 Cent, tupac
I don't even know what aspectof this we even want to talk
about, because obviously there'sthe abuse and possibly
(32:52):
trafficking, racketeering, allthese things, the illegal
parties, but then there's alsothe weird ties to all these
other things in culture thatI've been seeing too, to all
these other things in culturethat I've been seeing too.
So, I mean, to me it's justlike it seems like I can't
believe he was.
I know he was like a big,important, powerful man, but
(33:13):
I've never heard of a storywhere, like even with Harvey
Weinstein, I didn't hear thatmany like side things.
I know he was obviously like.
Harvey was very well connectedand had a lot of people in his
orbit.
But, like with Diddy, I'm justlike okay, tupac, bill Cosby,
like this is just, it's so muchfor one person to be involved
with.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, I mean the thing is, is that what's so
crazy is you know we've heard ofDiddy parties in the past, you
know?
Yeah, you know, obviously, youknow I'm not big enough to even
know what happens in thoseparties but you've heard about
him, but the thing is, I thinkthat his downfall was the moment
that video came out of what hedid to his girlfriend.
(33:56):
That's when everything turned,because that video came back to
haunt him, because that was oneof the main reasons why he was
denied any bail, because theythought he was so dangerous and
he can intimidate witnesses.
Yeah yeah, and, like I said,even though Diddy's behind bars
and you know, if they have theevidence, obviously justice is
(34:21):
going to take its place.
But it kind of reminds me, in akind of haunting way, of how R
Kelly went down.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah, I know and I think too, it's crazy seeing all
of the, just the way that itwas kind of hidden in plain
sight, with all of the peopleLike him joking about his kind
of freak offs on conan, and thenjust the kardashians saying
that there's so many clips ofthem saying like oh, what did
you do last night?
Oh, we went to like a dittyparty.
(34:50):
Everyone got naked or you know,there's been like drips of it
before, but I think before theyjust phrased it as like it was a
wild, cool hollywood party.
They didn't really talk aboutall like the insidious stuff
that was going on.
The fact that he reached out toone mobster person about
trafficking.
I'm just like, oh my God, thisgets so deep.
(35:11):
Even with politicians.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know what?
I think there's a lot of peoplethat are nervous right now
because there's a lot of peoplepoliticians, obviously,
entertainers, people in theclergy Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You know, and if you were just there but you didn't
participate, okay that's a badlook, but it's a whole different
look if they have you on tapedoing something illegal.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
There was someone that they were like it's someone
that I like.
Was it Tyrese?
Or someone that they were like,oh, he went to the parties but
then he screamed like I got togo to church and he left.
I think it was Tyrese.
There's someone that's likethat was talking about yes, I
was at the parties, no, I neverwent into like the side rooms.
And over the years, they have avideo where Diddy was like,
(36:11):
yeah, he came to the parties,but he would always like scream
that he has to go to church inthe middle of the week.
You're cleared of it all.
I think there's also thingsthat we're latching onto, like
the thousand bottles of oil andJustin Bieber, these little
things that are coming out, butthere's so much more behind
(36:32):
every mention of a story.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Now I guess my question is what does he need
with a thousand bottles of babyoil?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I mean, I'm sitting there like what does he want
with a thousand bottles?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Then I saw the memes and jokes.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I don't want to know.
I mean, I'm sitting there likewhat is he doing with a thousand
bottles.
Then I saw the memes and jokesand I'm like oh, okay, yeah yeah
.
I don't know if I'm a nerd, Ijust don't get out enough.
But I was like a thousandbottles and then I saw little
memes like, oh okay, that's whatthey're doing.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Okay, I know I'm just like not depraved enough where,
like the thought of like goingto a party with like 800 naked
oily people just like truly doesnot sound good to me.
Like I, I just want like abuffet or, like you know, like
food.
I mean, just give me like ameat carving station.
(37:19):
I don't need like naked odellbeckham or anything like that.
It's just so weird, I justdon't have.
It's like you have to be thatkind of empty of a vessel to
like constantly need thosethings to fill you up.
You know, no pun intended, butlike after a while you would
think you just start to feelkind of really gross and dirty.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah, and you know, the real crazy thing is like the
, the prison he's, the jail he'sin right now, I think is one of
the most dangerous jails andthey said in the country, really
, oh god, they said that a lotof judges Will not send
non-violent offenders To thatjail because it's so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Oh, he's gonna, oh.
And then they have him onwhatever.
I don't know if we want to saythe word here, but they have him
on like self-harm, watch, um.
And but of course my conspiracyfriends are like, oh, that's
gonna happen, because likethere's plans to take him down,
you know who knows who knows,but yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
The thing is he has to be careful because one who
may be on the tape.
Secondly, I did not even knowthis myself, but I guess in jail
, when you have a high-profileprisoner come in and you attack
that person, you get, I guess,points or whatever.
Oh, yeah.
Where you're the man.
(38:39):
Whatever you took this persondown or whatever.
So he has to be careful aboutthat.
And then, because of the natureof how violent he was towards
women, you know that is not verypopular in jails either.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
No, and kids?
I feel like they're not veryforgiving when it comes to
children, oh kids.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You probably have to watch your back for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Seriously, Absolutely , and not only kids like justin
bieber kid and beloved littlekids, you know, like uh.
So there's some, some videowhich, who knows the context I'm
sure it was a different context, but did you see the video
where, like they're at one ofkanye's church services and
kanye comes down the hill and uh, diddy's like going towards a
(39:19):
bunch of of his kids and andkanye goes like no, like kind of
like hands off, like go, go, goaway from the kids?
wow, really yeah, I'll send itto you afterwards.
Who knows, there could havebeen something where he could
have said no, no, no, like thepizza is over there, you know.
Like he could have saidsomething else.
It could have not been what wethink it is, but it's pretty
(39:40):
crazy where, like, kanye goes upto a bunch of kids and, kind of
like, blocks them from diddy.
But it's pretty crazy whereKanye goes up to a bunch of kids
and blocks them from Diddy andis like no, no, no, keep moving
along.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Wow, it's a lot of stuff leaking out now.
I saw this video.
In fact, it was years ago whenDiddy and Mike Tyson was on the
Arsenio Hall show.
Diddy was sitting next and MikeTyson was on the Arsenio Hall
show, so Diddy was sitting nextto Mike Tyson and, like I said,
(40:09):
it was only like a small clip,so you really don't really know
what the context is.
But basically the clip showsthem talking and then Mike Tyson
takes his hand and moves hishand away from him.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Oh, I saw that.
Yeah, and he pretends to like.
He like finds another reason todo it, which is a.
You know, as girls we have thatmove down on dates to be like.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah, I'm tired but uh, yeah, I was like oh, that
don't look good.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Oh God, again, there's another clip where, like
people are saying that he'she's looking at dj collin like
he's like a piece of meat, thathe's like a roast beef that he's
about to eat up.
I'm like, oh, this is like andand also, don't you feel like
from this whole?
I mean, of course, I'minterested in it from our point
of view where we talk about itand discuss it, but just from
like a like I, I want diddy outof my consciousness and like
(41:03):
atmosphere.
You know, I wish you could likeunsubscribe from people and
things because, besides this onehour that you and I are talking
, I feel like I I hear way toomuch about Diddy, but and also,
he's 54 and it's just likethat's so crazy to like we
talked about that a few weeksago with Dave Grohl, who's like
I think 56 or 55, where it'slike, I don't know, just as a
(41:25):
man in your mid-50s, this is nothow life should be going.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
I think yeah, he'll be 55 in a matter of weeks,
November 4th.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
The only reason I know that is because he's the
same age as me.
We're just literally days apart.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
See and lookit, you're thriving Way to make good
life choices.
Without as much as I knowyou're, you're somewhere under
like 20 baby bottle oil or babyoil bottles.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, I would like to have P Diddy's money, without
the parties though.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Exactly, exactly.
I know you would use it forgood.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yes, definitely, definitely.
But yeah, like I said, I feelsorry for his family though,
because you know I mean, withall the memes and everything
what he's going through.
A lot of times we kind offorget that, regardless of how
reprehensible things he may havedone, he still does have a
(42:21):
family and they're going to getthe brunt of it.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Absolutely.
Oh, and that just reminded me.
People are saying that AshtonKutcher is next up on the
chopping block and Mila hasmoved out.
There's this whole thing with.
Then it goes into the Ashtonand Danny Masterson who went to
jail or is in jail, I don't know.
There's so many subsections ofit where it's just like also,
how do these people have time toall know each other and party
(42:48):
together like that?
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Yeah, I mean.
The real sad part about it isMerrill is he's achieved things
that most people will neverachieve in life.
They say he's worth between 600and 800 million dollars.
Even on a low end 600 million.
Most people on this earth wouldnever, ever attain a tenth of
(43:10):
that right.
Right, you've got the power,you have this and that, and then
to possibly throw it all awaybecause you think you're above
the law is sad.
It's just yes, you know, and Ithink it makes it harder for
other people behind them tryingto get to that, that level as
well too.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Well, something tells me we're gonna have a lot more
coming out on it yeah, I knowwe're gonna move on to the next
subject, but just as a bonushere, um, we're gonna see what
happens with the mayor of NewYork.
You heard about that, didn'tyou?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
No, oh wait, will you remind?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
me.
Well, actually this is new.
He was literally just indicted.
Oh no, I did not know that, itjust happened.
I want to say, it happened thismorning, I think.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Whoa, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
And basically I guess he was accused of taking I have
to do my research, butallegedly it's like $10 million
of unauthorized campaigndonations.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
What are we learning?
People, the higher-ups and thepoliticians on both sides of
things sometimes can be verycorrupt.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, so I have a feeling we'll be talking about
this next week.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Oh my gosh, he should please take that money and make
it not smell like urine in thesubway system.
I'm okay if you're funnelingmoney and using it to not have
the whole city smell like urine.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
That is true, and if anyone has ever been to New York
it is true Times Square doessmell like.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Oh yeah, and Washington Park and stuff yeah,
I do, I love New York really islike the best city, but then it
has like those highs and lowswhere I'll be like this is the
most amazing time I've ever hadin my life.
And then the next thing there'slike rats all over.
I'm like I hate this.
I love this, I hate this.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
You know, the scary thing is some of those rats are
pretty damn big too.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I've seen them dragging like
full slices of pizza andeverything.
I couldn't do.
I love, love, love, love, loveNew York Like I really do.
I think it's magical and Ireally do think it's like the
epicenter of everything.
But I couldn't live the lifewhere you're like running to
catch a subway Like the subwaysystem is really what would I
mean, obviously in the high,high living prices, but like the
, the subway, like I couldn'timagine living a life where
(45:36):
you're like running down andthen you're squished with a
million other people, Like thesubway is closing.
I just like I wouldn't wantthat in my day-to-day life.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
But I hear you.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
I'm actually trying to plan, as we speak, a New York
trip, for I love to go oncearound Christmas time, oh nice.
So yeah, it's always.
It's always very nice to go inDecember, very nice.
So hopefully there will stillbe a city, even with the mayor
being behind bars.
Okay, well, my last one is avery fun but like kind of fluffy
(46:09):
thing where, well, my last oneis a very fun but kind of fluffy
thing, where the termintermittent sobriety is
apparently a thing now.
So 61% of Gen Z is looking tocut back on drinking, which I
mean I go to some parties whereGen Z people are and there is no
alcohol to be found.
There are some pills and someother concoctions, but a sad
(46:30):
amount of no little to noalcohol.
So the new buzz term tied togrowing sentiment around alcohol
is you're just treatingsobriety drinking more like once
in a while rather than weeklyor for some daily activity.
So instead of making it likeyou know, let's go out and get
blasted this weekend.
It's not really part of yourlike day to day or, you know,
(46:52):
game plan.
It's more of like, oh, I'm at awedding, I'm gonna have a drink
type of thing, which I love andI mean there's coming out with
more and more things about howalcohol is really not even
healthy for you, like even inthe ways that we used to think
it was, even like wine and stuff.
So I'm down with it Like I kindof don't care either way.
I mean I love that there's lesspeople on the road drinking and
(47:14):
driving.
I think that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Yeah, I mean, in this day of age it's amazing that
people even get DUIs with Uberand Lyft now, right, and you
know, the thing is, even when Iwas single many, many years ago,
I never really drank like that.
You know, yeah, I may have hadmy little drink or whatever when
I go out whatever, but I neverwas one to try and, you know,
(47:40):
try and get hammered and allthat I just because I want to
know what's going on around meat all times.
So, yeah, no, I'm not going tosay I never do get hammered.
Sometimes I may have that momentwhere I'm like all right, I'm
feeling good, but I'm doing itat my house, where I know I'm
not going anywhere, right?
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Right, it's expensive to have drinking as a habit too
.
I guess like, especially now,it's like very, very expensive.
I do love, I'm very.
It's a privilege too, I think,to like I'm very grateful to not
have an issue with alcohol.
You know, like I know manypeople struggle with that and
like it is a disease and it islike a thing.
So I feel grateful for theability to just like have a
(48:17):
drink and enjoy it, and thatcould be like once a week or
once every three months.
Like it's kind of not a thingfor me and so, yeah, that's,
it's a nice thing to be able to.
Just sometimes, if you want tobe like, I feel like I treat it
the way with food, where I'mlike, okay, this will go with a
nice dinner, and then I'm ableto not stress out about it.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Oh, definitely.
I mean I do like this trend ofthem cutting back on the alcohol
.
I think that's a good trend, soI applaud that.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Me too Cheers to them .
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Well, I know we're at the end, but I'm going to
squeeze this one little bit in.
Yeah, you're going toappreciate this one.
I got to ask you this questionDo you think that politicians
should be going after comedians?
Speaker 2 (49:05):
I mean, if we're allowed to do it back to them,
then I guess going after in whatsense?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Well, here's a great idea.
Okay, I mean, here's an example.
The other night, I guess, forwhatever reason, trump was still
pretty pissed off at the jokethat Jimmy Kimmel did when he
hosted.
I want to say what was it?
The Oscars this year?
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Oh yeah, oh my God, Jimmy Kimmel gets under Trump's
skin so much he is so triggeredby him.
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
And the funny thing is, you know I'm paraphrasing,
but he called Jimmy Kimmel thedumbest person on the face of
the earth, the worst comedianthis and that.
And as I'm watching this, I'mthinking, meryl, like okay, you
know, you're just gonna makethis worse by doing yeah, yeah.
(49:59):
So of course jimmy kimmel wentin on him and then he had his.
Uh, jimmy kimmel had his wifecome in and went in on him like
oh, no, really I mean they wentin hard too.
and you then the next day hestarted going off on on Colbert,
on Jimmy Fallon, and it's like,dude, are you doing this?
Give them material.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
I mean, yes, I mean I guess like I feel like it's
totally fair game forpoliticians to kind of like
throw little jabs here and thereat it.
But, as you said, I feel likeTrump is just almost putting
more attention back on thesepeople.
And now they're like oh wait,even if most people probably
missed what they even said inthe first place.
So now they're probably likelet me go back and actually see
(50:37):
you know so it's probablydriving traffic.
I think that, like it's rarethat we're going to see more
politicians this silly and thiskind of just off the whatever.
So I don't see it becoming likea trend with that.
They're going to start like atSupreme court hearings, they're
going to start like watchingConan clips or anything.
But I think it's fair game, butit it's a little like we have
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other things that could befocused on better, you know.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Oh, absolutely, and you know there are some, some
comedians where it can hurttheir careers.
There's other ones wherethey're like oh cool, let's get
going.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
You know, yeah, yeah, they love it and I do love.
I think, like All of theselately have had this Maybe a
little bit, maybe less Colbertfor everyone, but I love when,
like SNL and everything, canmake fun of both sides.
Like, obviously it's so easy,trump is the main, that is
obviously such an easy target.
But I like a little bit whenthey were calling out Biden.
(51:36):
I think I'm a little bit lesssensitive to that kind of stuff
when I can see that they'remaking fun of things across the
board instead of being just soliberal or so on the right wing.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Now the one thing I I do.
I do agree with you on well, alot of things, but the main
thing I agree with you on thissubject is snl does an excellent
job of going after everyoneyeah, yeah, yeah and the thing
is and I don't know if trump isever going to figure this out
when you go after snl, you goafter jim, you go after Jimmy
(52:08):
Kimmel, jimmy Fallon and stufflike that, you're actually
giving them more material.
So, yes, it is going to looklike they're being unfair
because they're like oh okay,this is what we're doing.
Alright, cool, you know, you'reliterally giving them more
material to come after you.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
You're doing that.
But yeah, I think it's so funnyhow, when he tweets out like or
what do you tweet it out liketaylor, swift is the worst or
whatever.
It's just like it looks.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
It looks ridiculous oh yeah, especially that one,
that one tweet, which I don'tknow what made him do it, you
know, in the middle of the nightseemed to be.
That's when he likes doing hislittle tweets and stuff.
But anyway, it's like I hatetaylor swift.
I'm like, okay, you really wantto lose this election, don't
you?
Speaker 2 (52:48):
I know I'm like do not isolate the Swifties,
Because there definitely are awhole lot of Republican.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Swifties yeah, so please.
And it's like because JimmyKimmel even brought that up, and
it's like first Jimmy thoughtit was fake, but then he was
like no, this is real.
You know, so I'm like, like andwhat is Taylor Swift has how
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many?
What is like 150 millionfollowers.
Oh my gosh, and it's like dude,you really want to pick on one
of the largest entertainers.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Yeah it really seems sometimes that he's like an
eighth grade bully just havinglike a meltdown, but but yeah, I
feel like in a perfectsymbiotic relationship, like all
of this kind of falls under thearts, where it's like, you know
, comedians are taking or like,commenting obviously and
observing on what's going on inculture, and I'm like that's how
it always has been, where, likewe need comedy to talk about
(53:40):
what you know is going on in alot of things, and politics is
one of those.
But I think it starts gettingweird when people are tweeting
or like or.
But I think it starts gettingweird when people are tweeting
or like or just only taking astance Of like, not being able
to include Different Opinions onthings.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
But yeah, I think, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Kimmel is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Oh yeah, definitely, definitely.
We had a lot of stuff we wentover today.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
Yeah, oh my gosh, we covered it.
I feel like we should get likea college grade for it, like I
feel like we earned an A plus.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
There you go, there you go.
Well, we're fine, absolutely,before we get out of here, what
do you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (54:16):
oh my gosh, after this, a big nap.
No shows, no, no shows thisweekend, but next weekend I'll
be.
I'll be back promoting stuff.
Talking about, sharon of mybest friends is having a six
year old Birthday party thatI'll be at.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Oh, there you go, yep .
Okay, meryl, so don't put 20pictures of him On social media.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
I won't.
Maybe one to just my closefriends.
It'll be perfect, but this wassuper fun, thank you.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Yes, it was, and thank you everyone for watching
and always remember to tune in.
We do this every single week,normally on Wednesdays, but we
did this today, on Thursday, andthen also you can catch not
only this show but also previousshows on ElrodTVNetworkcom.
Yay, everyone, enjoy the restof your day.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Bye, everyone.
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I am Lauren Selrod and I'mMeryl Clemo.
Meryl, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you.
I had such a fun show lastnight at the Comedy Store in La
Jolla.
What a fun it was like almost200 people nice it was the
nicest crowd ever.
So if anyone's there from thatshow cuz I actually told him to
listen today- very nice, verynice.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Are you relaxed now?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I feel relaxed.
I feel, I feel relaxed.
I feel relaxed, but I'm also.
I have energy to get into someof these ridiculous topics.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yes, there was a lot of crazy stuff going on last
week.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, yep, a lot of the stuff is still kind of
trickling into this week.
I know Would you like me tostart with something that kind
of got lost in the shuffle, butstill I find relatively
interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You know what?
Yes, go ahead and start.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, so do you know the actress Hayden Panettiere?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I love her.
She was in Nashville and a fewother like great.
I think she's a great actress.
But you know, she kind of wasoff the grid for a few years
dealing with some personalissues and now I think she's
slowly starting to dip her toein the water.
Years dealing with somepersonal issues and now I think
she's slowly starting to dip hertoe in the water.
And, uh, recently she did aninterview with people magazine
for to promote her movie,upcoming movie and people were
(01:34):
saying that.
People were saying that peoplemagazine shouldn't have run with
the article because in ithayden is speaking very, very
slowly.
Um, it's not quite sure.
No one could tell if she's likesober or not.
You know she's speaking the way.
I am now tired after a show,basically, but no one has to
worry, I'm just drinking hotcocoa here.
But what happened was peoplewere saying that the magazine
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was being exploitative bykeeping her in it and asking her
to take it down.
And then Hayden put out a postabout it and what I thought was
really interesting is she hadshe said that she was doing an
eight hour photo shoot and shewas just really tired.
She had some family and homeissues going on that she was,
you know, made her not hernormal self.
(02:18):
But the thought that I thought,the part that I thought was
interesting, was that her repactually stopped the interview
early because it was obviousthat she was fading.
But then People Magazineassured her and said no, no, no,
it's going to be beautiful,we're going to do a great job
with it.
And then I feel like they kindof screwed her over by ending up
publishing it the way that itwas.
So she had to come out and postthis big thing about how she's
(02:41):
going through grief.
You know, she's just whatevermedication she's on is between
her and her doctor, and it wasjust a big kerfuffle, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I mean.
The real sad part about it isis that her representative did
the right thing by stopping it.
But you know, you can alsoargue that why did she even
attend it in the first place?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Right, right.
And if I was People Magazine,they're probably not going to
want to reschedule it, becausethen what if she cancels?
You know, if you have thisgreat interview, I feel like
Hollywood stars are.
Just there's a big chance thatHayden could be like, never mind
.
I actually decided to not do it.
They have her right then, andthere it's a tough call.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean.
The sad part about it is,unfortunately, especially when
you're doing interviews,depending on the person doing
the interview.
If they're, let's see how can Isay this in a tactful?
Way, if they have integrity,they wouldn't have shown it.
Yeah, that hot or that viralmoment is more important than
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worrying about a person's imageor what their feelings are.
Which is one of the bad partsabout being in entertainment is
how cold some people could be.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I know, don't you think they have to deal with
that?
A lot Like what if this is justhow Hayden is now?
Like you know, maybe she's,this was an extra tired and
extra slow version of her, extratired and extra slow version of
her.
But I think also, as a generalpublic, we have to come to grips
with, like, sometimes, ourcelebrities that we once were,
like you know, perfect lookingand just like on the ball, like
she may not be like that rightnow for many different reasons.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's true, and the other thing that I think they
have to be careful about, too,is other celebrities.
See, this, yeah, happens is isthat you may have some
celebrities if they're bigenough, but, like you know what
I saw, what you guys did toso-and-so.
No, that's okay, I'll take apass yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And that has to be really jarring as a celebrity,
where you're like, okay, you'reprobably insecure anyway about
what you look like now andhayden probably has like a good
idea of what is going on withher and then to like put
yourself out there and getreflected back by the public
like, ah, you look even worsethan we thought.
You know, that has to hurt onsome human level.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh yeah, and you know the sad part about it is, meryl
, even the public sometimesforget that celebrities are
human beings too, and you knowthey have feelings, they have
emotions and you know what theyhave bad days too.
Even though they try to hide it, they have bad days as well,
too.
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I actually love her as an actress, so I hope that
she's able to Get whateveremotional and physical bounce
back as much as she can for thisera, because I think she's a
really good actress and reallypretty and cool.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I agree.
I agree.
We'll definitely keep her inour prayers.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yep, not People Magazine.
We will not be praying for them, unless they want us to be
correspondents, in which case wecan tactfully handle all the
interviews.
Just let us be nice to everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Absolutely.
Talk about being nice Now,unless you're from another
planet.
I know you've heard of LilWayne.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Now the Super Bowl is going to be in New Orleans next
year and there's a lot of stuffgoing out over social media
about how Lil Wayne felt like hewas snubbed, and a lot of his
fans and other artists feel thesame way.
Now.
When they had the Super Bowl inCalifornia, you know you had Dr
Dre on there, you had Mary JBlige, you had basically you
(06:15):
know all your West Coast onthere and supposedly 50 Cent,
when he made that appearance,wasn't supposed to be on there.
But Eminem made so much of abig stink he said if he wasn't
going to get on there, if youdidn't let 50 Cent on there,
then I wasn't getting on there.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Wow, that is really like writing for someone.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Oh, absolutely so.
Basically, you know, lil Waynedoes a lot of entertainment
that's coming out of Louisiana.
Obviously, the biggest one isLil Wayne and Lil Wayne, you
know, definitely is a GOAT whenit comes to what he does.
He's well known, people knowhim, he's done a lot of stuff,
produced a lot of stuff.
(06:55):
I don't know.
Do you think it was a snub bynot having him perform in New
Orleans?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I know, okay, I have so many thoughts, I guess, in
the first it's Kendrick Lamarwho is performing right, correct
, correct.
Okay, I have so many thoughts,I guess, and the first it's
Kendrick Lamar who is performingright, correct, correct, okay.
So my first thought is like thatdoes make Kendrick make sense
for the moment, because of youknow, obviously, the whole Drake
stuff and I feel like just froma marketing and programming and
like overall excitement pointof view, unfortunately to me
(07:24):
Kendrick does seem like thehotter choice right now and you
know, that doesn't mean that LilWayne hasn't earned it or that
he's not like extremely stillvalid.
But I think the overall momentin the wave of like Kendrick
Lamar because I feel like he'salways been popular, but right
now seeing those big, you knowthose videos of like his
amphitheater concerts and I feellike they're wanting to go for
that, but I mean it's so funnybecause I saw some Tik TOKs of
(07:47):
people like I wonder why LilWayne wasn't picked, and then it
was all his videos of himperforming, just kind of like
screaming into the mic, and I'veseen some clips where I'm like
I don't, I could see how thismight not be like the best
marketable option, but I don'tknow.
Like I feel like maybe he wassnubbed.
But also I saw an interviewwith him where he seemed really
(08:10):
humble and aware about that.
He was like, oh man, if I knewthis I would have kind of tried
over the past couple of years, Iwould have really gotten my
shit together even more and likeI thought that was a really
good, astute observation of himwhere he was able to like put it
back on himself and basicallysay like I wasn't snubbed out of
nowhere, it was more like acombination of me maybe not
(08:30):
giving it my all these pastcouple years versus yeah, I mean
.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
One sad part about it is we.
We tend to forget that themusic business is just out of
business.
Let's face it kendrick Lamar isone of the hottest Entertainers
out there, right now noquestion.
But I do understand all theuproar and the upset Because
that is Lil Wayne's hometown andwho knows when the next time
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they'll have a Super Bowl there.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I know, and do you think I know, Lil Wayne stands?
Their answer is obviously yes,but to me Lil Wayne is not in
the like Rihanna, Beyonce, LadyGaga, like you know, that type
of category I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It depends on what genre you like.
I mean, like me, I listen toall different types of genres,
yeah, but if you're into the hiphop, hip-hop or the rap genre,
you know he ranks pretty high.
So you know it's it's kind of agive and take because, see, the
sad part about it is I couldkind of see both sides.
I really yeah, yeah, me too Icould too.
(09:37):
you know, I could see from abusiness standpoint of view why
they went the direction theywent, but I could also see the
nostalgic point of view as welltoo, being that, hey, lil Wayne
is the hottest thing to come outof Louisiana, and you know, you
have him in his backyard in hishometown.
So I can see both ways.
I really can.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Do they usually make it a purpose to have performers
like where it's their hometown?
Like was last year, usher um,yeah, last year was Usher.
I also didn't know if, like thecity that it's in, is that like
a running thing to try to getperformers like I think
sometimes it's a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
All depends on what they do cuz yeah you know, the
Super Bowl does try and movearound to different cities and
different venues to kind ofpretty much give every NFL team
the opportunity to host theSuper Bowl.
So, like I said, it's a hardthing because I can see I mean,
there's a lot of rumblingsbehind the scene about how Jay-Z
(10:38):
had a lot to do with this- ohyeah, I heard that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because of the beat that's going
on.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I guess he had a prior beat With like.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Birdman or something.
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now I'm hoping that's not the case.
If it is, it's kind of prettyfoul to do that.
But you know, in social media,if it's the case, it will come
out at some point.
Maybe not soon, but at somepoint it will will.
But I just hope that's not thecase because that is kind of
crappy to do this to someone,you know just I know because you
have a personal beef with them,you know right?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
that wouldn't be right.
But what I could see is ascenario where they're like
kendrick is just on his game andlike, locked in and ready, and
we don't know if lil wayne islike, can, like, he could
obviously bring it, he's amazing, but like to the.
To that extent, I don't knowyou.
Now.
Okay, what do you think?
If you were Kendrick, would youinvite?
Would it be a slap in the face?
If he asked Lil Wayne?
He's like would you want tocome out and do something with
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me, or do you think that's like?
That's almost just like.
If you don't want me at all,you know, if you don't want me
as the person, I'm not evengoing to be like to a song if it
was me, I would probably.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You know, obviously I'm not going to turn on this
opportunity because it is theopportunity of a lifetime, but I
would just pull away and saylook, you know I apologize.
You know, obviously I didn'thave anything to do with how
this came down.
But you know, would you justcome on with me?
Yeah, a song or something, ormaybe a few bars or something,
so we can give you your flowersand recognize you as well.
(12:03):
Yes, I would expect.
Yeah, a song or something, ormaybe a few bars or something,
so we can give you your flowersand recognize you as well.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, I would expect yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
To me that would be a classy thing to do.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
A hundred percent.
I would expect rejection.
I would expect him to say no,thank you, but I would totally
nonetheless still throw out theinvite and say you have three
weeks to let me know We'd loveto have you.
You have like three weeks tolet me know We'd love to have
you.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And I think That'll kind of calm down all the issues
as far as You're not going toquiet every single person, but I
think the majority of peopleWill be okay with that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, that's true.
I see Lil Wayne as veryrespectable and I know he has a
lot of great songs.
I just don't know if AmericaSuper Bowl is the right fit, but
I'm probably wrong.
There's a whole subset of that.
When I think of Usher and thosekind of people, I just think of
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something that's a little bitmore mainstream.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I'm probably wrong and people are probably
yelling at me like you, stupididiot well, you know a lot of
people aren't aware of this, butlittle wayne actually has more
hits behind the scenes than infront, because you know he's
produced a lot of people andthere's a lot of big time
artists you know, like nikkiminaj and other people like that
.
That's on his label.
(13:21):
So you know, besides him as anartist, you know he's produced a
lot of hits as well too, overthe years yeah, so I wonder a
show where he brought out.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I hate to say he needs like other people, but
yeah, like I don't know if hecan carry it all by himself, but
I'm open to every type ofdiscussion, as we always are.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh yes, oh yes it'll be interesting to see.
I mean, they have a little bitof time to work this out, so
we'll see how it ends up beingright yeah, I have friends.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
One of my best friends actually won tickets to
go to the Super Bowl in NewOrleans whoa really yeah, yep,
it's my, my, like what my bestfriend from home, michelle, and
her husband and it's so funny,they, they have no kids and I
feel like they're the livingexample of doing like dual
income no kids, correctly,because they travel all over.
And so she's like, yeah, we'regoing to the Super Bowl, like of
(14:12):
course you are, like I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Nice, nice.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So she'll be there to report back on any.
Whoever it is, kendrick,whoever, there you go, there you
go.
Well, okay, this is the shiningstar of our Week.
This is the best news we haveIs this hippo Mudeng, who I'm
obsessed with.
Most of the world is obsessedwith the hippo.
My friends are like please stopPosting mudeng memes Every day.
(14:39):
I'm like which Meme am I?
So, in case anyone doesn't Know, there's an adorable baby hippo
in Thailand at the Khao KiaoOpen Zoo named Mu Dang, and she
went recently viral becauseshe's so funny, where she's a
pygmy hippo, a newborn pygmyhippo, and she became a megastar
(15:01):
when her zookeeper startedposting pictures of her getting
a bath and just like biting theknee of her zookeeper.
Like you know, it's very funny,obviously it's still a baby
biting its knee, and then she'llgo from these wild like she'll
be happy and smiling and sweetand then the next thing she'll
be scowling and upset and it'sjust the funniest, like side eye
(15:23):
and so people just are obsessed.
And now people are there's aline to go see her like almost
you know an hour long line everyday.
Um, everyone says she's justeven cuter in person and mu dang
literally means bouncy pork inThai, so the name was chosen by
(15:44):
fans on social media.
Right now she has cartoons,latte art.
Everyone and their mother arejust obsessed with Mudeng I just
love it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That is definitely a feel-good story, yep.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Mudeng is so cute.
I'm like why can't I just havea baby hippo?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
You know, the crazy thing is, literally, people will
literally just watch that baby,just sleep and just be in awe.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I know, and of course they had to deal with, which
makes me out of my mind upset.
But some people were likesplashing water at her or you
know, like wrestling her,agitating her to try to get her
to wake up, and so of course Ifeel like all of our listeners
know.
But of course, like when you goto a zoo, please, everyone,
just like be respectful.
And it drives me crazy whenpeople are like tapping so hard
(16:34):
on the glass of snakes or youknow anything.
It's like these are creaturesin their little habitat.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, it's stupid to me because one thing is, when
you're pouring water on thatanimal, what happens is that at
some point the zoo is going toget tired of that, and now
you're going to be complainingBecause there's going to be an
enclosure that's far away tokeep people close, and then
you'd be complaining about that.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes, let Mudang be.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, it's just stupid.
But yeah, for a dirty animal,it is a cute little baby.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It's so cute.
Honestly, if babies actuallylooked like that, I would have
three baby hippos right now.
I would be a mother yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
The only dangerous thing is when they get old.
They'll probably kill you, butyou know I know it's OK.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'd be more than happy to go out that way.
I'm happy with that and it's sofunny.
I saw a video of a guy talkingand he was a guy that had a
girlfriend and he was talking toa single guy friend and he was
like you know that you have agirlfriend when you could talk
about a mudang's day, because myboyfriend needs to, I told him
you need to know who this hippois.
This is important.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
That is so, so true.
I'm going to predict thatthere's probably going to be
some stuffed animals forChristmas this year.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh, absolutely, oh my God, yes, maybe even some
Halloween costumes.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That is true.
But yeah, Mudang is a cash cow,no pun intended, a cash hippo
oh yeah, they need to have, uh,some type of baby every week to
kind of quiet things down inthis crazy world, you know yeah,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Mudang is like the one saving grace, and just being
able to pick which mood you areis really getting me through
this oh yes, oh yes.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Talk about a mood.
Have you heard of Tua Tagovolia?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I have, I watched the football show, that he was in
the HBO show or something.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yes, yes, you know who he is Good, good, yep, yep.
Just for some people who don'twatch NFL, he's the quarterback
for the Miami Dolphins and hejust recently got his third
concussion.
So now there's buzz aroundbetween fans and other people
saying that maybe he shouldconsider retiring because he's
(18:59):
had a number of concussionswithin the last few years and
it's know it's a big thing aboutNFL, about player safety.
Now I know some NFL playersthat have played great game over
the years.
You know this is back in theday and now they're kind of like
mush now because of the amountof concussions and the injuries
to their bodies.
(19:19):
So do you think that, withthree concussions in a matter of
a few years, do you thinkthey're kind of blown out of
proportion or do you think it'sa legitimate concern?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I think it's so concerning.
And they have that shell helmet, right, but not a lot of people
are wearing that Mm-hmm, orthey wear it for practice but
they're not wearing it for games, is that?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
right, yeah, from what I heard, I guess it's
optional for the place to wearit in the game, where I've never
seen in the game, becausethey're probably.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You know like, no, I'm not putting that on.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You know that makes me look you know, whatever, yeah
, but I don't know.
I mean, you're talking aboutyour head, though, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I know.
Okay, well, I definitely tellme if I'm tell me what you think
about this too, but I thinkit's like obviously it's
definitely of concern.
Um, I would hate to see himhave to stop his whole career at
such an early age, you know,just because of these things.
But like I don't know anythingabout football, but I feel like
I've been watching some plays ofhim like that what showing when
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he gets a concussion, and I'mlike is he not training
correctly as well?
You know, is it a mix of, ofcourse, like concussions just
happen and people get likesacked and hurt out of nowhere.
But I feel, like one or two ofthe plays I've seen, he's like
like going into it almost.
It's almost like are you, is hetraining and doing the right
(20:39):
moves correctly?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
this probably isn't the worst thing to say, but I
don't know, I know, I know whatyou're saying, because when
you're getting ready to take ahit as a quarterback, you should
be sliding.
There is a proper way to slide.
I'll admit that I really don'twatch a lot of Miami football
because I'm a Bears fan.
The dangerous thing is thatwhen an opponent is coming close
(21:03):
to you and you see thatopponent coming, you know you
really should be taking a slide,because once you slide, then
that that defensive player hasto back off.
You know they could come up andthey could tag you, but they
can't give you no shot as you'regoing down.
Okay, right so, and you know,then again he may be prone to it
(21:24):
.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
We don't know yeah, yeah, I'm totally not trying to
like victim blame and be likeit's his fault, obviously.
I mean, no matter whose faultit is, I still think with a
concussion he's going to have totake obviously some time off.
But then also like learn.
If he comes back, like learndifferent moves and different
training to the part where, likeyou said, where he just even if
he it's not his first instinct,he has to learn how to like go
(21:46):
about it with not injuringhimself so much yeah, because
the reality is the averageprofessional player, regardless
of what they play, plays betweenfive to ten years on average.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Really.
Now, if they're a great player,they can obviously be in a lot
longer than that, but this isthe average whoa.
Even if you you're there, youknow, let's say, 20 years, okay,
you're still retiring.
When you're around 40 or alittle after 40, you're still
young, very young.
You got your whole life ahead.
So to me I would say that youknow, when you start getting
(22:22):
those shots to the heads likethat, you really have to think
about it and ask yourself how amI going to be for my family
when I walk away?
Yeah, the reality is that to beretired, even if you have a lot
of money, that money does youno good if you're not able to
(22:43):
enjoy it.
Exactly, and your family andyour fame and your everything,
absolutely yeah, and again, Idon't want to take away from you
know his career and everythinglike that, because I know you,
you know you spent your wholelife getting here and you're
finally at that point at the nfl.
I get it, I truly do, but atsome point you also think about
your health too.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, and I wonder.
I understand those like shellhelmets or whatever the soft
soft helmets.
They may be geeky, they may bewhatever, but it may just be
like.
I mean, I would love to hear ifit really the reasons why
people wouldn't want to wearthem, if it's all like vanity
reasons or if there's actualperformance reasons that are
like it slows us down X amount.
You know that stuff.
(23:24):
But they may just have to comeup with, I don't know, a sleeker
version of that that peoplewant to wear and agree.
And then, because I saw a studywhere that went down like 50%
or injuries went down 50% afterpeople wore those.
Yeah, I think it's a combo ofthings, but I think people do
need to.
It's a combination of taking itseriously, players learning
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different ways to not have ithappen so often.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I don't know, I think if one person has the courage
to wear it in a game, I think alot more people will start
wearing it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah me too, I think you take that first person.
Yes, I do too.
I should wear a helmet even forlike recording with us.
If it was me, I'd be out ofbubble raft and like Also, how
annoying would it be if, like Imean, I'm sure he has a very
supportive wife, because I sawin these, the show that I
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watched they all seem like theyhave very like.
Yay, you know, go wives.
They all seem like they havevery like yeah, you know, go
ones.
But if you're like, wonderful,my husband is out making a
living, great, and then now he'sback home and like nursing a
concussion again, I'd be like,oh, it'd be time for me to take
up some different hobbies orsomething just to get out of the
house.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But, um, yeah, yeah, well, we'll definitely make sure
that we keep them in ourprayers and hopefully he doesn't
get any more concussions.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, no more concussions.
Ok, oh my gosh, I love this one.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
OK.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I have to admit, this is the first time I've ever
heard the term sharenting, whichsounds like a little too close
to sharting.
Are you aware of sharenting?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
sharting?
Are you aware of sharenting?
You know what?
I wasn't until I looked it upand I was like wow, really Okay.
But I do see, I do understandthe term though.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yes.
So sharenting is when, as youcould just imagine by combining
the two words, when parentsshare pictures of their kids on
social media and they're lookingnow at the repercussions that
that could face for children,when parents are constantly
consistently posting pictures oftheir own, you know offspring
(25:35):
how that then affects the kids,getting bullied, predators.
You know, like, I havedefinitely a lot of thoughts
about this, where a lot of myfriends that have babies it's so
weird how they've sharedpictures of their babies and
then they can see that like it'sbeen saved like 86 times or
something, and I'm like who issaving a picture of someone
(25:57):
else's child if it's not likeyour grandchildren, I mean,
unfortunately, we know theanswer, you know, but a lot of
my friends have decided to likenot post pictures of their kids
at all after seeing theirpictures get saved by others
online.
So I feel like that is, youknow, the normal thing about
sharing things.
It's just, it's kind ofannoying and no offense, but
(26:17):
like, not many of us want to seethe same kids posted over and
over.
Like.
Just starting with the surfacelayer of like, I think we care
less than people think we care.
But the deeper connection isyou don't know who is saving or
sharing those types of images,um.
And then I feel like the middlelayer is just when kids are
(26:38):
young.
They don't have consent to whatis posted of them.
So if you're like postingpictures of your kid like
splashing around in a bathtub orsomething like, that's a little
embarrassing for a kid to lookback and see that it's there
online.
You know like I would be so madif I had saw that my, because
there are like pictures of melike young and like really,
really young, like a littlebathtub splashing around.
I'm like if that was online onFacebook, I'd be so embarrassed,
(26:59):
online on Facebook I'd be soembarrassed.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No, I agree with you.
I mean even with my son.
Believe it or not, I don't posta lot of pictures if any of them
and my son's grown he's 20years old I still won't post.
Now there's certain points,like for a birthday or whatever,
I may post something on there,but everyday posts Now do I have
some silly, embarrassing photos?
(27:22):
Absolutely, but I don't putthat out there.
I have silly posts of my wifeand absolutely posted me.
Those are on social media,those are between the family.
That's it, cuz I said.
Part is you're right, bullyingthing is a real thing also to
one day Some of these kids aregonna become our president, some
(27:44):
congresswomen, senators andstuff like that and anything we
did in the past.
You physically have to figureit out.
Anything they did in the pastis most likely on social media.
So it's a whole different term,whole different time, different
(28:04):
term, whole different time.
So I think there is such athing as too much, because I've
seen people post picture afterpicture after picture of a
picture of their kids and it'slike, yes, you know, teach his
own, but uh, yeah, I wouldn't bedoing that that is the kind of
thing too, is that, especiallywith babies?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I felt like to me when you say you posted like
cute and funny pictures of yourson when he's 20.
Like that's that's, that'sthat's normal.
And like funny to me it's whenI see people constantly taking
pictures of newborns dressed upor like their toddlers, and it's
like you'll have Instagramstories and it's like 18 of them
every day.
I'm like I see I've seen enoughof your child.
You know like those types ofphotos are perfect for a family
(28:40):
chat.
Or you know people create likeshared photo albums where there
are grandparents and like niecesand nephews that want to see a
hundred photos a day after thekid.
But yeah, and I mean to me it'slike less of the bullying thing
is real.
But I also think peopleshouldn't be that worried about
like like my mom all the timewill post pictures of me where I
(29:01):
don't have makeup on or I'm not.
You know, I'm just like mom.
I think I saw something thatsaid, like anytime you think you
look good, just look at likethe pictures that your mom posts
of you.
But I think we should worryless and less about that, like I
don't care at all about lookinggood all the time on social
media and more about who who issaving the pictures and if
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they're public.
You know these, these weirdosthat are just using them for
whatever weird purposes they are.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That's true, it's sad , but you have to be aware of
all this stuff and be mindful.
As far as baby pictures, I'mnot a big fan of that.
I have zero pictures of my sonwhen he was a baby on social
media Zero, even though we havea pictures of my son when he was
a baby on social media Zeroyeah.
Even though we have a lot ofpictures of him, none of them
are on social media.
But, like I said, to each hisown, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, and I have to remember sometimes too, I think,
like out here in Los Angeles,like I'm friends with so many
people on Instagram that I don'treally know as people, but then
when I look back at like someof my hometown best friends from
Pennsylvania and like they livea much more, almost like I'm
almost envious, you know, like abeautiful but like a smaller
online life where, like if theyonly follow 98 people like, then
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their, their shared thing isactually people that they like
their friends and family.
So I always have to rememberthat, like just because I'm kind
of out here in the wild west ofonline things, like when I
scroll on Facebook, I don't evenknow who the people are Like,
who are, who am I looking at,but most people most normal
Americans, I feel like are onlyfollowing friends and family.
(30:36):
So I have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, like I said, you know, if a person wants to
do that, definitely you have theright to do it.
Just be careful.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yes, but we only need 18 photos of them going to
kindergarten.
I don't think we need.
When you're about to post the19th angle, just stop right
there.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So you mean, 30 pictures is too much?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's too much.
Them going to kindergarten thencoming home.
Unless they want to see 18photos of me shopping at Target
like picking out toothpaste,then everything should be
allowed.
This might even be a haterthing for me to say too, but I
don't even like pre-sharenting.
When there's too many baby likebump pictures and like
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pregnancy photos, I'm not thebiggest fan of that I haven't
seen a whole lot of that thoughoh, I see too many.
Oh, okay, okay, I I feel like Isee like too many, but I don't
know.
To me you should get one everyother day.
So you're allowed three and ahalf photos a week, according to
the national council ofsharenton there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Ah, we are at this point right now, where we are
about to hit the biggest subjectthat has happened within the
last couple of weeks.
Oh man, unless you're inanother universe, um, I'm quite
sure you've heard of this.
Last week, sean Puffy Combs wasarrested.
He was denied bail twice, evenafter offering to put up $50
(32:16):
million bail.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Now this week they're saying that there's a target on
his back.
I don't know.
What do you think, meryl?
What are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh my gosh.
Okay, my first thought is thatI don't think I've ever heard of
a story where there's so manylike tentacles of things going
on.
You know, like recently I'veheard Bill Cosby, 50 Cent, tupac
I don't even know what aspectof this we even want to talk
about, because obviously there'sthe abuse and possibly
(32:52):
trafficking, racketeering, allthese things, the illegal
parties, but then there's alsothe weird ties to all these
other things in culture thatI've been seeing too, to all
these other things in culturethat I've been seeing too.
So, I mean, to me it's justlike it seems like I can't
believe he was.
I know he was like a big,important, powerful man, but
(33:13):
I've never heard of a storywhere, like even with Harvey
Weinstein, I didn't hear thatmany like side things.
I know he was obviously like.
Harvey was very well connectedand had a lot of people in his
orbit.
But, like with Diddy, I'm justlike okay, tupac, bill Cosby,
like this is just, it's so muchfor one person to be involved
with.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, I mean the thing is, is that what's so
crazy is you know we've heard ofDiddy parties in the past, you
know?
Yeah, you know, obviously, youknow I'm not big enough to even
know what happens in thoseparties but you've heard about
him, but the thing is, I thinkthat his downfall was the moment
that video came out of what hedid to his girlfriend.
(33:56):
That's when everything turned,because that video came back to
haunt him, because that was oneof the main reasons why he was
denied any bail, because theythought he was so dangerous and
he can intimidate witnesses.
Yeah yeah, and, like I said,even though Diddy's behind bars
and you know, if they have theevidence, obviously justice is
(34:21):
going to take its place.
But it kind of reminds me, in akind of haunting way, of how R
Kelly went down.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah, I know and I think too, it's crazy seeing all
of the, just the way that itwas kind of hidden in plain
sight, with all of the peopleLike him joking about his kind
of freak offs on conan, and thenjust the kardashians saying
that there's so many clips ofthem saying like oh, what did
you do last night?
Oh, we went to like a dittyparty.
(34:50):
Everyone got naked or you know,there's been like drips of it
before, but I think before theyjust phrased it as like it was a
wild, cool hollywood party.
They didn't really talk aboutall like the insidious stuff
that was going on.
The fact that he reached out toone mobster person about
trafficking.
I'm just like, oh my God, thisgets so deep.
(35:11):
Even with politicians.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know what?
I think there's a lot of peoplethat are nervous right now
because there's a lot of peoplepoliticians, obviously,
entertainers, people in theclergy Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You know, and if you were just there but you didn't
participate, okay that's a badlook, but it's a whole different
look if they have you on tapedoing something illegal.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
There was someone that they were like it's someone
that I like.
Was it Tyrese?
Or someone that they were like,oh, he went to the parties but
then he screamed like I got togo to church and he left.
I think it was Tyrese.
There's someone that's likethat was talking about yes, I
was at the parties, no, I neverwent into like the side rooms.
And over the years, they have avideo where Diddy was like,
(36:11):
yeah, he came to the parties,but he would always like scream
that he has to go to church inthe middle of the week.
You're cleared of it all.
I think there's also thingsthat we're latching onto, like
the thousand bottles of oil andJustin Bieber, these little
things that are coming out, butthere's so much more behind
(36:32):
every mention of a story.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Now I guess my question is what does he need
with a thousand bottles of babyoil?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I mean, I'm sitting there like what does he want
with a thousand bottles?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Then I saw the memes and jokes.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I don't want to know.
I mean, I'm sitting there likewhat is he doing with a thousand
bottles.
Then I saw the memes and jokesand I'm like oh, okay, yeah yeah
.
I don't know if I'm a nerd, Ijust don't get out enough.
But I was like a thousandbottles and then I saw little
memes like, oh okay, that's whatthey're doing.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Okay, I know I'm just like not depraved enough where,
like the thought of like goingto a party with like 800 naked
oily people just like truly doesnot sound good to me.
Like I, I just want like abuffet or, like you know, like
food.
I mean, just give me like ameat carving station.
(37:19):
I don't need like naked odellbeckham or anything like that.
It's just so weird, I justdon't have.
It's like you have to be thatkind of empty of a vessel to
like constantly need thosethings to fill you up.
You know, no pun intended, butlike after a while you would
think you just start to feelkind of really gross and dirty.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah, and you know, the real crazy thing is like the
, the prison he's, the jail he'sin right now, I think is one of
the most dangerous jails andthey said in the country, really
, oh god, they said that a lotof judges Will not send
non-violent offenders To thatjail because it's so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Oh, he's gonna, oh.
And then they have him onwhatever.
I don't know if we want to saythe word here, but they have him
on like self-harm, watch, um.
And but of course my conspiracyfriends are like, oh, that's
gonna happen, because likethere's plans to take him down,
you know who knows who knows,but yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
The thing is he has to be careful because one who
may be on the tape.
Secondly, I did not even knowthis myself, but I guess in jail
, when you have a high-profileprisoner come in and you attack
that person, you get, I guess,points or whatever.
Oh, yeah.
Where you're the man.
(38:39):
Whatever you took this persondown or whatever.
So he has to be careful aboutthat.
And then, because of the natureof how violent he was towards
women, you know that is not verypopular in jails either.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
No, and kids?
I feel like they're not veryforgiving when it comes to
children, oh kids.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You probably have to watch your back for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Seriously, Absolutely , and not only kids like justin
bieber kid and beloved littlekids, you know, like uh.
So there's some, some videowhich, who knows the context I'm
sure it was a different context, but did you see the video
where, like they're at one ofkanye's church services and
kanye comes down the hill and uh, diddy's like going towards a
(39:19):
bunch of of his kids and andkanye goes like no, like kind of
like hands off, like go, go, goaway from the kids?
wow, really yeah, I'll send itto you afterwards.
Who knows, there could havebeen something where he could
have said no, no, no, like thepizza is over there, you know.
Like he could have saidsomething else.
It could have not been what wethink it is, but it's pretty
(39:40):
crazy where, like, kanye goes upto a bunch of kids and, kind of
like, blocks them from diddy.
But it's pretty crazy whereKanye goes up to a bunch of kids
and blocks them from Diddy andis like no, no, no, keep moving
along.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Wow, it's a lot of stuff leaking out now.
I saw this video.
In fact, it was years ago whenDiddy and Mike Tyson was on the
Arsenio Hall show.
Diddy was sitting next and MikeTyson was on the Arsenio Hall
show, so Diddy was sitting nextto Mike Tyson and, like I said,
(40:09):
it was only like a small clip,so you really don't really know
what the context is.
But basically the clip showsthem talking and then Mike Tyson
takes his hand and moves hishand away from him.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Oh, I saw that.
Yeah, and he pretends to like.
He like finds another reason todo it, which is a.
You know, as girls we have thatmove down on dates to be like.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah, I'm tired but uh, yeah, I was like oh, that
don't look good.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Oh God, again, there's another clip where, like
people are saying that he'she's looking at dj collin like
he's like a piece of meat, thathe's like a roast beef that he's
about to eat up.
I'm like, oh, this is like andand also, don't you feel like
from this whole?
I mean, of course, I'minterested in it from our point
of view where we talk about itand discuss it, but just from
like a like I, I want diddy outof my consciousness and like
(41:03):
atmosphere.
You know, I wish you could likeunsubscribe from people and
things because, besides this onehour that you and I are talking
, I feel like I I hear way toomuch about Diddy, but and also,
he's 54 and it's just likethat's so crazy to like we
talked about that a few weeksago with Dave Grohl, who's like
I think 56 or 55, where it'slike, I don't know, just as a
(41:25):
man in your mid-50s, this is nothow life should be going.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
I think yeah, he'll be 55 in a matter of weeks,
November 4th.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
The only reason I know that is because he's the
same age as me.
We're just literally days apart.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
See and lookit, you're thriving Way to make good
life choices.
Without as much as I knowyou're, you're somewhere under
like 20 baby bottle oil or babyoil bottles.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, I would like to have P Diddy's money, without
the parties though.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Exactly, exactly.
I know you would use it forgood.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yes, definitely, definitely.
But yeah, like I said, I feelsorry for his family though,
because you know I mean, withall the memes and everything
what he's going through.
A lot of times we kind offorget that, regardless of how
reprehensible things he may havedone, he still does have a
(42:21):
family and they're going to getthe brunt of it.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Absolutely.
Oh, and that just reminded me.
People are saying that AshtonKutcher is next up on the
chopping block and Mila hasmoved out.
There's this whole thing with.
Then it goes into the Ashtonand Danny Masterson who went to
jail or is in jail, I don't know.
There's so many subsections ofit where it's just like also,
how do these people have time toall know each other and party
(42:48):
together like that?
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Yeah, I mean.
The real sad part about it isMerrill is he's achieved things
that most people will neverachieve in life.
They say he's worth between 600and 800 million dollars.
Even on a low end 600 million.
Most people on this earth wouldnever, ever attain a tenth of
(43:10):
that right.
Right, you've got the power,you have this and that, and then
to possibly throw it all awaybecause you think you're above
the law is sad.
It's just yes, you know, and Ithink it makes it harder for
other people behind them tryingto get to that, that level as
well too.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Well, something tells me we're gonna have a lot more
coming out on it yeah, I knowwe're gonna move on to the next
subject, but just as a bonushere, um, we're gonna see what
happens with the mayor of NewYork.
You heard about that, didn'tyou?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
No, oh wait, will you remind?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
me.
Well, actually this is new.
He was literally just indicted.
Oh no, I did not know that, itjust happened.
I want to say, it happened thismorning, I think.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Whoa, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
And basically I guess he was accused of taking I have
to do my research, butallegedly it's like $10 million
of unauthorized campaigndonations.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
What are we learning?
People, the higher-ups and thepoliticians on both sides of
things sometimes can be verycorrupt.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, so I have a feeling we'll be talking about
this next week.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Oh my gosh, he should please take that money and make
it not smell like urine in thesubway system.
I'm okay if you're funnelingmoney and using it to not have
the whole city smell like urine.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
That is true, and if anyone has ever been to New York
it is true Times Square doessmell like.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Oh yeah, and Washington Park and stuff yeah,
I do, I love New York really islike the best city, but then it
has like those highs and lowswhere I'll be like this is the
most amazing time I've ever hadin my life.
And then the next thing there'slike rats all over.
I'm like I hate this.
I love this, I hate this.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
You know, the scary thing is some of those rats are
pretty damn big too.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I've seen them dragging like
full slices of pizza andeverything.
I couldn't do.
I love, love, love, love, loveNew York Like I really do.
I think it's magical and Ireally do think it's like the
epicenter of everything.
But I couldn't live the lifewhere you're like running to
catch a subway Like the subwaysystem is really what would I
mean, obviously in the high,high living prices, but like the
, the subway, like I couldn'timagine living a life where
(45:36):
you're like running down andthen you're squished with a
million other people, Like thesubway is closing.
I just like I wouldn't wantthat in my day-to-day life.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
But I hear you.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
I'm actually trying to plan, as we speak, a New York
trip, for I love to go oncearound Christmas time, oh nice.
So yeah, it's always.
It's always very nice to go inDecember, very nice.
So hopefully there will stillbe a city, even with the mayor
being behind bars.
Okay, well, my last one is avery fun but like kind of fluffy
(46:09):
thing where, well, my last oneis a very fun but kind of fluffy
thing, where the termintermittent sobriety is
apparently a thing now.
So 61% of Gen Z is looking tocut back on drinking, which I
mean I go to some parties whereGen Z people are and there is no
alcohol to be found.
There are some pills and someother concoctions, but a sad
(46:30):
amount of no little to noalcohol.
So the new buzz term tied togrowing sentiment around alcohol
is you're just treatingsobriety drinking more like once
in a while rather than weeklyor for some daily activity.
So instead of making it likeyou know, let's go out and get
blasted this weekend.
It's not really part of yourlike day to day or, you know,
(46:52):
game plan.
It's more of like, oh, I'm at awedding, I'm gonna have a drink
type of thing, which I love andI mean there's coming out with
more and more things about howalcohol is really not even
healthy for you, like even inthe ways that we used to think
it was, even like wine and stuff.
So I'm down with it Like I kindof don't care either way.
I mean I love that there's lesspeople on the road drinking and
(47:14):
driving.
I think that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Yeah, I mean, in this day of age it's amazing that
people even get DUIs with Uberand Lyft now, right, and you
know, the thing is, even when Iwas single many, many years ago,
I never really drank like that.
You know, yeah, I may have hadmy little drink or whatever when
I go out whatever, but I neverwas one to try and, you know,
(47:40):
try and get hammered and allthat I just because I want to
know what's going on around meat all times.
So, yeah, no, I'm not going tosay I never do get hammered.
Sometimes I may have that momentwhere I'm like all right, I'm
feeling good, but I'm doing itat my house, where I know I'm
not going anywhere, right?
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Right, it's expensive to have drinking as a habit too
.
I guess like, especially now,it's like very, very expensive.
I do love, I'm very.
It's a privilege too, I think,to like I'm very grateful to not
have an issue with alcohol.
You know, like I know manypeople struggle with that and
like it is a disease and it islike a thing.
So I feel grateful for theability to just like have a
(48:17):
drink and enjoy it, and thatcould be like once a week or
once every three months.
Like it's kind of not a thingfor me and so, yeah, that's,
it's a nice thing to be able to.
Just sometimes, if you want tobe like, I feel like I treat it
the way with food, where I'mlike, okay, this will go with a
nice dinner, and then I'm ableto not stress out about it.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Oh, definitely.
I mean I do like this trend ofthem cutting back on the alcohol
.
I think that's a good trend, soI applaud that.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Me too Cheers to them .
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Well, I know we're at the end, but I'm going to
squeeze this one little bit in.
Yeah, you're going toappreciate this one.
I got to ask you this questionDo you think that politicians
should be going after comedians?
Speaker 2 (49:05):
I mean, if we're allowed to do it back to them,
then I guess going after in whatsense?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Well, here's a great idea.
Okay, I mean, here's an example.
The other night, I guess, forwhatever reason, trump was still
pretty pissed off at the jokethat Jimmy Kimmel did when he
hosted.
I want to say what was it?
The Oscars this year?
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Oh yeah, oh my God, Jimmy Kimmel gets under Trump's
skin so much he is so triggeredby him.
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
And the funny thing is, you know I'm paraphrasing,
but he called Jimmy Kimmel thedumbest person on the face of
the earth, the worst comedianthis and that.
And as I'm watching this, I'mthinking, meryl, like okay, you
know, you're just gonna makethis worse by doing yeah, yeah.
(49:59):
So of course jimmy kimmel wentin on him and then he had his.
Uh, jimmy kimmel had his wifecome in and went in on him like
oh, no, really I mean they wentin hard too.
and you then the next day hestarted going off on on Colbert,
on Jimmy Fallon, and it's like,dude, are you doing this?
Give them material.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
I mean, yes, I mean I guess like I feel like it's
totally fair game forpoliticians to kind of like
throw little jabs here and thereat it.
But, as you said, I feel likeTrump is just almost putting
more attention back on thesepeople.
And now they're like oh wait,even if most people probably
missed what they even said inthe first place.
So now they're probably likelet me go back and actually see
(50:37):
you know so it's probablydriving traffic.
I think that, like it's rarethat we're going to see more
politicians this silly and thiskind of just off the whatever.
So I don't see it becoming likea trend with that.
They're going to start like atSupreme court hearings, they're
going to start like watchingConan clips or anything.
But I think it's fair game, butit it's a little like we have
(51:01):
other things that could befocused on better, you know.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Oh, absolutely, and you know there are some, some
comedians where it can hurttheir careers.
There's other ones wherethey're like oh cool, let's get
going.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
You know, yeah, yeah, they love it and I do love.
I think, like All of theselately have had this Maybe a
little bit, maybe less Colbertfor everyone, but I love when,
like SNL and everything, canmake fun of both sides.
Like, obviously it's so easy,trump is the main, that is
obviously such an easy target.
But I like a little bit whenthey were calling out Biden.
(51:36):
I think I'm a little bit lesssensitive to that kind of stuff
when I can see that they'remaking fun of things across the
board instead of being just soliberal or so on the right wing.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Now the one thing I I do.
I do agree with you on well, alot of things, but the main
thing I agree with you on thissubject is snl does an excellent
job of going after everyoneyeah, yeah, yeah and the thing
is and I don't know if trump isever going to figure this out
when you go after snl, you goafter jim, you go after Jimmy
(52:08):
Kimmel, jimmy Fallon and stufflike that, you're actually
giving them more material.
So, yes, it is going to looklike they're being unfair
because they're like oh okay,this is what we're doing.
Alright, cool, you know, you'reliterally giving them more
material to come after you.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
You're doing that.
But yeah, I think it's so funnyhow, when he tweets out like or
what do you tweet it out liketaylor, swift is the worst or
whatever.
It's just like it looks.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
It looks ridiculous oh yeah, especially that one,
that one tweet, which I don'tknow what made him do it, you
know, in the middle of the nightseemed to be.
That's when he likes doing hislittle tweets and stuff.
But anyway, it's like I hatetaylor swift.
I'm like, okay, you really wantto lose this election, don't
you?
Speaker 2 (52:48):
I know I'm like do not isolate the Swifties,
Because there definitely are awhole lot of Republican.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Swifties yeah, so please.
And it's like because JimmyKimmel even brought that up, and
it's like first Jimmy thoughtit was fake, but then he was
like no, this is real.
You know, so I'm like, like andwhat is Taylor Swift has how
(53:13):
many?
What is like 150 millionfollowers.
Oh my gosh, and it's like dude,you really want to pick on one
of the largest entertainers.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Yeah it really seems sometimes that he's like an
eighth grade bully just havinglike a meltdown, but but yeah, I
feel like in a perfectsymbiotic relationship, like all
of this kind of falls under thearts, where it's like, you know
, comedians are taking or like,commenting obviously and
observing on what's going on inculture, and I'm like that's how
it always has been, where, likewe need comedy to talk about
(53:40):
what you know is going on in alot of things, and politics is
one of those.
But I think it starts gettingweird when people are tweeting
or like or.
But I think it starts gettingweird when people are tweeting
or like or just only taking astance Of like, not being able
to include Different Opinions onthings.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
But yeah, I think, jimmy.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Kimmel is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Oh yeah, definitely, definitely.
We had a lot of stuff we wentover today.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
Yeah, oh my gosh, we covered it.
I feel like we should get likea college grade for it, like I
feel like we earned an A plus.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
There you go, there you go.
Well, we're fine, absolutely,before we get out of here, what
do you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (54:16):
oh my gosh, after this, a big nap.
No shows, no, no shows thisweekend, but next weekend I'll
be.
I'll be back promoting stuff.
Talking about, sharon of mybest friends is having a six
year old Birthday party thatI'll be at.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Oh, there you go, yep .
Okay, meryl, so don't put 20pictures of him On social media.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
I won't.
Maybe one to just my closefriends.
It'll be perfect, but this wassuper fun, thank you.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Yes, it was, and thank you everyone for watching
and always remember to tune in.
We do this every single week,normally on Wednesdays, but we
did this today, on Thursday, andthen also you can catch not
only this show but also previousshows on ElrodTVNetworkcom.
Yay, everyone, enjoy the restof your day.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Bye, everyone.
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