January 11, 2025 • 59 mins
What if the future of policing is more about robots than officers? Join us as we explore the controversial allocation of police resources to combat retail theft, sometimes involving SWAT teams, while more serious issues like violent crime seem to be sidelined. Lawrence Elrod and Meryl Clemo spark a conversation about our current security practices and the potential role of technology in addressing societal challenges, questioning the empathy and priorities of our time.
From serious societal issues to heartwarming stories, we reflect on the legacy of John Amos, a true television icon known for his roles in "Good Times" and "Roots." He has left an indelible mark on our screens and culture. On a lighter note, we share the delightful tale of Joshua, the adventurous goat who joined a marathon in Newfoundland, offering a humorous reminder of life's unexpected joys and the importance of embracing spontaneity.
In a surprising twist, we analyze the recent vice presidential debate where civility took center stage, a rarity in today’s political landscape. This unexpected decorum prompts a humorous discussion on cross-party debate pairings. We also dive into the world of impulse buys, from Mark Cuban’s lifetime flight pass to the thrill of art collecting. Finally, we tackle critical issues like labor disputes and automation, underscoring the evolving dynamics of the workplace and the urgent need to address unfavorable job conditions. Join our lively discussion and find out why these topics matter more than ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I am Meryl Clemo Lauren Selrod.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And I am Meryl Clemo.
Meryl, this has been oneincredible week, I kid you not.
I literally had about 20 itemsthat we could have talked about
today.
Really, it took me a while tokind of trim them down to five.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I'm always happy.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Maybe next week we could do like all 20 of them,
and it's like speed talking.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
We're like we just list them and then we rapid fire
our opinions on them in likenine seconds or less.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
That is so so true, but we got some goodies on here
though.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, do you want to go first?
I feel like I've been goingfirst the past couple times.
Sure, I'll go ahead and gofirst, yay.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm actually going to start off with a very
interesting topic here.
I'm actually going to start offwith a very interesting topic
here.
Across the United States, a lotof law enforcements have been
dealing with, you know, withshoplifting and the mass, you
know, rush shopping.
As you know, groups go in tosteal, so a lot of places are
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having police officers createspecial tasks for us and in some
cases even use a SWAT team tocome in after them.
Now I do commend them forwanting to do something about it
, but I guess my biggest issueis when you look at some of the
crime in some areas, especiallyviolent crimes, and they say
that, hey, we don't have theresources and stuff.
I just find it kind of hard toswallow that you can make
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resources to go after things butnot people.
Yeah, maybe I'm being overlysensitive about it.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
about that.
I think that one day, when youcome, you and your family come
to LA, I'm going to show you thestores in Beverly Hills that
have like 30 police peoplestanding and guarding one Birkin
bag and like I feel like forevery store, I mean those are, I
think they're private policepeople.
Oh anyway, I mean those arelike the police people of
Beverly Hills, which is its ownmovie truly.
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But I mean I think there's alot of things going on.
I feel like I know a lot ofpeople like are shoplifting in
bigger cities.
I know we talked about a fewweeks ago where now it's just
like, instead of persecutingpeople right off the bat,
they're just saying just like,please don't steal anything less
than 700 or 900.
You know, they're kind ofsetting their parameters.
So I feel like it's weird ingeneral that shoplifting has
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become a little bit more likeacceptable.
But I also agree that to put somany resources into something
like that when there's obviouslybigger things at play in our
society is it's not good.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
I mean I'm not saying that, youknow, law enforcement should
ignore it.
I'm not saying that lawenforcement should ignore it.
I'm not saying that by no meanspossible.
But when you look at peoplethat have missing loved ones,
people that have unsolvedmurders and stuff like that.
It's kind of a hard pill toswallow when you see a SWAT team
go in to protect items in astore.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, definitely, absolutely, especially of like
people with domestic violence,or they just I've heard a lot of
times people will, if they geta restraining order and that
like falls through, then they'rejust living their life in
danger or someone will have togo back to a domestic violence
situation.
So, yeah, I get that.
I wonder and we'll get into.
This is just a peak of what'scoming soon, but if maybe
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they're going to start havingmore robot cops with shoplifting
, I feel like they should assignhuman cops to the real issues
and more technology to thingslike items.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
You know what a crazy thing Merrill is.
A year or two, I'd probablylaugh and be like, oh, I don't
think so.
But you know what, with AI androbotics and stuff like that,
especially the advancement oftechnology, it may be coming
faster than we think.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, I think so too.
I don't know if they have thiswhere you are, but I don't like
the look of now at CVSs andtargets, like everything has to
be locked up.
I feel like that's reallyannoying.
I don't know.
I feel like that's not great.
I mean, that's the onlysolution I can see now, but
that's weird, that that's theway we're moving now as a
society.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I remember when I went to visit my son in college
and this was the first time I'veever seen.
Now I've seen certain expensiveitems be locked up before.
Okay, I get that, but it wasthe first time I seen things
like toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah.
Dope and I'm sitting there likeseriously, I mean I've never
seen that before and it's likewow really yeah, like deodorant
things, that and like it's sucha pain to call the people over
to be like, hey, can I get thiscrest toothpaste?
But I think that says a lotabout A it's hard for people to
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afford those things, whichobviously we have empathy for
that too.
But B it's just as a society Iwish they should have more
access to.
If someone really needstoothpaste and they can't afford
it, I know we all agree and weall pay taxes on this kind of
stuff.
Anyway, afford it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I know we all agree and we all pay taxes on this
kind of stuff anyway.
Yeah, and you also kind ofwonder are they really saving
money?
Because you have to pay thatworker to come over, unlock it,
take it out, relock it and thenthat process goes on all day
long.
Now again for expensive items.
I could totally see that, butyou know, if you're talking
about some toothpaste that costsa couple bucks, you know you're
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probably paying more for him orher to take care of the
customer versus just leave itopen.
And I could be wrong, you know?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, Now how would you feel if you went to the
police academy and you alwaysdreamed of being a police person
and and then they told you,actually your job is you're
going to actually be at CVSguarding the paper towels.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I probably won't be a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No, I'd go into like dentistry or something else.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I mean, like I said, I'm not saying that you know,
let them go and everything, butthere's gotta be some common
sense to what we do there reallydoes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I know, I know, I know and I wonder if that's
also going to be retailers, Idon't know, Like not shutting
down.
But I mean we've seen a lot ofthose types of like the bigger
box stores closing down, Likethe Best Buys, the things where,
like, things are tangible thatpeople could take, and I wonder
if it's just going to get likesmaller and smaller as time goes
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on.
But who knows?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It makes you wonder.
It does.
Well, I think we're probablygoing to hear about this again
later on.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I know, I know, but yeah, I agree, though I don't
think we need hundreds of peopleat like a local Target when
there's lots of other thingsthat need repair and fixing.
I feel that way about the likegetting stopped for a traffic
ticket, or getting stoppedespecially here in los angeles,
because there's like 800 otherthings happening on the street
that need attention, andsometimes when I get like a 42
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parking ticket for being latefor a minute, I'm like there's
literally someone defecating,like like a drug needle to my
left.
So I'm going to please like Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I hear you on that one.
I definitely hear you.
Ooh, you got a fun one comingup.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I got a fun one.
Okay, I'm going to pick we'regoing to switch it up here
because I want to piggyback onwhat you just said.
I'm going to pick a differentone because we just talked about
robots.
One day and I think that's nottoo far off in the future where,
basically, a Texas man got in ashootout with a robot and a man
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I don't know if you heard aboutthis.
This is crazy.
A man was arrested for engagingin a shootout with a
neighborhood robot.
That's right, you heard thatright.
The man, uh, frustrated by thepresence of a security robot and
he opened fire and then, in acrazy turn, the robot fought
back with pepper spray, leadingto the man's arrest.
So that was one thing.
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So the robot, like, pinned himdown on the ground and then,
ultimately, you know, um, andthis was a robot that was
controlled by an officer, butthey're saying that in the
future, pretty soon, they'regoing to be able to have robots
that, like, are able to go intoburning fires and obviously they
will be bulletproof and youknow all the normal restrictions
of, like police people in thepast.
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Now we will have robots, which Idon't know how you feel about
this Like.
To me.
There's obviously good that cancome out of it, but it also
gets really scary becauseclearly, like, at one point it's
going to pin the wrong personor you know, we don't know how
far these robots will go.
What if it, like accidentally,you know, stomps someone and
kills them?
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You know, we don't really know.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I mean in this scenario where there's a
physical human being controllingthe robot.
I'm actually okay with that fora number of reasons.
One you're right you don't wantthe robot making those
decisions, because that could bevery detrimental if they make a
mistake.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And then also what it does.
I think it protects the citizenthe criminal and the police
officer.
It protects the citizen thecriminal because that robot can
do things that human can't do.
In other words, they can walkup on you while you're shooting.
Yeah, you're not going to hurtthem, and you know, being pepper
sprayed versus being shot withbullets.
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I will take this pepper sprayany day of the week, true.
And then for the police officer, they're not in harm's way.
So you know what Kudos to him,I think, to them, I think that's
a great application for it.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, okay, it's so interesting and this is like a
whole other.
I feel like we need hours totalk about this, but I would
wonder the psychology of policeI mean, we don't have to get
into like a whole policebrutality thing but I wonder,
like if using a robot would helppolice people not be so like to
get their own emotions andanger into it and if, like,
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something like that would be alittle bit of a barrier to just
doing your job and not havingsome of the you know, obviously
very upsetting things that havehappened in the past couple
years where, like, it does gotoo far and people's emotions
get wrapped into, like you know,what should just be a normal
arrest, um, or I wonder ifhaving a robot will almost make
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the bad people even worse andyou know, make like have them
carry out something that theiranger, um, if it could trigger
it worse.
So I guess time will tell,basically, in how people use
their robots which is, I wouldsay, but you know what I mean.
I know I might be jumbling mysentiment, but I feel like it
could either be good, because itcould be like oh, I'm not
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laying hands on this person, I'mcontrolling something that is
versus.
Um, now I have this likemachinery that could do even
more damage I mean you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean it doesn't take away the fact that you have
to make sure that the officerhas the right mindset doing it.
Yeah, because you're right.
The wrong officer controlling arobot can do far more damage
than just a normal person could.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Exactly.
I guess it would probably belike a case-by-case basis, but
that would be an interestinglike psychology study to do,
basically, and how, uh, how itworks out with, like, human
emotions having a robotrepresentative.
And then I thought this is aseparate but still within the
same category.
Uh, the lapd has introduced anew member of their crime
fighting team, a robot dog namedspot.
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So spot is equipped withcameras and sensors and designed
to patrol the streets andassist officers in high-risk
situations.
Um, you know, sci-fi andreality is really becoming
blurrier every minute.
So if, if you're on myinstagram and you see me getting
arrested by a robot dog justyou you heard it here maybe you
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could like help post bail for meor something.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, it's true.
I mean, unfortunately, robotics, ai, those things are here to
stay, those aren't goinganywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I know.
So, yeah, interesting thing.
Now my last question for you iswould you be more embarrassed
or less embarrassed beingarrested by a robot, being like
pinned down by a robot?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I don't know I mean I guess I'd probably be
embarrassed either way, butprobably a little bit more that
the robot had to take me down,obviously Because that's going
to get unwanted viral views.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know, but hey, it might be good for us if it
happens for us.
If that happens to either of us, we've got to get some footage.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I'm going to go hey watch us on tvnetworkscom
okay.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The robot would turn away and run away.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, I do want to take a moment here,
unfortunately, you've heard ofJohn Amos, right?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
John Amos, who is known for a number of great
shows that he's been on.
Most famously he's been on GoodTimes.
He had appearances on FreshPrince of Bel-Air.
He was on Coming to America 1and 2.
He was also on Roots Die Hard 2, the Mary Tyler Moore Show and
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many, many other greatprogramming he had just passed
away.
Definitely he would be missed.
In fact, I really appreciateGood Times more as an adult than
I did as a child.
The reason being that, as anadult, I understand the messages
that was within that show andwhat they were teaching more
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than I did when I was growing up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Definitely growing up , definitely I think I went back
and watched some clips of himand I feel like he just had that
tv dad personality so wellwhere you know it was kind of no
nonsense but also at the sametime you could see that he had
heart and was loving um, and Imiss that.
I feel like we don't get a tonof that representation today and
you know we get a lot of likehomer simpsons and more of like
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one or the other types of dads.
But I feel like I could imaginetoo he would be for people
watching at home that didn'treally have like a father figure
.
I think it's like.
You know, you can'tunderestimate how much someone
like that affects someone whenthey're young and watching TV
and just seeing that is that'swonderful.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, the weird part about that story is I guess he
died actually about 45 days agoor so, which is really
interesting, and I don't knowhow true it is, but allegedly
his daughter found out when thepublic found out that he passed
away.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, like on TMZ, which I've heard from so many
situations that people don't TMZseems like they're on it within
seconds of you know them,knowing at least and I can't
imagine like finding out on TMZ.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, I really don't want anyone
to jump to conclusions becauseyou know family dynamics is very
, very, very intricate andwithout knowing details, I don't
think we should, you know,because some people will hear
that story and go well, whywasn't she there with her dad or
whatever?
You got to be careful becauseyou don't know what's going on
behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Right, yep, especially entertainment too.
We definitely don't know.
There's a lot of things andlaws and contracts and all that
stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Absolutely.
He definitely will be missedbecause he was definitely a
great person.
One fun fact I did not know Washe was married three times,
really.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Wow, get it.
What if every TV show he was onhe just found a new real life?
He's like okay, now I'm onroots, it's time to get a new
person.
I like that.
I can't wait to have my fifthhusband.
First, I need my first, but Isee it yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
From what I see, he has two children, male and a
female, son and a daughter, andthen he has a granddaughter and
I know I've seen some of thepictures of his son.
Oh my God, His son literallylooks just like him.
Really it's so scary.
I mean his facial features,mannerisms, I mean it was like
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scary.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Really.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I wonder if his son is in acting too.
I don't know.
I have to look that up too.
You know what I don't know?
That's a good question.
I have to look that up too.
You know what I don't know?
That's a good question.
Oh yeah, wow, they have suchgorgeous eyes.
They have gorgeous features.
Wow, their nose is exactly thesame.
The genetics run strong in thatfamily.
They look truly exactly thesame.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
They really do.
He literally looks like a youngversion of his dad.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, he really does John both of them, but John
stayed so handsome he really wasa handsome man yes, yes,
definitely was uh someone thatwill be missed way to stay
handsome rest in peace yeah, Idefinitely want to make sure I
did shout out to him for that.
So yeah, those were some goodshows too, like, I think, in
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terms of an actor's work andoverall portfolio, like rude
good times, like, as you said,those were impactful shows.
I feel like if I was an actor,you can't be more, uh, hoping
for something like that you, youknow, like a career with such
quality shows.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Okay, well, I'm going to bring it up for a moment
with some another celebrity inthe news recently Joshua the
Goat.
From one goat to another.
So in New Finland, canada, anunlikely marathon participant
made headlines a goat namedJoshua.
This is exactly like if I couldhave the news my way, every
single story would be a storyabout like an animal joining a
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marathon.
Joshua joined the Conception BaySouth 10 kilometer race
alongside human runners.
He came seemingly out ofnowhere and Joshua ran the full
distance.
Runners he came seemingly outof nowhere and Joshua ran the
full distance.
Not only did he cross thefinish line, but race organizers
awarded him a medal forcompleting the course.
And then, my favorite part everthe goat's owner who had no,
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who obviously said he had noclue that Joshua would take,
would take part said this isjust the kind of thing that this
goat does, so apparently he'svery like, you know, mischievous
, um.
And then people are mad becausethe marathon results won't show
joshua's name.
But you know, obviously he wonthe hearts of everyone but, I.
I think joshua should be in thelist of the runners.
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This is like I'm very upsetabout this, but I think that is
so cute, and if I was running amarathon and a goat joined me
like that is exactly what Iwould need for my extra energy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, that actually was pretty cool.
I saw, I saw videos of that anduh, I mean it can't help but to
put a smile on your face.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It really can and the owner just being like well,
that's Joshua.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That was definitely a fun one for the this week, and
actually here's another onethat's going to put a smile on
your face, our former president,jimmy Walker.
I'm sorry, jimmy Carter, sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh yeah, JJ.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Our former president, Jimmy Carter, just celebrated
his 100th birthday.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So he is not only the oldest living president, he's
the first president to ever youknow, make it to be in 100.
And I tip my hat off to him.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, I wonder.
Also too, he seems like he'shad a life full of pursuing
goals and like even you knowbecause they always ask the
secrets of people that make itto 100 and over and I feel like
he's a prime example of likestaying working, staying engaged
.
You know he's very likecivically busy all the time and
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I feel like that's you know, allthe habitat for humanity things
and I think that's pretty cool,oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And you know, I've always said this before is just
because you quote unquote.
Retired don't mean you sit downin front of a TV and just die.
That just means you just changethe direction of your life,
whether that be working atanother job, your own business,
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volunteering.
But retirement doesn't mean youjust sit and die because you
will die not doing anything, butit just means that you're just
in a different chapter of life.
Yes, and there's actually someinteresting facts.
Did you know that there are andthese actually shocked me
there's 101,000 Americans thatare age 100 and over.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Whoa, that's a lot, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And what's even crazier is they say that the
Centurion population is plannedto quadruple over the next 30
years.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Interesting because it seems like that's so funny.
I mean I guess that makes sense.
But to me it almost seems likesometimes, I mean I guess the
more people we have in generalis a bigger population, the more
obviously that are going tomake it to over a hundred.
But that's very interesting.
I feel like in this day and age, with all of our environmental
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toxins and stuff like that'sreally a big feat to make it to
a hundred and over.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Oh, yeah, I mean.
The thing is, when you look at,you know climate change, you
know basically what goes on inlife and unfortunately there is
the where you live there yeah,yeah a whole lot.
You know, whether you're in asuburban area, whether you're in
the inner city, whether you'rein the country you know that has
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to me.
I think that has a big, big um,a big part as far as how long
you're going to possibly live.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I wonder how me living in LA getting chased by a
robot police dog is doing formy overall longevity when I'm
like 93, if I'm still here, I'mjust going to like, surrender
myself to like a robot and justbe like, please like, pepper
spray me to death, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well, as long as it can't catch you, you know we're
good.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, exactly, but that's cool.
Good for Jimmy Carter.
I feel like that's, that'sawesome and I feel like that
also, once again, is inspiringfor people to see that type, to
see leaders making it in a long,in a elder age, but also making
it how you said it, in a waywhere you're not just like a
vegetable, you're, you're stillengaged and you know you're able
to do some fun things.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, cause he's been on hospice for over a year now.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh really.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Which is a long time.
So hopefully you know hecontinues to be with us sometime
, but I'm just hoping.
I think allegedly you know theywere saying that he hoped he'd
live long enough to cast hisvote.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Aw, that's so sweet.
Imagine like back in the daywhere they were like, wow,
george Washington lived to be 37.
We would have been doing a showand we're like this person made
it to 33.
Like how did you know?
How did they do that, with allthe dentistry problems?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That is so so true.
But yes, kudos to Formerpresident Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Well, completely opposite ofJimmy Carter Is Lana Del Rey.
I can't think of two peoplemore opposed on some things.
But so she recently got marriedto her husband, jeremy.
Pretty cool, you know, we allknow he's a Louisiana guy giving
boat tours alligator man To me.
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That doesn't surprise me and Ithink that's cool, and I also
understand like it seems likethe last thing Lana Del Rey
would want is to marry another,like like a Hollywood type.
I can't see her with a movieexecutive.
I'm sure she's dated a lot ofthose types of guys and so I
could see why she wantscompletely something different.
At her wedding, though, she wasupset because there were fans
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and paparazzi who were usingdrones to capture unauthorized
footage of their event, theirintimate event, and she said she
expressed that deeplydisappointed in the paparazzi
and in the fans, obviouslycalling the invasion of privacy
unacceptable.
They put efforts in to keep thewedding very low key and I
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don't know.
I just think that's reallyannoying and in the world where
everyone's trying to posteverything, like when people
aren't trying to do that, I feellike we need to respect it and
just setting up drones forsomeone that doesn't want them
is crazy, and I feel like you'renot a real fan if you're doing
that to someone.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I agree.
I mean, the thing is, ifthey're having it outside in a
public event, have at it, but ifthey go through the effort to
have a private venue and you'rehaving drones, to me that's
almost the equivalent of goingthrough someone's window.
They're purposely trying tokeep this a private event, which
they have every right to do.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And the other thing too you have to be careful about
too is sometimes people haveulterior motives when they do
stuff Like to sell to make money.
You know, the other thing tooyou have to be careful about too
is sometimes people haveulterior motives when they do
stuff Like to sell to make money, you mean yeah absolutely
Absolutely.
So no, I don't blame them, Iwould be pissed too.
And unfortunately the only wayto really beat that is either A
have it inside or B you knowhave it under a giant open tent
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where you know the sides areopen but the top is covered.
Yeah, you got to do that, butthat's probably the only way to
really kind of thwart that kindof effort from people.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yes, You're totally right.
It must be that they wantedmoney too, because I also, even
as a fan, like I don't reallycare about watching someone I
love, like a celebrity, getmarried that much where, like, I
need to see that footage.
You know, that's a weird thing,especially if you're not part
of the wedding.
I don't understand why you'dwant to see it.
So, yeah, it makes a lot ofsense that they probably want to
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get, like, the first photo or,you know, sell it to People
magazine, because those can runfor a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I mean, we're talking about six digits easily.
Yeah, so, but I think that'scool.
Do you have any thoughts thatlana's got married to like a
louisiana alligator tour man?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
well, you know what?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
that's a perfect example of opposites attract
yeah, yeah, and from what I'veheard from people like or you
know people, I've heard thathe's like charming and cool and
fun.
So it's like, yeah, whywouldn't she want that?
You know, like a man that is,he's probably really handy and
he's the fact that he canwrestle an alligator like that's
attractive.
That's true, that's true.
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You know, she's probably sickof like the Hollywood, like
weenie LA, like LA singer guysare just not it.
So, yeah, an alligator mansounds good.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Alicia isn't worried about him trying to hog the
camera time.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, yeah, but I hope he doesn't go very
Hollywood.
But I mean, the fact that he'smarrying her is pretty cool.
I think that's great.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That is so, so true.
We'll pray for that, becauseyou know that, unfortunately,
hollywood weddings don't lastvery long.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I know I really don't want to see a reality show next
week about them.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Don't give them any ideas now.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
No ideas.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Talk about ideas.
Did you get a chance to watchthe vice presidential debate
this week?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I did.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I did, you know.
I have to admit I was verysurprised at how sane it was Now
, regardless of whether a personlikes Waltz or whether you like
JD Vance, I was very pleasantlysurprised at how I can't
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believe we're saying this now,but how sane it was.
Yes, no one talked about eatingdogs and cats, killing babies
and all this other nonsense.
There was no disrespect in thename calling.
It was like a true debatetalking about politics.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yes, and we haven't seen that in like a really long
time, because I would even go asfar back to say, even like the
hillary and trump obviously, forI honestly think on both
accounts was like a little bitunhinged or you know it, just it
felt like a little bittheatrical.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So I feel like it's been a very, very long time
since we've had like a civildebate I agree, I agree, and you
, the interesting thing about itwas a lot of people kind of
were saying that Walt missed anopportunity to call out JD Vance
on.
You know, I was amazed at howcalm and relaxed he was and how
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sane he was, though he kind of,you know, lied through his teeth
on a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I know.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But I don't know, know, I kind of think that one
jd vance, did say out loud that,hey, he's not a great debater.
Um, I personally wouldn't havesaid that out loud me, that's
just me, but you know.
But he just said, hey, I'm nota great debater.
So, and um, I do understandwhere he was going, because you
want to fact check a little bit.
(29:16):
You don't want to spend allyour time fact checking because
then your message won't get out.
So I kind of understand thedirection he went yeah, I think
so too.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I think it was good.
I think both men showedhumility and a little bit more
of like that personal side thatboth parties deny that the other
side has, and I thought forWalsh too like, I think, side
that both parties deny that theother side has.
And then I thought for Walsh too.
I think everyone wants him.
The people on the other sidewant him to be hysterical and
overly emotional and that's someof the plans that these people
(29:48):
are going to come in and beoverly too liberal to whatever.
So I felt like he did a greatjob of just kind of staying
steady and grounded.
And then same thing, I think Jthink JD Vance is like the last
thing he needs is another catwoman type of comment, or you
know to be snarky or likearrogant.
So I thought I thought both ofthem seemed totally fine, like
(30:08):
you said, it just seemed likeobviously both of them have like
a level of intelligence andstayed clear-headed.
I mean, even on like liberalmedia I saw a lot of people
feeling like that that vance,like won it, but I mean, who
knows, that's just kind of Idon't know, I know sarah netlatt
had a field day with it yeah ohmy goodness and once again,
(30:31):
good for them.
I appreciate when they couldpoke fun at like both sides too.
You know, I really like thatbecause for a while there it was
a little weird, but yeah yeah,I mean to me.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Um, it was funny just because of the fact that both
of them were trying to be overlynice to each other yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It was kind of funny, though, when you looked at it,
because some people and it's sadto say this, but we're so used
to all the craziness in politicsthat a lot of people called it
a big boring, because you haveall that nonsense yeah, yes, yes
, and I think, like tim couldhave totally gone for the more
jugular, like making fun of hisstuff, but I like the route that
(31:11):
he went, which was just likelet's talk about the issues and
let's not personally drag eachother into this.
I thought it was cool, they,but they both remind me, though,
of like a guy throwing a partyand it's like it's kind of fake,
but it's kind of not.
You know, you arrive at theparty and you're like I think
you like me, but you may kill melater on, and I'm not quite
sure, as, like, down home andeverything as as well as people
(31:36):
to like get to this level inpolitics, there has to be a
little bit of Just fakery goingon, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
That is so true.
That is so true.
But of course that's over.
So now we're back to realitynow.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, we're back to reality, but I think that's how
it could be and should be sointeresting.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Very, I think they should switch.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It could be, and should be, so interesting, very,
I think they should switch itup and they should have, like
Vance, just like debate withNancy Pelosi or like you know,
they can just choose, like arandom roulette where they, like
all different members ofdifferent parties, are just
debating.
I think that would beinteresting, almost like a
what's it called?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
like a cage match or something that would be
interesting because certainpeople, the outcome will be much
, much differently.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, yeah, okay, ooh , okay, my president, if I could
choose one Mark Cuban I wouldhate to debate with Mark Cuban
because I feel like he would putme into a pulp because I love
him.
But anyway, mark Cuban, there'sa story that came out that said
he was in an interview.
(32:42):
He said that he once got drunkand bought a whole American
Airlines lifetime pass.
So basically, after selling hisfirst company which I could
just imagine how many millionsthat was for, because you know
now he's a billionaire, manymillions that was for, because
you know now he's a billionaireuh, cuban celebrated by calling
up american airlines anddropping 125 000 on a lifetime
flight pass, which that means hecould fly anywhere anytime for
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the rest of his life.
Um, but in terms of impulsebuys, I feel like that's a
extremely smart one because ifyou think especially him, like
he's, he's definitely racking.
I mean, right now he probablyhas a private plane and so he's
probably the one thing thatshocks me, though, is that's all
it cost I know lifetime,because then it's like, imagine
(33:27):
if you fly to like africa youknow, once a month, and like
ireland, and yeah, I mean wecould wrap it, rack that up and
like, and I wonder if that alsoincludes um first class, because
those you know, one flightalone could be like eleven
thousand dollars or so yeah,because I'm thinking like that's
all it cost him for a lifetimewell, but that was like a really
(33:49):
long time ago.
So that was selling his firstcompany, which I think was
probably in the 80s.
I had to guess or 80s orprobably 90s.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That would make, make sense, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
So that might be like a $600,000 now, which still, I
mean, if you're rich, rich justto do that.
But then you also have to likeI'm sure at a certain point Mark
doesn't want to A fly AmericanAirlines commercially and B he
like legit, I think, has his ownprivate jet.
So you think has his ownprivate jet.
He's probably just like oh, Ihave this lifetime pass if
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anyone wants to go on thisAmerican Airlines flight.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Yeah, that's one hell of an impulse buy, though I
know.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Let's do a little manifestation exercise.
Say, if you sold, you're notselling Elrond TV Network
anytime soon, but if you sold adifferent company because I know
you want to hold on to yourbaby for now.
But like, say, say you closedon a whole other company and you
made like millions andtrillions what would be one of
your first like impulse buys.
Besides, like a house or youknow, like, besides, like the
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normal, like house, car, youknow.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
You know, besides the normal stuff, like that, I
would say my first impulse buy.
My wife would probably getangry, but I would buy like 10
season passes.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
To the Bears, because I'm a big Bears fan.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
That way, you know, obviously I could go, but I
could always have people to comewith me.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That's cool, or, you know, maybe get one of the
skybox and own one myself yeah,and honestly, those types of
things are investment too,because you're, it's a good
investment, because it's likeyou're, you're definitely gonna
have a lot of future fun in it,and that's good networking too,
because you could bring peopleto those boxes and like those
are.
(35:34):
That's a.
I think that's a really smartinvestment for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
That's true.
That's true, and being that I'ma diehard Bears fan, I would
definitely make use of it.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
So what have you just bought?
The team I mean at this pointyou know what?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I would love to have enough money to buy the Bears,
because what's cool about owningthe team that you love is you
would kind of run it a littlebit differently where you still
want to at least break even.
But I wouldn't be so interestedin trying to make money, I just
want to build a killer teamthat you know, dynasty, you know
.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And, would you like, would you try to bring in other
players?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, um, depending on how the mix goes and who's
available but I probably wouldhave a little bit of say so and
how they put the roster together.
But from what I know about thekent and the caskies?
Uh, they're not selling anytimesoon, so yeah, see what about
(36:30):
you?
What's?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
you know I'm.
I was just looking now and likeanytime I get a little bit of
money, I buy stuff.
Like I have these like womenstatues, there's basically like
there's like these little ladiesthat I saw and I love them so
much, but like I feel like Idon't do well with extra money
because I'll just buy like nakedcherubic women in art form.
So I feel like any art, I feellike mine would be some
(36:59):
pretentious piece of art that Isaw at a gallery, because I feel
like already I tend to get alittle bit tipsy and like drink
champagne and then I'm always$1,000 away from just purchasing
like ridiculous, weird art.
So I think that would be mychoice.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Hey you know, what If that's what you like, just as
long as you don't go crazy andyou see this art.
We're starting to bid at$10,000.
I'll give you a million.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
It would be things like that.
I went to a.
There was an event, one of myfriends her name is Amy Berkman
and she's a wonderful, wonderfulspeed painter, so she speed
paints a lot of things.
And then she'll speed paintupside down and she'll flip it
around and it will be like theyou know wolves or elephants and
see, she makes a.
She raised a million dollarsfor charity.
That was her like one of hermissions and now she's raised
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that like several times over.
But she paints a lot for these,these big wig events where, like
animals that you know galas,where, like people will save the
elephants.
And I watch people like she hadsomeone buy her painting from
that show downtown Abby, and,and I watch people she had
someone buy her painting fromthat show Downtown Abby, and
like I just watch these very,very wealthy people be able to
just spend like $30,000 on apainting and it's almost funny
to them where they'll be able tolike match you know, like ha ha
(38:07):
, $50,000.
And I'm like whoa, that is soawesome, I think, to be able to
just do that like on a whim.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Oh yeah, definitely it's.
You know, it gets to the pointwhere you're just enjoying what
you're doing yeah, yeah she's.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
She's had auctions before where someone will bid
like eight thousand dollars,which is like I feel like what
she probably feels like that,what that painting is like worth
, you know, in a normal, likeretail setting and then someone
will just come in for the fun ofit and just like drive it up to
twenty20,000.
So I feel like I would be one ofthose people Like, if I could,
if I had my dream world, justfor fun, I'd be like laying on
the ground drunk, saying like$40,000.
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And then I'd have to come andask you for some more money.
I'd have to take it out of theBears money because I spent
everything.
Hey, well, you know what?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Hey, well, you know what?
As long as you enjoy whatyou're doing, that's a beautiful
thing.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah.
So I feel like Mark Cuban, ofcourse, had a good.
That was a good buy, because,you know, a lifetime flight pass
is just, I mean, why not?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Absolutely, absolutely, all righty.
Well, this one is a veryinteresting topic here.
As you are aware, and probablythe rest of the world by now,
the dock workers for the majorports along the east side of the
United States are on strike now.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Ooh.
This is what people werewarning about.
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yes.
So what's interesting is is andI think people should be
careful about passing judgment Iwas a little bit surprised at
how well they get paid, you know.
I think they start off likeeighty thousand dollars a year.
Some people are making like twohundred thousand dollars a year
.
So their contract renews everysix years and I guess they're
(39:54):
trying to get.
Originally they wanted a 70percent raise over I think five
or six years and I guess they'retrying to get.
Originally they wanted a 70%raise over I think five or six
years or something, so now it'sdown to 50%, which is still a
huge raise.
But I guess the sticking pointis the guarantee of not using
automation to replace workers.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I can't see how they're going to keep them from
not agreeing to that, oragreeing to it Cause, you know,
cause I could kind of see bothsides.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
So, like you know, I wonder if it's going to double
down, if that's almost going tobe like okay, thank you.
Now you're like so out of theout of it.
It Now we're going to likeright now, start using more
automated workers, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
And then the other thing too is, I guess the head
of the union allegedly is a bigTrump supporter, so a lot of
people are saying that this wasdone purposely to make Joe Biden
look bad.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I can see that this was done purposely to make Joe
Biden look bad.
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I'm really hoping that's not the case, but that
would be really shitty if it isthe case.
You know to play with people'slives, because now people are
like losing their effing mindsnow.
Now they're buying up all thetoilet tissue, buying up all the
paper towels and stocking up onmeats and stuff.
It's like, seriously, we'redoing this again, seriously
stocking up on meats and stuff.
It's like seriously, we'redoing this again.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Seriously.
I mean it's so funny becauseright when the pandemic started,
I heard a lot of these types ofthings where people were saying
are basically like the supplychain is going to get broken.
And you know, we saw a littlebit of that.
I feel like people all of mylike conspiracy slash prepper
community were like you know,you better stock up on
everything now because prettysoon like there's going to be no
(41:37):
vegetables, no meat, no eggs oranything, um, and it seems like
now this would be the time thatthat might happen.
But I I agree that like I don'tthink there's a reason to panic
by and to hoard.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Obviously that's like not nice and not smart for our,
your fellow human and I stillnever got an answer to okay,
even though I don't agree withit.
Okay, I can see some householditems.
I can even see meats.
Okay, I can see that.
What's with the toilet tissue?
I never figured that out.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Yeah, no, me neither.
It's like, what are you goingto be doing?
Like that's so weird.
And I had some friends thatwere like that bought into it.
They're like, okay, it's avirus and we don't have any sort
of like anti-cold medicine Athome, but we have reams and
reams Of paper towels.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
And then the scary part is, you know, when they
bought up all the cleaningsupplies and it's like I don't
know, I was thinking wow, we'rea nasty country, because
shouldn't you be cleaning allalone?
Yeah, you have to have nothing.
And it was the strangest time.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
I don't know I was thinking, wow, we're a nasty
country because shouldn't you becleaning all along?
Yeah, you have to have nothing.
It was the strangest time, andnow I feel like I mean, I've
been hearing this for a longlong coming up of, like just the
food chain and the supply chainthat it's going to get messed
up where they were like.
(42:56):
Well, now is the time to alsostart buying a little bit more
local and transitioning intomore of your local farmer's
markets and local, you know,because as long as, like for the
most part, we could beself-sustaining with our own
agriculture and everything Idon't know, I hope that this
this lends itself to like peoplediscovering a little bit more
about their community and likebuying things within a local
(43:16):
realm.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Oh yeah, and I think the other thing that it's going
to do is is putting a bigspotlight on.
You know, I understand thatwe're in a global economy and
some stuff has to be madeoutside of the United States,
but there's so many things thatdon't need to be.
It's just pure greed at thatpoint.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I know I think it's.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
What were you going to say?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Oh no, I was going to say.
And then like, for example,when we went through COVID and a
lot of the vehicles you know itwas really hard to get vehicles
because a lot of them basicallyuse parts from overseas, but
most of them was the same partand it's like seriously, you
guys didn't see that maybe thiscould be a problem one day.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I know, don't you feel like we're moving in a
direction where, especially withsome of the past articles we
talked about, with, like, thejob market already being wacky
and like, where, like, likeBoeing, workers are striking and
everyone?
I feel like we need a totaloverhaul of just the workforce
and like how we use humans astools.
(44:22):
And I don't know I really hopethis, like I don't know if we're
ready for that type of likerevolution.
You know, just like changingwhat work means, because that
would have to then change ourwhole economy, and like what
money means and wages andeverything.
But it seems like we're headedin a weird direction where, um,
a lot of humans can't be treatedlike robots.
When you know, when you'reworking for companies, like,
(44:44):
whether it's a dock worker or anairline worker, boeing people,
it's striking.
You know, like I know that'shappening in the industry a lot
here, even with, like, um,writers, guilds and animation
guilds and everyone's like.
You know it just feels likewe're all going through that now
.
But I wonder at what point willit like geyser up and have to
change the whole?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
foundation.
I think it's going in thatdirection now.
I remember when you first got ajob, and you know it takes
generally, depending on the job,anywhere from two to six months
to figure out.
(45:25):
Is it really as good as youthought or is it a bunch of BS?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
And you know back then, you know you didn't want
to jump, so you kind of tried tomake it work where the newer
generation is.
Once they figured out thateither a toxic environment that
I'm in and or they've been liedto through their teeth, they get
the hell out of there.
Yes, and you'll hear companiessay, oh, people don't want to
work.
No, they figured out yourbullshit.
(45:51):
That's why it's not that theydon't want to work, because if
you have a position, and thatposition literally has seven
people within, one year in thatposition.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
I don't think it's the employees, no, no, and
people want to work.
I feel like we're inherentlycreatures that want to, you know
, get up and work and like tillour soil, our soil and all that
kind of stuff.
But I think people don't wanttheir whole souls to be snuffed
out and basically to be takenaway by their job, and I think
it's like human consciousnessmore and more is that we're
wanting to do things that havepurpose and not be just like
(46:30):
workers doing things withabsolutely no purpose for the
corporation.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, um, I know one of thethe critiques that some people
have was well, president bidencan legally stop the um, uh, the
strike.
But I understand why he doesn't, you know right, because it's
really a labor issue between theworkers and, you know, between
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the workers union, you know, andthe different entities that run
that port.
So I can understand why he'snot getting involved and I think
he's doing the right thing bynot getting involved.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
I do too.
So yeah, we'll keep an eye onit, but in the meantime at home
we just have a normal amount oftoilet paper.
So next week may be a cry forhelp if we have nothing to use.
I just have a whole bunch ofindex cards.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Well, I know that I think they're starting to do
limitations in the stores, orthey will be.
So I hope they do that becauseI don't want to be in a store
and see this guy or this womanwith like 12 big, gigantic
bundles of paper towels andtoilet tissue.
You know, obviously people arekind of crazy so you can't say
anything, but in your mindyou're thinking are you really
serious?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I know, I know, and this is one of those I feel like
, as we go along, we should allhave a nice little stop.
Feel like, as we go along, weshould all nice little stop.
I I am guilty of like, if ahurricane hit tomorrow, we we
don't have a ton of like extrawater, extra canned food.
You know, like we kind of hadthose during the pandemic and
then I kind of got rid of all ofthem afterwards.
But like I think, uh, it's niceto like, as you go along, to
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just gather like what you thinkyou may need in an appropriate
emergency situation, but insteadof panicking and buying it like
this.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
That is true.
That is true.
I mean they say you should havewhat did they say?
I mean ideally 30 days, whichokay, most people are not going
to have that, but you know, atleast maybe a week or two worth
of food.
You know which is reasonable.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Right, yep.
Well, I have one more, but Ididn't know if I wanted Spoiler
alert.
It's about the wonderful DenzelWashington, but I don't know.
Did you want to do that,because I know you love him?
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Oh no, I'm going to let you do that.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Okay, okay.
Well, I saw this and I thoughtwe're a Denzel friendly show so
I wanted to include this one.
Denzel Washington, apparently,and Diddy apparently got into it
at a party and Denzel stormedout.
We've talked before about howwe like Denzel a lot, but
basically I guess Denzel was ata party and confronted Diddy
(49:05):
about like this is crazy andbasically screamed at him.
A few different people have afew different accounts of what
was actually said, but hestormed out and you know, as
more and more is coming to thesurface of like what celebrities
were involved in different waysat Diddy parties, it was good
to know that at least onceDenzel was there, but not part
(49:25):
of the madness.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Yeah, I mean.
The thing is, it doesn'tsurprise me that he was
initially there.
But one thing that I do likeabout Denzel is he stands by his
character, yeah, and he standsby his convictions, good or bad.
And you know, it alsohighlights something that most
people aren't talking about, andthat is, with all the horrible
(49:49):
things that that diddy allegedlydid.
There's a lot of people intinseltown that knew this.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
This wasn't this big secret no, he had lots of people
knew or like were there and Ibelieve some, I believe there
definitely was like that.
Not every party was a weirdfreak off.
You know, I feel like normallyI bet a lot of the parties were
just probably hollywood partiesand like maybe some drugs and
sexual stuff, whatever, but likeI don't think it got like weird
.
Weird until some of the likeafter parties or like side
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events, you know.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah, I mean I've heard some celebrities joke that
, yeah, you go to a dating party, you want to get out of there
before it gets dark.
Yeah, it was like wow, that's a.
I mean, this is before all thishappened.
You're like wow, that's a weirdstatement to make Totally.
But then it kind of like makessense.
And I remember Cat Williams gota lot of heat for an interview
(50:43):
he did with Shannon Shark wherehe had said that you know he,
what did he say?
He passed up $200 million toprotect his integrity and to
protect his whole oh my god, youknow you heard it and it's like
okay, you know, I don't knowman, you just kind of off on a
(51:05):
limb.
But now that same video poppingup, like oh, maybe he was
trying to tell us something youknow, yeah, I gave up 200
million to protect that virginhole.
And it's like and it's like youkind of look back like maybe he
was telling us something, youknow.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
I don't know.
Just the level of depravitythat you keep hearing.
It's like how much weird stuffdoes one person need?
And at one point we talked thatit becomes more about power
than it does about the actualacts itself.
But it's just like so bizarre.
It's just so weird to me.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, and then the new thing within the last day or
two there's a lawyer, I want tosay he's out of Texas at the
double check check, butsupposedly he's going to be
filing over a hundred differentlawsuits against Diddy from
people who said that you knowhe's abused them and and all
this and um, most of it's beenvideotaped, um men and women,
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and the most disturbing partabout this is supposedly 25 of
those people were underaged.
If this comes out and it's trueI can't see Diddy bouncing back
from this.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
No, me neither, definitely not.
Someone's going to get him,whether it's the legal system or
someone in a prison or someone.
Yeah, he's screwed.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Yeah, it's just legal system, or someone in a prison
or someone yeah, he's, he'sscrewed.
Yeah, it's just really kind ofsad, you know, especially
looking at it, you know, being aa creator myself, a person of
color trying to make it, whenyou see someone actually make it
to that plateau and fall sohard like that, and to me, I
think it makes it hard for thepeople behind them.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I'm wrong, but that's the way I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
No, you're right, You're definitely right.
That's why the Denzels of theworld are so good too People
that just have nowhere.
I think was it 50 Cent thatposted that thing.
He's like here's me, not at aDiddy party.
It's like a photo of him andsomeone else that was very not
Kelly Clarkson, but someone likethat where he's like here's me,
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and this person just walkingdown the street Notice that
we're not at a ditty party.
I'm like that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Yeah, and you know a good fun fact too Esther Rose,
who played Florida on Good Timesshe played James Evans' wife
Originally Good Times was notsupposed to have a father in the
house.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
Really.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
It was supposed to be ran by a single woman, you know
, and her thing was and I tippedmy hat off because at that time
she took a big risk she saidshe would not do it unless they
provide a father for her youknow, tv kids.
She would not have it whereit's a single family household.
That was a big risk back then,because they could have easily
(54:01):
done one of two things either areplaced her or b just say okay,
we'll, just won't do the showyes, yep, yeah, yeah, they could
have just been like okay, nextactress.
Thank you so she took a big risk, um, by standing her ground,
and you know it just comes toshow that you know, sometimes
you just have to have a stanceon what you believe and most of
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the time it works out.
Sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
You just have to be prepared regardless yeah, you
have to stand by your morals,because I think we always
underestimate how people arewatching us and like how our
actions.
I feel that way to those withsocial media too, even with just
interactions, where it's likeyou never know who's watching
and who's judging your character, and like seeing the little
interactions, I try to rememberthat all the time and like, you
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know, just to be kind and and Ithink, uh, yeah, it's crazy
times very crazy times.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
and you know, the crazy thing is, this is only a
portion of what I had on my list.
Yeah, it's crazy times, verycrazy times.
You know, the crazy thing is,this is only a portion of what I
had on my list.
We still had a full hour.
I know we did.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
The last thing I wanted to.
We won't even have to talkabout this, but I thought it was
so funny where there wasn'treally a lot to talk about but
there was some thing where itsaid, like Ellen reveals her
triple diagnosis and it soundedso serious.
And then it was like sherecently found out that she has
osteoporosis, like ADD, likestuff that, like all of us have.
I thought that was so funnybecause, like, whoever set up
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that headline totally knew whatthey were doing, because, you
know, it was very like ashocking thing to read.
And then it's's like Ellen hasosteoporosis attention deficit.
I'm like, give me a break.
Of course those things could beserious, but in the world, of
everything.
Speaker 1 (55:42):
Actually, ellen DeGeneres was one of the
subjects on my list that.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
I had to cut off.
There's so much with her.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
I may bring it up next week.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
It's a good one, Ellen Forever, is like in my
soul of who I love, as like justfrom a standup point of view,
and I you know, like I we havementioned this before too that
she, she's like one of mybiggest influences in standup,
but like not as a person thepast two decades, and you know
so not with her osteoporosis.
Well, Meryl, Her osteoporosis.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
Well, Meryl, what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Oh my gosh, you know, honestly, it's so funny.
This week I don't have anystand-up shows, but I write for
a publication called the LA Girland I feel like I asked to go
to some Halloween events and nowit is like the universe is
punishing me because I'm goingto every single Halloween event.
So, personally, I will just beat every haunted trail tricking
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and treating and trying to besomewhat scared still.
So, like last night I went to ahaunted trail, tomorrow I'm
going to the CBS lot for somelike haunted mansion and it's
almost like comical.
Now I'm at every Halloweenevent.
Speaker 1 (56:52):
Nice, nice.
Speaker 2 (56:54):
Now are you going to?
Speaker 1 (56:55):
be changing your costumes or are you just going
to wear the same costume?
No, now.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
I'm going just dressed in black with a good
attitude.
But even yesterday I'm like,okay, I'm scared again.
This was the ninth Halloweenevent I've done, and it's so
funny because I don't have kidsor anything, so I just go to
some of these alone, or I justdrag a friend who barely wants
to go there you go hey, go ahead, bring them all on with you,
(57:20):
right?
yeah, I almost, almost.
I didn't do it, but I almostreached out to some of my
friends with kids and said hey,do you want me to take your kit?
Like I have all these eventsthat I'm going to.
Do you want me to?
Like want me to lend your kidto me, but then I decided never
mind.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
Well, you just watch them.
So the cool thing is, you givethem back at the end of the
night.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
That's what I know.
I could do a couple hours.
If they give me $50 and onlyallow me two hours with their
child, it'll be fun for everyone.
Speaker 1 (57:49):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (57:51):
It's fun to be the Aunt Meryl that basically gets
to show up and leave.
Speaker 1 (57:56):
And what about you?
Actually, I've only beeninvited to one Halloween party
at a neighbor's house.
That's cool.
Yeah, we RSVP, so we'redefinitely going to go there.
Halloween parties are fun.
So it'll be a lot of fun.
I'm looking forward to it.
Haven't dressed up in a longtime, so it'll be kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (58:15):
Yeah, I kind of forward to it.
I haven't dressed up in a longtime, so it'll be kind of fun.
Yeah, I kind of want to beMudang.
I want to be a lady version ofMudang.
I mean she's a lady, butwhatever, A spiced up Mudang.
Speaker 1 (58:27):
My wife thinks I should dress up as a Chicago
Bear.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Yes, you totally should.
Speaker 1 (58:34):
I may do that.
That would be kind of fun to gothere.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
That would be awesome .
Speaker 1 (58:38):
In fact I teased her one year.
I said you know what I shoulddo?
I should dress up as a pimp.
She was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
I was like, no, it would be fun Because it would be
out of my character.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
She was like absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (58:56):
I.
I think a Chicago bear is wayless harming.
It would definitely turn heads,though, yeah that's true, so
funny.
Speaker 2 (59:01):
Well, this was great.
Speaker 1 (59:04):
Yes, it was, and we had a lot, a lot of fun.
And you know, just remember tosupport us, support Meryl by.
You know, if you happen to bein the California area where
she's doing any shows or anyappearances, make sure you go
out to support her and celebratewhat she does.
Also, support us withElrodTVNetworkcom.
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Again, I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
Bye everyone you.
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I am Meryl Clemo Lauren Selrod.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And I am Meryl Clemo.
Meryl, this has been oneincredible week, I kid you not.
I literally had about 20 itemsthat we could have talked about
today.
Really, it took me a while tokind of trim them down to five.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I'm always happy.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Maybe next week we could do like all 20 of them,
and it's like speed talking.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
We're like we just list them and then we rapid fire
our opinions on them in likenine seconds or less.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
That is so so true, but we got some goodies on here
though.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, do you want to go first?
I feel like I've been goingfirst the past couple times.
Sure, I'll go ahead and gofirst, yay.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm actually going to start off with a very
interesting topic here.
I'm actually going to start offwith a very interesting topic
here.
Across the United States, a lotof law enforcements have been
dealing with, you know, withshoplifting and the mass, you
know, rush shopping.
As you know, groups go in tosteal, so a lot of places are
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having police officers createspecial tasks for us and in some
cases even use a SWAT team tocome in after them.
Now I do commend them forwanting to do something about it
, but I guess my biggest issueis when you look at some of the
crime in some areas, especiallyviolent crimes, and they say
that, hey, we don't have theresources and stuff.
I just find it kind of hard toswallow that you can make
(01:52):
resources to go after things butnot people.
Yeah, maybe I'm being overlysensitive about it.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
about that.
I think that one day, when youcome, you and your family come
to LA, I'm going to show you thestores in Beverly Hills that
have like 30 police peoplestanding and guarding one Birkin
bag and like I feel like forevery store, I mean those are, I
think they're private policepeople.
Oh anyway, I mean those arelike the police people of
Beverly Hills, which is its ownmovie truly.
(02:23):
But I mean I think there's alot of things going on.
I feel like I know a lot ofpeople like are shoplifting in
bigger cities.
I know we talked about a fewweeks ago where now it's just
like, instead of persecutingpeople right off the bat,
they're just saying just like,please don't steal anything less
than 700 or 900.
You know, they're kind ofsetting their parameters.
So I feel like it's weird ingeneral that shoplifting has
(02:47):
become a little bit more likeacceptable.
But I also agree that to put somany resources into something
like that when there's obviouslybigger things at play in our
society is it's not good.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong.
I mean I'm not saying that, youknow, law enforcement should
ignore it.
I'm not saying that lawenforcement should ignore it.
I'm not saying that by no meanspossible.
But when you look at peoplethat have missing loved ones,
people that have unsolvedmurders and stuff like that.
It's kind of a hard pill toswallow when you see a SWAT team
go in to protect items in astore.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yes, definitely, absolutely, especially of like
people with domestic violence,or they just I've heard a lot of
times people will, if they geta restraining order and that
like falls through, then they'rejust living their life in
danger or someone will have togo back to a domestic violence
situation.
So, yeah, I get that.
I wonder and we'll get into.
This is just a peak of what'scoming soon, but if maybe
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they're going to start havingmore robot cops with shoplifting
, I feel like they should assignhuman cops to the real issues
and more technology to thingslike items.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
You know what a crazy thing Merrill is.
A year or two, I'd probablylaugh and be like, oh, I don't
think so.
But you know what, with AI androbotics and stuff like that,
especially the advancement oftechnology, it may be coming
faster than we think.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, I think so too.
I don't know if they have thiswhere you are, but I don't like
the look of now at CVSs andtargets, like everything has to
be locked up.
I feel like that's reallyannoying.
I don't know.
I feel like that's not great.
I mean, that's the onlysolution I can see now, but
that's weird, that that's theway we're moving now as a
society.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I remember when I went to visit my son in college
and this was the first time I'veever seen.
Now I've seen certain expensiveitems be locked up before.
Okay, I get that, but it wasthe first time I seen things
like toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah.
Dope and I'm sitting there likeseriously, I mean I've never
seen that before and it's likewow really yeah, like deodorant
things, that and like it's sucha pain to call the people over
to be like, hey, can I get thiscrest toothpaste?
But I think that says a lotabout A it's hard for people to
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afford those things, whichobviously we have empathy for
that too.
But B it's just as a society Iwish they should have more
access to.
If someone really needstoothpaste and they can't afford
it, I know we all agree and weall pay taxes on this kind of
stuff.
Anyway, afford it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I know we all agree and we all pay taxes on this
kind of stuff anyway.
Yeah, and you also kind ofwonder are they really saving
money?
Because you have to pay thatworker to come over, unlock it,
take it out, relock it and thenthat process goes on all day
long.
Now again for expensive items.
I could totally see that, butyou know, if you're talking
about some toothpaste that costsa couple bucks, you know you're
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probably paying more for him orher to take care of the
customer versus just leave itopen.
And I could be wrong, you know?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, Now how would you feel if you went to the
police academy and you alwaysdreamed of being a police person
and and then they told you,actually your job is you're
going to actually be at CVSguarding the paper towels.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I probably won't be a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No, I'd go into like dentistry or something else.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I mean, like I said, I'm not saying that you know,
let them go and everything, butthere's gotta be some common
sense to what we do there reallydoes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I know, I know, I know and I wonder if that's
also going to be retailers, Idon't know, Like not shutting
down.
But I mean we've seen a lot ofthose types of like the bigger
box stores closing down, Likethe Best Buys, the things where,
like, things are tangible thatpeople could take, and I wonder
if it's just going to get likesmaller and smaller as time goes
(06:45):
on.
But who knows?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It makes you wonder.
It does.
Well, I think we're probablygoing to hear about this again
later on.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I know, I know, but yeah, I agree, though I don't
think we need hundreds of peopleat like a local Target when
there's lots of other thingsthat need repair and fixing.
I feel that way about the likegetting stopped for a traffic
ticket, or getting stoppedespecially here in los angeles,
because there's like 800 otherthings happening on the street
that need attention, andsometimes when I get like a 42
(07:17):
parking ticket for being latefor a minute, I'm like there's
literally someone defecating,like like a drug needle to my
left.
So I'm going to please like Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I hear you on that one.
I definitely hear you.
Ooh, you got a fun one comingup.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I got a fun one.
Okay, I'm going to pick we'regoing to switch it up here
because I want to piggyback onwhat you just said.
I'm going to pick a differentone because we just talked about
robots.
One day and I think that's nottoo far off in the future where,
basically, a Texas man got in ashootout with a robot and a man
(07:53):
I don't know if you heard aboutthis.
This is crazy.
A man was arrested for engagingin a shootout with a
neighborhood robot.
That's right, you heard thatright.
The man, uh, frustrated by thepresence of a security robot and
he opened fire and then, in acrazy turn, the robot fought
back with pepper spray, leadingto the man's arrest.
So that was one thing.
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So the robot, like, pinned himdown on the ground and then,
ultimately, you know, um, andthis was a robot that was
controlled by an officer, butthey're saying that in the
future, pretty soon, they'regoing to be able to have robots
that, like, are able to go intoburning fires and obviously they
will be bulletproof and youknow all the normal restrictions
of, like police people in thepast.
(08:35):
Now we will have robots, which Idon't know how you feel about
this Like.
To me.
There's obviously good that cancome out of it, but it also
gets really scary becauseclearly, like, at one point it's
going to pin the wrong personor you know, we don't know how
far these robots will go.
What if it, like accidentally,you know, stomps someone and
kills them?
(08:55):
You know, we don't really know.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I mean in this scenario where there's a
physical human being controllingthe robot.
I'm actually okay with that fora number of reasons.
One you're right you don't wantthe robot making those
decisions, because that could bevery detrimental if they make a
mistake.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And then also what it does.
I think it protects the citizenthe criminal and the police
officer.
It protects the citizen thecriminal because that robot can
do things that human can't do.
In other words, they can walkup on you while you're shooting.
Yeah, you're not going to hurtthem, and you know, being pepper
sprayed versus being shot withbullets.
(09:34):
I will take this pepper sprayany day of the week, true.
And then for the police officer, they're not in harm's way.
So you know what Kudos to him,I think, to them, I think that's
a great application for it.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, okay, it's so interesting and this is like a
whole other.
I feel like we need hours totalk about this, but I would
wonder the psychology of policeI mean, we don't have to get
into like a whole policebrutality thing but I wonder,
like if using a robot would helppolice people not be so like to
get their own emotions andanger into it and if, like,
(10:09):
something like that would be alittle bit of a barrier to just
doing your job and not havingsome of the you know, obviously
very upsetting things that havehappened in the past couple
years where, like, it does gotoo far and people's emotions
get wrapped into, like you know,what should just be a normal
arrest, um, or I wonder ifhaving a robot will almost make
(10:31):
the bad people even worse andyou know, make like have them
carry out something that theiranger, um, if it could trigger
it worse.
So I guess time will tell,basically, in how people use
their robots which is, I wouldsay, but you know what I mean.
I know I might be jumbling mysentiment, but I feel like it
could either be good, because itcould be like oh, I'm not
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laying hands on this person, I'mcontrolling something that is
versus.
Um, now I have this likemachinery that could do even
more damage I mean you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean it doesn't take away the fact that you have
to make sure that the officerhas the right mindset doing it.
Yeah, because you're right.
The wrong officer controlling arobot can do far more damage
than just a normal person could.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Exactly.
I guess it would probably belike a case-by-case basis, but
that would be an interestinglike psychology study to do,
basically, and how, uh, how itworks out with, like, human
emotions having a robotrepresentative.
And then I thought this is aseparate but still within the
same category.
Uh, the lapd has introduced anew member of their crime
fighting team, a robot dog namedspot.
(11:40):
So spot is equipped withcameras and sensors and designed
to patrol the streets andassist officers in high-risk
situations.
Um, you know, sci-fi andreality is really becoming
blurrier every minute.
So if, if you're on myinstagram and you see me getting
arrested by a robot dog justyou you heard it here maybe you
(12:00):
could like help post bail for meor something.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, it's true.
I mean, unfortunately, robotics, ai, those things are here to
stay, those aren't goinganywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I know.
So, yeah, interesting thing.
Now my last question for you iswould you be more embarrassed
or less embarrassed beingarrested by a robot, being like
pinned down by a robot?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I don't know I mean I guess I'd probably be
embarrassed either way, butprobably a little bit more that
the robot had to take me down,obviously Because that's going
to get unwanted viral views.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know, but hey, it might be good for us if it
happens for us.
If that happens to either of us, we've got to get some footage.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I'm going to go hey watch us on tvnetworkscom
okay.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The robot would turn away and run away.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, I do want to take a moment here,
unfortunately, you've heard ofJohn Amos, right?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
John Amos, who is known for a number of great
shows that he's been on.
Most famously he's been on GoodTimes.
He had appearances on FreshPrince of Bel-Air.
He was on Coming to America 1and 2.
He was also on Roots Die Hard 2, the Mary Tyler Moore Show and
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many, many other greatprogramming he had just passed
away.
Definitely he would be missed.
In fact, I really appreciateGood Times more as an adult than
I did as a child.
The reason being that, as anadult, I understand the messages
that was within that show andwhat they were teaching more
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than I did when I was growing up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Definitely growing up , definitely I think I went back
and watched some clips of himand I feel like he just had that
tv dad personality so wellwhere you know it was kind of no
nonsense but also at the sametime you could see that he had
heart and was loving um, and Imiss that.
I feel like we don't get a tonof that representation today and
you know we get a lot of likehomer simpsons and more of like
(14:25):
one or the other types of dads.
But I feel like I could imaginetoo he would be for people
watching at home that didn'treally have like a father figure
.
I think it's like.
You know, you can'tunderestimate how much someone
like that affects someone whenthey're young and watching TV
and just seeing that is that'swonderful.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, the weird part about that story is I guess he
died actually about 45 days agoor so, which is really
interesting, and I don't knowhow true it is, but allegedly
his daughter found out when thepublic found out that he passed
away.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, like on TMZ, which I've heard from so many
situations that people don't TMZseems like they're on it within
seconds of you know them,knowing at least and I can't
imagine like finding out on TMZ.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, I really don't want anyone
to jump to conclusions becauseyou know family dynamics is very
, very, very intricate andwithout knowing details, I don't
think we should, you know,because some people will hear
that story and go well, whywasn't she there with her dad or
whatever?
You got to be careful becauseyou don't know what's going on
behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Right, yep, especially entertainment too.
We definitely don't know.
There's a lot of things andlaws and contracts and all that
stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Absolutely.
He definitely will be missedbecause he was definitely a
great person.
One fun fact I did not know Washe was married three times,
really.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Wow, get it.
What if every TV show he was onhe just found a new real life?
He's like okay, now I'm onroots, it's time to get a new
person.
I like that.
I can't wait to have my fifthhusband.
First, I need my first, but Isee it yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
From what I see, he has two children, male and a
female, son and a daughter, andthen he has a granddaughter and
I know I've seen some of thepictures of his son.
Oh my God, His son literallylooks just like him.
Really it's so scary.
I mean his facial features,mannerisms, I mean it was like
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scary.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Really.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I wonder if his son is in acting too.
I don't know.
I have to look that up too.
You know what I don't know?
That's a good question.
I have to look that up too.
You know what I don't know?
That's a good question.
Oh yeah, wow, they have suchgorgeous eyes.
They have gorgeous features.
Wow, their nose is exactly thesame.
The genetics run strong in thatfamily.
They look truly exactly thesame.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
They really do.
He literally looks like a youngversion of his dad.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, he really does John both of them, but John
stayed so handsome he really wasa handsome man yes, yes,
definitely was uh someone thatwill be missed way to stay
handsome rest in peace yeah, Idefinitely want to make sure I
did shout out to him for that.
So yeah, those were some goodshows too, like, I think, in
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terms of an actor's work andoverall portfolio, like rude
good times, like, as you said,those were impactful shows.
I feel like if I was an actor,you can't be more, uh, hoping
for something like that you, youknow, like a career with such
quality shows.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Okay, well, I'm going to bring it up for a moment
with some another celebrity inthe news recently Joshua the
Goat.
From one goat to another.
So in New Finland, canada, anunlikely marathon participant
made headlines a goat namedJoshua.
This is exactly like if I couldhave the news my way, every
single story would be a storyabout like an animal joining a
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marathon.
Joshua joined the Conception BaySouth 10 kilometer race
alongside human runners.
He came seemingly out ofnowhere and Joshua ran the full
distance.
Runners he came seemingly outof nowhere and Joshua ran the
full distance.
Not only did he cross thefinish line, but race organizers
awarded him a medal forcompleting the course.
And then, my favorite part everthe goat's owner who had no,
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who obviously said he had noclue that Joshua would take,
would take part said this isjust the kind of thing that this
goat does, so apparently he'svery like, you know, mischievous
, um.
And then people are mad becausethe marathon results won't show
joshua's name.
But you know, obviously he wonthe hearts of everyone but, I.
I think joshua should be in thelist of the runners.
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This is like I'm very upsetabout this, but I think that is
so cute, and if I was running amarathon and a goat joined me
like that is exactly what Iwould need for my extra energy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, that actually was pretty cool.
I saw, I saw videos of that anduh, I mean it can't help but to
put a smile on your face.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It really can and the owner just being like well,
that's Joshua.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That was definitely a fun one for the this week, and
actually here's another onethat's going to put a smile on
your face, our former president,jimmy Walker.
I'm sorry, jimmy Carter, sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh yeah, JJ.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Our former president, Jimmy Carter, just celebrated
his 100th birthday.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So he is not only the oldest living president, he's
the first president to ever youknow, make it to be in 100.
And I tip my hat off to him.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, I wonder.
Also too, he seems like he'shad a life full of pursuing
goals and like even you knowbecause they always ask the
secrets of people that make itto 100 and over and I feel like
he's a prime example of likestaying working, staying engaged
.
You know he's very likecivically busy all the time and
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I feel like that's you know, allthe habitat for humanity things
and I think that's pretty cool,oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And you know, I've always said this before is just
because you quote unquote.
Retired don't mean you sit downin front of a TV and just die.
That just means you just changethe direction of your life,
whether that be working atanother job, your own business,
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volunteering.
But retirement doesn't mean youjust sit and die because you
will die not doing anything, butit just means that you're just
in a different chapter of life.
Yes, and there's actually someinteresting facts.
Did you know that there are andthese actually shocked me
there's 101,000 Americans thatare age 100 and over.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Whoa, that's a lot, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And what's even crazier is they say that the
Centurion population is plannedto quadruple over the next 30
years.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Interesting because it seems like that's so funny.
I mean I guess that makes sense.
But to me it almost seems likesometimes, I mean I guess the
more people we have in generalis a bigger population, the more
obviously that are going tomake it to over a hundred.
But that's very interesting.
I feel like in this day and age, with all of our environmental
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toxins and stuff like that'sreally a big feat to make it to
a hundred and over.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Oh, yeah, I mean.
The thing is, when you look at,you know climate change, you
know basically what goes on inlife and unfortunately there is
the where you live there yeah,yeah a whole lot.
You know, whether you're in asuburban area, whether you're in
the inner city, whether you'rein the country you know that has
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to me.
I think that has a big, big um,a big part as far as how long
you're going to possibly live.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I wonder how me living in LA getting chased by a
robot police dog is doing formy overall longevity when I'm
like 93, if I'm still here, I'mjust going to like, surrender
myself to like a robot and justbe like, please like, pepper
spray me to death, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well, as long as it can't catch you, you know we're
good.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, exactly, but that's cool.
Good for Jimmy Carter.
I feel like that's, that'sawesome and I feel like that
also, once again, is inspiringfor people to see that type, to
see leaders making it in a long,in a elder age, but also making
it how you said it, in a waywhere you're not just like a
vegetable, you're, you're stillengaged and you know you're able
to do some fun things.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, cause he's been on hospice for over a year now.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh really.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Which is a long time.
So hopefully you know hecontinues to be with us sometime
, but I'm just hoping.
I think allegedly you know theywere saying that he hoped he'd
live long enough to cast hisvote.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Aw, that's so sweet.
Imagine like back in the daywhere they were like, wow,
george Washington lived to be 37.
We would have been doing a showand we're like this person made
it to 33.
Like how did you know?
How did they do that, with allthe dentistry problems?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That is so so true.
But yes, kudos to Formerpresident Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Well, completely opposite ofJimmy Carter Is Lana Del Rey.
I can't think of two peoplemore opposed on some things.
But so she recently got marriedto her husband, jeremy.
Pretty cool, you know, we allknow he's a Louisiana guy giving
boat tours alligator man To me.
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That doesn't surprise me and Ithink that's cool, and I also
understand like it seems likethe last thing Lana Del Rey
would want is to marry another,like like a Hollywood type.
I can't see her with a movieexecutive.
I'm sure she's dated a lot ofthose types of guys and so I
could see why she wantscompletely something different.
At her wedding, though, she wasupset because there were fans
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and paparazzi who were usingdrones to capture unauthorized
footage of their event, theirintimate event, and she said she
expressed that deeplydisappointed in the paparazzi
and in the fans, obviouslycalling the invasion of privacy
unacceptable.
They put efforts in to keep thewedding very low key and I
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don't know.
I just think that's reallyannoying and in the world where
everyone's trying to posteverything, like when people
aren't trying to do that, I feellike we need to respect it and
just setting up drones forsomeone that doesn't want them
is crazy, and I feel like you'renot a real fan if you're doing
that to someone.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I agree.
I mean, the thing is, ifthey're having it outside in a
public event, have at it, but ifthey go through the effort to
have a private venue and you'rehaving drones, to me that's
almost the equivalent of goingthrough someone's window.
They're purposely trying tokeep this a private event, which
they have every right to do.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And the other thing too you have to be careful about
too is sometimes people haveulterior motives when they do
stuff Like to sell to make money.
You know, the other thing tooyou have to be careful about too
is sometimes people haveulterior motives when they do
stuff Like to sell to make money, you mean yeah absolutely
Absolutely.
So no, I don't blame them, Iwould be pissed too.
And unfortunately the only wayto really beat that is either A
have it inside or B you knowhave it under a giant open tent
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where you know the sides areopen but the top is covered.
Yeah, you got to do that, butthat's probably the only way to
really kind of thwart that kindof effort from people.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yes, You're totally right.
It must be that they wantedmoney too, because I also, even
as a fan, like I don't reallycare about watching someone I
love, like a celebrity, getmarried that much where, like, I
need to see that footage.
You know, that's a weird thing,especially if you're not part
of the wedding.
I don't understand why you'dwant to see it.
So, yeah, it makes a lot ofsense that they probably want to
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get, like, the first photo or,you know, sell it to People
magazine, because those can runfor a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I mean, we're talking about six digits easily.
Yeah, so, but I think that'scool.
Do you have any thoughts thatlana's got married to like a
louisiana alligator tour man?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
well, you know what?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
that's a perfect example of opposites attract
yeah, yeah, and from what I'veheard from people like or you
know people, I've heard thathe's like charming and cool and
fun.
So it's like, yeah, whywouldn't she want that?
You know, like a man that is,he's probably really handy and
he's the fact that he canwrestle an alligator like that's
attractive.
That's true, that's true.
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You know, she's probably sickof like the Hollywood, like
weenie LA, like LA singer guysare just not it.
So, yeah, an alligator mansounds good.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Alicia isn't worried about him trying to hog the
camera time.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, yeah, but I hope he doesn't go very
Hollywood.
But I mean, the fact that he'smarrying her is pretty cool.
I think that's great.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That is so, so true.
We'll pray for that, becauseyou know that, unfortunately,
hollywood weddings don't lastvery long.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I know I really don't want to see a reality show next
week about them.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Don't give them any ideas now.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
No ideas.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Talk about ideas.
Did you get a chance to watchthe vice presidential debate
this week?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I did.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I did, you know.
I have to admit I was verysurprised at how sane it was Now
, regardless of whether a personlikes Waltz or whether you like
JD Vance, I was very pleasantlysurprised at how I can't
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believe we're saying this now,but how sane it was.
Yes, no one talked about eatingdogs and cats, killing babies
and all this other nonsense.
There was no disrespect in thename calling.
It was like a true debatetalking about politics.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yes, and we haven't seen that in like a really long
time, because I would even go asfar back to say, even like the
hillary and trump obviously, forI honestly think on both
accounts was like a little bitunhinged or you know it, just it
felt like a little bittheatrical.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So I feel like it's been a very, very long time
since we've had like a civildebate I agree, I agree, and you
, the interesting thing about itwas a lot of people kind of
were saying that Walt missed anopportunity to call out JD Vance
on.
You know, I was amazed at howcalm and relaxed he was and how
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sane he was, though he kind of,you know, lied through his teeth
on a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I know.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
But I don't know, know, I kind of think that one
jd vance, did say out loud that,hey, he's not a great debater.
Um, I personally wouldn't havesaid that out loud me, that's
just me, but you know.
But he just said, hey, I'm nota great debater.
So, and um, I do understandwhere he was going, because you
want to fact check a little bit.
(29:16):
You don't want to spend allyour time fact checking because
then your message won't get out.
So I kind of understand thedirection he went yeah, I think
so too.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I think it was good.
I think both men showedhumility and a little bit more
of like that personal side thatboth parties deny that the other
side has, and I thought forWalsh too like, I think, side
that both parties deny that theother side has.
And then I thought for Walsh too.
I think everyone wants him.
The people on the other sidewant him to be hysterical and
overly emotional and that's someof the plans that these people
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are going to come in and beoverly too liberal to whatever.
So I felt like he did a greatjob of just kind of staying
steady and grounded.
And then same thing, I think Jthink JD Vance is like the last
thing he needs is another catwoman type of comment, or you
know to be snarky or likearrogant.
So I thought I thought both ofthem seemed totally fine, like
(30:08):
you said, it just seemed likeobviously both of them have like
a level of intelligence andstayed clear-headed.
I mean, even on like liberalmedia I saw a lot of people
feeling like that that vance,like won it, but I mean, who
knows, that's just kind of Idon't know, I know sarah netlatt
had a field day with it yeah ohmy goodness and once again,
(30:31):
good for them.
I appreciate when they couldpoke fun at like both sides too.
You know, I really like thatbecause for a while there it was
a little weird, but yeah yeah,I mean to me.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Um, it was funny just because of the fact that both
of them were trying to be overlynice to each other yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It was kind of funny, though, when you looked at it,
because some people and it's sadto say this, but we're so used
to all the craziness in politicsthat a lot of people called it
a big boring, because you haveall that nonsense yeah, yes, yes
, and I think, like tim couldhave totally gone for the more
jugular, like making fun of hisstuff, but I like the route that
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he went, which was just likelet's talk about the issues and
let's not personally drag eachother into this.
I thought it was cool, they,but they both remind me, though,
of like a guy throwing a partyand it's like it's kind of fake,
but it's kind of not.
You know, you arrive at theparty and you're like I think
you like me, but you may kill melater on, and I'm not quite
sure, as, like, down home andeverything as as well as people
(31:36):
to like get to this level inpolitics, there has to be a
little bit of Just fakery goingon, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
That is so true.
That is so true.
But of course that's over.
So now we're back to realitynow.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, we're back to reality, but I think that's how
it could be and should be sointeresting.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Very, I think they should switch.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It could be, and should be, so interesting, very,
I think they should switch itup and they should have, like
Vance, just like debate withNancy Pelosi or like you know,
they can just choose, like arandom roulette where they, like
all different members ofdifferent parties, are just
debating.
I think that would beinteresting, almost like a
what's it called?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
like a cage match or something that would be
interesting because certainpeople, the outcome will be much
, much differently.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, yeah, okay, ooh , okay, my president, if I could
choose one Mark Cuban I wouldhate to debate with Mark Cuban
because I feel like he would putme into a pulp because I love
him.
But anyway, mark Cuban, there'sa story that came out that said
he was in an interview.
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He said that he once got drunkand bought a whole American
Airlines lifetime pass.
So basically, after selling hisfirst company which I could
just imagine how many millionsthat was for, because you know
now he's a billionaire, manymillions that was for, because
you know now he's a billionaireuh, cuban celebrated by calling
up american airlines anddropping 125 000 on a lifetime
flight pass, which that means hecould fly anywhere anytime for
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the rest of his life.
Um, but in terms of impulsebuys, I feel like that's a
extremely smart one because ifyou think especially him, like
he's, he's definitely racking.
I mean, right now he probablyhas a private plane and so he's
probably the one thing thatshocks me, though, is that's all
it cost I know lifetime,because then it's like, imagine
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if you fly to like africa youknow, once a month, and like
ireland, and yeah, I mean wecould wrap it, rack that up and
like, and I wonder if that alsoincludes um first class, because
those you know, one flightalone could be like eleven
thousand dollars or so yeah,because I'm thinking like that's
all it cost him for a lifetimewell, but that was like a really
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long time ago.
So that was selling his firstcompany, which I think was
probably in the 80s.
I had to guess or 80s orprobably 90s.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That would make, make sense, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
So that might be like a $600,000 now, which still, I
mean, if you're rich, rich justto do that.
But then you also have to likeI'm sure at a certain point Mark
doesn't want to A fly AmericanAirlines commercially and B he
like legit, I think, has his ownprivate jet.
So you think has his ownprivate jet.
He's probably just like oh, Ihave this lifetime pass if
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anyone wants to go on thisAmerican Airlines flight.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Yeah, that's one hell of an impulse buy, though I
know.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Let's do a little manifestation exercise.
Say, if you sold, you're notselling Elrond TV Network
anytime soon, but if you sold adifferent company because I know
you want to hold on to yourbaby for now.
But like, say, say you closedon a whole other company and you
made like millions andtrillions what would be one of
your first like impulse buys.
Besides, like a house or youknow, like, besides, like the
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normal, like house, car, youknow.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
You know, besides the normal stuff, like that, I
would say my first impulse buy.
My wife would probably getangry, but I would buy like 10
season passes.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
To the Bears, because I'm a big Bears fan.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
That way, you know, obviously I could go, but I
could always have people to comewith me.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That's cool, or, you know, maybe get one of the
skybox and own one myself yeah,and honestly, those types of
things are investment too,because you're, it's a good
investment, because it's likeyou're, you're definitely gonna
have a lot of future fun in it,and that's good networking too,
because you could bring peopleto those boxes and like those
are.
(35:34):
That's a.
I think that's a really smartinvestment for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
That's true.
That's true, and being that I'ma diehard Bears fan, I would
definitely make use of it.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
So what have you just bought?
The team I mean at this pointyou know what?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I would love to have enough money to buy the Bears,
because what's cool about owningthe team that you love is you
would kind of run it a littlebit differently where you still
want to at least break even.
But I wouldn't be so interestedin trying to make money, I just
want to build a killer teamthat you know, dynasty, you know
.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And, would you like, would you try to bring in other
players?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, um, depending on how the mix goes and who's
available but I probably wouldhave a little bit of say so and
how they put the roster together.
But from what I know about thekent and the caskies?
Uh, they're not selling anytimesoon, so yeah, see what about
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you?
What's?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
you know I'm.
I was just looking now and likeanytime I get a little bit of
money, I buy stuff.
Like I have these like womenstatues, there's basically like
there's like these little ladiesthat I saw and I love them so
much, but like I feel like Idon't do well with extra money
because I'll just buy like nakedcherubic women in art form.
So I feel like any art, I feellike mine would be some
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pretentious piece of art that Isaw at a gallery, because I feel
like already I tend to get alittle bit tipsy and like drink
champagne and then I'm always$1,000 away from just purchasing
like ridiculous, weird art.
So I think that would be mychoice.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Hey you know, what If that's what you like, just as
long as you don't go crazy andyou see this art.
We're starting to bid at$10,000.
I'll give you a million.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
It would be things like that.
I went to a.
There was an event, one of myfriends her name is Amy Berkman
and she's a wonderful, wonderfulspeed painter, so she speed
paints a lot of things.
And then she'll speed paintupside down and she'll flip it
around and it will be like theyou know wolves or elephants and
see, she makes a.
She raised a million dollarsfor charity.
That was her like one of hermissions and now she's raised
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that like several times over.
But she paints a lot for these,these big wig events where, like
animals that you know galas,where, like people will save the
elephants.
And I watch people like she hadsomeone buy her painting from
that show downtown Abby, and,and I watch people she had
someone buy her painting fromthat show Downtown Abby, and
like I just watch these very,very wealthy people be able to
just spend like $30,000 on apainting and it's almost funny
to them where they'll be able tolike match you know, like ha ha
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, $50,000.
And I'm like whoa, that is soawesome, I think, to be able to
just do that like on a whim.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Oh yeah, definitely it's.
You know, it gets to the pointwhere you're just enjoying what
you're doing yeah, yeah she's.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
She's had auctions before where someone will bid
like eight thousand dollars,which is like I feel like what
she probably feels like that,what that painting is like worth
, you know, in a normal, likeretail setting and then someone
will just come in for the fun ofit and just like drive it up to
twenty20,000.
So I feel like I would be one ofthose people Like, if I could,
if I had my dream world, justfor fun, I'd be like laying on
the ground drunk, saying like$40,000.
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And then I'd have to come andask you for some more money.
I'd have to take it out of theBears money because I spent
everything.
Hey, well, you know what?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Hey, well, you know what?
As long as you enjoy whatyou're doing, that's a beautiful
thing.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah.
So I feel like Mark Cuban, ofcourse, had a good.
That was a good buy, because,you know, a lifetime flight pass
is just, I mean, why not?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Absolutely, absolutely, all righty.
Well, this one is a veryinteresting topic here.
As you are aware, and probablythe rest of the world by now,
the dock workers for the majorports along the east side of the
United States are on strike now.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Ooh.
This is what people werewarning about.
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yes.
So what's interesting is is andI think people should be
careful about passing judgment Iwas a little bit surprised at
how well they get paid, you know.
I think they start off likeeighty thousand dollars a year.
Some people are making like twohundred thousand dollars a year
.
So their contract renews everysix years and I guess they're
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trying to get.
Originally they wanted a 70percent raise over I think five
or six years and I guess they'retrying to get.
Originally they wanted a 70%raise over I think five or six
years or something, so now it'sdown to 50%, which is still a
huge raise.
But I guess the sticking pointis the guarantee of not using
automation to replace workers.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I can't see how they're going to keep them from
not agreeing to that, oragreeing to it Cause, you know,
cause I could kind of see bothsides.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
So, like you know, I wonder if it's going to double
down, if that's almost going tobe like okay, thank you.
Now you're like so out of theout of it.
It Now we're going to likeright now, start using more
automated workers, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
And then the other thing too is, I guess the head
of the union allegedly is a bigTrump supporter, so a lot of
people are saying that this wasdone purposely to make Joe Biden
look bad.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I can see that this was done purposely to make Joe
Biden look bad.
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I'm really hoping that's not the case, but that
would be really shitty if it isthe case.
You know to play with people'slives, because now people are
like losing their effing mindsnow.
Now they're buying up all thetoilet tissue, buying up all the
paper towels and stocking up onmeats and stuff.
It's like, seriously, we'redoing this again, seriously
stocking up on meats and stuff.
It's like seriously, we'redoing this again.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Seriously.
I mean it's so funny becauseright when the pandemic started,
I heard a lot of these types ofthings where people were saying
are basically like the supplychain is going to get broken.
And you know, we saw a littlebit of that.
I feel like people all of mylike conspiracy slash prepper
community were like you know,you better stock up on
everything now because prettysoon like there's going to be no
(41:37):
vegetables, no meat, no eggs oranything, um, and it seems like
now this would be the time thatthat might happen.
But I I agree that like I don'tthink there's a reason to panic
by and to hoard.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Obviously that's like not nice and not smart for our,
your fellow human and I stillnever got an answer to okay,
even though I don't agree withit.
Okay, I can see some householditems.
I can even see meats.
Okay, I can see that.
What's with the toilet tissue?
I never figured that out.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Yeah, no, me neither.
It's like, what are you goingto be doing?
Like that's so weird.
And I had some friends thatwere like that bought into it.
They're like, okay, it's avirus and we don't have any sort
of like anti-cold medicine Athome, but we have reams and
reams Of paper towels.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
And then the scary part is, you know, when they
bought up all the cleaningsupplies and it's like I don't
know, I was thinking wow, we'rea nasty country, because
shouldn't you be cleaning allalone?
Yeah, you have to have nothing.
And it was the strangest time.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
I don't know I was thinking, wow, we're a nasty
country because shouldn't you becleaning all along?
Yeah, you have to have nothing.
It was the strangest time, andnow I feel like I mean, I've
been hearing this for a longlong coming up of, like just the
food chain and the supply chainthat it's going to get messed
up where they were like.
(42:56):
Well, now is the time to alsostart buying a little bit more
local and transitioning intomore of your local farmer's
markets and local, you know,because as long as, like for the
most part, we could beself-sustaining with our own
agriculture and everything Idon't know, I hope that this
this lends itself to like peoplediscovering a little bit more
about their community and likebuying things within a local
(43:16):
realm.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Oh yeah, and I think the other thing that it's going
to do is is putting a bigspotlight on.
You know, I understand thatwe're in a global economy and
some stuff has to be madeoutside of the United States,
but there's so many things thatdon't need to be.
It's just pure greed at thatpoint.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I know I think it's.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
What were you going to say?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Oh no, I was going to say.
And then like, for example,when we went through COVID and a
lot of the vehicles you know itwas really hard to get vehicles
because a lot of them basicallyuse parts from overseas, but
most of them was the same partand it's like seriously, you
guys didn't see that maybe thiscould be a problem one day.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I know, don't you feel like we're moving in a
direction where, especially withsome of the past articles we
talked about, with, like, thejob market already being wacky
and like, where, like, likeBoeing, workers are striking and
everyone?
I feel like we need a totaloverhaul of just the workforce
and like how we use humans astools.
(44:22):
And I don't know I really hopethis, like I don't know if we're
ready for that type of likerevolution.
You know, just like changingwhat work means, because that
would have to then change ourwhole economy, and like what
money means and wages andeverything.
But it seems like we're headedin a weird direction where, um,
a lot of humans can't be treatedlike robots.
When you know, when you'reworking for companies, like,
(44:44):
whether it's a dock worker or anairline worker, boeing people,
it's striking.
You know, like I know that'shappening in the industry a lot
here, even with, like, um,writers, guilds and animation
guilds and everyone's like.
You know it just feels likewe're all going through that now
.
But I wonder at what point willit like geyser up and have to
change the whole?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
foundation.
I think it's going in thatdirection now.
I remember when you first got ajob, and you know it takes
generally, depending on the job,anywhere from two to six months
to figure out.
(45:25):
Is it really as good as youthought or is it a bunch of BS?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
And you know back then, you know you didn't want
to jump, so you kind of tried tomake it work where the newer
generation is.
Once they figured out thateither a toxic environment that
I'm in and or they've been liedto through their teeth, they get
the hell out of there.
Yes, and you'll hear companiessay, oh, people don't want to
work.
No, they figured out yourbullshit.
(45:51):
That's why it's not that theydon't want to work, because if
you have a position, and thatposition literally has seven
people within, one year in thatposition.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
I don't think it's the employees, no, no, and
people want to work.
I feel like we're inherentlycreatures that want to, you know
, get up and work and like tillour soil, our soil and all that
kind of stuff.
But I think people don't wanttheir whole souls to be snuffed
out and basically to be takenaway by their job, and I think
it's like human consciousnessmore and more is that we're
wanting to do things that havepurpose and not be just like
(46:30):
workers doing things withabsolutely no purpose for the
corporation.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, um, I know one of thethe critiques that some people
have was well, president bidencan legally stop the um, uh, the
strike.
But I understand why he doesn't, you know right, because it's
really a labor issue between theworkers and, you know, between
(46:59):
the workers union, you know, andthe different entities that run
that port.
So I can understand why he'snot getting involved and I think
he's doing the right thing bynot getting involved.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
I do too.
So yeah, we'll keep an eye onit, but in the meantime at home
we just have a normal amount oftoilet paper.
So next week may be a cry forhelp if we have nothing to use.
I just have a whole bunch ofindex cards.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Well, I know that I think they're starting to do
limitations in the stores, orthey will be.
So I hope they do that becauseI don't want to be in a store
and see this guy or this womanwith like 12 big, gigantic
bundles of paper towels andtoilet tissue.
You know, obviously people arekind of crazy so you can't say
anything, but in your mindyou're thinking are you really
serious?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I know, I know, and this is one of those I feel like
, as we go along, we should allhave a nice little stop.
Feel like, as we go along, weshould all nice little stop.
I I am guilty of like, if ahurricane hit tomorrow, we we
don't have a ton of like extrawater, extra canned food.
You know, like we kind of hadthose during the pandemic and
then I kind of got rid of all ofthem afterwards.
But like I think, uh, it's niceto like, as you go along, to
(48:09):
just gather like what you thinkyou may need in an appropriate
emergency situation, but insteadof panicking and buying it like
this.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
That is true.
That is true.
I mean they say you should havewhat did they say?
I mean ideally 30 days, whichokay, most people are not going
to have that, but you know, atleast maybe a week or two worth
of food.
You know which is reasonable.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Right, yep.
Well, I have one more, but Ididn't know if I wanted Spoiler
alert.
It's about the wonderful DenzelWashington, but I don't know.
Did you want to do that,because I know you love him?
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Oh no, I'm going to let you do that.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Okay, okay.
Well, I saw this and I thoughtwe're a Denzel friendly show so
I wanted to include this one.
Denzel Washington, apparently,and Diddy apparently got into it
at a party and Denzel stormedout.
We've talked before about howwe like Denzel a lot, but
basically I guess Denzel was ata party and confronted Diddy
(49:05):
about like this is crazy andbasically screamed at him.
A few different people have afew different accounts of what
was actually said, but hestormed out and you know, as
more and more is coming to thesurface of like what celebrities
were involved in different waysat Diddy parties, it was good
to know that at least onceDenzel was there, but not part
(49:25):
of the madness.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Yeah, I mean.
The thing is, it doesn'tsurprise me that he was
initially there.
But one thing that I do likeabout Denzel is he stands by his
character, yeah, and he standsby his convictions, good or bad.
And you know, it alsohighlights something that most
people aren't talking about, andthat is, with all the horrible
(49:49):
things that that diddy allegedlydid.
There's a lot of people intinseltown that knew this.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
This wasn't this big secret no, he had lots of people
knew or like were there and Ibelieve some, I believe there
definitely was like that.
Not every party was a weirdfreak off.
You know, I feel like normallyI bet a lot of the parties were
just probably hollywood partiesand like maybe some drugs and
sexual stuff, whatever, but likeI don't think it got like weird
.
Weird until some of the likeafter parties or like side
(50:20):
events, you know.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah, I mean I've heard some celebrities joke that
, yeah, you go to a dating party, you want to get out of there
before it gets dark.
Yeah, it was like wow, that's a.
I mean, this is before all thishappened.
You're like wow, that's a weirdstatement to make Totally.
But then it kind of like makessense.
And I remember Cat Williams gota lot of heat for an interview
(50:43):
he did with Shannon Shark wherehe had said that you know he,
what did he say?
He passed up $200 million toprotect his integrity and to
protect his whole oh my god, youknow you heard it and it's like
okay, you know, I don't knowman, you just kind of off on a
(51:05):
limb.
But now that same video poppingup, like oh, maybe he was
trying to tell us something youknow, yeah, I gave up 200
million to protect that virginhole.
And it's like and it's like youkind of look back like maybe he
was telling us something, youknow.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
I don't know.
Just the level of depravitythat you keep hearing.
It's like how much weird stuffdoes one person need?
And at one point we talked thatit becomes more about power
than it does about the actualacts itself.
But it's just like so bizarre.
It's just so weird to me.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, and then the new thing within the last day or
two there's a lawyer, I want tosay he's out of Texas at the
double check check, butsupposedly he's going to be
filing over a hundred differentlawsuits against Diddy from
people who said that you knowhe's abused them and and all
this and um, most of it's beenvideotaped, um men and women,
(52:10):
and the most disturbing partabout this is supposedly 25 of
those people were underaged.
If this comes out and it's trueI can't see Diddy bouncing back
from this.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
No, me neither, definitely not.
Someone's going to get him,whether it's the legal system or
someone in a prison or someone.
Yeah, he's screwed.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Yeah, it's just legal system, or someone in a prison
or someone yeah, he's, he'sscrewed.
Yeah, it's just really kind ofsad, you know, especially
looking at it, you know, being aa creator myself, a person of
color trying to make it, whenyou see someone actually make it
to that plateau and fall sohard like that, and to me, I
think it makes it hard for thepeople behind them.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
I'm wrong, but that's the way I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
No, you're right, You're definitely right.
That's why the Denzels of theworld are so good too People
that just have nowhere.
I think was it 50 Cent thatposted that thing.
He's like here's me, not at aDiddy party.
It's like a photo of him andsomeone else that was very not
Kelly Clarkson, but someone likethat where he's like here's me,
(53:17):
and this person just walkingdown the street Notice that
we're not at a ditty party.
I'm like that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Yeah, and you know a good fun fact too Esther Rose,
who played Florida on Good Timesshe played James Evans' wife
Originally Good Times was notsupposed to have a father in the
house.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
Really.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
It was supposed to be ran by a single woman, you know
, and her thing was and I tippedmy hat off because at that time
she took a big risk she saidshe would not do it unless they
provide a father for her youknow, tv kids.
She would not have it whereit's a single family household.
That was a big risk back then,because they could have easily
(54:01):
done one of two things either areplaced her or b just say okay,
we'll, just won't do the showyes, yep, yeah, yeah, they could
have just been like okay, nextactress.
Thank you so she took a big risk, um, by standing her ground,
and you know it just comes toshow that you know, sometimes
you just have to have a stanceon what you believe and most of
(54:22):
the time it works out.
Sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
You just have to be prepared regardless yeah, you
have to stand by your morals,because I think we always
underestimate how people arewatching us and like how our
actions.
I feel that way to those withsocial media too, even with just
interactions, where it's likeyou never know who's watching
and who's judging your character, and like seeing the little
interactions, I try to rememberthat all the time and like, you
(54:46):
know, just to be kind and and Ithink, uh, yeah, it's crazy
times very crazy times.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
and you know, the crazy thing is, this is only a
portion of what I had on my list.
Yeah, it's crazy times, verycrazy times.
You know, the crazy thing is,this is only a portion of what I
had on my list.
We still had a full hour.
I know we did.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
The last thing I wanted to.
We won't even have to talkabout this, but I thought it was
so funny where there wasn'treally a lot to talk about but
there was some thing where itsaid, like Ellen reveals her
triple diagnosis and it soundedso serious.
And then it was like sherecently found out that she has
osteoporosis, like ADD, likestuff that, like all of us have.
I thought that was so funnybecause, like, whoever set up
(55:28):
that headline totally knew whatthey were doing, because, you
know, it was very like ashocking thing to read.
And then it's's like Ellen hasosteoporosis attention deficit.
I'm like, give me a break.
Of course those things could beserious, but in the world, of
everything.
Speaker 1 (55:42):
Actually, ellen DeGeneres was one of the
subjects on my list that.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
I had to cut off.
There's so much with her.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
I may bring it up next week.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
It's a good one, Ellen Forever, is like in my
soul of who I love, as like justfrom a standup point of view,
and I you know, like I we havementioned this before too that
she, she's like one of mybiggest influences in standup,
but like not as a person thepast two decades, and you know
so not with her osteoporosis.
Well, Meryl, Her osteoporosis.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
Well, Meryl, what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Oh my gosh, you know, honestly, it's so funny.
This week I don't have anystand-up shows, but I write for
a publication called the LA Girland I feel like I asked to go
to some Halloween events and nowit is like the universe is
punishing me because I'm goingto every single Halloween event.
So, personally, I will just beat every haunted trail tricking
(56:38):
and treating and trying to besomewhat scared still.
So, like last night I went to ahaunted trail, tomorrow I'm
going to the CBS lot for somelike haunted mansion and it's
almost like comical.
Now I'm at every Halloweenevent.
Speaker 1 (56:52):
Nice, nice.
Speaker 2 (56:54):
Now are you going to?
Speaker 1 (56:55):
be changing your costumes or are you just going
to wear the same costume?
No, now.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
I'm going just dressed in black with a good
attitude.
But even yesterday I'm like,okay, I'm scared again.
This was the ninth Halloweenevent I've done, and it's so
funny because I don't have kidsor anything, so I just go to
some of these alone, or I justdrag a friend who barely wants
to go there you go hey, go ahead, bring them all on with you,
(57:20):
right?
yeah, I almost, almost.
I didn't do it, but I almostreached out to some of my
friends with kids and said hey,do you want me to take your kit?
Like I have all these eventsthat I'm going to.
Do you want me to?
Like want me to lend your kidto me, but then I decided never
mind.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
Well, you just watch them.
So the cool thing is, you givethem back at the end of the
night.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
That's what I know.
I could do a couple hours.
If they give me $50 and onlyallow me two hours with their
child, it'll be fun for everyone.
Speaker 1 (57:49):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (57:51):
It's fun to be the Aunt Meryl that basically gets
to show up and leave.
Speaker 1 (57:56):
And what about you?
Actually, I've only beeninvited to one Halloween party
at a neighbor's house.
That's cool.
Yeah, we RSVP, so we'redefinitely going to go there.
Halloween parties are fun.
So it'll be a lot of fun.
I'm looking forward to it.
Haven't dressed up in a longtime, so it'll be kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (58:15):
Yeah, I kind of forward to it.
I haven't dressed up in a longtime, so it'll be kind of fun.
Yeah, I kind of want to beMudang.
I want to be a lady version ofMudang.
I mean she's a lady, butwhatever, A spiced up Mudang.
Speaker 1 (58:27):
My wife thinks I should dress up as a Chicago
Bear.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Yes, you totally should.
Speaker 1 (58:34):
I may do that.
That would be kind of fun to gothere.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
That would be awesome .
Speaker 1 (58:38):
In fact I teased her one year.
I said you know what I shoulddo?
I should dress up as a pimp.
She was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
I was like, no, it would be fun Because it would be
out of my character.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
She was like absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (58:56):
I.
I think a Chicago bear is wayless harming.
It would definitely turn heads,though, yeah that's true, so
funny.
Speaker 2 (59:01):
Well, this was great.
Speaker 1 (59:04):
Yes, it was, and we had a lot, a lot of fun.
And you know, just remember tosupport us, support Meryl by.
You know, if you happen to bein the California area where
she's doing any shows or anyappearances, make sure you go
out to support her and celebratewhat she does.
Also, support us withElrodTVNetworkcom.
(59:24):
Again, I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (59:29):
Bye everyone you.
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