From Cybertruck Clashes to Pet TV: A Curious World

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This episode of Thirsty Topics tackles pressing societal issues through humor and personal anecdotes, starting with Ruby Bridges' courageous story, highlighting ongoing struggles for racial equality. Ranging from the backlash against the Tesla Cybertruck to the strange divorce settlement involving a Netflix account, the conversation delves into the absurdities of fame, health risks tied to Super Bowl excitement, a couple’s eerie experience at a deserted resort, and ends on the intriguing topic of Dog TV while touching on alarming plane crash statistics that raise questions about travel safety. 

• Honoring Ruby Bridges and her impact on civil rights 
• Discussing the Cybertruck and its controversial reception 
• Antonio Villaraigosa's divorce and a peculiar Netflix provision 
• Super Bowl excitement leading to unexpected health risks 
• A couple's unsettling experience at a quiet resort 
• The rise of renting chickens for fresh eggs 
• Introducing Dog TV for pet entertainment 
• Concerns around aviation safety and recent airplane incidents

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hey, meryl, welcome to the show again, good to see.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Ya, I can't tell.
Are you wearing pink or red?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's a it's red, but it's not like it's like a maroon
type red, it's like a funnycolor red.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Okay, I'm wearing pink.
I feel like we got the postValentine's Day memo.
Funny thing is, we are kind ofcoordinating a little bit here.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I know I feel like we're we got the post
Valentine's Day memo.
Funny thing is we are kind ofcoordinating a little bit here.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I know we should.
I think this should be a weeklything there you go.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Wow, um.
Of course, this is still umBlack History Month, and I
wanted to highlight someone thatsome people know about, but
maybe not everyone, and her nameis Ruby Bridges.
Ruby Bridges, back in November14, 1960, was the first Black

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student that went into anall-white school.
She had to be escorted bySecret Service and had all kinds
of security around her becauseof the fact that the white
students did not want her in theschool, let alone in the class.
So she ended up having to be inclass by herself, even ate by

(01:35):
herself, and just comes to showyou.
You know, I was born in 69.
So this is kind of mygeneration.
Actually she's a little bitolder than me.
I want to say she was aroundsix, I think, maybe six or seven
, and you know she still isalive today.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
But you know we still .
It's amazing that in 2025, thatyou know we're still fighting
for rights and in some ways it'slike we're going backwards,
which is kind of scary a lot ofways.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, it's ridiculous and you just think of the
bravery that someone like thatwent through and that's amazing
yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So I just wanted to make sure I mentioned her
because, um, you know, we can'tforget that um, even though
we've come a long way, we stillhave a long, long way to go.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes, I imagine someone like that is probably
seeing the news even more thepresent day news and it's just
like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Well, I'm going to start thisone off, and this is actually a
very interesting conversationhere Cybertrucks, and if you
don't know what the Cybertrucks,people don't know what the
cybertrucks are.
These are the trucks by Tesla.
I personally think they're theugliest trucks I've ever seen in

(02:54):
my life, but hey, that's justme.
Some people may love it.
They're being attacked.
People are basically, whenthey're driving it, they're
getting the bird flipped at them.
Their cars are being vandalizedwhen it's parked and you know,
some people just don't like thevehicle.
Some people are doing itbecause of the Trump-Elon Musk

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combination.
I don't know what.
Do you think, merle?
You think it's a little bitover the top here?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh yeah, I mean also don't you think it seems like
the kind of truck that Elonwould make fun of?
Or you know, like it seems likethe opposite of the original

(03:43):
Tesla that we, that we sawbecause I thought Teslas are
really nice looking like'sproperty.
Or, you know, even if it's anugly car like I don't believe in
hurting anyone, or even if it'stheir car, you know that just
costs money and damage, like I'mnot a fan of that, but I do
feel like they should beoutlawed just for a general
ugliness.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, I mean I agree with you.
I mean, would it be a vehiclethat I purchase?
Absolutely not.
But you know, I think that somepeople and I could be wrong,
but I believe some people buythis vehicle for a status symbol
.
They want to be seen, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
But like what status?
I mean that's the kind of thingI feel like it's the same to me
as people that rev theirmotorcycles a lot and create
where I'm like people are notlike judging you in a great way.
You know, like I think a fancyother Tesla, like a gorgeous
original Tesla, like that to mewas a status symbol because of
also it was so much at that timethere wasn't a lot of electric

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vehicles or hybrids or like itwasn't mainstream.
But I think the Cybertruckstrucks.
To me that's not a flex, that'slike I don't know.
I haven't I haven't met anyfriends or family that have
looked at a tesla truck drivingby and really been impressed by
that like yeah, it's got.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's interesting.
I mean, you know everyone has aright to you know um, you know
display or basically talk aboutwhat they like and don't like.
You know that's no problem, butI agree 100 percent vandalizing
the vehicle is definitely notthe right thing.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, it also seems like with their, what they're
made out of, that can't be easyto like get a dent off of it, or
you know what I mean.
It seems like if you ruin thepaneling of one, that doesn't
seem like a very easy thing,where, like if someone scratches
my Honda or Nissan or whatever,I can just like patch it up
really quick or just leave itlike that.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
But if you're driving like a keyed out Cybertruck.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It just seems not great.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh yeah, and you know what?
It's one thing if they keyed it.
There's certain situationswhere they've literally spray
painted the vehicle, the entirevehicle.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
And for anyone who's ever priced out a paint job on a
vehicle a regular vehicle it'svery expensive, so I can imagine
what a Cybertruck will cost torepaint.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, I'm surprised we don't see more companies
using Cybertrucks.
Like I can see insurancecompanies or like I don't know.
It seems like the kind of thing.
Trucks like I could seeinsurance companies or like I
don't know.
It seems like the kind of thing.
Maybe it's too much in uh partsor whatever, but I could see,
like radio stations and you know, having like a wrapped cyber
truck that's true, that's true.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
It's an expensive sign, because I think those
trucks are what about a hundredthousand and up, I believe oh
god, it's so weird.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I just can't like I I feel like range rovers are like
totally cool, like you know, uh, whatever, like there's so many
other cars to me that are likea very big flex, but I don't
know.
I feel like elon's pranking usagain.
Remember last week he changedhis twitter to like hairy balls
or something.
I feel like this is thatversion of him cranking it.

(06:43):
And also I think this is himappealing to maybe a subset of
people, and I don't even meanthat mean.
I just mean I don't know he'sdoing something there.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, that's true.
I mean definitely either.
I think the Cybertruck is oneof those vehicles where there is
no in-between Either you likeit or you don't.
Right, if you had like $100,000, what would?
Your Cyber truck is one ofthose vehicles where there is no
in-betweens.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Either you like it or you don't Right, if you had
like, $100,000, what would yourflex car be?

Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know.
I mean it could be, you know,probably a really nice you know
the Cadillac SUV They've gotsome really nice SUVs which is
actually a little less than$100,000.
Or, you know, maybe I'll uhlike a lexus or something like
that.
Maybe even I would do like arange mode with the big one,
something oh, those are nice.

(07:34):
Yeah, okay, I feel like thatwould be my, or if I want to, or
if I want to really go go downhere, give me like an old school
mustang or something like thatsee, and that's so much cooler.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I also feel like having an individual type car is
way more of a flex than justseeing another silver Cybertruck
on the road.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
True, alright, and I told you my flex.
What's yours?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Okay, mine would either be I really like the
Broncos.
I feel like a really nice,gorgeous.
In Burbank I see this gorgeous,red, bright red, beautiful
Bronco and I always walk by it.
I'm like that is a sexy car.
I never feel that way, but I'mlike flirting with the car as I
walk by and I'm always like damn, that is like beyond sexy.

(08:15):
So something like that, like Ilove higher up Jeeps, range
Rovers, all that like to mehigher up is wonderful.
But I also don't want to besandwiched in like a.
The Cybertruck to me looks likea weird library, like a weird
building in Germany or somethingwhich I don't know Seems weird
but whatever.
But I still wouldn't go andhurt any of them or, like you

(08:39):
know, damage any of them.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, that's true, I totally understand.
Well, hopefully they kind ofease up on the damage of the
vehicles, right?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, hopefully they ease up on making them.
I feel like we're ready now.
I want Tesla to drop a newalbum.
I want to see what the next caris.
We're done with this one.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay.
Well, this is a good one interms of flexing.
I picked this one out becauseit's ridiculous the former mayor
, antonio Villagosa I hope Isaid that right.
Antonio Villagosa justannounced Well, actually, I
think he announced he's runningfor governor as well, but he
recently settled his split withhis now ex-wife, patricia.

(09:21):
He agreed to give her a lump sumpayment of $550,000, which I
mean that's pretty good.
I don't know how much they make, but that's pretty darn good.
And then I thought this wasreally interesting as part of
the settlement, he keeps okay,so he keeps their $3 million
Beverly Hills home and he getsthe Netflix account.

(09:44):
So that was what was holdingeveryone up in court, basically.
And so the judges said they'venever seen a Netflix account
awarded in a divorce agreement,calling it really bizarre.
And so the size lump sumpayment that he'll receive is
likely, or that his spouse willreceive is kind of likely with,
like, spousal support.
But instead they just lump itall together as 500 000.

(10:06):
But I think that's so funnythat these very rich people with
like a three million dollarbeverly hills home are worried
about their whatever 13 a monthnetflix account I mean, uh, he
could give me a few dollars,I'll set him up a new netflix
account, right?
exactly I think.
Do you think that's just like apetty move basically?

Speaker 1 (10:27):
extremely yeah.
It's like seriously dude, comeon, yeah.
And to hold up the divorce fora netflix account, that is being
kind of petty I know yep andYep, and so he said he made
millions as a consultant.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's always crazy, too, when these couples are
together and like trying tosettle things, because a lot of
times people will make theirmillions.
You know they'll meet eachother when they're not
millionaires, and then they'llbecome millionaires and it's
kind of always like a little bitmurky in terms of okay, well,
should the wife or husband getlike half of it, or is this
person entitled to everythingthey made?

(11:08):
But no, I guess the wife isgoing to have to start her own
Netflix account.
Maybe maybe she won't even getNetflix.
Maybe she'll just like getDisney plus or Hulu, who knows?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't know.
It sounds like they should staytogether if they're willing to
fight over a Netflix account.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
And I thought this was interesting as well.
Something else that they theygot was that naming rights.
So basically she's not allowedto use, like, his last name in
any marketing or social media orbasically branding.
So she'll return to use hermaiden name and she can't use
Via Gosa for any social,marketing or business purpose,

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which I mean to me.
I understand that, especially,like if he's about to run as
governor.
I don't know, I guess it's juststripping it down to like, hey,
we're not involved in any way,so like you're not getting any
of my clout.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
I mean, I could kind of see that, especially if these
are high profile typeindividuals, so that kind of
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, I think it's kind of weird to me sometimes
when maybe it's just like I also, I feel like a lot of times the
woman I mean that's just how itis but like I've known women to
keep the last name of men thathave divorced and then the man
gets remarried.
They've divorced and then theman gets remarried and then I
want the women to go back totheir name as like I'm going to

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get rid of him in a pro-womanway.
A lot of times I'm like drophim.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, I got to admit I don'tthink I've ever heard of anyone
fighting over a Netflix account,Right.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Would you just give it up to your?
You would just tell your wifeyou could have it.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Aww.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't know.
I've come to the realizationthat when you fight for
something, fight for a reason.
Don't fight just for the sakeof fighting.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, don't fight petty.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, but I mean to each his own.
I guess I must be one hell of aNetflix account, huh.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, we have to start your algorithm all over
again.
I could also see a world.
I feel like if my boyfriend andI broke up, we'd be on the same
like thing forever.
We'd have the same account likelogged in for the next like 20
years, and both of our newspouses would be like, please,
undo it.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Well, this is very interesting news With the Super
Bowl.
Amazingly and I didn't evennotice myself there are some
people that have heart attackswatching the game.
They get so excited Really,which is shocking to me, but
yeah, Because I guess they getso excited, they get so pumped

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up, their hearts start racingand stuff.
And you know you kind of, onthe one hand you're like, wow,
you know, you got to be careful,Don't get so excited, but then,
on the other hand, you're likeyou do know you're not getting
paid for this right, but then,on the other hand, you do know
you're not getting paid for thisright.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
But I did not even know that was a thing, did you?

Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, I mean, did the article say if it's in person,
like at the actual Super Bowl orwatching from home?

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Watching from home and I'm quite sure there were
some people that had some heartissues while they were there,
but it's actually a thing I meannot as much as something else
major obviously but yeah,there's some people that have
had heart attacks watching games.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
I feel like, if anyone, the coaches usually give
me high blood pressure watchingthe coaches, but we have to
remember that those coaches areso good.
I feel like I'm running onadrenaline that it looks crazy
to us.
But I feel like I'm running onadrenaline that it looks crazy
to us, but I feel like for them,that's almost like they're
almost internally calm, evenwhen they're screaming and red
in the face.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's true.
That's true.
Have you ever got real excitedwatching something?
Are you about to have a heartattack?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Maybe a panic attack, but probably maybe more horror
movies.
Oh, you know what?
We've been watching Dexterlately.
I don't know if you've everwatched Dexter.
It's a great TV show for anyonethat watches it.
And I feel like that andBreaking Bad were so suspenseful
for me that like it's more thesuspense.

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The suspense it's not likesports or you know American Idol
or anything like that.
It's more the like oh my God, Ineed to know what's going to
happen right now, and I wasgoing to say, too, I would.
I would also think that thepeople the avatar of like who's
watching the Superbowl maybethere's some high cholesterol
snacks involved.
You know, it's like Superbowlday, so you might be drinking,

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you might be ingesting like abacon cheeseburger or something.
So I'm drooling while I'mtalking to you.
I'm literally drooling becauseI was thinking of like
mozzarella.
You know, you might have like aclogged artery on that day.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
I totally understand, right I?

Speaker 2 (15:59):
mean.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I get really excited watching the game, especially if
I'm watching the Bears becausethat's my favorite team.
And you know I find myself, youknow, because it's just me in
the house screaming, yelling atthe TV, jumping up and down,
cheering, getting angry.
You know, almost like they canhear me, but they really can't.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Aww and see, that's good, that's a good stress.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's true, that's true.
But you know, I've never hadany pains or anything.
It was like, hey, I'm just intothe game, having fun, yeah.
But yeah, I was very surprisedto hear about that story.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
You definitely want to enjoy the game, but not to
the point where you know itcauses you physical harm either.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
No, I would say I just thought about that.
I feel like maybe my version ofthat would be going to see a
concert of, like you know,there's like five or six artists
that I love so much, and then,like that minute when the lights
go out and you know they'recoming about to come on stage,
like ever since I was like 11years old, those, even now,
those moments to me, sometimesI'm I have to like deep breathe
and calm myself because, likethat is that that almost sends

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me into a cardiac arrest becauseI'm so excited about that.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, we don't want you to have no heart attack.
No, no.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
And maybe not right now, but maybe in the past, when
there's crushes around.
If there's a boy crush around,but not the Chiefs or anything
like that, just boys.
Boys in concerts.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
OK, well, I thought this might give someone a heart
attack.
This actually happened about ayear ago, but it's making its
way through the uh viral newsnow, so I thought I would
address it, because it's soridiculous.
There was a couple thatdiscovered they were the only
guests at a luxury five-starresort in Mexico.
So they headed to Cabo a couplewith a wife I think it was a

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baby moon Yep, a baby moon andthey booked a room at a
brand-new resort in Cabo wherethe room started off at over
$1,000 a night.
And then, after arriving, thepair noticed that they didn't
see any people around theproperty.
So they were like okay, that'scool, we have the pool to
ourselves, we have the fire pitto ourselves.
And then, like, as they went on, they saw that they were

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literally the only ones at theresort.
It was no one else there.
And so they posted on Instagramlike is this creepy, is this
not?
And everyone is like leave,right now, you're going to get
murdered.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
This is like a you know talk about heart attack.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Like this is a horror movie waiting to happen.
The husband said he didn't seeit that way and he thought it
was awesome and just even thoughit was a little bit creepy, he
was basically like this wholekingdom is here for us, and so
they used the pools and everysingle like amenity, just with
each other.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Wow, that would kind of freak me out.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Right Like how does that happen, that a?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
resort at Cabo has no one booked.
I think the first thing I woulddo was go ask the person up at
the reception desk.
Okay, what's going on?
Why are we the only people here?
Yeah, is there anything you'renot telling us.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Right.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Is there some police tape around here that you know
you guys hid that you're nottelling us, right?
Is there some police tapearound here that you guys had
that you're not telling me about?
I mean, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Exactly From their videos.
It didn't look like it wasduring a very cold or rainy
season.
It looked like a beautiful.
I feel like a lot of peoplestill do their vacations on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
It doesn't have to be a bigweekend.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
I don't know, would you stay there, meryl, if you
found out that your wife werethe only people on the property?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
no, I would be out of there.
That would freak me out.
Unless same thing, unless therewas a valid reason or they
could show me like oh, we havehundreds of people coming in in
two days.
It just is like if there wassome reason we would stay um.
But also they did say that itwas so funny that the staff I
mean there was staff on site,which was good, but that they
had all these people just likewaiting on them hand and foot.

(19:51):
So maybe I would stay if Irealized, like imagine the extra
treatment you would get.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's true, that's true, but that is very creepy
though.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
It is creepy.
His videos like make it seemvery creepy, especially at night
, and imagine looking out at thebuilding and just seeing one
hotel room light on and all therooms and it's you yeah, just
make sure that you have thatlatch on.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Uh, yeah, maybe even throw the, uh, the chair
underneath the knob as a good,you know, as a good token of
extra security or somethingthere.
But yes, I don't know my wife,she would probably tell me let's
get the hell out of here.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I know like the thought of more than two people
being at a resort in cabo, likeever, is just so, even on an
off-season or rainy season.
It's just so weird.
Very, very weird, but if theywant to sponsor us, then totally
.
If they want to draw morepeople in, we can promote it for
them.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Absolutely.
I would love that.
Well, talk about interestingconversations here.
Recently there was images WendyWilliams in her assisted living
facility, in the window she wastalking to someone outside, I
think a reporter, and then alsoa judge, allowed Wendy Williams

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to fly to Florida from New Yorkfor two days to celebrate her
father's 94th birthday.
So TMZ actually got pictures ofher at Macy's, you know, doing
shopping.
You know she was even seengetting up off of her moped or a
little scooter and you know,stepping into the vehicle and

(21:32):
you know she was talking verylucid and everything like that.
But it's kind of fueling fireto the conversation of this
conservatorship she's on and Iget what everybody's getting
excited about this and stuff,but without knowing the full
backstory for her medicalcondition, it's really hard to

(21:52):
jump on a bandwagon and say,well, she deserved to come off
the service ship Because, again,without knowing the details of
her medical condition, you can'treally say one way or the other
Right exactly, and especiallywhat we talked about before,
where it's like there's themedical and physical aspect of
it and then there's also maybesomeone's helping her stay

(22:14):
financially sound and mentallysound, because there's been like
occurrences of that not maybebeing on track.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Did it seem like the video did seem like she called
the people to like look at her,or just have they just happened
to get footage?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
um, they happened to get footage while she was out
okay um.
And then when she was in thewindow, um, you know they were.
They were actually taping heras she was talking on the phone
to the reporter she's somewherein Manhattan.
They for for for the sake ofher safety and also for privacy,

(22:49):
they didn't disclose where shewas.
Yeah, just in Manhattan, that'sit.
And I don't know.
I think it opens up a deeperconversation.
And I don't know.
I think it opens up a deeperconversation.
In fact, if you think aboutBritney Spears, when she was on
conservatorship for so manyyears and her father was in
charge of it and she fought veryhard to get off that, I think.

(23:10):
I don't know.
I'm just thinking out loud here, meryl, but I think that
something needs to be done whereI don't know if it's every year
, every other year, but I thinkit needs to be re, where I don't
know if it's every year, everyother year, but I think it needs
to be relooked at every sooften yes just to make sure that
, one, this person still needsto be on conservatorship and
then two, the people that'shandling the money and the
finances and everything else arestill doing bright by the

(23:32):
person absolutely.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
I think that's completely right and I also
think, especially in Brittany'scase, if the person seems to be
like declining in health andmental and, you know, overall
not good, I think it needs extralooking at.
You know, I think people shouldbe either staying the same or
like hopefully getting a littlebit better than where they are.
If they're declining rapidlyand like kind of deteriorating,

(23:55):
I think it should be like takenvery seriously and maybe a
different conservator personshould be in charge if it's not
working.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah and I think that there's some situations where,
let's say, someone has a mentalbreakdown.
I don't think they should be onconservatorship, like in
Britney Spears' case, foreverand that's why she bought that.
It's like this should not beforever Right, and I think that
debate needs to happen, becauseit's one of those things where

(24:23):
it keeps popping up every sooften but no one wants to take
it.
Take it on head on, you know.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Exactly who was the one.
We also talked About someone,someone else that was like did
not do very well.
Oh, richard Simmons, like.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
So like that was an example too where they couldn't
even find him.
People were trying to look forhim.
No one knew where he went andthen it turned out he was
getting abused very poorly orvery badly.
And a lot of times the call iscoming from inside the house
where people are.
It's like family members orpeople close to them that are
doing them the most wrong.
But I don't know.

(24:59):
In Wendy's case it's so hard toknow because you know it's hard
to know like the amount of hercause.
It seems like her condition ispretty serious, so it's like I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, and you know the thing is, you know,
especially when you talk aboutdementia there is no known cure
right now for dementia.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
So you know, a person with dementia can have their
good days and their bad days,and you know, obviously you know
there's things you can do tohopefully help control it, maybe
slow it down, but again there'sno cure for it yeah.
So you know, that's kind oflike.
You know, yeah, you saw her,you know, have a great day where

(25:39):
she was out and about.
You saw her talking verylucidly and stuff, but we don't
know if that's every day.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
I know, yeah, and I always feel so bad for people.
The finance part of it reallygets to me too, just knowing
that sometimes people can belike draining their loved one's
accounts without and just kindof doing sneaky stuff.
So I don't know if that's thecase here.
Maybe probably not, but still,and that's I think that should
be looked at so much too, wherethe conservatorship should be

(26:05):
like okay, how much is inbritney spears's bank account?
Okay, like you have the rightto drain her of like twenty
thousand dollars a year, youknow whatever.
But then it has to be you haveto account for everything.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, I mean, one of the things too is and I hate to
say it, but you know, when, whensomeone, when someone dies or
gets sick or something like that, and they have a lot of money,
unfortunately, that's what somepeople really show their true
colors.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh yeah, and it gets it from.
Luckily I have not have hadthat in my life at all, but like
I've heard of siblings gettingreally like picky with things
and just it gets fugly and ugly.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
I just say that people try toshow their true colors when the
money's involved.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Totally.
That's why my parents will beleaving me one wicker basket
from the 80s and that's about it.
Honestly, a lot of times I'mlike very happy just to be like
very solidly middle class, whereI'm like there's not anything
to fight over, there's no likemy dad is always like.
This is my coin collection andit's worth like 40 and that's

(27:11):
about it hey, but it's a specialcoin collection, exactly,
exactly exactly.
I think it's that whole moremoney, more problems, right
Sometimes?
It's good to not have a lot ofstuff.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's true.
We'll definitely pray for WendyWilliams, though.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, for sure, Absolutely.
I feel like it's either goingto go one way or another.
I'm surprised.
Yet we haven't heard her takingto her own Instagram and saying
help me, whatever.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Who knows, that may be coming.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, if she's dancing in the kitchen, like how
Brittany is, I don't know,we're going to have to.
It's going to be after anintervention, okay.
Well, I thought this was not tobe too depressing, but just
something to be aware of.
Is that around, basically, ofpeople losing their jobs in the
national park service?
I thought was really sad.
Um, a bunch of layoffs aremight leave national parks

(28:03):
understaffed, and so they justdid a big cut to probationary
workers, which is part of theplan, part of trump and elon's
plan to shrink federal spending.
But to me, like the nationalparks don't really, they don't
seem to be like the worst ofleaking money everywhere and, in
fact, like it's very needed.
So the National ParkConservation Association called

(28:29):
the downsizing reckless and adecision that could have a
serious public safety and healthconsequences.
For example, like wastewatertreatment operators, a lot of
the forest rangers keep thetrails you know.
They look for fires, they lookfor lost people.
A lot of these people clean thebathrooms of where you know we
need.
We love fire rangers and to methat's like the saddest group

(28:52):
picturing like a bunch of forestrangers laid off, because a lot
of times these are just peoplethat love the wilderness and
want to be good advocates of theland and stuff.
So, um, I don't know.
To me that seems like a prettybummer thing to have thousands
of forest rangers laid off youknow what's.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
What's kind of sad about this is for one, they
didn't have enough to begin with.
I know know, that's the crazything.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not like.
It's like everyone, and theirmother is a forest ranger.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Right.
So it's like, okay, do theyeven understand what they do?
Because you know, there's a lotof just random cutting going on
, Like a big story that came out.
Is they, they, they cut.
I want to say it was like 300,over 300 employees that ran, you
know, the nuclear arsenal tokeep track of it, and because I

(29:48):
guess they didn't realize whatthese people did, now they're
trying to hurry up and rehirethem.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
And a lot of them they can't get in touch with
because you know, when you getlaid off from any job or you get
let go, first thing they do isthey cut your email and
everything else.
So unless you have a personalemail or something for that
person, you have no way ofcontacting.
And here's the reality, meryland I may sound like an asshole
for saying this, but if I'mworking that kind of position

(30:16):
and you're stupid enough to cutme loose, I'm not going back.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Right, right, no, they're going to really trust
you?

Speaker 1 (30:22):
I'm like no, Exactly.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Exactly, and if you're not shown that you're
valuable in a lot of theserangers like this is not a very
high paying job.
A lot of rangers make likeminimum wage or just above
minimum wage and you know theyshould already be being paid way
more.
My, my thoughts like theyshouldn't be paying, getting

(30:44):
paid like very nicely because Ithink what they do is so
important.
But to me it's like that's sucha weird thing of.
Just.
To me it's like you can't justlay off everyone.
You have to look at what'sbleeding out and then stop it
and it's just uh, veryshort-sighted and very sad.
And I think, like anyone thatis outdoorsy will know, that a
lot of times park rangers arejust like the sweetest people
and the most like helpful and uh, it's a weird occupation to
like let go of thousands ofpeople oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
and then the other thing too, that park rangers
play a big role in helping whenthere's forest fires and stuff
going.
Yeah, yeah, big question.
I mean obviously, yes, you havethe firefighters on the front
line, but they still have to becoordinated and things put
together.
You know they have to getpeople cleared out.
You know there's a lot thatneeds to be done, yes, yeah, in
coordination with thefirefighters.

(31:27):
So by cutting all these rangers, you're actually probably
making the firefighters job much, much harder.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Exactly, and I feel like too, a lot of times.
You know, when I think of kindof people sitting around not
doing much, I think of maybelike more in terms of the office
jobs or like you know, a lot ofpeople just at an office kind
of pretending to type, but everypark ranger that I've ever seen
is working.
None of them are sitting around, you know, like they're doing a
job and a lot of times they'redoing multiple jobs.

(31:55):
So I don't think of parkrangers as like the typical kind
of person where it's likethey're not very expendable.
It's like if you have one parkranger, chances are they're
doing a lot of things andthey're working hard.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
They're earning their money.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
They're earning the money for national parks, so
yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah, it's ridiculous , it really is.
But, like I said, not to haveall those park rangers out there
in the wilderness, I would justsay for people out there in the
parks and wrecks, just becareful.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I know this is where we do need some type of
billionaires that are soenvironmentally.
They find a loophole basicallywhere they're like come with me,
everyone Like we need theBernie Sanders forest or
something.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
We would hope so right.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, that's just a lot of people's dream jobs.
Not that that matters we're inadult life, but I think park
ranger is a job that a lot ofpeople dream of having.
A lot of people will sacrificea lot by being a ranger in a
national park and it's not youknow, so whatever that is true.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Well, we'll definitely pray for him.
Yeah, well, talk aboutenvironmental.
There is a new trend going outpeople are renting chickens so
they can lay eggs for them.
I like that.
This is one of those thingswhere I have to admit I did not
know this was a thing, but it is.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I kind of love that.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
So basically, I guess there's companies out there
that you can rent a chicken ormore than one chicken, and
they'll deliver the chicken.
They'll have the chicken coopand everything like that.
Bring it over, set it up andyou know, you're on a payment
plan, whatever, and then youhave fresh eggs but it's kind of
like a chicken pimp, right,they're like I hope they treat

(33:51):
because they're breeding it.
They're treating it nicely,right, like they're not over
breeding it, I hope well, Iguess, from what I was told, an
average chicken can lay probablyone to two eggs a day, you know
okay, okay, so they're not likedoing it too much to them or
something.
No, I mean they'll probablyhave.
They could probably do one ortwo more of that if they're a

(34:12):
bigger size chicken, obviouslyyeah, but you know you can have
daily.
You know fresh eggs every dayif you wanted to.
I love that it's, I don't know,it seems kind of expensive.
Well, there's one company, Iguess, charges what is it?
$100 a month for one hen, whichincludes the coop and
everything else.
I don't know, that seems kindof expensive, even for two

(34:34):
chickens, what?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
do you think?
I also think I don't know thatalso just seems like a lot for
an animal to be like shuttledaround to a million different
houses too.
I don't know, like I'm not achicken expert, surprisingly,
but I might be but to me thatjust seems like I would rather

(34:56):
almost have like a stationarychicken area in each community
and it's like people go torather than just like pass it
around.
I, I don't know, I don't trustpeople with like their kids and
their families and their dogs orlike that just seems a lot to
have like an animal movingaround to like a bunch of
different houses.
Um, so I wish there was almostmore like resources for like,
okay, we're gonna have thesefarmers markets and you can come
, we, we're going to have, youknow, more eggs and stuff like

(35:18):
that.
So my trust is I trust thechickens, not the humans.
I hate the player, not the game.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Well, I definitely understand that because you know
you do bring up a good point.
You know these chickensliterally are with different
people all the time.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, I don't trust, like what?
What about diseases orcleanliness, or I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I mean, I don't know, I'm just not a big fan of
renting animals.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
No, me neither.
I think it's wonderful.
I mean, we talked last weekabout people stealing individual
eggs out of a carton.
So obviously anything thathelps feed people and helps
people not steal eggs out of acarton I think is great.
But I'm a bigger advocate oflike having farms more
accessible, even like urbanfarms, you know and having the

(36:07):
community go to that and treatthe animals respectfully.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
That's true.
I mean one idea, because I knowthere's a lot of urban
agriculture that goes onthroughout the United States,
especially in food deserts, andin case people are watching or
listening and don't know what afood desert is, a food desert is
a location it could be aneighborhood or something that
doesn't have access to freshfruits and meats.

(36:33):
That's a food desert, so theydon't have access to healthy
stuff that they need to eat.
So some places actually creategardens where they have fresh
fruits and vegetables that aregrown within the community.
So if you add the chickensthere, I mean that can help a
lot of people.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah you know, I would love that and I think
that'd be so well.
I think that'd be so well.
also shout out to like they do areally great job in a lot of
the like South LA places thatnormally would be have been food
deserts in the past, where likea lot of great business owners
have gone in and like been morecommunity minded and planted
gardens and I think, like I seethat a lot all the time and they

(37:11):
try to put in like a healthierstores that are whole foods or,
you know, more affordableorganic produce, and I think
that's awesome.
But I think it would be so coolif, like a school had a chicken
or a hospital had a chicken oryou know like, planting them
more at places and maybe theyhad a fresh garden instead of
instead of just like passingaround a chicken.

(37:31):
I feel like having one or twoplaces in each community where
people could go and like almostlike a you know how you'd sign
up for like a co-op or something.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
I think that'd be cool actually that'd be really,
really cool.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
You know, they may do it though, especially if the
prices keep rising yeah, maybewe could contact the resort in
cabo, where no one is, and say,hey, we're actually going to
turn you into a chicken coop hey, we killed two birds with one
stone right, Exactly yeah sadly,probably.
Yeah, totally.

(38:02):
But yeah, to me it's like Ithink people need training to
handle animals and even thoughchickens don't seem like they
have brains, they're still likeliving things.
And so the idea I don't know, Iwouldn't trust a lot of people
that don't have prior experienceto just like nicely take a
chicken into their house and nottraumatize it or, you know,
keep it outside.
Who knows what their pet isgoing to do if there's like prey

(38:23):
outside?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
So yeah, yeah, that's true.
I mean, I know something likethat.
I don't know how well it woulddo where I'm at, because right
now it's like single digitswhere.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I'm at, so I don't know how well those Single
digits of chickens or like of,the weather.
Oh the weather, yeah, exactly,yeah, totally.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
So I don't know how chickens would do in six degree
weather and negative degreeweather at night, you know.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
And some people might have a frozen chicken.
Yeah, too much.
But yeah, and that's the otherthing too is, I guess, like I
have to realize.
I am very, very privileged outhere in california and southern
california where it's like Ican't.
It's hard for me to evenremember that there are places
that don't have plentiful, likefarmers, markets, grocery stores
, eggs, you know all that kindof stuff.

(39:08):
But um, I think it could becute to have a chicken program
in schools where, like, the kidslearn how to, you know, take
the eggs and then a teacher'sultimately in charge of it.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Actually, that would be a great thing to see.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Yeah, look at churches and stuff.
I think it could be a good wayto integrate animals more.
What if they just had a cowthat they bust around from house
to house and you could milk it?
Okay, well, one animal thatdoesn't want to come to my house

(39:46):
anytime soon, uh, is a humpbackwhale, and so there was a video
that I saw about a humpbackwhale briefly swallowing a
kayaker off of the chileanpatagonia sea before he was
unharmed.
Um, a man named Adrian waskayaking with his father and, in
the Magellan Sea, in a humpbackwhale surface, engulfed Adrian
in his yellow kayak for a fewseconds before letting him go.

(40:07):
And then it was so funnybecause his dad just happened to
be filming it and his dad islike not freaked out at all.
In fact, the dad was likeyelling at him basically of like
get out, get out.
But he wasn't like, oh my God,my son just got swallowed.
He was more just like annoyedat the situation.
And then afterwards the guy didan interview and he said, yeah,
the guy that got swallowed waslike I thought I was absolutely

(40:29):
dead, but he lived, and he was ayoung, handsome man and he
lived to tell the tale.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, there's a few things wrong with this story.
Right, it really did happen,because I saw the video myself.
Um, I would not be out in themiddle of any water in a little
dingy, little floatable uh raftor boat, whatever that call it
was.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
You know, yeah, I would not be in there,
absolutely not no, it seems likeevery week we have a story
where someone is riding on ashark or something and you and I
are always like.
I want to be at the resort withno people.
I don't want to be.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Out of all the things you could be out there with.
It looks like one of thoserafts that you pick up at Dick's
Sporting Goods or somethinglike that.
It was a really small dinkylittle.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
If there was sharks or if there was killer whales?
I mean, I know killer whalesdon't usually attack, but if
they capsize you or whatever,it's so weird.
Could a humpback keep someonein its mouth?
Is someone always going to justget loose, or could the
humpback just be like oh, now Iswallowed you.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
I don't know, I wouldn't want to find out.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
I know, because I don't think they could, because
I know they have like a screen.
They have like a screen,basically that like filters out
all the shellfish.
I think it's called the baleenor something.
So I think it's like, in theory, I feel like they are not like
gulping down a human, but it'scrazy that you could just get
like shut into a whale.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yeah, Then get spit out Like wow.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yeah, one of my friends is like that is, his
main fear is whales.
Like that's his like number one, like not a fear of heights,
not public speaking whales.
And then I think his parentsused to hold him in a whale,
like above a whale tank inSeaWorld, like when he was
little, and they used likedangle him and be like look at
the whales.
And he didn't want to.
And so now he's a grown manlike truly terrified of whales.

(42:23):
So I was very nice, I didn'tsend this to him but you know
they could be arrested today fordoing that.
Yeah, I know, I know, and theywould dangle my friend and be
like look, look at the whales.
It truly caused a fear in thisadult man All right.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
I'm glad I don't have any friends or relatives that
dangle me over dangerous animalseither.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Exactly, but also you saw the video.
Doesn't it look a little bit AIas well?

Speaker 1 (42:52):
You know, I had to watch it a few times because at
first it's like, nah, this isfake Until you watch it a few
times.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
but no, actually it does look like it's real yeah,
it's getting harder and harderto tell like what's actually
real because of ai that is so,so true, but uh, I'm just glad
he's okay yeah, me too.
What a crazy thing.
I don't know how he could getmoney from it.
He can't, you can't really suea whale, but or like the ocean,
but no, I think.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
think I'd probably be traumatized, me too.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
But of course I'm sure there's some greedy agents
or managers that are like pleasewrite a book about inside the
mouth or whatever.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
You know what that is so true?
Because that would be one hellof a story to tell.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Well, we have a feel-good story here good um,
now I have a, I have a dog andfor all of my dogs I've always,
you know, when we leave out ofthe house, like, let's say, we
have to go run errands orwhatever, I'll turn the tv on so
you know they have some company, they can watch tv.
I've been doing that for years.
Well, there's a streamingchannel called dog tv and

(44:02):
literally there's programs justfor dogs.
You know it's so playing.
It shows dogs sleeping, playingwith other dogs.
Uh, they also, um, show thedogs, you know, playing with
babies.
Is this dogs?
24, 7-7, seven days a week.
What do you think?
Would you do something likethat for your little pup, your

(44:25):
little pup, to your dog, if youhad one?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
A hundred percent.
So this is shocking, but I'm avery bad.
I'm like a dog stepmom.
I'm a stepmom to two dogs andI'm like I love dogs so much but
the two that I live with it'sbeen 10 years and I'm just
starting to come around now.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Oh, I didn't know you had dogs, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Well, I'll show them one day.
There's two of them.
There's like one I easily gotalong with.
The other one is like a halfchihuahua and I love him, but
he's not like my cup of tea.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Really.
Is he a calm chihuahua or is heone of the ones that, like,
snaps off at everything thatcomes in, not barking?

Speaker 2 (45:02):
but just kind of like , like, like I don't know like
flighty, like I, I like big dogs, you know.
So all this to say is that I,even though they're not my like
favorite, I would stillabsolutely put on dog TV channel
for them and maybe it willdistract them as well, tv
channel for them, and maybe itwill distract them as well and
it will make them cooler.
But yeah, I mean, I would watchthat 24 seven.

(45:23):
I love dogs so much and I thinkanything related to dogs and I
think I've also heard that bluesclues If you put that show on
that for some reason, like thecolors dogs see really well and
they can understand it.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Really, I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Yep, that's.
It might be like an urbanlegend, but I think that's
amazing and I wrote this downbecause I'm going to make sure
that we put we put on dog TV 24seven Cause when we leave the
house, my boyfriend will playAmazon like eighties music.
I'm like they don't want tohear eighties music.
That's going to make them morehyper, so we're going to play
this instead.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
There you.
But uh, I I think it's aningenious idea, you know,
because again I put on mostlycartoons, stuff like that, um,
or I may have it just on aregular channel where they have
like different programming, justsomething that where it's not
so quiet.
And you know, I've actuallyseen my dog watch tv sometimes
too.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Yeah, I wonder what the ads are too.
Are the ads like dog food?

Speaker 1 (46:23):
You know that's a great question.
I don't know, it could be.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
That's so funny.
Next week I'll have Jack holdup Huck, our dachshund, because
Huck is actually very cute.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Oh nice.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Huck is very cute.
Maybe we can.
I don't know if they're lookingfor actors on Dog TV.
Maybe I'll try to get them acasting agent or something.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Hey, there you go.
You never know right.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Right, we can get another live stream.
Well, that's cute.
I'll definitely check that out.
What if in the Divorce someonesays that they can get the dog
tv channel?

Speaker 1 (47:00):
hey, they fought over netflix, so who knows?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
yeah, who knows?
I think that's super cool.
Now, if there was a cat channel, I'm sorry cat people, but I
would not.
I would not be on cat tv.
Oh, you don't.
You don't like cats.
No, no, I'm trying.
That's it.
We got into a huge discussionthe other day because, after the
dogs, my boyfriend said thathe'd be open to cats.
And I'm like, when you met me,I said I was not cat, you know.

(47:23):
So.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
So I guess if you came on one day and there was a
little surprise crawling on thetable, you wouldn't like it.
Oh I'd be gone.
Yeah, I'd be, I'd be, I'd be, Iwould truly rather like be in
the ocean getting swallowed bythe whale, I think.
Do you guys have cats?
No, I mean, actually I grew upwith cats, so it's not a big
deal, really, will you be honest?

(47:47):
No-transcript um, you have to.
You have to clean out thatlitter box all the time yeah you
know, I mean obviously litteris different than it was back,
you know, when I was growing up.
You know there's all kinds offancy litter boxes, I suppose
yeah that's true, all that so,but that's really the biggest

(48:08):
thing.
Um, my cat was.
His name was tiger and heactually thought he was a dog.
We would take like aluminumfoil, make a little ball, we'll
throw it, and he'd go grab itand bring it back to us and have
him keep throwing it to us.
Oh, we'll call him and he'llcome over to us jump in our lap.
It was actually pretty coolthere.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
I mean, cats are very , very smart yeah, I think
that's what turned my boyfriendaround was that he's a mailman
and so I think he sees a lot ofcats on his route, like and he
sees them outside, or likepurring and being friendly.
And then now he's like I thinkI'm a cat person but I like
admiring them from afar, but I'mnot like I don't want to live
with what.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
I want a big, drooly dog yeah, the only thing that
maybe is a little concerningabout cats get on everything.
So picture this your cat'sgoing to take care of the
business of the litter.
The next thing you know he'swalking across your table.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
No, no way.
You know, and I really do likeI know.
I know there are differenttypes of litter boxes, but I
have visited a lot of cat housesand they do seem to have a
certain odor.
That being said, I understanddog smell as well, but the dog
smell just doesn't bother me.
I think I'm just like I like it.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
I welcome it.
Yeah, I mean.
I know my wife and my son hasallergies when it comes to cats,
so they can't really be aroundthem.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Suddenly I do too.
There you go.
I've had it since I was little.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
All of our dogs have been hyperallergenic dogs that
have hair and not fur, so theydon't shed.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
That's cool.
That's good.
I'm team dog forever and ever.
I understand why people areteam cat.
If they were walking everything, knowing where to feed it, then
I just don't like when they rubup against you to like mark
that me like it's not with a dog.

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I know that it's like okay,we're both loving each other
with a cat I'm like.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
why are you?

Speaker 2 (50:06):
doing this?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
But no hate to cat people, only love there's still
animals, so we love them.
That love they're still animals, so we love them.
That is true, that is true.
Okay, well, I'll be watchingDog TV.
And one thing I won't bewatching is the Bachelorette.
So the Bachelorette is takingthe summer off.
It would normally be the nextversion of it, but it's the 22nd

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season of ABC's first hit andthey just announced they're not
going to premiere mid -year,unlike the past three
installments.
Instead, the network will airseason 10 of Bachelor in
Paradise, which I forgot thatthat's even on.
So they keep saying Bachelorhas not been canceled and
they're saying like it probablywill come back.

(50:51):
But now they have, you know,golden Bachelor, which didn't
really obviously like, didn'treally produce that much of a
love connection that we saw, um,and then there's also some
gossip that maybe the mormonwives might be taking the uh,
the place of the bachelorette,like on hulu, you know.
So that slot might go.

(51:12):
I don't, that isn't confirmed, Ijust heard that in a few sites,
but I don't know.
What do you think?
To me, the Bachelorette thelast one with Jen Tran didn't
really go that well and it justseems like it's kind of an
outdated model of people gettingmarried on the spot.
I feel like the whole franchiseneeds a little bit of a refresh
.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Yeah, I would say that they're probably going to
come up with something reallywacky.
Yeah, what I mean by that isthere's this show that a lot of
people like watching, and it'scalled Life After Lockup.
Oh yeah, people get out andthey're in these relationships
with people that they fell inlove with while they were
incarcerated.

(51:52):
Uh-huh, I kind of probablycould see something along the
lines of Bachelor from CellBlock 8, you know, this person
just got out of the penitentiaryor whatever, and now these
eligible bachelor orbachelorettes want to try and
win their love.

(52:13):
I could see something like that.
As crazy as this sounds, I cansee that coming up.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
You're so right.
I feel like if you look at allthe recent ones, like the
Ultimatum or Love is Blind orLove on the Spectrum, they all
have a pretty out there hook Intheory.
They all have a lot of Love isBlind is crazy, where it's like
you're just supposed to getmarried to someone or get
engaged of like not actuallyseeing them, um, and then they

(52:38):
had the naked one.
I forgot.
I forgot what the naked one was, you know where they were
showing that, so it, but Ialways thought the bachelor was
kind of still for like more ofthe vanilla, like old school
type folks who just want to seejust you know, old school, like
how we know the franchise is.
But it it seems like I thinksocial media too.
Now we don't know if people arethere to be influencers or like

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things are getting leaked a lotof times.
I know Gen Season.
They found one of the guysended up not being a nice guy at
all and like people were mad atABC for not really filtering
him in and like casting himstill.
So it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Oh yeah, I mean they have this show called because I
used to like watching this gameshow called deal or no deal with
holly mandel.
This is the show where you knowyou open up the briefcases oh
yeah and I love that show.
I hate it when it went off theair yeah so now they have deal
or no deal, island love.
There's some crazy things, crazytwist to it.

(53:37):
I didn't even watch it becauseI'm like, okay, why are you
doing this?
Why are you just?
You know, I tried to watch itfor a few minutes but it was
just like really weird, you know, and I'm like, no, this is not
the same thing.
And it's like you know,sometimes you can take a good
thing and just wear the hell outof it too.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
You.
Sometimes you can take a goodthing and just wear the hell out
of it too, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Oh yeah, when it was just bachelor and bachelorette,
it was cool, it was fine.
Now you got bachelor, you gotbachelor, paradise, you got the
bachelorette.
You got the golden bachelor,you got the golden bachelorette,
and it's like okay right.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Remember when they did like two, they had two
bachelorettes.
I think it was like Rachel andGabby and stuff, and then I
think that's when they were kindof jumping the shark a little
bit, where I'm like we don'tneed like two bachelorettes and
like one.
You know, it Just seems likethey've been.
I think they've been Toyingaround to see what works for the
past couple Seasons and it justseems like it needs to be put
To rest yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
I think what they're probably going to do is probably
take a break.
I don't see it going away.
I agree with you, it's notgoing to go away, but they're
probably going to take a resetto kind of think okay, how do we
want to move forward with this?
It's probably what they'retrying to figure out.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Yeah, because the whole model of like they go to
three different hometown datesand meet three different
families, and then there's theovernight stays and then it's
like it seems like the samething and they haven't really
produced a lot of successfulmarriages from it lately.
So I think they're gonna haveto be like okay, what are we?
Are we just?
Are you know, are they justmeeting?
Or like, are we still expectinga wedding?

Speaker 1 (55:08):
that's true.
That's true and unfortunately,the majority of people that go
on those shows are looking toadvance their careers yes,
lately it's every single one islike a wellness influencer from
San Diego.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
It's like 19.
Or a travel nurse there's like19 beautiful girls named Lindsay
that are all like travel nursesfrom San Diego.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
That is true, but it'll be interesting to see what
they come up with.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
I know it's crazy, because the Bachelor seems to
still do well Like Grant thelatest Bachelor seems to still
do well, grant the latestBachelor.
He seems really awesome andpeople like him.
That part of it seems to begoing okay.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
That is true.
Wow, what an hour.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Oh my gosh, is it an hour already Already.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
The crazy thing about it, meryl.
I had other stuff, but I knewwe didn't have time, so that's
why I didn't bring them up.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Oh yeah, it's been a crazy hour so do you have any
more, or was that?

Speaker 1 (56:07):
you know what?
I do have a couple more.
I mean, if you got a littletime, yeah, I got some time,
hopefully everyone can bepatient with us here.
Yes, thank you.
Let's see a couple thingsactually three things here.
I did not know this, but okay,obviously the 14th of february,
everyone knows that'svalentine's day, right?

(56:28):
Yep, I actually saw this ongood morning america.
I looked this up and it's areal thing.
Guess what February 13th is?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Oh no, Is it like National Divorce Day or
something?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Not exactly.
It's National Mistress Day.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
No, oh, because that's when people send the
flowers to make sure they'restill known.
Oh my, gosh.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
They get together with their mistress the day
before Valentine's Day andthere's actually some idiots
that actually will take theirmistress to the same restaurant.
They're taking their wife orgirlfriend to the next day.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
It seems like so much work.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
It is To both have one and be one, and then it's
like you're really going to takethem to the same restaurant
yeah, how stupid, can you be?

Speaker 2 (57:22):
exactly I I think my like frontal lobe developed when
I because I think in my early20s I thought that kind of stuff
was cool.
And then you just have torealize like no one should sell
themselves short by being withsomeone who's in a relationship
with someone else.
You know what I mean.
Like you're telling yourselfthat basically you're not worth
like being the main person and Ijust think that's such like a

(57:44):
even if you're not going to doit for like someone else, for
yourself, just to have that muchlike whatever you know.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Yeah, my wife would choke me if she heard me say
this.
But dealing with one woman isenough.
Oh, totally, Absolutely not.
I feel the exact way.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
I'm exhausted in a good way, by one.
The last thing I want, Ifanything, I just want an AI
robot to do the chores.
I don't want a whole other boyor anything like that.
But yeah, that's crazy.
I think the same thing is Ialways felt with men if you're
going to have a mistress, thenjust like get out of the
relationship and stop wastingpeople's time.
So yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
That's so true, and you know what I don't judge.
I mean, if you want to datemultiple people, whatever,
nothing wrong with that, butdon't get in a relationship with
someone and they're thinkingthat you are your monogamous,
you're keeping your word, you'rebeing loyal to that one person,
knowing that you're not.
Don't do that, because you'replaying with people's feelings
and that's not right.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Exactly I talk about in stand-up too, how having an
affair seems outdated.
It has 2016 Ed Hardy t-shirtenergy In this day and age, in
2025, it seems like if you'rehaving an affair, it seems like
old, it seems like a cyber truckof relationships.
It's embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Yes, yes, definitely, definitely.
Well, since we're on bonus stuffhere Bonus, this one is
actually a little bit on the sadside.
There's a woman Her name is LisaManders Her and her husband,
craig, went on an African safariand on these African safaris,

(59:20):
you know, they go out to wherethe wild animals are.
So you know, you're in this bigtruck or whatever with no top
and you're out there with thelions, elephants and whatever is
out there.
So I guess she was standingnear the edge of a lake or river
and there was a hippo that waskind of just laying in the

(59:42):
middle of the water and the nextthing, you know, unprovoked,
the hippo came up and attackedand killed her.
So now her husband is suing thecompany that arranged for the
tour, um, and I guess, uh, theowner of of the, the place that

(01:00:06):
put together their safari tripto begin with, and suing them
basically for the accident.
And I don't know, I just got alot of mixed feelings.
I mean, obviously it's a bad,sad situation, but I'm willing
to bet you 50 cent that theyprobably have some things in
there saying that they're notresponsible to get her killed

(01:00:27):
out there because, let's face it, you're out there with wild
animals and hippos.
I don't know if you know thismerrill, but hippos kill more
people than any other animal onEarth.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I've heard that and I've seen videos of them, like
chasing the boats.
And it seems like lately they'replaying a little bit fast and
loose with, like those boattours.
They go really slow and thenthey wait until the hippo gets
right up to them and then theyspeed away and if, like, the
motor isn't working correctly,it's just so freaky, correctly,

(01:00:57):
it's just so freaky.
I mean.
I think they're gonna have tostart really not putting
themselves like in the middle ofwhere the hippos are for the
tour, and that's unfortunate ifwe don't get to be as close to
them.
But like I've heard that a lot,where there are a lot of hippo
deaths and like they don't,they're upset.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
I can't understand why they would let people be by
the river bank at all and that'sjust like that's so scary yeah,
and the thing is, even though ahippo is huge I mean it's tons,
I mean it weighs one or twotons are huge.
Hippos are very, very fast.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Yeah, it's amazing how fast they can run and
they're not the nicest creatureto be near no, and I'm surprised
, like you would think, all ofthose safaris, usually there has
to be someone right there withlike a gun or a type of like
tranquilizer and stuff and Ijust can't imagine being like
with my loved one and watchingthat and I just I saw that too,

(01:01:46):
that article, and I was thinkinglike imagine if you're the
husband and you're basically nowyou're leaving, like on the
plane ride home, or like you,you go to your hotel room that
night and let your spouse die,like that's so terrible, you
know, just to like imagine thatoh yeah, I mean to actually see
your, your spouse, get killed byan animal, and I mean just
ripped shreds right in front ofyou.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
I mean, how could you not have nightmares about that?

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
I know I am so pro animal, but if I saw a hippo
attack my, like one of myparents, I would literally
become a poacher, like on thespot.
So I know that's horrible tosay, but it would be my, my
villain origin story, where Iwould literally go and like
shoot everyone like right in themouth, and so I feel bad.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
But yes, yeah, it's going to be interesting, but I
don't know.
I've never been a big fan ofthe safaris.
I mean more power to people.
Call me a chicken, call mewhatever you want, but no, I
don't do wild animals.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
No, no, and it's like there's no guarantee.
It's not like it's a you're not.
I can see something like havinga path that you drive through,
or like a proven thing where theanimals can't get to you, but
this seems so like randomizedwhere if an elephant wanted to
come and tip you over if a hippowanted to come and like, just

(01:03:02):
chomp you, they could.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
So hopefully they're gonna stop doing away with them
and, like you know, make it alittle bit more safer.
Yeah, unfortunately, because itis a business, I can't see it
going away.
They may have to take a look athow to do it, but you know
there's too much money involved.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
I can't see it going away yeah, but I mean that man,
I, he, he absolutely should suefor like at least to cover costs
of things.
I mean I can't even imaginelike, yeah, just the flight home
and arrangements and everythingthat's just, and watching your
loved one die like that, thathas to be really, really
distressful.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
So that's true.
Well, this subject here, um, Iknow we talked before we started
the show today and I don't know, maybe it's me but it seems
like there's a lot moreaccidents with planes lately.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
And I don't know if everyone watched the news or not
, but there was a plane inCanada.
They were coming to a landingand the plane crashed and
flipped over.
Oh my God, it was literally onits ceiling.
So I think they said eightpeople were hurt, one person

(01:04:08):
critically, but notlife-threatening.
And I don't know, maybe it's me, maybe it's just a lot of
cameras out there, but it justseems like there's a lot more
accidents now with planes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
It does.
It definitely seems like thereis more and we're capturing it.
I feel like it's both andeveryone's like already on pins
and needles flying or noteverybody, but a lot of people
are.
So imagine like you're landingand then you're like, ok, thank
goodness, I'm safe.
And then now all of a suddenyou're upside down and, yeah,
it's just getting scarier andscarier.
But but also, like I, I wouldfeel better if these things were

(01:04:40):
addressed and like peopleexplained why I feel like we
need a spokesperson, and I knowa lot of people were like, okay,
well, that's not going tohappen because trump is like
letting go of the faa directorand you know.
But I feel like there needs tobe like a public spokesperson
that's talking to the public alot, because I think there's
also probably a lot of undueanxiety and we just need to be

(01:05:01):
transparent.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Oh yeah, I mean you have to, because we saw what
happened during the pandemic,when no one was flying.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
I mean it really almost bankrupt the airline
industry.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Exactly.
I feel like the DC crash orlike the helicopter thing that
seems like weird and not, thatjust seems like such a weird
anomaly of like the hell, whoknows I don't.
I really don't think we're evergoing to know what happened
with that Cause.
It sounds like there's somemaybe fishy stuff that happened,
but like all the other thingsI've just like wheels falling
off and doors flying open and itseems like we really need some

(01:05:37):
answers.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
I agree with that Cause.
The reality is, you can onlyignore it for so long before
people go.
You know what Screw this?
I'm not flying, I'm just goingto go drive.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
I know I try to look all the time but there's an
airport by us and every singletime a plane takes off I'm like
okay, they're fine.
They're fine Like I'm like okay, like look how many times like
I see that and being fine, sohopefully, oh well, that was fun
.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
That was definitely fun.
You got any anything coming up?

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Yes, let's see.
Oh, I had a really fun show inPalm Springs.
So if anyone lives in PalmSprings, shout out to people
that go see comedy.
It was really.
It was on Valentine's Day nightand it was so funny because I
think people just got a ticketfrom the hotel they were staying
at, so I think a lot of peopledidn't even know, like, why they
were at a comedy show, but itwas still really cool.

(01:06:31):
But my next show is in Glendale, california, so right in los
angeles, thank goodness, andit's on um february 24th, so
next monday, oh, which is why,also, we'll talk about this off
air, but I, I won't be here nextweek yes, that is correct
because I will be doing a showbut um, the week after I will be

(01:06:52):
there cool, cool.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Well, we had a great day today.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Yeah, so much fun.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Hey, we got to dress up a lot more often.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
I know, not this week , but the week after.
We'll get the memo, march 3rd.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
There you go.
Well, this has been a lot offun.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
It has.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
Everyone, I'm Lawrence Elrod.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
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Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
You were shouting out .
I don't even know.
Pandora still exists.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Pandora no, not Pandora, I'm sorry, I was
thinking about another place,but all the major ones I'm
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So definitely make sure thatyou listen to us or watch us.
Yay, everyone, have a great day.
Thank you so much for beinghere with us and we can't wait
to see you next week.
Bye everyone, bye, bye, bye.