May 20, 2025 • 55 mins
The economy shows concerning signs with Target limiting self-checkout amid theft losses and Americans taking out loans for groceries, while entertainment industry faces disruption from proposed tariffs on foreign films and Lady Gaga's Rio concert draws two million fans despite a thwarted bomb threat.
• Target limits self-checkout to 10 items or less amid $500 million in theft-related losses
• NFL fines Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich $100,000 for prank call incident
• Climber rescued twice from Mount Fuji in four days after returning for lost cell phone
• Americans taking out short-term loans just to afford groceries amid rising prices
• Nike releases "Dirty Triple White" Air Force Ones that supposedly get cleaner with wear
• 21-year-old fan in critical condition after falling 21 feet at Pittsburgh Pirates game
• Trump proposes 100% tariffs on films produced outside the US, shocking movie industry
• Bill Belichick, 72, dating 24-year-old girlfriend who interrupted his interview
• Lady Gaga performs free concert for two million fans in Rio as security thwarts planned attack
• CBS cancels "The Equalizer" starring Queen Latifah after five seasons
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lauren Selrod and I'm MerylClemo.
Hey, Meryl, how are you doingtoday?
Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm so good.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You know what I am doing?
Great, I feel great, I can'tcomplain.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I like your shirt For the listeners.
You're wearing a chum bucketshirt.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now for some of the old schoolers that know what
this is, or people with kids,you would know what this is.
This is a character out ofspongebob squarepants.
That's so funny I felt likebeing a little silly today yeah,
I feel like I should know it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
One of my friends used to be one of the animators
on spongebob, so I feel like Ishould know, I should know some
of the lore, but I I'm alwayslike, oh, interesting, okay, and
I think of course the only oneI know is actually spongebob
himself.
But unless it's family guy, Idon't know that's true.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's true.
Well, meryl, I will go.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You start this week okay, I have an interesting one.
Um, target is one of the theone of the many stores that is
pulling the plug onself-checkout amid shoplifting
surge.
Now, you know we've gone backand forth a lot of talking about
how AI and robots are takingover for a lot of our jobs and I
know we were feeling likecheckout people were going to be
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by the wayside pretty soonbecause we thought a lot of the
checkout would be, you know, formore of the AI and the
self-scanning machines.
But now retail giant Target haslimited self-checkout to
customers with 10 items or less.
But they're denying the claimclaims the move is due to theft.
Um, they're just saying like,oh, we want to go back to the
normal way.
(01:53):
But it's very obvious, I think,that people are saying it's,
it's, they're losing a lot ofmoney from checkout.
Um, people are like I don'tknow if you've, I've never done
this, but like I would be morescared to shoplift via
self-checkout because I feellike they are watching.
You know the cameras are there,but I guess a lot of people
take it upon themselves to belike, okay, I'm scanning this
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and then this one I get for free, and then you know, basically,
one for me one for you type ofthing.
So yeah, I guess, like, do youuse self-checkout?
Is kind of my first questionfor you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know what I use self-checkout all the time.
You do I like it just becauseit's fast, it's convenient and
you know I take my sweet timejust so we don't have no issues.
But yeah, and you know, I'veseen people, people I've had a
scene, but I've heard of peopleyou know, do learn how to do
(02:49):
tricks.
And you know the sad part is,meryl, no matter what you do,
someone's going to figure out away to work around it.
I know you just got to look atdoes it make better business
sense to to do the self-checkoutor to just get rid of it or
dramatically minimize it?
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's really a numbers game.
Yeah, some numbers here.
Target has been grappling withstaggering losses due to what
retailers call a shrink, a termthat includes shoplifting and
inventory errors.
So in 2023, the companyreported nearly $500 million in
shrink-related losses comparedto the previous year.
In one dramatic case, aCalifornia woman this wasn't me,
(03:29):
I promise, but she wasconvicted of stealing over
$60,000 in merchandise fromTarget stores using a
self-checkout machine during a100-visit crime spree.
So you would think like justarrest her by like the 47th time
or something you know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Nah, don't get me wrong.
I I do know that groceries areexpensive.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
What the hell is she buying for?
I know from target it's a lotof deodorants and paper towels
and stuff yeah, that sounds likemore than just a regular
shopper yeah now I have so manythoughts about this.
Just one of my thoughts is thatI think to the self-shopping
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machines that I go to that arevery finicky and I almost hate
using them.
I don't know if this hashappened to you too, but, like
especially the grocery store byme, the attendant always has to
come over because everyone isalways like trying to pay and do
the right thing and then italways freezes or like it can't
work.
So I still feel like even withthe self-shopping thing, a human
is still needed, like quiteheavily oh, absolutely
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definitely you know, um, andthen my second thing was I did
try.
I'm gonna admit I did try.
I saw a hack a few weeks agothat was like at whole foods.
When you do it, if you sayyou're like weighing your pair
or something, if you like holdthe pear up a little bit, then
it doesn't.
It gives us like half theweight and I tried it and it
just didn't work for me.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So yeah, but you know what A major retailer, Walmart,
got in trouble for.
I guess the weights were off ina self-checkout when they were
weighing fruits and stuff likethat.
So there's some kind of majorlawsuits.
So it can be abused in bothways.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I wouldn't.
But I definitely thinkself-checkout should be an
option, because it just seemslike the lines are taking
forever, and especially if youhave like a toothbrush and a
toothpaste and then everyoneelse in like the main line has
so many items you just want togo through quickly, um, but yeah
, I don't know, I don't know away to stop it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
but yeah, that's true .
I mean, the only way I couldthink of is is that usually,
like the store I go to um, I goto meyers, which is by me
heavily, and you, they have alimit on how many items you can
go through the self-checkout.
So that's a good way to preventit too, because it's easy for
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the person to me to watch.
Yeah, because it's only likeabout, I think, six machines, so
one person could easily watchthat, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, yeah, and I feel like they have to be used
to people just being like okay,like grapes, bananas.
But I just wouldn't, because Ifeel like they're looking a lot
and I think the risk of gettingcaught and having some sort of
fine is like not worth to me.
How much a Kiwi would be, orsomething watching me, whatever
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it's.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Sometimes it's not what you do, but how you do it.
You know what I mean.
If you're standing back andyou're watching everyone, I have
no problem, but don't comestand next to me, well yeah,
that that would irritate theliving hell out of me oh my gosh
, especially like oh, I wear myheadphones a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
In fact, someone asked me if I was autistic
because I was wearing myheadphones in the group and I'm
like, are you?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
serious, yeah, yeah, wow, because I was wearing my
headphones in the grocery andI'm like yeah, yeah, Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Because I was wearing my headphones in the grocery
store and I think they wereactually being sweet.
They were like, oh, I wear, Iwear headphones too, cause I'm
autistic.
I'm like no, I'm just heavilyirritated right now Maybe a sign
of that but like, but yeah,cause it is a lot by the
self-service people and theythey stand right next to you and
makes me feel like I'm notdoing anything bad and then you
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start getting in your head like,did I do something bad?
Or you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, for me I get.
I get that warm feeling, youknow what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah that like flush feeling yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And then you know you want to turn around and be like
okay, can I help you?
Is there a problem?
You know yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Do you guys have to pay for bags where you live?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know what?
Where I live at I don't, but inChicago they do.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They do.
Ok, yeah, For us it's 10 centsa bag, and that is one area
where I won't say where, but oneof my favorite shopper
employees is always like honey,just grab a bag, like she never
charges me for it.
So, but yeah, I mean I canunderstand this with Target
because it seems like a lot tomanage.
But yeah, I mean I canunderstand this with Target
because it seems like a lot tomanage.
So I know Walmart has removed alot of self-checkout machines,
Dollar General has scaled backand yeah, we'll see.
We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah that's true.
I think that, unfortunately,with everything going on right
now in the economy and tariffsand stuff like that, um, I hope
it doesn't happen, but I thinkthat problem may get worse me
too.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I do too, and it's so funny because a lot of this
originated during covid when,like we want, people wanted to
have as little contact or nothave, like the person, sneeze on
each other at the register andstuff so we'll see, just make
sure you pay attention, you know, don't over Over bag stuff, you
know.
Don't over bag stuff.
Don't steal those kiwis.
(08:30):
We didn't tell you to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
There you go.
Well, this is an update From astory we did last week.
This is regarding what happenedwith the Atlanta Falcons and
what happened with ShadurSanders.
Well, the NFL has laid down thehammer.
(08:52):
They have fined the AtlantaFalcons $250,000.
And then they fined thedefensive coordinator, jeff
Erbick.
Just so, people, in case you'renot into football, jeff Erbick,
he actually is the father ofthe idiot, I mean the man who
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did the little prank call.
So he was fined $100,000.
So, between him and the team,they were fined $350,000.
Basically it's supposed to be adeterrent that this doesn't
happen again.
I would say this is a hell of adeterrent.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, do we know how much is Jeff like a very rich?
Is he one of those people thatmakes like $17 million a year,
or?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, I don't think he makes that.
I mean obviously you know themain coaches on there, they,
they do make millions a year.
Um, obviously, the head coachis going to make the most out of
all of them.
But you know, even if you, ifyou make a million dollars a
year, yeah, like a hundredthousand thousand dollars.
That's ten percent of your.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, you know I wonder where this money will go
to you know, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean, I think I think one of the big things the
nfl wants to do is deter anyonefrom doing this nonsense again.
Yeah, and you know also too,there's reports that other
players got prank calls as welltoo oh okay, and so I think the
nfl is just trying to make astrong statement that this
nonsense will not be tolerated.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What if all the money goes to Deion's son?
It goes to like build himanother room to not get phone
calls or interviews or anythinglike that?
I mean, we might have differentviews on this, but like I feel
like that's too much money forthem to be fined on.
What do you think?
Like I think it was totallyidiotic and maybe the falcons
getting fined 250 because that'slike a team, but even though I
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think it was like idiotic whathis son did, a dad getting fined
a hundred thousand just seemslike so much to me you know what
I think, and and again.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
This is just my perspective on this because when
he gave you know he, he went,he went up and he gave a
conference and he apologized forfor what he did was you know,
for what his son did andeverything.
I was a little disappointed hisson wasn't standing next to him
because this is yeah when you'rea young man right, so I was
very disappointed he wasn't upthere too, but you know we
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talked about it on the lastepisode and I think he's lucky
to have his job.
Yeah, because that's just theinformation that was leaked out.
Yeah, well, not really leakedout, but supposedly taken by his
son.
You know we can argue back andforth about that, but I think
that it's very clear that, hey,when you get sensitive stuff,
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you keep that stuff to yourself.
You don't share with yourfamily, you don't leave your
computer open, though we gotanother issue if you gotta lock
your computer in your own housewhen you're a kid, but that's a
whole separate issue yeah,especially at 21 years old.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But we think about, like I think about when I was in
college, some of the bad thingsI did.
If my dad was fined $100,000for every time, I was an idiot.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Something tells me that they had a
not-so-hard-to-hard talk.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, especially after getting that $100,000 hit.
Yeah, and then I guess you'reright.
You're right, he is lucky thathe still has his job.
But I do think too the kid is21 years old.
I feel like the kid is an adult.
So I'm glad he didn't get putin jail or anything like that.
But it's just, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I think it's probably the best of both worlds,
because if the NFL were to goafter him, I would see charges
being brought.
So they probably didn't want todo that and this is the best of
both worlds, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But you don't think?
The dad makes like $60,000 ayear, right, okay, okay, I'm
hoping that that's not takingaway from the kid's future, like
buying a house or something oneday.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
No, no, no, no, I mean the father, like I said,
these coaches you?
No, no, no, no, I mean thefather, like I said, these
coaches you know they makemillions a year.
Obviously, you know the coachesdon't always make the most on
the team, but you know, andhere's the thing, and this is a
great reference to it, these NFLteams are billion dollar
organizations.
Yeah, I don't care how muchmoney you have.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
$250,000 is $250,000.
Yeah, that's true, that's verytrue.
I wonder if, like um the sun,if the one that got pranked,
dion's son, if he said likedon't do it, I don't care about
that, I wonder if they wouldstop or anything, if they would
like drop it you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't know but I think the NFL will go straight
through with this, just becauseit's a tarnish on their brand
too, when this kind of happens.
And you know, again, these arekids that are well.
I shouldn't call them kids,they're men, but I guess because
of my age I look at them askids.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, they are still kids.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
But you know, they're literally going through life
changing moments.
I mean, this is the biggestthing that ever happened to them
.
To have someone to call andprank them like that, that's not
fun, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
They probably wanted to set a precedent of do this
and you're going to get a hugereprimanding, which would be
good.
I wish we did that more insociety of people online
bullying each other we talkedabout it a few times ago people
running and hitting each otheron the head with batons or like.
I feel like we need a fewthings, just even if they're
like over punishment, just toshow.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I feel like I'm sounding very old right now, but
I would say that there's350,000 reasons that this won't
happen next year.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I think so too.
Year, I think so too.
The dad is probably so mad.
I wonder, if there's like a momin the picture, how she feels
about all this.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You know what?
I would probably figure she'sprobably live it on a number of
occasions, cause, let's face it,that's a hundred thousand
dollars out of their householdbecause your knucklehead son
thought he was having a goodtime, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Exactly, didn't you say?
I think there were, like otherboys involved too, like you know
, one of the friends or anything.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, we'll keep an eye on that, oh yes.
But yeah, I could just imagineI'm not even going to send the
article to my dad because hewould break out in a sweat from
all the things I've done.
I definitely had to a few timesbe like don't ask why the
police are calling you right now.
It's okay, it's okay, okay.
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Well, speaking of stupid things, a man airlifted from Japan's
Mount Fuji returns to slope dayslater and is rescued again.
So, uh, this is ridiculous.
A climber airlifted withaltitude sickness from the peak
of japan's mountain last weekreturned to the slope and was
rescued for a second time justfour days later.
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Officials urged people to beaware of the harsh conditions at
the country's tallest peakduring its off season.
The climber was identified as a27 year old student living in
japan, um, so he made anemergency call and he was
airlifted, which, like I don'tknow if you've ever seen videos
of people being airlifted soscary.
He developed symptoms ofaltitude sickness and then, on
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saturday, he returned to mountfuji about, uh, which is 3,000
meters, nearly 10,000 feet,above sea level.
Oh, okay, so he was looking forhis cell phone and other
belongings left behind.
That's a little different.
I thought he was just like hereI go again, like I mean as much
as we love our cell phone.
I don't know if I'd climbanother 10,000 feet to do it.
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And then basically, he had thesame thing.
So he was like, help, I need tobe rescued again.
And I just think, anytime Ihear a story about this, or
people like hiking mount everestor you know machu picchu or
something, I'm just like, oh mygod, I don't, I don't have what
it takes yeah, I think he needsto find a new hobby person.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
But to return to try to find your cell phone.
That's even scarier, becausethen that means you don't have
your cell phone on you.
So like when the inevitablehappens, like how would you even
get rescued again, you know?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I mean, I get it.
Losing your cell phone would bea pain in the ass, because your
whole life is on there, right?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But yeah, I don't think think I'm gonna risk my
life trying to go back for it.
No, and this is very, veryscary.
He's lucky and another climberfound him there.
He was unable to move after hedeveloped a altitude sickness
for a second time.
Poor thing, I feel bad.
I mean he's 27, like you couldjust tell that's probably
someone that really wanted to dothis and, like, probably really
had his goals set.
It's a little ridiculous, but Ifeel very bad for him.
I hope he's able to train anddo it again, if that's what he
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really wants.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I don't know.
I think his buddies areprobably going to sit down with
a beer and say hey, you know, wereally applaud what you're
doing, we support you, but yeah,you need to stop doing this.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, there's a video game where you can do that.
Now, just put on this VRheadset, you'll be good to go.
Do you have any friends in yourlife that are giant rock
climbers, slash hiking MountKilimanjaro or anything like
that?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know what?
I know that there's hikers in afamily as far as extreme like
that.
None that I'm aware of, becauseyou know, I hiked when I was in
the Boy Scouts years ago.
So hiking is actually kind offun, but I'm not really looking
to try to climb a mountain oranything like that.
(18:39):
You know I have went over 50years without breaking a bone in
my body and I'm way too youngto start now.
Yeah, same thing.
You know I have went over 50years without breaking a bone in
my body and I'm way too old tostart now.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So yeah, same thing.
You know that's so funny.
I just saw on TikTok.
I've never broken a bone either, and I saw on TikTok that the
universe like I don't know, ofcourse it could be silly, but if
you don't break a bone it'slike supposed to mean that
you're like you go throughenough, like mentally and
physically enough in thislifetime that like the universe
bears you.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I know, I know I was like maybe I'll break an elbow
if I, if it helps me like not beso mentally crazy or something.
Um, but yeah, I know a fewpeople that have like hiked
everest, or like one of myreally best friends did machu
picchu in peru and like shecouldn't breathe and you know,
but she just she wanted to.
This was like a goal of hersand I'm like, well, we just
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think very differently.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
This is not like in my mind at all wow so I don't
know, does she still do the hikelike that?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
she just had a baby.
So now, now, now she'sconquering motherhood.
But, um, but yeah, could youimagine this guy having to
explain?
And I think, well, maybe notbecause it's not america, but
like here, we would have to payto get airlifted two times.
You know, our health insurancewould be a couple thousand
dollars, like every time that'strue, and you know what it would
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be.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It would be kind of a little bit hysterical if the
same rescue team came back likedude you again.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I know, I know, I heard that happens a lot too.
Especially, there's like onesand dune that I've heard of in
the United States where peoplelike go down it and then there's
a warning.
It's like $3,000 or somethingif you like can't get back up,
and they have to rescue you.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Really.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's a famous one.
I'm sure people know what I'mtalking about, cause I've seen
it a lot on social media where,like you can climb all the way
down but there's so many signssaying if you're going to have
trouble getting back up, and ifyou do it's going to cost you
like $3,000.
And people are always like,nope, not me.
And then they do.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wow.
Yeah, Well at least they knowhow much it's going to cost them
, right?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Exactly, it's like a vacation you just added on.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I think that's so silly.
Well, talk aboutnot-so-vacations.
This is actually kind of sad,but right now, americans are
taking out short-term loans tobuy groceries.
They're doing payday loans,short-term loans like that and
other stuff just to buygroceries.
That is a dangerous sign.
(21:15):
It's an incredibly dangeroussign right now.
It just speaks to everythingthat's going on with the tariffs
and all the stuff like that,and I, I just, I just pray that,
um, that this madness stopssoon, because it's only going to
get worse if we keep going downthis path yeah, that is so sad.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Remember, like a few weeks ago we covered an article,
I think it was like doordash orsomething, but remember they
hadn't added clarna, like youcould pay your installments,
pretty much remember, so we'retalking about that, where it was
like door dash or something,but remember they had added
clarinet.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like you could pay in installments pretty much
remember.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So we're talking about that where it's like you
know, if you have to split uplike a 30 delivery of a pizza or
something that's like you knowyou're paying in like increments
of eight dollars for the nextcouple of months.
I think I think both things.
I think a that's like that isvery sad and real.
And b we've also gotten.
I know for me personally, likeI absolutely could lower my
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grocery budget by like notbuying a lot of processed food
and snacks, and you know we haveto.
It might it might just be likerecession core, where we have to
make like potatoes and onionsand like more whole food stuff,
which is boring and sad and likemakes everyone feel like we're
poor.
But I think that's what a lotof families are just going to
have to do to like makeapplesauce instead of like
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buying the little containers,you know, stuff that is so
convenient.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And you know.
The thing is is that you knowit's easy to say, OK, the
terrorists are going to makeeverything great, we're going to
start building and doing stuffhere.
That's great, but that's downthe line.
If you want to build a factory,it's not something that's going
to happen in a year.
(22:54):
That's just reality.
People are hurting now, today.
Yeah, and especially in ourhousehold too.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
There's no little children, because it's easy to
manage.
When it's just yourself, oryourself and other adults, it's
like, oh OK, we don't have tobuy any extra snacks.
But I'm sure when you have kidstoo, it's like telling them no
crackers, no, like no orangejuice.
You know, that's just.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
that's a lot to manage just that's a lot to
manage.
Oh yeah, and you know the otherthing too with all these
tariffs, that's not a guaranteethat everything's coming back,
because if you're gettingsomething built so inexpensive,
so cheap, so there's a lot ofstuff that if you double the
price, it would still be cheaperto build it yeah yeah, that's
(23:42):
what I say.
It's not a guarantee, that's thething.
Yeah, now high dollar itemswhole different situation, but a
lot of the the very cheap,inexpensive stuff.
It may not be financially worthbringing it to united states
States, even with the hightariffs.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know, yeah, no, it's true.
And when you think about ifpeople are taking loans out on
their food for food, that meansthen those loans have interest
rates and like you know that'strue, and you can only do that
for so long too.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So, yeah, let's just hope things get better, because
that that was actually prettysad for me to see that that is
really sad.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That is really sad and I wonder like how that will
change people's voting movingforward, because I have to
imagine a lot of those familiesprobably voted for what is
happening now.
You know or didn't know, butyeah, so it's, it's crazy, but,
um, I definitely think we talkedabout this too, where I think,
like a few years ago, it justused to be fun to go to the
grocery store and like try newsnacks and stuff, and now no one
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I know is like able to do that,you know.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh my God, I go to this grocery store, meryl, and I
blink my eyes $200.
Yeah, me too.
I'm sitting there like what thefuck.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm going through self-checkout and I'm like, okay
, I have a pear and like a bagof carrots I don't know here
though especially, I mean Ithink everywhere but it's like,
it is so weird in la, becauseit's like the culture is okay,
like half of my life andeverything is going to like
people go to fancy restaurantsand it's all about you know like
flashy, just spending money andstuff, and then the other half
is kind of like okay, likegroceries are so high so it's
hard to know which way is upthat's true.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's true.
I just hope that, um, I justhope that we find a better way
to handle this, because yeahthis is not sustainable no,
definitely not.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And people with children, and I think it will
make people like if, if whatthey want is like more babies,
more families, more everythinglike that's going to deter
people from probably bringingnew children into the world when
it's like you can't afford them, you know you mean that five
thousand dollars won't help?
no, I'm just kidding that willbuy someone chicken, nuggets and
green beans.
(25:54):
I think my last grocery billwas like $5,000 from getting
lunch.
Okay, oh, this is exactly whatI'm talking about.
We're talking about groceries,and now mine is like the
complete opposite, where Nike isdropping dirty Air Force Ones
that get cleaner the more youwear them.
So this is so ridiculous.
(26:15):
The Nike Air Force Ones dirtytriple white is.
It's almost like you know ifyou're listening, you always
have to just look at it to knowIf you like Google.
Nike Air Force One triple white.
So it looks like it's beentrashed, pretty much Like up top
, the leather upper has beenyellowed, there's dark marks
across the front and like someof the stitching on the Nike
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swoosh has even come loose.
And then the technology,technology.
The more that you wear them,they actually get a little bit
more white.
And it also comes with a um,like a cleaning kit.
If you wanted to do it, thatcomes with the nike branded
toothbrush and a tube oftoothpaste if you, like you know
, want to wear them white.
White, uh, they're going for130, which I actually thought
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was pretty affordable, knowinglike nike for sneakers and I I
just I mean, my first thought ofthese is like I always kind of
snicker slash, laugh a littlebit when I see people wearing
those.
Like what's it called?
That's not gray goose, it'slike something goose like the
shoes that are like already.
Um, they look dirty, like theyalready are dirty.
(27:20):
The trend of just buyingsneakers dirty seems like so I
think I'm officially too old tofind that cool yeah, we've.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
We've seen our sarah's trends, you know, from
written jeans to the ones thatlook like you, you, you, you
peed on yourself, remember those.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh, yeah, I remember that.
Yeah, oh yeah.
And Golden Goose is thesneakers I'm thinking of.
Yes, yes, they look tatteredand they're like $600.
And to me personally, that isnot a flex.
Anytime I see someone wearingthem I'm like that is whatever.
The opposite of a flex is,that's almost as bad as you, you
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remember this guy, who?
Who bought this?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
supposedly art, we're literally banana on the wall
and this guy paid.
What was it?
I want to say, uh, was it likea million dollars or 70?
Yeah, it was some insane amountthat he paid and he bought the
banana and then just ate it.
I'm like, dude, you could youknow, you gotta like that, just
throw money.
Okay, you could throw it my wayif you're just gonna throw
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money away exactly I I don't getit.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I think, like I mean, I I like nike air force ones.
I think they look really cooland I I like them the best.
I think, of all the pre-wornlooking sneakers from like
balenciaga, new balance, like Ilike, I like the Nikes the best,
but I just don't get buyingsomething that already looks
dirty and spending more moneybecause of that.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
That I won't do.
That's stupid.
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now, I do have.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Air Force Ones myself .
You know mine was bought white.
And one thing about Air ForceOnes is when you first buy them
they're not really the mostcomfortable shoe, but over time
it actually loosens up and itfeels good really yeah so, but
you wouldn't pay extra money tohave them be dirty from the
start I would just buy some airforce ones.
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You just don't clean them.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I'm not gonna pay extra for like at the mall the
mall by me they have a littlekiosk of a guy that I really
want to try out.
He has the whole.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I'll make your shoes white again Sounds like a bad
slogan, so they're going to beanother one there pretty soon
where they're probably going tobe like hey bring those white
shoes over here, I'm going todirty them up for you.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yes, One time I went and I saw the Golden Goose
people were showing people howthey take the sneakers and make
them really dirty.
I was like I feel like I'mwatching an SNL skit or
something right now.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Then you watch it and go, so people actually pay for
this yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's so weird to me.
I'm not the target demo here.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Must be nice to be able to throw money away like
that, huh yeah.
Well, this is a kind of a sadsituation here, but we're going
to pray for him, and you mayhave heard about this.
A gentleman, his name is a21-year-old, is he 20?
Maybe early 20s?
(30:18):
His name is Kevin MarkwoodKevin K-A-V-A-N.
Markwood and he fell 21 feetonto the baseball field in
Pittsburgh.
It was the Pittsburgh Piratesversus the Chicago Cubs.
He's now in critical conditionand you know, of course,
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everyone's praying for him.
They had to stop the game,obviously.
Well, not stop, but pause thegame.
And he was taken out on astretcher and went straight to
the hospital and I guess he wasreally excited and somehow or
another, I don't know if hejumped up, he leaned too hard,
but he he just fell over andlanded in the outfield and and
(31:04):
when he landed he wasn't moving.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So it was.
I saw that.
Yeah, it's really scary becauseyou you see him like jump up a
little bit.
You can't really tell like whatexactly happened, and then it's
crazy that his body went up andthen flopped like a rag doll
like down and it's really scaryand weird, Like could you
imagine that?
I mean don't imagine, but likejust being with your friend or
loved one and having that happenand it's just like unbelievable
(31:28):
.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh yeah, and you know the crazy thing, merrill, is
that some stadiums, to me thepitch is a little bit too deep.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yes, oh yeah.
Yeah, I won't sit up at the topbecause if you slip on like
beer or something, I swear toGod.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It feels like if you trip you're not a shopper.
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And it's always like a set of like stairs and then
stairs.
Yeah, I've heard some peoplesay that they think he was
inebriated and that might havehelped because it's like your
body's so relaxed.
But I think the last I heard,too, he was in critical
condition, is that.
I think that's really scary andso sad.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I was actually shocked to hear that.
I don't know the number I haveto do some research on it, but
there has been a number of fansthat have died by falling over
the rail.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I didn't know, oh my gosh, I don't know.
This is like now I'm I'm barelymoving.
Already as it is, I'm nevermoving.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
But uh, I mean, I, I, I have beers when I go to the
game, I have a good time.
I don't ever get that happy orthat really, where I'm not sure
around me, because you know thesad part is, if you fall over,
that's your life.
If it's high enough 21 feetit's a miracle he's still alive,
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because that's a huge drop youtook.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, I know and imagine just like the players on
the field or like people in thedugout.
You're just like sitting thereand all of a sudden you don't
know what happened.
There's just a man likeflopping on the field yeah, yeah
, that's true.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean you, you kind of wonder if, if it happens
sometimes, when people are liketrying to catch a foul ball,
yeah, and I've seen people flipover you know, thankfully not
that high, but I've seen peopleflip over the rails trying to
catch the bones like oh, my god,yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
I wonder if they're gonna like, if this will make
them put the railing up or, youknow, do any sort of?
They'd have to outfit the wholestadium, I guess, to change it,
but I wonder if they'll makeany changes because of this.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, but the only thing is, how high can you put
the railing?
I know, because the problem is,if you have an idiot, that
idiot can find a way to fallover.
I know and I was going to say,if they put nets but then you
(33:46):
know that idiots are gonna bethen intentionally jumping into
the nets and that's like so yeah, that's really sad, scary.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, hopefully, um, hopefully it gets better and uh,
like I said, we're praying forhim.
This is this cemented, becauseI will not sit like anywhere
higher than like a level 108 orsomething.
I just will not ever go to thethird because, same thing that
the padres one too, in san diego, it's really high, like if
you're on the third tier, likeif you're looking down, it's one
of those it looks like straightdown that is true okay, well,
(34:12):
something else, scary, of course.
I know we talked a little bitabout the tariffs already, but,
um, I don't know know how trueor current this is, but Trump
said that he will 100 percentput tariffs on films produced
outside the US for movies andthe movie industry.
And so the movie industry isrightfully shocked and confused
because obviously we all know,between the pandemic and the
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strikes and the AI and therobots and everything, it is
tough times here, you know, formany movie makers.
Um, president donald trump'splan to enforce 100 tariffs on
foreign produced films was metwith shock and disbelief across
the european film industry.
Obviously we've been in such agood swing with, like low budget
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movies, studio movies, like somany movies are being made in
the UK, france, germany.
It seems like a lot of movieshave been made in Italy lately,
and especially like Harry Potter, lord of the Rings, you know,
mission Impossible, gladiator,just to name a few.
It's so weird and that's likecutting into just culture and it
employs a lot of people, likeit employs a lot of americans,
(35:20):
british people, it like, youknow, we do a ton of stuff with
london.
It's just like so weird.
But um, yeah, I don't know, Idon't know how far that will go,
because then also I feel likethe one thing that trump likes
is to have support of people hecares about and I feel like
pissing off like all ofhollywood wouldn't be a very
smart move, even though I knowhe doesn't care about hollywood,
(35:42):
but pretty weird yeah, I'lljust say this you're talking
about the same person thatthought it was cute to do a
picture of himself as the pope.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Okay, I'll just leave it there yeah, yeah with I.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I had to look on his own page to be like is this true
?
True or not?
And also just from a no matterlike who.
Like we've grown out of thatwhere we we like to work with
other countries and like blendother cultures, you know yeah, I
(36:26):
mean.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
The thing is we're a global economy, yes, yes, and
literally what you're saying isyou're going to double the cost
of production.
Now you and I, being and we'rein this field, know how
difficult it is, especially forsmaller type entertainers, to
try and put stuff together, getmoney together.
So by literally doubling it,you're going to literally cancel
(36:46):
out so many different peoplethat will not be able to follow
their dreams and do what theywant to do I know it really
feels like a like a hundredyears ago type of decision to
almost just be like we, we'regoing to tear up the movie.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
You know other countries in the movies and now
when you think about, like, theCannes Film Festival, like all
the crossover that we do withjust different countries and the
industries, it's so weird, likethat's just so weird.
But a lot of people also saidgreat, if this goes through now,
you're going to see the rise ofAI even more more.
Now humans are going to betaken out of the equation, like
(37:20):
even more, just because they'renot going to want to pay the
tariffs.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Um, so yeah, yeah, I, I do agree with you.
The one thing that I would sayis um, thank goodness that you
know they addressed the ai issueand the strike that they had.
Yeah, um, because you're rightwith something like this.
If this um, because you'reright with something like this,
if this goes through, you'reright they're probably going to
see a lot more ai, as opposed togoing over to other countries,
(37:47):
which the actors and actresseswill still get paid, maybe not
as much, they'll still get paidbut I think what's going to do
is that um, they're going to go,okay, no problem, we're going
to hit you with the 100% tariffas well.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Which is so weird.
I just can't understand, like Idon't know, just the thought of
making other movies and havingother actors be coming to
America and us going over there.
It's just like a very nicething in life, but whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
And you know, the sad part is I don't think their
administration reallyunderstands.
See, everyone is really laserfocused on the producer director
and the actors but, it's somany people behind the scenes
that makes that picture.
You know they take those words,they take all the things going
around and they create magic.
(38:37):
Where you see, you hear and youfeel it, there's a lot of people
that go into yeah, you know ifa person ever wants to figure
out what all goes into it at theend of a movie.
If it's recorded, slow it downso you can see how many people
are actually.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah part of that to make it you know, to make it a
success and when we think of allthe the films that we've had
where the director, the writer,whoever the actors, have been
people from other countries andstuff, it's like that's a lot of
our best people.
So it's like those people wouldnever now get the chance to
come to the US and work on aDreamer visa type situation.
(39:15):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Oh yeah, and I think where it really is going to hit.
If you think about marvelmovies, yeah, how expensive it
is to make those movies.
Can you imagine getting ahundred percent tariff on a 100
million dollar budget movie?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
yeah, ryan reynolds can't afford anything more if
he's getting sued, or.
But yeah, totally.
And so much filming has been inCanada too.
I feel like it's almost like somany productions I've heard has
been in Canada and that's likea big been, a big thing for
their you know economy.
So it's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, so hopefully this doesn't go through, but
we'll see yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
That's why we'll make our own movies and we will not
tell anyone about it.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
There you go.
Well, this is an interestingone too, meryl.
Do you know who Bill Belichickis?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I sure do Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
For anyone who's really not into sports Bill
Belichick is a famous head coachin the NFL.
He's coached multiple teams andI think he's looking at going
to the college side now.
But that's not the big news.
The big news is okay, he's 72years old and he has a
girlfriend and she is 24 yearsold.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Whoa mama.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Literally she could be His granddaughter, or
possibly even greatgranddaughter, oh my god.
So he was doing an interviewand In the interview they asked
him well, you know how did youand your girlfriend meet?
And she jumped in it and saidWell, we're not answering that,
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which is kind of a little on theignorant side to me.
But anyway, yep, yep, but youknow, it's kind of interesting
because it's like you know, she,I guess, interviewed multiple
times and then hisdaughter-in-law, which she's
married to his son, kind ofweighed in on what she thought
about this and you know, it'snot really a good look.
Even Charles Brockley CharlesBrockley is actually a really
(41:26):
good friend of Bill Belichick hedidn't go into details, he just
said he doesn't like the thingsthat he's seen, he doesn't like
what he's been told and he'sprobably going to have a
one-on-one talk with him.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Wow, really.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
And I don't know.
I mean there's a whole bunchgoing on here.
One I'm really shocked that hehad his girlfriend there in the
interview.
She wasn't in the interview,she was off to the side, but
allow her to interrupt that.
And the one thing that was andI have to check, but I want to
(42:00):
say it was CBS, I think, but Igot to verify that but they had
said that they cleared it withhim, that they could talk about
anything.
Now a lot of people don't knowand I do this even on my show is
I always talk to the, to thewhole, to the guests that's
coming on my show, and I askthem is there anything that you
don't want to talk about?
You know.
So this way they're notsurprised and you know you have
(42:23):
an awkward moment in front ofthe camera.
So they reiterated that wecleared this with him and his
team.
They didn't just go off therails, I mean they cleared it
yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
So that's one issue, and it's not even that pressing,
it's not even that bad of athing.
Where did you guys meet?
I'm surprised they don'talready have a stock answer that
they say oh yeah, and what's soweird about it?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Meryl is like okay, and I look at it over and over
again.
I'm like okay, this isn't thescandalous questions, like okay,
where'd you guys meet?
Why is that a problem?
Yeah, I mean, is theresomething that you know, we
don't know that?
We'll be like, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Like sugardaddiescom or like yeah, we're assuming
it's not going to be like churchor you know, selling girl scout
cookies or something like ifthe age gap is that big.
So I don't know what's your takeon this I mean I number one, I
agree with you, and it'sannoying to interview people
when, like their fiance or youknow best friend or someone is
in the room.
It's just it kind of takes awayfrom that moment that you're
(43:22):
having when you're justinterviewing the people.
So that's annoying.
Um number two I hope he has,like I mean, they're not married
, so not a prenup, but I hope hehas guardrails in place so that
he's not getting like takenadvantage of or you know, vice
versa, whatever it's.
It's weird and I think, uh, Idon't know, maybe she just at
some point, maybe he has made itso that she has a lot of
(43:42):
license over and she kind ofthinks like she's also the star
as well.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
So I'm sure I'm sure there are reasons why she feels
comfortable doing that, you knowthat's true, but you know, I
don't think it's right but youknow it goes back to you know an
old saying that that, um thatpeople have said is never bite
the hand that feeds you yeah,and it makes her look weird with
the media and everything.
(44:07):
Exactly yeah, so I don't know.
She had a weird look on herface too, when she said this
yeah, I saw it.
I know I'm like dude what areyou?
Angry about what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
It's also like there's nothing kind of snootier
than like a hot 24-year-old youknow who's dating a rich man,
so she probably thinks she's ontop of the world Like she has
everything that you couldprobably want.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
I mean.
To me, love is love.
Hey, if it's real love, go forwhatever.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
You know again, don't let her cost you money, because
you know that's a real thing.
You know, if people feel likeshe's toxic, that could
potentially hurt your career.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Definitely, absolutely, and I'm sure that's
going to be one of many likewhen he's out in the public or
I'm sure she hears about it LikeI'm sure they're at like a
million events Like every night.
There's probably something thatthey have to be at and I can
see if, like, she's crabby andjust having a day where she's
kind of annoyed at the media.
But then you don't even have tobe in this interview.
No one's telling you or askingyou and I get it it can be real
(45:12):
tiresome.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
It can be bothersome too, because he is a famous head
coach.
But by dating him you sign upfor that too.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, exactly.
Oh my gosh, I can't imagine,even even now, dating someone in
their 70s.
That's just so crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
And you know the thing is, let's be real, if he
wasn't who he was, would she bewith him?
Yeah, I know, I don't know, I'mjust saying I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
But then a lot of people are probably like, okay,
they're using each other.
He's using her for her looksand youth and she's using him
for her as like clout and moneyand stuff you know to mash made
in heaven yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Just don't let her uh cause you from losing money
yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Um, okay, I think this one is my last one, if I'm
correct.
Oh, we'll pick a good one.
Um, there's a lot here.
So lady gaga just did a concert.
I mean, the main news storyhere is that lady gaga did a
concert to over like two millionfans on saturday night in rio
de janeiro.
Um, and that is amazing.
I don't know if you got achance to see any video footage
(46:19):
of it yet.
If not, everyone should youknow if you want to look it up,
because even if you're not thebiggest lady gaga fan, just the
footage alone of like her onstage and then it pans out and
it just shows you think it'sgonna end and it just never ends
in a sea of people, and it'sreally amazing to see.
Even the rehearsals itself drewlike hundreds of thousands of
people, which is super cool.
(46:40):
Um, but the other part of thestory that I thought was crazy
was that the concert wastargeted for a bomb attack by a
hate group posing as for littlemonster fans and thank goodness
that the local authorities wereable to get in there and have
nothing happen but the suspectswere recruiting participants,
including minors, to carry outcoordinated attacks using
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improvised explosive and Molotovcocktails to carry out
coordinated attacks usingimprovised explosive and Molotov
cocktails.
So this could have beendevastating.
You know who knows.
But any time you have agathering of two million people,
like I assume something weirdis going to go down or you know
that everyone would be on highalert.
But I just think like good forthe people, the security that
are working that night, becausehow on earth do you look after 2
(47:26):
million people?
And that's just.
I mean my hat is off to theeveryone involved that has to
like be part of the security andpolice and stuff.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Oh, definitely.
I mean, it was great on anumber of levels.
One I don't know if you noticedor not, but that was actually a
free concert that Lady Gagagave yeah, I saw that, yeah,
which is super cool and it was.
Oh my god, you're right, it wasso, people.
And the beautiful thing aboutit, merrill, is that security
(47:59):
and the police I guess they wereworking hand in hand, whatever
but they thwarted that to thepoint to where lady gaga and her
team did not know tillafterwards right, which is
amazing because you have to beso scared if you're hurt too.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
That takes such bravery to be in front of two
million people and just have thetrust that like that.
I mean you have to know in thecrowd that there's going to be
like thousands of like weirdosthere.
You know, when you get a twomillion people, oh yeah, yeah,
definitely.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
My hat off to her, my hat off to the police that
handled it.
That was great, that wasawesome, and it just shows that
you can have a great time andstill keep everyone safe.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
I know I wish more people.
I wish we were just able tohave large, large gatherings
without even needing to havesecurity.
But I feel like I'm living in adisney movie or something yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Unfortunately talk about unfortunate.
Have you ever seen the show theequalizer on cbs?
Speaker 2 (48:59):
no, I haven't.
I haven't until now.
That wasn't the one that yourcousin was on, was it?
Speaker 1 (49:04):
no, she was on, uh, fbi, okay, uh, in case people
have not seen it um, the showthe equalizer is actually uh
based off of, uh, a spinoff fromthe movie equalizer that denzel
washington played.
You know, he was an ex-ciaagent and he went out to people,
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um kind of like a vigilante.
Okay, so Queen Latifah is thesame thing, but she has a team
behind her, so it's her.
Then, um, you know, she has aguy who's a a computer whiz, and
then his wife is ex-military um, real paratrooper, I just
(49:46):
kick-ass type person and thenyou know, she has her boyfriend.
Well, they're now gettingmarried, but I don't want to
give it away in case we don'tsee the last one, but you know,
it was a great show.
It was on five seasons and nowthey canceled it.
And what's so crazy about it,though, merle is?
(50:06):
Within the last year or so,they switched the time because
it came on at seven uh, my timeand then it got moved to I want
to say eight or nine.
I have to double check, but youknow how they tell you hey, you
know, check out this.
Whatever it's a new time slot,they, they didn't do that, so
it's like, hmm, it's almost likethey're trying to kill it off.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, and this was on CBS.
You said CBS.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yes, huh, that's so weird.
What else?
Speaker 2 (50:34):
does CBS have going on?
Speaker 1 (50:35):
I guess the year before they had ratings about 6
million people watching and thenit dropped down to, I want to
say, $5 million or $5.
Something, million, and it'slike, okay, I get it.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
It went down a little bit, but yeah, but it's still
like a good show and you'rebuilding a fan base, Exactly,
and they're like well, you know,it was basically budgetary
reasons.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
I'm like that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
So yeah, I was kind of sad to see that go what do
you think?
Have you?
Have you had any shows that youreally love get canceled on you
?
Um so funny.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
I feel like all the ones that I've loved have like
canceled themselves pretty much,like there's one or two.
I guess there's one that Ireally like.
That was like, uh, people willprobably be able to think about
it, but they were like on topand then they, they were, they
did such a good job and theywere like, and we're done, and
they just wanted to like endthings on really on like a good
note.
Oh oh, succession, yeah,succession was my favorite, one
(51:36):
of my favorite shows ever, andit just ended like, and you know
, they wanted to end on a highnote.
I think it was their decision.
And then suits is anotheranother one I liked, but I feel
like Suits went on for likeeight million episodes, so
someone could have canceled it,I think, at some point.
But no, I haven't had anything,maybe, oh, oh, you know what,
um, I think this one just didn'tget renewed.
(51:58):
But there's a really awesomeshow.
It was called Divorce and itwas with Sarah Jessica Parker
and Molly Shannon and likeThomas Hayden Church and I never
hear people mention it, butlike it's one of those like, if
you know, you know type of showswhere everyone that like has
watched it, loves it so much,and I think it was on for maybe
two or three seasons and it wasso good and I loved it so much
(52:19):
and then it just like never cameback.
And I same thing is that peoplewere like okay, it's not
budgetary and and you had a bigfan base and like it has, just
like Queen Latifah is like this,had Sarah Jessica Parker and
had huge stars attached to it.
So I think I'll watch like thethree seasons of that show and
I'm like what happens?
What happens?
Speaker 1 (52:39):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
But I'll have to watch.
I'll have to watch the seasonsone through five of it.
At least.
I love Queen Latifah.
I think she's so pretty andcool.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Yeah, this was a good show.
I was actually shocked thatthey were canceling it.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
I know.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
I heard buzz about it on social media but you know,
until it's like, reallyconfirmed, you kind of take
social media with a grain ofsalt because there's all kinds
of crazy stuff being said onthere, exactly yeah.
Social media with a grain ofsalt because there's all kinds
of crazy stuff being said onthere, exactly yeah.
But yeah, once it was confirmedby cbs, it was like and then
some of the um, the actors onthe show, on their site they
were talking about oh yeah man,so yeah.
(53:20):
So I guess I'll have to findsomething else to watch on
sundays now exactly.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
It won't be any um new italian shows shows, or
they'll be getting tariff tax onit.
We won't be watching any Frenchfilms or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
Talk about stuff to watch.
What do you have coming up,Meryl?
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yay, I just had a really fun show in Dana Point,
so that was super cool.
And then, coming up, I havenothing this weekend because of
Mother's Day, so I wanted tospend it with my mommy.
And then next week, the weekafter, I will be in Santa
Barbara.
So I think May 15th, if peopleare around, I will be at an
awesome venue called the RedPiano in beautiful Santa Barbara
(54:01):
.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
Nice, nice.
So everyone watching.
Make sure that if you're in thearea you go see Meryl.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Yeah, I would love that Come say Nice, nice, so
everyone watching, make surethat if you're in the area, go
see Meryl.
Yeah, I would love that.
Come say hi.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
Very fun.
Well, this has been a lot offun.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Yeah, this is so, so fun.
Are you doing anything specialfor your wifey on Mother's Day?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
You know what.
We're going to do somethingdifferent, I told her.
I said, you know what?
We need some time to ourselves.
So I think we're going to dolike a staycation, you know.
Just, you know, get a hotelroom someplace, you know, have a
good time, you know, maybe geta couple's massage, do a little
shopping, just relax.
You know something a littledifferent.
Speaker 2 (54:36):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
That's so sweet.
So yeah, it's a little bit of alast minute thing, but to me
those are the most fun parts.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Oh yeah, definitely, Well, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
For everyone watching .
Please make sure that youcontinue to support us and also
make sure you support Meryl, aswell Thank you and for everyone
out there, for all the mothers,early Happy Mother's Day to you.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
Happy Mother's Day.
I'm sorry, groceries are $8million.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Well, I'm Lauren Sellerot.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Have a great day everyone.
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lauren Selrod and I'm MerylClemo.
Hey, Meryl, how are you doingtoday?
Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm so good.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You know what I am doing?
Great, I feel great, I can'tcomplain.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I like your shirt For the listeners.
You're wearing a chum bucketshirt.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now for some of the old schoolers that know what
this is, or people with kids,you would know what this is.
This is a character out ofspongebob squarepants.
That's so funny I felt likebeing a little silly today yeah,
I feel like I should know it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
One of my friends used to be one of the animators
on spongebob, so I feel like Ishould know, I should know some
of the lore, but I I'm alwayslike, oh, interesting, okay, and
I think of course the only oneI know is actually spongebob
himself.
But unless it's family guy, Idon't know that's true.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's true.
Well, meryl, I will go.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You start this week okay, I have an interesting one.
Um, target is one of the theone of the many stores that is
pulling the plug onself-checkout amid shoplifting
surge.
Now, you know we've gone backand forth a lot of talking about
how AI and robots are takingover for a lot of our jobs and I
know we were feeling likecheckout people were going to be
(01:33):
by the wayside pretty soonbecause we thought a lot of the
checkout would be, you know, formore of the AI and the
self-scanning machines.
But now retail giant Target haslimited self-checkout to
customers with 10 items or less.
But they're denying the claimclaims the move is due to theft.
Um, they're just saying like,oh, we want to go back to the
normal way.
(01:53):
But it's very obvious, I think,that people are saying it's,
it's, they're losing a lot ofmoney from checkout.
Um, people are like I don'tknow if you've, I've never done
this, but like I would be morescared to shoplift via
self-checkout because I feellike they are watching.
You know the cameras are there,but I guess a lot of people
take it upon themselves to belike, okay, I'm scanning this
(02:16):
and then this one I get for free, and then you know, basically,
one for me one for you type ofthing.
So yeah, I guess, like, do youuse self-checkout?
Is kind of my first questionfor you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know what I use self-checkout all the time.
You do I like it just becauseit's fast, it's convenient and
you know I take my sweet timejust so we don't have no issues.
But yeah, and you know, I'veseen people, people I've had a
scene, but I've heard of peopleyou know, do learn how to do
(02:49):
tricks.
And you know the sad part is,meryl, no matter what you do,
someone's going to figure out away to work around it.
I know you just got to look atdoes it make better business
sense to to do the self-checkoutor to just get rid of it or
dramatically minimize it?
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's really a numbers game.
Yeah, some numbers here.
Target has been grappling withstaggering losses due to what
retailers call a shrink, a termthat includes shoplifting and
inventory errors.
So in 2023, the companyreported nearly $500 million in
shrink-related losses comparedto the previous year.
In one dramatic case, aCalifornia woman this wasn't me,
(03:29):
I promise, but she wasconvicted of stealing over
$60,000 in merchandise fromTarget stores using a
self-checkout machine during a100-visit crime spree.
So you would think like justarrest her by like the 47th time
or something you know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Nah, don't get me wrong.
I I do know that groceries areexpensive.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
What the hell is she buying for?
I know from target it's a lotof deodorants and paper towels
and stuff yeah, that sounds likemore than just a regular
shopper yeah now I have so manythoughts about this.
Just one of my thoughts is thatI think to the self-shopping
(04:10):
machines that I go to that arevery finicky and I almost hate
using them.
I don't know if this hashappened to you too, but, like
especially the grocery store byme, the attendant always has to
come over because everyone isalways like trying to pay and do
the right thing and then italways freezes or like it can't
work.
So I still feel like even withthe self-shopping thing, a human
is still needed, like quiteheavily oh, absolutely
(04:33):
definitely you know, um, andthen my second thing was I did
try.
I'm gonna admit I did try.
I saw a hack a few weeks agothat was like at whole foods.
When you do it, if you sayyou're like weighing your pair
or something, if you like holdthe pear up a little bit, then
it doesn't.
It gives us like half theweight and I tried it and it
just didn't work for me.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So yeah, but you know what A major retailer, Walmart,
got in trouble for.
I guess the weights were off ina self-checkout when they were
weighing fruits and stuff likethat.
So there's some kind of majorlawsuits.
So it can be abused in bothways.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I wouldn't.
But I definitely thinkself-checkout should be an
option, because it just seemslike the lines are taking
forever, and especially if youhave like a toothbrush and a
toothpaste and then everyoneelse in like the main line has
so many items you just want togo through quickly, um, but yeah
, I don't know, I don't know away to stop it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
but yeah, that's true .
I mean, the only way I couldthink of is is that usually,
like the store I go to um, I goto meyers, which is by me
heavily, and you, they have alimit on how many items you can
go through the self-checkout.
So that's a good way to preventit too, because it's easy for
(05:51):
the person to me to watch.
Yeah, because it's only likeabout, I think, six machines, so
one person could easily watchthat, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, yeah, and I feel like they have to be used
to people just being like okay,like grapes, bananas.
But I just wouldn't, because Ifeel like they're looking a lot
and I think the risk of gettingcaught and having some sort of
fine is like not worth to me.
How much a Kiwi would be, orsomething watching me, whatever
(06:26):
it's.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Sometimes it's not what you do, but how you do it.
You know what I mean.
If you're standing back andyou're watching everyone, I have
no problem, but don't comestand next to me, well yeah,
that that would irritate theliving hell out of me oh my gosh
, especially like oh, I wear myheadphones a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
In fact, someone asked me if I was autistic
because I was wearing myheadphones in the group and I'm
like, are you?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
serious, yeah, yeah, wow, because I was wearing my
headphones in the grocery andI'm like yeah, yeah, Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Because I was wearing my headphones in the grocery
store and I think they wereactually being sweet.
They were like, oh, I wear, Iwear headphones too, cause I'm
autistic.
I'm like no, I'm just heavilyirritated right now Maybe a sign
of that but like, but yeah,cause it is a lot by the
self-service people and theythey stand right next to you and
makes me feel like I'm notdoing anything bad and then you
(07:06):
start getting in your head like,did I do something bad?
Or you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, for me I get.
I get that warm feeling, youknow what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah that like flush feeling yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And then you know you want to turn around and be like
okay, can I help you?
Is there a problem?
You know yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Do you guys have to pay for bags where you live?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know what?
Where I live at I don't, but inChicago they do.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They do.
Ok, yeah, For us it's 10 centsa bag, and that is one area
where I won't say where, but oneof my favorite shopper
employees is always like honey,just grab a bag, like she never
charges me for it.
So, but yeah, I mean I canunderstand this with Target
because it seems like a lot tomanage.
But yeah, I mean I canunderstand this with Target
because it seems like a lot tomanage.
So I know Walmart has removed alot of self-checkout machines,
Dollar General has scaled backand yeah, we'll see.
We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah that's true.
I think that, unfortunately,with everything going on right
now in the economy and tariffsand stuff like that, um, I hope
it doesn't happen, but I thinkthat problem may get worse me
too.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I do too, and it's so funny because a lot of this
originated during covid when,like we want, people wanted to
have as little contact or nothave, like the person, sneeze on
each other at the register andstuff so we'll see, just make
sure you pay attention, you know, don't over Over bag stuff, you
know.
Don't over bag stuff.
Don't steal those kiwis.
(08:30):
We didn't tell you to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
There you go.
Well, this is an update From astory we did last week.
This is regarding what happenedwith the Atlanta Falcons and
what happened with ShadurSanders.
Well, the NFL has laid down thehammer.
(08:52):
They have fined the AtlantaFalcons $250,000.
And then they fined thedefensive coordinator, jeff
Erbick.
Just so, people, in case you'renot into football, jeff Erbick,
he actually is the father ofthe idiot, I mean the man who
(09:14):
did the little prank call.
So he was fined $100,000.
So, between him and the team,they were fined $350,000.
Basically it's supposed to be adeterrent that this doesn't
happen again.
I would say this is a hell of adeterrent.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, do we know how much is Jeff like a very rich?
Is he one of those people thatmakes like $17 million a year,
or?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, I don't think he makes that.
I mean obviously you know themain coaches on there, they,
they do make millions a year.
Um, obviously, the head coachis going to make the most out of
all of them.
But you know, even if you, ifyou make a million dollars a
year, yeah, like a hundredthousand thousand dollars.
That's ten percent of your.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, you know I wonder where this money will go
to you know, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean, I think I think one of the big things the
nfl wants to do is deter anyonefrom doing this nonsense again.
Yeah, and you know also too,there's reports that other
players got prank calls as welltoo oh okay, and so I think the
nfl is just trying to make astrong statement that this
nonsense will not be tolerated.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What if all the money goes to Deion's son?
It goes to like build himanother room to not get phone
calls or interviews or anythinglike that?
I mean, we might have differentviews on this, but like I feel
like that's too much money forthem to be fined on.
What do you think?
Like I think it was totallyidiotic and maybe the falcons
getting fined 250 because that'slike a team, but even though I
(10:50):
think it was like idiotic whathis son did, a dad getting fined
a hundred thousand just seemslike so much to me you know what
I think, and and again.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
This is just my perspective on this because when
he gave you know he, he went,he went up and he gave a
conference and he apologized forfor what he did was you know,
for what his son did andeverything.
I was a little disappointed hisson wasn't standing next to him
because this is yeah when you'rea young man right, so I was
very disappointed he wasn't upthere too, but you know we
(11:21):
talked about it on the lastepisode and I think he's lucky
to have his job.
Yeah, because that's just theinformation that was leaked out.
Yeah, well, not really leakedout, but supposedly taken by his
son.
You know we can argue back andforth about that, but I think
that it's very clear that, hey,when you get sensitive stuff,
(11:43):
you keep that stuff to yourself.
You don't share with yourfamily, you don't leave your
computer open, though we gotanother issue if you gotta lock
your computer in your own housewhen you're a kid, but that's a
whole separate issue yeah,especially at 21 years old.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But we think about, like I think about when I was in
college, some of the bad thingsI did.
If my dad was fined $100,000for every time, I was an idiot.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Something tells me that they had a
not-so-hard-to-hard talk.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, especially after getting that $100,000 hit.
Yeah, and then I guess you'reright.
You're right, he is lucky thathe still has his job.
But I do think too the kid is21 years old.
I feel like the kid is an adult.
So I'm glad he didn't get putin jail or anything like that.
But it's just, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I think it's probably the best of both worlds,
because if the NFL were to goafter him, I would see charges
being brought.
So they probably didn't want todo that and this is the best of
both worlds, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But you don't think?
The dad makes like $60,000 ayear, right, okay, okay, I'm
hoping that that's not takingaway from the kid's future, like
buying a house or something oneday.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
No, no, no, no, I mean the father, like I said,
these coaches you?
No, no, no, no, I mean thefather, like I said, these
coaches you know they makemillions a year.
Obviously, you know the coachesdon't always make the most on
the team, but you know, andhere's the thing, and this is a
great reference to it, these NFLteams are billion dollar
organizations.
Yeah, I don't care how muchmoney you have.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
$250,000 is $250,000.
Yeah, that's true, that's verytrue.
I wonder if, like um the sun,if the one that got pranked,
dion's son, if he said likedon't do it, I don't care about
that, I wonder if they wouldstop or anything, if they would
like drop it you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't know but I think the NFL will go straight
through with this, just becauseit's a tarnish on their brand
too, when this kind of happens.
And you know, again, these arekids that are well.
I shouldn't call them kids,they're men, but I guess because
of my age I look at them askids.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, they are still kids.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
But you know, they're literally going through life
changing moments.
I mean, this is the biggestthing that ever happened to them
.
To have someone to call andprank them like that, that's not
fun, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
They probably wanted to set a precedent of do this
and you're going to get a hugereprimanding, which would be
good.
I wish we did that more insociety of people online
bullying each other we talkedabout it a few times ago people
running and hitting each otheron the head with batons or like.
I feel like we need a fewthings, just even if they're
like over punishment, just toshow.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I feel like I'm sounding very old right now, but
I would say that there's350,000 reasons that this won't
happen next year.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I think so too.
Year, I think so too.
The dad is probably so mad.
I wonder, if there's like a momin the picture, how she feels
about all this.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You know what?
I would probably figure she'sprobably live it on a number of
occasions, cause, let's face it,that's a hundred thousand
dollars out of their householdbecause your knucklehead son
thought he was having a goodtime, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Exactly, didn't you say?
I think there were, like otherboys involved too, like you know
, one of the friends or anything.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, we'll keep an eye on that, oh yes.
But yeah, I could just imagineI'm not even going to send the
article to my dad because hewould break out in a sweat from
all the things I've done.
I definitely had to a few timesbe like don't ask why the
police are calling you right now.
It's okay, it's okay, okay.
(15:36):
Well, speaking of stupid things, a man airlifted from Japan's
Mount Fuji returns to slope dayslater and is rescued again.
So, uh, this is ridiculous.
A climber airlifted withaltitude sickness from the peak
of japan's mountain last weekreturned to the slope and was
rescued for a second time justfour days later.
(15:57):
Officials urged people to beaware of the harsh conditions at
the country's tallest peakduring its off season.
The climber was identified as a27 year old student living in
japan, um, so he made anemergency call and he was
airlifted, which, like I don'tknow if you've ever seen videos
of people being airlifted soscary.
He developed symptoms ofaltitude sickness and then, on
(16:19):
saturday, he returned to mountfuji about, uh, which is 3,000
meters, nearly 10,000 feet,above sea level.
Oh, okay, so he was looking forhis cell phone and other
belongings left behind.
That's a little different.
I thought he was just like hereI go again, like I mean as much
as we love our cell phone.
I don't know if I'd climbanother 10,000 feet to do it.
(16:40):
And then basically, he had thesame thing.
So he was like, help, I need tobe rescued again.
And I just think, anytime Ihear a story about this, or
people like hiking mount everestor you know machu picchu or
something, I'm just like, oh mygod, I don't, I don't have what
it takes yeah, I think he needsto find a new hobby person.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
But to return to try to find your cell phone.
That's even scarier, becausethen that means you don't have
your cell phone on you.
So like when the inevitablehappens, like how would you even
get rescued again, you know?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I mean, I get it.
Losing your cell phone would bea pain in the ass, because your
whole life is on there, right?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But yeah, I don't think think I'm gonna risk my
life trying to go back for it.
No, and this is very, veryscary.
He's lucky and another climberfound him there.
He was unable to move after hedeveloped a altitude sickness
for a second time.
Poor thing, I feel bad.
I mean he's 27, like you couldjust tell that's probably
someone that really wanted to dothis and, like, probably really
had his goals set.
It's a little ridiculous, but Ifeel very bad for him.
I hope he's able to train anddo it again, if that's what he
(17:51):
really wants.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I don't know.
I think his buddies areprobably going to sit down with
a beer and say hey, you know, wereally applaud what you're
doing, we support you, but yeah,you need to stop doing this.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, there's a video game where you can do that.
Now, just put on this VRheadset, you'll be good to go.
Do you have any friends in yourlife that are giant rock
climbers, slash hiking MountKilimanjaro or anything like
that?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know what?
I know that there's hikers in afamily as far as extreme like
that.
None that I'm aware of, becauseyou know, I hiked when I was in
the Boy Scouts years ago.
So hiking is actually kind offun, but I'm not really looking
to try to climb a mountain oranything like that.
(18:39):
You know I have went over 50years without breaking a bone in
my body and I'm way too youngto start now.
Yeah, same thing.
You know I have went over 50years without breaking a bone in
my body and I'm way too old tostart now.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So yeah, same thing.
You know that's so funny.
I just saw on TikTok.
I've never broken a bone either, and I saw on TikTok that the
universe like I don't know, ofcourse it could be silly, but if
you don't break a bone it'slike supposed to mean that
you're like you go throughenough, like mentally and
physically enough in thislifetime that like the universe
bears you.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I know, I know I was like maybe I'll break an elbow
if I, if it helps me like not beso mentally crazy or something.
Um, but yeah, I know a fewpeople that have like hiked
everest, or like one of myreally best friends did machu
picchu in peru and like shecouldn't breathe and you know,
but she just she wanted to.
This was like a goal of hersand I'm like, well, we just
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think very differently.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
This is not like in my mind at all wow so I don't
know, does she still do the hikelike that?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
she just had a baby.
So now, now, now she'sconquering motherhood.
But, um, but yeah, could youimagine this guy having to
explain?
And I think, well, maybe notbecause it's not america, but
like here, we would have to payto get airlifted two times.
You know, our health insurancewould be a couple thousand
dollars, like every time that'strue, and you know what it would
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be.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It would be kind of a little bit hysterical if the
same rescue team came back likedude you again.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I know, I know, I heard that happens a lot too.
Especially, there's like onesand dune that I've heard of in
the United States where peoplelike go down it and then there's
a warning.
It's like $3,000 or somethingif you like can't get back up,
and they have to rescue you.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Really.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's a famous one.
I'm sure people know what I'mtalking about, cause I've seen
it a lot on social media where,like you can climb all the way
down but there's so many signssaying if you're going to have
trouble getting back up, and ifyou do it's going to cost you
like $3,000.
And people are always like,nope, not me.
And then they do.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wow.
Yeah, Well at least they knowhow much it's going to cost them
, right?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Exactly, it's like a vacation you just added on.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I think that's so silly.
Well, talk aboutnot-so-vacations.
This is actually kind of sad,but right now, americans are
taking out short-term loans tobuy groceries.
They're doing payday loans,short-term loans like that and
other stuff just to buygroceries.
That is a dangerous sign.
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It's an incredibly dangeroussign right now.
It just speaks to everythingthat's going on with the tariffs
and all the stuff like that,and I, I just, I just pray that,
um, that this madness stopssoon, because it's only going to
get worse if we keep going downthis path yeah, that is so sad.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Remember, like a few weeks ago we covered an article,
I think it was like doordash orsomething, but remember they
hadn't added clarna, like youcould pay your installments,
pretty much remember, so we'retalking about that, where it was
like door dash or something,but remember they had added
clarinet.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like you could pay in installments pretty much
remember.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So we're talking about that where it's like you
know, if you have to split uplike a 30 delivery of a pizza or
something that's like you knowyou're paying in like increments
of eight dollars for the nextcouple of months.
I think I think both things.
I think a that's like that isvery sad and real.
And b we've also gotten.
I know for me personally, likeI absolutely could lower my
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grocery budget by like notbuying a lot of processed food
and snacks, and you know we haveto.
It might it might just be likerecession core, where we have to
make like potatoes and onionsand like more whole food stuff,
which is boring and sad and likemakes everyone feel like we're
poor.
But I think that's what a lotof families are just going to
have to do to like makeapplesauce instead of like
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buying the little containers,you know, stuff that is so
convenient.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And you know.
The thing is is that you knowit's easy to say, OK, the
terrorists are going to makeeverything great, we're going to
start building and doing stuffhere.
That's great, but that's downthe line.
If you want to build a factory,it's not something that's going
to happen in a year.
(22:54):
That's just reality.
People are hurting now, today.
Yeah, and especially in ourhousehold too.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
There's no little children, because it's easy to
manage.
When it's just yourself, oryourself and other adults, it's
like, oh OK, we don't have tobuy any extra snacks.
But I'm sure when you have kidstoo, it's like telling them no
crackers, no, like no orangejuice.
You know, that's just.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
that's a lot to manage just that's a lot to
manage.
Oh yeah, and you know the otherthing too with all these
tariffs, that's not a guaranteethat everything's coming back,
because if you're gettingsomething built so inexpensive,
so cheap, so there's a lot ofstuff that if you double the
price, it would still be cheaperto build it yeah yeah, that's
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what I say.
It's not a guarantee, that's thething.
Yeah, now high dollar itemswhole different situation, but a
lot of the the very cheap,inexpensive stuff.
It may not be financially worthbringing it to united states
States, even with the hightariffs.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know, yeah, no, it's true.
And when you think about ifpeople are taking loans out on
their food for food, that meansthen those loans have interest
rates and like you know that'strue, and you can only do that
for so long too.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So, yeah, let's just hope things get better, because
that that was actually prettysad for me to see that that is
really sad.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That is really sad and I wonder like how that will
change people's voting movingforward, because I have to
imagine a lot of those familiesprobably voted for what is
happening now.
You know or didn't know, butyeah, so it's, it's crazy, but,
um, I definitely think we talkedabout this too, where I think,
like a few years ago, it justused to be fun to go to the
grocery store and like try newsnacks and stuff, and now no one
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I know is like able to do that,you know.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh my God, I go to this grocery store, meryl, and I
blink my eyes $200.
Yeah, me too.
I'm sitting there like what thefuck.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm going through self-checkout and I'm like, okay
, I have a pear and like a bagof carrots I don't know here
though especially, I mean Ithink everywhere but it's like,
it is so weird in la, becauseit's like the culture is okay,
like half of my life andeverything is going to like
people go to fancy restaurantsand it's all about you know like
flashy, just spending money andstuff, and then the other half
is kind of like okay, likegroceries are so high so it's
hard to know which way is upthat's true.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's true.
I just hope that, um, I justhope that we find a better way
to handle this, because yeahthis is not sustainable no,
definitely not.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And people with children, and I think it will
make people like if, if whatthey want is like more babies,
more families, more everythinglike that's going to deter
people from probably bringingnew children into the world when
it's like you can't afford them, you know you mean that five
thousand dollars won't help?
no, I'm just kidding that willbuy someone chicken, nuggets and
green beans.
(25:54):
I think my last grocery billwas like $5,000 from getting
lunch.
Okay, oh, this is exactly whatI'm talking about.
We're talking about groceries,and now mine is like the
complete opposite, where Nike isdropping dirty Air Force Ones
that get cleaner the more youwear them.
So this is so ridiculous.
(26:15):
The Nike Air Force Ones dirtytriple white is.
It's almost like you know ifyou're listening, you always
have to just look at it to knowIf you like Google.
Nike Air Force One triple white.
So it looks like it's beentrashed, pretty much Like up top
, the leather upper has beenyellowed, there's dark marks
across the front and like someof the stitching on the Nike
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swoosh has even come loose.
And then the technology,technology.
The more that you wear them,they actually get a little bit
more white.
And it also comes with a um,like a cleaning kit.
If you wanted to do it, thatcomes with the nike branded
toothbrush and a tube oftoothpaste if you, like you know
, want to wear them white.
White, uh, they're going for130, which I actually thought
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was pretty affordable, knowinglike nike for sneakers and I I
just I mean, my first thought ofthese is like I always kind of
snicker slash, laugh a littlebit when I see people wearing
those.
Like what's it called?
That's not gray goose, it'slike something goose like the
shoes that are like already.
Um, they look dirty, like theyalready are dirty.
(27:20):
The trend of just buyingsneakers dirty seems like so I
think I'm officially too old tofind that cool yeah, we've.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
We've seen our sarah's trends, you know, from
written jeans to the ones thatlook like you, you, you, you
peed on yourself, remember those.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh, yeah, I remember that.
Yeah, oh yeah.
And Golden Goose is thesneakers I'm thinking of.
Yes, yes, they look tatteredand they're like $600.
And to me personally, that isnot a flex.
Anytime I see someone wearingthem I'm like that is whatever.
The opposite of a flex is,that's almost as bad as you, you
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remember this guy, who?
Who bought this?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
supposedly art, we're literally banana on the wall
and this guy paid.
What was it?
I want to say, uh, was it likea million dollars or 70?
Yeah, it was some insane amountthat he paid and he bought the
banana and then just ate it.
I'm like, dude, you could youknow, you gotta like that, just
throw money.
Okay, you could throw it my wayif you're just gonna throw
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money away exactly I I don't getit.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I think, like I mean, I I like nike air force ones.
I think they look really cooland I I like them the best.
I think, of all the pre-wornlooking sneakers from like
balenciaga, new balance, like Ilike, I like the Nikes the best,
but I just don't get buyingsomething that already looks
dirty and spending more moneybecause of that.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
That I won't do.
That's stupid.
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now, I do have.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Air Force Ones myself .
You know mine was bought white.
And one thing about Air ForceOnes is when you first buy them
they're not really the mostcomfortable shoe, but over time
it actually loosens up and itfeels good really yeah so, but
you wouldn't pay extra money tohave them be dirty from the
start I would just buy some airforce ones.
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You just don't clean them.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I'm not gonna pay extra for like at the mall the
mall by me they have a littlekiosk of a guy that I really
want to try out.
He has the whole.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I'll make your shoes white again Sounds like a bad
slogan, so they're going to beanother one there pretty soon
where they're probably going tobe like hey bring those white
shoes over here, I'm going todirty them up for you.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yes, One time I went and I saw the Golden Goose
people were showing people howthey take the sneakers and make
them really dirty.
I was like I feel like I'mwatching an SNL skit or
something right now.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Then you watch it and go, so people actually pay for
this yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's so weird to me.
I'm not the target demo here.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Must be nice to be able to throw money away like
that, huh yeah.
Well, this is a kind of a sadsituation here, but we're going
to pray for him, and you mayhave heard about this.
A gentleman, his name is a21-year-old, is he 20?
Maybe early 20s?
(30:18):
His name is Kevin MarkwoodKevin K-A-V-A-N.
Markwood and he fell 21 feetonto the baseball field in
Pittsburgh.
It was the Pittsburgh Piratesversus the Chicago Cubs.
He's now in critical conditionand you know, of course,
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everyone's praying for him.
They had to stop the game,obviously.
Well, not stop, but pause thegame.
And he was taken out on astretcher and went straight to
the hospital and I guess he wasreally excited and somehow or
another, I don't know if hejumped up, he leaned too hard,
but he he just fell over andlanded in the outfield and and
(31:04):
when he landed he wasn't moving.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So it was.
I saw that.
Yeah, it's really scary becauseyou you see him like jump up a
little bit.
You can't really tell like whatexactly happened, and then it's
crazy that his body went up andthen flopped like a rag doll
like down and it's really scaryand weird, Like could you
imagine that?
I mean don't imagine, but likejust being with your friend or
loved one and having that happenand it's just like unbelievable
(31:28):
.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh yeah, and you know the crazy thing, merrill, is
that some stadiums, to me thepitch is a little bit too deep.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yes, oh yeah.
Yeah, I won't sit up at the topbecause if you slip on like
beer or something, I swear toGod.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It feels like if you trip you're not a shopper.
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And it's always like a set of like stairs and then
stairs.
Yeah, I've heard some peoplesay that they think he was
inebriated and that might havehelped because it's like your
body's so relaxed.
But I think the last I heard,too, he was in critical
condition, is that.
I think that's really scary andso sad.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I was actually shocked to hear that.
I don't know the number I haveto do some research on it, but
there has been a number of fansthat have died by falling over
the rail.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I didn't know, oh my gosh, I don't know.
This is like now I'm I'm barelymoving.
Already as it is, I'm nevermoving.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
But uh, I mean, I, I, I have beers when I go to the
game, I have a good time.
I don't ever get that happy orthat really, where I'm not sure
around me, because you know thesad part is, if you fall over,
that's your life.
If it's high enough 21 feetit's a miracle he's still alive,
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because that's a huge drop youtook.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, I know and imagine just like the players on
the field or like people in thedugout.
You're just like sitting thereand all of a sudden you don't
know what happened.
There's just a man likeflopping on the field yeah, yeah
, that's true.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I mean you, you kind of wonder if, if it happens
sometimes, when people are liketrying to catch a foul ball,
yeah, and I've seen people flipover you know, thankfully not
that high, but I've seen peopleflip over the rails trying to
catch the bones like oh, my god,yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
I wonder if they're gonna like, if this will make
them put the railing up or, youknow, do any sort of?
They'd have to outfit the wholestadium, I guess, to change it,
but I wonder if they'll makeany changes because of this.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, but the only thing is, how high can you put
the railing?
I know, because the problem is,if you have an idiot, that
idiot can find a way to fallover.
I know and I was going to say,if they put nets but then you
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know that idiots are gonna bethen intentionally jumping into
the nets and that's like so yeah, that's really sad, scary.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, hopefully, um, hopefully it gets better and uh,
like I said, we're praying forhim.
This is this cemented, becauseI will not sit like anywhere
higher than like a level 108 orsomething.
I just will not ever go to thethird because, same thing that
the padres one too, in san diego, it's really high, like if
you're on the third tier, likeif you're looking down, it's one
of those it looks like straightdown that is true okay, well,
(34:12):
something else, scary, of course.
I know we talked a little bitabout the tariffs already, but,
um, I don't know know how trueor current this is, but Trump
said that he will 100 percentput tariffs on films produced
outside the US for movies andthe movie industry.
And so the movie industry isrightfully shocked and confused
because obviously we all know,between the pandemic and the
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strikes and the AI and therobots and everything, it is
tough times here, you know, formany movie makers.
Um, president donald trump'splan to enforce 100 tariffs on
foreign produced films was metwith shock and disbelief across
the european film industry.
Obviously we've been in such agood swing with, like low budget
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movies, studio movies, like somany movies are being made in
the UK, france, germany.
It seems like a lot of movieshave been made in Italy lately,
and especially like Harry Potter, lord of the Rings, you know,
mission Impossible, gladiator,just to name a few.
It's so weird and that's likecutting into just culture and it
employs a lot of people, likeit employs a lot of americans,
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british people, it like, youknow, we do a ton of stuff with
london.
It's just like so weird.
But um, yeah, I don't know, Idon't know how far that will go,
because then also I feel likethe one thing that trump likes
is to have support of people hecares about and I feel like
pissing off like all ofhollywood wouldn't be a very
smart move, even though I knowhe doesn't care about hollywood,
(35:42):
but pretty weird yeah, I'lljust say this you're talking
about the same person thatthought it was cute to do a
picture of himself as the pope.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Okay, I'll just leave it there yeah, yeah with I.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I had to look on his own page to be like is this true
?
True or not?
And also just from a no matterlike who.
Like we've grown out of thatwhere we we like to work with
other countries and like blendother cultures, you know yeah, I
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mean.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
The thing is we're a global economy, yes, yes, and
literally what you're saying isyou're going to double the cost
of production.
Now you and I, being and we'rein this field, know how
difficult it is, especially forsmaller type entertainers, to
try and put stuff together, getmoney together.
So by literally doubling it,you're going to literally cancel
(36:46):
out so many different peoplethat will not be able to follow
their dreams and do what theywant to do I know it really
feels like a like a hundredyears ago type of decision to
almost just be like we, we'regoing to tear up the movie.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
You know other countries in the movies and now
when you think about, like, theCannes Film Festival, like all
the crossover that we do withjust different countries and the
industries, it's so weird, likethat's just so weird.
But a lot of people also saidgreat, if this goes through now,
you're going to see the rise ofAI even more more.
Now humans are going to betaken out of the equation, like
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even more, just because they'renot going to want to pay the
tariffs.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Um, so yeah, yeah, I, I do agree with you.
The one thing that I would sayis um, thank goodness that you
know they addressed the ai issueand the strike that they had.
Yeah, um, because you're rightwith something like this.
If this um, because you'reright with something like this,
if this goes through, you'reright they're probably going to
see a lot more ai, as opposed togoing over to other countries,
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which the actors and actresseswill still get paid, maybe not
as much, they'll still get paidbut I think what's going to do
is that um, they're going to go,okay, no problem, we're going
to hit you with the 100% tariffas well.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Which is so weird.
I just can't understand, like Idon't know, just the thought of
making other movies and havingother actors be coming to
America and us going over there.
It's just like a very nicething in life, but whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
And you know, the sad part is I don't think their
administration reallyunderstands.
See, everyone is really laserfocused on the producer director
and the actors but, it's somany people behind the scenes
that makes that picture.
You know they take those words,they take all the things going
around and they create magic.
(38:37):
Where you see, you hear and youfeel it, there's a lot of people
that go into yeah, you know ifa person ever wants to figure
out what all goes into it at theend of a movie.
If it's recorded, slow it downso you can see how many people
are actually.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah part of that to make it you know, to make it a
success and when we think of allthe the films that we've had
where the director, the writer,whoever the actors, have been
people from other countries andstuff, it's like that's a lot of
our best people.
So it's like those people wouldnever now get the chance to
come to the US and work on aDreamer visa type situation.
(39:15):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Oh yeah, and I think where it really is going to hit.
If you think about marvelmovies, yeah, how expensive it
is to make those movies.
Can you imagine getting ahundred percent tariff on a 100
million dollar budget movie?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
yeah, ryan reynolds can't afford anything more if
he's getting sued, or.
But yeah, totally.
And so much filming has been inCanada too.
I feel like it's almost like somany productions I've heard has
been in Canada and that's likea big been, a big thing for
their you know economy.
So it's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, so hopefully this doesn't go through, but
we'll see yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
That's why we'll make our own movies and we will not
tell anyone about it.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
There you go.
Well, this is an interestingone too, meryl.
Do you know who Bill Belichickis?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I sure do Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
For anyone who's really not into sports Bill
Belichick is a famous head coachin the NFL.
He's coached multiple teams andI think he's looking at going
to the college side now.
But that's not the big news.
The big news is okay, he's 72years old and he has a
girlfriend and she is 24 yearsold.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Whoa mama.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Literally she could be His granddaughter, or
possibly even greatgranddaughter, oh my god.
So he was doing an interviewand In the interview they asked
him well, you know how did youand your girlfriend meet?
And she jumped in it and saidWell, we're not answering that,
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which is kind of a little on theignorant side to me.
But anyway, yep, yep, but youknow, it's kind of interesting
because it's like you know, she,I guess, interviewed multiple
times and then hisdaughter-in-law, which she's
married to his son, kind ofweighed in on what she thought
about this and you know, it'snot really a good look.
Even Charles Brockley CharlesBrockley is actually a really
(41:26):
good friend of Bill Belichick hedidn't go into details, he just
said he doesn't like the thingsthat he's seen, he doesn't like
what he's been told and he'sprobably going to have a
one-on-one talk with him.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Wow, really.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
And I don't know.
I mean there's a whole bunchgoing on here.
One I'm really shocked that hehad his girlfriend there in the
interview.
She wasn't in the interview,she was off to the side, but
allow her to interrupt that.
And the one thing that was andI have to check, but I want to
(42:00):
say it was CBS, I think, but Igot to verify that but they had
said that they cleared it withhim, that they could talk about
anything.
Now a lot of people don't knowand I do this even on my show is
I always talk to the, to thewhole, to the guests that's
coming on my show, and I askthem is there anything that you
don't want to talk about?
You know.
So this way they're notsurprised and you know you have
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an awkward moment in front ofthe camera.
So they reiterated that wecleared this with him and his
team.
They didn't just go off therails, I mean they cleared it
yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
So that's one issue, and it's not even that pressing,
it's not even that bad of athing.
Where did you guys meet?
I'm surprised they don'talready have a stock answer that
they say oh yeah, and what's soweird about it?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Meryl is like okay, and I look at it over and over
again.
I'm like okay, this isn't thescandalous questions, like okay,
where'd you guys meet?
Why is that a problem?
Yeah, I mean, is theresomething that you know, we
don't know that?
We'll be like, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Like sugardaddiescom or like yeah, we're assuming
it's not going to be like churchor you know, selling girl scout
cookies or something like ifthe age gap is that big.
So I don't know what's your takeon this I mean I number one, I
agree with you, and it'sannoying to interview people
when, like their fiance or youknow best friend or someone is
in the room.
It's just it kind of takes awayfrom that moment that you're
(43:22):
having when you're justinterviewing the people.
So that's annoying.
Um number two I hope he has,like I mean, they're not married
, so not a prenup, but I hope hehas guardrails in place so that
he's not getting like takenadvantage of or you know, vice
versa, whatever it's.
It's weird and I think, uh, Idon't know, maybe she just at
some point, maybe he has made itso that she has a lot of
(43:42):
license over and she kind ofthinks like she's also the star
as well.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
So I'm sure I'm sure there are reasons why she feels
comfortable doing that, you knowthat's true, but you know, I
don't think it's right but youknow it goes back to you know an
old saying that that, um thatpeople have said is never bite
the hand that feeds you yeah,and it makes her look weird with
the media and everything.
(44:07):
Exactly yeah, so I don't know.
She had a weird look on herface too, when she said this
yeah, I saw it.
I know I'm like dude what areyou?
Angry about what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
It's also like there's nothing kind of snootier
than like a hot 24-year-old youknow who's dating a rich man,
so she probably thinks she's ontop of the world Like she has
everything that you couldprobably want.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
I mean.
To me, love is love.
Hey, if it's real love, go forwhatever.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
You know again, don't let her cost you money, because
you know that's a real thing.
You know, if people feel likeshe's toxic, that could
potentially hurt your career.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Definitely, absolutely, and I'm sure that's
going to be one of many likewhen he's out in the public or
I'm sure she hears about it LikeI'm sure they're at like a
million events Like every night.
There's probably something thatthey have to be at and I can
see if, like, she's crabby andjust having a day where she's
kind of annoyed at the media.
But then you don't even have tobe in this interview.
No one's telling you or askingyou and I get it it can be real
(45:12):
tiresome.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
It can be bothersome too, because he is a famous head
coach.
But by dating him you sign upfor that too.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, exactly.
Oh my gosh, I can't imagine,even even now, dating someone in
their 70s.
That's just so crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
And you know the thing is, let's be real, if he
wasn't who he was, would she bewith him?
Yeah, I know, I don't know, I'mjust saying I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
But then a lot of people are probably like, okay,
they're using each other.
He's using her for her looksand youth and she's using him
for her as like clout and moneyand stuff you know to mash made
in heaven yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Just don't let her uh cause you from losing money
yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Um, okay, I think this one is my last one, if I'm
correct.
Oh, we'll pick a good one.
Um, there's a lot here.
So lady gaga just did a concert.
I mean, the main news storyhere is that lady gaga did a
concert to over like two millionfans on saturday night in rio
de janeiro.
Um, and that is amazing.
I don't know if you got achance to see any video footage
(46:19):
of it yet.
If not, everyone should youknow if you want to look it up,
because even if you're not thebiggest lady gaga fan, just the
footage alone of like her onstage and then it pans out and
it just shows you think it'sgonna end and it just never ends
in a sea of people, and it'sreally amazing to see.
Even the rehearsals itself drewlike hundreds of thousands of
people, which is super cool.
(46:40):
Um, but the other part of thestory that I thought was crazy
was that the concert wastargeted for a bomb attack by a
hate group posing as for littlemonster fans and thank goodness
that the local authorities wereable to get in there and have
nothing happen but the suspectswere recruiting participants,
including minors, to carry outcoordinated attacks using
(47:03):
improvised explosive and Molotovcocktails to carry out
coordinated attacks usingimprovised explosive and Molotov
cocktails.
So this could have beendevastating.
You know who knows.
But any time you have agathering of two million people,
like I assume something weirdis going to go down or you know
that everyone would be on highalert.
But I just think like good forthe people, the security that
are working that night, becausehow on earth do you look after 2
(47:26):
million people?
And that's just.
I mean my hat is off to theeveryone involved that has to
like be part of the security andpolice and stuff.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Oh, definitely.
I mean, it was great on anumber of levels.
One I don't know if you noticedor not, but that was actually a
free concert that Lady Gagagave yeah, I saw that, yeah,
which is super cool and it was.
Oh my god, you're right, it wasso, people.
And the beautiful thing aboutit, merrill, is that security
(47:59):
and the police I guess they wereworking hand in hand, whatever
but they thwarted that to thepoint to where lady gaga and her
team did not know tillafterwards right, which is
amazing because you have to beso scared if you're hurt too.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
That takes such bravery to be in front of two
million people and just have thetrust that like that.
I mean you have to know in thecrowd that there's going to be
like thousands of like weirdosthere.
You know, when you get a twomillion people, oh yeah, yeah,
definitely.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
My hat off to her, my hat off to the police that
handled it.
That was great, that wasawesome, and it just shows that
you can have a great time andstill keep everyone safe.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
I know I wish more people.
I wish we were just able tohave large, large gatherings
without even needing to havesecurity.
But I feel like I'm living in adisney movie or something yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Unfortunately talk about unfortunate.
Have you ever seen the show theequalizer on cbs?
Speaker 2 (48:59):
no, I haven't.
I haven't until now.
That wasn't the one that yourcousin was on, was it?
Speaker 1 (49:04):
no, she was on, uh, fbi, okay, uh, in case people
have not seen it um, the showthe equalizer is actually uh
based off of, uh, a spinoff fromthe movie equalizer that denzel
washington played.
You know, he was an ex-ciaagent and he went out to people,
(49:25):
um kind of like a vigilante.
Okay, so Queen Latifah is thesame thing, but she has a team
behind her, so it's her.
Then, um, you know, she has aguy who's a a computer whiz, and
then his wife is ex-military um, real paratrooper, I just
(49:46):
kick-ass type person and thenyou know, she has her boyfriend.
Well, they're now gettingmarried, but I don't want to
give it away in case we don'tsee the last one, but you know,
it was a great show.
It was on five seasons and nowthey canceled it.
And what's so crazy about it,though, merle is?
(50:06):
Within the last year or so,they switched the time because
it came on at seven uh, my timeand then it got moved to I want
to say eight or nine.
I have to double check, but youknow how they tell you hey, you
know, check out this.
Whatever it's a new time slot,they, they didn't do that, so
it's like, hmm, it's almost likethey're trying to kill it off.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, and this was on CBS.
You said CBS.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yes, huh, that's so weird.
What else?
Speaker 2 (50:34):
does CBS have going on?
Speaker 1 (50:35):
I guess the year before they had ratings about 6
million people watching and thenit dropped down to, I want to
say, $5 million or $5.
Something, million, and it'slike, okay, I get it.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
It went down a little bit, but yeah, but it's still
like a good show and you'rebuilding a fan base, Exactly,
and they're like well, you know,it was basically budgetary
reasons.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
I'm like that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
So yeah, I was kind of sad to see that go what do
you think?
Have you?
Have you had any shows that youreally love get canceled on you
?
Um so funny.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
I feel like all the ones that I've loved have like
canceled themselves pretty much,like there's one or two.
I guess there's one that Ireally like.
That was like, uh, people willprobably be able to think about
it, but they were like on topand then they, they were, they
did such a good job and theywere like, and we're done, and
they just wanted to like endthings on really on like a good
note.
Oh oh, succession, yeah,succession was my favorite, one
(51:36):
of my favorite shows ever, andit just ended like, and you know
, they wanted to end on a highnote.
I think it was their decision.
And then suits is anotheranother one I liked, but I feel
like Suits went on for likeeight million episodes, so
someone could have canceled it,I think, at some point.
But no, I haven't had anything,maybe, oh, oh, you know what,
um, I think this one just didn'tget renewed.
(51:58):
But there's a really awesomeshow.
It was called Divorce and itwas with Sarah Jessica Parker
and Molly Shannon and likeThomas Hayden Church and I never
hear people mention it, butlike it's one of those like, if
you know, you know type of showswhere everyone that like has
watched it, loves it so much,and I think it was on for maybe
two or three seasons and it wasso good and I loved it so much
(52:19):
and then it just like never cameback.
And I same thing is that peoplewere like okay, it's not
budgetary and and you had a bigfan base and like it has, just
like Queen Latifah is like this,had Sarah Jessica Parker and
had huge stars attached to it.
So I think I'll watch like thethree seasons of that show and
I'm like what happens?
What happens?
Speaker 1 (52:39):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
But I'll have to watch.
I'll have to watch the seasonsone through five of it.
At least.
I love Queen Latifah.
I think she's so pretty andcool.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Yeah, this was a good show.
I was actually shocked thatthey were canceling it.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
I know.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
I heard buzz about it on social media but you know,
until it's like, reallyconfirmed, you kind of take
social media with a grain ofsalt because there's all kinds
of crazy stuff being said onthere, exactly yeah.
Social media with a grain ofsalt because there's all kinds
of crazy stuff being said onthere, exactly yeah.
But yeah, once it was confirmedby cbs, it was like and then
some of the um, the actors onthe show, on their site they
were talking about oh yeah man,so yeah.
(53:20):
So I guess I'll have to findsomething else to watch on
sundays now exactly.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
It won't be any um new italian shows shows, or
they'll be getting tariff tax onit.
We won't be watching any Frenchfilms or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
Talk about stuff to watch.
What do you have coming up,Meryl?
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yay, I just had a really fun show in Dana Point,
so that was super cool.
And then, coming up, I havenothing this weekend because of
Mother's Day, so I wanted tospend it with my mommy.
And then next week, the weekafter, I will be in Santa
Barbara.
So I think May 15th, if peopleare around, I will be at an
awesome venue called the RedPiano in beautiful Santa Barbara
(54:01):
.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
Nice, nice.
So everyone watching.
Make sure that if you're in thearea you go see Meryl.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Yeah, I would love that Come say Nice, nice, so
everyone watching, make surethat if you're in the area, go
see Meryl.
Yeah, I would love that.
Come say hi.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
Very fun.
Well, this has been a lot offun.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Yeah, this is so, so fun.
Are you doing anything specialfor your wifey on Mother's Day?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
You know what.
We're going to do somethingdifferent, I told her.
I said, you know what?
We need some time to ourselves.
So I think we're going to dolike a staycation, you know.
Just, you know, get a hotelroom someplace, you know, have a
good time, you know, maybe geta couple's massage, do a little
shopping, just relax.
You know something a littledifferent.
Speaker 2 (54:36):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
That's so sweet.
So yeah, it's a little bit of alast minute thing, but to me
those are the most fun parts.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Oh yeah, definitely, Well, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
For everyone watching .
Please make sure that youcontinue to support us and also
make sure you support Meryl, aswell Thank you and for everyone
out there, for all the mothers,early Happy Mother's Day to you.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
Happy Mother's Day.
I'm sorry, groceries are $8million.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Well, I'm Lauren Sellerot.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Have a great day everyone.
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