The Superbowl served as a backdrop for a lively discussion on the best and worst commercials of the night, exploring everything from ad creativity to celebrity appearances. The episode also touches on the Eagles' performance, Taylor Swift's unusual reaction, and celebrates Black History Month, emphasizing the cultural significance of these events.
• Breakdown of favorite Superbowl commercials
• Discussion of the Eagles' game performance
• Analysis of celebrity culture during the Superbowl
• Reflection on Taylor Swift's booing experience
• Honoring Black History Month and its relevance in America
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lauren Selrod.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How's it going, Meryl ?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's so good, it's peaceful, which is like scary
nowadays.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That is so, so true.
It's been a crazy week, huhRight.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Well, we got a lot to talk about and I'm going to let
you start off, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Everyone is talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Exactly, everyone's talking about the Superbowl.
I thought you know there's somany different angles that we
can take it.
But the first thing I wanted toknow with you is the
commercials, which you know isusually one of the water cooler
things that we all talk aboutthe next day.
None of us really have officesanymore, but, like if we did
have an office, we'd be talkingabout the commercials and I
(01:05):
wanted to know which ones wereyour favorite.
If some didn't hit for you atall, I wanted to get your take
first.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You know, believe it or not, I'm kind of torn.
All of them were pretty good,some were better than others,
but the two that stand out to mewas the Little Caesars
commercial.
Mm-hmm.
With the flying eyebrows, yes,yes, and I say that's tied.
Commercial with the flyingeyebrows, yes, yes.
And I say that's tied probablywith the Pringles with the
mustache.
(01:31):
You know that was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, it was so funny because the two were on pretty
close to each other and I waslike they have to know which ads
are running, so they have toknow that there's like two
hairballs like floating aroundin two different videos.
I thought the Eugene Levy onewas so funny.
There was one where, um, whenit went to like the caterpillars
or whatever, and they were likewe're not worthy, that's so
funny actually it looked likereal weird looking caterpillars
(01:58):
too it did.
I thought this year did a reallygood job of like ai and
celebrities and like just funnywriting.
I I was like you know, usuallythey're kind of cheesy or they
try too hard, but I'm like,whoever wrote some of these
commercials whatever advertisingagency like I thought had a
really funny sense of humor Ithink the reason why most of
(02:18):
them hit pretty well is, withthe exception of maybe a couple
of ads.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They stopped giving the ads early because they used
to like tell you a little bitabout the ad or show you a
little piece of it and for me ittakes away from.
You know the ad and what youwant to get out of it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You know yeah, yeah, yeah, and I felt like, instead
of trying to be the one thateveryone talked about, I feel
like they just tried to make itfunny and make it entertaining.
I had wrote down Little Caesars.
That was definitely my favorite.
I love the Budweiser one withthe baby Clydesdale horse.
Of course, those always make mecry.
I wrote down Mountain Dew oh,that was the Seal one, which I
(02:59):
thought was so ridiculous.
Good for them.
It's like you have this hugebudget and you're going to make
CLOS.
I just loved how some of themwere irreverent.
I think that's what the themeof it this year was.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I think probably the craziest thing for
me was just thinking aboutspending $8 million for a
30-second ad no-transcript dayout.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I thought that was like a really cool commercial
and all those women are soamazing um and then I think that
was like that was pretty muchit for that.
But I was happy that Budweiserwent back to the baby
Clydesdales Cause, like theClydesdales in general Cause.
I think that's so cute.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh, definitely, definitely.
I mean, I think, overall for meI would say they were
noticeably better than last year.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I know I don't remember.
The only one I remember fromlast year is nerds the candy
with Addison Rae, just because Ilove her.
People were like screaming.
I felt like I had won the SuperBowl when Addison came on.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I was like ah, now you know, there was one
commercial that was kind of likeborderline funny but creepy at
the same time.
This is where they're sittingin the diner and she's sitting
there having orgasms whileeating.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh yeah, I think I read that Sally and Sidney
sweetie, and they didn't evenshow Sidney long enough.
I thought that one was kind oflost a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, because the thing is that if you hadn't
watched the movie, it won't hitas much.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, and I feel like that's an iconic scene.
But then to cut from Sweeneyaway too much and she's just
wearing.
Not that I'm trying to be gross, but I want to see her in
something different than anoversized sweater.
Not that I'm being disgusting,but were there any?
That just didn't translate atall to you.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I mean, they translated all of them, Some of
them.
Honestly, I looked at it like,wow, you spent eight million
bucks for this.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, yeah.
Now, if I tried to close myeyes, I can't remember what the
one with Catherine O'Hara is,where she's playing tennis Like
oh yeah, it didn't really do agood job of product placement
because I think that commercialseemed like way longer to me and
I couldn't really understandwhat the actual point of it was,
like what the product was.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, because it took me a few seconds to figure out
that they were playingpickleball, because I've never
played.
Oh, I don't know that either,and the other thing, too, is I'm
like you.
When it first started, I reallyhad no idea where it was going.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm like.
I like these people but yeah, Imean, you kind of want to at
least have some kind of hook orsomething, because it's like,
okay, but where is this going,you know?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, and then I felt like Pete Davidson, like cameo.
In eight of them I feel likeevery single one had Eugene Levy
and Pete Davidson in it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, I would say, like I said, between the two,
between the Pringles and LittleCaesars, it's hard to say.
Both of them was good, but Iguess I'm probably leaning more
towards Little Caesars.
What about you?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, little Caesars, first Little Caesars.
In the moment of them showingSeal as a seal, like the moment
when that happened, I was likethis is so weird.
But good for them for listeningto whatever advertising
executive just said.
Just go with it.
Because, yeah, I think theytook note which is what the
public wanted, which is justsimplicity, celebrity factors, a
(07:04):
little bit of AI, and not tomake it so political or have
such a stance.
I feel like we're all sofatigued by politics and
everything in general that I'mlike let's just make it fun and
enjoyable for everyone.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Definitely.
Besides the commercials.
I don't know how much of afootball fan you are, but for me
, as far as the game itself, ohmy God, the Eagles went out
there and kicked something.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, they did.
I'm like, wow, now did you haveany like predictions, or were
you betting anything on thisgame?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know what I told my brother because we were
looking at it and I told himbefore it started.
I said you know what?
I'm rooting for the Eaglesbecause I like rooting for the
underdogs.
So obviously, even if KansasCity won, it would have been
great.
They would have had athree-peat and everything.
But, oh my God, the Eagles justdidn't let up.
(08:00):
I mean from start to finish.
And Patrick Mahomes, I wouldsay probably around halftime he
still kept his composure, butyou could tell it was getting to
him Because everybody was juststunned at the way that the
Eagles were playing.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I know, okay, so do you think?
Because of course my conspiracyTikTok.
A lot of people say that it'srigged.
It's so funny because I don'twatch any football.
But then after the Super Bowl,I watched these play-by-plays of
slow motion of players from theChiefs just obviously not
catching a ball when you knowthey could.
I don't even know how someonewould do that, how to throw a
(08:40):
whole football game on purpose.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I don't think this was rigged.
I mean, I think they wereplaying their heart out.
Because Patrick Mahomes, he wasreally shocked.
You could kind of see it on hisface.
He was almost like what the Fis going on.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, and the coaches too.
I feel like the coaches aren'tthat good actors where they
would be getting that upsetknowing what the outcome is,
Because that one, the assistant,was screaming so much His face
he was getting so red.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh yeah, and I'm quite sure they're pulled to the
side and like hey, don't forget, there's cameras everywhere.
Calm down, relax yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
My best friend from back home, my longtime best
friend, was there.
She was there with her husbandoh wow.
Nice, they bet on it or they umnot bet on it, but what's it
called?
When you like win a or like araffle?
you know, they won a raffle forwork and she was like, oh, we're
in the nosebleed section andshe was sitting exactly like, uh
, like Trump was like right here.
(09:38):
So she.
So if you look there and it'slike if Trump was there, someone
was to push him over.
He would have landed directlyon top of her.
But they're huge Eagles fansand so it was cool to see, to
hear the account from someonethat was there for a winning
team and you know that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh yeah, I mean, wow.
I mean I was just stunned athow they played and they said
that that was the most thatPatrick Mahomes was ever sacked
in the game, Really In his NFLcareer.
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
They just felt like in the flow from the beginning
and there was one point that Iwas like please let the Chiefs
at least score something, orelse this is going to be really
bad.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I mean I don't.
I don't think they took it forgranted, but I think sometimes
you could be overconfident too.
You know what I mean, yeah yeah, totally.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Or you just think that you're like the big dog For
these games.
Do they always have the versionof, like Jon Hamm and Bradley
Cooper, like the actors, do they?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
always have.
You know how they kind of likeset it off in the beginning and
they announced it For the SuperBowl.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
They do a lot of different things, so you know,
it could be different actors, itcould be singers, it could be
anyone, because like I said theylike to change it up every
every year okay, but theyusually have like one person
announce the team okay, becauseI thought that was really cute.
I thought both of those actors,that was like fun to see those
guys oh, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And then also too, um , I thought that, um, you know,
the singing of the blacknational anthem yeah, this is,
uh, february, which is blackhistory month um was a great
thing.
So, um, I really like that, Ilike the all the performances.
I mean it was a great game.
You know the commercial is.
I would say everything was puttogether very well.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes, I want to start a petition to keep the Super
Bowl in New Orleans every yearbecause it just makes sense.
It feels like why wouldn't theSuper Bowl be in New Orleans?
And it just seems likeperformers from there, like the
whole I don't know the wholething, just seems like they
should just move it therepermanently.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And then hey, they could just oh yeah and then.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Hey, you can just go to the French.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Quarter party afterwards, right.
Exactly, it should be like justa Mardi Gras, you know, a
pre-party for Mardi Gras.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
That is so true.
That is so so true.
But yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I thought that was really cool.
Did you have a party or like,did you Go just watch it at home
?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You know what?
I was supposed to go to mybrother's house, but you know
Tracy wasn't feeling good, so wejust stayed home and made sure
she was okay, so I watched itfrom home.
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, so did we.
I was going to act like wedidn't go anywhere, but really
we just didn't get invited toany parties.
I turned down exactly the zeroparties that we got invitations
to, so it's okay zero partiesthat we got invitations to, so
it's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, actually I called my brother right after
the game to talk to him and kindof give him some smack about it
, and the phone went to voiceand I'm like you know, this dude
is asleep already.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh yeah, I did.
I think we turned it off inlike the third quarter and then
watched the very, very end of it, but it was like okay we know
what's going to happen andwatched the very, very end of it
.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But it was like, okay , we know what's going to happen
.
Well, you know what?
I do give them credit forputting some points on the board
, so at least they weren't blownout.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah , because that would have been
like really disastrous.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh, absolutely, oh yeah.
And actually this kind of leansinto my next one, which was
shocking to see how Taylor Swiftof all people booed.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I was stunned to see that Me too.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Me too, like I didn't think, you know.
I thought of course she'll getsome boos, but for the most part
people will clap just to showher.
I thought they did a very goodjob of not overexposing her.
I wonder if that was like aTaylor slash, an NFL slash, a
whatever thing.
I think there's probably someagreement to be like.
We as a whole don't want to seeTaylor 70 times throughout the
(13:31):
game and she probably didn'twant to be shown that much too.
But when they did show her, Ifelt so bad.
I did feel bad and her face.
I think she did the best jobthat you could where she made it
look funny.
But that has to be a crazyfeeling to be like booed by
everyone I was stunned.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I mean, yeah, I mean you're gonna have some booze
because you're gonna have somepeople that are moving for the
team, whatever.
Okay, I get all that, but I wasreally shocked I know.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And then it's like what did she do wrong except for
, like I get it, she's a littlebit cringy sometimes.
Her friends are like, but Imean, like this is someone that
donates millions of dollars toevery single thing.
Um, you know, like I love howshe always brings kids on stage,
like for the most part she doesyes, she does waste a lot of
energy on her planes and stufflike that, but but like I feel
(14:20):
like her is a net human in theworld.
She produces more, more goodthan she does bad and she's like
not very mean or whatever.
But I don't know.
Someone had a good point wherethey're like Travis comes to all
of her shows and is met withnothing but like cheering and
everyone goes wild for him andso that sucks, that she comes to
it and then is shown once andbooed pretty heavily and like
(14:40):
she wasn't doing anything bad.
I actually thought for how muchLast week I kind of ragged on
her Because I said that herdancing by herself all the time
Is like trying to make it abouther.
I thought she was completelyfine in the Super Bowl.
She was just standing therenormally and not making anything
about her.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
That was the weird part, she was literally just
watching a game, like everyoneelse?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, she wasn't.
I could see if she was beingobnoxious, but she couldn't have
been more low-key and normal.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I don't know, it was just weird to me because I was
like wow, I know, I know, and itwasn't like one of those low
boo, that was like boo real loud, I know the whole crowd.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It was very weird because I feel like we were in a
weird portal, because Trump gota huge round of applause, then
Taylor Swift got a huge round ofapplause and then cut.
Tillers have got a boo.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I'm like what timeline are we on right now?
But actually he really did getthat applause.
Yeah, he did, he did, he got,he got he.
You don't think so.
Actually, if you, if you seevideos from other countries, he
didn't get the really yeah theymade it they just oh they made
it look like he got the applause.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh my god, of course he probably comes with his own
track or whatever to play it.
Now, also, like, what do youthink the car ride home if
Taylor and Trav I mean I know hetraveled with the team, but,
like the other thing that wewere talking about, my boyfriend
and I was I was saying Iwouldn't want to be the a wag
wife or girlfriend of an athletebecause, like, knowing what to
(16:04):
deal, how to be with an athletewhen they lose is such a like a
scary thing to me because Iwouldn't know whether or not to
like give someone too muchattention or not enough, or like
and at some point too, as awoman, I would just be kind of
be like, okay, it is a footballgame, but like, get it together.
You know, I think it's, it'stough, I bet that's very awkward
, but if anyone knows how todeal with that, I feel like she
(16:24):
would, because she's also a topperformer.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, I mean, the other thing too was earlier
before the game, there was areporter that asked him because
there was rumors that he wasgoing to propose to her at
halftime.
So he never really answered thequestion when they asked him.
So you know, it kind of makesyou wonder, you know, did that
spoil it to me personally?
(16:48):
I think I and again we don'tknow, because again everything
is just rumors but if I wasplanning on proposing it,
wouldn't matter if I won or lost, I would still propose period I
wouldn't be like well I'm gonnawait because you know we lost
the game and you know becausewhen you marry it's for better
or worse.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Totally, I know, I know, but I could see that being
awkward, because then almostpeople would be like, oh, now
they're making it about them.
She was wearing white, though,which was weird because she was
wearing like.
People thought that maybe shethought, but I'm like I don't
know.
I don't know, I don't knowabout that, but it did seem like
he was in a pretty bad mood.
What do you think about too?
(17:27):
I know he gets a lot of flackfor people saying that he like
aggressively pushes the coaches,do you?
Notice that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The thing that I don't like.
I don't care who you are,whether you're playing for fun
as you know a high schoolathlete whether you're in the
fun as you know high schoolathlete whether you're in the
pros, there is zero reason toever put your hands on the coach
.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I agree.
And I am really shocked thatthe coach put up with that
nonsense, Cause there's a lot ofcoaches would be.
Like you know, I don't give afuck who you are Sit down.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Right, don't touch me .
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
There's nothing worth putting your hands on another
person and you know I meanthere's nothing worth putting
your hands on another person andyou know there's some coaches
that hit you back.
Yeah, and it's so weird becauseit seems like to me like the
Kelsey brothers seem like,especially with their mom, like
they kind of have that likegentle giant, you know, like the
(18:21):
good sportsman attitude.
So it's like very weird to seethis side of Travis because I
mean, I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Is that something that Jason would do, too, when
he was playing with the Eagles?
I've never seen him do that.
Okay, I mean either he kind ofreminded me, like you say, of
the gentle giant.
Very nice, funny, like to havefun, enjoy life, whatever.
I remember I think it was lastyear Either it was last year or
the year before, maybe last yearwhen he was up in the booth
watching his brother play and hetook his shirt off, having a
(18:45):
good time, whatever, and justhaving a great, great time, and
that's really what it's supposedto be about.
Having a great time yeah, itshould never get that serious
when you're putting your handson someone.
No Period.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
This seems like a weird week or a weird month for
Taylor and Travis, because it'slike she didn't get any Grammys,
you know, like he lost.
She's had some weird thingswith Blake Lively.
It seems like right now they'rekind of on the outs.
A lot of people said that theythink that she's going to get
the ick from this game and like,be not into Travis anymore.
But imagine too if she's booed.
I mean, I know she's used to itat this point and she's so rich
(19:26):
and successful, but it must besuch a head trip for her to go
sell out these amputators on herown and then go to a football
game and get booed by thousandsof people.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, that's true.
She initially showed her shockbut then she kind of toned it
down, probably remembering okay,let me cool out because people
are watching the camera's on mebut she was really shocked
herself.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I know and if I was her too, I'd try to remind
myself that a lot of it is alsojust pumped up Eagles fans.
It's like the girlfriend of oneof the best players on the
other team.
So, if anything, you're justkind of like a casualty of that
and it's not so personal, whichit kind of is casualty of that
and it's not so personal, whichit kind of is, but you know yeah
, I mean, you know, like I said,she handled like a pro.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, she didn't go f you to the fans you know, which
would have been, you know, kindof detrimental to her career,
but she didn't do that see,that's why I would have taken
out like my wad of a billiondollars.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I've been like I can't hear you over me fanning
myself, but but that's what sheprobably knows too.
That's what you get when you'reoverexposed and like maybe in
the next month it will be herdialing it back a little bit and
not being like up in everyone'sface in every single.
You know politics like music,just she's just everywhere.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So I think now, yeah, that's true, that is true true.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, let's see my next thing.
Okay, this is another thing Idon't want to see that needs to
go away is the skinny jean, sosomething we thought we escaped
many, many years ago.
But now which is so funnybecause, you know, we're seeing
fashion come around for sure,and we thought skinny jeans were
, like, it seems, so recent,like we just got rid of them.
It's not time for them to comeback.
(21:06):
But right now, on the runway,skinny jeans are cropping up and
, according to a lot of Googlesearch trends and retail
analysts, they expect they couldbe back by the end of this year
.
People are showing these photosof, like just the millennial
and Y2K fashion.
It's on its way, but like thisone influencer, alex Earl I
(21:28):
don't know if you know who thatis, but she wore a pair on
tiktok and now all the girls areback being interested in it but
like to me also, alex earl islike a size you know, zero, zero
, zero.
Skinny jeans look a lotdifferent when you're like very
skinny.
So so that's just.
My thought is that I think weneed to stop this before it
starts, and this is where weneed to exercise our own will as
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people.
I mean, I guess, whatever jeanspeople want to wear all day
long.
There's some people that justprefer skinny jeans.
But what do you think?
Are you going to wear a pairanytime soon?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Well, I hate to say this.
I have a pair that I bought byaccident, what it wasn't
purposely, and the problem isthat I didn't realize until well
after 30 days that they wereskinny jeans, because I was
going to wear them out one time.
I'm like what the hell?
And then Trace looked at thetag.
(22:20):
He's like these are skinnyjeans.
I'm like are you fuckingkidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm like yeah, no, did they fit still Like, did
they totally they fit.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
but you know, they just looked a little ridiculous.
You know, skinny jeans after 40, you know may not be good, yeah
, but I'm like, you know what Idone paid my money, so I'm going
to wear these someplace.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I don't know where, but I'm going to wear them
someplace.
Well, now's the time you couldbe ahead of the trend that's
coming back again.
I mean, like it's hard too,because I can't.
I still have not found a jeanlike cut that even works for me,
because what doesn't work islike the high waist, like the
mom jeans look weird, skinnyjeans look weird.
I feel like for men, like thenormal boot, cut seems to just
(23:06):
be what, like most men end upwearing.
But I feel like jeans ingeneral are kind of hard because
it's like it's.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
it's hard when you're not like very, very skinny to
find an actual pair that looksgood the one thing that's
surprising to me is I can getthe same, exact same, exact same
size jeans in four differentbrands and they will all fit
differently.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Totally.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Me neither.
No, yeah, there will be some.
Old Navy is where I go if Iwant to feel like skinny,
because I'm like, oh my God, I'mlike a size eight is swimming
on me, and then I'll go to adifferent place.
I'm like a size 12.
I can't even get my leg in.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Old Navy is where we want to go to be like oh my God,
I'm wasting away.
Yeah, I mean it's kind of weirdwith that, because I literally
have to try out every pair ofjeans unless it's a certain
brand that I always wear, yeah.
But if I try a different brand,I have to try them on, because
some of them fit loose, some fittight, some fit weird in
certain areas and it's like Ithought there was one standard
size chart that everyone uses.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We need to make one.
And also I feel like the skinnyjeans look good.
You have to kind of get thewhole outfit down with the
leather jacket and the boots.
There's a whole kind of skinnyjean early 2000s boy band look
that people are going for.
So it's like if you commit, youhave to really commit.
Now you know what looks nice onthe men for skinny jeans to me
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like, especially in this kind ofweather right here where we
have cold weather, where I'm at,you know, like a nice sweater
with some boots skinny jeansactually looks nice, you know I
know, I know and I agree, butbut when, sometimes, when men
wear jeans, that where theircalves so tight, like good for
them they have well-defined calfmuscles, but it's just like, oh
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, when I'm walking down thestreet and I see like it almost
looks like man leggings, I justlike no, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, it's almost like the guys who purposely wear
the smallest shirts becausethey want to look big.
You know, yeah, like they'repopping up, yep.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's like, yeah dude, yeah dude, yeah, you got
muscles.
But that's not a good look, Iknow.
So we'll see, we'll keep an eyeon it.
But uh, it's so funny how, likeone influencer could wear
something and then they see awhole spike in retail sales.
That's so weird, that's, that'sa crazy influence oh, that is
so so true.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So so true.
Talk about interestingconversation.
Um, there was a situation.
It's a rapper, a plus sizerapper, her name is dank demas
and she's suing lyft and thedriver for refusing to let her
get into his car because he feltthat she was too large.
(25:47):
Now here's the thing, and Iguess the way I look at it
personally, you're a Lyft driver.
Okay, yeah, unless shephysically can't get in the car,
that's different, right, butbeing that she's a bigger person
, I don't think he should haverefused to let her get in a
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vehicle.
I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
There's so many like Uber XL jokes coming at me right
now, but but I mean, okay, well, I guess, like, could she if
she could?
Same thing is like sheabsolutely should be able to
ride in the car if she couldphysically fit in there, and I
mean there could be some safetything.
I guess if she can't wear theseatbelt, like if a seatbelt is
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unable to work for her, I couldsee a driver turning her down
because in case of insurance,like you know, he may not want
to drive with someone that isunable to get their seatbelt on.
If drive with someone that isunable to get their seatbelt on,
if there's like a valid reason,that is fine.
But like other than just,obviously, hopefully, if it's
not just her looks or that he'slike turning her down, that
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would be super wrong.
I also wonder how that case isgoing to work, because I feel
like suing him and the companyitself.
I feel like it will just end upsettling, like Lyft will end up
settling, probably.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Oh yeah, I believe so too, and you know it comes down
to because some people are kindof torn saying, and well, he
has a right to refuse anyone inhis vehicle.
But the one thing that I thinkpeople are overlooking is he's
doing it as a business, not aspersonal.
It's a difference.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I have to wonder if therewas a reason where she just
couldn't physically fit, butthen it's also.
Couldn't she sit up in thefront in the passenger seat with
him, Like I don't know?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, what was weird about it is that he wouldn't
even allow her to try, becauseshe was basically saying I can
fit in your car, I don't have aproblem getting in, and he still
wouldn't let her in.
He was like but it's like again, if she can physically get in
the vehicle, I don't know, Imean.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, that's really sad.
I mean that's definitely likethat level of I don't even know
what this person, how much it isof.
I mean, I don't even know whatthis person and how much it is,
but like the level of obesitywhere you just like can't fit on
a ride at Disneyland or like ona plane or like that's very sad
for everyone involved becauseit's like no one wants to live
life that way and that'sprobably like really humiliating
.
But on the other flip side, italso does like become a burden
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to be safe in the car.
But it doesn't sound likethat's if he didn't even let her
try.
That's a little bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Because even when you get into someone's back seat,
not everyone puts a seatbelt on.
So you can't even use that asan excuse because everybody does
.
No, definitely not.
And if you think about it,sometimes when they pick up
people, whether it's Lyft orwhether it's Uber, sometimes
you're picking up three or fourpeople.
Yeah, if you take a look at theaverage weight of an average
person these days, you knowaverage person weighs.
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You know between 150, 200pounds on average.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So you multiply that times four, that's almost a
thousand pounds.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And she's not a thousand pounds.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Right, I'm just picturing like if he's driving
like a honda fit, I'm justpicturing the car just like
sagging in the whole back.
But I mean she has a right toretaliate, I think, if she or
like seek damage.
I think hopefully it's notgoing to go into this whole big
like.
It costs me mental anguishbecause I'm like I'm sorry, but
I'm sure it costs you a littlebit of embarrassment, but like I
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don't think this is also thecase Like you should miss a
month of work due to this oranything like that.
But I'm sure she may for thesake of like getting money.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I think it's getting traction because she is a big
rapper out of, I think, detroit,out of the Bay of Fires city,
so she is a big rapper fromwhere she's at, that by the city
, so she is a big rapper fromwhere she's at.
That's cool, that's cool.
I mean that's, that's cool,that was, that was the wrong
word.
She is a very well-knownbecause I can see it right now
people's like lauren's.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
That's not funny no, it's funny to me.
I was gonna say her stage nameshould be like skinny jeans, but
no, this is bad look.
I'm in full support ofobviously not humiliating people
and letting them be how theyare.
Slash and sometimes, when youare very, very large, like,
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unfortunately you may not be.
This doesn't sound like a placewhere she couldn't fit, but
there are consequences,unfortunately.
You know like I wish we couldlive in a society where everyone
could be 900 pounds waddlingaround, but it's just, you know
like.
So, yeah, I mean it'll beinteresting.
I bet she'll get at least agood settlement and some good
music out of it.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, it'll be kind of interesting to see how this
ends.
I kind of hope that they dokind of you know, let everyone
know what everyone knows willhappen.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
It's not settled in quietly in the background
because you know it is kind ofinteresting to see, because, you
know, do they have that rightto say no, you're too big to get
in my car?
I know I mean to me they theywould have a right to to say no
to anyone, because if it's likesomeone that they feel might be
a threat to them, or if it'slike a woman driver and they are
seeing someone that is like, uh, I don't know if I, I don't
know that's that's aninteresting thing is like, are
you able to kind of profile theperson and decide on your own?
This is not right for me.
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I don't know.
That's pretty cruel, thoughthat's mean, but I'm also.
Now I'm going to check her outCause hopefully we'll get some
good like rap songs from this.
She sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
She, she sounds, cool she sounds cool to me.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I'll have to look, but it's very interesting.
Oh, yes, one time we this isjust a very, very two second
story.
But my boyfriend is very talland large and they not not, you
know, obese large, but just likea tall bigger guy.
And the Harry Potter ride atUniversal Studios.
They said he was like too talland too big to get into, but
then they really want to ride it, so they my friend stuffed him
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in, basically like they put theharness on, and it took like two
minutes and my boyfriend had toride the ride, being like like
completely stuffed in like asausage to this one ride hey, he
made it work, though, rightexactly.
So that's inspiration for theuber driver, that maybe find
someone else to like, stuff thepassengers in and you can make
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it work, okay, well, uh, I think.
I think talking about soda is agood transition here, because
there's a brand called poppywhich you know.
There's one called ollie popand poppy, which are two very
kind of quote-unquote healthysodas.
Now we don't know how actuallysoda, how healthy they are,
because, um, this brand hasfaced some controversy over, you
know, not being as probiotic orhealthy for the gut as they
claim to be.
And now they found themselvesin even more hot water recently
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where, as part of a marketingstrategy for the super bowl,
they launched a campaign wherethey sent vending, custom
vending machines like, so poppyvending machines, um, full of
their beverages, and they sentthem to influencers.
Now, each of these machineswere valued at 25 000 each and
they were sending them to theseinfluencers that, like, already
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get all this free product and,you know, the last thing these
people need is, like, a wholevending machine full of free
soda.
So, of course, like, theinternet sparked just a lot of
anger about this and just said,hey, like there's a million
people that could use thisbesides the influencers.
Poppy's adversary, olipop, ofcourse, jumped on it and they
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were like we would never dosomething like this.
So I thought one person had areally good idea where,
basically, they said what theyshould have done.
A really smart idea was theyshould have picked influencers.
But then ask the influencer tosay, where would you like our
vending machine to go in thecommunity?
And, like you know, I couldhave chosen an elementary school
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.
Or like someone else could havesaid, oh, our fire rescue house
.
And then that way they couldhave still gotten to share, to
have the influencer share ontheir socials.
But the vending machine isgoing to, like you know, a
nurse's office or like somewherethat's actually doing good.
Um, so they, they reallyflubbed it up.
But I mean, we're seeing nowmore and more brands.
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It's like the customers arejust seeing through this and
people want their brands to bedoing good or at least
pretending like they're doinggood.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, I think that what you're saying is 100
percent correct.
But I think the real reasonthey sent those to them is
obviously to promote theirproduct.
But by sending them a vendingmachine, you know they can make
money off that vending machine.
Yeah, yeah I mean so can makemoney off that vending machine.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
(34:27):
So it's really like paymentplus a bonus.
But then again, you know, youdon't really necessarily have to
go through an influencer to dosomething good in the community
too.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Right, no-transcript.
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Giving the everyday person alittle uh like, treating them
like the influencers.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
That's true and you know.
The thing is too is that youknow brands know how important
those influences are.
You know, especially whenthey're sitting at 100,000, 200,
even a million followers, youknow that's pretty valuable to a
lot of a lot of brands outthere.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, yeah, and I feel like they're definitely
still like.
Social campaigns are reallyimportant.
I think that's definitely how Isee, like like a brand like
Poppy or Olipop, the way that Iwould get influence is just
watching people like pack theirlunch and then they're bringing
a Poppy.
But I think when you're doingsomething so big like gifting
these huge $25,000 machines, atleast pretend like you're doing
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something for society.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, that's true.
I'm actually shocked they sentthem.
They're sending people entiremachines though.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And people are videoing it, being like my god,
I'm, I'm getting these machines.
Like you know, they're videoingthese machines rolling up and
it's like oh you, you just gotback from a tart makeup trip in
cabo, you know yeah, that'sprobably not a good look for
them either yeah, so that'sinteresting, but we'll keep an
eye, I think.
For me, I'll still drinkpoppies because I like them,
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even though they're unhealthy,but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
There you go, talk about food, since we're on food
here.
I never thought we'd be talkingabout this again, you know,
after the pandemic, but peopleare stealing eggs now.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
There was a big heist , I want to say about a week or
so ago, where and I'm notexaggerating it was a hundred
thousand Dozen of eggs werestolen.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
They stole like one or two trailers of eggs.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Whoa was it in like one state or just all together?
In one state, in one state andthen also there are situations
Now in the stores where people,or just all together In one
state, in one state, whoa.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
And then also there are situations now in the stores
where people are opening up thecartons of eggs and stealing
out, like you know, one, two,three eggs out of a carton
that's so gross, Like that'sreally gross to me.
I don't know.
I guess the whole thing isweird for a couple reasons.
For number one other than astore yeah, I'm not going to be
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going to buy eggs from somebodyon the corner.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Or selling off the back of a truck.
I'm not doing any of that.
And also, too, it's amazing howmany people don't check their
eggs, because I always open thecarton up to make sure none are
broken.
So if any are missing, I wouldknow right then and there.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, I actually I move the cartons around and I
take like one that's been in theback corner, because I also I'm
very paranoid and I have thisfear that someone's like taking
a needle and like injecting myeggs with something bad, or like
I'm very paranoid.
But like, what about?
Also?
I know for us in Californiahere we have a ton of farmer's
markets.
And know for us in california,here we have a ton of farmers
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markets and like those aredirectly like you can go and buy
like the farm fresh eggs.
I would have to, I mean, andthey're still pretty expensive,
they're kind of the same price.
But like there is a way to likego look to local farms and like
they there there are eggsaround, you know.
You just have to know thatthey're a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
But oh, absolutely.
I mean the weird, the weirdthing about this situation
especially.
They were saying, like whenpeople are taking them out the
cartons in the store, they'reputting it in their pockets or
purses or whatever still in them.
It's like okay, so what if youbump into something?
Yeah I don't know yeah it's.
It's kind of a weird story, youknow, I know that's not right.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I mean, I feel bad, for if people obviously can't
afford to feed their family orlike clearly we are all feeling
it, it's absolutely insane to goto the grocery store and like
get the fixings for an omeletteand then it's like $60.
You know, it's totally insane,it really is.
So I feel for people in thatway.
If you have kids and a familybut it's like, come on, you
can't just, you have to think ofeveryone else where if now you
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take two eggs out of a carton,the the whole store also will
probably have to throw away thatcarton too.
They're not going to sell it tosomeone else or you know, like
they're now, they might have tothrow away those eggs, which is
just a complete waste of like alot of things.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So oh yeah.
And if it happens too much,guess what's gonna happen?
They're gonna jack up the pricea little bit to cover those
yeah, yeah, yeah, that's justnot.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
And I mean maybe also maybe they should start selling
those like little, the littlercartons of like six or even four
or something, just to be like,okay, if people can't afford
eleven dollars on eggs right now, maybe they can't afford like
four for the week or something.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
So no, actually that's not a bad idea.
I'm actually surprised thatsome stores don't do that.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
That's actually a really good idea or for real,
like maybe you could startselling them individually, like
if we had some type of like big,big, big carton and you're like
, okay, I'll take, like you knowalmost how, like you could buy
this stuff in bulk.
Or you could buy like threechocolate pretzels or something.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, and then they showed.
I saw on TV they were in.
I don't know if it was Costco'sor Sam's, but you could tell it
was one of the big stores thatyou need the membership to.
And this guy, I kid you not hada whole carton full of eggs.
I'm sorry, full cart of eggs,it reminded me of the pandemic
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where they were buying out allthe paper towels, all the toilet
tissue.
I still don't understand thetoilet tissue part of it, but
they were literally just buyingup everything.
It's like seriously dude really.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
I remember that too, yes, and then you think about
how restaurants are doing that.
I mean, I guess they're gettingtheirs from wholesale retailers
, but yeah, that's definitelycrazy.
And to be doing all this toowhen, like, the bird flu is
happening and half of half ofthe cdc is like try not to eat
eggs if you don't have to or youknow, like it's just crazy yeah
(40:54):
, so just remember when you goget your eggs open that carton
up just to make sure they're allthere I always are, yeah, and.
And also, someone could have myegg.
That sounds weird me sayingsomeone could have my eggs, but
someone someone could have mybreakfast eggs, because I'm
getting the egg ick where, likeit happens every now and then,
where I'll have a couple eggsand then you just start to get
like, ew, what am I eating?
So now I'm finding a good timeto be disgusted by eggs.
(41:18):
But, um, yeah, that's my otherthing.
If people are, or you knowwhatever enough to be by a
farmer's market, go check thoseout, because a lot of times you
could also make deals with yourlocal farmer.
If you get to know them and yougo back a lot, you know they
might give you some discounts orthey might give you some, like
you know, if you go early in themorning, you can get some extra
goodies and stuff.
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So that's just a good way.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
And plus you, you know you're getting the eggs
directly from like a goodchicken, oh yeah.
And then also too, by going tothe farmer's markets and stuff,
you cut out the middleman so thefarmers actually make more
money on product?
Speaker 2 (41:54):
yeah, definitely, but yeah, I think just as a whole
we have to think about otherpeople at the where.
It's like if you take two eggsfor yourself, just know it's so
gross to be like wasting foodand and that's now they're gonna
have to throw all those eggsaway, and that's just that
drives me as one of my likebiggest pet peeves is when
people I totally get changingyour mind and like not wanting
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to purchase an item.
But if someone like buys awhole rotisserie chicken and
then they just leave it in likethe non-refrigerated item by
like the cereal or something,now that's like a wasted, like
dead animal that just died toyou know, to not like be used in
a good way, and I think I don'tknow that.
So it's just like not thinking,but it's like these are still
animals that are giving theirpieces and you know things that
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went way off topic, but I hateseeing like dead animal parts
just left behind with no care.
It's like at least put it backin the refrigerated section so
that someone else can eat it anduse it that's true, that's true
I'm fired up.
Now I'm on a tangent.
(42:59):
Okay, I'm gonna go to.
So the moral of the story islook at your eggs, open up the
egg carton.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Okay, well, someone that doesn't want eggs right now
is singer Kelsey Ballerini,because she has the flu.
The middle of a show, and youcould tell like these videos,
the poor girl was like sweatingand you know, trying to do all
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these things and then all of asudden she kind of abruptly left
and then an announcer came backto the stage and just said
Kelsey has to cancel the rest ofher set.
She has fallen ill pretty much,and then since then she's
canceled a few shows and I couldonly imagine how, like
nerve-wracking and disappointingthat is just to know you're
letting down your fans.
Um, but then I feel so badbecause people are now it's
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rumors that she's pregnant andnow she's saying I'm not
pregnant.
I just like truly have the fluand like I mean we all have the
flu.
Imagine like having to dealwith all these things and like
be calling your publicist whenyou're down with the flu.
To me it makes me think aboutartists that never get a day off
.
That's such a scary feeling tobe sick and have thousands of
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people disappointed in you, didthey?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
get their money back during that?
I think for that show.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
They're either going to get their money back or I
think she said she's also goingto come and play that CD again
and she's definitely going tomake up the dates and like she's
someone that I think reallydoes love their fans and she
communicates like reallydirectly with them.
She always posts on her Instastories, but I just thought that
has to be such a weird feelingto like have the flu, be so sick
(44:40):
and then have all thesepregnancy rumors and just that's
just a lot yeah, I mean,unfortunately, you know, when
you do hit fame, you have todeal with that nonsense, you
know.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things and we've
said it many times.
People have to understand that.
You know, yes, you idolize your, your, your, your singers, your
actors and all this.
You're mesmerized by them, youlove them and everything.
But they're also human, whichmeans sometimes stuff happens.
Okay, they're human, you know,and people sometimes forget that
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.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I know, imagine if you're like Patrick Mahomes and
a few days before the Superbowlyou're like oh, my throat hurts
a little bit Like.
But I also guess that's wherecoaches and performance athletes
come in, because you probablydo have the top of the line.
Whatever their version ofNyQuil is, I imagine they have
hacks and secrets we don't evenknow about to cut down flus and
(45:37):
all the IV drips and all theeverything.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh, yeah, I mean as a professional athlete, you have
access to a doctor instantly.
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean as aprofessional athlete, you know,
you have access to a doctorinstantly.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Yeah, yeah.
And like when we take Farrahflu, they probably have like
secret herbs that we don't evenknow about that.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah, I mean, um, like I said, you know I, I I
feel sorry for people when theyget sick like that, because you
know stuff happens, you knowthere's when they get sick like
that, because you know stuffhappens.
You know, yeah, there's.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
There's plenty of performers that have felt ill
while performing you know, Iknow that probably is that
probably is a really terriblefeeling to be halfway through
and just be like I can't do therest.
Like and you know people aretrying to, because it's easier
for everyone just to like, pushthrough and get done with the
show.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Oh yeah, and you know the thing is too, what I like
about it is is that you know sheknew that, hey, something was
wrong, she wasn't feeling well,it was time to cut it.
You know, yeah, because I'veseen performers literally try
and push through and theycollapse on stage you don't
really yeah, no so I tip my hatoff to her.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Talk about getting rid of something President Trump
has enacted.
I guess he's about to sign Anexecutive order to outlaw the
penny.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
The penny.
Yes, no, we can't have anythingfun anymore.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
So I guess Supposedly it costs 2 to 3 cents To make 1
cent.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Oh, okay, to like mint them and stuff.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yes.
So they're looking at gettingrid of the penny.
So, which means that if theyget rid of the penny, then
everything will be rounded up toa nickel.
You know, when you get changeor whatever, I don't know.
What do you think?
What do you think about that,meryl?
Speaker 2 (47:22):
I think they need to skip ahead and get rid of the
nickel, because I think thenickel is the ugly one Really?
Yeah, it's the ugliest one.
To me the dimes are the cutestones and I think pennies are the
most nostalgic ones.
I mean, pennies are kind oflike the older ones.
They do get like dirty when thegum is stuck to them.
I understand it.
I guess, like I'm right at thatage where it's still a little
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bit like I you know I use change.
Growing up my dad collectscoins, so I I still feel like
pennies are cute, but how oftendo we really use them?
You can't really use them fortips anymore because now we have
to, like, pay in dollars orcredit card.
Um, hopefully they still makelike memorative penn.
I don't know.
I don't want to get rid ofchange all in general, but I
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understand how it's becoming alittle bit not needed.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Yeah, because I know that there's some people saying
that if they get rid of thepenny it's going to hurt
low-income people.
Aw, yeah, that's true I don'tknow It'll affect them, but I
don't think it's going to makeor break them.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
I know, Unfortunately , as we talked about like eggs,
you're going to need a lot ofpennies for anything like eggs,
but I really hope they don't getrid of the quarter too, because
I think I think the nickel'sgot to go first.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Well, you know what, if you get rid of the nickel,
that means you can't get rid ofthe penny.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
then that's true, we need it, that's right.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm like, I'm like let's justtry five cents at a time, and
then I think we also need tobring back more of the half
dollar.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
So bring back some, get rid of the others.
You know what's interesting?
We're having fun with this, butit actually makes more sense to
get rid of the nickel than thepenny, because then it doesn't
affect anyone.
Dollar, you know money.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, because you could still have
like five cents exactly, and thepenny would be used more often
then I know, I feel like penniesare just more fun and more like
I don't know, just like a pennyfor your thoughts, like it's
just more cute that's true,that's true.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Okay, you gotta go to the white house, merrill, and
present this, okay, okay thankyou.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
What if I'm just like , like what.
I'm just like holding up a signthat says girls against nickels
or something?
I don't want to take it Of allthe things that I could care
about.
What a weird stance.
I call it the march for dimes,even though there's already a
march for dimes.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Nice, I like that.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Thank you, it would be good, but, yeah, I like
quarters the best.
But I could understand that.
But at this point, how is Trumpdoing all these things?
I feel like there's moreimportant things.
The penny seems like somethingwe should be getting to in
December.
Trump, you can't put everyoneout of the country and stuff the
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penny.
It's too much to do at once.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Well, he's definitely making time to do it all right.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yeah, yeah, oh man, oh God, someone that I bet wants
to get rid of the penny as wellis Sir Elon Musk, and so he's
been in trouble lately because Imean for many reasons, but one
of it is the cyber truckcrashing.
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A lot of the issues havehappened with the cyber truck
tech, the actual tech of thetruck itself and now a lot of
people are urging him to saveothers before it gets bad for
everyone.
There's been a lot of accidents.
This one driver, jonathanChallenger, claims his
Cybertruck drove headlong into astreetlight while in full
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self-driving mode, and Muskwants the technology to be ready
for a June robo-taxi launch.
So now, instead of justindividual self-driving cars,
musk wants to launch a wholebunch of robo taxis, but they're
still dealing with a lot ofTeslas.
There's one that got wrappedaround a pole with its right
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wheel dangling, and the driverwas just like you know.
He escaped without harm, buthe's like.
This has to get fixed before wemanufacture more.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Well, I hope they don't come to chicago, because
if even if they do, I will notbe getting in one no, me too,
not a robo taxi.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
And you know, we see all these videos of these little
waymo cars.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
There'll be like a railroad crossing and it's like,
don't go, the waymo is justjust going full speed ahead and
if I'm driving on the road and Isee what I'm next to it, I'm
just going to ease back and justlet them go ahead.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Yeah, I think also too, is that there doesn't seem
to be a lot of transparentcommunication.
I think one thing that, likeother people, seem to have in
the past was like oh yes, thishas happened, we recognized it
and we're going to be working onthe software.
I feel like Musk seems so likesecretive about these things
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that we never quite know exactlywhat's being fixed or if it's
being taken seriously, and Ithink that makes consumers feel
on edge.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, I guess for me,obviously, AI is here to stay.
It's not going to go away andyou know, AI, if used correctly,
is actually a great tool to use.
But when you're talking aboutmoving a vehicle using
intelligence, there's so manythings that could possibly go
wrong.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Once it goes wrong, it goes horribly wrong.
I don't know.
I just think that we're tryingto move a little bit too fast in
certain areas of it.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
Me too.
I wish the next decade was likeus, using AI with like together
, in tandem.
You know, like the same waythat we got switching over
slowly to electric.
I wish it was like okay, itdoesn't have to be self-driving
cars, it can be us, but with,like, the help of AI supporting
us.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
That's true, that is so, so true.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
So you're not going to be getting in a cyber truck
or a robo taxi anytime soonabsolutely not me neither, and I
I know some people like them,but for me personally the cyber
truck is like really an eyesore.
I'm bummed.
It make like it makes it lookweird.
I wish I don't know.
I feel like that's not.
It's a different direction.
I feel like a car design thanwe need to go, but some people
like it that's true.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
true, more power to you, but I'm going to let
everybody else be the guineapigs first.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Well, I know we're having a lot of fun here.
Before I get to the last topicof the day, I do want to take
time out to acknowledge that itis Black History Month and I
guess for me personally, blackHistory isn't just one month,
but it's 365 days a year andit's American history.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
One of the things I want to highlight is what's
called Black Wall Street.
This is a situation where,years ago I want to say it was
Tulsa, oklahoma, I have todouble check the location but it
was a bustling town whereAfrican Americans, black people,
you know we weren't reallyaccepted anywhere else, so they
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started building their ownstores, you know the libraries,
their homes, and it was abustling community and, for
whatever reason, white people inthe area didn't like it and
burned the town down to theground.
So we just want to take amoment to just, you know, offer
our prayers for people that youknow still fighting this.
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You know, I feel it too when Igo in certain stores or certain
situations.
It's something that I neverthought in a million years we'd
still be dealing with today, butunfortunately we are.
You know, I think everyone.
When you get a chance, take alook at some of the great things
that Black people have done.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Which is like every single thing.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
We're a part of this country too.
You know to ban books and tryand take away different things.
It doesn't erase the facts.
Like, most people don't realizethat Chicago was actually found
by a Black person.
It was found by a Black person.
So you know, Black history isnot only Black history, but it's
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also American history, and Iwant people to remember that.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
I love that.
I'm here for that and I wantpeople to remember that I love
that.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
I'm here for that.
Cool, cool, cool.
Well, going into the lastsubject, there is this new
software out now and it's used,I believe, by Heritage which is
similar to Ancestry.
You know where you can trackthe roots of your family, you
know, put together your familytree.
Well, what it does and I thinkthere's other software that does
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it too you can take a picture,even an old picture, and
literally bring it to life.
So I took a look at it.
I was like, wow, this is prettycool.
Kind of weird too, you know,and I, and I guess I don't know
what's your feeling about it.
What do you think, meryl?
Speaker 2 (56:05):
Oh well, I like it for humorous purposes.
Like I saw one picture of likean AI, taylor Swift, dancing,
you know, and I like that.
And then you could also this isridiculous.
I would have done this if I waslike a teenage girl.
But you could take a picture ofyou and your crush and like
make you guys make out like whatit would look like if you
really kiss but.
(56:26):
And like make you guys make outlike what it would look like if
you really kiss but.
But when it comes to theserious things, like having your
past grandma come to life oryou know, like having a lot of,
I mean, maybe it helps people orit comforts them, comforts them
, to me it has the same thing aslike the hologram feeling where
I'm like, oh, this, this is notreally this person, this is
like a trickery of theimagination.
But I mean, I think it's supercool, but it definitely can be
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scary if we're not knowing thedifference between, in the
future of what is actual AImotion and what isn't.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
I think it depends on the people If these people have
passed away.
If they passed away a long timeago, it would be warm memories
and stuff like that yeah yeah,smile on your face.
If it's someone that recentlypassed away, I think it would be
.
It would be.
I don't want to use the wordhurtful, but I think it'd be
very painful.
Speaker 2 (57:18):
Yeah, I could just imagine.
I mean, this is like very darkand deep, but like if a family
member had a younger child thatpassed away and like watching
videos of you know not real AIvideos of that kid, I could just
imagine like that's reallytough.
But if it makes someone, forlike a second, feel a little
less pain, then I'm OK with it.
(57:38):
You know, I think it's one ofthose things I like to each
their own.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
But that's true, and you know, the real crazy part is
, even though you know that it'sAI generated, you know some of
these are like, really lifelike,I mean yeah you know, it's kind
of creepy when you think aboutit, you know.
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah, some of them are really good.
But yeah, I totally would have.
If I was in high school, Iwould have like put me with
every single boy together, Likehere's us dancing at the prom,
even though they said no to mein real life.
But yeah, I don't know, I evenfeel that way with pets.
I wouldn't want to make mybeloved pets dogs.
I don't want to see thembarking and flopping around in
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AI version.
It's too weird.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
That's true.
That's true.
It's interesting.
Wow, I can just imagine, evenjust five years from now, what
this AI is going to look like.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
I mean the accomplishments and the way it's
growing.
I mean it's like lightningspeed right now.
The technology.
Speaker 2 (58:37):
Yes, oh my gosh, something I love.
I don't know if you've seen ityet, but I love it AI-wise, will
they ask AI for like arepresentative of what a person
from each state looks like?
Have you seen that where theycreate like an avatar?
I'll have to send that to youon tiktok, but it's like, um,
like you know, here's what thetypical person would look like
from each state and they'll showlike someone that they think
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looks like from ohio or someonefrom tampa, florida, and it's.
It's really funny.
Like they.
They have a down for a lot ofthem.
The Colorado person looks verymuch like what you would picture
, the typical, or the Washingtonperson.
Speaker 1 (59:12):
That would actually be pretty cool to see.
Speaker 2 (59:13):
It's cool.
I'll send you that too.
Speaker 1 (59:15):
It's cool, it is hard to believe it's been an hour.
Speaker 2 (59:21):
No, Well before we head out.
Speaker 1 (59:26):
Meryl, what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Oh my gosh, I will be promoting pennies at the White
House on behalf of the quartersof America.
No, I have a show in PalmSprings for Valentine's Day.
So I'll be in Palm Springs onValentine's Day doing a
20-minute set about love, whichwill be very fun.
My boyfriend will be nowhere inthe audience.
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That's it.
That's what I'm promoting rightnow.
Speaker 1 (59:56):
Okay, and when is that going to be?
Speaker 2 (59:59):
That is on Valentine's Day, so Friday night
, and you're not going to letyour boyfriend be there.
He's not allowed.
He has to stay at home andthink about what he's done over
the past year.
That's my Valentine's Day.
Present is I'm driving with oneof my other comedian friends
another wonderful woman comedianthat I love and we're driving
(01:00:20):
and getting separate hotel roomsand I just want to get room
service and not be bothered.
Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Well, this was a lot of fun.
A lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
This was so much fun.
I love it.
Honestly, I find it so.
It's such a nice gift to haveyou to talk to every week.
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
And of course, everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
All the people here too, but it's so nice to be able
to take what's happening in theworld and talk to you about it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Oh, absolutely I have fun.
In fact, I look forward to thisevery single week.
Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Me too.
Well, everyone else.
Thank you so much for watchingor listening.
If you're listening to us onpodcast, don't forget we're on
LRodTVnetworkcom and also on ourpodcast on all the major
streaming networks.
So again, I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Have a great day everyone.
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lauren Selrod.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How's it going, Meryl ?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's so good, it's peaceful, which is like scary
nowadays.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That is so, so true.
It's been a crazy week, huhRight.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Well, we got a lot to talk about and I'm going to let
you start off, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Everyone is talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Exactly, everyone's talking about the Superbowl.
I thought you know there's somany different angles that we
can take it.
But the first thing I wanted toknow with you is the
commercials, which you know isusually one of the water cooler
things that we all talk aboutthe next day.
None of us really have officesanymore, but, like if we did
have an office, we'd be talkingabout the commercials and I
(01:05):
wanted to know which ones wereyour favorite.
If some didn't hit for you atall, I wanted to get your take
first.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You know, believe it or not, I'm kind of torn.
All of them were pretty good,some were better than others,
but the two that stand out to mewas the Little Caesars
commercial.
Mm-hmm.
With the flying eyebrows, yes,yes, and I say that's tied.
Commercial with the flyingeyebrows, yes, yes.
And I say that's tied probablywith the Pringles with the
mustache.
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You know that was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, it was so funny because the two were on pretty
close to each other and I waslike they have to know which ads
are running, so they have toknow that there's like two
hairballs like floating aroundin two different videos.
I thought the Eugene Levy onewas so funny.
There was one where, um, whenit went to like the caterpillars
or whatever, and they were likewe're not worthy, that's so
funny actually it looked likereal weird looking caterpillars
(01:58):
too it did.
I thought this year did a reallygood job of like ai and
celebrities and like just funnywriting.
I I was like you know, usuallythey're kind of cheesy or they
try too hard, but I'm like,whoever wrote some of these
commercials whatever advertisingagency like I thought had a
really funny sense of humor Ithink the reason why most of
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them hit pretty well is, withthe exception of maybe a couple
of ads.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They stopped giving the ads early because they used
to like tell you a little bitabout the ad or show you a
little piece of it and for me ittakes away from.
You know the ad and what youwant to get out of it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You know yeah, yeah, yeah, and I felt like, instead
of trying to be the one thateveryone talked about, I feel
like they just tried to make itfunny and make it entertaining.
I had wrote down Little Caesars.
That was definitely my favorite.
I love the Budweiser one withthe baby Clydesdale horse.
Of course, those always make mecry.
I wrote down Mountain Dew oh,that was the Seal one, which I
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thought was so ridiculous.
Good for them.
It's like you have this hugebudget and you're going to make
CLOS.
I just loved how some of themwere irreverent.
I think that's what the themeof it this year was.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I think probably the craziest thing for
me was just thinking aboutspending $8 million for a
30-second ad no-transcript dayout.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I thought that was like a really cool commercial
and all those women are soamazing um and then I think that
was like that was pretty muchit for that.
But I was happy that Budweiserwent back to the baby
Clydesdales Cause, like theClydesdales in general Cause.
I think that's so cute.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh, definitely, definitely.
I mean, I think, overall for meI would say they were
noticeably better than last year.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I know I don't remember.
The only one I remember fromlast year is nerds the candy
with Addison Rae, just because Ilove her.
People were like screaming.
I felt like I had won the SuperBowl when Addison came on.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I was like ah, now you know, there was one
commercial that was kind of likeborderline funny but creepy at
the same time.
This is where they're sittingin the diner and she's sitting
there having orgasms whileeating.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh yeah, I think I read that Sally and Sidney
sweetie, and they didn't evenshow Sidney long enough.
I thought that one was kind oflost a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, because the thing is that if you hadn't
watched the movie, it won't hitas much.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, and I feel like that's an iconic scene.
But then to cut from Sweeneyaway too much and she's just
wearing.
Not that I'm trying to be gross, but I want to see her in
something different than anoversized sweater.
Not that I'm being disgusting,but were there any?
That just didn't translate atall to you.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I mean, they translated all of them, Some of
them.
Honestly, I looked at it like,wow, you spent eight million
bucks for this.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, yeah.
Now, if I tried to close myeyes, I can't remember what the
one with Catherine O'Hara is,where she's playing tennis Like
oh yeah, it didn't really do agood job of product placement
because I think that commercialseemed like way longer to me and
I couldn't really understandwhat the actual point of it was,
like what the product was.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, because it took me a few seconds to figure out
that they were playingpickleball, because I've never
played.
Oh, I don't know that either,and the other thing, too, is I'm
like you.
When it first started, I reallyhad no idea where it was going.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm like.
I like these people but yeah, Imean, you kind of want to at
least have some kind of hook orsomething, because it's like,
okay, but where is this going,you know?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, and then I felt like Pete Davidson, like cameo.
In eight of them I feel likeevery single one had Eugene Levy
and Pete Davidson in it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, I would say, like I said, between the two,
between the Pringles and LittleCaesars, it's hard to say.
Both of them was good, but Iguess I'm probably leaning more
towards Little Caesars.
What about you?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, little Caesars, first Little Caesars.
In the moment of them showingSeal as a seal, like the moment
when that happened, I was likethis is so weird.
But good for them for listeningto whatever advertising
executive just said.
Just go with it.
Because, yeah, I think theytook note which is what the
public wanted, which is justsimplicity, celebrity factors, a
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little bit of AI, and not tomake it so political or have
such a stance.
I feel like we're all sofatigued by politics and
everything in general that I'mlike let's just make it fun and
enjoyable for everyone.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Definitely.
Besides the commercials.
I don't know how much of afootball fan you are, but for me
, as far as the game itself, ohmy God, the Eagles went out
there and kicked something.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, they did.
I'm like, wow, now did you haveany like predictions, or were
you betting anything on thisgame?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know what I told my brother because we were
looking at it and I told himbefore it started.
I said you know what?
I'm rooting for the Eaglesbecause I like rooting for the
underdogs.
So obviously, even if KansasCity won, it would have been
great.
They would have had athree-peat and everything.
But, oh my God, the Eagles justdidn't let up.
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I mean from start to finish.
And Patrick Mahomes, I wouldsay probably around halftime he
still kept his composure, butyou could tell it was getting to
him Because everybody was juststunned at the way that the
Eagles were playing.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I know, okay, so do you think?
Because of course my conspiracyTikTok.
A lot of people say that it'srigged.
It's so funny because I don'twatch any football.
But then after the Super Bowl,I watched these play-by-plays of
slow motion of players from theChiefs just obviously not
catching a ball when you knowthey could.
I don't even know how someonewould do that, how to throw a
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whole football game on purpose.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I don't think this was rigged.
I mean, I think they wereplaying their heart out.
Because Patrick Mahomes, he wasreally shocked.
You could kind of see it on hisface.
He was almost like what the Fis going on.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, and the coaches too.
I feel like the coaches aren'tthat good actors where they
would be getting that upsetknowing what the outcome is,
Because that one, the assistant,was screaming so much His face
he was getting so red.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh yeah, and I'm quite sure they're pulled to the
side and like hey, don't forget, there's cameras everywhere.
Calm down, relax yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
My best friend from back home, my longtime best
friend, was there.
She was there with her husbandoh wow.
Nice, they bet on it or they umnot bet on it, but what's it
called?
When you like win a or like araffle?
you know, they won a raffle forwork and she was like, oh, we're
in the nosebleed section andshe was sitting exactly like, uh
, like Trump was like right here.
(09:38):
So she.
So if you look there and it'slike if Trump was there, someone
was to push him over.
He would have landed directlyon top of her.
But they're huge Eagles fansand so it was cool to see, to
hear the account from someonethat was there for a winning
team and you know that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh yeah, I mean, wow.
I mean I was just stunned athow they played and they said
that that was the most thatPatrick Mahomes was ever sacked
in the game, Really In his NFLcareer.
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
They just felt like in the flow from the beginning
and there was one point that Iwas like please let the Chiefs
at least score something, orelse this is going to be really
bad.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I mean I don't.
I don't think they took it forgranted, but I think sometimes
you could be overconfident too.
You know what I mean, yeah yeah, totally.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Or you just think that you're like the big dog For
these games.
Do they always have the versionof, like Jon Hamm and Bradley
Cooper, like the actors, do they?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
always have.
You know how they kind of likeset it off in the beginning and
they announced it For the SuperBowl.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
They do a lot of different things, so you know,
it could be different actors, itcould be singers, it could be
anyone, because like I said theylike to change it up every
every year okay, but theyusually have like one person
announce the team okay, becauseI thought that was really cute.
I thought both of those actors,that was like fun to see those
guys oh, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And then also too, um , I thought that, um, you know,
the singing of the blacknational anthem yeah, this is,
uh, february, which is blackhistory month um was a great
thing.
So, um, I really like that, Ilike the all the performances.
I mean it was a great game.
You know the commercial is.
I would say everything was puttogether very well.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes, I want to start a petition to keep the Super
Bowl in New Orleans every yearbecause it just makes sense.
It feels like why wouldn't theSuper Bowl be in New Orleans?
And it just seems likeperformers from there, like the
whole I don't know the wholething, just seems like they
should just move it therepermanently.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And then hey, they could just oh yeah and then.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Hey, you can just go to the French.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Quarter party afterwards, right.
Exactly, it should be like justa Mardi Gras, you know, a
pre-party for Mardi Gras.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
That is so true.
That is so so true.
But yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I thought that was really cool.
Did you have a party or like,did you Go just watch it at home
?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You know what?
I was supposed to go to mybrother's house, but you know
Tracy wasn't feeling good, so wejust stayed home and made sure
she was okay, so I watched itfrom home.
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, so did we.
I was going to act like wedidn't go anywhere, but really
we just didn't get invited toany parties.
I turned down exactly the zeroparties that we got invitations
to, so it's okay zero partiesthat we got invitations to, so
it's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, actually I called my brother right after
the game to talk to him and kindof give him some smack about it
, and the phone went to voiceand I'm like you know, this dude
is asleep already.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh yeah, I did.
I think we turned it off inlike the third quarter and then
watched the very, very end of it, but it was like okay we know
what's going to happen andwatched the very, very end of it
.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But it was like, okay , we know what's going to happen
.
Well, you know what?
I do give them credit forputting some points on the board
, so at least they weren't blownout.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah , because that would have been
like really disastrous.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh, absolutely, oh yeah.
And actually this kind of leansinto my next one, which was
shocking to see how Taylor Swiftof all people booed.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I was stunned to see that Me too.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Me too, like I didn't think, you know.
I thought of course she'll getsome boos, but for the most part
people will clap just to showher.
I thought they did a very goodjob of not overexposing her.
I wonder if that was like aTaylor slash, an NFL slash, a
whatever thing.
I think there's probably someagreement to be like.
We as a whole don't want to seeTaylor 70 times throughout the
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game and she probably didn'twant to be shown that much too.
But when they did show her, Ifelt so bad.
I did feel bad and her face.
I think she did the best jobthat you could where she made it
look funny.
But that has to be a crazyfeeling to be like booed by
everyone I was stunned.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I mean, yeah, I mean you're gonna have some booze
because you're gonna have somepeople that are moving for the
team, whatever.
Okay, I get all that, but I wasreally shocked I know.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And then it's like what did she do wrong except for
, like I get it, she's a littlebit cringy sometimes.
Her friends are like, but Imean, like this is someone that
donates millions of dollars toevery single thing.
Um, you know, like I love howshe always brings kids on stage,
like for the most part she doesyes, she does waste a lot of
energy on her planes and stufflike that, but but like I feel
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like her is a net human in theworld.
She produces more, more goodthan she does bad and she's like
not very mean or whatever.
But I don't know.
Someone had a good point wherethey're like Travis comes to all
of her shows and is met withnothing but like cheering and
everyone goes wild for him andso that sucks, that she comes to
it and then is shown once andbooed pretty heavily and like
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she wasn't doing anything bad.
I actually thought for how muchLast week I kind of ragged on
her Because I said that herdancing by herself all the time
Is like trying to make it abouther.
I thought she was completelyfine in the Super Bowl.
She was just standing therenormally and not making anything
about her.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
That was the weird part, she was literally just
watching a game, like everyoneelse?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, she wasn't.
I could see if she was beingobnoxious, but she couldn't have
been more low-key and normal.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I don't know, it was just weird to me because I was
like wow, I know, I know, and itwasn't like one of those low
boo, that was like boo real loud, I know the whole crowd.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It was very weird because I feel like we were in a
weird portal, because Trump gota huge round of applause, then
Taylor Swift got a huge round ofapplause and then cut.
Tillers have got a boo.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I'm like what timeline are we on right now?
But actually he really did getthat applause.
Yeah, he did, he did, he got,he got he.
You don't think so.
Actually, if you, if you seevideos from other countries, he
didn't get the really yeah theymade it they just oh they made
it look like he got the applause.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh my god, of course he probably comes with his own
track or whatever to play it.
Now, also, like, what do youthink the car ride home if
Taylor and Trav I mean I know hetraveled with the team, but,
like the other thing that wewere talking about, my boyfriend
and I was I was saying Iwouldn't want to be the a wag
wife or girlfriend of an athletebecause, like, knowing what to
(16:04):
deal, how to be with an athletewhen they lose is such a like a
scary thing to me because Iwouldn't know whether or not to
like give someone too muchattention or not enough, or like
and at some point too, as awoman, I would just be kind of
be like, okay, it is a footballgame, but like, get it together.
You know, I think it's, it'stough, I bet that's very awkward
, but if anyone knows how todeal with that, I feel like she
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would, because she's also a topperformer.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, I mean, the other thing too was earlier
before the game, there was areporter that asked him because
there was rumors that he wasgoing to propose to her at
halftime.
So he never really answered thequestion when they asked him.
So you know, it kind of makesyou wonder, you know, did that
spoil it to me personally?
(16:48):
I think I and again we don'tknow, because again everything
is just rumors but if I wasplanning on proposing it,
wouldn't matter if I won or lost, I would still propose period I
wouldn't be like well I'm gonnawait because you know we lost
the game and you know becausewhen you marry it's for better
or worse.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Totally, I know, I know, but I could see that being
awkward, because then almostpeople would be like, oh, now
they're making it about them.
She was wearing white, though,which was weird because she was
wearing like.
People thought that maybe shethought, but I'm like I don't
know.
I don't know, I don't knowabout that, but it did seem like
he was in a pretty bad mood.
What do you think about too?
(17:27):
I know he gets a lot of flackfor people saying that he like
aggressively pushes the coaches,do you?
Notice that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The thing that I don't like.
I don't care who you are,whether you're playing for fun
as you know a high schoolathlete whether you're in the
fun as you know high schoolathlete whether you're in the
pros, there is zero reason toever put your hands on the coach
.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I agree.
And I am really shocked thatthe coach put up with that
nonsense, Cause there's a lot ofcoaches would be.
Like you know, I don't give afuck who you are Sit down.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Right, don't touch me .
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
There's nothing worth putting your hands on another
person and you know I meanthere's nothing worth putting
your hands on another person andyou know there's some coaches
that hit you back.
Yeah, and it's so weird becauseit seems like to me like the
Kelsey brothers seem like,especially with their mom, like
they kind of have that likegentle giant, you know, like the
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good sportsman attitude.
So it's like very weird to seethis side of Travis because I
mean, I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Is that something that Jason would do, too, when
he was playing with the Eagles?
I've never seen him do that.
Okay, I mean either he kind ofreminded me, like you say, of
the gentle giant.
Very nice, funny, like to havefun, enjoy life, whatever.
I remember I think it was lastyear Either it was last year or
the year before, maybe last yearwhen he was up in the booth
watching his brother play and hetook his shirt off, having a
(18:45):
good time, whatever, and justhaving a great, great time, and
that's really what it's supposedto be about.
Having a great time yeah, itshould never get that serious
when you're putting your handson someone.
No Period.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
This seems like a weird week or a weird month for
Taylor and Travis, because it'slike she didn't get any Grammys,
you know, like he lost.
She's had some weird thingswith Blake Lively.
It seems like right now they'rekind of on the outs.
A lot of people said that theythink that she's going to get
the ick from this game and like,be not into Travis anymore.
But imagine too if she's booed.
I mean, I know she's used to itat this point and she's so rich
(19:26):
and successful, but it must besuch a head trip for her to go
sell out these amputators on herown and then go to a football
game and get booed by thousandsof people.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, that's true.
She initially showed her shockbut then she kind of toned it
down, probably remembering okay,let me cool out because people
are watching the camera's on mebut she was really shocked
herself.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I know and if I was her too, I'd try to remind
myself that a lot of it is alsojust pumped up Eagles fans.
It's like the girlfriend of oneof the best players on the
other team.
So, if anything, you're justkind of like a casualty of that
and it's not so personal, whichit kind of is casualty of that
and it's not so personal, whichit kind of is, but you know yeah
, I mean, you know, like I said,she handled like a pro.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, she didn't go f you to the fans you know, which
would have been, you know, kindof detrimental to her career,
but she didn't do that see,that's why I would have taken
out like my wad of a billiondollars.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I've been like I can't hear you over me fanning
myself, but but that's what sheprobably knows too.
That's what you get when you'reoverexposed and like maybe in
the next month it will be herdialing it back a little bit and
not being like up in everyone'sface in every single.
You know politics like music,just she's just everywhere.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So I think now, yeah, that's true, that is true true.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, let's see my next thing.
Okay, this is another thing Idon't want to see that needs to
go away is the skinny jean, sosomething we thought we escaped
many, many years ago.
But now which is so funnybecause, you know, we're seeing
fashion come around for sure,and we thought skinny jeans were
, like, it seems, so recent,like we just got rid of them.
It's not time for them to comeback.
(21:06):
But right now, on the runway,skinny jeans are cropping up and
, according to a lot of Googlesearch trends and retail
analysts, they expect they couldbe back by the end of this year
.
People are showing these photosof, like just the millennial
and Y2K fashion.
It's on its way, but like thisone influencer, alex Earl I
(21:28):
don't know if you know who thatis, but she wore a pair on
tiktok and now all the girls areback being interested in it but
like to me also, alex earl islike a size you know, zero, zero
, zero.
Skinny jeans look a lotdifferent when you're like very
skinny.
So so that's just.
My thought is that I think weneed to stop this before it
starts, and this is where weneed to exercise our own will as
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people.
I mean, I guess, whatever jeanspeople want to wear all day
long.
There's some people that justprefer skinny jeans.
But what do you think?
Are you going to wear a pairanytime soon?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Well, I hate to say this.
I have a pair that I bought byaccident, what it wasn't
purposely, and the problem isthat I didn't realize until well
after 30 days that they wereskinny jeans, because I was
going to wear them out one time.
I'm like what the hell?
And then Trace looked at thetag.
(22:20):
He's like these are skinnyjeans.
I'm like are you fuckingkidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm like yeah, no, did they fit still Like, did
they totally they fit.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
but you know, they just looked a little ridiculous.
You know, skinny jeans after 40, you know may not be good, yeah
, but I'm like, you know what Idone paid my money, so I'm going
to wear these someplace.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I don't know where, but I'm going to wear them
someplace.
Well, now's the time you couldbe ahead of the trend that's
coming back again.
I mean, like it's hard too,because I can't.
I still have not found a jeanlike cut that even works for me,
because what doesn't work islike the high waist, like the
mom jeans look weird, skinnyjeans look weird.
I feel like for men, like thenormal boot, cut seems to just
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be what, like most men end upwearing.
But I feel like jeans ingeneral are kind of hard because
it's like it's.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
it's hard when you're not like very, very skinny to
find an actual pair that looksgood the one thing that's
surprising to me is I can getthe same, exact same, exact same
size jeans in four differentbrands and they will all fit
differently.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Totally.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Me neither.
No, yeah, there will be some.
Old Navy is where I go if Iwant to feel like skinny,
because I'm like, oh my God, I'mlike a size eight is swimming
on me, and then I'll go to adifferent place.
I'm like a size 12.
I can't even get my leg in.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Old Navy is where we want to go to be like oh my God,
I'm wasting away.
Yeah, I mean it's kind of weirdwith that, because I literally
have to try out every pair ofjeans unless it's a certain
brand that I always wear, yeah.
But if I try a different brand,I have to try them on, because
some of them fit loose, some fittight, some fit weird in
certain areas and it's like Ithought there was one standard
size chart that everyone uses.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We need to make one.
And also I feel like the skinnyjeans look good.
You have to kind of get thewhole outfit down with the
leather jacket and the boots.
There's a whole kind of skinnyjean early 2000s boy band look
that people are going for.
So it's like if you commit, youhave to really commit.
Now you know what looks nice onthe men for skinny jeans to me
(24:31):
like, especially in this kind ofweather right here where we
have cold weather, where I'm at,you know, like a nice sweater
with some boots skinny jeansactually looks nice, you know I
know, I know and I agree, butbut when, sometimes, when men
wear jeans, that where theircalves so tight, like good for
them they have well-defined calfmuscles, but it's just like, oh
(24:52):
, when I'm walking down thestreet and I see like it almost
looks like man leggings, I justlike no, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, it's almost like the guys who purposely wear
the smallest shirts becausethey want to look big.
You know, yeah, like they'repopping up, yep.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's like, yeah dude, yeah dude, yeah, you got
muscles.
But that's not a good look, Iknow.
So we'll see, we'll keep an eyeon it.
But uh, it's so funny how, likeone influencer could wear
something and then they see awhole spike in retail sales.
That's so weird, that's, that'sa crazy influence oh, that is
so so true.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So so true.
Talk about interestingconversation.
Um, there was a situation.
It's a rapper, a plus sizerapper, her name is dank demas
and she's suing lyft and thedriver for refusing to let her
get into his car because he feltthat she was too large.
(25:47):
Now here's the thing, and Iguess the way I look at it
personally, you're a Lyft driver.
Okay, yeah, unless shephysically can't get in the car,
that's different, right, butbeing that she's a bigger person
, I don't think he should haverefused to let her get in a
(26:08):
vehicle.
I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
There's so many like Uber XL jokes coming at me right
now, but but I mean, okay, well, I guess, like, could she if
she could?
Same thing is like sheabsolutely should be able to
ride in the car if she couldphysically fit in there, and I
mean there could be some safetything.
I guess if she can't wear theseatbelt, like if a seatbelt is
(26:32):
unable to work for her, I couldsee a driver turning her down
because in case of insurance,like you know, he may not want
to drive with someone that isunable to get their seatbelt on.
If drive with someone that isunable to get their seatbelt on,
if there's like a valid reason,that is fine.
But like other than just,obviously, hopefully, if it's
not just her looks or that he'slike turning her down, that
(26:54):
would be super wrong.
I also wonder how that case isgoing to work, because I feel
like suing him and the companyitself.
I feel like it will just end upsettling, like Lyft will end up
settling, probably.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Oh yeah, I believe so too, and you know it comes down
to because some people are kindof torn saying, and well, he
has a right to refuse anyone inhis vehicle.
But the one thing that I thinkpeople are overlooking is he's
doing it as a business, not aspersonal.
It's a difference.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I have to wonder if therewas a reason where she just
couldn't physically fit, butthen it's also.
Couldn't she sit up in thefront in the passenger seat with
him, Like I don't know?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, what was weird about it is that he wouldn't
even allow her to try, becauseshe was basically saying I can
fit in your car, I don't have aproblem getting in, and he still
wouldn't let her in.
He was like but it's like again, if she can physically get in
the vehicle, I don't know, Imean.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, that's really sad.
I mean that's definitely likethat level of I don't even know
what this person, how much it isof.
I mean, I don't even know whatthis person and how much it is,
but like the level of obesitywhere you just like can't fit on
a ride at Disneyland or like ona plane or like that's very sad
for everyone involved becauseit's like no one wants to live
life that way and that'sprobably like really humiliating
.
But on the other flip side, italso does like become a burden
(28:21):
to be safe in the car.
But it doesn't sound likethat's if he didn't even let her
try.
That's a little bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Because even when you get into someone's back seat,
not everyone puts a seatbelt on.
So you can't even use that asan excuse because everybody does
.
No, definitely not.
And if you think about it,sometimes when they pick up
people, whether it's Lyft orwhether it's Uber, sometimes
you're picking up three or fourpeople.
Yeah, if you take a look at theaverage weight of an average
person these days, you knowaverage person weighs.
(28:50):
You know between 150, 200pounds on average.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So you multiply that times four, that's almost a
thousand pounds.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And she's not a thousand pounds.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Right, I'm just picturing like if he's driving
like a honda fit, I'm justpicturing the car just like
sagging in the whole back.
But I mean she has a right toretaliate, I think, if she or
like seek damage.
I think hopefully it's notgoing to go into this whole big
like.
It costs me mental anguishbecause I'm like I'm sorry, but
I'm sure it costs you a littlebit of embarrassment, but like I
(29:23):
don't think this is also thecase Like you should miss a
month of work due to this oranything like that.
But I'm sure she may for thesake of like getting money.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I think it's getting traction because she is a big
rapper out of, I think, detroit,out of the Bay of Fires city,
so she is a big rapper fromwhere she's at, that by the city
, so she is a big rapper fromwhere she's at.
That's cool, that's cool.
I mean that's, that's cool,that was, that was the wrong
word.
She is a very well-knownbecause I can see it right now
people's like lauren's.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
That's not funny no, it's funny to me.
I was gonna say her stage nameshould be like skinny jeans, but
no, this is bad look.
I'm in full support ofobviously not humiliating people
and letting them be how theyare.
Slash and sometimes, when youare very, very large, like,
(30:12):
unfortunately you may not be.
This doesn't sound like a placewhere she couldn't fit, but
there are consequences,unfortunately.
You know like I wish we couldlive in a society where everyone
could be 900 pounds waddlingaround, but it's just, you know
like.
So, yeah, I mean it'll beinteresting.
I bet she'll get at least agood settlement and some good
music out of it.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, it'll be kind of interesting to see how this
ends.
I kind of hope that they dokind of you know, let everyone
know what everyone knows willhappen.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
It's not settled in quietly in the background
because you know it is kind ofinteresting to see, because, you
know, do they have that rightto say no, you're too big to get
in my car?
I know I mean to me they theywould have a right to to say no
to anyone, because if it's likesomeone that they feel might be
a threat to them, or if it'slike a woman driver and they are
seeing someone that is like, uh, I don't know if I, I don't
know that's that's aninteresting thing is like, are
you able to kind of profile theperson and decide on your own?
This is not right for me.
(31:08):
I don't know.
That's pretty cruel, thoughthat's mean, but I'm also.
Now I'm going to check her outCause hopefully we'll get some
good like rap songs from this.
She sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
She, she sounds, cool she sounds cool to me.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I'll have to look, but it's very interesting.
Oh, yes, one time we this isjust a very, very two second
story.
But my boyfriend is very talland large and they not not, you
know, obese large, but just likea tall bigger guy.
And the Harry Potter ride atUniversal Studios.
They said he was like too talland too big to get into, but
then they really want to ride it, so they my friend stuffed him
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in, basically like they put theharness on, and it took like two
minutes and my boyfriend had toride the ride, being like like
completely stuffed in like asausage to this one ride hey, he
made it work, though, rightexactly.
So that's inspiration for theuber driver, that maybe find
someone else to like, stuff thepassengers in and you can make
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it work, okay, well, uh, I think.
I think talking about soda is agood transition here, because
there's a brand called poppywhich you know.
There's one called ollie popand poppy, which are two very
kind of quote-unquote healthysodas.
Now we don't know how actuallysoda, how healthy they are,
because, um, this brand hasfaced some controversy over, you
know, not being as probiotic orhealthy for the gut as they
claim to be.
And now they found themselvesin even more hot water recently
(32:35):
where, as part of a marketingstrategy for the super bowl,
they launched a campaign wherethey sent vending, custom
vending machines like, so poppyvending machines, um, full of
their beverages, and they sentthem to influencers.
Now, each of these machineswere valued at 25 000 each and
they were sending them to theseinfluencers that, like, already
(32:55):
get all this free product and,you know, the last thing these
people need is, like, a wholevending machine full of free
soda.
So, of course, like, theinternet sparked just a lot of
anger about this and just said,hey, like there's a million
people that could use thisbesides the influencers.
Poppy's adversary, olipop, ofcourse, jumped on it and they
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were like we would never dosomething like this.
So I thought one person had areally good idea where,
basically, they said what theyshould have done.
A really smart idea was theyshould have picked influencers.
But then ask the influencer tosay, where would you like our
vending machine to go in thecommunity?
And, like you know, I couldhave chosen an elementary school
(33:36):
.
Or like someone else could havesaid, oh, our fire rescue house
.
And then that way they couldhave still gotten to share, to
have the influencer share ontheir socials.
But the vending machine isgoing to, like you know, a
nurse's office or like somewherethat's actually doing good.
Um, so they, they reallyflubbed it up.
But I mean, we're seeing nowmore and more brands.
(33:58):
It's like the customers arejust seeing through this and
people want their brands to bedoing good or at least
pretending like they're doinggood.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, I think that what you're saying is 100
percent correct.
But I think the real reasonthey sent those to them is
obviously to promote theirproduct.
But by sending them a vendingmachine, you know they can make
money off that vending machine.
Yeah, yeah I mean so can makemoney off that vending machine.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
(34:27):
So it's really like paymentplus a bonus.
But then again, you know, youdon't really necessarily have to
go through an influencer to dosomething good in the community
too.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Right, no-transcript.
(35:10):
Giving the everyday person alittle uh like, treating them
like the influencers.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
That's true and you know.
The thing is too is that youknow brands know how important
those influences are.
You know, especially whenthey're sitting at 100,000, 200,
even a million followers, youknow that's pretty valuable to a
lot of a lot of brands outthere.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, yeah, and I feel like they're definitely
still like.
Social campaigns are reallyimportant.
I think that's definitely how Isee, like like a brand like
Poppy or Olipop, the way that Iwould get influence is just
watching people like pack theirlunch and then they're bringing
a Poppy.
But I think when you're doingsomething so big like gifting
these huge $25,000 machines, atleast pretend like you're doing
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something for society.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, that's true.
I'm actually shocked they sentthem.
They're sending people entiremachines though.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And people are videoing it, being like my god,
I'm, I'm getting these machines.
Like you know, they're videoingthese machines rolling up and
it's like oh you, you just gotback from a tart makeup trip in
cabo, you know yeah, that'sprobably not a good look for
them either yeah, so that'sinteresting, but we'll keep an
eye, I think.
For me, I'll still drinkpoppies because I like them,
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even though they're unhealthy,but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
There you go, talk about food, since we're on food
here.
I never thought we'd be talkingabout this again, you know,
after the pandemic, but peopleare stealing eggs now.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
There was a big heist , I want to say about a week or
so ago, where and I'm notexaggerating it was a hundred
thousand Dozen of eggs werestolen.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
They stole like one or two trailers of eggs.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Whoa was it in like one state or just all together?
In one state, in one state andthen also there are situations
Now in the stores where people,or just all together In one
state, in one state, whoa.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
And then also there are situations now in the stores
where people are opening up thecartons of eggs and stealing
out, like you know, one, two,three eggs out of a carton
that's so gross, Like that'sreally gross to me.
I don't know.
I guess the whole thing isweird for a couple reasons.
For number one other than astore yeah, I'm not going to be
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going to buy eggs from somebodyon the corner.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Or selling off the back of a truck.
I'm not doing any of that.
And also, too, it's amazing howmany people don't check their
eggs, because I always open thecarton up to make sure none are
broken.
So if any are missing, I wouldknow right then and there.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, I actually I move the cartons around and I
take like one that's been in theback corner, because I also I'm
very paranoid and I have thisfear that someone's like taking
a needle and like injecting myeggs with something bad, or like
I'm very paranoid.
But like, what about?
Also?
I know for us in Californiahere we have a ton of farmer's
markets.
And know for us in california,here we have a ton of farmers
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markets and like those aredirectly like you can go and buy
like the farm fresh eggs.
I would have to, I mean, andthey're still pretty expensive,
they're kind of the same price.
But like there is a way to likego look to local farms and like
they there there are eggsaround, you know.
You just have to know thatthey're a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
But oh, absolutely.
I mean the weird, the weirdthing about this situation
especially.
They were saying, like whenpeople are taking them out the
cartons in the store, they'reputting it in their pockets or
purses or whatever still in them.
It's like okay, so what if youbump into something?
Yeah I don't know yeah it's.
It's kind of a weird story, youknow, I know that's not right.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I mean, I feel bad, for if people obviously can't
afford to feed their family orlike clearly we are all feeling
it, it's absolutely insane to goto the grocery store and like
get the fixings for an omeletteand then it's like $60.
You know, it's totally insane,it really is.
So I feel for people in thatway.
If you have kids and a familybut it's like, come on, you
can't just, you have to think ofeveryone else where if now you
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take two eggs out of a carton,the the whole store also will
probably have to throw away thatcarton too.
They're not going to sell it tosomeone else or you know, like
they're now, they might have tothrow away those eggs, which is
just a complete waste of like alot of things.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So oh yeah.
And if it happens too much,guess what's gonna happen?
They're gonna jack up the pricea little bit to cover those
yeah, yeah, yeah, that's justnot.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
And I mean maybe also maybe they should start selling
those like little, the littlercartons of like six or even four
or something, just to be like,okay, if people can't afford
eleven dollars on eggs right now, maybe they can't afford like
four for the week or something.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
So no, actually that's not a bad idea.
I'm actually surprised thatsome stores don't do that.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
That's actually a really good idea or for real,
like maybe you could startselling them individually, like
if we had some type of like big,big, big carton and you're like
, okay, I'll take, like you knowalmost how, like you could buy
this stuff in bulk.
Or you could buy like threechocolate pretzels or something.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, and then they showed.
I saw on TV they were in.
I don't know if it was Costco'sor Sam's, but you could tell it
was one of the big stores thatyou need the membership to.
And this guy, I kid you not hada whole carton full of eggs.
I'm sorry, full cart of eggs,it reminded me of the pandemic
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where they were buying out allthe paper towels, all the toilet
tissue.
I still don't understand thetoilet tissue part of it, but
they were literally just buyingup everything.
It's like seriously dude really.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
I remember that too, yes, and then you think about
how restaurants are doing that.
I mean, I guess they're gettingtheirs from wholesale retailers
, but yeah, that's definitelycrazy.
And to be doing all this toowhen, like, the bird flu is
happening and half of half ofthe cdc is like try not to eat
eggs if you don't have to or youknow, like it's just crazy yeah
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, so just remember when you goget your eggs open that carton
up just to make sure they're allthere I always are, yeah, and.
And also, someone could have myegg.
That sounds weird me sayingsomeone could have my eggs, but
someone someone could have mybreakfast eggs, because I'm
getting the egg ick where, likeit happens every now and then,
where I'll have a couple eggsand then you just start to get
like, ew, what am I eating?
So now I'm finding a good timeto be disgusted by eggs.
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But, um, yeah, that's my otherthing.
If people are, or you knowwhatever enough to be by a
farmer's market, go check thoseout, because a lot of times you
could also make deals with yourlocal farmer.
If you get to know them and yougo back a lot, you know they
might give you some discounts orthey might give you some, like
you know, if you go early in themorning, you can get some extra
goodies and stuff.
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So that's just a good way.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
And plus you, you know you're getting the eggs
directly from like a goodchicken, oh yeah.
And then also too, by going tothe farmer's markets and stuff,
you cut out the middleman so thefarmers actually make more
money on product?
Speaker 2 (41:54):
yeah, definitely, but yeah, I think just as a whole
we have to think about otherpeople at the where.
It's like if you take two eggsfor yourself, just know it's so
gross to be like wasting foodand and that's now they're gonna
have to throw all those eggsaway, and that's just that
drives me as one of my likebiggest pet peeves is when
people I totally get changingyour mind and like not wanting
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to purchase an item.
But if someone like buys awhole rotisserie chicken and
then they just leave it in likethe non-refrigerated item by
like the cereal or something,now that's like a wasted, like
dead animal that just died toyou know, to not like be used in
a good way, and I think I don'tknow that.
So it's just like not thinking,but it's like these are still
animals that are giving theirpieces and you know things that
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went way off topic, but I hateseeing like dead animal parts
just left behind with no care.
It's like at least put it backin the refrigerated section so
that someone else can eat it anduse it that's true, that's true
I'm fired up.
Now I'm on a tangent.
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Okay, I'm gonna go to.
So the moral of the story islook at your eggs, open up the
egg carton.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Okay, well, someone that doesn't want eggs right now
is singer Kelsey Ballerini,because she has the flu.
The middle of a show, and youcould tell like these videos,
the poor girl was like sweatingand you know, trying to do all
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these things and then all of asudden she kind of abruptly left
and then an announcer came backto the stage and just said
Kelsey has to cancel the rest ofher set.
She has fallen ill pretty much,and then since then she's
canceled a few shows and I couldonly imagine how, like
nerve-wracking and disappointingthat is just to know you're
letting down your fans.
Um, but then I feel so badbecause people are now it's
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rumors that she's pregnant andnow she's saying I'm not
pregnant.
I just like truly have the fluand like I mean we all have the
flu.
Imagine like having to dealwith all these things and like
be calling your publicist whenyou're down with the flu.
To me it makes me think aboutartists that never get a day off
.
That's such a scary feeling tobe sick and have thousands of
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people disappointed in you, didthey?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
get their money back during that?
I think for that show.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
They're either going to get their money back or I
think she said she's also goingto come and play that CD again
and she's definitely going tomake up the dates and like she's
someone that I think reallydoes love their fans and she
communicates like reallydirectly with them.
She always posts on her Instastories, but I just thought that
has to be such a weird feelingto like have the flu, be so sick
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and then have all thesepregnancy rumors and just that's
just a lot yeah, I mean,unfortunately, you know, when
you do hit fame, you have todeal with that nonsense, you
know.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things and we've
said it many times.
People have to understand that.
You know, yes, you idolize your, your, your, your singers, your
actors and all this.
You're mesmerized by them, youlove them and everything.
But they're also human, whichmeans sometimes stuff happens.
Okay, they're human, you know,and people sometimes forget that
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.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I know, imagine if you're like Patrick Mahomes and
a few days before the Superbowlyou're like oh, my throat hurts
a little bit Like.
But I also guess that's wherecoaches and performance athletes
come in, because you probablydo have the top of the line.
Whatever their version ofNyQuil is, I imagine they have
hacks and secrets we don't evenknow about to cut down flus and
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all the IV drips and all theeverything.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh, yeah, I mean as a professional athlete, you have
access to a doctor instantly.
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean as aprofessional athlete, you know,
you have access to a doctorinstantly.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Yeah, yeah.
And like when we take Farrahflu, they probably have like
secret herbs that we don't evenknow about that.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah, I mean, um, like I said, you know I, I I
feel sorry for people when theyget sick like that, because you
know stuff happens, you knowthere's when they get sick like
that, because you know stuffhappens.
You know, yeah, there's.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
There's plenty of performers that have felt ill
while performing you know, Iknow that probably is that
probably is a really terriblefeeling to be halfway through
and just be like I can't do therest.
Like and you know people aretrying to, because it's easier
for everyone just to like, pushthrough and get done with the
show.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Oh yeah, and you know the thing is too, what I like
about it is is that you know sheknew that, hey, something was
wrong, she wasn't feeling well,it was time to cut it.
You know, yeah, because I'veseen performers literally try
and push through and theycollapse on stage you don't
really yeah, no so I tip my hatoff to her.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Talk about getting rid of something President Trump
has enacted.
I guess he's about to sign Anexecutive order to outlaw the
penny.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
The penny.
Yes, no, we can't have anythingfun anymore.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
So I guess Supposedly it costs 2 to 3 cents To make 1
cent.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Oh, okay, to like mint them and stuff.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yes.
So they're looking at gettingrid of the penny.
So, which means that if theyget rid of the penny, then
everything will be rounded up toa nickel.
You know, when you get changeor whatever, I don't know.
What do you think?
What do you think about that,meryl?
Speaker 2 (47:22):
I think they need to skip ahead and get rid of the
nickel, because I think thenickel is the ugly one Really?
Yeah, it's the ugliest one.
To me the dimes are the cutestones and I think pennies are the
most nostalgic ones.
I mean, pennies are kind oflike the older ones.
They do get like dirty when thegum is stuck to them.
I understand it.
I guess, like I'm right at thatage where it's still a little
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bit like I you know I use change.
Growing up my dad collectscoins, so I I still feel like
pennies are cute, but how oftendo we really use them?
You can't really use them fortips anymore because now we have
to, like, pay in dollars orcredit card.
Um, hopefully they still makelike memorative penn.
I don't know.
I don't want to get rid ofchange all in general, but I
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understand how it's becoming alittle bit not needed.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Yeah, because I know that there's some people saying
that if they get rid of thepenny it's going to hurt
low-income people.
Aw, yeah, that's true I don'tknow It'll affect them, but I
don't think it's going to makeor break them.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
I know, Unfortunately , as we talked about like eggs,
you're going to need a lot ofpennies for anything like eggs,
but I really hope they don't getrid of the quarter too, because
I think I think the nickel'sgot to go first.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Well, you know what, if you get rid of the nickel,
that means you can't get rid ofthe penny.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
then that's true, we need it, that's right.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm like, I'm like let's justtry five cents at a time, and
then I think we also need tobring back more of the half
dollar.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
So bring back some, get rid of the others.
You know what's interesting?
We're having fun with this, butit actually makes more sense to
get rid of the nickel than thepenny, because then it doesn't
affect anyone.
Dollar, you know money.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, because you could still have
like five cents exactly, and thepenny would be used more often
then I know, I feel like penniesare just more fun and more like
I don't know, just like a pennyfor your thoughts, like it's
just more cute that's true,that's true.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Okay, you gotta go to the white house, merrill, and
present this, okay, okay thankyou.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
What if I'm just like , like what.
I'm just like holding up a signthat says girls against nickels
or something?
I don't want to take it Of allthe things that I could care
about.
What a weird stance.
I call it the march for dimes,even though there's already a
march for dimes.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Nice, I like that.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Thank you, it would be good, but, yeah, I like
quarters the best.
But I could understand that.
But at this point, how is Trumpdoing all these things?
I feel like there's moreimportant things.
The penny seems like somethingwe should be getting to in
December.
Trump, you can't put everyoneout of the country and stuff the
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penny.
It's too much to do at once.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Well, he's definitely making time to do it all right.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yeah, yeah, oh man, oh God, someone that I bet wants
to get rid of the penny as wellis Sir Elon Musk, and so he's
been in trouble lately because Imean for many reasons, but one
of it is the cyber truckcrashing.
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A lot of the issues havehappened with the cyber truck
tech, the actual tech of thetruck itself and now a lot of
people are urging him to saveothers before it gets bad for
everyone.
There's been a lot of accidents.
This one driver, jonathanChallenger, claims his
Cybertruck drove headlong into astreetlight while in full
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self-driving mode, and Muskwants the technology to be ready
for a June robo-taxi launch.
So now, instead of justindividual self-driving cars,
musk wants to launch a wholebunch of robo taxis, but they're
still dealing with a lot ofTeslas.
There's one that got wrappedaround a pole with its right
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wheel dangling, and the driverwas just like you know.
He escaped without harm, buthe's like.
This has to get fixed before wemanufacture more.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Well, I hope they don't come to chicago, because
if even if they do, I will notbe getting in one no, me too,
not a robo taxi.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
And you know, we see all these videos of these little
waymo cars.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
There'll be like a railroad crossing and it's like,
don't go, the waymo is justjust going full speed ahead and
if I'm driving on the road and Isee what I'm next to it, I'm
just going to ease back and justlet them go ahead.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Yeah, I think also too, is that there doesn't seem
to be a lot of transparentcommunication.
I think one thing that, likeother people, seem to have in
the past was like oh yes, thishas happened, we recognized it
and we're going to be working onthe software.
I feel like Musk seems so likesecretive about these things
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that we never quite know exactlywhat's being fixed or if it's
being taken seriously, and Ithink that makes consumers feel
on edge.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, I guess for me,obviously, AI is here to stay.
It's not going to go away andyou know, AI, if used correctly,
is actually a great tool to use.
But when you're talking aboutmoving a vehicle using
intelligence, there's so manythings that could possibly go
wrong.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Once it goes wrong, it goes horribly wrong.
I don't know.
I just think that we're tryingto move a little bit too fast in
certain areas of it.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
Me too.
I wish the next decade was likeus, using AI with like together
, in tandem.
You know, like the same waythat we got switching over
slowly to electric.
I wish it was like okay, itdoesn't have to be self-driving
cars, it can be us, but with,like, the help of AI supporting
us.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
That's true, that is so, so true.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
So you're not going to be getting in a cyber truck
or a robo taxi anytime soonabsolutely not me neither, and I
I know some people like them,but for me personally the cyber
truck is like really an eyesore.
I'm bummed.
It make like it makes it lookweird.
I wish I don't know.
I feel like that's not.
It's a different direction.
I feel like a car design thanwe need to go, but some people
like it that's true.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
true, more power to you, but I'm going to let
everybody else be the guineapigs first.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Well, I know we're having a lot of fun here.
Before I get to the last topicof the day, I do want to take
time out to acknowledge that itis Black History Month and I
guess for me personally, blackHistory isn't just one month,
but it's 365 days a year andit's American history.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
One of the things I want to highlight is what's
called Black Wall Street.
This is a situation where,years ago I want to say it was
Tulsa, oklahoma, I have todouble check the location but it
was a bustling town whereAfrican Americans, black people,
you know we weren't reallyaccepted anywhere else, so they
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started building their ownstores, you know the libraries,
their homes, and it was abustling community and, for
whatever reason, white people inthe area didn't like it and
burned the town down to theground.
So we just want to take amoment to just, you know, offer
our prayers for people that youknow still fighting this.
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You know, I feel it too when Igo in certain stores or certain
situations.
It's something that I neverthought in a million years we'd
still be dealing with today, butunfortunately we are.
You know, I think everyone.
When you get a chance, take alook at some of the great things
that Black people have done.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Which is like every single thing.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
We're a part of this country too.
You know to ban books and tryand take away different things.
It doesn't erase the facts.
Like, most people don't realizethat Chicago was actually found
by a Black person.
It was found by a Black person.
So you know, Black history isnot only Black history, but it's
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also American history, and Iwant people to remember that.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
I love that.
I'm here for that and I wantpeople to remember that I love
that.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
I'm here for that.
Cool, cool, cool.
Well, going into the lastsubject, there is this new
software out now and it's used,I believe, by Heritage which is
similar to Ancestry.
You know where you can trackthe roots of your family, you
know, put together your familytree.
Well, what it does and I thinkthere's other software that does
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it too you can take a picture,even an old picture, and
literally bring it to life.
So I took a look at it.
I was like, wow, this is prettycool.
Kind of weird too, you know,and I, and I guess I don't know
what's your feeling about it.
What do you think, meryl?
Speaker 2 (56:05):
Oh well, I like it for humorous purposes.
Like I saw one picture of likean AI, taylor Swift, dancing,
you know, and I like that.
And then you could also this isridiculous.
I would have done this if I waslike a teenage girl.
But you could take a picture ofyou and your crush and like
make you guys make out like whatit would look like if you
really kiss but.
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And like make you guys make outlike what it would look like if
you really kiss but.
But when it comes to theserious things, like having your
past grandma come to life oryou know, like having a lot of,
I mean, maybe it helps people orit comforts them, comforts them
, to me it has the same thing aslike the hologram feeling where
I'm like, oh, this, this is notreally this person, this is
like a trickery of theimagination.
But I mean, I think it's supercool, but it definitely can be
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scary if we're not knowing thedifference between, in the
future of what is actual AImotion and what isn't.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
I think it depends on the people If these people have
passed away.
If they passed away a long timeago, it would be warm memories
and stuff like that yeah yeah,smile on your face.
If it's someone that recentlypassed away, I think it would be
.
It would be.
I don't want to use the wordhurtful, but I think it'd be
very painful.
Speaker 2 (57:18):
Yeah, I could just imagine.
I mean, this is like very darkand deep, but like if a family
member had a younger child thatpassed away and like watching
videos of you know not real AIvideos of that kid, I could just
imagine like that's reallytough.
But if it makes someone, forlike a second, feel a little
less pain, then I'm OK with it.
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You know, I think it's one ofthose things I like to each
their own.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
But that's true, and you know, the real crazy part is
, even though you know that it'sAI generated, you know some of
these are like, really lifelike,I mean yeah you know, it's kind
of creepy when you think aboutit, you know.
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah, some of them are really good.
But yeah, I totally would have.
If I was in high school, Iwould have like put me with
every single boy together, Likehere's us dancing at the prom,
even though they said no to mein real life.
But yeah, I don't know, I evenfeel that way with pets.
I wouldn't want to make mybeloved pets dogs.
I don't want to see thembarking and flopping around in
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AI version.
It's too weird.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
That's true.
That's true.
It's interesting.
Wow, I can just imagine, evenjust five years from now, what
this AI is going to look like.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
I mean the accomplishments and the way it's
growing.
I mean it's like lightningspeed right now.
The technology.
Speaker 2 (58:37):
Yes, oh my gosh, something I love.
I don't know if you've seen ityet, but I love it AI-wise, will
they ask AI for like arepresentative of what a person
from each state looks like?
Have you seen that where theycreate like an avatar?
I'll have to send that to youon tiktok, but it's like, um,
like you know, here's what thetypical person would look like
from each state and they'll showlike someone that they think
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looks like from ohio or someonefrom tampa, florida, and it's.
It's really funny.
Like they.
They have a down for a lot ofthem.
The Colorado person looks verymuch like what you would picture
, the typical, or the Washingtonperson.
Speaker 1 (59:12):
That would actually be pretty cool to see.
Speaker 2 (59:13):
It's cool.
I'll send you that too.
Speaker 1 (59:15):
It's cool, it is hard to believe it's been an hour.
Speaker 2 (59:21):
No, Well before we head out.
Speaker 1 (59:26):
Meryl, what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Oh my gosh, I will be promoting pennies at the White
House on behalf of the quartersof America.
No, I have a show in PalmSprings for Valentine's Day.
So I'll be in Palm Springs onValentine's Day doing a
20-minute set about love, whichwill be very fun.
My boyfriend will be nowhere inthe audience.
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That's it.
That's what I'm promoting rightnow.
Speaker 1 (59:56):
Okay, and when is that going to be?
Speaker 2 (59:59):
That is on Valentine's Day, so Friday night
, and you're not going to letyour boyfriend be there.
He's not allowed.
He has to stay at home andthink about what he's done over
the past year.
That's my Valentine's Day.
Present is I'm driving with oneof my other comedian friends
another wonderful woman comedianthat I love and we're driving
(01:00:20):
and getting separate hotel roomsand I just want to get room
service and not be bothered.
Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Well, this was a lot of fun.
A lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
This was so much fun.
I love it.
Honestly, I find it so.
It's such a nice gift to haveyou to talk to every week.
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
And of course, everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
All the people here too, but it's so nice to be able
to take what's happening in theworld and talk to you about it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Oh, absolutely I have fun.
In fact, I look forward to thisevery single week.
Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Me too.
Well, everyone else.
Thank you so much for watchingor listening.
If you're listening to us onpodcast, don't forget we're on
LRodTVnetworkcom and also on ourpodcast on all the major
streaming networks.
So again, I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Have a great day everyone.
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