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The latest Thirsty Topics episode takes listeners on a journey through America's economic anxieties and cultural curiosities with hosts Lawrence Elrod and Meryl Klemo. 

From the opening exchange about White Lotus to startling revelations about aggressive sea lions, the conversation quickly establishes a pattern of finding humor and insight in unexpected places. Lawrence shares news about comedian Jeff Ross's severe allergic reaction to burrata ice cream, complete with hilariously swollen photos and social media roasts, setting a tone of finding lightness amid genuine concern.

The discussion takes a more serious turn when examining the potential impact of recently announced tariffs. JP Morgan's warning of a 60% recession probability looms large as the hosts break down how these economic policies could cost average families up to $4,200 annually. Their exploration of Nintendo Switch 2 delays and price increases provides a tangible example of how global trade tensions directly affect consumers' purchasing power and entertainment options.

Between economic analyses, the hosts share jaw-dropping stories of excess and absurdity—like the Ultra music festival's $500,000 bottle service package aptly named "F.U. Money." This stark contrast between luxury spending and families struggling with basic necessities like affordable Easter eggs highlights growing wealth disparities in America. 

The episode doesn't shy away from tragedy either, respectfully addressing rapper Young Scooter's death following a false 911 call, which prompts a thoughtful conversation about police interactions and responsibility. By the episode's conclusion, as they discuss potential TikTok buyers amid international tensions, listeners gain a comprehensive view of how interconnected our economic, social, and entertainment landscapes have become.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.

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

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hey Meryl, how are you today?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, I'm so good.
I don't even know if this isone of our topics, but I forgot.
Did you watch White Lotus atall?
Are you a White Lotus?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
man, you know what I heard, all about it, but I have
not watched it.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Okay, you're good, it's last night.
It was like, if any one of ourpeople want to talk to me about
it, I'm open, Because it's like,you know, like any finale it
was good, but I was kind of lefta little bit like wah, wah.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Now that's on Netflix , right.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
That was on.
I think it's.
I honestly don't know if it'son HBO or Netflix.
I forget oh okay.
I just haven't.
I haven't set, but it was oneof those things where I like
told my boyfriend by 9 pm.
We have to be in the house andI have to watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
It was like a whole big deal and then by like 10, 40
, I was like ready for bed andin a bad mood, well it
definitely sounds like somethingI should check out, because
everybody was talking about ithonestly, it's really good.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I feel like if you're if you're new to the white
lotus game, I definitelyrecommend starting from like
season.
You don't have to, but I feellike season two was the best of
all of them so far.
Okay, so as one of those showsthat you really have to watch
the previous episodes tounderstand what's going on, you

(01:38):
can totally get by on juststarting with season three, but
it will be a little bit more funto know some of the backstory
of at least one of thecharacters, okay yeah, it's cool
.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh, it's definitely something I'll check out then.
So we are going to start offfun today, so I'm going to let
you run first yay, okay, good,well, this one is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Um, a comedian that I really love, one of my favorite
comedians here in los angeles,jeff ross jeff Jeffrey Ross, you
know, also known as the king ofthe roast and the roast king.
He was just hospitalized for anallergic reaction to eating ice
cream.
So he shared some photos ofhimself sitting in a hospital
bed with a swollen face, andwhen they say swollen, like if
you look at the pictures of himhe was not kidding.

(02:23):
It's like his lip is all theway out to here, his chin is
everywhere.
And then it was because he,after a show, he had gone to get
some ice cream and at arestaurant, was hosting them and
you know, as they do often say,you know, we'd love to have you
try our ice cream, and it wasBurrata ice cream, which I don't
know if that's like burrata icecream to cheese, like

(02:44):
mozzarella cheese.
But he got crazy reactions.
And then the funny thing is heasked his followers not to roast
him too hard but like you canroast him a little bit.
And so people under thecomments were just saying like I
don't see any difference, likefinally you got some work done,
and it's just the mostridiculous thing.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh yeah, I took a look at that picture.
I'm like, wow, he really swoleup pretty bad, especially.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, oh my goodness exactly and like, uh, also just
a side note is that he he reallyis like one of my I.
I don't like to like watch alot of other stand-up just
because I do it and it's likeyou know, it's like kind of the
last thing you do, but I lovewatching him if anyone ever gets
the chance to see him live.
He's really really, reallyfunny.
Like I saw him once and he hada jazz band behind him and he

(03:33):
had just gotten COVID and he didthe whole set to jazz music
talking about the symptoms ofhis COVID.
So who knows, maybe he'll dosomething like this, but he's so
funny.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, you know what?
I tip my hat off to him.
He has a great sense of humor.
I'm really surprised he wasallowed to.
He allowed people to take apicture of him and put it on the
internet.
I know.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
But also too, I feel like the fact that he had to
cancel some shows.
I feel like it's probably goodthat he showed Everyone why
exactly he can't do it.
I'm surprised, knowing him, Ibet he would.
If he could, like he would showup and do a set looking like
that, and then, so I don't knowif there was nuts in the ice
cream and that was, I thinksomeone said that it had

(04:15):
pistachios in it, but this washis first allergic reaction.
Now, are you allergic to anyfoods?
No, I'm not, okay, that's Imean.
And he had said too, he'sdefinitely in his forties or
fifties and he said this was thefirst time he had any allergic
reaction.
Like you know, it wasn't likehe like knew he was eating
something bad, so that has to bescary too.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I wonder if they figured out what it was that
gave him that allergic reaction.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I don't think so.
I mean he like me, I think he'sJewish and we also.
We just like we're not supposedto have dairy but we do anyway.
So I feel like dairy and Jewishpeople usually don't go
together too well.
So it might be that, or maybeit's like a nut allergy or you
know.
I feel like a lot of thesethings have weird gums and weird
like additives sometimes.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, hopefully it gets tested because you know
know, depending on what kind ofallergy you have.
I mean, I've known some peoplethat have allergies where their
throat starts swelling yeah,totally, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah.
I have some friends that, likeone of my good friends, has a
peanut allergy and he I alwaysforget that, not only peanuts,
but like restaurants that cookwith peanut oil and the same
thing will close up andeverything.
But yeah, that that washysterical.
And people when I was lookingat his Instagram, I saw some
people, like some of my friendsthat I knew that were roasting
him.
I was like get away from thepage.

(05:33):
I'm like I also think some ofmy little thirsty comedian
friends are thinking thatthey're going to like roast him
and he's going to find it sofunny that he's going to take
them on tour with him.
Hey, you know what.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
You never know what happens Exactly you never know.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
But I was like go away but yeah, so I thought that
was crazy.
But knowing him, he willdefinitely return back sooner
rather than later.
And he's hysterical.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, I'm glad that he's doing better, though, and
you know he never lost his senseof humor throughout the whole
thing.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
No, not at all.
In fact, I think he loves it,and people were even saying, oh
my God, you'll do anything justto get some attention.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's what you call putting your body on the line
for a laugh, right?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Exactly, exactly, exactly.
And then another one of myfriends was like conspiracy.
She was like I feel like therestaurant poisoned him.
Maybe they don't like hiscomedy.
I'm like he's not that famousor that upsetting to people that
a restaurant's going to poisonhim.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
I really don't think so.
Yeah, with everything goingcrazy in the world, I think
that's the least of theirconcern.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, so I thought that was crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Talk about crazy topics, and this one is a doozy.
Lately, sea lions have beenvery, very aggressive yeah, in
fact, some people call themdemons and monsters, because
they're just going ballistic andthey're regularly very

(07:07):
aggressive towards people now,way more than they used to be.
So scientists allegedly saythat it's due to the algae
that's in the water that'smaking them kind of go berserk
and, you know, sometimes peopleforget that yes, it's a
beautiful, majestic animal, butit's still a wild animal.
Do you think that it's thealgae?
Or do you think that maybethey're getting a little
irritated with people getting alittle too close to them?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
or it could be a combination.
Yeah, I bet I.
I do think the ones that comeclose to the shoreline are, like
, probably just annoyed of being, you know, harassed and
sometimes, um, just taunted alittle bit and teased.
But I, I definitely think thealgae, I'm sure it is like the
same way that a lot of you know,our fish can be high in mercury

(07:46):
and I'm sure the fish thatthey're eating might have like
more microplastics in it, and Ifeel like it's like whatever's
happening to us and our plastics.
I'm sure they're getting attimes a lot like the marine life
.
So I definitely do think theocean probably has like a
different change or like adifferent pH or whatever.
But this sounds like a movie,doesn't it?
Where, like, the sharks startto get, because could you

(08:06):
imagine if this started tohappen to like great whites?
I mean, I know that's the.
That's the plot of a lot ofthese kind of like Megalodon
movies is, the shark gets madand it goes crazy.
But like I feel like all weneed is the dolphins and the
sharks to get mad at us and theseals.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy.
I mean I was looking at thearticles actually several
articles and I was verysurprised at how widespread this
problem is.
I was shocked, and to hear thatit's from the algae, it's like,
okay, should we be worriedabout other creatures in the
water?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Exactly, and then we're eating fish.
I'm sure the fish are eatingthe algae, so maybe that
explains like all the people onplanes going crazy and stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
You know what you never know.
That's why they say you arewhat you eat, right.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Mm-hmm, and I know we talked about this a few
episodes ago.
But, like in San Diego, theyhave a few coves where swimmers
you, they share it with sealsand sea lions and it's
definitely there are a lot ofones that are very sickly and I
think sometimes people will betrying to get like a selfie
really close with it and all ofa sudden it's like, oh, you're

(09:14):
taking a picture with like anemaciated seal that's basically
like about to die and, you know,not a good scene.
Um, so I also wonder if it'slike some of these seals Maybe
the sick ones before Aren'tangry, but they might be Eating
the same algae or anything.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's true, that's a good point and I think it goes
back to what we said, becauselately there's been a lot of
Animal stories lately and people, for whatever reason, they want
that shot, they want to getnext to them or grab the baby or
whatever, and to the point towhere they're putting their,
their, their safety at risk andpeople around them doing it, yep

(09:53):
, and also like what would youdo if you were out
paddleboarding or something, andlike an angry seal, I feel like
I would.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
So I'd feel so bad if a seal was mad at me, because
they do seem so nice yeah, Iprobably wouldn't be paddle
boring, to be honest I wouldn'tbe that far out where it's like
me and a seal in a situation Imean, I tip my hat off to people
, but I don't deal with wildanimals they look nice, I'll go
see them in the zoo wherethey're like you know, behind

(10:19):
protective berries andeverything but getting close to
them.
Nah, I'm not doing all thatexactly like I don't, something
would have to go really wrong.
I feel like for both you or Ito have a seal if, like an angry
seal, hurt close enough to getmad at me, because that would
have to mean I like went on somecruise that then broke down and
then you know like or like anemergency landing.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
That is so true.
And you know, let's face it, aseal, you know a sea lion, is
not the smallest animal outthere either.
So it's not like you can't seethem coming.
So you know, most people likeme be like okay, I see him
coming this way, I'm going theother way.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Exactly when other people will be like hey, let's
get this great picture, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
So what is?
A few hundred pounds?
Maybe a thousand pounds?
That's okay, let's get next tothem, let's take a picture.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, I would never.
The only thing that I've neverbeen near a manatee I mean, I've
seen manatees but I love, love,love them and I feel like that
would be one of my dreams is toswim with them.
And I know you're not supposedto touch them, you kind of just
let them hug you.
But if manatees started beingmean, I feel like my whole view
of the world would be shatteredbecause, like I'm so used to

(11:31):
them being gentle creatures andthey're so nice yeah, that's
true, believe it or not.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Sea lions actually were not as aggressive, so this
is actually something new that,uh, that we're noticing, so I'm
just hoping that it doesn'tbecome an epidemic among a lot
of the large animals in the sea.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Exactly and the account not only were they angry
, but I saw that one of like theguy that was out surfing and
he's like it wasn't even justmad, it looked demonic, it was
like snarling at me, you know.
So I imagine I think that's thepart of the algae that's like a
neurotoxin that's making themact like not just aggressive,
but it's acting kind of likedemonic.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, that is true.
That is true.
So be careful, Meryl, when yougo swimming with the sea lions.
Okay, Tonight I'll be careful.
Okay, that's what I was goingto do.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Me and a killer whale and a hammerhead shark.
We're all going to go for aswim.
No, my speed is definitely likejust floating along with a
manatee like holding eachother's paddles.
There you go.
Um.
Well, while I'm in floridaswimming with a manatee, what I
can also do is attend the ultrafestival, which is like an edm

(12:39):
kind of you know whatever umtype festival that the young
kids go to, and they have a fivehundred thousand dollar bottle
service experience, aptly namedfu.
You know, f-u-c-k.
Uh, it's the fu money packagethat people have been getting,
of course, as like a flex.
So basically, this nearly halfa million dollar purchase, um is

(13:03):
basically 200 bottles of like avery, very expensive Pharrell
Williams rosé, 100 bottles ofDom, 400 bottles of premium
champagne.
And then it comes.
They come out with like ofcourse you know, sparklers and
the whole pomp and circumstancearound you, and on TikTok people
have been like showing otherpeople getting it, and so I just

(13:26):
think to me, like I mean$500,000, just doesn't it seem
like you could be able to buythe whole club for that much
like, or like real estate, orlike something crazy, not just
like a million trillion bottles,like I feel like that's.
That seems like such a waste tome.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
That is ridiculous.
I would never spend that kindof.
I mean, if I had that kind ofdisposable income now, my first
option.
My wife probably will fight meon it, but I would probably go
to the casino just just for thehell of it.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Just be aware of it.
One time.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now I don't know if I'd make it there, because again
my wife will probably tackle meand be like are you effing
crazy?
I'm not doing that.
But if I was going to throwaway half a meal, I'll do that.
Or the more reasonable thingwill be invest in something.
Or if I just want to just gocrazy and just say whatever, I'm
going to go out and buy a RollsRoyce.
You know, at least I havesomething for my money to show

(14:18):
for it.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
So exactly, and you could literally use that to to
like put a down payment on likea quarter of a really nice house
and then have like all the freeshame.
And also, to me it's like ifyou're able to just spend that
type of money, chances are you,you are something quote-unquote,
like important in the world,which is what I think you could
probably get, some type ofsponsorship or like you know,
like I feel like that's a verykind of like non-billionaire

(14:41):
thing to do.
Is they have to spend a millionbottles of money on like dom
and everything like that.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, based on what they get for it.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
They're dramatically overpriced, I mean yeah, yeah,
it's marked up a lot.
You know who I think this wouldbe for is that I could see a
lot of like international money,like you know, just like
whether it's like.
I mean I know dubai is notnecessarily the most
international I could think of,but like different countries,
there's these money, like youknow, just like whether it's
like.
I mean, I know Dubai is notnecessarily the most
international I could think of,but like different countries,
there's these magnets and I feellike if you wanted to come to

(15:10):
different places in the US andjust like if you're in Miami and
you just want to like impresssome Miami chicks and you're
like a oil tycoon from SaudiArabia or something you know,
you could just basically spendthat money and have everyone
impressed.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, that's true, but let's be realistic.
If you have that kind of money,you can go to a big, expensive,
high-rolling bar, be ballingfor a fraction of that and get
the same effect Exactly.
That's just so much of a wasteof money.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
And for $500,000, you could be like a partner and buy
the bar For real.
I feel like a lot ofrestaurants and bars.
If you put in $500,000, youcould really have like a little
bit of a stake in it instead ofbeing a patron at it.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh yeah, and you know , basically I think people who
do that and I could be wrong,but I think they're the type
that goes hey, let me show youhow much money I have, Let me
show you how much disposableincome I have.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, this was smart, I think, on the festival music,
the music festival organizers,though, because this is just
another layer of like publicityfor them and people, you know,
taking videos of the peoplebuying it and everything.
I think this is smart.
People taking videos of thepeople buying it and everything.
I think this is smart.
Also, I know EDM festivals areusually hot and sweaty and stuff
and I'm just like who wants tohave 400 bottles of champagne

(16:32):
come out.
But I guess, if you're tryingto be a big person and show
everyone, okay, I'm going tocover the whole bar for the
whole rest of the night.
I could see that, but still alittle crazy.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
That is true.
That is true, that is true.
But talk about crazy.
I am very surprised.
This is a thing, but a fightbreaks out at a youth hockey
event.
The players were fighting, thecoaches were fighting the
parents were fighting.

(17:03):
I mean it was an all-out brawl.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is what we talked about last week.
Remember when the coach pulledsomeone the girl's hair?
We're like if you were a parent, you would have been down there
.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
So it sounds like yes , definitely yeah, and this was
such a big deal that it wasactually on the news.
Um, you know, obviously.
You know people got suspended,you know parents are being
barred from coming to the gamesand an interesting thing, which
actually is not surprising, isthe majority of the fights that

(17:33):
break out aren't with the kids.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Right For the parents , right the parents.
Yes, Now are these high schoolkids, or are they young?

Speaker 1 (17:43):
These look like they were either middle school or
high school.
Oh okay, they weren't likelittle little kids.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay, okay.
The kids are probablyembarrassed.
Imagine like seeing yourparents fighting out on the rink
with your teacher Exactly.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
I mean, you're supposed to be teaching
sportsmanship and enjoying thegame and stuff like this.
It should never get thatserious.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, yeah.
And a lot of them aren'twearing like if it's on the rink
, they're not wearing ice skates.
So I could just picture like,oh my God, picturing everyone's
parents just falling around Likethat really seems like a scene
from a movie or something.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
It does.
You know the thing is, I meanmy son.
You know he participated indifferent stuff.
He actually know the thing is,I mean my son, you know he
participated different stuff.
He actually participated inbasketball as well too.
Um and you know we never hadthat I mean they were pretty
strict about parents actingcrazy or whatever, yeah, in
which I did not understand untilyou know all this stuff started

(18:39):
breaking out.
It's like wow, seriously, andI'm just surprised that in this
day and time that people arestill acting this way.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, it almost seems like the parents and the
teachers need like an outlet.
You know they need playtime toget rid of their energy.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I mean, these are like school kids.
These are, these areprofessional athletes, and if
they were, you'd?

Speaker 2 (19:01):
be thrown out.
Yeah, yeah, did you see or didit say like what started the
whole thing?

Speaker 1 (19:07):
You know I was trying to find that and I didn't see
it.
I'm quite sure if I did alittle research I could probably
find it, but it wasn't veryapparent and most of the time,
meryl, it's something stupid,like they didn't like a call the
ref made, or, you know, maybetheir child didn't get enough
time on the court, or maybetheir child didn't get enough
time on the court.
It's always something stupid.
It's nothing new yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I always feel like it is exactly the first
thing you said, where it's likethe ref should have fouled the
wrong person but didn't, or ifthey said it to I mean, in
baseball it's like they saidthey were safe and they're not.
Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
And the thing is too, this wasn't even a playoff game
, it was just a regular game atthat too, that's what makes it
even worse.
Not to say that excuses it, butit's like come on seriously the
kids are.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
I mean just thinking about like growing up.
If our parents did that, wewould all like have, we would
head for the bleachers and justlike close down the game and
never talk to anyone.
That is so true.
I saw a video on Reddit thatwas like a dad was going to
school to confront his kid'sbully, like you know.
So a dad started yelling atthis like seven-year-old kind of

(20:13):
like, or seventh grader maybe,like stop messing with my son.
And then a few of the kidspantsed.
The dad Did you see that?
Yeah, that was crazy.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Unfortunately I did.
Yes, yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Unfortunately, I did yes, yeah, so on many different
levels.
It's like eight levels ofinsanity that just happened.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
It's like stuff like that.
As a parent, I understand,because schools as a whole do
not do a great job when it comesto bullying.
They really don't.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
But I don't agree with a parent approaching a
child under no circumstances.
I know.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
And I get it, I really do.
Now, if the child puts his handon your child in front of you,
all bets are off.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Exactly Yep.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
But you can't come in after the fact to threaten him,
because now you risk going tojail at that point.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yes, and just like them pantsing the dad, I just
I'm at the age where I can bothsee like the 13 year old just
being funny and the 40 year oldbeing funny, like I think I'm
stuck somewhere in the middle oflike thinking.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
all of it is funny, yeah, but I think the real, the
real way to solve this isschools have to step up.
They really do.
And then like at the games, ifyou see someone getting a little
bit out of control or whatever,don't wait until they start a
fight, Because a lot of timesyou can see the tension starting
to boil before it happens.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, yeah, oh, that's an interesting one.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
You'd be amazed at you know how, if you put
somebody in handcuffs, howeveryone else calms down around
them.
It's amazing how that works.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, it's like those big consequences.
I wonder if any of the kidsfrom that fight the hockey fight
are going to end up getting introuble or expelled because of
how their parents acted.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
That's a great question, Because how do you do
that?
Because if the kids didn't doanything and it was the parents
should you punish the children?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
That's actually a great point.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Maybe like the parent-teacher conferences,
everyone puts like boxing gloveson or something.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
You know, I'm actually kind of interested to
find out about that, becausethat's a great point.
Right Because it's easy if thekids are fighting, but if the
kids aren't doing anything andit's their parents fighting,
what do you do then?

Speaker 2 (22:31):
or their teachers too .

Speaker 1 (22:32):
It's like, yeah, everyone is in, time out that's
a good point, that's actually areally good point because, on
the one hand, if their parentsare the ones clowning, should
you punish the children?
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
No, I feel like, yeah , I don't think so, but I also
feel like I don't know.
But there has to be some typeof like for the parents.
I don't know how to like punishparents or you know what I mean
.
That's not really.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh, actually there's an easy way to do that you ban
them from coming to the games.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Oh yeah, that's true, that's very true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and maybethey can't come to like any
school-related events for like awhile or something.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, that's a good way to punish them, because,
again, I don't think you shouldpunish the kids, because if they
didn't do anything, that's notfair for them.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, yeah, and also like what kind of just example
are we setting?
That's why I have I do alwayshave hope for the younger
generations, because it doesseem like Gen Z and like the
younger kids almost seemembarrassed by that type of
behavior.
You know, I feel likemillennials and we all like just
wild out and stuff, but I feellike the younger people are a

(23:40):
little bit more conservative interms of like how they act there
.
They would find that behaviorcringy.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's true.
It's kind of sad when the kidsare looking down at the parents
instead of the other way around.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I know, I know, Like hey.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Johnny, I saw your dad out there beating up on you.
Everything good.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I feel like Gen Z will just like make a TikTok
dance in anger or something.
I don't know.
The younger kids that I knowwouldn't lower themselves to
even act that way.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, that's true, that is true.
So let's hope they learn theirlesson.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, I hope so.
Well, maybe they'll be able toget what they really wanted, but
not yet.
So I think a lot of these kidswe know how much they love
nintendo and nintendo has beendelayed.
So nintendo switch to thepre-orders in the us have been
delayed because of the tariffs,um, especially those tied to a

(24:38):
new global trade packageannounced by donald trump just a
few days ago.
So the console was set tolaunch globally on June 5th, but
people in the US won't be ableto lock in their orders as they
expected on April 9th, and thiscaused an uproar amongst people.
Nintendo fans were fuming.
Nintendo's official statementwas basically that the delay was

(24:59):
necessary to assess thepotential impact in tariffs and
evolving market conditions.
The news sparked immediatebacklash online where frustrated
gamers squarely blamed Trumpfor the disruption.
So also, I don't know if youguys, if you're familiar with
how much it already was theswitch to was already raising
eyebrows with its price of $449,which is a jump from previous

(25:20):
generations, but now they'reexpected, with tariffs and
everything, to balloon to up toalmost 500.
I don't know, it doesn't sayhere how much switches usually
are.
I don't know if you know that.
But yeah, so people are justsaying, like the online people
are mad about it and not only isit going to be late, but it's
going to be more money and thegamers have spoken and they're

(25:43):
angry.
And I, I think gamers a lot ofthem have really really big fan
bases and a lot of little kidsand younger people look up to
them too, so it's going to beinteresting to see if that
affects.
I wonder how that demographicalready votes, or if they do
vote or whatever.
But who knows?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Well, I think it's going to definitely motivate
them to vote the next timearound.
I mean, the game systems havelike skyrocketed over the years,
even before the tariffs.
I could imagine.
Yeah, I know, I was looking atthat article and I think they
said that the price is like 400and something now, which I think
is outrageous, but now theprice is going to be probably

(26:26):
well over 500 now because ofthis.
Because what a lot of peopledon't understand is that even
stuff that's already been built,that are on the barges, because
the tariff's already in place,the moment it hits US soil, that
tariff takes effect.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yes, like tell me if I've got this wrong, let me know
.
But like we still have importcosts, like that, we have to pay
still, how you said.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
So like the tariff isn't necessarily just going to
affect other countries, it'slike yeah, yeah, and what's
crazy about this too, meryl, isthat um, what do you do if
someone prepaid for it?
But now you have this terribletax code.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Oh, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
What do you do?
I mean, that's kind of thatgray area there.
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, that's why I think a lot of people were
saying like get cars now, getthis now.
I think a few months ago I wasseeing a few TikTokers were
having a list of things like buythese immediately, buy all.
Seeing a few tiktokers werelike having a list of things
like buy these immediately.
You know, buy all your big likevacuums and bigger appliances
that you need for the nextcouple years, right now.
Um, I'm sure everyone feelsthis way, like I think, no

(27:34):
matter what side you're on, Ithink everyone is kind of like
waiting and seeing to see what'sgoing to happen with these
tariffs and how much it's goingto affect us and for how long.
But I don't know.
The nintendo 2 you don't want,especially during the summer.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
You don't want to have these people sad and upset
but, you know what's going to beinteresting is you know how,
how dedicated these gamers are?
In other words, are they justgoing to go ahead, complain and
just bear it and get it anyway,or they're going to protest and
say you know what, screw this, Idon't want it anymore I know,

(28:05):
and I thought this wasinteresting too.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
They said the new tariffs are especially harsh on
countries like vietnam andcambodia, which have become
nintendo's go-to manufacturinghub.
So yeah, it's everywhere.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh yeah you know a lot of products, um, like, for
example, nike, that was built inChina I believe I have to
double-check the facts on thatWas moved over to Taiwan to kind
of avoid certain pre-terrorists.
That was already in place.
So now, because of the way thatTrump has done this, all of

(28:41):
these countries, except Russia,which is probably a different
conversation- have tariffs yeah.
Oh my God.
So it's like it doesn't matterwhere you're at now, and
depending on where you're at,the tariffs are going to be
anywhere from 10% to50-something percent.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, I thought 30%.
I'm like, oh my gosh, yeah,it's crazy, it's going to be
very weird.
And I also wonder how much.
I don't know the whole Nintendoworld, but I wonder how much
different or how much of anupgrade Nintendo Switch 2 is
from the current model.
But I don't know.
That's just an interestingthing.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, a lot of people are similar to iPhone buyers
where they have to get thenewest one every single year.
It'll be interesting to see ifthat's still going to happen.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Exactly and obviously , of all the things we need,
someone getting a new NintendoSwitch two months later is not
the most impressive thing in allof our lives, but it's still
interesting to see that.
It's just another group ofpeople that are like seeing how
tariffs affect us, or if they do, or by how much you know yeah,
because let's be realistic agang system, unless you do it

(29:55):
for a living, is not a necessity, it's a want right, exactly,
but if you would have, if youwould have asked my mom or asked
me, and when mario one was out,it was a necessity mario one
and three, not two, but marioone I totally understand, right.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, we're going to continue on with this because,
um, obviously everyone's talkingabout the tears, yeah, but
before we get into that, I dowant to say I don't know if you
notice or not I have a specialshirt on oh my gosh, I do.
That's amazing so, just sopeople are aware.
Um, I do have a new cookingshow.
It's called thirsty bites.

(30:33):
It's on my streaming channel,lrightvnetworkcom.
My first episode that is on thechannel was, uh, my chili
recipe.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Whoa.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, if people want to check it out, definitely take
a look at it.
We're going to have all kindsof great recipes on there.
Very easy, fun things to make.
Most importantly, very easy tomake somewhat nutritional some
more nutritional than others.
Of course, I've got to put insome sweets.
Yep, yep but the thing is, it'svery easy to make so really,

(31:07):
even if you don't know how tocook.
I walk you through every step,so really okay.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
I've never I've been to chili cook-offs, but I've
never actually made chili myself, so I'm excited to see it oh
yes, definitely it's.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
It's an easy, fun, tasty recipe.
I think everyone will love itnow is it?

Speaker 2 (31:24):
I can't wait to watch it.
And also, is it filmed in thestyle of how a TikTok video is,
or is it filmed more like you'rethe chef, like a kitchen home
network where you're at thething making it?

Speaker 1 (31:35):
I do it out of my kitchen, cool, so you get to see
the recipes, you get to see howit's cooked.
You even get to see howeverything is like, why you're
cooking it, what it should looklike and everything how to
measure.
So yeah, I mean it's taking youthrough the whole process.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Amazing Good for you.
I can't wait to check it out.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Thank you, thank you.
So this is probably a goodsegue With the tariffs.
The one thing I don't thinkthat we're talking about enough.
I mean, we're talking about howthe stock market is being hit
and all these other things thecars and all this but I don't
think there's enough being saidabout what happens to the

(32:19):
average person.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
So, with the tariffs in place right now, from what
I've heard from several sources,that it's going to cost an
average family of anywhere from$3,000 to $4,200 a year extra.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
And it boils out to be somewhere around $350 or so
per month more.
Now some people will say, well,$350 is not a lot.
Well, the average person isliving paycheck to paycheck, so
$350 may feel like $3,500 tothem, and that's not even
counting if they need to make amajor purchase like a car or

(33:01):
anything else.
And I, I just, I just feelsorry for for this country as
far as what we're going to gothrough, because now jp morgan
has said loudly that there's a60 chance we are going to go
into a recession oh my gosh so Idon't know what are your
thoughts on this uh, my thoughtsare a lot like.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
I have luckily had the privilege of like up till
maybe about like two years agoor so, not really feeling like
by no means that I grew up likevery wealthy or anything, but I
grew up to the point where youknow you could drive around and
like waste gas for fun and justlike middle class things you
know where.
It's like you could go shoppingjust emotionally and like buy
things that just kind of lookgood sometime at the grocery

(33:42):
store, buy things that just kindof look good sometime at the
grocery store, but around likeabout a year and a half or two
years ago I was like Whoa, I amdefinitely.
It's like $70 just to getanything you need at the grocery
store and it's like not funjust to go to Target anymore and
like waste money on candles orwaste money on driving around.
So I feel like I'm definitelylike.
Also, I don't have kids, so Ifeel very lucky in that aspect
of like not having to worryabout or like feed a family.

(34:05):
But for people as a whole, I seeit really affecting people.
Um, definitely people's likemental health and physical
health, and it also feels likethe value of things is just so
disproportionate.
You know, like I just saw asale that was like, oh, you
could fly to Greece for $260.
But yet I also just went out todinner where, like with a

(34:28):
couple people, and the total waslike $260.
And I'm like it just seems solike confusing how, like a
tomato could be $7.
But that's also sometimes theprice of like a movie that's
half off and like nothing makessense.
And I feel like that's whenpeople start to get a little bit
cray.
Cray too, you know, is whenthere's like no rhyme or reason
to it.
Um, so yeah, I feel, I thinkprobably the way many people

(34:52):
feel just unknown and scared andconfused.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh yeah, Because you know.
The other thing too is we wedon't talk about it.
But what about people that aregetting ready to retire and,
let's say, the majority of theretirements in the 401k, the
401ks, have like droppeddramatically.
And what does that do to theplanning?
As far as OK, do you still goahead and retire a schedule?
If you do go ahead and retire aschedule schedule, does that

(35:24):
mean you need to work a parttime job to make ends meet,
because the money that youthought you were getting has
been drastically reduced becauseof what's going on?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
yeah, yep, yeah, it's not right and it's like it's
very confusing, I know, I mean Ifeel it so.
So so much here in la with thehousing prices and the rent like
it is in our lifetime, like Ijust I don't know how most
people are affording.
Like a two bedroom here reallyis like 35 or 3,600 for like a
crappy two bedroom, one bathroom, and I'm like that's just like

(35:55):
so undoable for most people.
Or even if it's doable, wedon't want to like who wants to
be paying that much forsomething that's not really
worth the value of that, youknow.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Oh yeah, I have a standard three, two home.
You know, standard threebedroom, two bath home, two and
a half bath home and the averagerent, I kid you not, is more
than my mortgage yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
I believe that absolutely, and there'll be one
thing if our salaries reflectedthat.
But but I'm it's.
It's crazy, like this time iscrazy because it's so much to
live and yet I'm seeing allthese like job postings for
things that are like $17 an hourand it's like I don't
understand it, like we are goingto have to hit like a tipping
point soon in some way oranother.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Oh yeah, and you know , with everything going on, and
then you know the other thingtoo.
Thing too is I'm from thetransportation industry, so I
know they said the average$50,000 vehicle will probably
add an extra $6,000 or so to theprice of the vehicle.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Okay, Wait, wait say that again.
Oh, like to buy a normal car.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
To buy, yeah, like a normal, regular car, around
$50,000.
I did not know this, but theaverage car, now the average
price that people are paying, isaround $50,000.
And they're probably looking atsomewhere around $6,000 or so
added to that price.
Now that's one thing, buthere's what's not talked about
about.

(37:21):
A truck that pulls thosetrailers is somewhere around 150
160 for a dealership to buy it,and then, of course, they have
to put their profit on top ofthat.
So imagine adding an extraeighteen thousand dollars to
that.
Oh my gosh.
And then there's a thing calledFET, which is a federal exercise

(37:43):
tax tax.
So basically, most people don'tknow what it is.
People in the trucking industrythey know what it is,
especially if they buy newvehicles.
And the way it works is thatwhen you buy a new vehicle
that's over 33,000 pounds GBW,which is gross vehicle weight,
you pay an extra 12% excise taxon it and it's based on the

(38:05):
value.
So you add that extra amountfor the tariff that's going to
bring that tax up because, again, everything that comes in you
pay tax on.
So, besides the tariff, yourtaxes that you're going to pay
on, that amount is going to goup as well too, because it's
based on the total value of yourproduct.
So those are a lot of thehidden costs that are being

(38:27):
talked about out loud.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yes, yeah, and that that is so funny because about
like two or three years ago Ineeded a car, my third day of
living in Los Angeles.
When my car was parked, it gothit by a drunk driver and so my,
my car got completely totaled.
On my third morning of movingto Los Angeles it was like the
city was like screw you.
But I saw a marked differenceof looking for a car where I was

(38:52):
like, oh okay, whatever, I'lljust get like a Toyota, whatever
, and my payments will be like$80 a month or something, and I
saw what the car market was likenow.
I didn't really understand andthen it was like, okay, your
payment for like a crappy oldHonda is going to be like 280 a
month or something.
I'm like what I don't understand, and so you know, just like the

(39:15):
way we used to do things isn'tlike that anymore, where I think
a lot of people just loved likeon a Sunday morning just going
to TJ Maxx or Marshalls and likelooking around, and I think a
lot of people don't really enjoythat anymore, and it's like
it's not fun to build creditcard debt and it's just, it's,
yeah, it's.
I think, like we're all havingto learn more like simplicity
and just not being so impulsivewith our choices and you know

(39:35):
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
That's true.
I think what's going to boildown to is everyone's going to
have that heart to heart withtheir pocketbook.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Do I really need this?
What's important, what's notimportant?
You know?
What do I need now?
What can wait?
So I think what's going tohappen is you're going to start
seeing a lot more people notspend as much money and not, you

(40:00):
know, splurge a lot.
You're probably going to see alot of people do more eating at
home and stuff like that,because, let's face it, if
money's tight, you got to startmaking decisions.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Exactly.
It also feels like we'rehearing both things, because it
does seem like the people thatare earning money are earning so
much money, especially withjust seeing creators on TikTok
and all these digital marketingthings we just talked about five
someone's affording the$500,000 thing.
So it's like we're seeingmessages on both ends and that

(40:34):
can also make people feel badand compare each other and so
cause it does seem like myfriends that are making money
are almost making like a lot oflike ridiculous money, and then
it's like then I have peoplethat are struggling and it's
like we're not finding a lot ofpeople that are just like nicely
comfortable in the middleanymore.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
That is so true.
That is so true.
It seems like it's more oneextreme or the other.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
now, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
We're like, especially with howmuch influencers are paid and
all that stuff.
It's just like it's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
That is true.
That is true.
So prayers for this country,because it's going to be a rocky
road.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah, Yep, oh, this is good.
Well, actually, my next twowere kind of are like this, but
this is someone that I stillthink this is going to be
unpopular.
But someone that I think isgetting paid too much, even
though lots of people don'tagree with me, is Jackson
Merrill.
So he's with the San DiegoPadres and he just locked in a
nine year $135 million contractextension.

(41:34):
I chose this one because Ipersonally have to.
I mean, I get to not have to.
I get to hear about the SanDiego Padres a lot in my house
because my boyfriend is adiehard Padres fan and he
watches it like every night, andso Jackson Merrill is actually
one of his favorite players andI like him too.
Anyway, he's like a young, coolguy and he's only 21 years old,

(41:57):
but he's been like a littleyoung hotshot.
Now people were saying that hiscontract he could have gotten a
lot more from it, and so hisagents and everyone were they're
not his agents, but otheragents were saying, like you
know, they were shocked that hetook that amount because he
could be doing so much more andhe's just on track to be a
superstar.

(42:18):
I think it goes also about thefact that he just knew he wanted
to like live in San Diego fornine more years.
He really likes the team andjust kind of decided he wanted
to grow somewhere.
So it just brought up thequestions of I think that's cool
, like I think you know, I thinkthat's like an awesome thing
where it's not always just aboutmoney, it's about being in a
city that you like and beingaround people that you like, and

(42:39):
I think like that's kind ofpriceless, um, but also I still
I think it's amazing that he'splaying baseball and I know it
brings in a lot of money, butlike I just don't feel like
playing a sport you should bepaid like millions and trillions
of dollars.
I know that's unpopular, but Ialso feel that way about a lot
of things where that seems likeI think you should be paid

(43:00):
nicely but like not just I don'tknow, You're like not more
important than a teacher or afirefighter or like a surgeon or
something you know.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
That is so true and you know, let's face it, it's
sad when we say over $100million contract is a small
contract, I know.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
I know, and the fact that you're even getting more
than a million dollars a year tono offense but play baseball.
That's amazing.
I understand that baseballbrings in sponsorships and
viewers.
I get the business aspect of it, but at the end of the day it's
like I don't know.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, the salaries, especially
baseball, has been unbelievablelately.
So, you know, I kind of tip myhat off where he understands.
Okay, you know what?
Yeah, I could get more money,but I really want to play for
this team, I want to be here andyou know he's going to put the
money where his mouth is.
You know, because he could havebased on his stats, yes, he

(44:03):
definitely could have gotten alot more money.
Now he may not have been ableto stay in the same team to do
that.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
And I think you know I don't know whether you make it
a hundred plus million or 500million or whatever when you
really think about it at acertain point, what kind of
house do you want?
What kind of car do you want todrive?
You know what I mean Exactly,money-wise, yes, it's a big

(44:34):
difference, but really it'sreally not that big of a
difference as far as hislifestyle.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Right and you're already one of the most popular
players on the team in San Diego.
You know like you're probablygetting like everything and more
else that you want and not evenfrom you.
He also, I assume, has likebrand deals and different
partnerships and stuff.
But you're right, that was sofunny when he said like we're
acting.
Like him taking 130 milliondollars is like oh okay, thank

(45:02):
you so much.
Like like he's going to aBuddhist temple or something.
It's like you're still getting$10 million a year, Like that is
absolutely crazy.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
That's true and, like I said, I'm really stunned at
the salaries now.
But you know it's like okay,how far can they go?
Because there's a point whereit's like okay, you can't go any
farther than this, you know.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
I know.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Because you know those salaries are cheap.
You know who pays for that isthe fans.
You know when.
You know you get a.
You know $20 hot dog and youknow $12 beer.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Yeah, yeah, yep, and I mean this is like obviously a
bigger conversation and I don't.
I don't know, but but like bythe ballpark in san diego, like
san diego is a beautiful citybut like just a few blocks away
it is really it has become oneof those sad areas of like
homeless, like it looks like thenight of the walking dead

(45:59):
around there you know what Imean lots of drug homeless, like
zombie type people and stuff.
And so it's like so crazy thatwe have like all this wealth,
like in the, in the baseballstadium alone, we have people
that are making like $10 million, like there's so much wealth
inside that.
And then just a few blocks away, like and I'm not saying just
hand out the money to thosepeople outside, I'm saying like

(46:20):
we have other big infrastructureproblems that I wish I don't
know, but that's capitalism.
That's the whole way that Idon't expect us to take from
this version, to give to thisversion.
But we're not socialists.
It's just a weird thing to havesomeone making so much money
and then have other people thatare talking about not being able

(46:42):
to like afford groceries thisweek and stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Sadly enough, you're right.
You know, hopefully this is atrend where maybe most players
start looking at realisticcontracts now.
But we'll see, you know, Ithink, unfortunately.
I think this is the exception,not the norm.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, yeah, yep, I know, and I don't like hate
people.
Like, I am definitely not oneof the like eat the rich, hate
the norm.
Yeah, yeah, yep, I know, and Idon't hate people.
I am definitely not one of theeat the rich, hate the people.
I don't hate Jackson Merrillfor this.
He's just a player in the gamedoing great.
I think it's bigger than theactual individuals.
I'm sure there's a certainlevel of greed, but we don't
know how these people I'm surehe seems like someone that would
donate a lot to them his money,his community and like give

(47:25):
back.
So if I had to guess, I likewhen money goes into the hands
of like the right people becauseI feel like he's I could see
him doing something like settingup a little summer camp for
kids or like doing somethingCause he just seems right, like
that.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Oh, sure and you know it could be something behind
the scenes where he decided togive up some salary to get
better players on the team toget to the World Series.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yeah, that's happened in the past too, Yep.
But yeah, these people, I don'tknow, I just feel like they're
paid too much.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
I really do.
Hey, what can you say?
Getting paid multi, multimillions of dollars to play a
sport that you really have funyour childhood sport, I know I
mean good for him.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
I'm definitely not hating the player.
I'm not even hating the game,I'm just hating the money.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Talk about hating.
This one is actually a prettysad story.
Don't know if everyone knows.
Do you know who rapper YoungScooter is?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Okay, rapper Young Scooter lost his life when his
neighbor made a false 911 call.
So what happened was theneighbor called saying that
there was a big party going on.
There was drugs, women in andout, all kinds of crazy stuff.
So when the police got there heran and when he tried to hop
the fence he slit his leg andallegedly he bled out pretty bad

(48:49):
.
So I think he hit a main artery, I think, and he died shortly
after that.
So the woman who made the falsecall, she's been charged with
making what did they say it was?
For making a misleading call.
Charge with making what didthey say it was?
Or making a misleading call orsomething.
I forgot how they worded it,but you know we've heard of this

(49:12):
before where people make bombthreats.
You know, hey, the school'sbeing bombed or this is being
bombed.
All of a sudden you got a SWATteam coming down there.
They spend all the time andresources just to find out that
you know nothing's going on.
It was a false alarm and Ithink a lot of these people that
do that nonsense theydefinitely need to be charged.

(49:33):
And you know, I don't know whatdo you think, maren?
Do you think this woman shouldbe charged with involuntary
manslaughter.
Because some people go.
Well, why did he run?
Well, that's anotherconversation.
But you know there's a lot ofpeople that look like me that
don't trust the police and runanyway, just because you know
you're unfair for what mayhappen.
So again, you know I'm notgoing to get into that now

(49:55):
Because that's definitely aseparate conversation but do you
think that she should becharged with manslaughter?
And the reason why I saymanslaughter instead of murder
is I don't think and I could bewrong, but I don't think that
her intent was for him to losehis life.
But she should be heldresponsible Because that
irresponsible act caused him tolose his life.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
But she should be held responsible because that
irresponsible act caused him tolose his life yes, I know, I
wish there was, like thereprobably is law wise a different
category for like, not evenjust manslaughter, but like,
okay, this happened.
You didn't mean it like anaccident happened, but it was.
It was like because of someoneelse.
You know, you basically causedthis accident to happen, like

(50:36):
Like your repercussions did it.
But yeah, you're right, likemurder, not exactly Cause she,
it wasn't like she planned it.
And that is just one of thoselike, like crazy situations
where it's like he was runninghis leg, you know, like I don't
know, like on any other thing,that could have just been a call
and he would could have ranaway and like who knows why, but
just the fact that all of thathappened is so like such a weird

(50:58):
comedy of errors type of thingoh yeah, and you know, the one
thing I don't understand is, ifyou don't like a person, just
stay away from them

Speaker 1 (51:06):
you know, don't make up don't make false call,
because see, here's the thingonce you start bringing in the
police, that's when thingsescalate and things get out of
control, and nine times out often, when it starts to escalate,
it's not going to be a goodending for someone.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
It really yeah exactly and same thing too, like
I know before, like peoplecalling schools saying if
there's like a shooter orsomething, then someone can show
up with a gun.
And you know, like I think thatpeople have to take that very
seriously.
Otherwise it's like now in thisday and age, people react so
quickly and so impulsively thatyou don't know who's going to
show up and make the problemworse.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Well, yeah, I mean, that's a great point, because if
they get a call like that, theyhave to go out.
The last thing they want to dois go well, I don't know if this
is real or not and people startlosing their lives, so you have
to go out.
And then again, you go outthere and you find out that it's
a hoax.
Yeah, they should have somecharges brought to them.

(52:05):
They really should.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
I think about that all the timetoo, with just people calling
and saying, calling the policeon someone else when it's not
that fault, and especially, howyou said, like not everyone.
Lots of people have a right tobe like afraid of the police and
it doesn't go that well a lotof times and so it's yeah, it's,
it's tragic yeah, I mean, likeI said, we'll, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
but you know, I I really do, and I don't say this
very lightly, but I think shespent some time in prison
because that was just ridiculous, that was totally ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
I know Very scary, very sad.
So anyone that was going tocall the police on someone,
don't do it.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Unless it's something real.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, unless it's something real for
sure, I can't think of the.
I mean, the last time I calledthe police, I don't even know,
but yeah, definitely, especiallythe LA police.
I love that If any of them arewatching hello, but just between
us, I'm like scared of them.
But yeah, well, this one, we'regoing to go back for my last
one, back to the recession core,as they call it, just about.

(53:16):
You know, we have Easter comingup and I thought this was a
ridiculous article.
But you know, not so far offfrom what we talked about.
A lot of Americans are shunningEaster eggs as prices skyrocket
and they're dying potatoesinstead.
So you know, once again, as aJewish person, I didn't really
partake in Easter, but I did.

(53:36):
I always like eating thechocolate eggs and just like I
like watching families that dotake part in it.
I think it's cool.
But according to a study inthis article, over 30 percent of
Americans have stopped buyingeggs due to their costs, like
just for eating the eggs.
So now that Easter tradition isgoing to also fall by the
wayside, people are gettingcreative with what they're
dyeing.
So they're saying they're nowcoloring unexpected grocery

(53:59):
staples, like marshmallows,potatoes and onions, which to me
like I can't.
I thought marshmallows werepretty expensive too.
Maybe not, but I don't know.
It also seems just likespending money on the food dye.
To me, it seems like you getfrom Walmart just those cheap
little plastic eggs and justcall it a day or something.
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (54:19):
When I was a kid, I'd take that onion and hit my
parents in the head with it.
No, I'm just kidding, don't dothat Exactly.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Make sure it's soft at least.
The depression I would feel ofdyeing a potato purple and then
having to pretend it's an egg.
Just get feel of dyeing apotato purple and then like
having to pretend as an egg.
I would just just like, justget the little plastic like 99
cent store eggs.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I agree because you know I can see that child being
very ticked off like seriouslymom, seriously dad, you know
really yeah, and also potatoesare kind of expensive, like the
ones where I'm shopping at.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Like whole foods here , like onions and potatoes, are
pretty darn expensive too now.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Here's the thing about it you can't eat a dyed
potato.
At least with a dyed egg.
You can take off the shell aslong as the dye hasn't went
inside of it.
You can eat the egg.
You can't eat a dyed potato.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Did you used to do Easter stuff with your kids,
with your kids?

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Oh yeah, when my son was young, we used to color the
eggs and everything Really.
I grew up coloring eggs.
Oh yeah, I love that.
Oh yeah it sounds fun.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
See, that sounds really cool.
I love any holidays where I caneat a chocolate piece of
something.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Yes, yes, definitely.
And I know a lot of peopledon't like the marshmallow.
I like them.
Some people they think it'snasty, but I like them.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
You're in the camp of no dyed potatoes.
I think I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Absolutely not.
That's just cruel.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
I'm surprised that you just can't.
I'm sure there are just likemarshmallows that are already
tinted like lavender.
I would think you could just dothat.
I also just think likechocolate eggs are like fun too,
like the little Cadbury ones.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
I mean here's the thing.
Buying a dozen eggs is stillcheaper than buying toys.
So seriously, once a year youcan't Buying a dozen eggs is
still cheaper than buying toysso seriously once a year you
can't just buy a dozen eggs andlet your children just die.
I mean seriously, exactly.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
I know If I had to guess.
I'm sure some people are indire straits and can't do that,
but I think if we I know we useeggs as a benchmark for it, but
I feel like if people looked attheir costs, I'm sure there are
ways to cut out some otherthings we're all doing to make
eggs fit into our budget.
If I had to guess, you knowwhat I mean.
But eating eggs is not the mostexpensive thing I'm doing by

(56:44):
any account.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
That's true.
And the other thing too is eggscome in different sizes.
Maybe what you do is, if younormally buy a large or extra
large egg, just buy small eggs,you know.
Yeah, the cheapest eggs outthere.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
You know where you still at least be able to get
the effects of, you knowchildren having fun dying them,
because that's really the funpart is dying the eggs and
watching the different colors.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Yeah, buy the eggs that have bird flu in them.
Those should be discounted atwalmart.
Oh, I was just gonna say myvery last thing.
I was just gonna say don't buythe ones at trader joe's that
are the, the fertilized eggsthat have like the little

(57:27):
chickens inside of them thatwill hatch.
That makes me so nauseousanytime I'm in trader joe's and
I pass by.
It says like fertilized eggsand those are the ones that you
can like actually catch a chickfrom.
And they have them at TraderJoe's like right next to the
other kind that like we eat.
I could throw up every singletime just thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Yeah, Wow, I am shocked.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Yeah, it's disgusting .

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Maybe I'll buy a dozen for my wife.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
No, she probably have a baby, like chicken pop out.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Yeah, she probably be a little upset with me, even
though it'd be kind of fun to do, though Disgusting.
Well, this actually is a goodway to end it here, talking
about TikTok.
Tiktok has gotten anotherextension.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Yay.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
But now let's see Amazon, apple, oven and Oracle
are all looking to try andpurchase TikTok and, as a result
of all the tariffs going intoplay, you know, china, which is
where TikTok is based out of, uhbasically is saying that, okay,

(58:39):
before they allow tiktok to besold, we need to start talking
about these tariffs andnegotiate.
Uh-huh, oh my gosh, now tiktokhas kind of been brought into
the tariff war as well.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
What a tangled web.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Yes, yes, but I don't know.
I mean, I can see Amazon wantedto buy it because Amazon wants
to rule the world.
So that doesn't really surpriseme.
Oracle actually surprised me alittle bit.
Apple oven that's a bigsurprise there.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
I don't know what are your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Do you have a favorite that you?

Speaker 2 (59:18):
would love to see by it.
Um, yeah, not amazon either.
Maybe I'd have to look moreinto like oracle and what, what
their involvement would be like,you know, in a good way.
I haven't heard like a tonabout oracle just in my
day-to-day life, so I feel likethat's almost a good sign,
because they're not like someoneI'm sure they would manipulate
things, but in in a good way,like I definitely don't want it

(59:39):
to be like a meta or a Amazon oryou know whatever one of those
big, big, big, annoying ones.
So something like that.
I wouldn't mind if it was justlike a big company that didn't
change our algorithm so much.
I feel like if it was Amazon,it would just be never-ending
ads, just never-ending sales andcommercials.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
The one thing and actually just brought up a great
point would Amazon act like anowner or a competitor?
What I mean by that is there'sa lot of people that make a
living off TikTok.
Some people make a really goodliving selling products.
So would Amazon still let allthose products be sold, or will

(01:00:22):
they kind of do something withthe algorithms to kind of help
boost their products?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Exactly.
Or I wonder if like the TikTokshop, I wonder if then like
backdoor wise and it would likego through Amazon and you know
sellers would have to require tolike host their products on
Amazon.
But then that opens up thewhole thing where it's like a
lot of these companies likethrough Timu and you know
they're able to get around thesestuff because they're able just
to skip over the middle personand sell directly from like the

(01:00:50):
China warehouse to the consumer.
So I don't know.
I mean I cried the first timeTikTok went away for that one
night, For the seven hours thatit was down for I truly cried
like a little baby and I love itso much.
It's really like how I like toget my entertainment and I feel
like I just like love being inthe world of TikTok, but it's

(01:01:12):
getting more and more a littlebit diluted.
That's beginning to feel alittle bit more like selling out
here and there when I just amon the app, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's true, but it'll be interesting
to see what happens with this,because with the tear-ups, the
tear-ups kind of like clouded itup a little bit and something
tells me that there's going tobe several extensions.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
yeah, tiktok, and I could be wrong, but I truly
believe there's going to beseveral extensions on that it's
so funny because, like, how, howI love and I know like lots of
people do love tiktok, it makesme feel like donald trump is
like our grandpa and we're like,please, please, don't like take
away this thing that we alllove.
And then it's almost like thegrandpa trying to be cool and
like, okay, I'll keep it, youknow.

(01:01:56):
But it also like I think itbenefits politicians to have
TikTok because it helps spreadawareness and like, I think, a
lot of the election like for onboth ends of things, like we saw
how big people rode for bothsides of things.
And I think it's like itbenefits us to have TikTok, and

(01:02:21):
I don't know I could imagine fora politician it like gives free
campaign awareness that likejust a normal money can't.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
That's true and you know, let's face it.
Anytime you can get the youngerdemographic, it's definitely
worth doing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Exactly, exactly.
So yeah, it'll be interesting,but please not Amazon, not not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Daddy Bezos.
Where Mel?
What do you have coming up?

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Oh my gosh, this Saturday I have a show in
Glendale, california, at this abar called.
I think it's called the goldrail or the brass rail, I don't
know it sounds.
I think it's called the goldrail, but it should be very fun
and if anyone's there, and thenI have just a bunch of little LA
shows coming up.
Nice and I'll be watching yourchili recipe and maybe trying to

(01:03:02):
make it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
You should.
If you make it, let me know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Okay, I will.
I'll be a good test.
Gerbil for the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
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Thank you so much for watchingus and supporting us, and then
for our podcast listeners Forlistening to us as well.
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Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
So sweet.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
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