What happens when harmless fun on an empty plane leads to a termination? We explore this and more as we kick off our latest episode with a bold claim about the intersection of workplace culture and modern social media antics. From a flight attendant's twerking escapade that cost her job to the whimsical roles of food brand ambassadors driving giant peanuts, we bring you the quirkiest and most thought-provoking stories. Join us as we question whether union protections could have saved our twerking attendant and muse about our own food-themed vehicle adventures.
We also tackle more serious topics, touching on the unsettling rise of home invasions disguised by fake Amazon drivers, and the emotional rollercoaster of saying goodbye to TikTok. Reflecting on TikTok's role during the pandemic, we ponder its impact on content creation and the generational divide in mastering its quirky algorithm. You'll hear about the bizarre story of a woman scammed by an AI-generated Brad Pitt deep fake, igniting discussions around the implications for public figures and the emotional toll on unsuspecting victims.
Finally, we shift to the world of sports, where tennis player Danielle Collins serves up defiance against booing fans at the Australian Open. Her unapologetic stance challenges the double standards women face in athletics, inviting comparisons to the likes of the Williams sisters. From the societal frustrations of locked retail items to the breakup of a Bachelor couple, we cover a spectrum of stories that question norms and celebrate boldness. Join us for a whirlwind of emotions, laughter, and a touch of serious contemplation.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I am Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Meryl, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm really good.
Honestly, I was looking forwardto doing this.
Like all day, there's anabundance of news for us and
just goodies, so I was soexcited to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You know as crazy as this sounds, I had a hard time
picking my topics because it wasso much to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, there, there really really was.
Yeah, they're, they're beyond,was, but, um, yeah, I'm other
than that, I'm really good.
Much better actually than lastweek, when we talked the fires
were still out of control andnow, in la, like fingers crossed
, they're a little bit better,um, as of now, you know, I mean,
obviously there's like citiesthat are ruined here in in la,
but for but for.
(01:05):
Right now we've had a couple ofdays that have remained
somewhat calm.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So do they have a certain percentage contained
right now?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, like the one by me.
I think I checked was 87 percent, which is obviously very good,
that's the Eaton Fire one, I'mnot sure about the Palisades one
, but of course, as like the waythe world would have it it,
tonight the wind is starting topick up and it's like getting
Very windy here again, sohopefully that will like lead to
nothing.
But but yeah, we're having,we're all having like Deja vu
here, where even just as ILogged on, I had friends text me
(01:35):
like I'm Getting scared aboutthe wind.
But I think it will be fine.
At this point I feel likeeveryone Is just like aliens.
Wind, whatever you want to do,just bring it on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh yes.
Well, I tell you we got a lotto talk about here.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, do you want to go first?
I feel like we'll switch it up.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You know what I'm going to start off, and this was
actually kind of a funny one alittle bit.
There was a flight attendantwho actually works for Alaskan
Airlines.
There was a flight attendantwho actually works for Alaskan
Airlines.
So you know, obviously, pilotsand flight attendants, you know
they have downtime in betweenflights.
So what she did, she recordedherself twerking, which was kind
(02:19):
of cute.
But you know, I always warnpeople about doing stuff on the
job.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So she literally just got done completing her
six-month probation.
So once she did a video abouttwerking, it went viral and she
was fired immediately.
Oh, I don't know.
What do you think, Meryl?
Do you think that they were alittle bit too hard on her, or
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I definitely think so .
She wasn't twerking insomeone's face, right?
It was just.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, the plane was empty.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay, yeah, then I absolutely think that's way too
strict.
I think if she was twerkingwhile an older man was sitting
in a seat and just asking forhis trail mix and she was
twerking in his face, that mightbe grounds for at least a
write-up.
But I feel like just doing itfor fun is funny and I feel like
if that was Southwest or SpiritAirlines or another airlines
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where they have a little bitmore of a sense of humor, that
would just be part of the.
They would put that on theirTikTok.
So no, I feel like to fire heris absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
If anything, I think giving a warning or would be
appropriate yeah, I mean I don'tagree with her doing it at work
, because I always say becareful about doing stuff at the
job.
Yeah, I do think that thefiring was a little bit on the
excessive side, you knowdefinitely and like I don't know
, to me, twerking is kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It doesn't have to be something that's inappropriate.
It's almost like a silly thing,and I feel like we are now,
thanks to tiktok and all thosethings, that we're kind of in
this like dance economy, where,you know, people are just
busting out moves sometimes andso it doesn't always have to be
that serious.
It could just be someone likedoing a little move here and
there and you know the way shewas twerking.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know it was kind of like a mild twerk where she
was just kind of shaking herbody a little bit.
It wasn't anything over the top.
Um right, because I've seentwerking where I mean they
really go into it.
She didn't do any of it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know, yeah, it's silly exactly, exactly.
I have to wonder if maybe therewas like some other things that
made her overall like some typeof not exemplary employee and
they were kind of like usingthis as like, oh okay, this was
the final straw, you know, whoknows.
But um, I I think a warningwould be just fine and what's so
crazy about it?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
they didn't give her any warning, nothing.
She was just let go that's notfair.
I feel like she should sue andthen twerk in the court when she
wins because you know, I wonder, once she got done with her
probation, was she officially inthe union?
Because I know with most placesthat have a union.
Uh, you have to get throughprobation first.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I wonder if she's a part of the union and, you know,
maybe she can make a reportthrough her union to have them
fight on her behalf where theyhave to write up something,
where it's like twerking isallowed on these hours, or like
you could twerk three times andthen the fourth, like shake is
too much, but that's justsomething silly, like I feel.
Like I could totally if I wasgoofing around with some other
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airline attendants and it waslike no one was on the plane and
you've had a silly day.
Like I absolutely would dosomething like that.
I don't think to me that wouldbe indicative of someone's
performance, like at, you know,in safety, or being able to give
customers like coffee oranything.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, and let's be real, I don't think she's the
only one that's ever twerked ordone anything silly In between
flights.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She just happened to put it on social media, which,
yeah I feel like, honestly, thesouthwest, some of the flights
I've been on from like la tovegas, there was one where they
put the toilet paper.
Basically they unraveled.
They like put toilet paper alldown the row and then they flush
the toilet and so we sat therewhile down the runway, like the
toilet we were went and whetheryou wanted to partake in it or
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not, there was toilet paper likequickly going down the aisle
for the whole plane.
So it's like, I don't know, tome it's like maybe Alaska has so
much more of a serious policybut like, especially when you're
not in the middle of a flight,like who cares, you know?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And.
I agree with that.
I mean, there was nobody on theflight.
You know the plane, the planewas obviously parked, it wasn't
moving.
So you know again, I I justthought it was a little
excessive, I do too.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Also, I did not even notice, was she.
Was she a woman of color?
um, I want to say she washispanic, okay because I also
think, like, like I don't knowthat to me it seems extra not
fair and it's like, okay, wellthen, if she's not allowed to
dance, no matter what type youknow, whatever it is, then like
no one should be allowed to do aversion of any dance.
(06:53):
Like you kind of can'tdiscriminate.
I think too, like if someone isnot allowed to twerk, then like
okay, someone doing like aballerina move shouldn't be
allowed either.
You know twerk, then someonedoing a ballerina move shouldn't
be allowed either.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, and it does open the door as to, if she
wasn't a person of color, wouldthat have made a difference?
It makes you wonder.
It really does.
I hope she lands a jobsomeplace else, though I really
do.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'm not against getting a job at Alaska Airlines
and then twerking just to seeif I'll take one.
I'll be the sacrificialtwerking.
Just to see if I'll take one,I'll be the sacrificial twerker.
And then, when they don't fireme, I quit.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, well, I think I have a job for the next, for
the woman.
Now we have this next story isgoing to be a good job for her.
My first topic is a place whereI feel like she could maybe
twerk and twerk rapidly isPlanters.
Peanuts is offering $45,000 ayear for someone to drive their
(07:51):
nutmobile.
So Planters is offering a dreamjob to drive their iconic
nutmobile across the country.
So it's a 26-foot-longpeanut-shaped vehicle which is
part of the brand marketing, andnow they're looking for someone
to take it on the road.
So the job includes attendingevents, kind of like a, you know
, like an ambassador orsomething, interacting with fans
(08:13):
, and you'll travel for free andstay in a variety of locations.
So to apply, you have peoplehave to submit a video stating
why they would be the perfectfit for this gig.
You know, obviously you have tohave a clean driving record.
You can't have any prior thingsin your past and just like why
the company would benefit fromhaving you as behind the
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nutmobile.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You know what Actually for someone young maybe
has to figure out what theywant to do.
That could be a cool job.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That seems so cool.
Like I mean, that just seemslike if you're young and out of
college and also like looking tomake some fun content, and if
you are, if you do love peanut,obviously this wouldn't be good
for someone with, like a peanutallergy or anything, because
chances are you're probablyhanding out a lot of free
product.
But like I mean, I wish thesalary was a little bit more.
But to someone younger or justlooking for like some type of
(09:08):
fun job, I think in this economy, in this life, like that seems
like a pretty good job to me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I agree.
I mean I was a little surprisedat the amount $45,000.
I would think that it would bemore, because you are an
ambassador, you're driving thevehicle and you're doing this
for an entire year, so whichmeans that you know 80 percent
of the time I would.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
you're driving the vehicle and you're doing this
for an entire year, which meansthat 80% of the time, I would
imagine, you're probablytraveling, yeah, so I think it's
good for someone young andsingle and for the first couple
of years.
You're just really excitedabout the perks.
Now, okay, I was thinking aboutif you had to drive for any
food brand, what would be yourversion of this, like, what
(09:49):
company would you like to drivefor?
And they'd have like alife-size version of whatever
their food is too, let me think.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Let me think, I would say probably McAllister's,
because I do like their food.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay now I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh, you know, it may be regional, it's like a deli
shop where it has like differentsandwiches, has salads, soup
stuff like that.
But I think if I were lookingon a national side I would
probably do more like maybe likeone of the major chicken brands
(10:27):
, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And would the car be just a big chicken or like a
nugget?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, it would be a big chicken.
Then I would drive like Purdueor somebody like that.
That's a national brand.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Because chicken is healthy and I could learn a lot
of different stuff as far as howto cook various meals and stuff
, but that would be fun.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay, that'd be good, you'd be.
You'd be happy driving aroundlike a big, giant chicken oh
yeah that'd be fun.
I feel like that would get alot of attention from people
down the road they'd be like uhwow look at that big chicken
exactly until I feel like someteenagers would like literally
try to play chicken on the roadand not twerk.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Now what would you drive?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, mine was a no-brainer.
For me it would be a Doritocheese, like a big Dorito nacho
cheese, and it would be a carshaped like a big cheese, like
leaving powder all over.
I feel like I'd be a goodambassador of that.
I feel like I'd be very happyto give everyone, like a bag,
some nacho cheese doritos I feel, I have a feeling that the
(11:29):
gamers would love you yeah, Ithink so too, just like tossing
it, maybe cool ranch too.
But uh, yeah, super cool job.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I mean, in a world of people working, driving like a
big peanut vehicle could beworse yeah, I mean, if you think
about it like a lot of themascots for professional teams
and stuff, it's amazing how muchthey get paid.
A lot of them get paid ahundred thousand to two hundred
thousand per year.
Unbelievable how much they makeyeah and basically for having
(12:01):
fun.
And you have months off becauseobviously every professional
sport takes off a few months inbetween seasons.
So it's actually a pretty cooljob if you're in shape and you
know you like that.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah definitely Well on the.
I feel like on the other side,like I used to work for a radio
station and they have like promopeople that would sit by the
booth and you know, give awayfree whatever's.
And they were getting paid Not,not at all.
It was like Pete, I was thebooth and you know, a giveaway,
free whatever's.
And they were getting paid not,not at all.
(12:32):
It was like pete, I was justabout to say they're getting
paid in peanuts, but no, they'regetting it wasn't.
It was like lower than I feellike minimum wage should be, but
it was.
It was good for young kids andit was also like a lot of those
people graduated to likemarketing and now have big adult
jobs, you know.
So I felt like that was almostan entryway to start.
I feel like something like that, too could be an entry to
marketing or a communicationstype job.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's true.
That's actually true.
That would be good.
There's a lot of cool jobs outthere that are off the
mainstream, that you can makegood money and have fun doing it
.
Well, I am going to go intosomething that's not so fun.
There have been a rash of homeevasions and people getting
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robbed in their homes Recently.
There were a couple of fakeAmazon drivers that robbed this
man in his home.
Basically, they had a box intheir hand hand and they must
have either knocked on the dooror rang the doorbell, and when
the gentleman opened the door,they forced their way in and
they robbed him.
(13:35):
Oh my gosh.
And uh, I think they hurt himtoo.
But um, I don't know.
I mean, you got to be carefuland I'm actually a little
surprised that he fell for it,because you know amazon, you
have no contact with the driverswhatsoever.
Right, literally, they justdrop the stuff off.
It would be nice if they ringthe doorbell but you know, very
rare favor that happens and thenwalk away.
(13:56):
You have zero reason to talk toAmazon driver.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right, right.
And they're supposed to likenever ask to like use the
restroom or you know what I meanIn a good way.
They're not supposed to like beseen or heard.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, but it's amazing, I mean, even when
there's like utility workers andstuff like this, and you just
got to be so careful becauseit's hard to know who's who
these days.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I know I feel like that's and to me like targeting
usually I feel like they'retargeting elder people too, yep,
that's.
And to me like targetingusually I feel like they're
targeting elder people too, yep.
And then it's so sad, like Ialso feel, like you know, it
shouldn't get to the point wherewe have to, where we distrust
people more than trust them.
But I, I don't know, it's justlike I feel like amazon should
have some badge, but I guessanything could be duplicated,
(14:38):
like they could get the vest,they could get the outfit yeah,
but but I guess the reason whyI'm a little surprised on the
amazon one because, like I say,amazon drivers have zero contact
with yeah, delivered to I know,I know, but I feel like I could
easily see someone older beingtalked into like.
I feel like if they went to likenot my mom, but I feel like my
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dad could easily be like if theywere like oh, they we need a
signature.
You know, I could see thathappening.
I also wonder because I've seenAmazon people in no costumes,
but whatever the word.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
In a uniform, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
The other day, someone just delivered mail and
he was wearing a band t-shirt.
It really was Amazon, but nowmore and more people are just
driving their normal cars todeliver Amazon packages.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I remember last year I saw an Amazon driver.
First I thought it was theywere stealing packages, because
it was a car full of packages.
I'm like Lord, they're justrobbing people.
But actually what it was, itwas two people in there and they
it was around the holidays andthey were dropping off packages
at the door and you saw theAmazon box.
I'm like OK, but yeah, it looksweird when you don't see normal
(15:47):
, you know clothes or normaltruck, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, I mean that is like a little bit milder but
still scary version of like oneof my biggest fears, which is
getting pulled over by like notreal police people, cause I feel
like that's so scary too andthat's something that's like
terrifying the thought of youfake police people that is so
true, that is so true.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's a shame, but you just got to be careful and and
now you know, check on your,check on your elders and your
family, because, uh, there arethe the sad part about that
story, about the, the man thatwas robbed.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They only robbed, they only took 50 bucks oh my
gosh traumatized him, injuredhim for 50 bucks yeah, that has
to be like a next level ofterrible karma.
To like pretend you're acertain someone.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
To like weasel your way into someone's house yeah,
and what was interesting too is,you know, they went just to his
house and then they left out.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
It was like he was targeted yeah, I bet they
probably cased them.
You know like I feel like peoplelook at like elder people or
people that are vulnerable, likethat's so sad to me yeah, I
guess the biggest thing is justgot to protect your people, make
sure everyone's safe, you knowprotect your people and like
those are one of those thingswhen, if, if it's like
unequivocally, if they catch thepeople and like it's no doubt
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that it's those people, I feellike they need to make people
just need to know that like thepunishment for that is so severe
that it's like not worth doing,you know.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
That is so true.
That is so so true.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Wow, Okay.
Well, this is another one aboutpeople being shiesty and
annoying.
So this is something that Ihave seen firsthand, where now
the LA wildfires are driving asurge in rental housing prices,
which is, of course, nowprompting a lot of concerns for
gouging, which already, likeit's so expensive to rent here.
(17:35):
I don't think people we arealmost up to like New York
prices, where a lot of myfriends in New York are
comparable for like the onebedrooms here in LA.
Some areas are seeing anincrease of up to 30 to 40% of
rental prices.
I've seen places that arenormally like 3000, which is
crazy in and of itself.
(17:56):
You know like two bedrooms thatare 3000 charging $9,000 for a
two bedroom with like twobedroom, two bathrooms like a
normal apartment.
I saw one of my friends thatdoes real estate shares like a
TikTok about all this andobviously people are talking
about ethical concerns aroundprice gouging.
I know like our attorneygeneral is now investigating it
(18:20):
and like trying to see some ofthe laws in place.
Usually I feel like Californiatends to favor the tenants a lot
like you know, people renting.
So I think, in a good way, thathopefully this will be actually
one area where it helps.
But people doing that is justso gross.
We're like, not only were theytargeting people that, like a
lot of these people looking forplaces to live, have no house,
(18:42):
so it's like they're just tryingto go into some temporary
housing and now you have to paylike $6,000 for a month to month
rental.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh yeah, and here's the crazy thing about it, meryl
even if you have insurance, whenthey raise that amount to those
ridiculous heights, they run arisk of not even being able to
have the insurance paid forbecause it's so out of the park
as far as what it should cost.
And I think the only way to fixthat is through legislation.
And it's got to be okay.
(19:12):
And I don't know what thatmagic number is.
Maybe it's 10%, 20%, whateverit is, this is the max you can
put over the amount.
When you have a situation likethis and you're going to pay, I
don't know, maybe a $10,000,$20,000 fine per occurrence and,
let's say, five years in prison.
You know, something has a greatdeterrent to say knock it off.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, totally.
I don't know how families do it.
I really don't, because a lotof the like a normal house, even
in San Diego, are renting forlike four thousand dollars and
over just for like a normalhouse house where it's like I
look at zillow and other placesand you can get a normal house
still for like two to threethousand dollars or whatever.
And it's just so crazy becauseit's like I don't know just, and
(19:57):
it's not like people's salarieshave tripled.
You know, we're still dealingwith the same salaries or no
salaries at all, because of thejob market.
It's just so crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh yeah, and you know , the thing is is that when you
have that many people who losttheir homes, you already run a
risk of not being able to findsome in the first place, and now
on top of that is the pricegouging, so it's kind of like
they're being traumatized twice.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yep, exactly so we'll see.
But right now we're in ourlittle one bedroom apartment.
I was like great, another yearof this kind of stuff, because
it's just crazy where it's likeyou look for places like around
here in Los Angeles and I'm justnot willing to pay like thirty
eight hundred dollars a monthfor like no sink or you know,
(20:39):
it's just so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's true, that is true.
Well, we'll definitely pray forthem.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, that's why I'm moonlighting.
It's a planter's peanut.
There you go, and every night,from 1 am to 7 am, I just drive
the peanut truck around.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
There you go, there you go.
Well, we're going to talk aboutsomething that's been on
everyone's mind for a long time.
This is nuts.
Tiktok went dark and then thevery next day it's back up.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
One of the best internet things that ever
happened in history.
I think Like the funniest thing.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, I mean, when it went down, it went down early,
it went down.
For me it was like around 8 or9 o'clock, it wasn't even a
minute.
So I'm like, okay, well, hereit is, we'll see what happens,
yeah, and then hours later, likeearly the next day, it's back.
So it's like, okay, what?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
was this.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know what I mean.
What was this really about?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
This was the most like us american 2025 thing to
happen where it was.
I mean, I have so many thoughtson this.
I guess the first was, like Ilove tiktok.
It's my favorite app.
I really felt like um, but daysleading up to it, I found
myself getting, probably like alot of people, very, very
emotional.
Not just because of like,obviously, I think the tiktok,
if you really, if the tiktokpeople know like a lot of us got
on it during the pandemic whenwe were feeling isolated and
(22:08):
really lonely, and that's why Ithink, one of the big reasons
why we imprinted on it so muchlike, not also just because it's
so funny and it's definitelydifferent than any other app
I've ever used, and it's kind ofreplaced like TV at night for
me, like I'd rather just scrolland I just.
But then, a few days leading upto it, it began to feel like we
were leaving a school or justlike all the people that you
(22:29):
love through parasocialrelationships were all saying
goodbye, and it was like very, Idon't know.
We've never had to deal withsomething before.
We're saying goodbye to likeonline sounds and things and so
on.
Uh, whatever night that was, Iwas at the gym and I just
started thinking about like how,how am I going to find new
music and how and I know it'ssilly, I know there's other ways
but I just started thinkingabout all the good that TikTok
has brought in.
(22:49):
And I came home and I opened upthe door and I just started
like sobbing, crying to myboyfriend and he was like what
the heck is happening.
And I was like crying aboutTikTok and then he was like I
promise it's going to be up inlike a month.
He's like just give it a month.
And then later I went to bedcrying and then I woke up and I
was like TikTok's back.
But I really like it's veryemotional, like having people
(23:12):
that you love, even if it'sonline, or just like perceived
community, like everyone wassaying goodbye and it was a
really like helpless, weirdfeeling.
I know that sounds insane topeople that don't use TikTok,
but like like I don't know aboutyou, but tomorrow Facebook or
Instagram could go away.
And like, besides promotingshows and this, you know, like I
wouldn't care that much, like Icould get over that, but for
(23:32):
some reason this app is like sospecial.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, and you know what?
You're right.
When we had the pandemic yearsago, that's when social media
really exploded because everyonewas at home.
And social media reallyexploded because everyone was at
home.
And you know, the other thingthat's crazy is it also shows,
too, why diversification is soimportant.
Um, because if you have contenton multiple platforms, it
(23:55):
doesn't hit you as much becauseyou're still out there.
But if 90% or more what you dois on one platform and that
platform goes down, it's likeyou lost all the years of work
that you put into it.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, definitely, and all these people that were
making money off of TikTok shop.
I felt so bad for people thathad really I mean, I haven't
really used TikTok that much asa creator.
I definitely want to now alittle bit more than I know it's
here for a little bit, you know, but like, just as a viewer and
all these, I started getting soemotional, thinking about all
the musicians that like arediscovered that way, because, as
(24:30):
much as I want to say, I wouldgo on Spotify and like, search
for it, or I'm not going to findthem through Instagram and I
just think about how many peoplehad like, their sounds used or
you know like, or even justartists, like pottery artists or
different drawers.
I feel like it really justmakes such a difference in
people's lives and like, I don'tknow even stuff like, like,
like going to Iceland or likeplaces that I want to go to,
(24:53):
like.
I feel like I discovered thatall through TikTok and I just
feel like it.
I don't know it's.
I understand how like insane itsounds, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, and you know the thing is is that TikTok has
a very, very unique algorithmthat cannot, for whatever reason
, cannot, be copied by otherplatforms.
No, so a lot of people make alot of money off TikTok, a lot
of people get discovered onTikTok, and you know there are
people that have left their nineto five job and literally their
(25:23):
job, their whole thing isTikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, yep, yep.
And it was so funny with peoplesobbing, like I wasn't crying
but on camera, and like peoplegiving away their secrets of
being like, okay, you know,since we're about to go dark,
this is what I want to tell you.
And then they give away theseand then, like the next morning,
they're like this is awkward.
The next morning, they're likethis is awkward, so, and then
(25:49):
also, like I was watching videosof people announcing, like they
were at public spaces, like themall, and like someone was
recording himself being likeexcuse me, tiktok is back.
And like people clapping andlike that's why I just have yet
to find.
Like people being so funny andnice on the same platforms, like
I don't know about you, butInstagram is really musty and
dusty to me.
Now I feel like I post stuffand then I watch my friends
(26:09):
watch it and no one reallyinteracts and it's making me
annoyed at my community.
So I feel like I'm definitelygoing to be focusing more on
TikTok.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, I mean for whatever reason.
I don't know if the youngergeneration is born knowing this
stuff, but for whatever reason,the younger generation has zero
problem exploding on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I mean, I've watched my son and his friends and stuff
.
You know, start a page andshoot up to 10, 20, 50,000
followers.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm fighting just for my couple thousand, you know Me
too.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I think I was like one.
I'm like this is the best appever and I have like 150
followers.
I feel like they need to coach.
We need to like hire them asconsultants.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And they make it so easy.
That's what's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, I think that's the thing too is like I haven't
really immersed myself in it,because even though, like, I
feel so talkative but I don'treally know like exactly what I
would talk about on TikTok yet,but I've heard people just say
like just film, like a dailydiary, and even if no one, you
know, you just have to beconsistent and keep, keep going.
Um, oh, and I was gonna ask didyou think about?
(27:18):
Because I know there was likered note, they were saying other
apps, but I just I needed, Ineeded.
At first I was like okay, thisis gonna be a good mental health
cleanse to not have tiktok forlike a few months, and then the
next minute I'm like I'mscrolling.
Did you go to red note?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
at all.
You know what?
I didn't go to red note andthen, there's this thing called
lemon eight, that's yeah, yeah,I've heard of that and I was
just a little leery.
I was like you, you know what?
Let me just see what happensfirst.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, because you know.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Lemonade, I believe, and Red Note are both owned by
the same people who are onTikTok.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
For sure, yeah, and like I signed up for Red Note.
But then I also heard that likefor Americans it's really funny
, but they're like, if you'relike like kind of chubby like
they're, they're just like eatsome vegetable, you know, in a
very funny way, but like a fewpeople that I saw went on red
note and then the people on rednote were drawing them and like
giving them like huge chins andI'm like I just can't, with
(28:13):
tiktok going away, I just can'ttake this.
And then I also heard that theywere asking us and people were
really nice on red note, I heardbut they were asking, um, do do
Americans really have to payfor an ambulance, or is that
just propaganda?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Wow, really.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah.
So I feel like when I feel likea little more mentally stable,
it might that might be somethingjust to like also go on and
just kind of you know, dip a toein and see.
But I didn't want to like putmy eggs in that basket and try
to like pretend like somethingwasn't happening.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, that's true, and little do they know.
Yes, in america ambulance youpay for.
You pay for everything here.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So yeah, oh yeah.
And also a shout out to myboyfriend, jack, who was so
sweet, who, like, after I camehome crying, he tried to switch
my vpn to canada, so that, uh,it still didn't work, but it was
like so sweet that I feel likea lot of people's because I saw
on tikt, tiktok a lot of likewomen's husbands were kind of
like you're being overdramatic,I don't get it, or whatever.
But he was like he got it.
(29:11):
He was like no, no, no, we'restill going to have TikTok, no
matter what.
Oh, that's so sweet, it wasvery sweet.
It's like I feel like you'recrying over to have someone feel
like they take it seriously andyou know try to take action.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
That is so true.
You know he's a good man.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yes, I love him.
Okay, yeah, so sorry, that islike my you touched upon, like
my favorite passion, which isTikTok.
Oh, okay, I was going to askyou is for you.
Do you think that it was likesome big ploy from our new
president to kind of like appear, as you know, like the daddy
that grants us all our wish, orlike what do you think about
(29:51):
that?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I think this whole thing has gotten politicized.
I do think that there was somereal reasons behind it, because,
again, republicans andDemocrats do not get along for
anything.
Because again, republicans andDemocrats do not get along for
anything they don't you know.
And then something triggeredthem to unanimously bipartisan
to get them off the air or havethem sold.
So now it's like well, you knowwhat Trump's in office, we're
(30:16):
not going to worry about that,we're going to bring you back.
And the problem is, it kind ofmakes people wonder well, was
there really a problem or wasthis just a ploy from the
beginning?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Right, Like did they know it was?
Because I've heard some peoplesay that it was dark for the
night so they could liketransfer it to meta and now,
like Zuckerberg is going to ownit, I don't, I don't really know
, who knows.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I've heard that too, but no, I mean, tiktok is
so valuable, I can't see thathappening.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Me neither, and I know some people were feeling
like their algorithms werechanged or they weren't seeing
news.
But like mine is back up,exactly normal.
I don't know.
Like I don't feel like it'sdifferent Because I saw on
TikTok some people were sayinglike it feels like my spy isn't
Chinese anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
The crazy thing about it is on all the platforms,
every so often they do changealgorithms.
You can tell when you'reposting stuff and as you're
posting, you can tell whenalgorithms start changing.
The thing is.
It's so crazy, is it's like afull-time job trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, I know, I know, Was that yours or mine?
I'm so okay, I'm so talkativeabout that.
I feel like I could do a TEDtalk on and it's so funny
because, like I was so emotionalabout TikTok but then I'm like
I made no money from it.
I have a hundred followers butthat is definitely a sign that
like hopefully, if we know it'shere to stay, I want to focus
(31:44):
more energy on that and likejust you know, being more in the
game rather than just likelurking on pages.
Sometimes, I see people likecommenting on everything and
maybe it's just our age, butlike I'm not used to just
commenting on stuff of people Idon't know, you know, but I
think like maybe younger I betyour son now it's just like they
(32:05):
treat everyone like they'rejust like one big family or
community, you know yeah, I knowwhen you, when you comment,
follow people and all this, itplays into the algorithms.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, so that's probably why a lot of the youth
do that, where they comment oneveryone's stuff because it does
play into the algorithmstotally.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Oh, and the last thing I was gonna say, which is
so funny if anyone hasn't heardthis, it's worth looking it up.
Um, I don't know if you saw,but just like a funny man
pretended that he was the ceo ofred note and I don't know if
you saw this news.
I should have picked this as mystory, maybe next week if it's
not too late.
But like, um, this really funnyguy, I think he was in can in
Canada, but he came on Red Noteand he was like wearing a hat
(32:45):
and looked really official andhe was like hello, as the CEO of
Red Note, I would just like towelcome everyone and, like all
the Americans thought it wastrue and they're like hello, ceo
.
And then they woke up the nextmorning and his girlfriend was
like why are you on the news asthe CEO of Red Note?
I'll send you that storybecause it's worth reposting and
(33:06):
just seeing it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh, absolutely.
You know what that proves?
That you should always try toverify stuff and not just fall
for it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Exactly and he had to apologize.
And he was like I'm sorry, wegot a little drunk last night
and I pretended and people werecommenting like no, you look
like a CEO, we believe you.
Nice Like we believe you, nice.
It was very funny, well, heyyou got a viral video out of it,
right, yeah, okay, moving on,sorry, this Okay.
(33:36):
So this combines a lot of thestuff we've already talked about
, which is like AI and scammingand everything.
So a woman in Australia wasjust scammed out of over a
hundred thousand dollars aftershe fell for a ai generated scam
involving none other than bradpitt.
So, uh, the scammer used deepfake technology to create
realistic images of brad andthen engaged a woman in like a
(33:56):
personal relationship.
He reached out to her and, ofcourse, did the whole like I, I
need a woman like you, you're sobeautiful, you know kind of
preyed upon her.
And then, not only this, shedivorced her husband, thinking
that she was truly leaving himfor Brad Pitt, and then she
transferred over $100,000 to thescammer through like a third
(34:18):
party app that she thought wasto help him.
She thought that, basically,like the Brad Pitt was in the
hospital and needed help andreally it was just like someone
manipulating her.
So they ended up getting caught.
I think.
I don't know the story did notyeah, so I think they caught
them.
But, yeah, I mean number one islike I'm sorry everyone, but
(34:43):
it's not really Brad Pitt orKeanu Reeves Like they're never
going to message you.
No, you know, and that'sanother thing that people just
have to be wary of is like thechances of a celebrity.
Unless you're on like an applike Raya or something where
it's like you are matching withcelebrities, they're never, ever
, ever going to message you.
(35:06):
And here's the crazy thing.
Isn't Brad Pitt worth?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
like a few hundred million dollars, yeah.
So why would he need that?
Excuse me, yeah.
I mean, if he's worth I don'tknow, I think it's somewhere
between $100 and $300 million,somewhere in that range why
would he need your money?
Just saying you know, and youknow it's a shame, and I get it.
People look for love, you getlonely, you want someone, and I
totally get it.
(35:29):
But that common sense thing gotto kick in at some point though
.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I know.
Imagine the husband too, thegloating or just the retribution
that you get after your spouseleaves you, and it's for a
pretend.
Now you're really left withnothing.
It's crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You know, I got to be honest with you.
I think the husband dodged abullet because she showed her
true colors.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah, yep, yep and poor judgment and just like,
yeah, that's kind of insane,especially of like all
celebrities too.
I can see if it was someonethat hasn't worked in a million
years or like a, you know, paulyShore or someone like that.
Where I'm like okay maybethey're reaching out to me, who
knows?
But it's like you always haveto meet someone in person, at
(36:19):
least.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And you know?
Here's the thing Brad Pitt isan A-lister, and if Brad Pitt
was in the hospital, it would beall over the news.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
So I don't know.
I mean, it still amazes me thatpeople still get suckered into
these, these love scams.
I guess people call them, youknow.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, I was listening to a few different things and I
guess there's like Now it'slike obviously there's AI deep
fakes, but then there's alsolike just pure using someone,
like catfishing, using someone'sactual photo like.
I know that happened to um, apodcast that I like the vile
files, which, like nick vial,who's a former bachelor guy and
he's a good podcaster, but hehas a he had a story like that
(37:02):
where a woman truly thought shewas dating him and then flew to
his house and showed up at hisdoor and so he answered the door
and his girlfriend was in hishouse with him and he answered
the door and this poor woman waslike hi, are we really dating
or not?
You know, she was so confusedand he talks about how she was
like really nice and normal.
But he was telling her like,like, even if you're normal, you
(37:23):
have to admit this is a littlebit crazy, thinking that you're
dating like a public figure.
But I think she was so confusedthat she she just needed an
answer.
So she drove to his house andthen found where he lived and to
me that's just very scary forlike sad for her.
But then could you imagine justopening the door and seeing
someone that they were convincedthat they were like dating you
(37:44):
yeah, that would be very, veryscary isn't it?
it's really terrifying.
Like lucky for him.
She seemed like a somewhatnormalish human being where she
was able to like be sad but moveon.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
But many people aren't are very unhinged but you
know, I've heard of these scamsgoing on before.
They've been going on for along time, but to be scammed by
someone pretending to be alister is probably a new one for
me yeah, every now and thenthey'll through instagram like
(38:14):
I'll get like an account whereit's like keanu reeves 36222 and
it's like hello.
You know, I'm like oh my goshyeah, um, like I said, as far as
the husband, I'm so glad he gotout of that relationship
because, yeah, she showed hertrue colors yeah, and I wonder I
don't know this either.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I wonder if she will be recovering her money back,
like I almost feel like sheshould pay some like a 20 grand
penalty for being stupid yeah,that's, that's true.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
But you know the crazy thing?
I would love to interview herex-husband, because I'm quite
sure he is laughing his ass offright now.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Oh yeah, yep, totally , and I think even Brad Pitt
knows about this too.
It got to Brad, and I think heeven is aware of the situation.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Did he comment on it?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I think, if anything, he probably just gave some like
very PR-type response.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I bet he was like yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
That wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
No, talk about crazy stuff.
This story right here isactually starting to go viral.
There are big box stores nowthat are locking up everything,
and I'm not talking, you know,your high dollar items.
To give you an example, I wentto go visit my son last year and
(39:38):
he lives in a different stateand I went into a store.
I want to say it was want tosay was Target, I think it was,
and I have never seen soaplocked up before.
I mean it was like, I meanstuff like that, real, yeah,
really.
I've never seen it before.
It was nuts, I mean.
(39:59):
I've seen other stuff, but solotion, toothpaste, yeah, yeah,
I'm like seriously, yeah.
And now Walgreens CEO his nameis Tim Wentworth has stated that
it's actually backfiring onthem locking stuff up now
they're actually losing money.
It's actually backfiring onthem locking stuff up now
(40:22):
they're actually losing money.
And I can see it because, ifyou think about it, when you go
in there first you have to ringthe bell.
Then you got to wait a fewminutes, sometimes even up to 10
minutes, for someone to show upjust to open up the stupid case
and get what you need.
And you know, sometimes you mayfigure, I know for me.
I'm like you know what, I'lljust go to a different store.
(40:42):
They're just serious Right, yeah, yeah.
Have you experienced littleinexpensive stuff being locked
up like that before?
Oh my, gosh.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yes, luckily, where I live in Los Angeles, in CVS and
Target it's pretty much how yousaid, with just more of the
bigger items, like the teethwhitening strips or more of the
higher dollar ones, but inHollywood and more of the higher
dollar ones but in likehollywood and more of like the
central la.
It is same thing toothpaste,deodorant, um, and and I and
it's in cbs's and like I,walmart's and it's just I will
(41:12):
not.
It's such a pain for like thethe store attendance and that's
a pain to wait for someone andto me it's like such an eyesore
that I would really rather justexactly like shop at another
grocery store, order on amazonand it makes you i't know.
It's just one of those thingswhere it's like we have to stop
at the beginning of like whypeople are doing this and like
not make it.
(41:32):
I don't know Once again, I feellike the penalty should be more
for that, so that people don'tdo it like educating people from
the beginning that you don'thave to steal, plus making it
more affordable so that peopleare able to like access soap and
toothpaste if they need to andyou know they don't have to
steal those types of things butwhat's so crazy about it is the
(41:56):
security measure costs more thanjust leaving it open yeah yeah,
exactly, and just dealing withsome of the theft.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I know we shouldn't be laughing at it, but it's kind
of crazy.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
It is, and I know two people don't want.
If a CVS person comes over andI'm still like thinking about
what deodorant I want, like it'sjust, it's like annoying for
everyone, for them to have towaste their time and for me to
have to do that.
It's like we should be able tolike look in the aisles and
choose what we want.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Oh yeah, because you know when they come to open it
they're not really happy.
No, no.
And then when you open it upand you don't know what you want
, they play it off.
But you can see on their facelike, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
We should have a society where people are able to
contain themselves and go intoa store without taking things.
You know, but you know what italso shows too is when you want
to implement something, startoff with a small piece of the
market first, before you make itcompany wide.
Yeah, Because they probablycould have figured out like okay
, if we lock this up, we'regoing to lose this much business
, which is way more than what wewould have lost if we just
(43:04):
didn't do anything at all.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Right, right, I think I also just it was so funny
because I was like what if welived in a society where
everyone got like a month oflike you know, $50 worth of like
toothpaste?
And then I'm like, wait, nowI'm describing like a socialist
country, now I'm describing likeI'm like where they give us
things.
I'm like, okay, I don't want tomove myself to like the middle
of Russia or something, but yeah, I think it's a factor of
(43:28):
people like learning at a youngage not to do that and a higher
penalty and having these thingspeople being able to like get
toothpaste with abundance sothey don't have to steal it.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
I mean, you know when someone to me is stealing soap
and toothpaste and I could bewrong.
I think that's more of a need.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
It's different than if someone come in and they try
to steal, let's say, a small TVor, let's say, a power tool or
something like that, which isvery expensive.
I think those are two differentthings, definitely.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
No, me too, and I wish there was a mixture.
I don't know if food banks, orI wish there's places that Maybe
there are, there might also bewhere people could easily go in
and say, hey, we're out oftoothpaste or we're out of
whatever.
And to me, if we needed to gettaxed an extra $5 a month or
something like that to have thathappen, I would be way happy
for that.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Oh sure, something like that.
To have that happen, I would belike way happy for that.
Oh sure, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
But uh, yeah, something tells me that um,
locking up inexpensive itemslike that's gonna probably go
away pretty soon.
Yeah, good, good, I will behappily reaching for toothpaste
without having to lock it, um,okay, oh, this next one is kind
of weird.
But so we mentioned Bachelorbefore.
Now this Bachelor couple, mattJames and Rachel Kirk Connell,
broke up.
I thought they were actuallyreally cute.
I think Rachel's like so prettyand I thought they just seemed
(44:54):
like a very happy couple.
I think a lot of people wereexpecting them to announce an
engagement, but instead MattJames posted a very bizarre
Instagram post.
It was like cryptic, sayingthat they like you know very
biblical as well, saying likeheal our hearts.
And it was just like kind of aweird cringy slash, confusing
(45:16):
picture of them when they firstmet at the bachelor and then
basically just saying like giveus the strength to get over our
heartbreak.
And so people were reallyconfused because they like had
just posted together um, a fewhours before, but I think a lot
of people were saying that theylike batch content and you know
that might it was a trip fromlondon and they that trip may
have been like a few weeks ago,um, but then rachel's sister
(45:40):
trinity was commenting on somefan comments saying like, yeah,
he posted that three hours afterthey broke up, and so they.
You know, the paint wasn't evendry, as they said, and he was
already commenting, and thatRachel was left blindsided,
blindsided.
To me, one of my favorite, oneof my things about those two is
that, like they, they posted alot of like food content.
(46:02):
You know they would go todifferent restaurants and try it
, and to me it's like they'reboth so thin and healthy that it
kind of made me like feel badalmost, because it's like seeing
people eat like pizza andburgers and I'm just like how
did they stay so fit?
So I'm glad I'll be able toknow the, the behind the scenes
of like how they're able to eatat like 8,000 different places
and like not gain a pound.
But that's a side thing, um,anyway, I thought basically the
(46:26):
the conversation was like do youneed both parties to post an
instagram post?
And like, how soon is too soon,you know, before you break up
to post something?
Speaker 1 (46:38):
you know, there are people that put every ounce of
their life on social media and Ithink it's for some people it's
literally their life.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
And I don't know.
I mean, I got my own thoughtswhen it comes to the Bachelor
and Bachelorettes and all that.
Yeah, you kind of wonder howmuch of that is real versus how
much of that is, you know, forHollywood, as they say, because
let's face it in the real world,that's not how you find your
better half.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, exactly, and these people really like almost
Matt James has almost turnedinto like a food influencer,
because I don't know if you'refamiliar with his content, but
he posts like so much at likethe best thing we ate at you
know, in Canada, the best thingwe ate here and there, like, I
feel like so much of his contentis food now.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, and you know that's, that's fine.
But I don't know.
I mean, you just kind of makeit.
Now.
When they came out with the,with the golden bachelor, I had
to hire hosts.
I'm thinking, ok, they're older, they know what they want in
life.
Maybe this one would be alittle bit real.
And then you know, of coursethat didn't work out either.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
Yeah, that was like almost one of the fastest
breakups, you know, of coursethat didn't work out either.
Yeah, that was like almost oneof the fastest breakups.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
That's true.
So I don't know.
I mean, it makes good TV, but Idon't think you should use that
as a guide to finding yourperfect match, you know.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah, and it's strange too that, like I mean, I
guess when we watch people'srelationships, we have the sense
of like being owed to know whythey broke up, because a lot of
this story too, people were likespeculating that basically
rachel gave matt an ultimatumand wanted to get engaged, and
it was pretty much like we'reeither going to get engaged by
like the new year or I'm leavingand I guess, like he didn't do
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anything, but that's also Idon't know if I need to know,
like in the first 24 hours, whyexactly people broke up yeah,
and I and I know that they werea little irritated about people
constantly asking.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
But here's the reality when you put your
relationship um real or fake,however you want to call it and
you put it for the whole worldto see every step of the way,
when it goes south.
Yeah, they're gonna still wantto know what's going on, yeah,
yeah, exactly so it's a littlebit too late to go.
Well, that's private, no right?
Speaker 2 (48:56):
and I think people are shocked when couples like
this break up, who are likeconstantly posting.
But I'm like I think a lot ofpeople also just end up getting
more of like a business typerelationship where it's like,
okay, they have obligations tofilm at these like 10
restaurants and you know, it'salmost like it just becomes.
We're shocked but we, we don't.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
We never know what goes on the rest of the time oh
yeah, and you know, a lot oftimes too, in fact all the times
, you know, when it's airedthey've already taped this, you
know, probably months ago.
Yeah, so obviously they're, youknow, been threatened with all
kinds of nba's and everythingthat they can.
Yeah, and the funny thing is,if they're not together, whoever
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they pick, they have to kind ofkeep a low pro.
They can't really see anyonebecause they can't do anything
that's going to give away endingto what's happening in their
relationship.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
But I feel like for now, rachel was the real winner,
because what you want to do iswhat happened, where it's like
you want your boyfriend to postsuch an embarrassing caption
that the whole internet roastshim, and then he actually had to
turn the comments off becausepeople were like hating on his
post so much.
So I feel like if that was me,that would give me the slight
vindication of like okay, I maybe heartbroken, but he looks
like an idiot.
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Every, every petty win is stilla win there you go.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Well, I tell you we're going to end up something
Really really funny Inprofessional tennis.
It's a woman, her name isDanielle Collins, and she was at
the Australian Open and I guessthey wasn't really happy with
her.
She won the match, but she wasbooed by the fans there, so she
decided to have a little fun.
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I guess they wasn't reallyhappy with her.
She won the match, but she wasbooed by the fans there, so she
decided to have a little fun.
So she was just kind of likelaughing at him, whatever she
did, like this, and touched herbutt.
I'm like wow, okay, and youknow, on the podium she was
telling him well, you know, blah, blah, blah.
If you don't like it, you cankiss my.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
I say this and I'm like wow yeah, I don't know, you
think she went a little too far.
You think that was kind of fun.
Well, it's so funny becausewhen we were talking about the
alaska airlines woman thattwerked, I was like I feel like
I could picture that tennisplayer like like she kind of did
that version of like nottwerking, but she definitely did
like a kiss, my booty typemotion.
Um, I thought I don't know.
I think like we've seen tennisplayers that are men have such
like bad tempers and throw theirrackets and be, you know, such
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hot heads that I feel like evenif a woman is kind of acting a
little bit smug and, like youknow, bold, I think to me it's
fine and it's like it's a littlebit ridiculous.
But to me it's like about timewe see a woman acting up a
little bit.
So I'm okay with it.
I'm okay with it, I think.
I think if any of us were underthe pressure of playing nonstop
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and having a whole stadiumbooing you, who knows how any of
us would react and you knowwhat?
Speaker 1 (51:46):
I think she took control of the situation because
by her kind of mocking the fansthat were booing her, she
actually took control of thesituation because, yeah, by her
kind of mocking the fans thatwere booing her, she actually
took control of the situationright, which probably enraged
them even more.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Yeah exactly because it's like, what do you want her
to do?
Just like slink away and takeit.
I don't know why.
When do you know like, werethey just booing her because she
was playing against, like, whothey love, or because she's okay
?
Speaker 1 (52:14):
She beat the hometown person you know.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Well, it's like.
I mean I think that happens allthe time in baseball, where
people are so crazy and loudagainst their team you know what
I mean that you almost have tojust A get used to it.
But I feel like a lot ofbaseball guys, like if they hit
a home run, they'll say it tothe crowd.
You know what's up, or you know.
That happens all the time withfootball players and baseball.
So I think it's funny.
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It makes her look a little bitlike bratty, but I think I'm
fine, I'm cool with it.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
You know, the thing is, I love the fact that she
owned it because you know,instead of her being hurt by it,
you know, maybe gettingemotional, she's like you know
what go F yourself Exactly.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
That's basically what she did, in a nice way you know
, yeah, I think a lot ofbaseball players will do.
Yeah, I think of a lot seeingright now where it's like the
whole crowd is booing them ifit's an away game and they'll
kind of, like you know, tauntthe crowd a little bit.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
I mean, you know what .
It reminds me of the last gameof the season, when the Bears
beat.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Green.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Bay.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
And they did the Lambo leap, oh my gosh.
And the fans were goingballistic.
They were angry Ah, you know,because they beat their home
team and then they're trying toLambo leap into there, so it was
actually kind of cool.
I kind of loved it.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Yeah, and don't you think sometimes touchdown,
touchdown dances will have alittle bit of flair sometimes,
where it's like what you know?
Speaker 1 (53:38):
I think it's different sometimes when there's
teams versus one individual,and especially when it's a woman
, but I think it's funny, ohyeah, now one thing I have to
admit when I see itchoreographed because I've seen
touchdowns when they have atouchdown where they'll get
together and they have likethese little dance routines,
like really Seriously, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
I think that must be such good mental conditioning
too as like an athlete, to haveto go in and visualize yourself
winning against like a wholestadium wanting you to go down.
If you're in the right mindsetit probably helps like fuel you,
if it's not going to crush you,true.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
That's true.
That's true, but that was coolwhen they did the Lambeau League
.
They're pushing them down.
I'm like, wow, y'all just goingto rub it in huh.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
The Green Bay fans are like ha.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
They were angry.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Oh my god, that's funny and also like in this
instance too, there's nothingmore weird than like a bunch of
rich angry tennis people LikeI'm like ew, I don't know, it's
a weird scene and you know thefunny thing about it is,
Danielle made a comment.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
She's like you know what?
I think I'm gonna enjoy my$300,000 at a gym.
Yeah, she's really sticking itto them.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
Yeah, good for her though, but she's probably just
like I think, sometimes at thetop, like how the Williams
sisters has some of that kind ofbravado.
I think it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Yeah, yeah.
And you know the thing is, Iwonder how the Williams sisters
would have been received if theydid that, because you know,
when they first started off, youknow there were a lot of people
that were making some horriblecomments about them and stuff
like that.
Yeah, and you know it waspretty miserable when they first
started, you know.
Yes, but luckily it got better.
But, um, I tipped my head offto daniel.
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I was like you know what?
Speaker 2 (55:22):
yeah, I want to do this, okay exactly remember like
uh, that's way better thanremember like a few months ago
we talked about, there was atennis player who was really
bratty towards her ball.
Was it a man or a woman?
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Oh, yes, remember that.
I remember that was a femaletennis player, but I don't
remember her name.
Speaker 2 (55:40):
Yeah, me neither.
But like I would rather thatbehavior, the other behavior,
danielle's behavior, thansomeone being like such a bitch.
You know part of my but like tome.
Like that, that's disrespectful.
If you're disrespectful aboutthe ball, people and the game,
this to me was silly andfrivolous.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
Oh yeah, definitely it wasn't directed at any one
person either.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
This was one heck of a day.
Hey, you know what?
Before we go, did you watch anyof the inauguration today?
Speaker 2 (56:13):
I did, I definitely did.
I had a mixture of emotions.
Yeah, all I say is I hope forthe best for all of us.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Yeah, I look at it like this Whether you voted,
voted for him or not, whetheryou like him or not um,
obviously you want yourpresident to do well, because if
your president fails, thecountry fails yeah regardless of
whether they're democratic orrepublican.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
So definitely I also like.
My one thing, too, to me isthat, like I feel very welcoming
about if to me especially oflike, if anyone feels like they
have a different gender or adifferent like I just I hope
trans people are protectedduring this time and I think you
know, like to me, thatsituation gets very murky when
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it's like you're denying peopleof who they feel like they are.
and you know, like I'm notsomeone, that I don't feel like
we need to all have our pronounslike stapled onto our forehead
or anything, but I feel likeeveryone should feel safe to
express who they are inside andno matter what.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
So yeah, Well, the reality is, Merle is.
To me, discrimination in anyform is wrong.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Exactly, yeah, totally.
So that that was weird.
I can see if you're a transperson like feeling very erased
today and I think that that'snot right.
But I think we'll have to waitand see and then it will take
people to advocate for what'sabout to happen.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
That is true.
We definitely have to pray.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
Yeah, the one thing too.
I didn't know, as a kind ofsomewhat conspiracy person like
me, did you see that he's goingto release the JFK?
I mean, who knows how much ofit is actually going to be
released?
But I saw when the babbling wasthat he said that he was going
to release the files on whathappened to JFK and Really.
Yeah, yeah.
(58:02):
So I mean, who knows, who knows?
But a lot of the class,Supposedly a lot of the
classified government stuff isgoing to be blown wide open.
But know, I'm sure like there'sstill some element of like,
then everyone's like okay, thenthat's.
Is that going to be the epsteincase too?
Speaker 1 (58:17):
you know so yeah, I kind of wondered because of the
fact that, even if they releaseit, is it going to be redacted?
Because exactly you've seenforms that's been released and
like 80 of it is all blacked out, so you kind of really don't
see it anyway, yeah, yeah, yeahyeah.
So it'll be interesting to seehow much of it is actually truly
(58:39):
open to the public to see.
Speaker 2 (58:41):
Yes, exactly.
So, yep, that was.
That was the only part that Isaw about.
You know, if I felt like, if,if I was a non-binary person or
whatever, or someone that felt amixture of whatever, I would
feel.
And I feel that way for themtoo, because it's like, okay, we
can target that group of people, but then, even if it doesn't
affect you, it does because itcan easily we've seen many ways
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it can easily get to your owngroup.
Speaker 1 (59:06):
So it's important to be safe.
Well, Meryl, what do you havecoming up?
Speaker 2 (59:12):
Oh my gosh, I have so much I have.
Um, let's see the next show.
Oh, for people, actually I'mdoing I'm on a really great
comedy show.
Um, that's all.
The proceeds are going tobenefit the la wildfire.
Uh, like the firefighters andstuff.
So that is near the santabarbara area on saturday.
So it's in Ventura and, ifanyone, I forget exactly where
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it is.
Speaker 1 (59:33):
I think it's at a winery, but people can just
check my Instagram Perfectperfect, and so is there a link
they go to or everything is onyour.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
Everything's on my Instagram.
I think they just like you canjust show up.
It's not like a winery, butit's actually with like really
good people.
I'm really excited for the whoI'm performing with.
They're really really reallyfunny.
So, and actually one of theperformers is a full-time
airline attendant, and so he andhe's a wonderful comedian too,
a guy named Howard, but he'slike famous in the airline world
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because everyone loves him somuch and he's so funny, so it's
really cool.
Nice, nice, we'll definitelydefinitely make sure that people
know about that.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Well, everyone, this was another great episode.
Um, as you may or may not beaware, we're on LRTV network
streaming channel and also wehave our own podcast.
Thirsty Topics and new episodesare posted every Wednesday,
thursday, depending on whichplatform, because I'm on all the
(01:00:38):
major platforms, so make surethat you tune in and listen to
us or watch us and follow us.
I had a great time.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
I'm Meryl Clemo.
I also had a great time.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
And don't forget to make sure you check out Meryl.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Yay, aw, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Have a great day everyone.
Bye.
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):
Meryl, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm really good.
Honestly, I was looking forwardto doing this.
Like all day, there's anabundance of news for us and
just goodies, so I was soexcited to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You know as crazy as this sounds, I had a hard time
picking my topics because it wasso much to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, there, there really really was.
Yeah, they're, they're beyond,was, but, um, yeah, I'm other
than that, I'm really good.
Much better actually than lastweek, when we talked the fires
were still out of control andnow, in la, like fingers crossed
, they're a little bit better,um, as of now, you know, I mean,
obviously there's like citiesthat are ruined here in in la,
but for but for.
(01:05):
Right now we've had a couple ofdays that have remained
somewhat calm.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So do they have a certain percentage contained
right now?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, like the one by me.
I think I checked was 87 percent, which is obviously very good,
that's the Eaton Fire one, I'mnot sure about the Palisades one
, but of course, as like the waythe world would have it it,
tonight the wind is starting topick up and it's like getting
Very windy here again, sohopefully that will like lead to
nothing.
But but yeah, we're having,we're all having like Deja vu
here, where even just as ILogged on, I had friends text me
(01:35):
like I'm Getting scared aboutthe wind.
But I think it will be fine.
At this point I feel likeeveryone Is just like aliens.
Wind, whatever you want to do,just bring it on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh yes.
Well, I tell you we got a lotto talk about here.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, do you want to go first?
I feel like we'll switch it up.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You know what I'm going to start off, and this was
actually kind of a funny one alittle bit.
There was a flight attendantwho actually works for Alaskan
Airlines.
There was a flight attendantwho actually works for Alaskan
Airlines.
So you know, obviously, pilotsand flight attendants, you know
they have downtime in betweenflights.
So what she did, she recordedherself twerking, which was kind
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of cute.
But you know, I always warnpeople about doing stuff on the
job.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So she literally just got done completing her
six-month probation.
So once she did a video abouttwerking, it went viral and she
was fired immediately.
Oh, I don't know.
What do you think, Meryl?
Do you think that they were alittle bit too hard on her, or
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I definitely think so .
She wasn't twerking insomeone's face, right?
It was just.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, the plane was empty.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Okay, yeah, then I absolutely think that's way too
strict.
I think if she was twerkingwhile an older man was sitting
in a seat and just asking forhis trail mix and she was
twerking in his face, that mightbe grounds for at least a
write-up.
But I feel like just doing itfor fun is funny and I feel like
if that was Southwest or SpiritAirlines or another airlines
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where they have a little bitmore of a sense of humor, that
would just be part of the.
They would put that on theirTikTok.
So no, I feel like to fire heris absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
If anything, I think giving a warning or would be
appropriate yeah, I mean I don'tagree with her doing it at work
, because I always say becareful about doing stuff at the
job.
Yeah, I do think that thefiring was a little bit on the
excessive side, you knowdefinitely and like I don't know
, to me, twerking is kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It doesn't have to be something that's inappropriate.
It's almost like a silly thing,and I feel like we are now,
thanks to tiktok and all thosethings, that we're kind of in
this like dance economy, where,you know, people are just
busting out moves sometimes andso it doesn't always have to be
that serious.
It could just be someone likedoing a little move here and
there and you know the way shewas twerking.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know it was kind of like a mild twerk where she
was just kind of shaking herbody a little bit.
It wasn't anything over the top.
Um right, because I've seentwerking where I mean they
really go into it.
She didn't do any of it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know, yeah, it's silly exactly, exactly.
I have to wonder if maybe therewas like some other things that
made her overall like some typeof not exemplary employee and
they were kind of like usingthis as like, oh okay, this was
the final straw, you know, whoknows.
But um, I I think a warningwould be just fine and what's so
crazy about it?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
they didn't give her any warning, nothing.
She was just let go that's notfair.
I feel like she should sue andthen twerk in the court when she
wins because you know, I wonder, once she got done with her
probation, was she officially inthe union?
Because I know with most placesthat have a union.
Uh, you have to get throughprobation first.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I wonder if she's a part of the union and, you know,
maybe she can make a reportthrough her union to have them
fight on her behalf where theyhave to write up something,
where it's like twerking isallowed on these hours, or like
you could twerk three times andthen the fourth, like shake is
too much, but that's justsomething silly, like I feel.
Like I could totally if I wasgoofing around with some other
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airline attendants and it waslike no one was on the plane and
you've had a silly day.
Like I absolutely would dosomething like that.
I don't think to me that wouldbe indicative of someone's
performance, like at, you know,in safety, or being able to give
customers like coffee oranything.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, and let's be real, I don't think she's the
only one that's ever twerked ordone anything silly In between
flights.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She just happened to put it on social media, which,
yeah I feel like, honestly, thesouthwest, some of the flights
I've been on from like la tovegas, there was one where they
put the toilet paper.
Basically they unraveled.
They like put toilet paper alldown the row and then they flush
the toilet and so we sat therewhile down the runway, like the
toilet we were went and whetheryou wanted to partake in it or
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not, there was toilet paper likequickly going down the aisle
for the whole plane.
So it's like, I don't know, tome it's like maybe Alaska has so
much more of a serious policybut like, especially when you're
not in the middle of a flight,like who cares, you know?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And.
I agree with that.
I mean, there was nobody on theflight.
You know the plane, the planewas obviously parked, it wasn't
moving.
So you know again, I I justthought it was a little
excessive, I do too.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Also, I did not even notice, was she.
Was she a woman of color?
um, I want to say she washispanic, okay because I also
think, like, like I don't knowthat to me it seems extra not
fair and it's like, okay, wellthen, if she's not allowed to
dance, no matter what type youknow, whatever it is, then like
no one should be allowed to do aversion of any dance.
(06:53):
Like you kind of can'tdiscriminate.
I think too, like if someone isnot allowed to twerk, then like
okay, someone doing like aballerina move shouldn't be
allowed either.
You know twerk, then someonedoing a ballerina move shouldn't
be allowed either.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, and it does open the door as to, if she
wasn't a person of color, wouldthat have made a difference?
It makes you wonder.
It really does.
I hope she lands a jobsomeplace else, though I really
do.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'm not against getting a job at Alaska Airlines
and then twerking just to seeif I'll take one.
I'll be the sacrificialtwerking.
Just to see if I'll take one,I'll be the sacrificial twerker.
And then, when they don't fireme, I quit.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, well, I think I have a job for the next, for
the woman.
Now we have this next story isgoing to be a good job for her.
My first topic is a place whereI feel like she could maybe
twerk and twerk rapidly isPlanters.
Peanuts is offering $45,000 ayear for someone to drive their
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nutmobile.
So Planters is offering a dreamjob to drive their iconic
nutmobile across the country.
So it's a 26-foot-longpeanut-shaped vehicle which is
part of the brand marketing, andnow they're looking for someone
to take it on the road.
So the job includes attendingevents, kind of like a, you know
, like an ambassador orsomething, interacting with fans
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, and you'll travel for free andstay in a variety of locations.
So to apply, you have peoplehave to submit a video stating
why they would be the perfectfit for this gig.
You know, obviously you have tohave a clean driving record.
You can't have any prior thingsin your past and just like why
the company would benefit fromhaving you as behind the
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nutmobile.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You know what Actually for someone young maybe
has to figure out what theywant to do.
That could be a cool job.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That seems so cool.
Like I mean, that just seemslike if you're young and out of
college and also like looking tomake some fun content, and if
you are, if you do love peanut,obviously this wouldn't be good
for someone with, like a peanutallergy or anything, because
chances are you're probablyhanding out a lot of free
product.
But like I mean, I wish thesalary was a little bit more.
But to someone younger or justlooking for like some type of
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fun job, I think in this economy, in this life, like that seems
like a pretty good job to me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I agree.
I mean I was a little surprisedat the amount $45,000.
I would think that it would bemore, because you are an
ambassador, you're driving thevehicle and you're doing this
for an entire year, so whichmeans that you know 80 percent
of the time I would.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
you're driving the vehicle and you're doing this
for an entire year, which meansthat 80% of the time, I would
imagine, you're probablytraveling, yeah, so I think it's
good for someone young andsingle and for the first couple
of years.
You're just really excitedabout the perks.
Now, okay, I was thinking aboutif you had to drive for any
food brand, what would be yourversion of this, like, what
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company would you like to drivefor?
And they'd have like alife-size version of whatever
their food is too, let me think.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Let me think, I would say probably McAllister's,
because I do like their food.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay now I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh, you know, it may be regional, it's like a deli
shop where it has like differentsandwiches, has salads, soup
stuff like that.
But I think if I were lookingon a national side I would
probably do more like maybe likeone of the major chicken brands
(10:27):
, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And would the car be just a big chicken or like a
nugget?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, it would be a big chicken.
Then I would drive like Purdueor somebody like that.
That's a national brand.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Because chicken is healthy and I could learn a lot
of different stuff as far as howto cook various meals and stuff
, but that would be fun.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay, that'd be good, you'd be.
You'd be happy driving aroundlike a big, giant chicken oh
yeah that'd be fun.
I feel like that would get alot of attention from people
down the road they'd be like uhwow look at that big chicken
exactly until I feel like someteenagers would like literally
try to play chicken on the roadand not twerk.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Now what would you drive?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, mine was a no-brainer.
For me it would be a Doritocheese, like a big Dorito nacho
cheese, and it would be a carshaped like a big cheese, like
leaving powder all over.
I feel like I'd be a goodambassador of that.
I feel like I'd be very happyto give everyone, like a bag,
some nacho cheese doritos I feel, I have a feeling that the
(11:29):
gamers would love you yeah, Ithink so too, just like tossing
it, maybe cool ranch too.
But uh, yeah, super cool job.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I mean, in a world of people working, driving like a
big peanut vehicle could beworse yeah, I mean, if you think
about it like a lot of themascots for professional teams
and stuff, it's amazing how muchthey get paid.
A lot of them get paid ahundred thousand to two hundred
thousand per year.
Unbelievable how much they makeyeah and basically for having
(12:01):
fun.
And you have months off becauseobviously every professional
sport takes off a few months inbetween seasons.
So it's actually a pretty cooljob if you're in shape and you
know you like that.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah definitely Well on the.
I feel like on the other side,like I used to work for a radio
station and they have like promopeople that would sit by the
booth and you know, give awayfree whatever's.
And they were getting paid Not,not at all.
It was like Pete, I was thebooth and you know, a giveaway,
free whatever's.
And they were getting paid not,not at all.
(12:32):
It was like pete, I was justabout to say they're getting
paid in peanuts, but no, they'regetting it wasn't.
It was like lower than I feellike minimum wage should be, but
it was.
It was good for young kids andit was also like a lot of those
people graduated to likemarketing and now have big adult
jobs, you know.
So I felt like that was almostan entryway to start.
I feel like something like that, too could be an entry to
marketing or a communicationstype job.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's true.
That's actually true.
That would be good.
There's a lot of cool jobs outthere that are off the
mainstream, that you can makegood money and have fun doing it
.
Well, I am going to go intosomething that's not so fun.
There have been a rash of homeevasions and people getting
(13:14):
robbed in their homes Recently.
There were a couple of fakeAmazon drivers that robbed this
man in his home.
Basically, they had a box intheir hand hand and they must
have either knocked on the dooror rang the doorbell, and when
the gentleman opened the door,they forced their way in and
they robbed him.
(13:35):
Oh my gosh.
And uh, I think they hurt himtoo.
But um, I don't know.
I mean, you got to be carefuland I'm actually a little
surprised that he fell for it,because you know amazon, you
have no contact with the driverswhatsoever.
Right, literally, they justdrop the stuff off.
It would be nice if they ringthe doorbell but you know, very
rare favor that happens and thenwalk away.
(13:56):
You have zero reason to talk toAmazon driver.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right, right.
And they're supposed to likenever ask to like use the
restroom or you know what I meanIn a good way.
They're not supposed to like beseen or heard.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, but it's amazing, I mean, even when
there's like utility workers andstuff like this, and you just
got to be so careful becauseit's hard to know who's who
these days.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I know I feel like that's and to me like targeting
usually I feel like they'retargeting elder people too, yep,
that's.
And to me like targetingusually I feel like they're
targeting elder people too, yep.
And then it's so sad, like Ialso feel, like you know, it
shouldn't get to the point wherewe have to, where we distrust
people more than trust them.
But I, I don't know, it's justlike I feel like amazon should
have some badge, but I guessanything could be duplicated,
(14:38):
like they could get the vest,they could get the outfit yeah,
but but I guess the reason whyI'm a little surprised on the
amazon one because, like I say,amazon drivers have zero contact
with yeah, delivered to I know,I know, but I feel like I could
easily see someone older beingtalked into like.
I feel like if they went to likenot my mom, but I feel like my
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dad could easily be like if theywere like oh, they we need a
signature.
You know, I could see thathappening.
I also wonder because I've seenAmazon people in no costumes,
but whatever the word.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
In a uniform, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
The other day, someone just delivered mail and
he was wearing a band t-shirt.
It really was Amazon, but nowmore and more people are just
driving their normal cars todeliver Amazon packages.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I remember last year I saw an Amazon driver.
First I thought it was theywere stealing packages, because
it was a car full of packages.
I'm like Lord, they're justrobbing people.
But actually what it was, itwas two people in there and they
it was around the holidays andthey were dropping off packages
at the door and you saw theAmazon box.
I'm like OK, but yeah, it looksweird when you don't see normal
(15:47):
, you know clothes or normaltruck, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, I mean that is like a little bit milder but
still scary version of like oneof my biggest fears, which is
getting pulled over by like notreal police people, cause I feel
like that's so scary too andthat's something that's like
terrifying the thought of youfake police people that is so
true, that is so true.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's a shame, but you just got to be careful and and
now you know, check on your,check on your elders and your
family, because, uh, there arethe the sad part about that
story, about the, the man thatwas robbed.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They only robbed, they only took 50 bucks oh my
gosh traumatized him, injuredhim for 50 bucks yeah, that has
to be like a next level ofterrible karma.
To like pretend you're acertain someone.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
To like weasel your way into someone's house yeah,
and what was interesting too is,you know, they went just to his
house and then they left out.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
It was like he was targeted yeah, I bet they
probably cased them.
You know like I feel like peoplelook at like elder people or
people that are vulnerable, likethat's so sad to me yeah, I
guess the biggest thing is justgot to protect your people, make
sure everyone's safe, you knowprotect your people and like
those are one of those thingswhen, if, if it's like
unequivocally, if they catch thepeople and like it's no doubt
(17:03):
that it's those people, I feellike they need to make people
just need to know that like thepunishment for that is so severe
that it's like not worth doing,you know.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
That is so true.
That is so so true.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Wow, Okay.
Well, this is another one aboutpeople being shiesty and
annoying.
So this is something that Ihave seen firsthand, where now
the LA wildfires are driving asurge in rental housing prices,
which is, of course, nowprompting a lot of concerns for
gouging, which already, likeit's so expensive to rent here.
(17:35):
I don't think people we arealmost up to like New York
prices, where a lot of myfriends in New York are
comparable for like the onebedrooms here in LA.
Some areas are seeing anincrease of up to 30 to 40% of
rental prices.
I've seen places that arenormally like 3000, which is
crazy in and of itself.
(17:56):
You know like two bedrooms thatare 3000 charging $9,000 for a
two bedroom with like twobedroom, two bathrooms like a
normal apartment.
I saw one of my friends thatdoes real estate shares like a
TikTok about all this andobviously people are talking
about ethical concerns aroundprice gouging.
I know like our attorneygeneral is now investigating it
(18:20):
and like trying to see some ofthe laws in place.
Usually I feel like Californiatends to favor the tenants a lot
like you know, people renting.
So I think, in a good way, thathopefully this will be actually
one area where it helps.
But people doing that is justso gross.
We're like, not only were theytargeting people that, like a
lot of these people looking forplaces to live, have no house,
(18:42):
so it's like they're just tryingto go into some temporary
housing and now you have to paylike $6,000 for a month to month
rental.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh yeah, and here's the crazy thing about it, meryl
even if you have insurance, whenthey raise that amount to those
ridiculous heights, they run arisk of not even being able to
have the insurance paid forbecause it's so out of the park
as far as what it should cost.
And I think the only way to fixthat is through legislation.
And it's got to be okay.
(19:12):
And I don't know what thatmagic number is.
Maybe it's 10%, 20%, whateverit is, this is the max you can
put over the amount.
When you have a situation likethis and you're going to pay, I
don't know, maybe a $10,000,$20,000 fine per occurrence and,
let's say, five years in prison.
You know, something has a greatdeterrent to say knock it off.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, totally.
I don't know how families do it.
I really don't, because a lotof the like a normal house, even
in San Diego, are renting forlike four thousand dollars and
over just for like a normalhouse house where it's like I
look at zillow and other placesand you can get a normal house
still for like two to threethousand dollars or whatever.
And it's just so crazy becauseit's like I don't know just, and
(19:57):
it's not like people's salarieshave tripled.
You know, we're still dealingwith the same salaries or no
salaries at all, because of thejob market.
It's just so crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh yeah, and you know , the thing is is that when you
have that many people who losttheir homes, you already run a
risk of not being able to findsome in the first place, and now
on top of that is the pricegouging, so it's kind of like
they're being traumatized twice.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yep, exactly so we'll see.
But right now we're in ourlittle one bedroom apartment.
I was like great, another yearof this kind of stuff, because
it's just crazy where it's likeyou look for places like around
here in Los Angeles and I'm justnot willing to pay like thirty
eight hundred dollars a monthfor like no sink or you know,
(20:39):
it's just so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That's true, that is true.
Well, we'll definitely pray forthem.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, that's why I'm moonlighting.
It's a planter's peanut.
There you go, and every night,from 1 am to 7 am, I just drive
the peanut truck around.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
There you go, there you go.
Well, we're going to talk aboutsomething that's been on
everyone's mind for a long time.
This is nuts.
Tiktok went dark and then thevery next day it's back up.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
One of the best internet things that ever
happened in history.
I think Like the funniest thing.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, I mean, when it went down, it went down early,
it went down.
For me it was like around 8 or9 o'clock, it wasn't even a
minute.
So I'm like, okay, well, hereit is, we'll see what happens,
yeah, and then hours later, likeearly the next day, it's back.
So it's like, okay, what?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
was this.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know what I mean.
What was this really about?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
This was the most like us american 2025 thing to
happen where it was.
I mean, I have so many thoughtson this.
I guess the first was, like Ilove tiktok.
It's my favorite app.
I really felt like um, but daysleading up to it, I found
myself getting, probably like alot of people, very, very
emotional.
Not just because of like,obviously, I think the tiktok,
if you really, if the tiktokpeople know like a lot of us got
on it during the pandemic whenwe were feeling isolated and
(22:08):
really lonely, and that's why Ithink, one of the big reasons
why we imprinted on it so muchlike, not also just because it's
so funny and it's definitelydifferent than any other app
I've ever used, and it's kind ofreplaced like TV at night for
me, like I'd rather just scrolland I just.
But then, a few days leading upto it, it began to feel like we
were leaving a school or justlike all the people that you
(22:29):
love through parasocialrelationships were all saying
goodbye, and it was like very, Idon't know.
We've never had to deal withsomething before.
We're saying goodbye to likeonline sounds and things and so
on.
Uh, whatever night that was, Iwas at the gym and I just
started thinking about like how,how am I going to find new
music and how and I know it'ssilly, I know there's other ways
but I just started thinkingabout all the good that TikTok
has brought in.
(22:49):
And I came home and I opened upthe door and I just started
like sobbing, crying to myboyfriend and he was like what
the heck is happening.
And I was like crying aboutTikTok and then he was like I
promise it's going to be up inlike a month.
He's like just give it a month.
And then later I went to bedcrying and then I woke up and I
was like TikTok's back.
But I really like it's veryemotional, like having people
(23:12):
that you love, even if it'sonline, or just like perceived
community, like everyone wassaying goodbye and it was a
really like helpless, weirdfeeling.
I know that sounds insane topeople that don't use TikTok,
but like like I don't know aboutyou, but tomorrow Facebook or
Instagram could go away.
And like, besides promotingshows and this, you know, like I
wouldn't care that much, like Icould get over that, but for
(23:32):
some reason this app is like sospecial.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, and you know what?
You're right.
When we had the pandemic yearsago, that's when social media
really exploded because everyonewas at home.
And social media reallyexploded because everyone was at
home.
And you know, the other thingthat's crazy is it also shows,
too, why diversification is soimportant.
Um, because if you have contenton multiple platforms, it
(23:55):
doesn't hit you as much becauseyou're still out there.
But if 90% or more what you dois on one platform and that
platform goes down, it's likeyou lost all the years of work
that you put into it.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, definitely, and all these people that were
making money off of TikTok shop.
I felt so bad for people thathad really I mean, I haven't
really used TikTok that much asa creator.
I definitely want to now alittle bit more than I know it's
here for a little bit, you know, but like, just as a viewer and
all these, I started getting soemotional, thinking about all
the musicians that like arediscovered that way, because, as
(24:30):
much as I want to say, I wouldgo on Spotify and like, search
for it, or I'm not going to findthem through Instagram and I
just think about how many peoplehad like, their sounds used or
you know like, or even justartists, like pottery artists or
different drawers.
I feel like it really justmakes such a difference in
people's lives and like, I don'tknow even stuff like, like,
like going to Iceland or likeplaces that I want to go to,
(24:53):
like.
I feel like I discovered thatall through TikTok and I just
feel like it.
I don't know it's.
I understand how like insane itsounds, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, and you know the thing is is that TikTok has
a very, very unique algorithmthat cannot, for whatever reason
, cannot, be copied by otherplatforms.
No, so a lot of people make alot of money off TikTok, a lot
of people get discovered onTikTok, and you know there are
people that have left their nineto five job and literally their
(25:23):
job, their whole thing isTikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, yep, yep.
And it was so funny with peoplesobbing, like I wasn't crying
but on camera, and like peoplegiving away their secrets of
being like, okay, you know,since we're about to go dark,
this is what I want to tell you.
And then they give away theseand then, like the next morning,
they're like this is awkward.
The next morning, they're likethis is awkward, so, and then
(25:49):
also, like I was watching videosof people announcing, like they
were at public spaces, like themall, and like someone was
recording himself being likeexcuse me, tiktok is back.
And like people clapping andlike that's why I just have yet
to find.
Like people being so funny andnice on the same platforms, like
I don't know about you, butInstagram is really musty and
dusty to me.
Now I feel like I post stuffand then I watch my friends
(26:09):
watch it and no one reallyinteracts and it's making me
annoyed at my community.
So I feel like I'm definitelygoing to be focusing more on
TikTok.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, I mean for whatever reason.
I don't know if the youngergeneration is born knowing this
stuff, but for whatever reason,the younger generation has zero
problem exploding on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I mean, I've watched my son and his friends and stuff
.
You know, start a page andshoot up to 10, 20, 50,000
followers.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm fighting just for my couple thousand, you know Me
too.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I think I was like one.
I'm like this is the best appever and I have like 150
followers.
I feel like they need to coach.
We need to like hire them asconsultants.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And they make it so easy.
That's what's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, I think that's the thing too is like I haven't
really immersed myself in it,because even though, like, I
feel so talkative but I don'treally know like exactly what I
would talk about on TikTok yet,but I've heard people just say
like just film, like a dailydiary, and even if no one, you
know, you just have to beconsistent and keep, keep going.
Um, oh, and I was gonna ask didyou think about?
(27:18):
Because I know there was likered note, they were saying other
apps, but I just I needed, Ineeded.
At first I was like okay, thisis gonna be a good mental health
cleanse to not have tiktok forlike a few months, and then the
next minute I'm like I'mscrolling.
Did you go to red note?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
at all.
You know what?
I didn't go to red note andthen, there's this thing called
lemon eight, that's yeah, yeah,I've heard of that and I was
just a little leery.
I was like you, you know what?
Let me just see what happensfirst.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, because you know.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Lemonade, I believe, and Red Note are both owned by
the same people who are onTikTok.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
For sure, yeah, and like I signed up for Red Note.
But then I also heard that likefor Americans it's really funny
, but they're like, if you'relike like kind of chubby like
they're, they're just like eatsome vegetable, you know, in a
very funny way, but like a fewpeople that I saw went on red
note and then the people on rednote were drawing them and like
giving them like huge chins andI'm like I just can't, with
(28:13):
tiktok going away, I just can'ttake this.
And then I also heard that theywere asking us and people were
really nice on red note, I heardbut they were asking, um, do do
Americans really have to payfor an ambulance, or is that
just propaganda?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Wow, really.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah.
So I feel like when I feel likea little more mentally stable,
it might that might be somethingjust to like also go on and
just kind of you know, dip a toein and see.
But I didn't want to like putmy eggs in that basket and try
to like pretend like somethingwasn't happening.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, that's true, and little do they know.
Yes, in america ambulance youpay for.
You pay for everything here.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So yeah, oh yeah.
And also a shout out to myboyfriend, jack, who was so
sweet, who, like, after I camehome crying, he tried to switch
my vpn to canada, so that, uh,it still didn't work, but it was
like so sweet that I feel likea lot of people's because I saw
on tikt, tiktok a lot of likewomen's husbands were kind of
like you're being overdramatic,I don't get it, or whatever.
But he was like he got it.
(29:11):
He was like no, no, no, we'restill going to have TikTok, no
matter what.
Oh, that's so sweet, it wasvery sweet.
It's like I feel like you'recrying over to have someone feel
like they take it seriously andyou know try to take action.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
That is so true.
You know he's a good man.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yes, I love him.
Okay, yeah, so sorry, that islike my you touched upon, like
my favorite passion, which isTikTok.
Oh, okay, I was going to askyou is for you.
Do you think that it was likesome big ploy from our new
president to kind of like appear, as you know, like the daddy
that grants us all our wish, orlike what do you think about
(29:51):
that?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I think this whole thing has gotten politicized.
I do think that there was somereal reasons behind it, because,
again, republicans andDemocrats do not get along for
anything.
Because again, republicans andDemocrats do not get along for
anything they don't you know.
And then something triggeredthem to unanimously bipartisan
to get them off the air or havethem sold.
So now it's like well, you knowwhat Trump's in office, we're
(30:16):
not going to worry about that,we're going to bring you back.
And the problem is, it kind ofmakes people wonder well, was
there really a problem or wasthis just a ploy from the
beginning?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Right, Like did they know it was?
Because I've heard some peoplesay that it was dark for the
night so they could liketransfer it to meta and now,
like Zuckerberg is going to ownit, I don't, I don't really know
, who knows.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I've heard that too, but no, I mean, tiktok is
so valuable, I can't see thathappening.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Me neither, and I know some people were feeling
like their algorithms werechanged or they weren't seeing
news.
But like mine is back up,exactly normal.
I don't know.
Like I don't feel like it'sdifferent Because I saw on
TikTok some people were sayinglike it feels like my spy isn't
Chinese anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
The crazy thing about it is on all the platforms,
every so often they do changealgorithms.
You can tell when you'reposting stuff and as you're
posting, you can tell whenalgorithms start changing.
The thing is.
It's so crazy, is it's like afull-time job trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, I know, I know, Was that yours or mine?
I'm so okay, I'm so talkativeabout that.
I feel like I could do a TEDtalk on and it's so funny
because, like I was so emotionalabout TikTok but then I'm like
I made no money from it.
I have a hundred followers butthat is definitely a sign that
like hopefully, if we know it'shere to stay, I want to focus
(31:44):
more energy on that and likejust you know, being more in the
game rather than just likelurking on pages.
Sometimes, I see people likecommenting on everything and
maybe it's just our age, butlike I'm not used to just
commenting on stuff of people Idon't know, you know, but I
think like maybe younger I betyour son now it's just like they
(32:05):
treat everyone like they'rejust like one big family or
community, you know yeah, I knowwhen you, when you comment,
follow people and all this, itplays into the algorithms.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, so that's probably why a lot of the youth
do that, where they comment oneveryone's stuff because it does
play into the algorithmstotally.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Oh, and the last thing I was gonna say, which is
so funny if anyone hasn't heardthis, it's worth looking it up.
Um, I don't know if you saw,but just like a funny man
pretended that he was the ceo ofred note and I don't know if
you saw this news.
I should have picked this as mystory, maybe next week if it's
not too late.
But like, um, this really funnyguy, I think he was in can in
Canada, but he came on Red Noteand he was like wearing a hat
(32:45):
and looked really official andhe was like hello, as the CEO of
Red Note, I would just like towelcome everyone and, like all
the Americans thought it wastrue and they're like hello, ceo
.
And then they woke up the nextmorning and his girlfriend was
like why are you on the news asthe CEO of Red Note?
I'll send you that storybecause it's worth reposting and
(33:06):
just seeing it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh, absolutely.
You know what that proves?
That you should always try toverify stuff and not just fall
for it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Exactly and he had to apologize.
And he was like I'm sorry, wegot a little drunk last night
and I pretended and people werecommenting like no, you look
like a CEO, we believe you.
Nice Like we believe you, nice.
It was very funny, well, heyyou got a viral video out of it,
right, yeah, okay, moving on,sorry, this Okay.
(33:36):
So this combines a lot of thestuff we've already talked about
, which is like AI and scammingand everything.
So a woman in Australia wasjust scammed out of over a
hundred thousand dollars aftershe fell for a ai generated scam
involving none other than bradpitt.
So, uh, the scammer used deepfake technology to create
realistic images of brad andthen engaged a woman in like a
(33:56):
personal relationship.
He reached out to her and, ofcourse, did the whole like I, I
need a woman like you, you're sobeautiful, you know kind of
preyed upon her.
And then, not only this, shedivorced her husband, thinking
that she was truly leaving himfor Brad Pitt, and then she
transferred over $100,000 to thescammer through like a third
(34:18):
party app that she thought wasto help him.
She thought that, basically,like the Brad Pitt was in the
hospital and needed help andreally it was just like someone
manipulating her.
So they ended up getting caught.
I think.
I don't know the story did notyeah, so I think they caught
them.
But, yeah, I mean number one islike I'm sorry everyone, but
(34:43):
it's not really Brad Pitt orKeanu Reeves Like they're never
going to message you.
No, you know, and that'sanother thing that people just
have to be wary of is like thechances of a celebrity.
Unless you're on like an applike Raya or something where
it's like you are matching withcelebrities, they're never, ever
, ever going to message you.
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And here's the crazy thing.
Isn't Brad Pitt worth?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
like a few hundred million dollars, yeah.
So why would he need that?
Excuse me, yeah.
I mean, if he's worth I don'tknow, I think it's somewhere
between $100 and $300 million,somewhere in that range why
would he need your money?
Just saying you know, and youknow it's a shame, and I get it.
People look for love, you getlonely, you want someone, and I
totally get it.
(35:29):
But that common sense thing gotto kick in at some point though
.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I know.
Imagine the husband too, thegloating or just the retribution
that you get after your spouseleaves you, and it's for a
pretend.
Now you're really left withnothing.
It's crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You know, I got to be honest with you.
I think the husband dodged abullet because she showed her
true colors.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah, yep, yep and poor judgment and just like,
yeah, that's kind of insane,especially of like all
celebrities too.
I can see if it was someonethat hasn't worked in a million
years or like a, you know, paulyShore or someone like that.
Where I'm like okay maybethey're reaching out to me, who
knows?
But it's like you always haveto meet someone in person, at
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least.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And you know?
Here's the thing Brad Pitt isan A-lister, and if Brad Pitt
was in the hospital, it would beall over the news.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
So I don't know.
I mean, it still amazes me thatpeople still get suckered into
these, these love scams.
I guess people call them, youknow.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, I was listening to a few different things and I
guess there's like Now it'slike obviously there's AI deep
fakes, but then there's alsolike just pure using someone,
like catfishing, using someone'sactual photo like.
I know that happened to um, apodcast that I like the vile
files, which, like nick vial,who's a former bachelor guy and
he's a good podcaster, but hehas a he had a story like that
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where a woman truly thought shewas dating him and then flew to
his house and showed up at hisdoor and so he answered the door
and his girlfriend was in hishouse with him and he answered
the door and this poor woman waslike hi, are we really dating
or not?
You know, she was so confusedand he talks about how she was
like really nice and normal.
But he was telling her like,like, even if you're normal, you
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have to admit this is a littlebit crazy, thinking that you're
dating like a public figure.
But I think she was so confusedthat she she just needed an
answer.
So she drove to his house andthen found where he lived and to
me that's just very scary forlike sad for her.
But then could you imagine justopening the door and seeing
someone that they were convincedthat they were like dating you
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yeah, that would be very, veryscary isn't it?
it's really terrifying.
Like lucky for him.
She seemed like a somewhatnormalish human being where she
was able to like be sad but moveon.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
But many people aren't are very unhinged but you
know, I've heard of these scamsgoing on before.
They've been going on for along time, but to be scammed by
someone pretending to be alister is probably a new one for
me yeah, every now and thenthey'll through instagram like
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I'll get like an account whereit's like keanu reeves 36222 and
it's like hello.
You know, I'm like oh my goshyeah, um, like I said, as far as
the husband, I'm so glad he gotout of that relationship
because, yeah, she showed hertrue colors yeah, and I wonder I
don't know this either.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I wonder if she will be recovering her money back,
like I almost feel like sheshould pay some like a 20 grand
penalty for being stupid yeah,that's, that's true.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
But you know the crazy thing?
I would love to interview herex-husband, because I'm quite
sure he is laughing his ass offright now.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Oh yeah, yep, totally , and I think even Brad Pitt
knows about this too.
It got to Brad, and I think heeven is aware of the situation.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Did he comment on it?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I think, if anything, he probably just gave some like
very PR-type response.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I bet he was like yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
That wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
No, talk about crazy stuff.
This story right here isactually starting to go viral.
There are big box stores nowthat are locking up everything,
and I'm not talking, you know,your high dollar items.
To give you an example, I wentto go visit my son last year and
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he lives in a different stateand I went into a store.
I want to say it was want tosay was Target, I think it was,
and I have never seen soaplocked up before.
I mean it was like, I meanstuff like that, real, yeah,
really.
I've never seen it before.
It was nuts, I mean.
(39:59):
I've seen other stuff, but solotion, toothpaste, yeah, yeah,
I'm like seriously, yeah.
And now Walgreens CEO his nameis Tim Wentworth has stated that
it's actually backfiring onthem locking stuff up now
they're actually losing money.
It's actually backfiring onthem locking stuff up now
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they're actually losing money.
And I can see it because, ifyou think about it, when you go
in there first you have to ringthe bell.
Then you got to wait a fewminutes, sometimes even up to 10
minutes, for someone to show upjust to open up the stupid case
and get what you need.
And you know, sometimes you mayfigure, I know for me.
I'm like you know what, I'lljust go to a different store.
(40:42):
They're just serious Right, yeah, yeah.
Have you experienced littleinexpensive stuff being locked
up like that before?
Oh my, gosh.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yes, luckily, where I live in Los Angeles, in CVS and
Target it's pretty much how yousaid, with just more of the
bigger items, like the teethwhitening strips or more of the
higher dollar ones, but inHollywood and more of the higher
dollar ones but in likehollywood and more of like the
central la.
It is same thing toothpaste,deodorant, um, and and I and
it's in cbs's and like I,walmart's and it's just I will
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not.
It's such a pain for like thethe store attendance and that's
a pain to wait for someone andto me it's like such an eyesore
that I would really rather justexactly like shop at another
grocery store, order on amazonand it makes you i't know.
It's just one of those thingswhere it's like we have to stop
at the beginning of like whypeople are doing this and like
not make it.
(41:32):
I don't know Once again, I feellike the penalty should be more
for that, so that people don'tdo it like educating people from
the beginning that you don'thave to steal, plus making it
more affordable so that peopleare able to like access soap and
toothpaste if they need to andyou know they don't have to
steal those types of things butwhat's so crazy about it is the
(41:56):
security measure costs more thanjust leaving it open yeah yeah,
exactly, and just dealing withsome of the theft.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I know we shouldn't be laughing at it, but it's kind
of crazy.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
It is, and I know two people don't want.
If a CVS person comes over andI'm still like thinking about
what deodorant I want, like it'sjust, it's like annoying for
everyone, for them to have towaste their time and for me to
have to do that.
It's like we should be able tolike look in the aisles and
choose what we want.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Oh yeah, because you know when they come to open it
they're not really happy.
No, no.
And then when you open it upand you don't know what you want
, they play it off.
But you can see on their facelike, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
We should have a society where people are able to
contain themselves and go intoa store without taking things.
You know, but you know what italso shows too is when you want
to implement something, startoff with a small piece of the
market first, before you make itcompany wide.
Yeah, Because they probablycould have figured out like okay
, if we lock this up, we'regoing to lose this much business
, which is way more than what wewould have lost if we just
(43:04):
didn't do anything at all.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Right, right, I think I also just it was so funny
because I was like what if welived in a society where
everyone got like a month oflike you know, $50 worth of like
toothpaste?
And then I'm like, wait, nowI'm describing like a socialist
country, now I'm describing likeI'm like where they give us
things.
I'm like, okay, I don't want tomove myself to like the middle
of Russia or something, but yeah, I think it's a factor of
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people like learning at a youngage not to do that and a higher
penalty and having these thingspeople being able to like get
toothpaste with abundance sothey don't have to steal it.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
I mean, you know when someone to me is stealing soap
and toothpaste and I could bewrong.
I think that's more of a need.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
It's different than if someone come in and they try
to steal, let's say, a small TVor, let's say, a power tool or
something like that, which isvery expensive.
I think those are two differentthings, definitely.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
No, me too, and I wish there was a mixture.
I don't know if food banks, orI wish there's places that Maybe
there are, there might also bewhere people could easily go in
and say, hey, we're out oftoothpaste or we're out of
whatever.
And to me, if we needed to gettaxed an extra $5 a month or
something like that to have thathappen, I would be way happy
for that.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Oh sure, something like that.
To have that happen, I would belike way happy for that.
Oh sure, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
But uh, yeah, something tells me that um,
locking up inexpensive itemslike that's gonna probably go
away pretty soon.
Yeah, good, good, I will behappily reaching for toothpaste
without having to lock it, um,okay, oh, this next one is kind
of weird.
But so we mentioned Bachelorbefore.
Now this Bachelor couple, mattJames and Rachel Kirk Connell,
broke up.
I thought they were actuallyreally cute.
I think Rachel's like so prettyand I thought they just seemed
(44:54):
like a very happy couple.
I think a lot of people wereexpecting them to announce an
engagement, but instead MattJames posted a very bizarre
Instagram post.
It was like cryptic, sayingthat they like you know very
biblical as well, saying likeheal our hearts.
And it was just like kind of aweird cringy slash, confusing
(45:16):
picture of them when they firstmet at the bachelor and then
basically just saying like giveus the strength to get over our
heartbreak.
And so people were reallyconfused because they like had
just posted together um, a fewhours before, but I think a lot
of people were saying that theylike batch content and you know
that might it was a trip fromlondon and they that trip may
have been like a few weeks ago,um, but then rachel's sister
(45:40):
trinity was commenting on somefan comments saying like, yeah,
he posted that three hours afterthey broke up, and so they.
You know, the paint wasn't evendry, as they said, and he was
already commenting, and thatRachel was left blindsided,
blindsided.
To me, one of my favorite, oneof my things about those two is
that, like they, they posted alot of like food content.
(46:02):
You know they would go todifferent restaurants and try it
, and to me it's like they'reboth so thin and healthy that it
kind of made me like feel badalmost, because it's like seeing
people eat like pizza andburgers and I'm just like how
did they stay so fit?
So I'm glad I'll be able toknow the, the behind the scenes
of like how they're able to eatat like 8,000 different places
and like not gain a pound.
But that's a side thing, um,anyway, I thought basically the
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the conversation was like do youneed both parties to post an
instagram post?
And like, how soon is too soon,you know, before you break up
to post something?
Speaker 1 (46:38):
you know, there are people that put every ounce of
their life on social media and Ithink it's for some people it's
literally their life.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
And I don't know.
I mean, I got my own thoughtswhen it comes to the Bachelor
and Bachelorettes and all that.
Yeah, you kind of wonder howmuch of that is real versus how
much of that is, you know, forHollywood, as they say, because
let's face it in the real world,that's not how you find your
better half.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, exactly, and these people really like almost
Matt James has almost turnedinto like a food influencer,
because I don't know if you'refamiliar with his content, but
he posts like so much at likethe best thing we ate at you
know, in Canada, the best thingwe ate here and there, like, I
feel like so much of his contentis food now.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, and you know that's, that's fine.
But I don't know.
I mean, you just kind of makeit.
Now.
When they came out with the,with the golden bachelor, I had
to hire hosts.
I'm thinking, ok, they're older, they know what they want in
life.
Maybe this one would be alittle bit real.
And then you know, of coursethat didn't work out either.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
Yeah, that was like almost one of the fastest
breakups, you know, of coursethat didn't work out either.
Yeah, that was like almost oneof the fastest breakups.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
That's true.
So I don't know.
I mean, it makes good TV, but Idon't think you should use that
as a guide to finding yourperfect match, you know.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah, and it's strange too that, like I mean, I
guess when we watch people'srelationships, we have the sense
of like being owed to know whythey broke up, because a lot of
this story too, people were likespeculating that basically
rachel gave matt an ultimatumand wanted to get engaged, and
it was pretty much like we'reeither going to get engaged by
like the new year or I'm leavingand I guess, like he didn't do
(48:24):
anything, but that's also Idon't know if I need to know,
like in the first 24 hours, whyexactly people broke up yeah,
and I and I know that they werea little irritated about people
constantly asking.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
But here's the reality when you put your
relationship um real or fake,however you want to call it and
you put it for the whole worldto see every step of the way,
when it goes south.
Yeah, they're gonna still wantto know what's going on, yeah,
yeah, exactly so it's a littlebit too late to go.
Well, that's private, no right?
Speaker 2 (48:56):
and I think people are shocked when couples like
this break up, who are likeconstantly posting.
But I'm like I think a lot ofpeople also just end up getting
more of like a business typerelationship where it's like,
okay, they have obligations tofilm at these like 10
restaurants and you know, it'salmost like it just becomes.
We're shocked but we, we don't.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
We never know what goes on the rest of the time oh
yeah, and you know, a lot oftimes too, in fact all the times
, you know, when it's airedthey've already taped this, you
know, probably months ago.
Yeah, so obviously they're, youknow, been threatened with all
kinds of nba's and everythingthat they can.
Yeah, and the funny thing is,if they're not together, whoever
(49:33):
they pick, they have to kind ofkeep a low pro.
They can't really see anyonebecause they can't do anything
that's going to give away endingto what's happening in their
relationship.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
But I feel like for now, rachel was the real winner,
because what you want to do iswhat happened, where it's like
you want your boyfriend to postsuch an embarrassing caption
that the whole internet roastshim, and then he actually had to
turn the comments off becausepeople were like hating on his
post so much.
So I feel like if that was me,that would give me the slight
vindication of like okay, I maybe heartbroken, but he looks
like an idiot.
(50:05):
Every, every petty win is stilla win there you go.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Well, I tell you we're going to end up something
Really really funny Inprofessional tennis.
It's a woman, her name isDanielle Collins, and she was at
the Australian Open and I guessthey wasn't really happy with
her.
She won the match, but she wasbooed by the fans there, so she
decided to have a little fun.
(50:33):
I guess they wasn't reallyhappy with her.
She won the match, but she wasbooed by the fans there, so she
decided to have a little fun.
So she was just kind of likelaughing at him, whatever she
did, like this, and touched herbutt.
I'm like wow, okay, and youknow, on the podium she was
telling him well, you know, blah, blah, blah.
If you don't like it, you cankiss my.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
I say this and I'm like wow yeah, I don't know, you
think she went a little too far.
You think that was kind of fun.
Well, it's so funny becausewhen we were talking about the
alaska airlines woman thattwerked, I was like I feel like
I could picture that tennisplayer like like she kind of did
that version of like nottwerking, but she definitely did
like a kiss, my booty typemotion.
Um, I thought I don't know.
I think like we've seen tennisplayers that are men have such
like bad tempers and throw theirrackets and be, you know, such
(51:18):
hot heads that I feel like evenif a woman is kind of acting a
little bit smug and, like youknow, bold, I think to me it's
fine and it's like it's a littlebit ridiculous.
But to me it's like about timewe see a woman acting up a
little bit.
So I'm okay with it.
I'm okay with it, I think.
I think if any of us were underthe pressure of playing nonstop
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and having a whole stadiumbooing you, who knows how any of
us would react and you knowwhat?
Speaker 1 (51:46):
I think she took control of the situation because
by her kind of mocking the fansthat were booing her, she
actually took control of thesituation because, yeah, by her
kind of mocking the fans thatwere booing her, she actually
took control of the situationright, which probably enraged
them even more.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Yeah exactly because it's like, what do you want her
to do?
Just like slink away and takeit.
I don't know why.
When do you know like, werethey just booing her because she
was playing against, like, whothey love, or because she's okay
?
Speaker 1 (52:14):
She beat the hometown person you know.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Well, it's like.
I mean I think that happens allthe time in baseball, where
people are so crazy and loudagainst their team you know what
I mean that you almost have tojust A get used to it.
But I feel like a lot ofbaseball guys, like if they hit
a home run, they'll say it tothe crowd.
You know what's up, or you know.
That happens all the time withfootball players and baseball.
So I think it's funny.
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It makes her look a little bitlike bratty, but I think I'm
fine, I'm cool with it.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
You know, the thing is, I love the fact that she
owned it because you know,instead of her being hurt by it,
you know, maybe gettingemotional, she's like you know
what go F yourself Exactly.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
That's basically what she did, in a nice way you know
, yeah, I think a lot ofbaseball players will do.
Yeah, I think of a lot seeingright now where it's like the
whole crowd is booing them ifit's an away game and they'll
kind of, like you know, tauntthe crowd a little bit.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
I mean, you know what .
It reminds me of the last gameof the season, when the Bears
beat.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Green.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Bay.
Speaker 2 (53:14):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
And they did the Lambo leap, oh my gosh.
And the fans were goingballistic.
They were angry Ah, you know,because they beat their home
team and then they're trying toLambo leap into there, so it was
actually kind of cool.
I kind of loved it.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Yeah, and don't you think sometimes touchdown,
touchdown dances will have alittle bit of flair sometimes,
where it's like what you know?
Speaker 1 (53:38):
I think it's different sometimes when there's
teams versus one individual,and especially when it's a woman
, but I think it's funny, ohyeah, now one thing I have to
admit when I see itchoreographed because I've seen
touchdowns when they have atouchdown where they'll get
together and they have likethese little dance routines,
like really Seriously, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
I think that must be such good mental conditioning
too as like an athlete, to haveto go in and visualize yourself
winning against like a wholestadium wanting you to go down.
If you're in the right mindsetit probably helps like fuel you,
if it's not going to crush you,true.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
That's true.
That's true, but that was coolwhen they did the Lambeau League
.
They're pushing them down.
I'm like, wow, y'all just goingto rub it in huh.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
The Green Bay fans are like ha.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
They were angry.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Oh my god, that's funny and also like in this
instance too, there's nothingmore weird than like a bunch of
rich angry tennis people LikeI'm like ew, I don't know, it's
a weird scene and you know thefunny thing about it is,
Danielle made a comment.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
She's like you know what?
I think I'm gonna enjoy my$300,000 at a gym.
Yeah, she's really sticking itto them.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
Yeah, good for her though, but she's probably just
like I think, sometimes at thetop, like how the Williams
sisters has some of that kind ofbravado.
I think it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Yeah, yeah.
And you know the thing is, Iwonder how the Williams sisters
would have been received if theydid that, because you know,
when they first started off, youknow there were a lot of people
that were making some horriblecomments about them and stuff
like that.
Yeah, and you know it waspretty miserable when they first
started, you know.
Yes, but luckily it got better.
But, um, I tipped my head offto daniel.
(55:21):
I was like you know what?
Speaker 2 (55:22):
yeah, I want to do this, okay exactly remember like
uh, that's way better thanremember like a few months ago
we talked about, there was atennis player who was really
bratty towards her ball.
Was it a man or a woman?
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Oh, yes, remember that.
I remember that was a femaletennis player, but I don't
remember her name.
Speaker 2 (55:40):
Yeah, me neither.
But like I would rather thatbehavior, the other behavior,
danielle's behavior, thansomeone being like such a bitch.
You know part of my but like tome.
Like that, that's disrespectful.
If you're disrespectful aboutthe ball, people and the game,
this to me was silly andfrivolous.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
Oh yeah, definitely it wasn't directed at any one
person either.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
This was one heck of a day.
Hey, you know what?
Before we go, did you watch anyof the inauguration today?
Speaker 2 (56:13):
I did, I definitely did.
I had a mixture of emotions.
Yeah, all I say is I hope forthe best for all of us.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Yeah, I look at it like this Whether you voted,
voted for him or not, whetheryou like him or not um,
obviously you want yourpresident to do well, because if
your president fails, thecountry fails yeah regardless of
whether they're democratic orrepublican.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
So definitely I also like.
My one thing, too, to me isthat, like I feel very welcoming
about if to me especially oflike, if anyone feels like they
have a different gender or adifferent like I just I hope
trans people are protectedduring this time and I think you
know, like to me, thatsituation gets very murky when
(57:03):
it's like you're denying peopleof who they feel like they are.
and you know, like I'm notsomeone, that I don't feel like
we need to all have our pronounslike stapled onto our forehead
or anything, but I feel likeeveryone should feel safe to
express who they are inside andno matter what.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
So yeah, Well, the reality is, Merle is.
To me, discrimination in anyform is wrong.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Exactly, yeah, totally.
So that that was weird.
I can see if you're a transperson like feeling very erased
today and I think that that'snot right.
But I think we'll have to waitand see and then it will take
people to advocate for what'sabout to happen.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
That is true.
We definitely have to pray.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
Yeah, the one thing too.
I didn't know, as a kind ofsomewhat conspiracy person like
me, did you see that he's goingto release the JFK?
I mean, who knows how much ofit is actually going to be
released?
But I saw when the babbling wasthat he said that he was going
to release the files on whathappened to JFK and Really.
Yeah, yeah.
(58:02):
So I mean, who knows, who knows?
But a lot of the class,Supposedly a lot of the
classified government stuff isgoing to be blown wide open.
But know, I'm sure like there'sstill some element of like,
then everyone's like okay, thenthat's.
Is that going to be the epsteincase too?
Speaker 1 (58:17):
you know so yeah, I kind of wondered because of the
fact that, even if they releaseit, is it going to be redacted?
Because exactly you've seenforms that's been released and
like 80 of it is all blacked out, so you kind of really don't
see it anyway, yeah, yeah, yeahyeah.
So it'll be interesting to seehow much of it is actually truly
(58:39):
open to the public to see.
Speaker 2 (58:41):
Yes, exactly.
So, yep, that was.
That was the only part that Isaw about.
You know, if I felt like, if,if I was a non-binary person or
whatever, or someone that felt amixture of whatever, I would
feel.
And I feel that way for themtoo, because it's like, okay, we
can target that group of people, but then, even if it doesn't
affect you, it does because itcan easily we've seen many ways
(59:02):
it can easily get to your owngroup.
Speaker 1 (59:06):
So it's important to be safe.
Well, Meryl, what do you havecoming up?
Speaker 2 (59:12):
Oh my gosh, I have so much I have.
Um, let's see the next show.
Oh, for people, actually I'mdoing I'm on a really great
comedy show.
Um, that's all.
The proceeds are going tobenefit the la wildfire.
Uh, like the firefighters andstuff.
So that is near the santabarbara area on saturday.
So it's in Ventura and, ifanyone, I forget exactly where
(59:33):
it is.
Speaker 1 (59:33):
I think it's at a winery, but people can just
check my Instagram Perfectperfect, and so is there a link
they go to or everything is onyour.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
Everything's on my Instagram.
I think they just like you canjust show up.
It's not like a winery, butit's actually with like really
good people.
I'm really excited for the whoI'm performing with.
They're really really reallyfunny.
So, and actually one of theperformers is a full-time
airline attendant, and so he andhe's a wonderful comedian too,
a guy named Howard, but he'slike famous in the airline world
(01:00:05):
because everyone loves him somuch and he's so funny, so it's
really cool.
Nice, nice, we'll definitelydefinitely make sure that people
know about that.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Well, everyone, this was another great episode.
Um, as you may or may not beaware, we're on LRTV network
streaming channel and also wehave our own podcast.
Thirsty Topics and new episodesare posted every Wednesday,
thursday, depending on whichplatform, because I'm on all the
(01:00:38):
major platforms, so make surethat you tune in and listen to
us or watch us and follow us.
I had a great time.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
I'm Meryl Clemo.
I also had a great time.
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
And don't forget to make sure you check out Meryl.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Yay, aw, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Have a great day everyone.
Bye.
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