Wildfires and Safety Fears: Unveiling Truths Behind Celebrity Scandals and Technology Shifts 1/15/25

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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'm Meryl Clemo.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Meryl, how have you been?
It's been a long time since wetalked.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm so happy to be back.
I was like I feel like the pastmonth has been ripe with topics
and I just I missed you as ahuman.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yes, that's true.
I mean there's been a lot ofcraziness that's been going on
lately.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Did you have a good break overall?
You probably talked about it onyour other shows, but did it
get?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
exciting.
I had a really, really goodtime.
My son came in For Christmas.
He's actually back in town thisweek, so I've been hanging with
him Doing stuff around thehouse, working on some new stuff
.
Our show, thirsty Topics, isnow on podcast and it's on all

(01:10):
the major podcast stations,including Spotify, iheartradio
and several others.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Oh, we're fancy, fancy.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
So, yes, I'm very excited about that.
How about you?
What's been going on with you?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, first I want to know when your son comes home.
Does he just like the way Iatrophy, even being in you know
whatever my upper 30s, lower 40swhenever I go to visit my
parents, still I'm just likehere's my laundry.
Does your son like regress whenhe comes to your house, or does
he maintain like the?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
life of a normal adult.
Who's responsible?
Um, he's pretty good aboutbeing responsible.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
He's kind of far away to bring his laundry, so I
don't have to worry about thatokay, okay, mine is this is so
embarrassing, even to admit, butlike my mom will like peel my
oranges.
For me maybe it's a good andonly child thing, but whenever I
go visit my parents, I becomebecome very helpless, even more
than usual.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, no matter how old you are, you never wrote to
your parents.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, but my break was really good, very relaxing.
I felt like this was the firstChristmas that I really I was in
town in Los Angeles for and Ijust watched a lot of movies.
We watched so many of theromantic comedies, like the four
Christmases and holiday and allthose the holiday, every single
one.
So I had a good time.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Nice, nice, nice.
Well, we got a lot to talkabout.
In fact, I will let you startoff with the biggest thing that
everyone's talking about rightnow.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yes, exactly.
So, like my holiday was goodand of course everyone is like
2025 is going to be differentthis year, like it had all the
makings of like a 2020, where itwas like this is our year, guys
.
And then the very I think itwas January 6th I went for a
walk with a friend and it was so, so, so windy here that we were
almost like laughing wherebranches were falling and things

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were.
You know, it was just windy andwe were like you know, this is
weird, but obviously we didn'tknow it was coming.
And then the next day, january7th, multiple fires broke out
again in Los Angeles.
I'm sure you know everyone atthis point in the world has
pretty much heard about what'shappened and we live in Burbank,
so we were right in the middleof there's the Pacific Palisades

(03:27):
fire, which you know.
For people, that's like thewest part of Los Angeles, the
Pacific Palisades and Malibu arelike more towards the ocean and
towards Santa Monica.
But then at first, the firethat we were really worried
about was the Eaton Canyon one,and that's right by Pasadena, so
that's like the east part of it, and a little, a beautiful,
little sweet community namedAltadena is one that just burnt

(03:50):
to the ground, and that's onethat's, like you know, when I'm
driving, when I feel like goingsomewhere for coffee or going
somewhere like Altadena is oneof my kind of go-to places here
in Los Angeles- and it's justlike I think people have this
idea of LA that it's likeBeverly Hills.
You know it's so wealthy.

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Really, communities likeAltadena and Pacific Palisades
are made up of a lot of peoplethat are just working really
hard, and you know they're justscraping by to afford their
houses as well.
And you know, regardless of anysort of income level, it's so
sad when people lose theirhouses and communities and
businesses.
And so right now I think it waslike I looked it up it was over

(04:31):
40,000 acres destroyed, whichobviously too, like as an animal
person, we have a lot ofwildlife in those canyons and in
those mountains.
So I've been seeing a lot oftragic photos of just bears and
deer and you know, a lot of thecoyotes are here confused, and
so for the past couple of daysit seemed like it was getting
better.
Until two nights ago it almoststarted to feel like a Will

(04:53):
Smith movie where we're watchingon the news, and pretty much it
was looking like what was goingto happen was the Pacific
Palisades like one side of itgoes into the valley where I am
in Los Angeles, like one side ofit goes into the valley where I
am in Los Angeles, and so thefirefighters work so hard and
like really got it under control.
Because there was a moment intime where we were worried about
the winds, like carrying itdown the mountain and having it

(05:14):
just wipe out the valley, whichis millions and millions of
people, and so the firefighterslike work overnight, and so it
was one of those nights where wewere checking our phone at
midnight and 3 am just wonderingif we were going to have to
evacuate, and then it was likethe best case scenario when we
woke up to find that it was okay, but now this week we're just
going to be dealing again withreally high winds.

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So, yeah, everyone please givegood thoughts for LA, because
right now it seems to be theworst of the worst, but we don't
know what the next couple ofdays are going to bring.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, you know the crazy thing about it, with all
the coverage and everything, andmaybe it's too early, but I
haven't seen any guess or maybespeculation on what started,
because the crazy thing about itis not only how big and how
fast it's moving where it'slocated, yeah, the fact that so
many are starting like rightafter each other I know and I

(06:09):
think they they have detainedlike one or two arsonists in
different fires, like there wasa uh, the hearst fire, like
little different ones here andthere that were breaking out,
and they did catch one personthat was, you know, an arsonist.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
but like I think they're still trying to
determine if there's a downedpower line.
And so the other thing, too, isjust the social media, like
exhausting discussion, whereit's like, yes, climate change
is real, but it's also this mayhave been a human thing, this
may have been a power line thing, and it's just like.
I feel like what we don't needis every single person making

(06:42):
the cause like their own versionor story, before we even know
what happened, you know, and soum and I also have to say, like
for a city that's kind of seenas very self-centered, like I've
, the community response fromeveryone in la has just been so
touching.
like you know, I never I mean Iknew that la was like very

(07:02):
community-minded and sweet witheach other, but it's just been
overpouring efforts of people inevacuation centers.
Right near me in Burbank is anequestrian ranch and that's
where a lot of large animalspeople are bringing their large
animals, so of course I want tosneak over and volunteer there.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's very hard for me knowing that there's like a
million donkeys right by me yeah, you know, the interesting
thing for me is I mean, yes, youknow houses, cars, all those
things can be replaced, but youkind of feel sorry for the
things that can't be replaced.
You know the memories ofpictures, family heirlooms.
You know memories that youcan't duplicate Once they're

(07:45):
gone, they're gone.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Exactly, and I mean there's so much.
One thing I was going to tellyou too is just obviously like
insurance has gotten shadier andshadier at this point, and so a
lot of people are, I knowthey're trying to put up
roadblocks so that insurancecan't just like drop us this
year and just be like sorrywe're not going to.
we're going to help you but,like, even if these people get
insurance, it might be a yearand a lot of them don't have

(08:08):
another place to live while theyrebuild their homes.
And then it's like imaginerebuilding your home but the
neighborhood itself is all goneand all your neighbors are gone.
So it's like I bet a lot ofpeople are going to be probably
not rebuilding their house likein the Pacific, palisades or
Malibu, because it's like fireshappen all the time.
You're kind of like it mightnot be the best idea to like re

(08:30):
redo it again.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Oh yeah, and you know , the interesting thing too is
depending on your income level.
You know, while they'reobviously working through
rebuilding your home, you know alot of people don't understand
they still have to pay thatmortgage.
Yeah, that scares me, yeah me,yeah you know you're paying a
mortgage on the house that isn'tthere anymore, but then you
have to play stay someplace elsetoo, so hopefully you have

(08:54):
coverage where that's taken careof, but if not, you're paying a
rent and a mortgage at the sametime.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that's really scary and that's how, like you
know, we always wonder howpeople can just become bankrupt
and all these things happen.
But it's like something likethis, but it's, it's really like
.
It's historically like one oftruly one of the worst, um, just
crisis isn't like to happen inlos angeles history, and I mean
in some of the nation, like youknow like the.
Luckily, though, the fatalityrate is really low.

(09:20):
I think it was 24 when I lastchecked.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I was extremely shocked at that number.
Based on the devastation, Iexpected that number to be much
higher.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Me too, and I bet it will be as time goes on, but
especially with like two hugecities just decimated on both
sides.
But I think another good thingabout LA is that for the most
part, we don't play around whenit comes to evacuation and I
think people here are very goodat like listening to orders and
respecting that kind of way.
There's not a ton of peoplethat are like no, I'm just going

(09:53):
to stay in my house, and Ithink I think some people are,
when you know if they're olderand if they just are kind of not
taking it seriously.
But for the most part, like theminute that authorities tell us
what to do, we're doing it.
So, sometimes in a way that Idon't, this is an area where I
like it.
Sometimes during the pandemic Ididn't.
I didn't love it so much, butthat's its own separate thing.
But but yeah, I think it's justso right now, like us

(10:16):
personally, it's so weirdbecause it's like the Palisades
fire that we're keeping an eyeon, whereas a few days ago it
was the one in Pasadena that wewere worried about.
But um, I've also heard frommany, many people that, like
people love getting clothes andall that stuff.
But I think the best thing isif, like finding direct um, like
firefighter recovery funds orlike you know whatever cause you

(10:38):
care about, if it's a women orif it's animals, like finding a
direct site for that that'slegit, and then like giving $50
or $20, you know, I've heardfrom a lot of people in
different evacuation centersthat like they're overwhelmed
with so many people's clothingitems that it just becomes a
little bit too much and thenthey have to sort through that.
So people are saying like $50goes a long way, rather than

(11:00):
just sending in like eight pairsof you know pants that you
don't wear anymore and stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh, exactly I, rather than just sending in like eight
pairs of you know pants thatyou don't wear anymore and stuff
.
Oh exactly, I mean, you knowthe thing is right now everyone
in that area is hurting becauseyou know one.
They have to deal with thedevastation of losing their home
and you know you kind of wonderwhat kind of mental toll that's
going to take on the personyeah um, you know, because
you've been in this house, let'ssay for years, and then,

(11:27):
literally in a blink of an eye,it's gone, just yes, yep, and
your whole community.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Like I, I had a full crying breakdown to my boyfriend
yesterday just because, likethe idea of what a lot of us
live in la, because we were likefollowing our dreams or we had
this little idea of like our losangeles life and our, our minds
since we were little.
And then you come here and it'slike really nothing like you
imagined and it's I mean nowhopefully it will have the
chance to be a little bit betterand I just keep reminding

(11:54):
myself that there's like a lotof good in this and just seeing
people.
But it definitely seemed likeit.
It has like leveled the playingfield in a lot of ways here and
like like we're starting new,but for so many people I don't
even know how they're going tolike regroup after this.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh yeah, and it's amazing the amount of
celebrities that have lost theirhomes.
It's actually pretty shockingand you know, a lot of times you
know people idolize them orthey look down on them like, oh,
you think you're this and that.
But you know you kind of see inus in this moment that they're
going through right now, thatthey're just as human as me and

(12:29):
you because you know a lot ofthem, you know almost have tears
, you know almost gettingemotional that they lost, that
they've been in for so manyyears and all the memories that
are just gone.
Now, yeah, it just comes toshow, no matter how little or
how much money you have, we'reall still human I know, okay, no
, what do you think about?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
there was one.
I also feel I don't.
I definitely don't feel bad forcelebrities, that's not
something I would say, but I dofeel like, um, there's this like
pressure that we put on them,like the same day that they lose
their house.
I feel like there's thispressure for all of them to like
also be the leaders of like,and this is what you can do for
your community, you know, and solike.
For example, I don't know ifyou saw, but like Mandy Moore

(13:09):
got a little bit of flackbecause she shared a bunch of
things, but then her like fourthor fifth story was sharing a
GoFundMe for her sister andbrother-in-law that lost their
home in Altadena, and she got somuch like blowback from people
just saying, like how dare youshare a GoFundMe, aren't you
rich?
You know, couldn't you?
It was basically asking for$60,000 for them, which it is a

(13:31):
little weird that, like shecan't just be like here's 60
grand for you, but but she losther house in the fire too.
So it's like we don't know whatthese people have in our bank
accounts.
And also like, what is shegoing to tell her brother-in-law
?
No, I'm not going to share itto my network.
So you know, all these thingsare like such gray zones because
it's like celebrities want touse their platform and share

(13:52):
things, but then when they share, we're just like how dare you
ask us normal people to payanything?
You know?

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh yeah, and you know also too, most people have to
understand there's literallyonly a very, very small
percentage that are like superwealthy, right, most, most
actors and actresses don't makethe money you think they make
yeah, we'll learn later on oh,you're you read it yeah, yeah,

(14:18):
we'll dive in a little deeper,but you know, a lot of people
have to understand that there'sso many actors and actresses out
there that are trying to chasetheir dreams and trying to make
things happen for them and arebarely getting paid, if anything
at all.
And it's amazing how some ofthese actors that you've seen
still aren't making the moneyyou think they are.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, exactly.
So we don't know, and it's likesometimes these people aren't
even begging normalquote-unquote or you know the
everyday people they're justsharing because they have a big,
a big network and a big likecommunity.
So they're just kind of likeokay, these are people, um, in
altadena that also lost theirhouse.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
So, like some people may care, and to me it's like if
you don't care, you could justeither mute the person or keep
scrolling, you know whatever ohyeah, definitely you know,
hopefully that, uh, you know wedon't have all the scams that
come out, because you know, thebad thing about disasters like
this is all the scammers comeout, left and right, you know,
yeah yeah, but but I was justgonna say some of the funniest

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things that have come out of it.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
There's just been a lot of funny things but like, um
, our mayor, and you know blessher heart, but she's your karen
bass.
She's been been a lot of funnythings but like our mayor, and
you know bless her heart, butshe's Karen Bass she's been
getting a lot of flack for justkind of like not handling things
right.
And I'm glad I'm not in hershoes or any of the leaders
shoes, but who knows, you know,I'm sure time will tell like
what could have been donedifferently and what was not
prepared for a fire, what wasprepared.

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But basically she did this pressconference she's already kind
of like messing up a little bithere and there with some things
and then she did a pressconference and she ended it
saying, um, you can learn moreabout the situation by going to
URL, and then you can tell theyforgot to put the actual website
address.
So if anyone wants to see thevideo, you could just Google,

(16:01):
like Karen Bass URL and she endsher press conference with see
the video.
You could just google likekaren bass url and she ends her
press conference with for moreinformation, go to url.
It almost just seems like anepisode of like parks and rec,
where there's obviously there'sso much sadness and like I've
spent the day crying andlaughing and all this stuff, but
here in la, like we really arerun by a bunch of like

(16:22):
fruitcakes and so it is justit's sometimes like good comic
relief, just for like all themadness and the sadness that is
happening.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, and you know, the reality is is that I would
say that, before people startpointing fingers and all this,
first let's get this problemunder control.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's deal with that first.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
We can always finger point later on.
Right, because I'm quite surethere's a lot of people talking
about well, how did they run outof water?
Because you know there's acertain name because they
literally was running out ofwater fighting fires, yes, yes.
I don't think I've everremembered having the fire
spread so fast in so manydifferent areas all at once.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I know, like like where, where the houses a lot of
the houses burned down inAltadena are not like in the
middle of the woods, youwouldn't think like there's a
coffee shop that I really loveto go to so much and it's down a
little bit like you can see themountain from it, but it's not
like it's in the Canyon.
You know, you would never think, oh, this would be like quickly
gone in a fire.
So you know, and I'm sure ifthere is a foul play, then I

(17:27):
feel like we need to talk moreabout that as well and like,
maybe there needs to be someeducation done on, like why
people commit arson and you know, maybe greater penalties or
whatever.
But yeah, it's just it doesn'tdo anyone any justice when you
feel like you absolutely knowthat it's like.
No, it's definitely this or thatyou know when you don't know
yet.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes, definitely Talking about craziness.
I, like you, thought that, hey,2025 is going to start off to
be a great year.
And then, all of a sudden, wehear about the massacre down in
New.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
York yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yep, unless you've been on the moon or someplace
out in the universe.
Everyone has heard about thegentleman who ran through and
mowed down a bunch of peopledown on the French Quarter.
People died.
He got out the car, had a youknow, a gunfight with the police

(18:25):
.
You know it's.
It's amazing because I know foryears I've been trying to get
my wife hey, let's go celebrate,you know, down in new Orleans,
maybe for new year's Eve orwhatever and you know we could
have easily been down there andbe honest with you, but we
weren't.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah.
And you know it kind of makesyou want to pause about you know
going to places around a lot ofpeople because you know you
don't know who's there and whattheir intentions are vibe a lot

(19:05):
of times at night and it can getreally rowdy, but like you
count on it being a certainlevel of safe where it's like
okay, you may not want to be bythere by yourself there as a
woman at like 2 am, but it's.
It's for different reasons,other than thinking a car is
gonna like mow down pedestriansor like it's just so scary and
at any given time there's justno people there, just like you
know, walking the streets orcelebrating any given hour of
the day.
And I saw that it was right byone of the hotels, I think Royal

(19:30):
Sinesta or something.
Did you see the video of thecar like going through?

Speaker 1 (19:34):
I saw the video of the car going through.
I actually saw a woman thatliterally missed being hit by
inches.
I mean, she literally jumped onthe sidewalk.
Really, get out of the way ofthis guy.
Obviously, they're not going toshow you everything, for
obvious reasons.
Yeah, video, but it was justamazing.

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This guy really really wantedto mow people down and the crazy
thing about it was either thesame day or the next day was the
guy in the Tesla truck thatblew it up in front of Trump
Tower.
Remember that.
It's like OK.
2025 is not starting off theway I thought it was going to
start, I know.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I know and I guess those two things, like they
don't think they're connectedRight, or they don't know if
they are or not.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
They don't think they are, but they may not know
Because it's just too early.
But a lot of people say that hepicked the wrong vehicle
because I guess it's like anarmored tank that he basically
tried to blow up and it kind ofcontained most of that explosion
as opposed to doing much harm.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
And the crazy thing about it was, unfortunately, the
gentleman that blew up theTELSA vehicle.
He's actually an active dutymilitary person that was on
leave.
Really, that's what's so crazyabout it, yes.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
And it's just with all this I just remembered, even
like the assassination attemptlike a few months ago.
It's just like it's so scary.
And it's also because wasn'tthe New Orleans one was like a
religious, I don't even want tosay it in, it gets us like
banned or something, but like apart of a terrorist group the
guy had joined.

(21:19):
For New Orleans yes yeah, yeah,which is like but what they did
is they?

Speaker 1 (21:23):
first, they started off saying that they were
looking for other people becauseit was more than just him then,
they came back later.
I want to say, maybe within aday or two later, saying that no
, he was a, a solo person, justdid on his own.
And that's the thing aboutinformation is you got to be
careful running with stuff,because when things happen, you

(21:44):
don't know what the story is.
Right.
Much have to let it you know,play out and get real
information, because you don'twant to put out fake information
too.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
That gets people riled up and upset definitely,
and especially like sometimes,uh, especially with groups of
people, when information comesout like, say, it's like you
know, islamic terrorist group orsomething like, then we don't
want to go and hurt innocentpeople that are islamic, that
are walking down the street.
You know what I mean.
I feel so bad sometimes whenthese things happen and then it

(22:14):
like profiles a large portion ofinnocent people that aren't
doing anything bad and you knowthey get a lot of stuff done
against them, which is obviouslyan issue like an overall bigger
issue, but like, yeah, that'sso, so, scary and who knows,
even sometimes I feel like theyput out information that like

(22:37):
they want us to hear drips anddrabs of it, but I bet we don't
even get the whole story.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Oh yeah, you know.
The one thing about it, too, iswe don't know if it was a
religious reason behind oranything, but if it was, look at
that individual, don't look atthe whole, you know.
In other words, if and again Idon't know if he's Islamic or
whatever, don't look at all thepeople in that group based on
this one individual.

(23:00):
That's the one thing I think weneed to be careful about,
because we're so quick todemonize a whole group of people
, and that needs to stop.
I know that person didsomething evil.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Get mad at that person.
Yes, yep, and I heard also thatthere was other uh bombs or
whatever like placed around neworleans.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Scary stuff yeah, it's very scary.
It's just I don't know.
You just got to be careful.
I mean, let me ask you, meryl,did that deter you?
Deter you from, you know, goingto places or going to big
events?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Well, no, and but remember, if you, a few weeks
ago or months ago, I was just inNew Orleans and for the comedy
festival and I had such a greattime and like where I performed
was a place called the ComedyHouse.
It's moving now, but it wasright in the French Quarter.
So, like you know, a few weeksago I was that person like
walking around the FrenchQuarter at 2 am.
So, no, it doesn't deter me.

(23:55):
I already have like a level ofjust paranoia all the time,
which is so sad.
But I think it's just now.
A lot of the American way isjust sometimes being in a movie
theater and being scared or likelooking for the exits.
We ended up not making it therefor different reasons, but like
we were going to go to the RoseBowl parade in Pasadena this

(24:16):
year New Year's Day, which isreally fun, but like part of me
was kind of like, okay, thiswould be like a targeted event.
It seems like that would be onthe more you know highly looked
at type of event for these typesof things that we've had to
deal with with violent attacks,and so it does make me like more
apt to just be like it's okayif we don't go, you know.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, but it's a shame that you even have to
think that way.
I know.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I know, but I think about that all the time, even in
just like busy malls or grocerystores or you know.
But that's also I'm just likeanxious in general and all these
things, like the new orleansthing, it's like you can't
predict when and where and likehow to not be one of the weird
like six people that got youknow that get hurt from it, or
it's just so weird, veryarbitrary yeah, I mean, even

(25:02):
though that person chose, uh,bourbon street.
If you really think aboutfestivals and events going on
across the united states, itliterally could be anywhere yeah
, definitely, and I think aboutevery night when I was just in
Times Square and like it didn'teven dawn on me to feel scared
then, because I almost just feltlike it almost felt like so
many people, that it almost feltcalming in a way where I'm like
, ok, everyone's just here doingtheir little thing and it just

(25:25):
felt like very nice.
But yeah, it's scary.
I hope we're, don't you always,though, like no matter who the
incoming president is, itusually gets a little crazy
around the switchover time aswell.
Hopefully we'll be back to somesemblance of safety soon.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's true.
I mean, I agree with that.
I mean one of the things Ithink we need to understand is
that, regardless of who thepresident is, you want your
president to succeed, because ifyour president fails, we all
fail right so, even if yourcandidate didn't get into office
, you still do not want yourpresident to fail.
Yeah, because again, we allfail and the country does.

(26:05):
So I just hope that thebeginning of this year is not a
a preview of what's to come.
I know, and.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I know you'll like this too, but I was just
thinking like there definitelywere a few looter people in the
fires which I mean I don't knowhow people can be.
So whatever that, like, youknow, there's a fire going on
and everyone's trying their bestand then some people want to go
and steal, like a watch orsomething.
But I feel like, for, like,however many say, there's like
10 looters, there's like 10,000people donating and taking in

(26:34):
pets and you know showing up.
So I always feel like the goodis going to outweigh the insane.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
I agree.
I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Okay, well, speaking of insane, now we're going to
get into some fun.
Just not fun, not fun, but somecatty stuff.
The sad part is what the storyis about, but we'll get some.
Get a little petty here.
Uh.
So allison hulker, widow of uhtwitch, you know the dancer and
on the ellen show, um, this verylovely man who unfortunately

(27:08):
succumbed to uh suicide a few, Ithink, about when he was a year
ago, I don't know, I thinkabout a year ago or so, but
anyway, his widow, alison Holker, announced that she was going
to be writing a memoir her ownmemoir but also a lot about him
as well which included prettymuch some of his stories and

(27:30):
exposing a lot of his depression, in the hopes that it would
help other people.
But saying that a lot would berevealed about Twitch that
wasn't already public knowledge,maybe even sharing some of his
journals and like some of hisprivate things that she later
found out after he passed awayand a lot of people has, it

(27:51):
sparked mixed reactions.
So, like some people accusedher of capitalizing on his death
and just kind of being verylike clout chaser-y, some other
people said this is part of hergrieving process and maybe, if
it does help and I think shesaid the proceeds of the book go
to a charity, but then it'slike a non-profit that she's
starting to, so it's not reallylike an established mental

(28:12):
health one, it's like herfoundation.
Um, I don't know.
It's really really crazybecause, like I heard her on
some podcast right after hisdeath and like I immediately did
not like her very much, Ithought that she just seemed
like very I don't know.
I don't know how to describe it, but she I did not get a good
like gut check from her, fromher.
um, I'm sure she is grieving andit sounds like she really did

(28:34):
love him very much, but thewhole thing just seems like the
fact that his parents are veryupset about it.
His friends have said that it'slike some of the tackiest
things that they've ever seen.
It's like even if you thinkit's a good idea, the kind of
hubris to go forward with thiswhen you've gotten so much
backlash.
I feel like if this washappening I would just be like

(28:57):
oh, never mind, like I'm sosorry.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I did this Just like.
How can you do that whensomeone's family is really upset
by it?
Yeah, I mean, I guess there's afew ways to look at it.
You know, because this is hiswife, you know she sees another
side of him that the publicdoesn't see and she knows him
way better than you know I hateto say it but even some of his
family members, because they'remarried.
They, you know, they're witheach other day in and day out

(29:22):
and you know there may be a lotof things he'd been going
through that no one knows about.
You know, a lot of times whenpeople unfortunately decide to
go down the route of takingtheir own life, they've been
going through some things for awhile and most of the time
suffering silence.
So I guess for me it depends onhow it's portrayed.

(29:42):
Um, you know, if it's laid outin a way of showing his
struggles, how he's trying toget over his struggles, maybe
warning signs that were missed?
I think that's a healthy thing.
I think that's a good thing.
Now, if it's a lot ofscandalous stuff that's going to
make him look a certain waydifferent than what most people
see him as, then that would bewrong.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think it's a little bit too early to know and again
, I can understand from bothpoint of views.
Um, because sometimes you knowyou want to tell your own story,
or someone you love, you careabout, has passed away.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
You want to make sure that story is told the way they
think that it was, it should betold right and I think you're
right if it overall serves apurpose to help out with like
mental health or recognizingsigns of things or I think, then
I'll be okay with that.
But if it's salacious detailsabout him and she's exposing him
and not really her, it's likewhy don't you, If you're going

(30:40):
to be super vulnerable aboutanyone, do it on your own
experience?
To me it just seems like that.
But I don't know, I don't getthe greatest vibe.
But we'll see.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, we vibe but but we'll see.
Yeah, I mean, like I said,we'll find out sooner or later.
But the family has to realizeis that you know the wife is the
next of kin.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
So you know, yeah, plead, beg, get angry or
whatever, but you know, at theend of the day, you know she has
to say so I know, I know, andit's always weird when there's
children involved too, becausenow they're seeing like not only
whatever details are about tocome out, but now they're like
seeing their mom get a lot ofbacklash and it's probably
causing a big rift in the familyin general, within their

(31:20):
friends too.
You know, a lot of people havespoken out just that, who are
friends with both of them andjust kind of called her like not
, you know, not the greatestthing, so, um, we'll keep an eye
on it.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Or maybe it could be like the nicest, most tactful
book and everyone eats theirwords and basically it's like,
oh okay, that's not what we wereexpecting yeah, and you know
the other thing, merle, which isreally sad is, you know, a lot
of times celebrities andcelebrities family really have
to get ahead of things.
So, in other words, if theyknow something not so flattering
is about to come out, it's bestfor you to put it out and frame

(31:55):
the narrative, versus it comeout a different way.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, totally, and I know she keeps saying he would
want this.
I think he would probably wanther to be helping people, but I
don't know if anyone would wantall of their details that they
did keep private to be exposedin a book.
And then her going on booktours and like I don't know.
It just seems a little weird,but who knows?

Speaker 1 (32:18):
That's true.
Well, like I said, the proofwill be in the pudding very,
very soon.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
I don't trust anyone that dances full time Honestly
between like Ellen and like Iswear it's a big red flag for
anyone to notice that ifsomeone's like constantly
dancing and looks happy 24-7,it's a ruse.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Talk about a ruse.
This actually goes into a goodone that we're about to talk
about.
I don't know if you're reallyinto sports, Meryl.
Have you ever heard of SkipBayless?

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Not until an hour before today, when I read about
him.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Before that, no, I haven't.
For most people who reallyaren't into sports that much.
Skip Bayless used to be areporter or commentator for Fox
Sports.
For Fox Sports, he's now beingsued allegedly for offering

(33:23):
female co-worker $1.5 millionfor sex, and there's a whole
bunch of other allegations ofthings that he have done or may
not have done.
And what's interesting aboutthis is you're starting to see
this trickle effect of variousathletes, various high-profile
entertainers and all this stuffcoming out with sexual assault,

(33:45):
assumed sexual assault, verydisgusting behavior and stuff
like that.
I don't know.
It's just crazy to me that it'slike the floodgates have just
opened up.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, I was reading one of the things that the
reports, that it said, like Ithink he wrote to her at one
point like the more you tell meno, the more I want you.
The more you say no to things,the more.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
I want you, which is like so weird, yeah, and you
know the crazy thing.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Say no to things, the more I want you, which is so
weird.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah.
And you know, the crazy thingis, if that is true, I mean
that's kind of like borderlinebe a charge too.
Yeah, yeah, when a woman tellsyou no, no means no, I don't
give a damn what you watch, ot,what people tell you, well, no
means no, it doesn't.
No means no, period.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Right, and if he was going to pay her $1.5 million to
sleep with her or something?
Did I see that correct in thearticle?

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yep.
I don't know, but if you're ahalf-decent guy, you don't have
to spend $1.5 million.
I'm trying to be very clean andprofessional with this, but you
don't need to spend $1.5million, no.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Maybe $150, but no, I'm just kidding, not that much.
For that.
They better take me to like theFrench Riviera or something.
But yeah, no, I mean that'sjust crazy.
And especially when a womanthat's around your profession
repeatedly tells you no and saysshe's not interested and is not
for sale basically, you know,or not for hire in that kind of

(35:21):
way, then yeah, you should notbe keep pressing and make her
feel uncomfortable, but good forher.
Like we said too, like the morewe see this about people
speaking out about athletes andit's getting more and more where
the playing field is not likepeople aren't so afraid of
public figures or coaches orathletes that they they can't
speak up yeah, that's true, butyou know, the interesting thing

(35:44):
is and a lot of people are nottalking about this is that you
know it was kind of like astanding joke that a lot of
people in the office there knewwhat was going on.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
It wasn't like it was an isolated event.
And, yes, it's a good thingthat if he did do this, he's
getting called out and he'sgoing to have his feet brought
to the fire on it, but I stillsay that other people probably
need to have their feet broughtto the fire too.
Yeah to the fire too.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, and I mean it's a tough line to walk because I
feel like there's offices.
There's always not always, buta lot of times there's a dynamic
of like the creepy personhitting on you or you know, like
someone making passes, and it'slike it's hard to know that
balance of when it becomes anactual issue and when it's just
creepy and just kind of unwanted, so I think that's.

(36:29):
A good point is that usuallythere's other people witnessing
what's happening too.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, and you know I just don't like when people go.
Well, you know I don't want toget involved, it's not my
business, whatever.
But you have to understand thatwhen you allow this stuff to go
on around you, you don't sayanything about it.
Not only do you perpetrate itand keep it going on, but you
also create a very hostile workenvironment that no one wants to

(36:56):
be in.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
And this person is not going to get any better.
Once they do something, theythink they got away with it.
They're only going to get worse.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah, do you know, does Skip have a family, like,
does he have a wife and kids oranything?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
You know what that I do not know.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Okay, that's.
The other thing too is like ifhe does, that's also a double
layer of embarrassment, and likeI'm sure he will be getting a
divorce or you know whatever.
Whoever is out there that mightbe with him too is probably
obviously not happy about allthis.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, and you know.
The thing too is, I know thatthere's some people that work
with him that are, to his best,saying well, you know, skip is
very cheap.
I can't see him doing that.
Because you know this and thatyou know you got to be careful,
because the one thing you don'twant to do is go down that hole
with them and then find out allthis stuff is true.

(37:46):
And then now people are lookingat you.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, and a lot of like leaders too.
Or you or you know not leaders,but executives can do the thing
where they're like, oh, I'llgive you 1.5 million, and then
the day comes and they eitherdon't make good on their
promises or they're like, okay,I'll give you ten thousand
dollars, like a year, for thenext 90 years or something.
So, um, but could you imaginealso people saying, no, the

(38:11):
reason you didn't commit assaultis because you're cheap.
It's not like no, you wouldn'tdo that because you have
character or high values.
It's like no, we know him, he'scheap.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
That's true.
That's true, but I don't know,it's just weird, and I just
don't understand why men do thatpersonally.
Why men do that personally.
Yeah, to me there's enoughwomen out there that love sex
just as men, right as much asmen.
I'm quite sure it can't be thathard Now.

(38:42):
Granted, I've been marriedabout 30 years, so I may not
know.
Okay, I'll be the first toadmit that, but I cannot see it
being that difficult to whereyou can't find someone.
And I could be wrong, I couldbe totally wrong.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Especially if you're a guy in an industry like
something like sports or, youknow, like a flashier industry
where a lot of people you maynot even have to be the most
attractive or most charismatic,but if you have a cool job that
goes for a lot of things too,and if you're well-connected,
like you know, those areattributes that tend to usually
have no issues with at leastfinding people.

(39:18):
It may not be like qualitypartners, but that's true,
that's true.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
And if you're on TV yeah, you are I'm quite sure
there's people lining up to wantto date you.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
So, Weird.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Very, very weird um, oh, okay, I'm so excited for
this next one.
Okay, this makes me reallyhappy, okay.
So, uh, I saw this and I waslike man, we have to talk about
this, okay?
So a bride named lauren averygained viral attention after
posting a tiktok video where sheremoved her professionally
applied wedding makeup, sayingthat she you know it was a video

(39:53):
of her basically washing herface like I can't wait to take
this makeup off.
And then she ended up doing themakeup herself, which, funnily
enough, like, looked verysimilar to how it was done
before.
She redid her whole face topretty much have it look to us
very similar of how it looked.
And the makeup artist ended upresponding because it was

(40:16):
getting millions and millions ofviews.
And, um, at first, of course,people were like, oh, I'm sorry,
girl, but then the pendulum, asit always does, started to
swing and more and more peoplewere like, why would you put
this public and not just like,keep it private?
Or, you know, your makeup looksgreat.
What you're trying to be meanabout this makeup artist?
And basically, this issomeone's hard work.
Um, so it ended up gaining somuch traction that then the

(40:39):
makeup artist uh, conger orkendra jones, I think she's
twirly, she is on tiktok waskind of summoned and she she
appeared and she's like okay,well, this is my first tiktok
and I guess this video has beenseen by like 21 million people
so far, and so I think she didthe best reaction, saying I
remember this bride.
She was actually really nice andI was so shocked to see this

(41:02):
video because they did like adry run of all the makeup before
, so she did the bride's face.
The bride seemed happy.
They kind of did the same thingagain on the wedding day and
she was like you have everyright to tell us that you don't
like something.
But instead the bride actedsweet and happy and was smiling
and then made this horrendousvideo, just basically trying to
like embarrass and humiliate her, and she got so much like

(41:26):
people were just commenting thatshe got so much support and
other makeup artists werebacking her up and stitching the
video and just calling theoriginal woman out.
So I thought that was reallycool and I just thought like I
don't know, that's such a bitchymove of the girl and her
wedding was five months ago, solike it wasn't like a heat of
the moment thing where just itwasn't in real time where this
just happened this weekend.

(41:47):
It was something that happenedfive months ago.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
I think it was such a .

Speaker 1 (41:57):
It was a pretty shitty move and right I mean
she's like a snotty girl, like Imean if you don't like
something you know you tell thatperson right away.
I don't think you go online andyou try and call them out to
try and get viral, viral videosand yeah, but because also, what
you could do, you could, youknow, destroy this person's
career.
Yeah, I mean, luckily she didhave support on there to help

(42:18):
her out.
But you know, to do that wasjust shit it to me there's no
way around it no, and I couldsee it.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
I think it flopped too, because it would be one
thing if she came out lookinglike how that character, mimi on
the drew carrie show, used tolook like.
You know, if it looks soobviously horrendous that it's
laughable, then sure, put it upand be like.
This is not what I wanted.
You know we talk, remember Iforget if you and I talked about
this, but a few months agothere was this like sepia gate

(42:46):
thing on.
Some wedding photographer madethis one person's wedding photos
, all this like sepia filtercolored.
And then it was this big thingon tiktok where, yeah, remember
where it was like this bigdiscussion of like who who could
make who, who owns the,basically the creativeness to
your wedding photos, and so Ifeel like that was something

(43:07):
that, like at least a lot ofpeople are like, yeah, that's a
weird sepia toneed thing thatthat does look different than
what I would like it, whereasthis wedding makeup looked very
neutral and natural and itwasn't like offensive by any
means, and I thought this womanjust had like the best response.
Um, I think that's the power oftiktok or, you know, social
media is that she was able tocome on and just talk right to

(43:28):
the camera and be reallyauthentic and so many
celebrities were like commentingunder her and she just like it
was good to see a response thatwas more truthful.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Yeah, and you know, if she's asking you hey, do you
like this?
Is this okay?
That's your opportunity to sayno.
You know what?
Can you add a little bit hereor take a little bit yeah.
Don't let her do it and sayeverything looks great and then
turn around and try and throwher under the bus later.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Exactly, and just filming a video of yourself
taking off your makeup, likethat's not that news-breaking of
a thing.
Like you know, I can see ifyour makeup is running down your
face or like somethingmonumentous happened, but like
why do we need to see a video oflike a kind of snotty girl like
and her snotty friends likewashing off makeup?

Speaker 1 (44:13):
it's just like a, it's very mean girlish yeah, I
just think that she just showedwho she really is yeah, that
girl is cooked, as the kids saynow because she's.
She went private real fast onher social media yeah, didn't go
out the ways that she thoughtit was exactly, you know, it
backfired so much I don't know.

(44:33):
I mean, if you had a client likethat, how would you feel?
Though you know, you thinkyou're doing a great job.
They tell you everything looksgreat and then they turn around
and pull this nonsense.
I mean, how would you feel?

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Probably honestly, like the first level of like
shocked and probably feelinglike you got it, like not the
wool pulled over your eyes, buta little bit of just yeah, like
shock, I would say I luckilyhave not had that happen.
But probably I would react inthe same way where I think I
would probably wait to calmmyself down just because it is

(45:05):
work related, and I wouldn't bedefensive, but I would just say,
hey, like you told me you likethis work and I'm a little
confused, and then I would maketheir life hell, then I would
take out a voodoo, hit on them.
But no, I think I think you'reright where everyone's like I've
had that before withhairstylists where I've just, at
the end result, I've told them,hey, I really like my hair

(45:28):
looks purple, or like I don'tknow why it looks like this and
we've had a communication aboutit.
You know, I feel like,especially for females not
everyone, but beauty things area big deal where it's like a bad
haircut or a bad makeup thingcould really ruin not your life,
but it's like you could ruin aday or a week or whatever.
I understand the gravity of it,but communicating like that is

(45:52):
definitely very assholey.
What about you.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
I think first I would agree.
I would have to calm down first, because I'd probably be
enraged, and then I would reachout to them and like why did you
say this is okay if it reallywasn't?
And instead of just talking tome, why go this childish route?
I would have definitely went tothem about that.
Of course I have to be cleanbecause we're on the show, but

(46:18):
my words probably be a littlebit different.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Exactly, I think, when people have good intentions
, or not even good intentions,but just neutral intentions,
then when people do us wrong,that's where it makes me feel
crazy, because I'm like no, Imess up enough on my own.
I don't need to assume that I'mlike, no, I like mess up enough
on my own.
I don't need to be like youknow, assume that I'm doing
something on purpose poorly whenI'm not.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
I hear you talking about poorly.
This is actually prettyshocking, but and I'm going to
try and say this slow becauseI've been known to butcher
people names- try not to butcherhis name, this is an actor.
He actually starred in Shazamthe movie.
I don't know if you got achance to see it, oh yeah.

(47:01):
Yep, yep, his name is DajamanHunsu.
Hopefully, again, I didn'tbutcher his name too bad.
Recently he disclosed that he'sstruggling financially and
what's interesting about him is,besides being in Shazam, I've

(47:21):
actually seen him in other showsand other movies, stuff like
that, and I was pretty shockedto see him make that statement
because, being that he's on thebig screen and I'm guilty of
this too I figured he's doingpretty well for himself.
So to hear that, uh, you know,he's not getting paid what he
feels he deserves, and stufflike that, is actually pretty

(47:43):
sad and it's actually morecommon than people think yeah, I
think we would be shocked if wesaw what's in actors bank
accounts.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
I feel like we would be shocked both ways.
Where I bet there's people likeinfluencers and more internet
personalities, I bet we would beshocked at how wealthy they are
.
And then I bet there's a lot offamous actors and more of the
actual traditional actors that Ithink we'd be shocked at that
they're not billionaires,trillionaires the way that we
think they are.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Oh yeah, I mean, I remember when Taraji P Hinton
was really upset about notgetting paid her worth in the
music, in the film industry.
You know she's been doing a lotof great films over years, a
lot of iconic roles.
You know I think about her andI think about a lot of other
actors and you know you wonderis it an industry thing?

(48:34):
You know, is it an issue thatyou know people of color still
have to fight to get their due?
You know there's a whole lot ofpossible reasons to it yeah.
But you know, when you see themon the big screen, that's where
it kind of surprises you, whenyou hear about people struggling
, you know.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
I know and to think, like I always think about that,
where I'm like, oh my God,matthew McConaughey has to like
pay bills.
You know, obviously at his levelhe has people paying his bills
for him.
But I think about that too Alot of times where, say, if they
get like a million or 2 millionfor a movie, okay, well then,
like their agency might take out8% or something, and then they
have other fees managers,assistants.

(49:16):
You know, by the time thesechunks kind of break down, it's
still a lot of money and it's alot more than the average
American is making.
But like it's when you'reliving in Los Angeles and your
rent is $27,000 a month and youknow you have all these things
to do, it gets, it does getpretty costly just to like exist
in this world.
I think it's also an imagething because we see these

(49:37):
people with certain clothes andcertain things.
But we also have to realize alot of times those are gifted,
where they, you know they borrowdiamond earrings at the Met
Gala or like a lot of thesethings are rented basically.
So it's a lot of the smoke andmirrors, but oh, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
And you know the other thing too, and you
actually hit on a great pointwhat?
And you know the other thingtoo, and you actually hit on a
great point what a lot of peopledon't understand about when
artists whether it's music,whether it's in the movies, a
small screen or whatever theirpay is so much different than
everyone else's pay.
Yeah, because let's say andwe'll just keep it even let's
say, they make a million dollars, wow, that's a, that's a large

(50:13):
payday, that's nice.
Well, for them, they have topay their agents.
If they have stylists and otherpeople.
Yeah, they have to get paid.
That comes from the artist,that doesn't come from the
studio.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Right PR people that's so expensive.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
And then also, too, when you have these contracts,
you know it's suicidal for youto read a contract on your own,
so you're going to need legalrepresentation, yeah, yeah.
And then, when it's all said ordone, you're paying about 40 to
50 percent tax.
Yeah, so it's not as much moneyas you think when it's said and

(50:52):
done.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
No, I think the people that have the big bucks.
There's different sections, Ithink A, the ones that have
diversified, like who havestarted production companies,
like the Reese Witherspoons andthe Drew Barrymores, and the
ones that just get out of beingan actual actress and then move
on to more of the producertaking on roles, and then B, the

(51:13):
people with residual checkscoming in, like the Jennifer
Anistons and the people thathave friends, but hopefully we
don't know what deal they madeup front.
But the people that are gettingthe Seinfeld money, the Friends
money, all that stuff.
I feel like that's wherebecause even if it's not a ton,
you still have money coming in,whereas a lot of people if you
just do one movie you're kind oflike out done with it.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Oh yeah, and you know the other part too, and it's so
important you got to have theright lawyer because really you
make your money based on thatcontract yeah you know.
So in other words, if you have amovie or, let's say, a series
that you know is probably goingto be in a lot of rotation for
reruns, you want that contractwritten correctly to where you

(52:01):
get a little something everytime it's played yep, and it's
like why do we think so manypeople too are like game show
hosts after they, you know, Ibet, if you ask most game show,
I mean some people love that,they want to do it, but it's
like you could.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Or doing like geico commercials or something.
It's like they're not they'renot doing it just because it's
fun, it's because a lot of timesthey're they're used to living
this very like high up theirlifestyle too, and a lot of
people it's hard to go from likea hollywood mansion just to a
normal little like humble familyhouse.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
For a lot of people yeah, I mean, you know, in the
same token I actually readsomething I don't know if it's
true or not Do you rememberJaleel White?
He played Urkel on FamilyMatters.
Well, he's actually a game showhost on a network, which really
shocked me.
But yeah, you know, and he was.

(52:52):
He was interviewed andsupposedly he said that he
turned down a lot of rolesbecause basically and they give
a great example they wanted himto do some type of reality show
and in a reality show he wasgoing to basically talk about
his addiction.
Well, the problem to that is hedoesn't have an addiction and

(53:15):
never did.
They just wanted him to make upon, doesn't?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
have an addiction, and never did they just wanted
to make up on it or something.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
They wanted to pay him half of what he got paid
when he was on Family Matters.
He's like no, I'm not doing it.
He's like no, it's not thatserious.
Oh my gosh it makes you wonderhow many of these?
Because denzel washington didthe same thing, where he turned
down roles, uh, even as astarving actor.

(53:44):
Um, because he just wanted toplay certain roles and he just
wanted his career to go acertain direction.
And I I tip my hat off to him,because a lot of actors and
actresses their mindset is iswell, I'll take anything right
now because I want to get myname out.
Yeah, sometimes that's not agood thing.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Right.
No, I know, and I think wethink of like all actors, like
the Vince Vons and the A-listpeople.
But then there's so many B-listand C-list actors that we see
on TV and we're like, oh okay,they were in the office, you
know they must be famous, butthey're like, nope, they're
living like a very like uppermiddle class life, not a, you
know, crazy like lavishlifestyle.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
That's true, and you know times change too, because I
remember Todd Bridges, whichsadly he's the only living
member of Different Strokes now,because everyone else has
passed away.
You know, he, that you knowback then they didn't have the
life-changing money that youknow that actors and actresses
have today yeah, yep so yeah,it's, it's very interesting, but

(54:45):
um, yeah like I said you know,just because you see someone on
a big screen doesn't meanthey're making the money right
and and.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
And.
The flip side is sometimes it'slike I can't believe how much
some influencers get paid forlike brand deals or you know
what I mean.
It's almost the the flip side,where it's like it's become less
glamorous to be like ahollywood actress and almost
more lucrative to be like adigital influencer.
As soon as we crack into that,then it's amazing how much some

(55:15):
of them work.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
I know like are you.
Are you effing kidding me this?

Speaker 2 (55:20):
guy like twenty thousand dollars for like one
instagram story.
Meanwhile, I'm posting like 800instagram stories and getting
like three views and, yeah,totally, people will pay me to
stop posting.
Um, let's see.
Oh okay, this one is fun too.
Wait, can you still hear me?
yes, I can okay, good, yay, uh,okay, I thought this was a cool

(55:43):
one.
So right now, uh, there's auniversity lake superior state
university every year comes outwith its banished words list a
tradition that dates back to1976, highlighting words and
terms that are overused, misusedor just unnecessary, and so
they gather submissions from allover the world from US, canada,

(56:04):
australia you know all theseplaces and it's all in good fun,
but they take a lot of wordsand phrases that are just like
we're over it.
We need to move on.
You know, it's kind of almostlike how we pick a word in the
dictionary each year that's ournew.
This is almost the opposite,where it's like we're getting
rid of some stuff.
So I wanted to share with youand we could give our thoughts.
One of the banished words iscringe.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
We're really getting rid of that word Really.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Yeah, in this university I love it.
So a lot of people wrote inthat it's overused and like
right now, ironically, cringe iscringe, Like saying cringe is
cringe To me.
I still feel like we're notdone with it yet.
How do you feel?

Speaker 1 (56:44):
No, I can't see that word going away, absolutely not.
Because there's a lot ofcringe-worthy stuff A lot.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Yeah, and it's a good way to describe it.
Okay, next up is describinganything as a game changer.
Really, yeah, I don't mind thateither.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
That's surprising because you know, to me that's
like and actually you hear thatin a lot of sports and a lot of
business too, so I'm surprisedthat's on the list, but okay,
this is so funny.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
I feel like this is really just Gen Z like hating on
millennials.
I think so funny.
I feel like this is really justGen Z hating on millennials.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
I think so too Right.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Okay, we're supposed to drop saying the word dropped.
So stop saying that someonedropped a video, an album, this
new song drops.
Now we're supposed to saysomething else for dropped.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
You know, I haven't heard that term in a long time,
so I guess people aren't usingit anymore.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Really, I feel like I say it Like oh, I'm going to
drop, we're going to drop apodcast episode.
I don't know, it's a little bitcringy.
It's the same as me, of like,when I hear people saying they
call a podcast a pod.
It has that same thing whereit's like a little bit like oh

(57:59):
God, but but it's just likevernacular that we're using
nowadays.
You know, I don't know,sometimes it's just like the
easiest word to use, ok.
And the last one is 100 percent.
Saying, like you know, to agreewith someone like 100 percent,
which I type out 100 percent, alot.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Like I don't really say it, but I type it Right, I'm
actually surprised, because Ido use that a lot.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Yeah, like I'll say 100%.
It's kind of like another oneon this list is the same thing
like period, which I don'treally say that that seems like
a little bit too current for meto say.
But 100% I'll text back ifsomeone is saying something and
I'm like I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
I think the new generation is just getting down
on the old generation there,right, no offense, but they're
introducing so much.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
that is cringe.
I feel like so many of the badand the new things, I'm like we
don't need all this.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
That's true, but 100% though.
I use that all the time,because sometimes that's the
perfect response to something.
When someone makes a statementyou agree with you just like a
hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
You don't even have to make a whole sentence like a
hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
You know what it means.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Now do you always add the percent, though, cause we
have a friend that just writes ahundred, like he just writes.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
I'm kind of weird.
I put the percent on there too,me too.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
I feel like that might be a little bit older
thing that we do Is like we justwant to make sure they know
that we're talking aboutpercentage wise.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
So I thought that was fun.
I guess maybe we could thinkabout any words that we want to
ban, but I'm okay with that.
I'm more like I don't havewords I want to ban.
It's more like the tone latelywhere people will go Like huh,
okay with that, I'm more like Idon't have words I want to ban.
It's more like the tone latelywhere people will go like huh, I
don't know.
It's almost sometimes tonesthat get me annoyed, rather than
the actual words.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
That's true, that's true, and you know also too,
especially when you're talkingto someone, that body language
says a whole whole lot.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
You know, like when someone goes, you goes whatever.
No big deal versus whatever.
Even though you're technicallysaying the same thing, they mean
two different things.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Yes, people are so sassy nowadays it's like, oh my
God.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Yes, definitely.
It's like, okay, him in themouth, there's a camera over
there, so that's okay, we'lljust walk away.
Interesting conversation here.
I wanted to find out, meryl, doyou think that drones are
getting out of control?
Yes, and what I mean by that isa few examples.

(01:00:36):
There was this big drone lightshow that they did probably a
few weeks ago.
There was some kind ofmalfunction or whatever, where
drones just start falling downto the sky and this kid got hit
in the chest with a drone and hehad to go to emergency heart
surgery because of that.
And then there was the incidentrecently where one of the
planes that was fighting thefires in LA was hit by a drone.

(01:00:59):
Luckily it was able to landsafely and everything.
But now they have to repair thebig gaping hole in that plane
and they're trying to find out Idon't know if they found him
yet trying to find out who theowner of that drone is.
And then also all the dronesthat you saw over New Jersey.
Do you think it's kind of gonea little bit crazy with the

(01:01:22):
drones lately?

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Yeah, I mean it definitely seems like the
personal use examples that youused, the one that got in the
way of the plane and the planehad to be grounded.
That one obviously, yes,because I feel like people have
to take responsibilityno-transcript jersey or what was

(01:02:02):
happening with that but to methat that was very weird.
I don't know if it was thedrones per se that was driving
me crazy.
It was more like the lack oftransparency of what was
happening.
Um, but yeah, I mean I thinkit's going to be really weird.
I kind of wish that there was away that, like, the drones
could help with the fire, youknow, like instead of hurting
the planes.
But you would think, if we hadthese things, like I don't know

(01:02:24):
what they could really dobecause they can't obviously
like dump a whole bunch of water.
But yeah, it's weird.
I really hope we don't havelike drone Amazons flying over
us in the next year or taking uptoo much real estate in the sky
.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
I know there's a company I don't remember which
one that is trying to getapproval for air taxis.
Basically like an Uber or Lyft,but in the sky where they take
people to their destination.
I don't know, if I'm toocomfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
No, I would need it to be like 10 years or 10,000
years in the making, and dronesare just kind of like fugly and
ugly.
I feel like, between the cybertruck and all these things,
we're just introducing a lot ofweird, ugly, futuristic things
to our life when, like most ofus need nature and to go back to
like kind of more simplerthings.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
I agree.
I agree.
I mean even when you talk aboutthe driverless cars.
Now you know there's adriverless car service that's in
California and they showed thisone guy who was basically
trapped in a vehicle because thecar kept going around in
circles oh yeah, that is soscary it's like, okay, what?
What do you do there then, whenthere's not a person?

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
yes, I know you're just like going round and round
and you can't get out, and it'sjust.
And remember, we saw somethingwhere they were all like beeping
at each other, I think in sanfrancisco.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
They were all like stuck in a parking lot, like I
tell you, if I I lived next tothat, I would be pissed Me too,
because even through the TV youcan see like you know what I
would be really angry about this.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Yeah, it's just, you know, one car beeping is one
thing, 30 to 50 to 100, yeah, oh, that's insane, yeah, and with
the other like the drone stuffin New Jersey, it's kind of like
I don't hate the player, I hatethe game kind of thing where
it's like the drones itself areannoying and kind of unsightly,
but it's to me it's more.

(01:04:24):
There was no explanation forthese families of like why
there's a huge drone flying overtheir house and they might not
have.
I mean, I think we all know afew different reasons of like.
Maybe they didn't want to panicus, or maybe something was
happening they were looking for,but I don't think it was aliens
.
I don't think aliens areshowing up in the form of drones
.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
I don't know, oh, that's right.
That's right, you are a.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
UFO.
I forgot who I'm talking to.
I don't think aliens exist, butare they really coming in the
form of metal drones?

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
You know what I'm not saying.
They are, but some of thosedrones which kind of shocked me
and I'm surprised a lot ofpeople are talking about it some
of these drones were the sizeof cars.
That's a commercial drone.
That's not something thatyou're going to buy for your son
or daughter.
That's a commercial drone andit's like, huh, the size of cars

(01:05:17):
and I'm like nobody caught that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
But don't you think.
But I think they were likeflying according to FAA rules.
It would just be so weird if,like the other matter on planets
were drone, were like metal,you know, like drones that were
lit up and that had likeoperating, I don't know.
I guess I just picture alienslooking a little bit more globby
and blobby.
I mean the plasmoids absolutely.

(01:05:41):
I do think like life frommatter from other planets, like
it absolutely exists and Ibelieve in it.
I just don't know if I pictureit being like drums and having
it formed like that.
I I picture it a little bitmore exciting to me unless it's
a probe.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Maybe Could be a probe.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
As you can see, I watch a lot of Star Trek, and I
heard that a few drones werecoming up from the water.
Did you hear that too?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Like they were coming out of the ocean.
But you know, the real thingthat's crazy is that the law
enforcement and governmentagencies for the most part were
pretty quiet about it.
Yeah, people caught that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
They were kind of quiet about it.
I know Well, it's so weird whenlocal leaders were like asking
for.
I think a lot of local mayorsand governors didn't know what
was happening, and they weren'tyou know, they weren't getting
answers, and it just shows how,like when the the our government
, the national governmentdoesn't want us to know
something, they really are notgoing to tell anyone, and just
yeah, it's really weird very,very weird.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
I make sure my phone stays uh charged all the time,
just in case I see it was sofunny because at one point I was
like why can't someone justsend their drone to go?
Look at those drones.
I don't understand to me whereI'm like okay, if there's a
drone like however many feet upahead, couldn't we just like
send our own things?
But I guess they were, so theywere good about not being caught

(01:07:06):
where, like someone's drone,would get up close to it and
then it would like go away.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
That's true, that's true, but then again, maybe
they're coming down to introducethemselves to us.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
I would hope so One of my comedian friends had the
funniest joke I was laughing sohard where they said I don't
feel bad, I'm not scared thatit's aliens.
I'm scared that if it is aliens, the first thing they're going
to see is people from New Jersey.
That's their first sign of life.

(01:07:37):
It's really funny, which I love.
I have so many new jerseyfriends I loved I.
I was like in on the facebookgroups of like my friend, let me
in on like jersey mom'sfacebook group so I could see
and if anyone's going to solvean issue, it's going to be
jersey moms because they are notletting up.
So they were like asking theirlocal officials what was

(01:07:58):
happening.
But yeah, but one of my reallybest friends was just like, yeah
, I look out my window and I seea million drones and it's like
very unsettling to be takingyour kids to work and seeing
your kids to school, I mean, andtaking going to work and seeing
these like huge things aboveyou and also like what are they
looking for with just normaleveryday lives?

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
You know that's true, but, like I said, uh, it's
really amazing.
And and also, too, they'resaying that they still have
those drones, that that arecoming up, but the la fires have
taken up so much real estateand you don't hear about it
anymore we can only care aboutone thing at a time, which is
like I'll be.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I'll be back on my drone bullshit in about two
weeks, hopefully, oh okay.
Well, my favorite technology inthe whole wide world is TikTok,
and you know there's this bigkind of is it going to get
banned?
Is it not going to get banned?
Last year, congress passed alaw that forces TikTok's parent
company, bytedance, to sell theUS operation or it would face a

(01:08:59):
nationwide ban.
They say that ByteDance's tiesto China is a national security
risk if the user data is sharedwith the Chinese government.
And now it's supposed to shutdown like very at the end of
this month.
And I think it's so funny wherebasically these videos on
TikTok have these people likegoing up with a binder saying

(01:09:19):
like hello, chinese government,here's my information, just take
it.
And so I guess number one Iforget Are you on TikTok?
A whole bunch.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Yes, I am.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
OK, because I'm obsessed.
For me, that's been my favoriteapp ever, and definitely the
social media where I spend time.
And now there's been a lot oftalk about like, if it does get
shut down, where are we goingnext?
And I don't know if you'veheard about this one, but I've
heard red note is like one thatis popular I've heard red note.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
I've also heard, I think, lemon eight.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
I think it's called oh yeah, I've heard of that too
and me personally I'm gonna do await and see.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
Basically, I do social media on multiple
platforms, not just one.
For this reason because younever know what's going to
happen, and the other platformslike one platform I heard wasn't
the greatest.
So I'm going to do a wait andsee.
But the one thing that I got tosay is and I think it's an age
thing a lot of these youngerpeople that are on TikTok, that
have a whole bunch of followers,are not taking this seriously.

(01:10:26):
Once you build up and you havehundreds of thousands of
followers, that is very, veryhard to duplicate and right now,
unless something changes,TikTok is pretty much going to
go dark.
Yes, At some point it won'tdisappear off your phone or your

(01:10:48):
device, but you won't be ableto get any updates and at some
point it just will stop working.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Oh my God, that's so sad.
I feel like I'm going to besaying goodbye to like 10,000
friends and people I care aboutNot actual friends, but people
that I lurk on.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Now I would think that, even though the owners of
TikTok wants to keep it, I wouldthink that the greed in most
business people would say thatyou know what?
If we're not going to win thisby this date, we're going to
sell this baby and get as muchmoney as possible.
I could be wrong, but I thinkthat probably would be the

(01:11:26):
logical thing that happens,because just to go dark doesn't
mean anything, because you'renot getting anything for it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
I know that's true.
Yeah, I mean, it's definitelylike I feel like ever since the
pandemic I downloaded it andit's just like I feel like
that's I'd rather like scrollTikTok than watch TV, and you
know, people are so funny on it.
I think Like even just thecommenters like it's definitely
the most entertaining app we'veever seen.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Yeah, I think that I personally think that the
government should be open withus about what they see, because
I know people got to understandDemocratic Party and Republican
Party.
They don't agree on nothing andfor them to unanimously buy
with a bipartisan bill, want totake TikTok down.

(01:12:13):
There's something that scaredthe daylights out of them that
they're not telling us.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
One of the things I heard in my conspiracy groups is
that it reads brainwaves orsomething.
It might be so far out there,but they said that somehow it
reads brainwaves, and that's oneof the reasons how you're able
to just kind of be thinking like, hmm, I wish I could go to
Florida and then all of a suddenyou'll like see something pop
up on your TikTok for Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
You know what the scary thing is that could be
true.
A lot of people will think I'mnuts, but think about it like
this have you ever been on yourphone or computer, doesn't
matter and you look up something.

(01:12:56):
The next thing you know you getlike 50 advertisements of what
you just look for, right or theoccasional.
You know you're thinking aboutbuying something, you're
thinking about going some placeand then magically the ads pop
up.
That could be a coincidence,but I'm quite sure you felt like
, whoa, this is weird, what thehell?

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
you know what I mean yeah, but I like I always
wondered, like how would atechnology do that?
And obviously it's not thecreators, it's not every video
we see, there's not everycreator.
Isn't like putting this weirdsheen on their video to have
something happen?
So, but you're right wherethere has to be something.
And I don't know if it's justthe threat of, like, the Chinese

(01:13:32):
government learning about allof us, but I feel like the
everyday person like you couldpretty much know what we're all
looking at and doing.
Like it's not that crucial, Ithink, for them to know.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Yeah, and then allegedly I don't know if this
is true or not they said well,if they did sell it to a company
, they wouldn't give them thealgorithm.
Okay, why the hell would theybuy the company without?

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
the algorithm.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
Right, exactly the hell.
Would they buy the companywithout the right?

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
exactly.
So it kind of makes you wonderwell, what's?

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
in your algorithm.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
That, yeah, people to see it does scare me too,
because, like, I'm definitelyaddicted to like scrolling.
My screen time is at anall-time high, so it is very
like maladaptive in the way thatI might take a break and maybe
not go right away to a nextplatform, because I'm like, do I
need to be addicted by like awhole other thing?
You know, I can't imagine too,because I feel like I spend so

(01:14:21):
much time on tiktok that itmight be interesting to see what
life looks like without, uh,that whole kind of portion being
used up, because, like, I don'tcare at all about instagram,
I'm barely on facebook.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Like those things aren't very addictive to me the
way that tikt Let me ask youthis If TikTok does go away,
what do you think or where doyou think the people from TikTok
are going to go to?

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
Well, today I've been seeing so much about Red Note,
which I signed up just to see.
Right now it seems like a lotof it is in Mandarin.
But it seems like a lot of thepeople on Red Note in China are
very funny about it already,where they're like, hello, we're
your new chinese spy, like, butthey're basically saying like
yay, we can live together as oneand like people are saying so

(01:15:07):
far, right now, that's very,it's a very wholesome app and
like they're saying oh my god,we almost feel so bad for like
infiltrating it and kind ofswinging over.
I feel like there's going to bea bunch of them, but I think it
will take a while for us to seewhich ones stick and which ones
are cringe, as they say yeah, Icould be wrong, but I think
you're gonna see a huge boostfrom both youtube and instagram

(01:15:30):
I know, I know, but instagram isreally gonna have to like win
back some people on reels.
I think, like the everydayperson, yes, like I think Reels
is still out there and reallybig, but I agree, youtube is
still kind of young and coolish.
But a lot of people I know justfeel like as creators, it feels
like Instagram is good to reachpeople on Reels.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
But, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Yeah, I think one of the losers in this is facebook,
because for some reason, a lotof young people don't like
facebook I know, and the onething I love is about tiktok is
like that I don't know anyonelike I barely I don't follow my
friends on it, like I justfollow creators, or like nature
things or food things, um, andthat's one thing I don't love
about instagram reels is like myalgorithm.

(01:16:19):
It shows me stuff that I loseinterest in really fast, Like it
doesn't, Whereas TikTok I canjust like watch the same way I'd
watch a TV channel.
So I feel like we'd almost haveto get more into that, where
the next thing would be way morelike little bits and bytes,
like how it is now.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, I think the date is the19th, which is literally only
six days away.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
I'm in denial.
I feel like we're in a Supermanmovie where something's going
to happen, but, like I said, itmay be.
If we knew the truth I may belike, oh my God, get this thing
off my phone right now.
Right now, you know like whichis?
I think they owe it to us to atleast tell us why, but why it's
so detrimental.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
I agree, because it's something that's really scared
them, because again they don'tagree on anything.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
And for them to be to agree on this.
And if you notice they're notwavering away from this, you
know.
So there's something Behind thescenes that has scared them or,
you know, kind of raised somehairs Like whoa, we need to cut
this.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
I know, you know who I feel like would be the Person
to tell us is Trump Of all thetimes, to blabber, blabber your
mouth and just like, put it outthere For us, like now could be
a time where we just want you toblabber.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
That's true.
Do you think we're going tofind out the truth, though, if
they do ban it, what the reasonis?

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Yes, I really do.
I think either between Trumpspilling the beans and saying it
, or afterwards we will find outwhy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
I agree, I think it is going to come out, but I
can't wait to see what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
so we'll be talking about this again I know, if
tiktok goes down, I my uh, everylike 30 of my content I'll have
to find new things because,like every single thing, I'm
just okay.
This makeup artist, this thing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Wow, this has been one great episode.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
I know I'm so happy we're back Back baby.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
Yes, and for anyone who did not catch the beginning
of the show, we are now onpodcast.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Woohoo.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
So all you gotta do is look up Thirsty Topics on all
of your major platforms andwe're there.
We have a new episode everysingle week.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
I'm subscribing right now.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
Oh, thank you, Merrill.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
I'll be your 8 millionth subscriber.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaking of things coming up,merrill, what do you have coming
up?
Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaking of things coming up,merle, what do you have coming
up?

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Well, depending on if Los Angeles combusts or not,
supposedly tomorrow, by the timethis comes out, it will be over
.
But I have a show in SantaBarbara, but we will see how
that goes, weather permitting.
And then, if anyone's in theSeattle area, I am going to
Seattle for a show January 30th,so I'll be at one I forget what

(01:19:23):
the name is, but one of the bigSeattle comedy clubs.
I'll be there.
So that's my next kind of showI'm excited about.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Ooh, nice, nice.
Do you happen to remember thename of the venue?

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
I think it's like called the seattle laughs or
something, but I'll have to lookit up.
But it's so funny.
The name of the show is calledhotties and bodies and a lot of
the comedians may be strippingon stage.
I, fortunately, andunfortunately for everyone will
not be one of them.
There's many people that areboth sad and happy about that
let's see, comedy is Now.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
that's an interesting combination.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
I know, I know and I think during my set I'm going to
be like having someone dancingin the background too, which
will be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
Nice, Nice, Sounds like a nice crazy event.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Yeah, just the kind of thing I love.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
There you go.
Well, everyone, thank you somuch for watching.
This has been a great episode,the first of many for this year.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Woohoo.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
I am Lawrence Elrod.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
And I'm Meryl Clemo.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
Have a great day everyone.
Bye.

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