May 22, 2025 • 55 mins
Lawrence and Meryl dive into a range of headline-grabbing stories from Weight Watchers filing bankruptcy to the controversial Qatar gift of a luxury airplane to former President Trump.
• Weight Watchers declares bankruptcy with over $1 billion in debt, likely due to competition from weight loss drugs and meal prep services
• Newark Airport experiences its third system outage in two weeks with air traffic controllers warning people not to fly there
• A Cincinnati father kills a police officer in retaliation after his son was killed by police, despite the officer having no connection to his son's death
• Clayton Echard's false paternity case involves a woman facing seven felony counts for forging ultrasounds and lying under oath
• Qatar offers a $400 million luxury airplane to Donald Trump, raising constitutional questions about accepting foreign gifts
• Lucy Guo becomes world's youngest self-made woman billionaire at age 30 through her AI company
• Researchers discover people living within a mile of golf courses have 126% higher risk of Parkinson's disease
• Sean "Diddy" Combs' trial begins with testimony from an off-duty police officer who refused a bribe to stay silent
• Fox News guest Cameron Kinsey faints on-air, drawing criticism of her co-host's seemingly callous reaction
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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 (00:21):
And I am Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, meryl, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hey, it's so good.
I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yes, Hopefully everyone can tell that we've got
some new software that we'replaying around with, so we're
kind of working out the bugs,but I think you're going to like
it once it's done.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We're so high-tech.
I actually feel like I'm inyour favorite TV show, Star Trek
there you go, that's the oneyou like right.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Absolutely.
I love Star Trek.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, good, I feel like I'm in the control booth
here or something.
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Hey, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Now we're going to start off with an interesting
subject here.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm quite sure everyone has heard of Weight
Watchers.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Weight Watchers is filing for bankruptcy.
No, looks like the reasonthey're filing is because they
have over a billion and I saybillion with a B dollars worth
of debt that they need to writeoff.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So what do you think, meryl?
How do you feel about this?
It's so funny that at the sametime as Red Lobster going away,
that Weight Watchers is too.
I think we know this, I thinkI've told you this before too,
but a few months ago, sadly, afew teenagers yelled at me,
screamed at me to go on WeightWatchers when I was walking.
But I remember feeling soactually blessed because I was
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like they're actuallyrecommending like the most
wholesome weight loss treatment.
So now to hear that that'sgoing out of business is kind of
sad.
I mean, I think with Ozempicand with just like a lot of
other things, I can see why theyare losing money, especially
with just a lot of social mediaand like other ways that people
are losing weight.
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Do you think that a lot has to do with you know the
new things going on right now,where there's all these
different type of clubs that arepopping up all over the place.
And then, of course, not tomention you know you have the
weight loss drugs like theOzempic, wagovi and other drugs
like that.
(02:26):
Do you think that kind ofhelped push Weight Watchers a
little bit?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Absolutely.
I feel like some of theirmethods.
I think they have tried tocatch up with the times.
You know Like they really havetried with apps and everything,
but I just think it's toosaturated and it's probably too
expensive too.
I feel like now their typicalperson that would use it might
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be not even able to like affordit, or they may be going to
Osepik instead.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, that's true, I mean.
The thing is is that you know,weight Watchers have been around
a long time?
I remember when Oprah Winfreywas on the board and was a big
promoter of it.
Yeah, so it's kind of sad to seeit gone, but I think you're
right.
As far as you know, with allthese different things, that's
competing with it.
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And then also, not to mention,there's a lot of these home prep
meals, where you can literallyplan out your meals for the
whole week and they literallyjust send you meals either day
by day or a week's worth at atime.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ultimate lazy men's way to lose weight.
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And the way that Weight Watchers I don't know if
they still were on, I don't knowif it's Weight Watchers or
Jenny Craig, but one of them ison like the point system where
it's like okay, you can have macand cheese, but mac and cheese,
but that's 13 points, and nowyou have four points left, which
is like a piece of a donut.
I feel like a there's apps thatdo that for people now and b
that's just.
We've learned that that's notreally like the best way of
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eating.
So I think more people are likeokay, why don't I just have
grapes and like a piece ofchicken instead and call it a
day?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
you know yeah, that's true.
I mean, um, I don't think thatweight watchers would never be
back the way it was.
I think this is one of thosethings that we're probably going
to see go away, just like theBlockbuster, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, oh, that's so sad.
Maybe Flava Flav can save ittoo, the way that he saved Red
Lobster.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Hey, you know what you never know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What did we learn?
Oh, remember last, last week Ithink, we learned that jack in
the box was closing a few.
So maybe at the same time jackin the box is closing weight
watchers is also it's like abalance scale.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's true.
That's true.
So one more icon that's goingaway exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
well, I will miss not doing it, I'll miss continuing
to not be on weight watchers.
So, um well, I thought this isinteresting.
Every week, it seems like wehave a new airplane or airline
industry story, and this one isno different.
Recently, newark Airport hasbeen in the news, one of the
really big airports, especiallythat's the one that a lot of us
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fly into when we're going to theEast Coast, and about a week
ago, one of the air trafficcontrollers was caught saying
like, don't fly in here.
You know, don't fly into Newark.
And now the airport suffered itsthird system outage in less
than two weeks, which impactedhundreds of flights, and so the
FAA said that it happened aftera backup air traffic control
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system momentarily failed, andthat is freaking scary, even
having like seconds of not, youknow, being in control with any
of the the people.
Um, as of late sunday night,there was more than 250 delays
and at least 80 cancellationsimpacting domestic and
international flights.
Um, a lot of people on tiktokthat I saw their Mother's Day
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plans were ruined because ofthis.
You know, they weren't able toget home for Mother's Day.
And people are assuringeveryone that it is indeed safe,
but, like when air trafficcontrollers are coming on the
air and saying like I wouldn'tfly into Newark if I were you.
It's just very scary.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, that's true.
Now, that's true.
One of the things that I heardabout that too, which is really
troubling, is that I want to sayand I could be wrong with the
number, but I want to say, about40% of the air traffic
controllers there just walkedoff the job, took a leave, oh my
gosh.
And then, plus, they got theissue of you know, the equipment
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that needs to be updated.
Yeah the issue of you know theequipment that needs to be
updated.
Yeah, well, there's been issueswhere and this is kind of scary
that they said this out loudbut for like 60 to 90 seconds of
no visibility whatsoever forplanes coming in yes, I heard
that too and how could thathappen?
Oh yeah, and the thing is isthat 60, 60 to 90 seconds may
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not Sound like a lot, but whenyou have multiple planes trying
to land, that's like a lifetime.
That could be a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You would think that if this happened, or the fact
that it did happen, you wouldthink they're like we're doing
one week where I'm sorry, we'rejust like not.
We're canceling every flight.
We're not going to have oneairplane go until we're sure
this is never going to happenagain.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean I don't know how they're going to fix
this, but you know you got theissue of one.
They were another one of thoseindustries where they were
already short staffed to beginwith.
Yeah, where they were alreadyshort-staffed to begin with,
yeah, so obviously they'retrying to fill that in, but from
start to finish, you know, toget an air traffic controller in
place takes a couple you know,from what I heard at least two
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to three years.
It's not going to happenovernight.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I know, yeah, this is weird, and Newark is definitely
like there's so many peoplecoming and going.
That's definitely one that goesto Europe a lot.
That's one that is just youhave people from all over the
world flying in and out at anygiven time.
So it's like, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, yeah, I mean luckily it's happened, I guess,
when there's been light airtraffic.
But what happens when, godforbid, it's a holiday, yeah,
and you know how much trafficcomes in there, and all of a
sudden they lose contactvisually and audio for 60 to 90
seconds as planes are landingand taking off?
(08:05):
No, it's not.
That would be catastrophic.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yes, I don't want to be on Helen Keller Airlines,
please, god, no, I don't want todo that.
So, yeah, it's definitely.
I still feel like flying issafe overall, like I really
really do, and if you stillthink about, even with this
crazy news happening, like howmany planes are coming and going
out of every airport, but it'sstill a little nuts.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
So, like I said, if people gotto fly in and out of there, just
you know, hold on tight, justbe a good person.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And hey for youngsters out there trying to
find something to do with theirlife.
Hey, air traffic controller,think about it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That was weird Okay.
I was just demonstrating howthe FAA, how we're landing
planes now Excellentdemonstration.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thank you so much Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
My hands are up.
It's like in a cooking showwhere I'm like hands up.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, moving on to the next one, and the next one
not so pleasant story, a fatherfrom Cincinnati Ohio his name is
Rodney Hinton Jr killed a copafter his son was killed the day
before by cops.
Oh my gosh.
So the back story on this isthat the police were chasing his
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son, allegedly it was in themiddle of a carjacking, and his
son got out and pointed a gun atcops and cops returned fire to
to take him out.
They may have used tasers andit didn't work.
I'm not really sure because,again, I was trying to find out
as much as I can.
But aside from that, what thefather did, that's not the way
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to handle it.
Yeah, because what he did is hewent and I guess he saw a cop
directing traffic.
They had something going onwhere law enforcement was
directing traffic, which issomething normal for big events,
and he took his car and ranover and killed the guy and
that's just like I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I wonder if he'll plead insanity in the case or
something, because that justseems so quick and impulsive
that now his life is going to bespent in jail.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh, definitely.
And you know, the crazy thingabout a mural is they show him
in court.
You know his first court and ashe's walking out, he's
literally looking at everyofficer doing this.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You know like proud of what he did.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh my gosh, I mean literally every single officer.
You looked him in the face.
Some officers wouldn't look athim.
He just you know like a smileon his face.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Wow, and he killed one officer and yeah, that's
just like I mean, if you justtook a minute, it is tragic and
he definitely like has a rightto feel absolutely like crazed,
you know, if that did happen tohis son, you know, whatever like
he has the right to have that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But I felt like just thinking that, short sightedly,
you could have made a biggerimpact over time if you didn't
react so quickly oh, I agree,and I think the other thing to
keep in mind too is it's alwaysbad when someone loses, there's
no question about it.
But if and I say if because,again, I still look into
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everything if he did get out ofhis vehicle and pointed a gun at
officers, you had to have knownwhat was going to happen.
I know that shouldn't be asurprise, I mean, I know it's a
horrible thing to say, but youpoint a gun at an officer and
you're a person of color it'snot going to end well I know
Period it's not going to endwell.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I feel like I mean luckily I do not, I've never had
to have that feeling before,but I could imagine like I also
just think you're blinded inthat moment by just rage and
grief and it's like you know.
I think there has to be sometype of not that what he did was
right, but I could definitelyunderstand.
I feel like if someone was tolike hurt one of my loved ones,
I could see a scenario where youjust don't think rationally for
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like a week and you knowsomething may happen.
Terrible that you're just likeI can't, I'm not even myself
right now.
I'm just so upset and so likerunning on pure anger and
disbelief.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And you know, the other thing that makes this sad
is that the officer that hekilled had nothing to do with
the incident that happened.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Really?
Oh, oh my gosh, I thought itwas that officer.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh, okay, well then that is like, basically, he just
killed the first officer, oh,okay.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, that is like I mean not that it would have been
okay to kill, but that at leastis like somewhat fathomable.
This is completely like that'snot right at all.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, so it's sad all the way around it.
And you know what, as a father,I feel for him because,
regardless of what your childdid, that's still your child.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Absolutely Well, imagine, like that police person
has a family too, and imagineyou're just he's going to work,
like that police person has afamily too, and imagine you're
just he's going to work like andhe has nothing to do with this,
and that's like then I, I feellike even the most under the
most anger and grief, you shouldstill know not to just like
kill a random.
Like if a doctor had someonedie that I would just go kill
like a random doctor.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
you know, like that's kind of weird yeah, so, like I
said there, there's sadness allthe way around, but just a
horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, that's very sad .
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And you know, to be honest with you, I mean maybe
the father is going to do aninsanity plea or whatever, but
the way he's doing it right nowis not good.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, that anchors me because that changes everything
for me, that that incurs mebecause, like that changes
everything for me.
If it was that exact cop notthat I'm saying I like it's
warranted, but I could at leastunderstand that.
You know, I understand thatthis is completely like not
acceptable at all of any sort ofthing, even insanity.
It's like you just don't gorandomly kill like a random,
random cop exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But yeah, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So I just hope that a lot of youngsters that's seen
this story understand thatthere's better ways to do things
and you know there areconsequences to your action do
you know if the original policeofficer that shot his son I
imagine he's probably like offthe force for now or, like you
know, he's not he's probably in,whatever the detention for
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police officers is you know what, not sure I know in chicago,
whenever an officer uh isinvolved in a shooting, uh,
they're put on death's duty fora minimum of 30 days with pay.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's just right procedure in chicago, so I'm not
really sure it's actually agood question, yeah and and if?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
if there's allegedly a carjacking going on and
someone's pointing a gun at you,like if it is self-defense, who
knows?
It sounds like a very trickysituation.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Exactly, exactly, but I'm quite sure there's going to
be a lot of information thatcomes out about this.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Very sad.
Okay Well, something that'snuts.
Okay, well, something that'snuts.
I don't know if you've beenfollowing at all this story with
Clayton Eckerd, the Bachelor,and like his supposed baby mama,
who's actually not a baby mama.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Is this the first thing that you've heard?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
of this, oh my gosh.
Okay, then I'll have to.
The lore of it is too long togo on.
It would take up like eightpodcast episodes for us
Basically, and I, if anyone isinterested in this, I implore
you to go like listen todifferent stories about it,
because I've listened to severalone hour podcasts alone on this
crazy, crazy story.
Um, basically, the like veryshort version of it is uh,
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clayton eckert is a formerbachelor and very long story
short.
Is he like hooked up with awoman and then the woman said
that she was having his baby andthen it wasn't.
It's not, and and she's, likeyou know, allegedly crazy, but
I'm putting allegedly in very uhair quotes.
And it turns out she's donethis before with other men and
like pretended, like you knowshe goes to doctor's visits, she
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has pretend ultrasounds, like Ithink there may have been a
condom that she like didsomething with.
You know, it is all the makingsof a lifetime story.
It's really crazy and this guy,clayton, like, has just been
living this nightmare.
Well, now the woman whose nameis Laura Michelle Owens, is
facing a seven count indictmentafter providing a false
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testimony related to a paternityscheme.
This has been going on for yearstoo, because I remember like
learning about this pretty muchlike May, I think, 2023.
And so the attorney's officefound that she altered an
ultrasound image, fabricated apregnancy video and lied
multiple times under oath.
And yeah, she like like forgery, you know, tampering with
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physical evidence, everythingthat you could just imagine.
And so this clayton guy hasjust been dragged through the
coals, is just like non-stopwith him.
So he went to his video andsaid, or to social media, and
just said, like I'm so happy tofinally have justice.
It's a nightmare, um, andthere's been like I have to say,
this is one account wherefacebook and reddit have really
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helped, because the people ofreddit have like gone through
details and found instanceswhere she's lying.
It's a lot of internet sleuthsat home that has been on his
side and really supporting him,even financially, because, like
this has been very expensive forhim to hire lawyers and have
this continue, and so I thinkthere's been a lot of donations
for him and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Wow, you know it's crazy when I see women do this
it's absolutely, becausebasically what you're doing is
you're using children as bait oras a pawn.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And I think it's a sick way to get around, because
especially when a guy finds outthat he got someone pregnant and
he's trying to do the rightthing and then to find out that
he was ganged, that kind of hitsyou in the people's heart.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I think this woman has real problems.
She seems like she has deepissues and you know who knows
like, who knows at what point,if she believes that she was
pregnant with his baby, or ifshe was like in it from the
start, or you know.
You don't know how trouble thisperson is.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Do you think it's um, do you think it's something
that's maybe like maybe dealingwith mental health?
Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Ithink she has like multiple
screws loose.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, it seems like she's very troubled and like I
think it's a mixture of likeprobably a little bit of evil
mixed with, just like deepmental issues.
And so it says she was chargedwith seven felonies, which is
crazy.
So like forgery, perjury,tampering with physical evidence
, fraudulent schemes.
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It's just like this person isbad news.
So, yeah, wow, and this is allwhat he did admit to is he?
They did hook up, like I thinkthey caught, she dm'd him or
something and she was kind of afan, and then one night he
invited her over and like theydid hook up.
And so I feel like this is alsoa case of like be careful who
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you have casual relationshipswith and you know, especially if
you're someone in the public,because if you just answer
people's DMs and then they comeover like you don't know what
you're inviting into your life.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
That is so true and you know what?
Unfortunately, especially ifyou're a well-known person, you
know you may want to do a littlequick background check on that
person.
You know I hate to say that,but you know you really do these
days.
You know.
But I feel sorry for people inthe limelight because you know,
when you're single and you'retrying to date people, you meet
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people, whatever.
It's always in the back of yourhead it's like, okay, is this
person really into me?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Exactly.
Or do they just want something?
Or are they going to be normalfor like three months and then
all of a sudden just pull therug out?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
That is true.
That is true.
That is true.
Now you know, on a side notehere, bill Belichick is actually
going to be interviewed on GoodMorning America on Friday, so
it'll be interesting to see ifhe's going to be there by
himself, with Michael Strahan.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I know I think I saw a news article that she's not
allowed on the court orsomething like that, or not
allowed on the field.
Her and that woman should teamup, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, that's gonna be a fun interview, exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
The other thing I'm just gonna add to, especially
with a woman like this, is thatin Clayton's situation is that I
feel like you never know, alsowhen you're in the public eye,
who thinks you have more moneythan you actually do and who's
trying to get a payday out of it.
And maybe she thought, okay,he'll pay for this story to
either go away or, if he thinkshe has a baby, he'll be giving
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me $5,000 a month to keep quiet.
It's just nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, that's true and you really hit on a good point,
and I think Whoopi Goldbergsaid it one time on the View
Truly only about it was either1% or 3% of all the actors and
actresses.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Really making money, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Everybody doesn't make the money Right, especially
if they're on the Bachelor,like four seasons ago.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, they're on the.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bachelor, like four seasons ago.
Yeah, so, yeah.
So, just because you see themon TV don't mean that they're
making the money.
Yeah, so, speaking of TV, thisis interesting.
Did you hear about the giftthat our president is going to
be getting?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
If it's money, I think I heard There'll be a
tariff on it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, not money, but President Trump has been offered
, as a gift from the country ofQatar, a $400 million luxury
airplane.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh my gosh, I would be scared if I was him of, like
what's on the airplane or whatand I guess it's a very
luxurious airplane Wow, you know, got two levels and everything.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
But there's a whole lot of questions that spark up,
like one isn't this against theConstitution?
As far as taking gifts fromanother country?
I mean, I've heard that evenfrom you know, from multiple
sources, that government agents,our government employees, can't
even take anything over $20,and even the optics of this you
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know well.
We're going to give you this$400 million airplane.
We don't want anything inreturn, right?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And of course.
I mean all the advertisingalready, like I've seen the
story and I feel like alreadyjust the name recognition and
just him repeating it over andover and you know, if he's given
something that he seems is likegold, and you know, fabulous,
he's going to mention it all thetime.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's going to be the best airline in the world and
the biggest plane that's everbeen.
Yeah, I, I just, and I could bewrong.
I find it hard to believe thatthey're just giving it to him
out the good yeah, oh no, it'sdefinitely I could and I could
be.
I could be 100 wrong, okay.
But you know, the other thingtoo is what a lot of people
don't understand is like theBeast, which is the limo for the
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president.
You know, they bought a new carfor the president when
President Obama took place.
They call it the Beast, okay.
Well, once it came from thefactory, they literally ripped
it down to pieces and rebuiltthe vehicle, for a number of
reasons.
One, make sure there's nodevices in there, no tracking
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device, stuff like that.
And then obviously, there's alot of technology and security
things that are put in thosevehicles that are top secret.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, that you know.
They don't want to know aboutthat, they don't want to know
about.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So I would imagine they would have to do this for
this big jet if somehow,whatever, they got past the laws
and was able to take it, whichwould shock me but shouldn't be
with all everything that's goingon, but I would imagine it
would probably take years totear it apart.
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, and from a security standpoint, then also
just from like a um, like anosiness standpoint too.
You know, even if something'snot like classified, you don't
know who's like what smartengineer is like.
Oh, I can see where he's goingall the time, or you know
something like that that's true,that's true.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
And then you know also, it's the optics too,
because you know other countries, if this is allowed, they're
going to be like, oh okay, sothis is how we yeah listen to us
.
Let's give them a niceexpensive gift, and there's a
whole lot that can go wrong whenit's like influencers, but you
can tell they're like that's whyI use pampers.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I'm like, no, you don't use pampers.
I'm like, no, you don't usepampers for your baby.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
That is so true.
That is so true.
But I would just like to see ifit's even allowed under the
Constitution.
It's not based on theConstitution, but there's been
so much craziness happening inpolitics over the last few years
.
It'll be interesting to see ifthis works or not.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But in the meantime meantime also could you imagine
like I feel, like flying wouldbe so cool if you have like an
upstairs and a downstairs orlike I would, I would forget to
be so nervous on planes the wayI am if, like I, was able to be
like okay I'm gonna go upstairsjust like watch tv for a little
bit oh, that's true, that's true, that's true.
Ah, I can only dream, I know, Iknow.
(25:59):
Well, that fits in perfectly,because someone that will be
taking this private chateverywhere, I think is the
world's youngest self-made womanbillionaire, which used to be
Miss Taylor Swift herself, andnow it's Lucy Guo, the
30-year-old founder of Scale AI,who is now the youngest
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self-made woman billionaire,according to Forbes.
Scale AI obviously has been likea really big one of the kind of
main names, along with likeChatGPT and you know that kind
of stuff.
She founded the SanFrancisco-based artificial
intelligence company in 2016when she was 21 years old.
So if you think about what youwere doing at 21, this person
(26:43):
was founding the next big AIcompany, alongside a 19-year-old
, alexander Wang, who's alsobeen in the news a lot.
Wang was CEO while Lucy ran theoperations and product design
teams.
Both made Forbes 30 under 30list in 2018, and then they had
a little bit of a disagreementon how to run the company and
(27:05):
Lucy started Scale AI and now isa billionaire self-made
billionaire, that is.
I mean, if you're like theparents of either one of those
kids, like what are you?
That's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That's awesome.
I applaud her.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Big time.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's what you call getting work done, partying late
.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I bet she's partying now too.
Now her parties are almost likejust be smart.
She's one of the only sixself-made women billionaires on
the planet who are under the ageof 40.
Out of those six extraordinarywomen are two artists Swift, who
has $1.6 billion net worth, andRihanna, 37, who has a $1.4
(27:50):
billion net worth.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, I think that's awesome and you know what A lot
of young girls will look up andgo hey, I could be very
successful, ultra successful oneday yeah, representation is so
important.
I applaud her.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I definitely applaud her maybe because Beyonce is
over 40?
Right, because isn't Beyonce abillionaire too, I would imagine
, I believe over 40, rightBecause isn't?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Beyonce, a millionaire too, I would imagine
.
I believe either she is orshe's very close to it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That would be weird if she is or she's not and
Rihanna is, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, I'm assuming.
I think they are.
I think her and Jay-Z are?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I would be very surprised.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But I think it may be the age cutoff though, Because
that article was under 40, right40 and under right.
Okay, so it may be the agecutoff.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I feel like with those people that's so cool just
to be able to live off justeven the interest of what's in
your savings of your bank.
You know what I mean.
Even the interest of what's inyour savings of your bank, you
know what I mean.
Where it's like you're like theinterest of how much money you
make, even a month, is like getsjust more and more to the point
where it's so crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Absolutely absolutely .
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Exactly, they started out by doing a show just like
this, I know.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That is true, talk about something amazing.
You remember, a few weeks ago,we talked about the demonic sea
lions that were eating thedamaged or possessed algae and
was going like nuts.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yep, and they were scaring the surfers and just
like acting a fool and stuff.
Yep.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Now, welcome the demonic no, and basically it's
the same scenario.
Um, they're affected with thesame type of disease.
So you know, uh, wildlifeenthusiasts and zoos and stuff
like that, they they're, youknow, coming to the aid to try
and help this epidemic.
But I'm actually wondering arewe looking at a bigger problem?
(30:03):
Because, if you think about it,first it was the sea lions, now
it's the pelicans.
You know, if there's anotheranimal, you've got to wonder is
there a bigger problem thatwe're not facing?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Definitely especially if it's like the fish and the
oysters that we're eating andthe shrimp that we're eating and
you know, like now explains whywe're demonic but like but, uh,
yeah, that's.
That's really scary and weirdand I feel like you know, the
seals I can understand and sealions we.
Sometimes we can see them actirritable or angry, but like
pelicans almost.
If you have a bunch of angrypelicans on a beach, that's
(30:38):
scary if they start like goingafter people and, you know,
beaking them, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And you know, pelicans are crazy because they
try and eat everything, Anythingthey put in their mouth, they
try and eat.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Have you ever seen one?
I saw one eat a whole rat.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Wow, really.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yep, I was inith park in los angeles and I was just
like laying out on my towelreading and I'm like what a
beautiful, nice summer day.
And then I look up and there'sa pelican in it.
And it took a rat, a live rat,a whole live rat, and just went
like look, and I could see therat, like the silhouette, going
down as the whole mouth and thewhole everything, and I, I like
on the spot, lost my appetite.
(31:16):
I like I got up and left, Istopped reading my book, I left
the whole park that's a hell ofa scene.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
It was really shocking and disgusting.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I really got grossed out because just thinking like
ew, it's in their bodies to likejust eat it.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Live like that too bad, you didn't catch it on
video.
You can put that on socialmedia.
Exactly, I know.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Maybe I'll go back and just capture that and that
could be like my personalalgorithm.
I just like post just every daya pelican eating something
weird.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It probably won't be the craziest thing you'll see on
social media.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, but if we have demonic I mean that was a
pelican, that wasn't demonic ifwe have a crazy version of that,
I don't even want to know.
It's going to be taking littlekids and just swallowing them
whole yeah, so let's hope wedon't have any more demonic
animals yeah, I know well, oh mygosh, this is so funny.
I feel like today all of yourstories are going well with mine
(32:19):
.
Hopefully, I think some of mineare more uplifting, but not this
one.
Well, this one could actually begood in the long term, because
researchers found that thoseliving within a mile of golf
courses have 126% higher risk ofdeveloping Parkinson's disease
than those who live more thansix miles away, according to a
(32:41):
new study published by theJournal of American Medical
Association.
You know, remember I don't knowif you know this, but like they
found that you know LouGehrig's disease for a while,
they correlated it that maybe,like it had something also to do
with people that played on basebaseball and you know baseball
(33:02):
fields and maybe it was likesprayed with roundup or because
they were coming, a lot ofbaseball players were getting it
, so they thought maybe that hadsomething to do with it.
And, um, this is obviously bigin the disease world of, like
the neuro, uh, degenerativediseases which, like, impact so
many people.
Because maybe it could be thepesticides that is used on the
(33:22):
golf courses and hopefully,maybe that could, like you know,
inform them and they would stopusing that yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It kind of makes you wonder, but you know the thing
is, is that withParkinsoninson's disease and
certain other diseases, it'samazing.
In this day and age we stilldon't truly understand I know
these.
There's a lot of speculationbut um, it's just amazing, with
all the medical research andeverything else that we have
(33:54):
here, that we can't come up withcures for some of this stuff
but I have a feeling thatthere's multiple reasons why,
and this is probably one of them.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Like I don't think it's all golf courses, I bet
it's like our food, the toxinsin the air.
You know this, that the otherthing, the heavy metals that all
around us like, and this isprobably one of many different
reasons, things um, but yeah,it's scary.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Now, did they?
Did they do research to seepeople on a golf course versus,
let's say, in a park or anything?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
yeah, yeah, it said like uh it just said like golf
courses were found to be likesprayed the most with more like
uniform type pesticides, likeyou know, instead of just like
different kind of likeindividual, independent ones.
It's just higher rates of likepesticides that are more on the
commercial end of things andthey just said, yeah, it's
(34:48):
pretty weird.
It said drinking water from themunicipal wells near golf
courses also maybe like putpeople in a vulnerable spot.
Do you live near a golf course?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I have one near me.
When I say near me, it'sprobably like about maybe five
or seven minutes away.
It's not right across thestreet or anything.
But you know the one thing Iknow with me I'm weird when it
comes to water.
I really don't even likedrinking water in a restaurant
most of the time Because youdon't know where it's coming
from.
(35:23):
But you know, if it's a nicerrestaurant I'll go ahead and
drink the water there.
But most of the time, even inmy house, we drink bottled water
all the time.
Spring water, oh yeah, I lovespring water.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
It's so funny too.
I went out to dinner and I havetwo friends that have lived in
LA for such a long time and theyboth ordered tap water and I
was like that's so weird.
I'm like maybe there'ssomething in them.
They've just given up orsomething, but I'm like you guys
have been in LA the longest andLA is known to not.
You don't want to drink the tapwater here, so it's just weird.
(35:55):
Yeah yeah, like I said, Iprefer bottled water.
Because, I don't know, there's alot of stuff that's
contaminated.
Oh yeah, just like thecontaminants and all the
people's medications and justyeah, yeah, that's true, that's
true.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
But hopefully this helps Actually but oh, I was
going to say, being that theydid identify this on the golf
course, maybe they'll find outexactly.
Is it the pesticides, is itthis, is it that?
So I think that will help thempossibly, just possibly come up
with some, some bettertreatments and maybe a possible
(36:34):
solution.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I always think about that, where it's like all the
research that has to go in oflike, okay, say, someone gets
diagnosed with parkinson's, thenthey have to ask them, like, do
you live near a golf course?
Are you eating pineapples?
Are you you know?
It's all you almost have toknow like everything about the
person to just be like, okay,here's a hundred people.
Are there like anything incommon because I always think
(36:55):
about that with people with likefood poisoning and stuff too,
where it's like, okay, it'slinked to like romaine lettuce,
but then how do they know if,like you know that you, there's
so much that is needs to be donein terms of researching and
like I, that's wonderful.
I feel like those people thatdo that don't get enough credit,
that are like spending theirwhole life's work trying to make
(37:15):
correlations and like get tothe bottom of things.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, I agree, I agree.
Like I said, I think that Ithink it's a good thing that
they identified this, because Ithink it's going to help out
with coming up with more rootcauses and, you know, better
treatment.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
And at a certain point we just know that likeup
spray is not good and mostpesticides aren't good, so I
feel like, as a blanket whole,we could agree that we don't
need.
I think someone will be really,really rich if they come up
with a way to do this naturally,which I'm sure they already
have, but it's not affordable.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That's true Organic golf courses.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Soon we're going to see free-range organic, organic
golf courses.
Soon we're going to see freerange, organic, clean golf
courses there you go.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, talking about getting to the bottom of things,
pete Diddy, here let's go.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I did.
I did too much baby oil.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well, today was the first day of I did.
I did Too much baby oil.
Well, today was the first dayof Sean Diddy Combs' trial, so
obviously they had the openingarguments and the first witness
which is going to be theretomorrow is going to be his
ex-girlfriend, the one that isIn the video, the famous video
(38:39):
in the hotel where he punchesand drags her back in the room,
and it's going to be anincredible scene, I think,
Because today I guess it cameout that one of the witnesses
(39:00):
was an off-duty police officerthat works security and she said
that basically, she was offereda big wad of cash not to say
anything about the incident.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
It's going to be crazy stuff coming out and she
turned it down.
She's like no, I don't want themoney Really.
But yeah, I mean, that's new, Idid not even know about that.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I mean people like I feel like we're just at the tip
of the iceberg now of hearingabout witnesses that are
disappearing and people on thejury that don't want to be part
of it anymore.
Like I think it's going to rundeep in terms of who doesn't
want to be on this case or speakup, oh, in terms of who doesn't
want to be on this case orspeak up.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh yeah, and you know , I think it's going to boil
down to how strong the evidenceis.
He was offered a plea agreementthat he turned down.
He decided to go to court.
But we're going to learn a lotmore About these little freak
offs Than we ever wanted to knowbefore.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, I have a feeling the people on the jury
and just involved are going toneed a lot of protection, like,
and just you know, probably alot of anonymity and just like I
don't know.
It just seems like there'sprobably more people than we
know that might be on the Diddyside of things, that are just
like threatening and just youknow you don't want to mess with
them.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
That's true.
That's true.
How long do you think thistrial will take?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I think it's going to end one day before the new
Blake Lively trial.
However long that could be sixmonths.
No, I think it will be maybelike almost, maybe like ten
months.
I feel like I feel like it willbe really long, like less than
a year, because, if I had toguess, I feel like things are
going to come up that like aregoing to take up, like this is
(40:47):
now on pause for three weeks, ornow the jury is deliberating
for, like you know, 20 days orsomething.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, I know they showed his children coming in
and then his mother came in aswell and I guess once they got
into the graphic details, thehis daughters, I guess got up
and left.
They didn't want to be therefor that.
Yeah I don't blame them, but um, the one thing I'm interested
to see is um what other namesare brought up?
(41:19):
Yeah, there's a lot of famouspeople that went to those
parties.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I know, but don't you feel like between this and the
Epstein case, we've been waitingfor years for just like release
the names of just these partiesand I feel like a lot of these
has been like, especially withthe Epstein list?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
a lot of the names like have been released and it
just seems like as a public Idon't know if we don't care or
like we're just so apathetic now, like it's like oh, ok,
whatever, yeah, and you know theone thing too just because a
person was at a Diddy partydon't mean they participated in
the freak offs, but it could bea bad look depending on who they
(41:57):
are.
Yeah, yeah, you know.
In other words, if you knowyou're a minister oh my gosh.
Or other people, and again, notsaying you did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
You participated?
Speaker 1 (42:09):
in anything but for the optics, that may not be a
good look.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Exactly If you're part of a royal family, if
you're an ex-president, ifyou're a CEO of a company like
yeah, if you're a CEO of acompany like yeah so it's going
to be interesting, because Iknow there's some real
powerhouse witnesses supposedly.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Now, what that means, we don't know.
It could be just regular peoplethat work with them.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
It could be stars, we don't know what if it's JLo
would never do it.
Yeah, I said, jlo would nevergo against him.
Yeah, no, j-lo would never doit.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, huh, I said J-Lo would never go against him.
Yeah, something tells me J-Lois probably glad that they broke
up a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Exactly, exactly.
J-lo probably just wants likenothing to do with it.
Like I would imagine shedoesn't want to be like dragged
into a mess.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, dragged into a mess.
Yeah, I mean it's, it's sadbecause you know, diddy was
really close to being abillionaire himself.
Yeah, and I don't know.
It just seems like and again,not all people, but it seems
like sometimes, when people getthe money and fame that they've
been working for all their life,they think they're untouchable.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
And you'll be amazed at how many people kind of
forget that you're a human beingtoo.
People are human around you andyou're not God.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Definitely I've always heard that too where it's
just like money won't changeyou per se, but it just
amplifies who you already areExactly.
I honestly feel like if peoplelike you and I had it, I don't
think we'd be like wildlydifferent people that are now
doing like freak off parties andstuff.
I feel like we would just dowhat we're already doing, but
like in a bigger scale, and Ithink I think sometimes just
(43:53):
like yeah, it just kind ofamplifies who you are, you're.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
you're like almost your shadow sides, you know, oh
yeah and you, you know, steveHarvey said something that hit
it right on the nail and he saidone thing you got to understand
money doesn't change anybody.
People think it does, itdoesn't.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So, in other words, if you're a real nice person to
begin with, you come into a lotof money.
You're going to be a much nicerperson.
Exactly, you may suck with alot more money doing other
things, where, on the other hand, if you're an asshole and you
get money, you're going tobecome a bigger a-hole.
Exactly, you're just going toamplify who you are, so it
doesn't change you.
(44:33):
It actually to me, lets you bewho you really are.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Exactly and give to more people.
But I'm sure at some point italmost seems like Diddy wasn't
just seeking money.
He was seeking the flashiness,the lifestyle, the power, the
ego, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I think he hit it on the head, I think it was more,
because he already had money, healready had power.
I think it was the controlthing.
Yeah, he wanted to feel incontrol of everything and
everyone around him.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yes, and a lot of these people I'm not saying he
does, but a lot of people havelike a god complex, you know
where, like they think they're,they want to be like the god of
things and just like thealmighty one, and so yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
So yeah, that's going to be interesting.
I know we're going to have moreto say once, uh, once we start
seeing more witnesses, I know Ireally hope it gets juicy.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
I just feel like the past couple scandals like this
there hasn't been.
It's like there's a littlesplash but then we just kind of
all quickly forget.
So I hope it's as good as it'spromised.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Well, when you're talking about over a thousand
bottles of baby oil, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I think it's probablygoing to get juicy Totally.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, good, well, this was crazy.
I don't know if you saw this.
Uh, fox news guest cameronkinsey recently fainted on air,
which was like very scary um,during a may 8th appearance on
fox news at night.
So basically she was like justtalking and all of a sudden you
could see her kind of get likevery slurry and blurry and then
(45:59):
she just goes down and falls tothe floor and just you know, um,
she said that the shockinghealth scare was likely the
result of severe dehydration,which is like you know, a lot of
times when we hear that it'slike, okay, it's very rare that
someone just like faints out ofnowhere for dehydration because
you would think you'd be likeI'm so, I'm so thirsty, I just
need water, I don't know.
(46:20):
A lot of times I feel like thatgoes hand in hand with other
stuff, like whether it'smedication or you know, there's
some other things going on.
Hopefully there's not like ahuge health issue.
But what I wanted to talk aboutI don't know if you saw the clip
, but pretty much her co-host isgetting a lot of flack because
he came on.
Host Jonathan Hunt came on andtold viewers that we're just
(46:42):
going to get some help here forCameron, but like she fell out
of her chair and a lot of peopleare saying that he didn't even
someone said he was giving likeclean up on aisle 5 energy,
where he was just like someoneelse handle this.
There's been like a jar ofspaghetti that has fallen on the
floor and, honestly truly, whenI watched it for the first time
, I was like yelling at the tv,being like help her.
(47:05):
You know, like you're not arobot, like get on the, get on
the ground.
Like you know, the people onthe air will understand for a
second if a major emergencyhappened.
But I understand too that likenone of us have been in this, we
don't know.
You don't know how you wouldreact until it happens to you.
And I think he was just tryingto maintain like professionalism
, but it doesn't look good forhim because he like froze and
(47:27):
kind of stumbled a lot and thenit's like your co-host is
literally on the floor, likemaybe those eight or nine
seconds could have saved herlife, you know.
And so I just feel like I don'twant to judge, but I feel like
if I was her and I watch thatback, like I honestly think I'd
be mad at that guy and I would,probably not forever, but I
would just tell him hey, that'sreally, you reacted kind of
weirdly.
You didn't even care that I wason the floor.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Yeah, I mean, I did see the clip of it.
It is a little bit surprisingthat he didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
He just acts.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
so callous the crazy thing about it your natural
instinct when you see someonefall, especially if it's someone
you know.
Yeah, that's just a naturalresponse it's very weird.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
It was like and I totally understand if he was
just like we're gonna deal withthis right now.
You know, thank you for your uhpatience and then like go.
You know, it's okay to berattled, but like he just seemed
to have like a weird like uh,like vacant energy about him.
But I also understand he wasprobably in shock as well and
you know, like he was like okay,we're gonna find some help and
(48:34):
help her, but it's like sheactively may be like not
breathing right now or like needyou?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
So it's now the only other thing that could be, and
we don't know this, but maybe hewas told because you know a lot
of people don't realize thosereporters have you know stuff.
You know a little thing exactly, exactly I've been told by a
producer leave her alone.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
We got people running to the set, totally you know I
think I think multiple thingscan be true, where I bet there
was stuff that we don't even seebehind the scenes happening,
and I bet he does care, and Ithink it was odd like the way
that he reacted.
You know, I just not that thereshouldn't be like one set of
expectations of what happenswhen your co-host faints on air,
but to me it was like not avery human response and like,
(49:16):
Because once she started, youknow like real slow moving.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, producers probably behind the scenes say
get somebody out there exactly,exactly, yeah, yeah, totally so.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Like of course.
Of course he's just human andhe's probably in his mind, half
of his brain is thinking what'shappening and he's trying to get
words out, but tiktok is notvery happy with him, so he's
gonna get canceled.
But but I mean like of course,like we're just human and I know
a lot of things too, like I'veseen car accidents before where
it's like you take a few secondsto even call 911 or something
(49:49):
you know, just because you'restill processing things.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
Um, but honestly, the worst thing is when something
happens, no one calls the police, everybody's just, you know,
putting oh yeah, that thathappens a lot.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Yeah, like group mind definitely.
You know like, yeah, totally,and they've done like lots of
studies on that too.
And yeah, I just think Ihonestly think if I was her and
I was watching that back, Iwould be like I almost like
wouldn't trust the person asmuch anymore.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
You know because in your mind you know, depending on
how know how close they are,she may even ask and say hey, um
, why did you do nothing when Ifailed?
Speaker 2 (50:22):
yeah, honestly, I'd be like hello, like like I'm
like, okay, that's good to knowthat I lose consciousness and
you're just like stumbling, likeI, I still think, yes, you're
on air and you're a reporter,but you're a human first and
you're a friend first, hopefully, to this person and like, show
a little bit of you know, justhuman emotions, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
That is true.
That is true.
So well, the good thing is sheis better, because I know she
did.
She spoke to someone and saidthat.
What did she say?
She was dehydrated, she hadeaten or whatever.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah, she had severe dehydration, which I understand,
especially if you're travelingnonstop and whatever.
Yeah, she had severedehydration, which I understand,
especially if you're travelingnon-stop, and especially if you
drink or didn't eat that morningor had lots of coffee.
I understand how that couldhappen and all the lights are on
you and it's a big thing, butyeah, that is true.
That's why she needs to drinkwater, but not if she's six
miles or less from a golf course.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Very true, very true.
We stay hydrated here.
I got my water.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yep, I got my water too.
You've been hearing me extrahydrate this time.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Talk about interesting things coming up.
Meryl, what do you have comingup?
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Ooh, oh my gosh.
I can't believe we're alreadyat the end now.
I will be in lovely SantaBarbara later on this week and I
have some really fun shows.
I'm June 8th.
I will be in Glendale,california, at a really cool
place called the Glendale Room,one of my favorite local venues,
and, um, there's a theme it'scalled.
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It's so funny.
It's a group called StuffedCabbage and it's like a.
Every month they have adifferent theme of a comedy show
, like it will be money orcareers or whatever.
So I'll let everyone know onceI know my theme.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
But it'll be fun, nice, nice.
Well, we definitely had a lotof fun today.
We did, and I definitely wantto thank everyone for being
patient with us trying out thisnew software for the show.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, thank you.
I think my software onlycrashed three times.
Thank out this new software forthe show.
Yeah, thank you.
I think my software onlycrashed three times, thank you.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Well, everyone again, thank you for supporting us.
We really appreciate you guyswatching us.
Please make sure you telleveryone about the show and also
make sure that you telleveryone about Merle and what
she has coming up and supporther as well.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
So sweet, thank you.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Well, everyone, enjoy the rest of your day.
I am Lawrence Elrod, and.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
I'm Meryl Clemo Bye.
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode
of Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I am Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, meryl, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hey, it's so good.
I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yes, Hopefully everyone can tell that we've got
some new software that we'replaying around with, so we're
kind of working out the bugs,but I think you're going to like
it once it's done.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We're so high-tech.
I actually feel like I'm inyour favorite TV show, Star Trek
there you go, that's the oneyou like right.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Absolutely.
I love Star Trek.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, good, I feel like I'm in the control booth
here or something.
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Hey, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Now we're going to start off with an interesting
subject here.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm quite sure everyone has heard of Weight
Watchers.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Weight Watchers is filing for bankruptcy.
No, looks like the reasonthey're filing is because they
have over a billion and I saybillion with a B dollars worth
of debt that they need to writeoff.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So what do you think, meryl?
How do you feel about this?
It's so funny that at the sametime as Red Lobster going away,
that Weight Watchers is too.
I think we know this, I thinkI've told you this before too,
but a few months ago, sadly, afew teenagers yelled at me,
screamed at me to go on WeightWatchers when I was walking.
But I remember feeling soactually blessed because I was
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like they're actuallyrecommending like the most
wholesome weight loss treatment.
So now to hear that that'sgoing out of business is kind of
sad.
I mean, I think with Ozempicand with just like a lot of
other things, I can see why theyare losing money, especially
with just a lot of social mediaand like other ways that people
are losing weight.
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Do you think that a lot has to do with you know the
new things going on right now,where there's all these
different type of clubs that arepopping up all over the place.
And then, of course, not tomention you know you have the
weight loss drugs like theOzempic, wagovi and other drugs
like that.
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Do you think that kind ofhelped push Weight Watchers a
little bit?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Absolutely.
I feel like some of theirmethods.
I think they have tried tocatch up with the times.
You know Like they really havetried with apps and everything,
but I just think it's toosaturated and it's probably too
expensive too.
I feel like now their typicalperson that would use it might
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be not even able to like affordit, or they may be going to
Osepik instead.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, that's true, I mean.
The thing is is that you know,weight Watchers have been around
a long time?
I remember when Oprah Winfreywas on the board and was a big
promoter of it.
Yeah, so it's kind of sad to seeit gone, but I think you're
right.
As far as you know, with allthese different things, that's
competing with it.
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And then also, not to mention,there's a lot of these home prep
meals, where you can literallyplan out your meals for the
whole week and they literallyjust send you meals either day
by day or a week's worth at atime.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ultimate lazy men's way to lose weight.
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And the way that Weight Watchers I don't know if
they still were on, I don't knowif it's Weight Watchers or
Jenny Craig, but one of them ison like the point system where
it's like okay, you can have macand cheese, but mac and cheese,
but that's 13 points, and nowyou have four points left, which
is like a piece of a donut.
I feel like a there's apps thatdo that for people now and b
that's just.
We've learned that that's notreally like the best way of
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eating.
So I think more people are likeokay, why don't I just have
grapes and like a piece ofchicken instead and call it a
day?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
you know yeah, that's true.
I mean, um, I don't think thatweight watchers would never be
back the way it was.
I think this is one of thosethings that we're probably going
to see go away, just like theBlockbuster, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, oh, that's so sad.
Maybe Flava Flav can save ittoo, the way that he saved Red
Lobster.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Hey, you know what you never know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What did we learn?
Oh, remember last, last week Ithink, we learned that jack in
the box was closing a few.
So maybe at the same time jackin the box is closing weight
watchers is also it's like abalance scale.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's true.
That's true.
So one more icon that's goingaway exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
well, I will miss not doing it, I'll miss continuing
to not be on weight watchers.
So, um well, I thought this isinteresting.
Every week, it seems like wehave a new airplane or airline
industry story, and this one isno different.
Recently, newark Airport hasbeen in the news, one of the
really big airports, especiallythat's the one that a lot of us
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fly into when we're going to theEast Coast, and about a week
ago, one of the air trafficcontrollers was caught saying
like, don't fly in here.
You know, don't fly into Newark.
And now the airport suffered itsthird system outage in less
than two weeks, which impactedhundreds of flights, and so the
FAA said that it happened aftera backup air traffic control
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system momentarily failed, andthat is freaking scary, even
having like seconds of not, youknow, being in control with any
of the the people.
Um, as of late sunday night,there was more than 250 delays
and at least 80 cancellationsimpacting domestic and
international flights.
Um, a lot of people on tiktokthat I saw their Mother's Day
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plans were ruined because ofthis.
You know, they weren't able toget home for Mother's Day.
And people are assuringeveryone that it is indeed safe,
but, like when air trafficcontrollers are coming on the
air and saying like I wouldn'tfly into Newark if I were you.
It's just very scary.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, that's true.
Now, that's true.
One of the things that I heardabout that too, which is really
troubling, is that I want to sayand I could be wrong with the
number, but I want to say, about40% of the air traffic
controllers there just walkedoff the job, took a leave, oh my
gosh.
And then, plus, they got theissue of you know, the equipment
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that needs to be updated.
Yeah the issue of you know theequipment that needs to be
updated.
Yeah, well, there's been issueswhere and this is kind of scary
that they said this out loudbut for like 60 to 90 seconds of
no visibility whatsoever forplanes coming in yes, I heard
that too and how could thathappen?
Oh yeah, and the thing is isthat 60, 60 to 90 seconds may
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not Sound like a lot, but whenyou have multiple planes trying
to land, that's like a lifetime.
That could be a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You would think that if this happened, or the fact
that it did happen, you wouldthink they're like we're doing
one week where I'm sorry, we'rejust like not.
We're canceling every flight.
We're not going to have oneairplane go until we're sure
this is never going to happenagain.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean I don't know how they're going to fix
this, but you know you got theissue of one.
They were another one of thoseindustries where they were
already short staffed to beginwith.
Yeah, where they were alreadyshort-staffed to begin with,
yeah, so obviously they'retrying to fill that in, but from
start to finish, you know, toget an air traffic controller in
place takes a couple you know,from what I heard at least two
(07:26):
to three years.
It's not going to happenovernight.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I know, yeah, this is weird, and Newark is definitely
like there's so many peoplecoming and going.
That's definitely one that goesto Europe a lot.
That's one that is just youhave people from all over the
world flying in and out at anygiven time.
So it's like, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, yeah, I mean luckily it's happened, I guess,
when there's been light airtraffic.
But what happens when, godforbid, it's a holiday, yeah,
and you know how much trafficcomes in there, and all of a
sudden they lose contactvisually and audio for 60 to 90
seconds as planes are landingand taking off?
(08:05):
No, it's not.
That would be catastrophic.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yes, I don't want to be on Helen Keller Airlines,
please, god, no, I don't want todo that.
So, yeah, it's definitely.
I still feel like flying issafe overall, like I really
really do, and if you stillthink about, even with this
crazy news happening, like howmany planes are coming and going
out of every airport, but it'sstill a little nuts.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
So, like I said, if people gotto fly in and out of there, just
you know, hold on tight, justbe a good person.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And hey for youngsters out there trying to
find something to do with theirlife.
Hey, air traffic controller,think about it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That was weird Okay.
I was just demonstrating howthe FAA, how we're landing
planes now Excellentdemonstration.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thank you so much Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
My hands are up.
It's like in a cooking showwhere I'm like hands up.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, moving on to the next one, and the next one
not so pleasant story, a fatherfrom Cincinnati Ohio his name is
Rodney Hinton Jr killed a copafter his son was killed the day
before by cops.
Oh my gosh.
So the back story on this isthat the police were chasing his
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son, allegedly it was in themiddle of a carjacking, and his
son got out and pointed a gun atcops and cops returned fire to
to take him out.
They may have used tasers andit didn't work.
I'm not really sure because,again, I was trying to find out
as much as I can.
But aside from that, what thefather did, that's not the way
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to handle it.
Yeah, because what he did is hewent and I guess he saw a cop
directing traffic.
They had something going onwhere law enforcement was
directing traffic, which issomething normal for big events,
and he took his car and ranover and killed the guy and
that's just like I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I wonder if he'll plead insanity in the case or
something, because that justseems so quick and impulsive
that now his life is going to bespent in jail.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh, definitely.
And you know, the crazy thingabout a mural is they show him
in court.
You know his first court and ashe's walking out, he's
literally looking at everyofficer doing this.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You know like proud of what he did.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh my gosh, I mean literally every single officer.
You looked him in the face.
Some officers wouldn't look athim.
He just you know like a smileon his face.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Wow, and he killed one officer and yeah, that's
just like I mean, if you justtook a minute, it is tragic and
he definitely like has a rightto feel absolutely like crazed,
you know, if that did happen tohis son, you know, whatever like
he has the right to have that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But I felt like just thinking that, short sightedly,
you could have made a biggerimpact over time if you didn't
react so quickly oh, I agree,and I think the other thing to
keep in mind too is it's alwaysbad when someone loses, there's
no question about it.
But if and I say if because,again, I still look into
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everything if he did get out ofhis vehicle and pointed a gun at
officers, you had to have knownwhat was going to happen.
I know that shouldn't be asurprise, I mean, I know it's a
horrible thing to say, but youpoint a gun at an officer and
you're a person of color it'snot going to end well I know
Period it's not going to endwell.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I feel like I mean luckily I do not, I've never had
to have that feeling before,but I could imagine like I also
just think you're blinded inthat moment by just rage and
grief and it's like you know.
I think there has to be sometype of not that what he did was
right, but I could definitelyunderstand.
I feel like if someone was tolike hurt one of my loved ones,
I could see a scenario where youjust don't think rationally for
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like a week and you knowsomething may happen.
Terrible that you're just likeI can't, I'm not even myself
right now.
I'm just so upset and so likerunning on pure anger and
disbelief.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And you know, the other thing that makes this sad
is that the officer that hekilled had nothing to do with
the incident that happened.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Really?
Oh, oh my gosh, I thought itwas that officer.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh, okay, well then that is like, basically, he just
killed the first officer, oh,okay.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, that is like I mean not that it would have been
okay to kill, but that at leastis like somewhat fathomable.
This is completely like that'snot right at all.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, so it's sad all the way around it.
And you know what, as a father,I feel for him because,
regardless of what your childdid, that's still your child.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Absolutely Well, imagine, like that police person
has a family too, and imagineyou're just he's going to work,
like that police person has afamily too, and imagine you're
just he's going to work like andhe has nothing to do with this,
and that's like then I, I feellike even the most under the
most anger and grief, you shouldstill know not to just like
kill a random.
Like if a doctor had someonedie that I would just go kill
like a random doctor.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
you know, like that's kind of weird yeah, so, like I
said there, there's sadness allthe way around, but just a
horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, that's very sad .
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And you know, to be honest with you, I mean maybe
the father is going to do aninsanity plea or whatever, but
the way he's doing it right nowis not good.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, that anchors me because that changes everything
for me, that that incurs mebecause, like that changes
everything for me.
If it was that exact cop notthat I'm saying I like it's
warranted, but I could at leastunderstand that.
You know, I understand thatthis is completely like not
acceptable at all of any sort ofthing, even insanity.
It's like you just don't gorandomly kill like a random,
random cop exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But yeah, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So I just hope that a lot of youngsters that's seen
this story understand thatthere's better ways to do things
and you know there areconsequences to your action do
you know if the original policeofficer that shot his son I
imagine he's probably like offthe force for now or, like you
know, he's not he's probably in,whatever the detention for
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police officers is you know what, not sure I know in chicago,
whenever an officer uh isinvolved in a shooting, uh,
they're put on death's duty fora minimum of 30 days with pay.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's just right procedure in chicago, so I'm not
really sure it's actually agood question, yeah and and if?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
if there's allegedly a carjacking going on and
someone's pointing a gun at you,like if it is self-defense, who
knows?
It sounds like a very trickysituation.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Exactly, exactly, but I'm quite sure there's going to
be a lot of information thatcomes out about this.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Very sad.
Okay Well, something that'snuts.
Okay, well, something that'snuts.
I don't know if you've beenfollowing at all this story with
Clayton Eckerd, the Bachelor,and like his supposed baby mama,
who's actually not a baby mama.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Is this the first thing that you've heard?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
of this, oh my gosh.
Okay, then I'll have to.
The lore of it is too long togo on.
It would take up like eightpodcast episodes for us
Basically, and I, if anyone isinterested in this, I implore
you to go like listen todifferent stories about it,
because I've listened to severalone hour podcasts alone on this
crazy, crazy story.
Um, basically, the like veryshort version of it is uh,
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clayton eckert is a formerbachelor and very long story
short.
Is he like hooked up with awoman and then the woman said
that she was having his baby andthen it wasn't.
It's not, and and she's, likeyou know, allegedly crazy, but
I'm putting allegedly in very uhair quotes.
And it turns out she's donethis before with other men and
like pretended, like you knowshe goes to doctor's visits, she
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has pretend ultrasounds, like Ithink there may have been a
condom that she like didsomething with.
You know, it is all the makingsof a lifetime story.
It's really crazy and this guy,clayton, like, has just been
living this nightmare.
Well, now the woman whose nameis Laura Michelle Owens, is
facing a seven count indictmentafter providing a false
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testimony related to a paternityscheme.
This has been going on for yearstoo, because I remember like
learning about this pretty muchlike May, I think, 2023.
And so the attorney's officefound that she altered an
ultrasound image, fabricated apregnancy video and lied
multiple times under oath.
And yeah, she like like forgery, you know, tampering with
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physical evidence, everythingthat you could just imagine.
And so this clayton guy hasjust been dragged through the
coals, is just like non-stopwith him.
So he went to his video andsaid, or to social media, and
just said, like I'm so happy tofinally have justice.
It's a nightmare, um, andthere's been like I have to say,
this is one account wherefacebook and reddit have really
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helped, because the people ofreddit have like gone through
details and found instanceswhere she's lying.
It's a lot of internet sleuthsat home that has been on his
side and really supporting him,even financially, because, like
this has been very expensive forhim to hire lawyers and have
this continue, and so I thinkthere's been a lot of donations
for him and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Wow, you know it's crazy when I see women do this
it's absolutely, becausebasically what you're doing is
you're using children as bait oras a pawn.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And I think it's a sick way to get around, because
especially when a guy finds outthat he got someone pregnant and
he's trying to do the rightthing and then to find out that
he was ganged, that kind of hitsyou in the people's heart.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I think this woman has real problems.
She seems like she has deepissues and you know who knows
like, who knows at what point,if she believes that she was
pregnant with his baby, or ifshe was like in it from the
start, or you know.
You don't know how trouble thisperson is.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Do you think it's um, do you think it's something
that's maybe like maybe dealingwith mental health?
Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Ithink she has like multiple
screws loose.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, it seems like she's very troubled and like I
think it's a mixture of likeprobably a little bit of evil
mixed with, just like deepmental issues.
And so it says she was chargedwith seven felonies, which is
crazy.
So like forgery, perjury,tampering with physical evidence
, fraudulent schemes.
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It's just like this person isbad news.
So, yeah, wow, and this is allwhat he did admit to is he?
They did hook up, like I thinkthey caught, she dm'd him or
something and she was kind of afan, and then one night he
invited her over and like theydid hook up.
And so I feel like this is alsoa case of like be careful who
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you have casual relationshipswith and you know, especially if
you're someone in the public,because if you just answer
people's DMs and then they comeover like you don't know what
you're inviting into your life.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
That is so true and you know what?
Unfortunately, especially ifyou're a well-known person, you
know you may want to do a littlequick background check on that
person.
You know I hate to say that,but you know you really do these
days.
You know.
But I feel sorry for people inthe limelight because you know,
when you're single and you'retrying to date people, you meet
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people, whatever.
It's always in the back of yourhead it's like, okay, is this
person really into me?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Exactly.
Or do they just want something?
Or are they going to be normalfor like three months and then
all of a sudden just pull therug out?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
That is true.
That is true.
That is true.
Now you know, on a side notehere, bill Belichick is actually
going to be interviewed on GoodMorning America on Friday, so
it'll be interesting to see ifhe's going to be there by
himself, with Michael Strahan.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I know I think I saw a news article that she's not
allowed on the court orsomething like that, or not
allowed on the field.
Her and that woman should teamup, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, that's gonna be a fun interview, exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
The other thing I'm just gonna add to, especially
with a woman like this, is thatin Clayton's situation is that I
feel like you never know, alsowhen you're in the public eye,
who thinks you have more moneythan you actually do and who's
trying to get a payday out of it.
And maybe she thought, okay,he'll pay for this story to
either go away or, if he thinkshe has a baby, he'll be giving
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me $5,000 a month to keep quiet.
It's just nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, that's true and you really hit on a good point,
and I think Whoopi Goldbergsaid it one time on the View
Truly only about it was either1% or 3% of all the actors and
actresses.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Really making money, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Everybody doesn't make the money Right, especially
if they're on the Bachelor,like four seasons ago.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, they're on the.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bachelor, like four seasons ago.
Yeah, so, yeah.
So, just because you see themon TV don't mean that they're
making the money.
Yeah, so, speaking of TV, thisis interesting.
Did you hear about the giftthat our president is going to
be getting?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
If it's money, I think I heard There'll be a
tariff on it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, not money, but President Trump has been offered
, as a gift from the country ofQatar, a $400 million luxury
airplane.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh my gosh, I would be scared if I was him of, like
what's on the airplane or whatand I guess it's a very
luxurious airplane Wow, you know, got two levels and everything.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
But there's a whole lot of questions that spark up,
like one isn't this against theConstitution?
As far as taking gifts fromanother country?
I mean, I've heard that evenfrom you know, from multiple
sources, that government agents,our government employees, can't
even take anything over $20,and even the optics of this you
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know well.
We're going to give you this$400 million airplane.
We don't want anything inreturn, right?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And of course.
I mean all the advertisingalready, like I've seen the
story and I feel like alreadyjust the name recognition and
just him repeating it over andover and you know, if he's given
something that he seems is likegold, and you know, fabulous,
he's going to mention it all thetime.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's going to be the best airline in the world and
the biggest plane that's everbeen.
Yeah, I, I just, and I could bewrong.
I find it hard to believe thatthey're just giving it to him
out the good yeah, oh no, it'sdefinitely I could and I could
be.
I could be 100 wrong, okay.
But you know, the other thingtoo is what a lot of people
don't understand is like theBeast, which is the limo for the
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president.
You know, they bought a new carfor the president when
President Obama took place.
They call it the Beast, okay.
Well, once it came from thefactory, they literally ripped
it down to pieces and rebuiltthe vehicle, for a number of
reasons.
One, make sure there's nodevices in there, no tracking
(24:05):
device, stuff like that.
And then obviously, there's alot of technology and security
things that are put in thosevehicles that are top secret.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, that you know.
They don't want to know aboutthat, they don't want to know
about.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So I would imagine they would have to do this for
this big jet if somehow,whatever, they got past the laws
and was able to take it, whichwould shock me but shouldn't be
with all everything that's goingon, but I would imagine it
would probably take years totear it apart.
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, and from a security standpoint, then also
just from like a um, like anosiness standpoint too.
You know, even if something'snot like classified, you don't
know who's like what smartengineer is like.
Oh, I can see where he's goingall the time, or you know
something like that that's true,that's true.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
And then you know also, it's the optics too,
because you know other countries, if this is allowed, they're
going to be like, oh okay, sothis is how we yeah listen to us
.
Let's give them a niceexpensive gift, and there's a
whole lot that can go wrong whenit's like influencers, but you
can tell they're like that's whyI use pampers.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I'm like, no, you don't use pampers.
I'm like, no, you don't usepampers for your baby.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
That is so true.
That is so true.
But I would just like to see ifit's even allowed under the
Constitution.
It's not based on theConstitution, but there's been
so much craziness happening inpolitics over the last few years
.
It'll be interesting to see ifthis works or not.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But in the meantime meantime also could you imagine
like I feel, like flying wouldbe so cool if you have like an
upstairs and a downstairs orlike I would, I would forget to
be so nervous on planes the wayI am if, like I, was able to be
like okay I'm gonna go upstairsjust like watch tv for a little
bit oh, that's true, that's true, that's true.
Ah, I can only dream, I know, Iknow.
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Well, that fits in perfectly,because someone that will be
taking this private chateverywhere, I think is the
world's youngest self-made womanbillionaire, which used to be
Miss Taylor Swift herself, andnow it's Lucy Guo, the
30-year-old founder of Scale AI,who is now the youngest
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self-made woman billionaire,according to Forbes.
Scale AI obviously has been likea really big one of the kind of
main names, along with likeChatGPT and you know that kind
of stuff.
She founded the SanFrancisco-based artificial
intelligence company in 2016when she was 21 years old.
So if you think about what youwere doing at 21, this person
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was founding the next big AIcompany, alongside a 19-year-old
, alexander Wang, who's alsobeen in the news a lot.
Wang was CEO while Lucy ran theoperations and product design
teams.
Both made Forbes 30 under 30list in 2018, and then they had
a little bit of a disagreementon how to run the company and
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Lucy started Scale AI and now isa billionaire self-made
billionaire, that is.
I mean, if you're like theparents of either one of those
kids, like what are you?
That's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That's awesome.
I applaud her.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Big time.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's what you call getting work done, partying late
.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I bet she's partying now too.
Now her parties are almost likejust be smart.
She's one of the only sixself-made women billionaires on
the planet who are under the ageof 40.
Out of those six extraordinarywomen are two artists Swift, who
has $1.6 billion net worth, andRihanna, 37, who has a $1.4
(27:50):
billion net worth.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, I think that's awesome and you know what A lot
of young girls will look up andgo hey, I could be very
successful, ultra successful oneday yeah, representation is so
important.
I applaud her.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I definitely applaud her maybe because Beyonce is
over 40?
Right, because isn't Beyonce abillionaire too, I would imagine
, I believe over 40, rightBecause isn't?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Beyonce, a millionaire too, I would imagine
.
I believe either she is orshe's very close to it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That would be weird if she is or she's not and
Rihanna is, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, I'm assuming.
I think they are.
I think her and Jay-Z are?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I would be very surprised.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But I think it may be the age cutoff though, Because
that article was under 40, right40 and under right.
Okay, so it may be the agecutoff.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I feel like with those people that's so cool just
to be able to live off justeven the interest of what's in
your savings of your bank.
You know what I mean.
Even the interest of what's inyour savings of your bank, you
know what I mean.
Where it's like you're like theinterest of how much money you
make, even a month, is like getsjust more and more to the point
where it's so crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Absolutely absolutely .
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Exactly, they started out by doing a show just like
this, I know.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That is true, talk about something amazing.
You remember, a few weeks ago,we talked about the demonic sea
lions that were eating thedamaged or possessed algae and
was going like nuts.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yep, and they were scaring the surfers and just
like acting a fool and stuff.
Yep.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Now, welcome the demonic no, and basically it's
the same scenario.
Um, they're affected with thesame type of disease.
So you know, uh, wildlifeenthusiasts and zoos and stuff
like that, they they're, youknow, coming to the aid to try
and help this epidemic.
But I'm actually wondering arewe looking at a bigger problem?
(30:03):
Because, if you think about it,first it was the sea lions, now
it's the pelicans.
You know, if there's anotheranimal, you've got to wonder is
there a bigger problem thatwe're not facing?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Definitely especially if it's like the fish and the
oysters that we're eating andthe shrimp that we're eating and
you know, like now explains whywe're demonic but like but, uh,
yeah, that's.
That's really scary and weirdand I feel like you know, the
seals I can understand and sealions we.
Sometimes we can see them actirritable or angry, but like
pelicans almost.
If you have a bunch of angrypelicans on a beach, that's
(30:38):
scary if they start like goingafter people and, you know,
beaking them, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
And you know, pelicans are crazy because they
try and eat everything, Anythingthey put in their mouth, they
try and eat.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Have you ever seen one?
I saw one eat a whole rat.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Wow, really.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yep, I was inith park in los angeles and I was just
like laying out on my towelreading and I'm like what a
beautiful, nice summer day.
And then I look up and there'sa pelican in it.
And it took a rat, a live rat,a whole live rat, and just went
like look, and I could see therat, like the silhouette, going
down as the whole mouth and thewhole everything, and I, I like
on the spot, lost my appetite.
(31:16):
I like I got up and left, Istopped reading my book, I left
the whole park that's a hell ofa scene.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
It was really shocking and disgusting.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I really got grossed out because just thinking like
ew, it's in their bodies to likejust eat it.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Live like that too bad, you didn't catch it on
video.
You can put that on socialmedia.
Exactly, I know.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Maybe I'll go back and just capture that and that
could be like my personalalgorithm.
I just like post just every daya pelican eating something
weird.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It probably won't be the craziest thing you'll see on
social media.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, but if we have demonic I mean that was a
pelican, that wasn't demonic ifwe have a crazy version of that,
I don't even want to know.
It's going to be taking littlekids and just swallowing them
whole yeah, so let's hope wedon't have any more demonic
animals yeah, I know well, oh mygosh, this is so funny.
I feel like today all of yourstories are going well with mine
(32:19):
.
Hopefully, I think some of mineare more uplifting, but not this
one.
Well, this one could actually begood in the long term, because
researchers found that thoseliving within a mile of golf
courses have 126% higher risk ofdeveloping Parkinson's disease
than those who live more thansix miles away, according to a
(32:41):
new study published by theJournal of American Medical
Association.
You know, remember I don't knowif you know this, but like they
found that you know LouGehrig's disease for a while,
they correlated it that maybe,like it had something also to do
with people that played on basebaseball and you know baseball
(33:02):
fields and maybe it was likesprayed with roundup or because
they were coming, a lot ofbaseball players were getting it
, so they thought maybe that hadsomething to do with it.
And, um, this is obviously bigin the disease world of, like
the neuro, uh, degenerativediseases which, like, impact so
many people.
Because maybe it could be thepesticides that is used on the
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golf courses and hopefully,maybe that could, like you know,
inform them and they would stopusing that yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It kind of makes you wonder, but you know the thing
is, is that withParkinsoninson's disease and
certain other diseases, it'samazing.
In this day and age we stilldon't truly understand I know
these.
There's a lot of speculationbut um, it's just amazing, with
all the medical research andeverything else that we have
(33:54):
here, that we can't come up withcures for some of this stuff
but I have a feeling thatthere's multiple reasons why,
and this is probably one of them.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Like I don't think it's all golf courses, I bet
it's like our food, the toxinsin the air.
You know this, that the otherthing, the heavy metals that all
around us like, and this isprobably one of many different
reasons, things um, but yeah,it's scary.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Now, did they?
Did they do research to seepeople on a golf course versus,
let's say, in a park or anything?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
yeah, yeah, it said like uh it just said like golf
courses were found to be likesprayed the most with more like
uniform type pesticides, likeyou know, instead of just like
different kind of likeindividual, independent ones.
It's just higher rates of likepesticides that are more on the
commercial end of things andthey just said, yeah, it's
(34:48):
pretty weird.
It said drinking water from themunicipal wells near golf
courses also maybe like putpeople in a vulnerable spot.
Do you live near a golf course?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I have one near me.
When I say near me, it'sprobably like about maybe five
or seven minutes away.
It's not right across thestreet or anything.
But you know the one thing Iknow with me I'm weird when it
comes to water.
I really don't even likedrinking water in a restaurant
most of the time Because youdon't know where it's coming
from.
(35:23):
But you know, if it's a nicerrestaurant I'll go ahead and
drink the water there.
But most of the time, even inmy house, we drink bottled water
all the time.
Spring water, oh yeah, I lovespring water.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
It's so funny too.
I went out to dinner and I havetwo friends that have lived in
LA for such a long time and theyboth ordered tap water and I
was like that's so weird.
I'm like maybe there'ssomething in them.
They've just given up orsomething, but I'm like you guys
have been in LA the longest andLA is known to not.
You don't want to drink the tapwater here, so it's just weird.
(35:55):
Yeah yeah, like I said, Iprefer bottled water.
Because, I don't know, there's alot of stuff that's
contaminated.
Oh yeah, just like thecontaminants and all the
people's medications and justyeah, yeah, that's true, that's
true.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
But hopefully this helps Actually but oh, I was
going to say, being that theydid identify this on the golf
course, maybe they'll find outexactly.
Is it the pesticides, is itthis, is it that?
So I think that will help thempossibly, just possibly come up
with some, some bettertreatments and maybe a possible
(36:34):
solution.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I always think about that, where it's like all the
research that has to go in oflike, okay, say, someone gets
diagnosed with parkinson's, thenthey have to ask them, like, do
you live near a golf course?
Are you eating pineapples?
Are you you know?
It's all you almost have toknow like everything about the
person to just be like, okay,here's a hundred people.
Are there like anything incommon because I always think
(36:55):
about that with people with likefood poisoning and stuff too,
where it's like, okay, it'slinked to like romaine lettuce,
but then how do they know if,like you know that you, there's
so much that is needs to be donein terms of researching and
like I, that's wonderful.
I feel like those people thatdo that don't get enough credit,
that are like spending theirwhole life's work trying to make
(37:15):
correlations and like get tothe bottom of things.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, I agree, I agree.
Like I said, I think that Ithink it's a good thing that
they identified this, because Ithink it's going to help out
with coming up with more rootcauses and, you know, better
treatment.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
And at a certain point we just know that likeup
spray is not good and mostpesticides aren't good, so I
feel like, as a blanket whole,we could agree that we don't
need.
I think someone will be really,really rich if they come up
with a way to do this naturally,which I'm sure they already
have, but it's not affordable.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That's true Organic golf courses.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Soon we're going to see free-range organic, organic
golf courses.
Soon we're going to see freerange, organic, clean golf
courses there you go.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, talking about getting to the bottom of things,
pete Diddy, here let's go.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I did.
I did too much baby oil.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well, today was the first day of I did.
I did Too much baby oil.
Well, today was the first dayof Sean Diddy Combs' trial, so
obviously they had the openingarguments and the first witness
which is going to be theretomorrow is going to be his
ex-girlfriend, the one that isIn the video, the famous video
(38:39):
in the hotel where he punchesand drags her back in the room,
and it's going to be anincredible scene, I think,
Because today I guess it cameout that one of the witnesses
(39:00):
was an off-duty police officerthat works security and she said
that basically, she was offereda big wad of cash not to say
anything about the incident.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
It's going to be crazy stuff coming out and she
turned it down.
She's like no, I don't want themoney Really.
But yeah, I mean, that's new, Idid not even know about that.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I mean people like I feel like we're just at the tip
of the iceberg now of hearingabout witnesses that are
disappearing and people on thejury that don't want to be part
of it anymore.
Like I think it's going to rundeep in terms of who doesn't
want to be on this case or speakup, oh, in terms of who doesn't
want to be on this case orspeak up.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh yeah, and you know , I think it's going to boil
down to how strong the evidenceis.
He was offered a plea agreementthat he turned down.
He decided to go to court.
But we're going to learn a lotmore About these little freak
offs Than we ever wanted to knowbefore.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, I have a feeling the people on the jury
and just involved are going toneed a lot of protection, like,
and just you know, probably alot of anonymity and just like I
don't know.
It just seems like there'sprobably more people than we
know that might be on the Diddyside of things, that are just
like threatening and just youknow you don't want to mess with
them.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
That's true.
That's true.
How long do you think thistrial will take?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I think it's going to end one day before the new
Blake Lively trial.
However long that could be sixmonths.
No, I think it will be maybelike almost, maybe like ten
months.
I feel like I feel like it willbe really long, like less than
a year, because, if I had toguess, I feel like things are
going to come up that like aregoing to take up, like this is
(40:47):
now on pause for three weeks, ornow the jury is deliberating
for, like you know, 20 days orsomething.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, I know they showed his children coming in
and then his mother came in aswell and I guess once they got
into the graphic details, thehis daughters, I guess got up
and left.
They didn't want to be therefor that.
Yeah I don't blame them, but um, the one thing I'm interested
to see is um what other namesare brought up?
(41:19):
Yeah, there's a lot of famouspeople that went to those
parties.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I know, but don't you feel like between this and the
Epstein case, we've been waitingfor years for just like release
the names of just these partiesand I feel like a lot of these
has been like, especially withthe Epstein list?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
a lot of the names like have been released and it
just seems like as a public Idon't know if we don't care or
like we're just so apathetic now, like it's like oh, ok,
whatever, yeah, and you know theone thing too just because a
person was at a Diddy partydon't mean they participated in
the freak offs, but it could bea bad look depending on who they
(41:57):
are.
Yeah, yeah, you know.
In other words, if you knowyou're a minister oh my gosh.
Or other people, and again, notsaying you did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
You participated?
Speaker 1 (42:09):
in anything but for the optics, that may not be a
good look.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Exactly If you're part of a royal family, if
you're an ex-president, ifyou're a CEO of a company like
yeah, if you're a CEO of acompany like yeah so it's going
to be interesting, because Iknow there's some real
powerhouse witnesses supposedly.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Now, what that means, we don't know.
It could be just regular peoplethat work with them.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
It could be stars, we don't know what if it's JLo
would never do it.
Yeah, I said, jlo would nevergo against him.
Yeah, no, j-lo would never doit.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, huh, I said J-Lo would never go against him.
Yeah, something tells me J-Lois probably glad that they broke
up a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Exactly, exactly.
J-lo probably just wants likenothing to do with it.
Like I would imagine shedoesn't want to be like dragged
into a mess.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, dragged into a mess.
Yeah, I mean it's, it's sadbecause you know, diddy was
really close to being abillionaire himself.
Yeah, and I don't know.
It just seems like and again,not all people, but it seems
like sometimes, when people getthe money and fame that they've
been working for all their life,they think they're untouchable.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
And you'll be amazed at how many people kind of
forget that you're a human beingtoo.
People are human around you andyou're not God.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Definitely I've always heard that too where it's
just like money won't changeyou per se, but it just
amplifies who you already areExactly.
I honestly feel like if peoplelike you and I had it, I don't
think we'd be like wildlydifferent people that are now
doing like freak off parties andstuff.
I feel like we would just dowhat we're already doing, but
like in a bigger scale, and Ithink I think sometimes just
(43:53):
like yeah, it just kind ofamplifies who you are, you're.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
you're like almost your shadow sides, you know, oh
yeah and you, you know, steveHarvey said something that hit
it right on the nail and he saidone thing you got to understand
money doesn't change anybody.
People think it does, itdoesn't.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So, in other words, if you're a real nice person to
begin with, you come into a lotof money.
You're going to be a much nicerperson.
Exactly, you may suck with alot more money doing other
things, where, on the other hand, if you're an asshole and you
get money, you're going tobecome a bigger a-hole.
Exactly, you're just going toamplify who you are, so it
doesn't change you.
(44:33):
It actually to me, lets you bewho you really are.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Exactly and give to more people.
But I'm sure at some point italmost seems like Diddy wasn't
just seeking money.
He was seeking the flashiness,the lifestyle, the power, the
ego, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I think he hit it on the head, I think it was more,
because he already had money, healready had power.
I think it was the controlthing.
Yeah, he wanted to feel incontrol of everything and
everyone around him.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yes, and a lot of these people I'm not saying he
does, but a lot of people havelike a god complex, you know
where, like they think they're,they want to be like the god of
things and just like thealmighty one, and so yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
So yeah, that's going to be interesting.
I know we're going to have moreto say once, uh, once we start
seeing more witnesses, I know Ireally hope it gets juicy.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
I just feel like the past couple scandals like this
there hasn't been.
It's like there's a littlesplash but then we just kind of
all quickly forget.
So I hope it's as good as it'spromised.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Well, when you're talking about over a thousand
bottles of baby oil, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I think it's probablygoing to get juicy Totally.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, good, well, this was crazy.
I don't know if you saw this.
Uh, fox news guest cameronkinsey recently fainted on air,
which was like very scary um,during a may 8th appearance on
fox news at night.
So basically she was like justtalking and all of a sudden you
could see her kind of get likevery slurry and blurry and then
(45:59):
she just goes down and falls tothe floor and just you know, um,
she said that the shockinghealth scare was likely the
result of severe dehydration,which is like you know, a lot of
times when we hear that it'slike, okay, it's very rare that
someone just like faints out ofnowhere for dehydration because
you would think you'd be likeI'm so, I'm so thirsty, I just
need water, I don't know.
(46:20):
A lot of times I feel like thatgoes hand in hand with other
stuff, like whether it'smedication or you know, there's
some other things going on.
Hopefully there's not like ahuge health issue.
But what I wanted to talk aboutI don't know if you saw the clip
, but pretty much her co-host isgetting a lot of flack because
he came on.
Host Jonathan Hunt came on andtold viewers that we're just
(46:42):
going to get some help here forCameron, but like she fell out
of her chair and a lot of peopleare saying that he didn't even
someone said he was giving likeclean up on aisle 5 energy,
where he was just like someoneelse handle this.
There's been like a jar ofspaghetti that has fallen on the
floor and, honestly truly, whenI watched it for the first time
, I was like yelling at the tv,being like help her.
(47:05):
You know, like you're not arobot, like get on the, get on
the ground.
Like you know, the people onthe air will understand for a
second if a major emergencyhappened.
But I understand too that likenone of us have been in this, we
don't know.
You don't know how you wouldreact until it happens to you.
And I think he was just tryingto maintain like professionalism
, but it doesn't look good forhim because he like froze and
(47:27):
kind of stumbled a lot and thenit's like your co-host is
literally on the floor, likemaybe those eight or nine
seconds could have saved herlife, you know.
And so I just feel like I don'twant to judge, but I feel like
if I was her and I watch thatback, like I honestly think I'd
be mad at that guy and I would,probably not forever, but I
would just tell him hey, that'sreally, you reacted kind of
weirdly.
You didn't even care that I wason the floor.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Yeah, I mean, I did see the clip of it.
It is a little bit surprisingthat he didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
He just acts.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
so callous the crazy thing about it your natural
instinct when you see someonefall, especially if it's someone
you know.
Yeah, that's just a naturalresponse it's very weird.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
It was like and I totally understand if he was
just like we're gonna deal withthis right now.
You know, thank you for your uhpatience and then like go.
You know, it's okay to berattled, but like he just seemed
to have like a weird like uh,like vacant energy about him.
But I also understand he wasprobably in shock as well and
you know, like he was like okay,we're gonna find some help and
(48:34):
help her, but it's like sheactively may be like not
breathing right now or like needyou?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
So it's now the only other thing that could be, and
we don't know this, but maybe hewas told because you know a lot
of people don't realize thosereporters have you know stuff.
You know a little thing exactly, exactly I've been told by a
producer leave her alone.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
We got people running to the set, totally you know I
think I think multiple thingscan be true, where I bet there
was stuff that we don't even seebehind the scenes happening,
and I bet he does care, and Ithink it was odd like the way
that he reacted.
You know, I just not that thereshouldn't be like one set of
expectations of what happenswhen your co-host faints on air,
but to me it was like not avery human response and like,
(49:16):
Because once she started, youknow like real slow moving.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, producers probably behind the scenes say
get somebody out there exactly,exactly, yeah, yeah, totally so.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Like of course.
Of course he's just human andhe's probably in his mind, half
of his brain is thinking what'shappening and he's trying to get
words out, but tiktok is notvery happy with him, so he's
gonna get canceled.
But but I mean like of course,like we're just human and I know
a lot of things too, like I'veseen car accidents before where
it's like you take a few secondsto even call 911 or something
(49:49):
you know, just because you'restill processing things.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
Um, but honestly, the worst thing is when something
happens, no one calls the police, everybody's just, you know,
putting oh yeah, that thathappens a lot.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Yeah, like group mind definitely.
You know like, yeah, totally,and they've done like lots of
studies on that too.
And yeah, I just think Ihonestly think if I was her and
I was watching that back, Iwould be like I almost like
wouldn't trust the person asmuch anymore.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
You know because in your mind you know, depending on
how know how close they are,she may even ask and say hey, um
, why did you do nothing when Ifailed?
Speaker 2 (50:22):
yeah, honestly, I'd be like hello, like like I'm
like, okay, that's good to knowthat I lose consciousness and
you're just like stumbling, likeI, I still think, yes, you're
on air and you're a reporter,but you're a human first and
you're a friend first, hopefully, to this person and like, show
a little bit of you know, justhuman emotions, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
That is true.
That is true.
So well, the good thing is sheis better, because I know she
did.
She spoke to someone and saidthat.
What did she say?
She was dehydrated, she hadeaten or whatever.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah, she had severe dehydration, which I understand,
especially if you're travelingnonstop and whatever.
Yeah, she had severedehydration, which I understand,
especially if you're travelingnon-stop, and especially if you
drink or didn't eat that morningor had lots of coffee.
I understand how that couldhappen and all the lights are on
you and it's a big thing, butyeah, that is true.
That's why she needs to drinkwater, but not if she's six
miles or less from a golf course.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Very true, very true.
We stay hydrated here.
I got my water.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yep, I got my water too.
You've been hearing me extrahydrate this time.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Talk about interesting things coming up.
Meryl, what do you have comingup?
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Ooh, oh my gosh.
I can't believe we're alreadyat the end now.
I will be in lovely SantaBarbara later on this week and I
have some really fun shows.
I'm June 8th.
I will be in Glendale,california, at a really cool
place called the Glendale Room,one of my favorite local venues,
and, um, there's a theme it'scalled.
(51:56):
It's so funny.
It's a group called StuffedCabbage and it's like a.
Every month they have adifferent theme of a comedy show
, like it will be money orcareers or whatever.
So I'll let everyone know onceI know my theme.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
But it'll be fun, nice, nice.
Well, we definitely had a lotof fun today.
We did, and I definitely wantto thank everyone for being
patient with us trying out thisnew software for the show.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, thank you.
I think my software onlycrashed three times.
Thank out this new software forthe show.
Yeah, thank you.
I think my software onlycrashed three times, thank you.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Well, everyone again, thank you for supporting us.
We really appreciate you guyswatching us.
Please make sure you telleveryone about the show and also
make sure that you telleveryone about Merle and what
she has coming up and supporther as well.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
So sweet, thank you.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Well, everyone, enjoy the rest of your day.
I am Lawrence Elrod, and.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
I'm Meryl Clemo Bye.
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