November 4, 2025 • 32 mins
A lightning-fast heist at the Louvre. A celebrity caption that went sideways. A teenage gorilla testing the limits of “safety glass.” We follow the headlines that made us gasp and ask a bigger question: what do we really protect—art, image, animals, or trust?
We start with the crown jewels of Napoleon’s court and the surreal optics of a basket lift on a major Paris street. Conflicting timelines aside, the gaps are hard to ignore: large blind spots in camera coverage, priceless artifacts in smashable cases, and a daylight break-in with visitors already inside. We unpack why “Ocean’s 11 vibes” stop being cool once cultural heritage is damaged, how thieves likely strip stones to avoid detection, and why institutions must match their prestige with real security.
Then we jump to a viral anniversary post from Kristen Bell that quoted a dark joke about never killing her spouse. Humor among couples can be edgy, but timing and reach matter. We talk tone, context, and why a squeaky-clean brand faces harsher scrutiny—especially during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s not a call to cancel so much as a reminder: if you’re public, your private jokes are public too.
The energy shifts again when a young male gorilla in San Diego cracks one layer of triple-tempered glass. We explore adolescent gorilla behavior, stress in captivity, and how audience behavior—banging, taunting, crowding—can push animals toward flashpoints. Ethics and engineering meet here: better habitats, enrichment, and clear visitor rules can reduce risk while honoring conservation.
We also confront a tough story: a Texas ICU nurse arrested for DWI who told police she’d let them die if they came to her hospital. That’s a trust breaker. We discuss zero-tolerance lines in healthcare, how alcohol reveals more than it invents, and why accountability protects patients and the profession.
To end on hope, Taylor Swift sparks a $2M windfall for sea otter conservation after wearing a vintage Monterey Bay Aquarium tee. It’s proof that celebrity influence can fuel real-world impact when aligned with credible organizations and authentic moments.
If this mix of culture, ethics, and accountability hits your brain just right, tap follow, share with a friend, and leave a quick review. What story made you rethink your lines—security, speech, or safety? We’d love to hear your take.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:15):
Hello everyone.
Welcome to this week's episodeof Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
SPEAKER_02 (00:21):
And I am Meryl Climo.
SPEAKER_00 (00:23):
Hey Meryl, how are you doing this week?
SPEAKER_02 (00:26):
I'm really good.
How about you?
SPEAKER_00 (00:28):
I am doing fantastic.
Um a little bit chilly outthere, but that's okay.
It's still still pretty nice.
I can't complain.
How's the weather about you?
SPEAKER_02 (00:37):
Oh, I'm so jealous.
It's like too warm.
It's genuinely hitting 90degrees some of these days.
Wow, really?
Yes.
Yeah, and it's not fair becausewe've been trying to look at
Halloween houses and like allthe decor and the pumpkin spice
and everything, and it's likenot fun when it's 90 degrees
out.
SPEAKER_00 (00:53):
Hey, you want to trade?
We got 40-something degreeweather here.
SPEAKER_02 (00:56):
Yes.
I wish we could all trade forlike a week because I I want a
cold weather for like one weekof wearing a sweater.
Only one week.
Yeah, just one week.
And the guy I feel like one weekof snow, and I'm good to go.
Sounds like a haiku, but it'snot.
SPEAKER_00 (01:12):
Well, talking about good to go, what's the topic on
your list today?
SPEAKER_02 (01:18):
Oh man.
Okay.
I picked this one.
I'm sure you've heard about it.
Um, thieves stole crown jewelsin four minutes from the Louvre
Museum in France.
I don't know if you've ever ifyou've ever been there, but like
in a minutes-long strike onSunday inside the world's most
visited museum, thieves wrote abasket lift up the Louvre
(01:38):
facade, forced the window open,smashed display cases, and fled
with the priceless um Napoleonjewels officials said the
daylight heist only took about30 minutes after opening, and
then visitors were alreadyinside.
Now, I think this is just sofunny.
So we we were there, we wentonce, and the funniest thing is
that we didn't have that muchtime.
(02:00):
Like my boyfriend and I werethere right when it was closing.
So we were laughing at all thememes that said, like, if you're
able to do the Louvre in sevenminutes, you're you should take
whatever you want.
Because that was pretty much ourexperience, where we were like,
got it, got it, Mona Lisa, okay,perfect.
So so, but I feel like this issomething out of like an Ocean's
11 or something, you know, whereit seems like a heist happened,
(02:22):
they did pull it off, and umpeople were saying that like
there was insiders that werewatching, and people from the
the um employees were watching,and I just thought this was like
kind of crazy.
SPEAKER_00 (02:35):
Well, I agree, and you know, I saw the story too,
and I'm sitting there, there's afew things that crossed my mind.
One, how is it that you can havethis gigantic ladder going up to
the second store of a buildingon a major street, and no one
noticed that?
SPEAKER_02 (02:51):
Right?
You would think that of all thetechnology that people can use
to like have alarm systems andjust facial recognition and
everything, you would think thiswould have like the highest
security out there.
SPEAKER_00 (03:04):
Oh, exactly.
And then, you know, they weresaying, I heard different times
they got in and out in sevenminutes, they got in and out in
four minutes and all this stuff,and then they actually
interviewed this person who usedto be uh a jewel robber.
Um, no longer is he a jewelryrobber, wink wink, at least
that's what he said.
Yeah, he's like, Oh, these guysare amateurs, you know, and you
(03:27):
know, they they made a lot ofmistakes.
And here's the thing theyhaven't caught these people yet,
so I know I couldn't pull offwhat they did.
So, you know, they kind of knowsomething.
SPEAKER_02 (03:38):
Exactly.
And I do feel bad too, becauseum they said that one of the
crowns, which is so funny too,because I'll have to if I if we
get like if we have the abilityto put up a screen or something,
I'll show you the picture thatwe have of the said crown.
Because like my boyfriend Jackjust wanted to show that we were
there, so he was like, Okay,this crown, like we have the
picture of the crown that was umit was reportedly recovered
(04:00):
broken, which is very sad.
It was an emerald set imperialcrown of Napoleon III's wife,
Empress Eugene.
Um, it contained more than 1300diamonds, and so I feel like
that's just sad for everyone,like you know, recovering
something and breaking it.
And it's just it to me, it'slike pure greed and just um not
very nice.
SPEAKER_00 (04:20):
Was it one of the ones that were stolen or one of
the ones that they dropped?
SPEAKER_02 (04:23):
I think one of the ones that they took and then,
yeah, they just kind of left it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:28):
Okay, and you know, I I know they were saying that
um it would be pretty muchimpossible to kind of pawn it
the way it is, so they'reprobably gonna break them into
pieces to get rid of it.
SPEAKER_02 (04:39):
Yeah, what if they brought it into a th uh thrift
store and they were like, Idon't know, we just got this as
a at our at our company as likea a great job we did.
Um, but then I also think too,if you watch any of the news
stories on this, the Frenchpeople are so funny about
they're just like unbothered andthey don't really care.
You know, they're kind of like,okay, whatever.
Um and I can't believe there'salready visitors inside, too.
SPEAKER_00 (05:01):
Really?
I thought they had that blockedoff.
SPEAKER_02 (05:04):
They ushered them out, but there were already
visitors inside when this washappening.
Like they they quickly usheredeveryone out, and of course,
they're trying to also make itseem like okay, we're gonna ask
everyone to leave right now,nothing's going on.
But of course, you're there.
And in my mind, of course, inthis day and age, you're
thinking, like, what's about tohappen?
Is there a bombing?
Is there a shooting?
(05:24):
You know, like there's suchcrazy stuff going on that to me,
if I was getting asked to leavethe loo, like I would be pretty
scared at first.
SPEAKER_00 (05:31):
Oh, yeah, and I I know they're talking about um
it's amazing when they weretalking about the security, and
I guess only a small percentageof because I I guess the loo is
made up of like two or threebuildings, it looks like.
Yeah, and they talked about thecamera coverage, and the camera
coverage is only about I thinkthey were saying somewhere
(05:54):
between 60 and 75 percent ofeach building does not have
camera coverage.
SPEAKER_02 (05:59):
Yeah, one shocking, and two, I don't know if that's
something I would want to sharepersonally, but they're like
just so you know, this is atotal blind spot for us.
Um, and then I've never seen themovie The Da Vinci Code, but I
that's filmed there, and thenthere's a few other like famous
movie scenes that have beenthere.
(06:21):
Um, but it really is like amodern damage.
Everyone's saying it'sdefinitely like an Ocean's 11,
Oceans 12 type situation of justa heist that gets pulled off,
and everything has to be likeriding the basket up into
smashing the glass, like it hasto be perfect, like every
second, you know, for this tohappen.
SPEAKER_00 (06:38):
I think the biggest thing that surprised me,
obviously, them being able toget in there and pull off what
they did.
But when you think about howmuch money, you know, as far as
valuables are in thosebuildings, it's stunning that
they don't have better security.
It's shocking.
SPEAKER_02 (06:54):
Yeah, I know.
So I mean, yeah, it's pretty,pretty unbelievable.
SPEAKER_00 (07:02):
It really is, but uh wow.
Either they're gonna pull offthe greatest heist and never get
caught, or we'll find out whothey are pretty soon.
Because I personally think thatthis goes on for about I don't
know, a few weeks to a month.
I don't think it's very likelythey'll find these people.
And I could be wrong.
SPEAKER_02 (07:20):
I could be totally totally, and of course, if if if
you get the chance to visit it,if anyone does, it's very
pretty.
But I have to admit too, I amlike not the most I'm kind of
not gonna say dumb, but I'm I'mlike a simple girl.
And and so being there is likeamazing, like art, that's so
cool.
And you know, I I do love art alot, but I feel like especially
(07:42):
old historic stuff is kind oflost on me.
I feel like I'm definitely likea new soul where I'm I need
stuff to be like pink and shiny,and uh when I was watching it,
I'm like, I really feel idioticfor like not seeing what I think
a lot of people see.
SPEAKER_00 (07:55):
So no, no, no, no, no.
Well, talk about idiotic.
This is an interesting story.
Uh actress Kristen Bell um madea disturbing post on Instagram.
Oh my god.
Uh, do you know who Kristen Bellis?
SPEAKER_02 (08:13):
Yeah, I sure do.
SPEAKER_00 (08:15):
Okay.
This is interesting.
Actress Kristen Bell receivedwidespread backlash for a
tone-deaf Instagram postcelebrating her 12th wedding
anniversary with her husband,Dak Shepherd.
The post was called disturbingand insensitive because it
referenced domestic violence,especially as it was shared
(08:37):
during domestic violenceawareness month.
Now, the post itself, and thisis really shocking that she did
this, but the post itself was uhwas posted on Saturday, October
the 18th.
Belle shared a picture of her ofher and Shepard hugging with the
caption that quoted her husband.
She wrote, Happy 12thanniversary to the man who once
(09:00):
said to me, I would never killyou.
A lot of men have killed theirwives at a certain point, even
though I'm heavily incentivizedto kill you, I never will.
Never once have I been temptedto say something even remotely
(09:23):
close to this.
Maybe, maybe it's me.
Maybe I'm you know, maybe I'mout of the way, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (09:28):
Exactly.
Okay, this is why I love ourshow so much, because I feel
like I in a good way, I waslike, I feel like we're gonna
have dissenting opinions aboutthis, and and I love that.
And this is like an example howI think people can like feel
differently and still be friendsand still get along.
We're so okay.
So I we pulled up this thisFacebook that we I post or my
boyfriend posted in 2015 where Iquoted and I said, I really
(09:49):
can't see you killing me.
And I said, and I said that tomy boyfriend, and it was because
which is so good.
I I shared this on my Instagramand I was like, in honor of
Kristen Bell getting canceled.
And so, like, I feel, I mean,number one, them as a couple
just kind of annoys me for likea multitude of reasons.
But number two, I feel like whenyou're with someone for that
long, I feel like I can have apretty like dark sense of humor
(10:12):
with my boyfriend, and sometimesit can get pretty like
ridiculous.
And people were saying, what Iagree with was this should have
just been like a card orsomething that you share with
your close friends.
Because I think like we, youknow, some couples just do have
kind of a very kidding, dark,morose sense of humor, which is
fine.
But when you're Kristen Bell andlike you're like squeaky, clean
(10:32):
image, and you're you know,you're sponsored, you're on TV
shows and you're sponsored bybrands and all this kind of
stuff.
You do have to triple thinkabout what you're doing.
Like you're on a Netflix showright now.
So almost from like a PRstandpoint, I'm surprised she
did this because she always orshe seems to be someone that
does try to like keep her imagepretty nice.
Um, but I don't know, from acouple's point of view, this
(10:53):
doesn't really worry me thatmuch because I feel like I can
relate to kind of having like adark, very like whoa sense of
humor with your longtimepartner.
SPEAKER_00 (11:03):
So so let me ask you this if your boyfriend posted,
hey, it's my girlfriend'sbirthday, I really felt like
killing her, but I'm not.
I love her anyway.
SPEAKER_02 (11:12):
I mean, honestly, I feel like our friends and family
would be like, We get it, we getit, we totally agree with you.
But no, I I think I think forme, like in our situation, I was
telling Joe, we had just firststarted dating, and I was like
assessing the situation.
I'm like, is this man a serialkiller?
Can I trust him?
And I had said, like, I feellike you're not gonna kill me.
And you know, he thought thatwas so crazy that someone would
(11:32):
say that, but that just goes toshow that that was like a moment
because it was so weird forsomeone to say that.
But it's sad, but like, uh, andI don't know if you saw this,
but in the post datelinecommented and just said, like,
clocking this, or we see you, oryou know, they said they said
comment did something veryshort, but like kind of funny.
And I think it is sad that likea lot of women have to think
(11:54):
about is this someone that isgoing to like put my body in a
trunk, or you know, like allthis kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_00 (12:00):
I think, I think probably the outrage came
because it is domestic awarenessmonth.
Domestic awareness.
Yeah, I get it.
SPEAKER_02 (12:07):
But how many like it's to that point?
I didn't know that.
Like, I don't think to me, I'mnot looking up the months of
like what it is when I'm postingsomething.
You know what I mean?
I think she probably because Ifeel like Blake Lively and Ryan
Reynolds do this all the timewhere they say like very
sarcastic things about eachother, and like I think she
probably meant it to come offlike we've been together for so
long that we could say likeanything, even if it's a little
(12:29):
bit dark.
SPEAKER_00 (12:31):
That's true.
That's true.
The only thing is that if you'rean eye set, no one would really
care.
But when you're someone likeKristen Bell, um, if she sneezes
the wrong way, it hitsheadlines, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02 (12:42):
A hundred percent.
Yeah, which she normallydoesn't.
I feel like she has like of allthe people, she definitely has
like one of the top images inHollywood.
Like people think that she'svery like sweet and I mean that
she might be in relief, I don'tknow.
But like, you know, I think shehas like a very this is the only
thing I could think of that Iremember where she's gotten like
really badly canceled.
Whereas her husband, peopledon't really like like he's very
(13:04):
polarizing, and I think hispodcast gets a lot of heat on.
So yeah, I think I I saw it, I'mlike, oh my god, and then Jack
was like, Don't you have a quoteexactly like that?
SPEAKER_00 (13:18):
Yeah, that's true.
And again, do I think she'sserious about it?
Of course not, but I think Ithink it was probably just the
timing.
And I'll be honest with you, Idon't know.
There's so many things going oneach month of the year that I
can't keep up either.
SPEAKER_02 (13:32):
So exactly, exactly.
Like I always talk a lot aboutfood stuff, and I definitely
like make fun of myself orwhatever, and I feel like
someone could be like, but wait,it's national like food disorder
month or you know, bingerecovery month is like
September.
How dare you talk about stuff?
And I'm like, okay, like I'm notlooking up the calendar here.
Um it I do think the part thatis weird too is the whole like
(13:54):
him saying I'm incentivized tokill you.
That's a little weird.
SPEAKER_01 (13:59):
That was a little surprising.
SPEAKER_02 (14:01):
Yeah, I I think like I get what she's doing because I
feel like I get the dark,whatever sense of humor, but I
feel like it could have beenwritten in like a funnier, less
like uh direct sort of way.
SPEAKER_00 (14:15):
I agree, I agree.
So I would say to people, don'tcancel her, you know, just you
know, look at it what it was.
It was just a little cute thingbetween a couple, and I don't
think there's any more thanthat.
SPEAKER_02 (14:27):
So yeah, and there's certain senses of humor where
like with couples too, wherethey're like, my idiot, you
know, and so I think they'rethey just seem like they're one
of them.
SPEAKER_00 (14:37):
That is so true.
SPEAKER_02 (14:38):
Um well, the next one, someone that is very
violent, is is Danny the gorillaat the San Diego Zoo, where um
he recently cracked the glass onthe the barrier.
Um, 10-year-old Denny broke oneof three layers of protective
glass at the zoo's Lost ForestGorilla Habitat.
(14:59):
And people got it on camera, ofcourse.
And so, you know, he wasslamming the glass.
There was people there.
They weren't really taunting himat the um from what the video
looked like.
They weren't, you know, goingextra hard at like teasing him
or taunting him.
Um, but he didn't make he didn'tfully bust it through, but it
seems like if he was left to hisown devices, it seemed like very
(15:20):
quickly he could have gottenthrough it.
Um, and then you would have aloose male gorilla on the on the
loose.
Um, the zoo behavior expertswere saying it's common for male
gorillas, especially inadolescents, to express these
types of behaviors, just liketeenager boys, you know, like
bursts of energy, charging,dragging items, or running
sideways that are all naturalfor a young male.
(15:41):
Um, the zoo said that the breachpanel was composed of three
layers of tempered glass.
And so obviously, you know, awhole it brings up a whole thing
of just having them incaptivity.
Um is it like a sad life forthem?
Is it not?
You know, I have the the SanDiego Zoo is really beautiful,
and it's definitely like one ofthe only zoos I've been at where
(16:02):
I don't feel bad for the animalsbecause like their habitats that
seem very similar to the wild,and it's like a gorgeous,
gorgeous zoo.
Um, but I thought this wascrazy.
Like, what would you do ifyou're at the zoo and a male
gorilla just started likebusting through the glass?
SPEAKER_00 (16:17):
Yeah, but like, okay, it's time to walk now.
SPEAKER_02 (16:20):
Exactly.
I'm like, okay, we're gonna goget lunch.
SPEAKER_00 (16:24):
I don't know.
I mean, I I I get what they'resaying.
It's it's safe, it'smulti-glass.
I get all that, but I would notbe very comfortable seeing this
big, I don't know, 500,000-poundanimal coming at you with a
glass in front of you.
Like, yeah, I'm not gonna sitthere and find out if that glass
is gonna hold or not.
SPEAKER_02 (16:44):
I know.
And that is sad because it'slike in the wild, they may like
it is a teenager, it's growing,so he may he may be like hitting
a rock, or you know, in the wildthat might be totally fine.
Where if like he's mad aboutsomething or whatever, it's it's
totally fine for him to like hita tree or you know, do whatever.
So I don't know.
I I it is kind of sad, and Ifeel like a lot of animals just
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reach their breaking point whereit must be crazy, like having
humans being on display everyminute, and like having people
tease you through the window andjust look at you.
I feel like even if they're nota human, that's gonna make any
animal like just feel very uhaggro after a while.
SPEAKER_00 (17:21):
I would love to see what the people were doing at
the time.
And the reason why I say is thateven though it does happen from
time to time, you kind ofwonder, well, why isn't it
happening all the time?
So, in other words, are issomeone like messing with them
on the other side that's teasingthem to make them react that
way?
SPEAKER_02 (17:40):
Yes, yes.
I feel like the gorillas do geta bad rap because remember, I
mean, not even a bad rap, butthey're set up for not success
because like people's childrenfall in, and you know, it's like
I just feel like you have thesecreatures and we're keeping them
in captivity, and then thesethings happen, and then
hopefully they said he he'll becared for behind the scenes.
I'm like, oh god, uh I don'tknow.
(18:00):
I don't know if they're gonnaget him on like an
antidepressant, or you know,like who knows what they're
gonna do.
They would never hurt him.
I'm sure they're like takingcare of him, but um yeah, I just
thought that was interesting.
SPEAKER_00 (18:13):
It it is, and and the sad part about it is you
know, apes and gorillas, youknow, they're very close to
humans, um, yeah, as far asgenes and everything else, and
you know, they may understandthat they're in captivity, which
means that it's like a humanwould be depressed in that type
of situation.
(18:34):
Who's to say that they can't bedepressed either, angry that
they're trapped?
SPEAKER_02 (18:39):
Yeah, I think the article also said that his his
brother, 10 um, 10-year-oldDenny's brother, died of like a
cardiac event, too.
So, like, you know, yeah, so youknow, all signs are pointing to
like that they might be stressedand just weird.
And I also wonder, like, say ifhe did break through the glass,
who's to say that he wouldn't?
I mean, I wouldn't be around tofind out, but like who's to say
(19:00):
that he wouldn't just run and belike, okay, I'm hugging you.
Maybe he's just trying to get tous to like give us a high five
or something.
SPEAKER_00 (19:06):
You know the scary part about what you said,
there's gonna be that one idiotthat's is gonna try and hug him
if he got through.
SPEAKER_02 (19:12):
I know, because I wonder what they would do.
Like, are they about to rip yourhead off or are they about to
like scoop you up like a baby?
Like, I I have no clue.
SPEAKER_00 (19:19):
I'm with you.
I'm not gonna stand there andfind out, but exactly.
SPEAKER_02 (19:22):
I'm not gonna find out, but yeah, like we'll just
we'll keep an eye on that.
SPEAKER_00 (19:27):
Yes, we will.
Yes, we will, and hopefully, um,like I said, when you go out to
see the animals in the zoo, Ijust hope that people understand
that don't tease them, don'tmake fun of them, don't
aggravate them like that.
SPEAKER_02 (19:39):
Yeah, I know.
I've like I I am not a mom, butI feel like if I was, that would
be one of the first things Iwould teach my kid is like
respect to animals and notbanging on the glass.
Uh it's always crazy when I'm atthe zoo and I see a mom or a dad
just like letting that happen.
And especially parents that it'sa whole other episode we could
talk about, but like parentsthat dangle their kids in front
of enclosures and everything.
SPEAKER_00 (20:02):
Yes, I totally, totally agree.
Now, this uh this next topicthis is why you should not be
running your mouth when you'redrunk, okay?
Um Tadlock was arrested for DUIand was dumb enough to say in
(20:25):
the back of a squarecart to thepolice officer that that um told
the officer that if he came toher hospital, uh she would let
him die.
SPEAKER_02 (20:37):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00 (20:38):
I wish I was making this up, but no, I didn't.
I'm not.
It says here that um Texas ICUnurse, that's kind of scary, she
works in an intensive care unit.
ICU nurse, Crystal Tadlock wasfired from her position at
Memorial Herman Greater HeightsHospital after she was arrested
for D DWI and told policeofficers, if you come through my
(21:03):
hospital, don't worry, I'll letyou die.
What the heck?
So upon the response from thehospital is upon learning of the
incident, Memorial Hermansuspended and then terminated
Tadlock.
The hospital released astatement saying they take such
matters very seriously, and thatthey said that the safety and
(21:26):
privacy of their patients istheir top priority.
There's a lot I can say on thishere.
What do you think?
SPEAKER_02 (21:33):
Yeah.
Um I mean, I we talk about likea PR nightmare.
They definitely had somecleaning up to do.
And I mean, in this day and age,do you think like do you think
she actually meant that?
Or do you think she was justlike kind of saying it in the
heat of the moment?
SPEAKER_00 (21:51):
I think she was drunk talking crazy.
Yeah.
Everything about it is in thatposition, even if she's saying
it in a jokey way, she canactually make that happen.
That's what's scary.
SPEAKER_02 (22:01):
Yeah, exactly.
That's what's very scary.
And I mean, I've heard so manyhorror stories too.
If you hear these like storiesof like slowly and nurses like
putting poison into 50 differentpeople at the hospital, or you
know, we've heard that a bunchof times of just poisoning
people left and right.
And I just think it's um, Ithink if anyone says stuff like
that, we have to take it amillion percent as like a real
(22:24):
threat, even if they are drunk.
SPEAKER_00 (22:26):
I totally agree with you.
And when you work in that typeof position, you know, even
drunk, you know, you it kind ofmakes you wonder do you really
feel this way sometimes whenyou're handling patients?
SPEAKER_02 (22:39):
Yeah, I know, and and just something even saying
that I think should be likedismissal because it's like you
don't want to find out if theyreally even joking, it's just
like nope yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00 (22:50):
And I'm I'm sitting there thinking of myself, and
actually it's amazing that shewas arrested for DWI because the
thing that that's amazing rightnow with in the era of Uber and
Lyft, there should be zeroreason to ever drive drugs, it
really shouldn't.
SPEAKER_02 (23:06):
Yeah, yep.
Do you have you ever had like ahealthcare practitioner that
like that you're kind of like, Idon't think I'm gonna go to you
anymore?
SPEAKER_00 (23:15):
Oh, I've definitely had some of those.
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (23:17):
Really?
unknown (23:18):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (23:19):
I mean, they didn't say anything as crazy as that,
but you know, you you ever havea person wait on you?
It it could be anything, couldbe at a restaurant, store,
whatever.
And the person that's waiting onyou makes it very clear they
really don't want to be at worktoday.
SPEAKER_02 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm like, why are you makingnoises?
You're like, you are you droveto work and you signed up for
this.
I had a dentist growing up thatlike he'd be like doing in my
mouth, and he'd be saying, like,God, I wish I became a golfer
instead, or like he wouldactively say things about how he
hated his job, and I would haveto just be like, and I would
always, I don't think he wouldpoison me, but I always just
(23:53):
felt like I don't feel safe withthis person, like, you know,
whatever, like up in my mouth.
SPEAKER_00 (24:00):
So he's saying all these things while he's you know
playing with drills andeverything in your mouth.
SPEAKER_02 (24:04):
Yeah, he would always like sigh and be like,
uh, like and he make the noises,and finally I would I told my
mom, like, come sit in on thisand just watch.
And she was like, He just has agruff personality, but I feel
like he would be someone that ifhe was drunk, it would start
coming out like how much hehates his patients, and like how
he can like use laughing gas onme and everything.
SPEAKER_00 (24:24):
Yeah, that would make a little make me a little
nervous as well, too.
SPEAKER_02 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:34):
And as he walks away, I hate my job.
SPEAKER_02 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah.
You don't want I'm getting offthe table, and I'm like, that's
it.
So you you wouldn't trust him tooperate on you?
No, no, I'd be like, I think I'mgonna reschedule the surgery for
a different day.
Even if we're like mid-incision,I'd be like, I think I'm good,
thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (24:52):
I don't blame you, but people to me, I think
alcohol is a true serum becausepeople always say, Well, it was
the alcohol talking.
No, it wasn't.
The alcohol gave you the courageto say what you normally
wouldn't say.
SPEAKER_02 (25:08):
Yes.
I just was talking about thiswith a friend too.
She was somewhere and she hadone of like the girls there got
really drunk, and then shestarted being really mean to
like a person that was workingwith them.
And I was like, I feel likethere's not enough alcohol in
the world that would make melike start to be mean to people.
Like, I would be sloppy, I'llcry, I'll like fight with my
(25:28):
boyfriend, you know.
But like, I I think if someone'streating people really poorly or
making threats like that, thatis like how they feel deep down
inside.
The alcohol is just bringing itout, you know.
SPEAKER_00 (25:38):
Yep, I totally agree.
SPEAKER_02 (25:41):
Wow.
Well, uh, I will not be going toher name.
Okay, well, well, another happyzoo slash whatever story.
This one's a good one.
Uh, a t-shirt worn by TaylorSwift sparks a$2 million
windfall for sea otters, aNorthern California aquarium,
the Monterey.
(26:01):
Also, I feel like today, and ifanyone agrees, I am being very
annoying about like the MontereyAquarium is really nice, but I'm
like, shut up.
I've already said like I've goneto the Louvre, I've gone to the
San Diego Zoo.
Everyone's like, we get it, butlike I don't know why, but today
it just happens to be placesI've been.
But anyway, I understand thatI'm annoying.
Um, a Northern Californiaaquarium has raised more than$2
million for sea otterconservation in just two days.
(26:23):
All it took was Taylor Swiftwearing a vintage t-shirt.
Now it's so cute.
So she wore a t-shirt showingtwo otters floating on their
back in one of her likerehearsal videos.
Um, it was a release party thata movie for her new album, The
Life of a Showgirl.
And it showed her being verycute behind the scenes, just
like in that t-shirt.
So of course, people were like,if Taylor Swift wears it, I want
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to buy it.
And so the aquarium had it hadgone out of print, and they were
like, hold on, give us a minute.
We're gonna put some new ones inprint.
And the Swiftie raised, yeah,like two million dollars.
It's still growing.
Um, people were trying, ofcourse, to like outpace the
aquarium and make them reallylike a bootleg version really
quickly, but luckily theSwifties were like, no, we want
(27:09):
to wait until we get the realthing.
So I think that's super cool.
Like, if you like Taylor or not,you should just be happy that
this aquarium is raising moneyfor sea otter conservation.
And man, that just shows likethe power of the Swifties to
raise two million dollars.
SPEAKER_00 (27:24):
Yes, it is.
I mean, the Swifties are a very,very, very loyal, let me tell
you.
So for Taylor Swift to dosomething like this, I I tip my
head off tour.
It's a great thing.
SPEAKER_02 (27:35):
Exactly.
On TikTok, I saw some peoplebeing like, man, you you don't
have to like uh you don't haveto love Taylor Swift, but you do
have to know that the Swiftieshave money, like you know, they
always buy the tickets andalmost in a good way saying that
like Taylor's fans seem to behardworking and like they have
jobs for sure.
Because a few other artists theywere like they could put an
eight dollar album out on saleand like no one's buying it
(27:58):
because everyone's broke.
So I thought this was very cute.
SPEAKER_00 (28:03):
Sad but true.
SPEAKER_02 (28:05):
Yeah, so um, yeah, I thought that's a very good
story.
SPEAKER_00 (28:11):
That's a great story to end on.
So, Meryl, what do you havecoming up?
SPEAKER_02 (28:16):
Um, coming up, I am promoting hard.
And if anyone wants to come, SanDiego.
This is not the gorilla at theSan Diego Zoo, but it will be
the same energy where um it'sOctober 29th at the La Jolla
Comedy Store, and it's a showcalled Pretty Funny Witches.
So it's like normally it'scalled Pretty Funny Women, it's
a monthly show with women, butthis one is gonna be Halloween
(28:37):
themed.
SPEAKER_00 (28:38):
Oh, that's gonna be great.
SPEAKER_02 (28:39):
It'll be really fun.
So, yeah, October 29th.
SPEAKER_00 (28:42):
So you're gonna uh visit Dinny the the gorilla?
SPEAKER_02 (28:45):
I'm gonna invite him on stage, and if I if a joke
doesn't land, he's just gonnacome and beat me up.
Not to be Kristen Bell about it,but yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (28:56):
Cool, cool.
Sounds like a great show.
SPEAKER_02 (28:58):
Thank you.
And you're always so supportive.
Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00 (29:02):
Oh, no problem.
Thank you so much.
I know one of these days I gottaget out there and check out your
show.
SPEAKER_02 (29:06):
Yeah, yes, please.
SPEAKER_00 (29:08):
Well, for everyone out there, if you're in the
area, definitely make sure yougo support Meryl, okay?
And also thank you for watchingand listening to us.
We appreciate your support.
Please let everybody know who weare and where to find us.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
SPEAKER_02 (29:23):
And I'm Merrill Climo.
SPEAKER_00 (29:25):
Take care, everyone.
Bye bye.
Hello everyone.
Welcome to this week's episodeof Thirsty Topics.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
SPEAKER_02 (00:21):
And I am Meryl Climo.
SPEAKER_00 (00:23):
Hey Meryl, how are you doing this week?
SPEAKER_02 (00:26):
I'm really good.
How about you?
SPEAKER_00 (00:28):
I am doing fantastic.
Um a little bit chilly outthere, but that's okay.
It's still still pretty nice.
I can't complain.
How's the weather about you?
SPEAKER_02 (00:37):
Oh, I'm so jealous.
It's like too warm.
It's genuinely hitting 90degrees some of these days.
Wow, really?
Yes.
Yeah, and it's not fair becausewe've been trying to look at
Halloween houses and like allthe decor and the pumpkin spice
and everything, and it's likenot fun when it's 90 degrees
out.
SPEAKER_00 (00:53):
Hey, you want to trade?
We got 40-something degreeweather here.
SPEAKER_02 (00:56):
Yes.
I wish we could all trade forlike a week because I I want a
cold weather for like one weekof wearing a sweater.
Only one week.
Yeah, just one week.
And the guy I feel like one weekof snow, and I'm good to go.
Sounds like a haiku, but it'snot.
SPEAKER_00 (01:12):
Well, talking about good to go, what's the topic on
your list today?
SPEAKER_02 (01:18):
Oh man.
Okay.
I picked this one.
I'm sure you've heard about it.
Um, thieves stole crown jewelsin four minutes from the Louvre
Museum in France.
I don't know if you've ever ifyou've ever been there, but like
in a minutes-long strike onSunday inside the world's most
visited museum, thieves wrote abasket lift up the Louvre
(01:38):
facade, forced the window open,smashed display cases, and fled
with the priceless um Napoleonjewels officials said the
daylight heist only took about30 minutes after opening, and
then visitors were alreadyinside.
Now, I think this is just sofunny.
So we we were there, we wentonce, and the funniest thing is
that we didn't have that muchtime.
(02:00):
Like my boyfriend and I werethere right when it was closing.
So we were laughing at all thememes that said, like, if you're
able to do the Louvre in sevenminutes, you're you should take
whatever you want.
Because that was pretty much ourexperience, where we were like,
got it, got it, Mona Lisa, okay,perfect.
So so, but I feel like this issomething out of like an Ocean's
11 or something, you know, whereit seems like a heist happened,
(02:22):
they did pull it off, and umpeople were saying that like
there was insiders that werewatching, and people from the
the um employees were watching,and I just thought this was like
kind of crazy.
SPEAKER_00 (02:35):
Well, I agree, and you know, I saw the story too,
and I'm sitting there, there's afew things that crossed my mind.
One, how is it that you can havethis gigantic ladder going up to
the second store of a buildingon a major street, and no one
noticed that?
SPEAKER_02 (02:51):
Right?
You would think that of all thetechnology that people can use
to like have alarm systems andjust facial recognition and
everything, you would think thiswould have like the highest
security out there.
SPEAKER_00 (03:04):
Oh, exactly.
And then, you know, they weresaying, I heard different times
they got in and out in sevenminutes, they got in and out in
four minutes and all this stuff,and then they actually
interviewed this person who usedto be uh a jewel robber.
Um, no longer is he a jewelryrobber, wink wink, at least
that's what he said.
Yeah, he's like, Oh, these guysare amateurs, you know, and you
(03:27):
know, they they made a lot ofmistakes.
And here's the thing theyhaven't caught these people yet,
so I know I couldn't pull offwhat they did.
So, you know, they kind of knowsomething.
SPEAKER_02 (03:38):
Exactly.
And I do feel bad too, becauseum they said that one of the
crowns, which is so funny too,because I'll have to if I if we
get like if we have the abilityto put up a screen or something,
I'll show you the picture thatwe have of the said crown.
Because like my boyfriend Jackjust wanted to show that we were
there, so he was like, Okay,this crown, like we have the
picture of the crown that was umit was reportedly recovered
(04:00):
broken, which is very sad.
It was an emerald set imperialcrown of Napoleon III's wife,
Empress Eugene.
Um, it contained more than 1300diamonds, and so I feel like
that's just sad for everyone,like you know, recovering
something and breaking it.
And it's just it to me, it'slike pure greed and just um not
very nice.
SPEAKER_00 (04:20):
Was it one of the ones that were stolen or one of
the ones that they dropped?
SPEAKER_02 (04:23):
I think one of the ones that they took and then,
yeah, they just kind of left it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:28):
Okay, and you know, I I know they were saying that
um it would be pretty muchimpossible to kind of pawn it
the way it is, so they'reprobably gonna break them into
pieces to get rid of it.
SPEAKER_02 (04:39):
Yeah, what if they brought it into a th uh thrift
store and they were like, Idon't know, we just got this as
a at our at our company as likea a great job we did.
Um, but then I also think too,if you watch any of the news
stories on this, the Frenchpeople are so funny about
they're just like unbothered andthey don't really care.
You know, they're kind of like,okay, whatever.
Um and I can't believe there'salready visitors inside, too.
SPEAKER_00 (05:01):
Really?
I thought they had that blockedoff.
SPEAKER_02 (05:04):
They ushered them out, but there were already
visitors inside when this washappening.
Like they they quickly usheredeveryone out, and of course,
they're trying to also make itseem like okay, we're gonna ask
everyone to leave right now,nothing's going on.
But of course, you're there.
And in my mind, of course, inthis day and age, you're
thinking, like, what's about tohappen?
Is there a bombing?
Is there a shooting?
(05:24):
You know, like there's suchcrazy stuff going on that to me,
if I was getting asked to leavethe loo, like I would be pretty
scared at first.
SPEAKER_00 (05:31):
Oh, yeah, and I I know they're talking about um
it's amazing when they weretalking about the security, and
I guess only a small percentageof because I I guess the loo is
made up of like two or threebuildings, it looks like.
Yeah, and they talked about thecamera coverage, and the camera
coverage is only about I thinkthey were saying somewhere
(05:54):
between 60 and 75 percent ofeach building does not have
camera coverage.
SPEAKER_02 (05:59):
Yeah, one shocking, and two, I don't know if that's
something I would want to sharepersonally, but they're like
just so you know, this is atotal blind spot for us.
Um, and then I've never seen themovie The Da Vinci Code, but I
that's filmed there, and thenthere's a few other like famous
movie scenes that have beenthere.
(06:21):
Um, but it really is like amodern damage.
Everyone's saying it'sdefinitely like an Ocean's 11,
Oceans 12 type situation of justa heist that gets pulled off,
and everything has to be likeriding the basket up into
smashing the glass, like it hasto be perfect, like every
second, you know, for this tohappen.
SPEAKER_00 (06:38):
I think the biggest thing that surprised me,
obviously, them being able toget in there and pull off what
they did.
But when you think about howmuch money, you know, as far as
valuables are in thosebuildings, it's stunning that
they don't have better security.
It's shocking.
SPEAKER_02 (06:54):
Yeah, I know.
So I mean, yeah, it's pretty,pretty unbelievable.
SPEAKER_00 (07:02):
It really is, but uh wow.
Either they're gonna pull offthe greatest heist and never get
caught, or we'll find out whothey are pretty soon.
Because I personally think thatthis goes on for about I don't
know, a few weeks to a month.
I don't think it's very likelythey'll find these people.
And I could be wrong.
SPEAKER_02 (07:20):
I could be totally totally, and of course, if if if
you get the chance to visit it,if anyone does, it's very
pretty.
But I have to admit too, I amlike not the most I'm kind of
not gonna say dumb, but I'm I'mlike a simple girl.
And and so being there is likeamazing, like art, that's so
cool.
And you know, I I do love art alot, but I feel like especially
(07:42):
old historic stuff is kind oflost on me.
I feel like I'm definitely likea new soul where I'm I need
stuff to be like pink and shiny,and uh when I was watching it,
I'm like, I really feel idioticfor like not seeing what I think
a lot of people see.
SPEAKER_00 (07:55):
So no, no, no, no, no.
Well, talk about idiotic.
This is an interesting story.
Uh actress Kristen Bell um madea disturbing post on Instagram.
Oh my god.
Uh, do you know who Kristen Bellis?
SPEAKER_02 (08:13):
Yeah, I sure do.
SPEAKER_00 (08:15):
Okay.
This is interesting.
Actress Kristen Bell receivedwidespread backlash for a
tone-deaf Instagram postcelebrating her 12th wedding
anniversary with her husband,Dak Shepherd.
The post was called disturbingand insensitive because it
referenced domestic violence,especially as it was shared
(08:37):
during domestic violenceawareness month.
Now, the post itself, and thisis really shocking that she did
this, but the post itself was uhwas posted on Saturday, October
the 18th.
Belle shared a picture of her ofher and Shepard hugging with the
caption that quoted her husband.
She wrote, Happy 12thanniversary to the man who once
(09:00):
said to me, I would never killyou.
A lot of men have killed theirwives at a certain point, even
though I'm heavily incentivizedto kill you, I never will.
Never once have I been temptedto say something even remotely
(09:23):
close to this.
Maybe, maybe it's me.
Maybe I'm you know, maybe I'mout of the way, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (09:28):
Exactly.
Okay, this is why I love ourshow so much, because I feel
like I in a good way, I waslike, I feel like we're gonna
have dissenting opinions aboutthis, and and I love that.
And this is like an example howI think people can like feel
differently and still be friendsand still get along.
We're so okay.
So I we pulled up this thisFacebook that we I post or my
boyfriend posted in 2015 where Iquoted and I said, I really
(09:49):
can't see you killing me.
And I said, and I said that tomy boyfriend, and it was because
which is so good.
I I shared this on my Instagramand I was like, in honor of
Kristen Bell getting canceled.
And so, like, I feel, I mean,number one, them as a couple
just kind of annoys me for likea multitude of reasons.
But number two, I feel like whenyou're with someone for that
long, I feel like I can have apretty like dark sense of humor
(10:12):
with my boyfriend, and sometimesit can get pretty like
ridiculous.
And people were saying, what Iagree with was this should have
just been like a card orsomething that you share with
your close friends.
Because I think like we, youknow, some couples just do have
kind of a very kidding, dark,morose sense of humor, which is
fine.
But when you're Kristen Bell andlike you're like squeaky, clean
(10:32):
image, and you're you know,you're sponsored, you're on TV
shows and you're sponsored bybrands and all this kind of
stuff.
You do have to triple thinkabout what you're doing.
Like you're on a Netflix showright now.
So almost from like a PRstandpoint, I'm surprised she
did this because she always orshe seems to be someone that
does try to like keep her imagepretty nice.
Um, but I don't know, from acouple's point of view, this
(10:53):
doesn't really worry me thatmuch because I feel like I can
relate to kind of having like adark, very like whoa sense of
humor with your longtimepartner.
SPEAKER_00 (11:03):
So so let me ask you this if your boyfriend posted,
hey, it's my girlfriend'sbirthday, I really felt like
killing her, but I'm not.
I love her anyway.
SPEAKER_02 (11:12):
I mean, honestly, I feel like our friends and family
would be like, We get it, we getit, we totally agree with you.
But no, I I think I think forme, like in our situation, I was
telling Joe, we had just firststarted dating, and I was like
assessing the situation.
I'm like, is this man a serialkiller?
Can I trust him?
And I had said, like, I feellike you're not gonna kill me.
And you know, he thought thatwas so crazy that someone would
(11:32):
say that, but that just goes toshow that that was like a moment
because it was so weird forsomeone to say that.
But it's sad, but like, uh, andI don't know if you saw this,
but in the post datelinecommented and just said, like,
clocking this, or we see you, oryou know, they said they said
comment did something veryshort, but like kind of funny.
And I think it is sad that likea lot of women have to think
(11:54):
about is this someone that isgoing to like put my body in a
trunk, or you know, like allthis kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_00 (12:00):
I think, I think probably the outrage came
because it is domestic awarenessmonth.
Domestic awareness.
Yeah, I get it.
SPEAKER_02 (12:07):
But how many like it's to that point?
I didn't know that.
Like, I don't think to me, I'mnot looking up the months of
like what it is when I'm postingsomething.
You know what I mean?
I think she probably because Ifeel like Blake Lively and Ryan
Reynolds do this all the timewhere they say like very
sarcastic things about eachother, and like I think she
probably meant it to come offlike we've been together for so
long that we could say likeanything, even if it's a little
(12:29):
bit dark.
SPEAKER_00 (12:31):
That's true.
That's true.
The only thing is that if you'rean eye set, no one would really
care.
But when you're someone likeKristen Bell, um, if she sneezes
the wrong way, it hitsheadlines, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02 (12:42):
A hundred percent.
Yeah, which she normallydoesn't.
I feel like she has like of allthe people, she definitely has
like one of the top images inHollywood.
Like people think that she'svery like sweet and I mean that
she might be in relief, I don'tknow.
But like, you know, I think shehas like a very this is the only
thing I could think of that Iremember where she's gotten like
really badly canceled.
Whereas her husband, peopledon't really like like he's very
(13:04):
polarizing, and I think hispodcast gets a lot of heat on.
So yeah, I think I I saw it, I'mlike, oh my god, and then Jack
was like, Don't you have a quoteexactly like that?
SPEAKER_00 (13:18):
Yeah, that's true.
And again, do I think she'sserious about it?
Of course not, but I think Ithink it was probably just the
timing.
And I'll be honest with you, Idon't know.
There's so many things going oneach month of the year that I
can't keep up either.
SPEAKER_02 (13:32):
So exactly, exactly.
Like I always talk a lot aboutfood stuff, and I definitely
like make fun of myself orwhatever, and I feel like
someone could be like, but wait,it's national like food disorder
month or you know, bingerecovery month is like
September.
How dare you talk about stuff?
And I'm like, okay, like I'm notlooking up the calendar here.
Um it I do think the part thatis weird too is the whole like
(13:54):
him saying I'm incentivized tokill you.
That's a little weird.
SPEAKER_01 (13:59):
That was a little surprising.
SPEAKER_02 (14:01):
Yeah, I I think like I get what she's doing because I
feel like I get the dark,whatever sense of humor, but I
feel like it could have beenwritten in like a funnier, less
like uh direct sort of way.
SPEAKER_00 (14:15):
I agree, I agree.
So I would say to people, don'tcancel her, you know, just you
know, look at it what it was.
It was just a little cute thingbetween a couple, and I don't
think there's any more thanthat.
SPEAKER_02 (14:27):
So yeah, and there's certain senses of humor where
like with couples too, wherethey're like, my idiot, you
know, and so I think they'rethey just seem like they're one
of them.
SPEAKER_00 (14:37):
That is so true.
SPEAKER_02 (14:38):
Um well, the next one, someone that is very
violent, is is Danny the gorillaat the San Diego Zoo, where um
he recently cracked the glass onthe the barrier.
Um, 10-year-old Denny broke oneof three layers of protective
glass at the zoo's Lost ForestGorilla Habitat.
(14:59):
And people got it on camera, ofcourse.
And so, you know, he wasslamming the glass.
There was people there.
They weren't really taunting himat the um from what the video
looked like.
They weren't, you know, goingextra hard at like teasing him
or taunting him.
Um, but he didn't make he didn'tfully bust it through, but it
seems like if he was left to hisown devices, it seemed like very
(15:20):
quickly he could have gottenthrough it.
Um, and then you would have aloose male gorilla on the on the
loose.
Um, the zoo behavior expertswere saying it's common for male
gorillas, especially inadolescents, to express these
types of behaviors, just liketeenager boys, you know, like
bursts of energy, charging,dragging items, or running
sideways that are all naturalfor a young male.
(15:41):
Um, the zoo said that the breachpanel was composed of three
layers of tempered glass.
And so obviously, you know, awhole it brings up a whole thing
of just having them incaptivity.
Um is it like a sad life forthem?
Is it not?
You know, I have the the SanDiego Zoo is really beautiful,
and it's definitely like one ofthe only zoos I've been at where
(16:02):
I don't feel bad for the animalsbecause like their habitats that
seem very similar to the wild,and it's like a gorgeous,
gorgeous zoo.
Um, but I thought this wascrazy.
Like, what would you do ifyou're at the zoo and a male
gorilla just started likebusting through the glass?
SPEAKER_00 (16:17):
Yeah, but like, okay, it's time to walk now.
SPEAKER_02 (16:20):
Exactly.
I'm like, okay, we're gonna goget lunch.
SPEAKER_00 (16:24):
I don't know.
I mean, I I I get what they'resaying.
It's it's safe, it'smulti-glass.
I get all that, but I would notbe very comfortable seeing this
big, I don't know, 500,000-poundanimal coming at you with a
glass in front of you.
Like, yeah, I'm not gonna sitthere and find out if that glass
is gonna hold or not.
SPEAKER_02 (16:44):
I know.
And that is sad because it'slike in the wild, they may like
it is a teenager, it's growing,so he may he may be like hitting
a rock, or you know, in the wildthat might be totally fine.
Where if like he's mad aboutsomething or whatever, it's it's
totally fine for him to like hita tree or you know, do whatever.
So I don't know.
I I it is kind of sad, and Ifeel like a lot of animals just
(17:05):
reach their breaking point whereit must be crazy, like having
humans being on display everyminute, and like having people
tease you through the window andjust look at you.
I feel like even if they're nota human, that's gonna make any
animal like just feel very uhaggro after a while.
SPEAKER_00 (17:21):
I would love to see what the people were doing at
the time.
And the reason why I say is thateven though it does happen from
time to time, you kind ofwonder, well, why isn't it
happening all the time?
So, in other words, are issomeone like messing with them
on the other side that's teasingthem to make them react that
way?
SPEAKER_02 (17:40):
Yes, yes.
I feel like the gorillas do geta bad rap because remember, I
mean, not even a bad rap, butthey're set up for not success
because like people's childrenfall in, and you know, it's like
I just feel like you have thesecreatures and we're keeping them
in captivity, and then thesethings happen, and then
hopefully they said he he'll becared for behind the scenes.
I'm like, oh god, uh I don'tknow.
(18:00):
I don't know if they're gonnaget him on like an
antidepressant, or you know,like who knows what they're
gonna do.
They would never hurt him.
I'm sure they're like takingcare of him, but um yeah, I just
thought that was interesting.
SPEAKER_00 (18:13):
It it is, and and the sad part about it is you
know, apes and gorillas, youknow, they're very close to
humans, um, yeah, as far asgenes and everything else, and
you know, they may understandthat they're in captivity, which
means that it's like a humanwould be depressed in that type
of situation.
(18:34):
Who's to say that they can't bedepressed either, angry that
they're trapped?
SPEAKER_02 (18:39):
Yeah, I think the article also said that his his
brother, 10 um, 10-year-oldDenny's brother, died of like a
cardiac event, too.
So, like, you know, yeah, so youknow, all signs are pointing to
like that they might be stressedand just weird.
And I also wonder, like, say ifhe did break through the glass,
who's to say that he wouldn't?
I mean, I wouldn't be around tofind out, but like who's to say
(19:00):
that he wouldn't just run and belike, okay, I'm hugging you.
Maybe he's just trying to get tous to like give us a high five
or something.
SPEAKER_00 (19:06):
You know the scary part about what you said,
there's gonna be that one idiotthat's is gonna try and hug him
if he got through.
SPEAKER_02 (19:12):
I know, because I wonder what they would do.
Like, are they about to rip yourhead off or are they about to
like scoop you up like a baby?
Like, I I have no clue.
SPEAKER_00 (19:19):
I'm with you.
I'm not gonna stand there andfind out, but exactly.
SPEAKER_02 (19:22):
I'm not gonna find out, but yeah, like we'll just
we'll keep an eye on that.
SPEAKER_00 (19:27):
Yes, we will.
Yes, we will, and hopefully, um,like I said, when you go out to
see the animals in the zoo, Ijust hope that people understand
that don't tease them, don'tmake fun of them, don't
aggravate them like that.
SPEAKER_02 (19:39):
Yeah, I know.
I've like I I am not a mom, butI feel like if I was, that would
be one of the first things Iwould teach my kid is like
respect to animals and notbanging on the glass.
Uh it's always crazy when I'm atthe zoo and I see a mom or a dad
just like letting that happen.
And especially parents that it'sa whole other episode we could
talk about, but like parentsthat dangle their kids in front
of enclosures and everything.
SPEAKER_00 (20:02):
Yes, I totally, totally agree.
Now, this uh this next topicthis is why you should not be
running your mouth when you'redrunk, okay?
Um Tadlock was arrested for DUIand was dumb enough to say in
(20:25):
the back of a squarecart to thepolice officer that that um told
the officer that if he came toher hospital, uh she would let
him die.
SPEAKER_02 (20:37):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00 (20:38):
I wish I was making this up, but no, I didn't.
I'm not.
It says here that um Texas ICUnurse, that's kind of scary, she
works in an intensive care unit.
ICU nurse, Crystal Tadlock wasfired from her position at
Memorial Herman Greater HeightsHospital after she was arrested
for D DWI and told policeofficers, if you come through my
(21:03):
hospital, don't worry, I'll letyou die.
What the heck?
So upon the response from thehospital is upon learning of the
incident, Memorial Hermansuspended and then terminated
Tadlock.
The hospital released astatement saying they take such
matters very seriously, and thatthey said that the safety and
(21:26):
privacy of their patients istheir top priority.
There's a lot I can say on thishere.
What do you think?
SPEAKER_02 (21:33):
Yeah.
Um I mean, I we talk about likea PR nightmare.
They definitely had somecleaning up to do.
And I mean, in this day and age,do you think like do you think
she actually meant that?
Or do you think she was justlike kind of saying it in the
heat of the moment?
SPEAKER_00 (21:51):
I think she was drunk talking crazy.
Yeah.
Everything about it is in thatposition, even if she's saying
it in a jokey way, she canactually make that happen.
That's what's scary.
SPEAKER_02 (22:01):
Yeah, exactly.
That's what's very scary.
And I mean, I've heard so manyhorror stories too.
If you hear these like storiesof like slowly and nurses like
putting poison into 50 differentpeople at the hospital, or you
know, we've heard that a bunchof times of just poisoning
people left and right.
And I just think it's um, Ithink if anyone says stuff like
that, we have to take it amillion percent as like a real
(22:24):
threat, even if they are drunk.
SPEAKER_00 (22:26):
I totally agree with you.
And when you work in that typeof position, you know, even
drunk, you know, you it kind ofmakes you wonder do you really
feel this way sometimes whenyou're handling patients?
SPEAKER_02 (22:39):
Yeah, I know, and and just something even saying
that I think should be likedismissal because it's like you
don't want to find out if theyreally even joking, it's just
like nope yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00 (22:50):
And I'm I'm sitting there thinking of myself, and
actually it's amazing that shewas arrested for DWI because the
thing that that's amazing rightnow with in the era of Uber and
Lyft, there should be zeroreason to ever drive drugs, it
really shouldn't.
SPEAKER_02 (23:06):
Yeah, yep.
Do you have you ever had like ahealthcare practitioner that
like that you're kind of like, Idon't think I'm gonna go to you
anymore?
SPEAKER_00 (23:15):
Oh, I've definitely had some of those.
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (23:17):
Really?
unknown (23:18):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (23:19):
I mean, they didn't say anything as crazy as that,
but you know, you you ever havea person wait on you?
It it could be anything, couldbe at a restaurant, store,
whatever.
And the person that's waiting onyou makes it very clear they
really don't want to be at worktoday.
SPEAKER_02 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm like, why are you makingnoises?
You're like, you are you droveto work and you signed up for
this.
I had a dentist growing up thatlike he'd be like doing in my
mouth, and he'd be saying, like,God, I wish I became a golfer
instead, or like he wouldactively say things about how he
hated his job, and I would haveto just be like, and I would
always, I don't think he wouldpoison me, but I always just
(23:53):
felt like I don't feel safe withthis person, like, you know,
whatever, like up in my mouth.
SPEAKER_00 (24:00):
So he's saying all these things while he's you know
playing with drills andeverything in your mouth.
SPEAKER_02 (24:04):
Yeah, he would always like sigh and be like,
uh, like and he make the noises,and finally I would I told my
mom, like, come sit in on thisand just watch.
And she was like, He just has agruff personality, but I feel
like he would be someone that ifhe was drunk, it would start
coming out like how much hehates his patients, and like how
he can like use laughing gas onme and everything.
SPEAKER_00 (24:24):
Yeah, that would make a little make me a little
nervous as well, too.
SPEAKER_02 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:34):
And as he walks away, I hate my job.
SPEAKER_02 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah.
You don't want I'm getting offthe table, and I'm like, that's
it.
So you you wouldn't trust him tooperate on you?
No, no, I'd be like, I think I'mgonna reschedule the surgery for
a different day.
Even if we're like mid-incision,I'd be like, I think I'm good,
thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (24:52):
I don't blame you, but people to me, I think
alcohol is a true serum becausepeople always say, Well, it was
the alcohol talking.
No, it wasn't.
The alcohol gave you the courageto say what you normally
wouldn't say.
SPEAKER_02 (25:08):
Yes.
I just was talking about thiswith a friend too.
She was somewhere and she hadone of like the girls there got
really drunk, and then shestarted being really mean to
like a person that was workingwith them.
And I was like, I feel likethere's not enough alcohol in
the world that would make melike start to be mean to people.
Like, I would be sloppy, I'llcry, I'll like fight with my
(25:28):
boyfriend, you know.
But like, I I think if someone'streating people really poorly or
making threats like that, thatis like how they feel deep down
inside.
The alcohol is just bringing itout, you know.
SPEAKER_00 (25:38):
Yep, I totally agree.
SPEAKER_02 (25:41):
Wow.
Well, uh, I will not be going toher name.
Okay, well, well, another happyzoo slash whatever story.
This one's a good one.
Uh, a t-shirt worn by TaylorSwift sparks a$2 million
windfall for sea otters, aNorthern California aquarium,
the Monterey.
(26:01):
Also, I feel like today, and ifanyone agrees, I am being very
annoying about like the MontereyAquarium is really nice, but I'm
like, shut up.
I've already said like I've goneto the Louvre, I've gone to the
San Diego Zoo.
Everyone's like, we get it, butlike I don't know why, but today
it just happens to be placesI've been.
But anyway, I understand thatI'm annoying.
Um, a Northern Californiaaquarium has raised more than$2
million for sea otterconservation in just two days.
(26:23):
All it took was Taylor Swiftwearing a vintage t-shirt.
Now it's so cute.
So she wore a t-shirt showingtwo otters floating on their
back in one of her likerehearsal videos.
Um, it was a release party thata movie for her new album, The
Life of a Showgirl.
And it showed her being verycute behind the scenes, just
like in that t-shirt.
So of course, people were like,if Taylor Swift wears it, I want
(26:46):
to buy it.
And so the aquarium had it hadgone out of print, and they were
like, hold on, give us a minute.
We're gonna put some new ones inprint.
And the Swiftie raised, yeah,like two million dollars.
It's still growing.
Um, people were trying, ofcourse, to like outpace the
aquarium and make them reallylike a bootleg version really
quickly, but luckily theSwifties were like, no, we want
(27:09):
to wait until we get the realthing.
So I think that's super cool.
Like, if you like Taylor or not,you should just be happy that
this aquarium is raising moneyfor sea otter conservation.
And man, that just shows likethe power of the Swifties to
raise two million dollars.
SPEAKER_00 (27:24):
Yes, it is.
I mean, the Swifties are a very,very, very loyal, let me tell
you.
So for Taylor Swift to dosomething like this, I I tip my
head off tour.
It's a great thing.
SPEAKER_02 (27:35):
Exactly.
On TikTok, I saw some peoplebeing like, man, you you don't
have to like uh you don't haveto love Taylor Swift, but you do
have to know that the Swiftieshave money, like you know, they
always buy the tickets andalmost in a good way saying that
like Taylor's fans seem to behardworking and like they have
jobs for sure.
Because a few other artists theywere like they could put an
eight dollar album out on saleand like no one's buying it
(27:58):
because everyone's broke.
So I thought this was very cute.
SPEAKER_00 (28:03):
Sad but true.
SPEAKER_02 (28:05):
Yeah, so um, yeah, I thought that's a very good
story.
SPEAKER_00 (28:11):
That's a great story to end on.
So, Meryl, what do you havecoming up?
SPEAKER_02 (28:16):
Um, coming up, I am promoting hard.
And if anyone wants to come, SanDiego.
This is not the gorilla at theSan Diego Zoo, but it will be
the same energy where um it'sOctober 29th at the La Jolla
Comedy Store, and it's a showcalled Pretty Funny Witches.
So it's like normally it'scalled Pretty Funny Women, it's
a monthly show with women, butthis one is gonna be Halloween
(28:37):
themed.
SPEAKER_00 (28:38):
Oh, that's gonna be great.
SPEAKER_02 (28:39):
It'll be really fun.
So, yeah, October 29th.
SPEAKER_00 (28:42):
So you're gonna uh visit Dinny the the gorilla?
SPEAKER_02 (28:45):
I'm gonna invite him on stage, and if I if a joke
doesn't land, he's just gonnacome and beat me up.
Not to be Kristen Bell about it,but yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (28:56):
Cool, cool.
Sounds like a great show.
SPEAKER_02 (28:58):
Thank you.
And you're always so supportive.
Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00 (29:02):
Oh, no problem.
Thank you so much.
I know one of these days I gottaget out there and check out your
show.
SPEAKER_02 (29:06):
Yeah, yes, please.
SPEAKER_00 (29:08):
Well, for everyone out there, if you're in the
area, definitely make sure yougo support Meryl, okay?
And also thank you for watchingand listening to us.
We appreciate your support.
Please let everybody know who weare and where to find us.
I'm Lawrence Elrod.
SPEAKER_02 (29:23):
And I'm Merrill Climo.
SPEAKER_00 (29:25):
Take care, everyone.
Bye bye.
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