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Super Bowl Ads, Taylor Swift's Public Scrutiny, and Style Shifts: Navigating Fame, Fashion, and Ethical Quandaries 2/12/25
The Superbowl served as a backdrop for a lively discussion on the best and worst commercials of the night, exploring everything from ad creativity to celebrity appearances. The episode also touches on the Eagles' performance, Taylor Swift's unusual reaction, and celebrates Black History Month, emphasizing the cultural significance of these events.
• Breakdown of favorite Superbowl commercials
• Discussion of the Eagles' game performance
• Analysis of celebrity culture during the Superbowl
• Reflection on Taylor Swift's booing experience
• Honoring Black History Month and its relevance in America
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Thirsty Topics. I'm Lauren Selrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1:How's it going, Meryl?
Speaker 2:It's so good, it's peaceful, which is like scary nowadays.
Speaker 1:That is so, so true. It's been a crazy week, huh Right.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Well, we got a lot to talk about and I'm going to let you start off, okay.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Everyone is talking about.
Speaker 2:Exactly, everyone's talking about the Superbowl. I thought you know there's so many different angles that we can take it. But the first thing I wanted to know with you is the commercials, which you know is usually one of the water cooler things that we all talk about the next day. None of us really have offices anymore, but, like if we did have an office, we'd be talking about the commercials and I wanted to know which ones were your favorite. If some didn't hit for you at all, I wanted to get your take first.
Speaker 1:You know, believe it or not, I'm kind of torn. All of them were pretty good, some were better than others, but the two that stand out to me was the Little Caesars commercial. Mm-hmm. With the flying eyebrows, yes, yes, and I say that's tied. Commercial with the flying eyebrows, yes, yes. And I say that's tied probably with the Pringles with the mustache. You know that was hilarious.
Speaker 2:Well, it was so funny because the two were on pretty close to each other and I was like they have to know which ads are running, so they have to know that there's like two hairballs like floating around in two different videos. I thought the Eugene Levy one was so funny. There was one where, um, when it went to like the caterpillars or whatever, and they were like we're not worthy, that's so funny actually it looked like real weird looking caterpillars too it did.
Speaker 2:I thought this year did a really good job of like ai and celebrities and like just funny writing. I I was like you know, usually they're kind of cheesy or they try too hard, but I'm like, whoever wrote some of these commercials whatever advertising agency like I thought had a really funny sense of humor I think the reason why most of them hit pretty well is, with the exception of maybe a couple of ads.
Speaker 1:They stopped giving the ads early because they used to like tell you a little bit about the ad or show you a little piece of it and for me it takes away from. You know the ad and what you want to get out of it.
Speaker 2:You know yeah, yeah, yeah, and I felt like, instead of trying to be the one that everyone talked about, I feel like they just tried to make it funny and make it entertaining. I had wrote down Little Caesars. That was definitely my favorite. I love the Budweiser one with the baby Clydesdale horse. Of course, those always make me cry. I wrote down Mountain Dew oh, that was the Seal one, which I thought was so ridiculous. Good for them. It's like you have this huge budget and you're going to make CLOS. I just loved how some of them were irreverent. I think that's what the theme of it this year was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think probably the craziest thing for me was just thinking about spending $8 million for a 30-second ad no-transcript day out.
Speaker 2:I thought that was like a really cool commercial and all those women are so amazing um and then I think that was like that was pretty much it for that. But I was happy that Budweiser went back to the baby Clydesdales Cause, like the Clydesdales in general Cause. I think that's so cute.
Speaker 1:Oh, definitely, definitely. I mean, I think, overall for me I would say they were noticeably better than last year.
Speaker 2:I know I don't remember. The only one I remember from last year is nerds the candy with Addison Rae, just because I love her. People were like screaming. I felt like I had won the Super Bowl when Addison came on.
Speaker 1:I was like ah, now you know, there was one commercial that was kind of like borderline funny but creepy at the same time. This is where they're sitting in the diner and she's sitting there having orgasms while eating.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I think I read that Sally and Sidney sweetie, and they didn't even show Sidney long enough. I thought that one was kind of lost a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because the thing is that if you hadn't watched the movie, it won't hit as much. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I feel like that's an iconic scene. But then to cut from Sweeney away too much and she's just wearing. Not that I'm trying to be gross, but I want to see her in something different than an oversized sweater. Not that I'm being disgusting, but were there any? That just didn't translate at all to you.
Speaker 1:I mean, they translated all of them, Some of them. Honestly, I looked at it like, wow, you spent eight million bucks for this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Now, if I tried to close my eyes, I can't remember what the one with Catherine O'Hara is, where she's playing tennis Like oh yeah, it didn't really do a good job of product placement because I think that commercial seemed like way longer to me and I couldn't really understand what the actual point of it was, like what the product was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it took me a few seconds to figure out that they were playing pickleball, because I've never played. Oh, I don't know that either, and the other thing, too, is I'm like you. When it first started, I really had no idea where it was going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like. I like these people but yeah, I mean, you kind of want to at least have some kind of hook or something, because it's like, okay, but where is this going, you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then I felt like Pete Davidson, like cameo. In eight of them I feel like every single one had Eugene Levy and Pete Davidson in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would say, like I said, between the two, between the Pringles and Little Caesars, it's hard to say. Both of them was good, but I guess I'm probably leaning more towards Little Caesars. What about you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, little Caesars, first Little Caesars. In the moment of them showing Seal as a seal, like the moment when that happened, I was like this is so weird. But good for them for listening to whatever advertising executive just said. Just go with it. Because, yeah, I think they took note which is what the public wanted, which is just simplicity, celebrity factors, a little bit of AI, and not to make it so political or have such a stance. I feel like we're all so fatigued by politics and everything in general that I'm like let's just make it fun and enjoyable for everyone.
Speaker 1:Definitely. Besides the commercials. I don't know how much of a football fan you are, but for me, as far as the game itself, oh my God, the Eagles went out there and kicked something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did. I'm like, wow, now did you have any like predictions, or were you betting anything on this game?
Speaker 1:You know what I told my brother because we were looking at it and I told him before it started. I said you know what? I'm rooting for the Eagles because I like rooting for the underdogs. So obviously, even if Kansas City won, it would have been great. They would have had a three-peat and everything. But, oh my God, the Eagles just didn't let up. I mean from start to finish. And Patrick Mahomes, I would say probably around halftime he still kept his composure, but you could tell it was getting to him Because everybody was just stunned at the way that the Eagles were playing.
Speaker 2:I know, okay, so do you think? Because of course my conspiracy TikTok. A lot of people say that it's rigged. It's so funny because I don't watch any football. But then after the Super Bowl, I watched these play-by-plays of slow motion of players from the Chiefs just obviously not catching a ball when you know they could. I don't even know how someone would do that, how to throw a whole football game on purpose.
Speaker 1:I don't think this was rigged. I mean, I think they were playing their heart out. Because Patrick Mahomes, he was really shocked. You could kind of see it on his face. He was almost like what the F is going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the coaches too. I feel like the coaches aren't that good actors where they would be getting that upset knowing what the outcome is, Because that one, the assistant, was screaming so much His face he was getting so red.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and I'm quite sure they're pulled to the side and like hey, don't forget, there's cameras everywhere. Calm down, relax yeah.
Speaker 2:My best friend from back home, my longtime best friend, was there. She was there with her husband oh wow. Nice, they bet on it or they um not bet on it, but what's it called? When you like win a or like a raffle?
Speaker 2:you know, they won a raffle for work and she was like, oh, we're in the nosebleed section and she was sitting exactly like, uh, like Trump was like right here. So she. So if you look there and it's like if Trump was there, someone was to push him over. He would have landed directly on top of her. But they're huge Eagles fans and so it was cool to see, to hear the account from someone that was there for a winning team and you know that's so cool.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean, wow. I mean I was just stunned at how they played and they said that that was the most that Patrick Mahomes was ever sacked in the game, Really In his NFL career. Wow.
Speaker 2:They just felt like in the flow from the beginning and there was one point that I was like please let the Chiefs at least score something, or else this is going to be really bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I don't. I don't think they took it for granted, but I think sometimes you could be overconfident too. You know what I mean, yeah yeah, totally.
Speaker 2:Or you just think that you're like the big dog For these games. Do they always have the version of, like Jon Hamm and Bradley Cooper, like the actors, do they?
Speaker 1:always have. You know how they kind of like set it off in the beginning and they announced it For the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:They do a lot of different things, so you know, it could be different actors, it could be singers, it could be anyone, because like I said they like to change it up every every year okay, but they usually have like one person announce the team okay, because I thought that was really cute. I thought both of those actors, that was like fun to see those guys oh, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:And then also too, um, I thought that, um, you know, the singing of the black national anthem yeah, this is, uh, february, which is black history month um was a great thing. So, um, I really like that, I like the all the performances. I mean it was a great game. You know the commercial is. I would say everything was put together very well.
Speaker 2:Yes, I want to start a petition to keep the Super Bowl in New Orleans every year because it just makes sense. It feels like why wouldn't the Super Bowl be in New Orleans? And it just seems like performers from there, like the whole I don't know the whole thing, just seems like they should just move it there permanently.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And then hey, they could just oh yeah and then.
Speaker 1:Hey, you can just go to the French.
Speaker 2:Quarter party afterwards, right. Exactly, it should be like just a Mardi Gras, you know, a pre-party for Mardi Gras.
Speaker 1:That is so true. That is so so true. But yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought that was really cool. Did you have a party or like, did you Go just watch it at home?
Speaker 1:You know what? I was supposed to go to my brother's house, but you know Tracy wasn't feeling good, so we just stayed home and made sure she was okay, so I watched it from home. That's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so did we. I was going to act like we didn't go anywhere, but really we just didn't get invited to any parties. I turned down exactly the zero parties that we got invitations to, so it's okay zero parties that we got invitations to, so it's okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, actually I called my brother right after the game to talk to him and kind of give him some smack about it, and the phone went to voice and I'm like you know, this dude is asleep already.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I did. I think we turned it off in like the third quarter and then watched the very, very end of it, but it was like okay we know what's going to happen and watched the very, very end of it.
Speaker 1:But it was like, okay, we know what's going to happen. Well, you know what? I do give them credit for putting some points on the board, so at least they weren't blown out.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, because that would have been like really disastrous.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, oh yeah. And actually this kind of leans into my next one, which was shocking to see how Taylor Swift of all people booed.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was stunned to see that Me too.
Speaker 2:Me too, like I didn't think, you know. I thought of course she'll get some boos, but for the most part people will clap just to show her. I thought they did a very good job of not overexposing her. I wonder if that was like a Taylor slash, an NFL slash, a whatever thing. I think there's probably some agreement to be like. We as a whole don't want to see Taylor 70 times throughout the game and she probably didn't want to be shown that much too. But when they did show her, I felt so bad. I did feel bad and her face. I think she did the best job that you could where she made it look funny. But that has to be a crazy feeling to be like booed by everyone I was stunned.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, I mean you're gonna have some booze because you're gonna have some people that are moving for the team, whatever. Okay, I get all that, but I was really shocked I know.
Speaker 2:And then it's like what did she do wrong except for, like I get it, she's a little bit cringy sometimes. Her friends are like, but I mean, like this is someone that donates millions of dollars to every single thing. Um, you know, like I love how she always brings kids on stage, like for the most part she does yes, she does waste a lot of energy on her planes and stuff like that, but but like I feel like her is a net human in the world. She produces more, more good than she does bad and she's like not very mean or whatever. But I don't know.
Speaker 2:Someone had a good point where they're like Travis comes to all of her shows and is met with nothing but like cheering and everyone goes wild for him and so that sucks, that she comes to it and then is shown once and booed pretty heavily and like she wasn't doing anything bad. I actually thought for how much Last week I kind of ragged on her Because I said that her dancing by herself all the time Is like trying to make it about her. I thought she was completely fine in the Super Bowl. She was just standing there normally and not making anything about her.
Speaker 1:That was the weird part, she was literally just watching a game, like everyone else?
Speaker 2:Yeah, she wasn't. I could see if she was being obnoxious, but she couldn't have been more low-key and normal.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it was just weird to me because I was like wow, I know, I know, and it wasn't like one of those low boo, that was like boo real loud, I know the whole crowd.
Speaker 2:It was very weird because I feel like we were in a weird portal, because Trump got a huge round of applause, then Taylor Swift got a huge round of applause and then cut. Tillers have got a boo.
Speaker 1:I'm like what timeline are we on right now? But actually he really did get that applause. Yeah, he did, he did, he got, he got he. You don't think so. Actually, if you, if you see videos from other countries, he didn't get the really yeah they made it they just oh they made it look like he got the applause.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, of course he probably comes with his own track or whatever to play it. Now, also, like, what do you think the car ride home if Taylor and Trav I mean I know he traveled with the team, but, like the other thing that we were talking about, my boyfriend and I was I was saying I wouldn't want to be the a wag wife or girlfriend of an athlete because, like, knowing what to deal, how to be with an athlete when they lose is such a like a scary thing to me because I wouldn't know whether or not to like give someone too much attention or not enough, or like and at some point too, as a woman, I would just be kind of be like, okay, it is a football game, but like, get it together. You know, I think it's, it's tough, I bet that's very awkward, but if anyone knows how to deal with that, I feel like she would, because she's also a top performer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, the other thing too was earlier before the game, there was a reporter that asked him because there was rumors that he was going to propose to her at halftime. So he never really answered the question when they asked him. So you know, it kind of makes you wonder, you know, did that spoil it to me personally? I think I and again we don't know, because again everything is just rumors but if I was planning on proposing it, wouldn't matter if I won or lost, I would still propose period I wouldn't be like well I'm gonna wait because you know we lost the game and you know because when you marry it's for better or worse.
Speaker 2:Totally, I know, I know, but I could see that being awkward, because then almost people would be like, oh, now they're making it about them. She was wearing white, though, which was weird because she was wearing like. People thought that maybe she thought, but I'm like I don't know. I don't know, I don't know about that, but it did seem like he was in a pretty bad mood. What do you think about too? I know he gets a lot of flack for people saying that he like aggressively pushes the coaches, do you? Notice that.
Speaker 1:The thing that I don't like. I don't care who you are, whether you're playing for fun as you know a high school athlete whether you're in the fun as you know high school athlete whether you're in the pros, there is zero reason to ever put your hands on the coach.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I agree. And I am really shocked that the coach put up with that nonsense, Cause there's a lot of coaches would be. Like you know, I don't give a fuck who you are Sit down.
Speaker 2:Right, don't touch me.
Speaker 1:You know I mean.
Speaker 2:There's nothing worth putting your hands on another person and you know I mean there's nothing worth putting your hands on another person and you know there's some coaches that hit you back. Yeah, and it's so weird because it seems like to me like the Kelsey brothers seem like, especially with their mom, like they kind of have that like gentle giant, you know, like the good sportsman attitude. So it's like very weird to see this side of Travis because I mean, I don't know anything.
Speaker 1:Is that something that Jason would do, too, when he was playing with the Eagles? I've never seen him do that.
Speaker 1:Okay, I mean either he kind of reminded me, like you say, of the gentle giant. Very nice, funny, like to have fun, enjoy life, whatever. I remember I think it was last year Either it was last year or the year before, maybe last year when he was up in the booth watching his brother play and he took his shirt off, having a good time, whatever, and just having a great, great time, and that's really what it's supposed to be about. Having a great time yeah, it should never get that serious when you're putting your hands on someone. No Period.
Speaker 2:This seems like a weird week or a weird month for Taylor and Travis, because it's like she didn't get any Grammys, you know, like he lost. She's had some weird things with Blake Lively. It seems like right now they're kind of on the outs.
Speaker 2:A lot of people said that they think that she's going to get the ick from this game and like, be not into Travis anymore. But imagine too if she's booed. I mean, I know she's used to it at this point and she's so rich and successful, but it must be such a head trip for her to go sell out these amputators on her own and then go to a football game and get booed by thousands of people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. She initially showed her shock but then she kind of toned it down, probably remembering okay, let me cool out because people are watching the camera's on me but she was really shocked herself.
Speaker 2:I know and if I was her too, I'd try to remind myself that a lot of it is also just pumped up Eagles fans. It's like the girlfriend of one of the best players on the other team. So, if anything, you're just kind of like a casualty of that and it's not so personal, which it kind of is casualty of that and it's not so personal, which it kind of is, but you know yeah, I mean, you know, like I said, she handled like a pro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she didn't go f you to the fans you know, which would have been, you know, kind of detrimental to her career, but she didn't do that see, that's why I would have taken out like my wad of a billion dollars.
Speaker 2:I've been like I can't hear you over me fanning myself, but but that's what she probably knows too. That's what you get when you're overexposed and like maybe in the next month it will be her dialing it back a little bit and not being like up in everyone's face in every single. You know politics like music, just she's just everywhere.
Speaker 1:So I think now, yeah, that's true, that is true true.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's see my next thing. Okay, this is another thing I don't want to see that needs to go away is the skinny jean, so something we thought we escaped many, many years ago. But now which is so funny because, you know, we're seeing fashion come around for sure, and we thought skinny jeans were, like, it seems, so recent, like we just got rid of them. It's not time for them to come back. But right now, on the runway, skinny jeans are cropping up and, according to a lot of Google search trends and retail analysts, they expect they could be back by the end of this year. People are showing these photos of, like just the millennial and Y2K fashion. It's on its way, but like this one influencer, alex Earl I don't know if you know who that is, but she wore a pair on tiktok and now all the girls are back being interested in it but like to me also, alex earl is like a size you know, zero, zero, zero.
Speaker 2:Skinny jeans look a lot different when you're like very skinny. So so that's just. My thought is that I think we need to stop this before it starts, and this is where we need to exercise our own will as people. I mean, I guess, whatever jeans people want to wear all day long. There's some people that just prefer skinny jeans. But what do you think? Are you going to wear a pair anytime soon?
Speaker 1:Well, I hate to say this. I have a pair that I bought by accident, what it wasn't purposely, and the problem is that I didn't realize until well after 30 days that they were skinny jeans, because I was going to wear them out one time. I'm like what the hell? And then Trace looked at the tag. He's like these are skinny jeans. I'm like are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 2:I'm like yeah, no, did they fit still Like, did they totally they fit.
Speaker 1:but you know, they just looked a little ridiculous. You know, skinny jeans after 40, you know may not be good, yeah, but I'm like, you know what I done paid my money, so I'm going to wear these someplace.
Speaker 2:I don't know where, but I'm going to wear them someplace. Well, now's the time you could be ahead of the trend that's coming back again. I mean, like it's hard too, because I can't. I still have not found a jean like cut that even works for me, because what doesn't work is like the high waist, like the mom jeans look weird, skinny jeans look weird. I feel like for men, like the normal boot, cut seems to just be what, like most men end up wearing. But I feel like jeans in general are kind of hard because it's like it's.
Speaker 1:it's hard when you're not like very, very skinny to find an actual pair that looks good the one thing that's surprising to me is I can get the same, exact same, exact same size jeans in four different brands and they will all fit differently.
Speaker 2:Totally.
Speaker 1:I don't understand.
Speaker 2:Me neither. No, yeah, there will be some. Old Navy is where I go if I want to feel like skinny, because I'm like, oh my God, I'm like a size eight is swimming on me, and then I'll go to a different place. I'm like a size 12. I can't even get my leg in.
Speaker 1:Old Navy is where we want to go to be like oh my God, I'm wasting away. Yeah, I mean it's kind of weird with that, because I literally have to try out every pair of jeans unless it's a certain brand that I always wear, yeah. But if I try a different brand, I have to try them on, because some of them fit loose, some fit tight, some fit weird in certain areas and it's like I thought there was one standard size chart that everyone uses.
Speaker 2:We need to make one. And also I feel like the skinny jeans look good. You have to kind of get the whole outfit down with the leather jacket and the boots. There's a whole kind of skinny jean early 2000s boy band look that people are going for. So it's like if you commit, you have to really commit.
Speaker 2:Now you know what looks nice on the men for skinny jeans to me like, especially in this kind of weather right here where we have cold weather, where I'm at, you know, like a nice sweater with some boots skinny jeans actually looks nice, you know I know, I know and I agree, but but when, sometimes, when men wear jeans, that where their calves so tight, like good for them they have well-defined calf muscles, but it's just like, oh, when I'm walking down the street and I see like it almost looks like man leggings, I just like no, thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's almost like the guys who purposely wear the smallest shirts because they want to look big. You know, yeah, like they're popping up, yep.
Speaker 2:It's like, yeah dude, yeah dude, yeah, you got muscles. But that's not a good look, I know. So we'll see, we'll keep an eye on it. But uh, it's so funny how, like one influencer could wear something and then they see a whole spike in retail sales. That's so weird, that's, that's a crazy influence oh, that is so so true.
Speaker 1:So so true. Talk about interesting conversation. Um, there was a situation. It's a rapper, a plus size rapper, her name is dank demas and she's suing lyft and the driver for refusing to let her get into his car because he felt that she was too large. Now here's the thing, and I guess the way I look at it personally, you're a Lyft driver. Okay, yeah, unless she physically can't get in the car, that's different, right, but being that she's a bigger person, I don't think he should have refused to let her get in a vehicle. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 2:There's so many like Uber XL jokes coming at me right now, but but I mean, okay, well, I guess, like, could she if she could? Same thing is like she absolutely should be able to ride in the car if she could physically fit in there, and I mean there could be some safety thing. I guess if she can't wear the seatbelt, like if a seatbelt is unable to work for her, I could see a driver turning her down because in case of insurance, like you know, he may not want to drive with someone that is unable to get their seatbelt on. If drive with someone that is unable to get their seatbelt on, if there's like a valid reason, that is fine. But like other than just, obviously, hopefully, if it's not just her looks or that he's like turning her down, that would be super wrong. I also wonder how that case is going to work, because I feel like suing him and the company itself. I feel like it will just end up settling, like Lyft will end up settling, probably.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I believe so too, and you know it comes down to because some people are kind of torn saying, and well, he has a right to refuse anyone in his vehicle. But the one thing that I think people are overlooking is he's doing it as a business, not as personal. It's a difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I have to wonder if there was a reason where she just couldn't physically fit, but then it's also. Couldn't she sit up in the front in the passenger seat with him, Like I don't know?
Speaker 1:Well, what was weird about it is that he wouldn't even allow her to try, because she was basically saying I can fit in your car, I don't have a problem getting in, and he still wouldn't let her in. He was like but it's like again, if she can physically get in the vehicle, I don't know, I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's really sad. I mean that's definitely like that level of I don't even know what this person, how much it is of. I mean, I don't even know what this person and how much it is, but like the level of obesity where you just like can't fit on a ride at Disneyland or like on a plane or like that's very sad for everyone involved because it's like no one wants to live life that way and that's probably like really humiliating. But on the other flip side, it also does like become a burden to be safe in the car. But it doesn't sound like that's if he didn't even let her try. That's a little bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Because even when you get into someone's back seat, not everyone puts a seatbelt on. So you can't even use that as an excuse because everybody does. No, definitely not. And if you think about it, sometimes when they pick up people, whether it's Lyft or whether it's Uber, sometimes you're picking up three or four people. Yeah, if you take a look at the average weight of an average person these days, you know average person weighs. You know between 150, 200 pounds on average.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:So you multiply that times four, that's almost a thousand pounds.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:And she's not a thousand pounds.
Speaker 2:Right, I'm just picturing like if he's driving like a honda fit, I'm just picturing the car just like sagging in the whole back. But I mean she has a right to retaliate, I think, if she or like seek damage. I think hopefully it's not going to go into this whole big like. It costs me mental anguish because I'm like I'm sorry, but I'm sure it costs you a little bit of embarrassment, but like I don't think this is also the case Like you should miss a month of work due to this or anything like that. But I'm sure she may for the sake of like getting money.
Speaker 1:I think it's getting traction because she is a big rapper out of, I think, detroit, out of the Bay of Fires city, so she is a big rapper from where she's at, that by the city, so she is a big rapper from where she's at. That's cool, that's cool. I mean that's, that's cool, that was, that was the wrong word. She is a very well-known because I can see it right now people's like lauren's.
Speaker 2:That's not funny no, it's funny to me. I was gonna say her stage name should be like skinny jeans, but no, this is bad look. I'm in full support of obviously not humiliating people and letting them be how they are. Slash and sometimes, when you are very, very large, like, unfortunately you may not be. This doesn't sound like a place where she couldn't fit, but there are consequences, unfortunately. You know like I wish we could live in a society where everyone could be 900 pounds waddling around, but it's just, you know like. So, yeah, I mean it'll be interesting. I bet she'll get at least a good settlement and some good music out of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'll be kind of interesting to see how this ends. I kind of hope that they do kind of you know, let everyone know what everyone knows will happen.
Speaker 2:It's not settled in quietly in the background because you know it is kind of interesting to see, because, you know, do they have that right to say no, you're too big to get in my car? I know I mean to me they they would have a right to to say no to anyone, because if it's like someone that they feel might be a threat to them, or if it's like a woman driver and they are seeing someone that is like, uh, I don't know if I, I don't know that's that's an interesting thing is like, are you able to kind of profile the person and decide on your own? This is not right for me. I don't know. That's pretty cruel, though that's mean, but I'm also. Now I'm going to check her out Cause hopefully we'll get some good like rap songs from this. She sounds cool.
Speaker 1:She, she sounds, cool she sounds cool to me.
Speaker 2:I'll have to look, but it's very interesting. Oh, yes, one time we this is just a very, very two second story. But my boyfriend is very tall and large and they not not, you know, obese large, but just like a tall bigger guy.
Speaker 2:And the Harry Potter ride at Universal Studios. They said he was like too tall and too big to get into, but then they really want to ride it, so they my friend stuffed him in, basically like they put the harness on, and it took like two minutes and my boyfriend had to ride the ride, being like like completely stuffed in like a sausage to this one ride hey, he made it work, though, right exactly.
Speaker 2:So that's inspiration for the uber driver, that maybe find someone else to like, stuff the passengers in and you can make it work, okay, well, uh, I think. I think talking about soda is a good transition here, because there's a brand called poppy which you know. There's one called ollie pop and poppy, which are two very kind of quote-unquote healthy sodas. Now we don't know how actually soda, how healthy they are, because, um, this brand has faced some controversy over, you know, not being as probiotic or healthy for the gut as they claim to be. And now they found themselves in even more hot water recently where, as part of a marketing strategy for the super bowl, they launched a campaign where they sent vending, custom vending machines like, so poppy vending machines, um, full of their beverages, and they sent them to influencers. Now, each of these machines were valued at 25 000 each and they were sending them to these influencers that, like, already get all this free product and, you know, the last thing these people need is, like, a whole vending machine full of free soda. So, of course, like, the internet sparked just a lot of anger about this and just said, hey, like there's a million people that could use this besides the influencers. Poppy's adversary, olipop, of course, jumped on it and they were like we would never do something like this.
Speaker 2:So I thought one person had a really good idea where, basically, they said what they should have done. A really smart idea was they should have picked influencers. But then ask the influencer to say, where would you like our vending machine to go in the community? And, like you know, I could have chosen an elementary school. Or like someone else could have said, oh, our fire rescue house. And then that way they could have still gotten to share, to have the influencer share on their socials. But the vending machine is going to, like you know, a nurse's office or like somewhere that's actually doing good. Um, so they, they really flubbed it up. But I mean, we're seeing now more and more brands. It's like the customers are just seeing through this and people want their brands to be doing good or at least pretending like they're doing good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that what you're saying is 100 percent correct. But I think the real reason they sent those to them is obviously to promote their product. But by sending them a vending machine, you know they can make money off that vending machine. Yeah, yeah I mean so can make money off that vending machine. Yeah, you know what I mean. So it's really like payment plus a bonus. But then again, you know, you don't really necessarily have to go through an influencer to do something good in the community too.
Speaker 2:Right, no-transcript. Giving the everyday person a little uh like, treating them like the influencers.
Speaker 1:That's true and you know. The thing is too is that you know brands know how important those influences are. You know, especially when they're sitting at 100,000, 200, even a million followers, you know that's pretty valuable to a lot of a lot of brands out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I feel like they're definitely still like. Social campaigns are really important. I think that's definitely how I see, like like a brand like Poppy or Olipop, the way that I would get influence is just watching people like pack their lunch and then they're bringing a Poppy. But I think when you're doing something so big like gifting these huge $25,000 machines, at least pretend like you're doing something for society.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I'm actually shocked they sent them. They're sending people entire machines though.
Speaker 2:And people are videoing it, being like my god, I'm, I'm getting these machines. Like you know, they're videoing these machines rolling up and it's like oh you, you just got back from a tart makeup trip in cabo, you know yeah, that's probably not a good look for them either yeah, so that's interesting, but we'll keep an eye, I think. For me, I'll still drink poppies because I like them, even though they're unhealthy, but it's okay.
Speaker 1:There you go, talk about food, since we're on food here. I never thought we'd be talking about this again, you know, after the pandemic, but people are stealing eggs now.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 1:There was a big heist, I want to say about a week or so ago, where and I'm not exaggerating it was a hundred thousand Dozen of eggs were stolen.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:They stole like one or two trailers of eggs.
Speaker 2:Whoa was it in like one state or just all together? In one state, in one state and then also there are situations Now in the stores where people, or just all together In one state, in one state, whoa.
Speaker 1:And then also there are situations now in the stores where people are opening up the cartons of eggs and stealing out, like you know, one, two, three eggs out of a carton that's so gross, Like that's really gross to me. I don't know. I guess the whole thing is weird for a couple reasons. For number one other than a store yeah, I'm not going to be going to buy eggs from somebody on the corner.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Or selling off the back of a truck. I'm not doing any of that. And also, too, it's amazing how many people don't check their eggs, because I always open the carton up to make sure none are broken. So if any are missing, I would know right then and there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I actually I move the cartons around and I take like one that's been in the back corner, because I also I'm very paranoid and I have this fear that someone's like taking a needle and like injecting my eggs with something bad, or like I'm very paranoid. But like, what about? Also? I know for us in California here we have a ton of farmer's markets. And know for us in california, here we have a ton of farmers markets and like those are directly like you can go and buy like the farm fresh eggs. I would have to, I mean, and they're still pretty expensive, they're kind of the same price. But like there is a way to like go look to local farms and like they there there are eggs around, you know. You just have to know that they're a little bit more.
Speaker 1:But oh, absolutely. I mean the weird, the weird thing about this situation especially. They were saying, like when people are taking them out the cartons in the store, they're putting it in their pockets or purses or whatever still in them. It's like okay, so what if you bump into something? Yeah I don't know yeah it's. It's kind of a weird story, you know, I know that's not right.
Speaker 2:I mean, I feel bad, for if people obviously can't afford to feed their family or like clearly we are all feeling it, it's absolutely insane to go to the grocery store and like get the fixings for an omelette and then it's like $60. You know, it's totally insane, it really is. So I feel for people in that way. If you have kids and a family but it's like, come on, you can't just, you have to think of everyone else where if now you take two eggs out of a carton, the the whole store also will probably have to throw away that carton too. They're not going to sell it to someone else or you know, like they're now, they might have to throw away those eggs, which is just a complete waste of like a lot of things.
Speaker 1:So oh yeah. And if it happens too much, guess what's gonna happen? They're gonna jack up the price a little bit to cover those yeah, yeah, yeah, that's just not.
Speaker 2:And I mean maybe also maybe they should start selling those like little, the littler cartons of like six or even four or something, just to be like, okay, if people can't afford eleven dollars on eggs right now, maybe they can't afford like four for the week or something.
Speaker 1:So no, actually that's not a bad idea. I'm actually surprised that some stores don't do that.
Speaker 2:That's actually a really good idea or for real, like maybe you could start selling them individually, like if we had some type of like big, big, big carton and you're like, okay, I'll take, like you know almost how, like you could buy this stuff in bulk. Or you could buy like three chocolate pretzels or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then they showed. I saw on TV they were in. I don't know if it was Costco's or Sam's, but you could tell it was one of the big stores that you need the membership to. And this guy, I kid you not had a whole carton full of eggs. I'm sorry, full cart of eggs, it reminded me of the pandemic where they were buying out all the paper towels, all the toilet tissue. I still don't understand the toilet tissue part of it, but they were literally just buying up everything. It's like seriously dude really.
Speaker 2:I remember that too, yes, and then you think about how restaurants are doing that. I mean, I guess they're getting theirs from wholesale retailers, but yeah, that's definitely crazy. And to be doing all this too when, like, the bird flu is happening and half of half of the cdc is like try not to eat eggs if you don't have to or you know, like it's just crazy yeah, so just remember when you go get your eggs open that carton up just to make sure they're all there I always are, yeah, and.
Speaker 2:And also, someone could have my egg. That sounds weird me saying someone could have my eggs, but someone someone could have my breakfast eggs, because I'm getting the egg ick where, like it happens every now and then, where I'll have a couple eggs and then you just start to get like, ew, what am I eating? So now I'm finding a good time to be disgusted by eggs. But, um, yeah, that's my other thing. If people are, or you know whatever enough to be by a farmer's market, go check those out, because a lot of times you could also make deals with your local farmer. If you get to know them and you go back a lot, you know they might give you some discounts or they might give you some, like you know, if you go early in the morning, you can get some extra goodies and stuff. So that's just a good way.
Speaker 1:And plus you, you know you're getting the eggs directly from like a good chicken, oh yeah. And then also too, by going to the farmer's markets and stuff, you cut out the middleman so the farmers actually make more money on product?
Speaker 2:yeah, definitely, but yeah, I think just as a whole we have to think about other people at the where.
Speaker 2:It's like if you take two eggs for yourself, just know it's so gross to be like wasting food and and that's now they're gonna have to throw all those eggs away, and that's just that drives me as one of my like biggest pet peeves is when people I totally get changing your mind and like not wanting to purchase an item. But if someone like buys a whole rotisserie chicken and then they just leave it in like the non-refrigerated item by like the cereal or something, now that's like a wasted, like dead animal that just died to you know, to not like be used in a good way, and I think I don't know that. So it's just like not thinking, but it's like these are still animals that are giving their pieces and you know things that went way off topic, but I hate seeing like dead animal parts just left behind with no care. It's like at least put it back in the refrigerated section so that someone else can eat it and use it that's true, that's true I'm fired up.
Speaker 2:Now I'm on a tangent. Okay, I'm gonna go to. So the moral of the story is look at your eggs, open up the egg carton.
Speaker 1:Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, someone that doesn't want eggs right now is singer Kelsey Ballerini, because she has the flu. The middle of a show, and you could tell like these videos, the poor girl was like sweating and you know, trying to do all these things and then all of a sudden she kind of abruptly left and then an announcer came back to the stage and just said Kelsey has to cancel the rest of her set. She has fallen ill pretty much, and then since then she's canceled a few shows and I could only imagine how, like nerve-wracking and disappointing that is just to know you're letting down your fans. Um, but then I feel so bad because people are now it's rumors that she's pregnant and now she's saying I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 2:I just like truly have the flu and like I mean we all have the flu. Imagine like having to deal with all these things and like be calling your publicist when you're down with the flu. To me it makes me think about artists that never get a day off. That's such a scary feeling to be sick and have thousands of people disappointed in you, did they?
Speaker 1:get their money back during that? I think for that show.
Speaker 2:They're either going to get their money back or I think she said she's also going to come and play that CD again and she's definitely going to make up the dates and like she's someone that I think really does love their fans and she communicates like really directly with them. She always posts on her Insta stories, but I just thought that has to be such a weird feeling to like have the flu, be so sick and then have all these pregnancy rumors and just that's just a lot yeah, I mean, unfortunately, you know, when you do hit fame, you have to deal with that nonsense, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, it's one of those things and we've said it many times. People have to understand that. You know, yes, you idolize your, your, your, your singers, your actors and all this. You're mesmerized by them, you love them and everything. But they're also human, which means sometimes stuff happens. Okay, they're human, you know, and people sometimes forget that.
Speaker 2:I know, imagine if you're like Patrick Mahomes and a few days before the Superbowl you're like oh, my throat hurts a little bit Like. But I also guess that's where coaches and performance athletes come in, because you probably do have the top of the line. Whatever their version of NyQuil is, I imagine they have hacks and secrets we don't even know about to cut down flus and all the IV drips and all the everything.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, I mean as a professional athlete, you have access to a doctor instantly. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean as a professional athlete, you know, you have access to a doctor instantly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. And like when we take Farrah flu, they probably have like secret herbs that we don't even know about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, um, like I said, you know I, I I feel sorry for people when they get sick like that, because you know stuff happens, you know there's when they get sick like that, because you know stuff happens. You know, yeah, there's.
Speaker 2:There's plenty of performers that have felt ill while performing you know, I know that probably is that probably is a really terrible feeling to be halfway through and just be like I can't do the rest. Like and you know people are trying to, because it's easier for everyone just to like, push through and get done with the show.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and you know the thing is too, what I like about it is is that you know she knew that, hey, something was wrong, she wasn't feeling well, it was time to cut it. You know, yeah, because I've seen performers literally try and push through and they collapse on stage you don't really yeah, no so I tip my hat off to her. I really do.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:Talk about getting rid of something President Trump has enacted. I guess he's about to sign An executive order to outlaw the penny.
Speaker 2:The penny. Yes, no, we can't have anything fun anymore.
Speaker 1:So I guess Supposedly it costs 2 to 3 cents To make 1 cent.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, to like mint them and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yes. So they're looking at getting rid of the penny. So, which means that if they get rid of the penny, then everything will be rounded up to a nickel. You know, when you get change or whatever, I don't know. What do you think? What do you think about that, meryl?
Speaker 2:I think they need to skip ahead and get rid of the nickel, because I think the nickel is the ugly one Really? Yeah, it's the ugliest one. To me the dimes are the cutest ones and I think pennies are the most nostalgic ones. I mean, pennies are kind of like the older ones. They do get like dirty when the gum is stuck to them.
Speaker 2:I understand it. I guess, like I'm right at that age where it's still a little bit like I you know I use change. Growing up my dad collects coins, so I I still feel like pennies are cute, but how often do we really use them? You can't really use them for tips anymore because now we have to, like, pay in dollars or credit card. Um, hopefully they still make like memorative penn. I don't know. I don't want to get rid of change all in general, but I understand how it's becoming a little bit not needed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I know that there's some people saying that if they get rid of the penny it's going to hurt low-income people. Aw, yeah, that's true I don't know It'll affect them, but I don't think it's going to make or break them.
Speaker 2:I know, Unfortunately, as we talked about like eggs, you're going to need a lot of pennies for anything like eggs, but I really hope they don't get rid of the quarter too, because I think I think the nickel's got to go first.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what, if you get rid of the nickel, that means you can't get rid of the penny.
Speaker 2:then that's true, we need it, that's right. That's what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm like let's just try five cents at a time, and then I think we also need to bring back more of the half dollar.
Speaker 1:So bring back some, get rid of the others. You know what's interesting? We're having fun with this, but it actually makes more sense to get rid of the nickel than the penny, because then it doesn't affect anyone. Dollar, you know money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, exactly, because you could still have like five cents exactly, and the penny would be used more often then I know, I feel like pennies are just more fun and more like I don't know, just like a penny for your thoughts, like it's just more cute that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1:Okay, you gotta go to the white house, merrill, and present this, okay, okay thank you.
Speaker 2:What if I'm just like, like what. I'm just like holding up a sign that says girls against nickels or something? I don't want to take it Of all the things that I could care about. What a weird stance. I call it the march for dimes, even though there's already a march for dimes. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Nice, I like that.
Speaker 2:Thank you, it would be good, but, yeah, I like quarters the best. But I could understand that. But at this point, how is Trump doing all these things? I feel like there's more important things. The penny seems like something we should be getting to in December. Trump, you can't put everyone out of the country and stuff the penny. It's too much to do at once.
Speaker 1:Well, he's definitely making time to do it all right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, oh man, oh God, someone that I bet wants to get rid of the penny as well is Sir Elon Musk, and so he's been in trouble lately because I mean for many reasons, but one of it is the cyber truck crashing. A lot of the issues have happened with the cyber truck tech, the actual tech of the truck itself and now a lot of people are urging him to save others before it gets bad for everyone. There's been a lot of accidents. This one driver, jonathan Challenger, claims his Cybertruck drove headlong into a streetlight while in full self-driving mode, and Musk wants the technology to be ready for a June robo-taxi launch. So now, instead of just individual self-driving cars, musk wants to launch a whole bunch of robo taxis, but they're still dealing with a lot of Teslas. There's one that got wrapped around a pole with its right wheel dangling, and the driver was just like you know. He escaped without harm, but he's like. This has to get fixed before we manufacture more. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I hope they don't come to chicago, because if even if they do, I will not be getting in one no, me too, not a robo taxi.
Speaker 2:And you know, we see all these videos of these little waymo cars.
Speaker 1:There'll be like a railroad crossing and it's like, don't go, the waymo is just just going full speed ahead and if I'm driving on the road and I see what I'm next to it, I'm just going to ease back and just let them go ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think also too, is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of transparent communication. I think one thing that, like other people, seem to have in the past was like oh yes, this has happened, we recognized it and we're going to be working on the software. I feel like Musk seems so like secretive about these things that we never quite know exactly what's being fixed or if it's being taken seriously, and I think that makes consumers feel on edge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean, I guess for me, obviously, AI is here to stay. It's not going to go away and you know, AI, if used correctly, is actually a great tool to use. But when you're talking about moving a vehicle using intelligence, there's so many things that could possibly go wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Once it goes wrong, it goes horribly wrong. I don't know. I just think that we're trying to move a little bit too fast in certain areas of it.
Speaker 2:Me too. I wish the next decade was like us, using AI with like together, in tandem. You know, like the same way that we got switching over slowly to electric. I wish it was like okay, it doesn't have to be self-driving cars, it can be us, but with, like, the help of AI supporting us.
Speaker 1:That's true, that is so, so true.
Speaker 2:So you're not going to be getting in a cyber truck or a robo taxi anytime soon absolutely not me neither, and I I know some people like them, but for me personally the cyber truck is like really an eyesore. I'm bummed. It make like it makes it look weird. I wish I don't know. I feel like that's not. It's a different direction. I feel like a car design than we need to go, but some people like it that's true.
Speaker 1:true, more power to you, but I'm going to let everybody else be the guinea pigs first.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, I know we're having a lot of fun here. Before I get to the last topic of the day, I do want to take time out to acknowledge that it is Black History Month and I guess for me personally, black History isn't just one month, but it's 365 days a year and it's American history.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:One of the things I want to highlight is what's called Black Wall Street. This is a situation where, years ago I want to say it was Tulsa, oklahoma, I have to double check the location but it was a bustling town where African Americans, black people, you know we weren't really accepted anywhere else, so they started building their own stores, you know the libraries, their homes, and it was a bustling community and, for whatever reason, white people in the area didn't like it and burned the town down to the ground. So we just want to take a moment to just, you know, offer our prayers for people that you know still fighting this. You know, I feel it too when I go in certain stores or certain situations. It's something that I never thought in a million years we'd still be dealing with today, but unfortunately we are. You know, I think everyone. When you get a chance, take a look at some of the great things that Black people have done.
Speaker 2:Which is like every single thing.
Speaker 1:We're a part of this country too. You know to ban books and try and take away different things. It doesn't erase the facts. Like, most people don't realize that Chicago was actually found by a Black person. It was found by a Black person. So you know, Black history is not only Black history, but it's also American history, and I want people to remember that.
Speaker 2:I love that. I'm here for that and I want people to remember that I love that.
Speaker 1:I'm here for that. Cool, cool, cool. Well, going into the last subject, there is this new software out now and it's used, I believe, by Heritage which is similar to Ancestry. You know where you can track the roots of your family, you know, put together your family tree. Well, what it does and I think there's other software that does it too you can take a picture, even an old picture, and literally bring it to life. So I took a look at it. I was like, wow, this is pretty cool. Kind of weird too, you know, and I, and I guess I don't know what's your feeling about it. What do you think, meryl?
Speaker 2:Oh well, I like it for humorous purposes. Like I saw one picture of like an AI, taylor Swift, dancing, you know, and I like that. And then you could also this is ridiculous. I would have done this if I was like a teenage girl. But you could take a picture of you and your crush and like make you guys make out like what it would look like if you really kiss but. And like make you guys make out like what it would look like if you really kiss but. But when it comes to the serious things, like having your past grandma come to life or you know, like having a lot of, I mean, maybe it helps people or it comforts them, comforts them, to me it has the same thing as like the hologram feeling where I'm like, oh, this, this is not really this person, this is like a trickery of the imagination.
Speaker 2:But I mean, I think it's super cool, but it definitely can be scary if we're not knowing the difference between, in the future of what is actual AI motion and what isn't.
Speaker 1:I think it depends on the people If these people have passed away. If they passed away a long time ago, it would be warm memories and stuff like that yeah yeah, smile on your face. If it's someone that recently passed away, I think it would be. It would be. I don't want to use the word hurtful, but I think it'd be very painful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could just imagine. I mean, this is like very dark and deep, but like if a family member had a younger child that passed away and like watching videos of you know not real AI videos of that kid, I could just imagine like that's really tough. But if it makes someone, for like a second, feel a little less pain, then I'm OK with it. You know, I think it's one of those things I like to each their own.
Speaker 1:But that's true, and you know, the real crazy part is, even though you know that it's AI generated, you know some of these are like, really lifelike, I mean yeah you know, it's kind of creepy when you think about it, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some of them are really good. But yeah, I totally would have. If I was in high school, I would have like put me with every single boy together, Like here's us dancing at the prom, even though they said no to me in real life. But yeah, I don't know, I even feel that way with pets. I wouldn't want to make my beloved pets dogs. I don't want to see them barking and flopping around in AI version. It's too weird.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true. It's interesting. Wow, I can just imagine, even just five years from now, what this AI is going to look like.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean the accomplishments and the way it's growing. I mean it's like lightning speed right now. The technology.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh my gosh, something I love. I don't know if you've seen it yet, but I love it AI-wise, will they ask AI for like a representative of what a person from each state looks like? Have you seen that where they create like an avatar? I'll have to send that to you on tiktok, but it's like, um, like you know, here's what the typical person would look like from each state and they'll show like someone that they think looks like from ohio or someone from tampa, florida, and it's. It's really funny. Like they. They have a down for a lot of them. The Colorado person looks very much like what you would picture, the typical, or the Washington person.
Speaker 1:That would actually be pretty cool to see.
Speaker 2:It's cool. I'll send you that too.
Speaker 1:It's cool, it is hard to believe it's been an hour.
Speaker 2:No, Well before we head out.
Speaker 1:Meryl, what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I will be promoting pennies at the White House on behalf of the quarters of America. No, I have a show in Palm Springs for Valentine's Day. So I'll be in Palm Springs on Valentine's Day doing a 20-minute set about love, which will be very fun. My boyfriend will be nowhere in the audience. That's it. That's what I'm promoting right now.
Speaker 1:Okay, and when is that going to be?
Speaker 2:That is on Valentine's Day, so Friday night, and you're not going to let your boyfriend be there. He's not allowed. He has to stay at home and think about what he's done over the past year. That's my Valentine's Day. Present is I'm driving with one of my other comedian friends another wonderful woman comedian that I love and we're driving and getting separate hotel rooms and I just want to get room service and not be bothered.
Speaker 1:Well, this was a lot of fun. A lot of fun.
Speaker 2:This was so much fun. I love it. Honestly, I find it so. It's such a nice gift to have you to talk to every week.
Speaker 1:And of course, everyone.
Speaker 2:All the people here too, but it's so nice to be able to take what's happening in the world and talk to you about it.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely I have fun. In fact, I look forward to this every single week.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:Me too. Well, everyone else. Thank you so much for watching or listening. If you're listening to us on podcast, don't forget we're on LRodTVnetworkcom and also on our podcast on all the major streaming networks. So again, I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1:Have a great day everyone.
