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Thirsty Topics
From Cybertruck Clashes to Pet TV: A Curious World
This episode of Thirsty Topics tackles pressing societal issues through humor and personal anecdotes, starting with Ruby Bridges' courageous story, highlighting ongoing struggles for racial equality. Ranging from the backlash against the Tesla Cybertruck to the strange divorce settlement involving a Netflix account, the conversation delves into the absurdities of fame, health risks tied to Super Bowl excitement, a couple’s eerie experience at a deserted resort, and ends on the intriguing topic of Dog TV while touching on alarming plane crash statistics that raise questions about travel safety.
• Honoring Ruby Bridges and her impact on civil rights
• Discussing the Cybertruck and its controversial reception
• Antonio Villaraigosa's divorce and a peculiar Netflix provision
• Super Bowl excitement leading to unexpected health risks
• A couple's unsettling experience at a quiet resort
• The rise of renting chickens for fresh eggs
• Introducing Dog TV for pet entertainment
• Concerns around aviation safety and recent airplane incidents
Hello, and thank you for listening to Thirsty Topics podcast! I'm Lawrence Elrod, and every week Meryl Klemow and I dive deep into the stories that matter, the conversations that shape our world."
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Thirsty Topics. I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1:Hey, meryl, welcome to the show again, good to see.
Speaker 2:Ya, I can't tell. Are you wearing pink or red?
Speaker 1:It's a it's red, but it's not like it's like a maroon type red, it's like a funny color red.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm wearing pink. I feel like we got the post Valentine's Day memo. Funny thing is, we are kind of coordinating a little bit here.
Speaker 1:I know I feel like we're we got the post Valentine's Day memo. Funny thing is we are kind of coordinating a little bit here.
Speaker 2:I know we should. I think this should be a weekly thing there you go.
Speaker 1:Wow, um. Of course, this is still um Black History Month, and I wanted to highlight someone that some people know about, but maybe not everyone, and her name is Ruby Bridges. Ruby Bridges, back in November 14, 1960, was the first Black student that went into an all-white school. She had to be escorted by Secret Service and had all kinds of security around her because of the fact that the white students did not want her in the school, let alone in the class. So she ended up having to be in class by herself, even ate by herself, and just comes to show you. You know, I was born in 69. So this is kind of my generation. Actually she's a little bit older than me. I want to say she was around six, I think, maybe six or seven, and you know she still is alive today.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But you know we still. It's amazing that in 2025, that you know we're still fighting for rights and in some ways it's like we're going backwards, which is kind of scary a lot of ways.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's ridiculous and you just think of the bravery that someone like that went through and that's amazing yeah.
Speaker 1:So I just wanted to make sure I mentioned her because, um, you know, we can't forget that um, even though we've come a long way, we still have a long, long way to go.
Speaker 2:Yes, I imagine someone like that is probably seeing the news even more the present day news and it's just like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, definitely. Well, I'm going to start this one off, and this is actually a very interesting conversation here Cybertrucks, and if you don't know what the Cybertrucks, people don't know what the cybertrucks are. These are the trucks by Tesla. I personally think they're the ugliest trucks I've ever seen in my life, but hey, that's just me. Some people may love it. They're being attacked. People are basically, when they're driving it, they're getting the bird flipped at them. Their cars are being vandalized when it's parked and you know, some people just don't like the vehicle. Some people are doing it because of the Trump-Elon Musk combination. I don't know what. Do you think, merle? You think it's a little bit over the top here?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I mean also don't you think it seems like the kind of truck that Elon would make fun of? Or you know, like it seems like the opposite of the original Tesla that we, that we saw because I thought Teslas are really nice looking like's property. Or, you know, even if it's an ugly car like I don't believe in hurting anyone, or even if it's their car, you know that just costs money and damage, like I'm not a fan of that, but I do feel like they should be outlawed just for a general ugliness.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I agree with you. I mean, would it be a vehicle that I purchase? Absolutely not. But you know, I think that some people and I could be wrong, but I believe some people buy this vehicle for a status symbol. They want to be seen, you know.
Speaker 2:But like what status? I mean that's the kind of thing I feel like it's the same to me as people that rev their motorcycles a lot and create where I'm like people are not like judging you in a great way. You know, like I think a fancy other Tesla, like a gorgeous original Tesla, like that to me was a status symbol because of also it was so much at that time there wasn't a lot of electric vehicles or hybrids or like it wasn't mainstream. But I think the Cybertrucks trucks. To me that's not a flex, that's like I don't know. I haven't I haven't met any friends or family that have looked at a tesla truck driving by and really been impressed by that like yeah, it's got.
Speaker 1:It's interesting. I mean, you know everyone has a right to you know um, you know display or basically talk about what they like and don't like. You know that's no problem, but I agree 100 percent vandalizing the vehicle is definitely not the right thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it also seems like with their, what they're made out of, that can't be easy to like get a dent off of it, or you know what I mean. It seems like if you ruin the paneling of one, that doesn't seem like a very easy thing, where, like if someone scratches my Honda or Nissan or whatever, I can just like patch it up really quick or just leave it like that.
Speaker 1:But if you're driving like a keyed out Cybertruck.
Speaker 2:It just seems not great.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and you know what? It's one thing if they keyed it. There's certain situations where they've literally spray painted the vehicle, the entire vehicle.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And for anyone who's ever priced out a paint job on a vehicle a regular vehicle it's very expensive, so I can imagine what a Cybertruck will cost to repaint.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm surprised we don't see more companies using Cybertrucks. Like I can see insurance companies or like I don't know. It seems like the kind of thing. Trucks like I could see insurance companies or like I don't know. It seems like the kind of thing. Maybe it's too much in uh parts or whatever, but I could see, like radio stations and you know, having like a wrapped cyber truck that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1:It's an expensive sign, because I think those trucks are what about a hundred thousand and up, I believe oh god, it's so weird.
Speaker 2:I just can't like I I feel like range rovers are like totally cool, like you know, uh, whatever, like there's so many other cars to me that are like a very big flex, but I don't know. I feel like elon's pranking us again. Remember last week he changed his twitter to like hairy balls or something. I feel like this is that version of him cranking it. And also I think this is him appealing to maybe a subset of people, and I don't even mean that mean. I just mean I don't know he's doing something there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean definitely either. I think the Cybertruck is one of those vehicles where there is no in-between Either you like it or you don't. Right, if you had like $100,000, what would? Your Cyber truck is one of those vehicles where there is no in-betweens.
Speaker 2:Either you like it or you don't Right, if you had like, $100,000, what would your flex car be?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I mean it could be, you know, probably a really nice you know the Cadillac SUV They've got some really nice SUVs which is actually a little less than $100,000. Or, you know, maybe I'll uh like a lexus or something like that. Maybe even I would do like a range mode with the big one, something oh, those are nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I feel like that would be my, or if I want to, or if I want to really go go down here, give me like an old school mustang or something like that see, and that's so much cooler.
Speaker 2:I also feel like having an individual type car is way more of a flex than just seeing another silver Cybertruck on the road.
Speaker 1:True, alright, and I told you my flex. What's yours?
Speaker 2:Okay, mine would either be I really like the Broncos. I feel like a really nice, gorgeous. In Burbank I see this gorgeous, red, bright red, beautiful Bronco and I always walk by it. I'm like that is a sexy car. I never feel that way, but I'm like flirting with the car as I walk by and I'm always like damn, that is like beyond sexy. So something like that, like I love higher up Jeeps, range Rovers, all that like to me higher up is wonderful. But I also don't want to be sandwiched in like a. The Cybertruck to me looks like a weird library, like a weird building in Germany or something which I don't know Seems weird but whatever. But I still wouldn't go and hurt any of them or, like you know, damage any of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, I totally understand. Well, hopefully they kind of ease up on the damage of the vehicles, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully they ease up on making them. I feel like we're ready now. I want Tesla to drop a new album. I want to see what the next car is. We're done with this one.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well, this is a good one in terms of flexing. I picked this one out because it's ridiculous the former mayor, antonio Villagosa I hope I said that right. Antonio Villagosa just announced Well, actually, I think he announced he's running for governor as well, but he recently settled his split with his now ex-wife, patricia.
Speaker 2:He agreed to give her a lump sum payment of $550,000, which I mean that's pretty good. I don't know how much they make, but that's pretty darn good. And then I thought this was really interesting as part of the settlement, he keeps okay, so he keeps their $3 million Beverly Hills home and he gets the Netflix account. So that was what was holding everyone up in court, basically. And so the judges said they've never seen a Netflix account awarded in a divorce agreement, calling it really bizarre. And so the size lump sum payment that he'll receive is likely, or that his spouse will receive is kind of likely with, like, spousal support. But instead they just lump it all together as 500 000. But I think that's so funny that these very rich people with like a three million dollar beverly hills home are worried about their whatever 13 a month netflix account I mean, uh, he could give me a few dollars, I'll set him up a new netflix account, right?
Speaker 2:exactly I think. Do you think that's just like a petty move basically?
Speaker 1:extremely yeah. It's like seriously dude, come on, yeah. And to hold up the divorce for a netflix account, that is being kind of petty I know yep and Yep, and so he said he made millions as a consultant.
Speaker 2:It's always crazy, too, when these couples are together and like trying to settle things, because a lot of times people will make their millions. You know they'll meet each other when they're not millionaires, and then they'll become millionaires and it's kind of always like a little bit murky in terms of okay, well, should the wife or husband get like half of it, or is this person entitled to everything they made?
Speaker 2:But no, I guess the wife is going to have to start her own Netflix account. Maybe maybe she won't even get Netflix. Maybe she'll just like get Disney plus or Hulu, who knows?
Speaker 1:I don't know. It sounds like they should stay together if they're willing to fight over a Netflix account.
Speaker 2:And I thought this was interesting as well. Something else that they they got was that naming rights. So basically she's not allowed to use, like, his last name in any marketing or social media or basically branding. So she'll return to use her maiden name and she can't use Via Gosa for any social, marketing or business purpose, which I mean to me. I understand that, especially, like if he's about to run as governor. I don't know, I guess it's just stripping it down to like, hey, we're not involved in any way, so like you're not getting any of my clout.
Speaker 1:I mean, I could kind of see that, especially if these are high profile type individuals, so that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's kind of weird to me sometimes when maybe it's just like I also, I feel like a lot of times the woman I mean that's just how it is but like I've known women to keep the last name of men that have divorced and then the man gets remarried. They've divorced and then the man gets remarried and then I want the women to go back to their name as like I'm going to get rid of him in a pro-woman way. A lot of times I'm like drop him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean, I got to admit I don't think I've ever heard of anyone fighting over a Netflix account, Right.
Speaker 2:Would you just give it up to your? You would just tell your wife you could have it.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Aww.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I've come to the realization that when you fight for something, fight for a reason. Don't fight just for the sake of fighting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't fight petty.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I mean to each his own. I guess I must be one hell of a Netflix account, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have to start your algorithm all over again. I could also see a world. I feel like if my boyfriend and I broke up, we'd be on the same like thing forever. We'd have the same account like logged in for the next like 20 years, and both of our new spouses would be like, please, undo it.
Speaker 1:Well, this is very interesting news With the Super Bowl. Amazingly and I didn't even notice myself there are some people that have heart attacks watching the game. They get so excited Really, which is shocking to me, but yeah, Because I guess they get so excited, they get so pumped up, their hearts start racing and stuff. And you know you kind of, on the one hand you're like, wow, you know, you got to be careful, Don't get so excited, but then, on the other hand, you're like you do know you're not getting paid for this right, but then, on the other hand, you do know you're not getting paid for this right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I did not even know that was a thing, did you?
Speaker 2:No, I mean, did the article say if it's in person, like at the actual Super Bowl or watching from home?
Speaker 1:Watching from home and I'm quite sure there were some people that had some heart issues while they were there, but it's actually a thing I mean not as much as something else major obviously but yeah, there's some people that have had heart attacks watching games.
Speaker 2:I feel like, if anyone, the coaches usually give me high blood pressure watching the coaches, but we have to remember that those coaches are so good. I feel like I'm running on adrenaline that it looks crazy to us. But I feel like I'm running on adrenaline that it looks crazy to us, but I feel like for them, that's almost like they're almost internally calm, even when they're screaming and red in the face.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true. Have you ever got real excited watching something? Are you about to have a heart attack?
Speaker 2:Maybe a panic attack, but probably maybe more horror movies. Oh, you know what? We've been watching Dexter lately. I don't know if you've ever watched Dexter. It's a great TV show for anyone that watches it. And I feel like that and Breaking Bad were so suspenseful for me that like it's more the suspense. The suspense it's not like sports or you know American Idol or anything like that.
Speaker 2:It's more the like oh my God, I need to know what's going to happen right now, and I was going to say, too, I would. I would also think that the people the avatar of like who's watching the Superbowl maybe there's some high cholesterol snacks involved. You know, it's like Superbowl day, so you might be drinking, you might be ingesting like a bacon cheeseburger or something. So I'm drooling while I'm talking to you. I'm literally drooling because I was thinking of like mozzarella. You know, you might have like a clogged artery on that day.
Speaker 1:I totally understand, right I?
Speaker 2:mean.
Speaker 1:I get really excited watching the game, especially if I'm watching the Bears because that's my favorite team. And you know I find myself, you know, because it's just me in the house screaming, yelling at the TV, jumping up and down, cheering, getting angry. You know, almost like they can hear me, but they really can't.
Speaker 2:Aww and see, that's good, that's a good stress.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true. But you know, I've never had any pains or anything. It was like, hey, I'm just into the game, having fun, yeah. But yeah, I was very surprised to hear about that story.
Speaker 2:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:You definitely want to enjoy the game, but not to the point where you know it causes you physical harm either.
Speaker 2:No, I would say I just thought about that. I feel like maybe my version of that would be going to see a concert of, like you know, there's like five or six artists that I love so much, and then, like that minute when the lights go out and you know they're coming about to come on stage, like ever since I was like 11 years old, those, even now, those moments to me, sometimes I'm I have to like deep breathe and calm myself because, like that is that that almost sends me into a cardiac arrest because I'm so excited about that.
Speaker 1:Well, we don't want you to have no heart attack. No, no.
Speaker 2:And maybe not right now, but maybe in the past, when there's crushes around. If there's a boy crush around, but not the Chiefs or anything like that, just boys. Boys in concerts.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:OK, well, I thought this might give someone a heart attack. This actually happened about a year ago, but it's making its way through the uh viral news now, so I thought I would address it, because it's so ridiculous. There was a couple that discovered they were the only guests at a luxury five-star resort in Mexico. So they headed to Cabo a couple with a wife I think it was a baby moon Yep, a baby moon and they booked a room at a brand-new resort in Cabo where the room started off at over $1,000 a night. And then, after arriving, the pair noticed that they didn't see any people around the property. So they were like okay, that's cool, we have the pool to ourselves, we have the fire pit to ourselves. And then, like, as they went on, they saw that they were literally the only ones at the resort. It was no one else there. And so they posted on Instagram like is this creepy, is this not? And everyone is like leave, right now, you're going to get murdered.
Speaker 1:This is like a you know talk about heart attack.
Speaker 2:Like this is a horror movie waiting to happen. The husband said he didn't see it that way and he thought it was awesome and just even though it was a little bit creepy, he was basically like this whole kingdom is here for us, and so they used the pools and every single like amenity, just with each other.
Speaker 1:Wow, that would kind of freak me out.
Speaker 2:Right Like how does that happen, that a?
Speaker 1:resort at Cabo has no one booked. I think the first thing I would do was go ask the person up at the reception desk. Okay, what's going on? Why are we the only people here? Yeah, is there anything you're not telling us.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Is there some police tape around here that you know you guys hid that you're not telling us, right? Is there some police tape around here that you guys had that you're not telling me about? I mean, what's going on?
Speaker 2:Exactly From their videos. It didn't look like it was during a very cold or rainy season. It looked like a beautiful. I feel like a lot of people still do their vacations on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It doesn't have to be a big weekend.
Speaker 1:I don't know, would you stay there, meryl, if you found out that your wife were the only people on the property?
Speaker 2:no, I would be out of there. That would freak me out. Unless same thing, unless there was a valid reason or they could show me like oh, we have hundreds of people coming in in two days. It just is like if there was some reason we would stay um. But also they did say that it was so funny that the staff I mean there was staff on site, which was good, but that they had all these people just like waiting on them hand and foot. So maybe I would stay if I realized, like imagine the extra treatment you would get.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true, but that is very creepy though.
Speaker 2:It is creepy. His videos like make it seem very creepy, especially at night, and imagine looking out at the building and just seeing one hotel room light on and all the rooms and it's you yeah, just make sure that you have that latch on.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, maybe even throw the, uh, the chair underneath the knob as a good, you know, as a good token of extra security or something there. But yes, I don't know my wife, she would probably tell me let's get the hell out of here.
Speaker 2:I know like the thought of more than two people being at a resort in cabo, like ever, is just so, even on an off-season or rainy season. It's just so weird. Very, very weird, but if they want to sponsor us, then totally. If they want to draw more people in, we can promote it for them.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I would love that. Well, talk about interesting conversations here.
Speaker 1:Recently there was images Wendy Williams in her assisted living facility, in the window she was talking to someone outside, I think a reporter, and then also a judge, allowed Wendy Williams to fly to Florida from New York for two days to celebrate her father's 94th birthday.
Speaker 1:So TMZ actually got pictures of her at Macy's, you know, doing shopping. You know she was even seen getting up off of her moped or a little scooter and you know, stepping into the vehicle and you know she was talking very lucid and everything like that. But it's kind of fueling fire to the conversation of this conservatorship she's on and I get what everybody's getting excited about this and stuff, but without knowing the full backstory for her medical condition, it's really hard to jump on a bandwagon and say, well, she deserved to come off the service ship Because, again, without knowing the details of her medical condition, you can't really say one way or the other Right exactly, and especially what we talked about before, where it's like there's the medical and physical aspect of it and then there's also maybe someone's helping her stay financially sound and mentally sound, because there's been like occurrences of that not maybe being on track.
Speaker 2:Did it seem like the video did seem like she called the people to like look at her, or just have they just happened to get footage?
Speaker 1:um, they happened to get footage while she was out okay um.
Speaker 1:And then when she was in the window, um, you know they were. They were actually taping her as she was talking on the phone to the reporter she's somewhere in Manhattan. They for for for the sake of her safety and also for privacy, they didn't disclose where she was. Yeah, just in Manhattan, that's it. And I don't know. I think it opens up a deeper conversation. And I don't know. I think it opens up a deeper conversation.
Speaker 1:In fact, if you think about Britney Spears, when she was on conservatorship for so many years and her father was in charge of it and she fought very hard to get off that, I think. I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud here, meryl, but I think that something needs to be done where I don't know if it's every year, every other year, but I think it needs to be re, where I don't know if it's every year, every other year, but I think it needs to be relooked at every so often yes just to make sure that, one, this person still needs to be on conservatorship and then two, the people that's handling the money and the finances and everything else are still doing bright by the person absolutely.
Speaker 2:I think that's completely right and I also think, especially in Brittany's case, if the person seems to be like declining in health and mental and, you know, overall not good, I think it needs extra looking at. You know, I think people should be either staying the same or like hopefully getting a little bit better than where they are. If they're declining rapidly and like kind of deteriorating, I think it should be like taken very seriously and maybe a different conservator person should be in charge if it's not working.
Speaker 1:Yeah and I think that there's some situations where, let's say, someone has a mental breakdown. I don't think they should be on conservatorship, like in Britney Spears' case, forever and that's why she bought that. It's like this should not be forever Right, and I think that debate needs to happen, because it's one of those things where it keeps popping up every so often but no one wants to take it. Take it on head on, you know.
Speaker 2:Exactly who was the one. We also talked About someone, someone else that was like did not do very well. Oh, richard Simmons, like.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:So like that was an example too where they couldn't even find him. People were trying to look for him. No one knew where he went and then it turned out he was getting abused very poorly or very badly. And a lot of times the call is coming from inside the house where people are. It's like family members or people close to them that are doing them the most wrong. But I don't know. In Wendy's case it's so hard to know because you know it's hard to know like the amount of her cause. It seems like her condition is pretty serious, so it's like I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know the thing is, you know, especially when you talk about dementia there is no known cure right now for dementia.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you know, a person with dementia can have their good days and their bad days, and you know, obviously you know there's things you can do to hopefully help control it, maybe slow it down, but again there's no cure for it yeah. So you know, that's kind of like. You know, yeah, you saw her, you know, have a great day where she was out and about. You saw her talking very lucidly and stuff, but we don't know if that's every day.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, and I always feel so bad for people. The finance part of it really gets to me too, just knowing that sometimes people can be like draining their loved one's accounts without and just kind of doing sneaky stuff. So I don't know if that's the case here. Maybe probably not, but still, and that's I think that should be looked at so much too, where the conservatorship should be like okay, how much is in britney spears's bank account? Okay, like you have the right to drain her of like twenty thousand dollars a year, you know whatever. But then it has to be you have to account for everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, one of the things too is and I hate to say it, but you know, when, when someone, when someone dies or gets sick or something like that, and they have a lot of money, unfortunately, that's what some people really show their true colors.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and it gets it from. Luckily I have not have had that in my life at all, but like I've heard of siblings getting really like picky with things and just it gets fugly and ugly.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah. I just say that people try to show their true colors when the money's involved.
Speaker 2:Totally. That's why my parents will be leaving me one wicker basket from the 80s and that's about it. Honestly, a lot of times I'm like very happy just to be like very solidly middle class, where I'm like there's not anything to fight over, there's no like my dad is always like. This is my coin collection and it's worth like 40 and that's about it hey, but it's a special coin collection, exactly, exactly exactly. I think it's that whole more money, more problems, right Sometimes? It's good to not have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1:That's true. We'll definitely pray for Wendy Williams, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, Absolutely. I feel like it's either going to go one way or another. I'm surprised. Yet we haven't heard her taking to her own Instagram and saying help me, whatever.
Speaker 1:Who knows, that may be coming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if she's dancing in the kitchen, like how Brittany is, I don't know, we're going to have to. It's going to be after an intervention, okay. Well, I thought this was not to be too depressing, but just something to be aware of. Is that around, basically, of people losing their jobs in the national park service? I thought was really sad. Um, a bunch of layoffs are might leave national parks understaffed, and so they just did a big cut to probationary workers, which is part of the plan, part of trump and elon's plan to shrink federal spending.
Speaker 2:But to me, like the national parks don't really, they don't seem to be like the worst of leaking money everywhere and, in fact, like it's very needed. So the National Park Conservation Association called the downsizing reckless and a decision that could have a serious public safety and health consequences. For example, like wastewater treatment operators, a lot of the forest rangers keep the trails you know. They look for fires, they look for lost people. A lot of these people clean the bathrooms of where you know we need. We love fire rangers and to me that's like the saddest group picturing like a bunch of forest rangers laid off, because a lot of times these are just people that love the wilderness and want to be good advocates of the land and stuff. So, um, I don't know. To me that seems like a pretty bummer thing to have thousands of forest rangers laid off you know what's.
Speaker 1:What's kind of sad about this is for one, they didn't have enough to begin with. I know know, that's the crazy thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not like. It's like everyone, and their mother is a forest ranger.
Speaker 1:Right. So it's like, okay, do they even understand what they do? Because you know, there's a lot of just random cutting going on, Like a big story that came out. Is they, they, they cut. I want to say it was like 300, over 300 employees that ran, you know, the nuclear arsenal to keep track of it, and because I guess they didn't realize what these people did, now they're trying to hurry up and rehire them.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And a lot of them they can't get in touch with because you know, when you get laid off from any job or you get let go, first thing they do is they cut your email and everything else. So unless you have a personal email or something for that person, you have no way of contacting. And here's the reality, meryl and I may sound like an asshole for saying this, but if I'm working that kind of position and you're stupid enough to cut me loose, I'm not going back.
Speaker 2:Right, right, no, they're going to really trust you?
Speaker 1:I'm like no, Exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and if you're not shown that you're valuable in a lot of these rangers like this is not a very high paying job. A lot of rangers make like minimum wage or just above minimum wage and you know they should already be being paid way more. My, my thoughts like they shouldn't be paying, getting paid like very nicely because I think what they do is so important. But to me it's like that's such a weird thing of. Just. To me it's like you can't just lay off everyone. You have to look at what's bleeding out and then stop it and it's just uh, very short-sighted and very sad. And I think, like anyone that is outdoorsy will know, that a lot of times park rangers are just like the sweetest people and the most like helpful and uh, it's a weird occupation to like let go of thousands of people oh yeah.
Speaker 1:and then the other thing too, that park rangers play a big role in helping when there's forest fires and stuff going. Yeah, yeah, big question. I mean obviously, yes, you have the firefighters on the front line, but they still have to be coordinated and things put together. You know they have to get people cleared out. You know there's a lot that needs to be done, yes, yeah, in coordination with the firefighters. So by cutting all these rangers, you're actually probably making the firefighters job much, much harder.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and I feel like too, a lot of times. You know, when I think of kind of people sitting around not doing much, I think of maybe like more in terms of the office jobs or like you know, a lot of people just at an office kind of pretending to type, but every park ranger that I've ever seen is working. None of them are sitting around, you know, like they're doing a job and a lot of times they're doing multiple jobs. So I don't think of park rangers as like the typical kind of person where it's like they're not very expendable. It's like if you have one park ranger, chances are they're doing a lot of things and they're working hard.
Speaker 1:They're earning their money.
Speaker 2:They're earning the money for national parks, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's ridiculous, it really is. But, like I said, not to have all those park rangers out there in the wilderness, I would just say for people out there in the parks and wrecks, just be careful.
Speaker 2:I know this is where we do need some type of billionaires that are so environmentally. They find a loophole basically where they're like come with me, everyone Like we need the Bernie Sanders forest or something.
Speaker 1:We would hope so right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's just a lot of people's dream jobs. Not that that matters we're in adult life, but I think park ranger is a job that a lot of people dream of having. A lot of people will sacrifice a lot by being a ranger in a national park and it's not you know, so whatever that is true.
Speaker 1:Well, we'll definitely pray for him. Yeah, well, talk about environmental. There is a new trend going out people are renting chickens so they can lay eggs for them. I like that. This is one of those things where I have to admit I did not know this was a thing, but it is.
Speaker 2:I kind of love that.
Speaker 1:So basically, I guess there's companies out there that you can rent a chicken or more than one chicken, and they'll deliver the chicken. They'll have the chicken coop and everything like that. Bring it over, set it up and you know, you're on a payment plan, whatever, and then you have fresh eggs but it's kind of like a chicken pimp, right, they're like I hope they treat because they're breeding it.
Speaker 1:They're treating it nicely, right, like they're not over breeding it, I hope well, I guess, from what I was told, an average chicken can lay probably one to two eggs a day, you know okay, okay, so they're not like doing it too much to them or something. No, I mean they'll probably have. They could probably do one or two more of that if they're a bigger size chicken, obviously yeah, but you know you can have daily. You know fresh eggs every day if you wanted to.
Speaker 1:I love that it's, I don't know, it seems kind of expensive. Well, there's one company, I guess, charges what is it? $100 a month for one hen, which includes the coop and everything else. I don't know, that seems kind of expensive, even for two chickens, what?
Speaker 2:do you think? I also think I don't know that also just seems like a lot for an animal to be like shuttled around to a million different houses too. I don't know, like I'm not a chicken expert, surprisingly, but I might be but to me that just seems like I would rather almost have like a stationary chicken area in each community and it's like people go to rather than just like pass it around. I, I don't know, I don't trust people with like their kids and their families and their dogs or like that just seems a lot to have like an animal moving around to like a bunch of different houses. Um, so I wish there was almost more like resources for like, okay, we're gonna have these farmers markets and you can come, we, we're going to have, you know, more eggs and stuff like that. So my trust is I trust the chickens, not the humans.
Speaker 2:I hate the player, not the game.
Speaker 1:Well, I definitely understand that because you know you do bring up a good point. You know these chickens literally are with different people all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't trust, like what? What about diseases or cleanliness, or I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know, I'm just not a big fan of renting animals.
Speaker 2:No, me neither. I think it's wonderful. I mean, we talked last week about people stealing individual eggs out of a carton. So obviously anything that helps feed people and helps people not steal eggs out of a carton I think is great. But I'm a bigger advocate of like having farms more accessible, even like urban farms, you know and having the community go to that and treat the animals respectfully.
Speaker 1:That's true. I mean one idea, because I know there's a lot of urban agriculture that goes on throughout the United States, especially in food deserts, and in case people are watching or listening and don't know what a food desert is, a food desert is a location it could be a neighborhood or something that doesn't have access to fresh fruits and meats. That's a food desert, so they don't have access to healthy stuff that they need to eat. So some places actually create gardens where they have fresh fruits and vegetables that are grown within the community. So if you add the chickens there, I mean that can help a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Yeah you know, I would love that and I think that'd be so well. I think that'd be so well.
Speaker 2:also shout out to like they do a really great job in a lot of the like South LA places that normally would be have been food deserts in the past, where like a lot of great business owners have gone in and like been more community minded and planted gardens and I think, like I see that a lot all the time and they try to put in like a healthier stores that are whole foods or, you know, more affordable organic produce, and I think that's awesome. But I think it would be so cool if, like a school had a chicken or a hospital had a chicken or you know like, planting them more at places and maybe they had a fresh garden instead of instead of just like passing around a chicken. I feel like having one or two places in each community where people could go and like almost like a you know how you'd sign up for like a co-op or something.
Speaker 1:I think that'd be cool actually that'd be really, really cool.
Speaker 2:You know, they may do it though, especially if the prices keep rising yeah, maybe we could contact the resort in cabo, where no one is, and say, hey, we're actually going to turn you into a chicken coop hey, we killed two birds with one stone right, Exactly yeah sadly, probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, totally. But yeah, to me it's like I think people need training to handle animals and even though chickens don't seem like they have brains, they're still like living things. And so the idea I don't know, I wouldn't trust a lot of people that don't have prior experience to just like nicely take a chicken into their house and not traumatize it or, you know, keep it outside. Who knows what their pet is going to do if there's like prey outside?
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean, I know something like that. I don't know how well it would do where I'm at, because right now it's like single digits where.
Speaker 2:I'm at, so I don't know how well those Single digits of chickens or like of, the weather. Oh the weather, yeah, exactly, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1:So I don't know how chickens would do in six degree weather and negative degree weather at night, you know.
Speaker 2:And some people might have a frozen chicken. Yeah, too much. But yeah, and that's the other thing too is, I guess, like I have to realize. I am very, very privileged out here in california and southern california where it's like I can't. It's hard for me to even remember that there are places that don't have plentiful, like farmers, markets, grocery stores, eggs, you know all that kind of stuff. But um, I think it could be cute to have a chicken program in schools where, like, the kids learn how to, you know, take the eggs and then a teacher's ultimately in charge of it.
Speaker 1:Actually, that would be a great thing to see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look at churches and stuff. I think it could be a good way to integrate animals more. What if they just had a cow that they bust around from house to house and you could milk it? Okay, well, one animal that doesn't want to come to my house anytime soon, uh, is a humpback whale, and so there was a video that I saw about a humpback whale briefly swallowing a kayaker off of the chilean patagonia sea before he was unharmed.
Speaker 2:Um, a man named Adrian was kayaking with his father and, in the Magellan Sea, in a humpback whale surface, engulfed Adrian in his yellow kayak for a few seconds before letting him go. And then it was so funny because his dad just happened to be filming it and his dad is like not freaked out at all. In fact, the dad was like yelling at him basically of like get out, get out. But he wasn't like, oh my God, my son just got swallowed. He was more just like annoyed at the situation. And then afterwards the guy did an interview and he said, yeah, the guy that got swallowed was like I thought I was absolutely dead, but he lived, and he was a young, handsome man and he lived to tell the tale.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a few things wrong with this story. Right, it really did happen, because I saw the video myself. Um, I would not be out in the middle of any water in a little dingy, little floatable uh raft or boat, whatever that call it was.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, I would not be in there, absolutely not no, it seems like every week we have a story where someone is riding on a shark or something and you and I are always like. I want to be at the resort with no people. I don't want to be.
Speaker 1:Out of all the things you could be out there with. It looks like one of those rafts that you pick up at Dick's Sporting Goods or something like that. It was a really small dinky little.
Speaker 2:If there was sharks or if there was killer whales? I mean, I know killer whales don't usually attack, but if they capsize you or whatever, it's so weird. Could a humpback keep someone in its mouth? Is someone always going to just get loose, or could the humpback just be like oh, now I swallowed you.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I wouldn't want to find out.
Speaker 2:I know, because I don't think they could, because I know they have like a screen. They have like a screen, basically that like filters out all the shellfish. I think it's called the baleen or something. So I think it's like, in theory, I feel like they are not like gulping down a human, but it's crazy that you could just get like shut into a whale.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Then get spit out Like wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of my friends is like that is, his main fear is whales. Like that's his like number one, like not a fear of heights, not public speaking whales. And then I think his parents used to hold him in a whale, like above a whale tank in SeaWorld, like when he was little, and they used like dangle him and be like look at the whales. And he didn't want to. And so now he's a grown man like truly terrified of whales. So I was very nice, I didn't send this to him but you know they could be arrested today for doing that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I know, and they would dangle my friend and be like look, look at the whales. It truly caused a fear in this adult man All right.
Speaker 1:I'm glad I don't have any friends or relatives that dangle me over dangerous animals either.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but also you saw the video. Doesn't it look a little bit AI as well?
Speaker 1:You know, I had to watch it a few times because at first it's like, nah, this is fake Until you watch it a few times.
Speaker 2:but no, actually it does look like it's real yeah, it's getting harder and harder to tell like what's actually real because of ai that is so, so true, but uh, I'm just glad he's okay yeah, me too. What a crazy thing. I don't know how he could get money from it. He can't, you can't really sue a whale, but or like the ocean, but no, I think.
Speaker 1:think I'd probably be traumatized, me too.
Speaker 2:But of course I'm sure there's some greedy agents or managers that are like please write a book about inside the mouth or whatever.
Speaker 1:You know what that is so true? Because that would be one hell of a story to tell.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1:Well, we have a feel-good story here good um, now I have a, I have a dog and for all of my dogs I've always, you know, when we leave out of the house, like, let's say, we have to go run errands or whatever, I'll turn the tv on so you know they have some company, they can watch tv. I've been doing that for years. Well, there's a streaming channel called dog tv and literally there's programs just for dogs. You know it's so playing. It shows dogs sleeping, playing with other dogs. Uh, they also, um, show the dogs, you know, playing with babies. Is this dogs? 24, 7-7, seven days a week. What do you think? Would you do something like that for your little pup, your little pup, to your dog, if you had one?
Speaker 2:A hundred percent. So this is shocking, but I'm a very bad. I'm like a dog stepmom. I'm a stepmom to two dogs and I'm like I love dogs so much but the two that I live with it's been 10 years and I'm just starting to come around now.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know you had dogs, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll show them one day. There's two of them. There's like one I easily got along with. The other one is like a half chihuahua and I love him, but he's not like my cup of tea.
Speaker 1:Really. Is he a calm chihuahua or is he one of the ones that, like, snaps off at everything that comes in, not barking?
Speaker 2:but just kind of like, like, like I don't know like flighty, like I, I like big dogs, you know. So all this to say is that I, even though they're not my like favorite, I would still absolutely put on dog TV channel for them and maybe it will distract them as well, tv channel for them, and maybe it will distract them as well and it will make them cooler. But yeah, I mean, I would watch that 24 seven. I love dogs so much and I think anything related to dogs and I think I've also heard that blues clues If you put that show on that for some reason, like the colors dogs see really well and they can understand it.
Speaker 1:Really, I did not know that.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's. It might be like an urban legend, but I think that's amazing and I wrote this down because I'm going to make sure that we put we put on dog TV 24 seven Cause when we leave the house, my boyfriend will play Amazon like eighties music. I'm like they don't want to hear eighties music. That's going to make them more hyper, so we're going to play this instead.
Speaker 1:There you. But uh, I I think it's an ingenious idea, you know, because again I put on mostly cartoons, stuff like that, um, or I may have it just on a regular channel where they have like different programming, just something that where it's not so quiet. And you know, I've actually seen my dog watch tv sometimes too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wonder what the ads are too. Are the ads like dog food?
Speaker 1:You know that's a great question. I don't know, it could be.
Speaker 2:That's so funny. Next week I'll have Jack hold up Huck, our dachshund, because Huck is actually very cute.
Speaker 1:Oh nice.
Speaker 2:Huck is very cute. Maybe we can. I don't know if they're looking for actors on Dog TV. Maybe I'll try to get them a casting agent or something.
Speaker 1:Hey, there you go. You never know right.
Speaker 2:Right, we can get another live stream. Well, that's cute. I'll definitely check that out. What if in the Divorce someone says that they can get the dog tv channel?
Speaker 1:hey, they fought over netflix, so who knows?
Speaker 2:yeah, who knows? I think that's super cool. Now, if there was a cat channel, I'm sorry cat people, but I would not. I would not be on cat tv. Oh, you don't. You don't like cats. No, no, I'm trying. That's it. We got into a huge discussion the other day because, after the dogs, my boyfriend said that he'd be open to cats. And I'm like, when you met me, I said I was not cat, you know. So.
Speaker 1:So I guess if you came on one day and there was a little surprise crawling on the table, you wouldn't like it. Oh I'd be gone. Yeah, I'd be, I'd be, I'd be, I would truly rather like be in the ocean getting swallowed by the whale, I think. Do you guys have cats? No, I mean, actually I grew up with cats, so it's not a big deal, really, will you be honest? No-transcript um, you have to.
Speaker 1:You have to clean out that litter box all the time yeah you know, I mean obviously litter is different than it was back, you know, when I was growing up. You know there's all kinds of fancy litter boxes, I suppose yeah that's true, all that so, but that's really the biggest thing.
Speaker 1:Um, my cat was. His name was tiger and he actually thought he was a dog. We would take like aluminum foil, make a little ball, we'll throw it, and he'd go grab it and bring it back to us and have him keep throwing it to us. Oh, we'll call him and he'll come over to us jump in our lap. It was actually pretty cool there.
Speaker 2:I mean, cats are very, very smart yeah, I think that's what turned my boyfriend around was that he's a mailman and so I think he sees a lot of cats on his route, like and he sees them outside, or like purring and being friendly. And then now he's like I think I'm a cat person but I like admiring them from afar, but I'm not like I don't want to live with what.
Speaker 1:I want a big, drooly dog yeah, the only thing that maybe is a little concerning about cats get on everything. So picture this your cat's going to take care of the business of the litter. The next thing you know he's walking across your table.
Speaker 2:No, no way. You know, and I really do like I know. I know there are different types of litter boxes, but I have visited a lot of cat houses and they do seem to have a certain odor. That being said, I understand dog smell as well, but the dog smell just doesn't bother me. I think I'm just like I like it.
Speaker 1:I welcome it. Yeah, I mean. I know my wife and my son has allergies when it comes to cats, so they can't really be around them.
Speaker 2:Suddenly I do too. There you go. I've had it since I was little.
Speaker 1:All of our dogs have been hyperallergenic dogs that have hair and not fur, so they don't shed.
Speaker 2:That's cool. That's good. I'm team dog forever and ever. I understand why people are team cat. If they were walking everything, knowing where to feed it, then I just don't like when they rub up against you to like mark that me like it's not with a dog. I know that it's like okay, we're both loving each other with a cat I'm like.
Speaker 1:why are you?
Speaker 2:doing this? I don't know.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:But no hate to cat people, only love there's still animals, so we love them. That love they're still animals, so we love them. That is true, that is true. Okay, well, I'll be watching Dog TV. And one thing I won't be watching is the Bachelorette.
Speaker 2:So the Bachelorette is taking the summer off. It would normally be the next version of it, but it's the 22nd season of ABC's first hit and they just announced they're not going to premiere mid -year, unlike the past three installments. Instead, the network will air season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise, which I forgot that that's even on. So they keep saying Bachelor has not been canceled and they're saying like it probably will come back. But now they have, you know, golden Bachelor, which didn't really obviously like, didn't really produce that much of a love connection that we saw, um, and then there's also some gossip that maybe the mormon wives might be taking the uh, the place of the bachelorette, like on hulu, you know. So that slot might go.
Speaker 2:I don't, that isn't confirmed, I just heard that in a few sites, but I don't know. What do you think? To me, the Bachelorette the last one with Jen Tran didn't really go that well and it just seems like it's kind of an outdated model of people getting married on the spot. I feel like the whole franchise needs a little bit of a refresh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would say that they're probably going to come up with something really wacky. Yeah, what I mean by that is there's this show that a lot of people like watching, and it's called Life After Lockup. Oh yeah, people get out and they're in these relationships with people that they fell in love with while they were incarcerated. Uh-huh, I kind of probably could see something along the lines of Bachelor from Cell Block 8, you know, this person just got out of the penitentiary or whatever, and now these eligible bachelor or bachelorettes want to try and win their love. I could see something like that. As crazy as this sounds, I can see that coming up.
Speaker 2:You're so right.
Speaker 2:I feel like if you look at all the recent ones, like the Ultimatum or Love is Blind or Love on the Spectrum, they all have a pretty out there hook In theory. They all have a lot of Love is Blind is crazy, where it's like you're just supposed to get married to someone or get engaged of like not actually seeing them, um, and then they had the naked one. I forgot. I forgot what the naked one was, you know where they were showing that, so it, but I always thought the bachelor was kind of still for like more of the vanilla, like old school type folks who just want to see just you know, old school, like how we know the franchise is. But it it seems like I think social media too. Now we don't know if people are there to be influencers or like things are getting leaked a lot of times. I know Gen Season. They found one of the guys ended up not being a nice guy at all and like people were mad at ABC for not really filtering him in and like casting him still. So it's interesting.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean they have this show called because I used to like watching this game show called deal or no deal with holly mandel. This is the show where you know you open up the briefcases oh yeah and I love that show. I hate it when it went off the air yeah so now they have deal or no deal, island love.
Speaker 1:There's some crazy things, crazy twist to it. I didn't even watch it because I'm like, okay, why are you doing this? Why are you just? You know, I tried to watch it for a few minutes but it was just like really weird, you know, and I'm like, no, this is not the same thing. And it's like you know, sometimes you can take a good thing and just wear the hell out of it too.
Speaker 2:You. Sometimes you can take a good thing and just wear the hell out of it too, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, when it was just bachelor and bachelorette, it was cool, it was fine. Now you got bachelor, you got bachelor, paradise, you got the bachelorette. You got the golden bachelor, you got the golden bachelorette, and it's like okay right.
Speaker 2:Remember when they did like two, they had two bachelorettes. I think it was like Rachel and Gabby and stuff, and then I think that's when they were kind of jumping the shark a little bit, where I'm like we don't need like two bachelorettes and like one. You know, it Just seems like they've been. I think they've been Toying around to see what works for the past couple Seasons and it just seems like it needs to be put To rest yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:I think what they're probably going to do is probably take a break. I don't see it going away. I agree with you, it's not going to go away, but they're probably going to take a reset to kind of think okay, how do we want to move forward with this? It's probably what they're trying to figure out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because the whole model of like they go to three different hometown dates and meet three different families, and then there's the overnight stays and then it's like it seems like the same thing and they haven't really produced a lot of successful marriages from it lately. So I think they're gonna have to be like okay, what are we? Are we just? Are you know, are they just meeting? Or like, are we still expecting a wedding?
Speaker 1:that's true. That's true and unfortunately, the majority of people that go on those shows are looking to advance their careers yes, lately it's every single one is like a wellness influencer from San Diego.
Speaker 2:It's like 19. Or a travel nurse there's like 19 beautiful girls named Lindsay that are all like travel nurses from San Diego.
Speaker 1:That is true, but it'll be interesting to see what they come up with.
Speaker 2:I know it's crazy, because the Bachelor seems to still do well Like Grant the latest Bachelor seems to still do well, grant the latest Bachelor. He seems really awesome and people like him. That part of it seems to be going okay.
Speaker 1:That is true. Wow, what an hour.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, is it an hour already Already.
Speaker 1:The crazy thing about it, meryl. I had other stuff, but I knew we didn't have time, so that's why I didn't bring them up.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's been a crazy hour so do you have any more, or was that?
Speaker 1:you know what? I do have a couple more. I mean, if you got a little time, yeah, I got some time, hopefully everyone can be patient with us here. Yes, thank you. Let's see a couple things actually three things here. I did not know this, but okay, obviously the 14th of february, everyone knows that's valentine's day, right? Yep, I actually saw this on good morning america. I looked this up and it's a real thing. Guess what February 13th is?
Speaker 2:Oh no, Is it like National Divorce Day or something? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Not exactly. It's National Mistress Day.
Speaker 2:No, oh, because that's when people send the flowers to make sure they're still known. Oh my, gosh.
Speaker 1:They get together with their mistress the day before Valentine's Day and there's actually some idiots that actually will take their mistress to the same restaurant. They're taking their wife or girlfriend to the next day.
Speaker 2:It seems like so much work.
Speaker 1:It is To both have one and be one, and then it's like you're really going to take them to the same restaurant yeah, how stupid, can you be?
Speaker 2:exactly I I think my like frontal lobe developed when I because I think in my early 20s I thought that kind of stuff was cool. And then you just have to realize like no one should sell themselves short by being with someone who's in a relationship with someone else. You know what I mean. Like you're telling yourself that basically you're not worth like being the main person and I just think that's such like a even if you're not going to do it for like someone else, for yourself, just to have that much like whatever you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my wife would choke me if she heard me say this. But dealing with one woman is enough. Oh, totally, Absolutely not. I feel the exact way.
Speaker 2:I'm exhausted in a good way, by one. The last thing I want, If anything, I just want an AI robot to do the chores. I don't want a whole other boy or anything like that. But yeah, that's crazy. I think the same thing is I always felt with men if you're going to have a mistress, then just like get out of the relationship and stop wasting people's time. So yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:That's so true, and you know what I don't judge. I mean, if you want to date multiple people, whatever, nothing wrong with that, but don't get in a relationship with someone and they're thinking that you are your monogamous, you're keeping your word, you're being loyal to that one person, knowing that you're not. Don't do that, because you're playing with people's feelings and that's not right.
Speaker 2:Exactly I talk about in stand-up too, how having an affair seems outdated. It has 2016 Ed Hardy t-shirt energy In this day and age, in 2025, it seems like if you're having an affair, it seems like old, it seems like a cyber truck of relationships. It's embarrassing.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1:Well, since we're on bonus stuff here Bonus, this one is actually a little bit on the sad side.
Speaker 1:There's a woman Her name is Lisa Manders Her and her husband, craig, went on an African safari and on these African safaris, you know, they go out to where the wild animals are.
Speaker 1:So you know, you're in this big truck or whatever with no top and you're out there with the lions, elephants and whatever is out there. So I guess she was standing near the edge of a lake or river and there was a hippo that was kind of just laying in the middle of the water and the next thing, you know, unprovoked, the hippo came up and attacked and killed her. So now her husband is suing the company that arranged for the tour, um, and I guess, uh, the owner of of the, the place that put together their safari trip to begin with, and suing them basically for the accident. And I don't know, I just got a lot of mixed feelings. I mean, obviously it's a bad, sad situation, but I'm willing to bet you 50 cent that they probably have some things in there saying that they're not responsible to get her killed out there because, let's face it, you're out there with wild animals and hippos.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you know this merrill, but hippos kill more people than any other animal on Earth.
Speaker 2:I've heard that and I've seen videos of them, like chasing the boats.
Speaker 2:And it seems like lately they're playing a little bit fast and loose with, like those boat tours. They go really slow and then they wait until the hippo gets right up to them and then they speed away and if, like, the motor isn't working correctly, it's just so freaky, correctly, it's just so freaky. I mean. I think they're gonna have to start really not putting themselves like in the middle of where the hippos are for the tour, and that's unfortunate if we don't get to be as close to them. But like I've heard that a lot, where there are a lot of hippo deaths and like they don't, they're upset.
Speaker 1:I can't understand why they would let people be by the river bank at all and that's just like that's so scary yeah, and the thing is, even though a hippo is huge I mean it's tons, I mean it weighs one or two tons are huge. Hippos are very, very fast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's amazing how fast they can run and they're not the nicest creature to be near no, and I'm surprised, like you would think, all of those safaris, usually there has to be someone right there with like a gun or a type of like tranquilizer and stuff and I just can't imagine being like with my loved one and watching that and I just I saw that too, that article, and I was thinking like imagine if you're the husband and you're basically now you're leaving, like on the plane ride home, or like you, you go to your hotel room that night and let your spouse die, like that's so terrible, you know, just to like imagine that oh yeah, I mean to actually see your, your spouse, get killed by an animal, and I mean just ripped shreds right in front of you.
Speaker 1:I mean, how could you not have nightmares about that?
Speaker 2:I know I am so pro animal, but if I saw a hippo attack my, like one of my parents, I would literally become a poacher, like on the spot. So I know that's horrible to say, but it would be my, my villain origin story, where I would literally go and like shoot everyone like right in the mouth, and so I feel bad.
Speaker 1:But yes, yeah, it's going to be interesting, but I don't know. I've never been a big fan of the safaris. I mean more power to people. Call me a chicken, call me whatever you want, but no, I don't do wild animals.
Speaker 2:No, no, and it's like there's no guarantee. It's not like it's a you're not. I can see something like having a path that you drive through, or like a proven thing where the animals can't get to you, but this seems so like randomized where if an elephant wanted to come and tip you over if a hippo wanted to come and like, just chomp you, they could.
Speaker 1:So hopefully they're gonna stop doing away with them and, like you know, make it a little bit more safer. Yeah, unfortunately, because it is a business, I can't see it going away. They may have to take a look at how to do it, but you know there's too much money involved.
Speaker 2:I can't see it going away yeah, but I mean that man, I, he, he absolutely should sue for like at least to cover costs of things. I mean I can't even imagine like, yeah, just the flight home and arrangements and everything that's just, and watching your loved one die like that, that has to be really, really distressful.
Speaker 1:So that's true. Well, this subject here, um, I know we talked before we started the show today and I don't know, maybe it's me but it seems like there's a lot more accidents with planes lately.
Speaker 2:Yes, I know.
Speaker 1:And I don't know if everyone watched the news or not, but there was a plane in Canada. They were coming to a landing and the plane crashed and flipped over. Oh my God, it was literally on its ceiling. So I think they said eight people were hurt, one person critically, but not life-threatening. And I don't know, maybe it's me, maybe it's just a lot of cameras out there, but it just seems like there's a lot more accidents now with planes.
Speaker 2:It does. It definitely seems like there is more and we're capturing it. I feel like it's both and everyone's like already on pins and needles flying or not everybody, but a lot of people are. So imagine like you're landing and then you're like, ok, thank goodness, I'm safe. And then now all of a sudden you're upside down and, yeah, it's just getting scarier and scarier. But but also, like I, I would feel better if these things were addressed and like people explained why I feel like we need a spokesperson, and I know a lot of people were like, okay, well, that's not going to happen because trump is like letting go of the faa director and you know. But I feel like there needs to be like a public spokesperson that's talking to the public a lot, because I think there's also probably a lot of undue anxiety and we just need to be transparent.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean you have to, because we saw what happened during the pandemic, when no one was flying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean it really almost bankrupt the airline industry.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I feel like the DC crash or like the helicopter thing that seems like weird and not, that just seems like such a weird anomaly of like the hell, who knows I don't. I really don't think we're ever going to know what happened with that Cause. It sounds like there's some maybe fishy stuff that happened, but like all the other things I've just like wheels falling off and doors flying open and it seems like we really need some answers.
Speaker 1:I agree with that Cause. The reality is, you can only ignore it for so long before people go. You know what Screw this? I'm not flying, I'm just going to go drive.
Speaker 2:I know I try to look all the time but there's an airport by us and every single time a plane takes off I'm like okay, they're fine. They're fine Like I'm like okay, like look how many times like I see that and being fine, so hopefully, oh well, that was fun.
Speaker 1:That was definitely fun. You got any anything coming up?
Speaker 2:Yes, let's see. Oh, I had a really fun show in Palm Springs. So if anyone lives in Palm Springs, shout out to people that go see comedy. It was really. It was on Valentine's Day night and it was so funny because I think people just got a ticket from the hotel they were staying at, so I think a lot of people didn't even know, like, why they were at a comedy show, but it was still really cool. But my next show is in Glendale, california, so right in los angeles, thank goodness, and it's on um february 24th, so next monday, oh, which is why, also, we'll talk about this off air, but I, I won't be here next week yes, that is correct because I will be doing a show but um, the week after I will be there cool, cool.
Speaker 1:Well, we had a great day today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so much fun.
Speaker 1:Hey, we got to dress up a lot more often.
Speaker 2:I know, not this week, but the week after. We'll get the memo, march 3rd.
Speaker 1:There you go. Well, this has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:It has.
Speaker 1:Everyone, I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo.
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