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Thirsty Topics: From Oscars Snubs to Worker Tracking for 3/5/25
From Oscars drama to workplace surveillance, Lawrence Elrod and Meryl Klemow tackle the zeitgeist of our current moment with humor and insight.
The duo kicks off with a spirited debate about the Oscars, questioning whether Demi Moore was truly "snubbed" for her performance in "The Substance" - a film ironically about youth and beauty being valued above all else. Their conversation reveals how award shows operate in ways that often confound viewers' expectations while exploring celebrities' fading mystique in our modern era.
Shifting to workplace culture, Lawrence and Meryl examine Elon Musk's controversial approach to federal workers and the alarming rise of employee monitoring technologies. "A person that micromanages doesn't know how to manage," they assert, advocating for trust-based work relationships over invasive surveillance. Drawing from their own remote work experiences, they highlight how true productivity isn't measured by mouse movements or keystrokes but by actual results.
The hosts then dissect fascinating consumer phenomena - from Erewhon's viral $20 luxury strawberries to the concerning "gold bar scams" targeting seniors. Their conversation around Hooters' potential bankruptcy reveals surprising insights about casual dining economics and cultural perceptions. They also unpack the concept of being "California sober" (abstaining from alcohol while using cannabis), and share a humorous story about a man who successfully sued a movie theater over excessive pre-show advertisements.
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Thirsty Topics. I'm Lauren Zellrod.
Speaker 2:And I am Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1:Meryl, welcome back.
Speaker 2:Thank you. A week felt like a year. I'm so happy to be back. It was too long.
Speaker 1:How did your comedy event go?
Speaker 2:You know, at least to me, it was fun. If you ask the people in the crowd, they might say different, but no, it was very, very fun. We had actually the show I did last week. Why I missed it? It was it was like a fun theme show about um. It's called like I'm a really good person and basically you're supposed to convince the audience that you're a good person and I I co-won it with someone else. So nice, so super fun. It was me and this other guy and my, my friend julian, who's a great comedian here, and um, they were going to pick one of us and we demanded that we wanted to co-win it. I hate choosing one winner, so it's good to co-win things.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true. Everyone's a winner.
Speaker 2:Exactly. We're still like little league eight-year-olds where we want to go home with the trophy, all of us. But I'm happy to be back.
Speaker 1:Well, I am definitely happy you're back as well and we have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 2:I know, do you want?
Speaker 1:to start us, since you've been so patient and nice. You know what I'll go ahead and start off. Yay, don't know if everyone watched the Oscars or if they watched the whole thing, but one notable incident that happened, which I wouldn't call an incident, but a little bit of a snub, as people say. Demi Moore was, I guess, poised to win an Oscar last night and some people felt that she was snubbed. What do you think?
Speaker 2:I forget. Do you know who ended up winning it in her place?
Speaker 1:Let me think here.
Speaker 2:It's so funny. My opinion will rest upon that. If I don't like the person, then yes, she was absolutely snubbed. And if I like the person, I could see where that would happen. So, um, I mean, while we, while we look at that, my first is yes, just because I felt like I mean it's sad with the Oscars that they just can't make winners just because we want some people to win. You know, people have voted and the Academy has whatever criteria to do.
Speaker 2:The word snubbed has become so we use it so much. Now you know how like at the Grammys, billie Eilish was snubbed, but really I feel like snubbed has just become another way to say like someone didn't win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was Mikey Madison that beat her to the covered Best Actress Award.
Speaker 2:Okay. So yes, she was snubbed. Okay In my mind then. Yes, from what I believe with Mikey Madison. I don't know, people will maybe think differently, but I feel like she's maybe a new, up-and-coming person and I felt like to me this is Demi, she's the young hot thing and I'm like that's so funny because that's all what Demi's whole movie, the Substance, is about is kind of getting you know, having youth and beauty be like the winner.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I think Demi should have gotten it. What do you think? You know? I mean, from the way everyone was talking, I'm surprised she didn't get it. But I would say that just to be nominated is a great thing. And you know what? She took it in stride. I kind of like the fact that she poked fun at herself. She had two big bowls of french fries that she was eating afterwards. So you know, she poked fun at herself, had fun with it and stuff. But you know, the thing is, I'm not even sure how they vote.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:You know it's like this big secret. I know the thing is. I'm not even sure how they vote.
Speaker 2:I know, you know it's like this big secret, I know, I know, and it's like never what you think it would be. I feel like they almost hardly ever choose the obvious, popular one. It always seems like there's some type of twist.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I mean it's interesting. I mean it was a very, very formal show. Yeah, I, I mean, um, it was a a very, it was a very, very formal show. You know, yeah, um, I wouldn't say it was over the top great, it was okay, you know it was okay. Some people like I don't know what, do you? Think, did you? Did you like it?
Speaker 2:I was just like, whoever is paying to get timothy chalamet shown? Like I'm like, can we just like not see him? For I mean, I like him a lot, but I but I'm like, why is it like literally the Timothee Chalamet Oscars was award? I don't know. I've gotten to the point. I think we all feel this way that like these big stars just seem not as like shiny, as maybe we're just getting older or like I don't know, I'm growing out of stuff. But you're right where I don't really seem as like captivated now by Hollywood which is so funny because I live in Los Angeles but like it just seems, like you're right, there's not a lot of captivating celebrities and it's it's not as like fun as it used to be like in 2014, 2015.
Speaker 2:I thought Conan did a good job. I like I love Conan and I thought like as much as so. It's such a hard job and I feel like, no matter what, it's probably so hard making that whole room of people laugh and I think I think Conan is like really funny and just like did the best job that human probably could you know.
Speaker 1:You know, I got to put you on the spot. Did you like Conan better or did you like Jimmy Kimmel better when he did it?
Speaker 2:Um, that is a good question, probably Okay. That is a good question, probably okay, I think. I think conan does a better job, but I find jimmy just more likable and like jimmy seems like he's friends with all of them and stuff, and conan just seems like he's, you know like obviously he's, he's his own planet coming in, but I think jimmy's really warm and makes it feel like someone's hosting, like a barbecue with someone or you know like.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:But like I don't know, I like Conan as a performer, I think, a little bit better and I think his jokes are funnier, but he clearly is like he feels still like an outsider, even though he's not like. He is like so Hollywood, but he just feels like even at times he even joked about like that he won't be invited back again. I think he's a little scared of people. He also seems like he wasn't really going for it too bad, and I think Jimmy Kimmel just feels a little bit more loose and like more. You know, he's just kind of roasting his friends, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2:Did you like?
Speaker 1:Jimmy better you know what. It's hard to compare the two because their styles are totally different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1:It's hard to compare the two because their styles are totally different. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm a big Jimmy Kimmel fan. I watch his show every night when it's on during the week. So you know, I'm probably a little bit partial towards Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2:Totally.
Speaker 1:But you know, conan did a good job too. Nothing I can say bad about that.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, I think Jimmy Kimmel is so adorable and likable. Conan, just for some like. I feel like his jokes are so funny and they're not. They're almost like against the Oscars. You know, if you're, he's almost like I feel like in a good way he's like subvertly making fun of everyone.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true. So what do you think? You think Conan will be back next year.
Speaker 2:No, wow year, no, wow. I think I mean it's crazy. Not why would you want to? But I think maybe he'll just be like that was good for me and then maybe someone else will. Maybe timothy chalamet will hey you never know exactly. But yeah, you're right, overall I thought it was like a little bit weird, um, and just kind of not that interesting, but I I think. But whatever it is, it is what it is.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2:This year's movies weren't really that captivating. I think that was the other part of it too. It's like a lot of the movies weren't like we didn't really have, like a Titanic or like you know something like that.
Speaker 1:You know what? I was talking with my wife about this and I don't know. It just seemed like it wasn't any. There were some good movies, but I wouldn't say a lot of great movies. Right.
Speaker 2:Dune was one of the biggest ones and I know that just feels so far away ago and it just kind of seems like no one I know really talked that much about Dune.
Speaker 1:It was just old news, that's true. Well, let's hope that this summer we'll have some more blockbusters.
Speaker 2:Exactly, we need some fun. I was going to say bring Will Smith back, but I don't know if we want to do that.
Speaker 1:I think Will has learned his lesson.
Speaker 2:I know I do too. What if he's the host next year? That would be crazy. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Was it the Oscars he was banned from, or was it the?
Speaker 2:I think it was the Oscars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, it's going to be a while before he's back.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:So ouch I know, okay.
Speaker 2:Well, I thought this one is good because it's come up lately in the government and in work in general. So basically we're going to talk about like tracking your workers, work in general. So basically we're going to talk about like tracking your workers. But the first thing I wanted to talk about is that, like a few weeks ago, elon basically said, if you're in the federal government, if you don't want to come in, you know you can either be remote or you can go back into work. And if you don't want to go back into work, you can just email us with the subject line as like I don't want to or something. And then somehow the government is going to know by all those emails and then they're going to let people go. But like, in theory, an email would be enough to tell them that you don't want to work there anymore and then you'd be getting your severance. But like we know how the government does stuff and how hard it is to like get anything sorted out I've never seen anything organized very well from the government, so that who knows how that will be.
Speaker 2:But like he's basing that a lot on Tesla work. Just you know how Tesla kind of has the work rules where he doesn't want any remote workers. Tesla's really big on having employees like write back things right away, you know, like especially where employees will have to say what they did. He's asking for federal employees to also write like five things of what they did in the past week or month, just to basically show that their job is important, and then, in theory, ai will take that data and like synthesize it and then be able to tell who's important and who's not.
Speaker 2:And this is kind of just coming overall, as a lot of companies are now going back to work, but they're also using corporate worker tracking and they're like keyboard. Let's see. I saw here some of the ways that people are monitoring their employees include everything from keystroke logging, screen time analytics to GPS tracking for remote or mobile workers, which is just crazy to me. That's like putting an ankle bracelet on you and yeah, it's just. I wanted to bring up the topic of just workplace surveillance and, like you know, the balance between knowing that your employees are working hard and then treating people like caged animals.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I think the whole thing, what's going on with Elon Musk and what he's doing is just absolute, effing stupid. It's just real stupid. And to kind of give you some examples, okay, there's a group and I don't know the proper name of the group, but they watch over our nuclear missiles to make sure they know where they're at. And you know, you know, none are unaccounted for and everything's kosher. Well, he had to fire a bunch of them.
Speaker 2:No, because he didn't know what they did so.
Speaker 1:Now they're rushing to try and hire them back and they can't. They can't get a hold of them, oh my gosh, because obviously, when you let go, you no longer have a company phone.
Speaker 2:You don't yeah, so if you don longer have a, company phone.
Speaker 1:You don't have a personal email. You really don't have a way to contact them. And then also the group that is kind of in charge of making sure we don't have an issue with the bird flu. That group was let go and then they're going to come back and try to find them Now. These are the instances that we know about.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the thing is, government and private business are not alike. They're nowhere close. And then plus the other thing too is how are you letting people go if you don't know what the hell they do?
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:And then me, if I'm a government worker which I'm not and let's say I work in a sensitive area like law enforcement or something, or security, how are you going to know what my four things are that I'm telling you because you haven't done this job before? And also, too, you know some of these people have high security clearances that they probably shouldn't be sending over Gmail or something like that.
Speaker 2:Right. Could you imagine like the general of the military thinking of his five things and he was like okay, I detected a bomb in Syria. He's like bullet pointing, like flying to London to like disarm I don't know? I mean, I agree and I just think, for I think the general feeling is that they should have been auditing. Like I'm on, I'm totally on the team that we shouldn't be randomly spending money where we don't need to, but I feel like we should be like auditing that for months and then then making the proper thing. It just seems so weird where I heard like an analogy that that was really good, that was like he like hit it with a hammer instead of going through with like a fine tooth comb and basically he like smashed everything and now you're trying to pick up the pieces instead of like digging through it, yeah, and and also it, it.
Speaker 1:It's going to cause a bigger problem, because if you were a federal worker and you just got fired for no reason, you let go. What motivation do you have to come back?
Speaker 2:right. I mean seriously, yeah, especially like in this administration and, like I said, people can vote for whoever they want to. But, like I wouldn't have a lot of faith in this administration of like stability, and if that person has a family, you know know how I would they're probably going to look for other channels of work before going back to the government.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely Absolutely, Because I wouldn't trust them, cause it's like how do you, how do I know you're going to do this crap again? It's like, no, I'm not going to do this.
Speaker 2:And then, how do you feel about just like remote work overall, like the fact that Elon kind of not not even just at Tesla, but like how elon was like if I had to be in tesla growing up and you know, launching this thing that you guys have to put?
Speaker 1:in the work too. It's stupid. Yeah, I mean, there's certain positions, uh, certain office positions. You can do remote and you can do hybrid. Now, obviously, if you're doing something like a factory work or something like that, you can't do hybrid or remote. You have to be in the factory. I get that, but you have to use some common sense. There are some managers that literally want to want you in the office just because they want to see your face, which is yeah not because of anything you know doing with your workload.
Speaker 1:And then the other thing, too, is there are a lot of companies that's going to keep having remote working and hybrid working, which means now you have a whole new set of companies that you're competing with, because guess what? A lot of people that hybrid or working from home is a huge, huge advantage.
Speaker 2:Exactly Like I. I don't even. It would have to be like a really, really good deal for me to go back to full-time because I've been remote since 2017. And now it would be insane if some employer was saying, okay, you could be remote, but we're going to put a GPS tracker on you. You would hope that these companies just start treating people like adults and if they can't trust them to get their work done or just in general, then just in general, then like don't hire someone that you can't trust. I think.
Speaker 1:Exactly, because here's the reality Whether they're in the office or whether they're at home, you know if the work is getting done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And the other thing too, is a lot of people who work from home actually work more hours that they may not. You know, always clock for.
Speaker 2:You know what I?
Speaker 1:mean yeah, so you're actually getting a benefit without even realizing it.
Speaker 2:Exactly. No, I feel like when I first wake up, I check emails. When I'm back home I check where at the end of the night I check emails. But yeah, it's like you can't, and I mean I don't know how people would even want to take advantage of it. But for me, I'm not like getting my toes done during the day and like pretending to be working. I actually am working and you know like it's hard for most people. I think it's hard to do both. It's hard to be on like an island and work at the same time. But, um, even if someone was to go on vacation or be away, as long as they're getting their work done, I think it's fine.
Speaker 1:Oh, exactly because that's the whole idea of it. And then then, plus too, there's a lot of benefit to having remote or hybrid workers, because one without them being in the office, all your utilities and everything like that that you'll be using, those go down because you don't have a use for them.
Speaker 2:Yep, and overall I just feel like the spiritual feeling of just having someone like track your mouse to see if you're still busy and like I don't know. I feel like we as adults need to push back on that and just say the workforce should not treat people like weird children and I have and then what you get is like I have some friends that bought the software that basically show that their computer's on it like jiggles their mouse for them, and so it's like you're making like a 35 year old man, just basically buy like a mouse jiggler on Teemu and you know what are you doing. And so this person anyway would be someone that would just work nicely and doesn't need to be tracked all the time.
Speaker 1:That kind of stuff drives me crazy.
Speaker 2:And like I don't know how managers do that. I'm sure they have to adhere to some stuff, to stuff to have their job go well, but it just seems very soulless.
Speaker 1:Well, to me, a person that micromanages doesn't know how to manage.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And if you have that kind of time to micromanage everyone on your team, then what are you doing there? Some people argue well, there's some people that take advantage of it. Most people don't do that. Now are you going to have some people to take advantage of it? Yes, but you deal with that person one-on-one. You don't punish the whole team for one or two people.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and you know both of us have had office jobs before. You don't have to confirm or not. But like I, took way more advantage of the office job I was at oh yeah, I mean basically, it's a great work-life balance is what it is. Yeah, I'm so passionate about this because I just think it's so sad to be tracking keyword strokes. It just makes people feel I don't know. I hate it a lot yeah.
Speaker 1:It kind of makes you feel like a number instead of a person is what it does.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we forgot to tell people that during our Zoom calls you installed software where you can see. If my eyes look to the side a little bit and I get, I actually have an electronic. Trying to call her on that, you zap me.
Speaker 1:I'm watching you.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Earthquake that hit right after the Oscars was done. Did you feel it, Meryl?
Speaker 2:I was at home dreaming of thirsty topics and what we were going to talk about and all of a sudden I was on the next topic and I was rudely awoken by an earthquake. And yes, I definitely felt it. I live in Burbank, very close to North Hollywood, and it felt like a normal one to me. I'm part of like a Burbank Facebook group and people were saying it felt really, really big to them. I secretly I like earthquakes a lot. They're my most fun disaster. But I mean, I don't like earthquakes if I'm up in an elevator, like driving across a bridge or anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I've, literally I've only had one earthquake, believe it or not, here in the Midwest. Really, this was, I want to say, this was over 10 years ago. We were sitting at the house. I mean, we're in the Midwest.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't think that, but yeah, it happened one time.
Speaker 2:And it never happened again. Never happened again.
Speaker 1:That's so random, Like I said it didn't do any damage, but it was enough that you noticed it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one a few months ago that felt really weird but really cool, where you really felt like the ground rolling underneath you and it lasted for a really really long time and then even afterwards, like I felt a little bit dizzy and kind of ungrounded. And my friend said the same thing, where, like that one was enough to be like whoa, that you just felt like that really happened. But, um, yeah, it's, it's weird.
Speaker 1:be great yeah, that's true. I know they keep talking about years from now, most of california is going to be underwater.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, but it's so funny because then it's like also, it's on fire, which one is it going to be? But we'll see. But it's so funny that we're so used to it now that I just called out to my boyfriend and I'm like you felt that, and he's like yep, and then I went right back to bed.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that's a good or bad thing when you're used to it that much.
Speaker 2:I know, I know I'm telling you, though for some reason I really do like it, like I'm not scared by them and they make me it's fun. But nothing makes after an earthquake. Nothing makes LA feel better than spending $20 on a strawberry. I'm sure by now a lot of people have seen this. If you're on TikTok, you sadly couldn't escape it or Instagram that Air One, which is a grocer here in Los Angeles, I don't think. I think they're only in LA for now, but I think they have plans to expanding in New York. But you know, obviously they make the news quite often because of their kind of ridiculous slash rage bait type stuff where it's like you'll have a smoothie that's $28 or you'll have like a $40 bottle of water. But every now and then they have these really ridiculous things that kind of go viral, and this is one.
Speaker 2:It was a luxury strawberry that is from Kyoto, japan, and a lot of people said that it's just like the best strawberry, picked at the perfect time, and it's the sweetest strawberry and it comes in these individual plastic like domes and it's $20.
Speaker 2:And, of course, a lot of influencers were getting it and it's funny watching people eat it because they're just like a strawberry, ok, cool. So to me, like my, my hot take on this is I love these, it's kind of funny. I mean it's funny and stupid, but like it's. If you're doing it as like a flex, that you can afford a $20 strawberry. That's not very impressive, I think, to me and anyone, and I feel like really rich people are not doing that they're like a growing their own strawberries or be just eating whatever they can from, like a market. So I think a lot of people are like I know this is ridiculous, but let me buy the strawberry. But I think a lot of people are like I know this is ridiculous, but let me buy the strawberry, but I don't even care, like I just don't even care to see people eat them.
Speaker 1:What do you think? You know, I just think it's one of those ridiculous fads. Personally, there is no strawberry on earth. To me is worth 20 bucks for one strawberry.
Speaker 2:But to each his own. You know, to each his own. What if it's laced with ecstasy or something?
Speaker 1:I don't know. It's just crazy to me and it's amazing how an influencer could. Here's an idea An influencer could get a cockroach, put chocolate on it, and to the average person it's disgusting, but if their favorite influencer does it, well, so-and-so's trying to hey let's try, yeah yes, and yeah, yeah, it's like everything you don't have to try, you know, and I see it out here too, even there's.
Speaker 2:There's one coffee shop that justin bieber and hayley bieber go to a lot I feel like it's called like community goods or something like that and every time I drive by it's like 150 people deep in a line. Like people will wait an hour and a half just to get this cup of coffee, even if, like, the Biebers aren't there. And then there's all these good coffee places across the street with like no one, no line, and it's just goes to show like sheeple mentality. I think you know so. And, of course, if you're visiting and you want to do these things in LA, it's good, but a $20 strawberry is just kind of like okay, you're. There's other ways to kind of waste your money in like a cool, funny, cheeky way, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know, it's one of those things and most likely they're probably going to get on social media. Look, I bought the $20 strawberry strawberry it was delicious yeah, when I see it here.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it's the omakase variety. Um, it's a specific brand behind airwands fancy berries is known for, like the omakase strawberry they use indoor vertical farming techniques, uh, to make sure that it's ultra sweet and super fragrant. So I'm I'm sure like it tastes great. But yeah, 20, 20 bucks, like you, you can get really, really good farmer's market strawberries for probably like five dollars or six hey, you get a dozen eggs for 20 bucks now yeah, when is eric one gonna come out with like a 300 rooster egg or something like?
Speaker 1:hey, don't tip them, they'll'll do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's an interesting thing, because I feel like luxury produce is definitely a thing in Los Angeles, especially with snacks, where people will buy these like high end pretzels or like everything has turned into this kind of luxury commodity and it's a lot of food and a lot of money and I think it's like.
Speaker 2:I think now like a lot of young people spend their money on snacks the same way that they would with clothing where they like, buy specific brands, and you know it kind of has to be aesthetic now I have to ask you is it really worth it, or is it pretty much just kind of a fad that they go through?
Speaker 2:just a fad, I think. I mean, some of them are really good, like in terms of um, like remember the the tin fish craze where people were eating a lot of like tinned fish. That is an example of like the luxury ones are really good because those are. They just like taste better because they're farmed really well and like a lot of um you know the way that they're packaged and like the extra virgin olive oil that they use. In that case, like you can taste the difference and with like high-end sparkling sodas and all that stuff. But for the most part, like to me, pretzels and pastas and stuff is all kind of the same, like I'm like, give me a beefaroni, I'm okay with it I definitely understand yeah, but some of these things are, so I I don't mind like this.
Speaker 2:you know, when the smoothies come out, I don't mind people spending money and just it being stupid. But like the strawberries it almost just seemed like follower behavior and it just kind of drove me crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, that's true, but you know what the crazy thing about it? I tip my hat off to those businesses. If you could come up with a marketing plan that people buy into, go for it, milk it, for all you can Exactly.
Speaker 2:Using organic milk that costs organic almond milk.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, we're going to talk about a not so nice subject. You know, I don't know if it's me or not, but I've gotten so many approvals for loans that I never applied for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:The scams are like through the roof right now, and one scam that's, you know, sadly becoming pretty popular which shocks me is called the Gold Bar scam, and basically what's happening is there's people that get these calls saying that, you know, either you owe money to the IRS or a loved one is going to jail. They got a warrant for your arrest. So, you know, in order for us to take care of this, you need to go buy a gold bar, the little small gold bars, buy a whole bunch of them and, you know, drop them off at this location or put this in this vehicle. And as I'm saying this, it's like how are people still falling for?
Speaker 2:this I know a gold bar.
Speaker 1:It was like I don't think they're going to do that.
Speaker 2:You know, I think yeah.
Speaker 1:But you know, sadly enough, the majority of what I've seen have been, you know, you know older people. Yeah what I've seen have been, you know, you know older people, yeah, and you know the sad part is there are people that have been scammed out of anywhere from a few thousand to almost $100,000, which is shocking.
Speaker 2:Their whole savings.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, big time. I'm just surprised that so many people are falling for it.
Speaker 2:Me too. The gold bar one is ridiculous to me. I can totally see how people get scammed when they're like Bank of America. You know they get really close nowadays with like people saying that I'm the bank or basically you're going to have to like um, there's one where they'll like record your voice, like they would record, you know, your spouse's voice, and then they have one saying like this is from your wife or something, and then you think it's the other person that needs money that's really scary.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you're right and you know the thing is too, is there are ways to see if it's real or not? Um, like I had one call that were like we're calling from your bank. I said really, yeah, we got this issue. Whatever, you know, we need to verify who you are. I said tell you, I'll call you right back. Well, let me give you the number. No, you don't have to give me the number. If you're my bank, I already have the number.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, yes, and then they just got mad and I'm like, well, if you got a problem, I could tap in the police too. It's no big deal, I love that, that's the way to do it. And they go, you know, they basically tell me f you hung up on me. So I'm like, yeah, you're not in the bank.
Speaker 2:See, and that's, and that's. I tell my parents all the time, like your bank will not just randomly call you and need money, you know, say that you're going to go into a center. The one that I think people get tripped up on as well, which I could see, is when they call and say, um, someone just charged gas on your phone. We're going to have to like freeze your credit card, but until then we're going to need this information and then they'll have a read your. They'll say, okay, we need you to like read your debit card, just so we're sure. And that can seem like because on any other world it could be like, okay, someone stole my credit card and they're charging to Walmart.
Speaker 1:But charging to Walmart, but that's like a very popular scam. But you know what? And probably because you know with online banking I've probably gotten a little bit lazy because I haven't done a ledger in years, because literally I go in my account every day because you know it's online, I look at my phone and log in. So if I get a like I used to get these text messages saying someone is hacked into your Amazon account and they spent all this money, OK, so I'll go in there like nobody's been in my account, so I just deleted and mark it as junk. But when someone says your account's been charged, it's so easy to verify that because literally, when stuff gets charged, it's charged instantly. Literally, when stuff gets charged, it's charged instantly.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly, you can just see it. I can't imagine these people that are so rich that like, don't they miss like a $2,500 payment? They're like, oh, I didn't notice that was missing. I'm like I noticed if like $7 was missing.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, our money situation and a wealthy person is totally different. I always tell people their bankruptcy is different than our bankruptcy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, their bankruptcy is.
Speaker 1:You know, they may owe 10 million, but they only have like about 7 million. Our bankruptcy is okay we owe 100,000 and we got $30 in the bank. You know. It's a big difference, exactly.
Speaker 2:More money, more problems, right, but so every now and look, it's nice to think of being like rich and famous or whatever, but don't you? Every now and then I'm like always grateful sometimes when things are just simple and like the IRS isn't coming after me and there's not like a million different penalties that you're getting paid for, like I don't know. I think it's, it's a. There's pros and cons.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true. I mean mean, the thing is, is that it's nice to have money, but it's even better if you have money and no one knows about it exactly.
Speaker 2:And money, and like simplicity, like you don't, you're not paying off, like 10 000 boats and a watch that you can afford, and you know, like money and everything is just owned outright and you have no debt.
Speaker 1:That's like the, the dream, I think yeah, I mean the real crazy thing about our mail. Believe it or not, more poor people buy high-end stuff than people who actually could afford it.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, and the really rich people wouldn't be buying the strawberries. You know they wouldn't be buying the strawberries. They would think that's like embarrassing almost. But yeah, the moral of the story is, I think we need to be more aware of all these scams because it's just happening more and more. And I love what you said about like okay, let me get the police on the line. I think that's like so perfect.
Speaker 1:Oh, they get angry when you do that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I had that once too and I was like, oh my gosh, they are, someone is charging my account, like I need to get the police immediately. This is, and then click.
Speaker 1:Or Like I need to get the police immediately. This is, and then click, or the best one is, you know, especially if they sit for your bank is like okay, you know, I'm gonna call you right back. Well, I'll give you the number. No, I have the number.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always try to tell my parents, who are like little sweet people in their sixties, like I've trained them I'm like walk into your actual branch of your bank and they will tell you if something is wrong. You know like, don't ever, ever, ever give your information away.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true. And then don't fall for the trick of someone calling you saying they have your son or daughter hostage either.
Speaker 2:Exactly, my parents would probably be like keep her, it's good, we're not going to buy a bar of gold for her, it's okay, we're not gonna buy a bar of gold for her, it's okay. Um, okay, I'm so excited for this next one. I'm obsessed with the story. So a man in india wins two hundred dollars talk about rich two hundred dollars in a lawsuit over a movie theater showing too many commercials. So, uh, so this happened in Bangalore, bangalore in India. Um.
Speaker 2:So he went to a movie and he his complaint against the theater said okay. So he said the film had been scheduled to end at 630 at night, but it didn't end just before seven. So not that long, you know, probably about 15 or 20 minutes late. But because of this he missed, uh, some work. And then he was suing for $547 in damages for what he called an unfair trade practice, as well as $57 for mental agony and $115 for legal costs. So he ended up getting basically $230 plus 90. He ended up getting a little bit less than what he wanted, but he said the ruling said in the new era, time is considered as money. 25 to 30 minutes is a considerable amount of time to just sit idle in the theater and basically it had 17 commercials in the movie before, 17 commercials before the movie started. So it had two public service announcements and 17 commercials before the movie before 17 commercials before the movie started. So it had two public service announcements and 17 commercials before the movie.
Speaker 1:So I think this is hilarious and I'm happy that the guy sued um, I mean, I get it's ridiculous, but because you know I I actually like watching. Um, you know the previews yeah yeah, and you know, used to be like about, you know about about nine, ten minutes. Okay, no big deal, yes, but they have been getting a little bit longer now for real now, when they say movie starts at like 6 40.
Speaker 2:If you show up at the theater at like 7 20, the movie hasn't even begun yet exactly.
Speaker 1:That's to me. That's a little bit too much. That's to the yeah, you know. I say you know, have a set time. Let me say okay, when we start the movie, the movie is starting 10 minutes after the start time. First 10 minutes is is, um, all your previews or whatever. It makes everyone happy. Right? Who wants to see the previews? I'll be there. The people who don't want to see them, they know what time to show up. Everybody's happy, exactly. That is one of the good things about like, uh, I don't want to see them.
Speaker 2:They know what time to show up. Everybody's happy. Exactly. That is one of the good things about. I don't know if they're at the theater, if they have this too, but at the AMC that I go to, you have reserve seats.
Speaker 1:Oh yes.
Speaker 2:That has been the biggest game changer, because you don't have to stress out about you can either get there for the previews or you can show up whenever you could show up halfway through the movie if you want. You know like that's the nicest feeling ever of having like your reserve. I think you're right. Like the trailers have been so long lately. They're almost like three and a half four minutes and if you have like five of those, it's close to a half hour of just previews.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's very excessive. Yeah, yeah, they're really long. So, yeah, that's very excessive, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're really long, so would you sue? Are you going to?
Speaker 1:sue your local. I think my time is worth more than $200.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too, and I love the judge having to read through mental duress, mental agony, he said, and I'm like, okay, the movie didn't go nine hours.
Speaker 1:Over the time it was about a half hour, and you know what, if they do that for all movies, okay, then you know what time you have to be there. It's getting a little bit to the excessive now.
Speaker 2:I know I always forget when they say run time, if it's an hour and 38 minutes, I always have to mentally be like they mean the movie, not the whole experience, exactly.
Speaker 1:That is so so the whole experience, you know, because Exactly that is so, so true, hey don't you think 17 commercials before is a little crazy. It is, it definitely is.
Speaker 2:I just think of a whole movie that are sitting there and commercial 13 just ended and now they have to go into a bunch more. I don't know why this story is so funny to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's amazing but, like I said, hopefully they kind of cut back on it because it is a little bit on the ridiculous side.
Speaker 2:Yeah exactly, they could even do more movies if they just make the. It is a little bit on the ridiculous side. Yeah exactly, they could even do more movies if they just make the trailers maybe a little bit shorter, I'd be happy for. Give me eight movies. Just make every single trailer a minute and a half or something.
Speaker 1:That is true. That is true. Well, I have a story here. I don't know if you're going to be happy or sad. Let's see. Just like other big franchises that we grew up with, hooters looks like they're going to be filing bankruptcy and, who knows, they may be going out of business soon. No, okay, I'm just sad about that Because of the pandemic is one reason. A lot of people feel that because of the Me Too movement and their Maybe that's a negative thing. I don't know. What's your take on it?
Speaker 2:So funny. I don't feel like Hooters badly objectify. If they do to me, it's all in good fun and it's a fun type of objectification that they're doing. It's not the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 2:I am one of those people that I actually really do like the wings, because the wings are like fatty and juicy, and so I think the same problem as like the Red Lobsters and the TGI Fridays is like it's becoming just very expensive for people to go to places like this anyway. So because I was just thinking about that, where I'm like what, what is what is like Red Lobster have to do to make themselves cool and popular again, and I feel like it's just make it an affordable, like easy, nice time, and I think Hooters has to have that too. Or like bring back the whatever 50 cent wings or you know, I don't know, just to make it a little bit nicer. Um, yeah, and that's sad because I mean I can see that too, but I still think there's a demand for like men that want to go and watch sports and women that still want to work there and just have fun and hopefully not get harassed, and I'm sad. I'm pro Hooters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I'm with you on the wings. They have excellent teams, they do.
Speaker 2:And it's like a fun place, like I like the ambiance the ambiance.
Speaker 1:Like I like the colors and like it's like kind of kitschy, it's just fun oh yeah, and you know what? Have you had their, their shrimp? Their shrimp is actually pretty good too, really. Oh yeah, very, very good, I think. And one person, uh, I I read an article and a person said, well, how about if they just revamp it? Not get rid of it, just maybe revamp it a little bit?
Speaker 2:I don't want to see the women wearing like suits and ties.
Speaker 1:But yeah, but you know the crazy thing. No, maybe I'm weird or anything, but the uniforms aren't that really scantily.
Speaker 2:No, they're not bad at all.
Speaker 1:The reason why I say that is because, yeah, they have little short shorts, but they have on stockings underneath it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I remember a few years ago they redid it, they updated their uniforms and it got a little bit less skimpy. And I feel like now it just looks cute and the Hooters girls. The times that I've gone they don't seem traumatized or sad. It's very different, I think, to me from strippers or other workers. To me the Hooters girls just seem like fun, cute college girls that are just making a lot of money.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, definitely. And you know, like I say, it's an actual sports bar, is what it is. Yeah, you know, I think that it still has a place in society. No one is going to, you know, grope them or grab them or whatever, because you know obviously they'll get thrown out or go to jail. Laws take care of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I don't know, I just think that it's a little bit of an overkill. I just think that maybe just rebrand a little bit. Don't change any ingredients, don't change your food, all that's good but maybe just change the branding a little bit. On it, I agree with you Don't go crazy with the having them dress up too much to wear Now.
Speaker 2:You don't even recognize where you're at. But you know they should all wear big bird costumes. But it's becoming more and more like a lot of families that I know and just people in general. They don't have the extra spending money to just go out and, like I know we've talked about this a lot before with like Applebee's and TGI Fridays where a meal can cost someone $25 or $30, where you can't just do that on a Wednesday, thursday, friday in this landscape right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean if you go out to a restaurant, it could be a Ruby Tuesdays, it could be Hooters, whatever a meal for two people, it could be Hooters, whatever you know, a meal for two people. And let's say, if you get a cocktail with it or whatever, you're easily spending about 70, 80 bucks.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Without even trying. I know.
Speaker 2:I feel like a lot of people probably feel similar to how I do too, is I'll have that experience and then I'll almost feel like guilty because it just wasn't worth it. You know like I'm all for like catching up with friends and seeing people, but I'm trying now to divert more hangouts into like going on walks or doing stuff that isn't going to cost everyone like $70. Cause the next day I just even if it was a good meal, I'm just like I probably could have made that at home and I kind of feel like a little bit bad and guilty.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, yeah, I hear you, but I hope they don't go away though.
Speaker 2:I know. I think what we need to do is take the money that we're saving from Doge and all the federal we need to put it into Red Lobster and Hooters.
Speaker 1:Those are the two important things.
Speaker 2:Those should not be cut in any way.
Speaker 1:Now speaking of Red Lobsters. It'll probably never happen, but you know what I would love for them to do Bring in king crabs, real king crabs.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because you know, I really don't buy crabs anymore when I go out, because they're all the little small skimpy stuff.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, and when you try to, open them up, it just pisses you off. Yeah, see, if they're so wimpy and there's like little meat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you finally get it open. It's like, wow, just be strands here, you know. I mean, bring back true king crabs. I would splurge, maybe once a month or once every other month, on some king crabs. Yes, they're very expensive, but hey, you bust it out. The meat's that big, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It's so good. Yeah, maybe that's another thing to make the food good. What if I just thought about this? What if, to save everyone, red Lobster and Hooters combined, and now all the girls are wearing lobster claws? Basically, you get two options you can only get chicken wings or lobster, and now it's one big hybrid restaurant. Cheddar biscuits and all the girls have their bottoms, have cheddar biscuits.
Speaker 2:We're going to have cheddar biscuits and all the girls like have their bottoms, are like have like cheddar biscuits like, yeah, we're gonna have to you try to get them soup, yeah, but but it's sad because I don't want all these restaurants to go away, because they also in in my mind they're just like a fun, nice place to go. But something has to change because, yeah, these, these places are becoming extinct and that's so sad you know one place that we don't have here in the area.
Speaker 1:I don't know if they're still in business, but um tjf friday oh, I love them I don't know, do you still have? Yeah, yeah a few and far between, but we have them oh my god, I loved it, especially the uh, the uh, the sauce and everything that you had appetizers oh my god, it was so good, the jack daniel sauce I yeah, me too and it's just like fun to go to.
Speaker 2:Like that was something where you feel like you are going out to like a dinner or lunch with someone. I think it's. It's also just nostalgia for people like our ages, and so yeah that is so true.
Speaker 1:That is so true. But let's just hope that Red Lobster can survive.
Speaker 2:And Hooters can survive.
Speaker 1:They got Flavor Flav as a spokeman now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm blaming Gen Z for all of this. Gen Z doesn't want Hooters. Gen Z doesn't want Hooters unless there's every type of rights up there. Maybe they should make it every month. It goes to like a new, a new, like cause or something. Okay, well, I thought this one was good.
Speaker 2:Have you heard the term California sober before? No, I haven't. You haven't, okay. Okay, that was good because I didn't know how widespread it was. So basically, california sober means you don't drink. You know you don't drink alcohol, but you pretty much just do like marijuana and maybe like other stuff here and there, and so it's very funny, so you basically just do cannabis products.
Speaker 2:It's very common here, like I hear all the time people at parties will say like it happens a lot when people either like go to rehab for alcohol or like they've they've gotten clean. You know what I mean. It's not just like people like me that don't really just drink, but it's like you've gotten sober but you're California sober. Demi Lovato shared her own version of being California sober, but then she realized later that like sober, sober is the only way to go, cause I, I think a lot of people it's like a transition and then they're like okay, I don't want to do cannabis or weed either.
Speaker 2:Um my, so this is on the rise now I think less people are drinking and more people are just using cannabis. Maybe that's also why hooters is doing so well, no one wants to just have a beer and everyone is at home stoned. Uh, but to me, I think, I think to me like unpopular opinion, but like a lot of marijuana and cannabis also has a lot of psychiatric risks and I think we don't know how much that affects us and like affects our personality and like I'm not the most like pro weed person, I think it does in natural form. It does have like some beautiful healing properties, but overused and kind of used synthetically I am I'm not a fan of. I think it like dulls people's personalities and stuff. So not a fan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I'm not. I'm not a weed person either. Yeah, I mean I do know some people that really love their weed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, a lot of I mean a lot of artists and musicians and stuff do and I think, like to me it's like if you can still be a fun, functional, happy human on it, like of course that's fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean I know a lot of California sober people. I mean I'll have a beer every so often and you know I get teased all the time because you know I'll have a beer every so often and you know I get teased all the time because you know I don't smoke weed, I don't do brownies, stuff like that. I'm like, nah, I don't need that kind of feeling in my life, I'm good.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:I would much rather have like one martini or one alcohol drink. And it's so funny too, because in. California. I'll go to all these parties and they won't have any alcohol and people will just be stoned and I'm like this is so boring. Yeah, like I said.
Speaker 2:I tip my hat off to them. I'm good. Me too, I'll be a square. I'm okay with that In theory. One of the pros of this is that you have less people drinking and driving and you know they're under the influence of cannabis instead. But I still think that can change your response time and you're still under the influence, you know like, unless you have it here legally. But for the most part, I don't know. It's something that I feel like is irritating. I haven't. I don't know it's so funny because I have a lot of judgmental thoughts on this. I haven't.
Speaker 1:I don't know it's so funny because I have a lot of judgmental thoughts on this. Yeah, I mean, even if you're in a state where it's legal to smoke, you still have to be aware that, just like you can't be drunk at your job, you can't be high at your job either.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, if you have a CDL, which means you drive the big trucks, you drive a tractor trailer. Just like you can't be drunk driving a tractor trailer, you can't be drunk driving a tractor. You can't be high driving a tractor trailer either exactly you know, so there's still responsibility.
Speaker 1:That comes with that. You know it doesn't mean that you know you can smoke it like a cigarette, you know, like driving down the street, you know it's not a good thing exactly, I'm still trying to get myself to the point where, like, I'm not dependent on caffeine.
Speaker 2:So because I just feel like it's not good to be dependent on like a certain drug, and I just feel like I don't know, like I don't think we know how much ingesting drugs every day, whether it's like a socially accepted one, like caffeine, you know, I think it changes our personalities in a way that we might not know unless we're like fully off those things. But to me it's like it's OK to do if you don't have an issue with it. It's OK to like do things here and there, but to need something every day and to be dependent on anything is not good.
Speaker 1:That's true. I mean, you know if you're too dependent, if you have to have it, because there's a difference between wanting to have something and having to have it.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Yeah, I always forget that with coffee, where if I go a day or two and I get like a splitting headache and I'm tired, I'm like, oh yeah, I'm withdrawing from a drug. I always forget that caffeine is A drug. It's the best one.
Speaker 1:I think that's true, wow, we had a great show today.
Speaker 2:Was yours all done, yep mine's all done, oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say Is your, is your? Your, your's all done. Yep, mine's all done. Oh, my gosh, that's crazy. Well, I was just gonna say one one, one quick minute. This came through, I just saw when we were filming, but sadly, dolly Parton's husband passed away. Her husband, carl Dean, just passed away at the age of 82 in Nashville, and so I just thought this was so sad, because I just heard a podcast where Dolly talks a lot about him and they've been together for so, so, so long. But like I love that you would never know because he's not in the spotlight. And like the interview I listened to, she talks all about how he's so funny and they were together for 60 years. But like you just didn't know. But she had this huge private life and he was like the number one thing in it. So I thought that was so sad, but still cute.
Speaker 1:So we're thinking about Dolly yeah, that is very sad, you know, and you know, like you said, he never, in fact, I don't think I've ever seen his face. To be honest, I know me neither.
Speaker 2:That's like my dream goal, because the podcast I listened to she talked all about how he's so funny and he's so like you could just tell after 60 years she was obsessed with him still, but he just didn't really want any of the spotlight. But my main takeaway from that was just he let her be Dolly Parton and he supported her and kind of took a back seat to her career and I think he even helped her with her career. Um, but they just sounded like amazing partners for 60 years and like I think that's so badass. Like someone like Dolly had to have a husband that you love but who's kind of like away and like you just get to shine so completely.
Speaker 1:I think that's so cool yeah, and you know, of course, you know we should also send our condolences out to the family for Gene Gene Hackman.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Him his wife and one of his dogs. That was strange.
Speaker 1:It's incredibly strange. I mean, when you first heard it, you know a lot of people kind of thought it was probably carbon monoxide, because all three of them. But you know lot of people kind of thought it was probably carbon dioxide. Yeah, all three of them. But um, you know a few things which I'm surprised they let come out was one, um, because he had a pacemaker. They were able to see when he actually passed away and oh, like nine or ten days that he's been passed.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gosh so they I think they said that the body started decomposing, you know. And then one of the dogs, because I guess they have multiple dogs, but one of the dogs passed away and they changed it from um from um, a death of a investigation to suspicious oh my gosh, that's crazy, it's, it's really weird, it's really weird, it's really weird.
Speaker 2:The training that the people go through, to have to walk through the crime scene and see two people and a dog dead. It's just like I don't know. I hope those people get active therapy all the time. I know that's just a lot for people to see.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely. And the thing is too, when someone has passed away that long, you don't know, because they said the door was open, because I guess a caretaker has stopped by to do a well-being check on them. Wow, and that's why I say you know, check on your people, you know. Yeah, you know. Just a simple text call or whatever. If you ever talk to anyone in a little bit, just give them a little call One to make sure you know everything's okay. Just to you know. And also, too, if they're going through some dark times, because I always say this, you never know what kind of demons people are fighting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know reach out Just say hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1:Everything good. You'd be surprised that just checking in with them does so much.
Speaker 2:I agree, except if any of my friends are listening. Don't check in on me. I get checked in on too much. If this is a PSA to my friends and family, leave me alone.
Speaker 1:I just want to be alone.
Speaker 2:Literally, I'm like I just want to be alone. But yes, and to everyone else, please check it out.
Speaker 1:Nice. Well, Meryl, what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. Actually, this weekend I'm taking my parents to Vegas for the first time. They've never gone. I've been there before, but they've never seen Vegas. It's not a comedy show, but it will be. I'm sure when I join you back on Monday I'll have lots of stories about that Are when I join you back on Monday.
Speaker 1:I'll have lots of stories about that Now. Are you going to be bringing some money hitting the slots?
Speaker 2:I'm going to ask my parents for it. My parents are going to give me $20.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:I think we're going to see Penn Teller the magic show. Oh nice, so that should be good.
Speaker 1:And then we're going to hit the Wynn Buffet because that's like one of my favorite buffets. Ooh, nice we're going to be little fatties. Hey, my dream is to have you ever watched Bar Rescue with Jon.
Speaker 2:Taffer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my dream is to go to a bar that he's about to work on and be one of the ones there right before they start working on it and watch him go crazy. And you know have watch them go crazy and everything. And then watch how it turns into a nice bar, whatever. That'd be so cool, that would be so nice. And then you know, be on tv like who do you think? So yeah, they need to get stuff.
Speaker 2:You know everything you know, I feel like that dream is possible for you. He's like really buff too right.
Speaker 1:He's like ridiculously buff he right, he's like ridiculously buff. You know what he wears jackets and suits and stuff all the time. You know like a blazer or whatever, but you know he's been in this business over 30 years. Wow, he's passionate and it's amazing how much science goes into running a profitable bar. Yeah, it's shocking, but you know, I guess it would be if you know when you look at big places that make a lot of money.
Speaker 2:Maybe Hooters needs to hire him.
Speaker 1:You know as crazy as that sounds, they probably should.
Speaker 2:I know, because that would bring awareness and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true. Maybe we should do something.
Speaker 2:Give us a little fee on that. Every week we come up with a new business idea that honestly sounds good to me.
Speaker 1:So we need to start putting these in an Excel spreadsheet. We can bring them all to someone there you go.
Speaker 2:I like that idea. Well, this has been fun.
Speaker 1:It has been a great day, everyone. Thank you so much For supporting us and watching us. Don't forget to tell people about our podcast. We're on all the major podcasts, whether that's Apple, whether that's iHeartRadio, and then all the other ones too. So we're on all the major ones. You can always pull us up and listen to us at any time. Um again, I'm laurence alrod I'm meryl clemo and always, always, always remember to support us and, you know, kind of stay sane in these crazy days, because it's probably going to get even crazier.
Speaker 2:yeah, bye everyone, bye everyone, bye-bye.
