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Earthquakes, Teslas, and Space: This Week's Wackiest Headlines for 3/26/25
The world has never been short on bizarre stories, but this week's roundup takes things to a new level of strange. Lawrence and Meryl dive deep into news stories that leave us both concerned and bewildered - from privacy invasions to celestial misadventures.
We unpack the alarming story of Tesla owners having their personal information leaked online, alongside the troubling trend of people setting Teslas ablaze as protest. While we understand the motivations behind protesting Elon Musk's controversial stances, we question whether targeting individual owners crosses an ethical line - especially considering many purchased their vehicles before Musk became so politically divisive.
The conversation takes a cosmic turn as we discuss NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally returning to Earth after being stranded in space for nine months. What should have been a routine one-week mission turned into an extended space odyssey thanks to Boeing's problematic Starliner capsule. We contemplate the physical and psychological effects of such an unexpected extension of space travel - from relearning how to walk to adjusting to Earth's food again.
Between analyzing the viral "airport theory" (can you really arrive just 15 minutes before boarding?) and questioning DoorDash's new "buy now, pay later" payment options for food delivery, we also find time to discuss billionaire Ray Dalio's meditation practice and why stillness might be the secret to success in our chaotic world.
The absurdity of human behavior continues with discussions on people who film themselves committing crimes, The Breakfast Club's workplace drama playing out on air, and Sherry Papini's audacity to fight for custody after her kidnapping hoax conviction. Join us for these stories and more as we navigate the bizarre landscape of current events with humor, insight, and just the right amount of disbelief.
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 and I am Meryl Clemo. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:Hey Meryl, how are?
Speaker 1:you doing this week?
Speaker 2:I'm doing very, very well. I would classify Like a 7.9.
Speaker 1:Well, hopefully it was pretty boring no earthquakes, no fires or anything.
Speaker 2:Nope, nope. In fact my dad earlier today texted me. They're in San Diego and he said did I just have an earthquake or am I dizzy? And I looked up and I'm like, oh no, you just have vertigo. So always good. Now I have my parents like paranoid about stuff living in California, but nope, we're all good here.
Speaker 1:Good, good, good, good. Yeah, it was pretty warm. Now it got cold again, so we're in the 40s again, so I guess that's not too bad for.
Speaker 2:I know I'm hoping one time. I hope it won't be too serious, but I hope one time that we're recording on video that we do have an earthquake, so you can be part of it too.
Speaker 1:That would be interesting, but the crazy thing is that probably could happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, they do seem to happen a lot during different hours, but, it's funny, earthquakes usually seem to happen on the weekends. I feel like it takes a. It takes the weekend off. I don't know why, but I don't know, what Illuminati manager is planning that but?
Speaker 1:now you know because you told me that I'm going to be paying attention to what day in a week earthquakes happen.
Speaker 2:Exactly For real. The most part, honestly on, it seems to be a sunday, but I also wonder if it's we're just noticing them on a sunday because, like, that's the day that we tend to be home and relaxing, you know. So, anywho, I'm excited for today we're ready.
Speaker 1:Well, we're gonna start off. Um, the first topic, uh, is actually a two-part topic, both dealing with Tesla. The first part is tells the owners their names and addresses are being released online. Yikes, that's scary. I am really shocked because when I first heard this I'm like no, this isn't true. But then it was on the news. It's all over social media. I mean, get it. I truly get it. You want to protest elon musk for what he stands for and everything. I totally, totally understand that.
Speaker 2:But putting people's personal information out there, I think, goes a bit too far exactly and like I mean I guess these would be people that would just buy directly from tesla, right, because if someone's buying, like like a used Tesla or off of CarMax or something, something tells me they're not going to find it. And also I feel like a lot of the people like over the course of a year, I have friends that are very anti Elon Musk, that are still driving Teslas that just haven't got around to selling it. Or, like I have one friend that owns his Tesla outright and it would be so stupid to like get rid of it after you've paid it off, you know. But so if his information was leaked, it's like, yeah, he's not a an Elon supporter yeah, that's true, and you know the thing is too.
Speaker 1:When people bought, a lot of people, when they bought their Teslas, had no idea about Elon Musk role in exactly so. I'm pretty sure they know ahead of time, people probably would have gotten rid of the vehicles earlier, or maybe not even bought it to begin with.
Speaker 2:So exactly this is where like and I feel like I could call out all parties at all times and stuff, but like, that behavior is similar to the behavior that most people don't like, elon, for you know, like the kind of saying that if you like own something, it must mean like a big thing against you, and I don't know that. Just, it seems like we have other fish to fry in the world of other important things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think too, you know when you start, you know dealing with privacy issues and, and you know releasing people's personal information that can open up a hornet's nest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's like what do you want to do to these people? Do you want to, like, shame them or make their life difficult? I just don't understand like the end goal of that, you know, like to harass them. I don't get the point.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and the thing is, you open them up for possible identity theft too, and no one deserves to have their identity stolen. I mean, thank god I've never experienced it, but from what I hear about the story, it's a nightmare.
Speaker 2:It's an absolute nightmare to clean that up once someone's stolen your identity yeah, I really want to get myself a car like where, if it gets leaked, it's almost like a kia, where it's like, oh bless her heart, like it. Kia where it's like, oh, bless her heart. Where, like, if the user's names come out, they almost just feel bad for me instead of, I mean, I like Kia. Right now I drive a Nissan that I don't really like a lot at all. So if my name ever got leaked I would be like mean, this seems to be like I wonder, do you think it's an inside job? Like, do you think elon's, the elon people are doing this in any way?
Speaker 1:I don't think so, and the reason why I say that is is that, um, there's a a certain degree, in my personal opinion, of greed there. Yeah, I don't think he's going to do anything that's going to hurt sales. Okay, that's true, because with the sales, uh, for tesla's going going down since the first of the year, you know, he's lost, you know, over a hundred million, I'm sorry, over 100 billion dollars in net worth because of that. You know, a lot of his wealth is tied to Tesla. So I don't think he's going to do that himself just because, financially, to hurt him, but it just shows that you know, either you're a business person or you're politics.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You can't really do both.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and I know this is not the show's opinion, this is not your opinion, but my opinion is the list of Tesla original owners and the list of Cybertruck owners might be a little bit of a different kind of people. I feel like I would rather invite regular Tesla people to a birthday party of mine than Cybertruck. No offense if anyone listens to that, but I have my own stereotypes, I think, about the types of people that drive them.
Speaker 1:I mean, I totally understand, because even within Tesla, the Cybertruck and the Tesla vehicle are like nine days. That's what I mean. The Cybertruck and the Tesla vehicle are like nine days, that's what.
Speaker 2:I mean, I feel like the regular car you're going to get, just someone that listens to NPR and just doesn't want to pay for gas and everything and the Cybertruck. It's like you have to really be flexing around town just to drive it, or like a certain aesthetic.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Also good for those people. They don't deserve harassment in any way.
Speaker 1:If they're being normal, I could judge their car, but I want them to live a nice life. That's true, I mean. I guess, on the other hand, people who really love EV vehicles will probably take a look at other manufacturers in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they say they want everything built here, you know.
Speaker 1:Hey, that gives other people an opportunity to play on the field as well, you know.
Speaker 2:Exactly For sure. Speaking of Tesla.
Speaker 1:Now, this is the second part of this, which I totally don't understand. What is with the setting Tesla's on fire?
Speaker 2:What is with that I know so scary and bad. And also you would think like with its own, because isn't the Tesla engine just basically a computer, right, like it doesn't really have an engine. It just seems like a recipe for disaster with, like, polluting the air, you know, combustion. It just seems very scary.
Speaker 1:No, I totally agree. And then you know. The other thing too is again, you want to protest more power to you. Okay, you want to do a boycott. More power to you. You know what I mean? That's your legal right to do that. But to sit back and destroy property, I don't think that's ever the answer. I don't think that's ever the answer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I think it's like setting a bad example. I wonder what age range people are doing that. If it's like younger, you know, angry teen, like college age people, or if it's like middle age, just, you know, frustrated people, I don't really know.
Speaker 1:You know what? That'll be interesting to find out. Yeah, I don't know either. That would actually be a be interesting to find out. Yeah, I don't know either. That would actually be a good one to find out, but something tells me it's a mix.
Speaker 2:Me too, because I almost would feel like, in a strange way, it would be more people like our age. I can't see a lot of college kids right being that upset to burn a Tesla to the ground. It seems like they're upset about other things, not specifically Teslas. Upset about other things, not specifically Tesla's.
Speaker 1:I would see them probably doing more of the protest than the vandalism. Now there are always exceptions to the rules, but as a general rule I don't think youngsters would do that. But again, they can prove me wrong too.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine when you were in your youth, in college or a few years after, I would never think to set a car company on fire, unless it was me accidentally setting my own Jeep on fire or like an ex-boyfriend's Jeep or something. Would you ever do that?
Speaker 1:You know what I wouldn't? I honestly wouldn't Me neither.
Speaker 2:I mean unless a brand would have to stand for something really terrible for me to like, and if, then I would probably just stop buying it or, you know, just not be a consumer anymore yeah, I mean, I think the.
Speaker 1:To me, the best way to get revenge on a company is hit them in the pockets. Yeah, you know whether that's protesting, whether that's suing them, depending on what happened, you know, again, not taking away from protesting, marching and all that, but you really want to get a company's attention. Hit them in the pocketbook.
Speaker 2:Exactly, it's almost like that peaceful resistance or peaceful like ignoring is almost better, and now, with like TikTok and everything you could really like, join in on a movement and have almost like a no buy day for teslas or you know all that kind of stuff oh yeah, I mean, I know that.
Speaker 1:Uh, when they did the boycott of um, I want to say it was target and amazon. I believe it was that one friday, oh yeah, yeah they lost a lot of money yeah, a lot of money and, yeah, a lot of money. And Target is still fighting right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because they still haven't recovered. So you know the thing is, the power of the dollar is very strong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the power of like consumer attention. I feel like for brands, it's almost just as bad to like have no comments on your social media or just like ignored. I think that would you know because they're spending so much money in advertising.
Speaker 2:It's like another way is just to like turn the conversation somewhere else that is so, so true I don't know if you remember a few months back, um, on tiktok, they were organizing these one by one. They were picking celebrities and being like we're going to completely ignore, like kim kardashian on social media, and it was and it was, so it worked. It got millions and millions of people and people were like, okay, this month we're focusing on kim kardashian.
Speaker 2:And then it was so funny because kim would post something and it would have like 37 comments and the celebrities were like spiraling out of control, being like hello, is anyone here? It was really funny and it worked. Of course it didn't work perfectly, but like it did make a dent and when you have that many people all relaying the same message, it's like you can do a lot oh yeah, and I'm quite sure that the celebrities, their eyes kind of rose a little bit too yeah, absolutely oh, but yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 2:It's to have like to be canceling people that drove Teslas and it's just like that. Just seems like there's other bigger issues.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Cool, cool, cool. Wow. Was that the second part?
Speaker 1:Yep, that was the second part.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, okay, mine, oh, this is a fun one. Mine is another thing that's kind of gone viral a little bit lately on um, on tiktok, I've seen it this airport theory and I say quote, unquote airport theory, uh, which is pretty much the theory that it doesn't really take as long as we think to get through the airport. Now, many of us of us, like in my older age I don't know about you, but I actually like now getting to the airport with enough time and like energy to get through, get a bottle of water, sit down, like I can tell that my frontal lobe has developed because I used to be like rushing to the gate and, you know, having to go on a plane immediately. But over the past couple of years now I really like to give myself time and just like I think it's fun to be at the airport, I like to sit there and, like you know, get my work all ready to go on the plane.
Speaker 2:But a lot of people feel differently where they think if you get to the airport now, if you arrive at the airport 15 to 20 minutes before your boarding time, they think you should be just fine. And it's funny because a lot of people are testing this and for the most part people are like, yes, it actually does not take that long to go through security. But every now and then I'll see these videos of people being like, well, we missed our flight. So I guess my first question is like what kind of airport arriver are you?
Speaker 1:I try to get there at least two hours before the flight. Yeah me too, and here's the thing, the reason why I do it personally. Now, of course, when it's a holiday or something where it's a lot of travel, they suggest two hours. I do two hours no matter what, just because I don't want to be rushed. I don't want to have to rush. Yeah, usually when you rush, you lose stuff.
Speaker 2:Exactly Running and stuff yeah.
Speaker 1:And lose stuff. You know you're exactly running and stuff and yeah, and plus. You know I want to get in there, maybe have a drink, maybe have something to eat. Just relax before I get on a plane. You know what I mean that's what I've heard.
Speaker 2:People are like the, the the us of the conversation, are like the vacation should start like the minute you leave your house. You know, basically, there's no need to be like so stressed at the airport now, um by by where you live? Is it by a major airport? O'hare Airport yes, oh, oh, my gosh. Okay, so you're right by, like one of the hubs.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, One of the biggest airports.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's the one you usually fly out of.
Speaker 1:Yes, I mean there's two. There's O'Hare, and then there's also Midway. Midway is a smaller airport, much faster to get through, but it's a lot further away than O'Hare is to my house, and then O'Hare has a lot more options because it is a major hub.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so that's kind of similar. For me, obviously, the biggest one is LAX, which anyone who's ever flown that knows that it is not a fun experience. That's one of almost the biggest but worst airports. But then the one that I that knows that it is not a fun experience. You know that's one of almost the biggest but worst airports. But then the one that I love to go to is the Burbank Airport, and that one you really could arrive like six minutes before, but to me it's still just part of the experience to get there early.
Speaker 2:Now. Have you ever missed a flight because you're late?
Speaker 1:You know what Luckily I've never had.
Speaker 2:Same yeah, me neither.
Speaker 1:Once or twice I've came super close, but I have never missed a flight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm sure you would agree with me now too, that missing a flight nowadays is so risky because of just how bad customer service is, and airlines are just like well, sorry, I can't afford to lose that much money on a flight. If they can't, they can't rebook me or if, like that, I lose a day of vacation.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, and you know it's the luck of the draw. You know, sometimes you get something some person really nice, and sometimes you get a person's like. Well, why the hell are you here?
Speaker 2:today, you know, if you explain to them. Well, I was testing the viral airport theory that I saw on TikTok. I know that's not a good reason. I would say of my friends pretty much everyone is a medium arriver. We're all pretty much on the same page. I don't really have anyone that wants to get there seven hours early, but I also don't have anyone that wants to cut it. Like who's an adrenaline junkie that wants to cut it so close?
Speaker 1:Now. Have you ever came close to missing a flight?
Speaker 2:No, I really have not. Yeah, Like I'm the same where I just feel like I'm very responsible around my flights and especially I used to have so much flying anxiety that I felt like I couldn't be relaxed enough to miss a flight before you know. I'd have to like be there, but it almost seems like the hassle of missing your flight is not worth it. It's just worth getting to the airport earlier.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, and, like you said, sometimes the take account of people are nice. Sometimes, oh my God, yeah, it all depends. But most of the time they've been okay.
Speaker 2:Exactly, I don't do. I purposefully don't do this route anymore. But when I, my parents used to live in Pennsylvania and I would always have to stop in Detroit and, for whatever reason, detroit just would like always cancel a layover, like I would find myself stuck in in Detroit and, for whatever reason, detroit just would like always cancel a layover like I would find myself stuck in Detroit more than a person wants to be. And one time I Ubered to the hotel and then I went out to dinner with my Uber driver which sounds like a Dateline movie, but it actually it was. He was a perfectly nice man and he showed me like a great restaurant. It wasn't romantic or anything like that, it was just like a nice person that was showing me a restaurant in Detroit.
Speaker 1:That could be a good movie there.
Speaker 2:It could. It could either be a horror movie or a love movie. I don't know what direction we want to take it, but it's still good. But I would love to hear from any of our listeners too, like if people are testing the airport theory and how it's going for them.
Speaker 1:Yes, that would be kind of nice. Anyone watching this definitely get on our social media and let us know. It would be interesting to know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it seems like most younger people are the ones that get there six minutes before. It seems like once you hit like 39 or 40, you just want to get to the airport with enough time.
Speaker 1:If I had to, I have to admit yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was a good conversation. Now here's a really great conversation Now. Have you heard of the Breakfast Club?
Speaker 2:Yes, I have With Charlamagne.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yes, yep, yep.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you have Charlamagne. That's on there. Then you also have DJ Envy and then Jess. I believe her last name is pronounced hilarious At least that's the way it's spelled. And then there's a new person just joined. Her name is Angela Yee.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So basically what happened is Jess took off some time because, you know, she was on maternity leave and Angela Yee came, you know, to fill in for her. Well, when Jess came back, she feels that DJ Envy and Charlamagne hasn't really had her back and she feels like she's being pushed out. She just feels like the vibe just isn't the same and you know, a lot of people are saying well, the problem is is that Angela Yee did such a great job that she's probably going to replace Jess. So there's a whole lot of dynamics going on here and I don't know. I guess my biggest question is do you think that you know, when you have workplace issues, especially in this type of field here, do you think they should be airing out the dirty laundry on air or do you think they should be doing it behind the scenes?
Speaker 2:Well, I'll definitely tell you it makes for good radio. You know, like I used to do morning radio in San Diego and that was like the most calls that we got and the most like traction we would get would be when there was some issue or like some drama, internal drama. Um, my thoughts like, of course I don't that morning show is not really like I'm not the target audience or anything like that. But the times that I've watched Charlemagne he does seem to be like someone that rocks the boat a lot like I don't think if I was there it would be like a lot Like I don't think if I was there it would be like a very nurturing feeling, Like I don't know, it just seems like a kind of weird work environment.
Speaker 2:Some of the interviews I've seen with him and everything, like he's a great radio person, a great host, but like I don't, I just don't get like the most, like warmest you know, touchy, feely vibes from him. So I believe this person so much. And then it's just, yeah, that sucks in the industry, where it's like you take your maternity leave, which you should take, and then someone else does a great job, and then the audience kind of gets used to them. And then now it's like what do you do? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just think that I mean, I don't really really watch the show that much. Sometimes I'll see interviews here and there to show that much. Sometimes I'll see interviews here and there. I just think that one when you have issues with coworkers, it really should be behind the scenes. I'll be the first to admit yes, it's getting a lot of airplay and a lot of attention.
Speaker 1:It's kind of going viral. I just don't believe in that type of entertainment. Personally, I don't believe in that type of that type of entertainment. Personally, right, I don't think it's healthy. But you know, the other thing too is, I don't know, maybe Jess could have pulled them aside, maybe, or maybe she wanted to just say you know, let's do this in front of the cameras, let's do this in front of the microphone here this is a podcast. Let's do this in front of the microphone here. This is a podcast. But you know, it is a big deal. It's like when someone comes in, for whatever reason, to take to kind of sit in for you, that that potential is there at all times. And to me, I think what you do is, when you come back, remind people why you're there in the first place.
Speaker 2:Exactly and as like a radio programmer. What may have made it a little bit better is if, like a few days before the woman was coming back, if you like, kind of dwindled down and maybe, like you know, was like okay, her last day is going to be on a Wednesday, and then we have like a few days of just maybe another guest host or something, and then you bring the person back. It's like people will forget. But I think having them back to back like is only to pit them against each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I guess the thing is that right now Angela is still on the show. So the question is are they going to add her as a permanent spot?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Is she going to be replacing Jess? I mean, there's a lot of spot. Yeah, is she going to be replacing, um, you know, uh, they're going to be replacing jess. I mean, there's a lot of unknowns there and I don't know the way. The way they're doing this is. Oh, it is kind of a little on the shady side there, because you know you're playing with someone's feelings and someone's career potentially too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, and then it's weird because then it's like then you're almost asking the audience to weigh in on like which woman they like better, and then know, is Anselmo's career potentially too? Yeah, I know. And then it's weird because then it's like then you're almost asking the audience to weigh in on like which woman they like better. And then that gets weird too, you know, like I wish it wasn't, because that also confirms the fears, I think, of a lot of women in the workplace where you go and take some time off and then you get replaced, and that's like, I think, even people taking vacation. That's like a big fear of a lot of working people where it's like, okay, if I'm gone for this two-week trip, what if my coworker does such a good job that they don't need me anymore? That I'm found irrelevant.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean, I know that there are laws in place when someone goes on maternity leave and come back, so there is a legality that they have to be aware of too.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah. I feel like reality TV and radio people love to see, like the meltdowns of you know, but also like I don't know, some of the Charlamagne has like a I mean he must be good because he's had a career and done it for so long, but I feel like I've seen a lot of drama stuff around his whole show. I know this one isn't directly him related, but he seems to have an environment where a lot of drama happens. So I guess good for him if that's what you're going for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean, I've even seen some episodes where there were some rappers on there and it kind of almost felt like it was going to get violent for a second.
Speaker 2:Really, oh my gosh Because.
Speaker 1:Charlamagne, he pushes that envelope to me a little bit too far sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it almost is like very primal, where it's like you think of like a lioness taking her claim and then like another lioness comes back. It's very like. I think it touches upon a lot of our biggest fears of just like, if we go away for a little bit, when we come back is it still going to be like our little nest.
Speaker 1:That's true, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this Cause. I'm interesting to see how this plays out.
Speaker 2:I know if it was me, I'd want the two women to get their own show together.
Speaker 1:Hey, you know what these days anything can happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I saw that happen a lot. I don't know if you know who this is, but I used to love the Adam Carolla podcast. I don't know if you know who Adam Carolla is, and like he would always have a news girl. Like you know it would be him and someone else and then like one news news girl and it was always like a very cute brunette, like definitely have a type of news girl. And I feel like we would see that where he he'd have one news girl and then they would leave for whatever reason, then he'd have a new one and people were like, no, we like her better, we like her better. You know, it's crazy how people get attached to like characters and then they just, you know, make the other person feel bad oh yeah, that is.
Speaker 2:There was like reddit threads about it and everything.
Speaker 1:It's crazy wow, yeah, I guess whatever it takes to get people to watch you or listen to you, huh exactly, and I mean this sounds real.
Speaker 2:I feel like a lot of radio stuff is staged, like a lot of the drama that we talked about on our show was just kind of fake or like amped up, but this actually sounds like. It is like when the microphones go off, they're actually fighting.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, like I said, it's um and you know the thing is too. Charlamagne does have one of the top podcasts out there. So yeah, yeah, absolutely you know, even though we don't talk about it, but you know when you, when you're on one of the top podcast programs in the country, there's a lot of money involved too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, well, yeah, we'll definitely have to keep an eye on that, oh, yes.
Speaker 2:Well, my next story. Some people go away for maternity leave. These people were stuck in space for nine months. So it's one thing if you're returning back to like a podcast studio, but when you're returning back to planet Earth, that has to be a different feeling. So basically, this happened in the last week, I think March 18th the astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth after nine months stuck in space. They hitched a different ride home close to a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico just hours after departing the International Space Station and said splashdown occurred off the coast of Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle, bringing their unplanned odyssey to an end, so it said. Within an hour the astronauts were out of the capsule, waving and smiling at the cameras, and then they were quickly hustled away in stretchers for routine medical checks.
Speaker 2:This is so funny because it said I forgot about this where it said it all started with the flawed Boeing test flight last spring. But it's crazy that, like, boeing couldn't even make its way. I'm like every single one of us that like has to read about Boeing't even make its way into it. I think every single one of us that has to read about Boeing, even just because I think that was the Starliner. Yeah, that's what it was Exactly Okay. So the two expected to be gone just a week or so after launching Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule, but there were so many issues that they had to send it back empty and then they transferred the pilots to SpaceX. So, anyway, all this to say, could you imagine they spent 286 days in space, 278 days longer than they anticipated when they launched. Like that has to be so traumatic and weird. Just to have like a family or just thinking you're coming back and you spend like an extra 200 days gone, like almost that. I can't even imagine that.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean, I know they have to smile for the cameras and everything, but I'm willing to bet you they probably were a little pissed, but they just couldn't show it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and even like I mean, who knows? I know they prepared for it with their bodies but like, maybe their bodies weren't prepared to have like 280 days in space, you know face.
Speaker 1:You know. Oh yeah, because you know, once they got back, you know they needed help. You know, because they have to learn how to walk again. Um, you know they have to get used to gravity because there's out in space so long yeah and then also they have to get used to the food on earth as opposed to eating out in space so there's, a whole lot of things that need to be done, you know, to get them acclimated and get them back to everyday living.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine just being them two like three days into it, like going to get gas in your car and then like looking up into this, like just knowing that you've been off this planet? You know we think of like vacations that we've been on in other states. It's like they must miss it or that must be. Must be such a weird feeling to be like I'm on this planet now, but I know what going to space is like. I can't even fathom that.
Speaker 1:As crazy as this sounds. You heard about the SpaceX rockets that kept exploding. What happened to the other? I can picture them being up in space. When are they going to bring us home? This is getting ridiculous. You know what we're good. We'll wait for a minute.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and that's just so scary. Talk about not knowing what. You're returning home to One of your spouses Totally with someone else. I don't know if they were able to talk to people. I guess they were, but that's just so weird totally with someone else. I don't know if they were able to talk to people. I guess they were, but like that's just so weird, like to be launched into space for like 200 days.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean with the technology I'm quite sure they were able to talk to their family members. But it still is not the same though.
Speaker 2:No, and like not knowing when you're coming back and yeah, like you said, getting acclimated to the food and just walking like that's just. Oh, my gosh, it's so crazy and you know.
Speaker 1:The other thing too is mentally. You know when they prepared for it, because there's a big difference between one week and almost a year yeah I'd be like getting off this right now, yeah, like my anxiety would not handle that.
Speaker 2:if I have to like, if I go to a mall and I'm there like a half hour longer than I should be, then I'm having a panic attack, yeah.
Speaker 1:But the good thing is, they got back home safely, so that was good yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was thinking about this too. This is like a weird thought, but there's not really like a therapist or a psychologist that is probably well-versed. Like I wonder if astronauts and space people have their own mental health counselors, because it's like you would almost have to talk to someone that exactly knows what that experience is like. You know like maybe like other astronauts are able to counsel people like that, because the feeling of just returning back to earth like you would it's a very like niche experience that you would have to talk to someone that knows how that feels yeah, I would think that it would have to be someone associated with nasa, just because they need to have some kind of familiarity with what, uh, an astronaut experiences exactly because you could just have a regular psychologist being like how did that make you feel?
Speaker 2:It's like bitch, I was off this planet. You think it made me feel like zero gravity. So yeah, totally.
Speaker 1:That is true, that is true. So, yeah, I mean I know they really want to get people to buy seats to go to the moon and back and all that. Yeah, I'm going to sit back and just kind of wait and see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100%. I have no interest. Wasn't Katy Perry on the list or something? There's a whole bunch of people that are yeah.
Speaker 1:It's amazing, but there are a lot of stars on that list, which is shocking.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, they think they're stars. They want to be out in space.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know what? You remember that disaster for that crew of people that went down to try to look at the Titanic.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh my gosh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so nah, like I said, I'll let everybody else test it out first.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but I'm definitely so grateful that these astronauts returned home safe, because it's like we rarely hear stories like that. I don't know, it just seems like it could have played out in a very different scary way. Or if they were like just stuck up there forever, that's like very scary too, you know so that's true.
Speaker 1:That's true. I mean, I'm quite sure that they learned a lot during that experience too, and probably probably helped them as far as knowing that, OK, we need to make sure we have a backup plan in case this plan doesn't work.
Speaker 2:Totally. And also when you're stuck with one other person for 200 days up in space, like what if? Like imagine, just like saying okay, well, bye, that was fun, you know like I'll see you later, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, but you know, like I said, I tip my hat off to them. Yeah, that's true, but you know, like I said, I tip my hat off to them. You know again, you know there's a mental capacity as well that they have to deal with too.
Speaker 2:But my gut feeling is they're probably not going to want to go up to space anytime soon. No, it's almost like those the master rock climbers too that just want to scale rocks like with no harness. It's like you just have to have, I bet. I bet a piece of their brain is just wired a little bit different than the normal not normal, but the average person. You have to have a special type of brain to want to go out into space or to want to rock climb. It's different, but I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1:That is true. That is true. Talking about something that's not so cool, Let me ask you a question. What is going on with people flexing on social media showing them doing illegal activities? I don't like it. I have seen idiots with cash. I have seen idiots with drugs. I've seen idiots with drugs and I'm sitting there thinking, okay, do they understand that this is evidence that they're doing?
Speaker 2:this, yeah, and you've seen it on TikTok.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's all over TikTok, Facebook. In fact I saw on social media and it was this one guy's one gangster. Um will want to be gangster because he's not that bright to me, but he's flexing, showing guns and drugs and all the stuff like that, and while he's doing all this he got raided by the police. They bust in and arrested them while they were doing the.
Speaker 2:Facebook. Oh my gosh, what the heck.
Speaker 1:And again, I'm going to really date myself, but you know we didn't have social media when I grew up. Okay, right, if anything, you're doing your dirt, you're quiet and I'm just watching these youngsters. I mean, they just tell it on themselves, yeah, and they don't realize that law enforcement actually have people that their sole job is to watch social media.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's literally their job, and especially with like I mean, I've heard that too with live streaming. People have live streamed robberies before and they're able to like catch them in real time. Pretty much, it's like what are you doing, you know? And especially with like uh, people like, um, I mean, this is so dark and sad. But even with like shooters, you know, like I think a lot of people have like live stream that they're about to go do it, or like they're about to do it and they were able to actually catch some people before it happened, or unfortunately, they didn't catch them, but they had this as evidence that they were like right about to go do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I never understood that.
Speaker 2:I mean Me neither, it's like okay, you need to find a new living, you know, a new career, because you're definitely not a career. I think it's like I don't understand too, because you would think it's embarrassing, like I don't know if you have all the pile of money, pile of money or a gun or something. It's just like the last thing I would think to do is go live on TikTok or make it real.
Speaker 1:I remember this post, Grant. It's been a while. You remember they did the freeze frame challenge where they video checked themselves, probably some friends or whatever and they just stayed frozen for like a minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1:There was one that these group of guys did, and they had guns, real guns, in their hands by doing it not a big problem with, that is, one or more of them was on parole and they weren't supposed to be having weapons.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh. So their little challenge that they did was use this evidence to convince people.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, how stupid, can you?
Speaker 2:be. It really is just plain stupidity. It's like when people I'm sure people have done that too. I've seen people driving and then there's like clearly an open container. Or they're like driving while drunk and it's like the evidence open container. Or they're like driving while drunk and it's like the evidence is right there. What are you doing? You know?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, and you know the new thing right now this is probably going a little bit off subject, but the big thing right now is people, uh, videotaping themselves, um, working out at the club hogging the machines, just to you know. Get on social media oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think we've become a culture that we feel like we need to videotape everything. We're all in the Truman Show. It's like I don't need to have someone at the gym set up their phone the whole time if it's a public place.
Speaker 1:Exactly Years ago, I used to belong to Bally's. I used to go religiously every single day. I ended up stopping going just because you know people would hog the machines. You know, because they thought it was, you know, like a dating place, meeting people.
Speaker 1:And it's like okay, you want to meet people, that's fine. Just get off the damn machine. I don't care about it. I was one of those weird people that I actually worked out when I went there, yeah, so I stopped going and I shouldn't have done that, but it just pissed me off, cause I understand what that feels like when you want to go there and you want to do your routine and get the hell out of there.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and like I love people videoing their like transformation, but I don't think you need to have yourself set up on the stair master for like two hours, or you know what I mean. Like I feel like a quick video afterwards or like take a 10 second video of yourself Like once a workout is totally fine to like track your progress, but like yeah, but, but I I would not advise someone having having like a stash full of drugs, sometimes too Like I don't know if you've ever seen this with some celebrity shows or like parties. Sometimes they'll pan a certain way and you can see like a bag of drugs On the coffee table. There's been some influencers that people are like oh, we can see up your nose and you like actively have cocaine on your nose.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's the price of fame. Everybody wants it and you know, the beautiful or bad thing About social media, depending on how you look at it Is everyone can be a star.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly, yep, ok. Well, I think these people need some help and I think meditation may be the answer for them. So the opposite of those types of people is Ray Dalio, a billionaire who he's the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. He's also like he does a lot of speaking, and I think he has a few books out. He says that the one piece of advice that he would give to anyone is to meditate.
Speaker 2:Dalio has practiced transcendental meditation since 1968, which is crazy. So he's 75 years old. He's a billionaire worth 97.2 billion in assets in 2023. He's worth over 16 billion and, yeah, he meditates every day. Now I've heard a lot of talk thing where people say that, like you know, if you're busy that's, if you're too busy to meditate then that's a sign that you need to do it even more. You know, like how, if you're so, because a lot of people would think, okay, you're a billionaire, you run this big thing. He probably has so many meetings and so many calls, but the fact that he finds time every day just to get silent for at least 20 minutes twice a day is pretty interesting to me.
Speaker 1:Actually that sounds like a great idea, because I know one of my highlights as weird as this may sound is when I go to get my haircut. My barber gives me a nice haircut, he also shaves me, you know, lines up my beard and everything, and he gives me the hot towel. Okay, oh yeah, and in case people don't know what that is basically what they do is, they'll rub something on your face, you know prepared, and then they'll put a nice hot towel on your face.
Speaker 2:Oh, that sounds so good, and.
Speaker 1:I'm excited. I fight because I want to start snoring, I want to go to sleep, but I'm like, no, I can't do this in the middle of the shop. That's not a good look. So I'll be fighting to stay awake. But it feels so good, oh my God. It feels so, so good and I like it because when I get my hair cut, I'm very relaxed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and actually I feel really good after getting my hair cut, so I will sit there and it's almost like a meditation. I'm just sitting back, relaxing and you know, sometimes during the day, every so often you know, I find myself I'll just sit for a minute or two. I do believe that meditation does work.
Speaker 2:I really do.
Speaker 1:Even if you don't do it all the time every so often. Sometimes it feels good just to sit still, you know.
Speaker 2:Exactly, definitely Every day I've been trying to like I'm I don't know to me.
Speaker 2:I also believe that meditation could be in different forms for everybody Like for me, like waking up and immediately going outside and going for a walk, and like even getting a cup of coffee is so good and by the time I returned back to my desk, I'm like, ah, you know, I've had so much fun.
Speaker 2:But I also think to just in the middle of the day, having a glass of water and just like not looking at your phone and just being like, okay, I not looking at your phone and just being like, okay, I'm taking 30 seconds, even if that's all I can do today, to just like be in this moment. I think you just start accruing more and more um awareness. So I feel like I don't know, asking someone to sit down in the morning and everything for 20 minutes might be tough, but like everyone could be silent for like 30 seconds a day, you know, and just starting there and just like I try, and just like I try even to like when I do stand up comedy afterwards I try to really be like in the moment and just trying to listen to the sounds.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay, what am I smelling, what am I looking at? And just being more aware. So I think it's something we all can do.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, and I think I think it kind of grounds you and it clears your thoughts too, because sometimes when you're in a stressful situation and you have to make a decision about something, it's amazing how just not doing anything for a few minutes and just sitting there, it's amazing how even a few minutes of that will kind of help clear your mind a little bit yeah. Kind of have a clearer thought about as far as what you want to do, right?
Speaker 2:have a clearer thought about as far as what you want to do. I'm off my game completely now too, but I also feel like it's easier to meditate and to do all this when you're eating way better and cleaner. It's hard to eat a bunch of Oreos and then be like now I'm going to sit and clear my mind.
Speaker 1:That is true. Talk about something that's out of people's mind. Now, do you remember Sherry Papini? No, sherry Papini is the woman that pretended that she was kidnapped.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 1:And you know people were looking for it. It was a big, massive hunt for her, but she was actually with her boyfriend at the time.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that's almost like the movie Gone Girl, like a version of that, where she kidnaps herself.
Speaker 1:She actually spent some time in prison Either prison or jail and you know they went after her to make her pay back all the money that was spit searching for her, even though she wasn't really lost. And you know her husband decided oh, I do remember this.
Speaker 2:Okay, I remember this. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1:And now her husband obviously divorced her. I think the divorce is almost final, or it is final, because obviously that's going to put a strain on the marriage. When you know your wife disappears to be with another man, yeah, probably not a good thing.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:A little know, your wife disappears to be with another man. You know, yeah, probably not a good thing, right, a little bit of a not the best look. So she's back in court and she's fighting for custody of her two children and she wants to judge to make her husband or ex-husband not allow her children to watch a new hulu documentary that's coming out, called Perfect Wife, which is basically about her story.
Speaker 2:Wow. What do you?
Speaker 1:think you think she's in the right for wanting custody and having the nerve to have a court prevent her daughters from seeing that documentary.
Speaker 2:Remember was it a few weeks ago? We talked about like Casey Anthony now was going to represent people legally or something right. It seems like this. Maybe this is a perfect case for her. Like this seems like her exact kind of client.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:I mean, I feel like kind of, like I said, similar with the Casey Anthony thing is. I feel like everyone should have the right to like, grow and heal and learn from just their mistakes, slash weird moments. But I don't know how trustworthy I would find this and I don't know. What do you think?
Speaker 1:I think um. I think that's a lot of nerve personally yeah yeah, because here's the thing if you're not happy with your spouse, whether it's's your husband or wife, and you feel like you need to move on, you need to make that decision to move on.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's a part of life.
Speaker 1:Hard as it may be, that's a part of life.
Speaker 2:And it's painful. But it's more painful to like, lie or drag all these things out.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and then also too. What are you telling your children when you did this?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then now you want to come back and say well, I've done my time, so yeah, I want my kids back now.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah, I don't think so. No-transcript.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then, like I said, the idea of trying to get the judge to prevent her kids from watching the Hulu documentary, I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how could that even happen? Because at one point they're going to be teenagers that just watch it out of curiosity.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing about it that ship has already passed. They already know the story, so you keeping them from watching it isn't going to erase their mind.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and if they get social media or I bet their classmates might know it or have watched it, or their classmates' parents. You can't really prevent people from watching something on Hulu.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, if they really want to watch it, they'll find a way to watch it. There's no corner in the world that's going to be able to stop them from doing it. Exactly.
Speaker 2:Or they won't see it, but they'll still hear the story and get the gist of it from someone else down the road. They'll just be able to know what happened.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true. But I just think that it's a lot of nerve to just think that you could just waltz into their life and like, hey, nothing never happened you know me too.
Speaker 2:I remember this story. Now I wonder I don't know if it said in the article do you know how long we felt that she was kidnapped for like? Was it days or weeks, or like an?
Speaker 1:hour it was. It was weeks, really, okay, okay. Yeah, that's the other thing too, meryeryl. It was a long time. I mean, it wasn't like a day or two.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean there was a lot of harm here. And then you know to make up the idea about she was kidnapped and all this other nonsense, and then to find out that she's with her boyfriend.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's almost like you double down on something bad you're doing and make it like 10 times worse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I feel sorry for her husband, because can you imagine your spouse pulling this kind of nonsense?
Speaker 2:No, I would be like now you are kidnapped, go away. If Jack embarrassed me that badly, I'd be like okay, now I'm calling the news channels on you.
Speaker 1:I just think that it's a lot of nerve. I don't see her getting custody. I could be wrong, because I've seen crazy things happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I can't, because it's supposed to be for what's for the benefit of the kids and I don't know if this will be in the best interest of the children. Exactly exactly, I feel like maybe I mean, I don't know her personally or be in the best interest of the children, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:I feel like maybe I mean I don't know her personally or like what influence she has on the kids, but I still feel like, yeah, like having them be able to have a mother role or have being. You know, being a mother is that I wouldn't say like no, she should never see them, or something, but but having them like full time, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we will definitely hear about this, because it'd be interesting to see how this goes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can combine all the things and we can like say that she got kidnapped in space for 280 days and send her up in a Boeing, and yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to end my my portion on a fun, kind of weird note. But the food delivery app, door dash, that I'm sure you have used and I love use a little bit too much uh, just announced now that they're going to do buy now, pay later payment plans. The announcement has struck many as downright dystopian and has led to warnings about their predatory practices. Buy now, pay later apps uh, people can now use clarna for their doordash orders. As they prepare for that. I didn't know this, but clar, but Klarna is a Swedish fintech company and so it's become one of the best known buy now, pay later apps.
Speaker 2:I've also heard of like a firm there's I forget what the other ones are, but people are saying, like, if you're you, if you have to have a payment plan for a McFlurry, you've lost the plot. You know, obviously, obviously this is an indicator that the economy is not doing so great, to say the least. But like, um, I don't know, at first my thought was, like, maybe people need it or maybe people like you know, they just can't afford it. It's payday the next day and your family needs to eat. But then to me, like then that? Then, like, go to a grocery store, like then you don't need to be door dashing. But I'm sure there are some circumstances where people like that are food insecure, could really use this. But for, like, the majority, I don't think it's a good idea. But you know what I mean. There's always going to be examples where, like this is necessary and a family needs to eat and they can only pay $14 today, but in that case they should probably try to go to a grocery store and get a meal for $14.
Speaker 1:But who knows?
Speaker 2:Not my problem.
Speaker 1:I think it's a horrible idea personally.
Speaker 2:Do you, could you imagine if you were in college and using this? I'd have a bill of like five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm. And you know the thing is too, there's a lot of fees on using it too. It's not cheap. Exactly so you add on interest, because obviously they're not going to do this for free and some of those companies that you mentioned have, you know, been kind of warned or had issues with predatory lending. So I don't think this is a good idea.
Speaker 2:No, and it's not a good feeling to be paying something off that, like you know, in six weeks you don't want to be paying off like a big Thai dinner that you had six weeks ago. It's just, it's not. It's like a heavy feeling, it's not great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, and to me it's predatory lending at its great. Yeah, I mean, to me it's predatory lending at its best.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I know it's not really teaching people the basics. If anything, we should be going the other way and learning as a society to be like here's how you could make a $3 dinner with fresh vegetables, and we need more education in that direction.
Speaker 1:Oh, I agree, I agree. The thing is that you're going to have two things that's going to happen. One you're going to open up the floodgates for fraud because you know, unfortunately, there are going to be people that are going to figure out a way to abuse this. That's the first issue you're going to have. Second issue you're going to have is you're going to have people that are going to get themselves in more financial trouble doing this because they really don't have the money to do it in the first place. But what they figure is well, I'll go ahead and do it, I'll pay later and I'll figure it out later.
Speaker 2:Exactly. But then it just becomes an avalanche and I feel like, yeah, it's not a good idea. I've used interest-free payments for like one or two times when I wanted to get I forget like tickets for an event and each ticket I wanted to surprise my friend and the tickets were like so expensive that I couldn't really you know, I didn't have like $700 to do, but what I did have was like knowing that I was going to pay $100 for seven months and it sucked to like be paying that for that long, but it was like worth the experience.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't, I wouldn't do like interest on it and that you know, this was just knowing that, okay, this is gonna suck to have to pay this much for that long. But it was like I wanted to treat and surprise my friend and that's how I did it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, did they say when they were gonna do this, or is it just an idea?
Speaker 2:I think, um, no, I think it's coming pretty soon. I think they're getting ready to like go public within pretty soon, wow, I know. So, yeah, it seems like it doesn't really even seem of a signic of like a um, a indication of a economy, or like a recession. It just seems like an indication of like bad financial practices, you know, and and the fact that we don't need like none of need a fifteen dollar burrito, like we need food, but we don't need it to be like convenient right this moment to be mailed to us, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, like I said a lot of times, the people don't catch this, but when you order through a lot of the DoorDash Uber Eats and all that stuff like that the price of the food a lot of times is different. The price of the food a lot of times is different. Yeah, yeah, actually charge a little bit more when you use those apps versus if you just order directly from the store right, and of course there are exceptions to every rule, like I'm sure there's.
Speaker 2:There could be some little old lady that like can't make it out to the store and she doesn't have that much money, so like doordash could be the only way and using pay later. But that those happen like one out of every, like 14 000 situations, you know that's true.
Speaker 1:That's true. I just hope that people don't abuse this, because last thing we need is another way for people to get into more financial debt.
Speaker 2:You know exactly exactly, and I think once, once again, as people mature, you realize it is not. It's not worth the feeling of like having to pay three installments of a steak dinner being mailed to you. It's not worth it.
Speaker 1:That is so so true. Well, talk about interesting. You probably know this person. Do you remember the Bachelor alum? His name is Sean Lowe's.
Speaker 2:Yes, yep, he was one of the OGs. I liked him and he's still married. He's one of the rare ones that his relationship actually worked out.
Speaker 1:Yes, that is true, he just had an incident with his dog.
Speaker 1:His dog actually attacked him. He has a boxer and from what I hear it's a rescue dog, so I think the dog is about seven years old or something like that and he don't. He doesn't know what happened, but the dog attacked him and they had to call the police. The neighbor had to come out to help and he got a lot of stitches in his arm. Dog, you know, kind of gripped him pretty badly and you know I don't want to control. I had to come out to get it off of him. One of the bad parts to me about rescue dogs or dogs that you adopt, you don't know their past.
Speaker 2:Right and you don't know what they're triggered by. You know.
Speaker 1:Exactly Because he's like he doesn't know what happened. It's like out of nowhere he just attacked them for no reason. So, you know he hopes that they don't put the dog down.
Speaker 2:That's what I was going to ask.
Speaker 1:But of course you know they took the dog away. I mean I don't know. I mean, if the dog is known to be this vicious, I don't know if that dog could be saved.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, especially with its owner. It's like they could never probably have a male come in the house or, you know, like if a mailman comes like, how is that dog gonna react? That's you almost have to live your life like. But yeah, the fact that he attacked his own, I mean I think they made it sound like it was a dog he had for a long time, but it sounds like it wasn't at all. It was like a newish rescue dog. Um, so that's really tough, I and it's like, yeah, I hope the dog doesn't get Put down, but that's very. It's scary to have a big dog. That's that unpredictable.
Speaker 1:It's extremely scary and I don't know. Like I said, I don't want to discourage anyone From getting older dogs, but that is something you really have to consider, because you don't know what the Past of that animal is and what they've been through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly because you don't know what the past of that animal is and what they've been through yeah, exactly, and and, and you don't know too, if that animal like it's like they got out of the shelter. They're in a new home, a new. They don't know who this person is. Maybe they were biting to like. I don't know that that's tough all around yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1:But that's why, when you get a dog because I know our dog that we have now was an older dog, but when I say older, I'm talking like maybe three years, three or four years- oh OK.
Speaker 1:You know wasn't a real old dog and you know his first day, you know he was a little snappy Really, almost sent him back Really. But you know now, you know a couple years later it's fine, no issues or whatever. But you know the thing is you don't know what that dog has been through. So you have to be a little bit more aware, a little bit more cautious and just kind of feel your way through, because some dogs adjust very well. Some dogs had a horrible past where maybe they were beaten on, they were started and you know they don't know if they can trust you yet either.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I just had a friend a few nights ago. I was talking to my friend and her dad just got bit by a rescue dog that they just took in because the dad sneezed and it woke the dog up and like startled the dog and he turned around and bit like the dad sneezed and it woke the dog up and like startled the dog and he turned around and bit like the dad. You know, the guy in his like 60s now had to get stitches and had to have the whole thing and it like it wasn't anyone's fault but it was definitely like, oh my god, in like a minute, you know, all of a sudden the dog is sleeping nicely and then it got woken up and startled and then it got a bit its owner. So it's like they're not going to put the dog down, but that's just something that it's like, oh my God, what if that happened to like their grandchildren that were there? You know, now it's like you don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, and you know, we've had multiple dogs in the past and I'm a big, big, big proponent of never leave kids with dogs. I don't care how well trained your dog is. You do not leave a dog with your child.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Period.
Speaker 2:And you don't like you teach them not to smush their face or pull their tail, or, like you know they're not to be like ridden around like a horse and stuff.
Speaker 1:And you know you'll hear people say Merle, well, my dog is trained, my. And you know you'll hear people say, merle, well, my dog is trained, my dog. Okay, you could be a thousand percent right, but if that little baby, that little child's not trained and does something stupid like twist the tail, hit him in the eye, you sure your dog is going to be able to hold back.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly, exactly, and I think of like dogs like Sean Lowe's, and I feel so bad because I feel like any of the dogs that I've owned. It's almost like when they go to a shelter their personalities can almost change. You know, like, who knows, if they got into dog fights while they're there, or maybe they're scared, or like you could take even the nicest family dog and put it in a shelter and like it. Maybe it becomes snappy and stuff.
Speaker 2:That's true, that's so true, I think of all my dogs I'm like, oh my God, they would not fare well in a shelter. I could see them getting aggression issues that normally they wouldn't have.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, the good thing is outside of the stitches, Sean is doing much better, obviously. Good good, but he did make the statement that he hopes they don't put him down.
Speaker 2:They don't put the dog down.
Speaker 1:Exactly and do you think he's going to keep him? Based on what happened, I doubt that he'd want that dog back. I know I wouldn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know he's got. I mean he's got a lot of I mean. The stitches were like I mean it was pretty bad. Yeah, it was pretty bad there are rescue groups.
Speaker 2:I bet there are specific boxer groups or people that focus on their breed of dogs and will take those in and know how to deal with them a little bit.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the reality is it's a huge difference when getting a puppy, raising it up to be a dog versus getting a dog that's already an adult.
Speaker 2:There's a huge difference in the two, which is so sad, because I feel like we need more people to adopt middle and older age dogs. That's true, hopefully.
Speaker 1:I think he's a dog person, so I think he'll get another dog Maybe not that dog again.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:I see him getting another dog Especially for him to say he hopes they don't put that dog again. Exactly, I see him getting another dog, especially for him to say he hopes they don't put the dog down. He is a true dog lover.
Speaker 2:I'm on team dog forever. I love dogs. Right now, the two dogs we have are too small for me. I miss big, big, big dogs so much Not ones that bite my arm, but yeah well, meryl, what do you have coming up this week?
Speaker 2:oh, my gosh, you know I just had, um, last week I had such a fun show at the comedy store in los angeles, which is, like you know, any comedian. That's such a dream and like how I felt so lucky to be able to perform at just like one of the biggest places, like in you know ever. So I'm kind of still like coming down off of that and, just you know, recovering, whatever. So, um, I think my next show is like a uh, I'll let everyone know next week, but I think it's like a local show in glendale california, but not, it's not for a few weeks, so I'll let everyone know. Okay, cool cool.
Speaker 1:Well, everyone, thank you so much for watching. This was a great show. Yeah, it was fun. A lot of interesting stuff, as you can see.
Speaker 2:Dog bite space DoorDash.
Speaker 1:Hey, we talk about anything and everything.
Speaker 2:Exactly I wonder who will be the first person to DoorDash to space? Ooh, that would be interesting To like.
Speaker 1:Send a pizza, exactly I wonder who will be the first person to door dash to space. Ooh, that would be interesting.
Speaker 2:To like send a pizza like a Domino's pizza. That would be a cool brand thing To like. If, like Little Caesars Is like, we're going to be the first Brand to like door dash to space.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you this Merrill, if they say, hey, merrill, we're going to give you $10,000 To go up to space, or if you go up to space and you stay a week, we'll give you $100,000. Would you do it?
Speaker 2:No, 0%. I would say no and then just start an OnlyFans or something. No, totally not. No, I really honestly feel like my own constitution. I probably wouldn't even do it honestly for like $3 billion, because I don't think I would make it Like I feel like I'm very, like I would hyperventilate or just like I don't. Same thing with the underwater is like I feel, like to me it would be like instant death, so I wouldn't take any amount of money.
Speaker 1:No, I hear you. I mean, and it doesn't help that you know those spacex rockets kept exploding.
Speaker 2:That didn't really help yeah, yeah, I, I I don't love heights to begin with and like going into space. I just I know myself and I would be like, even if I, if the rocket didn't kill me, I would just get up there and like start deep, like heavy breathing, so yeah. Or I would like choke on space food or something or you know whatever, like my own poo, so yeah well, we'll let everyone someone else do it and we'll just talk about it.
Speaker 1:How's that exactly?
Speaker 2:exactly they could. Like they could, we'll zoom them in from here, from space.
Speaker 1:That'd be cool there you go well everyone, we had a great time. Thank you so much for watching. I'm lauren zelrock and I'm meryl clemo take care everyone, bye.
