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Behind the Curtain: Oscars Voting Secrets and NFL Draft Drama for 4/30/25
Lawrence and Meryl dive into shocking news that Oscar voters weren't required to watch all nominated films before voting, raising questions about the integrity of past Academy Award winners.
• The NFL draft controversy surrounding Shedeur Sanders, who dropped to the fifth round despite expectations of a higher selection
• A cruel prank call to Sanders from the son of an Atlanta Falcons coordinator who obtained his number
• Jack in the Box's announcement to close up to 200 underperforming restaurants and possibly sell Del Taco
• Shannon Sharpe's $50 million lawsuit alleging rape and physical abuse from a former girlfriend
• The bizarre story of Bachelor Nation's Caitlin Bristow calling out her ex-fiancé for naming his dog "Teddy," a name she wanted for her future baby
• Elon Musk stepping back from Doge as Tesla profits plummet 71%
• Trump's controversial proposal to offer $5,000 bonuses for women to have babies
• Common skills Gen Z lacks according to boomers, including map reading and telling time on analog clocks
• The growing trend of embracing gray hair as a natural sign of aging
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Thirsty Topics. I'm Laurence Elrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1:Hey Meryl, how are you?
Speaker 2:I'm really good. How about you Doing fantastic? It was 80 degrees today where I'm at. It was oh yes, whoa. Now does everyone act like when that happens? Is everyone out and about? Does it feel like a summer day?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, everyone's out and about People working in their yards, so it was a nice day. How about by you?
Speaker 2:By me. It was actually. It was overcast at first. Don't tell anyone that I work with, but I kind of played hooky today. So I went to downtown LA with my boyfriend, which is like if anyone's ever been there, it's an experience like altogether. It just seems like a Disneyland, but not in the opposite way.
Speaker 1:So it was fun, though we're gonna have some disneyland like uh adventures during these conversations here?
Speaker 2:yes, I know. Yep, definitely so. Do you want me to kick it off?
Speaker 1:yep, I will let you start off okay, cool.
Speaker 2:I thought this was pretty interesting. Um, the the Academy just announced that, starting next year, oscar voters will have to watch all the movies in a category before making their final round picks, which, you know that obviously surprised a lot of people, because we're just like wait, don't you guys watch the movies that you're voting on? I don't understand how that's happening. You know how would otherwise people know who to vote for? Yeah, it's as we learned.
Speaker 2:Oscar voting has kind of little to no integrity, as the Oscar ballot anonymous interviews with voters have demonstrated in recent years. People have been kind of like on the hook sometimes for letting letting it slip out in interviews that they've really never seen movies but yet they voted for certain actresses, or you know, a friend in the academy has told them that something's really good, so they kind of got swept up in that um, and I just think that's so crazy. So, pretty much the article also said that the field will um, not, it will narrow, not only before nominations but before anybody sees the movies. So it's a little weird where it seems like sometimes, based on the buzz alone, they'll even talk about Oscar nomination before it even comes out and people have the chance to decide as a whole whether they like it.
Speaker 1:I was really shocked to hear that they how has that been allowed?
Speaker 2:And honestly too, I feel like some of the whiniest people are like the Hollywood elite people, so you would think like this would have stopped a long time ago or actors that didn't get voted, that should have or didn't get picked, that were like kind of in the leading charge. You would think that this would have been like brought up a lot of times before oh, definitely.
Speaker 1:And you know the other thing too is it kind of makes you look at the winners differently over the years now, because if you hadn't seen all the movies, what are you voting on? How are you coming up with this vote?
Speaker 2:yeah, no, if you were in the academy like you're, you're very honest and like I feel, like I like to think so am I? I really feel like we would both truly watch the movies before we go again. Yeah, I know you would, I know you would.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just think it's kind of sad because you know you always hear about people getting snubbed or why wasn't this person, this movie, whatever, nominated? And you know, this kind of really kind of throws some gasoline on those arguments a little bit.
Speaker 2:I know and I really think it's becoming less and less like the gravity of Oscar winning in general too, just because it does seem sometimes like there's such weird choices that I think the general public, it just seems it's taking the awards a little bit less seriously than we used to.
Speaker 1:I agree, but the crazy thing about it is is that you know someone that wins an Oscar. That affects your pay, your pay grade too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true, that is true. And then remember like someone like Demi Moore like didn't get one and Mikey Madison did get one this year and stuff, and it's just like okay that that that one I was thinking of completely that movie and nora and I was like I wonder, I would bet that there was people that voted that hadn't seen the movie oh yeah, because I know I looked at the article and what I was actually surprised is is that, even though they're requiring people to watch this, it's based on the honor system.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's like okay, yeah, yeah, you're trusting the wrong.
Speaker 1:That's like the biggest oxymoron, yeah they're sitting in the theater on the phone, you know, talking to their manager, their cousins and stuff. Yeah, I watched the movie.
Speaker 2:I was there yeah, and I bet there's probably so much. Uh, the same way that there always is just political things where, okay, this person's with this agency and this agent wants the person to vote for their client, so they're going to have, like, bradley Cooper vote for this person and you know, like I'm sure it's all and not even just the actors, it's like the directors and the cinematographers and the production people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that now that this has slipped out the bag, I wonder if this is going to make the Oscars a little less important or a little less worthy now, because, let's face it, if you didn't watch the movie or see the actors, you're literally just voting on who you like. That's really what you do.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised there isn't more of an uproar about this, because this is definitely also the sector of people that would get the most mad about things, too. If it wasn't happening to them directly, they would be mad about it if it was an outside group doing it.
Speaker 1:That's true. It would be kind of fun to see how this honor system wink wink works I know, yeah, yeah, because how are we ever gonna know if someone's not?
Speaker 2:I guess the only thing is just to like do interviews with people and try to catch them off guard and be like what did you think of when the main character died? And then it's like that didn't happen, you know right actually you know we should.
Speaker 1:We should hire jim, hire Jimmy Kimmel to do that.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Have you ever seen that? When he does that on his shows? Oh yeah, with the fake band names and oh my god, people just, instead of just saying I don't know, they just come up with the weirdest things. They should do that to the actors.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I feel like we'd catch a lot more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I said, that was very surprising. I know it makes me also wonder too, even past that, like I mean the grammys, like what if people aren't even listening to the albums? Or you know, like every award show and and for the most part I'm sure a lot of it is rigged like the people's choice awards, when they always do those like text this number to win or to vote for your favorite, I'm sure you know I don't really think they're like sitting behind a photo booth, like counting things. I think they're probably faking it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. It does make you wonder. It really does Talk about wonder. I'm quite sure you heard of the big scandal going on now with the NFL draft.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And for anyone who doesn't know, which will be kind of surprising, but Shadura Sanders is the son of legendary NFL player, deion Sanders. Deion Sanders is a Hall of Famer. He's also a head coach In Colorado Great talent. Some people may call him a little cocky, but he is talented. Well, his son Was expected probably to be picked In either the first or second round Of the draft. He wasn't picked until the fifth round. Basically overall, he was the 144th pick. So there's speculation of people thinking that well, maybe you know, shador is very cocky, you know he needs to humble himself. Some people feel that, well, they're kind of punishing him because some people don't like Deion Sanders. Yeah, so there's a whole lot of what-ifs going on. What do you think about that, meryl?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, okay, I'm well-versed in this, I know too much about this. Surprisingly, props to my boyfriend for always shoving the sports stuff in my face, because now it's at least the shining moment is that I get to talk about this with you. I'm always like, okay, I at least know stuff with Lawrence. But first of all, on TikTok, we watched that they like set up a whole room for him. I don't know if you saw this, but they set up like a room because they and that's where I couldn't I cringed so bad and I felt so, so bad because like, even if someone is cocky, the thought of people taking the time and effort to like set up a big place in their house and then him having to stand there and in front of all of his friends be like, oh, I guess I didn't get picked and and I honestly think he had a good attitude for all of that rejection, I feel like he could have gone even more off the walls and like really been a brat or really been like bitter and stuff and and like I mean maybe I'm not catching all of it, but the stuff that I've seen he has stayed like really positive in the face of embarrassment and but yeah, they set up that room and it was supposed to be where he was going to do his interviews and then it just like sat there empty.
Speaker 2:I can't take it.
Speaker 1:Yeah it was, it was pretty bad, I mean, and then you know, supposedly. I mean, and then you know, supposedly I guess I don't know if it was a coach or maybe it was a manager of a team stated that ever had. And I remember, watching on Good Morning America, michael Strahan was saying that you know what, if you're going to say derogatory stuff and really say stuff like this, then put your name to it. You know, don't just do it anonymously. And I think he has a great point. You know, if you put that out there, who are?
Speaker 2:you Say who you are, don't, don't just throw it out there, you know, say who you are. Don't just throw it out there. Say who you are to the person that interviewed Sanders. Yeah, the person that said that, sanders.
Speaker 1:Interviewed so horribly. Don't just let that part slip out. Put your name to it.
Speaker 2:What kind of reputation Now does Deion Sanders have, like a good one or a not good one?
Speaker 1:I mean, one thing is he was a great player, he's a Hall of. One thing is he's a great was a great player, he's a hall of famer, he's a great coach. No one can take that away from him. But you know, a lot of people feel that he is a little bit on a cocky side, you know really arrogant and they feel that his son is picking up those traits um. Some people feel that he is, some people feel that he's not. He's just really talented. So it's all over the spectrum.
Speaker 2:That's so tough because it's like, where do we draw the line in sports? Where like cocky and confidence and arrogance, and you know what I mean- Because like.
Speaker 2:I could think of a lot of people like Manny Machado on the Padres, like I don't know. You know he has like a bravado to it, but it's not annoying, or it's not harmful to people, but like some people may think it's annoying, some people think it's just fine, like it's so subjective. Um, I also wrote down about this that, like trump had said something like that people were the stupidest, like nfl or whatever. Was he's like so stupid? I'm like, don't you have also more things to think about than like this situation? And then the other thing was that I think someone, like a teen, somehow got his number from a friend's dad, was the coach or something, and they pranked him. And it's like, even if someone is arrogant or mean, I just don't want to watch someone get humiliated, no matter what.
Speaker 1:I mean for me. I think there should be consequences to that because, to say well and for people who don't know, it was actually the son of one of the coordinators for the Atlanta Falcons. Supposedly he left his computer up and his son saw the information. It's amazing that Sanders' name and number was just right there on the screen.
Speaker 1:But okay, whatever we'll go with it yeah, yeah, yeah and you just happen to call it and you play this little game for one. You know, only coaches are supposed to have all these, um, all these numbers for these rookies coming in.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Specifically for this reason, and then to sit there and call someone play games, like you know, hey, you know you got to wait a little longer. You know this is so-and-so, you know, I think that's so cruel. I know it's cruel, it is cruel, it's cruel, it's very disrespectful, silly. Now, it's one thing if it's a 15, 16 year old.
Speaker 2:His son is 21 years old. You know, yeah, yes, yeah, and at the end of the day, like dion's son is just, he was just raised how he's raised, like unless he's physically hurting people or like being emotionally mean, like then maybe he could get knocked down a few pegs in terms of his attitude. But like that, I, I still don't want to see someone like be humiliated or like around their friends. You know, it's almost um, it's weird now too, with tiktok and everything, where we're seeing different angles of it, like we see inside his home and we see like all the different stories, instead of just like the one on the news yeah and you know, I think, even if he has the stats to be in the first or second round.
Speaker 1:You know, the beautiful thing is he was drafted OK, so now he has to show what he can do, and that's for any rookie coming into the NFL, yeah. But I don't like the playing games thing because you play with people's emotions. I mean, you're talking about life changing moment in person's life. That's, to me, is very cruel and I don't know, do you think that his father should be penalized by the team for what his son did?
Speaker 2:Um, if he really just got the number, then no, I really don't think so. Like if he just got, if the kid just really broke into the computer or if it was just there. Um, like, maybe not, maybe not like penalizing, not fired or anything, but but talk to yes, and maybe he should apologize to, to the kid, you know, to the family mm-hmm, because you know, based on what his son did, you know, atlanta Falcons can easily be like.
Speaker 1:You know what. You can't control your stuff.
Speaker 2:That's what I can do.
Speaker 1:That your son access, which is a 21-year-old man. Goodbye, we don't need you. Literally, they can do that. There's nothing stopping them.
Speaker 2:That's a tough one.
Speaker 1:I'm quite sure that his son has had a very stern talk with his dad after that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and where did the guy end up getting drafted to Like who picked him overall?
Speaker 1:Oh, he went to the Cleveland Browns on the fifth round.
Speaker 2:I hope that also doesn't. I hope the self-esteem of the Cleveland Brown players are still there. I hope they're not feeling like, oh God, it's such a mockery now that this guy is joining our, that Sanders is joining our team. I hope they still feel good about it and I also hope that no one's bullying each other too much once he joins the team.
Speaker 1:Well, I think they're professional players. I think they're going to welcome him in because he is a part of the team now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hope they welcome him.
Speaker 1:The real test is going to be in preseason, because you know that opposite teams are going to be testing them.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're supposed to be this good let's see how good you are, you come in with this chip on your shoulder that you can do these things.
Speaker 2:They're gonna make you prove it. Oh, this is like the opposite of nepotism. I don't think I've ever seen like such an anti-nepotism case ever. Maybe the only other one is like Tom Hanks' weird son, colin Hanks, who like has nothing to do with Tom and is like always popping off very weirdly on the internet. Besides those two sons, I don't think I've ever seen someone like go off the course so bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's going to be interesting because there's a lot of heated debate on this subject.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:From how he got recruited to the prank call. You know there's a lot of heated emotion on this. So, it'll be kind of interesting to see, once all the dust clears, how he plays.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I just don't know how like as a grown adult, I would never take pleasure in seeing like a uh, still a younger person, even like a grown adult, be like think they're gonna get called for something and then not get called or like have no one show up to their party or you know. Like no matter how annoying that person was, I don't. I would never like take pleasure of actively seeing someone waiting for something to happen and then kind of like being embarrassed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and, and you know, the other thing too is a lot of people are making predictions about you know, is he really as good as he say? He is, this and that? Now, I personally don't watch a lot of college ball, so I can't really comment on it too well. But you know, when, when teams in NFL are drafting their players, there's a team of people in a room and there's so many things going on and, depending on who you like, someone picks that person. Now you got to hurry up and pick someone else. How they're going to fit in, and you have to make these decisions like really quick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1:So there's a whole lot of things going on in the background that none of us are privy to.
Speaker 2:No, and I bet Dion has some friends that he thought was going to draft him. And just being out in the community for so many years, I'm sure Dion is probably like what the heck that's embarrassing for him too, being part of the industry and having that happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, hopefully it's not anything nefarious behind the scenes. The NFL's got a little bit of a black eye as far as minorities, uh, years ago, you know it's a lot different now, obviously, but you know there wasn't a whole lot of black quarterbacks and other key positions and stuff like that years ago. Um, that's changed now, obviously, and just hopefully hopefully, um, you know, we don't see that ugly head pop up, you know no, and just trump calling the NFL stupid.
Speaker 2:He's like it's a stupid move, it's stupid. I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker 1:If I was a betting man?
Speaker 2:I don't think the NFL cares what he thinks. But it's also like I don't think you want to mess with a giant sports franchise as a president, or you know what I mean. Just because, also, I think a lot of his voter base does watch the nfl, and it's just. It's true. You know, I don't want trump should not be beefing with like the, like mlb or anything well he shouldn't be, but we'll see.
Speaker 1:Exactly, we'll see we'll see.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, I can't wait to hear about how the sanders kids does, because, like I, secretly want I need to see how arrogant he is and then make my own decision. So far, the only thing I've seen is just kind of like a little teenager getting like kind of embarrassed. But we'll see. I'm open-minded.
Speaker 2:You know what I would love to see him come in there and just kick ass left and right, me too, me too, me too, me too, it's like except when he plays the bears, though, yeah, but in that case you're gonna be like, okay, okay, well, uh, I hope this doesn't get me canceled, but I'm my next article. I am saying that this is and I am a white woman and I am saying that this is like hashtag white people problems for sure, because this is, this is so annoying in general. This is first world annoying problems where Caitlin Bristow, who was in the Bachelor before she was a bachelorette Bachelor Nations. Caitlin Bristow called out her ex-fiance, jason Tardik, for naming his new golden retriever Teddy, a name that she said she's always wanted for her future baby. They've been beefing.
Speaker 2:This was like a very weird breakup. I feel like I don't know if you know anything about this, but like caitlyn bristow obviously was like a kind of a few bachelorettes ago, um, and now she's definitely one of the more like independent women she lives in nashville and she has her own podcast and like she was engaged to this guy, jason tardick he was also in the bachelor franchise and then then they broke up and it was one of those things. Like for a week they were like oh, we still love each other and it's really amicable. And then, like something happened on day eight where it was just like we hate each other, you know, and so she. She makes it seem a little bit like jason was using her for clout a little bit and like wanting to start a podcast and she already had a successful podcast and just she paints him a little bit as like riding her coattails because she was like the bigger star in the relationship.
Speaker 2:Um, so now this has popped up, where caitlin recently revealed that jason, who she dated for four years before their 2023 breakup, gave his new golden retriever the baby name she'd been hoping to use one day. She said I think it's mean and pathetic to name your dog that. And then it just sparked a whole big discussion about, like, if you're a couple and you talk about baby names, then, like out of respect, you just kind of always leave that name alone. Or is that kind of petty for him to name his dog that? It is named Teddy, which could be a dog name, but also that's a pretty specific thing. If your ex-girlfriend wants to name the baby that and you name your dog it there's so many names in the world Just pick a different one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I kind can agree with you. I think it is petty. I don't think it's a coincidence that he picked that name Me too.
Speaker 2:That's like a low blow. Especially they broke up in 2023 Like move on, and you know.
Speaker 1:People do stuff to get back at their exes, which I don't understand, because to me, if you're going to be that petty, that means you haven't got over them. No matter what you say, you haven't got over them. If you're that petty, now I think if she wants to name her child Teddy, I don't think that should stop it. I really don't.
Speaker 2:Exactly because now they're strangers. At this point it's like what does that even mean to you?
Speaker 1:Jason and his golden retriever should be like off in the universe and you don't even like know about them anymore.
Speaker 2:you know, exactly exactly, but I think it's a little childish personally. I mean, I think it's childish too, and if I had a platform and, like my ex was doing annoying things, I do think she's okay to call that out and just be like look, you guys, this is how weird he is, you know.
Speaker 1:And I'm quite sure he remembered that that was the name that she wanted for her first child.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I've never had. I mean I don't want, I don't have any baby names because I don't want any babies. But this conversation opened up, like on the podcast thread and everything. It just opened up all these crazy stories of like women sharing that people took their baby names and, like, not even for a dog, their friends named their babies the name. You know just all these things of like sister-in-laws stealing the baby names and people mentioning it once at a party and then, like four months later, they see that this couple that they told it to is named that name. So I know it's a tricky subject for people, but it's pretty weird if you hear from someone that that's like their main name and then you go in and steal it. It is.
Speaker 1:It is, but you know some people. Just again, I don't think he's gotten over if he's going to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty petty.
Speaker 1:You know it's like I know.
Speaker 2:And then I also on the devil's advocate part, I do feel like also it is a little silly if you are single with like no part, no baby in sight, really. You're just kind of dreaming up names and at that point, like you can't really have the lock on it because like you don't really I mean you could meet someone tomorrow, but it's like if it's not like kind of soon on its way, you can't have like a running list and like claim those names for the next like four decades, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh exactly, and claim those names for the next four decades. Exactly the thing, too, is what if you get a hold of someone and they already have a child named Teddy, or they have a pet named?
Speaker 2:Teddy, exactly.
Speaker 1:Are you going to give up the name because of that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the only name I ever thought I wanted. I wanted to have a boy named Elbert E-L-B-E-R-T, that was it. I'm not even going to have a boy named Elbert E-L-B-E-R-T, that was it. Oh nice. So I don't think I ever, I'm not even going to have a baby, but I don't think I don't think anyone's ever going to steal the name Elbert.
Speaker 1:Hey, it's a very unique name.
Speaker 2:Right, I think it's a cute name, but I could just get like a hermit crab named Elbert or something.
Speaker 1:Talking about interesting names, well, I'm quite sure Everyone knows who Elon Musk is. Yeah too much. Well, now Elon Musk Is stepping back from Doge. From Doge, as Telza Profits have plunged 71 71%.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:For the first three months of this year.
Speaker 2:Oh my Lord.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so he's going to step back to spend more time in his business and stuff like that. Well, this is what happens to me. When you just throw people in a position that they probably shouldn't be in, let them go crazy, do what they want, blow things up left and right. And then to me, when you're a business person, you're either a business person or you're a politician. I've never seen it work where you can do both.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, because I think Elon was trying to do to like fire fast and to do, you know, like a business where it's like you're done like buy, leave tomorrow, and you can't do that for government institutions and like actual, real, like federal things that we need. You can't just act like it's a corporate entity and like fire everyone or close down a sector without like explaining or, you know, without taking it, taking your time.
Speaker 1:Well, and then also too, you kind of need to know what they do before you start firing them too.
Speaker 2:Exactly what a mess. And it's like if he knew that it was going to be this short-lived his tenure there then like why, I don't know, I feel like there's so much like such a mess was done in the first couple months.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And then his business suffered gravely. I mean, I mean, do you think that his business will ever bounce back forever like kind of tarnished, a little bit, like they definitely have a scarlet letter. But I see a scenario down the road where Elon kind of like comes back and maybe helps his image a little bit. Maybe he starts working more with like environmental groups or maybe he kind of has like a turnaround and, like you know, starts just turning things around. I could see that happening.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I hope you're right, but I don't see it. I think he is so entrenched with trying to please someone that he'll basically do and say whatever he needs to just to be close to that person. That's just my personal opinion, especially from what I've seen, and it's like he has no care in the world. Well, American people have a say and when you want a business they can show you by not spending their money with you.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and I feel like there should be constant communication of how the Doge stuff. Now, with Elon stepping away a little bit, like now, tell us how you've made things better. You know what I mean. Like in what way are things improved? Because I've heard horror stories about people about, like kids in Africa not getting their medication that they need, and you know, like real life things that are like affecting people with medications and all that stuff, things that are affecting people with medications and all that stuff. So it's like I also feel like no one understands why they did what they did and if it's helping or not.
Speaker 1:I don't see where it's helped so far.
Speaker 1:No, none of us, if you think about how many people have been laid off. And then they had to turn around and rehire people because they didn't realize what they did and they were so poor. Then they had to turn around and rehire people because they didn't realize what they did and they were so poor and they had to get back in there. I mean, it was a big clusterfuck is probably the easiest way to say it. And then, on top of that, he lost hundreds of billions of dollars, with a B over this as well too, and I don't care how rich you are when you start using losing billions of dollars.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you pay attention to that yeah, yeah, I think they could have been so conservative at not in the political way, but just in the way that at first, where they could have really just seen like where the excess spending is, and then slowly started to trim that back and then been like, okay, no one has lost their, but we've also somehow got back like $1.3 trillion for us and no one has been affected by this, but we've been able to do it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and you know what? No one's going to argue that, hey, there's a lot of waste in government, but figure out what it is and then make the appropriate changes. Don't just come in there with a butcher axe and just start shopping. Just start shopping. That's not how you do stuff, you know, and they go.
Speaker 2:Oh, we forgot, we need to bring them back it reminds me I once talked to someone who was no, she might have had a little bit some mental issues as well, but she was telling us that like every now and then she would get in this mood where she decided she needed like just 70 or just a little bit of money and she would like sell, put, put everything on craigslist on her for her house, like she would like sell her dining room and sell her sofa, and then she'd end up making a bunch of money.
Speaker 2:But then she'd look around and she's like I have no furniture, I have nowhere to sit, I have nowhere. And it was like and then it's like kind of that feeling now where it's like you've done too much and too fast and now you have to just kind of pay for it and then you have to like rebuy the things and refurnish yourself and it just seems like and it's like who's going to be in charge now? And but I wonder if Elon was starting to see like oh god, this is not going to bode well for me, or like he was on, he was starting to be on like a losing team.
Speaker 2:Yeah you kind of?
Speaker 1:wonder, you know? I mean, for all we know, he may have gotten out, but right before the uh, everything exploded like, okay, let me head out before the ceiling comes down.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, at one point I don't know why this is the most I will ever quote trump in like a um you know recording but at one point trump was saying like elon's a good guy, and then he was like he has kids.
Speaker 1:He has so many kids he only has about 20 kids, you know that's what Trump was saying about him.
Speaker 2:He's like he has kids, so many kids that's a whole story in itself. I know, I know we'll get to that for sure. But yeah well, one place that I don't know if maybe this was a doge cut or not, but Jack in the Box, the fast food chain. Do you guys have Jack in the Box where you live?
Speaker 1:Where I live. No, there are Jack. Jack in the Box is here in Illinois, just not in the Chicago area.
Speaker 2:OK, there was. There's tons by where I used to live in San Diego because it's San Diego based. There's tons by where I used to live in San Diego because it's San Diego based. Jack in the Box just said on Wednesday it's planning to close between 150 to 200 underperforming restaurants and it could sell the Del Taco brand that it acquired three years ago. The San Diego based chain currently operates and franchises 2,200 restaurants across the 22 states. And yeah, it just said a lot of the things are like underperforming. It's so funny.
Speaker 2:They the name of like the, the kind of plan is the Jack on track. I mean we don't need to have like a menu item like named this and so. But I mean, good for them. At least they're saying like this is a plan to improve long term financial performance. Jack in the Box acquired Del Taco for $585 million back in March 2022, which I didn't know. That either. Us it seems to be where there's a Jack in the Box, there's also like a Burger King, a Wendy's, like there's they always seem to be by a lot of other options and I just think for the most part, like you know, it's tough competition and I think also people people don't really know like what, why? Like what exactly you would get at Jack in the Box.
Speaker 2:you know, like I know, they have jalapeno poppers and the menu is kind of random and I don't know if they've really done a wonderful job at like. Recognition of like. Okay, I go to this fast food place for like, this item or this thing, you know yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know that a lot of fast food places do that, where literally, if you see a mcdonald's, nine times out of ten you're gonna see a wendy's, you're gonna also see a burger king and the tacos I to also see a Burger King and a Taco Bell. I mean literally in a cluster. Yeah, I guess the reasoning is they feel that if one restaurant brings people to them by being at your restaurant.
Speaker 1:you can peel off some of those customers there, but I would think that you would want to kind of be off to yourself a little bit to drive more business, exactly. I mean, what do I know? I don't know drive more exactly.
Speaker 2:I mean what?
Speaker 2:do, I know, I don't know, I mean, they've been doing it, so maybe they don't know what I do, and it's just tough with, like a place like jack in the box where it's like, okay, they have burgers, but then you might go to mcdonald's or burger king and then they have tacos, but then there might be like a delt the taco bell, you know. So it's like you have to really, I don't know you have to like really want jack in the box because I feel like their menu, anything they have there. There's another place with a more famous item, like In-N-Out or something, and let's face it, none of these restaurants are the healthiest on the menu.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Nowhere near healthy and it would be kind of cool. I don't think it'll happen, but it'd be kind of cool if a fast food restaurant was only dedicated to healthy stuff that you can get on a budget, you know, reasonable amount of money and get served quickly. That would.
Speaker 2:I think that would be a game changer, but no one wants to invest in that I know, I know, and also just to like make it taste so good, because I feel like the other thing with with like places like jack-in-the-box is just kind of like people will go there and then it's kind of like you know, you're left feeling just how you said it's not healthy, but it also doesn't really taste like like somehow the burger tastes exactly the same as like the quesadilla, like it all weirdly tastes, but they definitely are so good for like really late night food. You know, like um, I think that's the place with either mozzarella sticks or like the jalapeno poppers, and those are good that's true.
Speaker 1:That's true. I mean, it's almost like white castle for some. Yeah, after you've been drinking late at night, white castles tastes really good for some reason.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, it's like the guilty. It's like the guilty food where you just have to yeah, oh, here it is. I'm looking now and it's like the stuffed jalapenos which are just like fried and then cream cheese. And you know, the next morning I always wake up like what did I do? But yeah, and like I feel like jack in the box has egg rolls. I'm like there's just no need for. Like they might want to like rethink their menu in terms of what they are and like who they're wow, jack in and brocks sells egg rolls yeah, yeah, I would have never thought that.
Speaker 2:I know, I know. And then it's like the normal stuff, like vanilla shake, chocolate shake, but um, yeah, I don't know interesting.
Speaker 1:Now you make me want to go to a jack on the box just to see I was just thinking that I was like I might want that for dinner.
Speaker 2:That's like so funny. But then you just feel so gross after, like Like I'm all for you know, like I don't know just kind of splurging here and there, but it's like almost not worth the 30 minutes of eating it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. You'll definitely recognize it when you wake up in the morning, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh God, yeah, the jalapeno poppers are so good and it's like yeah, that's just when you're driving and you're like I just need something right now.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, that is so true. Talk about needing something right now. This is a good one here Shannon Sharp. He has a very popular podcast. He's an ex-professional football player. He is being sued for 50 million dollars. Yeah, so it's kind of like this weird situation here with him where he dated this, this young woman I'm gonna pull my up here. I want to say she was let's see, okay, shanna Sharp, nfl Hall of Famer. Basically was accused of rape.
Speaker 2:Was he the one that went really famous, that he had an interview with Cat Williams? Yeah, I'm sure he has done way more, but that's of course how he came into my zeitgeist.
Speaker 1:Yes, so Basically he has this Girlfriend. I want to say she's like 2021, real young. Okay, here it is, I got it In front of me. A young woman and this is from CBS News here Says a young woman who says she was raped and threatened by retired NFL player Shannon Sharp during a rocky consensual relationship has filed a civil lawsuit against them seeking $50 million in damages. Attorneys filed the lawsuit Sunday in Clark County, nevada, for a woman listed in court documents as Jane Doe. The lawsuit also accuses Sharp of using physical force on her and inflicting emotional distress.
Speaker 2:Wow, whoa.
Speaker 1:And I was right. Let's see. Let's see. The woman first met Sharp at a gym in Los Angeles in 2023, when she was 20, and nearly two year, a nearly two year relationship followed. According to court documents, sharp, 56, is accused of raping the woman in October 24 and again in January. Court documents said Now the thing that makes this to me a little bit difficult is that and again, I think if someone cries rape or they've been abused, you have to listen to them, you have to let them speak. But you kind of wonder. You know you have to look at all the facts, because it's kind of tricky when they're in a relationship. This isn't a stranger. So you kind of wonder okay, did he really do anything, or is this a money play?
Speaker 2:I know and I've heard that it was $50 million that they're going to have $50 million.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I've heard, like you know, because remember the whole Blake Lively thing, everyone's like suing each other for like $30 million and stuff and I was just reading that people are doing that even more and more because they like even if they don't get that amount, then they think they're still going to get, like, okay, you might not get $50 million, but now you're going to get $7 million, or you know, to like, aim for the moon, basically, and then you're on something way more plausible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true, that's really tough because it's like you know, if someone of course has like emotional or physical damage, yes, but it's like $15 million just seems so unbelievably high and crazy yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know, the crazy thing about it, meryl, is that Sharp was in the news a little while ago because a tape of him having intercourse with another woman leaked out on social media. Okay, don't know, a lot of people think he put that out himself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1:This isn't a good look based on that kind of I know. Yeah, I really hope this is not true. But if it is, obviously you know he deserves I have to speak to the fire for it. But it's just so hard to really call this without knowing all the facts, because you know you have to look at the age difference yes and I'm I'm not saying you know you shouldn't date anyone you know so many years younger. I'm not saying anything like that.
Speaker 2:But you know, you have to look at all the facts to see, ok, what happened, what was said, what was done, what led up to it, because it's so easy for someone to claim to claim victim these days yeah, yep you know, we, we, we as a society, sometimes we're so quick to automatically label someone guilty without first checking to make sure that exactly yeah, and like I mean I hope this doesn't make me like a horrible female or any, if it was on anyone's side but like 50 million just seems like so, so crazy, like that. I don't know that, that just seemed I would. I would need to know, like why of the breakdown of that. Maybe I'm thinking too small and for many people that's just like okay, that's like three years worth of working or whatever you know, but to me that's it seems like such a greedy chunk, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know that when Shannon had when she had, was that Monique on his show, and Monique was teasing him saying you need to get yourself, you need to get yourself an old I forgot what he said an older woman that could you cook your grits. And I mean, you know, if you've ever listened to Monique I'm trying to clean it up because if you've ever heard Monique, there's a lot I can't really say. Yeah, yeah yeah, basically, she's telling them hey, you need to get yourself somebody your age, stop messing with your family.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:I don't know. There's possibly a little truth to it too, you know yes yeah, it just seems like I think there's truth in everything.
Speaker 2:Obviously, if someone mistreats someone else, they should absolutely have consequences and pay financially and in every other Way. And also, 50 million does seem Greedy to me, but I don't know. You know, like I don't know how much he has like. If he makes that A year, then I don't know. You know, like I don't know how much he has Like if he's, if he makes that a year, then I don't know. You know, like I feel like these are numbers that seem so big to us but for them that could just be like okay, I'll give her like $10 million, easily, you know.
Speaker 1:And you know it is. It is kind of a a very high specific number there 50 million.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very high specific number there 50 million. Yeah, exactly. And it's also like who? Who am I to be like? Okay, you're not, you shouldn't like buy a purse with that money or something like you know, I don't know, because I definitely have a tendency to almost just be like, okay, well, what are you to like? Show that you're using the money in a positive way. But I'm like that's not really fair either, because someone could use the money like.
Speaker 1:I would hate to see that money spent in like a very vapid way, you know yeah, now, allegedly I heard that this person also made an allegation against someone else entertainment industry false. I'm saying allegedly because, again, I don't know if that's true or not, but let's say for a second argument that is true, then I think that's gonna probably help. You know shannon sharp's case a little.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I feel like, I feel like there should be like huge consequences for when that happens, whether it's male, female, whoever because then you're ruining the credibility of like future victims that really are have.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad you said that, meryerald, because I believe that a hundred percent oh yeah, like a million percent you know.
Speaker 1:You know it's no secret. You know I was abused as a child, so I take it personally when people make up stuff, because when you purposely lie to on someone because you're in spite, you want to try and get at them, whatever you hurt people that really are going through that. Yeah, and also what happens is that it makes it more difficult because now the person, whether it be the police or whoever that you're talking to, they may have a little bit of hesitation because now they have to make sure are you really telling us the truth? Yeah, you know. So we don't go following down a rabbit hole because some people are spiteful like that, which to me, is just sick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's crazy. And if you do falsely accuse someone and then later on down the road something does happen to you, then you're going to wish you didn't hand in that card before, like in a fake way. You're going to want to get like the real. You know the real.
Speaker 1:For like in a fake way you're going to want to get like the real, you know the real For people watching, because I know some people are like well, what if I really feel like I was assaulted? Oh yeah, I'm talking about people who knowing yeah, exactly, exactly yeah.
Speaker 2:Who just truly makes them up out of like thin air, that's, that's, that's totally what I'm talking about too.
Speaker 1:Exactly, Exactly, I mean to me. I think there should be. I think there should be jail time. If you knowingly lie about, about being assaulted, you know what you're doing just to try and get someone in trouble, you should be locked up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, and I understand too. On the other end of things, there's probably people listening that are like good for that woman for trying to take 50 million. Like if a man does something wrong, take him for all that he's worth, and that's like totally valid for people to feel that way. I just want to know, like why 50 million? Or you know what, like yeah, so, yeah, that's. I think people are allowed and should have way different types of feelings on this, because it's not like a one size fits all situation that's true.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to see how this turns out oh my gosh, soon she, the woman's gonna be accusing Deion Sanders' son of something, suing him for the $8 that he's making on the Cleveland Browns or something so sad, oh my God. Okay, I thought this was an interesting one, really cool. So your son is Gen Z, right.
Speaker 1:Let's see.
Speaker 2:He's 20. Yeah, he's 20. Yeah, he's gen z. Okay, we won't bring him too much into this, because I know he's wonderful and we love him, but this was a funny article. So, um, a website has put out another list of quote-unquote common skills that boomers are shocked that gen z-ers don't know how to do. So they listed five, so I'm going to run through the five. You know, really quickly, you could tell me if, like if you think you're. We don't talk about your son doing it or not, but just we'll, we'll give our thoughts on it. Um, okay, number one how to read a map and figure out directions without gps. Now, I'm a millennial and I could barely do that, so no judgment here.
Speaker 1:I don't even think my son has seen an actual map.
Speaker 2:Aww, I mean, it's fun to look at a map.
Speaker 1:In fact, when I even talked about a record, he was like what's that?
Speaker 2:Are you kidding Really? I'm surprised he's not into vinyl or anything.
Speaker 1:Well, he is now as he got older and I explained what it was, but younger he didn't know what it was.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's so cute. I mean I think it's like it's super, it's fun to read a map, but like I couldn't. Reading a map and following the directions definitely are two different things for me, where I could like study a map and look at the different countries and cities, but like actually navigating it would be tough A lot of times. I know I'm not alone where. A lot of times I'll catch myself looking at my GPS and I'm like two blocks away from my house and I'm like wait, I know how to get here. This is where I live. But I use a GPS for like everything embarrassingly, for everything.
Speaker 1:Thank you. And I say thank you because my wife gives me so much shit, because I love my shit. Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:It's almost just like unconsciously even if I don't need it, I just it like helps me follow along. Yeah, I mean all day long, like stuff that places I go all the time and like freeways I get on and off every day.
Speaker 1:I'm still like oh okay, I make it right here, like yeah, I'm gonna show my wife this clip so she's seeing good it's.
Speaker 2:it's like I, probably, but it's probably good for our brains to like turn it off and show that we can get from place to place without it every now and then. So I know, but I do. Okay, number two how to address a piece of mail. So you know, like putting your in the return address. Yeah, you know something like that. Okay, I feel like that should still be taught in schools, I would think.
Speaker 1:You would think, but they don't even teach cursive anymore at school.
Speaker 2:Sure, they don't even know what in God's name they're teaching. Okay, number three. Oh, this is hilarious how to unclog a toilet using a plunger Ooh, that's a good question Does? He know how to do that. I don't know. Hopefully his dad taught him.
Speaker 1:I think I taught him. I hope so. He has an apartment now.
Speaker 2:so oh God, we hope. I mean, it's pretty easy, it's pretty self-explanatory, it's like literally just you know. I think for me, though, the next step would also be not only using a plunger, but like taking the lid off and, like you know, and the little water drain, snake. I feel like that scared me, and I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think I did not teach him that he won't know how to do that.
Speaker 2:This takes us back like a million years in feminist time, but I would just always find whoever the male in the household was and be like I can't do this. Okay, number four how to tell time on a clock with the hands moving.
Speaker 1:Now he can do that, yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, yep, I can do that too, but like it definitely takes me a minute, like you know, I'm just like okay, 625 or something, and then number five how to count. Correct change.
Speaker 1:I would Hope he would know how to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah, you know, yeah, like penn that yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like pennies, nickels, dimes, he knows all those, I think everyone should know how to do that. I do too, but don't you think too, working backwards just at registers. Now it's so much electronic that I think a lot of people were like you know, if it was $5 and someone gave them $3.12 or something like knowing that, yeah, that's true?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, because I'm good at that. When I pay something, I'll figure out in my mind what the change is before.
Speaker 2:I get it Really, you do. Oh, I don't Really so.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Those aren't too bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're not too bad at all. I feel like simple things. Mm-hmm, talk about something simple. Well, maybe not so, so I can't wait to get your feeling on this yeah. Trump has made an announcement that he's offering $5,000 bonus for women to have a baby. You know being you know less children are being born now. So they figure, hey, to get the population up, let's offer $5,000 bonus for women to have a baby. I can't wait. I got my opinion on this. I can't.
Speaker 2:I think you already know I mean it should be. I mean that's so crazy, like that's so so, so crazy. I mean the first thing is how would they track that, the way that Doge and everything has gone Like in his mind? Do you just email someone, do you just email Elon and you know say hey, here's my baby. And how would you even know and be like that is such a little amount of money that even just buying the supplies for a baby you're gonna be like out of your five thousand dollars they would have to be like you don't pay taxes. Here's the down payment to your house. You know like I think it should be a lot more and maybe unpopular opinion, but I don't think we need to encourage people to like randomly have more babies. I don't know if that would really that's not helping our environmental issues and financial issues. I just don't think adding more and more people is exactly what we need. We need to fix what's happening now.
Speaker 1:No, you're right. I think for some women this would be very offensive, Just to put it bluntly, and I can say this because I have a child and I know how much it costs. What the fuck Are they going to do with?
Speaker 2:$5,000. Seriously, that's truly. That's almost like buying the clothes and the crib and the store and then a few diapers. And even if you can make that stretch For the first year or something, Then now you have a random baby that has to go to college or go to trade school or just in general eat a lot of food. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, you're talking just for the first year alone. $5,000 won't even cover delivering a baby in a hospital. Yeah, and we're not even talking about, like you said, the crib, food, clothing and you know, until they become teenagers, kids grow very fast. So you're constantly buying new shoes, you're constantly buying new clothes. Again, what are they going to do with $5,000?
Speaker 2:Exactly and, if anything, I feel like what they I mean this would be a longer term thing but just more programs in place where, like moms, if they want to, could go back to work, and more companies hiring moms and you know same things and like I know they're so big on having like the family unit together and stuff and just making sure that, like the dads have jobs or that they have free health or free childcare. You know, like I have, I have some friends that it's like they work. My friends are teachers but yet there's no child care for them at like their schools or anything. So I'm like I really think more people would have kids if it's it's easier to have child care and, like both parents are able to find jobs and you know absolutely.
Speaker 1:I think you hit it on the nail. If you, if you do something with health care costs, child care, yeah. Another one that we keep over the beginning is you know, set the parents up for success. Let's say they don't have a college degree or they want to go to college, send them to a technical school. So in other words, they're not working. Minimum wage that will go a long way. That $ five thousand dollars used any of those ways will far more benefit that family. Yeah, because again, it's almost like the old adage you know, I can teach you how to fish or I can give you a fish. If I give you a piece of fish, I feed you for a day, but teach you how to fish, I feed you for a lifetime yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:It's crazy too, because I would totally think that, like trump's plan would not like the people that would have a baby just for five thousand dollars, because in in that you know what I mean like I don't know that just seems like the type of uh sector that they, they wouldn't really want.
Speaker 1:But so it's just yeah I was actually pretty stunned when I saw it myself, but I was like wow that's, it's not enough and it's flea.
Speaker 2:And then all of a sudden, now you just have a random baby because of like one and and you don't want people to be like if they do need some money, you don't want someone just to be like, oh, let me birth a child and make five thousand dollars, and it's like you might end up with moms that don't really want to be moms in the first place and like who might not have. You know, and it's just. I don't feel like we should charge like a breeding fee. Basically it's not good.
Speaker 1:That's true. Something tells me that this won't fly when he tries to push it. But no. We're, we're your. Things have happened, so we'll see.
Speaker 2:Exactly it's also. I just think people need to accept that like maybe it's okay if more and more people don't want to have kids, because that's just okay with them and it's also in and still. And then it's lots of people are still having children and getting you know, like that's a wonderful thing too. So it's. I think it will balance out a little bit more.
Speaker 1:But yeah, here's a weird thought instead of taking that 5 000 to give to a woman to have a baby, how about about say we double that to $10,000 and help people adopt? Yeah exactly A lot of kids that need to get into a loving home, and you have people that can't afford the adoption fees but will make great parents.
Speaker 2:Yep, that bridges the gap. Yep, absolutely Absolutely. Yep, and like absolutely Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Politicians, you know.
Speaker 2:Exactly, I know, and then it's like then we could hire good people to be childcare workers and then there would be childcare everywhere. Yeah, well, I think this is so interesting. My final one is they mapped the searches for the most popular Disney villains all across the United States. And so you know, like I know there's been a lot of talk lately just about what was the one that just came out. Was that Snow White that kind of got banned and everything, yeah, so you know there's been a lot of ones popping up, um, but they looked at by the generation and by, like the google maps, who's searching for different ones? Now, okay, so by generation, google found that millennials searched. Is it oogie boogie from like, uh, I think it's oogie boogie, maybe oogie boogie, uh, I think that one's from like nightmare before christmas, uh, gen Zers and Boomers preferred. Oh, this is so bad, I don't even know this. Flotsam and Jetsam Do you know who those are?
Speaker 1:I have no idea.
Speaker 2:I have no clue who those people Ursula's. We know Ursula from Little Mermaid and the Horned King from the Black Cauldron. I've literally never heard of half of those. And then, let's see, it's so funny, it's not a lot of the ones that we've heard before. And then, location-wise, the top three, let's see, was Lion King. They searched for that Once again, oogie Boogie on the West Coast, but Nightmare Before Christmas is huge here on the West Coast. Nightmare Before Christmas is huge here on the West Coast. Yeah, it's weird. Wyoming is the Queen of Hearts. For no reason Ursula. It's so funny. Ursula from Little Mermaid is just randomly main in Vermont. The rest of it is Scar. Scar is America's overall favorite and that's Mufasa's conniving sibling of it is Scar. So Scar is America's overall favorite and that's Mufasa's conniving sibling from the Lion King, of who I like I'm so I thought it would be like Cruella from like the Disney movies, or who is it? Is it the evil step in Cinderella? Is it like the evil stepmom or something, or evil witch?
Speaker 1:Evil stepmom. And then there's the sisters that are evil. Oh, evil stepsisters. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so like okay, so if you, who would you like? Who's the Disney villain that you think about the most, if you had to?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a good one Disney villain that I would think about the most.
Speaker 2:Who was Bambi? Who killed Bambi's mom? I'm mad. I want to talk to them. I want to talk to their manager.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's hard to see Because, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:There's, like I just searched Queen of Hearts, alice in Wonderland, captain Hook, Peter Pan, jafar from Aladdin which I forgot that he was even bad Cruella de Vil, 101 Dalmatians, maleficent Sleeping Beauty, but like I've literally never heard of that person or thing, so that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I think Mufasa is probably. Is it Mufasa?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think Mufasa is probably the one that will come to mind. Okay.
Speaker 2:Disney movies stress me out too much. I feel like they're too sad for young kids to watch. Now that I remember, jafar from Aladdin was pretty evil too.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, he was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like that was a bad one, but like, yeah, I feel like the ones with animals, like the old school ones, like whoever was hurting Dumbo, or like Lady and the Tramp like you know what I mean. Like, if anyone's hurting an animal, then I would. I hate them.
Speaker 1:That's true. Oh, that's a good one, though who would be my villain, I mean, if it was a Marvel character?
Speaker 2:yeah, I have plenty of people I could probably say Really Like who would be one, who's a Marvel character that you think about?
Speaker 1:I would say he actually was in the Fantastic Four. What's his name? Oh my goodness, what's that villain's name from the Fantastic Four? He was actually pretty cool, cool. He's from another planet. What's his name? I can't think of his name. I'm quite sure people are probably listening they're probably screaming at their computer. I can't even think of the name right now, but yeah, he rode on this surf, on this surf whatever, and he was coming to destroy the Earth. What the heck was his name? I can't think of it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it'll come to us next week. We'll update people.
Speaker 1:Watch. I'm waking up in the middle of the night going yeah, totally yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can always edit yourself being like answer this. And then they say Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. But I must have been watching these movies all wrong Because I thought he was the handsome. I thought he was handsome, I think he was evil, I think I'm not really getting the main point of these Disney movies, but I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely very interesting. Well, my last one is actually a fun one. Yeah, new trend right now. It's a new trend right now. It's all over social media. Gray is the new hair trend. I've heard things like the Silver Sisters Club and all those things. I love that, and basically what they're doing is they're gray hair, so whether you're older or younger or whatever gray is in now, I always thought it was pretty cool. I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 2:I mean I think it's beautiful. I think, like me personally, like I don't know how I'll feel, I think I found one or two gray hairs on myself and then they went away. Now I have, like I had my hairdresser plucked one for me, um, but I don't know how I'll feel like, to be honest, when that happens. Um, I have a feeling I'll probably cover it up for a while, but I think more and more women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s are just like embracing a more natural, earthy moment, especially with just like I feel like we're moving so much towards like synthetic, fake plastic stuff that like that's going to swing back and just more people are going to be embracing the beauty of it and I love it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think like gray haired men are very attractive as well. But you know, but I love I have a few friends that I know that have like gone fully gray and they're they're hot, like they're cool. But it's funny because, like all the women that I know that have like gone fully gray and they're they're hot, like they're cool. But it's funny because, like all the women that I know that have just accepted their gray hairs, are also really like fearless women and they're super involved with their passions and they're just like it's.
Speaker 1:They're pretty badass in general yeah, I know when, when I started getting my grays because I I have a little salt and pepper in my grave and I I told my wife say, hey, you want me to start using just for me, she said no. I said really. I said no, I like your salt and pepper. Look, yeah, it's distinguished. But what's weird is I don't have any gray up top. It's literally in my beard.
Speaker 2:I know that's so funny A lot of my guy friends too, they'll have gray beards and then like just brown hair. But I think that's cool. I mean, I think that's like it's beautiful. And I feel like other countries seem to like Italy and a few other different countries, just seem to have that more natural approach to aging and I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's cool in a way of it's kind of telling everyone that you're happy in your own skin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, yep and we did. I wish we really did.
Speaker 2:Uh, just as a culture realize that that's more like I'm like okay that's someone with just more wisdom or more anything, and I have felt that too, and even just with aging, like having I mean especially being here in la it's I am truly one of like the the only friends or like I, most of my friends have had botox or have something I like really haven't and, of course, like anyone could have what they want. But it's like like I don't care about having like forehead lines or you know crow's feet or anything like that, like I don't care that much about wrinkles and I hope that that's kind of with the gray hair. I hope that's like also cool in a few years.
Speaker 1:You know, I think personally your imperfections make you who you are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I've never talked to someone where I'm like sorry, I'm so distracted by your wrinkles Like I'm disgusted. You know, like I kind of like it, I prefer it to just feeling like I'm talking to someone's face, not moving.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, definitely, and you know, just like you know now. You know, for men, especially, being bald is no big deal, in fact, you know a lot of women like bald men. Bald is beautiful. I told my wife, if my hairline ever got back way back here, it's just let me know, because it's time to let go at that point. You know what I mean. We've all seen, let's face it. We've all seen someone who kind of held on a little bit too long. You know what I mean, oh.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:Your hairline's supposed to be up here, but it's behind you I know, especially like guys that only wear hats too, and I'm like, come on, dude, like we, just we know, like if you're constantly, if you're like inside, like a funeral, wearing a baseball hat or something, I'm like just let it be, however you are, it's how we like it. I think the gray falls in line and it's coming at a good time, because especially young women are augmenting their face a lot when they don't need to. But also, if people want to do it, I don't care. I have a libertarian approach to people's bodies. You could have 18,000 surgeries or none.
Speaker 1:Whatever, I think if you're gonna change your body, change your hair, whatever, do it for you, don't do it to impress anyone don't try and fit in, because I still feel that a lot of times people do stuff to try and um fit into the click of a crowd yes, yes, remember the the time during covid, though we're like no one.
Speaker 2:It was the beginning where really no one was getting their hair cut and people were having to learn to wax their eyebrows on their own. That was crazy.
Speaker 1:What was weird is during the pandemic prior to the pandemic, I could never grow a beard. It looked all spotty, it looked like I got buck shots, but during the pandemic I just didn't shave. And I kid you, not, meryl, I had like this giant.
Speaker 2:Whoa.
Speaker 1:Beard I got to show you. I mean it was like yeah. And you know, I cut it down and kept it real nice, kept it for a long time and then one day I just, you know, cut it off. I should have never did that, because now I can't get it to grow back in anymore. It was thick, it was thick and long too.
Speaker 2:It felt like the prohibition days, where a girl would text me and be like okay, I have an underground barber shop that you can come to. I felt like we were making alcohol. I could cut your split ends, but you have to come through this alley so no one could see you that was a very interesting time. Yeah, yeah it was, but that's cool.
Speaker 1:Well, talk about interesting. What do you have coming up?
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I think people are listening to this. On a Friday, if you are Friday, may 2nd, I have a show in Dana Point which is just like kind of considered Orange County-ish, you know, just a little south of Los Angeles, and that's a really fun show. It's free and that is coming up, and then, yeah, that's my next one.
Speaker 1:Cool, I bet you everyone's going to love that price.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, free, exactly. I just did another free one at a brewery In downtown LA and I had so much fun. It was called like Creature Comforts and the hosts were so cute and I had such a fun show. But I like doing shows in breweries and wineries too, because people are always just in good moods.
Speaker 1:Nice, nice. I got to make sure we come out and check one of those out.
Speaker 2:I know, or I want to come to a show by you guys. Oh, definitely You'll have to tell me that if you see that kind of local fun shows. Yeah, we'll get it going.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Well. This has been a great hour everyone.
Speaker 2:It flew by. It's my favorite time of the week.
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