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Aliens, Amusement Parks, and Abandoned Children for 8/6/25
What would drive parents to abandon their 10-year-old child at an airport just to catch a flight? This week, Lawrence and Meryl dive into this shocking story that reads like a twisted version of Home Alone, examining the disturbing decision-making process that led to this potential case of child endangerment.
The conversation shifts to our collective fascination with extraterrestrial life as we discuss Netflix's new documentary about the viral "Storm Area 51" movement from 2019. We contemplate whether humanity is ready for confirmation of alien existence, with Meryl suggesting that after surviving a pandemic and countless other global crises, many would respond with "great, aliens, who cares?" Lawrence raises thought-provoking questions about whether all extraterrestrial visitors would be friendly, drawing parallels to human nature.
Things take a spooky turn as we explore comedian Matt Rife's purchase of Ed and Lorraine Warren's occult museum – complete with the infamous Annabelle doll, which may have claimed another victim during its recent tour. We also unpack Justin Timberlake's revelation about battling Lyme disease while struggling through his concert performances, raising questions about artists' obligations to fans versus their own health.
The most controversial topic might be a Danish zoo's request for people to donate their healthy pets as food for predatory animals. We grapple with the ethics of this practice while acknowledging the realities of the food chain. We round out the episode with lighter fare – the possible romance between Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, and the joyful entertainment provided by the Savannah Bananas baseball team.
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Thirsty Topics. I'm Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1:Hey Meryl, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2:and I'm Meryl Clemo. Hey, meryl, how are you doing today? I'm so good, I'm very good. I'm not ready.
Speaker 1:I want it to be summer for like four more months longer, too soon. I hear you. It's hard to believe, but the Bears play their first preseason game next week, so that tells you that fall is right around the corner.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's not fair. I also am in the post-birthday blues because my birthday was last week and I, like you know, when you get so much attention and then it's like this week, I'm like hello, I'm still here. Everybody, happy belated birthday, thank you. Thank you, I totally like I get overwhelmed on my birthday. So I ended up just, I always do like small things, you know, just like with a friend or two, because it gets to be too much, but but then you know it's a lot of attention for one day and then the rest of the day, well, I mean, I still get attention but it's okay, nice, nice.
Speaker 1:Well, did you enjoy it though?
Speaker 2:I enjoyed it so much. I enjoyed it so much. Good, good, good, good. Well, we definitely have a lot to talk about today. Yeah, we do Do you want me to start it off.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, cool. Also, special thanks to my boyfriend, who is powering this today. He bought me an espresso maker for my birthday, so I am now caffeinated because of my wonderful boyfriend. Kudos to him, I know, yep. So if anyone has any espresso tips, I'll gladly take it. But anyway, this is.
Speaker 2:I think this was like a real life version of Home Alone, pretty much, but just with an even crazier twist. A mom and dad prepped for takeoff and their kid was left as a cast off. So an unnamed thankfully they're not named mother and father allegedly abandoned a 10-year-old boy at an airport in Spain after realizing they didn't pack all of the kids necessary travel documents, so they were unwilling to miss their flight. They boarded their airbus and then they left their son in the airport terminal where, hopefully, a family member could maybe hopefully retrieve him. Now I thought this was totally crazy, where this couple was going to Spain and pretty much the kids didn't have or the kid did not have his passport, and so they did make some arrangements for family members to pick him up, but like I would never do that, I'm not a parent and you are a parent and I'm guessing you wouldn't ever, ever do this right.
Speaker 1:Absolutely not Right. That's insane, is what that is.
Speaker 2:Isn't it? Don't you think, isn't that, especially 10 years old, like I feel like that is? Isn't it, don't you think, isn't that, especially 10 years old, like I feel like that is kind of like cruelty or some type of child abuse or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know that could be in some places they'll they'll charge them for child endangerment, you know yeah I mean, that's just crazy exactly.
Speaker 2:yeah, I said here that, um, his and the kid did have a passport it expired, and uh, but his and the kid did have a passport, it expired and they just, instead of staying with him, they allegedly made a choice, you know, to leave him and then rang up a relative to come collect him later. And it's just and if I'm that kid, I feel like that's everlasting damage that you're going to think about when you're an adult how your parents just ditched you and still went. If anything, like I would try to cancel the trip or get an. You can get a passport for like an express one. You might miss a day of the trip, but there's other solutions.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely. And you know the other thing too, and I know we don't talk about it enough you know there's a thing called. You know, child labor, sex crimes. You know people that are literally stealing children all the time. It's just yeah, yeah, go horribly wrong.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, trafficking, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the sit there and just leave your child and go. Well, you know what I called so-and-so you know they'll come get them. That's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised that the people at the airport, too, wouldn't't even allow this, because that just seems like I don't know extra weird.
Speaker 1:I don't I mean I could be wrong, but I doubt they told anyone at the airport because I doubt they'd let them board that plane.
Speaker 2:That's true, and I think, if, if the kid is 15 or older and they have their own cell phone, maybe that's the only time I would say, ok, like Aunt Sheila is going to come get you, but I need, like everyone, to promise that they're going to be right here at this time. And like the kid has its own way to communicate with the relative. You know that would be the only way. But then, but a 10 year old who, like, how do they even know where their relative is, or how are they going to communicate with that person? You know, like they could wander off and then you're right, like get on an extra flight or an adult could take them.
Speaker 1:Oh, exactly, and you know the reality is. Is that okay? Maybe you miss your flight and you have to rebook it where you go, like you say a few days later, oh well, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, but something happens to that child. It could be the end of their world.
Speaker 2:Yes, and this is I keep hearing, not this particular story, of course, but I hear so many stories from people where their passport they show up for this big trip and it's either expired or I didn't know this. But if you have like stains on your passport like they might not let you go there, they can be really strict about stuff. So everyone should make sure your passport is like nice and clean, cause I've one of my friends had a coffee to stay on her passport and then she couldn't. She like missed a whole trip, wow, really, yeah, yeah, and it wasn't even like on any information, it was just really.
Speaker 1:it was like it was big and blotchy, but they were like, no, you need to have like a clean, nice passport wow, yeah, here's the crazy thing about it when you book your flight, you can look at your passport to see when it expires.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, I know, and it sounds like. Well, we can already tell they're pretty wrapped up in themselves, so I bet they just focused on them and not really their 10-year-old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's just crazy. That's crazy. I hope the 10-year-old is okay, I really do.
Speaker 2:I know Me too.
Speaker 1:But I don't know. I mean, it's almost like when you hear people leaving their kids in the car and I get it. You know, my son was young. There's a lot going on and, honestly, meryl, I never me and Tracy, we never, ever left our son in the car yeah, that's smart.
Speaker 2:I think that's like so, that's so smart and I just don't get it.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'm looking at something wrong, but how do you forget your child? I know days in a car. I just don't get that.
Speaker 2:I know I actually appreciate too. Um, I don't know if this is like with a lot of new of cars, but the one that I just got when I closed my door or when I opened my door, like it gives you a thing I'm saying like look in the back seat. I think that's such a good reminder. Yeah, I think most cars should have that. I know I would never. I always used to worry about that, even with when I had dogs. I'd be like where is my dog, did I leave them? Like. But I understand if you're like sleep deprived and if the mom is maybe going through like a depression or something being so out of it that maybe you would forget it at first, but that just then, then that is a serious like mental disorder that might need help and you know which which happens and I feel so bad about. But yeah, I can never my parents. I'm in my 40s, my parents won't even leave me alone.
Speaker 1:My mom wouldn't even leave me for five minutes well, like I said, I think it's a shame that those sensors are there, but it it's a good thing you know to tell people to look in the backseat, so that is a good thing.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and when you think about this kid too, like when you look back and you're 10 years old, like I feel like I was a baby, then you know that seems so young and there's no way at 10 years old. If my parents left me in an airport, an international airport, I would have like immediately started crying and probably gone to the person working there.
Speaker 1:I would not have stayed stoic and found a relative. Oh yeah, and I'm quite sure when the child gets older they're probably going to have some not so nice words for their parents. Oh yeah, yeah, Yep, it's going to come up in the middle of the argument. Yeah, remember that time. You left me in the airport because you don't want to miss your flight.
Speaker 1:Exactly it's going to happen when the parents are in like a senior center and the kid is like, oh sorry, I can't get you in here. Talk about scenic things Now, back in 2019,. Do you remember when you know people talked about storming Area 51?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I was here for it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right. Did you participate or just hear about?
Speaker 2:it. No, no, but a lot of my friends like it was almost as if they wanted to go to Coachella, like people were getting outfits for it, like you know, renting vans and everything- Well, netflix is doing a documentary.
Speaker 1:It's called Trainwreck Storm Area 51. And I haven't watched it yet, but I'm definitely going to watch it because I'm a big UFO fanatic. You know Area 51, anything with Area 51, I definitely watch. But what's interesting about that is the idea. That is the idea. And in case people haven't heard about this story, back in 2019, this young man decided he wanted to put a post out and have people storm Area 51. Because he basically said well, what are they going to do? They can't stop all of us. He said it was actually a joke, it wasn't even real, but the problem is it took on a life of its own and literally millions upon millions of people started sharing this. Oh my gosh, all of a sudden, there were millions of people talking about storming Area 51.
Speaker 1:And the government actually took it for real, because they posted a sign of a bunch of military people standing in front of a fighter jet, and you know I'm paraphrasing, but you know we're going to protect this facility no matter what. Come on with it. I mean it was kind of an aggressive statement. Um, probably so aggressive because they took it right down, but it was to the point where the fbi actually went to go visit this guy and have oh my gosh, that really is like a scene of like men in black or something and he's all freaked out because he's like it was a joke.
Speaker 1:I wasn't serious about it. And now he's getting on there and he's telling people please don't do this, don't go there. You know we got a party someplace else, don't go to area 51. But when it happened on the day um that there was supposed to storm, there's literally a handful of people there. Obviously there was a lot of security there, a lot of sheriffs officers and stuff, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:There's a few thoughts that come to mind to this. Do you think that, uh, that he was really joking, or do you think he was real, but he didn't think a lot of people was going to join?
Speaker 2:it's probably one of those things that you say like we should go do this and then it's like in theory that would be amazing and awesome, but in real life I don't see him taking off of work.
Speaker 2:I feel like all day long that's people on reddit where they're just talking, smack and talking things and you know, a lot of it doesn't really come to fruition.
Speaker 2:I know I definitely am a UFO person, like you too, and now I do feel like they're making it more of just the mainstream conversation, like I saw some article where JD Vance even said like I love UFOs and just having a vice president or someone like that say it so openly where a few years ago they were really denying us and trying to gaslight everyone into thinking like you know, what you're seeing is not real. Um, whether or not that means like aliens are about to come down or whatever, like I I don't know, but it just seems like if something is, like, if there is a possible threat of something happening, it just seems like they should probably tell us like now to slowly calm everyone and just make everyone like more used to the fact, rather than if there is some type of extraterrestrial thing that happens like it's going to create pandemonium, you know what you actually bring up a good point.
Speaker 1:Do you think that as a world not just United States, but the world do you think that we're mature enough or mentally strong enough to handle some? You know a leader saying, hey, all this stuff you've been hearing about, it's real right, we are not the only universe and we have been visited. Do you think we're ready for that?
Speaker 2:It's funny.
Speaker 2:I think Trump would be like the most beautiful, beautiful aliens, but I it's funny, I think we're so desensitized at this point of just like between COVID and fires and all this kind of stuff that a lot of people I know are almost like great aliens who cares.
Speaker 2:So I think it would be way less like it might be an uproar at first, but I think I do think we can like handle it and get used to it. I just would worry that there'd be crazy people that would want to like immediately fight any sort of aliens or like conquer them, that there'd be crazy people that would want to like immediately fight any sort of aliens or like conquer them. But I think if they said, hey, there is life force on other planets, you know which, we do know a little bit, but like here's what it is, I honestly think for six months there might be like a whole big thing and then, just like everything else, we would get either tired of it or we would start to laugh at it, or we would just it would just become like part of our lifestyle. I really do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I think, personally, the reason why the government is now talking about it and they're releasing a lot of videos and stuff because, like you said, years ago it was taboo, they didn't acknowledge it and someone wondered that maybe they're getting us ready for something big. It sounds like it, you know, desensitize it, make it part of a normal conversation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which so much of our culture already has like aliens in it, but I think we've made it Hollywood with like them looking a certain way and having a million eyes. I also saw that that one like Stephen Hawking's the one in the wheelchair like I guess he predicted some type of invasion, that like, but now they said that just might be a comet. Or they're going back to his readings that like say, okay, if this happens and this happens, then you're going to have, like, this big alien invasion. But then now they're like okay, well, that just might be a comet. So, yeah, I don't know. I feel like so much other stuff has happened in this world that now a lot of us are just tired and can't afford eggs, so we're like bring on the aliens. Who cares at this point.
Speaker 1:That's true. I mean one thing I know Stephen Hawkins said that you've heard of SETI right, where they actually, you know, have these big satellites and they look for different amount of anonymies to see if there's maybe a signal, there's something out there. They're trying to communicate with us and he's saying that we shouldn't do that. Or he said that we shouldn't do that because, you know, some aliens may not be as friendly and if you think about the people of the world, that's really not a far-fetched thing, because there are probably good aliens out there, good people, but there are probably going to be other types of creatures that aren't so nice.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's just reality, you know.
Speaker 2:That would just be so weird thinking about, like other random alien things. But that does seem, like you said, the kind of thing that they should start to get us used to, at least now, rather than being like hey, everyone, I know it's Monday, you know it's Wednesday, next, next Friday, there's going to be an invasion, so you have 48 hours, good luck.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, or it'd be like the movie Independence Day you just go outside and all of a sudden there's this big spaceship covering this whole city. I know.
Speaker 2:I know which honestly could happen. I don't know For me. I was thinking about this and I feel like going out by alien invasion. Honestly I would rather that happen than when it was threatening war and our own nuclear missiles and everything. Alien invasion seems like a better way to just have I don't know things happen. The worst is war within ourselves. I think that's the most, because it just feels like why are we doing this? We're not even advancing, at least like an alien thing seems like the next, like step in humanity or alien manatee that is so true.
Speaker 1:That is so true, so I'm ready beam me up?
Speaker 2:actually, no, not if you're listening to aliens, so don't beat me up. But that's cool. Yeah, but I've noticed that it's funny. They definitely release things in pockets to get us like a little more desensitized. This month has been way more alien articles dripping out.
Speaker 1:Yes, definitely I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2:Me too. We're ready. Could you imagine if on our show we had just a third nice alien that was chiming in about? Well on this planet, this is what Sidney Sweeney does, this.
Speaker 2:Well, I would tell you that we would be very famous at that point yeah, that'd be so cool to like the first podcast that has like a like a full-time alien on it too. I'm ready for it. Well, someone that might that the aliens might be attracted to is sydney sweeney, and we talked last week about her American Eagle ad flop and just you know the good genes and kind of. We covered that now. Okay, this, this topic, like you and I might have different viewpoints, and I welcome everyone is able to feel how they want to feel about it. But I just wanted to bring it up and talk a little bit about it, where she kind of got not doxxed, but like I think people found her voter registration maybe, and I think she was registered as a Republican, which caused like an uproar you know, I say that with quotes uproar. Then it said that Donald Trump appeared delighted when he found out that she was a Republican and he said, if that's the truth, then like her ad is fantastic. You know, I love her ad, which is ridiculous because if she was a very Democrat he would hate it. But all he has to find out is that she's Republican All of a sudden he loves it.
Speaker 2:But my thing is that, like and like I said, if anyone needs to know. Like I am not Republican at all, but but I hate when I really dislike when people like find out, almost uncover you know who someone voted for, and then they immediately hate them or don't like them. And I, to me, I think that's part of the problem of like you know both sides and why people lose and win elections and everything, and so I understand that they people can say, oh, but if you're registered as that, you stand for you know hate. But there's that the other thing. But like I don't think being a Republican means like it doesn't have to mean you align with every single thing that Trump says or like the bad parts about it. I know this is a hot button issue, but I wanted to bring it up that like it's something to me when, when people uncover people's voting status, like it's this big, crazy secret and then they hate, hate them. That just almost plays against what, like the stereotypes of Democrat is, which is Part of the reason that we lost.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, I mean, I definitely understand what you're saying because you know, do I know people who are Democrats? Yes, do I know people who are Republicans? Yes, I even have some friends that are, that are Republicans. Do we talk politics?
Speaker 2:Absolutely not. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:And you know, the thing is too is and I've always said this is that just because you voted for Donald Trump don't mean you're a racist, but it does mean you're okay with supporting one, because Donald Trump does not hide who he is.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, totally, and I saw that too. I saw something about a woman left an Airbnb when she saw like a Trump flag and everyone was confused. But then another woman broke it down really eloquently and said this is why, like a woman by herself, may not she may be worried about this and that and the other, and I understand that point of view, but I just think being like registered as Republican doesn't necessarily even mean. You know, it could be a very nuanced thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean, are there some really right wing hardcore mega Republicans? Absolutely, but you know, even though they're a dying breed, there are moderate Republicans out there that don't agree with Trump. Yeah, absolutely. But you know, even though they're a dying breed, there are moderate Republicans out there that don't agree with Trump.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Like there was Republicans before him. You know, like I think the Bush Republicans and everything too. I'm just surprised, even just from like an optic point of view, that I guess A we're able to find out these celebrities' voting status, like I don't think it should just be on display like publicly for everyone and be like even just for the optics of it. I could see, because like hollywood is so liberal, I could see sydney sweeney's agents just being like hey, you know, whatever do, whatever you're gonna do, but like we can't have this, but then I don't know, that's just such a weird thing, that's like very performative yeah, and the one thing too is there's no secret that hollywood is heavily democratic.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, you know, to have someone that's a republican um, I'm not saying it's fair or not fair, but you know that could weigh in some.
Speaker 2:You know some casting director, yeah, users eyes too I've heard a lot of people are secretly Republican but they don't. They like will hide it, or yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's people that don't. And then they said, like anytime you see someone not speak out a lot about a lot of things, assume that they're Republican. But if you got to, but in, in, like, I feel like really, really liberal is just like. Or maybe I'm more libertarian, but just letting people like decide what they want to do and not canceling them because of it, but um, not the bad things, I mean just if they have a certain preference. But who knows? I think this is, I think a lot of people have opinions on it and I would be welcome to hear nice opinions from people on it, you know, constructive.
Speaker 1:Definitely.
Speaker 2:But you know, what's interesting is that, when it's all said and done, we're all Americans and it's kind of amazing that a lot of people who voted for Trump really aren't happy with him right now like who's in Hollywood, like Sydney Sweeney probably doesn't want everyone to get like deported or like I don't feel like she's a horrible person at her core, so and she's from Idaho or you know some small town, and so I'm like, okay, maybe she's just that's what.
Speaker 2:Maybe that her parents were registered as, or you know who knows that is true, that is true but the fact that we think this headline has Trump weighing in on Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad I'm like. This is why I'm like let the aliens just come and grab me.
Speaker 1:There you go. Talk about a bad thing here In Saudi Arabia a park ride at a theme park and basically it's a circular ride that goes up, and down, moves about. It actually snapped in half.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 1:Some people were injured. Luckily I don't think anyone lost their life. I have to do some checking on it, I don't know. It just seems like lately rides have, instead of being fun and exciting, it's like they want to terrorize you by going the largest roller coaster in the world, the deepest steep, and it's like at some point. To me that's not fun.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, yes, like upside down, being like like a corkscrew inverted.
Speaker 1:Right, right, oh no, do you think that that amusement parks are kind of like taking it to the extreme now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw like the one roller coaster that literally like the tracks stop, you know there's no tracks and it basically goes and then it's like, and then it goes. Like I know that we're getting, we want more and more, like you know, loops or quickness or whatever, but like I do think it has to be tested times a million and I always think, like those local fairs, those are always the ones too where like one screw will come out and all of a sudden people will go flying and everything. I saw the video that you know what you sent me and it's just like, it's horrifying and it definitely seems like I don't know if it's an engineering thing and it's also a lot of the times the people running the safety as well are just kind of teens sleep at the wheel, you know, not paying attention.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean, I remember when and this was really recent, probably within the last week or two there was a roller coaster that stopped at the top, you know before it dips down. Yes, they couldn't figure out how to fix it, so everyone had to get off the roller coaster and they had to walk down. No, now the problem is is that, obviously, you know, everyone had to get off the roller coaster and they had to walk down? No, now the problem is that obviously, that little walkway is not very wide.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Everyone's walking down with no harness.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Literally. You know, you trip, it can be fatal and I don't know. It just seems like it's not fun anymore Because I used to ride rollercoasters years ago and now it's like nah, I'm good, I don't want to do no rollercoasters now, Cause some of them is just ridiculous. I don't want to scare myself to a heart attack. You know that's not fun.
Speaker 2:I would be frozen at the top of the rollercoaster. Someone would have to like helicopter me and get and you'd see me as one of the helicopter people that would just be spinning. Yeah, I don't like, I don't really go on the for those reasons like the, the shabby fair rides. You know where they come in to for a week or two or a month and then they are are there. But also I don't really anymore go on the like big extreme superman, you know this and that type of rides either. So so I agree, I think they have gotten more out of control, but the thrill seekers, like. I just think a normal 1980s roller coaster is not enough for everyone. We need to be like. We need to be like concussed.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Do you think that at some point they're going to slow down, or do you think this is going to slow down more Really?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's going to get to that point where we, like it's like this one chops off your arm and then by the end of the ride, you get your arm back on again. I think it's going to get more and more, but I do think that it's almost like flying where, you know, like a plane rides. We're now more, we're hearing about more things, but it's like they're trying to develop the technology, but we're also like, yeah, like every week I feel like I hear about a ride where someone it either crashes or, like people, fall to the ground and yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:I, I, just, I just look at it as hey, show me the baby. And you know the crazy thing is the baby roller coasters back in my day were regular roller coasters, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'll take the baby roller coasters Me too.
Speaker 2:And it's fun too, because I like when you're on a roller coaster you can actually see what's happening too Like I think that's fun. I think there's in Disneyland there's one called Thunder Mountain and that's like scary enough for me, but you still get to look at the surroundings. I don't like when it's like you can't even know what's happening, because you're upside down and inside out.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, exactly. And then also too, you know, and I said this before, anything that has a warning level of a possible heart attack.
Speaker 2:I don't want to get off. Yeah, I always used to watch when there'd be videos of people on the roller coaster and all of a sudden they pass out and then they're riding it just like limp. Yeah, that's not fun. No, not for me neither.
Speaker 2:Well, another scary thing which I'm a no for is um comedian matt rife just announced that he officially purchased ed and lorraine warren's home and the occult museum in monroe, connecticut. Uh, this, I think this couple we may have heard of them before. They're the paranormal investigators who the Conjuring movie series is based on and their home and museum is an assortment of paranormal artifacts from their travels. Matt Reif definitely, like I knew before that he is a big like history buff, he loves visiting history and he loves learning about it. So this makes sense to me just because I know that he's, you know, was like that. But I think for people that comes out of nowhere why a young, handsome comedian would just want to buy like an occult house. But I mean to me, if you're rich and famous like, this is exactly the kind of weird stuff that you spend your time on.
Speaker 2:No, this is also another one of my stories that I was going to include, which fits perfectly in this, is the doll, annabelle, which will now be part of his collection, who recently returned to the home after last month being on tour Devils on the Run tour and while on the tour a paranormal investigator who was traveling with the doll died unexpectedly. So everyone is telling Matt Reif like it was good knowing you. Bye, bye, you know, be careful, you're, you're dead. I I saw a video of um when annabelle landed in new orleans. I saw a video of like a voodoo priestess woman being like, doing all these spells, saying like annabelle, get out of our house, you know you're not welcome here, annabelle. So I don't know, would you ever buy something like this, like in a cult house and museum?
Speaker 1:um, I'll look at it, but no, I would not put it.
Speaker 2:Bring that thing, no me neither like this seems. I mean you have to be so confident or just not scared or unafraid. Um, I I think this is cool of him because I think that's like it's very interesting and it's a definitely a different type of hobby or interest. But I would never want to like own the annabelle doll. I don't want to. I wasn't even like I don't want to even mention it. Onabelle doll I don't want to.
Speaker 1:I wasn't even like I don't want to even mention it on here no, no, I mean, there's some people that you know like to take it to the extremes. You know they like getting the voodoo dolls and all this. Uh, you know I don't want that stuff in my house.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, me neither. I think it's one thing to visit it, but then to actually own it and be the curator of it, and the one thing I do think that matt wright will maintain it. I don't think he's going to want to change it or make it like silly or um kind of expose it yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1:And you know there's some people that take it to the extremes and they want these type of things. There's some people you know there's a lot of people who like going into, you know, the tombs to, you know, look for mummies and treasure and stuff like that yeah so I mean I'll read about it, I'll watch it on tv, but would I be that person going in no no.
Speaker 2:So if you would, you even like look at the annabelle doll. You know what? I could look at it on tv, that's fine yeah, yeah see, I don't know, I would not go to an annabelle movie or anything at this point really yeah, I'm freaked out.
Speaker 2:They're in um here in burbank they have a store where there's like two raggedy ann dolls and the. The story behind them is that the raggedy ann dolls like witness their owner's murder or something too, and they said that like there might they might be possessed, and anytime we go into the store I'm like I wish them well and I'm like I come in love. You know, just know that I, but I just like get freaked out knowing that they're in there.
Speaker 1:Now here's the thing. You know, I've never done this, but I heard, like you know, kids and teenagers will have these little, these little challenges where they run through a cemetery, at night or whatever. Do you do something like that?
Speaker 2:No, maybe in my, actually no, maybe not in my 20s, but no, I wouldn't, would you?
Speaker 1:Absolutely not. Yeah, I don't even like going to a cemetery, you know for a burial, let alone going there at night.
Speaker 2:I know Sometimes during the day, like I've been in cemeteries that when it's if it's during the day and if it's like sunny out, it actually to me it feels so peaceful, like it could feel really like beautiful and peaceful if it's a nicely kept one and you know it's like sunny and I'm in the middle of the day, but yeah, at night I just wouldn't.
Speaker 1:No no that. And then, of course, you know you have that one silly person that wants to, you know, play games and yeah, yeah, dirt and scare the daylights out of you. So, nah, I'm good, that's it.
Speaker 2:Yep, but yep, I thought that was very interesting and um good for matt rife and I look forward to seeing what happens. And, like I think it's, I like it because I think it does come from a genuine interest in the history. I wouldn't like if it was just someone that felt like they were collecting like an exotic zoo animal for no reason or something you know, but this seems like it's someone that does have interest in history and like maintaining it.
Speaker 1:That is true. That is true. Well, talking about a little bit of sad news here, Justin Timberlake just made a statement and just let the world know that he does. He's battling Lyme disease right now.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:So you know, we definitely wish him well. Most people, I think, know what Lyme disease is, but people don't know know what Lyme disease is, but people don't know it's when a tick bites you and you know one of the diseases that you can get from that tick, even though it's like super tiny, is Lyme disease, which is really really rough on the body if you get that disease. And then Justin Timberlake you know he's doing his tour right now. You know he's doing different concerts all across the country and they were showing a concert that he did where most of the songs, if not maybe all of them the audience was singing.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:And you know what? I have a dual type feeling on that. On the one hand, I feel sorry you know that he's dealing with this battle because he's never going to be dealing with a health issue but as a paying customer it really irritates the living hell out of me. Now, it's okay if you do a song or two.
Speaker 1:Yes, but when you start doing the whole concert and I'm going to pay, you know hundreds of dollars and you know some of these't pay. You know hundreds of dollars and you know some of these artists, you pay thousands of dollars. I'm gonna be a little bit ticked off. I don't know. What do you think?
Speaker 2:absolutely you'll be ticked off. No pun intended. Bad line line pun. I couldn't help it. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:My first thing is, like everyone's always like why do celebrities get lyme disease? You know it usually. I feel like we take it as it's. It could be like a code for something else. You know, like like the Hadid's had Lyme disease and all these people get it. But I think it also may be they do go to like the Hamptons a lot and they might be in places where there are like ticks and so it's not necessarily always a cover up, I think, for like drugs or other things.
Speaker 2:I think they needed to say something because it was getting to be a lot on TikTok, where people would make videos and being like at the Justin Timberlake concert and they would like say one thing and then put their thing down and go, brush their teeth and, you know, come back, and I think it was beginning to be like for his own brand. They needed to say what was happening because people were talking about that. He wasn't dancing as much during the tour, but I agree I would rather see him do like five songs all of them than just like 20 songs and do half of each song and I'm the same way. I hate, hate, hate when they'll give the mic to the audience and have us sing the chorus and it's like that is not what we wanted. You know, I just watch.
Speaker 2:I think Olivia Rodrigo does a really good job of this where, for the most part, she'll sing her own songs and then every now and then, for like a phrase, she'll hand it to the crowd and they'll sing it. But yeah, that is sad and it definitely you would think, like a celebrity, all of a sudden there would be some transfusion or something that he can get to like alleviate his symptoms. But, um, I think it was time.
Speaker 1:His team probably knew it was time to say something, just because people were talking about it so much yeah, I think the other thing too, and I get it there's a lot of money at stake with these concerts, especially when you're talking about a-listers. But I think sometimes it's better to step back and say, hey, you know what I'm battling this disease. I'm going to postpone this concert to a later date. You know, you can either come at that date or get a refund, because he's a big enough start that even if some people got a refund, it's not like they're not gonna sell out right, you know exactly, they know protect your brand too, because you know you don't want people to walk away from your concert with a bad taste in their mouth, you know.
Speaker 2:I know, and everyone I think, like his main fans, would be understanding if he was like I'm going to take one year and like really, really, really focus on my health and then reassess and see if I can come back and redo it. And you know, know, like I remember sean mendez had to cancel because he had really bad anxiety and mental health issues and like, for the most part people were disappointed but they understood and everyone's like. You know, work on yourself and we'll get through it.
Speaker 1:So oh yeah, and I'm quite sure people would would rather him postpone it than give a concert that we know is not up to the standard, what you would expect yeah, yeah, totally boy.
Speaker 2:He's like he doesn't have good luck with it. I mean, he does it to himself, not lyme disease, but the other stuff where because remember he had like the dui um and he got caught with that. And then he got caught with one of his co-stars which, like we don't know the kind of marriage that him and jessica beale have. But it's like he, definitely he. He fights everything in his own power to like ruin his own reputation. You know, like everyone wants to like him so much. But I feel like thing after thing, and I think in Hollywood like Lyme disease could be used a lot as like kind of a scapegoat for things. But in this case I'm sure he probably does have it and it is real and he's probably suffering from it.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's true. I mean, whatever it is, I think he probably should have came out a little bit earlier with that instead of going through it. Because you know, before, like you said, before he said anything, you know people were kind of getting a little bit teed off about his concerts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. I feel like if I was his person, I would say let's tell everyone that this is happening and let's say we're gonna do like eight songs plus an encore and that's it. And then you know, you may be sitting for one or two of the songs and you're gonna have to like go a little bit slower, so like explain from the beginning, and then people must. I think that would like eight million times his reputation, that people would be supporting him so much, you know.
Speaker 2:I agree, I agree and he'd even be able to do more interviews, and it just would be yeah.
Speaker 1:Definitely, definitely, we'll be praying for him.
Speaker 2:Yep, we will. Okay, to be honest, I don't even know why I chose this next story, because it's such a bummer. I'm looking at it now. I'm like Meryl, what were you thinking? I thought this was so interesting, but I'm sorry to bum everyone out with this.
Speaker 2:The Denmark zoo asked people to donate their small pets as food for captive predators. So it's just very depressing. I know so.
Speaker 2:A zoo in Denmark, the Alborg Zoo, is asking for donations. It's trying to mimic the natural food chain of the animals housed there, for both the sake of the animal welfare and professional integrity, and offers assurances that pets that are brought in will be gently euthanized by trained staff. They're saying they put in a Facebook post which is kind of confusing that quote if you have a healthy animal that needs to be given away for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us. End quote, which is weird. So the zoo points to guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens as possible donations and then, after being euthanized, the animals will be used as fodder. That way, nothing goes to waste.
Speaker 2:But people were saying this is so weird because the pet, the donation, the call for donations there's a picture of like a wildcat burying its teeth with its mouth wide open, so not the kind of thing that you're going to like want to bring the family rabbit to. It said, the facility is also interested in receiving horses, for probably, you know, horse meat or whatever. Now, obviously, like you know, animals need to eat and they eat other animals, so it's not the worst thing. Like I know, they need rabbits from somewhere, and I do understand this, because if people are going to like put their you know, let their pets outside, or I understand it that if you're like, if you have a pet that you're going to get rid of anyway or bring to a shelter, we can use them. I don't know if this just seems kind of crazy to me, though, like it seems emotional, even though I know what happens. What do you think?
Speaker 1:I think it's kind of morbid.
Speaker 2:personally, I know and like could you imagine just bringing like a family guinea pig there? It just seems I, I like any of my pets, no matter what they were.
Speaker 1:I just could never, ever, ever do that like because, literally, you're, you're, you're donating them to be eating. Let's just call it what it is I know and they don't.
Speaker 2:They said they don't want sick ones, which is like that's the only one I would donate is like if I knew it was going to die. Anyway, they want healthy ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and here's the reality, Whether they're euthanized or set free where they can be tackled, in Eden. Yeah, yeah what kind of person are you to donate an animal? To do that I?
Speaker 2:know so you wouldn't if you were like, oh, I don't want this guinea pig. It like it like barks all the time or, you know, makes guinea pig noises all the time.
Speaker 1:No, I mean, if I'm going to give away an animal, I'm going to give it away to someone who wants the animal not to be eaten up.
Speaker 2:Not when do I'm sure it's different for every zoo, but where do they get so many rabbits? And I wonder, like if they buy them from pet stores or like I don't think I want to know, but I'm like, do zoos capture wild animals? Like to be?
Speaker 1:sure that there's places they can go to to get wild game, wild game to eat. But and I could be wrong I think the real reason they're asking for these animals is they want to emulate them in the wild, because a lot of animals, especially wild animals, they're used to hunting their food down.
Speaker 2:And that's what I don't understand, because it said like they'll be euthanized humanely. So do they already. This is so morbid, but I'm like, do they euthanize them and then put them in the like, or do they just leave the rabbits there to be hunted?
Speaker 1:I think they're leaving them there to be hunted. Oh, how can you do that to your pet. If you're not letting them run around, why even go through all that trouble? You just go through the same. You know sources that you do. Now for the yeah, yeah. What would?
Speaker 2:be the difference? I know, I wonder if they're just already like hey, if you do have a rabbit that you don't want for whatever reason, like instead of putting it in a shelter, like we'll gladly take it, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think they're being totally honest. I think those animals would be set free so they can be hunted down. Oh, it's so sad, I could be wrong but I think that's the real reason what they're doing.
Speaker 2:I was just at an aquarium and I saw they had crabs there and the crabs were getting torn apart by like another big fish and it took me everything not to like be the crazy woman that went into the tank and saved everyone. And I'm like. I asked my friend like if I I grabbed this crab, could I take it home or will it die on its way home? And she was like it will die immediately.
Speaker 1:But yeah, unfortunately those things happen in life.
Speaker 2:I know, and I know it is the circle of life, and I guess like, yeah, I just thought this was such a weird thing to see, but but hey, maybe it's just the truth and it's just, it is what it is yeah, I would like to see the sick people that donate animals for this, though I know well and also like I would be scared too about people that were roundup pets, like you might not, like they might purchase rabbits with the intention of giving it to the zoo.
Speaker 2:Like you never know people's intentions too. That's why I always worry so much when people have um their animals in their front yard just unattended. Yes, there's a family that has like a big, giant, beautiful turtle right by us and I'm always like, please, like no one touch the turtle. Or, like you know, hopefully no one would ever take a nice turtle in someone's front yard, but I'm always like there are crazy people out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you have a small animal, to me that animal should never be left alone outside. I know people take it. You can have other animals take it yeah, like a coyote, exception to the rule, like I don't know. If you know what a cane corso is, it's a huge dog, oh yeah yeah you could probably leave that outside, and that's probably not gonna be what someone messes with exactly.
Speaker 2:yeah, there's one on my boyfriend's mail route and we're always like please don't let it get out. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes, that is true, Because, wow, that is a huge dog. I think the head of that dog is bigger than you have the human head. It's gigantic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so, yeah. So if you're going to the Denmark Zoo, don't bring your rabbit to die. Yes, definitely, that's the moral of the story.
Speaker 1:Now this next topic here. I am really, really excited because I want to hear your opinion on this. Jay Leno was interviewed, I believe, on a podcast or something, and he says that comedians should not talk about politics. Now I'm very, very curious to hear from you, being that you are a comedian.
Speaker 2:Yep, what do you?
Speaker 2:think about that I do see where it's coming from because, especially like here in LA, anytime people on both sides they try to do stuff and it's kind of like eh, I even watch great, great professional longtime-time comedians try to do it and it's either geeky or cheesy and people don't like it.
Speaker 2:It's funny because I feel like the people that tend to speak up right now, at least in LA, what I see is the people that tend to talk more about politics, are almost more of still talking about COVID and are more of the Trump side of things, and then that just doesn't play well with, like the very liberal audiences here.
Speaker 2:So it's very awkward to watch. And then on both sides then it's like you know, I performed down in San Diego where some, some areas are a little bit more conservative and we're told to also not always talk so much about like anti Trump stuff there, because then you have a bunch of like older people that are just, you know, like nodding their head or shaking their head at you. So I do feel like it's good for comedians to talk about like just the general politics, and that's our way of like seeing things through a lens. You know, like George Carlin we had so many great people that were able to capture politics as a whole and just speak for different parts of the generations. But I think it has to be done really masterfully and you have to be like so sharp and more insightful than just taking like cheap shots at people.
Speaker 1:Now, do you think you'd ever be as bold as Jimmy Kimmel? Jimmy Kimmel does not hold back his dislike for the president and he goes in very hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I can see myself doing that. I guess if you're going to take a stand, you just do it and you like, send it the whole way. I definitely, in my, I think a few years ago, I used to talk about being like voting libertarian and how no one even me, like no one knows what that meant. I just wanted to be that. But I was more sick of the like divisiveness. So I think I made a lot of my material at that time.
Speaker 2:I think I told you this before too, but I had a joke about how I was like available for hire during Thanksgiving, where I can go and sit next to anyone's family member, and like I could sit next to a blue haired woman in Portland, or like an uncle from Florida, from Florida, and I could, I'll say I would hire myself to whatever people want me to say. Um, and then I I used to joke that like Biden was from where I'm from, in Pennsylvania, but like he thinks he is and I'm just kind of taking a little bit of a cheap shot at him. Um, but I think if I was Jimmy Kimmel and I had the support of like a whole network and I was already so established. I'd probably be a little bit more vocal, but but, but yeah, I think it's important for for comedians not all of us and, you know, not everyone but for really smart, astute people to talk about it. And I think, like, even though it might not be for everyone, it's still like it's still an important thing.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true, and you know there's some people that are very crass with it and there's some people that are very crass with and there's some people that are like you say, that are very, very masterful as far as how they do it yeah, yeah and I think, I think you're right. I think you you have to have a very strong base that you're doing it to. Yeah, very good support staff where you know you don't risk losing your job by, you know, cracking those jokes, you know.
Speaker 2:Exactly, especially like, cause I know where Jay Leno performed. Also, side note is he's so nice to like. One of my friends MCs for him a lot and Jay Leno is like so, so, so nice to comedians and I see him driving around town and like all this kind of stuff. So he's someone that, like I love him as a human. He seems really cool, I don't you know. So, anyway, he's someone that I think he comes from the perspective too, is like especially I know where he performs a lot, and those audiences are more wanting an escape from comedy. You know, it's not like a New York seller crowd that wants to hear about all these things. It's more people that are like okay, we're paying $50. We want to hear funny stories about marriage or, you know, being overweight or you know being like silly stories. So I always think it has to like. People are kind of fatigued about politics and I think sometimes comedy could be a good escape. So, yeah, that's how I feel.
Speaker 1:True, true. Well, we know that conversation is still going to keep going.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, enjoy watching it and I do feel like any subject can be made funny, but it just people have to like I don't know new or amateur or whatever comedians I've seen people just try to tackle politics and it's like, oh god, you know, and when it's like 11 pm, it's just the last thing I want to hear. But I think we still need people like George Carlin and Joan Rivers and you know that are so smart and just able to speak their mind.
Speaker 1:Very true, very, very true.
Speaker 2:That was yours, right, I forgot Okay that was yours.
Speaker 2:Okay, yay. My last one, which I think is so cute, is the possible budding romance between Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. So they're having a lot. I don't know why, but like all the articles about this is like Liam Neeson's son weighs in, liam Neeson's cousin weighs in. I'm like why isn't Liam Neeson's family doing like a whole press tour on Pamela Anderson?
Speaker 2:But basically the main point of this is that they're you know that they're not totally confirming it, but they're not denying it where the Taken star and the Baywatch icon, pamela Anderson. They're doing a lot of stuff to promote the Naked Gun movie, but rumors are swirling that there's kind of like a romance on set between the two and that they're just taking things very slow. But they are dating and I think I've seen the interviews between the slow but they are dating and I think I've seen the interviews between the two and they're so cute and my thought is they seem to not be annoying about it and they seem to actually have some type of real life, whether it's just a nice friendship or respect for each other. They seem to be not in an annoying showmance, but instead just more getting along and maybe keeping some things to themselves for now.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I think that if they are dating or they're not dating, they're not going to say either way.
Speaker 2:Because, let's face it, it really does help the film by having people talk about this yeah, yeah, and let me say too, like liam neeson was my dad and I was getting pamela anderson as like a stepmom, or like I'd be so excited because she just seems so cool, and that's exactly. I mean, I hope my parents stayed together forever, but if my dad was to start dating Pamela Anderson, that would be amazing too If my mom wasn't in the picture, of course. But yeah, I think they're great co-stars and I just think they're doing it right because they're not putting a label on things correctly. Maybe they have secretly and we just don't know, but it seems like the two of them are being really respectful and in all the interviews I've seen they've asked, like Liam Neeson, what was the best thing about this movie, and he said working with Pamela and it's very cute. So I hope it's real.
Speaker 1:And I hope it's just like out of hollywood and just the sweet thing. Yeah, that's true, and and sometimes, and even though it's incredibly hard to do, you know a lot of times, if you are dating someone or seeing someone and you're a hollywood celebrity, you really don't want people to know because you want to see where it goes. You know once you, once you announce that you're even interested in someone, all of a sudden, all the paparazzi and everything are watching you, they're following you and all this and it can put a lot of pressure on a relationship.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I think too, like the past couple of years, we've all been cheering for Pamela Anderson too, because I know she's still kind of caught up on Tommy Lee and that situation and it seems like she's definitely worthy of love and I don't know. I like how, like natural she's been, and I know Liam Neeson has had his own sad things in his own love life, so I think that would be so cute.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's true, and you know what A lot of people have gotten together working on projects, so it's really not a far-fetched thing.
Speaker 2:I'm a firm believer that love is available at any age and I know sometimes people in their 50s or 60s or 70s, even 80s or 90s. I think if you want to, you can still always find partnership and companionship. I feel like I've known a lot of people that get divorced later in life and they never search for anyone or they just kind of think they're over. But I think it's almost a really good time to have love, because you know yourself and you're not as needy or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know, I've always said this, that to me, in order to find true love, you shouldn't be looking for it. You have to love yourself first. If you love yourself, believe it or not, people see it and people will be attracted to you. So I think when you're looking for it, sometimes that's when you find what you really shouldn't have.
Speaker 2:Yep, I hear ya.
Speaker 1:So, yes, kudos to them. Hopefully, you know they are in a good relationship and, if not, you know they're having fun promoting their movie right?
Speaker 2:I know I'm like like, please don't be pretend I can't take it. They're both gonna announce that they have lyme disease together.
Speaker 1:I can't do it. Well, talk about fun. Have you ever heard of the savannah bananas?
Speaker 2:yes, I love them. They're so silly now.
Speaker 1:Now for people watching the Savannah Bananas. They're a baseball team. I would probably equate them to the baseball version of the Harlem Gold Troubles. They really do play baseball, they take it serious and everything, but they just add a lot of fun to it. First of all, their uniforms are bright yellow. I mean they could probably blind you, just so yellow. And you know they do all these different tricks and stuff like that and you know they do dancing and stuff like that and really it's more entertaining is what it is and it kind of makes it really fun because some people feel that baseball is incredibly boring. So this is a good way to bring people to watch the sport and, you know, have some fun doing it.
Speaker 2:Yep, now do they play the same people all the time, like do they play like another team? That's like, are they always playing the same team?
Speaker 1:they have different teams that they play. Um, I don't think that there are a lot of them.
Speaker 2:I could be wrong, but yeah, they do play different teams okay, I raised my hand for people that are just listening, because I am indeed one of those people that find baseball so terribly boring, but, like I'll be trying to watch a game and then I'll be like my head will be turned completely to the side of my boyfriend, will have to physically move my head and be like the tv is right there, like, but. But I do think I think these men are so talented and I feel like I hope they don't get made fun of or made to feel like less than an actual player Because, as you said, they play baseball, they play real baseball, but then they're dancers, they're gymnasts, you know. They like are choreographers. They're just amazing and I love all the dances they do and they seem like they're really having fun, but I feel like they probably get teased a lot or just like made to not feel professional.
Speaker 1:That's true. I mean even the Holland Gold Troublers. Some people don't take them seriously, but they really do know how to play basketball. They just add a whole lot of acrobats, tricks and fun and things to make it fun for people to watch, especially youngsters.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Yeah, I saw some game on TV where it's also I think they were playing a glow-in-the-dark kind of team and it was super cool. At night they were doing their things, but it was glowing and it seems really fun.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and you know what? Anytime you can do something that brings a smile to a family's face and have them come out and enjoy it, I think it's a great thing.
Speaker 2:I do too. I'm here for the bananas.
Speaker 1:Yes, the phrase is this world is. We need stuff that puts a smile on our face.
Speaker 2:I know, except on the other spectrum of things, the only thing that keeps me engaged in like professional, like Padres, dodgers type baseball is the drama. When, like a fight happens or when the coaches come out, then I'm like, oh okay, what's happening? Because also as much as, like you know, I love men so much but as much as females get called dramatic and everything, those fights between the players, when like one or two people will have a tiff and then the whole team comes out, it's just I'm like, give me a break, but I love watching it. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:They get very passionate about those fights.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is like I feel like that's to me, is like one of the only interesting part about it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that means you love hockey. Then because they fight all?
Speaker 2:the time. Yeah, yeah, I love hockey and then I also love in soccer when if someone gets like hit by an inch, then all of a sudden they have to go home. I'm like a stretcher, like I love the overdramaticness of it all.
Speaker 1:Yes, that is true. That is true. It makes it very interesting to watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love compilations of hockey or soccer where people are just like they get tapped and all of a sudden they fall to the floor and they can't get up. I love it Wow.
Speaker 1:You know, this hour went by very fast.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, it really did.
Speaker 1:It flew by Great things coming up. What do you have coming up, Meryl?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I will be actually one of the venues that the wonderful Jay Leno performs at. A lot is called Flappers in Burbank and he's there quite some time and I have my own show there that I'm part of on August 7th and it's a history podcast, that's live, and then I'm doing some stand-up comedy there. It's a history podcast, that's live, and then I'm doing some stand-up comedy there. So it's called HILF H-I-L-F and then I am one of the comedians on it.
Speaker 1:Nice. Well, if you're in the area, definitely go out and support Meryl.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Well, everyone, this was a very, very, very busy day. It was. We definitely appreciate you watching. You know, watch out for those UFOs.
Speaker 2:Yep or not, or just get blasted if you want to.
Speaker 1:Well, everyone continue to have a good time, live life, smile, laugh. Laughter to me cures a lot of things, so make sure that you enjoy this wonderful day. I'm Lauren Silver.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo. Bye everyone, Bye-bye.
