Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M. Six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. There was a foreign policy
Speaker 1: expert who went on Fox News and said, something is very,
Speaker 1: very wrong in Beijing right now.
Speaker 2: It's where we kick off swamp watch.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheap and
Speaker 3: a liar. And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing
Speaker 3: their lollipops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 4: are done.
Speaker 3: The other side never quits.
Speaker 4: So what I'm not going anywhere? So that is how
Speaker 4: you train the swap.
Speaker 3: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 3: what has been. You know, Americans have always been going
Speaker 3: a president. They're not stupid.
Speaker 5: A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Havether people voted for you were not swamp watch. They're
Speaker 3: all countering.
Speaker 1: So we have been following this standoff between the United
Speaker 1: States and China when it comes to tariffs. China has
Speaker 1: advanced this year's stimulus plan, but it's holding off on
Speaker 1: fresh measures. It's trying to maintain composure, betting on Washington
Speaker 1: blinking in the first protracted trade war. They pledged on Friday,
Speaker 1: the Communist Party's elite to support firms and workers most
Speaker 1: affected by the triple digit US tariffs on Chinese goods,
Speaker 1: but stop short of announcing additional deficit spending. So they're
Speaker 1: going to bolster the industries hit hard, but they're not
Speaker 1: banking on being put in the red over this. There
Speaker 1: is a as I mentioned, and a foreign policy expert.
Speaker 1: His name is Gordon Chang. He's calling this end of
Speaker 1: regime conduct. He went on Fox News and said, as
Speaker 1: is time when China needs friends, because it's not selling
Speaker 1: goods to the US. It's going out of its way
Speaker 1: to antagonize not just the Philippines, not just Taiwan, but
Speaker 1: also South Korea and Australia. Chang is a senior fellow
Speaker 1: with Gatestone Institute. He said this shows that this is
Speaker 1: end of regime conduct because Shi Jinping he can't appear
Speaker 1: to be giving into the US now. Trump, for his part,
Speaker 1: on Friday, told reporters from the White House lawn he
Speaker 1: has spoken to Shijinping many times, and when.
Speaker 2: Pressed on it, well, what have you guys talked about?
Speaker 1: He said, you know, when the time comes, I'll let
Speaker 1: you know at the appropriate time, is what he said.
Speaker 2: Let's see if we can make a deal.
Speaker 1: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yee said on Friday that Beijing
Speaker 1: backs international rules when it comes to tariffs, and that
Speaker 1: the US levy show extreme egoism and that they're going
Speaker 1: to be looking China is for solidarity with other countries.
Speaker 1: It's a very delicate dance between we're looking for solidarity
Speaker 1: and antagonizing them at the same time. I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Guess it's you have to do to be a world bully.
Speaker 5: I was just going to say, that's the dance that's
Speaker 5: been called for, that that's the way that they've been
Speaker 5: doing it for.
Speaker 1: Aijing has publicly denied any ongoing negotiations with Trump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know.
Speaker 5: No one seems to be holding his feet to the
Speaker 5: fire about that. About okay, well, then what was in
Speaker 5: the phone call. I mean, you're he has said, in
Speaker 5: the appropriate time, they'll give out the information.
Speaker 3: But it seems a little strange.
Speaker 5: Today, President Trump is planning to sign an executive order
Speaker 5: directing the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to
Speaker 5: identify within a month the cities and states that do
Speaker 5: not comply with federal immigration laws. Last week, a judge
Speaker 5: blocked Trump's administration from withholding federal funds from more than
Speaker 5: a dozen so called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to
Speaker 5: cooperate with the hardline immigration crackdown. That was one of
Speaker 5: the big headlines today was that the administration was deporting children.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if you saw the story specifically,
Speaker 5: but the borders are. Tom Holman is saying that due
Speaker 5: process was applied when a two year old US citizen
Speaker 5: was moved to Honduras along with her mother. A Louisiana
Speaker 5: judge wrote an order Friday that there was strong suspicion
Speaker 5: that the government deported a US citizen with no meaningful
Speaker 5: process because the two year old was sent to Honduras.
Speaker 5: But the two year old was sent to Honduras with
Speaker 5: her mother and her eleven year old sister, so she
Speaker 5: wasn't going alone, among other things. And in fact, Tom
Speaker 5: Holman this morning, in a very bright and early news
Speaker 5: conference before you woke up, said it wasn't us that
Speaker 5: made the decision to kick out a two year old.
Speaker 6: If you choose have a US citizen child knowing you're
Speaker 6: in this country. Legally, you put yourself in that position,
Speaker 6: you put your family in that position. What we did
Speaker 6: is removed children with their mothers who requested the children
Speaker 6: to depart with them. This is a parmal decision parenting
Speaker 6: one on one. The mothers made that.
Speaker 5: And then a quick wrap up the big Washington Post
Speaker 5: poll that suggested that President Trump is facing growing opposition,
Speaker 5: that he's underwater in a lot of the campaign issues
Speaker 5: that he had been campaigning on in terms of approval ratings,
Speaker 5: that he is at the lowest approval rating we've seen
Speaker 5: among presidents for the last one hundred years or so
Speaker 5: when it comes to one hundred days in office. And
Speaker 5: I saw a graphic that, again that's a Washington Post
Speaker 5: ABC News pool. I saw a graphic that said that
Speaker 5: the highest recorded rating of a president approval rating for
Speaker 5: a president at the one hundred days mark was John F.
Speaker 3: Kennedy.
Speaker 5: So, if if Trump is right now below fifty percent,
Speaker 5: below forty percent, what do you think Kennedy's was at
Speaker 5: one hundred days?
Speaker 3: What was Kennedy's approval rating? Give it a guess.
Speaker 7: Forty eight, wrong, thirty two wrong, oh higher, seventy six.
Speaker 2: Close, eighty three I feel like you can't compare.
Speaker 3: I can't, and I wanted to say, I wanted to point.
Speaker 1: The way the news works. It's like the news cycle
Speaker 1: used to be months. Right now it's ours.
Speaker 5: And I think part of part of what has changed
Speaker 5: between Kennedy and Trump, I mean just the decades that
Speaker 5: exist between those two is people are a lot more comfortable.
Speaker 5: I'm assuming here because I wasn't alive in nineteen sixty one,
Speaker 5: but people are a lot more comfortable criticizing the president vocally.
Speaker 5: It's not just a thing you do in your kitchen thing.
Speaker 5: People are doing it publicly now. Whereas before the office
Speaker 5: itself was respected, the office, the title, the character that
Speaker 5: was somebody who became president. There was a lot of
Speaker 5: a respect that went into it. And for over the
Speaker 5: course of decades that has been sort of chewed away
Speaker 5: by I don't know, by public says however you want
Speaker 5: to put it, Yes, but that eighty three percent, some
Speaker 5: of the automatic respect that's built in is just built
Speaker 5: in because remember, Kennedy was criticized for being a Catholic.
Speaker 5: Of all things, you're the first Catholic president and people
Speaker 5: didn't like that, and he still got eighty three percent.
Speaker 3: All right, we come that Laboo boo. But is that
Speaker 3: how you say it?
Speaker 2: I think you're going to really take to the Labubu sensation.
Speaker 3: Is there a picture of him?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh there it is. It's a man Chi chi.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, we're about to bridge generations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: There were hundreds of people in front of the pop
Speaker 1: Mart store in Los Angeles at four forty five am
Speaker 1: on Friday. Who gets who gets out of bed at
Speaker 1: quarter to five to already be in line at a store?
Speaker 2: What are you buying?
Speaker 1: Some people brought stools chairs to sit on. They brought
Speaker 1: snacks and drinks. Some people had been there since ten
Speaker 1: pm the night before. What did they want? Well, they
Speaker 1: wanted to get their hands on the latest series of
Speaker 1: a new key ring doll called the La Booboo.
Speaker 5: This this is how China is winning.
Speaker 2: This is the Hello Kitty universe, is it not?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: The dolls belong to a tribe called the Monsters. These
Speaker 1: are the latest in a long line of iconic collectible
Speaker 1: characters from Asia, including Hello Kitty.
Speaker 3: Oh, which is.
Speaker 7: They're not in the Hello Kitty universe. She's the matriarch.
Speaker 7: They're calling her of these other little monsters Sunny Angel,
Speaker 7: Guda Tama. They're fuzzy.
Speaker 1: The Lububoo dolls are fuzzy little Nordic elves with snaggletoothed,
Speaker 1: mischievous grins and impish ears. They're all female. I'm out
Speaker 1: kind hearted with the female thing.
Speaker 3: Oh, I time that wrong.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you like your stuffed animals to be little boys?
Speaker 3: Okay, he made it weird. They're all female.
Speaker 1: They're kind hearted, but sometimes as they go about spreading joy,
Speaker 1: they get into trouble, well intentioned trouble, though it's never malicious.
Speaker 1: They were conceptualized back in twenty fifteen by an artist
Speaker 1: born in Hong Kong, Casing Lung. Began as characters in
Speaker 1: a children's book series, and then they decided to turn
Speaker 1: the storybook elves into collectible designer toys. When it says designer,
Speaker 1: how much of these things go for? Oh, thirty dollars? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but listen, thirty dollars for one of these things?
Speaker 3: What? They're ugly little troll thing. They looked like a
Speaker 3: teletubby and a troll had.
Speaker 5: A baby beanie babies went for cheap until you bought it,
Speaker 5: and then you could resell it for a ridiculous amount
Speaker 5: of money.
Speaker 3: I remember covering those stories.
Speaker 5: One of the first few stories I did when I
Speaker 5: moved to Seattle was someplace in h I don't know,
Speaker 5: a Federal way or rented like that.
Speaker 3: Was that around the mid nineties, something like that.
Speaker 5: Late nineties, late nineties, And I just remember that, did
Speaker 5: you have interviewing the yes, the whole time, interviewing these
Speaker 5: grown people, at least physically grown people standing in line
Speaker 5: for this stuff. Now, I actually, because I have never
Speaker 5: heard of la boo boos before, I was watching a
Speaker 5: video about this and it described that one of the
Speaker 5: things that makes this so collectible and has generated such
Speaker 5: a buzz is you don't know which lub boo boo
Speaker 5: you're going to get when you buy it comes in
Speaker 5: a box that you don't get to see what it is,
Speaker 5: Almost like I don't know baseball cards for the last
Speaker 5: hundred years, you didn't know which ones you were going
Speaker 5: to get, and that's why you went and got all
Speaker 5: the different packs and the hard pink gum that would.
Speaker 3: Crush your teeth.
Speaker 4: M h.
Speaker 5: They despite the fact that these are produced now in China.
Speaker 5: Those mystery boxes have been outlawed in China because they
Speaker 5: consider it a form of gambling. And kids have been
Speaker 5: cutting school in China to go to their PopMart stores
Speaker 5: or whatever the equivalent there is in China and buy
Speaker 5: these boxes and hope they get the right l boo boo,
Speaker 5: whether it's Spooky or Potto or Zimomo or Taykoko.
Speaker 2: Which one do you like? I knew you'd like Taekoko most.
Speaker 5: Masculine enough, though, speaks to me for you. But this
Speaker 5: is this is like Manchiici. And I know you didn't
Speaker 5: never know what man Chichi was, but that was a
Speaker 5: that was a good eighties character. They didn't have a
Speaker 5: bunch of them, but they had some of them. It's
Speaker 5: a it was a stuffed monkey toy back released in
Speaker 5: seventies in the first place, licensed by Mattel. In nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty five, they produced five television.
Speaker 3: Shows based on Manchici. Wow five.
Speaker 2: Think about what we could do with mister bumber Puss.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine. You can't. I can't. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to look back when you're in
Speaker 1: your deathbed and your great regret. Regret in life is
Speaker 1: going to be not capitalizing.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a couple of surprises on our retirement.
Speaker 5: You're like, I call it bumber puss. Oh, that makes
Speaker 5: a lot of sense. Now, okay, now I came.
Speaker 1: Up with that name, so that makes it weirder and
Speaker 1: nobody does what we talk about.
Speaker 3: Uh, and that's good.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 5: Some neuro divergent non neurotypical people have abilities that you
Speaker 5: and I don't have.
Speaker 1: I had never heard that, and I've seen this podcast
Speaker 1: pitch to me before on you know podcasts you may
Speaker 1: like popular podcasts, the Telepathy tapes. I did not know
Speaker 1: that they involved a group of non speaking autistic people
Speaker 1: that are reading minds of dead people.
Speaker 3: Is that right? No? Of everybody?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Of everybody?
Speaker 3: Is there dead? Are there dead people involved?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Oh I said I see dead people because of the
Speaker 5: thing that I wrote.
Speaker 1: That's the only one you said I see dead people.
Speaker 1: I thought both included them talking to dead people.
Speaker 5: I just mean it's that much of a realization for
Speaker 5: somebody that goes through this. I see so this this podcast,
Speaker 5: the Telepathy Tapes about the telepathic abilities of non speaking
Speaker 5: autistic people, and has been gaining a lot of publicity
Speaker 5: and therefore a lot of listenership. And there these are people.
Speaker 5: These are families uh with non speaking autistic people who
Speaker 5: believe that they're non speaking autistic family member, son, daughter, brother, whatever,
Speaker 5: can actually read minds. And they are saying things through
Speaker 5: different vehicles of language. They're saying things that are raising
Speaker 5: questions of how in the world would they be able
Speaker 5: to know things?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: Katie asher Is is the main player here. Katie has
Speaker 5: a son named Houston. When he was seventeen years old,
Speaker 5: he was a big boy. You're talking six feet two
Speaker 5: hundred pounds man sized, seventeen year old and out of
Speaker 5: control physically.
Speaker 3: He couldn't speak.
Speaker 5: He smeared his pooh everywhere. He bit on his own
Speaker 5: hands so hard that Mom could hear bones grinding. He
Speaker 5: would grunt, he would tantrum all night long, no one
Speaker 5: in family could sleep, and he would run everywhere he
Speaker 5: went around the house away from Katie. At the age
Speaker 5: of three, he ran into the street and was hit
Speaker 5: by a pickup truck, to the point where she had
Speaker 5: to install locks on her doors, and she, as a
Speaker 5: mother was coming to this very dark realization that her
Speaker 5: son was dangerous and she was the caretaker for the
Speaker 5: rest of his life.
Speaker 1: But then came one day when she's in the living
Speaker 1: room and he says the first sentence he has ever spoken.
Speaker 2: And what is that sentence? Mama, I love you.
Speaker 1: Now you can imagine if that is your child's first sentence,
Speaker 1: and that is the sentiment of the sentence, that you're
Speaker 1: going to do everything in you in your power to
Speaker 1: see how we can get him to communicate more, communicate again.
Speaker 2: And she did.
Speaker 1: She went through everything, integration therapy, music, there, biofeedback therapy,
Speaker 1: different methods, went to all the best speech and occupational
Speaker 1: therapy clinics. Then a friend suggested that Katie and Huston,
Speaker 1: her son try a form of communication in the autism
Speaker 1: world known as spelling. It has them work together as
Speaker 1: a team. Mom's role was communication partner, so she held
Speaker 1: in the air a board or a stencil covered with
Speaker 1: letters of the alphabet and numeral zero to nine, and
Speaker 1: his role is a speller where he used a pencil
Speaker 1: to point to letters on the board to make words
Speaker 1: he wanted to say.
Speaker 2: Kind of like a Ouiji.
Speaker 5: Board, Yeah, or somebody who's also noncommunicative for whatever reason.
Speaker 5: Als is probably an example of that, where you have
Speaker 5: a computer where that person can spell, either using their
Speaker 5: eyes or a straw or something like that to spell
Speaker 5: out individual words. Very very slow, painstaking process, but it
Speaker 5: allows them to commute Kate. She would do this for
Speaker 5: hours at a time, and she would read a topic.
Speaker 5: She'd read something and then ask a question. So she'd
Speaker 5: read about stars and she would say or astronomy and
Speaker 5: say a constellation is made up a group of what?
Speaker 5: And he would spell out stars.
Speaker 1: So they became one instrument, like the cello and the bow. Now,
Speaker 1: three months before Houston's birthday at twenty two, she held
Speaker 1: a letter board and he spelled I'm special, and she said,
Speaker 1: of course you are, and then he spelled this I
Speaker 1: can hear thoughts.
Speaker 3: What Now.
Speaker 5: That's particularly terrifying because remember she had had some pretty
Speaker 5: dark thoughts.
Speaker 3: She had been run down.
Speaker 5: She had been terrified at the prospect that she was
Speaker 5: going to have to caretake for this boy that was
Speaker 5: never going to mature mentally into a man that could
Speaker 5: take care of himself. And it was hard, probably a
Speaker 5: struggle that very few people could ever wrap.
Speaker 3: Their heads around.
Speaker 5: And she thought that this was the end of it,
Speaker 5: because if he really could see and hear the doubt
Speaker 5: that was going on in her mind, what was his
Speaker 5: life going to be like?
Speaker 1: The telepathy was a huge asset for mom. It turned
Speaker 1: out he'd hand her her purse if she forgot it
Speaker 1: while she was running out the door, or he'd spell
Speaker 1: something insightful like those are rotten thoughts, and he'd be right.
Speaker 5: She said, The big news is not the fact that
Speaker 5: he could read minds in her mind. She said, the
Speaker 5: big news was that thoughts are real, that thoughts abide
Speaker 5: by natural law. Thoughts can be received by someone else
Speaker 5: like we would receive visual information or audible information. Somehow
Speaker 5: Houston was receiving this brain thought information, and she said that.
Speaker 5: She asked him how it felt to go through the
Speaker 5: world in his body. The reporter asked him that, and
Speaker 5: Katie picked up the letterboard and as he pointed to
Speaker 5: the pencil with his letters, she would call them out,
Speaker 5: and she said, having to hear is being present with
Speaker 5: feelings pain, cruelty, and love, and loss and faith and
Speaker 5: weariness and loneliness. When asked about how he felt, about
Speaker 5: the word telepathy. He spelled the word bold.
Speaker 1: So the Telepathy Tapes highlights people like Houston. It's a
Speaker 1: podcast documentary project and it claims it explores the claims
Speaker 1: of this telepathic ability and non speaking individuals.
Speaker 2: It's interesting, particularly those with autism.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because you know where you can't speak,
Speaker 1: You know, when you lack one sense, your other sentences
Speaker 1: are heightened. So in this case, you can't speak, So
Speaker 1: the muscle of you being intuitive maybe is takes on
Speaker 1: that much more strength, to the point of it's not intuition.
Speaker 1: It's not you're in you're noticing what somebody is feeling
Speaker 1: or thinking.
Speaker 2: It's just that on steroids.
Speaker 5: I did it a vent in Seattle one time. Friend
Speaker 5: of ours has a son with autism, and she described
Speaker 5: to me what she thinks was is going on in
Speaker 5: her son's brain. And she described it as if it's
Speaker 5: a fully functional person, fully neurotypical person that is then
Speaker 5: caught in some kind of a chef. She actually used
Speaker 5: the term box, and they can't interact with their surroundings
Speaker 5: the way you and I would. We don't have that
Speaker 5: box around us, so we can interact with we can
Speaker 5: talk to we can see, we can hear, we have
Speaker 5: the sense sense of touch and smell, and he doesn't.
Speaker 5: He didn't have those same capabilities that we did, which
Speaker 5: made it difficult for him to read verbal cues or
Speaker 5: nonverbal cues for him to interact with friends at school.
Speaker 5: He didn't quite get the same thing because he was
Speaker 5: dealing on a detached level from everybody else. And if
Speaker 5: that's the case, if somebody who's autistic is neurotypical somewhere
Speaker 5: down deep inside, and you're able to unlock that in
Speaker 5: some way or at least get into it in a
Speaker 5: way where in this case, Houston is able to spell things,
Speaker 5: and it may take some time, but he can have
Speaker 5: those thoughts and thought processes that we just assume they
Speaker 5: didn't have.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are calling bs on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and the idea of this that if you have autism,
Speaker 1: at least some people who have autism have the ability
Speaker 1: to read minds. They've actually had a bunch of naysayers
Speaker 1: on said podcast, as I understand it as well, But hey,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a miracle in what is a
Speaker 1: very difficult life raising your child, embrace that love that
Speaker 1: I love that for you who cares.
Speaker 3: What anybody else thinks.
Speaker 5: Yes, I do.
Speaker 3: You have that relationship with your kid.
Speaker 1: And your kid can read minds at least to some degree.
Speaker 1: Who cares if it's a phenomena, if it's something that
Speaker 1: other people think is.
Speaker 3: Real or not? All right, up next, very eating that.
Speaker 2: Woman's life raising him was incredible. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5: University of North Carolina has a new plan to get
Speaker 5: some of its athletes new notoriety. There is a varsity
Speaker 5: influencer team will explain.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Do you have an idea who Alex Earl is? Sure?
Speaker 3: Who doesn't? I don't.
Speaker 2: I didn't either until I read this article.
Speaker 5: Alex Earl hot young girl woman? Sorry, make it clear
Speaker 5: On Instagram. Vicky Sager is working with University of North
Speaker 5: Carolina a group of seven students at the diving board
Speaker 5: the pool there starting to explore the world of name,
Speaker 5: image and likeness right through social media, and Vicky Sager
Speaker 5: asks do you does anybody follow Alex Earl on social media?
Speaker 5: And everybody laughs because they way they write this up
Speaker 5: is that's like asking somebody if they've ever heard of Beyonce.
Speaker 3: She is a TikTok megastar.
Speaker 1: She rose to fame with those confessional style videos beauty
Speaker 1: college life things like that, where it's like how to
Speaker 1: and like listen to the intimate moments of my life.
Speaker 1: And she earns four hundred and fifty thousand dollars per
Speaker 1: Instagram story.
Speaker 3: That seems like a lot. That is a lot per story,
Speaker 3: per story.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, that's why the kids all are doing this eventually,
Speaker 1: like the kids that open the toys on YouTube.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's the thing I want to point.
Speaker 2: Out though, I always bring that back, yeah, because I.
Speaker 3: Could have been that kid.
Speaker 5: This is this is a thing that I think are
Speaker 5: being is being a little bit ignored in a story
Speaker 5: like this, right. The University of North Carolina wants their
Speaker 5: student athletes to be able to have their piece of
Speaker 5: the pie here, so they bring in somebody like Vicky
Speaker 5: Seger to pitch them into turning their TikTok at Instagram
Speaker 5: accounts into cash cows. They've encouraged students and coaches to
Speaker 5: work with different social media companies and they'll also be
Speaker 5: part of this pitch. Will also be part of the
Speaker 5: student orientation for freshman athletes at the school. Now it's
Speaker 5: important to point out I referred to the students that
Speaker 5: she's talking.
Speaker 3: To are all on the swim team. That's important.
Speaker 5: Olivia Dunn just wrapped up her college career at LSU
Speaker 5: as a gymnast.
Speaker 2: Why is that important?
Speaker 5: Because they're selling, They're selling their looks is what they're selling?
Speaker 4: Oh hol la.
Speaker 5: Second, my point is they don't refer to that here
Speaker 5: in this article. They just talk about they're making money
Speaker 5: as young people on social They're.
Speaker 1: Not talking to the female rugby team about this. Is
Speaker 1: that what you're saying. No, well, you don't need to
Speaker 1: be a college athlete to sell your body on Instagram.
Speaker 3: No, they do.
Speaker 5: But now this door has been opened to them right
Speaker 5: where they can make money.
Speaker 1: Using where they can sell their athleticism and body and
Speaker 1: all of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but even their athleticism face.
Speaker 1: I just think that this is, uh, this is going
Speaker 1: to become passe if it hasn't already. Which part Instagram,
Speaker 1: the selling of the stories, the product, the product unveiling,
Speaker 1: it's all very trite now it's all on set.
Speaker 3: It was very believable.
Speaker 1: When somebody was into a product and they're open up
Speaker 1: at the box on Instagram or what have you and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's cool, that's cool. Oh so and
Speaker 1: So's into that. That's cool. But now it's just you
Speaker 1: know that people are getting paid to say they like something,
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of takes the the allurea out
Speaker 1: of it. Be smart enough and also and just like
Speaker 1: the hotness. It's kind of like that Twilight Zone episode
Speaker 1: Do you want to be?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Do you want to be?
Speaker 1: Do you want to be the two or the seven?
Speaker 1: I forget the numbers? Would you want to look like
Speaker 1: the two? Or do you want to look like the seven?
Speaker 1: And if everybody is beautiful and everybody looks alike and
Speaker 1: everyone's body looks similar, then then what is beauty?
Speaker 2: And that's kind of where you're at.
Speaker 1: If you scroll through Instagram, it's like, well everybody looks
Speaker 1: great and so what no, Now nobody's special kind of
Speaker 1: a thing. So and that if that's your If that's
Speaker 1: your your ruler on special or popular or what have you?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 1: Which filters can you use? And how big can you
Speaker 1: ask it? Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 3: I didn't I'm not looking at anything.
Speaker 1: Big asses are very in on Instagram, you know, that's
Speaker 1: very it's very happening.
Speaker 3: I learned that on hacks. Did you watch the latest episode.
Speaker 2: Of hats I don't know idea?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the and the guy is talking to Deborah
Speaker 1: Vance and he's like, listen, when you're in.
Speaker 2: LA, you've got to do more.
Speaker 1: You know, you can be a you can be a
Speaker 1: ten in Chicago, come to LA and you're a four.
Speaker 1: And he said, I need an ass that's bigger than
Speaker 1: you know, a house, right, Debraah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of competition, a lot of in LA.
Speaker 3: You need muscles, you need a big ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you need to know famous people. You need to
Speaker 2: have famous friends, right.
Speaker 3: Maybe I didn't see that.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when we were pitched to host some
Speaker 2: or we were pitched for some sort of event and
Speaker 2: they wanted to know what famous friends we could bring
Speaker 2: with us. Oh yeah, that was so funny.
Speaker 1: We were like, what, that's the difference between this floor
Speaker 1: and that floor.
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