Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Max Crosby has been re upped
Speaker 1: with your Las Vegas Raiders. Max Crosby, Defensive end of course,
Speaker 1: the face of the franchise, most could argue, has just
Speaker 1: signed a three year, one hundred and six point five
Speaker 1: million dollar extension, making him the NFL's top paid player
Speaker 1: in NFL history. Who is not a quarterback, big deal,
Speaker 1: a big a big Let's just say the Raiders solidifying
Speaker 1: that Max Crosby means the most to them and is
Speaker 1: the face of that team as he should be. That
Speaker 1: is an important position and he's an important guy for them,
Speaker 1: so good for them, Good for the Raiders. It is
Speaker 1: going to be a rough weekend for our Bald Eagle friends.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this because it's obvious we're going to
Speaker 1: have rain today and tomorrow, and we've got baby Eaglitz
Speaker 1: up there in Big Bear, Jackie and Shadows babies. The
Speaker 1: concern is the storm that's headed. But everyone who is
Speaker 1: in the know, who works up there and Big Baron
Speaker 1: has eyes on Jackie and Shadow and the Baby says
Speaker 1: that Jackie knows how to protect the babies.
Speaker 2: She's been through storms before. She will keep them warm,
Speaker 2: no harm, no foul.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got breaking news when it comes to
Speaker 1: Washington's let's just get into swamp watch.
Speaker 3: Politician, which means I'm a cheap and a liar and
Speaker 3: when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 4: are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quits. I'm not going anywhere. So
Speaker 2: that you train the squat, I can imagine what can
Speaker 2: be and be unburdened by what has been. You know,
Speaker 2: nervans have always been going.
Speaker 4: They're not stupid.
Speaker 5: A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Whether people voting for you were not swamp watch, they're
Speaker 3: all countered.
Speaker 1: Well, there were news reports this morning that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was weighing plans to water down the tariffs on goods
Speaker 1: from Canada and Mexico. Senior officials went to different media outlets,
Speaker 1: they spoke two different people saying that yes, one day
Speaker 1: after this economic strike on two of our biggest trading partners,
Speaker 1: there may be some sort of recalibrating on these tariffs
Speaker 1: because it didn't play out that great on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: As you can imagine, the aggressive trade strategy went into
Speaker 1: effect at midnight yesterday, targeting our two closest neighbors with
Speaker 1: duties of twenty five percent. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying
Speaker 1: that there could be carve outs coming as soon as today.
Speaker 1: JD Vance has a trip to the US Mexico border
Speaker 1: for this afternoon, and just moments ago the news hit
Speaker 1: that Trump is granting a one month exemption on his
Speaker 1: stiff new tariffs for US automakers. He met with the
Speaker 1: Big three this morning, Ford, GM and Stilantis and says
Speaker 1: we're going to give a one month exemption on any
Speaker 1: autos coming through. This was where you were going to
Speaker 1: see probably the biggest hike on new cars. As quickly
Speaker 1: as you were going to see hikes you talk about
Speaker 1: fifty cents on an avocado or something like that, you
Speaker 1: were going to see a thousands, thousands of dollars difference
Speaker 1: on a new car. And you know how much the
Speaker 1: relationship between it, the administration and the auto industry, how
Speaker 1: important that is. Retail giants predicted that prices are highly
Speaker 1: likely to start rising on store shelves almost immediately, and
Speaker 1: when you dug into the fresh polling when it came
Speaker 1: to American sentiment on inflation, saw that this was not
Speaker 1: going over well because remember that post election bump when
Speaker 1: consumer confidence was super high because Trump ran on making
Speaker 1: America America affordable again, and then all of this started,
Speaker 1: all of the concerns about will the prices go back
Speaker 1: up at the grocery.
Speaker 2: Store when they never really came back down? Right.
Speaker 1: Trump last night in his record breaking when you talked
Speaker 1: about length joint addressed to Congress, he acknowledged that the
Speaker 1: tariffs would cause a little disturbance, but we're okay with that,
Speaker 1: he said. He blamed the cost of living challenges on
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, that he inherited an economic catastrophe and inflation nightmare.
Speaker 2: Democrats.
Speaker 1: Their response to Yesterday's address and everything that's going on
Speaker 1: here was the quote I saw today, somebody slap me
Speaker 1: and wake me up. That was their reaction. Some Democrats
Speaker 1: did not even show up. Chris Murphy was one of them,
Speaker 1: a vocal senator from Connecticut. Those who did go were
Speaker 1: raising signs, black circular signs with white lettering that said
Speaker 1: things like musk steals, no kings, save medicaid false. And
Speaker 1: Trump kind of came out of the gate and made
Speaker 1: no bones about it, saying.
Speaker 2: That like he could.
Speaker 1: I've said this before too, he could cure cancer and
Speaker 1: Democrats would still hate him.
Speaker 4: This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and once
Speaker 4: again I look at the Democrats in front of me,
Speaker 4: and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say
Speaker 4: to make them happy or to make them stand or
Speaker 4: smile or applaud. Nothing I can do. I could find
Speaker 4: a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that
Speaker 4: would wipe out entire nations, or announce the answers to
Speaker 4: the greatest economy and history, or the stoppage of crime
Speaker 4: to the lowest levels ever recorded. And these people sitting
Speaker 4: right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly
Speaker 4: will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won't do
Speaker 4: it no matter what five times I've been up here.
Speaker 4: It's very sad and it just shouldn't be this way, you.
Speaker 2: Know, And it was an odd thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's obvious, and the fact that he knows
Speaker 1: that it's good, I mean, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: you would take it seriously. If the Democrats cheered, I
Speaker 1: think a couple of them did with the tax cuts,
Speaker 1: or he tried to go them into applauding tax cuts
Speaker 1: at some point. But there was a lot of the
Speaker 1: right on social media this morning saying that the Democrats
Speaker 1: didn't even stand for the murdered people. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: they'll have the guests of people that have been well murdered,
Speaker 1: whether it come whether it's drugs or illegal immigration or
Speaker 1: what have you, whatever the scourge is that ends lives,
Speaker 1: the people whose family and friends were killed by this,
Speaker 1: they are often guests for whatever political party at these
Speaker 1: major addresses, and Lincoln Riley's family was one of them,
Speaker 1: the young girl college student who was killed by the
Speaker 1: person here illegally, who was also a criminal aside from
Speaker 1: being here illegally. That the Democrats didn't stand in a
Speaker 1: plod and to me, even before those reactions started hitting
Speaker 1: and you know, make what you will out of them,
Speaker 1: I have no judgment on that, but it is odd
Speaker 1: to me. It was odd when I was watching it
Speaker 1: in real time, and it happens with both political parties
Speaker 1: where everyone stands up in applauds. Whoever shows up, whose
Speaker 1: loved member was killed for whatever tragic reason. It's a
Speaker 1: weird round of applause, isn't it. You want to support them,
Speaker 1: but applause to me seems off and odd and always
Speaker 1: cringey and uncomfortable. The other thing I noticed last night
Speaker 1: is years ago, they would pan to somebody in the audience,
Speaker 1: whether the president was talking about them or they wanted
Speaker 1: to see what the opposition was doing, how they were reacting,
Speaker 1: and nobody really knew the camera was on them. Well,
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, everybody is camera ready and backgrounds
Speaker 1: matter and everyone knows it. And they would pan to
Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy Junior. And the woman behind him is in
Speaker 1: full makeup, full glam squad, and she's smiling, and who
Speaker 1: the hell knows who she is, but she damn well
Speaker 1: knows she's on camera because she seated right behind our
Speaker 1: fk RFKA Junior. So I thought that was kind of funny.
Speaker 1: The things that amuse me when I'm learning about the
Speaker 1: state of the globe. All Right, we have some research,
Speaker 1: some news you can use. Do you feel bad about swearing?
Speaker 1: Have you tried to cut back on it? That is
Speaker 1: something too loud? I support you, and I think that
Speaker 1: that is great, but you may be hurting your health.
Speaker 2: I'm breaking news today to keep up with locally.
Speaker 1: La County now says it is suing Southern California Edison
Speaker 1: over the Altadena fire, alleging that so Cal Edison's utility
Speaker 1: their equipment.
Speaker 2: Sparked that fire.
Speaker 1: Of course, it destroyed more than ninety four hundred structures,
Speaker 1: killed seventeen people. The lawsuit is seeking to recover costs
Speaker 1: and damages sustained from the fire that damaged parks and homes,
Speaker 1: ruined environment, wildlife. All the things are laid out there.
Speaker 1: Additional cause incurred by county departments as well. You kind
Speaker 1: of saw this coming, but now the paperwork has been
Speaker 1: filled out there.
Speaker 2: It is a what you watch in Wednesday.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, Deborah Mark, you and Amy King
Speaker 1: and my friend Doreen all mentioned Paradise to me. Yes,
Speaker 1: So I started it last night and I watched two
Speaker 1: episodes and I love it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's great. Just wait. It is so well acted.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love, I really do love all the
Speaker 1: actors in it, and they do such a great job
Speaker 1: and there is a fun little Usually I'm not a
Speaker 1: big fan of things that aren't plausible. Yeah, same, same,
Speaker 1: But this is just short of that that bar that
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 2: Usually it's sci fi stuff.
Speaker 1: But like I am out, I didn't know that you
Speaker 1: didn't like I hate. Yeah, I need to stand it. Same, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So this, this.
Speaker 2: Is just teetering on the dash of things. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I can kind of believe that maybe this could happen.
Speaker 1: But it's very good. It's emotional, it's suspenseful, it's fun.
Speaker 1: So let us know, I mean fun, not really, but
Speaker 1: it is good to watch. But let us know what
Speaker 1: you are watching and we will get to all those
Speaker 1: comments coming up in about an hour or so. Use
Speaker 1: the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. If you're listening
Speaker 1: on the app, just tap that microphone and let us
Speaker 1: know what you're watching. We talked yesterday about the documentary
Speaker 1: on Hulu, A Devil in the Family about Ruby Frankie,
Speaker 1: the monster mom that was deemed America's Mom by YouTube
Speaker 1: at one point for her YouTube channel eight. Through that
Speaker 1: documentary that was three parts. That was good as well,
Speaker 1: So let us know what shows have your attention right now. Well,
Speaker 1: I've seen research before that says swearing is good for you,
Speaker 1: but I've never seen this much research that came out
Speaker 1: this week about this topic. Allie Robertson is a psychology
Speaker 1: researcher at the University of Oxford and he says it's
Speaker 1: something that we all share and it really is magical
Speaker 1: that swearing holds so much power over us as societies.
Speaker 1: Richard Stevens takes it one step further. Richard Stevens is
Speaker 1: a researcher and senior lecturer in psychology at Keele University
Speaker 1: in England. He says swearing is a drug free, calorie neutral,
Speaker 1: cost free means of self help, a men to that.
Speaker 1: One of my friends sent me this Larry David snippet
Speaker 1: yesterday of him asking what rhymes with Mary directions to
Speaker 1: a restaurant, and he's in his car and he says, hey, Mary,
Speaker 1: take me to you know, Bob's Big Boy or whatever
Speaker 1: the restaurant was, and how she can't get it right,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to tell her more specifically where he
Speaker 1: wants the directions to go in the car and where
Speaker 1: the restaurant, and repeats the restaurant over and over and
Speaker 1: gets to the point where he is just sweat. He's
Speaker 1: saying the most vulgar awful things to his to his
Speaker 1: voice assistant, and it's freaking hilarious. I mean, I was
Speaker 1: crying because we've all kind of engaged in that behavior.
Speaker 2: Where you lose control completely.
Speaker 1: Whether it's dealing with Mamesa or Mary or any of
Speaker 1: these things, or the cars, tech support or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, you've been that part.
Speaker 1: It's not just me, it's not just the Larry David Ryders.
Speaker 1: It's what happens when we're frustrated so often we go
Speaker 1: to the swearing place. Stevens this guy that I was
Speaker 1: talking about, Richard Stevens from Keeley University in England.
Speaker 2: He published the first study back in.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and nine linking swearing and hypo algesia that
Speaker 1: stands for a reduced sensitivity to pain. We talked about
Speaker 1: this research where subjects were asked to participate in a
Speaker 1: cold press or tax. They held their hands in ice
Speaker 1: water for as long as possible while repeating either a
Speaker 1: swear word of their choosing or a non swear word.
Speaker 1: Now in the experiment, it showed that swearing was associated
Speaker 1: with not only increased pain tolerance, but also decrease perceived pain.
Speaker 1: They could handle it longer and said it hurt less
Speaker 1: than the people who did not swear. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: they went on to take the study a step further.
Speaker 1: They investigated the use of the F word compared with
Speaker 1: a neutral word and two made up swear words, fouch
Speaker 1: and twizz pipe, and they found that this was linked
Speaker 1: with increased pain tolerance as well, but not when they
Speaker 1: used the phony words. They tried other things for or
Speaker 1: they tried other countries to see if this research held.
Speaker 1: They compared Japanese and English speakers. In Japan, swearing is
Speaker 1: not socially ingrained the way it is in Britain, so
Speaker 1: they didn't think it would have the same effect. Now
Speaker 1: in Britain, please, I mean you can say the C
Speaker 1: word as a salutation. They have it completely entrenched in
Speaker 1: their lexicon. Bless their hearts. Good for them, But it
Speaker 1: worked just as well regardless of the language Japan, Britain, English, whatever,
Speaker 1: swearing or America swearing was linked with greater pain tolerance.
Speaker 1: In addition, they found swearing has been linked to bolster
Speaker 1: social bonds, that it's been linked to improved memory in
Speaker 1: alleviation of the social pain of exclusion or rejection. You
Speaker 1: swear with people, it brings you together. They say that neurologically,
Speaker 1: the pathways for physical pain and emotional pain are the same,
Speaker 1: So when you have a heartbreak, it's the same neural structures,
Speaker 1: it's the same biological blueprint, and that's why it feels
Speaker 1: so visceral, because it literally is. They say swearing has
Speaker 1: also been shown through their science to be linked to
Speaker 1: an increase in strength. That in an anaerobic power test
Speaker 1: on a bike, swearing was linked with an improvement and
Speaker 1: participant strength.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: You want to get rid of swearing, maybe think about
Speaker 1: just cutting down a little bit because of health. Gary
Speaker 1: and Shannon will continue how med spas completely took over
Speaker 1: the country. This article in Bloomberg is fascinating. It's written
Speaker 1: from the New York perspective. In terms of walking down
Speaker 1: the street and seeing medspas every other block. You could
Speaker 1: say the same for Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Why is that? When did this all happen? Get you
Speaker 2: caught up on everything that's trending when we talk what
Speaker 2: is happening? Also, an update on the tariff talk.
Speaker 1: We've been expecting more tariff news to come out today
Speaker 1: because that is with the Commerce Secretary tease this morning
Speaker 1: when he went on Fox Business. The news is that
Speaker 1: President Trump is granting a one month exemption on his
Speaker 1: stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for automakers.
Speaker 1: He met with the Big three automakers Forward, GM, Stalantis today.
Speaker 1: He also told the CEOs that they should move production
Speaker 1: to the US. Building these cars in Canada and Mexico
Speaker 1: should move it to the US even though it's much
Speaker 1: cheaper to do so there. That's why it's done there.
Speaker 1: But any who's that's apparently what he said. He said
Speaker 1: in a statement that we spoke with the Big three
Speaker 1: auto dealers. We're going to give a one month exemption
Speaker 1: on any autos coming through.
Speaker 2: His press secretary did say.
Speaker 1: The President is opened hearing about additional exemptions. But Canadians
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not willing to lift Canada's
Speaker 1: retaliatory tariffs if Trump leaves any tariffs on Canada. So
Speaker 1: still a bit of a stalemate there. Pope Francis, we
Speaker 1: have an update here. It is it's good news. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be telling you if it was bad news. Well
Speaker 1: I would be, but I wouldn't be making a big
Speaker 1: deal out of it. Pope Francis has increased his physical therapy.
Speaker 1: They say his condition has remained stable today. Stable is good.
Speaker 1: Stable is better than guarded. Right on the hierarchy of conditions.
Speaker 1: The start of Lent is happening. He received ashes on
Speaker 1: his forehead. Is it ash Wednesday?
Speaker 4: Today?
Speaker 2: It's ash Wednesday?
Speaker 1: My god, I feel awful that I just realized that,
Speaker 1: and it's almost noon. I haven't seen anyone around here
Speaker 1: with ashes. Ps. That's usually the telltale sign. So I
Speaker 1: work with a bunch of heathens too. No ashes in
Speaker 1: the building so far. Anyway, he got the ashes, of
Speaker 1: course he did. He's the Pope. I mean he would
Speaker 1: be dead and get the ashes, right, don't you think,
Speaker 1: like if well, we don't have to play that game.
Speaker 2: But I think so. He called the parish priest as well.
Speaker 2: In Gaza.
Speaker 1: According to the Vatican, they said that the Holy Father
Speaker 1: suffered no respiratory crises during the day, that he's just
Speaker 1: getting oxygen through that nasal tube, which is not scary
Speaker 1: to see in the hospital, and that's good. He will
Speaker 1: resume the use of a non invasive mechanical mask for
Speaker 1: the night, so that's the ventilation he's been getting. The
Speaker 1: non invasive mass, so just an oxygen mask to help
Speaker 1: him sleep and get the oxygen. He's had the double pneumonia.
Speaker 1: He is eighty eight years old. He's had chronic lung
Speaker 1: disease in the past. He had part of a lung
Speaker 1: removed as a young man as well. But he participated
Speaker 1: in Ash Wednesday, got holy communion. He called the parish
Speaker 1: priest in Gaza. He's getting pt physical therapy. Now he
Speaker 1: may pull out of this, guys, the Pope may pull
Speaker 1: out of this.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, Bloomberg had a nice write up of medspas taking
Speaker 1: over America. We kind of talked about the popularity of these.
Speaker 1: It just keeps getting to be more. It feels like
Speaker 1: more and more. In fact, the data shows that according
Speaker 1: to the American med Spa Association, the industry expanded more
Speaker 1: than sixfold from twenty ten to twenty twenty three, grow
Speaker 1: six times more than six times in the past thirteen
Speaker 1: years or so billion multi billion dollar business. The article
Speaker 1: documenting how medspas took over America is in Bloomberg and
Speaker 1: they say, basically, this is at Park Slope in Manhattan
Speaker 1: or in New York City, but it really holds up
Speaker 1: for Los Angeles as well, the takeaway here is every
Speaker 1: block or two you'll pass another storefront advertising the latest
Speaker 1: in these esthetic enhancements. Medspas'll get that in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: as well. They have offers of all kinds for injections, botox,
Speaker 1: lip filler, fat dissolver, butt plumper. You don't have to
Speaker 1: walk around Alay to see all these things in action.
Speaker 1: Just turn on your television. It's everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's everywhere.
Speaker 1: If you go to the restaurants, you'll see it, and
Speaker 1: maybe not on a storefront, but you'll see it in
Speaker 1: the people's faces or in the people's butts. Cool sculp
Speaker 1: to m sculpt, sculpt, drud, all of these things to
Speaker 1: make you look better. They say that the average revenue
Speaker 1: per spa more than doubled in that timeframe where I
Speaker 1: said that the industry blew up six.
Speaker 2: Times what it was.
Speaker 1: The thing is this, you don't the bar is very
Speaker 1: low to kind of operate a med spa. They compare
Speaker 1: it to kind of a halfway point between a hair
Speaker 1: salon and a doctor's office. And they're staffed by people
Speaker 1: licensed to administer injections, but they kind of tend to.
Speaker 2: Look and feel more like than nail salon.
Speaker 1: Or the hair salon, nice wall sconces, you know, pretty curtains,
Speaker 1: things that match, maybe a candle. Not acting like I've
Speaker 1: been to one, but if I had been to a medspa,
Speaker 1: this is probably what you would see. People that you're
Speaker 1: talking to that are face to face with you are
Speaker 1: usually female, well dressed, maybe scrubs that are form fitting.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of esthetic that they're going for
Speaker 1: at medspas. And the barriers, Like I said, the bar
Speaker 1: is very low. As long as you're already licensed to
Speaker 1: perform basic medical procedures, you can get started in like
Speaker 1: a month or two.
Speaker 2: It's really quick.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the number of doctors who
Speaker 1: are kind of getting out of doctoring post COVID, they're
Speaker 1: doing concierge medicine.
Speaker 2: They're just harder to find.
Speaker 1: If you notice that a lot of them are pivoting
Speaker 1: to this medspall life. In fact, they're making more money
Speaker 1: filling your ass with filler than they were treating whatever
Speaker 1: real affliction you may have.
Speaker 5: You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
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Speaker 1: App News We're falling for you Today, President Trump will
Speaker 1: most likely announced tariff compromise deals with Mexico and Canada soon.
Speaker 1: His converse secretary, Howard Lutnik, went on the morning shows
Speaker 1: Fox Business to be exact. Bloomberg as well said that
Speaker 1: it could be a scaling back, that the compromise with
Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico could come as soon as today. Trump
Speaker 1: is set to speak with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today,
Speaker 1: who said publicly that he thinks that the tariffs on
Speaker 1: Canada are stupid. We did hear that the President is
Speaker 1: going to be postponing the tariffs when it comes to
Speaker 1: autos coming in from Canada and Mexico as well for
Speaker 1: one month. So we will stay on top of that
Speaker 1: and break that all down for you coming up in
Speaker 1: the twelve o'clock hour after what's happening, because it has
Speaker 1: been a moving story throughout the day. Stocks, by the way,
Speaker 1: our responding, they are surging on Wall Street. We had
Speaker 1: back to back losses after the start of the week
Speaker 1: as the tariffs were announced. Now that Trump has announced
Speaker 1: the exemption for automakers, the Dow has Reacted has been
Speaker 1: up more than five hundred points today, S and P
Speaker 1: five hundred, up over one percent, and the Nasdaq has
Speaker 1: been up more than two hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 2: There did you hear about.
Speaker 1: The guy in or Lando that stole all that jewelry
Speaker 1: from Tiffany? Guy in Orlando accused of stealing nearly seven
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy thousand dollars worth of jewelry from Tiffany
Speaker 1: and swallowing it. Ouch jaythan Glider is his name. He
Speaker 1: pretended to represent an Orlando Magic player to gain access
Speaker 1: to the private viewing area in Tiffany's. He fled the scene,
Speaker 1: was stopped, and when he was stopped in Washington County
Speaker 1: there in Florida, he allegedly swallowed the earrings. He was
Speaker 1: arrested on multiple charges, including grand theft and larceny. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny, this is how much I don't know about jewelry,
Speaker 1: especially high end jewelry.
Speaker 2: I read that he stole seven hundred.
Speaker 1: And seventy thousand dollars worth of jewelry, and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of like bags of jewelry. I'm thinking about like these
Speaker 1: seventeen necklaces and earrings and bracelets and like all of
Speaker 1: this stuff. I mean, what could cost seven hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars must.
Speaker 2: Have been How did he swallow all that?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what happens your system after you swallow
Speaker 1: all those rocks? Dude swallowed a pair of earrings. Like
Speaker 1: a pair of earrings are seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: How big were those earrings?
Speaker 1: Well, now that I'm thinking about it, you know, on
Speaker 1: the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erica Jane's diamond studs
Speaker 1: were seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. She caught hell
Speaker 1: for not giving those up in the litigation where her
Speaker 1: husband Tom Girardi was in trouble for fleecing all of
Speaker 1: his clients and stealing their money after he settled with
Speaker 1: the airlines that crashed with their relatives on board. She
Speaker 1: wouldn't give up those earrings. They were like this big
Speaker 1: bone of contention, and they were beautiful diamond studs, and
Speaker 1: they were seven hundred and fifty grand for the pair.
Speaker 2: They're probably ten carrots each. Yeah, I have no idea. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think my bring my wedding ring, which by the way,
Speaker 2: was a family heirloom. I think it's like maybe a
Speaker 2: carrot or something, so ten of them. Yeah, that's I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know how diamonds work. Well, you have the clarity,
Speaker 2: the cut, the carrot.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's different things that go into the
Speaker 3: cost of a diamond. The celebrities, I mean, there's are
Speaker 3: perfect quality and they're so expensive and they're huge.
Speaker 1: Can you tell, like, can you tell a difference like
Speaker 1: if you see like if if there's a ring that's
Speaker 1: clarity is the best it can be as opposed to
Speaker 1: like middle clarity.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't know. I mean, if you're.
Speaker 3: Looking very closely, right, you can tell a beautiful, nice diamond,
Speaker 3: and then you can if you look at something that's
Speaker 3: very cloudy or you can see the.
Speaker 2: Carbon in there, and then you can tell that that
Speaker 2: it's horror.
Speaker 3: But Shannon, now people are really into the lab diamonds.
Speaker 1: Oh, the ones that you don't kill people in Africa
Speaker 1: for yes, God, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: They are grown in a lab and they're a lot
Speaker 3: less money and lots of jewelers can't even tell if
Speaker 3: there if this is a natural stone and this is
Speaker 3: a lab created stone.
Speaker 2: So they they don't charge it through the nose with
Speaker 2: the lab growns. Now, they're a lot less, a lot less. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: do you have any of these?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Don't?
Speaker 3: I don't, but I know a lot of people by
Speaker 3: them now, people that are getting engaged younger people because
Speaker 3: they're they're thinking, well, wow, you.
Speaker 2: Have a lab grown one, Kana. Yeah, there you see,
Speaker 2: let me see my ring is dirty?
Speaker 1: Well, let me see, because I clearly know what I'm
Speaker 1: looking for.
Speaker 2: You know, it's one hundred beautiful.
Speaker 1: This looks like one of those classic classic family heirloom
Speaker 1: type diamonds as well.
Speaker 2: That's what I was going for. Yes, this looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: I don't know what la it came from, but I
Speaker 1: support it. Okay, we're talking about med spas and they
Speaker 1: have just blossomed.
Speaker 2: They're everywhere, and they charge you through the.
Speaker 1: Nose, like the diamonds that kill people, not the lab diamonds.
Speaker 1: For these injectables, Botox cool sculpting laser facials. Hundreds of
Speaker 1: dollars are charging for this. It's that whole race to
Speaker 1: look younger. Ask Demi Moore about it. The substance is
Speaker 1: all about that kind of a thing and before that
Speaker 1: death becomes her right. We will do anything for that
Speaker 1: holy grail of youth, and they are going to exploit
Speaker 1: that every day and twice on Sunday. Like I was
Speaker 1: mentioning before the break, barriers to getting into the medspa
Speaker 1: game very low. If your license to perform basic medical procedures.
Speaker 2: You are in.
Speaker 1: Buying neurotoxins, fillers, injection supplies very easy, very inexpensive. Renting
Speaker 1: a salon suite nothing, Essentially, you can hire employees, get
Speaker 1: your own space. You can buy more expensive equipment to
Speaker 1: do that cool spa type things. Medspas or cash businesses,
Speaker 1: which means they avoid the expense and the red tape
Speaker 1: of the American health insurance bureaucracy. And also you're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of investors involved among well, let's just see.
Speaker 1: Many establishments have added the GLP one weight loss shots
Speaker 1: as well, which is also bloomed business. But there are
Speaker 1: a lot of private equity firms that are backing these medspas.
Speaker 2: Now, I mean, we may have hit the boom.
Speaker 1: Who knows if the pendulum swings the other way when
Speaker 1: it comes to injectables and botox and fillers. I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like it's already swung the other way. You've
Speaker 1: seen celebrities go on their social channels and talk about
Speaker 1: how they've taken fillers out of their face. They're kind
Speaker 1: of rejecting that. Now the big butt, the big lips,
Speaker 1: that was a moment in time, and now the pendulum
Speaker 1: is slowly swinging away from that, although there are still
Speaker 1: firm believers in the firm areas that I mentioned. But
Speaker 1: I do think that in terms of MEDSPA, we may
Speaker 1: have hit peak, we may have passed peak MEDSPA.
Speaker 2: And we may be moving the other area.
Speaker 1: But man, have they been a able to cash in
Speaker 1: on our insecurities? And is it that or is it
Speaker 1: make you feel good? You go to the MEDSPA, you
Speaker 1: get your cool sculpt. I've seen it done on the
Speaker 1: Housewives and they seem to be happy. It looks painful, though,
Speaker 1: what is the cool spot?
Speaker 2: I did that?
Speaker 3: I did the cool skuld sing Yeah, many many years
Speaker 3: ago because I was working at another radio station and
Speaker 3: so I did it as kind of an endorsement.
Speaker 2: It was painful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did one of those for an endorsement here,
Speaker 1: and I will say I loved the results. It was
Speaker 1: a facial situation where they use lasers to kind of
Speaker 1: get rid of age. Spots and things like that, Holy
Speaker 1: hell did it work. I mean my skin looked like porcelain.
Speaker 1: It looked like every This is before filters. This is
Speaker 1: like ten years ago, so it's before Instagram filters and
Speaker 1: how everyone's filtering every picture. Now, this is like it
Speaker 1: was it life filters. My my face was porcelain. There
Speaker 1: was no spots at all. But going through it, I
Speaker 1: was crying, Oh, like, I don't take pain well at all,
Speaker 1: and I would.
Speaker 2: It showed. I mean, it hurt, the laser thing.
Speaker 1: It hurt, and I got to say for a day after,
Speaker 1: I look like Brad Pitt revident.
Speaker 2: I mean it was not good. I was wearing a.
Speaker 1: Ball cap and glasses and I was just like, don't
Speaker 1: And it only lasted a day or so and then
Speaker 1: came that perfect skin. It's worth it a day of pain, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I understand that thought process. I am not
Speaker 1: one of those people, at least right now, that believes
Speaker 1: in that.
Speaker 2: Give me a call.
Speaker 1: In a couple of years, I may become that person,
Speaker 1: but right now I would not go through the pain
Speaker 1: for my skin to look that good again.
Speaker 2: I'll go through it. Somebody wants to pay me, I'll
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 3: My hands raised.
Speaker 2: I want skin. I'll tell you where to get it.
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