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Episode 012: Shawn Mendes, Disease and Road Rage
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It's officially the last episode of the season! Can you believe we've been doing this for an entire year? Hosts Anya B Hynz and Dasha FINALLY give in and discuss their conspiracy theories about pop stars, what it means to be aging alongside our favorite performers and if it's cool to kiss your dog on their mouth.
Dom and Dommer is about two friends who talk about everything under the sun and over the moon. We're not only global, we're interstellar. We're also local. Right at your backdoor. We talk about the dumb and the profound. The high and low. So strap in and strap on.
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Transcript
Introduction & Hosts' Well-Being
00:00:04
Speaker
Hi, everybody. Hello. Oh my gosh. How is everyone doing? Is everyone alive? How is everyone doing right now? Mentally, physically,
Season Finale & Future Plans
00:00:13
Speaker
emotionally? Yeah, it's been ah about a month since we've just decided our trajectory for the next four years, four question mark yeah is how I feel about it, kind of. Yeah, I think it's the end. I think it's the end. We did it. We decided it. Season finale, babes.
Political Humor & Philosophical Jokes
00:00:29
Speaker
We're going to, you know, next year we'll be reporting live from Puerto Vallarta.
00:00:34
Speaker
am i Am I going to be a dick hungry pig bottom? A pass around? One of those four things for sure. For sure. At the RNC. That's giving me me a pass around pig bottom at the RNC. Yeah, which is crazy. We got into that, right? About the the sex, the gay sex crimes happening in the chambers. absolutely Well, I wouldn't even say it's a sex crime. I i mean, it seemed like a very consensual ah situation for everybody involved.
00:01:03
Speaker
Nonetheless, it was broadcasted online and did happen in the halls, the hallowed halls well of our nation's capital. Right. i um Yeah, I feel like it's more just like crime against my eyes. Yeah, the building. I know. I just was like, he really took that. I salute him for, you know, he did a lot for us and so much for his his own esophagus.
00:01:28
Speaker
The thing was getting railed. You know, speaking of esophaguses. Please, go ahead. Esophagi. Esophagi. Esophagese. Esophagese. I know. He was my favorite.
Education & Language for Business
00:01:41
Speaker
There was Plato and then there was Esophagese. Esophagese. Absolutely. Plato, the other one, and the Socrates. The other one, Socrates. Socrates. i fought That was his brother. Yeah. Socrates, Socrates. All last names. Absolutely.
00:01:57
Speaker
Smith. Yeah. It's great. I need to go back to school. I need to go back to school. I don't know anything. No, no, no, no. I know. so If you went back to school, what what would the subject be? What would you be your major? Cantonese.
00:02:13
Speaker
Excuse me, you're going back to school and you're you're going to major in Cantonese.
One Year Reflection on Podcasting
00:02:19
Speaker
I would learn that language because that is like the fastest growing language and it will come more in handy business wise and especially what's about to happen here. We're definitely going to need to learn how to speak Mandarin, Cantonese, oh my god all of that. we and we We have to talk about and I think I'm ready to finally talk about Oh, thank God. OK, y'all, this is a big moment where we're approaching a year of doing this. So and something that was so pivotal in the creation of this podcast, which really you think doesn't even make much sense, but makes complete sense.
Shawn Mendes Theories & Public Persona
00:02:59
Speaker
Take us into the storyline.
00:03:02
Speaker
You guys, so, you know, there was a time when people were just standing people left and right, you know, um and we've we've got our basic kind of like categories, which was like One Direction, Justin Bieber, you know, whatever, whatever. And then there was a long period where a lot of people I knew were just obsessed with Shawn Mendes, like standing him left and right, love him and love with him would do anything for him would be dirty pig bottom party pass around bottoms for him.
00:03:33
Speaker
And I remember I was like was like convinced that he was queer, and then other people seemed to have felt the same way. And when he was pressed with the question for years and years, he would deny, deny, deny. He would go on record being like, oh my God, I'm so angry. Why does everyone think I'm gay? I'm not gay. And I was like, girl, come on.
00:03:54
Speaker
like now you're just like what it upsets you so i'm like okay now it's the clear kind of like you're in the closet and you like hate being called gay because you really are gay now i'm just like pissed but like it's not my place to kind of like push you out of the closet everyone should come out at the time they want to come out but secretly deep down i have literally this was my the moon landing was fake this was my The earth is flat. In my brain, to me, the number one conspiracy is that Shawn Mendes is gay or at least likes men, period, in a way, or likes women and men, whatever. I've told you this, like, I'm not kidding. Every time we saw each other, I would be like, look, look at this video. Look at this video. Make it out with Camila Mendes during COVID at that Lady Gaga benefit concert online. He's putting way too much junk in her mouth. Why are you? It seems so performative.
00:04:43
Speaker
Walking down the street holding the hands, it's performative. It's nuts because yes, like this has been a long time coming. And I really, as soon as we started this podcast, I was like, I need you to start bringing this to light. And I know it sounds terrible outing somebody talking about outing somebody, whatever.
00:05:04
Speaker
whatever because the juice was there yes so and you have it and this is what I think about you a lot of the time where I'm like you have these ideas yes could they be called conspiracies sure but sometimes it's reality and you're the one who's coming up with it and being like wait a second connect these dots And see what you see. And you're like, oh, shit. Gay Shawn Mendes. gay shan mende And I remember meeting him in his very early stages of his career, like ah doing like an event with him through Live Nation. And he was with all these little tween girls. And I was like, this guy's kind of gay.
00:05:44
Speaker
And I was like, you know, maybe I'm just judging him because he's like not fully into his own yet as a man. Maybe that his voice is just like that. You know, whatever. Yeah, no, no. And here's the thing. I now am talking to musicians right who are like not not they don't know him. They've never met him. But like I've talked to musicians about him about this theory I had.
00:06:08
Speaker
And they told me that it's now now the conspiracy is even deeper. Now it's he's not gay. Now he's saying he is because the records ain't selling. And he knows that people talk about him online as being queer and guessing. So now he's playing into that because he's never saying it. He never said it. He just said, I'm all he's like, you know, I like what I like, which is so You know we interpret it as okay he's coming out but he never actually said that he's just like kind of giving little breadcrumbs or whatever whatever so now the conspiracy is that he is in fact straight but now he's gay baiting one hundred percent because the records ain't selling.
00:06:51
Speaker
And also, I have to say that music video where he had his fucking shirt off in the middle of the swamp or whatever. I was like, come on. He's like, you know what you're doing. He's like in the back of this like vintage trailer with the with the piano that has like five keys on it. And he's strumming with the boys and stuff. Oh, yeah, they know it was like it looked like a cologne ad 100 percent. And oh, yeah. And he's like barefoot with like the ripped jeans. But if you really think about it, it's almost like too much. And on some level, I'm like, he's extremely talented. That to me is what blows my mind is that he really is a really talented person.
00:07:31
Speaker
yeah Yeah. He doesn't have to be that deep. I think like the whole problem is that everybody wants him to be like deep and complicated. It's like he's just like a really good looking handsome guy who sings well. Let him be that.
Celebrity Rumors & Music Industry Insights
00:07:42
Speaker
We did that with What's His Name? I Could Be Your Hero. Enrique Anglacias. We did that with him. He doesn't have to be complicated. He can't even apparently sing. I listened to some of the stuff. Oh, well, this yeah, the recent things that came out that kind of canceled him. Yeah.
00:07:56
Speaker
It's but you know, but his dad is an amazing singer and that counts for something. Anyway, all I'm saying is that I think my conspiracy theory is now going all the way around where now I think he's straight. that And I'm glad you brought that up because I was thinking that like. I'm looking at it like, OK, if this was anybody else, I would be thinking, oh, he's just gay baiting. This is like a a ploy by the record label because it's him.
00:08:23
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I was like and waiting for this like confirmation I was like more accepting of like and I mean he's not even talking he's not going out talking saying he's gay he's not like turned a table and suddenly he's Troye Sivan with like a jockstrap on shaking his ass All he did basically is be like on his guitar and be like, hmm, like love is complicated and you know, who am I to say like who I can love or should be able to love, whatever. In a way, I'm just like, I'm watching it happen and I'm like, he's smart for doing it because he knows what works and like we're talking about it. So it's working. It's just like at some at some point to me, it's going to get tired.
00:09:09
Speaker
or What's he going to do that? Listen, there's like a war going on on. So when you pull out a little bit, you see just a little bit. You see Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles. Oh, yeah. Benson Boone. OK. Are you familiar with Benson Boone? He flipped. Yeah, we talked about the last episode. He flipped off the piano.
00:09:38
Speaker
Justin Bieber, no, I wouldn't put him them in this. I'm being an all-American boy with a ah you know like sprinkles of queerness and like a sexualizeness that is kind of specific to that type of- Call it what it is, flamboyancy. Yeah. um There's like that trifecta and I feel like they, I guess what I'm trying to say is like,
00:10:10
Speaker
Anything he's doing to try to be different because just being like a guy who is somewhat talented and makes good music isn't enough is because he's competing so heavily with a newcomer who's coming for the Benson. And then you've got Harry who already has like a choke hold on like a lot of that demographic. So it's like he doesn't like what what is going to make him different, you know, what is going to make him him?
00:10:35
Speaker
i mean What made him different is that he juggled two of the biggest current pop stars on his roster, like which was Camila Cabello and Sabrina Carpenter, like who wrote competing records about him that are like number ones. like That's the thing. He is he is what I consider... like i mean I don't know. like what When have we had that before?
00:10:58
Speaker
where like so publicly two pop stars have like spoken about a relationship with, um you know. oh Well, yeah. I mean, I feel like they, everyone's doing that. Taylor Swift, Adele. About the same guy? Oh, well, yeah, no, no, I guess so. Who did Taylor Swift and Adele both fuck? Imagine. Who the fuck is that? What's their beef? who their Their beef is probably Bruno Mars.
00:11:27
Speaker
Oh, okay. Don't even. Because you know Adele loves Bruno. Listen, I did not know that about you bringing up Bruno Mars puts me in a whole other spiral. God, I love Bruno. He I think is like the greatest pop male vocalist.
00:11:42
Speaker
How are you feeling about the like dual release of Bruno Mars featured tracks with two pop artists kind of like so close together?
00:11:58
Speaker
like the guy owes money he needs to make it somewhere and he's making number one hits like those two songs that he did with Gaga and with Rose are gonna get him out of that hole that he owes to whatever people in Vegas. Where's he going? Who's he going? He has a huge there's ah it was like a big scandal where he like is a huge gambler and he like the reason why he did his Vegas residency is because he's like in the hole.
00:12:22
Speaker
Tax-wise yeah, it was all over the news. So now he's like it was on the news Well, you you know Mars being like not on like CNN breaking news and but thinking i like oh know it was in though in the online you could read about it Yeah, the rumor mill. Yeah. And he like in and you know, a number one hit like that for that many weeks, like he is going to make that money back real quick. He's my short king. He's so talented. I would do horrible. I would do horrible things to be in a room with him. He's so hot. I thought you were going to say you would do horrible things to him, like sexually. No, no, no, no, unless you treat him like a ragdoll. If he asked, I would. OK, ragdoll woof. I would I can't I'm not I'm a dainty woman. I could never know. Listen, out of all the combos we've had. Ragdoll is exactly what I would think you do to him. Oh, thank you. I guess I just was kind of like, damn, I can't believe that.
00:13:25
Speaker
we we were still kind of soaking in this song and this like comeback of Bruno for a hot second. And then suddenly it was like, and this other song, which I don't want to say this also is about to probably get us into another combo. Let's do it. Let's do it. I felt like the apartment song or whatever the hell you call it. EPT? Yeah. Was a stronger banger than Die with a smile? Yeah. Well, yeah, because Die with a smile is not a banger. It's like a love song. Yes. But in general, I was like, I like listening to them. I was like, this one's going to stick more.
00:14:03
Speaker
I love Die with a Smile. Me too. i mean I really, really loved it. And their live performance of it, like they're just artistry on artistry. Like APT is just it's candy. It is candy candy. It sticks in your ears. It's like it's it's got all the elements of a earworm. But for me, I'm not playing APT at my wedding.
00:14:26
Speaker
OK, OK. What I'm saying is like, what is going to stand the test of time and is going to be like part of people's lives that is going to be like ah part of a soundtrack to people's lives? And that's going to be Die With a Smile. It's going to stand the test of time for sure. I think APT is a great song. Very catchy, very fun. But it but it is to me, I think like, you know, it's a great ah single for a person breaking out of a girl group into a solo group. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:54
Speaker
And I'm assuming. OK, then let's get into disease. We got to talk about it. Right. And I guess disease is another song where I don't think it's going to stick. I don't think it's going to have its longevity. Did you always like her singles when they would come out like her her album release singles? I think that's what's making me sad is that I used to like applause. You were like a stand for like ah literally, even when applause like the whole thing with our pop. I mean, as much as it's tattooed on me,
00:15:24
Speaker
prior to the album coming out. When applause came out, I was like, okay, this is weird, but it still felt like the Gaga that i I've been consuming. And i I liked it. It was enough still of an earworm. I mean, this is the thing is that I am like one of those Gaga fans who I'm still stuck on. When YouTube was in its heyday, yeah Gaga was putting out music videos that were literally breaking charts, records. ah The fact that Bad Romance was like the first video to get like one billion views, like that's where and I know it's like whatever, like she did that. She's doing her other stuff. It's fine. But there's a piece of me that I just I want
00:16:21
Speaker
I think what it is I really do is that like it's like we're aging with her like she is us in a way like she's who I grew up with. She's like always going to be my everything.
00:16:33
Speaker
And so it's tough when I'm seeing these other girls like take this storm and I'm like, I still want her to be competing with those girls gotcha in a way where I'm like, I know she doesn't have to do that anymore. It's like the same combo we got in with like Nicki Minaj. It's like she doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. But God, i like i want I want there to be another summer where it's like everyone is singing or jamming to that Gaga song.
00:17:03
Speaker
I mean, I think that it's like a product of the fact that she redefined music and now people are redefining music based off of her. So it's like for her to constantly redefine the genre would be I don't know who's ever done that. Like no one's ever done that. If you know you look at any other like female pop artists like Madonna, Cher or whatever, they do hit a peak. like They do have moments of brilliance throughout their career and even after that, like it does slow down. like If you unfortunately look at Madonna, it's like, when's the last time that you heard a song by her that like when everybody's singing it every summer? I think this this album could be Lady Gaga's MDMA or Confessions on a dance on the Dance Floor. like I think this is what that could be.
00:17:52
Speaker
Because it's it's like just enough to be her old stuff, but she's pushing it into a darker direction in an interesting way. And she has all this experience as like a producer and being in the business for so long. I have faith that this album is going to be really interesting. When I heard this song like in the car, the night it came out, I was with my friend Kate and we were in the car and I went, I'm so sorry, we have to listen to the song.
00:18:17
Speaker
And I literally like went, huh? When she's singing, then it shifted. I went, what? And then once the chorus came on, I lost my shit. And I've been like, I'm just so excited for her to be having fun. And I'm excited for her to be happy. And that music video was really meta as fuck.
00:18:39
Speaker
being being bags coming out of a bag, that was that became instant iconography. her puking herself out. i Maybe I need to resee that part. Maybe I need to rewatch that part. She like pukes this black ink and then she plops out. Oh, God. Into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's like very much because remember when she did the thing where she was during our pop was like throwing up during the R-Raves? Yes, yes. Obsessed with that. That was my favorite part because that's my favorite song, Swine.
00:19:13
Speaker
I love that song. Yeah, it's a banger for sure. Looking back, like my favorite songs are like always like Heavy Metal Lover, Donatella, all these B-sides that I'm obsessed with that like unfortunately will never get like a video and I'm like, God, that's all I want. It's like these Euro trashy... That's how I... Shiza or whatever. shaza That one, I would get on the elliptical for an hour.
00:19:41
Speaker
And I would that was just part of the workout, but like that was like always a thing. It's like an hour on the elliptical. And I would play. I would set up a playlist to be the concert like her playlist. And I was like, if I could work out and constantly be moving through an entire set list of a concert, plus the Beyonce Beyonce doing her like honey and like um cayenne pepper and hot water diet was doing that.
00:20:07
Speaker
I mean, I guess I did the Chris Farley diet. I was like the his workout. I was like, I'm eating whatever I fucking want. And I'm running around however I want. i'm not And she's going to pull me up on stage anyway. RIP Chris Farley.
Podcast Anniversary Celebration
00:20:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:23
Speaker
RIP. You know what I realized? We never said Dumb and Dumber intro. This has been the longest intro ever. Oh my God. With that, we're about to take a break. so Absolutely. Let's take a quick break. Quick break because you're listening to Dumb and Dumber.
00:20:56
Speaker
bit the back We never left some say some say we're always just in your memory and just here. We're here. We're like your great, great aunt who just won't fucking go. I do want to congratulate us because we've been doing this for a year and I don't think I've done a lot of things for a year consistently. And I got to give it up for us for doing it and not missing one and really, really committing to it. And I'm really happy we get to do this together.
00:21:23
Speaker
Yes, I was just saying that um earlier that like, and I've said it before, like one of the things that gives me purpose, one of the things that I can look forward to. And, um you know, we're, we're always thinking about new things. One day we're going to have guests on this show. One day my prince will come and Dasha won't forget the mics at home when she goes over Tanya's house and they have to Uber order it to be delivered, which makes it look like it's a drug deal and the poor man who's driving the car thinks that I'm about to rob him blind.
Holiday Plans & Cultural Traditions
00:22:03
Speaker
OK, so I know you haven't been watching. Watching what? Dragula. Oh, um but I started, you know, at this point with this when this is airing, we might have a winner um because we're what feels like halfway through this season and it started at the beginning of October.
00:22:25
Speaker
The cast has been really great. The challenges have been really great. um Some might argue that they're trying to be more drag racey with some of the choices they've been making. But overall, like better production value, better pacing, which has always been a critique. um And I'm loving, I'm loving like kind of like the the top, the the people who are clearly kind of the front runners have like really strong drag that's like not just like inherently drag the way people think about it. um Shout out to who i' I'm going to call it right now, who I think the winner is going to be. Their name is Asia consent.
00:23:10
Speaker
Oh, my God. Great name. Yes, they are. um You know, it's always like the contestant who's coming up with the most outside of the box kind of new age, your own stamp of what that is, I feel like is who sticks out. And they've been like very consistent. They won multiple challenges. um Again, like there's still more of the season, but I'm sure I I'm already seeing the cards laid out and I'm like. OK. I was about to ask, is Russia celebrating Christmas or something else? But they celebrate New Year's. They celebrate New Year's. New Year's is our Christmas work. Yeah. OK. I'm going home for that. I'm going to see the family. How long are you going to be home for? I'm going to be home for like almost three weeks. Oh, wow. I'm going home for for a while. I'm going to go before Christmas. I'm going to come back after New Year's.
00:24:09
Speaker
That's what the holidays are all about. Yeah. Are you in a giving mood?
00:24:16
Speaker
Honey. I'm always in a giving mood. I'm always in a giving mood. Oh my God, Samantha from Sex and the City. You're here? um Up until recently, I was like banking on the gifts I was getting from everyone else. I was not getting gifts for people. Like if I did, it was like scrounging because what happened was and my mom has always made a good point.
00:24:40
Speaker
When I moved here, I didn't have a lot of money. Was racking up the debt before I could even, you know, be making it. Quickly realized, oh, I cannot spend a ton of money that I don't have because when would I?
00:24:58
Speaker
Have that. When will I get it back? And I, you know, the also the issue was is that I started out Live Nation.
Finance & Gift-Buying Stories
00:25:07
Speaker
I was I was having like an assistant editor job, was making like what I thought. Oh, this is like a solid, you know, just had that Shawn Mendes event. Oh, my God. me I was like, this is the life. I'm a in Hollywood, baby, going to parties where they're doing cocaine. I was like, this is it. I'm Bruno Mars.
00:25:24
Speaker
um And then so, of course, yeah, when I went home that year, I had bought things for people. I didn't have that money. And then I like it was like one of those things of like my mom being like, you know what? Why don't you not buy gifts for everyone when you come here? Because like you need that money and like what things are you going to get us that like we generally need or whatever, you know, like very, very matter of fact, very realistic.
00:25:52
Speaker
Because it was true. It was like, i was kind it's like, you know, my mom sitting there being like half the time you're like, I can't afford to pay this bill, that bill, rent, car loan, whatever. But then you're like coming home with like a necklace for me and like something for my dad, my stepdad, my brother, like, you know, just just because I wanted, you know, because I'm a giver. um But yeah.
00:26:18
Speaker
Oh, I know. I feel the same way. I feel like, you know, there was a period of time where it was like big birthdays were happening. ah I don't have any siblings. I don't have any, you know, it's just my close, close family, my mom and dad, really.
00:26:32
Speaker
It's also like they're really hard to buy gifts for. They don't really tell me what they want. So the things I do want are expensive. I got my dad like a pair of like the latest like AirPods because he would never buy that to himself but he wanted that. So I got that for him and then I got my mom and my dad like Yankees tickets like to some game that was so expensive and it was like but they were really good seats because they love the Yankees. So it's like I don't know. There was like I have a lot. I've bought things on like layaway, not credit card, but like layaway and pay monthly for him. Like I did that for my trip that I'm taking like to Edinburgh. And it's that's how I've basically now it's not that I'm not making money is that like I'm paying monthly for these big purchases. And it's like I really don't have a lot of room to
00:27:25
Speaker
You know, like buy anything for myself outside of that because all my money goes into paying those bills. Right. Right. And, you know, price of rent is going up and everything else is going up. And it's, you know, that I have to fly to a wedding here and I have to go this, you know, it's like every month it's a new thing. But here's the thing.
00:27:44
Speaker
I'm gonna make a lot of money sitting on men and financially dominating them. right So again, hit me up. I'm available on no socials. If you would like to be humiliated online, i'm i'm I'm no longer above any of this. You want to see my feet? Fuck it. I'll show you my feet. yeah I hate that, but I'll do it.
00:28:06
Speaker
You know, I get made fun of because I wear socks a lot and I used to not be as much of a sock wearer like growing up.
Comfort & Camping Experiences
00:28:15
Speaker
I think that's just like being a rural country boy. um But I wear socks all the time now. And yeah, I get made fun of. For wearing socks? Because I wear socks like I work socks to bed. I wear socks like walking around the house. You wear socks to bed? Yeah, like serial killer. Yeah.
00:28:32
Speaker
I cannot sleep in socks. I mean, that's just not comfortable for me. it doesn't My temperature doesn't get regulated. Yeah. I mean, there are those moments where I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm like, I i should probably take these socks off like ill you'll be because I'll be like warming up. But there's something about being like cozy like that when I go to bed.
00:28:52
Speaker
But I actually, I fully am on like Team U right now because that's how I sleep. I also sleep, even if it's hot, I have to be under a blanket. ive I don't sleep naked. I usually sleep like right now because it's cold, I wear a sweatshirt, I wear shorts or whatever.
00:29:08
Speaker
I don't wear socks. I love being warm. I have a heating pad. Even when it's hot that I put underneath and like a cat, I sit on top of it and it's on a timer so I don't burn myself, I guess. And I just keep it for four hours and I fall asleep. And it's the best feeling in the world to be so, so warm. And the thing is that I have my blanket on my everything, all my warm clothes just like you. But my little feet have to stick out.
00:29:35
Speaker
from underneath the blanket. So it's like I am wrapped in cellophane. I'm hot. I'm sweating. But my little feet are just sticking out. So that's how I know I'm not like overheating. It's my little feet are releasing. It's like a dog like breathing or their tongue out like that's me. It's like the vents. It's like the ventilation. My little feet vents. Yeah. But like I cannot sleep when it's cold. I went camping once and it was like negative, negative something. Yeah. And I was my I thought my sleeping bag and handle it. I my teeth were shattering. I couldn't I took my fur coat faux fur coat, put that on and then climbed in the sleeping bag. And that's the only way I could fall asleep because I was so cold.
00:30:22
Speaker
I love camping. yeah I love going out especially like up to Big Bear and stuff and it'll get so cold and it nothing is worth like trying to sleep camping in the cold is exactly that it is so tough I remember like one time camping and it was cold and windy like a storm came in in the night and which we've never we've never like Airbnb'd like a cabin or camped together. But if we did, which we should, um I always will put a beanie on, like arrive to the place with a beanie that will not leave my head yeah until we're back in LA. No shame. You know what's a good trick?
00:31:06
Speaker
boil hot water, put it inside of like a water bottle, ah preferably not like a thermal one that's like right that not a Yeti. I'm i'm talking like one of those like you know the plastic ones that are like thick plastic, but are- Yeah, like a smart water. Exactly. Oh, no, not of like a smart water. like a They're like water bottles, that reusable ones. that Like an Algene. Yes, that exact one. Fill that with hot boiling water and put that inside the sleeping bag and it's going to create heat inside. People do that when they go hiking in snow and stuff. It's like a way to keep yourself warm.
00:31:44
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because it will stay inside of the sleeping bag, it won't release it, and it will be almost like a heater.
Podcast Break Announcement & Future Teasers
00:31:50
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Or you could rent a generator and run a little handheld heater or get those hand warmers. I have these hand warmers that everyone gets that you kind of just- Oh, I buy those all the time. I get the ones for your feet.
00:32:06
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. those Those are always like stocking stuffers for me. It's the best. Love those. Yeah. I use them during the burn at night. It was like, oh, yeah. Yeah. I would I would put them like right at the toes, like kind of right here. Love that. yeah All right. Well, we're going to take a break. We're going to figure out where we're going to go camping, camping. And then we will be right back for our favorite freaking game.
00:32:31
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but Do you guys even know what it is? youre You guys probably don't even know because you don't even know what podcast you're listening to. What are you listening to even right now?
00:32:46
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They're like turning the heater on. They're like, get away from me. I would always be like, um I'd always be like, oh, my God, like it's so cold in here. And he would be like, oh, like, that's OK, because once we get under the covers, like you'll be warm. And I was like, oh, wait, that's actually. Yeah, that's kind of hot. and I get that to do that. Oh, that's why he did that. Exactly. I didn't realize that. I was like, I'll get under them without that. Also, I will just be on top of you. I don't need to. I don't need a reason.
00:33:15
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Yeah, well, it was kind of like a cool like, like if it's hot, because in my head, I'm like, oh, well, if it's cold, I'm not taking my clothes off. But it's like, oh, it's kind of a suave way to be like, get get in the bed. and but Because if it's hot, normally my mind is like, oh, if I turn up the heat, they'll be like, oh, it's hot in here. I got these clothes off. And then it just, you know, just naturally happens.
00:33:39
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I come in your house, it's like 97 degrees. I'm like, oh, gosh.
Playful Game Segment Introduction
00:33:43
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Do you want to take some clothes off? Are you getting a little warm? Yeah, are you sweating through your 17 clothes? ah um We are fully back. We are loaded. We're back. And we are here to play our game of the century. What is it called? Come on. um Come on. Think hard. I think it's called Yes or No.
00:34:08
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oh zis la sir
00:34:13
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gay hey I walked in on that anyway, okay, so Yes, Papi. First one, ah because you were talking about Maine and I was going to ask this lobster rolls, which I feel like, yeah, tell me. baby for First of all, I'm not a big lobster fan, but all I think about right now is lobster rolls. Like, I'm going to get the freshest fucking one in Maine. and Yeah, you better. You better. I feel like that's the spot. i um I just went to Santa Monica Pier today.
00:34:50
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Oh, yeah, you want a roller coaster? Yeah, a little little roller coaster, which very expensive that pier. I was like, y'all need to calm down. This is probably why I had never did this in the 10 plus years I've lived here. Secondly, we went to this like cute seafood restaurant that was like across from Bubba Gumps and they had lobster rolls. And I was like, I want a lobster roll.
00:35:11
Speaker
We are in line. We finally get up there. They were like no lobster rolls. I was like, but you guys have two on the menu. So you guys are out of that much lobster. You can't make either of these lobster rolls. I've i've only had them on the East Coast specifically, like Massachusetts and Boston. That's like the last time I had one. So I like clam chowder. I only had that in San Francisco. Like there's just like places that I will only have certain things.
00:35:36
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so I'm very much looking forward to going to the capital of what is called Lobster Town, USA. Lobster Town, yes. Me. No, maybe. All right.
Boundaries & Social Etiquette
00:35:45
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Kissing dogs in the mouth.
00:35:47
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Oh, my God, I will like stick my tongue. just Keep going. oh Say the truth. OK, I am a huge dog person. I will let a dog do a lot of things to me. That is where the line gets crossed because if OK, OK, so like I will let a dog lick my face. I will let a dog lick my face.
00:36:11
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The closer they get to the lips, the weirder it gets. Whence it's there plus the- Whence. Whence. The tongue really gets onto those lips is when, okay, we're we're done here. It is crazy. The people that like, I go, that dog was licking its own asshole not yeah but three seconds ago before you fully let her French kiss you. right I don't, I'm not about that. Lick the asshole, lick the sidewalk. That's right. You know, coughing up or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, a dog's mouth is cleaner than a toilet. I'm like, my toilet is not clean. So a dog's mouth being cleaner than that is not saying much. Anywhere there's shit going on. I don't want that near my mouth.
00:36:59
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Well, and that that's that on that one. OK, this one also came up in my thought isn leather gear. You mean like ah harnesses and harnesses, other types of things of the harness nature. And like and I'm saying I'm bringing this up as in like. Not only are you OK with it, like, how are you? What are your feelings about like the very casual public wear of it?
00:37:28
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They look stupid on guys a lot of the time, and I stand by that. Yes. but I think that there's certain ones that like women wear that's that's really hot. Okay, so more turned on by yeah women's leather gear. Yes, because I feel like it's it's like it's It's empowering. It's like strength. It's like giving like power and you know, that's what it does. And I find it more attractive when it's on a woman because I feel like that's like going against the grain. Like women are not supposed to be like that. So that's the hotness for me. Whereas like men are already expected to be that. So when they wear those, I'm like, OK, so you're just like double macho. That's cool. Or whatever. Well, but yeah, I mean, you're a dominatrix, so.
00:38:19
Speaker
That's me. You're definitely more for the women's kind of like power role than a male's power role. so There's something about that. I do like the gear. I think it's cool. I want like a strap, but that's like a whole situation. Yeah. Well, I mean, they're on Amazon.
00:38:39
Speaker
I know, but I want one that's like fitted. I want a nice one because I've had one that was like things were just falling out of it. And I was like, this is not. Who is this for? That was the one thing I was going to mention about leather gear in general is when it's all fitting the leather like chest straps like that kind of shit. I don't know where it's supposed to be landing on the chest. But sometimes when people are wearing them, it just. Looks like it's a.
00:39:07
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Like it's not where it needs to be. It just kind of looks like it's there. Yeah. And that's when I'm like, oh, it just kind of looks stupid. And I know that's probably a hot take, but like it looks like headgear. I mean, it just does not look it's not it's supposed to be sexy. So it's kind of hard when it's all fitting. I got one for you. People standing on the left side or right in the middle of an escalator.
00:39:30
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OK. Are you ah are you basically saying that the left side is for the people walking up the escalator? And if you're standing, you should be on the right side and there's no choice to be in the middle. Being in the middle.
00:39:47
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is like voting third party. Being in the middle is like now voting.
Driving Etiquette & Road Rage
00:39:52
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Being on the left is insane. For you to be on the left side when you know that you have to, if you're not moving and you're just standing on the left side, death. You deserve the death penalty, I don't care. You're supposed to be on the right side if you're just like, and letting traffic on the left go by.
00:40:08
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I just think one, it depends like how wide the escalator is. If the escalator is as wide as like two people, then I'm more inclined to be like, oh, I should probably hang on the right side. But if the escalator feels like a one single rider lane, then I might be in the middle. I've never been on an escalator that's only one person wide.
00:40:34
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because there are always at least two people wide. Yeah, that's for you. you're You're like kicking kids to the side. You're like, get out of my way. Honestly, I stand behind people and I go, ahem. You do not. Absolutely. I don't feel bad at all. Gosh. I do it at concerts when people are too close to me. There was an old band that was like in front of me at a concert. By the way, definitely gave him COVID because I had COVID right after that concert. Oh, my God. And you're like, ahem.
00:41:02
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But literally almost bumping into my head and there was plenty of room in front of him. He just like didn't had zero care that there was anybody else around him whatsoever. And I kept and at one point I started clapping on purpose for the person performing into this man's ear. And then he moved and then he moved and I felt good about it.
00:41:23
Speaker
That is nuts. First of all, New York rules do not apply to Los Angeles. Absolutely. If they did, there'd be more deaths in L.A. at this point. Not enough. Yeah. ah Secondly, I think escalators are kind of like the Wild West a little bit like they're not. If I have to be like, if you're standing, stand on the right. Left is for traffic. Just like how on highways, the left lane is for passing.
00:41:51
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it's It's yeah. Common. Oh, don't even when I'm driving, like what I'll do when I leave here, drive down Laurel Canyon and I will be on that left side because that side is the one that gets me through the lights faster. But people will get pissed because I'm not driving fast enough on that left side. And I'm like, I'm driving a very good speed for laurel freaking canyon right now and just because what what what is that give me a number so i could tell you if you're completely wrong or not oh like i'm i'm breaching like 45 maybe yeah that's fine
00:42:31
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Like sometimes like it depends on the like, okay, if it's this hour, you know, it's like 930 at night. I shouldn't have to be zipping. I know. Okay, it's an open road. Like it's time to zip. We're not we're normally stuck in traffic. I get people's reactions of like, let me take advantage of this open road. But I'm like, y'all, you guys are passing me on the left side, mind you, like around, you know, into the other lane.
00:43:00
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to get around me when I feel like I'm doing, I'm definitely like over the speed limit because I'm also very conscious when I'm driving in situations like that that I am going as fast as I'm comfortable because I see if someone's behind me that looks like they're road raging. um But then once they cross me though, if they do something like that, I am slow. No, no. Well, because now they've crossed me. Oh.
00:43:28
Speaker
But you wanted to get in front of me. Honey, we've got red lights up ahead. Oh, you're going to mean mug them. Oh, I mean mugging. I'm putting my high beams on behind them. I'm tailgating them. I don't even care if they come to a short stop nice because I will slam right into them and I'll just keep holding the gas. Hell fucking yeah, baby. I also will tell you this. If they ever do that to me, like go around me and I know I'm going the right like because I'm very conscious. I go just as fast as the car in front of me. Right. There's not a lot of gaps. I don't slow down traffic. If someone behind me is like a raging maniac who just decides that they're going to go in front of me anyway.
00:44:05
Speaker
I'll do you one better. I'm not me mugging. I'm catching up. I'm pulling up and I'm going in front of them. It is not good. It is not healthy. i I don't condone it. I don't think people should be doing it. I do do that. I've done. I've done in the morning when I'm going to work some this motherfucker. I'm going absolutely. There's it's traffic. There's no space in front of me. You are so angry like goes around me. OK, good luck. Catch him on the the moment. There's like a break in traffic. I go right in front of him.
00:44:35
Speaker
Love that. And then I slow down. Yeah. I go, sorry. Yeah. the Those these are the most especially in L.A. because people are reckless and fucked up. And I want to just aid. I want to put fuel on that fire so hard. Of course. I would love.
00:44:54
Speaker
to have like the like Super Mario items. Oh, like like a banana. It is fucked up, but like there have been plenty of times. And all I have wished was that there was a brick in my passenger seat that I could just flail, you know like darts into the tires, ah oil slick. Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo.
00:45:15
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I've told this story before. I had a guy screaming and raging behind me on a turn like where there's bumper to bumper traffic. For some reason, he's just like, I did nothing wrong. like I literally didn't cut him off or anything. Maybe he felt angry that I went ahead of him. I don't know what it was. i look at my He is screaming and looking at me and pointing and whatever. and i'm like And I'm getting more and more. And he went on for a couple of minutes. And then I finally let him go.
00:45:42
Speaker
Like I pulled and I let him go in front of me because he was just so angry. And we were standing next to each other in the light and I rolled down the window and he looked at and i went, you need to calm down. I literally was like, you need to relax. Life is short. You can't be this upset.
00:46:00
Speaker
I literally did nothing. And he was like, oh, and I'm like, literally take a breath. I'm like, I let you go. Please have a better day. Like, like, please. Oh, my God. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe this person was raging like that because I like I'm very conscious when I drive. I'm not cutting people off. I'm a very like considered driver blinkers and everything. Yeah. But so when someone does that, I'm like, oh, like now I'm pissed off. Yeah. And when I'm pissed off,
00:46:30
Speaker
I'm worse than that person. I mean, I get it ah that's I get like the rage comes out of nowhere, especially when I'm like sing. I'll be like singing a song and then it's like I just go right from zero to 60.
Hosts' Connection & Cirque du Soleil Recap
00:46:45
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me and you have been really like vibing on this episode, like really connecting on a lot of our yeses or noes and like our temperatures and everything. We're really vibing. I feel like we're really connected. Yeah. Yeah. I was just I did have that moment where I was like, OK, we both need to do a camping trip that involves us road tripping to the camping trips. Yellow people see each other. Just yellow. Perfect. OK, I've got one more um Cirque du Soleil. I've never seen it.
00:47:15
Speaker
Oh my God, I feel like you'd be into it. I've never seen it. I'll be honest. I have very little interest. Okay. The truth is I love like aerial performers. Yeah. But I don't like danger.
00:47:30
Speaker
I don't like hot. I don't like people climb it. Like, you know, on cruises, they have those like 50,000 foot dives. Like they climb up this fucking i think into a a tiny little cup of water. That's where they're landing. I'm like, what the fuck is this? I don't like that. That's not for me. So like, I feel like circus related. Don't they like throw like an elephant sized bag of rice on a thing? And then it just like plops a person up in the air and then they do flips and shit.
00:47:57
Speaker
OK, that didn't happen, but maybe in one of these Cirque du Soleil's that has happened. That's the other of thing. They have like what, 17 virgins like ocean one. There's one with animals. Like I can't, you know, show me show me like a what are those like 10 men that paints themselves silver on on the side of the street, you know, in Las Vegas. Like that to me is with lead poisoning. But I'm assuming you love. No, well, I will say I.
00:48:26
Speaker
Like as a kid, I was always like, Oh, I want to go to the one of those. And then it kind of phased out where I was like, Oh, okay. I get the gist and it is what it is. But I'm going to tell you right now. I went with Joe. He got like, uh, like lottery tickets to the one in Santa Monica. Whoa.
00:48:47
Speaker
I was so impressed. Granted, we microdosed, but even more of a reason yeah for me to tell you that you should go yeah see something like this because I was gagged. I was gooped. They had like a pre-show that just kind of like rolled into it. I was like, what the hell is going on?
00:49:06
Speaker
um the You could tell there were people there that love Cirque and go to all these different ones that will come. They call it Cirque? Well, just and you know short Cirque. Do something. Wow. Cirque. Cirque. Damn. Okay. I just shortened it. I like that.
00:49:26
Speaker
I just don't want to say the whole word. You're in it. um Yeah, i'm i i'm a so love circuit I'm a circuit. i'm ah I'm a circuit, as they call it, circuit party. Circuit gay. Circuit gay. um Tons of gay guys there, like gay couples hella there. And they were the ones who were also obsessed for sure, like already bought the merch as they were showing up, like wearing the merch. I was like, this is the merch for this specific show. Like, is this your second time seeing this? Wow. um Which the merch was cool.
00:49:56
Speaker
uh they had tons of snacks they they really do the the tent up like i was i i was like thinking like oh god like it's gonna be like w ringling brothers um even though i know that circ is high production but like i still was like it's a tent on the beach no they fucking turned it upside down it was so so good but the performances i was i mean i posted a little bit on my story but like the person who did the silks hardcore as hell doing crazy shit they had the guys on the trapeze with uh with bikes all this stuff those people were crazy they also like
00:50:41
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start, they do such a great job with like lighting, like, which completely changes the mood, you know? And I think it's like something that's like subconscious, it's like all of that production is really was what was selling it to me. And I think the micro dosing probably heightened it. Oh, 100%.
00:50:59
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I was in there like oh my god like I don't think people are even realizing these like ah of these like lighting cues that are happening where it's like they're setting us up for the next lighting cue you know what I mean like like I know that's so specific but The lights would go dark. Then it would be a spotlight. Then the room would kind of get this like purple red tone and then it would like be kind of fading. But you're like, if you're not paying attention to it, you're it's just, you know, kind of background, subconscious, whatever.
00:51:33
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And then suddenly it would be like green, like crazy, vibrant green. All these like other lights that you didn't even see were actually like strung up or whatever. Those suddenly come on. Then they had less um all these like drapes that I just saw were like back background drapes. Those all get lifted up and suddenly there's like a full orchestra coming out of the like side of the tent. What the fuck?
00:51:59
Speaker
I and three women singing, which were so dope because they would take turns after like their big numbers, they would take turns singing. These people are flipping, doing trapeze and singing? No, no, like they're like, I'm thinking, oh, they're just going to have some backing music track while people are doing shit. But no, they had like a full orchestra and singers that were, you know, taking us through these ah numbers or whatever. And that was like pretty awesome because it's like one woman, you know, had more of an operatic voice. So that kind of worked with like certain, ah you know, performances, skills that were going on weird shit.
00:52:37
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was so good um absolutely so good this is also the funny piece and i' i'll end it with this is that uh joe got the tickets obviously i was only there because he got them he hurt his back so and the seats are very like stadium bleacher style so not comfortable we only stayed for half of the show And he was like, we could stay, we could stay. But I was like, no, if your back is hurting, like, listen, I'm here. It's been nice seeing what I've seen. But I left there being like, I need to go back and like see Act Two. And I need to experience like this is just I need to tell people and go with people. um But holy shit, the ticket prices. He got those tickets for like twenty five bucks each. If I was to just go on the site right now and purchase them for tomorrow,
00:53:31
Speaker
Like 200 to 300 dollars. I'm sorry. What? Crazy. Well, that's why that's why people are like obsessed with it. It's because they have to be because they spend so much money on. Yeah. But I did say to to Joe, I was like, you know, if I had looked at those ticket prices and I knew that the value of our seats, so I would have I would have said was how do you get a lotto? How do you get how do you get entrance? He did it through like that like ah ticks something today, ticks. Yeah, today. should Do it. look I know I am. I went on and downloaded the app. I was supposed to get notifications. I stopped looking at them. I should have done it because he literally texted me today and he was like, I am putting you back into this lottery.
Voice-to-Text Mishaps
00:54:14
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Yeah, because, you know, some I'll go with you. I would love that. I want Trev to see it, too. So it'd be really cute if we all like went when I should. Honestly, we should like revisit it again and micro dose. And this time I know you didn't shit your pants because you're going to wear loose shorts. I'm going to wear it depends. It depends. And we're going to shove your ah your freaking little vape thing up in my diaper. Exactly. So that way you don't have to worry about it. Yeah. No, no worries at all. I love it. Oh, OK. Last one. Yeah. Last one.
00:54:52
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Hmm.
00:54:55
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Voice to text messaging, like sending messages by using voice to text. In public. Support. Oh, in public. Like you're walking around like an airport and you're like, Mary, can you get the eggs from the fridge? One hundred percent. OK, that's weird. OK.
00:55:14
Speaker
there i I do like voice to text. My biggest gripe with it is just when it doesn't compute your words. That's very weird. You have to stop using such big words. It's Siri. you She doesn't know everything. Yeah, but she should know most of these words. Also, to it's funny when if you say someone someone's name that you have a contact in your phone, they put the name as how you have it in the contact. Have you noticed that? And I only notice it after it's already sent and it's like hilarious.
00:55:44
Speaker
It is pretty funny. I know and I have some people as very inappropriate things so it's very funny. Like if it's like your name Dasha and there's like eggplant emoji fire like ah tongue out emoji and like poop emoji then I'm like oh yeah I'm like voice texting somebody else like yeah I'm going to Dasha's later and it's like I'm going to Dasha's poop emoji fire emoji where I was like oh my god this is aggressive.
00:56:11
Speaker
One of my friends says, Rob choke me daddy Eckerd. Love that. In my phone. And that's what happens when I oh say it. Yeah. That's sweet. I know. I love it. it's It was really great when my ah ah when.
00:56:27
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and
00:56:31
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Kelly Osborn saw that on my phone because we were doing a shoot and she was there with her glam team. And her glam team was, i'm not I wish I was making this up. It's two twinks, two hair and makeup twinks who are wearing a mesh shirts.
00:56:49
Speaker
to this actual like taping production and they were like very fun and one of them came over to me and and he was like do you know the wi-fi and I was like we don't have service in here just use my phone it's fine like whatever you need like you could google it I have the wi-fi on my phone and they were like okay and they gave it to her and Rob texted me And then it came up as Rob, choke me, daddy, Eckard. And then Kelly fucking Osborne went, looked at me, gave me a like a look and I went, no, no, no, no, it's just a friend. It's just a friend. It's a funny name. And she went, she went, she went, uh-huh. And like winked. And I went, oh,
Conclusion & Gratitude
00:57:26
Speaker
God, oh, God. And then from that's what I know forever now. Wow. Is that Kelly fucking Osborne saw Rob, choke me, daddy, Eckard. I love that. Yeah. What a fun celebrity interaction. Yeah, it was actually a great one. Yeah, that is a great one. Yeah, she was very nice. Very pretty. Big hair, big hair. It's great. Thank you so much. Thanks for listening, you guys. I'll be glad though. Until next time. Arigatou spasiba. Placebo. Placebo, affecto. Patronum. Vigal. Vigal. He love you. He's a petroleum. There we go. Bye.