De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan - Dani's Ovulating & She Met Donna Kelce

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

OH BABY DO WE HAVE AN EPISODE FOR YOU!! We’re back, Dani’s not sick anymore, the sun is shining and there may be other things contributing to our GREAT moods on this week’s episode… BUT you have to listen to find that out ;) Now this one is juicy, Dani gives you all the details about her trip to Las Vegas with Tornado, she talks about meeting Queen Latifah, Bradley Cooper, Martha Stewart AND Donna Kelce. PLUS!! We FINALLY are bringing back your favorite segments, Things That Make You Go Hmmm AND Viral Spiral.  We’re giving you our thoughts on the Boeing whistleblowers, plan malfunctions and problems in general, Foxtrot closing its doors AND Christains being upset with Taylor Swift’s new album. Finally we’re playing a game based off of a TikTok trend we saw, which Dani has titled “Millennial Motto”.  So please enjoy our silly, goofy mood on this podcast. As always, checkout our socials ⁠@deinfluencedpodcast⁠ on Instagram and TikTok, maybe you share our clips and content with family or friends who may not know about us… That’d be pretty cool.  Cheers to another Wednesday besties

Hello and welcome back to your favorite podcast. De-imluence. Hi, my baby boy. It's good to be back. It's good to be back. I missed you. Last week was just really not my week. The podcast episode was just, I'm sorry.

I apologize. I was not feeling well. I was just not in a good mood. But I am in such a good mood today. What happened last week? I blacked out. Exactly. Exactly.

Well, you know what I think happened this weekend? What? we you and me babe we did it a lot just right there and I feel like we're in a better spirit oh well yeah we you were sick and then you left for Vegas and then you came back

and then you were like I'm ovulating I was like okay fine because you really got to how it happened I was like okay I was I was obviously this weekend. It's been on the calendar. The only reason Jordan even knew this is because we went to a kid's birthday party and Ellie came up to him. I was like, did you do it this weekend? Yeah, I know. She's like a, like the warden over our fertility. Because Ellie knew my fertility better than I did because when we go on walks, we share that with each other. And so I told her, I said,

Martha's in your calendar and hold me accountable. No, there's like this crazy flywheel effect that's starting to happen in our friend group. Like before we were like the only ones with kids. Now they're all having their first kids and they're like, let's all be pregnant together. And I'm like, do you realize that would mean three for us? Yeah, yeah. And one for you. Yeah.

Like it puts us on a different planet. Yeah. But honestly, being at those kids' birthday parties, I kind of had a bad attitude about it. I'm not going to lie. You, we had a double header. The men in this friend group are, are, you all get in the worst moods when we do anything child related. It's horrible.

And you guys kind of all feed off of each other. Like you go off on the corner and just like stomp around. Like personally, I had the week, the best weekend of my life. That's not what happened. So we had a double header. We had two birthday parties. Okay. So like wake up first thing you have to look forward to one year old's birthday party.

Jordan was literally on his knees praying. I was sick the night before. He was praying. Like he woke up. He's like, oh, how are you feeling? Are you still sick? We have to skip the birthday parties. I'm like, no, Jordan.

They came to our birthday party. We're going to their birthday party. birthday party and Jordan's like, that's not a rule. I'm like, yes, that is a rule. If your mom did not teach you that rule, I'm teaching you. Yeah, yeah. And so then we went to an 11 o'clock birthday party and then we had a weird gap and then we had a three o'clock birthday party. So it's like, do we take a nap? Do we not take a nap? So we relate to the second party. I will say, here's what I'll say about the birthday parties. And I do apologize. I think it's very normal for no husband to want to be there. 100%. Okay. Like, what is so bad about being together

with your friends and your children and your children's friends. Oh. What is so horrible about that two hour experience, maybe one hour. No, no, no. You don't understand. We all wanted to be together. We just didn't want to be together there. We wanted to like, I mean, I'm not a golf guy.

They wanted to be playing golf. I wanted to be playing paintball. It was actually so fun though, and here's why. Is that when we were at Adam and Tiffany's daughter's birthday party. Lily. Yeah, I know. When we were there, I didn't know if I should say her name, but then I was like, she's on the internet. Oh, okay.

I was like, that's so stupid to me. No, but when we were at Lily's birthday party, I looked around and all of our kids are running around. Stratton's got like six pieces of candy in his mouth. Stella's bright red because she's been sprinting outside. You know, so sweaty. And I looked at all the guys and I go, you know what, guys, this is what life's all about. Aw, that's so sweet. It was, it's all about like we're all hanging out.

all the wives are happy, all the dudes are happy, all the kids are happy. It's just great. Can I ask you something? Yeah. What is your take these days on elaborate kids' birthday parties? I think they're so out. Really? This is coming from the architect of interstellar. Yeah, yeah, come on. Come on. I mean, nobody went bigger than we did. Yeah, no, I truly. I don't think anyone's gone that big. That was like a wedding. Yeah, it was, it was nicer than our wedding. You know, but it's like, I think that there was an era for that on the internet. Or maybe there wasn't. And maybe it was just totally tone deaf and we did it.

But I think it's so out now. See, I'm so for it. Really? I'm honestly for whatever brings you joy and whatever the parents want to do because let's be real. It's for the parents. And I'm like, yeah, it is for the parents whenever they're won. They're not going to remember.

So I'm like, you go all out, do whatever you want. Wait, sorry. So do you consider any of the birthday parties we went to elaborate? because I don't. I thought that they were like perfect. I think they were pretty elaborate. Oh, I thought they were like perfect. Okay, well, they weren't interstellar.

Yeah, that's what I mean by elaborate. We went all out. But you have to admit, that was also my birthday and Stella's birthday mixed into one with our gender reveals. We did like three things all in one. So we were like, let's just go all out for one thing. But we'll probably never go like that all out again. Yeah.

But I love, I love a big party. I'm like, what's the point of life if you can't throw a party? No, I thought, I mean, I thought they were great birthday parties. I did not feel like they were too elaborate. I thought they were very tasteful. And honestly, I, yeah, I rescind my bad attitude of waking up on Saturday morning and being like double header. Yeah. It's just, you're right.

I think a lot of the guys do feed off each other. You do. Yeah. It's a negative energy. We're like double header a day, baby. And then all you talk about is how you don't want to be there. I'm like, just get it together and be happy. That's true.

Well, we had a good weekend. I'm coming back feeling very refreshed. You know, Martha Stewart and Queen Latifah and Donna Kelsey just have that effect on you. Yeah. When you're with them for 48 hours straight, it's just how can you not, you know? Did you expect for Vegas to be as crazy as it was? No, and I want to tell you guys, hands down, it was the best experience of my life. Yeah, I believe you. It really was. I was not expecting that. And I think because I wasn't expecting that, it made it even sweet. I was so under the weather. I was so not feeling well.

I have never taken so much day quill in my life. I think I'm still coming off of it. But it was worth every single minute. Like it was amazing. And your mom handled it, okay? Yeah. So for those of all that don't know, my mom was a QVC ambassador.

They chose 50 women over 50 years old to represent QVC and the hashtag, age of possibility for the next year. This campaign was one of the most genius, sentimental, sweet campaigns I've ever seen activated. Because what was so inspirational about a lot of these women coming together, like Martha Stewart or like Queen, a lot of them didn't really take off in their businesses or even start their businesses

until after 50. Think about it. We're 30, I'm 31. Like that's 20 years from now, starting your business and now what Martha Stewart's worth like $400,500 million. I mean, it's just insane. And so I think as women get older, lot of times you start to feel like your life is over. It's like opposite for men. As men get older,

it's like, wow, they age so gracefully and they're more powerful and they're richer and they're stronger and more independent. Well, for females a lot of times, it's like the opposite. And so to be in a room of 50 women that are just quite frankly bad asses, like I don't know what else to say. I shed multiple tears and I was only 31. No, I bet it was incredibly inspirational. It was. And these women are, everyone was so supportive kind. I just, I have to take a minute to talk to you guys about Queen Latifah. I never thought I'd be talking about Queen Latifah on this podcast. But I, you know, I love her movies.

The holiday, she's so funny. Like, she's in great movies. And I have always loved her as a singer and actress. But when I tell you, is she a singer? I think so. She sings, she sings some songs. When I tell you, I've met, I would say now I've met a decent amount of celebrities, probably more than I can count on two hands, right?

Queen Latifah and Post Malone will go down in the history of nicest celebrities in the world for me. In fact, Queen Latifah and Post Malone like need to do a collab together because the amount of joy that they'd be sparking would just like, they're amazing. She came up to me and she comes up to me.

And she comes up to me, she's like, hey, honey, how are you doing? Are you doing okay? I'm like, why are you asking me about myself? Like, she saw me kind of eyeing her, down, you know, like trying to get a picture. She's like, I'm just so blessed to be here. We're all so blessed. I love your mother. Your mother's beautiful. Where did you get your outfit from? Like, she was just so, and she, I couldn't get her off my tail. I was like, Queen Latifah. I got to

you're Queen Latifah. You got better and bigger people to talk to and she wouldn't stop talking to me. You're like, Bradley Cooper's over there. She's like, I just want to be with you. Yeah, no, I mean, really, though. Like, I honestly, I was trying to respect the celebs and respect the space. You know, so I try to just pop in, pop out. Like, I don't want to, like, be annoying. But, like, she would have hung out with me. Like, we could have hung out all night, you know? And so then I saw her the next day.

Hi, honey. Go to see you get those pants, girl. Where did you get those pants? I'm like, Queen Latifah, these are under $100 jeans. I'm like, I'm like, and she's like, get out. She's like, I need those. No way. No way.

And I'm like, once again, I was like, you know, whenever you kind of say something in passing and you keep walking and she, like, she stops. And I'm like, Queen Latifah, I still got to keep walking. Like, you're Queen Latifah, you need to go. She wanted to talk to me. She's so nice. Do you ever remember?

No, I just, you know, that's the, here's the thing. I know, that's where you always stop. No, here's the thing. I, since I got back from Vegas, I could vomit with how I acted around some of these celebrities, not because I was too eager. It's because I was trying to play too cool. I was trying to be like, oh, you know, hi, like, can we get a bit? And then walk away.

When honestly, Jordan, I could have gotten Queen Latifah's number. I could have gotten Martha Stewart's number. All these celebrities, like, they were giving me the time of day, but I didn't respect myself enough to talk to them. That's our Yen and Yang, though. Yeah. If we would have been there together, I think we could have really worked that room.

Dave, you would have, Donna Kelsey, I had her in the palm my hand. Okay. Like, Jordan, I literally have not stopped. I could, I could puke. I could puke thinking about it. And like, okay, so I never asked Donna Kelsey. about Taylor Swift because I wanted to respect her and I wanted her to be I wanted this to be her weekend I didn't want to bring up Taylor Swift or even her boys around her like I was like this is

Donna Kelsey this is about the woman that she is in fact she shared some pretty like interesting inspirational stories she talked about how when she first started she started in the stock market she was a stock broker I believe and she was working in a you know office full of men and these she's really tall and a bunch of men told her like to take off her heels and don't wear heels in the office and dress a certain way. You know, like all of us, all of us girls are like, boo. Like, men suck. Just kidding, but kind of.

And these stories are really, really sweet. And so I was really trying to get to know Donna as Donna, you know, not as Travis Kelsey's mom, not Jason Kelsey's mom, not Taylor Swift, maybe future mother-in-law. And so, but then, let me tell you what happened. This is what's, it eats me alive. It eats me to my core. So the last night, I'm feeling really sick.

Okay, so we film the episode of the live show with, my mom is on a show with Donna Kelsey, Jane Brown, and my mom, Mary Clay Haver. So anyway, after the show, I am like, I'm, Jordan, I'm dying. I'm so sick, like the green books are coming. Like, I'm telling you, I was so ill and I had not slept. I was waking up every morning at 4 a.m., going to bed at like 11 p.m., 12 p.m. I was just not good. So I decided to retreat. I was like, mom, I have to go back to the room.

I need a pack. My flight was really early the next day. Mom was like, yeah, you know, I kind of had already experienced everything. Like all the people were still there at the party, but I was like, I need to go back. My mom comes back to the room an hour later. Danny, Donna Kelsey, we spent the whole hour with her, opened up about everything. She started talking to my mom about Taylor Swift. She started talking to my mom about her divorce, about everything she was going through, about the media, what the media stories are painting about her that are not true. And I'm like, Mom, what did you ask for? My mom's like, I didn't know what to ask her. So she didn't ask her anything. But I was like, oh my gosh, if I would have been there. Been like, Donna. Is it crazy to you that Taylor Swift is a devil worshipper? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. She's like, she's like, look at this link I found on Facebook. This link on Facebook. No, but she did actually open up to my mom about Taylor.

And. And dot, dot, dot. I can't say. I know it sucks, but I can't because I don't want to lose her trust. Yeah, I don't think it was any. I know this guys. And let me just tell you, it's not even that juicy. It kind of is, though.

It's not that juicy. Do you think that? I think to differ. I think it's pretty, pretty, for you. What was, Did she talk about her sons at all? A little bit, but she more so talked about her grandkids

and it was cute on her Apple Watch. She had a picture of her boys. It was really sweet. Because, you know, she's just a mom. There's a mama just like the rest of us. That's the thing about these celebrities. They're just like us. Kathleen Gifford, when we first walked into the party,

it was literally like readjusting her brawl, like putting on, like didn't have any shoes on. My mom goes up to her right when she's like, She's like so flustered. My mom's like, can I get a picture? I'm like, mom, celebrity 101. Like, just wait until they have their bras and shoes on, you know? Are you still starstruck by celebrities?

Bradley Cooper got me. Yeah, Bradley Cooper. You know what happens to me when I get starstruck by celebrities? I get numb. When I don't, when I, when I really, really care, like when it's such a big deal that I'm like, oh my gosh, this is a me. I get numb and I just, I don't even care anymore at that point because it's so, they're so fabulous that I'm like, but if they're actually attainable, I feel stressed because I'm like, I should get a picture. But with Bradley Cooper, like, I literally, like, I don't even remember

what I said because I was like, I don't like, this is, it's just out of body. Like, I was like, you know. Yeah. There's, I thought I was flirting with Bradley Cooper. Well, no, I only saw a selfie with him and I was like, Bradley Cooper's probably hitting on Danny. Like, I can't compete with this. What am I going to do? This is the funniest thing about our relationship is sort of thinks I leave the house and get hit on 24-7 when I don't remember the last time I got hit on ever. Yeah, no, I I was at gymnastics with Stella and I saw this selfie and I was like, this sucks. I was like, how am I going to feed Bradley Cooper? When in reality, I was like, should I go pick up my guitar again and like start learning songs? Like, what should I do? In reality, I was, um, so Bradley Cooper

was there serving us lunch and, you know, he's serving lunch to like 50 women, but like half of the women are just as famous as he is. So really he's only serving women like lunch to 20 of us. So I was like, this is just wild. And so I, oh, I was with Susan Knowles,

who is from the Golden Bachelor. She's amazing, by the way. Probably one of my favorite people, like, in life. And- What did she say about this Jerry guy?

I can't say, but that's, I really can't say, but it was actually really juicy. She actually told me not to talk about this on my podcast, and I actually did. didn't even tell you this.

It's about their divorce because he just got a divorce. Not from her though. No, she didn't win. He was engaged to Teresa. Yeah, Teresa. He was engaged to Teresa and they only were, no, I'm sorry, he was married to Teresa. They were married for like three months and then they got a divorce,

something like that. And she told me why? But I can't say. Which is so annoying, but I want to tell you all, but I can't. Because I know that she'll like, She literally told me she was like, Danny, do not say. But I'll tell you later. Okay.

Or if you guys are meeting on the street, I'll tell you. Because you know I can't give a secret. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I won't tell anybody. Maybe.

Okay. So how was Bradley? Okay, so I was with Susan. And this is what's crazy. Bradley calls Susan over. He goes, Susan, I'm a huge fan. I have so many questions for you. Susan's like, bye, Danny, like, bye.

So she goes over and gets a picture with Bradley Cooper. And I had already gotten a selfie with him because, you know, like my body just took over. And I was like, just get a picture with Bradley Cooper. And so then I'm standing over there. And there is a clothing business that's sold at QVC. It's called Peace. Peace World Love. No, Peace Love World.

And this girl here names Elena, she's the founder, owner of it. and she was so sweet. As Susan was getting a picture with Bradley Cooper, I wasn't even going to ask. Because I was like, you know, he's just one of the celebrities that he's just too big. I'm like, I don't deserve it. And she was like, dude, you get in there. She goes, hi, I'm Susan's manager.

This young lady needs her picture next and just pushed me over there. Wow. It was so nice. So I told her, I was like, send me some of your clothes. I'm going to shout you up so hard. Like, you don't believe. Like, I was like, I'm going to support you. I was like, here's my address.

I am forever indebted to you. She was really sweet. She had brought her daughter as well, and so we kind of hung out. There were a lot of daughters there. Speaking of daughters, you know who else was there? Babs, brunch with Babs on TikTok and Instagram.

She is a hoot. Did she get along a tornado? Oh, yeah. Her tornado belong together on stage somewhere. But Babs is, it's really sweet. Her daughter manages her account. She was really, really cool. She was kind of like the brains behind the business.

And Babs is just Babs. You know? Like, and so my mom and Babs got like a little TikTok collab together. I filmed it for them. And, yeah, it was really sweet. Rita Wilson was there. Tom Hanks' wife. She performed for us.

I know. Jordan thinks she's in the Illuminati. No, no. I don't, I'm not saying she is. I'm saying that when Illuminati comes up, she's pretty tied to it. Yeah. Because of Tom. I'll tell you this.

She didn't give me Illuminati vibes. I mean, did she make this sign? Only like. Do you have any triangles? No, just above her eye like this. No, she did it. She's like singing on stage and she's just covering one eye. She's like, no, she had sparkly pants on too.

And so she singled me out. Man, these pants I wore were just a hit. It was the best decision I ever made. They're from Nasty gal. They're under $100, you guys. Go to my LTC page. They're still on there. So wipe up.

No. But no, they were the cutest jeans and people just loved them. So anyway, Rita Wilson came up to me and was like, love your jeans, girl. And I was like, yeah, sparkles. You know what you should have done with him, her? you should have asked about her son Chet Babe this is why I need you places Because her son Chet is a rapper

Really? Yep She's got Colin and she got Chet Colin actor Some good films Orange County Nothing like his dad It's okay

It's big shadow But Chet That would be hard to be Tom Hanks Chet is a rapist Child Because like what are you ever gonna do I think that Yeah I think Chet might have taken the more

rebellious path. Well, you know, I'm telling you, it was hard to be tornado's daughter as well, because she was just out there soaring. I was like, I belong here too, like just following her around and taking all her pictures. So is she loving it? Is she hating it? Is she like, oh my gosh, like, how do you do this every day? So to be honest, my mom and I, I went up to David.

Ratcliffe, I think is, no, that's Daniel. Ratcliffe. He's from Harry Potter. David Rawlinson, I think. He's the CEO of QBC. Let me fact check myself because I don't want to disrespect him. I want to say David Rawlinson, if I remember correctly, KVC. Was he the brains behind this event most likely?

No, he wasn't. David Rawlinson. Wow, I never ever ever. David Rawlinson the second. So he was the CEO of QVC and I got to chat with him for about 20, 30 minutes. I really let him have it. About what? I was like, listen, David, the first.

fact that you don't have tornado on QBC. Yes, good girl. I was like, that's your problem. It is. Right there. It really is their problem. I was like, tornado will fix all things. Just so you all know the history, I have been pushing tornado and Q, like, tornado be

a QBC host for years. Truly, I'm on my second year of pushing this on QBC. To be fair. My mom's like, I don't know if I want to be on QBC. And I keep telling her, I said, listen, we're going to buy you a farm in Pennsylvania. You're going to hang out on the commune with all the other hosts. Laura Geller did me and my mom's makeup one day at the event. She's so cool, so sweet.

I was like, mom, look at all these friends you'll have out here. I know. It's all these women that just like kill it on QVC. Each time they go live, y'all, they are selling millions, millions of dollars of products. Like I think it was they had a stat. I think it was like 80% of QBC's audiences over 50. Like these women are just sitting at home buying things all day long. And I'm like, mom, I'm like, you could do this.

She could, she could do amazing. I think everyone's like kind of on the same page. We just got to like find her a product to like really get behind. Yeah. Well, she's really like, yeah. It's also an endeavor. I'm truly, I talked to them about that too. Don't you worry.

Yeah. Oh, I know. Last time. I was bringing that room. This is how hardcore I am about it. Last time you were on QBC with your mom for Elamus. One of our employees, Jenny was there. And I called Jenny after the.

show and I said hand the phone to don't say your name yeah the VP and I and she handed the phone and I said listen I'm watching this like I know that this is performing like why isn't divy on QVC she thinks it's so funny she thought it was hilarious we love our KVC family I hope we get to do more with them because I really did have it was just the most amazing week and so how do you think that they plan on innovating because you know cable cutters um well

honestly I think they're gonna they're gonna probably hire a tornado and me to come fix those problems for them. Oh, okay. No, they have some ideas and we talked about them, but I don't know if I'm supposed to. So anyway, yeah, we had a, it was a great week. Can I say one more thing about Bradley Cooper? Did the TikTok ban pass? Oh, yeah. So it's not happening? It's happening. Biden signed it. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, you're telling me TikTok is going away. Yeah, that's what happened while you were gone. as I was out here petitioning for the future of our business on Instagram and I was saying get rid of TikTok, get it out of here.

Okay, so what's going to happen? So are you telling me I don't have to make TikToks anymore? Well, I don't, I don't, they have like a year to figure this out and they probably will. Like I think it's still hardcore theatrics. I don't, maybe there's people like in the intelligence and national security industry that like actually want this ban. To me, it just feels like theatrics that. it's just going to lead to some hostile takeover from an American company or whatever.

But sources are now starting to say that bite dance is actually way more involved. Bite dance is like the Chinese company that is like over TikTok. So their whole argument before was like, oh, no, TikTok operates independently. You know, it's a U.S.-based company. We just own it. And now it's starting to come out a lot more that they're very heavily involved. and like policing, you know, different decisions that are being made at, like, the U.S. company. So I don't know.

I think they love TikTok. I think BightDance is like, TikTok and BightDance are one. This is not going to be separated. But then it'll get caught up in courts and it'll just be like years and years and years. Great. So we're still making Tick-Dicts. So we're still making TikToks. I think it's just a theatrical thing.

Okay. Did you want to say one more thing about Bradley Cooper before we move on? Oh, yeah. I was just going to tell you that when. When I went, I was at gymnastics with Stella and I was like, okay, if Bradley Cooper's hitting on Danny, I said, okay, Danny versus Gigi Hadid, because that's who his girlfriend is, right? Rude. Ew, what do you have to say?

No, you won on every account. That's why I started spiraling as I was like, okay, well, on this account, like this account, I was like, no, you know what? Like, Gigi's probably some like supermodel with no personality. I was like, Danny's the full package. That's what it got me going. If I can give you any dating advice, marry you a man that thinks Bradley Cooper would leave to Gigi Hadid for you.

I really, it depends on your whole's conversation and how much like, you know, he hit on you hit back. Me and Bradley Cooper were basically Macin in the back. Really, honestly. I was like Philly Cheese Steak. All I saw was a selfie with Bradley Cooper and then I was like, oh, he actually like got out of the food truck and like took a. picture with her. This is why I love social media because you can just tell whatever story you want.

The fact that that's what you thought happened, those pictures, both of those pictures, there was like a two hour break in between them. Yeah. But you don't know that. She's not picking up her phone. She's not answering. I was like, F, man. I was like, freaking Bradley Cooper. I'm in the truck of the Bradley Cooper. L.O.L. No, honestly, I feel the same like, okay, I would say my celebrity crush, maybe Chris Pratt. That's a new one, right? No, it's always been. Really?

Chris Pratt for sure. I thought it was always like Leo. Leo and DiCaprio? No, like when he was like 20. Oh, okay. Brad Pitt? No, but like Brad Pitt's like they're both good-looking guys, but like I don't know. But I feel like Chris Pratt would be like an ice man.

Yeah. Even if he came up to me, I would be like, oh, no. I know. That's how I feel truly. Yes, it was insane. So we just love each other. We just love each other. We play this.

We were so bored. this fast week We're so bored We were so bored After our double header We like put the kids to bed And we're like well we can't leave Because they're asleep

So what are we're like Should we go like Go somewhere? Like babe Our kids are sleeping No Where will we go? And so we pulled out this game

Was it called what do you Or do you know me? It's called do you know me We didn't even play it right We just use the cards As like conversation starters So we'd be like Can you like

I believe Danny Can name the last NBA champion and I was like no and I would guess and then you would do it and I'd be like ah. The stupidest game we like entertained ourselves for like 30 minutes honestly though I feel like what we confirmed is like we know

each other incredibly well. Did you have fun playing with me? Yeah. You did? Yeah. You wanted to play chess and I was like boring I'm going to beat you. I beat you every time. Okay, you played twice. But I do like that in 64 idea. We should get an in 64 and start playing one of first. I told Jordan I was like

We need to get at Nintendo 64, place of Mario Party, place of double of seven, play all the Zelda. He still love Zelda. I never played that. That was actually on Nintendo, not Nintendo 64. Anyway, you know what, guys, we have a great show today. 30 minutes in. We have two segments this week. One, we're going to do things that make you go hmm, and then we're going to move on to the viral spiral and talk about things that are going viral.

Number one, things that make you go, hmm. Fox Try is closing. its doors forever in the middle of the day. If y'all don't know what Fox Trot is, it is a coffee shop that is like pretty famous. They have them all over the country. Is it a coffee shop or a grocery store? Both, both. The internet news outlets and TikTok are buzzing after the coffee shop and market chain. Fox Trot, Dom's Kitchen and Market closed forever. It was zero warning to customers and employees in the middle of operating hours early last week. The announcement caught employees and customers so off guard that staff actually had to tell customers they had to leave right

that moment while other stores handed out free wine and product to those gathering as a news spread. All 33 stores in an additional two Dom's Kitchen and markets were shut down effective immediately. The store shared a message with store managers on social media. The closure was so sudden that customers and staff took to social media rather quickly spreading the news, which drew mass attention and crowds to the stores in cities like Chicago, Dallas, D.C. and more. While there is no official word on what actually happened, it is known the company was struggling financially and had just hired a new CEO in March. Now the company is facing class action lawsuits for its failure to properly notify its employees. This is what's so crazy about

this story. I was at Fox Trot like three days before this happened. And do you remember? Oh no, you went with me. I went to a bridal shower. Yeah. No, I'm sorry, a baby shower that was on the same Street as Foxshot like off Knox Henderson, no not off Knox that area and um that was probably a week before and Foxshot had live music outside of it and I remember thinking man Fox Trot is thriving they have live music in front of them like I remember that thought going in my head and being like I need to go back to Fox Trot because they have live music and then they literally closed down in the middle of the day I feel like you and I are both pretty smart business people does this really surprise you? About Foxtrap? Yeah, that it closed? Well, when you're selling $17

granola bars, no. But who's buying $17 granola bars? That's what I'm saying. No, it doesn't surprise me. Oh, it doesn't surprise me. I thought you, okay. No, no. It doesn't surprise me at all. I mean, we walked in there and I was like, okay, yeah, cool coffee shop. But I'm not going to spend $8 on something. I feel like their whole strategy was like, let me go and buy, let me go and lease out the most expensive real estate in every city to be in like the who's who's of a neighborhood. Yeah, they were. And let me find all of these like niche brands that are cool. They had like, they had like probably 300 drink options, kind of like that one place in LA. Oh, Air One. Yes. Air one. Yeah. Yes. But like LA has celebrities. Like Dallas doesn't. I don't know. This is the same.

Yeah. I just don't think they were branded the same. I think Air One is like really well branded. I also think that Air One has way less locations. These people are like all over everywhere. So they probably grew really fast. And what I think you and I both know is that this is what a lot of companies do. They raise a ton of capital. Boo! And they're like, let's figure out how to be profitable later. Oh, babe, I'm so happy you brought this up because you know when we were starting Divi, I was like, I am not taking a dime from anyone else because if my company doesn't grow

or it's, there is something failing, I want to know exactly why it is. Is it the marketing? Is it the product? Is it the customer service? but like when you have so much cash injected into a business at the start and you throw money at every single, you don't know what's going wrong. You don't know until you've scaled so big that all the systems start to break down. And then you're like, where was our company actually lacking? But with Divier, with a lot of, if I ever were to launch another company, like I wanted to grow gradually and start really small so you can poke holes and fix them like as you need. But with a lot of cash, you just can't because you just throw,

Okay, you have like, if somebody throws you $10 million, I'm like, okay, put this amount into marketing, this amount into product development, this amount. When at the end of the day, maybe nobody likes your product. Well, then you're screwed. Yeah, I don't know. I honestly don't know a single person. Like, I know all of our friends who are like, I love their coffee. And so I'm like, okay, so it's a coffee shop. Like, you can't.

Their coffee was like, okay, but merits better. But you can't sustain a coffee shop like on Knox Henderson with just coffee, right? You have to sell more than that. So they had a market. So I was like, okay, so it's a market. but I've never seen anyone or talk to anyone who was like, oh, I got this at Foxchalk Market. So it's like, it's like so sad because I,

because you can't drive there either. It's not like a grocery, like Trader Joe's. You can't like drive and go shop. Yeah. You know, so it's kind of like Royal Blue Grocery. Yes. Whatever happened to them. They used to be our place.

They used to have one in Dallas and that went by by too. Yeah. I feel like that type of concept just doesn't work. Well, I think it works in different times. Like I think it works like, pre-COVID when we weren't in kind of like a recession state. Yeah. But like people are complaining like about the price of groceries at like a Kroger.

Yeah. Like no one's going to a fox trot market and being like, I really want this obscure brand of granola bar. That's $18. That's $18. No one's doing that right now. I'm not kidding y'all. They had like granola that was $18.

So it's like, it's like I feel so bad for them because probably in the boardroom they were trying to figure this out and this turnaround CEO came in in like March and was like, okay, how do I fix this? And it sucks, but he probably was like, let's have live music outside. He's like, I don't look at him. Hey, it got me. If you would have just given it two more weeks, they could have made the comeback. I'm telling you.

Let's put some live music. Like, let's make it more of a destination. But I think that the reason they shut down so immediately is that they truly had no other option. They were like, hey, no one's going to fund us. We are literally purging and hemorrhaging money. And so it probably was the decision of like, do we immediately cease operas? maybe give our employees like something. Do you feel like that's like kind of a disrespectful though?

I'm actually curious. Like I don't I don't know because I'm not in that situation. My my guess is like as frantic as TikTok as being is my guess is that they had no other options. Like they either they were going to default either to the even 24 hours to give your employees 24 hours to like make sure you start looking for other jobs or you don't waste your day coming in when you're not going to get paid or you know, I don't know. So apparently they were 180 million in the hole. Okay, so like if you're in the hole that much, like, you, maybe what happened was they thought that they were going to get some, like, financing deal.

Oh. And then it fell through and they were like immediately cease operations. But I see, I see. I feel like I've been at a company like where it was going down. It's not Debbie. No, it's not Debbie. It was like early on. Just to clarify.

Early on my career, it was wise where they're not around anymore. But like, I feel like towards the end, like everyone kind of. saw the writing on the wall. And it is crazy to be in a culture like that because what happens is like six guys in the room are all like, guys, we're going down. And there's always the one guy. He's like, no, we're going to see the ship. We got this.

We got this live music outside. Let's go. It's like, get Iris Apple of us. Alexis Bator. Yeah. So it's like there's always that one guy. And when it actually runs out of cash, it's usually like that one guy. it's usually like that one guy who is trying to just not see the obvious.

Yeah. That makes it to where it's like, okay, we have to shut down tomorrow. Okay. That makes sense. It makes sense like behind closed doors, like how it happened. But I'm just wondering why the outrage, like who was going to this coffee shop? I think it was very popular. I think Foxshot is a very popular coffee shop.

And I mean, like they had like music. Like people were sitting out there. Like, you know. How many people were sitting out there? You know, like listening. No, I will say I have been to this coffee shop multiple times. I don't love their coffee. It's just in a good location.

And so it's when I'm walking by or passing by. And it's always packed. But how do you go $180 million in the hole? Honestly, probably the real estate that they were in. Like Knox Henderson, they were over by a lover's saying. But it really does make you go. Topic two, Boeing employees says employees would jump on plane parts to make them fit. That's comfort.

It does seem. Boeing quality engineer and whistleblower Sam Sailor, I'm sorry if I said that wrong, Salipur, testified to Capitol Hill stating that Boeing's push for rapid production undermined its commitment to safety. During his shocking testimony, Salespore, man, if I'm saying that wrong, Salipore said he saw employees taking shortcuts when assembling 787 Dreamliners.

He also alleges he saw people jumping on airplane parts to get them to align. Sale Poor stated during an interview with NBC's Lester Holt that these gaps that are caused by not entirely fitting plane pieces could lead to them breaking apart mid-air. According to one article, there have been eight major documented issues with Boeing planes since 2024 began. The company denied these claims, calling them inaccurate and said that they are all fully confident

in their 7-87 Dreamliners. While there isn't substantial evidence in numbers accessible to the public that shows these two types of planes, the official whistleblower complaint is being investigated thoroughly by the FAA. Also, did you see that Southwest Airlines is not doing well? No.

Yeah. Why? They're waiting on like a big shipment of Boeing's, apparently, but they had to shut down like three of their routes because they're just... Because they don't have enough planes? I think planes, they just, I don't know, it's just not going well.

Hope your dad's okay. I think he's all right. His dad works for Southans. But he's not a little bit. Sorry. It's true. His dad works on the ramp at Southwest. So his job,

hopefully is not affected. Yeah, no, he's a day. Never mind. So. What are you laughing? It's true.

No, it's true. Here's the thing. I feel like it feels less and less safe to fly. Lately. Is it actually becoming less safe or are we just being, are we just hearing about it more? No.

What I'm talking about is like, yes, there's the external factors of people jumping on plane parts. Like, it sounds like they're putting together planes like I put together Stellas toy car, you know? Yes. Which is probably not entirely accurate,

I would hope. I'm like, maybe they were just jumping to get like a dent out. Like, you know. It's fine. I would do too. It's okay. I feel like people were just

probably taking this little too far by it, I guess. Yeah. But so from the outside, they're kind of falling apart. But like from the inside, like, I feel like I'm hearing more stories about people like trying to rip open doors and stuff. Yeah, what's going on with the soul of the plane? The outside looks okay, but the inside is just really falling apart.

I didn't mean the inside. I didn't mean the soul of the plane. I meant the people inside. Oh, okay, okay. People inside are trying to. to like rip open doors and stuff. Like they're having to like, I know. Like, it's awful.

Like, hold people down because they're trying to jump out. And then you have windows breaking and it's just really, it's horrible. I'm not laughing. I mean, are you not, do you ever feel less and less safe from being? I got to be honest with you. I just don't let my mind go there. I'm not really a frady cat when it comes to things like that because I just don't think about it.

And here's my philosophy. in life. You want to hear it? Yeah. And it's my time to go. It's my time to go. And so I just, I don't stress about it, you know, but maybe I would take like smart, like precautions. Like if I was about to fly a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, I would be like, maybe not. You know who you should dial in for this segment? Olivia. Olivia. Call her. Ask her if she's ever had to restrain someone from trying to jump out of the plane. Okay. Jump out of the plane.

Yes, that's what people are doing. They're trying to open up the doors, the emergency exits. Wait, what? That's what I've been saying. Oh. You talked about the soul of the plane. I'm talking about the people inside trying to rip up the doors. Because people are lunatics.

Wait, wait. Did you make that up? No. Who's happening more and more. Call Olivia. Can they do that while the, can you open the door while it's moving like that? Yeah, if you send the emergency exit. Are you sure?

Are you Googling or calling her? To be honest, I don't know. have so many Olivia's in my phone. I have like 30 Olivia's. I just, I know a lot of Olivia's. If she doesn't answer, she doesn't love you. Okay. Okay. We're like in fourth grade. My phone's gonna die. Really? It's okay. She's probably slinging some Amazon. Good for her. She's making that money. If she answers you and not me, she only loves you. Yeah, that's how kind of how it works. She's like, help me. The Austin's will let me go. How did you join this family? You want to call my dad asking about the boat?

Oh yeah, I call her dad. You know. You call my dad. Me and Joel. We do have a very special relationship. Okay. Joel. Like, someone's not doing well.

Hello. Hey, Joel. What are you doing? Hi, Danny. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm doing good.

Are you at work? Yeah, I'm on a little break right now, but yeah, I'm at work. Okay, question for you. Uh-huh. Have you had any issues with some of these planes, like some of the Boeing? Have we had issues? Yeah, I've been reading about how the Boeing's are not doing well. No, I don't, I mean, we're downsizing station-wise because we don't have enough planes.

They're not delivering them what they said they were going to. That's what I said. Okay, I was curious, because I was reading that Southwest is not doing very well right now. No, they're not. They've lost a bunch of money. So you haven't, is it true that people are trying to jump out of airplanes right now? They're trying to jump out of airplanes? Here, I'll let Jordan say it.

No, they're like, people are trying to open up emergency exits and stuff. Oh, he says people are trying to open up emergency exits while they're flying. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I haven't heard anything about that. Those are just crazy people. Yeah. Okay.

I don't think that would be very good advice. If you hear any rumors about Boeing, let us know. Okay. All right. You had no idea who's on the podcast. I like to not tell people. Yeah, it's better. It's something to be themselves.

It's better that way. So anyway, in the last three years, there have been 32 Boeing whistleblowers that have come forward. That's a lot. Do you hear about the one that just committed suicide? Or quote unquote. No. Yeah. What was his name?

They definitely didn't, though. That's what I'm saying, too, to be honest. Are you kidding me? If you have a big secret to tell like that, you're not. committing suicide. Whistleblower John Barnett found dead in the U.S.

Boeing is a little sketchy. In fact, we should probably stop talking about it. Yeah, they're going to come after us. Or we're going to have the biggest brand deal of our lives. We're like, guys, listen, we were wrong about Boeing. Today's sponsor. Today's sponsor is.

Boeing Jets. I don't know, but that sure makes you go. Hmm. All right. It's time that we transition to viral spiral. We actually had one of our de-influencers DM us this post, and we want to share our thoughts on it. Some Christians are not very happy about Taylor Swift's new album. There's a post going around on social media where the content creator basically dissect certain lyrics from Taylor Swift's

new albums, the tortured poets department, and alleges that almost half of her songs use explicit language, make fun of Christians, and blasphemy God. This content creator goes on to point out lyrics in guilty as sin, the smallest man who ever lived, and, but daddy, I love him. Now, the comments lean more so toward calling out this content creator for not listening to the album in its entirety and judging and shaming the artist. However, there are supporters who say they agree with this post, and those in the Christian community shouldn't allow their children to listen to Taylor or be fans of her themselves. Well, what are your thoughts on this? So I saw the post.

And I will say Taylor Swift's new songs, or a lot of her album is explicit. They do have an E next to them. So I have been conscientious of when there is an E song coming on. If I'm like listening to the house, I skip through it because I don't want my kids to hear the F word. Because that's mainly what it is. It's just like bad language. But to me, you know, these type of posts just seem to pop up. whenever anything goes viral.

So it's like Beyonce comes out with an album. All of a sudden, all of a sudden, she's a Satan worshiper. You know, Taylor Swift goes viral. All of a sudden, she's a Satan worship. Whatever it is. Like I've always said, A, I don't think that Taylor Swift is a Christian. B, I think that some of the lyrics that she was using, she is trying to paint like a picture.

And a lot of them, she actually is talking about how, like, Christians have treated her and like how they have judged her and how it made her feel like she's not good enough or that she's not accepted and I think a lot of times she kind of plays into that plays into the fact that everybody thinks that she's a witch or everyone thinks that she's horrible, whatever it is. I don't think that she was like mocking Christianity

and I don't think she was mocking God. Like we were talking about this earlier, it's like her form of poetry. She's using these like metaphors in like the story. And I think because she doesn't believe in the gospel probably she doesn't take it as seriously as like Christians do and so yeah I will say like it's not my favorite lyric and I do happen to like skip over that song a lot of times like I don't I don't love it is it dark no um it's not dark and um she just like makes oh let's see um where is it okay so here's one

and bet daddy I love him i just learn these people only raise you to cage you sarah's and hannah's and their sunday best clutching their pearls sighing what a mess i just learned these people try and save you because they hate you um let's see in guilty as sin what if i roll the stone away they're going to crucify me anyway what if the way you hold me is actually what's holy if long-suffering propriety is what they want from me they don't know how you've haunted me so stunning I choose you and me religiously. Meanwhile, Travis Kelsey's like, what is Sudenheim? Did you all see that clip?

I, like, was dying laughing because on New Heights, on his podcast, he was reading a story. And he was, like, obviously skipping over a word. But he said, he used, like, a couple of other big words in it, you know? And, like, Jason Kelsey called him out. They're like, he's like, brother, you skipped over the words, say the word. He's like, no, no, no, no.

He can't say the word because he couldn't pronounce it and the word was pseudonyms and the silent P was really getting him. It's just so, it's so funny and so cute. But like, yeah, I mean, obviously I don't love it. I don't think she was mocking Christians. I don't think, like, I don't think that she's a Christian. Like, I just don't. I don't think she is either. Was she ever, did she ever talk about, like, her faith or God in, like, early albums, like 15 or anything?

Yeah, but not like she was, like, passionate. about her faith, but she did talk about being a Christian back in the day. But I don't think that she ever, like, lived by. I think it was just more of like a, like a label for her. Yeah. And so I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. There's so much about Taylor's stuff that none of us know that it's like.

And I should have freaking asked Donna Kelsey. I'm so mad at myself. I don't think she would even know, though. Yeah, probably not. I don't think that they probably go that deep. A circle of five people that actually know who she is. Okay, so here's another song. God save the most judgmental creeps

who say they want what's best for me, sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I'll never see, thinking it can change the beat of my heart when he touches me and counteract the chemistry and undo the destiny. You ain't got to pray for me. Me and my wild boy and all of this wild joy, if all you want is gray for me, and then it's just white noise and it's just my choice.

That's poetry right there. She's incredible. Right? I mean, the thing is, like I said, I don't think that it was anything that was not like attacking Christianity or attacking her faith or anything. But I think she's just kind of being honest. And yeah, I mean. Is this like really a thing though? Like are Christians really coming after her?

Oh, yeah. I've been sent this post so much. In fact, people are going to DM me after this and they're like going to be like, you're making excuses for her. And I'm like, I'm just, I just don't take it that seriously, I think. I don't like listen to her lyrics and like like worship her. I think it's fun to like figure out her story and what she's talking about. Yeah. But I'm not like worshiping her or her lyrics.

What are some other like hard examples that people have given of her being a Satanist or which? She looks a lot like the daughter of like that church. She does though. She really does. I'm not like a lot. She does. Yeah, she really does. But that's like she's just not.

Like she's not. I'm sorry. She's not. not say they're not like devil worship roots they're just they're just not yeah they're just yeah because honestly like at the end of the day i i i i it's hard to talk about someone's like um what do you call it if they're saved or not salvation yeah salvation i was going to say sing anyway it's hard to talk about someone's salvation because it's so serious like it's it's it's not something to take lightly.

Well, I'm sure all the Christians are definitely praying for her and not totally judging her, blasting her. Yeah, I'm sure they're just sitting there. Yeah, because I think that's what's so hard is, to me, like, yeah, she's not a Christian. She probably doesn't know the gospel. She's probably not experienced it just yet. But I think the way that everybody is attacking her

isn't probably helping. So if you're like looking at the big picture, It's like this is unfortunately probably just pushing her further away from her faith, as you can see as she writes in these songs. Yeah. The way that, dude, people are, I think it's just Christians trying to take advantage of the moment and trying to like get clout from from attacking her because they know it's going to get clicks. Yeah. Like it just is what it is. Like, come on.

Are they doing those like TikTok talking head videos? You know, if someone genuinely was like praying for Taylor Swift's salvation and like worried about her salvation. they are not going to be going to Instagram posting this. Like, they're just not. Because to be honest, I worry about her salvation sometimes. And like, I'm not going to go attack her for that. Like, I think about it. I'm like, and it makes me sad sometimes when I think about it.

I'm like, man, she probably doesn't know. And like, I wonder what she's actually like, if she actually feels this way or whatever, you know, whatever. But like, what, so me going and attacking her is going to make her be like, I love Jesus. I'm like, no. Yeah. So it's just kind of sad when I see stuff like this, to be honest.

It makes me not want to hang out with Christians. Like you guys are just a bunch of like judgmental bombs. You know what happened? It's those TikTok videos. They get a lot of views. The talking head videos where you're like, let me tell you what Taylor says lyrics actually mean. Like those are the ones that like really get views.

So it's really an algorithm problem with Christians. So now we're going to move on to a game. Basically this game is called, I'm calling it this and making this up right now. The millennial motto. And what you're going to do is you're going to say a line that only millennials would know from the 90s or from our childhood or just from being 30 years old. Okay. That Gen Z would not understand.

Like if there was, we have a Gen Z podcast producer, she will have no idea what we're talking about. Okay. And then we're going to guess what it is. You go first. Oh, you want me to go first? Okay. I'm going to give you a song. Okay.

And you're going to tell me what song this show belongs to. Okay. From West Philadelphia, born. O.C. Yeah. Duh. Do you know what this is? Really?

I never watched O.C. I really. You never seen O.C.? The Hills? Oh my gosh. That's crazy. O.C. was like everything. Okay. You win the football players. Watch. Okay.

Ready? Yeah. Superstar. Did she smell our hands? Yeah. Yeah. Superstar. You know what that is?

She doesn't know what that. Superstar. She's like, I smell my hands when I get nervous. I've actually never seen the movie, but the minute that you put your hands in your armpits, I know what you're talking about. That was great. It's good. Okay, my turn. Cab's a here.

Cabs are here. Cabs are here. Taxi. Cab? No. You don't know what this is? No. Cabs are here?

No. Jersey Shore. Jersey Shore. I never watched Jersey Shore. What? No. Oh, babe. We got to binge that tonight.

I never watched Jersey Shore. It was so trashy I couldn't. But you know, there's heart to it. No, I used to watch the real world. Okay. The OG version. No, I didn't ever watch that. You can't handle the truth.

That's a deep one. That's a deep track. But everybody knows it. Do you know that one? It's called A Few Good Men. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.

Okay. My turn. Clear eyes, full hearts can't lose. Oh, the high school show. You have to name it. Oh, oh, my gosh. Embarrassing. Oh, my gosh.

Friday night lights. Okay, good. Do you know that one? I thought it was for remember the Titans. Okay. So if, okay. Does he have your number? Would it 1-800 be it?

You got that one? What is it? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Does he have your number? 1-800-bi-a-ch? My favorite's Gouda. Is it? But I'm allergic to the sun.

Oh, she's the man? Yeah. Okay, yeah. I was honestly going to say like the Friday movie or something. No. I thought those white chicks for a second. Yeah. My favorite Guda.

That's fine. That's good. Oh, one more. Um. Oh, this will be good if you got this, if you get this one for then. Go home. home, Roger. Go home, Roger.

How much I missed you. I'm going to let you go, sister, sister. Oh, sister, wow. No, I never watched that. Go home, Roger. They would say it together. Did you watch that a lot? A lot.

I love that. Tia and Tomorrow. I've never seen a single episode. Mallory. They were so funny. Funny. You know what other show I used to watch? Do you get it?

Jimmy Neutron? No. She's like, no, what is that? Amanda Binds? That's so Raven, it's the future I can see. That's so raven. It's a serious to me. She would be fun to have on the podcast.

She was, she was the, her and Amanda Binds were hilarious growing up. They were icons. They don't make them like that anymore. No. Anyway, guys, listen to me. I need you listen to me right now. We have an Instagram, and it's so funny. And if you're not following our Instagram, I don't think we can be friends anymore.

Okay. It's called de-influenced podcast, right? Yeah. Is there an underscore after de-influenced? No, just de-influenced podcast. And it's so funny, and it's so amazing. that's how I will know that you made it to the end of this podcast. If you go follow, I will be checking in, responding to comments, having a grand old conversation with you guys. It would mean

the world to me. And we also have a TikTok, which matters to me too. It's not like as priority, but it would be sweet if you follow it both. Okay. That's all I had to say. We love you and we'll talk to later. Bye.