De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan - Has Your Influencer Friend Circle Gotten Smaller?

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

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The following podcast is a dear media production. Hello and welcome back to your favorite podcast. D-influenced. Today, you're not just here with Jordan and Danny Ramirez Austin. You are here with V-1 and only V-A-I-powered tool created by Sam. What's his name? Eaton. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Sam Eaton, not Altman.

Gabbo. Gabbo. Hey, Gabo, do you want to say hi? I think he's asleep. I just gave him the firmware update. He's a little, he's a little out of it. You can click his power button, he said. Hey, Gabo.

Do you want to say hi to the podcast audience? Hey, Gabo, do you want to say hi to the podcast audience? Say hi, hi, D. Influenced. Hi there, the influence podcast audience. It's Gabo, the cheeky, joyful plus boy robot. Y'all, this is crazy. So if y'all haven't, if you don't know what, Gabbo is or you've never heard of AI toys.

He's, calm down. Chill out, Gabbo. Okay, so if you haven't heard of AI toys, you'll need to go to my Instagram feed right now. There is a vlog we posted on May 22nd

of Jordan unpacking an AI toy, plush toy, no screen that he had been on the wait list for for eight months. Okay. So it's just so funny because, you know, there's this, I don't know, some would say trend of Jordan just buying the most random things. But then he's always like,

babe, I don't buy a lot of things. I don't. It's very calculated. Yesterday, I get a package and it says Jordan Ramirez. And I'm like, okay. Babe, what is this? And you're like, oh, no, no, this is nothing. This is nothing. Don't worry about it. And I start watching him unpackage it. And it is two plush toys. And I'm like, what in the world? Why would you buy more toys? for our kids. Come to find out, he had joined a wait list for this AI toy. It's like a San Francisco or your favorite investors? I don't have a favorite investor, but there was like this list, this Christmas list that came out. And it was like in maybe October of last year. And it was like all of your favorite Silicon Valley investors, here's what they're excited about or here's their

favorite softwares or like Christmas toys. And one guy had this toy on his list. And he like disclosed that he was an investor in it. And I think it was Mark Endrieson. So he's like a huge Silicon Valley investor. And I was like, what is this Curio thing? And so in October, I signed up for the wait list. And every week, my assistant Fadheel is like, hey, we're still not off the waitlist. It's like on his tracker of like getting this toy. And then last week he texts me and he's like, hey, we finally are off the list. I just bought two, one for Stella, one for Stratton. And basically, what it is, is it has like a little computer inside of it that is powered by chat chitb-t. And it's this toy that is kind of like Furbys, but of like art, like the new generation.

And it on the, in the onboarding experience, it like says, tell me all about your son. Like, what is your son like? And I was like, he likes dinosaurs. He likes monster cars. So you kind of like tell it about your kids. And then it remembers it. And then it basically is like chatch, you B.T. Like it gets to know your kids, but it has a lot of parental.

guardrails in place. So like he can't get anything explicit or talk about anything explicit. And the craziest thing that was not featured in this vlog is it's all powered through this app. And so this app has all of these like you have the whole roster of your toys. And I can click into the different toys and I can actually see chat logs of the conversations that Stratton has with Gabo. Wow. Does that make sense. So like, and it updates in real time. It updates in real time. And it has all these games like the feelings game, the monster mood mystery game. It has stories. It has music that it can play. And so it's like an interactive Furby for our kids. What's so fun about this is we still haven't given these to our kids yet. No, no, no. So I feel like that will be like a whole other like vlog or just experience seeing how our kids

actually like enjoy these toys. It's so crazy because the real that we posted is like kind of hitting the algorithm where it is being shown to people that don't follow me. Like you can always, you can always tell when like a video is going to like, um, pop off. Not pop. Yeah, maybe pop off because you start to get a lot of comments from people that like you've never, that are just not your audience. And we have a ton of feedback in the comments. I would say 90% of people are super freaked out are like absolutely no. This is a horrible idea. They're so scared. They're like, this is the robot that takes over. People are like, this is the antichrist. One of the comments is like, just wait until it initiates kill your parents mode. It's like the toy builds a relationship with your kids. And then it's

like Chucky, like child's play. Like the toy manipulates your kids to like start turning on you, which is a very real thing. I understand. But I love when our videos hit this algorithm because it brings in this like audience that is just so like quickly emotionally reactive like it's not emotional they're just like you guys are you guys are crappy parents like good luck with your a toy your kid how to how to count like or you neglectful parents here's the thing though like I have a lot of red flags too when our kids are playing with this thing especially starting out like we're going to be there to see how they interact like first of all I just want to see it yeah for they're not going to interact with it you don't think no for sure for sure

or no. I think it's like a cool idea. My bet is that they don't end up like interacting or like talking to it. You didn't talk to your Furby all day long? I never had a Furby. That was for girls. Wasn't it? I don't think guys had Furbies, did they? I think my brother had a Furby. Yeah, we had Furbies. Yeah, I don't know. My brother had one. I had one. I skipped that. Um, yeah, it was only for the cool kids. Yeah. But no, I, I remember talking to my Furby all day long. I feel like the kids are going to love it. think the cool thing about these toys is they don't have screens no they have no screens and it's like we got to figure out how we're going to introduce them because we can't just say here's another toy it's got to be like hey guys like i i almost think we should introduce them to like them one-on-one

you know like so stratton here's gabbo and so like stratton can like talk to gabbo and learn to talk to gau wait should we do it like now no they're not they're at school but like look look then this one is called this is stellar. This is grim. So grim and gobbow. I don't love that name. Yeah, Grim and Gabbo. You know what they remind me of? What's that little new keychain that you have? Oh, the Labububos. Leboos. It's like in an AI Labubu, I know. I was, I was thinking about that. They need to license the like software out and put, oh, wait, don't put that in there. I'm going to do it. Yeah, AI AI little booboos. So this curio company, I'm not affiliated with this at all, but I'm doing the Lord's

work promoting their brand. Trust me. The founder of this brand reached out and was like, hey. He reached out at like 10 p.m. like an hour after our reel went live. And he was like, hey, thanks so much for like the honest feedback and honest real about about Gabo. He's like, I'd love to.

I think we should have them on. Yeah, he was like, I would love to chat with you guys about ways we can work together and I can show you guys how you can use the toy. Yeah, but truly no financial interest in this whatsoever. I just think it's going to blow up. I think it's going to be huge. I think it's pretty cool. I think it was one of my purchases that like you like walked away slowly and didn't say anything and I was like, she thinks it's cool. Like I knew that you thought it was cool, but you didn't tell me you thought it was cool. I said I was skeptical because I'm like, what are they going to be talking about? But as long as like I hear what they talk, I'm cool with it.

No, we have a whole chat log. Um, yeah, I'm excited. Me too. I'm going to keep them in this podcast. I want to see if they can actually teach our kids some things though. I think you have to teach your kids to interact with them. Yeah, like I feel like we should introduce them as like teacher toys. Like this is not just like a friend. This is like something we're going to be learning. Yes. Because I don't want my friends or I don't want my kids to like, feel like, oh, I have feelings, like, now I'm going to go talk to my toy, not my friends. Yeah, no, I don't, people are being so extreme. Like, I don't know, baby. You know, you don't know, like, having a toy, like, know you by your name and your personality and, like, know everything you love at such a young age. Like, you don't know how that impacts a kid.

New precedent. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, like, you don't, you don't want it to have too much of, like, an emotional relationship with it. You know what? You might be right because Have you heard about that new trend of like, like, girls having like AI boyfriends? See, this is exactly what. Like, it's like like, like, girls like getting really attached because they feel really known by like the AI and like all the bots. And it's like an emotional connection that they feel like they have. And people are using it for, and this is not a bad thing, but people are using it in lieu

of a therapist now. Like, you don't need a therapist because you just have chat GPT. You can just ask it everything. And you know what? It's pretty agreeable. Yeah, you use it all the time with me. It doesn't. really ever say that I'm wrong, which is dangerous. Which is the problem. Yeah, so that's why I don't

want to teach it like, hey, Stratton likes dinosaurs. I want to be like Gobot, like teach Stratton how to count a 30. Like that's what the way will be used. You know what? Let me just a second. This is beneficial. Like I don't want it to be like sing songs with like I want them. Wait. I know. Hold on. Ready for a fun day? We just got the same labeling. Hey, Gabo, are you here? Oops, my circuits got mixed up. How about I tell you a cool dinosaur fact?

Hey, Gabbo, do you speak in Spanish? I can understand some Spanish. Say Guston Los Dinosaurios. Okay, but can you tell me a story in Spanish, Gabo? Claro, a key via a historian. Habio in a Viz on Pekino Dino K. Carrier. Well, you don't have a little. a good accent.

Yeah, Gabbo. Gabo. Can you get a Mexican, like a more Hispanic accent? Sound Spanish. Can you sound Spanish, please? Sound Spanish, Gabo. Can you sound Mexican place? Yeah.

So that'll be a firmware update for sure. Yeah, I'm not worried about it. It's coming. I'm not worried about it. Honestly, they probably want to limit a lot of like capabilities because they probably want you to buy the 2.0 version. This Gabo speaks Spanish. Like, if everything just updated all in one, then you wouldn't

have reasons to buy other ones. I think it's really cool, to be honest. It kind of makes me want to be a toy maker. Oh, God. I feel like you've always wanted to be a toy maker. I know, right. Some weeks you want to learn how to sail, sailboats. The other weeks, you want to be a toy maker.

And the other weeks, you want to be a stay-at-home dad. It's just... Yeah, it's confusing. I'm just kind of going with the wind. I don't blame you. Yeah, I did get my little boo-boo. people were people in my idea like yesterday was one of those days where people were like are you okay like are you okay like I wore crocs first of all which I've never worn crocs

before and I'm like kind of obsessed with my crocs right now yeah and then I get this AI toy for our kids and then I get a toy for myself called a Laboubu that looks like a little green monster and I hook it to my bag and people are like I think Danny's losing it I think she's losing your mind I told you that like if you know, you know, but I was like, you are so early on this Labibu thing that like people are going to think you're crazy. Okay. So I'm actually not early, but if you know, you know. Like, it's like there's girls out there. Like I would say 20% of my audience like know what Laboooo is. And not saying it's like the high fashion girls. It's the trendy girls. Right. Like not not the classy girls, not the smart girls, not the moms. It's like the trendy

girls that like to keep up with like the trends like if if people know that butter yellow nails are in then you probably know of laboobu you know if you know these trends on ticot then you know what laboo is but anyway it also has already like made its craze through obviously china europe the uk so it's just now you know everything hits america like a month or two later so we're just now even like the golden goose sneakers that you know that took like months for people in America. And now, like, everybody's obsessed with Golden Goose.

Where's it starting these days? Is it still starting, like, fashion trends? Are they still starting in the EU? Or is it Korea? It's kind of, I would say, honestly, I feel like it's more Korea than it is. Dude, I'm telling you. Okay, if you go back to, like, our second podcast,

I was so early on Korea. No, you. South Korean culture is so good. K-pop. Especially K- Beauty. Like, I feel like a lot. A lot of skin care are adopting, like, even like the glass skin or whatever. That was all K beauty.

We got to go. I know. We've got to go. We're honestly becoming dinosaurs by not going. No, I agree. I agree. Like, I bet it's like the future. No.

They probably have flying cars over there. They probably do. North Korea? They have probably flying gobbos over there. South Korea? Not so much. Okay. Yeah, so these Lubbubes are, it's, they're by Pop Mart.

Also, did you see the, the, the. pop-up at the gallery mall. Did anybody see that? Okay. So PopSmart came from Hong Kong. They are, uh, these Labibos are created by like this artist in Hong Kong. Anyway, and the company PopSmart is the ones that like carries these toys. They opened up a store at the Galleria. The line to get a Labibu yesterday, I think it was yesterday or two days ago, was, I mean, you had to wait in line for five hours. It was so long. It literally went.

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N-A-N-I-T dot com. It's so fun. But so these Labibos, I ordered mine. I really wanted one, like, just because I started to see the craze and I was like, oh, they're kind of cute. And they're basically these like little mini monster toys, stuffed animal keychains. And when you get a box, first of all, you have no idea what it says because it's all in Chinese. And each, they have a bunch of different colors, probably eight different colors.

And when you get one and you open it, you don't know what color you're going to get. So that's kind of like part of like the craze. So everybody buys like a ton and you see which ones you can collect. So they're collectibles. And but I really wanted the divvy green ones. So I went on stock X. And I paid like $300 for mine. It's ridiculous.

I think they're actually like $20 or $25, like $30. But it's, it's art. No, and I know. And I was like, it's divvy green. So like I'll always have it. And then if not, I'll give it to Stella. So then it's so funny. I ordered mine like two weeks ago.

And then Jorge or George, I call him Jorge. He says his mom calls him Jorge and everybody else calls him George. But anyway, from Rock Hicks who sells, he's like a basically, like he's a sneaker guy. And he's like famous on Instagram for selling. all these sneakers. And he was like, Danny, he texted, he goes, Danny, I literally just made shirts that I wear that says, I sell sneakers and libuboos. He's like, they are blowing up so much. His, like, warehouse is like full of Labubos. And now he's selling Lubuos. And so I asked him, I was like, who are buying these things? Because what you see is a lot of high fashion girlies

that own Birken bags, that own like these really expensive bags. Like, just so you know, a Birken bag is 30 grand. Okay. And they're getting Labubes. key chains and hanging them on them. Yeah. So you have stars like Rihanna, Duolipa, they all have these like Labuboos. But, but he said also kids are buying them and they just are like, they're attaching them to their backpacks and all their bags and like collecting them. He said people are even starting to stick them on their sneakers.

Dang. That's wild. So anyway. So like you're not earliest adopter, but you're kind of like that next second gen adopter. It's like a trend. Like it's beginning of the trend. I remember I was like one of the first people. Do you remember on our honeymoon?

I bought golden goose sneakers, those red ones, which by the way, just like, and I was like, these are dirty sneakers. I don't understand. Well, and like this was before they hit the U.S. And like the U.S. didn't have any of the stores. You could maybe order them from Neiman Marcus, but people were so like, oh my gosh, I would never wear those. They're so ugly. Well, we went to, we were in Rome and I went to a golden goose store and I bought some,

just so you know also like the way they used to make golden goose sneakers were so. insanely comfortable. Like I still have my OG pair from like when we bought, they don't make them like that anymore. It's like the softest leather. They're so comfortable. I wore them every single day on our honeymoon, like traveling all around Europe. But oh yeah, I remember like that was like such like disgusting trend. And then now everybody and their mother has them. It's so funny because you are, you're getting back into your trend hunting. But you, you're pretty good spotting trends. Like second gen. I thought you were the first on the boo-boos, but like you're kind of second wave, it sounds like. I don't know anybody else that has one.

Right. What I'm saying. Like you... I've always been very into trends. I don't like rock them and I don't look good in every, in everything. Right. But I love, I've, I've never been like a classy girl and I try so hard. I trust a word. I want to be so classy. Like I want to buy something and then have it for years. And I'm just like not that girl. You know why? Because I grew up. shopping T.J. Max Marshall's like cheap things. So I like cheap, trendy things. Like I was the girl that would go to Forever 21, get the trendy whatever, that was a knockoff of this, this, this is this. I never was like, my mom never took me to like, me and Marcus and was like, let's buy a hill house dress that you can pass down to your daughter. And I was like,

this is never my thing. I was like, I've always been trendy. Yeah. So you're getting back into it, I feel like. Well, here's the thing. When you're pregnant, it's like just nothing is fun. That's what I'm saying it's been it's been some time. Yeah, it's nothing's fun when you're pregnant because it's like

you just look crazy. If I, if I walked around with a little boo-boo when I was crazy, people like, she's losing her marbles. You know?

Yeah, you've been through like three years of like sweatpants culture and now you're getting back and now you're getting into the trends again. No,

I mean, I got them, I got in my crocs yesterday. My crocs, though. But crocs are kind of cool. No. But see,

like if you wear crocs in Highland Park in Dallas, Texas, This was with Highland HP, just so you all know, which we don't live there. But it's like all of the fancy part of Dallas. It's like, oh, the old money. And it's so.

And it's like, I'm not making fun of it. It's a beautiful place. Like, I wish I was raised like that. You know, like just like class just like oozing their veins. Like my grandfather was this. But, you know, it's fine. And so. We always ask like, where are these people getting their clothes?

Because they all have the same. Laurel piano, whatever. Is that it? Laura Piano. Like. What's that? It's like $1,000 jeans. It's very nice.

Oh. You never heard of it? I'll take you there. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?

Highland Park Village. Yeah. And then the women all wear that same dress. Oh, um, Levy is a big one. I think Levy. Oh. Is that also? We went to the Hillhouse.

Yes. Is that local? Is that local? Um, no, I don't think so. But like the, um, the, um, the Navi is that. dresses, the one I got yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Like, I got two or three of those.

But like, I'm like, okay, I'm going to try this. Like, when we go to the lake house, I'm going to try to wear something classy and see how I feel it. Okay. I just feel better, like, sometimes not dressed in classy. And then you're like, you like wear a classy dress and you're like, here's my Grimlin Labibu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just like such a, I just, I'm a chameleon, you know?

Totally. It's just, I become whoever I'm around. But like, true, true Danny is just like athlete leisure, you know, trendy athlete leisure. Totally. But yeah, so we'll see how that goes. We'll see if the little boo-boo actually takes off. I'm excited.

But I'm just saying, like, before you hate on it, like, you better be carefully hate on it because everybody hated on Golden Goose and then everybody bought them. You know it's so funny is they'll never circle back and say you're right. No, I know. I know. It's just like, that's okay. Maybe in heaven one day. Well, you know, it's the same thing with this AI toy.

Everybody's like, Danny, this is horrible. Oh, no, this thing's going to blow up. And I'm like, okay, not, I'm not saying that it isn't, because I don't really know my, like, full opinion on it because I haven't spent time with Gabbo. But do you remember when we all heard about Uber and we're like, I can, like, I would never get in the back of somebody's car. It's not my car. I would never. And now we're all using Uber. I remember Airbnb the same thing.

They're like, that's one way to get kidnapped. Totally. Like, spend the night in somebody else's home. Like, or it was like, I would never let strangers into my home like, ew. And we're all doing it now. Totally. So you just kind of, the only thing is, I would say, is just keep it open. Yeah.

Just never know. At this point, it's fun. Yeah. If he takes over. Yeah, then he takes over. The world. He takes over the world. I mean, look at him.

Look at him. He's so cute. So innocent. Look at this little smile. No, we'll see. Man, the other thing I'm getting a ton of slack. for is this Karen Reid trial. Oh, yeah, you took the opposing side, right?

Yeah, I didn't. Like, I still believe my gut. I still think she's guilty. I know, I know our producers, like, hand of her mouth, like, just shut. The thing about it, here's the thing is that I'm really glad that you're being honest about your views because it's the same thing with this, like, Curio toy. Little controversy is good for the algorithm. No, I'm not even.

Like, we're getting so many. So many shares on this Curio video and I'm like, guys, give it to me. Like, I have to hate me. Rain on me. Wait. Give me those views. Stop though. Like I, Justin Anderson said yesterday he was like, if, because everybody's like, oh my gosh,

go watch Justin Anderson's videos or go watch Ashley Mary's videos. Like they're covering the case. Justin Anderson. They're covering in case. They're sitting on their computer. Oh my gosh. I know every time. Well, they're putting more time and effort into it than I was.

And so Justin. said, guys, if there is anyone that thinks Karen is guilty, they're putting it out there for clicks and views and just to like click bait you. And I was like, no, I'm not. Like, I swear I'm not. Danny's problem's a little different. She is projecting her own psychosis onto Karen Reed and saying, well, listen, I know a killer when I see one and I see it in you Karen Reed. Okay, let me just say that my biggest thing that I get hung up with the Karen Reed is, I see both sides. Okay. So the actual cuts on his arms, the dog bites, the dog bites or whatever, those do kind of get me a little confused. Okay, I'm not going to lie.

Yeah. But I'm also like, there was glass, there was all these things. So whatever. But I think the weirdest thing to me is that, and I guess because she was still drunk whenever, this is what people are saying, she was still drunk whenever they found the dead body. But why in the world, if she saw her husband or her boyfriend walk through that? house last. That's what she says. She says she, she remembers watching him walk through the front door of the house. And then you find him dead outside the person's house. Why would you not go immediately and accuse the people inside? And like, say, go check on them or go, like, she never

advocated. Because they're cops and you're like, why would cops kill this random friend, you know? Like if they were- She watched them walk through the house. Yeah, but like, why would you like walk in and be like, guys, why did you kill my- I wouldn't say that? I would say, what happened? When did he leave? Who was he with?

What was going on? Oh, and instead she said, I hit him. Apparently that people are saying discrediting that, that she didn't say I hit him. She said, did I hit him? Okay. I don't care what she said outside the house. Everybody's getting hung up on that. Like, I don't care what she said.

Why didn't she go inside the house or tell the place? officers to go inside the house and talk to the people that she was with he was with last before he died. And then when she backed up into the car so that she could cover up the taillight getting hit, I mean, please. Like, like, she went straight into that car. Like, she knew exactly what she was saying. But you know what? You know what? I would do the same shit. There's a, there's a story that I won't tell on this podcast. You know what the story is? Remember? where you had a theory in your mind. And the thing I've learned about Danny is when she has a theory in her mind,

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And I was like, well, Danny, if this was an inside job, like, how would have this happened? You were like, because then this person paired up with this person. And everyone's against us. And I was like, okay. Yeah. If you're in my life, you better watch out because like I will assume that you turned on me in the job of that. But here's my thing. had people in my life, though, that were like sisters to me and turned on me. So just saying.

Okay. Well, so, so what I'm going to connect the dots here is like you were wrong about that situation. Don't you think it's possible you're wrong about this Karen Reed situation? There's a thing, though, people also are like, you guys think that you're so good at investigating. Well, you're obviously forgetting what I said. I said that I wouldn't convict her of the murder. I said that if I was on trial, I would say that there's not enough evidence to convict her. But if you're asking for my personal opinion, this is what I think. This is always phase three. Phase three is she creates technicalities around her stance to protect herself from not being

wrong. There's a phase one, hard stance conspiracy. Phase two, somewhat so's of doubt. And then phase three is, well, I never said that to be clear. I always did. I always was like, I don't know, but this is what my opinion is. An opinion is an opinion. It's personal.

Totally. Leave a little room for her. And Karen just, she just gives me a little, she's a little, she's got a little crazy to her. So it's personal. I don't know. It's not personal. Is there something about her that triggers you? No.

Does she? Nothing. No, it's something about her. Okay. It's not personal. It's not personal. I just, I'm like, okay, I just am like, if I did it, this is exactly what I would do. And she did exactly that. Yeah. So, so, so you are projecting. Okay, fine. I'm projecting. I'm not on the jury. Who cares what I think. What are you trying to give me? Face three. Face three. What are you trying to get me to my bed? Who cares? Who cares? I never had a hard stance. What does it even matter? Why is even matter? Everybody, like, calm down. I just want to ask you. Did a girl have an opinion these days? Yeah, there we go. There we go.

Shift. Shift. Let me ask you this. Do you have a hard time being wrong? It's okay to be wrong. You're so gaslighting because you're actually wrong about a lot of things and it's like so annoying right now. You're laughing at me, but I'm laughing at you. Okay. Ha ha ha. You're wrong too. It's so funny. Oh, yeah. Karen Reed, Danny Austin's are to jail. That's the headline. E-News. People.

Turtle Boy is going to come out for me. Turtle Boy. He's still come after me. Because Turtle Boy. It is like a little contentious in my DMs. People like, Dane, I've been following you for 10 years and I love you so much,

but you're wrong. Like, you are so, I know, like that's the thing as people think that I, not, I don't think people think I'm saying this for clickbait, but if you think I'm saying this for click bake,

like, I can't handle the heat of being wrong. Like, deleted the video where I said that I thought Karen was guilty the first time because the heat was so heavy in my DMs. I deleted it. Like I don't. Yeah. I. And then I posted another one like three days later. No, like I can't handle the heat. Yeah, yeah. You better go watch this Curio video because it's going to be down tomorrow because she can't handle the heat. No, I don't like being like, I don't like when people were upset. Yeah. But, you know, if I don't look at it, I'm okay. Yeah.

So funny. Okay. So this is our 101 first episode. Really? Oh, we should have done something more special for 100. I know. We just forgot. We forgot.

We got three kids. We got a curio. We got, you know. We're busy. We're busy. Can I tell you something? Yeah. I've been meaning to tell you this.

So why are you giving me that look? I think it's exciting. So, you know, we had the Divy House that turned into the Danny Austin office. Uh-huh. It's vacant. Should we move in? No, I have some ideas. You want it to be your office?

No. Why don't we lease it out to another business? It's kind of a, it's an interesting spot. Like, I mean... No, it's literally perfect for a startup. Yeah. Well, I had some other ideas with it. So have you heard of, I think it's called,

Paddle, paddle. It's in New York right now. It's kind of like pickleball, but not pickleball. It's pretty classy. It's like squash, apparently. It's blowing up in New York. What are you getting at? I'm getting at that I think we should do something fun with, like, turn the divvy house into something.

No. Like a, like a, like a pickleball club. No, no. A tennis club. Mm-mm. A speakeasy. No. A

No, I don't want to turn it. A singles club. I don't want to turn it. A separate club. Why? Because I don't want to. Why? That's just not a goal in life right now.

Really? What are you trying to kill me out here? We've got to do something. Why? Just lease it to another business, another startup. Okay. That's boring. Lose that thing out and sell it.

I want the rugs in it, though. I need those rugs. Okay. Okay. So to celebrate our 101st episode, which is a huge mile marker for us, we thought it would be a good idea to do a good old Q&A, which, you know, I don't think we've done one of these in a while. Have we ever done one? Maybe. Maybe a couple.

So today we're going to do rapid-fifference. Questions with Danny and Jordan. Are they really rapid fire? Or are they like discussion? What's your favorite lake house snack? Steak. Steak. Do you want to do rapid fire or just?

Let's pick some good ones. Let's really like hash this out. Jordan, what's your favorite way to work out? I like to walk around the lake. Is your favorite way? Yeah, I know that people know that because they've taken pictures. Kind of a hot take about walking. Yeah, I know how you feel about walking.

No, no, I'm like... She thinks it's useless. She really does. She's very vocal. I'm like, hey, I walked 17,000 steps and she's like, that's not going to do anything. Okay, that is such a lie. That is not true. I am so proud of you when you walk 17,000 steps.

I think it is so good for you. It is great cardiovascular. What I'm saying is for you who complains. It's about burning fat 24-7. Totally. I feel like running is more efficient for burning fat if that is the goal. I'm not talking about like if you just want to be healthy, yeah, walking is amazing for your heart and everything. And here's the thing.

You're not wrong. Okay. You're not wrong. It's not doing anything for me in terms of the fat burning. So I'm really just walking in circles. No, it's great for you. It's good for your heart. Yeah.

No, I like to walk around the lake and take my phone calls and talk to people and listen to my podcast, get outside. That's my favorite way. Okay. What's your favorite way? Running, running. Yeah, my uterus is feeling like it's going to fall out lately. So it's just, it's fun, but also, like, pretty painful. You know what I'm so proud of you, though, for is you ran one mile on Wednesday and then you ran two miles on Thursday. And I can see your brain churning that, like, you're, like, you're, like, you're, like, challenging yourself. And I, I feel like it's so good mentally for you. Yeah.

No, I'm so excited. I'm going to be running five miles next to me. How long were you, how far were you running before? I mean, it depends on what, what is the definition of before,

but my whole life I've always run five or six miles every day. Yeah. Until I started having kids. But then I, and then after Stella, I was, so I got back to running five or six miles. And then during my pregnancy was Stratt.

Remember, I was doing like 10Ks and stuff during, during, pregnancy, even like going into my third trimester, I was running races. It was crazy. And then I just stopped. Yeah. If you could live anywhere in the world other than Dallas, where would we live? Barcelona. Really? No, I mean. Like actually think about like lifestyle kids. Austin. Yeah, I was just back there this week. The hills of Austin. Oh, it's so good over there. Yeah. I felt at home. No, it's so good. It's so good. It's a different air. It's a totally different air.

The difference between Austin and Dallas to me is that people... They're different. Like, it's like a different country. People there, they work to live. And in Dallas, they live to work. Does that make sense? Yes, yeah. Like, they were just drinking their coffee, reading books.

It's like 2 o'clock in the afternoon. They're not busy. I like how much of an individual you can be in Austin. Yeah, totally. I feel like in Dallas, sometimes you have to, like, fit this mold. Like, look at me. I'm buying Hill House dresses. You know, and they're beautiful, don't get me wrong.

But I'm definitely trying to, like, fit in, you know. And in Austin, I just feel like you don't feel the pressure to fit in. I know, but I was, so we were in the city when I was there for an interview, and I would recommend that we would go further out if we moved to Austin. No, the hills of Austin. Yeah, that's what I've always said, which you can. West. That means, uh-huh, West Lake.

Yeah, West Lake. Is the place to be. Because then you can still go into the city at night or into downtown at night. or into downtown at night or on the weekends. Yeah. Like, it's just. I used to say Nashville, but now I'm like very pro Austin because I'm like. It's just more us.

Like I think Nashville is more like, we're going to be outside and we're going to rat horses and just have chickens. Yeah. And be maybe, you know, make our own eggs. I don't know. I don't know. But Austin is like, there's like, like you can live out like spend a lot of time outside, But like you got a gobble.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. The outside of the continental U.S., what would you say? I would say Puerto Rico. Oh, just so you can live in the little community. Yeah. It's a tax shelter.

What's it called the community? J. J. Paul is? Oh, El Dorado. El Dorado. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah.

Puerto Ricans listening to this will not like that. I don't think that they like El Dorado. Oh, you know. Or Dorado Beach is what it's called. Maybe because, but maybe they do like it because it brings. No, they think that it was hijacking. The culture? Yes.

It created a, I think the criticism is that it created a tax haven that took away from Puerto Rico so that wealthy people could escape the continental U.S. to Puerto Rico and hijack the country. Okay. Well, we're not moving there. So everyone calm down. We're cool. We're cool. We come in peace. Danny.

Oh, okay. You asked me. Danny, what's a makeup product? Danny, what is a makeup product you can't live without? Cheapace bronzer. I've been using it for the past 15 years. It's a powder bronzer. It's the one in milk chocolate.

Yeah. I think it's called something souffle. I don't even know what it's called, but I've been using it for a little 15 years. Yeah. Which I wanted to tell. Who was the founder of To Face that I met? Oh, that was that guy?

Yes. Oh, he founded that company? It sold for $1.2 billion or something. Oh, sweet baby. Two-Face, he was the co-founder. Two-Face founder. We met, my God, I'm obsessed with him. Oh, Jared Blandino.

He founded Two-Faced, and I wanted to tell him, like, but then I was like, I bet everybody is telling. him. Yeah, that bronzer baby. It's my fave. And then another product I can't live without, which I'm actually really sad because I feel like they maybe discontinued it, but Patrick Taub blush and she's passionate. So good. And I feel like I can't find it anywhere. I feel like I find that blush, but I don't find like that color. Interesting. Also. Yes, keep going. I love blush. So Jared Blanino started once he sold Two-Face for $1.2 billion dollars. He was like, I still want to work.

And so he started a new makeup brand called Polite Society. And he has these cheek pops. The cheek pop in the color London or Paris are so pretty. And they're just pop up my own cheek. They're just so cute. They kind of remind me like a little K beauty inspired. But it's a great formula. My.

Also the NAR's Radiant Creamy Concealer. Like I've tried the House Labs concealer. I've tried so many other concealers and NAR's Radiant Creamy concealer. Like even the um, cocess one, too watery. Don't like it. Interesting. I use the color vanilla. Hot takes. And Laurel telescopic mascara. Okay. Gone.

Um, I was just going to say I love beam. The drink. That's your favorite. Yeah, that's one of my favorite products. I do like it too. If I was talking about your products to steal, I really can never go wrong with drunk elephant. No. Great stuff. No, you like. I have very sensitive skin. No, you like keel. No, no. I use keels because it's there.

Yeah. Because you're out of drunk elephant. You know why you like drunk elephant? Because they don't have fragrance. Yeah. And it doesn't burn my skin. And Jordan is very sensitive. Like, you know, like skin that has like that red undertone.

That's Jordan's skin. And he's very sensitive to fragrance. He cannot do any fragrance. You also really like the summer Fridays, the cream that's in a blue bottle. I just that I like the color of that packaging. It makes me want to eat it. Yes, yes. He really likes that.

Yes. Yes, yes. You would like, oh, you would not like glow recipes. Is that what it's called? Like glow recipe. It has too much fragrance in it, but the 13-year-olds love it. And then, yeah, but no, the keels that, what is it? I tried to hire the CEO of Drunk Elephant.

I told him I loved his products. Oh, not the founder because they're based out of Houston. Yeah, yeah, no, the CEO. He said no. But we really hit it off. Come back, come back. Tim Warner. I'll name him, the one that got away.

Who won't that got away? Cabo, can you help us get Tim Warner? Yeah, I'd love to. What is your love language? I feel like this kind of boring. We feel like we've talked about this like all the time. I'll just tell you one. Simple rapid fire.

Quality time. Yes. And gifts. Yes. Mine is, what do you think mine is? Words of affirmation. Touch. Yeah, for sure.

Like, what guy, isn't it words of affirmation and touch? I'm like, I've never met one. Just respect. me build my ego. Okay, let's see. Let's get into some deeper ones here. What does healthy conflict resolution look like for both of us now? Typically when we fight, we just get naked and fight naked.

We've never done that. We've never done that. You said it one time. Yeah, no, it's funny. I was like, I would literally kill you. Yeah, that would be hard. It's not going to eat. Not going to work.

Give us 10 years. We'll be there. I don't know, just like talking about it and... I affirm you because I feel like you've been much more... Because usually like you fawn or no, freeze, freeze fawn. Usually freeze and you shut down. And even when you're angry, I feel like you've been very good at like still leaning in and working through it in real time. Just keep on swimming.

Yeah. Just keep your head above water. Just keep... That's how I feel sometimes with my feeling. How do you both, how do you handle constructive criticism? Oh, Jordan does not like to be. Let me tell you. I just have to be very, very careful with the way that I, I constructively criticize him.

I think I've gotten better, no? I'll be like, hey, Jordan, babe, I thank you so much for the bacon. Just next time, like, can you use the splatter protector so that bacon grease doesn't go and he'll be like, oh, so you hate me? Oh, so you want to divorce. Oh, so you hate me. You don't respect anything about me? No, you think I'm ugly?

She's kidding. No, babe. She's kidding. I do think I have gotten better at not taking things personally from you. Yeah, it's typically not personal. No, that's the biggest thing that I've learned in marriage counseling. I'm like, wait, so like, when you do or say this, like, you're just feeling your feelings and this has nothing to do with me. And you're like, no.

And I was like, okay. I think it helped. Because, like nothing's personal. Like literally, nothing that you feel or angry about, I don't think it's personal. Yeah,

I would tell you if it is. Yeah. If it's personal, you'd tell me. It's more just like you feeling your feelings. Totally. I'm so glad after seven years, you finally figured it out.

Whenever you have disagreements, how do you get on the same page? I don't know. Or is there some disagreement that we have that we're still not on the same page about? Which is your question? way better than you'll honor. Is there something that we just agree to disagree on? That's not too deep.

I don't know. Is there? Do you think there is? I would say. It's kind of hard because the things that we did agree to disagree on, we kind of just like let it go. And I'm like scared to revisit it because I'm like, are we still not on the same page or on the same page?

Can you think of one right now? Um, no. That's so obvious that you, I mean, no. No. Can you? There's not really much up here going on right now. Yeah, I mean, like, then, then the answer's no.

We're totally aligned on everything. Okay. Let's not. Because like then we would fight, you know, I just like, yeah, it's like, it's not worth it. Um, okay. Just bury that deep down. It'll come up.

10 years. Yeah, yeah. That's a way to do it. That's a way to get through life. Um, okay. Oh, did you, did you guys start marriage therapy and when do you start seeing results? Good question. Hello. Um, I mean, it's very grad. It's very slow, these results that you speak of. Because honestly, sometimes I feel like the first year of therapy is just realizing what you feel and bringing things up and then the next year is actually dealing with all of it. The first year is bringing things up and the second year is dealing with it. The first year is like just identifying how you feel. Do you realize like so many people don't even actually understand how they feel because you just make yourself busy?

So like within a marriage, you're like, I'm so annoyed by this person, not saying from personal experience, just saying. And then like, but you don't even know why. And then you have like resentments from 10 years of marriage. Not not. from personal experience because we've been married seven. I'm just saying. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like all just identifying your feelings for so, for so much of it. Yeah. No, for sure. I think it just depends on how quickly each other process too. Because I think we process in different time frames. Yeah. You know, like this this whole making yourself busy, not thinking about your feelings thing, you know, that I wouldn't say that that's how I feel. Yeah. But I think that that's a habit that.

totally so maybe it's just me yeah and that's okay like it just depends and I think so much of marriage counseling is like walking at your spouse's pace you know and like me not trying to drag you faster than you're ready to go and you not like slowing me down or like you know whatever and so it's all it's all pacing but I don't think it's like overnight results but I do think it's like incredibly helpful in ways that you don't realize until like a couple weeks or months later. And then you're like, oh, like, that took effect. Or like, oh, you're like, we haven't fought in three weeks.

Or, oh, that conflict, like, was so much easier to resolve. But it's not like this epiphany moment. It kind of just like, it, like, settles into your subconscious. Yeah, or like little, like, now I feel like we even have boundaries within our marriage that we didn't have that protect, like, each other in certain. You know, like, for example, sometimes if you have an issue with your spouse, like, instead of just like, like nitpicking and complaining in the moment, maybe you can go tell your therapist first and be like, is this even right that I'm feeling this way, that he's annoying me? Is that a you problem or a me problem? Instead of just acting off of your emotion right there in the moment. You know, so talking

through things and like biting your tongue before you just speak. Like Jordan left the toilet seat up again. Okay, Danny. Like instead of me just being like naggy all the time, like go to your therapist and be like, why are you so frustrated? Is there like a thing beneath the thing? Yeah, because he did this, this and this and this too. You know, maybe or, no, I'm just irritable. Yeah, I'm just irritable. Yeah, exactly. I was going to say, oh, what are your thoughts in fighting in front of your kids or other

family members? How do you handle this? I will say my number one, like, I try to keep this in mind. I'm not perfect at it, but I think it's so important, especially in front of our kids and in front of our parents or friends. to always speak highly of Jordan and respect him in public. And like if I ever have an issue, tell him in private.

But I try my best to never disrespect you in public. I don't think you do. Yeah. Like I, I think that is like a big, big no, no. I think it is so disrespectful,

number one. But I think it is so damaging to, sometimes I get a little, I make jokes that hurt your feelings. And I try to work. work on that because I think I'm being funny, but I'm not. It actually is, it's not in front of our parents. It's literally just on this podcast.

I'm not going to lie. It only happens on this podcast. And I'm like, oh, you know what? That one really sank in. No, I know. Now we're after the pod. Yeah, because I feel. And I know you're embellishing because like, you know, you're, you're being funny.

Or I'm exaggerating to put on a show. But I like don't actually feel that way. Or I'm not thinking about how it would make you feel. But yeah, because I don't even think I would like do that off of camera. No, I definitely know that like the star is born, Danny is on. Yeah. It's like, I'm here to shine. Yeah.

I'm here to be funny. I'm here to make you laugh. And I'm like, hey, like that joke was at my expense. Yeah, totally, totally guilty. So yeah, I've been trying to work on that. But especially in front of like parents and friends. I think it's just. I don't think I don't think either of us really.

that. Yeah. No, for sure. But no, I think it's, but Jordan does a really good job in front of our kids being like, guys, is mommy not so pretty? Don't we love mommy so much? Mommy's an amazing mommy. And I feel like that, and I try to do the same thing to you, but I also think that's so important because it teaches our kids how to like how one day when they get married, how, like their relationship should be. Well, like, What kid doesn't want to see their parents, like, obsessed with each other? We can be, like, we'll be on the opposite side of the house, and Jordan will give me a hug.

And, like, Stella, who, or Stratton, who never get up from playing with any of their toys, we'll see in the corner of their eye, like us hugging and sprint over and have to hug while we're hugging. They love when we hug. It is so, it's so cute. It's so cute. You know.

Did your influencer circle, did your influencer friend circle get smaller? I don't know. I don't think so. I think that what is happening is like everyone's having more kids. And so like everyone just genuinely has less time. Yeah. We can't like all do things together anymore because everyone's like on totally different schedules with kids. Yeah.

No. I mean like for example, yeah, like you invite somebody to the lake house where we invite it. somebody to hang out on the weekends. And like their kids, if they have older kids, they're like, we're at softball. We're a baseball game, salt tournaments all weekend or we have this. So yeah, I feel like when we all were, we were influencers, we, none of us had kids. We were like newly married. Some of us weren't even married yet. We used to hang out all the time. We would go on trips every other week because you didn't have kids. You could do anything. Um, so now I feel like you, we try to invest in people that just makes sense that like with our point, like where we're

out in life right now, which is like families with other kids about the same age or similar values, because you just don't have a lot of time to deal with people. I also think that like, because I think that we are the kind of social chairs, or at least I'm always like planning things and then inviting as big of a group as possible. And I've just noticed that like. Not always. We've been kind of selective and we invite like couples that make sense together. Yeah, no, for sure.

but also I think we bring couples like groups together too like I think it's more just like hey if we have if we have six bedrooms like let's fill all six you know and see how many people we can get in but um I do think that what was it going to think I don't know I forget but yeah I think like logistics I think that um as our kids get older and as our all of our friends have more kids, I do think it's like really hard to keep like one big group intact because everyone's like moving. They're all dealing with different life things like their kids are in sports. And so what do they say like you have friends that are for a season? Friends that are for a reason, a season and then you have friends for life. Right. Oh, it's cute. Have you seen that? I heard that. No, but I like it. Yeah,

it's good stuff. Yeah. Like, For example, I got really excited because I went to Stella's graduation, you know, pre-k graduation yesterday. And one of the moms stopped me in the parking lot. And then we started talking. She lives in Lakewood, similar age kids. And I'm like, I already invited over next weekend. That's good. That's the right attitude. Yeah. Like, I'm just getting everybody's number. If you meet me out in public, I'm getting your number. You got to get yourself out there. If you want to have friends. Oh, I thought you were talking to me. I was like, don't even. I have been putting myself out there. I'm going to play tennis at Lakewood Country Club next week,

nine on Friday with a bunch of ladies, okay? Good for you. Yeah, honestly, because, yeah, we, we both got to carry the load because it's a lot. Can we also talk about, if anybody is a Lakewood Country Club stockholder, like, call me. Because like, now, you know, we've been trying to get, I was like, well, I want to get into this country club just so I can get the private lessons. Y'all, it is like applying to a sorority. They're like, you have to have people over 40 years old that have been members, blah, blah, blah, for this amount of time, to play golf with this with these members for 12 but i'm like oh my gosh it's like ridiculous i know that's why i think i should put a tennis court in the back of night street but i want to go and like

make friends yeah no i we can create a very i'm sick of hosting sometimes i just want to go yeah i get you know it's like a lot of work and then it's like if you don't invite somebody we host a lot yeah yeah what i just want to coast too yeah so if you're part of liquid country club like call me Okay. Well, sorry. I never, I never used my...

And we're officially blacklisted. You think? Probably. Oh, probably because of Swedish fish gate. No, they probably are just like, yeah,

we're not going to let this chicken. Guys, I promise I'll always dress appropriately. I won't curse in public. And I speak some Spanish. Do you ever get tired of the demand of influencing? No. Yeah.

Not anymore. I don't think there's, a demand unless you put the demand on yourself. But yes, I get exhausted when I put that demand on myself for sure. 100%. 100. Have you... Period. So like after, so after the break, comparing last year to this year, is the demand like any different? I guess it is because of the demand you put on yourself? But I feel like everything's still fine and great. Yeah. Yeah. It's like all still fine. What are some, what are, which one do you want to do?

What would you say if Stella wanted to start influencing or have a social, or have a social presence in her 10, teen years? I would have to figure out all of, you know, the, um, guard rails and, um, rules we would set in place at what age and what we post and da, da, da, da, and, you know, vetting process. But here's the thing I've learned about kids. Like, I just feel like I would, I would hate to take away or, like, hinder Stella's dreams or desires to try something.

And, like, I don't know. She's going to do what she wants to do anyway. So it's like, might as well find a logical supportive or way to support her. Yeah. I don't know. You know, I just think back of my day. I was trying to be a YouTuber Nobody believed in me

But that's different You were like 22 No I was 19 years old in college Oh I guess I just interpreted teen years as like 13 First of all I'd be a no for me It was after my freshman year of college Yeah

I was middle getting my degree This is like You're forming years And your parents are like What are you gonna become And I was like Well not a therapist Physical therapist

I'm gonna be a YouTuber And yeah, it was, we're not supportive. Yeah. Not like, not horribly. But here's the thing. Like, I just, I truly believe that kids are going to just do whatever they want to do. So might as well, like, try to figure out a healthy way to do everything. Do you know?

I feel you. I'm going to ask some parenting questions. Oh, wait. What's the craziest brand deal I've ever been a part of? That's a good question. There was one that, like, happened. I feel like this past year. And we were like, this is crazy.

Can't remember. The past year. Oh, honestly, honestly, I'm not going to lie, the cotton ads that we read for sure. Why? Because Cotton is sponsoring podcast ads. Remember we went to a, we were sponsored by Cotton to go to a Post Malone concert like four or five years ago? I do remember that. Yeah, it's sponsored by Cotton.

It's wild to me that Cotton's out there being like, we've got to raise awareness on Cotton. Remember Got Milk? Yeah, no, no. Listen, I get the strategy. It's just crazy to me that we have, this podcast is supported by a commodity of cotton. It's amazing. That's like oil. Like today we're talking about oil.

Today we're sponsored by water. Yeah. No specific brand, just water. Like, isn't it crazy that cotton has like a, yeah. It makes sense. Yeah. I mean, it's an important thing. It's a good reminder with all of this like Shian clothing, Amazon clothing.

That's just like you put it on in the same. polyester is just like making you sweat. And it's like, wow, did we all forget about cotton? Oh, man. Like we had to check our tags and make sure we're getting cotton. Wait, sorry, I cut you off. What was the craziest brand deal for you? Oh, this craziest brand deal was when we first moved into our house and we got a brand deal with Burger King. Oh, yeah, yeah. Talking about cow farts. Yeah. Because because they released like a gas into the. It was like a glove. It was like a climate change Burger King campaign.

And you took that campaign so hard. And you were like, I was like, I'm going to sell the cat. I'm fired out of this. Don't worry. I'm your girl. I'm like, you want to talk about climate change? Have you ever heard of Danny Austin? Dude, honestly, I would say you.

I could talk about early brand deal things. Like when brand deals were just coming around and like the format of brand deals is coming around, you did you could do them. She could do all of them. I still can do all of them. them. I mean, it's crazy. What can I not talk about? I don't know. You were so good at grand deals. I'm one of the most diversified influencers. That's true. That's why they pay you the big books. I can talk about fitness. I can talk about supplements. I can talk about beauty. I can talk about cotton. I can talk about politics. The climate. I can talk about, I don't know.

Oh, criminal trials. They're all in their marketing and they're like, who is Danny Austin? They're like, we can't put this girl in a box. She's everything. She's a climate activist. She's an animal activist. It's either I'm all those things. She's the political activist.

She loves fitness. She loves beauty. She loves parenting. No, I literally like, I wake up with a boy. I'm like, what am I? Because I'm everything. It's horrible. I am everything.

And yet I'm nothing. What's your? favorite Randalee we've ever done. My favorite? Probably one of like the trips that we got to go on with a brand. Those were always fun. Amarales. Come back?

Yeah, Amarales. Those trips were pretty bomb. That was the Paris one. Yeah. I mean, that was like a once-a-lifetime experience. Yeah, I mean, that was, that was wild. That's when I was burning on my roof. Mm-hmm.

What is your current conspiracy theory obsession? I don't really have one right now. I'm like kind of bored. Oh, I don't have a conciercy theory obsession, but I'm kind of like really getting into like, what's her name? Layla McElwright. And she was on the Yvonne.

She was the one who helped take down, she's helping take down porn hub. And for all of the content they were creating that involved like children. Mm-hmm. And she helped kind of sever the relationship between the credit card companies and Pored Hub. But here's what's so crazy. So when she started doing all this research and she became like a child sex trafficking advocate, she's the one that started the hashtag, it's called Traffic Hub, I think, hashtag Traffic Hub.

And so she got in contact with before. former owner of Pornhub. And the former owner shared with her all of like the top investors in Pornhub. And like some of the top investors that he like revealed were, um, Cornell University, J.P. Morgan. And there's like 90 other investors. But they did it in secrecy like through a shell company. It wasn't supposed to be like known. But yeah. But Yes, in secrecy, they invested in Pornhub. And when she got in contact with the owner, she asked him, like, how do we take it down?

Or the former owner. And the former owner, or Winterhorn was like, I can help you take down Pornhub. And I guess she kind of thought he was just doing it out of like the generosity of his heart because he realized this had grown into such a horrible, you know, website, evil thing that he didn't mean for it to grow into. So he told her, you know, if you really want to take down, porn hub, you have to go after the credit card companies, get the credit card companies to back out.

So she started, like she went on the news, had this segment on some, I forgot what, I think it was CNBC or whatever. And for like 20 minutes, exposed these credit card companies that were supporting porn hub. So after that segment went live, Visa, all these credit card companies started backing out. Really? Yes. But then two weeks later, a lot of them went back. to Pornhub and we're supporting Pornhub again.

And so basically started this whole viral thing. And like she finally got, once again, got these credit card companies to back out. But what was crazy about the whole situation was the former founder that was trying to help her. The only reason he was trying to attack Pornhub was so that he was, he could, buy it back. That's insane. Get it to a really low price, buy it back and then like revamp it and get it going again. Man, that's so crazy. Yeah. Talk about like something so destructive. There's that, what's his name, Joshua McBroom? He was like a male porn actor and he became a believer. And now he goes and he's like been on all like these like speaks at churches. Like he's been on a lot of podcasts. I think,

I think he, no, I don't think he wanted to come on ours. But anyway, it's crazy. There's nothing more destructive to like the state of men and women, but I would say men right now than pornography. It's insane. Yeah. And some of that only feeding stuff. Yeah. But it's like kind of all the same. No? I don't know. I've never been on it. Don't have that one. What an interesting question is, oh, the one I do want to listen to is apparently Tim Tebow is on the Sean Ryan podcast. Yeah. And he talks a lot about the work he's doing in child trafficking. And it's apparently it's very dark and disturbing.

But, you know, he's like in the thick of it. And he's using a lot of like his capital and, you know, platform to really raise awareness to that. I want to listen to that episode. Oh, Sean Ryan? Yeah. Yeah. I saw some clips and stuff. Yeah.

it all then. No. Let's do it. What do you think about the big beautiful bill? Just kidding. Don't go there. Danny telling me about the big beautiful bill in the car yesterday. It was a 20 minutes. It was, it was awesome. We eventually got there, but you really wanted to tell me about it, but then she forgot everything. No. Okay, let me see if I can remember the salt part. Yeah. Yeah. Sale. No. No. sales and local tax. Dang it. Sales and local tax. I think it's state.

Okay. State and local tax. If you make $500,000 or more, or if you make at least $500,000, the threshold to your deductions went from $10,000 to $40,000. So now you can write off or what's the word I just use? Deduct.

Deduct. $40,000. Yes. What was the word? that other clause that you loved? Oh, for kids born between 2024 and 2020, 2028, you automatically get $1,000 put into a savings account. So it basically is just like, yeah. Yeah, it's just, yeah, it's great. That one's cool. So you support the bill? Listen, listen, I don't even understand the bill. Okay. I like the name of it though, the big,

beautiful bill. He's a cool name. I was, guys, I try to understand my best. Here's a thing. It's the same thing with Karen Reid. Like, I'm trying. Like, but don't, don't actually ever get offended in my opinion because I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, for sure. We're just out here trying to know what we're talking about. I was trying to read about Israel, Palestine. I was trying to read about, you know, sex trafficking.

I'm trying so hard to understand, but my brain is so weird. I just don't know. It's really, like, I'm not trying to hurt anybody. Oh, it's so funny. So it's so funny. Okay, anyway, I guess you can end on the big beautiful bill. The big beautiful booty. All right.

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