De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan - Marriage Counseling, Gen Z Slang & Dani Getting Yellow Fever

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

Merry Christmas, De-Influencers far and wide! As we wrap up 2023, we wanted to make sure you moms are going into 2024 feeling in the know and super hip. That is why in this episode we teach you alllll about Gen-Zs slang, their viral caffeinated lemonade, anddd let you in on something happening WORLD. WIDE. Love you all.

Hello and welcome back to your favorite podcast, De-Inluenced. I'm here with my boo. Jordan. How was our week? It's kind of a, it's been a little bit of a stressful, hectic week. You know, every week is stressful and hectic. But you know what? It was different about this week?

It's the holidays. No, I was immobile. Yeah, well, that too. That makes it a lot more challenging. So I woke up on. Monday and I had I thought it was a crick in my neck it kind of just felt that way coming to find out it was a pinched nerve which I've never had a pinched nerve before but it would shoot from my like upper neck all the way down my back to my shoulder and so that's why I was like okay this is this is

different it was also kind of like debilitating where I was like I cannot get out of bed and I think what happened was see what happened was I think that bike ride that we went on on Sunday with the kids which was so fun. Also, mind you, it was an electric bike. Yeah, I was going to say, you better clarify because that was not a real bike ride. But here's what happened was I haven't ridden a bike in so long. And like electric bikes, like you can, you can change the power, like how much it carries you. And you kept telling me to go like level five. I was like, no, honey, like I'm going level two. Like I'm still trying to get some like an exercise. You know, I didn't want the bike to just carry me. I'm just straight level five. Yeah, you were just flying. And I was like, I still want

to get like, you know, my muscles going. And so. So I still was putting some work, but I think what it was, it was so cold outside, so windy, that I was so clenched when we were riding that I think I, like, pinched a nerve, probably from my tension. We've talked about this before, but every masseuse that touches Danny's body says it's, they actually are in shock at how much stress. Wow. Yeah, it's bad. Oh, wow.

Like they're, they touch me and they're like, you, you are odd and you. have no stress. This is like peanut butter. Yeah. And they touch Danny and they're like this person. They like call in other masseuses. They're like, we're going to need some backup over here. It's like three on one. Yeah. I, um, very briefly when you woke up that morning and you were like, babe, I am in so much pain at three in the morning. I kind of was just like I thought you're being a baby. Just for a second. Yeah. Just for a second. I was like, I was like, wait a second. You, you know, we all, we all sleep wrong. Like it's okay. No, it was different. I get that because and here's the thing like I get that like I don't want to be that gal like I don't want to be that baby I don't want to be that needy girl. It's so annoying for me too. But it was so bad that I felt like I couldn't even reach for the Advil myself. But I wasn't being baby. It really does hurt. It's persisted. It's persisted. It got worse over four or five days. I went to the chiropractor because everyone in my DMs is like, you know, and like I'm a chiro believer. Like don't get me wrong. Like I love a good chiropractor. I

I love a good crack. I love some, you know, I'm into like the functional medicine. Like, I dabble. I do blow on it. But you know how many people are not? Doctors. Oh, yes. There's a war hidden beneath the United States of America.

And it is a war between doctors and chiropractors. They do not like each other. It's kind of like doctors and doulas. Doctors and doulas. Doctors and doulas. They're like, do not let a doula in my delivery room. at all. Yeah.

And then it's the same thing with like lawyers and chiropractors because lawyers deal with all of the lawsuits from like when chiropractors go wrong. But see, that's like kind of a beneficial relationship. Like they like kind of, it's like, oh, I want you to break my client because then I can sue you. No, but lawyers that are also on the flip side or where they see it and they're like, do you know how many cases I've dealt with where like this person like broke their neck from a chiropractor? So then they're like, Danny, don't go to the chiropractor.

Yeah, but it's just a different type of animosity between chiropractors and doctors. because it's an intellectual pride between both of them. It's like an intellectual debate on the bones of the body. 100%. And babe, like, you know what the hardest part about it is? I trust both of them. I know, that's what's hard. When I'm at the chiro, I'm like, oh, yeah, like screw doctors.

Like, I'm not going to the doctor. I'm like, you're going to fix me with just a twist of the neck. And then I'm at the doctor, I'm like, screw chiropractors. Like, they don't know what they're talking about. They didn't go to med school. You just totally play both sides. I'm just a fair weather fan. I just, I just, I just.

She had a little. I'm here to please. She had a diploma, the chiropractor? Well, yes, babe. They still have to go to, like, school. They're not just out there cracking bones, like. Well, I know, but who's certifying them then? The school of chiropractics.

Oh, okay. I don't know. I made that up. But, I mean, it is like a, it's a program. I mean, put it this way. I was pre-physical therapy. They were going to let me do a lot of things if I would have followed through with schooling. So, you know, I don't know.

But I think it all helps. The last thing I'll say about chiropractors is when I'm pregnant, they save my back. Right. Oh my gosh. So I have experienced the goodness of a chiro. So how's your pain level right now? Scale 1 to 10. Well, I had to take muscle relaxers if you really want to know. Honestly, I don't really feel that different on muscle relaxers. People said that they'll make you sleepy and stuff. I don't really I was going to ask. I was going to ask, are you on one right now? No, I am for sure. Yeah. I can tell, I can tell by the way that your mouth is moving. Okay. Do you know? how paranoid I am right now then.

I think it's because I just put on like plumping lip gloss. Oh, maybe that's it. I have plumping like lip gloss on. Yeah. Well, how much time before this did you take it? I take it like every six hours.

Okay. So I think I took one at like six a.m. this morning. So it was due. No, but I actually, I genuinely like I would tell you I don't feel anything. I feel like I honestly,

I feel tired, but I think that's more because I went to bed at like 1230 and woke up at six. Well, and you did something big today. she had her first groundwork session of our marriage intensive. Do you know that I talked about myself for four hours? Yeah, it was hard on you, I bet.

Four hours. And I was embarrassed by the amount of times that I had to be like, sorry, can I go pee? Like, I pee, you know how much I pee. Yeah. I pee a lot. And it was just him and I in that small little room. So like every time I left, like, it was like,

like, I were like talking about like the deepest, my deepest, darkest, and I'm like, excuse me, can I go pee again? This is a, this is a true. story, true story happened two hours ago. She gets in the car and I'm like, babe, how is it? Or how was it? And she goes, you know, if I've learned anything about myself, it's I can take something negative. I can always spin into a positive. And I was like, all right, that's what she learned. And I go, is that a good thing or a bad thing? And you're like, hmm, I think it's probably a good thing. There's one day I learned about myself. I can figure out or manipulate every negative situation in

my life to be a positive. True. I'm excited for that. I think that that is. going to be a great way to start our 2024 is kind of like reassessing everything, looking back so that we can build a better foundation, moving forward, figuring out exactly the type of parents we want to be. I'm excited for it.

2024 is a year of going after it. We've had a very special week. We've done marriage intensives. My mom. We had a great night with your mom at Regen. You want to tell them what Regen is?

Um, so region is like a 12-step discipleship program, typically run through churches, and it's like a recovery ministry, but you can be recovering from all sorts of things. Like a lot of the times they're like, my name is Sally and I'm recovering from pride and resentfulness. People pleasing. People pleasing. So it's a little bit more broad versus like just a substance of use like recovery. Well, sometimes it is substance. Sometimes it's alcoholism. Sometimes it's, um, sometimes it's, um, fear, whatever it is. But if you really think about it, we probably all have something to work on and quote unquote recover from. So it's more like a program for anyone and everyone. There's a lot of stories of like, you know, husbands going with their wives and being like, I'm just here to support

her. And then the husbands end up being like in recovery for a lot of issues. And so it's a good program. I want to speak to this a little bit more because I feel like your mom, I want to make. sure that she gets enough credit for what she's done for this because I will say it I've noticed the people in my life the boomers in my life like that and I don't mean that in a drug or derogatory the state of the generation people that like as you get older and I even feel this for myself it is so difficult to change so challenging to actually be like I identify a problem in my life and I'm going to work on it I feel like a lot of times people that age are like I am the that I am, accept me for the way that I am. If you don't like it, move on. And, um, you know,

your mom said she was recovering from things like people pleasing and like there were some other, other things. And I like admire her so much for the fact that she finished the whole, it's a year long program and stuck with it. It is so rare to find people that actually like stick with it. I even started the program like three years ago and I went to like two, two weeks. And I was like, this is too much for me. I mean, honestly, you and me both. Yeah, we, we, we, We both tried it, and I was like, it's a lot of commitment. And there's a lot of steps to it. And so I just have so much respect for people like that you don't have to be perfect at what you do and you don't have to like have it all figured out.

But the fact that you're working on yourself, like I just love her. I think that's, I think she's setting such a good example for like our kids and for everyone in our family. So. Yeah. And I'll be like super vague about it. But like, you know, my mom had a very, very rough childhood. Like she basically didn't have a mom. didn't have a dad. She took care of her siblings, you know. And so I think that like you just

carry a lot of that trauma. And you're right for Generation X, boomers. I think it's just like, it's not built into the culture to like get help. Any, anywhere. It's like, it's like don't ask, don't talk about it, move on, you know. And I think that her doing that was very impressive. So respectable. So we love her. We're so proud of her. We love our family. And we're hoping. And praying that in 2024, we're able to take our family to Atlanta, baby. For Family Feud, America's favorite TV show. So if y'all watched my stories this week, you saw, we had our final edition for Family Feud. There were like, I think, four or five other families in the running that day.

So this lady that interviewed us, which it was all over Zoom. So ever since COVID, they started doing all of their audition. over Zoom, which also is like kind of hard because you're not getting the energy from everyone. But we left the energy. Yeah, we brought at least we had four people here, but like Landed and Luke were, you know, zooming from like their bedrooms. And it was very interesting. What was the question that they asked us?

Oh, they asked us something about slices. What would you, what food do you eat in slices? Yeah. And so we all had to go. go around and give our answers. Like an idiot. I said pineapples. Jordan said pineapple and then he froze on the second one. I absolutely froze.

I said pizza and bread. Landon came out with watermelon, which was so genius. So I guess we're supposed to hear back pretty soon. We might be meeting Steve Harvey. Yeah, Steve would be great to meet. I've heard he's a jolly guy. Yeah, I'm excited. Very sweet guy.

The mustache is so prominent. So prominent. So proper. I hear he's a tall. guy too. So that'll be fun. We've had a very exciting week. I think my other favorite part of the week was yesterday when you came in and shared everything in your spam folder. Yeah, I found like 17 articles about divvy in my spam folder. Like no one ever told me, no one ever showed me. And what was the top one I showed you? I always forget her name. Camilla Cabo. Yes. She loves Divi. It was like her number one product.

Her number one product for hair growth was Divi, which I'm like, are you kidding me? You know she also just started dating Drake apparently, allegedly. Really? Which is like, oh, really, she was dating Sean Mendez before. That girl. She's, we're so close. I know, we're so close. What else?

There was one, oh, Carrie Washington. I love Carrie Washington. She's from Scandal. I love her. Is she from Scandal? Yeah, yeah, she's Olivia Pope. Oh, yeah. Oh, you can be like, I just love that show.

Man. We had some other, like, big hairstylists. We had some OK magazine, some allure. Like, it was so cool. do we not find out about this? It's really silly. How does like all this work? Um, yeah. So I, so I, so I don't know. I mean, we have a PR agency at Divy and they handle that, but I think a lot of this is pretty organic. You know, I think that we gift a lot of the, the stylist. Um, like product and just see where it goes. Right. We're big in, uh, the 901 salon in LA. That's awesome. I love that. Kendall,

Kendall Jenner. And they actually have like scalp treatments with our product. Um, so good. And so I think that that's how people in LA like the cool kids are finding out about it so the one just to y'all know like the one way that i have been involved with the PR is like sometimes we'll have PR dinners where you go and like you just have a dinner with all these different journalists and influencers and stuff but nothing is ever like confirmed from that you just meet people and you share your story and you share the products with them but i feel like a lot of the people that wrote about us didn't even come to our events so i don't even know they were they were totally fresh fresh i just love it babe, we're making moves.

You gotta love a good word of mouth growth track. Well, it helps, like, legitimize the brand so much, too, whenever, because, like, I can only say so much. And then, like, I know that the ingredients are awesome. I know that we're better than every other brand out there. But, like, I can only, it's like your mom, it's like, with my followers, it's like my mom being like, you're the best. I love you.

You know, it's like, okay, do you just love it because it's your own? And so it's so cool when I see legitimate people using it. So moving on to our favorite, segment things that make you go. Hmm. Fan favorite. Do you know what 2023's word of the year is? I wanted to say bop or I wanted to say slaps.

Slaps. Slaps. I wanted to say Taylor Swift used metal in one of her interviews. That was so cool. That's going to be next year's word of the year for sure now. No, it's actually Riz. Do you know what Riz is? It sounds very inappropriate, but I'm going to be honest with you.

I have truly. no idea what Riz means and I would never use that in a sentence. Well, let's keep you cool and keep the other moms cool out there. Riz is a Jin Z slang for style, style, charm or attractiveness or the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner. So if I think in the context here, if I have Riz, that means like, that means that I have sex, you have sexual attraction.

Yeah, like, oh, that's Riz. Rizzie. So is it Rizzi or is it Riz? She got Riz. Let me ask the producer. Is it Riz or Rizzie? It can be both. So like he got Riz. He got Riz. I hate that. Ew. Ew. Ew. I think it's so cool. Riz. Yeah. You know, Riz actually even built, beat out Swifty. And guess what was number three? You'll never guess. Let me tell you. Tell me. De-influencing.

That is so interesting. Okay. So here's a question. Who in our life do you think has the most Riz? So like who's a vibe? Who's a vibe? Who walks in and they're a vibe? But like who walks in and just immediately owns the room? Yeah, it has a vibe. It has some swag. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. I don't know very many swaggy people. I know. It's definitely not me. It's definitely, you have more Riz than I do. That's for, that's for Riz. It's not my mom. You kind of prance into rooms and then you pounce.

No, I'm trusting, I am not a Rizzy person. No, you are a Rizzy person. No, babe, I love you for that. And listen, I'm going to accept that. Okay. I learned that today that I need to accept, accept verbal compliments. Okay. But I'm not a Rizzy person and I'm okay with that.

Yeah, no, that's, that's, that's, who do you think is Rizzy? So I don't know in our life who has the most Riz, but I just want to tell this quick story. Okay, so this is random, but our Dibby Christmas party last night. Yeah. There were one of our employees, Warren, she was like, hey, my friend is here from London with her dad. Yeah. And she was like, can I bring them in?

We were like, yeah, absolutely. More the mirror. This guy, you know what I'm talking about? This girl's dad was so cool. He looked like a rock star. He looked like a rock star. He was like, yeah, I'm about to retire. And I was like, man, what are you going to do in retirement?

He was like, you know, I think I'm going to get into paragliding and like, I'm going to take a year off. I'm going to learn to sail. I'm going to get my pilots license. I'm going to redefine my values and my goals in my life, take a year. Like he was, he was a cool,

cool guy. Yeah, he was like, taking his daughter to like a MAVs game. I was like, that dude has Riz. Yeah, he got some Riz.

Yeah. So in light of you not knowing what Riz is, I thought that you and other moms would like to be informed on other Gen Z slang terms. Because when Taylor Swift used the word metal, I had to go Google it.

It's going to turn into a little bit of a quiz, okay? Okay. What about Suss? Oh, like, she's suspect. Yeah,

I'm like, I don't trust her. She's so suss. Like, she's a gossper. she's suss. Giving the impression that something is questionable or suspicious. Yeah, she's suspicious. Okay. What about bet? I'll bet. This is what Janine says all the time. Now bet. Wait, hold on. Wait, she says nah, bet. She's like, yeah, like you're like, not bet. Yeah, you're like, oh man,

I got an A on my report. She's like, nah, bet. Like, it's like 100%. Like, a bet. Like 100%. Um, an expression that means I agree or good news. I'll bet. Yeah. So was I right? Yeah, I think so. So I was right. It's 100%. Like 100%. Yeah. Like, oh, good news.

Yeah. Like, I agree. Okay. Yeat. Yeat. That sounds like something a horse would eat. This one is. Yeat.

Let me think. Yo, can you use it in a sentence, please? I can't. I really am struggling on this one. So like, yeah, like, I guess to use it in a sentence, it's like, oh, you, you, you, you, you, you, you yeep that pin across the room. Throw it? Like you eat that?

Like throw it across the room. To violently throw an object that you deemed to be worthless. In fear or just plain garbage. So it's like, wait. It'd be like, it'd be like, this pin sucks.

I'll eat that. I love you. Like, I don't get it. Oh, I don't either. It's just so funny. Okay.

This is a common one. You have to know this one. It's embarrassing if you don't know this one. Oh gosh. No, not just you. I'm talking about the moms. Mom's, you better know this. You better know this.

Cap. Oh, like no cap. Like for like, hold on. Wait, don't talk. Like no cap. I really struggle with the use of this one too. Okay. Like, oh, no cap. Like, no way. No way. Or like, wait, hold on. Can you use an. a sentence again. No cap. Like no cap. Like, like, like,

um, like she jumped off a building. Like, no cap. Yeah. So, okay, so let me tell you about this.

Like, no, like, no cap. I'm gonna be honest. I have this friend Brandon. Okay. And he uses all of these terms.

And sometimes I'll say a sentence. I'll be like, oh yeah, I really liked this meme. And he will, no, no, no.

He will just, just send an emoji of a cap. Oh, this is how you know you're really out of the times. No, and I have no idea what he means by it. And we don't text anymore. Well, tell me what, using a sentence, no cap. He says cap is another word for lying. So I guess what he's saying is like, if I'm saying this is my favorite meme of all time,

he'll just send a cap and be like, you're lying. And then if you're not lying, you say no cap. Wait, Jordan. I am shook right now. I don't know what you're talking about. Like, these are the things that make you want to give up on life. So cap means lying.

Yes. Since when, so cap means lie. So if you say cap, you're lying. If you say no cap, no lying. Yeah.

Like, so here's an example. I'm like, man, I pull vaulted right over that there mountain. You say cap. And I say no, no,

no, no cap. My brain hurts a little bit. It's okay. Let's move on. This one's also really important. Bussin? Bust it right open. If you do it, take it back.

You're your busting right. She's moving her booty. She's busting. No. She's busting out of her booty jeans. No, that's, see, that's, that's, that's millennials. That's our definition of bussing. She's busting.

That means she's riding on the bus. Okay, hold on, let me try it. That girl's busting. She's busting. She's bologna. She's bologous. She's bologous. Yeah, yeah, I'll give it to you.

Is she volumptuous? It's what you would say if something was really good. Oh, that sandwich was busting. Yes. I'm going to write that one down. Correct. Okay. Hmm.

Things that we could go. Hmm. Okay, moving on to the next thing that makes you go, hmm. This one is so crazy. Have you heard about the killer Panera lemonade drinks? What? No.

There have been two people that have. have died from the Panera lemonade. Okay, let me tell you, it is popping off all over TikTok. So Panera makes a drink. It's called a charge lemonade, aka it's a caffeinated lemonade. The only problem is the large has more caffeine than a Red Bull and a monster combined. Oh. Which is like 400 milligrams of caffeine.

And when you look at the drink, it just looks like a nice lemonade. It just looks like any other drink. you know, as a big drink with a straw and everything looks very juicy. There are countless TikToks of people buying and trying this charge lemonade and apparently it has some crazy side of facts. Well, obviously it has 400 milligrams of caffeine. And you're just like downing it. You're going to have anxiety and increased heart rate, all these things.

But here's where things take a turn. This is kind of sad. An Ivy League student with a heart condition died after she drank Panera's bread, Panera breads charged lemonade, a large cup of which contains more caffeine than Red Bull, Monster energies combined. according to the lawsuit, this is the second death said to be caused by Panera lemonade.

Apparently, because of the misinformation or misrepresentation of information when you're buying the drink, this person thought that it was more of like an electrolyte drink because of like charge or like energy, like hydration, you know, like that's all the craze these days. I don't know the details about the lawsuit, but I got us something for today.

You ready? Didn't. Ready? Let me see this. All the sips. So you and I are going to try it on camera. Okay, hold on. Let me describe this.

If you're not watching video, you're doing this wrong, but let me tell you something. There's no warning label. Yeah, no, it's just a regular cup. There's no nutritional facts. And also, you're drinking, like, with ice and a big, juicy straw. It's kind of like you're drinking out of your Stanley. Like, you're just chugging liquid, kind of like drinking a... Wait, cheers.

Cheers. It looks really good. It's pink and it's beautiful. That's really hard because that tastes straight like lemonade. It does not taste like any energy drink. You know what? I am usually so not on the side of like these types of cases. Like the person that got like burnt by a cup of coffee.

At McDonald's. Like that's so just like ambulance chaser lawsuits thing. This is actually dangerous. It's delicious. This is dangerous. Like I'm being honest with y'all, Stella could drink that. And she wouldn't think that it was anything other than lemonade. That's dangerous, man.

It is kind of scary, especially like. I don't even want to drink at all. Don't, hey, you cannot drink this because you'll have a panic attack. No, I will literally die. I don't know. Something else that kind of scares me about this is, this is just me being like a mom, you know, probably being like a Karen or whatever. But like caffeine for pregnant people is like really, really, really just not advised.

And, you know, you're only supposed to have like a cup of coffee. day is just really not good for you and you're pregnant. And like if I just saw this and I was like, I wouldn't think that that was caffeine at all. And I feel like it could do some like major damage. Oh my gosh. How much sugar is in this? I think it's a lot. We should look at the nutritional facts. While you're pulling that up, you know, this reminds me, have you ever heard of the energy drink called Red Line? No. I think it was like an eighth grade boys culture back in the day, but we used to have land parties. You know what those are? Oh, you go out on the land and party? No, no, no. We would all bring our Xboxes to one person's house and we would like literally play video games and the whole goal was to stay up all night. And so the culture of it was who can stay up the longest and like people would drop by like as flies like two o'clock in the morning. You would lose like two people four o'clock. But the crowning achievement was like if someone was like just came in absolutely like packing energy, it's because they drank a red line. And the culture red line. Red line. Red line.

The culture around red lines was that like this is how they marketed it. And I don't know if they marketed it to kids, but it was like equivalent to doing cocaine. Like that's what all the kids knew it as. Like, oh, dude, he did a red line. Oh, man. He's got to be up all night. Well, because kids, you're like also not fully developed to like be able to even metabolize.

I feel like that type of stuff. No. And so this reminds me of that where it's like, I wonder if they're marketing to Gen Z by being like, oh, can you survive the, the, The charged lemonade or whatever. Well, it's kind of like all the craze. And but you know, we're all, I love me some caffeine,

but sometimes I don't want something that tastes like caffeine. But that's why it's dangerous. Yeah. Like honestly, the reason I don't drink so much like coffee in the morning, like too much caffeine is because I like coffee and I like the taste, but like I can't chug like a whole cup of it. So the fact I could just chug this in like two seconds, you know, I drink really fast too.

So I was looking up. Yes, so I was looking at the nutritional facts. This has 50, grams of sugar. I don't know if that was like the large or not. That might have been the medium. That's like what five coaks? No, a Coke has 52 grams of sugar. So it's about like a, but I don't know if that was the nutritional effects for a large, but about, you know, about that range. So I don't know what what do you think about this lawsuit? So just to clarify, you know, someone is suing Panera because they feel like the brand misrepresented the, I guess the advertising behind like what this lemonade

actually is. They thought it was more about electrolytes. Who do you side with? What do you think the jury will decide? See, this is one of those times I wish we had more like vlog style podcast because we would totally leave the house, going to Panera. And I would want to see all of the marketing that is available. But if you have 400 milligrams of caffeine, I feel like you should have a warning label.

Yeah. I don't feel like it should come in the same cup that you can use it like a soda fountain. Good point. It should be like pre-packaged. Yep. Like if you open it, you're opening it your own risk. True. I actually feel like probably what's going to happen is they're going to win the lawsuit.

Well, they're not going to win the lawsuit. They're going to settle. Panera is going to pay a lot of money just to get out of this. But it seems pretty dangerous, honestly. Yeah. To be honest, like I agree with you because nowadays, especially I feel like we just trust, you trust that whatever you're ordering is okay for you. You don't sometimes feel like you do enough.

I don't feel like I do enough research and I'm like asking. Well, what is in it? Or is it this or is that? And so maybe that is on the consumer. But if I just read something that says charged lemonade, I wouldn't assume caffeine. I don't know why. I just wouldn't. Something makes you go.

Hmm. Good luck, Panera. Okay, this is just a little story. But I want to address it because it's kind of like popping off like all over the headlines and like Twitter and stuff. Yeah. Have you heard about the pandemic skip? Hmm.

Pandemic skip. Basically, we don't have to talk about it too much. I think it's really interesting though, but it's basically like our brains have a concept of time based on like events, right? And so it's like, oh, I went to my son's baseball game. I went to this. Yeah. So during the pandemic, we're all like in this really groundhog day type of lifestyle.

Yeah. We're stuck in our houses, et cetera. Apparently now it's almost like people are realizing I was almost asleep for three years. and now I'm just hitting play again in 2024. There's a lot of like loss of memory, loss of like understanding of what happened the past, you know, three years. People feel, oh my gosh, I just woke up and I'm now 25 with three kids, you know, what happened.

And it's all because like we don't have like the memories of all the different things that happened during the pandemic. That's so funny. Is there an opportunity to disagree with that? Yeah. I just. It's just sign. I just, I don't know.

I have to see the science behind this. Why are you so skeptical? What's the conspiracy here? I think people are just putting a term to something that like, like they woke up and had three kids. I feel that same way too. I think my parents probably felt the same way too. Like, just time flies. And honestly, I feel like I remember the moments of the pandemic stronger than I remember

anything because it was so unusual. Like, I remember like the first time that I had to play a game at my house. because I literally couldn't leave the house. I remember the time that, like, my parents brought over and dropped off dinner because I couldn't see them. Like, I can't remember the other mundane moments that were just like the other past 10 years in my life. That's fair.

The pandemic is something I'll never forget. It's like, where were you on 9-11? I'm like, where were you when you found out that you had to wear masks to the grocery store? Like, it's like those moments I feel like are stand out to me so strong. So, I don't know. To me, people are just always trying to put terms on something. And, like, I just don't really believe in it. That's a mic drop moment.

Let's move on. Sorry. Sometimes I just don't. I don't know. Okay. What's the next story? Okay. So,

um, this was so, because you know, we are cruise people and we love a good cruise. Do we though? Because I've been trying to get you to go on once since our honeymoon and you just have, as I've gotten older, my taste in cruises has to become a little bit more bougie.

I'm looking for something a little bit more elevated than carnival. Yeah. Um, I got, The only reason I will say that is because remember when I got like, what was it, like yellow fever or something? On a cruise. Okay, this is actually a funny story. We're trudging through Alaska.

It's Alaska cruise. No, we were on a Norwegian cruise and we were about to go, we were going to see the bears. Okay. So we're on a bear tour, like literally with these little brown bears. And like I, oh, they came out though. Yeah, that's a different story for a different time. The bears almost ate us. We'll talk about later.

I literally have like 105 fever. I'm on my deathbed. I start to get a rash all over my body. I have chills, fever, aches, and like literally we're touring with the bears. And I'm like, babe, like, I am not well. Like, I need to go back to the ship. I go back to the ship and I go to the emergency room and they take off of my clothes. I have a rash all over my body.

And this guy that like barely speaks English. He was Russian. He was like Russian. And like this, like they had all these doctors that didn't speak English. And they're like, like, yellow fever. And I'm like, yellow fever. Like, what time period is it right now? Like, literally I was so.

They're like, take her to the hole. Yeah. They're like, we had to quarantine me. And yeah, so ever since then, and that was before the pandemic. I've been a little skeptical of cruises. The hard part about cruise doctors, and I've heard this across the board, is like, they don't really prioritize the doctors on board. and the problem with this doctor

was he didn't really know what you had and do you remember this? He kept like giving you a shot and being like, come back if it's still like not healed and we had to go back like four times. And it's funny because we didn't really have any money back then and so every time we went it was like thousands of dollars.

Yeah and we were trying to like work through this with him and he just didn't understand. He's like yellow fever and I'm like you mean death? Like what do you mean yellow fever? Oh my gosh. So ever since then, been a little scared. And so I would do a cruise. I feel like I would just do the ones that have less people, which just in turn typically are more expensive. Yeah. Just because I'm scared of

that again. Yeah, that's fair. So, but no, I still love a good cruise. We did, celebrity cruises are so great. Like, I loved, I loved our cruiser. So the question is, there's a cruise. This is a story. Yeah, sorry, let me get, you know, I'm just getting sidetracked with my yellow fever story. So here is the story. People are on a cruise right now for nine months straight. They are actually taking a nine month straight cruise. So everybody's kind of free you out about this and like documenting it. To me this is not that shocking.

I don't know why. I don't know. To me it sounds like a prison. It does sound like a prison on water. But to me this just sounds like a year long like a year long of like working at summer camp or something. Yeah, but I mean, I guess I can keep telling you. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines added a new ultimate world cruise to their offerings. The first cruise set sail on December 10th.

It will remain at sea for the next nine months. That's 274 nights. The cruise departed from Miami and will visit all seven continents, 60 different countries. That's pretty sweet. 64 nights in South America and Antarctica, 87 nights in Asia and the Pacific, 63 nights in the Middle East and Mediterranean, and 63 nights in Europe before returning back to Miami. Fares went from $60,000 to over $100,000.

Each fair included food, drinks, Wi-Fi, on board, entertainment, and laundry to name a few amenities. So a lot of people are documenting their time on TikTok. And some of the people that went are like older and retired. Then you have some young college students, 20 age school students. Some people are on the ship doing homeschool with their parents. I mean, I don't know, to me it's just not that shocking. Because think about also, like, I had a friend that, like, she was, she's staying on a cruise ship. Yeah.

So she, like, basically lived on a cruise ship for, like, for a year. Yeah, I mean, maybe it isn't that shocking, but could you imagine those rooms are really small? Yeah, but, babe, that's, like, also saying, like, you live in. Yeah, but it's, like, living in New York, like, you just sleep in there and you don't, like, just spend all your time in the little room, like, you go out and, in, like, you go out and, like, explore a new country every day essentially. Okay, like just imagine this though. You know, they have what two weeks' rotations of different shows, entertainment,

DJ sets, like, you know, like when you work at summer camp, like everything just starts to feel really like the same. That's where it kind of starts feeling like a horror movie to me where it's like you're, you're six months in and it's like, okay, I'm going to watch like Moana. I'm going to be the realist on this as well. So I had what typically, if I had to bet money, what is happening is. what you can do is like they'll stop in Barcelona and people can be Barcelona they'll stop in Barcelona and people some people can get back on the ship and go back and

sleep in the room a lot of them can stay and like take two weeks off and then just meet at the export so I can't imagine they're actually sleeping it's just a way of transportation like it's not that crazy to me so basically what you're saying is you're you don't think this is newsworthy I really don't to be honest I think this is really silly and it's just yeah it's not okay you're here here with the strong takes today the pandemic skip you're not into nine months cruises you are not into well because i had friends that worked on cruise ships and that's what they would do they would go off and explore for i'm just being you're realist you're realist i understand i understand the only thing i would say to you danny is that

it's like when you work at summer camp you become family with the people that you work with right it's like you are bonded for life that would be a cool thing about being on the is like you're traveling the world, it's probably like, I love that part of it. The class of 2023 Royal Caribbean, Caribbean World Tour. They become family. Yeah, they become family. I love that part of it.

I think that's really, it's like your neighbors. Yeah, that would be really, really cool. You do life together. Yeah. It's like a neighborhood. Exactly. Yeah. Well.

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