De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan - "Uh, Did We Just Lose Power?"

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

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The following podcast is a dear media production. Welcome back to your favorite podcast. D. Influence. Let's use that as the intro. Okay. It's fun to change it up, like daylight savings. Okay.

Please say so. Welcome back to the world. Danny was napping right before this. Yeah, but I heard I only nap for like 20 minutes. 20 minutes. Which is such a bummer. Is that even really a nap? Do you endorse naps for grown adults?

I think it's a lot of the great snaps. I endorse naps for everyone. George Washington. Especially our children. Abraham Lincoln. Did they? I think they all naps. I think naps were more common.

Back in the day? Back in the day. Well, you know my roots. We siesta. Back in my family. We siesta. And so it's really just born into my blood. There's two things I don't.

never get sick of. Mexican food and a siesta. Yeah, I mean, it really is like having two days. In Tobujiiko. It's like having, oh, pre-industrial societies, people often followed by fascic sleep, a long sleep at night, a nap in the day. Do you think I'm a big, fat, lazy bum when I nap? Because that's the energy I get from you sometimes. No, not at all. No, I know. It's probably my own insecurity. It for sure is. I want to know what you think about me when you come home. And I dropped our kids off at school, a job style off at camp.

I come home, you know, you're there going to come home and I'm on top of the roof, fixing some shingles or I'm in bed. No, for sure. There's no in between. I would say, I know, I don't judge you at all. Is it hot in here? No, it's for sure hot in here. Can we maybe get some air going?

You know where that little air vent is? What I would say to you is that I don't worry about you napping, but I worry that you worry that I'm mad at you for napping. It's like, it's like I have no resentment towards your naps, but I feel like you have resentment because you're like, oh, he just thinks he's perfect and I'm just tired. And so it's like it's not my judgment. It's like your assumed judgment that I have. Yeah. If anything, I'm just like, what you know,

what do you do? Yeah. And if anything, I'm like, wow, I can do anything right now. She's leaving me alone. She's leaving me alone. I can go anywhere. I can do anything.

And she'll never know. So never know. It's interesting. Naps stopped during the Industrial Revolution when we shifted to nine to five work, which makes sense. So what were the hours of work before? Well, pre-industrial revolution, I don't think that the 9 to 5 work schedule was like a thing.

What was it? You gotta know. Agrarian. It was like... What does that mean? It means like you worked hard. You took a break for lunch. Then you went and worked the fields again after.

Well, that's what we do now. No, but we don't nap during lunchtime. Oh, but because we eat. Well, we eat. But like if you're working in a. headquarters. You're not going to like... Nothing better than a nap after much.

Unless you're at like Google where you can like go into a nap pod. Yes. But you, I bet that's trod upon. I would, I don't know. I don't think they do much. I think if you work at Facebook or Google, you don't do much. Really? I mean, come at me in the comments, but like I don't think you do much.

In fact, they would always like make fun of those like TikToks of the people who were like, come to me with my nine to five at Google. And it was like, nine a m. First of all, it's like, first of all, I pick up my dry cleaning from the in-house suite, and then I get my free breakfast with my, like, latte from Starbucks. And then I join the company-wide yoga class. It's like they don't, there's just no way. That's awesome. I'd work out Google.

You should apply. I was thinking about this. Then you can go. I'm so happy that you're bringing this up. The thought of like, I've been thinking, like, I should apply to, like, work out a boutique or something. You know, maybe just twice a week. And it's like, I'm just there for maybe four hours. And I'm not going to tell anybody, you know.

Like, I'm just going to go work at a boutique and just talk to random customers that have no idea who I am, what did I do? And then come home. You know, I'll make like, what does minimum wage these days? $10 an hour? I think it's 14. Oh, man. Back of my day. Gosh, it's like $8 an hour.

I used to work at Lenin's and things. Oh, yeah, that would be a great place for it. $750 an hour. What do you get? Like free fabric? No, I didn't get anything free that was cool. Yeah. Vacumes.

That's pretty legit. They didn't give them to me for free, though. Yeah, where would I work? Guys, we lied at $7.25 an hour. Oh, it is? Well, in L.A. In L.A. is 14. Fair.

Wait, so. They haven't changed that in forever. The minimum wage? Yeah, because I was making $7.000. When I was getting paid at fubbles and things, B&B resale. That's actually not fair. I don't know if I'm pro raising the minimum wage, but like inflation has increased significantly since I was at linens and things. There's no way you can survive on minimum wage.

Okay, can I just say something really fast? Because I just want to check if I'm crazy. Like, I think when I was in high school, minimum wage was like $6. And I got paid like $7.85 or something at B&B resale. because and then I remember being like, dang, this is pretty good. They don't even pay minimum wage here. It's a little bit higher. Like, I could be crazy, but is that?

When did you go to high school? 2011. 2010? Like 2017. High school? Okay. The 2010 minimum wage in Texas was still 725. There we go.

Oh, I like that you got this little mic thing. Yeah, Nathan gave it to me because we keep, you guys keep asking me. things and I responded. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow, that's interesting. So, wait, sorry, what did you say? I was thrown out by this mic. What did you say?

It's 725 per hour, even in 2010. So it hasn't changed. That's criminal. So true. So true. Uh-oh. Oh. We just had a light go out, but it's okay, I think.

Hold on. Wait. Is there a storm? No, there's no storm, but. Well, you know, they're apparently there were one. One was, there was one last night. I didn't hear a thing. I know, we slept there.

Should we talk about last night? I, I really got my feelings heard by you. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Sorry, can we, before we close the loop, are we pro raising the minimum wage or are we con? I really do feel like, I actually, I need to research my own political beliefs on this. But all I, all I am just saying is practically speaking, practically speaking, it is impossible for as much as inflated. has risen, it is impossible for someone to live off that minimum wage. No.

But maybe, maybe. I don't think that people, I don't think places, places are really paying $7. Yeah, that's true. I think minimum wage is $7. It's true. It's like, do we believe in capitalism? Like, what is McDonald's paying per hour? It's good question.

That's what we really do know. And that's like, I even like the typing. It's like very, yeah. They're like, it's such a smart podcast. They like research these right in a, moment. Yeah, so you get a comment that's like Gen Z podcast producers, not researching well. It's 1137 per hour.

See, I was going to say, I was going to say $10. The free market. Oh, but in Dallas, it's 1517. Oh, okay. Guys. So we're moving it up. And in Austin, 1621. Listen, the market works.

The market is efficient. We are capitalist. The free market works. So it's not the government. So maybe what I'm thinking, and I need to research my, own beliefs here. So don't come at me. Libs or conservatives. I would say it seems like it shouldn't be the government's job to tell businesses what to pay people. It should be the free market of trying to retain good people. Like McDonald's paying $16 in Austin because it's more expensive to live in Austin.

Is the whole question if there should be a minimum wage? No, no. The question should be, the debate is always should the government mandate a minimum. like to the minimum wage or rate increase. Yeah. Yeah. So like that's what you're, that's the question. Yeah. Oh, or should the market demand it? Yeah. Or should the free market take its course? I feel like it does both. What do you mean? Like it's, it's both are already happening. No, because in California, they'll go and they'll say, hey, the minimum wage, we're raising the minimum wage to $16 an hour. I know, but it's like if you want the best talent, then the restaurant on the street is like they

McDonald's pay 16, we pay 18. The problem though is like when California does that to like say, say there's like a taco stand. Okay. And the taco stand is working like profitable and supporting a family, the owners of the taco stand because they are able to find talent that will work for $13 an hour. But then the government comes in and makes a blanket statement that's like, hey, minimum wage has to be $18 an hour. Well, you just put the taco stand out of business. So the business owners don't like, it's like impossible for some businesses to compete with new minimum wage standards. So politically, it's like a great talking point because they're like, we want people to make more money, but it doesn't work like a blanket across the board. Does that make

sense? Yes, especially for small businesses. Especially for small businesses, right? So then what happens is then the small business are like, I have to move out of California because I literally cannot afford the minimum wage requirements that they put into place. You know, I don't know. It's tough. No, but I don't know my beliefs, but my gut is like, I'm definitely for minimum wage. If you can't hit minimum wage, then should you really even be a business? Like, that's just taking advantage of people in ways that it just means that you're not mature enough to really.

That's such a good counterpoint. I'm kind of, you're challenging me here. Yeah. I just, it just, I think that. minimum wages put out there to protect people probably, like to protect people from getting taken advantage of, right? And if you're like a high school student, like, you know, like I was, like I'm just thinking to myself, high school, I'm like 17. I want to work at a job. My dad had to drop me off at my job because I couldn't even, no, I'm sorry, I wasn't 17 because I couldn't drive. So I was like 15 or

whatever. Right. And, but then you have, you know, these other people that are more mature, like we're doing the same exact work, even though I'm in high school and they're 30, like, I'm, still just as valuable as them. I don't have as much experience. So I wouldn't have known that I was being taken advantage of. So you feel protected under minimum wage. You know. But the counterpoint to that is like, would I trust some politician who's never operated a business before who's literally just trying to get votes? That's why we vote for our politicians. And we communicate and tell them what we want. Yeah. But like sometimes you vote for politicians who don't run on I'm going to raise the minimum wage. Well, then speak your voice.

Okay. You're right. Free speech. Protest. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Speaking of emotions. Okay. You want to tell a story or you want me to tell a story? Because I think we have two different viewpoints on this. You can tell a story. Okay. So last night, we had a great weekend.

Just fun time. Spend a great time with our kids. We'll go over the weekend in a second. We get home. And I don't know if these things are connected. Danny turns on the Tyler Perry movie Straw. Number one on Netflix last night. Kind of a dumb movie, in my opinion. Oh my gosh. No, that's like a hot take.

Yeah, I thought it was dumb. I'm going to be honest. I was laughing. Like, listen, I know what they were going for, but it was such a... It's just cheesy. It was like a cheesy, cheap trick movie. It's like, yeah, like the bad things like kept happening to this person. Anyway, something happened in the movie and it had to do with, I think, the character.

director's child. And all of a sudden, Danny is bawling crying. So we went from like laughing like this is such a cheesy movie to like bawling crying. Like how hard are we talking? Like on a scale of one to 10, it was like an eight. And I was like, oh. And I just thought it was like crying during the notebook. It's like you'll be over it in five minutes. But it kept going. I mean, you were like sobbing for like 30 minutes. And to be honest, I was. a little bit stressed because I had the Sunday scaries and I was like I was like okay like I can't I can't I need this to not happen right now and so I was like oh I'm so sorry baby our kids love you and I didn't even know what was wrong what was wrong um well I think like a week ago I had told you like I just

need a good cry you know yeah and then I watched that movie and oh my gosh it just hit it it is kind cheesy. The acting is not great. Like overall, like everyone's acting. The main characters are phenomenal. But I also didn't realize Tyler Perry has like a, I thought he has like a certain style with his movies. No, he does. Yeah, he does. But like, I was kind of like waiting for this like big twist and it happened. And oh my gosh, it is just, it hit me right to my core. and I had such a good, I think like, I was thinking about, I was thinking about how all love comes with pain. For sure.

Like there is so much pain in love. Which, to be clear, I think if you watch that movie, that is not the takeaway of the movie. No, no, first of all, it could be. I don't even think you watched the movie. Okay, but anyway. But like, Stella and I have. had the, there was this moment in the pool that Silla and I had where we both got into the, this, uh, tube and we were spinning around. And she's like laughing. She's like, oh, mommy,

I love you. And she gags my face like this. And she's like dying laughing and we're spinning. And I'm, it was such a sweet moment that it was almost painful. Like, have you ever had love something so much that it's painful? Because you don't want it to go away. Yeah, you. That was good, right? That was sweet. Yes. Like, like, like, like, like, Like, I was like, I love this moment so much that it makes me sad because I know that I probably won't have another moment like this with her because she's getting so, like growing so fast. Right. And like, yes, you have all these amazing other moments as they grow.

But this like, when they're so sweet and little and four years old and they just save the most off the wall things and it's just so cute. And you just want to bottle them up and just keep them in this like, oh, because they're just so precious. And so it was just like painful almost. And I have those moments every day where it's like, I love you so much that it hurts. And then that movie just personified that for me. Like it just like brought it to life. Yeah.

And it was just so sad. It was so sad. And so then I just, once I started crying, I couldn't stop because I was just like, I love him so much. Right. And then, you know, I was really wanting some love or cuddles. And I'm sitting there next to Jordan like. And he's like, typing away. And I'm like, he's like, he's like, I think you did cry louder as like a call out for attention.

It's like you'd be like, then you'd be like, like, you like really wanted me to know that like I needed to comfort you. And I did to be clear for a second. But then I realized, oh, I was like, oh, this is this is going to be a longer one. And that's evil. No, it's not evil. No, that's evil. Danny, it was not evil. Like, no.

The fact that I'm crying like that and you're just sitting there, like, when is this going to be over? It's so, like, talk about intimacy. Zero of that. Well, I think I just, I thought maybe it was just like a, I don't know. You're right. You're right. Yeah, let me tell you. It's not good.

It's not good. I really, I'm going to think about what I did. You do that a lot, though, when I cry. You don't cry that much, though. I know, but what I do? You really don't cry that much. You disconnect. You shield.

Oh, man. Maybe. No, you do. It's okay. I always thought it's because you didn't have sisters. So you always think that... You always think that crying is crazy. I don't think it's always crazy.

No. No. But, like, it was a very... it didn't come, it came out of nowhere. It came out of nowhere. I was like, oh. Exactly. It's like sometimes you cry during movies and it's like,

it works itself out in five minutes, but this one was just. Well, the next time I cry, I expect immense amount of love. Yeah, I'm going to just bear hug you. You better. Yeah. I'll bear hug you.

But here's the question. Would you recommend in the movie? I don't think so. Yeah, because like, I just, if you need a good cry. But most of the movie is not that. I mean, it's, I mean, you do feel bad for the character. The thing about Netflix for me, if I'm if I'm being honest,

is I can't tell if I should question Netflix or I should question like all of humanity. But it feels like the movies that they recommend are terrible. Like now you see me one and now you see me two. Those are two movies that in the theater system totally bombed. Like they bombed. They were objective. bad movies, like only a very small audience like them. But then when they come on to Netflix, it's like always those movies are always in the top 10. And it feels like their top 10 movies are kind of making us dumber. Can we talk about a simple favor too? Is it good? No. But it's in the top 10. And like who advocated for this? We didn't need another simple favor. Nobody was liking Blake Lively

at the time. Like, it's the worst movie I ever. I couldn't even like watch like 20 minutes of it. It would, I don't understand. Like, a simple favor happened so long ago and nobody even talks about it and they're like a simple favor too. Like, who thinks of these things? That's what I'm saying. Maybe they were contracted to do it from the beginning. I think that there's, has anyone else ever talked about this? Or everyone's like, yeah, totally, I totally trust Netflix's top 10. But can I tell you what I think it is. I think that it's like, it's so hard to find like good recommended content on Netflix because so much of it is bad that we trust the top 10 so much and the thumbnails get us. So you see a simple favor and you're like, everybody's talking about Blake lively. Like it's number five or

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Yeah. And honestly, it's like. You know what's so crazy? It's like, I keep coming back too. Yeah. When I pull up the streaming service, I'm like, yeah, Netflix, totally reliable. But it's not. Horrible.

Like deep down, it's so not. Yeah, there's really nothing on there. But I just have to say, I think people would disagree with you about straw. It's so cheesy and the acting is cheesy. Tyler Perry does something right because he's... He's a billionaire. He's a billionaire. Yeah.

He knows what he's doing. I was like, Tyler Perry, he did a Gone Girl, right? He's like, no, that was David Fincher, but close. I know no directors. None. Like, and you know all of him. You have a great memory. I really love movies.

I used to love movies. I feel like the system's kind of gone downhill, but I, We have to watch Captain Ron. Yeah. Yeah, we should. But like I feel like all the movies are now is it's like studios are now is it's like studios mitigating their risk and being like we don't want to take a chance on a new concept. So we're going to come out with Gladiator 2 and 3.

Like the accountant 2 makes no sense. That's what I'm saying. A simple favor 2. Who's asking for these things? Well, what I think is happening. is I think the studio system's dying. And what I think is like, so Robert De Niro, for example, is... He's doing cheesy stuff, right?

He's doing really bad movies. And what I think is happening, like, in real life, is I think that these actors have made so much money. Their lifestyle has... Their lifestyle expenses have increased substantially. Yeah, they've seven houses. So they're not, just to survive is probably like 300K a month, you know? So they're spending all this money. So they are now forced to take these horrible movies.

because they know the system's dying and they're like, okay, well, I have to basically just like sell my brand now to either keep up with my lifestyle or to like cash out. Yeah, they're just, it's just a gig. Ben Affleck was like, he's an Oscar award winning actor and he is doing the accountant too. Make it make it make sense. People liked the accountant though. I thought the first one. Yeah, but you don't leave on a high note. Yeah, no, I agree.

It literally used to be like an art, like the way that. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt and all these guys took movies. There was like so much science to it, it felt like they all were like a certain caliber. I think Brad Pitt is still one of the legacies. And same with Leo. Yeah. A hundred percent. Also, what happened to George Clooney?

Ugh, he's just outlooking handsome. But he doesn't take anything anymore. So I think he's one of the legacy players. Yeah. So yeah. It's so interesting, isn't it? Or, you know who else? Redhead?

Not Aaron Brockovich, but... Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts. Yeah. She's great. I wonder if people... Taraji P. Henson. Hold on.

That's my girl. Gen Z podcast producer. Do you know any of these people? I'm going to be honest. No, not really. I know Julia Roberts love her. George Clooney, handsome. Leo?

Yes. But I know him more so, like from the Titanic. I watched one time. Or Dumois. Yeah, Dumois. From Dumas. Dumas is good. Or just like him dating 25 year olds, you know.

See, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, like, I don't really, I don't watch movies. Like, I just don't. What do you think about these Netflix top tens? They're horrible. Okay, so do all of your friends think they're horrible, too? Yeah. I honestly can't tell you, I think I have one friend that's been to the movie theater in

the last year. Yeah. So, like, just just. TikTok, straight TikTok? Um, podcast, a lot of podcasts, a lot of, um, like TV shows. That's what people like are serious, like sirens. Yeah. And any of the, I just got recommended sirens.

Sirens, I liked that. I know you didn't like the ending. But things like that people love. Any of those Apple TV series, they do good ones. Can I, Nicole Kidman. Anything that Nicole Kidman is in, I usually like. Can I, so this is all kind of making sense because it's, actually starting to match up with my own behaviors. I found something that is so funny to me,

but I don't know if you'll find it funny. Is this the AI like Bigfoot? Yes. I know. The AI Yeti. He's obsessed. Okay. Let me hold on. I have to help. He follows. No, no, hold on. Don't bring it for me. Okay. There is on TikTok if you search. Was it the was it that was it that? It was cool. I believe you. Okay. Here's what it's called. It's called Yeti vlogs.

Y-E-T-I vlogs. And there's like all of these different ones that do it. But it's basically, should I show the camera? Can you put it over? It's literally an AI, Bigfoot and Yeti, doing like YouTube style vlogs. And it's, I'm so captivated by this series. I find myself checking in every day what AI Yeti and Bigfoot are doing. It is more entertaining to me than any TV show.

What are they doing today? Well, this one is so funny. Swipe up. Yeah. Who's there? Go to my text with Drew. I snuck dynamite into these knuckleheads firewood. Stand back, mate.

Oh, that's horrible. All right. A bit more than I expected. Still funny though. It's giving Logan Paul a little bit. It's so funny. And honestly, it was the first time that I was kind of like, man, AI is getting so good that like we're totally not going to need influencers. Like, it's going to be more entertaining to watch these like weird subculture genre. Yeah. AI influencers and stories than anything else. It's true.

It's crazy. Like anyone can, like, if I, I don't know what tools they use to produce these, but like as they become more accessible, like anyone can become a content creator and create these weird universes and these real weird worlds and people can follow them and become entertained by them. Yep. I think we should get into the business. I think we should get into the business of.

influencers. I think we could kill it and create captivating stories of AI influencers. It'll be funny if they start getting brand deals. No, for sure they will. You think? 100%. Because it's where attention's going to go. It'll be like a subculture.

It's like the same people that like to play video games. Like it's like they love it and they think it's so cool. But then some of us are going to be like, I'm going to go talk to real people. I just don't see, I don't see why you're not seeing. the connection between like you're watching a TV show with real actors and it's dramatized and you get sucked into these stories. Let me tell you why. Let me tell you why because like what makes Hollywood and what makes TV shows and movies and music so interesting is that there's a real life person behind it. And like you know me when I watch a movie. I think that's what makes

it interesting to you. But that's what I think a lot of people, I talk to a lot of girls that are like this. Like, we are immediately on Wikipedia. Who are they married to? What year were they born? Where'd they grow up? Where'd they go to college? Like, you know, we just watched your friends and neighbors with John Hamm. Like, I found out he, um, went to the University of Texas. He like lost both of his parents at a very young age. So when I watch him now, I watch him through a completely different lens. And it's like, it's like I'm putting together all these different puzzle pieces. And that makes it so interesting to me. Like when I watch AI or like, that's a lot. That's to how I feel about video games. I'm like, it's just not real. And like, I could get into it.

Like, you know, I could, I'm like, oh, that's cool. I don't like look down upon it. But it's just not for me. That's not what gets me going. I agree. I think it will start as a subgenre, but give it 10 years. I think it's the future. I would follow, like, let me try to think. An AI account or an AI girl, like, just provides, like, a ton of value in something that I'm trying to learn. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Like, if I'm- But then you slowly start to, like, give her, like, like, like, you start to introduce other AI characters, like, into her content. And I think that parasycial relationships are so strange at this point that I think that people would in their minds subconsciously convince themselves that this world is real, that they're watching

through like AI content. I could see that happening. And people would get sucked in. And then they would get sucked into the lore. But you have to like release. You have to like, it's kind of like what I'm saying with like video games or people get into like anime or whatever. It's like you have to like dive into the world and like Harry Potter and just like let it, let it ride and like just don't take it so seriously. I don't think I'll ever allow myself to cross that barrier.

I think you say that. I think it's going to become so tied into our whole reality that I think it's going to be hard to fight it. We're just like at that stage and we're like we'll never like I'll never, you know, I'll never. I'm trying to think like what was the example of computers. I don't know. But like I think we're trying to like avoid the technology and I think it's going to be so become so commonplace. I'll never get into a stranger's car with Uber or I'll never like Airbnb in my house and let strangers stay at my home. Like those were crazy concepts. Yeah. Yeah.

I take Uber like twice a week now. I will say I've taken some sketchy Uber's though. Yeah, for sure. Well, switching gears, we had a phenomenal weekend. It knocked the air out of me. actually like no pun intended it really did when I went tubing. Oh. We went on like the bumpy part of the lake and I heard some things crack in my neck. But you wanted it. No, here's the thing.

She wants to. No, I don't. She wants to feel something. No, but no, I like to feel something but not like pain. Yeah. And I like, I know you always say that, but I take calculated risks. Like, you know, when I'm, when I'm jumping out of the airplane when I'm going skydiving, I'm attached to some former Marine that's done this seven times today, you know.

I watched this girl from the boat. I watched her. There were two tubes out there. I watched this girl while the boat was going 30 miles an hour jump from one tube to the other. And she's talking to me about calculated risk. Well, I knew I could make the jump. You're kidding me? All the eight-year-old boys were like, cool.

You're like, did you see I made it? What was my hang time? Yeah. But no, it was calculated. And that's how I felt about the tube. I assessed the situation. It's usually very calm. They go really fast.

I'm like, the worst that could happen is I fly three feet in the air. But, like, when we went out on the choppy side of the lake, I mean, every single bump was like a whiplash. And it whiplash my neck. And I, oh, I felt it. I heard it crack. And it took the air out of me. It was such a lot big whiplash that I was like, oh. I was like, you know, I'm trying to, like, slow down.

Yeah, yeah. So I had to get off. And then I had to skip tubing the rest of the week weekend. Bummer. She was in such a bad mood. But we invited some new friends out there. We had a lot of fun. Got real somber.

You know what I found out this weekend? Did you know, remember where we got married? What was it called? The Grand Ivory. The Grand Ivory. Did you know that Forrest Frank got married there? No. Yeah, no.

Look, I saw this TikTok. Someone tagged you. And it said, Like recently? It said when Danny Austin and Forrest Frank got married at the same venue. What? I know. Isn't that crazy?

Is he from Texas, Dallas? I think he lives in. Do you remember I tried to get him on the podcast or I wanted to like before he blew up? Man, he blew up hard. He's a big deal. He's been married though, I think. I'm just saying we got married in the same venue. I didn't know that.

Interesante. Very interizante. Elon Musk and Trump are fighting. that happened. Are they, are they cooled now? I think A-Long's cooled off from what I read, but it seems like Trump still doesn't love him anymore.

He said that, Trump said that. Yeah, he just seems kind of like, not besties anymore. I don't know, J.D. Vance and Theo Vaughn was like, Trump is just wants to like, he said he's very good compartmentalizing.

I don't know about that. Being, like, stoic. Trump? like i'm just hey don't get mad at me that's what jd vans said on the podcast i know and and i want to believe jd vans i really do um and he seems like a credible guy but like what how would you personify all of the tick the tweets that he like trump just he feels something he goes out in tweets i don't know maybe it's like part of a character yeah jd vans did say he was elon was a very emotional guy. He said, he said, Elon was a very emotional guy. He said, Trump is actually very

stoic. And he likes to process everything before he makes a big decision. He talks to like a ton of people about it. He'll be walking through Marlago. And if he has to make a big decision, he'll ask the gardener. He'll ask the chefs. He'll ask all these people and get all of their input. And then like, logically made a good decision. I was like, I mean, J.D. Vance is good. It's good PR. PR, good reputation management. But you know what the best thing about this whole feud is? Best part of the breakup is the internet.

Yeah. It's been great internet for the past three days. And when we don't have great internet, we become caged animals. Like we get, you know, bad things happen. We start fighting amongst each other. So true. We need something to all get along. When we have, yeah, when we have entertainment, it brings us together.

We're able to discuss it. great memes. We laugh together. It's crazy. The person that can get Danny every single time is Theo Von. Oh, man. Every time. Every single time. He's like the most uneducated, educated, educated, intelligent, eloquent, in eloquent person ever. I just... He said something. I never listened to his podcast before. We listened to it on the way home you. You never listened to it? I've never listened to it. I've just never thought it. I've seen clips, but I never thought it would be interesting in long form. And he is so quick. No, babe, that one that you watched, he actually wasn't that good. With JD vans, he messed up a ton of

jokes. Like, but some of the jokes, he's so smart. Like, the way he just says some of these things. And sometimes he says something and everybody in the room is like, my favorite part of the entire interview that we did listen to was they were both talking about how there's this like website where you can go see which of your ancestors fought in the Civil War. And Theobon goes, he goes, if you fought today, which side would you fight on to the vice president of the United? And J.D. Vance just shut down. And he was like, oh, man, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked you. No, he talked about he'd fight for the union. I know, but it was just such a funny, like, gotcha question. Oh, my gosh.

He does that a lot. He asked Arnold Schwarzenegger about steroids. Oh, he did? Yeah. He was like, tell us about steroids. that's what I like about his question is too he's like he'll just ask like straight up what did arnold say he just said it was like a very much so i didn't listen to the whole episode but he just said it was very much so a part of the culture and but they did it very he did it very differently like um at the time everybody went to doctors and just got steroids how does he look today i'm gonna say he looks like he's not on steroids and it looks very different arnold schwarzenegger okay like i always today because

Did, because usually steroids like puff you up. Does he look really deflated? No, he's like, he looks pretty good. Like he's like kind of, um, lean. He's lean. Yeah, I mean, like he, he looks normal. He looks like a normal person. I mean, you can't do that natural.

But that's not even attractive in my opinion. That was, it's kind of a steroids. I feel like we're big in like the, what, 80s, early 90s. And it was like that kind of like roided. I, like, like, I like, like, like, Honestly, I know he, obviously, his body's amazing in this, but like, it's a little too much meat for me. This is what I know. I like a lean chicken bone.

Oh, it's funny. Okay, lean chicken bone it is. No, not that lean, please. Your wish is my friend. You look great. Somebody did ask, first of all, somebody for the first time ever I had to screenshot it, in a Titchford and somebody like, because your husband, Zaddy, put a bunch of heart eyes. Never in my life.

I made it. I went and ate like a gallon of ice cream after that because I was like, that's all I needed. Just need to know I could do it. And now I'm done. So he goes, daddy. And I was like, this is so weird. And then another other person asked me if you were taking the tea. Not just outside.

And they said, taking the tea. Full Natty, to be clear. I know. I'll clear up the rumors. It's the worst ever. been talking about it. Yeah, everyone's wondering. Is he on steroids?

Is he on testosterone? No. Not. Everyone's been wondering. Everyone's been wondering. Everyone's been asking. I also found out that Arnold had a, um, had a, I think it was an older brother. I can't remember.

But he had a brother that passed away really young. That had a better body than him. Arnold said that. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway. You know a lot about celebrities. I forget everything, no.

No. You remember a lot. Yeah. John Ham's sober now. Learned that one. Did learn that one. See, I love, I love Hollywood. I love pop culture.

I love celebrity culture. It's just so fascinating to me. I know. I love it. This is like the, this is the hardest part about when I don't get on the internet for a week. Yeah. It's like a full-time job to be ready for this podcast.

This is just what happens when I'm sleepy. I don't know what's been going on with me lately. I will say I've kind of wondered if you were pregnant last night. Literally same. I was so nauseous. Should you take a test? But I just had my period. Oh, true.

Sure, sure, sure. No, but I literally thought the same thing. Like, I was so tired this weekend. I was pounding those Delta E's, too. And I felt nothing. That's how I always know I'm pregnant is I'll drink a whole cup of coffee and then I'll just like pass out. I've been like that lately. Maybe I'm depressed again.

Ugh, I hate when that happens. It's the worst. It doesn't feel like that. No, it doesn't. My depression's always start with very physical symptoms, though. I'm headaches, sleeping a lot. And then it gets to why am I here vibes. That's always like step four, you know.

So we're not there yet. It's funny because it's so true. I know. And then I never know what brings us out of them. I know. It's just one day you're just like cleaning the garage. I know. I'm happy again.

I'm happy again. I'm good. The crying last night was a huge like red flag for me. No, for sure for me too. I literally was like, yeah, I was like, I wonder if she's like pregnant. And I knew you weren't on your period. So I was like, no, and then do you remember like this last time? Like I didn't PMS?

No, you didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I remember it. Because I was like, I'm like being amazing this week. And I'm like, I'm PMSing. And then I had my period. And like, I was like, like amazing.

Yeah. It was the only thing that I get. The one thing that really bothers me right now is just like pooch where I had my babies. Yeah. What's a, what's diet, diet, dieticis. Whatever. It's like where your abs, um, split apart after having babies. And then the only way you can get it back to together is yes, you can do exercises.

And yes, that's like saying like like, like, yeah, you can do a wrinkle cream. But like, but Botox is going to fix it. But like, you can do it naturally, but like steroids are going to fix it. Yeah, exactly. You know, it's like that's what I say too. I know. I'm like, yeah, sure. I can like run.

You can get muscles. But like, steroids. It's so true. Yeah. So, but apparently a lot of people do the surgery where you literally just sew them back together. Oh, man. That's hard. That's hard on me.

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come into your mind and then what i find myself doing is i'll just be like yeah yeah and i'll just cuss and i'll be like and then like no one hears me but like if you did hear me you'd be like oh my gosh, what's wrong? And I'd be like, I just thought about it. I thought about this thing I said seven years ago. I had an intrusive thought that I'm obviously not going to repeat, but it was so bad, like, so bad. And I was like, do I need to talk to a therapist about this?

And then I was like, it's so bad. I can't even tell a therapist. It was horrible. I was like, I have to live with this thought. And I just prayed I never thought it again. I never thought it again. I never thought it. I never thought it.

It's so bad. You know it's bad when you can't even tell therapist. I'm sorry. I can't. it's so bad. Sometimes I have those. Do you ever have those thoughts? I mean,

mine's just replays. Replays of just conversations. I'm just like, thank God I never actually do the bad thoughts, you know? This is also probably why Danny feel like she knows every serial killer can live in their mind. Is she's just like,

no, let me tell you, she's haunted by these same impulses. My thoughts are never about harm. Okay. It's just, it's never about harming somebody. I would never, that I think you would need to talk to a therapist. Yeah, for sure. If you were thinking out harming people.

Yeah. But I can't tell you about them. It's so bad. All right. Well, our mind is racing. We're so intrigued by the depravity of your mind. Just when I have bad thoughts, I just try to make myself busy. Let me ask you this.

Do people listen to this? podcast. People actually tune into this thing. They love this podcast. We haven't even like, we never check the numbers because I'm like, I'm giving it all my God. When I, when I get on this podcast, I genuinely think it's like two people that tune in every week. No, I know that they do because I told you I got stopped at Longcove. They were like, oh, I heard you guys talking about the rug on the podcast. That's so funny. Like, I would have done the same thing about how they laid down the rug and I didn't say anything because I felt bad. It's so crazy.

Literally I stopped at Maria a couple weeks ago. Yeah. But that his, yeah, true, true, true. Keep a listen to the podcast. I walk out of this room and I'm like, I purge this time that we spend in here from my mind. Like if you ask me on the street, like,

are you a podcast host? I'd be like, what are you talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about. That's funny. It's fascinating to me. I'm like, people listen to this. Let's talk about our rugs. Okay.

Well, we can talk about our rugs. Okay. Okay, we don't have to. So let me tell you, like, maybe I don't want to, like, when you're talking about your rugs, I literally, in my mind, I'm like, Danny, don't talk about our rugs. Like, no one gives a crap about our rugs. No, they're like, they can't sleep at night because of these drugs. And you know what's so funny about this podcast is probably like the more, the less we can. the better it probably is, to be honest.

Yeah, but there's two different types of podcast listeners. There's people like you that just want to go and just be filled with knowledge. You just want to learn and soak it all up and just be smarter. And then there's people that me just want to enjoy the hour. You know, and like, if I learn something, great. If I'd laugh, that's why I'm here. You know, I'm just here for a good time. Yeah.

And so I don't think that if people are wanting to come soak up and just become smarter. I don't think that they're coming here. Is smarter a word? Yes. More smart? Smarter. Exactly my point. They become smarter. And so they're like, yeah. So I think that this. I go watch now. Now you see me too. On Netflix. Rank number five. And then I watch straw. Simple paper. And I come, I become so much smarter from Netflix top 10. Seriously.

Um, but no, and so I think that this, the great thing about Theo Vaughan podcast is like, it's very approachable. And you can talk about silly things, goofy things or smart people things. I feel like that's how we are. I'm like the female Theobar. That's why people listen to the podcast. They're like, yeah, you know, Danny Austin like, you know, she's like, his mommy blog, but she's really like the female Theo Vaughn. My favorite, not my favorite, but like, because, you know, Theo Von used to be like a pretty intense drug addict. Yeah.

So like somebody was like on the podcast and like, yeah, I was in one of those bathroom stalls, like changing my diaper or changing my daughter's diaper. And Theo's like, oh yeah, we used to snort cocaine off of those things. Like he just always has like these like funny stories. Anyway, so I don't have those like little anecdotes, but. Yeah, yeah. Maybe I could. Wonder. Oh.

I have another thing we should talk about. Yeah. I got my Ponovo scans results back. It's very true. I didn't even tell people I did this. I was scared I would get hate. Why? I don't know.

I feel like people get hate with those things. When King Kardashian did the whole. I mean, it wasn't sponsored. I paid for my own. But do I know what Pernovo is? Nouveau. Why would you get hate? I think, babe, I think we all know you've got some serious health

problems. Like, the audience was probably rooting for you to get the Pernobos stand. Oh, okay, okay. They're like, this chick has the flu 17 times a year. Yeah, okay. Get her everything. Yeah. So I, um, obviously have been sick a lot, been doing so much blood work. I got into this like immune specialist guy. His first appointment available. I booked it about two months ago is, uh, December 31st, literally. New year, new year. That I get to go see him. So I'm on like the wait list to see this guy. in the meantime, I was like, what if I have like a really big health problem that I don't know about? So I, um, scheduled one of these pre-newvo scans. They are MRI full body scans.

You can do just your head. You can do just your body. But I decided to just go balls to the wall. What a gross saying. I know. I was going to say. I'm never heard you say that. I say that all the time.

I say that. Oh, balls the wall? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Um. And I did the full.

body scan and I went about, I think it was like last Tuesday. Were you naked? No. They give you, why do you? I don't know. I was just balls. I was wondering if you were naked. Just connected. A man's mind. No. So it's like a, it's like a luxury MRI experience because it's like, right, like it's not affiliated with the hospital so they could just kind of do whatever they want. Like they give you snacks and they give you, you get to wear like these, the special like suit that they give you. with the slippers. And they just make it really easy to get these scans. Now,

I don't know how, let's say, reliable these scans are. There's some feedback that, like, they're like sometimes their not as reliable. Like maybe they pick up things that are actually not harmful or they miss things. It's like when the Dexa scan told me my body fat percentage was like 25%. It was just total bull crap. Okay. Sure. Yes.

So stuff like that where people, like, I don't know. if they're super reliable. But our friend Taylor Dukes found out that she had brain cancer from a sponsored post that she was going to be doing with them. Like she literally, they reached out to her to do a sponsored Instagram post. She's very healthy. So she was like, I don't need it. Can you give it to my husband?

He's the one that has some problems. And they were like, no, because you're going to be posting a sponsored post. We want you to get it. So she just goes in, schedules it, is doing her post, and then gets the results the next day. and finds out she has brain cancer, like just from like an email. Yeah. Anyway, like fast words, she got brain surgery and she's like in remission now. But so after we went to Cabo with her and I was like, man, I just feel like I have all these problems.

I have horrible night sweats. Like, I should just do this. So I went last Tuesday. And I will say the MRI is if you are claustrophobic, definitely go get a X from your doctor. I did not. I honestly wish I would have because it, it makes you feel so claustrophobic that you feel like you're going to suffocate. And that's talking about an intrusive thought. If that intrusive thought gets in that machine, you're done.

So this is my second MRI I've ever done. And the first MRI, like I almost had a panic attack. Like to the point where like I couldn't catch my breath. And but I was almost done with it. So I never like click the red button that's supposed to help you out. But this one, the one saving grace was this scan. they put a movie on above you. And so they put on Nona on Netflix,

which also, it's not that great of movie. I'm telling you. Sorry, it's cute and everything, but it's not great. And so at least I had something to watch and they gave me headphones to listen to.

And that helped a lot. But if I ever took my eyes off of that little screen and I started to look around where I panic. Like, it's so scary. And so, anyway, got my results back the next day. I still need to send them to a doctor. and I'm going to and everything,

but they found a little spot on my brain. No way. Yeah. All right. They said it could be an aneurysm. And I was like, that doesn't sound good. Wait,

I thought an aneurysm is what happens when, like aneurysm is like an event, I thought, like a brain aneurysm. Yeah. But like you can't, like you're describing it like aneurysm is like a thing. Yeah, it is. It's a thing. Oh. Well, should we go. Yeah, I didn't mean to do it. I'm going to call someone. I just need to fax them over the doctor.

You have to fax them? Do you? No, I'm sorry. I said fax. I'll email. Okay. I was like, it's like, that's going to take you forever to figure out. You don't have a faxing app on my phone. You can't even log into Amazon Prime. Are you going to fax your doctor, your brain tumor? I can't do. Oh gosh. You saw me on my computer the other day. Oh, Danny on her computer is the funniest thing. It's like, it's like she discovered fire. She literally comes into the room and she's like, oh my gosh, the amount you can get done on a computer is insane because she just does everything on her phone. Like one little tap at a time.

Change flights. Book a doctor's appointment. Review brain scans. And now she's just like. Chiron Muckson, I'm at my office. He goes, type me a sentence. Let me see you type of sentence. He thinks it's so cute.

He's like, oh, I'm looking at this little computer. My nails. Oh, yeah. It's a big computer, too. You got like the 18-inch. I hate that one. It's so freaking big. Like a grandma computer.

Grandma laptop. Yeah, so I'm sure I'll be all good. You were looking at the kids' schedule, the kids' summer schedule I built on that computer. and I think your head almost exploded. It did. I was like, oh, my little boy cannot handle this. And you want a fourth. Can you imagine how stacked that calendar is going to be with four kids?

Here's what's so. It's like a freaking puzzle. What was hard for me was you scheduled some of the kids camps and then you had me come in halfway through. And that's really hard for my brain. I have to be in on it from day one, like from the get go for me to like like, like, we know. You know what I mean like completely.

Your whole team is here. Yeah, yeah. We know. Like, oh my gosh. gosh. Like I job sell off at this summer camp today that Jordan registered her for. So I never got any of the emails, the confirmation emails, the registration. He was just like, drop her off at at the school at 1230. And I show up to the school. It is huge. There's like five different parking lots. There's so much security because it's a school. You know. And then the security guard goes where are you going? I go, I don't know. I was like, I'm just supposed to drop her off here at 1230. And he was like, what camp? I go, I don't know. The thing about Enneagram 3s And then I called Jordan Like what Kip is she even a part of?

He's like, I don't know I was like, what do I tell them? Like I was so flustered and like, oh my gosh. The thing about Enneagram 3s is And I knew this was what was triggered in your mind in this moment. The thing about Enneagram 3s is they do not They do not like to be set up to look like a failure or an idiot I look like that mom that's like, oh no way I'm doing here.

And I knew. I knew in your mind, like, that was what was happening and you were so frustrated. I was so frustrated because all their moms showed up at the right door and they're all like, bye, honey, bye, honey. I was like 15 minutes late and then ended up being 30 minutes late because we couldn't find the registration office. I didn't even know it. And then I talked to the people that are like ahead of the school and they're like,

what camp is she? And I would have no idea. I was like, she's four, like, which camps? And there's like 30 camps going on. Like, oh my gosh. And then, and then they're like, what's your last name? I'm like, Austin. They're like, what's her last name of Ramirez?

And then I'm like, but I'm married, but it's like, I never took his last name because it's like, I just, I can't. Stella, sweetie, is this your mommy? She's like, no. Yeah, so I, so that whole schedule thing, you were like, here's the kids summer schedules. And like, there were so many things overlapping. Like, they would have, Stratton would have speech therapy, but it would. also has summer camp, but then still it also is tennis camp.

Like, so I know it's, I'm telling you, that's why I'm like, you're a psychopath for wanting four. I know, but I just, I feel like it's just like a stage of life.

Like it just, I feel like it's like for five years. It's really hard. Yeah, but you keep, yeah, for five years, it's really hard, but then it's like,

you know, I've been looking forward to 20, what, 20, like 29, right? Yeah, 2029 when Summit is,

five and then you keep moving the goalposts. We have a fourth. We're looking at 2035 to be out of the season. But my biggest thing, my biggest thing about having a fourth, genuinely, is not that we couldn't do it. It's that I'm so scared of missing the best years of Stratton and Stella's lives because we're going to be so focused on raising two babies. Does that make sense?

Well, we don't really focus on the babies. You know, we just keep them alive. I mean, you're kind of, I get what you're saying. You're like, I'm like, oh my gosh, is this child going to have a good personality? I'm like, just eat your bottle. No, great example of this is where Stratton, all Stratton wanted me to do was go down the water slide with him. And all Stella wanted you to do was be in the pool with her.

But you had to watch that. We had to switch it off. And like someone, I hate to say it, it's usually the middle child. But that builds character for them. I know it stinks, but it's like Stratton, did you see Stratton was going up with all the big kids on the slide by himself then because he was like, listen, dad can't go. Mom's with Stella.

I got to be a big boy. Such a middle child. And he's like, and it's so cute because like there's all these like massive kids going up this water side and they're like running up the stairs and stradens in these little floaties. Like waiting in line and they cut him over and over over again. But like it's, yes, it is selfish. But for me, I want to be in those moments with him. I promise you our kids are going to be better people because they have siblings.

because they're not getting full attention. I agree with that. I know it stinks, but like the fact that they don't just have daddy's attention 24-7. I basically was like kind of a little only child because of my brother. I'm a little narcissistic sometimes. You know? I wish I would have had a sister to slap me around.

Sister, call me out. I've like never thought about that, but that's so true. But so are you. No, I know. Wait. Am I? You're basically an only child too. I know, but am I narcissistic?

Yes, we all are a little bit. All right, fine, fine. I'm not going to take the only bullet in this conversation. Enneagram 3. Don't you set me up to look like a failure? Yeah, so they're going to be better people. And you know what? They're going to have each other.

Yeah, no, for sure. And that's just everything. And like you said, you got to hedge your bets because two of them aren't kind of like us. That's true. Yeah, you got to have more. You know, you always have like four kids and a family, like, one or two of them just don't like the parents. That's true.

Nothing probably the parents did. No, no, no. It's like. Just like they developed. You know what I always think about? So, you know, last night when I was like crying because I was like, man, I just love my, I love my kids so much. And I'm like thinking about that moment that I had with Stella where I was like, I just don't have I want to let you go. I think about my mom had those moments with me.

You should call her after this. You should call her. But you know, you never really think about it. realize that as a kid. I know. It's so sad. Parenting is so like just one-sided. I know, man. You know, you just give it all. I know. And they just take. I was the taker. This is such a good precursor episode to Father's Day. Yeah. Call your dad. Go fishing with your dad. Here. Okay. I'm spent. Okay. That was a good episode. I love you guys. Bye. episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may

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