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Episode Date: June 17, 2025

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i love a 90s bun i do too and then if you put the two strands down the issues is i've got a widow's peak and a cowlick so it really i didn't mean you specifically i just maybe i just get back into a side part or like a slightly off center part that's fine hi welcome welcome welcome welcome to see you next tuesday well i'll see you next tuesday where we read the results of last week's episode of but am i wrong and uh it was it was a good one oh i have to say before we get into it so i don't forget did you see the clip of one of my favorite underrated actresses dakota johnson she is a movie coming out that looks yeah i haven't seen any of the clips because

i will be watching it and you know when i do watch something i do not watch anything about it or from it until well what about the press they're just making no i don't want to see the press stuff it's too cute i don't want i don't want to see any of it i did see someone say that this was challengers for millennials and i was like millennial challengers was the challengers for millennials we're getting i think dakota johnson might be the only millennial in this one what's chris evans he feels gen x i don't know oh my god he's definitely not and that's so mean and i love that he he would be socially offended yeah he would be so i mean he's still considered a geriatric millennial i thought he was like 47 i'm pretty sure he's married to a gen z

yeah i thought he was like 47 though which wouldn't make him gen x yeah and then pedro is and then pedro's definitely gen x he's like 50 50 pedro pascal is not 50 yes he is he just turned 50 in april someone get that man a skincare sponsorship he has also he has a twinkle in his eye of a of a much younger less jaded man but uh anyway so but so they were they did an interview and all it was is he Pedro asked Dakota what was her nickname as uh did she have any nicknames as a kid and she says like she's like oh Koki and he was like Koki she's like no no Koki like like the frog and he was like oh like Koki and then she was like yeah and then he goes and then he said

cock and she goes what and then literally she looks and she goes are you fucking idiot and he like burst out laughing his face is bright red he's like i can't breathe i'm hyperventilating and then she goes cock cock and everybody's like they are doing everything but promoting this movie and now i want to see this movie but like they were just dying of laughter and another one was like another question he asked her was like if she'd ever gotten injury on set and she like can hardly get it out she's already laughing and she's like i got whiplash on 50 shades and he like gets up from his chair and is like on like just dying unwell and i'm like oh i'm so i'm because i was already gonna see this movie i'm i'm a dakota johnson so am i i've watched her fox sitcom

sat and binged it when she had blonde hair before she started dying it people my my like greatest like belief is that like people just don't get her sense of humor and they think that she's i'm like she is being funny like this is sarcasm this is her being funny this is and and pedro gets it and i'm like yeah i'm so glad i am so fucking glad because she's great she's great i think so too i'm so glad that i have your support on this and we can leave the dakota fan club yeah i've then i've been in the dakota fan club for years you don't have to worry about me perfect she was the best part of the 50 shades of movies no the way that i saw the first one and i immediately said these are horrible but that girl she's a star she's a fucking star she is a star because

like people want to make all those movies those movies without a doubt are cheesy too much worse they would have been if she was like she is the only person who made that like made it so they were able to have more than fucking one movie yeah she's phenomenal and that's not the truth ellen like imagine if we didn't have that and that's what i think nepo babies are for is for going on to this is for that level of like unabashed like confidence right because in those circumstances they're still gonna work yes my mother's melanie griffin like what are you gonna do ellen right griffin griffith griff melanie g griffith i think there's cath then there's kathy lee gifford griffith yeah griffith okay

there we go well welcome so we're gonna read the results of episode i forgot that this was see you next tuesday i was about to go on about something else no because i it was all just because i talked about the koki frog and that was her nickname oh oh oh you you brought it back around good job i did want to say when kiki and um have you seen the her movie that's the trailer i didn't watch it with eddie murphy and uh what's his name and he's a longoria i would like to have a watch party at my home because it's amazon prime oh perfect yeah i'm i am giddy for this and these are the kinds of roles that pete davidson should be should do yeah like this great job yeah great job i'm excited to watch it this might be the first film that

i've seen him in where he's not playing the gay sidekick yeah that was a weird phase yeah that he was constantly playing it was like just all the time and i was like okay for sure but it also seemed like they were like don't really don't really don't really be gay yeah don't really and also like ever just see you like kissing a boy but no no we want you to be you but just like we're also going to talk about how you're gay yeah and it was like okay okay totally but like give him a role give him a boy give him a give him a give him a love interest give him a character but like don't tell me who he loves and then i don't get to see him all right what's the point truly what's the point fake dei no it's literally dumbledore after the fact by the way

he was gay what would have loved to see it and i would like to see it oh all right episode 147 you are up first i am melissa thinks we need more at home sickness testing who was wrong two percent said i was wrong 98 said i was not wrong someone says at a as a one car household with a husband who works a seven to four job this would have saved me and make telehealth treatment so much easier yeah someone else said i agree with all of this another person said these tests would also help save money because doctors visits are so expensive also would help for anyone who's anxious i want to know today if i have covid flu some infection not wait two business days dressing and being in the dark another person said i definitely want this especially for paps

i finally had my first one i finally have surgery scheduled congratulations that's hell yeah yeah and it was awful the doctor was kind and did a great job but i hated every second of that and if i could do it myself then i would yeah i mean it's been approved by the fda fda we're just waiting uh someone said not wrong but i also feel like it'll have to go hand in hand with doctors slash urgent cares changing policy to work with this i'm in a mid-sized deep southern city and they're all like okay but we'll have to retest you before we can do a prescription have you tried doing telehealth because they'll just give you a prescription yeah yeah tell them and they'll just give it to you you're gonna tell a health for a uti yeah but i would encourage anybody if

you're having like repeat infections of things like over go to the doctor go to the doctor because you and like insist on getting a like a culture for whatever that specific thing is because like if things are not clearing up it's because there's so many different strains right and lots of antibiotics and things can treat a wide array of things but like and make it better but not like better better yeah and that's why i was saying that antibiotics should just be behind the counter so you have to talk to the pharmacist because if you come in twice the pharmacist is going to be like no you need to go to the doctor uh another person said melissa continues to give the most well-written speeches and i'm here for it thank you so much another

person said, I'm currently in school to become a medical laboratory scientist so I can provide a little insight into why some at-home tests but not others. It all has to do with something called CLIA, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment. CLIA makes sure that lab tests are done accurately and reliably by those with proper training. However, some tests don't have to do that, and they are called CLIA wave tests. These are things like pregnancy tests, at-home COVID tests, and even the rapid strep tests, which are done by personnel at the facility who are not certified medical and laboratory scientists, and then cultures are sent back to the labs where certified professionals perform them. That being said, I completely agree with Melissa that more

at-home tests need to be available. It's just not as easy as it seems to get tests CLIA wave so they can be performed at home but it can be done there didn't used to be at home covid tests and now there are but it took time i also think it has a lot to do with money behind it too because there's more money to be made if people have to come in and get a bunch of cultures or swabs done at a clinic rather than doing just at home all-encompassing tests i i would push back on that because it is approved in other countries and then to um covid has only it didn't take that long for covid tests to become available once they figured out what it was other respiratory things like sinus infections have been around way longer than covid

including like there's not strep tests at home that has been along way longer than covid it they just don't want to do it so they haven't done it and i don't think it'll be easy i didn't ever said that it would be easy but it can be done it can be done so why are they not doing it they're not even working to make it possible yeah i also i i think it's like always be very careful about like talking about um you people the the money to be made in like medical industries and stuff like the reality is is like it's not like oh we're not doing this because like we can make more money but it's like like we're keeping america sick and like that's what we're you know they're just the doctors get a kickback on every vaccine they give and all of that stuff when in

reality the people who pioneer this is not like the like it's not the government it's not the medical system in that way like it is organizations who then sell a patent for this thing or whatever but they can make a hell of a lot more money making a startup that doesn't let you use your insurance that helps you circumvent the health care system in that way it's not that they make more money by per swab by having you come into the office it's not that it's the companies that would be pioneering making a patent for this or pushing this out world like they can make more money in health care that in privatizing it private health care even more not having you come in for places that like medicaid covers right and then also they're so backed up with

these testings that they can't do it in a timely manner anyway so they're not being they're not effective so if they're doing this more in a timely manner if you were looking at it from the medical like the money standpoint which i don't think is right to do but then they would be making more money on the back end with prescriptions and then also if doctors have more time to see more patients for other things that also would make more money so i would say like it would be a wash in the end anyway yeah and the people who are like making a fuck ton of money in medicine are are are not like are not the doctors they are not like the they're not the nurses they're not the people who do any of that kind of stuff like they are certain

pharmaceutical companies they are for-profit hospitals they are and most often they are health insurance like that it's it's that aspect of it and health insurance like having anything come to your home is a premium so they could charge more for certain things like that it's just a matter of you can make more money quicker and easy like in health care that's not again actually helpful like it can just privatize it even more and then someone else said i fully agree trials for more at-home testing such as uti testing has been happening in australia and is greatly positively impacted my life as someone with chronic utis as i can go to a 24-hour chemist get the test and then the antibiotics without having to go to the er i hope this happens for

the usa too thank you i'm so sorry i feel i feel for people who have chronic ugi like that shit was horrible horrible gail said i'm always a slut for public health love it someone else said no seriously if doctors only want to have 15 minute appointments and be booked out for two weeks to two months then we should be able to test ourselves for all the basic easy at home forgive me if i didn't hear but what else is on melissa's list um i said you i think i said utis uh sinus infection strep throat anything respiratory really because that's all stuff you swab nose or throat um we talked about uh the pap smears but that like i said has been approved just waiting so longer swab yeah another person said i especially liked what you said about it

getting more people to go to the doctor even if the test is inaccurate slash inconclusive I feel like there is a lot of skepticism of, well, it's not accurate enough, but home tests would still be doing good, even if they weren't always right. Better than nothing. Yep. campaign delivery and access better data across the business the result less time spent on operations more time connecting brands with the moments and fandoms that matter most learn more at accenture.com spotify at dejardin insurance we know that when you own a nail salon everything needs to be perfect from tip to toe that's why our agents go the extra mile to understand your

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said it as if you were forcing them to go on a cruise and to that i say do not forget that the voting is not like i don't pick like a rant it's not without context like it is based on the whole thing that i said not just you know the the eye-catching sentence like not just the hook but you said cruises should be more people should go on cruises because that's the trip that they deserve yeah exactly so when people are like i just hate cruises and i go so don't murder frogs like then you don't have to go like so someone even said i'm sorry i generally dislike those people can do what they want i just like boats and cruise ships so bad uh oh i just like boats and cruise ships and they're so bad for the environment i don't know man and i said i don't

think people can do what they want really should apply to killing frogs and they said oh i'll listen to the ep gut reaction to the question people should go on more cruises and then like the sweating emoji someone else said this reminds also reminds me of when people go to foreign countries and are mad when people don't speak english like hello you are in france least you could do is learn someone else said nope they're death traps i'm extremely biased because i'm afraid of the ocean again let them die there and keep the frog safe this is the one time you're like animals before people fair facts facts facts facts in natural disasters and people say abandon the family abandon the children get your chickens and i'm like you're fucking insane here

no put all those frog murderers on a cruise ship and sink that motherfucking baby someone said australian but not an actual baby the ship you're calling the ship the baby yeah yeah australian eologist here cool not wrong at all it's frustrating to see the amount of people that don't respect the native wildlife when visiting somewhere if you can't if you can't then don't go to habitats go on the cruise where you don't harm the ecosystem that you visit yep i had to teach my nephew this when we were mini golfing he just like was like just grabbing and touching plants and i was like we can take things like i was like we don't rip things off of plants that are living we don't do any of this and then how i told them is that god it was just

so convenient that there was a plant that i know is incredibly poisonous and like i was told this like horror story as a kid to like stay away from it because they're everywhere in northern california but they're in california a lot um that uh all parts of it are poisonous and that there's a story and i don't even know if it's true but that's what they used to tell us as kids that um hikers were in the area and they used these like they saw this this plant and they have like long woody stalks and sticks to them i know what you're talking about yeah yep and then they used to cook hot dogs and then they all died and so i i have a actually my superhero screenplay is based on that oh that uh someone getting powers from that plant oh so i had told and so i was like

and by the and he was like just picking up all these plants and i was like we can't we don't touch plants we don't know about and all that stuff and i was like like that one that one is poisonous and he was like and he had a face with loving to calling everything poison for a while so he was like poison and he goes what happens i was like people die and he was like if i touch it and i was like don't touch it and he was like what else is poisonous and i was like we don't know that's that's why i was like that's why we shouldn't touch things that we don't know about and he was like and i was like so if you're at school and you see people touching a plant what do you do he goes stop that is poison i was like perfect little dude and then he just kept being

like can we talk about other things that are poisonous i was like who snakes yep spiders okay someone else said oh and the next i'll be complaining about the amount of spanish being spoken leave puerto rico alone colonizers as someone who has a boyfriend who does brand marketing for cruises i can confirm that we need more people to know about cruises especially the ones that go for like 300 days at a time yeah damn that must be a hard thing to market is that what else said on the i think that he wait what's hold on was your boyfriend in charge what does he think about shipping julia or mine is was he about the cruise that they say the four-year cruise yeah four years you can leave and get away from this presidency

was he part of that marketing team i need to know and or what did he think of the marketing uh campaign of the shipping julia scripted series of the royal caribbean someone else said on the topic of frogs frogs have been suffering from a pandemic frog researchers from around the world gather data that a virus has been killing many frogs worldwide look up chytrid chytrid c-h-y-t-r-i-d huh i'm running so we're in a helium shortage the frogs are fucking dealing with a pandemic wow someone else said lee porter go alone yeah i've watched too much true crime and i've had motion sickness all my life to make this possible and that's

why those people need to go on you don't need to go on all i'm saying everyone is if you are not killing the frogs you can stay on land right i'm not exiling you to a boat and like if you're like but i have to then i'm sorry my hands are tied i'm sorry but when y'all do this i know you didn't listen to the episode or we're having selective amnesia like or it's like hey i will i know but i just i can't let myself vote for this because of how it's worded and i go but you know what it means you can't so i have a huge fear of frogs i know oh i they said i don't know why but they they wrote i know why but they don't they meant to say i don't know why i just always have however i don't kill them i just scream and run

away there you go as you should i just i just imagined somebody seeing a frog and just their arms are flailing everywhere that's me with like anything with sudden motion though uh who the fuck are you really running though no it's more of a flail who the fuck goes somewhere and starts trying to poison the wildlife i'm not talking spiders or mosquitoes or ants they can burn in hell but a frog brings a fucking earplugs and white noise machine monster although it's like okay i'd kill some not all of them there's also machines that have these frogs in them like you can listen to like the yeah rainforest wildlife sounds to fall asleep yes like i also would just love to see like do these people have a fucking rifle for cicada season

like what oh god that's what i'm just like we have in america we have very similar like melodic like time of year things outside like you crickets or uh cicadas and what was the one that was like i don't know but like we had a weird time period of birds that come out at night here in la like the late night bird squabbles like this is something that it nature sounds are normal you should be used to it someone else said i've always imagined that cruises would be a magical land of relaxation but honestly the more i think about it why spend the money on a cruise when i could just go to resort high quality hotel and spend as much time as i want in the place i want to visit without

being on a death boat crammed full of republicans yeah that's a good point a lot of people are on cruises too to just fuck too they feel like that what happens at sea stays at sea those bitches in their fucking maritime law and i'm like you need to watch an episode they don't believe in like politics on the sea they're like you leave that at home no they think there's no laws like they think they can do they think we're in international waters i'm like that's genuinely not how it fucking works yeah and so they're just there to fuck literally just there to fuck you'll also never see more toe more dogs out more feet so many feet well yeah yeah but feet feet that you would think if you we all know we're gonna

see our feet i thought we were all in the same boat let's get the fungus cleared up the same boat no they put you on the boat with the fucking fungus with the with the snaggletooth they are on the same boat yuck this is such a this is so funny as a concept and because of that i voted megan is not wrong however i am going on a cruise this summer for the first time so i can't say if these terrible people deserve cruises or if cruises all-inclusive places should have better vetting systems to keep these people out i think all-inclusive on land is very different in general i think someone who is willing to like get on a boat a giant boat with strangers i do think there's some personal responsibility there didn't they say they were getting on the boat no no i know

but they're saying i'm not sure if like if it's like that they should just do a better job of like vetting people but like i think as a whole like they need to be put out because i don't want to see them at the all-inclusive resort i go to exactly because like i'm not willing to get on a boat with a bunch of strangers and if you are you should do that and like we are fundamentally very different people and i also say you can't know until you've done it yeah like i've been on i wasn't it wasn't a cruise ship but it was a ship that was cruising to take us from florida to the bahamas and that was enough for me we like i had a little room we were only on there maybe five hours i don't remember exactly but i had a room where i could lie down there was plenty of food

and beverages just the same as it was on a cruise i said this is it i can't sleep here but i can just crew it it felt weird i didn't like it no time is time is crazy like it's it's so fucking and i can't stress enough how how unsettling it is to be on a boat and you look out and there's water you see nothing else huh and it's vague it's literally like floating vegas yeah there was also a casino on this boat as well there always is yeah this episode is brought to you by accenture when your advertising operations fall out of sync everything else follows spotify and accenture are working together to reinvent the rhythm of ad sales Using automation, analytics, and smarter workflows to simplify campaign delivery and access better data across the business.

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on christmas vacation 64 said the writer is wrong 36 said the writer is not wrong this is a holiday trip not a honeymoon weird as fuck you wouldn't want to bring your kid on a holiday trip the rest of the family would be at because you previously said your first trip would be without the kid like you said it and you're allowed to change your mind that's a good point someone else said yes so wrong if i was a kid i would feel so upset like why can't i go on my family's vacation yeah someone else said you can't leave your kid at home on a family vacation bring the kid and share the child care duties with other family members so you can also have a night alone it's that simple you won't traumatize your kid and you get some time to yourself and i

think it's a fair point because again this is a family vacation and your um mother-in-law is planning this well your stepmother-in-law is planning this knowing you have a two-year-old so that should have been factored in well yeah and like the initial thing they said was that they were like okay can we pick a place that has like kid-friendly stuff and everyone's like yeah like if i go on a family vacation i know for a fact i'm helping out with like with child care like that's just that's also what i sign up for yeah as a family member there another person say it said same with megan no offense but if you have kids you have to take them on holiday when they're that young i feel bad saying that when i don't have kids but that's

kind of the rule isn't it yeah if people that don't have kids are saying this i think that means something yeah another person said the writer is definitely wrong my question is if it's a family vacation who are they leaving their child with wait until their summer vacation send them with grandma and then go on a trip with your husband no during a holiday based on creating family memories i mean there's a plethora of other it could be the writer's family that they're going to stay with or um her husband's mother because this was the mother the stepmother-in-law so they have options but now that person is creating childhood memories or holiday memories with your child yeah and the whole thing is like well they'd be staying with family so you know it's a family

holiday i'm like give me so you can't justify that it's not that bad because they'll be with family instead of me but it's also just fine to not let them be with you and your your family your immediate family yeah this felt wild to me because why not bring the kid first of all the need for a couple's vacation at a resort before a family one was an arbitrary rule they made and second if the rest of the family is there i'm sure the writer could plan a day where they hand the kid off to the grandparents so the couple can have a couple's resort day i think the writer should have made a bigger effort to change the location of the trip during the planning period if they didn't want to break their rule good point yeah

because i understand i create arbitrary rules for myself all the time i have a very hard time breaking them but like then change them because i also made them so technically i can break them if i'm having a hard time breaking them i just create different i just create another i create an exception to a rule or i create a new rule that is a caveat for this but you have to be aware of what you're doing yeah it has to be a conscious decision and it has to be like something like okay well we wanted our first vacation to be tropical together so breaking this rule is either we're booking our own tropical vacation at the same time like not the same time period but like we're gonna have that booked then and we're gonna make sure that we go on this trip before

Or we go on the one with the family or we change the location to the one with the family. So it's not tropical. So therefore, we're not breaking it. All right. So if you're watching on Spotify, you will notice that we have on different clothes. And that is what they call movie magic. We received an update for this one after we had already recorded the episode. So this is the next day.

Hi, Eminem. Thank you for taking my right in and talking about taking my toddler on vacation. While it was not fun to hear how wrong y'all think I am, I appreciate the honesty and I can definitely see where I'm wrong in trying to make this trip a personal experience. I did want to provide some details that will hopefully make me seem like less of an evil momster. first i totally forgot to mention this side of my family celebrates christmas early so this trip is scheduled the first week in december this does help by the way it does straight up this does help christmas eve slash day and our other regular christmas parties we will of course be home with our daughter making all our traditional memories also a large part of why this vacation was

suggest it is because what used to be a big party at my dad's with extended family and friends has over the year become a small family dinner with only my dad's stepmom, brother, his wife and son and my family of three. So there's only six adults attending this DR vacation. And though no one expressed any concern with traveling with my two-year-old, I know I would have felt like a burden to the group which is definitely something i need to get over given my daughter will be the only young child for the foreseeable future we did in fact plan a shorter trip for august of this year that is closer to home and geared towards my daughter's experience and routine anyways feeling awful currently researching disney vacations for the three of us so it sounds

like you've made your mind up that she's not coming yeah and that's you know that's what you want to do that's your choice i will say that as a i don't know that your kid is an only child or will be an only child or whatever but i will say like from my experience as an only child who had to come along to like a lot of like adult like adult things and i very often was like the only young kid at stuff um it is it is yeah it's just important to include your kid while also having things that are very kid-centric like i did not i like i did a lot of just like going along to grown-up things doing grown-up stuff less and until i had like friends i was hanging out with and i was a little bit older then i'm doing more kid-centric and kid-related kinds of

things um but also then i would say as an aunt i love hanging out with my niece and nephew and doing kid stuff so i think like viewing this as like a burden it's like oh well these people if their kids are already grown up and they've already gone through all of this like other people's other people's kids are so fun because you don't have to parent that you don't have to take care of them in that kind of a way so i would hope that that eases a bit of it and then also like if they are making you feel bad you're not going to have a fun vacation with them even if your kid is not there right and my whole thing is is this is a family vacation that they are planning for the family so your child should have been taken into consideration so it shouldn't feel

like a burden to them because this is what is being planned yeah it is it is feeling like your kid is not family then and i think like if it was you know i mean i've had this happen where it's like you know parents go or or a singular parent parents go on like a trip all together and no one brings their kids and it's just the adults that is different and i do think it is also if the kids are grown up and they're also now adults to me i'm like those are still kids that's still like that is still a parent-kid relationship and so i think being like we're not doing any kids we're just doing grown-ups that still includes adult children of the same adults so i and this kid is barely an adult they're 18 yeah i'll be honest i would much rather be on a fucking

vacation with a two-year-old than an 18-year-old so would i especially in the dominican republic yes give me a splash pad all day i don't i don't want an 18-year-old being like international waters yeah so i i we obviously don't want to hurt your like feelings and i don't think that you are a bad mom i think you are letting people i don't think you would have written in if you were confident in your decision like i think you are letting other people i think you're being hypercritical of or are hyper attuned to like any sort of thing that might feel like she doesn't they don't want her there and like i think rightfully you are viewing your daughter as an extension of yourself and i think you are taking that personally and trying to like course

correct in a people-pleasing way when in reality she is an extension of you so you need to stick up for her not people right so if if i i just feel like if they wanted to plan a family vacation for everybody then it should have been a different place yeah i also this isn't the way to go about something to sell it this regardless of if this is on actual christmas or not this is still how you're spending christmas with this side of the family yeah and i i think like i don't know as like a if it how would you feel if it was a family vacation and like and maybe you'd be okay with which you shouldn't but like family vacation but like significant other like you want your kids there and you want your grandkids there but you don't want their partners there that to me i'm

like that's no that is family like you keep like picking and choosing what parts of the family and then it does feel like a ranking of family and you without a doubt will internalize that yeah right number two would they be wrong to talk to their friend about their friend's controlling boyfriend six percent said the writer is wrong 94 said the writer is not wrong someone said oh okay this one is mine just to anonymously answer your questions he is allowed to go to work and gets four hours free time a day which means so does she because he doesn't let her go out without him i got into it with him the other night because he made her leave our friend's birthday with him after his four hour time limit and he got her to stay sober to drive them my god

so she was out for her friend's event he's controlling where he doesn't quote unquote let her go anywhere without him but he can get drunk at the event and she can't yeah and even though he's on house arrest oh that yeah that take this man out of those boundaries no change the clocks change the clocks and you're gonna have to get on his phone it's gonna have to be a stealth operation but maybe get him drunk first knock him out then change it everywhere yep do like a little one of your friends has to have gone through a magic phase someone can do a magic trick someone can do abracadabra a distraction someone else said support her and let her know that she isn't alone

or magic trick instead of outright calling out their friend the writer just needs to make themselves available maybe make up a fake story about a friend having a shitty boyfriend and tell this friend about it and see how she reacts hopefully seeing her situation from another perspective will help her i hope to god this girl breaks free from this leech of a man because he's going nowhere but down he's going nowhere because he's on fucking house arrest except for those four goddamn hours Thank you. Learn more at Accenture.com slash Spotify.

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team back then oh my god he was just on freshman team someone else said this is not only wrong but embarrassing another person pointed out another concern is i feel this will be used against other people and students who genuinely need help the way he pretended to need it yeah someone else said first thing i thought about with this man pretending to be a 16 year old high school student for 18 months with the potential relationships he developed while there yeah gross then we have my nomination elmer's glue 85 percent said elmer is wrong and 15 percent said elmer's is not wrong who of you work for big glue but what is the nefarious ulterior motives you have what vested interest do you have in elmer's glue magic potion liquid someone said i truly

don't understand why they didn't rebrand the formula of the good slime glue and try and sell it in a different way instead of completely getting rid of quite literally your biggest fan base if it wasn't broke why fix it that's the part that's crazy like i think it's so wild when people like a like a long like a heritage like a long-standing brand like company and brand has something that like takes off and like you have this huge customer base for this and then they go this is the most money we've ever made before what if we just fuck it all up right it's greed and it's like you you they i don't think they were ever increasing their sales like they were always making a profit like you know it's in school all it's like they're it's like fucking

kleenex like if you have this it's something that we know that everybody well for the most part you need all the way through school you're always artist needs it and like you have the you have like you're always making a profit and you're always able to like use that profit and invest in like making smaller other products and doing all of that kind of stuff but like to fuck up your product that like is your heritage product now the glue doesn't work well for anybody let alone people who make slime and now the people who like skyrocketed your profit like that's crazy yeah someone else said they're purposely taking away joy i hate them but i don't hate their lesbian cow mascot so uh coco sent sent me a text message can we just say the only lesbians

like the biggest lesbian representation we have right now in this pride month the cows right and so coco said uh i'm dying laughing at this shit right now y'all are cracking me up for real and i was like i don't even remember what we were talking about and she said big slime and now the lesbian cows i said oh right and then coco said it's giving pride i'm crying every cow is a little gay and then i was like i don't know why we didn't bring this up but the chick-fil-a cows so they are closeted lesbians mask lesbians wow or maybe they're lesbian for trump yeah that's true yeah that's true christian lesbians that's true a lot i know i know that i know of lesbian christians but like i know a lot of christians but the ones i personally know yeah no are liberal

yeah they're i'm addicted to the fact that like all these companies it's the most overused mascot is a cow lesbians stay wing yes lesbians lesbians lesbians like i i'm a i'm addicted to this now every time i see a cow in any sort of marketing i know her backstory two cows together and they were roommates yeah and cows specifically had to have had a calf a heifer no calf but a cow has had a calf so we know lavender marriage someone write some lesbian cow fanfic like i gotta know which which cow mascots are getting together yeah and it also has reframed how i look at every cow mascot altadena dairy farms yeah and that at least that's that's a cow a lesbian cow that gets to live in la yeah those those feel nurturing the altadena ones yeah no those they're

also they're well fit in like a homegrown kind of way not a not a not a pumped up yeah no they're not there's not juvederm they're not filled they're just full wow i forgot that we even talked about that i did too shout out to lesbian cows hey if jojo siwa and fletcher let you down this pride bessie's got you bessie and elmer have got you i do well thank you so much for listening to this beautiful episode of see you next tuesday it was beautiful stay tuned for our other episodes of things that come out that's all i'll say about that i was like are you going for it if you know you know wednesday use that as your catch-up day thursday we've got don't blame me friday is fisting friday and then monday is but am i wrong

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