just a little shady - Not Just Football — Why This Super Bowl Mattered - Ep. 11

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

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Hello and welcome back to the podcast. If you are watching this, the weekend this comes out, it is Valentine's Day weekend. So, happy Valentine's Day. We're going to start the episode by talking about our Valentine's plans and also requesting that after this Valentine's Day, if for some reason, we hope you don't. But if you do have a shady experience to please write it in for next week's episode. And we're going to start with something kind of a little shady and it's part of my plan for. for this weekend. I am seething. I am seeing weathering heights. And apparently, I've seen a lot of hype around the movie, but apparently it's set to get a 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is not that great.

So I'm kind of wondering like what happened. I also feel the need to explain. And we've talked about this before, but I just looked it up again because I always get confused about the Rotten Tomatoes ratings. So basically, Tomatoes scores represent. the percentage of approved professional critics who give a film either a positive or a negative review. So they don't rate it on like a 1 to 100 or whatever. It's just positive or negative. And then they take the percentage based on that. So anything under a 60% is considered like rotten.

Basically like in school, if you fail, you fail. You know what I mean? So it's 60% or lower is rotten. And then anything above 60 is like, Not rotten, but also... 62% is kind of crazy for a drop-off, right? Yeah, I guess. But I mean, 72% isn't much higher than that.

No, it's not. So it's basically like literally a grade in school. That's kind of how you have to view it. So this would be like a C. So I'm interested to see if it's going to be good or not. But yeah, that's our Valentine's Day plans. I heard maybe you might be going to the movies. I might be going to the movies.

I love it. Going to the movies. The whole experience, the popcorn. So that's really what I'm going for. But also, Zootopia 2 came out quite some time ago. Honestly, I think it came out over like Thanksgiving weekend. So I don't know why it's still in theaters, but I never got the chance to go see it.

So Brian and I will be going to see it on Valentine's Day, and I'm very excited. Okay, so I was going to say, I thought I saw, it was November 26th, 2025 when it came out. But I thought I saw some red carpet stuff around Zootopia, too. And I want to say, who does the voice of one of the, I saw an interview with one of the people who does the voice. Judy Hop's voice?

No. Wilder's voice? No, maybe I'm way off. I thought I saw something cute like on a red carpet of someone doing an interview was like little kids um oh there there was probably but it was a long time ago so i was like who is it it could have been i'm excited to see it well i love the first one we'll report back on both those movies two totally different movies but again i feel like we're also just going for the experience because i wasn't like dying to see this movie but i just was like it's something to do and we

always say like now with a baby that's the one thing we we can still go out to eat we can still do other stuff but you can't really take a baby to the movies no not yet so yeah so yeah so I was like, that's a good plan to make for Valentine's Day, something to do this weekend together. But that's what we'll be doing more for the vibes and the popcorn and the theater experience that we don't often get to have anymore. So we'll report back. Now, there's a lot that we have to talk about, though, that happened this past week, mainly surrounding the Super Bowl, mainly surrounding the halftime show, which was really what we said. we were looking forward to the most. And it did not disappoint.

I mean, genuinely, there were so many things that when we were talking about the podcast, I was like, there's no space to talk about that much else. We are going to touch on the Olympics and stuff. And we still have shady stories. But I'm like, there's so much happen. And also just the ads, the betting that I heard about, lots going around. Everything around the Super Bowl, everything besides the game, really. The game was, quite frankly, very boring.

That's what I heard, which I didn't watch. I was like tuned in, tuned out. I was more so watching the commercials, watching the halftime. But like the parts in which I did watch the game, nothing was happening. No one was catching the football. It was just, I don't know how we got here. Happy for the Seahawks, I will say. So I was watching some of the cover.

on Monday because some of the players were at Disneyland and even the players there, they're like, yeah, we just, I don't know, they were basically just alluding to. Like, they're just, like, kind of a mellow team. Like, they just, like, wanted to hang out with their family afterwards. Like, a lot of them went back to their rooms and just, like, after they won? Yeah. Like, not a lot of them, I don't, from what I saw, what I've heard, not a lot of them went out and necessarily, like, partied, like, I don't know.

I feel like you see some people, like, the algorithm. to the clubs or like have like DJs perform which is wild because I was going to say I have never seen so many Super Bowl parties pre and post and I we're talking about this in the Patreon bonus content if you want to see that we're literally going through like all the parties that happened who was there what's the tea um which I was shocked at how much there was which is why it's not in this episode because it literally wouldn't fit so we're unpacking a lot of it there but I swear like I remember when we went to the Super Bowl when dad performed and there were pre parties and stuff but we didn't really go to any I think we went to one thing and even still it was

like an absolute shit show like it was so many people so crowded just like honestly a stressful environment yeah so I'm like I wouldn't even recommend but the amount that I saw this year and also like the amount of people that I saw attending like all of them like Diana Taylor, Alex Earl. Not missing a single one. Not missing a single one. And I'm just like, how? And you know what I've noticed as well?

I feel like this is a newer trend with the Super Bowl is the amount of brand trips that are to go to the Super Bowl. Like Raising Cains basically did a brand trip to be at the Super Bowl, which is insane to me. That is insane. I think I saw something about that, but I didn't realize where they were going. And now that makes sense, which truthfully, I feel like is. a really good investment because you're basically, you can either pay $8 million for a 30-second ad on the Super Bowl or you can just pay some influencers to go and spend way less money.

Yeah. And get the content and get the ads. So yeah, I guess that I didn't really think about it like that. But it's such a, it's such a good play. I mean, we were talking about that earlier today. The Super Bowl ads in themselves are so expensive that to do anything else around that weekend is a win because there's so much coverage just on everything happening. Well, that's why everybody puts their ads out in advance.

And it's like, okay, we already saw these ads on TikTok or reels or wherever. We don't need to see them on the Super Bowl day. And it still gets the traction as if it's a Super Bowl ad. Just because it's not. It's leading up to the game. Yeah. It's a lot more smart to do for marketing in our opinion. Our professional opinion.

We are, you know. Sportscasters, marketing experts. Exactly. And, you know, that was part of it, too, where I was like, we need to spend this episode really unpacking everything because that's who we are. And so we're going to get into the halftime show, which first thing that we were texting, I mean, we were texting each other the entire time because we were just like, oh, what was that?

Did you see that? But one of the things that we immediately clocked was that it was a real wedding. Yeah. Like, that was the first thing. I was like, I know it. That is a real wedding. And it was. It was Thomas Walter and Elisa Aperecio, and I hope I'm saying that right.

I might not be. I apologize. Were the real life couple who got married. And the story goes that they were engaged, sent Bad Bunny an invitation to their wedding because they were huge fans. And so basically, instead of being able to go to their wedding, he invited them to get married at the Super Bowl during his show, which is so. crazy to think about because I have heard so many stories of people sending to brands or sending to celebrities invites to their wedding just because a lot of times for good PR like the brand or the celebrity will send like a gift back at least. They do. This, I mean, now everybody's going to be

like, I'm not risking, not inviting my favorite celebrity. And now, well, and I want to jump on the bandwagon. I am getting married this year. And I, who do I invite? I feel. I'm like I have to be strategic. Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, obviously. You have to. Have to invite Taylor Swift. I feel like that's the first thing that came to my mind.

Who else do you need to invite to your wedding? I don't know. I just feel like you got to be, I don't know. Like it has to make sense. I know. I was like, who at Disney can I send an invite to? Oh my gosh. I know.

We could hand deliver it. We could. We'll be there soon. Oh, my gosh. Well, we'll be thinking of that. If you have any ideas, who else we should invite? Let us know. We'll try to do that for Britney's.

Or maybe they'll just invite you to their concert instead. That's what I'm thinking. So it's like. Or send a gift. Do we also invite like people who maybe haven't gotten an invite to like a fan's wedding before? You know, because like Taylor probably gets a lot of invites. Like maybe like a Megan Maroney.

Like would love that. It could be her first wedding invite from a fan. So she might have to say, yeah. She might feel so emotionally moved that she actually attends. I wonder if that ever has happened. Like, where the celebrity or, like, person actually just says yes. Yes, I'm emotionally. Or even the brand, like in the sense, if you sent it to McDonald's or something,

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She's going on tour in like a couple weeks. That makes sense. And so I feel like if she was going to perform, she might feel like, oh, well, everyone already saw me, so they're not going to, like, buy a ticket to come see me. Right. When they just saw me. Or I really thought that she was going to come out. She was being interviewed on a red carpet, and somebody was asking her if she was going to be making an appearance during the halftime.

Which she did technically make an appearance. So I guess that could have been what she was alluding to, but I thought that she was going to. Actually. Perform. And perform as well. So I would have. said yes and maybe it was like a little like teaser to the tour like ooh you saw this there's more where that came from well i feel like it was good all around for her even not performing because it just

reminded people like they really wanted to see her perform and she didn't so now you have the opportunity you're right you're a ticket i like that but it ended up being lady gaga which i was not expecting at all but now that i think about it she really activated a lot around the super bowl this year she did She was in the Rocket commercial. Yeah. She sang a beautiful day in the neighborhood in the Rocket and Redfin ad, which was, you got to be a part of the unveiling of that. I saw the little sneak peek when Dad was at the all company meeting. And I was like, oh, this is so cool and like kind of unexpected.

But then as I saw her on the halftime show, I'm like, well, Rocket got a damn good deal on this. We sure did. Either that or like somehow that her team was just like, We're activating. She was so involved. She was so involved. Yeah, but I loved what she did too. I saw somebody break down and they suggested that the meaning of her light blue dress

was actually like a lot more symbolic than just being like the Puerto Rico colors. Apparently the original Puerto Rican flag was light blue. And once America like colonized Puerto Rico, they made them change it to dark blue to like match the American flag more. and you weren't allowed to have the other flag supposedly. And so she was like symbolizing that original flag. Beautiful. And then also the red flower on her dress is like the Puerto Rican flower. So she made a nod to like the culture in that aspect.

I just, I thought she did such a good job. And it was cool that she like just, she was like everywhere for the Super Bowl. And I was like, she was in another ad too. I can't remember what the additional one was. But yeah, because we texted about seeing her so many times. Oh, okay. But it was also cool because I guess. The Pokemon ad.

It was a Pokemon ad. I'm pretty sure that's the one she would. I'll look into it. That is so random. I interrupted your thought. That's okay. No, I remember where I was going because I was going to say people were also saying it's not like random because in 2020, Bad Bunny had been saying that he's like such a huge

Lady Gaga fan. And so basically for him, like this was like, his dream moment, which we got a lot of knots to throughout the performance in other ways, too, like him giving the Grammy to what was supposed to represent his younger self. They showed him, like, walking up to the kid and giving the Grammy, which I thought to myself about this after. I'm like, they must have planned that at the last second because how would they have known he was getting a Grammy?

That just happened like a week ago. They had been like, this is too good of an opportunity. Yeah. Yeah, so a lot of people put, originally they were thinking it could have a double meaning. He was giving it to a kid and saying like, this can be you and anyone can live their dreams. And then the other meaning that people interpreted was that that was his younger self because there was a photo that resurfaced of him as a kid wearing that exact outfit. And so they were saying it was him giving it to himself. But there was a lot of other symbolism too throughout the performance.

I did not know about this. And I was totally ignorant to this fact. So this was just truly, he did what his goal was to do because he opened everyone's eyes to so many things while also just putting on such a great performance. It was somebody described it as they were like, is it as if he did an entire music video in one shot? And honestly, it could have been an entire music video. It was like so detailed, well thought out and like really told a story. There was never a moment that there wasn't some kind of symbolism going on. Which is like you have to be like so smart to do that.

Even if it wasn't symbolism at the time, it was still a good performance. But the fact that it was every single second. And we knew that when we were texting during it, we're like, this has got to mean something. What does that mean? Text can help us figure it out. The light poles was actually one of the things were like, what do these symbolize? And apparently it was because the Puerto Rico, um, island has a bunch of power outage struggles and basically like the infrastructure is just not good

and it gets neglected and no one takes care of it so he was calling attention to like hey yeah this is a big problem where I'm from and like no one pays attention to it and somebody also said that him climbing up it and being on top of it was also to symbolize that like he's with everyone because apparently a lot of people in the community have to like go out of it and and fix them themselves and they don't have the infrastructure for people to go and actually professionally fix them so a lot of people in the community will just take it on as their own project to get things fixed so that was like him saying like i'm here i'm a part of that fixing it too um yeah so i had no idea about that and then some other things that i didn't catch at the time

obviously you saw when the super bowl halftime opened there was the fields that represent the sugar cane fields of Puerto Rico. But all those businesses were actually real businesses. And that made my heart so happy to hear. Like what a cool way to involve the community and like give them so much like recognition and like

literally be a part of like they essentially got like a Super Bowl ad by being a part of that. Arguably even more than a Super Bowl ad because there was way more viewership during the half time show. You're so right. Yeah, so there was companies like Villas tacos from Los Angeles that he highlighted. I'm trying to think of the one that was the social. I didn't write it down.

The social. The Caribbean Social Club. Is that what? Oh, it's right here. Tonitas. Yeah. Yeah. And so that apparently is like one of the last Puerto Rican social clubs in New York.

Yes. And so he wanted to highlight that. And it's actually like a living history. It was a space shaped by decades of immigrant struggle and celebration. And the actual owner was there. So literally showcased her. There was a dance studio that he, Stephanie Stevenson's Latin dance studio that he showcased,

Mariah Divas, a Los Angeles office. female band and basically just the whole set was actually made up of actual businesses and i just think that's you have so many ways that you could like use that moment and that's what he chose to do like i just i think that's really cool and i love that like because i mean in theory of like when you do a set of any kind like could just be made up you know businesses like if you're gonna like a lot of people might do that but to actually take the time to like find these businesses and like have them a part of it is very intentional and very, very cool to see. Yeah, the whole thing was just like, again, I'm probably missing so many details. Oh yeah. It was so thoughtful. Yeah, every single

second, but I truly could not believe it after we were like, okay, so we need to look this up. We do. And you know what? I didn't realize in real time. The bushes were people. No. I would have not guess that until I saw the videos of them walking out and like leaving the field well we kept saying to each other and texting how did they get all these bushes in and out so quickly yeah and now it makes sense and also supposedly there was some symbolism in that too um it was supposed to be interpreted as people being hidden in plain sight and Latino labor being invisible but fundamental to society and communities that are always been there but rarely centered. And it literally was just all a part of the theme.

While also making the set complete. Yeah. It was insane. But yeah, seeing people running out as the bushes, I'm like, oh, that makes sense and answers all of our questions. A lot of questions. Yeah. Also, back to Cardi B on the field. There was also other celebs on the field.

Yeah, she wasn't alone out there. Jessica Alba, Carol G. Pedro Pascal, lots of other people, and Alex Earle, which she was getting some heat for being there. I don't know if you saw that. Yeah, which it didn't make sense to me. I didn't totally get it either, but she, I guess, has a connection to a businessman that owns a restaurant with Bad Bunny. Yeah.

So people were saying, like, that's kind of the connection and how she was there. But I thought it was, like, interesting and random to kind of just have. like all the celebs there and then I was like oh I kind of get it now a lot of them were like from other places and like cardi B is Dominican and Jessica Elba was there which was crazy by the way because we literally almost did not believe it was Jessica Alba because of how young and good she looked she looks incredible I was I thought it was like honestly like one of Alex Earl's friends at first because like she looks Alex Earl's age like so

youthful I mean I want what she's having we need to know because I gent she looks younger than us she was literally glowing she her outfit was so cute so simple so cute I'm like wow how'd she think of that how'd you think of that it was like a white like top and jeans truly need to know what she's up to because I she looks so good could not believe it. And when I actually read online

than it was her, I was like pissed. I'm like, okay. I'm actually pissed that I was right. No, you were right. I genuinely thought I was like, that's Alex Earl's friend. I don't know which one, but it's one of her friends. Insanity, literally. Let's get into some of the commercials though too,

because besides the amazing halftime show, there were some interesting commercials. And I've seen a lot of comments of people being like, commercials were either promoting AI made with AI or some like just everything around AI but there was a couple human made ones that I actually thought were interesting one being this one was kind of shady sleeper HQ made an ad with Travis Kelsey's ex-girlfriend shading Taylor Swift and so the commercial featured the ex-communicators played by Tiffany Haddish and Ben Simmons and basically they helped celebrity

move on from high profile relationships. So Ben Simmons was basically saying like, oh, I can help you move on from high profile relationships because he had Kendall Jenner shade him in her commercial because he said, are your exes snubbing you in commercials? So when did they film this? Exactly my thought. When did they film this?

Exactly my thought because unless the only thing I could think of was if it's the same ad agency that makes ads for multiple companies, then they already knew. So basically the whole premise was Ben Simmons and Tiffany Haddish are helping people get over their famous exes. And this one in particular was Kaylin Acold

that they were helping get over her ex, which is Travis Kelsey. And they made a dig or like reference to Taylor by saying like they can help her get over. get over it swiftly. You know, people were pissed. They were like, is she really not over it? Because I think their split was like in 2022.

Yes. It was. And I don't see why we are continuing this narrative. I did think it was kind of clever, though, especially with, like I said, if this is the same ad company. And they were like, okay, we have this commercial here. Let's put this commercial. And then we can kind of get more views on each one because people,

People are going to see this one and go to that one. People are going to see this one and go to that one. Yeah, because like the two ads, we talked about Kendall Jenner's ad where she was basically shading like all of her. That one was so good. That's honestly one of my favorite Super Bowl commercials or whatever you want to say. I mean, I don't even know if it actually played during the Super Bowl, but it was. Didn't need to.

No. But they did a party, which we're going to talk about. In the bonus. But that was a good shady commercial. Also another shady commercial was 50 cents commercial. And people interpreted it as shading P. Diddy, which can't confirm her to deny. He never said. But people were pointing out that his commercial with DoorDash, he had a bag and he pulled out cheese puffs.

So people were saying puff. He pulled out Combs at one point. Obviously, that's Sean Combs's last name. and he mentioned that the Branson cognac, which is his alcohol, is aged 50 months, which is the amount of time that Diddy is serving. So people took that as all jabs towards P. Diddy. But then there was also other things that people saw in that commercial. They were like he was also being petty towards other people.

I love this. I guess he pulled out like a book of ABCs and that was supposed to be a Floyd Mayweather jab. And then he also pulled out a clock and people took that as. Shading Jha Rule because the song always on time. But he never fully said anyone's name or who he was shading, which is the best thing about like some of the stuff he does is so petty. I'm like, it's hilarious. Like when the documentary came out and he was just smiling everywhere, I'm like,

happiest man on earth. Yes, it is so funny to me. I was living for it. When all of that content was coming out, it was, I want to say like, It was a good amount of my, every time a video would come up, I'd be like, I love his level of pettiness. It makes my heart so happy. No, I think I aspire to be that level of pettiness.

I do too. I really do. I'm just not that clever. And he's just like so giddy and smiley about it too. I'm like, wow. That's the kind of good petty though. Like you need the petty that doesn't age you. It doesn't even feel like.

It's the petty that's just light and it makes you happy. It doesn't even feel like drama. It just feels like, yep, we're just. We're just living our best life. It's the best. That was also a great commercial. And then you brought up the Sabrina Carpenter commercial for Pringles and you were like, I wonder what it's going to be.

And then I actually ended up seeing this one on TV. Did you see it? No, I didn't. I saw it. I think I've seen like clips of it since then. It's like I watched a lot of videos of like ranking the top Super Bowl ads. And I feel like this one has been like inconsistently like the top five of people's. Really?

So basically she makes a boyfriend out of Pringles. Yeah. And they're doing a bunch of activities together. And then, yeah, the fans end up attacking him to eat him. Yeah. And then she also ends up eating him too. You know, I love a Pringle. It was good because it was a human, like, thought ad and just funny, whatever.

But some of these other ones were kind of weird. And these are the AI ones we were talking about. Because AI, like, it knows a lot of things, but I'm not sure humor is one of them just yet. Correct. That's how I feel. It's like some of it was just not right. And this, so the Duncan one, what the Duncan commercial. I watched that one and I could not grasp what was happening.

Yeah. So basically they ran like a 90s themed spot called like Goodwill Duncan. A bunch of celebrities from the 90s. Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Matt LeBlanc, Jason Alexander, Ted Danson, Alfonso Ribeiro, Jillio White, Jasmine Guy, Tom Brady. Of course you. And basically, it was supposed to be like a mix of Goodwill. Will hunting, reimagined as like a sitcom pilot from the 90s.

And it had all these characters. And it was supposed to be like leaning into nostalgia and all that. But a lot of people were saying that it was just creepy because they digitally deaged a lot of the actors and made them look younger. But it was like unnatural movement of the faces and expressions. And so people were just like, this is just weirdly used AI for like something. that like you didn't really need it for no there was a lot going on and i just i i i was watching i'm like what is happening i don't know if i like this yeah it wasn't their best i feel like last year was

better yeah normally i really liked duncan's ads and this one just didn't didn't hit yeah another one that was like supposedly all primarily AI generated was fredka vodka And apparently it had like a Fembot character using AI tools as like the whole commercial. And it was just really AI led. And people were like it's uncanny and weird. Yeah. They would rather have like a human crafted ad. And that kind of leads to another one that was like AI propaganda, but like disguised as a human ad, which was the ring ad.

That was the search party. And it was trying to focus its new AI-based search party feature as disguises like caring about animals, like escaping. So basically you opt into this new search party feature and you can scan for lost dogs and call for the community to help find the lost dogs using the ring cameras. But a lot of people online were like, this is not a wholesome pet story. this is dystopian and creepy normalizing like mass surveillance of neighborhoods and like we're not falling for it because period i'm glad we have people like that to keep us informed right because how would you know and apparently people are already weary abusing ring because of the privacy controversies um they have like facial recognition features and partnerships with law enforcement

so people are like don't frame this like you care about lost pets like this is like this is way more than that. I don't like it. So a lot of people caught onto that one, but 23% of all commercials this year referenced AI in some way, either promoting AI tech or using AI tools in production. And I fear that number is only going to go up next year. Or maybe it'll go down because I feel like it's getting such negative, like a negative reception from the audience being us.

We need to. don't like it people i mean like people like it in the sense of like when it's helpful when it's useful there are some great use cases for things that are AI related i don't believe super bowl ads are necessarily that place well i feel like we need to also just maybe do a deep dive if anyone's interested and maybe this will be like a bonus content or we can talk about it on next week you tell us but like i truly don't know all the repercussions of AI i know when it was first coming out we talked a lot about like how it's sketchy of like robots are sketchy and that was like what two three years ago yeah but now it's evolved so quickly and like we use chat gpte a lot I sure but I feel like I haven't

really looked into the repercussions of it in a long time and I feel like we need to deep dive into it yeah because I think it's really bad I think it's bad for the environment is what I've heard um somebody said that I got to look into it though because That to me, like in my brain, I'm like computer environment. Yeah, I don't know. Like I don't have the connection specifically, but I'm going to look into it so I can either talk about it on here or I can talk about it on the bonus or I could talk about it to myself and Brittany if you guys really don't want to hear about it.

But I want to do a deep dive on it because I always get confused about like what's actually going on right now. Like what's negative about it? I'm not informed enough and I need to be because I'm using it a lot. I am using it. I fear. And I don't want to be every time, almost every email or like message I send at work,

I will run what I say. It's almost making me second guess myself a little bit because... I know that was one of the things people were saying were negative about it. It's like, it's not making people have to think. Yeah. Thoughts that they should be able to, like, use their brain. Like, is this going to long term

ruin humans' ability to think for themselves? Because it's things that we should be able to do, like write an email that we were doing. I know, by ourselves, not even a year ago. Used to take me so long to write a really good email where I had lots of points in it. Now, it really, like, makes things sound super professional. Well, that's the problem.

You're right, but I would argue I already went to high school and college, and my brain is pretty developed. Yeah, but it's not just for you. No, I, that's the problem is I worry about, like, if I were to have had chat GPT, we would be growing up, like, Dumb as rocks. Any point between elementary school and college, I really, and I know that they have ways and, like, checkpoints to where they're, like, not using, or, like, checks you for using AI, like, the same way it would check for plagiarism, but, like, I don't know. I feel like AI.

How are they really going to know if AI keeps evolving to be more human-like? And also, it would be for, like, stupid stuff that I'm glad we had to do, like, citing our sources at the end and like annotating things correctly and like stuff like that if we had the ability to say like annotate these sources yeah that's you would never learn how to do it or just thinking through like I don't know even just like writing something as simple as an essay like two three page essay on whatever the topic is you know how much quicker I could write that if I plugged into AI like I'm writing an essay here's the topics can you give me an outline of like what points I should like bring up and then you're just basically at that point rewriting it in different words yeah but i mean

give me a hook for my um it's got to be so bad for the kids that's not having to do it ever yeah time will tell i feel like the next 10 years it's so risky and speaking of risk and back to the super bowl topic too because i feel like we just um AI oh yeah that really gets us going i know that gets us going every time which like i said don't You want me to talk about it. I'll get into it. But there was some other risks going on around the Super Bowl. People placing bets, including myself, including Evan.

This was the first time I ever bought a square either. Like, I don't know what a square even is. Truly today, if you ask me what it is, how you win, I have no clue. Do you want me explain it to you? The numbers mean something and like the scores have to line up with the numbers? Sort of. Yeah. So like you buy, there's a grid.

You buy a square. once everyone has bought a square their names in a spot you'll randomly generate numbers 1 through 10 or 0 through 9 on each spot the x and the y axis part um and then you'll generate like what team goes on what side and then a winner is selected for every quarter i mean people run them differently but typically like at the end of each quarter whatever the score is so say the score is and this is going to be a stupid bit score like 14 to 7 so you would find the four on one side the seven on the other depending on like which number or score correlated with which team and then whatever square that belongs to is the winner okay well however that played out Evan won and I lost and I lost and piss me off and he was so

happy to which like good for you but just because it was my first time I think thought maybe I had a chance, but I think there was a lot of squares on the board. Yes, there's typically a good, it's usually about the same amount and somebody out there, I'm sure, knows the exact number I don't off the top of my head. This was the first year. I think I had squares, but it was through work and like, it was free. Like I, no, it was just, I got freely put into it. And it was just kind of like a nice thing. And I could have won a gift card, but I didn't. I was really close. I bet a hundred bucks. for one square yeah well yeah well yeah well that's why evans payout was nice but he did split the square

with someone which was his mistake yeah um well on the other hand there was a guy who bet his entire life saving i saw that oh my gosh that gives me so much anxiety he won but like what if he didn't you guys this guy bet his entire life savings i think it was like 33 000 and the payout was only 49000 if he won so he risked his entire life savings to get 19,000, which was less than what he had in the savings. It's like just didn't seem like, I don't think that. No, it didn't seem. It didn't seem worth it. It wasn't like.

If it was like double or like, I was going to win like a million dollars or something crazy from that. But like, I mean, it was seemingly a simple bet. It was just like Seahawks to win. I feel like you have to get more specific. Like I don't do sports betting. Like I just I'd never have like sometimes me and Brian will do like a combined when like this person gets a touchdown and but like I'm never involved in it. So I feel like he needed to do something a little more specific to maybe.

You do. The odds, if the odds are pretty high to start with, then your payouts less. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think the odds were like 66% for Seahawks to win. If I was this guy like I don't know, I would need to like, I don't know. Like I, that's just too much.

No. It gives me so much. anxiety to think about don't do that don't don't do that truly don't it's not worth it well speaking of giving us anxiety and risk the winter Olympics have started so many risks and I truly cannot watch because I think we've talked about before winter activities stress me out I don't like skiing I don't like snowboarding watching other people do it stresses me out really thought of doing it stresses me out yeah when Evan goes I'm stressed I don't like it I I feel saying so risky for no reason it's not this is the thing that I also don't understand what is skiing

and maybe this is why I don't like it is skiing like riding a bike and the sense of like okay I learned to ride a bike when I was young yep and I could not do it for however many years and if I do it then I remember how to do it I think so I think so because like I learned how to ski when I was younger and snowboard and I always say when this time of year comes around if I wanted to I absolutely could go skiing and go snowboarding however I simply don't want to because I don't think it's fun in my opinion I think it's cold I get bored honestly like halfway down the hill like it's not that fun for me I don't know you're just kind of like alone with your own thoughts I'd rather like sit in the lodge read a book, have a mimosa.

That part is fun, but I just, I truly have never fathomed like why I don't like it so much. I tried to learn when I was young, like, not younger. I wasn't young enough. And I think maybe that was a problem. I feel like it's something that if you don't learn, like, the time where you learn how to ride a bike, then you're not going to be that interested in it or like it because doing it as an adult is just sketchy. Like, it's all around sketchy. All I think is like, I'm going off the side of the mountain and you're never going to see me again.

and I'm falling down. My pizza isn't working. Not the pizza. And I just truly have never had a good time with it. But the thing to me too is like, okay, yeah, riding a bike, you learn how to do it in a young, and you ride a bike now, you know how to do it. But if you didn't, and if I had to learn how to ride a bike now, I probably would be a little bit scared. But like what? The consequence is like falling, tipping over on the bike.

Whereas skiing, the consequence is literally going off the mountain, falling down the mountain. Yeah. It's a big difference. Like I'm just not interested. But anyways, winter Olympics, these people are very interested. And they're very good at it. However, it is inherently more dangerous than the summer Olympics. And I kind of needed to look this up because I was thinking, like, people in the summer,

they're rowing boats, they're swimming. They're, you know what I mean? These people are flying off mountains. I will argue gymnastics is probably the most dangerous of. the summer. Probably of the summer. They're flipping up in the air. Yeah, but like they're on the ground. These people are flipping off mountains. This is true. This is or they like even like hockey and ice skating. They have blades on their feet. I mean, ice skating is feels very dangerous. That's winter Olympics. Yeah. Oh, okay. I think you're saying like for summer. Oh no no no. I'm saying like even those like

those like those are like probably some of the more like quote unquote tamer but like they let you fight in hockey. This fighting like is in the Olympics? Yeah. It's hot. You can fight. I saw some fights go down. I was watching a little bit of it this weekend. Ice game, very dangerous, especially when you got two of them out there and they're doing lifts. I saw a guy do a backflip this weekend. And apparently the backflip was for no point, but purely style. Well, I looked it up because I was thinking like it's got to be way worse and it wasn't as bad as you would imagine. The injury rates in the Winter Olympics is 12.6 per 100 athletes compared to the Summer Olympics, which is approximately 11.3. Oh, there is so much more high speed, high impact, ice, no.

No, and I just said you this. I saw somebody say this online. Summer Olympics, Gatorade. Winter Olympics, Red Bull. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. I would definitely agree. That's a good way to put it. The Winter Games is also just a lot smaller, though, which I get it because, like, yeah, what company wants to offer up Olympians to go get injured?

Literally. The Winter Games has 91 countries compared to 206 in the Summer Olympics. So. I mean, and I feel like a lot of the sports in the Winter Olympics are more niche. Like, how does one get into bobsledding? Or, what's that one thing where they take the brushes? Brush, push, push the floor, and then, shoo. I have no idea.

It'll come to me. I'm going to think on that. The whole thing, bobsled skeleton, apparently, is one. Downhill skiing. I'm just like, okay, these all sound dangerous. I don't know how you get into this. like you said. Or the one where they like fly through the air, like flying squirrels.

I think it's like ski jumping. Like why it was it? Who tried that first? I don't know. The whole thing stresses me out. I don't watch it personally. I've just seen a lot going on around it because Lindsay Vaughn is actually what made me even realize this was going on right now.

She was airlifted after a severe crash during the women's Olympics downhill. And basically ended her comeback attempt. she suffered a complex tibia fracture from the incident. That's awful. Yeah, and people have the nerve to, like, criticize her being like, I would have never come back to, you would have never. You would have never been in the situation because you would have never been in the Olympics. And quite frankly,

I know, I know. It's so annoying when people, I would have, you would have. Well, clearly, you're not an Olympian. And I'll see there, because I, quite frankly, cannot. even pizza down the hill so that's all for this week like I said if you want to see us get into some of these Super Bowl parties talk about our experience well my experience at the Super Bowl parties a little bit more I have been to a Super Bowl party but if you want to invite me it was a mess don't recommend we'll talk about all that and yeah talk about some of the Super Bowl parties the tea that happened

who was there what they were wearing most importantly and get into all that but for now let's get into Shady Story Number 1. Hi, girls, new mom here. I just had my baby eight months ago, and our entire family was over the moon when she was born. Everything went well during labor, but when we got back home, I struggled a lot trying to breastfeed. My baby didn't latch right away, and it caused my nipples to bleed and hurt a lot. The first two weeks of breastfeeding were absolutely terrible. I was physically and mentally drained. My baby didn't feed well, and therefore she lost an alarming amount of weight. So I had to start formula as a supplement, and then that hurt me because I felt like I was failing

doing the one thing I was biologically programmed to do. I was very emotional and sensitive at this time, so you can imagine that I had no patience to deal with my mother-in-law's judgments and comments. She was constantly saying that formula-fed babies don't bond with their mothers, and my breast milk was weak, and I should just give up on breastfeeding altogether. I couldn't hold it anymore, and I told her I was the mother, and I knew what it was best for my baby, and the last thing I needed was for someone to kick me when I was down. To this day, she still holds a garage against me for standing up to her.

And she can't stand the fact that I didn't give up breastfeeding to this day. At eight months old, I still gave me, give my baby breastfeeding and the bottle when she isn't satisfied. She always gives me the side eye when I'm breastfeeding my baby. Talk about mother-in-law from hell. This pissed me off. That makes me so mad. I had to include this one because this just goes back to, we've talked about this last few weeks, since becoming a mom, I swear the most other judgmental people, it's so great to have like a community and support of moms. But then on the other hand, it can be the most judgmental, especially mother-in-law, especially older generations.

They're so judgmental. It's not every single mom and baby is different. Fed is best. It does not matter how and whatever. whatever you wanted to do with your baby, it's your baby. It pisses me off when she'll like, this happens now. Now I'm passionate about this stuff. As you should be, because what the fuck?

Women go through so much giving birth postpartum. The last thing you need is someone else in your ear. Trying to tell you what to do, what's right, what's wrong, and giving it. That's not a fact. It is not, nothing that she said was factual. It was all her opinion. It's just, and not necessary. Rude.

And to also to hold the grudge on you for sticking up for yourself. and your baby um bye see you see you later anyways I don't like that that's my two sons you're doing a great job

shady story number two I made a fake profile to harass my husband's ex a few months after we got married she added him on all social media thinking it was funny I messaged her via Facebook but she blocked me instead of responding

my husband was confused to why she even decided to start the trouble when they had dated years before I met him and it was three month relationship. Also, she cheated on him. Long story short, I wanted to hear what I had... I wanted her to hear what I had to say so I made fake profiles to tell her off

and eventually she deleted all of her social media. Come to find out many other people had similar issues with her and it turns out she messages men and flirts just to get money off. What? Just to get money off them. This whole story, first of all, at first, I'm like, I don't know who's in the wrong because, like, obviously making fake profiles to not harass someone else.

But then at the same time, I'm like, if this lady's whole stick is like finding people to harass and make money off of, I'm like, why would you go for married men? But now it makes perfect sense because it's blackmail. It's like, oh, well, if you don't, like, if you don't do what I want, give me this money that I'm going to tell your wife. That's crazy. Maybe that's the whole thing. But I also just had this conversation with Evan recently because I watched, I don't know if you watched this when it came out, the tender swindler. I know what you're talking about.

Didn't watch it. The guy who like swindled a bunch of women out of money on tender and like acted like he was rich, but really like the money he had to fund his lifestyle was really from this woman. And then this woman believed it. So she gave him money too. And basically it was just this whole cycle of him pretending he was rich, but the money was always coming from a different woman. And then I recently, I feel like it was a couple months after Elliot was born, there was some other documentary.

And it would just, every episode was a different story about somebody online getting money off of other people. Like one guy pretended he was this wellness guru and had this retreat that people could pay to go to. And so he would have women that he was seeing invests in his business. And really it was just him stealing the money. No, don't know. Basically, this just so I was saying to Evan, I'm like, do you think like this probably happens so often now? Oh, yeah. It probably happens way more than it even gets reported on. Yeah, and especially with AI now. Like, oh, no, look, I'm rich. Look at all this stuff I have and like just generate an AI photo. It's just crazy. The internet can be a dangerous place. But yeah, this this lady sounds like a problem. One of the one of the people that we're talking about. Shame, shame. Shady story. number three. When I was in high school, I was friends with this guy for a while. One of my best friends started dating him, which was totally fine. They broke up after just a few weeks, and she told me that I couldn't

be his friend anymore, and if I talked to him, she wouldn't talk to me. In my head, I was like, who's she to tell me who I can and can't talk to? I was friends with him before they dated. I'll be friends with him after. Naturally, she was angry and stopped talking to me, but not only did she stop talking to me, she told all of our other friends to stop talking to me as well. And they told other people to stop talking to me. It was to the point where I'd be in class and someone would try to talk to me and one of the other friends would cut in and take over the conversation to make sure no one spoke a word to me.

I was completely exiled. This happened all throughout high school and my only friends were either in college or at different high schools. To this day, I have trouble making girlfriends because those mean girls in high school gave me trust issues and I decided having friends wasn't worth a drama. and to be fair, I did start dating the guy a few months after him and my friend broke up, probably because he was one of the only people that would still talk to me. It didn't last long, and after we broke up, he went down a really shady path and ended up in prison.

So all of this and for what? I thought this was wild, because it also, it is such a thing, though, I feel like this is a thing with girls, where if you're dating somebody and it doesn't work out, no one's friends with him anymore. Correct. If he wasn't in the friend group, if you have a friend group and he was not originally in the friend group, then you just don't. That's the correct way to go about it.

That's what you have to do. Yes. If you, yes, that is absolutely correct. It does get sticky though. I know. When everybody's friends and in a friend group and then you start dating somebody within the friend group, you can't expect all your friends to drop them. Right.

So if they're already integrated in the friend group, then you can't expect the dropping to happen. Which is tough. Right. Yeah, especially if it doesn't end on good terms. But in this situation, it sounds like just she was friends with him, which I guess also in that situation, like, why does she care? If he's not really in the friend group or coming around the friend group.

Right. Who cares? But I will say, mostly I feel like Girl Code is kind of like that. Girl Code is. It really is. Which is probably why she has trust issues with girls. Yeah. After that.

Yeah. But that's unfortunate. It's part of girl code. Girl code is kind of shady sometimes. It is. It is. It is. And that's all for this week's shady stories.

And we'll hopefully see you guys in the Patreon bonus content to talk some more. If not, we'll see you guys the next one. Bye everyone. Bye.