The Ariel Helwani Show - Conspiracy Theories, Embarrassing Career Moments, and Baby Names! | The 10 & The 7

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

The newly crowned (virtual) friends Ariel Helwani and Luciana Andrade are back this week to take more of YOUR questions about life, love, work, and everything in between! On today's episode, the dynamic duo answers questions from fans like: What's the most embarrassing moment of your professional life? (7:48) Which name should I give to my upcoming child? (21:22) What is the proper etiquette for knocking on someone's door? (36:31) What's the best concert you've ever attended? (44:46) Which conspiracy theories do you believe in? (57:40) And much more!To ask Ariel and Luciana a non-MMA question on future episodes, please submit it to arielhelwani.substack.com or write it in a review on our Apple Podcasts page!FOLLOW: Luciana Andrade on Instagram: @lucianaandrade Ariel Helwani's YouTube channel: @ArielHelwani

Hello again friends and welcome back to another episode of this thing that we're doing where we answer questions about life, advice, careers, social situations, anxieties, crazy, crazy stuff. I don't even know what is going on, but it's been widely received. People seem to like it. People seem to enjoy it. I'm Ariel Hawani, and that is the one and only, the inimitable, the incomparable, Luciana Andrade. Well, hi, everyone.

Hi. Wow. You sound much better. Do I? Yes. Well, actually, I should say you sound better. Like the quality sounds better. Your voice seems to be struggling a little bit. Any particular reason why? Well, the sound is better because now I'm a pro. I have a microphone. Shout out. Sure.

Right? Very cool. My voice is not doing so well because I got back from my bachelorette party. As you can imagine, it was a lot of parties. Oh, my gosh. Yesterday, I was struggling a little bit. But today, I'm back. This is, listen, Luciana, if you're going to be a professional broadcaster, you

have to take the gig seriously. All right. You can't be yelling, clubbing. No, but I'm always like in the middle of like, be responsible, but you only live life once. You know, it's hard to balance things out. Was it fun? The Bachelorette part? Very fun. Too much fun. Too much fun. Last time we spoke, you were talking about like. things out. Was it fun? The Bachelorette part? Very fun. Too much

fun, I'd say. Too much fun. Last time we spoke, you were talking about like... Was it too much fun? No, I don't think so. I mean, I guess if it gets you in trouble, but last time we spoke, you were talking about like the candies and things like that. Did any of those make an appearance or did we keep it? We don't do that, Ariel. Okay, good. You were the one

that brought it up. I didn't even know that was a thing. I didn't even know that was live. Oh, you didn't know that was live? I i didn't even know that was live oh you didn't know that was a lot that was the part oh that was post oh geez all right it's just candy i just yeah i just like chocolates yes okay fair enough um and today i'm drinking water water yes you almost got us in trouble you almost got us kicked off the channel because of your drinking ways i was told afterwards that youtube frowns on these things so yes for the record this is water right this is just strictly water is it fizzy or flat what is it still i do yeah i don't i don't do do you like the the bubbles the spark like the bubbles but

not when i'm doing the show because then i start burping and it's a big problem i ask a question you start burping you know i know i know people that only drink sparkling water which is so weird to me because it's it doesn't feel like it's healthy very salty bloated all kinds of things so so you had a good time you enjoyed it the last time yeah it was great yeah who do you think had a better time you or your fiance same spot you guys went to as we learned last time different weekends yeah i mean he had a blast too i don't know i think they probably party a little bit more than we had really yeah a little bit more because they were like 10 guys were eight girls like one of the girls just had a baby um my sisters and i were already in cancun for like two nights before we met the rest of the group so

uh but it was fun we had fun uh did he come back with a lost voice oh for sure okay all right all right all right both of us but it's all good nothing bad happened wedding's still on so we're good survived and by the way speaking of the wedding uh you know when you were on the mma hour i i do this thing I like to do this thing where I like to make people feel a little bit guilty. It's just like, you know, it's a fun thing. And I said, I was waiting for the RSVP to save the date. And then you actually invited me to your wedding. Of course I did.

You're the first person to actually, I don't know why, but actually take me up on it. This is an incredible, I got it in my email. I was like, wait a second, is this a joke? And it was a real invitation. No, but even my fiance said, should we invite him?'m like okay let's do it wow so the guilt trip actually worked maybe of course it works i mean i was i was going probably i was going to invite it anyway talk about it yeah i don't think so i don't believe you uh it's all the way you're invited i appreciate that but it's it's a remote location. There's a part of me that thinks that you know I'm not going to come and you just want the gift. Is that possible?

No. We're not asking for gifts. We're asking for donations. Donations to who? Money. To your fund? No, I'm joking. No, we're actually, because we don't need things, you know, I feel like we have them.

So, we're just like, if people want to like contribute for honeymoon, honeymoon fund, whatever, you know i feel like we we have them so we're just like if people want to like contribute for honeymoon honeymoon fun whatever you know whatever they want yeah will you be offended if i don't come no but come i know it's just it's not exactly around the block you know it's i know i know it's far but what a lovely website it's gonna be fun unbelievable the location the pictures you see we did it we did it all unbelievable well thank you for that it really warmed my heart i appreciate it i kind of feel like we're friends now i'm not sure if we've reached the friend but like i feel like that was a big step we're virtual friends virtual friends you don't ever see each other so yeah

no um by the way i i joked at the beginning about the name of the show uh the people have actually uh thrown out a lot of suggestions oh yeah here are some well these are a bunch the beauty and the nose the beauty and the beast the ariel and lucy hour lucy and helwani which reminds me of the beatles song lucy in the sky with diamonds for some reason ariel and lucy helwani and the Good Girl, The Ten and the Seven, if you know that's a joke, The Mouthpieces, The Acai Squad, Ariel and the Legal Eagle, By Popular Demand with Ariel and Luciana, Against All Odds with Luciana and Heel Wani, The Double A Show, Laying Down the Law with Ariel and Luciana, The Gringo Poppy and The Brain Show. I mean, this is a lot. Do any of these? Wow. I mean, lots of good options. I feel very loved. Yeah, yeah of these wow I mean lots of good options I feel very

loved yeah yeah yeah I know people love you people like it yeah so I saw the comments were very positive too huh how about that were you surprised I was actually that was that was good why are you expecting hate your fans your audiences they're really good they're very supportive they didn't they didn't like the picture that we chose for the second week of Your fans, your audiences, they're really good. They're very supportive. They didn't like the picture that we chose for the second week of you. They thought that we were setting you up. I don't know why. I don't know why they were thinking that. Yeah, that was not the most flattering picture.

It was kind of like, oh, you hated it? Why didn't you say something? I don't care. All right. I like the Lucy and Hawani or I don't know, something about that. But it's a work in progress We should do like a voting Like a poll

Yeah a poll See what people say Eventually we should do these live Let the people speak Let the people decide Well yeah they are speaking But we've Power to the people

We did a live show I did a live show On the YouTube channel And people just started Paying me money To answer questions It was crazy So maybe the evolution Of this is That's to answer questions it was crazy so maybe the

evolution of this is that's not bad yeah it was incredible i made 250 bucks in 40 minutes really yeah is that your fate your youtube or the other one that we no no no no my youtube i was i was like at the club they were just making it rain with the money it's like answer this twenty dollars this i mean it was lovely i was showering in the morning Vegas clubs Alright, shall we get to the questions? Okay And this time, you didn't read them in advance No, I didn't

I didn't have the time Already you're slacking after week two Wow, last time you were doing Like massive research beforehand I mean, it was my first time Now I'm a pro, I even have a microphone. That's true. That's true.

Okay, here we go. Gilbert Hill is up first. Hey guys, loving the show. Just wondering, what are your most embarrassing moments in your professional lives? Thanks and keep it up. Love from KC Gilbert Hill. Most embarrassing moments of your professional lives. Golly, that's, you know, have you had any?

I feel like you're, I mean, you're really, you're really out there, right? I mean- I think I already told this. it was like that time that i was going up with the wrong grab the wrong number and i walk around with the wrong in the wrong round that was it that was probably the most embarrassed by the way if that's the most embarrassing moment of your professional life you're doing pretty damn well yeah i, I mean, I have my shit together. Yeah. Or you don't take yourself too seriously, you know. So, if you don't do that, you can't be embarrassed.

I don't stress. I don't stress. It already happened. What can I do? I can go back in time and fix it. Sure. It is what it is. But yeah, not looking forward to any embarrassment moments, no.

No. I really haven't had i mean it's been pretty good i i get worried that i mess things up or i you know i get like a fact about someone wrong or i say their name wrong that's kind of embarrassing a little bit like i don't want to disrespect anyone the name is tricky yeah like i always wonder this because especially you you have to know people's names i with the with the UFC, I was always good with names. And then with the UFC, I kind of feel like I'm always meeting people all the time. And then it's hard the minute I hear the name, I already forgot it.

Yeah. And funny story. So Joe Rogan, at first, when I started working for UFC, he would never remember my name. Oh my. And he would go on stage and say, Ariane, Brittany. And then he would look at me, I would be like, Luciana.

He was Luciana. Oh gosh. And one time I'm like, when are you going to memorize my name? And then he never forgot, but he said something. I'm not going to know the numbers, but he said something that the human brain can only memorize X amount, like number of names.

And once you reach that amount, i guess for you to memorize one you i could it could be wrong that's what i thought i understood um you have to forget another i don't know eventually he memorized my name so now he knows my name wow he wouldn't it was hard nice, says hello to you, converses. Luciana. Yeah. Tough name for him at first. Yeah, I wouldn't say necessarily embarrassing, but like I just hate making mistakes. Like one time I was working for ESPN and I was doing a basketball game and I interviewed a player after the game

and I messed up the question. I was so mad. I wanted to, I called my wife afterwards. I said, I want to walk in the middle of the street and get hit by a car right now. Like I want, that's what I was saying. Do people realize that? Oh. I said, I want to walk in the middle of the street and get hit by a car right now. That's what I was saying. Do people realize that? Oh, I mean, everyone was-

But sometimes people don't realize a mistake. They probably don't. And they don't care. But, you know, I want to smash my head. It would be funny if you were interviewing Jake Paul and call him Logan or vice versa. You know what's so funny about that? The first message I ever got from Jake Paul, he sent me a DM. He's like, hey, bro, this is like four years ago.

I love your stuff. I hear you talking about me, but you keep calling me Logan. Me and my brother are two different people. So it did happen. Yes, that did happen. I didn't really find that to be embarrassing, if I'm being honest. But that did happen. They're very similar.

Oh, very similar. They're brothers, right? Right. And they kind of look alike. They do the same thing. It's like me and my sister, Luciana Diana. If somebody messes, I'm like, right? Right. And they kind of look alike. They do the same thing. It's like me and my sister, Luciana, Diana. If somebody messes, I'm like, okay. Your sister actually looks a lot like you, right?

Do people? So, I have two sisters. Oh, okay. And the girls actually said on this trip, wait, your older sister and you look a lot alike. But that changes. My younger sister was very similar to my older sister. And then at some point, she looked like me a lot when when she was a teenager and then now it's like different again so but i guess my my older sister is not adopted because i grew up telling her she was wow how much younger is she

no uh no the younger sister is 11 years younger than me and 15 years younger than my older sister but my sister and my older sister and i were exact four years apart because we have the same birthday date but my sister diana she she's she has like her eyes are a little tiny bit like this okay and i said she was asian oh my gosh oh no now you're gonna get us canceled here um by the way uh your sister and you shared the same birthday same Same birthday. Yeah. That's horrible as a kid. We have a bunch of cases like this in my family. So we are both April 8th. My godfather and his daughter are also April 8th.

The other daughter that he has is April 4th. So it's like my mom has the same birthday date as her cousin. The entire family is kind of like this. But yeah, my sister and I, same birthdays for life. Isn't that annoying when you want all the attention? Oh, yeah, when I was a kid. Because there's always, like, she would always get the best gifts. Because, like, her godparents were, you know, they had a better financial situation.

So, she would get better stuff. And I would be like, God damn it. Oh, my gosh. And your sister's 11 years younger than you? The younger one and 15 years younger? 11, yeah. Yeah. Was that, like yeah was that

planned or no total accident my parents it was funny when my parents came home to tell us um i thought my sister and i thought they were gonna say they were getting a divorce we were like chill no whatever they're getting a divorce we didn't care you didn't care no devastated i know we didn't care and then they they, oh, we're having a baby. And then we got this. It was like the opposite reaction. We're like, you guys are, oh. My parents were remodeling the house at the time, so I would finally have my own bedroom.

Oh, no. And then, of course, that spoiled everything for me because I had to share with the baby. Wow. 11 years. That's incredible. 11 years. Yeah, my mom was 39 when she got pregnant. Wow. God bless. All right. Hossam, good day. I'm a bit of a softie when it comes to relationships slash romance, and I like hearing cute stories about them.

I gather that you both are in long-term relationships. So my question is, what made you realize that your partner was the one for you? Was it a particular moment or did that feeling build over time? And what is one thing that they do that you appreciate about them to this day? Thank you. Very deep stuff. Very deep stuff. I think it was building up. I definitely, I'm not the type of person that meets someone and says, oh, this is the love of my life.

I'm going to marry that person. You know, because I'm fully aware you don't know that, you know, you don't know anything about that person. You're just infatuated, right? Like it could be passion. It could be so many things. And then it builds up. But I did like him on the first date.

I thought he was like really nice. And I said to my friends, I was like, oh, this guy was really nice, you know? And then it got better and got better and got better. I don't know if there was like an exact moment, like, oh yeah, we're going to be together. But the thing that I appreciated, so, you know, when my dad passed away, we were seeing each other like for a what, like a month, you know, we were supposed to go on a trip on that week and the following week sorry and I said to my friend I was like everything is going so well with this guy I feel something's gonna happen and I'm not gonna be able to go on this trip my dad passed away so I called him in the morning I said hey I'm so sorry we gotta cancel I gotta

go to Brazil and you know my friends came to my place and, you know, they were like trying to help me out because I was packing, you know, sad, et cetera. So I go on a final walk with my dogs around the block. And when I'm turning around, he shows up with like a bag of gummy bears. And because on our first date, I told him I don't like candy, but I do like gummy bears, and I was going to the airport, so he wasn't going to buy me flowers or anything. I thought that was so cute. So, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. So, that was the thing. And that's when you knew? I didn't know, no, but I was like, oh, this guy is a really guy because a lot of guys could be

like, I'm not going to go there. She's about to go to the airport like you know we just met this is so sad what a terrible thing that happened but like i don't know what to say and he actually you know showed up and took me to the airport so i thought that was really nice wow what a mensch we call we call someone like that a mensch do you know what a mensch is yeah you do know what a mensch is no okay i thought you said a men no no no a mensch is like it's a yiddish term for like a true gentleman yeah yeah that was a true gentleman and then I came back, he also picked me up. So, I thought like those little things and while I was in Brazil, obviously, griffing, you know, all those things, terrible things. He, you know, he gave me a space, but he would check on me

saying, hey, I'm thinking about you. I'm so sorry here to talk if you want to, blah, blah, blah. So, I thought it was like wow you know really uh what a great guy yeah uh i look forward to meeting him at the wedding yeah yeah uh for me i i just couldn't find anyone else so i just you know that's you that was it i mean just like this lady wants to live with me forever perfect sign me up. I've known my wife since we were 12. So, you know, it's been a long journey. But there's always that little moment where you're like, okay, now it's the time. Oh, yeah, for sure.

We moved in together. I was actually very against the idea of moving in before marriage. I was old school like that. Really? But then we couldn't find roommates when we moved to New York. And we're like, all right, I guess we should move together. And then once we lived together, I was like, all right, this is, you know, because as I told you last time, she broke my heart after camp and everything like that. So, I was afraid that she was going to do it again.

But you broke her heart first. I did break her heart. I always skip over that story. That is true. That is true. I'm on her side. But I was worried she would do it again, you know, because it's like fool me once once shame on you fool me twice but luckily that's uh it's been 18 years and she has no 2019 years holy smokes i'm getting wow yeah 19 three kids crazy right yeah wow okay so what is it that she

does that you oh you know you know it's something i i like to harp on things i like to hold grudges and i'm a little bit negative if i'm being honest but i use the negativity as like fuel i'm just like a little bit like uh i don't know i'm a glass half empty kind of guy you can get into a fight with her today and in 10 minutes she will forget what we were fighting about like her the ability to to move on and to not hold exactly the same and i can be like silent treatment for days yeah you will help me it's better it's better not to be with someone like that i don't know like this i don't know it might be we're just fiery you gotta do better we gotta do better you gotta this is a bit of self-help too um cole what's the best approach

you've taken when telling a loved one the truth regarding a touchy subject but one that they need to hear obviously from a place of love this has become like a love show now this is amazing i know what i've dreamed of i know okay what do you think how do you i mean i don't know exactly what a touchy feeling is, but I would just... Something like a touchy subject that could be received a little bit poorly, feelings hurt. Like the person gets offended by it. Yeah. I mean, you got to say kindly.

Have you ever been in this spot? Hey, I don't want to hurt you. This is coming from a good heart, from a good place, but I feel I need to tell you this. And then you go for it. Have you ever been in this spot? Yeah. And what did you do?

It wasn't a terrible thing. It was to say the person that they had, you know, the person had bad breath. Not my fiance. Oh, no. That's the worst. How do you tell someone? Yeah, how did you tell them? But it was actually a bad situation because I knew that the person didn't know. And it was because bad breath can be two things.

It's either hygiene, bad hygiene, or you're spending way too many hours without eating, or it's a combination of both. Or you have something in your stomach that you've got to fix it. And usually the people with bad breath don't know they have a breath the stinkiest people i never know they're stinky right and yeah i i said hey you know this was someone that you were dating yeah and you told them i did as opposed to just ending it. Yeah. I'm like, hey, you got to start flossing. You got to go to the dance. You got to figure this out.

Did they figure it out? No. And so you left? Yeah. Oh, my God. That was the reason? If it wasn't for the bad breath, would you have gotten married? No. No, I don't think that was the person for me anyways.

But still, yeah, I had to say something. That is a tough one. Because you usually do like, hey, do you want to go? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then like when you leave with the person, what do you do? Oh, no, you were living together? I have a freak with hygiene. My fiance just went to the dentist and we're both very conscious about it.

So, yeah, I just don't understand how people don't floss or don't yeah you told us you uh you brush before and after meals sometimes yeah which is just crazy behavior yeah i brush floss and then brush again i don't think that's healthy for your for your smile but i do it anyways how many dentist trips a year two right no three sometimes four whoa really yeah i thought it was every six months no so okay i i also heard that it was six months and then one dentist told me no actually every three you should whoa yeah okay i'm gonna look into this yeah look it up yeah geez um cbmcg hello i just found out i'm expecting baby number three. Any suggestions on fun ways to tell our two older girl ages four and six?

Also, any cool baby name suggestions? Jeez Louise. Love you guys, he says. He didn't say, which is kind of tough. First of all, why would someone ask us baby messages? You have three kids. Yeah, I do have three kids. How did you tell the other two?

Well, the other two, I mean, they were all two years apart. So they had no recollection of what was going on or no idea of what was going on. So we didn't really have to tell them. Can I be honest with you? I'm not into this whole, you know, I hope I'm not offending you by saying this. It's going to reveal the surprises. You don't come across as someone I would. Okay.

So I don't like when it's too cheesy, but I do feel like, for example, like, oh, let's say I got pregnant. Right. Then no one knows. I'm going to like, definitely tell it like in a special way to like in-laws and, you know, friends. Maybe there's a birthday party. And I'm like, okay, before we sing know friends maybe there's a birthday party and i'm like okay before we before we sing happy birthday there's a surprise here you know then i said but i don't know if but maybe maybe i'm wrong because i haven't i haven't had you know kids yet but how

would i tell first off we could use what we could suggest names for example like cameron i think cameron goes for both the boys and girls. Jordan. Boys and girls. Jordan, yeah. Shout out, yeah. What was, I heard another one the other day. What was it? Ariel. Ariel. Exactly. It should be Ariel. Yes. Yes, boy. I know actually several girls and you could spell it the exact same way. Little Mermaid is Ariel.

Respect. Isn't it? Right? Just do me a favor. If you guys, you know, if you guys, I hope you have baby, many babies. We don't need to do the pinata thing or the cake thing. I mean, it's just, it's a lot. I wouldn't do the pinata, but I probably would do the cake though. You would?

With the blue coming out or the pink coming out? Yeah, no, your cut is just a feeling. It's like a collar thing they put on a cake. We actually didn't know that. You gotta be cute sometimes. No, no. By the way, I'm actually very superstitious. Some of my good friends didn't even know that my wife was pregnant until we actually had the baby.

I didn't tell them. Yeah, okay. That's crazy. No, that's not crazy. I don't want any evil eyes. I don't want anyone like wishing bad on me. I don't want anyone. So you have like peppers hanging around your house?

I believe in these things. Like for bed? Like greek eye thing i don't have the greek eye but i have like crystals and all kinds of weird shit like i'm you do have crystals wow i don't know i don't have those but uh yeah i do i do believe in bad energy and envy i don't want it what do we need that for and then this idea of doing it like three months before also this idea of putting out like the the the sonogram picture you're just inviting negativity true that is true but you keep it yourself you are someone that is always you know on social media and you know people screen so how do you keep your life private i? I think I do a pretty good job of that. Sometimes, like just recently, I posted something about my family, but I don't really like to post a lot of personal stuff.

Do you get afraid people will recognize your kids or something? Not recognize, but they say stupid shit. Yeah. I don't want to. That's scary. You know what I also don't love? And maybe I've been at fault for this like why do we have to say like it was it was happy mother's day oh sorry it was mother's day in the

uk this weekend it's mother's day in in uh may but you see a lot of people being like happy mother's day to my mom's like why don't you just tell your mom happy mother's day what do you have to write it on social media you know true that is true but i to my perspective i guess like my mom is on social media and my mom gets mad when we don't post about her i'm not kidding she does so i don't know i guess it's more of for significant others for example when you post happy birthday to my you know fiance to my wife it's more to show people like hey how much you care and then that person will see how much you care that you're showing off so i guess i mean it is silly because you like just like you said you can do something really special privately no one was no one's ever

gonna know right but if you don't say anything that is like oh maybe he doesn't like her very much i feel like if you do it privately but uh yes i have had some people be like why don't you post more of your wife i'm like because it's none of your business get the hell out of here oh yeah she's a private person too yes yes people don't maybe she doesn't want people knowing about her or what she looks like or yeah also one last thing on this uh we never found out the sex beforehand so we we had so boys. And then when the girl came out, it's one of the greatest moments of my life, because I would have bet my life that it was going to be a third boy. And when the doctor, I will never forget for as long as I live when the doctor said it's a girl. I mean, the feeling that I had is something that is indescribable. Your whole world just changed.

Yes. And you can't get that if you do the stupid cake thing beforehand. It's not the same. I feel like I'm not going to be patient enough to wait because I got to buy stuff for the kid. How am I going to decorate? I'm going to buy. If it's a girl, it's all girly stuff. It's a boy, you know, changers. When they're that young, first of all, they grow out of it in a month.

And second of all, you can get neutral stuff. I buy close to my chihuahuas. Do you think I'm not going to spoil the kid? Of course I will. Early days, they could probably share. Probably. I mean, the chihuahuas are small, but not that long. The baby's not going to be that little. I hope so.

Isaac, which non-family member slash friend has had the greatest impact on your life today? Non-family member? Yeah. Or family member? No, non-family member slash friend has had the greatest impact on your life today? Non-family member? Yeah. Or family member? No, non-family member or a friend has had the greatest impact on your life today. That's a good question. Does anyone come to mind for you? Yeah.

I think that changes, you know, when I was, you know, let's say a kid, it would be our neighbor that became my godfather, confirmation godfather, because he would like drive us to school and always play with us. I loved him like a father. So I, you know, and then college years, my dad's cousin, she was very close to me, like kind of like a mother, like a second mother. Nowadays. I mean, I feel like all my friends have a huge impact in my life, you know, especially the ones in LA after I moved abroad, because you have, you, you get so lonely. People don't understand leaving. If you never, it's, it's one thing you live in a country and then you, you move across cities. It's still your culture. It still your your language people still understand the references but when you were a foreigner um i can't tell you like oh remember that cartoon or remember that tv

show or remember that music or that type of food people don't can relate so living abroad can be very lonely and i guess all my friends especially the ones in la that the latest years they helped me overcome this uh loneliness uh that that it is living in la because la is a tough city for you to leave and and before when i was in florida i have friends too but florida almost felt like an extension of brazil because there are so many latins i was speaking portuguese the entire time while i was there so i didn't feel uh it didn't feel i was that far from Brazil, if that makes sense. Yeah, no, for sure. That's a huge thing. I mean, I experienced that a little bit coming from Canada to the US, but what you experienced was way more shock, if you will. I just have met people in my

work that, you know, one guy in particular named Aaron, who I've always asked his advice every time I've done something, just someone who works in this field that I'm in the, the sort of journalism broadcast. And is this the right thing? Would you do this if you were me? How do you feel about this? Like a mentor? Exactly. A thousand percent. I was going to call him a mentor. Yeah. Um, and so when you get that confirmation, you're like, all right, I'm going to go, you know? Um, so that's someone that has been, that has been huge for me. Here's Connor from Canada. Hello. As two people whose lives are closely intertwined with sports, is there a sport you

wish you were more involved in professionally or personally? Thank you. When I was a kid, I think gymnastics. I loved gymnastics growing up. I'm not nearly as flexible anymore unfortunately but um i played soccer like soccer a lot i think i would like football yeah football yeah yeah um i think i would like to be more involved in girl sports like that like gymnastics i think that would be cool when you when you have a kid um and and she's a girl will you try to push girl, will you try to push them to play sports? I would try to push them to play sports, but not like pick one because I think that's so personal. There are some sports that you know you can succeed. Let's say you're a boy, you're playing American football and you happen to be really good.

Sure, you can make a lot of money, but then it's also so dangerous. What if you get an injury or something? Let's say I have a boy, I would say, yeah, maybe play baseball. I think it's good for them to figure it out. Like my kids love soccer. They adore soccer and I never pushed them towards soccer, but now they can't get enough of it watching it every day, every second. And my daughter getting a little, you know, she's kind of following them. She's the youngest. So she's trying to follow in their footsteps. But for me, basketball was number one. That's what I dreamed of being a basketball player. I actually, when I was 12, my cousin wrote a contract and said that if I, by the time I reach, I think it was 19 or 20,

if I don't make it to the NBA, I had to pay him a million dollars and sign the contract because I was so certain. Yes, I know. But I was so certain that I was going to make the MBA. Thankfully, he hasn't helped me. He's like, wait a second, I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where's my money? Is that a legally binding contract? I don't think so, right? You can't just...

I mean, it's been so long. I would have to read all the fine print. That's right, the fine print. Plus, I was a minor. What if your kids wanted to do MMA? Great question. Practice it or actually fight actually fight because practice i think it's great like jujitsu is really good for you coordination good for your mind white confidence judo confidence exactly knowing how to how to defend yourself for girls that's that's, right? But how would you do?

What if they said, Dad, it's my dream. I want to be a UFC fighter. Listen, when you say the word dream, I'm a big dreamer, and my parents never said no to any of my crazy dreams that I'm still trying to accomplish. So I've always appreciated that, especially as I've gotten older, that they never, ever, ever questioned anything, even though some of them were far-fetched. So I don't want to be that guy or parent,

but I would not be, you know, I would not put it this way. I wouldn't push them because I know how the sausage is made. I know about the injuries. I know about the pay. I know about everything without getting too deep into it. And I don't want that. And it's just like, you have to be the top 1% to really make it, right? Like a Connor, a Habib, these guys like the top, top, top, even the top 5% don't necessarily make it. So, the juice isn't worth the squeeze, if you get what I'm saying. Got it. Ronnie, hello, Ariel and Luciana. Ariel, you are a very busy man these days. I miss reading your MMA articles. Do you enjoy the writing process and would you ever consider writing a book?

Luciana, what is your favorite book of all time? So I'll answer that first. One day I'm going to write a book. It's going to be called The Highway to Helwani about all the trials and tribulations. Are we going to be in the book? This show? I mean, we have to last at least five episodes okay okay okay so right now we're guys keep watching yes you know maybe your questions

will go to the book yeah that's true although if your voice like keeps going out i mean i don't know you know it's like i feel like it's a little unprofessional if i'm being i mean yeah that that's my one and only bachelorette party though this is it what's gonna happen after the wedding you're not gonna have any voice after the wedding oh i won't have any voice after the wedding probably um are we gonna do the show from the wedding you know like are you can are you already asking for vacation days we can i'll be like okay time zone difference wake up in the middle of the night, Ariel. That's fine. That's fine. I'm a pro. Wake up early. No problem. My favorite book of all times, I would say Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

That's very girly of me, but I do like that. Wow. Do I know that? The tough wording for me in English. Yeah. Pride and Prejudice. What is it about? Mr. Darcy. You've got to read it.

It's like romance. Jane Austen was a famous writer. She has a bunch of books. I have a big collection. My big book is actually there. I'm not going to go pick it up, but it's like this big, and it has all the famous books. Would you like to write a book? Biography, autobiographyography or just

the story tales from the UFC octagon girl I don't think I would get I mean I don't have that much

you don't have tales you don't have good I'm sure I mean I wasn't like like I said I wasn't

partying like crazy you know and I I've been doing this for 90 years and I always been in serious relationships

so I don't think like people wouldn't like to hear it doesn't have to be just those kinds of tales. I mean, geez, it could be. Yeah. No, I don't think it would be like autobiography. If I were to write something, it would probably be like something very specific.

Let's say I become a badass attorney at some specific area, then I would maybe write a book about it. I don't know. From the octagon to the courthouse right something um yeah all right we'll both come out with our own books but yes one day i would like to do it just don't have a lot of time now unfortunately uh this guy's great hello hello hello hello and also i'm too young to write a book like i i think you should wait you know what is the what is the age to write a book? Well, I just feel like I haven't scratched the surface. No, but like I still have a lot more to do.

By the way, you're very busy right now. I just saw you have a new show. Yes. How many shows do you have now, are you? I have a lot of shows, Luciana. I'm trying, I'm trying. Are you sleeping? Like what time?

No, but I said to a friend of mine, you know when you go to the buffet and and you have a plate and you've got like a lot of things like you i tend to like overdo it at the buffet and then if like you get to a point where you're like i i officially took too much stuff like that extra piece of bread was not necessary you ever have this problem yeah i eat everything i feel like i'm at the buffet finally and like the plate is overflowing you get what i'm saying i feel like like i want when i finally And like the plate is overflowing You get what I'm saying? Mm-hmm I feel like Like I want

When I left ESPN You have too much in your plate now? I don't have too much But like I feel like I've officially Like the last piece This is like For now the last piece of bread

But there's actually other stuff That might happen too Which is kind of crazy But I enjoy it I just like to do a lot of stuff Okay Thanks for the good wishes I appreciate it Yeah good just like to do a lot of stuff. Okay. Thanks for the good wishes.

I appreciate it. Yeah, good luck. This is great. This is huge. Hello, hello. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were attending a small get-together with a few other couples at a friend's home. Their doorbell was broken and they forgot to mention it. Well, after not getting any response from three doorbell rings with adequate time between each ring, I finally decided to knock. I gave a firm four knocks just

once. Our longtime friend's wife slash host, who we don't know very well, immediately swings open the door and says in a very annoyed tone, no need to be so aggressive, they said. Now, my question is, what is the proper etiquette for a knock? Is it more about the strength of the knock, the number of knocks, the intervals? We need answers. Nothing but awkward vibes ever since then. I mean, that's crazy that people get upset about those things. I guess I usually do like a very gentle one, two, three. And then if it takes, it takes a while. And then I do it again a little bit stronger.

And if the person doesn't open and then I open the door, but I don't have to do this very often. Usually you call, right? Hey, I'm here. That's the thing. So actually, Louis, our moderator wrote, follow up, would you ever text to say I'm outside bypassing the door altogether?

I, honestly, I think I would do a very sort of meek, soft knock and then I would go straight to the phone. Yeah. You can't do the loud. I actually did this last week. There's this girl that I go to her house to do my nails. And she knew I was there. She gave me the call to go upstairs.

I knocked at first. I don't think she heard it. So I texted her. Hey, I'm here. Right. You don't have to bang on the door. Yeah. Yes.

And then especially if it's someone you don't really know and you're like banging on the door, it's a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. But four four times that was not like i mean it depends on how strong boom boom boom yeah that may be uh aaron you're excellent at developing new segment and shows i don't know if he's saying that to me or you but you probably i'm curious what is the journey to develop segments like lucy and hawani cooking with Vogue, On the Nose, Rick's Picks and others You are a true inspiration Wow thank you very much Erin Honestly I just try to find fun things

Different things Things that I would like Things that I would like to watch And I believe strongly In just being yourself, being authentic Like when I started I didn't have a fake voice I didn't try to act like someone else. And people are either going to like you or not.

And I think that if you show people your authentic self, your true self and your true voice, they'll be drawn to it. Did you have people that you were like, okay, I'm a huge fan of this guy. And then you finally met the person and realized, oh, he is not who he pretends to be. Oh, yeah. On the show. Isn't that like a little? Yes. Also, I met people that I was like, oh, I want to be like them, right?

I want to conduct myself like them. But yes, all the time. I mean, a lot of that, honestly, is like you meet people and you work with them or you see them from afar and you don't really like the way they are off camera. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to be mean.

I definitely, you know, I've seen people like that where, you know, on camera, they're so nice backstage. They're like, you know,

yes. Who are you talking about? Who are you referring to? It's really cool. And they are actually as nice as they portrayed themselves. Like Bruce Bussford is great. Right. Like he talks to everybody.

He takes pictures with the fans. He's always polite. He's never, you know, never complaining. I love that. You know, Laura Cinco.

Great. You know, she's great. I never see her complaining about anything. She's always there doing her homework. Like I admire people like that. Me too. Do you know uh when i was in college i had an mma radio show that no one listened to and i sent bruce buffer an email and he wrote me back and he came on this is in 2001 2001 i was a

total i was a college kid and he came on my show and and came on for like an hour and a half. Really? That's awesome. Yeah. Bruce is great. Like he is, he's really, yeah, really good guy. When I, um, first started at UFC, there was one time where we had a fight in Brazil and I think they dropped us in the wrong terminal. I mean, I was in the right terminal. He wasn't, but he doesn't speak Portuguese and he was having a tough time. So I helped him out and he was like, thank you so much. Then he gave me his book and that's kind of like how we started talking and we're friends now. He gave me his book? He gave me his book. Yeah. His autobiography. Yeah. And then every now and again, he texts me

or calls me, Luciana, how do I say this? Because I guess, you know, like those subscription, I mean, you sell a video of you congratulating someone. Oh, Cameo. Those platforms, yeah. And every now and again, there is a fan from Brazil asking him to record something. He's like, how do I say this? How do I say this name? You got to say it with the Andrade.

Aren't you on Cameo? I am, but I never get requested. Feel free, everyone. Yeah. Maybe as this show grows grows you'll get more she's on the cameo look it up yeah when i become a huge star like ariel hawani are you on camo i am yeah you are do you get a lot of sure yeah it's actually been pretty good uh it was all part of my uh when i left espn i did it just for fun because i wasn't working for a few months um what do you think my rate is by the way no clue what do you think i actually

don't even know what my rate is maybe that's why i'm not getting anything well you put it at like 500 or something i don't remember actually it's been a long time but also it happened to me that i think i deleted the app because i'm one of those people that have a bunch of stuff on my phone, especially pictures. And then I don't have space. And I always have to like, which app I'm not using. And then I think I deleted the app. And then I get a request on the email. And I'm like, okay, I'll answer this later.

And then 24 hours, 48 hours pass. And then I lose the request. This happened to me a couple times but i don't get i don't get that often i'm at a hundred this is gonna change now what do you think 100 is that good you're 100 yeah i think that's good i think yeah you could probably charge more no no no by the way um like 400 500 yeah no that mean, what is it like for a video? Yeah. How many, um, how many unread emails do you have right now?

Not that many. Actually, I just received two probably spam. Um, but I read, I read, I read my emails every morning. I'm one of those people that I wake up and then I, I go to emails, I go to messages and social media and then I get up. I wish I was one of those that I get up. I, I eat breakfast and I go,

yeah. Yeah. No, I saw this video. They were asking people like, like some people have like 10,000 50. This would give me extreme anxiety. Anxiety.

I can have notifications. I, I stopped doing that now, but I used to not follow that many accounts on instagram for example so when they launch the stories it shows you like that red circle oh yeah that is because someone posted something i had to every time i opened the app i had to watch all of them get rid of the the you know i don't have notifications but if I see messages I gotta read it I'm very it gives me anxiety

me too I was actually like my goal is to get to zero all the time with email zero so I'm obsessed with that

like at the end of the night I want to try to get to zero and if I can't it bothers me that there's two or that there's one these people that have 20,000 unread

they're psychopaths yeah I don't know how people but it's probably what like spam and yeah but just go through them yeah just delete it or the people that have like 200 texts i do have sections of my email which separates them like social spam so i just go and delete them yeah yeah that's what you got to do. CY Stevie, this is actually from YouTube. Question, what's the best concert you've ever been to?

Does Coachella count? What is Coachella? I'm kidding. That's like a bunch of- It's a festival. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a bunch of, but it's a different vibe. What do you mean by different vibe?

Because you're having fun. You have friends, you know. It's different different isn't that a concert it is multiple concerts multiple days and you need to have a lot of energy it's like a festival right yeah it's a festival i think i mean it's always really fun but one second when you go to coachella where do you sleep so we got a hotel some people get airbnbs and you don't sleep outside like in tents what no it's like it's not like woodstock i don't even go to i mean i did like the adult version of coachella because people that go the minute that they open the gates and leave when it

closes like you're a psychopath no yeah i can't do that so i would only go at night or late afternoon and stay in because it's too hot. It's in Palm Springs, you know, April. I think it's in April. Yeah. And it's super hot. And then sometimes last year we went, it was super cold at night, one of the nights. So you have that difference of temperatures.

I can't do that all day. I had like 30,000 steps just by going at night. Imagine if I do that all day i had like 30 000 steps just by going at night imagine if i was there all day my bachelorette party i had like 15 000 a day oh yeah nice i love that um so best concert rufus was pretty fun i took i went to duranduran it was really fun oh yeah i took my family to um a bon jo Jovi in Miami one time. It was fun. I just went to Backstreet Boys in Brazil. It was fun.

I don't know. I think not because of the band necessarily. I think the experience, Rufus here in LA, one of the years that we went was actually pretty cool. I haven't been to a concert in a very long time. I went to Eminem when I was in high school. That was fun. Eminem? Yeah. Wow. I haven't been to a concert in a very long time. I went to M&M when I was in high school. That was fun. M&M? Yeah.

Wow. Back when he was, when he was, it's still a thing. This is like 1999 I'm talking about. I know. I was in seventh grade. Yeah. What, you, that doesn't impress you, M&M? I mean, you just went to Backstreet Boys.

I knew. Oh, I was a Backstreet Boys girl. I was not so much on. NSYNC was way famous, was more famous in the U.S., but Backstreet Boys was I was not so much on NSYNC was way was more famous in the US but Backstreet Boys was worldwide they were the OGs I was actually

I was a big 98 Degrees guy I did like some of their songs too did you were you a what is it called New Kids on the Block New Kids on the Block New Kids on the Block

was the first cassette that I ever got cassette I forgot about those things the right stuff New Kids on the Block was the first cassette that I ever got. Cassette. I forgot about those things. The right stuff. You know that song? No.

Okay. Kobe. Hey, guys. Love the show. Appreciate it very much. My question is for Ariel and involves parenting. Ariel, I've heard you many times quote Wu-Tang, Biggie, Tupac, etc. So my question is, do you monitor and somewhat censor the types of music slash TV that your sons listen to?

If you came home to the boys bumping, hit them up uncensored in their rooms, what is your reaction? Do you let them discover and experience those types of arts by yourself or by themselves? Or do you feel their age plays a factor? How do your parents or how did your parents handle that type of thing with you? Bonus question. Is there any aspects of parenting your mother and father used on you that you made a point not to implement with your kids? Yeah, they used to beat me bad. No, like they did where they were quite physical.

Actually, I make fun of my mom. She had a sewing needle and she would do something called peek peek on me when I did something bad and she would hit me with the needle here and the wow yeah it was pretty intense i mean she's like from lebanon it's a bit of a different vibe back there my dad would have sandals and he would hit my butt um right from lebanon my dad's my dad's family we have a little bit really from lebanon yeah yeah so much in common it might be relatives maybe yeah Maybe, yeah. Were you guys Jewish too? No. No, we already established that.

I'm the first Jew you ever met. So my parents were not very, they didn't like censor what I watched. They didn't tell me not to do this and that. I will say though, with the internet and YouTube, I've tried to tell them like, don't go on shorts. I don't want their attention span to go down. I don't want them on TikTok or Instagram or any of that nonsense.

The main thing that I fear now with kids is that their attention span is so catered to just watching eight minute clips. They don't know what it's like to sit down and watch a TV show, or they don't know what it's like to sit down and watch a movie or to just be like oh what's on tv today like we used to do as kids everything is on demand everything is like oh this is over let's go to the commercials nothing they have no patience running to the bathroom nothing no recording something or missing something you know what i mean like yeah i think that's that's a a really big problem so that's the thing that I would say I police.

Other than that, you know, I let them figure it out. What are the ages again? 10, 9, and 6. Yeah, but I don't think like at those ages they are. No, it's coming though. And like some of their friends have phones. Yeah. It's more like the TikTok now, right?

My nieces are on TikTok and video games and things like that sometimes i have to google what they said i'm like yeah yeah it's dangerous it's really dangerous i'm big on tiktok now i don't know if you are yeah i'm really big i have a tiktok but i don't know how to do tiktoks i guess i'm too old for that you've done a few profile yeah but they were not the coolest ones that's why it didn't go viral yeah i mean i don too old for that you've done a few yeah but they were not the coolest ones that's why it didn't go viral yeah i mean i don't have that many followers there how many followers we have probably like less than 2 000 you gotta you gotta work at it you gotta work at it it's one of those things um genuine hiwani and the good girl would be a fun name yeah you see people

i think i've realized that you're not a bad girl that's the problem i know i know are they are they upset though if anything i think that they think that i wish it was a bad yes i think they think i'm worse like i'm the heel and you're the goody two shoes is i think uh as a dog owner i would be curious to know how each of you deal with leaving your dogs at home when you travel and for luciana if she brings her dog sometimes, if the venue is in driving distance. Okay. I used to, I, for many years at UFC, I would, I would bring my dogs simply because I didn't have anyone to watch them. And they're so little, I, I just couldn't trust it.

You know, um, it was a nightmare. I'm not, not gonna lie. I would travel with both dogs and it was not fun. Uh, eventually, uh, I started leaving them with friends, paying friends to watch them. Now, I always have to hire a niece, but I have cameras in the house. I had a lot of situations where I was traveling and I had to fire someone because the person, you know, wasn't showing up, was pretending that they were taking care of the dogs, but they were not. There was one time even I hired this person and she hired someone else.

No way. So I saw on the cameras, I'm like, who is this person in my house? And then I learned that, you know, oh, I had a problem. So I brought this person now. She actually took the money, gave a little bit to that person. She spent 24 hours without answering me. Like I recently, our last trip, I had an issue with a girl. It was a recommendation from a friend.

She said, oh, I, you know, she, she lives in the same area. She has a small dogs, good, good, small dogs. I'm like, okay, great. She came to the house, explained the things to her, how things work, blah, blah, blah. Fine. Then I'm in Brazil. I realized like, she's not telling me anything about the dogs. It's always me having to ask about it. She's not volunteering any information. Like usually the person says, Hey, you know, I just fed them. They they're fine.

They pee, they, you know, nothing. So I would always ask her and she would take a while to answer. I went on a camera. I'm like, oh, okay. She only spent one hour in my house when I'm paying her full time, you know? And then I said something, long story short, she spent three hours on the next day, three hours on the next day, and then eight minutes on one of the days. And then I lost it.

I fired her, hire another girl. The girl came in and it was like, my dog was thrown up. Like the dogs were not eating. She mixed the wet food with the dry food that went bad. So it was bad. So it's stressful. You've got to have people that you trust.

But like, for example, like for the wedding, I don't even know what am I going to do because all my friends are going, my family is going and it's July. So the girls that, the girl that I always hire, if she has something that I'm going to have to train someone else. So it's July. So the girls that, the girl that I always hire, if she has something that I'm going to have to train someone else. So it's tough, but I would say get cameras.

Those, you know, those are your best friends. And the cameras are in the house. So I have cameras outside and the ones in the house, we don't leave them on when we're here, but when we leave, we turn them on. You turn them on really? I didn't know. So would you just press a button or something no no it's like those cameras that you you buy you just you just plug in the outlet the power got it oh interesting uh we're lucky we just have one person

one time we did that person wasn't available and we had to find someone else and it was i felt horrible i felt like the worst person on the planet yeah such a bad feeling it's so stressful because you know i'm assuming with kids it's stressful too but at least person on the planet. Yeah. Such a bad feeling. It's so stressful because, you know, I'm assuming with kids it's stressful too, but at least depending on the age of the kid, kids can verbalize something. Sure, sure. Like dogs, you don't know if someone is being mean to them. Sure. You know, I've seen, I always read reviews too.

So I've seen people like on those apps, you know, saying something like, oh, I don't like this person, this person this, this person that. So then I just don't hire them. Kaino. Hola, Ariel and Luciana. Hola, thing? No, that's Spanish, right? That's not Portuguese.

Yeah, maybe I think I... Well, it's Latin. Yeah, no, close enough. Right here. A couple of phrases you regularly use. Regularly. It's a tough word. Regularly. Regularly.

Regularly. Is that right? Regularly. Yeah. Use on the show has worked its way into my vocabulary. One for the scrapbook. Give myself the old Barry H. Outhouse to penthouse.

Luciana has no idea what I'm talking about here. So my question is, are there any phrases that either of you have picked up from people you regularly watch? Another regularly. Jeez Louise. And if so, what are they are they free love last week's show looking forward to this becoming a regular fixture in my podcast schedule obrigado all right so he got a portuguese word in there oh nice is there anything that you uh copy from people uh if i am talking to people regularly and they say something i definitely i definitely download some of their words.

I don't know why I do that. Remember in Brazil, I traveled to a different area. So let's say you go to Texas and you spend two weeks in Texas. You start talking like a Texan. I'm like those people. No personality, I guess. But I don't think there's anything recent. But I do remember there was a really bad movie on Netflix. I think it was the 365 days.

Everybody was watching because the guy and the girl were like kind of attractive and a terrible movie, bad movie. I did watch it and I said, this movie is horrible. But the guy would say something like,'s up baby girl like everything was like baby girl so then i started saying that like as as a joke and then he got it stuck with me for a while oh no um i kind of stopped it's been a while yeah with british people i tend i feel like i start to say mate and things like that you know like australians say mate too right yeah they do but i i guess i'm around more british people or british irish i i feel like i i tend to speak like them also there's a few broadcast

terms like you know have we talked did you watch the howard stern movie did you watch private parts not yet i was in my bachelor party i know but you're traveling there was no tv there was no phones in my room you didn't have a device? You didn't have an iPad or something? I didn't bring a computer. I didn't bring anything. I said, I want to be present. I want to have fun. I have my phone.

Yeah, I know. And I lost my AirPods. Oh, what an annoying feeling. I hate when that happens. By the way, you should be able to track the AirPods and not the case. What do I care about the case? I lost the thing. Also, I've tried to track the case. They don beep do they beep for you they don't yeah exactly i'm like what the makes no sense

i put mine in the freaking wash like it's horrible and but they actually still work oh they worked so my pocket right i don't know how many of these phones I've already lost. I lose everything. PF Chang CEO. Hi, Luciana and Ariel. Did you figure out PF Chang's yet? I went there once. No, did you figure out like what it means? No.

Love the new segment. You guys are great. Recently, I've been watching some conspiracy videos on the moon landing in 9- 11. It's fascinating to see how unbelievably strange these people can be sometimes. But with that said, you guys have any conspiracies of your own that you believe in? I think these people, I think this stuff is nonsense.

So some stuff are very, it's nonsense. Like every now and again on Twitter, now they're instead of only showing social media is doing this instead of only showing the, whatever the people that you follow are posting, it shows random stuff. And I don't know why the algorithm is showing me like conspiracy theories all the time. And it's usually like this person say, don't, you know, prepare yourselves. The worst is coming, blah, blah, blah.

And then I'm like, what are you doing? Like, what does that mean so then but there are some conspiracy theories where i say you know what this is this is kind of interesting you know and then it happens and you're like okay i guess that wasn't a conspiracy you know um i don't have any conspiracy lately. Do you? No, I hate that. This is like the aliens.

It's all useless. Come on. No, all this stuff is – It's too real. It's a waste of time. People say, oh, he didn't really land on the moon. It was a TV set. This didn't happen. It was a government job.

I like to take things – it's interesting. I don't – I question. You live in a bubble. I don't know if I live in a bubble i i guess i'm naive and i don't i don't want to question everything i i ask enough questions in life i don't want to think the worst or and maybe that's wrong i don't know but it's like it's i find it exhausting it is exhausting but you do get paranoid so during uh the pandemic covid i got in some deep stuff where I was like, okay,

5g towers. We've got to stop right here. It's too much. I did. Did you wipe down your groceries? I did. In the beginning I was, I was a little paranoid. I didn't have the proper masks, but I remember I would like put gloves. And then I would get in your car, removing the gloves and then not touch it. You already touched the key. So, you know, but in the beginning, we're all afraid and didn't know anything. I was wiping down the mail. But, you know, it's funny because my fiance doesn't watch like conspiracy theories,

but he's a little paranoid. So every week something comes on the mail and it's, always say it's like the worst we have a catastrophe closet where literally the other day he bought like gas masks for both of us and i'm like what are you expecting to happen should i prepare something like and then he has all these things you know like crazy stuff and i'm like well how about food we don't even have like protein bar because we survive off deliveries so right we're gonna starve we're gonna eat the dogs the chihuahuas like come on but wait what is a catastrophe a catastrophe closet oh he has all sorts of weird things like from like lanterns like lights lights and and yeah yeah all sorts of crazy stuff he had i had to clean it up but he had food

that you're it's supposed to last for 30 days i don't know it's probably like what astronauts eat because he was just disgusting looking and yeah crazy do you believe in this like did you have this before you met him about the no not the catastrophe i would have like waters in my car just in case and i had this thing during covid of having gas in my car all the time just in case i had to run away where i don't know but you always think because we live in california you always think like what if the big one happens you know but then what's the point i have the stuff in my car all the roads that say everything open i can't even drive like what do you do sometimes he says well if something happens we gotta meet at the griffin observatory and i'm like cool how do i get there oh my what is the griffin observatory what is

like this thing in la that's like on the top like of the city like if let's say there's a because we live in the coastal area so there is a tsunami coming oh my gosh i'm like chances are there will be traffic what do we do get the electric bikes what if they're you know what i'm saying like it's crazy so wow that's i thought i was paranoid oh he's paranoid about those things and then health stuff for example he buys stuff for stretching all the time and i'm like what why are you buying more things like different chairs that now he has like a standing chair oh yeah like what the hell or buy stuff like for neck for the posture yeah yeah yeah i need to work on that too these are all great pieces of

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