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SLAP the Power
SLAP the Power - a dynamic new show from SLAP the Network that aims to weave artistry into advocacy through the raw power of music, comedy, movies, visual arts, and beyond.
Hosted by world touring musicians Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill @vintagetrouble) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator), join them as team with musicians, comedians, actors and artists of all angles and try to chop up some of todays most troubling topics, but with a fat side of chocolate cake and incredible silliness.
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Climate Crisis & How it Affects Women
Could a boxing match between legends and influencers be more than just entertainment? Our latest installment of "Slap the Power" is your backstage pass to the much-hyped showdown between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. We couldn't help but question the match’s authenticity, especially when compared to the eyebrow-raising outcome of the recent Serrano fight. Tune in as we ponder whether these events hold a mirror up to the issue of fairness in the ring, and set the stage for broader societal conversations.
Switching gears, we spotlight the harsh reality that 80% of climate change refugees are women, bringing to light the staggering inequities intensified by natural disasters. Join us as we travel to regions like Central East Africa, Bangladesh, and India, where these challenges are most acute, forcing young girls out of education and into vulnerable situations. We also touch on global political tensions, focusing on Hong Kong’s battle for democracy amidst Beijing’s tightening grip. Through these narratives, we aim to spark awareness and galvanize support for women and girls facing these adversities.
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SLAP the Power is written and produced by Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator). Associate Producer Bri Coorey (@bri_beats). Audio and Video engineering and studio facilities provided by SLAP Studios LA (@SLAPStudiosLA) with distribution through our collective home for progress in art and media, SLAP the Network (@SLAPtheNetwork).
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From partner violence, from being married off too soon, from being taken out of their schools.
Speaker 2:I mean women and girls are really the ones that are another podcast, but it can definitely use a slap. That's right. Welcome to Slap the Power, the show that lifts artists who use their powers for positive progress. I'm Rick Mario Dill and I'm Asia Nakia. That's right On the show.
Speaker 1:Today we catch up on the fight that wasn't Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul and then we hit our animal rescue segment Pause for Progress and hear about Franny Fran CompassionKind's longest resident, who was just adopted.
Speaker 2:Oh, franny, fran, All right, then we talk about climate inequities for women. Did you know 80% of people displaced by climate change are women? Woo, you know 80% of people displaced by climate change are women.
Speaker 1:And then in our newest segment, Compassion Corner, we're going to talk through deworming puppies with our senior producer, Brie.
Speaker 2:That's right. If you're new to being a mom or dad, you got to. You know there's certain things that you got to know, so we're going to drop that and a little later we'll tap our resident Gen Z correspondent, asher Freidberg, in a new segment called Make this Ish, make Sense, where we take unexplainable things that somehow are the most trending things in our world online. Well, at the same time, dr Oz is now in charge of your Medicaid. So yeah, sure, but first Asia, how are you? How was your weekend, did you?
Speaker 1:watch the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight. I, you know I had to watch which. You know I'm not like I mentioned on the last episode, I'm not too big into fighting. Yeah, I live a very nonviolent life, even when it's a sport. It's still hard for me to watch anyone get hit or suffer. But I suffered through this one because I was just too curious and I just wanted to know. One because I was just too curious and I just wanted to know and it was. I mean, I think the whole time I was saying to myself just don't die.
Speaker 1:No one die. So every round, that's what I was saying, but I was kind of impressed they made all eight rounds. I didn't think that was going to happen when I started to see those knees moving around on Tyson.
Speaker 2:It's funny there's a lot of takes on online about this because a lot of people just think that fix was in and everything. And I think there's probably good reason to look at that fight and and say that, and not that we're aficionados at all. It'd be actually. I think that's the benefit to our vantage on it is that it was kind of what I was hoping it wasn't going to be, which is when you throw these big sort of you know, not fully fully sanctioned fights or things like that, where there's just a lot of money involved.
Speaker 2:Tyson, it was like there were several times where, if you've seen him train, you're like, yeah, that he wasn't bringing what he brought to training to the fight, and so there's good reason to kind of say you know and who knows anymore? I mean, I don't even know what. What is up, what is down, it's, it's hard to tell. But I'm with you, it was like I was expecting a little bit more. I think a lot of people were and it was, you know, even at only two minutes instead of three minutes around. It was like it was. You would hope that that would be more explosive and for some reason it wasn't.
Speaker 1:yeah, it was. It was kind of, you know, you know that game, it was like back when I was a kid. I'm probably aging myself here, but yeah.
Speaker 2:What was it? Sockenpabra? Rock'em, sock'em.
Speaker 1:Rock'em, sock'em. Yeah, they're just like going like this and it's just like tick for tack, tick for tack. But it was just very like chill. There was really no big moment. But also I felt like Tyson really couldn't get a punch in because Jake Paul is just so much taller and like his arms are so long.
Speaker 2:So I don't know. I feel like Tyson could have he could have. Yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 1:Now, if it was completely staged, of course, Like, if they already had the outcomes. I mean $80 million on the table. What more? But, I will say I'm still really upset about the fight before that.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, I know, I was going to bring. Thank you for bringing that up. That was.
Speaker 1:Make that one make sense to me, please. Serrano won. Serrano won period. Period Hands down the board had the numbers on it Right. Can someone explain to me how those numbers being higher for Serrano meant that she loses?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's a great question. I haven't even seen that. I haven't seen that online. If you have a theory on why, because she got ripped off the first time. That was the reason why. To have this fight now and to have the same thing kind of happen again it was like you weren't watching the same fight and again, please, now, and to have the same thing kind of happen again it was like you weren't watching the same fight and again, please, leave it in the comments, let us, let us know how, what your, what your take is on that, because again, it makes me just think that, like what can we trust?
Speaker 1:you know what can you bank on, yeah it's like sport is supposed to be, like this beacon of fairness and you know, and then that that fight, just I mean and and missing one point, she got one point deducted for that headbutt right, one right, and she does it every time like it's, like her token move, which is not and it was allowed. Yeah, yeah so, yeah, that was very upsetting. And again, puerto rico getting another smack in the face you know it's just every time.
Speaker 2:I mean jake paul's already from there. That's a bad enough smack in the face, right there, right.
Speaker 1:That when he announced where he was coming from, I was like but originally from Cincinnati. I'm just putting that out there. Hey, you know, that's the way it goes down.
Speaker 2:We introduced a segment a couple weeks back called Pause for Progress, which is really, really it's near and dear to not only our hearts but sort of everybody, all of our clients and all of our customers and things like that and uh. So please update us on on franny and the compassion kind's longest, longest living resident who was just adopted. Come on, that's cool. Come on, give me, give me the goods, give me the good yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean this, this is so big that I don't even think that I've let it like sink in, really yeah um, but before so franny was a foster of mine and that's because she was. Probably one of our is so big that I don't even think that I've let it like sink in really yeah, but before. So Franny was a foster of mine and that's because she was probably one of our most misunderstood dogs Came off a little.
Speaker 1:You know big pity comes off a little aggressive with new folks but really she just needs to get to know you hear your voice. Kind of get used to her. You know new surroundings.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But anyways, Franny has been with us since Hurricane Laura, which was back in September of 2020. Wow, so we've had Franny for four years and she's just been sitting in foster care waiting for her forever family.
Speaker 2:Pandy baby.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, and she's just the sweetest little girl ever. I completely adored her. She was my foster for a very long time and when I moved, it was my biggest fear of what I was going to do with Franny when I left Florida. Oh, wow. And one of my friends stepped up, hey, and she decided to adopt her and we made her official yesterday, which is, I mean, you know, you fight and you fight every day for these kind of things to happen. I never thought Franny was going to get adopted.
Speaker 2:So big, big, big news for us that's a big, big W and you know, one of the things we wanted to do with the show kind of where we're sitting now is also deal with things that everybody can agree on. You know, and everybody can agree on, getting Franny a forever home is really really really dope. You know what is next as far as and pause for progress and what is your biggest challenge that you have right now on deck.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think the biggest challenge for us right now is the big F, which is funding. Is the big F which is funding. We've, you know we've I mean since COVID we've seen a decline in donations but really and especially expanding into the Los Angeles area. You know this is a whole new arena for us. So we're still in this, you know, transition phase of finding the vets we want to work with, finding fosters. But yeah, really the funding has been tough lately because we've had so many crazy cases, I mean dogs hit by cars and abandoned dogs shot in the back. We've had a couple cases where we need, like amputations and it's just, it's very, very, very costly. So you know, those have been our biggest struggles. But also I'm very hopeful and excited to be in the LA area. There's, you know, such a huge our biggest struggles. But also I'm very hopeful and excited to be in the LA area. There's, you know, such a huge need for rescue here which really surprised me.
Speaker 1:But I feel like we've kind of like, found our niche here, so hopefully the funding will follow, but you know there's a lot of work to be done in this area, which inspires me, you know.
Speaker 2:If people want to get involved or be able to help, um, you know how can they do. How can they do that?
Speaker 1:I mean so many ways, but you can first stop is compassion, kindorg. You can learn more about us. All of our links are there. You can find us on social media all the instagrams, facebook's, tiktoks, we've got them all at compassion kind at compassion kind yeah, across the board, and we'll even have the links in our show notes.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that's great, matt. Well props, and you know we'll take the W anywhere we can get it, and that's a big one yeah that's a big one, so congratulations, thank you. All. Right, when we come back, we're going to hit on how climate change in this sort of new uncharted territory that we're entering into, how it disproportionately affects women, and why this is something that we need to pay attention to together. So we'll see you after the break.
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Speaker 2:So the climate crisis has a collective problem and its impacts do not fall across us equally. Women and girls often bear the heaviest burdens and recently, you know you brought this to my attention, which was you know we're always trying to sort of. You know there's inequities everywhere, but how and why? Why? I think people are all, a lot of times, are trying to figure out how. You know, what is the relationship to me and my life, and when you, when you, when you hit this story, you know it was it was it makes a lot of sense that, uh, actually scratch that.
Speaker 2:What I want to do is kind of want to pass it to you, and this way it is a little bit better. So, hold on, let me do this. I like the setup, maybe you can take. The UN found that inequities worsen. Intimate partner violence spikes, girls are pulled from school, daughters are married early and women and girls first to their homes. Maybe that part of it we can set up. So I'll so when I say that girls often bear the heaviest burdens, and then you can say, yeah, you can just pick up the okay okay yeah, okay, cool and the bat.
Speaker 2:The really horrific part of this is women. And girls often bear the heaviest burdens no, absolutely, I, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I mean from, you know, partner violence, from being married off too soon, from being taken out of their schools. I mean women and girls are really the ones that are facing the most challenges, you know, in this time of a million different climate crises.
Speaker 2:And you know, I mean we're not even talking about. Well, what, first of all, what? What countries are we talking about? And you know, I mean we're not even talking about. Well, first of all, what countries are we talking about? And you know, is it just writ large across the globe?
Speaker 1:I mean, I think it's. You know we're talking about many different countries in different areas of the world, but you know we see this a ton, obviously, in Central East Africa. We're seeing this in a lot of the like, bangladesh, india. A lot of these problems, you know, are exacerbated by the fact that when men feel inadequate or they feel they cannot take care of their family or their pride is at stake, it really really moves the violence upwards, and it's always towards their partners. So you know, we see this in a lot of different situations. I definitely see it throughout the, you know, throughout the work that I'm doing in Malawi, uganda, kenya. Every time there's, you know, a climate crisis or you know this huge event, you have all these triple cascading down. You know effects.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Which always affect women and a lot of these girls that are, you know, in school. They have to go back home because now they have to take care of their siblings, because mom has to get another job or they don't have a roof anymore, so someone has to stay home and watch the, you know, watch the property. So I think it's just so important.
Speaker 2:I mean, we hear the climate crisis conversation constantly but I think it's so important to continuously talk about these different angles and that women and you know, girls, who it actually really affects, Right? Who?
Speaker 1:it's really affecting, because then we can start to see some progress and change. We can put the funding in the right buckets, we can talk to the organizations that are working on the ground doing this kind of work. So, yeah, I just, you know, I really I like to highlight these because, yes, they can seem very doom and gloom, but also we can do something about it. And if we direct our you know, our initiatives towards women and girls, then we know we're taking the right steps to to help fix these climate crises.
Speaker 2:And it's just great, even just knowing about it. I mean it helps.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, it just helps to kind of put the reality of it in front of us in a way that feels like you know. Hopefully it does indeed bring more compassion and kindness into the equation, something that is also fascinating. Another story we were on, which more than 40 of Hong Kong's best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, and the biggest single blow to the city's already shrinking political freedoms following Beijing's sweeping crackdown on dissent. All 45 defendants, including former high-profile lawmakers, activists, unionists and journalists, received prison sentences ranging from 50 months to 10 years in the largest single prosecution to date under a national security law imposed by beijing four years ago. The total prison time handed out by judges amounted to more than 240 years.
Speaker 2:This is, this is jailing people for speaking out against their governments in what was a democracy that is no longer, and you know bringing this up is to. But, say we, it's a cautionary tale. We are on a real, real slippery slope and uh, yeah, I mean you. You know you're. You travel around so much as well. I think the Taiwan-Hong Kong side of things is going to be a political piece that's used, unfortunately, in a game that we just need to pay attention to here, because, you know, cracking down on dissent is going to be exactly what they hope for, what the other side in our country hopes for. This is what Beijing kind of hopes for at a certain degree. But there is A threshold. I do believe there's a threshold where Tiananmen Square, where the optics or the realities push back and it's bigger than just oppression from dictatorial governments and things like that. I don't know what's your thoughts on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, you know, I mean for starters, just you know, I mean I've done a me start over where you know execution and jail time can come to you any day. You know, it's not like here. You know where you go to a protest. You might get arrested, yes, but you're usually released. You know we're not dealing with it on such a grandiose level.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I mean Detaining people for large parts of their life, absolutely I mean, you know, between this story and what's going on in Afghanistan right now with the LGBT community, the arrests and just the sheer bravery of these individuals is what I just continue to gravitate to, because they know what's at stake. There's no, there's no. Oh, maybe, maybe we won't get caught, Maybe we won't go to like you know what you? Oh, maybe, uh, maybe we won't get caught, Maybe we won't go to like you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1:but that's how much it means to them.
Speaker 1:You know I mean, one of the one of the um people that was arrested, you know, as he was getting pulled away, was just saying I love Hong Kong, you know, and he just kept screaming it from the rooftop, you know, and his mom and his family are there. Everyone's in tears and it's just, you know, we've just got so many beautiful, passionate people like literally putting their lives on the line every single day. But it was also a cautionary tale. It also makes me very nervous. I mean, the more you speak out, the easier of a target you become, and that's kind of the direction I feel we're going here.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah, liberal democracies all over the world have been under attack post pandemic, and it's why I think it's more important now than ever. Again, there's a, there's an awakening that's coming. I don't, I get it. A lot of people are, you know, trump wound up not winning by that much. Turns out it was 200 and you know what was it? 273,000 across three States. Um, and the. The popular vote wasn't even. It's like one of the. You know it's down there. It's lower than, uh, most other elections. Republicans who the Republicans won.
Speaker 2:So it's not this mandate that I think, that really everybody thinks it is, and but the. The reality is, if you give zero f's about the law I just said, if you give zero fucks about the law then what does that look like? And, uh, I think you know protest and dissent. That's yeah, that's what we have back in our arsenal now. That's what we're going to have to pull from. So it is something to pay attention to and something to kind of look towards, like those are our brothers across the world, even if we don't, even if you don't feel it in the moment, it really is, if we don't, even if you don't feel it in the moment it really is.
Speaker 2:It's our brothers in fighting for democracy and fighting for yeah, just, you know, people's not. The surveillance state that we whine about, and everything you know is about to come, is about to come into full effect, and we're going to see how far that gets. That's that gets pushed, where protesting, speaking out anything like that, becomes a no-no. Well, I'm glad we're doing it together, so I'm really stoked about that.
Speaker 2:All right, when we come back, compassion Corner and our new segment with our resident Gen Z expert, asher Freidberg, on Make this Shit Make Sense. Asher, we'll see you after the break.
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Speaker 3:You know it's a special project when you hold on to the people you created it with. Careers are born by being in the right place at the right time. Where you can't control the right time, but you can control the right place can control the right place Joining us today on the show in studio the one and only Cammy Dog.
Speaker 2:How are you, cammy? How are you?
Speaker 4:Doing pretty good. Can we get some grunts?
Speaker 2:For those of you that are listening right now, because this is an audio medium Cammy, our breeze, gorgeous six-month old, pity, and what do you call it? It's a pity in what it's like a bulldog.
Speaker 4:Asia's guessing she might have some bully in her. They said she was American Pit Bull Terrier.
Speaker 2:American Pit Bull Terrier.
Speaker 4:She has something else in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, what's cool is we realized Breeze's a American Pit Bull Terrier. American Pit Bull Terrier she has something else in there. Yeah Well, what's cool is we realized Bree's a new parent and it comes with a host of things that they don't teach you in school. So luckily we have the resident teacher supreme here with us, miss Asia Nakia.
Speaker 4:Luckily, my best friend is a vet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so my best friend is a vet and you're yeah luckily your best friend is a is a vet, exactly, so no, but it comes down to, uh, you know, because, like deworming. I didn't know about that, yeah, when I was a new dad on with a dog?
Speaker 1:yeah, tell me, so spit it out well, I mean tell, tell the folks what happened. You came in one day. Let's, let's backtrack. This is how compassion corner came to be, so. So give it to us brie, tell us what happened so asia came into work one day.
Speaker 4:I was already having a little bit of trouble with cammy, but uh, soon as asia walked in, all we we just heard this like and we all look over and Cammie's just releasing Lifted up about a foot and a half off the ground. Releasing is what I'll say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was projectile.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2:Like a rocket liftoff.
Speaker 4:I didn't even know a dog could do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was an impressive shootout, honestly.
Speaker 4:So yeah, Asia, and Cammie is eating the mic now because she doesn't want to hear this story anymore.
Speaker 2:I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 4:But she's good. Now she's fixed because Aunt Asia, from across the room, could smell the poop, Apparently knew exactly what the smell was and, yeah, I'll let you take it from there. Yeah, I mean. So you know that's a gangster pedigree right, there it is.
Speaker 1:I will say that I have a nose for poops and it's a gift. I wouldn't brag about that. No it is braggable. It is braggable I can identify what parasitic infection a dog has by seeing and smelling their poop, which you know when you've rescued over 15,000 animals. I guess it kind of comes with the territory.
Speaker 2:Watch your feet. Names are dropping, stats are dropping.
Speaker 1:But the lesson here is deworming for puppies is so, so, so important. Yes, and so many doggy parents.
Speaker 4:And don't let your dogs drink rain puddles?
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:Lesson two is do not let your dogs drink rainwater, but also so what happened with little Cam Cam here is that she ended up with a Giardia infection, which sounds really horrible, which it can be if it's left untreated. But we were able to get her sorted with some dewormer and some metronidazole and life is good. She's good now. Yeah, she's good to go. But, as a puppy owner, something to keep in mind is, for the first year of your puppy's life, deworming every few months is the best thing you can do for your dog.
Speaker 1:A lot of the problems that they have with their stools and diarrhea, losing weight. You know you're trying to figure out what's going on with them. It's usually a parasitic infection and the great thing about dewormer is that you can find it at Walmart, you can get it on Chewy, you can find it online on Amazon. But yeah, we just wanted to bring it to everyone's attention. You know, if you have a pup or if you have a dog that is around other dogs going to different grasses all the time, deworming your pups every once in a while is a really, really good way to keep their gut healthy and make sure they're not dealing with any kind of parasitic infection. Right, cam? Yeah, that's right. Thank you, anisha. Thanks for being on the show. Yes, cam, yes, we'll have to show a beautiful shot of you, since not everyone will see your beautiful face during this.
Speaker 2:Look at those eyes. All right, and as promised, that's right. We have a new segment called Make this Ish, make Sense, asher. And we're spread around. We're spread around the studio. Here we go from Gen X to Gen Y, millennial to Gen Z to you know, pretty soon we'll have some Gen Alphas around, cammie's Gen Alpha, right. But what astonishes me all the time is there are these important stories that like, oh, I don't know, aliens are now coming out of our oceans and we've sort of kind of confirmed this. And it just gets swept under the rug because, um, I don't know, because there's a kardashian that did something or because there's, uh, some sort of trendy thing that we don't understand. And so asher comes in with these things all the time and we're like I don't get it. And so, ladies and gentlemen, mr asher friedberg, where?
Speaker 1:where is?
Speaker 2:his name Asher. I thought it was Ashton this whole time. Ashton, I know right, exactly, asher.
Speaker 1:Oh, asher, look at him. Okay, were you cleaning the floors again? What's happening? Napping, I told you to use a Swiffer, not your, okay so, asher, so this week, this is amazing.
Speaker 2:You brought this in and we were like, no, we have to talk about this on the show. So please tell us, tell us, why do we give an ish about Jaguar?
Speaker 5:Oh man, so first I guess we should probably show the clip right? Yeah, sure, let's do that, thank you. Yeah, so that was the Jaguar commercial and right now people on the internet are very unhappy. It's pretty much become a Bud Light 2.0 situation, if you guys remember that from like what was that a year or two ago? Kid Rock, yeah, so we're kind of back in that situation. It's an interesting commercial and I will say people are choosing to believe it is the end of that. That's all it is. But from what we're seeing from Jaguar, this is the beginning of some kind of marketing campaign they're working on.
Speaker 2:Well, see, that makes sense to me Because, for those who don't know, explain it to the people. Go ahead.
Speaker 5:So I mean Jaguar, you know, is a very famous car company. They've been making luxury vehicles since what is it God? It'd be 1940s, 50s.
Speaker 2:Long time ago.
Speaker 5:Long time, long time they've been making these cars and they are definitely pivoting right now. They've always been a little bit more sleek. They've always leaned a bit more masculine. I mean, we see Jaguars all around in LA here. I mean, if you guys see those Waymo cars, those are Jaguars.
Speaker 5:I didn't know that. Oh yeah, those are Jaguars. They just mod them up with all sorts of doohickeys and stuff so that they don't hit people. But look, I also think to an extent this commercial was, I think it was trying to get attention. They kind of knew what they were doing. That's what I was going to say, like you don't.
Speaker 2:it's a commercial for a car company that has no car in it and it's all just sort of stylized, and I think the fact that we're even talking about it is it shows that it's successful.
Speaker 1:It was successful and yeah it's. It seems like a yeah for sure, a marketing plug, right tapping into hot topics of conversation, um, buzzwords, things going on in the world. I, I didn't.
Speaker 2:You know, it's a beautiful commercial yeah, it's a lot of style, it's shot well, but why is it so popular?
Speaker 1:why? But also, if you're jaguar and you're putting out messaging like that, then I want to. I want to see what you're about like is that part of your mission.
Speaker 2:Mission statement like are you helping versions of cars? The?
Speaker 1:organization. Yeah, like what? What is the vibe and what is the reasoning behind it? Because otherwise to me you're just exploiting yeah all of these beautiful people for your car that you don't even see in the clip, which you know. There was, like this moment at the end where I feel like a car could have I mean they were sitting on like a stone or something at the end that would have been a great opportunity right car they, they have a plan.
Speaker 5:You you know if it works. You know it remains to be seen, yeah, but they're clearly trying to do something and there's been a lot of comments from various other. You know people on Twitter who are going to, or X, whatever you call it. For example, I mean Elon even responded saying something along the lines of like didn't you guys used to make cars?
Speaker 2:And they responded he's like you'll see what we're making, they have a plan, they're doing something. Okay, now, actually I think you just did it Azure. Now you're making it make sense.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's a plug. It's a forecast of what's to come Exactly.
Speaker 5:They're planning something we don't know what it is yet For all we know, they're going to be starting a new line of different kinds of vehicles, or it could even be style.
Speaker 1:What if it's not a car?
Speaker 5:Yeah for all we know the clothes they're wearing. That could be Jaguar clothes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what if it's?
Speaker 2:not a car. Porsche has a clothing line, right, sure, doesn't Ferrari have something like that?
Speaker 5:They do my younger brothers.
Speaker 1:But why are people okay?
Speaker 5:so I guess because Shout out to Ferrari A little bit of shame.
Speaker 1:But I guess the last question that I have about this is so, since I haven't read through all the comments on the commercial, why are people like? Is it mostly that they're mad that they didn't see a car and it's a car commercial, or is there an undertone of something else going on online that is really pissing people off?
Speaker 5:There's for sure an undertone of other things that are pissing people off there.
Speaker 2:Is it because of the actors that they're using in it?
Speaker 5:I have to assume that that's going to be a huge part of it. I mean, look, they're using a lot of people who I know that a good portion of the country would be seeing as creating some form of statement which, frankly, I don't even know if I could pinpoint what the statement is in this commercial quite yet, because it was pretty vague. I mean, it was pretty much just showing all these different types of beauty.
Speaker 2:From what I understood, so it looked like to me.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean look, I don't want to get too into it, but people are going to find things, complain about with everything and when you have a commercial filled with a bunch of people of different races and probably different sexual orientations or even different gender identities.
Speaker 5:People are going to find a way to complain about it, of course, and you know we don't know where they're going with yet, but all the comments are getting. They're responding in real time saying you're seeing the first um brush stroke in our new step here, pretty much then, then you know, kudos chef's kiss right.
Speaker 2:I feel like. I feel like that's well done when, in the age where you're trying to figure out, like, why is this the number one most trending thing in our? You know in like that we're trying to figure out what is it. I mean it's great. You know, I do like the fact that it doesn't make sense. And then, at the same time, if you just put it out there, they had to have known. They had to be thinking that we're going to put this out and it's going to cause a stir.
Speaker 1:And they probably hired extra people to manage the social media in real time. They know what's up, you know.
Speaker 5:Interesting. I got one more real quick. So, as you guys might know, dave Coulier of Full House was recently diagnosed with stage 3, I want to say it was lymphoma.
Speaker 5:Oh, wow, or at least stage 3 of some form of cancer and you know it's hard on everyone. Look, you know, as someone who has a close family member currently going through chemotherapy, it's a lot for everyone, including your family members and friends, sure. And right now what's going on the Internet's a little. I think they're a little bit peeved with John Stamos, so he's showing his support for Dave by he put on a bald cap.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 5:And I guess he used a little bit of Photoshop to make it look better, and the Internet's a little bit divided on it right now. Some people are saying that look. However, you're showing support for someone you know. If they appreciate it that's all that matters.
Speaker 2:Some people think he's looking for attention. That's that back to your point about people finding something wrong with everything. How can you be supporting your friend and looking for make this make sense, asher. Make this dish make sense, how does it?
Speaker 5:why look? I think again, you're right, people are often looking for something to be upset about. But I'm also going to put my mind in the mindset of people who are upset right now and look part of me is like, if you want to show your support for your friend, you know there's a lot of ways to do it right now. If your way of showing support is to be like, hey, I'm going to look like you, then I think maybe you should commit and actually shave your head. But also I have family members with cancer who would be pissed at me if I shaved my head in solidarity with them. So it's all a personal thing up to everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:But I think a lot of people are like there's a picture.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's him. That picture looks adorable yeah they're friends.
Speaker 6:How cool is that You're doing that for your friend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I think, like you know, it also comes down to like that's, that's their friendship. We don't know how deep that goes. We don't know what inside, joe, you know there could be so much involved in that. You know, we don't. We don't understand and know everything about their relationship and what you know, what they were talking idea.
Speaker 5:That's what I'm saying it could be.
Speaker 1:Dave's idea. It could have been, for, you know, some reason that we don't know. I mean, cancer is not fun on any occasion. So however he wants to support, I can see the other side. Maybe people feel like he should have gone all the way in solidarity, shaved the whole head.
Speaker 2:It just feels like the Internet needed something to be pissed off at him about or something. And yeah, that's true, that's true. Producer just said john stamos is known for his hair. Yeah, yeah, that's very true that's very true.
Speaker 1:Literally, my father was obsessed with john stamos, not only because he was greek was his hair, or just john stamos and my father rocked that hair for years. I mean they looked Well and maybe it won't grow back the same in all. You know transparency at his age.
Speaker 5:Well, I mean, if he were to shave his head, we don't know what would happen to his hair, considering you know, like you know, probably know he's done everything to keep that hair perfect for the past decade and it's working.
Speaker 2:He's doing a and he definitely keeps getting work, so shout out to John. Statham, we're on your side, bro, and thank you, Asher, for trying to make this ish make sense. That'll do it for another episode of Slap the Power. Before we head out, make sure to please like, comment, share, subscribe. We make this show for you, guys, and all it takes is add a subscription here, share it with a friend, things like that, and it could really go a long way.
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