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Conspiracy Theories, Red Flag Hobbies & Fashion Hot Takes
This week’s entry is a little unwell in the best way. We spiral into conspiracy theories (because LA fires and Mountain Dew are way too sketchy to ignore), rank guys’ hobbies like it’s a sport, and let Rachel—our in-house stylist—decide which fashion brands deserve the hype and which ones should sit down. Obviously, we couldn’t end without diving into your Dearest submissions that had us laughing, questioning humanity, and low-key freaking out. It feels like a late-night spiral with your best friends—unfiltered laughs, questionable red flags, and the kind of chaos you secretly love.
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Hey guys, what's up? We're back with another entry of the dry diaries. It's your author, alex Dry, and your second favorite person, rachel Olson. I'm just wondering are you guys sick of us yet? Come on, you can be honest. Post your reaction below.
Speaker 1:Honestly, today I'm sick of myself, so it's okay. Yeah, I don't know why I feel like this week, even though it's only Tuesday I was literally gonna say Wednesday, but I feel like this week feels like it's been forever and it's only Tuesday, feels like it should be Friday. I don't know what's happening, but the days are going by really fast but really slow. Yeah, yeah, are we okay? Knock knock. Is anyone there? Is anyone there? Literally, no one's here Today. Rachel doesn't even know what I have in store for this episode. I did something different, because maybe you guys are just sick of hearing us rant on about our lives and what we do, so it's time to get a little deeper. Oh, we're getting deep today, not too deep. I don't think I'm ready to start talking about my feelings. I don't even talk about my feelings. So for you to get me to talk about my feelings on the podcast, you're going to have to get me wasted. That's when only the emotions come out, couple crash-outs. So today we have to talk about the men and then we're going to talk about different brands for fall and then spiral into some conspiracies. Oh, she was ready for that. Yeah, which is my favorite, she was ready. I feel you've been very warmed up to this in the last couple of weeks and you've just been dying to talk about it, and now's your time to stop singing and get to the conspiracies. Yeah, literally. Stop singing and get to the conspiracies. Yeah, literally. Okay, we're going to rank hobbies that are least attractive on men and most attractive on men, the least attractive hobby that a man could have. This isn't like on a rank system, so I'm just going to throw it out there and then we can start rolling it off. Of that, I think the least attractive is golfing. What? Watching a man golf? I just want to say that's one of the most attractive and this is how I know she's from Canada. This is what I'm picturing and I don't know if this has. If you're picturing this, I know what you're picturing. You're picturing the pole. Don't know if this has. If you're picturing this, I know what you're picturing the khakis, the high socks and the shoes. Okay, I'm gonna take the fashion, like the fashion parts of it, out of it, okay, okay, yeah, I said golf, let's get this going. What are you gonna say next?
Speaker 1:One of the least attractive for me personally is gaming. Yeah, I feel like if you're a gamer, there are so many other things that you could be doing, especially at our age. You're just putting a headpiece on and yelling at your screen, when you can be yelling at me just kidding, where you could be just doing so many better things, like go outside and look at the palm trees. Yeah, it doesn't bother me if a guy does gaming here and there, but when it's something that they're doing every single day unless you're racking in millions gaming props to you. But if not and it's just a hobby and you do it for hours a day, I'm sorry. Go see sunshine, yeah, go touch the ground, go ground yourself in the dirt, in the sand, in the beach. Just do something else besides gaming. Yeah, I feel that so least.
Speaker 1:Another least favorite hobby I would say is bowling. Bowling it's an unattractive thing that guys could be doing. Who goes bowl? I don't know. It's a sport, people bowl. People are a part of memberships. Lucky strike, they go bowling. I can't name someone, but do bowl it could be someone's hobby. They pop on their short-sleeved button-up, they put their bowling shoes on with their big ball and they go and play on a Thursday night. I'm just picturing putting your fingers through those holes and how many fingers have been in those balls at some point in time? And that just is going to be the worst. Cut and edit what I just said ever, yeah, fingers and hole. No, how many fingers have been in those balls? And fingers and holes, yeah, okay, anyways.
Speaker 1:Number one comic books yeah, absolutely not. Yeah, absolutely not. Cosplay, oh hell, oh, not the cosplay. I do not need you dressing up as a bear, like a furry, or, oh my gosh, furry, furry. There was a comic-con, yeah, a comic-con in Toronto and I wasn't aware and I was walking home one day from work and everyone was dressed up as stuffed animals and I thought I was literally tripping out.
Speaker 1:I was like identify as stuff? Yeah, yeah, they call themselves furries and then they identify as that. That's like the person that identifies as the cat, but that's like a whole different thing, because this person's like fully dressing up as a cat. That's so scary. So do furries marry other furries? 100%, imagine what they get into with their costumes. Honestly, that's so scary. So do furries marry other furries 100? Imagine what they get into with their costumes. Honestly, that's some crazy role play right there. Way more action than we do.
Speaker 1:Okay, anime, oh nothing anime. There's even a section on netflix, no, where there's anime, and I just could never get into that. Yeah, I'm not an anime girl. The most anime I've gotten is, fairly, oddparents or Sailor Moon. Not even Gambling doesn't bother me. I mean, if he's winning money, babe, you go gamble. Yeah, as long as you don't have some crazy addiction, then it's fine. Yeah, no, I don't think that's bad at all. Yeah, magic tricks, I mean, unless you're actually disappearing me and putting me in a coffin and sending me to China. I don't want to see your magic tricks.
Speaker 1:We'll probably get this podcast taken down after saying that what's new? Because guess what, guys, somehow, one way or another for today, I got banned off of Hinge. Banned off of Hinge, and I'm not kidding you, in my whole entire life I've maybe been on Hinge 10 times your whole entire life, honestly, yeah, I'm not kidding. Never had a full conversation with any of them. Yeah, that's usually how it goes. You want to say go on there, you exchange like three or four words and then you just get bored. Well, at least I do. If no one's making the first move and saying anything. I just could care less to continue on and ask you about your day when I haven't even met you, yeah. So I'm wondering why the heck did I get banned?
Speaker 1:It said my account was deleted permanently Permanently. Did someone go on my account? Did someone report me? I don't know, unless someone else was pretending to be you, and then they reported you because there was two of you. That's already happened on Bumble before, but I don't know how they would be able to track that. We're going to get you back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hinge, I don't know why you would ban me, but if someone hacked my Hinge, let me know, because I actually am a decent human being, not out here sending photos or doing anything crazy. Alex is actually the one. Oh wait, I know why you got banned, why You're sending the voice notes to them. Hell, no, hi, baby girl, I barely talk in person, much less send voice notes. Yeah, no, that's honestly. If that was a hobby, that would be on my list. The voice notes, oh, voice notes. No, the voice notes. Gotta go, gotta go. Yeah, voice notes, gotta go, gotta go. Yeah, I just, I'm still baffled by it, but I'm like is this a sign I'm really just supposed to be single? It's a sign that you're meant to be alone? I'm kidding, let's both knock on wood. Yeah, we manifested last episode, so we're just waiting. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1:What are some of the most attractive hobbies? The most attractive hobby I'm gonna go first. Okay, you're gonna laugh at me because it's gonna be very canadian of me to say, but I think the most attractive hobby is hockey. Hockey, yeah, hockey, football. So if they just do it as a hobby and they're not a professional, you still find that attractive. Yeah, okay, fair, I think any sport honestly, as a hobby, is attractive because it shows that they have some sort of athleticism, work, ethic, a hundred percent and dedication, discipline, dedication, yeah. So, and it kind of makes them like a team player as well, not not in that kind of way, but like they have to work with their team, like, yeah, you know, yeah, it makes them a player and they're gonna cheat on you.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding, I'm really into the health and wellness. So anybody that, yeah, their hobbies are Anything health and wellness and Fred, sauna, cold plunges, yeah, hiking, yeah, hiking. Or even surfing, oh, surfing, oh, we live in California. How do we forget that one? Yeah, surfing is like top tier. There's no better thing.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I realized this one day. I was working in Malibu and I was driving up the shoreline on the PCH and I look, and there was just a million surfers surfing. I and I was driving up the shoreline on the PCH and I look, and there was just a million surfers surfing. I was like this is California, we are really close to the ocean, but we don't see it as much as we should. Even when I quote punch that day after I did the boxing class, it was literally the best thing ever. Yeah, we need to do that more often. Yeah, I usually, and Fred a couple times a week.
Speaker 1:I was kind of getting into surfing, but now the water is supposedly not great in California. Yeah, I mean, it's not stopping any of the other people out there, I know, but knowing my luck, I'd be the 1% that tries to do it and I'd catch some crazy bacteria. Yeah, but I think it's more common for you to get the flesh-eating disease than to actually get something in this water, or it would be like known that people were getting sick from it. It is, people are actually getting sick. Yeah, they put out a warning. Oh, there is a warning out now. Oh, I didn't know that. So if you're in California and you're going in the water, I'm pretty sure that there's a warning for some parts. So I was in the water and now you're telling me there's a warning now In Laguna. It's fine, yeah, laguna or Newport, you're in the water.
Speaker 1:More great hobbies Okay, if you coach kids, that's a really attractive hobby. But what would you? And a sport? Not everyone can do that. I know, I'm saying the men who can, but not everyone's able to do that. Though, to make it a hobby for them, okay, but the ones that are, it's attractive, but is it for things that anyone could do? Anyone could coach a kid. Yeah, if you have some sort of skill, you could coach a kid. Are we okay today? I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Okay, what about photography? Oh, so hot? Yeah, because he can take photos of you. No, not even the photos of me. I think there's nothing hotter when a guy has like an eye, an eye for the vision, an eye for the vision, whether they're taking a photo of you or they're just like wait one second, I want to take a photo of this and it's just such a cool photo. I think that is the most attractive thing. I take my thing back about hockey, I think, the whole arts world photography, art direction, being able to fashion, design, putting that all together. But I'm also a stylist stylist, so it's a little bit different. Yeah, I think that is like the most attractive trait a man can have. Yeah, just having that eye. I agree, if you can take an aesthetic photo and it's just candid on a whim, so attractive, the way that you dress, so attractive.
Speaker 1:Also, a guy that's into vintage cars. I was going to say that, oh, my God, that's so crazy. I was literally going to say that Someone who knows. Yes, that's so funny that you said that. Sorry, I just freaked the fuck out. Not like overly obsessed with it, where you can't touch it, you can't get in it, just someone that has like like appreciation for older cars and they're like oh, what about showing you like photos of older cars or like talking about different? Honestly, a guy that has tattoos, dresses a little bit retro, not too retro, kind of Western retro vibes, but still like Like a Venice touch to it. I don't know if it's like a Venice touch or, yeah, I guess Like a backwards trucker hat Not backwards, really. You're thinking disco lines. I mean, how do I know exactly what you're thinking? Okay, I'm crying.
Speaker 1:Thinking someone completely different, thinking of just an overall type. They don't have a mullet, but they kind of have a little bit shaggier hair tattoos. Tan has a vintage car vibe, but also has a retro style vibe to them. Okay, 10 out of 10, yeah, 100, but I feel that's just top. That's like what a lot of women would think we're good looking. Yeah. So, girls, girls, you understand, you understand my type. Honestly, my type's a little sporadic, but that is number one type. So if you're out there, let me know. Literally, no, but yeah, vintage cars I also. Okay.
Speaker 1:I have a question what do you think about a guy being a foodie? I don't mind it if they like good restaurants, yeah, but when someone is overly obsessed with it? Honestly, when it comes to food, I'm the most basic eater. I'm really not that picky, but I love just basic foods. Yeah, but I also appreciate good food. Yeah, but it's not like yeah, you're not. My appreciation is like I love ketchup de pepe, I love a good steak. I love chicken tenders. Yeah, I'm a child. It ranges from literally same.
Speaker 1:But I'm not out here trying to go get a full five course meal every single dinner. I sit there and eat caviar for hours at a time. I can't even eat caviar because I'm allergic to fish, but I guess that's why we don't order sushi. Yeah, I guess that's why I'm not like a huge foodie, because I'm allergic to fish and peanuts. But you can still eat all the good things as well. Yeah, okay, what do you think about foodie? I 100% agree If you're going to take me to like a really cool restaurant and it's going to be a vibe, not just the food, the entire experience. I'm so into that. But if it comes down to the point where I'm eating and you're asking me what I rate the meal or you're whispering my ear do you taste the salt? Do you taste that garlic salt? Babe, I absolutely want nothing to do with you. Yeah, I want someone who knows the good restaurants, yes, and takes initiative and will be like.
Speaker 1:I know this sick spot in Silver Lake, a little far from where we live. They have really good spots over there. Yeah, the hideaway. I think it's called the hideaway. There's also this place called Marco Polo, that I went to, this Italian spot because my girlfriend used to live over there. It was really tasty. I don't know, they just had random spots that we're not familiar with. We can go anywhere. Take me to Topanga Canyon. Oh, there's a good restaurant there, yeah, but yeah, like, just don't be whispering in my ear asking me how the steak was or whatever it is. Oh God, don't judge me when I answer how I like my meat either. Oh, you like it, well done, don't you? No, oh, okay, good, I like it. Medium, medium, well, medium, rare, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Speaking of places, so it's almost, the month is almost almost over and we have yet to find a place. So I'm over here stressing Rachel's in La La Land could care less. Every day she's like oh, I'm gonna help you find a place. That's the difference between me and you. Yeah, you were the organized one. You keep me on my toes and I just make you enjoy the ride. Yeah, we're going to find a place and it's going to be better than the place that we think we're going to get. I know Rachel's teaching me just to like let go and let it be, but the only thing is it's like every time this kind of situation happens, my own mother is whispering in my ear, being like are you really doing this again, rachel? You have two more weeks, you have one more week, you have three days. And I always end up figuring it out. And it always ends up happening.
Speaker 1:Even when I moved here, when I got my visa, I had no. I literally told my parents okay, I'm going to get my visa on the 15th and we're going to move in the 17th. It was literally the 7th. I didn't even have my visa yet. My mom was like you have to move out, what are you doing? I'm like I'm getting my visa and she goes. You haven't heard back from them and I hadn't heard nothing. We wait, we wait. My mom's like I have to book this flight, we're literally leaving in three days. I get a call, I get a story, I get an email three days before.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, I don't know why it was such an issue, but a lot of people just can't handle the stress and for some reason, I thrive off of it. I love stress, but at the same time, I'm also a planner, because I feel like a lot of the things that I do need the things need to be planned out or it just won't happen. Yeah, that's fair. So. But at the same time, there are things where I'm like, okay, if we haven't found a place yet and we've been proactive about it, then it just hasn't meant, it's not meant to be yet. Yeah, we're going to find one. Like, whatever is supposed to come is going to come at the right time, it's going to be the perfect place, exactly. Just trying to chill oh, she's trying to tell herself affirmations, we're going to find a place. It's gonna look beautiful. Literally three stage, one, two, three step, a mix of the dance routine and a stage routine all at once a little shimmy, a little shake and a little sage. I kind of like that. Yeah, yeah, just do it. Just made it up on the spot, but it's probably what I do. Yeah, no, honestly, okay.
Speaker 1:So now moving on, we're going to rank guys' clothing brands one to five, okay, okay, start with Nike. Like Nike's fine, but it's probably my least favorite. Yeah, like Nike's fine, but it's probably my least favorite. Yeah, it's giving two. I don't know. I mean, there's obviously worse than Nike. You could be wearing Walmart, but Right, yeah, 2.5. Okay, 2.7. 2.7. Okay. Adidas Okay, here's the thing about Adidas I love the Sambas.
Speaker 1:I fully support men wearing Sambas, I love all of that involved, but the clothing of Adidas there's so many other options yeah, but what would you pick first, nike or Adidas? What is it? Checks or stripes? I would pick Adidas over Nike. Yeah, it's more practical. Okay, lululemon, are these the order? Because they're kind of like all making sense. Like Nike, the word is Adidas and I would say Lululemon after Adidas. No, I just Okay. Yeah, I would say Lululemon after Adidas. Okay, yeah, you, so you would give it like a four. I like Viore for guys Viore's good.
Speaker 1:Abercrombie. Ooh, abercrombie's been killing it lately. Not like the hoodies that actually say Abercrombie on it, but like the basics that Abercrombie, I'm not mad about it. Okay, I haven't seen guys Abercrombie Lately, lately. Okay, so the hoodie that I'm wearing, like this kind of vibe, they have it in every color. Okay, like the crop t-shirts, the basics that all the guys wear, they have it in every color. They have the cutoff. Oh, actually, yes, they have the camo pants. They have really good jeans. Yeah, I was styling Austin for EDC, I think, and I got him Abercrombie stuff. Yeah, yeah, the guy's wearing a zip-up like that. Yeah, black brown, yeah, just, it's good basics. Yeah, good basics, it's good basics. I'm just picturing the zip-ups with the mousse. Yes, yes, yes, yes, oh my god, the zip ups is the moose, or literally my favorite abercrombie. And then it said fitch on the bottom.
Speaker 1:I remember where I was from there wasn't an abercrombie because it's american, so we'd have to drive to the states to go to abercrombie and hollister. When we would go school shopping, my mom would take me and my girlfriends, or me and my girlfriends, would go. I guess I wasn't old enough to like fully go with my girlfriends during the time of us like seven and eight, so my mom would always take us and that would be like the big weekend. We'd go to Minneapolis, we'd go to Mall of America, we'd go to Hollister and Abercrombie and I would literally rinse my mom's bank account. Oh, my gosh, that was totally me, with limited to, oh, yeah, oh, limited to as well, like literally all the brands that you guys had growing up we had to go to the states for. Yeah, I remember my mom let me model for limited to when I was in third or fourth grade. Yeah, and it was the highlight of my whole elementary experience. I feel like that's like low-key, kind of like a flex. Yeah, I put that on your resume. That's amazing, so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the little denim skirts did you ever do the polos with the tank top underneath but you had to let the tank top show? Or the t-shirts with the shirts that the lace shirts underneath? Yeah, then it would be like a layer of it right. Or with the sweaters with the layer underneath. Or my favorite, you don't know what my favorite was when you'd wear the t-shirt with the tank top over it. It was giving oc so hard. I don't think I ever like it was like t-shirt and you'd wear like a tank top over it and a little mini denim.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, all I know is in middle school we used to wear two t-shirts and you would roll it up so you could see the t-shirt underneath. And I look back now and I'm like what the heck was I thinking, okay, if there was one thing you could take back of what you wore when you were younger that you're like why did I ever wear that? What would it be? Probably the double t-shirt? Yeah, I don't, and it had to be a pocket shirt, the one that was in the front. Really, I don't think we specifically have the two t-shirt, it was more of the tank top with the t-shirt.
Speaker 1:The leggings with the lace with the skirt oh my god, that was so, you know, like the leggings with the lace at the bottom and then the little skirt, but iconic at the same time. But the leggings, I forgot about that. The denim skirt or any type of skirt with the leggings under it. Also, don't judge me because I was a dancer and so just whatever, just roll with me here, roll with me. I would fully wear von dutch. Yeah, oh, von dutch, a hundred percent.
Speaker 1:Ed Ed Hardy. I don't wear Ed Hardy as much, but I wore what about the true religion jeans? Oh, true religion, religion, miss me. Dazzled all over the yes, yeah, I had those, I also. Okay, this is crazy, and I still have them. Because I literally yelled at my mom and told her she couldn't throw it out, even though my mom throws out everything. She even threw out her wedding dress. She literally throws out everything. My mom is like you haven't worn this in a week. We're throwing it out, like she hates clutter.
Speaker 1:But when I was in grade seven, my cousins played hockey. So I would like go to their hockey games and like, look so cute, I would wear. Literally this is what I would wear. I would wear the Miss Me jeans yeah, like some type of low rise crazy jeans. I would wear a little fur jacket and I had these white fur fluffy boots oh my God, they are literally so iconic. I literally still have them at my parents place and I would wear the conductor hat. Oh, I don't know who I thought I was and I had this gold purse and I would walk around, but I was just there cheering on my cousin Thinking you look so hot, and not these guys that are so much older than you are going to hit on a fourth grader.
Speaker 1:Me and my best friend Lucy, we were going into our freshman year of high school. Yeah, did you have uniforms in high school? We had to wear polos. Oh, really, did you have to wear black or was it anything? No, we could wear any color, but it had to be a collared shirt. So I went into like full Serena Ralph Lauren mode. Oh, yeah, you did. But my freshman year, going into it, you turned into Jenny Full goss. No, me and my best friend Lucy were going to the Rascal Flatts concert and we both had to get the Miss Me cow print pink jeans on the back with our matching Abercrombie pink polos, with the tanks underneath. Wait, did you get the cow print? Because it's country? Yeah, I'm crying. And then we both wore everyone's going to give me shit Sperry's, matching Sperry's. You wore Sperry's with jeans. Yes, cow print jeans With Miss Me jeans. Then we had our hair bored straight. Oh, my God, bings to the side.
Speaker 1:Do you remember literally when you used to straighten your hair with an iron? You straightened your hair with a real iron. Back in the day, on a swim competition, they put my head on this ironing board and they laid it out and they straightened it when I was literally in grade like three or four. I don't think that's normal. It's probably why I don't have hair. No, I've never done that before, but I've definitely used back then I think it was just the old cheese straightener. Oh, I've had a cheese straightener. Yeah, wait, that's hilarious. So they were just bullying me, I guess. So Trying to make me bald this girl can't swim and she's bald. Or trying to make me bald this girl can't swim and she's bald. Or they're like she's such a good swimmer, we can make her go faster if we get rid of her hair and then she's gonna be aerodynamic. No, I've never ironed my hair with a clothing. Iron, okay, okay, okay, one to five.
Speaker 1:Carhartt, oof, I don't mind car, but it depends how you style it. Cargo pants, yes. Some of the jackets, okay, cherry. Honestly, it depends also on the guy and how they're wearing it. And how they're wearing it, yeah, I agree. Elwood, ooh.
Speaker 1:I have a question what would you pick, elwood or Cherry? If you had to pick one. They're so different you have to pick one. It's still a lifestyle brand. I would pick Elwood's Basics. Cherry's Balmers or Jackets for guys, I think I would just fully pick Cherry. I don't know, because Elwood does have the best sweatsuits. Their sweatsuits are awesome and so are their basics, yeah, okay, last one for your God. No, I'm over it. I'm over it too. I used to love it. Now I'm over it. Yeah, that also just doesn't even really appeal to me anymore. I'm more about like the basic looks Same Fresh t-shirt, cool pair of pants, jeans, the Carhartts Also, guys that live in the Venice area, if you guys haven't been Duke's, yeah, duke's, was that the motorcycle place?
Speaker 1:The motorcycle place? Yeah, they have the coolest clothes for guys. They have amazing jackets, jerseys, t-shirts. I'm surprised that's not more popular. I think it's just popular within a small little niche, but it's like they have really cool stuff in there. So we're going to do a few girls' brands before we get into the conspiracies.
Speaker 1:Reformation I don't hate it. I like it for basics and stuff. I just feel like it's super overpriced for what you're buying. House of CB, house of CB for dresses for weddings or just clothing in general. Clothing in general. The dresses are great. I didn't even know they did clothing. I don't think it's necessarily worth the price, but they have some good pieces. Yeah, I'd say like a low three Aritzia Overpriced for what you're getting. Every time I get something from there it discolors or there's something that goes wrong with it. But I am an Aritzia sucker, like I do own a lot of Aritzia. But again, basic aloe it's fine, but not to wear every day. I love aloe, I mean for workout, it's for working out.
Speaker 1:Any others you want to add jaded London, jaded London, img, outkast. I don't like IMG Really. I like IMG. It's super cheaply made but I do love it. Yeah, I love Girlfriend Jeans. Yeah, girlfriend Jeans, that's one of my favorite. And then also Revice is good too. Revice is good If you're looking just for something decently priced and pretty good quality. Superdown isn't bad. Yeah, superdown's good If you like. Obviously, all the brands on Revolve are pretty up there, but I feel like Revolve is just the easiest. It's a click of a button and you find what you need. Yeah, but it definitely has all the good spots on there.
Speaker 1:There is nothing more I'm excited for, though To wear Cardigans and hoodies and jackets, that but knee-high boots and skirts. Yeah, once I know I feel like right now, it's like way too hot to even be thinking about any of that. Yeah, but I am excited to put on a nice. I'm all about matching sets. Love, that's my go-to. Yeah, it's also, you look the best and it's the easiest to wear. I know that's what people are like. Oh, it's for lazy people, but honestly, it looks good and you can also mix and match if you wanted to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I have Rachel, my building stylist. Yeah, I come with a lot of things. I come with trauma, I come with peace and I come as a built-in stylist. Hey, we both. I don't even know. This retrograde is really getting to us All right, so we're going to get into conspiracies. This is my favorite and Rachel's privy to some of them, not all of them, so I'm going to get your take first and then we can go into it.
Speaker 1:So, to start, what is your take on the LA fires? It was 100 percent planned. I think by now it's proven that it's been planned. There's been so many signs and there's been so many people coming out now and showing that what had happened could have been stopped, but it was never stopped. So of course, there's going to be a second story to it, and a lot of people even how it was stated before, like how the insurance is all stopped they're still looking for some people that are missing. They're also still missing people that apparently died during the fires and no one's talked about any of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the fact that all these people have their properties but none of them could build on it and they're paying all this money even though they don't have a house there anymore is absolutely ridiculous and insane. I talked about it I think it was one of my very first podcasts. I did, and this was right when the LA fires started happening. But props to Spencer Pratt, because I feel like he's continued to have a voice in this and he's actually really making a difference.
Speaker 1:But 100%, I think the fires were planned, just like the fire, and why? Right, and there is so many things that could have been prepped and there was no resources available whenever the fires happened. It's kind of crazy how the biggest things that needed to be done never got done, and how they think that they can just brush that under the table and no one would ever think anything into it or think anything other than that, oh, this happened and that they couldn't save it. Yeah, and the craziest thing is, recently they announced that it's basically a get out of free jail card to the politicians. They claimed there was hurricane force winds, which was false. The Palestinians never had those.
Speaker 1:But, to be honest, that day, though, the winds that night were crazy. I was literally living in Santa Monica in an ocean park and I was filling up my car because we had to evacuate, and the winds weren't like normal winds that they have in LA. Right, they were higher than usual, but also, there is such thing as a weather forecast. Yeah, I know, 100%, karen Bass literally left town when this was going on. I'm not backing it, I'm just saying the winds were crazy that day, yeah, but there's also a weather forecast so she obviously could see the forecast of what the weather was supposed to be like. She decided to leave town and then a week before that, she called a meeting and actually defunded part of the fire department and that was in the midst of them just having another fire.
Speaker 1:They had a fire the week before it started. Yeah, there was the Malibu fire. There was a Malibu fire, there was a Malibu fire. That happened, and then it literally just kind of fizzled out and stopped. Maybe a week or two later that whole fire went down Right. So, yes, there are strong winds. Was it hurricane force winds? No, it wasn't hurricane winds, but it was just a lot more crazier than what LA is used to.
Speaker 1:And then they said supercharged climate, which was false. The weather wasn't that extreme. It wasn't so detrimentally hot for it to start crazy brush fires. No, it honestly wasn't even that hot that day either. I remember I went to Manhattan Beach to walk and I was wearing a hoodie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they also claimed it was impossible to fully prepare for the fires, which, again false. They didn't pre-position resources, even though there had been a fire in that area just a week before. Actually, the fire hydrants were empty surrounding the area. The firefighters were even saying they were trying to do work on one house. They couldn't even. They ran out of water.
Speaker 1:I have a friend who you also know, but basically his family was stuck up on the hill and the firefighters and people weren't letting him go up to get his mom and it was this whole chaotic thing where he had to leave his car and he was literally throwing people in his car and driving them up and down the hill so he can get them out of this chaos, because the fires weren't stopping and they were just creating bigger and bigger amounts of smoke. Yeah, and it's so crazy. So a lot of the people that live in the Palisades it's more so for those who aren't familiar. It's a community where it's a place that a lot of families and people have kind of grown up in or had a house there families or raised their kids there, and so, with that being said, there's a lot of elderly couples or people that were living in their house and most of them have had their insurance policies for the last 40 to 50 years and I think it was around 40 or 50 percent of them were dropped not even a week before the fire started. So you're, you can't tell me that there's not a purpose and a reason behind that. Oh, 100, but then you got to think of it too.
Speaker 1:The Altadena fire as well. Well, that's a whole other subject. So then, okay, so there's a Palisades fire during this time, which obviously did the most destruction, but then they had a fire that was happening in Hollywood. Then they had a fire that was happening in Studio City and they said it was all brush fires and it started because of brush. But the distance of it all was so crazy. And also it's actually been stated and a fact that there was people, yeah, that had the one in. We in Runyon there's someone fully started that fire. There's literally videos of the guy starting it on fire at the one time, at the one point of the night.
Speaker 1:That everything, when the palisades was on fire, we didn't know what to do because we couldn't evacuate, we had nowhere to go, so we were just sitting in our house waiting and watching the news. All you can see is like the orange dot. It was beside my place. It was crazy. So we went all the way to Newport. Luckily that we had some friends that had a place there. So we stayed with them. But even then it was like so crazy like you couldn't breathe in the air here. It was not a place where anyone would ever want to be. But it's just really sad. Yeah, it's really crazy.
Speaker 1:So my whole conspiracy around the fires, the LA fires, is that they are trying to build the smart city. So the smart city is basically similar to what Japan and China have at this point. But there's a plan that had already been proposed and approved by I believe it was Karen Bass, and it's basically to build something like the smart city. So now they're trying to obviously go back and say that the fires weren't planned, the resources it was impossible to plan out, blah, blah, blah and ready for there to be a fire or for them to stop the fires from happening. Yeah, and it's so messed up because obviously these people who have lost their homes they're still paying mortgages on their homes, yeah, and they can't even afford to build on top of where they were living, even though they own that property. Yeah, and they've all been completely displaced. So, honestly, shout out to Spencer and Heidi for not stepping down and really being a public voice and speaking out, and whoever was affected by the fires. I'm so sorry, yeah, honestly, all the families that lost their homes, their family members, everybody else.
Speaker 1:But did you also see the Palisades? Basically is saying, oh, you could keep your land, but you have to pay a certain amount of money to build your house there, and all the people that live in the Palisades can't afford to pay for the land, to pay for the rebuild. So a lot of people are thinking of not even building over there anymore because they physically can't afford it. Can't afford it. Well, also, I believe some investor came in and bought out a lot of the property that was in Malibu and the Palisades. So, yeah, wait, I'll just leave that there. Do you think that's because of the smart city that they're like taking over? Because of that? Yeah, yeah, they're definitely going to try to build a smart city and if you look at the plans that were already in place, where they wanted to run it through was very much in that area. Okay, so that's my one thing.
Speaker 1:There is also another conspiracy about that. It was a whole ditty situation that they wanted the fires to burn to get rid of the evidence and DNA and all of that stuff. Honestly, I used to. Maybe it could be a thing, because it did. Ironically happened at the time that he was going through all of that and getting arrested and stuff, and it burned down half of the Griffith Observatory.
Speaker 1:Conspiracy rumor around that that one of the underground tunnels leading to a lot of celebrities' houses, that was the main base for it, because it's literally in the hills, because it's in the hills and it goes, yeah, to Calabasas and stuff, right. So a lot of people thought that they were trying to destroy evidence because part of it burned down and it was the main entrance into the tunnels. I don't know if all that's true. I know that the smart city, there's some sort of plan behind these fires and so that's. That was my main conspiracy and, honestly, everything I said whenever the fires first started has basically came true. So call me a conspiracy theorist, but call me a witch, call me whatever you want. I call it facts. No, that's crazy. Okay, it's definitely a crazy, crazy experience to be a part of. So have you heard the Mountain Dew conspiracy? No, I haven't. Okay, so there's a whole conspiracy around. So the Mountain Dew conspiracy is that the marketing side of things.
Speaker 1:They drop or release a new flavor right before a world event happens and it correlates with what they name their flavors. Okay, hit me with an example. Yeah, I'm about to. So Code Red is one of their flavors, flavors that came out right before 9-11 happened. They had a star-spangled banner splash which do you know who wrote this? Well, I was gonna say, do you know who wrote the star-spangled banner? But I don't even know what the fuck the star. Yeah, I'm like you're a canadian. Okay, it was a guy named francis scott key, which there is a big bridge that collapsed and the bridge was called francis scott key, and so that bridge collapsed right after they announced this flavor. So like the simpsons, basically. So there was another flavor they called Pitch Black, which there is, coincidentally, a huge major IT blackout on July 19th 2024. There was Baja Blast, which a lot of people thought was in correlation with the Hawaii fires. Tropical Swirl was right before a huge hurricane cycle. Tropical swirl was right before a huge hurricane cycle, and the crazy thing about it is this release of all these flavors is literally within months of these events happening.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to ask what the timeline is, within weeks to months of it happening right before. And what's their next flavor? Should we get prepared Right? Oh, the next one I think I heard or saw was something with mangoes. I'm like what does that mean? We're gonna I don't know mangoes baby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, also, I have never had mountain dew, but if you guys do drink mountain dew I'm gonna ask is it a popular drink in america? Because I've had mountain dew like a handful of times my whole entire life. I guess it is, but it was recently banned in the state of Texas. So if you guys live in Texas, it has been banned and they said that either Mountain Dew needed to change the ingredients or, if they are going to put it inside of the ingredients Exactly, if they're going to keep it on the shelves, that they had to put a warning label that the ingredients inside were unfit for humans. So if that tells you anything that the ingredients inside Mountain Dew Unfit for humans, like is there? Like what would be in there? I mean, obviously there's red dye and a bunch of other things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the food coloring dye, that's what I was picturing and like how sugary and how terrible it is for your health. There has to be something worse, like probably gasoline or something crazy, a hundred percent. But all of that is completely banned in the state of Europe, of course. Yeah, well, europe knows what's up. Yeah, you can go to Europe and eat pizza and pasta for literally five weeks and you can be skinnier leaving. Yeah, you still lose weight. Yeah, I know, honestly, you eat a piece of pizza here and I'm bloated for 10 days, I know. But now I'm thinking about that white pizza we got from that place. What was that place called? It was so good. Oh, pizzana. Oh, my god, the caccia di pepe pizza. Yeah, that was insane, but my stomach is still swollen thinking about it. I woke up and my eyes were swollen, literally.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we have two dry diaries questions and then we're going to close it out. Let's hear it. I'm ready. I hope these are some questions that we are going to get really into. One of them I'm really excited about. So we did mention for October, we're going to do more of a spooky vibe. We want to hear all of your crazy experiences, and so if you have any, please submit them. Doesn't matter how crazy they are. To start Dear Joy Diaries.
Speaker 1:I was babysitting my little cousin and while scrolling through YouTube on my family iPad, a secret OnlyFans tab popped up, and it was my aunt. Damn nearly dropped the ipad. Do I tell someone in the family? Or pretend I never saw it? Pretend you never saw, yeah, pretend you never saw it. Unless it, like, escalates to the point where your aunt is locked in a bedroom for four hours a day and just doing shady stuff, then it's something to talk about. Yeah, but I feel maybe it wasn't hers, or maybe your uncle knows she's doing it, or they're doing it together. Yeah, and like you might not support it or see the value of it, but I don't know, she's obviously doing it for something. Honestly, just erase it out of your mind and move on and then maybe make a joke about it. No, make her feel uncomfortable? No, absolutely not. Oh, my god. So, my friend, god only fan. Just stare her in the eyes and see what she does. Yeah, also, how old is your aunt? Is she 60 or 30? Okay, dear Try Diaries.
Speaker 1:I booked a romantic trip with my boyfriend, but when we got to the hotel they had him checked in only two days earlier with someone else's name on the reservation. I didn't say anything in the moment, but I've been spiraling ever since. Do I confront him or pretend I didn't see it? What Did they travel together? She met him there? I don't. I guess so, and there was a. He was there for two days before she got there. Maybe they're long distance. You 100% say something.
Speaker 1:You have to call him out. Be like oh, they said that you stayed here two days ago. Was it a work trip? I didn't know. You stayed here for two days with Pryor. You have to call that out, especially if you're spending the whole weekend with him and that's your boyfriend. That's your boyfriend, absolutely. I would bring it up. You have to bring it up. There's no way that you're going to enjoy your weekend or enjoy any activity that you want to do with your boyfriend. Or just ask the receptionist yeah, get the footage out. No, not that. What time was he here at? I get the footage out. No, not that. What time was he here at? And what blonde girl just walked in? Why does she have to be blonde? They go for the blondes. That's not true. I'm kidding. Okay, dear Dry Diaries.
Speaker 1:I was scrolling through my camera roll after a night out and I found a picture of me sleeping in my bed, taken from inside my room. The thing is, is I live alone. My front door was still locked when I woke up. I'm so freaked out I can't tell my friends. They'll think I'm lying or going crazy. What should I do? Tell my landlord put up cameras, move out, completely, okay, one of two things. Uh, worst best case scenario was she drunk and her friend took a photo of her when she said she was by herself, she lives alone and her door was locked. Best case scenario there's been a glitch in the matrix. Worst case scenario you have a stalker. I would freak the yeah. I don't even have a word to say right now because I'm like really concerned and confused and I don't know what I would do.
Speaker 1:I would ask my friends. I don't think that they will think you're going crazy because there's clearly time stamps on your camera usually, so they'll be able to see it, but also maybe they know where your key is. Or they came in to check on you, but why would they take a photo of you? No, I would literally do all of the above. I would contact my landlord, I would ask to see the camera footage, but then I get it Like you probably also don't even want to talk about it because you don't want to think it happened. Yeah, there is also like things about glitches in the Matrix. I would literally never leave my parents. I would have someone stay with you for the next couple of days, put up cameras and then also, if your landlord has footage of the outside of your building or your house of some sort, I would definitely review the footage of that and make sure no one's around. If not, maybe Casper is giving you a friendly visit. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think I would move. I would move. I feel like it would be so dramatic, but I just don't think I would be able to go home, sit there alone. I would hear a noise and I'd freak out. Yeah, I would move, but I would do all that stuff before because I would want to know do I have a stalker? What does he look like? I had a stalker. What does he look like? I had a stalker one time you did so scary. My mom had a stalker too. Yeah, he sat outside of our house and literally would watch through the window. He would sit on my balcony at my old apartment when I first moved.
Speaker 1:There's a few other instances when we lived at the social media content house I lived in that was haunted, by the way, oh, yeah. When they opened the door, yeah. Or when you left and the door slammed when you walked out, yeah, house I lived in that was haunted, by the way. Oh, yeah, when they opened the door, yeah. Or when you left and the door slammed when you walked out, yeah, guys, I lived in a content house and before we moved in they were doing this crazy Kabbalah. I guess I could save this story for like a spooky skit. Oh yeah, save it for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you guys will have to stay tuned for the story, but yeah, it was pretty crazy and actually I did get confirmation that it was haunted later on. So stay tuned.
Speaker 1:But that I love conspiracies. Let's go. Let's keep talking ghosts, okay, well, if you guys have any stories, questions, please submit them anonymously. The link is below. I feel like these questions are getting good. Yeah, like I'm ready. I'm ready to just sit here and answer all your questions. Yeah, they're actually diary, yeah, diary, diary. Like I'm still really shook about that last one. Now we're just going to go home and I'm going to lock all the doors. Okay, well, we love you guys.
Speaker 1:Thanks for tuning in for another episode of the Dry Diaries. We're also going to see Chris Brown, so stay tuned for that. We'll have so many stories for you. Oh, and our Labor Day vlog is out. Make sure you go, take all the time to watch it, because it's really good, and you need to see alex winning every game and me sitting back and enjoying the ride. Oh my gosh. No, just go, look at the chaos happen and us try to make pizza and it's all the above, all the above. There's so many to the other episode and you'll know more. Yeah, all right, we'll love you guys next week. Bye.
