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Controversy, Chaos, and Comebacks for 7/30/25
What happens when celebrity endorsements go terribly wrong? This week, Lawrence and Meryl dive deep into Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle campaign that has everyone talking for all the wrong reasons. The hosts unpack why the "great genes" messaging struck such a nerve and how the actress's dumbed-down persona might be damaging her carefully crafted image. Is this a case of tone-deaf marketing or calculated rage-baiting for viral attention?
The skies seem increasingly unfriendly as we discuss two terrifying aviation near-misses that occurred within the same week. When a Delta plane had to turn sideways to avoid a B-52 bomber and a Southwest flight dropped 500 feet in seconds to prevent a head-on collision, passengers' confidence in air travel is understandably shaken. We examine the alarming shortage of air traffic controllers and question why we're not getting more transparency about aviation safety measures from those in charge.
From micro-influencers wielding unexpected power to get chefs fired, to WNBA players demanding fair pay with their "Pay us what you owe us" t-shirts, we're witnessing a fascinating shift in how public opinion can drive real change. We also tackle Trisha Paytas naming her baby "Aquaman," Vogue featuring its first AI-generated model, NFL players getting busted for ticket scalping, and how Gwyneth Paltrow cleverly turned a scandal into marketing gold. Plus, hear about that heartwarming Destiny's Child reunion that gave fans all the nostalgic feels they needed.
Ready for more spicy takes and thoughtful analysis on the week's most talked-about moments? Listen now and join the conversation! And don't forget to check out Meryl's upcoming comedy show on August 7th at Flappers in Burbank.
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Hello everyone, Welcome to this week's episode of Thirsty Topics. I'm Lauren Selrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo.
Speaker 1:Meryl, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2:Hey, hey, hey. I'm really good, I'm bursting at the seams with some of our ridiculous news today.
Speaker 1:Well, we definitely have a lot of interesting stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2:I know how are you doing.
Speaker 1:You know what I am doing? Great, I cannot complain.
Speaker 2:I know I feel like I can complain, but I'm doing good overall. I'll still find something.
Speaker 1:There's always something to complain about, right.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Oh, one quick personal story before we start. I think this is so funny. Do you ever watch that wing show like hot ones where they eat the wings? Oh, yeah, yeah. So my birthday's coming up later this week by the time this comes out, it will be like almost my birthday time. And I opened up, by accident, my boyfriend's mail. When I say by accident, I mean in quotes. I opened up his mail and I saw that he got me the really really hot sauce that they try called Da Bomb. That's like the one that everyone starts to. So I'm going to try it and then I'll report back to everyone how intense it really is. Okay, okay, Are. So I'm going to try it and then I'll report back to everyone how intense it really is.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, are you going to do the chip challenge one of these days?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I definitely will, but it needs to be filmed At least. If I'm going to go down, it will be for content. There you go. Okay, well, with that out of the way.
Speaker 2:Something that definitely also made me sweaty and not feel well was, uh, sydney sweeney's new american eagle good jeans ad and this is just like gone, really, like you know, past the point of just making people upset about the advertisement. So there's a few different things to this. So pretty much she's being slammed and same with american eagle outfitters with the latest campaign that um is under the tagline syd Sweeney has great genes. Now it's one of those things that if people haven't seen the ad yet, you have to go watch it and listen to it, because to me one of the most infuriating things is just her voice, like the way that she's talking, like this, and you know, like I am a Sydney Sweeney defender, I'm not mad at her. I think she's gorgeous, like I think in the past people have kind of made fun of her and we're, like you know, saying that she're saying that, obviously her saying like she has great genes and it's passed down from parents and genetics and you know the fact that she's blonde and blue-eyed and there's some insinuation of that, you know, and just like that that is what equals great genes is is problematic and I just think like they knew what they were doing. Um, so all this has sparked like a big conversation on the social media At this time.
Speaker 2:I saw that American Eagle like switched out a lot of her photos and they switched it out like right away for a person of color. You could tell they're they're listening, but they're like listening, I think, in just a kind of placating way. And then I just saw another video of someone that used to work for American Eagle who came out and said, yeah, that seems about right. Like all they care about is just like servicing who they think is like the target demographic of you know, blonde, blue eyed people, and that they were just obsessed with like competing with Abercrombie and not really expanding their audience. So I guess my first question is have you listened to this and just like, what are your many thoughts about it?
Speaker 1:you know what I did, listen to it a little bit and you know the way I look at it is. It seems to be a situation and we start to see this a lot where advertisers and brands are starting to use um people, even if it's not in the best way to get that viral moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, almost like rage baiting or something too.
Speaker 1:Exactly exactly, and I think you're going to see a lot more of that, because it's an inexpensive way. Well, obviously, the person that you're hiring isn't inexpensive, but it's a very effective way of getting a lot of people to talk about your brand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but to me, someone like Sydney Sweeney, who has, up until a few months ago, I think, has had a really good reputation and men love her, women think she's cool.
Speaker 2:I think she came out really hot in the way where she's a mechanic and she's kind of the hot girl next door. I think she's been doing really well, but lately just with the campaigns that she's a mechanic and she's kind of the hot girl next door, Like I think she's been doing really well, but lately just with the campaigns that she's choosing, like whoever is guiding her and her team is definitely like tanking her really fast. Because this is like the first moment that I'm I'm finding her unlikable Even if, like American Eagle is obviously the more problematic like party here. But just the way that she's speaking in the video and just it's like she's dumbing down her own self. It's like that's not the direction she should be going and also like as a woman watching this ad, it doesn't even influence me. Of the jeans, Like the whole copy is like these might not even be the best jeans that you're wearing and this might not even look good, and I'm like what kind of messaging is this?
Speaker 1:It's a risky move, because you're kind of trying to get people to buy your product, but then you're telling them not to buy your product in the same time.
Speaker 2:It's so weird. Exactly, if the whole thing is just that Sydney Sweeney has gray jeans we already know that and we know that she's hot how is that going to convince me to go buy something? Like? A brand that I feel like did do really well is Khloe Kardashian's brand, good American, which I'm not even a Khloe fan as well. But from the start, good American has shown like all body types and definitely like made it more about the woman than about or you know, more about the people buying it than about the actual models, and I feel like that's a brand where I'm like, okay, if I'm considering buying jeans, like that's someone that I feel like I know they'll have sizes and you know whatever, but this just seems so bizarre. Um, do you think that this is a take on like genetics in general, that this is a race thing?
Speaker 1:just a light question I think that basically what they're doing is using someone who I don't want to use the word desperate, but is urgently trying to find their way for themselves and using that to help push their brand, because really the big thing is for successful companies. Really successful companies really don't sell a product, they sell a feeling.
Speaker 1:You know, if you think about starbucks, you know you can buy coffee anywhere it's like hey, you know I got my grande and you know my famous, you know frappes and stuff like that. Mcdonald's, you know the happy meals for the children.
Speaker 2:It's really about the branding and I think right now, um, and I get what american eagle's trying to do, but I don't think they really figured out their branding yet no, I agree, and this is such a bizarre way to do it and like I I don't think they're insinuating that other people that aren't blonde and blue don't have good genes, like that's definitely taking it like a little bit far. But I've seen creators that don't feel that way and I can't imagine, you know, like it's just in this day and age, it's kind of an unnecessary way to promote your blue jeans, which you're supposed to do, and like they don't even really look that good in the ad. So I feel like it's it's a fail for sure.
Speaker 1:When you first, when you first see the ad, you go, you mean good jeans, and you think about oh, they're trying to promote their jeans.
Speaker 2:You don't get the problem. Exactly and I'm like, I'm happy for Sydney's means that she has like good genetics and she looks great, but like nothing is working in the ad, like it's kind of tanking her personal brand. She is someone I used to like and I think it's so pretty, but it's like she's dumbing down the way that she like taught you know, I don't know, it's just it's not doing any favors for anyone, I think.
Speaker 1:Well, I think she got paid very well to do that ad.
Speaker 2:So I know you know I know, but don't you feel like also, though, public opinion is is worth so much where, like I think, to have millions of people talking about you and kind of annoyed at you on tiktok to me is like because, like we would be the ones that would go see her movie in the future and like she is someone that I would, but now it like cheapens her brand a lot, which I feel like, for the long term, may cost her more than whatever she's making.
Speaker 1:That is very true. That's very true. I mean, you have a lot of actors and actresses that will take anything as long as they get paid.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Ones that are very particular on what they do.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like, for example, Denzel Washington. There's a reason you don't see him in certain roles.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he took a big chance, even as a youngster growing up in the movie industry, turning down certain roles just because he really wanted to portray himself a certain kind of way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we're not gonna see Denzel sitting down trying on blue jeans saying that he has good jeans.
Speaker 1:It's not going to be an ad for like Arizona jeans or something. We will see an AI figure, but I don't think we'll see him doing that.
Speaker 2:Exactly that's coming up soon too. Totally. My last thing I was going to say on this too, is that we, like throughout this year we even talked about other like documentaries that came out on Netflix about like fashion and how bad stores like Brandy Glanville is or Brandy Melville, I don't know Whatever One of them is a housewife, one of them is a store. But like it seems like American Eagle is kind of going that way where we're going to see a documentary in a few years, just like we did about Victoria's Secret and how they were going to see a documentary in a few years, just like we did about Victoria's Secret and how they were. And I think this is we've learned that some of the higher ups at these companies are like, sometimes racist. Sometimes they treat their staff very weird. You know and that may be the case here that we're starting to see some of the. It's like they're showing their true colors.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, that's true, but I don't know. I think that American Eagle's probably not done with their story yet. We're probably going to see a different storyline in a week or two.
Speaker 2:I know, yep, it'll be different.
Speaker 1:Yes, Talk about different. I don't know if you've been paying attention to what's been going on in the air lately. Yes, yes, a Delta plane had to do an emergency maneuver to avoid a collision with a B-52 bomber. Now, when I say an emergency maneuver, they literally had to turn the plane sideways. No, no, no, no, keep from running into it. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And then same week, a southwest airline plane dropped 500 feet within seconds to avoid a head-on collision with a former british fighter jet which I think was performing in an air show okay, and so that one was burbank that's where I live, so that's the airport that I fly out of, and it was going to vegas, a flight that I like have taken the past two months I'm supposed to do. I just texted my friend. We're going to Vegas in October. I just texted my friend and said I'm driving.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry because also just for people that don't live in the area that flight is like notoriously it's quick, it's only like a 40 minute to an hour flight from Burbank to Vegas. But but it's only like a 40 minute to an hour flight from burbank to vegas, but but it's always like so turbulent and the landing is rough and it's so funny because it's known for like being in theory, it should be such an easy flight, but by the time people get to vegas you're like shaking and your blood sugar is low and it's like sometimes I'm more frazzled from that flight. So so having that happen, because it already is like turbulent and a weird landing on both ends of things, I just can't even imagine and it really already I'm like, I am. I really like I need a few months before I get back on a plane.
Speaker 1:I don't know, meryl, what do you think? I mean, you know, every so often things happen, but I mean, wow, to have these happen in the same week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it sounds like we got on I heard something about and I gotta check the story, we'll probably talk about it next week where I guess us marshals had to take an air pilot off of an airplane and I literally saw that right before it was coming on, so I had to get more details about it. But what do you think is going on in the area now?
Speaker 2:um, I think just a mixture of things I this one sounds like the pilots did everything right. I don't know if a traffic controller, like could have alerted them before, but this seems like military is messing up and they're too close to the planes, like I don't know why they would be even coming in close to the flight path at all. So I just also feel like we're not learning anything, like it seems like every week something is happening. It doesn't seem to be like strengthening aviation, it just seems to be like a free for all more and more. But of course I'm like a scared consumer, so if a pilot is listening they may be like no, this is, these people weren't in trouble. You know, it always seems less serious than it is, but having all these close calls is just terrifying.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I think it's highlighting and it's been going on, it's been building over the years. We have a nationwide shortage on air traffic controllers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the scary thing is it may be coming to a head because you know I'm thankful nothing happened. They avoided these, but you know this many in this short time frame it's got to be concerning for people who fly.
Speaker 2:I know, I know it used to be like you would hear about airplane things once every couple months, but it's it's like every week we're hearing about something. Thank goodness they're they're no, like not a fatal one but I feel like we didn't even really hear what actually happened in the Washington one, when there actually were fatalities, like you know. We know that it was the helicopter, but it's like these things happen and we never hear what's going to happen, like how that's going to help make things even more safe or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, and you know, the thing I look at too is because I know for fact the incident with the Delta plane having to do the maneuver to miss hitting that B-52 bomber. It was reported that the B-52 bomber did not get any kind of indication from air traffic controller that there was another one on that same path.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:So I mean thank God that they were alert and they saw and avoided it. You know, yeah, I mean personally. You know, if I'm riding in a plane, you know I'm relaxed, I'm always driving sideways. No, yeah, that's going to keep me awake the whole flight, you know.
Speaker 2:Me too, I would just wherever I was flying to, I would just live there forever, like now. I would live in Vegas for the rest of my life, but I would truly have to like crawl home and I just think I mean I'm already freaking out whenever we're up in the air, almost anxious that this stuff can happen. So it's like I imagine there's like someone on the flight that's like me that has flight anxiety, and this I mean, even if you don't have flight anxiety, but there's people that are already nervous up in the air, like already, and then for that to happen is just crazy. And, like you know, I hate to make things a political issue, but I do feel like we need some answers, even if it's not from like Trump or the president or anything, just from whoever. I don't even know if there's like a head of FAA We've learned that that has been greatly cut. As you said, there's less and less and there's a shortage. That person should be almost doing press conferences weekly. I feel like that's a huge thing for us to know.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, because what's going to end up happening is a lot of people are going to be. You know what, unless I really have to, I'll drive. I'll just make a little extra time to get there yeah you know, let's face it. I mean, that's scared the hell out of someone you know, especially like if you're you're flying and you drop 500 feet in a matter of seconds. I mean, yeah, you're daylight, no, way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I, I watch when we're on the plane. Sometimes I watch the elevation and so I'm like I couldn't take it if it went like 14, 000000, 30, like I wonder if if the machines like clock that instantly or if it took a second or two. But yeah, it's too much. I.
Speaker 1:Don't know what about? What about you, Merrill? Is that gonna? You know, unfortunately for your job, you know you have to do fly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I fly a lot you, for you, you know um, like, I mean, it's hard to say, I think I think if I situations like going to vegas, if I can drive, I probably will, but it probably won't stop me from like the longer flights you know, like flying cross country or anything. But next time I really am gonna have to get some like sedatives because it's just too scary. And also I always think about the fact that the pilots are so well trained and they're so good, but to have to quickly like make a turn when you're in that, when that many people's lives are in your hands and you have such a big machine that you're flying, it's just like my hats are definitely off to the pilots, because I mean, that's like two instances within a week that they saved like a million or so many lives, you know, oh, that's like two instances within a week that they saved like a million or so many lives, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, and you know, the thing is is that you know to have them happen within the same week. And then, like I said, the incident that I'm going to find out about and I'll talk about it next week about, you know, a pilot being arrested by the US Marshal on an airplane- yeah. You know, it's kind of getting a little bit out of control, you know.
Speaker 2:Yep, it's crazy. But yeah, I did text my friend and I'm like October, I'm driving. I don't care if I have a rent at U-Haul and for people that are like driving is scarier, you have more of a chance of an accident. I'm like I don't care. There's just something about driving that you just feel better, you're not in a metal.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what it is when you drive you feel like you have control.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, even though, like I understand, driving is scary and there's so many weirdos on the road, but but it's less. Yeah, it's just less scary.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true, or better yet, just make sure you have a few cocktails before you get on the plane and relax you Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, next time. I never am someone that is, but I feel like the way things are going. Definitely I'll have to look too, because for a while, I was part of a reddit group that's like fear of flying, and they were actually. If anyone's afraid of like, this group is so sweet because you can post like when you're flying and these strangers will be like I'm watching your flight, you know you're almost landed and it's so cute. These people are all like very cute. And then it's a good group to have when things go wrong, because then sometimes pilots will pop in and be like OK, this is why you shouldn't be afraid, instead of freaking people out. I feel like the group is actually really comforting, but now it's like every day there's something, and so I feel like it's not very calming to the nervous flyers.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean real quickly. I remember years ago me and my wife went to Jamaica. On the way back, you know, it was a thunderstorm, it was bad weather, so the flight was delayed. But then we took off and was on the way back kind of rough, but no big deal you know and then all of a sudden the plane kind of dropped a little bit.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh no.
Speaker 1:The whole cabin was silent at that point, and I don't know if he was the captain or the co-pilot, but he was coming back to use the restroom and, I kid you not, he looked me dead in the face and I guess he saw the terror in my eyes. So he got done, done, you know, using the restroom, he went back and then he made um an announcement saying um, just let you know, we're experiencing a lot of bad weather. It's going to take us a few extra minutes. We're going to go around all this turbulence and everything and um, this way, making a better flight for you guys and um, just add a few minutes to the, to the, but everything will be fine like that.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's nice. He's probably like these people are freaking out and to them it's probably no big deal, but trying to like a military aircraft coming at you last minute is crazy. Yeah, there's no way. Every time when I'm on a plane and they make an announcement every time, I rip my headphones off and I'm listening intently. I'm like what. I don't know how people can sleep on planes.
Speaker 1:But you know the one thing I will say and I will give them credit when they did do those maneuvers, the pilot got on right away and said one of them I don't know, maybe he was a little too honest this is when they had to do that. Drop 500 feet in seconds, said you know, just want to let you know everything's fine. We had to do an emergency maneuver to keep from having a head on collision with another airplane. I don't know if I would be that honest?
Speaker 2:oh no, I would be like I would jump out of the plane at that moment.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I'd be that honest, because at that point you know you're looking at the person next to you like what the?
Speaker 2:fuck, yeah, he may. I bet he was like upset and mad though too, because if you're like I'd be so mad Like you know, I bet he's still like a human too. So I feel like he's probably like shaking with anger because he's probably doing everything right. Then, all of a sudden, this other big situation is happening.
Speaker 1:That's true. Thank God that they pay attention.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Well, one place that I will be driving to instead of flying is San Francisco. Even though it's like a nine-hour drive, it's okay. But it was recently. A restaurant in San Francisco is recently in the news because a micro influencer went to dine there and ended up TikToking her experience with about how not nice they were, which in turn, the chef got fired from it. So pretty much it all started when micro influencer let's see what her name is Carla Makade posted a TikTok detailing her visit to Kiss Cafe. That's K-I-S Cafe.
Speaker 2:She said she was left shaking after being invited to collab with the Bay Area Wine Bar. According to her, she expected to receive a free meal for her and her husband in exchange for posting a video about the restaurant on her channel, which at the time had 15,000 followers. After arriving at the restaurant, the award winning chef questioned why she had been invited and she could pretty much she could hear him. I watched her talk and so she could hear him talking to other people about like why is this girl dining here? You know she has like no followers. It must be a mistake why she's here. And then he came over and was really rude to her and basically, basically in real time was like looking at her videos and saying, like you're not really a match for this, you know your content isn't that good. And so she she seemed like a very gentle, nice person, so she got really shook it up. And then she went online and, just, you know, detailed her experience.
Speaker 2:Then the real drama happened when she didn't say this person's name, but then the daughter. She said that the chef told her my daughter has 600,000 followers and my daughter's like a real influencer. And then this man's daughter commented on her page and said, like I'm sorry, I take no accountability for my dad, you know, we're going to make things right. And then that obviously showed everyone who it was about and just everything broke loose. And so the chef got let go, um, okay, well, I have a few thoughts on this.
Speaker 2:First is that because sometimes, like for some of my projects, I am in this situation where, like, not for me personally, but for other brands that I work for like I will go places and get comps, a free meal, um, to like, you know, instagram it or whatever and I feel like if someone was being rude, I would definitely, I'd probably be a little bit rude back to them, but I wouldn't like I would probably just leave and say, okay, you know, but I don't know if I would drag them on social media just because how big it can get, where I'm sure now this person's getting like death threats and the fact that he's fired from his job and like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I feel like that that's a little bit too far. Like I understand her wanting to share the experience, but it just got so out of hand that I think there's somewhere in the middle of like telling your story and then now also like ruining this man's life. It's serious, but it's not like that serious to me. Um, he sounds really rude, but I this to me doesn't seem like the penalty of him like losing his job and having people like hate him or, you know, threaten him just seems a little bit far.
Speaker 1:You know, I guess I could look at it as a different way If it was just the fact of maybe she had bad service. The food wasn't good, that's one thing.
Speaker 1:But can you find your way to be rude and then basically disrespect her, even if you didn't do it to her face, but she can hear you talking about. You know, you know has no followers. Why is it here? Stuff like that you know you don't do stuff like that because I'm going to tell you the right type of content will take someone that has very few to no followers and make them an overnight viral sensation.
Speaker 2:I know that's. The funny thing is that he's making fun of her not having any reach and then it's like, oh, now you're going to see the reach.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly and you know the thing is too is that will destroy their restaurant, so hence why he got fired.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, exactly, I think you're definitely. If you're a restaurant owner, you are more than okay to question why you're giving free meals. And I think this is different because she's not just an influencer, she's a food content creator and I feel like there is a difference between that. She's not just a bratty person going in expecting a meal because she's well-known. This is a person that creates content about food that other people go and look and I feel like for me, like I get heavily influenced by food content creators if I'm searching where to go, like in LA or whatever. So she's doing like the advertising for him. You know, I think if someone's going in saying, do you know who I am and you know they're a fashion influencer and their content has nothing to do with food, that's okay to not be rude but to at least maybe not give them a free meal. This is someone who makes food content.
Speaker 1:I think they're important. But what I would love to see and I haven't seen it yet is food influencers that go in unannounced, check out the food, check out the service as a regular person, because if they know you're coming yeah yeah, the worst restaurant give you the best service. Totally know who you are. Of course that you're going to get really great service. The food's going to be great exactly yeah, a really good assessment to me no, and exactly no.
Speaker 2:In fact, like for the, for the publication that I work for one of the couple of them that I do, I don't say anything, like I'm more giving a nice review than I am giving a critique.
Speaker 2:And so there was one restaurant that even their service was almost too much and it was actually annoying. And so in my review I tried to say they're very attentive to the point of being my meanest thing was almost kind of nice still, but it was like if I was just a critic I probably would have said that it's too much service, like I don't need someone to come around every 30 seconds, and it was like mildly irritating. But because they're trading me, it's almost like you feel beholden to only say nice things, and you know so you me. It's almost like you feel beholden to only say nice things. You're right, if I went there undercover and they were that annoying, I probably would have nicely said it. Luckily, I haven't encountered anything like this. Every single restaurant that I've been to the people have been so, so, so nice and almost too nice to the point where I feel bad. Same thing. I hope they're giving this much attention and good treatment to people that are just coming in as like regular patrons, you know.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's true. I mean, we can't dismiss the power of the word of mouth and social media.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. But my last thing is just that I think people take it too far. And if this was just my dad that was being rude. I mean People take it too far and if this was just my dad that was being rude, I mean he definitely deserves to have some bad karma and like people smear his name. I understand that, but I just know how the Internet is and I really think people may like physically threaten him or his restaurant. I just think that's scary nowadays because people, unhinged people take it like five steps too far, you know.
Speaker 1:That is so true. That is so is so true. That is so, so true. Talking about going far. Don't know if you're a fan of this or maybe not a fan of this, but during the wnba all-star game, the players wore a unifying t-shirt that read pay us what you owe us, whoa. It was a black shirt, white lettering, large letters, and basically what they were doing was just trying to make a statement. You know, talking about the disparity as far as what they make, because right now, let's face it, wnba players don't make any real money. I mean, yeah, caitlyn clark, she makes, uh, I want to say, 75 000 a year.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, she's considered a very high player yeah and you know the thing is, w nba, players make their money. If they're really good, um, they really know they make their money on endorsements.
Speaker 2:It's not the actual game itself and then do you think that, like for caitlyn clark's endorsements, like if she works with nike or something, does that be? Does the basketball team always get a or, like the league, do they get a cut of what she makes, or do you think she's you're a free agent when it comes to that, like oh, you're free oh really I wonder to like do the non-caitlyn cl Clarks?
Speaker 2:everyone gets paid kind of different, like like, if she's getting paid that much, are other people getting paid like thirty thousand dollars or something.
Speaker 1:I want to say they said the average pay is around maybe forty to fifty thousand oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Compared to basketball, like to the men's league.
Speaker 1:Oh, men's put it like this the person riding the bench that never touches the basketball makes way more than 75,000.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh and see I feel like. I feel like somewhere in the middle is like normal. I don't feel like they should be like I don't know, like millions and millions and millions of dollars. It seems just too much for me, but like I feel like everyone should get a salary of $200,000 and call it a day. I'm a socialist when it comes to this type of stuff, where I'm like every player. If you make it into any sort of basketball league, you get $150,000 and that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean when WNBA first started. Okay, you can make an argument that hey, it's a new league, they're not making a lot of money, so they can't really afford to pay. Well, now, look at today. You know I've probably watched more wmba games within the last year more than really ever. You know because I really didn't watch it and a lot of people watch it. But now not only are more people watching it, you have new teams that's going to be coming into the league over the next two to three years. Also, you have stadiums that are selling out now. So they're making money.
Speaker 1:And I agree. I mean, will it get to the point of the men's salaries? I don't think so. You know I think it should start going at least up in the right direction.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I think that's $75,000, $50,000 for what they do and, if you think about it, that's why a lot of those players play overseas, because they make money.
Speaker 2:Yep, and I'm all in favor. Like we just saw it work for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader this season on making the team where, like they all banded together then they got like a ridiculous pay increase. I forget what it was, but I mean they went from like having to have 9,000 jobs to now being paid. I think. I think for them it's like 100,000 or 150,000, which is a great, like I think that's amazing for, like those young women who are who should be paid and who shouldn't have to do five different jobs like during the season off season. Um, so I think that's so cool, especially that they're banding together, and I think I I love that. I think that that's nice to have that support oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know, like you mentioned the dallas cowboy cheerleaders, you know they weren't even making minimum wage at one point and that's just crazy.
Speaker 2:And even like I watched watched a TV show and one of the main women were like what's so interesting about all of you is how many jobs you have. I'm like that's the amount of stress that they put on their bodies and time and schedule and it's like I don't know how they didn't have a nervous breakdown. I think they're working from like five in the morning to 10 at night and how do you expect people to sleep properly and eat nicely? That's just too much for even young, busy people to do.
Speaker 1:That's true. Do you think that the pressure that the players are putting out in the public are going to make the owners in the league do something with the pay?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely do, I do, do you?
Speaker 1:You know what I do. How much is probably the biggest question. Right I don't know, we'll see. But yeah, they definitely need to do something about that yep see, I feel that way about baseball too.
Speaker 2:I talk about this a lot with my baseball loving boyfriend. Is that like I? I just think some players get paid like so, so so much, I understand they bring in revenue and I get that, but it just seems like crazy to me, me that one baseball player makes $90 million or something. I just think it could be spread around different places.
Speaker 1:For the baseball players that are out there. Please don't get mad at me when I say this, but it is amazing how much these baseball players make. I know Absolutely make, I know Absolutely insane.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, and I still think they should be balling. I think that's amazing. I don't want to cap anyone, but I'm just like eight million is enough, it's just enough. Maybe that's the case for everyone, for everything, but it just gets to be a little ridiculous. And maybe I don't value sports as much as the average person does, or whatever, and I think it's it's amazing, it's a great pastime and it's entertainment. But then it gets to the whole situation. Then that brings up a bigger conversation of, like singers and you know, like just entertainers in general, and who gets paid. What I still feel, like teachers and firefighters, and I think there's more important professions and like, I think there's more important professions. I think it's cool that people play baseball, but I think there's more important things.
Speaker 1:So, Meryl, you don't think $80 a year is too much money?
Speaker 2:No, unless they want to start paying all stand-up comedians that much, In which case I think it's perfect. I'm ready for it. I think maybe me and my other stand-up friends should wear t-shirts like that to the shows where we get paid in chicken wings like a pay us what you owe us. There you go. It'll be like eight dollars I love it.
Speaker 2:Yep. Well, someone that does get paid a lot of money as well is, uh, entertainer, trisha paytas, and she was just in the news recently because she, you know, she's known for her in the news recently because she, you know, she's known for her weird baby names. I think she has one kid named malibu barbie and another one named elvis um, and now she just had her new baby, aquaman, named aquaman moses payton, hackman, hackman um, and she, she kind of hinted at this a few months ago when she was saying she said, oh, oh, I gave it away already. There was like a picture of a movie poster and you could see my son's name and people were thinking, okay, maybe it's like Neptune or, you know, poseidon or something, and then it ended up being Aquaman. She said that she really came close to naming him Water Snake and I just had it was a. Really interesting.
Speaker 2:I saw a woman's TikTok about being named. She was named Mickey, after Minnie, mickey Mouse, and I feel like her middle name was like vegetable or something and she just had, like parents that kind of named her a wackadoodle name and she was saying this is what my life experience has been like, like graduating college and having people constantly make fun of me for my name, or you know, like graduating college and having people constantly make fun of me for my name, or you know, her siblings had changed their names and so I just think it's of course, name everyone you want to and they won't have a normal life. But, like, this is a real human being. It's not like just a pretend, it's not like a gerbil or something. You know, there's a person that's now going to have like the name Aquaman and it just it seems a little silly.
Speaker 1:Well, you, know, here's the thing, and I agree with you, you can name your child anything you want, but I think the biggest thing is, unless they're staying in the sports world or the entertainment world of some kind Aquaman on a resume, you know, going for an office job. I know, granted they shouldn't be doing this, but it might not help you too much.
Speaker 2:I know, granted, they shouldn't be doing this, but it might not help you too much. I know, and I feel like the other two names, like malibu barbie, like that's that's weird, but like passable enough to be like, okay, that's, you can exist in the world and all this, but aquaman, unless you have nicknames like aq or something, I don't know, that's just. It just seems like and I like trisha payne, that's like I don't mind her at all, I think she's like funny and cool and stuff, but that just seems like you're setting up a child who like, deep down inside, it's like do you really think a person wants to be named that? You know she's smart enough. I feel like she wouldn't.
Speaker 1:Well, the problem is is that a lot of times when they name kids, they kind of think about themselves more than the child.
Speaker 2:I know, it just seems like someone, something like that'm all for if you wanted to get something and name it Aquaman, like that's A perfect name for like a dachshund or something, like a fish or you know a reptile or something. But it just I mean, we'll see maybe. Maybe the kid will grow up and it will like fit him perfectly, that's true, and then what people name their kids is like totally their business. I just think I hope it doesn't set up a lot of people like influenced in naming their kids just like ridiculously silly stuff.
Speaker 1:Who knows, maybe some people start naming their kid Peter Griffin.
Speaker 2:Exactly, lois Griffin. I like that wouldn't be the worst name.
Speaker 1:It's true, that's true. Well, talking about a feel good moment here. Well, talking about a feel-good moment here. We're going back to airplanes again. A Georgia grandmother of seven. Her name is Nicole Pruitt. She took down an unruly passenger trying to get into a cockpit on a Delta flight. She's also an Army veteran. Wow, kudos to her.
Speaker 2:Wow, I love that. Um did they say, was the person like trying to just take?
Speaker 1:over the plane. Well, from what they say, it seems like this person had was having a mental breakdown. Um, but um, I don't know she was taken off. Obviously they you know she took her down, restrained her until a plane landed. Of course, authorities took her out. She's being charged. I don't know. I love the fact that she took it down.
Speaker 1:Now the one thing I did not like, and maybe it's just me being a little overly sensitive here, but Delta Airlines came out with a statement thanking the pilots for staying cool, the crew thanking the passengers for holding, you know, helping take control of this person. But it wasn't the passengers, it was this one person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like she should get free flights and like recognize as a hero, I think, at least acknowledge her by name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and maybe I'm being overly sensitive here and like recognize as a hero, I think.
Speaker 2:at least acknowledge her by name, because she was a hero.
Speaker 1:And maybe I'm being overly sensitive here, but no, I think you're right.
Speaker 2:She risked herself and she, like she, saved everyone. She saved that woman. Who knows what that person would have done?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and basically what she said was she kind of thanked her military training that had her be able to do what she did instantly and not hesitate. So that's. The only thing that made me a little bit disappointed is I think they should have gave her a kudos, Even though she's getting it all over the news and social media. Delta Airlines should have at least acknowledged her.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Yeah, they should have like given her some type of honor. I think, absolutely Given her like the greatest Delta upgrade. Absolutely, I think that every flight should have. I know there are some air marshals a lot of times that like incognito on the flight or, you know, we won't recognize the police people on the flight, but like I think every flight should come with at least like one or two security people. I just think there's there's too much at stake nowadays for them not to, and I think like I don, I don't know about them having a gun, but like having a taser, having some type of weapon that you can like take someone out if you need to, just because of like how it's gone. You know, having a gun might be too risky, because then if someone gets control of that, that's really scary, but like having some type of available thing to hurt someone else, that's might be about to do something crazy.
Speaker 1:That's true, I mean, I agree with you. It would be nice if there was always at least one air marshal on the plane at all times. I understand the logistics of budget.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so many people.
Speaker 1:I get it, but it would be nice to have one on there.
Speaker 2:I know, see, and that's what like in my perfect world. When they're like, is there a doctor on the plane? It's like the doctor should raise their hand and the military person like I feel like the first class row should just be like all helpers.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:And then that would be like a new profession where it's like, oh, I'm like studying to be an, an airplane military person, like I think they should redo that hey, that sounds like a new show right, exactly.
Speaker 2:well, I'm gonna go back to something that I feel like maybe American Eagle wishes that instead of a Sydney Sweeney, they did an AI model, because things could have gone even better for them. But recently, in the August print edition of Vogue, a guest advertisement featured a flawless blonde model showing off a maxi dress and a floral playsuit, and then, in a small print in the corner, the ad reveals that she was created using AI. Vogue said that the AI model was not an editorial decision. It was the first time an AI generated person has been featured in the magazine.
Speaker 2:Now obviously people freaked out at this and just said like this is the beginning of the end. You know pretty much like this is if they're going to take over models and then they're also going to show us this unrealistic to the max. You know beauty, they already airbrushed people to the gods where it's like it looks like AI anyway, but now it's like you're putting people out of a job. They said they created a bunch of draft models and then they pretty much create the likeness of a person from scanning a bunch of different people. I just think that's scary.
Speaker 1:I think that it's a little bit on the risky side for Vogue to do that. Understanding what Vogue is all about, using too many AI models to me, I think they're going to diminish their brand because most people are going to go. Because what do you look at Vogue for? You know, obviously, fashion, all this. You look at the, the people in in the magazine, and if they're artificially created to me, you're taken away from it. I know yeah.
Speaker 2:You lose interest. I feel like it feels like I get. I do seriously get like less interested in stuff when I know it's AI.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, definitely. I mean, I think what they may be doing is testing the waters on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think this is where AI may not be the best thing you know.
Speaker 2:Yep, I also think that I wonder how this will affect I think we talked about this last time too, with like advertisements and just money in general. Like I imagine it's so much cheaper for them because they don't have to pay for a photo shoot and, like you know, they could just create it that way instead of hiring a model or like paying a day rate or anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know, the crazy thing about emerald is, with the amount of professional and even non-professional models out there, to me in the fashion world there should be zero room for ai yeah, yep, yep, I agree, and I I think it's also important too, because now these working models, like if they come in and they'll scan their likeness and then they'll get paid like one time, but then they'll be able to be used over and over and over, and that's just a different thing too, because now, instead of working, they're just having like one job the whole year.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, absolutely. I know that when they had the strike, the actor strike, that was the real big sticking point is ai.
Speaker 2:yeah, so I'm not really sure how it works under sag, but you know that's a slippery slope when you start playing with ai I know, I know, and people have a right to be annoyed, I think, and it's just yeah, it takes the fun out of it. Pretty soon, I bet they'll be like real people magazines and AI magazines.
Speaker 1:That is so true. I hope this doesn't become a trend, though.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:Well, talking about a trend, over 100 NFL players and two dozen team officials in the NFL were fined for scalping tickets to the last Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Now all players in the NFL and I didn't know this until recently can get two tickets to the Super Bowl. They can purchase two tickets to the Super Bowl at face value. Now they are allowed if they want to sell their tickets to someone at face value.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:But what they were doing was selling these tickets at a scalper's rate of up to anywhere from maybe $7,000 maybe, or more, per ticket, and the NFL was very angry about this. So what they're doing is they're fining them I want to say maybe two or three times the price of the ticket, and then a few other things as well too. Or if they don't take the deal, then they're going to look at suspension for the upcoming new season.
Speaker 1:Now they haven't identified any players or any organizations, but my thing is everyone's going to take this deal because we're going to know who you are if you get suspended at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So how do you think they found out that they were selling them, and for how much?
Speaker 1:You know, that's a great question because I mean, we're talking, like you know, about 100 players. So I'm thinking and I could be wrong I'm thinking that maybe someone got angry and complained about it oh uh, it could have been leaked by you know whoever was buying the tickets. Or nine times out of ten it was probably a third party buying them and reselling them on the market and somebody just dropped the box. I doubt very seriously that this is the first time they did this.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, for sure. And when they said like you can buy two tickets at face value, do you think that's just off the normal, like Super Bowl site or like off of the team?
Speaker 1:I think the team gets a certain amount of tickets.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And, like I said, I didn't know this, but all the payers can get two tickets for Super Bowl, and then, of course, your bigger, higher-paid people probably could get more tickets. But the thing that bothers me is you're talking about these men that make millions of dollars. I know these men that make millions of dollars, I know, and if you're really gonna pay hundreds of millions of dollars do you really need to to make tickets, or am I looking at this the wrong way?
Speaker 2:no, no, I mean like I would. If you think about like the travis kelsey's or whoever you would think that they'd they would just buy two and then gift them to people. Or like it'd be so cool to tell to, like I'm sure there's someone in their life that would love two free tickets and I feel like if I was a famous football player it'd be so much more fun to do that and be like oh, it's on me, you know, like I'm gonna take my aunt and uncle or something yeah, I agree, I think.
Speaker 1:I personally think it just boils down to just greed. There's yeah, it's just greed yeah, that's so weird.
Speaker 2:it's so weird if you're a football player too and you get these two tickets, that the first thing you would do is sell them, because I just think it would be so fun to give someone in your life them. Or even if you didn't sell them at face value, you could just like gift them to someone. I think that's amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, definitely. And let's face it, you know, Super Bowl tickets at face value are easy to get rid of versus buying it on the secondary market because, oh my god, the prices of those tickets were outrageous really. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, I've heard tickets go as high as ten thousand dollars. A piece whoa like I'm not paying ten thousand to see anyone no I mean ten thousand. That that's a lot of money.
Speaker 2:This is the stupidest question ever. But like you can't buy a ticket, like they're not on sale before we know who's playing, right, like do they determine, like, who's in the Super Bowl first and then you can buy the tickets? Right, and I understand this is a stupid, funny question. But it's not like you can't buy tickets to the Super Bowl years ahead and then you're okay, no, no, no, because we don't even know where it is or what's going to happen yet.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly Like I said. I was actually pretty shocked to hear about this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:But you know, again, it's that greed thing. I know they learn their lesson and they don't do this anymore.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I had to fight the urge a lot when I worked in like radio and concert venues because we would get like free tickets all the time. And of course there was like a little devil in my head that was like list these on Craigslist. But I didn't, just because when you value what you have, it's like okay, I could do that and make like I mean, they're not Super Bowl prices. I probably could have made like $60 or something you know. But then it's like what's it worth?
Speaker 1:And that's just like.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like what's the cost of that overall?
Speaker 1:That's true, that's very, very true.
Speaker 2:But I wouldn't do that. I would give them to someone. Well, someone that has a thing or two about scalping is Beyonce, because from what I've heard too, I've had, I had friends that accidentally this is true bought nine tickets to her show. And then they had one of my friends and they were freaking out and he was like, yeah, we made like a $10,000 mistake and then they had to. Then they tried to sell them and theyonce tickets weren't selling that well, like they weren't reselling, so I think they ended up losing like three thousand dollars or something. It was the last tour that like wasn't selling that well. They bought nine tickets because they didn't communicate. They all thought that, like everyone thought the other person was in charge of picking up like three tickets, and so it ended up being a disaster. But anyway, what they should have been excited for was that she reunited with Destiny's Child at the final Cowboy Carter show, which I think is so cute.
Speaker 2:Destiny's Child reunited for the first time in seven years for the grand finale of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour in Vegas. The trio surprised fans with a medley of some of their best love songs, including Lose my Breath and Bootylicious. Of course, the other two women are kelly roland and michelle williams and I just think that's so cute and so so wonderful. There's like really cute photos and videos of them, um, and I just think if you're a destiny's child fan and this happens in vegas, I just think that's like the best treat and I think it's so cool that the three of them have remained friendly or at least professionally friendly.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and I tip my hat off to Beyoncé for allowing them to share in the spotlight of the tour because, let's face it, even though they're doing pretty well, they're not doing nearly as well as Beyoncé. So I thank Beyoncé for bringing them up and, you know, giving them their flowers too.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and I think, too, this is a good representation of like when a girl band or a boy brand, originally, when they do what it does go well, like what it can look like, cause I feel like a lot of the other ones, like Fifth Harmony or One Direction or you know, they all seem to have falling out, and I think this is an example of like, when what happens when people just continue to like each other, or at least like are open to everyone succeeding.
Speaker 1:I agree. Now I'm hoping that that catches and you know more. More singers and performers do the same thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Vogue, are you listening? I'm trying to think about who else, but yeah.
Speaker 1:That is so true. That is so true. Well, my last one for the day is interesting because just when you thought you've heard everything about the Kiss Cam situation, the company Astronomer hires Gwyneth Paltrow to capitalize on the Kiss Cam scandal.
Speaker 1:So, to be honest with you, no one really heard of this company before Kiss Cam. I never heard of them either. Actually, they hired Maximum Effort, which is a marketing firm owned by Ryan Reynolds, oh God, to basically just kind of put Gwyneth Paltrow out there as the temporary spokesperson, which I thought was kind of weird that she put temporary spokesman. Just put spokesperson and you know it ends when it ends but that was exactly Just put like hired for money.
Speaker 2:Like I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I thought this was so funny. I did think that this was like a very funny move and very like cheeky and daring. I mean, the fact that she was obviously married for a really long time to Chris Martin of Coldplay makes it like I wonder how that conversation went down, if Gwyneth told him or asked him or like what he thought about it. You know like just the ties and the connections there, and I also wonder how much money she did for it and her also knowing that this would probably have some backlash. Like it's to me it didn't have a ton of backlash as much as I thought, but like Gwyneth probably knowing that some people would be like, oh God, you know, you're going to like stick up for this company after they did a bad thing, like I mean, she kind of like didn't care about it and just went full force and it's like she doesn't need the money.
Speaker 2:I'm sure Like she's beyond rich. But um, I'm not gonna lie, I think that I think that's like very funny and clever and I'm not I'm not offended by it, I think it's. I think when it was like too good for that. I just think it's like Kind of ridiculous. But um, in terms of like how you're gonna get out of this, I think I think it's funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I mean I kind of agree. What a lot of people are saying is this is actually marketing genius.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:In a bad situation and flipping it and turning it into a great situation where, you know, besides putting Gwyneth Paltrow down there because of this KISCAM situation, a lot more people are getting to know who this company is and what they do.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Sorry, oh no, no. I was going to say that they're probably going to end up getting, you know, some potential business out of there that they probably wouldn't have gotten because of all this publicity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, and exactly what you said, and like also just remembering that there's other people that work hard at this company and it shouldn't all be ruined because their CEOo and their hr person are crazy, you know. So I think, if anything like their marketing team and their other people have a right to like, promote their work and be funny too. And um, from what I've heard, people did not like the ceo and I've heard I've heard lots of things just from different like articles saying that they he was, was not a very well liked guy. So maybe they're also just saying, okay, this happened. How can we salvage what's left of it and have like a little bit of fun at everyone's expense? And I just thought that was ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I know, when it first happened. About a day or two later, the CEO resigned, and then now, with this new marketing effort that they're doing, I found out that the head of HR is no longer there either. Oh, wow, wow. So, yeah, I hope this was well worth it, because their world was literally turned upside down.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and getting someone like Gwyneth Paltrow, who usually is kind of more on the prim and proper side and she definitely has a sense of humor, but having someone like her, who's very unexpected and related to the whole Coldplay situation, is just very clever.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, definitely, and I think a lot of companies are going to learn from this, saying that, hey, when bad things happen and you get bad publicity, turn it around, use something to flip it, you know, instead of looking at doom and gloom. You know, you know, turn sour apples into orange.
Speaker 2:Uh exactly, except don't hire sydney sweeney because we didn't. That would that would have been the worst of just her being like hey, cheating is bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, that was a surprise, that was a surprise, but that's okay though. That was good. Yep, Talk about good Meryl, what do you have coming up?
Speaker 2:Yay, well, I'm very excited. August 7th I have a show at a place called Flappers in Burbank and that is it's like history themed. So one of my really good friends, dawn, has a podcast called Hilf. It's called History, I'd Like To. And then the F word, which I won't say, but it's all about like quote, unquote, like sexy people in history and everything. So she has a live podcast that she's doing at August 7th and then I'm one of her like opening comedians, so I'll be doing a few minutes on historical figures and making it funny. So if anyone is a history person and you live in Los Angeles August 7th, check it out.
Speaker 1:Nice, that sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:It's really cool. She does like she. She does a live podcast, but she she'll pick one subject in history and then cover it. I feel like I'm learning something that's almost like going to school in a fun way.
Speaker 1:That's a fun school there.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, so that'll be good.
Speaker 1:Well, everyone, thank you for watching and also for listening. We had a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:Thank you to support us. And then also too, as a side note, uh, on elrottvnetworkcom we have that movie that I told you about this on there, we have the new podcast on there, and then I'm also going to be talking with other independent filmmakers and we're going to have some shorts on there and then some other projects coming very, very soon. So, definitely come over and check us out if you have an opportunity.
Speaker 2:Awesome.
Speaker 1:Well, everyone, enjoy the rest of your day. I am Lawrence Elrod.
Speaker 2:And I'm Meryl Clemo Bye.
