Books, Bias, Bears, and Cake Chaos for 1/8/26

We push back on reading snobbery, unpack why Sprinkles shuttered, weigh the ethics of LinkedIn gender “hacks,” celebrate cake-flip chaos, laugh at bear-fight bravado, and break down the promise and limits of new Wegovy pills. Heart, humor, and practical sense all the way through.

• why joy-led reading builds real habits
• overpriced novelty versus lasting value in food trends
• acquisitions and what scale does to craft
• LinkedIn language, bias, and the trust line
• harmless party fun in the cake flip trend
• optimism bias in “I can beat a bear”
• Wegovy pills, pricing, access, and side effects
• Hollywood body norms and why relatability wins
• upcoming live show details and ways to support

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Transcript

Hello And Warm-Up Banter

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Hello everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of Thirsty Topics. I'm Lawrence Elrad. And I'm Meryl Klimo. Hey Meryl, how's it going?

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Hey, it's going so well. How are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:25

I am doing fantastic. Years off to a great start, so can't complain.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

I know it really is. I just booked my flight to visit my friend in Miami.

SPEAKER_01 1:36

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Yeah, so I'm hoping for lots of good weather.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

Yes, yes. Well, at least you did it after hurricane season, so I know, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Yeah, the last time I went to Miami, it was like it was so weird where it would be like 85 and sunny for five minutes and then raining for five minutes, and then I couldn't I couldn't tell like if I was having a good day or not, but uh I'm excited for this time.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Here we go. Well, Merrill, I'm gonna go ahead and let you start off.

Reading 120 “Trashy” Books Debate

SPEAKER_00 2:03

Yay. Well, I thought this was so funny. I saw this article about a woman bragging that she read 120 books in a year, but critics are not that impressed because what she was reading were, quote, trashy fiction books. Um, now a lot of people on their notes app you share on social media, you know, I read this many books this year, or I'm up to this many novels, you know, etc. Um, one digital marketer and book content creator took to Twitter to share a photo of herself proudly posing next to two massive stacks of books alongside the caption, I did it. 120 books read this year. And so some people, uh by some people, I mean me, struggle to get through either one or two books this year. Um, a lot of people were shocked by this bookworm's accomplishment. And a lot of critical people wrote back, like, you know, they saw what the books were in her stack and kind of gave her the side side eye saying, these are like romance books, these are novels, these are for like, you know, slop pretty much like for teenagers. Um, I think to me, like if you're reading 120 books, I don't care what you're reading, even if it's a training manual, like you should be totally proud of yourself. And I think just the practice of sitting down with an actual book is like amazing. So I don't want to yuck her yum. Um, and also like I love those trashy kind of books, and that's sometimes that's the only thing that I want to read, and it's the only thing that will like get me interested in reading is more of the romance, like easy to digest type of books. So it's kind of one of those like who cares if someone's proud about it, let them be proud.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Well, I agree. And you know, here's the thing about it whether it's something serious, whether it's romantic, whether whether it's you know fictional, it doesn't matter. As long as they're reading, they're enjoying what they're reading, that's all that counts. Period.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Exactly. Yeah, and there's sometimes honestly, like I'm I'm very guilty of scrolling at night on my phone, and like the only thing that will help me break it is if I do have a book that I'm really interested in, but it has to be like competitively exciting, and sometimes just reading like a war documentary is not gonna pull me away. So I think, especially with our attention spans being shorter and shorter nowadays, like I we just need a little bit more exciting content.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Oh, yeah, and and here's the thing about it too a lot of people do read, even if you don't read a physical book, a lot of people read ebooks. So that still counts as reading. So even if it's not a quote unquote something that you hold in your hand, book, as long as they're reading, they're enjoying what they're reading. To me, that's all that matters. It's amazing to me how people always have something negative to say about what someone else is doing, right?

SPEAKER_00 4:53

And 120 books, that's a lot. That's like what one every two weeks, pretty much, or three weeks, but I think that's great. Like I think that's that's really cool. So, yeah, I'm I'm struggling on reading 120 pages.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Well, I could take it right now and uh uh when I read 120 books a year, it would be nice, but yeah, that's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

But no, maybe when I was like in ninth grade or something, and just I had all that was I was doing it for book reports, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

Well, I I don't know if that really counts because when you're in school, you have no choice.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Yeah, yeah, totally.

Sprinkles Cupcakes Shut Down

SPEAKER_01 5:28

That is true, that is true. Well, my first topic for some people may be a good thing, some people may be kind of sad, but uh sprinkles cupcakes are closing their stories nationwide. Wow, so I remember when the fad started with Sprinkles Cupcake, and I'm sitting there thinking, hmm, so we're paying seven to ten bucks for one cupcake.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Um where oh no, go ahead. I'm sorry, I think it just cut out. I was just gonna say, like, we where you live, are the Sprinkles cupcakes in a mall, or are they standalone stores? Like, because for me, there's it's oh it's like a kiosk in a mall almost.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

It started off as a kiosk in a mall, but then those kind of disappeared, but then you had standalone stores too, and um, I haven't really been to one in a long time, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Yeah, it's very expensive. The one that at least the one that I um I was went to one time in uh in Glendale, it's like you wait in line and it's it's like$11 and then it's a very mid-cupcake. It's not that good.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

That is true, that is true. Well, basically, um Sprinkles Cupcakes have closed all of its company-owned bakeries nationwide as of December 31st, 2025, with location shutting down abruptly due to unforeseen business circumstances and financial conditions, marking a significant end to the popular cupcake chain known for as ATMs. The founder, Candace Nelson, who sold the company years ago, expressed surprise and sadness, noting it wasn't how she envisioned the brand future to be.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Oh my gosh. Well, that sucks so bad that you like get bought up by a bigger company and then they kind of squish you. I know that's happened to so many companies already where they kind of get like the rug pulled out from under them after they get acquired. I've heard I've heard that happen quite a bit.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Yeah, I mean, I think they were one of the first ones that had um, you know, start off the the cupcake ATMs, you know, bakery coming out.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

Yeah, the vending machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

But I mean, you know, in this hot times right now where people are struggling just to pay their bills, it's kind of hard to justify a seven to ten dollar cupcake, you know.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

I know, exactly. I feel like there's if I were her, and I wonder how she feels, this founder, I would rather be like a medium successful company than uh then get acquired by like the biggest giant one and then be part of that weird conglomerate. Like I know, I think a company, was it Primal Kitchen? That that one just got bought by like Heinz or something, and I I don't know, I just feel like a lot of these brands lose their integrity when um, and it's not their fault all the time, it's just like the big corporations like Nestle and everything make them either shut down or like change their ingredients and cut corners.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Yeah, I mean, you know, a lot of people will say, Well, why did you sell your company in the first place? Well, that's an easy answer. Money.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

Yeah, money, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

You know, a lot of people say, Well, you know, if I own this, I would never sell it, or whatever. Yeah, they put the right number in front of you with the zeros after it, that will make you go, huh. You know what? Um, yeah, I could go ahead and sell it.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

Exactly. And like for us, the the place where our sprinkles was is right next to like the Cheesecake Factory and Urban Outfitters. And it's like you need the huge corporations to be able to make something like that happen, you know, where you're like one of the main players. Um, but yeah, I agree, like 11 or 12 or however much it was for a very like chemically tasting, not that great cupcake is not is not good. I still I still feel like like local bakeries and different, like like for us, there's a um just all the different like ethnicity, like I don't know. I think it's good to like visit different types of neighborhoods and like see their bakeries, because I just feel like local bakeries, no matter what type of neighborhood it is, always seems to have like the best cupcakes.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

That's true, that's true. And you know the thing is a quality cupcake, quality cake or any kind of bakery, and you know, if it's priced right, now obviously they're gonna be more expensive than what you would get in the store because the quality is a nine-day difference. They're gonna stay on the test of time.

Acquisitions, Pricing, And Local Bakeries

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Yeah, yep, I agree. Oh my gosh, now I'm so hungry for like a local homemade bakery. I don't really care about sweets, but when there's like a homemade cupcake or something, it's like it's so good. Um, I thought this was very Yeah, I agree. Uh I thought this was really interesting. I wanted to get your take on it. There is people have noticed that many women on LinkedIn have um changed their their profiles and get way more attention after they change something about their identity, like removing feminine pronouns, changing their gender to male, even, and usually using more traditionally masculine language in their profiles. Um, in some cases, impressions and reach multiplied dramatically when they did this. People are called calling it like mass, you know, women masquerading as men on LinkedIn, but really they're kind of like presenting themselves in a way that makes the algorithm or audience like treat them differently. So I I don't know if this is a bias. Like for me personally, I I don't feel that way. It might just be more because of maybe the industries I am in. Like sometimes I I actually feel like it's a plus that I'm a woman. Like, you know, and of course there's under other things that go into it, other privileges and stuff. I'm sure I know that that is part of the conversation. But like when it just comes to like male or female on LinkedIn, I don't feel like being a male is particularly going to help like me more. But I wonder if that's more in fields of like technology or you know, typically kind of more masculine, um centered in the past roles.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

Yeah, I mean, I guess on the one hand, I could understand why some women do this. Um, but the one thing I would caution is especially for the ones that that portray themselves as men and they're actually women, if you're trying to go for an opportunity and I find out that you're a woman, I couldn't care less if you're male or female. You know, if there's something else together, we work together. Where I'm gonna have my problem is is trust. Because it's like, why did you have to pretend to be yeah, man? That would bother me more than anything else, because it's like, what else are you lying about if you're lying about this?

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Exactly, exactly. I think it is always interesting, just almost as a social experiment in many different ways to see, okay, if someone applies to a job as like this type of person as a who's a little bit less qualified than this type of person who is more qualified, like I think it's necessary for us to just see like almost a scientific experiment of like how people are chosen. But I agree that if you're changing your pronouns and kind of being sneaky, um then yeah, it just that is that's a weird red flag to me.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Yeah, and here's the reality of it. Let's say you are getting ready to try and do a collaboration with a scumbag out there that has some kind of issue with women. By you pretending to be a man, that's not gonna increase the odds.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

I know.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

So you're not really to me, you're not really buying anything. And I could be wrong, I could be a hundred percent wrong, but I don't think you're gonna buy anything. If a person is biased, they're biased, and there's nothing you're gonna do to change that. They can only change their bias, not you.

Gender Presentation Hacks On LinkedIn

SPEAKER_00 14:31

Definitely, and some people at the at the workplace, like all the jobs that I've ever had are cool with me. I feel like I speak quote unquote in like a feminine way, where I like, you know, traditionally I like use a lot of exclamation points, and I'm like, you know, talk like I'm talking to a friend or something, and that tends to be more associated with females. And I feel like a lot of workplaces like that, you know, because and they just don't want everyone answering in like a one-word sentence, like fine, or you know, so so I I ask people, I don't think that has that's necessarily the main thing that's like hurting people, you know. I do think unfortunately for real, even more than gender, I do still think unfortunately there is a bias with like race, ethnicity, maybe even like looks, you know. I I think there's also some body, you know, stuff going on. But um, yeah, I definitely think I don't know, I I just believe that gender isn't as much as we think, but I'm sure in some fields, like you know, law or something like that, maybe it's more than I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

But you know, I guess I guess the question I would ask is if you knew a person or a company did have a bias, do you really want to work with them or collaborate with them?

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Exactly. Um and I wouldn't I wonder how it is that like Google or like the big tech companies, if they're it seems like they're just fine to take anyone, like as long as you're smart. Like I I see people of all different types working there.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Oh, yeah, I agree. And and to me, I would not want to work with a company walking in knowing that they're biased against me. I would not want to work for that company. That's just me personally. And to me, there's no amount of money that would change that because you you're gonna be miserable in that company, they're gonna make your life a live in hell.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Yeah, me too. I feel like I've worked jobs with that. This is so terrible to say, but if like a straight white male in her 40s is applying, then they're like, What why are you here? Like, all my jobs are so weird that I'm always applying to be like woman smiling at a bus stop that it just doesn't even make sense.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Well, talk about interesting here. Meryl, have you heard of the cake flip challenge?

SPEAKER_00 16:50

I I have. Yep, I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Well, for those of you that have not heard about this, and this to me, this is actually a pretty good challenge. I like this. Um, the cake flip challenge is a viral social media trend where people try to toss a frosted sheet cake into the air and catch it perfectly upright, resulting in a hilarious uh mess most of the time, but sometimes successful catches with participant participants eating the cake if they succeed in flipping and catching it without doing it. It's a test of dexterity, turning baking into a fun, messy, and shareable activity for birthdays or just for laughs, featuring everything from simple sheet cakes to elaborate decorated cakes. Now that part of it surprises me because decorated cakes are very expensive, and I could go and get a cheat cake to flip over. But what do you think about this, Merle?

SPEAKER_00 17:53

I think it's cute and funny. And you know, we've talked in the past about people throwing cakes at people and and wetting things that are not very nice, but to me, this seems like a somewhat harmless um of course there's gonna be people that are like, this is wasting food, and blah blah blah blah. But like in my mind, this is not no one is like starving because they need cake. That's not really like a you know a necessity necessity in life. Um, and I think it's like a fun, harmless, stupid trend. I I think I just know if I did it, the cake would be like all over the house. What about you? Do you think are you gonna try it? You know what?

SPEAKER_01 18:29

I believe it or not, I would try this. This would be a lot of fun. Yeah, obviously, wear clothes you don't care about. That's personally you don't want to rest up nice clothes, and yeah, would I be paying money, big money for a cake? No, I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

No, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

I'll just go into the to the grocery store, find the cheapest cake I can find, and have at it.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

Yeah, once again, I keep on promoting local bakeries, but those usually they're less expensive and they have such beautiful, like homemade cakes. But maybe you know, those might not be the ones to pick because I actually would be sad if like some real person took a long time to make it as opposed to just a machine. Um but I think that's so funny. I've seen some ones where like it actually goes perfect and it's really impressive, and then I've seen the other flip side of it being like all over.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Now, you know, I just thought about this as we're sitting here. You know what it'd be really fun if you're throwing a kid's birthday party and you want to buy like the small individual cheapy cakes and let the kids kind of flip them to see if they can flip them over.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's cute. I feel like everyone, at least once in their childhood, should just get to like mess up a cake and play in it and just kind of like you know, use their free will.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

That's true. That's true. You want to do it to the cheap cakes though, not the cakes that you spend money on.

Trust, Bias, And Workplace Culture

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Exactly. Not like the premium double double chocolate. Well, uh, my last one for today, I think this was so funny. Nearly three, there's a survey out that said nearly three percent of Americans believe they could beat a grizzly bear unarmed. Um, now a few months ago there was something on TikTok where it was going around where they were asking women, would you choose to be alone with like a man in the woods or a bear? And a lot of women said that they would rather choose the bear. This is a different version of that, but still a survey nonetheless, where um a survey conducted by the company called Stake found out that 2.75%, just short of 3% of Americans believe they could defeat a grizzly bear without a weapon. Um, now in the past, 6% used to feel confident. So we're kind of we're dropping in our confidence for fighting off grizzly bears. And they were saying that, you know, they thought that they could take them. Um 17% said that they could defeat a mouse, which is crazy. Why wouldn't why is only 17% of people thinking they could fight a mouse? What about the others? Uh 11% feel like they could outmatch a house cat or a medium-sized dog. Now, I definitely it's so funny because like grizzly bears and bears in general look so cute, but I feel like if you're I think we underestimate how big and sharp their teeth and um paws are. What about you?

SPEAKER_01 21:24

Yeah, um, sounds like people were drinking before they took that survey. Hey, if someone wants to go ahead and wrestle that grizzly bear, just let me know so I can watch from a safe distance. I'll have have me a little libation just sitting there watching and laughing and stuff like exactly. And then I'm also like, uh, so how'd that how'd that work out for you, buddy?

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Yeah, the only thing like I would think of is if I mean you're you're unarmed, but I think you're still probably. Able to use like sticks and rocks, but I feel like I've heard encounters where people use sticks to try to fight off mountain lions, and the sticks just like break, you know, it's like a twig pretty much when you're trying. The only thing I've heard of, which you can't really choke a grizzly bear, but like with mountain lions, I've heard a few people trying to choke mountain lions, and and that's the only way that they're able to like fight them off. Um, but uh but that's like at least you can like kind of get your arms around their neck. I mean, grizzly bear is like that's just how do you even fight it? It's like a you know huge thing.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

I don't even think you can get your hands around his neck, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

No, I don't know what you would do. I would just like I mean, I saw that there's one really famous movie where the grizzly bear they set it up so the stick like impales it, like when it goes up on the person, then it lands and like a stick goes through it. But I don't I think in the right moment I would not be able to take it on.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Oh, yeah. And most people that say, Oh, I'm gonna do this, I'll do that. You don't know what you're doing that moment because you're shocked, you're not gonna be thinking about any of those things that you said.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

So, yeah, let me know if they have uh you know grizzly fighting there. I would definitely fly out to see that.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Totally. I I wouldn't even hurt a panda bear because I'd be like, oh, you know, like I don't know, I would want to like spin it around or something. And polar bears are supposed to be the meanest, and they're like the cutest. I've I just I don't I wouldn't even know what to do with the polar bear either. I mean, they're just like so scary.

The Cake Flip Challenge

SPEAKER_01 23:26

Yeah, that's true, that's true. I don't think any bear you want to wrestle, to be honest with me. Well, my last topic to me is actually a positive one. As of January, the Wagobi weight loss pills are now available. Yay! So one of the things that that that Americans struggle with is um you know dealing with weight loss. And yes, there are some people that overeat and don't take care of their bodies, but for the the mass majority of people, it's not just that simple. Um, I know people that have been trying to lose weight, they don't eat a lot. Um, you know, they don't eat a lot of bad foods or whatever, but they still find it hard to lose weight, especially as you get older. So I love the fact that they're taking the medical approach to this. And you know, the the wagobi shot is about$1,500 out of pocket, if you don't know. And some insurance don't cover that. So the Wagobi pill, and this is interesting. Um let's see, the manufacturer Novo Nordis announced its launch in the United States pharmacies and through selected telehealth providers on Monday, January 5th. So it just came out. So it has the same active ingredients um that uh uh simiglet simiglide um has popular or global injectable uh applications as well as in CIPIC applications. So the nice thing about this, and I think the real important thing is let's say you don't have insurance and your insurance doesn't cover it. Without insurance, which is self-pay, the starting 1.5 milligram dose is available for a self-pay price of$149 per month. Higher doses, 9 milligrams, and 25 milligrams cost around$299 per month. Those are much more attainable price-wise for most people. Yeah. So I tip my hat off to I think this is a game changer. What about you, Miru?

SPEAKER_00 25:49

I do too. I wonder if maybe even the side effects will be a little bit less like since you're kind of having it in smaller doses and taking it more or taking it kind of more like, you know, pill-wise. I wonder if people will get like less nauseous on it. Because I've heard that some of the annoying side effects is that people get like really, really nauseous or they'll lose their appetite almost too much and then it becomes uncomfortable. But I wonder if like the capsule form will help kind of like release it and like you know, time release it in a way that's like that our bodies are more used to rather than just like a straight up shot.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Now, the doses on the pills, believe it or not, are actually a little bit higher than the injectional. Um goes directly into your bloodstream. Where when you take a pill, you know, you swallow it and it's dissolved in your stomach. So, you know, it needs to be a little bit stronger to do. So technically it's a higher dosage, but I think this will be a lot easier for most people because a lot of people don't even like giving themselves ejections either.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Yeah, yeah, that's freaky.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

So I I I salute this, and then also there's more companies that are talking about coming out with their version um of the weight loss pill. So I think this is a great thing.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

I do too. I love it, and I think like you said before, it could help so much more than just it helps sometimes people like kick off their own health journey and like taking care of themselves. So I see that as a very good thing.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Oh, absolutely. And you know, one of the things that we don't talk about is, you know, when you when you have a lot of weight, um, and let's say you're classified as quote unquote obese by medical terms, a lot of times that comes with other things like high blood pressure, um, diabetes. There's a lot of health risks that comes with being overweight. So if you can take that weight off, not only is it going to make you healthier, but it's also gonna get you on a lot awful lot of medication. Now, there may be one or two that you can't come off of, but it'll be significantly less after losing the weight than it was having the weight on.

Bears People Think They Can Beat

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Exactly. Oh my god, this is the funniest like LA thing. I feel like you guys will all get a kick out of this. This this is so silly, it's ridiculous. So, like, I'm I'm like chubby, I'm not, but I'm not like obese or like, you know what I mean? I'm not like, oh my god, this person should be on like lifetime or whatever. But like I or but there was a commercial that um I had an audition for, and it it was a weight loss drug because I feel like when you're kind of chubby in Los Angeles, like I'm seen as you know, ridiculously obese for just being like a little bit overweight. But they had asked my um my body mass index, and when I told them what it was, they were like, oh, sorry, you're actually too that your BMI is too high for this commer for this weight loss commercial. So yeah, and I'm like like I'm really not like maybe like a size 14 or 15, it's or 16. It's not like I'm not like you know, unable to fit through doors or whatever. And I feel for people that are in that situation, but only in LA is like, you know, I'm too heavy for a weight loss commercial at being like a medium to larger size weight. Yeah, I said that to my friend. I'm like, that's so funny. I think it really is funny where they're just you're they're looking for a certain type, but not like that big, you know, it's very funny.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

Well no, Hollywood is it's gotten a little ridiculous with the with the weight lately because I've seen a lot of a lot of celebrities, and I'm not gonna mention any names, lose a lot of weight to the point of Oh yeah, yeah. It it they don't even look good, like yeah, exactly. And it's like, you know, this doesn't this doesn't look good at all, it doesn't look attractive. You look like exactly exactly.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

That's one reason I love like stand-up comedy, you can be any size, and it actually works in your favor if you're like not a perfect body, you know what I mean? Because people just find it a little bit more relatable and stuff, but I I think that's like so silly where they're like, Oh, you're that you actually like disqualify for being in this weight loss commercial.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

That is really it's very silly, but um, yeah, I think that's really funny.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

Wow, time flew by. This is a great, great segment.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

It was.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Well, Merrill, tell us what you have coming up.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Well, unfortunately, we won't see me on any weight loss commercials because I've had too many, too many cheeseburgers, but um, I will be at the ice house in Pasadena, as I mentioned the last recording, uh Sunday, wait, I think it's oh no, Saturday, February 7th. And um, yep, the venue is called the Ice House in Pasadena.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

Nice, nice. Well, if you're out there, definitely make sure you go out and support Merrill. She would love to see you.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Absolutely, I would love that.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

And I do want to take the time to thank everyone for supporting us over time, um, sharing us when possible, commenting on social media. I do just want to let you know that I do appreciate the comments that you guys are putting out there, and I do get back to those comments, and we do appreciate the input. So it means a lot to us, and we do want to thank you and let you know we appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

That's so sweet. I feel like it just like with the way that we like Pitbull, I feel like our listeners and viewers are nice too.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Yes, yes, definitely. Well, everyone, continue to watch us and support us. Um, again, you can watch this on lrodtvnetwork.com, or if you're into podcasts, we're on all the major podcast platforms. It doesn't matter whether it's Apple, whether it's iHeart, um Spotify, we're on all of them. So definitely make sure that you check us out, share us, and uh also let us know what you think and you know if there's anything specific you want us to talk about.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Yeah, I would love that.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

Well, everyone, thank you again for watching and listening. I'm Lawrence Elrat. And I'm Merrill Cleanbo. Have a great day, everyone. Bye. Bye, everyone.