WEBVTT - Amazon Prime Day: The Black Friday of the Summer 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.960 Hey, hey, hey, be a fan. What's up? It's Mandy Money. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.560 I am so excited to be with you guys on 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.680 the whatever birthday this is for our country, whatever birthday 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.639 it is, I just know that there will be There's 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.720 gonna be a party, but we are gonna have I 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.920 feel like there hasn't been a clean Fourth of July 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.040 where like we have been able to just party and 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.880 appreciate this beautiful country. I don't know if it's the 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.800 times or just my age, but like in a good decade, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.880 like can we like not have anything just truly embarrassing 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.800 happened to us before our birthday? Like one year? Y'all, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.000 I'm gonna get into the debate. I know whether you 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.839 watched it or you have just caught up on the 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.720 memes online, I am going to talk about the debate. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.200 I got some markets news for y'all. We're gonna find 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.080 out is Chipotle actually shrinking their bowls? Because when I 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.520 tell you, I'm so glad that the not all heroes 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:04.560 were capes somewhere took it upon themselves to analyze the data, yeah, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.959 being seventy five burrito bowls to find out if Chipotle 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:14.039 is actually shrinking its portions, and this is silly but 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.200 also serious because shrink flation is the biggest beef that 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.240 I have with the economy and with retailers in general. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.240 Then I got to talk about Amazon day, y'all, because 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.759 this July and in the ass crack of summer, Amazon 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.160 every year loves to bring out its bargain bin and 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.360 make people gamify shopping so that we just buy more 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.320 stuff that we don't need. We just talked about this 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.440 on last week's episodes. I'm eager to tap into that, 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.959 and I got some pop culture tidbits. Did y'all hear 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:49.240 that Jonathan Majors is like lowercase B back And I'm 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.320 figuring out how I feel about it, and it's a 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.560 pretty easy no for me. But you know, we're going 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.720 to talk about that. Somehow. He won an award, an 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:01.080 award that means nothing but also means something, the BET Awards. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.040 We're just on this past weekend, so I'm going to 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.600 talk about that, And full disclosure, did I watch it? No, 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.760 not me. Never. I catch up with the clips afterward, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.239 like a good hard working, you know mom of two 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.240 has to do. But I did watch Willsmith's performance. I 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.839 did watch Dorogi p Henson kind of hit on Keith 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.760 Lee in front of his own wife. Oh there was 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.440 so much to cover, and we have not had a 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.160 chance to chat about the whole Ken Dot you know who, 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.800 Kendrick Lamar taking Drake and basically I don't know, just 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:40.240 digging a grave for him, a very comfortable grave and 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.240 lining it with like satin pillow cases and just saying, Drake, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.640 here you go. You can lie here because this is 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.080 your career and I have buried it. So we are 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.640 going to talk about Drake's epic concert on the West 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.399 Coast a little bit because I don't want to embarrass 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.520 myself because I am not listen. I am not one 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.280 of those people who's on the internet talking about NonStop 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.400 Kendrick this and here's what Drake what in the dishtrack? This? Like? 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.360 I just am here for the music, okay. And what 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.600 I know is that that distrack not like Us, which 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.960 is probably gonna sweep the Grammys for all of its 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:18.000 categories and be the nail, like the literal nail in 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.600 Drake's literal career. Coffin is a bop. It's a bop. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.200 I listened to it NonStop. Now you cannot escape it. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.840 On the internet. All right, let's get into it. So 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.080 first in markets news quick shout out to the robin 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.160 Hood Snacks team. If you guys, I know robin Hood 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.080 as it should, got so much crap during the pandemic 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:44.200 for basically gamifying stock investing and getting a bunch of 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.000 young somethings or people who were not that you know, 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.720 well versed in investing to pour a lot of their 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.920 money into the market without knowing what they were doing. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.480 But they have a killer newsletter, so can we forgive 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.040 them just a tiny bit? Check out Snacks if you 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.120 guys want some great not doing advertisement for snacks anyway, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.640 they're good. Check out robin Hood's necks. All right, So 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.480 top of the news for today Chipotle. So you guys, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.720 did you invest in Chipotle during the pandemic? Listen tell 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.359 us I will not judge you. I won't judge you 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.279 maybe just a little bit. I personally, I don't invest 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.560 in many single stocks, many individual stocks, point being that 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.080 when I do, they usually tend to tank right after that. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:32.240 So I am a classic ETF index fun kind of girl. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.520 But Chipotle is in the news. They were one of 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.640 those stocks I think during the pandemic that got a 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.640 little bit of a lift. They survived the great e 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.520 Coli drama of two thousand and what was that like 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.520 seventeen or something, where like half of a basketball team 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.240 dropped from e Coli. But they are back in the 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:55.719 news because again TikTok's favorite food credit Keith Lee is 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.800 out here setting these companies straight, y'all and trying to 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.599 get us the best bang our book. And what y'all 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.599 have been reporting, yes, Keith Lee and also all of 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.560 y'all on the Internet who have been sharing photos and 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.919 videos of your Chipotle orders. The intensity around this debate 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.680 of whether or not Chipotle is cracking down on portion 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.720 sizes has reached this new level of hotness. Right, there's 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.800 actually surveillance of burritos, like literally, there's memes of people 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.680 like strapping on cameras steady cams to walk into a 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.760 Chipotle and watch so you can see the people making 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.960 the bowls. But what I thought was hilarious is there 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.840 was actually an analyst, Yes I'm going to open this up, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.320 an analyst who bought seventy five burritos from eight different 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.640 Chipotles to prove that the portion size problem is real. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.560 And guess what it's not just us Chipotle. Burrito bowls 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:55.840 can vary widely wildly in size, all right, so what 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.440 did they find? The smallest bowl that they found was 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.080 thirteen point eight ounces, y'all, do you really need to 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.440 pound a burrito bowl? Like? That's wild? But the largest 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.000 bowl that they found at a seventy five was twenty 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:12.719 six point eight ounces. My gosh, my goodness, I want 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.360 to interview the person who gave someone a pound and 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.480 a half of burrito. Can that little little cardboard bowl 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.080 that is basically disintegrating as you take it to your 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.719 seat from all the salsas and all the liquids, Like, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.320 can anyone fit a pound and a half of burrito 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.000 into that bowl? Like? Come on? And after they just 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.200 had their fifty for one stock split go into effect, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.560 they have been reporting increasing sales. So even though they're 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.479 playing us in some cases with giving us smaller portions, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.800 the fact that they are only getting more sales bodes 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.000 well for the stock. But I don't want y'all to 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.240 be play to fool by another retailer the way that 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:57.039 Chipotle and many others has been with their shrink inflation practices, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:02.000 giving us the same product but in a different size. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.400 I'm talking to you, Trader Joe's. I feel like Trader Joe's. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.039 I'm waiting for the Trader Joe's study because I know, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.960 like one of the things that I can't get over 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.040 is how much more I get these chicken dog treats 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.760 for my dog, because you know, she's a sensitive girly, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.080 so she can't have a bunch of fillers in her treats. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:21.920 And so they have these, like one kind of dog 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.080 treat that has it's like dried chicken or something like that, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.480 and it's not cheap in the first place, but the 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.239 package keeps getting smaller. I'm like, I'm not spending six 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.720 dollars on two little crusty chicken strips for my dog. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.720 Like it's not happening, but no big announcement. The products 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.920 are just getting smaller. There's less in there. Look at 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.800 a cereal box, Look at a bag of chips. Look 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.920 how much air is in there? Look at the My 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.760 favorite thing at the grocery store is to see how 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.120 much per unit the price is. So like, if you're 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.800 buying a box of cereal and you're like, should I 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.080 get the family size or the regular size? What's the 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.360 price difference. Don't just look at the difference in price, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.680 look at the unit price, which is going to tell you, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.200 like per ounce, how much you're paying for that cereal. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.320 And that's how I make a lot of my choices 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.000 at the grocery stoes just looking at the per ounce cost. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:17.600 But many, many retailers are getting away with making us 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.600 feel like not much has changed, and yet we are 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.560 getting less for our money. And that is why me 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.760 and if you're a parent or whatever, you just have 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.040 do a lot of grocery shopping. It feels like I've 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.280 never done shopping, Like I always need more stuff and 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.600 it's always it's always running out, and the bills are 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:39.360 always getting run up. So what the hell? Okay, state 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.480 farm agents are small business owners too, so they know 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.920 how to help you choose personalized policies that fit your needs, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.400 like a good neighbor. State farm is there. Talk to 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:54.560 your local agent today. Everyone's favorite stock, Amazon is in 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.280 the news too, y'all coming up in another couple of 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.200 weeks Amazon tenth. They're tenth. I've really been ten years? 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.200 God dang, why am I? This old tenth? Prime Day 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.000 is coming up this July July sixteenth through seventeenth. Now 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.160 for some people, this is like the summer event. This 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.000 is the Black Friday of the summer months. And shout 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.439 out to whoever at Amazon came up with this brilliant 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.560 marketing concept. But you really did it, and you made 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.400 people excited to shop for on a random day in July, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.480 just because the thing is that people love Amazon Day. Okay. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:35.440 Analysts estimated last year people spent thirteen billion thirteen with 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.719 a b billion dollars. This year, the marketing budget has 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.040 been rammed up even more. They teamed up with Megan 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.800 the Stallion to showcase there must have picks and they 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.680 even dropped a music video. I haven't watched it. Have 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.600 y'all watched it? Like? Was it good? I mean, I 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.000 love Megan, I really do. I really want to see 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.840 her on tour, but I missed out. She's almost she's 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:00.040 wrapping it up. They also got Millie, Bobby Brown, and 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.720 and other influencers to do promos ahead of the event. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.840 Sixty five percent. So even if you try to be 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.360 cool and I'm like, you're not going to shop on 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.840 Amazon Prime Day, basically you are and we know you, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.439 we know you are. Sixty five percent of Americans said 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.640 they plan to do more bargain hunting this year because, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.480 like I said, inflation is straining our wallets. So we 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.800 are looking for a deal. But this is where we 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.600 have to give a shout out to competition. Okay, and 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.960 this is why I stand for the FTC. And you 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.480 guys don't know what the FTC is. That is an 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.760 organization that stops companies from buying each other up and 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.280 basically monopolizing the market. Okay, we like competition. We like 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:46.080 these big retailers Amazon versus Walmart versus Target versus Best 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.320 Buy to be competing. Why because it's going to drive 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:54.240 down prices for us? Right. We like deals, so ten 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.760 years in other retailers competitors are really understanding, like we 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.080 cannot play around when you li rules around. We need 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.080 some deals. And y'all I've already seen this happen. Have 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.320 y'all been to Target recently? I was in Target a 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.520 couple of days ago with my kid and he had 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.960 a twenty dollar bill and I was like, twenty dollars. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.720 You know. He was very excited to spend it, and 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.840 I was like, sure, you're probably gonna get like one 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.120 monster truck for twenty bucks. Now, because of how inflation 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.040 has just made everything so much less for so much 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.920 more money. But he walked out of that store with 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.600 three toys because everything in the toy section was either 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.720 like thirty percent or fifty percent off, like to the 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.080 point where you would go to check out, and we 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.800 thought his toy was seventeen dollars, it was actually eleven. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.320 And when I tell you, nothing makes a four year 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.640 old learn math on the spot like finding out he's 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.120 got an extra nine dollars instead of three. So he 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.920 bought it was really sweet though. He bought a birthday 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.440 card for his dad and then a rocket ship craft, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.160 which he ended up giving to his dad. I love 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.760 my kid. But see what I'm saying, You can tell 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.439 that not only are retailers competing with Amazon, but they're 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.760 getting in the game earlier. So we love to see that. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.360 So if you are looking for deals, I'm just gonna 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.520 go ahead and say try to find things that you 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.600 were gonna buy anyway, but check out Walmart. Walmart has 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.800 their Walmart Deals. Target has Circle Week where if you 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.120 sign up for their loyalty program you can get deals, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.839 and they're going to have another one in July. Best 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.160 Buy is also bringing back literally Black Friday in July. Wait, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.079 should my husband have waited to buy He just bought 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.360 a brand new TV, y'all? Sixty five inches that's a 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.160 lot of inches. And sometimes you just got to like 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.320 black out a little bit when things happen in the 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.880 house and I'm just like, yeah, sure that's the TV. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.320 Now it's as big as the wall on. Huh, this 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.439 is great? But damn, should he have waited until Black 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.800 Friday in July? I don't know, But y'all, do not 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.240 sleep on these other deals, especially if you're shopping for 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.920 back to school? Why not start a little bit early 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.840 if you get some be interested to see if there's 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.120 some back to school deals and if you can actually 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.120 I mean, I got Creola Kranz at Target that were 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.560 ninety nine cent for a full box. I never thought 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.439 in my life I would be so excited about a 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.760 sale on Creola crayons. But here I am, and here 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.679 it is who I am. Do y'all you're still listening, right, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.240 I haven't lost half the audience. Have I very excited 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.040 about that. I'm really curious to hear if you guys 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.000 are going to be shopping these deals in the middle 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.120 of the summer. But I gotta stay away because the 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.200 last thing I need is more stuff in this house. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.960 Stuck and a signed Stuck in a Starter Home. Okay, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.120 that's gonna be the name of my memoir, Stuck in 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.480 a Starter Home. Since it is July fourth, I do 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.160 want to talk about this little tidbit that I read 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.320 the American I love these random associations. Of course we 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.760 need an American Pyrotechnics Association. They are predicting that we're 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.720 going to drop two point four billion dollars twice as 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.040 much as we spent before the pandemic in fireworks. So 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.040 if you are one of those people like we were 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.319 back in the day, you have to drive to the 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.960 border of Alabama to get your fireworks. Listen, do what 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.520 you gotta do. Please be safe. I'm not purchasing fireworks. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.959 It seems like a lot of liability. I'm going to 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.560 go to a big fireworks show and just watch them. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.800 You know the way that I like to staying my 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.080 ass in side the other five days of the week, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.080 because if you live in a black or Hispanic neighborhood, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.840 you know that the entire week of the fourth of 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.360 July it's going to be until like three in the morning. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.880 Oh my god, I do not miss living in the 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.760 heights on Dykeman. I do not. The Dominicans love a party. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.920 They love they love popping off fireworks on the roof 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.360 at all hours of the night. No think you, mam. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.720 I am a patriot, but I also need to sleep. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.680 M hmm. Okay, all right, So that's a little bit 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.480 of business and markets. Let's move to a little bit 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:54.720 of politics. I just want to say a prayer. I 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.359 want to say a prayer for America and for democracy, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.040 because it ain't looking good, y'all. It ain't looking good 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.200 to the point where Joe Biden. And if you have 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.280 been sleeping under a rock or just you know, on 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.400 a social media news kind of cleanse, you know, more 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.240 power to you. It's not nice over here. Just stay 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:21.960 off the internet, Joseph R. Biden. I just want to 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.120 give the man an electric blanket and a mug of 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.280 hot piping hot Earl Gray tea, the little squeeze of lemon, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.960 and like a little drizzle of honey. And I want 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.920 to give him a crossword puzzle. And I want to 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.640 give him the big lazy boy chairs, you know what 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.320 I mean, Like the kind that your grandparents probably had 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.160 if you grew up between the you know, the nineties 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.200 to like the early two thousands. He needs one of 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.160 those lazy boy chairs. He needs some cute cozy socks. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.600 He needs Jill by his side, although she's a young 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.240 little thing, so she's probably like, you know, on her phone, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.280 grading papers whatever. But I need him in front of 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.640 a fireplace. I need him to take a nap. I 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.120 need him to be eighty one years old. It is 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.600 sad to me, this is my take. I wish I 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.560 could come here and give you, like all these different 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.080 angles of policies and like whatever was spoken about, you 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.920 know the truth. I don't know what the f they 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.720 talked about. I know that I was in a literal 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.760 like I was in Thank God I was watching in 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.040 bed because I could just curl up in a tight 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:25.560 little ball of anxiety, because it was so deeply uncomfortable 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:30.680 to watch this old man flub question after question, flub, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.200 response after response. Do you want to know why? Because 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.480 he's an old man, we should let this man age 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.800 with dignity, and we are in such dire straits that 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.240 we have to like prop him up with whatever he took, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.720 Probably nothing, by the sights of it. Whatever he needed 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.120 to stand up on that stage and try to string 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:54.080 words together way after his bedtime. The man is eighty one. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.960 My grandparents, God rest their souls. They each passed away 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.640 in their early eighties. And like, that's already a little 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.400 bit above I think the lifespan for the average American. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.280 But he's the president, so we'll give him an extra 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.240 ten twenty years. Look at Jimmy Carter, I feel like 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.240 they really get the good medicine, the secret stuff that 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.600 the rest of us probably don't know yet. But uh, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.560 it made me so deeply uncomfortable. And what was so 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.359 depressing for me too, is just like I feel so 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.199 bad for him because he no one, no one, and 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.440 you compare him to Trump. No one I don't think 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.960 has given over as much of their life to public 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.600 service as this man. He has been through so much. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.760 We all know what happened to his first wife and 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.639 his children who passed away, and the other son who 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.000 had a brain tumor in the other son who's just 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.040 like convicted of a felony. He can't catch a break, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.800 and yet we are. He's still showing up for us. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.679 He still cares about this country so much, and I 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.720 don't really have you know, of course, I'm not going 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.160 to vote for you know who, for Voldemort, but I 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.200 feel so much compassion and sympathy for this man that 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.000 he cannot just age with dignity and with grace. And 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.040 I feel so much gratitude. And this may not be 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.440 the popular response, but I feel a ton of gratitude 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.000 for him for putting himself up there and out there 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.840 in that way. Because y'all know that that man walked 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.000 out on that stage. He shuffled out there and his 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.800 Lemon pepper stoppers, and I wish he had a nice 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.800 comfy pair of Costco slippers to wear, but he shuffled 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.600 out on that stage and he probably knew like, this 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.320 is not going to be it. And I have read 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.600 that since the debate, not only has Obama had to 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.760 come out and issue a statement basically saying like, oh shucks, 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.120 can't win them all. I've had a couple of bad 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.000 debates myself, but the Biden campaign has been in damage 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.639 control mode since before Biden even left the stage, they 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.840 were contacting donors. So for voters, what does this mean? 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.280 They have basically taken the approach of yeah, it was 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.200 a bad night, but he's still the best beat versus Trump, 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.040 and that is honestly the truth. I don't have a 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.159 ton of patients for conversations around well, we're just not 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.960 going to vote. We have two bad candidates. I get 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:14.160 really pissed off when I see people call Trump and 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.600 Biden like, for example, two mediocre white men, Like, look 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.600 what they can do. They're two mediocre white men. We 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.240 should be doing this. Ah. I don't think that's fair 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.240 at all to Biden and his public service legacy. And 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.640 you can pick apart his policy and there's so much 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.280 going wrong. I know that the fact that we continue 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.560 to funnel weapons into a war zone that is killing, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.680 that is performing genocide on an entire people. Yes, I'm 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:41.000 talking about Gaza and Palestine. It is not okay that 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.199 the Americans that we have anything to do with that, 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.080 and that it's our weapons who are killing children's lives 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.160 like that is unacceptable to me. And Biden has complete 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:55.199 control over whether that continues or stops. However, the man's record, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.600 the man's decades of public service, Like I just think 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.160 that we need to give people some respect, give them 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.680 some space. Unfortunately, he is the candidate that we got 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.280 so yes, I'm showing up to the polls in November 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.600 and we have to vote. Please don't stay home, you 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.840 must vote. This is also a really good reminder of 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.440 the fact that the presidential election is not the election 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.359 to really worry about. You need to be involved in 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:26.200 your state politics. We just had a really progressive representative 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.719 in my district, Jamal Bowman, got ousted by a moderate 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.639 dude who's the executive the town, the county executive for 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.560 the county. I live in Westchester, George Latimer oust in 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.480 him because he's more moderate, because he wasn't as tough 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:45.359 on the whole Israel, the Israel genocide of Gaza right now. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.440 And this is what can happen if we take our 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.520 eyes off of these smaller I would say they're not smaller, 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:57.360 but like less publicized, less known about races like we can't. 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:04.679 We can't, We cannot afford to put our country on 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.359 the line in this way by just taking the easy 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.000 way out and saying like Biden is not fit for office, 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.080 so we're just not going to give a fuck mmmmmmm. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.280 We must show up, show up to the poles. Okayba fam. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.040 A little bit of brown buzz some pop culture moments. 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.000 Be ET Awards aired this weekend. I watched the Will 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.480 Smith performance because I couldn't believe he was performing. My 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.320 husband and I just saw Bad Boys. What was the tagline? 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.960 I don't know the fifth or fourth Bad Boys movie 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.520 that he and Martin Lawrence put out. All I can 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.760 say is, I don't know if the movie has changed. 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:42.720 It just you know, it is what it is. It 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.720 was a popcorn movie. It was entertaining, and maybe it 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.640 would have been funny if the Margarita had not already 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.280 worn off by the time I sat down in my seat. However, 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.000 when I heard he's performing, I was like, Wow, talk 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.320 about a comeback kid. So I want to talk about 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.679