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Hello. Welcome back, everybody. It is hour

0:04

three of the Donna and Steve show.

0:06

On my talk 1071, this is where

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talk is fun. I'm having a great

0:10

time. Having a real nice time. Real

0:12

nice time. Real nice. We are getting

0:14

a little hungry. And so I know

0:16

that this is very out of order. No,

0:19

you're out of order. Courtroom talk,

0:22

right? We thought that

0:24

we would call Chef Brian now to find out

0:26

the soup of the day. And if it's good enough,

0:28

we wondered if he might be willing to Uber

0:30

eat this crap and bring it up to us and

0:32

Donna would even pay a little delivery fee a

0:34

little surcharge I have to find money though.

0:37

It's gotta be in that bag somewhere So let's call

0:39

the cafeteria and find out what the soup of the

0:41

day are we doing the intro and everything to

0:44

Donna

0:47

you're holding a paper

0:49

receipt next segment

0:51

hey big B dog.

0:53

What's up? We

0:56

just putting it out

0:58

You know yeah, hey, man. We're

1:00

a little hungry Hence the

1:02

early early. This is early, but

1:05

the cafeteria is open, right? Yep.

1:07

What is the soup of the

1:09

day today chicken noodle? Oh standard what

1:11

somebody have a cold? How

1:14

about the on

1:16

trade today? It is

1:19

a Greek chicken

1:21

flatbread with pastel fat

1:23

up harm chicken

1:25

Artichokes Tomato yummy

1:27

on that's probably bad for my diet though.

1:30

No, that's kind of healthy

1:32

pretty healthy a of olive

1:34

oil What's uh, do we have to do

1:36

the flatbread thing? Can we just have the stuff on

1:38

top? Well, I mean they're

1:40

already pre -made so how

1:42

about you just take one

1:44

and then you pick it

1:46

apart as you need necessary

1:48

You already know it's soups gonna

1:51

be on Monday No, I won't

1:53

know Monday till 10 That's

1:55

so stressful. do do? Just pull something out of the

1:57

YouTube. You're just like, what do I got in the fridge? Let's

2:00

see. Yeah. Who are you? Yeah. Yeah.

2:03

Let's go. I like the pressure.

2:05

Otherwise it's like, oh, boring. I got

2:07

to make a soup. I like the, you

2:09

know, the, oh, the time's ticking. I

2:11

got to get it. Yeah. Okay. That's great.

2:13

That's awesome. All right. We love you.

2:15

Thank you for answering early. Bye. Bye. Bye.

2:18

Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

2:20

Bye. Bye I

2:24

almost never cook in a crock pot. I

2:27

think instant pots scare me

2:30

as well. I'm gonna agree with

2:32

you on that one. I hardly use a

2:34

toaster. Say

2:36

less. That's

2:39

the last time you use your toaster.

2:41

I don't like, hang on, I don't like

2:43

pressure cookers, instant pots because they sound

2:45

like they're gonna blow. Yeah,

2:47

it sounds very dangerous. Very off -putting.

2:49

Very dangerous. It's like the equivalent

2:52

of a Like what a jackhammer

2:54

is to road work, that's what

2:56

the pressure cooker instant pot is

2:58

to cooking. Yeah, I worry about

3:00

the ceiling. I worry about my

3:02

face. Yeah, I think it's gonna

3:04

blow up. Yeah, me too. When

3:07

is the last time you used your toaster?

3:09

I mean, it was like a month ago,

3:11

but I don't, I don't toast very much.

3:14

I brought Lou, my wife, a bagel

3:16

home from New York. If you

3:18

toast a bagel, I just can't be

3:20

friends with you. Why would

3:23

you do that? Why would you

3:25

ruin it? The texture is perfection if

3:27

you get a good bagel Having

3:29

now heard that I will not tell

3:31

you the rest of the story. Okay

3:34

Interesting that you say that what about when you

3:36

get them from like a bagel shop? Aren't they

3:38

toasting them a little bit? I don't want them

3:40

toast. Mine's got I got all warmed up Although

3:42

I had a bagel the other day, but it

3:44

was a New York bagel So I don't know

3:46

if it was like a New York the New

3:48

York water helps bagels taste better they say but

3:51

It was warm, but didn't feel crunchy like

3:53

when I got it and ate it

3:55

It was it was like a hot bagel,

3:57

but not toasted. What do you think

3:59

they did? Or did they they boil them?

4:01

Don't you just boil bagels? Well, that's

4:03

how you make them but then when they

4:05

serve it to me You wanted it

4:07

toasted I have to ask for it to

4:09

be toasted. I think it was toasted.

4:11

It was hot No, but they come out

4:13

hot, but they didn't get it like

4:15

right out of the boiling water, Donna. They

4:17

were sitting in a display case and

4:19

I said, I'll take that one. Maybe they're

4:21

under a warmer. I don't think

4:23

they were. It just looked like a standard cabinet.

4:25

And they said, we can't do 10 minutes on

4:27

anything. Um,

4:29

so many of our conversations

4:32

leave me feeling unsatisfied. Like

4:34

I don't get to ask a lot

4:37

of rhetorical questions that you want answers to.

4:40

Yeah. I guess I

4:42

just want different answers. Okay.

4:45

How is this one for you? I

4:47

don't know. Is

4:49

that better? No, that feels

4:52

dismissive. Oh. Can we get

4:54

one of our New Yorkers on the line, please?

4:56

No, no. They have

4:58

to call long distance the whole

5:00

thing. There's no long distance anymore. I've

5:03

got some fun stuff for you. Oh, here we

5:05

go. Here's a question on Reddit. Why do New Yorkers

5:07

not like their bagels toasted? I didn't know that

5:09

was a New York thing. Um, because

5:11

they're already warm. They're meant to

5:13

be soft and chewy. That's what

5:15

mine was. You could

5:17

taste the freshness of the bread that

5:19

was baked that day. Okay,

5:22

maybe that's what I had. It was very

5:24

good. It was in everything bagel. Delicious.

5:28

Yeah, so you had a freshly

5:30

baked bagel. Maybe they were there

5:33

like for five minutes before you walked

5:35

in the door. They

5:37

looked so good. I kind of

5:39

was wondering, are these store

5:41

bought? Like or are you really

5:43

making these all in the back because it was also

5:45

like a like a mini Mart? It

5:47

said bagels really big on the sign and then

5:49

I got in and I was like wait a minute.

5:52

I got like a salad bar in the middle

5:54

Oh, you can buy pre -made protein shakes. It wasn't

5:56

just like a bagel joint. Oh

5:58

Interesting, I don't know what

6:00

to tell you now.

6:02

I'm super hungry Really, that's

6:04

all it takes to

6:07

get you hungry talking about

6:09

yummy food Okay Hey

6:12

Donna. I

6:14

got a fun list of

6:16

some actors who kind of saved

6:19

themselves by turning down movies

6:21

that people ended up hating. Like

6:24

did you know Margot Robbie turned

6:26

down a role in a movie

6:28

Ghost in the Shell? Scarlett Johansson

6:30

ended up taking the lead in

6:32

that. and got tons of backlash

6:34

for portraying what was originally an

6:36

Asian character. And so they were

6:38

like, no, this should have gone

6:40

to an Asian actress. And so

6:42

Margot Robbie dodged that bullet, but

6:45

Scarlett Johansson did not. Although Scarlett

6:47

Johansson seemed to rebound just fine.

6:49

Yeah, she'll be okay. Hugh

6:51

Jackman and Anne Hathaway

6:53

both turned down roles

6:55

in Cats. That

6:58

was smart. The critically

7:00

panned disaster. Good move. That

7:02

was Cats. Let's

7:05

see here. Jordan

7:08

Peele turned down the emoji movie.

7:10

That was an animated movie. He was

7:12

offered the voice of the poo

7:14

emoji. That

7:16

was ultimately taken by Patrick Stewart.

7:19

Yes, I remember that. Sir Patrick Stewart.

7:21

That's hilarious. I would like to

7:23

hear him as poo. The emoji movie

7:25

did not get great reviews. I

7:27

just want to tell you, I thought

7:29

it was pretty smart. I

7:31

watched it and thought, why do people not

7:33

like this movie? It was creative. It was

7:35

clever. I love the

7:37

idea of Patrick Stewart as poo.

7:40

And by poo, I mean poo poo. Not

7:43

Winnie. Right. That's

7:47

all. All right. I'm hungry and distracted

7:49

now and now I might be getting

7:51

hangry. Okay. I'm sensing a

7:53

mood shift. You're very hangry. Donna,

7:56

tell everybody what's happening over there.

7:58

All right, Stormer, what's going on? We

8:00

may have a snack on the way as we

8:02

currently speak. Our lovely, unpaid

8:05

researcher Phil said he is going to

8:07

drop off some fresh cheese curds because he

8:09

was just in Green Bay for the

8:11

NFL Draft last night. Yeah?

8:15

What does that have to do with the draft? It

8:17

was in Green Bay last

8:19

night. Did you hear that part?

8:21

Yes. Do you guys want the cheese curds or

8:23

not? Oh, because he was in Wisconsin. Okay,

8:26

got it. I don't really think gonna pass

8:28

on the cheese curds because I'm trying to eat

8:30

smarter right now. I can't eat a cheese

8:32

curd. I think he's already on his way. Okay,

8:34

fine, we'll share. That sounds like Stormer. It

8:36

sounds like you've got some cheese curds coming your

8:38

way. Also, -

8:40

Saboteur? Hate to be

8:42

Nellie Naysayer, but how fresh can the

8:45

curds be if they were from Green Bay

8:47

last night? Well, I think it's squeaky

8:49

cheese. I don't think it's like a deep

8:51

fried curd. I think it's just the -

8:53

I don't like the squeaky. I don't

8:55

like the squeaky. I'm passing. I am grateful

8:57

that he would think of us. That

9:00

is very kind of him. Yeah. He's trying

9:02

to buy his way back in. Yeah.

9:04

No, you're, you're, you're, these are your Kurds

9:06

now, Stormer. Hey, what do you mean

9:08

squeaky? Like it, like actually, like

9:10

when you bite into it, it can make like

9:12

a little bit of a squeak noise. I don't

9:14

like that one bit. Well, it's not alive.

9:16

It's just a little sound because of the texture.

9:19

I don't like that. Nope. It's like nails on

9:21

a chalkboard. I don't

9:23

like that. I don't want my food

9:25

to squeak. When

9:27

we come back, I have

9:29

got a reason why you should always

9:31

say no when they ask you if

9:33

you want a printed receipt. This

9:35

was sort of shocking. We'll

9:37

tell you that story when we come

9:39

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Hello. Hello. All right. Hello. All

10:47

right. Listen, before you get

10:49

to your study, do

10:52

ribs? This

10:55

is like Steve with the chicken

10:57

this morning. Oh my God.

10:59

Okay. So I said that

11:01

chicken, I forgot to ask Brian.

11:03

So I had said that chicken

11:05

tenders were made from tendons of

11:07

the chicken. I meant tenderloins is

11:09

what I thought they were made

11:11

from. Not not tendons

11:13

like the hard chewy tendon. Correct.

11:16

Okay. So now we get

11:18

an email from Jesse who says

11:20

Basically you big dummy. Yeah,

11:22

like do you also think ribs

11:24

are ribs? Yeah, do you

11:27

think chicken fingers come from their

11:29

claws? I did think ribs

11:31

were ribs. I kind of did too.

11:33

They do look like ribs. It looks like

11:35

a rib cage. You telling me that's not? What

11:37

is it? I feel like that's the

11:39

ribs. That's there I

11:41

feel like I've been lied to for

11:44

a long time and I'm not putting

11:46

up with this garbage anymore It's either

11:48

ribs or what just like side belly

11:50

bones. I don't know. What are those

11:52

bones? And how they

11:54

get so many? We

11:58

also have an email over an audio

12:00

message from our app ribs pork ribs

12:02

come from the ribs section of the

12:04

pig hey and come in two different

12:06

parts pork back ribs and pork spare

12:08

ribs of these two types of pork

12:10

ribs, baby back ribs. I want my

12:12

baby back, baby back, baby back, baby

12:15

back, baby back, baby back, back. You

12:17

were supposed to come in on it. Now,

12:19

no, I'm not gonna say it. Our

12:22

cuts of pork taken from the upper portion of

12:24

the ribcage. Yeah. Email him back.

12:26

Suck it, Jesse. There you go. Jesse

12:29

says, chicken tenders are not us eating

12:31

the chicken tendons, just like barbecue ribs

12:33

are not eating the actual ribs of

12:35

the pig. Okay, I don't think we're

12:37

eating the bone. But

12:39

we just want to be clear that

12:41

the ribs come from the meat rib

12:43

cage, right? Yeah, all right. What was

12:46

our audio message? I

12:48

don't know it was from

12:50

Becky. She had this to say

12:52

Can you guys like just

12:54

take the squeaky cheese and not

12:56

find everything wrong with the

12:58

situation? Becky

13:01

thank you so much for sending

13:03

in that note and the answer is

13:05

no I'm not gonna let this

13:08

guy Come force feed me. What

13:10

do you think? I am going

13:12

to let someone else dictate my diet. Donna,

13:14

we are both trying to lose 40 to 50

13:16

pounds within the next seven days. That is

13:18

correct. And a big bag of

13:20

room temperature squeaky cheese is not okay

13:22

for that. I appreciate it. Stormer's the

13:24

one to say, yeah, Stormer, you're getting

13:26

it. You have to eat it, not

13:28

us. We can't eat that

13:30

way until like day four of

13:32

the cruise. Oh, day one

13:34

of the cruise. I'm going to town. What's

13:37

the point? I don't get it. I

13:40

don't know. If you start fat, then you'll

13:42

get even fatter. If you start a little less

13:44

fat, you don't get quite as fat. You

13:46

do this during state fair time too. Not

13:49

really. No, but the cruise, I'm going

13:51

to eat so much food. I can't

13:53

wait. I'm jazzed. Yeah. Donna, one of

13:55

the things I'm looking forward to most

13:57

is eating. But what about your swimsuit

14:01

catch me day one y 'all cuz it's

14:03

downhill from there I you this I'm just

14:05

saying if you get to a better

14:08

starting point that's the only reason you're doing

14:10

this yeah I'm not gonna go on

14:12

a cruise and eat a tight diet although

14:14

you'll have plenty of healthy options they

14:16

do have a lot of healthy options you

14:18

could have that But your boy's going

14:20

to be eating an S -cargo every night.

14:22

Would you like some dinner rolls with that?

14:25

Yes. Can't decide between the entrees? I'll

14:27

get both. I stopped listening to you like

14:29

20 seconds live like a medieval king

14:31

on this cruise. Got another

14:33

email here. Oh, I'm G. OMG,

14:36

Steve. I love your curiosity. You

14:38

both should read the article that

14:40

came out this week about the

14:42

10 -year -old that was questioning if

14:44

Cat Buttholes touched everything they sat

14:46

on. The parent encouraged

14:48

her to find out. That was

14:50

Steve when he was 10. And

14:53

you gotta love a parent that encourages

14:55

their kid's curiosity. And FYI,

14:57

cat butt holes do not touch

14:59

the surface. I

15:01

think they do. Don't

15:04

they? I don't

15:06

think so. Oh, what is it? It's

15:08

like a little small layer of fur. I

15:11

don't know. I don't know

15:13

if there is. I don't

15:15

think there is. There's a

15:17

little layer of fur. Yeah,

15:20

they're just... Yeah,

15:22

like fresh flesh.

15:25

Fresh flesh. Pretty much.

15:27

Why does that sound so terrible

15:29

together? Fresh flesh. I

15:34

think that we often have

15:36

to turn a blind eye

15:38

to how exposed our pets

15:40

organs are. Right, you know

15:42

what? It's almost like alien

15:44

like the way they just

15:47

kind of like my dogs,

15:49

but It's almost like you

15:51

could see it's lower intestine

15:53

Coming out of her butt

15:55

before she goes Why are

15:57

you looking that close? I

16:00

just noticed I'm like what's

16:02

happening? What is that? And

16:04

I was like, oh, I guess she just

16:06

has a real What do they call that?

16:08

Isn't that a term for that? Or

16:12

no, like a pearl lapse. That's

16:14

it. I don't think so.

16:16

She's a youngie. I

16:18

don't know. By the way, Shelly said,

16:20

we all just witnessed real time stormer

16:22

realizing why you go through so many

16:24

producers. You're

16:29

probably not wrong. Hey, I

16:31

have something on paper receipts. Oh.

16:36

We're about to talk about paper receipts

16:38

and how they could be killing

16:40

you and now Donna is just willy

16:42

-nilly touching all our paper receipts. You're

16:44

going to regret this. Health

16:47

researchers say that thermal

16:49

paper receipts often have

16:51

high levels of a

16:53

forever chemical called BPS.

16:56

It's similar to BPA, which is

16:59

in plastics. You've

17:01

probably seen labels that say

17:03

like BPA free. Well, the

17:05

BPS in the receipts that

17:07

you're handling, they say is

17:09

hormone disrupting. And that checks

17:12

out visually, at

17:14

least. It

17:17

mimics estrogen and can throw

17:19

off the normal functioning of

17:21

the body, including metabolism, growth

17:23

and development, and reproduction. The

17:26

chemical can be absorbed

17:28

through skin when handling paper

17:30

receipts. And supposedly holding

17:32

a BPS laced receipt for

17:34

just 10 seconds can have,

17:36

quote, serious health consequences.

17:39

Shut your face! Why is this

17:41

not outlawed? It's not a new

17:43

discovery. Scientists have been researching the

17:45

harmful effects of BPS for a

17:47

while. But in 2021, German researchers

17:49

warned that it could seriously damage

17:51

human brains after studying its effects

17:53

on goldfish. This

17:56

is news now because the Center

17:58

for Environmental Health conducted a study

18:00

recently and found that many retailers

18:02

are using thermal receipts with overly

18:04

high levels of this bad BPS.

18:06

So they're planning to sue retailers

18:08

who continue to use these without

18:10

proving, providing clear warnings on the

18:12

receipts. CBS,

18:17

we're looking at you. Boy,

18:19

you gotta love their commitment

18:21

at CBS to the medieval

18:23

scroll style receipt. Hear

18:25

ye, hear hear ye, ye, ye, ye, hear ye,

18:27

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18:30

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18:32

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18:36

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18:41

ye,

18:47

hear ye, hear

18:50

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18:52

hear ye, hear ye baby.

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19:45

everybody. Welcome back. Thank you

19:47

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19:49

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lot of office activity out there. A

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lot of fun things are happening.

19:55

Yeah. What? We

19:58

promised them. Oh, the clapping. Hey,

20:01

everybody. Don't

20:03

say we never gave you anything. We

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gave you the clap. Is

20:07

that a sexually transmitted disease? Look

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it chlamydia? I

20:15

think so. You don't think so. You

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know. Is it or isn't it? I don't

20:19

know. What do I look like? Dr.

20:21

Ruth? I have no idea. Well,

20:23

what do you say? Visually? You're

20:27

so funny. You kind of look like

20:29

Sally Jesse Raphael today. Thank

20:31

you. And

20:34

also a little bit like

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Raphael, the turtle. Okay.

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20:46

for 2025. Okay.

20:49

These are, this is coming

20:51

from GQ staffers. Okay. I

20:53

need this. I really need to step

20:55

my fashion game up. Okay.

20:58

I've been, I'm trying.

21:03

Don't look. Yeah. No, you have a nice jacket. I do have

21:05

a nice jacket. I got it. It's very nice. Okay. Torpedo

21:08

shoes are

21:10

hot. This is one

21:12

that I don't like. I do not

21:14

like the shape of this shoe.

21:16

They look like cleats. Yeah, I don't

21:18

like that. I'm gonna pass on

21:20

this one. They're aerodynamic. Yeah,

21:23

they're gonna add momentum against

21:25

the chunky shoe agenda. Yeah.

21:28

The chunky shoe agenda.

21:31

These are nice. I

21:34

don't love the torpedo shape of

21:36

the shoe. Okay. So I'm gonna pass

21:38

on that one. Wushing

21:41

windbreakers are having a moment this year.

21:44

This is fun. I think it's

21:46

great. And I think it's the one thing

21:48

that I've learned, which is add a

21:50

third piece. You know,

21:52

I'm very often just shirt and pant

21:54

guy, but if you add a third

21:56

layer to something, I think

21:58

it then makes the look more interesting. So

22:00

this is Wushing windbreakers, but it could also

22:02

be a cardigan or something like that. Sort

22:05

of a top layer. You know what I'm

22:07

saying? Yes I do. Okay,

22:09

how do you feel

22:11

about carrying a Merse

22:13

or a tote? Because

22:15

voluminous totes are big. I

22:17

probably won't do that. I would

22:19

want something that could be

22:21

a cross -body bag. Okay. Okay,

22:24

you could do that. What do they

22:26

call those messenger bags? Yes. Yeah, exactly.

22:28

That's what this is. That's

22:31

too big, but that's it. Here, let me see. I

22:33

want to try that on. Okay,

22:35

so I have a suede brown bag

22:38

that I carry my work stuff.

22:40

I've got my watch. Yes. Oh, watches

22:42

are on the list, too. Yeah,

22:45

that looks great. All right. He's posing.

22:47

He's posing like he's in the Sears catalog.

22:50

It does look great. Stop it. God,

22:54

you're... Don't work. Yeah.

22:56

I like the messenger bag thing. Little

22:58

denim jacket. Let's go. All

23:00

right. Yeah. Everybody knows denim

23:02

jacket Steve debuted about a

23:05

month ago. It's my

23:07

first time ever purchasing a denim jacket.

23:09

Okay. Mellow

23:11

yellow. What does that

23:13

mean? Um, it's just, you

23:16

know, it's just a - That's a

23:18

bad color. That's a bad color for

23:20

you. me, for me, for me.

23:22

How do you feel about, um, big

23:24

Ben jeans? You know, I

23:27

know the bigger, I do know the

23:29

bigger jean movement is a thing right

23:32

now, bigger wider pants. I do like

23:34

tighter, but I've moved away from skinny.

23:36

Okay. In fact, right

23:38

now I'm wearing Levi 512s.

23:40

I think these are slim

23:42

and that's like, it's

23:44

like, I feel good in that. Okay.

23:46

I feel good in that. Freaky office

23:48

wear. What does that mean? It

23:51

means freaky office

23:54

wear. There's

23:56

a lot of labels

23:58

tapping into this office

24:00

rebellion. with traditional

24:02

suiting fabrics cut

24:04

into the silhouettes of

24:06

like classic button -ups

24:08

made with like

24:10

some punk details. Like

24:13

frayed seams and stuff like that. You

24:15

got it. I don't love that. I'm

24:18

gonna pass on that. Listen, I'm not

24:20

gonna take everything the GQ gives me.

24:22

Alright, okay. I'm gonna pick and choose

24:24

from what they're offering. Alright, let me

24:26

see what else they got here. Clasps.

24:28

Oh, these are like big clasps on

24:30

your jacket. Do not like this one

24:32

bit. So this would be like instead

24:34

of having multiple buttons or a zipper,

24:37

it's like three chunky clasps. That goes

24:39

like metal across. Yeah, I

24:41

do not like that. Okay.

24:43

Okay, okay. Crewneck cardigans.

24:45

Yeah, I do. It's been a while since

24:47

I've worn a cardigan. There was a season

24:49

of my life Donna, cardigan guy.

24:51

Always in a cardigan. And a cardigan

24:53

means like a button down. Yeah, like

24:55

a sweater -y type button down. But you

24:57

know, it's sort of like a sweater

25:00

-y jacket -y thing. All right, all right.

25:02

Tartan dress shirts are big for men

25:04

in 2025, according to GQ. I'll

25:07

tell you who commandeered the black and

25:09

white checkered shirt. Who? Clear

25:12

at the airport. You

25:14

can't wear one of those shirts while

25:16

traveling. You'll look like you're working for

25:18

Clear. Is that

25:20

the... They wear checkered shirts. Black and

25:23

white and it doesn't say clear on

25:25

it. It's just like you have to

25:27

have this shirt when you work here.

25:29

And now anytime I see it, I'm

25:31

only thinking clear, clear, clear. Interesting. You

25:33

know what I don't like about the airport right

25:35

now? What's that? I

25:38

don't want them taking my picture before

25:40

I go through security. Get over yourself.

25:42

Get out of here with that business.

25:44

What do you care? Get out of

25:46

here. What are you doing with my

25:48

picture? Oh, please don't flatter yourself that

25:50

much. You think they're like saving it

25:52

for their own personal use? No, I

25:54

don't think they're saving it for personal

25:56

use. It's just kind of a little

25:58

bit of a intrusion. You're

26:01

already in public looking that way, so

26:03

they digitally want to scan you quick.

26:05

What do you care? Anyway, back to

26:07

the list. Razor thin eyewear. I don't

26:09

love this. I'm with you on this.

26:11

This is not a good look. Little

26:13

pins. Now, I do like

26:15

this. I do

26:17

like I've seen this on

26:19

the red carpet and I

26:21

think it's really cool. It's

26:24

so it's men wearing more

26:26

jewelry, brooches, pins. You

26:29

know, like you could put a little frog on

26:31

your lapel. You know I

26:33

mean? Yeah, that's cute. That's cute.

26:36

I'm like, I'm into like three of

26:38

these ideas. All

26:40

right. It's fine. I don't

26:42

know. You're not into the brooch. I'll

26:45

give you a few brooches. You could check

26:47

them out. Fashion wise, you know, I've made some

26:49

mistakes in terms of what I have worn

26:51

on live with Kelly and Mark. It

26:53

happens. So the other day I go out,

26:55

I wear this green shirt, navy blue pants,

26:57

and these cool new shoes that I got.

26:59

So digging the shoes, like the pants, but

27:01

at this green shirt that I got, it

27:04

was fine. It looked a little more

27:06

muted than I wanted it to when I

27:08

saw it back on television, but the

27:10

error I made this time. And

27:12

by the way, it's always

27:14

a dangerous situation as a

27:16

guy standing next to Mark

27:18

Consuelos. You know, like

27:20

ladies, how sometimes you'll want to position

27:22

yourself in a photo correctly. Everybody's doing that

27:24

side turn, the one leg out. Or

27:26

I want to be in the middle so

27:28

that you can like cover part of

27:30

my torso. I feel like people don't want

27:33

to be in the middle because they

27:35

want to be able to do their turned

27:37

angle thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I get

27:39

it. Point is, I watch

27:41

and immediately I was like, oh

27:43

no, I had put texturing powder

27:45

in my hair, like right before I

27:47

went out, just a little more added

27:49

in my dressing room. And

27:51

if you don't put it in

27:53

properly and then if you get

27:55

under the right light, it

27:57

will look like you have a big

27:59

gray patch or almost like Your hair

28:01

is thinning like you're like a balding

28:03

spot. Oh, no. And so when I

28:05

first saw it, I was like, oh,

28:07

darn it. I did not mix that

28:09

in properly. And I already been to

28:11

hair and makeup, but then I went

28:13

on my own and added stuff. And

28:15

then it's only under that harsh light

28:17

that you would see it, which is

28:19

like they have great lights there. But

28:21

I was like, I think I look

28:23

like I'm kind of going bald. I'm

28:25

so sorry. It's fine for

28:27

your hair loss. Thank you, Donna. Boot

28:30

cut jeans are in right now. Hmm,

28:33

I'm not gonna do that.

28:35

I don't think it would work

28:37

in my favor. I just

28:39

think that the Style for me

28:42

It just feels a little

28:44

High school little too high school

28:46

reminiscent. Okay, you know what?

28:48

I don't like and this is

28:50

in right now Zippy's zippy

28:53

sweaters. Hmm That zip at the

28:55

top. Okay. I don't like

28:57

those. So you mean like a

28:59

quarter zip? Yeah, okay a

29:01

lot of people like the it's

29:04

like a golf. Yes a

29:06

lot of people like that too

29:08

You know what? I'm not

29:10

a big hate those shirts. I'm

29:12

not a big fan of

29:15

the zippy polo shirt There's zippy

29:17

polo shirts now set of

29:19

the buttons set of the buttons

29:21

just feels a little Not

29:23

great oh Some of these pants.

29:26

Oh look rings rough rings

29:29

Yeah, shiny silver. Get

29:33

more, get it all like scuffed

29:35

up. Yeah. Skunking

29:38

likes it. That's

29:41

all I got for you. What about you? What

29:43

are you trying fashion wise? What's your approach to

29:46

the summer? Because

29:48

there's... I don't know. I

29:50

hate summer. I hate

29:52

dressing in the summer. I

29:54

don't know. Maybe I'll get into like sun

29:56

dresses. Oh, yeah, those

29:59

look comfortable. They do,

30:01

right? Yeah, do you not have a sun dress? I

30:03

have some sun dresses. Do you a sun hat?

30:06

I do. I have few. A hat? Okay,

30:08

that's good. Packing up some hats. A

30:10

wide enough brim so it gets... Ah, you're

30:12

so funny so my nose doesn't burn. Sorry

30:16

for looking out for you. you do it? I

30:18

don't know how you do it. I have

30:20

basal cell carcinoma. I think one

30:22

of my stitches is coming out from inside of my

30:24

body. What? What

30:28

stitches? When

30:30

they did the mose procedure on my

30:32

neck for the little basal cell. So there's

30:34

stitches on the inside? I talked to

30:36

somebody who said, yeah, I got the mose

30:38

procedure. And she was like, yeah, sometimes

30:40

like little threads will of come out and

30:42

they tell you not to like pull

30:44

them, but like you could just like clip

30:46

them off. Give yourself like a facelift. Oh,

30:50

I'm so sorry to hear that. No, it's

30:52

okay, Donna. Did you swallow your camera yet? I

30:54

have not eaten the camera yet, the pill

30:57

cam that they have prescribed. And last night, I

30:59

forgot to put my suppository in. All

31:02

right, we don't have to share

31:04

everything. 30 days, they had

31:06

me doing suppositories. And I

31:08

tell you what, first night, I'm like,

31:10

oh my gosh, I have to do what? I

31:13

have a low, when we lay down, I got to

31:15

lift my right leg. This is all crazy. And look around

31:17

for a freaking petroleum jelly. Then.

31:19

Four days later, it goes from this totally foreign

31:21

experience to I'm like, oh, you know, I don't

31:23

even have time to lay down. And I just

31:25

grab it and like, that'll do. All right. And

31:28

we're moving. But

31:31

you got to do the camera. What are you

31:34

waiting for? I just don't have

31:36

an appetite for it yet. I'll

31:38

do it. I'm going to do

31:40

it after the cruise, probably eat the

31:42

camera. We should go when we

31:44

come back. Instagram

31:47

one. They

31:49

gave me advertisements enough for something and

31:51

I'm gonna try it and I think a

31:53

lot of you Might like to try

31:55

this as well. If you want to beautify

31:57

your outdoor space Tell you what I'm

31:59

gonna try and there's something I'm gonna need

32:01

to rent in order to do this

32:03

correctly That all when we come back Donna

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32:58

Hey Donna. Hey Steve in case you all missed it

33:00

the soup is chicken noodle. Yes we caught at

33:02

11 o 'clock because we were feeling a little bit

33:04

hungry. Yeah, we didn't get

33:07

any soup. No, we ended

33:09

up not ordering it. And then he's

33:11

got some pre -made wraps downstairs. Focaccia.

33:15

Focaccia bread. It's flat

33:17

bread, some kind of flat bread.

33:19

Oh, okay. That's pre -made. All

33:21

right. Well, what are you looking up there?

33:23

You're looking up some suppository info. I was

33:25

trying to find, I need to show, off

33:28

here, I'm going to show you a video

33:30

that I was watching last week when I

33:32

had to learn how to insert it. And

33:34

I just thought, Is this my life? I

33:36

mean, they had like, like a

33:38

moppet on the table. It was actually

33:40

like how a nurse would put it

33:43

in for someone, although same rules apply.

33:45

But there were just, it

33:48

was just a jarring visual

33:50

experience. That was fine, right?

33:53

That was fine, yeah, yeah, yeah, fine. But I

33:55

need you to see the video just so you can

33:57

understand what my Friday night was like last Friday. You

34:00

know what? Don't

34:02

say. I was just gonna say, You're

34:05

such a baby. Oh, I know.

34:08

I mean, ladies know what

34:11

I'm talking about. You

34:14

know, comes in

34:16

every tampon box, the

34:18

little illustration. That's crazy. It's

34:21

crazy. Shout out to all

34:23

you ladies. Thank you. Shout out.

34:25

It's really wild. It's a

34:27

wild ride. Say that right

34:29

now. Well, Instagram advertising got the

34:31

best of me again. Oh, what'd

34:33

you buy? I am now going

34:35

to grow a wildflower meadow. That's

34:40

what I want to do. But I

34:42

want to do it in my retaining walls.

34:44

Perfect. I can show you what

34:46

I bought seed last night. I don't

34:48

know why Instagram randomly threw this out

34:50

to me. I almost bought it from

34:52

Instagram too. That's so funny. Okay, so

34:54

this wildflower mix is making the rounds

34:56

on social media. And I thought, you

34:58

know what? There's this base of my

35:00

property that bumps right up into this

35:02

like meadowy, preserving area. Oh, that'd be

35:04

nice. And so I found some just

35:06

on Amazon. I didn't buy them through

35:09

Instagram, but Instagram influenced the decision heavily.

35:11

Sure. Went and found some that work

35:13

in our zone here in Minnesota, zone

35:15

four, and got a wildflower mix. And

35:17

the, I'm going to go

35:19

and rent a rototiller. Oh.

35:22

And then that way you need

35:24

to till up the ground. And then

35:26

from there, you just, spread the

35:28

seed, keep it well watered, and

35:30

they have a pretty high germination rate. And

35:32

so I just thought it would look so beautiful

35:34

if at the base of, you know, for

35:36

me at the base of the property, right at

35:38

the edge of the yard, if

35:41

behind the trees on the ground

35:43

level were beautiful, colorful, wild flowers.

35:45

I don't want any more of

35:47

those cone flowers though. What cone

35:49

flowers? I'm looking at a mix

35:51

and they just have like a

35:53

big eye in the middle. And

35:55

I have a bunch of these

35:57

on my property. I don't want

35:59

those. I don't want any of those. Yeah.

36:03

Oh my God. Great minds think alike.

36:05

Yeah. Because I have like

36:07

retaining walls that back up against

36:09

the like a wooded area. Yeah. And

36:11

I don't want to see like

36:13

the ground of the wooded area because

36:15

there's like leaves and stuff. Yeah.

36:17

And it just adds a nice little

36:19

sprinkle of color out there too.

36:21

Can you do it later like in

36:24

May? I think so. I think

36:26

early spring is usually best, but I

36:28

mean, before it gets really hot, it's probably

36:30

the best time. Otherwise doing it in

36:32

the fall. But I think people

36:34

who have, and then you get a lot

36:36

of perennials in there. You know, I

36:38

think some of these mixes have some annuals

36:40

in them, but there are a lot

36:42

of perennials. And so in theory, it gets

36:44

better looking, keeps coming back for you.

36:46

I love it. I love it. I don't

36:48

want to do anything until after this

36:50

cruise. You know what

36:52

I mean? I don't want to put patio

36:54

furniture out. I don't want to deal with

36:56

nothing I Don't want to buy flowers because

36:58

then I have to ask neighbors to water

37:00

them for me. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want

37:02

to deal with the patio furniture You could

37:04

price I don't feel like it. All right.

37:06

Well, you're making that a bigger deal I

37:09

think that it is. Oh, I don't know.

37:11

What are you doing tomorrow? I

37:14

Have a benefit to

37:16

go to Really? Yes.

37:19

What are you doing? I'm gonna

37:21

go to my daughter's dance

37:23

competition. Oh, both

37:25

daughters? Yeah. Nice.

37:28

What benefit are you going to? Don't worry

37:30

about it. Are you a plus? Are

37:32

you emceeing it? Maybe. Just say yes or

37:34

no. Don't be weird. Well, you don't

37:37

be weird. I'm just asking some normal questions.

37:40

You're dodging and that seems weird. Donna,

37:42

tomorrow, you don't have to say what it is.

37:44

Are you emceeing a benefit tomorrow? Yes,

37:46

I am. I'm making

37:49

some announcements. Thank

37:52

you. I would like

37:54

to see your wildflowers, please. I'd

37:56

like to see your mix. Hey,

37:58

Donna. Hey, Steve, when did you get here? One

38:00

thing we didn't get to earlier. Boy,

38:05

she cracks herself up today. One

38:08

thing you didn't get to earlier was something

38:10

that you should do after being ghosted. Yes,

38:12

and I think this is

38:14

like kind of a no -brainer.

38:17

This is coming from a relationship

38:19

expert who is weighing in

38:21

on this. There's something you should

38:23

do and something you shouldn't

38:25

do. When ghosted. Right. Okay. So

38:27

let's start with what you

38:29

shouldn't do. Basically, don't

38:31

look for closure. No matter

38:33

how much you want it,

38:35

you can send one follow

38:38

-up text checking in, but

38:40

if they don't respond, that

38:42

silence may be all

38:44

the closure you get.

38:47

Accept it. Nonverbal

38:49

closure is difficult closure.

38:52

You know, I think it depends. Is this

38:54

like after a first date or is

38:56

this after a month of dating? Yeah.

38:58

There's a big difference. That'd

39:01

be tough to deal with. After a

39:03

first, you know, it's someone fair. Here's

39:06

why. It

39:08

really leaves the person on

39:10

the who's getting ghosted,

39:12

it really leaves them in a bad

39:14

place. Like, what did I do? Did

39:16

I say something? Did I have something

39:18

in my teeth? You know,

39:20

did I, I don't know, offend

39:23

and not know it? Yeah,

39:25

that's tough. It's so tough. I

39:27

found out from someone, I'm

39:29

not kidding when I

39:31

say 20 years later, somebody

39:34

that is like kind of sort of

39:36

a colleague that I would only see

39:38

every now and then. brought

39:41

up the fact that without

39:43

giving you too much information,

39:45

you know what it turned

39:47

out to be? After

39:51

kind of getting ghosted, he

39:53

was embarrassed because he had diarrhea

39:55

and he had to go to

39:57

the bathroom and kind of like

39:59

shut down the night. And

40:01

I was like, what did I do? I don't

40:03

understand. Wow. So it

40:05

could be something as simple as like

40:07

you had a physical

40:10

emergency. Right. But

40:12

I spent 20 years going, I

40:14

don't know what I did to

40:16

this day. And you got ghosted

40:18

because of his diarrhea. Right.

40:26

That's tough. And

40:28

I'm like, why didn't you tell

40:30

me? I've spent two decades wondering

40:32

what I did wrong every time

40:34

I see you across the room.

40:37

Wow. Right? That's

40:39

sad. Okay, so that's what you shouldn't

40:41

do. See closure, what should you do?

40:44

Instead of looking for answers from the

40:46

person who ghosted you, check in

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with yourself to reflect on the relationship.

40:50

Ask yourself things like, what did

40:52

I like about the relationship? What

40:55

didn't I like? And

40:57

what you might want in the future

40:59

and resist the urge to blame

41:01

yourself for things going wrong. Well, I

41:03

wish I knew that 25 years

41:05

ago. Man. Right? And

41:08

then to hear it was diarrhea. What

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a plot twist. And

41:13

he was just telling me this as we were talking at a

41:15

bar. I'm like, how have you been? And

41:18

he's like, oh my God, remember that

41:20

time we went out? And I'm like, yeah,

41:22

I remember that time. Do you? Donna. Oh

41:25

boy. 20 years. And he was like, yes,

41:27

I do. Do you know what happened to

41:29

me that night? And I'm like, no, I

41:31

don't. Do I

41:33

know this person? No. You

41:35

do not when you when did you see this

41:38

person? Last yes,

41:40

when did you get the closure? About

41:42

eight years ago. Did

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you guys smooch that

41:47

night? No Since no this

41:49

person has since gotten

41:52

married. I thought you were gonna

41:54

say died. I was gonna be like

41:56

dang it. Well, I'm feel bad a

41:58

couple of those two Anyway,

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what a journey, huh? I you what,

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we've covered a lot today. Thank you

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all for emailing the show. Thanks for

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staying involved with us. We love hearing

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your thoughts. Donna and Steve show at

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mytalk1071 .com. We've got

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to take a break and get

42:15

soup. We got to get soup downstairs.

42:18

We've got to get to our weekends. And

42:20

more importantly, we've got to make way for

42:22

Bradley and Don. They are coming in Paul

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McGuire Grimes in for Bradley. We love you

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guys. Thanks for listening.