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That's what I'm here for.
We're excited for the show today because we are going to talk about this new trend in
plastic surgery.
People are bringing in AI images of themselves to surgeons.
Great.
Right.
And so, we've got a doctor in, Dr. Samuel Gopanian, who will be here to discuss the
latest trend and how doctors are actually handling the request.
Yeah, how would you handle that if you were a doctor?
Gosh.
Yeah, we'll get into it.
First, though, got to talk about the story a lot of you are talking about.
Very bad news for the LA Clippers.
They were severely punished by the NBA for the salary gap, cap that is, scandal involving
Kawhi Leonard.
So, Christy Fajardo joining us now from Englewood, talking about it throughout the morning.
This is a big deal, Christy.
It is a very big deal.
In fact, some are calling the penalties unprecedented.
And just to give you some perspective, we all remember the Houston Astros cheating scandal
during the World Series a few years back.
Well, they did not have to give up their title and they were fined $5 million.
The Clippers are being fined six times that.
In fact, some people are saying that this could be a death sentence for the Clippers
and really hinder their ability to attract top talent and be competitive.
Take a look.
The NBA is imposing the following penalties for what they call a pattern of misconduct
surrounding salary caps.
The Clippers lose five number one draft picks between 2029 and 2033.
$30 million in fines for the team and multiple suspensions.
Owner, billionaire Steve Ballmer, gets one year away from the league and team activities.
Vice president of business operations gets one year without pay.
The VP of basketball operations suspended six months without pay.
Leonard's punishment, a fine of $700,000.
And the NBA will monitor the team for several years.
All of this stems from an investigation into allegations that surfaced weeks ago
that the team had circumvented the league's salary cap.
The league says the Clippers paid Leonard millions through separate endorsement deals
with various companies in violation of league rules.
The league also determined the Clippers paid personal expenses on behalf of Kawhi Leonard
and his representatives, and they also failed to report improper solicitations
for off-court income opportunities.
We spoke to Arash Markazi, founder of the Sporting Tribune,
and he says the penalties are sending a massive message to owners.
Don't try this.
This is the heaviest penalty in league history.
We've never seen anything like this in terms of the scope and scale.
Five first-round draft picks.
Steve Ballmer, fined $30 million, suspended a year.
President suspended a year.
GM suspended for six months.
Again, I mean, this is going to set the Clippers back at least 10 years.
Again, not just the draft picks, but when you think about if you're a superstar player
who's thinking of joining another team, you're not joining the Clippers right now.
Like, where this franchise is at for the next five to six to seven years,
they're not going to get any big-name players to come here.
We have a statement from the Clippers.
It reads, we vehemently reject the NBA's findings,
which are the result of a heavily biased investigation
seeking to justify a predetermined narrative rather than facts and evidence.
We intend to vigorously challenge these findings and penalties
through every avenue available to us.
And here's a statement from Leonard with a much different tone.
He says, I accept full responsibility for lapses in judgment by people within my inner circle
and regret the distraction this situation has caused the fans and my family.
And back out here live, we asked Markozy also about the Clippers' statement
and their plan to fight this, and he said, fight it and appeal it to whom?
He says the NBA is in charge of the league,
and he also said the Players Association signed off on it,
so he doesn't really think that the Clippers have a leg to stand on.
And I also asked him, do you think the fans will stick by the Clippers?
And he said, you know, that they have a pretty loyal fan base.
He pointed out they stuck with the team even through the whole Donald Sterling scandal.
You remember that?
When he made racist remarks that were recorded and then leaked to the public,
he was ultimately banned from the league and forced to sell the team.
Live in Inglewood, I'm Christy Poharto.
Let's send it back to you.
How could we forget?
That was a big story too.
All right, Christy, thank you.
And joining us now to talk more about all of this
is LaMaurie, staff writer for The Athletic, covering the NBA.
Good morning.
Thank you for being with us.
So let's get right into it.
A couple of weeks ago when there was this ESPN report saying there was no evidence
that the Clippers basically circumvented the salary cap,
now they're getting hammered with all these charges.
What has changed?
I mean, I guess you got to ask what made it so that that report even got out in the first place
because all along we wanted to see what the NBA had to say,
how they were going to adjudicate this whole thing.
When that report came out now 17 days ago,
the NBA was very swift in basically their rebuke of saying,
hey, look, we think that there are significant inaccuracies here.
They could have told everyone then what specifically those inaccuracies were,
but they chose instead to say, hey, we have this report coming out.
Stay tuned.
Well, we got all that yesterday,
and I just feel like the league knew that they had to go hard with certain penalties.
It was just going to be a matter of who they targeted.
Was it going to be the player or was it going to be more of the organization?
And we saw Kawhi Leonard $1,700 fine.
That's pretty light.
But the Players Association and the league were on the same page with this.
They decided to go after the Clippers organization hard,
especially the business operations led by Steve Ballmer and Gillian Zucker.
That's where the real punishment is,
because $700,000 to Kawhi seems like $30 million to a billionaire.
Crazy to say it, but it also seems light.
It's those draft picks.
I'm curious, can we talk about Dennis Robertson in this?
Because when we talk about the punishment,
there's a lot of focus on the executive leadership,
on Steve Ballmer, on Kawhi, on these draft picks.
But Kawhi's uncle, who had been serving as his advisor up until fairly recently,
he's got a five-year ban from all NBA-related activities.
What's the allegation here?
How does he play into this?
Well, Kawhi Leonard's connection to all of this
is that his uncle, who was his advisor,
who was not around nearly as much last year as he was in previous years,
as far as the Clippers and Kawhi being in the facility is concerned,
they basically, everyone has pretty much pointed the finger at him
as the driving factor in a lot of this malpractice, if you will.
It is through Kawhi's uncle that all of these deals were negotiated
in a way that wound up circumventing the salary cap.
It is through Dennis, Uncle Dennis here,
that the Clippers were working with him,
and basically they could have said,
look, we can't do any of this.
They could have reported it to the NBA.
They could have made it clear that there were issues there.
And I feel like the Clippers, their leadership,
they did not want to broach that relationship
considering how close Kawhi is with his uncle.
And that's how you got down the line here.
A lot of this was, let's just be real, done out of fear.
This player, one of the very best in the NBA,
has a level of influence where you would do obscene things
to maintain the relationship, hoping that no one would ever uncover it,
hoping it would not go to an investigation to begin with,
let alone an investigation that went as deep as it did.
I think the conclusions wound up being that Kawhi Leonard
was basically compromised by his uncle,
a person who is no longer in the position of influence
as far as managing his business today
as he was over the past several years.
Why does it seem like Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers
are on two different pages here?
Because you have the Clippers saying that they're denying everything,
and then Kawhi Leonard is saying,
I accept full responsibility for what happened in my inner circle.
This is what happens when one stakeholder
is going to be able to move about as he's always done
while the other is dealing with the harshest penalties we've ever seen.
Like, Kawhi is...
The trade is not official, it's not complete,
and when it is complete, I can't...
Like, we're all waiting to see what both of these franchises say
as far as the players exchanging cities between Toronto and LA.
Kawhi Leonard going to Toronto, a place where he was the finals MVP
and came to LA as a saviour of sorts.
And then Brandon Ingram, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers,
was drafted by them about a decade ago,
coming back to this city in a very interesting situation.
He was an All-Star last year.
That is going to be an interesting point here.
But Kawhi and his new representatives,
they are ready for his next chapter, if you will,
to close one and to re-enter another one.
As far as the Clippers go, they got punished.
They are embarrassed. They are humiliated.
They were surprised because they thought
that things were going to go differently
and that the NBA would exonerate them in a way.
That did not happen, and they're shocked by it,
and the only means that they have is to fight it.
Kawhi Leonard, that $700,000 going to come back to him some way or another,
so he's ready to move on in a way that the Clippers are not.
Well, Murray, thank you so much.
Staff writer for The Athletic.
Appreciate you being with us this morning to discuss this.
This is obviously really big news here in LA
and really all across the country.
Talk to you later.
Thank you.
All right, coming up, forget Celebrity Magazine cutouts.
Patients are now bringing AI-generated photos of themselves
into the operating room.
We have a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon joining us next.
He's in the Yamaval Lounge now, and he'll break it all down for us.
It's called The Rise of AI Dysmorphia.
You know, it used to be when patients walked into a plastic surgeon's office
holding a magazine cutout of a celebrity's nose or jawline,
but at the age of artificial intelligence,
consultants have taken a dramatic turn.
More and more people are showing up to clinics
holding AI-generated photos of themselves.
With unrealistic proportions.
So what happens when digital perfection meets human biology?
That's a good question.
Joining us now to break it all down is board-certified
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Dr. Samuel Gopanian.
Thank you for being here this morning.
This is very important, and I'm sure you've gotten a lot of requests
from people coming in, right?
Yes, thank you for having me.
Yeah, so what have people been coming in to see you about?
I mean, they bring in these, like, you know, Chad GPT, for example.
You can show a photo of yourself,
make me more beautiful, glassier skin, thinner, whatever it is.
Snatch.
And they show these photos to you, and what do you say?
Yes, so I do body mostly.
Well, I don't do any face.
And a lot of requests that patients come in with
are regarding liposuction or rib remodeling.
And previously they used to bring in photos of celebrities, right?
Right.
Take a celebrity photo, say, look at this, I like this, make me like this,
which was a little bit more doable.
But now with AI, AI is showing unrealistic expectations.
And so they're bringing these pictures in that are digitally remastered.
Just like Bratz dolls.
Exactly.
Yeah, so it's a great guide, but it's not a blueprint.
And what it's doing is it's making people not only ask
for unrealistic things or unsafe things,
but it's also causing patients to look at themselves and say,
this is the standard ideal, which is not always the standard ideal.
Yeah.
How do you level set?
Because I imagine there is sometimes,
even with you bringing a picture of an actual human being
that's not AI generated, and sometimes you have to say,
okay, this is not realistic for you.
But when it's not realistic for anybody because it's not real at all,
how hard are those conversations?
I think they're pretty easy for me.
I like to be very transparent with patients.
I like to let them know, hey, this is a great guide.
This picture that you're showing me is showing me what you're looking for.
And that's important because I want to hear from the patient
what they are looking for.
But it all comes down to, it all boils down to your own anatomy.
For some patients, it may work.
For many patients, it doesn't.
More times than not, it doesn't.
Because AI is moving pixels.
And as surgeons, we're moving tissue.
AI is not limited by biology, by tissue quality, by safety,
muscle anatomy, bony anatomy.
So that's what, you know.
Also, it's like you have to balance the person out, right?
Like they might ask for this really unrealistic waistline,
but it would look ridiculous because the rest of them wouldn't match it, right?
Correct.
So how do you tell them, I can't really do that?
Well, I let them know that proportions are necessary in surgery.
You cannot look disproportionate.
If you look disproportionate, there's something wrong
or we're doing something unsafe.
And I explain to them.
I show them in a mirror.
For example, these are your hips.
This is how much fat we can put in.
This is how much we can suction out fat from your waistline.
Beyond that, we have to do, for example, rib remodeling,
restructuring the ribs.
Sometimes they want it even more snatched.
Sometimes they want it super, super thin.
And I explain to them, well, where are your organs going to go?
You have organs, right?
Slight detail.
Exactly, liver, intestine.
And I'm not removing any ribs.
So it's physically impossible, let alone unsafe,
to create that shape that you're looking for.
I get sad when we're talking about this
because I'm thinking, like, you know, we all grew up in this age of the supermodel
in the 90s, right, where everyone was just super waify thin.
We grew up in the nastiest era.
In the nastiest era, where we were just so mean to ourselves.
And so now we're not even comparing ourselves against other people.
We're comparing ourselves against something that doesn't even exist in the first place.
So, you know, what's your philosophy on that?
And, like, where's the line here?
I think that plastic surgery is great to use to enhance yourself.
We're looking at a lot of patients that are coming in a lot younger than they used to.
Previously, a lot of moms, for example, would come in after pregnancy.
Mommy makeovers is still pretty common,
but now we're seeing the Gen Z population coming in for surgery.
And, you know, there's a fine line between something that you need
versus something that may actually disrupt your native anatomy.
There's a concept called prejuvenation instead of rejuvenation.
It's prophylactic work that younger patients are doing coming in for surgery.
Like preventative Botox.
Exactly.
One example, right?
Exactly.
And I think that's fine.
Preventative Botox, you know, wearing SPF, things to kind of maintain.
But when you're really going to go under the knife, you have to think about long-term consequences.
And I think there's a difference between someone that could really use it
versus someone that just wants to look perfect because there's no such thing as perfect.
And AI is making the younger population feel like there is.
Well, then you get distorted.
Like your mind is distorted.
Dysmorphic.
Yeah, exactly.
Completely.
But you're saying younger people are coming in.
How are they paying for all of this?
I don't ask.
I mean, how much, like how, give me like a figure here.
In pricing?
Yeah.
Like I'm just curious.
This isn't cheap.
It could run anywhere from $12,000 to upwards to $40,000.
There's financing options.
A lot of patients do use it.
And they may not make the best money, but, you know, because there's like a credit card.
They just run their credit, pay monthly.
Now, whether or not it hurts their financials or their credit, I'm not really sure.
But believe it or not, a lot of younger patients are making a lot of money as well
because the new era of, you know, influencers.
Right, you want to look impossible.
And so you gain that following on social media, right, which gets you clicks,
which gets you money, which gets you even more money to do more procedures.
That's the hope, I guess.
How young are we talking, though?
Like you keep saying younger, and I imagine over the years,
the age range of people requesting work with the rise of the Internet has dropped lower.
Yeah.
In my practice, I've seen as young as 19.
I have colleagues that have seen patients as young as 16 for facial work.
But it really depends on the practice.
What is rib remodeling?
I'm sorry, I have to know.
Yeah, rib remodeling is basically restructuring the thorax or the rib cage,
specifically the lower ribs.
And what we do is basically we make a hole in the back of the skin
and a device called a piezotome, which is kind of like a little woodpecking device,
it makes little holes on the back of the rib.
And by making those little holes on the back of the rib, it weakens the outer layer of the rib.
And we basically snap the rib.
Yeah, we angulate it.
And the patient wears a waist trainer or a corset for about three to four months,
and that allows the rib to heal in that position.
So somebody who has like a more straight waist could end up with a waist that's more hourglass-shaped.
That's mind-blowing.
Wow.
But there are, I mean, there are.
So the danger with this AI stuff, right, is it's not just pictures anymore.
You can actually alter videos.
You can alter videos, too.
Like if somebody's walking down the street and they have a really thin waist,
honestly, it looks like their waist is actually that size, but it might not be.
Yeah, it's many times.
It's so deceptive.
Very deceptive.
There's a lot of filters, editing.
I even get surprised a lot of the times, you know.
Right.
And I see this every day.
But I definitely think it's up to a plastic surgeon.
It's their role to kind of set expectations and set what's real and not real
because the worst thing and what you don't want is to tell a patient,
hey, what you're showing me we can do, and then that result is not achieved, and then the patient's upset.
Well, also, it's like a result of your work, too, right?
Exactly.
They're like a walking billboard for you.
Are you seeing more men or women?
I see more women, but I do see men in my practice as well.
Has that grown as time has gone?
It definitely has.
I think that previously it was a little bit more taboo, or men just thought it was a female thing to do.
Now they all want six-packs.
Yeah.
A lot of people want that.
Or the calves.
The calves.
You know, what's your tip on doing your research?
Because I imagine there's a risk of coming across some money-hungry doctor who will just tell you,
yes, I will do this for you, and then you end up looking crazy or you end up on botched.
What type of research should people be doing to make sure that they're having a conversation with somebody
who will level set with them and meet in the middle for what they need?
I think, first and foremost, you have to look at a doctor's before and after photos.
I think that speaks a lot as to the results and consistency.
Not having one result that looks good and the rest look bad.
Consistent, good results.
That's the first thing.
The second thing is I think patients need to learn about the procedure.
Not to run down a rabbit hole, but to learn about it.
Learn about the risks, learn about the recovery, other people's, you know...
Their experience.
Exactly, their experiences.
But the other thing that I think patients don't do too often is to see multiple plastic surgeons
going on multiple consultations.
Then you can really read the practice, read the surgeon,
and see who's really genuine and who's leveling with you.
Any other trends you're seeing right now?
I think rib remodeling is one of them.
Okay, I've never heard of that either.
It's like when people say that they removed a rib.
That's kind of what they really mean though, right?
Yes, well, no, not exactly.
Previously, rib removal was done.
That was a thing for real? I thought that was a myth.
No, it was done. Segments of the rib were removed.
But they found that there's a higher risk of doing it.
And why do such an invasive procedure when you can do a more minimally invasive procedure?
And then rib remodeling came about.
It's really big. I think it's very helpful.
I don't think it really adds that much to recovery.
And the biggest reason is the fact that your waist is defined by your fat, muscle, and bone.
And liposuction is only going to affect the fat part.
Muscle, you can't really affect unless you're getting a tummy tuck,
which kind of has a mild effect.
But the bone structure, the bony anatomy is really what limits many patients.
And so rib remodeling is very helpful there.
And they can lose all the weight they want.
Your shape is your shape.
Quite frankly, if their structure is not amenable to that, then they don't have to.
But that's what you would do, right?
Gosh, that's wild.
Okay, tell us, what should we get?
I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding.
Get your marker out.
It's not about what you need.
It's about what you want, but also what you'd be a good candidate for.
We're going to ask you a bunch of questions during commercial break.
But where can we find you?
Instagram?
Where can people find you?
Dr. Samuel Goltanian.
All right.
I'm going to look at your before and afters because I'm obsessed with those.
I love a before and after.
Love that.
I love a good jawline remodel, you know?
Thank you.
I love seeing, like, a video and somebody saying, okay, so she had a little of this,
this, this.
Okay, where are we, guys?
Ooh, Hawaii.
Yep.
That's all you need to know.
Oh, my gosh.
Wailea Makina?
Am I saying that right?
Yeah.
Maui?
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's by the Grand Wailea.
It is.
Have you been?
You've been, right?
Have you been?
You can always find a resort.
The Grand Wailea is great.
It's huge.
It's a great resort.
Oh, my gosh.
It's like a kid's dream come true.
Yeah.
Okay, speaking of dreams, Instagram is cracking down on AI-generated accounts and influencers.
I love this.
In a blog post, Meta, which, by the way, owns Instagram, Meta says those AI-generated accounts
will require a label on them to know that, you know, they're AI.
Also, accounts that do not put the warning on there will have their reach reduced.
This all comes as major social media companies work to cut down on the amount of AI-generated
content on their platforms.
It's gotten abusive to a certain extent.
Yes, it has.
We were just talking about this.
These are completely fake pages.
Yeah.
That don't look fake.
Uh-uh.
But, you know, you see people in the comment.
People are selling things.
They're selling makeup.
They're selling cleaning tools.
Just all kinds of things.
And it's completely fake.
My favorite part of all this is, like, the beautiful AI women who were, like, and then,
I mean, it's very clear that they're AI-generated.
And then you have the men commenting on their photos, like, ooh, beautiful, sexy lady.
Like, they're going to get a response.
No, they're sending them messages.
It's like, yes.
It's weird.
I'm glad that they're making those changes, though.
I want it all to go away.
I do, too.
I don't even like you're going to get a warning.
You need to get them off.
Yes.
Yeah.
Go away.
Yeah.
Go away.
Social media influencers are getting called out at the U.S. Open for a distraction that
actually stopped play.
Watch.
Okay, guys.
Did you miss us?
Because we missed you.
Woo!
Okay, so during Naomi Osaka's match against Anastasia Zakharova, a group in the luxury
suite there, they started filming a photo shoot, right?
I like the guy below.
I know.
Look at his reaction.
All right.
So they had, like, a whole, like, bright light ring, the whole thing.
The chair umpire stopped the match, told them to sit down.
The video quickly went viral, and tennis fans were not impressed.
Even player Jessica Pegula says that the influencer presence may be getting a little too much,
calling it disrespectful when it interrupts play.
The USTA has embraced creators, giving nearly 100 influencers media credentials this year,
but you wonder if things like this are happening, that that's disrupting the actual sport itself,
or the experience for people.
Will this go on?
I will say, influencers, you'll see them everywhere now.
You'll see them on the red carpet, getting just as credentialed as actual broadcast media.
Who went to school.
And they have those little tiny microphones.
And that they won't just clip on their shirts.
But I will say, was that the influencer situation that stopped play?
Because that's not the video I saw.
And you know how you know that play is happening, is because the people are doing this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And those people were looking down at their watches.
And so I wonder if that was the video.
I have seen, I saw a video of a bright ring light, and somebody kind of standing, and
play was happening, and play had to be stopped.
It was a total different group.
But it's interesting, somebody joked, the masters would never, like the masters would
never allow.
The masters would never do a lot of things.
Like let women in.
Or black people.
Or people of color, that's right.
But you know, it's one of those things, like as everyone's trying to make money, everybody's
trying to get more eyes, and that's kind of changed what they allow, and the rules are
being bent.
I don't know.
You've got to know how to act right, though.
Yeah, it's like disrespectful for everyone, not just the athletes themselves, but I think
people would pay money to go to these games, and like they want to experience something.
You're ruining it for people.
I also think it's like, we don't even know how to live in the moment anymore.
Well, yeah, that's true.
We are, concerts, right?
Oh, everyone's just like this, like firework shows.
I want to know, are you going to watch that, when people film an entire song, are you going
to go back and watch that?
Are you going to go back and watch that?
No.
Or fireworks.
That's my favorite.
That's right.
Why do people film fireworks?
It never looks as good.
Did you see the video of the girl who had the ring light at the concert?
She was taking video of herself.
She had the ring light.
It's blocking all the people, but in the full video of it, there are 40 people behind her
all with their phones out recording, and I'm like, the whole image looks crazy.
Yeah, and are they filming the concert, or are they filming themselves?
A little bit of everything.
A little bit of both, probably.
That's so sad.
I agree.
Yeah.
Or the uncles with the iPads.
You are not going to watch that.
The iPads!
You know.
I really want to know when you went back and watched that whole thing.
I swear to God.
It's fuzzy.
I'm far away.
Aw.
I'll be right back.
Oh, Stu's flying.
Hi, Stu.
Yeah, and my headset's keep being pulled off my shirt by the cable.
Oh, no.
The things we have to endure in our lives.
That's right.
It just, it overwhelms, doesn't it?
Oh, the humanity.
That sarcasm.
If anybody doesn't know that sarcasm, let me tell you, it's, yeah, the humanity.
There is no humanity in the world.
I was listening with the plastic surgeon.
You know what I'm always, I'm like, I need to get rid of this.
Wait, of what?
I just find it interesting that the word, that my little turkey neck.
Stu, you have a beard.
I want to get rid of that.
You have a beard for that.
We can't grow beards.
We can, actually.
I can grow, yeah.
Well, you might be able to.
You know what?
You and I can.
I used to be able to.
You can.
I laser it off.
I used to.
I used to have a beard.
Yeah.
Anyway, go on.
Go on.
I paid a lot of money to get rid of it.
I love that you also wanted to correct the record.
No, no, no.
That's right.
I can't.
That's right.
It's okay.
My heritage.
Okay.
As an Armenian, there's never a shortage of hair.
Well, there's that.
But, how about, I have no comment on that.
I was just shocked how the term snatched is just like, everybody knows what it is now.
It's like, oh, we've got to get snatched.
I know.
I'm like, are aliens coming to grab us?
It's like a corset.
That's from, you know, the corset.
Then you pass out.
You've got to snatch it up, you know.
So, you know what?
Keep it with the spirit.
Christian sent me on an assignment, and we're going to roll some tape.
And he said, we've got to go to Banning.
And I said, I don't know if they're going to let us go to Banning.
But, he didn't mean Banning the Banning, but like the Banning Pass or the city of Banning.
But, apparently, there was a Banning.
There was a Phineas.
Phineas Banning.
Whenever I say the word Phineas, I'm like, where's fur?
But, anyways, we went to the Phineas Banning Museum or just the Banning Museum in the city of Wilmington.
I did not know any of this.
And this guy, oh my goodness, talk about a dude that did a lot.
This all starts way back when he actually built that.
And when he built this Greek revival estate out there in the city of Wilmington,
apparently, it didn't look like any of the other homes in the area.
It actually was, there was a lot of adobe homes in the area when he showed up.
He is actually known, he actually was a general, General Phineas Banning.
And in 1863 or 1864, depending upon where you go on the internet,
he built this house out there.
And he is known as the father of the Port of Los Angeles.
And he also was using tar from the L.A. tar pits to seal boats that would come into the harbor
to help them become more waterproof.
The museum is amazing.
18 rooms basically restored to the original like when General Phineas Banning used to live there.
It does look really cool.
I got to say the one thing that got me was apparently they have carriage houses in the back
with a working blacksmith set up back there.
And they still have the original carriages that General Banning had back in the day
because this is 1800s.
People didn't have cars back then.
So it is something to go see.
There's a lot of other history about the port apparently.
At one time when the general arrived out there, the port area was basically described as marshlands.
I find this hard to believe.
I'd love to see some of those original pictures.
At any rate, at Christmas time, this is one of the times you should definitely go there and take a look.
Apparently they do up that whole area in Christmas lights and Christmas attire.
But the Rose Garden apparently is something amazing to see as well.
I know we saw it from the air.
And it just looks like a really cool, you know, if you're in the city of Wilmington
or you're down near San Pedro, it looks like something that, you know,
go stop by, check it out, learn a little bit of history.
I definitely want to see some of those photos and those carriages and that working blacksmith area.
Sounds amazing.
It is open to the public.
And, again, that's the Banning Museum that's in Wilmington.
I love that.
Thanks, Stu.
SoCal history right there.
Thank you, Stu.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah.
We'll see you later.
Yeah.
I want to go to New Jersey.
Oh.
Oh, that's fun.
I would do that.
That looks really fun.
Yeah.
This is the Jersey Shore.
Jersey Shore.
Gym tan laundry.
Right?
Oh, my God.
My kids would love that.
That looks really cool.
Looking very adult, though.
Yeah.
I love that.
Oh, excuse me.
Sorry.
Hey, if you've ever found yourself buying shoes a size too big just to keep your toesies
from feeling squeezed, you're far from alone.
A new study from Australia finds that nearly two out of three women are wearing the wrong
shoe size.
And it's not because they don't know their size, but because standard sizing only accounts
for length, completely ignoring the width of your foot.
Researchers found that more than half of women end up sizing up just to give their feet room
to breathe, leading experts to call on shoe manufacturers to finally expand width options
so shoppers don't have to choose between proper fit and basic comfort.
Don't they have like a...
For men, I know they have size, like you can do wide sizes, right?
Some places.
For kids, you can do that.
I know.
You gotta find the brand that works for you, too.
Mm-hmm.
But you know what?
I feel like these shoes, we all, I think have, let me make sure my shoe doesn't look gross,
but you know like the pointy toe, like mules?
Yes.
Sometimes you have to go up in a size so that your feet don't hang over.
Oh, I hate the shrimp cocktail look.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Because your size sometimes, all the toes go to this part.
Yes.
And it's like, wait a minute, what about over here?
I feel like it's called a shrimp cocktail look.
Oh, because the shrimp hangs over the glass.
And I don't like that.
Oh.
Yeah.
But you know, sometimes you gotta, so do you.
Yeah.
I will also say, just since we're talking about feet and sizes, I don't know if you
noticed this, after you had Ethan, did your feet grow?
Yeah.
And they never went back.
Never went back.
Same.
It's a common thing, though, right?
It allegedly goes back, but mine never did.
I was six and a half, and now I'm seven.
Some people, their nose doesn't go back, and their teeth spread a little, and it doesn't
go back.
Really?
Right?
Then you lose hair, and it doesn't grow back in spots, too.
I'm still growing in hair.
Yeah.
It's like...
Yeah.
Yep.
I can score down here, then it's not gonna go away.
If we're being honest.
I mean, if we're gonna go down a list of things.
What else?
What else you got?
I'm gonna share.
Yeah.
Moon's all over the place.
Hot flashes.
When you get in a really private conversation with your bestie, the stuff they start telling
you.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We're talking about hair and teeth.
Somebody will go, have you ever seen a prolapse?
Look it up.
Real with it.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay.
You guys, I'm so...
I just really wanna do this story.
I've been waiting all week.
A bride-to-be is turning to Reddit after telling her pregnant bridesmaid she can't bring her
soon-to-be newborn to a sleepover.
Okay?
At the bachelorette party.
Wait.
The bride planned a low-cost weekend at her own apartment for out-of-town guests.
Okay.
So the local friend...
Okay, again, the local friend who will have a two-month-old baby by party time.
Okay?
And now she plans to come with the baby in tow.
When the bride insisted the friend sleep at her own house because...
She's local.
She's local and she only lives 15 minutes away.
The mom-to-be accused her of punishing her for having a baby.
That's not punishment.
Oh, my gosh.
Also, I'm sorry, you just had a baby two months ago.
Why would you wanna go to a bachelorette party?
Are you kidding me?
Like, she kind of invited you just to be nice.
She knew that you weren't gonna be able to come.
Yeah.
Except now you are.
Now you're like, I'm gonna bring the baby.
Right.
Come on.
You know, when it comes to people's weddings and stuff too, also, if you have to ask, just
don't.
Yeah.
Tell yourself that the answer is no.
That if you're, is my dress too white?
Can I bring my child to your no-kid wedding?
Can I bring my child to your rager?
Like, no.
Bring my newborn baby to your house.
Also, like, it's really inconsiderate toward other people because the two-month-old, all
they do is cry.
Yeah.
And you're up all night feeding them.
Why would you want to do that to everyone?
I also wouldn't wanna take my baby, like, around a bunch of not yet...
Drunk people.
Drunk people, that's right.
I'm telling you.
Who's gonna take care of the baby when you're out?
I have a theory that a lot of people have friends who hate them.
And, like, they don't know.
You know what I mean?
But, like, a friend...
I'm tell...
This is a friend who wants to ruin your night.
Yes.
Like, it's not somebody punishing you because you have...
You're trying to punish her because of everything she has going on.
This is a friend...
This is...
This is because all of those...
It all comes out.
Sometimes it comes out during weddings.
Uh-huh.
Sometimes it comes out during the bachelorette parties.
Sometimes it comes out when they ask to sleep at your house and they don't bring no clothes.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, wow.
Remember we had that conversation?
Yeah.
I think this is a friend that may not like you.
And then if you think about it, you'll start thinking about there are other things.
Because why would she even ask this?
Right.
Why would she plan this?
Like, for all of those reasons.
Mm-hmm.
That makes sense.
I wouldn't want to go if I...
You're supposed to be so happy for your friend.
They're getting married and, like...
That's right.
But if you're also, like, so exhausted that those first two months...
Mm-hmm.
I wouldn't want to go anywhere.
Yeah.
Let alone a whole night out.
Mm-hmm.
That's why I'm telling you...
That sounds like misery.
And it's someone's apartment.
It's not like some, like, luxurious hotel resort.
Right.
She literally could have been like, I'm just going to show up in the morning for an hour,
because I want to be with you guys.
Right.
I want to sleep at my house.
She was like, no, I don't want to sleep 15 minutes away.
I want to bring the baby.
I'm bringing the pack and play.
What?
We're coming over.
Pack and play.
Because that's what you would do.
Yeah.
Right.
All right.
Speaking of weddings, now that the season is starting, the football season, a lot of
college football fans say they will not show up to your fall weddings.
They say getting dragged to a wedding during a college football Saturday is something that
is not on their wish list.
And while some may still go and even check in on the score, many couples who have friends
and loved ones who watch college football, excuse me, they're scheduling the nuptials
in the spring to avoid any conflict.
Okay.
Listen, if you're not going to...
First of all, I'm eloping, so this doesn't apply.
But if you're not going to come to my wedding because of football, then...
I hate you.
Put it in the box.
Go stick it where the sun don't shine.
Right?
Are you kidding me?
I don't care.
Be normal and pull your phone up in private down there and just check in.
Do what everybody else does.
That's right.
Come on.
Sneak it on the slide.
Be normal.
Yeah, be normal.
Be respectful.
Speaking of disrespectful airline etiquette, it's getting worse.
I know.
That's what about half of people say in a news survey.
The biggest annoyance for airline passengers, can you guess?
Loud conversations and people watching movies or listening to music without headphones.
What?
I don't like your smile.
Is that even possible?
People watch TV on their phones on the plane without headphones.
Are you serious?
It's crazy.
Yeah.
What is wrong with people?
Yeah, that's followed by people reclining their seats too far.
The standard stuff, right?
Not giving a heads up before they do it.
The survey also found only 11% of people think the middle seat passengers should get both armrests.
And as far as asking people to swap seats after boarding, most people think that is okay.
That's gotten out of hand though.
I think people taking their shoes off and putting their feet through like the side of the...
Like all the police.
I don't like that.
I've only seen that happen once on a plane.
I thought it was a myth.
Again, I thought like this is just like a story that's been told like over and over again.
It actually does happen.
People do take their shoes off on planes.
I feel like the armrests are easy to share.
Like I don't mind like if I'm in the middle and if somebody else is in the middle, I'll try to just give them their space.
But what is wild to me is why is your leg over here?
You know what I mean?
Like it is...
There are separators.
There are dividers.
Why is your leg over your divider next to me?
Like why is your leg over...
So then your leg has to go over like this and then...
I have to be like, hey, Papa, you got to move.
Yeah.
Why is your leg over here?
What in the world?
And then have you seen people where they drape their hair over the back of the...
Is that how you feel?
That's how I got this bob.
I did that to somebody.
I swear it's like really crazy to me that people lack so much common sense.
Yeah.
It's really sad.
And it really shows up and shows out on the airplanes.
It does.
Yeah.
Don't be an animal.
Yes.
Hey, college football is back on Fox 11 and the USC Trojans are the headliner.
The number 14 men of Troy host Fresno State tomorrow night.
The game starts at 6 p.m. at the Coliseum with the weather not as hot as last weekend.
It's safe to say there will be more fans in the stands Friday night.
Okay, you're never too young to be kind, right?
Take a look at this wholesome moment at a Colorado Rockies game.
You can see a player throwing a ball to a kid in the bleachers.
That kid hands the ball to a younger kid.
That's nice.
I know.
The excited youngster runs away at first but he quickly returns to give the bigger kid a big hug.
Oh, I love that.
Be like that kid.
I love it when teenagers are just cool kids.
Yeah, that's right.
I love it.
Yeah, good hearts.
A new fashion trend has taken over the internet.
Fashion critics warn that it might not be all that.
It's called the poot.
Which sounds obscene.
I thought you meant something else.
Me too.
I was thinking like pooch, right?
Anyway, a pair of pants seamlessly extend all the way down into a built-in boot.
I've seen this before.
These have landed on TikTok where creators have uploaded videos unboxing and styling the clothes.
Influencers say they like the sleek ultra streamlined silhouette.
Like I feel like I've seen Kim Kardashian wear something like this, right?
Others are not as easily convinced.
Lots of people are saying the poot is nothing more than a silly trend.
As one fashion commentator pointed out, the human body is not a one size fits all.
Your leg height and foot size are two different dimensions.
That's right.
I thought they were called like pantalons.
Well, that's a more delicate way.
I prefer pantalons instead of poot.
Let me go get my poot.
Maybe if they weren't attached in the middle like pants and you can just like...
They're like leggings.
I think they're kind of fine.
I don't mind them.
I don't know.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Because you have like...
No.
What do you mean no?
I don't have the legs for that.
Yes, you do.
I do not have the legs for that.
I don't have the torso for that.
You don't need to get it to your torso.
You know, sometimes...
Sometimes what?
What?
No, I'm just saying like I have a pretty long torso.
So, all I'm saying is like the onesies don't always work out for me.
I gave you a onesie and it looked good.
I'm going to let you think about that for a second and what that means.
Envisioning it.
Yeah.
Oh, you have a...
That's what I'm saying.
I see.
That's what I'm saying.
There's an animal.
We don't have to say it.
So, there's an animal that appears.
I understand.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think we're just going to end it here.
Okay.
See you tomorrow.
Have a great one.
Take care.
Enjoy your cab.
Have a good day.
Your Cabernet Sauvignon.
