The Rock Says Real Men Wear Skirts! - Scrolling w/ Hayley (Ep. 293)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Scrolling with Hayley – Ep. 293

Title: The Rock Says Real Men Wear Skirts!
Date: May 6, 2026
Host: Hayley Caronia

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Hayley Caronia brings her signature blend of conservative commentary and biting humor to a variety of hot-button cultural and political topics. Hayley dives into the latest controversies from the Met Gala—including issues of identity politics, DEI, and the push for gender fluidity—Hollywood’s extreme beauty standards and Ozempic craze, the return of the Presidential Fitness Test under President Trump, alarming urban safety stories, and a series of bizarre product recalls. Throughout, Hayley challenges mainstream narratives, criticizes progressive identity politics, and argues for personal responsibility, safety, and conservative values.

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Section 1: Met Gala, Identity Politics, and DEI

[03:13–14:33]

Key Points:

• Aaron Rose Philip & Identity Politics at the Met Gala (03:13)
  Hayley breaks down the appearance of Aaron Rose Philip, the first black transgender disabled model signed to a major agency. She finds the endless identity-based headlines uninteresting until a viral TED Talk clip prompts her critique.

  • Notable Quote:

    "It’s always white people’s fault and everything is white people’s fault. So he says that the fashion industry is unlikely to book or pay black, trans, feminine and or physically abled disabled models...because an absence of whiteness. I don’t even know what this means." [03:42 – Hayley]

  • Hayley questions Philip’s logic: Are disabled, trans models not hired at all, or are they hired but unpaid? She argues the focus should be on the consumer and business realities of fashion—not race.

  • She suggests activism—labeling people as racist—gives power to those who claim the most marginalized identities, and that inclusion becomes more about avoiding cancellation than genuine acceptance.

  • Notable Quote:

    "If you complain loud enough, you get exactly what you want. At least in today's society." [Hayley]

  • Hayley contests that race is not relevant to whether disabled models are chosen for runway work, asserting it's more about selling products and the movement of garments than oppression.

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Section 2: The Push for Gender Fluidity at the Met Gala

[10:00–15:01]

Key Points:

• Cosmopolitan’s Call for Men in Makeup
  Hayley criticizes Cosmopolitan for shaming male celebrities (gay and straight) for not wearing enough makeup, arguing the magazine is trying to force gender fluidity and more flamboyant expressions onto men.

  • Notable Quote:

    "So they're picking out gays that weren't gay enough at the Met Gala." [Hayley, 10:38]

  • She defends individual choice and questions the need to escalate expectations for gender nonconformity, even among gay men.

• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Wears a Skirt
  Hayley discusses The Rock’s Met Gala appearance in a Thom Browne skirt, claiming the “Polynesian culture” justification is a stretch and that the goal was to “emasculate” a strong male celebrity for woke points.

  • Notable Quote:

    "How can we find, like, a really masculine man and emasculate him on the red carpet and force him into doing this?" [14:33–15:01]

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Section 3: Hollywood’s Beauty Standards & Ozempic Craze

[15:01–24:00]

Key Points:

• Hayley points out how thinness has become the new beauty standard in Hollywood, referencing Vera Wang, Olivia Wilde, and the impact of GLP-1 drugs (Ozempic).

• She highlights plus-size model Ashley Graham's criticism that the industry’s “body positivity” moment was short-lived.

  • Notable Quote:

    "The Ozempic craze has proved to all of us, that you don't need to pretend to be happy in your bigger fat body or convince other people that you are happy when you're not. When you can get down to a size 2 in just a few months, no gym membership required." [Hayley]

  • Hayley argues the body positivity movement was always disingenuous, abandoned quickly when a “quick fix” for weight loss came along.

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Section 4: Return of the Presidential Fitness Test

[24:00–32:00]

Key Points:

• Hayley reports on President Trump reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test, eliminated under Obama’s administration to prioritize a "less competitive approach."

• She emphasizes the value of competition, the benefits for children, and anecdotal memories of her school fitness experiences.

  • Notable Quote:

    "Would it kill anyone to light a little competitive fire under the asses of American children who are obese and desperately need to run more often and faster and longer and work out harder? Competition is good for people." [24:06]

• Conversation turns humorous as Hayley jokes about President Trump’s “one minute a day max” fitness routine, speculates about his physical activity, and fangirls over golfer Bryson DeChambeau.

  • Memorable Moment:

    "My interview with Bryson would be like, all right, drop and give me 50. I want to watch. Look at him. Great form, strong, handsome. He’s perfect." [32:27]

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Section 5: Product Recalls – Thermos & Snack Foods

[32:47–44:31]

Key Points:

• Thermos “Explosion” Recall
  Discussion about a recall on over eight million Thermos bottles due to a missing stopper, causing contents to spray and even blind some users. The cause? People letting food rot for so long it created pressurized gases.

  • Notable Quote:

    "Basically, if you’re not a total idiot and a disgusting person, you’re not gonna have your thermos explode in your face." [37:04 – Hayley]

  • The team jokes about modern warning labels and “idiot-proof” packaging (e.g., "Open box before eating pizza").

• UTZ & Ghirardelli Recalls
  Discussion about recalls over possible salmonella in products using dry milk powder (with Hayley questioning why it’s in potato chips).

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Section 6: Urban Crime, “McStabbies,” and Democrat Policies

[45:00–53:38]

Key Points:

• Rise of 'McStabbies'—Urban Crime in Seattle
  Hayley highlights a Daily Mail report about a notorious Seattle McDonald's nicknamed "McStabbies" for its rampant crime. She recounts a disturbing assault on a 77-year-old man and lambasts Democrat and progressive policies for urban lawlessness.

  • Notable Quote:

    "Why release him on bail? Why? This person is a menace to society. There’s something sick, there’s something wrong with him. You let him out after all of these incidences..." [46:56]

• Hayley criticizes the justice system’s leniency and “coddling” of criminals and blasts policies such as safe injection (now, “safe snorting”) sites in Canada, which she argues only enable addiction.

  • Memorable Moment:

    "Take care of your nasal passages, they’re the only ones you’ve got..." [from the Canadian booklet, 50:23]

• She reads from the Daily Mail’s firsthand look at the Seattle McDonald’s locked-down hatch service and discusses employees’ fear, lack of police intervention, and how these issues reflect larger urban safety breakdowns.

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Section 7: Closing Riffs and Additional Recalls

[53:38–End]

Key Points:

• Hayley rails against euphemistic language like “unhoused” and insists real policies, not terminology, are needed to address homelessness and addiction.
• Lighthearted digressions on pizza reheating best practices, breadmaking phobias, and snack food recall names.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (Selected with Timestamps)

• On identity politics in modeling:

  "Racism is the reason why someone in a wheelchair isn’t being picked to do Runway modeling is insane." [07:00 – Hayley]

• On Cosmopolitan’s male beauty push:

  "If gay men are not wearing makeup on the red carpet, who cares? Not all gay men have to be flamboyant." [13:30 – Hayley]

• On Hollywood thinness and body positivity:

  "All of a sudden, they are just... the entire narrative collapses... They say that, you know, that not. They can't even resist the, the quick fix and the easy way out." [20:00 – Hayley]

• On the Presidential Fitness Test:

  "It pushes them out of their comfort zone. It teaches kids that there are winners and losers. Not everybody gets a participation trophy." [24:12 – Hayley]

• On product warning labels:

  "Open box before eating pizza. This is a disclaimer on a pizza box. And I don't really know how you could eat pizza without opening the box first..." [38:35 – Hayley]

• On urban criminal justice failures:

  "You have Democrat policies to thank for this... They are not rehabilitated. They are allowed to roam the streets." [51:14 – Hayley]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Met Gala & DEI/Cosmopolitan Commentary: 03:13–15:01
• Hollywood Fitness & Beauty Standards: 15:01–24:00
• Presidential Fitness Test Discussion: 24:00–32:00
• Thermos Recall & Product Safety Labels: 32:47–44:31
• Seattle Urban Crime, McStabbies, Safe Injection: 45:00–53:38
• Closing, Miscellaneous Topics & Recalls: 53:38–End

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Tone & Language

Throughout the episode, Hayley employs a sharp, sardonic tone, mixing earnest conservative critique with colorful, sometimes biting humor. She frequently leans into mockery—particularly of progressive cultural trends, urban liberal policies, and mainstream media narratives—while sharing personal anecdotes to ground her commentary.

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For Listeners:

This episode delivers Hayley's trademark blend of social critique, humor, and cultural analysis. She provides conservative listeners with talking points on identity politics, public safety, and pop culture, while the pointed asides and playful banter keep the tone lively and entertaining.

Transcript

[Haley Carney]

Hello and welcome to Scrolling with Haley. I'm Haley Carney. Happy Wednesday everyone. Let's get into the show, shall we? Because the Met Gala, they invited an attendee that checks every single identity politics DEI box possible for now until they create new identities to claim and then I'm sure this person will do so. But he gave a race baiting TED Talk that we must discuss then. My future husband joined President Trump yesterday on the White House lawn to celebrate the revival of the presidential fitness test. Plus, a McDonald's in downtown Seattle has been nicknamed McStabees and it is living up to the name. Unfortunately, it is so dangerous that they force customers to pay for and retrieve their food through a small makeshift window like animals. The show is about to begin, but first I want to make sure that you are all subscribed to the Bongino Report channel. Dan Bongino number one this month and the Bongino Report where Vince and I are, of course, and where you are now. If you're listening live, we were number 10. So thank you all for watching. We appreciate you all so, so much. If you haven't already, please subscribe and watch the show and tell a friend I appreciate it. And I want to tell you about my morning coffee. And let me tell you about the one I've been loving lately, which is Blackout. Blackout is a premium American coffee company known for bold flavor, high quality beans and roasting fresh right here in the US Every order ships straight to your door, so you always have an amazing cup ready whenever you need it. And what I love is how smooth and rich it tastes without any bitterness. Just that perfect balance of flavor and energy getting me through busy mornings and long days. You could try their subscribe and Save programs. You always have a fresh cup of coffee on hand. You can switch flavors anytime, pause or cancel whenever you want. Plus get discounted pricing, free shipping and reward points on every order. It is simple, flexible and saves you money. They offer dark roast flavored coffees, espresso blends and more. Something for every coffee lover. Now is the time to try Blackout Coffee. Go to blackout coffee.com and use code scroll for 20% off your first order. Once you try it, you won't want to go back. Now put put your phones on. Do not disturb. The show starts now. All right, so the first black transgender disabled model signed to a modeling agency made an appearance at the Met Gala on Monday night. And I wasn't going to cover it at all. I wasn't going to cover the Met Gala at all. But then I Saw a few things that I couldn't ignore. The first being Aaron Rose, Philip. And this wasn't even it. Seeing this person in a wheelchair at the event. This is not interesting to me, people. This was going viral on my feed all day Tuesday and I, I didn't want to cover it. What am I going to say? There's nothing to say. This is not interesting to me. Even with all the labels, Black, trans, disabled, firsts. I know it's all insane, but I still wasn't going to cover it because who cares, you know, A DEI final boss is invited to the Met Gala. Wow, is water wet. So I wasn't going to touch on it at all until I saw this clip going viral from a TED talk that Phillips gave. And he blames white people for his problems, of course.

[Ad Read Voice]

Listen, when I first started working, I was an anomaly to the industry. Arguably in many ways today, really, I still am. I think it's time to say the quiet part out loud. The fashion industry is unlikely to book or pay black, trans, feminine and or physically disabled models to do Runway, editorial and or campaign because of an absence of whiteness.

[Haley Carney]

It's always white people's fault and everything is white people's fault. So he says that the fashion industry is unlikely to book or pay black, trans, feminine and or physically abled disabled models to do Runway, editorial and or campaign because an absence of whiteness. I don't even know what this means. So this I have to respond to because he's insinuating that the fashion industry, if they do book this person, they, they won't be paid for their work. That black trans, feminine models just work for free in the industry. That doesn't seem right to me. But he's also arguing that they never booked this kind of model anyway. So which one is it? Are they getting booked or are they not? And there are reasons that we have people like this who are not being booked and they have nothing to do with race. And I'll explain it. I know it's difficult for the race obsessed to see anything through, through any other, any other lens, but the modeling industry is not perfect. The industry, the fashion industry, it's problematic for a lot of different reasons. However, let's think about this logically. If the modeling industry is trying to sell a product, most likely clothing, they have a choice as to who is going to best sell that product to consumers and the middle class normie people. We are not the target audience for high fashion clothing anyway. But they are most likely selling to other model types, other famous people. Other really wealthy people who can drop thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars per item. And I'm not saying there is a place for disabled models in the industry. Sure, disabled people wear clothing too. We all do. But when selling a product, like let's say you're selling a shirt, a jacket, a pair of pants, you want to be able to show its full potential to customers. If a model is wearing it in a wheelchair, where it's covered and they're sitting down, you're not going to be able to see or sell the product. They're also trying to sell clothes to appeal to the most people possible. And the reality is most people are not disabled or in wheelchairs. Also, he mentions Runway and not being chosen for Runway shows. The catwalk or the models walk, that is their calling card. It is part of the modeling identity. And the walk is so important to a Runway model's career. The Runway model is a living, breathing billboard for the clothing that the, the. That the designer is selling. So the audience watches at these fashion shows how the clothing moves when someone is wearing it. Walking, walking down this Runway. So how can someone in a wheelchair model clothing in a Runway show? I don't know. I mean, I mean, can they, can they maneuver their wheelchair down the Runway? Of course they can. But will they be able to model the clothing in the same way? No. Is it right? Is it ethical? There are conversations to be had there. But is it the white man's fault? I don't see how race is relevant at all. And I think there are plenty of opportunities for disabled people to model other things. There are hand models, nail polish models, perfume models, makeup models, hair models. You can model so many different things and still be a fixture in the industry. But to argue that racism is the reason why someone in a wheelchair isn't being picked to do Runway modeling is insane. And what this shows is that if you complain loud enough, you get exactly what you want. At least in today's society. He complains about not being included in the fashion industry, and he calls out the very people you gatekeeping the industry as being racist, and poof, he's invited to the Met Gala. So if that's how this goes, and if you complain and then you get exactly what you want, are you still oppressed because of all of these labels or do they empower you? Especially in a world in which models, artists, and creatives bow to the cancel culture mob. These woke people are so afraid of being labeled the wrong thing that, that anyone who adopts the right kind of labels, according to the left wins. They win. They have all the power. Everyone else is lower on the totem pole. If you're just a regular woman and you're not black and trans, you're lower on the totem pole. If you're white, forget it. You're the lowest on the totem pole. Black, transgender, disabled, they shoot to the top. Everyone else afraid of calling it out allows it to happen. And if you're essentially threatening people socially by outing them as racist to get what you want, is that really the change you wish to see in the world? If the modeling industry opens doors for this person, is it because they deserve it? Or is it because the industry is more accepting now? Or they've learned their lesson to not keep these people out? Is it because the industry is too afraid now to say no? And Cosmopolitan put out this article again. I wasn't even going to cover the Met Gala. And then I saw this. Yesterday's show ended. I'm scrolling on my phone. I see this. This pops up. Why didn't more men wear makeup at the Met Gala? They're asking that question, why didn't more men. And this is a gay actor here. And this is what they said. With a dress code like fashion is art. We seem to have forgotten that the best canvas is your face. Male celebrities have long been criticized for doing the bare minimum at the Met Gala. This year, we finally saw some of the dudes of Hollywood wearing makeup. Like Hudson Williams. That was the first guy. And his black swan inspired metallic eye look. Or some other guy's pop of blue eyeshadow. But we are now shocked that there wasn't more. Considering the theme was costume art, what's more costume than a full face of makeup? If we had our way, everyone on the carpet would be decked out in shimmer, rhinestones and color. And over the years, they have written a lot of articles about this kind of stuff. They've encouraged men to wear makeup, but they said this. It's rare that guys show up in anything but a simple tux, let alone eyeshadow or lipstick. But as evidenced by Hudson, Williams, Colman Domingo and somber makeup can be what your makeup can be. What makes your outfit a whole look. Swipe to see which dudes we think could have benefited from some more time in the glam chair. So they're picking out gays that weren't gay enough at the Met Gala. So let's, let's go through these. Here's the first one. Connor story. He was in that show. Heated rivalry with the first guy they are gay lovers in the show. Heated rivalry. They are also gay in real life, I believe not with each other. But they play it on tv and they think that he doesn't look gay

[Co-host or Guest]

enough, like, a subtle diss to be like, these guys probably could have used some makeup.

[Haley Carney]

They could. They could have been more gay. They could have been more accepting. They could have been more woke. If only they put on some glimmer, some shimmery eyeshadow. So here he is. And honestly, I think he's a very handsome man. I know he's wearing, like, a feminine top, but I don't think he needs more makeup. I think he looks. You know, if this is your look, I think he looks good. And I. I don't see why Cosmopolitan would be forcing him. Like, he's already feminine as it is. Why does he now need to push the envelope and do more? Why does he need to wear a lipstick? Why does he wear. Why does he need to wear eyeshadow? Maybe he doesn't want to. Maybe he doesn't want to. Here's the next one. ASAP Rocky, who's not gay. He's with Rihanna. Of all women in the world. Like, one of the hottest women in the world. When you're showing up with the founder of Fenty Beauty because she owns Fenty Beauty, this makeup line, why not add a little highlighter to your cheekbones? And believe it or not, I am wearing fenty highlighter on my cheekbones right now. But I'm happy to do it so that ASAP Rocky doesn't need to. Here I am. I am doing. I am doing the work. Okay? I'm a woman. I am wearing Fenty Beauty highlighter on my cheekbones right now. Does ASAP Rocky need to do that? No. He's already in a pink blazer. He's already in a pink blazer. He's already got a feather thing on his lapel. He's already got necklaces on, and they're like, you know what would make this better be more gay?

[Co-host or Guest]

Try this. Cosmo. He is, in fact, married to the head of Fenty Beauty, and she didn't ask him to do it right.

[Haley Carney]

So think about that. And also, you know what I would expect out of the founder of Fenty Beauty to wear Fenty Beauty. What I would not expect is her man baby daddy. I don't. I don't think they're married, but I would not expect him to wear her makeup. I think he can be supportive of her and her brand in other ways that doesn't include him or Wearing the makeup himself. Let's go to the next one. He looks gay enough in my opinion. He's already got this jacket on with some feathers. It seems like a fur coat. I think there's some fur going on there. I can't really see because it's dark, but I don't know. I don't see this look and think he needs more makeup. But Cosmopolitan says we don't have to go full one of your girls music video drag, but maybe just a dab of shimmer on the inner corner of your eyes. Why? They're. They're obviously pushing something. Obviously pushing something. And Cosmopolitan over the years has written multiple articles urging men to wear makeup. And I thought it was odd. I saw an article they were urging women to wear makeup that repels men. And the makeup that repels men is like, very colorful. Like pink eyeshadow, crazy eyeshadow looks. Like I. And you can tell me, but I've heard, you know, that men prefer more natural makeup looks like no makeup, makeup, whatever. But I think the makeup that Cosmopolitan was urging women to wear was like green, purple, pink, like these big, big crazy eye makeup looks, which I think most straight men are not into. And I think it's odd that they're forcing this. They're forcing gender fluidity on people and trying so hard to make it a thing. If gay men are not wearing makeup on the red carpet, who cares? Not all gay men have to be flamboyant. Not all straight men have to look gay or cross dress or dress in drag. But it seems like that's the new beauty standard that Cosmopolitan is pushing. And Dwayne the Rock Johnson was dressed by Thom Brown in a skirt at the Met Gala. And here's what he had to say.

[Co-host or Guest]

Here's the photo of said skirt first.

[Haley Carney]

So it's sort of like a kilt looking outfit that has pants underneath it and a long jacket.

[Co-host or Guest]

Indeed, the pants underneath. It kind of defeats the purpose. But here, here's the clip of what he said.

[Haley Carney]

How do you feel rocking this skirt? I feel great. Well, you know, what I shared with Tom Brown's team is that, you know, first they sent us the illustrations over and hey, is DJ gonna be cool with this pleated skirt?

[Co-host or Guest]

And I was like, well, look, you

[Haley Carney]

know, in our culture, Polynesian culture, we rock. Okay? So he says, Polynesian culture, this is something that they do. And I, I get that he's Polynesian, he's Samoan, and Polynesian men wear grass skirts. So I feel like if he was really. I'm Calling BS on this because I don't think that Tom Brown came to him and said, hey, can you wear this please pleated skirt because you're Polynesian. That's not the kind of skirts that Polynesians wear. So if he was trying to, you know, this, this ode to his culture, I just don't think that that's what this was. I think that Tom Brown wanted to put him in a skirt because, oh, how can we find like a really masculine man and emasculate him on the red carpet and force him into doing this? And then he can't say no because, oh my gosh, like, if he does he. If he says no, then it's a headline, you know. So I think that they were just saying, dwayne the Rock Johnson, how cool would it be for this macho man to wear a skirt? They get him to sign onto it. If he needs to tell himself that it's because of his Polynesian culture, fine. But that's not the kind of skirts that they wear anyway. Actually, Irish and Scottish men wear pleated skirts and kilts. It's not unheard of. But, you know, I'm all for honoring your culture. I'm all for pushing the envelope. But let's not lie. He. He said in the end of that clip that he said that most manly men wear skirts. And I, I disagree. I don't think that most manly when wear skirts. I think some can if it's part of their culture, certain wedding celebrations and what have you, but this was not that. And beyond the obsession with feminizing men, Hollywood's Ozempic obsession was on full display last night. And Vera Wang was one of these ones that was getting people talking and a little worried about her health. She's 76 years old. I will say she looks really good for 76. She's aged beautifully. But this is very, very thin. And she's always been very thin. But people are suspecting that maybe. And I don't know if she's on a GLP1 or not, but this is the craze that is taking over Hollywood. And it has become somewhat of the new beauty standard to be very gaunt. And she is certainly on trend, if you are following that trend. And then Olivia Wilde, we have, we showed you this side by side. I think it was last week. And she is a beautiful woman. I mean, Olivia Wilde really is a beautiful woman. But the other day on the red carpet, she was caught in maybe a not so good angle moment. And this is got again, people talking and speculating whether or not she's on GLP1s and whether or not she has taken the weight loss too far. She's got this temporal wasting on the sides of her eyes. Her eyes are bulging. The under eye bags are a little more pronounced. She's lost weight and volume in her cheek area and you could see it in her neck. I mean, she's just, she's lost a lot of weight and people made fun of her for this, saying that she looked like, you know, Gollum or something. And even her own brother made fun of her. And then she posted this video. Watch. Olivia Wilde, do you care to address recent rumors that you're a resurrected corpse? Listen, that is a fisheye lens and I admit. Is that the best, Is that my best angle? Was that my best ever look? No, no. It's startling. It's a startling image. It was a fisheye lens and not the, I don't know why I was so close to the camera. I didn't have to be. That's not the truth. Do you have any more questions? I'm not, I'm not dead. Okay, so you heard it here first. You heard it from her self. She is not dead. Although people were making fun of her for looking like a corpse. I do give her credit for joking and I, I, I appreciate when people can participate in some self defense deprecating humor. I think that that's a good quality to have in yourself. But I, I don't think that it was just the angle. I think she is very thin. She looked better in that video. But here she was at the Met gala last night and you know, she does look better than the Gollum photo. But I will say her shoulder blades are very pronounced. Her shoulders are very pronounced. She is still very, very thin. And you could see, see that loss of volume in her face. And maybe it's just because of aging, maybe it's because of something else. I guess we'll never know. But Ashley Graham is a plus size model in the industry and she has been sounding the alarm on what she says are shrinking bodies. She says that in this era of GLP1s, Runway bodies and other models, they're, they are shrinking. And she says that this progress feels precarious. It's disheartening. She said that there was a pendulum that swung. I'm going to say that this was around 20, 20, 2021 when the entire world went crazy. That's when the body positivity movement really took off. And she said there was a pendulum that swung. That was so Body acceptance, positivity. Everybody be who they want to be. And now it's going back to this whole opposite way that feels like a smack in the face to women who felt like they had a voice. So maybe Ashley Graham is the last of the Mohicans in the body positivity movement that really does love her big body. But I'll tell you what the Ozempic craze has proved to all of us, that you don't need to pretend to be happy in your bigger fat body or convince other people that you are happy when you're not. When you can get down to a size 2 in just a few months, no gym membership required. And if you don't want to give up fast food, you don't have to do that either. You can have it all. And it's amazing how a lot of these body positivity queens, whether it's Lizzo or Meghan Trainor, they have very quickly abandoned the body positivity movement. They were, be yourself, Love your body. Fat is beautiful. Fat is healthy. Love yourself the way that you are. Um, people will love you if you love yourself. This. These kinds of cliches. And they have abandoned all of that. As soon as there was a quick fix on the market, they took it. And now Meghan Trainor, Lizzo, they have traded in newer, thinner bodies. And the only reason why bigger people wanted to normalize being bigger was to justify their behavior and make it socially acceptable for them to not change. And change is hard. Lifestyle changes to lose weight are hard. Not everyone has. Not everyone is up to the challenge. So people who might really need to lose weight to save their lives and prevent other comorbidities may stay the way that they are because they were coddled by the body positivity movement. All in all, the body positivity movement is damaging because it tells fat people. It tells fat people that fat is healthy and it's okay to stay that way when it is not. We should all be getting thinner. And I will say, as much as I'm against GLP1s, I'd rather people be thinner and not die from being overweight. But then, you know, with all the other issues that being on these drugs brings, I don't know what's worse, but I wish people would just lose weight the natural way. But whatever you got to do. So it's just. It's interesting that all of these women are. All of a sudden, they are just. It just collapses. Like, the entire narrative collapses when they. They say that, you know, that not. They can't even resist the, the quick fix and the easy way out. Even the people that made it their whole brand and their whole personality, they're lying. They were lying to themselves and they were lying to everyone else. And they're eating it up. Hollywood is eating it up. And speaking of health and wellness and fitness, President Trump reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test. He signed the executive order back in July establishing the president, the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. And yesterday, he signed the proclamation bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test, which was established by Eisenhower and phased out by Obama because, get this, the Obamas wanted to take a less competitive approach. So I guess this was Michelle Obama's let's move campaign, encouraging kids to just move more, not to put any pressure on it or be. To be better or healthier than someone else. Would it kill anyone to light a little competitive fire under the asses of American children who are obese and desperately need to run more often and faster and longer and work out harder? Competition is good for people. I would say it's good for children. It pushes them out of their comfort zone. It teaches kids that there are winners and losers. Not everybody gets a participation trophy. It's a necessary life skill that kids these days don't get. Thanks Obama. But thanks to President Trump, we are so back. And the Presidential Fitness Test, I remember it. Do you guys remember it?

[Co-host or Guest]

Do I ever. As a above averagely chunky elementary school or. It was always a time.

[Haley Carney]

Okay, so maybe you would have benefited from the Obama approach. The less competitive let's move approach.

[Co-host or Guest]

No, I needed the competition. You know, coming in second to last in the mile really lights a fire under your bum.

[Haley Carney]

I would like to talk about the mile because the, the Presidential Fitness Test, if you don't remember it, which I'm sure most people do, it was one mile run. You do sit ups, pull ups or push ups and then the sit and reach. And all the guys struggled with the sit and reach. I remember like being in school and all the guys hated the sit and reached. And you know, it really what it did was illuminate the differences between men and women and our bodies and how differently different we are physically. Because the. I can't do pull ups or chin ups. Chin ups are easier for me, but I could always do, I could do like one or two. And now I can only do them assisted. I can't do them like I'm, I definitely carry more weight in my lower body. It's very hard for me as a woman and I think it is for Most women, and I struggle with push ups too.

[Co-host or Guest]

I will say that the trauma did allow me to do a pretty good presidential test in high school.

[Haley Carney]

Okay.

[Co-host or Guest]

So, like, I must. I have to like, follow up and say I did recover, like, I had a pretty good one, like my junior year of high school.

[Haley Carney]

So probably because you had an experience in middle school where you weren't doing so hot. And then it's like, okay, now I need to get my act together. Like, this time next year I can do a pull up. I could do a push up. I could do.

[Co-host or Guest]

Everybody was super nice about it. Like, I went to a private school and, you know, they did the dance and they didn't try to embarrass anybody, but it was kind of a good thing to just say, hey, like you need to be just generally fit.

[Haley Carney]

And it's a great thing. And I'm so glad that we brought it back. I remember just speaking of the competitive aspect of the presidential fitness test, I remember doing the Mile and it was always around October for us. I don't know if it was the same time for you.

[Co-host or Guest]

Yes. Because it was cooling off.

[Haley Carney]

Okay. So we did it in October too, but we were in New York, so it was cold. And if you know anything about running in the cold, it's tough. Like if it's cold out and you're running and it gives you that like, like that asthma feeling where you can't breathe. Anyway, I remember I got so lucky one year because the fastest girl in my class was out sick the day that we did the mile.

[Co-host or Guest]

Huge. That's sports center level breaking news.

[Haley Carney]

Yes, it was huge. And it was great news for me because then I won the mile and if she was in school that day, I would have been in second place. But because she was out and I. It was like a seven something minute mile. Like it wasn't anything. I wasn't Usain Bolt or anything, but she would have totally ate me up, but she wasn't there. So I remember winning the pumpkin trophy. They would put your, your mile time on the pumpkin and I had a little pumpkin and maybe I wouldn't have busted my ass to win the pumpkin trophy if this was under the Obama administration and the only carrot dangling was just move. If the incentive is just to move your body, then I wouldn't have won the pumpkin.

[Co-host or Guest]

I have a very vivid memory of the just move when they partnered with the TV show channels and they would do like the day of plays to get you outside. Whoa. Oh, Maybe it'd be somebody in the

[Haley Carney]

chat Was it on, like, Disney Channel?

[Co-host or Guest]

Disney did one, Nickelodeon did one, because it was right after they instilled, you know, it's like this new era really

[Haley Carney]

counterintuitive to play it on TV because you quite literally have to be inside.

[Co-host or Guest]

Well, they would shut the channel down and they would just have like a holding screen of, like, go out and play for National Day of Play. Like, just move. I just vividly remember being so upset I couldn't watch Batman.

[Haley Carney]

Dang. Dang. Interesting. I don't remember that. I was gonna say that's super stupid to have a thing on tv. Okay. The TV was off.

[Co-host or Guest]

Nonetheless. Glad we're bringing the. Bringing it back.

[Haley Carney]

Glad we're bringing it back. And President Trump yesterday did a whole event for it at the White House. And here we. Here he was dishing on his fitness routine, which is not too much. Athletic traditions and champions physical fitness and all of those things that I work so hard at on a personal basis. I work out so much. Like about one minute a day max, if I'm lucky. One minute a day max. What do you think that President Trump does for his one minute workout?

[Co-host or Guest]

They gotta have him on some kind of routine, something he's, you think gotta be on something.

[Haley Carney]

I don't think they make the President work out. That would be a good question. That would be a good question.

[Co-host or Guest]

Right. It feels like they have to do, like, nothing crazy, but maybe like, you know, 10, 15 minutes in the morning of like some light stretching and like just getting the blood going.

[Haley Carney]

Stretching and definitely walking, getting steps in. But I'm sure he gets steps in. He's, he's up and he's work, you know, he's out and about. So I think day to day, President Trump probably gets more steps than I do. Someone in the chat said air squats. Exactly. We got to get everyone doing their air squats. Someone in the chat also says he does the Trump dance. And he does. We actually have a video of him doing the Trump dance on the lawn with some of these kids, which is just hilarious. And my husband there, he looks so good. President Trump hitting the dance and the kids are doing it with him. That's iconic. Imagine just being able to say that you hit the ymca. Trump dance on the, on the lawn with the President. It's crazy. And then everyone in the chat is saying, he obviously plays golf to work out, but he's not walking.

[Co-host or Guest]

That counts.

[Haley Carney]

Oh, of course it counts.

[Co-host or Guest]

Fitness.

[Haley Carney]

But I'm saying, you know, he's. I, I think it was, maybe it was RFK Jr or someone was saying that he plays golf a lot, so therefore he's fit. He's getting a lot of steps in, but I think he's in a cart. Not that you can't get steps in a cart. You can, but it's great exercise. Especially at, you know, almost 80 years old. You're limited as to what you could do. Golf is a great sport to play for your whole life. So. So, you know, I'm grateful that my parents put it, put me in golf at a young age because I can play for my whole life, which I think is great. It's a gift. Any, any sport that you can get your kid in that they could play forever is a gift. Like tennis, pickleball, golf. Like a lot of older people play these sports. I think that's wonderful. Anyway, people were tagging me in all of these videos of Bryson DeChambeau doing all of these workouts on the lawn. And I don't know if they were trying to get me. Like, I can't even watch this really. Like, he looks so good. It makes me sick because I want him so bad. I can't have him. Look at him, he's perfect. I love this man. And I'm so delusional. Like, seriously, open the asylums and put me in coach because I've never met him. Well, I did meet him once, but I don't. I've never really talked to him at length and I think we'd be great together.

[Co-host or Guest]

He's got good form.

[Haley Carney]

How crazy is that? Open the asylums. Seriously.

[Co-host or Guest]

How about Henry?

[Haley Carney]

Henry Cavill?

[Co-host or Guest]

He's.

[Haley Carney]

He's married, so I can't really have a full on crush on him. Like, it just keeps something. Keep. Like it feels icky to have a crush on someone who's married. That's gross.

[Co-host or Guest]

It's all wishful thinking.

[Haley Carney]

Yeah. Like, I can't really. Like, I don't. I. I could have a celebrity crush, but as soon as they're with someone, then it's, it's, it just takes the fun out of it for me. And I'm sure I've said this before, but I'm sure Bryson has four girlfriends and that pisses me off because I'm not one of them. I wish I could be just one of them. He probably has multiple girlfriends.

[Co-host or Guest]

We need to change something here.

[Haley Carney]

Change what?

[Co-host or Guest]

We'll have to do something about that.

[Haley Carney]

My. I was texting my friend yesterday. He said you should invite Bryson on the show. I don't think we're. I don't think I have the clout to invite Bryson DeChambeau on the show yet.

[Co-host or Guest]

Do you think I'll reach out to his people, see what we can do?

[Haley Carney]

I don't know if I'd be able to hold it together, genuinely. My interview with Bryson would be like, all right, drop and give me 50. I want to watch. Look at him. Great form, strong, handsome. He's perfect.

[Co-host or Guest]

He's, as Trump would say, a perfect specimen.

[Haley Carney]

He's just. You know. Seriously, he is. Ugh.

[Co-host or Guest]

This your man Chipping on the green?

[Haley Carney]

This might be the scariest bunker shot you can have today.

[Co-host or Guest]

Listen, he'll have it again.

[Haley Carney]

The stars, they're just like us. The stars, they're just like. I have done that before. See? We're so alike. I said that we. We have so much in common. I do the same shit in the sand, okay? And honestly, we all have bad days. I don't. I don't know if you pulled that video to make me like Bryson less. It's impossible. It's impossible. The only thing that could get me to like Bryson less is as soon as he has a girlfriend publicly, I'll be like, all right, I'm out. I can't. I can't crush any longer.

[Co-host or Guest]

I would have, like, 3D printed.

[Haley Carney]

I don't know.

[Co-host or Guest]

All right, never mind.

[Haley Carney]

I don't know. Whatever it is, he's perfect, so good for him. Let's talk about this thermos recall. We were going to do this story yesterday. We ran out of time. So I'm glad that we're getting to it today, because it's not exactly. The headline says one thing, and then we're going to get into the nitty gritty, and you're going to be like, are people yes. The answer is yes. Thermos recalls over 8 million bottles after reports of permanent vision loss. And yes, thermos cups, like thermos that you put coffee in, water in food in. How could this possibly cause vision loss? So it announced the recall last week in conjunction with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. And they say that the products are missing a key mechanism in the stopper, meaning that they can abruptly fling themselves at people when opened under certain circumstances. And this has happened at least two dozen times. There are two dozen injuries. Not. Not everyone is blinded by it, but several people have suffered permanent blindness as a result. And the reason why this is happening is because people are leaving their food in their thermoses for so long that it's developing some. Some noxious gases that are causing the thermos to explode in their face when they attempt to open it. Hey, so I can't believe that we have to say this, but don't have a science, science experiment in your thermos.

[Co-host or Guest]

Like kombucha.

[Haley Carney]

Like, you're letting this rot in your thermos and then it explodes in your face. And it's like, maybe you shouldn't do that.

[Co-host or Guest]

I got. Got on this ad because I as. I'm a water bottle guy and I was like, oh, no, my thermos. And so I read the article and then realized.

[Haley Carney]

And you're like, oh, I'm not a disgusting human being, so this won't happen to me here.

[Co-host or Guest]

Have you ever left something in a water bottle and it, like, evolves into a monster at the bottom of it?

[Haley Carney]

No.

[Co-host or Guest]

You left it in like, a car or anything before. Oh, I feel like I do that, like, at least once a year where I, like, ruin a favorite water bottle because I'll leave it in a bag or something.

[Haley Carney]

Something like that. No, I think I, I had a, A cup, a coffee cup at work that I probably left. There was coffee in the bottom and I left it over the weekend. And then you open it up and you're like, there is something so scary to me about mold. I don't know if this is an official phobia, but if I ever open like a bag of bread and there's. And I take it out and there's mold on it, I like immediately throw the bread. That's like my, my knee jerk reaction is to just throw it like that. Like, I don't know if that's an a phobia, but I, I cannot. Like, it freaks me out. If I see mold, I get freaked.

[Co-host or Guest]

The right thing to do is to just throw out the single piece and then eat the rest of the bread as fast as you can so it doesn't spread.

[Haley Carney]

Yeah, but it freaks me out that the mold bread, the mold slice touched everything else soft. Yeah, I know. I just. It just freaks me out. So I can't do that. This is, this is also why this mold phobia has gotten in the way of my sourdough bread making journey. A lot of people get on this sourdough trend, and there's something about, you know, growing a living thing in your, in your fridge that just scares me. It gives me pause. So I haven't gotten on the sourdough trend, but making your own bread, I mean, that's, that's as maha as it gets. And I do love sourdough bread.

[Co-host or Guest]

I think the office would love Extra sourdough.

[Haley Carney]

I know bread as well, so I should get on it and not. I could also start making focaccia. I've wanted to start making focaccia bread because there's something about like, you know, doing this to the bread, which would be fun, kind of like finger painting. Like you could just get in there. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get on the bread making thing right after I make my Shrek cookie and, and the Shrek meatloaf and all the other that I say that I'm gonna do and that I never do. But anyway, basically, if you're not a total idiot and a disgusting person, you, you're not gonna have your thermos explode in your face. It's only if you leave food in there for an extended period of time. But there's also, you know, on this thermos story, I'm scrolling through the comments and because people are just talking about how dumb you have to be. Like, there's a, a legal label now on everything, like directions for everything. These are the reasons why there's directions on a shampoo bottle. You know, rinse, wash, rinse, repeat kind of a thing where it's like, duh, is there any other way to use this? But you know, if they don't have that on the back, someone's going to sue them because they ate it. And then they could say, well, if it. You didn't say not to eat the shampoo. So here's Here was just some things that were in the comment section. Open box before eating pizza. This is a disclaimer on a pizza box. And I don't really know how you could eat pizza without opening the box first, but maybe someone somewhere attempted to eat through the box to get to the pizza.

[Co-host or Guest]

That's tough.

[Haley Carney]

But you, it makes you wonder why. How did we get here? How did we get to this place where there is a, a disclaimer to open the box first?

[Co-host or Guest]

I, I see open the box and then remove the film on like almost every item that goes in the microwave, it's like, take it out of this plastic so you don't melt the entire thing.

[Haley Carney]

Well, devil's advocate. Sometimes you have to. Sometimes in the directions it says to leave the plastic on, to cook it.

[Co-host or Guest]

Like it says, yeah, it's like, I guess.

[Haley Carney]

Or it'll say vent. Like the directions are different depending on what the product is. It'll say vent film. So then you like poke holes in it or open one corner of it, or you're supposed to put it in and then you rip the film off and then you put it back in. Like, there's direct. The directions change for. For depending on the product. So, yeah, I guess you never know. I was telling you guys yesterday, I had a friend in college who thought that making Stouffer's lasagna was the same if you do it in the microwave or the oven. So she made Stouffer's lasagna, and it had the plastic film on it. She put it in the oven in the plastic thing. There was a plastic container and then also a plastic film on top. And she was wondering why there was plastic all over her lasagna. And we had to. She learned a lesson that day. She learned a lesson that day. You know, we're all just doing this for the first time. It's everyone's first time on planet Earth. So you just got to give people grace sometimes. But do not open box before heating. We have. We have this video as well. Why the do it say just stick the box in the oven and heat for five minutes. But the is smoking like the. Oh, my God. This is a woman who has entire pizza box in the oven to reheat the pizza. Again, these are the people that the disclaimers are for.

[Co-host or Guest]

It also opens up a very huge question, and as a New Yorker, how do you reheat your pizza?

[Haley Carney]

Okay, you don't

[Co-host or Guest]

cold slice.

[Haley Carney]

You eat the pizza hot, and then if you don't, you eat it cold. That's how I live my life. However, if I have to reheat the pizza, I would say that air fryer or oven is best. Never ever microwave pizza ever.

[Co-host or Guest]

That's the correct answer.

[Haley Carney]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Guest]

Anywhere but the microwave.

[Haley Carney]

Yeah, I would probably. If I had to heat up pizza, I would probably do it in the air fryer. If the slice is too big, then I would do it in the oven.

[Co-host or Guest]

Also, reheated pizza never tastes as good.

[Haley Carney]

It just doesn't. I agree with you. I actually don't mind cold pizza at all. I kind of prefer it like next day pizza. I don't want to eat hot. I want to eat it cold. There's just something about taking it out of the fridge or, you know, what's the best slice of pizza? When you order pizza, you leave it out on the counter for like a little bit, and then you go back to it in like an hour and you eat it. You eat one off the counter.

[Co-host or Guest]

That's good.

[Haley Carney]

Like, room tempo.

[Co-host or Guest]

You can't cook cheese twice.

[Haley Carney]

I agree. And then it's like it's cooking Everything twice. It's just too cooked. Yeah, I agree. I totally agree. I want to talk about now. Well, there was another recall to this. The. How do you even say this? Potato chip brand. Uts. Uts. Uts. Ut. Utz. I was gonna say, I was gonna ask the chat, but how would they help me? Oh, oh, Tz. Oots. Potato chips. So anyway, Oot potato chips and your deli products, they both put out a recall because they both use dry milk powder from California Dairies Inc. And they have kind of done this voluntary recall because they say that this dry milk powder that they source from California Dairy's Inc. Had salmonella in it. Traces of salmonella in it. Or it may. So they didn't know, but they recalled it anyway. And I. So I saw these headlines yesterday and I was thinking to myself, I. I can understand maybe why Ghirardelli? Or is it Ghirardelli or Ghirardelli?

[Co-host or Guest]

Ghirardelli.

[Haley Carney]

Ghirardelli. Okay.

[Co-host or Guest]

And it's uts, by the way.

[Haley Carney]

I just looked it up. Okay. So I. I guess I could have figured that out. So I can understand. Ghirardelli product. Ghirardelli products. What did we just come up? Ghirardelli. Ghirardelli.

[Co-host or Guest]

I thought it was Ghirardelli, but now everybody in the booth is making me think I'm a crazy person.

[Haley Carney]

I don't know. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter. It's not the point. The product, the chocolate products, I can understand them using dry milk powder, I guess if you're coming up with a chocolate milk type thing. But I questioned, what is dry milk powder? What is dry milk powder? What is that and why is it in potato chips? Dry milk powder. I'm going to look it up. Dry milk powder is a manufactured dairy product created by evaporating water from pasteurized liquid milk. Usually skim and kill until it becomes a dry shelf stable powder. That's nasty. And then why is that in potato chips?

[Co-host or Guest]

Maybe for like the sour cream and onion, like the milk based, like the cheese of like a cheddar. Big chip guy over here.

[Haley Carney]

Yeah, maybe. I was thinking too, it's sort of like a. An ingredient that makes the seasoning stick to the each individual chip so that when you open a bag of chips, it's not all the seasoning stuck at the bottom. It's like evenly coated on each of the chips. I don't know, but I'm assuming that's the stuff that gets stuck on your fingers, which is disgusting. So why don't we Just leave it out.

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[Haley Carney]

We have to talk about McStabbies now. So this McDonald's in particular in downtown Seattle is really bad. And it's being. It's been nicknamed McStabbies by locals. This is the Daily Mail article that got me. It stopped my scroll, if you will. America's most dangerous McDonald's claims fresh victim as frail man, 77, is filmed being beaten to a pulp by STR strangers outside Seattle restaurant so rough it is nicknamed McStabbies. So here's the video of the assault outside of McStabby's watch. One second, One second. They say we're having some technical difficulties, but unfortunately it's. It's two men. And they, unfortunately, they, they, they see this elderly man and they decide to push him down. I don't know why. Like, what would, what would make someone do that? I just think all forms of elder abuse are so disgusting. It's like, this is an old person. Why would, why would you see them and take advantage of them? They're already vulnerable. Why would you push someone down randomly? Do you have it or no? No. Okay, no problem. We don't have to watch it. You don't want to see an old man getting pushed down anybody. But he was hospitalized for more than a week and he sustained a broken knee, a broken arm, and a deep cut above his right eye. And he needed stitches. He is going to be okay. But my goodness, 77 years old and someone just decides to assault you? It is insane. And the guy that did it was charged with second degree assault. He was then released from custody before a bail hearing and he was issued with an arrest warrant. But now he is on the run and has not been apprehended. And the guy that he was with, also on the rent run. They do not know where he is. Great. But the guy who pushed the elderly man has a criminal history of misdemeanor convictions for harassment in 2023, first degree attempted criminal trespass, fourth degree assault, both in 2022, and a second degree criminal trespass in 2021. So my question is, why release him on bail? Why? This person is a menace to society. There's something sick, there's something wrong with him. You let him out after all of these incidences and he decides to assault an elderly man. He is unwell. Lock him up. Lock him up and throw away the key, in my opinion. Because these people, you know how I feel, cannot be rehabilitated. Most of them go to jail. They are not rehabilitated. I'm not saying it's not possible. Some people, sure, they go to jail, they learn their lesson. Most people, they get let out, they reoffend, they, they live a life of crime. This is what they do. So they were detaining this man. This is, this might be a, a reason why he was released. First of all, he lives in Seattle. Second of all, Democrat policies. Third of all, according to this article, when he was being detained by an officer, he told the officer, between you and me, my sister, she's the senator of Minnesota. I don't know if I believe that. But then he also claimed to have worked for the state and said that he knew Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson. So I don't know if he's got some inside scoop somewhere or he's got an in with someone somewhere. But he has gotten away with crimes in the past and he's certainly getting away with it now. He is on the run. I hope that cops catch him and catch him for good. But yeah, this is, this is downtown Seattle. Doesn't, doesn't shock me that this is happening. They, they coddle criminals, they allow for safe injection sites and things like that. You sent me something today in Canada where they have safe snorting sites.

[Co-host or Guest]

Yeah, there is a. Their health department was putting out like how to get, I'm pull it up cocaine sniffers.

[Haley Carney]

Yeah, let me see. You said this to me earlier, safer snorting. Canada's really losing it. I mean they really are like, they. Canada is like on the same. They are on par with Seattle and some of these places just the liberal policies are absolutely insane. But it says that this booklet has information about how to snort drugs safely and reduce harms. You may be new to snorting drugs or have snorted drugs for many years. Either way, this resource has something for you. Inside you'll find straightforward, non judgmental and up to date information that you can use to make decisions about your health. So again, this is the government that is taking care of drug addicts by allowing them to be drug addicts and to coddle them. They are literally saying in this thing to take care of Your nasal passages, they're the only ones you've got. So they're saying that by safely snorting more drugs one more time, the, the. In Canada, this, they're. They are doing these safe snorting sites and they are saying, take care of your nasal passages. They're the only ones you've got. And they're saying this. It's non judgmental. It is. You know, use vitamin E oil, use saline spray. It's like, how about, how about. And call me crazy, don't do drugs.

[Co-host or Guest]

My takeaway was you can use construction paper to make your safe snorter your own by making it different colors in the handbook.

[Haley Carney]

Oh, that's what they said.

[Co-host or Guest]

Yeah.

[Haley Carney]

Like basically claiming your snorting.

[Co-host or Guest]

Yeah, like if you're gonna do it, you might as well get creative.

[Haley Carney]

Oh, well, of course, of course. So then the Daily Mail did another article on this McStabies and they had a. A journalist at the Daily Mail. They went to this McStabby's location and this is what it says. A McDonald's that is one of America's scariest is so dangerous it only serves customers through a makeshift hatch and bans them from entering its dining room. The fast food outlet on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Pine street in downtown Seattle no longer lets customers inside after enduring horrific murders and frequent mayhem. Instead, patrons must order from a hatch cut into the space that once occupied the double doors into the dining room. Most of the hatch is covered with Plexiglas and has just a small opening along its bottom quarter so customers can pay and receive their food. The double doors that once welcomed locals to the Pacific Northwest city inside for Big Macs, McNuggets and milkshakes are now propped open at all times, their glass covered with ugly plywood sheets to protect them from vandalism. Anyone brave enough to order from the McDonald's, which Seattle locals have nicknamed McStabies, must run a gauntlet of vagrants and drug addicts congregating outside it. They interviewed a homeless man and told him that. Or he told the Daily Mail that he leaves the area when it gets dark because of all of the assaults he witnessed during in this area. And he witnessed a deadly shooting. So the McDonald's actually closed their dining room initially because of COVID 19, and then with all the insanity ensuing, I guess they figured it was just safer to operate like it's 2020 to. To social distance from all the crackheads. So one McDonald's employee spoke to the Daily Mail and said that he is so shaken from when the time a homeless man launched himself over the serving hatch and barged into the closed off establishment. He threatened employees, snatch food and flee the scene. So despite this terror, the staffler plainly admits that no one called the cops because they knew it was just useless. This is great. This is Seattle, ladies and gentlemen. This is Seattle. He also claimed that he had been followed home from work multiple times with homeless people trying to rob him for money or clothing that could be sold off for drug money. So again, you have Democrat policies to thank for this. You've got safe injection sites. You've got criminals that are let back out onto the streets. They are not rehabilitated. They are allowed to roam the streets. They are allowed to live in tent cities. They are allowed to take over the downtown areas of not just Seattle, but Portland and all of these other Democrat cities. New York, where I lived. And you know, you see these homeless encampments and they've got drugs, they've got dogs, they're breeding dogs. Did you see that story about in California, these, all these homeless people breeding dogs on skid row?

[Co-host or Guest]

Absolutely insane.

[Haley Carney]

It's so disgusting. And if you care about human life at all, why would you put forth policies that make their lives worse and don't bring them closer to getting clean? If you do that, you know anything about safe injection sites or, or allowing them to, to say there's no safe way to inject drugs or to snort drugs. There's no safe way to do that. The safe way, the only way is to get people off of these drugs. The people that are hooked to, to actually get them help. And unless the government and other politicians want to genuinely put forth policy that is going to help these people, forget it. Anything else, any other solution that they're doing, it is not helping. And these are the same people, by the way, on the left that call homeless people unhoused. Like they think that they're actually doing something to help the community by calling them something different. Why don't you actually do something that's going to help them get off the street and out of downtown areas that make normal people not want to go downtown anymore? I mean, these McDonald's employees can't even go to work without getting assaulted and shaken down for drug money. It's insane. This is, this is living in a Democrat city in America today. It's just horrible. It's like we're living in the third world. They import the third world and then they make the Democrat cities the third world as well. It is absolutely disgusting. All right, I'm going to save scrolling time for tomorrow. We've only got a minute and a half left or something like that. So I'll save this all for tomorrow and I'll see you then. Make sure that you subscribe to this show. I had fun. I hope you did too. You could follow me on social media at Haley Karania. I'll see you right back here tomorrow. Bye.