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Vince Vaughn Slams Late Night TV, Pathetic No Kings Protests, and Olympics Protect Women's Sports
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Link Lauren sounds off on the pathetic “No Kings” protests that broke out across the country, exposes woke celebrities like Robert De Niro for their unhinged anti-Trump street theater, and breaks down Trump’s promise to boost TSA and ICE presence in America’s airports. He also dives into actor Vince Vaughn and comedian Theo Von calling out mainstream TV and late-night hosts for being out-of-touch, unfunny, and obsessed with politics, and reacts to the International Olympic Committee’s decision to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s categories at the 2028 Summer Olympics. Plus, Link explains why parents must take responsibility for their kids’ presence on social media. Cowboy Colostrum: Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code LINK at https://www.cowboycolostrum.com/LINK PDS Debt: You’re 30 seconds away from being debt free with PDS Debt. Get your free assessment and find the best option for you at https://PDSDebt.com/LINK Lean: Get 20% off plus free rush shipping...
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Well, my friends, welcome back to Spot on with Link. Lauren, are we doing okay? How are you guys doing? Every time I go online, people are anxious, they're scared. They're dealing with family. We all have a lot going on. I feel like collectively everybody's a little bit on edge. Everybody's a little bit stressed. They're on edge. We all have a lot on our plates. The good news is spring is officially here, at least where I live. Okay, this is the last Monday in March. We will be in April. And imminently, okay, imminently, spring is here. The sun has come out. We still have a little bit of, you know, windiness and some cool, you know, weather at night. But it's nice that spring is here. I can go and actually get some sun, you know, and not look like a vampire. I can get some vitamin D. I think the vampire look is in, actually, with Timothee Chalamet and all of these actors, I think the vampire look is bad. But no, I'm going to get some more sun. Vitamin D. It's good to get outside, go for a walk if you're able to. So I think spring is here. This is going to be a time for retirement, renewal, a time for change, shedding everything from the past that was weighing us down and burdening us. You guys, as much as I hate Oprah, I'm going full, you know, Oprah, Sally, Jesse, Raphael. This morning, clock, the reference. I wanted to tell you guys about my weekend. Okay, I want to hear about yours as well. This weekend I got home from Washington, D.C. and then we hit the ground running with spring cleaning and errands. So we actually drove 90 minutes to go to Lowe's, Costco and Chick Fil a. That was our big Saturday. Okay? That was so exciting for me. One day you're at the White House with the first lady of the United States, the next you're at Costco. And I am happy in both places and grateful for both. So we drove 90 minutes. We went to Chick Fil a. First off, let me just say, if the country ran like a Chick Fil A, oh, my gosh, there would be no problems. I'm telling you, those kids working at the Chick Fil a, they were like a well oiled machine, okay? It was run like the Navy. And they were probably in high school. Maybe some college kids working at the Chick Fil A, but they had it down. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. What sauce do you want? What number do you want? Do you want this? The girl's taking my order while she's filling the drinks and I'm waiting. She's like, no, you're good. No, you're good. I'm trying to be respectful and wait. Could not have been a better experience at Chick Fil A. And people write me all the time. They say, link, can't believe you eat at Chick Fil A. They don't support gay people. Or Chick Fil a wants to take away gay rights. Don't make me choose between gay rights and Chick Fil A. Okay? That is a tough choice there. I might choose the latter. Okay, don't make me choose between gay marriage and Chick Fil A. Nothing beats a good Polynesian sauce. So anyway, we go to Chick Fil A, have a great time. We wait in this long ass line at Chick Fil A. I will say as long. Like, it moved. Okay, it moved. But they also had codes on the table. We could have sat down and ordered on the codes. This is all a new world we're living in now. We can just place orders. Boom. With the QR code. But it was nice. I got the full experience. Then we went to Lowe's. Why is it so hard to find good light bulbs? Okay, drop some comments and tell me if you guys have a brand of light bulb that you like or if you just want to commiserate in the comments. Everyone I talk to is like, we can't find any decent light bulbs. I like a good warm tone light in the house. I love my lamps. I love warm tones. Every light bulb is just this white LED crap, okay? We went through every single light bulb at Lowe's. We found something we thought would Work. But it's still that LED kind of that we're not in love with, if you know what I'm saying. Then they have all these new light bulbs, you guys, that you can control with your phone. Like, you can control how bright it is, how low it is, the tone. I don't want all that, okay? I don't want a smart house. I don't want to control the light bulb with my iPhone. I want to flip a switch and let there be light. Let there be light. I'm not, you know, a Homo sapien Neanderthal in prehistoric times, you know, where I have to, like, start a fire with sticks and stones, you know? I want to flip a switch, okay? Alexander Graham Bell, shout out to electricity. Benjamin Franklin, whatever. I want to flip a switch and have some light, okay? I don't want to have to go on my phone. Oh, hold on. I'm adjusting, you guys. I'm turning. No B. S. Okay, Okay. I don't have to control it with my phone, okay? I was about to say I like it with the lights off anyway. But anyway, I don't want to control all of that with my phone. Do you guys just realize that some of this technological advancement is actually making us have to work more? Okay? I thought when we got into the future, okay, like Judy Jetson, we would have flying cars and things. All we got is a light bulb that it takes me an hour to turn on with my phone. Lowe's. I'm not happy. Last but not least, you guys, I went to Costco for the first time in four years. I had not been to Costco in four years, and even then, it was my first time. So we go to Costco. It was a religious experience. Just even pulling into that big Costco parking lot, I felt at home. I felt like, country roads, take me home. I felt like John Denver, okay? To the place. Okay? I was like, John Denver, country roads, take me home. Pulling into the parking lot at Costco, he found us. And we found a spot not right at the front, but not all the way at the back, so we could still get some steps in. You know what I'm saying? So we get the cart, we walk in, we scan. Because I guess you scan now on your phone, the QR code. We walk into Costco. I am met with a hundred inch television. It was almost like three dimensional. Okay, you guys, I know I sound like I just landed on this planet from, you know, the 16th century, but I walk into Costco, there's this massive television. Do I need 100 inch TV? No, I don't. But there's something about Costco where you walk around and you just have that big ass cart and they've got that music going. It's not too cold. It's not too hot. Goldilocks. I'm at Costco, living my best life. But we went there on a mission. We had a list of things we needed to get. So we did not get the television. There are some things at Costco I didn't know what the hell they were. Okay? There's some things. I'm like, what is that? They have some new inventions. But we were really there for the food. Okay? We were loading up on lamb chops. Shout out to the Kirkland lamb chops. We are loading up on all types of food. We got some coconut curry chicken. This is not an advertisement, you guys. But we were just filling up on food. And then we got, okay, all the men out there, the few men who are watching know razors are so expensive. Maybe the women, too. Razors are so expensive. You get, you know, four cartridges or four razors. At Target, you could spend $32. We got a huge ass pack of razors that will last us years because I'm a hairless, naked mole rat. But I do need to shave every once in a while. Okay? So we got those razors. And then I was told, okay, that these sample stations at Costco were the best thing ever. I was told, oh, they're going to have great samples, especially on weekends, on Saturdays, walking around, sampling everything. You guys, Costco, this was unacceptable. We go to where you're supposed to sample the food at Costco. They had Cheetos. And I took a picture. We're going to put the picture up on the screen. They literally were handing out samples of. Of Cheetos. Okay? I think we've all tried Cheetos at least once or twice or 10 times in our life. I was so shook. Costco corporate, feel free to call me because this was unacceptable. I was expecting to try some type of chicken, maybe some type of soup. They did have some drinks to try, some sort of, you know, vitamin drinks. Didn't taste great to me. And then I thought, oh, well, here's another station over here. Cheetos. Okay, Cheetos. But shout out to Kayla and Danny and Thomas and everybody working at Costco. I was making friends with everybody there, you guys. I was about to put on a hair net and an apron and start working. It reminded me of my old restaurant days. Okay, I don't care if they're Cheetos, I would have had those things. Boom, boom, boom. Every person in the store would have had some Cheetos, would have sold out if I had been in charge. So we went to Costco. Then we drove home 90 minutes because Costco is not near our home. And then Sunday was time for spring cleaning, you guys. There's nothing I hate more than cleaning, but I do like the way it looks when you're done. You know, it's one of those situations in life. The background does not want to cooperate today, you guys. So anyway, spring cleaning, it's one of those things. It's the destination, not the journey. Okay? The destination is great. I'm looking at my desk right now. I love how clean my desk looks. I went through all those drawers. I filled out trash bags. I, I don't even know how we accumulate all this stuff. I consider myself a pretty neat person. Okay? Some of my friends and family might disagree, but I don't know how we even accumulate all this crap. But I thought spring cleaning, if I get rid of all of this garbage and this rubbish for our British friends watching across the pond, then everything will be clear. Okay, so we did spring cleaning and now we're here with a jam packed show for you guys. We have a ton of topics to get into. Okay? No kings protest. Those are an utter calamity. I was living my best life at Costco while these people were out protesting. We got no kings. I want to talk about Hollywood collapsing and Vince Vaughn, the actor. He was on Theo Vaughn's podcast and he really called out a lot of these late night hosts who I call hacks like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. So we're going to get into all of that. We're going to talk about tsa, the airports, and a lot more after we pay some quick bills. So stick around this spring if you want real results. Better gut health, glowing skin, stronger hair and steady energy. Start with colostrum. When your gut is balanced, everything else improves. Today's sponsor, Cowboy Colostrum offers premium bovine colostrum sourced entirely from American grass fed cows and made in the usa. Unlike many brands, it uses true first day whole colostrum packed with bioactives like immunoglobulins and growth factors. 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If you are living under a dictatorship, would you be allowed to go out into the streets and protest and exercise your First Amendment right? I'd love for you to actually live under a fascist regime. You wouldn't be able to go into the streets with their little pre made signs, chanting and performing and doing all the theatrics because these are a bunch of overgrown theater kids. And as a recovering theater kid, game knows game. But you would never ever see me at a no Kings protest, okay? Because I'm not a 70 year old virgin, okay? These are the people who sit at home watching msnbc, Rachel Maddow and just eating up all of that far left liberal mainstream slop and junk. So that's who you will find at these no Kings protests. I was shook, okay? Some of these people were so deranged. We need to open the asylums. It's almost like they open the asylums for the afternoon and let them go out and get some exercise actually, at the no Kings protest. Basically this is an opportunity for people who otherwise wouldn't get their steps in, wouldn't get any sunlight or fresh air. They got to go outside and get some exercise. So that actually was a silver lining for the no Kings protest. But other than that, they were an utter calamity. Now, someone who had to make a stop at the no Kings protest was none other than Robert De Niro, who probably has a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars and lives in a mansion in Hollywood. But Robert De Niro, he really wanted to rail against President Trump because he has Major Trump derangement syndrome. I want to play you this clip real quick.
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Robert De Niro (Clip)
I Support this movement 150%. But when the crowds are chanting no Kings, what I'm really hearing, as we all know, is no Trump.
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Link (Podcast Host)
That's right.
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Robert De Niro (Clip)
There have been other presidents who have tested the constitutional limits of their power, but none have been such an existential threat Threat to our freedoms and security. None except Trump.
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Link (Podcast Host)
I am tired of these rich Hollywood celebrities telling us how to live our lives. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, but it always comes from the left, okay? It's always from these far left hacks like Robert Dairo and Jane Fonda and Jam Lee Curtis who were once legends, okay? I'm not going to take away the fact that these guys are legends. They're legends in the industry, but they squander their legacy. They tarnish their legacy because they go out here and they do this crap. We have no kings in our country, okay? You guys need help. You need help. There are absolutely no kings. But these folks, they want to go out there, they want to be angry. They want to protest about something. Your time to show how you feel. 2026, midterms, 2028 election. Take your grievances to the ballot box. All of these people who say they can't stand President Trump, and there are millions of them out in the streets. Where were you in November of 2024 when Kamala Harris lost the popular vote? The House, the Senate, and every single swing state? So these folks, they might have a lot to say about President Trump, but I dare them, I dare them to say one word about the left, okay? Because you hate President Trump. You hate him. That's why you're out in the streets. You're protesting. You're basically putting hits out on his life with the things that you're saying. Y' all also didn't show up for the Democrats either because Kamala got her ass handed to her. So it seems like you just hate everyone and everything and you just hate the establishment, which on a certain level, there is a discontent with the establishment in our country. But we live right now in a two party system. Maybe in the future you guys will have a third party candidate that can really push through. The laws are written, so that that's probably not going to happen. But these folks out in the streets and take your grievances to the ballot box. If you hated President Trump so much, why didn't you go vote for Kamala? I got to ask you that real quick. The last clip I want to play, okay, is of this woman who says there are no black people at the no kings protests. Seems like there's a lack of diversity here today, that it's mostly people who look like you and I, and I just.
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Guest Commentator on No Kings Protest
This is not. It is not for black people, for people of color to be. To get out on the street. They're at risk when they do that. If anybody's going to get arrested here, it's going to be a black person. It is not safe for them. And they don't need to participate. We need to walk in their name.
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Link (Podcast Host)
Let me start off by saying the reason you don't see any black people at these no Kings protests is because they're actually out enjoying their weekends. Why would you spend your weekend walking around with some pre made sign around a bunch of smelly, dirty rotten people complaining that we live under a dictatorship when that's anything but the truth? Okay, did you guys see what hurdles we had to go through for the big beautiful bill? Okay? The House, the Senate, the federal government, like everyone had to work in push, push, push to whip the votes. We do not live under a king. We don't live under a fascist regime or a dictatorship. So I actually applaud the black people who did not show up at no Kings because they're like, what does this have to do with us? Okay? The only people you really saw at no Kings were affluent or actually at least upper middle class white people who watch mainstream media. Okay? A lot of other folks are either working or it's their one day off of work. They don't want to spend it out in the streets or they just have better things going on in their lives. They have family, they have friends, or they want to be at home with their dogs and cats. They don't want to be out doing this nonsense because also it accomplishes nothing. Now, speaking of accomplishing nothing, let's talk about the Democrats attack on tsa, okay? The Democrats break it. President Trump has to fix it. If it wasn't for President Trump during the last government shutdown, I'm remembering now, he's the only reason the troops got paid. The Democrats do not care about you. They don't care about me. You guys can hate Republicans. People can say what they want about President Trump, but the Democrats hate our country. That is a fact. Okay? They are fine with TSA workers not getting paid because they want to throw a tantrum. They were fine with the troops not getting paid. They were fine with the open borders. They're fine with criminals being on the street. Chuck Schumer, all of these Democrats, Hakeem Jeffries, these beta males in Washington, D.C. they don't care about us. And it's also because the issues don't affect them. They are breezed through the airports with private escorts, security. They don't wait in line. But President Trump, he said, you know what? I am Going to appropriate some funds from the Homeland Security to get these TSA agents paid. And let me read you what's going on. He said, I'm going to sign an order instructing Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullen to pay our TSA agents in order to address this emergency situation and to quickly stop the Democrat, Democrat chaos at the airports. It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to to do it Now. Some airports across the country, they've gone back to normal. The lines are great, especially if you have TSA pre check. But this is all the Democrats know. Their entire platform is chaos. You don't want to pay the TSA agents, then you're mad that the ICE agents are coming in and calmly, efficiently and effectively doing their jobs. Make up your minds, okay? It's just that the Democrats don't have a platform. And when you don't have a platform or principles or heart or a policy proposal or plan, all you know is chaos. And you're going to say, you know what? This week we're going to fight with TSA and the airports. Then we're going to fight with President Trump on this, then we're going to do this. And there's a reason people are leaving the Democrat Party because the Democrat Party has left them the left. If you go Back to the 90s, the Democrat Party was made up of mostly working class Americans. They were supposed to be the party for working class Americans. Those people aren't involved in the Democrat Party anymore. It's basically for the elites. It's for the Beyonce's of the world, the Jay Zs of the world, the George Soros of the world, the Gavin Newsoms of the world. That's who the Democrat Party is now. They don't care about you, they don't care about me, they don't care about a majority of the country. They were fine. Remember this? They were fine with people waiting in line for five or six hours, people with disabilities, people with young kids. They were fine with y' all waiting in line for five or six hours while they went off on vacation, all because they wanted to stick it to President Trump. So shame on the Democrats. Y' all are an embarrassment. But let's move on. Debt can feel like everything is piling up. The bank fees, the collector calls like it's getting worse every month. And if nothing changes, it will. But listen, it's time to fight back because a fresh start is possible. PDS debt has helped hundreds of thousands of people cut their debt, rewrite their financial story. And take back control. 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Vince Vaughn (Clip)
why like I've seen a lot of
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Vince Vaughn (Clip)
have struggled because all they did during, like, all they did, the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people. And it tight. And then everything tanked after that. Think about that. This is. But see, they never get it right. The podcasts have gotten so much more popular with less production, less writers left staff. But yeah, because people want authenticity. Yeah. And I think that, I think that the talk shows to a large part, became really agenda based. Yeah. They were gonna evangelical people to what they thought, you know what I mean? And so people just rejected it because it didn't feel authentic. It felt like they had an agend. It stopped being funny and it started feeling like I was in fucking A class I didn't want to take.
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Link (Podcast Host)
If you go back in the day, look at Johnny Carson, look at the legends of late night tv, Right? They would either not do politics or they'd have fun with both sides. You could poke at both sides. Even Saturday Night Live. Back in the day, there was a time when Saturday Night Live was actually funny. Now you turn on snl, all they do is attack President Trump. Okay, let's say you're not a fan of the president. Let's say you didn't vote for him. Right? We live in a free country. It's still boring. It's still boring after a while to listen to this liberal slop. Okay, where are the jokes? Stephen Colbert, he was running a $40 million deficit on his show and it wasn't funny. And there's a reason he's been canceled, because these late night comedians don't have any jokes. How do y' all have 12, 20 writers? 100 people working on a staff? No one's laughing. The only material you have is President Trump. We don't like President Trump. That's it. That's it. Every single night. I have no writers. I have no writers. Everything that comes out of my mouth, it's my own ideas. Okay? So I don't understand how these people have 12 writers and you still can't deliver and you're running a $40 million deficit. Okay? Give that budget to people who are actually funny to people who are actually interesting. And Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel, let's not forget him. He was making jokes after Charlie Kirk's assassination. He was pulled off the air for three days and he acted like the world was coming to an end. These people are clowns. Like, I can't even articulate to you guys how much I don't care about Jimmy Kimmel's opinion On politics or Stephen Colbert or even Jon Stewart for them. None of these guys are funny anymore. None of these guys are funny. They're all starting to look like Rachel Maddow. Have you noticed this? Liberal men, as they get older, there's something that happens to their faces. Like Mark Cuban. There's something that happens to their faces where they just start to look a little bit like Rachel Maddow. You know what I'm saying? I think that testosterone plummets, okay? Like Looney Tunes. Like an anvil, that testosterone plummets to the seventh ring of hell. And these guys aren't funny anymore. I mean, Stephen Colbert, I haven't heard a funny joke in years. There are comedians I love. Joan Rivers. I could give you five of her greatest punchlines right now. But there's something about President Trump. He broke these men. He broke their brains. These are rich men with television shows and President Trump. One guy. One guy has just snapped their brains, and they haven't recovered yet. And so there's a reason their ratings are down. Shout out to Vince Vaughn for speaking the truth. Something else that we have to discuss. Okay. The Olympics finally banned transgender athletes. Okay. Hallelujah. The fact that we even have to discuss this in 2026 is the embarrassment. First and foremost, the fact that we actually have to have this conversation. You know, maybe we shouldn't let a grown man with biological differences compete against a woman. The fact that we have to talk about that people in other countries are laughing at us here in the US that there's even a small faction of the population that wants to fight for this insanity. But shout out to the Olympic Committee. Let me read you a little bit about what's going on. So this was on Thursday. The International Olympic Committee came to an agreement and said to protect fairness, safety, and integrity in the female category, eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females. Thank you very much. Clap, golf, clap. Okay? Because there are girls out there who get up at 4am they train, they work their asses off, and they're losing out on scholarships and medals in high school college because someone who wants to identify as a girl at the drop of a hat comes in and takes it from them. And this isn't a knock to women. My audience is 88% women online. I love women. I was raised by a strong woman. But any woman will tell you there are just biological differences between guys and girls. And that's the way it is. That's the way it is. From an evolutionary standpoint, women create life with their bodies. There are things women's bodies can do that ours can't as dudes. And so when it comes to sports, you're going to have some differences. So shout out to the Olympic Committee. Shout out to everybody who has been on the front line of this, this issue. Now, while the Olympic Committee have come to their senses and banned men from being able to compete against women in sports, some folks in Pennsylvania on the Democrat side, they're still living in the world of insanity and lunacy. So this is a story that happened a couple of days ago. So there was a resolution in Pennsylvania that was put to the floor by the Democrats to honor March as Women's History Month. And they wanted to honor the extraordinary accomplishments of women, which too often go unacknowledged. I'm fine with that. We want to recognize it as Women's History Month. Great. Put forth the resolution. No problem with me. But the resolution was pulled from the floor. The second Republican lawmaker, Aaron Bernstein, said, we want to include an amendment that defines what a woman is. And so the second he said we should define what a woman is. Nobody could do that, okay? Because apparently these folks don't know the difference between XX chromosomes and XY chromosomes. And so they pulled it from the floor. That's how ridiculous these Democrats are. We have a quick clip and you can hear people laughing. Madam speaker, this amendment is very straightforward and clear. It defines what a woman actually is because we do know what that is. Thank you. The resolution is temporarily over. So the resolution is over because nobody on the Democrat side in Pennsylvania could define what a woman is. These are the people in charge of laws in our country, okay? This is why people don't trust politicians. They don't trust the system. If you don't even know what a woman is versus a man, how are you supposed to make consequential decisions that affect and impact our lives? You don't know basic biology. You don't know, you know, first grade stuff here. ABC, 1, 2, 3. So shame on you guys. In Pennsylvan, shout out to this Republican, Aaron Bernstein. I never heard of him before, but this is genius. Say define a woman when they can't. Suddenly it's out the window. 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Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Before we go today, I want to get your thoughts on something. So there was a landmark case having to do with Meta, Google, and YouTube where a young woman named Kaylee and her parents sued these social media companies because she says these social media companies intentionally hooked her as a child and caused her to develop anxiety, body dysmorphia, and suicidal thoughts. Now, Snapchat and TikTok settled the case before trial, but she did go to trial with Meta and Google, and she was awarded $6 million in damages. Now, this has caused a lot of conversation online, okay? Conversations around the addictive nature of social media. What ages people should be able to use social media, right? I think if you're a child, you should not be on social media at all. I think there's some teenagers who aren't mature enough to be on social media, but it's a slippery slope, right? We regulate alcohol in Our country, we regulate drugs, right? You have to be 21 to drink. You have to have, you know, certain barriers for things. And so I understand this push, right? If you're going to regulate and work with the tech companies, right? We're at this impasse. And I think the tech companies are actually open to it because they don't want to be dragged into these sort of, I think, frivolous lawsuits. I think these are just litigious people looking for millions of dollars. I think the tech companies are willing to work with the federal government and the people to say, how can we have a meeting of the minds? How can we come together and make a platform that works? And in fact, Mark Zuckerberg has signaled that he is open to this. Other big tech giants, they have signaled they're open to this. Tim Cook has made comments recently. He wants people to get outside, doesn't want them to be on their phones all day. And so it is interesting to see this tech folks say, listen, we understand people have gotten addicted to social media. That being said, you have free will in this country, right? And I think if you're 20 years old, you should be old enough to know what you can and can't handle, right? And if you can't handle being on social media, it's impacting your mental health negatively. Doesn't mean you get to turn around and sue the company. Turn your phone off. Turn your phone off. And so where is the accountability? And I think for parents as well, there are some parents, of course, who are so busy, who have so much on their plates, right? They give the kid an iPad, an iPhone. We see this at restaurants all the time. And that's perfectly fine. Most little kids now, they have a tablet or something to watch movies and shows on. Hell, if I had a kid, I would be doing the same thing. But it's up to the parent to regulate how much time the kid can spend online, when they can join social media, who they can follow. Most of these social media companies have parental controls now that you can turn on. And so I actually don't think it's fair, based on the information I have of this case, for this girl to be suing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg because she doesn't like her body image, because she doesn't feel good about herself. I don't think that is a good precedent to set. I just don't think it's a good precedent because you're going to have more and more people. You could have millions of people come out of the woodwork and Say the exact same thing. And then for me, it's very difficult in court to prove any kind of this mental health stuff, right? You can say, oh, they gave me body dysmorphia, they made me, you know, think suicidal thoughts, God forbid, right? Unless you have some type of therapy notes, you have some type of record of this, you're now coming into a situation where the jury, the judge, they're kind of having to make a ruling based off of their gut feeling, right? Do they find you credible? Do they not? Because it's so hard to prove. Hey, this social media website gave me depression. How do you prove it's not like you got into a fender bender and you have a picture of the car, right? Someone rear ended you and you have pictures of it and you file a claim. It's like they made me feel bad about myself, you know, unless you have real record of this, it's a slippery slope. And I think it's is a little bit of a waste of the justice system if we're going to be completely honest. But I want to hear from you guys, if we're going to regulate social media, let's regulate it. But I don't think we can have millions of people just getting up and suing these companies because they didn't watch what their kids were doing. And this person is 20 years old. She's 20 years old. I don't know how old she was when she started using social media. She said she was hooked as a child. But if you're a minor, then it's on the parents, right? If you're a minor, you're not even supposed to travel without your parents. I mean, you're unaccompanied minor. So the parents need to be able to monitor what's happening on social media. And so I think it's something that needs to be handled in the home. And I'm not siding with the big tech companies. I'm no friends with the big tech guys. I'm just saying I don't think it's fair to come up out of the woodwork and say that they're the ones who tanked your mental health when the parents should have stepped in and gotten you off of social media until you were old enough to handle it. Well, my friends, we will see you back on Wednesday. Thank you so much for tuning in to Spot on with Link. Lauren. I can't wait to read all of your comments on these topics. Whether it's Vince Vaughn, whether it's my trip to Costco, whether it's these tech companies and social media. I think these are all heated topics and one thing I love about us is we can have an open dialogue. There are no wrong answers and it's impossible to offend me. So I love you all. Be well. 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