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Foreign. If it's Monday, it must be the Joy Reed Show. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Joy Reed Show. Big up to the chats. Everybody watching on YouTube, on substack, on Facebook, the adorable twitchies on twitch. 400 strong and counting. How many Twitchies do we have? Let me go ahead and count their number because we love them and they're so adorable. They're so unique. I actually met a Twitchy in person not too long ago. But big up to the Twitchies on twitch. They're like 400 strong. Also, our friends on Facebook, if you're on LinkedIn, I didn't know people watch content on LinkedIn. I'm just being honest. This is new information to me. But apparently people do watch our show on LinkedIn as well. So hello to our LinkedInies. We're going to give you guys a name, too. Everybody else have a name. So big up to everybody that's watching. We really appreciate each and every person. Do you like, link to these dogs? We can't call them links, but there's a real thing. I don't know if that is, you know, I don't know. We need to. No, we can't call them the links. Obviously. We'll come up with something. We'll come up with something. We'll work on. Hey, fam. How y' all doing? We're gonna workshop it. We're gonna workshop a name for the LinkedIn. If you guys have any ideas for what we're going to call the link dennies, because I'm calling them LinkedInies until they come up with something better than that. Big up to everybody that's watching on all the various platforms. If you're watching this on an audio podcast, we see you, too. I mean, we don'. Physically see you because you're on an audio podcast. You see what I'm saying? You get the idea that we care about you message. We care. I hope you guys had a fantastic weekend. Last week I was on the Maury Povich podcast. Maury Povich, you are the father. You are not the father. He didn't do that, though, on the podcast. I should have asked. I realized afterwards that I should have asked him to do that thing. We're gonna invite him on the show soon and. But trust me, when he comes on, I'm gonna ask him to do the thing he has to say the line. He didn't say it on the podcast, but he was a lot of fun. Had a great time with him and his team. Thank you to all the Maury Povich Team who were very kind, and I had a really great time on Maury show. That is all it is there. It's. It's posted. We're gonna cross post it so you guys can see it on our channel, or you can just go over to Maury's podcast, which you can see on YouTube and all the places where he broadcast that. So big up to Maury Povich, and of course, his wife is the legendary Connie Chung. We talked about the piano incident at the. At the end, after the podcast, we chat about that. Big up to everybody. Hello. Everybody's saying hi. I see the lemon heads are present and accounted for. Hello to them. We always got to say hi to you guys as well. So we got a lot going on tonight. Tonight's a. It's one of those nights. But I do want to remind you guys, if you have not yet started voting in our Vontel Shop Red bag contest, just as a reminder, your voting starts now. If people have already been voting. So thanks, everybody. That's already started voting. But let me just go through the glasses one more time. Jason has a graphic, but I'll also do it in lie. Wanjira said I have to do it live. Do it live. She said we have to do it live as well. So this was the first pair. This is called the block. And this is the Remer Bearden frame. Okay. This is the block. Ramare Bearden. Okay, that's. That's number one. And let me show you. It's. It's amazing. The boxes are super cute. So this is the box for that. It's really great packaging. So that's the box for the Bearden. I called him Romare last week because I was trying to make it more fancy. But it's from Mare Bearden. All right, this is. And that was what I wore on Monday. On 2. On Wednesday, I wore Amina Tiffany Black. Okay, this is Amina Tiffany Black. That's the. That's. That's number two. Okay, these are all Vontel glasses. Let me show you the really cute box for this one. They come with a box in a box. Like, what is cute about it? It's a box in a box. It's a box in a box. But anyway, that's the box in a box for the Romero Beard in one. And look, when you open this box, it's got, like, black inside, but, you know, they're really cute. So that's the second one. Amina Tiffany. Amina Black. That's number two. And then number three, which I didn't get to wear on Wednesday, on Friday, because I actually left them. I forgot to take them from Maryland and take them. But here they are. There we go. Fabulous. Now you guys can see them. Okay. This was the 7th Avenue Merlot. The 7th Avenue Merlot. Now just know that they're, some of them have the shading in them as sunglasses, but they don't have to be. So you're really looking at the frame. Not necessarily that they are sunglasses if you, if you, if you see what I mean. So this is the 7th Avenue Merlot. I think they're super cute. They're all cute. And this is the box for that one. All right. Arlen Haberdashery is the maker and they're all available@shopredbag.com you can buy any of them. You can get 10 off if you use the code. Joy if you want to purchase any of those for yourself. But we're trying to figure out as we partner with Bontel Eyewear, which is that amazing black woman owned, black woman created firm that does glasses where when you put them on, the great thing is they're super snug. They don't slide down your face, which I have a lot of great glasses I love, but they still slide down my face. Or they hurt your ear right back here because they're too tight. They don't do that. These are super comfortable. They really feel good. You can wear them for hours. They don't hurt. So that's what Vontel kind of created. They sort of pioneered that. And shopredbag.com and the joy Reid show and Vaughn Tel have all come together to do this contest. Jason, if you could put up the QR code. If you want to vote on glasses one, glasses two, or glasses three, you can hit this QR code and immediately vote. Okay, so vote for glasses 1, 2 or 3. One is the Romare Bearden, two is the Amina Tiffany Black, and three is the 7th Avenue Merlot. Vote for one of them, tell us what you love about it, let us know what you think, and then we're going to use this information to sort of come up with workshopping our ideas for what our exclusive readers frames are going to look like. We're going to make our own. Now, if you're like me, you have multiple pairs of glasses. So even if you buy one of these, you can still get the readers eventually. So that's going to happen eventually. Right? So we're going to keep the polls open all the way through the end of the week. So keep, try to vote before Friday though, because we're going to try to announce, we're going to try to announce the winner on Friday during the show. So please vote capriciously, expeditiously. All right, so that's the news. That's the, that's the housekeeping. The other housekeeping, of course, is to hit like and subscribe. We're now at 444,000 subscribers. Every time I give you guys this number, we're just climbing and climbing. Now we're at 444,000 on YouTube. So we are, we are. I think we're going to make the 250 on substack because we're climbing pretty quick on Substack. I never mentioned on Facebook the, my personal Facebook has like 625,000, but our per, our Facebook for the show has about 30,000, I think, subscribers. So we want to get that up as well. We want to get everybody to climb. We just want lots and lots of friends. We're greedy. We're greedy people. We want to have more friends and we want lots and lots of friends. So please just tell a friend, send the link to a friend, send it to a Trumpy uncle just to irritate them. Tell them, tell them to watch the show just so that they can get like annoyed and get their blood pressure up. All right, let's get to some headlines. I want to start with the palette cleanser at the top. Jason, here's the palate cleanser. This is a one. Please play the palate cleanser.
