Touching Concrete

Brooke Lyle 0:06
Hey guys, welcome back to touching concrete. My name is Brooke.

Layla Mullen 0:09
My name is Layla,

Brooke Lyle 0:11
and we're so excited to be on our second episode today.

Layla Mullen 0:14
Yes, it's actually February 10, and our first episode premieres today in just a few short hours, a few hours, I'm so excited for you guys to be able to listen to it.

Brooke Lyle 0:26
People are just coming after me. When's the podcast coming out? Once the podcast, when are you guys making merch? Yeah, crazy. Crazy. Inbox. Full. Inbox is full. DMS, full. All phone calls, phone calls, and not even spammers like famous people, people that make money coming for our podcast. They're coming for a podcast. But guys, we'll stay true to you. Stay true to the to NC State, to NC State. We're here for you. Guys. We're not gonna succumb to the fame. No, we're not gonna change. We're not gonna change just for the fame. So that's we're just here to be honest and be real with you guys. You guys don't even have to worry about that. Yeah, no worries needed at all.But yeah, so we're really excited for the first episode to come out. If you guys didn't know we're not famous yet at all. Nobody's reaching out. But which is fine, yeah, totally fine. That's all we're after.

Layla Mullen 1:28
We do have a lot of fun filming these episodes. So much fun. We filmed one so far in the trailer, but we're in the 'stu' today. Yeah? And we really enjoy this.

Brooke Lyle 1:41
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to talk into a microphone. Yeah, I will say. And just like the production side of it, I really enjoyed with the first episode, and like editing, it was cool. And just being in, like a cool studio with the big mics, the production board, the computers, everything, it's just, I'm obsessed with it all. So thanks for listening. This is kind of just like a passion project for us. So and our photos were, whoa, our photos were just put outside on, like the staff wall, yeah, like the team wall, super cute. So we're official content contributors. Yeah to WKNC, so that's very exciting.Yeah. So how was your weekend, Layla?

Layla Mullen 2:25
my weekend was pretty good. It felt like a long weekend. I will say the same. It felt long. I had four exams last week, so this weekend, I took relaxation to a whole new level. Friday night, I went to a birthday party. Shout out, Mary. Her birthday is the 11th of February. Tomorrow, tomorrow. Happy birthday, Mary, the big 21. Saturday night, I went to Coco Bongo with a friend. I love Coco Bongo. It was so good. It was so busy, though. I bet their chips and queso were literally to die for, and we got so gross this time. Oh, I didn't know they had that me either delish. Were they? Did you have, like, chocolate you could dip it in? Yep, that's so good. And then Sunday, I deep cleaned my room, like, top to bottom, Clorox, bleach flower,

Brooke Lyle 3:20
wow.

Layla Mullen 3:21
Bathroom floor, like everything. Wow. It needed it.

Brooke Lyle 3:24
That reminded me, when I was a kid in like, elementary school, I was obsessed with Bath and Body Works me too, and so my mom, I would beg my mom to take me, and she would say, deep clean your deep clean all the bathrooms, and then I'll take you to Bath and Body Works, really. Yeah, that was your treat. Yeah, my treat for cleaning the bathrooms. I did it maybe like two times, but it was the best reward. I loved bath and biters, I don't know, just was obsessed with it. So wow, how was your weekend? My weekend was good. It was super chill. I built Legos this weekend. I love Lego. It was a lot of fun. I built a flower one, I don't know. Oh, the plum blossom one, I don't know. It was a lot of fun. And I watched the broski report while or not, the broski report royal court from Brittany broski, yeah, while I built it. And it was just like a great vibe. That was Friday, and then Saturday we went. We went shopping. On Saturday, totally forgot about it. Yeah, we went to what Mall? Oh, we didn't we went to Fenton. Yes, it's super cute there. It was really cold that day on Saturday, though, really cold. I totally forgot about that. Yeah, I'm so sorry. It was literally two days ago, but it feels like a lifetime. It does. I don't know what the science behind that is, but anyways, so we went to altered state. I always love altered state. Always smells so good in there. Their clothes are always so cute, so expensive, so.So expensive. Yeah, that was fun. And I always loved being at Fenton. So nice there. Love it, love it, love it, love it. And then on I called a few of my friends on Sunday, I started to study for an exam I have on Thursday, and then I went out to dinner with my mom, and then I went home to watch the Super Bowl with my mom.

Layla Mullen 5:30
Speaking of the Super Bowl, I feel like we could kind of move on into our topics about that. I just want to state right off the bat, no clue how football works. Never have I ever watched the Super Bowl for the actual football

Brooke Lyle 5:52
No, me neither. I. Not only do I not know how football works, I don't really care to learn, um, and

Layla Mullen 6:01
I've been taught maybefour times, and I don't get it. I do not understand how it works, the downs, the first down, third down. I don't know how, like, I just I don't understand also, it's so scary. I'm constantly worried they're gonna get hurt same, because after that one football game where we went to we were literally second from the second row from the end zone, one of our football players, Grayson McCall, yeah, yeah. Got super, super injured. It was very scary, yes, and I knew that football was dangerous, but that really like that really put in perspective for me. And I also just saw a tick tock where a read an article, read an article. He's probably 13/14, could be little older, could be a little younger. He was playing football, like, recreationally, whatever, and got hit so bad he got a concussion that he couldn't even he, like, totally forgot how to walk. He's been, like, learning how to walk. And that's scary. That's really scary. That's my brother. Actually Fun fact, wanted to play football in high school, like the coach asked him to be on the team because he's really small and he's really fast. But my parents were like, no, because he is literally so tiny, especially as a freshman in high school.

Brooke Lyle 7:25
Yeah, I have this debate with myself about if I have a kid and they want to play football. I can't imagine myself saying no. But also it's so dangerous, and I think about this, I have a nephew who's about 14 months old now, and I wonder if he wants to play football, if my sister and brother in law will let him, which I'm sure they would, yeah, but it's so scary, I don't know that's something I definitely have to think really hard about.

Layla Mullen 7:58
But I guess with any sport, yeah, that's like gymnastics, super dangerous cheer leading, actually, yeah, is I this was a few years ago. It came out as one of the most dangerous sports, because I'm literally throwing people in the air, I believe it. And I used to do cheer, and I saw a few injuries that were a little scary. So I, um, used to play volleyball, and I've got a concussion from volleyball. Yeah, so And like, I know people who have torn their ACLs, yeah. Also, soccer, soccer, a lot of people tear their ACLs in soccer and dance. ACLs back injuries. Also, girls specifically, are more prone to knee injuries, really, just anatomically, wow. I wonder why? Not sure. But so I guess the moral of the story is that any sport is dangerous, yeah, but I don't I feel like football is especially dangerous because you're literally tackling each other. I mean, your brain is like rocking up against your Yeah, the insides.

Brooke Lyle 9:04
Anyways. So yeah, the Super Bowl, I who was playing the chiefs and the chiefs and the Eagles, and I will say I did want the eagles to win, and they did me too, because I love Jason Kelsey, even though he's not on the team anymore. I wanted them to win, because one of my favorite shows right now is Abbot Elementary, and it takes place in Philadelphia. And in the show, they are crazy fans of the Eagles, and I just know that they're gonna make an episode about it, because, like, genuinely, there's so many episodes about how, like they love Eagles, and some episodes like a player has come on to make a little cameo on the show. I just love that show, and it's so funny, and I hope that they do make an episode about it. I saw a video this morning on Tiktok, yeah, and it's show.

Layla Mullen 9:59
Showed the streets of Philadelphia after the Eagles won last night. What was it like? Like, glass shattered everywhere, crash everywhere. But that's just like, from what I was reading in the Tiktok comments, that's kind of the essence of Philly fans. Like, they're they're aggressive is the wrong word. They're just very, like, proud, passionate. Yes, I saw the governor, mayor, somebody like that. Of Philly went on the news, some sort of video, I don't know. I saw it on tick tock. And she was like, Y'all need to not climb poles, like you need to not climb the light posts when the Eagles win. And then I saw another tick tock this morning that was like, it was these, I don't know if it was real or fake or satire. I don't I don't know real. God, it was these people who were, like, greasing the polls so that people wouldn't climb. Wow. So I don't know what's going on in Philly, but congrats on the win. Congrats on the win, and I hope you had fun at the celebration.

Brooke Lyle 1 11:06
Yes, because I would have had fun at that probably, yeah, me too, but maybe a little bit scared, probably, but overall, I'm sure they had a good time. Yes, and I feel like this Super Bowl specifically, like I mentioned, have no clue how football works, but from what I've seen and read on Tiktok,

Layla Mullen 11:28
this Super Bowl was kind of controversial because the chiefs, Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift versus the Eagles, which they played two years ago, who won The Chiefs, a chief, yeah, and then the Chiefs won last year against two. Do you know? I don't know, last year, Yeah, me neither. And then they could have won this year, but they didn't.

Brooke Lyle 11:52
And actually it was like, oh,

Brooke Lyle 1 11:55
for like, they had no points for a long, like, half time. It was like zero to 2020, or something, yeah, something like that. Crazy it was, they did like, score a lot of points in the last quarter, yeah, last two quarters. I'm not sure. I think the final score was, like, 40 to 22 or something, something like that. 22 to 40, I think, is the correct way to word that losers first? Well, I could be wrong. So I think that we should just become a sports a common podcast, sports like commentary. What are those people called who comment on sports commentators? I don't know if that's right, but yeah, like in the Super Bowl last night, there were these guys who were sitting at a table, yeah, their whole job was to just talk about it. They do that for college game days too, yeah, like big SEC schools, yeah, um, I forget their names, but I know they do that, right? So whatever that job title is, that's what we're becoming absolutely and

Layla Mullen 13:02
I just love now I'm thinking to like NC State football games. I love the energy. It's the energy of the stadium, the band, the cheerleaders, the dancers. I just love the energy. It gets me so hyped. It's the reason I love them is, like, the camaraderie, yeah, the camaraderie, it's so good. And the band, yeah, I love the band, me too. I little fun fact for everybody. I used to play the saxophone. I was a band kid in like, elementary school. Wow.

Brooke Lyle 13:40
And it's because I so in fifth grade at my school, you could choose to be in the band or go to study hall. And what is a fifth grader to do in study hall? Yeah, that is kind of crazy. And so I was like, okay, obviously, I'll join the band. And so I played the clarinet for a year, and then the natural I didn't know this, but it's easy to transfer from the clarinet to this saxophone. So at the end of the year, everybody kept on asking me, Brooke, are you gonna switch to this saxophone? Are you gonna switch to this saxophone? In my mind, I was thinking, I didn't know that was a thing that you could do, but I was like, Yeah, I guess I will, yeah. So then I switched to play the saxophone.

Layla Mullen 14:19
Well, I guess it's like a piano to any other instrument. If you can play the piano, you can do anything, really, anything, that's my dad told me, and honestly I believe it, because if you play the piano, you can read the music, but like,

Brooke Lyle 14:36
if you play can play the piano, can you,

Brooke Lyle 1 14:40
like, play the guitar suddenly, yeah? Because it's the same courts, like, you just have to figure out the hands of it. Yeah, that's true. I yeah, you just have to figure out, correct me, if I'm wrong. I think it's called the neck of the guitar.

Layla Mullen 14:57
I don't know. You just got to figure out the chords. I.

Brooke Lyle 15:00
Um,

Brooke Lyle 1 15:01
I and also in like middle school, yeah, in like eighth grade, I went through a guitar phase, and I was trying to learn how to play the guitar, anyone who can play, really, any instrument, but specifically the piano, guitar, violin, any string instrument. I am so jealous of you, yeah, well, the piano isn't a string instrument. It is. It is, yes, because, oh, I don't know if that's true,

Brooke Lyle 15:27
but I know that, like the keys,

Brooke Lyle 1 15:32
the key are, they're connected to strings. No, wow, I actually don't know. I think they are. I don't know what else they'd be. They have to I somehow, in my mind, I know that piano was a string instrument, and I think it's because the keys are connected to strings. I actually want to start piano lessons this summer. You should do it. I think I might do it. I don't know how to do that, but I think I'm gonna start.

Brooke Lyle 1 15:59
You would just have to look for some a teacher, but we just got rid of our piano.

Layla Mullen 16:09
So there you go. You don't, you know there's no piano. I don't know how you're gonna play. I can play the piano on my iPad. I'll just download a piano app, unlike Smule Yes, did you ever used to play Smeal games? Yes, I ate those up. I would sing into them. I'd play the piano into them. Piano Tiles, yeah, you know those tick tocks, of people who do the Piano Tiles with their feet, yeah?

Or like they'll be on live doing it, yeah, that's so true. Oh, my God. Speaking of tick tock lives on my on my for you page, I've been getting a lot of famous people on on live stream, like Billie Eilish has come up on my live streams, probably like five times over this past weekend, I saw Katy Perry on live and I don't like, is this real? Yes, because they make so much money. Really, um, controversial person, Jeffrey star went on a podcast and was talking about how much money he makes from tick tock live like he sells his products on tick tock live and makes like his makeup stuff, his makeup, skin care, probably his yacks,

Brooke Lyle 1 17:17
his Yaks. I forget that he's a yak farmer these days, and he makes 1000s of dollars. Even another controversial person, Ash Trevino, you know who that is? I don't. Oh, you have to give her a Tiktok search. I will. She is. Why is she controversial? She's just

Layla Mullen 17:39
always on Tiktok live, but she's so entertaining. That's what makes her so controversial. I feel like she's so entertaining. She says some funny things, sometimes, like out of pocket things, just I don't even you just need to look her. I'm surprised you haven't seen her. I maybe I have. I just don't recognize the name. She just went on a podcast, actually, the other day. Ash Trevino, oh my God, was it the podcast where she was, like, with her kid? Yes, oh my God, I know you're talking about and it was whose podcast was that her name's Camilla. Camilla, yes. And the and that girl was like, I'll buy her kids mattresses, yeah, because those kids don't have a beds at their mom's house. No, that's crazy. I do know who you're talking about now, yeah, so back to the Super Bowl. Oh, my God. So yeah, um, I just to recap. We don't care about the actual sports of it all. I wanted the eagles to win for my show, Abbott elementary it's not my show, but a show that I enjoy, and you wanted the eagles to win, because why again?

Brooke Lyle 1 18:48
Jason Kelsey, even though he's retired, that Travis Kelsey his brother. Okay, are they is Are they twins? Is that crazy to say yes, yeah, they're Jason is older, okay, I'm not sure how much, but he's definitely older.

Layla Mullen 19:05
Also love his wife's podcast. Kylie Kelsey, well, I just wanted to say this hot take really quick. Let's hear it

the same people who made fun of people for buying eras tour tickets. Taylor Swift's tour tickets are the same people who spent 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of dollars on awful seats to watch a football game. Yeah, I saw a tick tock. Oh my goodness. How many times am I gonna reference tick tock I saw

and they were asking people how much they spent on tickets, and it was like 12,000

Brooke Lyle 1 19:46
8000 for each like, that's insane, insane. I don't know there was, like, some sort of graphic that came on the TV that was like the average cost of a seat. It was like $5,000 I believe it. And like.

Brooke Lyle 1 20:00
That is so crazy to me. But also I will say, you get to see the half half time. That's true.

Brooke Lyle 1 20:07
But for a concert, I would not pay that much. I wouldn't pay half that much, absolutely. I wouldn't pay a quarter of that absolutely, not speaking of the half time.

Layla Mullen 20:15
I feel like we should move into our thoughts about the half time, absolutely. And also, we can kind of sprinkle in some of our thoughts about the commercials. So the halftime performance this year was Kendrick Lamar, yeah, I thought he ate it up. Oh, me too. He has such a swag to him, like, I know he's in the rap game, you know, but he, oh, he's just, so he's just, like a cool guy and his pants were, I love them. The jeans, the flare jeans, they fit him perfect. You know? What I couldn't get over is that, I don't know if this is true or just like my mind, but I think he was like they were too long on him, and he was stepping on them,

Brooke Lyle 1 20:55
like, like the pant was going under his shoe. I don't know if that is just how it looked to me if that was on purpose, but personally, if that were to happen to me, I would get over stimulated, and I would need to fix it immediately. But again, he's a cool guy. He doesn't care about stuff like that, so yeah, I thought he killed it. I thought the performers, the dancers, also did a fantastic job. Yeah, me too, because the halftime is, the performance is like 13 minutes. I think at least Kendricks was, and that's a long time to be dancing and running across the stage a football stadium at that which just a side note. Back to the Aeros tour. Backup dancers. Yeah, that's like a three hour show, three hours and they're dancing, they're dancing, they're dancing so quick. Changes Everything, yeah. Anyways, halftime show, yeah, the backup dancers were phenomenal. Kendrick was great. I liked I didn't. I'm not an avid Kendrick listener, but I do enjoy

Brooke Lyle 22:03
several of his songs me too.

Brooke Lyle 1 22:06
And I just wish that he played all the songs that I knew, yeah, which I know that, like, what he did, what he performed, flowed nicely and, like, it was great. But just for my sake, I like, I wish he played some of the songs that I know. I'm surprised he played not like us.

Layla Mullen 22:27
Drake was in the house.

Brooke Lyle 22:30
Drake was in the house. Yeah, I

Brooke Lyle 1 22:34
it is kind of crazy, but I knew I don't on tick tock. I read an article that was like, he's confirmed to play not like us. So I was expecting it, and also it won five Grammys. So how could he not play it? Yeah, I mean, it's such a it was, still is such a popular song. But when he looked directly into the camera and said, Drake, oh, that was pure, like, like, spite, like, he was mad at Drake in that moment. He does not care. Does not care. He was literally, like, not facing towards the camera. Turn towards the camera.

Layla Mullen 23:11
Wow. Also shout out to the camera men, did you see or camera women, camera people. Camera people, yeah. Did you see them? Like having to run across the stage and then turn really quickly to make sure they were getting the right shot. I did see that. And also the stage was like the full length of the field, no, yeah. And so they were really running, running, running all around. I saw clips where it'd be showing Kendrick and dancers behind him, and then there'd be, like, another set of dancers that were just bolting across the stage to get to the other side to get ready for their next shot. Yeah. I also wanted to talk about the political. Can we talk about the political and economic state of the world right now? I wanted to talk about, how would I word this? Like the symbolism, the political symbolism? Yes, yeah. Kendrick's performance, the dancers were wearing red, white, blue, yeah, um. They,

Brooke Lyle 1 24:14
at one point, they formed an American flag, like all the blues, and then the stripes, and they were, like, split in half, and Kendrick was performing in the middle, yeah. And that was a cool shot, because people were turning into the flag. I thought that was cool in and of itself. But then taking a further look into it, they were split in half, maybe to show the divide in the country right now. Yes, also, I believe it was symbolizing Uncle Sam. I'm not sure who the man was, but I've definitely seen him. I just he's a famous actor. He, I, I can't think of his name, but Samuel L Jackson, oh, his literal name is Samuel, yeah, but he was playing Uncle Sam, yeah, but his name is Samuel L Jackson. He.

Brooke Lyle 25:00
He was,

Layla Mullen 25:01
he was kind of like the announcer, like he was just saying things that were

Brooke Lyle 25:07
but Samuel L Jackson is the guy from, I think he's the guy in Marvel who's like, who gets the cat scratched across his Are you a Marvel person? Nope, okay.

Brooke Lyle 1 25:21
He's like, a he's, like, in the Marvel Universe. I've definitely seen him before, but he was kind of announcing, or like, saying things throughout the performance, kind of talking back and forth to Kendrick, yeah, and that was cool. I liked, I liked that. I like, made it a cool performance. And also, I think how it's supposed to be was like how a lot of America views like the hip hop slash rap world.

Layla Mullen 25:50
Speaking of real quick, I feel like next year they're gonna do a country artist. I've seen some Instagram things that are like

Brooke Lyle 1 26:02
people wanting country artists back at the Super Bowl, which I like country, but I also love hip hop, and I think it's more the vibe of the Super Bowl. Well, here's the thing, a lot of people were saying that Kendrick's performance was underwhelming To each their own, but you can't make everybody happy, not at all like, I was talking to my grandpa on the phone last night, and he was like, I can't listen to that stuff. I don't understand what they're saying. So it's like, you're not gonna make everyone happy. So I don't know. I feel like next year could be a country artist, though, not sure who.

Brooke Lyle 26:41
I don't know, who they would have for next year, hopefully, somebody that I like, somebody that I know also, though Samuel Jackson is Nick Fury in Marvel. That's the guy who I was trying to think of. Oh, I know you already said that. You don't, aren't into that, but just for the viewers out there who are who probably already put that connection together.

But I one thing about me is it takes me a while to connect the actor, actress to the role, and I oftentimes don't remember. Also the whole thing was set up like a game. Like, did you notice that with, like, the x's and stuff? It was like, I don't know what gaming controller or what gaming device, but game controllers, like Xbox controllers, have like buttons with the circle, the X triangle, different shapes. And that was like, on each game, each side of the field was a different shape of something like that. Oh, wow. And I think it was supposed to symbolize how it's kind of like a game, like getting to the top in America, and then also at the end. It was kind of faint, but I saw a photo after in the audience there were like, I don't know if they had wristbands, like the airs tour back to the airs tour, because everything always comes back to Taylor Swift, literally. Um, but if it was like that. I don't know what the situation was, but in the in the audience, like in the stands, it was lit up game over when he ended, Oh, wow. And like throughout, there were different sayings popping up, but it was Sophie, and I couldn't see what it was saying. Did you see that Taylor Swift got booed?

Brooke Lyle 1 28:17
No, I didn't. I didn't even see her coming up on the screen, she was on the Jumbotron, and it panned to her, and the whole stadium booed her, and she just rolled her eyes. That would be me, like,

Layla Mullen 28:30
like, why are you gonna boo her? See, I am not even like a Taylor Swift huge fan, like I listened to her music. I've been to her concert, but you can still respect her and her music, and you don't have to make this divide. Like, I think a lot of people don't like her just because she's a woman, to be honest, I agree, and she's so

Brooke Lyle 1 28:52
popular and influential in the industry, and like, she's just a business woman, she's at the top. She's like, one of the most famous people in the world, and you're gonna boo her at the Super Bowl. Like, you cannot deny that Taylor Swift has changed the music industry Absolutely. And she at the Grammys, she was like, one of the only people like, supporting every single artist who got her Grammy she was up, she was dancing and, like, because she was healing up, yeah. She knows how it feels for everyone to hate you, yeah. So yeah. Love Taylor Swift is the moral of that story. Love Taylor Swift. But again, I wouldn't call myself a Swifty. I'm not, but I do listen to her music. Me too. And last year, she was my second artist. Yeah, she was on my top five. But I think it's just because her, she has so much music that even if I'm not trying to actively listen to Taylor Swift all the time, I end up because music in every single genre, not every single genre, but she's covering a lot of ground here. She has hundreds of songs, yeah. And so it's just like, if I'm just shuffling all my songs, the likelihood of being a.

Brooke Lyle 30:00
Extra song is pretty high. Yep, I would say

Layla Mullen 30:03
I wanted to move into talking about some of the commercials. I personally find a lot of enjoyment of the Super Bowl commercials. I'm thinking back to my senior year of high school and my

actually, I'm sorry it was my junior year in AP Lang my teacher made us do this whole project on Super Bowl commercials and how they made us feel and the context of them. I saw a video last night that was talking about how this, like guy who was not in school anymore, was watching the commercial, and he was thinking about, like, wow. Some high schooler out there right now is watching these commercials to do an assignment on them later. That's what I had to do. I've never had to do that. I really liked it.

I forget what commercial it was, but I remember it was really sad. I think it was a Ford truck commercial, and it was really it was a few years ago. Oh, I thought you were talking about no no, but now last night the Google Pixel commercial, I don't know if you guys saw it, but it made my heart drop a little in sadness.

So what happened in the commercial? Okay, so the Google Pixel commercial, basically a dad was asking or being asked questions by the Google Pixel phone that a normal interviewer would ask. And the question was something like, what was the most rewarding job you've ever had to do? And he was just talking implying the most rewarding job was him being a dad. It was him talking about staying up late and being a good negotiator. And then it cut to this clip of the dad dropping off his daughter at college, or maybe an interview, something like that. I think it was college, yeah. And the dad had tears in his eyes, so the daughter turned around and gave him a hug, yeah. And then it cut to the dad and the daughter. When the daughter was a baby, hugging, oh, I didn't notice that. That's really sweet, really It like makes your heart like,

feel something on her heart strings. And then after that it he was like, Thanks, Google. And he was in the interview, and then, did you see, like, the sticky note from the daughter on the, like mouse pad? I said, Good luck, dad. That was it was a really sweet commercial. It was a really good commercial. Um, one of the commercials that stuck out to me, and I will say, last night, I was doing my homework during the Super Bowl, so I didn't catch every single commercial.

Brooke Lyle 32:43
But one of the ones I did catch was for

cold foam. I saw this.

It was this, I don't know. I think they were watching, maybe,

Brooke Lyle 1 32:55
presumably, they were watching the Super Bowl in this commercial. And this guy, it looked to me. I thought he was holding beer, but I think it was I asked my mom, was like, is he putting I thought he was putting whipped cream onto beer, but I think it was cold foam onto soda, which I don't know why you would do that. I did such a weird commercial. Yeah, I don't know, but he starts putting it on, and then he puts it in his mouth, and his tongue, he's like, sticking his tongue out, and it starts moving and deforming and making shapes, and eventually it flies out of his mouth. The tongue flies out of his mouth. Who Who thought of that also, you know how expensive Super Bowl commercials are, like, millions and millions of dollars for 30 seconds. So that whole commercial probably cost that company $7 million

Brooke Lyle 1 33:48
that's insane, but guess what? We're talking about it. That is true. That's so true. I will say I don't consume cold foam me either. If I did, though I would buy that brand probably, now that I've seen the tongue commercial

Brooke Lyle 34:04
and another commercial that was kind of jarring to me, and this was almost back to back with the weird tongue one. It was a Pringles commercial. Did you see a Pringles commercial? I didn't see this one. It was like, I don't know what the setting was, some event. And they had Pringles and the and the Pringles man on the Pringles can, whispered to the guy holding the Pringles, and it was like blowing to the can. And so the guy flew into the can, and suddenly his mush, he had a mustache, and it ripped off of his face, and it started flying around. And then this, it's it's cutting to all these different men with mustaches on, and they're all popping off their faces, bam, bam, bam, bam, mustache, mustache popping up, popping off. And so soon there's all these mustaches flying around. And it was all to promote Pringles.

Layla Mullen 34:56
Wow. Yeah. I, I.

I only saw a few commercials. Definitely didn't see that one. I saw the commercial, I believe it was the poppy commercial with Jake Shane and Alex Earl, yeah. Um, that was a pretty like normal commercial. So what happened in it? Because I, I think I missed it, but I saw on Jake Shane's page that he was talking about it or something. I mean, they were really just promoting the drink, like nothing special, yeah, it wasn't like a story or anything,

Brooke Lyle 1 35:28
but Poppy in some deep troubling water. What's the phrase there? And some deep water? Yeah, they're in a little bit of a controversy, because

Layla Mullen 35:40
Poppy also, if you don't know Poppy, it's like a drink. It's basically like a supplement for

prebiotic, like they have, like, uh, Doc pop, which is, like a healthier version of Dr Pepper, things like that, yeah, but it's also a prebiotic, right? Yeah, yeah. Which is it not just a rip off, a rip off of olipop? I don't know. I don't know what came first, the chicken or the egg, ollie pop or Poppy, but I've only, I've never had a poppy. I've only ever had an ollie pop. I've had a poppy. I just don't like prebiotic sodas, so not my favorite. But anyway, Poppy sent

actual, like, big vending machines that you see

in schools, schools, in stadiums, yes, like everywhere, actual vending machines to a bunch of influencers houses. And these influencers had the choice of where they wanted to put the machines, they could choose hospitals. They could choose a teacher, work, room, women's shelter. Oh, I didn't know this whole part of it. Yep, they could choose anywhere they wanted to put that machine. And a bunch of them chose to put the machines inside their house. So a lot of people are upset and asking the question of, is this a waste of money and resources? Why do you need an entire vending machine in your house? Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Which this that makes me beg the question, did so the influencers are putting them in their houses. Do they have to pay to get the soda out like a normal vending machine? I don't think so, but funny that you mentioned that I was just listening to a podcast a few weeks ago, and when influencers get sent this stuff, like she was talking about how she got sent a mini fridge, these influencers, even though they get sent them for free, they have to put them like on their tax returns. So what does that mean? They have to put it on their tax statements like pay tax on it, even though it was sent to them as a gift. Well, most of them are rich, right? But also, do you really need a whole mini fridge or a whole vending machine. So somebody out there got delivered a vending machine maybe didn't, well, they could pick where they wanted it, yeah, so they did want it, and they had to write it off on their or not write it off, but pay taxes on it. Yeah. They were interesting too, yeah, well, but those vending machines could have been put in teacher work rooms. Yeah, teachers don't get anything. Could have been put in hospitals. Nurses could have been put

Brooke Lyle 1 38:32
on NC State's campus. I mean, honestly, did somebody reach out to Rhett and Link about this?

Layla Mullen 38:38
But I just think it's a big waste of money, in my personal opinion. And I think, yeah, influencers get sent too much free stuff when there are people that actually need it, and people who work nine to five jobs that do not get paid. What an influencer gets paid? Absolutely,

Brooke Lyle 1 38:56
yeah, and it's all just capitalism and greed. Yep. Can I can I say that really quick. It's just like these companies want to promote their stuff so they get more views. And it's also just because our whole system is centered around money. So yep, I mean, which I get? That side of it, like I get they want to market their product, but I think there's better ways to do it. Yeah.

Brooke Lyle 39:21
I say, Yeah, but what's a better way?

Layla Mullen 39:24
Um, literally just handing out free poppies on the street? Yeah, that's true. That would be better. And also that would like get the company press for being good, yeah? And also, sorry to keep on talking about the vending machines, but is ollie pop coming to replenish what's in there inside these homes? I don't think so. So there's gonna have empty vending machine one day, like they sent them the vending machines and a bunch of bunch of drinks to fill it. But when those run out, you're done for you gotta fend for yourself.

Brooke Lyle 39:58
So.

This weekend, like we've been talking about, was the Super Bowl, but there was, to me, a much, much more important sporting events this past weekend, that being the Slushy Noobz wrestling, boxing match. It was boxing, yeah, I was gonna say.

So if you guys don't know

Slushy Noobz is a YouTube channel with Hamzah and Martin, who are tick they you were

Tik Tok'ers.

But also Hamzah became famous during like 2020 because he did like an internet streaming show called for freak show with three other people, and he became, like, really famous from that. And he was like a teenager. He's only in he's in his 20s now, yeah, but they all four of them became super famous, but then they all went their separate ways, and

then they did their TikToks, and then Hamzah and Martin met on Tiktok because they both had, like, a similar sense of humor. And then they decided to make a YouTube channel called slushy noobs. I don't know why it's called that.

I really don't know why it's called that, but I'm obsessed. And they post, like, gaming videos. And I don't watch gaming videos, but I watch them because they're so funny to me. And they post gaming videos, they post vlogs, they post mukbangs. Is how you say that, mukbangs, mukbangs. Oh yeah. There you go. There you go. They post those. Anyways, recently, over Christmas, do you remember Vlogmas? Yeah, people still do it, yeah, they I was tuned into Vlogmas. I like to, but not to Slushy Noobz. Oh, not this year when I was, like, in middle school, like high school, yeah, I was tuned into vloggers. Alicia Marie, Vlogmas, yeah, absolutely. But soSlushy Noobz did their own version of Vlogmas, and it was just like, they posted gaming videos. They were, like, hours long. They were really long videos. And then afterwards, in their last video, they were like, we're taking a break. We're not posting anything. And they also have a podcast out of character, and so, like, we're not posting anything.

Brooke Lyle 1 42:20
Then, like, last week, they or two weeks ago, they started promoting an art show, and they were gonna do

Brooke Lyle 1 42:27
have, like an art show, I don't, I don't know, like a, like a real one. And so all these people go, they live in, like, Toronto or something

Brooke Lyle 42:38
in Canada, I don't know the exact city. And so there they went. And there was all these pieces of art that they made, but they were just like, funny, like they weren't good. Like, one of them was a canvas that had crayons on it, and they, like, blow dried the crayons to

to drip down. And it was just like showing and then there was, like, an acrylic pyramid that they had made with like, flowers and stuff in it. It was, it was funny. But then the poster for the art show was a boxing match, which was actually a reference to another art show, like a real good one. I don't know when. I don't know any more details than that, but I just know that somehow, somewhere, there was a real art show that the promotion for it was like a poster that looked like it was for a boxing match. And so they did that, then they decided to do an actual boxing match. And unbeknownst to me, all the other viewers, they have been training for this since last summer. They have been working out. They have been meeting each other halfway to be in the same weight group. I don't know how boxing works, but yeah, the same weight class, yeah, you have to be in the same

Brooke Lyle 1 43:48
the same weight. Yeah, around the same and Hamza was so Hamza had to lose weight, Martin had to gain weight. And so then they were meeting halfway, and

Brooke Lyle 43:59
they just have been training. They've been learning all the stuff they knew nothing about boxing. Then this past Saturday, they Well, like last week, they did a weigh in, which was really funny, and the audience was like cardboard cutouts of themselves. And then they had like, these fake security guards. I don't know, it was funny. And then on Saturday, they went live, and they had a real boxing match. And everybody was kind of speculating maybe it was going to be like an unboxing event, like nobody, I wasn't really under the impression it was going to

be a real sports game.

Brooke Lyle 1 44:38
Sports game that sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about.

Brooke Lyle 44:44
I know nothing about boxing, but

nobody thought it was gonna be a real fight, but

Brooke Lyle 1 44:51
it was, and one of them had a bloody nose. Hamzah had a bloody nose. They were out of breath. They were really, really fighting each other, and.

Brooke Lyle 44:59
Hamzah won and I'm happy about that,

Brooke Lyle 1 45:04
but yeah, I feel like that's kind of crazy to box your best friend. Yeah, they kept on. They so they finally brought their podcast back, and it comes out on Sundays. So it came out yesterday, and they were talking about how it was, much like it was funny to fight their best friend, because every time one of them threw a punch, the other one was like, in their mind, like, Oh, that was so good. Like, good job on that punch, but it was against them. Oh, that's sweet. Yeah. I just know me myself, and I am very competitive, and if I was to fight my best friend, like, I'd get angry, yeah, even though I love her, like I have this one friend,

Layla Mullen 45:47
like my childhood best friend, Leah Beth. Shout out, shout out, except she goes to Chapel Hill.

It's okay. Anyways, we would like get so annoyed with each other, and just say the like, most outrageous stuff when we were younger, mostly me. Like, literally all me. Like, I remember one time I locked her out of my house and my mom made me unlock why the door? Um, I think she was annoying me. Oh, not sure, but I just know that I get so competitive. So if I were fighting my best friend, I take it personal, honestly. Well, well, they had been planning to do it, I know, but that's crazy, yeah, and it was like they had a ref and, like somebody, and they have commentators. That's the title. Is a commentator. I said that. Did you? Yeah?

sports commentator.

Brooke Lyle 46:47
I think that was right.

Sorry about that.

Brooke Lyle 1 46:57
I think that's right. Yeah, that is right. They had so if you said that, why are we so confused about the name, the title of the job?

Layla Mullen 47:04
I wasn't that confused, but I've been along with it.

Brooke Lyle 47:08
Oh, Okay?

I'm just embarrassed

Layla Mullen 47:17
No need to be, um, anyway

Brooke Lyle 47:22
they had like sports commentators. They had which one of them was, like their good friend, Chase, who was Rutherford? Yeah, he was one of the 4FreakShow people. So funny.

Layla Mullen 47:34
One clip of him singing um,

that one song from Panic at the Disco double bubble, disco queen and yeah, like, screaming into the camera. Yeah, really funny. He recently bought a Louis Vuitton scar. Oh, yeah. Where is it? Everywhere in New York, strutting around. And I want to know, does he go to NYU? Is that? Because I know he's like, in school. Oh, and really, I thought so that could not be true. I don't know. I thought he was in school, but I know he, like, lives in New York. I don't know if he goes NYU, i But if he does, I would want to know what his major is, yeah. And has he seen Baron? If he goes there, Baron Trump, yeah, I'm sure he's hard to miss. He's like, seven feet tall. Yeah, that's true,

Brooke Lyle 48:23
but yeah, that was, honestly, the boxing match changed my life. Loved it.

Layla Mullen 48:30
You know, what's funny, though, is that Jake Paul and Logan Paul were the first to start the whole influencer boxing. Yeah? And really take it somewhere, yeah? Yeah.

Brooke Lyle 48:41
And they Hamzah and Martin kept, kept on being like Logan Paul, like, we're gonna fight you next. But just a joke. They're not fighting again, I presume. But yeah, it was funny, because it all started as a joke, of them being like influencer to boxer pipeline, yep. But then they actually did it. So do you remember the Tiktok boxing match with like Austin McBroom and Bryce Hall? No, Vinnie hacker, no. What was it on? It was on Tiktok like 2021

Layla Mullen 49:14
well, I don't remember that, and it was this whole scandal, because the platform that they streamed the fight on, didn't pay any of them, they like, went bankrupt or something. What was the platform? I could not tell you. Well, speaking that reminded me, platform back to Slushy Noobz. They during their match, they kept on promoting this documentary. They made a documentary, wow, about just like the journey of

Brooke Lyle 49:42
their rise to fame. It's not their channels on that. It's not that famous, but it's relatively famous. And it was just about like their how they made it everything. And it is in two parts, and then the first part is about like their YouTube channel.

On the second part is about their boxing match and their break that they took, but it's on Patreon. Oh, I hate Patreon. Yeah, I've never me.

Layla Mullen 50:09
A lot of my favorite podcasters have patrons same but I just simply can't afford to pay for I know I've never, never paid for a Patreon before, but I think I might have to for this documentary because it's only $5 yeah, but still, and I might just pay for it one time. That's $60 a year.

Brooke Lyle 50:33
Wow, that's true, but I might just pay for it one time to watch the doc and cancel it and then cancel it. But I like, if I was gonna support any channel, I would support theirs, yeah. I mean, like, I love them, yeah. Um, so yeah, but that was, like, that was my Super Bowl. I like, I actually cared who won and stuff. So

Layla Mullen 50:59
is that crazy to say no. So my Super Bowl is the uda dance nationals, more specifically, Ava and Ellie Wagner. If you grew up dancing, or if you know anything about the dance world, you know who the Wagner sisters are. They trained at the studio Larkin, who just is known for technique and stuff, and

Ava,

one of them goes to University of Minnesota, and the other one goes to Ohio. I believe Ellie goes to Ohio, and Ava to Minnesota and Minnesota, Minnesota and UDA dance nationals. It's a bunch of college teams that come to dance, and it like completely took over Tiktok last year and this year. So that was the competition, where it was at, I don't know what school it was, but it was like to that Frank Sinatra song, yes, yeah, I want it that way, my way, something, the song you originally sang was the back factory voice,

also like LSU Tiger girls, like a boy the Michael Jackson, yeah, they did the Michael Jackson one was so good. That's my Super Bowl, but it happens at the beginning, or usually around Martin Luther King Jr Day got you so were you tuned in? I was yearned in. Wow. Who's your favorite team?

Minnesota, Minnesota, Minnesota, sorry. Except they took second in the jazz division, but first in the palm division. Can you explain to the viewers what that means jazz division at UDA specifically, is

jazz dance, the style of jazz, but it's also more like contemporary open

style. Okay, the POM is, like what you see on the sidelines at football games when they have the pom poms, oh, like, pom poms, yes. And they also have another category called Game Day, where the mascot comes out and they do chants and stuff.

But yeah, if you know, you know well, and our dance team goes to some sort of competition. Soon they do. They go to the one in,

Brooke Lyle 53:26
I think in Florida, maybe Daytona. Nice. Is that ringing a bell?

Layla Mullen 53:32
I know the cheerleaders go to Daytona, yes. And I know that because I watched cheer on Netflix. Did you watch that? Yeah, I loved it. I used to love Gabby Butler, who was on cheer Okay, yeah. She went to this gym called Smoed, and they used to have this whole web series on YouTube a few years ago. Wow. Anyways, that was my Super Bowl. The Hamza Martin fight is Brooke Super Bowl. What's y'all Super Bowl? What's your super leave it in the comments below. Is it the actual one? Not us, not for us, but we talked about it for a hot second. So we did we spin the whole episode.

Um, but with that, I don't think I have anything to add. Do you? Yeah?

Brooke Lyle 54:17
We can close out with our Thorn and Rose. Okay, love it. Yeah, you can go first. Okay, my thorn is that I have a solid mechanics exam on Thursday. I'm getting really stressed about it. I feel like I don't know anything. I know that's not true. I definitely know this stuff, but it's just that in like this class, in my dynamics class, and even in my thermal class, there's so many Greek symbols that in this I was not expecting to struggle with this. When I went into engineering, I was not expecting to struggle with learning the Greek alphabet, because you have to know all these different terms and then also what they mean, like,

property wise, like, what? So first of all, you need to know you.

What tau looks like the letter. And then you also need to know what it means for your problem that you're working on. It's just like a lot of Greek letters. I wasn't prepared for that. So that's one thing I'm struggling with. I don't know if that's a unique experience. I don't know if other people struggle with that, but personally, I'm having a hard time. My Rose was probably just that. I had a chill weekend and going shopping was fun, and right now, when we went shopping, I bought a sweatshirt, and I'm wearing said sweatshirt right now. Thank you. Thank you. And I just love to wear a new piece of clothing, and also it's really comfortable. So yeah, and it looks great. Thanks.

Layla Mullen 55:52
My thorn was that I had four exams last week that is, like, just too much. It was a lot, and I should have prioritized studying for one class in particular, but that didn't happen, so I'll just have to do better next time. Yeah, what's the class business law?

And it's totally my fault. I just I'm meeting with the TA Wednesday because I just need to figure out how to study for that class, because I just can't read from a textbook, and that's what the class what the class is, yeah,

um, my rose is that this coming weekend I'm going home. I haven't been home this whole semester, so I'm excited to see my family and my dogs, and we have a date function Thursday, yes, for our sorority. And yeah, other than that, I have a pretty chill week compared to last week. Yeah, I have my exam, like I said.

Brooke Lyle 56:52
So not that chill, but wellness day tomorrow. Yes, yes. So excited for that, and I know they encourage us to use it as a wellness day. But I'm gonna study. I have to do. I have homework. I need to study.

Layla Mullen 57:05
I'm gonna sleep in, though, for sure. Yeah, I always sleep in. So

Brooke Lyle 57:12
my first class this semester is on till 11:45am on tuesdays and thursdays. It's racquetball. Racquetball, racquetball. We love racquetball. That is going to be a reference to the bad lip syncing of

High School Musical

when they are, what's that? What's the original scene? What are the what song are they singing? Um, it's like they're all in the gym. They're bouncing the basketballs all around. Yeah, I can't think of, I can't think of the song. I think it's head in the game. Yeah, it is and, but the bad lip reading is like, basketball, basketball. We love basketball. And whenever we're at a basketball game, we always love to sing that. Anyway, that was completely irrelevant. Sorry. God no, I love it, but it does stay in my head always.

Layla Mullen 58:03
But with that, if we don't have anything else to add, we can. We'll get you on the flip Yes, we'll see you in our next episode. Bye, guys. You

Brooke Lyle 58:24
Music in this episode is from loop masters, hip hop and R and B breaks, i.

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