Welcome to Fit to Be Real and a little extra.
We have a very special guest with us today.
You've heard of him before.
We reference him as our number one bibliography link.
Dr. Justin!
Woo!
What's up, third C-fit sister?
Listen.
Hi.
You asked to be here.
Let's be completely factual and transparent.
He said, I'm coming back on the podcast.
I have something to say.
You are our most reoccurring guest.
Yeah, it just came up.
It was a year ago, yesterday, that I did the first.
Really?
First episode, yeah.
It was the end of January, would have been.
Yeah.
The first one.
And you are our first guest.
Yeah.
And now our first third guest.
Woo!
Justin, I just want to put it out there
for everybody that knows you.
Your nose looks fabulous.
I always love coming on the podcast
because it gives me an opportunity
to set the record straight.
I'd correct all the misinformation
that Carly's been spreading.
So I didn't have a rhinoplasty,
which is a nose job by the septoplasty.
Which is a nose job.
Okay, all right.
My nose looks the exact same.
I know, you walked in and I was completely,
I was looking forward to seeing somebody
completely different.
The look of disappointment on your face.
But see, that is the epitome of like making something up
and then deciding it's true.
That is Carly.
That's every, my whole life.
That's what Carly has done to me.
I mean, that is why we call you Dr. Justin.
Exactly.
My whole life.
My whole life is a lie to you.
Since 17.
Yeah.
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
And I'm Justin.
Yes.
But I'm not a doctor.
Okay.
We have a very special episode
and one that we did not think of,
but are very excited to do.
Justin, tell everyone what we're talking about today.
So we're gonna be talking about unpopular opinions.
This is Justin's like forte, all right?
He always likes to go against the green.
He does not think like everybody else.
He's always the, and Victoria is the devil's advocate
for the most part.
Am I?
Yeah.
Every situation you're always like,
all right, well let's think about this way.
Oh, but that's just because you are completely
reactionary and swing to a very extreme.
I swing both ways.
Moving on.
Oh.
I don't, I swear I don't.
I just,
I am just easily persuaded.
If I say something and I'm like,
this is law, but then you give me a really good reason
why it's not law.
I'm like, oh, all right, I like what you said.
I like how you said it.
With absolutely no fact to back it up.
I love NPR and TikTok.
Yeah.
Well, let's get into some unpopular opinions.
All right, I just wanna say,
so let's not get into them.
Please don't cancel us
if you don't agree with our opinions, okay?
I'm speaking to all of you.
If you don't agree with us, don't hate.
It's just our opinion is is not law.
No.
And it's gonna be a wide gamut of things.
Like it's not all like fitness things or other things.
It's a variety.
All right, Justin, why don't you start us off?
All right, now that I said that,
my first one actually is gonna be fitness related.
Oh my God.
Amazing.
So specifically fitness influencers.
Okay.
All right, so this is a very popular saying
and it drives me crazy.
We all have the same 24 hours.
That is a very common thing that fitness influencers
will say to say, oh, you have no excuse
to why you didn't do this, that, or the other.
I hate that saying because we don't have the same 24 hours.
Like there are people that work at home.
There are people that have to commute an hour
to work every day.
They do not have the same 24 hours
that they can be getting workouts in.
So that just drives me crazy when influencers always push
like we have the same 24 hours, we have the same 24 hours.
Do you think it's the no excuses or the 24 hours?
I think you can have the no excuses without
we have the same 24 hours.
Right.
Because we don't.
Yeah.
Like I have three kids.
A lot of my day is getting the kids ready,
getting myself ready, getting to work, working,
getting home, getting the kids dinner,
getting the kids to do their homework,
putting the kids to bed and having three kids.
A lot of the time is spent on those kids.
And so I have to make decisions on what to do
with my remaining hours to like something has to compromise.
Right.
Your 24 hours is very different from somebody
that doesn't have three kids.
Correct.
So you, yeah.
Yeah.
That is an unpopular opinion
because influencers are popular.
Yes.
Influencers are popular.
Yeah.
Also, Karlie doesn't care.
Get it done.
Figure it out because you're not speaking naturally
for yourself.
Usually it's blah, blah, blah, get your shit together.
Okay, Karlie has no empathy.
What's yours, Karlie?
No excuses.
My first unpopular opinion.
You're gonna like this.
Okay.
My unpopular opinion is I believe that you can be friends
with a guy and have no attraction to them.
And I believe that guys can have girlfriends
and be not attracted to them.
That is an unpopular opinion.
It is.
I agree.
I agree with you though.
Right.
I think that should be more popular.
I agree.
And that goes back my first episode here
we talked about when I first met Abby,
someone warned her like,
oh, he's like a player basically,
which is hilarious.
Right.
Because I had a lot of friends who were girls.
And I believe the unpopular part is that
it's not having a lot of gay best friends.
You know what I mean?
I have a lot of gay friends,
but I think the unpopular part is that
I also have a lot of straight guy friends
who I am not attracted to.
Yeah, just look at Justin.
Exhibit A.
Exhibit A, I'm staring in the face.
Never have I ever.
I think Andrew has a lot of straight girl friends
and always has and I don't have a problem with that.
I did when I was younger.
I think you have to like grow up a little bit.
But I mean, he's like,
I'm going out to dinner with Amber.
What's up Amber?
And I'm like, okay, cool.
Yeah.
You know?
Well, I was gonna make a Dungeons and Dragons reference,
but Amber isn't a D&D or so.
Cool.
All right.
Well, mine is, drum roll please.
Wait, do you want to actually do one?
No, no, no, I'll put something in there.
Okay.
Thank you, thank you for the clarification.
Brilliant, awesome.
Crocs are cool.
Are you kidding me?
I, listen, you own them, I know.
I own a specific kind of croc.
They are Jesus sandals.
Oh my God.
And shh, and they still have the little holes in it
where you can put the little pop.
I don't know, there's like a name to them.
Yeah, like the kids do.
You can give yourself a piece of individuality
while your feet are super comfortable.
And if it's raining, you don't have to worry
about ruining them because they're rubber
and they're comfortable.
So they're good for your knees and your feet.
And who gives a flying anything about what's on your feet?
Well, there you go.
I do.
Wait, I have a fun fact about Crocs.
So do you remember the movie Idiocracy?
Yes, with Dax Shepard.
Yes.
So it came out, I wanna say early 2000s.
Early 2000s, that's when he became popular.
They, it's the premise of the movie
is it's based in the future
and everyone turns into an idiot.
Like all the genes are dumbed down and people are dumb.
Yeah.
And they were thinking, what clothes can we get
for this movie to show how like dumb the population
has got stopped.
I hate you.
Crocs.
No.
I swear to God.
Whichever you have to watch the movie.
See if you're in it.
Get out of my house.
I am gonna go with I'm on the popular opinion.
I hate the way they look.
I'll never own them.
But they're trendy now.
Like they're the thing.
With socks.
Oh God.
That makes me cringe.
If you're wondering why Justin sounds like he's gonna cry,
it's because his nose job.
Okay.
He's recovering.
Yeah, I currently have stents in my nose.
So I'm constantly congested.
Second unpopular opinion, Carly.
Just period.
But that's a popular opinion.
I think to myself it's a popular opinion.
Oh wait.
Whatever is the insult?
Yes.
I'm with you.
Well, clearly that's the popular one in the room right now.
Justin, go for it.
All right.
You're not gonna like this one.
Christmas is one of my least favorite holidays.
No.
Get out.
Okay, but why?
Tell us why.
It's just kind of everything you talked about in your episode.
It's just so commercialized and there's so much stress.
And I, my favorite holiday,
which this isn't gonna shock anyone.
Is it flag day?
Can I guess?
You can guess.
So it's not flag day?
No, it is not flag day.
I'm not shielded.
All right, it is Easter.
St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day.
No.
Fourth of July.
Can I just say it?
We cannot, nope.
Memorial Day.
Nope.
Labor Day.
Okay.
Memorial Day.
I guess this is gonna surprise everyone.
Thanksgiving.
Oh my God, I totally forgot about Thanksgiving.
Because who cares?
Because Thanksgiving is just about being with family,
coming together, eating a meal, being thankful.
There's no other agenda.
There's no stress to the day unless you're cooking.
It's price tag.
It's just about being together.
We all know what happens when Justin doesn't eat.
He gets hangry.
Exactly.
That's why I thought people would know
Thanksgiving was my favorite, apparently not.
That's a non-popular opinion.
Yes.
I'm drinking out of a Christmas mug right now.
Yeah.
I can see it though.
I can see it.
I'll devil's advocate.
I was just gonna say, all right, devil's advocate.
I agree though.
I do think it is very, we've said this before.
It's different than it was in the 90s.
Why is it different than the 90s?
Because we have way more comparison
from social media now of knowing what everybody else has.
It's all about material items and price tags,
having the top notch brand.
Hey, all of the videos for the most
favorite and coveted surprise gift were Stan Lee's.
And now they're coming out that they're all really bad,
full of lead.
And that was what was, are you joking me?
You don't know that?
No.
I mean, I got different ones that are BPA free
and environmentally friendly.
I mean, you hear that.
And just exactly the same, but not the brand of Stan Lee.
Because there's lead.
They're all being tested with lead
and they're coming up positive.
And other brands.
Now all these kids are getting lead poisoning now.
Right, but to have one means you're cool.
And so that wasn't like the 90s.
Yes, it was Furby like people were running into the stories
to get a Furby first.
Yes.
And that will always happen.
But a lot of good and happiness can come
from the dollar store and not necessarily Gucci.
Yeah.
And now in this day and age, it's a Gucci Christmas.
Yeah.
And so I agree with that part of it.
It's still about family.
It's still about getting together.
It's still about honoring people with love.
But the price tag of the love, I think,
needs to shift a little.
Yeah.
Whatever, Justin.
Okay, sorry.
Carly doesn't understand.
Listen, that's fine.
You said that one first to sort of let me say this one.
Okay.
Which I may get canceled on the spot.
Okay.
You might lose a lot of clients.
I don't feel that there are any divas in this generation.
I don't feel there's a Mariah, a Whitney, a Celine,
an Aretha.
I don't think anyone compares.
A lot of different generations, you said.
No, that's like, it's the 80s and 90s.
I don't think there's any 2000s to 223.
You could say Ariana Grande, she's not a diva.
All right, describe a diva.
A diva is someone who commands,
they command attention, they are the best at what they do.
They do all things and they become legends.
You don't mean bitchy.
No, I think no.
Uh-uh.
No, I mean talented, like beyond.
Almost like legendary.
You don't think Taylor Swift is legendary?
Well, my little side note is I'm not a Taylor Swift fan.
And that's why I think I'm going to get canceled.
I don't care for her.
There's two right there.
So we got to start with the first one.
What about Beyonce?
I did think about this because I was like,
is Beyonce a diva?
I guess she is.
But to me, she doesn't compare to Whitney.
Yeah, I was actually thinking of bringing up
Beyonce and one of my unpopular because I'm not a huge Beyonce fan.
I know.
I liked her years ago, but recently, like her newer music,
I just.
Yeah, but you're talking about the music and what she puts out
specifically by music.
Doesn't she have like a clothing brand?
She does.
So she does a whole bunch of other stuff.
And that's like, Rihanna.
Rihanna's a billionaire.
She's worth like five or $7 billion.
But I would not consider her a diva.
Like there used to be in the early 2000s divas in concert.
And it was Celine, Mariah, Whitney.
You're talking about people that only do one thing.
One thing.
They're the best singers in the land.
One thing.
So Beyonce does a lot of things.
So no, I don't mean empire.
I would consider Beyonce an empire.
I would consider Rihanna an empire.
I would consider Taylor Swift, she is legendary because of the things
that she's done.
But I would not call Taylor Swift a diva.
No.
What about Jessie J?
No, I don't think I'd call Jessie J a diva.
She doesn't have the status of the popularity of the Whitney.
Jessie J can sing.
It's not about the talent.
No, I think it's like the star power.
Divas have the star power.
Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton, I think is a diva.
Got it.
I agree.
So now go to the second one.
I'd Taylor Swift is not for me.
But is it her as a brand, her as a person, her as a singer?
I think her style of music is just not for me.
Her, I can go through all of her albums and I can only pick out three
that I can dance to.
And for me, she's just not like, what does Austin Powers say?
She's not my bag, baby.
Please don't do that ever again.
That's fair.
That's cancel me for that.
But please.
Victoria Cannon.
I'm mortified.
I don't know.
Is Taylor Swift for you?
Her music is not for me.
The fact that she has now redone every single one of her albums so
that she and the people that have actually worked to put the album
out gets the money versus the big corporation.
Music industry is she does a lot of good in the world.
She puts out her political preference, whether I care about her
political preference, but she believes what she believes and she's
not conforming to the music industry.
You like her as a person.
I think her is what she's putting out is as authentic as she a
celebrity could possibly be.
And I think that's rare.
I think she might be the only one that is actually what we get is
who she is.
Right.
So I for that fact is to me more legendary than her singing
ability, obviously.
I don't particularly every song kind of sounds the same to me.
And I think that's part of our generation.
She's a storyteller.
She's a great songwriter.
Yeah.
So I think there's so much good.
She's not someone I'm going to put on the radio on my off time.
No, right.
But I don't know if that would fall under like Taylor's not for me.
I think I love the little girls can look up to somebody like Taylor
Swift.
Yeah, I really wish Melody did because I think she's a good role
model.
You don't play it at home, though.
I don't.
I don't play it at home.
I think she's a great role model and way better than Brittany was
for us.
Oh my God.
And Madonna.
Yeah.
But I think.
But she Brittany was a diva.
But yeah, but Brittany, yeah, Brittany's got a different star
power, though, than Whitney and Mariah.
And because Brittany is not really a singer, Brittany is a performer.
Right.
But she has she's a star, but she was the best performer.
Right.
So I wish Melody for the role model purposes like Taylor Swift,
but I'm not.
I'm OK that she's into Imagine Dragons.
Yeah, right.
Right.
You know, I think, you know, I've always thought she's had some
good music over the years, but I think in the past few years,
I've respected her more like my respect for her has grown in
just what she's been able to accomplish, what she's been
able to do.
I love loves listening to her and I like that aspect of it,
that there's someone who's more wholesome that they can, you know,
look up to.
So I definitely I think she's great.
Yeah, I really respect her.
Do you think that we'll lose people because I said that?
I think a lot of people already turned it off.
OK, next one.
I would bring masks back in general.
Unpopular.
Unpopular opinion.
I know.
Tell us why.
Well, so before the pandemic, before 2020, if you lived in New
York City.
And this is this is just a fact.
Every Asian person or part of the community was already wearing
masks in New York City.
I cannot speak for Tokyo.
I can't speak for those countries because I've never traveled
there, but New York City where it's the biggest conglomeration
of lots of different cultures.
I at the time didn't understand it.
And I was like, oh, they're really sick.
Why are you out in public?
I made it in my head thinking they were the ill.
Right.
It was a prevention.
And that's how they now I think a piece of that, though, for them.
Isn't Tokyo the worst air pollution or something from all the cars?
It was until covid.
Oh, until covid.
There was like a picture of the sky before covid.
And then when the streets were like abandoned for a while.
And the actual sky you could see.
Yeah, it's a crazy picture.
You should look it up.
So I think it's that I think a part of that is because of the air
pollution, too.
And maybe it's mixed.
I don't have any steps about the medical versus whatever reason
that they were masked before the pandemic happened.
But then we started having to wear masks.
So I feel like.
Not necessarily going to the grocery store or going to write
aid or whatever.
But if we're all gathering in a large concert type situation or
the NFL, like think of the amount of people.
This is very Victoria.
In a good way.
I just feel I just feel like it makes a lot of sense to just
protect everyone in those settings.
If you're going to a restaurant and you're taking it off anyway,
I thought that was always silly.
There's no point when you have to take it off as soon as you sit
down at the table.
But like.
But waiting for the host to talk to you.
You have to keep that mask on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like that makes absolutely no sense.
I don't know.
I going just watching the Super Bowl and being like, oh my God,
look at all of those people together.
I'm going to piggyback off this and say I wouldn't mind it if
you are sick.
If you're sick and have to wear a mask to be around other people,
but you still want to go, but you're like, I have a cough.
I have a runny nose.
I would understand.
All right.
I'll give you that.
And then you can't even look at it without a mask.
You just have to be wearing a mask.
I mean, just be with the people.
I mean, if you're a voluntary person, persons.
I, there's no way to regulate that because people don't care about
other people.
So for me, it's like either do it or don't do it.
But yes, it would basically just be the people that could be
possibly aware of anyone else in the world, put a mask on.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Justin, Dr. Justin paging Dr. Justin.
Because if you look at hospitals like infection rates
with viral illnesses, that patients picked up
once they were admitted to the hospital,
drastically dropped when you stopped having visitors
and everyone had to wear a mask.
There was no hospital acquired infection, viral infection,
because there were no viruses being spread
because of the mask.
So it's great in theory and yeah, I love it.
But like you said, people will never do it.
I think it was because we were forced.
Yeah.
The whole like forbidden fruit thing of it.
Like if it was something that was a suggestion of,
hey, this would actually help you
or the people around you or the kids in your family
or your elderly, if you did this
and this was like a thing that we normally do.
Like basically any of the Iceland, Norwegian,
Swedish countries that like think
of other people in their lives.
Then I think it wouldn't be so like political.
But people just don't like being told what to do.
Yeah.
Justin, it's your turn.
Go.
Okay.
Do you watch Gilmore Girls?
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, shoot.
I know.
We're gonna have to ask you to leave.
Lorelai Rory are bad people.
Oh!
They are bad people.
So Abby watches, I guess this is a thing.
Every fall you rewatch all the Gilmore Girls.
Because they live where they, and stars hollow
and it's like a fall thing.
Yeah.
They're not good people.
Okay, tell me why.
Yeah.
Because so there was like one episode or something
where Lorelai freaks out on people
because Rory got in a car accident.
It wasn't that person's fault,
but she's just berating them like a kid for no reason
because of this car accident.
It was Jess.
Sure.
Then how many people did Rory sleep with
that were in relationships?
Because it's definitely.
Listen, listen.
I'm just saying.
And I'm asking you to listen.
Okay.
I don't have anything to say.
Okay.
But just like, okay, okay.
Fact.
And I think Lorelai will go and cut anyone out
at the knees for her daughter, whether it's right or wrong.
And that I am all about sticking up for your kids.
But you can't blindly do that
because then you're teaching your kids that like,
it's okay to not be a nice person
because you have the wrong perception.
I don't know how to react.
Well, I'll let's hear.
This is how you constructively have a conversation
with disagreements.
Okay.
So I can see that because I think there's a lot
of reactionary pieces to this story
when it comes to those characters,
but it's based off of Lorelai's mother,
who is a horrible person.
Yeah.
However, she's of that generation.
And of that demographic.
So then it's hard to be like,
everybody like that is a horrible person.
Right.
So she is, I think their bond is what makes them great.
But if you take away some of maybe those moments,
then it could be like, well, that's kind of weird.
Yeah.
And that, I don't watch all the episodes.
I'm not invested in this obviously.
So I'm just seeing these snippets.
Fits and pieces.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's an unpopular opinion.
Yes.
But if you watched with the through thread,
I'd be interested to see if that were different for you.
Like if you watched it.
I probably won't do that, but.
Well, that's a problem.
Do you know what I'm going to say?
To have an opinion that you don't really understand.
But that's okay.
We lost a lot of people for you.
Yeah.
Sorry.
The little we had left from the Taylor Swift comment
are now gone.
Because it's the 30 year olds.
They got out.
Who's left?
40 and up.
The 20 year olds are like, who's Lorelai?
All right.
This is a very unpopular opinion,
but when I stand by 100%.
Telling somebody that you forgot to press send
in a text message is a lie.
You didn't forget to press send.
You didn't respond.
You ignored them.
When somebody texts you back and says,
oh my God, I mentally responded.
I totally forgot.
I thought I pressed send.
You're lying.
I do that all.
I know you do.
And I do it too.
It's horrible.
No, I do it where the text is still in there
and I didn't press send.
I've never done that.
I have done that a couple of times.
I do that all the time.
But more often than not, I'm like, oh, I swear I responded.
I mentally responded.
I swear.
Yeah, I'm horrible at it.
I've never said it to you.
I just don't respond to you.
There's a difference.
Yeah, you don't respond to me.
That's true.
The two of you.
Like I'll be in our group text.
It's just cricket.
So I'm like, cool.
I don't do group text.
I'll circle back next week and maybe I'll get an answer then.
But I firmly believe that when somebody says, oh, I mentally responded
or I forgot, I thought I pressed send.
They did not.
Yeah.
But I don't think that's fair to be like, you just ignored it
and didn't want to text it.
I feel like what if you're opening it while you're in the middle of
something going, oh, I'll get back to that.
And I didn't get back to it because I completely forgot
considering I was in the middle of a meeting
or I was taking care of my children.
That's me 90% of the time.
So I don't necessarily think it's of like, I'm completely
dismissing your text and who you are.
I think that's a deliberate ignorance.
That's a deliberate ghosting.
You can't say that every single person that's ever done that is
deliberately ghosting someone.
It's my unpopular opinion.
She's sticking to it.
No, I don't think it's everybody.
It doesn't.
I don't think it's everybody.
I just think in general, if somebody says I mentally responded,
that means they just didn't text you back.
In general, not everybody.
It's a blanket statement.
It is a blanket opinion.
Blanket.
I can't wait to tell you that I mentally responded to your last text.
And you'll know exactly what I mean.
But you won't even do that.
So it doesn't matter.
You're just going to go, okay, I don't care about this.
And I'm not going to answer you.
And then when I see you in person, you're going to go, oh, I missed it.
So what she does is what she does just so that you know if you have more than one thing
to text her or ask her or show her one thing at a time, even if there are three or more,
send one wait for that response, then send the next one.
Wait for that.
She's choking on coffee.
I hope you do choke.
I hope you choke very badly because what she's know if you do not know.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm dying.
It's lazy.
It's laziness.
Whatever you text, right?
There's a couple of things.
So what you, when you open the text, the last thing you text is the first thing to be seen
and you just scroll up a little, she won't scroll up a little.
She won't only look at the very last thing.
So then when you go, hey, you didn't respond to the first three things that I said that
I really need you to answer.
And she goes, oh, I didn't get it.
I didn't say it.
You've done that to me before.
And you're like, I didn't know that.
Like I texted you it.
Okay, unpopular opinion.
I think how, how can you already huff and puff and I already know I don't agree.
That was a huge eye roll.
Look away.
I think all of you are going to hate this.
I'm smart.
That's victorious.
I'm popular opinion.
I think this is anything to do with smart.
Okay.
I think any show on television or wherever you watch shows anymore about weddings should
be canceled.
Carly, pick up your jaw off the floor.
Why?
What?
Why?
Because weddings are very personal and individual.
So it's feeding into the comparison aspect of having the best party.
It's just a party compared to someone else's love story.
It's comparing and putting a price tag on love and relationships.
So like that, there was a show where like there's four people that they all have a
wedding.
Oh, I used to watch it.
And they used to go to each other's weddings and then they got judge.
They had to score each other's weddings.
Like how horrible they got that.
That's horrible.
Only horrible if you lose and you don't have the best wedding.
How are you married?
I don't agree with them.
And like picking out, I think maybe picking out a bride's wedding dress, whatever the
show that is.
Say yes to the dress at Lano or say yes to the dress in New York or say yes to the
dress in Miami or say yes to the dress in the UK.
We got it.
Yeah.
I think picking out a dress and having people around you saying yes or no, like that's
harmless because that is individualized, I guess.
But when it comes to like things, maybe not even television.
Now that I'm talking out loud, Pinterest.
Pinterest was after your wedding.
No, I used Pinterest for my wedding.
That's I didn't use it.
But I like it was like a storyboard.
It wasn't.
No, the place to be.
No, that was more for my house when I started doing DIY for my house and stuff, which was
you lived in New York.
Yeah.
So that was a couple of years after after your wedding.
And you would you remember you said, I wish I had Pinterest for my wedding.
You started to degrade, which not really, but like people could start to diminish and
degrade all of the like hard work and love and preference that they put into their wedding
because they saw somebody else's wedding.
But it just changes the narrative and the story of like it should be simpler.
I just think it should be simpler.
Yeah.
I think weddings are too.
Ditto.
Inflamed.
I mean, if you look at weddings today compared to weddings 30 years ago, they are definitely
inflamed more than they were.
Like our parents rolled kegs into firehouses and that was the wedding reception.
And how fun.
Yeah.
And now it's it's just about money, so it's similar to the Christmas, I think, unpopular
opinion.
I just think when it comes to the television and putting it out there for young girls who
aren't 38 years old to be watching these.
Is that too old to be watching?
Say yes.
And feeling so strongly about it.
Yes.
I just watched I watch it on Friday nights.
Watching being like crazy.
I can't if this guy if this guy that I'm going to meet doesn't agree with all of the ins and
outs of the Pinterest boards and all the things that I'm seeing on TV that better be at my
wedding, he's not for me.
I think it gives that gives that outlet or that pathway of possibly going down there.
And I just I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
You're right.
That is unpopular.
Next.
All right.
My opinion.
Coffee makes you weak.
God.
Oh, why?
Oh.
So caffeine in general is like one of the most.
It's not an addictive substance because it doesn't work the same way as like cocaine and
alcohol.
But you have withdrawal if you don't have it.
But you it you still have dependence with.
Dependency.
Yeah.
I think like 8% of the population has a caffeine dependence.
Yeah.
Wow.
And you can get a dependence just from drinking one cup of coffee a day.
So what happens when you have four?
You are looking at it.
Do you want to know why you need four?
Are you coming at me right now?
No, no, no.
This is the problem.
From a biological standpoint.
Tell me why you need four cups of coffee.
Yeah.
Tell me why.
All right.
So there's transmitters.
Sorry, I'm getting doctor adjusted on you.
There's transmitters in our body that create signals in our brains and do things.
Think of it as like a key and a lock.
Each transmitter fits in a certain lock.
When it's unlocked, it does a certain thing.
Okay.
So we have what's called a dentin in our bodies.
And when a dentin goes into its receptor, it makes us sleepy.
And that's how we like at the end of the day, that's why you're more sleepy.
You've used energy.
You've created a dentin and you start getting sleepy because it goes in this receptors.
What caffeine does is caffeine blocks that receptor.
It looks like a key, but it's not a key and it fits in that lock.
And so the adenosine can't get in there.
So your brain doesn't know that you're sleepy.
The caffeine blocks it from getting in there.
Okay.
Your body wants to be in homeostasis.
So your body starts creating more receptors so that the adenosine has somewhere to go.
To go.
Yeah.
So now when you don't have the caffeine to block those receptors, you now have twice as
many receptors.
So now your twice as tired because all of this adenosine is filling all of those receptors.
You keep drinking coffee.
You keep making more receptors.
You keep being more tired.
And so you need more coffee.
It's a vicious cycle.
It's like a hamster wheel.
Hold on.
Sorry.
I'm drinking my coffee.
Yep.
What number of times today?
Yep.
For the third time today.
So it makes you weak, meaning you're tired.
Now he thinks you're a weak person.
Look at him be smiling and laughing.
Yes, because now you have a dependence on it.
And if you don't drink that coffee, you are going to be tired.
You're going to be irritable.
You're going to go through withdrawal symptoms.
What about tea?
Could be the same thing.
Some tea has more caffeine than coffee does.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
So when I texted you guys today and said, Hey, do you want me to pick you up some coffee
or hot chocolate for the child?
The child being you.
Because I don't drink coffee.
Because you don't drink coffee.
I just raw dog life.
A shock and unpopular opinion.
He can't breathe.
Not only did he get a nose job, but he can't breathe out of his mouth now either.
Yeah, I just drink water.
How do I come back from that?
Speaking of, what's not speaking up.
I am going to agree with you for the science portion.
Okay.
But I'm not going to listen.
That's called an addiction.
And called how all of her opinions have gone.
Remember when you were like,
I can adapt, you can easily tell me something
and I'll be like, oh, that's true.
That's not Bible, that's law.
You have learned and listened to nothing.
Unless I agree.
My last one, and this is a very unpopular opinion,
one to which I know Justin is gonna disagree with me
and I'm okay with it.
I don't like the kids going back to school
at the end of the summer.
I don't like it.
The commercial, when the parents have the shopping carts
and they're singing it's the most wonderful time of the year
with all of the stationery, I hate that commercial.
I don't think it's the most wonderful time of the year.
I wish the kids were home all the time.
I don't like that time of the year.
I like it the kids being home like yesterday,
this no day and I was so happy.
That I don't like the lunches and the drop offs
and the pickups like I wish.
I liked virtual home school.
I don't like it for socialization.
I don't think it's good for them.
I don't want them to be home for them.
I think they need to be with kids,
but I so much rather like doing our own thing
and having our own adventures and stuff like that.
No, give me.
What if you had three deans?
If you had three deans.
You may say differently.
However, deans going to kindergarten early.
Exactly.
Now here's a legitimate question.
Do you think this is your opinion?
Or do you think you heard mom say this our entire lives
and that's why you feel the same way?
I had a feeling you were gonna say that
because mom, our mom did say that all the time,
but I do know that every Friday
when we pick them up from school,
I'm like, finally and we like party in the car
because we're so excited it's the weekend.
So I do know that that is my own feeling.
But I knew you were gonna say that
because our mom did say,
but I probably has a lot of the similar opinions
as what she grew up with
because it's just the fact of how she grew up
and that's how it should be.
So sometimes it's interesting,
but I didn't have the summers that we had.
I wish our kids had the summer summers that we had
like in the Poconos and with all that stuff.
Yeah, but I do like going on adventures
and things with the kids.
Like I like traveling with the kids.
I like doing new things with the kids.
Now, what I don't realize is that that's not normal life.
And if that was an everyday thing, I don't know.
But in theory, I don't like when the kids go back to school.
I think it's, you also don't like how it gets sensationalized
of how happy parents, like that's what's marketed.
Yeah, the Kermudgeans like Justin.
Yep.
Justin tell me your feelings on that.
He also does like Christmas.
Just a regular scrooge.
That's it.
That's all you're going to say about it?
Yeah, I mean, I.
He disagrees.
That's all.
Yeah, I could see why you feel that way.
And I understand that I in my life don't feel that way.
I love my children.
I would die for my children.
I just don't want to kill my children.
And that's why they need to go to school.
Listen, I'm saying this and it hasn't actually happened.
My kids were not school age during covid.
So like I didn't have a third grader and a seventh grader
to be home all day, every day on their phones.
So I didn't have that.
So I don't really know what that's like,
but be more like me, Justin.
That's a nightmare I have.
All right, last one.
I don't know how to word the actual like individual phrase
of what my unpopular opinion is.
I think the shoulds and conditions that we all know
to be understood as the way life should go is a farce.
What?
Going.
We send our kids to school.
And we were sent to school for how many hours out of the day?
Eight.
Oh, wait, was that a question?
That was good.
No, that was good.
That's a good answer.
That was a good answer.
Eight hours of the day.
And then we're taught that you have to continue going to school
being taught a specific way by these specific books
to learn specific things.
And you're not allowed to figure out what you really
like and want to venture into until you have to go
to an institution called a college that basically just
puts you in debt so that you can't get a job to work
in how you want to live for the rest of your life just
to pay the bills and the rent.
And then you have to do the personal situations
the same way.
You have to get married.
Still, it's more of like the religious side
that for some reason we still have the society go off of.
You have to get married, then buy a house, then maybe get
a dog or have children and do everything by this this book.
And I feel like it's a cookie cutter way of a shoulder and need
to and it must be.
And I I don't think we're meant to live
on a giant floating rock in the sky.
In a cookie cutter way.
I agree.
And I feel like we are.
Branching out of that more in these most recent generations.
All right, I'm hoping.
I think I hope.
And I think we are because we can't afford to do the cookie
cutter way. Exactly.
Not because we we are trying to break the mold because that
isn't realistic anymore with what we have to work.
That's true. We've talked about this before.
I also think part of that is the reason
they're people are breaking the mold now is because of mental health.
I mean, people were getting married unhappy.
People are having kids that didn't want to have kids.
Yeah. But because they were supposed to.
Now it's more normalized.
Like if you don't have kids, you don't have to have kids.
If you don't want to get married, you don't have to get married.
If you don't want to go to college, you don't have to go to college.
You can still get a decent job.
But it wasn't like that in the 50s and 60s and 70s.
Yeah. It was you do this or.
Or you don't. Yeah.
Yeah. Then you're like a social pariah.
Right. Yeah. Right.
But that's I mean, it's the same thing we talked about.
How we disagree with the cancel culture of what's it called?
Quiet quitting. Quiet. Yeah.
But maybe they have something to it where they get to stop at the end of the day
and then enjoy life and go out with people and experience things and wake up
and go to do some work the next day instead of like a live and die to make money
so I could survive. But it's really hard to do that.
Millennials are the are the number one generation
for the most debt due to schooling and education,
even though they were told and forced to go to college.
And that was the only way you were going to make a living and make a life for yourself.
Yeah. But we're the only generation in debt for just education.
And it's we're all burnout.
Yeah. So like I just I don't know.
So that's why I don't I'm not 100 percent sure I'm like what the unpopular opinion is.
I just feel like the way that life. Yeah.
The way that life is told us we quote unquote should be doing it like the steps
of like what's normal.
Like. Like who made that up and why is that still?
Yeah. Yeah. Why is that still a thing?
Yeah. Like why isn't Montessori School a little bit more normalized?
It's not putting a kid behind a desk and being told that you have to read like this
and this pacing and at this level, even if you can't.
Yeah.
And you're not smart enough if you can't.
Yeah. Even though you could probably do it in a different way,
but we're not going to take the time to teach you that way because we don't know
because we don't have the resources.
That's not how it should be done and whatever else the reasons are.
Yeah. Now, and I think in our lifetime, I'm hoping in our lifetime,
we will see a change in what college looks like.
Hopefully what school in general looks like.
But but even going when you go to college the first two years,
you're taking Gen Ed classes. It's doing high school.
Yeah. You're still in high school.
Like a sociology class that I didn't need and a psych class that I didn't need.
And basic English. I took a poetry class. Why?
Yeah. I wanted to get credits.
A medical degree. Yeah. You needed credits to fill out poetry.
Yeah. So I just think, you know, there needs to be a shift because in 20 years,
people won't be able to afford it.
Well, we were I would I say to you all the time, I'm like,
I feel like you have to push the plumber.
One of your kids needs to be a plumber.
One of your kids needs to be a construction worker, like building things
because we're losing all of that demographic of people that want to use their hands
and not necessarily go to the trades. Thank you. Trades.
Remember, if you remember, and I don't know if this is.
I don't know if this was everyone,
but it was like the kids that did the.
In high school, you went to O'Hara.
Votek. Yeah. So the vote is that O'Hara too?
So Votek kids that went and did like.
The hair salon or, you know, the Williamson trade school for the rest of your day,
like they were like looked down upon.
Yeah. I don't know why, but why? Yeah.
And it's basically the unpopular opinion.
Like why? Why?
Why? Why? I just I don't get it.
And maybe I'm drinking the the yoga juice, but yeah, it just I don't understand.
I don't understand.
And I'm sure a lot of people are going to come back and be like,
well, politically and the government and capitalism and money and and I and I get it
because that's what we're in.
But like, if we were all able to take a step back
and be like, what are we doing?
I said, I also don't get it because if the world were to go under,
money is not going to save us like the earth is going to die and money is not going to be able to fix it.
You know what I mean?
So I don't have poetry class like talk ain't going to help me.
So you could talk to the flowers and you can make them feel very happy.
Yeah.
I think what Victoria meant to say was her favorite song is Photograph by Nickelback.
Carly really wanted me to say that is an unpopular opinion.
But you like Nickelback.
I don't hate Nickelback. Unpopular opinion.
I don't understand why they get a bad rap. I understand why you get a bad rap.
Yeah. That's a popular opinion.
Well, now with all that being said, we can all agree to disagree and still be friends.
Isn't that nice?
No one's friends with you.
I know.
At this moment.
It's because I signed a blood contract.
That's why I'm here.
I'm just saying, I think some people find it very hard to even voice their unpopular opinions.
Yeah.
Because it's not taken very well.
Yeah.
We're going to play a little game.
Yay.
It's called Hurry Up.
Because we're running out of time because both of you are late.
Say yes or no.
OK, I'm going to say something.
You both say yes or no as quick as you can.
OK.
I don't care to know why.
OK.
That's how she goes.
But I just want to know if you say yes or no.
OK, ready?
I'm not so sure.
Buying stylish clothes for babies is a waste of money.
Yes.
Cold play is overrated.
No.
All dogs are annoying.
No.
The TV show Friends is overrated.
No.
Pineapple belongs on pizza.
No.
Sure.
It was yes or no.
Sure is not an answer.
Yeah.
I don't give a shit.
Mushrooms are the work of the devil and should stay in the ground.
Yes.
No.
The work of the devil.
Cold weather is better than warm weather.
No.
Yes.
No.
Football is really boring.
No.
Yes.
No.
I don't know.
No.
Disney movies are only for children.
No.
Androids are better than iPhones.
No.
Avocados are gross, but guacamole is delicious.
No.
No, they're both amazing.
Agreed.
Yes or no.
Harry Potter books and movies are not that good.
No.
Bless for me.
Avogado!
Two weeks in the row.
That should be banned for at least six.
The Star Wars movies are ridiculous and stupid.
No.
Dark chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
No.
Yes.
Online learning is better than learning in a classroom.
It's a yes or no, people.
Based on what I just said, no.
The BS?
I can't remember it.
Okay, you're done.
The beach is better than the Poconos.
Yes.
Okay.
Strawberries are disgusting.
No.
Carly is better than Victoria.
No.
Never.
Impossible.
Did I win?
You won!
Shocking.
You never know.
You guys need to learn yes and no questions and maybe go back to either online or classroom
learning school.
There's a lot of gray area.
It's a world of gray.
You can learn from the trees.
Very unpopular.
Well.
Happy Valentine's Day, guys.
Unpopular opinion.
Stupid holiday.
Made by Hallmark.
Come on.
She's wearing a head to toe pink.
Head to toe.
Baby pink.
I'm pointing it out there that I am spending Valentine's Day with my straight guy friend.
And it's normal.
Head to toe pink.
He doesn't even care.
Nope.
He can't breathe.
He's having a hard time functioning right now.
Laughing and breathing at the same time is very difficult right now.
But you know what?
Your new face looks fantastic.
I look the same, everyone.
It's a deviated septum.
Nine rhinoceros.
You had a deal.
Rhinoplasty.
He had a deviated septum.
Oh, God.
He's deviacrolix.
Great.
Oh, my God.
Thank you.
Can we get this back on track?
I could do this all day.
I could seriously do this all day.
She has pink power.
Go, go, Power Rangers.
Music.
We hope that this was fun, first of all, because it was like a fun, silly day with some serious undertones.
That's a good word.
That's four colleges.
That's four colleges right there that I still pay for.
Good job.
Exhibit A.
Amen.
No, it's supposed to be fun.
And I think it's a really, I like what you said.
It's a good description of being able to agree to disagree or disagree or agree and still
have the same friendships.
And it shouldn't cancel history with when it comes to friendship.
Even if you wish it would.
Oh, we wish so hard.
You say it, Justin.
Say it.
Never say it.
No, say it.
The louder you go doesn't mean it's going to scare him.
You're wearing pink with lightning bolts and gold chains.
Listen, I go forward for a theme.
We hope you have some of your own unpopular opinions.
Do not share them with Carly.
She will not receive it well.
But thank you, Justin, for having this idea because this was 100%.
If you have any issues, you have to contact Justin Scaracagli, S-C-A-R-I-C-A-C-I-O-T-T-O-L-I.
Good job.
And it's his fault.
So if you liked it, please come back for more.
And we won't always talk about Taylor Swift like that.
Thanks, Dr. Justin.
It's my pleasure.
I'll send you my bill.
We want you to remember that even with whatever opinion you have, as long as it is said and
articulated in a respectful way, you are always fit to be real and always allowed to be a
little extra.
Love you guys.
We didn't let him say goodbye.
Can I go blow my nose now?
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