Celebrity Hair Drama, Trump's Executive Orders, and Weekend Plans with Little Grand Cam

Have you ever wondered what truly matters when society's beauty standards come crashing down? Today's episode dives deep into the liberation that comes from challenging what we're told defines us as women.

I'm starting my weekend on a bittersweet note—spending precious hours with my grandson before he heads to Arizona for a month. Though I'll miss him terribly, this time together reminds me to cherish what truly matters in life.

The heart of our discussion explores my personal journey with alopecia, triggered by a news story about a celebrity's daughter experiencing hair loss from weight loss medication. I take you through that transformative day at the barbershop when I decided to shave it all off, expecting the worst but discovering unexpected freedom. The contrast between my experience—walking confidently into a restaurant with my newly bald head—and the dramatic reactions to celebrity hair loss reveals how we've internalized harmful beauty standards. Nobody fainted when they saw me. Nobody stared. Life simply continued, proving that so much of our appearance anxiety exists primarily in our minds.

We briefly touch on current events, including Trump's executive order cutting federal funding for NPR and PBS, and wrap up with a lighthearted question about everyone's favorite Buc-ee's foods for those road trip pit stops. Whatever journey you're on—whether challenging beauty standards or simply making it through another week—remember that your worth isn't defined by your appearance. What unnecessary standards are you ready to leave behind?

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Chapters

• 0:29 Weekend plans and missing Grand Cam
• 1:09 Celebrity hair loss drama reaction
• 1:59 My personal alopecia journey
• 4:24 Trump's executive order on PBS/NPR
• 7:59 Tragic news and Buc-ee's question

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Hey, hey, good morning. It's Friday. We made it through the week, hallelujah, okay. I am really glad it's the weekend. Not that my week was bad, because it wasn't. We're not going to get Cameron tomorrow, though. Little grand cam, he is going to Arizona for like a month. He has family out there too, so I guess they want to see him as well. The other grandma is taking him out there tomorrow. So tonight, as soon as I get off work, I'm going to go get him after work, because I get off at what 2.30? And then we're going to hang out for a few hours. We're going to go get pizza, so at least I get to see him today, and I'm very excited about that. Before he goes, I'm going to miss the little tyke, so much.

Speaker 1: 0:55

All right, I want to talk about this chick over here. I opened my New York Post app to see what was going on, to talk about Kyle Richards. I have no idea who that is, but whoever Kyle Richards is, the daughter, sophia, who is 25 years old, reveals shock hair loss after taking weight loss drug I'm going to be bald and to which I say bitch, no one cares, okay. First of all, you're 25 years old. You're probably already skinny, why are you taking a weight loss drug? Your hair's probably falling up because you don't need it. Okay, mine, mine fell out because I have alopecia. Okay, kyle Richards, I'm sorry, I just these people, these women with their hair, I just can't get over it. You know, they think their hair is everything and it's not. It's not. If you realize, if you think your hair is all that and that's what you rely on on. Being a woman is your hair. Lord, have mercy. I mean, I get it. It's probably unusual to see a bald woman, but look, when I first realized I had alopecia and it was not getting better and it was eventually all going to fall out, I had huge bald spots. I finally told my husband all right, we're right, I want to cut it all. Let's shave it. Whatever I have left, we're going to buzz it off. We went to the barber shop. I took a hat with me just in case. Uh, I wanted to go out, leave without you know, whatever, but anyway, the barber shaved it all off. I love the barber too, because we were sitting in line waiting to get up there, waiting our turn, and then, finally, when the chair opens up and luckily it was the owner of the barbershop.

Speaker 1: 2:28

My husband kind of knows him. And he said, all right, he was looking to my husband. He said, okay, who's next? Or kind of whatever. All right, come on.

Speaker 1: 2:35

And I get up and sit up in the chair and he kind of looks at me. He said, okay, well, what are we doing? And I said, well, I have alopecia, I want to shave it off. And you know what he did. He said okay, and he started shaving. He wasn't like oh, are you sure, honey, are you positive? This is what you want? Nope, I loved it. I loved every second of it. And look, he did not. Let me look at the mirror. When I, when he was doing it, he pointed me away from the. But when it was all said and done, after it was all done, after he shaved it all off, he spun me around and I looked at myself in the mirror and I thought that's not horrible. I don't look like a monster. So I did not wear my hat out because I thought I looked pretty damn good. And so we know what we did Instead of going home, we went straight out to lunch and I walked into the restaurant bald-headed no hat, nothing.

Speaker 1: 3:22

For the very first time. I even showed up to work on Monday with it like that, because my daughter saw pictures of me and she said, mother, you need to just wear that like to work because you look beautiful. You're gorgeous and so, and you know, we go out and about and nobody says a damn word to me. Nobody looks at me like I have three heads, nobody looks, gives me a side glance, nobody shocks and faints for for the way I look. Nothing, you know.

Speaker 1: 3:51

If anything, they come up to me and say, oh my gosh, I'm sorry, you know your hair's gonna grow back, and they think I have cancer. And they think I'm going through chemo. And you know, fortunately I can tell them. Well, fortunately, this is not cancer, it's just alopecia. So anyway, I know I got off on a tangent there. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that, but I can't help it when I see women like this who think the world is going to end. Um, she said I'm very lucky that I have so much hair, because at this rate I've been losing hair. I'm going to be bald in about a week.

Speaker 1: 4:25

The brunette beauty said during a TikTok shared on Wednesday I started Mongero about four months ago and I would say like maybe in the past three weeks to a month, I've noticed a dramatic hair loss situation. Yeah well, sophia is the third daughter of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and the second daughter of three that richards shares with her estranged husband. Somebody I don't know, though. She wore her long shiny hair down around her shoulders for the clip. She had shocking imagery for the followers and everybody was just, oh my god, ah, she said, I'm just going to show you, okay, whatever, I'm not going to finish this there is is a lot of hair and look, that's what my bathroom used to look like too. But anyway, and you know, if she goes bald and she comes out and doesn't wear wigs or anything, and she, she's probably going to be beautiful and people are going to oh my gosh, look at her. Whatever, whatever and I know I'm not the first bald woman either. And look, I belong to these wig groups on Facebook and y'all these women. They're just so Society has. We have allowed ourselves to be taken in by what these beauty magazines and beauty standards that put out by glamour and vogue and models and how women are supposed to look, and just whatever. I'm over it. I'm over it. I think I look, all right, my husband loves me, so that's all that counts, right? All right, look, I'm sorry I got off on a tangent. Here me, go see what else I wanted to talk about. Other things trending. Let's see what's trending.

Speaker 1: 6:13

Trump terminates npr pbs federal funding with sweeping executive orders. That's a headline over there in new york post. You know the liberals are going to come unglued over that. President trump signed an executive order late thursday night terminating federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. Poor PBS, oh no, npr and PBS, which have long been targeted for cuts by conservatives, both receive partial funding through the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. Okay, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1: 6:46

Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary that is true, I think it is unnecessary, don't you think? Maybe I'm not sure, I think it might be, maybe there could be some kind of public, but I don't know, I don't know how you would do that Government funding of the news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary, but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence. Well, that's true. The CPB board Okay, I'm not going to read any more of that. It's boring, all right. Oh, my gosh y'all.

Speaker 1: 7:27

When I first read this story I thought, oh no, is this the flat earther that Keith and Pat had on the show? This New Jersey father beaten to death defending daughter, remembered for as fun-loving, flat earther and invincible man in Wild Obit man Myth and Legend. I'm going to read some of it um, the new jersey father beaten to death while confronting a friend's son, accused of assaulting his daughter, was an invincible man with a larger than life personality and also a flat earther who loved conspiracy theories, practical jokes and president trump. According to a glowing obituary, the man, the myth, the legend opens the commemoration. A 54 year old lewis gus serbeck, who was killed allegedly at the hands of a lifelong friend oh my god and his teenage son during a vicious brawl on Easter Sunday. There are many stories of Gus throughout our area. I wonder if that can't be the same guy, right, the flat earther that Patton had on. I can't remember what the guy's name was. That's horrible, all right, that's, you know. That's all I really want to talk about.

Speaker 1: 8:49

Um, because I'm running out of time and we need to do the question of the day. Okay, we haven't talked about food in a while and I guess this is sort of food related. Rowdy introvert on x the other day said he was going on a trip and they're going to stop by a bucky's his first time and he asked what should he get? A lot of people said beef jerky. Some of some have said some kind of the burritos brisket on the board. Hello, the three meat sandwich, turkey, sausage and brisket sandwiches. That's what you need to get Rowdy. So what is your? What is your if you've been to Bucky's? I don't know if I want to put what's your favorite food to get from Bucky's, but that's it. That's the question of the day. What is your favorite food to get from Buc-ee's? But that's it. That's the question of the day. What is your favorite food to get from Buc-ee's if you've been? All right, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all. I'll be back on Monday. Have a great one.