Hello, everyone, and welcome to Everything Iconic with me Danny Pellegrino.

Please turn this podcast episode off if you have not watched Traders this week. I'm going to get into spoiler territory.

We're going to talk about who was voted off, who was kicked out of that fake castle that they pretend to live in. And we're going to get into the nitty-gritty of the traders. I cannot wait. And I'm very hyper right now. So actually, before we get into the traders, let me tell a quick story, because this made me laugh. I went and got my coffee this morning. Usually before I record, I like to get my iced coffee. Unfortunately, we're out of the pistachio, which...

Devastating. Devastating, because you know I'm addicted to the ice pistachial latte now. However, I could not get it. So I got my other coffee, and I'm trying to get it, trying to get my energy up. And I hopped on social media earlier this morning, and I just saw everything going on. It's like so depressing. I'm like, I got to perk up. You know, I don't want to, I don't like to get on the microphone and just be a negative Nancy the whole time. And unfortunately, I don't know how to do that with everything that's going on in the world. It almost feels impossible sometimes. So I'm like, I got to perk up my energy. And one of the things, long-time listeners of the podcast might have heard me talk about this before, but one of the tried and true tricks of

perking myself up is a little dance that I like to do. And the dance that I like to do is the electric

slide. Now, I love the electric slide. To me, it's a classic dance move. It's

pretty easy, simple. And what I love to do is do the electric slide to one of the most

depressing songs I could find, right? Like, that always makes me laugh, like the dichotomy of

doing the electric slide to like a slow, dramatic ballad. Now, I've been addicted to the new

Hillary Duff song called The Routes, which I am

surprised as anybody that I like it, because I didn't like the other song that she came out with,

but she came out with the song called R roommates, and it's about, like, sort of her relationship

with her husband and how she wishes he would look at her like he did when they first got together,

and it's like, real dramatic, and the video is beautiful.

And I think it's such a good song.

However, it's very dramatic.

And so I was like, let me put that on and start doing the electric side, as one does, to cheer themselves up.

And so I put it on.

And what I didn't realize is, like, at the front door, we were having these new blinds put on our windows. And they had put them on and they put the wrong size on, whatever. So the guy had to come back. But when I went out to get my Starbucks coffee, I didn't know they had come back to do the windows. Okay. So I just wasn't even paying attention. So I get in the door with my coffee and I tell the robot voice, I say, you know, you know who? I say put on roommates by Hillary Duff. And I put it on very loud. I'm not even paying any attention. Matt and the baby, uh, they're in a completely other room. So I'm just like, I don't even know what's going on with them.

But I put on the Hillary Duff slow ballad, and then I start doing the electric slide in the kitchen with my ice coffee.

And then as I'm in the middle of, I don't know, but was probably the second verse, of me doing the electric slide to a slow ballad by millennial queen Hillary Duff,

I look over my shoulder and I see the fella at the window.

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