Lorde Is Gender Confused & The Dumbest Starbucks Strike Ever | Episode 33

Well guys, Starbucks employees are on strike again.

Hillary Clinton doesn't want us to have children because that's what illegal immigrants are for.

And Lorde wants us all to know that she is in fact a woman, except on days when she is a man.

And yes, all of this is confusing to me as well.

Don't worry, we're going to break it all down today.

Now before we dive into all of those stories and a couple of other things, as I was sitting down to film this episode, I stumbled across a juicy new update in the Blake Lively saga.

So I just want want to include this at the top of the episode because it was just too good not to share.

So if you guys have followed this case and this story at all, you know that at the crux of Blake Lively's lawsuit against Jess Maldoni is workplace hostility, workplace toxicity, sexual harassment, all of these awful things that happened on the set of the movie It Ends With Us.

Well, according to a new exclusive from the Daily Mail, it looks like this isn't Blake Lively's first runaround with workplace hostility.

However, in this case, she was the the one who was being accused.

So I had no idea that this was even a thing, but back in 2014, she decided that like basically every other celebrity, she also wanted to have a lifestyle brand.

And now, this is so funny to me because my team can attest to this, but I have often mused, like, what if I one day had a lifestyle brand?

What if I was like selling things?

We were making cool products.

It'd be so fun.

Well, apparently, everybody and their mother wants to do that because Goop was so successful.

thanks to Gwyneth Paltrow.

I think Chloe Kardashian also tried to start one called like Goosh or something like that.

You have have Megan Markle who is trying to make as ever or as love, whatever it's called, work.

Well, Blake Lively also tried to do the same thing.

So in 2014, she started a brand called Preserve and then she handed the reins over to her brother who was running it out of his New York City studio apartment.

Now all of this was going on in 2014, but apparently, allegedly, the brand did not last long because her brother was a tyrant.

He was awful to work for.

Allegedly, according to this Daley Mail article, he was doing drugs in the office.

He was having affairs with employees.

It was so toxic.

It was completely unprofessional.

And so people went to Blake Lively.

The employees like sent a meeting with Blake and were like, hey, this is your brand.

This is the thing that you've built.

It's representing you.

And it's so awful we can't even work here anymore.

And she dismissed their complaints.

She poo-pooed them and said, nope, not a big deal whatsoever.

They ended up saying that we're going to sue you.

So she settled with them, allegedly, for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And Leslie Sloan, the same PR woman that is embroiled in all of this, this entire ridiculous lawsuit, was the PR woman who made all of that stay quiet.

And of course, because it is Blake Lively and because that was the era of girl boss lean-in feminism, when Blake Lively closed that brand, she closed the doors of Preserve, she blamed its failure on sexism, which is just the perfect ending to that story.

So I just wanted to give you guys that little update, but now we can get into an even bigger story, a bigger scandal, which would be Biden's cancer diagnosis.

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So guys, last Sunday afternoon, the Biden team issued a statement confirming what a lot of people around, I was about to say the country, but around the world have been assuming.

The former president is extremely sick.

He is in a very rapid decline.

And obviously, I want to say this before we get into anything else.

I wish him well.

I am sending prayers to him and his family because this is just an awful thing to endure.

He has prostate cancer.

But unfortunately, due to the years of lies and corruption of our government and our media, the conversation can't just stop with wishing him well because there are so many layers that we have to peel through.

Because Americans, everyone who voted for him or didn't vote for him, deserve answers.

Because to put it lightly, we have literally been gaslit for the last five years.

So before we get into that, this is the statement that the family put out.

This is a statement from the personal office of former President Joe Biden.

Last week, last week, that is important to remember, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms.

On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a gleason score of nine, grade group five, with metastasis to the bone.

While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management.

The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.

Now, guys, this is crazy.

This is insane.

Like, I'm sorry, this was just discovered last week at an appointment?

No, that is impossible.

That Gleason score of nine means that the cancer is incredibly aggressive, and we know from the statement that it is already spread to the bones.

Now, according to CNN contributor Dr.

Jamin Brambit, only five to seven percent of prostate cancer cases in the United States are metastic at initial diagnosis.

Five to seven percent.

That is an incredibly small margin.

And maybe that would be more possible for somebody who doesn't really take care of their health, doesn't go to the doctor very frequently, isn't you know up to date on things.

But this this percentage has to be even lower for a freaking president whose health had been monitored by the best doctors in the country for years.

Years.

He was supposed to be getting routine examinations.

He was being questioned about his health daily.

They were saying, no, he's completely healthy.

He's totally fine.

Everybody out there in the world who was commenting on the fact that he can't speak, he can't walk, he doesn't look healthy.

We were all called crazy.

And yet here is a diagnosis.

And obviously, I am not sitting here hoping that he is diagnosed with something, but again, we all were just hoping for answers because we knew just by common sense by watching the videos of him as president, seeing the interviews, just watching him walk onto Air Force One, we knew that something was not right.

So how did they miss it?

Were they not doing the routine tests that he was supposed to be getting?

Or did they lie and cover all of this up?

Because again, we were called cruel for asking about his health and pointing out the obvious.

And yet again, here it is.

But again, unfortunately, the story can't just end there because this diagnosis, this this announcement, also comes at a very particular time.

And people on X were very quick to point this out because Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson's book detailing the cover-up of Biden's decline was literally set to be released the very next day.

Hmm.

Just very interesting, very convenient that this would happen less than 24 hours before this bombshell book was set to come out.

I mean, even Jake Tapper, who was literally writing this book, even though he helped cover all of this up, he has even acknowledged that we were right and we all deserve answers.

And on top of that, just last week, in the midst of allegedly getting this awful, horrifying, surprise diagnosis, he was on the view, which was all part of a whole other press tour that he had embarked on recently over the last couple of weeks, probably to direct attention away from the book.

The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us, and they didn't see how hard Joe worked every single day.

But I hate to say it, but maybe when that didn't work, they had to figure out something else.

And now that the diagnosis has been revealed, a Democratic advisor was quick to say that the conversation about his decline should be, quote, muted.

This is from David Axelrod, a longtime Democratic operative and former Barack Obama advisor, said on CNN minutes after the diagnosis was revealed that conversations about Biden's mental acuity, quote, should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this.

Okay, it's always going to be something.

We're cruel if we bring it up.

We're ridiculous.

He's totally healthy.

It's totally fine.

But now that we know that he's not totally fine, we just can't talk about it.

We have to shut up.

Jake Tapper, don't release your book.

Nobody go read the book because that's too cruel.

I mean, guys, this is like the quintessential left-wing playbook.

I mean, you guys have seen this online.

There are memes about this.

We have talked about it on the show for years at this point.

But that classic formula is that we, or just common sense people, just anyone, will point something out that is crazy.

or wrong and their response will be actually you guys are the problem because that's not happening at all and then eventually over time, it turns out that we're right.

And that thing, whatever it is, ends up happening.

And then their response is, okay, well, yeah, it's happening, but actually, it's a very good thing.

And actually, we should just be silent about it all.

I mean, it happens in every industry, in every instance.

And now it is happening with Joe Biden.

Now, obviously, I would love to be able to just let this all go and respect the Biden family and just wish him good health and happiness.

But this is so much bigger than that.

Again, Americans have questions.

Whoopi Goldberg from The View even has questions.

this morning on the view?

She wanted to know.

I mean, this is so hilarious, guys.

She wanted to know why the media didn't tell her that he had health problems.

I mean, Whoopee, you are part of the problem.

Just take a listen.

There has always been a mass

trust issue because politicians, media, nobody does what they're supposed to do.

I want, not you, but I want somebody to tell me, well, when did you know it was bad?

If you knew, why did you wait?

That's the thing, Whoopee.

I think they did know.

And you're pointing at the media saying, why didn't they tell us, you know, the media and the government, the cover up and the lie?

You're part of that.

You are complicit.

You helped them cover this all up.

He was just on your show last week where you guys were joking about his mental decline.

And you've even had Jill saying how amazing he was, even though he literally could not answer a single question that you asked him.

I mean, it is comical, but it also, like I said from the beginning, it's so sad.

And it is just wild to really sit with the fact that the president's team covered all of this up for years.

And what's worse, in my opinion, is that his wife was complicit in all of this.

So it's no surprise to me that they would allegedly also cover up a cancer diagnosis.

And it's even less of a shock that they would use this diagnosis to distract from a book that is detailing the abuse that they put him through as a way to control their party and this country and as a way to gaslight all Americans.

Now, again, I obviously wish him well.

I do not wish ill on anyone.

I hope that he is comfortable.

I hope, please God, that Jill stops parading him around doing these awful, embarrassing interviews, gets him out of the cameras, and I hope that he does get the care that he needs, which is why everyone should watch the Peterson Academy course, Why We Get Sick.

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Now, moving on from Joe Biden, I think we need to talk about some athletes that are far younger and more spry than he is.

and that would be angel reese and caitlin clark because what a surprise these two women are now the center of yet another racism conversation because that seems to follow them no matter where they go i mean it has been years of this at this point i remember doing an episode on this two years ago when all of this started between the two of them and here we are again in 2025 so if you guys have not been following this whole debacle angel reese and caitlin clark their teams recently played each other and there was some drama now as you guys know, I'm going to put on my sports Brett cap.

I'm really not a sports aficionado.

I had to ask Alex about all of this because I really did not understand the technicalities.

So ignore me if I say something incorrect in terms of what actually happened on the court.

But basically, what we can see in this video, what started this entire kerfuffle, is that Angel Reese pushed somebody on the other team, like with two arms, pushed them.

Now, Caitlin then did a very conventional like normal in basketball foul to keep Angel Reese from getting an easy layup because she's better at layups than she is at free throws.

And then Angel gets pushed onto the ground.

She gets mad.

After the foul has been called, the game has been halted.

She comes up to Caitlin Clark and she shoves her.

Everybody's angry.

Everybody's upset.

They're talking about each other in the interviews after the game.

It was a whole mess.

And so obviously, in light of that, all of the sports commentators, the Dave Port noise, all of those, they started commenting on the relationship between these two women because it has been tense since the beginning.

And in the midst of all of that, one former ESPN commentator, whose name is Robert Grifford III, he goes by RG3,

he made a post and a video on X saying that Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark because Angel's reaction to this foul was so overblown.

And he pointed to a lot of different circumstances and different games with Angel Reese where people had fouled her and she wasn't upset about it or where her team had fouled somebody and she was like, yeah, that's so awesome in the same way that Caitlin Clark had fouled her.

And he was basically saying, this is so hypocritical.

This is not normal.

This has to be because they have personal beef and because Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark.

And you can see that in his post here, literally how we started the post, Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark.

The reaction was different because of who did it.

And there is a lot of history there with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

Well,

people had an issue with that.

One man in particular, his name is Ryan Clark.

He is a current ESPN commentator.

These two men actually used to like have a little thing together and do commenting on ESPN.

I guess they had a show.

I don't know if they had a show.

They did things together.

But he had a major issue with RG3 saying this.

And his rationale was, of course, racism, which is ironic because both of these sports commentators are black.

And this is the video that he said.

He said that RG3 can't talk about this.

He can't understand what Angel Reese is going through because RG3 is married to a white woman.

Take a listen.

One thing we know about RG3 is he's not having conversations at his home about what black women have to endure in this country, about what young black women and athletes like Angel Reese have had to deal with being on the opposite side of Caitlin Clark's rise and ascension into stardom.

When is the last time within your household you've had a conversation about what she's dealing with?

You haven't been able to do that because in both of your marriages, you've been married to white women.

You haven't had opportunities to have those conversations to educate you on what they're feeling, what black women deal with, what they're seeing when they think of a young Angel Reese.

And the whole time that he's mimicking Angel Reese and bobbing his head and moving his neck while he's doing this whole piece, his wife is in the back, amening and clapping.

So because RG3 is married to a white woman and was married to a white woman before that white woman, he is not allowed to say that Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark.

He's not allowed to comment because he doesn't understand the trials and tribulations that Angel Reese as a black woman is going through.

And therefore, it is racist for him to be commenting and saying that she is angry.

I think that he's saying like that is just putting the angry black woman trope on her.

Obviously, there are deeper things.

I'm sorry.

It might just be that Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark have beef.

and have had beef for over two years at this point.

We have all watched it unfold.

And RG3 was not making any controversial statement.

He was just acknowledging that and pointing out the hypocrisy that Angel Reese doesn't have that response when she plays other people, when she's playing other teams, or when her team does the exact same thing that Caitlin Clark just did.

So obviously it has to be personal.

That is not about race in the slightest.

That is about two 23-year-old women not liking each other.

And that is what RG3 was pointing out.

But apparently in 2025, that is not permissible.

You can't comment on that if you are not married to a black woman, if you are not a black woman, if you are not Angel Reese herself.

I mean, it is so ridiculous.

The hoops that he is demanding that RG3 jump through in order to just voice his opinion about this.

Like, I'm sorry, Ryan Clark.

I don't even know who you are until all this went viral, but like, your ideology must be so fragile if the only people who are allowed to speak on such subjects are those who have permissible backgrounds or permissible lived experiences and the correct take that you want to hear put out in the world.

Like, you don't get to gatekeep commenting on culture or sports or politics because you don't like somebody's opinion.

And then you can't put these fake guardrails around them to protect your very fragile ideology.

That is not how the world works.

So I'm I'm sorry.

RG3 is totally allowed to comment on this very common sense, obvious fact that Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark do not like each other.

And you know what?

It makes great TV.

It makes people a lot more interested in the WNBA because there's drama and there's great players.

So maybe, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world because obviously this is going viral.

More people are watching it, which is what everybody wanted, right?

Everybody wanted us to be watching the WNBA.

Well, hey, now we are.

And honestly, I care a lot more about the WNBA than I do about the Starbucks workers who are currently on strike because what they are protesting is the most absurd, irrational, out-of-touch thing.

I have ever heard.

Now, I think I've done a few episodes in the past about Starbucks.

They seem to always be striking.

Their employees are always mad about something.

And you might ask, like, are they wanting more money?

Are they protesting to have the minimum wage raised?

No, that's not happening.

Are they protesting their benefits?

No.

Are they protesting the price hike on oat milk again?

Nope, that's not happening.

Are they protesting the fact that they're not allowed to unionize?

No, that is not happening.

Because what is happening in Starbucks right now is the perfect example of no matter how much you give into leftist illusion, it is never enough.

Because these employees are protesting.

over the dress code.

And no, they are not asking them to wear short shorts and pop their boobs out like they're working at Hooters.

The new dress code that they just announced is simply a change in the color palette so that the quintessential Starbucks green aprons will look better on all of the employees.

That is literally all that is happening.

And it is causing these employees to go on strike.

Now, here is the public announcement of these awful, horrifying, offensive, offensive changes that Starbucks is making.

Okay, so they said, our partners, who are the employees, are the face of our brand, and our iconic green apron has always been a special part of what makes us unique.

Since 1987, the green apron has been the symbol for Starbucks Coffee Company, representing the hundreds of thousands of retail partners in North America who connect with customers every single day.

Now, some additional context here is that there is a new CEO for Starbucks.

It is actually the former CEO from Chipotle who was embroiled in the whole, they're giving us less meat and less guacamole scandal.

So he moved over to Starbucks.

And everything that he is trying to do at Starbucks is make it into a higher class chain once again.

So when you go into Starbucks and you sit down, they're now giving you your coffee in a real mug.

They're trying to make the employees dress better.

They're giving them fancy new aprons, all of this stuff.

So that is the reason why this change is happening.

It's just very normal.

They're just kind of trying to elevate their brand and they want people to step up.

So he says that is why, starting on May 12th, we are evolving our dress code in all stores to focus on simplified color options that allow our iconic green apron to shine and create a sense of familiarity for our customers, no matter which store they visit across North America.

The more defined color palette includes any solid black, short, and long-sleeved crew neck, collared, or button-up shirts, and any shade of khaki, black, or blue denim bottoms.

We are also making a new line of company-branded t-shirts available to partners who will receive two at no cost, including partner network options.

Okay, I just want you, we're gonna condense all this down.

They are saying you need to wear a black shirt.

You can wear a black shirt, or you can wear the black Starbucks shirt, and then just wear your pants.

You normally wear your khaki, your denim, whatever it is.

Just wear that so that the green pops off the black shirt.

That seems more than reasonable.

That is the easiest dress code update I have ever heard.

I see no no issues here, but apparently these women do.

I don't know if I should call them women, that might be offensive.

These partners see a problem.

They're like strutting in the rain, trying to show off the clothes that were banned at Starbucks, which apparently is just a bunch of gay paraphernalia because one of them is like a rainbow shirt.

They're so angry that they can't wear their rainbow shirt when they're working at Starbucks anymore.

I don't even need to explain this further.

Like you just take one look at the individuals who are doing this strike fashion show and you're like, oh God, of course you're angry.

Of course.

Of course you are the ones that find a problem with being asked to wear a simple black shirt.

You're going to somehow decide that this is a crime against humanity.

This is some bigoted, offensive thing that you need to go on strike for.

And this is just such a classic example of having literally no problems in your life because you live in such a great time in history and you have a good job and a normal life.

And so you're actively seeking out things to be angry about.

If you just take a look at Starbucks the company, they have historically treated their employees very well.

They go above and beyond for their partners.

I mean, just this week, Starbucks literally announced a couple of days ago that rather than investing in AI like their competitors, the other fast food chains that are using AI to take orders, that are eliminating jobs in favor of AI, instead of that, they are going to invest even more money in their human employees so that they continue offering jobs.

But, you know, after this strike, if I was the CEO, I might be rethinking that one based on who I'm seeing my employees are.

All of that aside, like they also have a partnership with ASU Online where they will cover the tuition for their employees if you are pursuing a bachelor's degree.

They also have incredible unprecedented fertility benefits to help their employees who are struggling to start families.

That is something that is not usually offered by employers.

It's not even offered normally by normal healthcare providers.

They are doing all of that and more.

And all they are asking for is for you to wear a simple black shirt.

I mean, the only thing I can think of that they could do better is if they would just clean up their own ingredients that might solve the fertility problem and make society better as a whole.

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Now, speaking about being pregnant and having children, there has been a lot of discourse about that on X This Week, specifically from my favorite human being, Hillary Clinton.

Now, before we get into what that aging gremlin had to say about women and motherhood, I want to talk about what Jennifer Lawrence, the actress, had to say about her kids.

Because in a world that talks down to moms on a daily basis and champions women who are brave enough to stay single and childless and that they're so happy and they don't need husbands or children, and they basically fear-monger all of these young women who want to have children, hearing this from somebody who is so influential and so famous was refreshing.

Here you go.

They've changed my life, obviously, for the best,

and they've changed me creatively.

I highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor.

But I love that she also connected it back to her work, and that she said that every single part of her life has been amplified because of these children, because it has been so impactful, empowering, and completely changing.

And everything she said reminds me so much of what Ellen Pompeo said about motherhood and parenthood on her Call Her Daddy episode.

We did a whole episode about that and compared it to Chapel Rowan a couple of months ago, so I highly recommend watching that if you have not already, because what these two women said was just so beautiful and so impactful.

And the other thing is that neither of those takes are political.

What Ellen said, what Jennifer Lawrence just said, it's just mothers celebrating motherhood, which is a far cry from the takes that Hillary Clinton had at an event this week in New York City.

So all of this took place at an event that Hillary Clinton did in New York City.

This past week, it was an interview that she was doing with Margaret Hoover, and she very quickly immediately upon sitting down, she started attacking the Trump administration for encouraging people to have more children because guess what everyone that should not be a burden that American women carry that is a job for the illegal immigrants take a lesson you know one of the reasons why our economy did so much better than comparable advanced economies across the world is because we actually had a replenishment because we had a lot of immigrants legally and undocumented

who

had a you know larger than normal by American standards families so she's admitting that having large families that repopulating, that growing our society is a net good thing, but the reason why it worked in the way that it should work is because we had so many immigrants legal and undocumented, we can't say illegal, undocumented were here having children for us so that we didn't have to.

I mean, that's ridiculous.

That is about as bad as saying we can't deport them because who's gonna, you know, pick the crops and do all the awful jobs that we don't wanna do?

Who's going to go have all the children while I work my corporate girl boss job and not get married and talk about how happy and rich I am?

I mean, that's ridiculous.

That is actually incredibly offensive.

And also, two things can be true at once, Hillary.

People should be getting married and they should be having children because that is good for them as human beings.

It's also good for society.

And also, yes, we should still deport people, especially violent criminals, who are here illegally in our country.

And immigrants, of course, who come here legally are welcome.

They should also have children because it is a good, moral, joyful thing to do.

And I hope that they are able to experience that and have that.

But you don't don't need one or the other.

We should not make this conversation about the declining fertility rate and why people are not getting married about immigration just because you hate everything that Trump is doing.

To be fair, she did say that she is all for people having children.

She thinks that having children is a beautiful thing.

Obviously, she is a mother, so it would be awful if she was advising against that.

But she also says that the Trump administration is not building a society that is conducive for Americans having children, which is why we have to relegate that to the immigrants.

I mean, it's just so offensive and ridiculous.

And I agree, like she said, that cash benefits are not the answer to the declining fertility rate.

But also, Hillary, that is not the only thing that the Trump administration is doing to support families.

They have lowered the cost and expanded access to IVF, if that is something that you are comfortable doing and you are interested in.

They have expanded school choice to make parenting easier.

They have doubled the child tax credit.

They have literally signed legislation to increase funding for child care for low-income families.

I mean, every argument she made against encouraging people to have families saying it's not possible in this country.

I mean, they are all things that the Trump administration is actively pursuing and trying to address.

But instead, she decided to focus on the one policy they're looking into that hasn't worked before.

The one policy that basically Trump's entire base spoke out against and said, hey, actually, this isn't going to help us.

Maybe focus on the other things.

We don't really agree with this.

And I would guess that the Trump administration has listened to that because we haven't heard anything since those headlines ran about a month ago.

So this was just a completely misinformed, hateful, politicized comment from Hillary Clinton.

But of course, because it's Hillary, she did not stop there.

She also said that Republican women, like me, were being handmaidens to the patriarchy.

Just take a listen.

What advice do you have for the first female president of the United States?

Well,

first of all,

don't be a handmaiden to the patriarchy,

which

eliminates every woman on the other side side of the aisle,

except for very few.

Lisa Markowski.

Liz Cheney.

Yeah.

So the way that this came up was that she was literally asked to give advice, you know, for the first female president, basically giving advice to all women in America.

And the one thing she had to say was to not be a handmaiden for the patriarchy, except those Republican women.

They're already doing that, except for Liz Chady.

I'm sorry.

If it's being Hillary Clinton and Liz Chady versus living the life that I am living as a happily married Republican voting woman who is about to have a baby, I am sorry.

I will take happily the handmaiden status.

Because I don't know what you're thinking that our lives are like or how miserable we are or what we believe, but I can assure you, it is not what you think.

And we are actually very happy and you are just completely out of touch with half of the country.

Now, speaking of other very out of touch women, we need to end with one final story, which is possibly the most ridiculous out of everything we have talked about today.

We need to turn our attention to Lorde, the singer, and her new cover story for Rolling Stone.

So Lorde is releasing a new album after taking a bit of a hiatus.

She has not released music in a while, I think.

And so right now she is doing a ton of press for this whole release.

And guys, this Rolling Stone article is possibly the craziest article I've ever read.

I mean, they cover everything from eating disorders to her journey with psychedelics to, yes, gender identity.

And one of the big things that this article covers is how this psychedelic journey has informed the transformation that she's having with her gender.

So the article reads that Lorde was experiencing what she calls the ooze as she was doing these psychedelics, which is in her mind, the act of letting herself take up more space in everything she does, whether physically or creatively.

Doing so opened the floodgates of her own identity.

Quote, my gender got way more expansive when I gave my body more room by oozing.

This is something her kids have been picking up on, noticing the more masculine touches to her wardrobe in glimpses they've seen of her in the past.

Now guys, I read this sentence and I was just appalled because I was like, first of all, I didn't know that Lord had children.

Number two, are her children only getting glimpses of their mother?

I soon was informed that she calls her fans her kids, which is just weird in general.

I will never call you all my children.

You are Cooper Troopers for life, but apparently the kids, the Lord fans, noticed these changes that were happening.

But guys, it gets better than the oozing, even though it's kind of hard to top that.

They go on and they say, there were expectations that were placed on Lorde about how a girl becoming a young woman should act.

It was another way that she made herself small, trying to please the world and be good.

But as she oozed, she redefined herself and she saw that her gender identity could get bigger too.

On Virgin, which is her new album, on Virgin's opening track, she lays the tale of her rebirth bare.

Some days I'm a woman, some days I'm a man.

Guys, that is just, whew, so profound.

Thank God for Lord.

We all can rest easy knowing that she is a little bit of both in 2025.

Now, the article goes on and the interviewer says, I asked her how she identifies now and what it means and what's changed.

And she says, quote, Chapel Roan asked me about this.

The pair have become close friends over the past year.

That is a special duo to insufferable women hanging out.

Quote, she was like, so are you non-binary now?

And I was like, I'm a woman, except for the days when I'm a man.

I know that that's not a very satisfying answer, but there's a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.

And this, guys, this reminds me so much of what we just went through with JoJo Siwa.

who was like, I'm not just a lesbian anymore.

I'm bisexual.

And everybody was like screaming online and so excited, but the lesbians were so mad.

And she was also like, I think I'm non-binary.

I just feel like I'm everything, but I'm not putting myself in a box.

Everybody just wants to be everything so that they can identify with everyone and not actually be put in a box, which I think is what is happening here.

Like I can't help but think, because this is all part of a, you know, PR album release, that part of this is strategic, even if it is just her subconsciously thinking that this is what she needs to do.

Because we have not heard from Lord in ages.

Like when she showed up at the Met Gala a couple of weeks ago, I was like, oh my god, I literally forgot that you existed, that you were a musician.

I feel like she kind of fell off for a few years, no offense to the kids and to Lord herself, but now she's having this whole comeback.

And how is she getting attention?

By being on the Met Gala red carpet and talking about her gender identity and saying that someday she feels like a woman and someday she's oozing like a man.

That was so gross.

I'm so sorry that I said that, but it's just, it's ridiculous.

And to clarify, in the article, she does say that she is still a cis woman.

She just likes wearing men's clothes, which is fine.

You can present present however you want to present.

You can dress androgynously or however you want to dress without making it a whole gender identity thing, but that would not get you the clicks that you want in 2025.

So obviously, in my opinion, that's why she's saying all of this.

But because it is still 2025 and you can offend everyone no matter what you say, she went on in this article to say that she is not trying to take things away from trans people.

She's not saying that she's trans.

It seems like she's just trying to like be relatable and fit in with all of them so they pay attention to her and like her music again.

And again, it all just seems so strategic and interestingly it wasn't just the psychedelics that inspired all of this there was another drug that made her feel like she was oozing it was getting off of chemical birth control which she writes about here the author writes that towards the end of that year she also went off of birth control for the first time since she was 15 years old quote i've now come to see my decision as maybe some quasi right wing programming great apparently it's right wing to get off of birth control presumably referring to years of far-right influencers pushing anti-contraceptive disinformation, but I hadn't ovulated in 10 years.

And when I ovulated for the first time since she was 15 years old, I cannot describe to you how crazy it was.

One of the best drugs I have ever done, which is just a crazy thing to say.

Like, wow, not surprising that not suppressing your hormones and your body's natural mechanisms for the first time in over 10 years would feel amazing.

Crazy, Lord, that that is what you experienced.

Granted, I'm very happy for her.

I'm glad that she feels like that's a drug and that she feels normal again.

She goes on and she says that, quote, I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some kind of cord between myself and this regulated femininity.

Sounds crazy, but I felt that all of a sudden I was off the map of femininity.

And I totally believe that that allowed things to open up again so that she could start oozing.

Now, guys, if all of that was not enough, all of the oozing and the psychedelics, I cannot believe how many times I've said the word oozing in this episode.

She then goes on in this article to talk about yet another thing that really changed her during this transformative period.

And that was about how she searched for and watched the infamous Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex take the entire thing.

And this is what she had to say.

It is so weird.

She said, quote, I found it to be so beautiful.

And maybe it's effed up that I watched it, but I saw two people that were so in love with each other.

And there was this purity.

They were jumping off this big boat.

They were like children.

They were so free.

And I was just like, whoa, being this free comes with danger.

I mean, that is like the most psychedelic trip comment I have ever heard.

Like, whoa, being free comes with danger.

Profound statement, I guess, Lord.

But also, yes, what you did is effed up.

Like, if you guys don't know, the Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee sex tape, that was the first big sex tape scandal.

That was way before Kim Kardashian.

This was a tape that was stolen and released against their will.

This was like the first instance of revenge porn.

The entire thing was so awful.

It is something that Pamela has talked about extensively.

She never wanted anyone to see that.

And it was put out around the world.

Everybody was watching and commenting on it and her and her body.

And And so Lord, all I am saying is that I think there are other ways to see true love and to see purity than watching somebody's revenge porn sex tape.

Like that's really as low as you can go.

And yes, it is effed up that you not only did that, but then proudly talked about it in an interview.

But at least you're telling us where you stand on your gender identity, on true love, on oozing on psychedelics.

At least we all know we're all on the same page.

So guys, that is all I have for you today.

I have oozed all I have to ooze all of my information.

I'm glad that the media has finally caught caught up to everything we've been saying about Joe Biden's health.

I'm glad that we know that being asked to wear a black shirt is a crime against humanity.

I'm glad that we know that wearing men's clothes makes me a man sometime.

So stay safe out there, my friends, because it is incredibly confusing and crazy.

And we'll be back on Monday for yet another Diddy trial update.

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