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Speaker 9 Happening now on the Crab Apple music scene, Eddie Medvane, local living legend, has dropped his long-awaited second album, Reversed Cowgirl.

Speaker 9 Eddie, of course, the owner of Eddie's edible panties and floral arrangements on Center Street, has hit the radio airwaves and hit it like it owes him money.

Speaker 9 Four out of the five most requested songs on local airplay are from Reverse Cowgirl, but the song making the most amount of crab appliance hot under the collar is his new jam, Look in the Mirror.

Speaker 9 Eddie has stated that after an unfortunate incident at Tammy's basement tavern, he woke up and penned this semi-autobiographical tune. Let's take a listen to a bit of this earwig.

Speaker 9 You decide for yourself.

Speaker 10 Wake up

Speaker 10 I hate my face in the mirror. I'm trying to see clearer.
It's too dim low in this bar tonight.

Speaker 10 Don't do drugs, don't get hot don't drink to have fun

Speaker 10 cause I'm getting sober cause I'm getting sober

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You didn't close anything off. Dream.

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Speaker 13 I'm so proud of her, and I'm so happy that I had a chance to dance with the Laria because she put so much heart and love to dance, and she's a true inspiration. She works so hard in the dance.

Speaker 11 He practiced that in the mirror to keep a straight face.

Speaker 11 You look at his eyes. You can tell.
He's like, I hate this part of the show. I hate that I have to say that this woman is anyone I want to be around.

Speaker 13 single day she was the first one uh on time in the rehearsal and

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Speaker 11 oh yeah cats and kittens welcome back to the commercial break i'm brian green and the triumphant return of Kristen Joy Hoadley to your appointed, I guess, chair, your throne. There it is.

Speaker 11 Kristen Joy Hoadley, best to you. And best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. I told you she would return, and she has.
I was mempho.

Speaker 11 You're

Speaker 11 and thank you so much to Tina. Of course.
She did a fantastic job. She knocked it out of the park.
I was listening, and I loved it. She knocked it out of the park.

Speaker 11 I couldn't be, we couldn't be more grateful that Tina comes in in a pinch. We just didn't do enough episodes to cover the Mempho break this year.
We did not. You know, we do the best we can.

Speaker 11 We do the best we can. So how was Mempho? Mempho was amazing.
Widespread panic for two nights. I saw all the wiggling.

Speaker 11 Yeah, Tyler Childers for the third night.

Speaker 11 Father's on Misty mixed in there. I'm a huge, huge fan of him.
Have you ever seen him live? Yes, one other time. Okay.

Speaker 11 Did he play Mempho one other time? No, he played here at the Eastern. Oh, okay.
Yeah, we went to go see him there. He's like

Speaker 11 the definition of cool. He is, oh, the definition of cool.
He's cool. Yeah.
The way he moves across the stage. He's like, he's like tall.
He's got the beard and wearing all black. Handsome mansome.

Speaker 11 He had his foot up like you have right there, you know, up on the stage.

Speaker 11 His songwriting is just so funny. I mean,

Speaker 11 satirical. And it was great.
Fantastic weather the whole time. Yes.
Great attendance. Jeff did well.
He made it. You know, I mean, he's working.
That's a huge thing. He's up there for two weeks.

Speaker 11 Yeah, and and a couple times, he's not made it. Actually, a couple of times he, like, just kind of passed.

Speaker 11 Well, those first few years were a lot of stress. Yeah, a lot of stress.
Didn't like one year he passed out or something?

Speaker 11 Well, no, one year he had to, his blood pressure was so high he had to go to the hospital and then he was dehydrated. So we've learned,

Speaker 11 through the years,

Speaker 11 through the years we've learned to,

Speaker 11 you know,

Speaker 11 schedule some chiropractic work before. Okay, all right.
You get a massage in there once a week.

Speaker 11 He's got an assistant now that helps. So it's just,

Speaker 11 it's all good stuff, though. Well, congratulations.

Speaker 11 I spent at least a half an hour, maybe 45 minutes on the hashtag MemphoFest and saw all the videos. The team does a fantastic job.
They really do. Those videos are great.

Speaker 11 But then all of the people who were posting from there, there was hundreds, if not thousands, of posts. I didn't get through half of them.

Speaker 11 But everyone seemed to have a good time.

Speaker 11 The spreadheads were. were out in force as the spreadheads do because widespread panic only plays a couple times a year i mean not a couple times a year, but maybe like 40 times a year now.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I mean, they used to do these big tours and now they don't. They just do like chunks.
You know, it's kind of specific cities for three nights.

Speaker 11 And they do that big, like everybody does, the Riviera down there in the Mexican, the Mayan Riviera. Panic and La Playa.
Ah, yeah.

Speaker 11 That's, I think, for my money, I think that is, if you love a band, and most, and a lot of the like, I will say grandfathered bands, they do that. My morning jacket, widespread panic, fish.
Yep.

Speaker 11 They do that. They go down for three days.
You book a resort room. Yep.
And then you just walk out of your hotel. There's no must.
There's no fuss. You don't have to stand in line for a bunch of shit.

Speaker 11 It's just a small crowd.

Speaker 11 And yeah, it's great. It's fun.
I've been a couple times. It's a lot of fun.
Well, congratulations to Mempho. Another, is that year number seven?

Speaker 11 No, it's actually year number nine, but they didn't do one in 2020. Yeah, obviously.
It's the eighth. iteration of it, yes.
Wow. And so who's going to play in 2026 is the question.

Speaker 11 They're working on it. Yeah.

Speaker 11 They are working on it.

Speaker 11 As soon as one stops, the next one you start working on for the next year. Do you start working on it before the, like, does he already have in mind or does the group already have in mind?

Speaker 11 They're going to see the headliners. Yeah.
They try and go ahead and lock those in. And they're trying to negotiate who's going to come.

Speaker 11 Do they ever think about moving the space or is the space locked in for a certain amount of time? Yeah, the space, I mean, everybody just loves the botanic gardens.

Speaker 11 It used to be when it first started,

Speaker 11 it was at, no, it was at Shelby Farms Park, which is even like further east

Speaker 11 of Memphis. So, yeah, which is a beautiful park.
It's kind of, you know, reminds you of like, I don't know, Woodstock or something. Piedmont Park and the Beltline kind of mixed together.

Speaker 11 There's trails and things, right? And there's, you know, lakes and fields. Anyways, it was a beautiful spot too, but they moved it to the Botanical Gardens and it's just gorgeous.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 It's a smaller space. It feels very contained.
Like a lot of these festivals, they're spread out.

Speaker 11 When Music Midtown would happen, when the first Music Midtown happened, I was thinking about this the other day.

Speaker 11 When the first Music Midtown happened and I went, it was like a five square mile ordeal. If you wanted to get for, they had like also had like seven stages or something.

Speaker 11 If you want to get from stage one to stage seven, you were walking for a half fucking hour. And that went on for the first three or four years.

Speaker 11 And then Cooley and Conlin, I think, got smarter and they started to consolidate it into a smaller space.

Speaker 11 And it was all over like old parking lots that weren't being used and concrete, yeah, it was concrete jungle.

Speaker 11 So, the thing that I did like about Mempho when I went there, amongst a lot of other things, was it felt very contained.

Speaker 11 It didn't feel like you were wilding out in this huge space and had to walk from here.

Speaker 11 It's like literally, music starts on this stage, you walk 100 feet, and you're on the other, you can see the other stage.

Speaker 11 Exactly, and there's a lot of trees and beautiful plants and that kind of thing, too. Yeah, it surrounds it.

Speaker 11 Look at that.

Speaker 11 And in a time when everyone's questioning whether or not live music, these kind of like medium-sized live music events can happen will happen are cost you know people can afford to do them it seems like mempho has kind of carved a little niche out for itself they have they're independent you know um and they they're all about the fan experience and i think that translates each year to people coming back once you've kind of been, you know, you want to go back to it.

Speaker 11 So I think one of the smart things that Jeff and the team does also is they do not try to catch the latest, greatest fad.

Speaker 11 Like, you know, and I'm not, this is no knock on any particular artist, but they're not trying to get,

Speaker 11 I don't want to make this about a demographic, but they're not trying to chase whoever's hot right this moment so that they can sell a bunch of tickets for one day.

Speaker 11 They're looking for like people who you really want to see who've been around for a while have a good catalog.

Speaker 11 And I think that also brings a certain kind of festival goer that is less interested in getting rowdy and slamming their head against the wall and more interested in pacing themselves out for the weekend and having a good time.

Speaker 11 And I think it makes for a more mellow vibe at MenfoFest than I've seen at other festivals like a Bonnaroo or something like that, where it's just sometimes it's just a little much.

Speaker 11 People really, it's like their first or second festival and they don't know how to handle themselves. It's just a reality.
No, knock. You got to go, you got to do it.
You got to cut your teeth.

Speaker 11 Let that be Bonnaroo, which is also a five-mile walk from one stage to the fucking other. That is a miserable experience.

Speaker 11 I loved Bonnaroo. I know.
know but it's a miserable experience i've been there done that at this point

Speaker 11 there's a lot of great music but yeah no they they've done a great job and i'm a super proud wife yeah congratulations to jeff and the whole team and menfofest memphofest.com you can go and i'm sure they have some and their social media and all that stuff you can wrap up the weekend and and and i'm sure it'll be like a week and a half before they start selling uh pre-packages to mempho fest 2026 because that's the name of the game that's what you got to do yeah um so congratulations i don't know if you saw Shirley Manson from

Speaker 11 Garbage. I love her.
So I love her too. And I love that band.
And they.

Speaker 11 I've seen her live before. I saw them live one time, and I think it was at a Music Midtown.
Yeah, they were at Shaking Knees or Music Midtown or something. Yeah, we saw them then.

Speaker 11 I caught a reel where they were doing a show here in the States, and I would say it was an indoor arena.

Speaker 11 I couldn't tell, like, they didn't put where exactly it was, but let's say there were 10,000 people in the room.

Speaker 11 And Shirley said, this will be our last North American tour, maybe our last North American show.

Speaker 11 And then she went on to explain that it is impossible for them to make money doing this size venue and these size tours. It has become so cost prohibitive.

Speaker 11 And she said, I don't, I'm not saying this so you give me a pity party because we've had a career and we've done it and we know how to navigate through this world.

Speaker 11 I'm saying this because

Speaker 11 what is happening to the next generation of musicians who are trying to make a living doing this, have a decent audience, but they cannot support themselves on the road.

Speaker 11 They can't give the fans the experience that they want. They really only have one of two choices: tour on their own or go do the festival circuit.

Speaker 11 And I think more and more these medium-sized artists

Speaker 11 are choosing to do much smaller venues and then do the festival circuit because they cannot sustain a tour on their own. They just can't make money doing it.

Speaker 11 And so that disappointed me because music is getting crushed at every angle. Like you look at the billionaires making billions of dollars, being billionaires, and we all know who we're talking about.

Speaker 11 And I'm not knocking those people like Taylor Swift. They have made incredible careers for themselves with huge audiences.
And they've really, they've done it. Like she has reached the top of the top.

Speaker 11 There is nowhere else to go. Any place else she goes, she's breaking new ground.
But she is the extreme exception to the rule. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 11 And if you're a 33 penis and you're coming up in the, in the world, and you got like you're a regional band who's trying to get out there on tour and do a little circuit of like three or four thousand seat theaters, it's expensive to move the bus.

Speaker 11 It's expensive to get a bus.

Speaker 11 It's expensive to even have five crew members that can help you out, a manager, get hotel rooms, all the lighting, the gear, all of it becomes so expensive everyone's trying to knock you and suck a little extra blood out along the way that you it's almost impossible for you to make a profit doing this so you're simply doing it for exposure keeping your fingers crossed that you'll be the next taylor swift and that doesn't happen to anybody it just doesn't yeah statistically speaking so it's kind of sad i think for the up-and-coming musicians and music in general.

Speaker 11 Like, how do, how do these people support themselves? Yeah, I don't know. You know, and a lot of it now is direct to consumer.

Speaker 11 So, you know, these people put out their YouTube and earn their own, there's, you know, potential

Speaker 11 music. Yeah, to be able to kind of get directly in front of the people.
And then, and then that's, then there's demand. Yeah.

Speaker 11 You can kind of create that demand for people to pay for you to come to their show, their festival, or their venue. Right.
It's it's sad. And then

Speaker 11 one more, you know, bad news in the music notch is that announced today, MTV, the family of channels that surrounds the globe, will be shutting down their music channels

Speaker 11 after 40 years

Speaker 11 of being on television. Did they still play music on their music? They do.
I don't know. I honestly couldn't tell you one way or the other.
Because I just see a bunch of catfish. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Well, Catfish got canceled. Oh, it got canceled.
While you were gone, Tina and I talked about it. Catfish got canceled after seven seasons or nine seasons or whatever it is.
It's canceled.

Speaker 11 And so now it's kind of, there's that show now, The Tinder Swindler, you know, on Netflix. And then there's like another kind of offshoot of that show that's

Speaker 11 very similar to Catfish. A couple of guys go and investigate on their video.

Speaker 11 It's two women, actually. Okay.
Oh, interesting.

Speaker 11 There's like a private investigator involved. Yeah.
There are 30 different YouTube channels that are now the Max and Niamh of YouTube, right? And so when Max and Niamh first did this,

Speaker 11 Max was the first one that was catfished. He brought this terminology into our lexicon, that movie Catfish.
When I first saw it, I was like, holy shit, that's crazy.

Speaker 11 But it's not so crazy anymore. It's like a daily thing.

Speaker 11 And now they have 50, 30, 50 YouTube channels. They all do the same thing.
They're all investigating on their behalf.

Speaker 11 I actually know a woman who got catfished by someone who claimed they were Zach Bryan, the famous

Speaker 11 remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm not friends with her, but I just somehow landed on her Instagram and followed her because of this story.

Speaker 11 I've found out since she's all the screws are not tied into Zachary. Oh, you were showing me some of her.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 11 Oh, it's only gotten so

Speaker 11 it she's like a racist ignorant pig that's all i gotta say but anyway so um that's neither here nor there mtv did have a family of music channels especially in europe where it reaches about a hundred million people they had like mtv 80s mtv 90s mtv 2000

Speaker 11 where they were playing videos still playing videos unbelievably and apparently these channels while not extraordinarily popular do get watched quite a bit here in the united states you know they've tried different versions of this do you remember for a while while there was that, was it Axis TV?

Speaker 11 I can't remember. This is still around.
But what was the Palladia? Palladia. Do you remember Palladia? Yes.
Palladia was a channel that was on for like five years, I think.

Speaker 11 And it was when I was living out on Howell Mill. And I remember the day that it popped up on my TV.
And I was like, what is Palladia?

Speaker 11 All they did was show concerts, back to back to back concerts of great musicians, the entirety of the show. And I thought, this is the coolest thing.
Like, this is awesome.

Speaker 11 The problem is everything is so on-demand.

Speaker 11 If I'm watching Palladia and I'm watching, I don't know, whatever, a Bruce Springsteen concert and a commercial comes on, I can go to YouTube and watch the Bruce Springsteen concert without commercials if I choose to do that, even though YouTube now has such a shitload of commercials.

Speaker 11 The on-demand nature of everything having to do with music has just slaughtered any opportunity for MTV to make a buck.

Speaker 11 And mark my words, MTV as a channel, while the MTV main channel may be around showing shitty reality television for a while, its days are numbered also because everyone is aging out of MTV.

Speaker 11 Look at the MTV Music Awards that just happened.

Speaker 11 That was clearly not made for 18 to 24 year olds, which is that demographic that it used to be for. Yeah, that it used to be for.

Speaker 11 And that advertisers so desperately want to get in front of because they have, you know, they spend money. You might be still living with your parents.
You have extra dollars.

Speaker 11 You know, know, you're willing to go make impulsive purchases.

Speaker 11 That's me, too, at 72 years old.

Speaker 11 But the reality is that MTV is no longer for the younger generation. That channel has now, everyone has aged out of that.

Speaker 11 And the people who are still watching have some kind of nostalgic connection to it, or they're still watching Teen Mom 30. You know what I'm saying? Those teen moms are 42 years old.

Speaker 11 What are we doing? Are they still following them around? I think they are. I think that show still has some juice.
The Jersey Shore is on its 52nd iteration. You know,

Speaker 11 what started off as kind of a joke has now turned into this like extensive olive branch of television shows, you know, Snooky This and Jay Wow That and all this, you know, Paulie D. Paul E.

Speaker 11 D is a celebrity. Paulie fucking D is a celebrity.
What is happening? He's the one with the hair. Yeah, he's the one with the hair.
And to be honest, he's pretty fucking funny. Like

Speaker 11 of all the guys on that show, Paul E. D was always my favorite because he was naturally gifted at throwing a punchline out there.
Right. And he's like a famous DJ.

Speaker 11 He gets paid a lot of money to go to Vegas. The days are numbered for music in general.
I think it's just a really tough time to be a musician.

Speaker 11 And it's a tough time to want to be a musician because there's very little opportunity to make real money doing that. And so I'm

Speaker 11 a change in. Sometimes they are a change.
But music will always be there. I mean, people, everybody loves music in some form or fashion yes it's will the ai agents be making it well or not

Speaker 11 meanwhile brian's making ai music at a rapid clip here at the studio i'm not elfing the cost i'm really not but i mean if i could if i had the resources to have a whole band in here making that music i would choose that all day of the week but that in and of itself is an expensive venture you can't you can't just think of a song and pay somebody six thousand dollars to create it so i you know i feel bad for for the my kids that are growing up.

Speaker 11 Their musical experiences, I don't know what it's going to look like. It's vastly different.
It's going to be vastly different.

Speaker 11 They're going to be in that fucking, what is that, Sims world or some, I don't know. They're going to be with a VR watching Snoop Doggy Doggy, you know, in his fake stage doing.

Speaker 11 I mean, they give concerts in fucking virtual reality. Did you see that Diplo did one? I did not see that.
I'm going to Coachella to see Diplo.

Speaker 11 But yeah, everybody's kind of doing that now. Right.
Yeah. He went to the metaverse and he did a whole thing.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 the last time I checked in on, you know, the metaverse or the VR World concerts, it was like stick figures doing, you know, playing the guitar. It was not particularly impressive.

Speaker 11 I was thinking about that. Yes.
I think we even watched a little bit. We did.
But Diplo put together Diplo. I think it was Diplo, whichever DJ it was, I believe it was Diplo.
He really did it right.

Speaker 11 It was a, like a super trippy musical experience

Speaker 11 where the visuals were fucking excellent. And so I watched some of it

Speaker 11 on YouTube, not through VR, but on YouTube. And I was like, oh, shit, we're all fucked.
I mean, this is where the concerts are going to happen now is in there.

Speaker 11 The alternate world. Yeah.
Pink Floyd's going to go in some

Speaker 11 streaming studio in London. David Gilmore is going to go slap a guitar on somewhere in London, and he's going to do a whole show to a million people, and he's never going to be in front of anybody.

Speaker 11 So our kids' experience of this is going to be so much different than the one we had. And that's sad.

Speaker 11 So I champion things like Mempho, you know, medium-sized, medium-to-larger sized festivals that bring on, you know, these established musicians who may don't have the, they can't sell out a hundred thousand seat arena like Taylor Swift could, but they have.

Speaker 11 good audiences and they showcase those and then they throw in some local and lesser known artists. So you can, that's what a festival should be, right? And or do you do some other stuff?

Speaker 11 You put the big guys on the main stage, and then you string people in or you hook people in with some other folks that they can go see and get turned on to.

Speaker 11 So, but Father John Misty, to wrap it all around, that guy, he's a magician. Uh-huh.
Thank God, Father John Misty was not around when I met Astrid.

Speaker 11 Like, she, like, it wasn't the choice between Brian and Father John Misty.

Speaker 11 Because that guy, yeah, he has something that no man has. I don't know what it is.
Even I got a boner when I saw it. Sequoa.
Sequoi indeed. All right.
Let's, Chrissy is back.

Speaker 11 Let's take a break and then I want to get into it. I want to talk about Alaria Baldwin.
Do you know Alaria Baldwin? Okay, yes. Okay, we're going to dig into Alaria Baldwin.

Speaker 11 She feels like she got bullied off dancing with the stars. We're going to jump in on it.
I've heard of her, but you'll have to fill me in.

Speaker 11 Well, she is the most ridiculous human you've ever met in your entire life. And I like the Baldwins.
I do. But Alaria, really? We'll get into it.
We'll be back.

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Speaker 11 Yeah, that's Hilaria, or Alaria, as she likes to call herself. Oh, okay.
Yeah, I was confused because I thought there was an H and there. There is.
The name is Hilary, but she calls herself Alaria.

Speaker 11 Now, let me preface this. I don't watch Dancing with the Stars.
I really could care less, but my kids, one of my kids does because she's a dance. She likes to like them.

Speaker 11 She's a good dancer and she's a good gymnast. She's just a a young girl, but she loves all that stuff.
And so she loves Dancing with the Stars because they do have pretty dresses and they fly around.

Speaker 11 And they do costumes and all that stuff. But this year, Dancing with the Stars became interesting when Corey Feldman was invited.

Speaker 11 He got kicked off week two. It didn't last very long, but to be honest, we'll review that too.

Speaker 11 To be honest,

Speaker 11 he's just not a great dancer. It's all that Michael Jackson bullshit.
He moves his body that way. He's also like 58 years old.
True. So he's not exactly a spring chicken.
And he's not, I don't know.

Speaker 11 I can understand why he got kicked off. Plus, it's Corey Feldman.

Speaker 11 How many Dancing with the Stars people are really voting for, you know? I think people who watch this take it very seriously.

Speaker 11 Hilaria is Alec Baldwin's wife. I think they've been married for a long time, like 13, 14, 15 years.
Alec had a couple of children, I believe, before yesterday. You have Kim Basinger.
Kim Basinger.

Speaker 11 But then they had a brood of children, like five or six.

Speaker 11 I just remember seeing that in the news, too. Like, he said, father again, father again.

Speaker 11 He has a three-year-old. Yeah.
And he's 76 years old.

Speaker 11 First of all, he looks great for 76 years old. He really does.
And he's been through a fucking night. Oh my God.
And he's always going through a night. Like, there's always something with the ball.

Speaker 11 There is. Alaria is this woman, this ridiculous woman, who I'm sure she's pleasant enough, but I have now done a deep dive into Alaria.
Alaria.

Speaker 11 Well, yeah, because you were actually watching the show that came out, too.

Speaker 11 I did. The AE show.
Yeah, I didn't watch that, but they filmed while he was going through the trial.

Speaker 11 And it was very intense, and they really let the cameras kind of do it all. But what became clear was that Alaria, Hilaria,

Speaker 11 Hilaria, Hilaria, is a ridiculous human being who's prone to dramatics and theatrics and probably always has been. Before she met Alec, she was like an online yoga instructor.
That's what I remember.

Speaker 11 Yeah. And had a cooking channel on YouTube and would do do like local access television shows and would, she was everything.

Speaker 11 She was trying clearly to make a name for herself in the entertainment business in any way that she could. And she kept doing it with a Spanish accent.

Speaker 11 But her family would repeatedly tell people that they are not Spanish. In fact, they've never been to Spain.
I mean, they've never been to Spain. Her dad had a fascination with the Spanish culture.

Speaker 11 Okay. So she kind of just took that on.
She sucked it up. And And even though she spent,

Speaker 11 there are videos out there of people who ask her directly, so you're from Spain? And she completely ignores the question. She'll be like, that's right.

Speaker 11 You put the tomatoes in the pot and you have it stew for a half an hour. So you're from Spain and you want to put a little paprika in there.

Speaker 11 She completely ignores the question because she knows that she's not from Spain, even though earlier in her life she had claimed that she had spent the first 19 years of her life in Spain.

Speaker 11 Her family has since said that is not true. We did did not spend any time.
And she claimed that half of her family lives in Spain. That is not true.
None of them are Spanish.

Speaker 11 So, okay, let's give her a break. She did this for affectation, or maybe she was fascinated with the Spanish culture, and she got thrown into the whirlwind that is Alec Baldwin.
Yeah, very public.

Speaker 11 Yes. And now every bit of her life has been scrutinized.
Okay.

Speaker 11 She gets,

Speaker 11 she claims that people wrote into Dancing with the Stars and demanded that she be cast.

Speaker 11 People close to Dancing with the Stars are like, I'm not really sure what she's talking about, but okay, maybe we did get a few emails, not really sure.

Speaker 11 She has a YouTube channel where she dances a lot. Like, you know, she claims to have been, or not claims, she was like a ballroom dancer, flamenco dancer.
She would do all these dances.

Speaker 11 She was a yoga instructor. She can move, right?

Speaker 11 So she comes on Dancing with the Stars, same season this season as Corey Feldman. She gets kicked off relatively early.
I think week four, she got kicked off.

Speaker 11 And the ridiculousness that has followed her ever since. Now, she got teamed up with a guy named Gleb Glenn Glenn Glon.
I don't know what his name is. I don't know any of this.

Speaker 11 The guy in the brown coat. I don't either.
He's the professional dancer that's part of the show. And it's apparent that he is

Speaker 11 way finished with whatever this whole thing that Ilaria is doing. He is so over it.
He just,

Speaker 11 he's seething underneath. He just wants to scream into the microphone.
I'm done. Stop being so fucking dramatic.

Speaker 11 But he doesn't do that. He manages to keep his composure.
This is Dancing with the Stars. We're going to watch this video to youtube.com/slash the commercial break.
We're going to watch this.

Speaker 11 This is right after she gets kicked off. Now she's doing one of the exit interviews that I'm sure she's contractually obligated to do.
Okay. Okay, so let's watch this.

Speaker 11 And just watch how ridiculous this gets.

Speaker 11 Oh,

Speaker 11 he looks so good.

Speaker 11 You guys? Okay, now they're they're backstage with entertainment tonight. You really did an amazing job this week.

Speaker 12 I have to just tell you, like, your dance was phenomenal.

Speaker 11 After all that said. Okay, I mean, she can move, right? She's obviously not a novice dancer.
Yeah. Now, doing that to the Star Wars aliens in the back.

Speaker 11 Which, by the way, is a little bit of a jam. It's a little bit of a jam.

Speaker 12 Said and done. What would you say is the thing you learned most about yourself?

Speaker 11 They have the aliens in the business. That's what I was saying.

Speaker 11 Yeah. I've got the answer.
I remember that song from Star Wars, but they actually have people dressed up. From the cantina.
Yeah. From whatever that cantina is.

Speaker 12 All through doing dancing with the stars.

Speaker 19 So open my heart up.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 19 Because a lot of times...

Speaker 11 Oh my gosh, you're going to make me cry.

Speaker 20 Ready's.

Speaker 11 Here comes the Spanish accent. She's going to go in and out of it.

Speaker 19 I got you.

Speaker 19 You know, to open your heart up to something that you closed off

Speaker 19 is vulnerable. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Your heart, that's the dancing. Yeah, what did you, I don't know, she goes this whole thing that I had, I closed dance off of my life.
I never thought I'd do it. It's like, what?

Speaker 11 You're dancing on YouTube every five fucking seconds. You didn't close anything off.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Well, you did an amazing job. Aren't you so proud of her?

Speaker 13 I'm so proud of her, and I'm so happy that I had a chance to dance with Delaria because she put so much heart and love to dance, and she's true inspiration. She works so hard in the dance.

Speaker 11 He practiced that in the mirror to keep a straight face.

Speaker 11 You look at his eyes, you can tell he's like, I hate this part of the show. I hate that I have to say that this woman is anyone I want to be around.

Speaker 13 Every single day, she was the first one

Speaker 13 on time in the rehearsal. And

Speaker 11 she just

Speaker 11 not just incredible. But the nicest thing you can

Speaker 11 say is that she was on time. And it's a problem.

Speaker 13 A mom to her incredible seven kids, but also.

Speaker 11 He said seven children. Yeah, that's unbelievable.
By the way, looks great for having seven children. Do give her that.
You know, that's what money does. Yeah, that's true.
That's true.

Speaker 13 Real, real G in the dance studio. Like, I felt like I'm back into my competition days where we really, like,

Speaker 13 I had a chance to dance with you.

Speaker 19 No, the dancing part of this is this whole thing we had. You and I had the dancing part, and I will always know that.

Speaker 11 I will know. I will always know that.

Speaker 11 she's looking deep into his eyes. I know she's like, I will always know the dance part we had.
It's you're an asshole. It's the part we didn't have.
You were good together. You were good at it.

Speaker 19 We were good dancers together.

Speaker 11 We were good dancers together. Oh, they're just dancing around each other.
Look at that. Yeah.

Speaker 12 What do you hope your kids take away from being able to see their mom kind of live out this dream?

Speaker 19 All of this happened so quickly.

Speaker 19 And when I signed the contract between when I got off the plane and I got my baggage, you know, and I'm like chasing my two-year-old at that point has turned three since the short time that I've been here.

Speaker 19 And she's like,

Speaker 19 they're like telling me I need to sign the contract.

Speaker 21 And so this just happens so quickly, but

Speaker 11 quickly. Yeah, well, because I know you owe me dancing with the stars, won't you?

Speaker 11 You're a Laura Baldwin. For God's sake, sign the contract.

Speaker 19 That night I said to my 12-year-old,

Speaker 19 what if I get voted off right away? And she said, Mommy, at least you tried.

Speaker 11 At least you tried, mommy. Mommy.
Oh, mother. At least you tried.
Can you imagine the theatrics going on at the house? These children, they have...

Speaker 11 I mean, listen, they're Alec Baldwin's children. They'll be fine.
But, you know what I'm saying? Financially, they'll be taken care of. They can go to therapy.

Speaker 11 But this mother running around crying about everything. I signed the contract so quickly.

Speaker 11 Between getting getting off the private plane and the baggage.

Speaker 12 At least you tried. At least I tried.

Speaker 21 And that's something that's a beautiful thing, and I'm glad that they know to say that.

Speaker 11 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 21 And I hope that they know to live that in their life.

Speaker 11 They do.

Speaker 12 You should be so proud, real quick.

Speaker 11 Meanwhile, E.T.'s favorite gay is like hamming it up. He's like, oh, you do.

Speaker 11 He knows how to play her.

Speaker 12 Chance, we could see whatever you guys had planned for next week with Alec maybe pop up online or something. We'll see the light of day.

Speaker 11 Oh, I'll have Alec. Alec.
Oh, Whatever dance they were supposed to do the following week. Yeah.
Alec is just as over her as Gleb is. I'm promising you this.

Speaker 11 He walked away from an interview because when he, I wish I had pulled this, maybe I will for another episode, but they were talking outside on a red carpet and I forget what it was.

Speaker 11 And the guy says, do you think there'll be a season two of your reality show?

Speaker 11 And Alec says, you know, we don't know. You know, we're going to,

Speaker 11 this is a lot, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, and it really ended up being the Alaria show, right?

Speaker 11 And she goes, shh, shh, you don't talk. You don't talk when I'm talking.
You don't talk. What? Okay, this is why, this is why there's a problem, right?

Speaker 11 And Alec rolled his eyes and literally walked away from her. And she finished the interview.
No, okay.

Speaker 20 A little too late with the votes.

Speaker 20 A little too late. Okay.

Speaker 11 Sorry about that.

Speaker 12 We'll keep an eye on the TikTok.

Speaker 19 We'll be dancing with the stars in another country.

Speaker 11 There you go. Big and L Baldwin here.

Speaker 11 Spain.

Speaker 11 Venezuela. You guys don't take it.
We'll go to Spain. We'll go to Spain.
We're going to go dancing with the Starship.

Speaker 11 He's jabbing her.

Speaker 11 Congrats on an amazing run.

Speaker 11 Okay, now. All right.
So

Speaker 11 we get the flavor for her personality, right? She's a little ridiculous. She's a little over the top.
Okay, now she goes to the Dancing with the Stars podcast with him.

Speaker 11 I guess they must have to do like 70,000 of these

Speaker 11 exit interviews. All right, here we go.

Speaker 11 Hi, guys. Hi.

Speaker 22 I will be the first to say, I am surprised that you're sitting here.

Speaker 22 I think that's going to be a theme this season where you don't really know who's coming next and what the eliminations are going to be. I also know how quick that time can be when you go off the show.

Speaker 22 So, the purpose of this is always to give you the floor again, to kind of speak on some of your thoughts, talk through this whole experience for you. First, right now, I'm going to start with you.

Speaker 11 Why is she in a robe? She's in a robe, I guess, because this is like literally right after they got done dancing.

Speaker 11 Yeah, look at the body posture on the couch, by the way. He's facing this way.
She's facing that way. They are clearly not interested in each other.

Speaker 11 And who, who, how much money does this guy get paid to do the Dancing with the Stars podcast and make this seem like anything anybody cares about? Just curious.

Speaker 22 How are you feeling right now?

Speaker 11 Here's a mirabel, by the way. It's a super.
It's a fun one anyway.

Speaker 23 I mean, first, this has been an experience that I never thought I would have. And I'm so grateful.
Yeah? And I mean, I always live my life with gratitude. I never thought I would dance again.

Speaker 23 I've broken so many things.

Speaker 11 I never thought I'd dance again. You do this every day on fucking YouTube.
You've broken so many things. What did you get that part? I've never had the babies.

Speaker 23 So I'm very grateful for that.

Speaker 11 People do live after they have children. Right.

Speaker 23 You know, and to meet you, that has been incredible.

Speaker 11 I

Speaker 11 she's talking about her partner. I know.
Yeah. He's look at him.
Yeah. Seething.
He is seething.

Speaker 23 I also am grateful grateful that everybody else gets to continue to dance because this is the, you know, I was saying so many times to my classmates, like, how beautiful it is to be rooting for every single person on this team.

Speaker 23 And I really think we are a team. So my team continues to go on.

Speaker 23 And

Speaker 23 so I'm proud of those and I'm a little jealous, but proud.

Speaker 11 Of course you are. A little jealous.

Speaker 11 He's laughing. He's like a lot jealous.

Speaker 11 Get to go to practice tomorrow.

Speaker 23 And we were going to have a really fun practice tomorrow.

Speaker 11 And I'm sad we won't have that.

Speaker 11 We just can go practice.

Speaker 23 We can still go practice. Man, guys, we'll just put it on YouTube.

Speaker 11 Keep dancing. One thing you just want to do.
We just put it on YouTube. Who is she? She's like out of the scarface or something.

Speaker 11 That is like a caricature of a Spanish accent. It's not even close to authentic.

Speaker 22 Touched on, which I want to get into because it was something in the theme of week one. It was a theme throughout the entire time.

Speaker 11 How grateful you really were to dance and find your love of dance again.

Speaker 22 Because I think that's so special. I don't think people understand because you can see when you get emotional about it how much you really didn't think you were going to dance again.

Speaker 22 So, how was it to be able to dance with Gleb and to get back on the floor like that?

Speaker 11 Why are

Speaker 11 people talking like as if she got

Speaker 11 cock blocked from doing any kind of dance for the rest of her life? I don't get it. I'm not understanding.

Speaker 11 Oh, God.

Speaker 23 I opened my heart.

Speaker 23 What? And now it's broken again.

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 11 I opened my heart.

Speaker 11 And now it's broken again.

Speaker 11 5:30.

Speaker 11 But I'm 41.

Speaker 11 You're not dead.

Speaker 11 Oh, my God. It's so dramatic.
I'm 41.

Speaker 11 She can barely talk. My vagina is the size of a watermelon.
I've broken two toes.

Speaker 23 And I met Alec when I was 27.

Speaker 11 And the world has been trying to beat me since.

Speaker 11 God.

Speaker 11 Really?

Speaker 11 I hate to be filing on, but when you act like this, you're being ridiculous, Halaria. You have nothing in the world to complain about.
Nothing. You got to go on dancing with the stars.

Speaker 11 You got kicked out early. Okay, that happens.
It has to happen to somebody. All right.

Speaker 11 You were a dancer beforehand. Okay.
No one told you you had to stop dancing because you had seven kids. You look great.
You're dancing on YouTube all the time. What is the deal?

Speaker 11 Why the dramatics and the theatrics?

Speaker 11 I'm 40.

Speaker 11 The world has tried to beat me down ever since.

Speaker 11 Look at the partner's face. I know.
He wants to roll his eyes so badly. You know how you're talking to someone and you really want to roll your eyes.
I'm sure this happens to you a lot with me.

Speaker 11 And you just have to keep your eyes from rolling. You have to tell yourself, don't roll your eyes.
Don't roll your eyes.

Speaker 11 Good idea they did.

Speaker 11 Because no matter what I do, it's not enough. It's not enough.

Speaker 22 I want to go back to your family because you can see how much joy it gave you to dance in front of you.

Speaker 11 Why are you going back to the family? What?

Speaker 11 I don't understand.

Speaker 11 I really feel for the guy who has to do the dancing with the stars podcast every week because you have to make it appear. Yeah, like you're interested.

Speaker 11 Like ballroom dancing is going to save the world. Do you know what I'm saying? Now, I understand the people who watch this show, it's like a religious experience.
They love this show.

Speaker 11 And there's a lot of ridiculous shows that I watch, that I love, that I take seriously, that no one else does, like the Seven Little Johnsons coming back for second half of the season. Can't wait.

Speaker 11 But Dancing with the Stars, Alaria. First of all, Hillary.
Let's just start there. Second of all, I can agree.

Speaker 11 That at times people who go to a certain place, like if I go to Spain and I start speaking Spanish for a while, I'm sure that there are words that I say in English that take on a Spanish accent, right?

Speaker 11 I'm sure that happens. Just like when you live in the South, you will pick up a Southern accent.
A lot of people will. Look at Madonna.
She ran around with a British accent.

Speaker 11 She still runs around with a British accent because she lives in London.

Speaker 11 That's what happens. But it's been, if not.

Speaker 11 Forever, it's been most of your life that you've not been to Spain. Drop the accent.
Stop it.

Speaker 11 That's why people are upset. And that's why people don't think you're authentic is because you're not being authentic.

Speaker 11 And with all the dramatics around the dancing, come on, no one told you you had to stop dancing. No.
No one. And your heart's broken now that she's got kicked off? Yes, Chrissy.

Speaker 11 I'm 41 with a bad case of gout and the world is trying to bring me down.

Speaker 11 Oh, Gleb, I feel for you. I feel for you for two reasons.
Number one, if they were to win or get in the finals, then Gleb gets a big bonus, right? For that. So

Speaker 11 he's shit out of luck at least until next year, if they rehire him, right? I think he's been with the show for a while.

Speaker 11 But second of all, when you have to be with someone like this every day, 12 hours a day, dancing, it's a lot. Yeah.
All right, let's take a break. We'll be back to

Speaker 11 rack it off. Okay, Brian.
Okay, Chrissy. I'm 41 and you're trying to take me down.

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Speaker 11 I don't know a lot of his music, I'm not super familiar with the guy, but D'Angelo just died.

Speaker 11 Oh, no. Wasn't he like a super sex star or something? The women, the ladies loved him.
No, and he came up in that old. 51 years old.
He died. He just died.

Speaker 11 They just announced it as we're recording this. Yeah, he's.
Yeah,

Speaker 11 that's going to be a big one for a lot of people. Grammy Award-winning RB soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer.

Speaker 11 The brown sugar singer died this morning, according to sources connected with his family. That's really

Speaker 11 sad. Yeah,

Speaker 11 he did a lot in the music.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I do remember

Speaker 11 I do remember a lot of especially ladies in my life at a certain time, like, you know, early 2000s, mid-2000s, where like D'Angelo was the thing.

Speaker 11 Yeah, we had that really sexy video. Oh, yeah, the one where he was like smacking himself all around the ladies.
I remember that. D'Angelo, may God bless your ride up to heaven or wherever it is.

Speaker 11 God, that's sad.

Speaker 11 So. Fuck cancer.
Yeah, honestly, fuck cancer. Yeah.
It will affect everyone at some point. I've had family members.
Chrissy has had terrible experiences with cancer and her family.

Speaker 11 My brother, my dad, other people have had. prostate cancer.
If we live long enough, all of us will get it. Prostate cancer.
It's just the scourge.

Speaker 11 It's the thing that I think so many resources, time, and energy needs to be dedicated to figuring out an answer.

Speaker 11 And I know there are a lot of amazing breakthroughs, but still, you get cancer like a pancreatic cancer, some forms of breast cancer, some forms of liver cancer.

Speaker 11 There's very little chance that you will survive that. So

Speaker 11 yeah, it's really sad. So fuck cancer.
God bless you, D'Angelo. Hope you're on your way, buddy.

Speaker 11 Even though I didn't know a lot of his music, I'm sure if I played a song, I'd know, I'd recognize it. Oh, yeah, you would.
I don't think I was D'Angelo's target market as a white male.

Speaker 11 I think he was going for the ladies, to be quite frank.

Speaker 11 So, speaking of death, I was talking to Chrissy about the Ed Gein story. Oh, right.

Speaker 11 And Tina and I talked about this last week because she's into all that macabre stuff, right? And it's not necessarily my flavor. I do like the crime dramas that Ryan Murphy has put together.

Speaker 11 The Menendez Brothers was excellent. The OJ trial, the OJ story was excellent.
Jeffrey Dahmer was excellent.

Speaker 11 Ed Gein is different. It is.
It is a different flavor

Speaker 11 because it is so fucking weird. It is.
It's bizarre. It's bizarre.
Yeah. And

Speaker 11 I don't want to. I haven't finished it.
Yeah, okay. So I won't give, I mean, the story is the story, right? Well, right.
Yeah. The story is the story.
Everyone know what happens.

Speaker 11 Yeah, everyone knows what happens. But Ed Gein was attached to a, he was only convicted of two murders.
He only, he only really, they could only really tie him to two murders.

Speaker 11 But there were a lot of other murders that some people over the years have suspected he had something to do with. Now, well, and the other crimes that they got him for, right?

Speaker 11 Was like desecration of corpses. He was digging up corpses.
That's just he was digging up corpses. Not only was he digging up corpses, he was having sex with them.

Speaker 11 And doing the skin, he was getting the skin off God.

Speaker 11 The whole like, you know, Buffalo Bill thing from

Speaker 11 what amazed me, I think about all of this after I watched it, is Silence of the Lambs was one of my favorite movies

Speaker 11 ever because it is so fucking fantastically acted and it is such, so twisty-turny and scary, like genuinely scary. It's such a well-built movie

Speaker 11 from beginning to end. And then I read the book, and that's also such an excellent book.

Speaker 11 Red Dragon, Red Dawn, the whole thing, like all of it. It's all the whole series of books is all great about Hannibal.

Speaker 11 But that is a straight rip-off of the Ed Gein story. Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs is Ed Gein.
That's who he is. And it is insane to me that an actual human being did any of this.

Speaker 11 But it shows you just how

Speaker 11 some people's minds are really broken and they don't, and they're not going to get fixed. I have just such,

Speaker 11 I don't even know how to say this.

Speaker 11 Necrophilia, which is the thing that is shown in this, which I'm sure everybody will be talking about, everybody is talking about, the necrophilia that is shown in the Ryan Murphy show in high graphic detail, right?

Speaker 11 Is so

Speaker 11 hard to watch. It is, if this, if it doesn't bother you, something's wrong with you.
You need to get checked.

Speaker 11 Because Ryan Murphy does a great job of trying to make it palatable, but you need to remember what the the representation is you're watching is that that actually happened.

Speaker 11 And it is highly fucking disturbing.

Speaker 11 It's perfect for Halloween.

Speaker 11 Perfect. So I was watching this the other night in the bed, and I was laying with one of my kids because they sometimes they have, you know, trouble sleeping without mom and dad.

Speaker 11 Yeah, co-sleeping that. You were watching it with your kid.

Speaker 11 I wasn't watching it with them.

Speaker 11 I was watching it while they were sleeping. Okay.
Until I realized, like, I'm watching this part of the show where there's like the whole necrophilia thing, right?

Speaker 11 And my kid goes, Dad. And I was like, I like quickly press pause and flip down the phone.
And I'm like, yes. And he goes, what is he doing to that dead person? And I was like, oh,

Speaker 11 God.

Speaker 11 And I go, how much of that were you paying attention to, buddy? And he goes, not much, but why is

Speaker 11 happening?

Speaker 11 Why is his butt naked? And I was like, oh, don't worry about it. It's just adults having fun.
because it doesn't look like fun

Speaker 11 i thought to myself if you only knew it's not fun it is so crazy creepy ed gein you and i i think the thing i have to imagine too is that this is the 1940s yeah yeah when or 1957 yeah 1957 when ed gein is finally arrested for uh for the the disappearance and then the eventual murder of this rose lady i think was was her name in 1957

Speaker 11 this this was not a thing that happened very often. You know what I'm saying? Like, no one knew.

Speaker 11 The world at large knew about the atrocities of World War II and the craziness that

Speaker 11 how people could desecrate other human beings and dead bodies, but they weren't aware that this was happening in fucking Wisconsin.

Speaker 11 One of my friends put a post the other day, and I thought this was so

Speaker 11 silly of them.

Speaker 11 I just got to say it. It was like they were driving in Wisconsin where they're from, and they were like, watch the Ed Gein story last night.
Hard to believe. It's from my favorite town, you know?

Speaker 11 And like, it's just like the flip nature of the whole post. I was like, yeah, you know, people died and were desecrated.

Speaker 11 Like, I don't think you should be videotaping the actual cemetery where that was happening.

Speaker 11 I know. It's hard to comprehend.
Like, wrap your mind around. The town.
that this all went down in had to put a whole post together and make a whole public release.

Speaker 11 Like, if you're going to come come here, please come here for the good things about our town. Please recognize that there are other things besides a place where terrible things happen.

Speaker 11 That's got to be hard when you get tied to something.

Speaker 11 Exactly. I always wonder, like, people who buy houses where things, bad things happened, you know? Yeah.
Like, the Menendez Brothers house just sold. That where all Kitty and whatever,

Speaker 11 Jose were killed. Yeah.
That house just sold for like two and a half million dollars. And the guy said, I plan to tear it down.
Fuck yeah, I plan to tear it down.

Speaker 11 Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 11 Would you buy a really nice house if you got a super discount, but something terrible happened there? I don't know. I don't think so.
Yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I think I'd be afraid that just like the general juju would be

Speaker 11 like even if I tore it all down,

Speaker 11 yeah. I always wonder like when something really bad happens at a place, like a house, especially, how do people move on from that, right?

Speaker 11 Because if it, if, like, I mean, if something terrible happened here at this house, like just something terrible, like you couldn't wash from your mind.

Speaker 11 I don't know how I would just walk up and down the hallways

Speaker 11 all the time. I think it would be really hard to do that.
And then to be Ed Gein. I'm sure that Ed Gein house is long gone.
I mean, I hope it is. Yeah, it has to be.

Speaker 11 Well, all the stuff that happened in there, I mean, they have pictures like of Ed Gein being walked away from that house and his original arrest.

Speaker 11 The detectives in that one, I went and read real accounts of detectives and sheriff's officers, patrolmen.

Speaker 11 I mean, they called an army of people after the first two detectives walked into the house and saw half of what there was to see.

Speaker 11 That detectives were like out in the front lawn, puking, shaking, crying. Yeah, they just didn't know how to process all of this.
It's 2025.

Speaker 11 I'm sure, you know, there's like three-year-olds who'd be like, eh, whatever.

Speaker 11 I just watched Friday Night at Freddy's. I'm good.

Speaker 11 It's a nipple chair. Who doesn't want a nipple chair? A nipple chair.
Oh, no. I haven't gotten to the nipple chair.
I don't know, Chrissy.

Speaker 11 I don't know if this is the one for you to go all the the way. I don't know if you should go the distance on this one.
I know. I'm a big Halloween and scary.
You know, I love all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 11 Do you like horror movies? It depends on what horror movie. Like The Shining, yes.
Yes, me too.

Speaker 11 Silence of the Lambs, yes. There has to be that psychological part of it there, too.
I don't like just slasher films.

Speaker 11 I think Thriller is the best, is like a crime drama or a thriller, like a suspense movie. A thriller, yes.
A suspense movie. Yes.
Where it's plausible that what is going on on has happened.

Speaker 11 Then I can handle a little bit of. Hugh Grant was just in one.
I forget the name of it, but I watched that and it was really good. Oh, so people were raving about that with the two young girls.

Speaker 11 He like they come to go to his house or something. Yeah.
Hugh Grant is seeing, is really having a really nice back half of his career. Is he not? He is.
He's having a little renaissance.

Speaker 11 That HBO show he was in about the affair or whatever it was. Do you remember that? Yeah, no, it was the one with Nicole Kidman.
It was really good. Oh, speaking Nicole Kidman.
Yeah, the divorce.

Speaker 11 The divorce heard around the world. Really? Nicole and what's his name, Keith, are no longer.
They're in the middle of a divorce.

Speaker 11 And he claims it's because of the rigors of the road, that it's just too much to

Speaker 11 the rigors of the road. And then she's also out filming all the time.

Speaker 11 She is. She's in like everything.
Everything. So

Speaker 11 I kind of wondered, like, where is, how do they fit that in with everything? And then he's on the road too. So I can see how things kind of break down.

Speaker 11 And then there's been some, you know, talk about the

Speaker 11 guitar, his guitarist. His guitarist, but I don't think that's been confirmed yet.
But there are certainly some signs that point that way, but no one has confirmed it.

Speaker 11 She ended up making it a big publicity stunt the guitarist did to sell her new book and her new album, but she didn't confirm anything. And he hasn't confirmed anything either.

Speaker 11 He just mentioned that the rigors of the road and the fact that he didn't, they didn't see a lot of each other.

Speaker 11 And you'll hear this interview in a couple of weeks of this guy named Nacho, who's on Escuela de Nada. I had a chance to interview while Chrissy was out.
His wife is a very famous Mexican actress.

Speaker 11 Oh, okay. Very famous, like all the time doing a bunch of stuff.
Yes. And, and I had a chance to meet her at the end of the interview, which is very nice.
You won't see that.

Speaker 11 You won't hear that on the interview, but I had a chance to meet her. But I say that to say that he also, he's on one of the most popular podcasts in the world.
Oh, and he does stand-up comedy.

Speaker 11 He's always touring. And then she is an actress.
And he flat out told me, and you'll hear this, you know, at one point,

Speaker 11 I thought it was done. I thought we were getting a divorce because we were just never seeing each other.
And he's he's like, we had to be purposeful

Speaker 11 about making sure that we spend time together. You do.

Speaker 11 And so, but when you're the biggest movie star in the world, one of the biggest movie stars in the world, and then you're a middling, middle-aged country Australian legend.

Speaker 11 He was really big for a while. He really was.
And now, is he on American Idol? Is it American Idol? I think he is on one of those shows. Is it American Idol or is it the other one?

Speaker 11 Some of the spin-around competition.

Speaker 11 Yeah, but when you're in that situation and the pressures to always be everywhere doing the next thing, and you know that you only have so much time on the clock as far as fame is concerned, making that money, I can see how it would become really difficult to navigate the calendar and get all of those things done

Speaker 11 and still have a meaningful, intimate relationship with somebody. I mean,

Speaker 11 it's hard enough when you're just like two working adults, right? And you live in the the same house and you come home at night, you're not doing any traveling.

Speaker 11 So, well, you know, it's sad, but it's a tale old as time. It's hard for people in Hollywood.

Speaker 11 One person needs to be the unemployed

Speaker 11 cape rider, and the other person needs to be the famous moneymaker. That's how it all works, that's the only way that it works.

Speaker 11 And so I'm volunteering to be Nicole Kidman's cape writer.

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 a big cape.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I'm sure that, yeah, that's a big cape. I don't know how many kids.
They have kids. They have like two kids.

Speaker 11 They have two kids together. Yeah, they have two kids.
Yeah, there are. She's already got a couple on the back of the cape, but I think that cape is big enough to handle a couple more.

Speaker 11 Yeah, Nicole Kidman has got to be fabulously wealthy. Oh, yeah.
She really does work all the time.

Speaker 11 And she's great. Yeah.
Oh, I love her. I love her work.
I think that she looks a little disturbing sometimes because of all the plastic surgery,

Speaker 11 but her acting is so good that I get over it real quick. It is.
Yeah, she's she's great. Mushian, what was that show? The all the women.
Everything. Yeah, all the, but it was like

Speaker 11 it was a couple years ago. Little women? Little, not little women.
You remember the one with

Speaker 11 pretty little lights. Yes, yes.
Yes, yes. I love that show.
That was a great show. That was great.
I know.

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