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You're dancing on YouTube every five fucking seconds.

You didn't close anything off.

Dream.

Yeah.

Well, you did an amazing job.

Aren't you so proud of her?

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.

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

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.

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

she just she was the first one on time not just incredible

is that she was on time and it's no problem

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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.

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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.

You're

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.

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.

We do the best we can.

So how was Mempho?

Mempho was amazing.

Widespread panic for two nights.

I saw all the wiggling.

Yeah, Tyler Childers for the third night.

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.

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

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.

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

His songwriting is just so funny.

I mean,

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.

Yeah, and and a couple times, he's not made it.

Actually, a couple of times he, like, just kind of passed.

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?

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,

through the years,

through the years we've learned to,

you know,

schedule some chiropractic work before.

Okay, all right.

You get a massage in there once a week.

He's got an assistant now that helps.

So it's just,

it's all good stuff, though.

Well, congratulations.

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.

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.

But everyone seemed to have a good time.

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.

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.

And they do that big, like everybody does, the Riviera down there in the Mexican, the Mayan Riviera.

Panic and La Playa.

Ah, yeah.

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.

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.

It's just a small crowd.

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?

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.

They're working on it.

Yeah.

They are working on it.

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?

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.

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.

It used to be when it first started,

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

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.

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.

It's a smaller space.

It feels very contained.

Like a lot of these festivals, they're spread out.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Exactly, and there's a lot of trees and beautiful plants and that kind of thing, too.

Yeah, it surrounds it.

Look at that.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

That is a miserable experience.

I loved Bonnaroo.

I know.

know but it's a miserable experience i've been there done that at this point

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

Garbage.

I love her.

So I love her too.

And I love that band.

And they.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm saying this because

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.

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.

And I think more and more these medium-sized artists

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's expensive to get a bus.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

after 40 years

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.

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.

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

very similar to Catfish.

A couple of guys go and investigate on their video.

It's two women, actually.

Okay.

Oh, interesting.

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,

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.

But it's not so crazy anymore.

It's like a daily thing.

And now they have 50, 30, 50 YouTube channels.

They all do the same thing.

They're all investigating on their behalf.

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

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.

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.

Oh, it's only gotten so

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

The problem is everything is so on-demand.

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.

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

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.

Look at the MTV Music Awards that just happened.

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.

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.

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

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

But the reality is that MTV is no longer for the younger generation.

That channel has now, everyone has aged out of that.

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.

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,

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

But yeah, everybody's kind of doing that now.

Right.

Yeah.

He went to the metaverse and he did a whole thing.

But

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.

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.

It was a, like a super trippy musical experience

where the visuals were fucking excellent.

And so I watched some of it

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.

The alternate world.

Yeah.

Pink Floyd's going to go in some

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.

So our kids' experience of this is going to be so much different than the one we had.

And that's sad.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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Okay, yes.

Okay, we're going to dig into Alaria Baldwin.

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We're going to jump in on it.

I've heard of her, but you'll have to fill me in.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

And they do costumes and all that stuff.

But this year, Dancing with the Stars became interesting when Corey Feldman was invited.

He got kicked off week two.

It didn't last very long, but to be honest, we'll review that too.

To be honest,

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.

I can understand why he got kicked off.

Plus, it's Corey Feldman.

How many Dancing with the Stars people are really voting for, you know?

I think people who watch this take it very seriously.

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.

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

I just remember seeing that in the news, too.

Like, he said, father again, father again.

He has a three-year-old.

Yeah.

And he's 76 years old.

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.

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.

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

I did.

The AE show.

Yeah, I didn't watch that, but they filmed while he was going through the trial.

And it was very intense, and they really let the cameras kind of do it all.

But what became clear was that Alaria, Hilaria,

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.

Yeah.

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

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.

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.

Okay.

So she kind of just took that on.

She sucked it up.

And And even though she spent,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes.

And now every bit of her life has been scrutinized.

Okay.

She gets,

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

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.

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.

She was a yoga instructor.

She can move, right?

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.

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.

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

way finished with whatever this whole thing that Ilaria is doing.

He is so over it.

He just,

he's seething underneath.

He just wants to scream into the microphone.

I'm done.

Stop being so fucking dramatic.

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.

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.

And just watch how ridiculous this gets.

Oh,

he looks so good.

You guys?

Okay, now they're they're backstage with entertainment tonight.

You really did an amazing job this week.

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

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.

Which, by the way, is a little bit of a jam.

It's a little bit of a jam.

Said and done.

What would you say is the thing you learned most about yourself?

They have the aliens in the business.

That's what I was saying.

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.

All through doing dancing with the stars.

So open my heart up.

Yeah.

Because a lot of times...

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

Ready's.

Here comes the Spanish accent.

She's going to go in and out of it.

I got you.

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

is vulnerable.

Yeah.

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?

You're dancing on YouTube every five fucking seconds.

You didn't close anything off.

Yeah.

Well, you did an amazing job.

Aren't you so proud of her?

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.

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

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.

Every single day, she was the first one

on time in the rehearsal.

And

she just

not just incredible.

But the nicest thing you can

say is that she was on time.

And it's a problem.

A mom to her incredible seven kids, but also.

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.

Real, real G in the dance studio.

Like, I felt like I'm back into my competition days where we really, like,

I had a chance to dance with you.

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.

I will know.

I will always know that.

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.

We were good dancers together.

We were good dancers together.

Oh, they're just dancing around each other.

Look at that.

Yeah.

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

All of this happened so quickly.

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.

And she's like,

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

And so this just happens so quickly, but

quickly.

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

You're a Laura Baldwin.

For God's sake, sign the contract.

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

what if I get voted off right away?

And she said, Mommy, at least you tried.

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...

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.

But this mother running around crying about everything.

I signed the contract so quickly.

Between getting getting off the private plane and the baggage.

At least you tried.

At least I tried.

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

Oh, I love that.

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

They do.

You should be so proud, real quick.

Meanwhile, E.T.'s favorite gay is like hamming it up.

He's like, oh, you do.

He knows how to play her.

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.

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.

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.

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

And Alec says, you know, we don't know.

You know, we're going to,

this is a lot, blah, blah, blah.

And he goes, and it really ended up being the Alaria show, right?

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?

And Alec rolled his eyes and literally walked away from her.

And she finished the interview.

No, okay.

A little too late with the votes.

A little too late.

Okay.

Sorry about that.

We'll keep an eye on the TikTok.

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

There you go.

Big and L Baldwin here.

Spain.

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.

He's jabbing her.

Congrats on an amazing run.

Okay, now.

All right.

So

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.

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

exit interviews.

All right, here we go.

Hi, guys.

Hi.

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

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.

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.

Why is she in a robe?

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

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.

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.

How are you feeling right now?

Here's a mirabel, by the way.

It's a super.

It's a fun one anyway.

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.

I've broken so many things.

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.

So I'm very grateful for that.

People do live after they have children.

Right.

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

I

she's talking about her partner.

I know.

Yeah.

He's look at him.

Yeah.

Seething.

He is seething.

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.

And I really think we are a team.

So my team continues to go on.

And

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

Of course you are.

A little jealous.

He's laughing.

He's like a lot jealous.

Get to go to practice tomorrow.

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

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

We just can go practice.

We can still go practice.

Man, guys, we'll just put it on YouTube.

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.

That is like a caricature of a Spanish accent.

It's not even close to authentic.

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.

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

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.

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

Why are

people talking like as if she got

cock blocked from doing any kind of dance for the rest of her life?

I don't get it.

I'm not understanding.

Oh, God.

I opened my heart.

What?

And now it's broken again.

What?

I opened my heart.

And now it's broken again.

5:30.

But I'm 41.

You're not dead.

Oh, my God.

It's so dramatic.

I'm 41.

She can barely talk.

My vagina is the size of a watermelon.

I've broken two toes.

And I met Alec when I was 27.

And the world has been trying to beat me since.

God.

Really?

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.

You got kicked out early.

Okay, that happens.

It has to happen to somebody.

All right.

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?

Why the dramatics and the theatrics?

I'm 40.

The world has tried to beat me down ever since.

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.

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.

Good idea they did.

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

It's not enough.

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

Why are you going back to the family?

What?

I don't understand.

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.

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.

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.

But Dancing with the Stars, Alaria.

First of all, Hillary.

Let's just start there.

Second of all, I can agree.

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?

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.

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

That's what happens.

But it's been, if not.

Forever, it's been most of your life that you've not been to Spain.

Drop the accent.

Stop it.

That's why people are upset.

And that's why people don't think you're authentic is because you're not being authentic.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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Okay, Chrissy.

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

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.

They just announced it as we're recording this.

Yeah, he's.

Yeah,

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.

The brown sugar singer died this morning, according to sources connected with his family.

That's really

sad.

Yeah,

he did a lot in the music.

Yeah, I do remember

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.

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.

God, that's sad.

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.

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.

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

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.

There's very little chance that you will survive that.

So

yeah, it's really sad.

So fuck cancer.

God bless you, D'Angelo.

Hope you're on your way, buddy.

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.

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

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

Oh, right.

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.

The Menendez Brothers was excellent.

The OJ trial, the OJ story was excellent.

Jeffrey Dahmer was excellent.

Ed Gein is different.

It is.

It is a different flavor

because it is so fucking weird.

It is.

It's bizarre.

It's bizarre.

Yeah.

And

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

The whole like, you know, Buffalo Bill thing from

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

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

from beginning to end.

And then I read the book, and that's also such an excellent book.

Red Dragon, Red Dawn, the whole thing, like all of it.

It's all the whole series of books is all great about Hannibal.

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.

But it shows you just how

some people's minds are really broken and they don't, and they're not going to get fixed.

I have just such,

I don't even know how to say this.

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?

Is so

hard to watch.

It is, if this, if it doesn't bother you, something's wrong with you.

You need to get checked.

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.

And it is highly fucking disturbing.

It's perfect for Halloween.

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.

Yeah, co-sleeping that.

You were watching it with your kid.

I wasn't watching it with them.

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?

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,

God.

And I go, how much of that were you paying attention to, buddy?

And he goes, not much, but why is

happening?

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

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

this this was not a thing that happened very often.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, no one knew.

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

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

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

silly of them.

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?

And like, it's just like the flip nature of the whole post.

I was like, yeah, you know, people died and were desecrated.

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

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.

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.

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

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,

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.

Yeah, 100%.

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.

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

like even if I tore it all down,

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I just watched Friday Night at Freddy's.

I'm good.

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.

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.

Do you like horror movies?

It depends on what horror movie.

Like The Shining, yes.

Yes, me too.

Silence of the Lambs, yes.

There has to be that psychological part of it there, too.

I don't like just slasher films.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

the rigors of the road.

And then she's also out filming all the time.

She is.

She's in like everything.

Everything.

So

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

about making sure that we spend time together.

You do.

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.

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?

Some of the spin-around competition.

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

and still have a meaningful, intimate relationship with somebody.

I mean,

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.

So, well, you know, it's sad, but it's a tale old as time.

It's hard for people in Hollywood.

One person needs to be the unemployed

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.

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

Yeah,

a big cape.

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.

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.

Yeah, Nicole Kidman has got to be fabulously wealthy.

Oh, yeah.

She really does work all the time.

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,

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

it was a couple years ago.

Little women?

Little, not little women.

You remember the one with

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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