Textbook Toast with Shannon Ford: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025

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Good morning, girlies.

It's the toast.

It's Jackson clawed and we're your host

it's your favorite show the fast five things you need to know

we'll start your day off swirly it's the toast i sound amazing

welcome back to the toast happy hump day and i am sitting down with of course someone i would love to hump but you and i've got a couple of humps ourselves it's shannon for

so true there's been so many humps this week and we're taking them like champs, but they're humps.

I meant our bellies.

I meant our bellies and our breasts.

Like I just meant we have humps.

Oh my

gosh.

You're so right.

And from someone speaking that never had lady lumps or humps, it's kind of crazy.

Do you like it?

Or do you finally understand why we've been complaining this whole time?

Like big boobs stink.

Big belly's not my favorite.

Big butt's not my favorite.

Well, my butt is somehow inverting itself.

So I haven't experienced that.

But do you know that when I got my boobs really early on in pregnancy, which Taylor was like, that's crazy?

Like mine didn't come till I got milk.

I was like, slay these titties.

I think it lasted.

a week, like maybe truly a week before I was like, I want to slice these off my body.

And everything the big titty community has said is correct.

And I feel so bad because I've always been like, oh, poor you, you have big, gorgeous tits.

And now I'm like, oh no, your life is hindered.

Your life is hindered.

I'm so glad that you've seen both sides.

You've seen like both sides of the coin and you can agree with us that like it is not what it's cracked up to be.

No.

It is not my favorite one.

And with the big belly and toe as well, they just rest on my stomach like an orangutan.

And I just feel,

I just hate it.

I hate it.

I hope they go back to the itty bitties that they were.

I know it'll be.

Well, I look forward to seeing how big they get when you breastfeed, like, or when your milk comes in.

I don't know if you're going to breastfeed.

I'm not going to

I'm hoping to exclusively breastfeed that would be amazing and so I fear I have nothing but fear well I'm excited because then you'll really like we really need to give you a big dose of big titty so that you will never again tell us we're wrong for complaining you're right you're right I always do this Like you haven't had, you haven't experienced enough yet.

Make them bigger.

Make them bigger.

Oh my god.

I shudder to think when people say stuff like, oh my gosh, if I could give you half of mine, I'd be like, okay, bring it on.

Or they say stuff like swimsuits.

I started saying stuff about I was buying swimsuits and I don't need to go up in too many sizes.

So I've just been trying to kind of like wear what I have.

And I used to roll my eyes and people would be like, what is this thing?

This wouldn't even fit over my nipple.

I'd be like, okay.

Now I say things like that.

Like Taylor would be like, you can borrow this.

And I'm like, this little thing, this wouldn't fit over a nipple.

Like, it's.

Crazy.

It's a natural cycle.

Yeah.

Well, I'm glad we'd convinced you.

You look par delicious today.

You always do.

You literally look like Andy Anderson from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Pregnant Edition.

Yellow is new for me.

I'm really trying to channel my inner Jackie and wear more colors as a redhead like, you know, pale pinks and yellows.

Like this color did not exist in my closet.

And I'm trying to branch out because it actually does suit us so nicely, which I should have known by looking at you.

It does.

Well, people would think that like pinks and redheads don't go.

And maybe if I got my colors done, someone would be like, no, this color is not suiting you.

But like, it's just become a part of me that like I wouldn't even be able to recognize if it does there are certain shades of pink even the one I wore yesterday is not like my go-to shade of pink but it's just a cute top but I love pale pink what were your used to be go-to colors you love like a forest green yeah I'm a big green blue purple white and black dual tones yeah

I'm pastel tones but that's actually not my color wheel my color wheel is like pastel tones and so I'm trying to migrate and when I look at myself I says you look great you look great you do look great you do look great how are you feeling we know you've been sick you've been through it yeah i've really um as james would say i don't know if this is like a british shame but they always say oh god you're going through the wolves you've been through the wolves um the wars

I figured.

Yeah.

But then I realized unless you were going through the walls.

Well, I was just like, it kind of sounded like walls, actually.

Yeah, there's just been so many ailments, but you know, that would happen anytime I'm supposed to be podcasting in person with you, which I would have loved to have been in Florida right now with you.

Oh, yeah.

We had such big plans this week.

People don't even know.

Shannon was supposed to come down to Florida.

She was going to stay in my house.

We were also going to do like a little hotel staycation.

We were going to podcast for a number of days together, just like living the life of Pargy.

Yeah, Pargy podcasting in person was the plan.

While pregnant.

While pregnant.

And Shannon fell ill and so she couldn't fly.

So that's why also this week has been, it's actually been a really great week and everything's totally worked out.

And you know what?

Like, and I'm never going to push a pregnant mama.

Like, I'm never going to be like, Shannon, you said you'd be like, Edler.

No, you assume.

Shannon, you stay home.

You've been magnificent.

It's mostly a sinus thing, just which if you guys are like, gosh, your co-host sounds like Donald Duck.

Like, it's just sinuses during pregnancy.

I didn't realize how elevated they can really get.

And it just got to a point where I was like, if I fly, my eardrum will burst.

Like, if I fly, this would just be crazy.

And you know what?

You've had some parjilicious guests that I have thoroughly enjoyed, really to my core.

So it all worked out for the best.

I'm here virtually for a lovely day and we're going to crush it.

It's going to be parjalicious.

It is.

It's going to be incredibly steamy and toasty because we will do pop culture.

And I know you care about pop culture.

So, like, hopefully,

the meat of the pop culture, like, sometimes it's, there's more meat on the bone.

Sometimes there's less.

It just really depends on the guest.

So, I think you're going to get like typical elk of toast here today.

But I make no promises because one thing about me and you, we are chatty.

And one thing about me, like,

I'm interested in conversation with friends.

Like, if the convo is afloating, we ain't doing the

slowing.

No, it's true.

And then we will also get to have two podcast hosts at the same time who might speak through frogs in their throats.

So everyone will be just like so jazzed.

And they're pregnant and they're redheads.

We talk about a lot how we're both redheads and like growing up, we could have never been friends because like I couldn't be seen next to another redhead.

Isn't that crazy?

Like diabolical.

Like there was like, you know, one other redhead that went to my high school and she was gorgeous.

And I was like, like, it was like.

Weren't you gorgeous?

Like, you were Miss Teen USA?

Um, I wouldn't say like, I wouldn't say people would look back at me in high school and be like, that girl was gorgeous.

Like, I think I did pageants and I won a lot of like personality points.

And whenever I had my hair and makeup professionally done at 17, like.

But even like when I won Miss South Carolina teen, like if you looked at the lineup, the girls were prettier.

I just had the personality, honey.

And when you're a teen, they kind of care about that kind of stuff.

A personality higher.

A personality higher.

They care more about your personality and being cute and fun when you're a teen versus like when you were like a miss, they're like, who who the fuck is the hottest and also it's kind of smart but like who's hot yeah i guess that makes sense when i think back to like elementary school high school like anyone in my class who was like a model like a child model they were like totally nice looking but they weren't like the most gorgeous person in the class like they just like were doing modeling you know but then they were nice looking right but it was just like

that didn't automatically make them like the most beautiful.

I don't know.

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

Do you think I was the most beautiful?

Because I was the most beautiful.

Do you think they still do, you know, superlatives?

Did you guys have that at your Jewish high school?

We did, I think.

Okay.

I know you guys are obsessed with high school culture.

And so obviously I went to like a very classic high school, you know.

Movie.

Yeah, like totally.

And

the superlatives, I think back, I'm like, I think they're all too woke to do the stuff we did.

We had best looking.

Like we had like someone won best looking.

What were you?

Not that, but I did, I will say, I won,

I won two superlatives and they reached out to me and said, you're only, like, we can only give you one.

Which one would you prefer?

And it was best dressed or most likely to end up on TV one day.

And I chose best dressed because I thought I'd put a lot more work into that.

That's good.

That's good.

And you also were the best dressed and you were the most likely to end up on TV one day because life took you to reality television and then to podcasting.

Yes, that's true.

People don't, I feel like not enough people know that Shannon Ford's breakout role was on very cavalier.

Not enough people know?

Not enough people.

I genuinely forget that about you.

Wait, really?

I thought you were being sarcastic.

No, I watched the show too when it was live.

I'm like, let's not find those episodes because I don't want to know what I said about you.

No, no, it's, you know, they still play reruns and people are all the time like, reruns, get that check, Queen.

I'm like, I don't make residuals from this shit.

Like, they paid us $1,500 an episode back then, which obviously, you know, is a springboard to the current life I have.

So I'm forever grateful.

But it's just crazy because I feel like that's really, that's a marker of success if people remember you as something else other than like the girl that was on Barry Cavalier.

But I actually feel like everyone is always like, you were on that Kirsten Cavalier show.

No, and what's so funny is like we talk about Kristen a lot on this show.

I'm actually like a big fan of hers, but then I have to like be like, wait, my best friends got beef.

Like, no, we don't have beef anymore, really.

I know, but like from the show, like, she fired you.

So I'm like, wait,

maybe I can't stand so hard.

No, like, we'll stand a little less no no no it's it's

it's some stand a little less it's great we're we're we're very cordial it's fine i know i figured and also it is like tv and it was very much you know so long ago too traumatized for sure but sometimes i remember that you were really beefing

you you were yeah we were really beefing Because you weren't doing a good job as the social media manager.

No, I was doing a very, very, very bad job.

And now that I'm doing a bad job on purpose, like, why were you doing a bad job, Shannon?

You're a hard worker sometimes I was doing a bad job to play it up on TV like oops I forgot to do this but like I would say if you had to put a percentage to it nine 85 to 90 percent of the time I was just doing a bad job um

I just I had all the crux to have like the ideas and the creative but I actually didn't have the like like sit down and do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So hard worker, I think when it's something to do with me, and I really, she was spot on.

I mean, at the end when she fired me, she was like, she cares cares more about her own shit than my shit.

And I was like, tro, like,

yeah.

Yeah.

But, you know, I was 22.

I, not that that's an excuse.

You should all like do your job at 22 that you're hired to do and paid to do.

But I look back at that now and I'm like, you're going to get fired.

Come on.

Yeah.

I'm a great story to tell.

I'm like a cautionary tale.

Like if you don't do your job at 22, like you could get really fucking fired.

But you're also an inspiring tale because you, I think you were then set off in the right direction to work on Shan things yeah and like I do love one one like the only bit of shade that I will always throw that I'm like ha ha is like one of like her big like punch up lines at the end when I got fired she was like and you know what good luck with your next boss Shannon because I'm sure you're gonna have the same problems and I'm always like never had another boss actually you guys TTN

and I can say we don't have the same problem Shannon is a very hard worker she's always doing episodes even though she's like always like sick and the world is working against her and she always crushes it.

Yeah, I've got to get I've been speaking to you guys about getting a Jewish evil eye necklace or bracelet or something.

I need I need some protection in my life.

Yeah, I love that.

Well, I'm wishing you well in all of your various ailments, but you would never know it today and you sound great and I just like want you to be well and have common peace.

How are you feeling in this stage of pregnancy in life?

You know what, Brad, I want to jinx it, but like my pregnancy's been great.

Like I really wasn't super, I was very nauseous in the beginning.

I cracked up when you posted like, oh my God, I posted my Crunchwraft Supreme and then everyone was tagging me in their Crunch Wrap Supremes and I wanted to die.

No, that's how I felt.

Like I had a very big aversion to like meat-related things and just like people were posting their foods and I was like, go to jail, like go to hell.

Anyone posting their food, which is so ironic because I post my food all the time.

And no one was even posting particularly nasty things.

They were just posting, you know, their meat and threes.

And I was like, disgusting.

But that kind of really alleviated the second I got to like my 13, 14 week, whatever week it was.

I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and then I got there and all of a sudden I woke up and I was like, I can drink my coffee again.

I want to steak and potatoes.

I love chicken.

Like everything kind of just alleviated and I never was actually throwing up, which was nice.

That is nice.

I made steak last night, which is like kind of major.

I barely didn't cook.

I saw that.

Well, I saw that you were just eating meat.

And I was like, wow.

I was eating meat.

Cause also like our meals for the week are kind of dictated by what kosher meat they have at Publix that day.

Yeah.

Because sometimes, most of the time they just have chicken breasts, but like they had these pepper steaks and Zach bought them.

So I was like, okay, it looks like we're having pepper steak and onion.

Cause what else do you make?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's very fajita vibes.

Right.

Fajita vibes.

And now I want to make that with chicken.

That's it for tonight.

That would be great.

Awesome.

That's Claudia's favorite meal.

We call it chicken rocks in our house.

I didn't realize it was just chicken, steak, and onion.

Why do y'all call that chicken rocks?

Because chicken rocks, or it's like the chicken looks like rocks.

The chicken looks like rocks.

Okay.

The chicken looks like rocks.

I'm not kidding.

I've been really wondering.

It's like what what we've called it since our brains could only form the words like chicken rocks

since we were we little.

Yeah, yeah.

But now it's chicken rocks.

The chicken rocks.

Chicken rocks.

Rock on.

Poultry.

Yeah, I've been good.

Other than just like sinus stuff and like, I don't know, like random rashes.

Things are just elevated.

Being a ginger and being pregnant.

But other than that, I feel good.

My coccidenia comes and goes.

You know,

I'm standing in solidarity solidarity with Turdy there,

was diagnosed with coccydenia.

And sometimes I'm like, oh, that doesn't exist.

And that's made up and it's fake.

And then sometimes I'm literally like, my coccydinia, like it's like so bad.

I'm glad that they gave you guys like a big name to accompany the ailment so you can feel validated in your pain.

Yeah.

I know you believe more in the sciatica of it all, which is fine.

I have sciatica and because I ran out of like my magnesium, like I got to the bottom of the jar and then I was in New York.

So I didn't order a new one.

So I probably went without magnesium for like a week and a half, two weeks.

And so I'm in a, I'm in a not-grade spot.

Oh, yeah.

You fell off the wagon.

You got to get back on.

I've got to get back on.

And I know it's like, you know, I'm privileged that I've never experienced coccydinia.

Like the dishes are crazy.

And actually,

some toasters, because we said like, it's worse.

Coccidinia and sciatica, like which one's worse?

And they said sciatica, but Claudia in her pregnancy like got sciatica too.

And she said coccidinia is way worse.

But of course she's going to say.

But she would say that.

But you know what?

I think coccidinia kind of like hits you out of nut.

Isn't sciatica more of like a radiating, like constant pain?

Yes, like, but it also was like really bad when I like try and get up from my seat.

You might have coccidenia.

I might.

I don't think that I do because like literally, and it's so weird.

Claudia and I both had tushi problems at the same time.

They came about at this stage in our life.

And we're like describing our pain and it's not the same thing.

Yeah.

When I described it to Claudia, because I think she wanted to really make sure that I was allowed to join the club of Coxidenia and she was like, she gatekeeps for sure.

She was like, that's my ailment.

But she was like, that's coccidenia.

And I was like, well, here we are.

But on the other hand, I do think like you're good for the movement.

I think you're good for the cause because you raise a lot of awareness.

Right.

You're very charitable.

Yeah.

And I would want you on the board of my ailment as well.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, it's been fun to be pregnant at the same time as you guys, although you and I both spoke about how we we don't really feel like we were pregnant with Claudia, but she was like a really fun cheat code for me because her and I are very honest with each other.

So I would text her, probably annoy the fuck out of her, and just ask so many questions because she had already experienced them and she was on a really nice timeline ahead of me so that she really she hadn't like just experienced, she had like some time frame with it.

And she was able to tell me that kind of stuff.

Versus, it's hard for me to compare with my best friend.

People would be like, what about your best friend who has three kids?

Yeah, what about Taylor?

Three kids.

But she has HG.

She has HG when she's pregnant, which is horrible.

If you guys know what that is, you're just, you're violently, violently ill for the entire nine months.

So it's really hard because I'll ask her stuff and then I'll be like, why am I even asking her?

She's going to be like, I don't know.

I was dying.

Right.

It's not a good Richter situation.

It's got apples to apples.

Understood.

Okay, well, I'm always here for you if you need me.

I feel like we've had like similar, similar elk of pregnancy symptoms.

100%.

Thank you for being here for me.

I'm always here for you, Shani.

Shani, we were about have so much

this week.

I think the kids called her Shani.

You stayed with us recently with James.

You said he sounded like Paddington.

Yes,

he sounded like Paddington.

Oh my gosh.

The boys, I really was looking forward to seeing the boys.

It's, we would have just had the best of times.

But no,

it's, it's for the best that I'm here and I miss the boys.

They'll only just miss me more.

It's true.

They will.

And then you'll have to come back one day with Bebbet and we'll, do you think your child will have a little bit of an accent?

Is that how that works?

No way.

I mean, it's going to be growing up in the South.

It's probably going to sound more southern than me, you know?

Oh, true.

Like, it just, it's your environment.

Like, it might have, it might say different words.

Like, it might randomly call the trash the bin and people be like, what are you talking about?

But right.

But it's not going to have a British accent.

Like, you are, you are.

And it's going to have a southern accent using British words.

Be like, you've been through the wars.

Excuse me.

No, it's so funny because it is going to like say these things and your inflection will really start to change.

Yeah.

People call me out on it, but I'm like around James 24-7, but I'll be like, should we go to the store?

And people are like, you just said that British.

And I'm like, no, I didn't.

But the inflection in my voice said it British.

Wow.

So do you have more sympathy now for people like Dariette Kemsley and Megan Markle and like Madonna, who sort of shapeshift in their vernacular and people say they're like putting on or like Lindsay Lohan when she was like living internationally and speaking differently.

Like I don't think

I don't think anyone has ever thought to me like, girl, you're literally trying to sound British.

I just, my really close friend.

No, I don't actually have sympathy for them.

I feel like they're like putting things on a little bit.

I, I truly just, it's sometimes my inflection.

And I always catch it.

I'm always like, oh, shit, that just sounded like

it's they go up when we go down.

We'd be like, do you want to go to the movies?

And they'd be like, do you want to go to the movies?

It's, it's, it's like that.

Okay, I understand.

I feel like it would be so hard not to pick up on that.

I pick up on everything everyone around me says, like even my children, I speak like them.

That is not my favorite one.

Like I was trying to have a call yesterday with someone and say I didn't like, like something was not to my liking.

And I was like.

all that could come out of the mouth is that's not my favorite one.

You would love it.

That's like, I have to like not.

It's either not my favorite one or you will love it.

I don't like you.

Like I have to like not say things.

And those are just toastyisms.

Like I was not there when that child said that.

But like, it's really hard for me not to use those verbiage in everyday life where it's like, I don't know, not appropriate.

And you're like in in a corporate meeting and I'm like, I don't like you.

You would love it.

Even the way Zach and I talk to each other, like the way Harry says, I did.

Yeah.

I did.

I did.

Zach, I'll be like, Zach to get you the dishes.

I did.

I did.

Taylor's kids, well, one of them particularly always goes, ask it.

If she's scared of anything.

And so now anytime we would say, like, I'm scared.

Like, if I was just like, I don't know, I'm scared of it.

I'd be like, you know, ask it.

Sometimes Zach and I will be having like a serious conversation or even like a fight.

And like one of us will slip into talking.

I did.

He actually like just

like just laughing and we're like, okay.

That's a great diffuser.

What are the stories like today?

Are they good?

Are they bad?

Do we come with some like heat or what?

The stories are good.

Some of them are like.

ongoing stories from like what we've been discussing.

So I look forward to getting Shani's thoughts.

I didn't want to cheat.

I was going to text you and I'm not trying to rush through the fast five banter, but I was curious.

And then I was like, don't ask her.

Let this be your true moment as a toasty co-host.

Okay.

Well, a little behind the scenes tea is when I do have a co-host, I will give them the story.

Some people ask for them like immediately.

They're like, I want to know what we're talking about.

They want to be prepared and they get like a little worried.

And then sometimes I just like, when I sit down with the person, I'm like, by the way, these are the stories.

They're like great, especially if they do pop culture.

Nothing about today's stories.

is surprising or controversial and you're professional.

So I thought it would be fun to do the Claudia where it's like, you don't know what the story is.

Of course.

And you know what?

I really like it.

We're doing textbook toast today.

Even like the cadence, if we slip into the stories soon, like it's giving textbook toast.

It's giving turties replacement.

No, never.

Relax.

I really genuinely try not to abuse my like friendship privileges with you guys because I really enjoy being a toaster.

Like I could have texted, I didn't know when the birth story was coming out.

And I was like, I'll find out on Patreon with the rest of them.

Like I am such a fan of the toast, such a fan of you guys, but also the caveat is we're real life friends.

So I try to like, you know, not, not abuse my, my friendship privileges and just let the toast happen.

No, but like a major perk is like if we say something on the show where it's like one of those situations where we're texting each other on the show and being annoying and secretive, like you text us and you're like, what was this?

Who the fuck were y'all talking about?

100%.

Yeah.

And like we always will tell you.

And that must be nice.

That's really nice.

That's a nice little perk.

Yeah.

And I'm sorry for the rest of you that.

You don't get it.

Like, I wish I could tell everyone all of our secrets.

And, and like, I don't have to really dive deep for lore.

Like, if I didn't understand the you would love it, I didn't know the origin story of that.

So I just shot you a text like, where does you would love it come from?

And Claudia's like, oh, that's because la.

And I didn't have to like really go through and like try to find it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's definitely like a cheat sheet, which is nice.

Agreed.

Well, we're going to get into the fast five stories now that you

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Our first story of the day, it feels so wrong to report on this while Claudia's out, but we have a job to do.

But you guys are going to do an episode where you recap all the stuff she missed, which is great.

Yes, this is a big one.

This one, like, we might have called for an emergency episode of The Toast, but

not exactly.

Tariq El Musa cited for battery following a heated physical altercation in the Las Vegas casino.

Tarek was cited for battery after he allegedly knocked a man out in Las Vegas last week.

The HCTV star and another male were involved in an altercation at the Palazzo at the Venetian Resort in Cincinnati on June 5th.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to page six yesterday.

Witnesses alleged to TMZ, who was the first to report the news, that they saw Tarek deliver a knead to the man's head, which knocked him out.

God.

An onlooker claimed to the outlet that the incident was bad.

adding that the guy looked seriously hurt.

The alleged victim reportedly refused medical attention.

A source told page six that Tarek was protecting his elderly father after the man allegedly got out of line with Tarek's dad.

Okay, so that's Tarek's side.

Okay.

Cops arrived at the scene around 11 p.m.

and took a crime report.

Though they declined to arrest Tarek, he was cited for battery.

Now, I will say, and I am very deeply sorry that Claudia is not here to speak on this.

In the beginning of the story, I was like, this guy is so violent.

Oh my God.

But the fact that the other guy isn't pressing charges does make me want, like, wonder if there's like casino footage where he's like oh shit i was really dogging on this elderly man and it was self-defense and i'm gonna get screwed if i press charges but also maybe tark was like in a casino pulled out a fat wad of cash and was like keep your mouth closed right

i feel like

It's not a good look for Tark, especially because he did the hike with the gun.

He did the hike with the gun and then things got really quiet and he's moved on in his life.

And you could say, like, okay, that was a one-off thing.

And like, don't judge him by the gun and the hike.

not if you're claudia you could not say that

right but like it was the more time we moved on from that without incident from tarik like the more it just seemed like tarik had a bad moment yeah so when tarik is involved in a situation like this where it's violin there's a knee to the head which like that's fucking crazy that's so aggressive like like knee how do you even get that position knee to head is crazy gun hike tarik comes out and so you see like okay that person is there now if this were someone else in the story is like that they were berating the elderly father like good knock them out yeah

but i don't know i feel like with tariq it's like just it's sort of something that you have to keep in mind like does he just have this like violence inside of him yeah it feels like something deep-rooted that kind of just like makes itself known

or these two situations where tariq like the misunderstanding of tariq el musa like he said he went on the hike and he took his gun because of mountain lions

Okay,

and then if he's protecting his father, like once again, like is someone dreaming Tariq?

And is it us?

I don't think so.

I also just think it's interesting that these things keep happening so publicly.

Like it does lend my brain to wonder, is he violent behind closed doors?

Like what are we not seeing happen?

Are there knees to heads that aren't in casinos?

Who knows?

Right, because everything in the casino is on camera.

And I do agree with you.

Like the fact that he wasn't arrested does, is a check in his column, but he was cited for battery.

So it's not totally innocent.

Yeah.

I like, there's no more details.

I want the person to come forward, but maybe they won't because they're like guilty as well.

Yeah, like what?

They're coming after an old man.

Also not cool.

I think someone would love nothing more than to press charges against a famous guy that has a lot of money for kneeing him in the head and knocking him out cold.

So the fact that the guy's like, I'm not pressing charges does lend me to think like

maybe he was also at fault.

Yeah, I agree.

It's not like the smoking gun against Tarik.

It's just like unfortunate.

And I guess we'll see what happens next, if anything happens next, like if

all is quiet.

It's weirdly better than the hike.

Like it's oddly better because like no mountain lion could come forward and be like, yeah, I saw him with the gun and I was out of there.

Like we do have this other version of like he didn't press charges.

So

so are we giving him a pass?

Are we giving grace?

Claudia wouldn't.

I'll say

had he the punch, had he punched him, I would give him a little grace.

Knee to head is crazy to give grace on.

Like, like, that is crazy.

I agree.

It's like a long journey from knee to head.

Yeah.

Like, when you watch, like, any kind of like violent fight scene, once I see, obviously they're all fake on movies or whatever, but like I was just watching the Lincoln lawyer and they like get him on the ground and then they start kicking him.

And I'm like, when they start kicking, I'm like, oh my God.

Like that's just crazy.

That is such a different level than like punching.

Than a punch, which is sort of like a reflex sometimes.

Right.

As opposed to, okay, okay, let me bring your head to my knee.

Need a head feels like very like jiu-jitsu vibes.

Like, oh, like you were thinking, like, you've been wanting to do that.

Yeah, but I just want to say, if this were someone else, like, I could read the story entirely differently.

Like, say it was a PJOM man.

Say it was Glenn Powell, and he needs someone in the head who he said was like.

a berating his elderly father.

That would be like so attractive.

We would be like, teen Glenn.

Yeah.

Go Glenn Coco, 100%.

We would say that.

But Glenn didn't go in the mountains with a a gun and get caught.

Maybe he did, but he didn't get caught.

Right.

And then he didn't like see the helicopter and said, it's me, Taric.

Weirdly, if Glenn Powell was like caught tripsing through the woods with a gun, I'd be like, hot.

And if he was like, I'm looking out for mountain lines, I'd be like, he's protecting all of us.

I completely agree.

I think there's some anti-taric bias that we need to like explore.

We should look inward.

But I don't, I do think like exploring that without Quadia here like is fruitless because she's always going to bring us back to being anti-Tarek.

No, no, and I would go there for her.

I really would.

She'd get me back there.

Yeah, me too.

Just you can't forget Tarek's arm type.

You can't.

I saw her post or I saw Ben hold up the phone yesterday and I was cracking up, but I kind of forgot about it being a story, but that's really funny.

Yeah, major, major news.

It's also funny that like if you were walking around the woods in a different state with a gun, people would be like, hell yeah, brother.

But like,

in Florida, people probably go to Publix with their guns.

Right, right.

But they're wearing California, I think.

So it's like a big deal if you're just.

It's a big deal that you're hiking around with a gun.

But like, again, situationally.

By the way, after an argument in the woods, like there's just more to say.

No, I agree.

I agree.

Yeah.

Are you ready for our next story, which is a confirmation from a story that we talked about yesterday, which is that Aaron Rodgers is confirming he got married a couple months ago in a surprise wedding.

So Aaron was spotted with a wedding ring on his finger.

People are like, is he married?

And yeah, he is.

He said that he was dating a woman named Brittany.

And later they sparked marriage rumors.

And now he's confirming those rumors that the wedding took place a few months ago, but he did not share any other details.

He was so blasé in the interview, too.

He's like, they're like, what's that ring?

Is that like an aura ring or is that like, you know, a wedding ring?

And he goes, yeah, it's a wedding ring.

And I was like, God, I don't know how to explain that if I was his.

wife, I'd be like,

like, yeah, it's a wedding ring.

And he was, they were like, oh,

how long have you been married?

and he's like few months like I'm like

like I just

he gives me yeah

but I just thought he was never gonna get married because if you didn't marry Shaylene Olivia or Danica I know isn't it crazy how

recently I feel like I always do the news cycle gets a little old so maybe they like repurpose stories but I feel like I still always at least like once by monthly or once a quarter, you see another article come out about one of those women being like, it was a horrible relationship and like I'm scarred.

Yeah, I think he's tough to take.

Not for Brittany.

In a personal relationship.

That's what I was always saying about him.

That like, I enjoy like following him as a celebrity, but I couldn't have a conversation with him.

Right.

But you watched his documentary and you said you felt differently about him, right?

Yeah, I had like more understanding of him.

And I think he's just like an interesting guy and he's very serious and he takes himself very seriously and he's very committed to what he does.

And so I think he's an interesting figure, but I would not want to sit down and have a conversation with him while he tells me about what what he saw on his ayahuasca trip.

Like, I'm good on that.

Right.

Ayahuasca.

I'm good on that.

It's so crazy to think when you guys were talking about yesterday's episode with Jared and you were like, I'm scared to lose those 10 pounds.

Jared said, because he's like, what if I'm not me anymore?

I think about that stuff with like really transformative drugs because I'm someone that like will try any drug once.

Obviously, not while I'm pregnant.

But have you tried ayahuasca?

No, because I'm so afraid that it would like awaken a different version of me that would be like boring.

Like, what if I just like lost me?

You know, like, I woke up and was like, wait, I should stop interrupting people.

I should really just try to be quiet more often and listen rather than speak.

Like, what the fuck?

Like, that would scare me so bad, you know?

Oh, interesting.

I feel like.

For you, and maybe for me, like I would have the experience of being like, I didn't feel anything.

Like,

oh, really?

I would just be all-American.

Jake took his dad and his girlfriend, Utah, Queen, to an ayahuasca retreat.

And she was like, she's all in.

And she was like really excited to do it with him and be transformed.

and she was like i didn't see anything do you know why i think that is for her though i think she's like a hard bitch like i think she's a badass bitch who's like literally like stone like she's so sporty she's so all these things like she's like a brick wall of just like she could do anything and like get past anything in her life so like it didn't even like maybe they should have given her more you know i i don't know i think me i would just like puke for three days and then also be like i saw like crazy shit i would 1000 puke and I would not like it.

It would not be my favorite one.

I don't think anything positive would come out of an ayahuasca trip for me personally.

I don't want to do anything that I have to sit in a hut for.

Like, I know you have to, like, really take it seriously.

Like, you have to.

And you have to drink that water that makes you throw up.

You have to have like a shaman and you have to be like really like sweaty.

And like, it just doesn't seem like something for me.

Like, I would like to do like...

drugs of the luxury category and just like fun settings like a biza like looking cute yeah not like um you know also this is not you know a pro pro drug forum guys on the the toast, but I'm just saying, ayahuasca wouldn't be for me.

Okay.

And have you taken any hallucinogenics?

No, I've never done the amount of mushrooms you would do to see.

So, you know what?

I kind of do draw the line at hallucinogenics because I'm just kind of afraid of them.

Like, I've never done acid.

I've never done anything that would make me really like shapeshift because I think that would like, I'm too much of a thinker.

I'd be like, oh my God.

Yeah.

That would be like a bit much.

So yeah, it's not on my journey.

Okay.

Watch.

Wait and see.

One day you and I.

Maybe that's like what's next, you know?

For us, exactly.

Like, yeah, just for like in our circle, like in our journeys, like first,

it's sourdough.

Right.

It's ayahuasca.

Imagine you and I just one day are like, you know what, me and Jackie should do this weekend?

We should do ayahuasca together.

Yeah.

I highly doubt it, but like, I never thought I'd be making my own bread that's fermenting in my cupboard.

Like, I never thought that.

And sourdough, they do say, is the gateway drug drug to ayahuasca.

So,

are you still doing sourdough?

Um, I haven't.

I've fallen off the wagon.

I get in it, and then I'm in the thick of it because you know, it's something that you really have to stay on top of.

Like, yeah, like if you want bread tomorrow, you need it to start yesterday.

Yeah, and I like my starter was producing the exact amount.

It was a Pargi starter I got from one of my neighbors.

It was really strong and wonderful, but it was producing the exact amount to make a loaf.

And then I wasn't able to have enough to like just keep a lot of it.

It would, it would be discard.

And then I get a bit intimidated by reintroducing discard as starter and like refeeding it.

And then I would just be like, this is too much.

I'm just like, I don't feel like doing this today.

I'm trying to get

the nursery done.

I'm trying to do so much.

But it is easy.

If you can time it right, maybe I know this sounds like a crazy concept, but maybe after I have my baby, I'll be on such a routine schedule that I can insert the sourdough back in there at a time that makes sense for me.

But right now, it feels like i don't have enough time to do it so i don't know why having a kid would make that easier but it puts you on a schedule like every day of my like things little things change but like my overall structure of my day is the same so when i'm doing sourdough like i know when i clean up the kitchen you can at night that that's when i'm gonna feed my starter and then i i know i'm gonna

start my bread the next morning like while the boys are having breakfast and then when i'm cleaning up dinner is when i do my shapings like we just like but every day is the same like that yeah and it's it's the temperature of it all got really like chemical and like confusing to me because we would let I would do mine overnight where you would let it, what's the word, not rise, but

bulk ferment.

Yeah, bulk ferment overnight.

But James and I sleep, our bedroom is downstairs.

It's the only bedroom downstairs.

And we sleep, he's insane.

I honestly do kind of like it, but we sleep with the house at 64 or 65 degrees.

That's really cold for bread.

And so my kitchen would be that temperature as well.

And so I know some people are like, I keep my bread like upstairs in a closet.

I'm like, oh, oh, this is just getting too much.

Like, I just like

the stairs, my sourdough upstairs in its own room.

Like, it's already bread that takes 36 hours.

I can't walk upstairs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, um, I want to get back into it.

I honestly was like pretty good at it.

I learned how to make a sandwich loaf, which is a lot easier.

We were going through sandwich loafs like crazy because it's so nice and easy to eat.

Like, you really.

So, is sourdough sandwich loaf?

Like, do you use yeast?

It was the same.

It was the same concept.

I used all the same ingredients, but but added honey and like salt and oil and then obviously like folded it different put it in a different pan but it was so much easier to use like sourdough is like a very chewy you know you need to get that saw out start chopping sourdough yeah and so maybe i'll get back into the sandwich bread we'll see We'll see.

Our next story.

Glenn Powell's ex is speaking out on the actor leaning into the Sydney Sweeney romance rumors to boost the anyone but you publicity.

Yeah.

So Glenn's ex, Gigi Paris, who he was dating when Anyone What You came out, when he was rumored to be with Sidney Sweeney, she was sort of like, well, what about Gigi?

It was kind of like Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, and Irene She.

These two are pretending to be in love.

And it's like, wait, but you literally have a lady love.

Right.

And she was engaged.

Yes.

So she said on a podcast that I just wanted to resp, I just wanted respect, especially if it's going to be in the public.

She said, like, don't make an ass out of me.

Like, just don't make a fool out of someone you've been with for over three years, talking about forever with.

Just have some decency, you know?

And at the end of the day, it was like, well, work comes first.

And if that's the case, power to you.

That's your priority.

I got to walk away.

What sucked was how it was handled.

I felt like I was just fed to the dogs.

It wasn't gaslighting.

It was just, this is what I have to do for my job.

Yikes, that's a bad look for Gwen because what she's, Glenn, because what she's saying is like Glenn basically said to her, like, I need to pretend to date Sidney Sweeney and pretend to be in love with her to promote my movie.

Like, that's part of my job.

And you need to be okay with that.

Yucky.

This is when I'm like, actors are freaks.

I know.

It really does paint a different light on someone that you think is like this, like Hollywood heartthrob that's also such a good guy.

Like, you know, I'm like, he can carry a gun in the woods.

I don't care.

He's protecting all of us.

Like, it really makes him look like, like, very Leo of him, like, very, like, yucky.

I don't like that.

Like, oh, he's just like the rest of them.

And you kind of put Glenn Powell in a different category, you know, like.

Yes.

And basically what she was saying is that, like, he was leading all of us on.

They were messing with us to convince us to watch their movie like sort of manipulating the audience as opposed to like if you wanted to think about the whole situation in a more naive way it's like well him and Sydney just have this natural chemistry from the movie you got to see the movie to see more of it and now it's like no he's going home telling his girlfriend like I have to go pretend to date the hottest girl in the world to sell movie tickets and you have to be okay with it and all of this is staged yeah and it's very much like i don't correct me if i'm wrong but lady gaga and bradley cooper never came out and was like yeah we got you that's what we were doing on purpose we were all kind of just like it was one of those things where it's like like, you guys, that's where y'all's brain is going because we're just such good actors.

Like, it's not our fault that we're such good actors.

And they could have done that, but I looked into this yesterday when I saw the story.

I tapped the little link.

And I didn't realize that both Sidney and Glenn on separate occasions admitted, like, yeah, that's what we were doing.

Glenn said, like, yeah, Sidney knew what she was doing.

She's a genius.

Like, the best part, like, best way to get someone to watch your rom-com is to make you think what's happening on screen is also happening off-screen.

And I will say, when all this was happening, the only thing I remember was that Sidney Sweeney was engaged.

And I was like, isn't she fucking engaged?

But I didn't really realize he had a long-term girlfriend.

I remember him having like a girlfriend, and it's just like, oh, okay, girlfriend.

Like, if he loves Sydney, love Sydney.

I feel like he didn't even thought it was, I'm such a double-standered kind of person.

Like, that's just one thing about me.

And when Sydney was doing it, I was like, fuck her fiancé.

But knowing that Glenn was doing it to a girl, I'm like, fuck him.

That is so wrong.

Like, like for Sydney's husband or fiancé at the time, I was like, he can get over it.

It's her job.

She has to do what she has to do.

But like with Glenn knowing he was doing that to like a girl he was dating for three years, it's just like yucky.

Yeah, it is different.

Like it's okay if like a woman does it, especially like if she's engaged or like in a long-term relationship.

I just feel like you can count on women to like be committed.

Right.

More so than like a man if he's like seriously flirting with the hottest girl in the world.

Like

he's just a man.

Yeah, he's he and I really everything she said in the article I agreed with she was like I just had to walk away because like that's just like not my standards.

So,

yeah, but good for her because

it's Glenn Powell.

Hard to walk away.

I feel like most girls would be like, whatever you say, like, I'm happy to be here.

No, I would literally be like, My man's an actor.

He's got to do what he's got to do.

Like, I, yeah, catch me not.

You're telling all your friends.

Like, yeah, they're so.

I'm so cool with it.

Like, no, it's fine.

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I love it.

I, I amp it up.

I tell him, do more.

Like, that would be me.

No, I guess that's on having self-respect.

And that's on having having self-respect that i don't have if i was dating glenn powell but it's but like i don't think for you like i think for most people it would be like a lack of self-respect like whatever glenn needs this is glenn's process he's the big star and i'm just like so lucky to be in his presence but i do

i think that you do have self-respect so maybe there's another angle you know i also she said all i wanted was him to say is like no like I'm obviously not cheating on my girlfriend.

Like, and she was like, he wouldn't say that.

She's like, that's all I wanted.

I just wanted him to be like, of course I'm not cheating on my girlfriend and she's like he could not say that and that was when I had to dip and I think yeah, maybe if it got to that level I'd be like, okay, this is kind of crazy because at some point you need you look stupid the next logical question is like did they ever hook up off-camera?

I think for sure Like I don't know why they wouldn't have.

Yeah, I think for sure.

Like I just really to my bones or I'm like, yeah.

But I always wonder that when I watch movies where they're where there's sex sex scenes or whatever, especially if they're two cast members who are single, I do wonder like method acting, if they're like, should we just go bang one out really quick just to make sure this is like really, really good on camera for the sex scene?

Like, I wonder if I.

I wonder, like, I don't think that they need to like practice hooking up, but I'm like, if you're both single and you're both attractive and you're in the same level of attractiveness to be in this movie, like, why wouldn't you explore?

Something between the two of you.

Yeah.

That, yeah, I think not, but sometimes I feel like people are like, we're definitely not right to date each other, but like, let's really make sure that this sex scene is so fucking good.

Like, let's, you know, hit one out in the trailer and just really get it like down pat.

Yeah.

And maybe alleviate some of the awkwardness.

That's so funny.

Anyways, that's what I would do.

That's what you would do?

Yeah, and I'd get like

I'd get kicked off the set because the actor would be like, she's literally trying to bang me in the trailer.

That is inappropriate.

I'd be like, what?

I'm a girl.

You're a dude.

I could, I could say that to you, right?

No, and like no intimacy coordinator, Shannon.

Yeah, it would be like, I'd be like Jennifer Anderson.

I'd be like, I'm 100 years old.

They'd be like, you're 28.

I'm 31.

But like, you know, I'd be like, I don't need you guys here.

This is ridiculous.

Let's fuck.

Cameras up.

Are you ready for our next story?

I am.

It is our fourth story, and it's a little bit of rumor, which I hate to give credence to rumors, but I saw it it a couple places this morning.

Everyone's just saying that Katie Perry and Orlando Bloom's relationship is on the rocks.

And really, just like reporting that as fact.

Yeah, there are rumors bubbling that Katie and Orlando's relationship is on rocky ground.

One source told page six it's over.

They're waiting till her tour is over before they split.

Her tour is over in December 7th, so I guess we'll know by then.

This is kind of surprising.

It's like.

It's surprising because they've been together for a long time and like he loves her through all of her craziness And so I would think if you can get like to however long they've been together, that you would stay together.

But everyone's reporting this fact and it reminds me of like when like Kim and Kanye were divorcing or like Lala and Randall splitting up.

I'm like, no, they're not.

They love each other.

And then like literally the next day, it's like, go find yourself.

I would think that if a man could stick through you saying, I'm going to put the ass an astronaut, why couldn't he stick through?

Well, maybe he couldn't.

Stick through the tour.

But have you seen videos from the tour?

Yes, some, but of course only the worst ones.

Right.

I'm sure there's some lovely Pargi moments on the tour, but like what I've been seeing, like you really like that's like a man has to like love you to your core to like really.

But like she's always been this way.

Working.

So I feel like, yeah.

So I feel like he loves her to her core.

What do you think it is then?

I don't know.

I don't know.

That's why this confounds me a little bit.

I'm having a hard time believing it because like neither one of them has changed.

She's always been this person.

How long have they been together?

They have been together

a while.

They like broke up once in 2017 they had their daughter in 2020

they got engaged in 2019

but they split once in 2017 but they've been together at least since on in 20 like 16 17.

yeah that's a long time i mean yeah that's a long time and she's been through a lot of career lulls in that time so it's not just like oh she's sort of flopping in Orlando's jumping ship.

Like

that's why I'm confused.

Yeah, I don't, I can't pinpoint this one because I guess I don't know the lore enough of Katy Perry.

And I thought just like recently she's got, because maybe because I really saw her during her career high, and I was always like, sleigh, Katie, sleigh.

Like, I kissed a girl and like all that teenage dream where she was like on the top of the world.

And like lately, I've just been watching the flop after flop after flop.

And I'm like, yikes.

Yeah, but he wasn't there for any of that.

Teenaging.

That was Russell Brand who got

all those years.

And then he was around for like witness.

So like bone appetite

yikes bikes don't forget right

and then like Harley's in Hawaii then she had her baby so that opened up a new side to her that he was like wow yeah they had their child and she wasn't working as much and then her first body of work is one four three that's like the first thing in a few years and now so it's like he's not new to her being not the most popular so right

Maybe he's she's just gone all the time in space on tour and he's like enough is enough.

yeah maybe it was because she went to space yeah and it was just too far maybe he runs the wendy's account and he's like

maybe it was she was like he loves wendy's and she was like it's me or wendy's 100

and it's wendy's

well i do hope that this isn't true as much as i clown on her like i'm rooting for her and well they have a kids are sad i'm also families splitting are sad so i hope this isn't true but like i'm getting the feeling i don't know Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Because I'm always like, this isn't true.

This is a rumor.

And I'm always wrong.

I'm just trying something new by believing it.

Yeah, but I'm always in agreeance with you on the toast whenever you say like, I'm team, stay together because you guys have children.

Like, obviously, I never want someone to be together in a very toxic situation.

But if you, if it's something just like where Orlando Bloom like finally got the ick, I'd be like, okay, come on, stick it out.

Or like we're growing apart.

Grow in a different direction.

Yeah.

Stay home more

harder.

Agreed.

Yeah, if it's like not a toxic, like violent situation, it's just like personality clashes and stuff like that.

Like, I think it's worth trying more.

Does he have a kid with Miranda Kerr as well?

I believe so.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So maybe he's just used to leaving.

Oh, damn.

Damn.

No.

No.

It's just sad.

Because then he'll just be like the old guy that's like dating new like models and stuff.

And I'm just like, no, I don't.

Or Lee's.

I like Leo, but at least like he does give them almost 10 years, children, marriage.

That's true.

A life.

True.

True.

Okay.

Oh, I would like to, I would actually like to see them stay together.

Yeah, me too.

So hopefully, if I, if I think that they're not, that will mean that they are.

Just like I'm trying to like reverse psychology.

Reverse psychology.

Exactly.

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I actually have a Task Rabbit coming this week because we're getting like a big car for the boys

for like that they could drive around

because it was their present in exchange for giving up their pacifiers.

Oh, the passy fairy.

Like the passy fairy came.

We're like 11 days sober here.

Wow.

That's a really big

Taylor's little girl just did it and they say like after three days like that's when they you know like they finally feel clean from it.

But it was so funny because one of the little neighbor boys.

How old is she?

Which girl?

Lola and she is three.

It was hard because Novi, they're so close in age.

And so like she had little sister also having passies, which it's just like harder i feel like when you have a sibling that also has them you almost have to do it at the same time because passy variants at the same time can't take passies from lola and then not take them from novi you know right and so anyways uh i i remember there was this sweet precious kid in the neighborhood and the mom was very aware that like lola had you know she was still itching for her passy right she's still she's still tweaking she's still yearning and so uh

we walked over to the neighbor's house it was so cute and she was like i i made sure that you know beck didn't have his passy today so that Lola wouldn't see it.

And Beck walks down.

Beck is even younger than Lola.

He's two.

He has no awareness of this.

He doesn't know the Passy Fury came, right?

It was so funny the timing.

He comes down and he has like six Passies in his hands and he's like, Passies.

We're like, what are you, a dealer?

Like, what is this?

This is crazy.

And it's the worst timing ever because Lola was like, Passies?

And we're like, no, no, no, stay strong.

Like, don't.

Like, you got your token for three days.

So from the passy.

It's, it's brutal brutal out here, but the passy frame makes it so fun for the kids.

And yeah, it really wasn't so bad.

They were addicted, like, oh, yeah.

Beyond, I've never, I mean, I'm sure everybody feels that way.

Like, we can never get rid of these things.

And then when we were in New York last month, like, and everything was just like harder because it was like rainy and you know, we're in like not our space.

And they just like want passies all the time.

And I just, we, we had gotten to a decent place of like just using them.

when they're sleeping, napping, or like in the car, but then it's like, or at the table.

Right, right, right.

It's a passy.

It's a

soother.

So after New York, like we were in a rough spot, and the night we got home from New York was like the night the passy fairy came.

Right.

And we've been clean ever since.

Right.

It can be done.

And I just, we did it together at the same time.

It would not have been fair for one of them to have a passy.

Yeah.

Do you know?

Don't taunt the other.

What I literally said yesterday because I got a gorgeous PR package with a bunch of passies and Taylor's like, hide those.

And I was like, oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And I was like, what do you do with your passies?

I was like, when the passy fairy, hopefully no children are listening to this right now, when the passy fairy takes them,

what do you do like with them?

Like you just put them in the attic or whatever for, and she goes, what?

We, Shannon, we throw them away.

And I was like, I know.

Oh my God.

Like in my brain, I'm like, moms, hand me down so cute.

You've got more kids.

And she's like, no, no, no.

They're chewed on passies.

I was just like, oh, wait.

Ew.

And she's like, in the attic.

No, we would, for the next kid, we'd buy new passies.

I'm like, man, that is such a like never had a kid thing to say.

Like, what do you do with them anyways?

Put them in the the attic for the next kid she's like no

well what's so funny is zach orchestrated the passy fairy like delivery and removal service and then i was in the utility closet

room

i was in the laundry room like a few days ago and i found the bag of passies i'm like why did like i i forgot to ask him like why didn't he throw them in the garbage i think because he was like worried that they might like slip and you have like a meltdown would break loose and we wouldn't have one right but like we need to get rid of them yeah yeah it's like a true addict.

It's like keeping a stash, like just in case.

Flush them.

So they're getting a cool car to ride around the backyard.

That's very cool.

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Our fifth and final story, a little book news.

This is like some of my favorite kind of news.

Gemma Chan is joining Five Star Weekend series at Peacock.

So Five Star Weekend is a book by.

Why is her name escaping?

Ellen Hildebrand.

She is the queen of summer beach reads.

Everything is pretty much set in Nantucket.

I actually haven't read Five Star Weekend yet, but now we will.

But everything else Ellen Hildebrand writes is parjalish.

I don't think I've read any of her stuff.

Name some of her heavy hitters.

Name some of her heavy hitters.

Like the one Hotel Nantucket,

Golden Girl.

No.

Are they.

When I read books, I want someone to die or get fucked.

Like, I like.

So no murder mystery, no smut.

Okay, read Golden Girl because there is a bit of a mystery.

Okay.

Not a lot of fucking.

That's fine.

She really sets a Paragy scene.

And I think that even though it's not your typical vibe, like I think everybody can like an Elda Hill, Ellen Hildebrand.

Okay.

The Perfect Couple, which was made into a show on Netflix.

Oh, still never read that, but I know that ended up being a show on Netflix.

So maybe I could.

That was bad.

It was a bad show.

I did hear that, which is why I haven't watched it.

But it's...

It's...

But that, oh no, read the perfect couple.

I think people are dying and getting fucked.

Wow.

Okay.

The book is so good, and the show was not, but the book was so good.

Okay, I could, I could get into that.

Yeah, you know, I'm not like smut only.

Like, I, you know, I'm like a really weird freak that loves Alex Cross.

So that's really good.

Do you read like James Patterson and

Christine?

Koontz?

No, I don't.

Like, I wouldn't go that far.

That's like my least favorite quality about myself that I'm like obsessed with James Patterson books.

It's just like, it's a fatal flaw that I have because like yucky male authors and then also.

who writes alex cross james james patterson yeah since did you ever read the book that james patterson wrote with dally parton no i i don't i'm not interested in anything else james patterson writes i just got other than alex cross i got hooked on this one series this one like not series book uh

not trilogy what would you call them series there are 35 books there's like 35 he's been writing them since 1991 before i was born so like i it's also really cool because you see the progression of stuff like in in the 1991 books they're talking about beepers and stuff you know and then i remember the first book i got to where they talked about like an ipod and i was like oh now he's talking about ipods and stuff and i don't know i just loved it i got hooked and then after you read 14 why not get to 35 you know like but they came out with the show which forever ago they came out with a movie sorry i'm digressing from the fast five um topic but i mean that's that's textbook shows okay um they came out with the show which i know that alex cross had a movie forever denzel washington played alex cross i still haven't ever watched it my parents were like oh yeah we remember when that came out in the early 2000s.

Like we watched, we watched it in the movie theaters.

Still haven't watched that.

But they came out with the show and I was like, oh, here we go.

Like this is going to flop so hard and they're not going to do it justice.

And it's just going to,

when I tell you, I watched it last year during our honeymoon.

It is the best show ever.

It's on Prime or Peacock.

I don't know.

There's two seasons out.

It is so good.

The actors are

Alex Cross.

It's about his, it's about

serial killers and the books and everything.

The actor that plays him, oh my God, he's incredible.

All the actors, I've never seen them before, really any of them, except for the one white guy that's like a serial killer.

The actors are incredible.

They're all so hot.

They're all such good actors.

I'm like shook to my core.

All of it's just beyond, beyond, beyond good.

And they did it such justice.

Cannot wait for the next season to come out.

It comes out in June.

I need to actually follow up on that, but I cannot recommend it enough, even if you haven't read the books.

It's an incredible series.

Okay.

Okay.

Thanks for the rec.

You're welcome.

You need to tell Olivia she's into stuff like that.

What can I say?

Except, you're welcome.

Okay, so this show is going to be made from the book Five Star Weekend.

The Five Star Weekend, which I'm going to read the book.

I think this summer I'll have a little bit more time on my hands and I hope to read.

The show will be at Peacock as a series.

Previously announced cast members will be Jennifer Gardner, Regina Hall, and Chloe Sevigny.

And now Gemma Chan.

And I feel like, even though the other actors are legit actors, and so it's obviously a legit project, like Gemma Chan is incredibly legit.

And I like everything that she's in, I just like watching her.

Yeah.

So I think this bodes well.

I think this is great too.

And usually, whenever I'm like, let's see.

As soon as they start to throw some like legit actors in there, I'm like, okay, it's probably going to be good.

However, wasn't the perfect couple Nicole Kidman?

Yeah, Liev Spyburn.

Oh, wow.

Liev.

And it's just stunk up the house.

That's what his name is Stunk up the house.

Well,

was Nicole good at it?

Or was it like a script thing or like an actor?

Like, what was the badness about it?

Because I didn't watch it.

I can't remember.

Cheesy.

It was definitely like script and acting and setting.

Like, you could tell.

It's supposed to be said on Nantucket.

You could tell they only really had access to film in this one house.

And it wasn't Nantucket.

I think it was like Cape Cod.

And like, it was just giving like, there was no setting.

It was just the same house, same view.

Like,

I don't know.

I can't remember what exactly was not good, but it was just, like, not hitting.

And yeah, and then the detectives were like doing like serious community theater.

Like, serious community theater.

Okay, well, let's hope they're the better, better minute of this.

But read the book.

You'll love the book.

Maybe they took notes from the perfect couple.

They're like, we can't do that again.

Sorry, was the perfect couple the one that they had the dance?

Where they were like the dance at the end, and Cole Kidd was like, I am not doing that.

It's not going to feel this good.

But it must be illegal.

They played that song on Love Island last night.

That's a good song.

Okay.

Shouts out Megan Trainer.

Megan Trainer.

She does always have a hit coming up out of her sleeve.

Yeah, she does.

Are you watching Love Island?

I'm not.

I've never watched a single episode of Love Island.

The only thing that I did get into via Love Island was the Molly Mae and Tommy Fury of it all.

And it was because of you and Liz Woods.

Liz Woods posted when they broke up.

We're sisters in Molly Madam.

Yeah, I mean, Liz Woods is such a good follow if you guys don't follow her.

She's incredible.

But I was, she had posted something when they broke up, like, love is dead, but like in a like really serious way, like not in like a, love is dead.

Like she was like

seriously

very upset and you were too.

And I was like, okay, I was, and I think it's one thing about Liz is she really does pull things out of my brain.

Like the next slide was like, if you just watched that and rolled your eyes at Love is Dead, like might I suggest you watch this four minute clip of them and like it will change your mind.

I was like, okay, well, I literally did just think that.

So I'll watch watch this and I was I remember where I was I was in an airport and I was watching it and I started crying because like I can't remember if I was pregnant or not um I started crying last summer last summer okay then I wasn't even pregnant and I started crying because I was just so moved by their like relationship and how they met and like how they stayed together and all this stuff on and it was all these clips from Love Island like when she walks back in and she's like no no

because she thought Ellie Bell was on the bed because he thought she thought he made room for some song yeah yeah and she's like no.

And he's like, it's always been you.

And I was like, oh my God, I'm like getting really emotional.

And I got it.

Like, I understood it.

So then I watched the documentary and I started looking into it more.

And I feel like I fell in love with it.

But I'm also very aware that, and you guys spoke with this yesterday with Jared, that that's like a peak season, right?

So, but I loved all the clips and all the stuff that we got from last season, Love Island.

Now you're sending three home.

Like, I like, I loved that.

That is that the last year's Love Island?

I don't know that sounds bad.

You don't?

I mean, I guess it's really on TikTok.

Who was the main girl with the dark hair that everyone loved?

From Leah?

Leah, yeah.

She's like making fun of Kindle, the guy.

Okay.

Who was like doing like shady stuff to her?

The good-looking guy that was like the main character that they were dating at first.

Was it Cordell?

No, you watched Love Island.

You should know this, right?

Not last season.

Oh, you didn't watch last season?

Yeah, that's like, yeah.

The one season I don't watch is like a mega global success.

There's a spin-off show.

Yes, yes.

The main guy.

I don't know who these people are.

The good looking guy.

I know there's someone named Kaylore.

Kaylore, right?

Kaylore.

And the two blondes, they're like best friends and stuff.

But the guy that has the snake tattoo, who was like the main like fuckboy on the show, but he is really good looking.

Leah was like so iconic, always making fun of him.

And she was like mocking him.

She's like, oh, now you send it three home.

And like, it just became this viral sound because it was just like so iconic.

So when I see seasons like that and clips like that, I'm like, I should watch Love Island.

But it's much like you and Jared said.

It's every day.

And Margo said, who has the time?

No, who has the time?

I was watching last night and I really realized like it's much more passive viewing like they pretty much put a camera on them show their conversations throughout the day every like other day is a challenge and then every other day a new bombshells come and every other day is an elimination so it's just like you know you watch five episodes for 10 minutes of like something big happening, but like that big thing usually is so big that like it justifies all the time that you just spend.

So I'm all caught up actually.

I have been like getting into a cadence of watching it and it's like still not good, but like I'm like entertained and I'm starting to have like some faves and

some non-faves.

Let me know whenever I should like if you're like you need to watch this and then I love a binge.

Like I can sit around and binge something.

Yeah.

What was your pregnancy comfort show?

When I was pregnant.

Yeah, like what was yours?

Like Claudia had an aversion to Gilmore Girls.

What was your like comfort show?

When I was pregnant with Harry, I watched a lot.

Like that's when I watched Downton.

I watched, this was more of a pregnant in my pregnancy, but yeah, I watched Bridgerton, like, Bridgerton got me into Downton Abbey and then, like, Pole Dark.

Tried to watch Outlander, but I was very much like in historical.

I need you.

I heard the toast the other day.

I need you to give Outlander another chance.

I'm an Outlander stan, like to the point that I could, like, I won't, I won't, I will not bore the crowd.

You have got to watch Outlander again.

I watched so much of it.

How much?

I was in season two.

Really?

So, and I, yeah, like, and I, I, I didn't, like, hate it, but I just, like, didn't love it enough to get it.

Was it getting too whimsical for you?

No, I forget what my issue was with it, but I just, it never like gripped me.

That's shocking to me.

You are of the elk to love Outlander.

It's historical.

It's sexy.

It's fun.

It's great acting.

Like, I'm shocked.

Yeah.

And then when I was pregnant with Charlie, I don't get to watch a ton of TV when I'm pregnant because like I'm still like doing a lot of stuff.

So I more so have like postpartum shows because then I'm like sat up in bed with a baby.

That's what I meant, I I guess.

Yeah.

We're watching The Telly.

The Telly.

What was it with Charlie?

Well, with Harry, it was Ladies of London.

Nice.

And you know that's my favorite.

Have you ever watched it?

No.

But you've got me one into.

You should because it'll make you even more excited to be married to a British person.

And now I understand stuff.

Even when I hear new songs and new shows, or sorry, things that I'd heard previously, I'm like, oh, now I know what they're talking about.

Like, like even Taylor Swift being like Oxford Street and all this, I'm like, oh, yeah, now I know what she's talking about.

Yeah.

And then for Charlie was Love Island season 5 uk maybe that's what you should do molly and tommy season maybe i should it was so good oh that's great i've i've been watching suits nonstop like i'm like really getting through it and it's it's one of those shows where like i could watch it i couldn't watch it i'm not like what happens next but it's just there for me it's comfort yeah it's just comfort it's there for me and there's nine like seasons to crunch my way through so it's a meaty one you know like i i'm i'm on season five and i i've got plenty left to go Well, I love that.

Speaking of someone who's been there for me, Shannon, thank you for being here for me today.

Thank you for being here for the toasters.

Of course.

Where can everyone follow you and get more Shannon all the time?

More Shannon coming to you hot on Instagram at probably Shannon, on TikTok at probably Shannon.

And I will have my comedy special coming out soon.

And I'm not sure where you can find that yet.

Most likely YouTube, possibly Patreon, but it'll be

really funny, I swear.

Your special is so good.

Your comedy set that I came to see you in Florida.

You were amazing.

Like, seriously, I always think so highly of you.

I probably would like anything that you do, but I was blown away by you.

It was amazing.

Like, seriously, like your persona on stage is just like crushed it.

That means so much to me.

For you to think I'm funny is like the highest of all compliments.

So thank you.

Like, I always think you're funny and nothing you could do with not me thinking that, but being like stand-up funny is just a whole nother level.

And I've never seen you in that sphere.

So so I didn't know what to expect.

And you like completely blew me away.

So I'm so excited for anyone who didn't get a chance to see you in person to see your show.

And of course, you have your podcast, probably a podcast.

So if you want to hear more Shanny on the mic.

Shani on the mic, probably podcast.

I took my mic flag off because this is the toast today, but probably podcast.

My mic flag is off because I left them at the studio.

Claudia's going to be pissed.

Well, now we're, if it, because we're not like twinning, it's like not a big deal.

Yeah, true.

Okay.

But in case case you were confused, this is the toast.

This is the toast.

And you can find me every Tuesday at probably a podcast, except for when I'm on my maternity leave.

Well, thank you so much for being here.

We love you dearly.

And we love ya.

Bye.

Bye.