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Good morning, millennials.

Welcome back to the toast and happy Monday.

Hope everybody had a glorious weekend.

Glarious Clarity.

Clarity is feeling glarious.

Are you feeling glarious?

That's so good.

No, but I'm feeling good.

I peed, by the the way, last night I peed one time in the night.

Slay the house down boots.

Like, seriously, that's, I am, like, I can't ever pee, like, not pee in the night.

So the fact that I peed once, like, eh, like, you guys, you bitches could never.

And that's on being dehydrated.

No, and I got a new hydro jug, a really cute one.

So the pink in them?

Yeah, the pink in them.

So I've been trying to, like, stay on top of my water, and it's been great, but like, actually, the other night I peed.

four times.

So I have to find a balance between like staying hydrated with my cute little hydro jug, but also I need to live.

I need to sleep.

So it's been tough.

It's been a challenge.

Thank you so much for asking about me.

No, staying hydrated is a tough business.

Last week on Monday, New Year, New Me, I drank an entire thermos before the toast.

By yesterday, I was for a sip of coffee, like first sip coffee.

But today's a Monday reset.

I'm giving the thermos the old college try.

But I am on my second cup of cup.

I am on my second cup of coffee.

Like, stop it.

Also, I had heard this statistic.

I'm just like constantly constantly looking for pregnancy like statistics and studies like that can allow me and encourage me and make me feel good about drinking soda and so the last one i saw was like totally fine to drink soda as long as like for equal parts soda you're also having water so like yesterday i had a flushing it out yeah yesterday i had like a huge soda at lunch and i got a huge water with it and I drank both.

I'm so sick of it.

Water is just sick.

Like I miss the days where I could literally go days without drinking water, like without consequence.

You know, now it's, it's not even about me anymore it's about something else so I have to do what's right and I'm just looking forward to being able to like treat my body like a shithole again you know I miss that energy it's true without the guilt you know but just also take solace in knowing like if baby were thirsty you'd be thirsty if baby were craving water you'd be craving water Okay, I have question about baby drinking, okay?

Because the last time I got an ultrasound, which was somewhat recently, she was like doing the thing.

She's like, oh, baby's drinking.

I'm like, oh, that's so cute.

I'm like, but I'm not drinking.

Like, how did baby drink?

And what the hell is baby drinking?

Well, also, it's confusing because doesn't the food enter them through the umbilical cord, but like their mouth is moving?

Yeah, no, and like, are they drinking that fluid?

Like amniotic fluid?

You know, I just, I don't get it.

I think, like, honestly, it's a call out to the senographer.

Like, I, and I've heard that too, like, when they're in there and their mouth is moving, they're like, oh, baby's drinking.

But no, don't they get it all through their belly button?

And what if baby's like, you know, experiencing tension in his jaw and he's just like, you know, grinding his teeth?

Like, there's a million things that can happen.

A million things baby could be doing.

Yeah.

yawning crying

so

yeah just like add it to the list of things i don't understand about this process but i'm like not actually interested enough to learn yeah but also you don't have to be drinking for baby to be drink because

like the stuff is still in your belly you know what i mean like it's from previous it's from earlier and there's always something in my belly like that's one thing you can count on from me

And I love using that as an excuse.

Like, yeah, usually when I eat, I'm hungry for sure.

Sometimes like I'm just eating, you know?

And I'm like, well, baby needs reserves.

Yeah.

It's a great excuse.

It is.

Enjoy it.

Thank you.

I actually will.

Well, then you go into breastfeeding and like you're hungrier than ever.

Right.

Baby needs reserves.

Yeah.

So, so let me tell you what I did this weekend.

I didn't even tell you this.

I have made it a mission to just become like an informed podcaster, you know, with award season coming up.

I feel like we're going to be talking about the movies a lot.

And I watched two of the movies.

The Oscar nominations were delayed because of the fire.

So I don't know which are going to be nominated for best picture and stuff but i have a general idea from the globes from the globes based on based on that so i watched a nora this weekend and i watched the substance this weekend now the one everyone's talking about is the substance and i'm going to get into that in a minute let me just briefly give you a synopsis of a nora and it is of my personal opinion you should watch neither of them okay okay um to me and this is going to be me like yes i'm entering like sort of a more traditional conservative phase of my life okay like The film Anora represents everything that's wrong with the entertainment industry.

Like it was, first of all, a plotless film.

It was so oversexualized.

And I feel like we've had this conversation like more and more.

And I think that this was a really perfect example.

And I pointed it out to Ben and he was like calling me an ARC basically.

And then as the movie progressed, he was like, no, wait, you're right.

And then we were watching The Substance, which wasn't really sexual, but it had a lot of nudity.

And he was like pointing things out.

I'm like, yes, very good.

It was.

Tits ass, tits ass, tits ass, ass tits, the word motherfucker, the word motherfucker, motherfucker, motherfucker, motherfucker, some more tits, ass, sex, prostitution, like it was just really, and like to what end?

I don't know.

It wasn't to service the plot.

I couldn't, like, the movie really was about nothing.

And there were parts of it that I liked.

There were parts of it I really did not like, but all I kept thinking about was the girl who plays Anora.

She's like this new up and coming actress.

She's super young.

She's naked almost the entire movie.

She is an exotic dancer, turned.

prostitute, turned wife.

And

all she keeps talking about in her interviews is how there wasn't an intimacy coordinator on set.

I'm like, you're fucking kidding me.

Like, it really makes, and she keeps talking about how great it was, you know?

Like, vibes were high.

She was vibes were high.

She was so much better.

So much trust with the directors.

And I was like, okay, that's weird.

But I wonder what the scenes were.

Like, and there were a lot of scenes.

I don't know if anytime someone's naked, is there an intimacy coordinator?

Is it only sex scenes?

But she works at a strip club.

So there's like a million scenes of her, you know, stripping.

And then she's prostituting.

So there's a million, you know, scenes of her prostituting.

It was was so crazy.

And all I kept thinking about was like this new, you know, hot young actress books this great movie and there's no intimacy coordinator.

I had such a pit for her the entire movie.

Now the movie had redeeming qualities, mostly Igor and that final scene.

What does it mean?

I don't know.

But all in all, like, don't waste your time.

And certainly don't watch it with like an in-law or a parent.

You can't watch anything these days with an in-law or a parent or like a sibling.

Yeah, it was really crazy.

I will say one thing I did like about it is the particular part of New York that they shot in.

I thought they did it beautifully.

Like, I feel like it's, you know, one of the outer boroughs that doesn't get much love.

And it's like a very small subculture.

It's very Russian.

Outer borough.

I thought me and Ben were arguing whether it was Brooklyn or Queens because they spent time in Coney Island.

But it's like these big mansions on the water and everyone's Russian.

And that's like very Bukharian, very like Jamaica.

We weren't exactly sure which borough it was, but it was an outer borough of New York.

And it was highlighting all the spots.

And I thought I was like, yes, where was filming in Manhattan?

Give the outer boroughs a moment.

So I thought it actually was beautiful.

Like I thought it did good work for the borough.

Other than that, I'm really limited in my, oh, we giggled.

Oh, the guy who played Vanya, like he was funny, but that was really it.

Don't waste your time.

Now we need to talk about the substance because everyone's talking about the substance.

And after watching the Golden Globes, that was the one that I was like most pulled to watch.

One, because Dimi won the award.

Two, I'm like having this renaissance with Margaret Kualey.

I'm thinking like, I just like love her.

She's fab.

She's fab.

And I don't really watch a lot lot of her work, except I saw Maid and I loved it.

I know her, you know, work as a pop culture figure, but not much more than that.

And the premise of the movie I knew was good.

It's just about like, it's about youth and Hollywood.

And that's really all I knew.

Let me tell you, this movie was fucking crazy.

Now, I wouldn't say that I loved it.

But I would say it was an excellent film.

Like, I can't say that I loved it.

Do you know what I mean?

They made you like have strong feelings.

Me and Ben were, we were feeling, Ben could not get over the movie afterwards he was like couldn't go to bed like we had to watch curb for two hours he was like i'm really feeling on the movie it was disturbing it was very disturbing so the premise of the film is demi moore is this like aging hollywood starlet she was like this movie star and then she started a fitness empire i think it's supposed to be set in the 80s because she does like all these cute like step aerobics videos and dennis quaid who's like the head of the network who was hysterical by the way like he was actually so good

He fires her because, you know, he's like a Harvey Weinseed, like you're old and ugly.

And he wants to find like a hot hot new thing.

And so Demi Moore is like depressed.

And she finds out about this thing called the substance, which is essentially what you would think.

It's like an injection.

And at first, I thought they were making a statement on Ozempic in the film.

And I was like ready to tear it apart, but it had nothing.

Like I was thinking, this injectable drug that's taking over Hollywood, it had nothing to do with Ozempic.

It's like a fountain of youth.

Yeah.

So basically how it works is you inject yourself and like your body like collapses.

And the film is extremely graphic in terms of like gory, blood, needles.

So if that icks you out, like I would highly suggest staying away from it.

So Demi Moore basically like collapses.

Her body like just chills in her bathroom, like on the floor, unconscious for seven days.

And out of her is like birthed Margaret Kwally, this younger version of herself.

And Margaret Kwally gets seven days and then she has to inject herself back and Demi has to go seven days.

And you're like the same person in your brain, but you have to exist as one for seven days and one for seven days.

And but the world sees you as two different people.

So Margaret Kwally, like she gets up and she goes to audition for the new role of Demi Moore.

She gets it.

She becomes this huge starlet.

And it isn't after long before she doesn't want to give up the seven days.

She doesn't want to go back to being Demi Moore.

Like, ugh.

So she starts, you know, staying a little bit longer, which you're not supposed to do.

Because what one giveth, one taketh away.

So with each time she steals from Demi Moore, when Demi Moore comes back, She's much older.

Like her finger turns like purple like an old lady.

And then one time Margaret Kwelly was going nuts.

She came back half of Demi Me, half of Demi, like her right side of her body was like ancient and then her left side.

So she gets progressively crazier and crazier looking.

Margaret Kuala don't give a fuck.

And the two girls, Demi and Margaret, even though they share a brain, they like hate each other.

And the whole point, they say with the substance, you are one, you are one, you are one.

They were not acting as one, you know?

So I won't spoil the ending.

The ending is crazy.

It's not like, there's no resolution.

And it's, it's really like a sort of

campy, almost satirical like, horror film.

And it's like silly, but it was very good.

It made you think a lot because there's a point where Demi Moore is so old looking.

She has, and like, then she starts to look like a mongrel because, like, Margaret Quayle is stealing so much.

So she has like a boob coming out of the side of, like, she looks crazy, but she's looking at this photo of herself when she was like, you know, 55, when she had just gotten fired, and she loves the way that she looks, and she would do anything to look like that again.

So it really is like this reminder of like how you hate how you're, how you look now.

And then in 50 years, you're going to be wishing you looked like the way you did now.

So it made you think, it made me laugh.

The girls were great.

Demi 1,000% deserved to win.

Like what she did in that movie was fucking crazy.

It is the craziest movie I've ever seen.

Okay.

And I wouldn't say I loved it and I enjoyed every minute.

I was really uncomfortable.

Like it's nobody's favorite movie.

But that's what films are supposed to make you feel uncomfortable.

Question shit.

They're supposed to make you think.

But

also, not all the time.

We don't need to be uncomfortable all the time.

There can be like one movie in the nominations that's like, oh, that's the crazy movie.

These days, it's like, oh, that's the movie that, you you know the norm the happy people saw yeah no let me tell you it's worth the hype like it's really

it was wild it was truly i don't know how long the movie was but like it never ended like are you gonna watch more oscar movies i am so then last night we started to watch the one with ralph fiends about the pope dying and like after a few minutes it was just extremely clear like that was not gonna work like it was just we tried like we girl bossed a little too close to the sun why a lot of them

brody one it's not out yet also the adrian Birdie one is three and a half hours.

But turdy, you're committed.

And also that's the one that looks very good.

Well, that one's still in theater.

So maybe I'd go to the theater and see that.

I think that's harder to go to the theater for three hours.

I just, I think there's an intermission theater.

I need some like popcorn.

There's an intermission.

So I just want to be like when I'm like doling out all the Oscars like critiques and stuff, like I want to be well informed.

And I will not be watching Amelia Perez.

Oh my gosh, the clips that I've seen of Amelia Perez.

I want to come for sex change.

It's like, I need a penis.

Penis to vagina, vagina to penis.

Like, I honestly, I still don't really even know what the movie's about, but now I'm understanding it's about this, like, drug warlord, like cartel leader who wants to transition.

I don't know if he wants to transition in an earnest way or because he wants to go into hiding.

I think the transition is earnest, but then it also, the vibe I'm getting, it's like, that that should absolve him from his crimes.

From his, his, her crimes.

right whose crimes they are anymore oh yeah no i'm not sure on the pronouns because i haven't seen the film and i'm not going to um because it looks like crazy crazy stupid or the clip of selena gomez i can't even repeat what she said like my jaw hit the floor yeah the clips that are coming out like seriously make it look like satire

And it's so crazy when people put it in perspective.

I never expected Wicked to win anything major.

But when people are saying this one best musical over Wicked is absurd.

Oh, yeah.

When you think about it that way, because it's a musical.

about a sex-changing cartel leader.

No, so the brutalist and then the um Kieran Culkin one, you know, he won the Golden Globe.

It's Jesse.

Jesse Eisenberg.

So essentially, I know now I know what it's about.

They, I almost watched it.

Ben was like not compelled at all, which I thought was weird because he's like kind of him.

They're like these cousins who are like so different, whatever, but their grandma dies.

And their grandma, I think is a Holocaust survivor or like it's whatever.

She's from Poland.

So as like a tribute to like learn more about her, they go to Poland and they take this journey to like learn more about one another.

And then, you know, kind of beautiful.

And they like learn about the grandma, but they end up learning about themselves, you know?

That seems like one of the more innocuous films.

It's just like,

and it was also 90 Minutes.

So I'll probably watch that one.

It's called,

I don't know, Real Something?

Real Inconvenience.

Like Real Friends, Real Pain.

Real Pain.

A Real Pain.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

I just, I know, like.

There are bigger things going on in the world, so like the Oscars did delay, but if they could just give me a list of movies I need to watch, like, I'm just guessing here.

no golden globes is a good place to start and also like watch also the things that do look good to you i'm sure amelia prez will be all over the oscars don't watch that i i don't know if it'll be all over the oscars honestly but it won it it got this golden globes stamp of approval yeah but that's the golden globes i'm just saying

also pick with your heart because yeah i do want to watch the brutalist but joe alwin is in it and i've actually never watched anything with joe alwin in it i started that show that he was in on Hulu and it was really bad so I didn't I don't even know if I got to a scene like that he was in

and I have seen Joe alwin I feel weird

you know I feel weird watching him do you know what I mean yeah but he's such an actor that he really should just like become the person that he's playing he's really like

he's like a classic actor where it's like you don't know a lot about this person he's just like doing his job but you know more about him you said i've seen joe alwin you know mary queen of scots i feel like i always talk I feel like I talk about it like too much every time he comes up.

You don't talk about it too much.

I just want to be clear because I have literally no idea what you're talking about.

But maybe that's a reflection on me and not you.

I didn't, yeah, no, but I feel like you and him would cross paths a lot.

He does like a lot of period pieces.

British period pieces.

Speaking of, I started The Empress last night, season two.

I was saving it.

I'm just kind of having a hard time getting into it because now that I know so much about Cece, I read two books on her.

Like this show is fiction.

You girl boss too close to son.

The show is fiction.

He didn't have a crazy brother that was trying to overthrow the throne.

Like, it's all irrelevant.

Yeah.

And I'm just being like, what is this fake show that I'm watching?

And also, something that's really bothering me is I'm watching it dubbed with subtitles.

And the dubbing

does not match the subtitles.

I'm watching two different scripts.

The concept of this, like, the sentence is the same, but the way they word it is different.

But I also want to say the concept of the sentence is the same, but it's sort of those translations that could be a huge difference it's certain sentences like there's major differences in the translation i'm having a hard time

is working too hard and it was pissed me off i want to turn off the subtitles but i'm also eating and i'm crunching and i can't hear what they're saying yeah the crunch like adds a whole other layer and i can't lip read because they're saying something else so my brain is working really hard and and for what it's not even true for what it's not even true i think i'd rather read a book okay well it was really good so if you can like suspend disbelief for 45 seconds no i i yeah but I've only, I'm only in the second episode and I started it this weekend.

Like, that's not great.

But I'm like, I'm saying that it's so different from what actually happened.

If they had taken more of an approach, like the crown, I think that would have

to be better.

It's the sort of history that

is stranger than fiction.

You know, you don't have to add things to it.

It's a crazy story.

She's like one of the most known historical female figures.

Like you don't don't have to

pull from your imagination.

Yeah, that's annoying.

I also wanted to say we're like T minus like two weeks from Turti moving into her new studio.

I was there this morning, actually just checking on things.

There's a lot of, I don't want to want to, I don't want to start filming there until like everything's done.

And I want to get like my wallpaper up.

Like I want to get all my boxes unpacked.

So I'm going to sit here, sit tight until that's done.

So just, I don't know if this means anything to anybody but me, but very exciting.

We've got Wi-Fi going in this week.

It's going to be huge.

It is very exciting.

As you know, like Turdy doesn't embrace change.

She doesn't.

She doesn't like to move.

She doesn't like to call the movers.

So I feel like this is a big step, like for the growth of Turdy.

And people aren't understanding that because you think it's like, oh, she's just moving studios.

It's so much more than that.

I want to talk about some accusations I saw about myself on the internet this weekend.

Okay.

People are saying.

that my new laugh is fake and forced.

And I'm like literally putting on this new laugh.

Now, it's obviously hurtful to see because I've actually spoken and my truth is that I love my new laugh so much.

It's like one of the great parts of pregnancy.

And let me tell you, there aren't a lot.

So I've just sort of been clinging to it as like this fun new thing.

And every time I laugh, it just reminds me of this beautiful thing that's happening to me, this metamorphosis.

So to see accusations of fraud,

I'm not shocked, you know, but it's hurtful.

That is hurtful, especially because you've been so vulnerable in opening up about it and the changes you're experiencing.

I have to make a confession of my own.

You don't hear it?

I haven't noticed your new lap.

Like it hasn't struck me at all, which also I think goes to prove the authenticity of it.

And I don't know, I feel like I have reached a level of celebrity, especially as, cause I saw all these rumors on TikTok.

And I think that just in time for the app to be banned, like I'm finally, like rumors are finally being started about me.

Like this is what I've wanted my whole life.

You told me like we were going viral.

People are making like hilarious sounds with your snow song.

Like we're just kind of the talk of the town.

No, and there's like a special tier of celebrity.

I don't know if you know Michaela from TikTok.

Of course I do.

You're my sister.

Kim Kadashi.

And she has this like crazy Boston accent.

And like, there have been rumors for years that her accent is put on and completely fake.

Like, so they found these old like videos of her in college where she was like making, she was like a college like tour guide or whatever.

So she's like on this video of her college being like, let's go check out the library.

And she's just talking completely normal.

Then there are people who have come forward from her hometown being like, you know, we don't talk like that.

That's like four hours away from us if you, if you talk like that.

So there's been like a lot of speculation, speculation about her voice for years.

And she has maintained like those videos.

She was so embarrassed of her accent.

She used to like put on a normal voice, but now she don't give a fuck.

And I'm at that tier now.

People think I'm faking my laugh.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, just me and Michaela with 15 million followers.

Like, please leave us alone.

Always coming for powerful women.

So true.

Ain't that the truth?

So true.

Yeah.

And it's also like T minus four.

No, what's today the 13th?

Seven days, one week until potench the media landscape changes forever and TikTok is gone.

Over, I think on Friday,

they were speaking before the Supreme Court, the talk.

They

made their case.

I don't know if it, you know, moved the needle at all.

I don't think the Supreme Court is going to intervene.

And we kind of have this weird time period where their time is up on January 19th,

which is the day before inauguration.

Right.

So like to sit Citral Z on January 20th.

I don't know.

And I can't imagine that like the very first thing Trump's going to do is TikTok.

Like there's a lot of important things going on in the world.

Like I don't know if that takes the kick.

Maybe it's like first week material, not first day.

Or maybe just 100 days is sorting it out.

The 100 days are very important.

Right.

So I think we just got to hang tight, but I do feel, and I've got a little bit more clarity because while the app will not disappear from your phone, it will disappear from the app store, which means your app can't update.

So apps, you know, you probably don't even realize, but they update your Instagram almost every day.

Bugs.

And if an app never upstate updates, it will eventually stop working because bugs can't be fixed.

Things can't be updated.

So while maybe not on the 19th per se, will your TikTok stop working?

Over time, it will.

Okay.

Well, I'm glad to know that I've curated a really personalized reels algorithm over on Instagram all this time.

And perhaps it will serve me.

However, I don't think, I think this will get sorted out.

Like, I don't think it's the end of TikTok, really.

Because because you would think i'd be happier like good all of my defiance was has paid off but i just don't i'm not getting that feeling but maybe it's because it's like the boy who cried wolf i've felt that we've been here before yeah but we've never been this close that's what we said last time no last time there was like a date but it wasn't within the next seven days like we're here now yeah it's longer than it's ever been i'm writing down our countdowns too because okay i have my book of lists megan markle's new show which has been delayed which we will discuss um

And that countdown just got a bit longer.

But like, yeah, I just want to keep our eye on the, on the various

studio.

Yep, it's on here.

And TikTok.

Okay.

And TikTok.

Okay.

Anything else coming up?

Obviously, like, you know, birth, but we're so.

Oh, Molly Mae's show.

That's my other countdown.

Right.

Of course.

Molly Mae show.

Should be any day now.

Should be any day.

Well,

I feel like we've sufficiently wasted enough time.

Oh, you think?

Oh,

that was a lot of time.

Right, right, right.

Shocking.

I didn't even know.

I think my sentence recap was like 15 minutes.

I didn't get to myself.

I had a lovely weekend.

Thanks for asking.

Oh, good.

What happened?

Oh, just like a lot.

I feel like I really played the weekend well because sometimes I feel like I do too much and it's not relaxing.

And then other times I feel like we stay home too much and like we go a little stir crazy and like time just drags on.

So I feel like we really mapped it out well with various errands.

We went to the farmer's market.

Pargy.

And like, I'm kind of struggling because the market?

With the fart, with the concept.

Like I bought eggs from like a co-op like a local farm co-op and I haven't eaten any of them yet yeah you got to see the farm first I went to their Instagram and their website and like they look legit and they do the whole like raw milk raw dairy they're one of those and I should be glad as someone who's you know a homesteading trad wife that I found my local farm co-op

but I don't know I'm having like I'm having a hard time kind of like jumping in and being the sort of person that's like trusting these random fucking eggs off the street over the eggs at the grocery grocery store.

But like, that's sort of where like life has been.

That's the trad payoff.

There is trust involved.

I'm on the precipice of greatness, but like I can't crack these eggs.

I'm just like looking at them.

I'm like, where did they come from?

Well, I think you and Zach need to eat them first before you feed them to everyone.

And then see how it goes.

I think they're safe.

I'm sure they're fine.

I'm sure there are standards that you have to meet to be in a part of a farmer's market.

Like I do think you need like food licensing.

I'll have to look into it because I haven't been to a farmer's market actually ever in this journey of like organic crunchiness.

And so I just need to say a lot of it was giving like, hey, I made this.

Yeah, no, it's giving neighborly.

It's giving like if your neighbor baked you a cake, you would eat it.

Like you wouldn't think.

But like there have to be food standards, right?

I don't know.

So I spend a lot of my weekend thinking about these.

Just like mulling over the eggs while mulling.

And also they're farm fresh.

I don't have to put them in the fridge.

They're just sitting on my counter, like looking at me.

Yeah.

Well, it's kind of good if you know someone with a farm, like personally, because then there's that personal trust.

So, I don't know if you could get them, but Brian has eggs in his farm.

I don't know if you can get them from Pennsylvania.

No, no, I've eaten them, I would trust them.

You have to have a local farmer, but where you meet them is at the farmer's market, but I'm just having like a that trust is very tenuous at the moment.

Okay, what if you took like a trip to the farm?

That would help 100%,

yeah.

Okay, maybe that's next weekend's activity.

That's actually a nice activity.

You're welcome.

Um,

so without further ado,

it is time.

Okay.

Yeah, without further ado, I guess you don't want to hear about my Sunday.

No.

No, you're right.

I don't.

I'm kidding.

What happened on Sunday?

No, no, it's fine.

I'll save it for another day.

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so our first story and it's worth mentioning before we get into the stories that obviously the big story of the day and the week is still the fires in la i would have hoped that by today there would have been like more containment but they're still raging there's so many different threats to the various communities including people losing their houses looting crime.

Like it's just, it's so scary out there.

More arson.

More arson.

Yeah.

It's just, just it's devastating and

that's really like i was sat this weekend on my

just like yeah watching reading about everything like seeing but also of course like how many people are helping how many people like you really see the good in people it's so true but also so much so much evil too yeah like i know that you want to focus have everyone's been sharing that like mr rogers quote like find the helpers and like there are so many people doing so many amazing things but it also shows like the

it's the best and the worst of humanity like and it's actually really really crazy to see both like where you know everyone people have lost everything they're running for their lives and there are people who choose to like run towards that danger and fight and there are people who choose to run towards that danger and take advantage and steal and like it's actually so crazy yeah the complex like the complexities of humanity it it is very crazy so uh some of our stories is like fire related but really that's what's going on and just um we're just thinking of everyone there and hoping everyone is staying safe.

Even then you also have to think about like the toxic air now.

Right.

You can't.

Even the communities that have been like contained.

Or even the people who haven't had to, who don't have to evacuate yet, but are nearby.

There's just so many different things to consider.

And we're just thinking about, that's really where our minds are today.

Yeah.

However, um.

Megan Markle has delayed her Netflix debut of With Love Megan amid the LA fires.

So Megan Markle's show was supposed to come out this week.

We were countdown to With Love Megan, but she's decided to postpone the release date of her new series as wildfires continue to devastate her hometown of LA.

At the request of Megan and with the full support of Netflix, the release of the series, which is a tribute to the beauty of Southern California, has been moved from its previously announced Jan 15th premiere date to March 4th.

Let me just write that down.

Just update your countdown.

Due to the ongoing devastation caused by the wildfires.

Yeah, I think she has to be really

cautious in everything she does.

And I think that while I don't know if this was absolutely necessary, like, you know,

the world hasn't stopped.

You know, there was football games on last night.

Like,

I think, you know, she's really cautious because she's under a lot of scrutiny more than the average person.

So this is the right call.

Although I don't think it was necessary, even though I guess like the show being tied to LA, maybe it's like a little soon.

But it also, I think you can argue both sides really strongly.

And I actually don't know what the right decision is.

But I also think what's easier for her and better for her and ultimately, not to think this way, better for their bottom line in viewership is to postpone it because she can't promote the show right now because her and Harry are like on the ground trying to help people they've opened up their home it would be tone deaf to promote the show when she is you know someone who sorry people would call it tone deaf of her to promote the show and so she can't do that

she probably doesn't want to release it right now but it's also like bad business the point of a show is for people to watch it and right now like people can't right no people can watch it

but she can't do everything that she wants to in support of it.

Otherwise, she would get a lot of backlash.

Cause I think actually, if it is a show about the beauty of Southern California, like this might actually be the right time for people to watch it to really appreciate the beauty of the state and what's being lost.

Yeah.

You can make that argument, but also you can make the argument that like now is not the time.

Yeah, the thing is, I'm sure she weighed like the risks and the rewards.

And honestly, I don't know a real downside of delaying it, but I could see there being a lot of blowback if she didn't.

So I think she thinks about things more deeper and more heavily than like an average person who was launching a show.

I think the downside of her delaying it is like looking at it.

Lossing the momentum?

No, just looking at it through the lens of like,

why are you delaying it?

Because you can't do all the things that you would want to do for it, but that doesn't mean the show can't come out.

Yeah, but

you want the show to be successful.

I'm sure Netflix was supportive of that too.

Like if you can't promote something that you spent a year filming and Netflix putting all their money towards, like, they want it to do well.

Yeah.

So, she, if the reason why Netflix invests in someone like Megan is because she's Megan.

So, she can't be out here like putting her name on something and going on Kelly Clarkson show to talk about it.

Like, what's the point?

Yeah.

No,

it's definitely an interesting conversation.

One that Megan is not the only one who is a part of.

You were sending me some stuff.

We were talking about it last night: how people are

kind of dragging others, brands, influencers, for carrying on business at this time so the the event in question is tripping with tart tart cosmetics did one of their tarts just for anyone

chronically online um they did one of their brand chips they do them a couple of times a year and let me tell you they always make waves now of course the timing is beyond unfortunate for this one but every time when they took people to dubai there's always a lot of blowback to tarte for their trips.

Now, they're not the only beauty brand that does trips.

Most beauty brands do them and they do them really extravagantly.

I mean, Caudale just took people to the south of France, to the lavender fields.

Like they do really,

there have been Korean beauty brands that take influencers to Korea and buy them Birkins.

Like really crazy.

It is the upper echelon.

Like, and for some reason, there is like a special reserve of backlash and hate for Tarte Cosmetics.

And I think it's because it's like a pretty accessible beauty brand.

It's like not really high price.

It doesn't give like luxury.

It doesn't give drugstore per se, but like it's, it's, every, every man's sort of beauty company.

Like everybody uses it.

I also think it's because the influencers who they invite are everyone's favorite to go after.

Like I don't even, I didn't even hear about this Caudalee South of Friendship.

Who went on it?

Probably influencers that are so big and fancy that they're out of your realm of like.

Not really, actually.

Like I saw my girl, like, like Lamzilla.

She's like, she's from Canada.

She's like a swirly like everybody else.

Like, I don't know.

She's like, like.

No, I'm telling you, a lot of brands take the, they all take the same people.

I'm telling you.

Like, it's not that tart is bringing different people.

So I wonder.

Over the years, they've gotten blowback for a lot of different things.

They had been criticized in the past for not having like a diverse enough group of influencers.

And I feel like they really acted on that.

They were criticized for, I guess, like giving better rooms to people with bigger followings.

We had talked about that.

Like there was, there's always drama.

In the end, I do think like NetNet, it's really good for the brand.

Like everybody's talking about these, these trips.

This one in particular is really crazy because a lot of the girls who came are from LA.

And I mean, the timing could not have been worse.

They've been there now for two days.

So literally in the midst of a lot of the fire drama.

And the only person who actually wasn't able to attend is Tana Mongeau because she was like packed and ready to go.

And then she had to, she was then asked, forced to evacuate.

And so she was never going to make it to the airport on time.

Whatever.

She was the only one who didn't end up coming.

Now, it's been very interesting because a lot of the girls actually haven't posted.

So I was like, are they not there?

Or are they just not wanting blowback?

Tar Cosmetics is

posting like as normal, but I mean like the girls themselves.

And so before they all left, they had made an announcement that they were donating $250,000 to fire first responders, LA first responders, and then that they were also making a donation in the names of each of the girls, $10,000 each,

in the name of, you know, Brianna Chicken Fry to various causes.

I think they get to maybe choose their cause.

And then I know some of the girls like Remy is matching that 10,000.

So there's a huge philanthropic effort being made here.

The trip itself is, all of their trips are extravagant.

This might be the most extravagant, perhaps maybe on the same level as their last trip to Dubai, which caused quite a stir.

They cause a stir just because people are like, well, you should be having these trips for your customers, like not for influencers.

And it's like, okay, well, that's maybe a conversation you want to have about like marketing in general and all beauty companies.

But these conversations, like they always get taken out on tart.

Like I actually feel bad.

But this trip in particular, it's on Necker Island, which is Richard Branson's private island in the British Virgin Islands.

You know, you can rent it.

Paris Helton famously had her honeymoon there.

It's like $150,000 a night.

You get the whole island.

There's a an animal conservatory.

There's a it's like the craziest place.

And so

it's really extravagant and it had started about two days ago.

And they had, you know, made all the statements before taking off being like, we know that we're not canceling.

And there has been like a huge call on social media for them to have canceled and how out of touch this is and how tone deaf it is.

And I actually don't agree.

I think that one, they're doing really everything they can,

even like a little above and beyond.

Um, they're having like beach, they're like, I saw them like all dancing on the beach, like doing contests for the firefighters.

They're doing contests, like they did musical chairs, and the winner got to donate $10,000 to another charity.

Like, they're really philanthropic focused, and I don't know what more they could be doing.

Like, people are just mad that they didn't cancel it.

And, you know, Necker Island, I think it takes like a year and a half to get approved to stay there.

Like, the hoops you have to jump through.

I'm sure they spent minimum $1 million on this trip.

That was before they even, you know, set foot on the island, before they brought a concealer to the islands.

Like, so I don't know why, like,

and I don't see any sort of energy or

movement to have this same sort of conversation about other things that happened this weekend.

It's like, for some reason, like it has fallen on this female-founded company.

It's literally, she's a literally a billionaire, Maureen.

And people just like, she's also very front-facing.

So she takes a lot of the heat on behalf of the brand.

She's like this woman who started Tarte Tarte 25 years ago.

She owns the company outright by herself.

Like what she's done is so impressive.

Like she owns the company.

She's able to do this.

And for some reason, like this whole conversation about like what should be posted on social media is being taken out on her.

Yeah.

That's it's so and I actually just don't agree with it.

Like I think that two things can be true at once.

Like you can acknowledge it's not like they're pretending this isn't going on That's something I would agree with like that's really problematic

like they've actually probably done more charity and give gave away more money like in order to offset what they were about to do than if they just canceled the whole thing yeah totally yeah no if they had just canceled the whole thing that's like almost 500 grand that didn't get donated to first responders right i actually i simply don't agree and i think that you're right i think a lot of the times like you know backlash comes for the creators themselves like you know i feel like brianna chicken fry is having a moment where everything she does everybody's like well that sex and so it's like well brianna chicken fry is there like so it's kind of this amalgamation of like women who hate other women it's like this is like a women's issue by the way

yeah if i said to to Ben, do you know what Tripping with Tart is?

He would say no.

Like this is a woman's issue.

They're all watching the football that's still on

that everyone's promoting and talking about.

They had a moment of silence.

I saw at one of the games.

So nice.

Did you think that the Houston Texans should have let the Chargers win?

No.

I didn't even think.

That's funny.

When they started playing, I was like, oh, L.A.

will win because they need this.

That's actually so funny.

I didn't like put together that an L.A.

team was playing.

It was an LA team.

But then I'm like, it's a playoff.

So they can't just give it all away.

Not the time.

They've worked all year for this.

No, I mean, think about like, because I was thinking about this yesterday.

I was watching the Bills game and they said Damar Hamlin.

I was like, oh, my God, Damar.

Like literally somebody died on the field and they continued to play.

Like, I don't know.

But I also think that's the same thing.

And by the way, there was like no backlash to that.

Like, so

that's what I'm saying.

Like, this is a woman's issue.

But I think it's also because like football, they don't give them a lot.

of leeway in terms of like if people were calling for that they you know maybe it's because they're a bigger organization give in to backlash yeah they kind of actually they do a little bit but i don't know it's so much more immediate with social media you can like reach one person they will see it and i just feel like football it's like oh it's they just keep passing the ball technically and also because like men don't come after each other like women do no they don't and i've seen like so some like actually some of the worst takes i've ever seen about anything in regards to this issue like people saying it would have been so much better if tarte had like their influencer trip in la and put all the girls to work like you know volunteering like yeah and then you guys and then you guys would be like get these fucking influencers out of you and then you'd be like well you only volunteer and take a picture it's not and then you take a picture of it to promote it and you literally can't win you can't win i don't think it should have been delayed it's not like it's not like covet remember when like the nba shut down remember when every if everything was shutting down and then tart was still over here tripping with tart okay i hear you everybody's like everyone's going to work everybody else is working except the influencer shouldn't and tart shouldn't do their trip it's so i i don't agree with it at all.

No, I don't agree with it either.

And

I just

that's why I said like even Megan, like she could have.

She could have,

I personally wouldn't have been offended by it.

Me neither, but you're saying these same tripping with tartars

would be.

Think of how they come for tert.

They come for meg.

And tert being tart, not terti.

Tart, not not tart.

It's very confusing.

I'm having a hard time not saying tripping with tert.

Sorry.

It's hard.

I've been there.

Yeah, friend.

And I feel like the trip is kind of a bust, which sucks for for this brand that spent like probably $2 million, honestly, if I really think about it, because no one's really posting now.

So they've been there for like a full day and a half.

And now I'm starting to see people posting.

There are certain influencers who seriously don't give a fuck.

Like from the day the minute they got there, they've been so excited to be there.

For some of them, like this is the nicest, first, best brand trip they've ever been on.

Like they don't give a fuck.

And they are posting.

Right.

I mean, also, if people would have a conversation, like

people who aren't posting, they're not grateful.

Like the people who are excited to be there are the most grateful to be there who's never done something.

And by the way, in their card.

also there are people on the trip who are um

wives of first responders like they are bring they brought like right they invited some of their fans they do trips now like just for teachers just for nurses like they're doing the most no they're doing so like

it's really i can't like it's you're right it's sort of when you

i don't know if there's anything they could do that would satiate the sort of hater aid energy no yeah but that's why like with anything there's always going to be people who have an issue so you have to do like you have to stay true to yourself yeah do what feels right for you and if we wanted to have this like larger conversation about like influencers who you know are affluent and make a lot of money and how unfair it is that they get free product and free trips like sure we could talk about that that's a different in a large

any other day but that doesn't only happen with tart no

yeah that happens from brands at the very top louis vuitton all the way down to walmart like it's it's happens everywhere like it's it's the industry if you have a problem with the industry sure let's have write a thesis about it but that doesn't have something to do with the fires and tart And Maureen specifically.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, we shall see.

I mean, I do wonder what's going to happen with awards season.

And like, I do think a lot of things are going to continue to be postponed for logistical reasons and also

societal.

Sensitivity.

Sensitivities, yeah.

But our next story is actually some.

Two faces of this crisis who have emerged and are really a beacon of hope for the country.

And that's

Spencer and Heidi.

Because Heidi and Heidi.

And I have a personal anecdote I need to share.

Heidi Montag has hit number one on iTunes as Spencer Pratt has been asking fans to stream her music for income help after their house burned down so Spencer and Heidi were among the first to lose their house in the Palisades and then Spencer also shared that they had been dropped from insurance in the weeks leading up to the fires so they have lost a lot everything um he has taken to tick tock and social media and is gaining a bit of a following and now i think they're talking to hulu about because everyone's saying give them a reality show again to watch them rebuild they are kind of the faces of this crisis and their amazing tv It's a no-brainer.

He said they do have a meeting with Hulu.

So

he has been keeping everyone abreast.

He probably posts 55 TikToks a day.

It's so entertaining to watch.

He's just trying to like rebuild something for his family.

And I think it's actually really smart that they have this music that Heidi released years ago.

And it really is this sort of evergreen way to make money.

It is being streamed everywhere.

There's like almost a million TikToks have been made to it.

People are just like trying to support.

I made one to it.

Emily Radikowski made one to it.

It's really taken off.

And then this video went viral being like, we need Pitbull to lay a verse on this song.

And a Spencer shared this morning, he has been in contact with Pitbull's team.

Like every time he does something, it really makes waves and reaches the people.

And I think people really want to help.

And he did this TikTok that was like, brands, anybody wants to do a brand deal, you know, make some insensitive content, like let me know.

And I was like, Ben, reach out, like, Spritz Society.

Yeah.

So I actually sent him a message and I was like, I love what you're doing.

How do we get you like a Spritz brand deal?

And he gave me his manager's information.

And Ben's talking to his manager right now.

You know, we're a small company, so we don't have like huge budget, but I think A, it would be like a great moment for Spritz and B, like that's actually money you spend on marketing that you know is like going somewhere good.

Yeah.

So we're working on it.

And what's also really brilliant about the Heidi thing is that it costs no money for people to support them and just stream the song

and they're able to generate income.

So that's really great.

But no, people have been really following closely their story.

And I think what's happening to Spencer is like this

larger conversation about like celebrity.

Cause I I think Mandy Moore got like some backlash this weekend for sharing a GoFundMe and it's always this weird place we talk about it all the time like outside of this major historic fire when a celebrity shares a gofund me on their social media it's like well bitch you do it you know like what are you looking at me for i can barely pay my rent like so it's just always been this like weird

situation and now it's happening a lot and spencer at first was getting like a lot of backlash like you're a rich celebrity like leave us alone there are people who and spencer's like i'm actually not like i've been just like a working reality star working influencer working personality my whole life.

And yes, I have had, and he has spoken about how like, of course, at the height of the hills, they had, you know, really done very well financially, but didn't, you know, he blew it all on Chris.

Right.

In the most responsible way.

So it's this convers, it's this very like interesting inflection point where like, I think we're seeing like a lot of celebrities who

maybe aren't as, you know, liquid as we had thought.

And I think that a lot of them had.

their net worth and their money invested in real estate and that real estate is gone now.

So it's like,

it's kind of awkward.

So like Mandy Moore had like posted a GoFundMe and then had to edit her caption being like, of course we personally donated, like everyone just F off.

It's weird.

And I actually don't know.

I guess it's like case by case because every celebrity's financially situated, financial situation is different.

But like when Lady Gaga shared that thing about her dad's restaurant, it's like, girl, no, that's bad.

We're not talking about you here.

No, no, no.

I feel like that's a bringing her.

Mandy Moore, she's like a working actress, you know,

that people, as long as you contributed to the GoFundMe, I feel like that's, that's, that's weird.

Like to celebrate.

I would expect that anyone who's posting a GoFundMe has, has contributed.

Cause like either on the website, obviously don't feel that strongly if you couldn't even give a dollar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um,

but

it is a tough line to walk.

I mean, oh, we, like, Megan Fox is a nail artist.

Yeah.

But it's like, I wouldn't expect her to, like, cover the whole thing.

No, and now it's just happening more frequently because there's so many GoFundMes and there's so many people in need.

And it's just just this funny line that I think celebrities don't know how to handle either yeah

because even I mean every celebrity is posting like donate here donate here it's like well you yeah

and like especially especially celebrities that have like consumer brands they're like we support you we're always buying your stuff so it's like and you're you're a billionaire now so like why don't you make a donation yeah and i'm sure that they have and then it's also like if they share what they what they donated it's like well you're just bragging there are so many different conversations in this.

And especially in like, I don't know what it is.

Like, it's like charity gate.

There's, there's that.

There's also like people are donating to the LA Public Services, which they have the highest.

Like Whitney Cummings said, it's so nice that you guys want to donate to our firefighters.

That's nice, but like, that's crazy that you should have to.

Right, given what we pay.

Right.

Yeah.

No, it's definitely a crazy time.

It's a, it's a crazy time and it's just, it's ongoing.

I feel like there are, there are obviously immediate things that need to happen, even like where are the kids going to school I was thinking that too and these are some of them are kids who are out two years for COVID like

what are like did you see that like street in the palisades that's completely burned down and the only thing remaining is a synagogue and of course they've opened up their doors to anybody who needs it but that was like really crazy because then that got me thinking like I'm sure that because it was a chabad I'm sure I'm like I'm sure that's also a school yeah and then I'm like wait where does everybody go to school where does everybody go to school I've seen no and I can't even think about it like too much without having an existential crisis because like these are like entire communities entire real estate markets that have been wiped out so like if you want to rebuild first of all how many builders are there right is there a waiting list to get your house rebuilt if you can afford it and then also like if you want to sell is your value is your land worth nothing now or is it worth a lot now it just depends it's just unprecedented like that an entire economy is going to wiped out no and it will just depend what people in mass decide to do with everyone's rebuilding then yeah if you have a standing house that might be more attractive you don't have to wait to build but i saw um the palisades village which rick caruso had built was still standing because he had hired private firefighters to defend it but it's like who's gonna who can shop there who's shopping there now no right there's no

community there's like there's nothing it's crazy to think about there's no community the school

i genuinely i can't i can't wrap my head around how you like logistically rebuild it will take years right right and are people gonna wait people have to move on with their lives.

Are they so mad?

No, but I also think financially a lot of people can't.

Like they have to sort of stay where they are because like all the equity they had built in their lives are in this piece of property.

Yes.

And also, do you only get insurance if you rebuild or do you get it for what you lost and you can spend it how you want?

I think the second one.

Oh, okay.

So then people might take their money elsewhere.

But I think it's going to be like years before people get.

their insurance money.

I think there's going to be like a lot of lawsuits.

Like, I just don't think it's going to be as simple as, because it's ready, even if it's not like, even if if it didn't happen to your whole community, if you started an accidental fire in your house and your house burned down and you have insurance, like, do you know how many hoops you have to jump through just like in a regular situation to get your insurance money?

Like, and to get exactly what you're owed.

Yeah.

And there are a lot of people like offering advice on this particular thing.

Which we are obviously not experts.

No, no, no.

I'm just saying, like, there's so many different things that people are having to deal with now and.

that people are contributing.

Like, there's just so many different ways that you can help, but also so many ways that you can't.

You know, if you feel it's like a helpless situation, the fire is still going on.

Correct.

Anyway, switching gears to our next story, which is

three.

Okay.

Timothy Chalamet is set to host and musical guest SNL.

Oh, yeah.

This is interesting.

So Timothy Chalamet has been announced as the host and musical guest of SNL on January 25th.

It seems as though that he will be musical guesting like as Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan.

Now, let me say this.

One, when I was thinking of movies to watch, obviously the Bob Dylan one came across.

and I literally said like, absolutely not.

I didn't even think about it.

It looks terrible.

And I feel like it's such a flop.

I don't know why.

I've seen nothing about it.

I've seen not a reveal.

I've seen nothing commercial.

Like when you compare it to other big biopics like Elvis,

like Bohemian Rhapsody, like Walk the Line, like, yeah, it's a flop because it's not commercial.

But is it, did it get that big budget or is this an indie movie?

I don't know.

I don't really know.

What is the movie called?

A Complete Unknown, which is also a terrible name for a movie.

Yes, I would never never guess that it's a biopic

yeah let's see how it did first of all it has a 78 on rotten tomatoes which by the way every movie that i've been like watching for

um

oscar buzz even though like i don't agree with it it has well in the 90s for critic on rotten tomatoes for critic review or audience you gotta look at audience you can't look at unknown has grossed 50 million dollars worldwide did it even come out yet maybe it did then why is it's been out for three weeks.

Okay.

This weekend it brought in another $5 million.

Congrats.

So it's in total

North American total is $50.8 million, which this website says is impressive.

A couple things about him performing as Bob Dylan on SNL.

First of all, Bob Dylan is still alive, right?

This is something that I've realized.

I'm reading like all these like headlines about Bob Dylan, how he has like no friends.

And

he seems as though he's alive.

Yeah, I know.

He's 83 years old.

Damn.

So maybe he'll join Timothy.

How does he feel about this guy just out there like being him?

I don't know.

It just feels like such a sponsored episode, right?

Like this whole thing would be paid for by a studio.

And I'm surprised they hadn't done it before.

Like, I could have seen Elvis doing it.

Like, that's something we would have wanted, you know?

Nobody wants this.

Like, literally, not a like, not one person, not even Club Chalame.

Like, she don't want it.

However, I am looking forward to it because I feel like Kylie will go.

I feel like Kylie will be in attendance supporting her man's

big night.

I don't know.

I feel like this is really weird.

He'll be good.

He's because

it's never been done before.

And I feel like when SNL is the, the cool thing about SNL is like, it's the same every week.

And anytime they've changed anything, like when Taylor Swift performed one time, a 10-minute song instead of two separate songs, like it was the craziest thing, but it was the most hyped.

Everybody wanted it.

So for them to change their like standard formula for something nobody wants or like seriously will care about, I think it's really crazy.

I don't know.

I actually think Timothy Shalmay will be really good.

I think he's really talented.

I think it gets overlooked because there's so much like lore around him, but I think he's celebrating.

He's really good in these SNL type things of like improv and comedy and drama.

I think his hosting will be great.

I agree.

And I think he's going to surprise us with the music.

Did you see that video of him in his talent show like rapping?

Little Timmy, yeah.

He's going to bring Lil Timmy to the SNL.

And he has hosted before and he has, he always makes waves.

Remember, yeet!

Skirt!

Like that's him.

I think

where i'm really concerned is this musical performance honestly like i'm genuinely concerned i just wish it was like i don't think i know a bob dylan song so whether it's good or bad

i won't be able to know as opposed to like if it were

you do know the answer my friend is blowing in the wind the yawn

and does he not sing make you feel my love the adele cover

turdy or is that make you feel my love discovered the answer so much?

He's Bob Dylan.

He better sing that and he better bring about bring out Adele.

Bring out Adele.

Bob Dylan Sr.

and Kylie on Rise or Shine.

Okay.

Yeah, he does.

Okay, so we know two songs.

Okay, no, he only got two.

He's knocking on Heaven's Door.

Knocking on Heaven's Door.

You know that one.

Okay, I'm going to make a committed effort to watch the clip on YouTube when it's done.

I'm going to make a committed effort.

You're not going to stay up past midnight to watch?

No, I could barely stay up past midnight on New Year's Eve.

Actually, Loki, I stay up really late.

I do it in bed though, so it feels different, but I go to sleep really late.

You're just sleeping with your eyes open, you know?

Yeah, I'm just in bed, but I'm not sleeping.

Yeah.

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Our next story, a little bit of rumor mills, a simple favor 2 director is addressing Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick feud rumors delaying the release of the movie and he is just shutting them down.

He slammed speculation that a simple favor 2 starring Blake Livey and Anna Kendrick has been shelved by Amazon because of, as one user annex claimed, Blake Livey's refusal to promote amid her messy legal battle with Justin Baldoni and growing tensions with Anna Kendrick.

Anna is furious.

Paul Feige is disappointed.

Hollywood is in shock.

Paul Feige.

Yeah, so these rumors kind of came out of nowhere.

By the way, there have been rumors about this movie like for a while, just in relation to Blake and Anna not getting along way before this Justin Baldoni thing.

If you're like into the movie, there's a crazy lore around.

I mean, so much lore that we watched this movie last month after it's been out for years.

It came and went.

No one was talking about it.

I guess we watched it because we had heard the sequel was coming and because Paul Fag is doing the housemaid.

So this movie just keeps coming up.

And back into the culture.

It has such a cult following.

And usually when things do, like, it's because they're good.

The movie was so bad.

It was so stupid.

Like, seriously, the biggest waste of time of my life.

Of my life.

However,

the sequel's coming out.

Usually sequels are worse, though.

So it probably will be bad.

But Paul Feig is defending Blake Lively and saying this is total BS.

Sorry, the movie is finished and coming out soon.

Don't believe anything you read on social media these days.

Right.

The movie's like completely filmed, completely ready to go.

And people are just saying, like, Amazon has decided not to release it.

Like, sorry, you don't spend $100 million on a movie and you don't release it.

So I'm sure it's coming out when it's coming out.

Yeah.

But this, I feel like, will be another movie.

It already has all of these legs of just people.

drama having opinions about it.

I feel like when it comes out, it's going to be a whole other thing.

Yeah, because there was, you're right, there was already like some drama there.

They had said that like just Blake and Anna Kendrick really didn't get along.

Like so much so to the point that they couldn't even do press together.

And like if you watch some of their junkets, there's like really awkward tension.

Do you think that there's never been any confirmation?

I could see these two not getting along.

Yeah, from a person.

And based on like what we know about Blake, like through this process, like we had said, it doesn't seem like she's like the most amazing, fun person to work with.

I think maybe she has like a diva attitude.

Yeah.

Well, I guess in the movie.

And I could see Anna Kendrick.

Like, I could see Blake lively thinking Anna Kendrick is so fucking annoying.

Yeah.

Because like I don't know Anna Kendrick.

I know her characters from Pitch Perfect and then I had seen like a bunch of clips of her on Call Her Daddy and she's definitely like

she definitely is like yeah, yeah, like super nice.

But I could see someone like who has like a short temper and like is a diva finding her annoying.

They literally seem like they're two characters in the movie.

And that's why when two people are feuding on a movie like this, I'm like, great, well, that's the movie.

But when it's two people.

When the characters don't like each other.

They're not supposed to be in love.

It ruins the movie because you know that they don't like each other.

It makes it really hard to promote.

And we just are all reminded that we're watching a movie.

But I actually don't mind the fact if they don't get along, that's actually better for the movie.

It's more real.

Yeah, no, it's very true.

And I don't know, I don't know how much truth there could be to it because if you had made a movie that seriously made very few waves and you hated your co-star, like you wouldn't do a sequel.

Yeah.

Like if it was really that bad.

No one was begging for a sequel on it.

So there were a handful of people, not a lot, but a strong

mighty contingency.

Yeah.

Small people.

So I don't know.

If they did it, it couldn't have have been that bad.

I agree.

That's just my thought.

Are you ready for our fifth and final story?

A little

mix news because Little Mix alone, Jesse Nelson, is announcing her pregnancy with twins.

So Jesse from Little Mix, the first to leave the band and thus starting the end.

The girl who ruined the band.

Of the band.

Is announced that she's pregnant with twins.

She said she's eating for three now.

So that's very exciting.

Although, I do want to say I actually don't consider Jesse Nelson to be the girl that ruined the band because she, to me, is very much like a Zane Malik.

Not only did the band go on without her, I actually think they did some of their best work without Zane and their best work without Jesse.

I don't think they missed her either.

Yeah, she wasn't like a key character

locally

from any standpoint that like the band suffered at all with her absence.

That's how I feel about Zane Malik.

I agree with that, but it shows a crack in the surface, you know, and then it's like, oh, we can just leave?

Yes.

What if we just left?

It's like there's two types of bands, right?

And like, there's two types of departures, like a a Camilla Cabello, Fifth Harmony, a Justin Timber, like in sync.

Like, that's crippling for the band, somebody who's like a load-bearing member.

And then there's sort of like ancillary members that leave and nobody moves.

Now, the band could go on to disband for other reasons, but I think that Jesse Nelson is very much of the Zayn Malik variety, not of the Camilla Cabello variety.

1,000%.

And it's worth noting, like, Little Mix is coming back.

They've said they'll be back.

They're just like taking a pause for motherhood and such.

Yes, it's hard, though, because like Perry Edwards is releasing bops in her solo endeavors.

And that, that makes it tough.

Like everything I remember like when Harry Styles went and started doing solo music, like when the music was really good and it really started taking off, like it's getting started very slowly that like this was not a hiatus.

It was a break.

No, and like when I do think about the music that I would want Little Mix to be making, like,

I don't want to sound, you know,

ageous and misogynist, but it's like not what they probably want to be making at this stage in their lives.

Like, Like,

I don't know if the twain shall meet.

Yeah.

So I think it's great that they're all progressing in their lives personally, you know, getting married and having kids.

And it's great for Jesse.

And I do think if Little Mix does choose to reunite, it is without Jesse.

Yes, I agree.

Cause Jesse also does her own music.

Sort of.

Sort of.

But in a way that like, you know, I do my own music.

I'm just saying as like the person who loves Little Mix the most, I would actually, I would be very much okay if they don't reunite ever.

And like the music that they made for us during that time is just a moment in time lives and it's just perfection in a bottle.

Well, now let me ask you a question because even before Liam Payne passed away, I had always felt like if one direction got back together, like there was a chance that it would be all five, not just the four.

Like I don't know why it wasn't clear cut to me that it would be just without Zane.

Now I feel like the band will obviously never get back together.

Like we're even further from that possibility.

But if they did, It would have to be with Zane, right?

Because then if not, it's just three of them.

Yeah.

No, and by the way, I'm sorry, they're never getting back together.

No, they're never getting back together.

If you really knew the dynamics and like the vocal abilities of the band, like Liam was an extremely strong vocalist and like an important,

he carried a lot of weight.

Like him, it was really him and Harry vocally.

Oh my God.

I saw a clip recently of their auditions and someone was like, how did these, did I send it to you?

They're like, how did these people become the biggest boy band in the world?

Like, they're horrible.

They can't sing.

Even when they say, oh, it's what you do to me.

Their individual auditions stink.

Because they all audition separately.

And then even when they sang Torn for Simon Cowell,

like it's bad.

And they're wearing like actual threads.

And that was like at its time a cultural shift.

They look like seriously like a bunch of like homeless youth.

It's actually crazy.

Like from like cats, extras, unhoused, extras in Oliver Twist.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like seriously, it's so confusing.

And then I remember at the time, like when Harry has his solo and he's like, nothing's fine and I'm turned.

Like, it's not good, but at the time, like, literally hearts were breaking everywhere.

Like, people were not fucking okay.

No, that's not good.

And they compared it a lot to like...

Thing is realizing that that was not good.

That none of the original members of One Direction at the time of their creation, like could carry a tune except for Liam.

And Niall.

Don't forget, Niall recently found out that he was the reason.

No, that the band was built like around him, but I mean vocally, like he did not possess really

and i don't even know how they got them to such a good place because then there was a time when the five of them would sing all together and harmonize with each other and it was really beautiful yeah well that's i don't know what sort of training they went through but you and i need to go through vocal coaching you can make a good voice better even look at our

person has a little bit of pitch arianna grenade has the best voice like of our time period and growing up she was probably like always the girl with a really good voice but now it's on another level like due to training she even said like she trained for a year before she auditioned for wicked like she doesn't just show up and sing so on the one

it's a skill you have to like it's a god-given talent but it's also a skill that you can hone and make better yes but some people are beyond any sort of like if you can't carry a tune if you have no no even you know like you know when a note is right and wrong right i do

i can hear it but i don't know if i can hear it as much in myself But you also have a lot of rhythm.

Like you know, no, I'm not sure.

I think some people have no rhythm.

Like there are people who actually cannot, even with the best training in the world, could not sing if they wanted to.

Yes, but then, and then even people who have the gift need to work at it yes even stars like us like

you think we just wake up and sing like this no you do you do yeah but I guess what I'm saying is you can be better well I actually took some vocal training classes in college and they were like some of like the worst experiences of my my life and it's just like when you realize maybe you'll be a podcaster Because like I went in there and I was like, all right, let's like throw down.

Like it was a great way to earn two credits.

And it was taught by like a grad student and it was just like in these music rooms with a piano and I thought we'd just be like raise your voice with Taylor Swift.

Yeah, no, she was making me sing opera.

Raise your voice.

I literally will never forget.

We literally,

the whole semester, we did one song and it was like this, ready?

Anne sings in the morning with waking birds she sings songs of fairy butterflies.

Like the whole thing in Head Voice.

I'm like, this is not helping me at all.

And I like really wanted to audition for X Factor at the time.

And I was like, you want me to pull through with this?

Like, Like, are you fucking kidding me?

But it was like the curriculum.

She just giving.

She was literally like an now.

I realized she was like 19 years old and like a grad student.

She was doing her best.

She was like, this was something she had to do for credit.

And I would come in there and be like, can we get the sheet music for like Beyonce?

And she was like, Anne sings in the morning.

Like, ugh.

Some of the worst times of my life.

It was giving Susan Boyle.

Yeah.

With waking birds, she sings songs of fairy butterflies, of flowers, and timely things.

And when she sings, it seems to me no place on earth would lovelier be when sweet Anne sings.

Like the fact that I remember that is crazy.

That is.

I can't even remember like your name.

No, it's so crazy.

But now I'm thinking about Susan Boyle.

That was a cultural shift.

Yeah, she did what no other woman dared to do.

I think she did that.

That was seriously so crazy.

Where is she now?

We should have her on the toast.

I do believe she's like, you know, a gal about town.

I don't think she's like completely recluse.

No, no, no.

I think she like, you know, lends her voice here and there.

But what a voice.

That was like the platforms and advocacy groups.

That was when like YouTube videos would like seriously go viral.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

And that I'll never forget.

Because that was like in the UK before you could just like know what was going on in the UK.

So the fact that the YouTube video made its way across the pond, it was really crazy.

It was really crazy.

And that wasn't a song that I knew.

I dreamed a dream before she sang it.

And then it was like my favorite song.

I dreamed a dream of time gone by you know what it's so beautiful i want to go watch that video and see if it holds up and see if it's like as chill inducing as it was back then and then if it's not and you're like seeking chills from that song do watch the glee version with leah michelle and adina menzel it's absolutely beautiful that's beautiful i had a dream my life would be

what is that lay miz yeah that's lay miz i've never seen it though i literally should because it's historical fiction musical like that's me i actually have seen it you like it in college i had to take a class called cinema unlit where like we would read the book and then watch the movie and like talk about it and of course it only showed up when we were watching the movies and then like i didn't read the books um so i did see lay miss but it was like the og it wasn't like the ann hathaway one did you like it oh it wasn't that oh so no it was like jean valjean in black and white it was like kind of dreadful victor hugo man

I saw some of like the worst movies of my life in that class.

Death in Venice.

Like,

wait, what?

Oh, Toddzio.

Like, okay, Death Death in Venice is literally about a pedophile.

Like, I don't know if it is, but there's like this man in Venice following around this little boy, Tadzio, and just like staring at him in different corners.

And it's like, Tadzio, like, it was.

But then, what did he want?

Makes you have sex with a kid or something.

Exactly.

I actually don't know.

That's how, that was my takeaway from the show.

Okay.

Tadzio.

That was like, seriously, a waste of my time.

College in general was a waste of my time.

Like, really, do not.

Do not come.

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