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Good morning, millennials, and welcome back to the toast.

Happy Thursday.

Now this week is just flying by.

You know what they say?

Time flies when you're with the ones you love.

It's so true.

And as much as I'm glad that it's Thursday, it just doesn't feel that joyful as a Thursday usually does because our week is winding down.

Our week is winding down.

I am here next week, but I will be leaving next week.

Like this is the week that I'm here.

Yeah, this was the week.

Yeah.

Next week is the leaving week.

Right, right.

Unclear when, but she will be leaving.

I am leaving, which is so devastating.

But we have so much fun to have before.

Yeah, I didn't want to start on a negative.

I'm just like, wow, usually on a Thursday, could we be more joyous?

Friday, Friday, Eve, Era Friday.

It's true.

But today, maybe today's a somber day for a number of reasons.

So let's dive into, we have a lot to talk about.

The first, you know, being the most important, I am wearing jeans, which we're going to get into later in the show.

But really, what we need to talk about is we kind of went through as a family, like something somewhat traumatic last night.

You might have noticed we weren't very active on socials.

Like we were dealing with a crisis, a medical emergency.

Yeah.

So we went to dinner at Trout's last night, our favorite restaurant down here.

She put together such a fabulous Valentine's Day.

Each had little chocolates.

Like we were just, while this crisis was going on at your house, like we were unknowingly just like, we were just so happy.

You know?

Yeah.

We were just enjoying ourselves, hanging in no rush.

She made such a good dinner.

She made such a good dinner.

We finally came home.

Bruno greets us at the door.

Totally normal.

Totally normal.

Yeah, he was waiting by the door as he always does.

And then as everyone started to carry on with their evening, we noticed that there were many, many chocolate candy bar wrappers.

Not just just chocolate, dark chocolate.

Dark chocolate, zero sugar candy bar wrappers on the floor.

We counted about 21 wrappers.

He got into like a bulk bag of these mini miniature candy.

So each one is like the teeny tiny ones.

The ones you get on like Halloween.

Yeah.

Well, some people give out big candy.

Oh, no, I mean fun size.

Fun size.

So there was over 20 wrappers.

And as a, you know, a dog parent, Dark chocolate is kind of, if you don't have a dog, like, that's like the most toxic.

It's the worst thing a a dog can eat.

Everyone knows dogs can have chocolate.

Dark chocolate is worse than milk chocolate because it is more a pure chocolate because it's the cacao that is harmful for the dogs because of the caffeine.

So we realized, we counted the wrappers, see how much Bruno has eaten.

So Zach immediately took him to the emergency room.

We're all like working the phones trying to find a doctor to talk to to just like get information on, you know, we're.

adding up the amount of ounces per Bruno's weight while Zach's also doing the same thing like at the doctor.

He just wanted answers.

Yeah, we were just on a fact-finding journey and we were like, didn't know how to just sit by and wait.

So Zach took him to the pet hospital and he had

induced vomiting.

They induced him so that he would vomit up a lot of what he ate.

Got a stomach pumped like a teenager.

Yeah, I guess that's stomach pump.

Yeah, no, he, they.

They categorized it as an overdose.

Yeah, it was a slightly toxic overdose.

The amount that he ate was like in the slightly toxic category.

So it is good that they induced vomiting wherein they found more wrappers.

15 more wrappers.

15 more wrappers, a pound and a half of chocolate which they assume is only about 60 they couldn't get all of it yeah they predicted it was about 60 of the chocolate so 60 equaling 1.5 what's the total almost three pounds almost three pounds of chocolate and would you ever know take a look at this boy loving on his mommy's lap so spirit never broken so they stayed at the hospital until the aspca phone line like deemed them safe to go home bruno came home because he needed a mother's love it was hard for him to be going through all of this.

And of course, Zach was amazing and

right to the rescue.

Right to the rescue.

But like he needed to come home, cuddle up with mommy, eating pads, skin to skin.

Of course, of course.

That's what he got all night last night.

Honestly, he slept amazing.

I'm not going to lie, like it was really freaky, especially because like I have heard horror stories.

Like

the amazing thing is that it was like Hershey's.

And one thing about Hershey's, like, it ain't real chocolate.

Like it ain't real cacao.

It ain't real pure chocolate.

But I have heard of, you know, dogs literally taking a bite of pure, pure cacao and dropping dead.

So the fact that we had gotten home and he obviously had laid on the couch after his big meal, he was still alive.

Like that was promising, but it is like really and truly the worst thing a dog could eat.

Yeah.

We are so blessed.

So blessed.

And he seems to be recovering nicely this morning.

He obviously needs more of his mommy and he has come out of retirement.

Like he wants to do the show now.

Yeah.

And he added so much to yesterday's episode visually, emotionally.

Spiritually.

I feel like I do a better job when I have my muffin here.

Yeah.

So I remember that.

Oh.

You want your pillow yet?

No, no.

That pillow like seriously makes me want to kill myself.

Like something about the way Theo's looking, it just reminds me of his suffering.

I can't explain it.

Oh, goodness me.

Okay.

No pillow.

Maybe, do you want a little shry standing relief?

No, he looks happy and he's recovering.

Let him.

He's recovering with his mommy.

So that's kind of what we were going through last night.

Really, really crazy times, but you know.

He was nuts.

And they said like the night.

Between like four and eight hours after he got home was when we really had to monitor him.

Oh, so we're in the clear.

So we're in the clear past that.

I don't think he, I think everything is going.

How were his bowel movements this morning?

I need to check in with Zach, but I know for a fact that if they were bad, he would have told me.

So no news is good news.

Yep.

Bruno just needs mother's love by mother's side.

Oh my goodness.

What a whirlwind.

What a whirlwind, Bruno.

You're so glad.

I was having like not to make everything about me, like a little PTSD.

Like, oh, were you?

Just like dog hospitals that could become like really triggering for me.

So, so glad Bruno's okay.

Like, imagine if we lost both boys in the span span of a month.

Like,

that would be crazy.

It would be crazy.

But, Bruno, Bruno has a lot more living to do.

Yeah, he's a fighter.

His, honestly, he came home.

He waltzed through the door.

I thought he was going to be like medicated.

Zach would be, he'd be like, you know, tongue hanging out.

Ran through the door.

Tail wagging.

He was really happy when he came home.

Like, honestly, you wouldn't really know it.

You wouldn't know it.

He's a survivor.

Bruno.

will survive.

Bruno has survived and Bruno will continue to thrive yeah so we're proud of you brew crisis averted you know let this be a lesson to all of our listeners you have talk chalk dark chocolate in the home put it on a higher shelf yeah no it was honestly amateur like

just

shit like listen

sometimes these are certain lessons you have to learn the hard way yeah it's true so i mean i forget like bruno really has such human like tendencies he got into my fruit bowl the other day he gets into everything i forget i forgot that because he's really

mischievous.

Like, Theo used to be mischievous, but we would know.

Like, he was so obvious about it.

Bruno's like, low-key subtle.

I forgot that he's like a dog who like is going to eat my fruit.

And this week in particular, he's been getting, maybe because I have more people here, but he was even doing it before you guys got here.

Like, he's just been getting into stuff.

I can count like three other things that he ate, like the melons.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is that what you were talking about?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's nuts.

Yeah.

He's mischievous.

We call him Brudini.

So maybe, you know, Bruno also learned a lesson.

Don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong.

I think if Bruno could talk, he would say, and I'd do it again.

Yeah.

He said, I slayed you once and I'd slay you again.

Slay.

So before that traumatic evening, we had such a fabulous day yesterday that we vlogged for the entire Patreon community.

We just like did our day yesterday.

We did a couple of things.

Things we did.

The damn thing.

Things we did.

That.

We

ran a 5K.

You did.

I did.

I did.

And I don't really want to spoil the vlog, but i'm going to i jackie inspired me she was like listen you have to see where you're at you've never ran 3.1 miles like what are we working with and i was like you know what you're right and i'm not gonna lie like you telling me your time being 42 minutes i knew that was like i needed to be i couldn't be so far away from that like i knew that that was like a normal time because if i didn't have that number maybe i would have just like walked and done it in two hours you know yeah but i did it in 43 minutes.

So I'm only one minute behind Jack's.

Now, having said that, it was like one of the hardest things I've ever done.

And I thought I was going to collapse.

And so you don't want to be that way when you're rubbing elbows with some of podcasting's elite.

With Tom and Bert.

Right.

Bert and Tom.

So I know I'm capable of it, but it was so challenging for me.

Like I need, I need to train.

Okay.

Yeah.

But we tighten it up.

We clean it up.

We clean it up.

So that's in the vlog.

We went to the mall.

I bought jeans.

Something I've been wanting to do for a very long time is like buy jeans in person.

And so many people recommended Abercrombie and Jackie knew a mall nearby that had an Abercrombie.

So we spent the day at the mall.

We were poisoned in the morning.

We were poisoned in the evening.

Yeah.

And then Bruno was poisoned.

Oh my God, the theme of we said on the vlog that the theme of the vlog was poison.

And Bruno took it too literally.

He took it too literally.

So that vlog, I finished editing this morning.

It will be up today.

So you have that to look forward to.

Love Florida family content.

Yeah.

I think we have some more Florida family content coming at you this week.

Yeah, in us for sure.

It's giving Mook Bong.

It's giving Mook Bong, Southern edition.

Southern edition.

Because we have to go to like Florida specific chains.

Checkers.

When you think of Florida-specific chains, what do you think of?

Miami subs.

Oh, that's a good one.

I happen to love their French fries.

I feel like it's not Miami-specific, but I only see them in Florida.

Like, it's Checkers.

That's because they have outdoor dining, and you can't do that everywhere year-round.

Kind of sounds amazing.

Alfresco dining.

I think we should do an alfresco vlog at Checkers.

Like, we'll get out of the car.

I like that.

Yeah.

That's cute.

And then we'll hit, of course, you know, the usual spots.

Of course, and the the drive-thru.

I've not done, I've not driven through a drive-through before.

It's low-key hard.

It's, I'm a little nervous.

It's really actually, and I'm like a pretty experienced driver and I never pull up to the window the right amount.

I'm so far away because I'm so afraid of like even touching the building.

It's an art.

Yeah, that's like, that's the part of driving right now that I'm like mastering, which is just like knowing your size.

Knowing my size, like navigating through like the nooks and crannies of the parking lots and this and that.

So I think the drive, the drive-thru will be a good challenge for me and kind of where I'm at in my education.

So I, again, don't want to spoil the vlog, but I was a passenger in Jackie's vehicle yesterday.

I drove.

And I have to say, I mean, look at me.

Not a scratch.

You crushed it.

Not a scratch.

You really crushed it.

And the car, not a scratch.

There was a scratch, but that's from the car.

It's very interesting.

We'll talk about it in the vlog.

Yeah, yeah.

So let's stop like spoiling the vlog.

It's annoying.

Yeah, but it's a really great fog.

It's a really great fog.

Yeah.

We have a great show.

It's Thursday, which means absolutely nothing, which just just means like we can relax.

Like we don't have, you know, a litany of things to do segments, Schmeggins, like we can just kind of relax and be ourselves.

And if we could like de-center ourselves for a second.

Why would we do that?

For our listeners.

Like it's Thursday for them.

And even though we're having a particularly joyful week, like they could have been having a treacherous one, but they've made it to Thursday.

Well, that upsets me to hear.

Is someone having a bad week?

Someone out there is having a bad week, Turdy.

No, it's so true.

It happens to the best of us on whatever scale, you know?

But no matter how your week is going, like you've made it to Thursday.

And for that, I'm happy for you.

And if you're having a bad week, let Turdi give you like a little bit of inspiration.

A motivational speech from Laf Turdia?

Listen, there's nothing you can't overcome.

Like we all made it through the pandemic.

Like, girl,

whatever's going on this week, it's nothing.

It's nothing.

It's in your mind.

You're imagining it.

You're crazy.

It'll soon be a distant memory.

It soon.

It shall pass.

That's my favorite advice to give people.

It'll soon be a distant memory.

I feel like when you're going through something really challenging, like somebody telling you that, it's like, seriously, shut the fuck up and eat my ass.

But then you find yourself like months, weeks however many you know much time passes later and you're like wow like it really was just a moment in time and i'm in a like i got through it a better way to say this too shall pass yes yes i think that's comforting words but and you think not annoying words and when you're in something bad you're like well no everything passes but not this like this one's really bad it's not that's not how i when i think of this too shall pass i'm like yes but i just have to get there and it's like the getting there that's hard but just know that you will be there takes solace in the fact that you will get there right like nothing in life is guaranteed except like the movement of time.

And so you will get there.

The passage of time.

The passage of time.

That's much like more smart.

Thank you.

More smarter.

Also, we had big plans last night, like Valentine's Day.

Yeah.

We watched Vanner Pump rules all together.

And then, of course, Bruno did.

We're going to make a fire.

We were going to make a fire.

I don't think we were ever actually going to make a fire.

Like, the boys were like, should we make a fire?

And we're like, honestly, no.

Yeah, we said, you guys can make a fire.

Like, don't make it for us.

We said, don't expect us to come out, but we might drop by.

That's literally what we said.

But then Bruno went and, you know, spoiled it all by saying something stupid like

dark chocolate.

Yeah.

So no fire, no romantic Valentine's for us.

Yeah.

But that's okay.

That's okay.

Bruno's health is paramount.

And yeah, the love was that Bruno came home and got to sleep at home.

Yes, of course.

You know, I did kind of want him to spend the night at the facility.

It's always like, obviously you want your angel home, but it's always better that he'd be under medical supervision.

But they said he was fine.

and you know what they were right but sometimes like tlc mother's love heating pad is the best medicine other times no and i feel like this would be another time when they really need to monitor his stomach real medicine yeah

i don't know i think you need mother's love oh my god so you know i was nothing mother's love can cure i was sick a couple of weeks ago you know that and ben is very into like eastern medicine and moronic things of that nature and he was like giving me turmeric and all these like weird herbs and i was just like taking them in addition to like nyquil and stuff and after like a couple of days i finally went to the doctor and i'm like okay let me just like you know go to the professionals and ben did come with me and he prescribed me of course you know my amoxicillin and my prenisone i'm feeling so much better by the way thanks for asking and ben had the absolute gall to like bring up his herbs to the doctor

and i was first of all mortified beyond words and second of all like low-key curious like what this doctor was going to say because like ben was giving me turmeric which is like good for you know it's an anti-inflammatory and my sinuses were inflamed.

I had sinusitis, so I was like waiting to see what the doctor was going to say.

Like, he could not have rolled his eyes more further back into the back of his head.

I was like, Okay, honestly, thank you.

Like, I don't know what I let, like, I let Ben get to me.

I'm like, What am I taking turmeric for?

But, what's the downside?

Also, a good question.

I don't know.

I'm feeling like a little jittery, like, my coffee's starting to like kick in.

Like, I'm shaking my shoulders,

yeah.

And like, just let me know the downside, but right, right.

I just, I don't know.

I just, I thought, imagine like going to a doctor and be like, Well, I I read on, you know,

that turmeric is a great anti-inflammatory.

That's, but aside from like Eastern herbs and whatnot, that's always the thing, right?

Like you go to the doctor and hear.

And like I googled it.

Yeah, and I have my own information.

Yeah.

Just keep that shit to yourself.

Just nod and say thank you so much.

Of course.

I would never ever bring up like my research to the doctor.

You can't.

It's first of all, it's so disrespectful.

It is.

It is.

This person went to school for eight years.

But I also think you should do your own research.

Like, I'm big on that.

Of of course yes but i'm advocating i'm also big on like hannah montana miley stewarding it and being like one way with the doctor and one way at home oh i feel that way too yeah like especially like if you like what i'll do which is like not the best smile and nod like when i go to mexico and stuff like i get pretnisone like i'll like prescribe myself amoxicillin and prednisone from like and i'll get it in really kind of shady ways and then i won't tell the doctor that i did that you know oh yeah which is also not good Yeah, smile and nod.

That's like when we were talking about like the pediatrician and the co-sleeping.

Yeah, smiling up.

Safe sleep, baby on back.

I got it.

I got it, doc.

Yeah, no, you need to have like a front stage and a backstage personality when it comes to the doctors.

Yeah, I think all doctors, you know, clearly Ben has his own things that he needs to do.

No, but Ben was just being himself.

That's a crazy thing to do, which I just thought was interesting.

When I see people do that, I'm like, oh, you're, so you're crazy.

Oh, so you're confident.

No, so you're confident in your craziness, but I do think it's important to be a little crazy.

And like, like, it's your body.

Like, if you're not doing your own research, like, what are you doing i guess it's like so true you know it's not crazy you know i mean like not everything is one size fits all all the time not every medication like so yeah you need to do your own research but then also don't pretend to like know more than the doctor they don't like that yeah no it is rude yeah and they don't like it and you don't want to piss off the doctor no frightening um so we've got a great show today we've got stories that are what

solid as a rock oh i love that so do you feel comfortable at this current juncture?

Thank you for

caring about my comfort, and I do feel extremely comfortable.

Okay, you sound like

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Yeah, like on a college campus.

This is a safe space for us to enter into the fast five stories.

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Yeah, well, um, yeah.

You're welcome.

Yeah, our first story is very sad news.

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I went and see that.

So horrible.

I was like watching the footage come out of the parade before.

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Like, really, just like, there's

three.

Ugly beasts.

Yeah.

Hate.

So I think that probably that they were still counting like victims.

I saw they identified like one of the people who was killed.

She was like a local radio DJ.

Just so horrible.

I saw, I didn't, I saw 10 people were injured.

Now it's up to 22.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

And what was their problem?

What's their motive?

Right.

Like, what was the issue?

It hasn't been come out yet.

Like, what could truly, like,

I saw a quote from the police sheet that was like, this, it wasn't a targeted shooting, but, like, I'm sorry, if three people are acting in coordination, it's a target.

By the way, like, is there such a thing as a not targeted shooting?

Right.

You bring a

political machine to a parade.

Parade with kids.

You're not not targeting anyone.

No, it's giving bureaucracy.

Like, please.

Yeah.

Also, so a lot of the players and the wives, everyone's been posting.

Travis posted a statement.

I saw on Twitter.

People are upset also with Travis because that night he went out and he likes, because there's pictures of him posing with

a police officer, like just, you know, taking a selfie and he's like holding a beer and like continuing.

It's a weird space to be in.

Like, how do you continue with the festivities when it's ended in such a terrible manner?

Horrible way.

Honestly, I can't critique anyone, but I can't imagine what it's like for people to show up at a parade for you and then for it to end that way, like the guilt or I can't, I'm not going to critique how anyone

responds to it, but it's definitely like weird.

I know.

I'm not going to critique it either.

Also, because in all the parade footage, like he's so drunk.

Yeah.

And he like, even though there's a shooting, like you're still wasted.

Like it's not, you're not making like good decisions.

Yeah.

And I think it's just a lot to process.

I'm sure it's a lot for him to process today.

And I'm not going to judge how someone deals with it.

Even though,

you know, it's on its face, it's like partying after what happened.

Like, who could?

On its face, it's weird, but again, like, we don't really know what that's like.

Yeah.

And also, like, receiving that news, blackout drunk.

Yeah.

He was wasted.

Can you even receive the news when you're like blackout?

Yeah.

I don't know.

A very...

That's like a weird part of the story.

Like, I didn't consider like what everyone else was doing.

And what they did afterwards.

Right.

because also the players had to like run off stage and hide I think some of them were like hiding in closets oh my and so like to do that now also you're like super drunk right it's just it's weird a weird experience yeah yeah but I don't I don't know what I would do in that situation so I'm certainly not gonna like reprimand Travis for what he did yeah even though on its face yes it's bizarre

Yeah, so just some sad news to start the day.

Yeah, that's terrible.

Switching gears, shall we?

Yes.

Prince Harry and Megan Markle are giving their children the Sussex title as their last name amid their website backlash.

Okay, also have you seen this?

No, but I did because on earlier on the show, we were like, when we reported on their website, we were asking each other and we didn't know the answer, like, what are the rules royally?

Like, are they allowed to use Duke and Duchess?

And somebody explained it.

So you read the story and I'm going to find the explanation.

Okay, so Prince Harry and Megan Markle have given their children the Sussex title as their last name amid backlash over their new website.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex decided to use their title as their surname for their son, Prince Archie, and daughter, Princess Lilibet, instead of being known as the Mountbatten Windsors in order to unify the family, according to the Times of London.

A source told the British newspaper that the kids have been known as the Sussexes since King Charles's coronation in May 2023.

The insider noted that the kids taking on the Sussex moniker is no different from Harry being called Captain Wales when he served in the military.

Like, I literally don't get it.

Yeah.

Because like when Harry and William were kids, they were the Waleses, remember?

I thought they were the Windsors.

Like, I don't know.

No, but when in the Crown, when he's at school, like someone wrote him a note and it's like Willie Wales.

Okay.

I don't actually, I don't think it was Willie Wales, but I like Willie Wales.

He was called Wales.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So these kids being called Sussex is akin to Harry and William being called Wales.

However, Harry's no longer Wales because he's Sussex.

Right.

So Harry and Megan, this is somebody explained.

Harry and Megan never gave up their Duke and Duchess title.

They are still free to use them.

They gave up HRH,

her

and her royal highness, which is the highest royal title that can be given by the sovereign.

So the queen gave it to Harry at birth and Megan on their wedding day,

then stripped them of it when they left.

And what about prince?

So they were previously styled HRH, the Duke and Duchess, and now are just the Duke and Duchess.

Harry is still a prince and still keeps his place in the line of succession, which is still keeps his place in the line of succession.

Diana was also stripped of hrh after divorcing charles but kept being the princess of wales not hrh the princess of wales got it

in addition to giving up the hrh they also no longer do any work on behalf of the crown thus giving up being quote working royals they cannot represent the crown at events and harry gave up his military titles too but they are still officially and legally duke and duchess thank you to katie brown for posting that in the facebook group that makes sense that they're duke and duchess because plenty of dukes and duchesses aren't like related to the crown yeah

but he can't represent the the crown at royal events, but he's still in the line of succession.

Yeah.

That would be representing the crown in a major way.

I think that like they left him in the line of succession because it's so not going to happen ever.

It's just less complicated to leave him.

Right.

Got it.

As it comes to their kids, like you want to have the same last name as your kids.

And so they've obviously branded themselves as the Duchess, the Sussexes.

And you want to have the same last name as your kids.

And it's clear that like with the website, like they're putting all this information out, there might be backlash.

They're doing it all at once.

And And then we'll move on and they will be the Sussexes heretofore.

They did need not a rebranding, but a clarity of branding because there's a lot of names thrown around.

Also, there was so much drama with like Archie and Lilibette being prince or princess, but actually now they are prince and princess because their grandpa is king.

When Elizabeth was queen, they weren't yet.

And they always, and then they were sad that he was like going to be the Earl of Dumberton.

Right.

And it was always like, if you just wait till Charles is king, then they become prince and princess.

But I I think Harry and Megan, they say in their documentary, like, why wouldn't Archie be prince?

And it does, it's misleading because it's like, he would have been.

It's just him.

You have to wait.

You have to wait.

Yeah.

But Prince George and them don't have to wait because they're in the line.

Well, duh, they're not the same.

But when they

were mad.

It's like they need a third sibling just to show Harry and Megan they're not being treated differently because they're them.

So my favorite like rabbit hole to go down, because, you know, there is a very widespread conspiracy theory that Prince Charles is actually not harry's father diana had like a very well-known affair with this guy named james hewitt who's this redhead who looks a lot like harry like it there's there's there people aren't just like talking for no reason and if you go down that rabbit hole like it's really interesting how that affects like megan and the kids because then there really is no relation right now because

charles like wouldn't be his father yeah and like there's really no connection to the royal family.

Yeah.

But that's if the theory is true, which I'm not saying I believe.

I'm just saying you guys should know that it's out there.

Yeah.

What do you think about that theory?

I think that.

It is odd there's not another redhead in the entire family.

Do you agree with that as a redhead?

No, there's not a redhead in our family.

Our grandfather had red hair.

So they say.

We have a cousin with red hair.

So they say.

No, no, that's not so they say, like it's actual.

I don't know.

I feel like the girls like

growing up,

did Eugenie have like a little red?

I mean, look it up.

A young young Eugenie no or or Beatrice one of them I think I'll look up young Eugenie and Beatrice That's like a fair

and well oh well no, she's she was related by marriage.

Okay, no and the kids didn't good call good call.

Okay, so you're saying actually

no

The girls the older one I don't know when this picture is from but the older one definitely had like a twinge of red but her mother had red right okay so the null and void

no I need to look it's actually so they're the easiest people to trace their lineage throughout history.

Like all the kings and queens, were there any redheads?

Okay, let's say British royals with red hair.

Oh my god, that would be like so crazy.

It's like so obvious then.

It's a little-known fact that three of Princess Diana's siblings

don't count.

Okay, so that was Lady Jane, Lady Sarah, and Charles the 9th Earl of Spencer have naturally red hair.

Okay, that covers that.

That covers Harry.

Hmm.

Yeah.

And Fergie, Fergie, which doesn't apply here.

Right.

I never thought about that, though.

Quora.com.

Where does Prince Harry get his red hair?

Because I don't even believe the theory because he has red hair, but because he looks like that guy and Diana had an affair with him.

Right.

Okay.

The timing.

So he gets, this is from Quora.

Like, this is the most popular answer.

And this person obviously did their research.

He gets his red hair in the same way that all redheads get it from both sides of the family.

Red hair is recessive and can be, quote, covered up by dominant genes while still being passed along.

I don't have red hair, but it turns out my grandfather, whom I never met, did.

So my son's dad has black hair.

As did, we don't care about you.

I will never understand recessive gene.

We were just talking about this.

I don't understand it now.

Like, I know that red hair is a recessive gene that I clearly possess, but I do not understand how it works.

Okay, here's her answer: Diana had strawberry blonde hair when she was much younger.

All three of her siblings, which we were just saying, had red hair when younger before it changed, as hair does later in life.

Charles had dark auburn hair when young, which you can see in older pictures when he's outdoors.

Mary, who's Harry's great-great-grandmother, had red hair and curls like Harry does.

Her curls are actually very similar.

Beatrice has had red hair, but we know that from Fergie.

Yeah, right, right, right.

And since it comes from both sides, that means Andrew carries the jeans as well.

But the flaw in this statement is she's saying, because Beatrice has it, that means Harry has it from mother and father, but Beatrice has it from his mother.

But he has to have it from both sides.

Right.

And Beatrice has to have it from both sides, which means she has it from Andrew's side.

So it's there.

oh oh oh oh oh oh but that doesn't nullify the theory by the way does zach have it in his family

i don't know not anyone that i know but like you know maybe aunt mary like queen mary right right right aunt mary yeah

um

that is so interesting so this doesn't nullify the theory though it just like explains harry

it's a counter argument to the theory but the theory could still be it's the hair but also like the face and the timing yeah yeah Right.

Just something to think about.

Yeah, I've always

taken the theory, like looked at it seriously because they look alike, not even because of the hair color.

By the way, same.

Because if you see a side-by-side of these two people, now that Harry's all grown, like they look so similar.

But those things, that could happen, you know?

Human beings.

you know, like it's just two handsome British men.

But like the coincidence that it would be like a British man that slept with his mother is just a little crazy, though.

Just a little.

It's like I can't tell if it's like so obvious or we're being crazy sound off in the comments like do you think james hewitt is harry's father

i love a good like paternity conspiracy theory and the thing is whatever the truth is charles knows yeah and maybe that's why he's like okay with like not having a relationship with like this rando

you know yeah

yeah Something to think about.

Something to think about.

Okay.

Well.

And so when we have these conversations about like the kids, I'm like, these kids ain't even related to Charles.

Like, who cares?

So you believe the theory?

No, like,

no, no, no, I don't.

No, no, no.

But sometimes I do think.

I'm like, we're going on and on about this.

I'm like, there's a chance these kids like literally are just like

commoners.

Right.

But if

Prince Harry, not that he would ever like be the king, but he's still in the line of succession.

He could be a rando.

Yeah.

Even though if they knew that Harry wasn't, when they stripped Harry and Megan of certain things, they would have taken him out of the line of succession because he is this like mud blood, you know?

They would have stripped him further.

Yeah, they would have like, obviously, that would have been a great, a great way to get him out of the line, get this rando out,

you know?

Yeah.

Something to think about.

Harry addresses

the theory in his memoir, I think.

Oh, you're lying.

I'm pretty sure he does.

Oh, well, that changes everything because if that's the case, like you would never,

I don't know.

I keep saying that.

Prince Harry finally brings silence over the rumor that James Hewitt is his real father.

Wait, that's kind of crazy.

He wrote the rumor going around at the time that my real father was one of my mother's ex-lovers, Major James Hewitt.

One cause of the rumor was Major Hewitt's red hair, but another was sadism.

Tabloid readers.

Sadism?

Just like people being like...

Rude.

Yeah.

That's a nice way to put it.

Tabloid readers love the idea that Prince Charles's youngest son was not Prince Charles' son.

They never got tired of that joke for some reason.

I can't lie, like, I, I'm one of those people.

Like, I never tire of that.

He wonders whether this rumor was used to paint him as a laughing stock, noting that it didn't seem to matter that his mother hadn't met Major Hewitt until long after he was born.

Oh.

Over the course of his life, the rumors have been rehashed in various forms with some seriousness, he notes.

Harry claims that the same.

I feel like he's talking to me.

Harry claims that sections of the media went as far as hunting my DNA to verify it, remarking that he believed after torturing Princess Diana into hiding that soon that they would come for him.

Retired British Army Captain Hewitt penned two books about his affair with Diana during her marriage to Charles.

Oh, that's like a thirsty thing to do.

Further attempting to sell the love letters he exchanged with the princess.

Oh, I die.

The pair met at a party in 1986, and Hewitt went on to help Diana overcome her fear of horse riding.

What year was Harry born?

When did they meet?

1986.

He said in an interview that there really was no possibility that he's Harry's father.

Harry was already walking by the time with my relationship with Diana began.

1984, he was born.

Oh, okay.

Also, I just want to say I'm looking at a picture of Major James Hewitt and like, he also looks like Charles.

Oh, okay.

So the picture that I've seen, like the picture they love to use,

that they put side by side.

Like, that's how we always do this.

If you put a picture side by side with really anyone, like...

No, no, if you choose the certain photo that they choose, it's this one.

Like, maybe it's just a side, right?

They're oh, I've not oh, yeah,

I've seen one like from the side

later in life

of this photo, yes, by the way.

It's like whatever photo you end up using, like you can make the case, and that's with anything, like choosing what people do with John Bonet

all the time, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like it just depends on the photo of John Bonet you choose and the photo of the other person.

When you put them side by side, you're like telling the person, hey, these people look alike, right?

Yeah, except like the James Hugh one, like, really does look.

We did one with you and John Bennett.

We did one with Hannah Brown and

Wendy Rose's husband.

They look alike.

Or was it just the collage?

Yeah, I think Wendy, there's also something to be said about putting it.

There's a psychological element of the collage, the side-by-side.

I agree.

Okay, but has what we just said been enough for you to move on from the rumor?

No, no.

Because maybe they reunited in 1986.

Of course.

And by the way, the Royals are notoriously private.

Like, we don't know who's coming and going.

There's, I bet, I bet there's proof that they knew it was only two years.

Like,

yeah, they could have reunited.

Maybe they stayed away from each other because she got pregnant.

Yeah.

Just something to think about.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, from here to forward, they'll be known as the family Sussex.

They'll be known as the Hewitts.

So that's good to have clarity.

Yes, it is.

It stopped.

Okay.

Our next story is again, what is in a name?

Ooh, okay.

And it's one of you about your favorite.

It's about one of your favorite people to walk this earth.

Who?

Think about like what's in a name.

What does that mean?

Like

someone putting on a name that is not theirs.

Kelly Brianna?

No, no.

Kelly Clarkson legally changed her name.

That was like the most confusing thing.

Who's one?

First of all, it's one of your favorite women like of our generation who did something so crazy.

She's not a celebrity except for what she did.

That was crazy.

And it's a story of what's in a name.

I have literally no idea what you're talking about.

Rachel dolezal oh i saw this story and by the way i saw a picture of rachel dolezal and i believe it was from her you know da's as a black woman and like i can't believe anybody believed her like she literally looked like like she was doing blackface like it was so obvious The woman formerly known as Rachel Dolezal.

And so are you telling me Rachel Dolezal wasn't even her name?

It was not even her name.

What is her name?

I bet it's like Amber.

So right now she goes by Nikichi Diallo.

Okay.

But I also believe that's a changed name.

Right.

Sounds like she's like appropriating another culture.

Yeah.

I do not know what her original name is.

I was trying to find it in the docs.

In the docs, but there's like

she's constantly changing her name.

I'm obsessed with her.

And so she's making waves because she was.

Okay, so she was working at a school.

That's really like unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

And she lost her school job over her OnlyFans account.

Nikichi Diallo, formerly known as Rachel Dolazal.

Her name is Rachel Dolezal.

Okay, cool.

She was fired by a Tucson, Arizona school district after administrators learned of her OnlyFans account.

They said, quote, we only learned of Miss Nikichi Diallo's OnlyFans social media.

Ms.

Dolezal.

But this is their quote.

OnlyFans social media posts yesterday afternoon.

Her posts are contrary to our district's use of social media by district employees policy and our staff ethics policy.

She is no longer employed by the Catalina Foothills School District.

On Tuesday, the embassy affiliate reported that Diallo was an employee of the Catalina Foothill School District and was linked to an OnlyFans account.

The outlet noted that explicit images appearing to be Diallo were being shared on Reddit.

Okay, so they probably were shared on Reddit because somebody like discovered this random OnlyFans and was like, wait, I think this is Rachel Dolezal.

So like

her past is coming to haunt her present.

And

do you think that the school district knew that this Ichi Diallo woman was a formerly Mississippi?

Was Rachel Dolezal?

I don't think so.

That's really crazy because she's like, her name is so famous.

Yeah.

Her face isn't.

No, because she was also in like costume.

In costume, that's so true.

She was in dressing, right?

If she just changed her makeup and her hair, then she does, she's not Rachel Dolezal anymore.

Right, right.

And was she

like, is she living life like as a teacher?

Was she pretending to be like a black teacher?

Or she's over that?

No, I think she's now Mrs.

Diallo.

And is Diallo a black woman?

Oh, is she doing it again?

Right.

That's what I'm saying.

She's still saying like, no, I wasn't like, I am black.

Oh, I don't know.

She obviously has like a mental illness.

Here's the thing.

So in November 2015, she admitted that she was biologically

born white to white parents, but she identifies as black and said she began identifying as black in 2006.

I didn't stand in the way of her identity.

And she also published a memoir called In Full Color, Finding My Place in a Black and White World.

Wait, she's in full color.

She's really committed.

She's committed to the bit.

And so I don't know that like the expose on her would stop her from from like being who she thinks she is.

Right, because her explanation is congruous with her expose.

She's like, yeah, no, I'm not biologically black, but that you're going to tell me that I, like, I, how I feel.

How I identify.

That is so interesting.

And so the embarrassment.

You should read her book for the Redheads.

I honestly like should read her book because this, it's such a crazy story.

I know, but she's like really sticking with it that like, I, I honestly, I can't read a book by like a mentally ill person like that.

Like it would frustrate me.

It would be frustrating.

Yeah, right.

Like I live in reality where like your your DNA like says you're not black.

Like, that equals you not being black.

Like, and I probably, like, I couldn't sit down and read the book of somebody who inherently disagreed with that statement.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So the fact that Rachel Dolasall like was teaching out of school when she's clearly like a crazy person is really, um, it's actually frightening, like for real, for the kids.

She was an after-school instructor.

Oh, okay.

But she's still in charge of kids.

She's in charge of children.

That's inappropriate.

I think.

Like, she, she shouldn't be able to do that.

Also,

I do often wonder because there are a lot of like famous TikTokers who are teachers.

They just like talk about, they like dance.

Some of them like dance in their classrooms.

Never, they never have kids in it, but they're just like, you know, social media stars who are also teachers, which I think is great because you don't make a lot of money as a teacher and you have supplemental income.

But I do wonder like what the school board says about that.

They clearly have policies, by the way.

OnlyFans is not TikTok, anyway.

Right, right, right.

No, but they have a policy called use of social media by district employees.

So there are rules in place.

And I would imagine that the rules like have to do with the sort of content that's there.

Like if it's

like including the kids.

Oh, I mean, no.

Can I see that picture of Rachel Dole's all while you're explaining?

If it's, no, I'm not explaining because I'm just guessing that like if the whole, if the content is like congruous with what a teacher should be posting, then you're in the clear because teachers have social media, even if it's a personal private account.

Right.

But if the content is

nefarious and uns and inappropriate, then it's giving you a window into the sort of person that's being around the children.

Mentally ill.

Yeah, no, but even if it's just like...

Oh, wait, sorry.

I was not listening when you were just talking.

I was talking about Rachel Toll as well.

Even just like, say, OnlyFans in general.

Say the teacher.

Can I start the sentence again?

I was not listening to anything you just said.

I was looking at Rachel Tolle.

Thanks for admitting it, fine.

You know, because then I just said mentally ill and I'm like accusing a teacher of being mentally ill.

Sorry, I wasn't listening.

Okay.

I think all teachers would have social media in general, even if it's just a private family account.

Yeah, yeah.

So they are allowed to be on social media.

And I think as long as the content is child-friendly and appropriate and things that you wouldn't mind your teacher doing, like, it's totally fine.

But you could, I think with there's nefarious content, you know, inappropriate, goodbye.

NSFW.

NSFW.

But what if it's teachers on OnlyFans?

That's NSFW.

Yeah.

Unless you're like, you know, tutoring math on just OnlyFans.

Yeah.

But when we, when we say OnlyFans, we mean nude or pornographic content, correct?

Say it's on new, like say it's sexy.

That's NSFW.

Yeah, but like, I wonder who had to write these bylaws.

No, it's like a new problem.

Yeah.

And I guess it is subject to subjectivity because

we have a lot of teacher toasters, so sound off in the comments.

I imagine when you're a teacher, you're extremely mindful of what you put on social media, whether your account is public or private, knowing that your students could find it.

Yeah, but like, what if you go out for like a bachelorette party with the girls and you're like taking shots?

and it's on social media.

I don't know.

Cause like teachers are humans too.

Yeah.

That's a good question.

I feel like teachers have to like behave different on social media because of like the standard that they're held up to because of their job.

Right.

Which makes sense.

Which a lot of people, by the way, like depending on your job.

So true.

Yeah.

Like you don't want your work finding this.

So you would say like, please don't put that.

So true.

Yeah.

But teachers, I just feel like, because I think I remember like.

I grew up like in high school, like we all had Facebook and there was like teachers with Facebook pages and we would like find it and they were totally private, but it was like the craziest thing.

Cause it was like our thing.

It's like, get out of here.

um

and now i imagine it's much more than just like one teacher having a facebook page yeah that's private and we couldn't even see like a photo right so if you have an influencer teacher tick tocker right i think as long as everything that they're posting is something that the kids could see like it's totally kosher then i think it's fine yeah

interesting yeah

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I'm in love.

He was the one who got Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gypsy Rose Blanchard confused, which honestly, I'm like, I'm surprised he was the first one to do it.

Yeah.

When I was calling her

GRB, when I met her, I almost said RGB.

RBG.

Yeah, no.

And now he's being dragged.

Joey is his name.

He's the new bachelor.

He's being dragged for saying that a city built in 5900 BC has, quote, an old school vibe.

And I didn't detect a lie in what he said.

They're really trying to paint a picture that he's dumb.

Yeah.

So Joey Graziati made another unintentionally hilarious comment.

The current bachelor who mixed up GRB and RBG last week has now described an ancient European city as having an old school vibe.

Viewers were quick to drag the reality star who jetted to Malta during Monday's episode of the ABC dating series.

They went to Malta on the bachelor?

That's crazy.

Like they're getting really kind of creative.

Yeah.

Where was the the place they never left?

Not the quinta, the other one.

Oh, in Pennsylvania, that, that big.

Nimacolin.

Nimacolin, which really sounds like a procedure in your ass.

Stop.

I can't eat today.

I'm a hotel.

That hotel looks nice.

Gorgeous, gorgeous.

Would love to go.

I would love to go on.

On a sponsored visit.

We're so tacky.

There are some places I want to go and I don't want it to be a sponsored visit.

I just want to go.

I would love to go there.

On a sponsored visit.

On a sponsored visit.

It's the type of place it's really only worth going to on a sponsored visit.

No, and it's also like a piece of like pop culture history.

So much bachelor was filmed there.

Like I would show it.

Like I couldn't help but show it off.

Other places I want to be a little more private.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I want to go there on a sponsored visit.

On a sponsored tour.

Yeah.

On a tourist visa.

On an influencer visa.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So Joey landed in Malta and said, I'm excited to be in Malta.

I can tell why people love to come here.

It's absolutely beautiful.

It It kind of has that old school vibe to it.

You can tell there's a lot of culture.

I just feel like when you're on The Bachelor, like it's a lot of late nights.

It's a lot of long days.

There's a lot of voiceovers describing a city.

He probably like filmed this particular like intro to Malta like 60 times.

So yeah, by the end, he sounded a little dumb.

And I'm just not going to fault him because at the end of the day, like, yeah, we can make fun of him, but he's not wrong.

Like, yeah.

I would say that a city built in 5900 BC is giving old school vibes.

Yeah, I I would say that's that's true.

Yeah, Malta has been inhabited since 5900 BC and it's home to temples older than both Stonehenge and the pyramids of Giza.

And like imagine if the people who built those temples knew that in, it was going to be a thousand years, it was going to be in that true, they're probably so proud of their handiwork.

And like, look, we're making fun of this man when we should really be talking about the beautiful Maltese architecture.

We should.

That does kind of have an old school vibe.

1,000%.

It's giving Cheesecake Factory.

Yeah.

Cheesecake Factory has an old school vibe yeah that's that is a factual sentence yes we're speaking only facts today this guy this season is getting a lot of good not i don't want to say press but like reception reception i've been seeing like a lot of like funny moments and people just like really like joey he looks like a really like i think he's like a mama's boy italian from staten island like that's the energy i get i don't know that to be like fact or not but he seems like so cute and sweet yeah people are like he's funny he makes the show like very enjoyable he's someone said he's so simple i love him yeah simple is really a great word but i don't know him to call him simple like no i'm saying based on what i've seen in page six like rbg grb 5900 bc what's also so funny is like if i were watching the bachelor and i heard this comment i don't know that it would have struck me like it's like i'm so glad it was plucked yeah that we're analyzing it But I feel like I might have just carried on.

Well, one, if I was even paying attention to the voiceover.

What I do remember of The Bachelor was like, there was, it was, the whole episode was filled with sentences that meant nothing.

Like, so I don't know if I would have, you know, received this one in any particular way.

I think this sentence is emblematic of, of all the conversations on The Bachelor.

Like, dumb.

I think now if we go back and like pick out sentences of things that people said, like all of them could be fast five stories right for father.

It's true.

It's true.

So why now?

Why this sentence?

So I appreciate it because it's funny and it's like

harmless.

Yeah.

I agree.

Are you ready for our fifth and final story?

A little more reality TV news.

Okay.

Nick Vile is teaming up with Patty Stanger for a CW matchmaking series.

Okay.

Nick Vile is teaming up with the ultimate matchmaker, Patty Stanger.

The pair will work together in the CW's upcoming unscripted series called Patty Stanger the Matchmaker.

Variety has exclusively learned.

Vile, who got his start on The Bachelorette and now hosts the Vile Files podcast, is a relationship expert on the series.

He will offer his best tips and tricks in dating as the duo tackles their most challenging clients yet.

I feel like

they've been trying to get Patty Stanger back on reality TV and like recreate the magic they had with that series, Millionaire Matchmaker.

And honestly, like I think they're, them bringing Nick Vile as like a smart move like to, you know, reach a younger audience.

And Nick like really kills it.

And this podcast is really successful.

And I feel like Nick shouldn't have done this.

Like Nick, Nick is like a new,

Nick is like the new Patty Stanger.

Like he doesn't need, Patty needs Nick.

Nick doesn't need Patty.

Interesting.

You don't, but Nick does really well with his podcast and everything, but you don't think like then also doing like a little bit of traditional TV crossover just like helps his portfolio in general it doesn't and also I feel like for so long everyone does advice on their podcast and everyone does dating advice but I do think that Nick

gives very good advice and that's really been now kind of what differentiates him his niche in addition to being like kind of the go-to place for reality TV stars like He's a dating advice expert.

That's just like kind of what he's fallen into.

And doing a show with Patty Stinger where he is like the sort of

as a relationship expert.

And from here on out, like he can do more things positioning himself as a relationship expert.

That's a good way of looking at it.

I just look at it being like, this is like, I feel like the third or fourth time we're trying to like recreate the millionaire matchmaker.

And it's like beating a dead horse at this point.

Yeah, but maybe like this injection of Nick will bring, you know, new audience and make it more modern.

Perhaps.

And for Nick, you know, he's getting his...

street cred in the matchmaking dating advice space like maybe that's fair he gets his own dating advice right that's fair so i it actually makes sense to me i think it was a pretty good call

for everyone involved for everyone involved yeah let's see how it goes i'm just like a hater you know and like i'm gonna

hate hate hate yeah well you know i have beef with patty stanger so you do she doesn't like redheads

go on if you watch any episode like she literally won't set them up she thinks like she does not like redheads did she say that yeah yeah it's weird yeah no it's really weird

I wonder what she thinks of James Hewitt.

Oh, yeah, she wouldn't like this episode at all.

Right, a lot of times it's very triggering for her.

So, I'm not feeling like inclined to like defend her or support her.

So, it's just really how you feel.

But, taking my own bias out of it, like, I actually think, sure, yeah, whatever.

I thought she was a good matchmaker, she had like funny stuff, except like her beef with Redheads was weird.

Yeah, she's also the type of person who I think a lot of her content would not age well.

Like, she was very old school, very tough, yeah, um, very traditional, yeah.

And but i think in general like we need some of that yes some of the time and that type of content like is profoundly more interesting than someone being like

you know yeah yeah i don't want to

i don't want to watch i want to watch like somebody be insane and she was great at that yeah i that's something like abby lee

oh my god you Patty Stanger is the Abby Lee of the matchmaking world.

That's perfectly put.

Thank you.

Perfection.

Like, I don't even want to say another word because we could end the episode, technically.

It was so good.

I think we should.

What are we going to do for lunch?

Oh my gosh.

When I was getting ready this morning, I was going to see if you wanted me to like preemptively order wraps.

No.

Okay, so Ben made taco meat on Sunday and today's Thursday.

Can I still eat it?

I think so.

I'm going to have that for lunch.

I think you know you can.

And I may give you hard-boiled eggs.

I know.

That's what I'm going to have.

I'm like going to run downstairs and eat that.

Okay, great.

So this was our fourth and final episode of the week, which is so devastating, but not really because we're back tomorrow and Bruno has his health.

Bruno has his health and Bruno has his mommy and he has his auntie and he's surrounded by love, which is really all he needs.

Honestly, when he came home yesterday and like everyone was sitting on the floor playing with him, the man was in heaven.

We were joking that Bruno like did all this doses for attention.

Classic brew.

That's like very Marissa Cooper of him.

Stop.

But I've said before, like I love my muffin, but I know him.

Like he's Tinkerbell.

Like without attention, he will die.

That's all he wants in this world.

And like we all sat on the floor right outside the front door and like we're like, Bruno.

And the way I was like, who me?

Yeah, right, right.

Stop it.

No, I'm fine, you guys.

It was just going through a dark time.

I'm good.

I'm good.

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