Kim Jong Barbie: Thursday, January 25th, 2024

Good morning, Millennials.

Welcome back to the toast and happy Thursday.

That feels like a Friday because we're fucking celebrating, bitch.

We're motherfucking celebrating ass white bitch ass motherfuckers.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

This is a nice family-friendly podcast and people listen in the car with their kids.

And I'm not going to tolerate that type of language so early on in the show when the kids are still awake.

I'm not going to do it.

Oh my God.

Okay, mom.

Yeah, teacher, class is in session.

Ooh, ooh, order in the court.

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We also have a Navy crew neck sweatpants set that just says the toast on the breast.

For the more radioactive dude girlies.

Yeah, so the two sets are kind of like inverted versions of one another, though not identical.

But the other set is just navy and it's a little more pared down while this is very

toasty.

Can I ask you a question?

Do you think two people on the planet love anything more than we love the time 10 a.m.?

Like, one thing about us, like, if we're going to do something, it's at 10 a.m.

10 a.m.

is the right time.

It's a good time.

Even with the kids, like 10 a.m.

is the right time.

Like we left for Disney.

Let's get out the door at 10 a.m.

Like it's a very realistic time.

It's not too early.

It's not too late.

All you need is a light jacket.

Right.

It's like the first double-digit hour of the day.

So it's like early, but like a little late.

Yeah, it's not like early bird gets the worm.

Right, right.

but it's not noon

i've been doing early bird gets the worm i've been waking up every day at like 6 30 7 which is earlier than i wake up i think it's because i was on like a prednisone pack and you know they make you a little like it's a steroid like and you're roided up yeah i actually took my that's why you've been a little nutty professor okay

you said it was tylenol you were taking well I started the swirly was on Roids.

But Jackie, the day that I, everyone thought I was on the drugs and like high, I actually hadn't started the Roids yet.

Oh, wow.

I feel like on this show, like when you are on any sort of medication,

you have to let everyone know because they're so attuned to our personalities that when there's even the slightest change, like you...

you have to be transparent about what you're taking, unlike Tristan Thompson.

Yes, which we will talk about today.

I wasn't planning on it, but.

Oh, you know what?

I'm so glad because I don't give a shit.

But now that we've brought it up, let's just deliver the news.

I don't know.

I'm sure everyone already saw he's been suspended because they drug test you in the nba for like roids real roids yeah and he tested negative oh no excuse me he it was a negative it was aladin it was aladine he tested positive which was very negative for him

is that from something i just made it up it's hysterical

oh my god hysterical stuff might even be like better than is aladine okay what is better than someone asking like what's that from to something you just originally that's like someone saying did you get your glam done and you did it yourself so true also even though COVID was like a really dark time in like our history one of the bright spots was taking a COVID test and telling people you're COVID

and telling people you're COVID al-Adin

yeah like we'd be like I think I have it I think I have it and then we'd send the thing and then people would be like would you what do you would you have it it's all adin and they didn't know if you were positive or negative if you guys don't know that reference from the dictator starring sasha baron cohen like i do feel sorry for you I want to say, I feel like people actually don't know that reference.

That's like not one of his most quoted or popular movies.

Obviously, everybody knows Borat, but The Dictator, Al-Adin motherfucker, is so grossly and criminally underrated.

Criminally.

Like, the Toast movie of the week, you guys have to watch The Dictator at some point this week.

It's probably not better than Borat because Borat was a cultural shift, but it's his number two movie.

Wait, I feel like we're confusing movies.

What is the Seth Rogan movie that, like,

that Supreme Leader?

I think that's the interview.

No, that's the interview.

They're both like loosely based off Kim Jong.

We need to talk about something that I feel like gets swept under the rug and we need answers.

Remember when that movie was coming out, the interview, and it was like making fun of Kim Jong-un.

And so all of these emails started to leak from Sony.

It was a hack.

They said it was like North Korea retaliating against the coming out of this Seth Rogan movie.

Yeah.

Was that true?

Was it not?

It was my understanding that like that was the

line we've been served, but like that seems insane.

Do you feel like there's a conspiracy beneath the surface about that leak?

I kind of do.

Like it really doesn't make sense that Kim Jong-un.

It is a little radical.

It is

radical.

Kim-oon leaked the emails because he didn't want this unflattering movie to come out about him.

I know.

And it's not even a movie about him.

Like it's a parody.

Fiction.

Yeah.

And there's like actual like documentaries about Kim Jong-un that are like based on real stuff that happened that like are probably worth it.

Right, right.

And this like was kind of like funny.

And I think he came off.

He listens to Firework by Katy Perry.

Like you got to see a different side of Kim.

Actually, I just saw a video of Kim.

There was like a big affair in North Korea.

They

threw a volleyball game in his honor.

I guess he like loves volleyball.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Did you see this?

No, but it's reminding me of one of my favorite memes that I'm going to go find.

I'm saying, so he showed up.

They threw this like recreational volleyball game for him where all these volleyball players came and like there was cheerleaders and Kim Jong sat and just like had the best time watching these men play volleyball.

That's classic Kim Classic Kim.

There is a meme that I send to Ben every time I see it and I am going to take the time to find it if you don't mind.

No, I don't mind and I do feel like now would be a good time to mention like Kim Jong-un-il and the dictators of North Korea like is one of my favorite topics to talk about.

It is low-key one of the craziest things about like the world we currently live in.

Like that there's like this kind of like toxic remote dictatorship and like we don't even know what goes on there.

They don't have cell phones.

They're completely cut off.

It really is the craziest thing.

And there's that girl.

You know the girl I'm talking about.

Crystal.

She escaped.

Yeah, she like escaped North Korea and like that's her thing now.

She's like a media personality.

I saw some, I always see clips of her on Joe Roger like talking about it.

It sounds like not fun.

She has a book and Rebecca's read it and she's always recommending recommending it to us to read on the redheads.

Maybe we should, Turdy, like, and know what we're talking about.

I feel as though my Roman Empire is the fact that North Korea exists.

Like, it's so crazy, and it's just so opposite from our way of life, you know?

Freedom, I won't let you die.

Freedom, I will not give you up.

You know, those liberties we take for granted.

It's so true.

Ah, makes you think.

You're having a hard time finding this meme.

According to his biography, Kim Jong-il first picked up a golf club in 1994 at North Korea's only golf course and shot a 38 under par round that included no fewer than 11 holes in one.

That's really funny.

Satisfied with his performance, he reportedly immediately declared his retirement from the sport.

That is so funny.

And that's literally been if he was a dictator.

Literally.

Mine would be starting propaganda that he hit 11 holes in one in one game.

Yeah, but like the fact that all of the subjects like have to think Kim Jong is like the most amazing thing ever, even though he's like literally never done or accomplished anything and he's like kind of ugly, very ugly.

If people just like adored me, like it would be mandatory every Friday night.

Like there's a turdy concert at MSG and you better like light your fucking phones up and get lit.

Yeah.

It's also crazy how the transition from ill to un, Kim Jong's like so smooth.

Jackie, I'm so glad you brought that up because I actually remember, I'm literally going to start crying.

It's so funny.

I like like remember being like 12 when Kim Jong-il died and like I knew his name in my bones.

Kim Jong-il.

Kim Jong-il.

And I said, there's no way I'm going to be able to start saying Kim Jong-un.

It's just, it's beyond my capability.

Like it's a rebranding that's going to take a while to get used to.

So seamless.

The way I don't even think about Kim Jong-il anymore.

It's crazy because for a while, the name on everybody's lips was Kim Jong-il.

And now it's Oon, exclusively Oon.

Exclusively Oon.

You forgot about the ill.

And I do think that like branding agencies should look to what they've done so how you could change the names culturally so easily.

I completely agree.

And it just like it does make me sad.

Like obviously on a really serious note, like living in North Korea sounds like really one of the most miserable existences of all time.

And even made like making it even more sad is they can't listen to the toast.

No, that's devastation.

That would be like

in my dictatorship, that would be mandatory.

Of course, we'd be playing over all the loudspeakers.

yeah we would literally be like um

stanley tucci in the hacker games caesar milan yeah yeah not milan not milan caesar milan is a celebrity dog trainer who we had on the breath once but back to what i was saying about the interview and the sony hacking like were they really

Like that's insane if true.

And if not true, they used the hacking as like a marketing gimmick for a movie about a dictator.

I guess, kind of smart, but these like crazy emails came out.

Remember, like Kevin Hart wouldn't promote his own movie?

I, that is my Roman Empire for real.

Like, honestly, because when I saw it, I was like, damn.

And then the more I thought about it, I'm like, no, this is a special breed of businessman.

And I completely agree.

Yeah.

Like, I don't own this movie.

You do.

Yes, I'm being paid to do it.

And it would behoove me to promote it.

But this is a part of the job.

No, I remember reading those emails and like my whole perspective on life changed.

Like it was just

a crazy time.

And they they said it was all because of a movie.

And I just,

I'm going to need more.

And then they still release movie because, of course, like you can't give in to Kim.

Right.

We don't negotiate.

But like the movie was like, you could only get it at home.

It wasn't in theaters.

It was crazy.

That was a crazy time.

We started this conversation, Aladine,

to the interview.

Tristan.

Tristan.

Tristan.

was positive, which was negative news for him.

Oh, so I was saying that when we ever take medication, we're like athletes.

Oh, and the world needs to know.

Yeah.

So Claudia is on steroids, period.

I'm on steroids.

And I usually, yesterday I took them after the toast because I don't like the way they make me like my face really hot.

And then I like speed up for like 20 minutes.

So if I get a little nuts, I'm not feeling it yet.

If I get a little nuts, it's the zone.

Predna, zone.

She's roided up.

She's juicy.

She's rooted it up.

Yeah, don't drug test me.

I'll fail.

That and the poppy seed bagel I had this week, I'm going to fail.

She's a failure, which was positive news for her.

She's no, it's actually negative news for me.

Aladine, still.

Yeah.

He was kind of onto something.

It's confusing, positive, negative.

No, it's the premise of the joke, Aladine, is pure brilliance.

Like, oh, like I got literally this week I got a strep test.

Like it came back negative.

I'm like, shit.

But it's positive.

It really is positive.

Negative for Shrep, which was positive.

Positive for me.

Confusing.

Confusing.

So we've got a great show today.

We've got new merch launching tomorrow, which is so exciting.

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I feel like this particular set should be the standard for sizing.

I love the sample that we use.

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I feel like it fits me perfectly.

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I think just do your regular size.

So that's exciting.

Today's also our last in-studio show of the week.

Tomorrow there is an episode.

But after this episode, I'm heading to the south, heading down south to the land of the pans, you know?

And I'm headed to the rodeo, which I'm so excited about.

So hopefully I'll see the Fort Worth Toasters out and about, you know, hustling.

The stockyards.

At the stock yards.

And then I'm racing home Sunday to see the Niners play.

And it's just so, it's going to be a great weekend.

Even though like tomorrow, it's not even Friday, but I'm looking forward to the weekend because.

because you're looking ahead.

You're an optimist.

Yeah, exactly.

I have hope.

Hat tikfa.

I have hope, exactly.

Great.

Well, I think we should.

Do you have any plans?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Do I have plans this weekend?

You know, the usual fun things, kids, trout, football, barbecue.

Trout.

Trout skin.

Trout skin killer.

We'll be reliving our weekend.

Maybe see some friends.

It'll just be a nice home weekend after our big extravaganza.

You need to decompress.

You need this.

Yeah.

Maybe a little sleeping in if the kids will let.

Good luck.

We'll see.

You never know.

It happens every once in a while.

Maybe it could fall on a Sunday.

Do you wake up in like a panic?

No.

Because I'll never forget.

Like the first time I went to visit Olivia when she had moved down

to Florida, Shapiro was going on a business trip, so I came to stay with her.

And like the third night I was there, we slept together in the same bed because I was like a little freaked out of being in the house alone.

I think Olivia was too.

She was new to being a homeowner.

And I woke up at like 10

and Kayla must have been like one, one and a half.

And Olivia was still in bed with me and we were freaking,

she was like, oh, she woke up in such a tizzy.

Kayla was still sleeping.

Beautiful.

Isn't that crazy?

Crazy, Kayla.

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There's really never a bad time to get started with therapy and just start putting yourself first.

And I feel like the beginning of the year is always a great excuse, but really, like, let's make this year our year.

You know, we're putting ourselves first, girlies.

Yes, we are.

All right, hit me, Jacks.

Hit me with a little bit of shot.

story is the party of the year.

Jeff Bezos's 60th birthday party was star-studded at his house.

I missed this whole thing.

I missed it too, but I'm reading the details and I don't know how, like, everyone was there.

Everything was there.

Was Harry and Megan there?

No.

So it was at on Saturday night at their house in Beverly Hills.

The guest list was stacked with everyone from Hollywood A-listers to sports legends, business moguls, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Sierra, Russell Wilson, Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Chris Jenner, Haley Bieber, Kendall Jenner, then also, so that's like what Lauren brought to the party, then Bob Iger, Bill Gates, Roger Goodell.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom were there.

Katy Perry performed.

Usher performed.

Black IPs performed.

Wait, not Usher performing?

Like when he's really supposed to be in like training.

He probably

was a rehearsal.

For sure.

Paris Hilton, Nikki Hilton were there.

Jewel was there.

I wonder if Kevin Costner was her date.

Wait, I'm shook at

the house.

Also, the house was like.

She did such a good job of like making her and Jeff like a Hollywood fixture and like hobnobbing with the girlies, the Kardashians.

She did a really good job.

She's the social chair of the Bezos family.

This party is all her.

Like the guest list is all her.

And I feel like she's brought so much to his life, so much like joy, but also like glitz and glam, which he likes.

likes like he's a glitzy he's a glitzy billionaire and he likes to enjoy the perks of his fortune that's what like came through in elon's book like really the differences between the two because like they had a decent relationship but now i don't think so anymore also elon wasn't there um

but he's always like to him like you know jeff like go back to your hot tub and he doesn't like how like jeff uses his blue origin company to take himself to space.

Like Elon is very much not about that.

Yeah, no, they definitely are two different types of billionaires.

And like Elon like looks and acts poor.

Yeah, no, he sold all of his homes.

He stays at friends' houses.

He has a small house like near one of the SpaceX launch pads, but he doesn't have like a proper home.

So I actually saw this thread and it happened to be about ballerina farm, but the general thesis applies here.

It's like rich people like to cosplay poor and poor people cosplay is rich.

Like it's this weird human thing where everybody's acting like the opposite of what they truly are.

But not, you can't generize and say everyone.

Jeff Bezos doesn't like to act poor.

No, so Jeff Bezos is me.

Jim Kardashian doesn't like to act poor.

No, Jeff Bezos is exactly what I would do if I was a rich person.

And actually, they just had Justin Sylvester was on the Good Guys podcast.

Oh my God, this clip cracked me up.

Me too.

And I had a big conversation about that.

Jeff Sanchez legend.

They had a really big conversation about Lauren Sanchez.

And honestly, Justin was like teaching Josh and Ben like what it's like to be a lady.

He's the lady sitter and what one of these late what it entails to be a lady like Lauren Sanchez.

And it's a lot of work.

It's a full-time job.

Yeah, she's top of the heap lady.

She's working overtime.

And I think all of that is evident in this party.

Like she's given, not given him, but is responsible for their.

Before this, he was just living in like the Pacific Northwest with his kids and

working and his mom and his friends.

And now he's the toast of the town.

No, totally.

She,

the, the life cycle of this relationship and how we got to this point when like, when we first started talking about them, the whole national inquirers, like, they could not have come further.

I couldn't be happier for them.

Like, I don't particularly like Jeff Bezos.

The way Lauren has endeared me to them as a couple and him as a person, like, I love, I stand, I ship.

I wish these two a lifetime of happiness.

I truly love and I ship.

And I'm so glad that they're enjoying the fruits of their labor.

Also, at the party, there were like a bunch of different rooms.

Like, it started off where you walked in.

It was like a replica of his first office, which was his garage and then later that's obnoxious no it was like a journey through so then like later there was like mcdonald's there he used to work at mcdonald's it was he did yeah it was a celebration of his life 60 years of jeff that's like low-key really impressive that he used to work at mcdonald's yeah he's an impressive guy he's very smart he was valedictorian of his class i feel like people think like amazon is an accident oh my god i'm so sorry i have to tell you about what's going on What

does anybody know?

I think people are going to know what I'm talking about about Pookie Talk.

Okay.

There is this couple going viral.

Jackie, you would die for them.

Die, D-I-E for them.

Die for them?

For them.

Okay.

They're this like southern couple.

I don't know where they live.

Her name is Campbell and his name is Jet, but nobody really knows her name because in every video he calls her Pookie.

So everybody's just like pookie, pookie, pookie.

And they are so cute and so southern.

And he's definitely like older and a little bit nerdier.

And she's like this young hot thing, but he loves her so much.

And he's always buying her Birkins and whatever.

And then, of course, everybody had to go do like a deep dive.

And of course, normally it comes out like, oh, they, you know, are related because they're from the South.

Like there was going to be something dark, you know?

All they found was that Jet, so impressive, like valedictorian of his undergraduate college, went to,

and like, because everybody wonders how they're so wealthy.

He's so smart, went to Wharton and got his,

what do you get at Wharton?

Business.

Masters

and law degree at at the same time.

He, it's like, you just have to see this couple.

They're so southern.

They really remind me of a couple on southern chime.

I could see them like being cast for real.

And everyone's, they're like blowing up right now and everyone's talking about them right now and you would love them.

She dresses so cute and she just like literally makes these videos to like talk about her outfit and her husband just talks the whole time about how he thinks she's so beautiful.

That's so nice.

Send me her IG.

I will.

IG.

I wouldn't even know how to find that.

It should be pretty easy.

And if she dresses cute outfits, then she has Instagram.

If that's her thing.

Yeah.

It's just hard because like I really, if you ask me her name, it takes me like 55 minutes to remember that her name is not Pookie.

Okay.

Oh, here.

Oh, here she is.

Okay.

I feel like she's a toaster.

Yeah, I think she is.

Oh, my God.

You would love.

Okay, I'm setting to you.

I'm so you're gonna, yes, you should follow her.

Also, you guys, did you notice if you're watching on YouTube, I set up my new phone.

Oh, wait, we have to talk about that.

We have to talk about my new phone because I just decided yesterday.

And I do want to thank Claudia, even though her advice was wrong.

And it turns out that you were the grandmother.

I know.

You're living in the next stage.

I'm living in the future with my e-Sims.

You guys, I just found out yesterday we're not using SIM cards anymore.

Question mark.

And like some of us never used SIM cards to begin with.

We were always e-Simming.

Okay, well, that was like grandma back in the day.

But I was the grandma yesterday.

I own it.

I own the camera.

You know, even back in the day, it was ahead of my time that I've never had to undo a SIM card and I just transferred everything digitally.

So how did you transfer?

So yesterday I took out my SIM card of my one phone, only to find out out that my new phone actually doesn't even have a slot for a SIM card.

So, I called Verizon and I said,

transfer my new phone.

And they like hooked it up in a minute or two.

They hung up on me, which was beautiful.

Meant my phone wasn't working anymore.

And turned on my new phone.

It was working.

Shout out to Verizon.

Even though my e-Sim should have worked, like that was wrong of you.

Yeah.

You did make it not that bad.

They rectified.

They rectified.

So I've spent the day like logging into all of my apps and just like enjoying my new phone.

It's always exciting to get a new phone.

It's always exciting to get a new phone.

You're kind of inspiring me, even though there's nothing wrong with my phone.

But I do feel like the kind of excitement was tampered because it's been over the course of three weeks trying to set up this new phone.

Like I don't know whenever I get a new phone, I'm like clickety, clickety, clack.

Hello?

Yeah.

Yeah, a business.

I'm on the phone with my seven attorneys doing seven deals.

By the way, I couldn't take a call on my old phone, but on my new phone.

Yeah.

That

Instagram comment from Courtney Kardashian was probably one of the loseriest things anybody's ever written on the internet.

And that is saying a lot.

Yeah.

When someone like accused her in the comment section of like not being a hustler like her sisters, back when Courtney was like in her flop era and she didn't give a fuck about anything.

Like she released her app like six months after her sisters did.

Somebody like left a comment, like unemployed, girly.

And she was like, sorry, can't respond to this comment.

On the attorney with my, on the phone with my attorneys, negotiating seven business deals.

And we're like, sure.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thou doth protest too much.

Literally.

Yeah.

Which is why you don't respond.

Even though, even if she probably was, I'm sure she had seven at least brand deals in the works with her attorney.

Like, you just don't respond and give air to these things.

It's so true.

It's so true.

Especially when, like, you know, the truth.

You know who you are.

Yeah.

But by the way, I was actually thinking about this yesterday.

Whatever the opposite of flop era is, Courtney is like experiencing that.

Obviously, personally, with her, like just over joyous life, you know, kids, pregnancy whatever but let me tell you i was scrolling tick tock yesterday jackie every video like all these lifestyle influencers and they weren't ads let me this let me that let me let me let me i saw like i probably saw like 15 videos yesterday lemmy and they just launched in target i feel like lemmy's on its way to becoming like enormous i really feel good i hope so me too i like i feel like now she's really on the same level as the sisters in terms of businesses yeah and also personal life it just goes to show that life is very fluid yeah you think are one way and swerve.

She's in love, love of her life, married.

Who would have thought?

You know what?

It actually reminds me of this clip I just saw.

I forget who it was, but this guest who was on the Skinny Confidential podcast and he was like doing parenting stuff.

He was basically like, the first 10 years of your kids' life is really like the only time in their life where you are.

everything to them.

Like after they turn 10, like they have friends and you're, they have other people in their life who are like the most important to them in that moment.

Then of course they get married and have their own kids and boyfriends, girlfriends, best friends.

And those first 10 years of your kids' life are also like the 10 years that you're like still hustling and like still trying to do your own thing.

And it's like so sad that like you like, that's how life works where you can't really devote 100% of your time of those first 10 years to your kids because you have things going on too.

You need to make a living.

You need to do this.

And it's kind of like Courtney did the, well, actually, she had kids before when she was young too.

Maybe not, but I felt like maybe that clip was relevant.

Maybe it's not.

No, I think it is relevant.

I think what you said that she was in her flop era with the apps, like those were the, those were the first 10 years of her kids' life.

So yeah, she didn't give a shit about the apps that went nowhere.

And instead, she was focused on parenting.

Like in hindsight, she's winning.

Thank you.

Yes.

My point was correct.

Yes, she did like exactly what that clip said.

Yeah, as you should.

And the thing is, you get those 10 solid years where you are everything.

And like be there as much as you can.

It's it, it's it.

I mean,

most of us are working, but as much as you can, like be there.

No, and so for someone like Courtney, who obviously like working is a choice, not a requirement, honestly, she kind of killed it.

Yeah.

She kind of killed it.

Like her kids are grown now.

She was such like a hardcore,

maybe even like a little nuts mom, you know, like so involved.

And now her kids are grown and she's like having success and she's fell in love again.

Like, I don't know.

It's kind of everything.

Yeah, it's kind of, it's a fairy tale.

It's a fairy tale.

Yeah.

Are you ready for our next story?

What number is it?

Two.

Oh, yeah.

Stasi explains why she will not be on the Vanderpump Rules spin-off show called The Valley.

So we didn't even discuss this, but a new show is coming to Bravo called The Valley.

And it is about like Valley suburban life starring Jackson Brittany and a few new faces and also Kristen Dody.

So I think people always expected a show like this would come from the cast members that had settled down in The Valley.

And they expected that Stasi would be on it.

But she is explaining why she's not on it.

And she said, it's not Bravo's fault that's that she's not on it.

Once this idea was brought up and they were like, okay, we're going to film a sizzle with all the people that would be on it, every fiber of my being voted no.

She said

when Jeff Lewis asked her, she was on Jeff Lewis's show, she said, asked why she felt so strongly about not appearing on Bravo again.

She said there were a lot of different reasons.

First of all, it wouldn't be a reflection of what my reality is because it's just not my group of friends.

And She said, I'm friendly with some of them.

I'm acquainted with some of them.

And some of the new ones too, that I think are lovely, but it's not my crew.

Then Jeff Lewis said that she might become closer to them if she filmed with them.

And she argued that she doesn't want to have to go and do things that she normally wouldn't do.

She said, I don't want to disrupt the life that I have right now because I really like my life right now.

Yeah, I never really thought there have been rumors about this show and everybody like somehow knew it was going to be called like Valley Village.

Rumors about Jacks, Brittany, and Kristen making a return in some way of a spin-off.

I don't think anybody really, I wasn't thinking Stasi was going to be a part of it, mostly because she doesn't live in the valley.

Oh, not not even mostly because she doesn't live in the valley, but I feel like reality TV is such a hard thing to like extricate yourself from because it's just like this, this beast.

Cycle.

And it's a cycle and you need it and you depend on it.

And then when you're thrust out from it, like it might take you a while, but like once you get on your feet, I can't imagine the process of going back into it, especially once you've like seen how toxic it could be.

Like what, yeah, the dark side.

And I just feel like now that she's out, she's not going back in.

And she's out and she's on her feet and she's doing well and she has so many things going for her.

She does not need reality TV at all.

Like,

don't do it.

And it's almost better that she was thrust out because I think making the decision to leave a show that's successful, but also toxic is probably really hard because you're making a lot of money.

And so obviously at the time when she was fired, it was really not ideal.

And there was like a lot of, you know, scandals going on at the time.

But I think probably now in hindsight, she really got into a groove where her podcast is really successful.

She's a really successful Patreon.

She's like a really successful influencer.

She's a very devoted mom.

And I think when you're a mom, and I'm sure you know this better than me, it's it's like, like, good is good.

Why ruin a good thing?

You know, like, I, she makes a very good living, I'm sure.

She gets to be home with her kids.

Yeah.

Why throw yourself back into that sort of toxicity?

Yeah, she's her own boss.

And also making the decision to go back to reality TV is like a different sort of decision when you have kids.

Cause when it's just you and you know the beast and she's like, she's a pro.

She can't.

I have to say, though, I could see Stasi going back to reality TV.

Like I don't think she's necessarily done yet, but she's coming at it now from like a position of privilege where where she knows what she's bringing.

She doesn't have to be like on an ensemble show.

She doesn't have to eat shit.

She doesn't have to just be on any show that wants her.

Like, I agree.

If the right situation came to her, she might do it.

She's not like against reality TV forever, but she doesn't need it.

She's not like been waiting to get back on TV.

If the right opportunity presents itself, she would consider it.

I'm sure she considered this heavily and then voted no.

I think also a lot of it has to do with money.

And so when you have other ventures, like she wrote another book, it was another New York Times bestseller.

She did a big podcast tour.

When you're off reality and you have a hard time monetizing whatever it is that you're doing, whether it's a podcast, it's very hard to get people to listen to you.

Like it's not as easy as everybody thinks.

And there are a lot of people, former Vanderpump rolls or just former reality TV show people in general who don't make the same amount of money afterwards.

Sometimes, very rarely, you end up making more.

Hannah Berner.

I feel like she's the best example.

But she's the exception, not the rule.

Yeah.

So more often than not, whenever anybody gets an opportunity to go back, they're going to do it.

And that's why these shows like Traitors or they're so popular because there's really not a huge career after reality TV for everyone.

Not for everyone, yeah.

Right.

Agreed.

Also, reality TV brings so many eyeballs and so many positive things, but it also opens you up again

for scandal.

Yep.

And once you've been through it, like you don't

collectively choose, oh, let me try that again.

Yeah.

No,

I was not shocked she was not on this show.

I was not expecting to see her.

And I agree, it was probably the right decision for her.

Yeah.

Are you ready for our next story?

Are you ready, kids?

Aye aye, turdy.

I can't hear you.

Our next story.

White Lotus star Tom Hollander says he accidentally received Tom Holland's seven figures of Avengers bonus check.

So Tom Hollander, who is not Tom Holland, said he accidentally received Tom Holland's bonus check for an Avengers film.

He revealed on late night with Seth Meyers that he often gets mistaken for Tom Holland in non-visual contexts because the white lotus star is 56 and Tom Holland is 27, including in the accounts department of his agency, which also briefly represented Tom Holland.

He said, I went to see my friend who was doing theater in England.

I sat smugly in the audience just having done a BBC show for $30,000.

He said he checked his email during the interval and that's when he saw a message from the agency saying that they were sending his first box office bonus for the Avengers.

The actor said he thought to himself, I don't think I'm in the Avengers, but then he proceeded to open the email.

It was an astonishing amount of money.

It was not his salary.

It was his first box office bonus.

Not the whole box office bonus, the first one.

And it was more money than I'd ever seen.

It was a seven-figure sum.

So seven figures could be anywhere from

one to nine million.

Yeah.

$9,900,099.

Yeah.

He said that Tom Holland was only 20 or something in his age.

So his feeling of smugness in the show that he was at had

during the first half disappeared very quickly.

He said, but that's showbiz.

It's up, it's down, it's hero, it's zero.

Well, I just want to say that's really so crazy.

First of all, I didn't, Tom Hollander, if you don't know him, because I didn't know him either, he plays the like the gay in charge who's trying to kill,

what's her name?

Spoiler alert, Jennifer Coolidge.

Jennifer Coolidge.

These gays, they're trying to kill me.

He's like the one in charge.

And when I was reading this headline, I was so confused because when I saw Tom Hollander, I just assumed it was Zendaya's boyfriend.

I did not know that was his name.

So I understand how this mix-up could be like possible, but low-key, this is unacceptable.

Like what you get paid is so personal.

And not only that, this guy then going on Seth Meyers and like telling the story.

Like, I wonder if he had Tom Holland's approval.

I'm sure he didn't.

This is like low-key just nuts and a huge invasion of Tom Holland's privacy.

Yeah, but Tom Holland is in the Avengers.

He's Spider-Man.

And yeah, I assume he makes millions of dollars.

So he's not in Congress.

Seven figures.

I thought it would be more.

It was just the first bonus and it wasn't his salary.

Right, right.

You get paid to do a movie and then after that,

that's crazy.

Like you just open your email, couple mil today.

That's insane.

And he's so low-key.

Tom Holland, yeah.

He like doesn't really do presser interviews.

he.

He's not really a celebrity.

Like, I don't watch his movies.

Therefore, I do not know him aside from Zendaya's boyfriend.

I know.

And I don't even think he has an Instagram.

Actually, he might, but it's like promotional.

You know, it's like for work.

Yes.

He's a working actor.

Yeah.

Do you think he'll get paid like Kevin Hart to promote on his Instagram?

Oh, he does.

I'm so sorry.

He has 66 million followers.

What does he post?

40, like very artsy, work stuff, critics' choice,

brothers trust.

It's all like high-quality content.

It's promotional and a little artistic.

Oh, and of course, philanthropic.

He's at a puppy facility here.

Oh, that's sweet.

It's a pretty good Instagram.

I'm not going to lie.

It's not bad.

It's got a mix of everything.

I feel like it's run by like an agency.

Like, this is classic serious actor Instagram with also commercial success.

Yeah, yeah.

He's also like one of those actors who's not afraid to look ugly.

Like in half those pictures, he looked ugly when I know he's like a handsome man, you know?

He posted a picture of Zendaya.

I always thought they were super private, like that they've never even acknowledged that they're dating.

But he posted a picture of just her

congratulating her for her award at the CFDA Fashion Award.

They have been together for years.

Yeah.

And I think only in the last two, maybe one year, they've been like more public about, but they still are not even like very, they don't walk red carpets really together.

I guess like this probably made a lot of 11 million likes.

I'm sure people were freezing that he posted this when he posted it, but because like, again, I don't know Tom Holland, like I didn't pay attention.

Yeah, this is just one of those things where Jackie and I being really removed from the

universe of Marvel and DC comics.

Like this is just not our sort of celebrity.

You want to know why, turdy?

Because we're too girly.

We are so feminine.

We're so feminine.

We don't know who these superheroes are.

But we're such a unique breed of females.

Let me tell you why.

Because we don't know anything about Marvel or DC, but we also don't like cry over the Barbie movie.

So what does that make us?

Where does that leave us?

You know what we are?

Toasters.

And I just want to say, I know this is going to be a really polarizing thing to say.

And I have to stop talking about the Barbie movie because I keep complaining about people being mad at what I'm saying.

And I keep bringing it up.

But Hillary Clinton released a statement about Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie not being nominated for Oscars.

And I feel as though officially, as a nation, we have lost the plot.

And I think the Barbie rhetoric and polarization of Barbie has officially,

as of yesterday, as of the minute Hillary Clinton sent that tweet with that statement and she made a

we took it too far.

We girl bossed too close to the sun for real.

No one's gonna take us seriously as a gender now.

Seriously, thanks, Hillary.

No, the cringe was off the charts, cringe.

It was far too much.

Yeah.

And I posted like something about Barbie movie on my close friends and like not like every influencer being like, wait, no, me too.

Like, what is with people in the Barbie movie?

Like, I didn't think it was so great.

It's like, we're literally living under communist rule where we can't say that we don't like the Barbie movie.

Kim Jung Barbie.

Kim Jong, Barbie Jung un.

Barbie Jung ill.

Un.

You think un is unier than ill?

Unagi.

What's that from?

Friends.

Classic.

You could just say pure nonsense and then just tell me it's from friends and it'd be like, oh yeah, classic.

Yeah, Jackie, gliba?

Friends.

Yeah, it is.

But that's actually from friends.

I didn't just make it up.

It's Ross's and Rachel's daughter's first word, gliba.

And they're like, that's not a word.

And then he looks it it up and it's like a particular type of like molecule.

And, you know, Ross is really into science.

Like, I literally, the hate.

He's a scientist.

The hate I have in my heart for what you're describing right now.

But that is funny.

He's a scientist.

But up until that, that was not funny.

It was so funny.

But though I do usually like friends through your summarizations.

You didn't let, by the way, yesterday I was wanting to cite a friend's reference and you totally cut me off and I never got back to it.

No, leave it there.

Leave it in the dust.

Let's get into our fourth story.

No, let's not bitch.

Let's not bitch.

Is this nice?

Now you're back to cursing.

I think the kids are asleep.

You can curse again.

Shit, motherfucker.

No, not in front of the ab

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That's beautiful.

Maybe you should perform at Coachella because they're seeing the slowest ticket sales in a decade.

So Coachella lineup was announced last week.

In past years, the tickets have sold out in a matter of minutes.

It is now five days later and tickets are still on sale.

It turns out people aren't all that interested in Coachella this year.

This year marks the slowest ticket sales in a decade.

This is according to SF Gate, which cites some troubling stats for Golden Voice and Co.

Long story short, passes for this year's Coachella just aren't selling like they used to.

They're very much still up for grabs five days after hitting the market, whereas in the past, it would sell out in minutes.

Interesting, this site lets people purchase up to eight tickets this year compared to only two in previous years.

So it looks as though festival organizers are practically begging people to splash some cash on them.

At least that's how it feels anyway, according to TMZ.

Though they've never had this issue before, fans famously waited hours in virtual queues to get their hands on Coveta's wristbands in years gone by.

This is strange because Coachella tickets are usually a hot commodity selling out in minutes.

So

I think it's layered.

what's a good season for the season as a reminder the headliners are lana del ray tyler the creator doja cat and no doubt which i think is a good lineup i i don't think it's a good lineup it's a good lineup however coachella got themselves into this pattern where the last like five years there has been like a major major star like we've had lady gaga we've had beyonce we've had justin bieber we've had billie eilish we've had the weekend we've had harry styles like they have made it into a super bowl of sorts and they don't don't have that type of performer this year.

You don't think Lana Del Rey is that performer?

No.

With a cult following who would follow around the world for her?

It's a cult following.

It's very niche.

It's not on the radio, you know, it's not commercial.

Also, but I do want to say, I still think the lineup's pretty good.

I think another huge factor as to why people aren't buying tickets that I don't think anybody's talking about is like, we're in a economic crisis.

Like, it's these tickets are really expensive.

And the whole journey is expensive.

It's not only the tickets, it's the renting of the house.

It's the outfits.

Coachella is this like a fair.

It's not just a music festival where you wear a pair of denim shorts and no makeup and you just like sweat and cry.

It's not Woodstock.

It's an event.

It requires, if you're going to go and do it up, it requires a lot of money outside of the actual ticket, airfare, hotel, lodging, things like that.

And it's thousands of dollars.

And not everyone can do that right now.

So I think it's a combination.

I would love to know what, was Coachella going on in like 2008?

What were ticket sales like then, you know?

Yeah, it's, I think it was going on.

It was going on in 2008 because it's been around for a while but it didn't become like this pop culture sort of thing it was really an indie music festival for a long time um and not what it is right now so turdy's blaming the economy and i do think that is a good i think it's a factor i think every it's definitely a factor but i also think that maybe coacheller

you know all good things must come to an end and Maybe this new younger generation like isn't as into festivals as the millennials are.

Maybe they just want to see like their one performer.

I don't know.

I'm just guessing.

But seriously, like all good things must come to an end.

And maybe this is like the slowing down of Coachella because the people who can go

are not into it.

Wow.

I didn't even think that like

that's a good take.

It didn't cross my mind that like Coachella is overparty.

It's like, it's not cool anymore.

Like it's on its way out.

Yeah.

And I do think it's very much like a millennial thing.

And like the millennials are having kids and doing different things or maybe just like don't want to go see Doja Cat because she's for Gen Z.

But the Gen Zers don't want to go to Coachella because it's like a millennial relic.

Honestly?

You're making fire fucking points.

Thank you Law.

Like that thing you just said, that like the lineup is now geared towards Gen Z.

Gen Z doesn't want to be associated with Coachella because and also you have to be 21 to go to Coachella.

Actually, you might have to be 18.

But still.

Yeah, I know what you're saying.

That's a fire point.

Fire.

Yeah, so I feel like there's just like looking fire today.

A little bit of a gap.

Yeah.

And I don't have to.

And like, loll at everybody who thought it was going to be Taylor.

I mean, not only is it not Taylor, but it's a Talbot conversation.

Of course, but that's the thing.

If your ticket sales are predicated on how big of a star you can get, that's like a hamster wheel.

Yeah.

You're never going to be able to keep up with it.

No, and it definitely gets away from the original mission of Coachella, where people were going, regardless of the headliners, they were trusting that the music would be good because it was like curated by indie music experts.

And now it's totally dependent on the headliner.

It's jingle ball now.

It's jingle ball.

And when we went like for the first time a while ago, it was still very much like indie vibes, but Lady Gaga was the headliner and it was like kind of crazy because everything else was like Tame and Paula, the, you know, Menendez brother.

No.

Martinez, not the Menendez brothers.

I hope the Martinez brothers.

It was very people you've never heard of.

And Lady Gaga was like kind of crazy.

And that's why we went.

We were like, all right, we'll go to see a Lady Gaga concert.

And they just really leaned into that, which is fine.

It's very much a giving jingle ball these days.

Yeah, but then it's also going to give willy-nilly.

Yeah, it's giving, like, what is Coachello's aesthetic now?

Coachella's having an identity crisis.

Yes.

But you know who's not?

Stagecoach tickets higher sales than ever.

Right.

I was wondering how this would compare to stagecoach because country fans aren't willy-nilly, but literally like pop music and what's on the radio,

No one person through their entire life is really going to be listening to the same radio station their entire life with the hits.

They're going to eventually, like, I'm going to listening to the pulse now.

I'm not going to lie.

Oh, wow.

She's pulsing.

C-100, or shall I say, Y-100?

It's not always for me now because it's TikTok music.

And I now want to go listen to what's considered the classics.

Yeah, I feel that.

So the pulse it is.

Yeah.

Like that.

I haven't heard any, KTU.

I haven't heard anything about

stagecoach tickets, but I have to imagine they're not experiencing this problem.

Oh, I thought you sounded like an expert when you said highest ticket sales in history.

Oh, no, no, no, but I didn't hear anything.

And I, like, the last time I was there, it was packed to the brim.

Well, it's always going to be packed.

And the headliners weren't even amazing.

And this year, they're amazing.

It's Morgan Wallen this year.

I'm sure.

I'm sure they're going to save that.

You can't even get Morgan Wallen tickets like in your town.

So, yeah, we're going to Coachella for him.

And I'm pretty sure they released the tickets.

And I'm pretty sure you can't get them.

Stagecoachfestival.com.

Join Waitlist.

Stagecoach 2024 is sold out.

Okay, but how long did it take?

Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Morgan Wallen.

Those are the headliners.

And then second line, Post Malone,

Jellyroll, Shickleback, Diplo.

I'm sure you're 100% right, but Coachella tickets will sell out.

It's just been five days and they haven't.

How long did Stagecoach tickets take to sell out?

This website says it's the biggest on sale in history.

history stagecoach 2024 has officially sold out you have made history thank you for joining us on this journey join the waitlist to be notified if any passes become so you were right the biggest in history yep and where's the article on that let me look at news

no

but good for them

okay are you ready for our next story it's our fifth and final

yeah and i need to shout out to lauren elizabeth because she sent it my way and she said this is giving fifth and final energy oh what'd she say PETA is calling to replace beloved Groundhog's Day star, Puxatoni Phil, with a gold coin.

So PETA wants to cancel.

PETA's making news twice.

They're going viral for being really insensitive.

Not PETA.

The University of Georgia, you know, Go Dogs.

Dogs.

They had like a real-life mascot dog, this English bulldog, and he passed away.

And English Bulldogs, like, they don't encourage breeding English bulldogs because they have a lot of health issues.

They literally can't breathe.

And so they like posted a a graphic that he died and being like, maybe this will teach you to stop breeding.

And it was like really insensitive.

Yeah, like leave the room.

We're grieving.

No, and you're supposed to be like an organization that advocates on behalf of animals.

So like you using the death of an animal to be like snarky, people were really upset in defense of the dog.

Yeah.

No.

So they're doing that, but they're also trying to cancel Puxatoni Phil.

PETA wants to replace Phil, the beloved groundhog that is used to forecast weather during the annual Groundhog Day celebration in Pennsylvania.

They want to replace him with a gold coin, the group said this week.

PETA wrote an open letter on Monday to the Puxetoni Groundhog Club in Pennsylvania, in which they encouraged its president to remove the animal from the celebration.

Should he formally retire Phil and take him to a sanctuary, then PETA would present the group with a giant coin, they said in the letter.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, a groundhog's weather prediction is no more accurate than flipping a coin.

Up for debate.

He is not a meteorologist and deserves better than to be exploited every year for tourism tourism money.

Okay, I just want to say, like, PETA is dying on the wrong hill.

There are so many more worthy animal causes.

And I think when it comes to like old school traditions that involve animals, like we have to take it case by case, like I think a really old school tradition like here in New York is the horse and carriage rides in the city.

And like I personally feel like those should not be allowed anymore.

Like I think we've evolved past that as a society.

Puxitani Phil having to work one day, he'll be fine.

I'm sure he's treated like a king.

I am sure the horses in Central Park are looking at Punxatoni Phil as like this privileged snob.

And like he's getting the attention of PETA.

PETA should be using their platform for bigger and better things.

I'm sorry.

This is a waste.

Or what about like the dogs that were shot dead by Hamas on October 7th as they invaded Israel?

Like, where's PETA on that?

Love the point you're bringing up there, too.

I love that.

PETA

can fuck right off.

Yeah, no, seriously.

This is such an abuse of their platform.

Poxatoni Phil doesn't hurt anybody.

He probably lives this lavish life.

Nobody talks to him except for one day.

He has to work one day and all he has to do is like be put in a box.

He's fine.

Leave him alone.

This is a harmless tradition.

And I'm a big advocate on behalf of animals.

Like whenever I see something, even when I see a dog, you know me, when I see a dog in a movie, it bothers me.

I think Phil is fine.

Phil.

He's fine.

He's fine.

And like, why are you trying to

unemploy Phil?

He has a job.

He makes a living.

He has a nice life.

And you want to fire him.

You want to take his job away.

Hog with no job.

And no, and Phil has a family to support.

Wrong.

Wrong.

If they wanted to make a good argument, I would say the argument would be like, how about we stop dropping the groundhogs?

Yeah, and that's a human error thing.

Like, Bill de Blasio dropped a groundhog, correct?

Yes.

Where was PETA?

Then.

Because that ain't right.

It's what we like to to call animal abuse.

I would not want to hold a groundhog personally.

Like,

they're kind of like of the rat elk.

Rat elk, yes.

And I think perhaps why our reaction to this story is so, we don't give a fuck is because it's literally a rat.

And like,

you're not going to find me.

Like, horses are these beautiful, smart.

Unbelievable creatures, you know?

I don't feel that way about a groundhog.

A groundhog is to me like a beaver.

Yeah.

Like you get a ground, what is that movie?

Catty shock shack.

They got groundhogs in the garden and it's like a problem.

Yeah.

You know?

They're pests.

It's like a possum.

Yeah, it's a pest.

Literally.

So, sorry, you're not going to find me.

Like, I love animals, but like, I'm going to put a mousetrap down, you know?

I'm human.

Right.

You got to draw the line somewhere.

I'm sorry.

No, I think I stand with Phil.

And the Puxetani.

Only Phil.

The Puxetani Groundhogs Association.

I think what you're doing is totally fine.

And it's a nice, one of those like nice archaic traditions that like means nothing, but it's cute.

Yeah, no, like we know the weather is not listening to Phil.

You know, Mother Nature and Phil do not communicate.

And it's like a fun tradition for kids.

It's so dumb and harmless.

I can't even believe we're having this conversation.

I agree.

So

officially, we stand with Phil.

Yeah, if you want to know where the toast stands, it's firmly with Phil.

It's usually against PETA, PETA, whatever they're yapping on about.

No, I feel like usually I'm with PETA.

Really?

I stand with PETE.

Like their cause, their mission, their raisin de terre is good, but I feel like in practice, they're always directing their efforts at the worst things and in the worst ways, too.

So I feel, okay.

I think that their choice of campaigns is not always the best, like the things they go after.

But I do think they get a bad rap because I think there are like people who love PETA, maybe don't work for PETA in official capacity, who do like insane stunts on behalf of PETA.

But I actually, I don't think those people work for PETA.

I have to say that.

Like the people who throw paint

at fashion shows.

Right.

Those don't come from PETA on high.

I don't think they're hired, you know, staffers from PETA.

I think they're just like real PETA

Felix.

Well, no.

PETA files.

Yeah, right.

But not in the pedophilic sense.

In the PETA Felix sense.

Yeah, like how you're a Francophile, you're a PETA file, but not having to do with children.

I just feel like PETA has gotten really far away from their mission at times.

And like,

and that they use their platform and like their brand name as a, more of like a political football than to actually care for animals, all animals, all the time.

I agree with you from like a public POV.

I think they have like, in recent years, started to come off a little nuts, but I do imagine as an organization, they still do really good work.

Like behind the scenes, things we don't know about.

Right, but why is the good work behind the scenes and the nutty work out front?

That is a question for the PR director of PETA, and it's a good one.

Yeah.

It's a good question.

Thank you.

I feel like they all just like sat around in a room, like, what's going to be our next thing?

And it's like, no, it's a pass.

The past five years, like, we have seen the radicalization of PETA.

I completely agree.

That's what I'm saying.

We need a fresh PETA.

Like, that really, I mean, that's like Vanderpump Dogs.

I think that they are really cause-driven.

Yeah.

Vanderpump Dogs is a new PETA.

Like how we all learned about that dog festival in China.

Like we learned about that from Vanderpump Rules.

Yeah.

Vanderpump Rules, Vanderpump Dogs is a Nupita.

I love that.

Love it.

Even though Vanderpump Dogs only does dogs.

I was just about to say that, but like they don't.

I feel like they do other animals.

It's just called Vanderpump Dogs.

And so they're ready for a rebrand.

Actually, I'm sorry.

I think they have rebranded to Vanderpump Pets.

But does that just mean like domestic animals?

Domestic.

I don't know.

They're clearly working through what we're working through because they're evolving and I think it's great.

Yeah.

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