The Day The Music Died: Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

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

Happy Tuesday.

I am honored and humbled to be joined in studio by a major celebrity.

Also happens to be my husband.

Hey, Ben Saffer, how you dern?

I'm dern wonderful, darling.

How are you?

Wonderful?

Wonderful.

Is that because we're together and we just celebrated six years of marital bliss?

It is, but it's also because any day that God allows me to wake up in the morning is a good day.

Wow, he's feeling spiritual after Rosh Hashanah.

Any day that I wake up is a good day.

Also any day when I eat good, sleep good, hydrate well.

You're with family.

Like, how can you wake up bad?

I can't.

I could.

I can't wake up bad.

I'm loving this positive energy and outlook you're bringing to the show today, Ben.

It's because I went into Jackie's fridge and I found an almond cookie butter creamer.

Wow.

That just really made my coffee just zip.

It rocked your world.

It was really, really tasty.

Like think of like that Biscoff cookie.

I'm assuming that that's exactly what it was, where you find on a Delta flight,

crumbled up,

use a bunch of artificial sweeteners, put it into some cancerous concoction, and use some almond paste and then put it into my coffee.

Paste?

Yeah, I think so, right?

It was a paste?

It was pasty.

No, it wasn't paste.

It was liquid.

Yeah, okay.

But you mix it with almond.

You're misrepresenting the almond creamer.

No, I'm not.

Yeah, you are.

I think I described it perfectly.

You said it was a paste.

I said that when you mix it, you're using almond paste.

I don't think that...

how do you think that they get the almonds into the almond creamer?

I think they use almond milk.

Got it.

How do you think they make almond milk?

You soak almonds in water.

Yes.

And then what does it turn into?

Almond milk.

A paste.

No, it's not a paste.

I think it is.

No, I see people making almond milk on TikTok all the time.

Yeah, you see people making one little bottle of almond milk.

These people are making trillions of gallons.

They're big corporate.

I don't know how we got to this part of the conversation, but I'd like to leave immediately.

Thank you so much for joining us here today yes how are you feeling in terms of you know your

upcoming appearance on the toast you were on last week i don't think it was our best work really yeah that friday episode i thought it was great i mean it's always nicer to be in studio but yeah but i thought it was great okay yeah like you're saying how am i feeling like on this episode i'm feeling fantastic i just told you i'm feeling fantastic i feel like you're being very defensive like i'm I'm I was just asking a question.

Got it.

Yeah.

No, I'm feeling great.

Very excited for a great episode where we go through some wonderful news stories.

Before we do that, we have to update everyone.

I told everyone on the podcast yesterday about the gift that I got you for our six-year anniversary.

Oh, yes.

It was a wonderful, wonderful gift.

I got a cameo from Sir Lewis Litt,

and he was just as charming as ever.

Did you experience, Jackie.

talks to me a lot and she spoke on the podcast yesterday about kind of like an uncomfortableness of receiving a cameo like it just feels like you're seeing a celebrity like a little too up close did you feel any of that no i loved it okay i loved it Okay.

I didn't think that it was weird.

I do, I do think, again, as a celebrity myself,

it is a little strange that we needed to pay for it and we couldn't just, I'm 100% sure that we know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.

Maybe he's Jewish.

Mr.

Lewis Lit.

Yeah.

I just, I wanted to pay him what he was due.

Like he's a working actor.

They're on strike.

Absolutely.

No, he deserves the coin.

I'm just saying that I do feel that there were ways to get to him without cameo.

And there's something about cameo that feels a little bit like prostitution.

I think it's like a great business.

and I kind of wish I thought of it myself.

Do you think it feels like prostitution, though?

You're being paid for your work.

I guess one life isn't prostitution.

That's called capitalism.

Like you work and you get paid.

I guess one life isn't prostitution.

Would you say that you're a prostitute of my podcast?

Yeah.

You come on here and you fuck it.

Yeah, I do.

I use it.

You take the money and run.

I use it.

Still waiting on that money from day one.

From day one.

You talk about bad royalties.

I have the worst royalty deal in the game.

Ben is an unpaid guest, and he does it out of the kindness of his heart because he loves you guys so much and he loves showing his feet on the podcast.

That's really what he, by the way, while you may not get paid directly by me for coming on the show, you do get paid because you further your career as a foot model and then you get all these people reaching out, sending foot pics.

Yeah, a thousand percent.

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you're probably like number two in our hearts what the hell number two you know okay so then are you really number one yes i don't know if you saw the charts over the weekend we were number one yeah we charted once at number two

i don't think that you did you didn't see Number two.

I didn't see.

Number two in all categories, including horror.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, we're very scary.

So we're lying today.

No, but really give it a listen.

Whether it's number two or number 69 or number 100, whatever it is.

Good guys.

The more people that listen, the more episodes we can record.

It doesn't have to be one day a week, guys.

I like it.

It could be five.

I like that little face you made after 69.

Yeah, it was nice, right?

Did it remind you?

Yep.

Shut your mouth.

We don't do that.

Okay, stop.

Why did you bring that up?

Moving on.

Let's talk about the Roman Empire.

Okay.

I have nothing to say.

I don't know what this dumb trend is where guys want to talk about the Roman Empire.

No, that's not what it's not that they want to talk about it.

It's that women discovered that men are constantly thinking about the concept of the Roman Empire, just like in general.

And they've been asking their husbands and partners, brothers.

We're not.

Well, you're not.

No, because we don't know what it is.

No, we are not.

I know what it is.

It was the empire built by the Romans.

When?

In

of course it was before Christ.

Was it?

No, it wasn't.

Of course it was

after Christ A.D.

Actually, no, it was definitely, it was not before Christ.

I was just thinking of the BCs, the C's, the A D's, the D's.

We researched it yesterday because me and Jackie were both like, what's so special about it?

And it really was like one of the greatest

times in history, the Romans, like that part of history.

history, they created so many things that we use today.

Amazing.

Like what?

Roads.

Love a road.

Sanitation, like literally taking sewage and putting it like outside of the city.

Love it.

Yeah, like kind of basic,

like so many tools that we use for surgery.

So we've made no advancements in like a trillion years.

No, we have.

But I think what was so great about the Roman Empire, if I'm recalling correctly, is that like there was...

I don't know if there's been a time where so many significant medical, civil, like all these different types of advancements advancements have been made in one era.

Amazing.

Yeah.

So I guess that's why people are thinking about it because it's quite amazing.

So it seems like you're thinking about the Roman Empire and you are pretending that it's millennial men

trying to gaslight me into thinking that I'm the one thinking about the Roman Empire when really it's you.

I only learned what the Roman Empire was yesterday.

So check yourself before you get the fuck kicked off the show, bitch.

Interesting.

First of all.

Second of all, what do you think the female equivalent of the Roman Empire is?

Like what are like

historical events that women are always thinking about?

Jackie and I were saying yesterday some options could be the Titanic.

They could be the Holocaust.

What do you think?

I don't think that the Holocaust is gendered.

I think

both men and women think about the Holocaust.

That's actually a very good point.

I also don't think that the Titanic is gendered.

No, sorry.

You're wrong on that.

The Titanic is gendered.

I mean, literally with this submarine, it became non-gendered.

Everybody's thinking about the Titanic.

Let me just say it's a submersible.

And no, sorry, Titanic is for the girls.

No, just the movie.

Titanic is for the girls.

You're wrong.

Move on.

Just the movie.

You're wrong.

What time?

What time period is this?

Can there be a time period?

It could be like a historical event, a tragedy.

I don't know.

Okay.

I don't know.

Okay.

I'm not a historian.

Well, that's the damage.

Maybe the day the music died.

The day

the music died.

They were singing by

Miss American pie.

I drove my sheriff to the leather, but the leather was dry.

And

they were drinking whiskey and bride.

Singing, this'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die.

Is Don McLean dead?

I was going to say, like, you are Don McLean.

Is he dead?

I don't know.

And to be honest, he could come up with me on the street and slap me in the face and I wouldn't have no idea who he is.

Same.

I'm just saying.

But I know that I am married to Don McLean.

I'm Don McLean.

You literally are.

Why?

Like, how do I explain that to people?

Like, you are Don McLean.

I love that song.

I love American Pie.

You do love that song.

And The Day the Music Died is a day that women think about often.

Oh, you think...

Well, do you know what that song's about?

Yeah, The Day the Music Died.

Do you know why the music died?

No.

Like a private plane.

I forget who was on the plane like some famous musicians like it went down really and that was the day the music died.

See?

Oh, Mancy, you didn't even know that.

Let me just make sure I'm not making that up because it does sound like, like, kind of fake, but

what is the day the music died about?

I'm like fairly certain.

It's not what the song's called, so I don't know if you.

Oh, it's not?

No.

Yeah, American Pie.

American Pie.

American rock and roll buddies.

Oh, musicians, Buddy Holly, Richie Vallins, the big booper, JP Richardson, were all killed in a plane crush near Clear Lake, Iowa together with pilot Roger Peterson.

So he was singing about his friends.

wow who is buddy holly because this man is very famous there's also a a wonderful song yes buddy holly is extremely famous by uh is is buddy holly weezer

is that different oh my god is buddy holly no no the song the song oh i thought you meant is he like in the band weezer like ben he's literally he's very different from the 50s no what do you mean

you look just like buddy holly oh yeah oh yeah married to.

By the way, you literally like made a face out of some moron.

Here's a full song.

In that moment where you thought Buddy Holly was a part of the band Weezer, I definitely reevaluated all my life choices.

Like that was borderline embarrassing for me and for you.

Well, now that we cleared that lunacy up, should we dive into the stories, which I can't lie.

They're not what?

What?

It's just funny.

Whenever it's me and Jackie's on here, you're always...

Not going to lie, guys, the stories, they sting well i honestly let's talk about that let's talk about that i hate picking the stories i had to do it yesterday they stunk it up too i don't know if it's just me or like whenever i have to pick the stories nothing's going on in the world but it's annoying it's annoying and so i just wanted to let people know like the stories are not storying today no we'll make them story of course and ben gets we'll make him sing ben gets into bed last night and he's like oh my god should we talk about shannon i'm like what happened to shannon ford he goes dui bedor i was like first of all you're on a first-name basis with Shannon Bedour?

I'm just saying everybody knows who Shannon is in the current news.

If you literally get into bed and bring up the name Shannon, which, by the way, that sounded wrong, but...

In the current news?

No.

In the current news cycle?

Literally, Shannon Bedour.

I mean, Shannon Ford is one of my best friends.

Yeah, she's great.

She works with us.

Love her.

Like, why would I not assume you were talking about Shannon Ford?

Because Shannon Bedour is in the news.

Struck a building.

We're going to talk about it.

She killed a bunch of migrants.

No, she killed nobody.

What?

She killed nobody.

Are you sure?

Positive.

Really?

but you read that she killed migrants or you're just like trying to make a joke make a joke oh god you're by the way it wasn't even a joke you like could have gone along with it no i was like maybe i missed something she didn't kill anyone that's like why people are like gonna you know let this cycle out of the news like she's not yeah i get it cool moment ruined okay sorry continue what did i do no nothing like it could have just been like a

you know like people talk rumors spread no but the thing is big thing happens no the thing is is that like you sometimes believe like things

and you like will misread something and so you could have gone on the rest of your life thinking shanamador killed some migrants i didn't and i just wanted you to know that actually that was in fact not true i didn't okay well you know you thought buddy holly was in weezer i didn't you did i didn't let's talk about that now like you did i didn't it seems though is it seems as though You do spend your life, though, thinking, what am I,

what am I potentially misconstruing?

Yes, I definitely.

And not just assuming that I know the facts.

Oh, yes.

But I do.

Did you feel like you just uncovered some big secret about me?

No, like for sure.

I'm just saying I know the facts.

Okay, well, let's see if you know the facts in today's stories.

Great, wonderful.

I did try to pick them a little tailored towards you.

Very good.

So, are you ready, Ben?

Yeah.

Is that a big problem?

No, I don't think you'll be able to hear the babies crying, but like we're in a house with babies.

It's okay.

And I don't think the microphones will pick it up.

Okay, well.

Are you ready, Ben?

I'm ready for ready.

Oh, wait.

Are you ready, kids?

Aye, aye, Captain.

I can't hear you.

Aye, aye, Captain.

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what yeah but i don't don't know who this is.

Hold on.

It can't be a suit star.

Oh.

I literally have no idea who this man is.

Do you think Joey is pranking you and you're doing it?

No, it's from Daily Mail.

But I don't know who that is.

Who is that person?

First of all, very sad.

Very sad.

Oh, he plays Harvey's brother.

Ah, yes.

Oh, that's so sad.

It is.

After valiant battle with bipolar depression, he was only 43.

Oh, my God.

That's thank you for.

Thank you, Joey Camasta.

So you and Joey Camasta text like that?

He DM'd me.

Yeah, just like, you know, he was thinking of me.

He was thinking of of you.

That's really sweet.

Well, that's a terrible story.

It is a terrible story.

It's also like a very clickbaity headline.

Yeah, because he was probably in a lot of things.

He's not most known for suits, but no capitalizing.

No, not a star.

A great person.

He knew it.

No.

No star of suits, I'm saying.

No, I'm saying I'm sure he started in a lot of things.

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

Okay, so our first story I picked for you today because I know you jerk off to Olivia Rodrigo.

Okay, that was disgusting.

Sorry.

She's like a.

It's like also not even true.

I know you just love her.

Like, I can't.

You guys wait.

By the way, I can't just enjoy women's music.

No.

Without jerking off to it.

Yeah, thank you.

Now you understand.

That's.

What?

Explain what?

Now I understand.

I'm your wife.

I make music.

Now I understand what?

I'm your wife.

Yeah, I listen to your songs too.

You should be obsessed with me.

I am obsessed with you.

No, I don't think you spend enough time thinking about me.

Got it.

And obsessing over me.

Got it.

I'm sure that's true.

Yeah.

I just wanted to tell everyone a story that Ben gets in bed last night.

I was reading and listening to the new Olivia Rodrigo album, and he

gets in bed and he says, like, oh, I think I told this story yesterday on the toast.

Ignore me.

Okay, ready?

What about how she plagiarized Miley Cyrus?

Yeah, like you thought that was

like your original.

I mean, I don't know if you guys know this, but it's not.

It's not Hannah Montana.

It's Miley Cyrus.

Start All Over.

It was after the Hannah Montana years.

But a really great song that also could have been sung by Hannah.

I love that song.

I have like a skill where if I hear a song, I can pick up the notes from other songs.

I don't know if everybody has this skill, but I'm really good at it.

I will say, like, I clown on you all the time.

You do have that skill.

I'm really good at it.

Yeah, he'll be like, this actually sounds, and he'll pull up like the most obscure song.

And you know what?

They do kind of sound alike.

So really, I can match chord progression.

So Charlie Pooth, if this comes across your desk, I can work with you.

So you're coming for Charlie Pooth snack?

No, I'm coming to work with Charlie Pooth.

Why would you want to work with Charlie Pooth?

Because he makes like cool music like that.

But he doesn't.

Yeah, he does.

What?

Oh, we hate Charlie Pooth.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, you don't know that?

i literally hate charlie booth you're not allowed to even remotely respect him i don't i like him get out i like him get out i like him no ben we hate charlie booth in this house why give me one reason his social media his personality his face i like it ben i'm in take it back no

i'll cancel good guys no you can't i have that power no you don't i do you don't i do no you don't i do no you don't i'll cancel good guys no you can't I can you can't I can you can't I can we'll switch uh people yeah you you know no but good luck I will cancel good guys.

Say that you don't respect Charlie Pooth.

Nope.

Ben, we're not going on with the podcast until you say you don't respect Charlie Pooth.

I respect him, so I can't.

I can't do that.

I can't slander another man that has a great ear for music.

A fellow celebrity.

I can't.

Can't do it.

So we'll just stalemate here.

Yeah.

We're at an impasse.

It is what it is.

Give me this gorgeous pillow of Theo.

I can't believe you're disrespecting me on my own show.

It is what it is.

Fine.

You know who I love?

Who?

Hitler?

No.

Why would you say that?

Who?

That was incredibly out of pocket.

It's a good transition.

Who do you like hate?

No one.

I'm a lover.

No, you're not.

You hate everyone.

Who?

I don't know.

You're always talking about people.

Oh, I know who, but I can't say it on the podcast.

Who?

Who?

Oh, yeah.

I love him.

How does that make you feel?

It just makes me think that you have bad taste.

That's what I think about you and Charlie Booth.

Okay, so worry then.

Okay.

Our first story.

Zach Bia reveals whether he inspired Olivia Rodrigo's breakup song, Vampire.

So Zach Bia is insisting that the song, the scathing breakup song, is not about their short-lived romance.

He did an interview with GQ and he was obviously asked.

I think a lot of people just, like, they guessed, and then now everyone just assumes, like, they just believe that it's about Zach Bia.

He said, I don't really think it's about about me.

I think the internet just ran with it.

We hung out, we're both busy, and we ended up not furthering our relationship.

There was never any drama, you know?

Look, I'm in the industry, so I know how a song gets made, he explained before giving props to her songwriting chops.

The song's so big and so awesome.

Look, a heartbreak song for the summertime.

It's an undefeated formula.

Anytime I've spent...

speculatively the subject of a song or the focus of a TikTok trend, whether grounded in reality or not, it's like, I've never, it's never been up to me to address it because the scale of it is so widespread.

100 million people have heard this song the only thing i can address is my own life i can control what my friends think and the creative output that i have and things like that

okay zach bia sounds pretty smart i want to say that was like a good quote i also think his explanation of the song not like i believe it he was like we i remember when they were like spotted out it wasn't

For a long period of time, it wasn't a million things.

Like, I actually believe like they dated, fizzled, like, not everything has to be like big, catastrophic drama.

Like, I believe his explanation that the song isn't about him.

Yeah, and and the song could easily be about no one.

Right.

Like the thing that we like to do, and by we, I mean girls,

is

coming for musical women.

Coming for musical women.

No, no, no.

Coming to men.

Coming for musical women.

Coming for musical women.

Coming for musical women.

Coming for musical women.

Coming for musical women.

Coming for the women that

are coming to the music, not the musical women, is that it always needs to be, oh, who's she singing about?

Who is this with?

When in reality, these songs are typically not even written by these people.

I'm sure Olivia writes her own music.

I'm not saying that, but like songs are just the way that Zach Bia said, you know, a heartbreak summer, a heartbreak song.

It's a formula.

It's a formula.

You know how easy it is to write a heartbreak song?

I went to the park, looked at her.

She looked at me and said, I'm not talking to you anymore.

And I went home and I screamed and shouted and I cried in my room until it went dark.

And then I came out in the morning

expecting to see the sun.

See the sun.

But without her, it was a cloudy day and I cried until the next one.

See?

Heartbreak.

There's no sun without her.

Okay, I want to

just backtrack a little bit to what you said.

Like, I think you were trying to insult women, being like, women do this.

No, I wasn't.

And you know what?

I think what you didn't realize, because you're a man and you're stupid, is that you really were just complimenting us.

Yeah, like women, we're not going to like lay down and just let people tell us things like we're gonna ask questions.

We're gonna inquire.

We're gonna investigate.

Like never stop asking questions.

Never take no for an answer.

You're gonna go deep.

Yeah, like we could.

But sometimes it's just on the surface.

We're intellects.

Sometimes a song belongs on the surface.

I will say, like, I think a lot of times when people like try to, you know, decode what a certain song is about by a singer who clearly doesn't write their own music, like that's a big waste of your time.

I don't want to like call people out.

But like, we know who doesn't write their own music and we know who does.

So people being like, who do you think the new blanket song is about?

It's like, nobody, they didn't fucking write it they just like roll rolled it and sang it but like taylor swift olivia rodrigo these are people we can definitely assume that they're writing about someone right from their own personal experience understood understood understood so what's your favorite song on the olivia rodrigo album and when are you guys gonna go on a date I have to look at the song list.

I thought you're gonna have to look at my calendar.

I have to look at the song list.

I wanna key his car.

I wanna break his heart.

Sit you right back up.

I wanna kiss his face with an uppercut.

I want to meet his mom and tell her her sunsets.

Yeah, I will.

Okay, what's your favorite song?

Oh, I like that one.

What's that song?

Get him back.

Yeah, that one's pretty solid.

All American Bitch is the...

All-American Bitch is solid.

That's the one that sounds like start all over.

And the truth is,

Vampire was a single for a reason.

You love it?

It's good.

You love it.

It's good.

You want to marry it?

No.

Do you want to walk down the aisle at your second wedding to Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo?

Wow.

All right.

Good to know.

Bloodsucker.

Good to know.

I will not be holding your hand.

Give me your hand, bitch.

Nope.

Fame fucker.

That's you.

I am a fame fucker because I'm married to a celebrity.

It's true.

That's not a problem.

You're going to have my limp hand this whole time.

Stop.

Give me your hand.

Hold my hand.

You're really second wedding.

You're being defiant.

Second wedding.

Oh, my God.

You're supposed to be a celebrity.

Take it back.

No.

Take a joke.

Take a joke.

No.

Well, I guess today's the day the music died.

Wow.

All right.

I take it.

I take it back.

I take a joke.

Take a joke.

Excuse me.

I'm choking.

For literally every single time that you've

yelled at me on this show, which I'm sure somebody could put together, a long clip, of me clearing my throat.

That throat clear.

Tops them all.

Wow.

If anybody should be understanding, it's you.

I literally understand it.

I literally just choked on my own show and you don't even ask me if I'm okay.

You just come and accuse.

I knew you're okay.

Wow, we're really on edge today.

Okay, let's let's go back to like how we were on our anniversary.

Like we were so loving.

Yeah, true, true, true.

Okay, let's, let's do that.

All right, are you ready for our next story?

It's an update.

I'm so sorry.

I feel like I don't know if people keep caring about this saga, but honestly, I do.

Who?

So yesterday, we were praising Bill Maher.

for continuing to bring his show back and give, you know, the people who work on his show paychecks again.

And not so much praising him for bringing his show back, but praising him for making a decision and sticking with it unlike Drew Barrymore who posted and deleted five apology videos and then decided not to come back

well now

we spoke too soon because Bill Maher has delayed the start of his show citing strike negotiations so the comedian who last week vowed to put his topical HBO program back into production now says he will delay it for a little while longer here's what he said My decision to return to work was made when it seemed that nothing was happening and there was no end in sight for this strike.

Now that both sides have agreed to go back to the negotiating table, I'm going to delay the return of real time for now and hope that they can finally get all this done.

All of TB's late night series have gone dark in recent months due to the strike, but Maher said he would no longer stand by as so many of his below-the-line crew were going without pay.

So I will say, I appreciate his explanation.

Like what we were saying yesterday is like Drew Barrow kept releasing these statements being like, We are a global show that launched during difficult times.

Like just say why you're bringing it back.

Like just say and Bill Maher, when he was bringing it back, was very clear.

He's like, there's so many people who work on the show who are not a part of the strike.

They can't feed their families.

And you know what?

Like, we're going to bring the show back and it's going to stink because we're not going to have writers, but people will get paid.

And I appreciated it.

It's because we were like, why is Drew bringing the show back?

She didn't explain.

Now, Bill Maher's not bringing the show back, but I will say, I do, once again, appreciate his direct.

He just posted on social media and he said exactly why.

I guess.

This whole time, they haven't been negotiating with the streamers because they never got to like even a remotely like halfway point.

So they've been on strike not negotiating, but I guess now they've returned Fran Dresher and Bob Iger back at back at it.

Go Fran go.

Go Fran go.

She's the best.

That said, like

what was his name again?

Bill Maher.

Bill Maher.

If people are going hungry, then why aren't you paying them now?

Like, why are you waiting?

No, I get it.

He doesn't pay them.

The networks do.

But the networks wasn't going to in his fictitious scenario where where no it was they never reach oh he was gonna go back to hbo and continue to produce his show and get all of his employees paid from hbo like everybody would go back to work for hbo so why doesn't he do that now well he said now that these streamers and networks are back to negotiating with sag and wga he's gonna wait i know but they're hungry no i know so which one is it it's it's both you see what i'm saying no but it is both that's like the whole point of a strike where it's like tough decisions being made yeah they are tough they are tough i don't think this is anything that gets resolved too quickly.

No, me neither.

I feel like it's going to be a while.

I didn't even know that they were back to negotiating.

Well,

inside baseball, now we know.

Now we know.

Now we know.

Variety chose like a really bad picture of Bill Maher.

Honestly, like not cool.

If that was me, I'd be pissed.

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Our next story is a little plastic surgery news heidi montag is revealing that she got part of her chin sawed off during her 2009 plastic surgery overhaul so she's reflecting on her november 2009 plastic surgery overhaul including getting part of her chin sawed off and how it impacted her final season of the hills with her husband spencer i just i wanted to talk about this story because if you were there you remember in 2009 like the hills was everything it was everywhere there were paparazzi pictures of Heidi and Spencer like every single day.

And she had gotten like a bunch of work done on her face.

And and then they had this like big reveal ben it was the biggest deal in the world at the time like when she revealed her new phase and like she did look so different but now in hindsight like I think we're so used to plastic surgery like it's really not that crazy she like just looks like she has like some filler and maybe like a chin implant.

But if you were there, you guys remember like the, it was the craziest thing that ever happened.

We were like, like people were crying.

Like it was so psychotic.

And I also am just excited that she's talking about it.

So she had said at the time, my surgeon was like, oh, it'll be a quick recovery, a few months, and it took me over a year to heal.

I could barely talk with my jaw.

I just had part of my chin sawed off.

It was really a lot just dealing with that.

Oh, and she was 23.

And she was so beautiful before.

At the age of 23, she notoriously underwent a whopping 10 cosmetic procedures at once shortly before production picked up for the sixth and final season of the Hills.

The surgeries performed by the late Dr.

Frank Ryan included a chin reduction, updated breast augmentation, rhinoplasty revision, a brow lift, liposuction, facial fat injections, and pinning her ears back, among others.

Holy smokes.

She said, I wasn't even in a place to film and I kept saying, I'm not a person right now.

I need to heal and recover and I'm not doing well physically.

Like I'm not able to literally show up like I was.

I thought I'd bounce back and be able to be on TV like I was after my first cosmetic surgery, but there was just way too much done and each thing took too much time and it hurt so bad.

I was just in an immense amount of pain.

Oh my God, I like totally have forgotten about this saga.

It sounds horrible.

Horrible.

She sawed.

10 plastic surgeries at once.

Yeah, it's tough.

It's tough.

What plastic surgery would you want to get done to your face?

You're perfect the way you are, but if you, you know, had to.

It's funny.

My

co-star on Good Guys actually recently got the surgery and he speaks about it.

Under eye bags.

Bags, my bags are getting really bad.

They're like literally not.

They're really bad.

That's not a real problem.

So I'd like to get get this

done, I think.

No, you don't need that.

What else would you want done?

Oh, so what do you think I need done?

That's a good question.

I think you definitely need an egghead removal surgery.

Rude.

You do have an egg.

Yeah, I guess it could be.

I could shave it.

No, no, I'm totally kidding.

I was not saying that question.

I don't think you literally need any plastic surgery.

Are you sure?

There's nothing on you I would change.

You sure?

Except your love of Charlie Booth.

Fine.

I don't think there's a surgery for that.

I do.

No, I don't.

It's called the lobotomy.

I don't think so.

Yeah.

I don't think so.

This is so sad, but so interesting that she's sharing that time.

And I didn't realize, I thought she got that done when the Hills was over.

It's a weird choice of timing.

Before the final season?

Yeah, and just, I don't know, trying to squeeze it in.

You squeeze in like a teeth cleaning.

You don't squeeze in a chainsaw to the chin.

Right.

She said she was obviously, it was obviously her choice, but she wasn't aware of the repercussions, including a near-to-death experience.

Wouldn't have a near-death.

They called Spencer at one point during the surgery and told him I basically died and I wasn't doing well.

She explains that at one point, her heart was beating only five times per minute after she was allegedly administered the incorrect dose of the opioid demerol for pain relief.

So here's the problem.

I'm pro-productive.

This is like a crazy story.

Wait, we had to have nurses at the house for months to help me recover.

So we're dealing with that.

And then we have these producers saying, say this and say that.

And we're just like, we can't do this.

Wow.

This is.

I'm pro- They have have a new podcast by the way so this is where they're talking about it i just want to go yeah sorry you sure yeah yeah

i'm pro plastic surgery you want to get something done you get it done yeah that said unnecessary surgery presents unnecessary risks so unless it's really important really important just saying joan rivers she by the way didn't die getting plastic surgery what'd she die getting an endoscopy a routine endoscopy even worse see even necessary things have risks so the unnecessary is really unnecessary.

Just saying.

Okay, pastor.

Also,

Pastor Ben.

Also, I was going to ask why we're talking about this, like why this came up and it makes sense if they have a new podcast.

They have a new podcast.

They also clearly have an unbelievable publicist.

No, this is actually like such an interesting story

and

like so sad.

It is sad.

What of the work that I have had done do you like and dislike?

I've had both of you.

I think that all of the work that you've had done has been quite tasteful.

Thank you.

Not like God-altering.

Right.

Well, the chin was a little God-altering.

Why?

You didn't have anything shaved.

No, I just had like the fat taken out.

Okay.

That's not God-altering.

And lip filler, what do you like about that?

I feel like you don't like that.

I don't, but I don't think you do too much of it.

If you do, I just haven't noticed, but I haven't done it anymore.

I think your lips look good.

I haven't done it in a while.

Yeah.

So then when you have done it, I haven't liked it.

So yeah, don't do that.

When I have done it, I feel like you don't like the texture of my lips.

They're also just too big.

They're just, it's just weird.

There's no such thing.

No, yeah, no, it's too much.

No, your lips are, they're good.

What's wrong with your current lips?

No, I

nothing, which is why I'm leaving them.

Understood.

All right.

Now we're going to talk about your girlfriend, Chadin.

Oh, yes, another girlfriend.

She's ashamed.

She's entering counseling after her DUI arrest.

One, sorry, she should be ashamed.

Ooh.

Two, counseling.

Like, I hate this thing where i know that celebrities are coached to have to say certain things because they know that's what writers or the public or the network or somebody wants them to say like it's i think it was kyrie irving when he made those like terribly anti-semitic uh comments and then was like oh but don't worry i'm going to the

holocaust museum to learn with rabbi shmooley and it's like no like i don't believe you no it's it's like pr um strategy at this point and i'm i'm not gonna question the woman's age but an older woman a younger woman don't drive drunk no like it's just it's just so there's literally no excuse when uber exists when taxi exists lifts and when you're like a woman of means like get a driver no no it's also it's just terrible like i was reading the comments under this and it's like Like at first I was thinking like, oh, people are going to like be nice to her, like feel bad for her.

And it's literally just comments of like, my 14-year-old son was struck by a drunk driver.

Like, what are you doing?

What are you doing?

Like, what are you doing?

Okay, so here are the details.

Her friend, Jeff Lewis, who has a radio show, revealed that his close friend Shannon Medora is seeking treatment after she was arrested for a DUI and a hit and run early Sunday.

He said, I'm happy to say that she's going to be entering counseling this week.

So I'm so happy about that.

The flipping out star explained that Medora called him after the incident

and said that she's, quote, accepting full accountability.

Who else would?

Obviously.

And she's, quote, ashamed and embarrassed.

He said, I don't think Shannon is an alcoholic.

I think as her close friend, I think she's going through a lot of personal struggles right now.

And I think that she's probably has been leaning on alcohol, but I don't believe she's an alcoholic.

He also confirmed that she was in a car accident that night and got injured, but nobody else was hurt.

Like, I get it.

Like, people get a pass when they're young, right?

I'm not being agest here.

I'm just saying, like, when you're young, you think like nothing can happen to you and you think you're invincible, and then you drink, and somebody makes a life-altering mistake, and it's horrendous.

But when you are older,

you have seen these things, you have learned, and

you can't drive drunk.

You can't do it.

No, I agree.

You can't do it.

Like, I'm, I, I really am not a judgmental person.

I think that I'm really, um, like, understanding of people's flaws.

And I'm sorry, there's like, this is the one thing like I'm going to judge someone to hell for.

This is actually a huge thing for you.

Yeah.

Like, if you even have like, if I have like half a glass of wine, like have nothing.

Claudia's like, no, you can't drive.

No, I don't believe in like having having one cocktail and getting in the car.

Like, like when we're going somewhere and someone's going to drive, they'll be like, I'll have a beer.

I'll be like, I will not drive with you.

Like, maybe I'm a little extreme, but for, and I don't even know why.

I'd rather you be extreme.

I don't know.

I don't even have a, like a, yeah, but I'm not, I don't have like a trauma connected.

Like, I just think it's so fucking stupid.

I know why.

I'm a logical person.

It is stupid.

And in this day and age, when literally you could get someone to pick you up in 10 seconds on your phone, why you would get in a car drunk is beyond me.

And I'm sorry, like, I am judging.

I think this is shameful and I think it's gross.

Yeah.

Agreed.

And I don't know what counseling you can possibly have for drunk driving.

Especially if he's saying she's not an alcoholic.

No, but what is, what counseling can you have?

What am I saying?

Well, I guess he was saying she's going through like a lot of personal issues.

So maybe she needs to go to counseling for those personal issues.

Got it.

I just don't know what she said.

Yeah,

driving drunk.

No, I like literally hate this.

I

vomit.

Thank God nobody was hurt.

Thank God nobody was hurt.

How fast was she going?

She wasn't going particularly fast, but she was going actually fast because she was going around a bend.

And when she, I saw the video of it, when the car, you know, started to turn, it came up unexpectedly and she literally drove into a building.

But how fast was she going?

Let me see if it says.

And how far was she from her house?

Like, how long was the drive she was embarking on?

Okay, I don't know.

I don't have her like her.

And how drunk was she?

Do we know that?

I have no idea where she was going, but...

Right now, she's going on my list of people I'm upset with.

But so nobody knows how far she was from her house.

Nobody Nobody knows how fast she was driving.

Nobody knows how drunk she was.

If you want to go read the police report, sure, I'm sure you can do it.

No, because now I also would like to know, just saying, because I like to play both sides, I just want to know, was she truly drunk?

Was she a little bit tipsy?

Was she going five miles an hour and she was next to her house?

There are some things.

If she's putting out public statements via her friend Jeff Lewis saying she's ashamed.

I'm entering counseling.

I take full accountability.

That bitch was drunk.

Yeah.

That bitch was wasted.

That bitch was driving fast.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I'm upset with her.

I'm upset with her.

Yeah, it's no good.

It's no bueno.

It's no good.

It's no good.

And she was like posting.

Is she filming?

I don't think so, but I'm sure cameras are up now.

No, I ask if she was filming because then like maybe you could put a little bit of accountability.

No, I'm sorry.

She wasn't filming because when they do film,

production, they always show up in suburbans.

Like production has cars for them everywhere.

Smart.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That encourages all the women to drink and be crazy for the show.

So definitely.

And then takes them home.

Right, safely.

Safely.

Yep.

And if there was actual producers around, I don't think anybody would have let Shannon get in a car.

Yeah, understood.

No, she was definitely

understood.

Stop filming.

Understood.

Ugh, I'm so mad.

Yeah, it's not good.

It's not good.

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Okay, Starbucks is facing a lawsuit.

Good.

Fuck them.

For their funds.

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Sorry, they sponsor the toast.

What the hell?

Yeah, they're...

ready to drink beverages.

They're so good.

We have them in the studio.

Oh, so then we must be careful with this story.

Well, no, like we're just face, we're just reading the facts.

They're facing a lawsuit for a fruitless, fruit-flavored refresher drinks.

So they were ordered by a federal judge on Monday to face a lawsuit claiming that several of their refresher fruit beverages lacked a key ingredient.

Fruit.

It's not that crazy.

A judge rejected their request to dismiss nine of the 11 claims in the proposed class action, saying that a significant portion of reasonable consumers would expect their drinks to contain fruit mentioned in the names.

So here are the drinks.

Consumers are complaining that their mango dragon fruit, mango dragon fruit lemonade, pineapple passion fruit, pineapple passion fruit lemonade, strawberry acai, and strawberry acai lemade refreshers contained none of the advertised mango, passion fruit, or acai.

The plaintiffs, which are a bunch of different people, said that the main ingredients were water, grape juice concentrate, and sugar, and that Starbucks' misleading names caused them to be overcharged.

They said that this violates their state's consumer protection laws.

The plaintiffs are assholes.

This is like what happens in suits.

No, but yeah, and they're always assholes.

It's like people that are literally looking for something wrong with something to get a pain.

Yeah, no, it's like an ambulance chaser.

It's like people who are

didn't hurt me.

One, nobody, if you're going to Starbucks, PSA, if you're going to Starbucks for your daily dose of fruit, like you have another problem.

In your pineapple mango refresher.

That's a thousand calories.

Huge problem.

Agreed.

Huge problem.

But also anything that has lemonade at the end, you know, lemonade isn't a real fruit, right?

Well, they're not complaining that there's no lemons.

They're complaining that there's no mango, passion, fruit, or acai no but i'm just saying lemon

i i i want to i if i were the judge in this case i would say you're both wrong plaintiffs you're annoying go get a job instead of like you know trying to exploit major companies like just go do something else but starbucks sorry you can't be out here being like an acai refresher that has no acai like that's called false advertising it's misleading the consumer like sorry you have to do better or put fucking fruit in your fucking drinks yeah but can't you also just ask as the consumer what's in this drink no i'm sorry like we live in that type of country where like we're all just lying to each other yes no i don't think every day no i i i'm with actually you know what you're right i shouldn't because if i walked up to starbucks and i ordered a cup of coffee i wouldn't ask is this real coffee would they say or is this you know muddled up poop it could be right

like we have to have some faith in our institutions agreed right agreed but we don't i stand with the plaintiffs no i don't

I don't.

I don't.

I stand with the plaintiffs if they came across this in a way that wasn't looking for a payoff.

But unfortunately, it was.

Unfortunately, it was.

By the way, Starbucks was saying what you said when they wanted to get those cases dismissed.

It also said no reasonable consumers would have been confused.

And the baristos could have sufficiently dispelled any confusion if consumers had questions.

Yeah.

They said that the product names described the drinks flavors as opposed to their ingredients and the menu boards accurately advertised those flavors.

I

don't

disagree.

But the judge, this is literally like an episode of Suits.

But the judge said that unlike the term vanilla, the subject of many lawsuits, nothing before the court indicates that mango, passion fruit, and acai are terms that typically are understood to represent a flavor, not an ingredient.

I agree with the judge.

No, no, I stand with Starbucks on this one.

When you go, let's just bring some brands into it, right?

When you go and you pick up your delicious diet raspberry snapple.

Yeah.

Are you expecting there to be real raspberries in it?

No.

Okay, what's the difference?

That these refresher drinks have like chunks of stuff in it.

No, they don't.

Oh, wait, no, maybe they don't.

You're just making that up in your head.

Okay, wait, so that's a good, wait.

Or when you get a peach snapple, there's no peach.

I think there is peach flavors.

Yeah, there's also acai flavors.

That's the that's what they're saying.

Okay, wait, hold on.

There's just no real acai.

There's also pineapple flavors.

There's just no pineapple.

Drinks typically don't have real fruit in it.

They're drinks.

Not a smoothie.

Is it called a smoothie?

No, it's called a refresher.

Okay, hold on.

I'm looking up the peach tea ingredients.

It's not going to be anything you want to see.

No, I believe in Snapple.

Of course.

Doesn't mean it doesn't taste great.

Zero sugar peach tea.

This is dyed peach Snapple.

Where do you find the ingredients?

It's going to be a bunch of stuff, natural flavors or even maybe even artificial flavors.

Filtered water, citric acid, tea, aspartame, potassium citrate, natural flavors, and malic acid.

Yeah.

Look, as a man in the beautiful.

Because I guess, no, I guess the difference is with Snapple, they're all different teas and they come in different flavors.

So you know that there's not the actual fruit in it because it's just flavored.

These drinks are advertised as

it's literally called the strawberry, strawberry acai.

It's called the strawberry acai refresher.

And no, there's multiple drinks.

It's called their strawberry mango mango dragon fruit, mango dragon fruit lemonade, pineapple passion fruit, pineapple passion fruit lemonade.

There are strawberry acai and strawberry acai lemonade.

There are two options for all of these people, including you.

You're a plaintiff, apparently.

No, I'm just saying.

I stand on the playtest.

Yeah, no, you can't because there are two options if you really thought that there was fresh juice in there.

Either it would be a smoothie.

Which is clearly not because it's called a refresher and they have no blenders.

Yeah, right.

No, they do have blenders.

Two, they don't.

oh, they do have blenders.

Okay, but not for the fruit stuff.

No, no, no.

Two, it would be a fresh squeeze juice.

I don't think that there's fresh squeeze dragon fruit.

You can't even squeeze a dragon fruit.

How do you get the, how do you get the juice out?

I think back to your original claim that like anybody going to Starbucks for their daily dose of fruit like is a deeply unwell person.

Having said that, like I think legally they've got some ground to stand on these plaintiffs.

That's what I believe.

Yeah.

Agree to disagree.

I believe.

Agree to disagree.

I believe.

Agree to disagree.

Have you ever sued anyone?

No.

And I'm very against the whole thing in general.

I've sent a strongly worried letter.

I absolutely hate.

I'm sorry.

I have many friends that are in this profession.

I just hate lawyers.

I hate the idea that...

I hate the idea that we need to have them.

I think there are some fantastic lawyers that are doing the right thing in a very corrupt society.

But the fact that I can't shake hands with somebody and my word works stinks.

Oh, you're a big fan of the verbal agreement.

I am.

A huge fan of the verbal agreement.

Well, you're a sucker.

See?

You are a sucker.

I'm a big fan of the contractual agreement.

And see, you're the reason.

And yes, somebody crosses me.

I'm going to sue their ass.

Like that publicist who stole $4,000 from me.

See, because this is the world that we live in, where there are those publicists.

And if those publicists simply didn't exist, then we wouldn't need lawyers, unfortunately.

You're living at a fantasy.

You're living at a fantasy.

True.

You You run a business.

Don't be dumb.

Get a lawyer.

We have one.

They're very expensive.

Get multiple.

We have multiple.

They're very expensive.

Oh, after watching suits, I should have become a lawyer.

Like, it looks horrible, but like rewarding.

Yeah, especially when you work on the right side of the law.

Right.

Which not everyone does in suits.

No.

And not everybody does in general.

So true.

Cool.

What kind of lawyer would you be?

I think I'd want to be.

Oh, what a great question.

Like,

the truth is, if I'm living in a society where I could be any type of lawyer, like the suits big corporate lawyer.

Yeah, but like, do you want to do mergers and acquisitions?

Like, Lewis Litt does finance.

Harvey does.

Definitely not finance.

Okay.

Yeah, M ⁇ A sounds nice.

M ⁇ A sounds nice.

I also just like entertainment law.

Like, I want to be like a couple really big celebrities, like, favorite lawyer.

Yeah, that sounds nice, too.

Because they only do like a couple deals a year.

Like, it's not.

It's also probably really fun to sue big companies.

Like, the jobs that these like plaintiffs, like

the lawyer that they failed.

And you have a legitimate claim.

Yeah, exactly.

Because you get a big chunk of that settlement.

Yeah, and And then it's fun.

Yeah.

Like the person that came after Subway Tuna for not having tuna in it.

That's probably fun, but it's also blasphemy.

Let me ask you a question.

Subway tuna got sued because...

See, oh, by the way, that

fucked up.

Oh, so you stand with the plaintiffs with Subway?

Of course I do.

So you stand with the plaintiffs with Subway.

There's no world in which tuna shouldn't have tuna in it.

And there's no world in which strawberry acai should not have acai in it.

No, not true, because it's a flavor.

Tuna is not a flavor.

It's a food.

But Subway could argue it's a flavor.

No, they can't.

Yes, they can.

It's revolting.

Yes, they can but let me ask you a question so subway got sued because it was found that their tuna salad in their sandwiches didn't have one trace

did did that actually end up coming out as true yeah you're positive yeah you're positive then the end of it subway's tuna doesn't have tuna okay i don't think that's true i think that that was a uh baseless claim that was made but subway tuna lawsuit

not tuna

do you just pick your nose on my show no i tried to pop my my ear, but it wouldn't pop.

Okay, so a woman had filed a lawsuit against Subway, claiming that their tuna isn't tuna.

It was dismissed.

See?

Wow.

Bastards coming from iTuna.

Subway has some really, really solid, considering how big they are.

By the way, did you see how much money Subway just got sold for two weeks ago?

Subway sold?

To Arby's group.

Wow.

I'll ask you two questions.

One, how many stores do you think they have?

And two, how much do you think they sold for?

I think they have 40,000 stores.

000 stores okay that wasn't a bad guess no and how much do you think they sold for

10

billion

i was gonna say two billion 10 billion how does arby's have that much money arby's stinks and i've never seen anybody eat there i'm sure that arby's is a uh conglomerate that owns yeah a bunch of these and this is to me this is the most interesting thing we've talked about all day what tuna Arby's group.

No, like the fast food conglomerates.

Oh, I love QSR.

Quickserve restaurants.

What a cash cow.

Okay, so God, I'd love to own a bunch of Wendy's.

Arby's group is actually called Inspire Brands, and they own Arby's Restaurant Groups, Duncan,

Wendy's.

See.

Hold on, I think there's more.

Jimmy John's.

See.

Buffalo Wild Wings.

See.

Sonic Drive-In.

By the way, talking about a monopoly.

Cece's Pizza.

I don't know that one.

Dunn Brothers Coffee and Muya.

Oh, Baskin Robbins,

Wow.

They're killing it.

And Mr.

Donut, which is an international franchise.

I've never done it.

Yeah.

And now Subway.

Yeah, you're right.

They're at the bottom of the list.

Wow.

Like, I love, I would love to be like a magnate of like.

I'd love to own a like.

50 fast food chains.

Yeah, like I'd love to be like the largest McDonald's like franchisee or something.

Yeah, it would be amazing.

And our McDonald's.

How much would be spick and stick?

Oh, and everyone, I would do meet and greets at my McDonald's and we'd all get free food.

See?

How much does it it cost to buy a McDonald's?

I don't know.

Does it depend where?

Definitely.

And I don't know how much it costs to buy a McDonald's.

I think a Chick-fil-A franchise is like half a million dollars, if I remembered.

Okay, how much does a McDonald's franchise cost?

Most McDonald's franchise owners and operators have entered the corporation by purchasing an existing restaurant.

Oh, to open a new one.

requires a total investment of one to two million dollars.

Oh, but if you buy someone else's.

You get it for whatever they, whatever they're willing to sell it for, i guess

yeah you know and then you make a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year so it would take you like 10 years to make your money back

unless you start a fast food chain of your own turd saying turdies warm bowls just saying turdies warm bowls yeah i feel like there would be a class action suit that would come against you for having turds in your warm bowls oh well no someone would like find like a speck of poop because but then but then they couldn't

but then they couldn't sue me because i'd be accurately

oh true i would are

interesting interesting.

You are turdy's warm bowls.

I'm getting out ahead of it.

You're getting out ahead of it.

Cool.

Right?

All right.

Yeah.

We're going to start a fast food chain.

Turdies warm bowls.

Maybe.

We'll work on it.

No, everybody wants turdies warm bowls and warm bowls are, you know, the future.

Interesting.

Thank you for being here, Ben.

Thank you, darling.

I love you very much.

I love you, too.

I love you more.

Oh, you better.

I know, you know, I feel like we were kind of at odds this episode.

We weren't.

You just have something against Charlie Pooth that I won't understand.

You just have something against women that I won't understand.

This is true.

The day.

The music died.

Cut.

No, I have to do my outro.

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I did see that clip.

What the hell is public radio?

Right.

Yeah.

Oh,

did you hear that?

Yeah.

The printer has come alive in Jackie's studio.

Somebody's printing something.

Oh.

Wow, some nerve.

This place is haunted.

We gotta go.

Have a great day, guys.

Love you.

Bye.