G'Day Mate with Ben Soffer Celebrity: Friday, July 28th, 2023

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

Gotta get zone on Friday.

We have a gorgeous, very special Friday episode for you guys today.

I am back in studio in our Florida headquarters, Toast HQ, Transatlantic Edition.

And I am sitting down.

I figured, you know, while I have Jackie's studio at my disposal, why don't we give Jax a day off, let her ease into the weekend, alarm-free living.

And I could sit down with...

Honestly, annoyingly, one of the most requested co-hosts in the toast universe i just realized you're not wearing shoes is that a problem that's just crazy like celebrities don't have to wear shoes you know i just like hopped off the golf course came here just like living that life um did you bring shoes to jackie's house no You drove without shoes?

No, I wore my new blue Birkenstocks that I purchased at Target.

They're not Birkenstock brand.

They're nice.

They're just not Birkenstock brand.

No, no, they're not.

And I wouldn't wear Birkenstock brand because Birkenstock brand ripped off Naot and naot and is is an israeli company that's very true but and these birkenstock non-birkenstock blue shoes are waterproof

and incredibly uncomfortable so i just no it's insane it's insane i want to just address the people watching on youtube because we are doing video today um I guess like feet are good for engagement.

So that's fine.

And that happens to be the foot.

This is a good foot.

Yeah, you have a wonky toe on the other foot.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Just put, no, no, no.

the second down down but down dog other foot

just stop i

when did people start calling feet dogs i don't know that's a good question right it's strange isn't it isn't it like put away your dogs like put them dogs away like why Why?

I don't know.

Your feet are looking quite doggish today.

They're looking literally unbelievable.

I don't even know what you like.

Like, what are you even talking about?

I never really look at your feet.

They're kind of

like crazy.

What's wrong with them?

They're not like a gorgeous foot.

It's a pretty nice foot.

You could do much worse.

The shape of your big toe is insane.

No, no.

It's a perfect foot for me.

It's a great foot.

What's wrong with my foot?

Your big toe just looks like...

Remember in Spy Kids, those like

thumbs?

Of course.

That's what your big toe looks like.

Oh, my big toe looks like a thumb toe, which it is?

Not a thumb toe.

Wow.

Not a thumb toe.

Let me get thumb.

Let me guess.

You don't like my pinky toe because it's small?

No, your pinky toe is fine.

Yeah.

Let's see your feet.

I got a pedicure.

I'm looking good.

Hmm.

Interesting.

It's a nice foot, no?

It always is.

So let's just issue an apology to everybody watching on YouTube.

You are going to have to stare at Ben's bare feet.

If I had noticed before we started recording that you were wearing shoes, I would have sent you downstairs to put your shoes on.

Interesting.

And then you could have talked about your new shoes that we got at Target yesterday.

Fine, you want me to go get my shoes?

No, you're fine.

We went to Target yesterday.

We had kind of like an amazing day out.

We went to Outback Steakhouse.

We did.

We went to Target.

We did.

I filmed a TikTok at Outback Steakhouse and I will be posting it today.

So our review is pending, but let's give the toasters like a brief sneak peek.

What did you think?

Of Target?

No, of Outback Steakhouse.

We'd both never been.

It was our first time.

Of course, I've seen the commercials.

I know about the Bloomin' Onion.

By the way, you've been saying that.

I've been to Outback.

That's how I knew to order the Bloomin' Onion.

With who, your girlfriend?

No, with my parents.

Same.

And just like, I don't know.

No, by the way, I've never been to Outback and even I know you get the Bloom and Onion because I've seen the commercials.

See, Outback is, Outback is a solid establishment.

You're looking for a safe meal in a town where you just you don't know what's safe and what isn't you don't know if you're gonna walk in here get food poisoning from the tuna you don't know you don't know you can trust that outback's got your back you think that's their slogan no it's outback down on the oh true true it was getting aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi and that really begs the question like we just kind of accept that the branding of Outback is Australian.

Now, I've never been to Australia and I don't think I've ever eaten Australian food, but is steakhouse Australian cuisine?

Like what makes Outback Australian?

I'm not sure.

I think that the whole down under thing is like kind of like the wild.

No, it's like the Wild West, isn't it?

It's like the Western part of Australia when they say down under.

Oh, like Safari?

No, not like Safari, like more like cowboys and Indians, I believe.

Honestly, like the...

So when you think of like steakhouses, like steakhouses are like,

let's rope, rope them cows.

Excuse me.

No?

I don't know.

I think it's just like a marketing thing that we've all sort of just

gone with.

But yesterday I was thinking critically at Outback Steakhouse.

What about Outback, whether it be the restaurant interior design, the cuisine, the menu?

What about it is Australian?

You are trying to cancel Outback.

No, I'm not.

I just feel like nobody's been asking questions.

Another fine establishment canceled.

That's not true.

Once you see my review, you're going to see I actually really enjoyed myself there.

I'm just critically thinking about Outback.

And when I feel feel like nobody has, I've been seeing those commercials with that guy, Outback Down Under.

I've been seeing it.

Good eye.

I've been seeing it since I was a child and I just sort of accepted it.

But now I'm a critically thinking adult and I'm just asking questions and I don't think it's ever bad to ask questions.

I assume that one of the owners, the original owners, was from Down Under.

And maybe, maybe, just maybe, the original Outback.

was in Australia.

Or maybe it's like La Croix, which everybody thought was Lacroix from France and really scanned in Wisconsin.

That's by the way, it's the La Croix effect.

It is right.

It's La Croix Beerman effect.

But so then to that point, nobody ever looked at Outback and said, ooh, I want that Australian feeling.

You know, they're going there for like a cheap steak.

Okay, but now let's think even more critically.

We actually have had Australian cuisine once when we went to Ruby's.

Delicious.

What were we eating there?

Pasta?

No, by the way, nothing there was Australian.

Okay.

Wait, what is Australian cuisine?

Precisely my initial question.

Should Should we Google?

No.

You sure?

Yeah.

You don't want to know?

No.

I think we should know.

I prefer to talk about things I don't know and not like actually find them out, you know?

Really?

Yeah.

I like to know.

No.

So we went to Atback Steakhouse yesterday.

And it was great.

It was fun.

Yeah, Ben didn't have as good of an experience as I did.

No, no.

The vibes, immaculate.

You walk in, big, beautiful booths, hostess, lovely.

Waitress, lovelier.

Ask for a lemon, give a six yeah big sodas giving that was the by the way and that was the exact type of energy I was looking for when we were scouring you know the neighborhood for somewhere to eat I wanted like a big comfy booth with a big soda and that's just like a chain restaurant vibe so when we passed out back it was kind of meant to be it was it was you were skeptical at first but I was you are looking for an outback you knew what i needed and you didn't share with me that you had already been to an outback with your girlfriend i did share it what else do you and your girlfriend do i got married at outback

I got married in Italy.

Did I say you stole my wedding country?

It's a cultural reference.

I understand.

Where's it from?

No, I understood that it was a cultural reference.

I didn't think that you were speaking to me.

Guess where it's from?

Movie, right?

No.

Damn.

I didn't even get the category right.

Keeping up with the Kardashians.

Oh.

Well, the Kardashians on Hulu, but same thing.

Okay, so we have a bunch of stories today.

We actually have a lot of loose ends we need to tie up.

A Megan Fox update with her GoFundMe saga.

We have a Francia Reisa, Selena Gomez update.

And I have briefed Ben while he was in the shower this morning on everything up until this point.

So he knows a bunch of the background.

And he had taken a particular interest.

Actually, he poked his head out of the shower this morning.

He was asking me questions about what's going on with Ariana Grande.

You want to know why I asked you?

Because you figured we were talking about it?

No.

Yes.

You wake up in the morning.

You know, sometimes a song is just stuck in your head.

And for whatever reason the song that was stuck in my head was Game and put him down

SpongeBob turned into a clown and nobody ever wants to dance with a fool who went and ripped his pants.

And while I know that Ariana Grande is not actually dating the character from SpongeBob voice actor, for whatever reason, the two went into my head.

She is dating a pretty not famous low-level actor whose recent claim to fame was that he was in Spongebob the musical playing Spongebob Live on stage.

Oh, wait.

I thought that, I thought that the wife, oh, oh, oh.

Wait, what?

I thought that the wife of the person who was the Spongebob voice actor came out and said, no, they're not dating.

It was her.

That was another part of the story.

But

when it came out that Ariana was dating Ethan Sleater, everyone was like, who the fuck is this?

Wait, so he is the voice of Spongebob?

No, he played spongebob on not maybe not broadway maybe broadway there was a spongebob live-action musical on stage and he was the the spongebob character got it so he's spongebob no but he's not a spongebob but but literally everybody came out and said no not spongebob he's spongebob he's not spongebob and the reason that that the actual voice actor of the iconic spongebob actor came out and was like this is not my husband it's the guy from the broadway version of it because everybody thought her husband was sleeping with ariana grande so she just left a comment and was like guys this isn't me um we're actually about to celebrate like our 40th anniversary.

They're like much older.

I understand.

So there was confusion, but you had the, you made the connection correctly.

I did.

He's widely known for his, you know, amazing role as SpongeBob in the SpongeBob play on stage.

Which how many people have seen?

17.

I just like, I didn't even know that SpongeBob was on Broadway.

How do you put SpongeBob on Broadway?

Well, you should watch some of the clips that are coming out of Ethan's performance.

It's giving major cringe.

Really?

Yeah.

He's not good.

He's fine.

You know, he's like a trained professional, you know,

onstage performer.

But, you know, SpongeBob on stage is just a weird play.

It's a terrible concept.

Like, I don't even know why you would do it.

It's almost as bad as Aladdin.

Did you see Aladdin?

No, you went without me.

Horrible.

Horrible.

If you love Aladdin, don't see it.

Ruin the magic.

If you love Lion King, see that.

See that.

Yeah.

See that.

So Ben has been briefed.

We have a bunch of updates.

And we're going to get your thoughts, you know, on infidelity, on GoFundMe,

on all things.

So are you ready to dive in with me?

Of Of course, sure,

of course.

Wow, literally, I just want the record to show.

I came here with beautifully manicured feet and I was just thrown to the wolves.

And now, all of a sudden, I am being mocked for my stutter.

Do you like want some sort of an apology?

I'm sorry that I have a problem.

You do, but you're not gonna get it.

Ready?

Ready, Freddy?

Here are the fast five stories that you

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All right, PupsyWupsy Poka Dotsi had a wife whose name was Lotzi.

Are you ready for the past five?

Yes.

Do you not feel like answering me today?

No, I mean, yes, I'm ready.

I've been ready.

Okay, I'm not.

I'm ready.

I'm not.

I'm not.

Just give me a second.

I'm like doing it all today, you know?

All right, stories.

If we want, before we dive in, we can talk about bed bugs or no?

Bed bugs?

Let's just clear the record before you're about to say we don't have bed bugs.

No, we don't have bed bugs.

So why the fuck do you want to stop?

I was just saying you didn't want to jump into the fast five yet, and something's been on my mind.

So in case you want to go on a random tangent, we can.

You are more than welcome to say what's on your mind, but um.

I never said I didn't want to dive in, but please.

No, you were saying that, you know, there's a lot going on.

Okay, go.

The expression.

Oh, yes.

Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.

That we say to our young children, bless you, that we say to our young children, isn't that really on the parent for not cleaning the kids' sheets?

Why would there be bed bugs in the kid's bed?

That's a good question.

So what are you going to say to our future children?

You have to say of a problem.

Good night.

Sleep tight.

I love you.

Sleep well.

Why would the bed bugs bite?

I did your sheets.

Why would you have bed bugs?

Oh, so in this hypothetical scenario, you're changing and cleaning the sheets?

No, you.

But like, your mama cleaned the sheets, but even if I cleaned the sheets, to get bed bugs is just like, it's so...

It's disgusting.

It's disgusting.

And why would you think that your children would have bed bugs?

Why would you put that in their heads?

No, it's a good question.

I think, you know, this is something that a lot of people experience when they become parents is you find the dark origins of like classic limericks songs.

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

That's like, if you look into the history of that, it's very dark.

It's something about a cemetery.

I don't know.

What about Rockabye Baby?

On the treetop.

When the wind blows, the crater will rock.

When the bow breaks, the crater will fall and down will come baby.

Oh my God.

Is that the story of

a baby dying?

Right?

Like it's a baby in a tree.

Yep, falling to its death.

Jeez.

I'm just saying.

I thought I needed to bring this up.

I'm so glad you did.

You should talk it up with Jackie.

You know, she's a mom.

See what types of riddles she's bringing into her home.

If only somebody could write a children's book for the modern age.

the counselor.com.

That's five.

Seamless.

I love that.

Now, for those who may be new here, you know, we're constantly growing.

I forgot to mention Ben is my husband, just in case anybody didn't know that.

He's a big celebrity.

He's the founder of

Spritz Society, our sparkling canned wine cocktail that we started together.

We actually just launched Merse yesterday.

If you want to check it out, spritzsociety.com.

He also hosts his own podcast called Good Guys, hosted with Josh Peck, who's kind of an A-list celebrity these days since he's been in Oppenheimer.

Do you feel threatened at all?

Like, you know, when you guys first started the podcast, of course, Josh was much more famous than you.

He's an iconic actor, Drake and Josh.

He was a former member of the vlog squad, big influencer.

But, you know, the difference between you guys wasn't that big.

You were in the same space.

But Josh is in Oppenheimer.

How do you feel?

You know,

threatened?

No, not threatened.

But I, as we've been talking about SAG, everybody's on strike, you know, I feel left out of the club.

You do?

As a fellow celebrity,

I really should be on strike.

In SAG.

Yeah.

I should be in SAC.

You can stand in solidarity with the strike, though.

And like, Fran Dreshner, I just, I just want to be out.

You?

Dresher.

You said Dreshner.

Okay, for one second.

You said Dreschner.

Literally, you wanted me to say Dreshner.

No, I didn't want anything.

I was just listening.

Fran Drescher.

By the way,

we're going to union against you.

Who's we?

I don't know.

Me, Theo, Josh.

Oh, you're starting, you're going on strike against me?

Yeah.

Okay, I'll pull all your ads.

Don't forget, I'm your boss, bitch.

Interesting.

I run Tian and I run this town.

Interesting.

You see?

You see?

It's his name, Bob Odenkirk, or is that the actor?

Bob Iger.

Yeah, Bob Iger.

Fine, I'm Bob Iger.

Yeah, in this situation.

And I'm Fran.

You're a friend, yeah.

We want fair wages.

Are you not getting fair wages?

No.

How so?

Because streaming.

We don't stream.

We do.

Where?

Here.

This is live.

This is stream.

This is essentially a webcam.

I don't know where you're putting this.

The internet is a free market.

You bring up an interesting point.

No.

Case closed.

Case closed.

We got a deal?

Very good.

Okay, let's dive into the stories.

So I was telling you, and we were talking about the toast earlier, that Megan Fox earlier this week posted a GoFundMe for, she said, her Nail Tech, whose father had been diagnosed with cancer, they were raising about $30,000.

Fans were quick to notice.

You know, Megan Fox could easily clear that 30K in a matter of moments.

And, you know, on gofundme.com, you can actually look through all the donations thus far.

You could sort by highest to lowest.

And the highest donation was $300.

So there's no proof that that was Megan Fox.

And if it was $300, like come on girl so people were like girl read the room in this economy you're a celebrity pay it she got a bunch of um backlash and now she has responded to the backlash after asking fans to help with her friends go fund me i will read you her statement that she posted it's very aggressive she posted it on her instagram story just you know a little text you know nothing crazy hey weirdos

do any of you have the emotional intelligence to consider that maybe Brit, the nail tech, doesn't want her celebrity clients donating large sums of money to her because it creates a dynamic in her working relationships that make her uncomfortable.

So instead, she asked me to post the GoFundMe so that many people could donate small amounts of money to help them reach their goal.

I just obliged her request.

Anything she needs from me personally, she will ask and I will do privately.

One thing you're not going to accuse me of is being miserly or lacking generosity.

So try again on another day, probably tomorrow, with some different bullshit, you bunch of psychos.

So she came out swinging.

But pretty much what she said, me and Jackie were like, you know what, you never know.

She probably donated in in private.

Like, let's not jump.

But she pretty much admitted that she didn't donate because her friend didn't ask.

I have like a weird thing with Megan Fox.

What?

Where I think I feel bad for her.

How's that?

There's just like something like, I'm sure that there, she's in a loving relationship, Machine and Kelly, all that stuff.

There's just like something where I just always feel like Megan Fox is, maybe it's just because I recently saw a video of like his security, like throwing her up against a barrier.

That was sad.

And then all of a sudden they just like both walk off where she's trying not to to make it a scene but clearly she's in pain and probably wants to cry but she's just like oh the cameras are on me i'm just gonna like i just feel like their life is like so unbelievably chaotic in public and

she no matter what she does she's always

talked about and i actually don't think that it's a big deal i like i think it's a nice thing to post a link for for someone who needs a gofund me and it is very easy for people to give little checks if they care about it and i'd like to to give the benefit of the doubt that if how much money was raised?

I mean, at this point, I'm not entirely sure.

The goal was $30,000.

Here, go fund me.

The goal was 60, excuse me.

And as of right now, even with all the press, they've raised 8,000.

Okay, so I would assume or I would think that if Megan Fox has the means, she finishes it, right?

Like she does the extra 52 to get.

this woman to 60.

Maybe not, but I'd also like to point out that just because you're a celebrity and just because your net worth says that you have x she could be completely broke so what we talked about the other day um with jackie and i is you know we dove deep into her finances we're like it's entirely possible that she's actually not liquid she's always famous um she's always being spoken about but she's never being spoken about her work but she was in three transformers movies and those are like major no i get it but like you just you just never know like is she

i don't know you're continuing to give her the benefit of the doubt which is nice because I'm currently thinking in her statement, she basically admitted that her friend didn't ask her for money.

So she didn't give her any money.

How close are they?

It's his friend.

It's her nail tech.

I get it.

Are they friends?

I don't know.

If you're friendly enough to, I don't know.

I just think like,

if I was Megan Fox and this woman asked me to post her GoFundMe, I would probably just give her the money instead of posting it because I would know the backlash.

But maybe she didn't know the backlash.

It's happened.

It's happened with celebrities before.

I just, I think truly what happened is these people are not friends.

This is Megan Fox's nail tech.

Her nail tech came to her with

a question.

I'm sick.

I need money.

Her father.

Oh, my father is sick.

And Megan Fox was like, oh man, like, I can't believe you came to me with this.

What am I supposed to do?

All right, I'll post it for you.

But they're not friends, which is why she didn't give her the money.

And she did this as a favor.

And now it's all coming back.

She's not giving her the money to pay rent.

It's like her father is sick with cancer.

Honestly, I don't like this response from megan uh fox it's like weirdly aggressive and she very much says britt didn't ask me for money so i didn't give it to her but like she's never gonna ask for money but you see someone who you're comfortable let her you let her into your home she works for you like come on just give her the money

i don't know okay

i guess so i guess we're gonna agree to disagree here i think we're gonna agree to disagree here i think so okay that's i just don't have enough information i don't i'm sorry what information don't you have i feel like i need to i need to know how close they are No, I'm saying information that neither of us will have.

Okay.

I need to know how close they are.

I need to know what the question was.

I need to know how much money Megan Fox has.

And I need to understand this whole sort of, is it a triangle?

What do you call it?

Yeah.

Situation.

Megan Fox's finances are definitely of interest to me as well and feel kind of vague.

Vague.

We were on Tuesday or whenever we talked about this.

We went through her IMDB and she hadn't been in a movie that we'd heard of since 2016.

That's a long time.

But she was in Transformers.

Do you for sure she makes like money now?

All I know is what I've learned from Josh.

And by the way, listen to good guys.

It's fantastic.

Is that Josh didn't get royalties for any of Drake and Josh?

Yeah.

There's like, they're a weird, like you think that somebody is killing it.

And it's all up to.

did their lawyer and contract make it so that they are killing it yeah there's a very solid chance that maybe as a woman in hollywood she went into transformers and is making no money maybe she got i'm sure she got a huge check then maybe she blew it on a car and a house and all this stuff and the economy and everybody no and she also um or maybe she went through a divorce where she was the earner great so he took half her money and maybe she had 15 prior nail texts between 2016 and 2022 saying that their dad also had cancer and asked for a hundred grand from each of them and now she's broke maybe

is that fair it's by the way so fair there's many things we don't know but based on all the information i've received so far i don't think meg fox is like coming off amazing okay you made good points I made good points, right?

You did.

Crushed it.

I'm just saying, like, as a fellow celebrity.

Right.

Oh, how would you handle a situation like this, celebrity?

If they were my friend, truly, and I had the means, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Yeah, of course.

If they weren't my friend and I had the means, I think that I would try to co-raise it.

I think you would give a chunk.

I'd give a chunk.

That's what I said.

She'd like to give all 60, but like 15.

Yeah, exactly.

That's what I would do.

Yeah.

that's what I would do.

All right, next up, we have another update in this Francia Raisa Selena Gomez Insane Drama.

What's the name?

Francia Raisa.

By the way, she stars in How I Met Your Father with Josh Peck.

Amazing.

Yes.

So we're Team Francia.

Because we're Team Josh.

Okay, well, you have to hear the...

What's her name?

Francia.

It's not that crazy.

What's her last name?

Raisa.

Raisa.

It's really not like a crazy name.

Raisa.

Francia Raisa.

It's just the way you said it.

You're having trouble saying it.

Admit it.

Literally not.

Francia Raisa.

francia risa francia risa francia risa francia risa francia risa

interesting so say you were wrong and you're dumb i was wrong and i'm dumb love you um okay so i gave you i gave ben the backstory in the shower this morning yesterday selena

no i was doing my makeup every morning

you're sick you're sick

Yesterday, Selena Gomez wished a happy birthday for Francia Risa, her organ donor, who, you know, a lot of people have speculated that the two have beef.

Oh, wait, you said Ariana grande

when

before

you said ariana grande and francia risa oh i thought then i misspoke okay good this is selena gomez'organ donor great okay oh she is co-stars with josh yes wow we gotta get josh get the tea no by the way i gotta get francia risa on good guys yes wow Okay, so here's the backstory.

For those who do not know, including Ben, Selena got an organ from this girly.

The two appear to stop being friends, which is incredibly bizarre.

They've left like kind of weird comments on social media, kind of fueling the rumors that they have a beef.

Then out of nowhere, yesterday, Selena wishes her happy birthday.

Francia doesn't even follow Selena on Instagram.

A few hours later, Francia refollows Selena on Instagram.

Wow.

So that was the update from yesterday.

Wow.

Then today, TMZ caught up with her.

Of course, TMZ is asking the questions like, what the hell is going on between you two?

Like, it's good.

It's not good.

It's good.

It's not good.

We want to know.

So there's a video.

I highly recommend you go watch it on TMZ.

It's very telling in my opinion.

So she was in West Hollywood Hollywood on Thursday.

A photographer asked her about Selena wishing her a happy birthday, which seems to be an olive branch during their falling out.

So Franzia says, I got a lot of birthday messages and I appreciate everyone who sent me.

But she didn't even address Selena.

She was just saying, thanks.

It's all good.

So

then she gets in the car and the photographer is like, you know, what's going on with you and Selena?

Like, is there beef?

And she's like, no beef.

And then the guy was like, was there ever beef?

Have a good day, guys.

That's what she says.

So I think this video was meant to clear it up.

I'm even more suspicious.

I need a body language expert watching this video.

It's so not settling anything for me.

If anything, I'm even more incensed.

I'm such a conspiracy theorist when it comes to this saga.

And this video is making me feel like it's not even a conspiracy.

Like these two are not friends.

What do you think?

I think the whole story is very troubling.

Wow, you took like a five-second silent pause just to say that vote of nothing.

To give

an organ.

An organ to a friend.

You have to be besties.

Yeah.

Well, actually, you know what?

I asked

the toasters yesterday if anybody has given or received an organ to let me know what that experience was like and maybe provide some color.

And we actually got a lot of comments from people whose family members had given or received or they themselves had given or received.

And they say you go through an extensive process with a social worker before agreeing to donate because they want to make sure nobody's being coerced into giving a don't donation.

They also say you go through

like a lot of almost like a lecture from the social worker, making it seem like, you know, you're giving someone

an organ transplant, not a personality transplant.

So you can't give this to this person expecting, you know, for the rest of their life, they're going to be indebted to you.

You know, you have to give it because you love them and you want this person around.

And that's it.

And you have to be comfortable knowing, you know, people come and go out of your life.

You could maybe not talk to this person in 10 years.

So it was actually very helpful.

So like, I don't think it's unheard of for you to not talk to the person who gave you an organ, but this definitely seems like.

Were they for sure best friends?

Like the thing is, the first time I ever heard of Francia Reyes's name was when she was like the girl who gave Selena a kidney.

Like I don't know the extent of their friendship.

So perhaps they were just, see?

We never have all the information and we never will.

But perhaps, see, the whole time i'm here thinking they're besties having a great time selena's sick friend offers a kidney boom and then all of a sudden they're not friends then you think there's beef perhaps maybe just perhaps they were never friends she gave her the kidney they were acquaintances and then they remains not friends the way that it seems and there was like a documentary or something like a video made Francia's, I forget what it was, but Francia was talking about it.

And she like feel, she sounded very uncomfortable.

And she also said that like Selena found out that Francia was a match before Francia found out.

And legally, usually the person who's a match finds out

and they can like say no and the person will never know that they were even a match, you know?

Because you don't have to give it.

But clearly,

it's definitely.

I don't have to give it.

It's like an awkward.

Based on like the information we've seen, it's a very weird situation.

It's weird.

It's almost like...

Would you give me your kidney?

Of course, but it's almost like somebody is rich and somebody is broke.

Who's broke?

No, I'm just, I'm saying like hypothetically, you have a rich person and a broke person, and

the broke person finds out, like gets like the rich person's bank statement and finds out exactly how much money they have and goes to them and says, hey, you can spare 50 grand, give it to me.

That's weird.

You don't like my analogy?

I have no idea how the analogy applies.

The analogy applies because Selena found out that she was a match before the person found out that they were a match.

So I'm saying Selena maybe went to this person and was like, I need your kidney.

We're a match.

But the friend maybe just didn't want to give up their kidney.

No, I know.

It's a very, but maybe she wasn't a friend at all.

The more you look into this whole situation, it is very weird.

And it's, yeah, it's very strange.

Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

That video where Francia is talking about it?

And she literally says that Selena knew she was a match before Francia did.

I can't remember what it is.

It's not in Selena's documentary, but I've seen it.

Please, if you know what I'm talking about, drop a comment.

Very interesting.

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So, let's talk about you potentially giving me a kidney or an organ one day.

I would 100% give you one.

Me too.

Like, no questions asked.

Of course.

You would?

Yeah.

Interesting.

But I'm kind of surprised.

Why?

I don't know.

I just like,

like, there's,

of course, you love me, but I don't know if you love me enough to go under the knife.

I don't know if you'd want one of my organs.

I can't imagine they're in like the best condition ever, but like if it was a good one, Ben, I wouldn't even, without question, without hesitation, I would give it to you.

Why would you even say that?

You just don't like surgery.

I'm just thinking, like, don't like surgery.

Okay, so you should die?

No, I.

Oh, with life or death?

Duh.

No, but like, I'd give it to you even if it was like better life.

Not death.

Oh my God, that's so sweet.

I wouldn't give it to you for a better life.

Like, that's dumb.

See, there you go.

That's literally dumb.

You'd leave me having a worse life.

No, but like, what if things don't work out between us?

Would you want it back?

No, that's sick.

I remember there was a story about a guy who like gave a kidney to his wife and they got divorced years later and he wanted it back.

Really?

Yeah.

That is psychotic and it reminds me of the Oscar-snubbed film Rat Race that I just re-watched on the plane when Newman is transporting a heart across state lines.

Have you seen the movie?

Unbelievable.

And they lose the heart.

It's an organ.

He's selling the organ.

Oh, we could get into organ farming.

You want to do that?

No.

Why not?

Also, very lucrative.

George Lopez's wife, I believe, gave him a kidney and they ended up getting divorced too.

It's bitter divorce.

Yeah.

Oh,

ma,

here's a little radder.

Here's a little radar.

Did you love that, Joe?

Loved, but like thinking back on it, like why are they...

Why are you screaming?

You're screaming.

I'm literally not screaming.

Sorry, it's like a small room and you were like echoing in my ear.

By the way, it's because the room has an echo.

It's not me.

Okay.

Blame the room.

Okay.

Wanna go get construction?

Get the demo.

I'll blame you.

Ready to the room?

Bad boy.

Okay, good.

Back to George Lopez.

They sing that song and it's three o'clock in the morning and they are literally just like throwing kids in the air.

Yeah, no, nobody actually watched the George Lopez show.

They fell asleep watching like Nick at night, whether it was the nanny or friends or whatever.

And then at two in the morning, you hear the.

And it would like scare the shit out of you.

And then you wake up, turn the TV off and go back to sleep.

I watched it.

Yeah.

Loved George Lopez.

I was always watching the nanny before bed.

11 o'clock, they played two episodes.

I was like devastated when the two episodes were over.

The nanny was unbelievable.

Friend Rusher.

Fantastic.

Our queen.

Okay.

Ready for our next story?

Ready, Freddy.

Why don't you answer me when I ask?

Because obviously I'm ready.

I'm here.

Like, you keep asking such dumb questions.

Like, hey, are you here?

Hey, are you conscious?

Hey.

Hey, you, you.

Like, yeah, I'm here.

That's an amazing point.

And every single time you ask me a question, I answer it.

So, am I ready?

Yeah, I'm ready.

I'm like, I'm here.

I'm here.

It's an amazing point.

Okay, ready?

Yes.

Kim Kardashian brings the world's most expensive handbag to a soccer game.

Whoa.

So Kim is one stylish soccer mom.

She casually brought what's widely considered to be the world's most expensive handbag to a soccer game on Tuesday.

So Kim brought her Airmes Himalaya bag, crocodile diamond birken bag.

It costs more than $100,000, but it's estimated to be worth about $380,000 to the soccer game between Al Nasser and Paris St.

Germain in Osaka, Japan.

She kept the rest of her look casual.

You know, who cares?

She wore Balenciaga.

vomit.

But the bag, which is like, you know, classic, it's a Birkin, but it's a special Birkin.

It's made of Himalayan crocodile.

it has diamond encrusted hardware a bunch of real housewives have it all the kardashian girlies have it it is the world's most expensive handbag how much is it i just i literally just told you so you say i'm here i'm listening and no i didn't say i was listening i said i'm here it costs you purchase it if you by the way the the whole point is that like what you can't get it i get it you can't get it but if kim obviously you can purchase it from aramez if you want to purchase it it's a hundred thousand dollars but they go you know people sell them secondhand they're on the uh you know real reel well actually they're not really on the real reel but if you were to purchase it secondhand from like a vintage shop, you're probably going to pay closer to 400 grand.

But that's what it's worth, not what it cost.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow, that's crazy.

Kim Kardashian is an unbelievable mom.

Oh, why do you say that?

Because the way that she has taken her son's interest in soccer

and spent all of her money.

I get that she has so much money.

I get it.

She is literally spending.

all of her money making his dreams come true, taking him all around the world to soccer games at literally six years old no six right saint yeah whatever it's like it's unbelievable yeah no it's really sweet right yeah like i don't think anybody talks about that what are your thoughts on like the big new soccer team is it in miami messi inter it's not a new soccer team but messi joined inter inter miami so you're saying messy lionel messi like the player who i've heard okay leonal not not like lionel ritchie wait it's not lionel messi no wait i'm in shock leonal no it's lionel like i'm sorry okay it's not he plays an American album.

It's Lionel.

That said, he'd be lucky to be, hello.

Isn't me all looking for.

I'm sure some of you, like, millennial Gen Z hippies were like, hello, it's me.

No, Adele ripped that off from Sir Lionel.

Hello.

Do you think you're Lionel Richie's number one fan?

I love him.

Okay, sing me another song besides hello.

Why did you have to do that?

No, I know others.

Okay, go.

Fine, King On Spotify.

I just need the names.

I'm just blanking for a second.

Okay, so you're obviously not like a huge fan, but I'll give you, I'll give you a life raft.

No, no, I'm literally

obsessed with him.

Okay, here, we'll play my favorite game.

Okay, when you know the words to the song,

sing on,

sing on.

Okay, ready?

This is a lion's song.

My.

You're kidding me.

I need another word.

My.

I need another word.

My end.

My end.

I don't know.

My endless love.

Wow, you're really not a Lionel Richie fan.

I am.

Let me think.

I'm actually more.

Look, let me explain.

Let me explain.

Let me know when you're ready for me to explain.

Okay, I got another one.

You'll know this one.

Okay, fine.

When you know the words to the song,

sing along,

sing along.

Okay.

All

night long.

All night.

All night long.

All night.

That was good.

All night long.

Okay, now let me explain where my fandom for Lionel Ritchie came from.

Matt Her too.

It's important.

My fandom for Lionel Ritchie came when I looked up the music video for my favorite song, Hello.

Is it me you're looking for?

And for anybody, have you seen the music video?

No.

The music video is about a man.

Oh, yeah, you've seen it.

Is it about a man?

Wait, I just want to say, I want to hear what you had to say, but you told this story on the toast.

I have.

Yeah, but go again.

The music video is about a man singing to a blonde girl.

And there's something just so touching yet so

bizarre and humorous about the song, Hello, Is It Me You're Looking For?

And when the woman on the receiving end can't see.

Wait, no, they took a very literal approach.

They did.

Hello, isn't me you're looking for?

Yes, I can't see anybody.

No, if they had made that music video today, I think Lionel would be called ableist.

Yes, unbelievable.

And now, here's the kicker.

Or here's the question: the girl who played the blind girl in the music video, do you think she was blind?

Amazing question.

Amazing question.

Or was she pretending to be blind?

And then all of a sudden, putting all the blind actresses out of business.

By the way, when you say pretending to be blind, you mean acting.

Oh, true.

Right.

Oh, you're so right.

I know.

Wow.

Tough.

How did we get here?

How did we get here?

How did we get out?

Oh, fuck.

Oh, soccer.

Oh, Lionel.

Oh.

But yes, Miami Enter.

Okay.

So.

Hottest ticket in town.

So you're telling me like Lionel Metzi, whose name I have heard, I don't follow soccer, but I know he's like Cristianado Ronaldo.

Like such a big, he plays in America now?

He now plays in America.

Is it like the offseason for him?

Is he going to go back to Barcelona or whatever?

He's on a $150 million contract, which, by the way, for soccer these days, even though that sounds like an ungodly amount of money, is actually pennies.

Oh, Oh, wow.

Because of

the Saudis?

The Saudis just offered $771 million for one year.

Ronaldo, I think, just took $300, $300 million for one year.

And Messi is taking $150 for one year.

I think it's for one year, yeah.

But he loves America.

No, he has so much baked into this deal.

Like

streaming,

a stake in streams.

Like, there's something with Apple.

So when Miami Inter plays teams, they play other American states?

Yes.

And American soccer is slowly becoming a thing.

It's becoming a thing because they're getting right players.

They're like MetLife?

They would play at MetLife, yes.

Does New York have a team?

We have the, it's NYCFC.

Oh, yeah, I've heard of it.

Remember, I went to a game.

They actually gave me a jersey.

Lovely.

I think it was at Yankee Stadium.

They put you on the Jumbotron because you're a celebrity.

They did exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, it was cool.

So that's a New York City Football Club?

I believe so, yes.

And then there's the New York Red Bulls.

I've heard of them, too.

Yeah, which is a different team.

But like those, it's like ushered in from like an age where like American soccer kind of stunk.

Yeah.

Like now American soccer is here.

What internal.

Wait, let me ask you another question.

So we all grew up, at least for girls, like a hero I feel of many girls was Mia Ham.

What did she play in America?

You are asking the wrong guy.

Yeah, like why did we all love, or was she an Olympian?

She was probably an Olympian.

Oh, yeah, because then it's like World Cup.

It's typically.

And it's like all the girlies I follow on Instagram, like from the

USWNT.

Yeah.

Typically, when there's a beloved women's athlete, she was an Olympian.

Right, right.

Because that's when you get the most airtime.

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

That's true.

That's when you get the most airtime.

But what Miami Inter has done

with these gorgeous pink jerseys.

Have you seen them?

I have.

And how is David Beckham involved?

Is he like an owner?

I think he's an owner.

Yeah.

Sick jerseys, very like living la vida loca in Miami.

Yeah.

Messy.

Three goals, I think he had in his first two games.

Guy is killing it.

Yeah, Kim went to the first game.

That's what I thought you were saying.

And I I was thinking to myself, they're calling this thing, whoever wrote that article, a soccer game.

It's not a soccer game.

It was a big deal.

This is a who's who.

Yeah.

Serena Williams.

Where do they play?

LeBron James.

Where do they play in Miami?

No idea.

Okay.

That's the football stadium.

No, I'm saying, does soccer games, because it's so un-American, do soccer games get played in football stadiums?

I think that soccer games typically would get played in.

soccer stadiums but because we don't have soccer stadiums well we could i don't know maybe they built one for inter

They probably play like Hard Rock.

Yeah.

I guess where the Dolphins play.

Yeah.

Again, another thing that we could easily look up, but I know you're against looking things up.

So we're just going to speculate.

Because this is the podcast of people who know nothing, but have a good time exploring options.

Understood.

Understood.

You can look it up on your own where they play.

But Messi is great.

Should we get into soccer?

Yeah.

And it's funny.

I actually owe him a text back.

I texted my friend who's at NYCFC, who's now no longer at NYCFC.

He's at MetLife.

But

Inter is playing NYC FC in September and we're going to get tickets and we're going to go watch Messi.

Oh, that's cool.

In New York.

Lionel.

Yeah.

Lionel.

Hello.

I'm in shock.

His name isn't Lionel.

Yeah, it's not.

Because I've never like been with people who talk about him.

They just write about him.

So I'm like, Lionel.

And then if I was ever like with someone who has, you know, been talking about soccer, they would call him Messi.

Messi.

So this was just a huge, you taught me so much today, Ben.

Okay, good.

Thank you so much.

I'm happy.

Good.

Now, I do have a fizz story, but like, it honestly sucks, and I don't want to waste everyone's time.

So, like, I'd rather just like talk to you about literally anything else.

Okay, cool.

So, what's new with you?

All good.

I'm starving.

What should we have for lunch today?

That's a great question.

Are we going chain or no chain?

I wouldn't because I know what I want.

You want the deli?

Yeah.

The kosher deli.

I want Cheesecake Factory.

I don't like it.

I'm sorry.

I think Cheesecake Factory is wholly overrated.

Wow.

That's like literally me coming over here and being like, Spritz tastes bad.

Like, you're just trying to hurt me.

That is like so like a dumb comparison.

No, it's not.

Like,

it doesn't make any sense.

That would be like me saying that.

You own Cheesecake Factory?

Yeah.

In my heart, that should be our next.

Let's buy a Cheesecake Factory.

Oh, cool.

We could serve Spritz.

So that nobody can be in it again.

Literally every Cheesecake Factory I go to is empty.

I know.

We'd have to open it.

Why are they so good?

So much real estate.

So empty.

We'd have to open like a small one that's kind of like bistro.

Like we'd have a waiting list.

It would be lit.

We'd do happy hours.

We'd serve Spritz.

We do meet and greets.

I love it.

Let's buy a Cheesecake Factory.

Yeah, but like, here's my bone to pick with Cheesecake Factories, even though that's a beautiful dream.

My bone to pick with them.

Now I'm realizing it.

Such unbelievable real estate, like the Taj Mahal.

Yeah.

You walk into a mall.

It's gorgeous, huge.

You walk in, the food's eh.

I wish it was a PF Chang's.

Yeah.

Imagine if every cheesecake.

Should you go to PF Chang's for lunch?

Yeah, that's probably good, but like then I'm going to have diarrhea.

I know.

It's too heavy.

I know.

I want to go to like, there's like a place that's like salad bars and like that kind of stuff.

It's like a big, beautiful salad, you know,

start to push things down the griefy, green, griefy, griefy, leafy greens.

Leafy greens.

No, I know, but like I love a chain restaurant.

They're so comfortable.

I love to sit.

And at a chain, like we always eat like animals.

So yeah, those like salad places are nice, but they're always grab and go.

Like I want an experience.

Okay, most underrated chain on three.

One.

Wait, let me think.

Most underrated chain on three.

I don't know.

One, two, three.

Denny's.

Agreed.

Sick.

Let's go find a Denny's.

Fucking Denny's is so good.

Fucking Denny's, bro.

So good.

Another

underrated chain.

I actually think they could be out of business.

One, two, three.

Friendly's.

Okay.

I didn't know we were still playing.

So good.

I've actually never been to a friendly's.

What came first?

I'm assuming that the friendly's chain came before the friendlies ice cream that sits in like the Walmarts and Targets and stuff, right?

But like really delicious.

That's our show.

No, but like we'll do it again.

Most underrated chain.

Okay, wait, let me think.

Thank you.

Give me a second.

By the way, do you know any chains?

Oh, I got it.

Three, two, one, Sonic.

I've never been.

I just went for the first time for Armuk Bang Ben.

It was the best place I've ever been in my life.

Really?

You have to go.

They say that they have 99 cent smoothies.

Is that true?

They're known for small.

Are they smoothies or slushies?

They have everything.

Smoothies, slushies, milkshakes.

They're known for like their drinks.

They make these like really creative.

They have drinks collab with Red Bull, like Dr.

Pepper.

Like they have all these cool collabs.

And does it have anything to do with the hedgehog?

It's an amazing question.

I don't think so.

It's just separate, Sonic.

Yeah.

Interesting.

All right.

That was Friday's episode.

Hope you guys have an amazing weekend.

Monday, Jackie's not back because she has a doctor's appointment.

Monday, I have someone joining us.

Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm going to be in New York or Florida, but I have plans for both.

So, we'll see what happens Monday.

It'll be a surprise.

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