S4 Ep107: Hump Day & Merch Day: Wednesday, June 16th, 2021

Good morning, millennials.

Welcome back to the Morning Toast Happy Hump Day.

Don't forget to hump someone you love, especially if that person that you love is wearing new pet merch collection from our summer 2021 drop.

That's right.

Today, we dropped some sickening merch on shopmorning toast.com.

Some of it is being featured here on me, some of it is being featured here on you, and some of it is even being featured on Theo.

That's right, we've got collars, harnesses, leashes, dog toys, dog bowls.

We've got it all, Shopmorningtoast.com.

It's very exciting.

This is one of our most favorite shops ever, as we said yesterday.

And as we said yesterday, that very soon you would be finding out what we were up to with our little secret project.

So we did a little shoot, a little photo shoot, and we're just so excited about these new threads.

Yeah, so this summer collection, we're doing shorts, I think, for the first time.

Yeah.

We obviously have our crew necks because we are just obsessed with crew necks, but we've also got t-shirts, we've got bucket hats, we've got dad hats, everything you need for a steeny ass motherfucking summer.

And I love this collection because it's two totally different vibes.

Like the same items, different vibes.

Like the nude to me is just like cool Kanye, but also like camper, Kanye Camper vibes.

Cool camper Kanye.

Yes.

And then this one is just like fun, candy, pleny.

I'm wearing it today.

Like I'm going to the country club for a round of links later.

What size are you wearing?

I'm wearing medium on both top and bottom.

I'm wearing XL on both top and bottom.

And I'm just feeling really great in my own skin.

Yes, and I would say that they fit true to size.

I would say that.

Yes.

The collars and harnesses also come in sizes depending on your dog.

And the dog bowls are big.

Like they're really substantial.

Theo's been loving it.

We have one here.

For your PJOM or your PJO, make sure you hit up shopmoringchoes.com.

Yeah, they're nice and big.

So I'll be getting lots of water, lots of food, lots of breakfast.

Happy hump day to you.

It's so nice that it's hump day.

I'm just so happy to be getting over the hump of this week.

It wasn't hard to get over the hump because we slid into this hump day with the Real House Boys of New Jersey last night.

I think we should talk about our night, how we went to an event and like we definitely made the episode.

We are definitely in the background because we were there for most of it.

Like we were standing in key places.

Margaret held a pride event.

Yes, Margaret held a pride event in Englewood and I think we will be on the episode whenever it airs.

Just like in the background, you know, a couple of...

Friends.

Extras.

Couple of extra.

We weren't seriously extras.

No, it was funny.

Like we were with Brian and we were literally like talking to ourselves about like how we were the least relevant people at that party.

Like we were full-blown extras.

But the way we were talking and acting, like we literally thought the cameras were on us the whole time like we were the most interesting people in the room because we were but it was cool to just like see how the sauce gets made yeah and it was a really fun event and tina burner performed so for everyone who knows uh drag race it was jackie wasn't it pretty sickening it was amazing she she did this i don't want to ruin it she did an amazing media monologue yeah and yeah it was all the things that you talk about it was comedy it was ellipsing she's like an artist

yes and it was glam Yeah.

And the house husbands were all loving it.

Jackie was a little starstruck.

Who were you most starstruck to see?

The whole cast was there, except for one person, but that might be like part of the story, so I won't share.

And I was most starstruck to see Frank Catania.

And did you say one word to him?

Nope.

Because that's me.

Yeah, that's literally.

You were four feet from me.

No, like, I'm just happy to be like in the presence of someone.

It's like if I saw Kylie at an event, we're not going to become best friends or anything.

Like, I would just want to observe, you know?

You know, it's pretty.

But it was really like shocking to see Frank Catania Tanya just like out and about and it's probably like the for the best that like you and I didn't speak to him because you know Ben's in Miami and I would have taken Frank home with me like yeah but you were crushing on someone else who

Joe oh Joe Benigno is like has my heart you know the love of my life but also I did have some eyes for Evan Goldchander like he really is so handsome he is there it's just really exactly what it seems like on TV so it was really fun to be a part of it yeah it was very cool to see like the cameras and like I just kept thinking like it was about me you know and like it was hard for me to realize like it wasn't.

I just didn't want a camera on me because I was trying to eat.

The food was really good.

The food was really, really good.

It was Greek food.

And like obviously, you know, me and Jackie walked before the ladies got there.

We thought it was like safe, like a good time to eat because like they wouldn't be filming.

So we walk over to the buffet and literally we see a cameraman like.

His one job was to film people going to the buffet and getting food and Jackie and I literally did it.

We're like, pivot?

Nope.

That's not what we want to be known for.

No, so we had to wait like another hour to eat, but it was worth it because the food was really good.

Yes, it was.

So it was a really fun night.

it was just like, you know, a night out.

So unexpected, middle of the week, but here we are.

Now it's Wednesday.

Now it's Wednesday.

So nice to see, of course, the ladies, but also we saw Taylor Strecker and Ryan.

It was just like a nice, you know, reunion of the crew.

It was.

It was nice to see some old friends make some new ones.

And Ben is out of town this whole week.

And like, you know, I'm deathly afraid of being alone in my apartment.

So like I have plans every night this week just because like I can't be in my apartment alone.

Like I will like think there's a murderer and like lock myself in the bathroom.

Yeah.

So that was, you know, Tuesday night, check.

Sorry if anyone just saw me like

touch my nose and then look at it.

For a minute, it felt like I had a nosebleed.

Oh my.

Well, when you see this change, of course I get crazy nosebleed.

It's like when there's like a draft in your nose.

Yeah, 100%.

So I'm really sorry it's Alex Rose.

Like, and the camera was on me.

So Jackie was picking her nose.

I had to clear that up.

Headline.

No, it was worse than that.

It was, it was worse because I like looked at my hand.

So today's episode is great because it's Wednesday.

We have Dear Toasters.

Because we were so busy being extras last night, I did not get a chance to watch Real House Does of New York.

Me neither.

But we'll just like catch up on the next recap.

And Deer Toasters is still here because it's Wednesday, even though yesterday, last week's Deer Toasters was like so chaotic in a good way, you know.

But I'm glad to be back on our hump day schedule because it just didn't feel right.

Yeah, and today we have a lot to talk about because it's all pretty much updates from stories from yesterday, and there's much to discuss.

So, I think we should jump right in sooner than later.

But before we do, I just want to make sure that we've hit all of our talking points, which is one.

Merch is available now at shopmorningtoast.com.

The summer collection, the pet merch.

Theo worked really hard on designing for all the pups out there, and he wants to feel supported by you guys.

And we worked really hard getting those photos in the park in the hottest like sun I've ever fucking felt in my life.

When I got home, I thought I was going to die.

Like I've just never like been that physically laborious in the sun in the middle of the park like with people staring at us.

And it was a lot for me to take on physically, but also emotionally and mentally.

Yeah.

So for that reason, you should buy the merch.

Yeah.

And I'm just grateful that we saw that we didn't end up on influencers in the wild.

Oh my God.

I didn't even, if you had said that to me, I would have said I wasn't going to be able to do that.

We weren't being influencery.

We were like working.

We were being entrepreneurs like with our clothing company.

Like sorry, we have a successful brand.

Maybe if you had a brand that you were passionate about, you would know what it's like to run a brand.

But you don't.

Okay, shopmorning toast.com.

Head over there.

Check it out.

Quantities of things are limited.

This is not everything.

This is not an unlimited drop.

Come as you go.

Like, if you want something and you know that you want it, I would say get it ASAP.

Because I do believe, like, it's early in the morning when we're recording this right now.

I do believe that your shorts in the medium, the exact pair that you're wearing, are already sold out.

Wow.

But I would also say I could see myself wearing a size small knee shorts.

It would just fit a little differently.

But cutely, I could also see myself wearing a size large.

By the way, I could also wear a size large.

There's a really good drawstring.

Like it really expands and it really tightens.

So like the sizes are very flexible.

That's a good thing to note.

Yeah, they are flexible.

So that's point number one.

And point number two, as always, the Patreon is here for you.

Constantly.

And if you're not a Patreon member yet, you are missing out.

So head over to patreon.com/slash a morning toast to get premium content and to support your girls.

And you know what's so interesting about the Patreon is that we live in an ever-changing world, you know?

Things are constantly shifting, evolving.

That's what makes us, you know, such a great country.

But the Patreon's always there for you, like constantly in this tumultuous world.

There is a constant, and that's the patreon.com/slash morning toast.

It's true, it's really, really true.

So, head over there and

enjoy premium content, really.

And enjoy the stability that comes along with it.

Yeah, it could be a little chaotic sometimes.

It wouldn't be chaotic if it wasn't us.

But the chaotic, the chaos is what makes it stable.

That's gorgeous, like, absolutely.

The chaos is you can rely on.

Chills.

Chills.

Okay, and now I think that's all for me.

Always, you know, it's a good time to become a redhead.

We have two weeks till the new episode drops.

So if like you wanted to pick up the new book, it would be a good time.

Yeah.

And that's that on that.

Truly.

For me.

For me.

I really don't have many life updates either.

We were just so busy yesterday like shooting our, you know, being entrepreneurs shooting our merch collection becoming, you know, real housewives of New Jersey that like I really don't have that much to update.

The party was just like so fun.

Yeah.

And it was open bar, which was just like an interesting factoid.

factoid what did you think it was gonna be i don't know i just like never thought like what our housewife parties like the bar situation is it a cash bar uh we've been to you know a potomac event where karen huger was dismayed at the cash bar and she said well that was a choice so i was just curious like and it was open bar i thought people would appreciate that little like interesting factoid yes but i would not expect anything less from margaret well margaret hosted the party so she's like a true hostess i thought the i don't know why i just assumed the party was going to be at her house and when we were on the way i was like can't wait to see margaret's house and you were like it's not at her house I did, I do really want to see it though.

Yeah, maybe you'll get yourself invited.

Maybe, hopefully, I was a good guest last night.

I'll get myself invited back.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Okay, so I think without further ado, to do to do, I read a comment that someone didn't like it.

So I'm going to skip over that today.

Maybe.

No.

Okay.

Without further ado.

Where are you?

Okay.

He's right here because it's hum day.

That's it.

That's that on that.

No, I'm kidding.

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She has risen.

She has risen.

Sorry.

She has risen.

That was one of the symptoms of my RDH flare-ups.

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I'm glad to see you're feeling better.

It was a pleasure.

Yeah, I mean,

it was touch and go there for a minute.

Okay, first story, update from yesterday.

Erica Jane's lawyers drop her after the Hulu documentary, The Housewife and the Hustler, not to be confused with the Baker's.

Well, I don't know if that's the reason.

No, but

it actually did come after.

I don't know.

And by the way, they did drop her after this was.

That's just chronological.

That's just facts.

So they actually released a statement that was vague, but also like somewhat specific about why they decided to part ways.

And I've been watching like lawyers on TikTok kind of break it down.

Yeah, so this is what happened.

Dinsmore and Soule, LLP, filed paperwork to withdraw as Erica Jane's counsel in her estranged husband, Tom Girardi's Chapter 7 bankruptcy case.

The law firm claimed it notified Jane of its decision no later than Monday, coincidentally, the same day the alarming documentary dropped.

While it is unclear what exactly went wrong, the lawyers said in their court documents that, quote, the relationship of trust and confidence that is essential to a properly functioning attorney-client relationship has broken down.

And in the good faith assessment of counsel, the relationship is irreparable.

So, yes, what I learned on TikTok is that like when this happens, the lawyer has to provide some sort of reason for why they they decided to drop.

But I guess whatever the reason was, whatever the breach of trust is, telling the court would like breach their attorney client privilege.

So it's like very complicated, but basically like I guess Erica did something behind their backs is what they're saying, correct?

I don't know.

Or sometimes it might just be as simple as the obvious, which is that they watched this documentary and realized what was ahead of them.

Like I know that maybe it's it's not like that.

I think lawyers are watching documentaries on ABC News and like making like great decisions from it.

Like with Dana and Danielle Staub.

No, but like I think this documentary has really changed the tone of this case.

But see, the thing with lawyers is like, you know,

everyone gets a lawyer.

Like O.J.

Simpson had a lawyer and he had a really good one.

Like everyone, even the worst people in the world are entitled to a lawyer.

Like murderers.

So

whether or not a lawyer thinks that they're going to win, they still take on the case.

They got to get paid, you know?

Yeah.

So Eric, unless Erica can't pay them anymore.

Yeah.

But see, no matter what, like a lawyer obviously is going to do the best job to get you to win.

But like, low-key, they don't really care.

Like, they get paid no matter what.

They're going to try and do their best job, but they're not going to, I feel like they're not going to not take on a case if they can't win.

Unless you're like Tom Girardi, where like, you know, you have a record and you don't want to like lose.

Yeah, but they don't just take on any case.

I do think that lawyers are discerning, but clearly they decided already to take on her case.

So maybe something like personal happened.

That's what it sounds like.

Or she was dishonest with them.

And

now they found out new information.

And they, I don't know.

I don't know.

Yeah, it's very vague, but it's also really crazy.

Like, this has just not been a good week for Erica.

Yeah.

And I feel like before this documentary came out, but we knew about like all the lawsuits and stuff, her like activity on social media has been like pretty consistent.

Like she's been acting like kind of like nothing's wrong, like she's being kept out of it.

But now I feel like things have definitely changed.

The tone in which we are regarding Erica Jane has been changed because I feel like now more than ever, I feel like she

knew.

Because of the documentary.

Yes.

The documentary has changed things.

Yes, for me, because I'm a moron, you know, and I'm easily swayed by documentaries.

Yeah, but I think also

we were ready to regard this one with the title and the cover photo and the Danielle stop opening.

Like, we were ready to be like, oh, this is like a false crush.

But it wasn't.

Yeah, I just don't think that the documentary swayed the opinions of her lawyers.

Like, I think there was so much more going on behind the scenes.

Yes, for sure.

But the timing is suspicious.

Yes, the timing is very suspicious.

And now we also have this episode coming out tonight, which we will definitely be recapping tomorrow.

Also, if you're looking for the Housewife and the Hustle recap, we did a huge one yesterday.

So if you don't watch yesterday's episode, that's where it is.

Huge.

Like, you don't think they could have watched a documentary and found out that Jardi Keese gave her $20 million?

That's in court records.

If her lawyers didn't know that, they're not very good lawyers.

Okay, okay.

I'm just trying to think what they might have found out that they didn't know.

Everything ABC News pulled, they pulled from public paperwork.

Like lawyers had that information months ago.

That's true.

That's true.

And if they didn't think she could win and they didn't want to take it on for that reason, they never would have taken her on.

Yeah, no, I don't think it was because they didn't think she should win.

I think they found something out that totally changes her case, that she was dishonest about.

That we don't know yet.

Oh, maybe.

Yes, that's what I think too.

Yeah.

But that's just conjecture.

And I think we've made it extremely clear that we don't really understand

lawyer.

No, I'm an expert now.

Like, I watch the documentary.

I know everything.

But you watch what?

The documentary.

I'm basically a lawyer.

Right, but the documentary only tells us so much.

Like we don't know what we don't know.

And that's what we're trying to figure out.

Yeah, but it all comes out in the wash.

Like once once the trials start, everything's delayed because of COVID and also because Tom is claiming he has Alzheimer's now and is not fit to stay on trial.

But once everything starts rolling, like that's all public information.

Like we'll be able to find out whatever we want.

Yeah, just these things take so long and people's attention spans are so short.

And by the time we ever, we even find out, it's like two seasons of Beverly Hills in the Can and we've all moved on.

So true.

It's just, it's really frustrating.

We just want that instant

justice.

Where's my gavel?

Instant justice.

Instant justice.

So that's a crazy turn of events.

We will keep you posted tonight.

Beverly Hills is on.

I'm really looking forward to this episode now knowing what we know.

And now that we're finally breaching this topic, like we know that at the end of last week's episode, she texted all the girls.

Tom and I filed for divorce.

And that was literally like 48 hours before the whole thing unraveled.

Yes, of course.

So I think it's so important that the documentary came out this week because now we like are going into this with eyes wide open.

It was definitely intentional timing.

Yeah, no, but I think it was good timing because you were saying yesterday you didn't know if it was a little too soon because the things hadn't happened yet.

We're still waiting for the court.

The documentary had no ending because this courts haven't even started opening the trial.

But here's the thing: the documentary's ending is Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

This was just a little prequel.

The what?

Is Real Housewise of Beverly Hills.

Like, we're going to go on the journey for the ending.

This was a prequel.

We needed this information.

Yeah, but also Wheelhouse was at Beverly Hills.

Erica shows us what she wants to show us.

Yeah, but the documentary was like the cold culture.

There's so much out there.

Bravo is going to pry.

She got away with that for a long time because it just seemed like she had that kind of a...

Yeah, but what we're watching was filmed in November.

And where everything starts to unravel.

Yeah, I know, but Erica, we're still seeing it through Erica's POV.

So like she's going to show us what she wants to show us.

I do think the reunion will be transformative if she shows up.

Yeah.

You think she's going to go to jail?

I think she'll show up and be like, it's an ongoing court case.

I can't talk about it.

That's not enough.

That is not enough.

No, but like, that's what everyone does, and everyone gets away with it.

No, but that's what everyone does when it's like their husbands, like fake, you know, like Beverly Beach.

Like, this is the feds.

You know, this is the U.S.

attorney.

Like, we need information, Erica.

It's not going to work for me.

I'm excited to watch tonight.

Me too.

Okay, next story, another update from yesterday.

We shared how Michael Costello shared a story about Chrissy Teigen bullying him.

And now Leona Lewis says she was deeply hurt by Michael Costello

after he accused Chrissy Teigen of bullying.

Leona Lewis is, you didn't see her Instagram stories?

I'll share.

I was so busy yesterday.

Like, I know.

Never happens.

Leona Lewis is calling out Michael Costello one day after the fashion designer accused Chrissy Teigen of bullying him.

Oh man, this is so messy.

In a lengthy Instagram story post, the bleeding love singer claimed that

he made her feel, quote, very awkward and uncomfortable at a 2014 fitting for a charity fashion show.

that she claimed she ended up not being able to participate in.

She explained that she was speaking out about Costello, who claimed claimed on Monday that he has unhealed trauma due to his alleged experiences with Teigen, because, quote, the pot calling the kettle black in this situation doesn't sit right with her.

She said, I usually don't speak on subjects like this, but honestly, I feel that I have to say something as I've dealt with years of insecurity from it.

I was asked to take part in a fashion show to raise money for charity.

Michael Costello was assigned as my designer, and as an excited young woman, I flew all the way to New York and was so honored to work with him because I adored his dresses.

She said that she was made to feel very awkward and uncomfortable at her fitting because the dress was a sample size, and she alleged that Costello and his clean clearly did not want to alter it to fit me.

This came as a total surprise because weeks prior, I was told that they would make the dress work for me.

At the next fitting, the night before the show, with no explanation at all, Michael refused to turn up.

He no longer wanted to dress me, and he abandoned his commitments to me and the show, which made me well aware that I wasn't the body type required.

That's sad.

Yeah.

Did Michael respond?

No, no response yet.

Okay, I want to say a few things.

One, that's not cool of Michael.

Like, if let's say everything Liana Lewis is saying is true, like, not cool.

I don't really like understand how it's relevant.

Like,

okay, that's like a, like, that's not a good interaction with Michael Costello, but it doesn't really have anything to do with it, and it's not really even close to on the level of what Michael's saying happened between him and Chrissy Teigen, like, telling him to kill himself and blackballing him.

Like, that's just like a, like, a, that's a being a rude person.

I don't know.

Like, it seems like, okay, thanks for this anecdote, but, like, it's not really relevant.

Well, she's just, like, saying, you know,

pot calling the kettle black.

And then I'm sure in a few days we'll hear of someone who felt bullied by Leo.

Yeah, no, it's like a second, like everyone's been mean to someone.

Yeah, but also, I'm sure this totally happened in the way that she experienced it, where she went one day and then dressed it in fit, and then the next and last time

they all pulled out.

But I could imagine a scenario in which, from Michael Costello's perspective, like that is just 1% of what happened in his life.

Yeah.

And maybe it had nothing to do with any of that.

I really hope he responds to this.

Me too.

Because it feels like a story where there could be more to this story from his perspective just because like you never know what's actually going on with someone else so maybe like sometimes your perception oh wait there's a video oh okay he's taking a picture of his phone of leona lewis's instagram so sassy in my at michael costello red dress so she's he's showing that and he said leona lewis no diss no shade no hate i love you and your music i still follow you but not sure what happened i've reached out to you personally and i have seven emails from the last four years and these past nine weeks from your team and stylist still requesting looks the last email was may 17th, 2021.

Leona, I'm still a fan and I'm not coming for you, but let's talk about what you were feeling about this dress.

I thought you were happy.

Oh, and I guess this picture he's showing is on her Instagram in 2015.

She's wearing the red dress and she captioned it.

I look so sassy in my Aunt Michael Costello dress.

Oh, and then he posted another picture of the two of them from his Instagram in 2014.

I still love Liana Lewis.

I'm not sure what happened between the middlemen or what happened in translation.

I love you, Leona.

Then a screenshot of an email, a request, Leona Lewis.

Somebody emailed him.

Hi, Michael.

I hope you've been well.

I'm a styling assistant.

We'll be dressing Liana Lewis for a special performance of the American Idol finale.

She'll be performing a duet, blah, blah, blah.

Here's the details.

They basically wanted her in a Michael Costello dress.

And he captioned that screenshot.

If I made you feel bad in 2014, but you still wore my dresses and request them, can we try and figure out what got lost in translation with the dress you wore?

You looked beautiful in it.

Another one.

I thought she looked beautiful.

Sorry, I'm not doing interviews about this.

He's talking about the original red dress in 2014 that there's a picture of on her interview.

Okay, so that was the dress she was supposed to wear that apparently wasn't made to fit her.

And then they all pulled out of the show and she didn't walk in the fashion show at all.

So when is she wearing the dress?

I don't know.

She's wearing it and she's fully glammed up.

He said, I thought she looked beautiful.

Sorry, I'm not doing interviews about this, but I will talk about it here.

If you think Leona looked beautiful, let me know.

Negative and positive comments.

Trust me, I see them all.

Even the ones where people are now telling me to kill myself.

Oh, God.

Oh, and he shared the post.

This is Liana Lewis.

She turned off the comments from 2015.

So sassy in my at Michael Costello dress.

So she said she, oh, and he wrote, here's a big, sorry, one more statement he wrote.

No, no, no, this is so interesting.

I like how he's just like tackling everything straight from his Instagram.

Dear Leona.

Leona?

Leona.

Leona.

Yeah.

Hello, it's Michael.

I reached out to you directly in an Instagram DM after seeing your Instagram stories, but I have yet to hear from you.

Given that you have publicly shared your experience with me on Instagram about coming to me privately first, I have no choice but to respond to you here as I tried reaching out to you privately without much luck.

I was really surprised to hear about your traumatic experience with me from the Go Go Red women's charity event in 2014.

I flew to New York just to fit you and we had a wonderful time at the fitting.

I fangirled over you, told you how much I loved your songs.

You are one of the most talented and beautiful women I know.

We took photos and I left options of dresses for you with the charity.

You told me you absolutely love the dresses so much so that even after the event in 2014, you continue to wear and post me on your own Instagram in 2015.

Your team has continuously reached out to me to pull custom looks for you, which I was happy to create.

The most recent request I received from you was May 2021.

Afterwards, you even invited me personally to fit you in Los Angeles.

I remember having a brief conversation, complimenting you on your dresses and your beautiful home.

I don't take

accusations of body shaming lightly as I have built a career celebrating diverse women of all shapes and sizes.

But if I did unintentionally hurt you and you continued to support me, I want to apologize to you directly.

This caught me by surprise.

I am completely blindsided as you have always looked fabulous in my gowns and I thought you truly love them.

Please forgive me if your Instagram stories caught me by surprise.

You have never indicated to me how you felt and you've continuously warned me, tagged me, and had your team reach out to request more dresses as recent as last month.

I've lost tons of opportunities, sleepless nights, and I'm not in a good mental state of mind.

I wish you spoke to to me directly instead of on Instagram, especially when I am at my most vulnerable moment.

After years of trauma and getting blacklisted with receipts shown to me by all my friends and allies, I've been suicidal and often feel no purpose to live.

I pray your intentions are pure and that you're not acting recklessly in an attempt to smear me and all the dresses I created for you to save a friend.

If, oh, is Monica Rose her stylist?

Like, I wonder what friend he's talking about.

It's almost done.

Or Chrissy.

If I were you...

If you were in my position, I'm sure you would equally be a shock.

Someone who has continuously reached out to ask for more dresses, someone who has supported you, warned you, tagged you, all of a sudden comes out and says that you hurt them seven years ago.

If I hurt you in 2014 and for whatever reason, you've continued to wear me and support me, please, I want to apologize to you.

All of this is very shocking for me to hear because you've continued to wear me, tag me, and ask for another dress even last month.

Whenever you're ready, I'm here.

Let's have a heart-to-heart conversation at Liana Lewis.

Oh, okay.

Homeboy showed up with the receipts.

So I truly...

Don't know what's going on here.

That's shocking.

May 2021, but if she had like such a negative experience that she's been hanging on to for so many years, you would think like her stylists and and her team know not to reach out to Michael Costello and she would never wear him again and tag him on her Instagram.

And he was in her home.

Yeah, literally last year for a fitting.

What the fuck?

Are Liana Lewis and Chrissy Teigen friends?

I just Googled them to see if they like and then went to images, but now it's all like these articles.

Oh, yeah, you're not going to find anything.

But, and I don't think Monica is Leona's stylist because then she would have never worn Michael Stella.

Right.

No, this is like a really interesting.

I just, I think the key to this is why didn't she wind up walking in the show?

Yes.

I just would like to know that.

I would like Michael to share because she thinks that Michael pulled them both out.

Right.

Whereas Michael said he went for the fitting, left multiple dresses with the charity, and then went home.

Yeah.

So who's telling the truth?

You know, it could be like these are everyone's versions of the truth.

And I think that that's true, but then there is the truth.

And so let's get to it.

Right.

So like what caused her not to walk in the fashion show?

Yeah.

Especially if the dress looked like.

What if it was like the fashion show coordinator was like the show's running long.

Leona, you're out.

Yeah, right.

Like, who do we blame for the cutting of Leona Lewis?

We need to find out did she say she just didn't walk in it because she didn't have a dress no she said she didn't walk in it because the night before michael pulled out like he was her designated designer and then he wasn't going to do the show anymore but we have a picture of her in the dress she felt as though it was because of her size of her size

well like honestly

And I imagine like that's really how she felt.

And yeah, I just feel like like now the conversation is like about Leona Lewis and Michael Costello when like we're talking about Chrissy Teigen, you know?

Yeah, 100%.

Like, no, and and like, I'm saying, even if, let's say, Leona's version is the version of the truth, and Michael's just like lying.

Let's just say hypothetically, like, that doesn't change, like, what we're all talking about initially, like, Chrissy Teigen.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

And they're two totally different things.

Yeah.

Now it's just getting so messy to the point where like I'm about to stop caring.

And everyone, that's what happens.

Everybody stops caring.

Yeah.

Like, I feel like people don't even care about Michael Costello's response.

Yeah.

I think that they will because it's like so different from what she shared.

So bizarre.

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Words to live by.

Okay, OC Real Housewives Casting News, Kelly Dodd, Bronwyn Wyndham Burke, and Elizabeth Lynn Vargas are out at Real Housewives of Orange County, and Heather Dubrow is in.

In addition to three brand new women who we've never met.

Returning to the franchise for the upcoming season is former housewife Heather Dubrow, who exited in 2017 after five seasons.

She will join current housewives Shannon Bedor, Gina Kirschenheider, and Emily Simpson and apparently three new housewives.

Here's the thing.

Yeah, I have a lot of thoughts.

Here's my thing.

Three new housewives does not guarantee anything.

Bronwyn was a new housewife.

Elizabeth Vargas was a new housewife.

Their casting needs a whole new methodology because these women that they're bringing in are just not cutting it.

Like for a million reasons.

Yeah.

So it's like, we're not even saying we need new.

I like the idea that they're bringing Heather back because I think that they can go and find people who have been on in the past.

But I do think like when they do that, Lydia, like it's a horrible thing.

Yeah.

No, Heather is the exception.

No, Heather is the Bethany of the OC.

Like I think that she will really elevate the show no matter what.

But I just don't really see like

Heather being on the same show as Gina Kirchenheider.

Like, I'm sorry, like, they're just of two different worlds.

Like, Casita versus $27 million, like, house, we are not on the same page.

Like,

I just think like they either needed to wipe clean completely and like, give me Heather and her friends.

Like, that's what I would like.

Who lives in Heather's gated community?

Like, give me that.

I just think, like, trying to mix old, new.

I think the production for OC has been so bad for so long, and the casting has made literally no sense.

And even though I think the shake-up is necessary, I don't know if this is necessarily it, because you're right.

Like, three new housewives.

So they're just going to be, you know.

Frawnwyn Findham Firk and Felizabeth Fargus.

And honestly, I don't feel like Elizabeth Vargas got a fair enough shot.

I don't think so either.

She got a COVID season and she has a lot of money and she's nuts.

I think she was good.

And she gave us like a lot.

She has such a crazy backstory.

She was trying to be open.

Like, I think she deserved more of a chance.

I am glad to see Bronwyn go.

I just think that she crossed the line.

Like, there's just no coming back for her.

From the thirstness, like, I will miss Kelly Dodd.

I will too, actually.

I know she was like so toxic, but I don't know.

She's not.

I think she was such a good housewife.

She always kept it interesting, even when she wasn't a part, actively a part of the drama, which she always was but even when she was just you know laying low for a season like she's just like funny and interesting and and her own woman she also provides like a very good like narration slash comedy through her interviews um that i think is

like necessary it's like a bethany type like just being funny in your interviews and like giving a realistic kind of perspective on what's going on.

But a lot of the audience just did not like her.

And her lifestyle has changed so much.

Like

the apartment, like, you know, like, I'm just.

She's not in the apartment.

She was in the apartment, now she's married to Rick.

No, I know, and she's like in this little house.

Like,

she's in a nice house, she's in a small house, like,

she's living on the same street as Shannon.

Shannon's house is little too, and I was just about to get to Shannon, too.

Like, this is an aspirational show, and OC is falling into the Real House-wise of New York category, like where everyone is living in tiny houses.

It's a show about women who used to be rich, and now they're not, and they rely on the show for like all of their lifestyle groceries.

But if you're cutting people out based on the size of their homes, Kelly wouldn't be on that list.

Like, she would.

No, but it would be Gina.

Yeah.

Shannon and Kelly.

It would literally be all of them except for Emily.

No, but Emily

lives in a nice house.

But

they live in Newport Beach.

So it's like...

And right, and the show is about Orange County.

Newport Beach and Orange County Yard.

Not the same.

They are apparently.

No, but like now.

What?

They're the same.

They're the same.

But now they all live in Newport.

Yeah, most of them.

And I think Heather Dubro lives in Newport, too.

Okay, I'm just saying, like, none of these houses are cutting it.

This is a show about rich women.

Like, literally, even they've, they've all elevated like from the apartment.

Yeah, from Shannon's rental, but they live in small beach houses, like all next to each other.

Like this is an aspirational show.

Like $27 million home, Heather Dubrow.

Thank you so much.

Emily's is not my favorite, but it's a nice big house, and that's what I'm looking for.

Like I need that.

Bronwyn's like fake mansion that was literally like on, it was like a mansion built on a regular street with two homes so close to each other you could see into the neighbor's bathroom.

But that's what beach houses are like.

It's not beach.

It's not good enough for me.

Okay, but Elizabeth had a big house.

Not good enough for me either.

That wasn't big enough for you.

No.

No, it wasn't.

And she also was, like, weird about her money, like, her Porsche, you know?

So it should just be Heather on the show because no one else has.

Yes, I think they should build a show around Heather.

Like, Heather actually runs in a fabulous circle of people, and these women are just not fabulous anymore.

And sometimes they make good TV.

Like, even Gina, who I don't really like, she made good TV sometimes.

But like, again, the casita.

It's just not going to work.

Yeah.

Well, she'll still be around.

I think that Heather Dubro's stipulation was always that she would never come back to the show while Kelly Dodd was on.

Interesting.

So I think that they might have had to separate Kelly to make room for Heather.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

Yeah.

And I just think, honestly, if I'm, I hope I'm wrong, but I think that, like you said, like this, the show is now all on Heather to save the show.

I think it's too much pressure.

And also, most people wouldn't be able to live up to that.

I don't think Heather will be able to.

Yeah.

Because she never gets her hands dirty.

She was always like this, you know, little bubbly character running around, just like sprinkling her fairy dust on the show.

She's not the show.

It's actually a really good call.

But also, what is like this attachment to Shannon Medor?

I like Shannon Medora.

Like, I'm not, I'm just saying, like, the Trace Amigas were cut.

Shannon stayed.

Literally, the whole cast is cut.

Shannon stayed.

She's not bringing it like she used to.

And again, the house, like,

I'm sorry.

I just.

I think.

I don't understand the attachment.

I think that my guess would be that, like, in, you know, focus groups and Q scores, Shannon tests really high.

I think that people have this attachment, viewers have an attachment to her for what she went through.

I think it's sort of like Teresa Judais.

Like she will always be a part of it.

We will always like feel and I was one of those Shannon people who like really was empathetic towards her.

I don't feel that way anymore, but I think a lot of women do.

Do okay.

That's a good reason.

That's a good reason.

That would be my hypothesis.

But it's just like she was a part of the Trace Amigas and she was the only one who didn't get cut.

And then when she didn't get cut, she became part of like this new group of women.

Everyone gets cut.

Shannon stays.

She is this like sort of anchor in the show and for a while i was like here for it but now i just don't really understand it anymore it's like just kind of dead weight yeah i think that oc should pivot towards really being like more of like those influencer mommies

type of show like anyone has a nice house um

tarik and

heather ray young yeah she's on another show i feel like there are so many and young who's actually in that community a little bit too i feel like gretchen like i just feel like there's a whole community of like influencers in Orange County who are like young moms who they could make like Real House of OC like its own thing again.

I'm just just like, just always trying to compete with the big leagues, and it's just not that.

There's just like random women being pulled in different directions.

I agree.

There's no like real true social circle.

That's why, like, even though Heather Dubrow is not the most interesting, like, pot stirring, whatever, if she has like a fabulous group of women friends in her community who would be like down, that would be a great show.

And that could compete with the big leagues.

Yeah, but I don't.

But I don't think they want to to be on.

And I don't think even, I don't know that she has that.

Yeah.

You know?

Like, where is her home?

Who are her neighbors?

I don't know.

Who lives near Heather Dupreaux?

We have to go location scouting.

We have to look at the aerial V.

Knock on some doors.

Yeah.

That's what the, honestly, OC casting should be doing.

I'm sure that they do.

Like, knock on doors, truly.

Yeah.

They should.

Whatever.

Let's be positive.

It's something.

Like, last season was so bad, partially because of COVID, but just partially because of this ragtag group of women.

I do feel, I do agree with some of the cuts.

I do think Elizabeth Vargas could have been given a second chance, like building her big house and her big charity, you know, like that whole thing.

Like there could have been something there, but whatever.

I agree.

Let's see.

We'll see.

Yeah.

I love Terry.

So excited to see Terry again.

Yeah.

But you could always see Terry on botched.

No, I do not like botched.

Oh, I think botched is so good.

Oh my God.

It makes me so nauseous.

Like I literally, like my, like, I can't watch it.

Like, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you just have to close your eyes.

Like the pulling of the skin.

Oh, my God.

It like really grosses me out.

But it's a really good show.

Okay, next story.

Another update from yesterday.

We shared that Alex Cooper is taking her show to Spotify for around $20 million.

Correction slash update, it's $60 million.

It's $20 million.

We weren't wrong.

It's $20 million per year.

No, but I mean, variety wasn't wrong.

Variety was reporting $20 million and then it changed yesterday.

It did.

Yeah.

Because the announcement fully came out.

No, and I, yeah, I think they got more clarity on the situation.

That's what it's worth.

Like, I actually, when I first heard 20 million, I'm like, that's kind of little.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

And now I feel even more steadfast, in my opinion, from the Call Her Daddy drama that, like, they, specifically Sophia, were not even close to being greedy for asking for a million dollar salary.

Like, the show was worth so much more.

Right.

60 times more.

Literally.

So

it's just so crazy.

Like,

it's just been in the news so much for like the last year.

I'm like, this is definitely like the end of the

chapter.

Like, now Call Her Daddy has like found a permanent home.

Yeah.

At least for the next three years.

And it's just so crazy.

Yeah, it's really crazy.

The first episode came out.

I haven't had a chance to take a listen, but.

Is there a guest?

I don't know.

I didn't even, I didn't look at anything.

I couldn't wait till I wasn't up till midnight.

60 miles.

Me neither.

I went to bed so early.

I was literally exhausted from eating an extra.

No, it's hard work.

No.

Putting the show on our backs.

And like, you want to stand straight and like smile the whole time, make sure you have nothing in your teeth.

And like being that self-aware for so many hours, even though the camera's literally not even looking at you, it's exhausting.

Yeah.

So I went to bed really early.

And some of us were failed in having nothing in our teeth.

Yeah, Jackie.

Because the one time Jackie

Gold Schneider came to our table, I was like, I had just taken a bite of food and I felt stuff in my teeth, so I was like keeping my mouth shut the whole time.

So that'll be fun if that comes to hair.

And it was Spanakopoda, which is spinach, which is like the most like...

Classic.

No, I felt it.

And so at least I knew.

And they were like, yeah,

oh my God, like big smile.

Okay, fifth and final story.

A little almost casting news that I find so interesting.

As we know.

Before, wait, really quickly, somebody pointed something out to me yesterday and I was laughing hysterically when we were talking about Gaston.

And we were talking about the prequel and how, you know, Hugh Jackman might be good for the sequel.

Gaston dies in Beauty and the Beast.

There is no sequel.

Just wanted to make issue a correction.

I feel like they could have, they could make it that like Gaston had like a life-threatening injury.

He bounces back.

Yeah, I guess we never got like confirmation, but he falls off the roof in the, you know, the battle with the beast.

Yeah, maybe he fell on his feet.

Sure.

You never know.

I think they can make it work.

That's not neither here nor.

Oh, he fell.

Yeah, he's like.

He fell on his back.

Literally, he would have to have complete spinal reconstruction surgery from his shattered spine.

People have come back from worse.

It could be done.

It could be done.

But, you know, it is like the French Revolution.

I don't know if they have the technology for that yet, like the medicine and the science.

But they do have magic because it was Beauty and the Beast.

So maybe Agatha comes through and says, I'll fix your spine.

If you become a better man.

If you become a better man.

Or they put, oh, then they put the beast hex on Gaston.

Yeah.

And he loses his good look.

That's a really good premise.

You're welcome.

Free idea.

Just like Jake and Logan fighting each other.

Okay, a little almost casting news.

As we know, Anne Hathaway was not the first pick for Devil Wears Product.

Ninth.

She was ninth.

But do you want to know who the first pick was who they offered the role three times they wanted her to play so badly?

Rachel McAdams.

Yes.

I did see this news story.

Oh, I was like, is this old news?

But no, you saw it.

Rachel McAdams was the first choice for the role of Andy director.

She would have been great.

She would have been amazing.

That chaotic and morning glory energy.

Oh, but God, yeah, no, she would have been great.

Yeah.

Does she want it to die like when she didn't take it?

I don't know.

Director David Frankl said that prior to casting Hathaway, the studio initially wanted to cast a well-known actress to play the part.

She turned it down three times.

The studio was very determined to have Rachel star in that movie, and she was very determined not to do it.

That's so interesting.

I wonder why.

I mean, I can't imagine.

I'm sure now she's like, everything happens for a reason, but the She's fine.

And the success of the movie was so big, but I'm sure she knew it would be a successful movie.

Like Meryl Stripe was in it.

Yeah, that's true.

It's fashion.

It's vogue.

So why didn't she want that role?

Why didn't she want to be that girl?

Maybe she had another project that she was like passionate about.

Maybe.

And maybe if you had a business that you were passionate about, you wouldn't know what it's like to turn down a movie.

But you don't.

I could definitely see Rachel McAdams like being Andy Anderson or whatever her name was.

Andy Anderson is how to lose a guy in 10 days.

No.

And also some of the other actresses that they wanted before Anne, Kirsten Dunst.

No, I couldn't see it.

Scarlett Johansson.

Couldn't see it.

No, she's too beautiful, like conventionally beautiful.

Whereas like Andy in the beginning has to have frizzy hair and like try.

Literally Princess Diaries.

Yeah.

Oh my God.

Literally.

Natalie Portman.

No.

No.

Kate Hudson would have been really good, I think.

No, no.

Andy Anderson.

But she's just like a little too cliche.

Commercial.

Yes.

Well, they literally said more commercial actresses.

Oh.

Yeah.

So, I mean, obviously, everything happens for a reason.

But that would be crazy if she did take it because that would mean that she's in Mean Girls, The Notebook, and The Devil Wears prada

literally like three movies that are so ingrained in our culture and like in the zeitgeist of like our generation that would just be crazy she would be like the biggest actress of all time yeah and plus morning glory like i know we we regard it as an important movie but others don't know i know every everybody does um but you know what i like on watch rapid live when they're and wedding crashers yes on watch rapids live andy always does like you know um ask questions about things famous actresses like went out for it didn't get turned down do they regret it?

And, you know, really, even like huge, like things people, like, someone turned on the Titanic or whatever, people, like, successful actors, they really don't regret most of those decisions.

Like, they just like, it's just like a choice that you make in life.

Like, you don't think about little things like, I wish I took that job, you know?

Yeah.

So, and you know, if you're on watch, what happens live as a guest, like, things were successful.

Things worked out for you.

So, I guess, yeah, you wouldn't lament what you didn't do.

But maybe they just say that publicly.

Rachel McAdams, like, was too good for the Devil Rose Prada, but she wasn't too good for Eurovision, the movie.

I just don't see how that kind of parallel, like, how that moves.

Maybe it came down to the paycheck.

For sure.

But, like, Rachel McAdams is, like, really did a good job of being

like a teen star to like a full spotlight.

You know, she went from Mean Girls to Spotlight.

Get you a girl who could do both.

But, yes, she was a star for the teens, but she wasn't 18.

No, she was 27 when she was a woman.

She was a child star who transitioned.

No, but like she was going to the Teen Choice Awards, like for Mean Girls with Gretchen Wieners.

Yeah.

Same with Amanda Seafried.

A lot of those girls transitioned well from Mean Girls.

Some of them, not so many.

Some of them didn't.

didn't.

Some of them went to homework.

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Hi, Jackie and Claudia.

Oh, sorry.

Hi, Claudia and Jackie.

I enjoy Deer Toasters so much.

I recently got engaged last month and one of my childhood friends immediately congratulated me by saying, ah, I've never been in a wedding.

And I was not planning on making her a bridesmaid at all.

On social media, she saw that I was out to dinner with a friend and my friend captioned it, wedding planning.

She then texted and asked when the bachelorette and wedding was.

I haven't even started anything.

I'm already overwhelmed with her involvement.

We've stayed in contact since we were 10 years old, but I wouldn't consider her to be a best friend of mine as of right now.

My fiancé and sister have advised that I need to make her a bridesmaid, but I do not want to.

How do I tell her that I'm not asking her?

Do I just ignore when the time comes?

I'm sort of a people pleaser, so I know I'll feel guilty, but I also don't want to be doormat and have her forced into my wedding party.

Please help.

I agree.

Like, this is a time to be selfish.

Like, you don't just give away bridesmaids' cards.

Their coveted position.

Yeah, just because she's being a bullvonn.

I'm just in a place in reading a story.

I'm just like, you need to rip off the bandaid.

Send a text message.

Be like, thank you so much for the love and support.

I'm keeping my bridal party small.

So unfortunately, you won't be like, find a way to say more of the ignorance.

Find, no, don't ignore because this girl's not going away.

And like, it will hurt more.

It will sting more if it's last minute and like she sees that there's a bachelor at party like without her.

Just be like, I'm sorry if you expected otherwise.

I am keeping my bridal party small and

blah, blah, blah.

I can't wait to celebrate with you at the wedding.

Yeah.

Just don't make it.

Don't make her one.

Rip the band-aid off.

I'm just really in a state of mind.

You're in a place in your life.

I'm in a place in my life of just like, speak your truth and move the fuck on.

Well, definitely don't just give me a chance to

eat you up.

Like, you, it will literally be on your mind if you ignore it until like the confrontation happens.

Like, just send a text and move on.

Yeah, definitely do not give away the position just because like you feel pressured.

I think your fiancé and your sister are giving you like truly terrible advice.

Definitely do not make this girl one.

And how you want to handle it is up to you.

Like, I could definitely understand someone like just wanting to ignore it and hoping it goes away.

But the more mature and like nice thing to do for your friend of 20 years is to send a text.

But I just want to say, I think she's also being manipulative.

Because even if my best friend on earth got engaged, I wouldn't say can't wait to be a part of the bridal party.

I've never assumed.

I wouldn't say, can't wait to be in your wedding.

Like, it's not about me.

And it's not a giving.

Somebody has Brad Bridesmaid.

It's literally my sister gets engaged.

I know I'm being a a bridesmaid i'm still not making it about me being a bridesmaid i think this girl's manipulative and i think you should put an end to it because no one people don't say that no this is actually really toxic of her you're 100 right she's she knows she's on the fence and she's trying to not give you a choice but let her know you have choices and you've made it yes it's a choice and you've made it send the text hashtag send the text that one almost slipped right by us i didn't even realize like manipulation if i were her i would never just be like can't wait to be in your wedding even if it's my childhood best friend no it's like a really toxic thing to do it's not even that.

It's just like, that's not how people speak because news alert, it's not about you.

It's about the people getting married.

We get so many deer toasters about like weddings and engagements.

And honestly, I feel like there's a special fucking place in hell for anyone who makes someone else's wedding, engagement, bachelorette, party, bridal shower about them.

Like, I think those are the literally the worst people ever, especially when it's a grown-ass female, like woman.

No, and if you're getting married, like it usually is because you have to be a grown-ass female.

Right.

And then it's like mother-in-laws.

Like, that's just so toxic.

And it's so,

there's a special place in hell, dead serious, for like women who do that.

Yeah, and I think that those women in these moments serve to show you like who is going to like be in your life and who is manipulative and makes everything about them.

Because as life goes on, life gets harder and you don't have time for people like this.

And you're not meant to be friends with everyone forever, so people like no doubt will just fall off of your life, all of your content plate.

And the ones that stick around are the people who like know their place.

No, like all of the rigger-morrow of weddings are there to let you know like who you need to China from your life.

Like who cannot handle.

And I think that this friend of 20 plus years needs to be China.

No, she can sit in the back row of the wedding.

All right, we also have another wedding one.

Great.

Your Majesty's.

Wow, no one's ever called us that before.

I don't even know where to begin.

I was engaged and supposed to be married last year.

Very long story short, he ended up being a drug addict that didn't want to change, and I was right for leaving.

However, I planned a bomb-ass honeymoon to Europe with a lovely travel agent that I obviously didn't get to go on.

I feel bad because this ain't the saint of a travel agent, I'm sure, worked on commission and didn't get it when I had to cancel.

I also feel bad because this is my dream trip that I planned essentially by myself, and I really want to go on it.

Is that weird?

I'm taking a massive test for my professional career next month, and I could have rewarded myself with this trip, but I'd be going by myself with it being so last minute.

Friends and family didn't have time to come up with the money.

I'd truly feel RDH if I didn't take this opportunity, but I've never traveled alone, and there's the shadow of

my would-have-been honeymoon hanging over everything, too.

Help, a travel-hungry toaster.

Go!

Literally, go.

go like go

if you are someone who's even considering traveling by yourself.

I think you are able to travel by yourself.

I think that you'll be able to handle the solitude of it.

Also, there's so much to see.

There's so many new people to meet.

So, I think that you should definitely go.

I think this could be so therapeutic.

I recently traveled by myself to a wellness fitness retreat, and it was the greatest thing I ever did for myself in my life.

So, I mean, for me, it was a retreat that I needed, but for others, it's a European vacation.

And I I think like you're going to be like Lizzie Maguire, like you're going to live it up.

You're going to wind up.

You're going to be a sneaky browndozer with a hidden agenda for sure.

Wind up on stage at the Coliseum.

And I'm so excited for that for you.

Go, go, go.

Definitely go, but also evaluate the type of person you are.

Like, I know if somebody had literally offered me an all-expense paid trip to Paris by myself, like I would turn it down.

I'm not that type of person.

So I just like, I just want you to make, I really think you should go, but also make sure like you're the type of person who's content traveling alone.

Like I am not.

No, but here's the thing.

Like she already, we already know that she is because you would never even think or consider to go on this strip by yourself.

You're having no fact that like you're having this urge and like you're just looking for the encouragement,

encouragement completed.

And be one of those people, like be one of those freaks who like talks to people on the plane, like talks to people at the hotel, like go to the hotel bar.

Maybe you'll meet a fellow soul traveler whose fiancé didn't work out.

Like there's the endless possibilities.

And we're living in a post-pandemic world.

Norma Kamali would say, go, and not only go, take a Jeep to the edge of a cliff in Italy or whatever it is that you're going and just go, jump.

No, totally.

And, you know, it could be e-pre-love.

I've never seen the movie.

I read the book, but it seems like that.

It's something about that.

It's something about that.

Or also a movie about a solo traveler, Holiday in the Wild, starring Kirsten Dunst.

Hashtag.

She was supposed to be her anniversary trip with her husband.

Oh, yeah.

She still wanted to go.

And she ended up not leaving.

Watch that movie.

Yeah, watch that movie on the plane.

It's on Netflix.

Or watch it.

Dablo.

Watch it to get inspired to make the decision.

Hashtag WWNKD.

What would Norma Kamale do?

She would go.

And if you want to to be like Norma, you should go too.

All right, third and final dear toasters.

How you darn.

Okay, buckle up.

This is some craziness and they need help handling this in the best way possible.

Let me paint a picture.

My fiancé and I recently got engaged in December and we have planned our wedding for April 9th, 2022.

We are thrilled.

My brother, who is the sweetest, will be a groomsman in the wedding.

He just started dating a girl, first big-time girlfriend back in August.

She is awful, but he's in love.

I come to recently find out her birthday falls on our wedding day.

My first instinct is, whatever, no big deal.

She gets to party for free on her her birthday.

Lucky her.

Well, I'm wrong.

She just sent me a Facebook message.

Also, who uses Facebook Messenger anymore?

At one in the morning, say, how much is it to switch your wedding day from my birthday?

I'm willing to pay.

Say 100 grand.

What?

Say 100 grand.

All of our vendors booked, down payments made.

Does she not understand how weddings work?

Also, she gets a birthday every year.

The audacity.

How do I tell her to kindly fuck off?

I love my brother.

And at this point, he knows I do not like this girl.

Although I've been incredibly cordial thus far, I'm worried it will cause a rift in my brother and I's relationship.

He says he understands both sides.

For a little more context, she has minimal friends and family, so he's kind of all, he's kind of all she has.

But still, am I crazy?

How do I move forward in peace?

Signed, a bothered by to be.

First of all, you are not crazy.

That is literally

literally, you have to have the biggest fucking balls to send a message like that.

First of all, nobody cares about your fucking birthday.

We're all grown-ups.

So like if we're all like at the age of being married and we're all crying about our birthdays, like I can't stand people like that.

First of all, you're so immature if you do that, first of all.

Second of all, you have no social awareness.

You have no self-awareness.

You have the biggest chutzpah on planet Earth to send a message like that, to ask someone, I'm willing to pay.

I hope you ignore this message and just ignore this girl in general.

Do not give her the time of day.

You need to sit down or tally up how much it would cost to move everything, triple it for, you know, the time that you would have to spend on working on this, and give her a number.

No, I don't even think this message is so ludicrous.

It doesn't even deserve a response.

Whatever the cost of the wedding is, triple it.

And say, that's how much.

You want to pay me that much?

I'll fucking move my wedding, make a couple Gs off of it.

No, I think it's such like a rude message to even send.

Like

to respond to it would be,

she needs to be, like, she needs to be put in her place.

Like, this is a question that's not even worth answering.

How much would it cost?

I'll pay.

Like, are you kidding me?

But, like, she's really going to put her in her place.

It's her brother's girlfriend.

Like, and also it sounds like as of right now, she's just going to like ignore the situation.

I think you should give her a number, see if she'll pay.

This is exactly what we were talking about, two dear traces ago.

People who make their weddings about you.

And you might have been nice if she hadn't been such a little bitch.

Like, you might have been nice and like gotten a cupcake and like had people at the wedding, like, saying happy birthday.

Like, that would have been cute and nice, a little something for the girl.

But no, now,

China.

China.

I think you could be enterprising about this and maybe make a couple hundred thousand dollars.

Okay.

I'm seeing.

Is she a Rockefeller?

Like, she's paying for people's weddings?

I'm seeing a business opportunity.

Yeah, like make an Excel spreadsheet with the cost of everything.

And then also triple it because, you know, the time, stress, that it will cost you to move everything.

Also, like, you are a business person and investor, so you want to make a little money.

And then give her a number or just respond like a million dollars yeah that's what i'm saying no i still think it's so rude it shouldn't be responded to say someone's like how much would someone have to pay you to move your wedding

think about it i would i would do it all again for the rest of the million dollars a million dollars whatever it is figure out that number in your head give her a figure yeah but still like seriously and your brother sounds like a piece of work i understand both sides like no and you know what there's always something very weird about someone who has like very few friends and family around them like what did you do?

Like, you are toxic.

That's always a red flag.

Like, when people have like new girlfriends or friends that they bring around and that person has like no friends or family, like, that's fucking weird and like shady.

Like, who did you murder?

Yeah, no, just everybody hates you and soon we will too.

That's why we're going to.

So soon we'll know why.

Yeah.

Yeah, 100%.

All right, so those were dear toasters.

Very wedding themed.

Deer toasters are so funny.

You guys are stressing us out, man.

No, I know.

That last one, like, kind of got to me, like, really made me angry.

I hope you make some good money off of this.

Yeah.

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