S4 Ep95: Forty Quiet Minutes: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021

Good morning millennials.

Welcome back to the Morning Toast.

Happy Tuesday.

It has been, I'm literally out of breath, such an eventful morning here at Morning Toast HQ.

As you guys can see, there has been like this structure building behind us.

A scaffolding.

A scaffolding.

And it has been so torturous with all the construction.

And we got.

Even some days we've been treated to some extra special guests on the show.

If you watch on the video, you've seen some people in the background like doing their thing.

So this morning we got here and it was literal Fort Knox, like the craziest construction sounds ever.

ever.

And we're like, how are we supposed to

podcast?

But you know, I opened up the window, I made an agreement.

They're right outside.

They're right outside.

I opened the window.

I made an agreement.

Everyone was so lovely.

And I feel like we made a lot of new friends.

And they have agreed to pause the construction for 40 minutes so we can podcast for you guys.

Tomorrow, I do believe they're going to work.

They told us only two more days here.

So tomorrow we're going to podcast from home just so we can.

To ensure quality audio.

But this morning we were here, we were dressed, and we were like, we have to make it work.

So I struck a deal.

We got 40 quiet minutes and we're going to make the most of that.

I literally walked into the tank and i said i'm asking for 40 minutes of silence in exchange for some ice cold water bottles and a lifelong friendship and they agreed to it they did and they were so lovely so we have 40 minutes to talk to you guys but never a dull moment here at tmt hq no never a dull moment actually yesterday we were spared because we started so early because we were interviewing the bold type girls after they did gma we started everything earlier so when we finished the show the noises were crazy they hadn't started yet so we have have to figure out how to do that.

And that's the time that we normally do the show.

It's only two more days that we need to figure out, but I think tomorrow, just to ensure quality audio, podcast from home, and then Thursday, maybe we'll do a little earlier or find their lunch break.

That totally works for me because I am going out tonight.

And like a podcast from home, maybe at like 11 o'clock tomorrow just really works with like my drinking schedule.

So I, for one, am not angry at all.

Okay, I'm glad that you're not angry and you are going out tonight.

And I am styling you because.

Oh, yeah, I forgot.

We're doing a super fun Patreon episode tonight where I am styling Claudia for a night out in my grandma's finest.

I mean, I'm absolutely frightened for what you're going to pick out only because I have a sickening closet.

I mean, I did a closet tour and a closet clean out on the Patreon.

I have a sickening closet full of things that don't fit me.

So like you can pick out whatever you want, but there's really five blouses that fit me right now.

Well, I'm going to pick stuff out.

And it's not like, here, put this on.

That's what you're wearing.

Like, it has to work with you.

So I work with the client, and I'm so excited to style you.

I'm excited is that I get to do it on the next vlog, and I'm going to be styling you.

and you're going to be looking like a chugie ass TikToker.

Okay, I'll take it.

Speaking of chuggie, I copied you.

I got one of these like beaded charms for the cell phones that Addison Ray has.

I got mine from Shop Jill and Alley, which is where yours is from.

We're literally twins.

Same phone case.

I know.

I see string.

I'll fully take responsibility.

Like I copied everything you did.

I'm so unoriginal.

But I do feel like so unbelievably cool that you really can't put a price on that, you know?

No, you look so cool.

Like when I saw you, I do today.

I was like, whoa.

like like who am i like oh my god my phone is just like dangling from my wrist

i hate to see it i'm just like such a dangly little fragile little girl you're so fragile so fragile um we have a great show for you guys there was really nothing on tv last night so there's no tv recap but we've got celeb news we've got some gossip uh sure we've got some like book updates because i finished my book as you guys know romanova empress the more time that i've had away from it the more i'm regarding it i rated it a four initially might turn that into a five

um but then i started a book.

I just needed to switch gears and I saw that you were reading the new Lauren Weisberger book.

How did you know I was you like struck me on Goodreads?

Goodreads.

Yeah.

Well, I just opened Goodreads because that's where I go to find my next book.

It said Claudia started the new Lauren Weisberger book, which is where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.

And right, that's the title?

I have literally no idea.

It's just like a really long time.

I just said it's the book.

from the devil where

the new one.

The new exactly.

And I saw you started it and I wanted to read it.

So I just switched gears and I started that.

But because I had such a busy day yesterday, I fell asleep at 10 o'clock.

I worked out twice yesterday we got up so early for the bull type of course we mentioned on the show that we were recording another interview and because we mentioned it didn't even say who just the guest canceled the universe said reschedule that's why like we literally never say our guest because when we do Nine times out of ten, that's the one that has to reschedule like for some people.

So we just look like fools.

So you probably already can tell from the title, there's no guest on today's show.

No, it's just two big fools.

Two big fools.

Podcast episode title.

100%, but two big fools with 40 minutes of quiet.

40 minutes of silence.

Honestly, the silence is so serene.

Stunning.

You guys, we've been living with a jackhammer.

That was really good.

That was good.

That literally is what it sounded like.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You could be a jackhammer when you grow up.

Thank you.

I want to be a Jackie Hammer.

Honestly.

I feel like we should just get into it so that we don't waste any precious time of this beautiful, serene silence.

Okay,

we could get right into it, but we we have no TV recap.

So, if there's anything that you like want to share with the class, anything you're feeling, anything you did.

Sure, I mean, literally, I spent the whole day yesterday memorizing that monologue from the crown.

Camilla is who I want.

That is where my priority lies.

I saw your video.

That is who my loyalty is with.

I saw your loyalty.

Not the woman you married.

Don't bring the boys into this.

All right.

No, sorry, I fucked it up.

Let me start again.

I saw your video.

Let me start again.

Okay.

Camilla is who I want.

That is where my priority is.

That is who my loyalty is.

Not Not the mother of your children.

Don't bring the boys into this.

All right.

Not the woman you married.

I refuse to be blamed any longer for this grotesque misalliance.

I wash my hands of it.

And scene.

It's like I honestly, in my soul, like I genuinely refuse to be blamed any longer for this grotesque misalliance.

Like that is my new

like motto for life.

It's so true.

Like I fucking refuse.

Like leave me the fuck alone.

I refuse to be blamed any longer for this grotesque misalliance.

Grotesque misalliances are not good.

And, you know, speaking of grotesque misalliances, it really reminds me of Tsar Nicholas and Alexandro.

What a grotesque misalliance.

You just hate to see it.

You hate to see it.

No, no, no, like, because of this grotesque misalliance, like, the Romanovs were done.

It was due to that.

So that's literally what I did yesterday and why I have nothing to contribute to the like day recap.

You were working on your art.

Literally, like, I practiced that monologue so many times.

I want to go out for, you know, season seven, Prince Charles.

Like, I, I think that's what we're doing.

You are up against Dominic West.

And I could take him 100%.

100%.

Everyone would love to see that one.

Everyone.

Okay, well, I guess without further ado, to do to do, where are you not here?

Because we knew it was going to be chaotic today.

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Okay, first story: a little gymnastics news.

It's not called gymnastics.

Simone Wiles just made history as the first woman to land a Yurchenko double pike in competition.

A sickening vault that typically women don't do in competition.

It's too dangerous.

And not only did she successfully do it, she stuck the fucking landing.

She stuck it.

And apparently, she is just like so far ahead of every single other gymnast like going to the Olympics.

And now the judges are actually receiving criticism for judging her score, score, like her scores are too low.

And she got like a 6.6 for landing that sickening ball.

Yes, I believe the reasoning is because they, there are certain tricks that they encourage you not to do because they're too dangerous.

And sometimes they don't even let you like submit and perform.

And I guess they don't want to encourage that.

But like, sorry, when you're the top athlete in your game, like, you have to constantly be raising the bar, literally.

And that's what Simone Biles is doing.

And honestly, we're so lucky to have her because, like, you know, the Olympics, I'm, first of all, so excited for the Olympics.

I just, I love being a part of something.

That's like how we were just talking about Eurovision.

And it's like, you know, when your team sucks, it's like embarrassing.

And Simone Biles ensures that like, we don't suck, you know?

We're so lucky to have her.

She is already like the most decorated, iconic gymnast, and she's going into another Olympics, like performing perchenkos.

Perchenko, like your chenko.

Yurchenko.

Like, I

want to do a Yurchenko.

So that's where my goals are at.

Yeah.

And also, like, I just, I'm not here.

Like judge, judging, judges judging in a judgmental way.

I'm just not here for it.

Like, it just reminds me of a sick kid.

And I understand that they don't want to encourage dangerous moves, but like gymnastics is dangerous, period.

Right.

But these girls have mastered it.

Let me just say something that's like really indicative of how fucked up the U.S.

gymnastics team is.

Like, okay, so they're like so concerned about everyone's safety, and they're like not letting people challenge themselves in their

techniques, but like literally like nobody cared about what Larry Nasser was.

Yeah, no, Larry Nasser was just like running rampant, but they're trying to protect the girls.

But you didn't protect the girls.

Share me your like fake PR on how you care about the gymnasts because you don't.

Because you don't.

Give Simone a 10 and move on.

Yeah, and seriously, like it's not called gymnastics.

It's not called gymnastics.

It is such a good movie.

Like we're so unworthy of a movie like that compelling and that beautiful.

Yeah, I totally agree.

I adore that movie.

Like, and I only watch it like once every five years.

And every time I do, I'm like, I should watch this more often.

You should watch it again, like in the lead up to the Olympics.

And there are so many iconic, like, um, actresses in it.

Like, Joanne, is that her name?

The one who was like, mean, it's not called gymnastics.

Yeah.

She's sugar from Glee.

Like, she's an iconic actress.

Yeah.

And, oh, Jeff Bridges.

Iconic.

Iconic.

Now, Steel Eukin's in it.

Oh, yeah.

She made a cameo.

And the main character, she looks like Hillary Swank, but she's not Hillary Swank.

No, she's Hillary Swank's like illegitimate daughter.

Younger sister.

Yeah, no, it's crazy.

But now she's like a star of some TNT show.

Oh, is she?

Yeah, like I hadn't heard of her or her work since Dick It.

And then like a a few years ago, she got one of those cop shows that just like remain on TV even though nobody watches them.

And it seems to be pretty popular.

Oh, good.

I'm happy for her.

And I'm happy for Simone Biles for just raising the bar yet again, give her the accolades she deserves.

Can't wait to watch her at the Olympics.

This is literally like that Michelle Obama meme.

Like, look at you raising the bar constantly.

Like, that is literally this.

Simone Biles.

100%.

100%.

100%.

Yeah.

Also, her boyfriend was complimenting her on Instagram saying, saying, no comparison,

he's an NFL player, which leads into our next story because Luann Dele Seps' new man is a former NFL player.

Oh my God, former.

I was like, she's not dating a current NFL player.

Like, the cougar life knows no bounds.

Luann's latest mystery man is a former NFL player she met in Mexico, Page 6 is told.

Page 6 reported back in April that the Rahoney star had a vacation fling while in Tulum.

That was just a short-term thing.

But it seems things have picked up again between them, and he's been snapped with her gallivanting around the city and smooching on a boat boat in the Hamptons.

How cute.

While our source wouldn't budge on coughing up his name, we're told the hunk was the manager of her hotel in Tulum and that he is a former professional soccer player and kicker for the Miami Dolphins.

Both.

Both?

Former soccer, former football.

You know, I hope that when I am at Luann's age, like I am pulling dick left, right, and center.

And like she's always just like finding these random men to hang out with her.

And honestly, I have so much respect for it because it's not easy at any age.

It's really not.

No.

And I think all the other women are constantly in awe of her her too, like just rolling up with these like guys,

even though Garth like isn't my type at all.

Like all the women seem to be like really into him.

So I'm, I have a lot of respect for the hustle.

I really, really do.

I really do.

And I love, I have a lot of respect for a happy Lou.

And when she's in a relationship, she's always a happy Lou.

Yeah.

I just like, I do worry about her like constantly.

Yeah.

You know, like.

That's that famous episode of Real Houses at Beverly Hills, like, what keeps you up at night?

And I'm constantly kept up by Lou Anne.

Like, I just, I hope that she's okay.

And I feel like, you know, what we see on the show is like not really who she is in real life and like what she's currently up to.

You think so?

Do you know this for certain?

No, I'm just saying that's what I feel.

Okay, but sometimes like you have like, so you're saying you think in real life she's off the wagon?

No, I don't think that.

That's not what I'm saying.

I'm sorry.

I just really hope that she's not.

Oh, yeah, same.

Same.

But I don't know.

Her display this season, I have full confidence in her.

Me too.

And I have been like on the Luann boat for a really long time.

And then she like made it really hard when she was like struggling with her sobriety and was like coming for Bethany when Bethany was literally the only person on planet Earth helping her.

That made it really hard.

But now that Bethany's out of the picture,

I really love Luann.

I really do.

Like I'm one of her biggest champions.

I think that's safe to say.

Yeah.

No, I would agree.

And I'm glad she sounded a man.

I'm glad she sounded a man who seems to be, she loves a fitness man.

She does, but she's very athletic.

Like,

every season, she's more toned.

It's like, you think she can't get in better shape and then she shows up next season looking even more toned.

100%.

And I just show up every season looking more tan.

Because if you can't tone it, tan it.

Yes.

Wise words.

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Travis Barker says the plane crash served as rehab to kick his opioid addiction.

In a new interview, the Blink182 drummer detailed his recovery from the 2008 crash, which killed two of his close friends and said it forced him to stop abusing opioids.

So he opened up to men's health in a very

real way.

He said, people are always like, Did you go to rehab?

And I say, no, I was in a plane crash.

That was my rehab.

Lose three of your friends and almost die.

That was my wake-up call.

If I wasn't in a crash, I probably would have never quit.

He said he smoked an excessive amount of weed prior to the crash and abused painkillers so much as a method of coping with his fear of flying that he developed osteoporosis.

While in the hospital for 11 weeks following the crash, he frequently came to during surgeries because his opioid tolerance was so high.

Upon his release, he said he flushed everything down the toilet, including stuff that I, quote, really needed.

After undergoing 26 surgeries and multiple skin grafts, after burns covered 60% of his body, he said he needed to learn learn how to walk again.

He said, quote, I was told I wasn't going to run again because I had so many grafts on my feet and there was even talk of me never playing the drums again.

As soon as I could walk,

I could run.

As soon as I could move my hands and my hands healed, I was playing drums and now I'm in better shape than I've ever been.

Wow.

The end also, I just saw he just got a new tattoo.

What is survivor's guilt?

Oh.

Which was dark and really sad.

And I think a lot of people, especially like younger people, don't really know Travis Barker's story.

But now he's been in the news a lot with with Courtney and his kids, and they're just like all this stuff.

I think a lot of people are learning about him, and I think that he is an amazing story.

That's so crazy.

So crazy.

I knew that he survived the plane crash, but I didn't know that his recovery was so hard, and I didn't know that he was struggling with addiction at the time, which, I mean, waking up during surgery is my worst nightmare.

Like, I've never gotten surgery, and I'm like, I would have gotten like so much liposuction by now if I wasn't like really, really afraid of.

anesthesia because I saw this episode of Nip Tuck one time.

Isn't liposuction outpatient though?

Like you go under?

Yeah.

Oh.

Trust me, like I've researched it um

but i saw this episode of nip tuck once where this girl it's like you want to just bring up traumatizing episodes yeah that's when you that was literally that's your goal today

because if it lives in my mind rent-free you're all gonna have to suffer too there was a it's an urban legend of anesthesia like it's not entirely impossible but I don't know anyone who's ever actually seen it.

And Ben's uncle or cousin is an anesthesiologist.

Like every time I see him, I bring it up.

He's like, it is a, it's a myth.

He must have locked it up.

He said it's a myth, but it's not entirely impossible.

Where basically you have an adverse reaction to the anesthesia, and instead of being, you know, put into like a sleep coma,

you actually

instead become completely paralyzed.

Like your body, you can't move any of your limbs, but you're fully conscious and awake.

So it's like they think you're asleep because you look like you're asleep, but you're actually feeling every ounce of it.

And then the episode of Nip Tunk, the doctors didn't believe her, but then she started to recite things they were saying during surgery and then they believed her.

Nip Tunk is a crazy fucking show.

Thank you.

Did you ever watch it?

I watch bits bits and pieces.

I think everybody just wants to thank you for bringing that up again in such vivid detail.

I never forgot it, so neither should you.

Just always keep that in the back of your mind.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Any other

new segment to the show?

Any other

traumatic episodes you want to bring up?

There's that one of Law and Order that we love.

Oh, that one.

That one was absolutely terrifying.

I'll never forget it.

Especially because, like, growing up, we used to love a trundle.

Oh,

then there's two.

You're right.

Okay, okay, okay.

Let me start from the beginning.

The first episode of Law and Order SKU that literally haunts me to this day is there was a family who like was literally keeping like a slave as like a housekeeper.

And they literally used to make her sleep in this cage in a trundle bed.

So they were like searching the house and they couldn't find where they were hiding.

And then Elliot like pulled her out.

And I'll just never forget what that trundle looked like because growing up, trundles are like very 90s.

Our home was very 90s and every single room in our house had a trundle bed.

And like when we always used to love to sleep together as kids and it's like, oh, you get on the trundle, like trundle, trundle, trundle.

Trundle was like a huge part of our lives.

And then, like, literally, there, Dick Wolf goes, like, ruining my favorite childhood piece of furniture.

That was the first one that triggered me.

And then the second one, I'll literally.

I don't know what the second one is.

I stopped watching SVU like as frequently after this episode when I was in high school.

I was at my friend Rachel's house.

We were watching SVU before bed and she fell asleep.

So like I finished the episode by myself.

And I'd watched a lot of episodes of SVU.

And none of them really quite,

you know, got to me because I was, you know, pretty jaded at that point.

But it was where Liv goes undercover in a prison, and Ice-T is there too to kind of like make sure nothing bad really happens to her.

But they're investigating this prison guard who is raping the inmates.

Trigger warning, sorry.

Um, and Ice-T like is fucking something up, and he's like waiting in line or whatever.

He gets lost in the prison, he's there as a guard, and Liv gets left alone with this evil prison guard, and it's like the scary, and Ice T's like so late getting there to like help her.

It was

literally the most traumatizing.

I actually stopped watching SVU after that for a while because it was so triggering.

Yeah.

So that's my story.

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah.

If I think of any more, I'll be sure to share.

Yeah.

I'm sure you will think of more.

No, they just haven't come up in conversation yet, you know.

Okay, I'm sure we'll make them.

Are you ready for our next story, which is definitely shifting gears?

Oh, yeah.

I think.

I'd love to go to something lighter.

Yeah, because it's a little casting news for a documentary about a real person, which we love to know.

Joseph Gordon Levitt will be playing ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanik in an upcoming Showtime anthology series.

This is

the T on the Uber Co.

What was hearing things about?

I'm so interested to watch it because like we said, Uber takes all of our money, yet they make none.

And they've been taking all of my money, swear to God, since I was a senior in high school.

100%.

The series titled Super Pump Tales from Billions Showrunners Brian Koebelman and David Levian.

Billions is such a great show, so this bodes really well for the Uber project.

Yeah, no, I would definitely be interested to see this because one, Uber is always one of those companies that

we refer to as like being the biggest companies in the world that make no money.

Two, I think there's also a lot of really interesting celebrities involved in Uber.

Like I know that Beyonce and Jay-Z were like first-round investors, Ashton and Mila.

So I'd just like to hear a little bit about that.

And then also, Travis got like kicked out, right?

He had to step down.

Yeah, the first season is based on Mike Isaac's best-selling book, Super Pumped, The Battle for Uber.

It will depict the roller coaster ride of the upstart transportation company embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley.

Yeah, because Travis is like disgraced.

Yeah, I think he's a disgrace queen.

I think he's a disgraced queen.

So, um, and I don't know why.

I don't know why.

We'll see in the show, but that'll be like a show to spell it out for you.

Drama that you just couldn't follow in real life.

Yeah, and I think just also a documentary on Uber is really interesting because Uber is one of those companies.

There's a ton of billion-dollar companies, but this is like one of the like maybe five that like changed the way we lived forever.

And then, of course, like Lyft and all those other copycats, but

like Uber created like a shift in literally how people operate on an everyday basis.

And I just want to know more about it.

Yeah, I agree.

I think it's going to be a really good show.

It has all the makings, and Joseph Gordon Levitt will be playing.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I don't know what Travis looks like, so I don't know if he looks like Joseph Leviticus, but Joseph Gordon Levitt is a fabulous show.

They don't look alike, but they don't look dissimilar.

You said it's a documentary, so how no, it's not a documentary.

You said documentary in the title.

I said Showtime Anthology Series.

You literally said cast in a documentary.

You said that.

Oh, I did.

I did say something like that.

Sorry.

You know, like a portrayal.

Oh, even better.

Yeah, it's

a dramatized moment.

It's fiction.

It's dramatized.

Oh, I'll watch that for sure.

Well, it's non-fiction.

That's always confusing.

Non-fiction is not real.

Non-fiction is real.

Cool.

That's a real thing.

But like, what about, okay, what's the word for when something is based on a true story, but they're obviously taking creative liberties because you weren't there for all the conversations and they're making up conversations.

I think that's still fiction.

You think, but it's like...

Wait, is fiction real?

Fiction is fake.

Oh, fuck.

Based on a true story.

Based on a true story.

Wait, can we just go back?

Okay.

Non-fiction.

Okay, it's real.

Non-fiction is real.

Okay, because my book was non-fiction, and I did not lie in my book.

Available on Amazon.

Girls with no job, The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster.

It is a New York Times bestseller, also made The Wall Street Journalist, Toronto Star.

It was kind of like an international thing.

Check it out.

Yeah, it was an international thing.

No, like the Canadians were quaking.

And I do believe I sold like one book in like London, you you know?

Counts.

The Royals were quaking.

The Royal.

It was only one.

Okay, back to this.

It is confusing.

Non-fiction should mean...

Not real.

Not.

Wait, so fiction?

Fiction is fake.

Yeah, that's confusing.

Fiction is fake.

Well, I guess that makes sense.

A fictional character.

Duh.

Yeah.

Now it makes sense, but I remember being in grade school and I was like, this is twisted.

Turn it around.

Turn it around.

Yeah.

Turn the beater round.

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It's little merger news.

That hasn't happened yet, but it's about to happen.

That could change the game.

I absolutely love an M ⁇ A story.

That's mergers and acquisitions for those who don't know, for those who don't work in finance like us.

I know some of you are from New Jersey.

Honestly, Jackie quitting my award-winning comedy special, Disgraced Queen, available on Amazon Prime to stream for free.

Really, there's no greater joy than knowing that the art you put out there is clearly resonating with a young mind.

No, those are like you have TikTok sounds.

I have quotes from your family.

Disgrace Queen.

I just feel like I haven't talked about a lot of my projects in a while.

I went really hard promoting in June for my comedy special, then really hard in January promoting my book.

And now I just kind of have these successful projects and I don't really talk about them, which is like because I'm so humble, you know?

Yeah, but I guess it's also like on to the next one.

Yeah, even though I have literally nothing in the pipeline.

Well, speaking of Amazon, Amazon is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion, including debt, said people familiar with the matter.

That's crazy.

Oh my God, the film landscape is constantly evolving.

Constantly evolving.

A pact that would turn a film operation founded in the silent era into a streaming asset for the e-commerce

giant.

An agreement could be announced as early as this week, people close to the situation said, assuming the talks don't fall through at the last minute.

That's insane.

Like, that is literally like a groundbreaking merger and acquisition that will forever change the landscape of cinema 100% the silver screen and it's that would be the second biggest acquisition in Amazon's history first the first was the three thirteen point seven billion dollar purchase of Whole Foods remember that I just feel like that was like really unnecessary no I mean now that it happened I'm like yeah no they needed to own like grocery stores so they could become like you know prime now and all that stuff yeah I just like that I like Despise Whole Foods.

Yeah.

And this is a really hot take because I know there are people whose literal personality traits is like knowing all the products at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.

I actually don't mind Trader Joe's.

They're different.

I think those are different.

Trader Joe's is like low-key fattening, and that's why I don't mind it.

Yeah.

But like Whole Foods with like all their like chia seed pudding, like get the fuck away from me.

And there's one on every corner.

And it's like, what happened to the regular grocery stores?

Like, what happened to like Food Mart, you know, and like Key Food?

Like, yeah.

Give me the regular grocery stores.

Yeah.

No, I don't think that will come as a surprise to anyone.

That I don't fuck with Whole Foods.

That you don't fuck with Whole Foods.

But that you might fuck with Trader Joe's.

Except I do have to say, like, low-key, Whole Foods has like really cheap orchids that last for like six years.

Oh nice.

They also have a nice fish mart.

And that's if I'm ever getting, if I'm ever cooking fish at home, I can trust that their fish is fresh.

No, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

You're gonna come over for dinner tonight.

I'll make you some Whole Foods fish.

I'm okay.

But thank you so much for the invitation.

I really offer always stands.

I know.

And that's why you're such a good sister.

But back to this.

This is like low-key crazy because this is like really...

The streaming wars are heating up and now they're in consolidation mode.

Okay, so like the war is here and now we're we're recruiting allies.

Right, because like if you as long as you think about it, like the the studios when you watch Entrage and then you watch like Hollywood on Netflix, which is from the 50s, like the major studios like MGM, Fox, Paramount, like they have really kind of controlled the film cinema landscape.

I can't stop saying that for as long as movies have been around.

Yeah.

So it's like this is like a a huge shift.

Like we are really moving into the digital age.

And like I thought we were already here, but we're not.

Yeah, no, but it is a huge shift.

Shirt.

And this is actually a great topic to bring up if you're invited to a dinner party at any kind of point in the next week.

Oh, 100%.

And what's interesting is that in December, MGM was valued about $5.5 billion.

They also have $2 billion in debt.

Please make that make sense.

Okay, so they're $5.52 billion in debt, so they should be $3.5, but yet they're valued at $9 billion, even though literally no one has been to the movies in a year and not a single movie has really been released in the last year.

Make it make sense.

This is giving me WeWork vibes.

Well, I don't, I'm not going to purport to know everything, but what I would imagine is like everything that MGM has ever made, James Bond, et cetera,

now would be on Amazon Prime.

Like that catalog just got huge.

That's very true.

And they have like, I don't know, I mean, I guess Amazon has studios and they're making their own shows, but like MGM has those lots and all these shows.

And like now all of that goes to Amazon and they didn't have to lift a finger.

Like all their assets.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's true.

I guess like,

you know what's so crazy is like Amazon like shits out $9 billion.

Like they will be completely unaffected by the loss of $9 billion.

They're a trillion dollar company, correct?

Mm-hmm.

So, I mean, but it hasn't happened yet.

And maybe, I don't know, maybe this episode, like, someone will hear something and be like, oh yeah, that's not a good idea.

No, but like, I actually think it's a good idea.

I think it makes a lot of sense, too.

And honestly, like, I just wake up every day and like, can't believe I didn't come up with the idea for Amazon first.

Like, I'm so mad.

I know, but.

They really snuck up on us.

I know.

Like, I remember, like, because it was just books.

You know, I remember like being in camp and like hiding my Blackberry and like literally needing something and like ordering like Sunblock on Amazon.

And it was like, I was so innovative.

Everyone's like, you order from Amazon?

Like, it was like, I'm like, yeah, no, Amazon is everything.

You guys don't realize.

Like, they even have makeup.

Yeah, they have like bathing suits.

And like, when we were like counselors at camp, like 10 years ago, we would like order, it was like Amazon bot.

Like, I just, I can't believe how big it's gotten.

I know.

And then I guess like we were really on the cusp of ordering everything from Amazon.

And then I guess everyone caught on.

And that's why it's trillions.

But like, I feel very cool to know that like, one, I've been a Prime member for like literally since I think maybe when I was in high school.

And two, like, I ordered Amazon like when, you know, before like it was cool, you know.

Yeah, no, I agree.

I feel the same about myself.

Yeah.

We were just like so, and that's why we have the successful morning show.

Like, we're constantly on the cusp, on the cutting edge of, like, what is cool.

Yeah.

And we're choogy while we do it.

100%.

Speaking of what's cool, these are, do you like my boots?

You like that?

I can't stop staring at them.

Oh, my God.

Thank you so much.

I got them from Dollskill.

Unbelievably, sickeningly, so un-choogy of you.

Thank you so much.

So like, I need to figure out how to style them.

I went like with a, you know, I didn't take any chances today, but I feel like with summer, like I'll probably wear them with shorts, which is just like really scary for like my calf.

You know, you're so, so cool.

Thank you so much for noticing.

And I'm just wearing like a chugy ass outfit, as always.

I'm okay with it.

Like I've come to terms.

Yeah.

You're not chugging on the inside and that's what matters.

I think we should wrap up the episode because we've just kind of been sitting here for a while and like there's no sound from construction and I just don't want to push our luck.

Yeah, I don't want to push our luck and you know people got to get back to work.

They gave us our space, 40 quiet minutes.

And we are so grateful and we will, you know.

And maybe if we could give a few minutes back to them, that would

be good.

That would bode well for the next time.

They know they can trust us to be on time with those quiet minutes.

You guys.

So tomorrow, we're going to podcast from home?

Yeah.

I think it's for the best.

Yeah, I think it's for the best too.

Thank you guys so much for listening.

They're done at the end of the week with all this nonsense.

So after Memorial Day weekend, a longer than 10 minutes meetings will be even longer.

Hopefully, I don't want to jinx it.

Things would be quiet.

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