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Good morning, millennials.

Welcome back to the morning toast.

It's a solo GMM.

I'm about to throw it to Claude.

Hey, Claude, how you dern?

Hello, Jacqueline.

I am thrilled to still be in my pajamas.

I am wearing no bra, and I brushed my teeth four seconds ago.

Wow, I'm wearing a comfort bra.

So for me, that's just the pinnacle of comfort.

We are back in the queue once again.

It's been, I think, two weeks we made it out, but we're back because.

You are in the queue.

I am just in the queue because you are in the queue, but I'm in the queue adjacent, but I have found out that I've been exposed to COVID, so I will be quarantining for the rest of the week, which means podcast-only shows for the rest of the week, which is funny because yesterday we were talking about how we had like a big full week ahead of us.

Big dopes.

And big dopes.

I mean, we do still have a full week of shows, but it's not studio living, so it's just not the same.

Yeah.

But I don't know.

I mean, I wonder how this queue will go for me, like what I'm going to get into this time, you know?

Yeah.

Well, if you need anything, I am more than ready, willing, and able to drop off or maybe take Bruno for a couple of days if, you know, you find he's getting cooped up in the house.

Oh my God, that would be so sweet with you, actually, because I'm going to hold you to that.

100%.

Just like for fun for Bruce.

Yeah, no, and he would like sleep with me.

Oh my God.

I mean, he sleeps in the crate, but that's good.

That way Theo could like stay in his bed and then Bruno could sleep in his crate.

No, or they both could just sleep in the bed.

That would be so fun.

No, but then that's like, I don't even get to sleep with Bruce.

And then it's like bad behavior that I didn't even get to reap the benefits of.

Yeah.

You know?

Well, whatever.

All I was saying was that if you need anything, I'm here to help.

That is so generous.

And like, you hadn't said that like before we started recording.

So

that's just really nice.

Thanks.

It's just like an assumption.

Like I live super close to you.

You can't leave your house.

I can.

So if there's something that needs to be done,

I'm ready, willing, and able.

But just remember, there are tons of services that do that kind of stuff for you.

So just let me be like a last resort.

Yeah, no, I hadn't intended on anything, but that's just like good to know.

Good to have that resource.

I remember that.

Well, anyways, we have a great show.

We have so much to talk about.

There's lots of news and we're going to do what we do just virtually.

Yes.

I actually re-watched our episode from yesterday and I think it might have been one of my favorite episodes.

And I haven't watched our show in a long time because it honestly gives me anxiety.

But

I watched yesterday's and I loved it so much, but I really realized how quickly I speak, especially when we're in studio, because it's just like you and I vibing off each other.

And I swallow entire sentences.

Like, I don't know how we don't get more complaints that like people don't understand what I'm saying because it's crazy.

I'm literally talking so fast that there's not enough time for you to even hear every word that I'm saying.

Yeah, I noticed about myself when I was doing my home tour.

I was watching it and like every once in a while, I would get so tripped up on what I'm saying because the words are just like getting stuck out of my mouth because I'm going so quickly.

And like, I need to pause and say them all again because they're like fighting to get out of my mouth.

No, I, and they just come come out all at once.

Yeah, I've been having a lot of moments like that.

And so, sure, I will join you in this attempt to speak slower.

Yeah, I feel like we come to the moment.

I just know it's not who we are once a year where we try and cut back.

And I think overall, we are definitely getting better.

But the episode I saw yesterday was vintage

shit.

Like it was so bad.

So if I do feel like I'm talking weirdly slow today, I apologize.

You can speed it up if you want, but I am trying intentionally to enunciate, slow down, and relax, you know, because everyone was so excited that our episode was over an hour yesterday.

And I think what people don't realize is that our 40-minute episodes are actually an hour's worth of content, but we talk so damn fast, it just comes out in 40 minutes.

Yeah, no, if we talked at a glacial pace, yesterday's episode would have been two hours.

Yeah, so we're doing people a favor.

Yeah, for sure.

I guess you could always speed it up or slow it down.

So take it at your own pace, but I do think that's something I'd like to work on about myself, like not getting choked on my sentences.

Yeah, because even if people slow down our audio, it's not going to make sense because I'm literally vomiting out 37 words at the same time.

So slowing it down, it actually would sound like French.

Like it would sound Russian.

It would sound like a different language.

Yeah, that is very, very true.

So we're just doing our best, you guys.

And everyone is just doing their best.

Yes, for sure.

But we have a lot to talk about today.

And I kind of just want to get right into it because now that like I'm back in the queue, I really don't have like much to share about like what I did yesterday.

I don't have time to dilly dally.

I don't have time to dilly dally.

Like I must get to like all of the things that I'm gonna do today.

I'm actually like, you know, kind of excited.

Like I'll be doing like the changing of the sheets and all that stuff, get back on the Peloton, like stuff like that.

But yesterday, I realized I'm on season six of Downtown Abbey.

That's the final season.

Oh, that's exactly.

I only have a few episodes.

I only have a few episodes left, and then I'm going to watch the movie.

And I didn't know that I was so advanced and far along.

No, that's what happens.

Like when, when life just and it's and its fruitful plenties, that's what happens.

Like you just don't even realize that you've been enjoying something for so long because you've just been enjoying it.

Yeah, so I think like today might be my last day with it and that would be really sad.

And it's going to be sad for Bruno because he's been loving it so much.

And I don't know if I'll find another show that has like these beautiful hunting scenes, the horses, the hunting dogs, like the English countryside.

Like Brew just really felt some sort of way.

I know you're like really in on downtown abbey but i do believe there's like a million and one shows that take place in the english countryside if i had to venture a guess i know it's just so hard to get into shows like that you know so

like you could never with downtown abbey never

yeah

so but yeah we should get into it because we're gonna recap the bachelor we have the fast five the bachelor was we're gonna

recap recap in quotations because I have nothing to say.

You know, I think we'll probably just complain for about five to ten minutes about how we're at the point of the season where we all feel like giving up.

Yeah, for sure.

Like, I generally don't like hometowns, especially when we're not even going to a hometown.

Yeah.

Oh, two really quick reminders.

One to remind everyone that this is our final week of Toast Movie of the Week, which we've been doing for the month of February in honor of Black History Month.

And for this week's movie, we are watching Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy and our Real Housewife of Beverly Hills' favorite, Garcel.

And that is available to stream on Amazon Prime.

So we're going to watch it this week and we'll be recapping it on Friday.

So make sure you watch it before Friday.

The second thing was, is that I just wanted to quickly remind everyone, I posted it on my Instagram story, but for my book, I'm doing a really small Zoom book club with five people who have read the book.

And it's a contest.

The best way to enter is just to post a picture of you and your book or you listening to your book or your book looking like chic, you know, on your table.

Post it on your Instagram in feed with the hashtag GWNJ book.

Gwunge book is the hashtag.

And I'm going to pick five people who post the most premium content.

And we're going to do like a Zoom book club together.

And hopefully it'll be really fun.

And hopefully, if it's like so much fun, I'll do another one.

Wow.

So what you're saying is you're starting a competing book club.

Oh, my God.

Hardly.

We are meeting one time.

And you just said we might do another.

Okay, here.

Here's my promise to you.

I'll only meet once.

Okay, because like, I don't know if the redheads can handle that sort of competition, you know, where

they podcast.

I saw the redheads were up close and personal, and I think they can.

I mean, I do too, but just, you know, like, we're new on the scene, and and we need all the support we can get.

And we don't need to be like splitting our audience, you know?

Okay, five.

The thing is, it's five fucking people and it's hardly splitting your audience.

But I see you, I hear you, and I will do just one.

Soon, your book club will be making merch.

Oh, God, please.

No, it's just a fun little book club.

I wanted to talk to people like who have read the book, you know, like hear their questions, what they liked, what they didn't like.

Hopefully, there's nothing they didn't like, but you know what I mean.

So, um, I'm excited.

So, all you have to do is post on your Instagram and feed picture of the book, hashtag GwungeBook.

Love it.

Also, just speaking of books, the Redheads Book Club is always here for you.

Our next episode drops the first Thursday of March, and we are reading The Four Winds by Kristen Hanna, which is turning out to be like the second book of the year.

You know, obviously the first book was girlhood.

It's everywhere.

I've been seeing it everywhere.

Like it's a read with Jenna pick.

It's a book of the month pick.

Every time I go on the Redheads Instagram, which is like my bookstagram that I like to peruse, everyone's reading The Four Winds.

I mean, Kristen Hanna is an amazing author.

And because Firefly Lane is out right now, it's just like Kristen Hanna's month.

The press is just

pressureful for Kristen Hannah right now.

Right.

So read along with us.

And that episode drops in March.

So we will see you then.

And as always, we still have merch up for the Redheads at shopmorning toast.com.

And given that today's a How You Durn sort of episode, make sure to get your How You Durn merch at shopmorningtoast.com.

Merch is shipping so fast.

I think probably the fact we've, we've really gotten our shit together and it's shipping.

I can't believe I literally saw someone wearing it yesterday.

She made it into the Red Heads maroon sweatshirt.

She made it into a cropped sweatshirt.

I'm like, you ordered it, cropped it, it shipped like in all this time.

And it's literally been two days since we dropped.

Yeah, no, that's amazing.

I've been seeing people wearing their Redheads merch and I'm just like so happy that they now are sickening the merch down.

Sickening the motherfucking merch down.

I'm sick.

I have a new merch.

I can't go out.

I'm sick.

You better quarantine with that new merch because you are sick.

Okay, should we dive right in?

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Okay, first story, big news of the day.

Shaylene Woodley confirms her engagement to Aaron Rodgers.

So Shaylene went on the tonight show and said during her appearance, quote, for us, it's not new news.

So it's kind of funny everybody right now is freaking out over it.

over it.

She gushed over her 37-year-old fiancé, describing him as, quote, wonderful and an incredible human being.

She also poked fun at his career as a quarterback.

She said, quote, I never, I'm emphasizing the quote because I just like don't want you guys to think it came from me.

Yeah, right.

Quote, I never thought I'd be engaged to someone who threw balls for a living.

I never thought as a little girl, yeah, when I grow up, I'm going to marry someone who throws balls.

Yeah.

But he's really just so good at it.

She also said, quote, yeah.

She also said,

it's just like,

I think it's a, it's obviously a joke, you know, like he's like one of the best quarterbacks in the league and he's just throwing balls.

No, but like, what if Aaron Rodgers went on Jimmy Fallon and was like, you know, I never thought that I would get engaged to someone who plays pretend for a living.

You know, like that is what it is.

And Shaylene Woodley is one of the greatest actors in her craft.

Like it's kind of disrespectful.

Yeah, no, I so agree.

And then she also said, I don't know him as the football guy.

I know him as like the nerd who wants to host Jeopardy.

That's the dude I know.

Oh, that's cute.

No, I definitely think that there's way more to Aaron Rodgers than football.

And Shaylene Woodley has definitely brought that energy out of him, but I'm really still stuck on like the disrespect towards like one of the greatest athletes.

I just had like a list, greatest athletes of our time.

Like it just seems like a weird thing to do, especially when you're trying to like, you know, when you're in a relationship, you lift each other up.

Right.

You, you want to hype the other person up, not like.

Put them down.

Yeah.

But I don't know.

I don't think she was like, I think she was just trying to be funny, but I don't find it funny.

No, me too, but it was definitely derogatory.

yeah so i mean it's cute to get like more clarity about their relationship they also met during the pandemic and so i guess they've been engaged for a while so it really like sounds like true love at first sight like when you know you know and this is it for them yeah do you think they're in a fight now like because of what she said he's like babe like you totally like belittled me on james cordon

No, I don't because I think like, I think they get each other.

I do.

Yeah.

I think if something like that like came between them like they wouldn't be engaged right now.

Yeah, that's true.

I just, um, maybe I'm over.

Maybe it's like a joke that, maybe it's an inside joke that they have that, like, just didn't translate.

Yeah, that's possible.

No, you're right.

We should give her the benefit of the doubt, but it did rub me the wrong way.

And I'm curious if other people were like reading it and being like, damn, that's brutes.

Yeah, no, I agree.

I'm curious if anyone else thought that.

Plays balls.

Like, okay, like, that's just like,

it's so derogatory.

It's just like boiling it down to like one simple thing when football is so much it's math it's strategy it's travel like it's all these things and it's travel you know what i mean it's flowing bowels like it just boils it down to one thing and i don't know it's kind of funny and i i hope that like it is some sort of inside joke between them

yeah i hope so too but anyways i'm happy for these two like with everything that comes out like I get closer to the port, but not building a ship.

No, yeah, I'm definitely going to be there to, you know, wave goodbye to them as they start their journey.

But I will not be a part of like the laborious team of, you know, laborers putting it together.

Yeah, but I really do like when two, I would say they're both around A-list.

They're both very respected celebrities and respect in their field.

When two people who like seemingly, or they're both famous, but other than that, have nothing in common, like find each other and it's love and they seem really excited about it.

Like I am excited for that.

This is Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman.

Like name a less likely duo.

It is, it is, but separately i like them both oh same and separately they're both at the top of their game in their respective fields but i don't know when a country star and an academy award winning actress like really would ever cross paths

yeah also um

shaylene woodley and aaron rogers are both in the top of their fields yeah

yeah

so it is it's very similar speaking of new couples and where did they cross paths lucy hail is photographed kissing skeet olrich

skeet Ulrich from Riverdale.

I think it's pronounced Skeet Ulrich.

Is he related to Max Erich?

Max Erich?

Skeet apparently has a pretty little girlfriend, Lucy Hale.

The scream star 51 and the former Pretty Little Liars actress 31 were photographed on a PDA heavy lunch date in LA on Sunday.

And the May-December pair appeared to be completely smitten with one another.

The pictures are very cute of these two out to lunch.

They do very much seem like a happy couple.

It's unclear how they met, but it's possible that they met through their involvement in the CW series Riverdale and Katie Keene.

Skeet plays Forsyth Pendleton Jones, aka FP Jones on Riverdale.

And then Lucy Hale starred in Katie Keene, which is a spin-off of Riverdale.

So maybe they met at the CW offices.

Sent them up.

Writer Ross.

Like, it's very possible.

Otherwise, it would just be a really strange coincidence.

Right.

That they're both in this universe universe of Riverdale, CW, Ryder-Ross shows.

I mean, I'm sure that how they met is definitely connected through those projects, but I'm more focused on like this pairing as a duo.

And I think it's like such a bizarre coupling.

And I thought, remember when she was photographed with Colton, like literally six months ago?

That was crazy.

Yeah, but I'm happy that it's not Colton in these pictures.

But there is a big age gap, and I just wonder what we would be saying if the gender roles were reversed.

Yeah, no,

it's definitely not as bad as some of the ones we've seen in Hollywood, like Amelia Hamlin being 18 and Scott Disick being like almost 40.

Um, it's not as bad, but it is bizarre.

And you're right, like we would speak on it differently if it was a 51-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, but it's not as bad as some of like the really gross ones I've seen that really make you think, like, what's going on?

Like, is this grooming that make you question?

Where it's like borderline teenagers.

Yeah, no, uh, not Hillary enough.

Lucy Hale is a grown woman, but it is just like a little creepy, like to be with a guy like 51, you know?

20 years older than her.

Yeah, but he's very handsome and he looks not a day over 40.

I totally agree.

I would have never guessed that he's 51.

Me neither.

So, I don't know.

I think a little sailboat for these two might be in store.

I just think it's so rare.

It's like actually not random, just given the fact that, like we said, they work in like a really similar production company.

But I just think the fact like I never in my life would have paired these two together.

Like, you could have given me one million chances to pair up two people, and I never would have come up with this duo.

Yeah, but that's what, like, you know, we love to see the unexpected.

Yeah.

So, we'll keep you posted on these two.

That was just a little surprise yesterday.

Also, last question.

Do you think they called the paparazzi on themselves?

Well, so, you know, there's this like

we're living in an interesting age

where, no, I'm serious, where like paparazzi photos of like the early 2000s really defined like our generation and we've found out you know now that all the paparazzi for the most part with the exception of like the major major stars were being called on behalf of the celebrities like it was really planned So now that we know that it's like every time we see a paparazzi we know and it depends on the situation like when Bronwyn Wyndham Burke happened to be photographed outside a sex store wearing a big necklace that said gay okay

just days after announcing that she had come out as gay in OC, where paparazzi do not hang out in Costa Mesa.

Heather McDonald told me that.

So now it's like with the information that we know from the early 2000s, I know that Bronwyn-Windenberg called the paparazzi on herself, seeing as how she's not that famous, and it was just like too,

they caught her going into a sex shop.

What are the odds, you know?

Yeah, of course, but what about these two?

So with these two, it's like now I'm living in this place where every time I see someone paparazzi, I am 100% certain that they called it on themselves.

And unless it's taken on an iPhone where like someone shady got a picture, I'm convinced that the paparazzi were called.

So, yes, that is my idea.

The paparazzi were called because it's not a blurry cell phone picture that was posted on Twitter.

I agree totally.

I think the paparazzi were called, and that always just makes me wonder.

Yeah.

I mean, the pop, and now I'm thinking the last time Lucy Hale was photographed with Colton Haynes, Colton, what's his name?

Underwood.

Underwood.

Who's Colton Haynes?

He

does.

No, he does makeup, I think.

I just remember he dressed as Shrek for Halloween one year.

So Colton Underwood.

Remember, we literally roasted Colton, being like, he, of course, called the paparazzi.

The picture was like such an ambush.

Lucy was probably like, oh my God, what the fuck?

I want to go on a walk with this guy.

And he called the paparazzi.

But now it appears to be a Lucy Hale pattern.

No, no, I have to stake up for Lucy at this point.

I think that she saw Colton called the paparazzi on her.

It was a stain, for sure.

They never saw each other again.

But now I think she must be having dated Skeet for a while and she was like ready to wipe that stain clean.

And she was like, paparazzi, clear my name.

So she called him up.

I don't know.

I'm feeling like it's a pattern.

I think she was like ready to like take her name.

away from the Colted Underwood Association.

And I also think that because they called the paparazzi, maybe they're deeper into their relationship than we would have thought.

Yes, I think the paparazzi and the Colton thing were called like on the first day the two hung out.

Yeah, it was the first date.

Colton wasn't taking any chances of not getting a second date and not being able to call the paparazzi, so he had to do it on the first one.

Yeah, I agree.

Okay, next story, a little royal news that

seemingly petty, but

I

have two questions.

There is more to it.

Queen Elizabeth will make a TV appearance hours before Megan Markle and Prince Harry's Oprah interview.

So Megan Markle and Prince Harry's TV special with Oprah Winfrey, their first sit-down interview since their engagement, will air just hours after the royal family will make their own TV appearance.

Sounds petty, but the annual Commonwealth Day service, which normally gathers people from all over the world at Westminster Abbey, has been canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Instead, the BBC will broadcast a television special featuring members of the royal family.

Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, are all set to contribute while the 94-year-old monarch will appear in a pre-recorded message from Windsor Castle.

The Commonwealth Day TV special has been in the works since January, and the time slot was decided around three weeks ago.

People understand.

The broadcast will air.

I don't know.

She was just name-dropped in the article.

Oh, okay.

Well, she's like literally with the highest members of the royal family.

Like, who the fuck is she?

Yeah, I can't wait to see her.

I can't wait to find out.

The broadcast will air on Sunday, March 7th, the same day as CBS's 90-minute primetime special, in which Oprah Oprah sits down for an intimate conversation with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

This to me, I know that I'm probably being so naive, but it sounds like a coincidence.

Oh, by the way, you're not being naive.

This is literally the media blowing shit up, like Queen Elizabeth taking a stand.

First of all, what she's saying has already been recorded.

It was probably recorded six months ago.

It has nothing to do with Harry and Megan.

It's National Commonwealth Day, whatever that is.

Like, it's an important day in Britain, and this is so irrelevant.

And now I'm almost thinking, because

now I'm thinking that this television thing has been planned for so long that Harry and Megan maybe chose the day on the Commonwealth.

Like, I don't think in any way was the royal family trying to slight anyone.

I think that they've had this day chosen for at least six months.

No, for centuries, because it's Commonwealth.

No, but for like the TV special.

So I think, you know, at least if anyone here was going to one-up another, it honestly might have been Harry and Megan for choosing that day because they must know that it's National Commonwealth Day and that they're doing a BBC America special.

Yeah, I feel if there's anything that happened here, that's what would have happened.

Also, in reading the headline, you think like the queen is about to make a statement about

the pending interview, but it's like, no,

there will be nothing even related to the drama on Commonwealth Day.

It was literally fake fucking news from every outlet last night.

Just like so much fake news, the headlines being like, Queen Elizabeth speaking out on the same day.

And literally, it's so irrelevant if you read the story, which nobody does.

So it's just so much misinformation.

It's so intentionally clickbaity that I'm so glad I actually read it because now I know that like the queen is still queeny vibes.

She's not being petty.

She would never.

Yeah, no.

And I'm glad that now you guys know that they tried to play us, but they couldn't.

They fucking played us.

And this is what they're always saying in those documentaries and shit about the royal family, like the media being so crazy.

Like this is just so obviously fake fucking news.

Yeah, big time.

Okay, are you ready for our next story?

Yes, ma'am.

We have two stories in the Kardashian subset today.

Chris Jenner is set to launch her own beauty brand.

Move over, Kim and Kylie.

Chris Jenner seems set to follow in her daughter's footsteps by launching her very own beauty brand.

The Mamajer filed an application to trademark Chris Jenner Skincare, as well as Chris Jenner Beauty and Chris Jenner Skin on February 10th, according to documents from the U.S.

Patent and Trademark Office, obtained by PageSix Style.

The applications cover hair products like shampoo and conditioner and skincare items like cleansers, moisturizers, and toners, as well as nail polish and fake eyelashes.

Okay.

I have a few thoughts.

My first is like it is a little oversaturated in the Kardashian Jenner family to be doing beauty skin brands.

And I've felt that way even with Kylie and KKW Beauty, but somehow they've both managed to coexist.

And now with Chris, it definitely feels like it's too much.

But I will say, of all the people in the family,

I know they all have so much plastic surgery and they all look amazing, but like Chris is over 60.

Like she actually looks incredible.

And I know that she's probably doing a lot of things that aren't going to be available in her skincare line, like, you know, getting her face pulled or Botox or filler.

But I would trust Chris Jenner.

Like of all of the people in that family, like she looks best for her age.

So a skincare line actually makes quite a bit of sense.

Yeah, I hope that it's a skincare line that's like geared towards women of a certain age because one, I think that's, that's completely different from what Ken and Kylie are doing.

And that's a completely new market for Chris.

But I also think like she's the perfect face of that because she clearly does maintain herself very well.

And so this isn't like the craziest idea I've ever heard, nor do I think that it is saturated if she does go in that direction of like anti-aging.

But I definitely have like a new opinion on the term anti-aging and like all of that after speaking with Norma Kamali.

Yeah.

And like how she was just talking about like we should embrace aging, age with power, like all this stuff that's geared towards anti-aging.

Like you're gonna fucking age.

Yeah, I just also want to throw out there, it is worth mentioning that she could just be filing the trademarks for the sake of having them and not really be having any businesses in the works, but making sure like no one else filed a trademark.

I actually,

I'm sure, pretty sure that's not the case, but it's worth mentioning that it's possible that this is just like a thing to protect her brand.

Yes, very, very true.

And I also feel like, even though, when like Kylie Cosmetics and KKW Beauty came out and it seemed like, you know, so much of the same, and then even Kylie Skin, like, I feel like now we're at a place where like they're all, I mean, if you're really deep into it, like they're very different, all of them.

Yes, no, they are.

Like, Kylie Cosmetics is really like Instagram makeup, and KKW Beauty is really like more natural and more

like.

I don't know about more natural, but I feel like KKW Beauty is more like makeup artist makeup.

Oh, really?

I totally disagree.

I feel like Kylie Cosmetics is like girls at home, like playing around with makeup, like really fun and younger.

And then I think KKW Beauty is like more serious, like the palettes, like it's a little more mature.

Oh, no, I completely disagree.

Like, and I'm always asking my makeup artists, like, what do you think of each?

And like, a lot of makeup artists use a lot of Kylie's stuff.

I haven't seen one thing from KKW Beauty in any makeup artist kit.

No, I'm not saying that makeup artists use KKW Beauty, but it's like more influenced by makeup artists.

Maybe because she's done like collabs with Mario and stuff, but I

don't know.

I just feel like Kylie Cosmetics is like more fun and like she takes chances with colors, whereas Kim is like each palette and said it's like a look.

Like couldn't agree less, but whatever.

The other thing I wanted to say was

most of I feel like we report a lot on the Kardashians

filing trademarks, and almost always does that thing get made.

So, like, I do really feel like we will have a Christian or skincare on the way.

Yeah, but I feel like we also reported that Kendall had trademarked something like this, like a while ago.

Yeah, you know, my memory shit.

But I don't think that's going to happen, and I don't think that it should.

No, now she's a tequila magnet.

So she's been, like, literally walking into restaurants holding it, like, so obviously, like, she went into Craigs, and there's always paparazzi standing outside Craigs, and she was just like holding the bottle perfectly angled towards the camera.

And there's pictures of her inside drinking it with her friends.

So, yeah.

That's so great for her.

I'm really

excited for her for that.

Yeah, there's a bit of controversy around it.

I don't think we spoke about it, but a lot of people are very upset with the name.

The name.

Why?

The name is 818.

I believe it's the Calabasas zip code.

Yeah, so I think you told me that.

And it's like, you know,

tequila is like such an authentically Mexican drink.

It's so representative of their culture, their heritage.

It's all made.

It can only be called tequila if it's made in Mexico with Mexican distilleries, Mexican

distributors.

And it feels like a slap in the face for a white woman to like take tequila and slap on 818 and make it like it's a calabasis thing when it's a Mexican thing.

Yes, I've seen, I've seen that.

And then I've also seen people who are upset with the backlash because that backlash did not extend to male celebrities who did the same thing.

And by the way, that I completely agreed with because I saw like a full list of celebrities who have launched tequila companies or any sort of liquor.

And of course, you know, the George Cluny is the most obvious Casamigos.

That's a billion-dollar company.

Then there's P.

Diddy, who did Siroc, which is vodka.

There's Nick Jonas did Villa One.

Yeah.

So while I think it's an interesting conversation to have around like celebrities of a certain culture releasing tequila and vodka companies, it does feel weird that it's like all these guys just got away with it.

Literally, nobody said one single thing.

I agree with that.

But it's like, that's just like the Kardashian way.

It's like they're just everything they do gets backlash and starts conversations.

Right.

And here's what else is starting a conversation.

Kim Kardashian listens to our Olivia Rodrigo's breakup anthem.

After filing for divorce from Kanye West, Kim took a drive listening to the hip breakup song Driver's License amid her divorce from Kanye.

She posted a video on Monday of herself driving past windmills on the highway listening to Olivia's Heartbreak anthem.

She played the lyrics, quote, and all my friends are tired of hearing how much I miss you, but I kind of feel sorry for them because they'll never know you the way that I do.

Okay, American.

I am too.

Because it was also Robert Kardashian Sr.'s birthday yesterday, and they all had posted like beautiful tributes.

Kim had done like 11 stories.

And I know it's like a song about love, but it's also a song about like sadness and heartbreak.

And sometimes when you're just vibing to a sad song, I think it could have been about that.

Could have.

I also think like she was clearly in her feelings yesterday and like she was driving and there's this hit song about driving and like I don't I think there's a chance she didn't think that much into it and it wasn't about the fact that it's a breakup anthem it's just a

it's just a pretty song about driving and she was just like

she was just like having an artsy moment driving.

So let me play this song about driving.

No, but like the line, I guess you didn't mean what you wrote in that song about me.

Like there are very few people who could actually relate to that line and Kim Kardashian.

She cut it off.

She cut off in the middle of that lyric.

Hmm.

I don't know.

Maybe we're looking too much into it and like she's just living her life, but I feel like looking into it.

I feel like the opposite.

I just, I feel like,

no, I'm really not.

Like they're getting divorced.

It's not a big deal.

I just don't think that she

thinks of this song as like a breakup anthem.

And also, it's not parallel to this situation at all.

Like, I think she was just driving.

I think there was driving drugs.

Also, she hasn't posted any sort of cryptic message on her Instagram or like she's literally treating the divorce like on her Instagram.

If you only just followed her in during the news, like you

would never know what's happening.

Like, I don't think this is our sign.

No, I think that there's something there.

I think she's sad.

I mean, when you like, it's sad, of course, a family, you know, dividing, but I think that there's something there.

I really do.

I think she was just trying to be like artsy and the whole world's reading into it.

I think more.

Okay.

Fifth and final story, a little book news.

Oh, this is really fast.

Oh, I'm so excited about this book news.

Yes.

Okay, Mila Kunis will star in Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive at Netflix.

If you guys have been listening to the show at all in the last three months, you know that Claudia and I are obsessed with the book Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll.

And now the film adaptation is set at Netflix and Mila Kunis will star as Ani Fenelli.

Okay, I want to say a few things.

Yes.

The first thing is that,

you know, this happens a lot, like where obviously popular books get made into movies, TV shows, but I never really read popular books.

I really mostly read like celebrity memoirs.

So this is the first time where I will have read the book before watching the movie.

And like, that's like a crazy experience for me because I feel like that happens to people all the time, but this is new for me.

I know.

And prepare to hate the movie.

Okay.

Well, the other thing is, like, like, I love Mila Kunis, but like, I don't think that this is a good casting.

Like, at least not how I saw Ani in the book.

Yeah.

So I saw Ani as Emma Roberts, and that would have been my choice, but like, obviously, it's not going to be exactly what I think it's going to be.

And so I think Mila Kunis, like, isn't so far off because I think she can have that Ani attitude.

The only thing to me is like the ages seem a little off, but I think they can like make up the difference.

You know, I think Ani was around 28 and Mila Kunis is

37

So maybe they'll make Ani a little older and then Mila just plays a little younger like I don't think that's a huge deal, but um No, I actually do think it's kind of a big deal because The whole book, and if you haven't read it yet, I won't spoil it, but it's like it's this bridge between current life and past life, and she's not that far out of high school.

That's why it's all so like not fresh, but it's still, you know, fucking with her.

So I actually think this is not a good, I really don't think it's a good cast.

I really like.

Okay,

so who would you have wanted to see?

Okay, well, like, I don't know, I'm not a casting director, but when I, when I vision, when I was reading the book and I was envisioning like this scenarios playing out in my head, I was just like envisioning this, like, you know, no-name,

just pretty young girl.

Like, I was not really thinking celebrities.

But when it came to her teacher, what was his name?

Oh, Mr.

Larson.

Mr.

Larson.

Mr.

Larson, like, absolutely has to be played by Jason Street or like Chris Pratt.

I really felt, but like, when Chris Pratt was like a little like less hot, you know, he's like too good looking now.

But Jason Street, like, when I was, when I was reading the book, Mr.

Larson, like, was Jason Street, and I thought it was like the best casting ever.

No, that you told me that

he was so good, too.

Oh, is his name not Jason Street?

No, that's what it was in Friday Night.

I know, I just thought maybe, like, you know, it's like Miley Stewart, Miley Cyrus.

Peter Berg.

Oh, wait.

No.

Oh, no, that's Peter Berg.

Peter Berger

Porter.

He's also in

Heart of Dixie.

He plays like the cutie, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, it's a great casting.

I hope that someone somewhere listens to this.

Thank you.

Also, I just think Milakunis is a good choice because Ani has to be someone who's like has attitude and is also really funny.

And I think that Milakunis can do both of those things really well.

Yeah, like like she has two personalities, like she's like, like two-faced, legitimately.

Yeah, I guess so, but she's just like, I don't know, she just is.

I saw her, I read her as like so funny.

And I really wanted to be bitchy.

Yes, bitchy, attitude, funny.

And like, I think Mila Kunis is Roberts, and that was like a really, really good casting because I think the age is perfect.

Yeah, I totally agree.

I wonder who will play young Ani because obviously Milakunis won't be playing a high school student also.

Yeah.

It's just such a good book.

Like, and if this, like, now that it's like confirmed, being made into a movie, because we knew that the film rights had been bought, but like, I, I learned recently that so many books get their film rights adapted and then they go nowhere for like so many reasons.

Like so many things have to fall into place.

So the fact that this is actually happening and it will be at Netflix, like

you guys should read the book.

It's if like it was Claudia's like first

fiction book novel that she read and it's so fucking good.

And also fun fact, apparently in the scene of Real Houses of New York, when they are in Miami and Bethany is like in her hotel room finding out about Tom and she's like freaking out because she has to tell Luann, Luckiest Girl Alive is on the bed.

But that's what she was like.

Yeah.

History.

History.

Culture.

So I'm really excited about this book news

and we will keep you posted.

Like I really am excited for when we're doing shows about like recapping the movie.

Oh, that'll be good.

And if it's at Netflix, I feel like there's a level, like it can't be terrible.

I agree.

No, but it's like, it's just like how I felt about Little Fires Everywhere versus the book.

It's like when they even change one thing, which they inevitably do,

you're like, well, that didn't happen in the book.

Yeah, well, I found people like, that's so annoying.

It's going to be you.

Yep.

It's going to be you.

Because you feel protective over this book that you love.

Oh, especially because Luckiest Girl Alive holds a special place in my heart.

Yeah, for sure.

So let's dive into our TV recap of The Bachelor.

We had our hometowns.

Also, um, before we do, I just, as part of our bachelor segment, I wanted to let everyone know that Matt James spoke out yesterday about the recent controversy.

So, Matt James posted on Instagram a long statement saying, The past few weeks have been some of the most challenging of my life.

And while there are several episodes left of the season, it is important that I take the time to address the troubling information that has come to light since we wrapped filming, including the incredible, dis incredibly disappointing photos of Rachel Kirk Connell and the interview between Rachel Lindsay and Chris Harrison.

The reality is that I'm learning about these situations in real time, and it has been devastating and heartbreaking to put it bluntly.

Chris's failure to receive and understand the emotional labor that my friend Rachel Lindsay was taking on by graciously and patiently explaining the racist history of the antebellum South, a painful history that every American should understand intimately, was troubling and painful to watch.

As black people and allies immediately knew and understood, it was a clear reflection of a much larger issue that the bachelor franchise has fallen short on addressing adequately for years.

He continued on to say, I will continue to process this experience and you will hear more from me in the end.

Yeah, so it's clear that like everyone's putting out statements, but there will be like a major conversation to be had at after the final rows or some sort of televised event.

Yes, I agree, which will be much needed, but I thought that his statement was really

well said.

Yeah, but you know what I was thinking?

Because I'm like fully convinced that Rachel Kirk Connell wins, given all the drama, but also even last night's episode, like it's so clear he only has eyes for Rachel.

Yeah, I feel that.

And I feel like the fact that he now released a statement about her makes me feel like they broke up.

You think so?

I don't know.

Like, that's just the vibe that I would get.

I don't know.

Like, why now?

These, this, this conversation has been happening for months, and the Chris Harrison thing was two weeks ago.

Yeah, that's true.

That's a good point.

I hadn't thought of it like that.

But then again, she might not even win, but if, like, this is just a working theory that I have.

Yeah.

Okay, well, we'll find out soon enough.

So I know, but it's like watching these episodes feels so pointless.

I can't even explain.

Irrelevant.

Yeah.

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yes okay

bachelor hometowns four gals left such a boring episode mostly because I think hometowns are always a little boring because the best part of The Bachelor is like the drama within the girls and the girls are all separate because they're all in their hometowns.

so it's never the most interesting episode.

But this one really just fell so flat, like even like the

big drama of Serena, like sending herself home, like boring,

boring.

I mean, I barely watched, like,

I had it on the whole two hours, but I was just like so tuned out to really the whole thing.

But I gave it my most attention in the beginning, and I'm glad that I did because I think that Michelle is a queen.

I think that, assuming she doesn't win, I think that she will be our next bachelorette.

I fucking loved the campers.

The digital campers.

The digital campers and like Elsie and her note.

I just,

it was so fucking cute.

And like, I think that Michelle has every,

all the stuff to be the next bachelorette.

Like, I think that her story is so interesting.

She seems like a wonderful person.

And that's where I would say that she'll be the next bachelorette.

And I think there'll be a good storyline for her as a next bachelor because she's clearly like so head over heels in love with Matt, like would do anything for him.

And I do not get the vibe that he is feeling the same way back.

And so I think she will, I don't think she wins.

And if and when she goes home, she will be so heartbroken and devastated.

It'll be the perfect setup for a journey to love on the bachelorette.

Yeah, I agree with that.

So that was probably my favorite.

hometown to watch just because I really love their date and I thought that the campers like made it so excellent.

And then with Rachel's, it was obviously just so bizarre to watch.

Like knowing all that we know, I'm just so impatient and I couldn't care less about things that already happened.

I need to know, I need to get caught up, like what's going on now.

So the whole thing was kind of weird.

Obviously, like the peak of the episode, it was when she like faceplanted the earth and her hair was like so wild.

And then five seconds later, her hair was perfectly straight.

Well, it wasn't, I'm sure in real life, it wasn't five seconds.

I'm sure she got checked out and then got a hairbrush.

But that was like

really crazy.

That was a serious fall.

I can't believe that they jumped out of planes.

Like, I don't know why, but for me, me, that is just like, I could never never.

I'm not one of those people.

And they were just like, so, like, they were literally in the space and just like making hand signs and peace signs and like hearts.

And I was just like, you guys are crazy.

You know, and like, honestly, Matt was the only one of them being like, oh, I'm kind of nervous.

Rachel was like a nut.

She was like, let's go.

And then like, as she's falling through the sky, there's literally a cameraman next to her and she's doing a full-blown interview.

Like, she's not falling out of the sky.

She's like, Matt, I'm really falling for you.

Like, she was so calm.

It's like, how many times has this girl been skydiving?

No, I totally agree.

But when they were like both near each other in the sky, like overlooking the literal earth, I'm like, oh, that's really romantic.

And it's one of those experiences that you wouldn't expect to have like when they're filming at a resort.

Like it was an out of box, like it was an otherworldly experience.

So I think if they were already falling in love, like actually doing something like that, like brings you a lot closer.

You know, I mean, it would have been a really cute hometown if there wasn't all this other stuff going on outside of the show because Matt is so fucking in love with Rachel.

Like, it's crazy.

And, and I feel like my, my biggest critique of him is, like, I haven't been able to read him at all this season.

Like, I don't know who he likes.

He acts like he likes everyone.

Like, it's very confusing.

And in the last few episodes, it's become evidently clear to me that, like, he's so in love with Rachel.

And now it's just weird.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then with Brie, the thing is, I feel the same way about Michelle.

I love Bri.

I think she's an absolute star.

I don't think Matt even notices like when she's around.

It's so crazy.

Yeah, I feel like it's just like I was worried about when she got the first date.

Like you fall into that comfortable place and then

it just, it's hard to get back from there.

So I think that while they had like a strong,

consistent connection the whole time, like it never peaked, like flared up.

Yeah, and it makes me sad because she's like so stunningly beautiful, smart, funny.

and like her relationship with her sister and her mom was just like so admirable.

And I think she's an amazing girl.

And I don't think Matt sees it.

Like I just think he's so wrapped up in Rachel.

Yeah.

And that's I agree.

But I think that.

I think that whether she's Brie is a bachelorette or she goes to paradise, like we will have more Bri in our lives.

And that's what I want.

Yeah, because she needs to go to paradise and have like all these guys fighting over her because that's how it should have been.

Like she's what she's like a Hannah G, like so gorgeous that like everyone's fighting over you in paradise.

And, like, that's how it should be.

And, like, Matt didn't even notice her.

Yeah, that's literally, like, what happened with Hannah G.

Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying.

Like, and I think, like, if she goes in paradise, like, she'll get engaged.

Like, Hannah G.

I agree.

So I just, like, now, especially that Serena's gone, like, it's so clear to me that Rachel wins.

Like, he doesn't even look at the other two girls the same way that he looks at Rachel.

So

on the one hand, it's like annoying because

I don't think they can, you know, work out beyond this drama.

And he could have fell in love with someone else, but I'm low-key looking forward to the drama of like how they

get past this how they discover it like what is what is what are the conversations that are going to be had I think it's going to be really interesting yeah I agree and if they get past it right and I'm feeling like I don't know how they can

wow

I don't know what's gonna happen I guess that's making this season like

It's making us watch because there's gonna be some sort of finale.

And I'm not talking about the rope ceremony.

I'm talking about like a live interview.

There's going to be something there.

So we're all feeling frustrated now, but I do think there will be some sort of payoff like when we get all of our answers.

Yeah, I agree.

Also, I just wanted to mention, because last night I was reading an article from e-news.

They're doing a series for Black History Month where they're talking to black reality show contestants about what it's like being a minority on reality TV.

And they spoke to Mike Johnson and Tayshia.

And they talk about what it's like to be a black contestant on The Bachelor, but also like what it's like after The Bachelor and how Black contestants like typically get less followers after the show.

And they're really like diving into all of that.

And I found it to be really interesting.

And I would recommend that everyone read it because I think it was a really well-done interview.

It was also,

I guess, conducted before all of this Chris Harrison stuff.

So it mostly focuses on, they have all of these graphics even about like the, all the bachelorettes in the last eight years and how many followers they each have, like how everyone comes to season.

Because we were, it's very interesting.

We were saying like a few weeks ago how The Bachelor, bachelor I feel like has never been truly diverse.

And if it has, it's always like tokenism, like having you know a certain amount of black contestants, but never who make it far enough.

So, when it comes to speaking on you know, the inequalities within bachelor nation, there are so few contestants who have enough of a platform to make an impact because none of them even get far enough.

Even if there have been however many black contestants in the last 10 years, they very, very rarely made it far enough to even garner a platform.

And that's like where it's like like not true

diversity.

Right.

And also Mike Johnson was talking about how even now when he does speak out or use his platform, then he loses followers.

So it really gets into the metrics of bachelor nation and like this post-bachelor ecosystem of followers, which we all know is going on.

And like that's how, you know, it becomes everyone's job after the show, but it's, it's,

there's a lot at play.

And so I think everyone should just read this article.

I found it to be very interesting.

That is interesting.

Thank you for sharing that.

The last part of the bachelor hometown that we wanted to recap is just Serena going home.

And

like, I just love when a contestant is like, I know, like, we're waiting for you to pick us, but I don't pick you.

Yeah.

It just has to be honest.

I was like, the whole environment.

Barely.

I was barely watching that.

Okay.

Well, so she expressed some concern at the end of her hometown.

And then before the rose ceremony, Matt went to go talk to her.

And she was like, honestly, I've been thinking about it since I left the hometown date and you are just not my person.

Right.

I heard that.

Okay.

I mean, good for her.

And also, like, I'm glad that no one else had to go home prematurely.

And then at the rose ceremony, Matt was like, Serena's not coming.

She didn't feel like this was it for her.

And I really want to just remind you, like, please don't accept this rose if you're not accepting this rose.

Right.

So it was like boring, but at least someone went home because if I had to deal with another episode where no one went home, like I would just die.

Yeah, I agree.

I did like 400 things while watching the bachelor last night no i don't know what i was doing i just could not pay attention yeah my perum event like was live streaming on the website so i was watching it at the same time is there a replay for it because i actually wanted to watch it but then it was eight o'clock and i watched it i believe um

you can re-watch it till uh the end of the week it's at purum funnystory.com p-u-r-i-m funnystory.com

Awesome.

And also, I like before The Bachelor, I was watching Downton Abbey and you guys like

compare.

You can't compare.

No, you truly cannot.

So, it was a tough one, but next week looks steamy.

They're so good.

Because you want to know why?

The trailers for episodes of The Bachelor are about two minutes long.

Episodes of The Bachelor are actually two hours long.

There's literally two minutes of good content in a two-hour episode.

I agree, but I wouldn't have said like this week's trailer even looked good.

Like, but next week with the fantasy suites and it looks like there's a lot going on.

You know, it is kind of crazy.

Actually, no, I'm sorry.

Next week is Women Tell All.

Maybe it's a two-night thing.

Oh, no.

Please say it ain't so.

I know.

Fuck.

Yeah, but Women Tell All is next week and then Fantasy Suites and then Finale.

But then again, Women Tell All was filmed before the Chris Harrison extra interview.

So again, it's like a conversational episode where they're not having the conversation that we're all having.

It's irrelevant.

Yeah.

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