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Good morning, Millennials.

Welcome back to the morning toast.

Happy Thursday.

It is a gloomy Thursday here in New York City, but hey, Claude, hiya dirt.

Good morning, millennials.

Welcome back to the morning toast.

I am doing good.

It is, you know, I haven't stepped outside or even opened my window, so I don't know what kind of day it is in New York, but I just know I'll be staying inside.

Therefore, it's not important what it is going on outside.

It's actually, this is beautiful quarantine weather because it's nothing that tempts you to want to leave your house.

And so when I woke up this morning and I could see through the shades that it was a little gloomy, I got sort of pumped and I had to like rack my brain and make sure I didn't have plans to leave the house today, which I don't.

And I'm stoked.

Actually, you're coming over later.

So you're leaving with us later.

The whole weather could change by then.

So funny.

I was having this conversation with Ben last night.

Cause like in the beginning of quarantine, like it was unfathomable that we wouldn't be able to leave our houses for so long.

And now that we've been in it for a while, I honestly like can't imagine.

life not in quarantine.

And like we just started phase one in New York.

So I know that it is going to eventually come to an end.

Like there is light at the end of the tunnel, but I'm like kind of sad about it.

Like I don't want to leave.

No, now that there's light at the end of the tunnel, I'm sort of charging these last few weeks in the queue.

So, I do, I feel you on that, but I'm excited for our plans tonight.

That'll be really fun.

We're having little GNI, we're doing a vlog, GNI, making a pizza, drinking wine, playing games, just having a fun night for Patreon and for ourselves because we really need one.

We deserve it,

we deserve each other.

This hat and you.

Oh, you don't fucking know that song.

I'm always singing this song from Wiccan.

You're both so smart.

Oh, no.

I only know.

It's about a hat.

It's about a hat.

Is it about Mrs.

Hat?

Yes, and Mr.

Hat.

It's such a good song.

I mean, it's only one part of the song that's dedicated to the hat.

And it goes, you should wear this hat to the party tonight, don't you think?

And I'm always telling you guys to wear this hat to the party tonight.

And you guys never know what I'm talking about.

but some

some broadway steens are gonna know what i'm talking about and this one's for you well we have a great show we are not recapping real house lives at beverly hills because much to my chagrin it wasn't on last night and new york is not on tonight either like they are on hiatus till july i don't know Okay, I mean, I was bummed about Beverly Hills, but I can't say I'm so bummed about New York.

Like that means more time for me watching Potomac, seeing the ladies go to Bermuda.

I'm so excited.

I ended like right on the episode right before they're going on a trip.

So I just have the world is my oyster.

Like I'm going to Bermuda today.

I don't know about you.

Got to get you.

Bermuda.

That's the humming.

Come, pretty

mama.

We've been like super musical this week.

And I think that it's for the best.

You know, it's so funny.

I was on the phone with Taylor Strecker last night and I realized like I was doing this thing that I used to do when I came every summer like when I was in high school when I would come back from camp I like picked up on annoying habits like my bunk mates were doing and when I was a super senior like all the girls on my bunk just like saying they were like pass the towel and I came home and I was doing it and like my friends thought it was so annoying like my school friends and now I find myself doing that all the time I'm like this is incredible

that's what you and Ben do all the time everywhere.

That's like a you and Ben thing 100%.

And then also what you guys do is like you constantly, we all do this, but you guys take it to another level where you like, you're like, oh, this is a sad chair.

It's a sere.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I can't.

There are over a million words in the English language.

And honestly, like, that's too many.

Sometimes you just need to combine words, you know, like

contraction.

Dish issues.

You have a dish issues.

No, you have dishes.

Like combining, what's it called?

Conjunction?

Contraction.

Right?

A contraction is when you do like cannon.

Conjunction.

what's your function?

That song is like

sexual.

It's like a kids' song to like learn about English and like grammar.

So sexual.

It's like I could see Luann in like a dirty cabaret bar downtown being like, conjunction, conjunction, what's your function?

I completely agree.

Okay, so it's the act of contraction, though, is the act of decreasing something in size or volume or quantity or scope.

So it's being contracted into one word.

Therefore, it is a contraction.

Okay, well, everyone should do it more because I love it.

The more you know, it's a sad chair.

It's a stare.

Yeah, good times.

These are white curtains, wortons.

Yeah, no, you guys just do it with everything,

and

that's just what you do.

That's a cool girl.

What?

What?

You're a good person.

Could be guessing the whole day through.

Lay information,

push all your buttons.

It's true.

That's what girls do.

Yes, what song?

What movie is that from?

Something stellar from the 90s.

That like genre of female band 90s movie music.

Like, I wanna be that girl who has everything.

I wanna reach that bell.

I'm gonna make it ring.

I'm gonna fly like a bird and spread my wings.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Give me everything.

Give me everything.

Like that, play that at my funeral, please.

Okay.

100%.

When they're bringing in the casket, like, I want all the pole bearers to be like,

the pallbearers will, like, arrange a harmony.

So it's going to be like maybe a round where they're like, she's going to be that girl.

She's going to be that.

I mean, it's going to be tasteful, obviously.

Yeah, don't worry.

I'll see.

I'll oversee the musical.

She'll be the funeral department.

Department.

Yes, exactly.

Can't wait.

Cool.

Well, we have a great show for you today, as Claudia had said.

Speaking of other great shows, a new episode of The Redheads is up.

We are recapping Cold Name Helene, which has,

I think, is my favorite book we've ever read in The Redheads so far.

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It's a true story of a fabulous, incredible woman.

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And now I'm so excited to read our next book, which is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

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Yeah, I do love to partake.

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yourself like this is a gift but it's also an essential you know it's one of those things like you get for someone but you know like you're gonna be the one using it yeah no it's like everyone should have one so yes it's a gift but i'm just getting you something you should have yeah you know okay first story um piggybacking off of the big news from yesterday but lisa vanderpump is speaking out after four van der rural stars were fired.

She said, quote, I condemn all forms of racism.

Quote, this is from her statement.

Over the past two weeks, many things have been brought to my attention of which I and many others were previously unaware.

It was necessary for me to be quiet until now until decisions had been made.

Now I can speak freely from the heart, she said.

She referenced the recent tragedies in the world, including the death of George Floyd while in police custody and the coronavirus pandemic.

She said, as we've seen such devastating sadness that has played out globally, we all have a part to play to create a kinder, more just society.

My hope is for this generation to treat each other with respect and humanity and realize that actions have and should have consequences.

She talks a little bit about her business and how I think she's addressing some of these claims that, you know, the show is not diverse at all.

And she says that she has a lot of different

people from different backgrounds that work in her restaurants, but the show focuses on this one group of friends.

Okay, well, like, that's not what we asked.

We know that your restaurants are quote unquote diverse um honestly like this is a nice statement but i feel like it totally missed um the mark on what people are upset with her about and that is one the lack of diversity on the show and two some of the claims that faith um had to say about lisa vanderprom she had choice words for lisa and said that um at one point lisa told her to act like meanie leaks

Yeah, so she did not address, she did not address that.

She just sort of discussed what's been going on in her show and in her world and in the world in general.

I think generally speaking, it was,

it was, it was a very warm statement.

She's not dragging any of the people who used to work for her, but she's also not condoning what they did in any way, shape, or form.

Yeah, I mean, to be honest, like the statement was...

I didn't learn anything new.

And it definitely felt like she had to say something because there's so much conversation being had like around her show and her restaurants, but I don't really feel like it accomplished anything or really gave me any answers in terms of Lisa's involvement.

It just seemed like she kind of took herself out of the equation.

I think that she's not in the equation at all.

No, I mean, but she is.

Faith had something to say about her.

Yeah.

And also she is in the equation, like when she wants someone to be fired.

But I guess Kristen and Sassy never worked at her restaurants.

Like she fired James when she thought that he needed to be fired.

So she does have the power over her restaurants, but not over the show.

I think that she definitely has power over the restaurants.

I do think she has a lot to say.

I think like her voice is heard when it comes to casting, hiring, firing on the show.

I definitely think she has input.

I'm not sure.

I'm not totally convinced.

It would make sense if she did, but I could also see how she might not.

Additionally, Andy Cohen broke his silence on Sassi and Kristen being fired.

He said, quote, there's so much happening in the Bravo universe.

I will say this.

There's so much to talk about Vanderpump rules.

And then, of course, the reunion ended up airing last night.

He said this on his radio show.

He said, I will say this about what happened.

I absolutely support Bravo's decision.

I think it was the right decision.

And I want to remind people, because I've been getting so many tweets and messages and whatever about Vanderpunk Rules and Southern Charm and other shows.

I am not, I don't, I feel like I have to remind people of this all the time.

I'm not in charge of programming at Bravo anymore.

I am not an executive producer of Vanderpunk Rules.

I don't have anything to do with the show except I love it and I host the reunions.

I don't produce the show.

So what I want people to know is that I have no say in hiring and firing.

I had completely forgotten that.

Like I just associate Bravo with Andy and like that he is the head of Bravo.

And he's told us so many times that he is no longer, but that just like, it doesn't make sense to me.

So I refuse to acknowledge it.

Yeah.

And sometimes like, even if it's not a housewife show, like I know he slaps his name on as an executive producer, which I think is just a part of his deal with his production company and Bravo.

But I do think that was important for people to remind him because Bravo fans, especially like the crazy ones on Twitter, like they take their pitchforks to Andy's profile when they're unhappy about something when at the end of the day, like he's actually not the person making these decisions.

So I think it was very important for people to, um, for him to remind people of Yeah, I needed to be reminded for sure because when I think about Bravo making decisions about Stasi and Kristen, like I think Andy's in the room and he,

but does Andy like them?

What does Andy think?

And it really has, Andy is talent just like them.

Yeah.

And you just, I think that part of the confusion comes from like him also being the host of Watch What Happens Live.

Like he doesn't only have the housewives on Watch What Rappin' Live.

He has Southern Charm.

He has Vanner Prump Rules.

So it is confusing.

And I see why people think of him as like the punching bag.

No, but it's also like he does the reunions like and he started hosting Watch What Happens Live because he was the executive producer at Bravo and the headman in charge is going to talk to all the people on the TV shows.

It was like a genius idea.

Along the way, he stopped being the headman in charge and we just like got the memo, but chose not to read it.

Yeah, no, because it's like business stuff.

It's in his book a lot too,

because his book is like basically journal entries and he journals around the time where he gets this huge deal with Bravo, where basically Andy runs

most talkative production companies, which is a production company that puts on a lot of the Bravo stuff.

And so he now, I think, works at the production company, but the production company has an overall deal with Bravo.

So he's still very much connected to Bravo, but he's not his office, he's not in 30 Rock anymore.

Yeah.

It's very, it's so like B2B.

It's so B2B.

It's an internal thing.

It's a need to know thing.

Yeah, but I guess now we needed to know and he is sharing that information with us.

Well, then that sucks because he's getting the brunt of like everyone's

frustrations like on social media when he's actually not the man who makes the decisions.

Yeah, for sure.

Interesting.

Interesting.

I see you're changing your sheets back there.

How's that going?

Yes, you know, part of being the host of this show and coming on here every day is like people know when, like the frequency at which I change my sheets.

So normally I would go like three weeks, but I've been really good like on a week to week basis.

That's really good.

But you could always say like you change them in the afternoon, like, you wanted the bed to be made for the show.

And then you were going to, you know, like, you could lie to us if you needed to.

Yeah, I could, but you know what?

Like, once I start lying, at least for me, it's just like a slippery slope to like lying to everyone about everything.

And I don't want to like start the trend of like lying to the fans on the show, you know?

Yeah, I feel that.

I did my sheets yesterday, and it was, it was nice.

It was, it was nice.

I mean, there's literally nothing better than a fresh sheet.

It's true.

Last night I slept quite well.

Not gonna lie.

Oh my God.

I was tossing and turning all fucking night.

It was the worst night's sleep.

Like I,

I don't know what's wrong with me, but like I've been up all night like thinking, but I'm asleep.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, that does make sense.

I wonder what...

I need to like turn my brain off.

Yeah, maybe you need to drink more water.

Maybe you're dehydrated.

I sleep like that when I'm dehydrated.

Oh, that's interesting.

I mean, I have um because I sleep like that when I've been drinking alcohol.

Oh, that's interesting.

I mean, I think that I just have like so much on my mind that I don't process during the day because I'm like actively trying to like fight out negative thoughts in my brain.

Do you know what I mean?

Yes, I do know what you mean.

So I actually,

who could it be?

I actually have

Theosh.

Theo's little barks.

No, I love them.

He has something to say.

Well, I have something to say.

I actually have my first appointment for therapy next week.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Thank you.

It's been something I feel like once I start talking, like then it'll get out of my brain and I can finally fucking sleep.

That's good.

I'm proud of you for going.

These have been, these past few months have been some of the most mentally trying.

I'm sorry, the most mentally trying.

I've never experienced something like this in my whole life.

And I feel like it's that for everyone.

Yes, definitely.

And you have to self-care, self-love, and you've got to

take

the necessary steps.

I used to be one of the people who thought like therapy was for weak people.

I'm like, I'm too strong, but like I'm not.

No, but it's not for weak people.

It actually takes a really strong person to like recognize that they could benefit from talking to someone else.

Totally.

I think like where my reservation is, I feel like now I'm in a therapy session.

I have like all these thoughts in my brain that I'm like kind of embarrassed of.

And like, I don't want the therapist to like tell anyone, like they're embarrassing.

Well, you know what I've learned from meme culture?

It's that like we all have the same thoughts and the same weird thoughts.

And like everything that you think or say that's like weird, someone else has thought the same thing or something weirder.

You know, that's a very interesting observation.

Yeah.

I feel like I wouldn't be a good therapist, but I feel like I could be a good, I was gonna say life coach, but I don't even have my own life together.

So, but I guess I know like steps that I could take.

Yeah, I bet you could find a very, a big amount of life coaches who don't have their lives together.

That's true.

And I feel like you're just like setting yourself up for people to be like,

well, that's like, if you're a matchmaker, you have to be married.

I don't think that's true.

Cause when I think of like

old school matchmakers, you know, like from the shettle, it was always just like an older woman in the community.

And I don't know that she was always the married one, like in Fiddler on the Roof, you know?

Yeah.

That's always what I think about when I think of matchmakers.

Okay.

Are you ready for anything?

Oh, I'm normal and I think of Patty Stanger.

I think of that first and then I'm like, okay, she trademarked it, but like there's a whole matchmaking that happened for centuries before her in shuttles and kibbutzes everywhere.

Yes, exactly.

Okay, but our next story is another sweet one.

Another like, I guess just piggybacking off of yesterday's story, Caitlin Jenner's publicist is working overtime this week because Kendall and Kylie Jenner celebrate Pride and their dad, Caitlin.

They say, quote, she is our hero.

So for Kendall and Kylie, the transition only brought them closer to their dad.

Kendall said, when my dad came out as transgender, our relationship grew.

She could finally be honest with me.

We could talk about deep emotions she was feeling through that time.

Growing up, my dad was not usually one to talk about her feelings.

So that was a big step for us.

Kendall says she's been a daddy's girl her whole life and now their relationship grows every day.

That is so cute.

And Kylie had similar things to say about

her relationship with Caitlin.

Quote, my dad has always been an inspiration to me from winning the gold medal at the Olympics to getting her pilot's license.

However, watching her live out her true self has been the most inspiring of them all.

The sisters agree, quote, she's our hero.

Wait, that's actually really cute.

And I guess it answers some of the questions we had yesterday about where the Kardashians landed in their relationship with Caitlin.

Sounds like Sam Gucci.

The Jenner girls always had Caitlin's back, and I think they were the most torn.

Whereas the Kardashian girls were always Team Chris.

But I think ultimately everyone wanted what was best for the Jenner girls.

And therefore, everyone has come together.

And whenever I think about this family, I just think about Nobu Malibu for some reason.

Yeah, I feel that.

And

I've just been seeing like pictures on Just Jarrett and stuff.

And they're really like inspiring where like Demi Lovato and her boyfriend are leading Nobu Malibu.

Like people are going to restaurants.

I don't know.

I don't know.

And then did you see the other day, like Kylie went to a club?

Bootsy Bellows.

Excuse me.

I saw it on Daily Mail.

Like she, I guess her and her, she was with Phi,

Kendall's friend.

I think they like rented out the whole club and like went to the club.

Oh my God.

Like that is the level of wealth I aspire to.

And that's exactly how I would spend my fucking money, like rent out the hottest club in town during quarantine.

Yeah.

Oh my God.

I'm like so jealous that how did I miss that?

I don't know.

It was a very low-key story.

I saw it on the ALEML Snapchat.

I should go there more often.

Oh, we were just talking about that.

About, I mean, I don't have a Snapchat anymore because like it's not really like the platform I like live for anymore.

It used to be.

But when they launched that whole like discover page with all these different media outlets, it was so unnecessary, except the Daily Mail story.

It's just filled with, first of all, fabulous celebrity photos.

So if you're like a pop culture enthusiast, you'll get the best paparazzi photos in all the land.

And then they have like the weirdest stories, like cult family of 50s found in bunker in Idaho.

Like they have the weirdest shit, this weirdest like science stories.

Like it's actually just a fabulous roundup of what's going on in the world.

Yes, it very much is.

I use Snapchat from time to time because I do like their camper filter.

So I head over that way on my

phone.

If I've, you know, if spending so much time on TikTok has taught me anything, it's that the youths of our generation are actually still using Snapchat quite frequently.

Great.

I'm happy for them, know that I am.

Yeah.

Okay, you ready for our next story?

No.

Why not?

Because I have something to say.

Say it.

You should just let it out.

That's the theme of this episode.

Just let it out.

Okay.

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perfect and in this vein.

Lizzo is slamming body shamers in her new workout TikTok saying, quote, I am beautiful.

The only ideal body type for Lizzo is her own.

The 32-year-old singer posted a video of her workout regimen to TikTok Tuesday, telling online body shamers that there's more to one's health than who's than what's featured on the outside.

So she posted a montage of her working out and over it, her saying, hey, so I've been working out consistently for the last five years, and it may come as a surprise to some of y'all that I'm not working out to have your ideal body type.

I'm working out to have my ideal body type.

And do you know what type that is?

None of your fucking business, she said in a voiceover of the clip.

If you're not a fat shamer, keep scrolling.

Okay, now that all the the fat shamers are here and she continued to say i am beautiful i am strong i do my job and i stay on my job i actually saw this tick tock um in the brief amount of time i spend on tick tock and i just absolutely loved it yeah you know what um i have like i said been spending so much time on tick tock and lizzo is just a fabulous creator like she's on all the trends like she duets with her fans like she's really really good at it um but just in my time perusing tick tock i can't tell you how many fat phobic like videos I see.

And so many of them are about Lizzo.

It's like so disrespectful.

I wish that TikTok would

just like implement more

like regulations just to like, it's, it's weirdly this platform where young people are so creative and like a lot of them use it to come out.

Like a lot of them are using it in these like beautiful creative ways.

And then some of them, like I see fat phobic shit once a day, maybe more times a day.

Like I don't even know why they're serving it to me.

Like why am I getting it?

Why?

Cause I'm fat.

But like it's just, they need to do a better job because so many young people are on this app and they're so influential that like, it's just really saying, it's like sending a bad message with how much fat phobic content is on there.

Like, I can't believe some of the shit I see.

Yeah.

Wow.

I haven't seen a lot of that, but I imagine that you spend more time there.

So you've seen more.

And that's, that ain't right.

That ain't right.

But good for Lizzo for, first of all, like standing up to the haters and just doing it in a fabulous way.

Like, this is what we said when we were talking talking about the BTS stands coming for us.

Like if you're going to come for us, like you got to be creative.

And they called us irrelevant uglies, which I actually really liked.

So Lizzo is now coming for her haters and she's doing it in a fabulous, creative, funny, smart, unique way.

And that's really all we can ask for from our icons.

That's all we can ask for.

And we're getting every, every bit of it.

Oh, you know what?

We haven't spoken about Taylor Swift on here in a while, but I really want to share something that I saw on Facebook.

Is that okay?

Yes, please share.

We have not spoken about her in a while.

And I'm,

and I think that's, I remember there was that week, like, I think it was maybe around like the Scooter Braun stuff where we were talking about Taylor Swift every single day.

I think, like, people literally stopped listening because they couldn't take it.

Those were the days.

Okay, so there has been this like Tumblr

Reddit thread going around that someone who claims to be like super close to Taylor, like there's a big secret coming out.

I can't, and what she wrote was like, I can't say anymore.

This is Taylor's special moment, not mine.

Stay alert in the coming weeks.

After it happens, the clue I gave will make perfect sense.

And this is the clue.

The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community pass through the generations by word of mouth.

That's the clue.

Now,

everyone had different

things to like guess what this meant.

Nobody had my guess.

And I'm like almost 100% sure that I'm right.

So I just wanted to put it on this podcast in case that I'm right.

Okay.

So that definitely, that definition, the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed through the generations by word of mouth is like the Merriam-Webster definition for folklore, which is irrelevant.

I just thought that I would share.

I don't know what that means.

But

that's relevant.

That seems relevant.

What's folklore?

The traditional beliefs.

So

I really think, and I couldn't believe that nobody else thought this.

That is pretty much like a word-for-word description of drag.

I think that she's going to be on drag race.

And you think that

they would do this much hype?

Oh my God.

Yeah.

The Swifties are like so dramatic.

Okay.

One like TBG.

TBG.

People think maybe she's pregnant.

Like, I don't know.

TBG explained to me how like

drag is like the only art form left that you can't go to school for.

Like it really needs to be taught.

That's why everyone has like drag mothers.

They have like the same last name as people they worked with or people they met.

And it all the customs, like the makeup, all of that is really passed through by word of mouth because there is no like school of drag so i just i thought that i might be on to something and in case that i'm really that's a really great guess thank you so i just wanted to put it on the podcast like in case she ends up and by the way the new season of rupaul all-stars started last week so it's not so crazy i'm now i'm like really invested that's a really interesting and good clue you know usually we get like seven palm trees and then we're told five years later that it didn't mean anything people are saying like an engagement maybe a pregnancy um i don't think so i thought when you first said that i thought maybe a book

oh

that's word of mouth

so the girl who wrote that something absolutely major is going to happen shortly can't tell you what it is but it'll be a shocker cruel summer is not being released as a single according to my sources wish i was allowed to say more so i don't think it's about music I don't think it's about music either, but it does seem like it's something really major.

And I don't know if a a guest spot on one episode of RuPrawl's Drag Race

is counts this.

So I agree.

That was my only trepidation.

It's like, it's not that big of a deal.

But to the Swifties, like, everything's a big deal every time you see Taylor.

Yeah, I agree.

Wow.

Okay.

Now I'm in this.

So please keep me posted.

I always like, I need to close a circle on stuff.

Like, I can't just leave these things open-ended.

You know, it'll like, I'll wake up in the middle of the night and be like, the traditional folklore.

Right.

The traditional customs beliefs and traditional values.

Exactly.

Okay.

Next story.

Vogue's editor-in-chief, Anawin Tour, has apologized to her staff for not doing enough to elevate black employees and models and for overseeing spreads that may have been seen as, quote, hurtful or intolerant over her 32-year tenure at the glossy magazine Vogue.

She wrote a letter to her employees, sort of apologizing.

There has been a lot of

stuff happening within Condé NAS.

I just saw saw last night that now former employees are speaking up about their experiences.

The editor-in-chief of Bonapet

is out.

There's an interim editor at the moment.

But meanwhile, Harper's Bazaar has just appointed Samira Nasser to be editor-in-chief, the first woman of color to hold the prestigious title at the 153-year-old publication.

So that's some good news.

That's like 152 years too late, but that is good news.

We are moving forward.

In terms of Condé NAS, like honestly,

Vogue is like, it's fabulous, of course, but like, it's also the pinnacle of like

exclusivity.

Like the fashion industry is notoriously non-exclusive to people of color, plus size people.

Like this doesn't shock me.

I'm honestly shocked.

It's not inclusive.

Sorry, you said not exclusive.

Oh, sorry.

It's the pinnacle.

No, I said it's the pinnacle of exclusivity.

Yes.

And then you said the fashion industry is notoriously not exclusive to people.

I think I said non-inclusive.

Okay.

This is being recorded.

So I think I said that.

Okay.

We'll find out.

Whatever.

All I'm saying is that this isn't necessarily like the most shocking thing I've ever heard, but honestly, the fact that Anna Wintor is actually addressing it, that's what shocks me.

Yes, I agree.

It's, I mean, I think that she needed to address it because there's a lot of stuff within, like, not just Vogue, but within the company that is unacceptable.

and so she wrote a very lengthy letter that was an email that was sent around to everyone where she says she quote takes full responsibility for those mistakes you know what i feel like her time might be up soon

yeah we say that every time that we talk about her on this show which isn't that frequently um

but you know what actually i just downloaded andre leontale's book and I remember seeing headlines but not really reading the articles because I didn't know the backstory but like I think think there's drama.

And so I'm going to read the book this weekend and I'll let you know like what the tea is.

I don't know why it is that like I dislike Anna Wintora.

And I honestly, like, I know nothing about fashion, but I just like know she's not good at her job.

I can't explain it.

Like, I just know it in my bones.

And I don't know.

I just think it's time for like a new frontier.

Like, she's just so old school.

And is Meryl Streep's character supposed to be her?

Yeah.

Yes.

Maybe that's why I just inherently don't like her.

Yeah, the devil wears Prada, making her the devil.

But I actually just watched that movie and it's been on every single day.

They play it on E every day for the last five years.

Like, but I actually don't regard it as one of my favorite movies.

It's definitely in the genre of my favorite movies, like that kind of vibe.

But I was just watching it and it's really such a fabulous movie.

Except

what really frustrated me about the movie, and it's like, you know, when you watch things with fresh eyes, like you see whole new lies.

One of the most frustrating things of the movie is like her group of friends and her boyfriend were just like so not supportive of her career.

And like they acted like she was just like selling out when she was like just trying to get by so she could do a year at this job and then get a better job.

Like she was, she was an entrepreneur, like not an entrepreneur.

She was just like had hustle and she was a hard worker.

She's ambitious.

Yes.

And it's like everyone like faulted her for that.

And to be honest, like that's the biggest problem with the movie.

Like her group of friends were not supportive and they made her feel guilty for having passion.

No, and like for leaning into the job that she did have.

Like, yes, this wasn't wasn't the job that she wanted she's not a a runway girl but you know what she has to be here for a while and she's going to make the most of it and embrace the workplace and they just like made her feel like garbage and i i didn't like that either Yeah.

And then I was telling you this.

Oh, I was on FaceTime with you.

The character who plays like the writer for the New Yorker, that blonde guy, Christian, who like follows her around art galleries and like takes her to Ed Falafel in Paris.

Like for my whole life, like up until maybe a year ago, I thought that that guy was Billy Bush.

They look so similar.

And I've never been like super familiar with Billy Bush's work.

I just know he's like curly and blonde.

And this guy was curly and blonde.

And I'm like, oh, how cool.

The guy from Access Hollywood got a starring role in a movie.

Okay.

Billy Bush is not blonde.

I just want to say that.

Like, he's

brunette.

He's a brunette.

He's 100% blonde.

Just do a quick Google.

He's brunette for sure, but you actually touch on something quite poignant that their facial structures, like if you, if you buzz both of their heads, twins.

Okay, I just want to say, like, sometimes he's brunette and sometimes he's blonde.

He definitely like bleaches his hair sometimes.

Billy Bush.

Okay, let me look.

Images.

Oh my God, Claudia, like that's just not a blonde.

Whatever.

I just, I can't believe that, like, it's like when I was younger, I used to really get confused between Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts.

Like, to me, they were never in the same room at the same time like they were just the same person and i thought that all that confusion was behind me until billy bush and the guy from devil wears rada no that confusion catches up with us all the time like we're constantly mixed up

um

so we kind of took a weird tangent but basically anna went towards terrible at her job that's what i was trying to say Yeah, okay, ready for our fifth and final story?

A little interesting museum news.

Oh, a little museum news.

museum news.

Yes, I'm totally ready.

I love museums.

My favorite.

Okay, cool.

The Navichi Museum is opening in Stockholm in 2021.

A new museum dedicated to the life and music of Avici will open in Stockholm, Sweden, next year.

Per a press release, the Avici experience will bring its visitors closer to the artist Avici and the person Tim Bergling.

The audience will follow Tim's journey from a reclusive music nerd to a celebrated superstar, from his boyhood room where it all be announced to the LA studio where the biggest hits were created.

On display at the museum will be a mix of memorabilia and previously unseen photographs and videos.

Exhibits will also offer visitors the chance to quote peer inside the creative process and the many collaborations behind the music.

When the Abici experience opens, it will boast previously unpublished early version of Abici's breakthrough hit levels, as well as troves of previously unreleased music used to craft the 2019 posthumous album, Tim.

You know, it's so funny is

before he like had his surname, he was releasing music under the name Tim Berg.

And I'll literally never forget, I never felt so stupid in my life.

Like I had found like this when a Vici was popular, like I had found this like old house song on like YouTube or something.

And I showed it to Ben.

I'm like, do you know the song by Tim Berg?

And he's like.

That's a Vici.

And I like literally felt so stupid, but I feel like not a lot of people know that.

No, not a lot of people know that.

I do feel like I've heard that story before, but still feels, still feels like the first time.

It feels like the first time.

You know what?

I'm curious if this museum is going to have like a hallway dedicated to the mysterious death of Avici, you know, because there are many conspiracy theories.

There are many conspiracy theories.

See, you watched the documentary about him.

It was so good.

I feel like I care so much more about this museum and Abici and like the

incredible talent that he was

because I saw that documentary, like it really gave me perspective into understanding like what

a phenomenon he was, but also what he dealt with in his life.

And

I like, I don't have plans to go to Stockholm anytime soon, but I would, if this museum were in New York, I would definitely go to it.

Yeah, I mean, when you think about like the

the arc of like music and just like where we've come from in the last like 20 years, Avichi was like the first person playing like beats on the radio.

Like now it's like popular.

Every song has like a beat break and like most some songs don't even have lyrics, it's just beats.

But like he was really the first person.

And I remember when I first heard levels, like it was so revolutionary, like it was just beats, no words.

Like it was really like a game changer.

And the fact that they played it on the radio was so crazy.

And it totally changed the landscape of like electronic and pop and like every type of music.

Yeah, I agree.

The song levels like just shifted where we were going in terms of music and totally he he's one of the greats um

his story is just kind of like tragic and sad but i'm glad there's going to be a museum that will celebrate his life and his and his work

yeah i love this idea of doing museums for um

for people i've not really heard of this but now i'm just like starting to think of other major celebrities or talents that i could like use a museum from anthony bourdain kobe Bryant,

the Kardashians.

Okay, but they're alive.

I know, but like still, that way they can like have input.

Yeah, I guess.

I mean, not everyone can do it.

Like you have to have accomplished so much.

Like Avici had fans like from all over the world, like millions and millions.

Like this is actually going to be a popular tourist destination for Stockholm.

Yeah.

And now it's reminding me of the Taylor Swift like reputation.

It wasn't a museum, but it was sort of set up like one.

Yeah.

And I went to that and it was great and so i like this this idea yeah also the game of thrones museum that was also a pop-up um was fabulous i sat on the iron throne there's a picture somewhere yeah fabulous so those are the fastest stories and i feel as though that you needed to know them Okay, well, I have some TV I want to recap, but before we do, today's episode is brought to you by stamps.com.

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Okay, so quickly, I watched Watch Happens Live last night and they had Tamron Hall and Candy Burris talking like pop culture, but also, you know, the current climate, what's going on in the world.

And there was actually a very, very sweet moment.

And everyone makes fun of Candy on Real Houses of Atlanta for crying, like all the time.

But she cried on Watch Rapids Live, and it was like so

like everyone got choked up because Andy was like, they both have young kids.

And they're like, how do you explain like what's going on, you know, to your kids?

And like, how do you teach him about racism?

Because this is something they're, you know, sadly going to face.

And Candy was like, you know, we had such a

uncomfortable conversation and like a sad one because their son um who's super young like just dressed up as a cop for career day

and she was like trying to explain to my son that like a cop did a bad thing was like it was like his it's like his whole belief system was like shaken up and like everyone was just like crying at this story and like honestly i was crying too like it was so sad and like just such a real

like those are conversations that like black families black parents have to have with their children and it's it was it was honestly just like heartbreaking

wow

that's really sad um but it was a good episode actually tamern hall is like super cute and she's like funny and it was a good episode it was um they're doing watch rappins live from home still and andy's in the hamptons and honestly andy just he feels like a little checked out really

yeah

Okay, well, I have, I have it recorded, so I will watch, but they didn't recap any TV, did they?

No, and I was really watching to see if Andy was going to make a comment on any of the Vanderpump Rules drama or if Candy was going to say something, because on that Instagram post on the Bravo TV Instagram, where they made the announcement about the firing, like so many

cast members from different shows were like leaving comments like in support of, and Candy was one of them.

So I was just curious if like anyone was going to bring it up.

Yeah, but they didn't.

They didn't.

Okay, well, I guess that's why Andy brought it up on his radio show

this morning.

And I guess like Andy's just trying to like distance distance himself as like the decision maker um if he addresses it then it's like it's on him to address when it's not his decision and it's not his show and then it's on him to address like every time something happens and he's trying to let people know that that he's not in that role so i guess that makes sense um where are you at on potomac uh i'm in the middle i'm like towards the end of season two but they're about to go to bermuda and

giselle and

monique are still like at odds.

I hope eventually one day, like right now, their beef is just sort of surface.

And I feel like they're just not understanding each other from the get-go, but I think that they'll come together.

It seems like that happened season one, too.

That always happens, right?

Like a new person comes in, and someone's just like standoffish towards them just because.

Yeah, and you know what?

Like, Giselle's my favorite, but I don't always like agree with what she does or says.

I just like love her and I gravitated towards her from the very beginning, but she can be like a little harsh.

I totally agree.

And that's what I was was saying when i said i season one like she was my favorite but pretty much every argument she was in i just wasn't on her side you know yeah which is weird because i'm used to like standing for people who i just like apologize for and agree with like everything they say but with giselle it's like i just see past it like i just love her you know who i happen to agree with like a lot of the time on the show so far ashley darby i knew you were going to say that I just think she is always making sense, whether she's like fighting with someone or fighting with her husband.

She's just constantly we're like talking about her restaurant.

Just wait.

Okay.

You're going to feel dumb for saying that.

But okay, but up until this point, like she's constantly making sense.

Okay.

Well, I actually got a DM from a toaster who lives in Potomac saying that Oz is like out of business.

It's been out of business for a while.

And like it was a desert, desert land restaurant when it was up in business, which is sad because honestly, like I was ready to take a road trip with you.

We're just too late.

Okay.

I could see how that happens.

She just did like this rebrand and she added like some flatbreads to the menu and people were excited about it.

And I just, I love, I think so far like my favorite person on the show is Chris Samuels.

He is, please don't like say anything.

There's no, no, he's good.

Are they, okay, just tell me, are they still together?

Yeah, she just had another movie.

Okay, good.

Okay.

That's what I thought.

Okay, great.

I'm excited.

I, by the way, I love them as well.

And you know what?

I really, I've never been to like a housewife restaurant.

And actually, that's not true.

You and I had drinks once at aoa which was that restaurant ramona pretended to be like an investor in like 10 years ago in tribeca

fabulous bar and we've been to sur and we've been to pump oh that's true i forgot about that but i honestly really want to go to olg candies restaurants like they look so good and they all stay open for the most part and they've been open for quite some time and um they she keeps like opening new franchises so like honestly it looks so good oh okay I'm excited.

I'm excited to keep watching.

I have a lot of time today, and I'm going to hopefully get into season three, but we'll see.

There's always like reunions and yeah, I have like nothing to watch.

I found myself like literally all day yesterday, laid in bed on my phone.

I tried again to watch 13 Reasons Why, and I'm still on the first episode.

Like, it's just so bad.

And you know what?

I think it's because I dislike everyone, like Cole, Clay, the main character, like least favorite human being, like keeps making bad decisions, and like the whole show revolves around him.

And I'm just done.

i understand

and that's that on that

that's that on that i think that's all anything else we wanted to talk about today no i think that that is all she wrote my comedy special is available for pre-order um you can find it on itunes claudia ashre disgraced queen it's also on my instagram i would really appreciate it and that's all we got thank you guys so much for listening to the morning toast the millennial morning show where we go live monday through friday 10 30 a.m eastern time on youtube so if you're watching us on youtube please feel free to subscribe and give this video a thumbs up.

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