Joy, Light & Positivity: Thursday, September 25th, 2025

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These are the 10 days in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Tippur where we are judged for the rest of the year.

So like if Claudia and I seem extra sweet, less shit talky, we're trying, like we're on our best behavior.

So it never really works.

It never works.

We do this every year because of course, like these are the 10 days where like you want to be on your best behavior.

These are like two marquee holidays in the Jewish new year, in the Jewish calendar.

Like the first is Rosh Hashanah, which is our happy new year.

And then 10 days later is like a, it's called the Day of Atonement.

You're fast and you just like apologize for all your sins.

And so in the 10 days between them, like you got to be on your best behavior.

It's like, it's when like you went into the book of life.

Or not.

Right.

Or other.

So like our, we have to be nice, like our lives depend on it.

And the thing is, I can't because

everyone's big.

Obviously it's hard.

Everyone's ugly and stupid.

But

over the holiday, I went to synagogue.

And like, you know, you're aware of your own self in synagogue.

But like, there's really not much to do in synagogue besides like chat.

And I literally kept veering into Lush and Hura.

Lush and Hura is like gossip, but like negative gossip, which is like a huge sin and you're really not supposed to do it.

And I kept like leaning over and being like, oh my God.

And I literally had to stop myself.

I couldn't even stop myself in synagogues.

How are you going to stop yourself when you're literally being paid to do it, when it's your job?

Correct.

And like thus brings on the annual conversation about how gossip is really not a bad thing it's how people stay in the world

justify ourselves it's an exchange of information everybody knows that but i am trying to be positive in these 10 days think positive thoughts we went to synagogue this weekend too and going to shul with like toddlers is so different i literally didn't even sit in right the sanctuary we were like out in the playground the whole time they're having a ball and so cute yeah it's really cute and i was just like got to chill out.

Well, something crazy, I didn't even tell you this, happened at my shoal.

Oh,

somebody's water broke.

Oh, my God.

I can, I can see it because when we did have to, when we came in, because all the kids came in for the shofar,

we all stood and heard the shofar because the tour was out.

And it was a lot of standing for a pregnant lady.

Oh, my God.

I was dying.

And like, my feet were killing me with so much standing.

And actually, the men and women are seated separately.

So I wasn't with Ben.

And then, you know, a lot of the action happens on the men's side.

Like they take out the Torah, they like lead.

And so I look over at one point and what do I see?

My husband holding the Torah.

I was so proud.

I'm like, yeah, get in there, Ben.

Hold that Torah up.

Oh, my goodness.

What an honor.

A leader in his community, some would say.

That's so beautiful.

So it was also UN week, General Assembly.

So if you live in Manhattan, you know, like for a week of the year, like all the UN delegates come to the UN.

They stay in the city, they meet in the city.

They cause so much traffic.

So this poor girl whose water broke, she could not get an Uber to take her to the hospital that they called an ambulance, a Hatzalah, and it was parked outside the shoal.

I'm pretty sure she gave birth in the ambulance.

Oh my God, that is a nightmare.

It was a nightmare.

That's a nightmare.

UN week is just,

it's the reason why I moved.

People ask, like, why did you leave New York?

It's UN week.

I live 51 weeks for one.

For two, yeah.

Speaking of nightmare, I'm actually actively living through a nightmare scenario.

Okay.

I have to read you guys this email I got two days ago.

Oh, okay.

The nonchalant nature of this email.

Hello.

Hi.

We are writing to let you know that the building's central air conditioning at blank, blank, blank, your office building, will be out of service for the remainder of the year.

We understand this is inconvenient.

Sorry for the disruption.

Wait.

SRY.

Wait.

To help in the interim, we can provide portable fans at no cost.

Uh-oh.

That's so darling.

Do you tell them you already have your own?

If you'd like the fans delivered, please reply with the following information.

Okay.

What are you going to do?

I mean, I can hear you've got fans going as much as you can, but like.

I know.

I do have a fan on me right now.

If you hear my little like remote clicking, it's just mind your business.

Obviously, this won't stand.

I am fighting with the company.

Like, first of all, like them just being like, oh, by the way, we're setting the building on fire.

I hope this isn't inconvenient.

Like, where's my discount?

First of all, on my rent?

Obviously, I can't be here.

But, like, why can't you fix it till the end of the year?

Like, what about?

Like, what happens in 2026?

What about next week or the week after?

So, I'm now starting to make plans.

I will not stay here.

Like, this is not.

Okay, I just built this whole studio.

So, here's what I'm thinking.

I need to get to the end of the year.

Okay.

i'm gonna be spending time with you obviously i'm gonna have to go down to florida love that for us to support my sister i love that you're always welcome you're always welcome in my home if this was you like saying you want to come live with me and we're

i would no but i will be like spending time down in florida so i can use your studio i can use a podcast studio down there um

It is also your maternity leave, which we haven't really spoken about, but Jackie's taking time off from the show, but the show is not on hiatus again.

We wouldn't do that to you twice in one year.

So, I will be like recording episodes with people.

Um, so I can do that at different studios in New York.

Maybe I'll like travel abroad, you know, do it, like an LA week.

A sabbatical.

Well,

I love

LA.

And we love LA.

Sabbatical means like you're not working.

Maybe take a

like a semester abroad.

Yeah, exactly.

I cannot stay here.

Like, this simply won't do.

Okay, turdy's going abroad.

Yeah, should we do?

I actually had a dream I went to Florence.

Ferenze.

What guests would you get?

Feres.

Fereze.

And Chiara.

Chiara.

Team Chiara.

Team Chiara.

Well, that's a bummer.

I'm sorry.

No, no.

And I just got this place like really, truly decked out, set up.

I hung all my artwork.

This is fucking crazy.

Yeah.

Wow.

Didn't see that for Q4.

No frames.

Frameless.

Well, I'll be here with my frames.

Everyone's going to be devastated.

No frames.

We haven't talked about the frames in a while.

We never stood a chance.

Today's show is part delicious.

Let me tell you why.

We've got Dancing with the Stars.

We've got Dancing with the Stars recap.

Yeah.

And that's why it's Part Delicious.

That's the only reason.

I'm a woman possessed.

I'm obsessed with Dancing with the Stars.

No, but also, it's a Thursday that feels like a Monday.

And actually, a lot of stuff happened in the few days that we're off.

So like we have Pargy stories, a lot to talk about.

Also, Also we have a story that's kind of meta.

We do.

There's a story about us.

It kind of involves us.

Yeah, it does.

Even if it didn't, I would have chosen it because it's a story, but like it just, so I hope that, you know, you guys can appreciate our take, even though we will have to, of course, not be biased because we are involved, but I hope you guys could still enjoy it.

And we're also, it's going to be a part delicious episode because we're trying to be really nice.

Oh, I forgot about that.

Okay.

So we're trying to be really nice.

I don't know if you're saying anything.

We only diss the UN, and that's what God would want.

Yeah, 1,000%.

You look beautiful today in the spirit of being nice.

You really do.

I'm not just saying that because I want to get into heaven.

Oh my gosh.

Thank you so much.

You're looking like really

basketball.

You know, those women who look like they swallowed a basketball, they don't even look pregnant from the back.

Oh, wow.

Thank you.

No, this is like my new state of being.

Like, everywhere I sit, it looks like I'm on a peanut ball, like bouncing up and down.

Legs spread.

Yeah.

Just doing what I have to do.

Listen,

you do you.

And of course, it goes without saying, if you ever need like a day off, take it.

I feel like I didn't like take any days off, like towards, especially towards the end of my pregnancy.

Like, that was so, I took one day off when I had a really bad headache.

Like, we're so crazy.

We're such hard workers.

We are so crazy and we are hard workers.

And it's like, I just appreciate the job so much.

And it's like, even if I'm not like feeling my axe,

it's like, come on, let's go.

You can do it.

100%.

You've got to do this.

You can do it.

You've got to

do this.

You've got to do this.

Mama.

Yes.

But I don't, I feel, I feel well today.

We recorded a Patreon yesterday.

So we actually haven't been like totally off.

You know, we can never actually stop working.

We just, we just can't turn off.

The hustle never sleeps.

We recorded a Patreon yesterday, Wedding Q ⁇ A's part two.

And this one got like extra personal.

The first one was more about like weddings in general.

This was like about our weddings, our engagements.

And we wound up, of course, it became tag, toasted lands.

We ended up doing quite possibly the scariest thing on the planet.

Of course, we were talking about weddings and we just ended up talking about our cancellation because all roads in life lead back to the time we truly got canceled in 2018.

No, the question, it wasn't even us being us.

Like the question

wanted to know the story of our engagements and I happened to be get engaged on the day that we got canceled.

So we were like in our camera rolls from that day.

So yeah, we were like, what if we, I haven't done this ever, like went back to the day we got canceled in our camera rolls and like saw what was happening.

Ooh, it wasn't even, and then we ended up going like four or five days later.

And it actually gets worse as we go.

I had like emails screenshotted that I was sharing with, oh my God, it was such a funny episode.

It was a great episode if you're like in your bridal era.

But it took a dark turn at the end.

As most things do, honestly.

Yeah, but I actually, we were talking about what our wedding songs were.

That was one of the questions.

Like, what was your first dance song?

And we were talking about yours, your wedding song, which is yours by Russell Dickerson.

And I wanted to tell you, I had it in my head yesterday.

And so I was like singing it at bedtime to like Charlie and stuff.

and you should really sing it to Rue and really make it a part of your life It's a beautiful song because it also applies to baby I came to life when I first kissed you The best me has his arms around you

You make me better than I was before I like that

like it's partialish Can I ask you a question?

I hate to be like a toxic mama milestone, but like when did your baby start rolling over?

Well, well, well, well, you're definitely like in the window of starting.

I just remember for me, with Tari, I wasn't like really expecting it.

I remember I was like watching on the network.

I'm like, hey, I think we got to roll.

But then with Charlie, I really wanted him to roll because he really liked to sleep on his belly.

So I was like waiting for it and it took forever.

But like what month?

I remember we were in Dallas.

So it was March and he was born in August.

Oh, okay.

So I'm fine.

That's a long time.

No, I was waiting a long time.

Okay, because at the doctor, they were like, is he showing signs?

I'm like, signs?

I'm like, I thought that was next year.

Like, he's so not showing signs.

No, okay, so he's on the Charlie train.

King and Charlie.

Like, that's my breach king.

Like, he just chills.

He just chills.

He chills hard.

Yeah.

And you know what?

Most of his chill, like all of it, like 99% of his chillness is, like, so amazing.

Yeah, I'm not complaining.

So because he's not, like, getting after it on the rolling, you have to take the, you have to focus on the good.

Us sufferers, we're not the most athletic bunch.

It's okay.

So he'll be a a scholar.

Why do you want him to roll?

Like, what's that going to do?

For me, it was like, because then he could sleep on his belly and like he wasn't sleeping well.

But Rue's going to be sleeping.

No, nothing.

I just don't want him to be missing milestones.

Like, I'm just keeping up with what I'm supposed to be keeping up with.

Listen, Rue's going to run his own race.

So true.

Like,

Foo will do it on his own time.

And I just know him.

He's kind of like his mother.

If you push him and you tell him what to do, he's going to take longer.

Pretend like you don't care.

You have to pretend like you don't care.

That's like how I have to deal with you.

If I want you to do something, I have to pretend like I don't care.

Oh my God.

Okay.

I didn't know you were handling me like such a mental patient.

Okay.

Don't watch Sounds Nabby.

Don't read.

Okay.

You won't like it.

I also forgot to tell you, and then we could dive in because, like, I know we have a busy day, but like, I just want to tell you, and I'm going to be annoying in Secret Project, everyone.

I'll tell you guys tomorrow, but I'm actually doing something crazy tonight.

Okay, now you have to text me.

Okay, so I'm meeting someone.

Okay, do have you told me anything about this?

I think I have, but I can't remember.

She's meeting someone.

And I just want to say, every time I go to text you, I almost text Jack Lifetongue.

Like every single time, Ben's best friend.

The amount of information he likes.

And I tell Jackie like sensitive things.

The amount of information he almost always gets.

He wouldn't even know what to do with it.

I'm excited.

Who are you?

Okay, I texted it to you.

Oh, cool.

Yeah.

Exciting.

It is.

I'll tell you guys about it tomorrow.

Not what I thought.

Like, I don't know what I thought, but

cool.

We can't wait to hear about it tomorrow.

That's always fun.

Yeah, I like to sprinkle a little bit of, you know,

sprinkle some seeds.

Create a little bit of a hype, you know?

Yeah, there's major hype.

I'm kind of a hype beast.

We both are.

A hundred percent.

We're actually not, and that's a fault of ours, ours, but we are.

And that's why it will never be true successes.

It's true, but we are who we are.

I'm like, I'm I'm happy with who I am.

Fault,

so am I.

I believe it was the great Kesha who once said, We are who we are.

Yeah.

Well, let's get into the stories because, as we mentioned, we have a lot to discuss.

Much to discuss

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Our first story, The War on Free Speech, is over.

Jimmy Kimmel.

I thought you were saying Dancing with the Stars.

I'm like, what did they say on Dancing with the Stars?

Four days later, Jimmy Kimmel

is back on the air.

His show came back.

And I just want to say, I never like dunk on everyone, but like, I literally said this was going to happen.

Well, yeah, I think the reaction from people, whether you like thought, whether people were excited that his show, everyone was like, he's canceled.

Well, it did say temporary suspension.

So, and so people who were excited about that got ahead of themselves.

And people who were devastated about it got ahead of themselves too.

Cause they said, we're just going to take time off to see, you know, the vibes.

Some people did not put him back on.

So his show was not back 100%.

I believe it was back 80%.

Next stair and sinclair they're still not airing his sinclair are you okay next air and sinclair um they're not airing the show they're still preempting it and running other programming so he's not back 100 of the country but as far as like abc and what they can control in terms of like disney proper brought him

or not they brought him back his show is back so it was a long and hard four days but uh free speech wins i have a question did you see the footage um like paparazzi of him leaving his studio and then like packing things up?

They had to rebuild his whole set.

Why were they taking it down?

Like I said, it was a suspension.

It wasn't a firing.

I don't know.

And I didn't, I saw that like he was filmed like leaving somewhere, but I didn't watch it.

So I don't know what they were doing.

Did you watch his monologue?

I watched what he said when he came back.

And in this one, like he was emotional saying that he never, it was.

I thought it was appropriate.

Like, I think that like he had a lot to say.

You know, he became the face of like this movement.

And I thought, and I know he didn't want to apologize.

I think that's what the Hollywood reporter had said.

And that's also why it took four days, because I think there was a lot of back and forth on what he was like agreeing to say.

But all in all, I think like he got his point across, which was like his message.

But also like he did say like, no, it's a terrible tragedy.

And you know what?

Think about Jimmy Kimmel.

Man loves to cry.

He's going to cry.

When in doubt.

You know what?

Give a tear.

But that was an appropriate time to cry.

And I believed it.

I thought it was good.

Yeah, I thought it was good too.

But also he didn't like out, you know, he was, it wasn't like a groveling apology.

Like, I'm so sorry.

Bad, Jimmy, bad.

It was more of like a clarification and like just sort of.

It wasn't a listen and learn, do better moment.

No, which, which is interesting.

But yeah, I agree.

Like, I think he struck the right tone while also like, he's not going to say something that he doesn't feel.

Which, which, you know what?

I do respect.

Like people who just like say whatever to get their shows back or like to get back in the good graces.

Like if you don't believe it, don't say it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But this was, it's been an interesting one.

And there's been a lot of like comparisons to the way that ABC has handled other things like in the last few years.

Like, I'm sorry, I can't help but think of Chris Harrison watching this being like,

oh my God.

I forgot about Chris Harrison.

Four days.

It's been four years.

What I didn't know was that Jimmy Kimmel got his show

because the time slot before it was Jimmy Kimmel was a Bill Maher late night show.

Yeah.

And Bill Maher said something extremely unsavory about 9-11.

Yeah.

Kind of praising.

I watched the clip.

I understood what he was saying, but like at the time, I could see being like, dude, what?

He basically said that like, you know, Americans are cowards in war zones.

And at least the people who did 9-11 were brave or something like really crazy.

And he was immediately taken off the air.

And that's how Jimmy Kimmel got his show.

So yes, it was an interesting couple of days learning about the history of broadcast.

Yeah.

Yeah, and he didn't get his show back.

And I guess that's how, what do they like to say?

How you get them, how you lose them.

But that's

that's not what happened here.

I just, I'm thinking of Chris Harrison.

I'm sorry.

That's an interesting comparison, Chris Harrison.

Yeah, because he said something that was like that people were really offended by.

He felt what did he say again?

It was about Rachel Kirkonne and it wasn't even on the show.

And he was talking to Rachel Lindsay about it

in an interview off the show, and he they were talking about the Rachel Lindsay

photos, the antebellum party.

And he was making the argument that, like,

oh, by the way, I'm not saying what this is in company

it's a trap google it yeah yeah yeah he said something you know like uh

about a cancellation of one of the contestants just sort of like playing devil's advocate in her favor everyone was coming down on her really hard this picture she went to like forgiving grace and just looking at it through you know the lens of a different time and um he got fired he got fired never to be seen again and his i don't know what he's doing it's not much like it was a destabilizing firing for him yeah jimmy Kimmel's kind of in a pargy spot now, though, because I feel like we can have the conversation about like late night in general, not as it pertains to politics, but like it is this sort of old school format that isn't going to be around forever.

It is being replaced.

Like Leonardo DiCaprio is doing press for his new movie and he's doing a podcast.

Like it really is kind of phasing out.

And I feel like

if his show does get canceled, which I feel like everyone's at some point is going to get canceled, Jimmy is really like a hero now, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Also, I think like this, he had better ratings on this episode than he did in the last 10 years.

Like, cause, of course, everyone was

good press.

What he has to say.

Just like, what a,

it's such a blip on the radar, you know?

Yeah, like from this week to last week, technically now, like, nothing's changed.

No, he literally had like three days off of work.

Honestly, he was celebrating Russia's shut up.

It was just in time for the holidays.

For the holidays.

So he's back.

And then, yeah, after like this whole song, I'm just like back to being like, okay, well, like, your show's not funny and you're a

right right jackie just like hates no i actually um

i feel like you've always hated him more than i do i don't because i feel like you have to watch his stuff more than i do like i don't ever see his stuff so i only like outside of this i'm not like making a political statement outside of this saga i always compare him to jimmy fallon right the jimmies and i think jimmy fallon is so funny and like such a good

host of his show because he'll really do anything for views and that's like i think i i imagine NBC really likes him.

And I don't know, Jimmy Kimmel's just always, I never watch his show.

It's just like I'm such an NBC girl versus ABC in that sense.

Oh, interesting.

Even though everything else is coming up ABC these days, I know.

It's so true.

Dancing with the stars, The Bachelorette.

So true.

ABC's kind of having a moment.

They are.

And you know what?

Every network has their moment.

I feel like NBC has Love Island, which is huge.

Every network gets their moment in the sun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So So he's back.

I told you so.

I can say that with my whole chest.

Yeah.

Are you ready for our next story?

Sensei with the stars?

No, that's going to be fifth and final into

a little TV recap.

That way we don't have to like

end it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, this is such great news.

Rihanna has given birth, welcoming baby number three, a baby girl with ASAP Rocky.

So Rihanna posted a picture of her and her new daughter, Rocky Irish Mayers, born September 13th, 2025.

Now they named the baby Rocky, her husband's name.

R-O-C-R-I.

And what is this giving?

What is it giving?

Come on.

Travis and Courtney.

No.

Naming your baby like the same as your husband.

When Theo came home and his original name was Muffy.

Oh my God.

It's giving Muffy.

If you're new here, when our previous dog, Theo, came home for the first time.

His name was not Theo.

It was was actually Muffy because Ben and I, we used to, not so much anymore.

Actually, Ben still calls me Big Moof, but

we used to call each other Moof, Mufan, Mufi.

So we thought it was like a cute pet name for our first pet.

It got so confusing.

We had to change his name after the first week because I'd be like, Moof, and Ben was like, are you talking to me?

Are you talking to the dog?

It was so crazy.

So I imagine there might be some confusing time ahead for ASAP, Rocky.

Rocky, and Rihanna.

But what's ASAP Rocky's birth name?

Like, it's not ASAP.

Right, what do you think she calls him, Daniel?

ASAP Rocky.

Yeah, it's Rakeem Athelston Mayers.

She definitely is not calling him ASAP around the house.

Or she calls him ASAP, not Rocky.

But Rakey Marshall.

But she definitely calls him Rocky.

She just call him Rakeem.

Well, I guess Rocky's short for Rakeem.

I guess it depends, because there are some, like, annoying ass bitches who insist on calling their boyfriends and husbands, like, their full name.

Exactly.

Benjamin.

You're literally calling out our sister Olivia.

She's always Zachary.

She does do that, but that's not the first person who came to mind.

That would be like if I was like Benjamin Morgan.

like i hate when people do that like they insist on calling like everybody in the world calls him ted right right theodore i hate people like that sorry olivia that's sorry that's really funny who are you thinking of i don't want to put her on blast she's a private citizen text text it's me

You guys don't know her.

She's a private citizen.

So like

it wouldn't be interesting to you.

But then she would hear it and be like, oh, that's what you think of me.

That's interesting.

That's a really random example.

Yeah, no, it's just like random.

It is a thing people do, and I just find it so annoying.

Yeah.

So now, if the person has, let me ask you a question.

If your boyfriend has like a nickname, right?

Like Tank, for I don't know why that just came to mind.

Like everybody calls him Tank, like even his mother.

Then you're allowed to call him his name.

Daniel.

I agree.

but if everybody calls your man Ben and you insist on calling him Benjamin I have never once in my life called Ben Benjamin I have never called my husband Zachary

no I think with Olivia

I think she like has him in her phone as Zachary like I think it's like it's it's more real for her Well, I just want to let her know, and I know she listens to the toast because she's a wonderful, supportive sister.

Like, when you say that, I hate it.

Like, I love you, and I hate it.

Well, Mazel Tove to the Rocky family, Rocky Rocky.

What's her last name?

I guess they're all married with R's.

Yeah, because she has Rizza and Riot.

That's cute.

And Rocky, really cute.

And Rocky's a cute girl's name.

Well, so actually, again, not to make quite literally everything about myself.

When I think of like future children, I do have one name that I really like that also starts with an R.

And I do wonder, like, is it confusing?

I feel like, did you grow up in a house where like all of you guys had the same first letter of your first name and if so did it cause any confusion sound off in the comments well i also feel like rihanna and rocky are both ours so when you have that you do it you go all the way uh but like none of us have the same first letter and you've been our b and

see i mean growing up all the time when somebody would like shout across the house olivia claudia i never knew if they were talking to me or olivia because the ea at the end you only hear like the tail end of someone being like olivia and i was like are you saying Claudia or Olivia?

And, you know, you really can't anticipate confusion like that.

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

I mean, I also had to go through a summer birthday with Olivia and we felt extremely robbed.

You have a lot of things to say to Olivia today.

Yeah, maybe because I was talking to her this morning.

But you didn't get these things off your chest?

No.

I understand.

Maybe I'll give her a call.

Maybe give her a call after this.

And tell her all the things that she does that I find annoying.

Well, anyways, the news here is that they had a girl.

People didn't know what they were going to have.

And I was actually surprised by that.

You know, I thought she might go three boy.

Go work.

This is not.

When did she do the Super Bowl?

This is not the baby that was in the Super Bowl, baby.

That was Riot.

The more I think about that, the more she was so insane for that.

I know.

So crazy.

And the fact that...

quite literally anyone at the time like wanted to critique her performance whether it was like her dancing or her vocals like seriously dropped dead yeah i remember when like she came out with her belly and like people were like is she pregnant i'm like you're disgusting like

how dare that was also a special time because like she was right like it was so confusing it was so no but anyone who like with said that especially around me i'm like you guys are so rude she just had a baby like why are you looking at her belly like oh so you okay that's funny well it reminded me of when beyonce announced her first pregnancy at the vmas after singing love on top but par jaliciously might i add She then opened her blazer and it's like, well, she didn't really look pregnant.

So she touched her belly and we were like, oh, when you touch the belly, it's a confirmation.

Yeah.

Rihanna did not touch her.

So when people were like speculating, is she pregnant?

I'm like, the woman just gave a performance of a lifetime.

Like, of course she's not pregnant.

Like, how could you say that?

It would have been really helpful for us if she just touched the belly.

Yeah.

No, it was, but then she confirmed it like after the performance.

After she was like, yeah, obviously I'm pregnant.

We're like, oh, yeah.

Obviously.

I just felt really defensive of her.

Of course.

Yeah.

Are you ready for our next story?

The one that we are involved in.

Because Stasi Schroeder has officially turned on Megan Markle.

She said, this is the last draw.

So I've been seeing this all over the internet.

Stasi.

Let me tell you my experience.

And I want to say we need to clear up.

Like, because if I was reading these articles, I would assume that you and I have beefed with Stasi.

Like, they're really making it so.

They are including us in every article because she mentioned us.

So and that was the reason why she's turned on Megan Markle is because of us.

So literally someone who works with us sent us this article and it was like at first from like this realitytea.com.

Like, and I was like, oh my God, Stasi's like kind of being nasty about us on the podcast.

I'm like, wait, but we're friends with Stasi, right?

That was so like sad.

So I'm like, and it was co-hosted with Taylor Strucker.

And I'm like, well, Taylor Strucker wouldn't say anything weird about us.

Yeah.

So I'm like, you know what?

Let me actually not read the clickbait and go listen to Stasi's podcast episode to get the real story.

Now, what's being said in The Tabloids is a much dramatized version of what Stasi said.

Now, to be clear, Stasi did not say anything mean about us.

If anything, she's jealous of us.

And it more has like, she has beef now with Megan Markle, and it literally has nothing to do with it.

No,

and also it illustrates that she's a close listener of The Toast.

Right.

So it's like, she's like, I sat down to do my makeup and I listened to my favorite podcast, The Toast.

It's an amazing podcast hosted by amazing girls.

Listen, it was so not

even remotely.

Let's get to the meat.

So this is what she said.

She said she's officially done with Megan Markle.

A little backstory is like Stasi has been Megan Markle's number one fan like since Megan joined the royal family.

Like she's left the royal family.

She's been with her through the whole thing.

She's been with her through the whole thing, like always just saying glowing things about her.

And so she went on tour and like the whole theme of her set was Megan Markle.

They had a big framed picture of her.

Yeah, every time Megan does something, we're like, what would Stasi have to say about this?

And she's always like been so positive, given so much grace.

and that she's kind of like the leading public figure fan so megan has done some pr gifts since she's launched her show since she's launched her brand the first round really went to like close friends and like you know montecito girls yeah but then the second round reached the lay people like us a bunch of influencers got pr um claudia and i did which is shocking because we've not been like stasi we have questioned her right

we haven't been i don't i think we've actually been really fair yeah of megan we're not neither one of us is huge fans or haters of her at all yeah we just like we don't just we just take the temperature of how we're feeling and we say how we feel it's not always like the nicest or whatever now to be clear i cannot say the same about her husband like i am an actual hater Yeah, it just depends on the era that we're talking about.

Like as we're talking about this era, like I have really nothing bad to say.

When I think of like, when I zoom out and try and think of like history at a glance and like the British monarchy and like what Queen Elizabeth went through in her dying days, like I'm mad.

Right.

And that's all come through on the show.

So what Sassy said was, she was like, she didn't get PR from this season of as ever.

As ever with love, Megan.

And then she saw that Claudia and I did.

And Claudia and I, as she said, talk, we've talked shit about Megan and the Test.

We haven't just been like die-hard fans.

Whereas Sasi has been a die-hard fan.

She said, I literally have defended her when no one else did.

I have filmed videos about it.

I've commented on all the things.

I literally had my fucking PR reach out.

And this.

She asked

for PR.

She asked to be included on the next round and they said no.

So she's officially done.

She said

Megan cares like more about what her haters think of her than her fans.

If she's trying to like court people who like don't love her and she's not tending to those who do.

And you know what?

And then it also reminded me of her sending that handwritten note to Nutskini but not that when Nutskiny was being like snarky.

It wasn't being like actually, you know, protective of Megan.

And you know what's Stasi's right.

Like she does care a lot about like what critics say, not just like, I feel like everyone when they get famous cares about like proving their critics wrong and yada yada.

And then eventually like all you end up caring about is your fans and like you just want to feed your fans and nourish that relationship.

And

Megan is still very much like in her proving everyone wrong era.

Yeah.

And if I get, I also think that Megan doesn't want to,

you know, actually, well, we have been canceled.

So I feel like Megan maybe would have been like staying away from Stasi because like she was canceled, but no, we have.

Who hasn't been?

Literally.

If we're only like sending PR to people who have been canceled, then you're sending us to people with three followers.

Like for real.

You show me a celebrity who hasn't had a cancellation and I'll show you something that's been buried.

Okay.

Stasi's theory is that like Megan is stuck in 2017 and just like associates Stasi with like being a lowly reality star and that's not who she's sending her kids to.

I guess.

I don't know.

I genuinely don't know.

Cause when I hear something like this, I'm like, well, maybe Sassy's just not on her team's radar, but like, how is that possible?

Then you're you have a bad team.

Maybe

Megan like watched Vanderprump Rules at the time.

Like, maybe she was Team Faith, you know?

Like, maybe she was not a Sassi fan.

Maybe she was a Gena Shea.

Team Sheena is what you're saying.

Maybe she was a Sheena Shaneator.

Megan.

Megan.

With love.

Megan.

And can I tell you, Ben ate the entire jar of the as ever apricot jam.

He said it was incredible.

Not to rub it in Sassy's face.

When he posted that.

So Ben took a picture of this jam.

I put the as-ever jam in my fridge.

As if it was just a jam from the store.

Right.

And I wasn't planning on eating it because I don't like apricot.

No shade to Megan.

I'm more of like a raspberry girl.

But I figured like someone in my house would eat it.

Lo and behold, I see Ben posting on Instagram a picture of the jar being like, I just found this in my fridge.

It's delicious.

I'm like, you just found this in your fridge.

Do you know how lucky you are to be eating there are a million girls that would kill for that jar of jam a million girls would kill to be gifted that jar i said jam ben that's like a million dollar jar of jam he said it's incredible he ate the entire thing it's gone that's hysterical i haven't tried my jam yet but those shortbread cookies are looking me in the face every day i want to make them but it's just never time

um so not to rub it into sassy but like the jam also was really good yeah um

interesting interesting i i can't believe sassy's really moving on from her but i guess that's what you have to do after you like been snubbed so many times.

I feel like you're kind of getting to that place with.

You know what's funny is I, I, that's my association too.

When I think of this story, I think of someone who like I've lit, but I'm, I'm not getting, but the thing is, I, I just love her.

I, I, I love everything she does.

It's not like I ever defend her when I think she doesn't deserve it.

And so, like, but the thing is, like, she doesn't do anything wrong.

She doesn't need to defend me.

But if I sever from her, I'm only hurting myself.

It's true.

And then I'll say who it is.

I'll say who it is to just get sentence.

Kelly Clarkson, because she likes a lot of podcasts and she does a lot of pressure.

Not a lot, but she does press.

She's out and about a lot.

And she's never come on the toast, like, never reached out, never sent us anything if she was ever doing it.

We have also, we have formally pitched.

Yeah, we have.

Like, we have actually tried, and we don't even do that a lot.

But I'm just a fan of hers.

Not anything reciprocal.

I don't need anything like from her on a personal level.

I just want to be, what?

If I can stop listening to her music, that only hurts me.

She doesn't give a fuck.

That's so true.

Why should you suffer?

Yeah.

Kelly, we would love to have you.

Oh, yeah.

Obviously, not now.

We might have just ruined it, especially because even when we were saying only good things, she didn't come on.

Even though I still haven't said anything bad, I love her.

No, no, no.

You didn't say anything bad.

You're saying like you want it.

Yeah.

But the fact that I don't get it doesn't change how I feel about her.

I feel about hers.

So it's an even bigger endorsement, honestly.

But like, there's literally like she's the least problematic woman on earth.

I know.

So it's like, well, I defended Kelly Clarkson from one.

And like, it's not unpopular to defend her, but like, if Stasi, like, always.

Okay, actually, what did I just say?

Ask me somebody who hasn't been canceled and I'll show you someone with three followers.

That's actually, Kelly Clarkson is the exception to that rule.

I can't think of one scandal she's ever had.

She's not had scandals, but she's like been through a lot on the industry side.

Ups and downs.

Like, yes, bad packaging

in bad deals, putting out music that she didn't feel strongly about.

Like, she's had different issues.

Yes, but not like, yeah, public-facing scandal.

She didn't have all tweets.

Right, right.

But like, Stasi defended Megan when it was like unpopular too and like took a lot of hits for it.

Like that, it's, so it's not the same.

In the face of adversity, like Stasi was there.

I defended Kelly Clarkson when no one else did.

Okay.

Like defended her against what?

Nothing.

But what I will say is I've always, I was a fan of hers before everyone.

Any of these bitches.

It's so true.

Before Kelly Okee, before Kelly Clarkson show, like in the lulz,

in the lulls, I was there.

There was a place in her career where she will not experience another lull ever again.

She's kind of reached a level of like icon status.

But in order to get there, she did experience like peaks and valleys.

And no matter what, Jackie was always there.

In the lulz, I was there.

But I didn't do it for anything in return.

Like, that's where I wanted to be.

That's all I'll say.

We'll leave it at that.

I'm sorry, Sassy, that don't meet your heroes.

Don't ask for PR.

I'm sorry that it hurt you, but I'm not sorry I received the PR.

But it is curious, and I really don't know why.

It's definitely an oversight by her team because Stasi's been so good to her.

Stasi is so popular in a real way, like real engagement fans.

I think listeners.

Stasi has like evolved past significantly, like her big, you know, crash out of 2020 that, like, I really don't think it has to do with that.

Or maybe it does.

Like, maybe Megan's just like scared, but like everyone.

Yeah, three best-selling books.

Like she's at like

World Tour, Fanny Fashion Show, please.

Mistake.

Big mistake.

Big mistake.

Big mistake.

Huge.

Huge.

I love your mistake, Megan.

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Our fourth story, a little news that's going to maybe provide some clarity as to why Taylor Swift has been relatively MIA in the lead up to her new album and the football season.

Taylor Swift has a stalker, of course.

All celebrities do.

Many, but this is like one of her, like, kind of like famous ones.

One of her famous ones, she has just gotten some good news.

She's been granted a restraining order against the man that she says routinely shows up at her LA home and claims that she had his baby.

According to court documents submitted Monday and obtained by TMZ, a 45-year-old man named Brian Jason Wagner had been ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from Taylore for the next five years.

He must stay clear of her LA home, work, vehicle, place of work.

And he's barred from contacting Swift during this time.

So I think she's been dealing with, and I also saw something else like about her stalker.

I think she's having like major stalker issues at the moment.

So what I had heard was that like this OG, like number one stalker has now gone missing.

That's what I was saying.

Because I can't remember where I read that.

Don't know where he is.

And obviously that's making her like really anxious.

And that's why she was behind that seemingly bulletproof screen.

That's why she's not been doing a lot of promo.

Maybe that's why she's doing the UK talk show because she does need to promote this album.

And maybe she feels more comfortable doing it publicly in a different country.

I don't know if he has the means to travel to the UK.

Or if he goes on a plane, like he will surface.

You know, his name is surface.

Oh, maybe it's like a entrapment.

Ooh, sorry.

Didn't want to spoil it for them.

Hopefully he doesn't listen.

Not us cracking the code.

And this is something she deals with a lot.

And I know she has like a ton of security, but it's so scary.

And it must feel better like lying next to this big hunky man at at night than like Matty Healy, you know, like who is Matty Healy protecting her from?

1000%.

He also somehow was able to change his address on his driver's license to her house.

What is wrong?

This is so DMV.

Like she might have a lot of people.

You also claim that he tried diverting mail from her house and sent her lengthy digital communications using threatening language.

He didn't show up to Tuesday's hearing.

How is he sending her digital communications?

Because I've been trying to get a note to her for a while.

Right.

Well, I guess you have to be an actual stalker.

Like Like a freak sociopath.

He didn't show up to Tuesday's hearing.

And yeah, he said,

it's great that she had a restraining order, but like crazy people don't care about a piece of paper.

Right.

And if you're not.

It really, like, it does not protect you unless that

restraining order like comes with a gun.

Like, who is that stopping?

Yeah, well, he's not.

With the restraining order, he's not allowed to own firearms, ammunition, and body armor during this time and must surrender any that he does have to the police.

But if they can't find him,

like, I just don't feel like that's stopping.

Yeah.

Right, right.

Oh, the law said that I can't buy a gun.

Like, I just don't, I don't see this stopping him, especially because this is like a 10-year pursuit and he's obviously mentally ill.

Yeah.

So I think this would explain a lot as to the mystery surrounding Lurd in the last few weeks.

Yes.

Yes.

Given that the football season has kicked off and

she has a new album.

Right, which would be high time for her to be like doing her swirly appearances at the football games because that always garners media attention rising tides for the album um she's probably freaking that's like such a terrible feeling yeah and did you see the thing about the justin baldone someone came to like serve them at travis's house

and like the server was really committed to getting the paper sent and like jumped the fence he got arrested like they didn't know that stupid is a stupid idiot he could like i guess

if it was how do you serve someone like so protected right yeah that's why we see it happen in public a lot when they're like doing a public appearance, but she hasn't been in public.

So then he went to the house.

Maybe that's why she hasn't been in public so she doesn't get served.

Yeah.

There's, I think there's a lot going on right now.

Yeah.

And especially if she's on high alert because of the stalker and then someone jumps the fence.

Crazy person.

I also like for a while really did not believe that her and Blake Lively had ended their friendship because it's so inconceivable, right?

This was like a bulletproof friendship.

And I do need to update everyone.

Like, okay, I feel like maybe they're not friends anymore.

Yeah.

And that she's like, even though a lot of the headlines about her involvement are heavily exaggerated.

And like when you read, it's like, yeah, she offered up a subpoena.

No, she didn't.

She's like,

they subpoenaed her.

They had said that like she offered all of their text messages.

Like, no, she didn't.

I think Scott did.

Scott definitely got involved.

Yeah.

So, okay, everyone, you got me.

I do think they're not friends.

I'm not going to get Warner's name out your mouth.

I'll give you what you want.

That's seriously so crazy.

Yeah.

No, it's such a messy situation.

They're definitely not friends.

She's not not Team Baldoni.

Right.

And she's not Team Blake.

She's not Team Blake.

She's not not Team Baldoni.

What did Blake do?

Because I think a lot of people think that Blake's behavior in this saga is what caused Taylor and their friendship to not, which I do not think.

I don't think Taylor would like lose a friendship of so many years over like what everyone is saying went down on a movie set that had nothing to do with taylor i think that

something happened involving taylor yes to get her to get to that place the limited information that we have and i think it would have something to do with the fact that like blake almost like blackmailed taylor into publicly taking her side and like tried to involve her and went about it badly do you think that like her you know khaleesi dragon eggs like basically Blake lively threatening Justin Baldoni with Taylor Swift also bothered Taylor?

Definitely bad taste, Not friendship ending, godmother ending.

Right, right.

But I think like Blake and Ryan like might have went to Taylor and been like, hey, can you come like support us?

And then Taylor was probably like, no.

And then they got nasty about it.

That's what I think.

If I'm just like thinking of how humans might behave.

Yeah.

Damn.

Damn.

Are you ready for our fifth and final story that you've been ready for?

All show.

Dancing with the stars.

Recap.

Two stars went home.

One star has a hamstring tear.

Oh my God, that picture of Danielle Frankel's leg?

I was shook.

Not a camp from the massage.

Not the bridal dress.

Not the masseuse watching it being like, oh, my bad.

That picture hurt me

physically.

Yeah, and then watching her dance,

knowing that that was what was happening, hurt more.

And then she did a cartwheel for absolutely no reason, only to hurt her leg.

She didn't get another point it's not even like they do like six points gymnastics like you get a lift and you get another she wasn't gonna go from a seven to a six if she didn't do the cartwheel so to strain her hamstring which is a cartwheel is very hamy hamstring heavy heavy to do that for what it hurt me i felt pain so let's talk about the eliminations really quickly it was like a little bit of a

letdown I want to say the show is a cluster fuck coming in as an outsider watching your guys's show the voting process is absurd.

Me texting Alex, Alex, Alex 10 times is a complete waste of my time and energy.

And am I correct?

And I know we've talked a lot about the voting system, so I'm sorry if I'm being repetitive.

So on your phone, you vote Alex 10 times.

Then you can also go Baron 10 times.

You could vote for every single cast member 10 times.

So when...

Carlton is like, we've just surpassed last week's amount of votes.

That's not really a flex.

No, nothing about it is a flex.

Even if there's 12 contestants and I can vote 10 times, technically in one episode, I can personally vote 120 times from each device.

So if I have a tablet, a computer and a phone, that's 360 votes.

Yeah.

Even if they told me they got

1 billion votes, I would not give a shit.

It's not a slay.

It's not a slay.

They're definitely like getting kickbacks from Verizon and AT ⁇ T for every text that is sent.

And like we're paying for it.

I got to look at my phone bill to make sure I'm not getting charged for these green texts I'm sending.

I'm roaming.

All of a sudden, I'm roaming to vote for Alex.

Okay.

Like it's preposterous.

I'm not voting anymore.

So like me neither.

It's a fraud.

Yeah.

It's so, I feel so stupid when I do it.

Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex.

Yeah, literally me, me last week.

Elaine, Elaine, Elaine.

I thought Elaine Hendrix was so good.

And you know what?

I don't vote for a million people.

In my own weird way, I'm making a choice.

Like I would.

And this week last week i voted for alex earlier because she blew me away the most in terms of what i thought she was going to deliver and what she delivered this week i voted for elaine i thought she was insanely good she reminded me that she has played a cheerleader not once but twice on tv evion

evion

from uh superstar katherine gallagher superstar um and

i like to think of first of all i had to look up so many people's age Danielle Fischell is 44.

She looks 17.

It's insane.

She's like eternally young.

And her arms, like, she had like teenager arms.

I was shook.

And then Elaine Hendrix, who's in her 50s, absolutely crushing Omici or Sophia in the drive.

She deserved my votes.

I'm sorry.

Not everyone gets my vote.

No.

So the voting, I'm done with.

You guys want to explain to me how it works?

You get to give them like your own score, seven out of 10.

Like you get 10.

I don't give a shit.

No.

No, Claudia.

It's still that.

No, wait.

No.

No, it's still stupid.

Beyond.

That makes it better.

Got it.

So people use it as their own voting system.

So stupid.

And then the fact.

Oh, that like, that's like not made clear.

The fact that the elimination happens at the end of the episode so quickly, the last person who dances gets the least amount of votes, of course.

Oh my God, Steve Irwin getting 30 seconds.

He knows.

Pentatonics.

Pentatonics.

He's got 30 seconds.

Pentatonics is next to go home.

Yeah, he is, but like at least give him a shot.

Like it's just not fair.

So then he's not literally 30 seconds to get his votes in.

Then they rapidly eliminate people.

And what also makes no sense about the show is why are all the contestants doing different dances every week?

Like, why don't we have jive week?

And I can assess the jives.

Oh, that's the.

Tango week.

Assess the tangos.

Why is the theme the music?

Like, I'm so perplexed by this show.

It is the messiest show.

That's a really good call.

I like that too.

And yeah, because you know what?

Voting.

And now I understand why everybody's scores are so different because some dances are easier than others.

Like the jive is fun.

It's not that technical.

The tango, so boring.

And I think way more technical.

Yeah, and we should be assessing everyone's tango together.

We don't get to see someone shive and say, oh, that looked amazing.

And then someone has a boring ass tango.

And when do they decide and why that they're going to do these dances this week?

They don't give us enough information.

Like, do they know they have to do every dance and they try and do some of the harder ones in the beginning?

Like, oh, did the producer say, like, hey, Alex and Elaine, you're doing the jive?

Like, I think they get told what they have to do that week.

I'm so confused.

And it really is so crazy how your partner is such an advantage.

And then the show was as much about the partners as it is about the stars.

And I think that's really good for the show because that way you don't have to care who the stars are every year.

Like you're here for the partners.

But like the partners can be such a value add.

And I actually,

she's doing an amazing job.

But I just...

Jen Affleck?

Oh, well, she's so been robbed by having

agreed.

He stinks.

He got critiqued.

Yeah, he stinks.

Claudia, he got like.

The judges had a critique for him about something.

Who were you about to say?

I was about to say Alex's partner, Val,

isn't giving her, like, they're pretty good, the settings, like the circus and the dances, and even the.

And by the way, whatever you're about to say, like the Dealitis community is going to come at you for he's like beloved.

I just,

she's not getting like the best setups.

What did they dance to this week?

What was the theme?

The theme was one-hit wonders.

Jazz.

Mumbo number five.

Yeah, and it started with him talking.

I'm like, get out of here.

Where's my girl?

Like, I know

she's not getting the pargiest setups, whereas whitney carson does the pargiest setups i loved elaine's hey mickey like loved could you imagine if alex did that and um whose partner is doing an amazing job is um

whitney's part mark ballast apparently he's like the best one he's has like the most wins he's crushing it for her like he totally gets her yeah and he has a great

mentee model yeah okay let's go through each one in order okay um i don't have the exact order but i have all the names so

Hilaria.

She's really good.

I also did not know she had a background in ballroom dance.

Like, it's giving not fair.

I don't know why they put her in the bottom three, even though it wasn't in any particular order.

But it was so obvious because she's with these two geriatrics.

Like, obviously, Hilaria's not going home.

No, but I think for one second, they got nervous because Gleb is like so hated right now.

And she's obviously controversial.

And I think for one second, they thought maybe like the voting, the public.

And so I hope that he made a little duty in his pants.

And

totally.

Did you see?

I just started following this.

I love this account.

It's called Pop Culture Data.

And they do

a lot of different data.

But they said week one of Dancing with the Stars, here's how many followers everyone got.

And it was really interesting to see who got the most.

It wasn't like Alex Earl because she didn't, she has the most, right?

But who got the least?

He was actually in the negatives.

Glenn lost 3,000 followers.

Yeah.

You're welcome.

Who was it that got number one?

We've been loving thy nader.

I have been loving thy nader.

Next dancer, Danielle Fischel, who we discussed, powered through with her injury.

Robert Irwin got the most amount of followers.

I see that.

And then Danielle Fischel, then Whitney, then Whitney Carson, and Dylan Efron.

I thought this was really interesting.

Feels right.

Feels right.

Danielle Fischl danced adorable.

She's like perfect dancing with the stars.

Like, she's such a star.

She's learning.

She's dancing decently.

She's

good.

She can dance.

She's getting better.

She's taking it seriously.

Even in her response to like Julianne's question about like when you hear these criticisms, she's like, I'm here to be a sponge.

Like I'm here to learn.

Like I fucking love her.

She's not too proud.

She just is like literally textbook perfect dancing with a stars person.

She has an amazing attitude.

She kind of like has the attitude that we need to adapt to the next 10 days.

Like joy, light, and positivity.

We'll try.

Yeah.

Alex Earl, her dance, Mambo.

She's so great.

She's so right.

She is getting better with like each.

You could see like her learning the techniques more.

She also is really mastered because I I keep thinking how hard it would be to remember the dance, to do the dance, and then not make like a mug the entire time.

I'm like, one, two, three, four.

She's like,

I like Smiley Joe.

And you know what?

It's a real skill.

Yeah.

Andy Richter, he's saved by the bell.

He was probably the third in the, he was probably in the bottom three if they were going by.

I actually don't think he was because let me tell you, I have seen so many.

There are like fan edits of him on TikTok.

They're obsessed with him.

He made me laugh laugh so hard.

When he kissed her arm, I cracked up.

When they took off his yellow jacket and he was like, oh,

he's very funny.

I'm telling you.

And he is getting better.

People really like him.

And I don't think the Dancing with the Stars community knew who he was, especially because it's so TikTok-y, Dancing with the Stars, and it's very Gen Z.

They love him.

I actually vote for him.

I agree.

His dances make me laugh.

He makes me laugh.

I enjoy his presence.

I hope that he's getting a lot of votes because he's going to need the votes because the scores are, of course, not there.

I actually thought his dance this week was like technically worse than last week.

He did not do any, he just like walked around and posed, but we need that.

Like not everyone needs to like put their whole.

And he has a great partner for him.

She totally like gets his, what his value is.

It's like he's funny and she gives him like a couple of moments in each dance to make it.

It's adorable.

It's adorable.

Their TikToks are so funny.

I actually just followed her on TikTok.

Obsessed.

Yeah.

No, I agree.

And I hope he doesn't go home next because, yeah, spoiler alert, Corey Feldman went home and he was bringing me a lot of joy as well.

well okay but he was bringing like nothing to the dances like like yeah while andy richter is not technically doing great dances he's bringing like comedy he's bringing something i'm sorry you like corey feldman because like he makes you sad like he's not doing anything no i i just

i it's just it is what it is this is what happens on dancing with the stars like There was like a piece in page six about how Jenna Johnson is like mad at her partner and and Corey Feldman hates her and she hates Corey Feldman.

And then he posted on his Instagram like a farewell post after he got eliminated being like, I hate that the media has turned me and Jenna against.

I love you, Jenna.

It's not true.

So sweet.

Yeah.

Next, Elaine Hendrix, as we stated, amazing.

I love the energy she brings.

She's a really good dancer and she's had really good, I don't know what to call them, but like, I want to say like setups so far.

Like song, set,

energy, choreography.

Her and her, her partner's really serving her well, Alan.

Yeah, Alan.

He's doing a good job.

I completely agree.

Jordan Childs stepped her pussy up this week.

Oh, she did what she was supposed to do week one.

I don't know what happened week one.

Maybe she got nervous.

Maybe the dance was bad.

What?

She did amazing.

Amazing.

She is in this race now.

Whereas like

last week, I'm like, okay, you're, I'm not keeping, you're not one to watch.

Agreed.

But no, it was a completely different

energy this week.

And she's one to watch now.

Agreed.

She's finalist material.

Dylan Ephron.

I'm already bored.

Yeah, I feel like he's not doing anything wrong or anything bad, and the dances are fine.

Everything's like fine.

He can move his hips really well.

Yeah, did you see that TikTok that went viral of him like doing that?

I saw a video of him and his partner like shaking their hips to a TikTok dance.

And then that move was in their dance.

And I thought, wow, he could really move his hips.

I don't know.

That kind of gave me the ick.

I'm, I, maybe because I didn't watch Trainer, so I didn't like have the opportunity to fall in love with him, but like he really does not do it for me.

And the first week I really liked Milkshake.

Like I feel like I really got to see his personality.

This dance was forgettable.

Forgettable.

Whatever it was.

Robert Irwin, adorable.

Crushed.

He's

he's there with Whitney, like leaderboard.

Just do your thing.

But also like his success is, has a lot to do with what Whitney's doing for him.

Like if he were with someone else, I don't know where he'd be.

I think Whitney Liavit like would have crushed with any partner, whereas Irwin might not have.

Yeah.

Lauren Draghi,

skip.

Skip because I have nothing nice to say about her.

And it is that time of year where i'm trying to be nice but i will say week one like she did really good i was like damn i want her to go home um week two was not the same and i don't think people are responding because when i was looking at the pop culture data she was like one of the last people she did not like she's not getting a lot of followers from it i don't think that she's getting a lot of votes i think she'll be going home soon with scott hoying which Yes, we could talk about him.

Scott Hoying has been really shocking to me because he is a performer.

He's on stage a lot.

He doesn't dance, but I don't know why.

I I just would have thought that he would be able to move a lot better than he is.

He's so stiff.

Um, and it's like, I don't know, I just was expecting more from like this musical gay guy.

Yeah, no, he's so like middle of the pack for me.

No, he's so end of the pack.

I think he's probably going home next because when you think of like the low-hanging fruit, it's like, well, Andy Richter.

Well, everyone's loving Andy Richter.

He's raising something.

Scott really needs to step his pussy up.

He's really in danger, I think.

Yeah.

Then we have Jen Affleck.

What she's doing is so amazing.

I'm worried about her.

Yeah, Jackie has like a conspiracy theory that she's not doing well.

I'm just, it's like, I just putting myself in her shoes.

Like, she's eight weeks postpartum with her third child.

So she has two toddlers.

She just moved her family out to LA to do Dancing with the Stars.

Eight weeks postpartum.

That is literally nothing.

So you have a baby on your breast, but also two toddlers.

That's completely exhausting.

Yeah.

And she's had an incredibly difficult year.

Like she was literally got healthy with her mental health her marriage almost fell apart now they're living in la like it's just doing dancing with the stars on its own is like

is a completely all-encompassing thing doing it with two kids would be all doing it with three kids to have a newborn baby and two kids and you already like weren't in the like strongest state in your marriage and in your mental health like every time i i watch her i'm just like oh my gosh like please sit down like take a break and she's amazing and i i don't want to like stop women like and i'm i i was the first person to be like this is amazing for for women, like postpartum.

But it's just sometimes you need to just take a break and like take that space.

And I feel like she got this opportunity and she would have never turned it down because it's an amazing opportunity.

And you can't say that next season it would be there.

Like, what if things could change?

Secret lives might not.

And they might go for someone else in the cast who had a big season.

Like, this was her time.

How do you say no to it?

But thinking of myself with two kids and eight weeks postpartum going on, Dancing with the Stars, which is like a full-time job, living in a training all day.

I am stressed out for her.

Me too.

And I'm sad for her because her partner sucks.

Yeah.

And she's not getting like the best of, and she's also a really good dancer.

So she's really easy to work with.

He's not like molding her.

Like, I think if she had a different partner, she would be just dancing so differently.

It's not fair that they put her with a first time

because of everything.

Like, she doesn't all, she has like so much going on.

She doesn't also need to like watch this person get trained up.

Like, she should have a seasonal person.

He should have been with like a Whitney or a Jordan Childs, like somebody who has a, or Hilaria, honestly, like someone who doesn't need so much technical training.

I agree.

I agree.

It's not right.

Whitney Lovitt, crushed.

Oh my God, I've watched the dance like five times over.

Her just like whipping her hair.

And this is where the scores make no fucking sense.

The scores are so stupid.

I actually can't even pay attention.

And why did Derek Cuff only get one word?

Because like for timing, because it's a live thing.

Does that happen every week?

That one person gets one word?

Yeah.

Like, I think when they're trying to like cut time, it's like a thing that they do.

And I just want to say, I had this thought

anytime I've ever watched Dancing with the Stars, which isn't a lot, I fucking hate the judges.

They're so desperate for attention.

Like they're all just trying to make a moment every time they're giving critique.

And then like they move their chairs to get in the background of the camera and like wave while.

It's the messiest show on earth.

They are three of the biggest losers I've ever met in my entire life.

Like so desperate.

I can't.

It's like painful to watch also if you don't have enough time for three judges to give their assessment on the dance why not have two judges because last week at what didn't feel rushed we had two judges and it was fine people really don't like carrie and she's always getting booed

well i don't like that either and i don't even know her but i'm just saying like oh you don't have time for three criticisms let's do two right Because we're certainly not making this two-hour show any longer.

And then Barron got sent home as well.

Yeah, that was like, I feel like he didn't need to go home first, but I can't really think of who else.

He really did not dazzle.

My husband came in when he was on and he was like, what is he doing here?

He was pretty good.

He just like, I'm like, this is classic.

You always have to have a sports legend retired in the and sometimes Iman Schumpert.

He won.

Like sometimes they dazzle and sometimes they're just terrible and, you know, get out first.

He made me sad because he really wasn't that bad.

He definitely wasn't making it past like the third or fourth week.

I don't know if he needed to go home first.

I can't think of anybody else who would have, though.

But I love the eliminations.

Like, let's go.

This is a big cast.

Let's, we don't.

You're like, you stink.

Let's get out of here.

Yeah.

And it's, you know what, for them, they probably don't hate it.

It's a lot of work.

And like, it's a lot of pressure.

It's a show relief.

Yeah.

I think the

pros really hate getting sent home because you get paid per episode and this is their job.

So it's really devastating for them.

But I think, yeah, if you're a star, you're like, great, I got the press.

Everybody watched.

I got new followers and now I get to go home and ice my legs.

Like

yeah, you know what?

It's not all it's bittersweet to be sent home.

So I'm sure he was like mostly happy that it's over and he did it.

I am mere moments from peeing my pants.

Like, it's so time for me to go.

It's time.

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