Female Founder Friday: Friday, March 14th, 2025

good morning girlies it's the toast it's jackson claude and we're your hosts it's your favorite show the fast five things you need to know we'll start your day off swirly it's the toast I sound amazing.

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Okay. Hey, Jax.
How you doing? I'm doing good. I'm doing sweaty.
I have had such a busy morning. I literally ran off of a fire truck to come record the show because we are at a party this morning and it was one of my favorite kinds of events, which is touch a truck, which is not something.
Apparently this is like a category of child's party. I'd never heard of it.
A touch a truck party. Yeah, like a touch a truck event where a local place will invite all the great trucks to come and the kids can touch a truck and I would have never understood why that's amazing before having sons but let me tell you the trucks were touched okay and I was touched vis-a-vis the trucks I also had like a crazy morning but not even close I washed and blew out my hair because we had we had like two extra hours since you were out touching trucks we're recording a little bit late so it was like kind of the perfect time for me to wash my hair this week um I'm broken like I am dead yeah no I'm I'm a bit broken from carrying the two on top of a full like working digger that was major the fire also known as an excavator correct oh yeah but they don't the kids don't call it that because no I know unless you're you know a blippy unless anybody listening to this show like doesn't have kids and they don't know what a digger is I didn't know what that was either but like it's an excavator the yellow cat the yellow cat exactly um the fire truck though had pargy ac so I want to shout out to the fire truck because the others did not.
So it was really fun. If you ever find yourself able at a TAT event available to attend a touch a truck, I would highly recommend it.
Are they colloquially known as Tate's tuck a truck event? Oh, no. Maybe they're Tats.
Touch a trucks. Or tates.
Tuck a truck.

Wait, what are we saying?

Touch a truck events.

Perhaps.

Events, events.

I want to go to events.

Invite me to your events. Touch a truck events.

Invite me to your touch a truck events.

We will come there and we will touch them trucks.

We will touch them.

It's also just like, I know it's a weird word, touch.

But that's exactly what it is. All kids want to do is touch trucks.
They want to look at them. They want to be up close.
And this provides that opportunity. It's Friday and that's fabulous, obviously.
But it definitely feels like a weird kind of Friday because I don't want to let down the SCQ. Southern Charm community.
But Jackie, for the first time,'t watch southern charm you know what i had to force myself not to watch southern charm last night because i knew that today's episode we were either going to be doing it really early or late and i didn't want to feel compelled to do a southern charm recap and make the show a nalafi when we don't have time for a nalafi it might be a nasafi or a naraf we have time today for a nalafi though like now now that we decided to record late that's true i feel like it'll be a nalafi a nice regular episode for you you can't predict these things though you know no it's a nice regular one for you or it could be narefi nice regular episode for you yes so i held back and also i was just like on my phone last night. I got home late because we were out to dinner and I just it wasn't in the cards for me.
So I'm sorry to the small and mighty Southern Charm community. I do want to know what the barber told Ryan that told Leva that told JJ that JJ said to the barber.
I do want to know. Wait.
I'm sure you don't know about this but like Leva has found herself in like some drama on tiktok that made its way and has nothing to do with the show it has to do with her restaurant i'm not her restaurant has its own show southern hospitality she opened a new place zachary's zachary's are you familiar zachary's dacquiri's yeah who's zachary no clue um and so somebody posted a review and normally like a restaurant review like on tiktok nobody cares. But when they realized it was Love is Restaurant, it became this like huge channel.
I'm really not clear on the details, but she's being accused of like elitism. I think maybe a little bit of racism as well for enforcing a dress code.
I'm not 100 percent sure. I found myself in the middle of the Zachary's Daiquiri's drama.
And like I seriously, I know what I said to myself, I said, how did we get here? How do we get out? And I just like kept scrolling but just want to let you know she's kind of going through it. Interesting.
You haven't provided enough color so I don't really know. I don't have it.
I don't have it to provide. I don't really know what she's going through.
I'm not with her. She's got her restaurants like going through a big scandal.
She'll be okay. Yeah, you know, they're like review bombing it.
She'll be fine. But that's annoying.
But that's just what it is when you launch businesses off of reality TV or social media. Like it's the tides.
Rising tides, raise all shides. Low tides, lower all shides.
The vibes today might be off one because there's no SCQ. But also because I chose the stories.
Jack's is super i feel like i kind of did an amazing job what did you think when you opened them up so it's funny um some of them were the obvious ones like of course megan's lemonada lemonada shmemonada it's lemonada o'clock like no i'm tingly i need to it's female founder friday okay it is female founder friday of course we were going to talk about that and then you you chose actually like a lot of tv stuff yeah I did end up on deadline.com no this literally feels like an episode of like tv guide like here's there was a lot of news about television no I know I wonder if I would have come to the same conclusions but I love it I love it we, just. Let them yell at you for a day.
Yeah, right. I would love it.
It's a lot of pressure choosing a story. So if you didn't like it today, it was all Jackie.
No, it was all co-jurps. I know everyone like loves to clap.
It's an art choosing stories. It is.
It's hard. Some things that like you think we should choose a story.
Like it's just not meaty. Like, you know what I mean? There's not enough to like converse converse about but also like sometimes I have to really I know when to put forth like internet stuff that I want to talk about right and like that I can explain to you and some of our you know beloved gen x listeners um and the other week there was something going on on the internet that people were like really shook we weren't talking about I'm sure you don't even know about it what um it was like this rap battle beef between alabama barker and bad baby the cash me outside girl i do know about it now i want to tell you guys i know nothing about it other than what i just said that travis barker's daughter alabama who's like a social media influencer and who's like 16 is beefing with the cash me outside dr phil girl who has like become a pretty like well respected rapper um beyond that woman yes yes she's a woman beyond that i actually like couldn't get myself to learn more about the drama like i have i have standards for myself you know what i mean and like that is information i actually don't want to know i don't think it's good for my brain I don't think it's good for the baby yeah no I have a life I have friends and family and I just don't need to be spending my time doing that I can't like Tyga was involved in some way I was you see I don't know I don't care to know like that is something I actually chose I would like to be excluded from this narrative wait speaking of the baby I did something really crazy last The bad Bobby? I went to bed and I was just like, you know when you get in your head about something, you know it's fake, but the more you think about it, you convince yourself that that's the reality.
I'm like, oh, I really haven't felt the baby kick all day. I know I felt one in the bath, but usually these days I can feel the baby a lot.
So then I was dreaming about the lack of kicks,

and then I woke myself up at four in the morning,

and I was fully convinced that something was wrong.

Nothing was wrong.

I was laying in bed, Googling how to feel the baby kick.

I laid in bed for four hours on my left side,

tapping the belly.

Sorry, not for four hours.

At four in the morning for one hour,

until I felt three kicks.

I was having the craziest psychosis in the night,

and I was telling you I felt nothing in my belly.

I felt like I was back on Ozemp felt like i felt like skinny as a needle oh i'm sorry for that it was terrible like you it was terrible the the the trick the the tricks the mind plays yeah and i got terrible sleep because of it yeah i'm sorry but uh this morning he was like i'm here right well maybe it was just trying to give you like a restful sleep most people complain maybe only it was too restful it was too restful things were too quiet yeah but that's actually kind of nice like very considerate I feel like it bodes well for his personality like he's very much a people pleaser Jackie let me tell you I almost took myself to the emergency room like that's how like I was like really convincing myself something was wrong yeah and it's like i think that happens a lot to people and then you also hear stories where like someone's like i knew something was wrong and so i went to the hospital yes and you're supposed to like trust that instinct how many times do we know something is wrong and nothing is wrong i know i know and i was like if i just and i was like gonna text dr fox like i really and i'm glad that i didn't because like it's like nothing happened but I don't know I just like had a feeling but my feeling was wrong. I just told you to come in the morning and just get on the monitor and like you'll see the kicks and then he'll send you home.
Yeah. All I was just saying was a fitful night's rest.
I think they deal with that often. I think a lot of girls take themselves to the emergency room and are like like trusting their intuition.
Yeah. Just being like making sure there's a baby in there.

It's like there's so much trust, you know.

In.

Pregnancy.

Like the fact that there is a baby in there, you know.

Yeah.

Like according to who?

The monitors.

The lack of period.

No, but when you haven't been like in between your doctor's appointments.

Yeah.

I mean.

It's like according to who?

God. appointments yeah it's like according to who god yeah yeah profound thank you other than that have you had a splendid evening yeah i finished running point on netflix i felt like maybe it was one or two episodes too long.
Okay. But you know that's me.
I like short things. You'll get to share your thoughts because you chose a Running Point story.
I did choose a Running Point story and that wasn't because like Selfishly, I just finished it. I actually was wondering the content of the story.
I was wondering if Chet Hanks got any acting advice from his father, Tom. And you know what? Page Six is gonna let us know today.
I think, what is that? Probably like third or or fourth story fodder right fifth stay tuned stay tuned for the details you don't want to miss this coming right up after the break after the break oh yeah that's so beautiful well i also have to sing so it's like not perfect but it is time for the fast five stories you need to know you-do-do. I know you mean when you say like some days it's not.

Like it doesn't flow naturally.

I feel like you just forced that.

I did because you literally like held a gun to my head. I bet you over and spanked you.

Yeah, you know what?

You don't have to do it anymore.

Thank you so much.

Only when it feels right.

Only when it feels right.

Okay, I'm doing something else.

We've got the Fast Five Stories for you after the break.

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T U R T. You know what? Not to sound like Ben having like an Eastern medicine thought.

An Eastern moment.

An Eastern moment.

But does anybody ever realize that the word meditation is medication without the C?

Yeah.

Well, no, I haven't.

But yeah, fast.

But it's kind of powerful when you think about it, right?

That is powerful.

Why don't you swap out your medication for some meditation? For some meditation. Just something to think about.
Swap out the C for the T. Correct.
Um. And that's what being dyslexic, that's the type of like really intellectual thoughts you're going to get from a girl who reads ads who is definitely dyslexic.
I definitely, like when I read these ads, the words are just like all over the page. It's a lot reading.
I'm definitely living with dyslexia. Oh, that's really wonderful.
You should explore that because I feel like- No, Piper, no. No, I don't want to explore it.
I live to have like six undiagnosed medical conditions. I have ARFID.
But you also live for six diagnosed. Coccidinia.
It's changed as a woman. It has, but like I diagnosed.
TMJ, IBS. I do.
Yes. Thank you for reminding everyone about my IBS.
I appreciate it. She has IBS.
Whenever someone like talks about their IBS, and I'm not saying that we should ever be ashamed of our illnesses, like speak your truth. But as somebody who like talks about about IBS like I need to stop talking about it because I just know the person I'm telling is like envisioning me on the toilet making a duty and like I don't want that image in their head no but I feel like IBS can go either way where it's like oh maybe she doesn't duty like well people yeah people don't realize I have the type of IBS where I was constipated so I feel like if you want people to think that you don't poop you could say that you have IBS because.
Because if you don't, if you say you have nothing, then of course you poop like you're regular. Regular.
But if you have IBS, like perhaps you don't poop. Yeah, but I need them to know it's the good type of IBS.
The beautiful type. It's IBS Aladin.
So yes, I did technically get diagnosed with IBS, but I haven't gotten diagnosed for my dyslexia or my ARFID. And I just feel like if you did, that could really become a cornerstone of your personality.
And these are the invisible illnesses that me and millions of Americans are living with every day. Certainly ARFID is invisible.
Yeah. Dyslexia seems more tangible.
No, dyslexia is real. And I'm telling you, I feel like I have it.
How do you get tested? I don't know. I feel like if you made it out of like elementary school without getting tested like it's too late for you like who gets okay who gets late in life dyslexic you literally read 50 books a year you're gonna be okay whether even if you have dyslexia like you're strong and you're pushing through think about how many i could read if i finally tackled my lifelong battle with dyslexia all the all the words were straightforward.
Correct. Well, that's something to think about.
Unlocking potential. And that's what we do on this podcast.
We help you unlock your potential. Meditation and medication.
A hundred percent. And mediation.
Well, ain't that the truth? What are we even talking about? And lamination. Because our first.
Lamination. Oh, my my god could this story have dropped at a worse time yesterday as our asses are getting up from the chairs something jackie and i have been waiting for four months finally comes out now i'm glad that i actually had a minute to think about it because sometimes getting breaking news on the show is great but i don't get time to like really fully form my thoughts yeah no and yesterday's episode was stacked and today is a Friday's with a lot of TV news like we needed this as our lead story but you guys Megan Markle's podcast with Lemonada Media has launched we have a title we have artwork we have a description years after being announced and very vaguely when it was announced we didn't get the name of the show, the concept of the show.
We have it all now.

She's already had a podcast.

Don't forget Archetypes on Spotify.

And then Lemonada was acquiring her podcast.

So you would think like Archetypes on Lemonada,

share whatever.

No, it's a whole new thing.

So like Archetypes is in the can, like flop.

We're going to call it a flop on Archetypes, yeah?

No, and we're also calling it,

that's a wrap on Archetypes.

Like it's over.

I thought maybe Lemonada would be the second coming.

I thought so too.

But no, like you did like two 10 episode seasons of Archetypes and that was so it's over that's a flop yeah yeah officially yeah megan is now launching confessions of a female founder with lemonada media it comes a year after she struck a deal with the company for her podcast the series will launch on april 8th it will see her have candid conversations with female founders and friends who open up about the struggles, the success, and the never-before-told stories that took many of them from starting a company to selling it. Per the logline, the series allows audiences to be a fly on the wall and hear the unfiltered stories behind the success of notable female founders, while also sneaking a peek behind the curtain of Megan's own entrepreneurial journey,

launching as ever.

It's an eight-part series

that will see episodes released weekly.

And they announced the first guest.

Who?

Danielle from Summer House, founder.

Oh, dirty.

I was like, I missed it?

No, I was sitting on that joke for like 10 minutes.

I was like, damn, I was in that truck for too long.

No, and that just kind of brings my first and initial thought about this, it brings it home. There is no two words, actually just one word that I hate more than founder.
To me, founder is the new entrepreneur. It's code for unemployed.
It is meaningless. Like, and yes, there are founders of companies and like, yes, like Mark Zuckerberg's a founder, but it is colloquially taken on this like toxic internet hustle culture like founding founding like shut up it means nothing so to put it in the title of your podcast and i think if you had broken this news to me on the show yesterday i would have the same thought yesterday that i just didn't require deep thought this is a very bad name for a show.
And a pretty cringe concept that's pretty overdone. I feel like, you know, there has been this moment and this girl boss, she-e-o, lean in.
And that was then, and that really did have a big moment. And now we're in like a new phase of it where like it doesn't have to be this way and like- Corny.
Corny, cringy. And i do feel like it sets the bar just like lower for women like it's like i don't know i i don't i think i understand why she's doing like females because like also lemonada is like elevates women's voices so i feel like lemonada was like female but i don't think she pushed back i think she's like female and everyone in the room is like female yeah well i feel like if this podcast had been launched five years ago like Elizabeth Holmes would have been a guest like that's when you say founder like that's the type of person you're attracting and I just I hate this this culture now if if she's having like I guess it really does depend on the guests right and she did get very good guests on archetypes the conversations weren't really interesting but the guests were shin mariah carey she had indy cohen i believe she had minnie kaling um i feel like we wasted the good surprise on them like a thousand percent really wants to be a guest on this it sounds very unserious as we guide megan into her founding of her new brand as ever which is like a jam that she slapped a label on like it's not really big business and the people that you would want to hear from the real female founders in this country

like sarah blakely that's who we want that's the richest self-made billionaire in the country

that's who should be your first guest on the show bethany frankel by the way i feel like sarah

blakely could be the first guest on the show she's like promoting those sneaks em agreed and yes i'm

just going down the shark tank female yes em agreed that's a very good one laurie barbara

Thank you. be the first guest on the show she's like promoting those sneaks em agreed and yes i'm just going down the shark tank female yes em agreed that's a very good one laurie barbara yes yes yes kim kylie yeah kylie pat mcgrath but there are a million ways that she could do this well like the name is cringy but like if she does if she has half the guests that you just mentioned like a real women like talking about like their business sense business strategy who have like really achieved amazing things that like has potential to be interesting I don't think that's what it's going to be I think it's going to be like how can I make this about me because a theme with all these projects that Megan's recently been launching and like actually the things that are coming to fruition is like they all are in promotion of as ever and like that's really boring yeah no and if it's if you're just interviewing people getting their stories then having a more anonymous host and a professional host is better because we're getting the best out of this person but if it's always supposed to tie back to Megan which it should because she's Megan Markle and we're tuning in for her but that's not like a great conversation because we're trying to do too many things.
Like this reminds me also, of course, like Diary of a CEO, which I think I've never listened, but like is amazing. I feel like I would say it's also like the leading business podcast.
I feel like I can say that based on a track record clips I've seen. It's been around forever.
It's a great concept. So this is like a very watered down version of that concept that has been done.
women are always talking other women how'd you get here how i built this like we got it yeah we got it this is not an original idea it's not exciting it's not something that only megan markle can do there are things in this world that only megan markle can do a former princess duchess of sussex and this is not anyone can do this. By the way, there's two other podcasts with this name.
Yeah. And so I think that it's disappointing, especially because I feel like with her TV show, one of my biggest takeaways was that she wasn't I would say the thing that she lacked the least in that TV show was the hosting capability, like making eye contact with camera and funny references and stories and personal anecdotes and jokes.
And that's all a podcast is, right? It's just your voice. And I feel like her voice was the thing that was really missing from the TV show, maybe because she saved it for the podcast.
I don't think that's it. But like, it just doesn't give me a lot of hope that this will be like really substantial when it comes to getting to know Megan.
And that's like all we want feel like that's all the feedback that we give but also a lot of people is like just scratching the surface a little too much which is fine nobody's compelled to like share their life with you but don't do a podcast and a tv show and a book and a documentary yeah yeah like so someone who doesn't have a lot to give she's spreading herself too thin for someone that doesn't even have that much left in the tank and and who's seemingly unwilling to like open up and like you know bleed out for a podcast which is fine you don't have to but like that's the best podcasts are people just like bearing it all that's what the medium kind of requires from a host I don't even know what that would look like from her and I feel like she she thinks that she has like, right. It's opening up and bleeding out and wasn't the documentary.
I will say, I think Oprah is probably the most honest and vulnerable. Like she had been with us up until that point.
And she's kind of like closed off ever since then. Which again is fine.
No celebrity, no matter how famous you are, nobody is entitled to know your innermost thoughts. But don't launch platforms built on the premise of that.
Don't make your business your innermost thoughts. Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, it hasn't come out yet, so there's still potench. But just name, ugh, like so corny.
And seriously, choogy. Like so lemonada, honestly.
In the worst way. Like sometimes someone can be lemonada and it's like Lemonada.
Like wiser than me with Julia Lee Drive is Lemonada. Yes, that show is really popular.
But this is Lemonada. Yeah, it's just like corny ass International Women's Day type shit, you know? And the photo is not making me want to tune in more than I already did or didn't.
Agreed. The photo is giving like stripped back, acoustic, you know, hair and a pony, jeans and a tee.
But it's not her confessions. So why do you need you stripped back? Aren't you Barbara Walters? Get your glasses on.
You're interviewing. You're going to work.
And also when she was like, quote, interviewing her guests on her Netflix show, which maybe she wasn't interviewing. They were just like conversing.
It was all about Megan, which is great. Like I love, I want to know more about Megan.
But she, oh, that was funny. Just also like came out of left field.
I don't know why I feel like the universe that you exist in, like I watched Drake and Josh like all the time growing up with Margo. Like I feel like you never even saw an episode of Drake and Josh.
Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

No,

not maybe not as much as you,

but I obviously know the lore and I know.

Yeah.

That's how I actually scared me.

Like just now.

Megan.

If you listen to the good guys,

he actually does it all the time.

That's so funny.

I hope that he like does it when they talk about Megan Markle.

I don't think they talk about Megan Markle,

but if they did, Megan. That's why it'll never be great.
So true. Just the good guys.
I forgot what I was saying, but all is that to say like disappointing. You said that the guests always talk about Meghan.
Oh yeah. And it's like, they came with like pre-recorded stories about like something that paints Meghan in a flattering light.
Like the makeup artist. When she ordered me room service for the first time, Mindy talking about the jack in the box, like it was all in service of Megan, which is fine.
But for a podcast where we're interviewing other people, maybe Megan really will take a backseat and just like ask thoughtful questions, which is good if the guests can carry. No, but also all those questions on the show, on the TV show, like it was the producer prompts.
Like you't hear megan ask the question because like someone behind the camera did it was like how'd you what's the first time you met megan what was that like like that we were both on tv shows for seven years what's it like being like it wasn't even her asking the questions this is just like really a bad idea and i don't understand why they're doing all this i don't know she works too works too hard. Are there not simpler ways to make money for them? I don't.
That's a really, really good point. Because they're very well connected.
Because this is all about money. Yes, of course.
They live like a very fancy life. And they come out of the woodwork every couple of years to do a project.
Harry obviously was just doing the books. And then they took a break.
And now it's Meghan's turn. Like they each take turns paying the bills.
And I think when you get to a certain level of celebrity and like you're so well connected, like there are kind of easy ways for you to make money, not public facing, right? Like you get opportunities to invest in random things that are like 100%, you know, sure to go. Yeah, that's good.
Yeah. And I don't know why they insist on doing so much public facing work to pay their bills.
Because I do believe that when the whole thing was, they wanted their privacy.

Right.

And I do believe like all the work that they do,

even though Harry definitely is like,

I need to tell my story.

And we're like,

okay,

I feel like for the most part,

a lot of the projects they take on are seriously just paychecks,

which is very regular of them.

We all got bills to pay.

Um,

and I don't know why they insist on doing it in like a public facing way.

Like,

I know that's definitely one way to do it.

Yeah.

But invest there's a, like when you're that rich, like you just get these opportunities like to make money. Your money makes money for you.
Yeah. And Harry comes from money.
Yeah. Yeah.
Maybe. I don't know.
But I guess they were getting like these big deals, like $20 million from Spotify. Like, is there an easier way to make 20 million? That's kind of, I don't know.
Yeah. 20 mil from Netflix.
It's also really interesting how he is completely have a big bucks yes yes yes they're huge they have the big bucks yeah oh wait we should like kind of shut the fuck up yeah that's why i said like you were being negative i'm like no lemon is amazing lemon is the place to be especially for women in podcast female founders that's for sure female founders of course like it would be i just say this because i'm'm jealous it would be a dream to be with lemonada it is also very interesting that harry is completely absent from all of her projects these days like he didn't show up on the show they say yeah i know i know i feel like it it signals like uh and maybe this is just me projecting because i can't fucking stand harry like i really even with the show megan with love Like I didn't like it, but like she, like I enjoy her. She's pretty.
I can't fucking stand Harry. Like I really, even with the show Megan With Love, like I didn't like it

but like I enjoy her. She's pretty.

I can't

fucking stand this man. And maybe other

people feel that and like his Q score has gone down

so they're just keeping him, you know, behind the curtain for a while

because he's not going to be on the Female Founders podcast.

He wasn't in With Love, Megan, even

though it was a show about like home.

Home and hearth.

So where in the world is Harry Mountbatten? Windsor. Sussex.
Duke. I don't know.
And I don't think they're getting divorced because that is what the streets like are always saying about them. I do not think they're getting a divorce.
I don't think they could ever get a divorce and I don't think they'll ever will get a divorce no matter how much they might hate each other. Yeah, I agree.
That's what I think. What could, like, seriously.

Could you imagine?

No.

I guess there would have to be, like, irrefutable evidence of, like, you know, maybe, like, him at a strip club

or, you know, like, a picture.

I don't know.

No.

There's no way.

They would work through it.

Down for life.

All's that to say, I probably won't be listening to this.

No.

And who will be, all's to say?

I don't know, because it feels like she has no fans left. It's true.
How is it us? We are her biggest fans. Yeah, you have to call Stassi.
She's like my pulse check on like Megan Stans. Like how are we feeling? What does this make us feel? It feels like everyone has left her.
But like everyone hasn't left her until Stassi has left her. Like truly if she has zero fans, then Stassi has walked out the door it's devastating so i need to know but i do feel like i didn't see stassi posting like oh my gosh with love with love yeah i know she's been actually silent real quiet yeah well that's the latest in podcasting confessions of a female founder you guys finally we've all been waiting for.
Also, like the trope Confessions of is such like a tired, especially for a podcast, but like just in general, culturally, it's just a very tired trope. Like Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Confessions of a Shopaholic, it's very like overused and tired.
And then the female founders, it's just like really corny. Unless Ina Garten named her memoir confessions of a contessa no her name should have been um barefoot confessions barefoot confessor sure that was the only way but I agree it's a tired trope and I just don't feel like we're gonna be getting a lot of confessions it's just a hunch uh these are my confessions i am curious who the first the guests will be especially like the first guest let's make a prediction that would be fun oprah oh like she megan did oprah a huge solid like anyone could have anyone would have wanted that interview she could have gone to any publication it was huge for oprah huge for megan too but at the time she could have gone anywhere um and i don't know if oprah has paid her back yet that's so true that's a really good one that would be newsworthy that would be good too and they could talk about the interview and the fallout like that would be interesting yeah yeah that would be worth it for sure you want to put in your prediction i would like to put in a prediction okay we need to make an app

you know how like jake paul and like barstool they have like betting sports apps yes we need we need a betting app on like things that we care about like who will be megan markel's first podcast guest yeah female founders usa sorry oh because you know that's what her team did so true okay 2024 is most intriguing women entrepreneurs i literally i feel like i'm rifling through there.

Or what about like Gwyneth?

Oh, that's a good one.

Because Gwyneth has a very big wellness company similar to what i think megan would want to build different skews but similar she also um i feel like they live near each other they both like garden and shit they're very green goop has a huge podcast so that would be like a good too similar. They either would get like they either.
I feel like if they're not as publicly associated yet that didn't we think that about Push and Goop and then there she was doing a collab. I feel like Gwyneth is so successful, like nobody can really touch her.
And there are a bunch of copycat brands and that's what Push is like from other celebrities. And and I think Push is like really actually successful because it's so authentic to Courtney but it is like inspired by

everyone is inspired by Gwyneth so when she when you're at the top like you're not easily shooketh you know I'm gonna go Emma Greed is my guess it's a really good guess except she is British oh my god is she a monarchist royalist or an anarchist? Oh, now it's getting political.

So who knows?

But yeah, she's super British.

That's a good call.

Okay, we shall see.

To be determined.

April 8th. Sound off in the comments.

April 8th.

Yeah, edit your list.

And sound off in the comments.

Who do you hope to or think we will see as one of Megan's eight guests on the new Lemonada show,

Confessions of a Female Founder, coming to an iPod near you. Are you ready for our next story? Yeah.
Actually, a female founder that she could have on, Wendy Williams, is on The View today. Yes.
I guess Oprah didn't snag that interview. The View got it.
Wendy Williams wants her guardian to get off her neck. The former daytime talk show host called into The View for a pre-taped interview exclusively obtained by Page Six, in which she got candid about her current conservatorship.
The interview kicked off with her explaining her hospital visit and her decision to get an independent psych test, which she says she passed with flying colors earlier this week. She said, I needed a breath of fresh air.
I needed to see see the doctor so that's why i went to the hospital she said hold on honestly i think the sheer fact that she sat for an interview speaks to her mental capacity and i know i keep comparing it to britney and i'm sorry but that's really the only frame of reference that we have and even in the years that britney's been freed she's never sat down for an interview because it really requires a lot of like mental fortitude and lucidity. Yeah.
That I mean, I haven't seen the interview yet and it was just recorded, but sounds like Wendy kind of did. Yeah, but it's also pre-taped over the phone.
So not like entirely like live. Oh, I didn't see that over the phone.
But still, Brittany didn't do a pre-taped over the phone interview. No, of course.
And the day after she left the facility. Right.
Give Wendy a week and she'll be sitting down with Oprah. Right.
She said, and also to get blood work done for her thyroid condition and made it clear it was her choice to get an independent evaluation on her incapacitation, which I don't have it. How dare they say I have incapacitation? I do not, she said.
She must be so mad. I can't even imagine.
And I imagine that comes through on the phone interview because I'm like hearing it even in just like your paraphrasing. To literally have your actual freedom and like stripped from you, like you're literally stuck.
Like it's so crazy. And if it all is what she says it is and it's not like, you know, this is actually a person suffering from dementia who thinks that they're fine.
And it's, you know, it's a freedom McFadden novel. Yeah, I was going to say it's like.
Yeah. If it is and it's not like you know this is actually a person suffering from dementia who thinks that they're fine and it's you know it's a freedom mcfadden novel yeah i was gonna say it's like yeah if it is what she's saying it is who's going to prison like you can't just throw someone uh in jail and lock a throw away the key yeah that's very true there needs to be repercussions not to change the subject but speaking of novels.
Did you see the opening scenes of Verity being shot in the streets with Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartman? So I did. It's reminding me of like when the first pictures of It Ends With Us came out, like it went so viral negatively.
But it was just like the photos were everywhere, seeing this book that everyone in America has read come to life. And now these pictures of Dakota Johnson filming in the New York City streets.
Now everybody, and I don't want you to tell me because I did read the book. And everybody's like, oh, I know what scene this is.
I literally posted that. Yeah, you.
Am I okay? I have no idea. I thought the book takes place at a house in Connecticut.
So this is not a spoiler because it's the opening scene of the book. I don't really think I want to know.
I really want to go in like eyes wide open. But everybody, like I saw all i saw all the influencers like who read they were like not this scene i'm like what the hell are you guys talking about yeah yeah yeah but to be you are like one of five people that i saw just so you know like i didn't even know dakota johnson was in this movie i didn't remember it if i didn't know that or josh harden i didn't know they started filming so i just saw a video of them filming the scene of her and the blood and him and so is Dakota the woman who comes low in and then Anne Hathaway is the lady upstairs Verity is Anne Hathaway Verity yeah okay then yeah I thought they would both be blonde I thought Verity was blonde she could be I mean I didn't see Anne Hathaway but like no but I think also the thing is maybe subliminally is that they look alike and they do right right Dakota Johnson and yeah yeah I love Dakota Johnson I guess because I don't know if I Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney for Housemaid they needed the brunette version yeah I don't know if I knew consciously that Dakota Johnson was in this movie that's what I'm saying I didn't know consciously so I saw a video of her in the street with the blood in the traffic and him whistling her away and I knew exactly what movie they're shooting and what scene this is and I missed I'm sad that I didn't have that same experience I have no I read the book so long ago I have no idea it is the opening scene of the book before think about why she before she think about about why she moves in let's rewind she got a job to do what to write right so just you know what you know what i really do want to be surprised okay and but i'm for any of you who didn't read verity i know you also right and i'm sure you'll see the movie it's very good verity good yeah it is good so i'm excited and it must be nice for colleen hoover to have movie like photos from her movie leaked and then be received positively because it's never happened to her yeah you just must be like what is this feeling so sudden and new for colleen yeah hopefully she's entering a new phase of like positive book adaptation and um you know i only I only recently saw Pearl Harbor for the first time, which is where Josh Hartnett got his start.
So now I feel really invested. Yeah.
Jury's out on him for the role. I agree.
Like, I'm open. He is beloved, by the way.
By the people. The way he was like just being in the scene from the videos, like, jury's out.
It's all I'll say say i agree um it's important to know like we are unique in that take which is you know very on brand for us america loves him he is like beloved no no and i'm not saying like he's jury is out okay do you find because this is like a new media like new age issue that like a movie gets made and we see stills from it, right? Like we see the costumes, we see the hair and makeup, nothing. It's still surprised what happens, but like some of the visuals are spoiled.
Do you find that to affect the movie watching process? Like a spoiler a little bit? No, I think it like hypes me up. And a few examples of that where my favorite like books were turned and we got photos before was like luckiest girl alive that was so hyper that was exciting and you know what else it was um uh brie larson chemicals oh lessons in chemistry yes lesson yes i remember seeing that and being like oh fab that's exactly how i pictured it and i feel like i remember seeing stills from confessions of a shopaholic before it came out and that's my favorite book book and was my favorite movie.
And it just got me really excited. So this gets me excited.
I mean, when it's good, it ends with us. Issue was the outlier.
Like usually it's good. That's the only negative experience that I've had where it's like, no, no, no, you guys cut.
Well, I think about like, and just like that season two, where they brought back Aiden. It was completely spoiled.
Yeah.

But I guess that's what you get when you shoot on the street.

And I feel like they could have avoided that.

But also that's not book because book like we know the story.

Right.

Right.

Right.

So I guess it's just like a teaser of like the book world come to life.

It's a teaser of the world that they're building and that gets me excited.

I agree.

And excitement excites me.

Why wouldn't it?

Seems reasonable.

A thousand percent. Are you ready for our next story some tv news is it three it's three okay yeah ted lasso season four is a go with jason sudeikis and a women's team juno temple is in negotiations to join the returning cast as the apple series heads to kansas so this is like exciting and annoying because ted lasso just and it was very bittersweet and the whole season was like a big farewell and I love you to Ted Lasso and that was about two years ago and now Ted Lasso's coming back for another season and Juno Temple at I checked to Google I should make sure that's Keeley that's Keeley yeah and we need Keeley we do I feel like this is kind of weird I didn't know that this was even up for debate like it definitely felt like the show ended early but that's of course like the sign of a good show they're able to like tell their story on their own terms go out on their own terms so I was sad because I liked the show and like when it ended I was like oh that's a show that I'll miss but I didn't feel like wronged or mad they didn't leave us on a cliffhanger no in the last season I found to be really bad I didn't finish it yeah I found it to be actually unwatchable and it came out during a time when I was desperate for TV.
It was like Circlage era. And I could not finish it.
Well, spoiler alert, he goes back home to Kansas. And so I guess that's where this new show is picking up.
And it's a women's soccer team now. Right, which is very on brand.
I also think Jason Sudeikis, a lot of those people in Hollywood, they've all started to own parts of the Women's Soccer League across the U.S. They're trying to make it a thing.
A lot of Eva Longoria, Jennifer Garner are involved in the L.A. I want to say the Angels is the name of the team.
So like all the, they're trying to create like a big league for women's soccer. So this is obviously like propaganda, not in a bad way.
Like propaganda has a negative connotation, but like in service of that. Because a lot of celebrities have like a big financial stake in women's soccer for some reason they've all like decided that this is going to be the thing they want to create like the next nba yeah i don't think that that is a fruitless idea growing up like i was a female soccer player i love soccer i love me a ham like bring us back to the glory and in terms of yes well, soccer is not an inherently American thing.
We happen to be quite good at it as women. No, and like women's US soccer is better than men's soccer.
It's like, I don't know, gymnastics. I don't know why it shakes out that way, but it does.
It does. And so, and we have like a lot of like famous soccer, I don't know one American soccer player who's a man, but I can name like 11 Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm who like you know who walked on stage with Taylor Swift no like David Beckham and Lionel Messi came to play no that doesn't count of American descent like the women and I feel like they were just causing drama remember we were talking about Ashlyn Harris yeah yes and like so I actually found a bunch of them yeah we know them right so it's not a bad business venture and I think like bringing in tv because you know like him and Olivia Wilde definitely like put money in years ago to like one of the LA teams or something totally not to pit like women's like struggling women's league against struggling women's league but like what does this mean for the WNBA which league do you think has a better chance of success, the WNBA or women's soccer U.S.? It's a really good point.
I mean, women's soccer has a much harder task because not only do they have to get people to care about women's sports, they also have to get Americans to care about a sport that really doesn't exist. Like the MLS, Major League Soccer, is like nobody gives a fuck.
Like remember when in the Beckham documentary, he talks about his time playing on the American team. Like seriously, there was three three people in the stand.
And like they had full time jobs. Like this was their like side hustle.
Hobby. Soccer.
And David Beckham's there like making a hundred million dollars. Like so they have a harder job, although I do think it's more palatable for Americans.
No, maybe not palatable. Maybe like it's been many years of the WNBA.
And people care now this year more they do caitlin clark effect the angel reese like there's a lot going on but there is a you have to look as to why people haven't cared up until this point yeah no it's like they've had their shot multiple shots shot hasn't taken um i will be very curious to see i do feel like as Americans we miss out on the cultural like fun of soccer like soccer's fun but we have football and they don't yes so like i feel like we're actually all set and i don't know if as a country we could like take on another sport in such a way um but i also think that these things of like getting people to care about things and like building worlds and teams and history these take years it's not like women's soccer is just gonna be popular next year and be popular forever like you got and maybe that's what the wnba has been doing and we're just we're too in it to see right we need to zoom out like talk to us in 50 years yeah so i think that like the even though the last couple of episodes of uh telassa weren't good there is magic there right like it's a good formula the characters are good the writers are good this will probably be excellent yeah and the premise sounds good so it's a women's team he's going back to Kansas I think Keely might come on and probably be his PR girl again I don't want I don't want the whole cast I don't want to know I really don't need the assistant coach I don't want to name names but I don't want everyone okay and who i just feel like i can't say it i don't like the assistant coach the bald guy or like the guy with the beard what's his name like eagle uh it's like a bird yeah yeah let me find it i really texted you he was my least favorite you texted me who you don't wait why i love her i don't like her anymore like i just i don't know she's just wow i like her jackie can i put you on the spot and say who it is no no because now i feel like maybe i'm wrong for like not one you are i am you are she's like so like what's wrong with her i don't know she's not keely no no she's not keely but i also need him to bring back brett goldstein even though he's the writer. He's the writer on the show, so I'm sure he'll still be involved in the project.
Yeah. The assistant coach actually doesn't bother me.
No. So much, except when he got his own episode and he went on a trip.
Oh, my God. He was walking through the tunnels on drugs.
Yeah, that was really bad. Horrible.
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And I did wonder about this. So when I saw the headline, I wondered, was Jason Isaacs wearing a fake penis when we saw his penis on White Lotus? Which we didn't even talk about how he saw his penis.
And it turns out it wasn't his penis. It was a prosthetic.
So I'm glad we didn't even talk about it because it wasn't his real penis. Every time I see a penis on TV and then it doesn't happen a lot.
So it's always big news. And then there's always was it a prosth prosthetic like remember Sex Life when he had that big schlong in the shower they're like it's a prosthetic why like women show their titties and they're not fake no I didn't even wonder if it was a prosthetic I was like oh there's his penis and he wanted to show his penis on HBO today like let him well I don't know why they get the option to wear a prosthetic like it's that's actually that needs to be talked about on Confessions of a female founder like that's about this if jason isaacs doesn't want to show his real penis can't we just take out that moment it literally didn't yes storyline or anything at all and it was actually kind of random it's actually not like all worthy that we're looking at a part like it was shocking that he showed us his penis and okay doesn't move the storyline but that's classic HBO but you're not even showing us his penis so what what does this prosthetic serve yeah no it's an amazing point they should have kept this secret in the vault because you're right it was so not germane to the storyline like and it actually is kind of not on brand for the dad who's like this very buttoned up tailored guy.
So it was this random thing. And for it all to have been fake in service of what? Right.
Like not necessary at all. It was like.
And I'm more focused on the fact that like when there's nudity on a woman, like we've never seen a fake like boob. Right.
They're not wearing breastplates. They're tits.
Tushies. We see tushies.
But boobs are like penis and vagina vagina to penis that's no i'm sorry it's not the same because i know that you don't feel that way and i don't feel that way either but like that's just what if a man does nudity it's penis if a woman does nudity there are multiple options right there's breasts there's tushy there's vagina why like? Like, this,

I need the intimacy coordinators

and like the women's rights movements.

I need them to get on this.

Why do you get the option

to do nudity?

And if you don't do nudity as a woman,

like you're penalized, right?

Like it's,

you lose roles.

And if you're a man,

like you just slap on a prosthetic

if you're not comfortable showing penis.

I don't know.

I think that's actually

the definition of inequality. So you don't, you want to cage the nipple again.
I didn't say that. You don't want to cage the nipple.
Once again, your interpretation of my words is merely a reflection of your thoughts. I literally didn't even share my thoughts on this.
I hadn't spoken yet. You want to cage the nipple.
I didn't say cage the nipple. You guys, I didn't say cage the nipple you guys I didn't say that she's flipping okay by the way big talker what are your thoughts I don't see a need for any of it man woman nothing yeah yeah keep your junk in your pants keep your shirt on it's just a show keep your dong in your jeans you know know what if you want to have the balls to show us your dong better be the real thing it's so true we want full frontal except jason isaacs is my king and what i'm so glad he did the prosthetics that was so the right move for him he's so smart and brilliant no yeah nothing but love and respect for our thomas raveneau we're not speaking ill of him we're just talking about the industry as as in a general sense and let's talk about a prosthetic penis that really looked like a real penis what is the journey of that thing like does it lay on the prop table next to craft services i bet they keep it in like a warm climate so that when you slip it on it's like not freezing kind of how like the gel at the doctor for the ultrasound they keep it in the warmer yeah maybe maybe keep it in like a prosthetic warmer no see like all of that that's like budget not necessary and then the intimacy coordinator's job is to like physically i think put it on and she's like walking around with this little case of penis and she's like coming through coming through yeah And she definitely walks around also with like a fanny pack full of like different cosmetics needed.
Like some powder if the penis is shiny. Maybe scissors to like trim the pubes.
And I don't want to put anyone out of a job ever. Right.
But that's not needed. Agreed.
Is what I'm saying. That part of the job.
Agreed. But intimacy coordinator, of course.

I'm not a monster.

No, she wouldn't dream.

I would never.

I take Zach Afstra more seriously than anyone.

I have, like, we've spoken more about intimacy coordinators in the last year than, like, any two people should.

We need to interview an intimacy coordinator.

I don't follow.

Who is also a female founder.

Well, I guess all female intimacy coordinators are female founders, in sense like contractors for a larger intimacy coordination company oh that's true but maybe like they founded the company of intimacy we need to talk to the founder yeah only if she's a female you she is only a female correct if you're like a man and your job is an intimacy coordinator, like, okay, creep, creep. These are women's issues.
Agreed. Right.
It's women who suffer on sets. So true.
And you want to be like, I'm sorry if I were a naked actress and my intimacy coordinator were a man, I'd say, please leave. One thousand percent.
There are some jobs that are only for women. Masseuse.
Pilot. For women.
Doctor. President.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay. She's going to Lemonada.
And, of course, the founder of Lemonada. Tarity, crack me up.
Thanks. Are you ready for our fifth and final story, which is more TV news? Is it about the brilliant advice Chet Hanks received from his father, Tom? Yes, but it's also about how you've been duped a little bit by this story.
I'm sorry. By the way, I only read the headline before I sent it to you.
So let me read you the story. I want to show you the insidious way that they report.
Hollywood is so sinister. Headline.
Chet Hanks reveals the acting advice dad Tom gave him to prepare for Running Point. Okay, click.
Yeah. Easy click.
Chet Hanks turned to his award-winning father, Tom Hanks,

for acting tips ahead of his breakout role in Netflix's new hit show,

Running Point.

Quote, I've always asked him for advice when it comes to acting,

and he's always given me really great advice,

the rising star told Page Six exclusively at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards last September.

But they wrote the article yesterday? But they wrote the article yesterday about an interview that they did last September that they're recycling. Oh, this is so insidious.
Sinister. Chet shared that Tom told him three key things he has to do to be successful in Hollywood.
So it's not even advice on running point. It's just advice in the business.
I'm completely uninterested in the rest of this story. I thought it was like actual advice about this project.

And I was interested in it because I have felt like for years that there has to be like some bad blood between Tom and Chet.

Like when you think of Tom's kid.

I thought Chet was on the outs.

Right.

Like when you think about how his family might have like really been upset with him about a lot of his like public facing behavior over the years compared to his brother.

Who's the other one? Colin Hanks. Colin.
And he's so buttoned up other one Colin Hanks and he's so buttoned up oh my god he's so buttoned up he gets all the good roles like he's really well behaved right he's very well behaved so I feel like Chet has been the bad egg and I could see like Rita and Tom being like annoyed with him so the fact that Tom was giving him advice on running point I was like you know what the headline here said they speak yeah but they this is a year ago who knows this is from september and also here's the advice which by the way is general acting advice and not specific to running point he just said quote if you know if you just know your lines and you show up on time and you're nice to everybody that gets you a long way okay privilege like bare minimum do less so that's like not advice that I tell you, though, that his character— That's the job. Do the job and show up.
Right. Thanks, Captain Obvious.
Maybe they don't speak. Right.
Well, the second half of the series, actually, he takes on a little bit of, like, a darker—up until this point, he's, like, a funny, ha-ha. But something happens where he's, like, struggling, and he has to—and he's actually, like, a very dynamic actor.
He really crushed it. Like that's one of my biggest takeaways from the show is get Chet Hanks more roles.
Yeah, I'm so in agreement. And the show already is getting a second season.
Unclear if he's in it. But if you just finish it, would that like poise him to be in it? It could go either way.
Oh, he's either like on the team or not on the team no he's like struggling with something personally so like maybe he just like quits or he comes back you know yeah understood so that's the stories that you needed to know i would say four out of five you needed to know not last year's news from the m MTV VMAs. But I do think the lesson in media literacy was important.
Hugely important. And I'm glad that you didn't swap out the story once you realized it was a fake.
No, I think it's so important. I love that we've started calling out like these journalists.
Inconsistencies. No, and also like the former singer slash turn.
Yeah. No, Hank.
Well, also when I was looking for stories on page six, it was like, here are all the couples expecting in 2025. And like, it was really Z-list.
Were you on that? No. But you're such a page six darling.
I know. What the hell? Like, they went out of their way because they had really like bottom of the barrel peeps.
People I didn't even hear. I haven't even heard of.
That's really. It's obviously an oversight.
I feel like they wrote the whole thing like just to hurt you. Yes.
Yes. So it's the last time I look for stories because I'm trying to help and I catch a stray.
Yeah. Oh, I feel like I have the opposite experience where I'm looking for stories.
I'm like, hey, there's my sister. Oh, there's my brother-in-law.
That's nice. That's nice.
Oh, there's my friends. Shall we dive into Queenie and Weenie, our final segment of the week? Yeah, we should.
So Queenie and Weenie, you guys, a tale as old as time every Friday. Jackie and I like to wrap up the week in a little bow with a segment we call Queenie of the Week and Weenie of the Week and it's Jackie and I sharing someone who we thought to be Queenie this week and somebody who acted like a Weenie and again it's not that serious it's a seven day title you can be Queenie one week Queenie the next it's never happened but it is possible would you like to go first and should we do Queenie or Weenie? Let me pull that up.
I forgot who I chose.

We go Queenie first.

And I'm sure there's like a more obvious Queenie of the week.

But for some reason, my mind keeps going to maybe Fionke.

Who has brought me so much joy this week.

And laughter.

And I'm just really here for the renaissance of maybe Fionke.

I'm so down.

If that's okay with you.

I know it's a little rogue.

It's totally fine.

I'm just not realizing I chose two weenies instead of a queenie and a weenie.

That's so Cojur's.

So share your truth.

Share your Cojurna's truth.

Okay, because I do have two weenies.

Okay, share your first one.

The first weenie is the San Francisco 49ers.

I think it was really not a smart move to drop my boyfriend Kyle Uschek. I don't like that.
Okay, and then I'll go my first weenie is the san francisco 49ers like i think it was really not a smart move to drop my boyfriend kyle use check like i just i don't like that okay and then i'll go my first weenie and then also i i said that because it was a jumping off point are you i actually meant to talk to you about this offline are you familiar with any of like the the wag drama going on in the 49ers i saw we were being accused of burying it i i have not it has not reached reached my desk. It had, it's actually ongoing.

I had heard about it like a year ago

and the weird part is like,

you know who Fred Warner is?

He's like a big player

on the 49ers.

I do know that he is

engaged or married to a woman

who is an influencer

and she was low-key

on The Bachelor

and she does it

and she's like,

you know,

a girly

and she's not with

the other girlies.

Okay,

so Fred Warner's,

I think wife,

they have a baby together.

Sydney Warner.

She was on The Bachelor and then just like happened to have like have, like, a successful career as an influencer and married. And he's really good.
So, like, she's really popular. And there's, like, a noticeable, like, schism up until this point between her and the other wives when you think of all the girlies.
They're always together. And even when Olivia joined the team, like, immediately she was in with the gals.
Like, they're obviously welcoming bunch and they love an influencer. And like over the years,

she has like posted things

that like led people to believe

she really dislikes Kristen Juszczyk.

And on Monday,

when it was announced that Kyle was released,

like everybody on the 49ers,

all the other players,

all the other wags are posting like crying,

Kyle, we love you.

Pictures of Kyle from the last 10 years.

Sydney starts posting,

what an amazing, beautiful day. Isn't this the most amazing Monday you've ever seen in your whole fucking life? I love Monday.
Like, really? Like, very obviously being like, oh, Kyle was dropped, Kristen's leaving the team. I love it.
Yeah. And there's a lot of speculation about what the beef is.
Nobody knows. People are just, like, guessing online.
But a lot of people thought that was really kind of you know telling tasteless um to celebrate the man losing his job and that's why I chose the 49ers as my weenie because I just wanted to tell you that got it um that's crazy I wonder what happened between the two of them and also it's like okay so things worked out for her because she doesn't want to be on kristin news check like take the win and shut up be right be the big big be gracious like just be happy privately and like things are looking up for you for whatever reason like now you've just made yourself look like an arse the villain yeah i can't imagine what the beef is like kristin gets along with everyone so the streets and the internet which they have no proof they say it's like a uh disagreement on politics who's what well they said that syd Sydney is more liberal and then like some of the other wags, Kristen included, are more conservative. They have no proof of that.
That's just like what- Oh, but they love to say that like about everything. It's giving Florida Georgia line.
It's everyone's go-to. You know, it's giving Becca and Garrett.
Yes, but with Becca and Garrett, that was the case. With Florida Georgia line, it was the caseorgia was the case correct it's giving sister sister no i don't think so because because even if the wags are like conservative leaning they don't post anything like if they were so extreme like they would post even a little bit more i don't think it's like their whole personalities no but we really we have no we have nothing to go on here so i think that's like a lot of people's natural inclination is just to be like politics.
Yeah, that's their favorite. That is always a good one.
Like Sarah and Ben. Correct.
Which leads me to my second weenie of the week. Thank you so much.
Just this entire season of Love is Blind. And I guess in a small way, I need to make myself the weenie of the week.
Because I know a lot of our listeners only started picking up this season. Because it probably sounded really funny and interesting based on my funny and interesting recaps.
Like how many how much did we laugh over the last month? Like if I was listening to a show, I'd say, oh, I would watch Love is Blind. And the whole thing was full of losers.
And I felt like a loser just watching it with the reunion that we recapped on Monday. Yeah, everything was was truly the definition of weenie-licious.
Loser sneeze. So I would say love is blind season, whatever, Minnesota season.
And the San Francisco 49ers are my weenies of the week. I'm sorry.
No queenie this week. Not my fault everybody was acting like a weenie.
What does that say about the state of the world? Correct. Who's your weenie? My weenie of the week is James Kennedy, obviously.
Oh, yeah, That's a good one. Requires no explanation.
Agreed. He behaved in a weedy-like fashion in all facets of his week.
Oh, my God. Wait, we didn't even talk about Kelly Clarkson's new song with Rascal Flatts came out today.
I'm moving on. I'm sorry.
I've been inside of a truck. Yeah.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
I'm sorry. We have to hang up.
No, no. We have to hang up.
I have to listen. The Rascal Flatts album that we spoke about at the beginning of the week, It hasn't come out yet.
I think they're releasing song by song. And this morning they released Kelly's.
They're the cover of my release radar. It's right here.
I didn't even get to see my release radar. We were listening to Paw Patrol in the car.
The I'm moving on cover of Rascal Flatts with Kelly Clarkson. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Let me say my thoughts really quickly. Can I just take off my helmet? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Take your helmet off. off take your helmet off i just want to say it's so good i love the song i'm moving on but i really um i could have used more of a duet it's basically a kelly clarkson cover which i'm of course never complaining about but the fun was that like they would be collaborating and it's pretty much kelly the whole time and then like gary at the end there's never really any point in the song where they're singing together i feel like they weren't even in the same room and they didn't like harmonize with one another.
I was looking for more like pargy harmonies and the blending of vocals. And I didn't really get that.
I just got like a beautiful Kelly Clarkson cover. It's still good, obviously.
It's like the best song I've heard this year, but that's it. All right, Jackie, look alive.
We're good. Put your helmet back on.
That was so funny. We're athletes.
What can I say? This is a full context for. That is helmet back on that's so funny we're athletes what can I say this is a full context correct that is our show that's our show I have to go listen to I'm moving on so I'm moving on from this show thank you so much for listening to the toast was it a narafi and a safi or a nalafi an hour seven like very normal for us but it's very narafi these days to do an hour seven okay there's like literally someone at my door.
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Yeah, I'm having wallpaper installed, but in 30 minutes. Maybe he's early because he's excited to work with you.
Jackie's coming to town in a few weeks, so I'm getting our second studio setup set up where we can record together in person in a pargy. There won't be frames, so everyone can just like unclench.
Everyone will be very upset. And there will obviously be like something missing in the air.

Maybe it's here early.

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