Transcript of A Little Bit of Chickenfry: Wednesday, October 23rd 2024

Good morning, millennials. And welcome back to The Chose. Happy Wednesday. Hope everybody is having a Gargi-pargy Hump Day. And speaking of Gargi-pargy-ness, the act of humping. The act. I introduce to you without further ado, it's Jacqueline Follet.

It's me.

Yeah. Hi.

Hey. Yes, GPH, Gargi-pargy Hump Day. What about it?

What do you know about it? I know a lot.

I hadn't taken stock of the fact that it's Humptay. This week is not a real week because you're here, so the days are a suggestion.

It's more like a dream, you would say.

The days are a suggestion. Then you leave. I don't even want to talk about it. You're not leaving on a Friday, so the day you leave will feel like a Friday, but then it's not a Friday.

Ben's like, We have to get home. I have tickets to the next home opener. Ben and his hobby. I have gotten so invested in sports, and Ben happens to be obsessed with the worst sport. I have tried. Let me tell you, I'm so into baseball now. I'm seeing the benefits of all different sports. Base, you can't even argue with me, is the worst Professional basketball is the worst. Excuse me, basketball is the worst sport. Ben was watching it last night. Maybe it's because Ben is a lifelong fan of the worst fucking team on the planet. They lost by 40 points last night. But I don't know, basketball really doesn't do it for me.

I wonder why it's not any worse than anything else. It's pretty fast-paced.

I know. By the way, I meant to update you on this. There will be no subway series. The Yankees made it to the World Series, but Shohe is going with the Dodgers.

I saw that there won't be a subway series. I never really thought that there was going to be. I would have loved that, but the Mets, they don't have what it takes.

Wow.

You just, by the way- No, that's just a fact. I wish that they did, and I would have loved that for them, and I would have been over the moon if they did. But the Yankees and the Dodgers, they're always in because they're always in.

It's actually not fair.

It's like the Chiefs and the Patriots at one point.

It's always the Yankees and the Dodgers.

They're just the best.

It's so true. Well, I'm happy for Shohe. That's a small, bright spot.

Yeah, I'm happy for baseball.

I see you took a big dump on the Beautification Committee this morning. Why? Putting your big white- No, but I can't see you when it's like, I want to see more turt.

And by the way, as far as tumblers go or drinks, this is pretty parj. This could be a centerpiece on its own.

Speaking of drinks, I'm drinking a- That is a big dump. You mean it's going to make me have a big duty?

No, the drink itself is a big duty.

Yeah, I'm drinking a Starbucks coffee. Ben went out. He goes to Starbucks every single morning. At home, he's walking around me. He's like, You want anything from Starbucks? I never, ever say yes. Starbucks is just not a facility that does anything It was really interesting for me. But I was like, Okay. I actually really wanted a grilled cheese, and I was like, Well, I need a beverage to wash it down with. So I got this. It's like an ice shaken. I literally don't even know. Let me see the label. Drink it. It's literally not good.

No, no, no, no. I can't.

Tell me what it is.

Grande Shaken Espresso Double.

Am I okay?

Is that a drink?

Do you like it? No, it's really disgusting. But I don't know if there's one drink at Starbucks that I would like, except a classic vanilla bean. You need to have a vanilla bean.

You need to make your own vanilla bean at home.

You need to make me my own vanilla bean.

So that it's not packed with sugar and I could use stevia instead.

Do you remember when we were in middle school, we didn't drink coffee. We just went to Starbucks and got vanilla beans. In high school, later on in our lives, we found out they were literally 1,500 calories.

When we were in middle school, you got vanilla beans. Some of us were over here getting passion fruit, ice tea.

Oh, by the way, don't clown on a PTL. Passion tea lemonade from Starbucks is divine.

Yeah, no, it's nice, but it's not a vanilla bean. No, It's a healthier option.

Some of these bitches in my crew, they were getting double-chunk chocolate cookie.

That's literally you with your vanilla bean.

Chocolate frappe, literally giving the Costco guys.

That was you. You were that young in.

The Costco guys were getting so famous By the way, they were referenced on SNL. They took over this college football thing and everyone was doing their little dance. It's actually crazy how I invented the Costco guys.

No, it's really crazy. I didn't get to have a natural experience with them because I met them so early on in life.

The craziest thing about this entire, the whole world is that Jackie has met the Costco guys, and I haven't. I invented them. I was literally a fan of them. I saw their video and I said it to Olivia and I was like, This is going to be your family.

I was meant to connect with them because as a couple of creators, we were maybe going to collaborate. That's what you say. But I don't even think I got a business card because I should totally have them in the studio.

Oh, my God. You guys need to do the dance.

No, they need to get sat in these chairs.

Yeah, they actually do have their own podcast, I think. But I I'd like to talk, mask off, learn about them as parents, as human beings. The Rizler, of course. Ben is obsessed with the Rizler. The Rizler doesn't do it for me. I'm really an OG Costco family, that girl.

The Rizler.

Major, major update just in time for me to actually leave tomorrow is I did shave my legs. I wore my hairy legs out to Olivia Sun's birthday party because whatever. They were really hairy. They were beyond the pale. I could have been confused for a child at the party who's seven years old. No, 11. No, I don't think so. Okay, one of the dads. I literally could have been confused for one of the dads. One of the dads. Let me tell you, Ben doesn't- Don't flat it yourself. I have such skinny seven-year-old boy. Ben doesn't notice things like that. We were in the car and the sun was really hitting my legs in a really unflattering way. He was like, wow.

I just want to say the sun was hitting the legs that day because I was a few days post-shave and you could see, and it's very light and you could still see. When I was looking at my legs in the car on the way to Olivia Sun's birthday party, I was like, Oh, I could stand to shave.

Seeing your legs in the sun is seriously traumatizing. But I haven't shaved my legs since swirly summer. We went right into fall. You live in Florida, so you have to maintain, what, once every two weeks?

Well, I've actually been shaving my legs a lot because I've been doing myself spray tan a lot. Correct. So once every four days, I do it twice a week, which is crazy.

I thought I'd show my legs off. She cut myself the other night. Very sad. I thought I'd show some leg on today's episode. I don't want to get anyone too excited, but if you're watching on YouTube, I am wearing backer shorts.

There is one leg because Because the other one is tucked.

It's tucked under my tissue. I definitely look weird.

We'll move around.

It's hard to sit in these chairs. We always do. It just is.

We always move around.

Back to what I was saying about Harry Potter, The Rizler. The Rizler. How did we get here? We got a great show. Let me just give a quick run of show for those who might be confused. It's Wednesday. We have Pargie stories, really Pargie. We have Dear Toaster's, the submissions were making me laugh so hard this morning. Seriously, the girlies are not okay. We arrived just in time.

Okay, well, I'm glad for that.

I'm glad for the fact that this is not going to be my final trip to Florida for quite some time. I will be back in literally a month and a half. Jackie and I are performing. We are taking our live podcast, The Girly Swirly's Night Out to Hollywood, Florida, at the Hard Rock Seminal Casino.

We're going to Hollywood.

Florida. Seriously, where's Ryan Seacrest with my ticket to Hollywood? We should literally give those away. That's funny.

You need a ticky to Hollywood. A ticky. A ticky to Hollywood, December eighth, Gizmo Live at the Hard Rock Casino Hotel, shaped like a guitar. Such fun for the weekend. Do a little gambling.

It's going to be very holiday-themed, the show. We're calling it a holiday Spectacular.

Yeah, it's just no holiday Spectacular. Do a little gambling, make a little love, get down tonight.

If you're local, make it a staycation. If you're not local, come spend the weekend at the Hard Rock. I've actually been there before. Me and Ben have gambled many times there because it's halfway between... It's 30 minutes from Miami. So Ben and I, when we go to Miami, sometimes we're like, should we just go gambling? And it's so fun. So I'm really excited. I know it's a homecoming show for you, but for me as well.

Yeah. There's just going to be a lot of great party vibes. Yeah. Swirly energy.

The Rumor Mill is churning at rumors that it will be the largest gathering of girly swirlies in the continental US.

Yes. And even though not all the tickets are sold yet, I think we sold more tickets than the biggest show we've ever done. So it's already going to be the most amount of swirlies in one place.

It's a 6,000 person venue. I believe last time we checked, we were at 5,000 tickets. So it's on track to sell out. And the biggest venue prior to this we had done was the Beacon Theater, which is 2,900. But now we did do it four times, so that's like 12,000 tickets. But it wasn't all swirly all. It wasn't all at once. It under one roof of swirly down. It wasn't a singular congregation.

And it's not clear if the roof of this joint is going to bust off from all the swirliness.

I know. I have to talk to some of my friends in witchcraft, but I do believe when that much swirly energy is congregated into one particular space, it can have catastrophic-Consequences.

We also need to talk to some of our friends in construction just to make sure the foundation can hold.

And we don't blow the lid off this place.

The foundation can hold all the swirliness.

But you have a lot of friends in construction.

I have friends everywhere.

I've got friends in loan. Oh, my God. By the way, we never even talked about those crazy allegations about Garth Brooks. I think we must have been off or something. I think it was Russia Shanna or something. But pretty crazy allegations came out about Garth Brooks, who's the people's person, the people's Garth. He won't put his music on Spotify because he's so principled, but he's out here assaulting people, allegedly.

What was the allegation?

I believe it was from a glam, a hair makeup artist from the last 10 years who had worked with him, who said Garth sexually assaulted her. A man or a woman? A woman. Damn. I know. It's funny when people won't put their music on Spotify, but they'll do that. Yeah. Not funny. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I mean, proud to not have ever been really a Garth girl.

Oh, wow. Now she's distancing herself from Garth.

It's not going to be hard because there's a lot of distance between.

Yeah, it's over there. I'm humiliated to admit, I do love some of his songs.

I just know the one, and I know it from Country Strong.

Every song I know from Garth Brooks, I literally know.

My Hands are clean.

From Country Strong, except Calling Baton Rouge, that one I learned on my own. Unlear I have a lot of unlearning to do. You do. What else did I want to tell you? Because I actually haven't seen you all morning. You should be like Kiki in the kitchen.

I know. I've had a migraine all morning because... One of the worst low-key, even though there's no reason for it. The reason is I stayed up so late last night finishing my book because I just absolutely had to finish this book. I was like, I don't want to spend another day reading this book. I was at 80%, it was midnight. I was like, Fuck it. I'm just finishing it.

If this book creeps into one more day of my life, then the book wins.

It's a thriller. I just want to know how it ends, and I want to- Another perfect couple. Is that- One perfect couple. I finished it, but staying up so late in the lack of sleep gave me a horrible headache. I'm just like, I'm powering through.

She's a survivor, you guys.

Trying to hydrate. But anyways, I also say I finished my book and I didn't like it. Okay. Mostly because I just didn't like the setting, the whole premises. I didn't realize that's where it was going. I won't spoil it, but not for me.

I started season 4 of Only Water's in the Building.

Oh, so you finished what you had been watching because you talked about it.

Yeah, we finished season 3 last night. I'm really behind on the show. Let me tell you, they have such good celebrity cameos. They have a couple of celebrities playing themselves this season because they're talking about themselves. They're talking about making their podcast into a movie, and Eva Longoria is going to play Selena. They have They have people playing themselves, which is cute. But our swirly, Events, Events, I want to go to Events, Katherine Cohen, she's in it. Not as herself, she's acting as a director. She just loves to see women in comedy doing big things.

Oh, that's exciting.

It is. I was like, I know her. When I saw her on TV, I was like, That's literally my friend. Events, Events, I want to go to events. Invite me to your events.

And speaking of content, Turdie and I published a vlog yesterday. We are published vloggers on the Patreon. It's a really fun blog. There's a lot going on, a lot of different elements. It's been taking place over the course of the last four days. So I don't want to spoil too much. Check it out, patreon. Com/thetoast.

Something crazy happens in there, and it's that I have never eaten PuraVita. And PuraVita is like a chain down in Florida that's so popular. Actually, so popular. They just opened one in New York. Everyone's talking about it. And it's just giving pargy-ness in the sense that it's a clean facility that sells wraps, salads, and sandwiches, and they're all really good. And you're going to be shocked that I didn't like it. Spoiler alert. So you're going to want to tune in to find out. But it's more a reflection on me.

You're going to be shocked that Turdy didn't order properly.

Yeah, I shit the bed a little bit. So I don't want to blame PuraVita. Yeah. But I'm so mature. Yesterday, I took responsibility for my role in that great Hillary Doff debacle of 2012, and now I'm taking responsibility for my part in PuraVita. I'm seriously so evolved.

That's beautiful. Thank you. That's so beautiful.

Thank you.

We're proud of you. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Got you flowers.

Thank you. Oh, my God. They smell So gorgeous.

Don't block your beautiful Fatch.

I would never dream of it. You know what I did today? Because it's so interesting. Every time I come down here, I'm always like, I don't need to pack anything. I have everything I need. I literally have two pairs of underwear here. I have no clothing. There's a stack of merch outside of your studio that I've been pillaging. That's literally what I'm wearing. I don't have a wardrobe here. I need to stop acting like I do.

What about all that stuff that you got from Aber Crombie?

I liked it so much.

I brought it back to New York. Oh, but you do have... There were a couple of pairs of jeans.

I took them all back to New York. I literally don't have... I don't even have a pair of leggings down here. I'm just free-balling it. The only thing I really have on lock is I have a full set of makeup here, so I always can really do my makeup really well. But it's so funny going through my bathroom here because it's a journey through my hair journey. So there was a time in my life where I really love to use a hop brush, and then I was obsessed with my crawling iron. Now, I will not do anything to my hair except for the Dyson Airwrap. It took me a while to get there, but it is the best thing on the market. It is not bad for your hair. It gets the job done. I love my hair. But I can't buy a second Dyson Airwrap. That's insane. It's $800. Whereas my curly iron was $40, $50. I could spare to have a second one down here. I'm just taking a trip down memory lane. My hair has been a journey this week, if you guys haven't noticed. Today, I went for the curly iron.

I'm so over-curling iron. It looks nice. I think it looks nice, too. It took me forever, though. I can't believe it used to spend that long on my hair.

I used to have two Dyson hair wraps. So did I. That would have been so great. I could have given you one, but I gave it to Olivia.

I gave back to Margot. We're so generous.

We're so sisterly.

Speaking of sisterly, Olivia cooked us such a fat fucking feast last night. She called me and she was like, You're coming over for dinner. What do you want? Usually when people are being gracious like that, I'm like, Oh, whatever you-Chef's choice. Yeah. I'm like, No, bitch, write this down. She made everything I wanted. Olivia makes the best Well, the Naze, or as Jackie was calling it all night, the nezze. She made a sourdough discard pizza, which I didn't request, but I died for. Seriously, so good. Then I wanted her to make... She's gotten really into sourdough. I was craving a dinner roll, just switching it up. She made sourdough discard.Dinner rolls.Dinner rolls. Let me tell you, they had to roll me out of there. It was so good. I just went to bed with a full belly and a wide smile.

Yeah, dinner was so good. The Naze was really good.

The Naze was on point.

As was the lid, the salad.

Jackie was being seriously a teenage boy at dinner last night, just abbreviating everything for no fucking reason. She goes past the lid, and literally, the entire table was silent. The lid to the jar. I was like, Seriously, what are you talking about?

It's so Ben Zoffer. Pass that gorgeous Just salad, that GS.

Yeah, but that's so Ben Zoffer. Ben Zoffer is actually having a crisis of identity this morning.

Because he went to Starbucks?

No, he goes to Starbucks every morning.

Because he driving his Lyric.

You know, Ben is...

Well, first of all- Have we spoken about the Lyric? We haven't.

Ben is very connected. All of a sudden, we get to Jackie's house, and he's like, By the way, I borrowed a car for the week. Cadillac loaned us one. I'm like, Okay, you just know folks at Cadillac? He was like, Yeah, I tried to get us a Hummer, but they were out. They gave us this Cadillac Lierick, and they gave us this really gorgeous vehicle.

It's a It's beautiful sky blue.

But it is electric, which there's nothing wrong with. But I think fundamentally- It's electric. An electric, not even a hybrid, a purely electric vehicle really goes against everything Ben Soffer believes in. One thing about Ben Soffer, he's a gas guzzler. He's old school like that. Even when he took your Tesla for a road trip to Orlando, a couple- It didn't work for his lifestyle and his driving habits. He hated it. But at least with a Tesla, Tesla chargers are so universal. I've never been to a gas station that doesn't have one. Ben's been literally driving around this car with 5% for the last couple of days.

Because it He doesn't use a Tesla charger. I have a charger at my house, but it won't use it. So he's been needing to go find an EV charger in the wild.

He spent the afternoon at the mall on Sunday. It was so nice, and they have chargers there. So we drove to this rogue parking lot in the mall to charge him. It's great. You could leave it there and charge and lock your car and go to the mall. So whatever. You have to wait an hour, but you were going to go to the mall anyway. They were awful. There was only four, so we couldn't even get one. So then he just kept driving. And I was like, We're literally going to be left in the middle of the road when this car is dead. I have to say, let me tell you, that thing holds a lot of charge because we had 10% for four days. And Then Ben was like, I finally... I said, You take all these calls. All you do is take calls. Take one of your calls at some charging station. He did. He came back and he was visibly a changed man. Now having sat at a charging station, it wasn't the parking lot of a target, so he ended up spending $100 on toys for the kids, which was actually so sweet.

But just know Ben Soffer is having an identity crisis. Like electric vehicles and Ben Zoffer are just not congrus with one another.

Yeah. Well, it's a really nice vehicle, and it's called the Lyric, and that's It's been fun for us. It's not surface lyrics.

It's called the Cadillac Lyric, but it's spelled L-Y-R-I-Q. It is? Yeah, of course. That's why we're calling it the Lyric.

No, we're calling it the Lyric because we always call it Lyrix.

No, no, no. Because of the Q.

Because of the spirit of the lyrics.

Jackie, because of the Q.

Oh, my God. I didn't know that there was a Q Muni. Lyric Q. Lyric Q. We're obsessed with the Lyric. If you have a Lyric, that is so amazing. I haven't been inside. I need to go inside before you guys leave.

It's Really nice.

I feel like I would like it. I love the color. It's the color of my outfit.

Yeah, it's like a baby blue. It's really parjolish. Can you pass me the iPad? Because we are sharing today and we have a lot to get into.

Yes, we do. So without further ado about the Lyrie Q. Here. What are the fast five stories that you need to know?

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Our first story, news that really has me heartbroken today. Brianna Chicken Fry and Zack Brian have announced their They broke up. So one, the two of them have broken up. Zack Brian is a country singer beyond a chicken fry as a podcaster/influencer/just swirly energy. They broke up a few days ago, which we wouldn't have known. But then Zack Brian posted on his Instagram.

No, he posted on his Instagram because there was a story.screenshots of him being on riot. It said active within the last 24 hours. And of course, the internet and Reddit and all these forms, TikTok, have really been so obsessed with this relationship that They saw this, and they were like, Finally.

So right, there was a story yesterday, news broke that they had broken up, but neither of them had said anything. And then a few hours later, Zack Bryant posted a statement on his Instagram and said-I have such a problem with this statement.

Can you read the first two sentences?

I need to get to the last one.

Brianna and I have decided to break up with Brianna. Read it.

Addressing something. Brianna and me have broken up with each other, and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart.

Brianna and me have broken up with each other. This is the greatest song She's the writer of our time.

She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time, and for that, I'll always thank her. I have had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled through some pretty severe things. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our different ways. I am not perfect. Different ways?

Yeah, That's what people say. You go separate ways. Seriously, no, the statement is not English.

Yeah, it gets worse. I'm not perfect and never will be. Please respect Brianna's privacy and space in this, and if you have it in your heart, mine too. With everything I am, to anyone I let down, I am sorry. That's really confusing.

It's a really crazy statement.

I think he meant like, to anyone I let down, I am sorry with everything that I am. Wait, I try my best in everything. I failed people that love me and mostly myself. That's me, myself, and the people that love me. Yeah.

The statement makes actually no sense. But what I gleaned is that he's a real piece of shit. And whatever went down in the relationship was not Brianna's fault.

So what I gleaned was that he broke up with her or he was Like the real catalyst for the breakup because he needs to work on himself. It does then hark back to that drunk Taylor Swift tweet. Not to make it all about her, but we were just saying a few weeks ago, like, Oh, he drinks and tweets. He says crazy things. And then he said he had a hard year and he's going through a lot of stuff. So it's painting a picture.

I also immediately thought of the Taylor Swift tweets because it was like drinking and tweeting. It's like drinking and releasing statements because this is also like, seriously grammatically so fucked up. And this is something you would read a couple of times before posting. Also, what was the first thing? Update on something. What was it?

Addressing something.

Something?

That's so rude. What about the thing?

No, let me tell you, I have fallen onto the side of TikTok. I feel like we say this every time Zack Bryant comes up. Zack Bryant is broadly a blind spot for me, even though I should love his music. He's a little, I think Gen Z for me, whatever.

Agreed, same for me.

I haven't really been following this whole thing, but because all this stuff was coming out yesterday, and I'm a chronically online girly, I fell into, seriously, the worst side of the internet.

Okay, well, let's just finish the story, and then you can share what you fell into. Yeah, sorry. Then is Chicken Fry posted saying, Hey, guys, I'm feeling really blindsided right now. I'm going to hop off social media for a while and attempt to heal privately when I'm ready. I'll be back and... When I'm... Heal privately when I'm ready. I'll be back and ready to talk. I love you guys so much. Thank you for all your kind words. Remember, you are so loved and everything's always going to be okay. Then she also posted a video to her podcast YouTube channel. It's a few minute video of her on the floor in her bathroom, just obviously going through it. She said, I'm so upset, and explained why she's so upset that she's put everything into this relationship and how she's embarrassed and been crying on the internet. Fuck it, she doesn't care. I also just found the video just so entertaining because she really is just an entertaining person. That's why she's a successful influencer.

She also said she was just genuinely shocked.

They had broken up the day before after five hard days. It seemed like they were going through it for four days. Then on the fifth day, they broke up. Then the next day, he posted a statement confirming that they broke up. She was blindsided, maybe by the breakup, but she's saying she's blindsided by the fact that he put out a statement. He didn't text her, he didn't call her, he didn't tell her he was going to do that. That is something that you would run by a long term partner when you're going to bring something so private public.

Of course. I think it's so much more layered than that because the Internet has really played a part in their relationship in the sense that all of his fans, the girl fans who love him, they fucking hate Brianna. They are so jealous. I met... Like, literally, what happened to her is something that happens in one of my books. She was the biggest fan, met him once. He was so dazzled by her. Literally got into a year long relationship. He's flying her all around the world, private, buying a house in her hometown, getting dogs together, so in love with her, taking her Paris. It's literally a dream. And these bitches are so fucking jealous. And they have seriously tortured Brianna. And the Internet plays such a big part. And they love him and hate her. So for him to also put a statement out and just go fuck yourself. You're on your own, kid. That's why I think it's even more hurtful because he knows how ruthless his fans are, the female fans, are to her. And he's just creating a space for more hate to be sent her way. Like, with just this random statement that...

They needed to strategize PR-wise together because it has been so toxic. To shield her. It could have been the last nice thing he could have done for her.

They could have put out a joint statement that would just shut it down for the moment until they were ready to talk. Instead, he just put it out there for the world to read, incoherently, might I add, and she's on her own.

Yeah. To me, I think that might be, and I don't know these people at all. Ben has only been to met Brianna chicken fry once. He said she was really nice. I don't know her, but I think that probably has to be the worst part of it.

Yeah, I think that's what she was really struggling with in the video. She was saying about the heartbreak. She was like, She's devastated, but she'll get over it. She'll be okay. I also just like, I like her as an influence, as a creator. But even just her attitude, I just like her as a person. I feel like that's a really good message. I'm sad, but I'm going to be okay.

No, and it's devastating to break up with a great love. Everyone was like, Well, you shouldn't know how you get him as he's traded on his wife. That doesn't make the whole You didn't even date someone seriously for over a year. You built a life together. It's devastating. Jackie, people are so happy about this. It is so shot in for it. It's so literally... I don't know what my TikTok thinks I am that they put me on this side. People dancing, finally. Oh my God. Seriously, the best thing to ever happen to them. I've been waiting for this day to come. Seriously, you're evil.

That's so sick. And I didn't even know that that's the energy that's out there. But then it shouldn't surprise me. I was really sad to hear that they broke up. I was really, really rooting for them. I thought they were such a cute couple, and they seemed so in love and so happy. It was really sweet. It was a fairytale, like you said. It was a fairytale. It was something that happens out of a book.

But the thing is, if you follow Zack Bryant and his dating history, which a lot of people do, this is a pattern of his. He gets into these really serious relationships and writes these beautiful songs and does everything, really dream man, and ends up being so toxic and leaving in really terrible ways. I think he was married a while ago to someone he met in the Navy and literally serves her divorce papers via mail. In I never saw this lady again. He does some people are like, Brianna should have known. You can't help me fall in love with. Of course, you're always going to think you're different. I am different. Jackie, I can't even explain the vitriol I saw on social media. So jealous.

So jealous.

I feel bad. I was waiting for them as well.

I didn't see this one coming.

Neither did I. People are like, Well, he's on Raya. I feel like there's been a couple of instances in their relationship. Tiktok is always informing me of their drama. Someone's like, I had sex with Zack Bryant. They make it into this big thing. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. But it's like, the internet really, up until this point, has created, they've manifested this breakup. So many times there have been like, Zack Brian, DM, cheating allegations. It's not real. But this time, I guess it was.

Yeah. Well, I'm rooting for Brianna. Of course. Ruiting for Brianna. She did say multiple times that soon she will tell.

Oh, no, I'm ready. I feel like now, when you have a meaningful relationship, I I feel like we talk about this with Taylor Swift. Even if your business is to drag someone via music or podcast, if you have a really meaningful relationship with them and it ends in a respectful way, you don't want to drag. It's disrespectful. But when somebody, he has wronged her, I feel like now she feels no obligation.

And also, that's her job is talking about her life. She would have talked about it regardless and maybe been more vague, but I don't think we're going to get vagueness. I think we're going to get tit for tat, which- I'm ready. I Can I have some lip gloss? Yeah. I'm sat, as a kid say.

Yeah, I'm sat for it. Yeah, I agree.

I'm team chicken fry. Can I ask an elder millennial question?

I'll do my best to answer.

Why do they call her Brianna Chicken Fry? Because that is not her last name.

It's not her last name. That, I don't know. I can't help you there. It's like her internet name. Yeah, I know.

It's so funny how it's caught on. Page 6, really blindsided Brianna Chicken Fry. I feel like nobody talks about the fact that- That's not her name. That's not her name. It's just so funny and crazy that we call her that. It's her name.

I can't help you there. Maybe Margot Good.

A little bit of chicken fry.

Well, then that made the whole situation really confusing for a lot of people who were just learning about Brianna Chicken Fry. Wait, she dates Zack Brian or Zack Brown, who sings the song Chicken Fried.

Did he write chicken fry about her?

About her? Right. That's why it got confusing. I can see how that's confusing for people. I agree. For people. If you're not in.

If you didn't know any of this beforehand.

I I also think Brianna Chicken Fried is having a bad week because she said something on her podcast that got so much backlash. She gave her take on the TV show about the Menendez Brothers, which wasn't the take that everybody else has. People were so mad, and she went on her podcast, and she was like, I literally stand by what I said. I was like, Oh, damn. Even if you're used to it, dealing with blowback from just an opinion, it's hard. It can be overwhelming, especially when I saw it everywhere. It was all over TikTok and stuff.

That's so crazy to have an opinion on it. I didn't watch the documentary, and, Do I want to step in here?

No. Yeah, right. No. I didn't watch the documentary either.

Because truly, I do not... The Menendas Brothers are a blind spot for me. Same. So I'm not going to say a damn thing.

Yeah, but she just basically went through it last week and now this week again. So seriously, sending her healing energy.

Are her podcast haters really just the Zack Bryant fans who hate her.

Yeah, I think obviously dating someone that famous put her podcast on a different level. Yeah. And he has just these rabid female fans who think that they should be Brianna Chicken Fried. It should be me. And So they just from day one have just fucking hated her because they're so jealous.

Damn. It's not going to be you. It's not going to be you. I don't know how to tell you.

Honestly, though, it could. He's so unpredictable. Yeah.

But I mean, odd. It's just going to be one. So it couldn't even be two of you. Yeah. Who knows? I might let you make me Juneau.

I might let you make me Bruno.

I might let you make me Bruno.

I don't know. You have to be really special.

It's It's true. Brewy. I can't believe I never sang Bruno.

Yeah.

God, it's right there. It's because it's like Brewis Lewis. His name is literally not Bruno. It's Brewis. Yeah.

I think a lot of people have been wondering, millions She had been wondering where I landed with Romeo.

Where is Romeo?

Oh, no, he's at the trainer. He was annoying as hell. I obviously wanted to bring him down here. He doesn't stop barking in my face. That's not what I was talking about. Problematic. Problematic behavior. He had to seriously do his time, and I'll see him tomorrow. But a lot of people wondering what we ended up nicknaming him. You know it's so funny, Theo ended up being Croonch. How we got there? I can't even tell you. Romeo, and actually this was heavily inspired by you, is Scumba.

Explain.

In The Hamptons, Bruno and Romeo, were this iconic duo. You call Bruno, Broomba, because he-When he's sweeping the floor. He's like a Roomba, he eats everything on the floor. I kept referring to them as Roomba and Broomba. Then when we got home, it was like, Roomba, Scumba, Scumba.

Scumba. I like it. Yeah, no, I don't have a Roomba. I have a Broomba.

Yeah, it's nice.

It is nice. It's much cuter and fluffier. Correct. Yeah. Are you ready for our next story? Martha Stewart is a Dressing the beef with Ina Garden.

I had no idea.

Martha and Ina used to be friends, and there is some long-standing beef. Martha was on Watch What Happens Live, and she was asked about something that she wrote in her book, which was about Ina Garden. Back in the day, the cooks met and me came friends in the '90s and the Hamptons where they both lived. Ina later panned a column for Martha Stuart Living and secured her first book deal with Stuart's help after bringing a publisher to her specialty food store in the Bayer for Contesa. They were seriously swirling.

They were swirling, and they were like sisters helping each other out in the biz. They weren't even competitive. Yes.

So while Martha was on Watch What Happens Live, Andy brought up Ina's new memoir that's not called Memoirs of an Ina, but Here It Shall Be. And he brought up the feud, and he said that he had read parts of Aina's book, and she said that they fell out because Martha moved back to Connecticut. And Martha said, That's not true. She said that she stopped being friends. Ina had stopped being friends with Martha when she went to jail.

She actually wouldn't say it. She's like, She stopped being friends with me when? Yeah.

And then Andy finished- And then he went to jail, and she said, Yeah.

Because I didn't know what she was implying. I literally forgot this bitch went to jail. Me too. So I'm like, When what? When you got divorce? And then I was like, Oh, damn, that's totally something Aina would do. Aina's definitely... She doesn't fuck with felons. And then Snoop Dogg chimed in as a funny joke, retort being like, Yeah, and that's when I stepped in. I didn't know any of this. I didn't even I think that these two were friends. I think if you would have asked me prior, Do you think these two swirlies know each other? I'd be like, Probably, right?

Yeah, that they know each other. But I'm actually surprised to hear how close they got on. That's asking if you know Joanna Gaines and Christina Hawk.

It's not the same. Jackie, it's not the same. Do you know what I mean?

Sometimes, actually, when two people are doing the exact same thing, you pretend like the other doesn't exist. To know that they were- Like, Kari and JLo. Yeah, to know that they were real and true swirleys. It actually makes me sad. They were so niche in the Hamptons, doing cookware, doing lifestyle.

They could have easily disliked one another and been competitive. But not only did they become friends, but they were helping each other out, working together. It's beautiful. The fact that Ina ruined it.

Yeah, this is a bad look for Ina because, yes, of course, Martha went to jail, and sometimes you want to distance your friend to did something bad.

I want to say, if your friend... Insider trading is truly a victimless crime.

However, what I was going to say, when that's your friend, it's just trusting your faves. No, it's trusting your faves. I love you. I know you're a good person. I'm with you because I've always thought those things about you.

Yeah, but if your faves did something really deplorable, like...

Murder?

Of course, murder. But what the hell did Jen Shah do? Scamming the elderly and the vulnerable. Something really unethical. I don't know. I have a hard time feeling bad for the government or whoever you steal from when you insider trade. I can understand Martha is just out here trying to make a quick buck. To me, I can feel sympathy. If that's my friend, I'm not judging her at all. I'd probably do it, too. That's a joke. With Ina distancing herself, that's just pure shallow, right? You don't actually care. I can see if a friend of mine went to prison for something really awful, kidnapping, that's not my friend.

Yeah, that's not my friend.

So this is like, losery of Ina. I stand with Martha.

I agree. It's a bad look for Ina. And at the end of the day, Martha's completely bounced back.

With her book just coming out. It's like, okay, liar. You actually address it in your book, and that's not true.

So what else in there is a lie? Correct. Makes you think maybe the title is a lie. What's the title again? It's supposed to be Memoirs of an Ina. Yeah, it's a prank. The title is be ready when the luck happens.

Seriously, the worst name of a title.

Someone DMed me what the title should have been for this Sure.

Barefoot Confessions.

Barefoot Confessions. They're like, Confessions of a... Or, Contessions.

Confessions of a Contessa.

Yeah, something with Confessions of Contessa.

I think maybe she's over that specific... It was the name of her store, her TV show, her book. Maybe she wants to branch out a little bit, but sorry, branding is branding.

Yeah, and be ready when the luck happens.

What the hell are you talking about?

It's like something about the sentence structure. It's like a passive sentence.

Yeah, there's no proper noun or whatever. It's a bad sentence. You know what I mean? Yeah, a thousand %. It's a bad title. I think we all agree.

Yeah. So Martha wins this round.

Martha Stewart stays winning. And I feel like it could really be studied. She literally went to prison. She went through a national scandal, and she always comes out on top. I wonder what that's attributed to. Is it a strong sense of self?

Women's strength. Yeah. Strength of one woman.

I feel like Martha truly, at her core, does not give a fuck. I never has.

I just want to say With all of the other press about the ex-husband and the cheating, all of the imagery that they're using for it is black and white photos. It's giving he passed away. But you're saying he didn't. He did not pass away, and I know that now. But even when I see all the other headlines, why are you guys using photos from the '70s and they're black and white? That's weird.

Wait, speaking of old time, I found out something this morning that really shook me to my core. You think something happened so long ago, but it actually didn't.

Like Picasso?

It came up on my TikTok. It was a picture of Donald Trump and Rosa Parks. I said to myself, literally how?

That she was much elderly?

Well, yes, but also you feel like things... Because her moment was... What we know her from was so long ago, but I feel like she probably only passed away 20 years ago.

Yeah, but also the civil rights movement wasn't that long ago.

I know. That's what I'm saying. When you think things happened so long ago.

Welcome to the '60s.

That's also Anne Frank. She could, if she hadn't perished, she could be alive right now. It's not out of the realm of possibility.

That wouldn't shock me.

I was shocked. I was also shocked to see a contemporary photo of Rosa Parks. I don't In my mind, she's ingrained in a textbook.

In '60s? Yeah. Welcome. I don't think that's part of it.

Why? Hey, Mama, welcome to the '60s. When did you think Mama got along? I don't want them, too. I don't want them to. But I feel like Hairspray is one of those movies that gets revamped every decade or so. When do you think the next one will be? Not for a while, right? Not for a while. I hope they never do.

Yeah, it would be pointless. You're pointless to me.

Wait, I just remembered something. We, a week ago, interviewed someone that's going to be on the podcast in a month. I don't want to be annoying. We're not going to spoil it. We really had wanted to talk to this person about-I know.

And we didn't. I know. I just remembered that. I know it didn't come up. It was on my list, but we just kept having such great conversation. Then it was over and there It's been a time for it, honestly.

I would have loved to have asked.

Without disrupting the natural flow of the convo.

It was so natural.

So natural.

Oh, natural, as my people say.

Are you ready for our next story? A little more few news.

God, the girls are fighting.

The girls are fighting Lala and Ariana. Lala sharing a heartbreaking update on her friendship with Ari Anna.

That's confusing. Then also some bit of a rules news came out that this season has just now started filming, and that it very, quite possibly could be the last due to salary disputes. I think a lot of the cast who are renegotiating their contract are so far off from Bravo. Usually, you can meet in the middle, but a lot of them are not budging. And so many of the relationships are so strained that they actually won't film, but Melissa and Theresa, that it's at a standstill. I'm curious what this season is going to be.

Yes. Lala talked a little bit about it. She was on Jeff Lewis Live saying that she has no relationship with Ariana and added that a reconciliation will never happen. As for the possibility of the Bravo series returning for another season amid its ongoing hiatus. Lala hinted that the series may be done after the cheating scandal. She said, Let's just say there's no more story to tell, right? There's only two people to blame for that, and that's Sianna Valle and Markel. Okay, Ariana, I will always be a cheerleader for you. She said a lot of nice things about Ariana while She also being adamant about the fact that there's no path to friendship. She said she was absolutely fantastic on Broadway. She, I heard, killed it on Love Island. I've never watched a show and certainly didn't start watching it because we're not going to, but I have no ill feelings about anybody on the show, and that's what it feels for the first time. I just feel peace.

Yeah, I feel like people on social media, because I saw all the Bravo people talking about this, their automatic assumption when it comes to Lala and Ariana, is that Lala is so jealous of all the opportunities that came Ariana's way and all the money and the brand deals and the commercials and the opportunities, Broadway, Love Island. And that is the whole reason why the two can't work it out. And I don't know. I'm not even like... I know you love Lala, you should trust your faves. I don't even see Lala as... I don't love her in that sense. But I feel like she's a little bit more complex and mature than just to write someone off out of jealousy. Yeah. And I also feel like from a strategy standpoint, if someone is like, their star is taking off, staying close to them is actually the best thing you could do. So I feel like that's just so too simple, and that's not it.

It's not I think it is fair to say, if someone's getting all those opportunities, who wouldn't be jealous of that? Are you not a human being?

Also stand next to her. She'll say no to something, and they'll come to you next. Right.

But I think that that is just one small, small piece of the overall pie of why they're no longer friends. But something like that's so basic.

Yeah, and I feel like Lala is smarter than that. Even if you don't like Lala, you have to acknowledge she's a complicated person. She's not so small-minded in the sense, I'm jealous, bye.

But you can also be jealous someone without it being a real issue. I think it's a natural human reaction to someone having something that you want. What is the best person on Earth supposed to feel? Nothing? Then where are you going?

No, and especially for all the girls who have been on that show for so many years and really went through horrible things on the show and never got that treatment. For Ariana, it was this perfect storm. Everyone started paying attention, and she was shot to stardom, and it was so great. But I think it's very human to be like, Why didn't that happen to me when my baby daddy cheated on me before?

That doesn't mean I don't want to be your I'm not your friend anymore, and I won't be there for you. But I think it's a normal human reaction. But I don't think it's the whole reason. No, not even close. But I don't know what the reason is. But say the perfect human being. How would even that person not feel a little bit just jealous of an opportunity that they wanted that someone else got. You can feel like, Oh, a little envious, but I'm so happy for you. I support you and I want to be your friend. Right. But I would love to know what the true breakdown was. Maybe we'll find out. I think it had to I think it was a perfect storm of things also, but I think it had to do with Ariana's contribution to the show and Lala feeling like Ariana wasn't bringing it. She does have all these things. She doesn't have to bring it here.

She is getting all of those things because of the work that we all... I think it was a lot more complex than that. Yeah, it's a good way of looking at it. Well, probably also other things behind the scenes and things that were said, just like petty reality TV drama per usual. Right. We'll see what happens with VPR, but it does beg the question, with this reality shows and a a certain group of friends, do you get to a point where there is no more that you can tap from the well? Right. Actually, I think they did tap decently when it came to the valley. It's this offshoot that I think is really working. I don't even know what precedent we could look at of a show that got so big with just these regular people.

To what end? Any or none? I don't know. I have wondered, and I feel like we had this conversation right before Skandival because the show was just fizzling out. They were trying Charlie and Danika and Brett and Max, and it was just weird and wrong and off.

We were like, it's probably time for the show to end. Then, thankfully, the Skandival thing, breathe new life into it.

But now I feel like we're back at that standstill. Here are things that could happen, but they would have to be genuine because if it was- Tom Schwartz and Lala getting together, him becoming the father of her children, and then her and Tom having to deal with Katie, and then everyone else.

Sheena, where would she fall? By the way, I can't recommend that storyline enough. Lala, get on it. Lala and Tom, if you're feeling that in any way, I would say, pursue it.

Lean in. However, you can't do it artificially.

We'll sniff it out. There would be nothing worse. What else could happen? Tom and Ariana could get back together.

As long as we're just pulling things out of thin air.

Or Ariana and Brock.

Don't even say it. I'm obsessed. Actually, the couple that I feel most protective over is Brock and Sheena.

No, that would ruin the show.

It's true. At the end of the day- I think they, oddly, have the healthiest relationship. Skanaval was also easier to- Swallow because Raquel was like- No, because Tom and Ariana was never...

I mean, maybe some people really thought that they were OTP, but you weren't actually watching.

No one was reading with your phone down because they are not. No one was waiting for those two.

They were seriously awful together.

I don't want to see a beautiful home being broken up. That's actually TV I don't want to watch. Kristen, Doty, and Tom Sanival could get back together. That doesn't It would do it for me.

It would do it for a lot of people. But honestly, bring back Stasi. She would never, I think. No, she has never. Her own show, withstanding, if they offered her a ton of money to be like, Come revive this show, I still don't even think she would.

Well, you know what's so funny? She was on a podcast and she was saying how one of the producers asked her to come back to Van der Pump Reels, and she really thought about it, and she decided no. But they had a meeting, and she walked into that meeting ready to say, No, thank you. It turned out that it was just one producer who was ID dating. They hadn't even... It wasn't a formal offer? No.

That's funny. And it wasn't coming. But she got to really know if they wanted me back, I still wouldn't do it. Yeah, and I think that's the right move for her. Yeah.

And then, of course, ending up with your own show on Hulu is so premium. But even It hadn't. I still think she never would have it or should have. Yeah. Are you ready for our next story? Number four. A little more exes news. This is crazy. Battle of the Exes? Littéral Battle of the Exes. Maron Morris and ex-husband Brian Heard, are both set to release new music on the same day after they divorced a few years ago. So Maren Morris and her husband are both country music stars. They divorced a few years ago, and they're each dropping a new single on Friday, October 25th.

Now, I feel like these two are not... And if you don't know country music, let me just say, obviously, you probably still know Maren Morris. She's one of the biggest singers. I don't feel him releasing a song on the same day as her really moves the needle for her at all.

For him- No, it's not about, is this taking streams away from either one of them? It's just weird. Maybe October 25th is a significant day. Maybe they're just on the same track. I didn't think about that.

Or maybe they actually get... I actually don't know their divorce to have been particularly contentious. Maybe these songs are sisters to one another. I would love that. And one is responding to Jolene and Diane. For sure. It would be better if they were married because...

Well, I don't think they're working together in this way. Because if they were married, it's actually a really good idea for like, well, maybe not Garth and Trisha. Tim and faith. Tim and Faith. You know, this is definitely weird.

I'm just trying to come up with theories to make it not weird, but it is weird. Yeah. And I do know when you-I think it's a pure coincidence. I know, but when you are releasing music and you have huge teams with your record label. They look at who's releasing on the same day. A lot of people move around. They don't want to be near Taylor Swift or Adele or Beyoncé. You always look at who's on the release radar that week because you don't want to compete. So you know. Yeah. Her song is called People Still Show Up, and his song is called This Party Sucks.

I feel like they- They do not have anything to do with each other. They're not not congruence. Look, she threw the party, people still show up, and he shows up to the party and says, This party sucks. Yeah, or it's like this party sucks, but people could still show up.

Yeah, no, there's a lot of ways that these two lyrics could be connected.

Could they be connected on the Lyra Q?

On the Lyra Q, for sure. Yeah. This is weird. We'll see you on Friday. Right.

Mimi Webb also has a new song coming out on Friday that she's been teasing.

Oh my God, huge.

It sounds so good. Huge for the community. You guys do not sleep on Mimi Webb. What are the Web, Mimi Webb fans call themselves, the Websters? Just Jackie. Literally.

I don't know what they...

I'm big fans of a lot of people, but I'm not in any communities for fandoms.

I'm not even a little mixer. I think sometimes, right, that's a good example.

Sometimes fandoms, or even the artists themselves, push this branded name so It's like, no one's calling themselves that, right? But people very naturally call themselves a Bayhive or a Swift.

But sometimes you try to give a name to your fan. When it comes to singers or even podcasters-I'm an orientator. No, you're not. That's not a thing. But I feel like the Smisers, what are the Smiley fans? Smilers? Smilers. It just some of them didn't take off. And I feel like it has nothing to do with the artists themselves. Having a lot of fans or a little...

Because Ariana has a ton of fans.

Like, Orianator. It was a bad one. Yeah, but I also- The Celinator? That's a bad one, too. I love it.

No, Swift is really good.

What are the Sabriters called? The Carpenters? I don't know. I'm one of them. I'm one of them, too. I'm one of them. I don't know what they call themselves. I'm with them. I'm with them.

I am they/ them.

Are you ready for our fifth and final story, which is a little sports news? Is it about LeBron? Yeah.

Okay, I saw this video.

I have a lot of thoughts. It's a little familial news. We had reported that his son was being drafted to the team that he was on.

Yes. Now LeBron James shares the court with his son, Bronnie, in his historic first NBA game with a father-son duo. The NBA obviously started yesterday because Ben was going on about it. I think this happened.

I think it was on in the living room. In the living room. The boys were watching.

Lebron started the game alongside his teammates.

He scored 16 points, and then Bronnie came out and played for three minutes in the second quarter.

This article says that he scored no points. One rebound. This is magazine. They're not even a shady. No, but that is shady.

It's at Bronnie, who played for three minutes in the second quarter, scored no points, one rebound, and zero assists.

And none for grudge and wieners, and none for Bronnie James. But that's just the facts of the story. So now let's discuss. Okay, history. Let's talk about history. To me, I feel like the story here is not that they play together. Obviously, they're on the same team.

It was bound to happen, and it was the first game.

It's not that crazy. The fact that a father and son are on the same team is actually so crazy to me. One, age-wise, you would think like-I think it's a feat for the ages in a positive way.

He's still at the top of his game, and he's pushing 40.

It's not that it doesn't happen because there's not a lot of father-son who are playing, but it's because one person ages out at the same time that another person could play.

There are a lot of professional athletes whose dads were professionals in all sports. You always hear about it like, Oh, his dad, Christian McAfree, the great, whatever. For them to have crossed paths, it is so crazy. For them to be on the same team, now I'm suspicious. Of? Of how did your son get...

Of all the teams in all the land. Well, I think I remember he said years ago before his son was even available to be drafted, whoever draughts my son, I will go there because he's using his influence to get his son a great spot. A better spot. It's crazy. Yeah. So LeBron's 39 and Bronnie's 20, which explains...

But him being a 39- Wait, LeBron's 39? He had him when he was 19? Yeah. Oh, damn. But him being a 39-year-old star of the league is what is so impressive. It's possible. Yeah. It's really crazy. Yeah. It was cute. No, it's really cute. And literally everyone was standing up, cheering. It's cool to see something happening for the first time.

Yeah. I like it. History. History. You and me got a whole lot of history. Well, thanks for the sports. We're so sporty today. What else did we talk about sports? Nba in the beginning, the subway Series. We're all over sports.

The subway Series that wasn't. We have Deer Toaster, which is our weekly advice segment.

It should be called the Red Eye Series. Oh, I like that because... You have to take the red eye to get from LA to New York.

You mean you don't have to, but most do.

No, but that is the crazy thing about baseball. You play two games, you get one day off to travel.

When it was New York versus Philly, it was a dream.

They're taking a six-hour flight every three days. That's messed up.

It's wrong. I'm worried about the players. Me too. Shoheys deserves better than that. They all do. Shoheys, specifically. No, no, no, they all do.

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That was a huge mistake. We made sure- We need a fridge up here, by the way. Yeah, I need a fridge everywhere. We made sure to bring some with us. Of course, I've got mixed Berry for my girl turnt. Thank you so much. I know that that's her favorite, and I will be sipping on a pineapple mango splash refresher. So meet the water beverage that loves self-care as much as you do. While hydration might be mandatory, being boring is not. And splash refresher makes hydration deliciously easy. Splash refresher perfectly blends refreshing fruit flavors with just a little bit of sweetness, all with zero sugar and zero calories. And you can consider yourself hydrated and thriving. That's the crazy part about when I first... I hadn't heard of Splash Refresher until they sent some to the studio to sponsor the toast, and I had six in the first day that they came. I was obsessed with them. Then I didn't really care to check, but then when I found out they were zero calories and zero sugar, I was really shook.

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Okay, are you ready for Dear Toasters? I am. The submissions were so funny today, okay? Okay.

So Dear Toosters is our weekly advice segment where if you guys want to write in, please, we would absolutely love to hear from you. Deertoosters@gmail. Com. Is an email account that you can submit anonymously to. Also, you can go to our website, thetoastpodcast. Com. Scroll down a little bit. There's a little submission box that says, Dear Toaster is totally anonymous. Write in about anything you're going through. We would love to help, okay? Okay. Hi, Jackson Claude. Proud toaster here. I need some advice about a recent mistake I made. I am super embarrassed because I just started talking to a guy from Hinge about a month ago. Things are still really fresh. I accidentally took and sent a voice memo of me shitting in full duration to this new man. I tried to unsend the message, but I am worried that it was too late. I said I was moving my luggage around, but it's clear that there was a plop in the toilet. What do I do? Bring it up to him, ask if he listened, wait in silence to see if he brings it up. Love you both and cannot wait to hear your advice.

Happy to follow up with updates if I hear from you. Love. She wrote her name. I'm not saying her name. Acted like it didn't happen because there's a chance he didn't didn't hear it. Also with voice memos, once they play it, then it disappears. So if you had the chance to unsend it, you might have got it in under the wire. Even if he heard it and listened to it, you could have been doing so many things. You couldn't drop something in the pool. Yeah, dropping your kids off. I feel like sometimes- Deny till you die. When somebody sends- And if he has the audacity to even suggest that that was something that you did. No. What are you crazy? Gaslight the fuck out of... What? I never did that. There's no proof. Also, wait. Also, I feel like sometimes When somebody leaves you a voicemail or a voice memo, that's clearly an accident.

You listen for the first four seconds, then it's clearly an accident. So you're not going to want to listen to three minutes of silence. But if your crush sent you something, I don't think you would pass up. And then you realize it's an accident, you want to hear what your crush is doing. But it's a guy. If a girl got an accidental voice memo from her crush, she would dissect it for three years with all of her friends being like, Did you hear a girl in the background? She'd hit that keep so fast. By the way, I'm really suspicious of people who keep my voice memos. I don't know. I feel like they love me.

It's like keeping a A voicemail. I only send a voice memo when it's salacious. Let me say this, nobody uses the voice memo feature more than my friends who are influencers. Shannon Ford dies for a voice memo. Remi Bader, voice memo.

Tinks, voice memo, all the swirleys. It's always when we're gossiping, right? It's always a sensitive information. When people keep it, I literally called Remi out.

I'm like, Bitch, stop keeping my voice memo. She's like, My phone automatically does it. I don't know how to turn it off. I don't know.

I felt very uneasy about it.

Well, that's just something you need to realize. When I send a voice memo, it's just because I do not trust Tim Cooke.

To talk to text to relay the information I need to relay.

My thought isn't so cohesive and coherent that I just need to get in all my ums, likes, and ums. Yeah, I send it mostly when I can't write the whole thing out and I don't want to talk to you via FaceTime. Yeah. But no, I had nothing that it's because I wouldn't want someone to hear this. Oh, that's for me too, though. If I don't want to... If something's really crazy to put in writing. I'll FaceTime you. Or I'll voice memo you if I don't want to FaceTime you.

But they could keep it. They could, but I trust my faves. Trust your faves. Trust your faves. Okay, so for this girl, I honestly feel like that's horrible. I'm so sorry that happened to you, but I think it's more likely than not that he didn't listen to it in full and didn't dissect the plops. I think you're completely fine.

If he's still talking to you, then either he heard it and he didn't mind or he didn't hear it, just move on as if it never happened.

I would really like to know how in a technical standpoint, you did that. Who leaves their chat open?

Aren't you scrolling on your phone when you're making a poop, so wouldn't you just be scrolling? Who would leave open such a sensitive chat? I wouldn't go in there for anything. It's true. That you just willy-nilly. I don't want to judge you.

No, of course.

But as always, we must take a lesson. We must extrapolate a lesson for which two of your choices. It's just like you were saying at the top of the show, you have to recognize your role in it, too.

Yeah, it's so true. You can't bear no responsibility in every situation in life. But you already feel bad. I'm just saying, who just tosses their phone open with their crush?

No, it's really crazy. That's like being on their Instagram, their ex's Instagram page. And just throwing your phone back in like, 2016 and not be taking such care. Okay, next up. Hey, girlies. Gay toaster here.

I, 24, have a dilemma about my boyfriend, 28 of six months, whom I adore very, very much. He does stand up for fun at small local venues in the city almost every other weekend.

And as a good boyfriend, I always attend. There's one problem.

He is not funny, like at all. His stories are so long and pointless, and it's just horrible crowd work, and oftentimes, is laughing the hardest in the in the room at his own jokes. Even my friends who have come with me have told me that he was awful. He's been doing it as a hobby since before COVID, and I'm so shocked that no one has ever told him about his lack of humor. Am I the asshole for giving him critiques or recommendations as someone with no background in comedy?

Should I just keep lying and agreeing with him when he tells me how happy is that he crushed his set this weekend? I love him dearly, but if I have to sit through another painful set, I will seriously lose my mind. Love you. Bye. That's hard. If you love your relationship, I would suggest not being the one to tell him that he's not good. First of all, he's having fun. As long as he's working and bringing in an income and is able to pay for his life. If he wants to do this as a hobby on the side, that's his time. That's fine. I think you should try and find a way to go to less shows because you're not enjoying yourself. You don't have to go to every single show. You just don't. At some point, some comedy club owner or someone is going to tell him that he does not have what it takes. The world is a cruel, cruel place. Also, non-funny comedians have success all the time. It's so true. You never know what could happen.

I would not be the to stand in front of him in his dreams because he'll always blame you for it, whereas it's not going to work out, probably regardless. If it does work out, great. Hey, it worked out. I also feel like I would change your attitude a little bit. Obviously, it's cringe, right? It's easy to just automatically press the cringe button. I hate this. But stand up is so hard. It really takes such bravery and balls to do it. I feel like you could look at this a little differently. Obviously, for you, it's unfortunate that you have to spend your weekends at these comedy clubs, really with your butthole clenching. I'm really sorry that that's happened to you. But you should also look at your boyfriend and be like, Listen, he loves something so much and want to do it so badly and have a dream and not give up on it. Those are actually really admirable qualities.

So while you're not enjoying yourself in the moment, I think maybe you could change your perspective just a little bit and being like, Oh my God, my boyfriend is so dedicated. I don't know, you could shift your perspective. There is something very endearing about this. The fact that he's laughing the hardest at himself. No, the confidence. Think of it as a hobby. You don't have to be an expert at all of your hobbies. Yeah. I also think a healthy dose of honesty is important. If you are going to have to keep going, I feel like you should be like, Listen, that part of this joke wasn't good, but you did really good at this other one. Maybe expand on that. Really? Now you want to start workshopping his set and really getting involved here?

I don't know how, though, he stops going. If your boy... I'm sorry. Even if the comedian is hysterical, that someone should spend all of their free time going and watching you do stand up and seeing the same show over and over again.

You think Ben wrote this in? No. Did it occur to you? It did not occur to me because you're not on tour. Otherwise, are we going through submissions from 2018? So true. No, I feel like this is obviously unfortunate.

You can and should stop going. I think it's so fair for you to not go.

That's insane to go and see every show.

Well, I guess Ben comes to every show. But Ben didn't come to every DJT. No, But he did come to every NLog. But that was because Spritz was being sold, and it was literally a work thing for him. Listen.

No, listen, we're not the same.

With this guy, actually, Jackie's 100% right. If you're the thing that stops him, even if he's never going to make it, to have a hobby and something you're passionate about.

It's actually really healthy. As far as hobbies go and vices, this is so healthy and good and cute.

No, it's cute. I don't know. I find his confidence really admirable. If he was doing intramural soccer, but he stuck, you wouldn't have to sit down with him and be like, You are not good enough.

No, because soccer is socially acceptable as a hobby. But you know what? Maybe comedy should be, too. Someone will let him know along the way. Someone will let him know along the way. It doesn't have to be you. Okay, our third and final one is a little technology. No, snooping type of situation. Where are his parents? That's something his parents need to sit down and tell him.

Yeah, but then he would just be like, Oh, my parents. This is my dream.

They don't understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Classic stuff. All right, our third and final submission.

Hello, Swirlies. I'm a mid-est toaster here dying from FOMO from Gizna. Anyways, I'm in need of- It's not too late, December eighth, hard rock.

It's not too late. I'm in need of some advice.

I was snooping my boyfriend's Apple Watch, not because I think he's doing anything nefarious, but because I think I may be getting engaged soon.

I saw a text from his cousin asking how we were and if he was thinking about proposing soon, or if I, Still needed to work on my work ethic.

Something along those lines.

I'm shocked by this because my work ethic is something I'm actually really proud of, so I have no idea where this could be coming from. Do I admit I was snooping so I can bring this up to him? Am I wrong for being mad that he may say negative things about me to my family? Help, please. I'm desperate. No, don't bring this up. That's such a random complaint. That's such a random thing. But now I'm actually thinking, Okay, so your work ethic is something that you're proud of. Are you focusing too much on work? Oh, my God. By the way, Jackie's right. Flip the script. Not that you don't have a good work ethic, but that all you care about is work. How are you going to... If he wants to propose and get married and have kids, is your work ethic going to come in the way because you're going to put your career first? I didn't even see it that way.

That's obviously it, right? It's just a weird Men are so dumb. That's a bad way to phrase the question. I would say, Have you spoken to her about her work obsession?

That's a normal way to say it.

The boys don't use the word obsession. Yeah, her workaholicism. I don't know. There's just a better way to phrase it. Yeah, but it's not factually inaccurate. I don't think he's saying you have a bad work ethic, and I'm just going to rule that out. If that is the case, but you don't have a bad work ethic, objection overruled, this person doesn't know what they're talking about.

Factional fiction. You were snooping, you have no ground. But maybe you could bring this up in an organic way in talking about the future.

If slowing down is something that you had planned to do, maybe let him know that because maybe he's concerned that you wouldn't. If you're talking about your future, this is something you can bring up without making it obvious that you snooped. Yeah, or you could work with such a bitch today. Can't wait to be a stay at home mom. Have kids and quit. Yeah. No, I think a lot of people when they're- But also not to say that you do need to slow down. If you want to work and work is your number one priority, then that's great. But you should also make that clear to him. If he expects something different in a wife and a mother because you guys are just going to butt heads.

You might as well get ahead of it. This is what people who are getting engaged.

These are conversations you have to get on the same page.

Some people are both on the same page. Neither of them want to stop working.

Some of them want one parent at home, whether it's the mom or the dad. Traditionally, it's more so the mom. But these are conversations that you have about the future when you're getting engaged to someone. So you actually probably, for the sake of your relationship, should get clarity on this.

Because I think sometimes it's actually like, it's like a deal breaker for a lot of people where you're like, it's absolutely important to me to be at home with my kids at all times. A husband sees that as not an option or lazy or not willing to be a sole. Like Maria from Love Is My New K. It's giving Maria and Tom from Love Is My New K. Yeah. But then sometimes the opposite happens where someone doesn't want to stop working and doesn't want to... He's like, We need someone at home with our kids. It's a bit their career on the back burner. And husband didn't see that as what he wanted for his wife and his family life.

So yeah, getting on the same page about that is really important. But I also think it is something that even at the outset of the conversation, if you're not totally on the same page about, things It does naturally change over time. And the way you're going to feel when you're a mom, you could say, this is how I think I'm going to feel, but the way you're going to feel, you don't even know. Yeah, I think that happens. A lot of my friends who are having kids who either wanted to stay at home and are, are hating it, or who had to go back to work and hate that, too. I think a lot of times, what you think you wanted is actually the opposite of what you want.

I was just talking to my friend who gave up her career to be a mom and like, Hating every minute of it. Yeah. I think that the best way to go into those conversations and also just to approach the situation in general, is to be open and be like, I'm open to the idea that I'll have a baby and I'll go back to work because that's what I'm going to want to do.

I'm open to the idea of part-time work. I'm open to the idea of staying at home. If you are open to those things, but you should because you don't know how you're going to feel. If you're not even engaged yet, it is far off. So don't put the cart ahead of the horse. Yeah, but have this conversation, one, because you should, and two, then you'll solve your Apple Watch problem. If you do want to get engaged and married and have his babies, then just so he knows you're down.

What the vibe is. You're down for that.

She's down. But if you're not, then he should know that you're not because what are the two of you doing?

Correct. Is this a big time washer?

Let's get to the crux of it. Yeah, for the both of you.

Is he going to be like- Let's get down to the heart of the matter. Waiting for you at home every day, like with an aprons, get it back in the kitchen.

And then you're working double duty, working a full-time job. And then you have to go and do all the wifely and motherly duties that you like... You can't do all of them. That's what we're saying.

You can't do it all. If you have written into Deer Toaster in recent history, and we gave you advice, and there was an update in your situation, we love to receive updates. So you can again email us, deartoosters@gmail. Com, or head over to our website, thetoastpodcast. Com. You could submit updates, new submissions. We would love to hear from you anything work-related, relationship-related. We'd love to just help us swirly in need.

So thank you to everyone who wrote in and was vulnerable.

An S-I-N. Anyone who's vulnerable with us, we really appreciate your transparency. As we predicted at the top of the show, great show. Hard.

Hard. On all counts.

So much listening to the Toast on Monday morning show. We deliver the fast-time stories. You need to know every Monday, the Friday, YouTube. We watch you on YouTube. Please, remember to subscribe me this video. I'm Liz Nalafi. We're also available as a podcast.

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Should we call it a Pardjilish Nalafi show?

If we want no one to listen, yeah, we should. I forget where it was. I think I know. Spotify, two. I think I know. I think I know. I think I know. I think I know. I think I know. I think I know. Hope you guys have an amazing day.

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