Transcript of Acquired Mike White: Monday, April 27th, 2026 New

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hope everyone had a great weekend, Dairies.

And it's week begin now, so yeah, week start, week now.

Hi, week now.

Happy week now.

Um, hey, Cojourner, what's your truth?

My truth is this: I miss my sister.

Oh, I miss my sister too.

Yeah, I haven't seen Olivia in a while. Oh, oh, oh, oh, slam dunk! Just kidding. I really miss you, and you know, chatting with you so publicly in our daily chats, also known as the Toast, it's not enough, you know? Don't you feel like we've really stopped talking?

Yes, I've just been so busy, and I know you've been busy too, and like by the end of the day, my day like ends so late, and like that's when you're like fully esconced in your bedroom with your husband who doesn't let us FaceTime when you're watching your program, and that's really like the only time I can like get into it. So like we're sort of missing each other. It actually feels like sometimes we're on different time zones because I'm like, oh, I miss Claudia.

Yeah, and I think like my bed, bath, dinner is like earlier than yours. So yeah, we're just sort of like two ships, two yachts. If you— oh, speaking of yachts, I have to tell you something. I have to tell you what's going on on TikTok.

You're going on Below Deck.

No, I have to tell you what's going on on TikTok.

I know what's going on on TikTok.

You do? You know about Acquired Gate?

Don't even give me with a fucking gate. I've been following Acquired Husband all weekend.

No, but you don't know what's actually going on.

I'm so obsessed. I started following her. I didn't follow her before. Now I feel like such a follower because everybody's following her now. So I actually like wanted to wait, but then I couldn't even wait a couple days to follow her. Her bachelor party is so fabulous. The girls are looking so good. They're having so much fun. And I—

she doesn't know.

She doesn't know. Before you ruin it for me, let me just tell you, like, I think it's fantastic. And anybody who had anything negative to say, I'm like, you should be embarrassed for how jealous you are.

Yeah. So for those who don't know, there is a TikToker. Her name is Acquired Style. You've probably seen her. She's like a part of a twin duo. She's Acquired and then she has another twin.

They look exactly like— she's Acquired and she's Style.

Yeah. Her username is Acquired Style and she's blonde. She does a lot of like hair, beauty, fashion content. She's blown up Somewhat recently, she got engaged a little while ago, and so she had her bachelorette party this weekend. There was a couple of influencers on the trip, but for the most part it was like a big group of girls, and I would say there was like 3 or 4 influencers. It wasn't like an influencer trip. And as any good influencer, her entire bachelorette party was sponsored.

No, this was on another level.

Yeah, of course. It was sponsored by a beauty company called Swan Beauty, which is like an AI-powered makeup mirror that like gives you tutorials. It's like, it's a mirror with lights.

And, and do you wanna know the best part? Not to make it about me, cuz like I know Limelight. Yes. So a few years ago I had an idea to like make a makeup mirror that would be like Peloton for makeup where you like take classes and learn how to do your makeup like in the mirror. And I actually took a couple meetings for it, but I remember I was really early pregnant with Harry and like I didn't do anything about it, of course.

And then she had a name though. Limelight. Yeah.

Would, and then it would've been like the Lime, which I think is so cute, but it exists. It's called Swan Beauty. I need to get one. I'm so happy.

So happy it came out.

I'm so happy someone made it.

Yeah. But like yours really needs AI and like your idea was before the AI revolution, cuz this one's totally powered by AI. Right. And it's It's called Swan Beauty. So they sponsored her entire bachelorette party. And a lot of people have sponsored bachelorette parties. This was definitely on another level. Like, they flew her private with all of her friends to St. Barts. And it wasn't just like a jet, it was like a— actually, it wasn't even Kardashian jet.

It's not— it was like a 747.

It had a bedroom, it had multiple bathrooms. It was like probably the biggest private plane you could have. Like, it was insane.

Acquired Force One.

Acquired Force One.

They called it Acquired Air. I also got a little tea on the plane. I don't know if You know?

Oh, what?

It's the fam—

the— it's the family. So, okay, I'll explain to you and I'll tell you why I know that. So, and they just did like a classic St. Bart's. They went to— for me, it's not me, but, but you're acting like, oh, just wait.

Not— you're not asking—

exactly what you think happened happened. The second the bachelorette party started and they were posting about Acquired Air, like, the jealous wenches had to come out of the woodwork. And, you know, this is out of touch. They were coming at it from so many angles, just finding a reason to hate it because they're jealous.

I was gonna say, I don't even think it's out of touch because like Acquired—

it's aspirational.

No, Acquired was such a normal girl. Like, I think it's actually so inspirational. I don't know her backstory, but it seems like she's just a regular girl who like, from Jersey, who's been like making content. I saw another video she posted. She was like, who— like, all those embarrassing videos I posted so many years ago, and now I got to take my friends on this epic trip. Like, she's actually just like you.

She's also the definition of a hustler. Like, she has been— she didn't blow up during COVID Like, she has just been making hair videos, steady, good, consistent content.

Like, anyone can do it. And it's not like she spent the money on this trip. Like, she worked to a place where a brand brought her on this trip. And like, it's not out of touch, because if you did that, any one of you who are like being jealous and saying it's out of touch, like, you would go on it in one fucking second.

It's the most— such a joke.

It's the most relatable thing ever, actually. I think, of course. And I think her home friends—

she had like 3 influencers on the trip. The rest were just like clearly like her home school, college camp friends. Yeah, it was so— I agree, relatable. Now everyone's, you know, the discourse on TikTok, as expected, is just like a meeting of the mentally ill minds. And people are coming at it from so many angles, like, I'm so grateful this wasn't my bachelorette party. I'm grateful we went camping. It's like, okay, sure, keep telling yourself that.

Good, because it's the only you got.

Good. So they're coming at it from different angles. They're also now attacking the founder of Swan Beauty. So the founder of Swan Beauty is like a woman who is married— she is engaged, marrying into like a very wealthy family. I've never heard of them. It's called the Mitchell family. And I guess like their family office helped, um, raise money for her AI company, which I just feel like is such a testament. Rich people do not part with their money. Like, their son's fiancée's company, I just feel like, idea, she must be dazzling, like, to have gotten—

or the company is such a great idea, they were like, we're not going to miss this.

And it was their plane. Um, so now it's like, this is not smart marketing, this is using your fiancée's money to burn, like So fucking jealous. All content generated by women, I have to just say that. I don't see one man clowning on, uh, Acquired. Also people being like, they're definitely not even having fun on this brand trip, they're just like posting. Now, as not to make everything about me, as somebody who had a completely sponsored bachelorette party from the, you know, from the flights to the hotels to the tables to the pool, everything was sponsored by— thank you, my partners at MGM Grand. We went to Vegas. We were like—

it was the original acquired husband.

It was, it was, it was #claudesoffthemarket. I just want to say, back in the day, that like wasn't a thing. Getting my bachelorette party sponsored completely by MGM, which owns like the entire Las Vegas Strip, like, is this life? I just want to say, um, I can guarantee you we had more fun than you bitches because we didn't have to pay for any of it. Okay, what's more freeing than having like money?

No, I'm sorry, those girls like being so beautiful in the sickest place on Earth, in the best villa in the best place. Like, how are they not having fun? They're obviously having fun.

It's absurd. They all looked gorgeous. They went to like every hotspot in St. Barts. Like, just— and once you lift the veil of like— I feel like we talked about this with Alex Cooper a lot.

Like, oh no, back to zero. It's not a formal capacity yet. We could still be at one.

Well, we were already at zero. I just did it for dramatic effect.

It's not a formal capacity yet. I just want to say, give us credit. You're allowed to mention it.

Once you like lift the veil and see like so many of these things, it's just people being jealous. Like, it makes so much more sense. Like, a lot of people are— now, I, I think Alex Cooper, maybe we could, you know, find some, some fault with her, but for the most part, when you see a lot of people like talking at her, a lot of it is rooted in jealousy. Like, sorry, like, you have a podcast and 3 people listen, and she's over here like interviewing whoever she wants. Same with Acquired. Like, just acknowledge your jealousy the way we have to acknowledge our biases. Like, let's acknowledge the fact that you are so fucking jealous. Like, she's 3 pounds, she's so pretty, she's making content for a living, and literally she must be making millions. She does so many highbrow ads. Like, really, she must be raking it the fuck in. And what are you doing? You're making videos about her for free.

For free. But here's what I don't understand. Why can't we be jealous in a positive fashion?

Like, I think that's what we do.

Yeah, like, okay, yeah, I would have loved to have a bachelor in the same bar. Like, yeah, sure, how could you not be like jealous of that?

No, Jackie, we're not just— it's inspiring.

Yeah, or just, I don't know why, like, it's natural to be jealous of someone who has something like incredible that you would want, right? But why do you have to make it nasty? Like, why can't you be jealous in a positive fashion? Like, sometimes you get something so cool and I'm like jealous, but still happy.

Yeah, like, I think seeing someone like her really brings out something very ugly in a lot of women. And obviously it's all rooted in like deep insecurity. And I think they try to veil their jealousy with like think pieces on, you know, uh, influencer culture, consumerism. Yeah, right, the jet fuel. People going on about the jet fuel. Okay, when at the end of the day you just are ugly on the inside, and like, that's what That's what's coming through. Like you're just insecure and jealous. Like, and it's of course a natural feeling. Like you see this young, beautiful, skinny, blonde, rich girl living a life that you could never even dream of. Like I couldn't even dream of something like this perfect. Right. And of course your natural inclination is to be like a bitch about it. But what if you just weren't?

No, I think your natural inclination is to be like, oh yeah, I would like that too. But why do you have to be a bitch about it? Like, why can't you then just like, you know, use that as positive fuel and motivation? I just, I can't. I don't understand people who operate like that.

Like, what is that? Post your video. Post your video. Anyone could do it. And this is not a slight towards Acquired. Like, she doesn't do anything like crazy out of the ordinary.

In fact, just a year ago they were saying she's boring, remember?

Yes, she's just a regular girl.

And some people, they have a lot of success, like, you know, Kylie or whatever, like, who, who had a lot to start with, you know. They have tools that you don't have. I don't know Acquired's backstory, but she seems to just be like a regular degular girl who like works consistently.

I know she like worked in fashion. She worked for Danielle Bernstein, fun fact.

But like just like didn't have any resources that like you don't also have.

Correct. She has a phone and a Wi-Fi connection and a dream and a set of rollers and a positive attitude and like $3 Velcro rollers, not even like heated Conair ones, you know.

She does have a twin, which definitely having like a close sister is is a privilege. It's a privilege.

It's a foot in the door. I agree.

To bolster you up. But I just thought it was— I loved watching the content. I was just like lurking 100%.

It was fabulous. Like, how you couldn't be inspired by the sheer fabulosity of it?

And they all looked like so happy. I love the theme nights. Mermaids, such a slay.

So cute.

Um, speaking of influencers, I had an influencer playdate yesterday with Lauren Elizabeth because she came down to so flow. And we were of course talking about Acquired Air.

Oh, oh, everyone's talking about it.

Yeah, everyone's talking about it.

And I thought you were talking to say you guys were talking about me.

Oh, only in like a positive fashion, of course, of course, of course. But we were talking about like the latest and greatest. The kids were playing, it was like really, really cute. So good to see Matt Swirly.

You get any good gossip? I feel like she always—

I did, but I texted you immediately.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

Anything else? Oh, um, anything that I want to share with this class here? No, but if I like drop any tea today, like you can know it came straight from Morton Elizabeth. Blame her.

Well, that sounds fun. I'm glad you're having fun.

Yeah, I am. I am having fun. What was I going to say?

She says— she says through gritted teeth.

No, I was just going to finish my thought about— oh, which is that I'm really glad that I have seen no hate for— I saw one video of like, and this is how the girl masked her hatred and jealousy and ugliness. This is what she said.

I can't wait.

Acquired style is really like not relatable anymore. Like, like Alex Earle is relatable, but acquired style, it's not relatable like Alex Earle.

Like, what the fuck does that even mean?

Like, what?

They're actually quite literally the same.

And I actually like— Alex Earle might pretend to be just like you now, but she's an A-list celebrity.

She dates Tom Brady. What the fuck is that girl talking about? That's what I'm saying. People will come up with these like theses and theories and like use big words just to mask the fact— why don't you just come on the internet and say, I'm an ugly jealous bitch? Like, that would be more real and relatable.

Here's the truth: if you have one negative thing to say about Acquired, about Bachelorette, you are ugly and jealous. You are jealous, period. Like, because there's nothing bad to say. Like, a girl had a great weekend, she's in love, like, she's on top of the world, she has amazing friends, they're beautiful. Like, what's bad?

You are jealous negative. Because jealous positive, yeah, like, it's called being inspired. Like, yeah, nobody's gonna look at that and be like, oh, I don't wish that me.

Like, of course, hashtag inspired by Acquired, hashtag inspired style. And so let's talk about Acquired. I'm glad everyone's calling her Acquired now and she's really leading into it, and her hashtag or whatever it is is like Acquired a Husband. Um, I'm gonna need her to just let us know why she named her handle that, Acquired Style.

You know, again, not to bring everything back to myself, but I also like to relate to her, like, being stuck with this username. And I think that she posted like maybe a year ago that she was thinking about just like being Bridget, and the streets rioted. They were like, absolutely not. People were like, no, you are Acquired, which is kind of great for her. And I think it also maybe gives you like a little bit of a sense of like, like more binary. Like, this is my public life, this is my private life. Like, my friends call me Bridge.

Yeah, I call her Acquired. I didn't say like Bridget once. Right, because to me the only influencer named Bridget is Bridget the Bard.

Yeah, it's kind of like how people call me Turdy in the street, you know? It gives me a real sense of privacy.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so mazel tov to the acquireds.

Mazel tov to the acquireds. Um, what else did I do this weekend besides scroll on my phone and look at all these jealous bitches? What did I do? I played a lot of mahjong. I don't really have anything to update. I bought like a sensible pair of sneakers.

Like, how are you liking the Mahjong card, the 2026 card?

It's not about the card, you know, it's about the change. And I was getting so good at the 2025 card and now I'm just like, I'm just fine at Mahjong. I'm not amazing.

But don't you feel like— I don't know who you're playing with, but it's more of a level playing field for us who came into the 2025 card in January.

Yes, like everyone now is at the same level in terms of skill, but I'm playing today. I need to— I need to just get better. Okay, I need to get better.

Yeah, there's a couple yesterday. There's a couple fun hands.

Yeah, which ones are you leaning towards? Because I'm loving 1-1-3-5-7-9.

I saw that on your story. You were doing 1-3-5-7-9s and I didn't win. Of a kind Kong.

Yeah, Kong Kong.

Um, I've been liking 1-2-3-4 Dragon Dragon Dragon.

Oh my God, my fucking favorite! I won with that one yesterday.

It's a very good one.

Also, I like one north, two east, three west, four south. Do you know that one? No, it's in Winds. It's really good. So you need one—

to use news.

Yeah, it's a way to use news, but you need like four consecutive numbers and then one north, two easts, three wests, four—

I majed on Friday, um, post-toast, so I guess I did majed just once this weekend. I, I won a couple times, but they were hands that really broke my brain, like It was, it was a frustrating fight to the finish.

Yeah. I also think I'm gonna stop playing on my phone. I think it's making me a worse player.

Interesting.

I've never done that because the whole, the skill of mahjong is seeing your tiles and knowing which hand fits best.

Yeah.

Now when you play on the app, you don't have a card in front of you, so you press the button and it shows you suggested hands, like using an algorithm, which, how many tiles away you are from this hand.

That's kind of cool though, cuz it might show whenever I like start playing, I like see a hand that I wanna play and I go for it even if I don't have the right tile. Of course. But it might surface hands that I don't think to play.

Like, yeah, but it doesn't stick. I'm telling you, it's not good. Maybe if I played on my computer, it's just like bigger.

Yeah, get in front of the monitor.

I did watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion last night, and I finished Your Friends and Neighbors, and I just want to retract what I said about it not needing a second season. It's so fucking good, and it's so different. It's like not about him stealing anymore, you know? Like, they've changed what the show is about. Yeah, and it's really good. And James Marsden is a fabulous addition if you just like close your eyes and forget that he wrote that letter for Brian Peck. Yeah, um, he's doing a really good job. Like, Courtney Collins would never do that, by the way.

Yeah, or would he?

I know he was like an ethical media mogul, you know.

Or was he?

Who was the modern Courtney Collins?

Yeah. If we both say it, it must be true.

I just feel like that's the obvious answer because they're like short kings who host lots of shows, but I don't feel like Ryan Seacrest actually has the rizz.

So the— so James Corden.

Oh, James Corden!

Yeah, he has the rizz.

He's the rizzler.

He's got the rizz, rizz, rizz.

Yeah, we're young, we talk about TikTok and rizz.

I mean, we are the Raisler. We had Costco guys on podcast.

Like, when you think about our breadth of work, it's inspiring.

Like, we have literally, quite literally brought the boom to you.

So I told you that I was on the Free Press podcast, Second Thought. It launched on Friday, and they posted a bunch of clips on the Free Press account. And like, I know, I know that they're like a media company, so like they're obviously posting like more provocative moments, but they did me so dirty posting my take on Blake Lively because like Putting that in a clip, like, without context, like, fully, you know, cushioning it. And then, like, I have to read the comments of, like, this huge media account.

On my way.

No, no, don't.

So Second Thought has its own account, or this was on Free Press?

Both. They were, like, collab posting.

Oh, they collabed. I'll go to Second Thought.

And I had so many hilarious moments that they did clip, which I appreciate. But the first clip they posted, like, not Blake Lively, and, like, so polarizing. Obviously it's good for engagement, yada yada, but, like, I'm just a girl.

Let's see which one got the most views, and it was probably Blake. Oh yeah, it was Blake, but by, by 2,000.

Okay, who is this person? No, I'm telling you, like, so mean.

Oh my God.

That's why I just— that's why I only go on the Toast. Like, the comments here are always so nice.

I just— I feel like when someone says they're on Blake Lively's side, like, you have a certain idea of that person. That's what people are thinking of you, like, oh wow, blindly just following what women say, like, we're done doing that.

And if only they knew how much I hated women.

No, no.

Yeah. And how special this scenario is.

The thing is, they don't know that you hate women. You should have made that clear.

Like, you're not actually— I actually did say that. It didn't make the clip. That's what I'm saying. I said, like, you know, people love to, like, say women support women, and it's always those bitches who are, like, turning on each other. And I proudly say I'm not a woman who supports other women. So I feel like when I throw my weight behind a woman, like, it needs to be taken more seriously.

No, they, they obviously just saw this clip and thought you're, like, a joke of a person who just, like, believes women Period.

Blindly.

But they don't know.

It couldn't be further from the truth.

It couldn't be further from the truth.

So that was kind of a tough thing that happened to me on Friday.

It's okay, but at least you stand in your truth and like, you know how you feel. No one can sway you, right?

So when the world turns back on Blake Lively in a few years, like they have now on Hailey Bieber, and you know, I will reference that clip.

I look forward to knowing to the— to knowing.

And if I am wrong, which is entirely possible, I just want to say I will sleep good knowing at night that like the woman who came over here and said that she was sexually harassed at work, like, yeah, I believed her. Ah, I'm the villain.

Hmm.

I sleep well. I sleep well. Okay. Mm-hmm.

I don't know if that's the takeaway. No, it is, because I am wrong, which is entirely possible, knowing that you stood true to yourself despite everyone telling me— well, telling you. And usually you're a little— like, we can be, as we say, like a little bit, you know, on the fence.

Yes, I'm— I am extremely brave for like dealing with what I've had to deal with as somebody who believes Blake Lively. Absolutely. That's definitely a takeaway.

You have ridden hardly for your truth.

No, that's a huge takeaway as well. But let's say I'm wrong, like, I'm not gonna feel like any type of way other than like proud of myself, honestly, for real.

I think that's great.

I think you should be proud no matter what, no matter what happens, no matter the outcome.

And I also think you should be proud of yourself because I think that you taking this unpopular stance is like good for the show.

Of course, of course.

So you— it's a job well done.

I just want to say, not only have— because there are conspiracy theories about me now, because the only other person who's ever even been Team Lively is the Vile Files. And people love to say that they're sponsored by Mint Mobile, which I believe is like one of their podcast sponsors. And so obviously that's— Ryan Reynolds is like an investor in that company. And so they're being paid to say that.

You guys, it's— have one sponsor out of like all your sponsors, like they don't control the show at all. It's absurd. And if they even try to get you to like change your take on it, you just wouldn't work. Like no one would ever do that. That's not how it works. If you have one—

we can constantly say that's not how it works.

Unless they're presenting the entire show, you have no other sponsors, they pay all the bills and they keep the lights on, maybe. But if they're just like one of many sponsors with like a code and a deal for you, like, they're not dictating the opinions of the show. No.

So they have like those rumors about them and people think like I'm being paid by the Livelys. And I just want everyone to know, like, I have not even received so much as a Blake Brown Beauty gifting.

Like, I did.

I have— I know I have not one morsel. Actually, Ryan Reynolds, at the very, very, very beginning of this whole saga, Before we even took a side.

No, we were— yeah, maybe before we took a side, because then it made—

this was like when we were in the Hamptons.

Yeah, it made us feel warmly towards them. But I feel like we were already like trending. I used to wear flowers during Flowergate.

Ryan Reynolds, like, I hate him. I hate his— like, when everybody loved him, I couldn't fucking stand him. I never saw any of his movies. And I hate that whole like cutting my wife out of pictures to make people laugh on the internet thing. Like, I just honestly can't fucking stand him. But he did follow us in like the summer of 2024. Her. So that's really the only connection, just to clear my name. Like, I'm not being paid, I don't get gifting, I get nothing. And you know what, that bitch owes me a thank you.

And I feel like for that week we were like feeling just warm towards the Livelys because like that was cool that they followed us, but that wore off pretty quickly. Don't worry, it's not like lasting, and that's not why Claudia rides the way she does.

I wonder if he still follows us.

Yeah, Van City.

Wow, he has 50 million followers. Well, he doesn't follow me.

It was the Toast that he followed.

Yep, and he still does. Oh, you know, I'm never meeting the allegations. He also follows Nick and Natalie Viall.

That'll buy us another day of goodwill.

Wait, I'm seriously cracking up. He follows Not Skinny But Not Fat. Maybe he's just like a swirly.

He follows Nisbunif.

Nisbunif.

Talk about being trapped by your handle.

Ooh, that's a bad one.

She posted a funny meme about it once, so I think she's like—

No, I think she, um, definitely hates it.

Yeah, yeah, I don't think it's too late for her, but it's also the name of her podcast. It's not too late. The Bosticks just rebranded their podcast.

Oh, that's true.

And now it's just— and literally I just called them the Bosticks because that's what we call them.

I actually am seeing Espeneth this week, so maybe I'll chat with her about it.

Yeah, and maybe you guys could like have, um, like a little like I Hate My Handle Anonymous convention.

We'll invite Acquired.

Who else? I mean, Ariel Charnas broke free in a pargelicious way.

She kind of, except she gave the name Something Navy to her company and then her company went bankrupt.

But she got to become Ariel.

Yes, she did it very successfully. I think she also did it around the time where she was going by her married name because I always knew her as Ariel Nachmani. Yeah. But now she's Ariel Tarnas and I forget her maiden name.

She's Lucy Wyman.

Lucy Wyman now. And We Were What has a death grip on her username. She's never letting it go.

Yeah, but I don't feel like That's— I feel like that's her, and it's her brand name in a way that like, yeah, that's a good brand name. Like, we were what? That's good.

I do want to change my username to Turdy Lou. Like, you— but going from one—

no, you cannot—

like, Limerick to another. Yeah, I know, but that's what everyone calls me.

No, you— it would be Claudia, right? Like, that's really it.

That's not inspiring to me.

Okay, so then it's So then we're staying.

Girl with No Job.

Girl with No— I mean, I've, I've made peace and I love her. I love her, you know.

Yeah.

Um, I think we should get into the stories because we're like doing a million stories.

What are they?

They're good. Like, there's what, what people want to talk about on a Monday after Stagecoach and, uh, oh right, Summer Housegate.

Um, oh right. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And the investigation was right.

Investigation. Yeah.

Yeah.

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Our first story, Stagecoach 2026 recap. Country music fans took to the desert this weekend, including our little sister and a bunch of celebs. We had Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun were there. They went viral. She was sitting on his shoulders for the Ella Langley concert.

Her brand, um, like activated there. So I think they did like a bunch of after— CERN— they did a bunch of after parties. They had performances.

Um, she sang with Chase Rice, she sang with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher.

Oh yeah, I thought that was weird. I really don't like them.

Uh-oh.

I just wanted to remind everyone of that. They also wrote a letter, right?

They wrote a letter for their co-star Danny, and he was really bad.

Like, of all the people in Hollywood That was one of the worst ones because half of them don't even go to like jail or go on trial. Like, he actually went through a whole trial. It was bad. I— yeah, I forgot about that. I don't like them.

Yeah, also, her brand is pronounced Siren, which like you could have given me 1,000 guesses and I never would have guessed that.

Completely. I don't know, it's a bad name.

I don't know why it didn't even occur to me, but it's spelled S-Y-R-N. So we'll call it CERN, but I do know it's Siren. You don't have to like yell at me, I know.

Yeah, but it's CERN.

It's CERN. That's so— like, CERN. Um, so yeah, she was activating, firing on all cylinders at Stagecoach. Teddy Swims performed one of the best songs.

Yeah, I was watching everything through Satchel's stories.

Yeah, me too. I reposted a couple of her stories, which is a fun feature.

Yeah, I thought that was weird. Like, I was so confused that you did that.

I thought she had like two cool stories, so I reposted them.

I thought that you like asked her to tag you so that you could repost them?

Nope, I just used the new fun repost this story feature. I had no idea that you could even do that because I repost Cody Johnson, our boyfriend. He was singing, um, I forget— oh, The Fall. Oh, I love that song. So I reposted it because I felt like I loved it and you just felt compelled. Teddy Swims performed at Stagecoach and he was singing The Door, so I had to repost it.

I think it's actually cool that he performed at both Stagecoach and Coachella. There aren't a lot of artists that can do that. Mm-hmm. Um, I will say like maybe I'm just jealous, so I, I'm trying to like, you know, acquire my own bias. Okay. Like it did look like a lackluster year. Some years I haven't gone in a few years and every time I watch Margot's stories, like I just wanna kill myself. Like I'm so jealous. Um, I don't know, it didn't like look that good. Like I like the performers, like everybody does a good job. Country music, like people get up there and like they actually sing. And play the instruments, and it's always like fun to hear live music, but I wasn't like seething with jealousy by the headliners, you know?

Yeah, I feel like if you have been in the past few years like seething with jealousy and like this year was the first year that you weren't, I would credit it to you being a mama. And now it's like, it would take seriously the most insane concert on Earth for you to travel across the country, 6 hours, yeah, and be there. Versus in the past it's like, oh, I could have gone and I didn't go, maybe I should have gone. But now it's like, oh, if it's not 1,000 out of 10, it's not worth it to me.

No, but like, I feel like maybe it's that, or it was just like not good headliners.

But I have felt that way for the past few years where it's like, oh, there's no way I would have gotten to this. Like, it's, it just doesn't seem like worth it.

And as a mama, something kind of historic also happened. I can't remember a time in recent history where they've had to evacuate the festival on Saturday day. Like, the winds were really, really bad. And it's always 1,000 degrees because you're in the desert, but the desert also has like weird weather elements. So there was like a windstorm and they shut down the festival in the middle of the day on Saturday.

Yeah, but then they brought everyone back. I wanted to get clarity from Margot on like what that was. That also sounds really scary, like thousands of people trying to evacuate at the same time. I hate that.

Astroworld.

Yeah, she was like laughing in her stories and like ducking between cars, so it didn't seem like, like a crazy big deal, but just like more inconvenient.

Yeah, I guess.

But it sounds scary.

And oh my God, for the people who camped, you know, like half the people who go to Coachella and Stagecoach camp there, and then you come back. Yeah, so they open the festival back up later in the day.

Yeah, yeah, that's so annoying. Um, Post Malone performed. I haven't, um, seen the stories yet because they're from last—

he brought out Shaboozy.

Oh, fun.

There weren't a lot of like, you know, big, uh, cameos.

Yeah, well, Teddy Swims brought out, um, David Lee Roth, Van Halen.

Okay, Ella Langley brought out Theo Von.

She did. They—

everyone was expecting Morgan Wallen because Ella Langley obviously booked her Stagecoach performance like before she blew up, cuz she played in like the middle of the day, which is like the worst. And she definitely could have been like the second or third to last.

Oh yeah, for sure. And I'm sure like all the big stars who went to L.A. like Sydney Sweeney were like kind of bummed they had to go so early in the day.

Correct. But that's just funny when that happens. I feel like that happened to Billie Eilish where she was at Coachella in like the loser stage, and she really could have been a headliner that year, but you just get booked before you blow up.

Loser sneeze.

Yeah. Ooh, loser sneeze.

Good one. Loser sneeze. I love the loser sneeze.

I know, it's such a good line from Bring It On. It's like an underquoted—

we've actually been like, when we've been texting, like memes and jokes.

Texts, jokes and memes.

Yeah, like sometimes you'll send me someone being a loser and I've been replying, loser sneeze.

It's such a good— such a slay. It's such a slay.

Um, what else happened at Stagecoach? Lainey Wilson was a headliner. I didn't see those stories yet either.

Well, that was the day that—

of the evacuation, so I don't know if she ended up performing. Oh, I guess she did, but Margo didn't go back. That's why I saw it. She was having wine and mac and cheese instead.

Sounds like so much fun.

Um, like, yeah, so much fun, but like, so is having wine and mac and cheese, you know?

Stagecoach is so much fun, but so is laying in your bed at home scrolling TikTok. Like, it's hard.

It's really hard. And so I guess that's why it's like fun to do both. And I'm sure like laying in bed or having wine and mac and cheese tastes even better after you've been to a Stagecoach.

Yeah, yeah.

No, but it did look really— it looked really fun. It's always a jolly good time. Yeah, the country community is just fairly fantastic.

And it's funny to watch how like over the years where Coachella has always been this like influencer event, brands activating everywhere, after parties, brands have— Stagecoach like is very slowly becoming a little version of that. Like I feel like when we went there was maybe one brand, one after party. Yeah, literally one. Um, and now like a bunch of brands go. It's not as big of a deal, and obviously like every influencer you know goes to Coachella and maybe like a third of them go to Stagecoach, but it is becoming like a little more like a little, like, a brand event, an activation.

Revolve had a house.

T-Mobile brought a bunch of influencers. Sonic— Sachi went with Sonic and Applebee's. Sachi had the best sponsors. Like, I'm sorry, you're going to Stagecoach with Sonic and Applebee's? That I'm jealous of.

Yeah, yeah.

And like, Sonic gave her a party bus with like a bunch of their refresher drinks.

We will have to call her and get the tea. I'm sure she's— can you hear me?

Yeah. Oh, oh, okay.

Yeah, refresh your drinks.

You were like acting like maybe we had a Wi-Fi issue because you were just ignoring me.

No, I'm like, this is sad for Sonic. Is Sonic paying us?

No. Would they refresh your drinks? No.

Um, we'll get the tea from her when she wakes up and then we'll tell you everything tomorrow. Uh, next story.

I did get a piece of tea that I want to share, just blow up someone's spot, but I won't.

Oh, what?

She told us, remember? Mark about an influencer who wasn't the nicest. Who?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess that is tea. I guess that qualifies.

I'm doing the thing that I hate when people do—

name them.

It's like, I met an influencer, and it's like, just say it. But it's not my story to tell. But like, she wasn't so nice to Sachi.

She wasn't nice to Sachi. I want to know more, actually. I need to re—

it's not— sorry, it wasn't that she wasn't nice to Sachi, she was just like unpleasant to be around.

Yeah, it's not like she was rude and whatever, But she— Margot just didn't like the experience of being around her. Like, not a cool girl, not what you would like think of as like having girls' girl fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're doing the thing. It's so annoying, but now I kind of understand why people do it. Like, yeah, I don't want to start stuff, I just want to like share fun fact, you know?

Yeah, yeah. Um, okay, next story.

Okay, I'll say who it was. It was Shannon Ford. It was Shannon Ford.

Shannon Ford. Is the best sort of—

yeah, unfortunately.

If only everyone could be like Shannon, then we'd have so many friends.

It's so true.

You know, all you have to do is be like Shannon.

It's everyone else's fault, not ours, that we don't—

we have a lot of friends.

Oh my God, we have a million friends.

We have so many friends. I don't think of us as like friendless people. Like, everyone we like—

no, I think of us as like— I feel like we have actually really good— we're on good terms with like everyone.

We're on good terms with everyone. We have like a couple of close industry friends. We have like—

like, of course we're closer with others We have lifelong, like, home friends. Like, so yeah, no, I'm talking about like in the influencer space, because honestly, like, when we— when people talk about Alex Cooper, they say like a huge fault of hers is that she has no friends in the industry.

Yeah.

And so we're not those people. We have a lot of friends.

Yeah, yeah, we do.

We have like so many. We have like 100, like 105.

It's also compounded because I consider like any friend of Sachi's a friend of mine, a friend of the family. They're a family friend. I agree, you know. So I guess like, is Acquired my friend?

I don't think Acquired and Sachi are friends, like at all. Not in a bad way. Like I just think that they're not—

they're just like peers, you know?

Like, and I wanna say as a credit to Acquired, if we may go back to her, is that I thought she was gonna have so many more influencers like on her bat trip. Like she did not replace however many seats there are on a plane. She didn't give it to like random influencers, even who she's like friendly with. She brought her home friends and 3 influencers. Like, I think that's cool.

Yeah, yeah, I agree. Good ratio. Now, are we ready for the next story?

Number 2?

Yeah, yeah, number 2. We just had a couple false starts, so I just want to make sure we're done. Yeah, you're done. Bravo says the summer house leak was done by an individual involved in the production of the reunion, as there were no evidence that cast members were involved. So yeah, Pretty boring, but Bravo has released a statement.

Some nobody like to find it.

Like some nobody. Are they even fired? Like, what's—

whatever. The finding absolutely should be fired.

The findings of the investigation into the leaked audio from the most recent Summer House reunion. I mean, how do you not get fired if your boss says it's inappropriate and disgusting and illegal?

Like, and illegal? Like, no, they're fired.

Yeah. The statement read, an investigation into the recent leak of the Summer House reunion audio has concluded that the audio was an unauthorized recording and distributed by an individual involved in the production of the reunion. As a result of the findings, appropriate action has been taken. There is no evidence that any member of the cast was involved in the recording of the audio.

Okay, like, less fun because even if you tell me the person's name, like, it would mean nothing to me and I don't care. Um, but Carl's been cleared. Huge day for Carl.

I would like to know a little bit more about this person without— you don't have to give their— them— me their name because I don't know them, but like, what's their role on the show? What did they stand to gain from releasing this? Why don't they care about the show enough to have honored the sanctity of the show. And if they don't care, if they're not—

stand to gain, because they released it anonymously, I think, on Reddit. So like, you don't get clout, you don't get followers. Like, why? And it wasn't even like that juicy of a clip. And it's like, I'm sure there was more producers who are like in—

like, you know, did it for Reddit clout because they're like in those forums, you know. They probably like did it like to be like to their fellow Redditors, like, look what I got. That's really scary.

That's really scary that you have people working on the show who are engaged in Reddit, like, yeah, that's obviously like a threat to everyone in a physical and emotional sense.

Yeah.

And yeah, if you are a part of a Reddit community, you shouldn't hold any jobs, let alone like one on this— one on the show that you're talking about. That's actually really scary. You never know who lurks behind doors.

Like, that's crazy. No, you should not be a part of the Reddit community of the show that you're working on. Like, if you want to be on the Reddit community for garden tips.

Of course. No, no, I'm just saying, like, to be one of those people who, like, doxes the new castmates like a crazy person, and then you actually work on the show— although I do think that, like, the cast and crew that are required for a reunion is very different than the people who, like, go out to the house and film. Um, it's like a probably a larger cast audio people. So maybe it was just like a freelancer who had saw an opportunity and took it. But again, I don't know to what opportunity? Like, what do you gain from that?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's very, very weird.

But, um, but I'm glad that they found it out. I feel like so many times, like, things get leaked or whatever, and you just sort of have to come to the— you have to be okay with, like, you never find resolution. You never find out who— even with the Elite Daily Craig Conover thing, but we found out like 10 years later that it was Danielle, remember, at Kyle and Amanda's wedding. Yeah, it was like this big mystery and they just like never found out. Everybody had their theories and then they only found out because that Farikazoid told everyone that she did it. That was crazy. That was probably one of the craziest. The show wasn't really that popular at the time, but if it was and like we— everybody for years had wondered and then she just came right out and said it, like, that was such a big deal. That's like a scandal of its own.

It was so crazy, but it wasn't.

Oh my God, on my morning TikTok scroll, I was reminded of the craziest thing because somebody was doing a video like introducing you to the new cast members On In the City.

Okay.

And of course we know Whitney, who was on Nick Viall's season of The Bachelor, and she's just like a Bachelor influencer swirly. But I forget that an enormous part of her lore is that she's one of the people who promoted and went to Fyre Festival. And I need her to talk about that. But she was there eating a cheese sandwich.

Oh, she went. And did she stay?

Right. Well, I don't know if she was able to get off, but like everyone was pretty much stuck there.

Yeah, but there were like a couple influencers who went and like they did have villas. There was no festival obviously, but they had a fun weekend, right?

Right. Was she— I feel like she was the one who posted a picture of the cheese sandwich, like—

oh, I don't know if she was cheese sandwich. I feel like she was just like with her friends and like they just got wound up getting a house in the Bahamas. Sweet.

Oh really?

There were a couple influencers who had that experience.

Yes, who got like their accommodations.

Yeah, there was a house for them. Interesting.

I'm asking chat and they like have no idea what I'm talking about.

Oh, I don't know if chat is going to like have the archives on Whitney Franzway.

Yes, she did go to Fyre Festival. She was one of the influencers/attendees who ended up at the festival in 2017. She wasn't a main promoter, she was an attendee influencer who got caught in the chaos, like a lot of people there. She shared glimpses of how messy it got. Okay, that's good. If you want, I can pull exact posts or stories. Yes, please. Yeah, this is one of those— my chat knows how to talk to me. Yes, this is one of those deep cut Bachelor lore influencer history.

Oh my God, they literally do.

So pre-festival, she posted Do they delete it or didn't highlight their fire content afterwards? Um, okay, thanks for nothing. Like, genuinely, game, you gave me— give me less. Yeah, the picture, the picture of the infamous cheese sandwich. Like, who took that picture? And like, that's exactly why the pictures are actually worse than I remember.

Really?

Send, like, the pictures of the tents and, like, the garbage piling up. They don't talk enough about, like, how that whole saga, like, for years affected that local community of the Bahamas, like, so poorly. Yeah. Damn, that was such a crazy time.

Like, that was a crazy time.

It's not funny.

Are you ready for our next story?

Yeah.

Megan Thee Stallion breaks up with Klay Thompson, accuses him of cheating. Is Klay Thompson on the Knicks?

No, um, but I'm really upset by this. Mavericks.

Let me just ask Google because I saw a picture of him at a Knicks versus Mavericks game.

No, he's on the, um, what was that?

Mavericks.

Yes.

Oh wow, that's our team.

Where we have—

yeah, we have to take responsibility for this because Megan Thee Stallion posted, um, that she's made the decision to end her relationship with Clay. Quote, trust, fidelity, and respect are non-negotiable for me in a relationship, and when those values are compromised, there's no real path forward. I would agree. I'm taking this time to prioritize myself and move ahead with peace and clarity. She had also posted an Instagram story saying, quote, cheating had me around your whole family playing house, got cold feet, holding you down through all of your horrible mood swings and treatment towards me during your basketball season. Now you don't know if you can be monogamous. Bitch, I need a real break after this one. Bye, y'all.

No, I'm so upset because I actually really liked these two together, and she was sharing a lot on TikTok, like, of her cooking for him, like, really, like, wifey type of content, and I thought it was so cute. And I just, like, hate when athletes, like, like, like, why don't you surprise me every once in a while and just like be a good partner? I hate when athletes like fall into that trope of just like being womanizers and, um, like can't stop cheating. And it's like, on Megan Thee Stallion, like, I just hate that. And I saw she had to perform, I think, like a day or two after, and she was crying on stage. Like, she's really upset. I'm really upset.

Yeah, no, that's really upsetting. Like, why can't people just stop cheating? Just stop it.

Let's talk about that. No, and the obsession with cheating and acting like monogamy is so hard.

And there are people— it's literally not. There are people who like don't think that not cheating is an option. Option, you know, you just like cheat like you breathe.

It pisses me off. Like the— and it's always men, mind you. Of course, like women cheat, but like the— it trends towards men. And yeah, like the idea that like getting into a relationship, you're going to have this challenge of like— you can be in such a happy, fulfilling, good relationship, but the challenge is always there to not like accidentally, you know, slip into somebody's vagina. I hate that shit. And then you think about like how like 50 years ago, people used to like see their wives like once a fucking year, okay? Like they would go to war. And it's like now you literally can't stop cheating.

Yeah, no, unnecessary. And it's really fucked that like she took care of him all season. The mood swings has me cracking up.

Uh, it has me cracking up too. I think that's probably a really relatable, um, thing if you date an athlete. No, no, like I imagine, of course, like a high-pressure job. Excuse me, she's Megan Thee Stallion. You don't think her job is high pressure too? And like she— and she also like was getting her degree while working full-time. Time. You don't think she wants to take it out on you? But she doesn't, because that's not what a good partner does. Yeah. Um, I think that like a lot of people, a lot of WAGs can relate to— oh, just reminding me, we still haven't found out who's on the COVID of Sports Illustrated. That's really crazy.

That's—

I kind of like officially don't care. Maybe the COVID is the friends we made along the way.

Maybe. Also, I, I want to be honest for a second. I don't understand that statement. Like everyone says it. Can you explain it to me?

Because like, you know, they say like, it's not the journey, it's the destination, it's the friends you made along the way. Like, so, you know, we never need to find out who's on the COVID of the Sports Illustrated because the real part was the friends we made along the way.

Oh, that's cute. Yeah, because I like—

I had a funny little phrase.

I had fun, right, along the way. So the COVID like was just about the experience along the right?

It's not the journey, it's the destination. Oh no, sorry, it's not the destination, it's a journey.

The only thing that could be delaying the COVID is they were so compelled by my idea to have Whoopi Goldberg on the COVID that last minute shoot in Curaçao, they are reshooting for Whoopi with Whoopi.

That's a good— that's a good thesis. I like that.

I mean, it's better than the idea that it's been like a 6-week-long process, right?

And it's just gonna be like a model.

Yeah. If only she would be a model. It's gonna be like—

has anybody seen Whoopi Goldberg at any tropical resorts recently?

Someone tagged me like an AI photo of like Whoopi Goldberg just like looking sexy.

I'm crying. Obviously AI. And they were like, she's gonna be on the COVID No, she's— you're 100% right the more I think about that, right?

It's a perfect casting.

Perfect.

Um, so yeah, like, justice for Megan Thee Stallion.

Oh my God, justice for Megan Thee Stallion.

Are you ready for our next story, which is kind of crazy?

What number?

Number 4.

Uh, no, I'm not. Sorry. And you just like— you got me all excited. Is it our 4th story that's brought to you by Yasso?

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Our next story: Helena Bonham Carter is leaving The White Lotus season 4 as the role is being revamped and will be recast. So White Lotus season 4 is filming now, they're about a week into production, and Helena Bonham Carter is off set. So the, um, an HBO spokesperson released a statement saying, quote, with filming just underway on season 4 of The White Lotus, it had become apparent that the character which Mike White created for Helen and Bottom Carter, did not align once on set. The role has subsequently been rethought, is being rewritten— rewritten— rewritten—

oh my God—

and will be recast in the coming weeks. HBO, the producers, and Mike White are saddened that they won't get to work with her but remain ardent fans and very much hope to work with the legendary actress on another project soon. So this is a very rare recasting for creative reasons on The White Lotus, as Mike White is meticulous about the casting process, finding the actors who best embody his vision for the characters. She was at the top of their wish list for season 4. She was actually the first cast of the season. So it's very curious what could have happened. There's a million theories, right?

Like, is she difficult to work with? Was she bad at the job? Like, I have no idea. I also feel like this doesn't happen. Yeah, like, not even at The White Lotus. I can't really remember a time in which somebody was cast for something And then the project started shooting and they just like changed it up. Yeah, especially such a big star. It might have happened like a random nobody, but that we don't know about.

Yeah, also the way that this show is filmed, like it's, you know, they're all sort of like quarantined in a set. We're filming here for a few weeks. It's like set around the Cannes Film Festival, so it's like very timely. And I feel like maybe on other sets it's like, oh, someone came in, it wasn't working, we let them go. There's not so many eyes on the set. The other actors aren't around. It's not as big of a deal. But I agree, it's definitely something that doesn't happen very often.

So like, did she not get along with everyone? The, the reason that they said was that even though the character was quite literally written for her, yeah, that it just— when they got to set, it wasn't working.

Yes. So as production started and she shot her first scenes, Mike White, who writes and directs each episode, felt that her character as originally conceived was not what it should be. With the role believed to be central to the season 4 story, a decision was made to rework it and recast it. So he wrote a character that Helena was perfect for, but that character is not right for the show. I feel like he's sort of falling on the sword here to get her out.

Because even if they— if the character is wrong, they can change a character. She's an actress, she could play anything.

Yeah, but maybe she doesn't like the new character. Maybe she's not playing it well. Maybe she's not the actress that they— I think— I don't know, there's no way she's not playing it well.

She's like one of the most skilled actresses of our time. It's not that it's not that they're writing a character that she cannot become. I'm telling you, that's what doesn't want to become, right? But when you think about like her breadth of work, like Princess Margaret and then like Tim Horton's Years of Who— yeah, Tim Burton's like— no, Tim Burton— they— she can do anything.

So maybe she doesn't like the new character that they're writing, or it's a bad working relationship. He's saying this to sort of like like put a nice face on it. He doesn't want to piss her off, like, but it's not working. I don't know, this is so crazy.

And now who replaces— this is just— everyone wants to be on The White Lotus, so I don't think they're gonna have a hard time. But like, nobody wants to come in as like a second choice.

I, I think it's fine. I think plenty of LA, like, actors—

older— it's like older woman, quirky older woman, quirky, like, oh, like a Diane Keaton, you know?

Yeah.

Rest in peace.

Yeah, no, I think this is the job actors would actually murder someone for.

Yeah, it's a job a million girls would want. Like, whether you're— it's both. Like, it really cements up-and-coming actors, Megan Fahey, and then it also like introduces sort of like a hell— like a Parker Posey, or like a Renaissance generation, Jennifer Lawrence, a Renaissance— hopefully AJ Michalka.

Oh yeah, I'm ready for that. I'm ready for reality.

Yes. Um, so who will it be? Who will it be?

I don't know.

I feel like on such short notice they might like pluck from the HBO family, people who have pre-existing contracts with HBO, like Jean Smart.

Okay, works for me.

I love her.

Yeah, very curious. I hope we get more info.

Yeah, weird. I, I like— I need a blind item here. What actually happened?

Yep. Are you ready?

Even though The White Lotus is like a very, um, well-kept Yeah, they run a tight ship. We never hear spoilers. We never like get leaked audio from the set.

Like, I don't know, but then when like they're all doing press, there's so many of them, they all do talk about like the cat— the, the set dynamic, you know, who— like last season I feel like there were so many like stories from set. We were always telling like another story from—

yeah, and Michelle Monaghan was saying that she like had to— they had roommates. She lived with the girls. Parker Posey. Parker Posey.

Oh wow.

Yeah, so they all like— it's like a camp, she said. Like, they all like swim together. And so maybe Helena Bonham Carter didn't love like, like the bunk.

Yeah, maybe she just like wasn't right fit personality-wise for the show, even though—

but it's like, I do think that people have such a positive experience on the show because Mike White is like a really normal guy and he's not like a diva or like, you know, a James Cameron, like difficult to work, you know. Like, he's just, I think, like a guy. Like, I think people really like working with him. He's on Survivor, you know. Yeah.

And School of Rock.

Of course, Ned Schneebly.

That's crazy. Like, you can do anything if Mike White can go.

He's actually the example that you can do anything.

He's like acquired style, you know?

Agreed. Did Mike White write School of Rock, or he was— he just—

I think he's just Ned Schneebly.

I think he had more of a role.

And like, all of those things, like, you wouldn't think a reality TV star from Survivor could like go on to be like—

he wrote the screenplay.

Oh well, good for him. But you wouldn't think like you could go from reality TV to be a movie star like Ned Schneebly. No one really can do it. Who's trying to do it right now? Oh, like Maura.

No, I think he went from Ned Schneebly to then Survivor. Like, I think he was like—

he—

I think he had like a rough trajectory. Like, you know, that's so Hollywood. You write a huge movie and like nobody cares. So I think like years later he went on, um, Survivor. Survivor. In a career low. Which ended up being this amazing thing for him because he had this like legendary run on the show.

And then he wrote The White Lotus, which is like the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful show of our time, of all time.

Like, it's up there with like Game of Thrones.

And so like, you can really— don't be boxed, don't feel like you're in a box, you know?

It's true. It's actually really inspiring.

It is.

Yeah, you can do anything successfully, like, if you put your mind to it. and you have to have talent. I think he won. I think he won. Like, that's crazy.

And you have to have talent. Don't do it without talent.

Oh, if you're a talentless hack, stay home.

Like, stay home.

Nobody wants to hear from you. But if you have a dream and you have talent, like, go for it.

Seriously.

Yeah.

Our fifth and final story is some, some cute and crazy news, I want to call it, because Jessie Draper has like gone Instagram official with a new man who's one of the contestants from Taylor's season. Have you seen this?

No, but I saw, um, is she wearing maroon?

Yes.

Okay, I think it's staged.

I don't think it's staged.

They're kissing because I was, I was watching her story this morning.

They were kissing.

She's serious. She's nutty.

Um, and then I had to like do a deep dive on this guy, and apparently a few weeks ago he put out a video like, hey, Jesse Draper, like, I want to like go on a date with you, whatever. And now they're like taking these pictures and smooching in them.

Okay, but look, I'm sending you this video that I saw today. She posted on her story— check your Instagram— of her and the guy like taking fake photos. Like, look, okay, it's, it's giving staged. Wait, I wasn't following the saga at all.

Wait, hold on, who, who posted this video? Who's Andre?

The photographer. And then Jesse posted that video, like she shared it to her stories.

But okay, they're taking— but okay, now go to the Brandon guy's profile. I'll send it to you. Brandon Purse_1.

Purse. Purse. Oh my, this is such a weird story. Now I have to watch her stories with a camera.

And go to photo number 7.

Okay, I'm on my way. I didn't get it. Where'd you send it to me?

Oh, sorry, I didn't send it to you. I'll send it to you. I thought you were going to Brandon person.

Oh my God, I'm like waiting here for you.

There, I sent it.

Okay, Brandon. Oh, oh, oh, oh, well, he's so cute and he's like a farmer.

He's so cute. So when I first saw this, I was like, okay, he's really cute Then I looked at his digital footprint. He has kids. He was on Taylor's season of The Bachelorette.

Wait, but look at what I just sent you, because he's like taking a video of his tushy, which is kind of weird. Who is this guy? Like, I'm seriously not okay. I'm cracking up. Like, seriously, I— by the way, all of— I had— he's like in here, Remo. I did not know any of this was happening.

Also Mr. USA.

Are you serious?

Yeah, I didn't know that.

I really worry about Jesse. I worry about Jesse because she—

she's impressionable.

Sure. She has atrocious taste in men. Like, not only of course Jordan, like literally the devil Marciano. Like, she actually liked him and now I think dated him. Like, yucky.

Yeah, they were spotted like being like cute and cozy at the Hulu event more so than— more than the Nashville concert.

And I think that like more often than not, when people accept and like have really bad taste in men, it speaks to like a sense of low self-esteem. And, and I just want Jesse to know like there's no reason for that. You are so beautiful. You have such a successful business. You're an amazing mom. All the girls love you. You must be like an amazing friend. My sister was quite dazzled with you when you came on our show. Like, you need to start leveling up.

Okay, aside from the video, you need to acquire some taste. Aside from the video of the tushy and the weirdness, I just want to say I feel like this could be cute. Now she said she has a roster right now, so it doesn't make sense.

I don't know, like picking from Taylor's like discards— why?

What if Taylor was like, this guy was so nice, he was not for me, but he seems like a really good guy? And she is close with Taylor, so I feel like Taylor would have endorsed this and been like, that's a good one, wasn't for me, you should go out with him. Because he posted a video like, hey, Jesse, like, I want to go out with you, I heard you're single now. But what doesn't make sense is like she was seen canoodling last week, like on Thursday, with Marciano. This guy's like hard launching her today. That's not good. It seems like he's kind of using her for clout. Like, they are very clout-chasey. And like, for these men are like obviously extremely thirsty, extremely. But is it possible they could also be good guys.

Yes. I want to say that thirst is not— it's obviously a red flag, but it's not an indicator of like, you know, that you can't have true feelings, right? I think there are people who are together who like, you know, thirst off one another and it's quite successful and it's fine.

But I think it's like different for a guy to be thirsty in this realm than a girl.

Of course, of course, of course.

For us, like, that's how we network. For girls.

Yeah, yeah.

For guys, like, no, like, go to a— get a job meeting, shake a hand.

Get a job.

Yeah.

Um, the funny thing about Marciano, it's like, I just never thought that like I would be doing my podcast, like talking about somebody named Marciano.

What about this Claudia? Marciano Brunette.

Is that his husband? Like, where's he from? Is he French? Like, I just can't believe we're totally— Okay, that's cool.

I just made that up. You're right.

I don't know. It's just so crazy. Everyone we talk about is like Adam and David and John, and we're over here talking about somebody named Marciano. Like, that's crazy.

I like— see, from Marciano Brunette, every time I see that's his last name, first and last name, I'm like, who cares about his hair color?

I feel like if him and Jesse work out, she'll have like a line of shampoo that's like Marciano Brunette.

By the way, Jesse, if that's why you're doing it, like, for so that you could like trademark the last last name, I endorse. So then she could be Jessie Brunette and like she could have a line of like brunette hair care.

Fucking really, Jackie, he's not from Italy. Close, he's from Las Vegas, the Italy of the West. He was born at— oh well, oh yeah, because they have the Eiffel Tower there, so maybe he's from France. He was born in Las Vegas. I'm genuinely cracking up. Um, he comes from a boxing family and was named after the heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano.

Oh, that's cool lore. That's cool lore.

And brunette— his father's last name is Montantis. So where does the brunette come from?

I don't know, but his brother is also brunette. Oh, he is, because I remember I saw something, I was like, the Brunette Brothers. I'm like, who cares about their— like, you know how articles are always describing people in weird ways?

It's his mother's name, so he obviously took his— Tammy Brunette. That's beautiful, in case anyone was wondering.

That's beautiful though. He obviously respects his mother.

That's very like feminist, very herstory, taking your mom's last name.

Do we ship? No, no.

Okay.

Yeah, like, it would— articles would be like, Demi and brunette. I'm like, why can't you just say his name?

No, it's like, yeah, like, Draper and brunette.

Yeah, she— like, as if she was spotted with like a brown-haired male, right?

Like, mysterious male brunette.

It's simpler. Like Harry Styles, like, just the last name that's throwing us.

Styles, right? It's confusing.

Yeah.

Well, I don't know if she's dating this tushy cowboy, but, um, I hope she's not, honestly. Like, I really—

I hope she's not. Honestly, after talking about it, they both seem like great guys. I can understand why she's having a hard time making a decision.

For sure. Like, for sure, for sure.

I don't know, I thought it was cute a little bit.

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