Transcript of Brianna, Grace and Terri Schuester: Thursday, December 12th, 2024

Good morning, millennials. Welcome back

to the Toast, and happy Thursday. Like, normally, Thursdays have such a great energy, but it is our 2nd to last regular episode of the year. Like, there is sadness abound.

There is sadness abound. It's very bittersweet to be saying goodbye. But for you guys, it's actually great because I really feel called to give you an amazing episode. You know?

It's so true.

So with the stories and just with everything that I'm bringing to the show today, I'm putting my best foot forward. Not that I ever don't, I just wanna say.

I don't know. Some days, I don't, like, if I'm being completely honest. It's hard to be, like, your best personality every single day.

No. It's true, but I don't know. I feel like some days, I'm so tired. I just have a lot going on. But I feel like whenever I'm sat in this chair, like, I am putting my best foot forward.

Nothing else is know that we're

going through a sleep regression unless I decide to share that.

Nothing else exists besides these 4 walls.

These 4 walls. It's so true.

I actually didn't even talk to you about this, like, privately because I've been so busy. Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with Jay Shetty. I recorded his podcast. And, you know, I don't know if you are familiar with his podcast, but it's literally like therapy. Yes.

Like, inner child work. Yes. Exactly. And, like, in my current state, like, I'm just really susceptible to, like, crying. Emotional.

Yeah. Oh my god. I'm actually embarrassed at how much I cried. Like, he actually asked me a question. I was like, I can't answer that without, like, seriously falling apart.

He was like, okay. Don't worry. We'll cut it out. I'm like, thank you so much. It wasn't even a particularly titillating question.

It was just Can you tell us the question? We were talking about grief, and he was asking like, losing a dog, losing a parent, like, just that journey, like, the differences. And he was like, what's your favorite memory with your dad? And I was like, I can't tell you that. Like, sorry.

I can't. I literally can't. If you want me to keep sitting in this chair and my Coxidini was actually it

was not a coccydynia friendly chair. My ass is hurting me the whole time. It's, like, years' worth of therapy and what like, never goes to therapy, does it live on a podcast.

So I said that. I don't wanna spoil. It was 2 hours long, and I was just, like, by the way, like, I don't go to therapy. Not that I'm against it at all. I'm just not a person who has trouble communicating.

Like, I actually have a lot of people in my life that I open up to about, like, all different parts of myself, and I'm very blessed, and I don't feel, like, stifled. And he was like, that's so great. And I'm like, but, like, I never talk about this shit that you're talking about. Like, I don't know where you're coming up with these questions. Like, where do you get your confidence from?

And not me literally starting crying. Like, I literally was crying the entire time. I'm so embarrassed.

Like and it was You're like, Ari and Cynthia, did you do it with Ben or alone?

Alone. But Ben had driven me. He was in the car downstairs taking a call, and so I was feeling, like, particularly grateful to Ben for, like you know, he literally, like, moved his whole day around to drive me to Brooklyn. And then Jay was asking me questions about Ben. And, like, pretty much every time I was asked about Ben, I was hysteric.

Like, hysteric like, so embarrassing, I am, hysterically crying.

Is that a normal thing that he says happens on his show?

Well, that is, like, his thing. You know?

Everybody cries. Ex excavator.

Before we started, I was like, I'm not gonna cry. He was like, okay.

Hey, tears. See you later.

Literally. I don't know if, like, I would've cried not pregnant, but he was also just asking questions about, like, parenthood and, like, Ben as a dad. Like, seriously, it was it was so messy. Like, I don't even know.

You when it's coming out, but is it weird that I would feel weird, like, listening

to that?

Like, it's for everyone else.

But you.

It's not for your family.

Jackie, if you listen to it, I will die. Like, seriously, do not listen to it.

But the whole world should, but, like, not those closest to you. I understand that, like, it's just I can't explain it. I feel like I'm always trying to put this into words. I feel like even I can't put it into words. Like, for literally a decade, I've been, like, trying to articulate how sometimes it's easier to share emotional things with people you don't know 1000%.

Than with, like, people who know you and are there for who might actually be going through the exact same thing.

There's, like, a weirdness in the in the intimacy. It's just, like, it's weird.

That is so funny. I will not be able

to Please don't. Like, seriously, I will die. If you have a question, I'll answer it, but, like, don't don't watch. But everybody else should. I don't think it comes out for, like, months, though, so don't get it too excited.

It it'll be a while. Definitely not this year.

That's so funny. Well, my episode of the good guys dropped today. So Oh, that's

on my watch list because I hear you guys, like, literally exclusively talked about me, so I have to listen.

I actually think whoever told you that is, like, setting you up for discipline because we did talk about you a lot. But, like, if you're listening, thinking we talked about you the whole time, you're gonna be like, they didn't talk about me at all. Oh. Just so you know. Oh, okay.

Like, you

know Like, literally, if that's why you're listening, like, don't

That is why I would be listening.

Because we talked about you, like, a good amount, but it's not in it's not the whole episode, so you would just see the glass half full.

Oh, okay.

And even though I don't wanna, like, fuck with the good guys' numbers, listen to it next week when we're off.

Wow. Ben is you're gonna get a call from Ben.

Okay. Wait. I'm gonna get another positive call from Ben because today's a very exciting day because Spritz Society just announced their new QLab flavor. This is what

we were talking about last week when we said we did a collab at Spritz Society that was made for our sister, Olivia. What did I say? Last week. You that was not 5 weeks ago.

No. But it was not last week.

I feel like, actually, it was 2, honestly. 2a half, maybe. I think I'm closer than you are.

V 8 Spritz. It's a bloody Mary Spritz. It's made for our sister, Olivia, who literally She's just the baby v 8.

V 8 when we were, like, 6. Like, she was obsessed. She still is, but, like, I can't think of v 8 without thinking of Olivia Ash. Right?

No. Same. And that's why this is so full circle. Everything that we do, like, ties back to our childhood. I think

that that's

just, like, you know, life. But bloody Mary spritz, like, we needed this.

It's a blood it's literally it tastes just like a bloody Mary. Keep in mind, these are a lot less carbonated than our OG spritzes. It's still like a light sparkling, but it's not as carbonated as our usual spritzes, so keep that in mind. And it's our new cans. They're huge.

How many ounces? They're 12 ounce. Huge.

I think our 12 ounce can.

Our old ones were, like, 8 or 9. So this is significantly bigger, and the packaging is so pargy. Yeah. Not us working with v 8 owned by Campbell's. Like, we are literally so legit.

It's crazy.

So legit. Get them now. I feel like Bloody Marys are such a great holiday drink around the season. Like, you're hungover. It's just a great vibe if you have people over for brunch.

Like, don't be you getting the blender out. Yeah. Use the Spritz Society, VA Bloody Mary.

It is exclusively being sold at spritzsociety.com while supplies last, and, like, that's it. So

get That's that address.

They're hot. Spritzsociety.com. Update in my journey of life. I have, as of yesterday, actually found a coffee that doesn't make me hurl. If you guys have been, like, watching my coffee drinking journey even on the podcast, like, some days I have a coffee, I take 1 sip.

Yesterday, for the first time since conception, I finished a full coffee. Would you like to know the recipe? It's quite crazy.

Is it from Blank Street?

No. I just get a cup of ice from the place. They they hate me there. I get a cup of ice and half and half, and I don't pay for anything. By the way, Blank Street is owned by BlackRock.

They'll survive. Okay?

Yeah. It's a front.

I just wanna say I'm so ready to be owned by BlackRock. I feel like BlackRock buys everything. I was just talking to some guy in Ben was like, by the way, you know who about this company. I'm like, who? He's like, BlackRock.

Are you fucking kidding me? Like, I can't. Okay. I need BlackRock to invest in the Mark Schoenbliner Holocaust Education Foundation. But, like okay.

What was your first? So here is my coffee for a girl who doesn't like coffee, but needs it, and especially during pregnancy, like, could die from the taste of coffee. Of course, my Starbucks jug, medium iced coffee, medium roast, unsweetened. Immediately add 2 packets of Splenda Stevia. I'm telling you it's a little sweeter, the Splenda Stevia, than Stevia or Splenda.

I've been using Splenda Stevia. It's delicious.

Mhmm.

2. Then not a crazy, like, a little splash, half and half. Never really had half and half before. It's delish.

That's what I use at my house is half and half.

That's what I use at my house.

I've been using like, I've been I I'm shocked that you use half and half. That's the most shocking thing you just said. You always are making me get, like, special creamer for you. Well,

I'm not allowed to have my special creamer.

But, like, Chobani creamer, Calcutta.

I'm having a aversion to Chobani creamer in my pregnancy. It was something I really liked before. And now, like, that and my Ouai hand soap, if I never see either of them again, I

will be so happy. Understood. Well, I'm I'm my Nespresso grind. Whenever I'm sat for the show, it's been hot.

Coffee grind, which is so crazy because you live in Florida.

I know. Well, the place that I used to like to get my ice coffee jugs from, they they close their Floridian location, so I turned back to my Nespresso machine. That's really always there for me. Yeah. And we're back at it.

They're so caffeinated. I drink 2 cups a day, so I'm cracked out for you guys. We love Cracchio.

What do we got?

Is my and who makes this cup? I feel like Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama. Who makes this glass?

Is it Amazon? Like No. The ones that everybody has from Amazon?

No. It's I only have, like, 2 of them.

You're gonna spill.

Be careful. Bill Roy and Bach, please.

Oh my god. I can't with you. You're so fancy. You're literally Heather Dubrow. Amazon, Vilaroi and Bach.

Vilaroi and Bach. So that's having coffee with my swirly this morning. Cheers.

Morning. Can

we try and do a cheers? Yeah. We can that's easier. 321. Cheers.

I'm going to the doctor today. I haven't been to the doctor in forever. And let me tell you something. So weird not going to the doctor. Like, I'm just supposed to believe there's a and I have a bump.

You know? So I'm just supposed to believe there's a baby in my belly.

So how bump watch. Like, do you sense a bump at all?

Oh, yeah. First of all, my skin is itching me, which means my skin is stretching. Like, seriously, kill me. And, yes, I'm puffy. Like, I it's just not like a perfectly round bump, but, like, there is new, diameter.

It's toughen.

You're pumped

a little bit. It doesn't look like a conventional bump, if you will. And the weird thing is that because I go to a high risk doctor, even though I'm not a high risk god, you know, knock 1, knock 1, knock 1, knock 1, not a high risk patient, but I just love doctor Fox. I think I get seen more than the average person. Like, I I have double the amount of scans that most people do.

Also, with the, cervix drama, I will be getting more scans. And it still feels so weird. Like, the last time I went to the doctor was, like, 3 or 4 weeks ago, and it's just, like because I don't have a bump. And I'm starting to feel a little bit better, obviously. Like, I'm, like, are we sure?

Yeah. No. That is

I guess I would get my period, but, like, are we sure? Like, how do we know for sure?

Obviously, my second pregnancy, I was at the doctor. There was that 1 week where I was at the doctor every single day. Like, I was getting so much information scans, images. But even my first pregnancy, weirdly, I had, like, elevated alpha feta protein, like, a little bit alpha elevated to what they saw me more throughout my pregnancy. I think I got images once a month, and people don't.

You literally only get images like some like, if you have our standard pregnancy, like, maybe 2 or 3 images the entire time. And I don't know. And so

I know that people buy that machine where you can, like, hear baby's heartbeat. My friends, when I was, like, talking to them about it, I'm like, I feel so weird. Like, how do I know that, like, I'm pregnant? And I'm like, I think I'm getting that machine. They're like, don't do it.

First of all Don't

do it.

A lot of times, it just doesn't pick up the heartbeat. So you take yourself to the emergency room because of this stupid machine from Amazon.

Claudia, say no more. Don't do it.

And then sometimes you hear your own heartbeat. Oh, well, that's nice. So yeah. But, like, you think it's the baby's, and it's not. And so it's beating really fast.

And so, like, I'm not getting it. But I just think it's, like, a weird part of pregnancy that you can't, like, check on the baby unless you go to the doctor.

Or unless something feels wrong. That's why you really have to listen to your body.

Yeah. It's so true. I'm not good at that because, like, I always feel like shit. You know?

Yeah. But in this case, it's working in your favor. If you feel like shit, it's going. It's going.

There are, like, a couple of things that people say to pregnant people that really piss me off.

No. No. I I wasn't saying that by the way. I just said, like

But did you it's a good conversation. Sorry. I'm not attacking you. Okay. And that has to be 1 of, like, the top 3.

Ugh. I feel like shit. Well, that's good. Well,

no. I I actually was just talking to someone who said that in earnest, and she was like, when someone told me that, it made me feel so much better. Like, the worse you feel, the more it means baby sucking more from you. That's baby is getting hurt. And, like, it's a

good It's annoying to say. Also, what's annoying? Like, if I'm complaining about an ailment, just wait. Like Oh. Okay.

No. But I don't even feel the just wait because, yes, things get certain things get harder, but other things go away. The pain and discomfort changes. It morphs. It doesn't grow.

It just it's a different experience.

Oh, man. And you know what's so funny? I actually remember when Olivia got pregnant for the first time, my mother-in-law, like, passed on a piece of advice to me to Olivia from me. And I remember thinking, I'm like, Eva, that's kinda harsh, honestly. Let me tell you, she was so right.

She's like, people are gonna come up to you and tell you about their experience, and you need to just touch them on the shoulder and say, I don't care. Like, like, when people when I I don't give a fuck. Like, seriously, I don't give the tiniest little shit of a fuck. Like, I don't care. And she was so right for that.

Like, please do not share with me, like, what you went through. Like, I'm dealing with a lot, and I can't take on your shit right now.

Pregnancy is more personal than comedy, more personal than food, more personal than poetry.

So true.

So there's your little update from Lockturt.

Bump date. Even though I don't have 1 I'm so ready for my bump. Like, because if I steal 1 more seat from, like, an elderly person without, like, a proper bump, I'm gonna start getting attacked, like, for real. I also feel like when I'm crossing the street and stuff, people aren't being extra careful with me because I'm not, like, so visibly pregnant. I just look like a chubby girl.

And I need them to, like, start treating me with a little bit more like, I got honked in the street yesterday, like, right up front. I'm like, I'm literally fucking pregnant. Like, my my baby can hear that.

Move, bitch. Get out the way.

I'm about to, like, Terry Shuster this shit and put on a fake bump just so I get a little bit of, like, grace. Yeah. Nobody ever talk about the struggle of being pregnant without a bump. Like, if you're, like, just a chubby who carries weight, like, her whole life, I'm not gonna have a bump for, like, 8 months.

I think it's a Terry Shuster situation.

Sometimes you gotta Terry Shuster slash Brie Van to camp it up. Slash

I'm not saying it. Beyonce.

That's 1 of my absolute favorite conspiracy theories. That's probably the first, like, celebrity conspiracy theory I, like I engaged in. Yeah.

Yeah. Because of all the stuff that's happening with Jay z, like, all the theories are coming out of the woodwork. So I've recently, like, just this week, saw that clip of her doing that interview where the belly falls. Flipped.

It's you know, I'm gonna show it to doctor Fox today and ask him, like, if it's possible.

Can you record his reaction? Even though what he will say is anything is possible. Everybody's different. Everybody is different. And that is the truth.

And, like, any it it could be, like, a real belly, but, like, also could be

a pill. It could be styrofoam.

Oh my gosh.

That was such a crazy time.

Yeah. And what else is

going on with you? I'm a stick with you forever.

I am working so hard on my project, on my personal project, which you guys will see next week on patreon.com/atoste. I literally, like, am up all night on my computer. Like, my eyes are gonna just fall off from all of the scrolling that I'm doing, but I'm in such a good place that I need to shout out 1 of our sponsors. I don't know if they're a sponsor today. Wayfair, you've got just what I need.

I know.

Way I don't even know why I go to other websites to start in earnest. It always comes back to Wayfair. Like, their delivery is insane. The selection like, oh, this one's not deep enough. I need a 5 more inches.

Wayfair's Yep. It's a it's an it's a marvel. We talk about Amazon a lot and Amazon, but Wayfair is in that category of doing the impossible.

You just took the the words right out of my mouth. Wayfair is the Amazon of the furniture space. Their shipping is fucking crazy. My nightstands are here. And the oh, I need nightstands.

They also have amazing customer service.

They do. Oh my gosh. Remember what happened with my outdoor patio furniture? So I ordered a circular couch.

Year, like, 2 years ago.

When I first moved down here, I ordered a round couch for my patio, and instead, they accidentally sent me 2 armchairs from the same collection, but they were armchairs, and that's not what I ordered. So they I called them. They then got my couch on the truck, and they said, and you know what? And you could keep the armchair armchairs. It's like our gift to you, like, some

are the best

armchairs. I have the whole set, and it's amazing.

I actually know that story. And every time I order from Wayfair, I, like, secretly hope that they fuck up and let me keep whatever they send and then also send me what I ordered.

You know what else I've been leaning on a lot? And I just wanna thank my fellow comrades in Wayfair, are the reviews. Like, the people who post reviews with photos, like, you are the unsung heroes of our country, and I hope that Wayfair like, they I'm sure they incentivize you to leave a review. Maybe you get a credit or something because I've never done it, but I use it all the time. So I've actually been noticing that a

lot on Amazon. So because I especially, like, in my maternity era, my outfit right now is completely from Amazon.

I was gonna ask you. I love your outfit.

It is from Amazon. It is so comfortable. I'll post a link and affiliate. They have tons of reviews for, like, popular items with photos. I actually think that it's people's jobs too because if they're, like, creating premium content with these review photos, I think Amazon pays people to create reviews of their items just, like, in a bedroom.

It's like a mom of 4. Like, it's not a model. It's so fucking helpful. Like, the amount of stuff that I have with furniture too on Amazon, they crush it.

They crush it. So I'm just so thankful to the people who leave reviews so much so that I kind of, like, I wanna give back.

Maybe I'll

give a review 1 day to let people know

because There are certain unsung heroes, like, of our society, like, those who put back the grocery, carts from the parking lot, like, that we don't think of every day. And people who leave photo detailed reviews of furniture and clothing on Amazon and Wayfair and websites of that nature are are a part of those unsung heroes. They're literally what did we call them during COVID, like truck drivers? Essential workers. Essential workers.

And I think I don't know if Wayfair does this, but they should do an incentivization program where they give you a credit because those reviews certainly are helping me make purchases and not, like, dillydally for too long. They'll and even if it's not, like, perfect, you know, oh, the canopy is a little short for anyone under 57. I'm like, okay. 51. Yeah.

And that's the other thing. Like, I feel, like, reviews in general online, like, get a better app. Like, when when it comes to restaurants and stuff, like, I never take it seriously because only people who had a negative experience will leave a review. But I feel like now we're taking the power back of reviews. Like, Yelp to me is such a useless platform because it's only for complainers.

Whereas individual item reviews are so detailed, and they're not really coming in with a an agenda. Right. I feel like reviews are now for me, like, at a place in culture where they're helping people. And for many years, they weren't.

I agree. As they should what they were meant to do. You know? Yes. They're doing what they were meant to do.

Yes. Exactly. And you love to see that. So that's sort of where I've been at. Also, I've been

shopping so much Amazon. They have, like, amazing maternity shops. Like, the the maternity websites that you shop from, like Bumpsuit and, like, Hatch, they have shops on Amazon, and you get prime shipping.

Pardon me, Lish.

I just sent a bunch of stuff to your house. Yeah. I got a

pair of white hatch.

I got a I got a pair of white trousers, so you bet bitches better watch the fuck out this season. Okay?

Oh, yeah. No. I think that's where really the only 2 places I had shopped from was, like, bumsuit and hatch or maternity wear. Like, a a bumsuit and then a hatch cardigan done. I don't have

a bump or

a bump suit yet.

But I have been dipping my toe into maternity wear, and I just slept in a pair of hatch maternity pajamas that have, like like, it goes up to your boob, you know, like that belly band. And, of course, I don't have a bump, but I loved it.

I used to get maternity pajamas from

the Gap. Oh, I'll check that out. I'll check that out.

Yeah. And then, eventually, I just switched to a nightgown. You no waistband. Yeah. You're not doing the waistband.

Oh, yeah. I'm, like, a couple of, weeks away from just sleeping in 1 of Ben's, like, t shirts. Like, I can't keep buying stuff. That too. Waistbands are the enemy.

Yeah. I actually took a

pair of scissors to expensive pajamas to cut out the waistband only to find that it was completely sewn in. And I had to like, I destroyed the pants for nothing.

Like, I should've kept them Cut cut a slit. I cut a slit in a couple things.

Yeah. This is this very project runway over at my house.

Yeah. For sure.

What else do you do?

Need, like, just nap dresses. Yeah.

How's, how are the stories today?

Oh my god. There are so many stories today. There's, like, 3 big stories, and then the rest are kind of interchangeable, and some will probably get pushed till tomorrow. I think 5th and final, I'm gonna do a choose your own adventure 30.

I love that. Being given a choice. Like, that to me, I'm so exciting.

Especially because we're not rushed today. No Dear Toasters. No recap. It's just us. No no segments.

So the stories are gonna get a lot. So AOS.

AOS. All of substance. A lot of stories. I kind of like what mine said more. I agree.

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Thank you, turd. What can I say except you're welcome? Also, before we get into the stories, just wanted to mention that time person of the year has dropped, and it is Trump after all. So we shared a

short list

earlier this week. We gave our predictions. I think, you know, it all ties got

leaked yesterday, which I feel like it doesn't get leaked, though. Like, it's always a surprise.

It did get leaked. I think, like, time really had their Bragas in a twist because they really, like, think that they're so iron y.

They take themselves so seriously.

And key, but it did get

leaked out. That was released wasn't the photo they ended up using, but the person.

The photo was from 2016, I believe. Oh. That was confusing. I saw it too, and I thought that was, like, this year's cover. I was like, damn.

But, no, I think it was just 2016. Got it. Got it. And then this morning, the cover dropped and an interview, and he's the person of the year as he should be as he was the person of the year. Yeah.

So that's that on that. Are you ready for our first story? Actually, shocking news that I didn't learn until I opened my iPad. What? Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are engaged after dating for over a year.

Selena and Benny are engaged, she announced on Instagram Wednesday night. Forever begins now. She captioned a carousel of photo showing off her diamond ring. 1 picture captured her beaming while sitting on a picnic blanket happily staring at her ring. In another, she and him are cuddled up for a sweet, embrace.

I do, of course, wonder what this means for those last remaining Jelena stands because I feel like Can they disperse now? Right. Like, Jelena has never been a remote possibility. Right? He's literally married.

But I feel like Selena was, like, kind of, like not that she championed the Jelena movement, but, like, she was still it was kinda possible because of her.

Yeah. For as long as she's available, like, Jolina's had hope. But if she becomes, like, a happily married woman, then it's so not that it wasn't already disrespectful to Hailey and Justin, but it seemed to care about that. It would be, like, so disrespectful of her, and they're they're her fans. So, like, what?

You're gonna invalidate her marriage by saying she should be with Justin? Your wires are getting crossed.

So I do wonder about all the people whose usernames are literally jelena stan807, like, what this means for them and their usernames. So that was my first thought, but maybe that's because I'm so toxic.

That's so funny. I I did not have that thought whatsoever. I was kind of surprised by this. Even though they

even It's like yeah. The the timeline is totally fine.

Yeah. In, like, no, normal world. Traditional. Like and, you know, she's, like, my age, I think. So, yeah, I had a friend that was dating someone for over a year seriously, and they got engaged, like, oh, that's beautiful.

So I think

that feel if your father was dating someone your age?

That would be different. Yeah. I don't know that I would say that's beautiful. I think I might say screw sisterhood. But I might.

And I thought it was you walking through the front door.

So regardless, this is a little bit surprising. I also feel like celebrities take their time with stuff. They they're not, like, the first to get engaged. Also, marriage in, like, California with celebrities and all that money is just, like, a weird institution.

I thought you meant, like, that they it seems like they shared it the day that it happened. I thought you were gonna say celebrities take their time. Like, with the Hailee Steinfeld, she made it a whole week, and then she said, look.

We got engaged last weekend. Oh, no. I just meant, like, we're always shocked when they do things in a traditional timeline.

Yes.

So the fact that this was traditional airing on the side of of quick was surprising to me. I wasn't, like, on No. But if this was your friend,

you wouldn't think it was weird.

Not at all. No. No. I think this is, like, a beautiful and healthy relationship. Yeah.

I agree.

I Which 1 of the relationships

that's what's surprising is a beautiful, healthy relationship in Hollywood. This isn't a relationship that I particularly, like, champion or really understand. It does feel, like,

kind of random to me, But I do think that they are well suited for 1 another, and I think that they have potential. And it's not like Selena Gomez actually is not she's not, like, always dating a 1000000 people. She's never been engaged before. She's not 1 of those celebrities who, like, kinda takes relationships and specifically engagements for nothing. She's never been engaged before where I feel a lot of her compatriots have been engaged a couple of times.

So, does this mean they'll actually make it down the aisle? In celebrity world, no. But I don't know. She's kind of a serious girl when it comes to relationships. So I feel like maybe.

Yeah. That was gonna be my next question. Like, do you think that they will get married?

This happens all the time. Like, just because a young Hollywood thing gets engaged, like, does not mean she's getting married. It's it's a piece of jewelry. But these 2 feel different to me. Like, he doesn't have a 1,000,000 girlfriends.

She doesn't have a 1,000,000 boyfriends. They haven't been engaged multiple times. Like, I don't know. I kinda feel like they might.

Yeah. Do you know what popped into my head yesterday that now is coming back into my head? But it came into my head before this, so I don't want it

to, like, invalidate Uh-huh.

This. But remember when Demi Lovato was engaged to that guy? Jackie, of course,

that's what I was thinking of when I said that. Like, how, like, so like, young Hollywood things, like, get engaged, like, for jewelry.

Yeah. But, like, he turned out to be just, like, such a loser grifter. Loser? Just like the original swindled. He should become American Greed.

And I don't I I I just wanna say, for some reason, I thought of him yesterday, not after the Selena news drop, but now I'm thinking about him again. But, obviously, Betty Blanco is not that. No. You're celebrities, like, get engaged and, like, who doesn't wanna feel, like, loved and proposed to? Right.

Right. The the odd thing, not odd, but Betty Blanco also does have, like, a working and personal relationship with Justin Bieber. Now I'm sorry to keep bringing them into this because I'm so toxic like that, but they like, some of the biggest hits from Justin are Benny songs. Some of the biggest hits in the world are Benny songs. From back

in the day? Like, no.

Okay. Benny Blanco, Justin Bieber songs. Lonely, I feel like, is their song.

When did that come out?

In 2020.

Okay. I don't know. At a certain way, everyone works together. You know?

Earth, I don't know that song, and Cold Water. Cold Water sounds familiar. Like, would under different circumstances, like, Justin might be invited to Benny Blanco's wedding, not his wedding to Selena Gomez. But yeah. Interesting.

I think it's nice. And, obviously, like, all the celebs were commenting on her post. Taylor saying I wanna be the flower girl. So it seems like legit. I don't know why it's just like these 2 exist in, like, a universe not of my own.

Do you know what I mean? I don't think about them a lot. Mhmm. But I do think they might end up making it down the aisle.

I hope that they do. I hope that they do. Do. I hope that they do. And so for now, I don't know why we keep talking about it.

Like, it's, like, not happening. Because that's not know.

Like Because that's just Like a Hollywood thing.

Like Yeah. It's such a pessimistic outlook. I don't know where it's coming from, but this is what this is what it's all about, folks. Love. Love is the thing.

You know? Ring.

Love is this thing.

You know? The ring is beautiful.

Yes. What shape is that diamond? Is that a marquee?

It's a diamond shape. Like, it's a

I am pretty sure it's a marquee. That's what it's called.

But it looks like a die you know, like the shape of a diamond, not a stone.

Yes. It's a marquee. The weird thing is that, like, when a like, no matter everybody has their own, like, diamond shapes that they like, but at a certain size, like, they're all beautiful. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Like, I think like, I happen to think probably when I was getting engaged, like, Marquis would have been last on my list. Mhmm. Selena's big ass marquee I'll take it.

Yeah. No. It's very he did as they say, and I hate this phrase,

he did good. You did good. You did good.

But he did do well. Are you ready for our next story?

Yeah. It's also incorrect grammatically. He did good. He did good. He did well.

Our next story is some podcasting drama that's been bubbling for weeks that has now hit a fever pitch because Brianna Chicken Fries back in the news, BFFs, is back as a drama podcast because Bri and the gang are addressing what's going on with plan Bri, her other podcast that she was doing with her best friend, Grace. So if you've been following, like, Zach and Brie and Dave and Josh and the gang, like, then you know this.

And Grace.

If you if you haven't, like, we're not speaking English. I just wanna say, like Yeah.

Okay. I'll give, like, a little bit of backstory for the grands. So the Brianna chicken fry got Brianna chicken fry got signed to Barstool a couple of years ago, and she brought with her a podcast that she had started in her college dorm room called Plan Brie. It's obviously a play on plan b. And her and Brie.

And Brianna. She the podcast, like, was doing well. It was a bunch of different I I I wouldn't categorize it as 1 particular thing. It was just like a show by her and her interests. And at some point, when she started to do really well at, Barstool, she started to do BFF.

She was becoming more well known. She brought her friend, Bree, from home. This is excuse me, Grace. This is her best friend from childhood. Friends since they were 10.

She asked if she wanted to, a, move to New York with her, and, b, like, try to get her a job at Barstool. They would, like, bring her into the office, bring her on plan b. And it actually I I remember watching it happen very organically. Like, she would come on 1 at a time, and then people in the office started to like her and asked her to come on this podcast. And she ended up getting a job, like, a salaried job at Barstool through Brianna and ended up being, like, the full time cohost of the Plan Brie show.

The Plan Brie had went through, like, a bunch of different iterations, but then it ended up being, like, a swirly show with 2 best friend swirlies. And the Internet, like, Grace very quickly gained an audience of her own. She's super different from Brianna. She's very self deprecating. Her, her goal has always been comedy.

She loves, you know, stand up. And so they're they're actually quite different, but they're best friends who've always really complimented each other. And then when Brianna started dating Zac, there was clearly, like, a separation between the 2. Now anyone who gets into a serious relationship, like, you are gonna change your relationship with your best friend. But now, of course, knowing what we know and what abusers do, he was clearly trying to isolate Brianna, so her not being spotted around with Grace like she used to be.

And they were, like, you know, typical young 20 best friends sleepovers all the time to then nothing, people started to to be suspicious.

Because they were still doing their podcast together.

And I remember doing it, but, like, Grace moved to New York, and, like, literally Brianna left New York, and she was doing it remotely, and she was building a studio in Massachusetts. Like, the the space between them was widening.

Yes. It was widening. I feel like we talked about it on the show because there was conversations, like, on the Internet maybe a year ago at this point about how, like, Brianna, like, left her friend, Grace, because she got a boyfriend. And we were just saying, like, that's kind of what happens sometimes in in serious relationships. So there have been, like, conversations about their friendship on the Internet In

a while.

For a long time.

And the general consensus and when when Brianna started dating Zach, like, the Internet just, like, hated her. And so, really, people took up for Grace. And Grace is, like, not of you know, she's never been Grace doesn't have any drama. It doesn't there's no no reason for somebody on the Internet not to like Grace. Right?

She's never done anything. Whereas, Brianna, like, because you're a Internet personality of a bigger size and you've been doing it for longer, you have scandals. You have cancelations. So people have reasons that they think that they should hate you. Right?

So, when Brianna started dating Zac, she automatically got this huge target on her back. People hated her for a 1000000 different things, mostly because they were jealous. But then when it came to the Gray stuff, like, the the fans of the show, like, really took Grace's side because it appeared as though, like, Brianna, you know, got a boyfriend and never talked to her best friend again. She thinks she's too good for the podcast. She's moving out of New York.

She thinks she's too good for Grace, and she's leaving Grace behind. And when the the news came out about Brie and Zach, I think everybody was like, okay. Well, this is obviously way more complex than we thought, and maybe the Brianna Grace thing is, like, not really what we thought it was. And and they weren't sharing a lot of their friendship because Grace couldn't really share what her friend was going through. So, like, people were like, okay.

We've had we actually had it all wrong.

Yeah. And it wasn't, like, Brianna coming between their friendship. It was really, like, Zach. And now that he's gone, they'll come back together because he was keeping them apart. And it all it all looked

like it made sense. Except that plan b, the podcast, hasn't returned. Since October. So people were like, well, no. I think there is something going on between those 2.

And for as long as people have thought there's something going on between them, they both have individually maintained, Mostly Brianna, like, when asked, like, it's all good.

Yeah. And Grace hadn't said anything. We even were talking about a few weeks ago how, like, there was rumors that people thought maybe she signed the NDA and took money to not share the video from what had happened, but not good, not bad. She didn't say anything. In all this time that Brianna has been the headline story, her best friend, she wasn't speaking on the situation.

So we're like, I thought that was maybe, like, out of respect sort of thing. It's like, what can you say? And it's not it's Brianna's telling her story, then Grace. We couldn't

listen to that. It's not about Grace right now. It's about Brianna.

After Brianna had shared her story, then, like, Grace would come in supplementally, share hers.

Mhmm.

That's not what happened. That's not what happened.

So then last week, I guess, when Spotify Wrapped came out, Brianna shared that, like, somebody tagged her in, like, Plan Brie was my number 1 show of the year. And she was, like, oh, you know, I'm really trying to figure out a way to get Plan Brie back in the week In some capacity. Yes. And I guess that set Grace off. And for the first time ever, Grace has spoken out.

She released this 3- Slide statement. Slide statement. Basically saying that they have known for a while that the show was ending. And for the last couple of months, they've been working on a way to tell people whether that's a video together, a statement. They haven't been able to fully come to agreement on how they wanna announce it, but Grace felt like Brianna posting that Spotify rap thing was, like, the biggest slap

in the face.

Like blindsided her. Blindsided her. And she was like, well, now I'm speaking my truth. And she released that 3 slide statement being like, yeah. The show's not coming back.

We've known for a while, and I had no idea that Brianna was, like, working on bringing it back without me.

Right. And she and, also, while also being like, I've I've never post a statement like this. I never wanna post a statement like this. Like, it kills me that I'm even writing something like this. I feel so awkward.

Like, very much, like, couching everything by, like, be like, not like, this was her last resort that she had to post

this statement. Pushed to this point.

Right. So she posted that, and it's like so right now we're thinking, like, oh, they decided not to do plan b, but Brianna is gonna bring it back without Grace? Like Right.

Stab in the back. So then, finally, they did a whole BFFs pod about it yesterday. I watched it Where they did, like, 15 minutes at the end of the episode. Dave literally was like, just say what you have to say. Brianna got really emotional.

And she had a couple of key points, but she overall said that there has definitely been a fracture in their relationship, like, for as long as people have assumed. And for Brianna and, you know, it's hard for me to only hear 1 side of someone's story because I always take that person's side. Like, you've given me no other Yeah. So and I really do believe Brianna. And people hated Brianna's response.

They think she's the devil. They think her ego's out of control. It's it's, Grace's statement the the fans already had been on Grace's side. Yeah. Grace's 3 slide statement incentivized them even more.

And then when Brianna released this episode, like, people are not buying anything she's saying. But I do think she raised a couple of valid points. Points. Agreed. The first was reminding people that Plan Brie was started by her in her college dorm.

And if the show worked out with Grace, great. If it didn't, like, it is her show to continue on without. Like, a lot of people are comparing it to Call Her Daddy. Right? They started it together.

Totally different. This is a show that existed before Grace. Yes. And so she reminded people of that, and I think that, like, people didn't like her saying that, but it it is an important fact.

But, also, what she said was when she said we're bringing it back in some capacity, she was gonna bring on new hosts and and so that the fans could still have, like, a a plan Brie, which was very much like a college show. Like, she was gonna, like, reboot it with people. She wasn't, like, doing it now alone without Grace and kicking Grace to the curb. So Grace Grace kind of, like, jumped the gun on thinking that. But then Brie also said, but if I wanted to be on it, like, I can do that.

It was my show.

Right. So I think a lot of people their takeaway from Brianna's interview was, like, she sounded really egotistical. But because saying that, like, it's my show well, you know what? It is. And that's an important fact.

And I think another thing she said that really rubbed people the wrong way was that, like, listen, I brought Grace into all this. Like, I was on the up and up. I was having this. I wanted to work at Barstool. I wanted to work in media.

I started this podcast. I started to take off. And I brought Grace into it. I let her stay with me. Like, I got her the job.

I've been so such a champion at first. So people think that, like, because Grace's, you know, career started to take off and, like, Brianna couldn't handle it. No. That was actually what she designed. And so people think she, like, sounded like a bitch on the podcast.

She didn't say, like, I invented Grace. But she said, like, how you guys can think that is so crazy. I have seen in her what you all see in her since we're kids. And, like, I brought her like, do you know how hard it is to get recognized in media and, like, to bring on your best friend on the up? She wasn't even at a level yet where she could just, like, know, do favors for her friends.

She brought her friend in at the ground level, and people did not like the way that she sounded, but I totally understood what she said. She was like, you guys think I'm this sort of, like, devilish, jealous monster, but, like, it was it was me. I brought her in. Like, I

agree with you. Why did she just tell her? That's how people heard it. But, no, what she was saying was you I'm I couldn't be jealous of her success. This is what I wanted for her from the beginning in here.

And just, like, she's telling these anecdotes to prove how she did or tried to do that for her.

Yes. The biggest thing she said that people had the biggest issue with too, because I was reading the comments, and everyone hated everything she said. The biggest thing was that the internet has played such a big part in their friendship, And the pitting of 2 women against each other, like, it actually created division between them. Because how Brianna feels is that Grace just sort of, like, let the Internet take her side, prop her up, beat down Brianna without ever, like, speaking out and defending her. That was her biggest gripe with Grace is that when people started to pit them against 1 another, Grace never said stop.

Grace never said, guys, Brianna's a good friend. Like and she just sort of let people pile on Brianna, especially when Brianna was going through that abusive relationship with Zac, which Grace knew about. So Brianna feels like she knew what I was going through. The Internet was hating me, partially because of Zac, partially because of her. And she didn't like, nothing to stop it.

And people were, like, shocked that she said that out loud, like, that it was so shallow. Like, your friendship since you're best friends has to do with the Internet. And it's really easy for people to, like, think it's so stupid. Like, oh, she didn't defend me on the Internet. Like, it sounds trivial.

Although, when you are going through it, like, somebody standing up for you means a lot, and it can make a difference in the reception in the perception of you.

The person who's good in their eyes, I didn't think it was trivial at all. I mean, it's easy for us to put ourself in their shoes because we do a podcast together. So immediately, I was like, if there was this narrative about me for, like, a year that I was this bad person that would we I was a bad friend, like and it was affecting some people might it might not hit the level where it registers that you need to address it, but you could tell it was affecting me. Like, in 2 seconds, you would be like, leave her alone. That's and especially when they were doing it in service of you,

right, to prop me up. Right.

Like, you're like, it's not even like it's someone else who who wouldn't defend you, but it's like they're pitting us against each other and you're my best friend and, like, you have the power in their eyes to shine your light on me and that you wouldn't do that not once and you see how much it's affecting me. You also see that I'm just, like, I'm not going

through things personally. Well. Right.

Like, the and that and that she even had to, like I think she said that she asked Grace to, like, say something and that Grace never did. Like, I understand. I was able to, like, understand and be, like, oh, that would that's upsetting. Now it's easy for me to have this POV because I I haven't heard from Grace. And the only thing I've heard was that statement, which I felt like

was jumping the gun a little bit. I would love to hear from Grace, like, what her POV is because I didn't think Brianna said anything that crazy, even though people are gonna this is gonna be, like, a hot take. People think everyone's team Grace. And I'm not team anyone. I heard from Brianna, and I thought what she said was compelling, and I understood it.

I would love to hear from Grace because maybe her her version of events is compelling and truthful, and I would find it, you know, truthful as well.

So I think when Grace and there's a lot of history there. But then when Grace saw that statement, like, we're bringing plan Brie back when, like, she's been on just the side of, like, plan Brie is over. How are we gonna announce it? And then it looks like Brie's doing all these things behind your back. Like, that would be the time to call Brianna, but they weren't really speaking.

And I think she just, like, saw red and was like, oh, I have to answer everything that's happened, how she left me. Like, I need to set like, I think she And you

guys don't understand. Her releasing a statement was so crazy. She, like, never speaks out.

Never speaks out. I think she, like, just jumped the gun, like, just assumed, a misintent that, like, wasn't there, and that's what has made all of this explode was that statement. And I think, you know, in hindsight, her releasing this statement, like, wasn't the right thing to do. And even Josh and Dave who love Grace and work with her and, like, the our friends with both of them were like, that wasn't the right thing to do, especially when you're

like because they haven't handled their relationship issues privately at all. So if the first time she's like, Grace is sort of gonna speak up for herself, for it to be public, when these are people who have been best friends since they're literal, like, in elementary school, I think it was kind of the nail in the coffin. It's so sad to see these 2, like, not be friends anymore. Like

I I don't know if it's because I was, like, doing my waterline, but, like, when and I was saying this on the podcast a few weeks ago how

I was choked up.

How I was looking at Grace and Bree's Instagram a few weeks ago when I was just, like, in this drama and, like, thinking about how Zach Bryan came between their, like, 20 year friendship, like Terrible. Like, was making me so emotional, and then I was listening again to it today. And, like, it it makes me so sad. And I think if we heard from Grace, what she would really say is how she felt in that moment when she posted a statement. Like, how she just felt, like, completely left behind, this, that, this, that, and, like, what led her to post the statement even though maybe overall it wasn't the right decision.

Like, I think the way she felt in that moment, like, nothing could've It's relatable. Nothing could've stopped her.

Yeah. Right. If she could if she could identify that, maybe she would stand by the statement now. I don't know. It is so sad.

And I think 1 of the cool things that, like, at the time, people liked, and now people just, like, hate Brianna for everything she does. So, like, it's but the fact that she had this opportunity and decided to take her best friend with her, a lot of people wouldn't do. And it has worked out so well for Grace. Not only is her barstool career popping off, everybody loves her. She does all the shows and she has tons of followers.

But her TikTok career really took off. Her comedy career took took off. A lot of people don't know. She's on a national tour right now opening for Whitney Cummings.

She's, like,

1 of the biggest female comedians. So that's kind of what Brianna was saying, and and people thought it sounded like so pick me and, like, I did it. But, like, look. The opportunity she gave Grace created all of this. Now Grace is talented, and if she wasn't, she wouldn't have gotten all this.

But some your best friend giving you a leg up, like, yeah, that counts for something, and that's someone who loves you and supports you. So the fact that they were that type of close, because not a lot of bitches would take their best friend with them. It had to be a special type of friend. Like, the fact that they were that close and their families are close,

they grew up together. Hood.

Oh my god. It's this is actually the saddest thing.

And that's why it's not call her daddy. Like, Alex and Sofia were friends for, like, 2, 3 years. They met in an Uber pool. Like Today? Yeah.

That's what I

heard was. So funny.

I think so. I think No. That sounds right.

Like, they were so crazy back then. Like, that's shit that they would do.

Right. Something like that. There was, like, a third person too who, like, put them together. These are girls who are friends since they were 10. Like, even in the stories that are written about it, like, they have all these photos of them, like, going to prom together.

Like, it's a sisterhood, and, like, that's really, really sad.

So I think a good example of why they they stopped the show and it was Brianna's idea to stop doing the show because we had talked about this. Remember the Menendez Brothers thing? Yes. So, like, that was the month where, like, people were just so fucking done with Brianna. And Brianna told a story of her and Grace going to Atlantic City when they were, like, 15, and they ended up, like, giving, like, hand jobs to, like, these 60 year old guys or something.

They didn't say that exactly they didn't say exactly, like, what happened between the men and the girls, but that, like, it was a a situation where they were taken advantage of.

Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe not me just making up hand jobs.

I don't know. Maybe you didn't, but I watched the whole clip, and I don't remember a hand job, but maybe I'm misremembering.

So they were telling the story, honestly, as like a cautionary tale, but also, like, how they just used to be so crazy. Like and now they look back

as grown women. Grace was doing her show in Atlantic City. And so Robyn is like, I hope it's different for you this time. Girls out there, like, if someone is yeah. A older man comes like, kind of, like, you know, saying Cautionary.

Saying a hypothetical cautionary tale that, like, clearly happened to Grace and then also

to Brie. So the Internet perceives it as a story that only happened to Grace and that Brianna was, like, victim blaming her. And, like, that was that was, like, as big as the Menendez in her in their, like, podcast community. They were, like, she told a story that Grace was not comfortable with and then victim blamed the Grace in the story of her trauma as a kid. And I I think that, 1, it's a story that happened to both of them.

2, Grace, would was okay with it being kept to the podcast or else she would have asked for it to be taken out. Like, things are prerecorded. And that was, like, another thing that, like, the Internet descended on Brianna for. And Grace could have just said, no. No, guys.

Like, it's fine, first of all. And it's true. And it happened to both of us. But she didn't. And so they were just getting into a pattern where they would record an episode and, like, try and Brianna would try to, like, not say anything crazy, but people were just, like, hating her and loving Grace.

And that's such a toxic dynamic, especially when you're trying to be funny and interesting and insightful. So it makes sense why Brianna wanted to stop doing it that type of way because that's not a that's not a way to live.

No. And she said the comments would just become a forum for bullying me. And, like, why am I putting myself out there just to get hated? Nobody wants to do that, and she has other things that she could be doing.

Like, I would love like, I kinda need, in a biblical sense, to hear from Grace.

I think that we will hear from Grace.

In what format? Grace is welcome on the toast.

Grace is welcome. I think she's a toaster.

I think she is too. And, like, she's a swirly. And that that's the thing. It's, like, I hate when people, like, take credit for other people's success. Right?

Because, like, you can give someone a leg up, but if they're, like, unfunny it happens with Nepo babies all the time. Right? Like, how many unsuccessful Nepo babies are there? Like, you need to have the star quality. And people love Grace for a reason.

Like, she's so relatable. She's so real. She's very funny, and I don't feel like Brianna was taking credit for it. I think Brianna was just trying to paint a picture of herself. I think she feels very misunderstood.

Yeah. Being like, you guys think I'm, like, this jealous, evil, like, spiteful grace. No. No. Not I invented grace, but, like, I love grace just as much as you guys.

I see in her what you do. Like, I

And I wanted this for her, and I did everything I could to help her get where she is. And it's hard to, like, when you're back into the corner.

Did it herself, but it wouldn't have happened without that push from Brianna.

Yeah. Everyone has somewhere that they got their start, someone who gave them a little something along the way.

Steve Harvey?

Steve Harvey is your Brianna.

Is my Brianna.

But it's also like you can't win when you're backed into a corner, a picture is painted of you of being, like, a jealous person, and then so in in order to say, like, no. I'm not jealous. I I wanted this for her, and I helped her. Then it's like you're making it about yourself because you're you can't win. And that's why at a certain point, you have to, like, just make peace with people misunderstanding you.

You know who you are. Know thyself. But it is a very hard, harsh world.

Yeah. Because I had a thought, and I actually thought about, like, maybe even DMing it to Brianna Chicken Friday. But nobody wants to hear, like because I know she knows this. But 1 of my takeaways from the episode was she puts a lot of stock and a lot of inventory in what the Internet thinks about her, and it's so hard not to. And I'm sure she's working on it.

But and by the way, I because I'm now interested in this story, it's all over my TikTok. And there's a million mean bitchy ass drama channels, and they hate Brianna. So, I've never had that level of interest in a negative way. So, I speak humbly. But she needs to for her own health, like, she needs to let go.

It's so hard. It's so hard. I don't know how to do it. But she needs to actively I'm sure she is, but I hope she's actively working on that because you put so much stock in what other people think about you. It's such a losing game, especially at the level that you're at with the Internet, that if you're happy with yourself, that's literally all that matters.

And the people around you, your family, your coworkers, if everybody around you speaks well of you, like, that's what matters.

Yeah. I think that will come. It it takes time and age, and it that's also what's hard for them is they're at this, like, such a delicate age where, like, you're learning who you are about yourself, and the Internet's also telling you who you are, and you're like, wait. I don't think that's who I am. But, like, and you just start to question yourself.

And I think over time that she'll, like, harden and and be able to tune that out, but it's something that you really have to learn the hard way. And not everyone could tell you, you know, it doesn't matter. Don't listen to the hate list. But, like, you have to learn the hard way.

That's the other thing. You have to remember these girls are 25. Like, when you were 25 and you had a fight with your friend, like, you probably didn't handle the whole thing perfectly. Like Yeah. But it's not it's not at the level that this is, and it's not, you know, scaled.

But so it's so important to keep that in mind. It is very important to keep that in good

in mind. And I think in time, like, she will emerge from this and, like, you know, be able to tune out the noise, but also when you're a public figure and more so an influencer creator, like, your job is currying favor with the public and being liked. And, like, when he feels like you have all this hate, and it's like, wait. Do I even have a job if everybody hates you? Like, you do also have to, like, listen to it just a tiny bit just to make sure, like, that you have enough to pay your bills.

Right. So it's a very, very hard line to walk.

I I do feel like it's beyond this point, but I really hope these 2 work it out. Like and I don't think that like, once you take it public, like, it's over, but it's the beginning. And I just

I think they could work it out right now in if nothing more happens and just, like, say Grace shares how she was feeling in that moment, I think that they could forgive each other for this incident and to build back, and I think that they could work it out if nothing worse happens.

Because I remember when we were doing the call her daddy things, we were, like The whole team.

We're, like, get back together.

Imploring them to get back together, like, from a business POV because, like, it was so valuable. We knew what it was. For this, like, for your soul.

Yeah. I think if nothing And

for business the the podcast wasn't ever, like, huge. Like, it was a successful barstool, but it wasn't, like, call her daddy. For their souls

Mhmm.

For like, they need each other, I am imploring them to work it out.

I think if nothing worse happens, and this is, like, the worst it got

We can come back.

We can come back. We can come back. 1000%. Great. We'll see what happens.

Yeah.

Are you ready for our next story, our 3rd story? Yeah. Actually, 1 of our favorite pop culture tropes, Shawn Mendes is seemingly addressing the Sabrina Carpenter Camilla Cabello love triangle for the first time. And, honestly, like and by seeming what?

I I I didn't know if he had he had never spoken about it, but, also, like, I kinda don't need to hear him on this. Like

No. But I need

to hear not the sharpest tool. Like, I just I need to hear from Brina. Like, I I'm interested from Camilla. But, like, Shamina's, like, I actually don't care.

The information that he's sharing, like, does just, you know, tell paint help paint the picture that Sabrina was talking about because I feel like we did hear about Sabrina because low key short and sweet is like a Shawn Mendes slam album. Slander. Yeah. In a preview for Thursday's episode of John Mayer's SiriusXM show called How's Life, Shawn Mendes says that while he was, quote, dating someone, he reunited with an ex girlfriend due to some unresolved feelings. He says Okay.

By the way, not him actually validating Breaner.

Yeah. He said 2 days before going to hang with my ex, I expressed I'm going to hang with my ex because I have some unresolved feelings. In hindsight, he says that maybe instead of 2 days, he should have told her 2 weeks ahead of time. Not the right lesson. A 100%.

He should not be going to see an ex, period. And if you have unresolved feelings, like, work them out within yourself. There's nothing that your ex can say or do that's gonna, like, make it better or worse. Fax. John then asked Sean, is there something in all of this that you could say, yeah.

I played that wrong. He reacts by saying the biggest lesson he learned in life is no 1 gets out of this life without getting hurt, and no 1 gets out of this life without hurting someone, Jan.

No. I just know if me and Shawn Mendes went to high school together, we would hate each other. Like, he's so lame. Like

So this, you know, does hark back to the time he was spent, you know, Valentine's Day with Sabrina. Breeze. Palm Springs, and then a few months later, he's kissing Camilla at Coachella. So and what's the line in her in her album? Drive straight to her thighs.

At your ex's house. That's that day.

Made sure that the phone was phased out. Seems like overnight, I'm just a

bitch you hate now. Devastating. Devastating for the brain. I cannot believe all those songs are about Shawn Mendes. It's actually the craziest thing.

And I feel like you didn't, like, know that upon once I heard Sharpest Tool, I'm like, oh, that's so Shawn Mendes. And then I listened to the rest of the album, most of it, except for, like, Bed Kem, which is clearly Barry Keoghan. Like, a lot of the, like, the love triangle things, I'm like, oh, it's totally Shawn Mendes.

Yeah. And this is just like a that this happened this exact way. Like, by the way, Breanna is a truth teller, not that we ever thought she wasn't. And that he had to, like, see his ex to deal with unresolved feelings and winds up falling back in love with her. Like, yeah.

Short and sweet, dropping soon.

They had been broken up for so long, him and Camilla. Like, where were the unresolved feelings when you were single?

Yeah. I'm sorry. Like, I just don't like that, period.

No. But I do find the Shawn Mendes, Shawn Mayer friendship to be so interesting because I feel like they Wait.

And then John Mayer and Breiner.

Oh, that. Yeah. But I also think that, like, John, Shawn Mendes and his team, like, definitely tried to position him as, like, a a young John Mayer. And I feel like John Mayer has kind of given his blessing to Shawn Mendez to do that. Although, do you feel like Shawn Mendez has kinda fallen off a little bit, like, when it comes to popular music and just popularity?

100%, but I think it's Shawn's choice.

Intentional. I agree. I think he does not like being famous.

Choice's choice. It's Ashanti.

It's Ashanti's choice. I love that.

Like, I think too much for him. I think he took a step back for his mental health. I think whenever he wants to be more successful, like, he can turn it up or down. The fans are are waiting for him. He's very talented, and so I think this is like an Addison situation.

Yeah. I agree. I think he, like, fell off by his own by design. Yeah. But it did remind me something an interesting conversation we had yesterday about, like, Renee Rapp and celebrities who leave, like, popular things while to pursue other projects.

A lot of people in the comments had some great comparisons to people who left, you know, very popular shows. I didn't realize because I'm not into The Office lore, but Steve Carell left The Office, like, at its peak. They say it was for Despicable Me, but I think also, like, he was over the role.

And that

did not affect him whatsoever.

And he went on to flourish, and maybe he wouldn't have if he was still, like, doing TV all the time.

And a lot of people in the Renee Rapp analysis who people agreed with me. They had this thought also. A lot of people blamed Mean Girls the musical movie, because I did forget that in between all of this, she went on a big press tour for this huge movie that was horrible and flopped. And I think that, that put a dent in her momentum as well. I forgot about that because I never saw movie.

Yeah. But, also, like, in the industry, it's like, oh, we thought Renee Rapp. Like, you're gonna get people to theaters. Plus, it's Mean Girls. It's a musical.

Like, this should have been a slam dunk.

You should have been a Band Aid for the whole thing.

And when that doesn't happen, it's like, oh, you don't have that selling power. Like, it it would have elevated her. That was the thing, and it didn't go that way. So then It decreases your stock. I think the stock was decreased, and that is a very good oh, she finished her copy.

That is

finished her copy. I think that's a really fair analysis, and that feels right. That does feel like what happened.

Yeah. It does. It does.

Don't forget the lyric in taste. Back to the story. Heard your back together. And if that's true, you'll just have to taste me when he's kissing you, which, like Yeah.

That explains that. The music video with Jenna Ortega, who's so Camila Cabello coded, and it was so clearly It was a duh. No. But what's the other line that, like, people really didn't like, but I thought it was, like From taste? You drove from LA straight to her thighs.

Like, she's fucking funny. I'm sorry.

Which song is that? It is Is that found god at your ex's house? I think so. Is it found god or found

love? God.

At your ex's house, and you're

Sabrina drove straight to her thighs. I'm just trying to find the song. Which 1 is it? Coincidence.

Oh, and that's Yeah. Read it. Okay. Read it and weep, Turdy.

What a surprise. Your phone jello's died. Your car drove itself from LA to her thighs. So he drives a Tesla. Right?

Palm Springs looks nice, but who's by your side? Damn it. She looks kinda like the girl you outgrew. Besides what you said. Such a good album.

What a

Coincidence. Oh, la, la. So good.

Album of the year, by the way. By the way I know we were, like, all the theatering, Grammys. What should it be? It should be short and sweet.

I agree.

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Thank you slash turt. You're welcome. Our next story, a little casting news. Austin Butler will star as Patrick Bateman in a new take on American Psycho. So Austin Butler's got the role to star in Luca Guadagnino's new interpretation of the book.

Vinny's cousin? I was thinking the same thing, new interpretation of the book American Psycho. While there had been rumors that Jacob Elordi was being eyed to play Patrick Bateman, that casting didn't come to pass.

Oh, you just know those 2 hate each other. They, like, they they take the same girls.

Played Elvis. They look for the same roles. Like, they can't get away from each other. It's true. Maybe 1 day, like, Austin will play Jacob in a movie.

I don't

remember that. So weird how they can't get away from each other.

Austin Butler has not done, like, a major movie since Elvis, and I just wanna say I'm, like, really not looking forward to, like, him being back on the press circuit, like, with a knife.

Oh, yeah. Now he's

in psycho. Yeah. Like, he's just gonna be so crazy, and I I, like, kind of hated it. Like, Elvis, the movie was amazing, and so I'm not knocking his talent. I'm actually knocking him

As a person.

In a worse sense, like, personally. He seems insufferable, and I I don't wanna see it. Every news story, like, Austin Butler shows up to your house with a bloody knife. Like, fuck off.

I know, but I am happy for Kaia Gerber because I feel like Austin Butler was getting to a place of, like

He lays around the house. Like, what

is he gonna do next? Can he do anything next? Like, he was supposed to be the next Elvis, and now he's just, like, unemployed sitting on the couch. Kind of like a hot take.

I okay. This is good. Like, it's a good role. Obviously, a lot it's a job a 1000000 girls wanted. Just a few of them.

What's his name? Jacob Elordi, like, wanted it. So this is, like, a good role, obviously. But I do think after this, he needs to play someone who, like, he's not imitating because he's kind of becoming like a clown, like, where you just show up and impersonate, like, a thing.

Professional clown. He's becoming like what? An impersonator

when you An impersonator. Like, literally, he gets moved to Vegas.

Party parties then.

Yeah. So he needs to after this because this is, I think, like, a big it's obviously, like, a good role, but I don't want him to be put in a box where it's, like, where he only comes out to, like, play someone who's dead.

Yeah. Yeah. He needs to, like, invent. Just copying. He needs to invent.

Yeah. So because, obviously, he's an an impressive actor, but if you're only just copying what other people have already done, like, you're just sort of a Xerox machine. You're not an actor. Do you know what I mean? True.

This movie does have the makings to be, like, you know, a big thing. The director, Guadagnino, he did Call Me by Your Name, Challengers, so it should be of that elk. Oh.

0, okay. Of that elk. That elk is not of the Elvis elk.

Like No. That was more commercial, and this is more, like, artistic, but also, like, commercial, and he Austin Butler has got a face for commercials. Like, I think people will come out to see this, plus it has the original fans who never wanna see their favorite movie redone, so they they'll be skipping it.

They'll riot.

I think it's I think it's what you know, he needs to do something next, and this is a good idea.

He definitely, like, took a long break. I'm sure Kaia Gerber is like, what if you went for an audition today? Maybe a walk around the neighborhood? I think he, like, lays at home all day. Yeah.

And ever since you were the 1 who, like, told me I don't know if you had proof of this, but just a vibe that, like, he's a social climber and, like, follows Kya around to, like, her fancy, like, parents' parties and the like, I see it.

A 100%. I don't know how she's still in there.

Like, hey, Kya. What are we doing this weekend?

Yeah. Yeah. I And they're another couple. Like, how long are

you gonna be engaged? I took engagements in Hollywood. Like, are they're so they're engaged. Right? No.

They are? Yeah. No?

Kaia Gerber engaged. I don't think so because she's also younger. She's 23. She doesn't like, she could be dating for a few years. Like, Selena is 32, 33.

Oh, okay. I'm sorry. They're not. I just

I just made a note. Oh my god. I'm honestly glad. She still has time to run.

To run. Yeah. I actually don't like him for her. No. And I'm clowning on him a lot, but, like, I actually like him.

The Carrie Diaries is great. I just he's fun to make fun of ever since that Elvis thing,

but I don't like him for her. Yeah.

I thought it was a cute moment, especially when he was having a moment with Elvis, but I think my my actual disdain for him comes from the Vanessa Hudgens of it all. Like, I I think that was, like, so disgusting. Like, I think he's the, like, the lowest of the low from that. And I think Kya is, like, if in my dreams, like, slowly realizing, like, the man she she fell in love with. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah. And he's, like, older. He's very attractive. She fell in love with him at his peak, but the thing about him is, like, you thought when Elvis came out, like, Austin Butler is the next movie star. It's been quiet on the Austin front, and now it's like, okay.

He never got back to work.

When American Psycho comes out, like, Austin Butler is the next movie star. He, like, he probably has a dartboard of, like, Glenn Powell where he's just, like, throwing, that should be me. That's the difference. He takes himself so seriously. He would never do

a top gun because it's considered, like, lowbrow commercial. He would never do Twisters, but Glenn Powell is over here understanding how America works and, like, the movies that Americans watch. And, like, he's on his way to becoming the next Tom Cruise. You don't have to only do artsy films to be taken seriously as an actor.

Yeah. I just feel like he keeps waiting for his big break. He keeps getting it, and then it just, like, it didn't break.

Yeah. You're talking about Austin,

I'm sorry. No. Glenn is

Yeah. Well on

his way.

Glenn is a working actor. You have to work. Between movies,

I don't, like, think he's on the couch with a bag of chips.

No. Definitely not, but Austin 1000% is.

And then when he, like, gets the role, he becomes, like, toxically involved in, like, undoing all those chips, and it's,

like acts like he's, like, the first person to have a job. Right? He's like, babe, I can't. I'm, like, seriously studying my papers or whatever actors do. I don't know.

I have to read scripts tonight, babe. And it's like, girl, we've all been reading scripts for years. Yeah. You just got here.

Yeah. No. That's so the vibe. It's getting unemployed. He's done nothing.

I'm telling you that's what's going on. 1,000. Our 5th and final stories is to choose your adventure for charity. Would you rather hear reboot news or live action remake news?

Is there a third option?

Sure. I could fill up a third option.

No. I I would rather hear reboot. I know. Excuse me.

I actually think the the reboot news would be, like, more pertinent to you Okay. Which is that Friday night

I'm also just checking page 6

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breaking news.

Friday night lights reboot is in the works 13 years after the hit show's finale aired. Oh, that's something. Friday night lights reboot is at the is in the works at Peacock with Universal Television. So executive producer and showrunner, Jade Jason Cadhams, and then writers, Peter Berg, who directed the 2004 film. So don't forget, it was a movie first and then the TV show, and now will be a show on Peacock, Following a devastating hurricane, a ragtag high school team and their damaged interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas high school state championship.

It sounds like the mighty ducks, the stupid movie I just watched.

A beacon of light for their town.

Okay. I mean, what we need in this world is more shows like Friday night lights. And knowing that the Friday night lights TV show that I loved actually was a reboot makes me wait. I think you said live action remake.

That was the second choice.

Oh, so you went with the reboot story? Oh, okay.

Because I felt like the subject matter was more tardy in interest.

Do they have anyone from the original show, like, tapped? No. Because in in in in real, you know, East Dillon, you know, Jason Street would have lived in town and Become the coach. Become the coach.

Maybe that this is all this seems like very early stages. Like, they probably just got the rest.

Scott Porter is still working. Like, he was available. For this. He would be amazing.

I mean, as far as who would play the high schoolers, like, I think we need fresh faces. I think we're ready. Like, this could be the next what Friday Night Light was. However, like, I just wanna let you guys know it won't be. And, like No.

Of course.

Not. They're gonna ruin the show and the legacy.

Is gonna come out, and, like, nothing will change.

Like Well, we're I know, but they really do have an opportunity. They just need your now that I'm thinking about it, they just need Scott Porter because the whole show, like, the heart and soul was Kyle Chandler, like, and how he loved them kids. Ain't it good to be the couch? And Scott Porter, like, was that as Jason Street, and he totally could be that as, like, mister Street, Coach Street. And then a fresh cast, fresh faces, people from all different walks of life, and they're not gonna do it.

And if they are, it's gonna be like woke high school where, like, everybody's fighting over their pronouns and stuff, but, like, they should just do a regular ass reboot.

They should. I'm just saying, like, even if they are gonna reboot it I feel like this happens all the time. Like, it will not make it's gonna come and go. We're gonna forget that it was passed, like, we're never gonna watch this just because that's how things go. Now I I hope that it's the next big it's the next Friday night lights.

I just know that it won't be. But we'll always have the original show, and

I actually watched it, like, somewhat recently. I am definitely due for a rewatch. But the first time I ever watched that, I watched it. Do you remember, when portable DVD players were, like, the most important thing in our lives? Like, I can't.

I watched Friday night lights in the summer of 2,000 and waitresses 09. I was, yeah, in 09, on a portable DVD player with the DVDs. Somebody had it in a CD case where we would all pass around the different And I actually don't know if I've ever been happier in my life. Like, being at camp, watching that show, like,

it just Those were

the days. That's the best time of my life. Yes. Because I loved camp. Like

I didn't watch the show when it was on, but I think, like, about 6 years ago when, like, Zach and I were dating, we we watched the show together, and it was so, so good. And I actually watched it at the same time that spoiler alert for the show Nashville. Okay? I watched it the same time that they killed Rayna James on Nashville, and I never had to mourn her because I just went back. I just switched the input on my TV and watched Friday Night Lights, and there she was.

And I really feel

like I usurped the grief. Friday Night Lights was actually also, like, a breeding ground of talent development. Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons

Binka Kelly.

Binka Kelly. So many stars. Kyle Chandler, of course. So many stars came from that show. Was she on that show?

No. Or was it Montreal? No. I think she was

She was she was on Montreal. You're right.

No. Honestly, I feel like we've done this before. I feel like she was on both. Like, you do you get your girl?

I actually don't think she was.

Kramer, Friday night lights character. She played Noel Davenport in the following episodes. Okay. 3. So

So it's actually just a fluke that she was on it. You don't really remember her. It's so true. It's just a happy coincidence.

Yeah. No. Wait. Oh, who's oh, that's Minka. And,

just Lila Garrity. Like, it's the perfect show.

Yeah. Maybe she'll be in it. Remember when

we were saying, like, desperate housewives and what are the like, the perfect television shows? What was the other 1 we were saying? Did we say that?

I think I did.

Friday night lights is on that list too.

Yeah. I don't I don't remember, like, the late seasons ever really ruining it. Like, I think it ended No.

It didn't go on forever. It actually ended early, and, like, it it ended on its own terms. With dignity. I think it was 6 seasons. Good times.

Oh, I mean, I can't believe I haven't talked about this whole thing without talking about my boyfriend, Tyler Kitsch.

Oh my gosh. Waco.

He is he's the show. He's the show. Texas forever.

So there's something to look forward to.

Potential.

And I'll just give you guys a teaser of what could have been it's a tangled live action remake. Oh, you know what?

I actually heard about that, and I'm curious to see who they cast as Rapunzel.

Yeah. Hopefully, like, a big star studded affair. And it's being directed Wow. Nalofy today. Nalofy, and it's being directed by the director of Greatest Showman, which Huge.

For the community. So that I actually if I had to place a bet on what would be more successful, I'm going tangled live action remake.

Okay. I I'm starting to realize why yesterday I had to run off the show to poop, and today I also do because of the coffee.

The coffee and the

It's the coffee.

Coffee's plus nalaffi equals bad news.

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