Transcript of Trippin' with Turt: Monday, January 13th, 2025

Good morning, millennials.

Welcome back to The Toast, and happy Monday. Hope everybody had a glarious weekend.

Glarious clartia.

Clartius, feeling glarious.

Are you feeling glarious?

That's so good. No. But I'm really good. By the way, last night, I peed one time in the night. Slay the house down boots. Seriously, I can't ever not pee in the night. So the fact that I peed once, you guys, you bitches could never. And that's on being No, and I got a new hydro jug, a really cute one.

The Pinkinnum?

Yeah, the Pinkinnum. So I've been trying to stay on top of my water, and it's been great. But actually, the other night, I peed four times. So I have to find a balance between staying hydrated with my cute little hydro jug, but also I need to live. I need to sleep. So it's been tough. It's been a challenge. Thank you so much for asking about me.

No, staying hydrated is a tough business. Last week on Monday, New Year, New Me, I drank an entire thermos before the toast. By yesterday, I was for a sip of coffee, like first sip coffee. But today's a Monday reset. I'm giving the thermos the old college try. So I am on my second... I am on my second cup of coffee. Stop it.

Also, I had heard this statistic. I'm just constantly looking for pregnancy statistics and studies that can allow me and encourage me, make me feel good about drinking soda. And so the last one I saw was totally fine to drink soda, as long as for equal parts soda, you're also having water. So yesterday, I had a- Flushing it out. Yeah, yesterday, I had a huge soda at lunch, and I got a huge water with it, and I drank both. I'm so sick of it. Water is just sick. I miss the days where I could literally go days without drinking water, without consequence. Now it's not even about me anymore. It's about something else, so I have to do what's right. And I'm just looking forward to being able to treat my body like a shithole again. I miss that energy.

It's true.

Without the guilt.

But just also take solace in knowing if baby were thirsty, you'd be thirsty. If baby were craving water, you'd be craving water.

Okay, I have a question about baby drinking, okay? Because the last time I got an ultrasound, which was somewhat recently, she was doing the thing. She's like, Oh, baby's drinking. I'm like, Oh, that's so cute. I'm like, But I'm not drinking. How did baby drink? And what the hell is baby drinking?

Well, also it's confusing because doesn't the food enter them through the umbilical cord, but their mouth is moving?

Yeah, no. Are they drinking the fluid, like amniotic fluid? I just don't get it.

I think Honestly, it's a call out to the stenographer. And I've heard that, too. When they're in there and their mouth is moving, they're like, Oh, baby's drinking. But no, don't they get it all through their belly button?

And what if baby is experiencing tension in his jaw and he's just grinding his teeth? There's a million things that could be.

A million things maybe could be doing. Talking. Yarning. Crying.

So, yeah, just add it to the list of things I don't understand about this process, but I'm not actually interested enough to learn.

Yeah, but also you don't have to be drinking for baby to be drink because is the stuff is still in your belly. You know what I mean? It's from earlier.

And there's always something in my belly. That's one thing you can count on from me. I love using that as an excuse. Usually when I eat, I'm hungry for sure. Sometimes I'm just eating I'm like, Well, baby needs reserves. It's a great excuse.

It is. Enjoy it.

Thank you. I actually will.

Well, then you go into breastfeeding and you're hungrier than ever. Right.

Baby needs reserves.

Yeah.

So Let me tell you what I did this week, and I didn't even tell you this. I have made it a mission to just become an informed podcaster. With awards season coming up, I feel like we're going to be talking about the movies a lot. I watched two of the movies. The Oscar nominations were delayed because of the fire, so I don't know which are going to be nominated for best picture and stuff, but I have a general idea. From the Globes. From the Globes, based on that. I watched Anora this weekend, and I watched The Substance this weekend. Now, the one everyone's talking about is The Substance, and I'm going to get into that in a minute. Let me just briefly to give you a synopsis of Anora, and it's of my personal opinion, you should watch neither of them, okay?

Okay.

To me, and this is going to be me, yes, I'm entering a more traditional, conservative phase of my life, okay? The film Anora represents everything that's wrong with the entertainment industry. It was, first of all, a plotless film. It was so over sexualized. And I feel like we've had this conversation more and more, and I think that this was a really perfect example. And I pointed it out to Ben, and he was calling me an arc, basically. Then as the movie progressed, he was like, No, wait, you're right. Then we were watching The Substance, which wasn't really sexual, but it had a lot of nudity. He was like, pointing things out. I'm like, yes, very good. It was tits ass, tits ass, tits ass, ass tits. The word motherfucker, the word motherfucker, motherfucker, motherfucker, my brother. Some more tits, ass, sex, prostitution. It was just really... And to what end? I don't know. It wasn't to service the plot. The movie really was about nothing. And there were parts of it that I liked. There were parts of I really did not like. But all I kept thinking about was the girl who plays Anora.

She's this new up and coming actress. She's super young. She's naked almost the entire movie. She is an exotic dancer turned prostitute turned wife. And all she keeps talking about in her interviews is how there wasn't an intimacy coordinator on set. I'm like, you're fucking kidding me. It really makes... And she keeps talking about how great it was.

Vibes were high. She wasn't complaining. She was saying like...

So much trust with the director. Working with people like that.

Working with great people.

And I was like, okay, that's weird. But I I wonder what the scenes were. And there were a lot of scenes. I don't know if any time someone's naked, is there an intimacy coordinator? Is it only sex scenes? But she works at a strip club, so there's a million scenes of her stripping, and then she's prostituting, so there's a million scenes of her prostituting. It was so crazy. And all I kept thinking about was this new hot young actress books this great movie, and there's no intimacy coordinator. I had such a pit for her the entire movie. Now, the movie had redeeming qualities, mostly Igor and that final scene. What does it mean? I don't know. But all in all, don't waste your time. And certainly don't watch it with an in-law or a parent.

You can't watch anything these days with an in-law or a parent or a sibling.

Yeah, it was really crazy. I will say one thing I did like about it is the particular part of New York that they shot in. I thought they did it beautifully. I feel like it's one of the outer boroughs. It doesn't get much love, and it's a very small subculture. It's very Russian. Which borough? Me and Ben were arguing whether it was Brooklyn or because they spent time in Coney Island. But it's these big mansions on the water and everyone's Russian, and that's very Buharian, very like Jamaica. We weren't exactly sure which borough was, but it was an outer borough of New York, and it was highlighting all the spots. And I thought it was like, yes, I was filming in Manhattan. Give the outer boroughs a moment. So I thought it actually was beautiful. I thought it did good work for the borough. Other than that, I'm really limited in my... Oh, we giggled. Oh, the guy who played Vanya, he was funny. But that was really it. Don't waste your time. Now we need to talk about the Substance, because everyone's talking about the Substance. And after watching the Golden Globes, that was the one that I was most pulled to watch.

One, because Demi won the award. Two, I'm having this renaissance with Margaret Quale. I'm thinking, I just love her.

She's fab.

She's fab, and I don't really watch a lot of her work, except I saw Maid, and I loved it. I know her work as a pop culture figure, but not much more than that. The premise of the movie I knew was good. It's about youth and Hollywood, and that's That's really all I knew. Let me tell you, this movie was fucking crazy. Now, I wouldn't say that I loved it, but I would say it was an excellent film. I can't say that I loved it. Do you know what I mean?

It made you have strong feelings.

Me and Ben, we You were feeling... Ben could not get over the movie. Afterwards, he couldn't go to bed. We had to watch Curb for two hours. He was like, I'm really feeling on the-It was disturbing? It was very disturbing. The premise of the film is Demi Moore is this aging Hollywood starlet. She was this movie star, and then she started a fitness empire. I think it's supposed to be set in the '80s because she does all these cute step aerobics videos. And Dennis Quaid, who's the head of the network, who was hysterical, by the way. He was actually so good. He fires her because he's a Harvey Weinstein, like a Harvey Wilde scene, you're old and ugly, and he wants to find a hot new thing. And so Demi Moore is depressed. She finds out about this thing called the substance, which is essentially what you would think. It's like an injection. And at first I thought they were making a statement on Ozempic in the film, and I was ready to tear it apart, but it had I was thinking this injectable drug that's taking over Hollywood. It had nothing to do with Ozempic.

It's like a fountain of youth.

Yeah. So basically how it works is you inject yourself and your body collapses. And the film is extremely graphic in terms of gory blood, needles, If that icks you out, I would highly suggest staying away from it. So Demi Moore basically, collapses her body, just chills in her bathroom on the floor, unconscious for seven days. Out of her is birthed Margaret Quale, this younger version of herself. And Margaret Quale gets seven days, and then she has to inject herself back, and Demi has to go seven days. You're the same person in your brain, but you have to exist as one for seven days and one for seven days. But the world sees you as two different people. So Margaret Quale, she gets up and she goes to audition for the new role of Demi Moore. She gets it, she becomes this huge starlet. It isn't after long before she doesn't want to give up the seven days. She doesn't want to go back to being Demi Moore. She starts staying a little bit longer, which you're not supposed to do because what one giveth, one taketh away. With each time she steals from Demi Moore, when Demi Moore comes back, she's much older.

Her finger turns purple like an old lady. Then one time, Margaret Qualey was going nuts. She came back, half of Demi, her right side of her body was ancient, and then her left side. So she gets progressively crazier and crazier-looking. Margaret Qualey don't give a fuck. The two girls, Demi and Margaret, even though they share a brain, they hate each other. The whole point, they say, with the substance, You are one, you are one, you are one. They were not acting as one. So I won't spoil the ending. The ending is crazy. It's not like there's no resolution, and it's really like a campy, almost satirical horror film. And it's silly, But it was very good. It made you think a lot because there's a point where Demi Moore is so old-looking. Then she starts to look like a mongrel because like, Margaret Qualey is stealing so much. So she has a boob coming out of the side of... She looks crazy. But she's looking at this photo of herself when she was 55, when she had just gotten fired, and she loves the way that she looks, and she would do anything to look like that again.

It really is this reminder of how you hate how you look now. Then in 50 years, you're going to be wishing you looked like the way you did now. It made you think. It made me laugh. The girls were great. Demi 1,000 % deserve to win. What she did in that movie was fucking crazy. It is the craziest movie I've ever seen. Okay. I wouldn't say I loved it. I enjoyed every minute. I was really uncomfortable.

It's It's nobody's favorite movie.

That's what films are supposed to make you feel uncomfortable, question things.

That aren't going to make you think. But also not all the time. We don't need to be uncomfortable all the time. There can be one movie in the nomination set. It's like, Oh, that was a crazy movie. These days it's like, oh, that's the movie that the happy people saw.

No, let me tell you, it's worth the hype. It was wild. It was truly... I don't know how long the movie was, but it never ended.

Are you going to Are you going to watch more Oscar movies?

I am. So then last night we started to watch the one with Ralph Fienz about the Pope dying. And after a few minutes, it was just extremely clear, that was not going to work. It was just we tried. We girl boss a little too close to the sun. Why not the Adrian Broody one? It's not out yet. Also, the Adrian Broody one is three and a half hours.

But turdy, you're committed. And also that's the one that looks very good.

Well, that one's still in theater. So maybe I'd go to the theater and see that.

I think that's harder to go to the theater for three hours.

I'm dying to go to the I need some popcorn.

There's an intermission. So maybe it is for you.

I just want to be... When I'm dolling out all the Oscars critiques and stuff, I want to be well-informed, and I will not be watching Amelia Perez.

Oh, my gosh. The clips that I've seen of Amelia Perez.

I want to come for sex change.

It's like, I need a penis.

Penis to vagina, vagina to penis. I honestly, I still don't really even know what the movie's about, but now I'm understanding it's about this drug warlord, like hotel leader who wants to transition. I don't know if he wants to transition in an earnest way or because he wants to go into hiding.

I think the transition is earnest. But then it also, the vibe I'm getting, it's like that that should absolve him. From his crimes, from her crimes. From His Her Crimes. I don't know who his crimes they are anymore.

Oh, yeah. No, I'm not sure on the pronouns because I haven't seen the film, and I'm not going to because it looks like crazy stupid.

Or the clip of Selena Gomez. I can't even repeat what she said. My jaw hit the floor.

Yeah, the clips that are coming out, seriously, make it look like satire.

And it's so crazy when people put it in perspective. I never expected Wicked to win anything major, but when people are saying this one best musical over Wicked is absurd. When you think about it that way because it's a musical.

Yeah.

About a sex-changing cartel leader.

No. So the brutalist. And then the Kieran Culkin one, he won the Golden Globe. With Jessie. Jessie Eisenberg. So essentially, now I know what it's about. I almost watch it. Ben was not compelled at all, which I thought was weird because it's him. They're these cousins who are so different, whatever, but their grandma dies, and their grandma, I think is a Holocaust survivor or whatever. She's from Poland. So as a tribute to learn more about her, they go to Poland and they take this journey to learn more about one another. That's beautiful. They learn about the grandma, but they end up learning about themselves.

That seems like one of the more innocuous films. It's just a movie.

It was also 90 Minutes. I'll probably watch that It's called, I don't know, Real something.

Real Inconvenience. Like, Real Friends, Real Pain.

Real Pain. A Real Pain. Yeah, you're right. I know there are bigger things coming on in the world, so the Oscars did delay, but if they could just give me a list of movies I need to watch, I'm just guessing here.

No, Golden Globes is a good place to start. And also, watch also the things that do look good to you. I'm sure Amelia Perez will be all over the Oscars. Don't watch that.

I don't know if it'll be all over the Oscars, honestly.

But it won. It got this Golden Globes stamp of approval.

Yeah, but that's the Golden Globes.

I'm just saying, also, pick with your heart because it's your free time.

Yeah, I do really want to watch The Brutalist, but Joe Alwyn is in it, and I've actually never watched anything with Joe Alwyn in it. I started that show that he was in on Hulu, and it was really bad, so I don't even know if I got to a scene like that he was in.

I have seen Joe Alwyn.

I feel weird. I'm sure you know. I feel weird watching him. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, but he's such an actor that he really should just become the person that he's playing. He's really like an extra. He's like a classic actor where it's like, you don't know a lot about this person. He's just doing his job. But you know more about him.

You said, I've seen Joe Alwyn, you know.

Mary, Queen of Scots. I feel like I always talk. I feel like I talk about it too much every time he comes up.

You don't talk about it too much. I just want to be clear because I have literally no idea what you're talking about. But maybe that's a reflection on me and not you. But I feel like you and him would cross paths a lot. He It was a lot of period pieces.

British period pieces. Speaking of, I started The Emperor last night, season 2. I was saving it. I'm just having a hard time getting into it because now that I know so much about Cee Cee, I read two books on her. This show is fiction.

You got boss too close to son.

The show is fiction. He didn't have the crazy brother that was trying to overthrow the... It's all irrelevant. I'm just being like, what is this fake show that I'm watching? Also, something that's really bothering me is I'm it dubbed with subtitles, and the dubbing does not match the subtitles. I'm watching two different scripts.

The concept of the sentence is the same, but the way they word it is different.

But I also want to say the concept of the sentence is the same, but it's those translations that could be a huge difference. It's certain sentences, there's major differences in the translation. I'm having a hard time. It was piss me off, too. My brain is working too hard. Yeah, it was piss me off. I want to turn off the subtitles, but I'm also eating and I'm crunching, and I can't hear what they're saying.

Yeah, the crunch adds a whole other layer to it.

And I can't lip read because they're saying something else. So my brain is working really hard. And for what?

It's not even true. For what?

It's not even true. I think I'd rather read a book.

Okay, well, it was really good. So if you can suspend disability for 45 seconds, you'll like it.

Yeah, but I'm only in the second episode, and I started it this weekend. That's not great. But I'm also just- That's just lame that it's so different from what actually happened.

If they had taken more of an approach like The Crown, I think that would have just been better.

It's the history that is stranger than fiction. You don't have to add things to it. It's a crazy story. She's one of the most known historical female figures. You don't have to dig deep. Pull from your imagination.

Yeah, that's annoying. I also wanted to say we're T minus two weeks from Turdi moving into her new studio. I was there this morning actually just checking on things. There's a lot of... I don't want to start filming there until everything's done, and I want to get my wallpaper up. I want to get all my boxes unpacked. So I'm going to sit here, sit tight until that's done. So I don't know if this means anything to anybody but me, but very exciting. We've got WiFi going in this week. It's going to be huge.

It is very exciting. As you know, turdy doesn't embrace change. She doesn't. She doesn't like to move. She doesn't like to call the movers. So I feel like this is a big step for the growth of turdy, and people aren't understanding that because you think it's like, Oh, she's just moving studios. It's so much more than that.

I want to talk about some accusations I saw about myself on the internet this weekend.

Okay.

People are saying that my new laugh is fake and forced, and I'm literally putting on this new laugh. Now, it's obviously hurtful to see because I've actually spoken, and my truth is that I love my new laugh so much. It's one of the great parts of pregnancy, and let me tell you, there aren't a lot. So I've just been clinging to it as this fun new thing. And every time I laugh, it just reminds me of this beautiful thing that's happening to me this metamorphosis. So to see accusations of fraud, I'm not shocked, but it's hurtful.

That is hurtful, especially because you've been so vulnerable in opening up about it and the changes you're experiencing. I have to make a confession of my own.

You don't hear it?

I haven't noticed your new lap. It hasn't struck me at all, which also, I think, goes to prove the authenticity of it.

And I don't know. I feel like I have reached a level of celebrity, especially because I saw all these rumors on TikTok. And I think that just in time for the app to be banned, I'm finally... Rumors are finally being started about me. This is what I've wanted my whole life.

You told me we were going viral. People are making hilarious sounds with your snow song. We're just the talk of the town.

No, and there's a special tier of celebrity. I don't know if you know Mikaela from TikTok?

Of course I do. You're my sister.

Kim Kardashian. She has this crazy Boston accent. There have been rumors for years that her accent is put on and completely fake. So they found these old videos of her in college where she was making... She was a college tour guide or whatever. So she's on this video of her college being like, Let's go check out the library. She's just talking completely normal. Then there are people who have come forward from her hometown being like, We don't talk like that. That's four hours away from us. If you If you talk like that. So there's been a lot of speculation, speculation about her voice for years. And she has maintained those videos. She was so embarrassed of her accent. She just put on a normal voice, but now she don't give a fuck. And I'm at that tier now. People think I'm faking my laugh. Oh, okay. Yeah, just me and Mikaela with 15 million followers. Please, leave us alone. Always coming for powerful women.

So true. Ain't that the truth?

So true. Yeah, and it's also like T minus four. No, It's sitting at 13:00, seven days, one week until potentially the media landscape changes forever, and TikTok is gone over, I think on Friday, they were speaking before the Supreme Court, the talk. They made their case I don't know if it moved the needle at all. I don't think the Supreme Court is going to intervene. And we have this weird time period where their time is up on January 19th, which is the day before inauguration.

Right. So like, is it Cittral be on January 20th.

I don't know. And I can't imagine that the very first thing Trump is going to do is TikTok. There's a lot of important things going on in the world. I don't know if that takes the cake. Maybe it's first week material, not first day.

Or maybe first 100 days is sorting it out. The 100 days are very important.

Right. So I think we just got to hang tight, but I do feel, and I've got a little bit more clarity, because while the app will not disappear from your phone, it will disappear from the app store, which means your app can't update. So apps, you probably don't even realize, but Can we update your Instagram almost every day. Bugs. Bugs. And if an app never updates, it will eventually stop working because bugs can't be fixed, things can't be updated. While maybe not on the 19th, per se, will your TikTok stop working, over time, it will.

Okay. Well, I'm glad to know that I've curated a really personalized reels algorithm over on Instagram all this time, and perhaps it will serve me. However, I don't think... I think this will get sorted out. I don't think it's the end of TikTok, really. Because you would think I'd be happier. Good, all of my defiance has paid off. But I'm not getting that feeling. But maybe it's because it's the boy who cried Wolf. I felt that we've been here before.

Yeah, but we've never been this close. That's what we said last time. No, last time there was a date, but it wasn't within the next seven days. We're here now.

Yeah. It's longer than it's ever been. I'm writing down our countdowns, too, because I have my book of lists.

Megan Markel's new show, which has been delayed.

Which we will discuss. And that countdown just got a bit longer. But yeah, I just want to keep our eye on the various-My new studio. Yep, it's on here. And TikTok. Okay.

And TikTok. Anything else coming up? Obviously, birth.

We're so far-Molly Molly May's Show. That's my other countdown. Of course. Molly May's Show. Should be any day now. Should be any day.

Well, I feel like we've sufficiently wasted enough time.

Oh, you think? Oh, that was a lot of It was a good time.

Right, right, right. Shocking. I didn't even get to-I think my substance recap was like 15 minutes.

I didn't even get to myself. I had a lovely weekend. Thanks for asking. Oh, good.

What happened? Oh, just like a lot.

I feel like I really played the weekend well because sometimes I feel like I do too much and it's not relaxing. And then other times I feel like we stay home too much and we go a little stir crazy and time just drags on. So I feel like we really mapped it out well with various errands. We went to the farmer's market. Harging. I'm struggling because-With the market? With the concept I bought eggs from a co-op, a local farm co-op, and I haven't eaten any of them yet.

You got to see the farm first.

I went to their Instagram and their website, and they look legit, and they do the whole raw milk, raw dairy. They're one of those. I should be glad as someone who's a homesteading trad wife that I found my local farm co-up. But I don't know. I'm having a hard time jumping in and being the person that's trusting these random fucking eggs off the street over the eggs at the grocery store. But that's where life has led me.

That's the trad payoff. There is trust involved.

I'm on the precipice of greatness, but I can't crack these eggs. I'm just looking at them. I'm like, where did they come from?

Well, I I think you and Zack need to eat them first before you feed them to everyone and then see how it goes. I think they're safe.

I'm sure they're fine. I'm sure there are standards that you have to meet to be in a part of a farmer's market. I do think you need food licensing. I have to look into it because I haven't been to a farmer's market actually ever in this journey of organic crunchiness. And so I just need to say a lot of it was giving like, Hey, I made this.

Yeah, no, it's giving neighborly. It's giving like, If your neighbor baked you a cake, you would eat You wouldn't think.

But there have to be food standards, right?

I don't know.

So I spend a lot of my weekend thinking about these eggs.

Just like, mulling over the eggs while...

Yeah, mulling. And also they're far and fresh. I don't have to put them in the fridge. They're just sitting on my counter, looking at me.

Well, it's good if you know someone with a farm, personally, because then there's that personal trust. So I don't know if you could get them. But Brian has eggs in his farm. I don't know if you can get them from Pennsylvania. I've eaten them. I would trust them.

You have to have a local farmer where you meet them is at the farmer market, but I'm just having that trust is very tenuous at the moment.

Okay, what if you took a trip to the farm?

That would help. Itself? Yeah.

Okay, maybe that's next weekend's activity.

That's actually a nice activity. You're welcome.

So Without further ado.

It is time. Okay. Yeah, without further ado, I guess you don't want to hear about my Sunday.

It is time. No, you're right. I don't. No kidding. What happened on Sunday?

No, no, it's fine. I'll save it for another day.

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Our first story, and it's worth mentioning before we get into the stories, that obviously the big story of the day and the week is still the fires in LA. I would have hoped that by today there would have been more containment, but they're still raging. There are so many different threats to the various communities, including people losing their houses, looting, crime. It's so scary out there. Arson. More arson. Yeah. It's devastating. And that's really like, I was sat this weekend on my phone just like, watching, reading about everything, seeing. But also, of course, how many people are helping, how many people, you really see the good in people It's so true. But also so much evil, too. I know that you want to have everyone sharing that, Mr. Rogers quote, find the helpers. There are so many people doing so many amazing things, but it also shows the...

It's the best and the worst of humanity. It's actually really crazy to see both, where people have lost everything. They're running for their lives, and there are people who choose to run towards that danger and fight, and there are people who choose to run towards that danger and take advantage and steal. It's actually so crazy. Yeah. Like the complexities of humanity.

It is very crazy. So some of our stories is fire related, but really that's what's going on. And we're just thinking of everyone there and hoping everyone is staying safe. Even then, you also have to think about the toxic air now. Right.

Even the communities that have been contained.

Or even the people who haven't had to, who don't have to evacuate yet, but are nearby. There are just so many different things to consider, and we're just thinking of it. That's really where our minds are today.

Yeah.

However, Megan Markel has delayed her Netflix debut of With Love, Megan amid the LA Fires. So Megan Markel's show was supposed to come out this week. We were countdown to With Love, Megan, but she has decided to postpone the release date of her new series as Wildfires continue to devastate her hometown of LA. At the request of Megan with the full support of Netflix, the release of the series, which is a tribute to the beauty of Southern California, has been moved from its previously announced, Jan 15th, premiere date to March fourth. Let me just write that down.

Just update your counter.

Due to the ongoing devastation caused by the Wildfires.

Yeah, I think she has to be really cautious in everything she does. And I think that, while I don't know if this was absolutely necessary, the world hasn't stopped. There was football games on last night. I think she's really cautious because she's under a lot of scrutiny more than the average person. So this is the right call, although I don't think it was necessary. Even though I guess the show being tied to LA, maybe it's a little soon.

But it also... I think you can argue both sides really strongly, and I actually don't know what the right decision is. But I also think what's easier for her and better for her, and ultimately, not to think this way, better for their bottom line and viewership is to postpone it because she can't promote the show right now. Because her and Harry are on the ground trying to help people. They've opened up their home. It would be tone deaf to promote the show when she is someone who... Sorry, people would it tone deaf of her to promote the show. And so if she can't do that, she probably doesn't want to release it right now.

But it's also like bad business. The point of a show is for people to watch it, and right now, people can't.

Right. No, people can watch it, but she can't do everything that she wants to in support of it. Otherwise, she would get a lot of backlash. Because I think actually, if it is a show about the beauty of Southern California, this might actually be the right time for people to watch it to really appreciate the beauty of the state and what's being lost.

Yeah.

You can make that argument, but also you can make the argument that now is not the time.

Yeah, the thing is, I'm sure she weighed the risks and the rewards. And honestly, I don't know a real downside of delaying it, but I could see there being a lot of blowback if she didn't. So I think she thinks about things more deeper and more heavily than an average person who was launching a show.

I think the downside of her delaying it is like, looking at it-Losing the momentum? No, just looking at it through the lens of like, Why are you delaying it? Because you can't do all the things that you would want to do for it. But that doesn't mean the show can't come out.

Yeah, but you want the show to be successful. I'm sure Netflix was supportive of that, too. If you can't promote something that you spent a year filming and Netflix putting all their money towards, they wanted to do well. Yeah. The reason why Netflix invest in someone like Megan is because she's Megan. So if she can't be out here putting her name on something and going on Kelly Clarkson show to talk about it, What's the point?

Yeah.

No, it's definitely an interesting conversation, one that Megan is not the only one who is a part of.

You were sending me some stuff, and we were talking about it last night, how people are dragging others, brands, influencers, for carrying on business at this time?

The event in question is Tripping with Tert. Tart Cosmetics did one of their brand trips.

Tripping with Tart, just for anyone who's not chronically online.

They did one of their brand trips. They do them a couple of times a year. And let me tell you, they always make waves. Now, of course, the timing is beyond unfortunate for this one. But every time when they took people to Dubai, there's always a lot of blowback to Tart for their trips. Now, they're not the only beauty brand that does trips. Most beauty brands do them, and they do them really extravagantly. I mean, Caudalie just took people to the south of France, to the lavender fields. They do really... There have been Korean beauty brands that take influencers to Korea and buy them Birkins. Like, really crazy. It is the upper echelon. And for some reason, there is a special reserve of backlash and hate for Tarte Cosmetics. I think it's because it's a pretty accessible beauty brand. It's not really high price. It doesn't give luxury. It doesn't give drug store per se, but it's every man's beauty company Everybody uses it.

I also think it's because the influencers who they invite are everyone's favorite to go after. I didn't even hear about this Caudalie South of Ranch trip. Who went on it? Probably influencers that are so big and fancy that they're out of your realm of like...

Not really, actually. I saw my girl, Glemzilla. She's from Canada. She's a swirly like everybody else. I don't know who she is. No, I'm telling you, a lot of brands take... They all take the same people. I'm telling you. It's not that Tarte is bringing different people.

So I wonder why- Over the years, they've gotten blowback for a lot of different things.

They had been criticized in the past for not having a diverse enough group of influencers, and I feel like they really acted on that. They were criticized for, I guess, giving better rooms to people with bigger followings. We had talked about that. There's always drama. In the end, I do think Net Net, it's really good for the brand. Everybody's talking about these trips. This one in particular is really crazy because a lot of the girls who came are from LA, and I mean, the timing could not have been worse. They've been there now for two days. So literally in the midst of a lot of the fire drama. And the only person who actually wasn't able to attend is Tana Mongeau because she was packed and ready to go. And then she was then forced to evacuate. And So she was never going to make it to the airport on time. Whatever. She was the only one who didn't end up coming. Now, it's been very interesting because a lot of the girls actually haven't posted. So I was like, are they not there or are they just not wanting blowback? Tarte Cosmetics is posting as normal, but I mean the girls themselves.

And so before they all left, they had made an announcement that they were donating $250,000 to fire first responders, LA first responders, and then that they were also making a donation in the names of each of the girls $10,000 each in the name of brown chicken fry to various causes. I think they get to maybe choose their cause. And then I know some of the girls like Remi is matching that $10,000. So there's a huge philanthropic effort being made here. The trip itself is All of their trips are extravagant. This might be the most extravagant, perhaps maybe on the same level as their last trip to Dubai, which caused quite a stir. They caused a stir just because people are like, well, you should be having these trips for your customers, not for influencers. And it's like, okay, well, that's maybe a conversation you want to have about marketing in general and all beauty companies. But these conversations, they always get taken out on Tart. I actually feel bad. But this trip in particular, it's on Necker Island, which is Richard Branson's private island in the British Virgin Islands. You can rent it. Paris Hilton famously had her honeymoon there.

It's like 150 grand a night. You get the whole island. There's an animal conservatory. It's like the craziest place. And so it's really extravagant. And it had started about two days ago, and they had made all the statements before taking off being like, we know that we're not canceling. And there has been a huge call on social media for them to have canceled, and how out of touch this is, and how tone deaf it is. And I actually don't agree. I think that one, they're doing really everything they can Even a little above and beyond. They're having beach-I saw them all dancing on the beach doing contests for the firefighters. They're doing contests. They did musical chairs, and the winner got to donate $10,000 to another charity. They're really philanthropic-focused And I don't know what more they could be doing. People are just mad that they didn't cancel it. And Necker Island, I think it takes a year and a half to get approved to stay there. Hoops, you have to jump there. I'm sure they spent minimum $1 million on this trip. That was before they even set foot on the island before they brought a concealer to the islands.

So I don't know why... And I don't see any energy or movement to have this same conversation about other things that happened this week. And it's like, for some reason, it has fallen on this female founded company. It's literally, she's a billionaire, Maureen. And people just like, she's also very front facing. So she takes a lot of the heat on behalf of the brand. She's like this woman who started Tarte 25 years ago. She owns the company outright by herself. What she's done is so impressive. She owns the company. She's able to do this. And for some reason, this whole conversation about what should be posted on social media is being taken out on her. Yeah. It's so, and I actually just don't agree with it. I think that two things can be true at once. You can acknowledge. It's not like they're pretending this isn't going on. That's something I would agree with. That's really problematic.

No, it sounds like they've actually probably done more charity and gave away more money in order to offset what they were about to do than if they just canceled the whole thing totally.

If they had just canceled the whole thing, that's almost 500 grand that didn't get donated to first responders. I actually, I simply don't agree. I think that you're right. I think a lot of the times, backlash comes for the creators themselves. I feel like we're on a chicken fries having a moment where everything she does, everybody's like, Well, that sucks. And so it's like, Well, we're on a chicken fries there. It's this amalgamation of women who hate other women. This is a women's issue, by the way. This is a- This is a- No, man. If I said to Ben, Do you know what tripping with Tart is? He would say, no. This is a woman's issue.

They're all watching the football that's still on, that everyone's promoting and talking about.

They had a moment of silence. I saw one of the games, so nice.

Did you think that the Houston Texans have let the Chargers win? No, I didn't even think. That's funny. When they started playing, I was like, oh, LA will win because they need this.

That's actually so funny. I didn't put together that an LA team was playing.

It was an LA team. But then I'm like, it's a playoff, so they can't just give it all away. Not the time. They've worked all year for this.

No, I mean, think about like, because I was thinking about this yesterday. I was watching the Bills game, and they said, Demar Hamlin, and I was like, oh, my God. Remember that? Like, literally somebody died on the field, and they continued to play. I don't know. But I I also think it's maybe- And by the way, there was no backlash to that. So that's what I'm saying. This is a woman's issue.

No, but I think it's also because football, they don't give them a lot of leeway in terms of if people were calling for that, maybe it's because they're a bigger organization.

They don't give in to backlash.

Yeah. Actually, they do a little bit, but I don't know. It's so much more immediate with social media. You can reach one person, they will see it, and I just feel like football. It's like, oh, they just keep passing the ball, technically. And also because men don't come after each other like women do.

No, they don't. And I've seen actually some of the worst takes I've ever seen about anything in regards to this issue. People saying it would have been so much better if Tart had their influencer trip in LA and put all the girls to work, volunteering. And then you guys would be like, get these fucking influencers out of here.

And then you would be like, well, you only volunteer and take a picture. It's not. And then take a picture of it to promote it. You literally can't win.

You can't win. I don't think it should have been delayed. It's not like COVID. Remember when the NBA shut down? Remember when everything was shutting down and then Tart was still over here tripping with Tart? Okay, I hear you.

Everyone's like- Everyone's going to work. Everybody else is working, except the influencers shouldn't, and Tart shouldn't do their trip.

I don't agree with it at all.

No, I don't agree with it either.

And I just- That's why I said, even Megan, she could have. She could have still done it. I personally wouldn't have been offended by it.

Me neither. But you're saying these same tripping with Tarters?

Would be. Think of how they come for Tert, they come for Meg.

And Tert being Tart, not Terty. Tart, not Terty. It's very confusing.

I'm having a hard time not saying tripping with Tert, sorry.

It's hard. I've been there, my friend.

And I feel like the trip is a bust, which sucks for this brand that spent probably $2 million, honestly, if I really had to think about it, because no one's really posting. So they've been there for a full day and a half, and now I'm starting to see people posting. There are certain influencers who seriously don't give a fuck. From the day that minute they got there, they've been so excited to be there. For some of them, this is the nicest, first best brand trip they've ever been on. They don't give a fuck, and they are posting every minute.

And then also people would have a conversation. People who aren't posting, they're not grateful. The people who are excited to be there are the most grateful to be there who's never done something like this in their careers.

And by the way, also, there are people on the trip who are wives of first responders. They invited some of their fans. They do trips now just for teachers, just for nurses. They're doing the most know they're doing the most. It's really... You're right. I don't know if there's anything they could do that would satiate the haterade energy.

Yeah, but that's why with anything, there's always going to be people who have an issue do. So you have to stay true to yourself. Do what feels right for you.

And if we wanted to have this larger conversation about influencers who are affluent and make a lot of money and how unfair it is that they get free product and free trips. Sure, we could talk about that.

That's a different in a larger sense. Any other day.

But that doesn't only happen with Tarte. No. Yeah. That happens from brands at the very top, Louis Vuitton all the way down to Walmart. It happens everywhere. It's the industry. If you have a problem with the industry, sure, let's write a thesis about it.

But that doesn't have something to do with the fires in Tarte.

And Maureen, specifically.

Yeah. Okay, well, we shall see. I mean, I do wonder what's going to happen with the awards season. I do think a lot of things are going to continue to be postponed for logistical reasons and also societal sensitivity. Sensitivities, yeah. But our next story is actually two faces of this crisis who have emerged and are really a beacon of hope for the country. And that is- Spencer and Heidi. Spencer and Heidi, Because- And I have a personal anecdote I need to share. Heidi Montag has hit number one on iTunes as Spencer Pratt has been asking fans to stream her music for income help after their house burned down. So Spencer and Heidi were among the first to lose their house in the Palisades. And then Spencer also shared that they had been dropped from insurance in the weeks leading up to the fires. So they have lost a lot. Everything. He has taken to TikTok and social media and is gaining a bit of a following. And now I think they're talking to Hulu about... Because everyone's saying, give them a reality show again to watch them rebuild. They are the faces of this crisis and their amazing TV.

It's a no brainer. He said they do have a meeting with Hulu. So he has been keeping everyone abreast.

He probably posts 55 TikToks a day. It's so entertaining to watch. He's just trying to rebuild something for his family, And I think it's actually really smart that they have this music that Heidi released years ago, and it really is this evergreen way to make money. It is being streamed everywhere. There's almost a million TikToks have been made to it. People are just trying to support. I made one to it. Emily Ratajkowski made one to it. It's really I'm taking it off. And then this video went viral being like, We need Pitbull to lay a verse on this song. And Spencer shared this morning, he has been in contact with Pitbull's team. Every time he does something, it really makes waves and reaches the people. And I think people really want to help. And he did this TikTok that was like, Brands, anybody wants to a brand deal, make some insensitive content? Let me know. And I was like, Ben, reach out. Spritz Society. So I actually sent him a message and I was like, I love what you're doing. How do we get you a Spritz brand deal? And he gave me his manager's information.

And Ben's talking to his manager right now. We're a small company, so we have a huge budget. But I think A, would be a great moment for Spritz, and B, that's actually money you spend on marketing that you know is going somewhere good.

Yeah. So we're working on it. And what's also really brilliant about the Heidi thing is that it costs no money for people to support and just stream the song, and they're able to generate income. So that's really great. But no, people have been really following closely their story.

And I think what's happening to Spencer is this larger conversation about celebrity, because I think Mandy Moore got some backlash this weekend for sharing a GoFundMe. And it's always this weird place. We talk about it all the time, outside of this major historic fire. When a celebrity shares a GoFundMe on their social media, it's like, Well, bitch, you do it. What are you looking at me for? I can bear I'm being my man. So it's always been this weird situation, and now it's happening a lot. And Spencer at first was getting a lot of backlash. You're a rich celebrity. Leave us alone. There are people who... And Spencer was like, I'm actually not. I've been just a working reality star, working influencer, working personality my whole life. And yes, I have had... And he has spoken about how, of course, at the height of the hills, they had really done very well financially, but didn't...

He blew it all on crystals.

He blew it all on crystals. Right. In the most responsible way. So it's It's this very interesting inflection point where I think we're seeing a lot of celebrities who maybe aren't as liquid as we had thought. I think that a lot of them had their net worth and their money invested in real estate, and that real estate is gone now. It's awkward. So Mandy Moore had posted a GoFundMe and then had to edit her caption being like, of course, we personally donated. Everyone just F off. It's weird. I actually don't know. I guess it's case by case because every celebrity's financial situation is different. But when Lady Gaga shared that thing about her dad's restaurant, it's like, girl. Yeah, no, that's her dad. We're not talking about you here.

No, I feel like that is a separate case. But is Mandy Moore...

She's like a working actress. She probably...

No, and I do think that people... As long as you've contributed to the GoFundMe, I feel like that's weird. I would expect that anyone who's posting a GoFundMe has contributed because...

Either on the website itself or personally to the person.

You don't feel that strongly if you couldn't even give a dollar.

Yeah.

But it is a tough line to walk in me. Like, Megan Fox is nail artist. Yes. But it's like, I wouldn't expect her to cover the whole thing.

No. And now it's just happening more frequently because there's so many gofund me's and there's so many people in need. It's just this funny line that I think celebrities don't know how to handle either. Because every celebrity is posting, like, Donate here, donate here. It's like, Well, you.

Yeah.

Especially Especially celebrities that have consumer brands. They're like, We support you. We're always buying your stuff. And you're a billionaire now. So why don't you make a donation?

Yeah.

And I'm sure that they have. And then it's also like, if they share what they donated, it's like, Well, you're just bragging.

There are so many different conversations in this, and especially in, I don't know what it is. It's like charity gate. There's that. There's also people are donating to the LA Public Services, which they have the highest... Like Whitney Cee Cummings said, It's so nice that you guys want to donate to our firefighters. That's nice, but that's crazy that you should have to.

Right, given what we pay. Right. Yeah. No, it's definitely a crazy time.

It's a crazy time, and it's ongoing. I feel like there are obviously immediate things that need to happen, even where are the kids going to school? I was thinking that, too. Some of them are kids who are out two years for COVID. Did you see that street in the Palisades that's completely burned down, and the only thing remaining is a And of course, they've opened up their doors to anybody who needs it.

But that was really crazy. Then that got me thinking, because it was a chabbad, I'm sure that's also a school. Then I'm like, wait, where does everybody go to school?

Where does everybody go to school?

I can't even think about it too much without having an existential crisis, because these are entire communities, entire real estate markets that have been wiped out. If you want to rebuild, first of all, how many builders are there? Is there a waiting list to get your house rebuilt? If you can afford it. Then also, if you want to Is your value, is your land worth nothing now, or is it worth a lot now?

It just depends.

It's just unprecedented that an entire economy is wiped out.

No, and it will just depend what people in mass decide to do with everyone's rebuilding. Then if you have a standing house, that might be more attractive. You don't have to wait to build. But I saw the Palisades Village, which Rick Caruso had built, is still standing because he had hired private firefighters to defend it. But it's like, who can shop there? Who's shopping there now? No, right.

There's no... Community. There's nothing.

It's crazy to think about there's no community, the schools, the churches.

I can't wrap my head around how you logistically rebuild.

It will take years. Right. And are people going to wait? People have to move on with their lives. Are they so mad at-No, but I also think financially, a lot of people can't.

They have to stay where they are because all the equity they had built in their lives are in this piece of property.

Yes. And also, do you only get insurance if you rebuild, or do you get it for what you lost and you can spend it how you want?

I think the second one.

Oh, okay. So then people might take their money elsewhere.

But I think it's going to be like years before people get their insurance money. I think there's going to be a lot of lawsuits. I just don't think it's going to be as simple as it because it's already, even if it's not, even if it didn't happen to your whole community. If you started at an accidental fire in your house, in your house, down and you have insurance, do you know how many hoops you have to jump through just in a regular situation to get your insurance money and to get exactly what you're owed?

Yeah, and there are a lot of people offering advice on this particular thing.

Which we are obviously not experts on.

No, I'm just saying, there's so many different things that people are having to deal with now and that people are contributing. There are just so many different ways that you can help, but also so many ways that you can't. If you feel it's a helpless situation, the fire is still going on.

Correct.

Anyway, switching gears to our next story, which is- What number? Three. Okay. Timothée Chalmet is set to host and musical guest guest, SNL. Oh, yeah. This is interesting. So Timothée Chalmet has been announced as the host and musical guest of SNL on January 25th. It seems as though that he will be musical guesting as Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan. Now, let me say this. One, when I was thinking of movies to watch, obviously, the Bob Dylan one came across, and I literally said, Absolutely not. I didn't even think about it. It looks terrible. And I feel like it's such a flop. I don't know why. I've seen nothing about it. I've seen not a review. I've seen not a commercial.

When you compare it to other big big biopics like Elvis, like Bohemian Rhaps, like Walk the Line, yeah, it's a flop because it's not commercial. But did it get that big budget, or is this an indie movie? I don't know. I don't really care. What is the movie called? A Complete Unkown, which is also a terrible name for a movie.

Yes, I would never guess that it's a biopic. Yeah. Let's see how it did. First of all, it has a 78% on Rotten Tomatos, which, by the way, every movie that I've been watching for Oscar for Buzz, even though I don't agree with it, it has well in the '90s.For.

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Critic Review.

Or Audience.

You got to look at Audience.

You can't look at Critic. Unknown has grossed $50 million worldwide.

Did it even come out yet?

It did. It's been out for three weeks. This weekend, it brought in another $5 million. Congrats. So it's in total, North American total is $50.8 million, which this website says is impressive.

A couple of things about him performing as Bob Dylan on SNL. First of all, Bob Dylan is still alive, right? This is something that I'm reading all these headlines about Bob Dylan, how he has no friends. And it seems as though he's alive.

Yeah, I know he's 83 years old.

Damn. So maybe he'll join Timothy. How does he feel about this guy just out there being him?

I don't know. It just feels like such a sponsored episode, right? This whole thing would be paid for by a studio. And I'm surprised they hadn't done it before. I could have seen Elvis doing it. That's something we would have wanted. Nobody wants this. Like, literally not a... Like, not one person, not even Club Chalame. She don't want it.

However, I am looking forward to it because I feel like Kylie will go. I feel like Kylie will be in attendance. It's supporting her man's big night.

I don't know. I feel like this is really weird.

He'll be good. He's good at it.

Because it's never been done before. And I feel like when SNL is the... The cool thing about SNL is it's the same every week. And anytime they've changed anything. When Taylor Swift performed one time, a 10 minute song instead of two separate songs, it was the craziest thing. But it was the most hyped. Everybody wanted it. So for them to change their standard formula for something nobody wants or seriously will care about, I think it's really crazy. I don't know.

I actually think Timothée Chalmet will be really good. I think he's really talented. I think it gets overlooked because there's so much like, lore around him. But I think he's really good in these SNL type things of like, improv and comedy.

I think his hosting will be great. I I agree.

I think he's going to surprise us with the music. Did you see that video of him in his talent show, like rapping?

Little Timmy. Yeah.

I agree. He's going to bring Little Timmy to the SNL.

He has hosted before, and he always makes ways. Remember, Yee, skirt. That's him. I think where I'm really concerned is this musical performance, honestly. I'm genuinely concerned.

I just wish it was like, I don't think I know a Bob Dylan song. So whether it's good or bad, I won't be able to know, as opposed to if it were...

You do know. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. Yon. Yon. Yon. And does he not sing, Make You Feel My Love, the Adele cover?

Oh, we've been here, turdy.

Or is that, make you feel my love?

We discovered the answer so many times.

Is Bob Dylan.

He better sing that, and he better bring out Adele. Bring out Adele, yeah. And Bob Dylan senior, and Kylie on Rise or Shine.

Okay? Yeah, he does. Okay, so we know two songs.

Okay, well, he only He only gets two songs.

Knocking on Heaven's Door. He only gets two songs. Knocking on Heaven's Door, you know that one?

Okay, I'm going to make a committed effort to watch this clip on YouTube when it's done. I'm going to make a committed effort.

You're not going to stay up past midnight to watch?

No, I could barely stay up past midnight on New Year's Eve. You. Actually, low-key, I stay up really late. I do it in bed, though, so it feels different. But I go to sleep really late.

You're just sleeping with your eyes open.

Yeah, I'm just in bed, but I'm not sleeping.

Yeah.

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Thank you. You're welcome. Our next story, a little bit of rumor mills. A simple favor to directors addressing Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick feud rumors, delaying the release of the movie, and he is Which is shutting them down. He slams speculation that A Simple Favorite 2, starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, has been shelved by Amazon because of, as one user and ex claimed, Blake Lively's refusal to promote amid her messy legal bottle with Justin Maldoni and growing tensions with Anna Kendrick. Anna is Furious. Paul Figh is disappointed. Hollywood is in shock.

Paul Figh- So these rumors came out of nowhere. By the way, there have been rumors about this movie for a while, just in relation to Blake and Anna not getting along, way before this Justin Baldon thing. If you're into the movie, there's a crazy lore around it.

I mean, so much lore that we watched this movie last month after it's been out for years. We did. It came and went. No one was talking about it. I guess we watched it because we had heard the sequel was coming and because Paul Fogg is doing the housemate. So this movie just keeps coming up. Back into the culture. It has such a cult following. And usually when things do, it's because they're good. The movie was so bad.

It was so stupid. Seriously, the biggest waste of time of my life.

Of my life. However, the sequel is coming out. Usually, sequels are worse, though. So it probably will be bad. But Paul Feig is defending Blake Lively and saying, This is total BS. Sorry, the movie is finished and coming out soon. Don't believe anything you read on social media these days. Right.

The movie is completely filmed, completely ready to go. And people are just saying, Amazon has decided not to release it. Sorry, It'll just spend $100 million on a movie and you don't release it. So I'm sure it's coming out when it's coming out. Yeah.

But this, I feel like, will be another movie. It already has all of these legs of just people-Drama. Having opinions about it. I feel like when it comes out, it's going to be a whole other thing.

Yeah, because you're right, there was already some drama there. They had said that just Blake and Anna Kendrick really didn't get along. So much so to the point that they couldn't even do press together. If you watch some of their junkets, there's really awkward tension. Do you think that's true? There's never been any I could see these two not getting along, yeah, from a person. Based on what we know about Blake through this process, we had said, it doesn't seem like she's the most amazing fun person to work with. I think maybe she has a diva attitude. Yeah.

Well, I guess in the movie-And I could see Anna Kendrick.

I could see Blake Lively thinking Anna Kendrick is so fucking annoying. Because I don't know Anna Kendrick. I know her character's from Pitch Perfect, and then I had seen a bunch of clips of her on Call Her Daddy, and she's definitely like... She definitely is super nice, but I could see someone who has a short temper and as a diva finding her annoying.

They literally seem like they're two characters in the movie. And that's why when two people are feuding on a movie like this, I'm like, great. Well, that's the movie.

But when it's two people who are supposed to be in love, it ruins the movie because you know that they don't like each other.

It makes it really hard promote, and we just are all reminded that we're watching a movie. But I actually don't mind the fact if they don't get along, that's actually better for the movie. It's more real.

Yeah. No, it's very true. And I don't know, I don't know how much truth there could be to it, because if you had made a movie that seriously made very few waves and you hated your co-star, you wouldn't do a sequel. If it was really that bad, no one was begging for a sequel, honestly.

No, there were a handful of people. Not a lot, but a strong, but mighty contingency.

Small So I don't know. If they did it, it couldn't have been that bad.

I agree. That's just my thought. Are you ready for our fifth and final story? A little Little Mix news because Little Mix alum, Jessie Nelson is announcing her pregnancy with twins. So Jessie from Little Mix, the first to leave the band, and thus starting the end- The girl who ruined the band. Of the band, is announced that she's pregnant with twins. She said she's eating for three now. So that's very exciting.

Although, I do want to say I actually don't consider Jessie Nelson to be the girl that ruined the band because she, to me, is very much like a Zane Malik. Not only did the band go on without her, I actually think they did some of their best work without Zane and their best work without Jessie.

I don't think they missed her either.

Yeah, she wasn't a key character locally, from any standpoint that the band suffered at all with her absence. That's how I feel about Zane Malik.

I agree with that, but it shows a crack in the surface, and then it's like, Oh, we can just leave?

Yes. What if we just left? There's two types of There's two types of departures, like a Camila Caballo, Fifth Harmon, a Justin Timberlake in sync. That's crippling for the band, somebody who's a load-bearing member. Then there's ancillary members that leave and nobody moves. Now, the band could go on to disband for other reasons, but I think that Jessie Nelson is very much of the Zane Malik variety, not of the Camila Caballo variety.

1,000 %. It's worth noting, like Little Mix is coming back. They've said they'll be back. They're just taking a pause for motherhood and such.

Yes, It's hard, though, because Perri Edwards is releasing bops in her solo endeavors. That makes it tough. I remember when Harry Style went and started doing solo music, when the music was really good and it really started taking off, it set in for us very slowly. We're getting further and further away. This was not a hiatus, it was a break.

When I do think about the music that I would want Little Mix to be making, I don't want to sound ageist and misogynist, but it's not what they really want to be making at this stage in their lives. I don't know if the twain shall meet.

Yeah. I think it's great that they're all progressing in their lives personally, getting married and having kids, and this is great for Jessie. I do think if Little Mix does choose to reunite, it is without Jessie.

Yes, I agree because Jessie also does her own music. Sort of. Sort of.

But in a way that I do my own music.

I'm just saying as the person who loves Little Mix the most, I would be very much okay if they don't reunite ever and The music that they made for us during that time is just a moment in time. Lives. It's just perfection in a bottle.

Well, now let me ask you a question, because even before Liam Payne passed away, I had always felt like if One Direction got back together, there was a chance that it would be all five, not just the four. I don't it wasn't clear cut to me that it would be just without Zane. Now I feel like the band will obviously never get back together. We're even further from that possibility. But if they did, it would have to be with Zane, right? Because then if not, it's just three of them. Yeah. No, and by the way, I'm sorry, they're never getting back together.

No, they're never getting back together.

If you really knew the dynamics and the vocal abilities of the band, Liam was an extremely strong vocalist and an important... He carried a lot of weight. It was really and Harry vocally.

Oh my God, I saw a clip recently of their auditions, and someone was like, How did these... Did I send it to you? They're like, How did these people become the biggest boy band in the world? They're horrible.

They can't sing.

Even when they sing, It's what you do to me. Their individual auditions stink.

Because they all auditioned separately.

Then even when they sang Torn for Simon Cowell, it's bad.

They're wearing actual threads.

That was, at a cultural shift.

They look seriously like a bunch of homeless youth. It's actually crazy the way that they...

I'm sorry.

Extras Unhoused.

Extras in Oliver Twist.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seriously, it's so confusing. Then I remember at the time, when Harry has his solo and he's like, Nothing's fine, I'm done. It's not good, but at the time, literally, hearts were breaking everywhere. People were not fucking okay. No, the craziest thing is realizing that that was not good. That none of the original members of One Direction, at the time of their creation could carry a tune except for Liam.

And Niall. Don't forget Niall recently found out that he was the reason.

No, that the band was built around him. But I mean, vocally, he did not possess really... I don't even know how they got them to such a good place, because then there was a time when the five of them would sing all together and harmonize with each other, and it was really beautiful. I don't know what training they went through, but you and I need to go through it.

Voc coaching. You can make a good voice better.

Even look at Ariana Grande. As long as the person has a little bit of pitch.

Ariana Grande has the best voice of our time, period. And growing up, she was probably always the girl with a really good voice, but now it's on another level due to training. She even said she trained for a year before she auditioned for Wicked, she doesn't just show up and sing. So on the one hand- It's a skill you have to practice. It's a God-given talent, but it's also a skill that you can hone and make better.

Yes, but some people are beyond any... If you can't carry a tune, if you have... No, even you know. You know when a note is right and wrong, right? I do.

I can hear it, but I don't know if I can hear it as much in myself.

But you also have a lot of rhythm. I'm not a complete loss cause. I think some people have no rhythm. There are people who actually cannot, even with the best training in the world, could not sing if they wanted to.

Yes. And then even people who have the gift need to work at it.

Yes. Even stars like us. You think we just wake up and sing like this? No. You do.

You do. But I guess what I'm saying is you can be better.

Well, I actually took some vocal training classes in college, and they were the worst experiences of my life.

And that's just when you realize maybe you'll be a podcaster.

Because I went in there and I was like, All right, let's throw down. It was a great way to earn two credits. And it was taught by a grad student, and it was just in these music rooms with a piano, and I thought we'd just be like, Is it Robin Taylor Swift? Race your voice. Yeah. No, she was making me sing opera.

Race your voice.

I literally will never forget. The whole semester, we did one song, and it was like this. Ready? And sing in the morning with waking birds. She sings songs of fairy butterflies. The whole thing in head voice. I'm like, this is not helping me at all. And I really wanted to audition for X-Bactor at the time. And I was like, you want me to pull through with this? Are you fucking kidding me? But it was like the curriculum. She was literally like... Now I realize she was 19 years old and a grad student.

She was doing her best.

This was something she had to do for credit. And I would come in there and be like, can we get the sheet music for Beyoncé, and she was like, Anne sings in the morning. Some of the worst times in my life.

It's giving Susan Boyle.

Yeah. With waking birds, she sings songs of fairy butterflies, of flowers and timely things. And when she sings, it seems to me no place on Earth would love there be when sweet Anne sings. The fact that I remember, that is crazy. That is crazy. I can't even remember your name.

No, it's so crazy. But now I'm thinking about Susan Boyle. That was a cultural shift.

Yeah, she did what no other woman dare to do.

I think she did that. That was seriously so crazy. Where is she now? We should have her on the toast.

I do believe she's a gal about town. I don't think she's completely reclusive.

No, I think she lends her voice here and there. But what a voice is.

To platforms and advocacy groups.

That was when YouTube videos would seriously go viral.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'll never forget.

Because that was in the UK before you could just know what was going on in the UK. So the fact that the YouTube video made its way across the pond, it was really crazy.

It was really crazy. That wasn't a song that I knew. I dreamed a dream before she sang it. And then it was my favorite song.

I dreamed a dream of time gone by.

You know what? It's so beautiful. I want to go watch that video and see if it holds up and see if it's as chill-inducing as it was back then.

Then if it's not and you're seeking chills from that song, do watch the Glee version with Lea Michelle and Adina Menzel. It's absolutely beautiful.

That's beautiful.

I had a dream my life would be. What is that? Les Mises?

That's Les Mis. I've never seen it, though I literally should because it's historical fiction musical. That's me.

I actually have seen it. You like it? In college, I had to take a class called Cinema Unlit, where you would read the book and then watch the movie and talk about it. Of course, I only showed up when we were watching the movies, and then I didn't read the books. I did see Les Mis, but it was the O. G. It wasn't like the Anne Hathaway one.

Did you like it? Oh, it wasn't that. Oh, so.

No, it was like Jean Valjean in Black and White. It was dreadful.

Victor Hugo, man.

I saw some of the worst movies of my life in that class, Death in Venice. Wait, What? Tadzio. Okay, Death in Venice is literally about a pedophile. I don't know if it is, but there's this man in Venice following around this little boy Tadzio and just staring at him in different corners, and it's like, Todzio.

But then what did he want?

He wanted to have sex with the kid or something. Is that it? I actually don't know. That was my takeaway from the film.

Okay.

Tadzio. That was seriously a waste of my time. College in general was a waste of my time. Really, do not...

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