Girly Swirly University: Monday, November 11th, 2024
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Good morning millennials. Welcome back to the toast and happy Monday. Like this fucking sucks. Let's just acknowledge it. Like it's Monday. We worked so hard last week. Literally for what? Just to be back here again. Hadn't had that thought process this morning.

I feel like it's a very fair Monday as far as Mondays goes. We are so close to Thanksgiving holiday season. I feel like you and I are just truly at different parts of our cycle based on our perspective. It's Monday. This blows. No, I'm at a pretty feral part. But I'm not taking it out on the day of the week. I'm just taking it out on my husband. Last week was like...

But on Friday, I was so, you know, accomplished. And I was like, yay, it's the weekend. And it just kind of like flew fucking by. I'm back where I started. And what do I have to show for it? Fucking nothing. What do you have to show for your weekend? What did you do this weekend? I literally watched Yellowstone. I ate. I went to the park. Oh, I saw that you went to the park. What else did I do?

I had such a busy weekend. I feel like so many weekends, I really enjoy being home, like playing in the backyard, barbecuing, and like that's always fun. But this weekend, both days, we were like active as fuck, like in car naps, you know? Maybe that's why you feel different about the weekend. Like I did nothing with my weekend. I'm doing nothing with my life. Like-

Like I honestly, I had enough weekend. We had so much time, but like I'm wiped out from the weekend. Like I'm ready to get back to my routine. You know, it's real when like the naps are taken in the car and not in the crib. Cause that just means you're on the go. We did so much on Saturday. We went shopping. We went to the beach.

I posted this on my Instagram, but it's been a cornerstone of my weekend. I went to the Le Creuset outlet and I stocked up. They had my color of preference. It was just such an amazing experience. I didn't know that there were Le Creuset stores, let alone outlets, let alone in my vicinity. Same, I didn't know they like sold anywhere other than like the Bloomingdale's kitchen aisle. Other than like Williams-Sonoma full price and they'll tack on more for a Williams-Sonoma bag. Right, right, good luck. Like maybe you'll find one one time, like at a Goodwill, but that's it.

So thank you to Shannon Ford for influencing me to do that. So Saturday was just like so busy with, honestly, I shopped till I dropped. That's like to me, actually, that's a really unenjoyable way to spend the day. I do not enjoy, like I like the process of like buying nice things for myself, but like the types of shopping where you're just like, you get home and your feet hurt. That's like not an enjoyable way to spend the weekend. Yeah.

- No, it was enjoyable shopping 'cause it was like strolling down the street shopping, not like in the dressing room trying on jeans, like maybe I'll try on a pair of shoes. And I was with the boys, like everything is just fun to look at, like art galleries and stuff. And I did walk away with a new set of Le Creuset and a pair of Chanel sandals. - And a Chanel outfit. I see that you're wearing that today.

- Oh yes, but this I got at Chanel.com. I didn't get this in store. It's an online exclusive. - So if you're watching on YouTube, Jax and I are sporting new fall merch collection, which drops on Wednesday, this Wednesday, so in two days at 10:00 AM on our website, shoptwistmerch.com. These are two of the sets that we're dropping. Jackie's is the Gargi Parji set. She's wearing a size medium, is that correct?

I took a medium. Yes. I'm not wearing it. Yeah, actually, I'm not wearing this medium. This medium's wearing me. I'm wearing the Girly Swirly University set. We'll be teasing, like, all the products that we're launching. There's more. You guys, there's so much cute stuff. And I don't want to, like, get ahead of the other cute stuff and, like, not focus on the cute stuff that we're wearing. Of course, we had to make our Jeep RG...

merch because it's Gargi Pargi fall. And like, this has been sitting in my bathroom staring at me every day and I've just been wanting to wear it, but I didn't want to tease it too far in advance. And that's like not fun for anyone. And then of course I'm a student at girly swirly university. I don't know about you, but I'm getting my education there. And I feel so smart. I wish that you could have seen me walking to work. Like,

I guess when somebody walks by me like wearing a graphic tee, I guess I do always like look at it and like read what it says. And people were doing that to me and I could see like the actual confusion on the faces of people. They were like, swirly, swirly, is that a real place? Like seriously, I'm like, wow, my boobs must look big today. Everybody's staring at them. Everyone was reading my sweatshirt. I was cracking up. I actually at like one point did feel a little embarrassed. It was so funny. And we also made a matching hat, which you'll see on Instagram. But can you please tell the story?

- Yes, I was in Publix. I was wearing the girly swirly university hat that we've made. It says GSU. And then I was wearing the bar sweatshirt and someone walked by me and he was like, "Did you pass the bar?" And I'm like, "Uh, no." I'm just like a big idiot. - And then Jackie texts me. She's like, "We have to tell the merch people, like we have to cancel this GSU hat. It's confusing. It must be like a law school."

Yeah, I thought he like saw I went to Georgia State and was like, did you pass the bar? Because I'm wearing a university hat. Later in my shopping experience did I realize that I'm wearing a sweatshirt that says the bar and a university on my head and I look like a fraudulent law student. You know you look like somebody who literally like just found out they passed the bar and then had to go to Publix so you wanted to celebrate in your own way.

So I would just say like if you have a the bar sweatshirt, don't wear it with any GSU merch because you will really confuse people and all of a sudden they'll be looking for a retainer. You will see, we had such cute photoshoot, you will see everything so make sure you're following all of us on social media but the vibes are like very scholarly, very autumnal, browns and maroons and you know it's giving fall at Harvard honestly.

- It is, it's also giving the color palette of a chili. That wasn't the inspo, but that's just what happens when gargi-pargi for eyes match. - It's not, like, we definitely didn't do it on purpose, but like, it's who we are. Like if you were cut open my body, the colors, I would bleed chili colors, you know?

- I mean, we actually like do, that is the color. We have one other set that is our classic, Loki classic set, that's the toast logo set. And it's in a camel, which is also quite chili-like. And then I don't wanna play favorites, but we did produce one item that is my absolute favorite. - It's a new SKU for us. It's like a product we've never made yet. That's right, it's a cardigan. - We made a cardigan you guys, because that's all we wear. - And it's like, it's actually sick.

And not wearing that has been really difficult for me. So I'm really excited to be having an easier time getting dressed. Wednesday at 10 a.m. Eastern time, shoptoastmerch.com. You'll have everything you need on social media. So as long as you're following, you'll be able to see what we're selling, what time, where to go, who to see, where to be, et cetera, et cetera. So that's just like kind of big news from us.

Big, there's always big news from us. I've been wearing my GSU tote so much for the last month. I think I post it all the time because I'm always wearing it. I wore it to the petting zoo yesterday and something so crazy happened to me. I can't believe you went to a petting zoo yesterday. That's just so not you.

- Well, we didn't go to a petting zoo proper. We went to a farm and they had a little zoo area, but like you can pet the animals and it was giving petting zoo and you could feed the animals and the kids were feeding carrots to the llamas, which is what they said you should feed them. But I think they're just like fucking with you because then the llama started spitting carrots at us. - Oh my God. - So I have like llama spit up on my GSU toe. - Llama, llama spit pajama. - Llama, llama spit pajama, Claudia,

I was traumatized. Those places are... I went with Olivia once to like a zoo type of... Not zoo. It was like a sanctuary where you can like feed and whatever. And the kids love it. And the kids are so fearless. Like they just run head first like into these pens. Meanwhile, I'm freaking out. And the place like every animal was in an enclosure. But they had like goats...

I guess the goats like get special whatever. And you can like when you buy your ticket, they give you a bag of like raw vegetables, like string beans and carrots to feed. And like these kids just running with their hands. I'm surprised they don't lose a finger. I was screaming. I turn around. There's a goat right beside. Like, seriously, that is something I will like when I become a parent, I will never like I can't.

- It's so hard. Hopefully you go with other parents who will go in the bird cage so that you don't have to, which is what happened. But I also, I went in the kangaroo pen. There was like two little kangaroos and I was just like, okay, there was a ton of people. So what are the odds they're gonna come for us?

And it was like my energy was actually like, I don't want to project that on. You're putting everyone in danger. They are fearless. So it's honestly better if I just like don't go in because I was like. And honestly, as a humanitarian, I also find fault like you saying that there's a kangaroo in South Florida. Like literally why? That's like, why is there a polar bear in Central Park? I actually don't know if that polar bear is still in the Central Park Zoo. But let me tell you, for 25 years, there was a dead ass kangaroo.

polar bear in Manhattan, like, in this tiny little glass. Like, it was too sad. It was wrong. Like, when they get such exotic animals, like, I don't know. It puts the whole thing in perspective for me, and I'm like, I gotta get out of here. I can't support this. I understand, but my, like...

degree of concern, like just ranges on like the size of the animal versus the cage that they're in. So like I am starting with the orcas and until like the orcas are back in the wild, like a little baby kangaroo hopping with his buddy and they had a big pen. It's just like, it's about the ratio of size to-

I also feel like ever since Blackfish, the documentary, like, shined a light on orcas and then just, like, the whole industry in general, a lot of, like, zoos and facilities like that have changed their names to being, like, sanctuaries, which makes you think, like, oh, these are all rescues. And I feel like they're literally not. They just, like, changed the name on the sign from a zoo to a sanctuary just to be marked as safe. I saw an orca on Reels last week that –

- Shat in his pool and then splashed the audience. - Literal king. - And now like, if I were there,

I would not have been okay. That's what was happening to you with the carrots. It was, I know it was funny to watch him take his power back. No, I loved every minute of it. Like those poor kids, but you know what? Like that you're, that's what your parents get for taking you. I will never in my life take my children to like, especially the sea aquarium type of what's up. What's the one called? SeaWorld. But you know, they're off brand. Like I will never. Yeah. Like, cause like goats and llamas, like those are farm animals. Yes. And we were at a farm. That's fine.

By the way, we were at a farm, a working farm. So that makes it better. A thousand percent. They have like that carrot homegrown. No, I'm fine. That's non-GMO. That's cool. It was non-GMO, not a GMO in sight. But a GSU? GSU is always in sight because I'm getting my degree online. Well, that's the other thing. I was working for an hourly wage. And the story of how I got into GSU is actually really, really crazy. I'll tell it really briefly. I was working for an hourly wage and I went. Did you apply early? Well, I went to high school and I didn't do great.

Oh, I think I knew that. But still, you know, I got to make more cash and more education is what I was definitely looking at. So when I get a degree, obviously, what do I think? I'll make a bigger salary. And so now I had to see like which college is right for me. Where do you go? I went on the Internet and I found educationconnection.com.

I took some pre-tests, obviously, like to find out my direction. And then I was taking my classes online at GSU, getting my degree. That was what I loved about GSU. Like it was completely on my own time. On Dirty's time. And Education Connection matched me with the right college for free. It's hard. It's very so hard not to sing it. You did really good. Thank you. That was really funny. At breaking it down. I love to break down.

I love to block and jam and break. You could study that at GSU. What else can you study at GSU? The possibilities are endless. They have a mean, mean communications program. That's kind of what they're known for.

They have a really strong writing program where they'll help you title your books. Yeah, they will. They will. That's like a whole concentration. You can actually build your major around that, which I think a lot of students really love. And I think not enough people, when it comes to GSU, not enough people really talk about the Greek life. It's so... Greek? Yeah. And if you give any of the students a word, any word, they will literally, on demand, show you it is Greek. Okay.

Okay, can I do one? Pargy. Pargy comes from the Greek word pargiopolis, which means beautiful. And I learned that at Gurley Swerley University, and you can too. So come on down, fall enrollment. By the way, what's that Blake Lively movie where they make a college? Accepted. That's literally GSU.

- It is. I would love to go to GSU. There's no encampments at GSU. - Oh yeah, no. We don't tolerate any like radicalism. The only thing we're indoctrinating you on is like the movie "Sleepover," okay? That's really it. - It's so true. - Yeah. - Julie Corky. - Julie Corky. - Like you will leave "Girlie Swirly University" completely un-radicalized, but really fucking annoying. And that's the kind of promises we make at GSU. - Yeah. Our mascot is here.

Literally. And by the way, we've never lost a football game because of Yancy. Because we don't have a football team. Wait, also speaking of television, last night was the world premiere of the final season of Yellowstone. I'm sure everyone watched it. We will do an official recap at the end of the show. But just letting you know that that's coming.

Yeah, I'm excited. I haven't spoken to you about it. But I was excited to be sat up with something to watch on a Sunday night. And can we just put out a collective thanks to Paramount Network for airing it at 8 o'clock? Like, 8 o'clock is such an underrated time. No, 8 o'clock is the time. 8 o'clock Eastern. If you've got Central West, you've got your own stuff going on.

8 o'clock Eastern is the time for prime time. It's the time for prime time. You understand me? It's on 9 o'clock and it's on 10 o'clock. Being done with a show at 10 o'clock, that's too late. On a weeknight on Sunday, we're all trying to reset and get our weeks off to a good start. 8 o'clock, I can't really tell you how much I appreciated that. Yeah, it was nice. I was able to start a book. I had some pie that I got from the farm. So I had some pie with my Yellowstone. I know what I did this weekend. I totally forgot. I read a whole book. Which one? The Many Lives of Mama Love. Yeah, it was Oprah's book choice.

I loved it. I loved it. Like it was just the thing to get me back, you know? Should I? I think you would like it. I'm reading a Frida. Just a little amuse-bouche to get me to the next one. I'm going to put this on my Goodreads quickly or else I will completely forget. I need a Goodreads for TV shows because when I always say I'll add it to my content plate, I don't put it anywhere. Just write it down. Anytime someone recommends me a book that I want to read. No, but like I don't write it down. Goodreads.

I guess that's like where all the different streamers, you could log into your Netflix and book market. Jackie, it exists. Gen Z's obsessed with it. I don't know if it's about TV shows or movies. I think it's both. I think it's called Letterboxd. I need it for TV shows and movies. It definitely exists. Letterboxd. Something like that. I'll poke around. I'm pretty sure, but it might just be movies.

I could do it for movies too. And I watched another Harry Potter movie. And I know like, it's tough when I get really into something that like, there's such a fan base of like when I started watching Gilmore Girls, I never really told you guys that like, I stopped watching it because I couldn't with those fucking women. Like they were just horrible women. Like I just, I hated all of them. Like,

What season did you make it to? Once you've seen one episode of Gilmore Girls, you've seen them all. Like nothing happens. I think that's also the point. Yeah, and it's nice, but like... For better or for worse. I need to be stimulated a little bit more. And so I'm sorry. Like I didn't even want to follow up like with where my journey went because like so many people love it. And I'm not trying to like take a big shit on it. And having the same sort of thing with Harry Potter. Maybe I like watched too much of it too quickly. Like, so we only watched one this week and it was The Ironer of the Phoenix. And it was fine. It was good. I'm just like...

Was the Phoenix Ired? I don't even know who the Phoenix was. How about that? Okay. Did they Ired it after all? Like I know why they called it the Goblet of Fire. Why did they call it the Order of the Phoenix? No, I literally don't know. I couldn't tell you. And I'm just like, I'm kind of getting over it or I need like a little bit of a break. Yeah. Think about the fact that everybody waited years for the books to come out in between each other. And movies too. Like it's unnatural to watch them back to back to back. Yeah. And it's not like, it's not that good. You know, like it's good. It's good. It's good.

Oh, and now it's all coming back to me. I actually had like a very productive weekend. I met baby Reed. Baby Reed. Dana from the Reed heads and her baby Reed. I finally met him. He's so cute. So like that was kind of like the big moment of my weekend. That's so cute. He's really cute. It's also crazy to see like an actual child tending to a child.

Do you know what I mean? It's very disarming. - But they are proportionally matched. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like Dana's aura, like not even the fact that she's 311. Like her aura is also very childlike. She has this sort of beautiful essence that's very childlike. And so just to see her like burping a baby, I'm like, excuse me, what are you doing? - Yeah.

It's shocking. Like when people like film their eight year olds taking care of their newborns. Like when you have a kid at home and then you just get home from the hospital with your newborn baby. It's like this grown kid. Yeah. That's literally Dana. Yeah. You have like an older child who can now help you with the younger one. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. That's Dana. No, that's literally Dana. Older sister.

That's really fun. We also have a lot to get into because after last week's episode wrapped, the Grammy noms came out and everyone was freaking. Yes. I'm honestly glad. We couldn't have fit it into Friday's episode. I was focused on one Brianna missed chicken fry. I thought the same thing. When it came out, everyone was like, oh, Grammy noms, one second after you released the episode. I was actually relieved. I only had space in my brain on Friday for one thing and one thing only, and that was SpongeBob SquareTen. Yeah. So everything happens the way it should. Correct. Everything happens for a reason, Turnie. Correct. Correct.

- Trust the timing of your life. - I will. - Trust the timing of the toast. - I shall. - I feel like sometimes people don't trust the timing. - I don't know. - Do you feel? Do you find that? - I have a lot of gripes with people in general and I don't know if like them not trusting timing is something. - The timing of the toast. - That's not one of my personal gripes, but to each their own, obviously. - I just find that that's something that people struggle with. - But that's also something we're tackling at Girly Swirly University.

It's kind of one of our core. How to really enjoy a Malafi. It's one of our core tenets of the university. Malafi 101. What are the founding principles? What is the founding principle of the Girly Swirly University? That's a really good question. And the answer is, what is the founding principle? Just like, I don't know. That's like a hard question. Do you know what I mean? For like this fake stupid university that we made up. Yeah.

You're being that Joe Rogan clip. No, like I think we've officially like, I don't know. You question too close to the sun. I understand, but remember I told you about that Joe Rogan clip where he'll be like riffing with someone and then they'll say something in the riff? Yeah, and by the way, I don't know why, like I'm out of the riff. Like the riff ended and now I'm like back in reality and I can't go back there. You can't make me. I need to find this clip. I'm gonna post it to my story because I've experienced it. I'm on Joe Rogan today. Congratulations.

Thank you. Shall we? Yeah. Without further ado, here are the Fast Five Stories that you need to know. And the Fast Five Stories that you need to know are brought to you by Sonos. You guys might notice Jackie and I sporting some fabulous new headphones if you're watching on YouTube. And we are so excited to be partnering with Sonos again. Sonos is a brand that Jackie and I live with. I would say it's like a core tenant of our homes. We're big Sonos people. And they recently came out with their very first pair of headphones, and I think they

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Our first story, Grammy nominations 2025. I know everyone's been waiting for it. Beyonce leads this year with 11 nominations as Taylor Swift, Chapel Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charlie X are also among the top nominees. So the nominees are in the big categories. Before we go for the big nominees, can I just say one thing? I think one of the big stories of this year

nomination and I think the thing that I had seen most was Ariana Grande being snubbed. Eternal Sunshine is not nominated in any of the main four categories. She is nominated I think in like best pop vocal album which is where they like give you throw you a bone right? Where they stick you. And people are so mad and so furious and I want to say I was not in the least bit surprised that she wasn't nominated. I actually when you look at the level of talent and the amount of albums that like went so viral and I'm talking about full bodies of work like

I never even actively listened. I never sat down and listened to Charli X's music. I probably know eight songs on her album just from like the grocery store and TikTok. Chapel Roan, Sabrina, Taylor. Like it really was the year of the pop girlies. And all these four categories include every genre. They include country, R&B. So I think to assume that Ariana would have been in any of those main categories is a false assumption. I think the album was good. I think there was one song that really took off, but I don't think the whole body of work really...

For most people, not her fans. Like, for most people, people didn't receive it like that. Like, they just listened to We Can't Be Friends, like, on the radio. Yeah, so I really liked the album, and I would have been totally happy to see it get nominated for something big, but understand that it was a huge stacked year, and so it didn't get that because, like, there's a million categories, and there were other big pop albums. I think the bigger snub is We Can't Be Friends not getting nominated for Song or Record of the Year when it not only was such a popular song, but musically, like, it is...

sonically so fucking good. - It's so funny, it didn't even cross my mind. It's a good song, I actually sat down and went out of my way to listen to it, the album too. But when you really think about from a pop perspective how competitive it was this year, that album just really did not make the cut. Even this year, I feel like we've been talking so much about the pop girl, East Chapel, Sabrina, Taylor, we never said Ariana, we literally never did. Every time we're talking about the battle of the pop girls,

That's a good song. I don't even think it really had such, it had a lot of success, but not when you compare it to like other big songs that were on there.

We were talking about it in like Q1, Q2 of this year. Ever since the summer, it's been Chapel, Sabrina, Charlie, maybe even like Olivia. But in Q1, Q2, Ari's album had come out. Kacey Musgraves, who was thoroughly snubbed. Because to me, like she put out a really nice album that could have been nominated, but wasn't. I think it was another one that just like didn't hit that. I don't think that it was snubbed. Like just because you put out an album. It's not snubbed. Like-

Not snub because there's no one here I would take out. That's the thing. Like if you want someone to be nominated, tell me who you would take out. Who doesn't deserve it. And I can't.

I can't say I would take out Chapel Room because I didn't listen to it. I would take out Billy Ash. I didn't listen to it. And so- But you can't deny the impact, right? I can only judge the albums that I listened to. And if something that I listened to, I thought wasn't good enough, I could say you could take that out. But I can't say about, you know, I didn't listen to Andre 3000. I don't know if you should take that out. Right, no. You probably shouldn't. Right, you probably shouldn't. And also like those categories are meant to represent like a breadth of genres, not just the music we listen to. Right, so like of the music-

of the pop albums that made it to album of the year and the ones that I listened to like no I wouldn't there's only space for so many things but like I thought Kacey Musgraves released a beautiful album as did Ariana but it was just a stacked year for albums so it's not like a snubbing necessarily but to not really get that in one big category and just get pop vocal that's a little snub because they could have thrown in a best pop vocal performance I just can't I feel like

when you're at a certain level and you put out music, there is this expectation from like your fans that you would just get nominated because of that. And I feel like Ariana is at that level where like every time she releases music, it's like a big deal. It was good, you know, you could objectively, it was good music. You can't like really criticize it. It was well-received. So it's like same with Casey Musgraves. She's a person at a certain level who released an album and there's just this expectation that you would be included in these categories. And I actually think that's false. Like just because you are at that level and you release an album doesn't automatically mean that you just get put in those categories. Yeah.

- But Kacey Musgraves last album, I wouldn't have said the same thing. Like this was a really, really good album. The songs were really well thought out and like beautifully written. - But you also have to think about like how it sells, right? That's what that famous Kanye line, they say you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy. Like how it performs is a huge indicator of whether you're included or not. And I do not think that Kacey's most recent album performed well given her, you know, history.

- Yeah. - So that counts. - But it's not a people's choice award. So it's also just about their take on music. And anyways, I just think there were a lot of really good music this year.

So next year is like, you could try next year. You could try again. You could try Sears. Oh, and notably missing from every single category is Dua Lipa. And like her small but mighty fandom is enraged. But I think that like most listeners of music are not surprised to, what was the album called? Radical Optimism or something.

The song that you probably know is Houdini, which was a bop. She's known for making bops, but I think it references what we've been saying about her a lot. There's really no interpersonal connection between her and her fans. We don't know anything about her. She just is kind of this hit maker, and that's it. Yeah, it's like what Kacey Musgraves doesn't have...

- Yes. - Dua Lipa has and what Dua Lipa doesn't have is what Kacey Musgraves has. - It's hard to have everybody listening to your music and everyone caring about your music too. Like they each have one. - Yeah. So let's get into some of the big categories. Record of the year. And so this is always the song that's like, it's not about what was the most popular song of the year. - Production. - Song of the year. It's about production. One, Now and Then The Beatles.

Seriously, yawn. What year? Like, what are they talking about? The Beatles are dead. Claudia, I don't know. I hate when they do shit like this. Like, seriously. I didn't hear it at Publix. It wasn't the record. Oh, but it's about sound. Two, Texas Hold'em, Beyonce. That was everywhere. Three, Espresso, Sabrina.

4-3-60 Charlie how does that go because I don't have that experience with Brad to me Brad is so internet like I don't hear it so internet and by the way if you told me the title of a song I don't know you play it for me I know all the words like I actually don't know which one okay oh wait 60 no I don't know I literally don't know like okay it's five birds of a feather Billie Eilish that's a really beautiful song um six not like us Kendrick Lamar I feel like that might win

- How does it go? - It's one of those ones also like play it and I know the words, but I don't, but it's like, it's everywhere. - Seven, good luck, babe, chapel Rome. - It's such a competitive year.

An eight fortnight by tailored. It's competitive because it's tailored, but no, I don't think it's competitive. I start the album at track number two. I don't think it's competitive. And it's so interesting how TTPD is in all these big categories as it 1000% should be. And it's, I think it actually has a chance to win some of them. Um, and the lead single that they put forth and they obviously you have to nominate your, you put yourself up for nominations. Like they don't just choose you. She put forth fortnight and a bunch of different categories. And that's like the one she ran with. And I, and I don't think it's,

even remotely like emblematic of how good the album is. So what do you think will win record of the year? What do you think should win record of the year? Wow. You in these like deep questions today. I don't fucking know. Like we do this every time. Like what would you vote for as a member? What do you think will actually get the award? I think Billie Eilish will get the award. No, I don't think she will. It was not like Billie Eilish had a lot of successes here, but it was not her year. Do you know what I mean? Birds of a feather year.

It was Birds of a Feather year. Like, was it? I think she'll get it. And I have something crazy to say about espresso. I love espresso. I love Sabrina. But it's like, I don't think as a record, I think it has a better chance of being Song of the Year, and it should be Song of the Year, but it's not Record of the Year. I don't disagree. Like, the grammar's wrong. I wouldn't be surprised. That's that me espresso? If it's Charlie or Chapel. Charlie? I wouldn't be surprised if it's Charlie or Chapel. Okay. Okay.

I really can't say. It's tough. I feel like some years it's so obvious. I think it will be and should be birds of a feather. That's so random. I feel like it's like not even in contention. Like they threw her a bone. I think like, okay. I don't know what I think. I also think not like us could win, but continue.

Album of the year. One, New Blue Sun, Andre 3000. Two, Cowboy Carter, Beyonce. Three, Short and Sweet, Sabrina. Four, Brat, Shirley. Five, DeJesse, Volume 4, Jacob Collier. Six, Hit Me Hard. I'm sorry to Jacob. I'm sorry about all that. Six, Hit Me...

like i'm really sorry six hit me hard and soft billy eilish seven the rise and fall of a midwest princess chap eight tortured poets department lured i am going to put in my prediction as jesse vol 4 by jacob collier to win um i think that will win and it should just to make up for what i just said no okay so if it were up to me like the album of my year was tortured poets department i actually don't think she will win this year she has won like

six or seven times. She'll be fine. I think that, and I also think Short and Sweet could win, but I don't think it will. I think when you look at the year, like the album we were talking about the most, like it was Brat here, Brat this, Brat that, Brat, like it was Brat. That would be huge if she won. I,

who should, who would I vote for as a member of the voting board? Sabrina. I love this album. Can't stop listening to it. Who I think will win is Beyonce because I think to like give a dig to the CMAs for not even nominating her. And also like last year when Jay-Z made his speech, he was saying how like Beyonce's the most awarded female artist yet she doesn't have album of the year. Um,

So I think they'll like write that. I mean, all right. G H T. Like it's wrong that she doesn't have album of the year, but that doesn't make this album like the bet, the winner. No, I agree. But I'm just saying, I think the Grammys doesn't do that. Like they, I think, no, they've been doing that recently where like every category, no one really like sweeps anymore. Everyone wins one award. And I think like politically they're going to do cowboy Carter. That's a good call. Although I don't think it was the album of the year.

So what do you, to ask my hard question again, what and should? Brat will win, you think? And what should? I answered your question already. I said Torture Poets Department, but Brat. Oh, for you. Okay. Partulish. Partulish. Next, song of the year. This is such a great category because like every year needs a song and we need to decide what the song of the year is. First, a bar song, Shaboosie. Now ain't that the truth.

two birds of a feather billy that really was a song of the year die with a smile number three bruno mars and lady gaga two of my faves but it was not the song of the year unfortunately two of my faves would take a bullet for either of them the song is so good but like what the fuck is this song doing here listen i think i just wanted to like came out a week ago like it's so crazy nobody listens to it like except for us yeah number four fortnight the lurd

Number five, Good Luck Babe, Chap. Number six, Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar. Seven, Please, Please, Please, Sabrina. Eight, Texas Hold'em, Beyonce. Shocking to see Sabrina represented in this category with Please, Please, Please and not Espresso. Espresso was the song of the year. I agree. But the thing is, you, again, you nominate your own music for, like, you put forth. Confusion. So that's odd. Although I do think the song of the year was Someone pull me up a double shot of whiskey. I think Shabuzy should and will win.

You'll never see me complain about that. I think that Espresso should have been nominated for Song of the Year. Please, Please, Please would have been better for Record of the Year. And I would honestly be happy and or understand anyone winning this. Agreed, but I'm putting my money on Shaboos.

But I also could see Birds of a Feather. Birds of a Feather is going to win something. It really, it was everywhere. I like, it was everywhere, but I don't know. Maybe I just like ignored it because I deeply dislike Billie Eilish. Nobody, nobody ignored it more than me. Yeah. Like nobody. And they made it really hard. Like I kind of ignored Bratton. Like that wasn't that hard. No, I'm sorry. I completely disagree. Bratton was unignorable, but maybe it's because I'm chronically online.

I think, and more TikTok, like birds of a feather permeated reels. Every time I post a reel, they're like, wanna use birds of a feather? I'm like, yes, but no. Next, best new artist. Always such a fun category. One, Benson Boone, Pargealicious, a fake Lewis Capaldi. I like that. Two, Sabrina Carpenter with her sixth studio album. Three, Dochi. Four,

Krung Bin. Five. Ray. Six. Chapel Roan. Seven. Shaboosie. Eight. Teddy Swim. Like this is tough because there are so many people in this category worthy. So many worthy. Sabrina, Shaboos, Teddy Swims, Ray. But honestly. Chapel. No, Chapel's going to win. Like it's not even a question. Yeah.

I will understand if she wins. I think she could and should win. I think she'll be around for a very long time and like that, that this will age well, you know, sometimes it doesn't age well when you're like that was best new artist and they beat so and so. Yeah, there's like a roundup of incredibly famous people who lost best new artist. Like I think Celine Dion lost. Like it's not an accurate predictor of who is going to make it big. Yeah. And sometimes when they do best new artist, they have the one from the previous year announce it. And I'm like, who the hell is that?

- Right, right, right. So yeah, there's a lot of good choices.

- Next, let's do best pop vocal album. - Okay. - One, "Short and Sweet," Sabrina. Two, "Hit Me Hard and Soft," Billie. Three, "Eternal Sunshine," Ari. Four, "The Rise and Fall of the Midwest Princess," Chapel Roan. Five, "TTTBD," TTTBD, Taylor. - I feel like maybe Taylor would win this one. It really was the greatest pop vocal album, but when you think about album of the year, maybe it wasn't, but I think she has a chance here.

Although I don't know how you get nominated here and in best album. And then you don't win there. Yeah. I think it should be short and sweet, period. This is where I'll say like should and would and could be. That's the best pop, pussy pop and pop vocal album of the year. I agree. The pop vocals are off the charts. I agree. For Miss Sabrine. Let's get to the country category. I wish we would.

I wish you would. What song is that? I have literally no idea. Me neither. Okay. Country. Best country song. One, The Architect by KC. Okay. I don't know what's coming next, but like that has my vote. Even just for the one line. How many times did we say that line this year? Jackie, see what's coming next and you'll take back what you say. Two, a bar song by Shaboozy.

I'm kind of becoming one of those people. Like, I think we're all winners here. Three, I am not okay by Jelly Roll. Literally me every morning. Four, I had some help post Malone and Morgan Wallen. Yeah. They worked hard on that. Five, Texas Hold'em, Beyonce. You know, this is a competitive category. Yeah. But when I think of the country song, it's a bar song. It's a bar song. It's got to be a bar song.

Next, best country album. One, Cowboy Carter, Beyonce. Two, F1 Trillian, Post Malone. Three, Deeper Well, Kacey Musgraves. Okay, so she got nominated in country. She's back to her roots. Okay, so it wasn't a total snubbery. She's on Ari's level. It wasn't a total snubbery. Four, hire Chris Stapleton. Five, and probably the winner. We're all with it.

Whirlwind by Lainey Wilson. Who should win either, which is crazy because neither of them are true concert artists, but it should be Beyonce or Post Malone. And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Post Malone. There are so many songs from that album that are so popular. I love that album. It's excellent. My favorite one is the one, I think it's with Tim McGraw randomly. My favorite one is the Blake Shelton one.

♪ Somebody pour me a drink ♪ ♪ Somebody get me a song ♪ ♪ Somebody get me a time ♪ ♪ I'm about to get on a boat ♪ ♪ I'm about to get on a road ♪ - Let me tell you what my favorite one is in case you wanna listen to it. Wrong Ones. Ugh, cruising in the Tesla with that. - Chilling. - But them wrong ones keep looking at me. - I feel like we covered most of the categories, but I wanted to talk about something 'cause I saw KFC from "Barstool" made a video about it and it was such a good call.

best comedy album. They had Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, and Trevor Noah. And he was like, "Where the fuck is the Shane Gillis? "This is such a snub." Really when you think about comedy specials, and comedy albums are audio versions of a special. So when you think about what special really took the world by storm, Shane Gillis' was huge. And it launched his entire career. He became so mainstream successful.

And as you were saying, it's only a snub if there's someone in here that does, Trevor Noah, raise your hand, raise your hand if you watch Trevor Noah special. Like who is actively seeking out Trevor Noah content? Fucking nobody. Like it was, it's such an insult. He's actually like, he's not even like, I want to say like a popular comedian. He's like a popular celebrity host,

But like really, no one's actively seeking out his specials and his albums. And it's actually an insult to the comedians who are really selling out insane venues, getting Netflix specials, like the Tim Dylans of the world, Andrew Schultz, like people who actually make waves and conversations. That's the point of comedy. You might think it's like controversial or offensive, but like that's what comedy is and that's what comedy does. And like seriously, I didn't even hear, I didn't even know Trevor Noah released a special, like okay?

Most of these specials I didn't watch, but I saw them on, you know, top Netflix. I did see Ricky Gervais's and I did see Nikki Glaser's, but like, these are people who are constantly making waves and they have huge fan bases. Like it's giving industry plant.

Oh, for sure. And it's just giving like Grammys staying behind in some categories. This is not reflective of like the true comedy. Because comedy is so internet, right? Like so many comedians didn't really come up the traditional way anymore. They're doing like podcasts and they go viral and like kind of like Matt Rife. Matt Rife shouldn't have been nominated, but you know what I mean. And they're just like kind of...

He could have been. Did he put out a special this year? He did, and it wasn't well-received. Like, it was, like, so I just feel like it's totally missing, like, a huge part of the internet, the comedy scene, which is the internet. Honestly, Hannah Burner should have been nominated. Yeah. When I think about, like, specials that I, like, people were talking about. Mm-hmm. Trevor Noah. Their comedy vertical nominators are obviously just, like. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, the Grammys are poised to be like a very good viewing because the girlies should be there. There'll be good performances. And this bodes well for music's biggest night. They say that at every award show. What do you think is music's biggest night? Probably girly swirly's night out. December 8th. Gizmo holiday spectacular. You guys, we are doing a Gizmo in December. It's a holiday. It's actually really coming up.

It's like less than a month away. It is in Hollywood, Florida. And it's December 8th and it's going to be so much fun. And if you haven't gotten your tickets yet, like treat yourself to a little jizz. No, just jizz. No. Are you ready for our next story? Yeah.

No particular order because Miss Lurd, Taylor Swift, attended the Chiefs v. other team game last night. And a lot was happening like with her security detail. Lots of little things happening. So she attended the game with her parents. I'm sorry. That will like always and forever be one of my favorite things about her. Like the way she fucking loves. Like she's the coolest person on the planet. She could have brought the president. Like she could do anything she wants. And like the way she chooses to exclusively hang out with her parents. Like.

I'm sorry, it's such a queenie behavior. - Yeah, she was wearing a little suit. She actually changed up her look 'cause she has been doing like sexy wag vibe and here she's doing still sexy 'cause she had her corset on but she was wearing a little two piece set with her hair and a little chignon. - She looked very much like the owner of the team.

Like she looked very presidential in a sexy way. It's not what you would think. Like, oh, I'm going to watch my boyfriend play basketball. What is it? Football. She looked great. Sometimes the wags switch up their looks, you know. She looked great. I feel like I'm very critical of her looks. And while I thought it was like a little like not the not the my only critique is that like it's not what I would imagine for a football game. But objectively, she looked amazing.

- Yeah, so her security team was actually, they were caught telling photographers to stand up. - Screaming. - Yeah, but it was because she was wearing a skirt. Sometimes when you take from below, they didn't wanna get pictures of her skirt. - Of course. - Which makes sense. And then also, yeah, telling everyone to stand back. Which, yeah, stand back, man. - Look at the hell away. - The Lurd is coming through. - The Lurd is coming through. Travis's team is still undefeated. They're like nine and oh. They went on a technicality last night, did you see?

No, so you're saying Hurtravi made it to the big game? Well, it looks like he's gonna make it to the big game. You think? He also tied some big record of tight end things. And he scored another touchdown. He had been through a little bit of a drought, but the team was able to keep going without him. And he got his mojo back. He got his shit together. Yeah, literally. And yeah, last night they were about to lose, but they went on a field goal. They blocked the other team's field goal, which is very rare, I think.

Oh, okay. That's cool. I thought you were going to say it was like a call and then it was giving NFL scripted. No, but yeah, I think it is really crazy that they're still undefeated and it is giving scripted. Yeah. Well, the thing is, is like the teams that like could have beat them, like the 49ers, Christian McCaffrey has been out for like six weeks. He's back now, but when they played the Chiefs, he was out. Are they not in the same league? Wait, didn't they play in the Super Bowl together? Yeah, but last year. But they had a Super Bowl rematch like a week or two ago. Oh, right, right, right. And the Niners lost, but Christian was out. Like, what do you do? Got it.

redo at the super bowl correct i'm so where's the super bowl this year it's literally so far away last year was in vegas why do i feel like it's in miami no it was recently in miami i feel like it's in arizona super bowl oh no it was it was just in arizona is it where is it where illinois new orleans norland nola we're in nola jackie

We're NOLA. NOLA. NOLA. NOLA via kill us if we tell that story.

- I don't know, it's like other people's like, it's other people's story too. - Okay, I'm saying it, but I'll protect the identities. It's not even a bad story. When Olivia was in like the seventh grade, - We're just like telling everything Olivia ever did when we were growing up. - Olivia has been our source of inspiration. Like, is that a big deal? - For many, many years. - So when Olivia was in middle school, she was like a part of this clique. It was four girls and I won't say their names, but their letters of each of their names started N-O-D-A. Olivia is obviously the O.

So they would call themselves like no duh. And then like they came up with this like kind of cute little catchphrase slash slogan. They were like, we're no duh. No duh. No duh. So mean. She's like, what are you dumb? No duh. And the way it stuck with me like my whole life. I'm always. Olivia can't breathe without us, without it sticking with us. I'm trying to think if I remember the names of everyone. I think I do. I won't say. I won't say.

To protect their privacy. I'll say the N because she's like cool. I feel like she listens to the toast. Like I don't keep in touch with the D or the A. Touch with the duh. With the duh. But no, like Olivia still is like besties. So like Natalie. Natalie. She's been unmasked. Yeah. Good luck finding her. Are you ready for our next story? No duh. It's a little star studded news. Oh wait, what number? Three. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sit down. Sit your ass down. Yeah, sorry.

Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated his star-studded 50th birthday with the stars Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, and Steven Spielberg. And? Your girl. Ines de Ramon. Brad Pitt's plus one. Discover me, Ramon. Discover me. So he had a star-studded private party, like the kind that, you know. You dream about. They write movies about. With all of his favorite celebrities.

Co-stars. All the Hollywood A-listers were out last night at a private house for Leo's birthday party. Paris Hilton was there. Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Robin Thicke. I won't say the next one. Skip to Jamie Foxx. Mark Ruffalo. Mark Ruffalo was the next one. I didn't want to ruin an otherwise fun celeb story.

With a little rough. And they're calling, he's a Marvel star? They put him in a superhero movie? Yeah, Jackie, he's a Marvel star. I'm an athlete. Like, we're all just lying. That's really crazy that he does Marvel. It's really crazy that he does, does. Like, that he, like, does what he does. I don't, by the way, I don't want this to come about, Mark Ruffalo. Like, it's not, like, I'm not, I'm not donating my platform to my nemesis.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there was like a big Hollywood party this weekend and you guys weren't invited. - Yeah, and to be honest, like ever since I heard about what goes down at like Diddy parties, I no longer like feel FOMO from events like these. Like I don't even wanna know what happened at this party. Like I think these people are disgusting. - No, I completely agree. They don't have the luster that they used to have. - Sometimes they do. Like when I see like Taylor hanging out with like the Swirlies, like Sabrina, like I'm like, oh, I wish I was there. Kelly Taylor, Blake Lively. - But that's not what this is. This is like serious Hollywood elite like,

These are the people. These are the people. I completely agree. When they're like, who? It's like, these are the people. Yeah, they've got like, you know, unscrupled big Katie rolling through. Like, you just don't know what's about to go down. This is like one of those Hollywood parties that at one point you probably were like, oh, stars are out. And now it's like, yucky, run for your life. Yucky, run for your fucking life. Like, the way I felt nothing except just like seeing that picture of Inez, Derrimon, and Brad leaving. Like, love to see them, you know, out and about. Other than that, like, I felt nothing.

Yeah. There's something very Hollywood about this particular group of people. Like it's very A-list. It's very Hollywood. And it definitely gives me the heebie-jeebies knowing what I know now. Yeah, in a bad way. Now that we know the things that we know. Yeah. And that's not to say everybody there is complicit. Never said it. It's just the same vibe. Do you agree? It's a vibe. Yeah. Release the lists. Release the lists. Maybe they will. Jackie, these people are partying while they still can.

Yeah, I guess if they're already like if it's going down. I will go down with this ship. But if I were like a newcomer in Hollywood, I would stay away from these parties. Not even a newcomer. If I was somebody in Hollywood with a moral compass, I would stay away. No, but it's like if you've already been like a party goer. Yeah. But we were saying the other day how like I can never implicate like Sabrine in the like the toxicity of Hollywood because she just got there. And she wasn't there. Look, was she at that party last night? Right, right, right.

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Our next story, a little update in the Brianna Chicken Fry Zach Bryan saga. As new music has been dropped by Dave Portnoy, he put out a song called Country Diddy that has a lot in it, a couple new things that we are understanding from the situation. And Warner Brothers kept taking, Warner Music kept taking down his song Smallest Man. So he had to write another song called Country Diddy. And it's really, the double entendre is awesome.

quite pargy because it's like, it's a country ditty, a little country song about a guy who writes country ditties. And then he's also calling him like the country P Diddy, the country, the P Diddy of country. It's,

Diddy double T and Diddy double D. Now there's actually been quite a few updates in the Brianna saga because Brianna is like officially free and she is not holding back. Like she really wants to speak her truth. So she is posting a lot of content. She's responding to comments. I think the kind of like remaining shoe to fall in this whole saga is like where does Brianna's best friend Grace fall into this? Now for those who don't know,

They're like best friends from home. When Brianna started blowing up a barstool, she got her friend a job there and they co-host the Plan Brie podcast. She's been on a ton of like the BFFs pods. She's now like getting into comedy. She opens for Whitney Cummings. So Brianna really like brought her along on this journey. And as the relationship progressed, like it was becoming very clear to like their fans that there was like a distance between them. And of course, now knowing what we know, like that's textbook comedy.

isolating this person from everyone they know and love. And so everyone's really like sort of waiting to hear from Grace. Now that we've heard everything from Brianna, it's like, well, what happened with Grace? And in the song that Dave just released, it said that he never liked Grace. And he went and wrote a song, his song Pink Skies.

is apparently based on Grace's life. So the story I'm hearing is that like Grace's grandmother died and Brianna like had to force Zach to go to the funeral with her. And he was like so mad. He like ran home after like making him do things he didn't want to do and wrote a song, Pink Skies, that is like about Grace's life, I guess. And that's like one of his big songs, right? Because that title sounds familiar to me.

And yeah, Brianna commented. She said, because I forced him to go to her grandma's funeral, he screamed at me, then wrote it that night, which is so crazy. And then Grace has spoken. This is what she said, because there were people were then thinking, well, oh, Grace probably took the video. So by the way, it was a very good theory because Grace has not said anything. And like, honestly, it's giving NDA. So then people are putting together that story. I told on the podcast on Friday that Brianna had said that, you know, they had filmed Zach having a breakdown for Brianna. And then he got so mad about being filmed.

people had then made the connection like well maybe Grace was the one that filmed him she was probably at the birthday party anyway and maybe he had her sign an NDA to never release that thing never talk about it and that's why she's been so silent so people kind of like made peace with that theory being like that's actually definitely true because it's a good theory yeah so then she posted on Instagram story a picture of people around a bonfire

And said I wish I didn't even have to say this. But there is no world where I would ever take money from that clown to shut me up. It's been quite the year. And I'm still not ready to talk about it online. I'm just happy Brie is free from that piece of shit. That's all for now. Not that. I mean I didn't say it before. But I didn't really know these rumors had so much credence. But I didn't think that that's what happened. I think.

Brianna just spoke like five minutes ago. So like, why would Grace speak one before her or two? I think they'll talk about it together on their podcast together at some point when they're both feeling ready to talk about it. But I think like Grace probably has stuff that she saw and an experience of her own, but like,

It's not about grace right now. She's letting Brianna process all of that publicly and privately first before she joins the pile. I completely agree. The first thing is that actually in her statement, I don't think if she had taken money... There's nothing wrong with that. There's no shame in that. I don't think...

if that had been the case like I would have completely understood it second of all this sort of like demanding to hear from Grace like it's actually not about Grace right now like I wish everyone would lay off Grace first of all like yeah she's clearly like new to this like public life and I think if you follow her on social media you see she's not like entirely comfortable with it yet and Brianna sort of like fell into it and like she's just one of those people who like it's kind of like made for this life and I think that Grace is like a little bit more shy and so all this attention I think makes her uncomfortable but first of all like

Yes, Brianna's telling her story. Grace doesn't need to come in and say, and then this happened to me. It's Brianna's story. Let her have a moment. And I think if Grace had come in, and then this happened, one thing at a time. But the internet is so, they're even more curious to hear from Grace than they were to hear from Bri. There's kind of this obsession with Grace. And I'm like, honestly, can we leave her out of it?

- Yeah, like give her space. I think everything in time, like the peeling back of layers, we literally just peel back one layer. Like everyone calm down. These are real people's lives. And then to not only go through that just as a human being is so hard, but then to figure out like how to share, what to share, when to share. And these are young girls, like give them a minute. - They're literally 25. It's so important to keep remembering that. - And this big powerful superstar like came between their best friendship. Like it makes me so sad. I was looking at pictures of them

I don't know why I was like stalking them last night. - That's okay. Don't be ashamed. - And then I was looking at pictures from their tour and then knowing that that's when he was like torturing Brianna with like breaking up and he was supposed to be there like, it seriously made me so sad. - Yeah, no, it's disgraceful. And I'm gonna tell you something that's gonna make you even more sad, ready?

- No, like I'm gonna cry. - No, you're gonna, Jackie, you're literally gonna cry. Because apparently there's like a whole like storyline about Grace's dad. I was like fell into this TikTok rabbit hole. So Grace's dad, at first, like it was all good, you know? I remember seeing like, you know, on Valentine's day, he sent flowers to Brianna and Grace. Like he was really courting both of them. Like he was, you know, being smart.

And apparently he was he met or was hanging out with Grace's dad and Grace's dad like loves music. It's like his dream to be a singer. And Zach was like, let's get you in the studio. Like, like, I can make that happen for you. Like, let's make a song, whatever. And like it never happened because like he just started hating Grace. That's just what I heard on TikTok. Oh, I'm just glad it didn't happen. And not like he brought him in the studio and then they laughed at him. I mean, it might have happened, but all I know is that the song never came out.

Oh my God. I hope they, I hope he never had to cross hats with him. I just know Zach Ryan has had like the worst week ever. And that actually brings me joy.

On Friday after we wrapped, I was in my car with Satchie Cratchie and I went to my release radar on Spotify because, you know, Satchie is all about the new music. And the cover of my release radar, which is personalized to me, is Zach Bryan. First song is like his song. I'm like, why? I don't listen to him. Like, why is he there? And then Margot like wanted to listen to it. Now I'm curious. Like I'm in the, and I listen, I don't think I've ever, like I know one time I listened to his new album last fall, but I didn't really like.

process it i listened to his song and i was like why does he sing like this like why does he sing like he has like marbles in his mouth like he's an old man in his throat well i was watching yellowstone last night and i watched the last episode that they had released because i needed like a refresher and i don't know if i ever finished it and i'm like listening i'm like is this fucking zach bryan by the way his music now that then i remember it it's because i watch everything with subtitles so it says like blank by zach bryan playing yeah his music is all over yellowstone i remember that

And still it wasn't enough for me to like get into it. Yeah. So I did listen to his song High Road. Like shut up. Shut up. He was like saying stuff like shut up. I love that. Like what if you just shut up?

What if you just, I think we have one more story. I know, I saw you put the iPad away. I wasn't going to stop you though because I wanted to talk about Yellowstone. You know what? Let's get into our, I don't care to talk about this fifth and final story. There's nothing to say. Fifth and final story, Yellowstone recap. Yes. Okay. So after much anticipation, and I just want to say, I posted on my Instagram like when the episode started, I was like, this better be fucking good because they made us wait so long and everybody was trying to, it was horrible.

I didn't think it was so bad. Like, did much happen? No. But they had a lot of work to do to, like, reset. They had to remind us, first of all, what the fuck was going on. They had a lot of work to do. So it wasn't, like, great. It wasn't. And it was very confusing. And I feel like I missed, like, I blinked and missed something where they were going back and forth in time. Oh, no, no. Did I? No. Did I miss that? Because they said one fucking time six weeks ago. And then I assumed the rest of the episode. Okay, I missed that.

Would be, oh, you mean, okay. So they literally said- I missed the first six weeks ago. And I'm like, why is Rip like going back to Beth and he's stopping and posing and taking pictures with- No, so they went back, but then they never told us when we went forward. Got it, okay. At some point surmised from their conversation like that, you know, Texas is a world away. I'm like, okay, he's going towards Texas. Nobody's like sad at the moment. I missed something. And I just want to say, like, I wasn't on my phone. Like, I do think that I blinked for too long. Yeah, by the way.

I could see how that was. I got on board. I saw it and I was still confused. Because when she Lou met with the hit man, I'm like, oh, so it hasn't happened yet. When she Lou, yeah. Okay. I was able to orient myself. So I don't know if it was just me. I had a feeling that they were spoiler alert.

going to kill off John Dutton in some form because Kevin Costner like won't come back to work it didn't occur to me like he wouldn't even come back for one day like I didn't oh so we so we could have moved forward without him a year ago like there was no resolution I thought maybe like he was gonna die for sure because he wasn't gonna commit to filming all the episodes and then they would go on without him I didn't know he wasn't gonna show up even in one scene yeah

- Yeah, and it was really weird. Like I had a really, it's hard to watch TV and like not realize like, oh, this is all fake and these people are actors. - No, we know too much. 'Cause like, I wasn't even sad when he died. 'Cause I'm like, it's like- - I was having a really hard time and I was like really judging like Beth's acting because I'm like, girl, we all know Kim Costner wasn't coming back. - Come back, come back, come back. I had the same reaction and then everyone in my DMs was like, is Beth okay? I think it was some of the worst acting I've ever seen in my goddamn life. - No, it was, but she also like,

She was working against the fact that like we all know this is that this is because he didn't want to come back to work. And now you have to pretend to be devastated. Right. And so as a viewer, I wasn't even sad. And John Dutton is one of my favorite characters. I wasn't even sad because I'm like, he's not dead. He's just lazy. Like he doesn't want to come to work. Yeah. Yeah. So it was hard to suspend disbelief.

Yeah, those opening moments were really hard to watch because of everything that we know. And I just really, I was very aware that I'm watching a fake television show. Yeah. That's always a hard spot to be in. I can't believe Kevin Costner couldn't even play like for a day, like be on set for a couple of days to film one episode. I was shocked. I had a feeling he was going to die. I did not think it was going to be the first scene back. Yeah. I found that shocking. But now they're going back in time six weeks ago. So we need him. And he's not going to be there. I didn't even think about that. That's weird. Yeah, it's wrong.

Yeah. Yikes. I loved and it made me excited because I know they're doing like a four sixes that that little opening scene with Jimmy and his girlfriend breakfast like so cute. And I forgot and I don't know when that show is coming out, but I was excited for it. And there's a lot. I know they have their Kevin Costner drama to deal with. So like that was really the focus of the first episode. But there's so much like cowboy porn. I feel like in midway through Yellowstone, like they realize like

love this show. Like people love seeing like the cattle and the horses and the farms. And even that, I think that guy who was making a bridal for Lloyd, he must be a real person and that's his real story. And like, so they're really like, and I think a lot of these cowboys are like famous cowboys too. They really, I think take a lot of pride in making this like

authentic authentic and showcasing like the best of cowboy culture and so they're also like doing a lot of that yes which is nice because and they talk about it in the show it's like this is really like a dying way of life this is no longer like you know really I don't want to get my beef from Brazil no me neither and when Rip was saying like none of this will be here in 30 years like we'll all be getting our beef from Brazil like I felt so sad

I feel like that might not happen. Cause I really feel like there's a trend in the culture, like towards reverting towards more like local shop, local farmer, you know, even like raw milk from your local farmer. That's our sponsor. Good ranchers. Like they're so like, that's their mission is to shop American meat so that things like that don't happen so that we don't get our meat from Brazil. I don't want my meat to be flying cross continental. Yeah, no, definitely not. So we need to support local farms.

Yeah. Well, you did. You went to a farm this weekend. I mean, who is... I love farming wherever I can get it. Yeah. We farmed all summer. In terms of like storylines, it wasn't like the most plot-driven episode, but it was nice to see everybody back together. It's such a beautiful show. Like the houses and the nature and the animals. Like it's a pleasure to watch, except for that rat fuck bitch, Jamie. I fucking hate him. Like a face I could smash. Like I just hate...

When he literally came up, he was like, I didn't tell you to actually kill my dad. No, he's so crazy. That's classic Jamie. Classic. Like, goes to the brink and then he's like, no, I'm afraid. Wait, never mind. You did it. I didn't mean it.

But it does look like Casey this season is going to step his pussy up. Oh, it does look like Casey. And why is he so hesitant to move into the East camp? Like all he's wanted is like for his family and his wife and his family. Because what would he complain about? He is. He wasn't. He is Fabicina. And like, it does bother me that like, because he's the only one with a son that like it all is going to go to him. And Tate, even with the will, she was going through the papers and Tate is a beneficiary. It's like, he's so miserable. Like a smile ever once. I just, I don't like him.

I know. But the preview for the season, like it looks like he's going to take on. It does. Getting revenge on Jamie and figuring everything out. So like it's about time. Like he rested on his laurels. And everybody loves Casey. It's crazy how Beth can like really read Jamie because he was like, it was Jamie, it was Jamie. And Casey's like, yeah, but like Jamie would never do that. And then he wouldn't physically do it, but he would like find the people. And that's exactly how it happened. Like Beth is a queen. And so.

She Jamie's just such an unpredictable non ideating person. And I remember remembering correctly that he is not actually biologically John's. Correct. OK, I just had forgotten about that. Not that it really matters. But, you know, Casey's like so weak and so like never makes a decision. And Beth is so rash and so like quick. So it's really together. They are a good team. And I feel like they've just sort of like been like.

living parallel to one another. They never like, I don't even know what time when they've ever talked. Right. It's like crazy that they're brother and sister. And I feel like I always forget that in the first episode or maybe the first two episodes, like there was another brother. Oh yeah. He died. Lee, right? Was that his name? And that was like John's favorite. He was really going to take over the whole thing. He was meant to be like, if Lee had lived, like this wouldn't be such a big question. Cause like Casey doesn't want it. Beth was out at like, you know, getting her master's. And so like Lee, like, I think that's why that,

it kind of kicked off this succession question when that happened in the first episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was so good to see my boyfriend rip. He's looking so good and strong and handsome and lovely. And they literally, like nothing that comes out of his mouth is wrong. Nothing. Him telling those ugly losers they couldn't have a picture. Oh my God. Me and Ben were dying because they were obviously trying to highlight, like he definitely wants to have kids. Like he's like a paternal type of guy. I mean, it was like a sweet scene. And then these like two grown dopes, hey, can we get a picture? Yeah.

I seriously, I was, me and Ben were cracking up. Yeah. And I love the cowboys, like the bunkhouse, like it's the best. And they're obviously, they're committed to adding more of that. Like adding just like cowboy dialogue. I was cracking up. Like, did you pack your dress? Like so funny. And you know, in real life that Teeter married, I think the guy with the guitar. No, no.

The guy with the guitar married the girl that he always dates, the Bellbottoms girl. - No, I'm pretty sure it was Teeter who he married. - No, I'm pretty sure he married his girlfriend in the show, Bellbottoms, who used to date Lloyd. - Yellowstone wedding. Okay, now they're showing me pictures of people who've gotten married at Yellowstone. - Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, we're gonna figure this out. We always report on this story. - And I can never remember which, let me see, Teeter. - Okay, so it's Ryan Bingham and Hassee Harrison.

Ryan Bingham wife. Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right. Yeah, you're right. So it's the girly from the show. She kind of looks like, what do they call her? Like a,

Like a bunny. Yeah. Like, cause she like bunnies around. I don't know. A barrel bunny. Yeah. The guy with the guitar and then the really pretty girl who dated Lloyd briefly. Yeah. She looks like Grace Van Patten in her wedding photos. Wait, I just found out something crazy. Do you know who Grace Van Patten dated? Wait. And I literally forget who it was, but I remember being like crazy. No, no, wait. It's really crazy. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me. I'm not me.

Do you? Who? Oh, yeah. Nat Wolf from the Naked Brothers band for like two years. What is with those brothers? Like they are everywhere. Are they Nepo babies? They give Nepo energy. They're opening for Billie Eilish right now.

- Is Nat Wolf the one? Yeah, and he's also in a lot of movies. - They get amazing roles. They're not like- - Paper towns. - Yeah, and not to be mean, they're not really good looking. So I feel like it's really hard to make it as a male actor who's not a heartthrob, but he gets cast in these, they both do, I don't even know which is which. They get cast in these heartthrobby roles, but they're not. - Yeah.

I don't know. They don't bother me. No, me neither. And they have been making waves because they're like, I guess they are in a band. They still do Naked Brothers. They open up. That to me is like my super short show. Jackie, they open up for Billie Eilish on tour with their like original music and they make sure to every night play the Naked Brothers band theme song. People love it. Oh, cute. It's cute. Yeah. Maybe we should meet them for Halloween next year since they're so popular. Literally. Write it down. That.

Anything else from Yellowstone? If we showed up as them. Like, no. Nothing happened. But I didn't hate it. People were really hating on it because expectations are so high. It wasn't like a good episode because there was a lot to do. But I just love the show and I love the characters and I love the setting. They could just be sitting there farting and I would like it. I agree. Because I like the show and I trust my faves that they'll get to the point eventually. Agreed 1,000%.

So it was nice getting back together. They had a lot of catching up to do, a lot of setting the scene. I didn't expect that this episode was going to be like. Me neither. They had shit to do. Places to, people to put in places. Yeah. Now I know where we stand. Let's see what happens next week. Right. And forgot all the, you know, cattle had brucellosis. I forgot why they brought the cattle down south. They've got brucellosis.

Bruce Alosis? Bryce Alosis. So they're going down to four sixes? For the season. So I think the grass needs to like, on Yellowstone, needs to like die because it's like in the grass. And they need to eat and like graze. So they went, they rented land from Trace, Travis.

Got it. But also probably maybe like the heat is good for them or something because why couldn't they rent land in Montana? Right. Oh yeah. The heat. The heat. They need to like sweat out the brucellosis or something. Yeah. That's like back in the day when you had like consumption and so you have to go south of France. It's giving consumption. It's giving consumption.

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